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Everything they do is just pathetic. https://t.co/4iFVf8NceX
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) February 17, 2019
re: #2 Patricia Kayden
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I saw Trump boasting Abe nominated him, yesterday. I’m not sure why he would.
I just saw on the last thread that Bernie recorded a video announcing his 2020 run to be the Democratic candidate for President.
I thought he couldn’t run as a Democrat anymore…or have I missed something?
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
I just saw on the last thread that Bernie recorded a video announcing his 2020 run to be the Democratic candidate for President.
I thought he couldn’t run as a Democrat anymore…or have I missed something?
Here’s the video!
re: #6 Joe Bacon 🌹
Here’s the video!
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And Bernie Kopell’s 85—the BernieBots should like him even better!
Jimmy Breslin wrote a book called “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight” about an incompetent NY crime syndicate. It was hilarious. It was fiction.
What we now have in this Administration is a NY syndicate that is “The Gang That Doesn’t Know How A Gun Works”. It’s not fiction. It’s not funny at all.
Night all. Sweet dreams.
re: #7 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
And Bernie Kopell’s 85—the BernieBots should like him even better!
True story.
Several friends went to Canter’s Deli after we finished the RAZZIE show. We’re seated and ordering our food. Bernie is at a table with a couple folks I think Don Adams was there with them and they were cracking jokes with each other. We couldn’t stop laughing. Bernie comes over and starts talking like Siegfried and says “YOU VILL CLEAN YOUR PLATES OR I WILL TELL YOUR PARENTS”. We couldn’t stop laughing. And he loved hearing us laugh.
From the last thread:
People who release their tax returns only get my consideration.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) February 17, 2019
Putin’s up to something.
The president of Belarus has said the country is ready to unite with long-time ally Russia, raising the prospect of Moscow absorbing the eastern European dictatorship on the borders of Poland and Lithuania.
President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the former Soviet state since the presidential post was created in 1994, said Friday his nation was ready to join with Russia, The Moscow Times reported.
Lukashenko made the comments on the third and final day of bilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rumors have long abounded that Belarus could be absorbed into Russia under Putin’s watch, deepening the “union state” arrangement that has existed between them since the late 1990s.
“The two of us could unite tomorrow, no problem,” Lukashenko said Friday. “But are you—Russians and Belarusians—ready for it?” the president added, according to Interfax. “We’re ready to unite and consolidate our efforts, states and peoples as far as we’re ready.”
But here’s the important thing to notice:
Putin’s presidential term will end in 2024, and the current constitution prevents him for running again. It has been suggested that he could bypass these restrictions by creating a new nation through a union with Belarus.
The president voiced his support for the idea as long ago as 2011, when he said a union was “possible, desirable and wholly dependent on the will of the Belarusian people.”
re: #12 Dr Lizardo
Putin’s up to something.
But here’s the important thing to notice:
Now we see why Trump AND the Republican Party are hell bent on destroying NATO.
Daddy
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) February 17, 2019
I’m half way through the first episode of the 2019 series Project Blue Book, and while the producers appear to have attempted to make a serious and decent show (it gets decent ratings on IMDB), I’m finding my interest lacking.
It’s all been done before.
And more to the point, the entire genre now seems OBE.
I remember when this story popped up last fall: What is behind the decline in UFO sightings?
And it’s not just UFOs - there is a decline in BigFoot alleged visual evidence, fewer ghost stories, etc.
The Guardian article mentions the ready accessibility of high quality video recording as one reason for the decline. That is probably so.
But I think there is another factor at work here.
The rise of the “nones” is making society less superstitious.
Slow it may be, but there is a real side effect coming off of the move away from religious indoctrination and practices.
Tariffs are not paid by China. They’re taxes paid by Americans. Either @realDonaldTrump knows he’s lying or is too ignorant and arrogant to learn what he’s talking about. https://t.co/Dvri1YZF6W
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) February 17, 2019
Yeah, check out this idiot celebrtiy and his response…https://t.co/6pbwA85Eqz
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) February 17, 2019
Like, some people might be so desperate that they delclare a fake #NationalEmergency to cover up the fact that they are a lousy negotiator and couldn’t get funding for their stupid wall.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) February 17, 2019
What’s your favourite painting of Nicolas Cage trying to breastfeed a smaller Nicolas Cage? Here’s mine: pic.twitter.com/Wq7ZAGFGRd
— Yes, I Like Wine Mancino-Williams (@Manda_like_wine) August 7, 2018
To be fair, Jacob dropped out of school before they covered WWII.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) February 17, 2019
Also, not currently “war-time”.
This thread!! Nostalgia. Big time.
Oh.
My.
God.
An Apple IIe. Sat in my parents’ attic for years. Decades.
And it works.
Put in an old game disk. Asks if I want to restore a saved game.
And finds one!
It must be 30 years old.
I’m 10 years old again. pic.twitter.com/zL7wWxOo36— John Pfaff (@JohnFPfaff) February 17, 2019
I don’t know who this person is but HAHAHA.
We have a special episode of I DONT GIVE A FUCK
(R) Pamela Taylor who is infamous for calling First Lady Michelle Obama “an ape in heels” has now pleaded guilty for defrauding FEMA & is looking at 30yrs in prison
Hahaha! That’s called #Karma bitch!
Anybody give a fuck?— WTFGOP? Jail For #Individual1 (@DogginTrump) February 17, 2019
re: #24 MsJ
Here’s more:
A West Virginia woman who previously called our forever First Lady Michelle Obama “an ape in heels” has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $18,000 in FEMA disaster benefits after the devastating June 2016 floods that claimed lives and significant property, U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart’s Office says.
Pamela Taylor admitted in court that she took more than $18,000 in flood relief benefits by falsely registering for FEMA benefits after the June 2016 floods that killed more than 20 West Virginians, WSAZ-3 reports.
She’s agreed to pay restitution of $18K and some change, but she’s still potentially looking at 30 years in the slammer and a half-million dollar fine when she’s sentenced on March 30th.
Karma’s a bitch.
re: #26 Dr Lizardo
I love it when these hateful, horrible people have a bit of comeuppance.
Not that they’ll really learn or anything.
I think I just uncovered the moment when it all began. pic.twitter.com/685USmjwUw
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) February 17, 2019
OMG — Pence was visibly shook in Poland when he received absolutely no reaction to what was clearly supposed to be an applause line about how “the time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.” pic.twitter.com/biRxARZkcM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 16, 2019
Hmmmm. Why do I not believe this?
Update: With Trump’s signature, it is now the law that ICE cannot arrest immigrants solely because they came forward to take in undocumented children.
Dems pushed for this after my reporting on those arrests happening: https://t.co/HysHcnLTW4— Tal Kopan (@TalKopan) February 15, 2019
re: #26 Dr Lizardo
Here’s more:
She’s agreed to pay restitution of $18K and some change, but she’s still potentially looking at 30 years in the slammer and a half-million dollar fine when she’s sentenced on March 30th.
Karma’s a bitch.
re: #30 Ace-o-aces
Pence was almost certainly expecting applause after that line; his reaction was like “Oh shit, why aren’t they applauding? I’ve lost the audience.”
You can see it on his face and the way he hitched in his breath.
Must read: Sen. Whitehouse: There’s a ‘Crisis of Credibility’ at the U.S. Supreme Court https://t.co/NwUkElpi6A via @TheNLJ
— Risky Liberal (@RiskyLiberal) February 17, 2019
re: #35 MsJ
Sen. Whitehouse: There’s a ‘Crisis of Credibility’ at the U.S. Supreme Court
Bush v. Gore didn’t tell him that?
re: #30 Ace-o-aces
OMG — Pence was visibly shook in Poland when he received absolutely no reaction to what was clearly supposed to be an applause line about how “the time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.” pic.twitter.com
at least they didn’t laugh
moron is so full of shit
Important meetings and calls on China Trade Deal, and more, today with my staff. Big progress being made on soooo many different fronts! Our Country has such fantastic potential for future growth and greatness on an even higher level!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2019
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron is so full of shit
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Translation from the Chinese: China gets what it asks for.
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re: #31 MsJ
Hmmmm. Why do I not believe this?
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It could well be law, but trump and ICE have ignored the year for the past 2 years
How sexist will the media’s treatment of female candidates be? Rule out ‘not at all.’ https://t.co/3rtJUJ8XkJ
— Nance 🦋✊🏻🦋 (@solusnan1) February 17, 2019
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It is up and seething because SNL mocked his stupidity. This is not normal.
THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2019
re: #44 Patricia Kayden
It is up and seething because SNL mocked his stupidity. This is not normal.
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Or perhaps he’s seen this:
BREAKING: Mueller subpoenas a Cambridge Analytica director, Brittany Kaiser: https://t.co/nAyEUktCBB
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) February 17, 2019
re: #45 Barefoot Grin
Or perhaps he’s seen this:
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Nah. He’s more set off by watching someone mocking him on TV. He would not be reading some newspaper about something he probably doesn’t understand.
re: #46 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
This. He has no concept of subtlety; not the the subpoena is subltle, but orange shit-goblin is duuuummmmbbbb.
If the non-Black people can let us know when it’s OK for us to use hot sauce on our food again, that would be great. https://t.co/gNGC3CEl0L
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) February 17, 2019
Colorado Sporting goods store owner boycotted Nike products due to Kaepernick ad. Now going out of business and admits he did it to himself. Doesn’t regret it. Were the Hitler Youth as fanatical as these maga types?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 17, 2019
re: #51 Old Liberal
Colorado Sporting goods store owner boycotted Nike products due to Kaepernick ad. Now going out of business and admits he did it to himself. Doesn’t regret it. Were the Hitler Youth as fanatical as these maga types?
lol and you can’t find a wingnuttier city than Colorado Springs either.
Maybe he can open up a cake shop?
re: #45 Barefoot Grin
The shoes keep dropping and Trump can hear the footsteps closing in behind him.
I usually do anything I can to avoid hearing his voice, but this is kind of funny:
this makes so much more sense now pic.twitter.com/oVLV3SOwgS
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) February 16, 2019
re: #30 Ace-o-aces
OMG — Pence was visibly shook in Poland when he received absolutely no reaction to what was clearly supposed to be an applause line about how “the time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.”
It’s sort of worrying that he was dumb and/or deluded enough to expect any sort of positive reaction to this.
re: #11 Belafon
From the last thread:
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My biggest worry is that all of the other credible candidates split the none-Bernie vote, and the Bernie vote is a large enough slice that, like Trump, he ends up with the nomination. Though with the Democrats system of proportional distribution of delegates, he may not be able to. However that leads to the problem that if he goes to the convention with the largest batch of delegates, even though less than a majority, and loses in a second round of balloting to a more mainstream candidate with the support of superdelegates, the Berniebros become enraged and work to undermine the nominee. So lets hope Bernie doesn’t do well in the early primaries and the Democrats rally around one or two of the other contenders.
Wherever did they get this idea from? Hmmm.
The far-right Bulgarians march, carry torches, in honor of pro-Nazi World War II generalhttps://t.co/0L6JENGDgx
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 17, 2019
re: #56 ericblair
It’s sort of worrying that he was dumb and/or deluded enough to expect any sort of positive reaction to this.
You live in a bubble, you think the world is the bubble.
re: #8 austin_blue
Jimmy Breslin wrote a book called “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight” about an incompetent NY crime syndicate. It was hilarious. It was fiction.
What we now have in this Administration is a NY syndicate that is “The Gang That Doesn’t Know How A Gun Works”. It’s not fiction. It’s not funny at all.
Night all. Sweet dreams.
The Big Apple Trumpling Gang
re: #56 ericblair
It’s sort of worrying that he was dumb and/or deluded enough to expect any sort of positive reaction to this.
Shunning is a powerful reaction for Homo sapiens. We instinctively understand that to be banned from the group means death. Arguing doesn’t work. Shunning stuns people into dealing with the reality of their behavior.
re: #56 ericblair
It’s sort of worrying that he was dumb and/or deluded enough to expect any sort of positive reaction to this.
If he was reading it from cue cards or a printed page, there might have been a line in there like “pause briefly for audience applause” or something to that effect.
re: #62 Dr Lizardo
If he was reading it from cue cards or a printed page, there might have been a line in there like “pause briefly for audience applause” or something to that effect.
Pence stops and says a silent prayer after every sentence he reads and he also looks around to make sure no women or gays are sneaking up on him.
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re: #23 MsJ
This thread!! Nostalgia. Big time.
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Nooooo! The only way to win is not to play.
re: #51 Old Liberal
Colorado Sporting goods store owner boycotted Nike products due to Kaepernick ad. Now going out of business and admits he did it to himself. Doesn’t regret it. Were the Hitler Youth as fanatical as these maga types?
Bankrupting yourself to own the libs.
re: #65 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Bankrupting yourself to own the libs.
Nike is about to learn the same lesson that the NFL learned. No matter how powerful your brand, it’s not more powerful that the greatest brand in the universe.
What’s the greatest brand in the universe? AMERICA.— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) September 4, 2018
re: #65 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Bankrupting yourself to own the libs.
We see it with farmers. Businesses failing due to tariffs. Factory workers losing jobs. Nothing shakes their devotion to this con man who could murder someone on Fifth Avenue. Seriously we need to understand how so many became radicalized
re: #67 Old Liberal
We see it with farmers. Businesses failing due to tariffs. Factory workers losing jobs. Nothing shakes their devotion to this con man who could murder someone on Fifth Avenue. Seriously we need to understand how so many became radicalized
Eight years of a black man with a vaguely Arabic-sounding name as President.
That’s what did it.
re: #65 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Bankrupting yourself to own the libs.
Just like the NFL, whose ratings have gone WAY DOWN, Nike is getting absolutely killed with anger and boycotts. I wonder if they had any idea that it would be this way? As far as the NFL is concerned, I just find it hard to watch, and always will, until they stand for the FLAG!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2018
But the echo chamber told me it was going to be different!!
re: #67 Old Liberal
We see it with farmers. Businesses failing due to tariffs. Factory workers losing jobs. Nothing shakes their devotion to this con man who could murder someone on Fifth Avenue. Seriously we need to understand how so many became radicalized
The repeal of the fairness doctrine allowed the rise of rightwing propaganda first in the form of talk radio epitomized by Rush Limbaugh. Its success probably helped with the launch of Fox News, then the rise of the internet provided a torrent of even more extreme hate propaganda.
re: #71 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The repeal of the fairness doctrine allowed the rise of rightwing propaganda first in the form of talk radio epitomized by Rush Limbaugh. Its success probably helped with the launch of Fox News, then the rise of the internet provided a torrent of even more extreme hate propaganda.
re: #71 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The repeal of the fairness doctrine allowed the rise of rightwing propaganda first in the form of talk radio epitomized by Rush Limbaugh. Its success probably helped with the launch of Fox News, then the rise of the internet provided a torrent of even more extreme hate propaganda.
If this was happening with Muslims here I’m sure something would be done to counteract it. With Christians I guess not.
re: #66 bd (Emergency!)
Yup. That tweet aged like fine shit.
This fool thinks he is the King of Siam. https://t.co/2Qa3Hw6yDO
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) February 17, 2019
re: #67 Old Liberal
We see it with farmers. Businesses failing due to tariffs. Factory workers losing jobs. Nothing shakes their devotion to this con man who could murder someone on Fifth Avenue. Seriously we need to understand how so many became radicalized
Per the WSJ: In much of the Midwest, farmers are filing for chapter 12 bankruptcy protection at levels not seen for at least a decade. The result of recent trade disputes and low commodity prices.
https://t.co/ZsmPgRo4X2— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) February 17, 2019
Going bankrupt to own the libs.
re: #75 bd (Emergency!)
Oh yeah, these people are well into the “escalation of commitment” phase.
re: #74 The Vicious Babushka
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Well, here’s here’s one longstanding Presidential tradition Donald Trump has been able to fit right in with: he has this, at least, in common with:
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George HW Bush
Bill Clinton
George W Bush
Barack Obama
He’s been mocked on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. And given the likely longevity of that show, it’s a good bet his successor will be as well.
Simple clue for Dolt 45: If he doesn’t like what’s on SNL: don’t watch it. It’s called “freedom of choice”….
re: #42 Patricia Kayden
I don’t know how many of you watched this last season of Doctor Who. I suspect that those who did, like a lot of people, thought the writing was subpar for most of the episodes, except the Rosa Parks episode. Here’s the big thing I like about this season. Making the character a woman, they could have written the Dame Judi Dench version of the character - prim, upright, rigid, unsmiling (not a characterization of the actress, but the roles she gets) - but they didn’t. The 13th Doctor makes a whole lot of mistakes, and some of them nearly cost people their lives. A character died in the first episode being the type of person we think the Doctor is. The point being, they didn’t change the Doctor to make it safer for the first one that’s a woman. And I think that was a great choice and a great choice for women.
re: #74 The Vicious Babushka
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Trump comes out in favor of re-institution of the Fairness Doctrine. Maybe not a bad idea!
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) February 17, 2019
re: #78 Belafon
Just this morning I was watching a recent review of the last season of Dr. Who. The reviewer is not one of those wanna-be-macho types and actually is supportive of casting a woman as lead, but who like you is critical of the story writing:
I didn’t make it past one and half episodes till I gave up on it. But to be fair, I also gave up on The Orville, and even the latest season of ST:D.
re: #74 The Vicious Babushka
It sounds like DT does not know how to use the off button on his clicker.
That pic yesterday of Trump at his dump club. It looked like someone wiped some orange off his face, did any of y’all notice that?
re: #79 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Trump comes out in favor of re-institution of the Fairness Doctrine. Maybe not a bad idea!
He is coming out in favor of establishing a Ministry of Fairness and Balance and putting Roger Ailes in charge of it…
re: #57 NO SMOCKING GUN!
My biggest worry is that all of the other credible candidates split the none-Bernie vote, and the Bernie vote is a large enough slice that, like Trump, he ends up with the nomination. Though with the Democrats system of proportional distribution of delegates, he may not be able to. However that leads to the problem that if he goes to the convention with the largest batch of delegates, even though less than a majority, and loses in a second round of balloting to a more mainstream candidate with the support of superdelegates, the Berniebros become enraged and work to undermine the nominee. So lets hope Bernie doesn’t do well in the early primaries and the Democrats rally around one or two of the other contenders.
I understand, and if I could talk to any of the candidates, I would have them make it a part of their candidacy. I would spread among the other candidates, and, with Trump, it is a legitimate political issue.
re: #80 freetoken
Just this morning I was watching a recent review of the last season of Dr. Who. The reviewer is not one of those wanna-be-macho types and actually is supportive of casting a woman as lead, but who like you is critical of the story writing:
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I didn’t make it past one and half episodes till I gave up on it. But to be fair, I also gave up on The Orville, and even the latest season of ST:D.
This may be a minority view, but I’m enjoying ST:D (that colon is kind of important there).
here’s your fairness doctrine.
Last night on #SNL Don Cheadle wore a #ProtectTransKids shirt and a Russian Trump jersey. He continues to show that he is truly the real deal, and simply a great person. Great way to use your platform, @DonCheadle. pic.twitter.com/cU0vn3uDf3
— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) February 17, 2019
re: #82 Ace Rothstein
That pic yesterday of Trump at his dump club. It looked like someone wiped some orange off his face, did any of y’all notice that?
Many people did on Twitter. Natural pale skin tone, just like the area around his eyes. Yet, the White House insists Trump has that bold orange face because of his good genes. I guess his one superpower is a limited kind of camouflage.
re: #67 Old Liberal
We see it with farmers. Businesses failing due to tariffs. Factory workers losing jobs. Nothing shakes their devotion to this con man who could murder someone on Fifth Avenue. Seriously we need to understand how so many became radicalized
This is anecdotal evidence. We know the media seeks out DT supporters. What makes you think everyone in those groups feels that way?
(Also too, the rules still say Bernie can’t run as a Democrat unless he’s a Democrat. And his followers are noisy, not numerous.)
re: #82 Ace Rothstein
That pic yesterday of Trump at his dump club. It looked like someone wiped some orange off his face, did any of y’all notice that?
A lot of people noticed. I think he sleeps with a full face mask for forced flow oxygen and he didn’t take it off until he wanted an omelet with ketchup.
re: #88 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
(Also too, the rules still say Bernie can’t run as a Democrat unless he’s a Democrat. And his followers are noisy, not numerous.)
And many of his “followers” are not even followers, but rather ratfuckers and bots.
re: #88 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
This is anecdotal evidence. We knoe the media seeks out DT supporters. What makes you think everyone in those groups feels that way?
(Also too, the rules still say Bernie can’t run as a Democrat unless he’s a Democrat. And his followers are noisy, not numerous.)
They don’t need to be numerous, just numerous enough to fuck us up. We can not afford to piss away any anti-Nazi vote.
re: #91 Decatur Deb
They don’t need to be numerous, just numerous enough to fuck us up. We can not afford to piss away any anti-Nazi vote.
On the evidence of my deep blue, Bernie-supporting area, that’s not going to happen. The Bernie people have seen the light, and worked with us to support moderates when that’s who was on the ticket. (of course there are always a few die-hards, but not enough to matter.)
Jill Winebanks just now on AM Joy:
“Nixon was a crook, but at least he was our crook.
re: #67 Old Liberal
We see it with farmers. Businesses failing due to tariffs. Factory workers losing jobs. Nothing shakes their devotion to this con man who could murder someone on Fifth Avenue. Seriously we need to understand how so many became radicalized
It all started when Watergate failed.
Dear @realDonaldTrump: One thing that makes America great is that the people can laugh at you without retribution. The First Amendment allows Saturday Night Live to make fun of you again, and again, and again. @nbcsnl
You should read the Constitution, or get briefed on it. https://t.co/4QxoMrLcmI— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 17, 2019
re: #80 freetoken
Just this morning I was watching a recent review of the last season of Dr. Who. The reviewer is not one of those wanna-be-macho types and actually is supportive of casting a woman as lead, but who like you is critical of the story writing:
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I didn’t make it past one and half episodes till I gave up on it. But to be fair, I also gave up on The Orville, and even the latest season of ST:D.
If you get a chance, watch the Rosa Parks episode.
re: #93 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
On the evidence of my deep blue, Bernie-supporting area, that’s not going to happen. The Bernie people have seen the light, and worked with us to support moderates when that’s who was on the ticket. (of course there are always a few die-hards, but not enough to matter.)
Hope so. Ex-Bernie kids held the course for us in the last AL election, and were important in the leadership. They don’t react well to losing, however.
re: #96 The Vicious Babushka
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Quite agree with Rep. Lieu: but I think he should have mentioned another option for President Trump: i.e. resign, and move to some country that doesn’t have protection for press freedoms. And do us all a favor….
re: #96 The Vicious Babushka
SNL on fake news NBC? He needs to learn the difference between news and not-news. An easy mistake to make, though, if Faux is all you watch.
re: #96 The Vicious Babushka
Trump demands to be taken seriously. There’s absolutely nothing that gets under his thin orange-hued skin more than when people mock or deride him.
re: #96 The Vicious Babushka
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
Trump calling for a terror attack on NBC is a new low.
— Ward Q. Normal (@WardQNormal) February 16, 2019
He is playing golf at the club he still profits from. https://t.co/UZ3LVfwGZc
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) February 17, 2019
An interesting development regarding Venezuela. Maybe Putin has decided to throw Maduro under the bus.
Russian lender Gazprombank has decided to freeze the accounts of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and halted transactions with the firm to reduce the risk of the bank falling under U.S. sanctions, a Gazprombank source told Reuters on Sunday.
While many foreign firms have been cutting their exposure to PDVSA since the sanctions were imposed, the fact that a lender closely aligned with the Russian state is following suit is significant because the Kremlin has been among Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s staunchest supporters.
“PDVSA’s accounts are currently frozen. As you’ll understand, operations cannot be carried out,” the source said. Gazprombank did not reply to a Reuters request for a comment.
re: #70 Eventual Carrion
Now we’re a brand? A product? Something to be sold?
Well…yes.
I’m not saying Wohl has a genuine insight, but what he says is unintentionally revelatory about how people like himself view the USA.
Wohl and people like him are selling a version of America that functions like a brand: fostering loyalty and emotional attachment by evoking sentimentality, to the end of capturing consumers. Anyone with an idea has to “sell” it with rhetoric, and anyone with a public image ends up creating a personal “brand”…but what makes this situation so bad right now—and why there are so many Jacob Wohls—is that this is about the profit motive.
The consumers of the Wohl (…Gingrich..Limbaugh…Trump…FNC…) version of America-as-brand are the same people that consume Christianity-as-a-brand and Whiteness-as-a-brand: that engaging on a shallow, emotional level; people that value symbols without understanding what is symbolized; people that want the general good feeling of belonging. But, I’d argue, more than anything else they’re purchasing license: if conservatives are selling identity as a product, then the value of that product is the promise that you’re better—smarter, more spiritual pure, stronger, entitled—by virtue of your brand engagement.
It’s not just that politics has turned into sport fandom, it’s that politics has turned into the equivalent of the very wealthy institutions fostering and milking team loyal to sell more merch and tickets, even knowing that the fandom is creating hooligans.
Flag that Trump used “retribution” here. That’s flatly dangerous. https://t.co/DowfQBhhQ4
— Derek Newton (@DerekTNG) February 17, 2019
Nothing funny bout wicked Silmarillion Night Lives on False News ENTBC! We hates it forever! Riddle is, how does treemens gets away with it? With filthy liddle slip jobs? Without REVENGE? Other shows so cruel! Very unfair to the Precious! Poooor Sméagol- This is reals Collruding!
— Gollum J. Trump (@realGollumTrump) February 17, 2019
stupid criminal of the day
Can you help @CincyPD find this man? North Fairmount: Wanted man steals 50 guitars, $450 and left his wallet at scene https://t.co/7UfWJRy8ZE pic.twitter.com/yuArIGAxV0
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) February 17, 2019
Hello my friends.
I have a new angle on thwarting climate deniers. It’s a book, very clearly making the case that the planet is in the midst of it’s 6th Great Extinction. And we did it. More dangerous than a meteor, at least most of them.
amazon.com Depressing as hell, read with caution.
Win win. https://t.co/lUsUWiYdv9
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 17, 2019
re: #107 The Ghost of Quesos Past
The extra downer here is that while I focused on the idea of the USA as an affiliation scam extracting cash and engagement from rubes, cults have almost the same internal structure. They differ only in the end game of the leaders. Scammers want to profit and run; cult leaders may start out as profiteers but at some point the intoxication of power means they become engaged in their own hustle and can’t conceive of things ending.
It sucks if our government is being run like an MLM, but lately there’s more guys with power that believe the grift and shit’s beginning to sound more Order of the Solar Temple….
Senator, are you going to tweet out quotes from the second half of the article? The part that begins with: “Despite the legal ordinariness of what Trump has done here, the context in which he acts, and the way he acts, makes the situation seem, and in fact be, much worse.”
— Daniel I. Weiner (@DanWeiner329) February 17, 2019
Watching @LindseyGrahamSC defending the @realDonaldTrump dubious emergency order/raid on military funds, it’s mind-boggling how far He’s traveled from caustic Trump critic to outspoken acolyte. But he’s made the calculation that this is what re-election in SC in 2020 requires.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) February 17, 2019
lindsey led the campaign to remove president bill clinton from office because he had an extramarital affair https://t.co/WE0EJ3dV4n
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 17, 2019
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Graham probably reckons (and I’d say correctly) that if he isn’t a Trump toady, he’ll get primaried.
A lot of authoritarian rulers have bribed women to lure them into having more and more children, from emperor Augustus to Franco to Orbán. It has never worked, women know better. https://t.co/di2fRauNqb
— Alfons López Tena #FBPE (@alfonslopeztena) February 11, 2019
Coming soon to the Keep America White party.
re: #56 ericblair
It’s sort of worrying that he was dumb and/or deluded enough to expect any sort of positive reaction to this.
Let’s ask Matthew Yglesias.
There are very few members of congress with whom I’ve ever had the opportunity to discuss a substantive matter of public policy. But as it happens, one of them — the one with whom I’ve had the second-longest exchange — is Mike Pence (R-IN) who I’ve seen on television today repeatedly discussing the Republican Study Group’s “plan” for the financial crisis. And I can tell you this about Mike Pence: he has no idea what he’s talking about. The man is a fool, who deserves to be laughed at. He’s almost stupid enough to work in cable television.
re: #119 Dr Lizardo
Graham probably reckons (and I’d say correctly) that if he isn’t a Trump toady, he’ll get primaried.
And that is if he is not caught up in kompromat.
Um no, Senator Graham.
Senator Pat Geary is not making a damn bit of sense. https://t.co/cZKRHyQtfB
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) February 17, 2019
re: #107 The Ghost of Quesos Past
Now we’re a brand? A product? Something to be sold?
Well…yes.
I’m not saying Wohl has a genuine insight, but what he says is unintentionally revelatory about how people like himself view the USA.
Brands must be protected at all costs - why we (i.e., those in the GOP) allowed the Trump brand to wield the reins of the executive branch is something for historians to wrestle with.
Meanwhile, 2020’s coming….
re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I keep getting the feeling that previous national emergencies have been more akin to “_________ Awareness Day” than “OMG alien ships have appeared over all the major cities of the world!” I could be wrong.
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
stupid criminal of the day
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This is about on a par with the guy who reputedly robbed a bank with a “GIVE ME YUR MUNEY” note scrawled on his own stationery….
re: #119 Dr Lizardo
Graham probably reckons (and I’d say correctly) that if he isn’t a Trump toady, he’ll get primaried.
Maybe, but by who? I thought the SC GOP kept to a level of party discipline that Stalin would envy. And while it’s not weird to assume that public kissing of The Orange Anus has little downside in SC, Graham seems to have really gone overboard. Must be some potent kompromat stuck away somewhere….
re: #98 Decatur Deb
Hope so. Ex-Bernie kids held the course for us in the last AL election, and were important in the leadership. They don’t react well to losing, however.
And here in the land of loons, some of the ex-Bernie folks (more old than young, from what I’ve seen) have taken to rallying around Marianne Williamson.
Who, you ask? She’s a declared Dem candidate, basically a woo-woo guru (thanks, Oprah) who ran for the House seat Ted Lieu now holds in 2014. No, seriously, she’s fucking running for president…and actually has followers.
re: #123 Patricia Kayden
Um no, Senator Graham.
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and it’s not just any Kentucky middle school…it’s the one at Ft. Campbell.
re: #97 Belafon
If you get a chance, watch the Rosa Parks episode.
And the India/Pakistan partition episode.
You spent four years spreading a racist lie that the first black president wasn’t born here into any microphone you could find and you were rewarded for it. https://t.co/ukCZppz7d5
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 17, 2019
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
Turnabout is fair play DT.
MORE CHEESE FOR OMELET! https://t.co/OTe5FgiWXx
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) February 17, 2019
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
OFFS. It’s like they wake up early just to be the biggest assholes they can be. They truly are using all their powers for evil instead of good. They could be heroes, but nah, what’s in it for them?
re: #103 jaunte
Trump calling for a terror attack on NBC is a new low.
Great, I’ve been off doing stuff all weekend. What did I miss here?
Meh. So are you. https://t.co/KQlEPDpbW5
— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) February 17, 2019
Cahergall Stone Fort, Co.Kerry.@irarchaeology pic.twitter.com/qxrzKz60yF
— JohnFlynn Artist (@JohnFlynnArt) February 17, 2019
7th century drystone construction…wow
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
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7th century drystone construction…wow
you see? walls work!!!
re: #139 Jay C
Check the tweet cited in
The King of Orange incensed at SNL’s latest outrage of lese-majeste…
Ah, ‘retribution.’ Yeah, not too incendiary. Asshole.
but of course…
Trump is prepared to veto congressional national emergency disapproval, adviser suggestshttps://t.co/HXRN8fmtLl
— TIME (@TIME) February 17, 2019
(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — A top adviser to President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that Trump is prepared to issue the first veto of his term if Congress votes to disapprove of his declaration of a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border.
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller told “Fox News Sunday” that “the president is going to protect his national emergency declaration.” Asked if that meant Trump was ready to veto, Miller added, “He’s going to protect his national emergency declaration, guaranteed.”
Retribution? For comedy? I know I shouldn’t take this seriously, but I absolutely take this seriously. Biff just seized new powers on a completely falsified pretext and if we’re not careful the arresting of “dissidents” is next. #TrumpIsTheEmergency #TrumpCrisis https://t.co/jy6BWAwn6F
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) February 17, 2019
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
and it’s not just any Kentucky middle school…it’s the one at Ft. Campbell.
Lindsey doesn’t have to go all the way to Kentucky. He can check out some schools right here in his home state. He can just watch the Bakari Sellers’ documentary—“While I Breathe, I Hope.” (the schools section starts at 13:41)
You know it’s a national emergency because someone took Stephen Miller’s hair paint. #NationalEmergency pic.twitter.com/QlaDwKx4xI
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 17, 2019
Well, Karma stung this racist creep and now she’s heading to jail for 30 years!
A West Virginia woman who previously called our forever First Lady Michelle Obama “an ape in heels” has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $18,000 in FEMA disaster benefits after the devastating June 2016 floods that claimed lives and significant property, U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart’s Office says.
Pamela Taylor admitted in court that she took more than $18,000 in flood relief benefits by falsely registering for FEMA benefits after the June 2016 floods that killed more than 20 West Virginians, WSAZ-3 reports.
Taylor lied that her primary residence had been damaged in the flood and that she was forced to rent a place to stay. But it was all a lie and she was still living in her primary residence.
It was just over two years ago that she resigned from her county government development job for coming after Obama in a Facebook post soon after President Donald Trump took office. But she was secretly rehired only weeks later.
In her plea agreement, Taylor agreed to pay restitution of $18,149.04. She faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000 when she is sentenced on May 30.
re: #125 Eric The Fruit Bat
Brands are empty of meaning*. They attach themselves to concepts with deep cultural implications and strong emotions in an opportunistic way, and re-juggle what concepts they appropriate trying to anticipate appeal. “Protecting” the brand means trimming what decreases engagement and emphasizing what increases engagement.
Which, I think explains the current split over Trumpism. If you look at the president as an advertising strategy rather than a ideologue, the picture of what’s happening in conservative power groups makes sense: they’re trying to gauge whether it’s a winning formula to present in that way, to “sell” their brand, and it’s a completely separate calculation from what they actually believe in and what they will use power to do.
Hence the number of Never Trumpers who criticize him only at the aesthetic level: they’re mad because they view his crassness as decreasing engagement and his policy gaffes as cheapening the brand. And in turn, we’ve been watching individual politicians make a choice about backing the new brand image (90s EXTREME packaging) or cleaving to the old one…purely as a marketing decision.
* unless there is a robust internal culture that has agreed that there are priorities beyond greater efficiency and greater market share…which is pretty damn rare.
re: #149 The Ghost of Quesos Past
Running government as a business.
re: #66 bd (Emergency!)
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Tell that BS to Steven Martin of the soon to be going out of business Prime Time Sports, you idiot!https://t.co/tSfjtAiTtN
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) February 17, 2019
How can you not love him? #SaveTheBees
pic.twitter.com/GhSNYCNVpP— Luna Lovegood ✨💥✨ (@LunaLuvgood2020) February 17, 2019
re: #150 jaunte
eta: because this article is ever-relevant to the subject.
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
When the President of the U.S. threatens retribution against his critics, we all need to take it seriously. If he was Trump, the host of a reality show, we could all just shrug off his rants but that is not the case.
re: #153 The Ghost of Quesos Past
“All Associates must first buy an official hat.”
I still can’t get over the fact that Trump actually out-Baldwined Alec Baldwin with this tweet.
Wherein the President parodies Alec Baldwin’s parody of him…THIS is how you do Trump being disconnected from reality, buddy. https://t.co/3lmX3WR52M
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 17, 2019
Also, I reported Trump’s tweet for harmful and abusive behavior as he called for ‘retribution’ from his supporters.
Captain Obvious gets promoted to Commodore. https://t.co/UD2oLQegUI
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 17, 2019
re: #148 Joe Bacon 🌹
For up to 30 years. I doubt she’ll get anything close but yes, it’s nice to see her going down. What a nasty human being.
Oh, and you do need to check out Pence’s face when he delivers an applause line to silence.
Bottom line: The EU is going to wait out Trump’s presidency and not jeopardize world stability just because he sent Pence and Ivanka to ask them to. https://t.co/2MqVM0w3Zt
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 17, 2019
kitteh encounters shadow…
What is he doing?🐯🐾☀️ pic.twitter.com/rivm0tqVjC
— Andrei (@AndreiAndrei63) February 17, 2019
Important to understand that when Trump tweets that the media are the enemy of the people & Saturday Night Live should be censored, we’re talking pure authoritarianism. This remains his dream — and his only escape.
— Tony Schwartz (@tonyschwartz) February 17, 2019
re: #161 jaunte
Orange Anus is not kidding when he speaks of retribution.
re: #118 jaunte
Lindsey Graham said we’re ‘in a national emergency’ - Trump must have some serious dirt on him.
re: #155 jaunte
“All Associates must first buy an official hat.”
If they start color-coding their hats according to level in the organization, we should probably all flee to Argentina.
re: #163 darthstar
“Nice job you have there, Senator. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.”
re: #151 Joe Bacon 🌹
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“This week, with past due rent bills portending a court fight he decided to tell his nine employees it was time to call it a career. Everything in the store is 40% off.
Other stores in the mall, including a Sears, are closing. Mall traffic is down.
Martin told CNN affiliate KOAA that his sales had also been affected by people buying more items at online retailers. His sales were down 15% in the past three years.”
So the store was failing anyway, and he made a public fuss to position himself for whatever grift opportunity he sees as next. Maybe appearances and speeches to wingnut conferences?
re: #159 darthstar
Oh, and you do need to check out Pence’s face when he delivers an applause line to silence.
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They should have jeered, booed and laughed Pence off of the stage. And someone should have tossed shoes at that sleazy syncopate.
re: #166 sagehen
“This week, with past due rent bills portending a court fight he decided to tell his nine employees it was time to call it a career. Everything in the store is 40% off.
Other stores in the mall, including a Sears, are closing. Mall traffic is down.
Martin told CNN affiliate KOAA that his sales had also been affected by people buying more items at online retailers. His sales were down 15% in the past three years.”So the store was failing anyway, and he made a public fuss to position himself for whatever grift opportunity he sees as next. Maybe appearances and speeches to wingnut conferences?
He’s already been on Fox News. Next he’ll be touring the right wing church circuit saying how he was persecuted for de Lawd!
President Racist Grandpa is conducting foreign policy on Twitter again.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 17, 2019
Sadly, Trump is everyone’s racist…so technically, you’re correct.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 17, 2019
re: #163 darthstar
Lindsey Graham said we’re ‘in a national emergency’ - Trump must have some serious dirt on him.
I don’t think dirt is required.
Graham has no spine and no character. He made an estimate that a Trumpian gloss will get him more extractive value, and now he’s in sunk cost territory.
#NotesFromNationalEmergency: They’re up by one.#p2 #resist #UniteBlue #mepolitics #NoWall pic.twitter.com/VXc9GVFHIZ
— Bruce Bourgoine (@BruceBourgoine) February 17, 2019
re: #128 BeachDem
And here in the land of loons, some of the ex-Bernie folks (more old than young, from what I’ve seen) have taken to rallying around Marianne Williamson.
Who, you ask? She’s a declared Dem candidate, basically a woo-woo guru (thanks, Oprah) who ran for the House seat Ted Lieu now holds in 2014. No, seriously, she’s fucking running for president…and actually has followers.
I had run ins with the Pulpit Pimp back in the 80s when she was telling AIDS victims to stay away from AZT. And then she swooped in and got them to sign over what was left of their savings and equity to her “mini$try”. I’m still mighty pissed at the Los Angeles Kossacks inviting her to speak at a meeting when that pulpit pimp was running for Ted Lieu’s seat. I walked out the minute she opened her mouth and she just grimaced because of the run ins I had with the CENSORED.
She’s every bit the fucking fake that every other goddamned Pulpit Pimp is. No matter how many times Oprah pushed her and that other fake Dr. Phil on her show I knew she’s only in it for that sweet sweet tax exempt faith based cash.
re: #173 Patricia Kayden
Notes From National Emergency: They’re up by one
They are using this game as an excuse to dive under the net and stay there…
re: #163 darthstar
Lindsey Graham said we’re ‘in a national emergency’ - Trump must have some serious dirt on him.
No doubt in my mind that Putin has Kompromat on L’il Lindsay. I’ve heard rumors from folks about the kinky kinky stuff in L’il Lindsay’s KKKloset…
re: #177 I Would Prefer Not To
He’s never shot par in his life.
re: #178 Ace Rothstein
He’s never shot par in his life.
Right, all of his scorecards show under par.
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re: #174 Joe Bacon 🌹
I had run ins with the Pulpit Pimp back in the 80s when she was telling AIDS victims to stay away from AZT. And then she swooped in and got them to sign over what was left of their savings and equity to her “mini$try”. I’m still mighty pissed at the Los Angeles Kossacks inviting her to speak at a meeting when that pulpit pimp was running for Ted Lieu’s seat. I walked out the minute she opened her mouth and she just grimaced because of the run ins I had with the CENSORED.
She’s every bit the fucking fake that every other goddamned Pulpit Pimp is. No matter how many times Oprah pushed her and that other fake Dr. Phil on her show I knew she’s only in it for that sweet sweet tax exempt faith based cash.
And while she spews “christian” doctrine, she claims to be Jewish. Oy.
Thanks for the 1st hand account. I often question Oprah’s judgment when she makes stars of these loons—don’t forget her promotion of Dr. Oz and giving Jenny McCarthy a platform for her anti-vax bullshit.
re: #171 darthstar
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Is he honest-to-gawd threatening to release 800 terrorists into the world if the world doesn’t bend the knee to him?
re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg
Right, all of his scorecards show under par.
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But Kim Jung Il shot an 18 his first ever game, so…
Two brothers told investigators they were paid by the “Empire” actor to stage the attack. https://t.co/9S8ym10tRl
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 17, 2019
This gives ammunition to Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Ben Shapiro, Michelle Malkin, Steven Crowder, and the rest of the Conservative media to dismiss all hate crimes as liberal hoaxes. As far as I’m concerned, Jussie Smollett is just as worse as those right wing bigots.
re: #184 DodgerFan1988
Do we have any idea why he did this?? Was he just trying to get himself some more exposure or something?
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
Do we have any idea why he did this?? Was he just trying to get himself some more exposure or something?
It all sounded rather strange to begin with, I pretty much ignored it and am glad that I did
A Costa Rican paper, @nacion, says it has found the guys who built Trump National in 2002, using fake documents. Among the details: no sneaking over the Mexican border — they flew into Newark. pic.twitter.com/mRKcISJVU9
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) February 16, 2019
re: #133 PhillyPretzel
Turnabout is fair play DT.
Trump would be the absolute last person in the world to understand the concept of fair play.
As Day 3 of the #FakeTrumpEmergency dawns, the troops are tired but unbowed. If caravans of desperate women & kids make it up I-5 to our fortress they will be met with loud & fearless barking…unless they bring treats, which may result in surrender! #NotesFromNationalEmergency pic.twitter.com/8I47p0Wcpd
— Mags Is Hoping for a Better Year for Us All 🦋 (@mindyanns) February 17, 2019
re: #189 wrenchwench
One of my students has a West Highland White Terrier - super-friendly dog and absolutely useless as any kind of “home security”.
Unless “licking a stranger to death” counts, LOL.
Ten bold confident charcoal lines drawn by an expert #IceAgeArtist created the only known image of a weasel in ice age art. It was drawn in Niaux Cave 15,000 years ago. Image source https://t.co/JXL6g2yZam pic.twitter.com/v5Id87rPJ8
— The Ice Age (@Jamie_Woodward_) February 17, 2019
Earliest known portrait of Mike Pence.
Something to keep in mind as the president goes rogue: The Constitution doesn’t “protect” speech or anything else by magic.
Rights are only a thing so long as the Supreme Court interprets them that way and the executive branch chooses to enforce them. https://t.co/0upBbL2SQT— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) February 17, 2019
re: #191 jaunte
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Earliest known portrait of Mike Pence.
A critic on the Altamira (IIRC) cave: “This is the infancy of art, not the art of an infant.”
re: #180 BeachDem
And while she spews “christian” doctrine, she claims to be Jewish. Oy.
Thanks for the 1st hand account. I often question Oprah’s judgment when she makes stars of these loons—don’t forget her promotion of Dr. Oz and giving Jenny McCarthy a platform for her anti-vax bullshit.
Oprah is one damn lucky human being.
And that is all I will say about her.
re: #191 jaunte
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I dunno… looks kinda like a T Rex
I bring you this tweet because, in it I learned that there is an actual bird with the for real name of FLUFFTAIL.
Say what? NZ’s extinct Adzebills (Aptornis spp.) are sister to Madagascan wood rails and flufftails? https://t.co/1Fx52jJO9I ht @nic_rawlence_nz pic.twitter.com/K6dwvKoP5J
— Ross Barnett (@DeepFriedDNA) February 16, 2019
Flufftail:
re: #190 Dr Lizardo
One of my students has a West Highland White Terrier - super-friendly dog and absolutely useless as any kind of “home security”.
Unless “licking a stranger to death” counts, LOL.
Actually, one of my friends has had many a Retriever, both Labs and Goldens… She has related how she one New Years Eve told a couple of kids not to throw firecrackers when dogs were around, as it scares them and makes them unpredictable, only to have the kids defiantly throw them around dogs anyway. Now, one of the dogs, the late R**** was a real wimp (but a terrific dog in other ways), while the late E***** was actually a hunting Lab, and she actively trained him for hunting…
So kids throw a firecracker, E***** gets loose and runs up to the kids like he had a rocket strapped to his tail, poking them with his nose, like in “hey, where are you hiding the bird, you SoaB?” But the kids didn’t know that… With the result of yellow puddles developing below the kids…
She told me the ‘hood was quieter after that for some unknown reason… And as I knew both the late R**** and E*****, I know that they might get grumpy if you don’t pet them, but that what’d most likely happen is that they’d occupy any miscreant by demanding scritches etc., and thus get caught that way.
I still miss them, and E*****’s brother, B**/R****. Dogsat them on many occasion, so I know full well they were the sweetest dogs around, and what the most dangerous body part of any Retriever is.
Don Cheadle wore a Soviet Union hockey jersey with “Trump” and “45” on the back at the end of SNL after hosting. Shade level: Masterful pic.twitter.com/hrDjPRulXy
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) February 17, 2019
good fucking grief…the moron is soooooo thin skinned
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2019
This S&L skit is boring.
— Paul (@pablo_honey1) February 17, 2019
re: #180 BeachDem
And while she spews “christian” doctrine, she claims to be Jewish. Oy.
Thanks for the 1st hand account. I often question Oprah’s judgment when she makes stars of these loons—don’t forget her promotion of Dr. Oz and giving Jenny McCarthy a platform for her anti-vax bullshit.
“What Hath Oprah Wrought?”
re: #190 Dr Lizardo
One of my students has a West Highland White Terrier - super-friendly dog and absolutely useless as any kind of “home security”.
Unless “licking a stranger to death” counts, LOL.
I don’t know. We had a WHWT when I was a teenager and the dog was pretty damn good at waking up my parents when I was trying to sneak in past my curfew.
NEW: Sources close to @AGBecerra say the CA AG plans to lead litigation against Trump National Emergency “imminently” with other states expected to join a coalition: New Mexico, Hawaii, Oregon plus Connecticut and Minnesota. Others may join.
— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) February 17, 2019
re: #201 Barefoot Grin
I don’t know. We had a WHWT when I was a teenager and the dog was pretty damn good at waking up my parents when I was trying to sneak in past my curfew.
My ex-wife’s parents had a Jack Russel Terrier and I swear, if an ant farted within a one-mile radius, he’d start barking like mad.
re: #180 BeachDem
And while she spews “christian” doctrine, she claims to be Jewish. Oy.
Thanks for the 1st hand account. I often question Oprah’s judgment when she makes stars of these loons—don’t forget her promotion of Dr. Oz and giving Jenny McCarthy a platform for her anti-vax bullshit.
*Blink* We’re talking about Marianne Williamson, right? Woo-woo peddler from way back? Only in a very, very, very tangential sense can you say that she’s spewing Christian doctrine. What she’s teaching comes out of the trance-channeled document “A Course in Miracles”, which she has reinterpreted. I am not trying to defend Christian orthodoxy (I find Christian orthodoxy annoying), but just pointing out that in the world of religion, Williamson is definitely on the New Age side and DEFINITELY in it for the money.
Yall deal with #Jussie. I have a book to write.
But just a reminder…Tawana and Jussie dont mop up the blood of thousands lynched, shot, attacked and falsely imprisoned….
Keep perspective.
Dont get distracted.
Pray for sanity.
Be done as you can.
Move on.— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) February 17, 2019
re: #204 mmmirele
*Blink* We’re talking about Marianne Williamson, right? Woo-woo peddler from way back? Only in a very, very, very tangential sense can you say that she’s spewing Christian doctrine. What she’s teaching comes out of the trance-channeled document “A Course in Miracles”, which she has reinterpreted. I am not trying to defend Christian orthodoxy (I find Christian orthodoxy annoying), but just pointing out that in the world of religion, Williamson is definitely on the New Age side and DEFINITELY in it for the money.
Still can’t figure out why the Berniebots backed her. Whatever respect I had for Alan Grayson died when he campaigned for her.
that didn’t take very long:
Update: Police have arrested Gregory Schermbeck. https://t.co/7UfWJRy8ZE https://t.co/MBrn8AHvir
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) February 17, 2019
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
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OK who tf is Gregory Schermbeck?
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
OK who tf is Gregory Schermbeck?
He stole 50 guitars in Cincinnati and this morning the police asked for public assistance in finding him.
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
He stole 50 guitars in Cincinnati and this morning the police asked for public assistance in finding him.
he also left his wallet at the scene of one of his burglaries
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
OK who tf is Gregory Schermbeck?
Some dude who stole fifty guitars valued around 20k, sold a bunch to a guy, then broke in and stole those guitars again from that guy, but left his wallet with ID at the scene, apparently.
Beer Money: 13th century tokens from Winetavern Street, Dublin https://t.co/HO8VlxxkRR pic.twitter.com/MgTw7kMZd1
— Irish Archaeology (@irarchaeology) February 17, 2019
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
Beautiful designs. I wish our coins were as inventive.
re: #215 jaunte
Beautiful designs. I wish our coins were as inventive.
the bishop one is interesting
re: #215 jaunte
Beautiful designs. I wish our coins were as inventive.
American money is just about the ugliest in the world.
re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth
For the heaviest drinkers?
re: #217 Colère Tueur de Lapin
We need more animal coins.
Read on a comment thread somewhere:
Telling lies must be VERY high in calories because for every lie Plump tells he gains 1/2 oz of PURE FAT.
re: #217 Colère Tueur de Lapin
American money is just about the ugliest in the world.
Still chuckle about one of the California secessionist groups proposing that they would call their basic money unit “The Marx” and stamp Groucho’s likeness on the coins and bills.
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
He stole 50 guitars in Cincinnati and this morning the police asked for public assistance in finding him.
I didn’t read anything on this yet. Do you happen to know where he stole the guitars?
I’m hoping it wasn’t that vintage guitar guy I dealt with. 50 of his guitars could be worth a whole bunch.
re: #217 Colère Tueur de Lapin
American money is just about the ugliest in the world.
euro coins are hideous
re: #223 ObserverArt
I didn’t read anything on this yet. Do you happen to know where he stole the guitars?
I’m hoping it wasn’t that vintage guitar guy I dealt with. 50 of his guitars could be worth a whole bunch.
Stolen from Calvin McCoy in North Fairmont.
They were valued at $20,000
Fucking drama queen. pic.twitter.com/iSodm6SvkI
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) February 17, 2019
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
Stolen from Calvin McCoy in North Fairmont.
They were valued at $20,000
Thanks ‘Sleuth!
Obviously not real valuable vintage guitars.
re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
euro coins are hideous
Someone put a lot of handwork into an old Italian fifty-cent (500 lira) piece.
New Essay up on Stonekettle Station.
The President of the United States of America is is quite literally declaring this morning, again, that the oath he swore means nothing to him.https://t.co/1UNj5kYwO5
You knew this, but it’s worse than you imagine.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 17, 2019
re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
euro coins are hideous
British coins are awesome.
re: #228 Decatur Deb
Someone put a lot of work into an old Italian fifty-cent (500 lira) piece.
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re: #131 sagehen
And the India/Pakistan partition episode.
And It Takes You Away. (The Norway woods one.) I’ve been starting to re-watch Series 11 after a length of time, in order to get some distance, because it’s so different to previous series. Sure, it’s flawed in places, but it holds up better than I remember on initial broadcast.
re: #204 mmmirele
*Blink* We’re talking about Marianne Williamson, right? Woo-woo peddler from way back? Only in a very, very, very tangential sense can you say that she’s spewing Christian doctrine. What she’s teaching comes out of the trance-channeled document “A Course in Miracles”, which she has reinterpreted. I am not trying to defend Christian orthodoxy (I find Christian orthodoxy annoying), but just pointing out that in the world of religion, Williamson is definitely on the New Age side and DEFINITELY in it for the money.
Didn’t mean to mislead—she’s definitely a woo-woo loon. Doctrine was the wrong word to use—I was mainly referring to mentions about her like:
Williamson was raised Jewish and still considers herself to be a practicing Jew, despite the Christianity-tinged vernacular she uses.
Watching some sportsball on CBS and they just showed a tease for 60 Minutes and the big Andrew McCabe interview. It was Scott Pelly so dramatically saying “wait, are you saying our president is beholden to the Russians?”
Yeah Scott. It not as if everyone hasn’t been asking that. Where the fuck you been?
Our TV media in action. Not impressed.
Oh well, it will still piss off Trump.
— Loving nature (@L0vingnature) February 16, 2019
re: #217 Colère Tueur de Lapin
American money is just about the ugliest in the world.
Usually it is, although around 1900 we had a series of well designed ones - Standing Liberty Quarter, Walking Liberty Half Dollar and the Peace Dollar. And of course, our best coin remains the Double Eagle by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. And while our current coinage is blah, at least it is not has horrifically ugly as the Barber coinage was.
re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #240 Sir John Barron
Alec Baldwin as Trump:
“So I’m going to sign the paper for emergency, and then I’m going to be immediately be sued, and the ruling will not go in my favor, and then it will end up in the Supreme Court, and I will call my buddy Kavanaugh and say time to repay the Donny, and he’ll say new phone. Who dis? And then the Mueller report will be released, crumbling my house of cards, and I can just plead insanity and do a few months in the puzzle factory, and my personal hell of playing president will finally be over.
re: #237 Sir John Barron
So, how’s President National Emergency doing today?
Stop arguing with strangers! We are in NATIONAL EMERGENCY day 3. More serious and grave every day. pic.twitter.com/OXjsTZTVmv
— Nicholas Wolfson (@nicholaswolfson) February 17, 2019
re: #239 ObserverArt
Is that an albino raccoon?
looks like some sort of odd colored raccoon.
at first I thought it was a red panda, but the face is wrong
Germany just conducted successful tests of the world’s first “Hydrail” — a hydrogen powered, zero-emission train by @Alstom https://t.co/LeM0EIvVqH
— Manuel Albornoz (@manuelalbornoz) March 16, 2018
But Trump Digs Coal!
Re: Coins and tokens, it’s one thing I’ve toyed with, designing some of my own, if not for making my own then at least doing 3D renders of such.
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
looks like some sort of odd colored raccoon.
at first I thought it was a red panda, but the face is wrong
I did a google image search and there are several albino raccoon images and they range from that exact color to even more white.
I thought it was a raccoon. It has the mask face, just subtle. And it sure acts like a raccoon. So I had to go find out as I have never seen one before.
re: #237 Sir John Barron
So, how’s President National Emergency doing today?
A lot like infrastructure week.
re: #182 sagehen
But Kim Jung Il shot an 18 his first ever game, so…
That’s a pretty low body count for Emperor Kim III.
re: #190 Dr Lizardo
One of my students has a West Highland White Terrier - super-friendly dog and absolutely useless as any kind of “home security”.
Unless “licking a stranger to death” counts, LOL.
There’s always the danger of tripping over them in the dark.
re: #191 jaunte
My God! Mike Pence is actually Vandal Savage!
re: #247 jaunte
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Fascinating concept*, but that post is nearly a year old (and the original linked article is from 2017). I wonder how far along that project is as of today?
*One would think that light-rail systems would be an ideal test-bed for alternative generation systems (like that hydrogen train) as their power requirements (load/distance/timing,etc.) are probably pretty well predictable
Federal drug bust at California port nets more than 220 pounds of cocaine https://t.co/PgwPbasx76 pic.twitter.com/7ZRZp2H71p
— Dayton Daily News (@daytondailynews) February 16, 2019
Caterpillar among companies seeking waiver on steel tariffs https://t.co/HelMHlKoHb
— StateJournalRegister (@SJRbreaking) February 17, 2019
Chris Wallace gave a little pushback to Rushbo and Stephen Miller this morning on FOX. His feeble acts of journalism did not amuse RWNJs. Here’s a sampling:
Chris Wallace is such a prissy twit! Trying to give Stephen Miller a hard time like some snotty teen age girl!
— Greg Hansen (@grannyrecipe) February 17, 2019
I’m watching FoxNews Sunday! AND THATS ENUF!
CHRIS WALLACE IS A HARDCORE LIBERAL!!!
GET HIM OFF FOX!
He’s no longer a journalist he’s a liberal protectionist!— Fredric❌Beckman (@beckman_fredric) February 17, 2019
Chris Wallace is not the deepest thinker. Welcome to the Stephen Miller School of Woke, Chris. Change your diapers. @FoxNewsSunday
— Colorado Patriot 🇺🇸 (@redco2012) February 17, 2019
Chris Wallace is a dick!
Stephen Miller is a bad ass! 😎— Te❌as Embassy ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@TX_Embassy) February 17, 2019
re: #258 Teddy’s Person
Chris Wallace gave a little pushback to Rushbo and Stephen Miller this morning on FOX. His feeble acts of journalism did not amuse RWNJs. Here’s a sampling:
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The fact there are Stephen Miller fans is deeply disturbing.
So yeah, I had to dig up that interview. 4 minutes in and I got pissed off. Miller is dangerous because he is slick with how he frames his responses. Somehow he has to be taken out of any kind of political office.
And good try Chris Wallace. But you have to know you helped create the idiots that are now attacking you.
The US will start work on the #BorderWall, but in the end it will be left an unfinished project. It will probably turn into a tourist attraction, and serve as a landmark most closely associated with #Trump’s name left to history: @HuXijin_GT #VideoFromChina pic.twitter.com/y8RXbTRyDl
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) February 17, 2019
Shade from China
re: #259 ObserverArt
The fact there are Stephen Miller fans is deeply disturbing.
One tweeter suggested that Miller succeed Trump as president in 2024. That one’s gonna give me nightmares.
re: #261 Teddy’s Person
I REALLY don’t get that idea.
I mean, he has NO charisma of any kind, even Trump has some douchebag tough-talking conman charisma…it doesn’t work on anyone who can see through his bullshit. But Miller doesn’t even have that.
re: #254 Jay C
Fascinating concept*, but that post is nearly a year old (and the original linked article is from 2017). I wonder how far along that project is as of today?
*One would think that light-rail systems would be an ideal test-bed for alternative generation systems (like that hydrogen train) as their power requirements (load/distance/timing,etc.) are probably pretty well predictable
The Coradia iLint trains started running in September. cnbc.com
re: #262 Sufficient unto the day…
I REALLY don’t get that idea.
I mean, he has NO charisma of any kind, even Trump has some douchebag tough-talking conman charisma…it doesn’t work on anyone who can see through his bullshit. But Miller doesn’t even have that.
Plus, and I really hate to say this, Miller seems to understand that there is power behind the scenes. Unfortunately, he’s going to be whispering in Republicans’ ears for decades.
We must find the person who invented Monday and give them a damn good talking to
— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) February 17, 2019
I so want to steal that meme. Not because I believe it, of course, but because it shows how fucking stupid your side has got. First off, you’re claiming #JFK as your own, and second, you’re trying to claim JFK while half your party sees him as below Cleveland in Pres rankings.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 17, 2019
LBJ’s 11/9/68 letter to Smothers Brothers after they satirized him on TV:
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great & free nation to be the target of clever satirists. You have given the gift of laughter to our people. May we never grow so somber or self-important…” https://t.co/lqt7PUhZEA— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) February 17, 2019
“These guys, the investigators, ought to be in jail. What they have done, working with the Obama intelligence agencies, is simply unprecedented. This is one of the greatest political hoaxes ever perpetrated on the people of this Country, and Mueller is a coverup.” Rush Limbaugh
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2019
Sen Tammy Duckworth says the Senate has the numbers to override Trump’s National Emergency declaration and thinks they might be able to do it given the animosity for it. https://t.co/uFHlykAmnl
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) February 17, 2019
Worst kidney surgery ever pic.twitter.com/2ofi13TrFs
— Red™️ (@Redpainter1) February 16, 2019
This cheetah owes us all an apology…pic.twitter.com/YHoPM4tYTL
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) February 17, 2019
re: #268 Dave In Austin
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Yeah, no, this doesn’t even rise to the level of “ZOMG! OBAMA IS USING THE IRS TO SILENCE CONSERVATIVES!!!” or “OBAMA WATCHED AMERICANS DIE IN BENGHAZI AND DID NOTHING!!!” or even “HOLDER SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF THAT BORDER AGENT!!!”
re: #269 TBackwoods_Sleuth
gh
I hope the Senate can manage the override because:
1) I support the law, the Constitution, mom and apple pie (blackberry is better).
2) The stinging rebuke to DT would be supercalifragialisticexpialifuckingdocious. (All right. I’ll GO to hell.)
At 4 days old, this baby can’t hear anything yet, but she can still practice wiggling those little ears.https://t.co/AVYX4dR7hZ pic.twitter.com/Q0Fryu4id8
— Animal Life (@MeetAnimals) February 17, 2019
re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Saw upthread that Miller is saying Trump will veto the resolution. Unfortunately for Mitch, he can’t use that as an excuse to kill the vote, it’s automatic regardless of his particular desire to see it happen. But I could see him shrugging his shoulders upon it being vetoed and saying “Well, we tried.”
JUST IN: Anthony Weiner is out of prison early and being housed in a re-entry facility https://t.co/2q5fnLrjqn pic.twitter.com/3WVtXDuPAv
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 17, 2019
re: #23 MsJ
This thread!! Nostalgia. Big time.
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Facebook has removed more than 100 ads for Trump’s hotels and golf courses after ruling they’d breached new transparency rules surrounding political advertising and failed to disclose who had paid for the promotions, The Scotsman reports. https://t.co/1YxoYKJGM6
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 17, 2019
Truly prescient… Mr. Rogers on an authoritarian building a wall to keep out the “changers.” #FakeTrumpEmergency pic.twitter.com/zimvP2ssUq
— Carrie Hebert (@CarrieHebert) February 17, 2019
re: #270 Dave In Austin
Kimberly @kimguilfoyle — you looking good girl! pic.twitter.com/Wn8wcAuhDC
— Larry Bartlett 🏳️🌈🌎🌊 (@wackamole520) February 17, 2019
11-year-old arrested after refusing to stand for pledge of allegiance. https://t.co/AXFABtUei0
— Slate (@Slate) February 17, 2019
A student at the Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland, Florida was arrested after he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. The incident began after a substitute teacher asked the 11-year-old to stand and he refused, explaining that he thought the U.S. flag was racist. The teacher then apparently got into a contentious argument with the boy and asked “Why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live,” according to a statement the teacher gave to the district. “They brought me here,” the boy replied.
The teacher apparently then thought that the best course of action was to continue arguing with the 11-year-old. “Well you can always go back,” she said she replied, “because I came here from Cuba and the day I feel I’m not welcome here anymore I would find another place to live.” The teacher decided to escalate the issue “because I did not want to continue dealing with him.” The boy was then arrested after he “refused to follow multiple commands, repeatedly called school leaders racist and was disruptive,” according to Bay News 9. The student denied accusations that he threatened to beat the teacher. He was ultimately charged with disruption of a school facility and resisting an officer without violence, reports the Washington Post.
O_o
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re: #283 Targetpractice
“Resisting an officer without violence.” Huh?
Any protest is criminal according to the fascist MAGAts.
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hmmmmm.
I wonder what those folks in FloriDUH would have done if the 11 year old was a Jehovah’s Witness.
I remember first grade in 1961 where we had a Jehovah’s Witness in our class who refused to salute the flag and she was sent out in the hall while it was done. Well, maybe if she was in FloriDUH they would have locked her up for the rest of her life…
Isn’t the student covered under the first? He is arrested for basically political speech about the government.
re: #286 Joe Bacon 🌹
Jehovah’s Witness
Under Russian law, those who practice that faith are declared illegal.
re: #287 ObserverArt
Isn’t the student covered under the first? He is arrested for basically political speech about the government.
Maybe he should have gone with the Matt Groening “Life in Hell” approach.
re: #287 ObserverArt
Isn’t the student covered under the first? He is arrested for basically political speech about the government.
From the article at Bay News 9
A spokeswoman with the school district said students aren’t required to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance, but the substitute teacher wasn’t aware of this. The spokeswoman said the substitute teacher will no longer be able to work at any of the district’s schools and the district is still looking into the matter.
re: #290 Teddy’s Person
From the article at Bay News 9
Good that the substitute teacher is barred from district schools but I hope the child’s criminal record is expunged. He did absolutely nothing wrong. I’m sick and tired of hearing about forced patriotism in what is supposed to be a democratic country.
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I regret that the only non-posting interaction I can give that is to upding. The sentiments behind your posting it surely require one, but I always feel a little bit like I’m updinging the actual JFC action instead…😥
re: #290 Teddy’s Person
From the article at Bay News 9
“Wasn’t aware of this”? It’s 2019, FFS. If by now you’re not aware that you’ve a constitutional right to refuse to say the damned “pledge,” then you need to look into another career. I’m sure there’s a private prison somewhere in need of a warden.
Lindsey being Lindsey.
During an interview on Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan explained that $3.6 billion of the funds for Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to build a border wall could come from military funds “including construction of a middle school in Kentucky.”
…
“I would say it’s better for the middle school kids in Kentucky to have a secure border,” he continued. “We’ll get them the school they need, but right now, we’ve got a national emergency on our hands.”
Yeah right, we’ve got a national emergency on our hands that Lindsey and his fellow Republicans did nothing about for 2 years. In other words, there is no national emergency on the southern border. This should be a no brainer, and the courts should slap this down hard. But, any pretense of an independent Judicial Branch is being replaced by the Federalist Society.
re: #291 Patricia Kayden
Good that the substitute teacher is barred from district schools but I hope the child’s criminal record is expunged. He did absolutely nothing wrong. I’m sick and tired of hearing about forced patriotism in what is supposed to be a democratic country.
His record expunged, a public apology, and a monetary settlement for pain and suffering. The sub was an employee of the school district at the time of the incident, and the school district is ultimately responsible for a subs actions.
re: #294 Teddy’s Person
Lindsey being Lindsey.
Yeah right, we’ve got a national emergency on our hands that Lindsey and his fellow Republicans did nothing about for 2 years. In other words, there is no national emergency on the southern border. This should be a no brainer, and the courts should slap this down hard. But, any pretense of an independent Judicial Branch is being replaced by the Federalist Society.
The only “emergency” in the eyes of the GOP is Donny losing reelection. If fucking over the country for generations to come helps him win, then the GOP is prepared for the American people to make that sacrifice.
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’d just point out that the handbook used by the school district is wrong in one respect. The right to refuse to pledge the flag does not reside with the child’s parents, but with the child themselves. Thankfully this child’s mother supports him, but I’m sure there are incidents out there where the child refuses to salute and their parents decide to whip them (oh, by the way, still perfectly legal in our country). But the right to refuse is with the child.
If I wasn’t diabetic, I’d have this from Justice Jackson’s West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette opinion tattooed on me:
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
Dammit.
re: #284 Eric The Fruit Bat
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re: #296 Targetpractice
The only “emergency” in the eyes of the GOP is Donny losing reelection. If fucking over the country for generations to come helps him win, then the GOP is prepared for the American people to make that sacrifice.
That, and the Democrats are now in charge of the checkbook.
re: #291 Patricia Kayden
Good that the substitute teacher is barred from district schools but I hope the child’s criminal record is expunged. He did absolutely nothing wrong. I’m sick and tired of hearing about forced patriotism in what is supposed to be a democratic country.
Wouldn’t sweat the record too much. In a properly-run future, he’ll have it in bronze on the wall of his store-front law office.
There is ABSOLUTELY no good reason why Mueller should not be able to hold a press conference and issue his report directly to the American people without a Trump-appointed AG deciding what he will release.
RETWEET if you agree!— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) February 17, 2019
re: #299 Teddy’s Person
That, and the Democrats are
now in charge of the checkbookFIFY.
Don’t like to pillage reddit traffic, but this is the way this society is supposed to work:
Welp a whole bunch of shiny low mileage NASCAR cars are now scrap metal. Big fraction of the whole field out.
Did a validity check on #303. Story gets better.
re: #305 Decatur Deb
Very inspirational. :)
re: #306 PhillyPretzel
Love the billboard—an ultimate ID photo.
re: #85 NO SMOCKING GUN!
This may be a minority view, but I’m enjoying ST:D (that colon is kind of important there).
My question: how does one watch ST:D in the United States without paying the CBS access fee?
re: #286 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hmmmmm.
I wonder what those folks in FloriDUH would have done if the 11 year old was a Jehovah’s Witness.
I remember first grade in 1961 where we had a Jehovah’s Witness in our class who refused to salute the flag and she was sent out in the hall while it was done. Well, maybe if she was in FloriDUH they would have locked her up for the rest of her life…
Not all of Florida is that crazy. This incident took place in one of the more rural areas.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... Cheechako
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Views: 517 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 5- A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...KGxvi
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Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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