Stephen Colbert in “Chopper Talk” [VIDEO]
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The President confirmed on Thursday that he will likely potentially certainly improbably possibly doubtfully absolutely declare a national emergency. For sure, maybe.
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And now Mitch has adjourned the Senate until Monday…
Singlehandedly scuttled single payer healthcare
Couldn’t win his own primary
Vigorously campaigned against Obama
Was on GOP shortlist for VP
By all means, Joe Lieberman. Do lecture us on what it means to be a Democrat.— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) January 11, 2019
Today should be payday, but 800,000 workers are waking up to find their checks withheld.
Meanwhile federal contractors are losing $200 million per day.
It’s past time for Trump to end his reckless #shutdown. If he won’t act, @senatemajldr Mconnell must.— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 11, 2019
800,000 federal workers will miss their first paycheck as a result of the now-longest government shutdown in US history. When workers suffer, families suffer. https://t.co/2WtORKPEAZ
— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) January 11, 2019
ok reposted from downstairs because……I’m doing great!
Report from the dopey 10k, corral F
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Don’t touch that dial
Today in “Things That Will Never Change:” Joe Lieberman is a jackass.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2019
People over the age of 65 share fake news stories on Facebook more than any other age group, according to a study https://t.co/SgCFdiXBLU pic.twitter.com/APwPRWNEKf
— CNN (@CNN) January 11, 2019
RACIST GRANDPA IS REAL https://t.co/EenIW5kwrX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2019
re: #5 MsJ
Who wants to bet this guy is an incel who thought he had the absolute right to take her even if it meant killing her parents?
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Is he one of them there Proud Boys?
And the racist Grandpa poobah is a republican sitting in the White House.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 11, 2019
re: #5 MsJ
Who wants to bet this guy is an incel who thought he had the absolute right to take her even if it meant killing her parents?
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Oh, it’s possible. Other possibilities though as well. At this point, it’s essentially impossible to say for sure. There are certainly plenty of racist and patriarchal scumbags up here in NW Wisconsin.
re: #7 Charles Johnson
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I find people who post nothing but politics even those I agree with on FB a bit overbearing at times. I’m glad that the Lizards I’m friends with are like me, balanced.
re: #5 MsJ
Who wants to bet this guy is an incel who thought he had the absolute right to take her even if it meant killing her parents?
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He totally looks like an incel.
Today, @CampaignLegal Center filed a complaint with the Justice Department, insisting that former Senator Joe Lieberman needs to register as a foreign agent under FARA for his work on behalf of a Chinese telecom company https://t.co/oYurLurLz5
Lieberman, violating FARA:
“Hey, look over there at Ocasio-Cortez!”
USNS Nixon pic.twitter.com/RzmzAJ6x33
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) January 11, 2019
See, I was thinking garbage scow. But, a garbage barge is better. Since it is unpowered and unmanned.
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) January 11, 2019
re: #15 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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I still like how the Simpsons gave Walter Mondale a ship, a laundry ship that they fled from Australia on.
If I get even a whiff that State Department money might be diverted to pay for the President’s silly wall, the Foreign Affairs Committee will have the responsible officials in front of us so fast your head will spin. https://t.co/khkaS8cvR9
— Eliot Engel (@RepEliotEngel) January 10, 2019
Whoa! My Congressman lights it up. https://t.co/WWrhqvqLcR
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) January 11, 2019
“How defecating in the bed isn’t getting these sheets any cleaner” https://t.co/NLvFo2mAp7
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) January 11, 2019
re: #10 William Lewis
Oh, it’s possible. Other possibilities though as well. At this point, it’s essentially impossible to say for sure. There are certainly plenty of racist and patriarchal scumbags up here in NW Wisconsin.
They were both white. Would someone patriarchal kill the father?
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
Worth reminding President “Great Job Numbers” that by failing to pay 800,000 federal workers, he just wiped out at least three months of job growth.
Josh Bernstein declares that Democrats in Congress should be arrested and tried for treason for refusing to fund President Trump’s border wall. https://t.co/aXBj3VfxwJ
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 11, 2019
Somebody needs to borrow this loon’s pocket copy of the Constitution (they all have them as magical talismans) and show him the part that defines treason. Opposing the President’s policies ain’t in there.
re: #13 jaunte
36/ Lieberman works as senior counsel and lobbyist at the law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres, a group of men that have played a significant role in Trump’s life for at least the last 15 years.https://t.co/KGNDDTNXcW
— blmohr (@blmohr) December 9, 2018
re: #25 MsJ
Wow. He has really made a sharp right turn.
Thread - it’s important to call and counter-act the crazies:
Hey my friend just called Senator Duckworth’s office and they told her they are getting a lot of “Pro-Wall” calls from other parts of Illinois since his speech earlier this week.
MAKE YOUR CALLS. NO WALL.— Jen (@JenReadsRomance) January 11, 2019
Yeah.
So incels are awful, but they’re flavor of the month.
And not to stretch an ice cream metaphor too much…but there is definitely the “I get to own women and hurt people” cultural equivalent of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.
By which I mean, there are way way too many time-tested overlapping redundant mindsets and they’re all the same base matter.
The Army Corps of Engineers has zeroed in on major California and Puerto Rico water projects as a way to pay for Trump’s border wall https://t.co/M50TZ5Jbjf
— Sarah D. Wire (@sarahdwire) January 11, 2019
Ha!
Three easy ways for the GOP to stop feeling sorry for themselves:
✅ Give honest, working people their pay back
✅ Pass legislation that actually helps people
✅ Stop asking the Koch Brothers’ permission to go to the bathroom
https://t.co/3uA8pPZ0R4— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 11, 2019
re: #21 KGxvi
Worth reminding President “Great Job Numbers” that by failing to pay 800,000 federal workers, he just wiped out at least three months of job growth.
It’s ok, he’ll just remove all public sector jobs from future reports. Same with public service sector employees on unemployment.
Statistics that they all pull out of their asses. Trump espouses them daily.
re: #26 Patricia Kayden
Wow. He has really made a sharp right turn.
Turned on a dime. Or a couple $million. Everyone has a price. (Or not.)
re: #23 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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Somebody needs to borrow this loon’s pocket copy of the Constitution (they all have them as magical talismans) and show him the part that defines treason. Opposing the President’s policies ain’t in there.
That’s not how it works, dumbass. Read a Constitution and then maybe you won’t say stupid shit like this.
Rep. Matt Gaetz has some reservations: “I don’t want the next national emergency to be that some Democrat president says we have to build transgender bathrooms in every elementary school in America” https://t.co/PTjOWeRtwd
— Daniel Nasaw (@danielnasaw) January 11, 2019
jfc this bigoted toxic moron https://t.co/tjw3FuSuj3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2019
Dang it…busy typing away in the last thread.
I want to post this thought again.
Steve King today said before the House: “I’m simply an American nationalist”.
Which I think means I am an American Nazi. And he knows it.
From wiktionay.org. The root of the name…
“since in German the nati- in national /ˌnatsi̯oˈnaːl/ is approximately pronounced Nazi”
Link: wiktionary.org - Nazi
re: #35 Charles Johnson
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Except that wouldn’t happen, you idiot. But hey keep on freaking out about transgendered people, it looks so great on you.
re: #20 MsJ
They were both white. Would someone patriarchal kill the father?
Neonazi would if the parents weren’t.
I still wonder if meth isn’t involved.
We don’t know anything yet. We might be able to learn something in a year or so when the case finally comes to trial.
Thread
Under the bill, if Congress fails to pass appropriations bills on time, the government would continue to be funded at current levels. But after 120 days, funding would be reduced by 1%. And another 1% for every 90 days after that. 2/https://t.co/WCd8V95OoY
— Seth Hanlon (@SethHanlon) January 11, 2019
This is not a new proposal. It’s a rehashed idea that Congress, for good reason, has never taken up. @SamBerger_DC @GgrHendricks and I wrote about why this proposal is bad earlier this year. 8/https://t.co/7rfuzrK3BP pic.twitter.com/Y7q4s4s2hm
— Seth Hanlon (@SethHanlon) January 11, 2019
re: #37 HappyWarrior
Except that wouldn’t happen, you idiot. But hey keep on freaking out about transgendered people, it looks so great on you.
No crisis apparent on the border, let’s deal out the next one…
re: #30 Interesting Times
Ha!
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It’s very frustrating to me to see anyone saying that she shouldn’t be a Twitter star. She’s countering president Twitter star. She gets her digs in and they’re week thought out and meaningful.
Rubio: Are you ready for President Kamala Harris declaring a national emergency over climate change? https://t.co/1CLifIrBKW pic.twitter.com/e35KmPDv1c
Such a typical Republican position. Fine with a national emergency over a COMPLETE FANTASY, but declare an emergency over a genuine worldwide existential crisis? Why, that’s unthinkable! https://t.co/dJdsjwtJHK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2019
re: #37 HappyWarrior
Except that wouldn’t happen, you idiot. But hey keep on freaking out about transgendered people, it looks so great on you.
Know what you call a bathroom that anyone of any gender can use?
A bathroom.
These right wing lunatics… are lunatics.
re: #45 lawhawk
Know what you call a bathroom that anyone of any gender can use?
A bathroom.
These right wing lunatics… are lunatics.
In some languages, the nouns have gender.
In some cultures, the facilities have gender.
re: #42 Charles Johnson
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Marco Rubio really is a pathetic joke. You should have retired Marco. I still remember your fake tears for the LGBT community after Pulse and yet you’re still a homophobic do nothing fake.
re: #45 lawhawk
Know what you call a bathroom that anyone of any gender can use?
A bathroom.
These right wing lunatics… are lunatics.
Yeah I remember unisex bathrooms from my childhood. This anti trans shit is simply a response to having lost the SSM battle so they need a new scapegoat.
No matter how damning any info that comes out is, his minions will shrug it off as fake news
Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims win legal victory in lawsuit against InfoWars and Alex Jones, after judge grants families’ discovery requests, allowing access to InfoWars’ internal marketing and financial documents. https://t.co/aKqPnSrfwZ pic.twitter.com/Iidnvo97pP
— ABC News (@ABC) January 11, 2019
A couple of months ago my work Mac was stolen and I was given a loaner PC until a new one can be delivered. Hilarity has ensued, as I have been an exclusive Mac user for 6 years. All of the controls are different….most things are different. The overall mindset is different.
Yesterday I managed to click or type the wrong thing in a Skype window and called a senior VP. Crap, crap. He didn’t answer so i thought i was in the clear. Then I get an email. “Who is this and what do you need?”
Shit.
So, I figured if I have to deal with the guy I can at least entertain him. I tell him the saga of my laptop, how I have struggled to function, and that calling him was the equivalent of a butt dial. I apologized but told him I was glad we had met. Because why not? I work in tech. They’re used to weird people.
I got an email back. “That was the funniest thing I have seen all week. Thank you for making my day. BTW, are you the Jen that is teaching me agile next week?”
Damn it.
“Yep, that’s me. Hi.”
“Looking forward to it.”
re: #47 HappyWarrior
Marco Rubio really is a pathetic joke. You should have retired Marco. I still remember your fake tears for the LGBT community after Pulse and yet you’re still a homophobic do nothing fake.
I’ll give him partial credit, which is hard for me because I really dislike him. But here’s the thing, he’s not talking to us. He knows that we know Trump declaring a national emergency is fucking nuts and in a sane world would be an impeachable offense (by the way, that’s also how you stop a future president from doing it, if Trump does this you impeach and remove him). He’s speaking to the 27-35% Trump/GOP base that want to watch the world burn from behind the greatest gated community wall ever built.
re: #50 BlueGrl21
Great story. Would like to see the email.
So far I’ve avoided all Agile training even though I am a the Software Architect and even though our project is Agile (first for our company and group).
re: #51 KGxvi
I’ll give him partial credit, which is hard for me because I really dislike him. But here’s the thing, he’s not talking to us. He knows that we know Trump declaring a national emergency is fucking nuts and in a sane world would be an impeachable offense (by the way, that’s also how you stop a future president from doing it, if Trump does this you impeach and remove him). He’s speaking to the 27-35% Trump/GOP base that want to watch the world burn from behind the greatest gated community wall ever built.
True, I just find his concern trolling exhausting.
re: #52 carey94tt
Great story. Would like to see the email.
So far I’ve avoided all Agile training even though I am a the Software Architect and even though our project is Agile (first for our company and group).
It’s not as bad as you think if your teams know what they’re doing. A stable architecture is core to being able to go fast. I worked with our Data Architecture team to move them to agile 4 years ago. They thought I was absolutely nuts. They’re now my strongest team. But I sit down and work with those teams and stay with them until everyone is kosher and if we need to adjust a process, we will.
I’m an enterprise agile coach. This year will be 20 years. I was doing agile before it was called agile. Therefore, I don’t take bullshitters well. There is still a lot of it in the agile consulting world.
re: #42 Charles Johnson
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Marco looks like he just rolled out of bed in the suit he went to sleep in.
re: #42 Charles Johnson
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Dear Marco:
Yes. This has been today’s version of SATSQ.
With warmest middle fingers,
Me.
I just checked WaPo and there was a breaking news message that says DT is not going to declare a national emergency right now but the Democrats should vote again on wall funding.
washingtonpost.com
Here is the article: washingtonpost.com
re: #49 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
No matter how damning any info that comes out is, his minions will shrug it off as fake news
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I hope the Sandy Hook parents take that asshole for everything he’s worth!
re: #58 Joe Bacon 🌹
I hope the Sandy Hook parents take that asshole for everything he’s worth!
Down to his last MRE, vitamin and goldbug coin.
re: #57 PhillyPretzel
I just checked WaPo and there was a breaking news message that says DT is not going to declare a national emergency right now but the Democrats should vote again on wall funding.
washingtonpost.comHere is the article: washingtonpost.com
Translation: His advisors have informed him that it would not only be slapped down in the courts, but it would be pretty much the beginning of the end of his presidency.
In these dark times, it’s reassuring to know that Foucault is a staple of the middle school curriculum. pic.twitter.com/xuoPex8B2Q
— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) January 11, 2019
re: #60 Targetpractice
Translation: His advisors have informed him that it would not only be slapped down in the courts, but it would be pretty much the beginning of the end of his presidency.
Sure, GOP, we can do that. Vote on a clean WALL bill which only addresses that issue and no other. It goes down in flaming defeat from the Democrats and several Republicans.
After you reopen the government, because we do not negotiate with terrorists.
re: #57 PhillyPretzel
I just checked WaPo and there was a breaking news message that says DT is not going to declare a national emergency right now but the Democrats should vote again on wall funding.
washingtonpost.comHere is the article: washingtonpost.com
“Everything the Democrats are doing is constitutional, while everything Trump has proposed is unconstitutional, but Democrats should give in anyway for the good of the country.” F that.
re: #58 Joe Bacon 🌹
I hope the Sandy Hook parents take that asshole for everything he’s worth!
Ditto.
re: #60 Targetpractice
Translation: His advisors have informed him that it would not only be slapped down in the courts, but it would be pretty much the beginning of the end of his presidency.
That’s how I think of his day of inauguration.
The “national emergency declaration” BS seems to have been yet another effort to pressure Dems into giving into his demands, saying that he could just bypass Congress altogether if he wanted to but he was giving them a “chance” to avoid that. Now that it’s become obvious that they’re not budging and the Senate GOP are actively asking him to look for alternatives, not to mention the list of experts in the press who are saying that such a move would not only be illegal but impeachment worthy, he’s trying to avoid stating the obvious: It’s not going to happen and he’s totally back into a corner.
re: #49 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims win legal victory in lawsuit against InfoWars and Alex Jones, after judge grants families’ discovery requests, allowing access to InfoWars’ internal marketing and financial documents.
— ABC News (@ABC) January 11, 2019
Between this and his divorce, I hope Jones end up dead broke and homeless.
Not masturbating for one week leads to a 45% increase in testosterone for men.
— UberFacts (@UberFacts) January 11, 2019
I guess I’ll just have to take your word on that https://t.co/dhRQtv9qRJ
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) January 11, 2019
re: #51 KGxvi
I don’t give him credit because he’s specifically using Trump’s crisis as a springboard to (once again) suggest that Democrats use power autocratically and their stances are fundamentally unreasonable.
It’s solving the short term issue of Trump by fanning the long term issues that created the ancestral line of dumbassery that leads through Trump and towards a future of Trump-like politicians dominating the rhetorical field.
Rubio, like Romney, is just a much a malicious liar as Trump.
re: #5 MsJ
Not taking that bet. When I first saw his pick I thought, “Yeah, just the sort of pencil dick I was expecting.”
re: #39 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
There’s a constitutional question with that bill, namely Article I, Section 8, Clause 12:
o raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years
You could argue, I think, rather persuasively I think, that this would constitute an appropriation of money for more than two years.
The hilarity of the situation: 3 weeks ago when Trump had that meeting with Chuck and Nancy, and he broke their agreement in order to bring in the cameras, I saw “serious” pundits suggest he’d “won” the whole thing because he’d forced the discussions out into the open and so the public would see that there would be no backroom politics to avoid a shutdown.
3 weeks hence and it’s becoming obvious that, when the book is finally written on this whole fiasco of a presidency*, the authors are gonna have a hard time pinning the failure of Donny to avoid utter humiliation in this shutdown on anything but that video clip of his boldly saying he’d take the blame for a shutdown. A canny politician like Pence might have kept the whole thing behind closed doors so he could accuse the Dems of perfidy later, but Donny did it out in the open because he thought it would make him look “tough” and in so doing sealed his fate.
re: #69 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery
I don’t give him credit because he’s specifically using Trump’s crisis as a springboard to (once again) suggest that Democrats use power autocratically and their stances are fundamentally unreasonable.
It’s solving the short term issue of Trump by fanning the long term issues that created the ancestral line of dumbassery that leads through Trump and towards a future of Trump-like politicians dominating the rhetorically field.
Rubio, like Romney, is just a much a malicious liar as Trump.
Well said. It’s not leadership either. It’s excusing Trump by pointing to a hypothetical situation.
Well, reading through the threads I see concern trolls are concerned about Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and her clapbacks on Twitter. Concerned about “civility” (the same claim made of Civil Rights protestors during Jim Crow, the claim always rolled out by the powerful when their power is challenged).
“Girl?” No, she’s a woman. “Polling negatively?” Citation needed. The only place her polling matters right now is her House district.
Having elected a Twitter troll President, spare me fake outrage.
Administration is tone-deaf, exhibit 456242134:
re: #23 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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Somebody needs to borrow this loon’s pocket copy of the Constitution (they all have them as magical talismans) and show him the part that defines treason. Opposing the President’s policies ain’t in there.
They don’t care. All they care about is getting power and removing all barriers to getting more.
By any means necessary.
Conservaliar still lying, day ending in -day.
In an alternate universe where Republicans still held the House, the government would be open, federal workers would have their paychecks, and Border Patrol would have the funding and tools they need.
Just something to think about.— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 11, 2019
Shutdown started on December 22nd, when GOP controlled the House. https://t.co/FW44Xm34Kc
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 11, 2019
re: #67 Dr. Matt
Between this and his divorce, I hope Jones end up dead broke and homeless.
Ditto!
I hope the same for all Trump’s.
re: #73 HappyWarrior
Well said. It’s not leadership either. It’s excusing Trump by pointing to a hypothetical situation.
I frequently talk about Trump in terms of abusive relationship dynamics, but it applies to Romney and Rubio as Trump critics: the latter just embody the “respectable” type of abuser who plays into social norms such that harm they inflict can be denied by others, right up until it can’t be denied…at which point it will be rationalized as some kind of justice.
They still gaslight, punish noncompliance, and ultimately view their targets as functional objects. They just don’t cop to doing it for whimsical reasons.
When they’re angry at Trump, what they’re pissed about is bruises visible above the collar line.
re: #75 jimmyvluv4u
Administration is tone-deaf, exhibit 456242134:
He told PBS’ “NewsHour” Thursday that a lot of federal employees were already planning to take time off between Christmas and the New Year — and so the government shutdown essentially gives them a vacation for free.
So instead of taking vacation days and getting a guaranteed paycheck today, they got an open-ended “vacation” that comes with no guarantee of ever getting paid.
“Let them eat brioche,” indeed.
BILLY
“Billy, have you done that washing-up yet”
“No”
“We’ll get it done”
“I..can’t…fucking….reach… the…bowl”
8/10 pic.twitter.com/ic6gmXAQOC— shit_reviews (@shit_reviews) January 10, 2019
re: #81 Targetpractice
I was always told that a federal gov’t job was a good thing. Right now I am glad I work for the city.
Lindsey Graham - because Trump’s balls won’t lick themselves.
You’re so full of shit…but I guess Trump’s balls won’t lick themselves so go at it.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 11, 2019
re: #63 Belafon
“Everything the Democrats are doing is constitutional, while everything Trump has proposed is unconstitutional, but Democrats should give in anyway for the good of the country.” F that.
Lord Dampnut, and his minions, believe the Lord Dampnut’s concerns and those of the nation are the same thing.
It’s why they categorize any form of dissent as treason.
re: #52 carey94tt
Great story. Would like to see the email.
So far I’ve avoided all Agile training even though I am a the Software Architect and even though our project is Agile (first for our company and group).
We have been using it for ~4 years now, heavily in the last 2. It has its place in things, especially for a large group of developers working on different parts of a connected system.
re: #83 PhillyPretzel
I was always told that a federal gov’t job was a good thing. Right now I am glad I work for the city.
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re: #72 Targetpractice
There are no canny Republicans. See McConnell and Graham.
They know better. And yet, here we are.
re: #84 darthstar
Lindsey Graham - because Trump’s balls won’t lick themselves.
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Shitheads like Graham are why I’ve little doubt that the GOP at large secretly hope Donny will go ahead with the declaration and effectively declare himself a dictator in the name of “national security.”
re: #87 Targetpractice
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Has anyone posted the current update from the wall GFM grift? It has morphed into the most brazen of rips. Recognizing that they will never get close to the goal, they have decided they can build it better, faster, cheaper than the Fed Gov. To that end they have incorporated a guidance committee including the following stellar cast:
Brigadier General Dr. Robert S. Spalding III
Industrialist John Daniel Moran, Jr.
Ex-Navy SEAL and businessman Erik Prince,
Former Secretary of State of Kansas Kris Kobach,
Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza
Law enforcement and immigration expert Sheriff David Clarke
Fox news contributor and border security expert Sara A. Carter
Former Colorado Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo
Angel Dad Steve Ronnebeck
Media consultant and journalist Jennifer Lawrence
To follow GFM rules, donors (335k) have to opt-in to the changed plan.
I applied for a lot of government jobs in the Obama years but I stopped once Trump was elected. Man what a mess.
re: #91 Decatur Deb
Has anyone posted the current update from the wall GFM grift? It has morphed into the most brazen of rips. Recognizing that they will never get close to the goal, they have decided they can build it better, faster, cheaper than the Fed Gov. To that end they have incorporated a guidance committee including the following stellar cast:
Brigadier General Dr. Robert S. Spalding III
Industrialist John Daniel Moran, Jr.
Ex-Navy SEAL and businessman Erik Prince,
Former Secretary of State of Kansas Kris Kobach,
Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza
Law enforcement and immigration expert Sheriff David Clarke
Fox news contributor and border security expert Sara A. Carter
Former Colorado Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo
Angel Dad Steve Ronnebeck
Media consultant and journalist Jennifer LawrenceTo follow GFM rules, donors (335k) have to opt-in to the changed plan.
Jeezus a lot of that is a who’s who in terrible people: PRince, Kobach, Clarke, TAncredo.
A school principal in Ohio was so mad when she received a $100 ticket for illegally parking in a handicapped spot that she asked officials to remove the officer who wrote the ticket from his post at her elementary school. https://t.co/jMy134NTo8
— 700WLW (@700wlw) January 11, 2019
A school principal in Ohio was so mad when she received a $100 ticket for illegally parking in a handicapped spot that she asked officials to remove the officer who wrote the ticket from his post at Jefferson K-8 School. Warren City Police Officer Adam Chinchik said that he warned Carrie Boyer numerous times that she cannot park her car in the striped handicapped parking zone because it prevents people with disabilities from being able to get out of their vehicle.
After she repeatedly ignored his warnings, Chinchik had enough and wrote her a ticket. Boyer was not happy and called the district’s superintendent, Steve Chiaro, who sent officials to remove Chinchik from the school.
The decision, which left the school without a police officer, was blasted by city officials.
“What example is that for the children? Oh, you get a certain status in life you don’t have to follow the rules?” city law director Greg Hicks told Fox8.
Chinchik is not being punished by the police department and they are working with the school district to get him back on the job, though he said he does not want to return to Jefferson School.
“what example is that for the children” indeed
re: #91 Decatur Deb
I wonder what these people will do when property owners on the border practice their second amendment and property rights.
Edited: Border, not board
re: #93 HappyWarrior
Jeezus a lot of that is a who’s who in terrible people: PRince, Kobach, Clarke, TAncredo.
Basically they are going to pay themselves a sweet chunk of the $20 Meg to consult it to death.
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
Pissed at $100 ticket. In Philly she would have gotten a $301 ticket. I can imagine how pissed she would be at that. And a school principal should know better.
re: #95 Belafon
I wonder what these people will do when property owners on the board practice their second amendment and property rights.
What they won’t do is hold eminent domain power and environmental waivers. It’s a naked scam.
Me: so, you’re automatically refunding $20 million?
.@gofundme: yes.— Brianna Sacks (@bri_sacks) January 11, 2019
re: #99 Patricia Kayden
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Opting-in selects the Stupidest of the Stupid. Their personal identifying information on the “goose list” will be worth more than their donations.
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“What example is that for the children? Oh, you get a certain status in life you don’t have to follow the rules?” city law director Greg Hicks told Fox8.
Basically, yeah. “When you’re rich and/or connected, you can do whatever you like because you’ve the power to push ‘lesser’ people around.”
Funny thing is, we see this shit all the time from people who aren’t rich or connected. They just think if they put their flashers on, then the cops will give them a pass because “They’re not parking, they’re just there for a sec.”
re: #87 Targetpractice
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re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“what example is that for the children” indeed
REPUBLICAN examples. Typically so.
re: #95 Belafon
I wonder what these people will do when property owners on the border practice their second amendment and property rights.
Edited: Border, not board
Gah, I can’t even use the right words.
Freedom’s just another word for
nothing left to pay the rent…
re: #99 Patricia Kayden
It came out this morning that the guy who started that GoFundMe had a previous fraudulent GoFundMe.
I tweeted it at them with a “congrats on completely de-ligitimizing your platform and screwing over people who actually need help”.
re: #89 Targetpractice
Shitheads like Graham are why I’ve little doubt that the GOP at large secretly hope Donny will go ahead with the declaration and effectively declare himself a dictator in the name of “national security.”
Lets them all off the hook…or so they think.
re: #108 MsJ
I had heard that he was a grifter from the time he opened up the “give me your money for a wall that I know will never be built” GoFundMe acount. It’s amazing that over 300,000 people were gullible enough to still turn over their money to him under those circumstances but I guess deplorables just aren’t that bright. They are lucky that GoFundMe is giving them back their money.
re: #102 Joe Bacon 🌹
I don’t know how GoFundMe works but I assume that you don’t get to spend the money until the campaign is over and you’ve reached your goal. But again, I’ve donated to some GoFundMe accounts but never paid any attention to its rules.
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hmm. Entitled? Check. Outraged called out for repeatedly warned as a lawbreaker? Check. Finally held to account for lawbreaking and demanding the officer be removed from his post? Check.
Where have I seen this conservative playbook before. (I have no doubt this principal is a conservative after reading the article; it is so cartoonishly on-point.)
re: #110 Patricia Kayden
I had heard that he was a grifter from the time he opened up the “give me your money for a wall that I know will never be built” GoFundMe acount. It’s amazing that over 300,000 people were gullible enough to still turn over their money to him under those circumstances but I guess deplorables just aren’t that bright. They are lucky that GoFundMe is giving them back their money.
They shut’em down, but the grifter got himself yet another mailing list for which to target those foolish enough to buy into it.
I doubt SMOTI and others who were touting this nonsense will post about how they shut down the effort because it was… ahem… a scam (that anyone with a firing neuron would have smelled from a mile away).
re: #84 darthstar
Lindsey Graham - because Trump’s balls won’t lick themselves.
Lindsey Graham ✔
@LindseyGrahamSC * 2h Replying to @LindseyGrahamSC @realDonaldTrumpMr. President,
Declare a national emergency NOW.
Build a wall NOW.
I get a feeling Lindsey knows this is starting to hang around his neck too. Maybe Lindsey is goading him to do the emergency so others can kill the shutdown and then the emergency is killed because it just won’t fly.
And maybe Lindsey is also hoping Trump triggers something very illegal that causes his ouster or the start of it. Lindsey and other Republicans probably want to move on.
We know he sold his soul to Trump and maybe the Russians. But Lindsey does know the laws and he might use Trump’s lack of knowledge and eagerness against him.
Will no one rid me of this turbulent Trump?
re: #109 darthstar
Lets them all off the hook…or so they think.
It was pretty obvious from the moment that the WH started floating the idea that it was aimed at getting the Congressional GOP off the hook. But the longer he’s drug it out, the more obvious it’s become that nobody involved believes it’ll work and it will only deepen the hole they’re currently in. In the meantime, the Grahams of the party have only furthered their imminent humiliation by making it clear that a “loss” for Donny here will effectively be the final nail in his presidency’s coffin.
800,000 people have their paychecks held hostage by a party that couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse.
Counterpoint:
🚨🚨 The $20million Build the Wall campaign is getting refunded. @gofundme is refunding everyone (~330,000 people) who donated because, according to a spokesperson, Brian Kolfage broke the original promise of the campaign to give the money back if they didn’t reach their goal pic.twitter.com/3HDAzTqrgf
— Brianna Sacks (@bri_sacks) January 11, 2019
I want to point out that @HoarseWisperer and I kept our promise to the more than 7,000 people who donated to our “ladders to get over Trump’s wall” fundraiser and sent more than $160,000 to @RAICESTEXAS to support immigrant and refugee families.
The border wall? Zero dollars. https://t.co/OuQGY1L8uq— Charlotte Clymer🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) January 11, 2019
re: #101 Targetpractice
Basically, yeah. “When you’re rich and/or connected, you can do whatever you like because you’ve the power to push ‘lesser’ people around.”
Funny thing is, we see this shit all the time from people who aren’t rich or connected. They just think if they put their flashers on, then the cops will give them a pass because “They’re not parking, they’re just there for a sec.”
My wife has a handicap parking hanger due to her difficulty walking. We almost never park in handicap spaces, but on rare occasion she wants to because she is in pain.
Outside the local area where people don’t know us, I can’t remember how many times people bitched because a Smart car is parked in a handicap space. (There is more room in the passenger compartment than our last car, and the doors are bigger.) It gets especially bad if I walk out to the car alone to retrieve something.
re: #114 ObserverArt
I get a feeling Lindsey knows this is starting to hang around his neck too. Maybe Lindsey is goading him to do the emergency so others can kill the shutdown and then the emergency is killed because it just won’t fly.
And maybe Lindsey is also hoping Trump triggers something very illegal that causes his ouster or the start of it. Lindsey and other Republicans probably want to move on.
We know he sold his soul to Trump and maybe the Russians. But Lindsey does know the laws and he might use Trump’s lack of knowledge and eagerness against him.
Will no one rid me of this turbulent Trump?
I honestly believe that Graham is one of those who is high on his own supply, that he genuinely believes the GOP’s bullshit about how such a declaration would hold up in the courts and so Donny could effectively declare himself as Dictator-For-Life is he so chose.
re: #91 Decatur Deb
Has anyone posted the current update from the wall GFM grift? It has morphed into the most brazen of rips. Recognizing that they will never get close to the goal, they have decided they can build it better, faster, cheaper than the Fed Gov. To that end they have incorporated a guidance committee including the following stellar cast:
Brigadier General Dr. Robert S. Spalding III
Industrialist John Daniel Moran, Jr.
Ex-Navy SEAL and businessman Erik Prince,
Former Secretary of State of Kansas Kris Kobach,
Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza
Law enforcement and immigration expert Sheriff David Clarke
Fox news contributor and border security expert Sara A. Carter
Former Colorado Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo
Angel Dad Steve Ronnebeck
Media consultant and journalist Jennifer LawrenceTo follow GFM rules, donors (335k) have to opt-in to the changed plan.
Nice gang. Don’t let ‘em out of your sight.
(GOP Recycling at its best)
re: #110 Patricia Kayden
I had heard that he was a grifter from the time he opened up the “give me your money for a wall that I know will never be built” GoFundMe acount. It’s amazing that over 300,000 people were gullible enough to still turn over their money to him under those circumstances but I guess deplorables just aren’t that bright. They are lucky that GoFundMe is giving them back their money.
Some people get so wrapped up they don’t think straight. I dislike the wall people for thinking we need a wall, but think Jill Stein.
re: #113 lawhawk
They shut’em down, but the grifter got himself yet another mailing list for which to target those foolish enough to buy into it.
I doubt SMOTI and others who were touting this nonsense will post about how they shut down the effort because it was… ahem… a scam (that anyone with a firing neuron would have smelled from a mile away).
Looking up the USAF Brigadier on their advisory team shows a real officer, with a decent CV. He had a bit of controversy over a memo he wrote while attached to the Trump Admin, so might be a nutball. He seems still to be on active duty, so will probably be getting some command attention.
re: #114 ObserverArt
Graham is in a reliably red state so I’m not sure that Trump is hanging around his neck when it comes to his chances of being reelected. Quite frankly, I assume that Graham wants a position in the Trump administration and will angle for one if Trump is reelected in 2020. That explains his willingness to act the fool (like he did during the Kavanaugh hearings) to further Trump’s agenda.
I’m not sure that a federal judge is going to believe there’s such a “crisis” on the border that a national emergency declaration is warranted when the guy who says he has the authority to make such a declaration and have it stick…is tossing the issue back to Congress which just adjourned for the weekend. It’s not much of a “crisis” when you keep stalling for time.
re: #54 BlueGrl21
It’s not as bad as you think if your teams know what they’re doing. A stable architecture is core to being able to go fast. I worked with our Data Architecture team to move them to agile 4 years ago. They thought I was absolutely nuts. They’re now my strongest team. But I sit down and work with those teams and stay with them until everyone is kosher and if we need to adjust a process, we will.
I’m an enterprise agile coach. This year will be 20 years. I was doing agile before it was called agile. Therefore, I don’t take bullshitters well. There is still a lot of it in the agile consulting world.
I’m kind of in the same boat, but never got my Scrum Master certification. Probably need to do that when I finally finish my classes for Oracle DBA. Unfortunately I’m having to foot the bill myself on those and will probably set me back a few thousand bucks so it might have to stay on the back burner for a bit longer.
Kinda sniffling here myself.https://t.co/nvxOtTqAFQ
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 11, 2019
re: #91 Decatur Deb
Has anyone posted the current update from the wall GFM grift? It has morphed into the most brazen of rips. Recognizing that they will never get close to the goal, they have decided they can build it better, faster, cheaper than the Fed Gov. To that end they have incorporated a guidance committee including the following stellar cast:
Brigadier General Dr. Robert S. Spalding III
Industrialist John Daniel Moran, Jr.
Ex-Navy SEAL and businessman Erik Prince,
Former Secretary of State of Kansas Kris Kobach,
Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza
Law enforcement and immigration expert Sheriff David Clarke
Fox news contributor and border security expert Sara A. Carter
Former Colorado Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo
Angel Dad Steve Ronnebeck
Media consultant and journalist Jennifer LawrenceTo follow GFM rules, donors (335k) have to opt-in to the changed plan.
At least the federal government could use the court system for eminent domain, these idiots can’t force anyone to sell them their land. So a lot of that money is going to be spent on lawyers for several trespassing lawsuits if they ever even try to build the wall.
This is fucking magical.
re: #110 Patricia Kayden
I had heard that he was a grifter from the time he opened up the “give me your money for a wall that I know will never be built” GoFundMe acount. It’s amazing that over 300,000 people were gullible enough to still turn over their money to him under those circumstances but I guess deplorables just aren’t that bright. They are lucky that GoFundMe is giving them back their money.
Fuck em. Should have fucked then over.
“What we’re not looking to do right now is the national emergency,” says Pres Trump. “We want Congress to do its job,” he says, calling on Democrats to come back into session and vote to give him the wall, followed by immigration reform.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) January 11, 2019
Donnie just clowned himself and proved there is no national emergency. Oooooops
re: #111 Patricia Kayden
I don’t know how GoFundMe works but I assume that you don’t get to spend the money until the campaign is over and you’ve reached your goal. But again, I’ve donated to some GoFundMe accounts but never paid any attention to its rules.
No not necessarily. You can authorize payments to go out as soon as they come in. That’s what I did for that gal with the really sick baby. They needed that money (and still do) like the second it came in.
re: #116 lawhawk
Counterpoint:
It’s sad 330,000 people thought this was a good idea.
What needs to happen is this guy gets tried in a court for fraud (preferably one with flags with gold fringes).
re: #124 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
I’m doing agile and scrum method work these days, and when certain folks throw around the term agile, and then don’t actually show that they know what it means or how it affects the day to day work we do, it rubs me the wrong way.
I think some folks throw the term around because they think it sounds good, rather than because it makes sense for the workflow or output.
White supremacist group had 20 members ‘at most’ and faked rally for publicity
nj.com
The white supremacist group that created an uproar in Princeton after spreading flyers saying it was hosting a march, now says its rally was a hoax to gain attention and publicity.
The New Jersey European Heritage Association wrote on social media Friday that it never intended to march on Saturday.
“You’ve been punk’d,” said the post on gab, a social media platform know for allowing AltRight content. It was also posted on Twitter.
“There isn’t going to be a ‘march’ this Saturday, there never was,” it said.
The group wrote that because of the online attention the NJEHA has received over the past several days, its website has experienced an uptick in traffic.
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Sure, Jan.
re: #130 MsJ
No not necessarily. You can authorize payments to go out as soon as they come in. That’s what I did for that gal with the really sick baby. They needed that money (and still do) like the second it came in.
That’s also what happened with my sister’s GoFundMe when her wife was dying and they were overwhelmed with bills.
re: #117 Anymouse 🌹
My wife has a handicap parking hanger due to her difficulty walking. We almost never park in handicap spaces, but on rare occasion she wants to because she is in pain.
Outside the local area where people don’t know us, I can’t remember how many times people bitched because a Smart car is parked in a handicap space. (There is more room in the passenger compartment than our last car, and the doors are bigger.) It gets especially bad if I walk out to the car alone to retrieve something.
After I tore up my knee last year my doctor gave me one. While I can walk now (I did the electric carts around the grocery store for four months) I still can’t walk far. I walk around the store completely on my own now (yeah fucking me) but I’m wiped if I do that for too long. The longer I walk the more I limp. There have been times I worried about getting back to my car. But when I first get out of the car, I usually walk perfectly.
And if there is a close regular parking spot I always take that. Because there are likely people worse off than me.
re: #54 BlueGrl21
My company is in the process of learning the meaning of all those buzzwords.
I don’t mind heading that way, the process we use now is antiquated.
re: #122 Patricia Kayden
Graham is in a reliably red state so I’m not sure that Trump is hanging around his neck when it comes to his chances of being reelected. Quite frankly, I assume that Graham wants a position in the Trump administration and will angle for one if Trump is reelected in 2020. That explains his willingness to act the fool (like he did during the Kavanaugh hearings) to further Trump’s agenda.
The PVI has South Carolina as R+8, which makes it about as Republican as New Jersey is Democratic. And in most House districts, the GOP lost ground from 2016 to 2018, anywhere from 1% to 9%. If Trump continues to be Trump, we may well see South Carolina move closer to being in pay (Trump’s approval ratings in SC have gone from 56-31 in January ‘17 to 52-43 in December ‘18).
re: #138 KGxvi
2020 doesn’t favor the GOP on any number of grounds.
The Senate class is predominantly GOP (22 GOP vs 12 Dems up for reelection - compared to nearly the reverse this year). A hugely unpopular president and the GOP obstructionism continues.
If Democrats remain as engaged and active as they were in 2018, we might see a huge flip in 2020. Big if.
re: #139 lawhawk
2020 doesn’t favor the GOP on any number of grounds.
The Senate class is predominantly GOP (22 GOP vs 12 Dems up for reelection - compared to nearly the reverse this year). A hugely unpopular president and the GOP obstructionism continues.
If Democrats remain as engaged and active as they were in 2018, we might see a huge flip in 2020. Big if.
That’s why we need the right candidate and someone who will campaign along side other Dems.
re: #54 BlueGrl21
I’m an enterprise agile coach. This year will be 20 years. I was doing agile before it was called agile. Therefore, I don’t take bullshitters well. There is still a lot of it in the agile consulting world.
I love it when I see emails that someone says is a “Certified Scrum Master”…pray tell, what entity determines who is a scrum master and who isn’t….
re: #128 Dr. Matt
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Donnie just clowned himself and proved there is no national emergency. Oooooops
He’s the sort of client that gives prosecutors huge grins and defense attorneys stomach-destroying ulcers.
re: #114 ObserverArt
I get a feeling Lindsey knows this is starting to hang around his neck too. Maybe Lindsey is goading him to do the emergency so others can kill the shutdown and then the emergency is killed because it just won’t fly.
And maybe Lindsey is also hoping Trump triggers something very illegal that causes his ouster or the start of it. Lindsey and other Republicans probably want to move on.
We know he sold his soul to Trump and maybe the Russians. But Lindsey does know the laws and he might use Trump’s lack of knowledge and eagerness against him.
Will no one rid me of this turbulent Trump?
from electoral-vote.com
And Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced that he thinks the time has come for the President to roll the dice and declare a national emergency. This would be the same Lindsey Graham who denounced such a move last week, and who 24 hours before said that the Senate was working on a compromise to resolve the situation. So, it’s another illustration of why he’s really not worth listening to anymore.
Trumpworld now has to engage in pretzel logic to defend itself on all legal fronts.
Donald Trump’s lawyers write in a court brief that discovery demanded by the Democratic National Committee in the lawsuit over the hack of emails would violate the 1st Amendment and interfere with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation. pic.twitter.com/Np2msfzr5f
— Eriq Gardner (@eriqgardner) January 11, 2019
You need to understand that the legal theory in one case can contradict your legal theory in another case (or even in the same case, as in alternative claims/defenses that contradict each other). It’s possible, so I’m not holding that against him.
I just find it funny that Trump’s trying to defend against this particular suit by claiming that the requested discovery would interfere with the ongoing investigation by Mueller.
It’s quite possible that the judge might delay ruling until such time that the Mueller Report is issued to avoid the problem, or they may say that the information can be vetted without difficulty (as is often done in cases where there’s classified/privileged info - IIRC you could have a special master review the info to make sure that it can be released without interfering in the investigation or other case).
re: #141 Eric The Fruit Bat
I love it when I see emails that someone says is a “Certified Scrum Master”…pray tell, what entity determines who is a scrum master and who isn’t….
Is ‘scrum’ in this context some kind of fusion of rugby and software engineering?
re: #139 lawhawk
2020 doesn’t favor the GOP on any number of grounds.
The Senate class is predominantly GOP (22 GOP vs 12 Dems up for reelection - compared to nearly the reverse this year). A hugely unpopular president and the GOP obstructionism continues.
If Democrats remain as engaged and active as they were in 2018, we might see a huge flip in 2020. Big if.
I’m mildly optimistic about 2020, mostly because I think Trump is not even going to get close to what he got last time. Twelve of those GOP states in the Senate are >R+10, plus Dems have to defend Alabama which is also R+14. But hopefully the Dems are working to get more people registered and engaged in every state, and can expand the electorate enough to put more states in play.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s new governor suspends Broward County sheriff over handling of February high school massacre.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 11, 2019
The sheriff didn’t and couldn’t stop the massacre. More guns isn’t going to stop the next one either.
This is the real national crisis, not this bulkshit from Trump about foreigners coming in and raping your women and stealing your shit and murdering your kids.
The real threat is angry white guys blowing away dozens of people with guns that are all too easily available.
re: #143 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
from electoral-vote.com
The compromise went up in flames yesterday, effectively because the GOP realized that it was a wasted effort because even if Donny might be willing to sign it under different circumstances, Faux was already preparing to roast them (and him) alive if such a bill went further than a trial balloon.
re: #147 lawhawk
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The sheriff didn’t and couldn’t stop the massacre. More guns isn’t going to stop the next one either.
This is the real national crisis, not this bulkshit from Trump about foreigners coming in and raping your women and stealing your shit and murdering your kids.
The real threat is angry white guys blowing away dozens of people with guns that are all too easily available.
If he hadn’t sided with the kids over the NRA, this wouldn’t be happening.
re: #138 KGxvi
The PVI has South Carolina as R+8, which makes it about as Republican as New Jersey is Democratic. And in most House districts, the GOP lost ground from 2016 to 2018, anywhere from 1% to 9%. If Trump continues to be Trump, we may well see South Carolina move closer to being in pay (Trump’s approval ratings in SC have gone from 56-31 in January ‘17 to 52-43 in December ‘18).
Alabama flipped a seat, why not South Carolina? Lindsey Graham can then go on Wingnut Welfare.
re: #149 HappyWarrior
If he hadn’t sided with the kids over the NRA, this wouldn’t be happening.
Pretty much. He tried to save his own ass by pinning all the blame for the “good guy with a gun” talking point be eviscerated by his own deputy refusing to play Rambo, but that sacrifice was deemed insufficient by the blood cult.
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹
Alabama flipped a seat, why not South Carolina? Lindsey Graham can then go on Wingnut Welfare.
South Carolina is more likely to flip than Alabama was. But then again, Doug Jones winning was something of a perfect storm. Short of Graham being found in bed with a dead boy, I’m not sure he’s going to get to Roy Moore’s level of disgust/embarrassment.
re: #123 Targetpractice
I’m not sure that a federal judge is going to believe there’s such a “crisis” on the border that a national emergency declaration is warranted when the guy who says he has the authority to make such a declaration and have it stick…is tossing the issue back to Congress which just adjourned for the weekend. It’s not much of a “crisis” when you keep stalling for time.
Trump stepped on all that yesterday when with Hannity he said “he will call the emergency if he doesn’t get his legislation and funding for the wall.”
He made it clear it has never been about a crisis at the border.
The crisis is he can’t get his way.
Can’t call an emergency on that. If he does, he might get impeached. That is why people are saying Mitch is standing back. Mitch knows the laws and he knows what can break them. And he isn’t going to be a party to it.
He also know if he stops Trump the Trump base will kill him. And Mitch likes his power.
I’ll keep saying it…Trump has been bluffing the whole time. It’s all show because that is what he knows how to do.
I just heard it reported in a bit of a different way. Trump was said to say to the news folks that he had at a luncheon the other day: I know this isn’t going to work, but I have to try it because I have to look strong (to his base).
He is harming people, he is harming his party…but damn, he is not going to harm himself. He knows his base loves this shit…and he is going to ride that until the ride stops. Or, crashes.
Look at his past. It is businesses in rubble. Lost confidence by any banks and city governments in America that would work with him.
So what did he do? Put on a show that made him look all tough business man. It was called The Apprentice. And it made him feel like a success. It was all fake. It was all bullshit.
And he is on video right now from today saying “I’m not looking at it right now, I know if I if I call the emergency, it will go to the courts, and then ‘maybe’ the Supreme Court will allow it. But I know this should be done by congress, it is easy for them.”
Does that sound like someone that is going to go through with it?
re: #145 EPR-radar
Is ‘scrum’ in this context some kind of fusion of rugby and software engineering?
When it comes to this, it goes back to some of the scrum training I’ve seen: picture a chicken and a pig and figuring out where they are in the software development life-cycle….
Q: What’s the difference between / are you a chicken or a pig?
A: The chicken is involved, the pig is “committed”….
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹
Alabama flipped a seat, why not South Carolina? Lindsey Graham can then go on Wingnut Welfare.
The Jones vs. Moore election in AL was a special case. The only possible threat to Graham’s job security is getting primaried by a better panderer to the swivel-eyed loons of the GOP base in South Carolina.
Just 3 in 10 Americans believe the government should remain closed until there is funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll. https://t.co/NMp2BabVJt
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) January 11, 2019
The unchanging 30% idiots. https://t.co/lTtoMprPc6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2019
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹
Alabama flipped a seat, why not South Carolina? Lindsey Graham can then go on Wingnut Welfare.
I agree but we got lucky with Roy Moore.
re: #153 ObserverArt
Trump stepped on all that yesterday when with Hannity he said “he will call the emergency if he doesn’t get his legislation and funding for the wall.”
He made it clear it has never been about a crisis at the border.
The crisis is he can’t get his way.
Can’t call an emergency on that. If he does, he might get impeached. That is why people are saying Mitch is standing back. Mitch knows the laws and he knows what can break them. And he isn’t going to be a party to it.
He also know if he stops Trump the Trump base will kill him. And Mitch likes his power.
I’ll keep saying it…Trump has been bluffing the whole time. It’s all show because that is what he knows how to do.
I just heard it reported in a bit of a different way. Trump was said to say to the news folks that he had at a luncheon the other day: I know this isn’t going to work, but I have to try it because I have to look strong (to his base).
He is harming people, he is harming his party…but damn, he is not going to harm himself. He knows his base loves this shit…and he is going to ride that until the ride stops. Or, crashes.
Look at his past. It is businesses in rubble. Lost confidence by any banks and city governments in America that would work with him.
So what did he do? Put in a show that made him look all tough business man. It was called The Apprentice. And it made him feel like a success. It was all fake. It was all bullshit.
And he is on video right now from today saying “I’m not looking at it right now, I know if I if I call the emergency, it will go to the courts, and then ‘maybe’ the Supreme Court will allow it. But I know this should be done by congress, it is easy for them.”
Does that sound like someone that is going to go through with it?
When he did his little temper tantrum stomping out of the WH meeting, there was an article about how this is his “negotiation style.” That he pulls this shit all the time, marching out of meetings where the other side won’t take the “deal” he offers, scaring the shit out of them because they fear that they’re not going to get a deal if they don’t get him back in there to take what he’s offering. Problem is that that shit only works because Donny generally deals with those who are weaker than he is, whether its contractors, suppliers, or his ex-wives. Now he’s finding out that shit doesn’t work when the other side has little to lose and a lot to gain by sitting back while he beclowns himself with such childish bullshit.
What’s the chance Vermont gets rid of this guy?
Ex-campaign surrogate says #MeToo movement being used as “political weapon” against Sanders https://t.co/EjOfelZDek (via @HillTVLive) pic.twitter.com/xAjKKvkLGf
— The Hill (@thehill) January 11, 2019
re: #159 MsJ
What’s the chance Vermont gets rid of this guy?
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re: #153 ObserverArt
I’d love to agree with you but I just can’t.
Polling shows this is hammering Republicans. Yet Mitch does nothing.
This is way past smart, political chess. He’s killing Republicans. There’s nothing what about this.
The excuses for how the Sanders campaign handled this are such bs. We have women supporters! Yeah that’s not valid.
BREAKING: Caveman tries to explain the history of wheels and walls; gets it completely wrong.
(The first wall dates back 6 THOUSAND years before the wheel.) pic.twitter.com/CzaNOGeqZW— Paul Lee Ticks (@PaulLeeTicks) January 11, 2019
re: #159 MsJ
What’s the chance Vermont gets rid of this guy?
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JFC.
When this first surfaced, I pointed out a way for Sanders to get out ahead of this and be a real leader. And I’d find a real leader to be admirable.
This sort of reaction pretty much gives the stink that harassment was real and was rampant.
Trump tried to sell a concrete wall, then tried to sell a steel barrier. Today: “In many cases, steel walls, it’s steel that is, that has, concrete inside. It’s pumped into the steel. It’s hollow, and it’s pumped into the steel. So it’s sort of a combination of both.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2019
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This is the guy who conservatives think is the person to be the leader of the country.
re: #159 MsJ
What’s the chance Vermont gets rid of this guy?
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When you’re attacking the accusers, you’re pretty much admitting that there’s validity to the charges.
re: #166 Anymouse 🌹
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This is the guy who conservatives think is the person to be the leader of the country.
Trump says that he hasn’t spent the $1.6 billion allocated last year (to non-wall fencing) because he doesn’t believe in paying contractors until the end of the project when you can see if they did a good job. This story appears entirely fictional as it relates to the fencing.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2019
In other words, Donny’s pretty much admitting that he’s up to his usual shady shit, withholding payment until after the work is done so he can then try to stiff the contractors by offering them less for “shoddy work.”
re: #167 Targetpractice
When you’re attacking the accusers, you’re pretty much admitting that there’s validity to the charges.
Yep crying that MeToo is being used on Bernie’s staff pretty much gets why MeToo exists. MeToo is about transcending ideology.
Honestly, at this point I think @csgazette is further left, and IT serves COLORADO SPRINGS (though admittedly increasingly Denver as well, since it’s the only major Colorado paper whose owners aren’t trying to kill it by ‘21)!
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) January 11, 2019
Evening Lizardim. Happy Weekend.
re: #162 MsJ
I’d love to agree with you but I just can’t.
Polling shows this is hammering Republicans. Yet Mitch does nothing.
This is way past smart, political chess. He’s killing Republicans. There’s nothing what about this.
Mitch is past caring for Republicans. Mitch is now worried about Mitch. He’s 76. If he runs in 2020 he will be around 78. One more term and he will be 84 or 85.
He just needs Kentucky now. Maybe one last term, maybe not…but he wants to go out loved in Kentucky. He has to return to his old Kentucky home again.
Got any polling on Kentucky for McConnell?
Bernie’s also keeping to (bad) habit, choosing to leave the heavy-lifting of saving his ass to his staff rather than stepping in to accept responsibility. Much like how he lets his nutty supporters run people off while throwing up his hands to say he has no control over them.
re: #168 Targetpractice
because he doesn’t believe in paying contractors until the end of the project when you can see if they did a good job
THAT IS NOT HOW CONSTRUCTION WORKS
re: #168 Targetpractice
In other words, Donny’s pretty much admitting that he’s up to his usual shady shit, withholding payment until after the work is done so he can then try to stiff the contractors by offering them less for “shoddy work.”
Government contracts don’t work that way.
re: #118 Targetpractice
I honestly believe that Graham is one of those who is high on his own supply, that he genuinely believes the GOP’s bullshit about how such a declaration would hold up in the courts and so Donny could effectively declare himself as Dictator-For-Life is he so chose.
Followed by Senator Graham stinking the knife into Donny and taking over.
Because that’s how barbarians and authoritarians think.
My front door has glass panels, which can be a problem when you have three big dogs who love to bark at “bad guys”.
Today, someone knocked at my door and all three dogs ran up to the door. I’ve never seen Jehovah’s Witnesses run so fast.
Jehovah’s Fitness 🏃🏼🏃🏽— Anne Munition (@AnneMunition) January 11, 2019
re: #165 gwangung
JFC.
When this first surfaced, I pointed out a way for Sanders to get out ahead of this and be a real leader. And I’d find a real leader to be admirable.
This sort of reaction pretty much gives the stink that harassment was real and was rampant.
Not only that, but that Sanders himself was either personally involved in it or, at the very least, turned a blind eye to his staff doing it.
Neither would surprise me.
re: #166 Anymouse 🌹
It’s concrete! It’s steel! It’s a barrier! It’s a fence! It’s all of these rolled into one, ladies and gents! There’s something for everyone here!
re: #174 Targetpractice
Bernie’s also keeping to (bad) habit, choosing to leave the heavy-lifting of saving his ass to his staff rather than stepping in to accept responsibility. Much like how he lets his nutty supporters run people off while throwing up his hands to say he has no control over them.
He really is a terrible leader. He totally is more like Trump than his supporters realize. They’re just so blinded by the promises Bernie makes that they can’t see that and you know what? It’s a shame because I feel Democratic Socialism shouldn’t be a bad phrase too but Bernie is a terrible leader.
re: #175 KGxvi
THAT IS NOT HOW CONSTRUCTION WORKS
It’s how it has worked for him, by promising more than he’s willing to pay, then weaseling out of paying by saying the work was not up to his standards and offering the contractors less with the threat that he’ll refuse payment if they don’t take what he’s offering and will actually lose money if they try to sue him.
re: #176 Belafon
Government contracts don’t work that way.
Didn’t work that way. They unfortunately do now and will until this grifting POS is out of office, because insufficient Senate Rs would be willing to string him up for it :-(
re: #180 Flying Squirrel Girl
It’s concrete! It’s steel! It’s a barrier! It’s a fence! It’s all of these rolled into one, ladies and gents! There’s something for everyone here!
It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping!
re: #132 lawhawk
I’m doing agile and scrum method work these days, and when certain folks throw around the term agile, and then don’t actually show that they know what it means or how it affects the day to day work we do, it rubs me the wrong way.
I think some folks throw the term around because they think it sounds good, rather than because it makes sense for the workflow or output.
I know what you mean - I’ve been working on software development/testing for the last 20 years or so and moved over to database work about 5 years ago because I got burned out on testing work, and there’s a lot more demand (and upward mobility) domestically for people who know their way around Oracle and SAP. Fortunately most of the people who I’ve worked with during the past decade or so have known their stuff and I haven’t had to deal as much with the buzzword-spouting marketing guys who couldn’t identify the differences between a dynamic versus structured framework are if their lives depended on it.
re: #173 ObserverArt
Mitch is past caring for Republicans. Mitch is now worried about Mitch. He’s 76. If he runs in 2020 he will be around 78. One more term and he will be 84 or 85.
He just needs Kentucky now. Maybe one last term, maybe not…but he wants to go out loved in Kentucky. He has to return to his old Kentucky home again.
Got any polling on Kentucky for McConnell?
There’s this from Morning Consult:
The latest rankings - based on surveys of 416,853 registered voters across the country conducted Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, 2018 (see methodology here) - found McConnell’s net approval increased 10 percentage points since the third quarter of 2018, with 38 percent of Kentucky voters approving of his job performance and 47 percent disapproving. The fourth quarter marks McConnell’s best showing since the second quarter of 2017 as he prepares for an expected re-election campaign in 2020. (Net approval is the share of voters who approve of a senator minus the share of voters who disapprove. Approval and disapproval figures are rounded.)
38-47 approval was actually an improvement, apparently.
re: #179 TedStriker
Not only that, but that Sanders himself was either personally involved in it or, at the very least, turned a blind eye to his staff doing it.
I’m going to guess that he either knew about it and said nothing because he figured that his staff were keeping a strong enough lid on it, or he didn’t but is scared shitless if he takes any measure of responsibility for his staff’s actions that he’ll lose face.
re: #186 KGxvi
There’s this from Morning Consult:
38-47 approval was actually an improvement, apparently.
The right candidate with the right campaign could beat him IMO. He needs to be taken out.
re: #145 EPR-radar
Is ‘scrum’ in this context some kind of fusion of rugby and software engineering?
It’s the perfect mix of physical and mental pain.
re: #165 gwangung
JFC.
When this first surfaced, I pointed out a way for Sanders to get out ahead of this and be a real leader. And I’d find a real leader to be admirable.
This sort of reaction pretty much gives the stink that harassment was real and was rampant.
Sanders continues to be handicapped by his view that “straight white male” is the default version of human life.
re: #187 Targetpractice
I’m going to guess that he either knew about it and said nothing because he figured that his staff were keeping a strong enough lid on it, or he didn’t but is scared shitless if he takes any measure of responsibility for his staff’s actions that he’ll lose face.
I don’t know what happened either but the way they’re responding to this shows me again why they shouldn’t be in charge. When Harris had to fire that staffer, her people didn’t cry that MeToo was being used against her. Sanders’ surrogates doing that and saying WE HAVE WOMEN SUPPORTERS SO DON’T ACCUSE US OF NOT RESPECTING WOMEN is quite frankly the kind of crap I’d expect from Republicans. Team Bernie may think they’re the purest of them all but they act like Republicans when they’re in a tough spot. Not the people I want running the Executive Branch.
re: #186 KGxvi
There’s this from Morning Consult:
38-47 approval was actually an improvement, apparently.
What’s saved his ass is he’s usually been up for reelection in years that favored GOP candidates. What may hurt him this go around is that Donny is a huge fucking albatross around the party’s neck whose stink is so rancid that it might dissuade all but the “BETTER DEAD THAN RED!!!” portion of the KY GOP to support him.
re: #190 EPR-radar
Sanders continues to be handicapped by his view that “straight white male” is the default version of human life.
He really is and it’s a pity because he should be capable of learning. And frankly if he’s incapable, he shouldn’t be in office anymore.
moron is so full of shit
This afternoon, President Trump hosted a roundtable discussion with State, local, and community leaders, who spoke on how the crisis at the border is negatively impacting communities across our Nation. pic.twitter.com/GSwFen4Z69
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 11, 2019
This is common sense. Congress must pass a bill that ends the crisis at our border. pic.twitter.com/wD0PPKfpNM
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 11, 2019
I just feel I should remind everyone that one of the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world is currently in the midst of the longest Federal government shutdown in its 243 year history because we’re being held hostage by a 72 year-old toddler who can’t get his way on a giant wall.
I thought this was the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, how the fuck did we get here??
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron is so full of shit
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re: #189 Romantic Heretic
It’s the perfect mix of physical and mental pain.
Yeah, and Agile has a manifesto too, just like those communists!
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron is so full of shit
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YOU CAN HANDLE PROBLEMS AT THE BORDER WITHOUT A FUCKING WALL.
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
I just feel I should remind everyone that one of the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world is currently in the midst of the longest government shutdown in its 243 year history because we’re being held hostage by a 72 year-old toddler who can’t get his way on a giant wall.
I thought this was the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, how the fuck did we get here??
Because a bunch of white guys got their fee fees hurt by a woman being nominated and being more qualified than the two angry old white guys that she ran against.
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
Voter apathy is part of it.
Things are getting weird pic.twitter.com/PQclAKPn2z
— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) January 11, 2019
Realizing I made a mistake. I bought my sister a Switch for Christmas, only to find that I’m getting jealous of her because I’d really like one of my own but can’t afford to buy it until at least after tax season.
re: #200 PhillyPretzel
Voter apathy is part of it.
BOTH ARE THE SAME. Yeah I challenge any Bro who believes that to tell me that Hillary would have appointed Brett Kavanaugh or would have had shutdown over a wall.
re: #200 PhillyPretzel
Voter apathy is part of it.
Ayep. “It’s somebody else’s problem” combined with “He’s a bastard, but he’s our bastard.”
re: #202 Targetpractice
Realizing I made a mistake. I bought my sister a Switch for Christmas, only to find that I’m getting jealous of her because I’d really like one of my own but can’t afford to buy it until at least after tax season.
I have been absolutely enthralled by Breath of the Wild. Super Mario Odyssey and Smash Bros. are solid too.
re: #202 Targetpractice
Realizing I made a mistake. I bought my sister a Switch for Christmas, only to find that I’m getting jealous of her because I’d really like one of my own but can’t afford to buy it until at least after tax season.
I got a watch for Christmas one year right before my brother climbed Kilimanjaro. He needed a nice watch for that climb so he asked me for it and offered to get me a new one when he got back which I thought was reasonable.
re: #199 HappyWarrior
Because a bunch of white guys got their fee fees hurt by a woman being nominated and being more qualified than the two angry old white guys that she ran against.
IMO it’s more that decades of Fox News and Hate Radio have turned the GOP base into deplorable pig-people that worship Trump as their God.
So even though it would obviously be good for business and normal GOP fuck-the-nation priorities, no Congressional Republicans dare to deal with their Trump problem.
re: #205 Eclectic Cyborg
I have been absolutely enthralled by Breath of the Wild. Super Mario Odyssey and Smash Bros. are solid too.
i’ve been playing Red Dead 2. Holy shit, what a game that is. Chapter 2 btw.
re: #207 EPR-radar
IMO it’s more that decades of Fox News and Hate Radio have turned the GOP base into deplorable pig-people that worship Trump as their God.
So even though it would obviously be good for business and normal GOP fuck-the-nation priorities, no Congressional Republicans dare to deal with their Trump problem.
True it’s that as well.
businessinsider.com
Fuck me, I hate this crooked asshole and his family.
re: #205 Eclectic Cyborg
I have been absolutely enthralled by Breath of the Wild. Super Mario Odyssey and Smash Bros. are solid too.
Got her BotW along with the new Pokemon game, after joking that I’d get her a copy of Skyrim instead. Don’t think I’ve seen her play the former, but she’s been enthralled by the latter.
re: #192 Targetpractice
What’s saved his ass is he’s usually been up for reelection in years that favored GOP candidates. What may hurt him this go around is that Donny is a huge fucking albatross around the party’s neck whose stink is so rancid that it might dissuade all but the “BETTER DEAD THAN RED!!!” portion of the KY GOP to support him.
He won by less than 1% in ‘84 when he first became a Senator. Then his closest elections were ‘90 and ‘08 when he won by about 5 points each time. ‘96, ‘02, and ‘14 were all blow outs.
re: #210 HappyWarrior
businessinsider.com
Fuck me, I hate this crooked asshole and his family.
Glad to see he got over his worries about being accused of nepotism.
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re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
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My view settled on the ‘cowboy’.
Dude, do you know what a poser you look like? And take your hat off indoors.
re: #212 KGxvi
He won by less than 1% in ‘84 when he first became a Senator. Then his closest elections were ‘90 and ‘08 when he won by about 5 points each time. ‘96, ‘02, and ‘14 were all blow outs.
As I said, the right candidate and campaign could knock him off.
02 and ‘14 were Republican years but ‘90 and ‘08 weren’t and 2020 isn’t looking like it will be. It’s tough though, They’re going to need someone good to run against the asshole tehy have as governor too. Poor BWS and our other Bluegrass lizards.
Just now on @IowaPress: @IowaGOP chair @kaufmannGOP denounces @SteveKingIA use of “white supremacy” comments but says party will still stay neutral in primary despite national Rs calling for him to step aside
— Iowa Press (@IowaPress) January 11, 2019
re: #216 MsJ
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He’ll win the primary and the GOP will use the same excuse Rauner did for not opposing that Nazi in Illinois, “At least he’s not a Democrat.” I think the National GOP may be tired of King but his own state and local GOP will keep him.
The only reason Donny avoided nominating Ivanka for UN Ambassador is that would require Senate approval. The World Bank presidency doesn’t require such, though he’d probably face flak on the world stage for nominating his daughter, as though he gives much of a shit by this point what the rest of the world thinks.
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
Makes me think of a quote from Walt Kelly.
We amazed our friends abroad and astounded our enemies at home. They had no idea we were so soft in the head or so hard in the heart.
re: #218 Targetpractice
The only reason Donny avoided nominating Ivanka for UN Ambassador is that would require Senate approval. The World Bank presidency doesn’t require such, though he’d probably face flak on the world stage for nominating his daughter, as though he gives much of a shit by this point what the rest of the world thinks.
i didn’t know that didn’t require confirmation. Hmmm explains why McNamara got it after DOD and Wolfowitz too. Man what an awful choice to even consider. Ivanka isn’t qualified to do anything with politics. God I loathe her and her father.
re: #219 Romantic Heretic
Makes me think of a quote from Walt Kelly.
Good line, what was he referring to?
Everything he says is a lie
After telling a story that began “the reason we haven’t spent it,” Trump then says this in the same minute: “The money they say we didn’t spend has been spent, but it hasn’t been paid. There’s a big difference.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2019
re: #215 HappyWarrior
As I said, the right candidate and campaign could knock him off.
02 and ‘14 were Republican years but ‘90 and ‘08 weren’t and 2020 isn’t looking like it will be. It’s tough though, They’re going to need someone good to run against the asshole tehy have as governor too. Poor BWS and our other Bluegrass lizards.
Bevin has a Republican primary challenger who has already filed.
Andy Beshear (currently our state AG and also son of our former Dem governor) has filed for the Dem nomination.
Bevin is looking at a different woman to run with him as lt gov. I guess his current lt gov (the black female libertarian tea party gal from Detroit) hasn’t been working out well for him.
The lady who cleans for my mom once a week is the best kind of Christian, the kind who practice the Golden Rule, not just preach it. I can’t count the number of kind deeds she’s done for my mom and others.
But this is north Louisiana, so she’s also a Trumpista. While she was here today, CNN previewed an upcoming story by asking how effective walls actually were in immigration situations. Passing through the room, my lady saiid “Good enough for our homes.”
This might make a nice sound byte, but in fact her home has no wall, and it has never been invaded by criminals of any kind, much less by undocumented immigrants.
I didn’t say anything, though. She’s too good a human being for us to argue crappy politics, and she knows very well what I think of Trump already.
re: #222 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Everything he says is a lie
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Yeah, first he says “I don’t pay until the work is done,” then in the next minute says “The work’s done, I’m just withholding payment.” Any way you slice it, he’s an unethical piece of shit.
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bevin has a Republican primary challenger who has already filed.
Andy Beshear (currently our state AG and also son of our former Dem governor) has filed for the Dem nomination.
Bevin is looking at a different woman to run with him as lt gov. I guess his current lt gov (the black female libertarian tea party gal from Detroit) hasn’t been working out well for him.
Do you think the former gov would consider running against Mitch or is he content to enjoy his retirement? Interesting though. Didn’t know Bevin had an interparty challenger.
re: #218 Targetpractice
The only reason Donny avoided nominating Ivanka for UN Ambassador is that would require Senate approval. The World Bank presidency doesn’t require such, though he’d probably face flak on the world stage for nominating his daughter, as though he gives much of a shit by this point what the rest of the world thinks.
Nominating/appointing his Jewish daughter to run the World Bank would send some of his supporters over the edge. The thing I always come back to with Trump and the alt-right is the scene from the Vice episode on Charlottesville when one of the white nationalists says something along the lines of “I don’t like that he gave his daughter to a Jew.”
re: #225 Targetpractice
Yeah, first he says “I don’t pay until the work is done,” then in the next minute says “The work’s done, I’m just withholding payment.” Any way you slice it, he’s an unethical piece of shit.
He rips people off just like HRC said.
Canada does what a great nation ought to do. https://t.co/Obc4N1Fj3q
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) January 11, 2019
re: #220 HappyWarrior
i didn’t know that didn’t require confirmation. Hmmm explains why McNamara got it after DOD and Wolfowitz too. Man what an awful choice to even consider. Ivanka isn’t qualified to do anything with politics. God I loathe her and her father.
Does the World Bank have to accept her if he actually did that? I would imagine they don’t want the Trumps to have the keys to their treasury, so to speak.
re: #232 Anymouse 🌹
Does the World Bank have to accept her if he actually did that? I would imagine they don’t want the Trumps to have the keys to their treasury, so to speak.
I have no idea. I imagine the WB wasn’t too happy with Wolfowitz and McNamara taking the job after Iraq and Vietnam but they were at least qualified.
re: #225 Targetpractice
Yeah, first he says “I don’t pay until the work is done,” then in the next minute says “The work’s done, I’m just withholding payment.” Any way you slice it, he’s an unethical piece of shit.
re: #228 HappyWarrior
He rips people off just like HRC said.
He has absolutely no involvement in contracted DHS work. Or any other agency in the executive branch
re: #226 HappyWarrior
Do you think the former gov would consider running against Mitch or is he content to enjoy his retirement? Interesting though. Didn’t know Bevin had an interparty challenger.
no, I don’t think former gov is interested. At least not at the moment.
re: #221 HappyWarrior
He was speaking of the McCarthy years.
re: #217 HappyWarrior
He’ll win the primary and the GOP will use the same excuse Rauner did for not opposing that Nazi in Illinois, “At least he’s not a Democrat.” I think the National GOP may be tired of King but his own state and local GOP will keep him.
I’m wondering how this will shake out with the Iowa voters - between them getting hit hard by Trump’s trade war, and the mask covering King’s white nationalism being torn completely off now by his quoting Nazi talking points verbatim, does the Iowa GOP leadership think for a second that the seat will stay in the red column if he doesn’t get primaried?
re: #232 Anymouse 🌹
Does the World Bank have to accept her if he actually did that? I would imagine they don’t want the Trumps to have the keys to their treasury, so to speak.
No, there’s an election to the position so she could very well lose. And while such a loss would hurt the US in the world’s eyes, it would just motivate Donny to further attack the bank’s legitimacy and issue threats against it.
re: #231 HappyWarrior
A couple of days ago I was arguing with a moonbat who claimed Trudeau was ‘the most violent man in Canada.’
Yeah, we got ‘em up here too.
re: #238 Targetpractice
No, there’s an election to the position so she could very well lose. And while such a loss would hurt the US in the world’s eyes, it would just motivate Donny to further attack the bank’s legitimacy and issue threats against it.
Which is exactly what he’d do.
re: #234 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
He has absolutely no involvement in contracted DHS work. Or any other agency in the executive branch
Pissing away, one by one, our political, our economic, our cultural and our technical leadership.
re: #190 EPR-radar
Sanders continues to be handicapped by his view that “straight white male” is the default version of human life.
I really REALLY fucking dislike him.
re: #239 Romantic Heretic
A couple of days ago I was arguing with a moonbat who claimed Trudeau was ‘the most violent man in Canada.’
Yeah, we got ‘em up here too.
Yeah I know a Canadian moonbat who hates Trudeau and thinks he’s awful. I really like the guy. He’s a genuinely caring person.
NEW: Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan is preparing a censure resolution against Republican Rep. Steve King, spokesperson says, as King faces increasing criticism from both sides of the aisle over “white supremacy” comments. https://t.co/ukFknKcLNq https://t.co/Vo8Ps51128
— ABC News (@ABC) January 11, 2019
re: #238 Targetpractice
No, there’s an election to the position so she could very well lose. And while such a loss would hurt the US in the world’s eyes, it would just motivate Donny to further attack the bank’s legitimacy and issue threats against it.
More to the point, something like this would harm the interests of US oligarchs, many of which are in the GOP donor class. This inaction of the GOP donor class vs. Trump is the biggest mystery I see in the current mess of US politics.
Today in open conservative graft:
‘Could you make these guys essential?’: Mortgage industry gets shutdown relief after appeal to senior Treasury officials
re: #246 EPR-radar
More to the point, something like this would harm the interests of US oligarchs, many of which are in the GOP donor class. This inaction of the GOP donor class vs. Trump is the biggest mystery I see in the current mess of US politics.
Well Trump does like to blackmail to get his way. Maybe these guys have some dirt on them.
re: #230 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #242 MsJ
I really REALLY fucking dislike him.
Not only is Sanders’ cluelessness on identity issues (which verges on bigotry IMO) odious, but his campaign fucked up the anti-plutocracy story badly in ways that will take years to recover from.
re: #248 HappyWarrior
Atta boy Tim.
Yup. Also puts the GOP in the House on the spot.
Any Republican who votes against the measure signals they support Rep. Steve King’s comments.
Those are political adverts in the making for each of their districts.
re: #239 Romantic Heretic
A couple of days ago I was arguing with a moonbat who claimed Trudeau was ‘the most violent man in Canada.’
Yeah, we got ‘em up here too.
You could argue that about any head of government that approves/directs the use of military force.
re: #206 HappyWarrior
I got a watch for Christmas one year right before my brother climbed Kilimanjaro. He needed a nice watch for that climb so he asked me for it and offered to get me a new one when he got back which I thought was reasonable.
And you were smart enough not to respond with “I dunno, how sure are you that you’re coming back? I’ve heard stories about what can happen to mountain-climbers…”
re: #218 Targetpractice
The only reason Donny avoided nominating Ivanka for UN Ambassador is that would require Senate approval. The World Bank presidency doesn’t require such, though he’d probably face flak on the world stage for nominating his daughter, as though he gives much of a shit by this point what the rest of the world thinks.
Don’t other countries have a say in it?
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹
Yup. Also puts the GOP in the House on the spot.
Any Republican who votes against the measure signals they support Rep. Steve King’s comments.
Those are political adverts in the making for each of their districts.
Yep. Make King out what they want to make AOC into.
re: #250 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
I still worry that the Saudi government isn’t going to try to forcibly repatriate her (or worse) because they sure were on the side of the family members’ attempts to ship her back after her asylum requests.
She is in the hands of UNHCR. With asylum granted in Canada, that makes it a bunch tougher for them.
re: #249 HappyWarrior
Well Trump does like to blackmail to get his way. Maybe these guys have some dirt on them.
The GOP donor class is much bigger and more powerful than Trump. Blackmail of these sharks by Trump is simply not possible, IMO.
Perhaps they really are just stupid, despite (or perhaps because of) their great wealth and power.
re: #254 sagehen
And you were smart enough not to respond with “I dunno, how sure are you that you’re coming back? I’ve heard stories about what can happen to mountain-climbers…”
Heh true. And yeah I can’t believe he did it.
re: #258 EPR-radar
The GOP donor class is much bigger and more powerful than Trump. Blackmail of these sharks by Trump is simply not possible, IMO.
Perhaps they really are just stupid, despite (or perhaps because of) their great wealth and power.
Could well be.
I’d link every incumbent House Republican to King if I were the DCCC.
re: #248 HappyWarrior
Atta boy Tim.
With Democrats in control of the House, even though they can’t count on direct expulsion (which is what he honestly deserves), they sure as hell can make sure that his tenure will be very unpleasant by keeping him off of committees so his influence is reduced to next to zero.
Gaaa. The GOP’s major donors are going to pull the plug on the GOP soon enough. This guy is costing them real money now.
Despite previously unfruitful negotiations, President Trump says he wants to reopen the government and is urging party leaders to return to Washington and vote for a wall, or barrier, or whatever they wish to call it — even “peaches” https://t.co/KNAhGigkAP
— CNN (@CNN) January 11, 2019
re: #262 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
With Democrats in control of the house, even though they can’t count on direct expulsion (which is what he honestly deserves), they sure as hell can make sure that his tenure will be very unpleasant by keeping him off of committees so his influence is reduced to next to zero.
It at the very least might give his constituents a clue to chuck the bastard and give him a retirement way overdue.
re: #264 HappyWarrior
It at the very least might give his constituents a clue to chuck the bastard and give him a retirement way overdue.
Censure also only requires a simple majority.
re: #263 Anymouse 🌹
Gaaa. The GOP’s major donors are going to pull the plug on the GOP soon enough. This guy is costing them real money now.
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The leader who has painted himself into a corner asks the party he drug into that corner with him to save his ass.
By this point, the janitors on Capital Hill must be taking empty liquor bottles out by the crate-load.
Joe Lieberman is one of the greatest politicians I have had the privilege of knowing and watching work with my father. He is a true example of bipartisanship and human decency that tragically has been lost in our current times. All of us in this country could take a page from him
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) January 11, 2019
What’s scarier than socialism?
Nepotism. https://t.co/WBUpUobk75— Marie Connor (@thistallawkgirl) January 11, 2019
re: #266 Targetpractice
The leader who has painted himself into a corner asks the party he drug into that corner with him to save his ass.
By this point, the janitors on Capital Hill must be taking empty liquor bottles out by the crate-load.
Nope. They’re too busy cleaning out the bongs!
The Senate GOP should take him up on it, pass the House bill with the $1.6B for border security, then put it on his desk with the public statement that that funding will go to a “barrier.”
re: #247 Anymouse 🌹
Today in open conservative graft:
‘Could you make these guys essential?’: Mortgage industry gets shutdown relief after appeal to senior Treasury officials
This picking and choosing which agencies should remain open is insanity.
re: #265 Anymouse 🌹
Censure also only requires a simple majority.
Censuring isn’t removing though. I’m saying that if he were to lose his committee positions that his constituents might get the clue that the racist bastard is not only an asshole but useless too.
re: #269 Targetpractice
The Senate GOP should take him up on it, pass the House bill with the $1.6B for border security, then put it on his desk with the public statement that that funding will go to a “barrier.”
1.6 billion for peach pies for the refugees and VB will bake them. //
re: #266 Targetpractice
The leader who has painted himself into a corner asks the party he drug into that corner with him to save his ass.
By this point, the janitors on Capital Hill must be taking empty liquor bottles out by the crate-load.
And Maalox.
My wife will be seeing a different doctor at the hospital in Scottsbluff on Monday.
She notes he has the very unfortunate name of “Dr. Die.”
re: #267 Anymouse 🌹
Of course Meghan McCain approves of any ‘Democrat’ (like Lieberman) whose deepest political instinct is unconditional surrender to the Republican demands of the day.
re: #267 Anymouse 🌹
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He hasn’t been a Democrat since you were 18, Meaghan. Stop this shit.
re: #275 EPR-radar
Of course Meghan McCain approves of any ‘Democrat’ (like Lieberman) whose deepest political instinct is unconditional surrender to the Republican demands of the day.
Lieberman ain’t a Dem and hasn’t and he wasn’t when Meg’s father vetted him.
Ok.
Michael Cohen’s testimony on the hill will probably not cover Russia and instead hush money payments and the Trump Organization, including the roles of the president’s children. https://t.co/6lOKCsmQAW
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 11, 2019
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on protracted government shutdown: “It’s a temper tantrum by the president. I’m the mother of five, grandmother of nine. I know a temper tantrum when I see one.” https://t.co/Degq4QFi7c pic.twitter.com/kXPjE4I42O
— ABC News (@ABC) January 11, 2019
re: #278 MsJ
Ok.
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Should have figured when the announcement was made that he’d only cooperate to a point.
If you have enough money, you can get your favorite part of the government re-opened. https://t.co/3RExLPmjQf
— Richard Tofel (@dicktofel) January 11, 2019
“After an intense lobbying campaign by the mortgage industry, the Treasury Department this week restarted a program that had been sidelined by the partial government shutdown, allowing hundreds of Internal Revenue Service clerks to collect paychecks as they process forms vital to the lending industry.”
This is always the Trump way: create a disruption and then charge for exceptions.
In a word, yes. Also Republicans.
Is it really possible that the Senate is about to confirm someone whose most notable achievement in public office is that he was the architect of the last time a major criminal presidential scandal was shut down with blanket pardons for everyone? pic.twitter.com/KHXxCvMHKZ
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) January 11, 2019
Keep the mortgage business rolling, but cut the paychecks to the people buying the houses. More upward wealth transfer.
re: #279 Anymouse 🌹
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I’m enjoying this empowered, taking no bullshit version of Nancy Pelosi more and more. The GOP made her out to be a monster in their campaign rhetoric, and she’s come back as their greatest nightmare in the legislative branch.
re: #280 Targetpractice
Should have figured when the announcement was made that he’d only cooperate to a point.
I still think there’s a Mueller aspect to what he can’t discuss.
Roseanne blames anti-Semitism for her firing: “A large part of it is anti-Semitism” https://t.co/aZURgY25zd pic.twitter.com/JX2vdepL44
— The Hill (@thehill) January 11, 2019
Bullshit. https://t.co/y11AmgN90Y
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 11, 2019
You can already hear the snickering from wingnuts that, while Cohen will be able to talk about all sorts of salacious and illegal shit Donny did, he can’t talk about Russia and thus “THERE’S NO PROOF OF COLLUSION!!!”
re: #280 Targetpractice
Should have figured when the announcement was made that he’d only cooperate to a point.
Anything covering the investigation into Russia is likely classified. They will be holding a classified portion of the hearing; if it’s going to be discussed, it will be then, not on C-SPAN.
re: #286 Anymouse 🌹
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Uh no. It’s got nothing to do with you being Jewish. You acted like a bigoted clown.
Can we get retractions from all the people who praised Romney’s character and said he would have been a good president? https://t.co/kDboUPXye4
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 11, 2019
re: #291 HappyWarrior
Nope. Fuck Romney tbo
Romney is just another standard-issue evil Republican piece of shit.
With Trump in office being such a total witless fucking cocksplat, it’s easy to forget just how heinous ‘normal’ Republicans are.
re: #268 Joe Bacon 🌹
Nope. They’re too busy cleaning out the bongs!
Negatory, these are Republicans we’re talking about.
It’s either going to be cocaine spoons or meth pipes.
re: #205 Eclectic Cyborg
I have been absolutely enthralled by Breath of the Wild. Super Mario Odyssey and Smash Bros. are solid too.
Skyrim and Warframe are great on the switch as well. Best $75 I ever spent….
Guy was trying to pawn it, pawn broker would not take it so I offered the guy $75 for the machine and $25 for Zelda :)
re: #246 EPR-radar
More to the point, something like this would harm the interests of US oligarchs, many of which are in the GOP donor class. This inaction of the GOP donor class vs. Trump is the biggest mystery I see in the current mess of US politics.
Maybe it’s not that much of a mystery: that “donor class” has to be aware that however incompetent Donny may be, there is a solid bloc of deluded Deplorables reliably Republican voters out there who worship his vile orange ass, and aren’t going to be susceptible to any overly (or even overtly) anti-Trump (or even non-Trump) alternate candidate. Even if lavishly financed.
Not gonna read it but if there eating their own I’m all for it.
A conservative attack on Trump’s character and on Republican hypocrisy:https://t.co/k0VQa4pU2t
— RonSupportsYou (@RonSupportsYou) January 11, 2019
Maybe she and Bernie can kill each other off.
Tulsi Gabbard says she will run for president in 2020 https://t.co/F3vRVGgSkC
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 11, 2019
A small but important fact to remember:
In an alternate universe where Republicans still held the House, the government would be open, federal workers would have their paychecks, and Border Patrol would have the funding and tools they need.
Just something to think about.— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 11, 2019
Note: The shutdown started when Republicans had control of the House, the Senate and the White House. It went on for days under total Republican control. https://t.co/S3Sr33YOMS
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 11, 2019
re: #267 Anymouse 🌹
Meghan McCain ✔
@MeghanMcCainJoe Lieberman is one of the greatest politicians I have had the privilege of knowing and watching work with my father. He is a true example of bipartisanship and human decency that tragically has been lost in our current times. All of us in this country could take a page from him
2:49 PM - Jan 11, 2019
Shorter Meghan McCain: I too hate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
But I am going to be passive-aggressive about it because I have to look good for the public.
re: #295 Jay C
Maybe it’s not that much of a mystery: that “donor class” has to be aware that however incompetent Donny may be, there is a solid bloc of
deluded Deplorablesreliably Republican voters out there who worship his vile orange ass, and aren’t going to be susceptible to any overly (or even overtly) anti-Trump (or even non-Trump) alternate candidate. Even if lavishly financed.
See Romney, Mitt.
re: #298 Barefoot Grin
A small but important fact to remember:
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Crenshaw’s only right if you assume that the Senate Dems would have been quicker to cut a deal in such a scenario, afraid of being stuck in the middle between a GOP House and a GOP Senate which would have the media’s support in dubbing the whole thing the “Schumer Shutdown.”
re: #300 Sea Mexican
If one is very rich, in this country, there is little to fear from the daily foibles of Trump.
The very top of the societal rung are very good at protecting themselves.
It’s the rest of us who are in danger.
re: #298 Barefoot Grin
In an alternate universe where Republicans still held the House, the government would be open, federal workers would have their paychecks, and Border Patrol would have the funding and tools they need. Just something to think about.
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 11, 2019
Note: The shutdown started when Republicans had control of the House, the Senate and the White House. It went on for days under total Republican control. https://t.co/S3Sr33YOMS
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 11, 2019
And that it was the departing/retired Speaker - Paul Ryan, the Solon of Janesville - who dropped the whole “wall funding” thing (on a strict party-line vote of course) on the government practically as the last act of the 115th Congress. Kind of the way a departing disgruntled tenant relieves their bowels on the front hall rug as a “welcome present” for the landlord/new tenants.
Angry as one might get at their actions, unfortunately, cleaning up the mess has to be the first priority…
No thanks.
BREAKING: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii and the first Hindu member of Congress, says she’s running for President in 2020 https://t.co/cmpVVJxiZO pic.twitter.com/Y0X8rfKQ35
— CNN (@CNN) January 11, 2019
re: #297 MsJ
Maybe she and Bernie can kill each other off.
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So when is Bernie’s other stooge Nina Turner declaring?
The only danger of Tulsi and Bernie being in the race is the shrapnel produced from the two of them battling could damage others in the field.
re: #298 Barefoot Grin
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Dan, if the wall was so important why didn’t your fellow Republicans try to pass legislation for it in the majority? Stop lying.
re: #304 Anymouse 🌹
No thanks.
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Gonna love it when she finds out she’s irrelevant.
Was wondering why Alex Jones is trending.. then saw about the judge’s decision to allow discovery in the suit against him to go forward wrt financial documents.
Good.
re: #280 Targetpractice
Should have figured when the announcement was made that he’d only cooperate to a point.
Did you read the article?
Because I don’t think you would make that comment if you did!
Even the headline at CNN’s web site has “may not” in it.
And the reason for that is, Mueller is asking to keep some of the Russian stuff out due to the ongoing investigation.
Even Cohen’s own lawyers are saying that is in negotiation.
And one more thing to consider. Adam Schiff said some of it might not be for public consumption. That could be before the committee behind closed doors.
CNN wouldn’t be covering that…so therefore It may not be said by Cohen on their network.
You have to read everything and run it through interpretation as to what they are really saying. Much of our media is a disservice, don’t let them be.
Bernie vs. Gabbard. Who wins? Anybody who’s rooting for injuries.
re: #313 Targetpractice
Bernie vs. Gabbard. Who wins? Anybody who’s rooting for injuries.
Make it a 4 way with Kucinich and Nina Turner!
re: #292 EPR-radar
Romney is just another standard-issue evil Republican piece of shit.
With Trump in office being such a total witless fucking cocksplat, it’s easy to forget just how heinous ‘normal’ Republicans are.
But he is pretty good looking, and so he would make a great president. /
Bernie could just sit it out, give Tulsi his blessing, and avoid a lot of unnecessary bloodletting that will only hurt his movement while helping the “corporate Democrats.”
But he won’t, because it’s not about the movement, it’s about him and he won’t abide anyone taking his spot at “The One True Progressive.”
re: #91 Decatur Deb
I wonder if people like Kris Kobach, Tom Tancredo, and ex-Sheriff Clarke even know if this guy is using their names?
Considering the alleged frauds he’s run in the past, he might have just put their names on their without asking them.
I can’t imagine he knows that whole list of people.
This is so cute!! ❤️❤️❤️
Two lost stuffed toys that belonged to a San Francisco family got to experience a vacation most Americans can’t even afford. https://t.co/jg3yCmoGPc
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) January 11, 2019
re: #318 MsJ
This is so cute!! ❤️❤️❤️
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Winnie the Pooh lives on 5th Avenue, a few blocks from Trump.
re: #313 Targetpractice
Bernie vs. Gabbard. Who wins? Anybody who’s rooting for injuries.
Bernie vs. “Yo Gabba” Gabbard is the reverse of Alien vs. Predator: Whoever loses, we win!
AP: For Each Drug Price Cut, There Were 96 Price Hikes This Year So Far
what 🖕ing drugs are you on? 💩head https://t.co/900JlNw8Hk— Al Stewart (@trawetsla) January 11, 2019
Regardless of who loses between Gabbard and Sanders, they can rest assured that the Bros will spend the next 4 years insisting that the primaries were “rigged” against them anyway.
The fundraisers at The Republican National Senatorial Committee have placed me on their INACTIVE list.
Que lastima !!
re: #323 Decatur Deb
The fundraisers at The Republican National Senatorial Committee have placed me on their INACTIVE list.
Que lastima !!
Oh the humanity!
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Well whaddya know? pic.twitter.com/cbDmDVMsGx
— Fraude - FIRA Inc 😼 (@Fraude_1) January 11, 2019
Here is the 156 pg discovery request
civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov
the Order and plaintiff’s motion for clarification
civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov
civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov
“We interrupt our Days of Lives viewers to let you know that the role of Jill Stein will now be played by Tulsi Gabbard.” pic.twitter.com/CHh1khn34T
— ☇RiotWomenn☇ (@riotwomennn) January 12, 2019
GoFundMe wall guy setting up a “non-profit” after $20m in donations was the most predictable thing ever.
re: #323 Decatur Deb
The fundraisers at The Republican National Senatorial Committee have placed me on their INACTIVE list.
Que lastima !!
A shondeh, to be sure….
Trump may declare a fake emergency to build a fake wall to solve a fake border crisis, which is not an unpredictable result of electing a reality TV star as president.
— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) January 10, 2019
Good ol’ anti-vaxxers.
Flu has sickened about 7 million in the U.S. so far, and half needed medical care (Washington Post)
Up to 84,000 have been hospitalised.
re: #331 Anymouse 🌹
Good ol’ anti-vaxxers.
Flu has sickened about 7 million in the U.S. so far, and half needed medical care (Washington Post)
Up to 84,000 have been hospitalised.
Fuck those people. All of them. (The anti-vaxxers that is).
re: #322 Targetpractice
Regardless of who loses between Gabbard and Sanders, they can rest assured that the Bros will spend the next 4 years insisting that the primaries were “rigged” against them anyway.
I saw some of them insisting that they were why Nixon lost to Cuomo in NY. One of my friends in NY who is quite progressive and hell even supported Bernie was telling me that Nixon had a completely idiotic approach to the film and TV industry that provides so many jobs in NY.
This is going to be a big field. Not unlike the GOP field that Trump emerged from but some of these people will be gone before Iowa. I’ve honestly lost track of who’s running.
re: #313 Targetpractice
Bernie vs. Gabbard. Who wins? Anybody who’s rooting for injuries.
To be honest, Bernie. Tulsi is an opportunistic nutbag.
re: #313 Targetpractice
Bernie vs. Gabbard. Who wins? Anybody who’s rooting for injuries.
BREAKING: Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says she will run for president in 2020 https://t.co/DBvN0DL0Tz pic.twitter.com/dYbGv81TBl
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 11, 2019
She’s a lock to win the Syria caucuses https://t.co/iFI9hphtj9
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) January 12, 2019
re: #335 Barefoot Grin
To be honest, Bernie. Tulsi is an opportunistic nutbag.
Bernie hasn’t done a good job of distinguishing himself from opportunistic nutbags.
It’s going to be interesting because I remember in the Republican debates there would be some tag teaming, i.e. Trump and Christie would attack Rubio. Christie’s a crooked asshoel who belongs in jail but i did like the one liner he got on Rubio when he did the lame attempt at a zinger on Obama.
It would be beneficial for the Dems to unite behind someone as early as possible for 2020.
re: #339 Eclectic Cyborg
It would be beneficial for the Dems to unite behind someone as early as possible for 2020.
I just hope the losers pull a Perriello and voew to work hard for the winner. I just hope that winner isn’t Gabbard or Bernie.
Good news from Texas:
Texas officials vote to remove Confederate plaque that says Civil War wasn’t over slavery
texastribune.org
re: #341 Anymouse 🌹
Good news from Texas:
Texas officials vote to remove Confederate plaque that says Civil War wasn’t over slavery
texastribune.org
I love how adamant the CSA apologists are that it wasn’t when the CSA founders pretty much said “Yeah we were worried that Lincoln would try to ban slavery, duh of course that’s why we left.”
The political marriage between Bernie and Tulsi Gabbard is strange. His supporters seem clueless about who she is. pic.twitter.com/tGu9S3x47E
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) February 29, 2016
Gabbard sure has a lot of nice things to say about Putin.
LOL
.@CNN called a San Diego news station (@KUSINews) for negative reports on the Wall. When the station said that Walls work, CNN no longer had interest. #FakeNews pic.twitter.com/IDyXqmDsPq
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2019
moron
re: #341 Anymouse 🌹
Good news from Texas:
Texas officials vote to remove Confederate plaque that says Civil War wasn’t over slavery
texastribune.org
How’d that happen?
re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth
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moron
And that station knows that walls work how? Maybe if you spent less time trashing CNN for criticizing you, you’d actually merely be as bad as Buchanan rather than the abject failure you are.
re: #337 EPR-radar
Bernie hasn’t done a good job of distinguishing himself from opportunistic nutbags.
Yeah, I thought the same thing after my post. But I still think she’s worse. Bernie’s always been a liberal populist; Tulsi started as an anti-LGBT person but then changed her mind when it was convenient to get elected. She also has shady connections to weird Hindu nationalist leaders, etc. And that’s not talking about her missions to Assad.
re: #348 Barefoot Grin
Yeah, I thought the same thing after my post. But I still think she’s worse. Bernie’s always been a liberal populist; Tulsi started as an anti-LGBT person but then changed her mind when it was convenient to get elected. She also has shady connections to weird Hindu nationalist leaders, etc. And that’s not talking about her missions to Assad.
I think so too. Fortunately I don’t think either will be the nominee and I think each will be beaten before they can cause too much trouble. Tulsi is just known right now for backing Bernie over Clinton. When the opps research points that stuff out, I think she’ll be done.
Heh:
Will Bernie Sanders end up hoisted on his own Gabbard?
— Robert A George (@RobGeorge) January 11, 2019
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Greens nominate Tulsi.
So Tulsi Gabbard is running for president? Not that it matters more than a hill of beans in this crazy mixed up world, but I don’t trust her and will never support her for president.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 12, 2019
re: #351 Joe Bacon 🌹
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Greens nominate Tulsi.
How are they going to explain her hawkish attacks on Obama?
re: #334 HappyWarrior
This is going to be a big field. Not unlike the GOP field that Trump emerged from but some of these people will be gone before Iowa. I’ve honestly lost track of who’s running.
So far I’ve heard Elizabeth Warren, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris. Amy Klobuchar “has not ruled it out,” Joe Biden thinks he’s the most qualified but hasn’t announced. Beto O’Rourke has offices in every state but has not made such an announcement yet.
re: #351 Joe Bacon 🌹
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Green nominate Tulsi.
I thought Jill Stein was running again?
A POTUS being trolled by the dictionary.
If you can delay it, schedule it, or decide later whether or not it exists … it’s probably not an emergency.
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) January 11, 2019
An emergency, by definition, is sudden and urgent, it’s usually unexpected, and it requires immediate action.https://t.co/HDGmN8sE89 https://t.co/5L4F1b5weR
re: #352 Charles Johnson
Personally I wouldn’t say ‘never’ in terms of supporting Gabbard for president. Certainly not in the (D) primary. But in a general election where she is the (D) nominee vs. any Republican, hell yes.
re: #345 MsJ
re: #341 Anymouse 🌹
Good news from Texas:
Texas officials vote to remove Confederate plaque that says Civil War wasn’t over slavery
texastribune.orgHow’d that happen?
Sneaked through while the Republicans were fighting over that Muslim guy.
re: #345 MsJ
How’d that happen?
It was actually a bipartisan thing. Dallas’s Democratic rep was passionate about it, but Greg Abbot and Dan Patrick have also said the plaque is ahistorical and should be removed somewhere else.
re: #354 Anymouse 🌹
So far I’ve heard Elizabeth Warren, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris. Amy Klobuchar “has not ruled it out,” Joe Biden thinks he’s the most qualified but hasn’t announced. Beto O’Rourke has offices in every state but has not made such an announcement yet.
Same. I really like Beto. I’m interested in Amy Klobuchar. She’s not flashy but she’s a popular Senator in a region we’ve struggled in and I was impressed with her in the Kavanaugh hearings. She’s someone if she doesn’t run, I wouldn’t mind seeing considered for AG or SCOTUS.
re: #360 HappyWarrior
Same. I really like Beto. I’m interested in Amy Klobuchar. She’s not flashy but she’s a popular Senator in a region we’ve struggled in and I was impressed with her in the Kavanaugh hearings. She’s someone if she doesn’t run, I wouldn’t mind seeing considered for AG or SCOTUS.
Klobuchar has been awesome and I’m happy to be one of her constituents. If she ran, I would back her with everything.
re: #356 MsJ
A POTUS being trolled by the dictionary.
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re: #355 Eclectic Cyborg
I thought Jill Stein was running again?
Probably is. The Libertarians will also have multiple candidates. Gary Johnson probably is done but Bill Weld is urnning again.
re: #357 EPR-radar
Personally I wouldn’t say ‘never’ in terms of supporting Gabbard for president. Certainly not in the (D) primary. But in a general election where she is the (D) nominee vs. any Republican, hell yes.
Luckily, she’ll never get into that position and we’ll never have to make that choice.
re: #361 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Klobuchar has been awesome and I’m happy to be one of her constituents. If she ran, I would back her with everything.
She doesn’t make the news a lot but some of us in my Slovene-American FB group I’m a member of were talking about her with pride. I’d be very happy if she replaced Melon as the most famous Slovenian-American in the country.
re: #343 jaunte
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Isn’t Tulsi Gabbard’s fundamental shtick a sort of virulent anti-Islamic (cloaked as anti-*Islamism*) obsession: along with that Hindu-nationalist thing (a big Modi fan, I think), dolled up in conventional American lefty-ism to keep the wingnut stink away??
If any Democrat actually has to run against Trump, our system of checks on power has failed so miserably anything is likely. Nightmarish.
re: #364 Charles Johnson
Luckily, she’ll never get into that position and we’ll never have to make that choice.
I’d be shocked if she’s still there in Iowa.
re: #366 Jay C
Isn’t Tulsi Gabbard’s fundamental shtick a sort of virulent anti-Islamic (cloaked as anti-*Islamism*) obsession: along with that Hindu-nationalist thing (a big Modi fan, I think), dolled up in conventional American lefty-ism to keep the wingnut stink away??
Oh dear. What little I know of Hindu fundamentalism is that it is basically an import to India of US religious right nonsense in local idiom and not really improved by the translation. Ick.
re: #364 Charles Johnson
Luckily, she’ll never get into that position and we’ll never have to make that choice.
This is what people used to say about Trump.
re: #366 Jay C
Isn’t Tulsi Gabbard’s fundamental shtick a sort of virulent anti-Islamic (cloaked as anti-*Islamism*) obsession: along with that Hindu-nationalist thing (a big Modi fan, I think), dolled up in conventional American lefty-ism to keep the wingnut stink away??
She’s definitely quite odd. I have no idea why she was on the DNC executive committee prior to her weird abrupt switch from Clinton to Bernie midway thru a couple years ago. Something’s off about her.
#BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard announces she is running for president in 2020 https://t.co/OUkRgUdQCS pic.twitter.com/TlxRVKu1Hs
— The Hill (@thehill) January 11, 2019
Because the pro-Assad, pro-Bannon, anti-Mazie Hirono lane in the Dem party is a very big one. https://t.co/uclVHPIADh
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) January 11, 2019
One for the annals of marginal self-promoters.
The so-called liberal media:
Cable news (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC) covered Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s ‘impeach the motherfucker’ comments 5 times more than they covered Rep. Steve King’s embrace of white supremacy.
Fox News had *74* times more coverage of Tlaib than King
Cable news is broken. https://t.co/Msl8Jr2oil pic.twitter.com/C3BrlVXlfk— Lis Power (@LisPower1) January 11, 2019
re: #370 Eclectic Cyborg
This is what people used to say about Trump.
That’s true but Trump had name recon already in a way that Tulsi doesn’t and I like to think Dem primary voters are a bit more sensible.
re: #366 Jay C
Isn’t Tulsi Gabbard’s fundamental shtick a sort of virulent anti-Islamic (cloaked as anti-*Islamism*) obsession: along with that Hindu-nationalist thing (a big Modi fan, I think), dolled up in conventional American lefty-ism to keep the wingnut stink away??
Basically correct, with a history of homophobia as well.
re: #355 Eclectic Cyborg
I thought Jill Stein was running again?
Hopefully she burned a few bridges with her recount fundraising scam last cycle.
re: #372 jaunte
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Oh man, I had forgotten that Bannon loves her. Had no idea she had beef with Hirono who I like.
Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer is also a Tulsi fan.
re: #375 Charles Johnson
Basically correct, with a history of homophobia as well.
It amazed that the Bros forgave that and acted like HRC was just awful for doing the standard for civil unions but against gay marriage thing. Tulsi was outright hostile to LGBT rights for a long time.
re: #371 HappyWarrior
She’s definitely quite odd. I have no idea why she was on the DNC executive committee prior to her weird abrupt switch from Clinton to Bernie midway thru a couple years ago. Something’s off about her.
Her family is Republicans. She was a long-time anti-LGBT and forced birther, but switched parties to win the Democratic primary for her seat.
He father is a wingnut radio host in Honolulu. He was the former wingnut mayor of Honolulu.
re: #377 HappyWarrior
Bannon loves chaos, so I guess she appeals to him.
I have no more free articles and refuse to subscribe.
Anyone able to do a Cliff Notes version?
Breaking: In the days after Trump fired James Comey, law enforcement officials became so concerned by Trump’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, NYT reports. https://t.co/NiDnoTcFUY
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 12, 2019
re: #380 Anymouse 🌹
Her family is Republicans. She was a long-time anti-LGBT and forced birther, but switched parties to win the Democratic primary for her seat.
He father is a wingnut radio host in Honolulu. He was the former wingnut mayor of Honolulu.
Oh I know that. As I said, I don’t trust her a damn bit.
re: #381 jaunte
Bannon loves chaos, so I guess she appeals to him.
They also both really hate Muslims and Obama.
re: #380 Anymouse 🌹
Her family is Republicans. She was a long-time anti-LGBT and forced birther, but switched parties to win the Democratic primary for her seat.
He father is a wingnut radio host in Honolulu. He was the former wingnut mayor of Honolulu.
Her father was also a highly placed member of the whacked out Chris Butler cult in Hawaii.
re: #385 Charles Johnson
Her father was also a highly placed member of the whacked out Richard Butler cult in Hawaii.
Richard Butler of Aryan Nations fame? Wow.
re: #375 Charles Johnson
Basically correct, with a history of homophobia as well.
Yeah. She’s going places. 🙄
re: #386 HappyWarrior
Not Richard - Chris Butler. Typed ahead of brain.
How the hell did her old man get elected Mayor of Honolulu? Charles probably knows Hawaii the best of anyone here. I don’t know much about Hawaiian politics but that just stuns me since Hawaii is such a reliable Democratic state in presidential elections and I thought its biggest city well.
re: #388 Charles Johnson
Not Richard - Chris Butler. Typed ahead of brain.
Ahhhh okay. Never heard of him.
I am glad Inslee is looking at running. I actually like him more than my own former Governor, Terry Mac. I’ve warmed up on Terry Mac a lot over the past six years since he was first elected our governor but I’ don’t see him as Presidential material. I also think he’s too tied with the Clintons for many people’s comfort.
re: #388 Charles Johnson
Not Richard - Chris Butler. Typed ahead of brain.
OK, who is Chris Butler?
Wikipedia lists eight of them: none seem to be associated with anything cultish/political (except for one who is/was a Tory MP).
Representative Tulsi Gabbard, who says she will be running for President in 2020, has an uncanny ability to make people believe in her, even if they don’t agree with her: https://t.co/4CXmUcCYDT pic.twitter.com/jom7YVZvPM
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 12, 2019
Yeah, no. https://t.co/I6TjXpeMJ2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 12, 2019
re: #392 Jay C
OK, who is Chris Butler?
Wikipedia list eight of them: none seem to be associated with anything cultish/political (except for one who is/was a Tory MP).
re: #393 Charles Johnson
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re: #385 Charles Johnson
Her father was also a highly placed member of the whacked out Chris Butler cult in Hawaii.
I had to look that up. Yikes.
ramaransonvsthecult.wordpress.com (with video of her parents mocking Christians with the cult leader, 2:48)
God bless Rep. #TulsiGabbard for traveling to #Syria in search of the truth.https://t.co/GUmizNnIcR pic.twitter.com/iXpol8YZi5
— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) January 20, 2017
re: #397 Charles Johnson
I find it troublesome to upfist that, Mr. Johnson.
OT It is supposed to snow Saturday night into Sunday morning. Philly is supposed to get 1-2 inches of snow. I have my shovel and salt ready to go. The snow was supposed to start tomorrow afternoon but it got pushed back to tomorrow evening. I am going to do my weekly food shopping tomorrow.
I’m from Hawaii, so I got the word about the Chris Butler cult a while ago. Was a nasty shock to hear that someone who came up in that environment was starting to exploit the far left.
I mean Bernie is an ass but at least he’s on the right side of an issue more than not and is hated by the right people on the right.
re: #382 MsJ
I have no more free articles and refuse to subscribe.
Anyone able to do a Cliff Notes version?
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NYT reports that, after Comey was fired, two more actions from Trump prompted the FBI to open an investigation:
* Trump wanted to send a letter to Comey about his firing in which he mentioned the Russia probe
* Trump’s Lester Holt interview where he mentioned “this Russia thing” https://t.co/Gfa3Ahdicu— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 12, 2019
re: #405 Jay C
Agree: thanks for the link, Charles.
And hopefully, Tulsi can look forward to spending a lot of time back in Hawaii next election season…..
I’m surprised that she wasn’t primaried.
re: #406 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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So I’m otherwords, Trump brought a lot of this on himself haha.
re: #357 EPR-radar
Personally I wouldn’t say ‘never’ in terms of supporting Gabbard for president. Certainly not in the (D) primary. But in a general election where she is the (D) nominee vs. any Republican, hell yes.
True enough, but I don’t think we’ll have to worry about Gabbard making it to the general TBH…she’ll get picked apart in the primaries and before.
re: #409 TedStriker
True enough, but I don’t think we’ll have to worry about Gabbard making it to the general TBH…she’ll get picked apart in the primaries and before.
Yeah I’m sure the opps researchers are having a field day.
Trudeau confirms Saudi asylum seeker coming to Canada
“That is something that we are pleased to do because Canada is a country that understands how important it is to stand up for human rights, to stand up for women’s rights around the world,” Trudeau said, during a media availability in Regina.
re: #410 HappyWarrior
Yeah I’m sure the opps researchers are having a field day.
Doesn’t sound like they’re going to have a difficult time of it, either.
re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL
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We called several local stations to book someone for a show. We didn’t end up booking any of them. That happens many times every single day. We did, however, book a reporter from KUSI for a story on immigration and the border wall in November. This is a non story. #factsfirst🍎
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) January 11, 2019
re: #412 Jay C
Doesn’t sound like they’re going to have a difficult time of it, either.
Yeah. I’d be shocked if she’s above water in January 2020.
Someone go to any state not named Texas, California, or Hawaii and ask Beto or Tulsi and I’m sure 3/4 of them will be “Tulsi who?” You’d actually get the same reaction in Texas, but he’s also known outside the state. And the Democrats that do know her won’t have anything nice to say.
re: #415 Belafon
Someone got to any state not named Texas, California, or Hawaii and ask Beto or Tulsi and I’m sure 3/4 of them will be “Tulsi who?” You’d actually get the same reaction in Texas, but he’s also known outside the state. And the Democrats that do know her won’t have anything nice to say.
The danger would be if she campaigns in full Trump mode and just says lies that people want to believe. The (D) establishment has screwed the pooch enough on economic issues to make that kind of thing a real threat, even in a (D) primary.
We were doing a demo near London during a Bones Brigade tour in 1990 when a kid asked if we’d like to come to his house for dinner. It was an unusual request, but he had confidence and explained that his dad would be excited to meet us. We quickly learned that his name was Dhani Harrison, and his dad was the legendary George Harrison. We agreed, and headed to his place (castle) after the demo. His mom Olivia was a most gracious host, offering us homemade pizza. She proudly gave us a preview of a charity album she organized to benefit Romanian orphans that featured the Traveling Wilburys, who would be recording at their home studio the following day. We were led into the living room where George and Tom Petty were fixated on the World Cup finals. It was surreal. Dhani showed us his room and some of his guitar techniques he had learned from Bob Dylan, who was scheduled to arrive later that night. Dhani and I have remained in contact to this day, and it has been inspiring to see how him forging his own way as a talented musician while keeping the grace and humility of his legendary father.
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re: #416 EPR-radar
The danger would be if she campaigns in full Trump mode and just says lies that people want to believe. The (D) establishment has screwed the pooch enough on economic issues to make that kind of thing a real threat, even in a (D) primary.
The only time Democrats screw up on describing the economy is when it’s doing well. I doubt we’re going to have that issue.
She has to get through the Democratic primary. What people outside of Hawaii know about her involves Syria. She’s not going to last very long.
Twitter is lighting up over a new article in the NYT.
HOLY GUACAMOLE!! If the FBI had to open a counterintelligence operation against the President of the United States for workin’ for Russia, chances are good he is.
The question we should ask is why is this comin’ out now?
https://t.co/jsiPMaaZXA— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) January 12, 2019
GOOD MORNING VIET NAM!
Now playing on Vice (Ch 271 on DirecTV)
re: #128 Dr. Matt
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Donnie just clowned himself and proved there is no national emergency. Oooooops
So why doesn’t he ask the GOP senate to come back into session and do its job?
Just impeach the m.f.
re: #420 Anymouse 🌹
Twitter is lighting up over a new article in the NYT.
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HOly crap.
2020 primary debates are gonna be so weird. https://t.co/t01z5M5Mjn pic.twitter.com/9Nps8fDnN0
— Jon (@JonEHecht) January 12, 2019
re: #153 ObserverArt
Can’t call an emergency on that. If he does, he might get impeached. That is why people are saying Mitch is standing back. Mitch knows the laws and he knows what can break them. And he isn’t going to be a party to it.
Mitch is standing back because he wants the government to remain shut down. In one movement he could vote on the House Bill & reopen the government.
MicConnell is as responsible as trump for the current funding mess.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says she will run for president in 2020. “I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week,” the Hawaii Democrat and Iraq War veteran told CNN’s @VanJones68 https://t.co/5BzVi2JMFq pic.twitter.com/nNNmGCED5C
— CNN (@CNN) January 11, 2019
P.S. For those of you asking whether “Hindus for Trump” is a thing…yes, yes it is https://t.co/qXgbagZVwz
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) January 12, 2019
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron is so full of shit
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re: #423 HappyWarrior
HOly crap.
What if the Obstruction Was the Collusion? On the New York Times’s Latest Bombshell (Lawfare Blog)
re: #222 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Everything he says is a lie
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And re really loves not paying contractors for the work they do - how many times do they have to lose before they get the message
They really are out of ideas. The first one wasn’t that good.
It’s official: a “Coming to America” sequel starring Eddie Murphy is coming! https://t.co/KpEGEEtX5T pic.twitter.com/C2jlifEq8q
— NBC Chicago (@nbcchicago) January 12, 2019
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