He obviously feels comfortable spewing this batshit rant in front of the CPAC crowd. He’s turned the lies and hate up to a million for this one. https://t.co/JzrbMkPTFC
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2019
After 70+ years, he finally found people who believe everything he says as gospel. Right wing voters are easily conned morons and I have no problem saying that at all given this guy has repeatedly shown himself unfit to be called President, a man, or father. He’s a child.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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Now we know why he rushed home from Vietnam. He wanted to hear the cultists go nuts for him.
Trump falsely claims for the 58th time that he got Veterans Choice passed. It was passed under Barack Obama in 2014. “NOW THEY CAN GO SEE A DOCTOR!”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019
Trump says he is about to conclude. He is mocking people from previous administrations who criticize him on North Korea. “These guys died,” he says, referring to them doing poorly in the negotiations.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019
He keeps trying to lick the sweat off his upper lip. And failing. https://t.co/JzrbMkPTFC pic.twitter.com/biFX0FV1XL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2019
JFC he just claimed North Korea has stopped nuclear testing. https://t.co/JzrbMkPTFC pic.twitter.com/apQmjeXkBL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2019
Warmbier’s parents didn’t speak out against Trump over mere negotiations. It was Trump absolving Kim of personal responsibility. https://t.co/kerW3LX1Gc
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
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You don’t love Otto or his parents. Stop using their tragedy.
Oh man. I was just watching dozens of people walk out of the room as they sensed Trump was a minute or two from concluding…then Trump said that he’s been watching the doors and not one person has left.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019
moron
Trump has concluded to the usual standing ovation. He spoke for two hours. It was extraordinarily bizarre.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019
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Standing ovation.
“I’m watching those doors and not one person left.” https://t.co/JzrbMkPTFC pic.twitter.com/3qcryCjgb3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2019
Trump/GOP promised lasting 3+% growth from self-financing tax-cuts
mainstream economists predicted brief deficit-fueled growth burst
the record so far:
2018 Q2 4.2%
2018 Q3 3.4%
2018 Q4 2.6%
deficit way up
Fed forecasts:
2019 2.3%
2020 2.0%
2021 1.8%https://t.co/eY2is6nE8q— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) March 2, 2019
There hasn’t been one person who left. pic.twitter.com/LAsqgU9tBI
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 2, 2019
I predicted next level crazy. And yeah, that. pic.twitter.com/ElkYU6hVw9
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 2, 2019
Roughly 11 million taxpayers lost $323 billion in deductions courtesy of Trump and the GOP’s tax law, according to a report by the Treasury Department.
These tax cuts will go down as one of the biggest bait-and-switches in American history. https://t.co/2IcXZ8vc9y— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 2, 2019
OK he finally finished by attempting to read the prepared conclusion and stumbling all over it.
That was unquestionably the most disturbingly unhinged rant I’ve ever heard Trump spew. And I’ve seen way too many of these.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2019
jeebus
How appearance affects the behavior of many people
in our societies !! 👇🏻😕😞 pic.twitter.com/JXgwvr2SLV— Stefano S. Magi (@StefanodocSM) January 30, 2019
Stop writing up this shit like it’s real or serious https://t.co/En6qjYtsIH
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 2, 2019
^^THIS^^
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Is he going to press Liberty to allow Pro choice, Democratic, & pro LGBT groups? Because he’s not. He’s just giving conservative students who can’t handle professors or classmates that think differently legitimacy to whine about being “oppressed.0
re: #16 Charles Johnson
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As Daniel Dale observed, he lies constantly, even about things of no consequence.
Usually, a sociopath caught in a lie will make up an even more grandiose lie to cover for it, like the guy Mrs. FBW worked for back in the early 1980s, who claimed he’d flown on the Space Shuttle. Challenge him to say which missions, and he’d tell you he couldn’t tell you because he was doing secret work for the CIA.*
Trump, OTOH, doesn’t do that. He just repeats the lie with complete shameless confidence.
*I knew for sure that he was lying when he showed up to their company Halloween party in a pressure suit, which he said NASA had let him borrow. When I asked him how to put the helmet on, he couldn’t do it. No way in Hell NASA lets anyone fly in space without they know how to put their helmet on, in the dark, in zero g, with alarms blaring. So, if you can’t do it in a well lit room….
re: #26 Blind Frog Belly White
As Daniel Dale observed, he lies constantly, even about things of no consequence.
Usually, a sociopath caught in a lie will make up an even more grandiose lie to cover for it, like the guy Mrs. FBW worked for back in the early 1980s, who claimed he’d flown on the Space Shuttle. Challenge him to say which missions, and he’d tell you he couldn’t tell you because he was doing secret work for the CIA.*
Trump, OTOH, doesn’t do that. He just repeats the lie with complete shameless confidence.
*I knew for sure that he was lying when he showed up to their company Halloween party in a pressure suit, which he said NASA had let him borrow. When I asked him how to put the helmet on, he couldn’t do it. No way in Hell NASA lets anyone fly in space without they know how to put their helmet on, in the dark, in zero g, with alarms blaring. So, if you can’t do it in a well lit room….
All politicians lie. But Trump lies about everything.
How or why Trump got a reputation as a straight shooter, tell it as is type I don’t know.
The president ranted like a maniac for two hours today, lying over and over again and demonstrating what looks like real mental decline. Tell me again why that isn’t the top headline in every newspaper in the country tomorrow
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) March 2, 2019
Are you actually responding to the television commentary in your tweets now? Or do you hear voices?
— Robert Klufas (@Big_Boofy9923) March 2, 2019
re: #28 HappyWarrior
How or why Trump got a reputation as a straight shooter, tell it as is type I don’t know.
Because he tells it like they imagine it to be. Taxes were confiscatory under Obama, while the economy was the worst ever, and Obama spent money like a drunken sailor, the Armed Forces ran out of bullets and had to use rubberbands, and he took all the guns away.
Judge orders Roger Stone to explain imminent release of book that may violate gag order https://t.co/b1z3Bd4Y9C
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 2, 2019
Spoiler: Donald Trump. https://t.co/EdPddvYWel
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2019
re: #29 jaunte
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re: #32 Blind Frog Belly White
Because he tells it like they imagine it to be. Taxes were confiscatory under Obama, while the economy was the worst ever, and Obama spent money like a drunken sailor, the Armed Forces ran out of bullets and had to use rubberbands, and he took all the guns away.
In short, he’s a mouthpiece for those who wanted to believe all the worst about Obama.
re: #34 Charles Johnson
From everything I’ve read, NK spelled out exactly what they wanted, and in exchange for what, months ago, and didn’t move off that. We and they were nowhere close to agreeing, but Trump needed a photo op and thought his magical personality could sway Kim.
re: #36 HappyWarrior
In short, he’s a mouthpiece for those who wanted to believe all the worst about Obama.
Obama, America, all other Americans, the rest of the world, the rest of the universe. It cannot be too strongly stressed that 1/3 of America has given up on reality.
Orange is the new white https://t.co/cGObcoIIO0
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) March 2, 2019
Lre: #38 Blind Frog Belly White
Obama, America, all other Americans, the rest of the world, the rest of the universe. It cannot be too strongly stressed that 1/3 of America has given up on reality.
Yep and these include people we know and that’s really scary imo.
re: #203 ericblair
Yanno where they do get raped? In the goddamn detention centers. This is a scandal where a lot of people need to go to prison, and no mercy.
I realize I’m hammering this hard, but:
The tale of rape in caravans cannot be subdivided from the larger, independent conservative views of sexual assault and migrants…in that the former is seen as not a big deal, and partly the responsibility of the woman, and the latter are viewed as responsible for their own suffering.
Völkischer Beobachter and Der Sturmer both featured “crime reports” that were pornographic stories about Jews raping or otherwise sexually abusing German women…and it was porn in the literal sense that readers beat off to it, but it was also porn in a figurative sense, because the fantasy scenario channeled all of their hatefulness into storyline that “felt” real because it reinforced their assumptions about the world. This is specifically about inventing a story that is gratifying to the audience, that gets them off.
But my general statement of “this is porn” extends to every aspect of this speech, of CPAC’s batch of rhetoric each year, and to the larger culture of “trigger the libs” that’s been developing since I was in middle school and it was AM radio shouters and mailers. It’s not about describing reality or even making cohesive plans, it’s about doing anything to sustain that sense that you’re right, that you’re deserving of whatever your want, and that the pain and unease of the other is some kind of win. The arc of the Republican power makes sense if you look at them not just as authoritarians, but as libertines: it is not just that they control others, but that within that control is a space for them to indulge their wants free of responsibility.
Trump’s speech embodies what the “base” actually wants. Coherence doesn’t matter, as long as the specific moments of titillation are checked off. Truth doesn’t matter because veracity is irrelevant to the end of self-gratification. Cruelty is both fun and righteous; empathy for the suffering is bad because the suffering deserve it.
As I’ve said about the fantasies of violent retaliation and mass arrests that come from the reactionary gun culture: the rhetorical expression of concern and outrage in language belies the emotion actually being expressed…which is pleasure.
This is fun for them.
” I didn’t have scalp surgery which then required a baroque combover and enough hairspray to open a new hole in the ozone layer.”
re: #43 jaunte
” I didn’t have scalp surgery which then required a baroque combover and enough hairspray to open a new hole in the ozone layer.”
We’ll call it the Trump Hole. We’ll tell him, “Shut your Trump Hole!”
re: #44 Blind Frog Belly White
We’ll call it the Trump Hole. We’ll tell him, “Shut your Trump Hole!”
He’s got a lot of holes for an asshole.
Could not watch any of him today. The bits shown here were more than enough to get a feel for the zaniness.
re: #42 The Ghost of Quesos Past
The arc of the Republican power makes sense if you look at them not just as authoritarians, but as libertines: it is not just that they control others, but that within that control is a space for them to indulge their wants free of responsibility.
Like the men in Gilead in “The Handmaid’s Tale”, who put the women who can’t be wives or handmaids in brothels for the leadership.
That may make it the weirdest speech in history not given on a street corner by a homeless person. #ImpeachTrump
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 2, 2019
“…at-times irritated, Trump flashed signs of real passion as he extolled the CPAC audience to support his agenda.”
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 2, 2019
re: #46 Blind Frog Belly White
That book profoundly influenced how I think.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
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— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 2, 2019
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
“We got any reggae lovers?” the lead singer asks the crowd. The crowd is silent. pic.twitter.com/6TOp9arcl5
— sara (@sarabosworth) March 2, 2019
re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Heh I’m old enough to remember the Berners trying to claim HRC supporters were unhip.
This one was really bad. The cognitive deterioration was very evident, more than ever.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2019
moron
Trump says that the midterms were not a humiliating defeat for him, indignantly noting that he didn’t run. In the lead-up to the vote, he kept telling his rallies that he was effectively on the ballot.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019
The people who spend all day yelling “fuck your feelings” & “TRIGGERED” have gone into a complete meltdown about @MollyJongFast covering #CPAC for @BulwarkOnline. It’s almost like they need a safe space. These are the meltiest snowflakes I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/qKdlz7yX21
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) March 2, 2019
re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s fuck your feelings until it’s their feelings which are really fragile.
I mean by all means be overly sensitive but don’t mock college kids who think you shouldn’t be a bigoted asshole.
Check out @donmoyn’s Tweet:
What happens to an academic after you act as a foil to Tucker Carlson (thread) https://t.co/ZBcSm2blLK
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) March 2, 2019
Trump: “The crazy female senator from the state of Ohio.” (People: the state of Ohio?) Trump: “The state of Hawaii. She’s like a crazed person.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019
The party of personal responsibility.
Trump doesn’t understand the concept.
If anything goes wrong in an election, anything goes bad in a law or a negotiation, not Trump’s fault.
And the whole GOP plays right along giving him even more excuse, like McConnell and Graham. They are all Trump.
Ohio: that famous island state in the middle of the yuge ocean…
re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ohio doesn’t even have a female senator let alone a white haired one. WTF is he on?
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ohio: that famous island state in the middle of the yuge ocean…
That we can’t help.//
re: #63 HappyWarrior
Ohio doesn’t even have a female senator let alone a white haired one. WTF is he on?
Whatever it is, it’d be nice if he just put it down and went away quietly.
re: #63 HappyWarrior
It is a secret mixture that is only available to DT. /
To be honest I really do not want to know.
re: #61 ObserverArt
The party of personal responsibility.
Trump doesn’t understand the concept.
If anything goes wrong in an election, anything goes bad in a law or a negotiation, not Trump’s fault.
And the whole GOP plays right along giving him even more excuse, like McConnell and Graham. They are all Trump.
Has he taken responsibility once in his life let alone this presidency? As I said I have zero respect for him as a man.
re: #57 HappyWarrior
It’s fuck your feelings until it’s their feelings which are really fragile.
You remind me to bring this P-shop out again.
re: #68 ObserverArt
You remind me to bring this P-shop out again.
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It is so telling. I mean I saw the joke made about Adelson I believe. She just said he was 400 years old. That’s nothing compared to the crap I saw these same people say about McCain and Bush I when he died.
Like I know conservatism is a really messed up ideology right now but there’s gotta be some people there who hear these bizarre tangents whether it’s Trump or Gorka’s weird rant shit about hamburgers and think “Really this is what my ideology is reduced to?” But then again, conservatism in 2008 stopped being a serious attempt at an ideology because the conservative base threw a national tantrum over the fact that we elected a black guy with an unique name whose father was from Kenya and instead of encouraging their base to act like adults, Republican elected officials and pundits have encouraged their base to act like morons with a complete disregard for basic reality to the point where elected Republicans actually say shit like vaccines are communism but yeah let’s fret about AOC wanting the marginal tax rate to be what it was under Ike.*
*A legitimate top 3 President since FDR.
This should probably be Raisin Cane. I have no idea. This speech is bonkers. https://t.co/EaFbpBtngG
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019
Trump: “I’m in the White House and I was looonely. I said, ‘let’s go to Iraq.’”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019
this is just surreal
re: #70 HappyWarrior
Trump and Gorka are just the loud crazy assholes with the megaphones distracting the crowd so they don’t pay attention to what is happening behind the scenes.
re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump had an onion on his belt as was the style of the time. God this is so bizarre. Seriously who the hell listens to this man and thinks YES THIS IS THE BEST PRESIDENT EVER. Seriously conservatives, I know we’ll never agree on policy but concede that this man is unfit to be President. Come on, you’ll even get me to say something nice about Reagan and I hate Reagan.
re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump and Gorka are just the loud crazy assholes with the megaphones distracting the crowd so they don’t pay attention to what is happening behind the scenes.
Oh I know. I’m just saying. Say I’m a rank and file conservative but fairly sensible. What the hell does it say that this is my ideology in the 21st century. That our President is Trump and rants in a bizarre stream of consciousness rant that James Joyce would have found too weird.
Like with Bush. Misunderestimate. Yeah it’s not a word but I can see it. Bushims were more like Yogisms. They were silly but you could sort of understand what Bush meant even if he didn’t seem to being doing the best job of articulating it. Trump can’t admit he’s wrong. Trump goes on bizarre rants about mocking people for having gray hair. It’s true. There’s no president like Trump before and there’s a reason for that. We don’t typically elect people who probably have portraits of themselves in military regalia in their hums despite never serving in the military.
I’d rather shower in battery acid in a tub made of plutonium than listen to Trump for 10 minutes. Two hours? I’d rather swim in shark infested waters in a wetsuit made of raw steaks behind a boat chumming the water
re: #77 KGxvi
I do not watch DT. Doing so destroys grey matter.
Trump I can’t decide whether it’s his voice or the stupid crap he chooses to talk about. Trump can’t articulate anything that doesn’t relate to him. It’s either everyone sucks compared to him or he’s the greatest thing ever. He should be flogged for the “your favorite President” line he uses alone. That’s disgusting. He really honestly thinks he’s doing everyone this gigantic favor by being President but he’s not.
re: #70 HappyWarrior
Some of the Never Trumpers are those reasonable conservatives. (Depending on your definition of reasonable, I suppose) And some, like Max Boot, have really tried to grapple with what the movement is and what it was and how they got to where they are. Others, like (I think) Rick Wilson, have at the very least realized the blind spots they used to have.
I would like to see Trump at least admit being wrong, show humility, etc. He goes to ceremonies honoring vets and wonders aloud why he’s not recurved that way. He’s too full of himself to admit he’s wrong ever. He doesn’t see that most American people disapprove of him and he trolls polls looking for anything that shows himself other than the divisive asshole he is.
re: #82 HappyWarrior
He’s not wired that way. He is emotionally incapable of any thing like that
Good thread about how the GOP’s Southern Strategy brought the Dixiecrats into the GOP.
Check out @KevinMKruse’s Tweet:
This is going to stun a lot of people, but Matt Schlapp has the facts wrong.
I know, I know. Let’s dig in.https://t.co/impAyWloaX— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) February 1, 2019
re: #81 KGxvi
Some of the Never Trumpers are those reasonable conservatives. (Depending on your definition of reasonable, I suppose) And some, like Max Boot, have really tried to grapple with what the movement is and what it was and how they got to where they are. Others, like (I think) Rick Wilson, have at the very least realized the blind spots they used to have.
Yeah that’s true. I just hope they realize that Trump succeeded in their ideology for a reason and that when Trump goes, conservatism’s present faults won’t disappear with Trump. The electorate that nominated him is still here as is the base that supports him.
I only see videos of The View. I didn’t know Abby Huntsman is now on there with them.
But, it was fun to hear Joy Behar say at the end of the video above: “Who you gonna believe the New York Times or the daughter of a criminal enterprise.”
Not the best of phrasing, but for national daytime TV, I’ll take it. Thanks Joy. Keep it up.
Hell, I’ll even begrudgingly give a small ‘nice’ for Meghan McCain calling Ivanka a liar and being empty.
re: #84 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Good thread about how the GOP’s Southern Strategy brought the Dixiecrats into the GOP.
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Jackie Robinson became disgusted with the GOP when they nominated Goldwater over Rockefeller in 1964 and by 1968 he supported Humphrey over Nixon. He had notably supported Nixon over JFK and I say this coming from a Catholic family that loved JFK good reason because Nixon had a better record on Civil Rights in Congress and as VP than JFK did in Congress. Goldwater meanwhile is the genesis for when the right started going downhill. Claiming Jackie as a Republican is complete bollocks and Schlaap fucking knows it. The Republican Party showed how little regard they had for federal civil rights when they nominated Goldwater. Even if you don’t think Goldwater was a bigot, you don’t make an opponent of the signature civil rights legislation of last century your nominee and get to clam moral authority on civil rights and then you especially don’t when you have Nixon pursuing the Southern Strategy that Reagan eventually perfected.
re: #87 ObserverArt
I will take NYT over anything DT or his organization has to say.
re: #83 KGxvi
He’s not wired that way. He is emotionally incapable of any thing like that
Which makes it impossible for me to respect him at all as anything.
re: #85 HappyWarrior
One of the fundamental problems the conservative movement has, and that I think was a major contributing factor to the rise of Trump is that they have no policies to meet the issues of the day. And really haven’t for much of this century.
If Bill Clinton circa 1992 walked through the door tomorrow and tried to run his same campaign, he’d finish 10th in Iowa (and rightly so, the issues of 2019 are vastly different than the issues of 1992). And yet Republicans are basically running on the same platform they’ve had since the late 1970’s (while focusing on the worst parts of said platform).
And Schlaap gets his name wrong. His name was Jack Roosevelt Robinson. And his widow probably takes great issue with you using his name to justify CPAC and the continued right wing race baiting. Jackie wasn’t a liberal but he wasn’t too fond of the conservative swing of the GOP either and that includes Goldwater, the man where many of these guys got their start in conservative politics boostering.
re: #91 KGxvi
One of the fundamental problems the conservative movement has, and that I think was a major contributing factor to the rise of Trump is that they have no policies to meet the issues of the day. And really haven’t for much of this century.
If Bill Clinton circa 1992 walked through the door tomorrow and tried to run his same campaign, he’d finish 10th in Iowa (and rightly so, the issues of 2019 are vastly different than the issues of 1992). And yet Republicans are basically running on the same platform they’ve had since the late 1970’s (while focusing on the worst parts of said platform).
Yeah that’s my observation too. The conservative movement refuses to adapt to meet the issues of today. The liberal movement has.
re: #93 HappyWarrior
Yeah that’s my observation too. The conservative movement refuses to adapt to meet the issues of today. The liberal movement has.
Which is why the GOP has such dismally low support among young people; it has nothing to offer them.
I’ll give it to you Republicans. Until 1964, you did most of the right things on Civil Rights. You championed federal bans on lynching when FDR was too cowardly to do so. You championed the Civil Rights legislation of the 1950’s but when your leadership saw that Southern Democrats were angry at their national party outside the South began supporting Civil Rights, you began to move right ward. When you began electing Republiacns in the South, they were in fact to the right of the Democrats on Civil Rights. You deserve credit when you get it. Everett Dirksen has my respect for helping to pass the CRA 1964 as does President Ford who was part of the House leadership but you don’t deserve credit when starting in 1964 you nominated Goldwater, then Nixon who was not the same man who lost to JFK in 1960, and then you nominated Reagan who whether aware of its optics or not opened up his campaign where three civil rights workers were kidnapped and murdered with a speech on states rights, Bush I and Willie Horotn, and then Trump. Meanwhile the Dems who you love to shit on for still being the party that supported slavery in 1865. Let’s see. They nominated a Southerner who was the best President since Lincoln on Southern rights, Humphrey who was one of the first prominent champions of Civil Rights in their party, a Southern governor who treated black people like human beings, and last of all we actually had an African-American nominee. You? You just elected your first black woman to the House 5 years ago and you wanted Mia Love treated like she was this great Civil Rights icon. Mia Love who was born after the first African-American woman sought a Democratic presidential nomination. Your party has a long ways to go before they can even come close to being good on Civil Rights and a good chunk of that will be apologizing for the past 50+ years of race baiting.
re: #94 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Which is why the GOP has such dismally low support among young people; it has nothing to offer them.
Exactly. Why the hell should I support a bunch of old assholes who think my gay friends are perverts, think my immigrant friends are taking jobs, think my women friends are sluts for wanting to be able to control their pregnancies, or think I’m a moocher because I think the government should invest its taxdollars in me and my fellow citizens. The Republican party offers nothing to me and frankly neither does conservatism as a whole.
re: #79 HappyWarrior
Trump I can’t decide whether it’s his voice or the stupid crap he chooses to talk about. Trump can’t articulate anything that doesn’t relate to him. It’s either everyone sucks compared to him or he’s the greatest thing ever. He should be flogged for the “your favorite President” line he uses alone. That’s disgusting. He really honestly thinks he’s doing everyone this gigantic favor by being President but he’s not.
It’s everything. The lies, the way he talks about other people, his contempt for us, the puffing out his chest all the time. There is literally nothing about him that is likable. He’s the #1 deplorable.
And I honestly can’t express just much I loathe him and everything he is and stands for.
I’ll give the GOP some credit that under Bush that they were trying to fix some of the old wrongs but they still were doing it wrong when Bush with his closeted RNC chairman pursued a policy of using homophobia and fear of gay marriage to get re-elected in 2004 but Mehlman I’ll acknowledge did actually apologize for the Southern strategy as did Steele. But that doesn’t tell you the whole story because the real voice of the GOP, Rush Limbaugh had a gasket about that because Rush can’t ever bring himself to admit that conservatism can screw people over. Too bad it’s been downhill since RNC PR BS took over and Ronna Romney replaced Reince.
re: #97 MsJ
It’s everything. The lies, the way he talks about other people, his contempt for us, the puffing out his chest all the time. There is literally nothing about him that is likable. He’s the #1 deplorable.
And I honestly can’t express just much I loathe him and everything he is and stands for.
I won’t be upset when he dies. I won’t outright celebrate but it’ll be a good day.
Check out @jonfavs’s Tweet:
The fact sheet explicitly said they wouldn’t be abolishing cows, but the point is, as usual, Republicans will make that the focus instead of more believable, substantive criticism.
I still recall them making “You Didn’t Build That” the theme of an entire day of their convention— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 2, 2019
If they’re going to mock AOC for the farting cow thing. Let me present to you all the Republican voters that seriously believe LGBT rights support is caused by demonic possession. Wanting to eliminate methane produced by cattle is actually realistic. These assholes have had enough hamburgers for a lifetime and they think they continue eating the way they do with zero ecological side effects or worse they don’t care because conservatives repeatedly show that the Earth is a joke ot them and unworthy of protection. If I were a religious man, I’d call them heretical since this is supposed to be their God’s creation and they just support neglecting it.
A conservative friend of mine asked me the other if I could find a single compliment or nice thing to say about Trump.
I couldn’t do it.
re: #103 Eclectic Cyborg
A conservative friend of mine asked me the other if I could find a single compliment or nice thing to say about Trump.
I couldn’t do it.
I can’t either. With Bush, I could acknowledge him as a father and as a man without pettiness, with Bush’s father I could acknowledge the bravery in WWII, and with Reagan I could acknowledge he could speeches that could give us pride about being Americans. With McCain, a war hero too, same with Dole. Romney would be tough but I could acknowledge that Romney actually would do policies that were practical even if they were ones he would disavow later like Romneycare.
re: #103 Eclectic Cyborg
I can think of one good thing to say. Everything and everyone comes to an end, eventually.
re: #95 HappyWarrior
I’ll give it to you Republicans. Until 1964, you did most of the right things on Civil Rights. You championed federal bans on lynching when FDR was too cowardly to do so. You championed the Civil Rights legislation of the 1950’s but when your leadership saw that Southern Democrats were angry at their national party outside the South began supporting Civil Rights, you began to move right ward. When you began electing Republiacns in the South, they were in fact to the right of the Democrats on Civil Rights. You deserve credit when you get it. Everett Dirksen has my respect for helping to pass the CRA 1964 as does President Ford who was part of the House leadership but you don’t deserve credit when starting in 1964 you nominated Goldwater, then Nixon who was not the same man who lost to JFK in 1960, and then you nominated Reagan who whether aware of its optics or not opened up his campaign where three civil rights workers were kidnapped and murdered with a speech on states rights, Bush I and Willie Horotn, and then Trump. Meanwhile the Dems who you love to shit on for still being the party that supported slavery in 1865. Let’s see. They nominated a Southerner who was the best President since Lincoln on Southern rights, Humphrey who was one of the first prominent champions of Civil Rights in their party, a Southern governor who treated black people like human beings, and last of all we actually had an African-American nominee. You? You just elected your first black woman to the House 5 years ago and you wanted Mia Love treated like she was this great Civil Rights icon. Mia Love who was born after the first African-American woman sought a Democratic presidential nomination. Your party has a long ways to go before they can even come close to being good on Civil Rights and a good chunk of that will be apologizing for the past 50+ years of race baiting.
The Republican party was just fine with supporting civil rights until that moment in the 1960s when “those people” were given said civil rights.
The feelings were hurt.
Pearls were clutched.
Veils were snatched away.
And the Dixiecrats found a forever home.
re: #104 HappyWarrior
I can’t either. With Bush, I could acknowledge him as a father and as a man without pettiness, with Bush’s father I could acknowledge the bravery in WWII, and with Reagan I could acknowledge he could speeches that could give us pride about being Americans. With McCain, a war hero too, same with Dole. Romney would be tough but I could acknowledge that Romney actually would do policies that were practical even if they were ones he would disavow later like Romneycare.
I can’t agree on Romney. Not with Ryan as his second. That ship sailed.
re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Republican party was just fine with supporting civil rights until that moment in the 1960s when “those people” were given said civil rights.
The feelings were hurt.
Pearls were clutched.
Veils were snatched away.
And the Dixiecrats found a forever home.
To me, the second they welcomed Strom Thurmond into their ranks was the minute they started the long descent to the clusterfuck they are now. Not that there weren’t cracks before. Hoover interestingly was one of them. He was in charge of disaster relief following a giant flood in 1927 and African-Americans were disproportionally impacted by the flood but didn’t receive as much aid as whites. There is no one living in the GOP today that would have voted for Lincoln. The GOP of today doesn’t deserve to get an atta boy because Abe would recently celebrated his 210th birthday was right on.
re: #103 Eclectic Cyborg
A conservative friend of mine asked me the other if I could find a single compliment or nice thing to say about Trump.
I couldn’t do it.
Easy. Trump’s a genius compared to the people who still support him.
I do think Mitt truly cares about his family for the most part.
re: #107 MsJ
I can’t agree on Romney. Not with Ryan as his second. That ship sailed.
Romney would be really hard for me too. In fact, I think Trump and Romney have a lot in common with each other. More so than W and Trump. I definitely don’t respect Romney as a father after how his asshole sons acted that election.
re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg
I do think Mitt truly cares about his family for the most part.
He cares more about Rafalca than any American.
re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg
I do think Mitt truly cares about his family for the most part.
I think that’s it even though I don’t respect him at all as a father and husband after how his sons acted and how Ann seemed to think we somehow needed her and Mitt to be the first couple.
re: #112 MsJ
He cares more about Rafalca than any American.
Not named Romney anyhow. Mitt really paved the way for Trump more than any other GOP nominee before him.
The thing though about Romney I’ll never forgive was the smug look on his face when Benghazi happened. He really thought it would be the end of Obama and he’d finally get what he thought was his divine reward- the Presidency and he never apologized for saying that Obama sympathized with the attackers of the consulate. This was before it was known Ambassador Stevens and the other men were killed. Mitt was politicizing the tragedy from the start long before Gowdy and friends did in the House which is really saying something. As for Paul Ryan, can’t say anything nice about him either. He’s a fake who pretends to be this devout Catholic but actually has more in common theologically with Ayn Rand than anything the Catholic church has ever taught.
re: #99 HappyWarrior
I won’t be upset when he dies. I won’t outright celebrate but it’ll be a good day.
I just hope he lives to see the day when he is thoroughly humiliated publicly first. I really want his nose rubbed in it, and I want his feckless followers to recognize their own stupidity as well.
Yeah, prolly won’t happen, but a girl has to dream….
And I can’t respect Mitt at all for demonstrating in favor of the Vietnam War draft and then hiding out in France. That one really offends me. Believe in Vietnam’s justness? Fine, I’d disagree but going overseas after you demonstrated in favor of the draft is something else. At least Trump didn’t pretend to care either way about Vietnam. And yeah I know about Mitt’s mission but I don’t care either because my grandfather served in Korea with plenty of young LDS men who could have been doing their mission too.
re: #116 KerFuFFler
I just hope he lives to see the day when he is thoroughly humiliated publicly first. I really want his nose rubbed in it, and I want his feckless followers to recognize their own stupidity as well.
Yeah, prolly won’t happen, but a girl has to dream….
I want it to happen too. But honestly I want him to be afraid to show his mug knowing he’s the most hated man in the country but I think that’s even more far fetched than yours because I think even if Mueller proves his crimes beyond a reasonable doubt, there will always be those that will be convinced he was a patsy.
re: #100 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The cows thing is AOC’s fault. If you don’t want people to say you’re talking about abolishing cows, don’t talk about abolishing cows.
How can anyone take Josh Barro seriously when he says things like this?
If you don’t want right wing loons to talk about Pizzagate, why have pizza restaurants?
re: #120 jaunte
If you don’t want right wing loons to talk about Pizzagate, why have pizza restaurants?
If you don’t want to talk about women being raped, don’t have women children. //
re: #116 KerFuFFler
I just hope he lives to see the day when he is thoroughly humiliated publicly first. I really want his nose rubbed in it, and I want his feckless followers to recognize their own stupidity as well.
Yeah, prolly won’t happen, but a girl has to dream….
thing is, he’s already been thoroughly humiliated publicly…he just doesn’t see it
AOC isn’t in control of what CPAC loons talk about, Josh.
“If you don’t want me to hit you again, stop struggling.”
re: #119 jaunte
How can anyone take Josh Barro seriously when he says things like this?
Josh often drives right off the rails. And he does it at such a low speed. It’s hard to figure out how he can do that.
He is one that tries really really really hard to balance everything. And then he just ends up coming off dense and dumb.
The “free speech” legislation being pushed on college campuses is based on a model bill developed by the right-wing Goldwater Institute. It not only forces colleges to let unwanted speakers onto campus, but actually prohibits peaceful protests when such speakers are talking.
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) March 2, 2019
re: #126 jaunte
Some speech is apparently freer than others.
re: #120 jaunte
If you don’t want right wing loons to talk about Pizzagate, why have pizza restaurants?
We got to find something to do with all that pineapple…
*ducks*
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
We got to find something to do with all that pineapple…
*ducks*
That reminds me, I haven’t had a pizza with pineapple in a while. I should rectify this.
re: #126 jaunte
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So it’s not actually free speech. It’s conservative students can get whatever jackass they want but liberal students can’t protest that speaker. It’s a complete load of shit. FWIW I wouldn’t protest a Ben Shapiro speech but I’d be happy to let people know that he has a history of saying some incredibly stupid bigoted bs.
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
thing is, he’s already been thoroughly humiliated publicly…he just doesn’t see it
Agreed———but I want him humiliated in a way that even he will see. I want his SAT scores revealed. I want him to score badly on a quiz show against second graders. I want it made clear that he would lose a game of tic-tac-toe even if he went first. I want some public spirited person to cut that repulsive flap of hair from his pasty pate. I want him to hear his cabinet officials calling him an effing moron in congressional hearings.
I want his dumb ass followers to see and admit what a cretin he is.
If groups want to have speakers on campus, fine, but they should be aware that controversy is going to happen with certain people. If you have someone like Milo for example who likes to taunt transgendered people. You’re inviting a response. And yeah I feel the same way about controversial lefty speakers too. Conservatives just don’t like their speakers views actually being truthfully being told to people.
re: #131 KerFuFFler
Agreed———but I want him humiliated in a way that even he will see. I want his SAT scores revealed. I want him to score badly on a quiz show against second graders. I want it made clear that he would lose a game of tic-tac-toe even if he went first. I want some public spirited person to cut that repulsive flap of hair from his pasty pate. I want him to hear his cabinet officials calling him an effing moron in congressional hearings.
I want his dumb ass followers to see and admit what a cretin he is.
This.
re: #132 HappyWarrior
If groups want to have speakers on campus, fine, but they should be aware that controversy is going to happen with certain people. If you have someone like Milo for example who likes to taunt transgendered people. You’re inviting a response. And yeah I feel the same way about controversial lefty speakers too. Conservatives just don’t like their speakers views actually being truthfully being told to people.
For one thing, there aren’t as many of those, but your point is so important. You need to do your homework when you invite a speaker, and if you choose one that has already been disinvited from some speaking engagements, prepare for pushback.
re: #70 HappyWarrior
Like I know conservatism is a really messed up ideology right now but there’s gotta be some people there who hear these bizarre tangents whether it’s Trump or Gorka’s weird rant shit about hamburgers and think “Really this is what my ideology is reduced to?” But then again, conservatism in 2008 stopped being a serious attempt at an ideology because the conservative base threw a national tantrum over the fact that we elected a black guy with an unique name whose father was from Kenya and instead of encouraging their base to act like adults, Republican elected officials and pundits have encouraged their base to act like morons with a complete disregard for basic reality to the point where elected Republicans actually say shit like vaccines are communism but yeah let’s fret about AOC wanting the marginal tax rate to be what it was under Ike.*
*A legitimate top 3 President since FDR.
conservatism has never been an ideology. conservatism is a reaction mostly to nineteenth-century liberalism, which IS an ideology, with a whole slew of platform positions. Conservatism is basically “drown government in a bathtub” and “don’t fuck with rich people.” It isn’t an ideology. It’s just a chamber of commerce, with some fascist elements thrown in.
re: #73 HappyWarrior
Trump had an onion on his belt as was the style of the time. God this is so bizarre. Seriously who the hell listens to this man and thinks YES THIS IS THE BEST PRESIDENT EVER. Seriously conservatives, I know we’ll never agree on policy but concede that this man is unfit to be President. Come on, you’ll even get me to say something nice about Reagan and I hate Reagan.
I keep an aunt of mine connected on Facebook, just so I’ll have a control for the experiment. Every other week, it’s “thank Jesus for Trump,” and likeminded bullshit. You are falling for the smart person’s consistent bafflement: “why are stupid people stupid?” Because they’re stupid. If these people could see through Trump’s bullshit, they clearly wouldn’t have voted for him, or support him.
re: #118 HappyWarrior
I want it to happen too. But honestly I want him to be afraid to show his mug knowing he’s the most hated man in the country but I think that’s even more far fetched than yours because I think even if Mueller proves his crimes beyond a reasonable doubt, there will always be those that will be convinced he was a patsy.
People believe the moon landing was faked, that Obama was a Kenyan Muslim, that Hillary is a pedophile, etc etc etc. The loons are there. Oh well.
re: #129 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That reminds me, I haven’t had a pizza with pineapple in a while. I should rectify this
If only we had an Old Gothic Font I would use it to say “Blasphemer”.
/
re: #137 MsJ
People believe the moon landing was faked, that Obama was a Kenyan Muslim, that Hillary is a pedophile, etc etc etc. The loons are there. Oh well.
They are. It’s so frustrating when you see them within your own family or friends though.
re: #135 steve_davis
conservatism has never been an ideology. conservatism is a reaction mostly to nineteenth-century liberalism, which IS an ideology, with a whole slew of platform positions. Conservatism is basically “drown government in a bathtub” and “don’t fuck with rich people.” It isn’t an ideology. It’s just a chamber of commerce, with some fascist elements thrown in.
Yeah I’m probably a little too generous.
re: #139 HappyWarrior
They are. It’s so frustrating when you see them within your own family or friends though.
So much so.
re: #131 KerFuFFler
Agreed———but I want him humiliated in a way that even he will see. I want his SAT scores revealed. I want him to score badly on a quiz show against second graders. I want it made clear that he would lose a game of tic-tac-toe even if he went first. I want some public spirited person to cut that repulsive flap of hair from his pasty pate. I want him to hear his cabinet officials calling him an effing moron in congressional hearings.
I want his dumb ass followers to see and admit what a cretin he is.
😁😂🤣
re: #139 HappyWarrior
Free speech has never meant I get to say whatever I want and no one gets to call me out. It means I get to say what I say without fear of the government punishing me for it.
They are. It’s so frustrating when you see them within your own family or friends though.
I couldn’t even imagine family members like that. That’s a sadness that’s unimaginable to me.
re: #134 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
For one thing, there aren’t as many of those, but your point is so important. You need to do your homework when you invite a speaker, and if you choose one that has already been disinvited from some speaking engagements, prepare for pushback.
To be honest and this is what gets ignored, people like Milo, Shapiro, and all that, they LOVE being controversial. Honestly, I wish the lefty college kids would just shine these guys on the same way we did the campus preachers that told us we were all going to hell. Mock Ben Shapiro for being a 85 year old man in a 35 year old man’s body. Mock him for thinking he’s so edgy even though he’s a grown ass man trolling college kids 15 years younger than him.
re: #141 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
So much so.
I’m lucky that it’s not a lot of my immediate family but some of my family I’ve met in my genealogical research are sadly a bit wingnutty. I don’t crap on their political posts but it just disappoints me when I know I share a set of great grandparents or something like that with someone and they post xenophobic garbage.
re: #143 MsJ
I couldn’t even imagine family members like that. That’s a sadness that’s unimaginable to me.
Fortunately it’s really not my immediate family or close friends but I do think both of my brothers totally don’t get the unique danger Trump is but I chalk it up to being uninformed.
Innocent men don’t use #CPAC political speeches to give the closing argument at their criminal trial.pic.twitter.com/nBBzHc4fVw
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) March 2, 2019
re: #135 steve_davis
conservatism has never been an ideology. conservatism is a reaction mostly to nineteenth-century liberalism, which IS an ideology, with a whole slew of platform positions. Conservatism is basically “drown government in a bathtub” and “don’t fuck with rich people.” It isn’t an ideology. It’s just a chamber of commerce, with some fascist elements thrown in.
Actually, it was in response to the French Revolution, and what CPAC loons are calling “conservatism” has nothing to do with the real thing.
Note the timing:
Trump pushing “I was joking” defense for asking Russia for help *now*..
… after Cohen testified *Stone did tell Trump* about hacked emails..
.. the very conversation Stone says Trump denied *to Mueller*
Lying to Mueller is a crime.https://t.co/Imh5Gd7J8N— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) March 2, 2019
re: #149 jaunte
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He’s pathetic. All one joke to him. Hopefully he and Javanka and the boys enjoy prison because they deserve to be there.
re: #137 MsJ
People believe the moon landing was faked, that Obama was a Kenyan Muslim, that Hillary is a pedophile, etc etc etc. The loons are there. Oh well.
Why let them go to waste?
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Damn. He is a bold asshole. He’s getting into the mocking in-your-face defense. Gangster style.
At two hours of speechifying, Trump is in AAA league territory of professional authoritarians.
Anyone who wants some antidote to Trump, I just posted a little page. You might find it pleasant.
re: #156 William Lewis
Anyone who wants some antidote to Trump, I just posted a little page. You might find it pleasant.
I’ve found the best antidote to Trump is a bottle of 100-proof rum. And whaddya know, it’s 5:00. ;)
re: #28 HappyWarrior
How or why Trump got a reputation as a straight shooter, tell it as is type I don’t know.
Because he doesn’t mince cusswords even in mixed company, and he willingly uses the most racist of slurs. To the alt-right, that’s the opposite of PC, and the opposite of PC is ‘being a straight shooter’.
re: #153 goddamnedfrank
This guy seems nice.
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re: #158 Chrysicat
Because he doesn’t mince cusswords even in mixed company, and he willingly uses the most racist of slurs. To the alt-right, that’s the opposite of PC, and the opposite of PC is ‘being a straight shooter’.
True but when he’s called out on it, he acts like he didn’t say anything or that he’s being lied about. He wants to have the reputation of being a tough talker but he’s actually a shit talker.
re: #160 HappyWarrior
True but when he’s called out on it, he acts like he didn’t say anything or that he’s being lied about. He wants to have the reputation of being a tough talker but he’s actually a shit talker.
Classic bully behavior.
re: #103 Eclectic Cyborg
A conservative friend of mine asked me the other if I could find a single compliment or nice thing to say about Trump.
I couldn’t do it.
So far, he hasn’t shown up at an event without his pants on.
Q: What’s worse than an American president* who speaks gibberish?
A: People applauding as if it’s deep philosophical thought
Republicans in state with highest rate of child marriage vote to keep it legal https://t.co/rPz5wEcJni
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) March 2, 2019
“…The Idaho Statesman reports that HR 98, which would have eliminated marriage licenses for those 15 and under, and have strengthened the consent requirements for those 16 and 17, failed by a vote of 28-39, with 3 abstaining.
House Republicans outnumber House Democrats 56-14 in the Gem State, where the youngest Idahoans to say “I do” in the 2000s were just 13 years old. Yet Idaho is just one leader in a disturbingly crowded field.”
Republicans hate being stereotyped, but persist in behaving as stereotyped.
re: #167 jaunte
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Gee remember when they said that same sex marriage meant minors would be abused. More projection from the party that projects all the goddamned time.
re: #165 HappyWarrior
That’s true.
I’m sure he’s consuming less oxygen than any of the rest of us (this one might be too subtle for his followers).
He hasn’t started WW3, though he keeps trying.
He’s showing everyone that Mitch McConnell is a power grabbing white supremacist.
He’s making it harder for anyone to believe that the GOP cares about laws, the government, or the country.
I’m sure there’s a whole lot more nice things we can say about him.
re: #170 Belafon
I’m sure he’s consuming less oxygen than any of the rest of us (this one might be too subtle for his followers).
He hasn’t started WW3, though he keeps trying.
He’s showing everyone that Mitch McConnell is a power grabbing white supremacist.
He’s making it harder for anyone to believe that the GOP cares about laws, the government, or the country.I’m sure there’s a whole lot more nice things we can say about him.
You’re good.
“When it is legal for a 30-year-old to marry a 15-year-old that is not marriage because they are not equal partners. That is institutionalized child abuse. That is arranged rape,”
[Ada County Democrats’ Legislative Chair Chris] Nash insisted.]
re: #172 jaunte
“When it is legal for a 30-year-old to marry a 15-year-old that is not marriage because they are not equal partners. That is institutionalized child abuse. That is arranged rape,”
[Ada County Democrats’ Legislative Chair Chris] Nash insisted.]
But hurr hurr you liberals support two men marrying each other. ANd yes this is exactly the correct take.
re: #172 jaunte
“When it is legal for a 30-year-old to marry a 15-year-old that is not marriage because they are not equal partners. That is institutionalized child abuse. That is arranged rape,”
[Ada County Democrats’ Legislative Chair Chris] Nash insisted.]
I suspect many of these underage marriages are there to cover up for what would otherwise be child sexual abuse. *scowl*
re: #170 Belafon
I’m sure he’s consuming less oxygen than any of the rest of us (this one might be too subtle for his followers).
He hasn’t started WW3, though he keeps trying.
He’s showing everyone that Mitch McConnell is a power grabbing white supremacist.
He’s making it harder for anyone to believe that the GOP cares about laws, the government, or the country.I’m sure there’s a whole lot more nice things we can say about him.
Trump might be our last fair warning from the Gods of History. After he goes out the airlock, we can’t go back to the shitty public commerce that created him. At the very best, we have a generation of scary national re-birth ahead of us.
It takes a special kind of cretin to tell two same sex adults who have been in love with each other for years that their love can’t be accepted as a marriage but a teenager and an older adult can be married. But that’s the GOP for you. The people who insist Pizzagate was real think that teenagers should be able to marry adults. I bet theer’s a lot of ugly skeletons in them there GOP closets.
Appreciated Amb Al-Sabah’s invite to Kuwait’s independence day event. Regrettably, it was held at Trump International Hotel DC. @POTUS’s continued ownership of this hotel raises serious ethical/legal questions (see Emoluments Clause of U.S. Constitution). Therefore, we declined. pic.twitter.com/XON3eWfWmM
— Rep. Ted Lieu (@RepTedLieu) March 1, 2019
Why the GOP will not change the birthright presidential requirement: Foreign born people have way more integrity than they do.
Canadair water bomber reloading while fighting fires near San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain yesterday, March 1. Video: Meteo Pyrenees pic.twitter.com/zczWFAAZPN
re: #174 mmmirele
I suspect many of these underage marriages are there to cover up for what would otherwise be child sexual abuse. *scowl*
Scratch some of these “marriages” you’re going to find parents selling a daughter.
re: #179 The Ghost of Quesos Past
Scratch some of these “marriages” you’re going to find parents selling a daughter.
For ponies or bitcoin equivalent.
this pathetic dipshit pic.twitter.com/BIIPyROxf4
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) March 2, 2019
trump is an ass and bernie is trending. fuck. Time to do laundry. May not cure depression, but at least I’ll have clean clothes.
re: #182 I Would Prefer Not To
trump is an ass and bernie is trending. fuck. Time to do laundry. May not cure depression, but at least I’ll have clean clothes.
My clothes are clean. I’m going to watch a movie…. grrrr
re: #183 retired cynic
That is what I am doing. :)
re: #184 PhillyPretzel
That is what I am doing. :)
As has become a weekend tradition in the fish household, we are enjoying the Overwatch League e-sports broadcast.
oh christ. new neighbors moving in down the other end of the building. Please tell me I did not just get a group of really loud neighbors. They’re busy shouting to one another out in the parking lot. That shit is just not gonna fly around here. People work all kinds of odd shifts, and we pretty much don’t bother each other. The poor fellow next door to them already has the dog on the other side that feels duty bound to protect the building from blowing leaves.
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s very creepy. Reagan and Trump both have that I’m trying way too hard to be Uberpatriotic look that others didn’t do.
re: #7 Blind Frog Belly White
Here’s some brain bleach. Dory and Rango, on a sleepy, rainy Saturday morning….
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I’ll let you keep Rango, but I would like Dory please.
re: #187 HappyWarrior
It’s very creepy. Reagan and Trump both have that I’m trying way too hard to be Uberpatriotic look that others didn’t do.
I think in Reagan’s case, it might have been partly because he was the only president of his generation that didn’t have active duty service in WWII. So he was likely overcompensating.
Trump is just a terrible human being.
As a side note, I just realized: that of the four baby boomer presidents (Clinton through Trump) none had active duty military service and three of the four beat opponents who did. Conversely, the greatest generation presidents (JFK through Bush 41), all served in the military to varying degrees
re: #183 retired cynic
My clothes are clean. I’m going to watch a movie…. grrrr
Finally going for Roma tonight.
re: #189 KGxvi
I think in Reagan’s case, it might have been partly because he was the only president of his generation that didn’t have active duty service in WWII. So he was likely overcompensating.
Trump is just a terrible human being.
As a side note, I just realized: that of the four baby boomer presidents (Clinton through Trump) none had active duty military service and three of the four beat opponents who did. Conversely, the greatest generation presidents (JFK through Bush 41), all served in the military to varying degrees
Yeah I might be going too hard on Reagan there. But you’re right about the Greatest Generation Presidents. All served. Not surprised at all though by that. Just like nearly all but Cleveland who were of age in the Civil War years did the same. But yeah we forget sometimes that Bush beat two active duty military service members in Gore and Kerry.
I spent a nice day puttering around, grocery shopping, listening to music, and working on my “Beginning Swedish” (I’m a weaver. Sweden has many interesting weaving books. In Swedish, so…)
Did I miss anything? ;)
Mercifully I knew nothing about Trump’s speech until I turned on the news. I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or crawl under the bed. That was horrific.
re: #192 calochortus
I spent a nice day puttering around, grocery shopping, listening to music, and working on my “Beginning Swedish” (I’m a weaver. Sweden has many interesting weaving books. In Swedish, so…)
Did I miss anything? ;)
Mercifully I knew nothing about Trump’s speech until I turned on the news. I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or crawl under the bed. That was horrific.
You missed pineapple on pizza. That’s about it.
re: #191 HappyWarrior
Clinton beat two and Obama beat one as well. I’m not sure what it means, other than the elimination of the draft and the professionalization of the military are real things
re: #194 KGxvi
Clinton beat two and Obama beat one as well. I’m not sure what it means, other than the elimination of the draft and the professionalization of the military are real things
It’s also a lack of major conflict.
re: #194 KGxvi
Clinton beat two and Obama beat one as well. I’m not sure what it means, other than the elimination of the draft and the professionalization of the military are real things
Well with the Greatest Generation, I think it was a passing of the guard sort of thing and I think we’ve seen fewer vets because yeah the eliminaton of the draft and professionalization of the military as well but I think it also speaks to how WWII was probably our last war that really mobilized people from all walks of life to it. The Presidents that served in it ranged from Ike who was a general to junior officers. I don’t think we’ve had a President that was an enlisted man ever but I think that’s not a surprise IMO since military leadership can definitely translate well to civilian leadership skills. McKinley I think started out as a private but finished as a Lt.
moron is worried
Virtually everything failed lawyer Michael Cohen said in his sworn testimony last week is totally contradicted in his just released manuscript for a book about me. It’s a total new love letter to “Trump” and the pols must now use it rather than his lies for sentence reduction!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2019
The brand new manuscript for a new book by failed lawyer Michael Cohen shows his testimony was a total lie! Pundits should only use it.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2019
moron wants other morons to believe he did this:
We’ve got NASA “rocking” again. Great activity and success. Congrats to SPACEX and all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2019
re: #170 Belafon
I’m sure he’s consuming less oxygen than any of the rest of us (this one might be too subtle for his followers).
He hasn’t started WW3, though he keeps trying.
He’s showing everyone that Mitch McConnell is a power grabbing white supremacist.
He’s making it harder for anyone to believe that the GOP cares about laws, the government, or the country.I’m sure there’s a whole lot more nice things we can say about him.
I can think of only one genuine one. His ambition. He is a pathetic and stupid man with no particular ability at anything, and I suspect that he knows this deep in his heart. The way he brags continually, overcompensating about everything, while trying desperately to cover the truth (such as threatening those who know his grades) is telling. And it is also true that as a result of being weak and stupid, the only reason he has ever had any success is because of the enabling of others. Yet despite knowing how feeble he is, he has always had ambition far in excess of his ability. And ambition can be a laudable thing.
I thought about this as a result of the question that was asked in the debates, where both were asked if they could say anything nice about their opponent. If that were the question to me, that’s how I would have responded.
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So Cohen sent him a copy of the manuscript and then Trump read it? I don’t know which is less believable.
re: #200 Renaissance_Man
I can think of only one genuine one. His ambition. He is a pathetic and stupid man with no particular ability at anything, and I suspect that he knows this deep in his heart. The way he brags continually, overcompensating about everything, while trying desperately to cover the truth (such as threatening those who know his grades) is telling. And it is also true that as a result of being weak and stupid, the only reason he has ever had any success is because of the enabling of others. Yet despite knowing how feeble he is, he has always had ambition far in excess of his ability. And ambition can be a laudable thing.
I thought about this as a result of the question that was asked in the debates, where both were asked if they could say anything nice about their opponent. If that were the question to me, that’s how I would have responded.
Damn that’s pretty good.
re: #200 Renaissance_Man
This week’s With Friends Like These had a guest that wrote a book about the women in Trump’s life. It was fascinating. Trump’s paternal grandmother (who technically founded the Trump Org) was basically cheap. But his mother (a Scottish immigrant) was enthralled by the glitz of the old New York society (the first place she lived was the Carniege house). And Trump’s taste seems to be a combination of the worst parts of those two women’s world view. The whole idea of “classy on the cheap”
re: #201 calochortus
So Cohen sent him a copy of the manuscript and then Trump read it? I don’t know which is less believable.
Unless it was the audio book, he didn’t “read” shit
re: #204 KGxvi
This week’s With Friends Like These had a guest that wrote a book about the women in Trump’s life. It was fascinating. Trump’s paternal grandmother (who technically founded the Trump Org) was basically cheap. But his mother (a Scottish immigrant) was enthralled by the glitz of the old New York society (the first place she lived was the Carniege house). And Trump’s taste seems to be a combination of the worst parts of those two women’s world view. The whole idea of “classy on the cheap”
Sigh. That’s never going to end well. Trash with flash.
re: #204 KGxvi
This week’s With Friends Like These had a guest that wrote a book about the women in Trump’s life. It was fascinating. Trump’s paternal grandmother (who technically founded the Trump Org) was basically cheap. But his mother (a Scottish immigrant) was enthralled by the glitz of the old New York society (the first place she lived was the Carniege house). And Trump’s taste seems to be a combination of the worst parts of those two women’s world view. The whole idea of “classy on the cheap”
You know, maybe that deep down is why he’s not a total dick to Ivanka. I mean the way he regards her is creepy and gross but he’s not like Henry VIII in that he would be the kind of guy that would disown his daughter simply for being a daughter. Or it could be that even he’s smart enough to see Ivanka is slightly smarter than Eric and Don Jr.
re: #206 calochortus
Sigh. That’s never going to end well. Trash with flash.
Nope. But it was a fascinating episode. And the book, golden handcuffs, might be worth a read
Program on PBS about Mr. Rogers. It’s hosted by Michael Keaton.
It’s making me a little weepy eyed with all this goodness.
re: #209 Dave In Austin
Program on PBS about Mr. Rogers. It’s hosted by Michael Keaton.
It’s making me a little weepy eyed with all this goodness.
Excellent choice of host. Keaton like Mr. Rogers is from Pittsburgh and Keaton would have grown up on Mr. Rogers I think before Rogers became nationwide famous. Mr. Rogers was a great guy.
So, if Cohen totally lied, why did Fordham confirm his letter demanding they keep your grades and SAT scores secret? https://t.co/Kniru5crM5
— Derek Cressman (@DerekCressman) March 3, 2019
re: #210 HappyWarrior
Excellent choice of host. Keaton like Mr. Rogers is from Pittsburgh and Keaton would have grown up on Mr. Rogers I think before Rogers became nationwide famous. Mr. Rogers was a great guy.
Michael Keaton served as a floor hand on Mr. Rogers.
re: #201 calochortus
So Cohen sent him a copy of the manuscript and then Trump read it? I don’t know which is less believable.
THIS.
re: #191 HappyWarrior
Yeah I might be going too hard on Reagan there. But you’re right about the Greatest Generation Presidents. All served. Not surprised at all though by that. Just like nearly all but Cleveland who were of age in the Civil War years did the same. But yeah we forget sometimes that Bush beat two active duty military service members in Gore and Kerry.
The Greatest Generation presidents all being vets is because all the men their age were vets — the 1942 draft called up every able-bodied man 18-34. ALL OF THEM. The entire Ivy League student body, all of major league baseball, president’s and senators’ sons. The only choice most of them had was if they rushed to enlist they could maybe pick which branch of service, or which specialty. But not whether or not to join up. (except John Wayne, the little shit. He was draftable age, but weaseled out as “sole support of his family”. Even though he was star enough already, and wealthy enough already, that his family would have been okay even without his continuing movie star earnings.)
The Vietnam generation… that’s a whole different story.
re: #192 calochortus
I spent a nice day puttering around, grocery shopping, listening to music, and working on my “Beginning Swedish” (I’m a weaver. Sweden has many interesting weaving books. In Swedish, so…)
Does that mean we can ask you to translate Ikea instructions?
re: #216 sagehen
Ted Williams comes to mind.
This marriage must be fun.
In this Jan. 2019 poll, 28% say Trump has the right personal characteristics to be president; 28% find him honest and trustworthy; and 24% say he has high personal and ethical standards. Truth serum would push these pathetic numbers even lower.https://t.co/vW4tVezIH4 https://t.co/jGZmqFrIm3
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 3, 2019
re: #217 sagehen
Does that mean we can ask you to translate Ikea instructions?
Sure. They tend not to include words in any language, so it should be easy! Putting the things together (correctly?) Not so easy.
Golgotha, 11x17. I had a weird urge to pay homage to one of my most cherished animated influences. #evangelion #ink pic.twitter.com/kGuRUy4O8a
— Evan Cagle (@cagle_evan) March 3, 2019
re: #75 ObserverArt
Interesting exchange, and I can tell that Meghan McCain detests Ivanka Trump. Can’t imagine why. //
A few days ago we were talking about vocal fry, that annoying croaky voice some women adopt to sound more serious or thoughtful. None of these women do that, yet they all sound serious and thoughtful. Voice coaches specifically advise professional speakers to avoid vocal fry, because over the long run, it damages your vocal cords.
I hate it when the Front Range cities get more snow than ski areas in the mountains.
Stay safe, Denver Lizards, it’s treacherous out there.
Hey #Denver it’s #snowing. DPD Dispatch has had 20 crashes reported in the past hour. Keep your head up and drive safe pic.twitter.com/pJHxvDX1KE
— Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) March 3, 2019
re: #216 sagehen
The Greatest Generation presidents all being vets is because all the men their age were vets — the 1942 draft called up every able-bodied man 18-34. ALL OF THEM. The entire Ivy League student body, all of major league baseball, president’s and senators’ sons. The only choice most of them had was if they rushed to enlist they could maybe pick which branch of service, or which specialty. But not whether or not to join up. (except John Wayne, the little shit. He was draftable age, but weaseled out as “sole support of his family”. Even though he was star enough already, and wealthy enough already, that his family would have been okay even without his continuing movie star earnings.)
The Vietnam generation… that’s a whole different story.
Right absolutely.
Damn. #CPAC
You want to go so far back you revived the minstrel show…
Gross https://t.co/bllfEqC1So— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) March 3, 2019
“Great activity” is what you say when you have no fucking idea what’s actually going on. https://t.co/fcR5736Z8R
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 3, 2019
re: #221 jaunte
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My youngest and I are finishing up the current season on RWBY on Rooster Teeth (a not bad American based story that comes close to Japanese anime, but you can tell the company’s computing resources have improved over the six years it’s been running). Next up is Cowboy Bebop. I’m trying to find a way to get Evangeleon in a lineup.
the arsonists are terrible but did you also see the firefighters stopping to talk to each other? #bothsides https://t.co/WaUCYAHUBu
— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) March 3, 2019
re: #228 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
No. DT has no clue as to what is going on around him.
re: #187 HappyWarrior
It’s very creepy. Reagan and Trump both have that I’m trying way too hard to be Uberpatriotic look that others didn’t do.
At this point in time why doesn’t Trump just go ahead and cut a (small) hole in the flag and proceed to fuck away.
re: #231 Rocky-in-Connecticut
At this point in time why doesn’t Trump just go ahead and cut a (small) hole in the flag and proceed to fuck away.
This has to go against the flag code in some way, shape, or form.
re: #227 Belafon
My youngest and I are finishing up the current season on RWBY on Rooster Teeth (a not bad American based story that comes close to Japanese anime, but you can tell the company’s computing resources have improved over the six years it’s been running). Next up is Cowboy Bebop. I’m trying to find a way to get Evangeleon in a lineup.
I was randomly watching an old episode of Family Guy and was sort of shocked how much better animation is today than it was not even 10 years ago. The early Simpsons and South Park look like a completely different medium
re: #231 Rocky-in-Connecticut
At this point in time why doesn’t Trump just go ahead and cut a (small) hole in the flag and proceed to fuck away.
The need to pop a little blue pill first?
re: #232 teleskiguy
I honestly have no idea. If Anymouse were here he could tell you. Did he once put up a page on the flag code?
Elon’s ain’t stupid.
When Jeff Bezos didn’t kiss Trump’s ass, Trump threatened to cut Amazon off from the USPS.
Musk can’t afford to piss Trump off. SpaceX needs NASA facilities and NASA contracts to survive. https://t.co/n9Jvn75uoM— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 3, 2019
re: #223 teleskiguy
I hate it when the Front Range cities get more snow than ski areas in the mountains.
Stay safe, Denver Lizards, it’s treacherous out there.
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Couple of inches on my back deck rail at the moment, will see how much we get out of this by morning. But we’re down for the night, car’s in the garage, and no place to go till 3:30 tomorrow afternoon. Snowplow has been by once already (the advantage of living half a block from a school).
Fingers crossed for the folks who have to be out in this.
re: #237 CleverToad
I just got back from Jackson Hole. They’re running out of places to put snow, stop signs are buried.
I needed some recuperation time after watching today’s bizarre exhibition from the con man masquerading as president. Man, we’re into some through-the-looking-glass emperor’s-new-clothes shit here.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 3, 2019
re: #239 teleskiguy
I just got back from Jackson Hole. They’re running out of places to put snow, stop signs are buried.
Oh, and the forecast is calling for another 6-10” here in the Twin Cities next weekend. Now granted, that’s a week away, so the forecast WILL change before then.
re: #239 teleskiguy
Are there any rivers close to Jackson Hole? A few years ago Philly had a blizzard and most of the snow was dumped into the Schuykill.
re: #242 PhillyPretzel
Are there any rivers close to Jackson Hole? A few years ago Philly had a blizzard and most of the snow was dumped into the Schuykill.
If you got snow in the mountains, you got rivers. Later. When it warms up.
re: #242 PhillyPretzel
The Snake River is west of town. But it is not the Schuykill. It’s a high alpine river, basically a wide fast flowing creek. Dumping that much snow in the Snake will clog it with ice floes, causing bad flooding.
re: #243 wrenchwench
If you got snow in the mountains, you got rivers. Later. When it warms up.
The river guides around these parts are already salivating.
Fire breaks out aboard America’s sole heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Starhttps://t.co/wWaKoUhPY5 pic.twitter.com/bABlR8n2LE
— navaltoday (@navaltoday) March 1, 2019
We need to return to the old days when being an incoherent sweaty ranting maniac disqualified you from being president of the United States. pic.twitter.com/47QlMjpIeU
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 3, 2019
re: #244 teleskiguy
Okay. I was just stating what Philly did when we got a lot of snow. I am sure Jackson Hole has quite a few methods for getting rid of snow.
The LA area got about 11.5 inches of rain in January and February. Normally we get a little less than 7 inches in those two months. We also got about .7 inches of rain today and have more rain in the forecast for tomorrow and then midweek.
So, that’s fun
re: #229 teleskiguy
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One side of the aisle spent the better part of Wednesday making absolute fools of themselves by engaging in one long session of name-calling towards Michael Cohen without doing anything at all to address his allegations in a manner that even conservatives were saying looked bad for their party.
The other side had liberal members of the caucus take moderate members behind the woodshed for supporting the other side’s amendments to House bills for no real reason besides “it’ll help at reelection time.”
But yeah, “both sides.” FFS
re: #227 Belafon
My youngest and I are finishing up the current season on RWBY on Rooster Teeth (a not bad American based story that comes close to Japanese anime, but you can tell the company’s computing resources have improved over the six years it’s been running). Next up is Cowboy Bebop. I’m trying to find a way to get Evangeleon in a lineup.
Neo is best girl.
re: #247 Charles Johnson
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I’m so old, I remember when one crazed outburst at a rally during the primaries was enough to kill your nomination.
re: #250 Targetpractice
One side of the aisle spent the better part of Wednesday making absolute fools of themselves by engaging in one long session of name-calling towards Michael Cohen without doing anything at all to address his allegations in a manner that even conservatives were saying looked bad for their party.
The other side had liberal members of the caucus take moderate members behind the woodshed for supporting the other side’s amendments to House bills for no real reason besides “it’ll help at reelection time.”
But yeah, “both sides.” FFS
Is that what the entire basis of the AOC attacks moderates story I was seeing people push via the NYPost? Jeezus. The way I was seeing it being spun, they were making AOC out to be Stalin purging disloyal members. Not shocked it’s bs.
re: #248 PhillyPretzel
I am sure Jackson Hole has quite a few methods for getting rid of snow.
They do. And they also have a population of just over 23,000 in the whole county. Last I checked Philly has 1.5 million people and 2,500 miles of streets.
*snerk*
re: #252 Targetpractice
I’m so old, I remember when one crazed outburst at a rally during the primaries was enough to kill your nomination.
CALIFORNIA, BYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
re: #254 teleskiguy
Yes. And we are due to get some snow on Sunday. :(
weather.gov
re: #247 Charles Johnson
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Trump to me is a fine indictment of white male privilege. You can’t tell me that a woman or male of color with his track record in public life would have been viable. But he was. And if that’s not privilege, I don’t know what the hell is.
These are the important questions in these times. https://t.co/trKJlGVs8p
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) March 3, 2019
On the bright side of all this rain, big bear has reportedly got over 120” of snow. Those are crazy numbers based on recent history. And of course I’m so out of shape that I probably won’t be able to enjoy any of it
re: #245 teleskiguy
The river guides around these parts are already salivating.
That’ll start the season five minutes sooner.
re: #259 KGxvi
On the bright side of all this rain, big bear has reportedly got over 120” of snow. Those are crazy numbers based on recent history.
The ski area I work at has received 140 inches of snow this winter. So yeah, I think you should just get your ass in gear and go try and schralp some gnar on the local hill.
re: #253 HappyWarrior
Is that what the entire basis of the AOC attacks moderates story I was seeing people push via the NYPost? Jeezus. The way I was seeing it being spun, they were making AOC out to be Stalin purging disloyal members. Not shocked it’s bs.
AOC and Pelosi basically read Hoyer and the other fence-sitters the Riot Act for supporting GOP efforts to toss monkey wrenches into the works by attaching ridiculous amendments to House bills. Hoyer and his band of Blue Dogs are arguing the standard “We need to meet them in the middle” brand of “bipartisanship” that is really about getting them reelected in red districts. The former are arguing that the party needs a united front, the latter are saying “Look, we’re just here to maintain office.”
re: #263 wrenchwench
Sounds painful.
If you got *steeze* and you get *sendy* it’s far from painful. :)
re: #262 Targetpractice
AOC and Pelosi basically read Hoyer and the other fence-sitters the Riot Act for supporting GOP efforts to toss monkey wrenches into the works by attaching ridiculous amendments to House bills. Hoyer and his band of Blue Dogs are arguing the standard “We need to meet them in the middle” brand of “bipartisanship” that is really about getting them reelected in red districts. The former are arguing that the party needs a united front, the latter are saying “Look, we’re just here to maintain office.”
Good. I preferred Pelosi over Hoyer years ago and it’s looking like that was the right move.
re: #264 Weaselone
It’s even more BS as Pelosi called out the exact same behavior that AOC criticized.
No surprise there. Good on both of em.
re: #261 teleskiguy
The ski area I work at has received 140 inches of snow this winter. So yeah, I think you should just get your ass in gear and go try and schralp some gnar on the local hill.
I might just have to dust off my skis, though I need boots (I’ll probably just rent some). For a couple of years I couldn’t figure out why my feet were hurting so much when I’d go. Then I realized one day my boots were size 12 and I’m somewhere between a 12.5 and 13 in shoe size. Switching up to 12.5 boots saved me
I hate men.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) March 3, 2019
re: #262 Targetpractice
From dailykos.com:
Pelosi’s frustration reportedly boiled over Thursday morning, and she had some harsh truths for her conference. “This is not a day at the beach,” she reportedly told the members complaining about having to take hard votes on Democratic priorities. “This is the Congress of the United States.” She even floated the possibility of withholding help from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, “although her threat may be more bluster than reality, according to Democratic lawmakers and aides.”
“We are either a team or weren’t not,” she told members, “and we have to make that decision.” After the meeting she told reporters that Democrat have to simply vote against these procedural motions and deny the Republicans “leverage.” “I’m a big believer in respecting the whole House and the rights of the minority to have their say,” Pelosi said. “I think we should just vote against all motions to recommit. It’s a procedural vote, it’s a ‘gotcha’ on the part of the opposition.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reminded her colleagues in the meeting that the vote on Wednesday was hard for her, too, because the poison pill they allowed to pass gives more power to Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That meant having to tell her supporters and activists afterward that she “had to choose between immigrants and gun violence. Not because of Republicans, but because of Democrats.” She continued, “I think it is an extension of Trump’s tactics into the House and we cannot legitimatize it and we cannot allow for it and we cannot support it.”
re: #270 Belafon
From dailykos.com:
Yeah I’m not surprised that the NYPost would misrepresent what happened.
re: #262 Targetpractice
Maintaining office is important if you want to maintain a majority. That said, the smart/Machiavellian move would be to say “fine, the 15 of you need to vote for some of these? No more than 8 of you can for each one”. Gives them coverage at home (“I voted for this”) while also keeping the GOP on the fucking sideline whereby it belongs
re: #269 teleskiguy
In one of the last episodes featuring Clara, the Doctor shoots another timelord, causing him to regenerate into a woman. Come to find out, that timelord had mostly always been a woman except that one time. When she regenerate, she says “Oh, back to normal, am I? The only time I’ve been a man, that last body. Dear Lord, how do you cope with all that ego?”
re: #268 KGxvi
When you go to rent boots, tell them you want size 30 or 30.5. Ski boots don’t go by shoe sizes. And if you get into it, buy your own boots. Take some time with a good boot-fitter to figure out what boot works for you. Ski boots are 90% of the battle when it comes to finding enjoyment in skiing, it helps to have good well-fitting boots. My boot liners are heat-molded to my foot and I have a custom foot bed, as well as a certain model of boot because I have wide feet and some brands are wider/narrower than others, etc.
re: #269 teleskiguy
Getting some strange replies with this one.
But it’s class not race, eh? https://t.co/1VbuRHBQSE
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) March 2, 2019
So it looks like https://t.co/QUFykxKIrh got hacked? This is amazing.
(Link to archived site in case the magic goes away: https://t.co/qXZi9Iu8y0) pic.twitter.com/syOPw5iPCG— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) March 3, 2019
The torture never stops. https://t.co/ziYrvsDXEv
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 3, 2019
i have a sudden craving for Szechwan dumplings.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 3, 2019
re: #274 teleskiguy
When you go to rent boots, tell them you want size 30 or 30.5. Ski boots don’t go by shoe sizes. And if you get into it, buy your own boots. Take some time with a good boot-fitter to figure out what boot works for you. Ski boots are 90% of the battle when it comes to finding enjoyment in skiing, it helps to have good well-fitting boots. My boot liners are heat-molded to my foot and I have a custom foot bed, as well as a certain model of boot because I have wide feet and some brands are wider/narrower than others, etc.
Years ago I bought a pair of Volant skis, and at the time the boots I got fit well. But I think that was almost 20 years ago. Maybe 10 years ago was when I noticed the problem with the boots fitting. Sadly it’s been probably 5 or 6 years sincerely I’ve been up the hill. Definitely need to get everything tuned up if I do go
re: #279 Charles Johnson
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In the name of Harriet Tubman, Nanny, Yaa Asantewaa, Queen Nzingha, Sojurner Truth, Maya Angelou, Madame CJ Wakker, Ida B. Wells, Marie Laveau, Lorraine Hansberry, Celia Cruz, Audre Lorde, Bessie Smith and Billy Holiday, I REBUKE YOU CANDACE OWENS for this fake attack on @AOC https://t.co/hJZLUMeiSN
— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) March 3, 2019
re: #281 KGxvi
Years ago I bought a pair of Volant skis
Volants! Ski The Metal! Shane McConkey was sponsored by them, and they made the first mass produced rockered skis, it was called The Spatula. I toured their old factory outside Denver when I was a kid.
How did I know they’d do this.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 3, 2019
re: #284 The Vicious Babushka
Wow. Candice Owens going with “AOC is the real racist” is just an incredibly loud wrong sort of answer to that’s tweet.
“Leroy Jenkins” was “energized” as well, but that made him no less of an idiot. Howard Dean was pretty “energized” as well, but that was written as him being “frothing-at-the-mouth insane” by the press. I’ve little doubt that any Dem candidate running who is as “energized” as Trump was today will be treated as a crazy person by the press.
“Energized” doesn’t mean a damned thing if you babble like a loony.
re: #277 The Vicious Babushka
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And when you present evidence that it’s truly race, people go “It’s both.” Why. Can’t. They. Get. It. Through. Their. Heads. That. The. Class. Problem. Will. Not. Be. Solved. Until. We. Solve. The. Racism. Problem?
re: #25 HappyWarrior
Is he going to press Liberty to allow Pro choice, Democratic, & pro LGBT groups? Because he’s not. He’s just giving conservative students who can’t handle professors or classmates that think differently legitimacy to whine about being “oppressed.0
Great point!!
re: #285 teleskiguy
Volants! Ski The Metal! Shane McConkey was sponsored by them, and they made the first mass produced rockered skis, it was called The Spatula. I toured their old factory outside Denver when I was a kid.
They are beautiful skis. And a lot of fun.
NY Times bears responsibility for normalizing this shit.
It’s not the substance of the lie that matters. What matters is that, two years later, Trump’s lies have become normalized to the point that reporters at the @nytimes are asking who cares that the president of the United States is gaslighting the entire country on a daily basis. https://t.co/7ltjHRFyRm
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) March 3, 2019
re: #286 Charles Johnson
Most colleges will tell DT what he can do with that order. Dr Amy Guttmann, University of Pennsylvania, will definitely tell DT what he can do with said order.
re: #284 The Vicious Babushka
It took me a few readings of AOC’s and Candice’s tweets to figure out what is going on. AOC said the word token in response to another tweet. Therefore, according to Candice, she called blacks tokens, therefore she also basically said coon. Wow. That should require a spinal expert to recover from.
re: #296 Belafon
It took me a few readings of AOC’s and Candice’s tweets to figure out what is going on. AOC said the word token in response to another tweet. Therefore, according to Candice, she called blacks tokens, therefore she also basically said coon. Wow. That should require a spinal expert to recover from.
Candace knows damn well she is a token, that’s why she went batshit.
re: #289 Belafon
And when you present evidence that it’s truly race, people go “It’s both.” Why. Can’t. They. Get. It. Through. Their. Heads. That. The. Class. Problem. Will. Not. Be. Solved. Until. We. Solve. The. Racism. Problem?
Race and class in America are intertwined. Always have been. Solving one will likely solve the other. But I agree with you that solving the racism problem is probably the better route
re: #293 The Vicious Babushka
Maggie is a Trump surrogate.She keeps enabling his lies and won’t call him a liar.
Also, photos were taken during different stages of inauguration and it was still a small crowd.— Trump’s Taxes Are Coming! 🍩 (@vicsepulveda) March 2, 2019
re: #298 KGxvi
Race and class in America are intertwined. Always have been. Solving one will likely solve the other. But I agree with you that solving the racism problem is probably the better route
If poor and middle class whites suddenly stopped being racists, most importantly became aware of the tricks the rich use to divide them from minorities, there would be a large enough group that wants to solve the exact same problems that no amount of money would overcome the power of the group.
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re: #296 Belafon
It took me a few readings of AOC’s and Candice’s tweets to figure out what is going on. AOC said the word token in response to another tweet. Therefore, according to Candice, she called blacks tokens, therefore she also basically said coon. Wow. That should require a spinal expert to recover from.
The Black woman who stood up behind Rep Meadows was nothing but a prop. Period. She should be embarrassed for allowing herself to be used like that and it’s goid that people are calling out Meadows on his racism. Owens can go kick rocks.
re: #301 Belafon
If poor and middle class whites suddenly stopped being racists, most importantly became aware of the tricks the rich use to divide them from minorities, there would be a large enough group that wants to solve the exact same problems that no amount of money would overcome the power of the group.
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If he hugs that flag any tighter he’s gonna have to pay it $130,000 in hush money. #CPAC19 pic.twitter.com/KevDFqWSk0
— Sky Palma (@DeadStateTweets) March 2, 2019
Wouldn’t you say hugging the flag is pure “virtue signaling”? I mean it’s a pretty empty gesture that the right seems to think makes him a super patriot for some reason.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) March 3, 2019
re: #115 HappyWarrior
My favorite Romney own was at one of the debates when Obama did a 360 between-the-legs dunk on Romney about the Navy. It was glorious.
re: #304 Ace-o-aces
It’s because we love this country that we hate a guy who dry humps the flag.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) March 3, 2019
re: #285 teleskiguy
I just had to dig them out to see which model they are. They’re the Super Karve, probably first or second generation from around 2001?
re: #306 Belafon
4 U.S. Code § 8(b):
“The flag should never touch anything beneath it” pic.twitter.com/pwW9XrtY4C— David Priess (@DavidPriess) March 3, 2019
re: #308 Interesting Times
Betsy Ross would be very upset at the way DT is touching the flag.
re: #225 The Vicious Babushka
The comments are killing me. Lol.
re: #304 Ace-o-aces
You should tell him that the same applies to how they hated President Obama. Look at how they treated the Obamas. Some nerve. We have actual reasons for hating Trump.
re: #277 The Vicious Babushka
Well credit scores are known to be a product of a racist system and continuously add to it.
— Somebody (@sogreat1989) March 2, 2019
That’s pretty easy. It starts with a name. Then it continues with look at where the person currently lives.
If you want to go see an interesting story, go look up the story of Cory Booker’s parents hiring a white couple to apply for a loan application.— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) March 3, 2019
re: #293 The Vicious Babushka
This tweet is a perfect example of why she’s a dangerous hack.
re: #284 The Vicious Babushka
I think Candace genuinely has mental issues.
re: #293 The Vicious Babushka
NY Times bears responsibility for normalizing this shit.
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1936:
Critics: “This Hitler guy is using hatred of Jews to promote violence! This is not going to lead anywhere good!”
NYT: “Oh, don’t worry about that, he just used the Jew hatred to get into power. We assure you it won’t go anywhere! Besides, he’s bringing Germany out of the Depression, returning it to the world stage!”
*9 years, 1 major war, and millions of deaths later*
NYT: “OMG! Who could have known what Hitler had planned!? We assure you, we never saw this coming, but we will be more vigilant in the future!”
1972:
WaPo: “There is increasing evidence that the White House, if not the president himself, was engaged in an illegal effort to wiretap the DNC HQ and then cover it up once they were caught.”
NYT: “We’ve been assured by the White House that our competitor’s reporting is bunk. I mean, who would believe the president engaged in such felonies?”
*1 year and a Watergate later*
NYT: “WOW! We never would have believed that Nixon would be involved in such a mess or forced to resign because of it! We assure our readers that we’ll be more careful about taking the White House at its word in the future.”
2003:
Critics: “Bush is lying us into a war! We know there are no WMDs because the inspectors have turned up nothing! A war would be costly in lives, spending, and prestige!”
NYT: “Hey, we’ve got the White House’s assurance that there are WMDs. Didn’t you see our reporting on aluminum tubing being sold to Iraq? THERE ARE WMDS!”
*1 war and a lot of BS later*
NYT: “Yeah, so…uhm…our bad. We totally dropped the ball there, but we assure folks that we meant well with our reporting. We’ll be more careful in the future to fact-check our writers…at least those we haven’t fired in disgrace.”
2016:
Critics: “There’s growing evidence that Trump may be involved with foreign agencies, if not Russia itself, to influence the election!”
NYT: “Look, we’ve been assured by the FBI that there’s nothing there. There’s nothing to all this Russia nonsense.”
*1 election and huge revelations later*
NYT: “STOP CRITICIZING US! WE’RE JOURNALISTS, YOU NEED TO RESPECT THAT!”
re: #307 KGxvi
I just had to dig them out to see which model they are. They’re the Super Karve, probably first or second generation from around 2001?
How long are they? They sold that model in a 198 cm. (!)
re: #315 Targetpractice
And yet they remain the “paper of record”
You people wanna talk about America could become Venezuela; fine, let’s talk about Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/dublLAwlWd
— Jessica Shortall (@jessicashortall) March 3, 2019
re: #316 teleskiguy
They’re on the long end. I’m right around 6’1”
Trump’s speech described as humorous and a positive vision? What in the blithering fuck??
re: #319 KGxvi
I’m guessing 188, ‘cause 198 in that model is for expert rippers. The shortest ski in that model was 178 cm, which by today’s ski design standards is a long ski.
We should all remember that, one way or another, Trump will not be in office forever. That he and his lying, corrupt progeny and acolytes will not have the protection of the office and power of the presidency forever.
And that revenge is a dish best eaten cold. pic.twitter.com/7CFJqqLMna— Dr. Tongue’s 3-D House of Resisters (@DrTongue803) March 3, 2019
re: #321 Patricia Kayden
Speaking of Osama, apparently his son is the new head honcho of Al-Qaeda.
re: #304 Ace-o-aces
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Something pathological about all these Trump and Bernie supporters on Twitter using stock photos of black models for their avi. It’s almost like they’re trying to compensate for something.
re: #324 Eclectic Cyborg
The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
re: #324 Eclectic Cyborg
Speaking of Osama, apparently his son is the new head honcho of Al-Qaeda.
Still safer than being the #2 guy.
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re: #323 Patricia Kayden
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The SDNY is gonna have agents waiting outside the White House gates with cuffs the day he leaves office.
re: #227 Belafon
If you get a chance, you should check out the first Fullmetal Alchemist- I starts out a bit slow, but gets real serious quickly.
I thought this was an old story since I remember reading it a while back. Nope, it’s from yesterday. It just happened again.
Gun slips from waistband, shoots man in genitals
While in the emergency room of Marion General Hospital, Mark Anthony Jones, 46, told police he was walking about 6:44 a.m. on a riverside trail when the gun began to slip from his waistband. He reached to adjust the firearm and it discharged.
“The bullet entered just above his penis and exited his scrotum,” said a Marion Police Department spokesperson.
The gun was not in a holster.
Marion police said Jones did not have a license for the Hi-Point 9mm gun he was carrying.
Grant County prosecutors will review the case to consider possible criminal charges.
How is connecting to people a fault? https://t.co/C1xktKxPVV
— Elizabeth Rogers (@ahumorlessfem) March 3, 2019
re: #331 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I thought this was an old story since I remember reading it a while back. Nope, it’s from
yesterday. It just happened again.
Gun slips from waistband, shoots man in genitals
Darwin strikes again.
re: #270 Belafon
From dailykos.com:
Remember all the Republican amendments to Obamacare that enough D’s supported to get added?
It still didn’t get a single Republican to vote for the finished bill. And it was no help at all to D’s in 2010.
re: #331 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I thought this was an old story since I remember reading it a while back. Nope, it’s from yesterday. It just happened again.
Gun slips from waistband, shoots man in genitals
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re: #274 teleskiguy
When you go to rent boots, tell them you want size 30 or 30.5. Ski boots don’t go by shoe sizes. And if you get into it, buy your own boots. Take some time with a good boot-fitter to figure out what boot works for you. Ski boots are 90% of the battle when it comes to finding enjoyment in skiing, it helps to have good well-fitting boots. My boot liners are heat-molded to my foot and I have a custom foot bed, as well as a certain model of boot because I have wide feet and some brands are wider/narrower than others, etc.
Whatever the sport…running, riding, skiing…always spend the money on your contact points. Nothing ruins a day like foot pain (or ass pain on a bike).
re: #330 uriel
If you get a chance, you should check out the first Fullmetal Alchemist- I starts out a bit slow, but gets real serious quickly.
I’ve seen it. I have to decide how many of the things I’ve seen I rewatch with each kid.
re: #329 Dave In Austin
Torbjörn Åhman is to Blacksmithing as Bob Ross was to painting. This guy is a craftsman extraordinaire. It’s an absolute joy to watch this guy move metal.
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Neat.
This guy is normally shooting black powder with that kind of calm demeanor. But this day he had to make something. You might enjoy it.
re: #298 KGxvi
Race and class in America are intertwined. Always have been. Solving one will likely solve the other. But I agree with you that solving the racism problem is probably the better route
The only thing that can “solve” the racism problem in America is indiscriminate fucking. Fortunately, humans are good at indiscriminate fucking.
re: #279 Charles Johnson
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My local left-leaning paper ran an AP report that called it “exasperated” and “improvisational.” The word “lie” wasn’t used once.
re: #287 KGxvi
Candace has no idea how many persons she tore her @ss with with her, “I’ve never been a slave, so there is no racism” comment. If this were really the case, why did she sue the mayor’s kid in Stamford for making racist comments about her? She’d sell her grandma for fame and fortune. I read her bio on Wikipedia and nothing is said about her parents at all. Usually, Wikipedia will at least mention persons’ parents’ names but that info is missing for lying @ss Candace Owens. I’m wondering whether she’s ashamed of them or they’re ashamed of her, and I’m leaning toward the latter being the case.