Seth takes a closer look at how President Trump’s former and current lawyers are causing problems for him in the Russia investigation.
I didn’t know it was within presidential power to intimidate a witness who knows the truth about said president’s crimes. Interesting. The Dictatorship of America! #Cohen https://t.co/e0QnvIXR08
— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) January 24, 2019
The kids are cool with blackface. https://t.co/2a970kkB5M
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) January 23, 2019
oh…
This is a sickening thing to read from you. I guess women aren’t supposed to actually seek power without asking a man first then. You shld take a moment to reflect what a complete dickhole you sound like here.
— Odette Roulette (@odetteroulette) January 23, 2019
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Explain the eyes and lips kid. You can show school spirit without looking like you’re in a minstrel show.
Everything Marlon says here is still far too true. Now, he focused on how shabbily the First Nations were portrayed in film, and that largely hasn’t changed. But it is also indicative of how people disregard the existence of hundreds of nations among us that are still here. https://t.co/9pnvqzVYmd
— It’s Myron Falwell! (@myronfalwell) January 24, 2019
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She should pander like Bernie and I guess that would be okay.
LOLOLOLOL!
Tempted to frame this and put it on my desk 😂 pic.twitter.com/EGGIsnpZfZ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 24, 2019
re: #6 Myron Falwell
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It’s why Little Big Man is my favorite Western. One of the few that portrayed First Nations like human beings. Plus Chief Dan George and I have the same birthday so that’s cool too.
re: #8 goddamnedfrank
LOLOLOLOL!
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Lumpy shilling for billionaires is really showing who he really represents. And uh Lumpy not every billionaire is “policy” oriented, a lot of em like to hoard like the men that get an idiot like you to convince other idiots that AOC is their enemy.
US backtracks on Iran-focused conference in Poland after objections—the result of having a policy that most of the world rejects.
The winning continues. https://t.co/v7RcwVbb4P— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) January 23, 2019
Building a coalition is hard.
re: #12 Single-handed sailor
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Building a coalition is hard.
Worst at coalition building than W.
re: #12 Single-handed sailor
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Building a coalition is hard.
Bully a country and they’ll tell you to fuck off.
re: #14 MsJ
Bully a country and they’ll tell you to fuck off.
Yep and then he cries that they’re taking advantage of us.
re: #8 goddamnedfrank
LOLOLOLOL!
AOC is living rent-free in the hard right’s minds and she’s having the time of her life.
re: #16 Myron Falwell
AOC is living rent-free in the hard right’s minds and she’s having the time of her life.
She really does. I remember the right insisted we were of Palin but this is how actual terrified looks.
re: #13 HappyWarrior
Worst at coalition building than W.
At least W. had Tony Blair.
That whole thing about Trump wanting to leave NATO and fumbling away Syria to please Putin is probably not helping this cause IMO.
I only use King Arthur Flour.
General Mills is recalling 5-pound bags of its Gold Medal Unbleached Flour due to salmonella concerns. https://t.co/A0na2GaZDQ
— Local 4 WDIV Detroit (@Local4News) January 24, 2019
re: #17 Belafon
The funny thing is, Bush was able to bully countries into Iraq because he knew how to use US power. Trump has no clue.
Very true. Man to think how much worse he’d be if he had a clue.
re: #19 Myron Falwell
At least W. had Tony Blair.
That whole thing about Trump wanting to leave NATO and fumbling away Syria to please Putin is probably not helping this cause IMO.
Absolutely.
Watching a bit of Rachel Maddow’s interview with Kamala Harris.
One thing i am liking, so far all of the candidates seem to be holding to the same message points.
re: #17 Belafon
The funny thing is, Bush was able to bully countries into Iraq because he knew how to use US power. Trump has no clue.
For which, I suppose, we should be grateful. Imagine the global authoritarian takeover of they weren’t colossal dopes.
I am starting a petition for the Democrats to let @iamcardib give the rebuttal to the SOTU. Sign it by retweeting this!
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) January 24, 2019
re: #25 Belafon
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Hey why not. The Republicans let Trump be their nominee. Why not have Cardi B do the response.
In remarks broadcast today to the American people, the President says he is being denied the opportunity to address the American people. pic.twitter.com/97zHmKYWAy
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) January 23, 2019
Irony, like rain on your wedding day or something.
walks with Lou 😍
📹: furbabylou pic.twitter.com/dU1y3UToNR— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) January 24, 2019
re: #27 Single-handed sailor
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Irony, like rain on your wedding day or something.
So what? Thanks to his shutdown, the state of the union is horrible.
re: #27 Single-handed sailor
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Irony, like rain on your wedding day or something.
You can write something and have it read on the floor just like every President until Wilson did before you. But that would involve actual work rather than letting Stephen Miller vomit shit.
re: #27 Single-handed sailor
Irony, like rain on your wedding day or something.
Like a free ride when you’ve already paid?
da prezidendt wants youse should shaddap
SO SHADDAP
With the never ending calamity in Washington, DC, I’ve fallen behind in other news. Here’s Rahaf Mohammed’s statement to the press from Jan 15.
This is the statement I made at the press conference today. pic.twitter.com/svqZEnvZpm
— Rahaf Mohammed رهف محمد (@rahaf84427714) January 15, 2019
re: #24 MsJ
For which, I suppose, we should be grateful. Imagine the global authoritarian takeover of they weren’t colossal dopes.
my epitaph for the trump entity after he’s gone is this:
The Next One Won’t Be A Clown
re: #12 Single-handed sailor
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Building a coalition is hard.
Why would anyone work with Trump?
Maybe our Republican Senators can learn something here.
ME: Donald Trump’s latest fear-mongering claim that there are now two caravans poised to invade the US is stupid, racist, and unsupported by evidence.
WINGNUT: WHAT WILL YOU SAY WHEN YOUR FAMILY IS MURDERED BY THE CARAVANS LIBTARD??!!!1— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 24, 2019
re: #36 Charles Johnson
If they use a gun, isn’t the correct response “It was the will of God.”
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 24, 2019
re: #36 Charles Johnson
What would I say? I’d say this: You guys are the ones that let them get from the southern border to the northern one, so either you went to the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy or you’re a bunch of fucking cowards and liars.
re: #37 Belafon
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My family has a greater chance of being killed by a wingnut who doesn’t know how to use a gun responsibly.
re: #27 Single-handed sailor
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Irony, like rain on your wedding day or something.
Gee, and you’re denying federal workers the ability to earn a paycheck and support their own families as well as denying US citizens their right to a functioning and functional government, all because of your childish tantrums.
re: #39 HappyWarrior
My family has a greater chance of being killed by a wingnut who doesn’t know how to use a gun responsibly.
Or one who uses his car to run over and murder those whose message he doesn’t like.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
I’m not afraid of exhausted and starving 8-year-olds, would be my answer.
re: #39 HappyWarrior
My family has a greater chance of being killed by a wingnut who doesn’t know how to use a gun responsibly.
Yep. I’d feel safer with some of the refugees than a number of my neighbors.
Lre: #43 Belafon
Yep. I’d feel safer with some of the refugees than a number of my neighbors.
Easily.
re: #20 The Vicious Babushka
I only use King Arthur Flour.
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I still remember the day mom found a cigarette butt in a sack of Gold Medal flour.
She dumped the sack and never bought it again. She swore by King Arthur Flour.
You know, it’s funny that wingners are always calling liberals bussies because some of us (not all of us) either don’t like or own guns. We’re not the ones who buy things like the stupid poison skittle analogy that reduces human beings to candy.
re: #46 Joe Bacon 🌹
I still remember the day mom found a cigarette butt in a sack of Gold Medal flour.
She dumped the sack and never bought it again. She swore by King Arthur Flour.
My mpm did, too, but not because of foreign objects in the Gold Medal flour. IIRC she used Gold medal for pancakes, waffles and cookies. King Arthur was for bread making.
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Birthday today of Belgium born #Romani-French Jazz guitarist & composer #DjangoReinhardt, born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium (1910-1953). Despite having only two functional fingers on his left hand, he was one of the most important & greatest #Jazz guitarists of all time. pic.twitter.com/g7rwbVun9O
— Dr. Paul (@DrPnygard) January 24, 2019
re: #49 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
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One of my all time favorites. I know what I’m sleeping to tonight. Happy Birthday, Django.
Dude’s accountant used to send him all that virulent anti Muslim propaganda. (This was about 10 or so years ago.) He (dude) started believing the BS.
I said to him he was smarter than that. It’s propaganda. If you’re going to read it, research what it says. And then I said to him that I was way more scared of the far right Christian nutters bombing abortion clinics and shooting up crowds than I have ever been of Muslims.
He figured it out.
I have a friend who is just stunned that I can defend Islam. I told him I could never condemn a whole religion, though the Christian right makes me consider it. He thinks all Muslims are terrorists. He’s not stupid, just propagandized by a good portion of our country. Told dude about it and he was like, “The whole religion isn’t to blame. It’s the radicals. So see? He gets it. I don’t think my friend ever will though.
re: #48 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
My mpm did, too, but not because of foreign objects in the Gold Medal flour. IIRC she used Gold medal for pancakes, waffles and cookies. King Arthur was for bread making.
I noticed that Mom’s toll house cookies tasted different when she switched to King Arthur Flour. The cookies were more moist and chewy.
Mom always mixed Nestle’s chocolate and butterscotch chips when she made toll house cookies. I like that 50/50 mix!
re: #52 Joe Bacon 🌹
Love butterscotch chip cookies. And rice crispy bars with butterscotch and chocolate chips.
re: #48 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
My mpm did, too, but not because of foreign objects in the Gold Medal flour. IIRC she used Gold medal for pancakes, waffles and cookies. King Arthur was for bread making.
I use King Arthur blue bag for bread, and KA red bag for other baked goods. King Arthur sells all kinds of different flour on their website, including a bunch of gluten-free varieties, as well as different mixes, extracts, flavors and baking equipment.
Z asked me, “why do they sell all these mixes when their target customers are serious “from scratch” home bakers?”
I said, “The mixes are for the daughters-in-law.”
SMOTI somehow strikes again.
Jim is the dumbest man on the interwebs
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 24, 2019
re: #53 plansbandc
Love butterscotch chip cookies. And rice crispy bars with butterscotch and chocolate chips.
Pro-tip: if you use butterscotch chips instead of chocolate, use about 25% less sugar because butterscotch (or caramel) chips are super sweet!
re: #27 Single-handed sailor
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Irony, like rain on your wedding day or something.
Uh, he addressed the American people on primetime like a week and a half ago.
re: #56 The Vicious Babushka
Pro-tip: if you use butterscotch chips instead of chocolate, use about 25% less sugar because butterscotch (or caramel) chips are super sweet!
That’s why I really liked Mom’s formula because of the sweetness!
Mmmmm five layer bars. We have em every Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.
re: #54 The Vicious Babushka
I use King Arthur blue bag for bread, and KA red bag for other baked goods.
Oh, that’s good to know. I think I’ve been using blue as a generic flour (well, mostly pizza crust these days, so probably why I didn’t notice). I should get some of the red and try some more baking again. I used to do more.
re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg
Uh, he addressed the American people on primetime like a week and a half ago.
He’s just mad because Pelosi won’t give it up for him.
re: #54 The Vicious Babushka
I use King Arthur blue bag for bread, and KA red bag for other baked goods. King Arthur sells all kinds of different flour on their website, including a bunch of gluten-free varieties, as well as different mixes, extracts, flavors and baking equipment.
Z asked me, “why do they sell all these mixes when their target customers are serious “from scratch” home bakers?”
I said, “The mixes are for the daughters-in-law.”
Mom may have used KA flour for stuff other than bread. It’s been too long that I can’t remember, and she’s not been available for comment for the last 24 years. But I do remember the KA flour-made bread have better texture and flavor. KA must source their wheat and mill it better than Gold Medal.
This was in Jackson Hole today.
And overnight @jacksonhole is back in the flow. @bowersjohn on the other side of camera today! ❄️💥
It wasn’t this deep at the ski area yesterday, but there was still face shots all day.
Officials are uncovering new tunnels running deep under an existing border wall. CNN’s Ed Lavandera is there to see firsthand how cartels are getting around the wall. https://t.co/qbnQW1Yf5i pic.twitter.com/TcQ7sfVUyC
— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) January 24, 2019
re: #61 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
He’s just mad because Pelosi won’t give it up for him.
Trump wants his podium in a symbolically important place, the House, just like every real president has done in the last several decades. Denying him access shows he’s not a real president, something that he already suspects and cannot admit.
And like Charles says, I am sure he doesn’t realize he is required to make a report to Congress. So, if he delays his report, he is again in dereliction of duty.
Cool freeheel training video.
Sweet training video by @mansartseb of #ustelemark #athlete @skicosnyd training in the shadow of Mont Blonc 🇫🇷 had some good runs in the first couple days of the #fis #telemark #worldcup heading to @pralognanlavanoise next!! #keepitup #cheering #fistelemark #spreadtelemark #ustelemark @fistelemark #KarbonSports #22Designs #minus33merinowool #globalrescue #Saucerwax #telemarkdown @karbonsports @saucerwax @global_rescue @telemarkdown @minus33merinowool @22.designs
My Instagram feed has some pure ski sex right now.
Ninja level 10. @samkuch_ made is first turn of the day about 20m past the bottom of this photo. What happened before that was like watching the bull ride of the year. The kid’s got serious skills. #timetoplay
re: #70 teleskiguy
My Instagram feed has some pure ski sex right now.
24” storm.
72” week.
More snow on the way. 🙌
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📷: @leecohen_pics ⛷: @aengerbretson ❄️: @altaskiarea
#AltaMagic
re: #64 The Vicious Babushka
The wall clearly needs to be built higher!
re: #70 teleskiguy
My Instagram feed has some pure ski sex right now.
Finding the goods out here❤️ also not falling in a crevasse.😜 @courmayeurmontblanc thanks for the pic @geppophotography 🙌
re: #70 teleskiguy
My Instagram feed has some pure ski sex right now.
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Is…. is… that guy skating on the tops of the TREES??
re: #70 teleskiguy
My Instagram feed has some pure ski sex right now.
Diamond dust -» Shimamaki, Japan • 📸 @tylerjhamlet #shimamakisnowcats
re: #74 retired cynic
Is…. is… that guy skating on the tops of the TREES??
Those are cliffs. We skiers call them pillow lines.
re: #70 teleskiguy
My Instagram feed has some pure ski sex right now.
Speaking of pillow lines…
Tag a friend you would hit this pillow line with! @felixwiemers and @rohrmoserroman slaying some Euro-pow ❄️ #tgrlivethedream
re: #76 teleskiguy
I know I said skate, which was stupid, but it looks like he is just skimming over the top of what looks like a snow filled forest.
I’ll go quietly now…
Trump & GOP Senate are holding federal workers hostage. They will start shooting them one by one if Democrats do not pay the ransom (the vanity “Wall”) #TheResistance #Resist #TrumpShutdown
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 24, 2019
re: #78 retired cynic
I’ll go quietly now…
No no no! Stay! And I’ll happily explain any confusing ski porn.
Fucking A Alyssa! Right on.
The other day I tweeted that the red MAGA hats are the new white hoods.
People were pissed!
People demanded an apology!
The media reported I was in “hot water” and was receiving “backlash” for saying this.
Well, here’s my op-ed addressing it all. https://t.co/pARWAmLwHU— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) January 24, 2019
re: #70 teleskiguy
My Instagram feed has some pure ski sex right now.
Another li’l clip from Japan.
Approaching the lip I was nearly certain I was coming up short, double tip catch, to tomahawk over the pillow…[Jerry highlight reel averted]…but what’s the over under I landed this one…?? • Shimamaki, Japan -» @hokkaidobackcountryclub #shimamakisnowcats 🎥 @lawsonreif @gopro #hero7black
re: #49 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
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Good reminder. I didn’t have any of his music somehow, so a quick pickup of his Greatest Hits fixes that. THanks!
re: #70 teleskiguy
My Instagram feed has some pure ski sex right now.
Sorry not sorry for all the skiing crap. 😛
The snow and soup were both very tasty today ❄️🍜 -» Shimamaki • @dragonalliance #shimamakisnowcats #gopro
re: #83 William Lewis
Good reminder. I didn’t have any of his music somehow, so a quick pickup of his Greatest Hits fixes that. THanks!
What do ya think? To me anyhow, I get images of pre Spanish Civil War Europe especially France or Spain and just listening to this over a fine wine or absinthe. It’s relaxing. I have it on now.
re: #70 teleskiguy
My Instagram feed has some pure ski sex right now.
Dude, ski porn for days.
Untracked. Getting an early start means blower pow before the sun starts affecting it. Definitely worth the effort for @sammocohen across the street from @altaskiarea. PHOTO: @leecohen_pics #PowderToThePeople #PowderInFocus
re: #71 teleskiguy
It’s called porn, bitch ;-)
Full pass on this book. Read this article and you’ll see why. A might self-serving. Also, fuck this guy.
Kellyanne Conway is a terrible person and deserves any shit that rains down on her now that this has been published.https://t.co/C6if1PtURp
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) January 24, 2019
OK, I’ll stop.
It’s been that good this week for skiers gettin’ after it. I skied today and tracked out all kinds of untracked powder.
re: #85 HappyWarrior
What do ya think? To me anyhow, I get images of pre Spanish Civil War Europe especially France or Spain and just listening to this over a fine wine or absinthe. It’s relaxing. I have it on now.
I’ve always enjoyed listening to him, not sure how I didn’t have any before but it’s on now and am enjoying it too.
America’s corporate leaders are confident that the trade war with China will end soon. They are increasingly alone in that view. https://t.co/WZIvTnE9wE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 24, 2019
re: #88 MsJ
Full pass on this book. Read this article and you’ll see why. A might self-serving. Also, fuck this guy.
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Kind of supports my belief that her and George are hedging their bets on the Trump experiment. By taking both sides of it, they win.
I was in a place where I couldn’t post when Venezuela was discussed downstairs, but DT’s base is isolationist af, so if he’s looking to strengthen his core constituency’s approval, I seriously doubt this will do it.
re: #90 William Lewis
I’ve always enjoyed listening to him, not sure how I didn’t have any before but it’s on now and am enjoying it too.
I heard his tunes first in a video game and had seen him listed as a great guitarist in a magazine. I was curious since he was born in 1910 and not an American blues guitarist. Fell in love with the sound immediately.
re: #89 teleskiguy
OK, I’ll stop.
It’s been that good this week for skiers gettin’ after it. I skied today and tracked out all kinds of untracked powder.
I have a question for you.
Is there a depth of powder snow that will not support you? Or does the snow compact enough that with the addition of the speed of the skis you only go into it so deep?
I can understand a fairly hard base and maybe 20” of powder and blowing through it. But I always wondered if you could go into deep powder and end up in over your head.
re: #83 William Lewis
Good reminder. I didn’t have any of his music somehow, so a quick pickup of his Greatest Hits fixes that. THanks!
Django was way ahead of his time. He was doing string bends and shredding his ass off many years before guitar heroes were a thing. With two fingers.
re: #97 makeitstop
Django was way ahead of his time. He was doing string bends and shredding his ass off many years before guitar heroes were a thing. With two fingers.
Yeah incredible what he did. His music has a very clsssy sound to it but a certain rawness tooZ
re: #95 HappyWarrior
America’s corporate leaders are idiots.
That’s because American MBA’s are taught to maximize short term profits and not do long range planning.
re: #100 Joe Bacon 🌹
That’s because American MBA’s are taught to maximize short term profits and not do long range planning.
Which is why so many of them end up rock solid conservatives.
re: #101 HappyWarrior
Which is why so many of them end up rock solid conservatives.
I read an article some years ago and it said that most CEOs were sociopaths where they don’t care about anything but money, getting ahead (which includes stepping on anyone on the way up), you get the picture.
THAT’S why they end up rock solid conservatives.
re: #96 ObserverArt
I have a question for you.
Is there a depth of powder snow that will not support you?
That depends on the steepness of the slope being skied. Lower angle slopes are to be avoided when the fresh snow is deep. Many a snowboarder learned this lesson the hard way at Steamboat in Colorado. (giggle)
I can understand a fairly hard base and maybe 20” of powder and blowing through it. But I always wondered if you could go into deep powder and end up in over your head.
I’ve skied powder that went over my head. I’ll never forget that day as long as I live. It was truly the most fun one human can have.
Moron
JUST IN: President Trump tweets that it is Speaker Pelosi’s “prerogative” to prevent his giving the State of the Union address in the House chamber during the shutdown, and he will postpone delivering the address until the shutdown has ended.
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 24, 2019
re: #99 HappyWarrior
Yeah incredible what he did. His music has a very clsssy sound to it but a certain rawness tooZ
He and his best friend and violinist, Stephan Grapelli, were wild men. They loved jamming over that crazy rhythm. For the era they played in, they had attitude and it shone through on every song.
re: #102 MsJ
I read an article some years ago and it said that most CEOs were sociopaths where they don’t care about anything but money, getting ahead (which includes stepping on anyone on the way up), you get the picture.
THAT’S why they end up rock solid conservatives.
MBAs tho. But yeah that makes sense to me as well. There’s this ugly indifference to human welfare in executive corporate culture I despise.
1 February 2008. Steamboat reported 29” new snow *overnight* at mid-mountain, 36” at the summit, with five m.p.h. winds.
I showed up to the gondola at noon. I then choked on snow for four hours.
re: #105 makeitstop
He and his best friend and violinist, Stephan Grapelli, were wild men. They loved jamming over that crazy rhythm. For the era they played in, they had attitude and it shone through on every song.
It’s incredible. As I got at, it really inspires my imagination for that era.
We are near the breaking point and Trump is focused on giving a speech. We are at the point where we have to assume Trump is purposely trying to weaken America. https://t.co/J6FUuFaT6n
— Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) January 24, 2019
re: #77 teleskiguy
Speaking of pillow lines…
I’ve freeheel skied a few lines like this at Crested Butte and Vail Pass. My favorite on Vail Pass was called ‘Cupcakes’ ‘cause all the cliffs looked like cupcakes when they were covered in eight feet of snow.
This is me trying to fly over in Cupcakes a few years ago.
re: #49 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
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Interesting trivia from the wiki article on Django Reinhardt:
The Allman Brothers Band song “Jessica” was written by Dickey Betts in tribute to Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, in that it was designed to be played using only two fingers on the left hand.
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Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia and Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, both of whom lost fingers in accidents, were inspired by Reinhardt’s example of becoming an accomplished guitar player despite his injuries.
Willie Nelson has been a lifelong Reinhardt fan, stating in his memoir, “This was a man who changed my musical life by giving me a whole new perspective on the guitar and, on an even more profound level, on my relationship with sound…During my formative years, as I listened to Django’s records, especially songs like ‘Nuages’ that I would play for the rest of my life, I studied his technique. Even more, I studied his gentleness. I love the human sound he gave his acoustic guitar.”
Reinhardt’s music has been used in the soundtrack of many films, including in The Matrix, Rhythm Futur, Daltry Calhoun, Metroland, Chocolat, The Aviator, Alex and the Gypsy, Kate and Leopold and Gattaca; the score for Louis Malle’s 1974 movie, Lacombe Lucien; the background for the Steve Martin movie L.A. Story; and the background for a number of Woody Allen movies, including Stardust Memories.
Here are the 22. #TreasonCaucus #MorningJoe pic.twitter.com/zg1iHI2aEx
— suzy greenberg (@stacytklein) January 23, 2019
The Soviet Caucus.
I’m not sure this is exactly what she said just now on @Lawrence, but it went something like this⬇
“The money Congress is given by tax payers is not for behavior modification, it’s not a binky” 👶😂
- @JoyAnnReid— Shawn in Az 🌵 (@CaptainsLogAz) January 24, 2019
re: #113 ckkatz
Interesting trivia from the wiki article on Django Reinhardt:
The Allman Brothers Band song “Jessica” was written by Dickey Betts in tribute to Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, in that it was designed to be played using only two fingers on the left hand.
en.wikipedia.orgGrateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia and Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, both of whom lost fingers in accidents, were inspired by Reinhardt’s example of becoming an accomplished guitar player despite his injuries.
Willie Nelson has been a lifelong Reinhardt fan, stating in his memoir, “This was a man who changed my musical life by giving me a whole new perspective on the guitar and, on an even more profound level, on my relationship with sound…During my formative years, as I listened to Django’s records, especially songs like ‘Nuages’ that I would play for the rest of my life, I studied his technique. Even more, I studied his gentleness. I love the human sound he gave his acoustic guitar.”
Reinhardt’s music has been used in the soundtrack of many films, including in The Matrix, Rhythm Futur, Daltry Calhoun, Metroland, Chocolat, The Aviator, Alex and the Gypsy, Kate and Leopold and Gattaca; the score for Louis Malle’s 1974 movie, Lacombe Lucien; the background for the Steve Martin movie L.A. Story; and the background for a number of Woody Allen movies, including Stardust Memories.
I listened to some Robert Johnson last night, another musician’s musician. Was also listening to Jessica earlier by the Allmans.
Don’t mind me. I’ve got skiing on the mind. And it has snowed four inches at the ski area since the lifts closed. And I don’t work tomorrow!
BUSTED: Kellyanne Conway reportedly ID’d as leaker ‘bad-mouthing’ White House to presshttps://t.co/9cOEdQBP9e
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 24, 2019
re: #115 MsJ
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re: #116 HappyWarrior
I listened to some Robert Johnson last night, another musician’s musician. Was also listening to Jessica earlier by the Allmans.
Yes!
Certainly for me, beyond the wide ranging, knowledgeable, and thoughtful political discussion, LGF has really helped me widen my music tastes.
re: #115 MsJ
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That is what she said.
Joy was really losing it early off camera as Lawrence O’Donnell was doing his bit on Trump not being able to come up with a dumb pointed nickname for Nancy Pelosi…who he likes to call Nancy.
The camera took a quick look at Joy and she was laughing pretty heartily about the idea of “Nancy” as a Trump nickname.
Trump is such a dick. He has to do is little bits even when he is unprepared. Or, he really is scared of Pelosi.
She scares the nickname right out of him.
re: #122 ObserverArt
That is what she said.
Joy was really losing it early off camera as Lawrence O’Donnell was doing his bit on Trump not being able to come up with a dumb pointed nickname for Nancy Pelosi…who he likes to call Nancy.
The camera took a quick look at Joy and she was laughing pretty heartily about the idea of “Nancy” as a Trump nickname.
Trump is such a dick. He has to do is little bits even when he is unprepared. Or, he really is scared of Pelosi.
She scares the nickname right out of him.
Exactly.
We all knew this had a high chance of happening. Which is why there really was no other choice for Speaker. (And I think most of the Democratic Reps knew that).
re: #121 ckkatz
Yes!
Certainly for me, beyond the wide ranging, knowledgeable, and thoughtful political discussion, LGF has really helped me widen my music tastes.
Dude, the music at LGF is insanely good, always has been.
The LGF tag Acoustic Guitar is some of the best the whole of the Internet has to offer.
re: #5 HappyWarrior
Explain the eyes and lips kid. You can show school spirit without looking like you’re in a minstrel show.
The key is the school colors. Sports fans who paint their face pretty much always use their team’s colors. This high school’s colors seem to be white and blue, not black.
re: #91 Single-handed sailor
It’s cute that they think they can control Trump or that he cares abou US businesses.
re: #125 teleskiguy
Dude, the music at LGF is insanely good, always has been.
The LGF tag Acoustic Guitar is some of the best the whole of the Internet has to offer.
True that! And thank you for your musical post contributions too.
re: #125 teleskiguy
Dude, the music at LGF is insanely good, always has been.
The LGF tag Acoustic Guitar is some of the best the whole of the Internet has to offer.
There are so many artists that I’d never have heard had they not showed up here. I had heard of a couple of the CandyRat artists, but most of them would have probably gone unheard had Charles not posted them here.
re: #118 Single-handed sailor
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After reading the article, I would say that Cliff Sims does not particularly like KellyAnne. Which seems like a reasonable conclusion to me.
I view her in the same way I view Rudy, as a mendacious, waste of time.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 24, 2019
So, I got my Melania Trump coins. Take a look.
These seem to be silver-plated and have the heft of a Kennedy half-dollar. A couple of you said you were interested in buying them. I’m not sure of the postage required, but I’m selling them to LGF peeps for a special price behind the private tags. I’ve seen them on eBay for much more and on Amazon for $10.
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re: #132 Ace-o-aces
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I want to hear from that first idiotic Democrat who tried to say she needed to move on.
Also, at this point in time, there only a few I think I would want in that role.
re: #96 ObserverArt
I have a question for you.
Is there a depth of powder snow that will not support you? Or does the snow compact enough that with the addition of the speed of the skis you only go into it so deep?
I can understand a fairly hard base and maybe 20” of powder and blowing through it. But I always wondered if you could go into deep powder and end up in over your head.
Is there a depth of lake that will not support a water-skier?
If you’re going fast enough, if your skis are the right size and shape, you won’t sink.
re: #135 sagehen
Is there a depth of lake that will not support a water-skier?
If you’re going fast enough, if your skis are the right size and shape, you won’t sink.
Same principle behind snowshoes.
re: #89 teleskiguy
OK, I’ll stop.
OK, I lied.
Sound on! 🔊 @dash_longe putting on a show for the crowds at Alta! 🎥: an innocent bystander #tgrlivethedream
A two-year-old girl’s birthday. So rad.
2 years of smiles today. You light up the world Happy Hazy!
re: #9 HappyWarrior
It’s why Little Big Man is my favorite Western. One of the few that portrayed First Nations like human beings. Plus Chief Dan George and I have the same birthday so that’s cool too.
A personal side note:
I’ll occasionally post tweets from a close friend of mine, @Tonya_Song (whom I befriended in the furry fandom, she’s very active in there). She’s a very talented storyteller in her own right, often violent and ending in death for her characters, as it was too common a fate for her people. But they are at the same time tremendously inspirational.
I hope to help her in some way to collect these stories in published form. Not for my benefit, but for her people.
re: #131 ckkatz
After reading the article, I would say that Cliff Sims does not particularly like KellyAnne. Which seems like a reasonable conclusion to me.
I view her in the same way I view Rudy, as a mendacious, waste of time.
Kinda like what I said earlier, maybe she’s so outrageously awful in a way to purposefully make Trump look bad, but because she’s showing fealty to him, he doesn’t care.
As @KatieHill4CA just announced on @allinwithchris, MoveOn & our allies are launching the “Shut Down the Wall, Open the Government” National Day of Action on 1/29. Find an event near you: https://t.co/7ijl17z81h #ShutdownTheWall pic.twitter.com/Vdnhgou8FS
— MoveOn (@MoveOn) January 24, 2019
Throughout this shutdown, we’ve made phone calls. We’ve tweeted. They haven’t listened.
It’s time to hit the streets.
JAN 29: IT’S ON. Find a protest or register your own, nationwide: https://t.co/nLYwM9cR4m
Let’s make this huge. Spread the word. https://t.co/qbG3m4v8e4— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) January 24, 2019
Trump is on the rocks. His approval rating is tanking. GOP Senators are currently lashed to him; he’ll drag them down. Their 2020 majority is now at risk. Let’s accelerate the damage. Nationwide protests Tuesday. https://t.co/nLYwM9cR4m. See you there. https://t.co/ae2Z1WJ1bR
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) January 24, 2019
re: #142 Single-handed sailor
Hell, even in the scenario that the GOP senate caves tomorrow, they still need to go forward with these wide-scale protests. They’d have my support.
re: #63 teleskiguy
This was in Jackson Hole today.
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It wasn’t this deep at the ski area yesterday, but there was still face shots all day.
Stupid deep powder.
re: #142 Single-handed sailor
Oh man. This is the first time in years I wish I could be in the U.S.
Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) will break with Trump and vote to reopen the government without wall money, per @denverpost. https://t.co/WlQTyh1hc6
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 24, 2019
One.
tRump wants a SOTUA in the House Chamber so he can point into the bleachers where family members can stand up and be identified as having children killed by illegal immigrants.
Or to be clear, Stephen Miller wants that opportunity.
Pelosi today enforced the concept that the House is a co-equal member of the government with the Executive. They hold the purse strings. She is dead solid correct.
The House has advanced ten bills to reopen the government.
TurtleNeck has kept all of them from getting a Senate vote.
The pain is getting to the point where it is biting everyone, and more and more of the electorate are realizing that the wedge is tRump and his useless, ego-driven, never-going-to-be-built wall of China, American style…
The stupid is just pervasive in this country right now.
I’m going to get some sleep.
Everyone should be in the streets on Friday shutting the economy down. A general strike. Scare the 1% and this bullshit is dead meat.
re: #147 austin_blue
Everyone should be in the streets on Friday shutting the economy down. A general strike. Scare the 1% and this bullshit is dead meat.
No.
It should be Tuesday.
Because that’s the day that would be SOTU if our government were functional.
re: #148 sagehen
No.
It should be Tuesday.
Because that’s the day that would be SOTU if our government were functional.
I think Friday is the federal employees’ next payday. if they were actually being paid, that is.
#NowPlaying The Paul Butterfield Blues Band > An Anthology: The Elektra Years > In My Own Dream https://t.co/5PkHCdzJyU
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) January 18, 2019
harris: prosecuted financial crimes
trump: committed financial crimes
re: #151 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
harris: prosecuted financial crimes
trump: committ
eding financial crimes
Corrected for accuracy.
Yeah, we better be careful who we let in on our Southern border… pic.twitter.com/ojSr9gwEL7
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) January 24, 2019
NEWS ALERT: Chairmen @RepCummings and @RepAdamSchiff issue official statement on intimidation of #MichaelCohen. Full Statement:https://t.co/oEw0JxqSPw pic.twitter.com/UMAujQJaVu
— Oversight Committee (@OversightDems) January 23, 2019
re: #9 HappyWarrior
It’s why Little Big Man is my favorite Western. One of the few that portrayed First Nations like human beings. Plus Chief Dan George and I have the same birthday so that’s cool too.
The humor in that film is so dry that I have to sneeze, especially Dan George.
re: #93 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I was in a place where I couldn’t post when Venezuela was discussed downstairs, but DT’s base is isolationist af, so if he’s looking to strengthen his core constituency’s approval, I seriously doubt this will do it.
Isolationism somehow does not have a problem with colonizing petroleum-producing countries…
re: #95 HappyWarrior
America’s corporate leaders are idiots.
those are their public statements, they are smart enough to be aware of what is really happening
re: #153 Single-handed sailor
THOSE GODDAMN MEXI…….oh, never mind
Canadian cities re-think removal of fluoride from tap water
It shouldn’t be up to cities to decide to add fluoride to drinking water, but provincial officials, a Canadian mayor says.
Windsor, Ont., is bucking a national trend and looking at lifting its ban on adding fluoride to drinking water after seeing an increase in cavities among children.
Community water fluoridation is recommended by public health, medical and dental groups, including the Canadian and American Dental Associations, Canada’s Chief Dental Officer and the World Health Organization. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called its contribution to the decline in cavities one of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century.
Some of you lovelies have been asking for the clip from tonight’s @TheLastWord A block. Here you go! https://t.co/NZ9zmdOI3Z
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 24, 2019
So that happened last night over our #winter wonderland here on #senja in #Norway 😱 @TamithaSkov @dartanner @BBCEarth @INSVideos @B_Ubiquitous @andy_stones @AngryTheInch @NorthLightAlert @AuroraNotify @StormHour @chunder10 @treetanner @INSVideos @LiveAuroraNetw1 @ProfBrianCox pic.twitter.com/BIttFGhVqg
— Adrien Mauduit (@ADphotography24) January 24, 2019
Dunno if this has been posted before, but:
If you face swap Mulder and Scully they look like a really decent synth pop band pic.twitter.com/fSaxzmU1QI
— brixton hatter (@BrixtonHatter) January 21, 2019
re: #163 Alephnaught
X files are made of these, who am I to Y or Z?
#BREAKING Former Scottish leader Alex Salmond arrested in sex harassment probe: police pic.twitter.com/vBCgKrTnSl
— AFP news agency (@AFP) January 24, 2019
Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond arrested https://t.co/1rhKS4KOxW pic.twitter.com/jPWyOqYq7t
— Reuters UK (@ReutersUK) January 24, 2019
‘Twelve plus one’ is an anagram of ‘eleven plus two’.
📸 https://t.co/Ll96AYaqXP pic.twitter.com/GjazlUIZ57— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) January 23, 2019
re: #46 Joe Bacon 🌹
I still remember the day mom found a cigarette butt in a sack of Gold Medal flour.
She dumped the sack and never bought it again. She swore by King Arthur Flour.
LOL! I’m having a grand time imagining how the cigarette butt wound up in the flour. Somebody on the line smoking? Some boss up on a gantry accidentally having his smoke fall into a vat?
re: #167 steve_davis
LOL! I’m having a grand time imagining how the cigarette butt wound up in the flour. Somebody on the line smoking? Some boss up on a gantry accidentally having his smoke fall into a vat?
Sounds like just common carelessness. I know too many smokers who still think the whole world is their ashtray. Or it coulda been somebody pissed off at the boss or company…
re: #126 Scout
The key is the school colors. Sports fans who paint their face pretty much always use their team’s colors. This high school’s colors seem to be white and blue, not black.
They do have black as an alternative color but really how often do you wear the alternative colors? The other weird thing is their school has a Native American chant yet their nickname is the colonels.
re: #169 HappyWarrior
It’s Kentucky. Logic has no relevance. Apologies to BWS.
moron is awake
A great new book just out, “Game of Thorns,” by Doug Wead, Presidential Historian and best selling author. The book covers the campaign of 2016, and what could be more exciting than that?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2019
“This is everything FDR dreamed about, the New Deal to put America back to work. Think of LBJ, he gave people food stamps & welfare. Donald Trump’s giving them a job. He’s got a lot of good things to talk about. News stories do not accurately cover him, should correct.” @DougWead
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2019
The economy is doing great. More people working in U.S.A. today than at any time in our HISTORY. Media barely covers! @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2019
that last tweet…JFC
re: #169 HappyWarrior
They do have black as an alternative color but really how often do you wear the alternative colors? The other weird thing is their school has a Native American chant yet their nickname is the colonels.
They know what they are getting away with and are smug about it.
Recall again that this whole blowup came about because these assholes posted it on their own social media sites…not like they were being persecuted, just called to answer for what they do in public
and that is the crux of the modern “PC” debate.
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
How much did Trump pay promise to pay Doug Wead to write that book?
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron is awake
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“This is everything FDR dreamed about, the New Deal to put America back to work. Think of LBJ, he gave people food stamps & welfare. Donald Trump’s giving them a job. He’s got a lot of good things to talk about. News stories do not accurately cover him, should correct.”
What a load of tripe. Donny comes in at the tail end of the Obama Recovery, gives the market a temporary sugar high with a massive tax giveaway, and this shitheel thinks that rises to the level of FDR or LBJ. Even getting past the decades of screaming from wingnuts that gov’t has no business “giving people jobs” and “picking winners and losers,” you’re still left with the reality that the man has done nothing to warrant any sort of credit for the job creation that’s happened in the past 2 years.
— Effin’ Birds (@EffinBirds) January 24, 2019
re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They know what they are getting away with and are smug about it.
Recall again that this whole blowup came about because these assholes posted it on their own social media sites…not like they were being persecuted, just called to answer for what they do in public
and that is the crux of the modern “PC” debate.
Too right. Rude Pundit pointed this out.
Teenagers know that everything…every fucking thing…will be recorded. They love it. They want it. They want to see how the stupid shit they do gets major likes and hearts and whatever the fuck. That’s also what Sandmann was thinking standing there, knowing that his boys were recording. “Holy shit, this is gonna be so sick on my Insta.” The old person argument of “I could do stupid things when I was a teenager and no one would ever see it” is bullshit because today’s kids expect to be recorded. They do the stupid shit because they want it recorded.
That whole piece is worth the read, BTW.
How dare you? The audacity to emerge from your shell and lecture us about governance is astounding. Your leadership of the Senate will live in infamy for a hundred years. You’ve shown no respect for institutional norms, and no deference to the Constitution. Enough. Shame on you.
— Ken Olin (@kenolin1) January 24, 2019
Item #zillion and 1 in how carefully Trump has thought about the shutdown.
Southwest Airlines says shutdown cost it as much as $15 million this month so far https://t.co/UCtCWy7omX
— CNBC (@CNBC) January 24, 2019
He’s going to tank the economy, too.
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
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that last tweet…JFC
so he’s only aware of this “book” because Fox & Fiends hyped it up
there is such a thing as a negative endorsement
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
image rehab for yertle is beginning in advance of his capitulation
it’s not going to work
I hope the post that this guy is replying to shows up…
Get back to me when your chess playing “president*” can spell hamburger.
— John Weaver (@jwgop) January 16, 2019
moron is fucking clueless
So interesting that bad lawyer Michael Cohen, who sadly will not be testifying before Congress, is using the lawyer of Crooked Hillary Clinton to represent him - Gee, how did that happen? Remember July 4th weekend when Crooked went before FBI & wasn’t sworn in, no tape, nothing?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2019
re: #182 makeitstop
If @SpeakerPelosi thinks her State of the Union stunt can outmaneuver @realDonaldTrump , she’s in for a rude awakening. Pelosi is playing checkers. Trump is playing chess.
Nancy is playing three-dimensional chess and Trump is playing Candyland with the Plumpy card removed…
He can hold his speech wherever he wants and call it whatever he wants, and GOP members of Congress can attend if they want, but Nancy is not going to give him a venue to do it.
re: #179 MsJ
Also, this.
.@realDonaldTrump’s chief economic advisor warns 1q economic growth could be close to “zero” because of #shutdown
— West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) January 24, 2019
Despite all the growth, low unemployment, etc., some economists are saying the economy is in a bubble, and all it would take to pop it is some small, unexpected downturn. Like a government shutdown lasting more than month. 800,000 people losing three paychecks (so far) cannot contribute to the economy by buying stuff, for one thing. That’s like a medium-sized city just not spending any money.
This joke has a clever rhetorical structure. It’s brilliantly self-validating in that only a non-white, non-male can safely point out that it’s sexist and racist. A minor quibble, from a pragmatic sense, is that it is intended to wall off a third of the electorate at the moment we Lib/Prog/Dems need every vote to save civilization.
Or am I being too sensitive?
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The audacity of a man who has stomped six attempts to reopen the government flat because he is beholden to a president* who is running scared of his own base is just off the fucking chart. Yet the media is gonna try to present him as a bit player to Trump’s eventual humiliation, saying that McConnell had “no choice” but to go along with the whole mess.
re: #146 Single-handed sailor
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One.
And a pretty big one. Cory has the unenviable task of heading the NRSC and is up for re-election next November.
re: #104 MsJ
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And that is exactly what she asked him to do from the start of this bullshit back and forth shit. He’s a fucking child.
re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron is fucking clueless
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Your own stupid tweets and ramblings are going to bring you down Donnie and you’re going to wish you never signed up for Twitter.
re: #186 Decatur Deb
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This joke has a clever rhetorical structure. It’s brilliantly self-validating in that only a non-white, non-male can safely point out that it’s sexist and racist. A minor quibble, from a pragmatic sense, is that it is intended to wall off a third of the electorate at the moment we Lib/Prog/Dems need every vote to save civilization.
Or am I being too sensitive?
I dunno, I lawled when I read it.
re: #182 makeitstop
I hope the post that this guy is replying to shows up…
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She has outmaneuvered him, he’s admitted defeat by agreeing to postpone the SOTU address after several days of brinkmanship. It’s not mystery that he’s going to take this snub personally and turn the address into a huge spectacle in order to convince himself that he’s leading anything more than Jack and Shit.
re: #191 makeitstop
I dunno, I lawled when I read it.
It’s disappointing they didn’t work “old” into it, and gone for the trifecta. Trade-off for conciseness, I guess.
re: #186 Decatur Deb
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Or am I being too sensitive?
The audacity of say, a group of young men who post something on the Internet that shows them acting in a most inappropriate and boorish manner and then act offended and indignant when called out on it, then yes it is most self-validating…
And yes, these guys are not even big enough to warrant being called “pricks”, I guess “clit” is a more apt term.
re: #169 HappyWarrior
They do have black as an alternative color but really how often do you wear the alternative colors? The other weird thing is their school has a Native American chant yet their nickname is the colonels.
Lots of schools, from high school to college, run “black out” games, where the team, regardless of primary colors, wears all black and fans are encouraged to do the same. I’ve seen many where students/fans use black body paint and it’s all good natured. The difference with the MAGACath photo is the kid in the crowd who painted himself black with white lips. I struggle to see how that isn’t racist.
Interesting - This time it’s Russian emails getting leaked
Russian oligarchs and Kremlin apparatchiks may find the tables turned on them later this week when a new leak site unleashes a compilation of hundreds of thousands of hacked emails and gigabytes of leaked documents. Think of it as WikiLeaks, but without Julian Assange’s aversion to posting Russian secrets.
The site, Distributed Denial of Secrets, was founded last month by transparency activists. Co-founder Emma Best said the Russian leaks, slated for release Friday, will bring into one place dozens of different archives of hacked material that, at best, have been difficult to locate, and in some cases appear to have disappeared entirely from the web.
Love the acronym - DDoS.
re: #182 makeitstop
I hope the post that this guy is replying to shows up…
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re: #186 Decatur Deb
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Or am I being too sensitive?
Eh it doesn’t bother me as a white guy because frankly we do need to be brought down a peg and pointed out that even though we’re constantly the ones bitching about PC, we’re the ones who record ourselves destroying razors, coffee keurigs, etc. I do like what some of the feminists say about why it’s stupid to call someone a pussy.
re: #195 Mike Lamb
Lots of schools, from high school to college, run “black out” games, where the team, regardless of primary colors, wears all black and fans are encouraged to do the same. I’ve seen many where students/fans use black body paint and it’s all good natured. The difference with the MAGACath photo is the kid in the crowd who painted himself black with white lips. I struggle to see how that isn’t racist.
Aha! That’s right. And yeah the Cov-Catholic photo, the kid definitely looks to be in stereotypical blackface. There are some things that have been more innocent i.e. the interpretation of the three point signal as being a white supremacist sign but other things like this and what I’ve read about the culture of the school.
re: #188 Myron Falwell
And a pretty big one. Cory has the unenviable task of heading the NRSC and is up for re-election next November.
I’d be really surprised if Gardner has much of a shot. He hasn’t come close to representing his constituency the last 6 years. If Hickenlooper runs, I think he might get smashed
re: #199 HappyWarrior
Aha! That’s right. And yeah the Cov-Catholic photo, the kid definitely looks to be in stereotypical blackface. There are some things that have been more innocent i.e. the interpretation of the three point signal as being a white supremacist sign but other things like this and what I’ve read about the culture of the school.
It is clear that they are being smug pricks about the blackface and the three-point gesture and are enjoying it. Unfortunately, and attempts to take them to task for it will just result in the usual rhetorical clusterfuck of counter-arguments
re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is clear that they are being smug pricks about the blackface and the three-point gesture and are enjoying it. Unfortunately, and attempts to take them to task for it will just result in the usual rhetorical clusterfuck of counter-arguments
Yeah well I don’t give a fuck. It’s the 21st century. Blackface isn’t okay. These guys need to learn that early on. Doesn’t mean I support doxxing or threatening them but a clear message that blackface is racist af.
re: #186 Decatur Deb
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Or am I being too sensitive?
A little. I thought of not posting, but realized that’s it’s a very true statement. I’m an old white man, and I’ve had my share of good and bad because of this, but I’ve had more good breaks that bad by a factor of 100. And the white guys who whine the most have had the most fortune in life. So here we are.
re: #197 Myron Falwell
David Brody is still doubling down on that “chess” tweet this morning. Goes without saying, but working for Pat Roberson makes you cray-cray.
Oh, the comments. I’m surprised Brody is even engaging some of them.
OTOH, he thinks Trump is winning against Pelosi, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.
re: #200 Mike Lamb
I’d be really surprised if Gardner has much of a shot. He hasn’t come close to representing his constituency the last 6 years. If Hickenlooper runs, I think he might get smashed
I think Gardner as being like my (thank God) former Congresswoman Comstock. Comstock won election to Congress in the same very Republican year 2014 in a state that has otherwise been going blue. I won’t say Gardner is a lock to lose but I won’t be surprised if the right candidate runs and beats him pretty well.
re: #169 HappyWarrior
They do have black as an alternative color but really how often do you wear the alternative colors? The other weird thing is their school has a Native American chant yet their nickname is the colonels.
They also have a Pacific Islander chant, that’s what the fat guy who took his shirt off was trying to do.
Also, too, when they are wearing white face paint their lips are normal and not outlined in black. When they are wearing black, the lips are exagerrated in white.
re: #204 makeitstop
Oh, the comments. I’m surprised Brody is even engaging some of them.
OTOH, he thinks Trump is winning against Pelosi, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.
Tony ate his lunch here. Thread…
You are an absolute moron Mr. Brody. Donald Trump doesn’t know how to play chess. He barely knows how to order fast food.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) January 16, 2019
re: #206 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
They also have a Pacific Islander chant, that’s what the fat guy who took his shirt off was trying to do.
Also, too, when they are wearing white face paint their lips are normal and not outlined in black. When they are wearing black, the lips are exagerrated in white.
In my experience, teams have chants related to their nickname. How the hell do you get a Pacific Islander chant when your nickname is the Colonels? There’s definitely a culture at that school.
For some reason #Moron seems to be the word of the day, or week, or…..
re: #207 Dave In Austin
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I like how they delude themselves about Trump. It’s adorable.
Your 23andMe re wale you are 12% Leotard, 20% curly hair, 3% chicken, and 65% asshole.
Don’t disrespect Nathan Phillips. He is a Native American and has done more for this country than you ever will. pic.twitter.com/XCimWnwXBy— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) January 24, 2019
The Fake News Media loves saying “so little happened at my first summit with Kim Jong Un.” Wrong! After 40 years of doing nothing with North Korea but being taken to the cleaners, & with a major war ready to start, in a short 15 months, relationships built, hostages & remains….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2019
I’m gonna go take a nap now…
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She hasn’t done anything for this country. She thinks she’s special just because she happened to be born here. I have so much more respect for men and women who come here and truly become Americans. Kaitlin’s a little racist witch.
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Well, if we continue that logic, everybody’s really an African because that’s where humanity originated from. Or Middle Eastern if you want to start counting from the beginning of civilization. Gunhumper Barbie needs to stick to what she knows best: Grifting from fellow ammosexuals.
Campbell’s® Chunky™ Sirloin Burger with Country Vegetables is her stripper name https://t.co/tvjLjbxoBi
— jenncognito (@jenncognito) January 22, 2019
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We get it Donald, you share a kinship with Kim Jong Un because you’re both insecure little brats with Daddy issues who love authoritarianism.
re: #215 Targetpractice
Well, if we continue that logic, everybody’s really an African because that’s where humanity originated from. Or Middle Eastern if you want to start counting from the beginning of civilization. Gunhumper Barbie needs to stick to what she knows best: Grifting from fellow ammosexuals.
Or going to New York for the eleventyth time and trashing it.
re: #216 Dave In Austin
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re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Your “summit” was a very expensive photo-op that led to an “agreement” that North Korea has shat all over and laughed at you while doing so. You gave legitimacy to a regime that past presidents were smart enough to keep at arm’s length, in exchange for a few trinkets that the Kims have tried vainly in the past to entice your predecessors to do what you did without a second thought: Toss away the precondition that North Korea dismantle its nuclear arsenal before they would meet with him in-person.
re: #219 HappyWarrior
I feel bad for her for thinking she thinks that makes her look hot.
She’s not unattractive, and if I was a younger man would have my eye, but her parents and teachers failed here somewhere along the line.
Your supporters have a word for this kind of surrender that rhymes with ‘pussy.’ Wait…that’s the word. Never mind. Everyone knows Nancy wears the pants in DC now anyway. And America is better off for it. Do what she says.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 24, 2019
re: #203 I Would Prefer Not To
A little. I thought of not posting, but realized that’s it’s a very true statement. I’m an old white man, and I’ve had my share of good and bad because of this, but I’ve had more good breaks that bad by a factor of 100. And the white guys who whine the most have had the most fortune in life. So here we are.
Because it’s conscious hyperbole for humor, and over-generalized, it drives home a partial truth. It achieves that at the cost of divisiveness. The country is facing a critical year and we better switch to inclusiveness or get used toTrump2 and his 4 Supreme Court picks.
re: #222 jeffreyw
We had owl sign last night. A Screech owl was out from the nest box singing away. It’s prolly Ricky back for yr. 3. We’ll see if Rachel survived the year and shows up.
We love our owls here.
re: #223 Dave In Austin
She’s not unattractive, and if I was a younger man would have my eye, but her parents and teachers failed here somewhere along the line.
I just think she looks totally unhappy. But that seems to be the default setting for MAGAts, so.
re: #223 Dave In Austin
She’s not unattractive, and if I was a younger man would have my eye, but her parents and teachers failed here somewhere along the line.
Oh, I’m not calling her ugly. She’s not and even if I found her unattractive physically, that’s not my beef with her. It’s her personality. I have a big problem with how she has been to NYC several times now and proceeds to trash it without knowing a thing about the people who live there. Despite NYC’s reputation, I’ve found that New Yorkers are pretty welcoming people. The whole posing with guns thing is something I find very unattractive and not sexually arousing at all and she’s definitely going for that. Whenever I see poses like that, I ask myself if the men who will get off on that are more aroused by the woman or the gun.
re: #227 makeitstop
I just think she looks totally unhappy. But that seems to be the default setting for MAGAts, so.
I mean her whole thing is so shallow. And she seems either too full of herself or naive about the reality is if she were a black man or woman and posing with weapons the way she does, she’d be labeled a thug. I don’t think she’s a thug btw. But I find posing for guns especially dressed like that very shallow and stupid. If you’re going to pose with guns, dress like how you would if you were actually about to fire them rather than looking like you’re posing for an underwear ad.
Cops:”After negotiations to try to get the barricaded subject to exit the bank were not successful, the HCSO SWAT team entered the bank & continued negotiations”
White privilege is when you murder 5 people, barricade yourself, take hostages,& Cops still politely arrest you alive— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) January 24, 2019
Tamir Rice, Stephon Clark, Aiyana Jones, Eric Garner
•Unarmed, murdered by Cops
Zephen Xaver
•Killed 5, taken alive
Nick Cruz
•Killed 17, taken alive
Dylann Roof
•Killed 9, taken alive
James Holmes
•Killed 12, taken alive
Cops KNOW how to de-escalate—They choose not to.— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) January 24, 2019
And here’s the crux: people aren’t complaining that he wasn’t gunned down for his crime.
They’re complaining that other perps aren’t extended that right because darker skin is seen as ‘more dangerous’. That de-escalation only seems to be a privilege extended to certain classes.— The Best A K Can Be (@Citizen_Kryptik) January 24, 2019
But hey, Build the Wall, Crime Will Fall!, right?
re: #228 HappyWarrior
Weapons as sexy are one of those “cause and consequences” aspects of our violence culture. Guns and violence as sexy instead of repulsive. Celebrating violent people, from Jack The Ripper on up to modern day gang culture.
re: #230 Citizen K
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But hey, Build the Wall, Crime Will Fall!, right?
Precisely. It’s always infuriated me that Dylann Roof executed people in cold blood and was not only taken alive but treated to BK by the arresting officers while Tamir Rice was killed within seconds of the police arriving on the scene. That’s not to say I think the police should have killed Dylann Roof. It’s the whole inconsistently with how police handle suspects. And the whole “Mah Due Process” didn’t care about Tamir’s or Eric Garner’s or Michael Brown or Philando Castile’s.
re: #231 Unshaken Defiance
Weapons as sexy are one of those “cause and consequences” aspects of our violence culture. Guns and violence as sexy instead of repulsive. Celebrating violent people, from Jack The Ripper on up to modern day gang culture.
I have no problem saying this but I really dislike guns. I dislike gun culture and I especially dislike attacking one’s masculinity if he has the balls to say “You know what, guns aren’t all that awesome.” I’m not saying btw you’re a bad person if you like guns, I’m saying I shouldn’t be shamed or called a pussy for not liking them.
Good morning Lizards,
How is our great American suicide coming along today? Wake me up when the GOP is tired of winning and gets around to paying the million folks who have been working for them for free..
re: #202 HappyWarrior
Yeah well I don’t give a fuck. It’s the 21st century. Blackface isn’t okay. These guys need to learn that early on. Doesn’t mean I support doxxing or threatening them but a clear message that blackface is racist af.
They obviously have their own school tolerating or even encouraging it. And that is a major issue here that is also getting pushed aside in the shouting match.
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
“the Native Americans migrated from Asia” argument is notable save for the fact that they came to populate an uninhabited territory, whereas whites came to expropriate and exterminate…
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They obviously have their own school tolerating or even encouraging it. And that is a major issue here that is also getting pushed aside in the shouting match.
The question I have is what can really be done to get cultural change in a private school. This school is a walking argument against vouchers and helping to subsidize private schools for sure though.
re: #216 Dave In Austin
She looks like an unseasoned chicken breast with ramen noodle hair.
re: #231 Unshaken Defiance
Weapons as sexy are one of those “cause and consequences” aspects of our violence culture. Guns and violence as sexy instead of repulsive. Celebrating violent people, from Jack The Ripper on up to modern day gang culture.
re: #233 HappyWarrior
I have no problem saying this but I really dislike guns. I dislike gun culture and I especially dislike attacking one’s masculinity if he has the balls to say “You know what, guns aren’t all that awesome.” I’m not saying btw you’re a bad person if you like guns, I’m saying I shouldn’t be shamed or called a pussy for not liking them.
The funny thing is, I like guns in the abstract. I’ve been a gamer for nearly all my life, I’ve been inundated with guns and gun play between games, movies, television, comics, etc. But I’ve always been able to recognize that it’s all fictional gunplay. And I knew well enough, even never handling a gun more realistic than a Time Crisis arcade gun, that the real deal was no joke and it was far different than the ease in which they were used in fiction. I even understand the fascination with them as a tool, but a lot of that comes from Mythbusters, which always wholly emphasized that they were not things to be taken lightly ever, and they were lethal weapons, not toys. They were meant to kill, and even the goofy crash test dummy and ballistic gel targets didn’t gussy up the fact that they were lethal weapons.
Unfortunately, the lethality is exactly what attracts people to guns. It’s not love of guns, but love of violence and the platonic ideal of violence.
Wikileaks *mysteriously* never wanted to leak anything about Russia and other bad actors.
Well, information, bitches, want to be free. https://t.co/jvHjd2iETq— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 24, 2019
re: #239 Citizen K
The funny thing is, I like guns in the abstract. I’ve been a gamer for nearly all my life, I’ve been inundated with guns and gun play between games, movies, television, comics, etc. But I’ve always been able to recognize that it’s all fictional gunplay.
I own literally thousands of guns of all types, and dozens of Confederate flags, all in 1/72 scale…
BTW, I hadn’t heard (here) that Joni Ernst was caught having an affair.
From the Bishop of the Lexington KY Diocese:
A powerful op-ed by Lexington Bishop John Stowe. “I am ashamed that the actions of Kentucky Catholic high school students have become a contradiction of the very reverence for human life that the march is supposed to manifest.” https://t.co/P8ImxTaKZ9
— HL Opinions (@heraldleader2) January 24, 2019
Without engaging the discussion about the context of the viral video or placing the blame entirely on these adolescents, it astonishes me that any students participating in a pro-life activity on behalf of their school and their Catholic faith could be wearing apparel sporting the slogans of a president who denigrates the lives of immigrants, refugees and people from countries that he describes with indecent words and haphazardly endangers with life-threatening policies.
Bishop Stowe is someone you could describe as “Walking the Walk”. As one of the few African Americans that work in the Diocese, he has reached out to me personally on a few occasions(after Charlottesville is an example) to listen to how I felt, and to discuss ways to help others understand the plight of the oppressed in our society. Sure, he is still a member of the leadership of the Catholic Church, and what comes with that. But from my experience, he is more progressive than even our best examples of Pope Francis. Bishop Stowe, is more like a Bishop in the Episcopal Church than in the Catholic Church.
re: #239 Citizen K
The funny thing is, I like guns in the abstract. I’ve been a gamer for nearly all my life, I’ve been inundated with guns and gun play between games, movies, television, comics, etc. But I’ve always been able to recognize that it’s all fictional gunplay. And I knew well enough, even never handling a gun more realistic than a Time Crisis arcade gun, that the real deal was no joke and it was far different than the ease in which they were used in fiction. I even understand the fascination with them as a tool, but a lot of that comes from Mythbusters, which always wholly emphasized that they were not things to be taken lightly ever, and they were lethal weapons, not toys. They were meant to kill, and even the goofy crash test dummy and ballistic gel targets didn’t gussy up the fact that they were lethal weapons.
Unfortunately, the lethality is exactly what attracts people to guns. It’s not love of guns, but love of violence and the platonic ideal of violence.
Right I get that. What I just wish they would acknowledge and this never is done following a school shooting is this, guns are designed to kill. That’s why the “Well cars kill people too” is a fallacy. Maybe gun control is the wrong phrase but gun responsibility? Absolutely and I why gun owners get upset because there are definitely responsible ones out there but there are other ones I’m sorry but they’re just not responsible people. Some of them are in LEO even. Some of them regular schmos. All put the rest of the community in danger. And some common sense is needed. It’s perfectly within reason for a place of business to want weapons banned from its premises and that’s doubly true if that place is serving alcohol.
Did any of you see the video of the 300 pound football player doing a back flip like a gymnast? it was on Good Morning America this morning.
re: #242 Belafon
BTW, I hadn’t heard (here) that Joni Ernst was caught having an affair.
I hadn’t heard about that. Her husband sounds like a real abusive prick. I hope they don’t have kids together.
Way I figure it, there’s one of three possible scenarios for how today plays out.
The first scenario is pretty much the one with the lowest odds, that’s that Mitch gets Donny’s “deal” through a cloture vote and then passed on a party-line vote. If that happens, it goes back to the House where it’s DOA and we’re left with both houses of Congress holding a bill they refuse to vote upon. An equally unlikely scenario is all this happens, but Nancy allows the Senate bill a vote and it goes down in flames on a party-line vote.
The next scenario, which is more likely, is the Senate passes the Senate DNC’s “clean” CR, it gets a quick passage in the House, only for Donny to be a petulant child and veto it. As of now, I think that’s still a plausible scenario, but the events of the past 24 hours may mean that Donny has lost his stomach for this brinkmanship and will sign the bill just so he can get his ego-stroking session next week where he might think he can make a case for the wall funding at the next shutdown.
The last and most plausible scenario is the “clean” CR passes both houses with veto-proof majorities and Donny makes a show about considering vetoing it before signing it so that the gov’t reopens on Monday. The can gets kicked down the road, he gets to do his SOTU address where he’ll likely make a big spectacle about the “victims” of “open borders” in what he thinks will be a successful pitch to extract his ransom demand when the next shutdown happens, and the media does their annual “He’s so presidential for reading a speech!” mutual masturbation session.
re: #186 Decatur Deb
There are plenty of white women who are just as insensitive. Danna L. and Ann come to mind.
re: #245 Belafon
Did any of you see the video of the 300 pound football player doing a back flip like a gymnast? it was on Good Morning America this morning.
Don’t think it’s the video you’re thinking of, but this might be the same guy?
That said, I’ve always been impressed by bigger men with true agility. It’s why I can’t help but be impressed by wrestlers who have agility and flexibility rather than just raw strength. And you’re seeing a lot of that in the last few years, with wrestlers like Keith Lee, who is 6’5” and 330lbs:
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It’s fun watching people claiming that Trump was going to play Pelosi over the shutdown eat those words as Trump backed down and Pelosi showed him who’s boss.
This tweet didn’t age well.
In fact, I’ll stay for the ratio as everyone else reminds you that there was no way Trump was getting one over on Pelosi.
Trump isn’t a negotiator in any event. He’s an extortionist and bully. Pelosi has dealt with guys like that her whole life.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 24, 2019
This guy is a political analyst for CBN News (Christian Broadcasting News). It figures that he’s spewing the nonsensical ravings of a right winger thinking that someone who has dealt with bullies and extortionists her entire life and put them in their place would show Trump his.
Meanwhile, Trump’s spent more time giving up more leverage to North Korea than he has had talks with Democrats to end the shutdown. In fact, Trump was trying to talk him his expected summit with North Korea and his “achievements” there.
Except that the achievement is bogus. He got a photo op, and North Korea did what they wanted - they expanded their nuclear weapons and missile production sites. They tossed Trump some bones (literally - he sent over some POW/MIA remains that might be Americans). North Korea has periodically done this over the decades, and shouldn’t signal anything other than deflection. Of course Trump thinks this is winning.
You gave up leverage for a photo op.
North Korea has expanded their nuclear weapons and missile development.
You got conned. Everyone but you recognizes this.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 24, 2019
re: #242 Belafon
BTW, I hadn’t heard (here) that Joni Ernst was caught having an affair.
Accused of (by her soon-to-be ex).
She denies it.
re: #230 Citizen K
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Dude looks an awful lot like that guy who kidnapped a young girl after killing her parents.
It’s like they grow them in test tubes or something.
re: #247 Targetpractice
Way I figure it, there’s one of three possible scenarios for how today plays out.
The first scenario is pretty much the one with the lowest odds, that’s that Mitch gets Donny’s “deal” through a cloture vote and then passed on a party-line vote. If that happens, it goes back to the House where it’s DOA and we’re left with both houses of Congress holding a bill they refuse to vote upon. An equally unlikely scenario is all this happens, but Nancy allows the Senate bill a vote and it goes down in flames on a party-line vote.
The next scenario, which is more likely, is the Senate passes the Senate DNC’s “clean” CR, it gets a quick passage in the House, only for Donny to be a petulant child and veto it. As of now, I think that’s still a plausible scenario, but the events of the past 24 hours may mean that Donny has lost his stomach for this brinkmanship and will sign the bill just so he can get his ego-stroking session next week where he might think he can make a case for the wall funding at the next shutdown.
The last and most plausible scenario is the “clean” CR passes both houses with veto-proof majorities and Donny makes a show about considering vetoing it before signing it so that the gov’t reopens on Monday. The can gets kicked down the road, he gets to do his SOTU address where he’ll likely make a big spectacle about the “victims” of “open borders” in what he thinks will be a successful pitch to extract his ransom demand when the next shutdown happens, and the media does their annual “He’s so presidential for reading a speech!” mutual masturbation session.
Let me give you one more- the one I worry about the most:
Mitch Turtle puts up the Trump bill first, and it goes down in defeat. He then pulls the clean “CR” and claims that he will still only put a bill up that Trump will sign. He and other Republicans try and point at this vote to show Democrats are blocking the government from opening. I don’t think this works politically, but this is the Mitch.
Hmmm… seems that a pair of my tweets have gotten quite a bit of attention re: McConnell, and have generated an influx of followers. Woot. It’s odd when that happens - it’s not that I mind the follower jump, but I’m never quite sure why one tweet seems to generate a response, when others don’t - and the insights are similar. Guess I caught lightning in a bottle for a change.
You knew this was coming. Privileged white guys from school with racist/bigoted heritage engage in racist and misogynist activities, but the guy who stepped in to stop them is run through ringer. https://t.co/jglu6aeHrF
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 24, 2019
re: #243 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
From the Bishop of the Lexington KY Diocese:
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Bishop Stowe is someone you could describe as “Walking the Walk”. As one of the few African Americans that work in the Diocese, he has reached out to me personally on a few occasions(after Charlottesville is an example) to listen to how I felt, and to discuss ways to help others understand the plight of the oppressed in our society. Sure, he is still a member of the leadership of the Catholic Church, and what comes with that. But from my experience, he is more progressive than even our best examples of Pope Francis. Bishop Stowe, is more like a Bishop in the Episcopal Church than in the Catholic Church.
Good read. I may not agree with the Bishop on abortion but I do think when men and women like him talk about being pro-life, there is a sincerity there. And he is right on about allying with Trump.
Jared’s got himself some financial trouble, in the form of Deutsche Bank:
BOOM: Deutsche Bank throws Kushner under the bus. https://t.co/ASaSd3EZAM
— Jay Arnold 🏳️🌈 (@JadedCreative) January 24, 2019
UPDATE:
The underlying story is older, but the financial trouble is there since he’s got debt payments to Deutsche Bank that aren’t getting covered by the rentals of the property. He’s underwater on this, and used an oversized cash loan leveraging this property to cover for his losses on 666 Fifth Avenue, which was also hemorrhaging money.
It’s a house of cards. Same with Trump (and same bank too).
re: #162 freetoken
apod.nasa.gov Orion over the Austrian Alps: fantastique! That was yesterday’s. Check out today’s for a night time view of the Matterhorn with blood red moon. And meteor.
Shot and chaser:
Wilbur Ross is worth nearly $3 billion. https://t.co/fZqpPxm1sY
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 24, 2019
This is what an actual oligarchy looks like.
re: #260 Citizen K
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This is what an actual oligarchy looks like.
Let Wilbur eat cake.
re: #255 lawhawk
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re: #255 lawhawk
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He was charged as a 19-year-old “with escaping from the Nebraska Penal Complex where he was confined May 3,” according to a 1974 article in the Lincoln Star.
Later that year, Phillips pleaded guilty to assault and was fined $200. He also was charged with underage possession of alcohol in 1972, 1973 and 1975, as well as negligent driving, the Examiner reported.
In August 1973, a charge of destruction of property against him was dropped, but he was sentenced to a year of probation for a related charge of alcohol possession by a minor.
In December 1978, Phillips was charged with driving without a license.
Other than the driving without a license, all of these were while he was in the military (1972-1976).
And all of them were more than 40 years ago.
re: #264 sagehen
Other than the driving without a license, all of these were while he was in the military (1972-1976).
And all of them were more than 40 years ago.
a dangerous criminal nonetheless
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re: #264 sagehen
Other than the driving without a license, all of these were while he was in the military (1972-1976).
And all of them were more than 40 years ago.
And all are irrelevant to what happened last week. The right seems to have this notion that if you have done bad things in the past, it should be used against you whenever you yourself are wronged. It’s fucking evil but it’s straight out of the Ailes-Murdoch playbook. I wonder how many felons the NY Post has employed over the years or gone to bat for.
re: #186 Decatur Deb
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This joke has a clever rhetorical structure. It’s brilliantly self-validating in that only a non-white, non-male can safely point out that it’s sexist and racist. A minor quibble, from a pragmatic sense, is that it is intended to wall off a third of the electorate at the moment we Lib/Prog/Dems need every vote to save civilization.
Or am I being too sensitive?
I will have to admit, that as a white male, I don’t consider it racist or sexist. But then again, I am not feeling persecuted at the moment.
re: #266 HappyWarrior
And all are irrelevant to what happened last week. The right seems to have this notion that if you have done bad things in the past, it should be used against you whenever you yourself are wronged. It’s fucking evil but it’s straight out of the Ailes-Murdoch playbook. I wonder how many felons the NY Post has employed over the years or gone to bat for.
**cough cough** wire tapping **cough cough** News of the World **cough cough**
re: #260 Citizen K
I’ve seen billionaire Cabinet Secretary Wilbur Ross padding around the West Wing in custom made velvet loafers adorned with the Commerce Department seal. https://t.co/CMnivpvZzk
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) January 24, 2019
re: #268 Myron Falwell
**cough cough** wire tapping **cough cough** News of the World **cough cough**
Or that FNC has given Oliver North a microphone for years.
Or that FNC employed Bill O’Reilly, not just a serial sexual harasser but a man who abused his wife.
re: #269 lawhawk
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re: #266 HappyWarrior
And all are irrelevant to what happened last week. The right seems to have this notion that if you have done bad things in the past, it should be used against you whenever you yourself are wronged. It’s fucking evil but it’s straight out of the Ailes-Murdoch playbook. I wonder how many felons the NY Post has employed over the years or gone to bat for.
Meanwhile, assholes like Brock Turner are saved from this forever tainting, because a judge saw it fit to not let a ‘youthful indiscretion’ ‘ruin his potential’. or some shit like that.
It’s a funny bit of institutional jiujitsu, where your criminal record forever defines you as a person, and the system gets to decide who deserves leniency or not for similar (or exact same) crimes. Hint: it almost always comes down to race in the end.
re: #269 lawhawk
jfc
Wilbur Ross really, really loves velvet loafers. pic.twitter.com/Xaw24sBPpe
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) January 24, 2019
re: #266 HappyWarrior
And all are irrelevant to what happened last week. The right seems to have this notion that if you have done bad things in the past, it should be used against you whenever you
yourself are wrongeddare to go up against any right-wing narrative. It’s fucking evil but it’s straight out of the Ailes-Murdoch playbook. I wonder how many felons the NY Post has employed over the years or gone to bat for.
re: #253 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Let me give you one more- the one I worry about the most:
Mitch Turtle puts up the Trump bill first, and it goes down in defeat. He then pulls the clean “CR” and claims that he will still only put a bill up that Trump will sign. He and other Republicans try and point at this vote to show Democrats are blocking the government from opening. I don’t think this works politically, but this is the Mitch.
That would be suicidal, least of all because there is a visibly growing revolt in the Senate GOP ranks. It’s looking more and more like only the far-right backbenchers are prepared to burn the country down in Donny’s name.
re: #273 Citizen K
Meanwhile, assholes like Brock Turner are saved from this forever tainting, because a judge saw it fit to not let a ‘youthful indiscretion’ ‘ruin his potential’. or some shit like that.
It’s a funny bit of institutional jiujitsu, where your criminal record forever defines you as a person, and the system gets to decide who deserves leniency or not for similar (or exact same) crimes. Hint: it almost always comes down to race in the end.
I have noticed the same thing. But you point that out and you get called the real racist.
re: #267 Belafon
I will have to admit, that as a white male, I don’t consider it racist or sexist. But then again, I am not feeling persecuted at the moment.
The inversion test is a good rule of thumb. If a joke is questionable, change the race, sex, age, or orientation. It usually is applied in the other direction.
Because 800,000 federal workers who aren’t getting paid don’t qualify for unemployment benefits, initial unemployment claims dropped below 200,000 last week for the first time in nearly 50 years. reuters.com
It’s sort of sad that I’m sitting here, hoping that the roads in my neighborhood will flood for no other reason than to have an excuse not to show up for the “mandatory” meeting that my boss set up for my department today.
re: #266 HappyWarrior
And all are irrelevant to what happened last week. The right seems to have this notion that if you have done bad things in the past, it should be used against you whenever you yourself are wronged. It’s fucking evil but it’s straight out of the Ailes-Murdoch playbook. I wonder how many felons the NY Post has employed over the years or gone to bat for.
Unless you are a privileged white man and then it is youthful indiscretion up to age , say, whatever age you were two years ago
re: #269 lawhawk
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— Sean Hecht (@seanhecht) January 24, 2019
only 1/3 of a percent of GDP.
Coincidentally, it’s also 1/3 of a percent of the US population.
re: #281 Old Liberal
Unless you are a privileged white man and then it is youthful indiscretion up to age , say, whatever age you were two years ago
Reminder that the 30 to 40-something Trump son are called ‘boys’ who ‘didn’t know any better’ and such for things they did 5 years ago.
Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, etc. are called ‘black men’ in the course of justifying treating them like rampaging savages that needed to be put down by righteous authorities. And the only time PoCs are infantilized are to justify denying them power or agency. White boys get infantilized to deny them consequences of their power or agency, which they can never be afforded more of.
re: #270 HappyWarrior
Or that FNC has given Oliver North a microphone for years.
Along with Lumpy Individual #3, Ducklips, Tucker, Dick Morris, etc, &c.
re: #283 Citizen K
Reminder that the 30 to 40-something Trump son are called ‘boys’ who ‘didn’t know any better’ and such for things they did 5 years ago.
Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, etc. are called ‘black men’ in the course of justifying treating them like rampaging savages that needed to be put down by righteous authorities. And the only time PoCs are infantilized are to justify denying them power or agency. White boys get infantilized to deny them consequences of their power or agency, which they can never be afforded more of.
Hannity called them “kids” even though both are older than JFK and Nixon were when they first got elected to Congress in 1946.
re: #284 Myron Falwell
Along with
LumpyIndividual #3, Ducklips, Tucker, Dick Morris, etc, &c.
Does Tucker have a criminal record? But right. FNC has no problem with having criminals on. I remember Chuck Colson when he was still alive being used to push morality and it just made me sick knowing that he was basically responsible for a lot of the worst aspects of the Nixon WH’s criminal doings.
re: #282 sagehen
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only 1/3 of a percent of GDP.
Coincidentally, it’s also 1/3 of a percent of the US population.
Ah, that compassionate conservatism: “You’re going to get paid eventually, so why the fuck should we care about you now?!”
Story notes that he was kicked out of school for indicating he had dream of killing all his classmates.
Yet - yet - he managed to get guns. It’s Florida, so of course he did. But this is played out nationwide time and again.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 24, 2019
re: #282 sagehen
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only 1/3 of a percent of GDP.
Coincidentally, it’s also 1/3 of a percent of the US population.
But talk about a 70% marginal tax rate on multi-millionaires, a similar very small group of people, and they’ll scream bloody murder about how they’re being oppressed.
re: #253 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Let me give you one more- the one I worry about the most:
Mitch Turtle puts up the Trump bill first, and it goes down in defeat. He then pulls the clean “CR” and claims that he will still only put a bill up that Trump will sign. He and other Republicans try and point at this vote to show Democrats are blocking the government from opening. I don’t think this works politically, but this is the Mitch.
Which will work out even worse for Mitch. “We could have reopened the government, but McConnell decided to be a child” will be the statement every Democrat will say, and people not getting a check will have proof.
re: #289 Joe Bacon 🌹
Secretary of Commerce doesn’t understand why unpaid workers are going to food banks.
His reply, “Let them eat soup…”
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And these fuckers wonder why people like AOC advocate socialism. I’d love to see someone like Ross actually have to work rather than being a prostitute for corporate interests.
re: #286 HappyWarrior
Does Tucker have a criminal record? But right. FNC has no problem with having criminals on. I remember Chuck Colson when he was still alive being used to push morality and it just made me sick knowing that he was basically responsible for a lot of the worst aspects of the Nixon WH’s criminal doings.
Yeah, Tucker doesn’t have a criminal record per se (his being an on-air nationalist notwithstanding) but he did lie about those allegations of “protests” at his home back in November being worse than they actually turned out to be.
It’s probably still unfair to directly lump him in with those other three, who actually had/have rap sheets or are being implicated in an active criminal investigation.
re: #288 lawhawk
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re: #293 Myron Falwell
Yeah, Tucker doesn’t have a criminal record per se (his being an on-air nationalist notwithstanding) but he did lie about those allegations of “protests” at his home back in November being worse than they actually turned out to be.
It’s probably still unfair to directly lump him in with those other three, who actually had/have rap sheets or are being implicated in an active criminal investigation.
I do remember him bragging about beating up a gay guy btw but I think he may have just been trying to sound tough. Doesn’t make him any less of an asshole obviously.
re: #216 Dave In Austin
This would be the definition of trying too hard. This would have put her in some dangerous situations in high school or college when I was younger, some of the “you really meant yes, didn’t you” type situations.
re: #291 Belafon
Which will work out even worse for Mitch. “We could have reopened the government, but McConnell decided to be a child” will be the statement every Democrat will say, and people not getting a check will have proof.
McConnell is in dangerous territory. If he continues fucking Federal workers it’s only a matter of time before they pull out the George Hayduke Revenge books and use those tactics on him to turn his life into a living hell 24/7.
re: #266 HappyWarrior
And all are irrelevant to what happened last week. The right seems to have this notion that if you have done bad things in the past, it should be used against you whenever you yourself are wronged. It’s fucking evil but it’s straight out of the Ailes-Murdoch playbook. I wonder how many felons the NY Post has employed over the years or gone to bat for.
It works because it fits in to the narrative that dark-skinned people are criminal by nature.
I honestly cannot imagine a more tone-deaf approach to the hardship of a shutdown than what we’re seeing, short of suggesting aloud the institution of the damned Hunger Games.
re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It works because it fits in to the narrative that dark-skinned people are criminal by nature.
Well of course.
re: #276 Targetpractice
That would be suicidal, least of all because there is a visibly growing revolt in the Senate GOP ranks. It’s looking more and more like only the far-right backbenchers are prepared to burn the country down in Donny’s name.
The plausibility that Mitch stabs Schumer in the back by pulling the clean CR does exist. But even he clearly knows that this charade is over, and he has to start his own image rehab presto.
That type of stunt risks burning his decades-old institution of ratfucking so he always gets his way in absolute peril. This shitdown alone exposed him as a blando Trump accomplice like Paul Ryan directly was two years ago (Ryan took the brunt of that back then, not all ire was directed at Mitch).
re: #299 Targetpractice
I honestly cannot imagine a more tone-deaf approach to the hardship of a shutdown than what we’re seeing, short of suggesting aloud the institution of the damned Hunger Games.
It’s easy to make generalizations about people who AREN’T getting paid when you ARE getting paid.
re: #299 Targetpractice
I honestly cannot imagine a more tone-deaf approach to the hardship of a shutdown than what we’re seeing, short of suggesting aloud the institution of the damned Hunger Games.
I can’t imagine how it would be if we were in 1929 with these guys.
re: #266 HappyWarrior
And all are irrelevant to what happened last week. The right seems to have this notion that if you have done bad things in the past, it should be used against you whenever you yourself are wronged. It’s fucking evil but it’s straight out of the Ailes-Murdoch playbook. I wonder how many felons the NY Post has employed over the years or gone to bat for.
Now we know who the most famous felon the Screw York Post went to bat for.
Wayne Dumond!
Steve Dunleavy lied any lie about poor oppressed Wayne and how Bill Clinton railroaded him. And Fucking Mike Huckabee fell for Dunleavy’s lies lock, stock and barrel and let Wayne out after Wayne told ol’ Huck Sinn that he gave his life to Jay-Zuss
Wayne turned over a new leaf by once again going on another killing and rape spree.
And Fucking Huck Sinn never took responsibility for it.
re: #303 HappyWarrior
I can’t imagine how it would be if we were in 1929 with these guys.
Smoot-Hawley
re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It works because it fits in to the narrative that dark-skinned people are criminal by nature.
Plus the First Nations have been treated like shit by us since the colonial era and before that.
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Smoot-Hawley
A bad tariff with the funniest name possible.
By the way, for comparison’s sake, the DoD never missed a paycheck last year during the shutdown over the DACA extension. Compare the level of screaming over that by wingnuts to their blase “Oh, they’ll get paid eventually” attitude towards 800K workers who are about to miss their second paycheck.
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Smoot-Hawley
That’s legislation. I’m talking about their mindset and attitude towards the unemployed and hungry. Smoot-Hawley was bad legislation no doubt but not done because its writers were out of touch assholes who had no idea what the average American was going through. Thy wrongly thought protectionism was a solution- it was not.
re: #307 Myron Falwell
A bad tariff with the funniest name possible.
And why we still indirectly know Ben Stein today. Bue-ller.
CAGE MATCH!!!!!’
Hey Geraldo - what’s in the vault? And are you still pushing disaster victims out of the way for a better TV shot of yourself? Or is that just for your naked “porn” selfies? Keep kissing the ass of the Creepy Porn President who cheated on his wife & 4 month old with a “porn” star
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) January 24, 2019
Pimp
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) January 24, 2019
re: #308 Targetpractice
By the way, for comparison’s sake, the DoD never missed a paycheck last year during the shutdown over the DACA extension. Compare the level of screaming over that by wingnuts to their blase “Oh, they’ll get paid eventually” attitude towards 800K workers who are about to miss their second paycheck.
The worst are those stupid wingnuts who are gleeful about them not getting their paychecks because they think federal employees are lazy and don’t have “real jobs” like they do. It was particularly rich seeing this from Kaitlin Gungirl.
re: #306 Myron Falwell
Plus the First Nations have been treated like shit by us since the colonial era and before that.
We gave them every chance to convert to Christianity and adopt White Man’s ways but they were obstinate and refused.
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A quick run through this mornings headlines:
WILL THE DEMOCRATS EVER GIVE TRUMP A CHANCE ON BORDER SECURITY? - The Hill
TRUMP IS TRAPPED AND PELOSI REFUSES TO HELP - CNN
(No, this one is NOT from Cillizza)
NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVIST NATHAN PHILIPS PAST INCLUDES ASSAULT CHARGE, ESCAPE FROM PRISON: REPORT - Fox News
RUDY GIULIANI IS A FOOL - Slate
re: #309 HappyWarrior
That’s legislation. I’m talking about their mindset and attitude towards the unemployed and hungry. Smoot-Hawley was bad legislation no doubt but not done because its writers were out of touch assholes who had no idea what the average American was going through. Thy wrongly thought protectionism was a solution- it was not.
poverty = moral failing
not having enough food because government paycheck cancelled = also moral failing
re: #313 Targetpractice
…can’t they both lose?
I hope they would; it’s embarrassing to me that Geraldo lives in Cleveland now (hoity-toity suburb Shaker Heights) and is a Browns fan.
re: #311 Dave In Austin
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I’m not a big fan of Avanatti but his client being a porn star is irrelevant. Geraldo is a fucking little Trump toadie who attacks Stormy for being a porn star but loves the guy who carried on the affair with her. Sexist little asshole who probably definitely has some skeletons in his closet.
re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
poverty = moral failing
not having enough food because government paycheck cancelled = also moral failing
I’m just saying. Smoot-Hawley wouldn’t be this current gang’s response. The current gang’s response to 1929 would be something much more insidious and out of touch.
re: #318 HappyWarrior
I’m not a big fan of Avanatti but his client being a porn star is irrelevant. Geraldo is a fucking little Trump toadie who attacks Stormy for being a porn star but loves the guy who carried on the affair with her. Sexist little asshole who probably definitely has some skeletons in his closet.
All things considered, Stormy is probably the cleanest and most upright of all involved there.
re: #317 Myron Falwell
I hope they would; it’s embarrassing to me that Geraldo lives in Cleveland now (hoity-toity suburb Shaker Heights) and is a Browns fan.
My sympathies and I’m a Steelers fan. We have Limbaugh in our ranks and I hate that.
re: #320 Citizen K
All things considered, Stormy is probably the cleanest and most upright of all involved there.
Oh no doubt. I don’t judge her at all for being a pornstar. I’m just saying if you have a problem with her being one, shouldn’t you have at least some judgment towards the man who carried on an affair with her after his son was born but people like Geraldo are sexist assholes.
re: #278 Decatur Deb
The inversion test is a good rule of thumb. If a joke is questionable, change the race, sex, age, or orientation. It usually is applied in the other direction.
As a white male, I didn’t find it questionable. That’s the big reason I didn’t find it offensive.
Don’t get too carried away with the inversion thing, though, either. Part of racism and sexism is the power component, the fact that the racist/sexist can inflict some kind of harm to the other. If you apply the inversion rule too much, you can lose the ability to criticize anyone for those actions. And that’s what this is via the satire.
New—Was just told that FBI internships are being canceled due to the shutdown, which amounts to hundreds of hours of investigative support every week “just gone.” FBI declined to comment.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 24, 2019
re: #299 Targetpractice
I honestly cannot imagine a more tone-deaf approach to the hardship of a shutdown than what we’re seeing, short of suggesting aloud the institution of the damned Hunger Games.
Seriously. Everyone in the administration who opens their mouth about it sounds as out of touch as they can possibly be.
Republicans love coal miners so much, they want to make it even harder for them to qualify for black lung benefits. ohiovalleyresource.org
re: #324 Dave In Austin
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So imagine this. You got the internship that you worked hard to get. You’ve done apartment shopping and probably have a lease of some kind. And this happens.
re: #326 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Republicans love coal miners so much, they want to make it even harder for them to qualify for black lung benefits. ohiovalleyresource.org
My grandmother’s father died of black lung and it contributed to killing my grandfather’s father as well. Republicans don’t give two shits about miners. Miners are a fucking tool to them and I wish more miners would realize that.
GOOD MORNING LIZARDIA!
Is this Anti-Semitism? Or is only Farrakhan the Anti-Semitism?
A video posted this month paraphrases a classic poem about the Holocaust. But it isn’t meant to denounce Nazis. Instead its purported villains are Orthodox Jews looking to move to the Central New Jersey suburbs. https://t.co/VwhKMjGtoe
— JTA | Jewish news (@JTAnews) January 24, 2019
re: #313 Targetpractice
…can’t they both lose?
The only prudent choice is to root for career-ending injuries on both sides.
re: #324 Dave In Austin
Which just makes Muellers job that much harder. THIS is the impetus Trump has to keep the shutdown going.
re: #324 Dave In Austin
A de facto message to the FBI sent from Trump.
Had he actually thought about it, I mean. This whole mess is proof he acts on pure impulse without a whim of thought.
re: #330 The Vicious Babushka
A video posted this month paraphrases a classic poem about the Holocaust. But it isn’t meant to denounce Nazis. Instead its purported villains are Orthodox Jews looking to move to the Central New Jersey suburbs.
I see.
Protesting White Genocide.
/
re: #325 makeitstop
Seriously. Everyone in the administration who opens their mouth about it sounds as out of touch as they can possibly be.
re: #325 makeitstop
Seriously. Everyone in the administration who opens their mouth about it sounds as out of touch as they can possibly be.
It makes me laugh so hard when I see Trump lauded for being in “touch” with the average American. He never has. He’s a cynical asshole who used the prejudice of millions of others to get political power to maintain his own personal power.
re: #333 Myron Falwell
A de facto message to the FBI sent from Trump.
Had he actually thought about it, I mean. This whole mess is proof he acts on pure impulse without a whim of thought.
Remembering my history, that habit reminds me of Kaiser Wilhelm around 1914. He also thought he was hot stuff.
re: #330 The Vicious Babushka
GOOD MORNING LIZARDIA!
Is this Anti-Semitism? Or is only Farrakhan the Anti-Semitism?
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Certainly is and it makes me sick using that poem that way.
re: #338 HappyWarrior
Certainly is and it makes me sick using that poem that way.
not the first time.
first they came for the Men’s Rights activists…
First they came for the bump stocks…
First they came for the date rapists…
etc.
re: #339 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
not the first time.
first they came for the Men’s Rights activists…etc.
Absolutely, anyhow it’s this idea that certain groups, in this case Orthodox Jews don’t belong in this community. That’s bullshit.
re: #340 HappyWarrior
Absolutely, anyhow it’s this idea that certain groups, in this case Orthodox Jews don’t belong in this community. That’s bullshit.
It’s right there in the Protocols…
re: #339 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
not the first time.
first they came for the Men’s Rights activists…
First they came for the bump stocks…
First they came for the date rapists…
etc.
First they came for the Covington Kids…
LARA TRUMP: There will be some pain but The Wall is so much more than just one person!
WILBUR ROSS: Hold my beer.
Ross “doesn’t understand why” federal workers are being forced to use food banks pic.twitter.com/UEUk74Ogme
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) January 24, 2019
re: #307 Myron Falwell
A bad tariff with the funniest name possible.
Naw, that would be Hoot-Smawley. Also, too.
re: #346 The Vicious Babushka
LARA TRUMP: There will be some pain but The Wall is so much more than just one person!
WILBUR ROSS: Hold my beer.
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I seem to remember Obama being called a snob for suggesting that everyone should have some kind of post secondary education. Bet Frothy won’t have anything negative to say about Lara or Ross’s out of touch bullshit.
re: #347 jeffreyw
Naw, that would be Hoot-Smawley. Also, too.
I still remember she tried using that to blame FDR even though Smoot and Hawley were both Republicans and the legislation was signed by Hoover.
re: #314 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We gave them every chance to convert to Christianity and adopt White Man’s ways but they were obstinate and refused.
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I know your post was good snark but if you don’t mind I will add that the Cherokee DID give up their norms to fit in with the white settlers and were rewarded with the Trail of Tears. No matter what native people did, they were robbed and oppressed.
re: #348 HappyWarrior
I seem to remember Obama being called a snob for suggesting that everyone should have some kind of post secondary education. Bet Frothy won’t have anything negative to say about Lara or Ross’s out of touch bullshit.
They want to sabotage functioning govt, so if these folks decide to quit working for the government and go elsewhere, they consider it a win for them (and the billionaire class that looks at the “savings” as another tax cut to be had for them).
re: #351 lawhawk
They want to sabotage functioning govt, so if these folks decide to quit working for the government and go elsewhere, they consider it a win for them (and the billionaire class that looks at the “savings” as another tax cut to be had for them).
Yep.
re: #348 HappyWarrior
I seem to remember Obama being called a snob for suggesting that everyone should have some kind of post secondary education. Bet Frothy won’t have anything negative to say about Lara or Ross’s out of touch bullshit.
Almost nobody is going to start a career with a only a high school education, but it was twisted by twits like Palin and Santorum to mean we should all get a university degree…
re: #225 Decatur Deb
Because it’s conscious hyperbole for humor, and over-generalized, it drives home a partial truth. It achieves that at the cost of divisiveness. The country is facing a critical year and we better switch to inclusiveness or get used toTrump2 and his 4 Supreme Court picks.
Gotta say, it’s a lot of angst for one single meme. Considering that everyone who’s not a white man and surfs the web sees stuff like that All The Time.
re: #353 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Almost nobody is going to start a career with a only a high school education, but it was twisted by twits like Palin and Santorum to mean we should all get a university degree…
And Obama made it very clear he was including vocational and community college as well. Obama was the first President I saw and as someone who got a fairly slow start this was appreciated (I spent 3 years of community college after HS) that really championed it. I think Biden could have helped on that too. Jill Biden in fact taught at the same community college I attended. Northern Virginia Community College. I wasn’t ready for a four year school at the age of 18 but thanks to NVCC I definitely was at 21.
re: #350 Old Liberal
I know your post was good snark but if you don’t mind I will add that the Cherokee DID give up their norms to fit in with the white settlers and were rewarded with the Trail of Tears. No matter what native people did, they were robbed and oppressed.
They still stubbornly refused to be white.//
re: #355 HappyWarrior
And Obama made it very clear he was including vocational and community college as well.
Obama could never ever express himself clearly enough to avoid being taken out of context by his detractors.
re: #357 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Obama could never ever express himself clearly enough to avoid being taken out of context by his detractors.
That was the point. See, that, you, build, didn’t, and alone.
re: #359 Dr. Matt
Economists are stating there could be ZERO growth in the first quarter if Donnie’s tantrum continues any longer.
I wonder, when was the last time we had a zero growth quarter?
This aged well….
If @SpeakerPelosi thinks her State of the Union stunt can outmaneuver @realDonaldTrump , she’s in for a rude awakening. Pelosi is playing checkers. Trump is playing chess.
— David Brody (@DavidBrodyCBN) January 16, 2019
re: #346 The Vicious Babushka
Wilbur Ross, who has been leading us into a trade war on behalf of the steel industry, says that the number of workers affected by the shutdown is small, so it’s no big deal. A useful chart pic.twitter.com/5sWkjtwug8
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 24, 2019
re: #354 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
Gotta say, it’s a lot of angst for one single meme. Considering that everyone who’s not a white man and surfs the web sees stuff like that All The Time.
It’s a nano-aggression at worst.
At the same time, we elected Doug Jones with less than 20,000 votes. 35% of our electorate is white men, 11% is nonwhite men, 31% white women, 17% nonwhite women. How many jokes equal a vote?
Fitch: Extended shutdown, debt ceiling could lower US credit rating
The United States may be in danger of losing its triple-A credit rating if a shutdown drags on and the debt ceiling becomes a political issue, according to credit rating agency Fitch.
“If this shutdown continues to March 1 and the debt ceiling becomes a problem several months later, we may need to start thinking about the policy framework, the inability to pass a budget … and whether all of that is consistent with triple-A,” Fitch’s global head of sovereign ratings, James McCormack, said Wednesday in London, according to Reuters.
Umm…new Weezer
SURPRISE. #TheTealAlbum is out now https://t.co/BXg5Beb7LI It’s us covering everyone else’s hits. pic.twitter.com/TfOR6xuiWd
— weezer (@Weezer) January 24, 2019
Track list:
Africa
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Take On Me
Happy Together
Paranoid
Mr. Blue Sky
No Scrubs (!!!)
Billie Jean
Stand by Me
There’s a leeeeeeetle disparity between why the two bills will fail though.
The Republican bill will not pass because it violates international refugee rights law.
The Democratic bill will not pass because Republicans don’t feel like it. https://t.co/dbf7KsDiJ5— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) January 24, 2019
re: #365 makeitstop
Umm…new Weezer
Track list:
Africa
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Take On Me
Happy Together
Paranoid
Mr. Blue Sky
No Scrubs (!!!)
Billie Jean
Stand by Me
Awesome track list.
re: #365 makeitstop
Umm…new Weezer
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Track list:
Africa
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Take On Me
Happy Together
Paranoid
Mr. Blue Sky
No Scrubs (!!!)
Billie Jean
Stand by Me
I was saying the other night that I like covers because I think interpreting others work is a form of art just as much as making your own.
re: #281 Old Liberal
Unless you are a privileged white man and then it is youthful indiscretion up to age , say, whatever age you were two years ago
At least 40 — remember all those “youthful indiscretion” affairs of Congressmen a while back?
re: #369 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
At least 40 — remember all those “youthful indiscretion” affairs of Congressmen a while back?
Or a Supreme Court nominee?
re: #369 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
At least 40 — remember all those “youthful indiscretion” affairs of Congressmen a while back?
Henry Hyde. A youthful indiscretion at the age of 48. Only a few years younger than the man he was impeaching. for adultery. It’s always the hypocrisy. If Republicans want to not be true to their supposed morals, that’s beyond me but don’t do that shit and then act like because you’re against abortion, go to church, etc that you’re more moral than me.
re: #367 Dr. Matt
Awesome track list.
Couple of odd ones in there. No Scrubs???
They also announced that the long-awaited ‘Black Album’ will drop in March.
re: #372 makeitstop
Couple of odd ones in there. No Scrubs???
They also announced that the long-awaited ‘Black Album’ will drop in March.
That could be interesting. Not sure if you’re a Ryan Adams fan but he has a whole CD that is song for song covers of Taylor Swift and you know what, it’s pretty damn good honestly.
re: #368 HappyWarrior
I was saying the other night that I like covers because I think interpreting others work is a form of art just as much as making your own.
Covers are often a window into where the original stuff comes from, too.
Weezer loves their cover tunes. Youtube is full of them doing other people’s stuff.
This shutdown is the national equivalent of what Republicans have done in Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina: Attempting to deny Democrats any governing authority that Republicans had.
re: #373 HappyWarrior
That could be interesting. Not sure if you’re a Ryan Adams fan but he has a whole CD that is song for song covers of Taylor Swift and you know what, it’s pretty damn good honestly.
I was talking to someone when I was in LA last week who told me that Ryan did the entire ‘Exile On Main Street’ album at a show in New Orleans in December.
re: #374 makeitstop
Covers are often a window into where the original stuff comes from, too.
Weezer loves their cover tunes. Youtube is full of them doing other people’s stuff.
Very true. And then sometimes you have the cover that becomes better than the original. I found Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt more powerful than NIN’s because I always hear Hurt and see it as Johnny’s swan song. His farewell, his thanks for the life you gave me, basically his version of My Way but more darker and open.
re: #376 makeitstop
I was talking to someone when I was in LA last week who told me that Ryan did the entire ‘Exile On Main Street’ album at a show in New Orleans in December.
That’s awesome. He’s a talented guy even if he is a bit of a headcase.
1st, I understand the implications. But ATC’s can end this thing tomorrow. The need to announce a walkout with a few days notice that if you fly your planes to the US you’re on your own.
Anyone know what time those Senate votes are taking place?
re: #366 jaunte
Which is a possibility, but I just have a difficult time believing the senate GOP is that suicidal.
If they were both meant to fail, Mitch would have set the clean CR first so it goes down, putting the screws on Schumer and the Democrats to vote for Trump’s self-made “deal.”
Instead Mitch gave the Democrats a ton of leverage and wavering senators like Gardner an escape hatch.
re: #379 Dave In Austin
1st, I understand the implications. But ATC’s can end this thing tomorrow. The need to announce a walkout with a few days notice that if you fly your planes to the US you’re on your own.
“We’re BlackFlyer, LLC, with a whole contingent of air traffic controllers that will suit your airports needs.”
re: #368 HappyWarrior
I was saying the other night that I like covers because I think interpreting others work is a form of art just as much as making your own.
Interesting idea, hadn’t really thought of it like that.
But in general I’m finding that I enjoy covers more than I used to.
re: #381 Myron Falwell
Which is a possibility, but I just have a difficult time believing the senate GOP is that suicidal.
If they were both meant to fail, Mitch would have set the clean CR first so it goes down, putting the screws on Schumer and the Democrats to vote for Trump’s self-made “deal.”
Instead Mitch gave the Democrats a ton of leverage and wavering senators like Gardner an escape hatch.
I don’t know what McConnell is thinking, I just know that whatever outcome there is, it’s his fault.
re: #376 makeitstop
I was talking to someone when I was in LA last week who told me that Ryan did the entire ‘Exile On Main Street’ album at a show in New Orleans in December.
I recall Eugene Chadbourne of Camper van Beethoven covering all of ‘Tusk’ by Fleetwood Mac.
This was a long time ago back before bastard pop and offbeat covers were all the rage.
There was a West Wing episode where the President didn’t get the formal invitation from the House needed for the State of the Union speech.
These Trump people can’t even watch a TV show about how the government is run.https://t.co/CTTIQrCHSJ— JRehling (@JRehling) January 24, 2019
re: #376 makeitstop
I was talking to someone when I was in LA last week who told me that Ryan did the entire ‘Exile On Main Street’ album at a show in New Orleans in December.
He is an odd one but I can see him doing it. I did enjoy that he finally said “fuck it” and started doing a “Summer of 69” cover. But honestly, even as talented as he is, I’d still probably pass on going to one of his shows if anyone else was in town.
re: #382 Belafon
“We’re BlackFlyer, LLC, with a whole contingent of air traffic controllers that will suit your airports needs.”
Are they co-owned with Surefire® Intelligence? ////
KY Catholic bishop tellin these fools they need to listen to Alyssa Milano heh https://t.co/9sUyofyiQ0
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) January 24, 2019
re: #381 Myron Falwell
Which is a possibility, but I just have a difficult time believing the senate GOP is that suicidal.
If they were both meant to fail, Mitch would have set the clean CR first so it goes down, putting the screws on Schumer and the Democrats to vote for Trump’s self-made “deal.”
Instead Mitch gave the Democrats a ton of leverage and wavering senators like Gardner an escape hatch.
Yeah I think this is a good point.
re: #389 Myron Falwell
Are they co-owned with Surefire® Intelligence? ////
Utlimately they will cost more, and, being a limited liability company, you’ll have to get used to a 5% failure rate.
Tucker Carlson’s career, persona and fortune have been built on “identity politics,” but because that identity is white, he doesn’t perceive it that way. White is “normal,” the default, and in his mind it’s “identity politics” to even notice that fact. https://t.co/tiwcScUHQa
— Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) January 24, 2019
re: #393 Patricia Kayden
Tucker Carlson’s career, persona and fortune have been built on “identity politics,” but because that identity is white, he doesn’t perceive it that way. White is “normal,” the default, and in his mind it’s “identity politics” to even notice that fact.
your a racist becuz you talk about racism
re: #363 Decatur Deb
It’s a nano-aggression at worst.
At the same time, we elected Doug Jones with less than 20,000 votes. 35% of our electorate is white men, 11% is nonwhite men, 31% white women, 17% nonwhite women. How many jokes equal a vote?
It’s still just one snarky comment. And please note, it’s saying white men are too sensitive. White Men Are Too Sensitive — could I possibly have heard that before? About other groups? In all seriousness?
re: #382 Belafon
“We’re BlackFlyer, LLC, with a whole contingent of air traffic controllers that will suit your airports needs.”
“Hi we’re MOS 15Qs, and we love to ATC where nobody is shooting at us.”
re: #396 Decatur Deb
“Hi we’re MOS 15Qs, and we love to ATC where nobody is shooting at us.”
Wouldn’t he have to nationalize the airports to do that?
re: #397 Dave In Austin
Wouldn’t he have to nationalize the airports to do that?
No. Just loaners in the face of a threat to life and safety. Joint Task Force Andrew managed the airspace at Miami during the cleanup. Not sure the military didn’t backfill the PATCO strikers for a while.
Edit: Yes, Reagan did use military and other replacements for the fired strikers. en.wikipedia.org
re: #384 Belafon
I don’t know what McConnell is thinking, I just know that whatever outcome there is, it’s his fault.
Here is a vox article explaining the McConnell is “showing the body” (having a failed vote) to demonstrate they tried to reopen the government but didn’t have the votes. Trump’s ego can’t take the humiliation of backing down, even though his approval ratings are plummeting, and most Republicans, like McConnell, are afraid of being primaried by a Trumpanzee so they can’t buck the President. It looks like it will take a crisis to end this shutdown, such as TSA agents having a sickout in key hub airports such as Atlanta and Chicago to end US air travel. Next week, when rich people want to be flying to Atlanta for the Super Bowl, would be a perfect time for it.
This is kind of big. Everywhere you look with this bunch it’s Russia, Russia, Russia. Now we learn Russia was renewing Ivanka Trump’s trademarks just before the 2016 election — and they don’t expire until 2026. “Russia, if you’re listening..” https://t.co/odFlHrNDrf
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 24, 2019
Kleptocracy, Kontinued.
re: #390 Patricia Kayden
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re: #27 Single-handed sailor
Irony, like rain on your wedding day or something.
If only there were multiple social media platforms or a conservative cable news network.
re: #393 Patricia Kayden
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Tucker, your whole show is identity politics about how “they” are ruining “us.” Shut the fuck up. You guys started the whole identity politics bullshit when you insist that we’re a “Christian nation” even though there is nothing about Christianity in the founding documents. You make it identity politics when you rail against immigrants even though you too are descendant of immigrants. Just stop being a hypocritical waste of space. It’s not that these kids were white. It’s that they acted like jerks. And we know exactly how your network would have handled black kids and a white older man of any kind.
re: #402 Sir John Barron
If only there were multiple social media platforms or a conservative cable news network.
Fucking little prep boy thinks he’s the voice of the average white perosn. He’s an out of touch asshole who has lived in the FNC safe space too long.
re: #27 Single-handed sailor
Irony, like rain on your wedding day or something.
I wonder how the Freepers and MAGAs are taking this Fail. They can’t like it that Nancy SMASH denied him his coveted speech. Or perhaps they’re rationalizing it rather easily or have shoved it to the already forgotten bin.
Re: Gushing Over Putin’s tax policy…
[tinfoil]Ever consider the remote possibility that the constant choking of the governments revenue stream over the past three or four decades is intentional, and intended to in the long run cause the government to cease functioning, causing the country to become a failed state where the people with the most wealth, status and (fire)power have a free-for-all with the spoils?[/tinfoil]
Good tinfoil [y/n]?
re: #391 Sir John Barron
Yeah I think this is a good point.
This is either a horrendous oversight by Mitch that Schumer managed to exploit, or Mitch is all but giving up (but contemptuously refusing to say as such).
re: #109 HappyWarrior
It’s incredible. As I got at, it really inspires my imagination for that era.
And who can forget Django’s invaluable help when someone forgot to pay a large bar tab and the band had to flee?
re: #407 Teukka
Re: Gushing Over Putin’s tax policy…
[tinfoil]Ever consider the remote possibility that the constant choking of the governments revenue stream over the past three or four decades is intentional, and intended to in the long run cause the government to cease functioning, causing the country to become a failed state where the people with the most wealth, status and (fire)power have a free-for-all with the spoils?[/tinfoil]
Good tinfoil [y/n]?
That was the Gilded Age here. It took a Great Depression to show what was happening, a Great War to get out of it, and racism to get back there.
re: #410 Belafon
That was the Gilded Age here. It took a Great Depression to show what was happening, a Great War to get out of it, and racism to get back there.
This is one of the most succinct summaries of one of the most significant periods in history that I’ve ever seen.
re: #410 Belafon
That was the Gilded Age here. It took a Great Depression to show what was happening, a Great War to get out of it, and racism to get back there.
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
And those who learn from history are doomed to watch who didn’t learn repeat it.”
*sigh*
re: #385 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall Eugene Chadbourne of Camper van Beethoven covering all of ‘Tusk’ by Fleetwood Mac.
This was a long time ago back before bastard pop and offbeat covers were all the rage.
Now that is one damn weird choice to cover. I was never able to grasp what Fleetwood Mac was getting at with that record.
“A suspicious package that sent first responders on Wednesday to the diocese that oversees the Kentucky Catholic high school whose students were involved in a controversial confrontation with Native American protestors last week was “cleared without incident,” police said.
“It was unfounded, basically,” Kenton County Emergency Communications Center supervisor Gary Holbrook told the Daily News Wednesday evening. “It was nonhazardous and there wasn’t anything significant about it.”
re: #399 NO SMOCKING GUN!
If the clean CR fails after Mitch placed it the way he did, after the Trump deal, the GOP could try that narrative.
But it will be out of sheer luck and not any successful maneuvering on Mitch’s part.
I know some lizards here have been ringing the alarm bell for a while.
Iowan Who Almost Beat Steve King Wants Democrats To Take Rural America Seriously
J.D. Scholten, a lanky Democrat from northwest Iowa, is frustrated ― albeit in a polite, Midwestern kind of way.
Why wouldn’t he be? In November, the 38-year-old former paralegal and minor-league pitcher fought white supremacist Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to within inches of the incumbent’s political life.
Scholten, who drove his RV, “Sioux City Sue,” to all 39 counties that comprise Iowa’s vast, rural 4th U.S. House seat, came within 3 percentage points of winning in a district Donald Trump won by 27 points two years earlier and where King was used to cruising to victory.
re: #417 Amory Blaine
I know some lizards here have been ringing the alarm bell for a while.
Iowan Who Almost Beat Steve King Wants Democrats To Take Rural America Seriously
I really would like to end the narrative that Democrats don’t take rural areas seriously. I’m really serious that a whole lot of them vote because they are racist. Democrats create programs to help both rural and city people and yet rural peole refuse to look at them because they help “those others.”
re: #417 Amory Blaine
I know some lizards here have been ringing the alarm bell for a while.
Iowan Who Almost Beat Steve King Wants Democrats To Take Rural America Seriously
I get him and I do think we should listen to rural America but rural America also shouldn’t get a pass for its faults either and get told that it’s “real America.” I’m not saying JD is doing that here but rural America’s got its faults that its advocates ignore. And I’m not saying urban America doesn’t but there’s a reason why Steve King has been successful in that district.
Here in Texas, Republicans attempted to pass a charter school law. Rural areas screamed until it was removed, and yet voted for the very people who proposed the bill.
re: #418 Belafon
I really would like to end the narrative that Democrats don’t take rural areas seriously. I’m really serious that a whole lot of them vote because they are racist. Democrats create programs to help both rural and city people and yet rural peole refuse to look at them because they help “those others.”
That exactly. I;m fine with us listening to the concerns of farmers but I’m going to turn off if they want us to start opposing choice, LGBT rights, immigrants, social programs, etc.
I hear complaints about big city elitism a lot but seldom ever to I see the disdain towards urbanites disparaged.
re: #417 Amory Blaine
When I go to these national trainings and there are all these fights about what kind of Democrat you are, I say, “Come to the 4th district where we’re just trying to fight to be Democrats.”
That may be true, but there could be significant non voters that would come out and maybe vote for Democrats.
re: #423 Decatur Deb
When I go to these national trainings and there are all these fights about what kind of Democrat you are, I say, “Come to the 4th district where we’re just trying to fight to be Democrats.”
I do hear that.
re: #311 Dave In Austin
CAGE MATCH!!!!!’
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I was enjoying Avenatti’s absence from the headlines recently. I was happy to move on.
re: #424 Amory Blaine
That may be true, but there could be significant non voters that would come out and maybe vote for Democrats.
“We’re going to insult you until you vote for us” is a poor campaign strategy.
re: #424 Amory Blaine
That may be true, but there could be significant non voters that would come out and maybe vote for Democrats.
Well what can we do realistically here? I think HRC tried addressing issues relating to the loss of jobs with the coal mines and a lot of these people didn’t want to listen. Mind you this, I’m a rural resident in a district and state that went for HRC and Obama twice and now has a Dem Congresswoman but my state senate/HoD seat is bright red. How do I convince my neighbors that supporting things like choice, LGBT people, and immigrants is to their benefit rather than making me a dreaded “elite”.
My Congressman…
This didn’t work for McCarthey, it’s not going to work for you no matter how hard you try. Roger, you’re a failed Congressman. Failed. You are supportive of a corrupt con man and his desires. He’s taking you all DOWN. He’s not taking you to Jerusalem. #Stopnow
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 24, 2019
re: #426 darthstar
I was enjoying Avenatti’s absence from the headlines recently. I was happy to move on.
Then Geraldo had to go and Beetlejuice him.
re: #386 Patricia Kayden
The Trump Administration does not understand how government is run because the sum total of their knowledge about it (and everything else) comes from far right wing fever swamp conspiracy-addled websites …and Fox News. All of these woeful nests of vipers and abject liars proclaimed Obama was a dictator.
They absorbed this bunk and now is ingrained in their heads dictatorship is the de facto government model.
re: #419 HappyWarrior
I get him and I do think we should listen to rural America but rural America also shouldn’t get a pass for its faults either and get told that it’s “real America.” I’m not saying JD is doing that here but rural America’s got its faults that its advocates ignore. And I’m not saying urban America doesn’t but there’s a reason why Steve King has been successful in that district.
and tbh, the main reason why JD Scholten was so close was because King didn’t even bother to run a campaign until the weekend before the election.
I’m not faulting JD here, but there was a bit of luck in play that prevented the final result from being far worse.
re: #430 makeitstop
Then Geraldo had to go and Beetlejuice him.
I liked Beetlejuice better when he was Batman. /
re: #427 Decatur Deb
“We’re going to insult you until you vote for us” is a poor campaign strategy.
But that’s the thing. Democratic candidates aren’t insulting rural voters. Republican candidates meanwhile can literally talk about how certain parts of the state they’re campaigning in aren’t the “Real state here” with little to no blowback. I saw it with Palin. I saw it with George Allen when he called that kid a Macaca even though that kid was more of a Virginian than Allen was. Maybe we could listen to rural voters more and their issues, I concede that but if it comes at sacrificing our core values, I can’t do that, I’m not going to do that to appease a bunch of people who think it’s elitist to support a government that invests in its people.
At least it’s all in the service of an absurd racist lie Trump riled crowds with so he wouldn’t have to actually learn immigration policy. https://t.co/6sq4hAkFXS
— LOLGOP👀 (@LOLGOP) January 24, 2019
re: #432 Myron Falwell
and tbh, the main reason why JD Scholten was so close was because King didn’t even bother to run a campaign until the weekend before the election.
I’m not faulting JD here, but there was a bit of luck in play that prevented the final result from being far worse.
There was yeah. I mean I’m glad he ran and I encourage anyone who will run to run but this woe is me stuff with rural voters just turns me off and once again I am technically a rural one myself.
Sorry Amory and DD but I heard too much crap over the years from rural voters that people like me aren’t real Virginians because I’m in the dreaded liberal Northern part of the state and I hate to say this because it may make me sound like a snob but the Northern part of Virginia they so hate is why our state is successful.
re: #282 sagehen
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Coincidentally, it’s also 1/3 of a percent of the US population.
21 year old FORMER prison guard.
Ex-girlfriend says he “always hated people”, but thought nothing of it when he recently bought a gun
4 employees and 1 customer, all women, were identified as the victims of the SunTrust Bank shooting in Sebring, Florida, authorities say https://t.co/B8hbus8Cqt
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 24, 2019
How the fuck are you a former anything at 21?
I mean, beside paperboy/fast food worker.
re: #432 Myron Falwell
and tbh, the main reason why JD Scholten was so close was because King didn’t even bother to run a campaign until the weekend before the election.
I’m not faulting JD here, but there was a bit of luck in play that prevented the final result from being far worse.
It sounds like he ran a smaller scale version of what Beto ran. Beto went everywhere in Texas, multiple times, talked to people, voiced their concerns, and….they voted for Cruz, and reelected Republicans to all of the top offices in the state.
The problem with his statement is it actually perpetuates the myth that Democrats aren’t concerned about rural people. There’s a whole list of things that Democrats put on the table for rural people, of which spending on education is one of them (because the school tends to be one of the biggest employers). They’re just not “only for” rural people.
If Obama ever said anything like. Pfft those voters in rural whatever. They’re not real Americans like us that live in the cities, he would have gotten crucified. Meanwhile, Republican candidates routinely insist that people who live in cities are immoral and don’t have “values.” It’s a crock of shit done to give rural America a sense of superiority it doesn’t deserve. We’re all Americans from the most rural and isolated town to the densest part of NYC or LA.
re: #439 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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How the fuck are you a former anything at 21?
I mean, beside paperboy/fast food worker.
And how much of an asshole do you have to be to get bounced from being a prison guard?
re: #439 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
His ex said that he was expelled from school because he dreamed of killing his classmates.
Yeah, he sounds real stable and the sort that should have access to firearms and be responsible for guarding people/things.
re: #418 Belafon
I really would like to end the narrative that Democrats don’t take rural areas seriously. I’m really serious that a whole lot of them vote because they are racist. Democrats create programs to help both rural and city people and yet rural peole refuse to look at them because they help “those others.”
This only happens if the Dems can figure out a way to convince rural Americans that “Democrat” isn’t a dirty word. That the party is not a group of yuppie, gun grabbing, god hating communists.
And that’s a tall order. You can point to Doug Jones in Alabama but he only won because his opponent was exceptionally awful. Even still, he beat Moore by only 1.5 PERCENT. One of the worst Republicans that’s ever been STILL almost won election in a deep red state.
This is the uphill battle Democrats face in the South and in rural regions.
re: #440 Belafon
It sounds like he ran a smaller scale version of what Beto ran. Beto went everywhere in Texas, multiple times, talked to people, voiced their concerns, and….they voted for Cruz, and reelected Republicans to all of the top offices in the state.
The problem with his statement is it actually perpetuates the myth that Democrats aren’t concerned about rural people. There’s a whole list of things that Democrats put on the table for rural people, of which spending on education is one of them (because the school tends to be one of the biggest employers). They’re just not “only for” rural people.
Democrats are the ones that support expanding high speed internet access to rural araes for example and what do they get, a bunch of crap about how they don’t “understand” people out there. We support disaster relief funding when hurricanes and tornadoes hit regardless of whether the state or county voted. But because we don’t tell homogeneous groups “Yeah you’re the real Americans and they are not” we get accused of looking down on them. I’m sorry but it really pisses me off and I wish JD wouldn’t humor that crap.
re: #434 HappyWarrior
But that’s the thing. Democratic candidates aren’t insulting rural voters. Republican candidates meanwhile can literally talk about how certain parts of the state they’re campaigning in aren’t the “Real state here” with little to no blowback. I saw it with Palin. I saw it with George Allen when he called that kid a Macaca even though that kid was more of a Virginian than Allen was. Maybe we could listen to rural voters more and their issues, I concede that but if it comes at sacrificing our core values, I can’t do that, I’m not going to do that to appease a bunch of people who think it’s elitist to support a government that invests in its people.
The clever but easily misrepresented term “Deplorables” might be enough to explain the loss of the critical 80000 missing votes . The candidates don’t have to be the messenger—we have a lot of half-baked “influencers”.
re: #442 makeitstop
And how much of an asshole do you have to be to get bounced from being a prison guard?
Best guess? Dude probably stopped showing up for work.
re: #444 Eclectic Cyborg
This only happens if the Dems can figure out a way to convince rural Americans that “Democrat” isn’t a dirty word. That the party is not a group of yuppie, gun grabbing, god hating communists.
And that’s a tall order. You can point to Doug Jones in Alabama but he only won because his opponent was exceptionally awful. Even still, he beat Moore by only 1.5 PERCENT. One of the worst Republicans that’s ever been STILL almost won election in a deep red state.
This is the uphill battle Democrats face in the South and in rural regions.
It’s not just the South. We have that problem in the part of Central PA where my mom’s aunt and cousins live too. They’re uncomfortable with that we’re pro-choice and stuff like that. But here’s the thing when we support LGBT people, we’re not just going to bat for the affluent LGBT business owner in San Francisco, we’re going to bat for the LGBT kid in rural Iowa who feels like an outcast too.
re: #439 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
21 year old FORMER prison guard.
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How the fuck are you a former anything at 21?
I mean, beside paperboy/fast food worker.
I’m so old I remember when a bank shooting was just about the money.
re: #446 Decatur Deb
The clever but easily misrepresented term “Deplorables” might be enough to explain the loss of the critical 80000 missing votes . The candidates don’t have to be the messenger—we have a lot of half-baked “influencers”.
Well I’m sorry but when your supporters chant “Lock her up”, what is HRC supposed to say and don’t forget “Trump that bitch.” We repeatedly are reduced to being moochers by Republican candidates. Repeatedly. Told that we are not producitve members of society. Republicans and right wingers love to btich about identity politics when they’re the ones who are the biggest proponents of them versus us politics and no one is more guilty of that than Trump when he uses the tragedy of murdered loved ones to scapegoat immigrants.
A reminder that the Senate Intelligence Committee is led by a Republican, so this implies that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree on the importance of Michael Cohen’s testimony (which may explain Trump’s efforts to stop it from happening).https://t.co/guwPjF43Z1
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) January 24, 2019
re: #450 HappyWarrior
Well I’m sorry but when your supporters chant “Lock her up”, what is HRC supposed to say and don’t forget “Trump that bitch.” We repeatedly are reduced to being moochers by Republican candidates. Repeatedly. Told that we are not producitve members of society. Republicans and right wingers love to btich about identity politics when they’re the ones who are the biggest proponents of them versus us politics and no one is more guilty of that than Trump when he uses the tragedy of murdered loved ones to scapegoat immigrants.
I dunno. Maybe when they go low, we go high. I heard that somehere.
re: #443 lawhawk
This kid lived inside a video game…… That is all.
I would be more amiable to this conversation if there was a willingness to call out the right for their disgusting attacks on Americans who live in our coasts and in our cities. I can’t tell you how many times I saw the fact that HRC winning NY and CA being the reason she won the popular vote didn’t matter. Last I saw, NY and CA are part of these United States.
re: #446 Decatur Deb
The clever but easily misrepresented term “Deplorables” might be enough to explain the loss of the critical 80000 missing votes . The candidates don’t have to be the messenger—we have a lot of half-baked “influencers”.
Deplorable didn’t change any minds.
re: #454 Decatur Deb
I dunno. Maybe when they go low, we go high. I heard that somehere.
I get that, I do. I’m just saying. She didn’t even call out rural people with that. If rural people saw themselves when HRC called out the Trump supporters who frankly do act like a bunch of brownshirts, that really shouldn’t be on her. Maybe it wasn’t the PC thing to say but you know what, a lot of Trump supporters are deplorable. A lot of Republican voters- people who boo openly gay service members, people who chant let him die, and people who go along for the smear campaign of a Gold Star Dad because the man was Muslim and are okay with attacking the ethnicity of a judge are assholes.
We don’t have to pander to racists. There is a momentum building and now is the time to expand offices!
re: #417 Amory Blaine
I know some lizards here have been ringing the alarm bell for a while.
Iowan Who Almost Beat Steve King Wants Democrats To Take Rural America Seriously
A lot of fluff in that HuffPost piece, but Scholten is basically spot-on in his political analysis. Though obviously skipping around the main problems Democrats face in “rural America”, I.e. the fundamentally retrograde cultural matrix, especially as it relates to racial, religious and class issues. Both “conservative” in the sense of resisting changes, and (especially in political manifestations) vigorously reactionary in trying to undo virtually anything that is seen as threatening said matrix, I.e. anything even remotely “liberal” - even where rebranded as “progessive”.
JD is right that the Democrats ought to make more of an effort to connect with rural/agricultural voters: but the big roadblock can be seen in all those “Cletus Safari” pieces the MSM loves to run: Farmer Bob out there in Heartland County, USA, who is seeing his export business being gutted by Trump’s inane tariff wars: but still won’t entertain for a nanosecond the notion of voting against him, or the GOP…
Mudurnu, Turkey: 587 castle homes after the developer went bankrupt. pic.twitter.com/1bnuse0sap
— Areas Abandoned (@Areas_Abandoned) January 23, 2019
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re: #457 Belafon
Deplorable didn’t change any minds.
It was easily weaponized and hardened their sense of alienation. They wore it on t-shirts just like I wore “Bad Hombre” to Clinton rallies.
re: #459 Amory Blaine
We don’t have to pander to racists. There is a momentum building and now is the time to expand offices!
I agree with that but I’m just saying, we do address issues that these communities should be amiable to i.e. better access to high speed internet, more funding for schools, etc and it’s ignored. I definitely did love Beto’s approach of going anywhere he could and I really hope it’s replicated in the future but there has to be a desire to speak unpopular truths which is what Beto did when he defended the kneeling for the national anthem.
re: #460 Jay C
A lot of fluff in that HuffPost piece, but Scholten is basically spot-on in his political analysis. Though obviously skipping around the main problems Democrats face in “rural America”, I.e. the fundamentally retrograde cultural matrix, especially as it relates to racial, religious and class issues. Both “conservative” in the sense of resisting changes, and (especially in political manifestations) vigorously reactionary in trying to undo virtually anything that is seen as threatening said matrix, I.e. anything even remotely “liberal” - even where rebranded as “progessive”.
JD is right that the Democrats ought to make more of an effort to connect with rural/agricultural voters: but the big roadblock can be seen in all those “Cletus Safari” pieces the MSM loves to run: Farmer Bob out there in Heartland County, USA, who is seeing his export business being gutted by Trump’s inane tariff wars: but still won’t entertain for a nanosecond the notion of voting against him, or the GOP…
I definitely think we can do that and retain our values. Definitely when we’re out there and I’m sure candidates like JD have done this, point out that Trump’s trade agricultural policies hurt the farmer and that the incumbent GOP congressman either went along with it or has said nothing of criqiue.
re: #461 jaunte
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That could make a great set for a movie or TV show.
HAPPENING NOW: @larry_kudlow says federal workers forced to work without pay are “volunteering.”
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) January 24, 2019
re: #414 makeitstop
Now that is one damn weird choice to cover. I was never able to grasp what Fleetwood Mac was getting at with that record.
Too much coke…Chadbourne covered it when he got snowed in for a weekend, so a good choice.
It is definitely frustrating for sure, but it is a worthy goal imho.
re: #462 Decatur Deb
It was easily weaponized and hardened their sense of alienation. They wore it on t-shirts just like I wore “Bad Hombre” to Clinton rallies.
If Republicans hadn’t talked about taco trucks on every corner, would you have stayed home on election day?
Honestly, the polarization between rural and urban areas progressed — or regressed — to the point where “deplorable” became the self-identifier it did (which can be up for some room for interpretation as social media amplified it with a whole lot of less-than-legit accounts, but I digress).
Rural America Predominantly white males in the Midwest, South and less-populated states like Iowa and Wyoming wasn’t weren’t going to vote for Hillary in 2016. That remark gave them cover. And yet, it wasn’t Hillary’s fault for speaking the truth, she simply wound up gaslit.
Edited for clarity.
re: #462 Decatur Deb
It was easily weaponized and hardened their sense of alienation. They wore it on t-shirts just like I wore “Bad Hombre” to Clinton rallies.
And she only said that the subset of DT supporters who do deplorable things are deplorable. If we have to overlook that to gain their votes… well, I guess we’ll just have to keep working on energizing our voter base. Seems to have worked pretty well in the midterms.
re: #467 lawhawk
Goddamit, I forgot Larry Kudlow was still alive. There’s a voice of competence and moral integrity ////////////////////////////////-infinity
re: #469 Amory Blaine
It is definitely frustrating for sure, but it is a worthy goal imho.
Actually, I’m not against talking to more people. I think Democrats need to make sure they talk to everyone. I’m actually just against his characterization that Democrats are ignoring rural areas. He’s perpetuating a myth. I think he and others should say that “Democrats will continue to pursue solutions that work for all Americans”.
re: #443 lawhawk
His ex said that he was expelled from school because he dreamed of killing his classmates.
Yeah, he sounds real stable and the sort that should have access to firearms and be responsible for guarding people/things.
A kid in the next town has been kicked off the school bus for threatening two kindergartners that he was going to go home to get a shotgun and kill them and theirs. The kid is in second grade. He has also been removed from the house he was living in. Last year when something similar happened, the principal got fired. New principal, new crisis handling methods, but we newspaper followers of events don’t get many details.
Also, three prisoners have died in the county jail in the past two years.
re: #470 Belafon
If Republicans hadn’t talked about taco trucks on every corner, would you have stayed home on election day?
I’m a fanatic. The people I try to register and get to the polls have lives. And it’s getting a lot harder to reach them.
The Trump Cabinet has gone full Marie Antoinette on us today. SMH
— Andrew Collins (@Bandinellosaul) January 24, 2019
I gure: #477 Belafon
Actually, I’m not against talking to more people. I think Democrats need to make sure they talk to everyone. I’m actually just against his characterization that Democrats are ignoring rural areas. He’s perpetuating a myth. I think he and others should say that “Democrats will continue to pursue solutions that work for all Americans”.
This. Sorry if my comments were taken the wrong way. We definitely should listen to them. But I think it’s a two way street too. There’s this construct that has formed that the social issues we talk about don’t apply to rural America but I would argue they apply just as much if not more.
U.S. officials typically answer yes unambiguously and refer to such a situation as an “Article 5 obligation” — i.e., something world leaders promised to each other in a treaty. https://t.co/JSCh3T5fcb
— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) January 24, 2019
Nobody is taking it the wrong way, we’re just having a little discussion that’s all.
re: #473 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
And she only said that the subset of DT supporters who do deplorable things are deplorable. If we have to overlook that to gain their votes… well, I guess we’ll just have to keep working on energizing our voter base. Seems to have worked pretty well in the midterms.
We busted our humps with an ideal candidate. She lost 2:1 against a lackluster GOP Representative who didn’t break a sweat.
re: #468 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Too much coke…Chadbourne covered it when he got snowed in for a weekend, so a good choice.
Yeah. The video for the title track screams ‘We’ve got an unlimited budget and a blow dealer on speed dial!’
The government shutdown is leaving federal websites even more vulnerable to hackers and could lead to an exodus of security talent to the private sector, cybersecurity experts warn. https://t.co/UzJdQDUNTx
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 24, 2019
Does not spark joy pic.twitter.com/MK9QEFuAyT
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 24, 2019
It’s Kondo Time for the kakistocracy.
re: #476 Myron Falwell
Goddamit, I forgot Larry Kudlow was still alive. There’s a voice of competence and moral integrity ////////////////////////////////-infinity
I sometimes think that the Administration keeps Larry Kudlow on staff solely to fill the position of Official Court Jester/Designated Buffoon - i.e., his job is to say stupid stuff on public media so that the other stupid stuff coming out of this incompetent Admin gets ignored/looks better by comparison.
Unfortunately, Kudlow might be serious…..
re: #482 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Putin gets a good return on investment.
‘Rural America’ is conservaspeech for white people. They’re never talking about New Mexico, one of the most rural states.
re: #490 wrenchwench
‘Rural America’ is conservaspeech for white people. They’re never talking about New Mexico, one of the most rural states.
It is also a code word for “non-Urban America”
and we all know who lives in Urban America…
re: #483 Amory Blaine
Nobody is taking it the wrong way, we’re just having a little discussion that’s all.
I know. Just wanted to make it clear I wasn’t trying to come off as hostile to waht you and DD are saying. I would love it if we were competitive everywhere. The Dean 50 State Strategy definitely was a good one and I love that we made gains in places like Kansas where tehy not only elected a Dem governor but it wasn’t even close. Kobach lost by more than Gillespie did here.
I just hope we’re able to capitalize on the shrinking popularity of the republican party. Plus there the real possibility that everything could go to shit.
re: #461 jaunte
@Areas_Abandoned
Mudurnu, Turkey: 587 castle homes after the developer went bankrupt.Not a Photoshop; visible on Google earth.
Yes, I would like a castle like home.
But
I want it surrounded by several hundred nearly identical castle like dwellings. All within spitting distance.
re: #490 wrenchwench
‘Rural America’ is conservaspeech for white people. They’re never talking about New Mexico, one of the most rural states.
Darn it, you’re right, I goofed on that.
re: #490 wrenchwench
‘Rural America’ is conservaspeech for white people. They’re never talking about New Mexico, one of the most rural states.
Great point. Along those lines: “So, how do you think your solutions will help Native Americans?”
re: #490 wrenchwench
‘Rural America’ is conservaspeech for white people. They’re never talking about New Mexico, one of the most rural states.
Middle America unfortunately has come to mean the same thing. It’s not about suburbites of color but only whites.
re: #491 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is also a code word for “non-Urban America”
and we all know who lives in Urban America…
The majority of Americans.
What I like is the idea of doing is pointing out to voters that call us elites or elitists that their policies are the elitist ones. Their policies are the ones designed to benefit the fewest possible people. They help those who don’t need help at the expense of those who do.
re: #494 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Seems like a really expensive satire on the concept of a gated community.
re: #486 Dave In Austin
That’s part of the plan. Damage and sabotage functioning government, so when these government agencies fail in their mission, the GOP turns around and says that their funding should be cut because they’re not fulfilling their mission (that they sabotaged).
Rinse and repeat. This is the GOP long con.
re: #488 Jay C
I sometimes think that the Administration keeps Larry Kudlow on staff solely to fill the position of Official Court Jester/Designated Buffoon - i.s., his job is to say stupid stuff on public media so that the other stupid stuff coming out of this incompetent Admin gets ignored/looks better by comparison.
Unfortunately, Kudlow might be serious…..
Kudlow’s serious when he’s supposed to be hilariously stupid, while Rudy is hilariously stupid when he should be serious.
That actually checks out.
re: #496 Belafon
Great point. Along those lines: “So, how do you think your solutions will help Native Americans?”
Arizona looks and sounds very white on TV, but there are a huge variety of peoples and cultures there. Some of them have never taken an interest in politics or being seen on TV. Each town, everywhere (on the earth) is a big world. If there’s only one culture, it’s usually by design, sometimes by force
re: #493 Amory Blaine
I just hope we’re able to
capitalizesocialize on the shrinking popularity of the republican party. Plus there the real possibility that everything could go to shit.
Fight me?
/
re: #501 jaunte
Seems like a really expensive satire on the concept of a gated community.
I can’t imagine trying to find my way home after even some mild drinking
Well then. Schumer speaking for all of us.
Schumer: Ross questioning why federal workers need food banks is modern equivalent of “let them eat cake” https://t.co/pUgjua1nET pic.twitter.com/oVprHTjeTj
— The Hill (@thehill) January 24, 2019
Sorry ol’ Wilbur but you asked for it.
re: #507 Myron Falwell
Well then. Schumer speaking for all of us.
Sorry ol’ Wilbur but you asked for it.
How many cries of “Democrats are calling for revolution” will there be?
re: #507 Myron Falwell
Well then. Schumer speaking for all of us.
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Sorry ol’ Wilbur but you asked for it.
Schumer is getting better at this. I know a lot wanted him gone after the first two years but I think he just needed to gain some experience and I do think seeing how tough Pelosi has been has made him better too.
re: #508 Belafon
How many cries of “Democrats are calling for revolution” will there be?
Folks HAVE been calling for it….how bloody it will be depends on the oligarchs.
re: #508 Belafon
How many cries of “Democrats are calling for revolution” will there be?
Tucker will be saying that Schumer called for Ross to be beheaded. Yeah I can see the fauxrage already from the same people who insist they’re against policing language.
Off to see what the storms did to my garden. We must tend our garden.
Are willing to send your young men and women to fight for @realDonaldTrump’s power grab in @Venezuela.
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 24, 2019
re: #512 Decatur Deb
Off to see what the storms did to my garden. We must tend our garden.
I gotta go for a ‘run’. Working on my ‘natural’ stride length.
re: #511 HappyWarrior
Tucker will be saying that Schumer called for Ross to be beheaded. Yeah I can see the fauxrage already from the same people who insist they’re against policing language.
Or the same people who called for Obama to be ousted.
I gotta hit the hay. Been a long night. Enjoy the day, lizards!
Well then. They’ve made their positions known. pic.twitter.com/1ymJUd3yUn
— 🐾Mr.OogyBoogy (@mr_oogy_boogy) January 24, 2019
I like the one above it better. THAT one is the story of a LOSING battle that did nothing but solidify government supervision of the average Parisian for the next 16 years and possibly contributed to the razing of the old Paris street layout.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) January 24, 2019
re: #508 Belafon
How many cries of “Democrats are calling for revolution” will there be?
First they came for billionaires but I said nothing as I was only worth 708 million…
Between Ross, Kudlow and Lara Trump, we might as well just start calling them the ‘let them eat cake party.’
Marco is spewing how Venezuela needs to be rebuilt. Elec. and toad infrastructure… Bla Bla Bla.
All I can think of is P.R. WTF!
re: #520 makeitstop
Between Ross, Kudlow and Lara Trump, we might as well just start calling them the ‘let them eat cake party.’
I think the term is “elite.”
Stop and read this excellent piece from @ThePlumLineGS about the reason Trump bowed to @SpeakerPelosi. It’s important.https://t.co/e2mMG7FzFE
— Karoli (@Karoli) January 24, 2019
“…Democrats are now operating from the premise that this is really what’s at stake: Whether Trump and McConnell will recognize the outcome of the last election going forward.”
re: #513 Dave In Austin
Are willing to send your young men and women to fight for DonaldTrump’s power grab in Venezuela.
ones who would not have us go defend our NATO ally Montenegro if it were attacked, mostly because they do not even know where the fuck it is
Much less that they have contributed troops to supports US forces in the Middle East
re: #522 Dave In Austin
Marco is spewing how Venezuela needs to be rebuilt. Elec. and toad infrastructure… Bla Bla Bla.
All I can think of is P.R. WTF!
Venezuela does have its problems but Marco’s just agitating for another war he’ll never serve in because Marco’s a coward.
Saw this as a comment from cvonhagel over on Talking Points Memo, and it was so apt, I’ve copypasta’d it here, because this is the EXACT SAME THING my relatives in Wisconsin have been saying.
Each and every step of the way.
Gee, whoda thunk it?
Joe Reasonable Conservative, 2007: I had to support the Iraq war, because everybody knew Saddam had WMD’s, and overthrowing him would bring democracy, I thought. And 9/11. But now that I see what’s actually happened, maybe I was too optimistic. I can see now how it mght have been more complicated.
Joe Reasonable Conservative, 2009: I used to think everyone who didn’t have a job was just too lazy to work, or who lost their job just wasn’t a hard enough worker, or everyone who lost their house just wasn’t careful enough with money, but now that it’s happened to me, and lots of people I know, during the economic crash, I can see how it’s more complicated than that.
Joe Reasonable Conservative, 2019: I had to support Trump in the election to shake things up, and because Hillary represented the status quo, and her emails, but now I can see maybe Trump’s wall obsession is a bit of a simplistic fixation. It’s more complicated than that.
re: #501 jaunte
Seems like a really expensive satire on the concept of a gated community.
It looks like a glacier of bad taste.
re: #330 The Vicious Babushka
GOOD MORNING LIZARDIA!
Is this Anti-Semitism? Or is only Farrakhan the Anti-Semitism?
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“In addition, the local school district runs large deficits because it receives funding only for the 6,000 kids who attend public school, but must provide buses for the additional 30,000 who attend private schools.”
Which somehow, they think is just fine in towns where the private schools are Christian, and how dare anybody complain…
@marcorubio You need to be fixing #PuertoRico before you go throwing cash at #Venezuela. Don’t you think?
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 24, 2019
re: #524 jaunte
“…Democrats are now operating from the premise that this is really what’s at stake: Whether Trump and McConnell will recognize the outcome of the last election going forward.”
As I said above, they’re trying to do what Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina Republicans have tried to do.
re: #530 Dave In Austin
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Nah Marco wants to save the world from commies because helping PR would be an acknowledgement that right wing policy failed PR. And he can’t have that.
re: #524 jaunte
Greg nailed it. Speaker Pelosi knew exactly how to hit Trump where it hurt him the most. His ego. And she’s more than willing to do it to him again if needed.
re: #531 Belafon
As I said above, they’re trying to do what Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina Republicans have tried to do.
And she’s not yielding. Her steadfastness is admirable and it’s rubbing off on Schumer.
New: Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska, will join Susan Collins & Cory Gardner to vote for Democratic proposal to re-open government as well as GOP proposal. That makes three Republicans, ten short of the 13 needed to pass Dem bill- @FoxReports reporting
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 24, 2019
She’s knows Trump is a boy trying to play a man’s game (and deep down Trump knows this too even though he’d never admit it). It’s like a quarterback who goes straight from high school to playing against Tom Brady in the Super Bowl: An easy way to get your ass handed to you.
re: #534 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Are they still trying to round up votes at this moment?
Something tells me that there could be those unwilling to publicly commit to it because of a shitload of pressure they’d face, but what in the hell do I know.
re: #536 Myron Falwell
Are they still trying to round up votes at this moment?
Something tells me that there could be those unwilling to publicly commit to it because of a shitload of pressure they’d face, but what in the hell do I know.
You might be right, but since Senate votes are (usually - except for the occasional “voice vote”/unanimous resolution) a matter of public record, even the most reticent GOPers are going to have to own to up to something or other sooner or later.
re: #534 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Only 4 Republicans are needed to pass the Dem bill.
The extra ones are needed to force McConnell’s hand. If Mitch would just let the Senate vote on the House-passed CRs, the CRs would pass.
Posting this here so you can use the meme next time some wingnut gets all butthurt:
— True Blue NY (@makeNYTrueBlue) January 24, 2019
re: #441 HappyWarrior
If Obama ever said anything like. Pfft those voters in rural whatever. They’re not real Americans like us that live in the cities, he would have gotten crucified. Meanwhile, Republican candidates routinely insist that people who live in cities are immoral and don’t have “values.” It’s a crock of shit done to give rural America a sense of superiority it doesn’t deserve. We’re all Americans from the most rural and isolated town to the densest part of NYC or LA.
He did get crucified, for his “bitterly clinging to their guns and religion” comment.
re: #540 sagehen
He did get crucified, for his “bitterly clinging to their guns and religion” comment.
True that. But he never had a statement where he flat out said that they weren’t real Americans.
re: #538 freetoken
Only 4 Republicans are needed to pass the Dem bill.
The extra ones are needed to force McConnell’s hand. If Mitch would just let the Senate vote on the House-passed CRs, the CRs would pass.
Is Mitch that stupid to fumble away his best possible shot at escaping this mess and making it even worse on himself and everyone else? I guess we’ll find out.
re: #480 Dave In Austin
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The Trump Cabinet has gone full Marie Antoinette on us today. SMH24
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And we all recall what happened to Marie Antoinette and the administration to which she belonged. Let’s hope for a similar — but less violent — overthrow of all those who support the GOP and Trump.
re: #522 Dave In Austin
Marco is spewing how Venezuela needs to be rebuilt. Elec. and toad infrastructure… Bla Bla Bla.
All I can think of is P.R. WTF!
Mexico Venezuela will pay for the rebuild oil will pay for itself.
Ultimately, whether Trump burns everything down or ends up in jail, his defense will be: “you knew I was a snake when you took me in.”
re: #419 HappyWarrior
I get him and I do think we should listen to rural America but rural America also shouldn’t get a pass for its faults either and get told that it’s “real America.” I’m not saying JD is doing that here but rural America’s got its faults that its advocates ignore. And I’m not saying urban America doesn’t but there’s a reason why Steve King has been successful in that district.
I lived in “real America” the last ten years. I spent my first 18 years there. You can’t appreciate just how profoundly stupid these areas have become over past 40 years. You can’t help people who are willfully stupid and profoundly obstinate. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
If Mexico had only agreed to pay for The Wall which is already Built but which needs moar Wall we wouldn’t have this long shutdown.
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re: #439 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
21 year old FORMER prison guard.
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How the fuck are you a former anything at 21?
I mean, beside paperboy/fast food worker.
He was a corrections officer trainee.
He quit after about 2 months on the job.
#CovingtonCatholic #MAGAkids targeted by Tiki Torch #VerifiedBullies Turns out a frame job by #FakeNews activist #NathanPhillips #sorosfunded Children attacked because of MAGA hat, skin color, gender, & Christian pro life #NickSandmann #StandWithCovington https://t.co/T2D3yDdGUW pic.twitter.com/nRhjEczGLd
— GrrrGraphics Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) January 22, 2019
re: #542 Myron Falwell
Is Mitch that stupid to fumble away his best possible shot at escaping this mess and making it even worse on himself and everyone else?
I’m going to go with yes.
re: #549 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Good god, that’s abhorrent.
Wilbur Ross is being rightfully crucified on twitter…. but he’s stolen the spotlight of hard-heartedness from Lara Trump from just a few days ago.
re: #550 Eclectic Cyborg
(stabs my eyes with toothpicks)
re: #545 Barefoot Grin
Ultimately, whether Trump burns everything down or ends up in jail, his defense will be: “you knew I was a snake when you took me in.”
“Look what you made me do!”
re: #541 HappyWarrior
True that. But he never had a statement where he flat out said that they weren’t real Americans.
This goes back to the founding and the difference between Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians. Jefferson’s fascination with mythical yeomen farmers was accompanied by a disdain for merchants and banks and other city folk. Hamilton, from what I’ve read, didn’t have disdain for the country folk.
That split is the same strong (Hamilton) vs weak (Jefferson) federal government debate we’ve been having since 1792
re: #549 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Hash tags are like bumper stickers. It’s not the type, but the number that tell you how wigged out the other person is.
re: #480 Dave In Austin
Let them eat cake taco bowls.
re: #545 Barefoot Grin
Ultimately, whether Trump burns everything down or ends up in jail, his defense will be: “you knew I was a snake when you took me in.”
The scorpion and the swan… it is his nature
re: #546 Old Liberal
I lived in “real America” the last ten years. I spent my first 18 years there. You can’t appreciate just how profoundly stupid these areas have become over past 40 years. You can’t help people who are willfully stupid and profoundly obstinate. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
I also see this as the cuts in public education that started under Reagan and continued in a downward spiral coming home to roost.
Now it is truly the case that people are openly proud of their stupidity and wear it as a badge of deplorable identity.
re: #550 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m going to go with yes.
Which is baffling in that, by denying a vote because it can’t reach cloture — even though passage is likely, he’d hand the Democrats even more leverage to use against him.
Mitch may not be the sharpest mind that everyone thinks he is. Stubborn and smart are not synonymous.
There they go again…
“The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will allow a ministry in South Carolina that only works with heterosexual Christian families to participate in a federally funded foster care program.
That means Miracle Hill Ministries can receive federal funding to participate in the program while not working with non-Christians, or those who identify as LGBT.
The organization was in violation of a regulation issued by the Obama administration that states organizations receiving funds from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can’t discriminate on the basis of religion or sexual orientation.
But Trump’s HHS issued an exemption for the ministry to participate in the program, writing that to force it out would be a violation of its religious freedom.”
re: #556 KGxvi
This goes back to the founding and the difference between Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians. Jefferson’s fascination with mythical yeomen farmers was accompanied by a disdain for merchants and banks and other city folk. Hamilton, from what I’ve read, didn’t have disdain for the country folk.
That split is the same strong (Hamilton) vs weak (Jefferson) federal government debate we’ve been having since 1792
Another reason to prefer Hamilton over Jefferson. You are right. It’s an old split.
re: #562 Eclectic Cyborg
There they go again…
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will allow a ministry in South Carolina that only works with heterosexual Christian families to participate in a federally funded foster care program.
That means Miracle Hill Ministries can receive federal funding to participate in the program while not working with non-Christians, or those who identify as LGBT.
The organization was in violation of a regulation issued by the Obama administration that states organizations receiving funds from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can’t discriminate on the basis of religion or sexual orientation.
But Trump’s HHS issued an exemption for the ministry to participate in the program, writing that to force it out would be a violation of its religious freedom.
It has the religious freedom to not participate.
re: #562 Eclectic Cyborg
There they go again…
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will allow a ministry in South Carolina that only works with heterosexual Christian families to participate in a federally funded foster care program.
That means Miracle Hill Ministries can receive federal funding to participate in the program while not working with non-Christians, or those who identify as LGBT.
The organization was in violation of a regulation issued by the Obama administration that states organizations receiving funds from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can’t discriminate on the basis of religion or sexual orientation.
But Trump’s HHS issued an exemption for the ministry to participate in the program, writing that to force it out would be a violation of its religious freedom.
This is such crap.
re: #551 Eclectic Cyborg
Good god, that’s abhorrent.
It’s Ben Garrison, abhorrent is part of his brand
re: #566 Myron Falwell
It’s Ben Garrison, abhorrent is part of his brand
It offers a clear illustration of how the Right have come to see that incident
re: #549 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Can always count on Ben Garrison for a cartoon that looks like it belongs in the Jim Crow south and to totally distort what happened.
re: #560 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I also see this as the cuts in public education that started under Reagan and continued in a downward spiral coming home to roost.
Now it is truly the case that people are openly proud of their stupidity and wear it as a badge of deplorable identity.
I believe it was Issac Asimov who noted there’s a strong strain of anti-intellectualism in American culture and it’s been there pretty since the beginning.
Check this headline by NPR:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Downplayed Shutdown Hardships. Dems Raged.
RAGED!!!
re: #571 Dr Lizardo
I believe it was Issac Asimov who noted there’s a strong strain of anti-intellectualism in American culture and it’s been there pretty since the beginning.
I think it arose from a certain intellectual and cultural inferiority complex towards Europe, we liked to believe that although although we were not as advanced in certain ways, we were morally superior to the decadent and effete Europeans.
And yes, that strain of thought never went away, even Sputnik was not enough to scare it out of us completely.
re: #572 freetoken
Check this headline by NPR:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Downplayed Shutdown Hardships. Dems Raged.
RAGED!!!
WTF NPR.
I’m sharing my peanut butter. The news wrote about it today. https://t.co/l8UClAMtVc
— Philosopher Bean (@BeanPhilosopher) January 23, 2019
re: #572 freetoken
Check this headline by NPR:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Downplayed Shutdown Hardships. Dems Raged.
RAGED!!!
Calling out people for boorish, insensitive or racist/sexist statements = LIBERAL RAGE
re: #573 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think it arose from a certain intellectual and cultural inferiority complex towards Europe, we liked to believe that although although we were not as advanced in certain ways, we were morally superior to the decadent and effete Europeans.
And yes, that strain of thought never went away, even Sputnik was not enough to scare it out of us completely.
Well Europe wasn’t sending its best. Snicker.
re: #549 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Anyone who wears a MAGA hat should be assumed to be a racist. It is the same as a white hood.
I was in a FB exchange yesterday with a FOAF on my friend’s page— do not know the man at all. The discussion was about Covington and this man disputed my posting by saying that the “kid was standing there minding his own business”. I responded that wearing a MAGA hat and protesting a woman’s right to choose is not someone “minding his own business”. He accused me of attacking someone for “thought crimes”; i.e. like all Trumpsters, he thinks that MAGA hats are not expressing a view point.
re: #575 Belafon
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So when does FNC call this kid a commei for sharing. I too love peanut butter. Goes great with pretzels.
re: #578 Hecuba’s daughter
Anyone who wears a MAGA hat should be assumed to be a racist. It is the same as a white hood.
I was in a FB exchange yesterday with a FOAF on my friend’s page— do not know the man at all. The discussion was about Covington and this man disputed my posting by saying that the “kid was standing there minding his own business”. I responded that wearing a MAGA hat and protesting a woman’s right to choose is not someone “minding his own business”. He accused me of attacking someone for “thought crimes”; i.e. like all Trumpsters, he thinks that MAGA hats are not expressing a view point.
It’s not like the kids were in DC for a field trip to Congress or the WH. They were there to protest a right to choose. Now they have the right but they weren’t little innocents who were ambushed by a mean old Indian man.
re: #579 HappyWarrior
So when does FNC call this kid a commei for sharing. I too love peanut butter. Goes great with pretzels.
and chili sauce
and bananas
and celery
and bacon
Question for you guys: Is just seeing someone in public with a MAGA hat reason enough to confront them?
re: #581 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and chili sauce
and bananas
and celery
and bacon
Gonna take your advice on Chili sauce since I have been liking the hot and sweet mix lately with my hot chocolate, Cayenne pepper mixed with hot coco is really good.
re: #572 freetoken
Check this headline by NPR:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Downplayed Shutdown Hardships. Dems Raged.
RAGED!!!
The mere structure of that headline alone is nauseating.
I guess “Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Downplayed Shutdown Hardships. It didn’t go all that well.“ was too nuanced.
re: #578 Hecuba’s daughter
He accused me of attacking someone for “thought crimes”; i.e. like all Trumpsters, he thinks that MAGA hats are not expressing a view point.
This was mentioned earlier in a post about Tucker Carlson’s rant about identity politics, that white IP somehow does not count because it is the Wonder Bread which holds the Great American Sandwich together.
re: #549 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
This is the kinda shit you’d take for parody if you didn’t know the source. The fact that someone can actually draw this shit and mean it sincerely is almost praiseworthy for how disconnected from anything resembling reality it is.
re: #582 Eclectic Cyborg
Question for you guys: Is just seeing someone in public with a MAGA hat reason enough to confront them?
I’m not by nature a confrontational person but I do judge that person.
re: #583 HappyWarrior
Gonna take your advice on Chili sauce since I have been liking the hot and sweet mix lately with my hot chocolate, Cayenne pepper mixed with hot coco is really good.
Thai sweet chili sauce is just killer with PB
re: #441 HappyWarrior
If Obama ever said anything like. Pfft those voters in rural whatever. They’re not real Americans like us that live in the cities, he would have gotten crucified. Meanwhile, Republican candidates routinely insist that people who live in cities are immoral and don’t have “values.” It’s a crock of shit done to give rural America a sense of superiority it doesn’t deserve. We’re all Americans from the most rural and isolated town to the densest part of NYC or LA.
He got crucified enough for saying this about rural folks:
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
The (current) title on your piece you link is very misleading… it’s people who are outraged by Ross’ callousness, not the Trumpian-buzzwordy “Dems Raged”.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) January 24, 2019
re: #553 freetoken
Wilbur Ross is being rightfully crucified on twitter…. but he’s stolen the spotlight of hard-heartedness from Lara Trump from just a few days ago.
Wish I owned a guillotine factory.
re: #582 Eclectic Cyborg
A few years back, I was friendly with a coworker from WV who was about the most liberal dude ever, though you wouldn’t have guessed it off the bat from hearing his drawl. He would often say something along the lines of, “I’ve grown up and known so many people who like to fly the confederate flag. At this point in my life, if I see that I know you’re somebody I don’t even need to bother talking to because we’re going to have nothing in common and not agree on much.” That’s pretty much how I think of my interactions (or lack thereof) with anyone wearing a MAGA hat, or displaying confederate flags.
re: #582 Eclectic Cyborg
Question for you guys: Is just seeing someone in public with a MAGA hat reason enough to confront them?
I see no reason to just for that.
We were talking about an incident here with a long build up and, again, one which the MAGA lads themselves proudly posted on their social media.
A school superintendant passed a student off as her son in order to get the child seen at a doctor, and is now being charged with fraud: dailykos.com.
re: #589 ObserverArt
He got crucified enough for saying this about rural folks:
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
And honestly they proved him right by being the biggest supporters of birtherism.
re: #578 Hecuba’s daughter
Online equivalents - self identifying as MAGA, deplorable, includes pepe in their bio/avatar, etc.
Block with extreme prejudice. These fuckers are out there to waste your time. They aren’t intent on engaging in civilized debate.
re: #581 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and chili sauce
and bananas
and celery
and bacon
I love peanut butter and bananas. Not a huge fan of celery in general, but yeah, it’s good.
Gonna have to try peanut butter and bacon.
re: #572 freetoken
Check this headline by NPR:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Downplayed Shutdown Hardships. Dems Raged.
RAGED!!!
Wouldn’t have believed it. Oh wait, maybe I do believe it after all.
re: #582 Eclectic Cyborg
Question for you guys: Is just seeing someone in public with a MAGA hat reason enough to confront them?
I wouldn’t confront them for being out, but I hope they get nervous by my watching them, to make sure they don’t try to pull anything.
re: #596 lawhawk
Online equivalents - self identifying as MAGA, deplorable, includes pepe in their bio/avatar, etc.
Block with extreme prejudice. These fuckers are out there to waste your time. They aren’t intent on engaging in civilized debate.
I mean to me it just tells me a lot about a person without ever them uttering a word. Are all MAGA hat wearers alike? Nah but are the lot of them at the very least indifferent to Trump being a huge asshole? Yes. And I will gladly judge them as such.
re: #572 freetoken
Check this headline by NPR:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Downplayed Shutdown Hardships. Dems Raged.
RAGED!!!
Dem snowflakes always raging about something.
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re: #594 Belafon
A school superintendant passed a student off as her son in order to get the child seen at a doctor, and is now being charged with fraud: dailykos.com.
America, 2019.
re: #582 Eclectic Cyborg
Question for you guys: Is just seeing someone in public with a MAGA hat reason enough to confront them?
it’s a reason to merely point and laugh
This a good bookmark. This is (Peregrine Falcon)Tower Girl and her new boyfriend. I’m not sure of his name yet. The box is up on the UT Tower at the Univ. of TX Austin. They have displayed bonding behavior so we are hoping for the best.
biodiversity.utexas.edu
re: #603 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s a reason to merely point and laugh
or come up and ask them where the hat was made…
re: #600 HappyWarrior
I mean to me it just tells me a lot about a person without ever them uttering a word. Are all MAGA hat wearers alike? Nah but are the lot of them at the very least indifferent to Trump being a huge asshole? Yes. And I will gladly judge them as such.
The term A-hole understates the toxic effect this traitor has on our nation. He is a piece of treasonous trash who is deliberately and maliciously destroying our country, with the support of the Republican party in Washington. Anyone who supports him is endorsing Putin and the Trump agenda.
re: #582 Eclectic Cyborg
Question for you guys: Is just seeing someone in public with a MAGA hat reason enough to confront them?
re: #582 Eclectic Cyborg
Question for you guys: Is just seeing someone in public with a MAGA hat reason enough to confront them?
I treat it as if someone was wearing an “I Just Farted” T-shirt as a warning. Giving side-eye in case they fuck with somebody. But now I live in South America Haven’t seen a MAGAt hat Yet. It’s wonderful.
re: #474 lawhawk
Current mood:
Crossing between Eat the Rich and Living on the Edge:
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CMIIW but I seem to remember that song (Living on the Edge) being used to promote the Ford Edge when it was introduced in 2006.
moron going nutzo with the capitalization again
Nancy just said she “just doesn’t understand why?” Very simply, without a Wall it all doesn’t work. Our Country has a chance to greatly reduce Crime, Human Trafficking, Gangs and Drugs. Should have been done for decades. We will not Cave!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2019
re: #572 freetoken
Check this headline by NPR:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Downplayed Shutdown Hardships. Dems Raged.
RAGED!!!
Problem is the headline and not the article.
re: #610 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron going nutzo with the capitalization again
Locking you and your kids up would also reduce all of those, and more.
Nancy Pelosi responds to Wilbur Ross: “Is this the ‘let them eat cake’ kind of attitude, or ‘call your father for money?’” Via ABC pic.twitter.com/2qOpT4472P
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 24, 2019
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re: #607 Hecuba’s daughter
The term A-hole understates the toxic effect this traitor has on our nation. He is a piece of treasonous trash who is deliberately and maliciously destroying our country, with the support of the Republican party in Washington. Anyone who supports him is endorsing Putin and the Trump agenda.
You support a pig
You
Are
A
Pig
🐖
re: #607 Hecuba’s daughter
The term A-hole understates the toxic effect this traitor has on our nation. He is a piece of treasonous trash who is deliberately and maliciously destroying our country, with the support of the Republican party in Washington. Anyone who supports him is endorsing Putin and the Trump agenda.
The way that this red-meat base totally went for it, though… they always wanted someone who acted that way, was a bully and had no morals or ethics or anything of that sort.
It wasn’t that Trump transformed them, he just allowed them to reveal how they always had been the whole time.
re: #529 sagehen
“In addition, the local school district runs large deficits because it receives funding only for the 6,000 kids who attend public school, but must provide buses for the additional 30,000 who attend private schools.”
Which somehow, they think is just fine in towns where the private schools are Christian, and how dare anybody complain…
Which is paid for by THE PROPERTY TAX on every homeowner, whether or not their children attend public school or if they even have children.
re: #610 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron going nutzo with the capitalization again
Lol, the second time in two days that he says “no Cave!”
Sen. Schumer rightly characterizes Wilbur Ross comments as “appalling” and “the 21st century equivalent of ‘let them eat cake.” He added, “Secretary Ross, they just can’t call their stock broker and ask them to sell some of their shares.” Video from ABC. pic.twitter.com/GbyZt128iQ
— HawaiiDelilah™ (@HawaiiDelilah) January 24, 2019
re: #613 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Democrats are like the Avengers. It may take them a little while to get traction, but you’d better get out of the way when they do.
Larry Kudlow finishes exchange: “I’ve become a great fan of the millennials.”
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 24, 2019
Has this been the worst two days of the shutdown for Trump? Public complaints from FBI agents, former DHS chiefs and Coast Guard commandant; tone-deaf Ross/Lara Trump/Kudlow; terrible poll numbers out; Pelosi wins speech standoff; first official defections from Senate GOP…
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 24, 2019
SCOOP: @SenWarren is proposing a “wealth tax” on those with more than $50 million, in an attempt to combat soaring wealth inequality
The tax would hit those above $50M w/ a 2% wealth tax, & those above $1B w/ 3% wealth tax. Would raise $2.75T/10 yearshttps://t.co/Vllt3M3I9a— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) January 24, 2019
re: #617 The Vicious Babushka
Which is paid for by THE PROPERTY TAX on every homeowner, whether or not their children attend public school or if they even have children.
They may pay the property tax, but if the state is only basing the money on public students, they wouldn’t get any additional money for it.
re: #572 freetoken
Check this headline by NPR:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Downplayed Shutdown Hardships. Dems Raged.
RAGED!!!
These fuckers haven’t seen rage yet.
re: #625 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
That NPR writer tends to be all soft-shoe in his articles anyway. Like too much of NPR, they’ve been stripped of any real grit.
re: #509 HappyWarrior
Schumer is getting better at this. I know a lot wanted him gone after the first two years but I think he just needed to gain some experience and I do think seeing how tough Pelosi has been has made him better too.
I keep asking this, and so far the only answer I’ve gotten is Schumer didn’t hold up nominees for judges to allow Democrat Senator candidates to campaign.
What did Schumer do wrong his first two years when he was Senate Minority leader up against a well-entrenched McConnell in a Republican Congress?
I think the guy has gotten a bum rap, Now that he has some ability to block having a Pelosi lead Domcoratic House he can afford to get tougher. And he is.
re: #520 makeitstop
Between Ross, Kudlow and Lara Trump, we might as well just start calling them the ‘let them eat cake party.’
When did we stop?
I’ve used that on Republicans for years.
re: #627 ObserverArt
I keep asking this, and so far the only answer I’ve gotten is Schumer didn’t hold up nominees for judges to allow Democrat Senator candidates to campaign.
What did Schumer do wrong his first two years when he was Senate Minority leader up against a well-entrenched McConnell in a Republican Congress?
I think the guy has gotten a bum rap, Now that he has some ability to block having a Pelosi lead Domcoratic House he can afford to get tougher. And he is.
I think Schumer did OK with what he had. I also agree that his job has become easier, and it allows him to be more outspoken, when he now has allies that can back up his threats. When you don’t have that power, you have to work in the shadows.
re: #610 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron going nutzo with the capitalization again
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“We will not cave!”
He’s basically daring Mitch and the Senate to override him at this point.
Q: “That’s not volunteering if you’re being forced to work without pay. If you don’t show up you lose your job. That’s not volunteering…”
Larry Kudlow: “I’m not even going to go there. You know what I’m saying. It’s very clear…” pic.twitter.com/w1CNOmafBZ— CSPAN (@cspan) January 24, 2019
Keep digging, guys….
When you hear about Trump harping on Cohen’s father-in-law (Fima Shusterman), be sure to see it through this prism … https://t.co/6fPac6c5bl via @TPM pic.twitter.com/NqjVJDZ1bf
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 24, 2019
re: #621 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Holy shit. We’re operating in a universe where being forced to come in to work being rightly pointed out as pretty fucking far from “volunteering” is “semantics”? And this asshole thinks the vast majority of people are just coming in out of the goodness of their hearts?
Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann quoted during Savannah Guthrie interview: “I want to grow up to be Stephen Miller.” pic.twitter.com/mfmSadUMVH
— Mac McKinsey (@MacMcKinseyIV) January 23, 2019
re: #628 ObserverArt
When did we stop?
I’ve used that on Republicans for years.
Just not the actual leadership of the party saying as such. Overtly. That’s a first.
re: #571 Dr Lizardo
I believe it was Issac Asimov who noted there’s a strong strain of anti-intellectualism in American culture and it’s been there pretty since the beginning.
I thought it was Heinlein. Of course, could be both.
re: #634 lawhawk
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Yeah that tells me all I need to know about you Nick. Hopefully you grow up before then.
I’m struck by how much he looks like the Sebring FL bank shooter.
Is there an “incel” gene?
half //— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) January 24, 2019
re: #551 Eclectic Cyborg
Good god, that’s abhorrent.
I think Garrison’s cartoons are funny in their own way. They are so over the top and wingnutty they become their own documentation of how absurd he and wingnuts can be.
Fun from fevered minds.
re: #634 lawhawk
Well that makes one Stephen Miller acolyte.
re: #553 freetoken
Wilbur Ross is being rightfully crucified on twitter…. but he’s stolen the spotlight of hard-heartedness from Lara Trump from just a few days ago.
He couldn’t let a little lady take the spotlight.
But there is never a low too low in Trumplandia.
re: #640 ObserverArt
I think Garrison’s cartoons are funny in their own way. They are so over the top and wingnutty they become their own documentation of how absurd he and wingnuts can be.
Fun from fevered minds.
They’re absurd but they’re also often racist. They’re almost like a cartoon version of what a wingnut political cartoonist would be.
re: #637 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
I thought it was Heinlein. Of course, could be both.
Asimov:
goodreads.com
re: #639 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I’m struck by how much he looks like the Sebring FL bank shooter.
And they both look like that kidnapper who killed his victim’s parents.
I’m becoming convinced that there’s an incel greenhouse somewhere.
re: #627 ObserverArt
I keep asking this, and so far the only answer I’ve gotten is Schumer didn’t hold up nominees for judges to allow Democrat Senator candidates to campaign.
What did Schumer do wrong his first two years when he was Senate Minority leader up against a well-entrenched McConnell in a Republican Congress?
I think the guy has gotten a bum rap, Now that he has some ability to block having a Pelosi lead Domcoratic House he can afford to get tougher. And he is.
I keep saying that. Everyone agrees. Then they go back to “Schumer learning from Pelosi.” Sigh.
re: #616 Myron Falwell
The way that this red-meat base totally went for it, though… they always wanted someone who acted that way, was a bully and had no morals or ethics or anything of that sort.
It wasn’t that Trump transformed them, he just allowed them to reveal how they always had been the whole time.
Yep - all the assholes finally found their King Asshole.
re: #634 lawhawk
Mac McKinsey
@MacMcKinseyIV
Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann quoted during Savannah Guthrie interview: “I want to grow up to be Stephen Miller.”1,198
11:34 AM - Jan 23, 2019
Sounds like an Internet joke — not something Sandmann ever actually said.
re: #582 Eclectic Cyborg
Would never choose to interact with a MAGA hat wearer. I would immediately assume that they were racist, selfish, mean, and stupid.
It’s like the Calvin peeing decal with extra special added racism.
No thanks.
re: #627 ObserverArt
I keep asking this, and so far the only answer I’ve gotten is Schumer didn’t hold up nominees for judges to allow Democrat Senator candidates to campaign.
What did Schumer do wrong his first two years when he was Senate Minority leader up against a well-entrenched McConnell in a Republican Congress?
I think the guy has gotten a bum rap, Now that he has some ability to block having a Pelosi-led Democratic House he can afford to get tougher. And he is.
I think a lot of Chuck Schumer’s “bum rap” comes from the fact that he succeeded the famously combative Harry Reid as Senate Dem Leader. Reid could always be counted to on to fire off a few zingers to the media regarding GOP bullshit, and make damn sure everybody knew where he and the Senate Democrats stood on prettty much everything. Schumer has always been more of a Senate “inside guy”, preferring - well, at least until he pushed for the Leader position - to work outside the spotlight. But yeah, given McConnell’s LBJ-level* control of his caucus, ol’ Chuck has done a pretty creditable job.
*not a compliment
re: #582 Eclectic Cyborg
Question for you guys: Is just seeing someone in public with a MAGA hat reason enough to confront them?
I would vote no, but then context of it all matters.
Ordinarily you are not going to get anywhere discussing with them because they will see it as confrontational and then go off. They come pre-pissed off, and it takes little to get them babbling Trump illogical bullshit.
But, if something crazy is occurring and there is a MAGA hatter involved, then some form of confrontation might be necessary.
re: #650 Jay C
I think Schumer’s big weakness is that he had not played the media, especially social media, game very well.
Schumer is all too institutional and not really much into public strategy.
Yes, he was in a weak position before the Dems took over the House. Yet I feel that there should have been a way to throw more of a spotlight on Senate shenanigans in supporting Trump.
Now with “Nancy” holding the Republicans responsible, hopefully Schumer will be more able to get the Senate Dems in a place where the Republicans will feel they have to negotiate.
re: #640 ObserverArt
I think Garrison’s cartoons are funny in their own way. They are so over the top and wingnutty they become their own documentation of how absurd he and wingnuts can be.
Fun from fevered minds.
At least this one didn’t feature Garrison’s trademark idealization of “President” Trump: you know, the ones with the Greek-god profile, Mr. Universe body, and jut-jawed stance of assertiveness…
Maybe next time.
re: #653 Jay C
At least this one didn’t feature Garrison’s trademark idealization of “President” Trump: you know, the ones with the Greek-god profile, Mr. Universe body, and jut-jawed stance of assertiveness…
Maybe next time.
Garrison’s Trump cartoons are uh interesting. Definitely MAGArealism.
re: #562 Eclectic Cyborg
There they go again…
“The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will allow a ministry in South Carolina that only works with heterosexual Christian families to participate in a federally funded foster care program.
That means Miracle Hill Ministries can receive federal funding to participate in the program while not working with non-Christians, or those who identify as LGBT.
The organization was in violation of a regulation issued by the Obama administration that states organizations receiving funds from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can’t discriminate on the basis of religion or sexual orientation.
But Trump’s HHS issued an exemption for the ministry to participate in the program, writing that to force it out would be a violation of its religious freedom.”
And he also added, “And fuck those other people’s freedoms.” Maybe he can go all out and withhold funds from organization’s that DON’T require all people helped to be christian.
re: #640 ObserverArt
I think Garrison’s cartoons are funny in their own way. They are so over the top and wingnutty they become their own documentation of how absurd he and wingnuts can be.
Fun from fevered minds.
For me, it’s the QAnon bullshit - it’s a maelstrom of wingnut apocalyptic masturbatory fantasies, re-heated Satanic Panic paranoid nostalgia-tripping from the 80’s, and all manner of wackadoodle conspiracism.
I usually find myself in horrified bemusement when I read that crap. It’s funny - but to be honest, there’s a tinge of sadness to it as well; some of the more hardcore Qultists (the ones that haven’t bailed after all the failed predictions) have completely alienated their friends and families and every now and then, one of them will post something about their failed efforts to “redpill” their loved ones, and yeah, that is sad……they simply cannot, or will not, see that this patently ludicrous conspiracy theory has taken over their lives to the point where they’re no longer able to interact with the people closest to them.
re: #648 Hecuba’s daughter
Sounds like an Internet joke — not something Sandmann ever actually said.
I probably should have said snark, rather than joke. That the problem with Twitter: a snark without snark marks is often taken literally, but then that was a problem that columnists had before the Internet. Sarcasm was often misinterpreted as the truth.
re: #582 Eclectic Cyborg
Question for you guys: Is just seeing someone in public with a MAGA hat reason enough to confront them?
I don’t think confrontation is the way to go. Definitely keep and eye on them while in range tho’.
re: #643 HappyWarrior
They’re absurd but they’re also often racist. They’re almost like a cartoon version of what a wingnut political cartoonist would be.
Which in a way makes them a lampoon.
When I first saw some of his stuff I thought maybe he was spinning the wingnuts up and cashing in. He gives them everything they want in one cartoon and it just seems like he is mocking them.
I know he is a ‘nut, but it seems to be a lucrative business pleasing wingnuts and tickling their rage. So he makes me wonder too.
re: #653 Jay C
At least this one didn’t feature Garrison’s trademark idealization of “President” Trump: you know, the ones with the Greek-god profile, Mr. Universe body, and jut-jawed stance of assertiveness…
Maybe next time.
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