With ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz eyeing a third-party candidacy, Stephen has a message for all billionaires with presidential aspirations.
Basically, billionaires are hoarders. Maybe we should send Marie Kondo to help them release some of that money.
— Elizabeth Morrow (@TheShinyLion) January 30, 2019
re: #1 gwangung
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Not one person in the world needs one billion dollars. Not one. Money hoarders is correct.
Poor Roger Stone is so disheveled from the pre-dawn raid that conservatives are freaking out about that he was barely able to do the 8 TV interviews he set up today
Stay safe out there Roger…harrowing times pic.twitter.com/JhdNw34qaw— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) January 30, 2019
Berniebros found Howard Schultz tax returns…
but still couldn’t find Bernie’s.
How convenient. https://t.co/TkoVafR4ml— Kurt Nice (@KurtNiceHHL) January 29, 2019
The thing I genuinely appreciate about Howard Schultz is that he’s really making the case for why we should grind billionaires into a fine powder. pic.twitter.com/lAILFZqYPH
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) January 30, 2019
I wonder if Kim Jong Un uses FaceTime… https://t.co/2xqCyheEhc
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) January 30, 2019
Howard Schultz needs to simply shut the fuck up and go back to making horrible coffee using burned beans.
My mother was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. What’s the weather like there tonight?
Oy…
I saw outside temperatures like that more than a few times living and going to school in a little town in Colorado called Gunnison. That kind of cold is nothing to be trifled with. And when the wind blows, it’s way way worse.
Stay safe Lizerati in the Polar Vortex! Stay safe.
re: #2 BlueGrl21
Not one person in the world needs one billion dollars. Not one. Money hoarders is correct.
Adjusted for inflation, we’ve always had billionaires. So it doesn’t really bother me. It’s just a shame that modern billionaires feel it more important to run vanity presidential campaigns rather than building universities or hospitals.
Also, sidenote: I just learned that Timothy Olyphant is a member of the Vanderbilt family.
It’s -32 where I was born, it’s +50 where I live.
Check those Midwest temperatures, and send warm thoughts. Seriously: stay safe, people.
— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) January 30, 2019
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Some of us had the good sense to start preparing for the polar vortex months ago pic.twitter.com/DbPzx1SyG0
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) January 30, 2019
You make fun of the rodents running on the wheels. But then the polar vortex comes and, well, pic.twitter.com/87lYrH7AYX
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) January 30, 2019
LOLWUT?
She @TulsiGabbard is the only one who will bring in the innovation to propel circular economy micro grid permaculture projects to escape the nazi petrol dollar.
You all are eating too much sushi and wearing purple hair.
What kind of democracy do you even represent?— Ecosutra (@Ecosutra) January 30, 2019
No People. No Process. No Policy.
@ABlinken explains why Team Trump is not prepared for an actual (as opposed to manufactured) crisis. https://t.co/7POTwyRrU4— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) January 29, 2019
ODNI Coats on Iran: “We continue to assess that Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear device…1/
— Julian Borger (@julianborger) January 29, 2019
More from Coats, who notes that the biggest thing holding Iran back from the nuclear threat @AmbJohnBolton warned about is the nuclear deal Trump (at Bolton’s urging) trashed. pic.twitter.com/USmsD7Rsub
— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) January 29, 2019
US intelligence assessment shows that Trump’s Iran strategy is failing.
Read @lrozen 👇 https://t.co/5NY51TIwZU pic.twitter.com/ZhzUvrpZva— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) January 30, 2019
re: #10 teleskiguy
It’s -11 now, heading down to -21 by 8AM CST. My plans include staying inside all Wednesday.
re: #13 Renaissance_Man
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re: #17 Targetpractice
…
Was that word salad supposed to mean something?
After some debate the judges rule this word salad as a “crab louie.” https://t.co/qVCkOZilks
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) January 30, 2019
re: #7 William Lewis
Howard Schultz needs to simply shut the fuck up and go back to making horrible coffee using burned beans.
Also known as espresso. I’m sorry, but espresso is crap. Coffee beans burned to charcoal, ground really fine to guarantee over-extraction, and exposed to temperatures over ~195º F. Any one of these things would produce horrible coffee, all of them together are an abomination.
And mixing this witches’ brew with copious quantities of milk doesn’t help. I never order anything at Starbuck’s except their Coffee of the Day—which is real, properly roasted, brewed coffee—and introduced me to all the different varieties with their distinctive flavors. From what people say, it sounds like Starbuck’s foists inferior coffee on the public elsewhere, but here on their home turf I guess they figure they can’t get away with it. I’d hate to have to boycott them….
As a gamer, I have a love/hate relationship with games where you spend most of the story building up a team that can steamroll its way through maps, only to reach the endgame where the difficulty curve develops an overhang.
Me: “I am mighty! King Kong ain’t got shit on me!”
Game: “Oh really, boyo? Then it’s time to take you back to school. *TPK*”
Me: “Ffffffffff….”
*sigh* Back to the grind I go.
I am going to be very disappointed in the NSA if they don’t have complete transcripts of the private conversations between Trump and Putin.
Forgive me if this link has already posted here, but I thought this take by a Rolling Stone writer was really interesting:
Stephen Miller May Have Cost Trump the Wall
Basically, it says the goober in the Oval Office didn’t take an offer from the Democrats a while back because he and Stephen Miller were too racist to realize it was a good deal for them.
re: #25 Scout
Although … now that I think about it, this piece presupposes they actually want a wall, and not a wedge issue to fire up the base.
re: #26 Scout
Although … now that I think about it, this piece presupposes they actually want a wall, and not a wedge issue to fire up the base.
Bingo. The wall is useless as an actual physical object. That’s why they won’t trade permanent residence and a path to citizenship for Dreamers for wall funding.
re: #9 KGxvi
Adjusted for inflation, we’ve always had billionaires. So it doesn’t really bother me. It’s just a shame that modern billionaires feel it more important to run vanity presidential campaigns rather than building universities or hospitals.
Also, sidenote: I just learned that Timothy Olyphant is a member of the Vanderbilt family.
But you already knew that about Anderson Cooper, right? Not new information?
re: #26 Scout
Although … now that I think about it, this piece presupposes they actually want a wall, and not a wedge issue to fire up the base.
re: #27 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Bingo. The wall is useless as an actual physical object. That’s why they won’t trade permanent residence and a path to citizenship for Dreamers for wall funding.
If they really wanted a wall, they could have worked on it when the GOP had complete control of both Houses.
SO NO WITNESSES. A COUPLE WHITE SUPREMACISTS JUST WALKING AROUND CHICAGO AT 2 AM WITH A NOOSE AND BLEACH WHEN IT’S 10 BELOW ZERO? SURE, I BUY THAT - NOT - ‘Empire’ Actor Jussie Smollett Told Police His Attackers Yelled ‘MAGA Country’ https://t.co/M0xLxm2L26 via @BreitbartNews
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) January 30, 2019
How come Jussie Smollett never mentioned anything about the attackers saying “MAGA Country” until AFTER officers saw the claim going viral, and called Smollette to ask him about it? That jogged his memory? How could he ‘forget’ to mention that to the responding officers? https://t.co/Kjr5u326j4
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) January 30, 2019
They were Trump supporters, in the middle of a shady and deserted area in the middle of Chicago, lying in wait. And then they pounced with supplies they had ready on hand. There are no witnesses and no video confirming anyone else besides him was around.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) January 30, 2019
Of course the Right Wing are going Truther on Jussie Smollett.
I just happened upon this video, and I laughed so hard that I had to clean Snapple off my iPad! 😂
Thank you @TheBearJieux for the lol!
pic.twitter.com/tBW1xnvbpc— Tris Resists (@TrisResists) January 29, 2019
re: #22 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I never order anything at Starbuck’s except their Coffee of the Day—which is real, properly roasted, brewed coffee—and introduced me to all the different varieties with their distinctive flavors. From what people say, it sounds like Starbuck’s foists inferior coffee on the public elsewhere, but here on their home turf I guess they figure they can’t get away with it. I’d hate to have to boycott them….
I don’t drink coffee; but I do appreciate their free wifi, and sometimes the pastries are pretty good.
re: #32 sagehen
I don’t drink coffee; but I do appreciate their free wifi, and sometimes the pastries are pretty good.
He’s not CEO of Starbucks anymore, so I’m not sure of what a boycott is supposed to accomplish.
re: #33 NO SMOCKING GUN!
He’s not CEO of Starbucks anymore, so I’m not sure of what a boycott is supposed to accomplish.
His net worth is still massively tied to Starbucks’ stock valuation.
Howard Schultz is the founder, former chief executive officer (CEO), and single-largest shareholder of Starbucks. Schultz holds 33 million shares directly and 1.7 million shares indirectly through trusts as of Jun. 26, 2018.
OK, we all knew Facebook was a criminal enterprise, right? This is really something though:
Big news: Facebook has been paying teens & adults $20/month to give it root access to all data transmitted by their phone. Here’s what my investigation found… 1/ https://t.co/uGqcQRAeSM
— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) January 29, 2019
Craziest part: Facebook (though its middleman Applause) demanded that Research app users submit screenshots of their Amazon order history page. That’s some juicy data. 4/ pic.twitter.com/mEVYDYXgHX
— Josh Constine (@JoshConstine) January 29, 2019
Like they say, read the whole thing.
re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter
If they really wanted a wall, they could have worked on it when the GOP had complete control of both Houses.
Repeat for this thread: If Trump had been at all serious about his Wall, he would have named a planning commission to present a land survey, an engineering and design report, a timetable and a budget.
Along with an environmental impact statement and assessment of legal/property issues faced in building a wall.
None of that happened, which is in itself proof that the Wall is just a Symbol of our National Resolve.
re: #34 goddamnedfrank
His net worth is still massively tied to Starbucks’ stock valuation.
And while I have no first hand knowledge about exactly how he’s set up his holdings my educated guess, based on his statement that he decided to explore running for President because of AOC’s 70% top marginal rate policy proposal, is that the vast majority of that stock is being held in some kind of traditional pre-tax IRA. In other words, he never went Roth. Meaning under such a proposal he’s likely to be hit hard if he liquidates his holdings because almost all of it will be classified as income instead of capital gains.
Basically, this motherfucker is scared, and he’s trying to get Trump re-elected out of nothing but pure greed.
I have never visited a Starbuck’s in my life. There are over 150 of them in Germany, I guess, but I find that most cafes can give you a decent cup at a reasonable price.
I did visit a Costa’s Coffee, a UK knockoff of the chain.
Lick the back door all ya want…I’m still keeping it locked.
— berta (@cleanityourself) January 30, 2019
They say Hillary Clinton is unlikeable. They say Nancy Pelosi is unlikeable. They say Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Kamala Harris are unlikeable. But is anyone more unlikeable than Ted Cruz, Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump, or Mitch McConnell? I’ll wait.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) January 28, 2019
re: #40 goddamnedfrank
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Had to search my memory for a bit to remember the last female candidate for the WH (Pres or VP) that the media viewed as “likable.”
Then it hit me: Princess Dumbass of the North Woods. Why? Because it was obvious from Day One that the McCain campaign had picked her because she was an attractive woman whose room-temp IQ was non-threatening to male wingnuts.
re: #30 DodgerFan1988
Of course the Right Wing are going Truther on Jussie Smollett.
Mark Dice, huh?
So it’s totally plausible that superbowl halftime shows are Satanic Illuminati rituals, but a couple goons stalking and attacking a gay black tv actor is unbelievable?
Ouch!
Just off with your producer getting this sorted.
Given your history with folks’ phones though, I’m sure you already know that 😉 https://t.co/lIuCkXOYRN— Ross Greer (@Ross_Greer) January 28, 2019
re: #45 Scout
Context?
Never mind. I think I figured it out. (Forgot about the phone-tapping business.)
re: #45 Scout
Context?
Piers Morgan got into a spat with Ross Greer, an MSP from the Green party who was less than complimentary about William Churchill’s record.
‘Churchill was a white supremacist mass murderer’ - @Ross_Greer, Green Party MSPIn a fiery debate, @piersmorgan and @susannareid100 discuss Ross Greer’s controversial comments about Winston Churchill. #GMB pic.twitter.com/pwNhlmLhty
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) January 29, 2019
@DaftLimmy then trolled Piers about it. (NSFW tweet in private comment.)
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… and for good measure, trolled Piers about his “journalist” credentials.
You put our boys at risk when you printed these lies to sell papers, for which you were sacked. Standing up for Churchill is a cynical PR move. The British Army will never forgive you. pic.twitter.com/z7kiFQV438
Shame. You killed Our Boys. pic.twitter.com/OIhTTO5Q77
And Piers took the bait…
BOOM! https://t.co/FaIr2GNlq5
So Churchill is their weakness. Make a note.
re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Your view beats mine, hands down.
re: #49 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Your view beats mine, hands down.
that’s why I live here. That is taken from a ways uphill.
This is the view out my window:
re: #7 William Lewis
Howard Schultz needs to simply shut the fuck up and go back to making horrible coffee using burned beans.
i don’t know if it makes it worse or better, but when i used to drink coffee, starbucks whole bean was actually quite good out of the bag. I just assumed that it sucks at Starbucks because they don’t know how to make it, or because people put so much crap in their coffee that they can’t taste how bad the barista version is black.
re: #8 teleskiguy
My mother was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. What’s the weather like there tonight?
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Oy…
I saw outside temperatures like that more than a few times living and going to school in a little town in Colorado called Gunnison. That kind of cold is nothing to be trifled with. And when the wind blows, it’s way way worse.
Stay safe Lizerati in the Polar Vortex! Stay safe.
this is when everyone should read “to build a fire.” London also encountered that cold more than a few times while prospecting in Alaska. guy’s feet get wet: he realizes no amount of running will warm them: tries to build a fire but has snow from an overhanging branch smother it: wants to kill the dog in order to warm his hands, but dog looks over at him from safe distance and says, “what do you mean ‘we’ are in trouble, white man?’
re: #52 steve_davis
this is when everyone should read “to build a fire.” London also encountered that cold more than a few times while prospecting in Alaska.
That story always impressed me as a kid…
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Mickey and Michelle!
Might be an artifact of 1960 stereo engineering, but I love the way they keep their voices separated on some of their cuts.
re: #51 steve_davis
i don’t know if it makes it worse or better, but when i used to drink coffee, starbucks whole bean was actually quite good out of the bag. I just assumed that it sucks at Starbucks because they don’t know how to make it, or because people put so much crap in their coffee that they can’t taste how bad the barista version is black.
My ex GF used to bring back a bag of Dunkin’ Donuts ground coffee when she visited the ‘States, I found that was decent stuff as well.
re: #22 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Also known as espresso. I’m sorry, but espresso is crap. Coffee beans burned to charcoal, ground really fine to guarantee over-extraction, and exposed to temperatures over ~195º F. Any one of these things would produce horrible coffee, all of them together are an abomination.
And mixing this witches’ brew with copious quantities of milk doesn’t help. I never order anything at Starbuck’s except their Coffee of the Day—which is real, properly roasted, brewed coffee—and introduced me to all the different varieties with their distinctive flavors. From what people say, it sounds like Starbuck’s foists inferior coffee on the public elsewhere, but here on their home turf I guess they figure they can’t get away with it. I’d hate to have to boycott them….
I’ve had mix results with them. I couldn’t find a Starbucks in NYC that could brew anything passable. Dallas, OTOH, had a nice one where I had coffee (and breakfast) almost every day.
re: #8 teleskiguy
I saw outside temperatures like that more than a few times living and going to school in a little town in Colorado called Gunnison. T
My father and I hiked down to the Gunnison river in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park when I was 15. That was one hell of a steep climb back up. The ranger told us “really, that is not a day hike.” Wrong thing to say. Challenge set…
I know people here don’t like the science in The Day After Tomorrow, but, after seeing the images from the north this morning, it’s at least a way to talk to people about how global warming can cause erratic weather.
good morning fellow lizards. Today I finally get the cast off my thumb after thumb surgery and I get to test out my new toy. Got a new pellet smoker for those times when i can’t always tend a fire like i have to on my big one.
moron is giving international travel advice
O_o
Maduro willing to negotiate with opposition in Venezuela following U.S. sanctions and the cutting off of oil revenues. Guaido is being targeted by Venezuelan Supreme Court. Massive protest expected today. Americans should not travel to Venezuela until further notice.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2019
OCCUPY! https://t.co/21NVL4CacO
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 30, 2019
also delusional, no surprise
When I became President, ISIS was out of control in Syria & running rampant. Since then tremendous progress made, especially over last 5 weeks. Caliphate will soon be destroyed, unthinkable two years ago. Negotiating are proceeding well in Afghanistan after 18 years of fighting..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2019
….Fighting continues but the people of Afghanistan want peace in this never ending war. We will soon see if talks will be successful? North Korea relationship is best it has ever been with U.S. No testing, getting remains, hostages returned. Decent chance of Denuclearization…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2019
…Time will tell what will happen with North Korea, but at the end of the previous administration, relationship was horrendous and very bad things were about to happen. Now a whole different story. I look forward to seeing Kim Jong Un shortly. Progress being made-big difference!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2019
I’ve said it many times: if you don’t bundle up in Chicago… https://t.co/OLyuOnH4gf
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) January 30, 2019
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
also delusional, no surprise
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He’s rage tweeting at 6:40 AM.
If the committee of Republicans and Democrats now meeting on Border Security is not discussing or contemplating a Wall or Physical Barrier, they are Wasting their time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2019
“Three separate caravans marching to our Border. The numbers are tremendous.” @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2019
The thing these billionaires don’t understand is that being the President of the United States isn’t just some hobby they can take up like kite surfing and see if they can be any good at it.
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
I responded to the caravan tweet a little bit ago…
Funny that the biggest threat you can drum up is a bunch of women walking with toddlers.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 30, 2019
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m going to be so happy to have a President who doesn’t listen to Fox and Friends for policy ideas.
An anti-vaxxer asked how to protect her 3-year-old from measles and got totally owned.https://t.co/3eg4dupNkW pic.twitter.com/cxbvZ9Weoa
— The Poke (@ThePoke) January 30, 2019
re: #73 HappyWarrior
Please be a Jr indictment.
This. Indict Don Jr. on perjury now and start exercising search warrants on his org. Let Trump rage.
re: #75 darthstar
This. Indict Don Jr. on perjury now and start exercising search warrants on his org. Let Trump rage.
Rage?
Trump would go apeshit. Seriously, he’d probably start lobbing nukes at Caracas or something.
Theresa May readies her transport for triumphant return to Brussels pic.twitter.com/fmRRwgsHku
— The Poke (@ThePoke) January 30, 2019
and Schultz just called for comprehensive tax reform aka more tax cuts…bye felicia.
re: #78 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
and Schultz just called for comprehensive tax reform aka more tax cuts…bye felicia.
Well clearly, he hasn’t hoarded enough money yet.
Maybe Schultz is going for a whole Scrooge McDuck swimming in money sort of thing.
re: #17 Targetpractice
…
Was that word salad supposed to mean something?
bullshit trying to masquerade as brilliant insider who’s smarter than everyone else
re: #78 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
and Schultz just called for comprehensive tax reform aka more tax cuts…bye felicia.
We don’t need more tax cuts that benefit only you and your friends.
I suppose it should be no surprise, but the usual suspects are starting to get very ‘concerned’ about some of the 2020 Dem candidates. Particularly Kamala Harris:
Why did Kamala Harris withhold support for special investigations of police shootings? https://t.co/O4jlNnAXDE
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 30, 2019
re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth
An anti-vaxxer asked how to protect her 3-year-old from measles and got totally owned
There could be valid medical reasons that this kid is not vaccinated. Would not rush to judgement based on that post alone. But now “herd immunity” is all but gone and we are all lone buffaloes waiting to get picked off.
Schultz: Reagan was the best republican president…
re: #27 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Bingo. The wall is useless as an actual physical object. That’s why they won’t trade permanent residence and a path to citizenship for Dreamers for wall funding.
as a physical object we’re looking at a 10-20+ year timeline
where even the $25B is a ‘down payment’
changing administrations, priorities, etc
of course it’s never gonna happen under any circumstances
re: #84 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Schultz: Reagan was the best republican president…
Not even the best one of the 80’s.
re: #78 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
and Schultz just called for comprehensive tax reform aka more tax cuts…bye felicia.
Has screaming fits about talk of raising taxes on the rich, then comes out the next day to suggest “comprehensive tax reform.”
I can’t imagine what he thinks is wrong with our tax structure. ////////
Can anyone tell me if Bernie was offering “Free Jobs” along with the free collage and healthcare?
This Schultz guy is incredibly tone deaf….
And this is really what it comes down to: A High-profile, self-funded ‘Trigger The Libs’ campaign.
— The Best A K Can Be (@Citizen_Kryptik) January 30, 2019
Fuck Schultz.
EDIT: Greg Sargent helps put it into words better than I could:
Howard Schultz, on Morning Joe:
“I must be doing something right to create so much backlash from the Democratic Party.”
Criticism from the left only validates the original vanity project. This sort of centrism is a rigid ideology all its own:https://t.co/xg9yY36q5a pic.twitter.com/yiStlTAjXh— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 30, 2019
Foxconn may not build $10B Wisconsin plant Trump touted
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..”In Wisconsin we’re not building a factory. You can’t use a factory to view our Wisconsin investment,” Woo said.
Earlier this month, Foxconn, a major supplier to Apple, reiterated its intention to create 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin, but said it had slowed its pace of hiring. The company initially said it expected to employ about 5,200 people by the end of 2020; a company source said that figure now looks likely to be closer to 1,000 workers.
re: #88 Dave In Austin
Can anyone tell me if Bernie was offering “Free Jobs” along with the free collage and healthcare?
This Schultz guy is incredibly tone deaf….
Democrats are going to turn us into a socialist hellhole with hyperinflation unless we lower taxes and cut government spending to the bone.
re: #37 goddamnedfrank
And while I have no first hand knowledge about exactly how he’s set up his holdings my educated guess, based on his statement that he decided to explore running for President because of AOC’s 70% top marginal rate policy proposal, is that the vast majority of that stock is being held in some kind of traditional pre-tax IRA. In other words, he never went Roth. Meaning under such a proposal he’s likely to be hit hard if he liquidates his holdings because almost all of it will be classified as income instead of capital gains.
Basically, this motherfucker is scared, and he’s trying to get Trump re-elected out of nothing but pure greed.
selling stock inside a traditional ira - no tax - cap gains or otherwise
it’s when you withdraw from the account
he did just say that he is for going after big pharma. then turns and now is waffling on unions and saying they aren’t the answer, comprehensive tax reform is now he is saying he hated trump’s tax cuts.
re: #84 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Schultz: Reagan was the best republican president…
I’m sure he thinks so. This simple graph of wealth distribution explains why.
Edit for clarity
and now: Elizabeth warren is a socialist
re: #96 HappyWarrior
yup.
re: #97 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
yup.
He seems way out of touch. Who wants to hear a multi millionaire whine about people wanting better health care?
re: #41 Targetpractice
Had to search my memory for a bit to remember the last female candidate for the WH (Pres or VP) that the media viewed as “likable.”
Then it hit me: Princess Dumbass of the North Woods. Why? Because it was obvious from Day One that the McCain campaign had picked her because she was an attractive woman whose room-temp IQ was non-threatening to male wingnuts.
Cause she was an R
Seriously though she had no national history
she wasn’t around long enough for people to be pissed at her
How do you hate someone you never heard of
re: #98 HappyWarrior
He seems way out of touch. Who wants to hear a multi millionaire whine about people wanting better health care?
The Sunday Show Circuit, clearly…
re: #99 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
Cause she was an R
Seriously though she had no national history
she wasn’t around long enough for people to be pissed at her
How do you hate someone you never heard of
I didn’t dislike her at first and even gave McCain some credit for going outside the box but she was and is awful.
re: #98 HappyWarrior
no one. Mitt Romney 2.0
re: #59 Sea Mexican
I’ve had mix results with them. I couldn’t find a Starbucks in NYC that could brew anything passable. Dallas, OTOH, had a nice one where I had coffee (and breakfast) almost every day.
Starbucks is dead to me. Each morning we grind and French press our coffee. If I had more room, we would roast.
re: #101 HappyWarrior
Also, don’t underestimate the gullibility of folks who equate money with righteousness/intelligence. Trump managed to con folks into believing he was all for the ‘real’ working class, after all.
re: #30 DodgerFan1988
Will the person making this man watch gay porn please stop. https://t.co/f3AL5zp9mQ
— ((( ⚛️ Cajsa ⚛️ ))) (@Cajsa) January 30, 2019
re: #102 HappyWarrior
I didn’t dislike her at first and even gave McCain some credit for going outside the box but she was and is awful.
It was clear that she was part of a package deal that McCain had to take to ensure the support of the Fundamentalist social-conservative wing of the GOP, which was not happy with McCain’s centrist social policies.
And granted, she was Governor of the largest state in the union, but governor of a state with a population around that of Louisville, KY. Two-thirds of which is Federal or tribal land…
re: #105 Citizen K
Also, don’t underestimate the gullibility of folks who equate money with righteousness/intelligence. Trump managed to con folks into believing he was all for the ‘real’ working class, after all.
Calvinism is still strong with us. The Rich must be somehow morally superior to the rest of us.
re: #69 darthstar
The thing these billionaires don’t understand is that being the President of the United States isn’t just some hobby they can take up like kite surfing and see if they can be any good at it.
By the time anyone gets any good at it, it’s over
re: #106 Patricia Kayden
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re: #99 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
Cause she was an R
Seriously though she had no national history
she wasn’t around long enough for people to be pissed at her
How do you hate someone you never heard of
GOPers find it easy - just look at the sex and/or skin color
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It was clear that she was part of a package deal that McCain had to take to ensure the support of the Fundamentalist social-conservative wing of the GOP, which was not happy with McCain’s centrist social policies.
And granted, she was Governor of the largest state in the union, but governor of a state with a population around that of Louisville, KY. Two-thirds of which is Federal or tribal land…
I didn’t know how conservative she was but her lack of intelligence and intellectual curiosity was apparent immediately. I also think it was a cynical ploy to Clinton voters but they weren’t fooled.
re: #111 fern01
GOPers find it easy - just look at the sex and/or skin color
I still remember Limbaugh calling her Governor Babe and all the conservative males I knew calling her a GILF. A double play on her being a governor and grandmother.
Holy ^&*. The wind chill here is -37! High today to be -1. Why aren’t I somewhere warm???
re: #82 Citizen K
I suppose it should be no surprise, but the usual suspects are starting to get very ‘concerned’ about some of the 2020 Dem candidates. Particularly Kamala Harris:
So, what you’re saying Maggie, is that the right will find something to like in her?
re: #104 Unshaken Defiance
Starbucks is dead to me. Each morning we grind and French press our coffee. If I had more room, we would roast.
Yup every morning
re: #114 retired cynic
It’s -23° F here now. I volunteered to come into work today and hold down the fort. Everyone else is at home.
re: #110 HappyWarrior
Homosexuals having the same rights as you isn’t forcing anything. Don’t like shows with gays in them. Don’t watch them. Don’t like gay marriage. Don’t attend one. But somehow we’re the snowflakes who need safe spaces.
I may have to sell them a cake!
re: #119 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
I may have to sell them a cake!
What pisses me off about these people who use their religion to refuse to deal in “sin” I’d how selective they are. It’s such bs.
Democrats’ approval rating hits highest mark in 10 years, with Nancy Pelosi now trusted more than Donald Trump https://t.co/Wh3kVuS4B4 pic.twitter.com/7rpHYx2hiM
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 30, 2019
do you know how historically impossible it is to make ANY speaker of the house popular? https://t.co/xOuQXbaI0d
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) January 30, 2019
it is an unquestionably thankless job that gets you blamed for everything by everyone inside and outside your caucus. It drove Boehner to madness, Ryan to irrelevance, Gingrich to punchline status, and Hastert to…well…
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) January 30, 2019
re: #88 Dave In Austin
Can anyone tell me if Bernie was offering “Free Jobs” along with the free collage and healthcare?
This Schultz guy is incredibly tone deaf….
The only time I witnessed “free jobs” is when nepotism was involved
re: #118 Amory Blaine
It’s -23° F here now. I volunteered to come into work today and hold down the fort. Everyone else is at home.
My daughter’s company told people to stay home. She said it was the first time since she started working there 10 years ago that the place had closed. Weather forecast calls for a high of -15° F.
I’m embarrassed it’s 35’ in Central Texas. Stay safe you guys.
re: #121 Belafon
do you know how historically impossible it is to make ANY speaker of the house popular?
Nancy had a good feel for the mood of the nation. She came out of the 2018 mid-term elections swinging and caught the GOP off guard. The image of all those women Reps in the Democratic caucus really struck a nerve with a lot of frustrated voters.
She also knows that people who have been grudgingly supportive of Trump are starting to waver.
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nancy had a good feel for the mood of the nation. She came out of the 2018 mid-term elections swinging and caught the GOP off guard. The image of all those women Reps in the Democratic caucus really struck a nerve with a lot of frustrated voters.
She also knows that people who have been grudgingly supportive of Trump are starting to waver.
Yep, but even GWB would have known how to handle this better.
So, current Brexit status be like:
Isn’t it annoying when you get lied to. pic.twitter.com/7VdnykV3DV
— Steve Perks (@PerksyS) January 30, 2019
PM May basically lied to her Parliamentary allies yesterday regarding a couple of negotiators - the hardline Brexiteers insisted upon them, May said, “Sure, no problemo” and today she’s all like, “Nah, ain’t gonna do it” and the Brexiteers are livid.
re: #128 Belafon
Yep, but even GWB would have known how to handle this better.
GWB was a different breed. He had a lot of people who truly supported him. DT has a small hard-core following and a lot of people who support him for various reasons; dislike of Democrats, because they see him as means to an end or because they are (or at least were) convinced that he could not be much worse than the alternative or that he was worth a chance.
re: #129 Dr Lizardo
So, current Brexit status be like:
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PM May basically lied to her Parliamentary allies yesterday regarding a couple of negotiators - the hardline Brexiteers insisted upon them, May said, “Sure, no problemo” and today she’s all like, “Nah, ain’t gonna do it” and the Brexiteers are livid.
May read Trump’s playbook?
It’s a balmy -25F here in the northern Chicago burbs. -55F windchill. I think I’ll go to the beach today.
F: “So what did you see on the internet today Dave?”
Me: “Not much the usual lying Pols. But there was this Unicorn with a case of the worms GIF that was rather intriguing”.
re: #121 Belafon
do you know how historically impossible it is to make ANY speaker of the house popular?
Trump makes the unpossible possible.
Is Joe Hoft as stupid as Jim Hoft?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 30, 2019
re: #125 Dave In Austin
I’m embarrassed it’s 35’ in Central Texas. Stay safe you guys.
60 here
but no sun for three days so we dont know what to do
A heartwarming story from the land of 911 dispatchers.
Found it! https://t.co/Lmk4IqRKVE
— Wheat-dogg, Raker of Forests, Master of Steam (@liguy743) January 30, 2019
Lafayette is the town right next to the home of Purdue University.
Morning!
It’s cold. What’s new?
-1° with a wind chill of -25°. The wind gusts are pretty damn strong. Strange thing, the wind is coming from the West/Southwest and that is pretty unusual with a huge cold front like this.
One day and a half of this and it is supposed to warm up to mid 20s by Friday. Schools closed, no mail. First time I remember the post office calling off around here.
Bubbles
This is really cool - blowing bubbles in the freezing cold - Wow! pic.twitter.com/c60cnzpeuH
— Physics & Astronomy Zone (@ZonePhysics) January 30, 2019
Looks like Germany is slashing its 2019 economic outlook and Italy may well now be in a recession (having entered recession in Q4 of last year).
re: #31 Single-handed sailor
That was hysterical. I almost spit coffee out of my nose, myself. LOL!
re: #41 Targetpractice
Had to search my memory for a bit to remember the last female candidate for the WH (Pres or VP) that the media viewed as “likable.”
Then it hit me: Princess Dumbass of the North Woods. Why? Because it was obvious from Day One that the McCain campaign had picked her because she was an attractive woman whose room-temp IQ was non-threatening to male wingnuts.
True, but there gradually arose the “famous for the sake of being famous” angle with Palin, especially when she quit her only duly elected job in order to become Teh Prototypical Grifter.
The doomsayers have been pointing to declining home sales as a premonition of a recession. Just sayin’.
Pending home sales drop in December despite much lower interest rates https://t.co/Y1mTVVBe2H
— CNBC (@CNBC) January 30, 2019
re: #13 Renaissance_Man
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re: #144 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
The doomsayers have been pointing to declining home sales as a premonition of a recession. Just sayin’.
Just think of what a wall will do to keep housing sales up.
Staying inside today. pic.twitter.com/bTbGA8MeEk
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 30, 2019
re: #144 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Combined with slowing Chinese output, Germany cutting its forecasts for this year (and Italy probably already in a recession), the Brexit debacle, and other factors……looks like this might end up being a rough year pretty much everywhere.
re: #35 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
OK, we all knew Facebook was a criminal enterprise, right? This is really something though:
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Like they say, read the whole thing.
One acronym: RICO
re: #148 Dr Lizardo
Combined with slowing Chinese output, Germany cutting its forecasts for this year (and Italy probably already in a recession), the Brexit debacle, and other factors……looks like this might end up being a rough year pretty much everywhere.
Yup.
re: #143 Myron Falwell
True, but there gradually arose the “famous for the sake of being famous” angle with Palin, especially when she quit her only duly elected job in order to become Teh Prototypical Grifter.
she didnt enter the arena with a ‘predestined’ target on her back
she earned it all by herself (and quickly she did)
re: #150 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
And Czech Republic will get it too - Germany sneezes, we catch a cold.
That being said, bad times for others are often good times for yours truly; people start concentrating more on learning their English so they can either find work elsewhere or move up the employment ladder….if they have an English certificate they’re more likely to get promoted or, in other cases, land a better job than what they’ve got now.
And on that note, I’m off to teach a new student. BBL.
Good morning, fellow Polar vortexers! It is currently 36 degrees and overcast here on the Gulf Coast. For reference, temps rarely drop below 30 here though we haven’t gotten an actual blast of winter weather this year (we’ve only had snow six times since 1993).
That said, I am of course Canadian and I have felt a -55 wind chill before, so I sympathize with what you are dealing with.
re: #144 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
A recession is a big enough problem when you have rates taxes that you can cut and projects to fund. AND you have people who have passed high school intro to economics.
We do have a cushion of rates that can be cut. We won’t pass any budget that includes public works because of McConnell and his Fuck Civilization caucus. Taxes actually need to be raised because they’ve cut them to oblivion.
And have you seen these dipshits?
How boned are we? We are double-plus superfucked.
re: #90 Amory Blaine
Foxconn may not build $10B Wisconsin plant Trump touted
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But they’ll still get the tax breaks that scumbag Walker gave away!
re: #154 Sufficient unto the day…
A recession is a big enough problem when you have rates taxes that you can cut and projects to fund. AND you have people who have passed high school intro to economics.
We do have a cushion of rates that can be cut. We won’t pass any budget that includes public works because of McConnell and his Fuck Civilization caucus. Taxes actually need to be raised because they’ve cut them to oblivion.
And have you seen these dipshits?
How boned are we? We are double-plus superfucked.
It’s the little people who get hurt by recession. The fat cats are largely insulated from them.
Ninja😎 pic.twitter.com/8nU0Ba5xSX
— Gaml .y (@m_yosry2012) January 29, 2019
JFC
“I must be doing something right to create so much interest and backlash from the Democratic Party. Some of it is a surprise, but we expected to see some of the level of vitriol but not the extent it’s been.” — @HowardSchultz pic.twitter.com/PJ5nrWAJFc
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) January 30, 2019
OT:
A CURE FOR CANCER? ISRAELI SCIENTISTS SAY THEY THINK THEY FOUND ONE
“We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer.”
jpost.com
“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market,” Aridor said. “Our solution will be both generic and personal.”
Sciences Rules
(Lets hope it works)
re: #151 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
she didnt enter the arena with a ‘predestined’ target on her back
she earned it all by herself (and quickly she did)
As someone once said, “nothing is gained, everything is earned.” Starting with the Couric interview disaster, she totally earned that level of infamy.
re: #155 William Lewis
But they’ll still get the tax breaks that scumbag Walker gave away!
Also: didn’t Walker offer Foxconn a ton of (taxpayer) money up front to build their “huge” plant in WI?
Must be a day ending in Y when the President hops on Twitter and shits all over his Intelligence experts.
I bet they are thrilled about that.
//
The Forest (part 7 of a larger poem called Rain)
At night
under the trees
the black snake
jellies forward
rubbing
roughly
the stems of the bloodroot,
the yellow leaves,
little boulders of bark,
to take off
the old life.
I don’t know
if he knows
what is happening.
I don’t know
if he knows
it will work.
In the distance
the moon and the stars
give a little light.
In the distance
the owl cries out.
In the distance
the owl cries out.
The snake knows
these are the owl’s woods,
these are the woods of death,
these are the woods of hardship
where you crawl and crawl,
where you live in the husks of trees,
where you lie on the wild twigs
and they cannot bear your weight,
where life has no purpose
and is neither civil nor intelligent.
Where life has no purpose
and is neither civil nor intelligent,
it begins
to rain,
it begins
to smell like the bodies
of flowers.
At the back of the neck
the old skin splits.
The snake shivers
but does not hesitate.
He inches forward.
He begins to bleed through
like satin.
—-Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems, published 1992
re: #158 The Vicious Babushka
JFC
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However many Scaramoochies this “campaign” lasts, it will still be far too long.
Ben Garrison is coping with Trump’s wall cave by drawing Roger Stone nudes pic.twitter.com/mUnlAGNslB
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) January 30, 2019
re: #158 The Vicious Babushka
“I must be doing something right to create so much interest and backlash from the Democratic Party. Some of it is a surprise, but we expected to see some of the level of vitriol but not the extent it’s been.”
He is accomplishing what he has set out to do.
Get people talking about him.
Setting himself up as the only one who can save us from Socialist Venezuelan hyperinflation hell and 120% tax rates.
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is accomplishing what he has set out to do.
Get people talking about him.
Setting himself up as the only one who can save us from Socialist Venezuelan hyperinflation hell and 120% tax rates.
Well, at least the first part. But we were also talking about Tulsi when she announced.
re: #167 Belafon
Well, at least the first part. But we were also talking about Tulsi when she announced.
Schultz/Gabbard 2020 - We get people talking!
//
re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg
Schultz/Gabbard 2020 - We get people talking about how much we suck!
I wonder what Schultz will do when the Mueller report comes out, or Trump does something else stupid?
re: #114 retired cynic
Holy ^&*. The wind chill here is -37! High today to be -1. Why aren’t I somewhere warm???
there are literally places on Mars at the moment where the wind chill is not as bad. In fact, I think the grass is still green around Heliopolis.
— miles reed (@milesjreed) January 30, 2019
re: #172 The Vicious Babushka
Is that a slave ship?
Some notes on the “poll” about the shutdown that Trump will see from his handlers from Joan McCarter:
Never mind the tanking approval rating, the dramatic downward shift in the public’s mood on the economy, or the amazing anybody-but-Trump early 2020 polling: Team Trump has their own numbers, and that’s what they’re showing Individual 1.
Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, commissioned a poll to show Trump how he fared with the shutdown. But rather than, you know, run a national poll, he had the pollsters go to 10 congressional districts that Trump won in 2016 but flipped to Democrats in 2018, in what was basically a fluke of a wave election. They see that these numbers “bolstered Trump” in the shutdown, but under the hood it’s some pretty damned weak sauce. For example, Trump doesn’t jump into majority support in these polls, getting a plurality of 48-49 percent. Also, a plurality blames him for the shutdown!
A plurality does support him on the border wall, but what’s fascinating is that after reading a full four paragraphs of pro-wall arguments, there is hardly any movement among voters. Just 33 percent still stand with Trump on the wall! That is up from 27 percent, but 41 percent still say Trump needs to work with House Speaker Pelosi to find a compromise on border security.
This is the poll that they’re using to convince Trump he needs to hold the line on his wall and keep threatening another shutdown. And knowing Trump, it’ll work.
Also, post #Brexit.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 30, 2019
re: #154 Sufficient unto the day…
A recession is a big enough problem when you have rates taxes that you can cut and projects to fund. AND you have people who have passed high school intro to economics.
We do have a cushion of rates that can be cut. We won’t pass any budget that includes public works because of McConnell and his Fuck Civilization caucus. Taxes actually need to be raised because they’ve cut them to oblivion.
And have you seen these dipshits?
How boned are we? We are double-plus superfucked.
+1
re: #155 William Lewis
But they’ll still get the tax breaks that scumbag Walker gave away!
so they gave away the tax breaks and didnt require performance? wow
re: #158 The Vicious Babushka
JFC
“I must be doing something right to create so much interest and backlash from the Democratic Party. Some of it is a surprise, but we expected to see some of the level of vitriol but not the extent it’s been.”
or people just think you’re an asshole
re: #169 The Vicious Babushka
Schultz/Gabbard 2020 - We get people talking about how much we suck!
Remember that the two big RW talking points were
“Democrats in Disarray, is Nancy on the way out?”
and
“Democrats veer hard left!”
since the former talking point is not at all applicable, they are leaning that much harder on the latter, and that is what Schultz is telling us: the Dems want to wreck our economy with punitive taxation to play for free healthcare, schooling and jobs for ungrateful (that is, minority) people.
re: #180 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
or people just think you’re an asshole
“There’s no such thing as bad publicity”
re: #174 Belafon
Some notes on the “poll” about the shutdown that Trump will see from his handlers from Joan McCarter:
lost me at “Democrats in 2018, in what was basically a fluke of a wave election”
as if…
re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg
Must be a day ending in Y when the President hops on Twitter and shits all over his Intelligence experts.
I bet they are thrilled about that.
//
DJT has much moar better intelligence information and Intelligence that he gets from other Intelligence sources like….
re: #183 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
“Democrats in 2018, in what was basically a fluke of a wave election”
Is that their talking point to explain it all away?
re: #183 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
lost me at “Democrats in 2018, in what was basically a fluke of a wave election”
as if…
If I asked you to bet on who those districts would support in the 2022 midterms if a Democrat wins the presidency in 2020, what would you bet?
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is that their talking point to explain it all away?
Actually, that was McCarter’s commentary.
re: #179 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
so they gave away the tax breaks and didnt require performance? wow
IIRC, Scott Walker and the WI GOP were so desperate to come up with ANY sort of big-money high-tech deal, they gave the shop away to the Chinese, decided to rely on Foxconn’s (unspecific) “projections” as to expansion, and when questioned about the particulars (especially the upfront money), reacted in the usual Republican style: I.e., dismiss, ignore and vilify any opponents, harp on the “jobs, jobs, jobs” theme, and then go ahead and approve the deal anyway.
I guess 1000 jobs at their plant is better than no jobs, but it’s still a far cry from the “13,000” Walker loved to bray about.
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is that their talking point to explain it all away?
must be
because any other explanation means they got pantsed
re: #186 Belafon
If I asked you to bet on who those districts would support in the 2022 midterms if a Democrat wins the presidency in 2020, what would you bet?
all other things being mundane, it tends not to be the president’s party
A new Quinnipiac poll finds Americans trust Democrats more than President Trump on border security, 50% to 41%. That is up from a 49% to 44% Democratic advantage two weeks ago.
“Both findings are rare since the issue has almost always favored the GOP.”
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) declined to say during a television interview whether she will endorse President Trump for reelection in 2020, the Washington Post reports.
that means of course she will
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Stay safe out there as the temps drop off a cliff here (and already are dangerous across the Midwest). Of course, Mount Washington is envious of fact that the temps and windchills in ND and MN and WI are what Mount Washington usually gets on a daily basis.
But that’s not what’s troubling me. It’s that Trump is again attacking the intel community and sycophants like Dobbs are egging Trump on.
Trump is a Russian potted plant and everything he’s doing is undermining US national security. There are a few people like Richard Painter claiming that GOPers are worried that the GOP is worried about 2020 and don’t want to see Trump in 2020. I call bulkshit on that - unless and until GOP leaders in Congress step up and step out and call out Trump and his criminal syndicate and demand the RNC drop the no primarying plank, this is just an attempt to misdirect and get distance between Trump and a GOP that approves of Trump policies but not Trump bluntness. They approve of Trump sabotaging functioning government.
How do we know?
Because McConnell made sure that the shutdown proceeded for the longest in US history. He had ability to end it on day 1 - with a clean CR voice vote. He refused, because he was fine with Trump sabotaging functioning government for a wall even GOPers know isn’t needed.
That also makes the GOP complicit and compromised and there are no redeeming features.
re: #188 Jay C
I guess 1000 jobs at their plant is better than no jobs, but it’s still a far cry from the “13,000” Walker loved to bray about.
It may be “better”, but the ROI sucks raw donkey balls.
re: #188 Jay C
IIRC, Scott Walker and the WI GOP were so desperate to come up with ANY sort of big-money high-tech deal, they gave the shop away to the Chinese, decided to rely on Foxconn’s (unspecific) “projections” as to expansion, and when questioned about the particulars (especially the upfront money), reacted in the usual Republican style: I.e., dismiss, ignore and vilify any opponents, harp on the “jobs, jobs, jobs” theme, and then go ahead and approve the deal anyway.
I guess 1000 jobs at their plant is better than no jobs, but it’s still a far cry from the “13,000” Walker loved to bray about.
Foxconn was a long con by the company on Wisconsin. Walker, Ryan, and Trump all touted this corporate welfare as a job creator, and it’s going to end up costing $4 million a job.
The company got billions. The state should clawback every last penny for not adhering to the deal and promises. That’s money that would have been better spend on higher education or infrastructure. GOPers are fine with redistributing wealth - as long as it flows to companies and billionaires who are least in need of it.
….well fuck.
@GilmerHealthLaw told me about a “Request For Information” issued by @SecAzar’s @HHSGov. HHS wants to change the federal regulations implementing HIPAA, including the privacy rule, Erin wrote a great in depth post here:https://t.co/jGvV1qCe4K
— Matthew Cortland, esq (@mattbc) January 30, 2019
The Trump administration is considering re-writing the federal Privacy Rule to permit healthcare “entities” to disclose, without the patient’s consent, confidential medical information to “family members, caregivers, and others.” To put that another way: anyone. pic.twitter.com/wIpnaf8jap
— Matthew Cortland, esq (@mattbc) January 30, 2019
We have until February 12, 2019 at 11:59PM ET to flood them with comments. I’m going to give you a crash course in how I think we can do this effectively. This is the link where we submit comments: https://t.co/7us7UqVgXv
— Matthew Cortland, esq (@mattbc) January 30, 2019
Because what can go wrong with something like this in Doxxing culture?
re: #159 Kilroy was here
OT:
A CURE FOR CANCER? ISRAELI SCIENTISTS SAY THEY THINK THEY FOUND ONE
“We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer.”
jpost.comSciences Rules
(Lets hope it works)
When they say it lasts a few weeks—the actual treatments? Because it reads like the “cure” is only for about 3 weeks.
re: #197 Mike Lamb
When they say it lasts a few weeks—the actual treatments? Because it reads like the “cure” is only for about 3 weeks.
That’s how I read it , too. And, considering that “cancer” is many, many different etiologies, this sounds way too good to be true.
re: #197 Mike Lamb
When they say it lasts a few weeks—the actual treatments? Because it reads like the “cure” is only for about 3 weeks.
that is a great start
we cannot ask too much right off the bat
Like asking for a painkiller that prevents you from ever getting another headache
re: #196 Citizen K
….well fuck.
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Because what can go wrong with something like this in Doxxing culture?
It’s just helping your boss to help you help yourself. They have your best interest at heart.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that is a great start
we cannot ask too much right off the bat
Like asking for a painkiller that prevents you from ever getting another headache
I just have a hard time calling 3 weeks a “cure” (assuming my reading his correct). It’s just a different type of palliative care.
re: #30 DodgerFan1988
I’ll admit, I think aspects of the story sound a little suspicious. So I’ll reserve judgment until we know more.
OTOH, Pizza-Gate believing magawingnuts aren’t the most credible skeptics.
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
also delusional, no surprise
President MAGA who doesn’t believe his own country’s IC is telling us all about his marvelous yuuuuuge foreign policy intelligence victories.
re: #202 Sir John Barron
I’ll admit, I think aspects of the story sound a little suspicious. So I’ll reserve judgment until we know more.
OTOH, Pizza-Gate believing magawingnuts aren’t the most credible skeptics.
It depends what they are being skeptical of
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It depends what they are being skeptical of
If I was standing outside with a Pizzagate person outside at lunch, and there were no clouds, and they told me the sky was blue, I would have to ask someone else.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that is a great start
we cannot ask too much right off the bat
Comes with a money back guarantee.
The Republican Senatorial Committee feels burdened to inform me that my membership had not only expired last December, but is only two days away from lapsing.!!1! If I send money by Jan 31, BEFORE MIDNIGHT, we we can still Make America Great Again.
Can’t do much for their database manager, though.
re: #159 Kilroy was here
I’ve lost far more family members to cancer than I care to count. A cure would be awesome, but it sounds like they’ve identified a pathway. They are far away from actually doing controlled tests on cancer patients with a specific type of cancer, let alone all cancers.
This whole approach seems to be based on personalized drug cocktails - they biopsy the cancer, match up the peptides, and then administer the drug until the cancer is gone. That’s the theory.
They haven’t begun human testing yet. It sounds promising, but we’ve heard of these kinds of approaches before, and they haven’t gotten us the desired results.
re: #203 Sir John Barron
The only ones buying his baffling bulkshit are his know nothing Fox base. Fox echoes Trump. Trump repeats Fox. It’s a circle of derp/bulkshit impervious to facts or logic.
Even the IC knows Trump is impervious to facts or logic, because they’ve tried to tell him in no uncertain terms Trump is wrong about so many things, but Trump doesn’t care and is doing great damage to our national security and foreign policy.
The beneficiary of all of Trump’s actions: Russia. Make no mistake, Russia benefits from Trump.
Fuck all y’all at the NYT (except for the Food editors)
Democrats considering a presidential run as a moderate would test whether there is a large audience of primary voters open to promises of incremental change and political compromise or whether the party’s ascendant liberal wing is now fully dominant https://t.co/mLOzAb6nSJ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 30, 2019
re: #210 lawhawk
The only ones buying his baffling bulkshit are his know nothing Fox base. Fox echoes Trump. Trump repeats Fox. It’s a circle of derp/bulkshit impervious to facts or logic.
Even the IC knows Trump is impervious to facts or logic, because they’ve tried to tell him in no uncertain terms Trump is wrong about so many things, but Trump doesn’t care and is doing great damage to our national security and foreign policy.
The beneficiary of all of Trump’s actions: Russia. Make no mistake, Russia benefits from Trump.
If DJT doesn’t buy his own IC where is he getting his alternative “facts”?
re: #211 The Vicious Babushka
Democrats considering a presidential run as a moderate would test whether there is a large audience of primary voters open to promises of incremental change and political compromise or whether the party’s ascendant liberal wing is now fully dominant
Democrats veer hard left! Only the GOP can save us from becoming a Socialist Hellhole!!!
re: #30 DodgerFan1988
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Of course the Right Wing are going Truther on Jussie Smollett.
Is there a reason to believe that Jussie was personally targeted — as opposed to being attacked because some homophobes wanted to harm a random gay guy they saw on the street?
re: #211 The Vicious Babushka
Bloomberg and Schultz aren’t what Democrats are looking for. We don’t want or need billionaires deeming that what’s good for billionaires are good for everyone else. They might be socially conscious (huge maybe) but Democrats are looking for so much more.
A Democrat centrist could be: Kamala, Booker, Klobuchar.
And Democrats could run to the left in primaries and then towards the center for the general (the same kind of behavior we’ve seen for decades in presidential elections from Democrats).
re: #212 Sir John Barron
If DJT doesn’t buy his own IC where is he getting his alternative “facts”?
From Very Good People—the Best People.
re: #211 The Vicious Babushka
Fuck all y’all at the NYT (except for the Food editors)
What is this politcal compromise you speak of?
re: #212 Sir John Barron
Fox, Infowars, Hannity, Jones, Limbaugh, Coulter, etc.
You know, all the best people.
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Democrats veer hard left! Only the GOP can save us from becoming a Socialist Hellhole!!!
They want left leaning policies, they just don’t want to CALL them left leaning because it’s a dirty word.
re: #220 Amory Blaine
Proposed layout for Frontier airlines.
‘Round here, they like to call it a “Peculiar Institution Liner”.
re: #210 lawhawk
The beneficiary of all of Trump’s actions: Russia. Make no mistake, Russia benefits from Trump.
They recognized a weakness in our system. Cannot blame them for making full use of it.
re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They recognized a weakness in our system. Cannot blame them for making full use of it.
Actually we can. Not blaming them is like saying we can’t blame the thief for stealing my wallet because I left it on the table.
The fact that we put ourselves in that situation is our fault.
re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They recognized a weakness in our system. Cannot blame them for making full use of it.
It’s my hope that once Trump is out of the way (one way or another, I’m not particular), that the US intel community goes after Putin, hammer and tongs.
Bring that motherfucker low. Steal his money. Ruin him, once and for all. No punishment will be too severe as far as I’m concerned.
Oops. Called da boss, guess I wasn’t supposed to come in today.
re: #223 Belafon
Actually we can. Not blaming them is like saying we can’t blame the thief for stealing my wallet because I left it on the table.
The fact that we put ourselves in that situation is our fault.
What they are doing - influencing public opinion in another country - is not really illegal. Now, if US citizens collude with them to do it, that is another matter entirely.
The second I saw that “trending on Twitter” had become a news item in itself, I started to despair for the future of the Republic.
re: #224 makeitstop
It’s my hope that once Trump is out of the way (one way or another, I’m not particular), that the US intel community goes after Putin, hammer and tongs.
Bring that motherfucker low. Steal his money. Ruin him, once and for all. No punishment will be too severe as far as I’m concerned.
There will be no touching him like that, I just want to see his ability to influence our electoral system diminished.
NEW: Michael Cohen is prepared to testify about Russia behind closed doors, giving lawmakers more insight than ever into Trump’s dealings there—and shedding light on the truthfulness (or not) of other witnesses’s testimonies about Trump Tower Moscow. https://t.co/LzoYohn8Mi
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 30, 2019
re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What they are doing - influencing public opinion in another country - is not really illegal. Now, if US citizens collude with them to do it, that is another matter entirely.
The second I saw that “trending on Twitter” had become a news item in itself, I started to despair for the future of the Republic.
There’s a difference between legally charging someone and blaming them. Fox is still an evil blight that needs to be eradicated but I can’t legally shut them down.
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There will be no touching him like that, I just want to see his ability to influence our electoral system diminished.
I say make an example of him. Fuck with the bull, get the horns.
Mitch McConnell: If citizens vote, it’s a power grab by Democrats.
McConnell knows if many people are able to vote, it won’t be good for Republicans. This should trigger a post mortem, but instead he goes for voter suppression. https://t.co/LbpsYcT80e— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 30, 2019
This is Taco. He couldn’t finish his carrot. Decided to save it for later. Asks that you please watch over it while he naps. 12/10 anything for Taco pic.twitter.com/AGDwfaEw5o
— 💝 WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) January 30, 2019
re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah how dare more people vote Mitch. You’re an undemocratic asshole.
heh
Asked Pelosi about Trump tweeting conference is ‘wasting’ its time, and she said they should talk “without interference from anybody else.”
In private, Pelosi told freshmen this AM she has confidence in conference, didn’t draw red lines and discussed polls showing Trump tanking pic.twitter.com/Jypgj4bWw1— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 30, 2019
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Democrats veer hard left! Only the GOP can save us from becoming a Socialist Hellhole!!!
The press/media is so lost in its own bubble I don’t think it can ever find its way out
Howard Schultz was born in 1953 and grew up in the projects in the 1950s and 1960s
Those projects were paid for in part by folks paying a top marginal tax rate of 91%.
But he doesn’t want to run as a Democrat because he might have to support a 70% rate so people have healthcare https://t.co/HP2Mv8dbnb— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) January 30, 2019
Yeah, Democrats are clamoring for a leader that wants to cut more taxes for the rich and fuck up health care.
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
In other words, he’s a Republican.
Popehat’s Giuliani parody Twitter account gets hosed - too close to the real thing.
Unfortunately @Twitter has deemed the parody account about @RudyGiuliani to be impersonation. pic.twitter.com/kU4SVsvdaJ
— PerpHatWalk (@Popehat) January 30, 2019
re: #240 makeitstop
It’s nearly impossible to parody these people because they’re bugnuts insane, and trying to outdo it is beyond the realm, until they do it themselves.
Dayum
Why don’t people ever tell billionaires who want to run for President that they need to “work their way up” or that “maybe they should start with city council first”? https://t.co/3d8Nenrvl5
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 30, 2019
“This bartender” has served in a Senate casework office, organized & educated 1000s of young people, earned relevant degrees w/ honors, worked on field campaigns, and the only reason I wasn’t told to run for city council was because I was consistently told not to run at all. https://t.co/MOzOtP9Xhd
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 30, 2019
Doc said the flu shot kept me from having an even worse case. She’s right of course.
Help me tamiflu, you’re my only hope.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 30, 2019
re: #242 The Vicious Babushka
Dayum
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If she had run for city council they’d be saying start with dog catcher
… wrote the guy who retweets Donald Trump.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) January 30, 2019
re: #240 makeitstop
Popehat’s Giuliani parody Twitter account gets hosed - too close to the real thing.
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Aww man. Was that the Defenser attorney one?
re: #245 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
If she had run for city council they’d be saying start with dog catcher
I don’t know why “dog catcher” is a meme for “lowest elected office” when animal control officers are trained professionals and not elected officials.
The NRA is trying to create distance between CEO Wayne LaPierre and the NRA officers who traveled to Moscow in 2015 at the invite of criminal Russian influence agent Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin, when NRA members met with top Putin officials.https://t.co/SwSVwhFHPA
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 30, 2019
re: #13 Renaissance_Man
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re: #248 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t know why “dog catcher” is a meme for “lowest elected office” when animal control officers are trained professionals and not elected officials.
Because that’s what it’s meant since it was first used in the late 1800s: slate.com:
The insult that someone “couldn’t be elected dogcatcher” appears to have originated in the late 1800s. In 1889, the Weekly Courier Journal in Louisville noted that then-President Grover Cleveland was “so unpopular in Washington that he could not be elected dog catcher for the district.” A year later, a letter to the New York Times attacked a politician who “could not get elected on his own popularity and without the aid of his ‘machine’ to the office of dogcatcher were it an elective one” (emphasis added). Dogcatcher is also sometimes used as shorthand for the lowest-level political office. For example, in 1979 National Journal wrote about the collapse of a magazine “designed to appeal to elected officeholders from U.S. Senator to dogcatcher.”
LoL
Look my friends, upon the face of pure, unadulterated evil… https://t.co/dRyQgBsyrw
— Karlie 2.0 (@KarlieMurphy) January 30, 2019
The number of caravans seem to increase proportionally with the number of Trump’s political problems. https://t.co/pM22WCEtFc
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) January 30, 2019
re: #252 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Look my friends, upon the face of pure, unadulterated evil…
best served with a glass of water containing frozen wine cubes
re: #249 Single-handed sailor
Everyone who didn’t travel to Russia in 2015 was dealing with Butina and working with Russian money.
There’s zero distance between Russia and the NRA. The NRA became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Russian psyop against the US.
re: #211 The Vicious Babushka
Fuck all y’all at the NYT (except for the Food editors)
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Charles Blow, Paul Krugman, Sopan, and now Jamelle Bouie are the only things that bring me back to the NYT. Otherwise it’s an enabling shitshow.
EXCLUSIVE: Emails sent by NRA officials before the now-infamous 2015 trip to Moscow, as well as photos taken during the visit, reveal the gun group’s significant role in arranging the excursion. https://t.co/vSnwmrXmb3
— Pete Madden (@pamadden) January 30, 2019
“I aspire to be the conservative AOC,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told POLITICO - https://t.co/mkIqk1FKeU
— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) January 30, 2019
Twitter is having none of it:
He’s the AOC of DUIs
— Sluggo is Lit (@yeylinWutani) January 30, 2019
h/t dailykos.com
FDR died 74 years ago. https://t.co/lfYzMeW6fa
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 30, 2019
re: #253 Single-handed sailor
I had the same thought yesterday. He just keeps inflating the numbers thinking if he can get them high enough and scare enough people he can sway public opinion and get his stupid wall.
re: #244 lawhawk
Sorry to hear you are under the weather lawhawk. Same thing happened here last year. Had the flu shot but still got the flu. Doc said it would have been REALLY awful without the flu shot. A big believer in it, not just for myself but to prevent potentially spreading something to newborn or elderly individuals with underdeveloped or weakened immune systems.
Hope you get to feeling better soon!
re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jesus. How hard would it have been to at least say Carter or Clinton?
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
I had the same thought yesterday. He just keeps inflating the numbers thinking if he can get them high enough and scare enough people he can sway public opinion and get his stupid wall.
He can sway 30%. The rest are no longer listening.
Hope those in the polar vortex are staying warm. Look on the bright side, at least it isn’t -90° F, that’s when your breath freezes and falls to the ground.
re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He can sway 30%. The rest are no longer listening.
He doesn’t need to sway 30%. They are already the Lemmings who will blindly follow him off any cliff.
lol
Howard Schultz says Ronald Reagan is the best Republican prez of the past 50 years, in part because “he never took his jacket off in the Oval Office” due to his respect for the office. pic.twitter.com/UFZtqwYfdt
— (((JonathanWeisman))) (@jonathanweisman) January 30, 2019
re: #264 teleskiguy
Hope those in the polar vortex are staying warm. Look on the bright side, at least it isn’t -90° F, that’s when your breath freezes and falls to the ground.
re: #247 Eclectic Cyborg
Aww man. Was that the Defenser attorney one?
I believe so. That was a funny account, I’m gonna miss it.
I didn’t know Ken White was the guy behind it, though.
Dropped my parents off at the airport at six this morning, it was -7° F with no wind. Is now 7° F under clear blue skies, slow to warm up this morning.
re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What they are doing - influencing public opinion in another country - is not really illegal. […]
They stole private information and divulged it to hurt people.
re: #248 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t know why “dog catcher” is a meme for “lowest elected office” when animal control officers are trained professionals and not elected officials.
old and hyperbole
afaik they aren’t elected anywhere
re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth
He really thinks he can say whatever shit comes into his mind and not get called out on it.
re: #264 teleskiguy
Hope those in the polar vortex are staying warm. Look on the bright side, at least it isn’t -90° F, that’s when your breath freezes and falls to the ground.
Always looking on the bright side, you are. :)
re: #270 garzooma
They stole private information and divulged it to hurt people.
That part of it is illegal, but posting disinformation on social media sites is not
re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth
lol
I think we’ve reached the ignore him stage of his presidential campaign.
re: #272 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He really thinks he can say whatever shit comes into his mind and not get called out on it.
it’s working for….well, you know
re: #272 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He really thinks he can say whatever shit comes into his mind and not get called out on it.
Or, he might just be delusional.
Either way though, I agree it’s not an auspicious start for a candidate.
“Make no mistake: Democrats are not feeling any pressure right now to give the President this $5 billion worth of wall money and they’re very unlikely to do so. In fact, I would say point blank they’re not going to,” CNN political analyst @rachaelmbade says. pic.twitter.com/J0TDERIMEN
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) January 30, 2019
For Gov “Nitwit” Bevin:
Al Roker with some strong words for Matt Bevin this morning pic.twitter.com/jDxqWsPyyv
— Matt Jones (@MattJonesRadio) January 30, 2019
President Trump lashed out at U.S. intelligence officials, calling them “extremely passive and naive” about the “dangers of Iran” and pushing back on their assessments of the Islamic State and North Korea during a congressional hearing, the Washington Post reports.“In tweets, Trump offered what amounted to a rebuttal of testimony on global threats provided to the Senate on Tuesday by a panel of top officials from his administration.”
so it’s time someone, ANYONE with a voice and access says PROVE IT: how specifically are you making your assessment?
re: #249 Single-handed sailor
I’m surprised they don’t just own it. That’s what their Dear Leader has done.
re: #277 Danack
Or, he might just be delusional.
Either way though, I agree it’s not an auspicious start for a candidate.
It’s not delusion, it is just an attitude that winning an argument is more important than stating facts.
It is about telling people whatever he thinks they need to hear at the time
and yes, he saw it working for other politicians and decided that it was his turn to join in the fun and games.
re: #272 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He really thinks he can say whatever shit comes into his mind and not get called out on it.
Because that’s exactly what Trump does and the media gives him a fucking pass.
re: #283 Eclectic Cyborg
So he’s hoping to appeal to those Democrats that like Trump’s way of doing things but would rather vote for someone else.
So, another Paul Ryan? Takes advantage of all opportunities and then shits on anyone else doing the same.
Straight to hell with these people.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 30, 2019
This is my fear. That thanks to Trump, the next election cycle will just be an unstoppable avalanche of bullshit from all sides.
Because no one cares about the truth anymore.
re: #286 Belafon
So he’s hoping to appeal to those Democrats that like Trump’s way of doing things but would rather vote for someone else.
What, all five of them?
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re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Heh, is Taco a Golden Basset?
He sure has the eyes, ears and what appears to be short legs.
re: #288 Eclectic Cyborg
This is my fear. That thanks to Trump, the next election cycle will just be an unstoppable avalanche of bullshit from all sides.
Because no one cares about the truth anymore.
Luckily, we’re still at the stage where that only applies to one party. That’s why Schultz is not getting any traction.
BTW, if you wanted any other reason to say “Fuck Matt Bevin”, here you go:
Boone Station State Historic Site in southeast Fayette County is no more. Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration last month closed the 46-acre park and gave it to David’s Fork Baptist Church with no public input, notice or comment. via @tomeblen https://t.co/MrmtUArie8
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) January 29, 2019
re: #292 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
BTW, if you wanted any other reason to say “Fuck Matt Bevin”, here you go:
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Wow. How the hell is that legal?
REALLY COOL: It’s so cold in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that a couple threw boiling water into the air outside their house – and it froze almost instantly. https://t.co/JzN6u6Jsnn pic.twitter.com/ApZWcAp77v
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 30, 2019
re: #37 goddamnedfrank
And while I have no first hand knowledge about exactly how he’s set up his holdings my educated guess, based on his statement that he decided to explore running for President because of AOC’s 70% top marginal rate policy proposal, is that the vast majority of that stock is being held in some kind of traditional pre-tax IRA. In other words, he never went Roth. Meaning under such a proposal he’s likely to be hit hard if he liquidates his holdings because almost all of it will be classified as income instead of capital gains.
Basically, this motherfucker is scared, and he’s trying to get Trump re-elected out of nothing but pure greed.
Meanwhile the worker bees can’t put more than $5500 away (IF they could afford it. Thirty years of max contribution about $175,000, but Schultz gets to abuse the system (like Romney) and put away millions tax deferred.
re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg
Wow. How the hell is that legal?
re: #294 Belafon
Yeah, seems like a lawsuit to me.
Don’t know? There is sure to be push back from historical preservationists, of which there are plenty in the area, connected to the University of Kentucky.
May be one more thing that becomes an issue in the race for Governor this year.
re: #268 makeitstop
I believe so. That was a funny account, I’m gonna miss it.
I didn’t know Ken White was the guy behind it, though.
Could he get away with it if he changed the handle to include “_parodyaccount”?
re: #279 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
For Gov “Nitwit” Bevin:
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Way to go Al!
I’m sure Bevin just has to have some kind of a retort that will mention New York liberals, tough Kentuckians and weathermen should not mess with politicians and stay in their lanes where they can get paid for being wrong.
re: #296 Old Liberal
Meanwhile the worker bees can’t put more than $5500 away (IF they could afford it. Thirty years of max contribution about $175,000, but Schultz gets to abuse the system (like Romney) and put away millions tax deferred.
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IRA’s have a limit for everyone — and it’s currently 5500 (except for an additional 1000 allowed if you are over 50). In the past the limit was lower. So it’s unlikely that is how his shares are being held.
re: #283 Eclectic Cyborg
Because that’s exactly what Trump does and the media gives him a fucking pass.
Trump was a curiousity that got legitimacy once he started spewing Republican talking points and ad hoc racist screeds, plus he thrives on attention, no matter how bad.
Schultz is like Trump but without those negative (to us, but for his base, positive) quantities. He’s a boring old billionaire that the media is trying to prop up, and it just isn’t working.
“My definition of feminism is the free and willful murder of born alive infants” said no actual human being, ever. #TheResistance #Resist #prochoice #prolife #NARAL #PlannedParenthood https://t.co/PwVqm02XGz
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 30, 2019
re: #302 The Vicious Babushka
If you claim to be pro life but seek to gut health coverage for millions, deprive millions of food, housing, and heating assistance, and deprive children of food aid (SNAP), you’re not pro life.
You’re a fucking asshat. And a forced birth asshat at that.
re: #299 ObserverArt
Way to go Al!
I’m sure Bevin just has to have some kind of a retort that will mention New York liberals, tough Kentuckians and weathermen should not mess with politicians and stay in their lanes where they can get paid for being wrong.
Fun fact, Al Roker worked in Cleveland for several years as the chief meteorologist for the market’s NBC affiliate before NBC promoted him to New York.
re: #302 The Vicious Babushka
Remember, to Ben and a lot of Right-to-Lifers, abortion = infanticide and there is no budging them on that point. Even when a pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
re: #302 The Vicious Babushka
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He’s still hating on pro choice women. Good look Ben. What are you going to do when your daughter is older and pro choice? You gonna challenge her to a debate you hateful infantile asshole?
re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter
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IRA’s have a limit for everyone — and it’s currently 5500 (except for an additional 1000 allowed if you are over 50). In the past the limit was lower. So it’s unlikely that is how his shares are being held.
Also — in IRA’s — once you reach age 70 1/2 you are forced to take distributions, which are taxed as ordinary income. There’s no way Schultz would be interested in exchanging the harsh earned income rates with the much more favorable capital gains rates.
re: #306 HappyWarrior
He’s still hating on pro choice women. Good look Ben. What are you going to do when your daughter is older and pro choice? You gonna challenge her to a debate you hateful infantile asshole?
I can assure you that if his daughter gets knocked up by someone he does not want to have as a son-in-law, he will privately rethink his position on abortion
Baby Whiplash and all the other pro-deathers (for human beings like Savita Halapanavar who was deemed less worthy than a fetus) are all umgebroyzelt over this Fox News headline.
re: #307 Mike Lamb
Harvard should revoke his degree.
I don’t see him calling pro death penalty activists murderers but then again he’s a little hypocrite who has never had an original thought in his life.
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember, to Ben and a lot of Right-to-Lifers, abortion = infanticide and there is no budging them on that point. Even when a pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
But suggesting that anyone, anywhere has advocated the “murder” of “born alive” infants is fucking stupid. VB was right…literally no one has argued this. And it doesn’t make sense even if you want to run with the “life begins at conception” bullshit.
re: #308 Hecuba’s daughter
Also — in IRA’s — once you reach age 70 1/2 you are forced to take distributions, which are taxed as ordinary income. There’s no way Schultz would be interested in exchanging the harsh earned income rates with the much more favorable capital gains rates.
Well, these questions will all be answered when he releases his tax returns…
re: #310 The Vicious Babushka
Baby Whiplash and all the other pro-deathers (for human beings like Savita Halapanavar who was deemed less worthy than a fetus) are all umgebroyzelt over this Fox News headline.
So he still has to misrepresent the situation.
re: #302 The Vicious Babushka
“My definition of feminism is the free and willful murder of born alive infants” said no actual human being, ever.
Except that’s exactly what Ben Shapiro has just done. Okay, he may not believe that definition, but that adds a level of lying and cynicism that makes it even worse.
re: #315 Alephnaught
Except that’s exactly what Ben Shapiro has just done. Okay, he may not believe that definition, but that adds a level of lying and cynicism that makes it even worse.
He is good at winning arguments by putting points of view into other people’s mouths and assuming things as given.
re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter
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IRA’s have a limit for everyone — and it’s currently 5500 (except for an additional 1000 allowed if you are over 50). In the past the limit was lower. So it’s unlikely that is how his shares are being held.
No, there is some loophole where they undervalue what they are putting in and then 5 years later the value has skyrocketed. They are basically stuffing $100000 in and calling it $5500. Romney did this exact thing. Whether Schultz did I don’t know but i don’t see why he wouldn’t They Run the same cons.
re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is good at winning arguments by putting points of view into other people’s mouths and assuming things as given.
Well, it is easier to knock down a straw man that converse with a real person about real issues.
Rich white dudes are really working overtime to make people hate them.
On @NY1: 53 y/o housekeeper trapped in billionaire’s townhouse elevator for 3 days.
Rich UES neighbor: “humans can last 72hrs w/o water… what she went thru isnt anywhere close to human endurance, but its beyond what we’re used to be bc we’ve lost touch w our… strength.” 🤯 pic.twitter.com/JP4TgIKh5Y— Josmar Trujillo (@Josmar_Trujillo) January 28, 2019
re: #305 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember, to Ben and a lot of Right-to-Lifers, abortion = infanticide and there is no budging them on that point. Even when a pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
to which i always reply:
a fertilized egg/blastocyst/less than 3 week embryo <> infant/baby/child
re: #315 Alephnaught
Except that’s exactly what Ben Shapiro has just done. Okay, he may not believe that definition, but that adds a level of lying and cynicism that makes it even worse.
This is his typical “THIS IS WHAT ‘LEFTISTS’ BELIEVE” strawman bullshit.
re: #314 Mike Lamb
So he still has to misrepresent the situation.
it’s the way
otherwise he’s got nothing
re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter
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IRA’s have a limit for everyone — and it’s currently 5500 (except for an additional 1000 allowed if you are over 50). In the past the limit was lower. So it’s unlikely that is how his shares are being held.
Atlantic did an article on this titled “Romney’s 102 million dollar IRA”
re: #318 Alephnaught
Well, it is easier to knock down a straw man that converse with a real person about real issues.
Yep and he does it all the fucking time and fancies himself a brilliant mind because of it. He’s a little fraud who blatantly misrepresents arguments and then has his lackeys on his website post hyperbolic verbs of praise for him. Too bad Harvard Law couldn’t have given that spot to someone who actually would have put that JD to good use rather than a little fraud who likes to act like he’s this intellectual voice even though he was Milo’s best bud for ages.
Friendly reminder that Ben Shapiro once offered a woman 10 grand to talk to him and she still wouldn’t do it. https://t.co/oPmnevwF1v
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) January 30, 2019
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That’s not feminism, Ben. That’s being a good person. Something you’ll never be. BTW does your five year old know what you spent the day of her birth doing? Using your wife and daughter as a get out for your misogynous tendencies is a really bad look dude. You might get it if you didn’t have a giant stick up your asshole all the time.
re: #310 The Vicious Babushka
Baby Whiplash and all the other pro-deathers (for human beings like Savita Halapanavar who was deemed less worthy than a fetus) are all umgebroyzelt over this Fox News headline.
Look at the treatment this story is getting from Google news:
I sincerely do feel bad for his wife and daughter because he’s a shit person who does shit things.
re: #327 Eclectic Cyborg
Look at the treatment this story is getting from Google news:
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I have no problem at all with that. There’s a lot of complications that could occur in the third trimester and maybe Ben’s wife the doctor could tell him about that when he gets his out of his ass for once.
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 30, 2019
There once was a time when Roger would not have used language like this, but he’s all the way Trumpified now.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 30, 2019
re: #320 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
to which i always reply:
a fertilized egg/blastocyst/less than 3 week embryo <> infant/baby/child
They are all whipped up from the Faux Noise headline HURR HURR LIBERALS WANTS TO KILL ALL TEH BABBYS ONE DAY EVEN BEFORE A DUE DATE!!1!!!!!!
All pregnancies end with a termination at birth. It’s called “delivery.” An “abortion” performed just before birth is also called a “C-section” or “induced labor” but #FoxNews is promoting a wild ass frenzy #NARAL #prochoice #prolife #TheResistance #Resist https://t.co/WCMlhhssar
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 30, 2019
The ever-perceptive (albeit fake) comrades at DPRK News get it right again:
Idiot Plutocrat Howard Schultz begins campaign for US President, presenting milquetoast effete policies to people that want guerrilla class warfare.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) January 30, 2019
This is so absurdly reckless. The premise that intelligence agencies should tell the president what he wants to hear or what he deems to be politically expedient (rather than their best assessment of the truth) would be a disaster & a danger to national and international security https://t.co/n4SuYNcj0y
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 30, 2019
tbh, it’s no big trick to “second guess” the moron
re: #330 Charles Johnson
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re: #328 HappyWarrior
I sincerely do feel bad for his wife and daughter because he’s a shit person who does shit things.
Eh, I wouldn’t be so quick to feel bad for Mrs. Shapiro. She married him, so she had to have some inkling of what she was in for, unless he’s had a massive ideological shift over the years.
Along that lines, if she’s married to him, there’s a good chance she’s anti-aboriton and conservative as well. Which always scares the shit out of me when it comes to medical professionals, because the potential for denying medical care based on your political and religious beliefs is a huge issue.
re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth
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tbh, it’s no big trick to “second guess” the moron
Shorter Dobbs, fire everyone who isn’t a yes man for Trump.
re: #335 Mattand
Eh, I wouldn’t be so quick to feel bad for Mrs. Shapiro. She married him, so she had to have some inkling of what she was in for, unless he’s had a massive ideological shift over the years.
Along that lines, if she’s married to him, there’s a good chance she’s anti-aboriton and conservative as well. Which always scares the shit out of me when it comes to medical professionals, because the potential for denying medical care based on your political and religious beliefs is fucking inhuman.
True true. And yeah I hear ya about anti abortion and would add anti science in general physicians.
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
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heads up, Philly area lizardz:
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— NWS Mount Holly (@NWS_MountHolly) January 30, 2019
re: #338 Alephnaught
What’s this “murdering babies outside the womb” nonsense? Seems like a strawman version of abortion.
it’s just Ben being an eejit, as usual for a day ending in Y
re: #290 ObserverArt
Heh, is Taco a Golden Basset?
He sure has the eyes, ears and what appears to be short legs.
Cocker spaniel?
re: #338 Alephnaught
What’s this “murdering babies outside the womb” nonsense? Seems like a strawman version of abortion.
VA proposal to allow abortion in the third trimester looks like.
re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s worse - not only should they tell the President what he wants to hear, but they should lie under oath before Congress.
Dobbs really jumped with both feet onto the Fascism bandwagon.
re: #338 Alephnaught
What’s this “murdering babies outside the womb” nonsense? Seems like a strawman version of abortion.
NY passed a law last week allowing for third trimester abortions if the mothers life is at risk and the RWNJs have been losing their minds about it ever since.
re: #343 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s worse - not only should they tell the President what he wants to hear, but they should lie under oath before Congress.
Dobbs really jumped with both feet onto the Fascism bandwagon.
He’ll be back fearing any Dem proposal as big government as soon as Trump loses.
re: #344 Eclectic Cyborg
NY passed a law last week allowing for third trimester abortions if the mothers life is at risk and the RWNJs have been losing their minds about it ever since.
Which in fact is a perfectly reasonable position.
re: #344 Eclectic Cyborg
NY passed a law last week allowing for third trimester abortions if the mothers life is at risk and the RWNJs have been losing their minds about it ever since.
The law codifes Roe.
That in and of itself is enough to enrage the right. It even got some of the Christian fascists to call for Cuomo to be excommunicated from the Church.
HEY! the @NRA’s feelin’ Schultz…
🤔 https://t.co/AaMygAwBXK— Dennis Herring (@dcherring) January 30, 2019
re: #329 HappyWarrior
I have no problem at all with that. There’s a lot of complications that could occur in the third trimester and maybe Ben’s wife the doctor could tell him about that when he gets his out of his ass for once.
I am now at the point in this discussion where I proceed to rip these asshats a new one. My mother nearly died of preeclampsia when I was born in 1960. And preeclampsia is very much still a thing. I remember her telling me how a girlfriend of hers came into the hospital after she’d delivered me and was able to see people (at least three days after I was born) and counted the places on my mom’s body where she’d been stuck with needles. They came up with 64. It was serious business—my parents were still paying off my delivery bill when my younger siblings were born.
I had a woman tell me this morning that pregnancy is not dangerous. I gave her a ******* earful!
re: #348 lawhawk
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He also benefited from the same programs that he’d cut. Besides Dana, I thought your organization was about guns.
re: #348 lawhawk
If I could respond to Dana, it would go like this: “I was the first person to go to college in my family, and the first person to get my masters. Am I qualified to perform heart surgery on you?”
Didn’t see this one coming….//////
In-Box: Fox News has hired former congressman Trey Gowdy as a contributor. @TGowdySC will appear on Fox News and Fox Business.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 30, 2019
re: #349 mmmirele
I am now at the point in this discussion where I proceed to rip these asshats a new one. My mother nearly died of preeclampsia when I was born in 1960. And preeclampsia is very much still a thing. I remember her telling me how a girlfriend of hers came into the hospital after she’d delivered me and was able to see people (at least three days after I was born) and counted the places on my mom’s body where she’d been stuck with needles. They came up with 64. It was serious business—my parents were still paying off my delivery bill when my younger siblings were born.
I had a woman tell me this morning that pregnancy is not dangerous. I gave her a ******* earful!
Wow. Glad your mom made it through but yeah part of the reason why I’m 100% choice is that pregnancy is no picnic.
re: #351 Belafon
You mean you didn’t get your MD at Twitter U? You didn’t do your residency at Holiday Inn Express?
re: #348 lawhawk
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re: #353 HappyWarrior
The US has among the worst mortality rates for pregnant women of any OECD nation, or any first world nation.
It’s beyond pitiful.
And a big reason for this is that the right wing extremists have made it difficult for women to get appropriate care, and then make it tougher for women to get abortions when those pregnancies threaten the life of the woman.
re: #352 Barefoot Grin
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re: #356 lawhawk
The US has among the worst mortality rates for pregnant women of any OECD nation, or any first world nation.
It’s beyond pitiful.
And a big reason for this is that the right wing extremists have made it difficult for women to get appropriate care, and then make it tougher for women to get abortions when those pregnancies threaten the life of the woman.
Precisely
re: #346 HappyWarrior
Which in fact is a perfectly reasonable position.
‘losing their minds’, oh absolutely
re: #357 HappyWarrior
Weird story but I saw him on an old Forsenic Files the other night.
I’ve seen that one, too. Or maybe there’s more than one.
“Alexa!”
NEW — Bezos launches investigation into leaked texts with Lauren Sanchez
Via @lachlan @swin24 https://t.co/1EDTujEIRk— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 30, 2019
This is the majority leader of the U.S. Senate admitting that, if voting were easier instead of harder, Republicans would be in trouble. https://t.co/J9Ul7pSHd2
— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) January 30, 2019
re: #348 lawhawk
Schultz grew up in the projects, was the first of his family to go to college, and turned a tiny coffeeshop into a multi-billion dollar company. How much more should he “work his way up?”
the question is why does he want to pull the ladder up after him?
re: #363 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
Fuck you. I got mine.
It’s the same we saw from Paul Ryan, and other folks who benefited from a safety net but have decided to screw anyone who comes after them.
OK. So how do we get the media to stop treating Howard Schultz like a real candidate? The barrage of coverage he’s getting is absolutely fucking ridiculous, and an object lesson in how wealthy people are treated differently by the media.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 30, 2019
He never mentioned that his lord was Cthulhu. pic.twitter.com/tN5oCr5y1i
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 30, 2019
re: #352 Barefoot Grin
Didn’t see this one coming….//////
What?! They hired a former GOP congressperson?
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re: #362 Blind Frog Belly White
This is the majority leader of the U.S. Senate admitting that, if voting were easier instead of harder, Republicans would be in trouble.
the hands are getting a lot more action since the midterms
(no. do not go there)
Only one problem with that advice. It presumes he can read.
If nothing else, Trump’s intelligence advisers seem to have embarrassed him into acknowledging his many nonsensical pronouncements. Maybe he should start reading what they write. https://t.co/ptFVUnr8nZ
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 30, 2019
re: #365 Charles Johnson
OK. So how do we get the media to stop treating Howard Schultz like a real candidate? The barrage of coverage he’s getting is absolutely fucking ridiculous, and an object lesson in how wealthy people are treated differently by the media.
boy does that sound familiar and cause a shudder (empty podiums)
re: #369 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
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the hands are getting a lot more action since the midterms
(no. do not go there)
George Costanza: You can’t break up with me! I’ve got Hand!
Woman breaking up with George: And you’re going to need it.
Two articles connected by a theme: both by Nancy LeTourneau in Washington Monthly.
What Happens When a Metropolitan Area [Minneapolis-St Paul] Shares the Wealth
re: #366 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
i believe it’s pronounced ‘fornesic”
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D’oh Forensic.
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
heads up, Philly area lizardz:
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Appreciate it. I’m just on the eastern edge of that. The damn iOS devices are going off every half an hour with weather warnings, it seems like.
re: #370 Blind Frog Belly White
Only one problem with that advice. It presumes he can read.
Have we ever had a POTUS who routinely trashed, ignored and contradicted the Intelligence findings of his own country’s IC of which he was nominally in charge?
Rhetorical question
re: #376 Sir John Barron
Have we ever had a POTUS who routinely trashed, ignored and contradicted the Intelligence findings of his own country’s IC of which he was nominally in charge?
Rhetorical question
That’s what we LOVE about him! #MAGA #DrainTheSwamp #DeepState
re: #365 Charles Johnson
Last time it was the things we did not do that let it happen. Not you and I or the people here. I mean the media, the interviewers, all those that claim any faith to facts first as an approach. To me that’s how you marginalize the crap that we can’t stop because 1st A, FB policies, clever trolls and well monied enemies.
re: #342 HappyWarrior
VA proposal to allow abortion in the third trimester looks like.
which I assume would only be for medical emergencies but is being presented as infanticide
re: #376 Sir John Barron
Have we ever had a POTUS who routinely trashed, ignored and contradicted the Intelligence findings of his own country’s IC of which he was nominally in charge?
Rhetorical question
Look, there are times when a president takes the advice from their IC and goes against their preferences. There are times when they follow the IC recommendations and it goes all wrong (Bay of Pigs anyone).
Trump consistently ignores IC, facts, logic, stats, evidence, produced by his own government when it counters everything he fucking says.
He lies about everything. He lies about immigration and the border crisis. He lies about foreign policy. He lies about the economy and the benefits of the tax scam TCJA. He was more interested in getting the name of the tax scam just right than paying attention to the details of what it’d do to the economy long term (CBO - long term effect is bupkus, with massive debt in the process).
re: #380 lawhawk
Trump consistently ignores IC, facts, logic, stats, evidence, produced by his own government when it counters everything he fucking says.
Do you think he has ever read en entire briefing? He wants one page with no more than ten bullet points.
re: #380 lawhawk
Look, there are times when a president takes the advice from their IC and goes against their preferences. There are times when they follow the IC recommendations and it goes all wrong (Bay of Pigs anyone).
Trump consistently ignores IC, facts, logic, stats, evidence, produced by his own government when it counters everything he fucking says.
He lies about everything. He lies about immigration and the border crisis. He lies about foreign policy. He lies about the economy and the benefits of the tax scam TCJA. He was more interested in getting the name of the tax scam just right than paying attention to the details of what it’d do to the economy long term (CBO - long term effect is bupkus, with massive debt in the process).
i think this is mostly true, yes.
i would add that im very confident he doesnt ignore it all.
i think he doesnt even read a lot of it at all
re: #379 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
which I assume would only be for medical emergencies but is being presented as infanticide
I would say so. This is the VA GOP trying to prevent itself from being irrelevant by spreading fauxrage.
re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth
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tbh, it’s no big trick to “second guess” the moron
The comeback for that is, “No I won’t agree with him. If I did then we would both be wrong!”.
re: #197 Mike Lamb
When they say it lasts a few weeks—the actual treatments? Because it reads like the “cure” is only for about 3 weeks.
I’m pretty sure they mean the treatment takes three weeks. You would not call a three week cancer-free remission a “cure”.
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