The week is halfway through and Trump’s White House has already taken aim at gutting ObamaCare, Puerto Rico aid, and funding for the Special Olympics.
Hard to say what’s the most egregious element in here—the retribution against career experts or a pro-regime change outfit, @FDD, admitting that it essentially crafted the State Department’s Iran strategy in the run-up to the JCPOA withdrawal. https://t.co/BDP5U34J7V
— Ned Price (@nedprice) March 27, 2019
re: #1 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
Is it just a coincidence that he looks like Wilbur Ross?
Sure, Mark. pic.twitter.com/HkzM2OdiXO
— 🇺🇸Vorlon1🇨🇦 (@RobertVorlon1) March 27, 2019
re: #4 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
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Let me guess: tort reform, sale of policies across state lines, and high risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions. Otherwise known as “hurry up and die already.”
So, according to David Clark, Twitter’s most popular Brexit alternatives have been expanded to:
1. Alien invasion.
2. Absolute monarchy.
3. Zombie apocalypse.
4. Military takeover - a few people asking who our generals are.
5. Extinction level event through asteroid strike.
One commenter: I feel utterly embarrassed to admit I’m British.
While our aagcobb@aagcobb1 responded: At least you’re not American.
The two great democracies that saved the world from Hitler (with Russia’s assistance) are failing. It’s unclear if there is anyone to rescue Britain; and it’s unclear that even with herculean efforts, the Dems can surmount the obstacles from Trump and McConnell to rescue us.
The Atlantic looks back at the Al Franken brouhaha
theatlantic.com
Democrats Need to Learn From Their Al Franken Mistake
The country lost an opportunity to model how fair procedures can work in a #MeToo case.
The Senate is the rare workplace in which an established set of procedures addresses such violations. The inquiries are conducted by staff (or sometimes outside attorneys) with subpoena power. They are intended to provide an unbiased examination, and recommend proportional punishment—if appropriate. One of the greatest misfortunes of the Franken case is that this process was abruptly terminated in favor of political posturing.
As a result, the country lost an opportunity. The Senate could have modeled how fair procedures can work in a #MeToo case outside the criminal-justice system, illustrating the necessity of restraint and patience when volatile issues are being adjudicated. It should be a source of shame to Franken’s erstwhile colleagues who called for his premature departure that they flouted the basic principles of fairness that underlie the constitutional oath they take.
SCOOP: The U.S. Department of Energy has approved six authorizations for U.S. companies seeking to conduct nuclear related work in Saudi Arabia https://t.co/wM6p2YF7e5
— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) March 27, 2019
Nuclear proliferation.
finally, vox speaks to *me* pic.twitter.com/cCrAWV65DF
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) March 27, 2019
re: #8 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
SCOOP: The U.S. Department of Energy has approved six authorizations for U.S. companies seeking to conduct nuclear related work in Saudi Arabia
Nothing say “We support Israel” more clearly than selling nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia…
Update on the Swedbank saga:
o Stock has fluctuated at most -15%, trading stopped.
o CEO fired.
o EBM’s (Financial Crimes Authority (Ekobrottsmyndigheten)) prosecutor says that the bank is not co-operating in some aspects of the investigation.
re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter
So, according to David Clark, Twitter’s most popular Brexit alternatives have been expanded to:
1. Alien invasion.
2. Absolute monarchy.
3. Zombie apocalypse.
4. Military takeover - a few people asking who our generals are.
5. Extinction level event through asteroid strike.
For all my British FB Brexit posters, I have proposed the following:
Hold a new referendum.
It should be binding and mandatory for all citizens.
If Leave wins, then everyone is automatically registered for the daily 50 million-pound lottery drawing. And for the daily drawing to see which person is allowed to leave the country that day. Everyone else has to stay. Permanently.
Good Morning. I’ve had to turn it off or at least turn the noise way the fuck down after this Mueller affair.
I also fired up that old coal forge I got.
My first forged steel looks like a burnt cat turd, hence, The Cat Turd Twist! But it’s mine.
Oh, best Name you’ll hear all day:
Agolf Twitler……
Sweet Thursday
Hell, if they will believe anything he spews out of his pie hole they believe this.
Be sure to tell them all about your great plan to strip them of their health care. Maybe even offer them a herbal remedy that’s a 100% surefire cure for cancer and only costs $19.99 plus S/H. Also let them know if they order now, they can get a second bottle for free. https://t.co/NfbnXTPB1n
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) March 28, 2019
*snickers*
William Barr Reads “Moby-Dick,” Finds No Evidence of Whaleshttps://t.co/X4miC3IPNb— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) March 28, 2019
#BeBest! What have you done to Unite America today? This certainly isn’t it.
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 28, 2019
He Mad.
I see your Patriotism, Christianity, and education has failed you. You were probably better than this in another life. #BeBest #MagaSorry
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 28, 2019
OMFG!!!’ This thread! The Smarm of it all!
Guess who’s sitting across from me. pic.twitter.com/vOIF5UYNdD
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 27, 2019
re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Smarmalade
And Rudy said loudly, “I could be your lover or your friend.” pic.twitter.com/8WZEgNattN
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 27, 2019
Putin’s Night Wolves motorcycle gang spreads to Finland, 1st RMI chapter established to small city of Forssa. https://t.co/Nh47B0Lhrv
— Aki Heikkinen (@akihheikkinen) March 28, 2019
re: #22 Teukka
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“Night Wolves is a carefully curated façade meant to provide a semblance of rebelliousness all while the group serves as a tool of the state.”
Just in case you’ve never seen this. pic.twitter.com/IC0saqlVA6
— Zach Winn (@ZachFromIthaca) March 24, 2019
re: #24 Sufficient unto the day…
You know the milk went bad, but you gotta take a whiff…
re: #22 Teukka
Putin’s Night Wolves motorcycle gang spreads to Finland, 1st RMI chapter established to small city of Forssa.
Finland has a Russian ethnic minority in the eastern Karelian provinces. So Putin is pulling the Sudetenland trick here, using national minorities as proxies.
And they already have the Sons of Odin, a white supremacist group.
So where’s the review of all the cases where a policeman shot an unarmed victim and then got off scot free despite compelling evidence that it at least was manslaughter? Where’s those reviews?
This is targeted harassment as fuck and in service to Trump’s personal outrage.— (Not A) National K-Mergency (@Citizen_Kryptik) March 28, 2019
Regardless of how you feel about the Smollett case drama at this point, this is not kosher. This is the trial run for open, endless persecution of anyone Trump considers an enemy, of personally slamming his fat stubby thumb onto the legal proceedings so he sees that only people that he personally sees guilty get comeuppance.
This is fucking not right.
re: #27 Citizen K
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Regardless of how you feel about the Smollett case drama at this point, this is not kosher. This is the trial run for open, endless persecution of anyone Trump considers an enemy, of personally slamming his fat stubby thumb onto the legal proceedings so he sees that only people that he personally sees guilty get comeuppance.
This is fucking not right.
Because Trump came out against JS personally and is not about to back down…
Central Park Five, anyone?
re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Finland has a Russian ethnic minority in the eastern Karelian provinces. So Putin is pulling the Sudetenland trick here, using national minorities as proxies.
And they already have the Sons of Odin, a white supremacist group.
So they’re going to try to Crimea again?
re: #29 sagehen
So they’re going to try to Crimea again?
He is going to do that everywhere there is a large Russian ethnic minority: Baltic states, Central Asian republics, Byelarus…
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because Trump came out against JS personally and is not about to back down…
Central Park Five, anyone?
Except now he has the power to directly compel action, because half the fucking country saw his reputation and screamed “THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WANT FROM AMERICA!” And they’re sure to be fucking giddy over an evil brown person getting his because Trump is their patron saint, I’m fucking sure.
While the orange-shit goblin said it, what is the justice department’s opinion and legal authority on opening a sealed case?
re: #33 Colère Tueur de Lapin
To go after Rahm Emanuel. That’s Trump’s end game.
re: #31 Citizen K
Except now he has the power to directly compel action, because half the fucking country saw his reputation and screamed “THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WANT FROM AMERICA!” And they’re sure to be fucking giddy over an evil brown person getting his because Trump is their patron saint, I’m fucking sure.
Just imagine Tonight’s Trump rally where he screams about Smolett and the racist crowd yells Lock Him Up. The crackers are going to have a massive orgasm over that. It’s what they live for—to see Trump kick down colored people.
re: #34 Shropshire Slasher
To go after Rahm Emanuel. That’s Trump’s end game.
One degree of separation from Obama and any way to attack Chicago. Sounds about right.
re: #34 Shropshire Slasher
To go after Rahm Emanuel. That’s Trump’s end game.
re: #36 Colère Tueur de Lapin
One degree of separation from Obama and any way to attack Chicago. Sounds about right.
Pretty sure that both Rahm Emanuel and Trump are both united in wanting to see Smolett crucified.
EDIT: Also:
Investigating systemic police abuse is apparently an oppressive misuse of federal power. But a DA cuts a black guy a break, and it’s time to send in the cavalry. https://t.co/TQm5GZeRn4
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) March 28, 2019
re: #32 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
WagakkiBand. It’s like modern Japan in a nutshell.
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That is, to me, even better than the Mongolian Metal band from a little while back. Beautiful variations on some very classic sounds. I’m going to need to find more of them. Thank you!
re: #31 Citizen K
Except now he has the power to directly compel action, because half the fucking country saw his reputation and screamed “THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WANT FROM AMERICA!” And they’re sure to be fucking giddy over an evil brown person getting his because Trump is their patron saint, I’m fucking sure.
evil brown gay person, even
re: #37 Citizen K
Pretty sure that both Rahm Emanuel and Trump are both united in wanting to see Smolett crucified.
If I were a betting man, I would put money on Rahm ordered the dropping of charges.
re: #38 William Lewis
That is, to me, even better than the Mongolian Metal band from a little while back. Beautiful variations on some very classic sounds. I’m going to need to find more of them. Thank you!
I just found them, courtesy of my drummer girl KalonicaNicx’s cover of one of their tunes. I said to myself, wow, I gotta share this! And you’re welcome!
re: #40 Shropshire Slasher
If I were a betting man, I would put money on Rahm ordered the dropping of charges.
If he did order it, then he’s doing even more cynical calculation than I could have imagined, and I already have an extremely cynical impression of him even before this shit blew up.
Chicago mayor slams Jussie Smollett after charges dropped: “Whitewash of justice” https://t.co/grt9LCnVG3 pic.twitter.com/6fwe26AGr4
— The Hill (@thehill) March 26, 2019
re: #40 Shropshire Slasher
If I were a betting man, I would put money on Rahm ordered the dropping of charges.
You would lose the bet.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says Jussie Smollett case is ‘making fools of all of us’
On Tuesday, Rahm called the debacle “a whitewash of justice” during a joint press conference with Chicago Police Supt. Eddie T. Johnson, who still believes Smollett is guilty and owes the city an apology.
re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter
So, according to David Clark, Twitter’s most popular Brexit alternatives have been expanded to:
1. Alien invasion.
2. Absolute monarchy.
3. Zombie apocalypse.
4. Military takeover - a few people asking who our generals are.
5. Extinction level event through asteroid strike.One commenter: I feel utterly embarrassed to admit I’m British.
While our aagcobb@aagcobb1 responded: At least you’re not American.
The two great democracies that saved the world from Hitler (with Russia’s assistance) are failing. It’s unclear if there is anyone to rescue Britain; and it’s unclear that even with herculean efforts, the Dems can surmount the obstacles from Trump and McConnell to rescue us.
Trump barely scratched out an electoral college victory against the most unpopular Democratic nominee ever and his poll numbers still stink. All the GOP has to run on is White Nationalism, and they got trounced by a 10 million vote margin in House voting last November running on that message*. If Democrats unite around the common goal of defeating Trump he will have a very hard time getting re-elected.
*Even though the GOP picked up Senate seats due to how red the Senate map was, the Democrats actually won the national Senate popular vote by 18 million votes (7 million outside California, where the GOP didn’t have a candidate in the general).
re: #43 Citizen K
The Chief of Police already did a good job at tainting the jury pool. He didn’t say that without orders. The DA didn’t willingly fall on her sword. Her decision was a career ender.
re: #44 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Talk is cheap. You believe him?
The prosecutor did not see sufficient grounds to warrant a successful prosecution. That is often the case…look at Zimmerman/Martin.
Too much publicity attached to this from day one. Charles did a good job of ignoring it, as I have been doing up to the point when Trump decides that he has to get Presidentially involved in it
re: #47 Shropshire Slasher
Talk is cheap. You believe him?
Considering the pattern of his tenure as mayor? I’m pretty sure I’d believe him when he’s being this upfront about zero accountability for the police and max for perceived perps. ‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time’ and all that.
re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yep, and it’s important now especially, for the reasons Adam Serwer lays out:
That inversion is necessary because it justifies cruelty—it means they’re not punching down. They’re punching up at “elites,” even if Smollett is the rare exception in a society where black men are overpoliced and overincarcerated.
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) March 28, 2019
As long as Trump is hurting the people he’s supposed to be hurting, maybe people won’t notice he’s helping few of the people he was supposed to help. But as the mid terms showed, that doesn’t always get you past the finish line first.
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) March 28, 2019
Basically reiterating what I said said less eloquently before: this is basically Trump trying to sell Reverse Racism as the only ‘real’ Racism to juice up the base and further electorate.
EDIT: And his points in the 3rd tweet really get to what has irked me since the news about charges being dropped came in: Folks trying to paint Jussie Smollett walking free as somehow ‘elites’ getting special treatment. As if Jussie Smollett represented some mass of rich black oligarchs secretly controlling and demanding favors from the city. The weird ass fucking inversion that folks who aren’t racist are somehow the most elitist and exclusionary of all, keeping those genuine, down to earth, suspicious of brown folk down with all their super-elitism.
re: #50 Citizen K
Yep, and it’s important now especially, for the reasons Adam Serwer lays out:
Basically reiterating what I said said less eloquently before: this is basically Trump trying to sell Reverse Racism as the only ‘real’ Racism to juice up the base and further electorate.
And he has already spoken out on it and is not going back down or even appear to be backing down. I see this is as much of a personal issue to him as it is a matter of his sullen racism.
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And he has already spoken out on it and is not going back down or even appear to be backing down. I see this is as much of a personal issue to him as it is a matter of his sullen racism.
I’m pretty sure it’s a personal issue to him precisely because of his sullen racism.
re: #52 Citizen K
I’m pretty sure it’s a personal issue to him precisely because of his sullen racism.
Trump does not like black people being more successful and well liked than he is.
re: #52 Citizen K
I’m pretty sure it’s a personal issue to him precisely because of his sullen racism.
He already spoke out on it in public. Don’t retreat, reload!!!
re: #52 Citizen K
I’m pretty sure it’s a personal issue to him precisely because of his sullen racism.
Especially since Smollet claimed his attackers were Trump supporters; that is enough reason right there for Trump to go after him.
re: #55 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Especially since Smollet claimed his attackers were Trump supporters; that is enough reason right there for Trump to go after him.
I have not been keeping up with the story close enough, only that the Chicago Prosecutor made a decision not to press charges. There could be any number of reasons for that, but those are lost in the shouting match that has ensued following this incident.
WTFITS????
New this AM: months after Trump took office, Liberty University, the school run by Trump supporter Jerry Falwell Jr, got a contract to supply the Pentagon with jet fuel https://t.co/kDZ839prnB
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 28, 2019
re: #47 Shropshire Slasher
Talk is cheap. You believe him?
No reason not to at this point. If you have a reason not to believe him, please show us.
re: #57 Dave In Austin
WTFITS????
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Well Jerry needs to cash to keep paying off his pool boy stud!
re: #57 Dave In Austin
Who would know more about aviation logistics than…
*checks notes*
*checks again*
A religious school.
re: #59 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yes, teabaggers are that dumb!
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It was clever rebranding by the GOP, to obscure the equivalence. In KY, the Democrats compounded the problem by renaming the state ACA exchange “Kynect,” in a presumed effort to distance themselves for PR reasons from the ACA and “Obamacare.”
re: #61 Sufficient unto the day…
Who would know more about aviation logistics than…
*checks notes*
*checks again*A religious school.
Its all about the grift.
re: #62 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It was clever rebranding by the GOP, to obscure the equivalence. In KY, the Democrats compounded the problem by renaming the state ACA exchange “Kynect,” in a presumed effort to distance themselves for PR reasons from the ACA and “Obamacare.”
It worked, which didn’t keep Bevin from trashing one of the best state exchanges in the nation when he became Governor.
re: #62 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It was clever rebranding by the GOP, to obscure the equivalence. In KY, the Democrats compounded the problem by renaming the state ACA exchange “Kynect,” in a presumed effort to distance themselves for PR reasons from the ACA and “Obamacare.”
McConnell promised that ACA wouldn’t kill Kynect.
Kentucky voters were stupid enough to believe him.
Bevin gets in and kills Kynect.
The voters respond by casting more votes for Rand Paul and Trump.
re: #66 Joe Bacon 🌹
McConnell promised that ACA wouldn’t kill Kynect.
Kentucky voters were stupid enough to believe him.
Bevin gets in and kills Kynect.
The voters respond by casting more votes for Rand Paul and Trump.
Bevin all but ran on hollowing out ACA and Kynect and won comfortably.
This could be entertaining if it wasn’t so awful.
Trump engages in cyber bullying regularly. He attacks minorities and women, and promotes white supremacist and white nationalist policies. He posts misogynistic attacks on women, and his entire feed would have warnings. https://t.co/qEN2UQqmTR— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 28, 2019
re: #61 Sufficient unto the day…
Liberty U apparently has a flight school, and that’s where the fuel sales are coming from.
It makes no sense to have this deal in place, but Trump’s rewarding his cronies with government contracts.
re: #68 lawhawk
As anything with Twitter claiming to do anything that actually goes after the absurd proliferation of xenophobia and white supremacy, I’ll believe it when I see it.
— Release the Report, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) March 28, 2019
Considering how toothless and downright enabling Twitter has been: don’t trust, verify.
re: #67 Citizen K
Bevin all but ran on hollowing out ACA and Kynect and won comfortably.
Still remember the New York Times article on Bevin voters who were on Kynect and gladly voted for Bevin because Jesus told them to…
re: #71 Joe Bacon 🌹
Still remember the New York Times article on Bevin voters who were on Kynect and gladly voted for Bevin because Jesus told them to…
There are many times I have been embarrassed to say I lived in KY for almost 30 years. There, the dumb people vastly outnumber the smart people.
re: #66 Joe Bacon 🌹
McConnell promised that ACA wouldn’t kill Kynect.
Kentucky voters were stupid enough to believe him.
Bevin gets in and kills Kynect.
The voters respond by casting more votes for Rand Paul and Trump.
We have a lot of poorly educated Trump fans in Kentucky.
re: #71 Joe Bacon 🌹
Still remember the New York Times article on Bevin voters who were on Kynect and gladly voted for Bevin because Jesus told them to…
Maybe this is heartless — but I will certainly never help someone financially who needs medical care but who supports Trump or the Republican Party.
Of course, maybe Trump will propose “Medicare for All” but call it Trumpcare. What happens to the Democrats if the Republican Party actually does that?
re: #73 NO SMOCKING GUN!
We have a lot of poorly educated Trump fans in Kentucky.
Two of them are in my extended family. They both depend on VA benefits and disability payments, yet expect Trump & Co. to keep them solvent.
re: #74 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe this is heartless — but I will certainly never help someone financially who needs medical care but who supports Trump or the Republican Party.
Of course, maybe Trump will propose “Medicare for All” but call it Trumpcare. What happens to the Democrats if the Republican Party actually does that?
Don’t think it will happen…too many GOP are against it under any name.
re: #74 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe this is heartless — but I will certainly never help someone financially who needs medical care but who supports Trump or the Republican Party.
I know all about it.
Brainwashed nephew, two disabled kids on SSI, votes straight Republican because he hates Muslims and the Government. Endlessly posts his hatred of “Ho-Bama” and his “TS” wife on his Facebook page. Refuses to sign up for what he calls “N-Word” care. Refused to do Medicaid redeterminations so his sons lost their medical care. He sets up a GoFundMe for their medical bills.
Niece has two disabled daughters, won’t use the ACA because it’s ungodly. Says the Lord will take care of them.
Other relatives just as ignorant…
re: #74 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe this is heartless — but I will certainly never help someone financially who needs medical care but who supports Trump or the Republican Party.
Of course, maybe Trump will propose “Medicare for All” but call it Trumpcare. What happens to the Democrats if the Republican Party actually does that?
I heard in one meeting Trump actually said “why don’t we just give everyone Medicare?” But an article I read in the NYT indicates that CoS and hard right ideologue Mike Mulvaney has Trump’s ear on healthcare, so there is no chance we will actually see such a proposal. Fortunately I have no doubt that Roberts won’t strike down the ACA based on the ludicrous theory in the 5th Circuit.
re: #74 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe this is heartless — but I will certainly never help someone financially who needs medical care but who supports Trump or the Republican Party.
Of course, maybe Trump will propose “Medicare for All” but call it Trumpcare. What happens to the Democrats if the Republican Party actually does that?
He’s not proposing anything even beginning to approach Medicare for All. Just watch. It’s going to be as much vaporware as his infrastructure plan, which is still awaiting a full accounting and review.
Trump’s budget calls for gutting health coverage under Medicaid and Medicare.
He’s calling for $300 billion in Medicare cuts over next 10 years and $845 billion in cuts to Medicaid. That means worse outcomes and worse coverage for millions. It shifts the burdens of health care on to those least able to endure them.
Trump’s solution is fuck you, I’ve got mine. It’s the millionaire’s conceit.
re: #78 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I heard in one meeting Trump actually said “why don’t we just give everyone Medicare?” But an article I read in the NYT indicates that CoS and hard right ideologue Mike Mulvaney has Trump’s ear on healthcare, so there is no chance we will actually see such a proposal. Fortunately I have no doubt that Roberts won’t strike down the ACA based on the ludicrous theory in the 5th Circuit.
I have no faith in Roberts. I will not be surprised if the Court votes 5-4 to kill ACA. And I fully expect the crackers who get hurt to blame Obama and the Democrats just like they did in Kentucky.
re: #79 lawhawk
He’s not proposing anything even beginning to approach Medicare for All. Just watch. It’s going to be as much vaporware as his infrastructure plan, which is still awaiting a full accounting and review.
Trump’s budget calls for gutting health coverage under Medicaid and Medicare.
He’s calling for $300 billion in Medicare cuts over next 10 years and $845 billion in cuts to Medicaid. That means worse outcomes and worse coverage for millions. It shifts the burdens of health care on to those least able to endure them.
Trump’s solution is fuck you, I’ve got mine. It’s the millionaire’s conceit.
Exactly. We don’t have to worry about it. But if he did, the Democrats should write it up, vote it through the House, and watch McConnell squirm. And if he does pass it without colors, we cheer. And Trump will still lose.
re: #80 Joe Bacon 🌹
I have no faith in Roberts. I will not be surprised if the Court votes 5-4 to kill ACA. And I fully expect the crackers who get hurt to blame Obama and the Democrats just like they did in Kentucky.
Well Roberts had two chances to strike down the ACA based on better theories and he didn’t, plus he has to know that if he takes healthcare away from 20 million Americans in an election year he will pretty much guarantee a landslide Democratic victory, so it would be very strange for him to utterly destroy his own credibility and the GOP’s election chances with such a ruling.
re: #80 Joe Bacon 🌹
I have no faith in Roberts. I will not be surprised if the Court votes 5-4 to kill ACA. And I fully expect the crackers who get hurt to blame Obama and the Democrats just like they did in Kentucky.
I’m absolutely expecting Roberts to be like ‘People have healthcare now, so we don’t need the ACA anymore’.
re: #80 Joe Bacon 🌹
I have no faith in Roberts. I will not be surprised if the Court votes 5-4 to kill ACA. And I fully expect the crackers who get hurt to blame Obama and the Democrats just like they did in Kentucky.
People would look back on this period of history, if the ACA gets shitcanned, and shake their heads, much as we shake our heads at Prohibition. They will wonder, “How could people be so fucking dumb? They had affordable health care and voted it away, just because they didn’t want minorities and poor people getting decent health care.”
Those who can afford to will go to Mexico and Canada for health care. If Puerto Rico were extra smart, it would re-imagine itself as a low-cost medical care mecca for stupid Anglos from the mainland.
re: #83 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Well Roberts had two chances to strike down the ACA based on better theories and he didn’t, plus he has to know that if he takes healthcare away from 20 million Americans in an election year he will pretty much guarantee a landslide Democratic victory, so it would be very strange for him to utterly destroy his own credibility and the GOP’s election chances with such a ruling.
Roberts knows that the days of a 5-4 Republican lock on the court is coming to an end when the Democrats get the Presidency and Senate back.
I fully expect them to get revenge on McConnell by expanding the court and packing it first with Merrick Garland then putting more women on the court to shut down the Five Rubber Stamps.
re: #80 Joe Bacon 🌹
I have no faith in Roberts. I will not be surprised if the Court votes 5-4 to kill ACA. And I fully expect the crackers who get hurt to blame Obama and the Democrats just like they did in Kentucky.
Roberts justified the existence of the ACA on specific grounds. If the individual mandate penalty no longer exists, that would give Roberts the justification needed to rule the remainder is no longer viable.
The problem is that when drafted, the ACA didn’t include a severability clause.
re: #87 lawhawk
Roberts justified the existence of the ACA on specific grounds. If the individual mandate penalty no longer exists, that would give Roberts the justification needed to rule the remainder is no longer viable.
The problem is that when drafted, the ACA didn’t include a severability clause.
Which is what I expect will be the main point in the 5-4 decision to kill the whole ACA.
re: #85 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Those who can afford to will go to Mexico and Canada for health care. If Puerto Rico were extra smart, it would re-imagine itself as a low-cost medical care mecca for stupid Anglos from the mainland.
I am sure that the Mainland government would shut that down in a big hurry as soon as their donors from the medical care industry saw they were losing customers
re: #80 Joe Bacon 🌹
I have no faith in Roberts. I will not be surprised if the Court votes 5-4 to kill ACA. And I fully expect the crackers who get hurt to blame Obama and the Democrats just like they did in Kentucky.
You are absolutely right. If Roberts thinks that, through voter disenfranchisement and partisan gerrymandering, he can help engineer a permanent Republican majority, he may see no reason to continue to protect the ACA and he could switch sides.
As long as Nancy is Speaker, Medicare is protected but once Republicans take over again, it is doomed.
re: #87 lawhawk
The problem is that when drafted, the ACA didn’t include a severability clause.
or an insanity clause
re: #87 lawhawk
Roberts justified the existence of the ACA on specific grounds. If the individual mandate penalty no longer exists, that would give Roberts the justification needed to rule the remainder is no longer viable.
The problem is that when drafted, the ACA didn’t include a severability clause.
WHICH. NO. OTHER. LAW. EVER. NEEDED.
re: #93 Belafon
WHICH. NO. OTHER. LAW. EVER. NEEDED.
Here in California, every ballot initiative must include a severability clause. It goes back to when the initiative process was approved.
re: #93 Belafon
WHICH. NO. OTHER. LAW. EVER. NEEDED.
This is a law that will impact a lot of people in very critical ways if it is suddenly overturned, unlike a tax law, trade law or ordinance
re: #87 lawhawk
Roberts justified the existence of the ACA on specific grounds. If the individual mandate penalty no longer exists, that would give Roberts the justification needed to rule the remainder is no longer viable.
The problem is that when drafted, the ACA didn’t include a severability clause.
Again, the theory that the District Court Judge used to justify striking down the law is utterly ludicrous. If Roberts did this, when he refused to do it on more solid reasons twice before, it would virtually guarantee that the Democrats will pack the court when they regain power, whereas right now that is extremely unlikely to happen. Chief Justices care about their legitimacy, and this would be an extremely illegitimate decision. In fact, I expect that the 5th Circuit will reverse the District Judge’s ruling and the Supreme Court won’t even grant cert.
re: #88 Joe Bacon 🌹
Which is what I expect will be the main point in the 5-4 decision to kill the whole ACA.
It doesn’t matter when Congress expresses its clear intent to sever the mandate from the rest of the law by basically repealing it.
Gracias, Trump!
Mexico benefits from US trade war with China.
China has moved production facilities to Mexico to reduce US tariff costs.
Mexico’s bonanza underscores the difficulty in trying to win a trade war where companies can shift production or find new sources to avoid tariffs. Despite Trump’s vow to reduce it, the U.S. trade deficit for goods globally hit a record $891 billion last year as tax cuts boosted demand for imports and retaliatory tariffs weighed on American exports. Given Trump’s early attacks on Mexico for taking U.S. jobs, it’s an ironic turn to observers such as factory consultant Alan Russell.
“It’s a case of unintended consequences,” said Russell, chief executive officer of Tecma Group, an El Paso, Texas firm that helps companies open and run factories in Mexico. Interest has never been this high in his 35 years in the industry, he says. “Any company manufacturing in China has had a wake-up call.”
Much of the shift in companies sourcing from Mexico instead of China centers on low value-added items where substitution is easier, according to Jorge Guajardo, a former Mexican ambassador to China. For example, Taskmaster Components has for almost 20 years imported large wheels and tires from China, and assembled them for companies making trailers and recreational vehicles. But tariffs on many of those products pushed the Mount Pleasant, Texas-based company to go hunting for new sourcing. That list now includes Mexico, where it wants to invest in a factory. The U.S. isn’t being considered because Taskmaster hasn’t found a willing partner among the few remaining American manufacturers.
“A lot of people are moving production down there,” said Amanda Walker, the firm’s chief operating officer. The close proximity, access to ports and an educated workforce make “everything about Mexico attractive.”
re: #98 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Gracias, Trump!
Mexico benefits from US trade war with China.
China has moved production facilities to Mexico to reduce US tariff costs.
…more jobs in Mexico might lead to fewer people coming to USA to seek work
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
…more jobs in Mexico might lead to fewer people coming to USA to seek work
Quite true, and in fact people from the States may move to Mexico for work. Unless the Wall is intended to keep Americans north of the border.
re: #72 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
There are many times I have been embarrassed to say I lived in KY for almost 30 years. There, the dumb people vastly outnumber the smart people.
I had the tragedy of living there for two years. I found a scholarly paper that said no other state had so few immigrants over the last 200 years. The culture is hidebound. New ideas are rejected and people are afraid of different ideas. See the same phenomenon in rural areas of Wisconsin. The dumb is getting baked in.
re: #100 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Quite true, and in fact people from the States may move to Mexico for work. Unless the Wall is intended to keep Americans north of the border.
Some day, Mexico might well be thanking us for putting a border wall in place…
re: #101 Old Liberal
I had the tragedy of living there for two years. I found a scholarly paper that said no other state had so few immigrants over the last 200 years. The culture is hidebound. New ideas are rejected and people are afraid of different ideas. See the same phenomenon in rural areas of Wisconsin. The dumb is getting baked in.
Reminds me of how Pennsylvania is like a 5 on a dice cube. Corners and center are blue but the rest is redder than Mississippi.
I’m now so obsessed with Bercow saying “Mr Peter Bone” that I’ve spent a period of time setting it to the opening of Beethoven’s 5th. Brexit is literally driving me mad. pic.twitter.com/P5w31OWkWi
— Rhodri Marsden (@rhodri) March 28, 2019
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
…more jobs in Mexico might lead to fewer people coming to USA to seek work
Though many Mexicans quit coming anyway when the recession wiped out millions of construction jobs; a lot of them even went back home. We have fewer undocumented immigrants living in the US now than we did a decade ago.
From my viewpoint in China, I am watching the Trump Administration willingly relinquish American supremacy worldwide to China, Russia and practically everyone else. The Chinese are ecstatic, because the vacuum left by the Trump States of America gives them an opportunity to move in, and they will not relinquish any advantages thus achieved easily.
Add the Brexit nonsense, and these nationalists/isolationists have effectively removed their own countries from the global stage.
re: #101 Old Liberal
I had the tragedy of living there for two years. I found a scholarly paper that said no other state had so few immigrants over the last 200 years.
Yes, “Moving to Kentucky for the economic advantages” is not a phrase one often encounters.
I started reading Hillbilly Elegy when it was being praised and hyped. I gave up on it after a while, but the first part really struck home. in Gary, Indiana, we had all kinds of ethnicities on our block; black, Latino, white Southern/Eastern Europeans and still a handful of WASPs, but the Appalachian whites were a separate ethnicity unto themselves with their own identity and ideas.
re: #55 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Especially since Smollet claimed his attackers were Trump supporters; that is enough reason right there for Trump to go after him.
Wasn’t there a claim his attackers chanted Make America Great Again and even some said they wore MAGA hats, but I think that was downplayed.
But I think you are right…Trump is pissed because of the association with him and the attack made Trump look bad, whether any of it happened or not.
A gay black man…a prefect target for Trump. If it was fake acting all the more for Trump to be upset. No one gets to fake act but him.
re: #106 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
All empires fall. Right now China and Russia are surely gloating over how the UK and US are imploding.
re: #101 Old Liberal
I had the tragedy of living there for two years. I found a scholarly paper that said no other state had so few immigrants over the last 200 years. The culture is hidebound. New ideas are rejected and people are afraid of different ideas. See the same phenomenon in rural areas of Wisconsin. The dumb is getting baked in.
In defense of Kentucky, here in Frankfort we have had immigrants who came here for construction and agricultural work, opened restaurants and medical practices and bought convenience stores. A new Honduran restaurant was opened close to me and the food is delicious.
re: #109 Joe Bacon 🌹
All empires fall. Right now China and Russia are surely gloating over how the UK and US are imploding.
It is true. I never imagined it would happen in my lifetime, though.
re: #111 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It is true. I never imagined it would happen in my lifetime, though.
Neither did I when I read Gibbons Fall Of The Roman Empire in the Great Books Of The Western World as a kid. But we are living in the time of the fall of both the US and UK.
So, did anyone win last night’s Powerball?
re: #113 The Vicious Babushka
So, did anyone win last night’s Powerball?
There was one winning ticket sold in Wisconsin.
re: #108 ObserverArt
Wasn’t there a claim his attackers chanted Make America Great Again and even some said they wore MAGA hats, but I think that was downplayed.
But I think you are right…Trump is pissed because of the association with him and the attack made Trump look bad, whether any of it happened or not.
A gay black man…a prefect target for Trump. If it was fake acting all the more for Trump to be upset. No one gets to fake act but him.
There was, but those details seem to have been embellished after the fact in reportage, rather than being from Smollett himself. Pretty sure he did say something about Trump supporters though.
re: #69 lawhawk
Liberty U apparently has a flight school, and that’s where the fuel sales are coming from.
It makes no sense to have this deal in place, but Trump’s rewarding his cronies with government contracts.
Complete bullshit. I would imagine the U.S. military is one of the biggest users of aviation fuel going. They can probably buy it cheaper than Liberty U.
But hey, Trump just doing some tithing to keep in good with his godly connections.
re: #110 NO SMOCKING GUN!
In defense of Kentucky, here in Frankfort we have had immigrants who came here for construction and agricultural work, opened restaurants and medical practices and bought convenience stores. A new Honduran restaurant was opened close to me and the food is delicious.
Louisville is a melting pot. It has several mosques and Hindu temples, a thriving Asian population and African communities in several parts of town. My own MD was an Indian (India Indian), who had come to KY as a young man and decided to stay.
And these folks are slowly moving into the ‘burbs and surrounding towns, like Elizabethtown.
Spanish-speaking people have been there already for decades.
re: #10 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nothing say “We support Israel” more clearly than selling nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia…
Yeah, it is clear that Saudi Arabia has no need for nuclear power plants. Is there a country on this planet more suited to solar energy? They do not need nuclear technology.
Well, it’s time to hit the hay here. Got a busy day tomorrow teachin’ those students ‘bout English ‘n’ stuff.
Later, people.
re: #117 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Louisville is a melting pot. It has several mosques and Hindu temples, a thriving Asian population and African communities in several parts of town. My own MD was an Indian (India Indian), who had come to KY as a young man and decided to stay.
And these folks are slowly moving into the ‘burbs and surrounding towns, like Elizabethtown.
Spanish-speaking people have been there already for decades.
Sure and I can point to Madison Wisconsin but that doesn’t change the fact that Milwaukee is the most segregated city in the US and Wisconsin is full of racists who dislike new people or ideas.
re: #120 Old Liberal
Sure and I can point to Madison Wisconsin but that doesn’t change the fact that Milwaukee is the most segregated city in the US and Wisconsin is full of racists who dislike new people or ideas.
And I grew up in the ethnic melting pot of Gary, but southern Indiana was and still is major KKK country.
Adam Schiff goes off, lists the Trump Tower meeting, sharing of polling data, call to hack Clinton, Kushner back channel, and more: “You might say that’s all OK … I think it’s unpatriotic. And yes, I think it’s corrupt and evidence of collusion.” pic.twitter.com/ak4XxM6cvF
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 28, 2019
re: #122 The Vicious Babushka
Adam Schiff goes off, lists the Trump Tower meeting, sharing of polling data, call to hack Clinton, Kushner back channel, and more: “You might say that’s all OK … I think it’s unpatriotic. And yes, I think it’s corrupt and evidence of collusion.”
One thing that comforts me in these dark times is that John Mitchell went to prison for his role in Watergate. May the same fate befall William Barr.
re: #123 Hecuba’s daughter
One thing that comforts me in these dark times is that John Mitchell went to prison for his role in Watergate. May the same fate befall William Barr.
And Sessions!
re: #122 The Vicious Babushka
Makes for good theater, Mike Conaway is asking Schiff to step down.
re: #123 Hecuba’s daughter
One thing that comforts me in these dark times is that John Mitchell went to prison for his role in Watergate. May the same fate befall William Barr.
..and the real target of Schiff’s words, Devin Nunes.
Have I told you lately how much I hate Devin Nunes?
That asshole laid down the first heavy smoke screen to cover the whole Trump investigation. He and Paul Ryan along with McConnell, fucked this country good to protect the worst president in history.
I hope some day we all find out why.
re: #125 Shropshire Slasher
Makes for good theater, Mike Conaway is asking Schiff to step down.
And we’re all asking for Trump to step down. And Pence. And McConnell.
re: #125 Shropshire Slasher
Makes for good theater, Mike Conaway is asking Schiff to step down.
Fuck Mike Conaway too.
Schiff has no reason to step down.
Let’s discuss Trump stepping down. You into that?
re: #126 ObserverArt
..and the real target of Schiff’s words, Devin Nunes.
Have I told you lately how much I hate Devin Nunes?
That asshole laid down the first heavy smoke screen to cover the whole Trump investigation. He and Paul Ryan along with McConnell, fucked this country good to protect the worst president in history.
I hope some day we all find out why.
We know why. For judges and tax cuts for billionaires.
REVEALED: Full Mueller Report Is Over 300 Pages Long - https://t.co/Ay2p1Bzt6Z pic.twitter.com/LctwTqFzdS
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) March 28, 2019
re: #130 Alephnaught
REVEALED: Full Mueller Report Is Over 300 Pages Long -
a four-page summary with four direct quotes not containing complete sentences is enough for me to form a conclusive opinion on its contents…
Just reading the Atlantic story about the Democrats poor handling of Al Franken. It’s a sad tale considering what all has happened since they ran Al out of the Senate.
And you know, looking at the Democratic candidates, I keep thinking of Senator Gillibrand’s take on the whole thing. I don’t know how to balance it with her being a candidate for President. It makes me question her thinking and if she may be too quick to conclude.
Here is the link again if anyone is interested. It’s a good read.
The Atlantic - Democrats Need to Learn From Their Al Franken Mistake
re: #130 Alephnaught
The still-secret report on Russian interference in the 2016 election submitted by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, last week was more than 300 pages long, according to American officials with knowledge of it, a length that raises new questions about Attorney General William P. Barr’s four-page summary.
Mr. Barr wrote to Congress on Sunday offering what he called the “principal conclusions” of the report — including that Mr. Mueller had not found evidence that the Trump campaign took part in a conspiracy to undermine the election. But he had notably declined to publicly disclose its length.
The total of 300-plus pages suggests that Mr. Mueller went well beyond the kind of bare-bones summary required by the Justice Department regulation governing his appointment and detailed his conclusions at length. And it raises questions about what Mr. Barr might have left out of the four dense pages he sent Congress.
Democrats, who like all other lawmakers have not seen the report, have all but accused Mr. Barr of covering up damaging information it contains. They have specifically focused on an apparent difference between the views of Mr. Barr and Mr. Mueller on whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice. Democrats have demanded that the attorney general make the full report and evidence public.
re: #133 Shropshire Slasher
To compare to past investigations: (Same link)
Other blockbuster government reports in recent decades have been lengthy. At 445 pages, the independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr’s report on President Bill Clinton had to be trucked to Capitol Hill in September 1998.
The 9/11 commission report ran 567 pages with notes on the circumstances and fallout of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Even the Justice Department inspector general seems to have outwritten Mr. Mueller of late. Michael E. Horowitz released a scathing 500-page report last summer on the F.B.I.’s handling of an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state that preoccupied Congress for weeks.
Mr. Horowitz’s report on Mrs. Clinton’s emails was 568 pages.
and the Watergate “road map” sent to Congress by the Grand Jury was only 62 pages.
On this side of the pond, a student organization happily munches on its foot…
Funderar på hur @studentafton tänker när de stolt skyltar med att organisationen 1938 gav en av Nazitysklands viktigaste propagandamakare utrymme att tala samma år som Novemberpogromen (kristallnatten). Judehatet och förföljelsen var välkänd redan då. Studentafton 1938 visste. pic.twitter.com/1cyz1IzDQ7
— Jonatan Macznik (@JonatanMacznik) March 28, 2019
“Thinking about how @studentafton thinks when they proudly boast that the organization in 1938 gave one of Nazi Germany’s most important propaganda maker space to speak the same year as November pogrom (the crystal night). The Jew hatred and the persecution were well known at that time. Student evening 1938 knew.”
re: #74 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe this is heartless — but I will certainly never help someone financially who needs medical care but who supports Trump or the Republican Party.
Of course, maybe Trump will propose “Medicare for All” but call it Trumpcare. What happens to the Democrats if the Republican Party actually does that?
Promote the hell out of a race to the top, taunt Trump about falling behind.
They took the Seattle shooter alive, of course.
re: #132 ObserverArt
Just reading the Atlantic story about the Democrats poor handling of Al Franken. It’s a sad tale considering what all has happened since they ran Al out of the Senate.
And you know, looking at the Democratic candidates, I keep thinking of Senator Gillibrand’s take on the whole thing. I don’t know how to balance it with her being a candidate for President. It makes me question her thinking and if she may be too quick to conclude.
Here is the link again if anyone is interested. It’s a good read.
The Atlantic - Democrats Need to Learn From Their Al Franken Mistake
I think the most honest way to deal with the Franken matter would be to acknowledge that, had it not been for Doug Jones running a tight race against a paedophile, the whole matter would have been handled in a much more reasonable fashion. The DNC bowed to political expediency, running him out of the Senate in what they felt would be a move that bolstered their support among women voters. And Gillibrand lead the charge because she wanted to run in 2020 and Franken was seen as a potential frontrunner that she had the opportunity to knock off. Given the way that the GOP defended both Moore and then Kavanaugh later the same year, the idea that they would feel in any way pressured by Franken being run out on a rail seems ridiculous in retrospect.
re: #110 NO SMOCKING GUN!
In defense of Kentucky, here in Frankfort we have had immigrants who came here for construction and agricultural work, opened restaurants and medical practices and bought convenience stores. A new Honduran restaurant was opened close to me and the food is delicious.
I enjoyed living in Lexington, too.
re: #14 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
Hell, if they will believe anything he spews out of his pie hole they believe this.
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re: #141 Barefoot Grin
I enjoyed living in Lexington, too.
My oldest son has been there a year and a half and still hasn’t tried all of the non-American restaurants, though he’s not quite as adventerous with food as me or my middle son.
re: #142 steve_davis
should i be at all concerned that the first bottle is a 100% cure for cancer, but they’re sending me a second bottle?
Second bottle is in case it returns. Or you can give it to a friend who is also in need.
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Live look at the Mueller report pic.twitter.com/sawtiRQqGO
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) March 28, 2019
re: #109 Joe Bacon 🌹
All empires fall. Right now China and Russia are surely gloating over how the UK and US are imploding.
re: #111 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It is true. I never imagined it would happen in my lifetime, though.
Back in the 1980’s there were many who speculated that Japan was going to be running the world as their stock market skyrocketed and their economic model appeared to be eclipsing ours. It was gloom and doom then. While we struggled, they were ascending. But in a few years, it was Japan with the struggling economic model; their market remains 45% below its height in 1989.
It is certainly possible that Trump and McConnell have delivered a death blow to our nation — certainly I have frequently made such assertions — but it’s also possible that this damage is temporary and that 2020 will lead us to a complete recovery. Hope and change!
re: #148 Hecuba’s daughter
Back in the 1980’s there were many who speculated that Japan was going to be running the world as their stock market skyrocketed and their economic model appeared to be eclipsing ours. It was gloom and doom then. While we struggled, they were ascending. But in a few years, it was Japan with the struggling economic model; their market remains 45% below its height in 1989.
It is certainly possible that Trump and McConnell have delivered a death blow to our nation — certainly I have frequently made such assertions — but it’s also possible that this damage is temporary and that 2020 will lead us to a complete recovery. Hope and change!
Yeah I remember the Japan envy in the late 80’s, early 90’s.
How’s everyone’s Infrastructure Week, Mueller Report Edition, going?
re: #138 GlutenFreeJesus
They took the Seattle shooter alive, of course.
Oh gee it looks like I’ve missed another shooter.
re: #133 Shropshire Slasher
the four dense pages
Were they dense in definition 1 or 2?
dense
/dens/Submit
adjective
1.
closely compacted in substance.
“dense volcanic rock”
synonyms: thick, heavy, opaque, soupy, murky, smoggy, impenetrable; More
2.
INFORMAL
(of a person) stupid.
synonyms: stupid, unintelligent, ignorant, brainless, mindless, foolish, slow, slow-witted, dull-witted, witless, doltish, blockish, dunce-like, simpleminded, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, halfwitted, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, obtuse, bovine, lumpish;
I’m guessing the NYT was going for #1, but looking at the huge margins and with the header taking up 1/2 of page one and page four being only 1/2 a page (and, of course, the stupid letter not really saying much of anything at all other than Barr’s pipe dream “analysis”) I’m going with definition #2.
re: #150 Sir John Barron
Oh gee it looks like I’ve missed another shooter.
We were too busy with master criminal Jussie Smollett and how this demon escaped justice.
Don’t forget the Kardashian clan.
Kylie Jenner prompted rumours of a second pregnancy on Wednesday afternoon after showing off her soft pink and blue nails on social media.
The mother-of-one debuted new false nail extensions in shades commonly associated with baby boys and girls with her 130million Instagram followers.
Kylie, whose popular Kylie Cosmetics range has helped turn her into the world’s youngest billionaire at just 21, captioned the snap: ‘Back at it again with nail bae.’
re: #152 Hecuba’s daughter
We were too busy with master criminal Jussie Smollett and how this demon escaped justice.
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‘The situation is resolved’: Police say standoff with two gunmen barricaded in New Hampshire hotel which saw a third man shot dead last night is over
In summary: sit down boys. pic.twitter.com/JRiPqUaCVH
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) March 28, 2019
NEW: “I’m so proud of the work of Chairman Adam Schiff,” Speaker Pelosi says after GOP members of House Intel Committee call for his resignation.
“I think they’re just scaredy-cats. They just don’t know what to do.” https://t.co/t2NWMxwLme pic.twitter.com/ID59B7QtUf— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 28, 2019
re: #143 Belafon
My oldest son has been there a year and a half and still hasn’t tried all of the non-American restaurants, though he’s not quite as adventerous with food as me or my middle son.
Lots of good options. I was a regular at two super-cheap cajun restaurants. So good.
Nothing surprises me anymore…
Laura Ingraham guest says trans people will “destroy” gender norms to create “new species”—”Human and part machine” https://t.co/YP5xpgwNhm pic.twitter.com/hUZ4ItuQ8s
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) March 28, 2019
IANAL so really am not qualified to interpret the following well-publicized sentence from the Barr letter:
“[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
We obviously do not know what preceded these words in the Mueller report but what does the term “establish” imply in legalese? Is it equivalent to “prove beyond a reasonable doubt”? Could the beginning of the sentence have read something like, “Because we were unable to conduct thorough interviews of Donald, Ivanka, and Jared”
Just idle speculation — since I am not one of the Fox anchors who have all read the original report in great detail.
re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter
IANAL so really am not qualified to interpret the following well-publicized sentence from the Barr letter:
“[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
We obviously do not know what preceded these words in the Mueller report but what does the term “establish” imply in legalese? Is it equivalent to “prove beyond a reasonable doubt”? Could the beginning of the sentence have read something like, “Because we were unable to conduct thorough interviews of Donald, Ivanka, and Jared”
Just idle speculation — since I am not one of the Fox anchors who have all read the original report in great detail.
It could, we just don’t know, and we won’t know until the Mueller Report is released.
re: #159 Teukka
Nothing surprises me anymore…
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Resistance is futile. pic.twitter.com/yCyyhxpZAj— “Joe” (@JoeUsarian) March 28, 2019
re: #159 Teukka
Nothing surprises me anymore…
Boy, how wrong can she be? It’s the heterosexual male writing this comment that wants to create man-machine hybrids.
re: #159 Teukka
Nothing surprises me anymore…
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Trans people are cyborgs? Who knew? Does that mean they are being hired to police the streets of Detroit? Even better, they should be recruited by the military to protect this nation.
re: #159 Teukka
Nothing surprises me anymore…
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I get to be a terminator???
FUCK TO THE YEAH!!!
when conservatives complain about the mainstream media, the mainstream media responds. when liberals do it, the msm mocks us. https://t.co/Kc57AQVQHh
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 28, 2019
Not just respond, but with all urgency and apologetics.
Meanwhile liberals get told we’re destroyibg the very fabric of free speech when we say anything— Release the Report, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) March 28, 2019
re: #162 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Okay, the universe is just fucking with me now. I read this comment just after watching ST: First Contact for the first time in years.
re: #166 Citizen K
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Wingnut: “THAT’S A TOTAL LIE! YOU NEED TO CHANGE THAT!!!”
Media: “He’s right, we’re sorry and will print a correct post-haste.”
Liberal: “This article has clear issues with sourcing, editing, and the author’s own editorializing. There needs to be a correction.”
Media: “The article is accurate and we stand by it! If you can’t stand journalism looking into things that make you uncomfortable, then feel free to go elsewhere!”
re: #167 Targetpractice
Okay, the universe is just fucking with me now. I read this comment just after watching ST: First Contact for the first time in years.
I do like that it’s being rerun. It’s one of my favorites.
re: #168 Targetpractice
So the fault is that liberals try to reasonably explain what’s wrong rather than bullying the media.
re: #166 Citizen K
What is gone? I can’t see the picture.
Police on scene investigating graffiti outside the Oklahoma Democratic Headquarters. The building owner, David Walters, calling this a hate crime this morning. The sidewalks, parking lot and building are covered in spray paint/sharpie with a variety of slogans and racial slurs. pic.twitter.com/yCtRHMUVPD
— Erika Stanish (@Erika_Stanish) March 28, 2019
JUST IN: US Supreme Court has refused to hear a second appeal of bump stock ban, ending the Supreme Court’s involvement, and leaving the ban in effect - @PeteWilliamsNBC
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 28, 2019
re: #171 Belafon
The Economist had a piece on Ben Shapiro, with the headline “Inside the mind of Ben Shapiro, the alt-right sage without the rage.”
Ben had a shitfit about being called alt-right, so the Economist promptly replaced the headline with “Inside the mind of Ben Shapiro, a radical conservative.”
re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth
JUST IN: US Supreme Court has refused to hear a second appeal of bump stock ban, ending the Supreme Court’s involvement, and leaving the ban in effect
Well — at least one decision SCOTUS has gotten right but probably only because Trump supported it. I wonder how they would have ruled if Trump opposed the ban.
re: #159 Teukka
Laura Ingraham guest says trans people will “destroy” gender norms to create “new species”—“Human and part machine”
I’m pretty sure that Major Motoko Kusanagi wasn’t trans.
re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s good news. I still say should have been administratively ruled illegal by ATF at first view.
re: #175 Hecuba’s daughter
Well — at least one decision SCOTUS has gotten right but probably only because Trump supported it. I wonder how they would have ruled if Trump opposed the ban.
“The world may never know.”
re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter
IANAL so really am not qualified to interpret the following well-publicized sentence from the Barr letter:
“[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
We obviously do not know what preceded these words in the Mueller report but what does the term “establish” imply in legalese? Is it equivalent to “prove beyond a reasonable doubt”? Could the beginning of the sentence have read something like, “Because we were unable to conduct thorough interviews of Donald, Ivanka, and Jared”
Just idle speculation — since I am not one of the Fox anchors who have all read the original report in great detail.
The one thing I read is that the quote specifically says “Russian government.” Does Mueller consider surrogates like the Russian oligarchs connected to Putin the “Russian government”? My belief is that no, there was no direct, specific evidence that the Trump campaign worked directly with the Russian government like the troll farm or anything like that. Did they work with oligarchs, former members of their intelligence services, and/or other surrogates like Wikipedia to coordinate attacks and/or messaging around the election? I think the answer there is a resounding yes. So technically correct, but not the whole picture and not as nuanced.
re: #176 Dr Lizardo
I’m pretty sure that Major Motoko Kusanagi wasn’t trans.
I mean…Ghost in the Shell definitely dealt with transhumanism, but it definitely feels like Ingraham is trying to conflate it directly with transgender. I’m half surprised she didn’t outright say something dumb like it leading to people wanting to be Transformers.
re: #180 Citizen K
I mean…Ghost in the Shell definitely dealt with transhumanism, but it definitely feels like Ingraham is trying to conflate it directly with transgender. I’m half surprised she didn’t outright say something dumb like it leading to people wanting to be Transformers.
That actually wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest. Either that, or she’s too dumb to understand the difference.
re: #182 Dr Lizardo
That actually wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest. Either that, or she’s too dumb to understand the difference.
Six of one, half-dozen of the other.
re: #179 rhuarc
The one thing I read is that the quote specifically says “Russian government.” Does Mueller consider surrogates like the Russian oligarchs connected to Putin the “Russian government”? My belief is that no, there was no direct, specific evidence that the Trump campaign worked directly with the Russian government like the troll farm or anything like that. Did they work with oligarchs, former members of their intelligence services, and/or other surrogates like Wikipedia to coordinate attacks and/or messaging around the election? I think the answer there is a resounding yes. So technically correct, but not the whole picture and not as nuanced.
Thank you. So collusion with oligarchs but not the official government. So indirectly with the Russian government. Again, we need to see the entire report.
re: #174 Citizen K
The Economist had a piece on Ben Shapiro, with the headline “Inside the mind of Ben Shapiro, the alt-right sage without the rage.”
Ben had a shitfit about being called alt-right, so the Economist promptly replaced the headline with “Inside the mind of Ben Shapiro, a radical conservative.”
But he’s “without the rage”.
re: #161 NO SMOCKING GUN!
It could, we just don’t know, and we won’t know until the Mueller Report is released.
I wonder why I’m seeing all these publications billing themselves as The Mueller Report on Amazon dot com to be released in the next few weeks?
re: #181 TedStriker
That was one of the finest scenes in any of the Star Trek films and it showed Picard to be a true leader; he could utilize introspection, see the errors of his ways - and admit that he’d been wrong.
re: #187 Sir John Barron
I wonder why I’m seeing all these publications billing themselves as The Mueller Report on Amazon dot com to be released in the next few weeks?
Amazon is taking pre-orders.
OTOH The Mueller Report: The Leaked Investigation into President Donald Trump and His Inner Circle of Con Men, Circus Clowns, and Children He Named After Himself by Jason O. Gilbert has been on sale for a while and is pretty darned funny. (I got a free Kindle copy of it back in September.)
re: #179 rhuarc
BTW — typo alert: Wikileaks not Wikipedia
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
Amazon is taking pre-orders.
OTOH The Mueller Report: The Leaked Investigation into President Donald Trump and His Inner Circle of Con Men, Circus Clowns, and Children He Named After Himself by Jason O. Gilbert has been on sale for a while and is pretty darned funny. (I got a free Kindle copy of it back in September.)
**Snork**
Read it right away, while books are still legal in America!
Hannity lets @realDonaldTrump feed the violent white supremacist fantasies of Fox Newsicans: Just mow down immigrants with machine guns. He really endorsed that. https://t.co/jaOdxbQJlU
— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) March 28, 2019
The eight stages of genocide.
You better believe it. They’ve said so, all the way back to Reagan. Or George H. W. Bush, who thought people who weren’t his version of Christians shouldn’t be Americans. https://t.co/qldQDYZUfs
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 28, 2019
Face palm.
Remember how Trump was gonna save us all this money by going cheap on AF1 replacement planes? No more mid air refueling? (Stupid idea)
Now it seems the exact airframes chosen to buy on the cheap will not fit in the existing hangar/maintenance structures. Those will have to be rebuilt.
Choosing the 747-8i has induced some unique costs. For instance, the custom-built, bunker-like hexagon-shaped hangar that houses the VC-25As at Andrews Air Force Base won’t work for the new planes. The aircraft is slightly too large, so a whole new facility needs to be built… Taking the lower figure for the aircraft, their conversion, and entry into service, these planes should surpass the B-2A Spirit stealth bomber as the most expensive aircraft ever built. In fact, according to Defense One, their combined cost, including infrastructure projects and some other ancillary costs associated with the program, exceeds what the Navy says a Nimitz class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier historically costs—about $4.5B.
re: #194 Unshaken Defiance
Face palm.
Remember how Trump was gonna save us all this money by going cheap on AF1 replacement planes? No more mid air refueling? (Stupid idea)
Now it seems the exact airframes chosen to buy on the cheap will not fit in the existing hangar/maintenance structures. Those will have to be rebuilt.[Embedded content]
Wow, so Trump claims he’s going to be saving us so much money and ends up making things even more drastically expensive as ever? Who woulda thought?!
re: #159 Teukka
Nothing surprises me anymore…
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So she thinks Trans people are…Terminators?
Schiff really got under Trump’s skin, apparently.
The GOP is trying to mount a wave of fake outrage to ratfuck him.
Time to stand up and #resist folks. We cannot allow the honest, principled reps to be bullied into silence like this. That path leads to cowed silence as McConnell meekly allows Trump to declare himself “President-for-life.”
To hell with your border wall,
your travel bans,
your Dreamer harassment,
your ACA sabotage,
your ICE raids,
your Muslim caricatures,
your nazi-coddling,
your phony Patriotism,
your fake religion,
your dictator affections.https://t.co/OqVq7t0BRP#IStandWithSchiff— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) March 28, 2019
re: #93 Belafon
WHICH. NO. OTHER. LAW. EVER. NEEDED.
Absolutely not true.
Many laws are written with severability clause so that if one portion (or section) is struck down, it doesn’t render the remainder unconstitutional.
States often require severability clauses in writing state laws that have multiple provisions for precisely this reason.
re: #199 lawhawk
Absolutely not true.
Many laws are written with severability clause so that if one portion (or section) is struck down, it doesn’t render the remainder unconstitutional.
States often require severability clauses in writing state laws that have multiple provisions for precisely this reason.
I stand corrected. It seems weird to have to require that.
re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg
So she thinks Trans people are…Terminators?
Apparently. Or some sort of contagion?
re: #194 Unshaken Defiance
The significant cost is in building out the new hangars, not the planes themselves.
The plane airframes cost about $400 million each; the balance is in retrofitting the planes with the avionics needed to make it a flying White House.
It’s actually the cheapest part of the entire acquisition program. And you’re right - eliminating the inflight refueling makes no sense, as if you need to get somewhere safe and/or need to stay airborne, you would no longer have that capability.
Everything about what Trump’s done re: AF1 is questionable.
re: #77 Joe Bacon 🌹
I know all about it.
Brainwashed nephew, two disabled kids on SSI, votes straight Republican because he hates Muslims and the Government. Endlessly posts his hatred of “Ho-Bama” and his “TS” wife on his Facebook page. Refuses to sign up for what he calls “N-Word” care. Refused to do Medicaid redeterminations so his sons lost their medical care. He sets up a GoFundMe for their medical bills.
Niece has two disabled daughters, won’t use the ACA because it’s ungodly. Says the Lord will take care of them.
Other relatives just as ignorant…
Wow. So sorry you have to deal with that in your family. Mine is similar. I got to the point where I basically threw up my hands and said, “Well, it looks like this is going to be a case of evolution in action. The human race is about to get a tiny fraction of an IQ point smarter.”
Wasn’t invited back after that.
No, most of us learned that the Nazis weren’t socialists a long time ago.
But if this is seriously news to you, you’d better sit down before you look into the politics of the German Democratic Republic or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.https://t.co/ikmk91dtZW— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 28, 2019
re: #116 ObserverArt
Complete bullshit. I would imagine the U.S. military is one of the biggest users of aviation fuel going. They can probably buy it cheaper than Liberty U.
But hey, Trump just doing some tithing to keep in good with his godly connections.
this is what money laundering and / or payoffs looks like
re: #196 Citizen K
Wow, so Trump claims he’s going to be saving us so much money and ends up making things even more drastically expensive as ever? Who woulda thought?!
nobody knew this in advance?
they didnt check
or care
re: #196 Citizen K
Wow, so Trump claims he’s going to be saving us so much money and ends up making things even more drastically expensive as ever? Who woulda thought?!
I’ll take “Trump’s Life Pattern” for $200.
re: #110 NO SMOCKING GUN!
In defense of Kentucky, here in Frankfort we have had immigrants who came here for construction and agricultural work, opened restaurants and medical practices and bought convenience stores. A new Honduran restaurant was opened close to me and the food is delicious.
Honduran? Wow. I miss the one in my neighborhood - they were the first place I ever had chocolate lava cake made with single-source chocolate from a Honduran plantation.
They also had a twist on fusion cuisine that was unique; they had pupusas, tacos & hamburgers - that all tasted subtly different from anything else I’ve had, even here in diverse L.A.
re: #203 lawhawk
The significant cost is in building out the new hangars, not the planes themselves.
The plane airframes cost about $400 million each; the balance is in retrofitting the planes with the avionics needed to make it a flying White House.
It’s actually the cheapest part of the entire acquisition program. And you’re right - eliminating the inflight refueling makes no sense, as if you need to get somewhere safe and/or need to stay airborne, you would no longer have that capability.
Everything about what Trump’s done re: AF1 is questionable.
if i were the next president, i’d be afraid to fly in it
re: #205 jaunte
Hitler himself, in Mein Kampf, laid out exactly what his definition of “socialism” was.
In a word, ethno-nationalism. There was nothing even remotely Marxist about it - arguably, he was attempting to redefine the term.
re: #196 Citizen K
Wow, so Trump claims he’s going to be saving us so much money and ends up making things even more drastically expensive as ever?
That’s pretty much how con men operate.
re: #211 Dr Lizardo
Hitler himself, in Mein Kampf, laid out exactly what his definition of “socialism” was.
In a word, ethno-nationalism. There was nothing even remotely Marxist about it - arguably, he was attempting to redefine the term.
Trump’s @EPA wants to gut the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS), which protects children from toxic air pollutants like mercury and arsenic from power plants. Say NO to Trump’s plans to undo mercury protections >>> https://t.co/2pbPpixTFK
— Earthjustice (@Earthjustice) March 28, 2019
re: #77 Joe Bacon 🌹
I know all about it.
Brainwashed nephew, two disabled kids on SSI, votes straight Republican because he hates Muslims and the Government. Endlessly posts his hatred of “Ho-Bama” and his “TS” wife on his Facebook page. Refuses to sign up for what he calls “N-Word” care. Refused to do Medicaid redeterminations so his sons lost their medical care. He sets up a GoFundMe for their medical bills.
Niece has two disabled daughters, won’t use the ACA because it’s ungodly. Says the Lord will take care of them.
Other relatives just as ignorant…
mostly all the ACA does is allow everyone to buy health insurance from insurance companies and describe what those policies must cover
i’d wonder what it is that’s ‘ungodly’. insurance or affordable insurance
Hey @JohnCornyn - How many times does the Mueller report mention you? Texans want to know. https://t.co/h5ggv7Q8SL
— Stiles (@PeteStiles) March 28, 2019
re: #205 jaunte
So, today we’ve learned that @benshapiro is alt-right despite being a constant target of the alt-right, and the National Socialist party wasn’t socialist, despite the word being in their name.
a lot of Dems are constant targets of other dems - what does that make them?
even R’s can be constant targets of other r’s (ok, not as often….)
Then she whispered: “Thank you for choosing Hipster Coffeeshop Airlines” https://t.co/p2tKppztRA
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) March 28, 2019
The rich fantasy lives of conservatives.
re: #215 Man, DangerMan
mostly all the ACA does is allow everyone to buy health insurance from insurance companies and describe what those policies must cover
i’d wonder what it is that’s ‘ungodly’. insurance or affordable insurance
Probably, “IT’S GODLESS BOLSHEVISM!!” or something to that effect.
Some people - about 25 years ago, when Portland, OR was expanding its public transit network, I had someone tell me that public transportation was Communism. FFS.
Finnish Supreme Court bans neo-Nazi group’s activities https://t.co/66H0HcjskC
— Magnus Ranstorp (@MagnusRanstorp) March 28, 2019
re: #212 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s pretty much how con men operate.
easy when it aint your money
im counting on that by the time they are ready to fly, he’s already been voted out
re: #214 jaunte
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Trump has upended every single fucking dept. under the Executive Branch to do the exact opposite of their purpose, down to the one. The Dept. of Education is hollowing out public schools for charter schools with worse results and denying education opportunities to vast amounts of children. The Environmental Protection Agency only protects companies who want to destroy the Environment. The Dept. of Justice is protecting and projecting blatant injustices daily. I can go on.
It’s just…fuck.
re: #221 Teukka
Whatbout FReeSpeech?!?!?!?
re: #131 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a four-page summary with four direct quotes not containing complete sentences is enough for me to form a conclusive opinion on its contents…
if we give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not write most of that ‘letter’ 2-3 weeks prior, then he managed he read it all, comprehended it all, understood it all, had no questions at all and wrote it in, what, 2 days?
re: #224 wrenchwench
Welcome back, non-hatchling.
Hiya! Outa donuts and it’s too early for Mohitos so I come empty handed.
re: #120 Old Liberal
Sure and I can point to Madison Wisconsin but that doesn’t change the fact that Milwaukee is the most segregated city in the US and Wisconsin is full of racists who dislike new people or ideas.
I grew up in Northwest WI, and can attest to this. When I saw the movie “Winter’s Bone” years ago, even though it’s supposedly set in rural Missouri, I instantly recognized the people, houses and milieu. Rusted pickup trucks being driven by angry, ignorant men who beat the shit out of their wives and children, had hair-trigger tempers, lots of guns, and were chronically underemployed and committing petty crimes.
I swear, it didn’t used to be like this. When I was a kid, the rural areas were where you had to work hard, sure, (hell, I did, starting at age 8, stacking haybales on gramma’s farm) but there wasn’t this seething anger and resentment.
re: #229 allegro
Hiya! Outa donuts and it’s too early for Mohitos so I come empty handed.
New Rule for these desperate times: Never too early for mojitos.
re: #229 allegro
Hiya! Outa donuts and it’s too early for Mohitos so I come empty handed.
Since your shells were cleaned up so long ago, you can get away with that. Or stay. Your choice.
re: #229 allegro
It’s 12:00 somewhere. In fact, it’s twenty past here. Bring on the booze!!!
re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth
New Rule for these desperate times: Never too early for mojitos.
I was hoping for an enabler! Muchos gracias!
re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
I take my mission in life seriously
You do excellent work. Better than you know. Having your tortellini salad for lunch!
Oh dear.
Reason number 704 —
why I live in California…
❄️#Weather #ThursdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/YaIZPvQkr8— Tom Hall ☘ (@TomHall) March 28, 2019
re: #225 Sir John Barron
Whatbout FReeSpeech?!?!?!?
Nazism is a sensitive subject to us Finns - we paid thru our noses for having the Third Reich as an ally.
Looks like people are starting to have Schiff’s back.
All these attacks are just going to raise his profile, amplify his voice and make him stronger. If it works for the racist shitgoblins, we can make it work for the Good Guys.
Republicans sat by & watched thugs dismantle our civility & align themselves with a traitor & his greedy family. If Republicans were doing their job we wouldn’t have needed Mueller. This administration is a group of criminals looking to exploit the system. #IStandWithSchiff
— GOPRO (@lindalo66852504) March 28, 2019
How I felt when he told off the repubs #IStandWithSchiff pic.twitter.com/z7ojj9oyuN
— Babs (@rn_babs) March 28, 2019
This speech is already historic. And when you look back on this moment, you gutless gang of eunuchs, @GOP, what will you say you did? Laughed it off or actually chose country over party? We won’t wait for your answer and we won’t stand for a compromised POTUS. #IStandWithSchiff https://t.co/A1xcMgQynf
— Lesley Abravanel (@lesleyabravanel) March 28, 2019
And the @GOP traitors just sat there & listened & were like “Yup, we’re good with all that” 🤬 #GOPComplicitTraitors #IStandWithSchiff @RepAdamSchiff #ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport #ImpeachTrump https://t.co/jA6LbkKdko
— Tara F’n Dublin (@taradublinrocks) March 28, 2019
re: #223 Citizen K
Trump has upended every single fucking dept. under the Executive Branch to do the exact opposite of their purpose, down to the one. The Dept. of Education is hollowing out public schools for charter schools with worse results and denying education opportunities to vast amounts of children. The Environmental Protection Agency only protects companies who want to destroy the Environment. The Dept. of Justice is protecting and projecting blatant injustices daily. I can go on.
It’s just…fuck.
Other than FP, what department really operates differently from under Reagan? And for additional perspective: Krugman in 2007
His domestic policy doesn’t differ from that of any Republican since Reagan, though he is far less polite.
from enfuegobuddha on disqus:
If the policy is the DOJ will never indict a sitting President, that Congress must impeach, then all evidence needs to be turned over to the House whose responsibility it is to judge whether charges are warranted. Why is Barr usurping the power of Congress?
US Senators refer my State Department IWOC award withdrawal to Inspector General for further investigation!
State Dept spokesperson spread false statements to publicity.
Looking forward to further fact-checking!
Great piece by @cnn
Please read.https://t.co/4Q258U3G6O— Jessikka Aro (@JessikkaAro) March 28, 2019
Thank You Mr. Schiff. pic.twitter.com/B64M1VXlKY
— Patrick Randall (@PatrickRandall) March 28, 2019
re: #242 Hecuba’s daughter
Other than FP, what department really operates differently from under Reagan? And for additional perspective: Krugman in 2007
His domestic policy doesn’t differ from that of any Republican since Reagan, though he is far less polite.
Immigration.
Gun control.
re: #230 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
I’ve never seen Winter’s Bone, but I’ll definitely have to check it out; from what I can gather reading the IMDB, it’s a neo-noir/neo-realist film with a bit of Deliverance thrown in.
Sounds good. I like a good slow-burn film.
SCHIFF: “You might think it’s OK that [Flynn] secretly conferred with a Russian ambassador about undermining US sanctions & then lied about it to the FBI. You might say that’s all OK — that’s just what you have to do to win… I think it’s corrupt & evidence of collusion.” pic.twitter.com/CDnyNnfWO5
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2019
Some nuggets c/o @charles_gaba
✅Rates would have been down 9%, but for Republican elimination of the mandate
✅2.7 million first time, would have been more w mandate & without Trump cuts to outreach
Many more insights in this great blog.https://t.co/JOK1idHZZx— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) March 28, 2019
re: #247 Dr Lizardo
I’ve never seen Winter’s Bone, but I’ll definitely have to check it out; from what I can gather reading the IMDB, it’s a neo-noir/neo-realist film with a bit of Deliverance thrown in.
Sounds good. I like a good slow-burn film.
Some very early J-Law
Hm.
Exclusive: Trump used unusual financial statements to exaggerate his wealth, hide debts as a businessman, documents reviewed by The Post show https://t.co/YKW0IWwiA0
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 28, 2019
This is a nice effort, but I’ve argued myself blue in the face that Don The Con is actually broke as a joke. He’s an arrogant dummy who bet huge on real estate before the ‘08 crash, had to mortgage his soul to the Russians for a thin stream of operating capital to pay his debts, and has a lifetime of being rewarded for telling big lies and blustering.
When psychotic liars get called on their bullshit in a way that sticks, it’s usually shotgun-in-the-mouth time.
Wonder what Trump’s reaction will be? Will he kill us all to preserve his illusion of wealth and intelligence?
re: #251 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Hm.
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This is a nice effort, but I’ve argued myself blue in the face that Don The Con is actually broke as a joke. He’s an arrogant dummy who bet huge on real estate before the ‘08 crash, had to mortgage his soul to the Russians for a thin stream of operating capital to pay his debts, and has a lifetime of being rewarded for telling big lies and blustering.
When psychotic liars get called on their bullshit in a way that sticks, it’s usually shotgun-in-the-mouth time.
Wonder what Trump’s reaction will be? Will he kill us all to preserve his illusion of wealth and intelligence?
The latter could be a real risk/possibility with Donnie Two Scoops personality type.
re: #247 Dr Lizardo
I’ve never seen Winter’s Bone, but I’ll definitely have to check it out; from what I can gather reading the IMDB, it’s a neo-noir/neo-realist film with a bit of Deliverance thrown in.
Sounds good. I like a good slow-burn film.
It was the film that catapulted Jennifer Lawrence to stardom. It was pitch-perfect. Showed the rotting houses with yards full of expensive toys covered with weeds. Sad-eyed women with whisky-and-smokes voices resignedly doing That Which Needs Doing.
And underneath it all, the desperation. The sheer desperation and despair of people for whom there is no way out.
This is another reason I want Joe to go away until time to come out and campaign for the Democratic candidate (not him) next year. This really bugs me.
Stacey Abrams adviser on talk of her being Joe Biden’s VP: “What makes it particularly exploitative is that Biden couldn’t be bothered to endorse Stacey in the gubernatorial primary. Now he wants her to save his ass. That’s some serious entitlement.” https://t.co/3g1DeOQXvL
— Matt Viser (@mviser) March 28, 2019
OK….. How about wanna be Alt-Right. That fits pretty well. The Alt-Right will never fully accept you. Period. They’re Nazi’s in my book and should be in yours as well.
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 28, 2019
re: #250 Sir John Barron
Some very early J-Law
If you like slow-burn films, I’d recommend Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, a 2011 flick from Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It’s basically a police procedural, but it’s masterfully done and it won the 2011 Jury Grand Prize at Cannes.
I’d also recommend Winter Sleep from the same writer/director; it won the 2014 Palme d’Or at Cannes. The man is a Turkish national treasure as far as I’m concerned.
Look in the background during Interior Secretary Nominee David Bernhardt’s opening statement.
Watch LIVE on C-SPAN3 https://t.co/i3oegv9okf pic.twitter.com/UiiaVfV8h2— CSPAN (@cspan) March 28, 2019
re: #254 allegro
This is another reason I want Joe to go away until time to come out and campaign for the Democratic candidate (not him) next year. This really bugs me.
He won’t last long. That pretty much wipes out his African-American female vote. And you aren’t going to win anything without that.
I just got back from the accountant with this year’s tax filing. Under Trump’s stupid tax plan, we’re getting back less than half of what we got back last year.
Thanks, asshole.
“The launch of OxyContin Tablets will be followed by a blizzard of prescriptions…The prescription blizzard will be so deep, dense, and white.”
The words of Richard Sackler, now a defendant in New York’s beautifully, humanly written lawsuit, just filed. https://t.co/jJfU0ZgdK8 pic.twitter.com/rI1l1v2LrK— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) March 28, 2019
re: #253 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
It was the film that catapulted Jennifer Lawrence to stardom. It was pitch-perfect. Showed the rotting houses with yards full of expensive toys covered with weeds. Sad-eyed women with whisky-and-smokes voices resignedly doing That Which Needs Doing.
And underneath it all, the desperation. The sheer desperation and despair of people for whom there is no way out.
Another film I’ve seen that’s in that vein is the 2011 Australian film Snowtown, based on the infamous “bodies in barrels murders”. Daniel Henshall, who plays the serial killer John Bunting, turned in a performance that was absolutely chilling.
It is a deeply disturbing film - but it’s also brilliant.
You don’t enjoy it…..you experience it.
WILLIAM BARR, AGE 9, PRESENTS HIS REPORT CARD: “Let me give you the headline, mom. No Fs—zero!—in Spelling, Art, or Gym. My deportment is “greatly […] improved.” Blah blah “nose-picking,” blah blah “stole Suzy’s lunch.” My history grade remains Classified. Sign here. Or I can.”
— Joe Keenan (@MrJoeKeenan) March 26, 2019
re: #259 makeitstop
I just got back from the accountant with this year’s tax filing. Under Trump’s stupid tax plan, we’re getting back less than half of what we got back last year.
Thanks, asshole.
Was part of this due to the reduction in withholding foisted on us by the Trump Treasury Department last year? So the total taxes are similar but payment was reallocated. It was a trick to make people think they were getting a significant reduction in taxes.
hello, meet the “Deputy Director of Communications—Rapid Response for @realdonaldtrump 2020 campaign” https://t.co/OS9AgK6cLG
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 28, 2019
There is no abortion debate. There are people on twitter who make false claims and people who correct them. That is not a debate. Discussion perhaps, but no debate. https://t.co/6Vtnl3Wbhj
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) March 28, 2019
🔥🔥🔥 Nancy Pelosi says #IStandWithSchiff, slams “almost criminal” behavior of @DevinNunes, says @realDonaldTrump is a “scaredy-cat” who’s “afraid of the truth…They did the wrong thing. The American people know that” #ReleaseTheFullReport #FightForTruth pic.twitter.com/vwFZtsInFT
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) March 28, 2019
re: #265 jaunte
I’m sure GOPers who think nothing of stripping health coverage from 50 million people, screwing anyone with preexisting coverage with higher costs, actually is pro-life.
You’re a goddamned hypocrite.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 28, 2019
re: #221 Teukka
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The essence of Nazism is genocide, so Neo-Nazis are terrorists and should not be tolerated in any free society.
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it most likely is a duck.
Same goes for alt-righters.
Just sayin’…— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) March 28, 2019
re: #215 Man, DangerMan
mostly all the ACA does is allow everyone to buy health insurance from insurance companies and describe what those policies must cover
i’d wonder what it is that’s ‘ungodly’. insurance or affordable insurance
It’s ungodly because a colored man signed the bill.
In case it’s not obvious, Trump really likes the Jussie Smollett case because for him and his base it fits into the Trumpian/Fox News narrative that racism against minorities is fake but racism against white people is real.
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) March 28, 2019
They shouldn’t ignore his tweets because like it or not, they’re still presidential statements, so if something wacky comes out in a tweet, that’s important.
What they have to stop doing is treating his statements as normal and taking them as face value good faith.— Release the Report, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) March 28, 2019
The president ranting on twitter, being openly racist, & threatening his political enemies in his capacity as president isn’t important to note?
We can’t ignore that no matter how much we’d like to pretend it doesn’t exist. What we can do is stop treating them like normal tweets— Release the Report, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) March 28, 2019
This kinda shit irritates me.
The president being a ranty racist fuck on Twitter is, in and of itself, a story. Just because it’s commonplace doesn’t mean it’s normal or should be normal. The problem isn’t that ‘The president is tweeting’, the problem is that he’s using it as a cudgel for every fucking xenophobic arch-conservative hobby horse and Fox & Friends ranting he has on his little mind at any particular point. Saying you should ignore that is saying you should ignore the president being a racist fuck. The president, in his capacity as president, taking to open communications to be a racist fuck is precisely consequential. The problem is treating it like you would an Obama tweet that, while eloquent and cool, isn’t as consequential because it’s not promising vast upending change to policy or disseminating violent eliminationism.
It’s like people demanding that you ignore antisemitic or racist trolls. Ignoring them won’t make them go away at a certain point, it just makes it so you don’t see them until there’s a Tiki Torch and swastika swinging in your face. You don’t ignore that, nor do you treat it like ‘business as usual’. You shine a light on it and then underscore how abnormal it is or should be. You don’t pretend it’s mundane and then brush it under the rug, you don’t go out of your way to normalize or enable it. You show it exactly for what it is.
he doesn’t *sound* exonerated https://t.co/9W657zKlsP
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 28, 2019
re: #218 jaunte
There are very few actual conservatives left.
re: #274 Romantic Heretic
I feel fairly conservative, because i want to preserve humans and the earth’s habitability.
re: #274 Romantic Heretic
There are very few actual conservatives left.
the GOP is a fascist party, not a conservative party.
re: #274 Romantic Heretic
There are very few actual conservatives left.
They’ve been replaced by KKKonservatives!
People who don’t give a shit about humans or the earth are radicals.
Well the wife and daughter just left on a road trip to Denver. Daughter is transferring within her company from the Akron OH office out to Denver CO (she is a civil engineer). Wife is going along on the trip and staying a couple weeks to help her get settled in, and then flying back. Furniture and things will be leaving out tomorrow with a moving company. It should be a good adventure for both of them.
re: #263 Hecuba’s daughter
Was part of this due to the reduction in withholding foisted on us by the Trump Treasury Department last year? So the total taxes are similar but payment was reallocated. It was a trick to make people think they were getting a significant reduction in taxes.
It’s because he’s a New Yorker.
State income tax and local property tax used to be deductible on the federal return, now they’re not. (state and local taxes = SALT)
This component of the bill was designed deliberately and specifically to fuck blue state wealthy people, the red states don’t have a lot of high earners and their taxes are super-low anyway because they don’t do most of the things that state taxes pay for (good public schools, public transportation, libraries, parks, etc etc).
re: #279 Eventual Carrion
I spent a good chunk of my life in Denver. It’s a great place to live.
re: #270 Teukka
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re: #230 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
I grew up in Northwest WI, and can attest to this. When I saw the movie “Winter’s Bone” years ago, even though it’s supposedly set in rural Missouri, I instantly recognized the people, houses and milieu. Rusted pickup trucks being driven by angry, ignorant men who beat the shit out of their wives and children, had hair-trigger tempers, lots of guns, and were chronically underemployed and committing petty crimes.
I swear, it didn’t used to be like this. When I was a kid, the rural areas were where you had to work hard, sure, (hell, I did, starting at age 8, stacking haybales on gramma’s farm) but there wasn’t this seething anger and resentment.
Funny that’s where I grew up. Polk County now one of the worst meth-addicted counties in the US. Yes Wisconsin is a shithole state now IMO and a bleak future. 60 years ago it was a progressive leader.
re: #282 sagehen
Stephen Colbert’s take:
“If it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck, what’s with all the goose-stepping?”
Comes with the territory of being a duck (semi-///)
re: #259 makeitstop
I just got back from the accountant with this year’s tax filing. Under Trump’s stupid tax plan, we’re getting back less than half of what we got back last year.
Thanks, asshole.
When your accountant did your taxes, did he show you your marginal and effective rates?
The refund is just one component to the entire tax bill.
I know I ended up paying more in tax, precisely because of the SALT deduction limitation to $10k, the mortgage interest deduction limitation, and some one time costs (cap gains).
Going forward, I know I’m going to see smaller refunds on par with what I saw this year. I don’t feel richer, and most people don’t feel richer because a few bucks reduction on taxes withheld during the year doesn’t seem like much - but a bigger refund check has more punch. Seeing what you got pre-TCJA and after can be a gut punch.
The same polling also shows that it has become easier for the Iranian regime to shift blame for economic problems to the United States since sanctions have been reimposed, in contrast to the hopes of those supporting externally-imposed regime change.
— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) March 28, 2019
re: #262 Teukka
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Shitmonger Trump:
There’s no legislative action. The GOP tried to repeal Obamacare in the last Congress and failed miserably. You ran on platform to repeal Obamacare, and the GOP lost the House.
You’re hoping activist judges do what the GOP couldn’t do legislatively.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 28, 2019
And we’re unlucky, one of those pucks that come at you which such force it makes a hole in the goalies glove and sets it on fire…
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) March 28, 2019
re: #150 Sir John Barron
Oh gee it looks like I’ve missed another shooter.
I’m always thankful when another shooter misses me. It’s only a matter of time.
re: #280 sagehen
It’s because he’s a New Yorker.
State income tax and local property tax used to be deductible on the federal return, now they’re not. (state and local taxes = SALT)
This component of the bill was designed deliberately and specifically to fuck blue state wealthy people, the red states don’t have a lot of high earners and their taxes are super-low anyway because they don’t do most of the things that state taxes pay for (good public schools, public transportation, libraries, parks, etc etc).
Which is why most of the red states get so much money from the federal government. If it wasn’t for federal money they wouldn’t have enough money to wash the windows in their public buildings.
re: #280 sagehen
It’s because he’s a New Yorker.
State income tax and local property tax used to be deductible on the federal return, now they’re not. (state and local taxes = SALT)
This component of the bill was designed deliberately and specifically to fuck blue state wealthy people, the red states don’t have a lot of high earners and their taxes are super-low anyway because they don’t do most of the things that state taxes pay for (good public schools, public transportation, libraries, parks, etc etc).
My bad. I didn’t recall that he’s a New Yorker. I haven’t done my taxes yet but being from Illinois, I will also be affected. Aren’t SALT deductions still available but only to $10,000 (which impacts me)? The new code also eliminated personal exemptions.
re: #292 Hecuba’s daughter
My bad. I didn’t recall that he’s a New Yorker. I haven’t done my taxes yet but being from Illinois, I will also be affected. Aren’t SALT deductions still available but only to $10,000 (which impacts me)? The new code also eliminated personal exemptions.
The new code is going to cost me since the reduced exemptions for a number of expenses and deductions is going to cut down on how much my adjusted income is - and thus I pay more in taxes.
re: #292 Hecuba’s daughter
My bad. I didn’t recall that he’s a New Yorker. I haven’t done my taxes yet but being from Illinois, I will also be affected. Aren’t SALT deductions still available but only to $10,000 (which impacts me)? The new code also eliminated personal exemptions.
Since I used standard deductions (no mortgage interest to speak of), doubling that helped my taxes quite a bit. Same refund, the monthly take-home pay went up $200.
Of course, the idiots in the Trump administration did not account for psychology. Rather than wait and have people get YUGE refunds, they wanted people to see more money right away. It appears much smaller though. A significant part of the monthly increase was eaten up in many cases by increased healthcare costs etc.
JUST IN: McConnell moves to set up “nuclear option” to to speed up consideration of Trump nominees https://t.co/FplYjNIRZd pic.twitter.com/RvNpthEZqq
— The Hill (@thehill) March 28, 2019
Nuclear Option Alert — McConnell says plans to change Senate rules to cut debate time on district court nominees from 30 hours to 2 hours.
This would clear the way for Republicans to speedily confirm a boatload of Trump judges.
“This is a change the institution needs.”— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 28, 2019
Basically, this is the same process as the Reid precedent from 2013 (ending the 60-vote rule for non-SCOTUS nominations) and the McConnell precedent from 2017 (ending 60 for SCOTUS noms as well). Both were done on a partisan vote.
i.e. the Nuclear Option— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 28, 2019
Don’t look now, but McConnell is doing his damnedest to ensure that Trump gets to enshrine an eternal conservatopia via the courts.
re: #296 Citizen K
That’s why next year is about the Senate as well as the presidency. We can mitigate the damage if we get control.
re: #296 Citizen K
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Don’t look now, but McConnell is doing his damnedest to ensure that Trump gets to enshrine an eternal conservatopia via the courts.
The fix for this is simple. Nullify all acts of the Trump administration as fraudulent if/when the US become responsibly governed again. This includes impeachment and removal from office of all Trump judges, at all levels of the federal judiciary.
Naturally this will never happen because Republicans protect their own and the media mostly holsters for Republicans.
re: #296 Citizen K
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When the Democrats get elected again, can they use that 2 hour limit to their advantage?
re: #301 Eclectic Cyborg
When the Democrats get elected again, can they use that to their advantage?
Yep.
re: #301 Eclectic Cyborg
When the Democrats get elected again, can they use that to their advantage?
It’ll all depend on what vacancies are actually there. Remember that a lot of the vacancies that are getting filled now are the ones that McConnell’s own Senate held up completely through most of his terms. So more than likely, there’s going to be nowhere near as many vacancies to fill by the time Dems get control again somehow.
re: #159 Teukka
Laura Ingraham guest says trans people will “destroy” gender norms to create “new species”—“Human and part machine”
Ahem, where is her concern about people with hearing aids, pacemakers, prosthetic limbs and those “balloons” for guys with severe ED?
re: #305 MsJ
Not so early. Post Hunger Games, I think.
Winter’s Bone came out two years before the Hunger Games. IIRC, it was the role that got her noticed by the Hunger Games producers.
re: #292 Hecuba’s daughter
My bad. I didn’t recall that he’s a New Yorker. I haven’t done my taxes yet but being from Illinois, I will also be affected. Aren’t SALT deductions still available but only to $10,000 (which impacts me)? The new code also eliminated personal exemptions.
Yeah the salt deductions weren’t too bad, even here in “Taxachusetts” the $10000 limit mostly covered me, but eliminating the personal exemption and mileage deductions sucked.
re: #254 allegro
This is another reason I want Joe to go away until time to come out and campaign for the Democratic candidate (not him) next year. This really bugs me.
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Might it be said that Joe B. has gotten more than a little full of himself?
Some of his actions lately say that to me. This bit with Stacy Abrams practically screams he thought she would jump on without actually asking because he is Joe B.
Come on Joe, you are now at the stage where you are going to ruin your good cred.
The last thing we should be doing is giving Saudi Arabia the tools to make a nuclear bomb. That’s why we have a law that requires Congress to review the sale of nuclear technology to foreign govts. But @SecretaryPerry seemed confused by that law – so I helped him understand it. pic.twitter.com/9t56GYkwDF
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) March 28, 2019
re: #308 ObserverArt
Might it be said that Joe B. has gotten more than a little full of himself?
Some of his actions lately say that to me. This bit with Stacy Abrams practically screams he thought she would jump on without actually asking because he is Joe B.
Come on Joe, you are now at the stage where you are going to ruin your good cred.
Biden has wanted the Presidency since 1988. It’s very difficult to see a dream die, especially when there are so many pundits who claim that you are savior of the Democratic Party.
re: #310 Hecuba’s daughter
Biden has wanted the Presidency since 1988. It’s very difficult to see a dream die, especially when there are so many pundits who claim that you are savior of the Democratic Party.
If Biden wants the presidency, and wants to keep his relatively moderate positions on the issues, then the answer is simple — he needs to open up an big can of whup-ass vs. Trump and the Republicans. Like Harry Truman with his “Republicans complain about me giving them hell. All I do is tell the truth about them, and they think it’s hell.”
Unfortunately it seems Biden doesn’t realize this, which should consign his campaign to irrelevance in short order.
re: #310 Hecuba’s daughter
Biden has wanted the Presidency since 1988. It’s very difficult to see a dream die, especially when there are so many pundits who claim that you are savior of the Democratic Party.
Would these be pundits that would like Joe to run so he can be torn apart about his past gaffs and they can open a path for Trump’s reelection?
These days I am more than just a lot weary of political pundits. Too many seem to have their own candidates and agendas and thus tailor their punditry to those candidates.
Let’s just say 2016 taught me to be suspect.
re: #312 ObserverArt
Would these be pundits that would like Joe to run so he can be torn apart about his past gaffs and they can open a path for Trump’s reelection?
These days I am more than just a lot weary of political pundits. Too many seem to have their own candidates and agendas and thus tailor their punditry to those candidates.
Let’s just say 2016 taught me to be suspect.
I like Biden but he’s a gaffe-machine whose time is long past. We need younger people who can serve two terms. We probably shouldn’t be looking for the best President but the best candidate; occasionally the two are the same but it’s more critical to get a nominee who can win rather than one who is best prepared to rule. Except for Tulsi and Bernie and Andrew Yang, all the announced Democratic candidates seem reasonable.
re: #312 ObserverArt
Would these be pundits that would like Joe to run so he can be torn apart about his past gaffs and they can open a path for Trump’s reelection?
These days I am more than just a lot weary of political pundits. Too many seem to have their own candidates and agendas and thus tailor their punditry to those candidates.
Let’s just say 2016 taught me to be suspect.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the motivation for a lot of those pundits; after serving two (admirable) terms as Obama’s VP, Biden seems to be falling back to type and is letting the prospect of a revived shot at the top post overrule his common sense and the fact that he’s as long a shot as Bernie.
The pundits are happy enough to build Joe up, only to tear him down once more in search of bigger ratings.
NEW: House Intel Republicans haven’t seen MUELLER’s report, but they say there’s no way anyone in Trump’s orbit was compromised by Russia, even unknowingly.
They cite Barr, whose letter was silent on counterintelligence matters.
Story w/ @desiderioDC https://t.co/XtenGVF5Wq— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 28, 2019
Rep. Stewart (R-Utah) said any significant counterintelligence findings would’ve come up in the GOP’s 2017 probe. When asked about Trump Tower Moscow — which the panel didn’t know the details of bc Michael Cohen lied — he said “It has nothing to do with collusion and conspiracy.”
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 28, 2019
“I’ve taken better care of Puerto Rico than any man ever,” Pres. Trump claims, after sustained criticism over his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria. “They’ve got to spend the money wisely. They don’t know how to spend the money.” https://t.co/RLlmR7oPqi pic.twitter.com/VltUNr1Up6
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 28, 2019
Trump dragged his feet on getting aid to the island, and his slow response meant that it took 9 months to restore power to the entire island. That’s 9 months without power. That’s the longest blackout in American history. That’s on Trump.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 28, 2019
moron
We have a National Emergency at our Southern Border. The Dems refuse to do what they know is necessary - amend our immigration laws. Would immediately solve the problem! Mexico, with the strongest immigration laws in the World, refuses to help with illegal immigration & drugs!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2019
going to thrill other morons
On my way to Grand Rapids, Michigan right now. See you all very soon! #MAGA pic.twitter.com/JjGAijXlRT
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2019
re: #319 Eclectic Cyborg
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it just keeps getting more and more pathetic
LOL..no fucking shame..none
He pleaded guilty! https://t.co/sq3tXQS067
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) March 28, 2019
re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
it just keeps getting more and more pathetic
That’s because it is getting more and more Trump.
He is in full form now. Con your base while you still have it.
I threaded a thing.
So I was out on my morning walk and as I passed an elderly Indian man shuffling down the street. He stopped me and said “store” but between a fairly thick accent and obvious speech impediment what I heard was “stroke.” So I asked him if he was having a stroke and needed help.
— Devin Nunes’ Raging Bile Duct (@goddamnedfrank) March 28, 2019
re: #316 lawhawk
I fucking hate that lying bastard.
Steve Bannon looks like he just opened the Ark of the Covenant. pic.twitter.com/rFtrss6bYj
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) March 28, 2019
I BELIEVE FRANCISCO CAN FLY DOGRATES
— darth™ (@darth) March 28, 2019
me going to get him all the feathers pic.twitter.com/nUylcMtuJh
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) March 28, 2019
On his way to a city basically owned by the DeVos family. Yeah, can’t imagine why he keeps going there.
Call me back when he can raise a cheering crowd in Berkeley. https://t.co/lTRzgkQb2f— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 28, 2019
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
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About six years ago, when my son was 9, we went to Grand Rapids for a family reunion. There was a sign that said “Furniture capital of America”; my son piped up “stool capital of the world!” [Proud father of a young “Waiting for Guffman” fan]
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
Western Michigan is one of the centers of white ethnonationalism in this country.
And yes, it’s tied in with the high religiosity of the region.
re: #329 Barefoot Grin
Stool Boom!
From the parlor to the pool room
We’re the center of a stool boom…
everyone knows our name.
Aryan Brotherhood of Texas member pleads guilty to smuggling migrants across the border, illustrating that, when profit is involved, white supremacist prison gangs readily move ideology to the back seat. DOJ press release here: https://t.co/A0qjusYRew. https://t.co/6wTkyeLfla
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) March 28, 2019
re: #331 jaunte
Religion has done way more bad than good. It’s such a failing that so many of us mindlessly follow terrible people.
#AirForceOne Landing at Gerald R. Ford International Airport…
A vouple of hours on the ground, then it’s off to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. ⛳ 🏌️— CivMilAir ✈ (@CivMilAir) March 28, 2019
Reminder: none of these dumbasses have seen the report. https://t.co/EgtsDldXUU
— Really Dark Knight (@dahanksterF15) March 28, 2019
re: #330 freetoken
Western Michigan is one of the centers of white ethnonationalism in this country.
And yes, it’s tied in with the high religiosity of the region.
Dutch Reformed. Calvinist. Predetermination. Wealth equals goodness.
hahahha someone dressed up as a swamp creature and sat in the background of acting Interior secretary David Bernhardt’s confirmation hearing 😂 https://t.co/oUnQdrNxPV pic.twitter.com/0eh9vvg5YT
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 28, 2019
re: #336 Old Liberal
Dutch Reformed. Calvinist. Predetermination. Wealth equals goodness.
Religious publishers… Hillsdale College … etc.
these fucking people
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos responds: “I am pleased and grateful the president and I see eye to eye on this issue, and that he has decided to fund our Special Olympics grant. This is funding I have fought for behind the scenes the last several years.” https://t.co/CVRsTs2BDA
— Axios (@axios) March 28, 2019
That moment when @KatyTurNBC asks Marc Lotter of the Trump campaign to explain what the amazing new Trump healthcare plan will actually do and he says: “I’m not a healthcare expert.” #MTPDaily
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 28, 2019
See this is how it starts… In no time she’ll have figured out nuclear launch codes and raised a revolutionary army of dogs… Shoulda just let her in https://t.co/e4NEl8sP6W
— Jason Johnson (@DrJasonJohnson) March 28, 2019
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
these fucking people
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Trump and DeVos are throwing each other under the bus.
Breaking: “The Special Olympics olympics will be funded. … I just authorized the funding of the Special Olympics,” Trump says. “I have overridden my people.”
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 28, 2019
re: #342 goddamnedfrank
Trump and DeVos are throwing each other under the bus.
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neither of them have got the first clue how any of this works
re: #323 goddamnedfrank
I threaded a thing.
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Each municipality and county needs to have ‘Dial a Social Worker’ covered by professionals.
re: #333 plansbandc
Religion has done way more bad than good. It’s such a failing that so many of us mindlessly follow terrible people.
One of my former colleagues is an atheist who is a strong advocate of those views. Personally, I don’t know that religion, or lack thereof, is the source of most current ills in the world. Look at the mass murderers of the mid to late 20th century: Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler. None was religious; most promoted atheism. Many white supremacists are not particularly religious themselves, though they may be hostile to those who are Jewish or Muslim. Trump is not a religious zealot — though the GOP is. Evil is spread among people regardless of religion.
re: #330 freetoken
Western Michigan is one of the centers of white ethnonationalism in this country.
And yes, it’s tied in with the high religiosity of the region.
Michigan is very Germanic and that might have a little to do with some of the thinking too.
I know the Ohio Germanic makeup, and I see some of that very thinking in the relatives on my mother’s side of the family which is the German side that came to Ohio in the mid 1800s.
I imagine the central to west side and north of Michigan is very similar in attitude to some of the Gym Jordan territory in Ohio. Huge population of Germans with farming in their backgrounds.
I have relatives that probably are huge Trump backers. Many of them never came to visit where I lived growing up because we lived around those people.
And the little Ohio town many lived was very unwelcoming to people of color. Which is odd, because my uncle Adolf Joe was married to a Mexican woman. Oh, and of course, the majority are staunch Catholics.
I know the roots.
“Public sentiment is everything.” -Abraham Lincoln https://t.co/Rjg8xYLLMl
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) March 28, 2019
Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos are blaming each other for the Special Olympics defunding attempt. pic.twitter.com/rlVHTSVeGq
— Devin Nunes’ Raging Bile Duct (@goddamnedfrank) March 28, 2019
re: #345 Hecuba’s daughter
When I was studying history, the thing that jumped out at me is how many non-believers controlled believers and ended up wreaking havoc on the world.
These days, I am appalled by the loudest religious voices advocating for greed, violence, and hate.
I believe religion can be a force for good, but not nearly often enough. And the good is offset by the horrible.
re: #348 goddamnedfrank
Could it or be a fight to the death? I mean, let’s duel! Come on! Do it!
re: #323 goddamnedfrank
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Not that many people understand that these days, they’re happy to hand it to someone else, even if it is in their power to act there and then.
In my book, it’s not okay to withhold help from those who need it when it is ones power to act.— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) March 28, 2019
re: #350 MsJ
Could it or be a fight to the death? I mean, let’s duel! Come on! Do it!
Can Betsy buy Donny to shut him up. I think she might have the bucks.
Still think about this tweet often. https://t.co/zzXu1P1K4J
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 28, 2019
re: #352 ObserverArt
Can Betsy buy Donny to shut him up. I think she might have the bucks.
I think buying Trump’s silence is not possible. He enjoys and lives to run his mouth.
re: #354 Feline Fearless Leader
I think buying Trump’s silence is not possible. He enjoys and lives to run his mouth.
Yeah, but then Trump likes money a whole hell of a lot too.
Vladimir might have a feel for this.
re: #346 ObserverArt
Grand Rapids is Christian publishing central (even more so than Tennessee).
There is a great similarity here to western Iowa, which is Steve King’s district.
Both were settled by hard line Calvinists and other very religious people from Northern Europe. To this day these areas are among the most conservative of Protestant regions of this country.
Looks like Rammstein has ruffled some feathers with a teaser video for their new album. Of course if one watches the full video for their new song Deutschland, the few second clip is taken out of context but mission successful, controversy stirred up.
Anyone else notice an increase in advertising on Youtube the past month or so?
This isn’t politics or religion or sex but I do intend to mention money.
I bought a CD for a dollar at the Humane Society thrift store, because it had two white guys pictured on it, and the list of songs was all in Spanish, with several Mexican classics. So I went to that video channel to see who they were (after enjoying the first listen) and it turns out they got together the year I was born (1958) while they had been singing across the street from each other (so one story goes) and they’re from Tucson or San Francisco and had a ‘mild hit’ with a song I don’t remember the name of, and got on Hugh Hefner’s TV show in 1964 and sang one of my favorites from ‘Bobby Dylan’. They have a tiny discussion about Bobby, and talk about what his impending fame might do to him.
One thing Bobby’s fame did was wipe Bud and Travis out of the history books. This video alone is worth a buck.
re: #361 wrenchwench
Once again I’m reminded that for every celebrity who has a bit of talent and makes it rich, there are thousands of decent to great musicians who fall into obscurity.
re: #362 freetoken
Once again I’m reminded that for every celebrity who has a bit of talent and makes it rich, there are thousands of decent to great musicians who fall into obscurity.
Absolutely. How did Bobby beat out Bud and Travis? It wasn’t his voice…he must have had connections in Duluth.
re: #362 freetoken
Those who make it always need a pinch of luck. So much talent in this world. I know a guy who is a ridiculously talented musician. Great great guitar player and excellent bass player. Really pretty voice too, but he doesn’t think so.
Guy is just not capable of dealing with others. Pot helps, but the the guy is just mentally unstable.
Very hard to deal with that one, but honestly just a killer musician.
re: #363 TedStriker
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Of course, the budget is DOA anyway.
It’s really hard to decide which one was responsible for eliminating funding for the Special Olympics. My initial reaction was that Donald would never care about details like this and would leave it up to Betsy. OTOH, maybe Donald doesn’t see any need for expenditures on people who are disabled in any way and so directed Betsy to cut out those programs. They are both evil so either is capable of being the driving force on this. A fight to the death in which both are eliminated (i.e. neither wins) would not be ideal either, since it would leave Pence in power.
re: #347 jaunte
What about Trump’s cuts to autism treatment, latest attempt to gut the ACA, and threats to stop giving aid to Puerto Rico? I’m pretty sure that public sentiment is not in his favor on those as well.
re: #366 Hecuba’s daughter
the moron-in-chief has no idea of what is in the budget, other than cops, Wall and military.
Nor does he care…until there is serous backlash about something.
heh
Bernie’s life story is about as interesting as a 1975 AMC Gremlin. https://t.co/Lw8vTmg5Mi
— 𝔾𝕦𝕤 (@Gus_802) March 28, 2019
re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth
Agreed. He knows absolutely nothing about any sort of inner workings. It’s all about how much grift and how he looks to his base.
“With our grey hair, walkers, and hearing aids, we will speak out against criminalizing and stigmatizing our fellow human beings.”
This is beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time.https://t.co/Pfp48Us02y #EndFamilyDetention— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) March 28, 2019
Canadian-born artist is building a wall of cheese along the U.S.-Mexico border #MakeAmericaGrateAgain (h/t @NaheedMustafa) https://t.co/Ubor3CxMvI pic.twitter.com/oA4A7K4X9u
— As It Happens (@cbcasithappens) March 28, 2019
re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We have a National Emergency at our Southern Border…(so I’m) On my way to Grand Rapids, Michigan (and left unsaid, then off the MaraGaudy for another long weekend.)
The Rolling Stones just learned what so many women have learned - DT doesn’t care about your consent. https://t.co/zK4OK2uVG4
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) March 28, 2019
I know a guy https://t.co/P8Lz4PcH6E
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) March 28, 2019
I am back from Canada {{sads}}
There was NO WAITING at the border!
re: #376 The Vicious Babushka
I am back from Canada {{sads}}
There was NO WAITING at the border!
Well, yeah. Canada doesn’t have any of Those People that need to be kept out.
You can’t always get what you want
Sympathy for The Devil
IN YOUR FACE my dumbass base…I am the snake.
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
these fucking people
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Flynn’s old law firm is fighting disclosure of Flynn Intel Group’s case file by citing the Supreme Court’s test established by… the Nixon tapes. https://t.co/LQOIheMAlq
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) March 28, 2019
re: #372 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Canadian-born artist is building a wall of cheese along the U.S.-Mexico border]
A little south of the nearest to me part of the border is a growing community of Mennonites who produce a lot of cheese. American tourists bring back bricks of it, but not quite that big. The artist could promote tourism!
There’a a sea of middle-aged white people behind Trump pic.twitter.com/FtULMRlV8R
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2019
We’re 2 minutes in and Trump has already goaded his fans into booing the media twice pic.twitter.com/E5LRg0TJ24
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2019
My first solo song at an open mic night many years ago I got so fucking hammered trying to drink the anxiety away I sat down on a stool started playing my song and halfway through I passed out and dropped my guitar. Wheeee.
Edit: I only went because everyone kept pushing and pushing me to go.
re: #383 Amory Blaine
My first solo song at an open mic night many years ago I got so fucking hammered trying to drink the anxiety away I sat down on a stool started playing my song and halfway through I passed out and dropped my guitar. Wheeee.
And just look where you are today!
*checks behind laptop*
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
this eejit…
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Faces Consequences of Pushing Russia Hoax https://t.co/sxwyqgP2Rg
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) March 28, 2019
re: #382 Backwoods_Sleuth
I predict a very high level of craziness tonight from trump.
re: #386 Eclectic Cyborg
I predict a very high level of craziness tonight from trump.
Trump on Adam Schiff: “He’s got the smallest, thinnest neck I’ve ever seen”
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) March 28, 2019
re: #385 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Jimmy Dore is saying the exact same thing floating over Rachel losing viewers…
re: #385 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Barr took the Mueller report and made a shovel out of it. They’ve been digging ever since. Nancy has given them another weekend in which to dig.
re: #389 wrenchwench
Barr took the Mueller report and made a shovel out of it. They’ve been digging ever since. Nancy has given them another weekend in which to dig.
It’s almost deep enough to be a Trump-sized grave. Just another 3/4 mile to go.
re: #378 ObserverArt
You can’t always get what you want
Sympathy for The Devil
IN YOUR FACE my dumbass base…I am the snake.
So Trump is actually mocking all of us, especially his base. He knows exactly what he is and is telling us that he’s gotten away with it and will continue to inflict damage on this country because he can. He revealed who he was during the campaign and 62 million Americans approved. He is thumbing his nose at us.
re: #390 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It’s almost deep enough to be a Trump-sized grave. Just another 3/4 mile to go.
They should send him down there to replace a divot.
re: #387 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2019
re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth
Much presidential. So dignify.
Oklahoma Democratic Party office is spray-painted with racist, anti-gay and anti-Semitic slurs. https://t.co/xufPdYXl42
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) March 28, 2019
A POTUS riff on Adam Schiff (earlier AF1 TVs briefly turned to CNN to catch a Schiff package.) “They’re on artificial respirators right now. They’re giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Little pencil neck Adam Schiff. He’s got the smallest thinnest neck I’ve ever seen.”
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) March 28, 2019
re: #297 Teukka
I see the comedians of the UK are doing the same yeoman’s work as comedians in the US are — cutting through all the posturing and political BS to get to the truth of the matter.
re: #398 Backwoods_Sleuth
I predict that, once the full report becomes more widely available, Trump’s overconfidence will be his downfall. Pride before the fall, and all that.
Agree with this. Today’s Preet podcast with [not comedian/actor/banjo expert] Steve Martin on our prison system is an important conversation, especially comments on the explosive growth of the private prison system and how it is perhaps fueling the incarceration of immigrants simply as the easiest path to profits.
This is one of the most profound, captivating, and informative interviews I’ve heard in a long time. Please listen. A good reminder that we have issues to solve that have absolutely nothing to do with the president. Thanks for the great conversation, @PreetBharara. https://t.co/NPMnY6bEpC
— Ben (@benoutloud) March 28, 2019
President Trump’s failed North Korean negotiations are a warning that agreements like the JCPOA are better than no agreement at all: https://t.co/FiYPM0u7b2
Learn about Iran’s missiles: https://t.co/QHVQ4zKN3i
Learn about North Korea’s missiles: https://t.co/ISpIXPUTB5 pic.twitter.com/UJ9LWxKQai— CSIS (@CSIS) March 28, 2019
A Guinness and a tot of Old Crow Bourbon Vs. My head cold. Doubt it’ll win but I’ll probably feel a little better this evening before sleep comes early.
re: #403 William Lewis
A Guinness and a tot of Old Crow Bourbon Vs. My head cold. Doubt it’ll win but I’ll probably feel a little better this evening before sleep comes early.
Fire in the hole!
Still nothing about why he’s asking for a 90% cut in #GreatLakes protection funding for the third year in a row though. #TrumpRally #TrumpInGR https://t.co/WiEN2Fg7FI
— Michigan Democrats (@MichiganDems) March 28, 2019
re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I can’t even watch the live tweeters unless Daniel Dale is doing it (he’s off tonight—he certainly deserves it.) Some of the other are minimally okay, but the straight-up stenographers are terrible (and ubiquitous). DD’s live fact-checking and lie-calling is the only way to go.
“They spied on me. They spied on my campaign.”
Wankfest rolls on.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 28, 2019
I’m out of fucks.
Right now I’m just disgusted, disappointed, and walking small.
Somehow in the course of a conversation, I had a “friend” lay a gem on me a few weeks/months back because I try not to….
“Oh, hospitals forgive bills, ya know.”
I said…. what?
“Oh yeah. They forgive bills. I know a family they forgave.”
I said, damn. Thanks for the great news. Son of a bitch…. I have 2 phone numbers right here of parents who lost children to cancer and have liens on their houses. Back from when my boy had leukemia, we met them. They lost their boys. I want you to phone them up and tell them that. Make them happy. Here.
I’m not kidding. I came over with my phone. CALL. I want you to CALL THEM. HERE IS THE PHONE PRESS CALL. Here. Here. HERE.
He then said then he wasn’t sure but he thinks, or heard or someone…
Yeah. I heard some shit too. From YOU.
STFU STFD.
Breathe.
I wrote a page on my family and what we went through. Here
I may yet drop someone.
Out of fucks.
(Note to self. Carry mechanics gloves and roll of quarters.)
TRUMP: “The Democrats now have decide whether they will continue defrauding the public with ridiculous bullshit.” #BeBest pic.twitter.com/O2SAoh41UD
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 28, 2019
re: #390 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It’s almost deep enough to be a Trump-sized grave. Just another 3/4 mile to go.
Nah, we need The Charm of Forlorn Encystment:
“I have decided to apply the Charm of Forlorn Encystment, which constricts the subject in a pore some forty-five miles below the surface of the earth.”
—Iouconou the Laughing Magician
Since turning in his report, Mueller’s been taking a well-earned vacation… gambling in Las Vegas with prominent members of the Russian mafia. He thinks we won’t know because he’s wearing a ridiculous wig.
— MKupperman (@MKupperman) March 28, 2019
there’s video!
The moment when Capitol Police notice the swamp monster sitting behind oil lobbyist David Bernhardt is too much 😂 pic.twitter.com/0WNuuRKhWW
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) March 28, 2019
re: #408 nines09
Here’s the thing: there are places where you can get bills forgiven. I’m on “charity care” from the university hospital system that serves my area. Whatever insurance doesn’t cover, they write off - and that’s based on a decent middle-class income that still meets their qualifying standards.
BUT: this is in a blue area with NO for-profit health care leeches. This system is all nonprofit. So is its competitor. NY state funds it handsomely with my tax dollars.
And oh yeah… because it’s NY, I pay 20 bucks a month for my Medicaid plan.
As much as I’d love to move away from the brutal winters, the delta in healthcare expenses moving almost anywhere would kill me.
That is fucking unfair. It shouldn’t depend where you live. If we can do this in NY, it should be doable in Georgia and Texas and Florida, too.
Hi from spring break in Mexico, which according to the World Bank will match US growth in 2019 and exceed it in 2020. https://t.co/ysYNt9TrMY https://t.co/L9v1seEw8s
— David Frum (@davidfrum) March 29, 2019
I feel the demon inside of me. pic.twitter.com/TWN5gxfjEi
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) March 29, 2019
BTW, I forget who mentioned they were reading it but I picked up The Plantegenets from the library. Excellent little history! Thanks for mentioning it.
He’s getting sweaty and weird now. It sounds like he’s vaguely taking credit for the depth of the Great Lakes. https://t.co/2V98KlGOsF
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 29, 2019
Someone please inform the president of the United States that batteries exist. https://t.co/p2MZLe4BJf
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 29, 2019
re: #417 William Lewis
BTW, I forget who mentioned they were reading it but I picked up The Plantegenets from the library. Excellent little history! Thanks for mentioning it.
Happy, I think. He’s away for a while.
re: #419 Backwoods_Sleuth
All the wind he knows is broken wind.
re: #414 ipsos
Here’s the other thing. It was many moon ago, but Hershey Medical in Hershey had Four Diamonds Fund who years ago would take a family of a child who was under treatment for cancer and tell them to not worry. Anything not covered by their insurance would be taken care of. I’m not sure if that still is so. Now hold that up against my hospital, (to be named at a later date). The page will tell you how we were treated.
WITH insurance. A good plan. Read my page.
There are extenuating circumstances is some areas, but bottom line? They can call that marker in at any time. They backed off when I confronted them. But they got paid. You bet they got paid. I fucking paid them. The ONLY instance of debt forgivness I ever ran across in this neck of reality was when the family had nothing. No house. No policies. No money. Zip.
Outside of that, zero.
“Can we count on you to work the stands this Miracle Telethon weekend?”
Yes you can. Sign me up the day all of that money goes to the families and not the hospital.
Still waiting.
I have to run.
later.
re: #419 Backwoods_Sleuth
It is very obvious that DT does not know about any type of power system. Solar and wind use batteries for energy storage. So you can use them at night or on very cloudy/rainy days.
re: #423 PhillyPretzel
It is very obvious that DT does not know about any type of power system. Solar and wind use batteries for energy storage. So you can use them at night or on very cloudy/rainy days.
To be fair, the battery technology to be able to handle this on a power-grid scale is fairly recent. Considering that the tangerine wankmaggot lives 30 years in the past - optimistically - it’s not surprising that he has no idea what modern tech is capable of.
re: #423 PhillyPretzel
It is very obvious that DT does not know about any type of power system. Solar and wind use batteries for energy storage. So you can use them at night or on very cloudy/rainy days.
We still hand crank cars, you know.
re: #422 nines09
Sign me up the day all of that money goes to the families and not the hospital.
Still waiting.
A-fucking-men.
What the fuck is “pouring up?” https://t.co/cw9Xvwq6W9
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 29, 2019
re: #425 Belafon
We still hand crank cars, you know.
Now wondering how many other people know the technique to avoid breaking one’s wrist in the event of a backfire…
re: #428 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Now wondering how many other people know the technique to avoid breaking one’s wrist in the event of a backfire…
Never had to hand crank a car, so no.
Hand prop’ed an airplane though. Still quite a few out there that need it :)
JFC
“I support the Great Lakes. Always have. They’re beautiful. They’re big. Very deep. Record deepness, right?” pic.twitter.com/KuOrcIiDLg
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 29, 2019
Lake Baikal is deeper than Superior but Superior eats more freighters.
re: #419 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump knows all about wind alright.
He’s demonstrating it tonight in Grand Rapids.
re: #428 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Now wondering how many other people know the technique to avoid breaking one’s wrist in the event of a backfire…
Get somebody else to crank?
re: #429 William Lewis
Never had to hand crank a car, so no.
Hand prop’ed an airplane though. Still quite a few out there that need it :)
Basically, if you grab it tight and give it a yank, you’re a dumbass. You cup it over the top so that if the engine backfires, it slaps your fingers and flies out of your hand.
re: #431 The Vicious Babushka
Lake Baikal is deeper than Superior but Superior eats more freighters.
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was unavailable for comment.
re: #423 PhillyPretzel
It is very obvious that DT does not know about any type of power system. Solar and wind use batteries for energy storage. So you can use them at night or on very cloudy/rainy days.
Hey, now—the man knows nuclear—he said so in this convoluted diatribe:
Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.
//
re: #423 PhillyPretzel
It is very obvious that DT does not know about any type of power system. Solar and wind use batteries for energy storage. So you can use them at night or on very cloudy/rainy days.
I doubt he knows how electricity is made.
Trump said, “I’ve taken better care of Puerto Rico than any man ever.” He added, “Puerto Rico has been taken care of better by Donald Trump than by any living human being. And I think the people of Puerto Rico understand it.” Polls actually show they strongly disagree. pic.twitter.com/dcRa8pcm53
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 28, 2019
re: #430 The Vicious Babushka
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No actually Donny Lake Erie is fairly shallow, especially the whole western basin.
Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the U.S., followed by Lake Tahoe in California/Nevada.
this whole “the trump administration comes out against the special olympics” thing is evidence in support of my hobbyhorse, which is that trump is an extraordinarily weak executive who has no idea what his administration is doing most of the time
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 28, 2019
re: #441 Patricia Kayden
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Just remember: He didn’t want to know. He was hoping he’d get a VP who would do everything and make him look good.
re: #418 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He’ll do well with White women to the extent that he got the majority of their vote in 2016. The rest of us women not so much.
re: #440 teleskiguy
Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the U.S., followed by Lake Tahoe in California/Nevada.
Lake Superior is the LARGEST lake in the U.S., but deepest? Not even all that close.
re: #431 The Vicious Babushka
Lake Baikal is deeper than Superior but Superior eats more freighters.
I read a book many years ago on the history of Great Lakes ship wrecks.
The most concentrated area for them over the years happened on Lake Erie near the mouth of the Detroit River.
Lots of rocks and sand bars and the Lake can get rocking and rolling because it isn’t deep. So, sometimes the rocks get exposed and the ships cut into them.
The ones on Superior are bad because it is deep and it too can have high waves similar to an ocean, but they aren’t the sloshing back and forth that can happen on shallower Lake Erie. It is vicious in wind.
Does he really think that deep lakes are better than shallower ones??
re: #446 Eclectic Cyborg
Does he really think that deep lakes are better than shallower ones??
It means they are wetter.
So, the DOJ is arguing that the ACA is unconstitutional. Well, that’s a problem for the DOJ, who is going after a guy who defrauded Medicare for $1B, who is arguing that since the DOJ has declared it unconstitutional, the provisions he’s being charged with defrauding are unconstitutional: dailykos.com.
21% of all of Earth’s fresh surface water is in the Great Lakes.
Seriously considering a road trip to Lake Tahoe for my birthday.
re: #449 teleskiguy
21% of all of Earth’s fresh surface water is in the Great Lakes.
Therefore, it must be destroyed!
re: #443 Patricia Kayden
He’ll do well with White women to the extent that he got the majority of their vote in 2016. The rest of us women not so much.
3 of the 4 white women I personally know who voted for him now regret that vote and will not repeat it. None of them are fundies however, so…
re: #449 teleskiguy
21% of all of Earth’s fresh surface water is in the Great Lakes.
I consider it the duty of the Midwest to protect that water at all costs from all who would piss it away.
It’s called Gaper Day in ski country, and it’s pretty fun! We all dress like tourists in jeans, ill fitting clothing, onesies (fartbags), and have a good time! Here’s me in 2014. pic.twitter.com/28ZCJOR3zy
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) March 29, 2019
re: #454 teleskiguy
April Fool’s is funny if it’s harmless. Some of the elaborate so-called “pranks” these assholes pull is beyond the pale.
re: #454 teleskiguy
I really miss those gloves I’m wearing in the pic. Best spring gloves I’ve ever had. Lost or Stolen in 2015.
re: #453 William Lewis
I consider it the duty of the Midwest AND CANADA to protect that water at all costs from all who would piss it away.
ftfy
Canada shares a coastline with Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario.
re: #457 The Vicious Babushka
ftfy
Canada shares a coastline with Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario.
The Canadians on the lakes are midwesterners. Both sides of the border were first Native, then French, then English. Now we’re all caretakers of that water.
Water Protectors.
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