You might not remember, but a woman ran for President in 2016 and everyone lost their goddamn minds over it. The good news is that more women are running in 2020. The bad news is that the media has not evolved in that time.
And yeah, of course I realize that by saying this on Twitter I’m about to get a torrent of abuse. So it goes.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 27, 2019
“Likeable” ladies are hard to define. I find Nancy Pelosi quite likeable, but there might be some that don’t. Beauty is in the text of the sealed indictment.
re: #2 Decatur Deb
I see what you did there.
Two years of “Don’t you think she looks tired?” reporting, with every yawn, sniffle, and stumble analyzed as “proof” of every medical malady commonly known and a few culled from the deeper parts of WebMD.
Every frown or pinched look criticized as looking “mean” to voters, with at least one moron (bonus points if they have a uterus) suggesting the female candidates would gain more in the polls if they “smiled more.”
Open discussions about the “dangers” of a woman president, with numerous PMS jokes made as though the current occupant of the Oval Office is the very model of restraint and emotional stability.
And all the usual remarks about “stamina,” “presence,” and the general suggestion that a female president just wouldn’t be taken “seriously” compared to her male counterparts. Because a fat-ass who needs a golf cart to keep up with other world leaders commands so much more respect, dontchaknow.//////
Please tell me again how trump is likable.
A lot of Bernie Sanders fans remind me VERY MUCH of Ron Paulians. Same irrational devotion and vitriol toward critics.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
A pathology finding a vector.
“Likable Ladies” and “Dudes You’d Want to Have a Beer With” are inventions of a fourth estate too lazy to do the hard work of keeping the public informed about governing and politics and being a check on power.
Isn’t the risk of death 100% at the end of the day? What’s 13% more? https://t.co/FmsIeh2Zp9
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) January 27, 2019
From last thread:
re: #20 Joe Bacon 🌹
Jack ,welcome to white women dating techniques circa late 80’s 90 ‘s idk it’s still kinda blurryQuit repurposing our anorexia light strategy Also no Nazis
— Donna Bower (@dmbower) January 27, 2019
Live and on the ground in Fort Lauderdale: Roger Stone has put up a giant Nixon poster in his front door’s window. CC: @MiamiNewTimes pic.twitter.com/50akcHGVLx
— Jesse Scott (@jesseRscott) January 27, 2019
OT I am taking a break from this insanity by watching Bob Ross on the local PBS station. His paintwork and voice are very relaxing.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
A lot of Bernie Sanders fans remind me VERY MUCH of Ron Paulians. Same irrational devotion and vitriol toward critics.
Yeah they attract a lot of the same types of people.
“Today is not a cave, but a grave for Stephen Miller policies,” an adviser said. https://t.co/Y49r1uZY3i
— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 26, 2019
#SatansSnotRag aka Stephen Miller needs to be marched directly to The Hague, do not pass go, do not collect $200. He is responsible for the most objectionable and cruel fo the regime’s immigration policies from the Muslim ban to deporting Vietnamese refugees to zero tolerance. https://t.co/j1tCCslKee
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) January 27, 2019
sharing just because of #SatansSnotRag
So Jack Dorsey is stealing from the Steve Jobs playbook.
Trump’s Chief of Staff was on Face the Nation spinning like a top.
1. Trump is willing to shut down the gov’t again in three weeks.
2. We’re facing a serious humanitarian and security crisis.
3. Trump doesn’t WANT to shut down the gov’t so don’t make him do it.
4. Rank and file democrats in the House agree with Trump, but Nancy Pelosi is so mean.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
A lot of Bernie Sanders fans remind me VERY MUCH of Ron Paulians. Same irrational devotion and vitriol toward critics.
Equally Lyndon LaRouche.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
you aяе теяяiбle peяsoи!!!
re: #11 Alephnaught
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I’m sure Jack has the word Nazis filtered so he’ll never see that tweet.
Wasn’t this a scene in “Reservoir Dogs?” https://t.co/h1EVulIzMM
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 27, 2019
re: #18 Teddy’s Person
Trump’s Chief of Staff was on Face the Nation spinning like a top.
1. Trump is willing to shut down the gov’t again in three weeks.
2. We’re facing a serious humanitarian and security crisis.
3. Trump doesn’t WANT to shut down the gov’t so don’t make him do it.
4. Rank and file democrats in the House agree with Trump, but Nancy Pelosi is so mean.
#4 is really the biggest thing they’re gonna take away from this whole shitshow: “The House Dems wanted to vote for a wall, but Nancy wouldn’t let them!” That means Nancy is a Speaker the likes we have not seen since Tip O’Neill. She commands power and respect in her caucus that John of Orange and the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver could never have hoped to wield within their own.
re: #23 Targetpractice
#4 is really the biggest thing they’re gonna take away from this whole shitshow: “The House Dems wanted to vote for a wall, but Nancy wouldn’t let them!” That means Nancy is a Speaker the likes we have not seen since Tip O’Neill. She commands power and respect in her caucus that John of Orange and the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver could never have hoped to wield within their own.
The GOP voted for a clean resolution but Mitch didn’t allow it.
Nancy has decided to take the outcome of the 2018 elections as a signal to come out swinging and the Trump and GOP are still reeling from it…
Just read that Steve Schmidt has been advising Howard Schultz (CEO-Starbucks) on his toe-dipping into 2020. How in the holy hell does the guy who thought Sarah Palin was VP material get a gig advising anyone on their potential candidacy? Man, white dudes get so many second chances there needs to be some new math invented to keep track.
Who are these mysterious “Democrats who agree with Trump” that no one is willing to name?
re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
Who are these mysterious “Democrats who agree with Trump” that no one is willing to name?
We’ll never know. The only Dem on record voting for any wall funding is Joe Manchin. By contrast, House Repubs and Senate Repubs were on record as supporting bills without wall funding in order to end the shutdown.
re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
Who are these mysterious “Democrats who agree with Trump” that no one is willing to name?
among the millions who would have voted for him but had their votes stolen or cancelled out by an illegal immigrant
re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
Who are these mysterious “Democrats who agree with Trump” that no one is willing to name?
Having cocktails with “everyone says” and “most people think.”
re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
Who are these mysterious “Democrats who agree with Trump” that no one is willing to name?
We probably both like Katz’s Deli.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
A lot of Bernie Sanders fans remind me VERY MUCH of Ron Paulians. Same irrational devotion and vitriol toward critics.
Ie asshats
(No, not to be confused with arhat)
re: #29 Teddy’s Person
Having cocktails with “everyone says” and “most people think.”
They seem to frequent hipster coffee shops.
re: #12 jaunte
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Live and on the ground in Fort Lauderdale: Roger Stone has put up a giant Nixon poster in his front door’s window
Roger stone: Florida man
Roger Stone used his national platform to have this exchange:
“Are you prepared to spend the last years of your life in jail?” ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked at one point.
But Stone dismissed the notion, insisted that he would be “vindicated.”
“My attorneys… believe this indictment is thin as piss on a rock,” he argued. “So, I’m prepared to fight for my life. I have to go to the public at stonedefensefund.com to ask for their support.”
Always be grifting.
Stone is coyly suggesting he might put out for the right inducement:
Roger Stone, ahead of arraignment, won’t categorically rule out cooperation agreement with special counsel
re: #23 Targetpractice
#4 is really the biggest thing they’re gonna take away from this whole shitshow: “The House Dems wanted to vote for a wall, but Nancy wouldn’t let them!” That means Nancy is a Speaker the likes we have not seen since Tip O’Neill. She commands power and respect in her caucus that John of Orange and the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver could never have hoped to wield within their own.
If that’s the case cf: Mitch McConnell
Then stfu
re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The GOP voted for a clean resolution but Mitch didn’t allow it.
Nancy has decided to take the outcome of the 2018 elections as a signal to come out swinging and the Trump and GOP are still reeling from it…
Oops
Gmta
re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
Who are these mysterious “Democrats who agree with Trump” that no one is willing to name?
Maybe this one… //
In an interview on Sunday, MSNBC host Alex Witt asked Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) if he would be willing to fund a border barrier in exchange for protections for immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
“I’ve got to say that after this last [shutdown], the president and many of his associates are sociopaths,” DeSaulnier replied. “Sociopaths don’t have any empathy for the cruelty that that they impose on other people. They are pathological liars, clinically. And they have a great sense of grandiosity.”
re: #35 Decatur Deb
Stone is coyly suggesting he might put out for the right inducement:
Roger Stone, ahead of arraignment, won’t categorically rule out cooperation agreement with special counsel
Like I said downstairs, Mueller would not have had this asshole drug like Saddam out of his spiderhole if he was looking to make a deal for information. He either figures he has all Stone could offer or he will get it by going through Stone’s electronic devices. IANAL, but I don’t think prosecutors have you tossed in the back of a car at the ass crack of dawn if they’re looking to get on your good side.
re: #38 Teddy’s Person
Maybe this one… //
I should correct myself that one House DINO did signal that he would vote for wall funding, so I guess Mulvaney could argue that two Dems are on record as being supporting of such.
Here’s a run down of Roger Stone’s five sleaziest dirty tricks. Trump isn’t his first rodeo.
re: #39 Targetpractice
Like I said downstairs, Mueller would not have had this asshole drug like Saddam out of his spiderhole if he was looking to make a deal for information. He either figures he has all Stone could offer or he will get it by going through Stone’s electronic devices. IANAL, but I don’t think prosecutors have you tossed in the back of a car at the ass crack of dawn if they’re looking to get on your good side.
I tried listing the people around the President who most need to do time, and try as I might, I couldn’t work Stone into better than 5th place.
re: #39 Targetpractice
Like I said downstairs, Mueller would not have had this asshole drug like Saddam out of his spiderhole if he was looking to make a deal for information. He either figures he has all Stone could offer or he will get it by going through Stone’s electronic devices. IANAL, but I don’t think prosecutors have you tossed in the back of a car at the ass crack of dawn if they’re looking to get on your good side.
as has already been said
the true target of Friday’s F.B.I. actions was not Mr. Stone himself, but his electronic devices.”
and
Mueller does not need Stone to get to someone else and, even if he did, he could not rely on whatever Stone told him. Stone has nothing to sell that Mueller would be interested in buying.”
Well, we were all warned that the Trumps were bad at math:
(It also pisses me off the way Ivanka tries to make it the guys’ job to answer math questions——-such a liberated role model.)
re: #40 Targetpractice
I should correct myself that one House DINO did signal that he would vote for wall funding, so I guess Mulvaney could argue that two Dems are on record as being supporting of such.
No correction needed for your post, and I’m not sure if I need to clarify that my post was snark. 😀
re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
Who are these mysterious “Democrats who agree with Trump” that no one is willing to name?
The ones collecting at that hipster coffee bar Jacob Wohl hangs out at…
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Steven Miller is Satan’s buttplug.
re: #44 KerFuFFler
Well, we were all warned that the Trumps were bad at math:
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(It also pisses me off the way Ivanka tries to make it the guys’ job to answer math questions——-such a liberated role model.)
I majored in math as an undergrad and tutored a few of my male friends. I came home from class one day to find a copy of an article claiming that women are not as good at math as men taped to my door. I found the guys I tutored, threw the crumpled up article at them, and told them to never ask me for help with their math again.
narrator: They never did.
Forget doing your job, Border Patrol, we need you to provide evidence to back up Trump’s duct tape fantasies:
America 2019: After Trump repeatedly airs his weirdly specific racist freakout fantasy of Mexicans blue-taping women’s mouths shut, Border Patrol tasked with finding evidence for his claims. https://t.co/7VEtwkyWMQ
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) January 27, 2019
All,
We require your assistance on a quick turnaround for C-1.
Please forward any information that you may have (in any format) regarding claims “that traffickers tie up and silence women with tape before illegally driving them through the desert from Mexico to the United States in the backs of cars and windowless vans.” Reference the news article below for further info.
We require this information to be submitted to BPHQG2 by 1200 EST.
V/R,
Armando Sianez — Acting Assistant Chief
US Border Patrol Headquarters
re: #49 jaunte
Somewhere in a hole in the wall in DC someone is saying, “Let’s get the Border Patrol to back up what DT said.”
re: #50 PhillyPretzel
Trump will corrupt anyone foolish enough to go along with him.
re: #50 PhillyPretzel
Somewhere in a hole in the wall in DC someone is saying, “Let’s get the Border Patrol to back up what DT said.”
Note to self: Check recent Border Control credit card receipts for purchases of blue tape.
Trump’s debating tricks:
1. Yelling “WRONG!” while opponent is speaking
2. Stalking behind opponent, breathing heavily down opponent’s neck.
3. Threatening opponent.
4. Repeating opponent’s words.
5. Interrupting opponent with name-calling.— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 27, 2019
re: #49 jaunte
Forget doing your job, Border Patrol, we need you to provide evidence to back up Trump’s duct tape fantasies:
re: #50 PhillyPretzel
Somewhere in a hole in the wall in DC someone is saying, “Let’s get the Border Patrol to back up what DT said.”
re: #51 jaunte
Trump will corrupt anyone foolish enough to go along with him.
Five’ll get you ten someone at the Border Patrol is already hard at work making “evidence”.
re: #52 bd(it’s all true)
Note to self: Check recent Border Control credit card receipts for purchases of blue tape.
And U-Haul/Enterprise rentals.
re: #53 The Vicious Babushka
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Don’t think Trump’s heavy breathing is a debate trick. It’s he default setting. Dude’s not healthy.
The crowd count is not official yet, but #Oakland PD estimates there are 12,000 people stretching for blocks around who will not be able to get in to @KamalaHarris rally. Plus the 10,000+ who are already in. We will give a final estimate later . pic.twitter.com/5J0QZZr4rl
— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) January 27, 2019
re: #49 jaunte
Forget doing your job, Border Patrol, we need you to provide evidence to back up Trump’s duct tape fantasies:
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The lines are blocks deep for the @KamalaHarris rally in Oakland. #Kamala2020 pic.twitter.com/tT53J9UvCO
— Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (@sarah_grossman) January 27, 2019
re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Must be something nasty in those 11 secret herbs and spices!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 27, 2019
something for HW:
Historic graveyard at Clonfeakle, Co. Tyrone, an early church site dedicated to St. Jarlath. 17th & 18th cent stones. Always struck by the regionality of gravestones. pic.twitter.com/DHBLM3BKVU
— Catherine McLoughlin (@SMLarchaeology) January 27, 2019
Yep, here they come.
Lol. He hasn’t even announced yet. When he does, you’ll find out just how many of us there are, and that we are indeed very REAL pic.twitter.com/w2CqexHj3Y
— Earth Mama🌹#RunBernieRun (@LauraIsABerner) January 27, 2019
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Yep, here they come.
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put a red conical hat on him and he’s a dead ringer for an ancient garden gnome
WE’RE GOING TO THE PARK. AND I’M BRINGING MY STUFFED FREN SEBASTIAN. AND I’M GOING TO SHOW HIM. TO EVERYBODY
— ♡ Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) January 27, 2019
.@MaeveReston, @mollyhc, @gdebenedetti and @awzurcher
are among the people covering Harris’s kickoff rally: https://t.co/3cE4ioLTtZ— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 27, 2019
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Yep, here they come.
Bernie’s been in a position “to change the world” for over 25 years. What exactly has he done? I guess getting elected to office is an accomplishment but that’s just the first step. Bernie supporters seem to think that’s all it takes.
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
DT will say the crowds at his inauguration were bigger.
re: #69 PhillyPretzel
DT will say the crowds at his inauguration were bigger.
so will Bernie and the Berners
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Yep, here they come.
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He’s on his fifth President. No signature legislation at all.
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Yep, here they come.
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I think I’ve seen that “(Name)IsABerner” style of username more than once. IOW, probably not a real person.
ISIS, Russia-related headlines that make us want to scream pic.twitter.com/Z0hysaHuJM
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) January 27, 2019
re: #72 can’t think of a decent username
I think I’ve seen that “(Name)IsABerner” style of username more than once. IOW, probably not a real person.
And they repeat the same exact Tweets.
If @SenSanders attempts to run as a Democrat:
1. Where are his tax returns?
2. Is he registered as a Democrat?
3. Will he agree to back the nominee if he’s not the one, when the party decides there’s a winner?
The answers better be:
Here
Yes
Yes
To participate.— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 27, 2019
I expect any of his supporters to answer these.
re: #74 Joe Bacon 🌹
And they repeat the same exact Tweets.
If they are, we will have to figure out how to flag them.
re: #75 Belafon
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I expect any of his supporters to answer these.
Seriously how can he legitimately call Trump out on transparency with this.
If you’re trying to convince people the Covington kids are all right, maybe skip sharing white nationalist-supporter Roger Kimball’s screed where he calls Nathan Phillips “the pretend Tonto.” pic.twitter.com/4sB4gIb6Xz
— Brandt (@UrbanAchievr) January 27, 2019
Since the risk of death is currently 100% for all human beings, does this mean if you eat fried chicken every day the risk would be 117%?
Asking for a very worried friend. https://t.co/rgaVcc4Cy8— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 27, 2019
More on DT’s latest Venezuela business:
by Joshua Alvarez.
The Trump administration’s actions against the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela have been met with praise. But Nicolas Maduro’s reign of power in Venezuela is illegitimate. Not only was his latest election to the presidency stolen, he’s presiding over a failed state that is harming its own citizens and causing South America’s own gigantic refugee crisis. Through actual statecraft—and only looping in the president after moves were in motion-administration officials secured an international diplomatic coalition declaring Maduro illegitimate and Juan Guaido, the head of the National Assembly, as the country’s rightful interim president.
Goes on to wonder if DT is standing up for human rights and democracy here, why does he recognize Guatemalan President Morales or Honduras President Hernandez, and isn’t it odd that those countries are where the dreaded “caravans” are originating?
I just found out I was on a Twitter list of “Bernie Sanders Supporters” probably from 3 years ago when I voted for him in the primary.
No more tho. Blocked that Bernoid.
but of course…
Bolton warns of “significant response” to any violence or intimidation against US diplomats in Venezuela https://t.co/o5C0ahwKbL pic.twitter.com/ZKDfWheyuT
— The Hill (@thehill) January 27, 2019
JFC
Considering the media layoffs, something that should be considered and will probably be ignored is how some of the young reporters at sites with layoffs made situations worse through unionization, ideology, and a desire to be activists & political combatants instead of reporters.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 27, 2019
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
but of course…
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But it will be an American citizen team building exercise!
Just now on @MeetThePress, Hugh Hewitt said that maybe taking on the Venezuelans would be the thing that finally brings America together.
No, I’m not making this up.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 27, 2019
We can all take off our MAGA/Pussy Hats, lock arms and sing kumbaya while watching the dead Venezuelan civilians on tv.
re: #83 The Vicious Babushka
JFC
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You literally wrote for a site called Red State.
re: #84 bd(it’s all true)
But it will be an American citizen team building exercise!
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We can all take off our MAGA/Pussy Hats, lock arms and sing kumbaya while watching the dead Venezuelan civilians on tv.
Uh no Hugh. Maduro is a monster but so are many of the admin’s allies. Fuck your war lust.
re: #86 bd(it’s all true)
lol
I mean. He acts like he’s this independent guy when he’s anything but.
I’m old enough to remember how the Vietnam war united all Americans.
Seriously, who tf even pays attention to Ben Stein any more?
Ben, your nasal passages must have leaked into your cerebellum, it’s Trump’s form of populism that is patterned after Hitler’s SS and Mussolini’s Brown Shirts. That’s why he loves Putin, Erdogan, Susie, Assad, and Duterte.
— Bruce Matsui (@matsuib) January 26, 2019
re: #85 HappyWarrior
You literally wrote for a site called Red State.
More that that. IIRC Erick Erickson was a founder of RedState, and the entire purpose of RedState was precisely to place political combat above reporting.
re: #90 The Vicious Babushka
Seriously, who tf even pays attention to Ben Stein any more?
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Uh no Ben. STFU you old irrelevant hack.
re: #91 EPR-radar
More that that. IIRC Erick Erickson was a founder of RedState, and the entire purpose of RedState was precisely to place political combat above reporting.
Precisely
Because I don’t like him…… And he’s too old. And he has a real shitty record. And this is all I’m saying to you. And I’m blocking you in 60sec.
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 27, 2019
re: #83 The Vicious Babushka
JFC
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This thread is an amazing summary of how the newspaper business got into such trouble:
For those who aren’t quite sure why these media layoffs keep happening, or think “it’s the internet!” or “people don’t pay to subscribe,” there’s a lot more going on. Though that is part of that. Here’s a cliffs notes version - not exhaustive but it hits the highlights:
— Jeremy Littau (@JeremyLittau) January 24, 2019
THREAD
This morning, ICE agents got on my Greyhound bus that was headed from Spokane to Portland. They walked around before they asked me and few others to step outside and took my documents and interrogated me for around 20 mins then claimed my papers were fake and that I’m “illegal”.
— Mohanad Elshieky (@MohanadElshieky) January 27, 2019
In one week, Breitbart published 64 articles under the tag “Covington Catholic High School.” SIXTY FOUR. #AttentionHacking pic.twitter.com/jsGhnCVC0t
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) January 27, 2019
re: #2 Decatur Deb
“Likeable” ladies are hard to define. I find Nancy Pelosi quite likeable, but there might be some that don’t. Beauty is in the text of the sealed indictment.
Likability for politicians is, I think, a mostly visceral thing for most voters. Same with “authenticity” - it’s not necessarily about policy, it’s about trust. I think voters want to be able to trust the president (and this is one of the things that has made Trump a fundamentally unpopular president through the course of his presidency).
re: #96 The Vicious Babushka
Why the fuck is ICE messing around with domestic travel?
Time to put this up again.
NEWSWEEK - DNC RULE CHANGE MAY BLOCK BERNIE SANDERS FROM RUNNING AS DEMOCRAT IN 2020
new rule adopted by the Democratic National Committee may block Bernie Sanders and other political outsiders from seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination in the 2020 presidential election.
Randi Weingarten, a member of the DNC and president of the American Federation of Teachers, posted a photo of the rule change on Twitter saying that the rules and bylaws committee had “changed the rules to ensure to run for President as a Democrat you need to be a Democrat.”
In order to seek the party’s nomination, a candidate must publicly announce that they are a registered Democrat, will accept the Democratic nomination, and will “run and serve” as a member of the Democratic Party.
…more at link…
Image from Newsweek…
Another source, same info…
The Hill - DNC panel adopts rule requiring candidates to run, serve as a Democrat
re: #100 KGxvi
Why the fuck is ICE messing around with domestic travel?
Because they feel like it and that’s how they get their jollies.
They have FUN with this.
re: #84 bd(it’s all true)
Hugh, the Christian thing would be “taking in the Venezuelans” not taking them on.
re: #84 bd(it’s all true)
But it will be an American citizen team building exercise!
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We can all take off our MAGA/Pussy Hats, lock arms and sing kumbaya while watching the dead Venezuelan civilians on tv.
There will be a lot of Americans uniting against it.
re: #100 KGxvi
Why the fuck is ICE messing around with domestic travel?
Because getting to ‘papers, please’ in the US is one of the few things depraved enough to get jaded conservatives hard.
a few of my notes on pg. 4 of stone indictment before joining @JohnKingCNN #InsidePolitics early this am @CNNPolitics pic.twitter.com/Ly4XHPYZYR
— Carrie Cordero (@carriecordero) January 27, 2019
re: #96 The Vicious Babushka
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Here is a photo of the racist trash Fox News call “heroes”. pic.twitter.com/oXbSfoKvB7
— Mohanad Elshieky (@MohanadElshieky) January 27, 2019
re: #94 Dave In Austin
I can get all of that, and someone who supports women, minorities, and will let me see their tax returns in the Democratic nominees.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 27, 2019
We need a universal twitter rejection of Sanders that everyone uses….. and that’s all they get
re: #106 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The guys on PSA keep mentioning this… if a lot of Trump’s public statements had instead been private letters/emails or recorded private conversations, we’d all recognize it as conspiracy/collusion/obstruction of justice. But because he does his crimes in public, it sort of fries everyone’s brains and a lot of people just can’t recognize it.
re: #109 Dave In Austin
We need a universal twitter rejection of Sanders that everyone uses….. and that’s all they get
Lindsey Graham is recognized as Butters from South Park… in that vein, we can recognize Bernie as Mr. Garrison.
“Never realised there were so many angry people on this Twitter thing Pauline. It’s no wonder your nerves are shot to shit” pic.twitter.com/KfE6B97rLz
— Ash Warner (@AlsBoy) January 27, 2019
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #8 Teddy’s Person
“Likable Ladies” and “Dudes You’d Want to Have a Beer With” are inventions of a fourth estate too lazy to do the hard work of keeping the public informed about governing and politics and being a check on power.
Plus the hard work isn’t very profitable.
Nothing gets done in America if it doesn’t make somebody money. Preferably someone who already has far more than they need.
re: #112 KGxvi
Lindsey Graham is recognized as Butters from South Park… in that vein, we can recognize Bernie as Mr. Garrison.
Ha.
re: #114 gwangung
I suspect it was actually CBP, not ICE, doing the harassing in this case. They’re commonly seen (albeit in marked cars) at the train and bus stations here in western NY… that whole asinine rule that gives them search powers within 100 miles of the border.
“We know this is not going to be easy. We know what the doubters will say … it’s not your time … wait your turn … the odds are long. They’ll say it can’t be done. But America’s story has always been written by people who can see what can be unburdened by what has been.” pic.twitter.com/FJ4lJ1yelc
— Maya Harris (@mayaharris_) January 27, 2019
re: #101 ObserverArt
Time to put this up again.
NEWSWEEK - DNC RULE CHANGE MAY BLOCK BERNIE SANDERS FROM RUNNING AS DEMOCRAT IN 2020
Image from Newsweek…
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Another source, same info…
The Hill - DNC panel adopts rule requiring candidates to run, serve as a Democrat
HOW DARE THE DEMOCRATS DEMAND THAT ONLY DEMOCRATS RUN IN THEIR PRIMARY!!!! SO MUCH FOR BEING THE BIG TENT PARTY!!
re: #84 bd(it’s all true)
For the hashtag:
We will be welcomed as liberators! Right?
But, MAGA, or whatever.#MostlyAdderallGovernsAmerica— Karl W. Lewis (@TheKarlWLewis) January 27, 2019
re: #120 Belafon
For the hashtag:
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re: #117 ipsos
I suspect it was actually CBP, not ICE, doing the harassing in this case. They’re commonly seen (albeit in marked cars) at the train and bus stations here in western NY… that whole asinine rule that gives them search powers within 100 miles of the border.
Yes, that’s what I said about the INS descendant; they have the xenophobic DNA that has them itching to unleash the wrath of God on the unworthy (i.e., the non-white).
re: #117 ipsos
I suspect it was actually CBP, not ICE, doing the harassing in this case. They’re commonly seen (albeit in marked cars) at the train and bus stations here in western NY… that whole asinine rule that gives them search powers within 100 miles of the border.
And the really fucked up thing is that if I had been on that bus, and I have the same documents this lady had, I probably would have been ignored because I have white skin.
Interesting that the news that Treasury is lifting sanctions on 3 of Deripaska’s businesses is rolled out on a Sunday evening.
@catesish built BuzzFeed. Literally. If you want to build yourself any sort of empire, hire Cates, she will make you one. And the reason she was everyone’s favorite person is because of stuff like this: https://t.co/zDq1ysv9CX
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) January 27, 2019
Thread.
Read it now.
Go ahead. I hope you like dogs.
Also, because of people like you, Florida is a Stand Your Ground state.
Why do I mention it?
No reason. But obviously people like you don’t much believe in walls either. pic.twitter.com/lU5MMhNIn5— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 27, 2019
re: #112 KGxvi
Lindsey Graham is recognized as Butters from South Park… in that vein, we can recognize Bernie as Mr. Garrison.
The comparison of Lindsey to Trump and Butter to Cartman is pretty eerie.
Bernie almost reminds me of Officer Barbrady… loud and annoying but absolutely useless.
re: #35 Decatur Deb
Stone is coyly suggesting he might put out for the right inducement:
Roger Stone, ahead of arraignment, won’t categorically rule out cooperation agreement with special counsel
How would anyone believe what he says? He would be another who agreed to co-operate and then lied.
re: #96 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
Who are these mysterious “Democrats who agree with Trump” that no one is willing to name?
Republicans.
re: #124 Barefoot Grin
Interesting that the news that Treasury is lifting sanctions on 3 of Deripaska’s businesses is rolled out on a Sunday evening.
Mere days after this young woman was taken into custody at Moscow Airport:
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #127 Myron Falwell
The comparison of Lindsey to Trump and Butter to Cartman is pretty eerie.
Bernie almost reminds me of Officer Barbrady… loud and annoying but absolutely useless.
Graham was actually being called Butters long before Trump came on the scene. As far back as at least 2010 (Andrew Sullivan was the first one I remember calling him that). Barbrady is a pretty good one for Sanders, particularly with the “nothing to see here” part.
re: #94 Dave In Austin
Bernie has been in congress for over 30 years, so what has he accomplished during all that time other than jack & shit?
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 27, 2019
LauraIsABerner responded with a link to Bernie’s Senate webpage, as if that somehow “proves” he has more “accomplishments” than any other professional politician, like NANCY PELOSI.
re: #132 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
totally believable that a dog would name a stuffed animal ‘sebastian’
no ——->>> ///
Well, he is smart enough to tweet.
re: #112 KGxvi
Lindsey Graham is recognized as Butters from South Park… in that vein, we can recognize Bernie as Mr. Garrison.
Bernie is Mr. Mackey.
This just in: Trump is a wuss and a coward
Our latest reporting…
*Trump came close to declaration late Thurs.
*Pat Cipollone & team wrote up drafts
*Trump spoke Th w/ Dobbs
*POTUS then pulled back Friday
*But weekend only stoked talk…
*Short says many Rs, privately, okay w/ it
https://t.co/YTbw8RsWWV— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 27, 2019
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- why isnt he a registered loud and proud democrat?
- why wont he release his tax returns?
and that’s just for openers, because it’s not like he hasn’t been asked for both
re: #132 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
totally believable that a dog would name a stuffed animal ‘sebastian’
no ——->>> ///
Would if its name were “Belle”.
re: #79 Charles Johnson
Since the risk of death is currently 100% for all human beings, does this mean if you eat fried chicken every day the risk would be 117%?
Asking for a very worried friend.
WARNING: Eating fried chicken every day linked to 13% higher risk of death https://t.co/BvUtx5SsaH pic.twitter.com/HVkgYJ4zch
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) January 26, 2019
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 27, 2019
A life without good fried chicken is like a life without sunshine…
I totally missed that Hewitt said something this morning that was dumber than anything else he’s ever said, which is quite the accomplishment
Just now on @MeetThePress, Hugh Hewitt said that maybe taking on the Venezuelans would be the thing that finally brings America together.no, I’m not making this up.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 27, 2019
What a fucking moron
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So did the girls find their dog? He doesn’t say. Stonekettle, finish the story!!
I’m old enough to remember when conservative economists were furious because they estimated the stimulus cost $100,000 to $250,000 per job https://t.co/htN19Aofn6
— Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) January 27, 2019
re: #142 Myron Falwell
Hewitt is the most pompous, infinitely stupid person alive.
Thread. ICE continues to give itself reasons why they should be shut down and the offices fumigated.
This morning, ICE agents got on my Greyhound bus that was headed from Spokane to Portland. They walked around before they asked me and few others to step outside and took my documents and interrogated me for around 20 mins then claimed my papers were fake and that I’m “illegal”.
— Mohanad Elshieky (@MohanadElshieky) January 27, 2019
re: #143 sagehen
So did the girls find their dog? He doesn’t say. Stonekettle, finish the story!!
Unfortunately not. Tomorrow I’ll bike around to the other side of the woods and ask. https://t.co/2mc5mNqaie
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 27, 2019
re: #137 Myron Falwell
The only reason I can think of that would make Republicans okay with a declaration is that they believe the Courts would strike it down, and that would further weaken Trump’s presidency. They get to distance themselves from (a weakened) Trump without having to do the dirty work themselves.
re: #145 Ace Rothstein
The most pompous, infinitely stupid person alive.
You really have to work hard to be as fucking stupid as Hugh Hewitt is, he makes it so easy.
re: #145 Ace Rothstein
Hewitt is the most pompous, infinitely stupid person alive.
MSNBC thinks they hired him to have a thinking conservative voice but they only have the voice of a moron who is smug and thinks he is smart.
Thread about the Gestapo operating in the Fascist States of America.
Here is a photo of the racist trash Fox News call “heroes”. pic.twitter.com/oXbSfoKvB7
— Mohanad Elshieky (@MohanadElshieky) January 27, 2019
re: #141 TedStriker
In the words of Ian Fleming, “Why should I waste my days trying to make them more?”
re: #150 bd(it’s all true)
MSNBC thinks they hired him to have a thinking conservative voice but they only have the voice of a moron who is smug and thinks he is smart.
They have Todd and Matthews and Ole’ Joe (the latter will return to normal as soon as trump calls him one of the good guys - or trump is impeached, whichever comes first). Why they have to employ lying, smirking fools is weird.
re: #149 Myron Falwell
You really have to work hard to be as fucking stupid as Hugh Hewitt is, he makes it so easy.
A decade an a half ago, when in law school, I had a few friends who used to joke that if Hewitt was saying something was going to happen, you knew the opposite was true. It was almost like Always Wrong Bill Kristol. For fuck’s sake, he wrote a book called Painting the Map Red - before the 2006 mid-terms. You just have to remember, he’s from northern Ohio, so he roots for Cleveland sports teams, and I think deep down, his approach to politics is quite similar to a sports’ fan’s approach to rooting for his team. For good or ill, this is my team, and I’m going to defend whatever they do because they’re my team.
re: #134 The Vicious Babushka
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Bernie kind of reminds me of Ol’ Yeller. Nice dog and all but he went from good to rabid - skipping the heroic part in between.
re: #145 Ace Rothstein
Hewitt is the most pompous, infinitely stupid person alive.
And he seems to becoming more so.
He always has an out that will give Trump the turn that will make a popular and great president.
No Hugh, it is not going to happen no matter how hard you suck.
re: #142 Myron Falwell
I totally missed that Hewitt said something this morning that was dumber than anything else he’s ever said, which is quite the accomplishment
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What a fucking moron
It will bring us together protesting against another bloody evil, imperialist war.
re: #146 Myron Falwell
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Beat me to it.
re: #13 PhillyPretzel
OT I am taking a break from this insanity by watching Bob Ross on the local PBS station. His paintwork and voice are very relaxing.
Revel in the happy clouds and trees and remember to beat the devil out of that brush.
Really fucked up to see that people still acting like Terry is somehow less of a man because he didn’t throw his freedom and career away. Especially considering that the real demonstration of strength is how he had the courage to come forward with his story knowing this is how many of his peers would react.
@RealDLHughley You told the world “God Gave Me Muscles So I Could Say No…”Are you implying I “wanted” to be sexually assaulted?I’m listening, sir…https://t.co/v6Q4xrvfJQ
— terry crews (@terrycrews) January 27, 2019
Sir you said I should have pushed him back, or restrained him and I DID ALL THOSE THINGS… but you act like I didn’t.Were you there?
— terry crews (@terrycrews) January 27, 2019
So sir…If you truly feel that is a correct way to deal with toxic behavior…Should I slap the shit out of you? https://t.co/GmePqluEIX
— terry crews (@terrycrews) January 27, 2019
@RealDLHughley I have looked up to you my whole career as one of the funniest most talented people I’ve ever seen.I remember when I saw you warming up the crowd at FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR and I thought “this man is a genius.”
— terry crews (@terrycrews) January 27, 2019
You @50cent @unclerush and @tariqnasheed have decided my sexual assault was hilarious, whereas there are a whole generation of black women and men who don’t think it’s funny.ABUSERS PROTECT ABUSERS but they MOCK SURVIVORS as well.When you see me, keep it moving.
— terry crews (@terrycrews) January 27, 2019
Toxic masculinity is giving Terry Crews shit for knowing, in-the-exact-goddamned-moment that he was sexually assaulted, how institutional racism constrained his immediate options.
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) January 27, 2019
What a moronic idea to begin with created by the moron Kasich:
John Hickenlooper on John Kasich: “No we’re never going to run together. The guy doesn’t support Planned Parenthood, I’m sorry.” #IACaucus pic.twitter.com/VKHGOp7ZHo
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) January 27, 2019
re: #161 bd(it’s all true)
What a moronic idea to begin with created by the moron Kasich:
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Sticking up for Planned Parenthood out loud and definitive, Dems didn’t used to do that so much…
re: #154 KGxvi
A decade an a half ago, when in law school, I had a few friends who used to joke that if Hewitt was saying something was going to happen, you knew the opposite was true. It was almost like Always Wrong Bill Kristol. For fuck’s sake, he wrote a book called Painting the Map Red - before the 2006 mid-terms. You just have to remember, he’s from northern Ohio, so he roots for Cleveland sports teams, and I think deep down, his approach to politics is quite similar to a sports’ fan’s approach to rooting for his team. For good or ill, this is my team, and I’m going to defend whatever they do because they’re my team.
I’m from Northern Ohio too, and this really is 100% accurate.
re: #162 bd(it’s all true)
Sticking up for Planned Parenthood out loud and definitive, Dems didn’t used to do that so much…
A generation of Democrats that are willing and able to be true to themselves and have the courage of their convictions is going to confuse a lot of people.
As for the whole idea of a unity ticket… those will never work in our system. The office of the Vice President is simply too weak, and all executive power ultimately flows from the office of the President.
re: #149 Myron Falwell
You really have to work hard to be as fucking stupid as Hugh Hewitt is, he makes it so easy.
Just a reminder of what an asshole Hugh Hewitt is.
When he was a commentator on KCET here in Los Angeles, he came into the Sizzler Steakhouse on 4th/Vermont right after I sat down to start on my salad bar. He and his flunky sit down at a table, and they go to the salad bar. Before he sticks the fork in and starts munching, he and his flunky bow their heads and Hewitt starts praying in a very loud voice about how much he loves Jay-Zuss and he’s blessing and sanctifying his veggies in the name of Jesus
The motherfather wouldn’t stop. People looked at him and they started telling him to STFU. Hewitt wouldn’t stop. He kept bullshitting to JC. All this did was piss off people more and more and they kept yelling at him.
It was glorious!
re: #166 Joe Bacon 🌹
That’s kind of surprising. At Chapman Law, he was also quite charming in person. Even my more liberal classmates that took his con law class (or as it was commonly known on campus “show prep”) seemed to like him on a personal level. I didn’t have a whole lot of interactions with him, but he generally seemed like a nice person, even if he was always on board with whatever stupidity GW Bush was pushing at the moment.
Tariq is pure trash.
These are the type of dudes I see on Twitter giving Terry Crews props for letting a white man assault him, yet these same dudes turn around and encourage Terry to assault Black men pic.twitter.com/XFaio011Hn
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) January 27, 2019
Terry Crews is on some plantation buck sh**, where he is constantly coping pleas for white racism.
He talked about:
*forgiving Donald Sterling
*forgiving Gina Rodriguez for her anti BW remarks
*forgiving the white man who assaulted him
But when it comes to other Blk ppl, he’s pic.twitter.com/4cHzZz8YoP— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) January 27, 2019
This is the tweet I made 3 days ago that really made Terry Crews feel a certain way https://t.co/CZwks2tP8i
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) January 27, 2019
re: #117 ipsos
I suspect it was actually CBP, not ICE, doing the harassing in this case. They’re commonly seen (albeit in marked cars) at the train and bus stations here in western NY… that whole asinine rule that gives them search powers within 100 miles of the border.
Yeah, I see their cars and vans here on and around I-80 quite a bit. They like to pull off and congregate on the I-80/376 interchange cloverleaf.
re: #165 KGxvi
A generation of Democrats that are willing and able to be true to themselves and have the courage of their convictions is going to confuse a lot of people
It is going to take some getting used to. Coming from being ashamed to use the word liberal to proudly crowing about good progressive ideas? That’s a huge feat.
re: #170 bd(it’s all true)
It is going to take some getting used to. Coming from being ashamed to use the word liberal to proudly crowing about good progressive ideas? That’s a huge feat.
I think it helps having a generation that didn’t experience the backlash against the Civil Rights Act.
Looks like there will soon be another North Carolina vacancy in the House.
Rep. Walter Jones has been placed in hospice care.
Sad because he was one of the good ones who turned on Dumbya.
re: #171 Belafon
I think it helps having a generation that didn’t experience the backlash against the Civil Rights Act.
The other thing, I think, that helps is that the Democrats seem to be the party of optimism now. And in America, optimism wins. Trump and the GOP has no optimism, they just have fear. They’ve gone a long way from Nixon’s “there’s no other time or other place I’d rather live” and Reagan’s shining city on a hill.
Kamala Harris Burns Donald Trump: “Foreign Powers are Infecting the White House Like Malware” https://t.co/SuZje3T3eA #Elections #2020presidentialcampaign pic.twitter.com/zEjM70TMpF
— R. Saddler 📎🗽🌊🌊🌊 (@Politics_PR) January 27, 2019
@yvonnewingett @kelliwardaz Yvonne you defamed Kelli by accusing her in print of literally throwing bombs. Falsely accusing someone of a crime is defamation. You made no attempt to portray that as metaphor but present it as fact. You should be sued. #fakenews
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) January 27, 2019
They get dumber every year.
re: #175 Single-handed sailor
Paul, SHUT UP. It’s hard to defame Kelli Ward when she told John McCain to resign after he announced his cancer, so Gov. Ducey could appoint her, Kelli Ward, to McCain’s seat. It’s really hard to defame someone as awful as that. Really.
— Deana “Welcome to Gritty 2019!” Holmes (@mmmirele) January 28, 2019
That’s really true, btw. Kelli Ward really did try to get McCain to resign so that Ducey could appoint her to McCain’s seat. Martha McSally is too conservative for my tastes, but she’s certainly no Kelli Ward. The Arizona GOP can go to hell, with her as their leader.
re: #165 KGxvi
A generation of Democrats that are willing and able to be true to themselves and have the courage of their convictions is going to confuse a lot of people.
re: #171 Belafon
I think it helps having a generation that didn’t experience the backlash against the Civil Rights Act.
The best argument I saw recently, and it’s a shame I can’t find the tweet, is that one major reason AOC and her generation of Democrats are so effective is that they’ve never experienced the Republican Party as anything other than cartoonish villains acting in exceedingly bad faith. Therefore they aren’t hampered by any illusion that they’re arguing over honest differences of opinion with people who also have our country’s best interests at heart.
re: #175 Single-handed sailor
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They get dumber every year.
No wonder why the rest of his family hates him.
re: #177 goddamnedfrank
The best argument I saw recently, and it’s a shame I can’t find the tweet, is that one major reason AOC and her generation of Democrats are so effective is that they’ve never experienced the Republican Party as anything other than cartoonish villains acting in exceedingly bad faith. Therefore they aren’t hampered by any illusion that they’re arguing over honest differences of opinion with people who also have our country’s best interests at heart.
That’s a good observation. They’ve never known an America without Rush Limbaugh or FoxNews……shudder……
this bird knows how & when you die https://t.co/JaOUrp6fo0
— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) January 28, 2019
You should be honest with yourself about your real motivations, you’re a malignant narcissist who wants attention and simply doesn’t care how many vulnerable populations get hurt by your acting as a spoiler for Trump.
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) January 28, 2019
re: #181 goddamnedfrank
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This moment is like no other. Our two parties are more divided than ever. Let’s discuss how we can come together to create opportunities for more people. #ReimagineUS https://t.co/9UY46OTO0I
— Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) January 28, 2019
We could come together by telling you to buzz off, that’s a lot more of a nicer unifier than going to war with Venezuela.
I’ve had it with bothsiderists
heh,the similarities never end….
Nixon helped overthrow Allende in September 1973 and it was pretty smooth sailing from there https://t.co/sM2Ap3tfkQ
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 27, 2019
And as president of Starbucks you have already seriously run every centrally-located independent coffeehouse out of business. https://t.co/6wmRKQ7gb2
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) January 28, 2019
Schultz is on twitter tweeting about sharing our truth. I shared mine by blocking his ass.
re: #181 goddamnedfrank
What is Schultz’s base?
Given the energy and, thus far, quality of the Democratic candidates, I don’t see him drawing much support from Democrats.
So, is it disaffected Republicans? If they’re not inclined to vote for Trump or a Democrat, them voting for an independent/third party candidate isn’t necessarily going to change the calculus. Where that could hurt Democrats is in down ballot races, where disaffected Republicans would be inclined to vote for Republicans in Congress while voting for a third party candidate.
Also, we just tried a “business” “executive” with no real world political experience… and it hasn’t worked out well. What makes him think voters will be on board with that again?
re: #186 KGxvi
What is Schultz’s base?
Given the energy and, thus far, quality of the Democratic candidates, I don’t see him drawing much support from Democrats.
So, is it disaffected Republicans? If they’re not inclined to vote for Trump or a Democrat, them voting for an independent/third party candidate isn’t necessarily going to change the calculus. Where that could hurt Democrats is in down ballot races, where disaffected Republicans would be inclined to vote for Republicans in Congress while voting for a third party candidate.
Also, we just tried a “business” “executive” with no real world political experience… and it hasn’t worked out well. What makes him think voters will be on board with that again?
Way too many pundits seem to think he’s gonna leach from the Democratic side.
Um, they forgot 2018 and the blue wave? And the hot topics now for Dems are M4A and wealth inequality? And they really think a rightish billionaire CEO is gonna sap votes from the DEMS?????
Morons.
re: #177 goddamnedfrank
The best argument I saw recently, and it’s a shame I can’t find the tweet, is that one major reason AOC and her generation of Democrats are so effective is that they’ve never experienced the Republican Party as anything other than cartoonish villains acting in exceedingly bad faith. Therefore they aren’t hampered by any illusion that they’re arguing over honest differences of opinion with people who also have our country’s best interests at heart.
This one?
I think a big reason why @AOC is so much better at politics than so many older, more experienced Dems is that she’s never known a world where Republicans aren’t cartoonish villains who reliably act in bad faith. So she treats them as what they are.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) January 6, 2019
(hint: I found it by searching the LGF Media Library for the words “bad faith”)
There is just no fucking way this asshole can handle all the smoke coming his way.
Exactly how many sexual harassment lawsuit settlements did you sign off on while CEO of @Starbucks? Will you publicly renounce in writing your right to enforce any non-disclosure agreements you may be a party to?
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) January 28, 2019
Here’s how to create more opportunities: 90% tax on billionaires, capital gains included.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) January 28, 2019
re: #188 Interesting Times
This one?
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Thanks!!
Mr. Schultz, I speak for millions of Americans when I say hell to the no on this and I swear to God if you go through with this I will never drink Starbucks again.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) January 27, 2019
I grew up in Western Michigan. When I was in grade school in the 60s, they taught us Dutch. Because in the surrounding immigrant farming communities of that time, there was an older generation who had come from the Netherlands 40 years prior and still didn’t speak English.
1/ https://t.co/2xssEpLNyX— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 28, 2019
Those people made no real effort to “assimilate.”
They lived their lives and a hundred years later their heritage merged with that of other immigrants and their descendants are wearing MAGA hats and complaining about funny talking people.
Shut up, Tom. Sit down.
3/3— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 28, 2019
re: #189 goddamnedfrank
As CEO, he’s probably not specifically bound by the non-disclosures, the corporation is; but he does have an ongoing responsibility to the corporation to abide by the non-disclosure agreements. And as a former CEO, he couldn’t do that without the new CEO and/or board of directors signing off. Then there’s the issue of the corporate employee who was actually responsible for committing the sexual harassment, and their (for lack of a better term) right to have the settlements remain private.
That’s a very long way of saying he won’t because he can’t.
Why is Brokaw still on TV?
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) January 28, 2019
Best analogy I can think of on the fly.
So you’re considering becoming the Louis CK of American politics? Without ever subjecting yourself to any primary selection process you’re going to just whip it out and masturbate in front of a captive audience that never fucking asked for this?
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) January 28, 2019
re: #197 bd(it’s all true)
hahahahahahahttps://twitter.com
A good friend’s oldest son said yesterday: Trump was born on third base, ran back to second base like an idiot, and then wanted everyone to congratulate him for hitting a double. https://t.co/ADob0mKp3f
— Rick Tyler (@rickwtyler) January 27, 2019
try that again
re: #198 bd(it’s all true)
I like the comment that says Trump was born on third base and thinks he scored a touchdown.
Anderson did the same thing and we wound up with Reagan.
Nader pulled enough votes away from Gore to put Dumbya in the White House.
Stein did the same thing to Hillary.
Do YOU want to do the same as they did and put Trump in the Oval Office again? NO THANKS!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 28, 2019
By the way, I’ve met Hugh Hewitt, and he’s exactly that pompous in person too.
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 28, 2019
re: #185 plansbandc
Schultz is on twitter tweeting about sharing our truth. I shared mine by blocking his ass.
I’m going to Dunkin Donuts instead.
re: #194 KGxvi
As CEO, he’s probably not specifically bound by the non-disclosures, the corporation is; but he does have an ongoing responsibility to the corporation to abide by the non-disclosure agreements. And as a former CEO, he couldn’t do that without the new CEO and/or board of directors signing off. Then there’s the issue of the corporate employee who was actually responsible for committing the sexual harassment, and their (for lack of a better term) right to have the settlements remain private.
That’s a very long way of saying he won’t because he can’t.
I know, but Starbucks’ legal department still better lock that shit down hard ‘cuz everyone there can’t be reliably trusted not to leak over this. The current BoD and stockholders simply can’t be happy with all the negative attention and boycotts this irresponsible vanity stunt is going to bring.
Sweet launch, Howard Schultz. pic.twitter.com/TNfDJaN3x2
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 28, 2019
re: #202 Charles Johnson
By the way, I’ve met Hugh Hewitt, and he’s exactly that pompous in person too.
My condolences.
The Russian bots are ON IT!
Oh come on. pic.twitter.com/dXXKfc96dd
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 28, 2019
re: #209 goddamnedfrank
The Russian bots are ON IT!
Well, that tears it: Howard Schultz is officially working to make sure that Trump, or a friendly pro-Russian Trump-like thing, is the next President of the United States.
re: #195 freetoken
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re: #210 The Vicious Babushka
I just have two words: Tim Horton’s
Not really an option for those who live south of the metro areas around the Great Lakes.
Correction: they apparently have more US locations than I thought, but their southernmost location appears to be in Ashland, KY.
Howard Schultz has done a lot of business in Russia?
Just saying.— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) January 28, 2019
re: #213 TedStriker
Not really an option for those who live south of the metro areas around the Great Lakes.
Dunkin’ Donuts for you.
re: #205 Myron Falwell
I’m going to Dunkin Donuts instead.
McDonald’s coffee is as good and cheaper also.
re: #215 The Vicious Babushka
Dunkin’ Donuts for you.
I don’t do coffee, but, as far as donuts, I’ve never been a DD fan; I’ll do some hot glazed Krispy Kremes all day though.
re: #210 The Vicious Babushka
I just have two words: Tim Horton’s
Tim Horton’s never expanded into the Cleveland market, which is baffling as hell as Dublin-based Wendy’s owned the chain 20 years ago.
re: #213 TedStriker
Not really an option for those who live south of the metro areas around the Great Lakes.
They just closed the Horton’s in the next town over and opened a Popeye’s chicken. I like Popeye’s red beans and rice, so I am good with it.
UPDATE: After @USTreasury lifted sanctions against OLEG DERIPASKA’s companies, the main one (EN+) named 7 new directors, including Chris Burnham, who served on TRUMP’s transition team & worked for @AmbJohnBolton at United Nations. https://t.co/nyakizkOEc https://t.co/ZO0QNwUwzZ
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) January 27, 2019
Zedushka & I don’t eat fast food but we do drink coffee, and we have rated all the coffee places along our various road trips.
1. WaWa
2. Tim Horton
3. Dunkin’ Donuts
4. Random gas station
5. Every other coffee place
6. Startuchas
7. Keurig machine in Holiday Inn hotel room
re: #221 The Vicious Babushka
“We do it just a little bit better at WaWa.” is music to the ears of anyone who has been to Pennsylvania.
There used to be a nice Mom and Pop chain in Los Angeles called EuroCoffee that specialized in high grade Arabica and Peaberry coffees. Only place where you could get pure Kona, Jamaica Blue Mountain and Puerto Rico Peaberry beans.
There were only 4 of their shops. So Starbucks came in and flooded the city with stores and put them right next to EuroCoffee shops and cut prices.
They forced EuroCoffee out of business.
It was nice when the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf stores entered the Los Angeles market. They managed to knock out a couple Starbucks.
re: #219 Eventual Carrion
They just closed the Horton’s in the next town over and opened a Popeye’s chicken. I like Popeye’s red beans and rice, so I am good with it.
Popeye’s, when the store crew is doing their jobs and it’s fresh, is on point; there’s few things better, fast food-wise
re: #224 Joe Bacon 🌹
There used to be a nice Mom and Pop chain in Los Angeles called EuroCoffee that specialized in high grade Arabica and Peaberry coffees. Only place where you could get pure Kona, Jamaica Blue Mountain and Puerto Rico Peaberry beans.
There were only 4 of their shops. So Starbucks came in and flooded the city with stores and put them right next to EuroCoffee shops and cut prices.
They forced EuroCoffee out of business.
It was nice when the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf stores entered the Los Angeles market. They managed to knock out a couple Starbucks.
I remember EuroCoffee. They were awesome.
My response to Howard Schultz’s tweet has more RTs and likes than the original.
According to this sealed indictment from the marshal of the Supreme Court, I now have to take over his spot on the 2020 ballot *and* take all his money too.
I take no pleasure in reporting this. pic.twitter.com/QzdxTi1JbX— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 28, 2019
re: #201 Joe Bacon 🌹
Anderson didn’t cost Carter in 1980. Reagan won a majority of the popular vote, and had a majority in enough states to give him 247 electoral votes. If you count states where he had a 49%+ plurality he was at 346 electoral votes.
Stein didn’t cost Clinton in 2016 either, yes, Stein’s vote totals in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania was more than the difference between Clinton and Trump. But in all three of those states, Johnson won more than twice Stein’s votes - and those most likely would have gone mostly to the Republican nominee if Johnson wasn’t in the race.
2000 in Florida was such a clusterfuck, you can blame Nader, you can blame the Palm Beach butterfly ballot and the unusual votes for Buchanan, you can also blame Gore’s GOTV efforts in Florida, or you can even blame the fact that Gore couldn’t carry his home state of Tennessee.
But the truth is, in most scenarios, a third party nominee doesn’t really play spoiler.
Cock & Ball Torture / Cognitive Behavioural Therapy https://t.co/IdiJf2e45a
— Dr Brooke Magnanti (@belledejour_uk) January 27, 2019
re: #226 Charles Johnson
I remember EuroCoffee. They were awesome.
re: #210 The Vicious Babushka
I grew up with Tim Hortons. Where I live is a border crossing. Which leads to two things I was going to mention.
1. We recently got Tim Hortons back in our area about 5 years ago as the akwasasne mohawk business venture brought them back. They were here in the local mall before closing down the store. The border crossing is 10 mins away and about 5 mins to cross.
2. The conversations about ice and border patrol. I live on the st. Lawrence river where the Eisenhower locks are. The village I live in is small. There are town cops, county sheriff’s, state troopers, ICE, Homeland security, and border patrol, not to mention that the biggest job here is being a c.o. it is ridiculous the amount of police state the area is. I have been stopped multiple times on my way to work just to be asked if I am a US citizen.
Goddamn ridiculous. The amount of power they wild here. And some one mentioned earlier be honest to the cops while the cops lie to you. That is the most honest statement I have read in a while.
Sorry for the rant.
Love Tim hortons
If you thought today was fun. Tomorrow’s Monday
re: #228 KGxvi
Anderson didn’t cost Carter in 1980. Reagan won a majority of the popular vote, and had a majority in enough states to give him 247 electoral votes. If you count states where he had a 49%+ plurality he was at 346 electoral votes.
Stein didn’t cost Clinton in 2016 either, yes, Stein’s vote totals in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania was more than the difference between Clinton and Trump. But in all three of those states, Johnson won more than twice Stein’s votes - and those most likely would have gone mostly to the Republican nominee if Johnson wasn’t in the race.
2000 in Florida was such a clusterfuck, you can blame Nader, you can blame the Palm Beach butterfly ballot and the unusual votes for Buchanan, you can also blame Gore’s GOTV efforts in Florida, or you can even blame the fact that Gore couldn’t carry his home state of Tennessee.
But the truth is, in most scenarios, a third party nominee doesn’t really play spoiler.
I think that analysis is a bit too pat. What third party candidates with no realistic shot at winning do feed is a sense of false equivalence and disillusionment that it is logical to assume has effects beyond their own raw vote totals, and extends into the numbers of people who decide not to vote at all.
re: #232 Dave In Austin
If you thought today was fun. Tomorrow’s Monday
Time for yet another exciting infrastructure week!
Are we looking at a hipster coffee shop behind every corner taco truck?
re: #232 Dave In Austin
If you thought today was fun. Tomorrow’s Monday
We’re supposed to get 5” of snow overnight and then temps of -24 on Tuesday and Wednesday night. I’m not looking forward to this week.
I sometimes wonder WTF is wrong with media executives who meet someone like this and think, “He’s PERFECT for our network! A smug, dishonest right wing jackass! Just what we need to complete the lineup.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2019
re: #236 stpaulbear
We’re supposed to get 5” of snow overnight and then temps of -24 on Tuesday and Wednesday night. I’m not looking forward to this week.
Bless you….. 70’s down this way. I may have to fish.
re: #233 goddamnedfrank
I think that analysis is a bit too pat. What third parties do feed is a sense of false equivalence and disillusionment that it is logical to assume has effects beyond their own raw vote totals, and extends into the numbers of people who decide not to vote at all.
Most third party candidates get almost no attention. Stein was basically ignored in the MSM. Johnson got some attention because he was an actual real life governor, but even his coverage faded the closer we got to election day. The only third party candidate that got substantial coverage was Perot, and every analysis of 1992 suggests that he drew evenly from both Clinton and Bush.
I think the people that tend to vote for third party nominees are simply not inclined to vote for the major party nominees. And I say this as someone who has voted third party in the past. My hunch is that most of their voters would simply not vote. It’s sort of like Nevada where they have a “none of these” option on the ballot that tends to get about 3-5% of the vote every election.
A “centrist independent minded businessman.” I remember this guy was his name was Perot.
re: #237 Charles Johnson
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re: #236 stpaulbear
We’re supposed to get 5” of overnight and then temps of -24 on Tuesday and Wednesday night. I’m not looking forward to this week.
ouch
re: #236 stpaulbear
We’re supposed to get 5” of snow overnight and then temps of -24 on Tuesday and Wednesday night. I’m not looking forward to this week.
Yup. Snow is coming down pretty thick right now. You didn’t mention to them that the high temp on Wednesday is still in the double digits below 0.
re: #243 Charles Johnson
Unfortunately not. The Shop link leads to an error page.
Last update was in 2008. Yeah, they dead.
I think of the dems run a good candidate, Schultz will be a big zero. He has no base. None.
Hint: Bernie is not a good candidate,
Never trust a Republican with a head of closely cropped snow white hair.
Oh wait. That’s pretty much all of them.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2019
re: #246 I Would Prefer Not To
I think of the dems run a good candidate, Schultz will be a big zero. He has no base. None.
Hint: Bernie is not a good candidate,
But Bernie would have beaten the Trump-thing!!!1!111*
* = Hillary technically beat the Trump-thing, AND she beat Bernie fair and square, but let’s not quibble over facts.
I feel a great disturbance in The Force, as if millions of people suddenly told @HowardSchultz to go fuck himself.
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) January 28, 2019
I’m glad most people are telling Schultz off. I don’t dislike his coffee though given the choice I always choose a Mom and Pop place since I like supporting small business but enough of these businessmen.
re: #246 I Would Prefer Not To
I think of the dems run a good candidate, Schultz will be a big zero. He has no base. None.
Hint: Bernie is not a good candidate,
Yeah I don’t see who he’s going to appeal to.
LOL…. I’ve been saying that for years.
if you need this to hunt… #TShirt https://t.co/m1zIdrPFJk via #zazzle then you suck at hunting #neveragain #guncontrol #enough #giftideas
— exileguy (@exileguy) March 27, 2018
re: #244 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yup. Snow is coming down pretty thick right now. You didn’t mention to them that the high temp on Wednesday is still in the double digits below 0.
Yuk. Sounds like we won’t get missed then either. The temps will really suck badly.
I got a nasty email from a Bernie fan calling me a “centrist” (among other things) today. But I’m no centrist.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2019
I support universal single-payer health care, cutting the DOD budget in half (or more), NO restrictions on a woman’s right to choose, compassionate and welcoming immigration laws, and taxing the super-rich in a way we haven’t done since the 1970s.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2019
Because they’ll still be super-rich, and they should stop whining.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2019
That’s not “centrist,” it’s the future.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2019
re: #255 Charles Johnson
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Quite the opposite me, I oppose Bernie because I am a liberal. I don’t want our standard bearer to be a man that has a terrible record standing up for immigrants when we’re dealing with the most xenophobic President since Woodrow Wilson. And I genuinely question how effective a President Sanders would be and who he would surround himself with. Bernie fans are going to be shocked when the most liberal electorate the Democratic Party has ever seen rejects Bernie but it will happen.
Where I really seem to differ with the Bernie crowd is that I don’t expect these things to come into existence overnight.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2019
re: #244 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yup. Snow is coming down pretty thick right now. You didn’t mention to them that the high temp on Wednesday is still in the double digits below 0.
My Mom was talking about that. Man talk about bitter cold. It doesn’t get below 0 here that often but I remember when it did, it was brutal.
re: #257 Charles Johnson
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And you don’t support ignoring other problems too. That’s something that happens with the Berner crowd. Racial, gender, etc concerns have to be overlooked so the “revolution” can happen.
We have a broken political system and I’m going to try to break more by splitting the Democratic vote to keep Trump in office for 4 years. Yay me!!!
— Phillipe de Gravaux (@DreadPhil1) January 28, 2019
re: #260 Dave In Austin
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Yet you didn’t when defense spending was considerably bigger than any other country.
“I hear she’s become very hostile,” Mr. Trump said in the interview of Ann Coulter. “Maybe I didn’t return her phone call or something.” https://t.co/3ucdlm1fM0
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 28, 2019
re: #247 Charles Johnson
Well, except for the asshole bald ones.
What I expect from Schultz is that he’ll run on a platform saying that we should trust more businesses to be like his. And while I admire him for paying for education and other benefits, I know businesses are not going to do that stuff.
Hoarse is getting started…
If only his Mom could be around to see him now….
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 28, 2019
Reason 1,287,637 we need a 70% marginal tax rate. @AOC #TaxTheRich #TheResistance #Resist https://t.co/dkljCW0bX3
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 28, 2019
I wonder how Schultz is going to pull that off if he gets elected and everything he wants to do is blocked by Republicans.
re: #258 HappyWarrior
My Mom was talking about that. Man talk about bitter cold. It doesn’t get below 0 here that often but I remember when it did, it was brutal.
Par for the course up here, but I had to laugh - a high school friend of mine was telling me that some of the people in his office said that winters in Northwest Indiana are as brutal as the winters up here. We might have gotten some pretty deep snows thanks to Lake Michigan, but on the few occasions it got down to -20 degrees F, everything stopped.
re: #267 Joe Bacon 🌹
I wonder how Schultz is going to pull that off if he gets elected and everything he wants to do is blocked by Republicans.
Business guy magic.
re: #264 Belafon
What I expect from Schultz is that he’ll run on a platform saying that we should trust more businesses to be like his. And while I admire him for paying for education and other benefits, I know businesses are not going to do that stuff.
What I expect from Schultz is for him to use this to get free publicity for his book tour and then suspends his campaign before it costs him any real money because he knows he doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell.
re: #269 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Par for the course up here, but I had to laugh - a high school friend of mine was telling me that some of the people in his office said that winters in Northwest Indiana are as brutal as the winters up here. We might have gotten some pretty deep snows thanks to Lake Michigan, but on the few occasions it got down to -20 degrees F, everything stopped.
I’m trying to think the coldest I’ve ever been. I’m not made for real cold weather I’m afraid.
re: #268 HappyWarrior
Really rich people are weird.
The old bit about the difference between being crazy and be eccentric is a few million dollars.
re: #272 HappyWarrior
I’m trying to think the coldest I’ve ever been. I’m not made for real cold weather I’m afraid.
One day I had to get up and deliver newspapers during a January blizzard where the temperature was -20. I was bundled up and had two face masks and double gloves on. Only exposed part of my face was my eyes.
re: #272 HappyWarrior
I’m trying to think the coldest I’ve ever been. I’m not made for real cold weather I’m afraid.
I don’t think I’ve been in weather much colder than the high teens Fahrenheit (maybe a Vegas New Years?). But being born and raised in southern California “cold” for me is the low 50s.
re: #260 Dave In Austin
So this guy isn’t for anything democratic… Why do people think he’ll pull cord from Dems?
re: #260 Dave In Austin
“When I hear ppl espousing free govt-paid college, free govt-paid health care and a free govt job for everyone … the question is, how are we paying for all this and not bankrupting the country?”
Former Starbucks Chief Preparing for an Indie 2020 Run
Tuition costs at public universities like the one Galileo taught run 850—1000 Euros per year. Merit-based subsidies help out.
The US can afford to teach all its talented kids.
re: #272 HappyWarrior
I’m trying to think the coldest I’ve ever been. I’m not made for real cold weather I’m afraid.
Fun science demo: When it gets down to -20 degrees F or so, take a pot, boil some water on the stove, then take the boiling water and throw it into the air outside. It makes snow!
re: #278 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Fun science demo: When it gets down to -20 degrees F or so, take a pot, boil some water on the stove, then take the boiling water and throw it into the air outside. It makes snow!
Mr. Wizard did that on one of his shows.
re: #277 Decatur Deb
Forgot the link:
educations.com
re: #250 HappyWarrior
I’m glad most people are telling Schultz off. I don’t dislike his coffee though given the choice I always choose a Mom and Pop place since I like supporting small business but enough of these businessmen.
I’ve lived here in the Seattle area all my life, and it seems like every big company based here is just uniquely sociopathic even for big business. Boeing, Microsoft, PACCAR…. Now the original Starbucks, under the original owners, was a good company, but as soon as they sold out to these big business types, there you go—same thing.
re: #279 Joe Bacon 🌹
Make sure you throw it properly or you can end up with hot water on you.
re: #277 Decatur Deb
Tuition costs at public universities like the one Galileo taught run 850—1000 Euros per year. Merit-based subsidies help out.
The US can afford to teach all its talented kids.
Undergraduate tuition at Cal State Long Beach is $3,399 per semester. That doesn’t include books or housing. The problem is that Long Beach State (along with half of the CSU system) is impacted, meaning they get more qualified applicants each year than they can admit (when I was there 20 years ago, about a third of the majors were impacted and required department approval). We need more universities, but I don’t know if the state budget could handle building three or four more universities.
re: #244 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yup. Snow is coming down pretty thick right now. You didn’t mention to them that the high temp on Wednesday is still in the double digits below 0.
My old factory manager grew up at the very beginning of the Mississippi River in MN. He said the coldest winter of his life was spent at submarine training in WI in January 1942. Imagine 500 tons of steel immersed in ice water.
re: #282 Belafon
Make sure you throw it properly or you can end up with hot water on you.
Wish I could find the clip of Don “Mr. Wizard” Herbert doing that on You Tube…
re: #284 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
My old factory manager grew up at the very beginning of the Mississippi River in MN. He said the coldest winter of his life was spent at submarine training in WI in January 1942. Imagine 500 tons of steel immersed in ice water.
Had a friend of mine who used to be in the Army. He told me about a winter he spent on a base further north that was so cold, all of their trucks and cars on base froze up their cooling systems… All, that is, except for a little air-cooled VW Beetle.
re: #284 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
To follow up he was saved by the fickle finger of fate. In early 1943 his sub rendezvoused with a tender in the South Pacific. He was ordered off his sub and onto the one on the other side of the ship. The first sub never came back
re: #287 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
We had a VW bus when I was a kid. The big problem with an air cooled motor is that there is no heat. If had red levers but we think they were just for show
There’s essentially no difference between the in-state tuition at UNH and many private universities.
re: #283 KGxvi
Undergraduate tuition at Cal State Long Beach is $3,399 per semester. That doesn’t include books or housing. The problem is that Long Beach State (along with half of the CSU system) is impacted, meaning they get more qualified applicants each year than they can admit (when I was there 20 years ago, about a third of the majors were impacted and required department approval). We need more universities, but I don’t know if the state budget could handle building three or four more universities.
When I started at Pitt, Undergraduate tuition was $450 a trimester and the board charge was also $450. Total was $1,800 for the year since people mainly went two trimesters per year. Add average $200 for books.
Now…Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster!
For the year…
In-State tuition is $19,080 and board is $10,950, book average is $773 and “other expenses” $2,447.
No way I would be able to go to college if I was 17 and just graduated high school…
Coffee…… I’ve been a home roaster for 20 some yrs. It’s hard to find a small batch roaster anymore.
Wife and I were part of a supporting claque that went to listen to a family friend defend his Master’s thesis. It was held in one of Galileo’s classrooms.
Outside things got weird, him standing on a granite block in the University street with a codfish sticking out of his underwear. While his classmates taunted him, and his mother stood by beaming, he recited a long obscene history of his college career in verses prepared by his friends. There was some anointing with canned corn, then we all went to eat.
re: #289 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
We had a VW bus when I was a kid. The big problem with an air cooled motor is that there is no heat. If had red levers but we think they were just for show
There must have been something wrong with your ductwork. I’ve had a bus (well, Campmobile), a Squareback, and two 412 wagons, and the heaters on all of them would roast your eyeballs.
The 412s had gas heaters that were supposed to start heating you up until the heat from the engine took over, but they never worked that I was able to observe.
Great googly moogly! https://t.co/XooHy4MW4G
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2019
re: #290 Barefoot Grin
There’s essentially no difference between the in-state tuition at UNH and many private universities.
I was looking at some of the in state tuitions in MA out of curiosity and I saw Worcester State was inder $1000/year. Then underneath that fees were listed and there was a “General Fee” that was like $8400/year.
re: #291 Joe Bacon 🌹
When I started at Pitt, Undergraduate tuition was $450 a trimester and the board charge was also $450. Total was $1,800 for the year since people mainly went two trimesters per year. Add average $200 for books.
Now…Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster!
For the year…
In-State tuition is $19,080 and board is $10,950, book average is $773 and “other expenses” $2,447.
No way I would be able to go to college if I was 17 and just graduated high school…
I lucked out, when I was in college (96-00), we had the dotcom bubble and California was cutting tuition every semester. I think my freshman year it was about $1,500 a semester, by my senior year it was less than $900 a semester. Delivering pizzas in Orange County was enough to cover tuition and books.
At the UC schools now, apparently tuition is over $16k a year. Private schools like Chapman or USC are in the $50-70k per year range. And neither of those include books or housing.
At about $7000 a year, I could probably figure out a way to make it work. There’d be financial aid and a job like I had back then. But, I think I could pull it off.
re: #299 KGxvi
I am sooooo glad my kids got through their respective UCs before the tuition got up near where it is now. It’s obscene. We need to educate kids, and I’m quite willing to spend my tax dollars on it.
re: #289 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN
We had a VW bus when I was a kid. The big problem with an air cooled motor is that there is no heat. If had red levers but we think they were just for show
Probably an artifact of the heat ducts on a VW bus being so far from the heat source: I recall when I had a Beetle (back in the Paleolithic) yanking the red lever all the way up led to a few wafts of hot air eventually drifting up around your feet and warming the periphery of the windshield. And that was maybe 8-10 feet. Good thing I lived in SoCal…
re: #298 MsJ
Duuuuuuude. What?
That’s blasphemy.
Well, that was meant more in the spirit of I am not voting for any coffee guy. But no, I have never been a fan of coffee. I drink tea, but not all the time.
re: #301 calochortus
I am sooooo glad my kids got through their respective UCs before the tuition got up near where it is now. It’s obscene. We need to educate kids, and I’m quite willing to spend my tax dollars on it.
You’re willing to spend your money on other kids, and so many are too blind to see any benefit in that.
re: #299 KGxvi
I lucked out, when I was in college (96-00), we had the dotcom bubble and California was cutting tuition every semester. I think my freshman year it was about $1,500 a semester, by my senior year it was less than $900 a semester. Delivering pizzas in Orange County was enough to cover tuition and books.
At the UC schools now, apparently tuition is over $16k a year. Private schools like Chapman or USC are in the $50-70k per year range. And neither of those include books or housing.
At about $7000 a year, I could probably figure out a way to make it work. There’d be financial aid and a job like I had back then. But, I think I could pull it off.
Before Reagan was governor, and wrecked the system, much of CA education was free or near it. CCNY was free. I was able to cover almost all costs at UofLouisville on the GI Bill. We are screwing our kids and making education the realm of the rich and the debt-slaves.
re: #298 MsJ
Duuuuuuude. What?
That’s blasphemy.
Coffee is like beer and red wine, all flavors of bitter, more bitter, and wow, that’s bitter.
Don’t.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2019
re: #306 Belafon
Coffee is like beer and red wine, all flavors of bitter, more bitter, and wow, that’s bitter.
“Bitter” isn’t a pejorative term in coffee-tasting parlance—some are more bitter, some are less—what most people call “bitter”, tasters call “sour”, and it’s an artifact of not being roasted long enough so that a lot of the green vegetation flavor remains. This is the main problem with grocery-store coffee—in order to roast it as much as it should be without burning it, you have to pay attention, and they can’t afford to do that, so you wind up with half-green, sour, “cinnamon roast”.
re: #305 Decatur Deb
Before Reagan was governor, and wrecked the system, much of CA education was free or near it. CCNY was free. I was able to cover almost all costs at UofLouisville on the GI Bill. We are screwing our kids and making education the realm of the rich and debt-slaves.
After he retired, my dad was seriously contemplating going to back to CCNY to finish the degree he had to abandon back during the Depression. He didn’t get around to it, because of health issues, though. I think he said they still had his transcript on file after 40+ years.
I liked being a student. If I could decide now what I’d like to study, I’d consider going back to school — if I could afford it.
re: #308 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I’m overly sensitive to bitter, which means I can barely get any of those things down. It’s just me.
re: #309 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
After he retired, my dad was seriously contemplating going to back to CCNY to finish the degree he had to abandon back during the Depression. He didn’t get around to it, because of health issues, though. I think he said they still had his transcript on file after 40+ years.
I liked being a student. If I could decide now what I’d like to study, I’d consider going back to school — if I could afford it.
I’ve always wanted to be a professional student. I would even teach at college as a side-gig. My oldest son is getting to do that.
re: #304 Belafon
You’re willing to spend your money on other kids, and so many are too blind to see any benefit in that.
Maybe we could use the money we’d save by treating drug and alcohol addiction properly to give people a better future through education.
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re: #309 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
After he retired, my dad was seriously contemplating going to back to CCNY to finish the degree he had to abandon back during the Depression. He didn’t get around to it, because of health issues, though. I think he said they still had his transcript on file after 40+ years.
I liked being a student. If I could decide now what I’d like to study, I’d consider going back to school — if I could afford it.
(Still harping on Italy) They have Universita per Anziani. Retirees can attend classes for free, don’t get a degree, just an education. It helps the kids to have the ancients around the schools, keeps the olds off the streets.
re: #310 Belafon
I’m overly sensitive to bitter, which means I can barely get any of those things down. It’s just me.
There’s a vegetable here in China called bitter melon (kugua). It’s part of the cucumber family and yes, it is mouth puckeringly bitter. You’d hate it, for sure. I’ve managed to get used to it, but only in small quantities.
The kind I see here looks like a knobbly cucumber. Pic:
Image: Bittermelonfruit.jpg
But there are other kinds eaten all over Asia.
Ha:
The diary is going over some of the results from polls taken before and after the shutdown fight. This one I thought was really interesting:
The ABC News/Washington Post poll reveals that Pelosi and Congressional Democrats were favored on illegal immigration by a 5-point margin over Trump and congressional Republicans.
Trump held a 10-point edge over congressional Democrats when voters were asked before the shutdown who they trusted more on border security. A Quinnipiac poll taken after the shutdown had congressional Democrats with a 5-point edge over Trump on border security.
And a whole lot of people learned what we knew:
Voters think that Pelosi is better than Trump at “Washington gamesmanship” by 6 points, according to the latest Fox News poll.
Put another way, the shutdown turned Trump’s strengths into weaknesses.
Stone wants to talk about the gestapo, while he’s on national television. Oh. The irony.
Meanwhile, here’s the real gestapo:
This morning, ICE agents got on my Greyhound bus that was headed from Spokane to Portland. They walked around before they asked me and few others to step outside and took my documents and interrogated me for around 20 mins then claimed my papers were fake and that I’m “illegal”.
— Mohanad Elshieky (@MohanadElshieky) January 27, 2019
re: #316 GlutenFreeJesus
Stone wants to talk about the gestapo, while he’s on national television. Oh. The irony.
Meanwhile, here’s the real gestapo:
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You ain’t kidding.
re: #272 HappyWarrior
I’m trying to think the coldest I’ve ever been. I’m not made for real cold weather I’m afraid.
15 below (F) with wind chills of 75 below. Had to suture a big 3-cornered tear on a horse’s forehead. It took most of the day, because we would thaw out about 1/4 inch of the tear, trim it to get blood flow, sew it, and then have to stop because our hands were frozen. Go in, thaw out, and do it again. Tear healed so you could hardly see the scar at all. But I will remember that day as long as I live!
re: #318 retired cynic
My father said the coldest he ever was was in the panhandle of Florida during basic training going into WW2. He said the army had thrown up barracks, but since it was Florida, they hadn’t bothered to insulate them. He said the cold and the damp nearly killed him.
I have seen enough data over many years to know that anyone running for POTUS as an independent will split the anti-incumbent, anti-Trump vote. The stakes couldn’t be higher. We can not afford the risk of spoiler politics that result in Trump’s re-election.
— howard wolfson (@howiewolf) January 28, 2019
re: #311 Belafon
I’ve always wanted to be a professional student. I would even teach at college as a side-gig. My oldest son is getting to do that.
I got lucky in that during my last 23 years of professional work I got to pretty much treat change in higher education as my topic, and was essentially a well paid graduate student without classes or exams, just had to learn a lot in a changing field and publish a lot of books and journals and other things.
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