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Just took the last dose of antibiotic#2 and hoping chest will clear so I can get back to work on Monday.
UPDATED: WH has ignored more than a dozen requests for docs or info from top House Dem chairmen, Dems say. WH officials tell us that’s intentional. They see them as overreach. Buckle up! W/@jdawsey1 https://t.co/QSdzuAJCXz
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) March 20, 2019
#CindyYang has suffered from all kinds of shaming from the US public just because she’s an immigrant from Chinese mainland. This matter reflects how deep the discrimination and specific precautions against Chinese-Americans go in mainstream US society: @HuXijin_GT #VideoFromChina pic.twitter.com/Sr4pogSck3
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) March 19, 2019
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re: #3 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
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Uh no it’s because she’s a madam who profited from sex trafficking.
In case you’ve forgotten what a festering boil on the ass of the nation @AriFleischer was, this thread, where he continues to make excuses for Bush’s rush into an ill conceived war, will remind you. https://t.co/oi2lMVhU8s
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) March 20, 2019
My son died.
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) March 20, 2019
Actually the Office of Special Plans cooked the intelligence.
re: #7 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
Actually the Office of Special Plans cooked the intelligence.
Yes, well, Ari seems to have left that part out.
well…. lets break it down…..
did Allied forces find WMD…. no, no they did not
did the Administration knowingly manipulate the information presented to the public and our Allies to intimate that Hussein did have them…. yes, yes they did.
Did thousands of soldiers die on each side, yes they most certainly did.
perhaps Ari should be grateful that we were the “winners” and that the Hague decided that we shouldn’t try these people for crimes because they happened in the cause of removing a genocidal dictator.
him attempting to “set the record straight” is insulting at best and most people with any kind of ethical or moral foundation would have learned to stfu and perhaps dedicate themselves to good deeds rather than attempting to burnish their dumpster fire of a reputation.
re: #1 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just took the last dose of antibiotic#2 and hoping chest will clear so I can get back to work on Monday.
Just keep in mind that if you overdo you can set yourself back by weeks. Or worse.
re: #1 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just took the last dose of antibiotic#2 and hoping chest will clear so I can get back to work on Monday.
Hope it wasn’t Cipro. That stuff crippled me for three years—just now able to walk normally, more or less. All for an ear infection. Which I’ve still got.
re: #13 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Hope it wasn’t Cipro. That stuff crippled me for three years—just now able to walk normally, more or less. All for an ear infection. Which I’ve still got.
I cannot do Cipro. It left me with tendon damage in my ankles and shoulders.
They stated me with Amoxicillin and then added Vibratabs.
“Setting the record straight” in Fleischer-speak really means “Pass the buck.” Repeating the same post-invasion BS about how it had been the CIA’s fault that the White House had stumbled into a war over false pretenses, and even going further in suggesting that the “real liar” was Saddam for bullshitting intel agencies that he had or was acquiring WMDs.
Well hey, since we’re “setting the record straight,” let’s throw in some inconvenient truths, Ari. While the White House was making its case for war based upon what it later admitted was bullshit that it accused the CIA and our allies of feeding it, the UN was conducting inspections under the leadership of one Hans Blix. And Blix published the commission’s preliminary report just weeks before the invasion stating that none of the White House’s assertions could be proven. So desperate was the White House to get its war that the CIA was ordered by “senior administration officials” to dig up dirt on Blix to undermine his credibility.
And the committee that Fleischer is citing to accuse the intel community of being responsible for the rush to war? They not only cited that the infamous “salt-shaker of doom” speech and the fantasies about mobile bio-weapon labs was concocted by a single source, but that that source (“Curveball”) was never interviewed by the CIA and the Germans viewed him as “unreliable.” And the infamous “Saddam seeks yellow cake” accusation was supported by letters that were so fake that the committee pointed out there was no way a reasonable person could have been fooled.
(This is the point in the discussion where the wingnut pipes up with “Well, Saddam was a very bad man, so it’s good that Bush got rid of him!”)
You’re trying to pass the buck, in the hopes that you can influence how the GWB Administration will be remembered in the future.
Odds are that Administration will be remembered for being foolish and hasty.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 20, 2019
The History [sic] Channel, this time of year being Ishtar time, runs with religious shows to cater to the American religiosity, and do so also on their website:
Explore 10 Biblical Sites: Photos
At the end of the article they push their latest Je$u$ miniseries.
Pat Robertson announced that he and other Religious Right leaders are heading to D.C. to meet with Bolsonaro and pray for him. pic.twitter.com/lzuThFZvel
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 19, 2019
This is a real quote — from a person who is now employed by Bernie’s campaign. pic.twitter.com/2folxsNa1k
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) March 20, 2019
— Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) March 20, 2019
On the one hand I’m like “not today Satan” in regards to getting suckered into the 2020 bullshit this goddamned early. On the other hand I’m like “WOW, Bernie is hiring an AMAZING number of GIGANTIC assholes.”
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) March 20, 2019
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Putin and his tools now control 3 of the 5 largest countries in the world, nearly a quarter of the total land surface.
“It’s clear to me that Trump team had the ability to have my email hacked. It’s clear to me that they then tried to launder information from my hacked emails through other sources so that they could use it against me,” Jacobus explained.
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) March 20, 2019
I believe that not only did Trump know WikiLeaks had the hacked emails of his political ‘enemies’, but that it’s likely Trump and his associates arranged in advance to have the emails hacked, or at the very least were involved in the planning and coordination of the hackings
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) March 20, 2019
Through all of this I didn’t back down. I had no idea what Trump thugs were going to do to me next. At that time I knew I was up against some serious evil. Since that time we’ve all come to learn just how bad Trump is. I suspect there is much, much more to come. That terrifies me https://t.co/NufAkqaCxi
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) March 20, 2019
Last fall they informed me that this had gone beyond their initial investigation of mere computer intrusion (this particular division dealt with cyber crimes) and they were passing the information to the Special Counsel’s office.
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) March 20, 2019
Is this real or is she off her meds?
re: #23 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
It’s nice to know somebody got the joke.
Couldn’t see how that could possibly have been accidental.
siri what’s a circadian rhythm
— Bim Adewunmi (@bimadew) March 20, 2019
re: #24 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
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Is this real or is she off her meds?
Her career rank in Republican circles, and her ideological lane, were analogous to Nicole Wallace. Trump tried to browbeat her into joining his campaign mid-primaries, she turned him down, he lashed out.
The shit he put her through for daring to say no was analogous to his Twitter assaults and firing up the freaks that he did to Megan Kelly, but Cheri didn’t have the safe harbor and support that Kelly got from Fox. Cheri may have become crazy due to the stress of it all, but she didn’t used to be.
On the other hand… in that Twitter thread she quotes someone as “predicting” something that happened 3 years ago, so it’s hard to tell.
“The White House has not turned over a single piece of paper to our committee or made a single official available for testimony during the 116th Congress.”
This is truly extreme. Looks like subpoenas may be in order. https://t.co/R6KybjyM7j— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 20, 2019
re: #29 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
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Note: The San Jacinto Monument is 567 feet high.
How poisonous is the crap in that smoke? Does it stay aloft or fall to people-breathing level? And how many people live downwind?
re: #24 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
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Is this real or is she off her meds?
Color me embarrassed. In a fit of insomnia, I was reading this thread and became very confused by the whole Cheri Jacobus discussion. It took awhile before realizing it was Cheri Bustos, not Cheri Jacobus, who had been deluging me with emails on behalf of the Democratic Party in 2018.
re: #33 sagehen
How poisonous is the crap in that smoke? Does it stay aloft or fall to people-breathing level? And how many people live downwind?
Don’t worry; according to Rachel, officials say it’s safe as long as it remains elevated. What could go wrong? ///
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Is Pat and friends going to pray that he gives up being Catholic?
re: #33 sagehen
How poisonous is the crap in that smoke? Does it stay aloft or fall to people-breathing level? And how many people live downwind?
Everyone knows that burning hydrocarbons don’t cause any meaningful environmental effects or offer any health threats to humans.
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“The burning tanks held naphtha and xylene, fuels used in gasoline and plastics and toluene - a volatile liquid used to make nail polish remover and paint thinner. Other tanks held base oils commonly used as machine lubricants.”
Fire started in a leaking naphtha tank.
Not a fun mix to be burning and spread around, but I have to say that it could easily be worse since xylene exposure effects are apparently reversible and naphtha is fairly clean burning (a major component of “white gas” and Coleman fuel.) The Toluene is not fun either (unless you’re a glue sniffer I expect.) However, I don’t know what sort of by-products you get from burning these and since more than one of them are built around benzene-ring* bases I expect some of the “fallout” could prove to be fairly toxic.
* - Benzene is a base 6-carbon ring chemical. Not used much now for industrial purposes as compared to toluene since it’s rather toxic and a known carcinogenic. A sort of rule of thumb is that any chemical built around a benzene-ring base is something to watch out for in terms of toxicity.
(Layman level of knowledge here. Bit of chemistry training through college plus working for a chemical company for 20+ years that handled some of this stuff. I did IT work personally, but did work with our Health and Safety Department and the handling of MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) and the required placards for storage and transportation.)
re: #33 sagehen
How poisonous is the crap in that smoke? Does it stay aloft or fall to people-breathing level? And how many people live downwind?
If they are polycyclic hydrocarbon compounds then there is some health risk: en.wikipedia.org
If what is burning happens to be stock materials for plastics there are health risks.
There’s something masochistic about all of this.
re: #40 freetoken
There’s something masochistic about all of this.
Call it masochistic but also see that the EU wants to set an example for any other nations who would consider a Spexit or Italexit or Frexit or Grexit or Luxembexit, etc…
And there is not a lot of masochism involved in not rushing to the aid of someone who has knowingly and intentionally just slammed their dick in the door…
The temporal correlation of “Donald Trump” & “dickhead”. Created with the LGF Meme Machine https://t.co/OxdTOyskyE via @Green_Footballs pic.twitter.com/VhP2hanh2D
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 20, 2019
I was about to ask what that first graph was portraying…
We knew a fellow named Richard Head. (We came to call him “Heed”)
He had a brother whose first name I cannot even remember, as well all just called him “Lunk”.
I still remember Dick explaining to Lunk about how poetry works, and how song lyrics rhyme, “Like yesterDAY, all my troubles seemed so far AWAY!”
Lunk was amazed, he had never noticed that before…
re: #41 freetoken
I just got (getted) smarter. Thanks!
re: #46 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I just got (getted) smarter. Thanks!
I teach my students in Germany that if a verb is irregular in their language, it is most likely irregular in English as well:
schwimmen, schwamm, geschwommen
sinken, sank, gesunken
trinken, trank, getrunken,
bringen, brachte, gebracht,
andabingen, andabangen, andaboomen…
etc…
re: #15 Targetpractice
(This is the point in the discussion where the wingnut pipes up with “Well, Saddam was a very bad man, so it’s good that Bush got rid of him!”)
Or when GWB said: “He tried to kill my daddy!”
re: #48 Eric The Fruit Bat
(This is the point in the discussion where the wingnut pipes up with “Well, Saddam was a very bad man, so it’s good that Bush got rid of him!”)
A man so bad that we sold him weapons (including chemical weapons) when he was fighting Iran…
The latest in Brexshit news here.
Or, TL;DR version: O M N I S H A M B L E S
Seems like the UK is having a nervous breakdown of the first magnitude.
re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I teach my students in Germany that if a verb is irregular in their language, it is most likely irregular in English as well:
schwimmen, schwamm, geschwommen
sinken, sank, gesunken
trinken, trank, getrunken,
bringen, brachte, gebracht,
andabingen, andabangen, andaboomen…etc…
Most European languages have irregular verbs, AFAIK. Chinese has none, because verb tenses are indicated by context and adjacent words, not by changing the form of the verb itself.
re: #50 Dr Lizardo
The latest in Brexshit news here.
Or, TL;DR version: O M N I S H A M B L E S
Seems like the UK is having a nervous breakdown of the first magnitude.
Time to stick a fork in Brexit.
re: #52 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Time to stick a fork in Brexit.
Logically, yes - but they’re British and as I’ve said before, they’ll go down with the ship wearing their dress uniforms, lashed to the mainmast, whistling “Rule Britannia” as the waves close over them.
re: #50 Dr Lizardo
The latest in Brexshit news here.
Or, TL;DR version: O M N I S H A M B L E S
Seems like the UK is having a nervous breakdown of the first magnitude.
and again, The EU parliament elections are at the end of May, I cannot imagine the EU extending past that date, but now I cannot imagine them extending at all…
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and again, The EU parliament elections are at the end of May, I cannot imagine the EU extending past that date, but now I cannot imagine them extending at all…
Yep - election billboards and posters are already going up here in Czech Republic.
I can only imagine the exasperation the EU must have with regard to this whole fiasco.
re: #55 Dr Lizardo
Yep - election billboards and posters are already going up here in Czech Republic.
I can only imagine the exasperation the EU must have with regard to this whole fiasco.
They tried to be reasonable but were dealing with a petulant child.
re: #21 goddamnedfrank
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re: #36 Feline Fearless Leader
Is Pat and friends going to pray that he gives up being Catholic?
IIRC Bolsonaro is Evangelical himself unlike most Brazilians.
re: #53 Dr Lizardo
Logically, yes - but they’re British and as I’ve said before, they’ll go down with the ship wearing their dress uniforms, lashed to the mainmast, whistling “Rule Britannia” as the waves close over them.
Stiff upper lip, old boy!
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They tried to be reasonable but were dealing with a petulant child.
Brexit now stands revealed for what it always was: the UK throwing a nostalgia-tinted temper tantrum.
And those red, white and blue unicorns the Brexiteers were selling have been revealed to be decrepit, arthritic Shetland ponies with ice cream cones glued to their heads.
re: #60 Dr Lizardo
Brexit now stands revealed for what it always was: the UK throwing a nostalgia-tinted temper tantrum.
And those red, white and blue unicorns the Brexiteers were selling have been revealed to be decrepit, arthritic Shetland ponies with ice cream cones glued to their heads.
Cake is an eat-or-have proposition.
EU will not allow free movement of goods and capital without free movement of people.
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Cake is an eat-or-have proposition.
EU will not allow free movement of goods and capital without free movement of people.
Of course not. But the British convinced themselves they were somehow “special” and that such matters really only concerned those Johnny Foreigner types, what with their funny languages and all.
Unadulterated hubris.
re: #62 Dr Lizardo
Of course not. But the British convinced themselves they were somehow “special” and that such matters really only concerned those Johnny Foreigner types, what with their funny languages and all.
Unadulterated hubris.
and that hubris led them to think that the EU would give them a sweetheart deal.
instead of realizing that they would be made an example of
Here’s PM May’s letter to the EU requesting an Article 50 extension.
BREAKING: PM letter to @eucopresident pic.twitter.com/px8oCsefnh
— Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) March 20, 2019
Most likely, it’s DOA. But with politics, you never know…….
re: #58 HappyWarrior
IIRC Bolsonaro is Evangelical himself unlike most Brazilians.
Central and South America have been evolving into a more Evangelical society and less homogenous Catholic. It is something to be concerned about.
re: #65 Rocky-in-Connecticut
Central and South America have been evolving into a more Evangelical society and less homogenous Catholic. It is something to be concerned about.
Evangelicals have also been growing in Africa. It’s definitely behind the violent homophobia. There was a documentary I saw on Uganda that showed how people like Scott Lively pray on the existing homophobia and make it worse.
re: #64 Dr Lizardo
Here’s PM May’s letter to the EU requesting an Article 50 extension.
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Most likely, it’s DOA. But with politics, you never know…….
Very likely DOA for one simple reason: May refuses to budge an inch from her position. She refuses to acknowledge that the deal is dead and is instead talking about gaming the system to get it to a third vote. It’s just not going to work, certainly not in 3 months.
re: #67 Targetpractice
Very likely DOA for one simple reason: May refuses to budge an inch from her position. She refuses to acknowledge that the deal is dead and is instead talking about gaming the system to get it to a third vote. It’s just not going to work, certainly not in 3 months.
At this point, I think a lot of people are reduced to hoping that at the last possible second, she pulls the plug on Brexit and revokes Article 50…..and there’s ongoing debate as to whether she can do that unilaterally without having to put it to a vote in Parliament.
But of course, if she were to do that - revoke Article 50 at the last moment, followed by her immediate resignation and calling for a new General Election, it goes without saying the Tories would be utterly destroyed in such a scenario. So then it becomes what’s more important to her? Her party or her country?
Guess we’ll see.
re: #68 Dr Lizardo
At this point, I think a lot of people are reduced to hoping that at the last possible second, she pulls the plug on Brexit and revokes Article 50…..and there’s ongoing debate as to whether she can do that unilaterally without having to put it to a vote in Parliament.
But of course, if she were to do that - revoke Article 50 at the last moment, followed by her immediate resignation and calling for a new General Election, it goes without saying the Tories would be utterly destroyed in such a scenario. So then it becomes what’s more important to her? Her party or her country?
Guess we’ll see.
I’m leaning towards her allowing a hard Brexit to happen if the EU doesn’t come to her rescue, which is what she’s really begging them to do by making this all about her efforts to ram her deal through Parliament. She really is making the absolute worst case she can for granting an extension.
re: #11 piratedan
well…. lets break it down…..
did Allied forces find WMD…. no, no they did not
did the Administration knowingly manipulate the information presented to the public and our Allies to intimate that Hussein did have them…. yes, yes they did.Did thousands of soldiers die on each side, yes they most certainly did.
perhaps Ari should be grateful that we were the “winners” and that the Hague decided that we shouldn’t try these people for crimes because they happened in the cause of removing a genocidal dictator.
him attempting to “set the record straight” is insulting at best and most people with any kind of ethical or moral foundation would have learned to stfu and perhaps dedicate themselves to good deeds rather than attempting to burnish their dumpster fire of a reputation.
I still remember watching Fox News when they did a Breaking, breathless news break-in because somebody out in a field had found some musty old chemical weapons shells that had likely been buried since the end of the Iraq/Iran war.
re: #69 Targetpractice
And the EU says:
The European commission opposes extending British membership of the European Union to June 30 as British prime minister Theresa May proposed on Wednesday, according to an EU document seen by Reuters.
In a note on the Brexit process reviewed by the commission at its weekly meeting on Wednesday, officials wrote that leaders meeting May at a summit on Thursday faced a “binary” choice of a short delay of Brexit from March 29 to before May 23 or a long delay to at least the end of this year, with Britain obliged to hold an election on May 23 for European parliament lawmakers.
“Any extension offered to the United Kingdom should either last until 23 May 2019 or should be significantly longer and require European elections,” the document said. “This is the only way of protecting the functioning of the EU institutions and their ability to take decisions.”
EU states which were due to receive additional legislative seats after Brexit would need to know by mid- to late April if they would be denied those seats because Britain was staying.
The note also said that in any extended membership, Britain should, “in a spirit of loyal cooperation”, commit to “constructive abstention” on key issues, such as the EU’s long-term budget and filling top EU posts after the May election.
re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Call it masochistic but also see that the EU wants to set an example for any other nations who would consider a Spexit or Italexit or Frexit or Grexit or Luxembexit, etc…
And there is not a lot of masochism involved in not rushing to the aid of someone who has knowingly and intentionally just slammed their dick in the door…
England: We’ve decided we don’t need our right foot, so we’re going to cut it off.
EU: You shouldn’t do that.
England: We’ve set a date on cutting off our foot.
EU: Well, you can’t play football without two feet, so you’re going to have to leave the league.
England: Can’t you just make an exception for us.
EU: No.
England: If you’re not going to make an exception for us, we’ll cut off our right foot just to show you who’s boss.
re: #33 sagehen
How poisonous is the crap in that smoke? Does it stay aloft or fall to people-breathing level? And how many people live downwind?
No smoke of any kind is safe. It indicates incomplete combustion of organic compounds, which leads to particulates and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH).
re: #64 Dr Lizardo
Here’s PM May’s letter to the EU requesting an Article 50 extension.
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Most likely, it’s DOA. But with politics, you never know…….
TL,DR version: Dear EU, we can’t get our shit together.
re: #72 Belafon
England: We’ve decided we don’t need our right foot, so we’re going to cut it off.
EU: You shouldn’t do that.
England: We’ve set a date on cutting off our foot.
EU: Well, you can’t play football without two feet, so you’re going to have to leave the league.
England: Can’t you just make an exception for us.
EU: No.
England: If you’re not going to make an exception for us, we’ll cut off our right foot just to show you who’s boss.
England: We’re going to cut off one foot so we will be Independent of you with two feets.
EU: That…doesn’t sound like a good idea.
England: Make us a good deal so we can cut off our foot to please the four fingers of the one hand that are demanding we cut off our one foot.
EU: ….
England: OK, we’re still figuring out how we’re going to cut off our one foot and which foot it will be.
EU: …..
re: #40 freetoken
There’s something masochistic about all of this.
Who wants to bet that at the end of three months they will be no closer to squaring the circle than they are now?
re: #71 Dr Lizardo
And the EU says:
England: We want to quit you heathen hordes of Islams and non-English.
EU: OK
England: Well, can you wait a few minutes…we need some more time.
EU: ….
re: #76 Sir John Barron
England: We’re going to cut off one foot so we will be Independent of you with two feets.
EU: That…doesn’t sound like a good idea.
England: Make us a good deal so we can cut off our foot to please the four fingers of the one hand that are demanding we cut off our one foot.
EU: ….
England: OK, we’re still figuring out how we’re going to cut off our one foot and which foot it will be.
EU: …..
England: Can’t you give us more time to cut off our foot?
EU: Maybe just don’t cut off your foot.
England: We have to. We’re the British. We never back down from a promise.
EU: But it wasn’t a promise, it was a —
England: Nope, have to do it.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Had a lovely commute this morning… saw a young bald eagle hanging out along the Hackensack River… which reminded me of the pair of bald eagles I saw this past weekend in South Jersey. Aw… nice.
And then the conductor got on to tell folks to be considerate of each other after someone knocked someone else over in the rush to get on the train.
Ah… that’s the NYC metro area I’m accustomed to.
Trump is busy with kayfabe, making up a conflict with Conway. All the while, his admin continues doing incalculable damage to the nation and the media/twitter attention is on this nonsense.
Today would be a good day for Trump to release his tax returns.
It’d also be a good day for Sanders to do the same.
They’re flip sides of the same awful coin.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 20, 2019
Where are the goddamned tax returns to see who owns Trump and for that matter Sanders.
Now that Sanders has gotten the Greenwald wing of berniebros in the fold, it’s clear that he’s not out to help Democrats one iota, but to help himself. He’s a chaos agent, just like Trump - only he’s taking it from the left side.
According to Wiki, the EU even has contingency plans to include UK in the upcoming elections if they back out of Brexiting, but as mentioned above, that clock will expire in April as the seats will have to be redistributed by then.
I wonder how many Brexit leavers voted in the EU parliament elections…and I wonder how many of them were even aware of such a thing…
re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nigel Farage will be out of a job when he loses his European Parliament seat.
Ah but he has nothing to worry ‘bout because his pal SCREWPERT Murdoch will have something waiting for him at Fox.
Maybe he’ll get the director seat right next to Lyin’ Ryan!
re: #24 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
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Is this real or is she off her meds?
Is this “stuck ‘r’ computer lady convinced aliens are working her computer,” or someone new?
Trump’s approval rating by religious group. No surprises here.
% who approve of the job Trump is doing as president (aggregated data 2017-2019):Mormons 52%Jews 24%Muslims 18%https://t.co/5PYisryn7g
— Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) March 20, 2019
Evangelical Christians are the ones backing Trump with the highest approval ratings. Guess their religious beliefs in the End Times would be hastened with a guy like Trump. Every other group is at or underwater.
Jews give Trump a 24% approval. Muslims just 18%.
What possible chain of events would allow for Labour to take control of the Brexit negotiations and negotiate a completely new deal before the end of June? What planet are these politicians inhabiting? I just can’t understand it. https://t.co/LpWVvHkOXi
— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) March 20, 2019
cc: @SenGillibrand
I know they’re well meaning, but totally misguided approach to a cast-iron limit.
Suggestion: go after Purdue for lying to get FDA approval for long term use of oxycontin (and generic equivalents), and then black box it so it only gets limited usage. https://t.co/31M83JV8K9— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 20, 2019
re: #84 lawhawk
Trump’s approval rating by religious group. No surprises here.
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Evangelical Christians are the ones backing Trump with the highest approval ratings. Guess their religious beliefs in the End Times would be hastened with a guy like Trump. Every other group is at or underwater.
Jews give Trump a 24% approval. Muslims just 18%.
He’s losing ground with everyone.
re: #84 lawhawk
Trump’s approval rating by religious group. No surprises here.
Evangelical Christians are the ones backing Trump with the highest approval ratings. Guess their religious beliefs in the End Times would be hastened with a guy like Trump. Every other group is at or underwater.
Jews give Trump a 24% approval. Muslims just 18%.
And only 20% of us athiests support him. Considering all the dudebros in the group, I expected it to be much higher.
European Commission memo:
- EU27 face a binary choice: short extension until 23 May or long extension beyond 23 May
- EU27 should envisage a single extension not multiple extensions
- Extra time cannot be used to renegotiate Withdrawal Agreement. That package is now closed— Alberto Nardelli (@AlbertoNardelli) March 20, 2019
Looks like it’s Britain’s move next.
re: #84 lawhawk
Jews give Trump a 24% approval. Muslims just 18%.
But the Jexodus has just begun, to be followed by the Jihexodus…
re: #91 Dr Lizardo
There’s zero chance May will be any more successful with this extension to get to Brexit than in past 2 years.
The problem is no one actually wants it now that it’s a real possibility because the damage would be significant to British economy. Proponents lied to pass it.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 20, 2019
May and the Brexiteers are still fooked (legal term).
The consideration of an extension will not change the underlying facts, which is that Brexit would be a disaster for the UK, weaken the EU, and screw the British economy for years to come. This was all a ruse to undermine the British economy/government and the EU. There are no benefits to exiting. None. There’s not a single benefit the Brexiteers can point to. Nothing. It’s not enhancing sovereignty or “sovereignty”. It’s not going to make it any easier to control immigration either.
Putin, on the other hand, is laughing gleefully at this turn of events. He’s got his US and European rivals in chaos with minimal effort. It doesn’t matter if Mueller comes out with a check with Putin’s signature on it in Trump’s bank accounts. Putin has gotten what he wanted.
re: #53 Dr Lizardo
Logically, yes - but they’re British and as I’ve said before, they’ll go down with the ship wearing their dress uniforms, lashed to the mainmast, whistling “Rule Britannia” as the waves close over them.
Not so much in Scotland (or for that matter, Northern Ireland), but I see what you mean.
re: #83 steve_davis
Is this “stuck ‘r’ computer lady convinced aliens are working her computer,” or someone new?
No, that was Charyl Atkisson. Jacobus is someone different. Her claim to fame is getting fired by USA Today after going after Michael Caputo on Twitter. She alleges he was DMing her, urging her to kill herself.
re: #94 lawhawk
And it looks like France’s patience has pretty much run out.
It looks like this is being taken out of the Prime Minister’s hands. Emanuel Macron of France has said enough is enough, he will oppose any extension of Article 50 in Council tomorrow: https://t.co/oq6BhU2ZmJ
— Paul Sweeney MP (@PaulJSweeney) March 20, 2019
I don’t know how you’d say, “President Macron has no fucks to give” in French, but that’s pretty much what it boils down to.
re: #95 Alephnaught
Not so much in Scotland (or for that matter, Northern Ireland), but I see what you mean.
One major reason that Scotland voted against independence in 2014 is that it would have left them stranded outside the EU with no guarantee of being accepted back in…
re: #97 Dr Lizardo
And it looks like France’s patience has pretty much run out.
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I don’t know how you’d say, “President Macron has no fucks to give” in French, but that’s pretty much what it boils down to.
My kids tell me that modern French slag is “flemme” (or something sounding like that) which means, “I cannot be fucking bothered”
re: #97 Dr Lizardo
And it looks like France’s patience has pretty much run out.
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I don’t know how you’d say, “President Macron has no fucks to give” in French, but that’s pretty much what it boils down to.
That’s pretty much how French-British relations have been since, oh, 1066 or so.
re: #15 Targetpractice
“Setting the record straight” in Fleischer-speak really means “Pass the buck.” Repeating the same post-invasion BS about how it had been the CIA’s fault that the White House had stumbled into a war over false pretenses, and even going further in suggesting that the “real liar” was Saddam for bullshitting intel agencies that he had or was acquiring WMDs.
…..
(This is the point in the discussion where the wingnut pipes up with “Well, Saddam was a very bad man, so it’s good that Bush got rid of him!”)
This is why I yell “WTF” at Rachel Maddow whenever she’s slobbering all over Nicole Wallace as her “good friend with whom I have disagreements with.” That goddamn woman helped Bush and Cheney facilitate the needless deaths of thousands of Americans, and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
Yet Maddow and MSNBC just want to hug it out with these geniuses for their “expertise”.
re: #21 goddamnedfrank
I literally do not understand this. Is Gray saying that just because a white person uses an ignorant racial slur, we shouldn’t assume they’re racist? Or that if a black person does use it, it’s a Magic Balance Fairy issue?
Jesus fucking Christ, I’m really beginning to detest the Bernie-acs. I’d send this to the Bernie Bro I muted on Facebook and ask him to explain, but I’m trying to cut down on the conspiracy theorists in my life and their asinine delusions.
Analysis: Bernie is most popular when it doesn’t matter.
Polls show Bernie Sanders popularity among all voters is plummeting
re: #102 Mattand
I literally do not understand this. Is Gray saying that just because a white person uses an ignorant racial slur, we shouldn’t assume they’re racist? Or that if black person does use it, it’s Magic Balance Fairy issue?
Jesus fucking Christ, I’m really beginning to detest the Bernie-acs. I’d send this to the Bernie Bro I muted on Facebook and ask him to explain, but I’m trying to cut down on the conspiracy theorists in my life and their asinine delusions.
I was reading Twitter threads last night about how fucked up his hires are, and they were filled with Bros, all with that same smug-ass attitude that they’ve got it all figured out and we ‘centrists’ are just stupid stupidheads who just are too stupid to see the genius of St. Bernie. With a heaping side order of whataboutism and condescension. Gets tiring in about 10 seconds. Fuck ‘em all.
re: #107 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Bernie is past his sell-by date by three years. He’s going to try to be the next Harold Stassen.
We real Archaeo-progressives tend to think of Gus Hall.
re: #102 Mattand
I literally do not understand this. Is Gray saying that just because a white person uses an ignorant racial slur, we shouldn’t assume they’re racist? Or that if a black person does use it, it’s a Magic Balance Fairy issue?
Jesus fucking Christ, I’m really beginning to detest the Bernie-acs. I’d send this to the Bernie Bro I muted on Facebook and ask him to explain, but I’m trying to cut down on the conspiracy theorists in my life and their asinine delusions.
No, she’s saying that we should feel bad if the person using the slur is “economically anxious.” That’s crap. Poverty isn’t an excuse for being a racist and she knows it. And yeah I am too. I’m tired of Bernie and his surrogates who are even worse because they’re who he will surround himself if he is nominated or elected. Bernie with halfway decent surrogates would be tolertable but with people like Gray, Sirota, and others, frankly he has become a left wing Trump, a man who surrounds himself only with those who praise him.
re: #107 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Bernie is past his sell-by date by three years. He’s going to try to be the next Harold Stassen.
At least Harold Strassen had accomplished things as Governor of Minnesota before he decided to run in every GOP primary.
re: #109 HappyWarrior
No, she’s saying that we should feel bad if the person using the slur is “economically anxious.” That’s crap. Poverty isn’t an excuse for being a racist and she knows it.
Easier to blame someone’s poverty on minorities than on poor government and poor economic management
re: #105 makeitstop
I was reading Twitter threads last night about how fucked up his hires are, and they were filled with Bros, all with that same smug-ass attitude that they’ve got it all figured out and we ‘centrists’ are just stupid stupidheads who just are too stupid to see the genius of St. Bernie. With a heaping side order of whataboutism and condescension. Gets tiring in about 10 seconds. Fuck ‘em all.
Yeah I saw them in Imani and Marcus’s threads. But you know what, this is why Bernie won’t and can’t win. He has no way of spreading his brand out. His hope is I think to get lucky like Trump did and emerge in a battered field. And you know what, Bernie may yet beat Trump but Bernie would be a disaster as POTUS for the same reason Trump is. There’s no leadership skills in the man.
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Easier to blame someone’s poverty on minorities than on poor government and poor economic management
Right and Bernie and Gray and the other bros are happy to cosign off on that. My ancestors were poor. It wasn’t because of racial minorities. Racial minorities hell had it worse. Sure my grandmother and grandfather got some flack for being “Hunkies” but neither were ever turned away at a restaurant or had people in their group murdered for trying to participate in our Democracy.
re: #110 HappyWarrior
Bernie is most popular when he’s an abstraction. Pure and simple.
Bernie was most popular before voters started getting to know the dozen+ other candidates who are vibrant and a lot younger and not Hillary.
re: #115 Belafon
His followers are annoying, but I’m not worried about him as a candidate.
Bernie can stay or go, but we need the bulk of his sane supporters, now and in the long-term.
The richness to me is for Sanders supporters to say Beto is all talk and no action. Well guys, tell me about the legislation that Bernie Sanders has passed into law since 1990. He right now is the longest tenured elected official running for POTUS but you’d never know it since he’s framed wrongly as this outsider who is trying to fix the system. Dare I say, politicians like Bernie are part of the problem and why Americans embrace outsiders like the Tea Partiers who are able to give some bs abstraction about the role of government to voters.
re: #116 Hecuba’s daughter
Bernie was most popular before voters started getting to know the dozen+ other candidates who are vibrant and a lot younger and not Hillary.
That’s what I mean. He’s popular as an idea and that’s it. Other people offer their ideas and he’s just another guy. He benefited so much from HRC hate three years ago.
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Easier to blame someone’s poverty on minorities than on poor government and poor economic management
Lyndon Johnson’s old line about how the poor can be manipulated by the powerful into voting against their own interests:
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Of course, the Trump supporters I know are not poor — just racist, though they would deny if asked directly.
Happy #NationalRavioliDay I made a bunch of Kreplach! pic.twitter.com/C3f0ALxu8o
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 20, 2019
re: #117 Decatur Deb
Bernie can stay or go, but we need the bulk of his sane supporters, now and in the long-term.
Agree. I think that those supporters will find their number two if he starts slipping behind in the rankings.
re: #94 lawhawk
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May and the Brexiteers are still fooked (legal term).
The consideration of an extension will not change the underlying facts, which is that Brexit would be a disaster for the UK, weaken the EU, and screw the British economy for years to come. This was all a ruse to undermine the British economy/government and the EU. There are no benefits to exiting. None. There’s not a single benefit the Brexiteers can point to. Nothing. It’s not enhancing sovereignty or “sovereignty”. It’s not going to make it any easier to control immigration either.
Putin, on the other hand, is laughing gleefully at this turn of events. He’s got his US and European rivals in chaos with minimal effort. It doesn’t matter if Mueller comes out with a check with Putin’s signature on it in Trump’s bank accounts. Putin has gotten what he wanted.
I think you’re quite right about the economic aspects of Brexit (I.e. train wreck), but -even if only from what I’ve read in UK media. - that there “are no benefits to exiting” is, at best, a 50-50 proposal. And the Leave 50% are much the angrier and noisier half: at least of the political class: checking, frex, BBC, on May’s extension request, ones sees numerous irate statements from Brexiteer MPs shrilling away about ”betrayal of democracy”, etc.: economic self-interest doesn’t always come into play when “overriding principles” (prejudices, mostly) come into play.
Mental health counselor Jeffrey Guterman sees the growing number of mental health professionals saying that Trump is a malignant narcissist, then raises by adding an extra layer of ickyness to the mix.
I believe tRump has met #DSM5 criteria for mental disorders, including Adderall abuse, personality disorders, pedophilia, and #frotteurism. tRump needs an independent & comprehensive evaluation. His illnesses don’t exonerate him of crimes. See my article on frotteurism. pic.twitter.com/FHsNi7Np6M
— Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) March 20, 2019
Remember his little dance with the chair during the debate? Yeah, that.
re: #105 makeitstop
I was reading Twitter threads last night about how fucked up his hires are, and they were filled with Bros, all with that same smug-ass attitude that they’ve got it all figured out and we ‘centrists’ are just stupid stupidheads who just are too stupid to see the genius of St. Bernie. With a heaping side order of whataboutism and condescension. Gets tiring in about 10 seconds. Fuck ‘em all.
I got tired in the last election of being told you can’t be a real Leftist if you don’t support Bernie. Fuck him, fuck his bros, where the fuck are your tax forms you pretend left wing trump?
re: #124 makeitstop
There have been many cases of men in crowded subways in Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan and China (perhaps elsewhere) rubbing against schoolgirls and even groping them under their skirts.
When the kids change the names on the bowling scoreboard pic.twitter.com/MizPcDo4Bw
— DefamatoryCowHat (@Popehat) March 20, 2019
re: #125 William Lewis
I got tired in the last election of being told you can’t be a real Leftist if you don’t support Bernie. Fuck him, fuck his bros, where the fuck are your tax forms you pretend left wing trump?
The more I see from him the more I conclude your belief that he’s just as bigoted as Trump. He just hides it better. And yeah fuck anyone who uses criticism of him to question the left/liberalism of anyone. I like the idea of having a nominee who wasn’t praised by Steve King on immigration.
re: #126 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
There have been many cases of men in crowded subways in Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan and China (perhaps elsewhere) rubbing against schoolgirls and even groping them under their skirts.
Yeah, I’ve seen it happen on NYC subways. Fuckin’ gross.
re: #66 HappyWarrior
Evangelicals have also been growing in Africa. It’s definitely behind the violent homophobia. There was a documentary I saw on Uganda that showed how people like Scott Lively pray on the existing homophobia and make it worse.
Morning! (I think…)
Evangelicals are basically religious drug addicts. They are so full of “the spirit” they can’t think straight and do crazy stuff that affects everyone around them in their fervor to spread the word. They don’t take no for an answer either, it is their way (God’s way they think) or no way.
Remember how the police used to fear the THC (animal tranquilizer) guys they would come across that were so crazed on T they didn’t know their own strength, didn’t feel pain, etc., so they were hard to bring down? To me many evangelicals act almost the same way.
News from the pandemic lobby:
Italian Politician Who Opposed Mandatory Chickenpox Vaccine Sickened With Chickenpox
An Italian politician who vocally opposed a new law making some childhood vaccinations mandatory was recently hospitalized after contracting chickenpox.
Massimiliano Fedriga, a senior member of the far-right League party, was placed under observation for four days earlier this month after contracting the vaccine-preventable disease, local news outlets reported.
Unvaccinated teen sues health department amid chickenpox outbreak:
A Kentucky family is suing their health department because of an issue with the chickenpox vaccine.
Bill Kunkel says his son Jerome, 18, is being discriminated against because of his religious beliefs regarding a vaccine for chickenpox.
Jerome is a student at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart/Assumption Academy in Walton, Kentucky.
The school was recently the site of a chickenpox outbreak, and extra precautions to stop the spread of the illness were put in place.
A pox on both their houses!
re: #73 jeffreyw
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Good morning!
Oh dear! Someone is playing peek-a-boo. Fun image.
Humans are just goddamn weird: Inside the Super Positive Community of Competitive YouTube Water Drinkers
Harchick is the godfather of “the Drinkers”—a niche community of YouTubers who just… drink water. (The bleach stunt was just a one-off.) The Drinkers’ channels are simple and the videos short—typically clocking in at under a minute. Most channel’s just feature video after video after video of the YouTuber looking at the camera, pouring a glass of water or taking the top off a bottle, and slamming that H2O— that’s it. At times the number of these videos per channel can climb well into the thousands.
Day in, day out, they drink water and upload the videos in a numbered order. For many—whether it be an outlet of artistic expression, a sense of calming control, or just the thrill of the competition—it plays an important role in their life.
“I’m dating a girl now and it came up in the first 10 minutes we were talking—like, it’s pretty important to me,” Harchick told VICE. “It’s something I think about a lot. We went on a trip, we went to a hotel and one of the things I was most excited about is there was a brand of water in the hotel room that I had never tasted before.
“Like, there is a camera set up in my room at all time just to film me drinking water.”
re: #91 Dr Lizardo
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Looks like it’s Britain’s move next.
If the EU takes that stance, and the Speaker of Parliament refuses to allow another vote on May’s deal as he has stated, the only options left are either a hard Brexit or a long delay.
re: #105 makeitstop
I was reading Twitter threads last night about how fucked up his hires are, and they were filled with Bros, all with that same smug-ass attitude that they’ve got it all figured out and we ‘centrists’ are just stupid stupidheads who just are too stupid to see the genius of St. Bernie. With a heaping side order of whataboutism and condescension. Gets tiring in about 10 seconds. Fuck ‘em all.
I commented last night Bernie putting all of these Berniacs in place in his campaign is not going to work. They will fight with each other for Bernie’s attention and favor and Bernie won’t be able to control it and it will screw up his inner workings.
I think that is why Tad Devine and his group backed away from the campaign. I think Devine is savvy enough to see it was going to be unworkable.
An all-ego campaign is all it is. I sure hope it gets shot down fast.
re: #97 Dr Lizardo
And it looks like France’s patience has pretty much run out.
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I don’t know how you’d say, “President Macron has no fucks to give” in French, but that’s pretty much what it boils down to.
It appears, if Macron isn’t going to back down, that he is forcing the UK into a hard Brexit.
WUT
BREAKING: Alva Johnson, woman who accused Trump of sexual misconduct, will reportedly release censored screenshots of Trump’s genitals with texts threatening to “totally ruin her” from 2010. pic.twitter.com/KhZwBYbm0t
— Righteous Democrat 🎺🦅🇺🇸 (@RighteousDem) March 20, 2019
re: #120 Hecuba’s daughter
Lyndon Johnson’s old line about how the poor can be manipulated by the powerful into voting against their own interests:
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Of course, the Trump supporters I know are not poor — just racist, though they would deny if asked directly.
Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson explicitly peddle the “white genocide” conspiracy theory which motivated the massacres in New Zealand and Pittsburgh. They just call it “demographic change” to retain a shred of deniability that they are white supremacists.
re: #138 HappyWarrior
Well there goes my appetite.
Definitely in the Top 2 of Things I Could Go The Rest of my Life Without Seeing.
re: #121 The Vicious Babushka
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They look very much like pierogi.
There was a need for every culture to have some kind of stuff folded noodle/dumpling.
re: #141 ObserverArt
They look very much like pierogi.
There was a need for very culture to have some kind of stuff folded noodle/dumpling.
Jesus, I thought this was an answer to the Trump’s genitals tweet for a second.
re: #139 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson explicitly peddle the “white genocide” conspiracy theory which motivated the massacres in New Zealand and Pittsburgh. They just call it “demographic change” to retain a shred of deniability that they are white supremacists.
Yep. It’s pretty much a more socially acceptable version of what David Duke has been doing. Fermenting fear of changing demos to people threatened by change.
re: #142 makeitstop
Jesus, I thought this was an answer to the Trump’s genitals tweet for a second.
Don’t you dare compare the awesomeness that is pierogis to Trump’s junk!
re: #141 ObserverArt
They look very much like pierogi.
Jesus—I thought you were commenting on the Trump Junk threadlet.
re: #141 ObserverArt
They look very much like pierogi.
There was a need for very culture to have some kind of stuff folded noodle/dumpling.
They’re perfect comfort food. Pierogis are my favorite for obvious reason of the noodle dumpling family. And you’re right, everyone seems to have a variant of them.
re: #142 makeitstop
Jesus, I thought this was an answer to the Trump’s genitals tweet for a second.
LOL—we even used the same expletive.
re: #123 Jay C
I think you’re quite right about the economic aspects of Brexit (I.e. train wreck), but -even if only from what I’ve read in UK media. - that there “are no benefits to exiting” is, at best, a 50-50 proposal. And the Leave 50% are much the angrier and noisier half: at least of the political class: checking, frex, BBC, on May’s extension request, ones sees numerous irate statements from Brexiteer MPs shrilling away about ”betrayal of democracy”, etc.: economic self-interest doesn’t always come into play when “overriding principles” (prejudices, mostly) come into play.
This can work both ways.
A couple years ago I got into an argument with a friend about Hitler; he contended that if the Hitler regime had allowed truly free election in 1938, Hitler would have won because his administration had turned the economy around from the basket case it was prior to 1933. They wouldn’t care that others were being harmed or being demonized because they were finally doing well. The real heart of this discussion was actually Trump — and my friend’s belief that if the economy were doing well, he would be reelected. I remain hopeful that American will prove to be better than this — that they will look beyond their immediate economic well-being and instead focus on what’s best for the long run and will reject hatred.
Also note, even though the British economy was doing well, there were many who were left behind and truly experiencing economic angst. Not everyone prospers under the new economic order.
re: #140 makeitstop
Definitely in the Top 2 of Things I Could Go The Rest of my Life Without Seeing.
Number two is Trump without a shirt.
re: #144 HappyWarrior
Don’t you dare compare the awesomeness that is pierogis to Trump’s junk!
My deepest apologies.
re: #137 The Vicious Babushka
BREAKING: Alva Johnson, woman who accused Trump of sexual misconduct, will reportedly release censored screenshots of Trump’s genitals with texts threatening to “totally ruin her” from 2010.
“Are those thumbnail shots or actual size?”
re: #150 makeitstop
My deepest apologies.
Heh I’m just ribbing. Honestly I imagine it as a mini Oscar Mayer wiener that was dropped on the dirty floor
re: #138 HappyWarrior
Well there goes my appetite.
I wasn’t planning on having any cocktail weenies…
re: #155 HappyWarrior
Heh I’m just ribbing. Honestly I imagine it as a mini Oscar Mayer wiener that was dropped on the dirty floor
I’m just going to go read the story about people drinking water again.
re: #159 makeitstop
I’m just going to go read the story about people drinking water again.
Yeah I’ll stop lol.
re: #161 ObserverArt
Get yer minds out of the gutters boys!
As Freud said: Sometime a cigar is only a cigar.
You’re confusing your presidents.
re: #161 ObserverArt
Get yer minds out of the gutters boys!
As Freud said: Sometime a cigar is only a cigar.
A stumpy, misshapen, ugly as fuck cigar.
re: #137 The Vicious Babushka
WUT
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What does Trump look like.
It’s small. Orange. And now…. eye bleach.
re: #165 Decatur Deb
A pierogi is not a Parodi
This thread is brightening my day in a slightly sickening manner.
re: #165 Decatur Deb
A pierogi is not a Parodi
Ouzo know what… I don’t care if you lasagne on thick, but nothing will wipe the stench of Trump from my palate.
Aw kreplach…. Wonton self destruction by walking into this thread.
re: #137 The Vicious Babushka
WUT
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Threats I believe, especially sent by Cohen — but screenshots of his anatomy? That is highly unlikely. First, he would never do that himself and second I doubt if he would allow someone else to take such a picture.
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
Threats I believe, especially sent by Cohen — but screenshots of his anatomy? That is highly unlikely. First, he would never do that himself and second I doubt if he would allow someone else to take such a picture.
But after all the grief he gave to Anthony Weiner, how ironic would it be that he did exactly the same thing?
re: #167 lawhawk
Ouzo know what… I don’t care if you lasagne on thick, but nothing will wipe the stench of Trump from my palate.
Aw kreplach….
Duck.
re: #164 lawhawk
Now I’m longing for the days of scandalous tan suits.
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
Threats I believe, especially sent by Cohen — but screenshots of his anatomy? That is highly unlikely. First, he would never do that himself and second I doubt if he would allow someone else to take such a picture.
Not without extensive Photoshopping, I’d imagine: say, from cocktail wiener to mortadella….
re: #169 makeitstop
But after all the grief he gave to Anthony Weiner, how ironic would it be that he did exactly the same thing?
After the Obama transcripts thing, would it really shock anyone if texting Little Trump would be another projection moment?
re: #124 makeitstop
Remember his little dance with the chair during the debate? Yeah, that.
And, flag …
re: #171 jaunte
Now I’m longing for the days of scandalous tan suits.
And Dijon mustard and argula on hamburders.
re: #167 lawhawk
Ouzo know what… I don’t care if you lasagne on thick, but nothing will wipe the stench of Trump from my palate.
Aw kreplach…. Wonton self destruction by walking into this thread.
Pelmeni are summoned but few follow
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
Threats I believe, especially sent by Cohen — but screenshots of his anatomy? That is highly unlikely. First, he would never do that himself and second I doubt if he would allow someone else to take such a picture.
I wouldn’t place any bets on that if I were you. Trump is a sexual deviant at best.
This morning the Houston tank farm fire is finally out, and it’s time to see the wildflowers in bloom:
Happy #firstdayofspring! Here’s to warmer weather and wildflower blooms 🌼 like the spectacular #Texas bluebonnets @BigBendNPS. Pic courtesy of Lee McMullen pic.twitter.com/RHDMVRUub0
— US Department of the Interior (@Interior) March 20, 2019
re: #169 makeitstop
But after all the grief he gave to Anthony Weiner, how ironic would it be that he did exactly the same thing?
What is that we always say about Trump covering for his own peculiarities by mentioning and putting down other’s similar bents?
I don’t think it would be ironic at all. I happen the think he probably did it.
re: #140 makeitstop
Definitely in the Top 2 of Things I Could Go The Rest of my Life Without Seeing.
One of TWO? Sweet Cthulhu, I really don’t want know the other.
Experience a version of 1969 that could only happen #OnceUponATimeInHollywood – the 9th film from Quentin Tarantino. pic.twitter.com/AuNpgTMUmE
— Leonardo DiCaprio (@LeoDiCaprio) March 20, 2019
New gear behind the hidey button…
I sold off three guitars last week, and to my surprise I didn’t find a single guitar that I wanted to buy to replace them. I think I can finally say that I’ve got all the guitars that I need. Never thought I’d be able to say that.
Anyway - I’ve been looking to do some upgrades to my project studio, and someone on a recording forum I belong to recommended a little box called the Arturia SparkLE. It’s a software controller that is set up like the old Roland TR 808 drum machine (which I had back in the day and am very familiar with the interface), and it does drums, synths, sampling, all kinds of cool stuff. So I tossed the guitar money in the bank and spent just a sliver of it on this new little machine.
Now I want to take the rest of the day off but I can’t. Damn it.
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Had to Google those.
re: #180 Colère Tueur de Lapin
One of TWO? Sweet Cthulhu, I really don’t want know the other.
Honestly, I can’t even think of another one right now.
Are: #181 lawhawk
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Sounds great. Hell of a cast and should have a great feel to it as well.
re: #177 ObserverArt
I wouldn’t place any bets on that if I were you. Trump is a sexual deviant at best.
Did he actually have the technical skills to take the picture? And then send it? I am skeptical about that.
re: #185 HappyWarrior
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Sounds great. Hell of a cast and should have a great feel to it as well.
There was someone in there playing Charlie Manson, wasn’t there? (at about 1:10)
re: #186 Hecuba’s daughter
Did he actually have the technical skills to take the picture? And then send it? I am skeptical about that.
I had a thought, but some thoughts are best left unsaid, even on a thread that’s gone as weird as this one.
re: #169 makeitstop
But after all the grief he gave to Anthony Weiner, how ironic would it be that he did exactly the same thing?
I can imagine the reaction of the people who insisted his inauguration day crowd was bigger than Obama’s to these pics…
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I can imagine the reaction of the people who insisted his inauguration day crowd was bigger than Obama’s to these pics…
“Why won’t Obama prove —-
Nope, not even going to finish.
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“He Was In The Pool!”
re: #187 makeitstop
There was someone in there playing Charlie Manson, wasn’t there? (at about 1:10)
Ah. Looks like the film has a lot to do with Manson - DiCaprio’s character is Sharon Tate’s next-door neighbor.
The settings might look sunny, but that movie’s gonna be dark as fuck.
re: #187 makeitstop
There was someone in there playing Charlie Manson, wasn’t there? (at about 1:10)
1969 was like that.
Did any of you see that David Duchovney show a couple years back that covered similar territory?
re: #192 makeitstop
Ah. Looks like the film has a lot to do with Manson - DiCaprio’s character is Sharon Tate’s next-door neighbor.
The settings might look sunny, but that movie’s gonna be dark as fuck.
Yes, I was about to say that it looks all sunny and optimistic, but now the setting of Hollywood 1969 is starting to sink in…
So I had lunch with a couple of retired coworkers yesterday.
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re: #192 makeitstop
Ah. Looks like the film has a lot to do with Manson - DiCaprio’s character is Sharon Tate’s next-door neighbor.
The settings might look sunny, but that movie’s gonna be dark as fuck.
I think that’s definitely what Tarantino is going for. I think this looks great.
re: #192 makeitstop
Ah. Looks like the film has a lot to do with Manson - DiCaprio’s character is Sharon Tate’s next-door neighbor.
The settings might look sunny, but that movie’s gonna be dark as fuck.
It is Quentin Tarrantino after all.
re: #188 makeitstop
I had a thought, but some thoughts are best left unsaid, even on a thread that’s gone as weird as this one.
Me too. I wonder if our thoughts are similar? I kind of think they just may be.
re: #196 HappyWarrior
I think that’s definitely what Tarantino is going for. I think this looks great.
And the cast!
The announced ensemble for Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood now also includes Timothy Olyphant, Scoot McNairy, Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, Dakota Fanning, James Marsden, Clifton Collins, Keith Jefferson, Emile Hirsch, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Danny Strong, Sydney Sweeney, Clu Gulager, James Landry Hébert, Mikey Madison, Al Pacino, Lena Dunham, Maya Hawke, and Nicholas Hammond, among others.
Someone got the El Grande budget.
re: #199 makeitstop
Decaprio and Pitt have had success with Quentin before (Django and Inglorious Basterds, respectively), Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, have appeared in a couple of his movies.
Pachino is a big get.
re: #201 lawhawk
Decaprio and Pitt have had success with Quentin before (Django and Inglorious Basterds, respectively), Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, have appeared in a couple of his movies.
Pachino is a big get.
And, as tragic and unforeseen as his death was, this gets to be Luke Perry’s swan song.
Even if he’s in a bit part (I don’t know what Perry’s role is ATM), being in a Tarantino film as your last project is a hell of a way to go out.
So if the EU tells the UK “Fuck you, you don’t get an extension”, does that mean we get a forced No Deal Brexit at the end of the month?
re: #195 mmmirele
So I had lunch with a couple of retired coworkers yesterday.
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My view is that it should be illegal for anyone outside the United States to access PII (Personally identifiable information for those of you not in HR or Benefits) or information about our personal investments. I hate calling about my retirement benefits, including my 401(k) and conversing with someone overseas. One day there will be a major breach and many of us will lose everything because someone in Asia has managed to transfer all our funds to a private account in the Caiman islands.
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
So if the EU tells the UK “Fuck you, you don’t get an extension”, does that mean we get a forced No Deal Brexit at the end of the month?
Unless PM May and Parliament can cobble up some sort of satisfactory agreement in nine days, it sure looks like it.
We gave all that money to @Arron_banks after all those meetings he keeps lying about last time and we’re not paying twice.
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) March 20, 2019
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
So if the EU tells the UK “Fuck you, you don’t get an extension”, does that mean we get a forced No Deal Brexit at the end of the month?
Unless someone (cough*May cough*) bites the bullet, falls on the sword, says it was advisory only, and withdraws Article 50.
re: #201 lawhawk
Decaprio and Pitt have had success with Quentin before (Django and Inglorious Basterds, respectively), Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, have appeared in a couple of his movies.
Pachino is a big get.
It’ll be cool to see where he uses Western legend Clu Gulager! And it’ll be good to see Timothy Olyphant again - I’ve been thinking of going back and re-watching Justified. Great series.
re: #209 makeitstop
It’ll be cool to see where he uses Western legend Clu Gulager! And it’ll be good to see Timothy Olyphant again - I’ve been thinking of going back and re-watching Justified. Great series.
Olyphant has also been hilarious in Santa Clarita Diet.
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
So if the EU tells the UK “Fuck you, you don’t get an extension”, does that mean we get a forced No Deal Brexit at the end of the month?
Unless the UK changes its parliamentary rules, votes a third time and approves the May Deal, then that’s all she wrote…
re: #120 Hecuba’s daughter
Lyndon Johnson’s old line about how the poor can be manipulated by the powerful into voting against their own interests:
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Of course, the Trump supporters I know are not poor — just racist, though they would deny if asked directly.
The Trump suporters I know would not deny they are racist- they would just counter that they are “not PC” or that BLM or Antifa, NAACP /whatever are racist and that makes it OK to be racist.
re: #213 makeitstop
This trailer (from last December) is a lot darker than the official one. Probably closer to it.
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And it had Kurt Russell in the cast - but he’s not mentioned in any of the press I’m seeing, maybe he bailed.
Still in IMDb.
Just a little reminder that the first resegregation of the military in US history is happening. https://t.co/H1gtRREvdE
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 20, 2019
re: #216 jaunte
The border non-crisis and racism are all Trump but I cannot believe that Trump actually cares about a transgendered ban. Is this a Pence policy?
re: #21 goddamnedfrank
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I retweeted this and WOW the Berniebots are coming at me in waves and all are getting blocked!
re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter
The border non-crisis and racism are all Trump but I cannot believe that Trump actually cares about a transgendered ban. Is this a Pence policy?
You give him too much credit. I can easily see Trump being a transphobe. Maybe not for the reasons Pence is but definitely ZOMG TRANNIES.
re: #219 Joe Bacon 🌹
I retweeted this and WOW the Berniebots are coming at me in waves and all are getting blocked!
They don’t like the hard truth that Bernie hires terrible people.
re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter
The border non-crisis and racism are all Trump but I cannot believe that Trump actually cares about a transgendered ban. Is this a Pence policy?
He has to keep his Fundamentalist base happy, yes.
re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter
The border non-crisis and racism are all Trump but I cannot believe that Trump actually cares about a transgendered ban. Is this a Pence policy?
Evangelicals are Trump’s only sizable bloc of loyal supporters. He has to do whatever keeps them loyal.
re: #217 HappyWarrior
Asshole who never served wants to limit those who want to.
A woman I know, who was one of the first female nukes in the Navy, in hte mid 90s mind you, just can’t understand why they have to let transpeople serve, who only want to be in there so their medications can be paid for according to her.
Edited to clarify.
re: #220 HappyWarrior
You give him too much credit. I can easily see Trump being a transphobe. Maybe not for the reasons Pence is but definitely ZOMG TRANNIES.
But the reason he Tweeted his ban was probably Pence’s suggestion.
OT, personal stuff:
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re: #225 Belafon
A woman I know, who was one of the first female nukes in the Navy, in hte mid 90s mind you, just can’t understand why they have to let transpeople serve, who only want to be in there so their medications can be paid for.
Is that your understanding of why Trans people serve?
re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But the reason he Tweeted his ban was probably Pence’s suggestion.
Trump’s worried about walking in the wrong door at his beauty pagent.
re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is that your understanding of why Trans people serve?
Nope, hers.
re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is that your understanding of why Trans people serve?
I edted the comment to clarify that.
And, since she joined like a lot of us, for the paycheck, it’s really hypocritical.
re: #232 Belafon
And, since she joined like a lot of us, for the paycheck, it’s really hypocritical.
Especially given that transpeople in fact serve at a higher rate. I’m not a veteran like either you or her but I don’t get why we would discourage any group from serving.
Now this is amazing!
Woman spots ‘one-in-a-million’ yellow cardinal in her backyard https://t.co/sZik0L93vp pic.twitter.com/RP26ct1VrP
— WTAE-TV Pittsburgh (@WTAE) March 20, 2019
re: #233 HappyWarrior
Especially given that transpeople in fact serve at a higher rate. I’m not a veteran like either you or her but I don’t get why we would discourage any group from serving.
Trumps argument was that their medication and treatment costs were an unnecessary waste of resources.
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trumps argument was that their medication and treatment costs were an unnecessary waste of resources.
Yeah well Trump is an asshole.
re: #233 HappyWarrior
Especially given that transpeople in fact serve at a higher rate. I’m not a veteran like either you or her but I don’t get why we would discourage any group from serving.
Because she’s a Fox watcher. She doesn’t believe the white supremacists have coopted the OK sign for their own use.
re: #107 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Bernie is past his sell-by date by three years. He’s going to try to be the next Harold Stassen.
Wait till 2024 when William Jennings Bernie makes a third attempt to be President…
re: #236 HappyWarrior
Yeah well Trump is an asshole.
It is also collective punishment for Peyton Manning being trans.
And I am not even joking about that.
re: #237 Belafon
Because she’s a Fox watcher. She doesn’t believe the white supremacists have coopted the OK sign for their own use.
Yeah I see. That’s too bad because there was a time when women who wanted to serve like she did were disparaged too.
I want to make sure all of you could see how kind and loving a stranger can be. I’m posting her note for her family and friends could see. pic.twitter.com/GoNCm0fv4U
— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) March 19, 2019
If Megan’s on edge because of stuff like this then she’s mostly taking it out on the wrong goddamned people, while actively deploying every razor thin & dishonest rationale she can muster to continue siding politically with her abusers.
— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) March 20, 2019
re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is also collective punishment for Peyton Manning being trans.
And I am not even joking about that.
Uh wrong Manning but yeah I know that’s part of it. Ignores Kristin Beck who literally was on the ONL raid.
re: #241 goddamnedfrank
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She should leave her father’s party and movement. It wasn’t Obama’s people that lied about her mother and sister. I mean yeah I feel bad they deal with this shit but their especially Meaghan’s loyalty to the GOP and right is undeserved.
re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is also collective punishment for Peyton Manning being trans.
And I am not even joking about that.
Chelsea? (Or Ol’ Miss has liberalized over the years.)
re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter
The border non-crisis and racism are all Trump but I cannot believe that Trump actually cares about a transgendered ban. Is this a Pence policy?
I wouldn’t rule out that tRump is a transphobe. But this also has Pence’s fingerprints all over it as well.
re: #236 HappyWarrior
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trumps argument was that their medication and treatment costs were an unnecessary waste of resources.
Yeah well Trump is an asshole.
We know that: and looking at his whole career in retrospect, it’s obvious that Donald Trump only seriously cares about any issues that:
1. Fluff his ego.
2. Line his pockets.
And preferably, both at the same time.
I’m guessing the military trans ban is just a sop to the “Religious Right” - and it can be spun in the usual wingnut manner - either way. Upheld: they crow about a “victory” for “morality” or whatever - Struck down: they shout, whine, and fundraise off of it: win-win.
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trumps argument was that their medication and treatment costs were an unnecessary waste of resources.
Yeah, because the military is TOTALLY hurting for money these days…
re: #181 lawhawk
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Tarantino? Nope. Nope. Nope. I dislike his violence porn intensely.
re: #246 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
I wouldn’t rule out that tRump is a transphobe. But this also has Pence’s fingerprints all over it as well.
Donald will think and say whatever he’s told to think and say. Vladimir’s record is horrendous.
re: #242 HappyWarrior
Uh wrong Manning but yeah I know that’s part of it. Ignores Kristin Beck who literally was on the ONL raid.
that was Obama’s raid…again, all the more reason
re: #244 Decatur Deb
Chelsea? (Or Ol’ Miss has liberalized over the years.)
Right, Chelsea, I need to Manning up here, I guess…
re: #233 HappyWarrior
Especially given that transpeople in fact serve at a higher rate. I’m not a veteran like either you or her but I don’t get why we would discourage any group from serving.
Except Nazis. We really should discourage Nazis from serving.
re: #249 William Lewis
Tarantino? Nope. Nope. Nope. I dislike his violence porn intensely.
I was about to go watch that movie but if it is about Manson/Tate then I suppose I will give it a pass
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was about to go watch that movie but if it is about Manson/Tate then I suppose I will give it a pass
It’s part of the plot but not the plot.
So the Post publishes a piece glorifying Brain-Dead Candy Owens.
And they block me from commenting…
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was about to go watch that movie but if it is about Manson/Tate then I suppose I will give it a pass
I saw the Roman Polanski Macbeth when it first came out — it was brutal and violent and clearly about his wife’s murder.
re: #257 Joe Bacon 🌹
Me too. I must have sullied their delicate sensibilities.
re: #201 lawhawk
Decaprio and Pitt have had success with Quentin before (Django and Inglorious Basterds, respectively), Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, have appeared in a couple of his movies.
Pachino is a big get.
It’s Quinton fucking Tarantino. Not sure who the big get is…Quinton getting Pachino or Pachino getting Quinton.
re: #208 Hecuba’s daughter
Unless someone (cough*May cough*) bites the bullet, falls on the sword, says it was advisory only, and withdraws Article 50.
Good luck with THAT.
There’s not a single person in the UK worthy of their political position.
re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is also collective punishment for Peyton Manning being trans.
And I am not even joking about that.
Whut???
Then again…I think I don’t want to know. This is a crazy world.
re: #257 Joe Bacon 🌹
So the Post publishes a piece glorifying Brain-Dead Candy Owens.
And they block me from commenting…
Sigh…Why do these morons keep getting exposure?
What’s next? A multi-part series on Jacob Wohl?
Trump’s taking questions, and lying his way through the answers (ss/dd):
Narrator: They aren’t going to be gone by tonight.
He claimed that they were already defeated previously. He’s lying and everyone should know it.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 20, 2019
Trump has been doing all he can to keep the report from ever seeing the light of day because he knows it’s going to tear him and his corrupt admin to shreds.
He isn’t acting like an innocent guy here. He’s acting like a mob boss who knows the feds are behind the door listening.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 20, 2019
re: #264 lawhawk
Trump’s taking questions, and lying his way through the answers (ss/dd):
If I knew the feds were behind the door listening, I wouldn’t say anything.
re: #256 HappyWarrior
It’s part of the plot but not the plot.
A series of bloody horrific murders in LA is fucking catnip to Tarantino. His eyes probably roll into the back of his skull every time he think about filming it. I guarantee there is at least one graphic recreation of Manson’s handiwork in this film.
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Right, Chelsea, I need to Manning up here, I guess…
Okay…now it makes sense.
Sheesh…
re: #213 makeitstop
This trailer (from last December) is a lot darker than the official one. Probably closer to it.
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And it had Kurt Russell in the cast - but he’s not mentioned in any of the press I’m seeing, maybe he bailed.
At the 16 second mark that looks like Burt Reynolds.
More on the EC and the antidemocratic nature, and why the argument that going with a popular vote instead of the EC will mean big states get to dominate the outcome.
You can win just 11 states by 1 vote each and get to the magic 270 even if you lose unanimously everywhere else under the EC:
He’s doing the math so I don’t. But it’s been clear for a long time that the EC is outmoded, outdated, and anti-democratic. It’s also possible to win the WH by winning just 11 states by one vote each even if you lose unanimously everywhere else. https://t.co/sss6Ul2wuR
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 20, 2019
re: #266 Mattand
A series of bloody horrific murders in LA is fucking catnip to Tarantino. His eyes probably roll into the back of his skull every time he think about filming it. I guarantee there is at least one graphic recreation of Manson’s handiwork in this film.
I would imagine it does - the Tate/LaBianca murders is absolutely infamous in Los Angeles (probably the only thing more infamous is the murder of the Black Dahlia, and that’s because it’s still unsolved).
Not a bad trailer for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood; I’ll probably go see it when it comes out here. Tarantino has a big following in Czech Republic.
re: #268 MsJ
At the 16 second mark that looks like Burt Reynolds.
Burt Reynolds was supposed to be in it, but he died before they could film any of his scenes - Bruce Dern took his place. Burt was supposed to play George Spahn.
re: #270 Dr Lizardo
I would imagine it does - the Tate/LaBianca murders is absolutely infamous in Los Angeles (probably the only thing more infamous is the murder of the Black Dahlia, and that’s because it’s still unsolved).
Not a bad trailer for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood; I’ll probably go see it when it comes out here. Tarantino has a big following in Czech Republic.
Yeah, I should probably qualify my criticism with the fact I’ve seen all of his films except Inglorious Basterds (still say Jackie Brown is his best.) There’s just something upsetting to me about Tarantino spraying his signature bloodletting over something that happened in real life, especially since Tate was nearly ready to give birth at the time.
Plus, the whole “This is the Nth film by Quentin Tarantino” just really comes off as sooooooo pretentious. No one else gives a shit about your tally there, Quentin.
re: #269 lawhawk
More on the EC and the antidemocratic nature, and why the argument that going with a popular vote instead of the EC will mean big states get to dominate the outcome.
You can win just 11 states by 1 vote each and get to the magic 270 even if you lose unanimously everywhere else under the EC:
There’s a simple solution that (as far as I know) wouldn’t even require a constitutional amendment - have every state allot its EC votes proportionally to the popular vote in that state (as opposed to the current “winner take all”).
Had this been done in 2016, HRC would’ve won (narrowly, but still a win). I realize the GOPers tried to do this in a handful of typically blue states (e.g. Pennsylvania) to cheat as usual, but what I’m saying is that it should be done for every state. That should help blunt the “only the big states will count” protests, and also, it would guarantee that every voter in every state gets a say (hell, even GOPer voters should go for this, since it means their votes in blue states like California will finally mean something - of course, that’s if they can stomach extending the right to all those blue voters in TX…)
I’m guessing “no”, but waiting for @DevinCow to weigh in before I make a final judgement. 🐄 https://t.co/Trft4YE76y
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) March 20, 2019
re: #274 Teukka
If it wasn’t named for Streisand, it might have been named for him.
re: #268 MsJ
At the 16 second mark that looks like Burt Reynolds.
Burt Reynolds originally had a role in the movie.
re: #272 Mattand
Yeah, I should probably qualify my criticism with the fact I’ve seen all of his films except Inglorious Basterds (still say Jackie Brown is his best.) There’s just something upsetting to me about Tarantino spraying his signature bloodletting over something that happened in real life, especially since Tate was nearly ready to give birth at the time.
Plus, the whole “This is the Nth film by Quentin Tarantino” just really comes off as sooooooo pretentious. No one else gives a shit about your tally there, Quentin.
Yeah, re-creating the murder of Sharon Tate, yeesh……to call that horrific would be an understatement. I have no idea how Tarantino will handle that. Who knows? Maybe he’ll surprise us all and make it off-screen (personally, that’s how I’d do it, but that’s just me).
So today I wake up to see an extended puff piece about hateful right wing propagandist Candace Owens in the Washington Post, and I want to go back to sleep for a month.
The media are going to be even worse in this next election. They haven’t learned anything.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 20, 2019
re: #280 Charles Johnson
So today I wake up to see an extended puff piece about hateful right wing propagandist Candace Owens in the Washington Post, and I want to go back to sleep for a month.
The media are going to be even worse in this next election. They haven’t learned anything.
to be totally craven, they’ve learned exactly what trump’s learned:
how to make money on the way things currently are
re: #272 Mattand
Plus, the whole “This is the Nth film by Quentin Tarantino” just really comes off as sooooooo pretentious. No one else gives a shit about your tally there, Quentin.
Didn’t he announce early in his career that he was only going to make ten movies? That might be the point here.
All that nice and shiny wire the military installed late last year at the border to distract Trump from the election loss is now showing up on houses in Mexico: dailykos.com
Some homes in the same area had identical wire installed in front of their homes, as an added layer of protection to their property lines and fences, but residents declined to comment about how they obtained the material.
re: #278 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, re-creating the murder of Sharon Tate, yeesh……to call that horrific would be an understatement. I have no idea how Tarantino will handle that. Who knows? Maybe he’ll surprise us all and make it off-screen (personally, that’s how I’d do it, but that’s just me).
I posted the ‘concept teaser’ earlier, and it did look like there was a recreation of the murders in it.
re: #282 makeitstop
Didn’t he announce early in his career that he was only going to make ten movies? That might be the point here.
We couldn’t be that lucky. He’ll decide that since Reservoir Dogs was just a copy of a Hong Kong flick (City on Fire) it doesn’t really count, so that’s one more, etc. No, he’ll keep making his violent garbage as long as people keep going to see them. The only good thing about him is that, unlike Paul Verhoeven, Tarantino doesn’t pretend that he’s doing it as satire. He’s doing it because he just enjoys making violence porn that as he goes along, he dresses up in whatever historical pretense he can use to make it bloodier.
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
So if the EU tells the UK “Fuck you, you don’t get an extension”, does that mean we get a forced No Deal Brexit at the end of the month?
Looks like it, and Macron can do it all by himself, since approval of an extension has to be unanimous.
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