A Brilliant Jim Jefferies Segment: Jim Sits Down With North Korean Defectors [VIDEO]
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Jim travels to South Korea and interviews defectors from North Korea about their lives.
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it stuns me how quickly an investigation initiated by Republicans and run by Republicans looking into crimes committed by Republicans that resulted in a report written by Republicans and covered up by Republicans became “thanks for wasting everyone’s time, Democrats” in the media
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) March 29, 2019
Stuff the government should be researching, but I’m glad someone is:
Tesla Installs 7-Megawatt-Hour Battery for Emergency Power at a Japanese Railway
Tesla just installed its largest energy storage project in Asia to date — and deploying the hardware took just two days. (Here’s a time lapse of the build on Instagram.)
According to Tesla, the 7-megawatt-hour installation in Osaka, Japan is intended to provide emergency backup power for a Kintetsu train line, with enough power to get a train safely to the next station in the event of a grid outage. The system, consisting of 42 of Tesla’s industrial-strength Powerpack batteries, will also help “reduce energy demand on the Osaka grid during peak hours.”
The energy storage system can move one of Kintetsu’s trains to safety for up to 30 minutes. It’s the largest installed Tesla battery in Asia, and the fourth in the APAC region, according to the EV builder.
just made a cottage pie and shoved it in the oven.
pictures to come if it turns out ok.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “More than 80% of the American people want to see the report released. That is reflected in a 420-0 vote in the Congress. And so we will not be ignored.” pic.twitter.com/HuRoI6TjZ1
— The Hill (@thehill) March 29, 2019
AGI has put together a quick representative model of the orbital debris dynamics after India’s hit-to-kill ASAT test on Wednesday. Assumptions: downward intercept to minimize debris; breakup model shows 6,500 fragments, many under 0.5 cm (untrackable in reality). pic.twitter.com/xXu0LSOyty
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) March 29, 2019
re: #2 Belafon
Stuff the government should be researching, but I’m glad someone is:
Tesla Installs 7-Megawatt-Hour Battery for Emergency Power at a Japanese Railway
There’s actually one of those in Fairbanks, AK:
Behold: The World’s Largest Battery
Morning Breath pic.twitter.com/LAugXiadsp
— Harlow and Sage (@harlowandsage) March 29, 2019
Chinese-born Hsue-Shen Tsien co-founded NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, before being forced from the United States as an alleged communist. https://t.co/wJvn8FfDGd
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) March 29, 2019
Malpractice insurance does not cover criminal prosecution, so doctors will err on the side of no intervention in cases of infection and bleeding in early pregnancy.
Women will die. #HB481— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) March 29, 2019
re: #9 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
The more things don’t change…
Miami Herald, putting in some serious work on Cindy Yang. Thread.
NEW: After President Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” of the white nationalist march in Charlottesville, charities pulled out of Mar-a-Lago.
This opened the doors for Cindy Yang and others to market events for their access to Trump: https://t.co/rGbcKAAYXR— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 29, 2019
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
They’re releasing it Mid April.
I wonder how heavily redacted….
Although I’ll admit I’m surprised they’re coughing it up after all. But I’ll believe it when I see it.
— Trees etc. (@arborsmarty) March 28, 2019
The entire Republican congressional leadership? https://t.co/SHlcZWEUD0
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 29, 2019
re: #14 Sir John Barron
They’re releasing it Mid April.
I wonder how heavily redacted….
Although I’ll admit I’m surprised they’re coughing it up after all. But I’ll believe it when I see it.
The person who does the redacting should use the same marker used to redact information in Hidden Figures.
re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg
Good grief! What is wrong with our media?
They lie any lie for the Republican Party.
re: #20 Belafon
I can’t think of any Republican that wouldn’t cover.
re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg
Good grief! What is wrong with our media?
There seems to be some kind of a journalism paralysis going on to where no one can bring themselves to actually report truths while using common language that accurately depicts that truth.
I have a feeling it is all about making money and not caring about what the ramifications of softball reporting is going to cause in the long run. It is as if new journalists are taught not to say anything that causes people to come to a conclusion about law breaking, or destroying norms to prevent any kickback on the reporting.
Political reporting seemed to go this way first, now it seems to be creeping into everything.
re: #14 Sir John Barron
They’re releasing it Mid April.
I wonder how heavily redacted….
Although I’ll admit I’m surprised they’re coughing it up after all. But I’ll believe it when I see it.
THE MULLUR REPORET
(as edited by John Barron)
This reporet says that Donald Trump committed no collusions or did anything else illegul with the Russians! EXONERATION!
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
THE MULLUR REPORET
(as edited by John Barron)This reporet says that Donald Trump committed no collusions or did anything else illegul with the Russians! EXONERATION!
“Muller Report: The Unbiased Story of How Crooked Hillary and Media Conspired and Spied against Your Favorite President.”
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
THE MULLUR REPORET
(as edited by John Barron)This reporet says that Donald Trump committed no collusions or did anything else illegul with the Russians! EXONERATION!
“Mr. Trump, did you do your book report based on your son’s summary of Barr’s summer of Mueller’s report?”
“Maybe…”
Bill Barr says his summary wasn’t a summary after all. pic.twitter.com/fqTcoES6GI
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 29, 2019
re: #24 ObserverArt
There seems to be some kind of a journalism paralysis going on to where no one can bring themselves to actually report truths while using common language that accurately depicts that truth.
I have a feeling it is all about making money and not caring about what the ramifications of softball reporting is going to cause in the long run. It is as if new journalists are taught not to say anything that causes people to come to a conclusion about law breaking, or destroying norms to prevent any kickback on the reporting.
Political reporting seemed to go this way first, now it seems to be creeping into everything.
Eighteen years ago we had a class discussion when I was studying Journalism over whether or not “killed” or “decapitated” was the appropriate word to describe an incident in which a motorcycle rider had lost control, hit a fence and subsequently died of his injuries.
Our professor broke us off into groups to discuss it. Everyone in my group and many in the other groups felt “decapitated” was appropriate but our professor INSISTED that “killed” was the way to go because it wasn’t as harsh. To this day I still feel he’s wrong (he was a great professor though).
Chili verde gumbo with chicken and shrimp on basmati rice pic.twitter.com/doqhPbW20k
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) March 28, 2019
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Attorney General Barr:
“The Special Counsel’s report is nearly 400 pages long (exclusive of tables and appendices) and sets forth the Special Counsel’s findings, his analysis, and the reasons for his conclusions. Everyone will soon be able to read it on their own.” pic.twitter.com/2narOUSB6L— Steve Reilly (@BySteveReilly) March 29, 2019
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It wasn’t a summary per se, but a summary of the principal conclusions of the report.
re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg
I would put “killed” in the headline, but “decapitated” in the story itself.
For example:
LOCAL MOTORCYCLIST KILLED IN FREAK ACCIDENT
(Anytown, USA) A local motorcyclist, a 26-year-old man, died tragically in an accident that city police are calling “the most unusual single-vehicle accident they’ve ever seen”.
According to sources in law enforcement, the rider lost control of his motorcycle on a tight corner near Upper Jones Road, slid approximately 45 feet, and was decapitated by a traffic barrier, killing him instantly. While police have transferred his body to a local funeral home, they have yet to find his head, which they believe may have floated several miles downstream from the accident site; Sheriff John Smith asks local residents to please notify any police officer if they should come across it.
The victim’s name has been withheld at the request of his family.
“We have a message to Brian Kemp and the anti-choice GOP elected officials who proceed despite a growing wave of outrage: all eyes are watching and we will not forget.”
—@ilyseh #HB481 pic.twitter.com/iLEdX7cqIV— NARAL (@NARAL) March 29, 2019
All defilers of the patriarchy are welcome pic.twitter.com/zdP7IfMPfT
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) March 29, 2019
This is exactly what Putin wants.
Once again, our foreign policy under Trump moves toward dismantling western coalition. https://t.co/AYv0DFfpHe— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 29, 2019
NEW: Maria Butina seeks speedy deportation back to Russia and says she is not afraid she will be tortured or persecuted there https://t.co/UFRmK5y4Xe
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) March 29, 2019
hey…she accomplished what she was sent here to do.
Who are these “peripheral third parties” and who decides if they’re peripheral? pic.twitter.com/YrAfb0w6Ua
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 29, 2019
In this section of his letter, AG Barr explains the areas of the Mueller report that the Justice Dept. is working to redact before release. pic.twitter.com/UBMcafHZ8R
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 29, 2019
Peripheral like seriously-recused-from-politics Donald Trump Jr.?
Like everything else about modern conservatism the populism is a lie.
Why aren’t we ever telling rural communities that things look a little different in urban areas?
I am so done with this narrative. There is no real America. No one is more earnest or authentic than anyone else. https://t.co/mB2YYPKU5M— Mia Brett 👸🏻 (@QueenMab87) March 29, 2019
Rural areas contain less than 20% of the US population. The fact is you’re the elitist, attempting to force your discriminatory values on the vast majority of people who do not share them.
— Devin Nunes’ Raging Bile Duct (@goddamnedfrank) March 29, 2019
Nicole on MSNBC just said Jerry Nadler made a statement that Congress expects the FULL Mueller report to be released with all accompanying documents and no redactions.
Frank Figliuzzi said those names that Barr wants to redact are in the report because they were part of what Mueller was investigating so they should be included.
Sounds like Barr is getting hammered by many and is now dancing around playing rope’a’dope to try not to get knocked out and having to release the full report.
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
NEW: Maria Butina seeks speedy deportation back to Russia and says she is not afraid she will be tortured or persecuted there thedailybeast.com
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) March 29, 2019
hey…she accomplished what she was sent here to do.
Hell, why should she be? She was a fine soldier for Putin.
re: #39 jaunte
Define peripheral third parties?
Melania?
Or, does this mean everyone from McConnell to Nunes to everyone who ran interference for Trump in the GOP?
Or Ivanka or Jared or Junior?
Yeah, they’re so worried - even though Trump is an unindicted coconspirator on federal felonies that are sending Cohen to prison starting in May.
Fuck ‘em. Trumpworld is a criminal operation, and Mueller kicked over the hornet’s nest. Everyone should be named and shamed.
re: #44 TedStriker
Why would a Russian foreign agent be worried about torture or persecution in Russia for furthering Russia’s agenda and exploiting the NRA and GOP with its agitprop operations?
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 29, 2019
re: #30 jeffreyw
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That looks so good, but I think the shrimp would pass the uric acid tipping point and make me tres gouty.
The CNN headline is wrong: A strict ‘heartbeat’ abortion bill was just approved by the Georgia House, goes to governor. This is an abortion ban, because most women don’t know that they’re pregnant until weeks/months after a heartbeat could be detected. https://t.co/Ccr6H2JAyZ
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 29, 2019
re: #46 BeachDem
Yes, “not if this makes anyone look bad” is a pretty thin excuse for not seeing what they’ve been up to.
re: #44 TedStriker
Hell, why should she be? She was a fine soldier for Putin.
Many fine soldiers of Putin meet untimely endings.
If Butina gave any kind of damaging info to the Feds, Putin wouldn’t hesitate to make her go away permanently.
re: #52 ObserverArt
Many fine soldiers of Putin meet untimely endings.
If Butina gave any kind of damaging info to the Feds, Putin wouldn’t hesitate to make her go away permanently.
What ever happened to her beau? Is he going to prison?
re: #53 Barefoot Grin
What ever happened to her beau? Is he going to prison?
I’m sure that Trump will pardon him.
re: #45 lawhawk
Define peripheral third parties?
Melania?
Or, does this mean everyone from McConnell to Nunes to everyone who ran interference for Trump in the GOP?
Or Ivanka or Jared or Junior?
Yeah, they’re so worried - even though Trump is an unindicted coconspirator on federal felonies that are sending Cohen to prison starting in May.
Fuck ‘em. Trumpworld is a criminal operation, and Mueller kicked over the hornet’s nest. Everyone should be named and shamed.
I’m fine with redactions for “sources and methods” on counter-intelligence matters. But even then, the non-redacted report (and supporting evidence) should be delivered to Congress.
However this plays out, it’s going to be fascinating.
re: #53 Barefoot Grin
What ever happened to her beau? Is he going to prison?
NPR - Paul Erickson, Boyfriend Of Russian Agent Maria Butina, Charged In Fraud Scheme
February 6, 20198:09 PM ET
Carrie Johnson 2016 square
CARRIE JOHNSON
PHILIP EWINGUpdated at 9:05 p.m. ET
The Justice Department announced charges on Wednesday against a longtime Republican fundraiser who worked with his Russian girlfriend to try to build back-channel ties between Moscow and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Paul Erickson, a South Dakota-born booster of the GOP and the National Rifle Association, was a key part of the outreach to Trump’s campaign and other conservative political organizations by Maria Butina, who has pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a clandestine foreign agent.
The indictment unsealed this week didn’t appear directly connected with the Russian influence story line. It alleges that Erickson defrauded investors in South Dakota by pitching them health care business opportunities.
Erickson allegedly took money but didn’t use it in the way he’d promised, according to the court documents. He appeared in court, pleaded not guilty and was released on minimal conditions.
In a statement provided to NPR, an attorney for Erickson said he looked forward to having his day in court. “Mr. Erickson has pleaded not guilty to all charges,” said attorney Clint Sargent, adding “Mr. Erickson is anxious to let the criminal justice process play out and believes a story different from the government’s will emerge.”
William Hurd, another attorney representing Erickson, separately told NPR the charges are “unfounded” and “will be met with a vigorous defense.”
…more at link…
NADLER says Congress’ April 2 deadline for the full report “still stands.” pic.twitter.com/bP3m6MFZot
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 29, 2019
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bill Barr says his summary wasn’t a summary after all.
the president, you know, your boss seems to think it was
where do you think he got that idea?
do you guys even talk?
it seems to me that the president’s posture and position, as well as the media’s is 100% your responsibility and your fault
you took total ownership within the first 48 hours.
you’ve let the ‘letter’ speak for itself for a week without any commentary.
You own it now.
Barr knew EXACTLY what the fuck he was doing.
re: #14 Sir John Barron
They’re releasing it Mid April.
I wonder how heavily redacted….
Although I’ll admit I’m surprised they’re coughing it up after all. But I’ll believe it when I see it.
House Judiciary still demanding an unredacted copy next week, as they should.
re: #49 Barefoot Grin
That looks so good, but I think the shrimp would pass the uric acid tipping point and make me tres gouty.
I had just the chicken in there to start but we have been watching Youtubes of a guy visiting various countries in what is basically food tourism. Lately he’s been in Indonesia, the latest video featuring some gigantic mantis shrimp. Mrs J insisted that I include some shimp when she saw me working on the dish. Talk about your social media influencers!
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #51 jaunte
Yes, “not if this makes anyone look bad” is a pretty thin excuse for not seeing what they’ve been up to.
It depends… (falsely) accusing someone of a felony has traditionally been considered defamation per se. So there may be concerns that someone’s name being in the report would be enough to case that sort of damage, even if there isn’t proof of even probable cause (as an example of something like this happening, retired baseball player David Ortiz had his name show up in the Mitchell Report about performance enhancing drugs in the majors, but Ortiz was never actually found to have used PEDs - still a lot of people have sort of assumed he did).
That said, I’m also highly skeptical that attorneys of the caliber that Robert EFFING Mueller would have tagged for this project would be so lazy/sloppy/unprofessional/careless as to create a situation where that sort of liability might raise its head.
When police raided Wayne Bonam’s home, they said they found cocaine & $18,282 in cash inside. Prosecutors never proved those allegations.
Wayne died a few weeks after the raid — and police took his house through a legal procedure called civil forfeiture. https://t.co/4xVILfIJ5e— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) March 29, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) March 29, 2019
Also to no one’s surprise, Trump and Bolton are all in with stoking the fires of Brexit:
Exclusive: Trump eager for trade deal with post-Brexit Britain - Bolton to Reuters TV
White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Friday that President Donald Trump is eager for a U.S. trade deal with Britain once it breaks away from the European Union.
“President Trump remains very eager to cut a bilateral trade deal with an independent Britain. It’s what the people voted for in 2016, and when they get out, whether it’s now, April 12 or later, we’ll be standing right there waiting for them,” Bolton said in an interview with Reuters Television.
[…]
“I think the president sympathizes with anybody going through some of the pressure that Prime minister May is. He’s certainly seen his share of it and I think being a man who empathizes with people in that position that’s what he’s expressing. But I’m sure it’s not appropriate for us to speculate really on what the prime minister should do, or her party.”
As for whether Britain should hold a second Brexit referendum, Bolton said the vote from the first one in 2016 was clear.
“In the European Union they like to say, ‘we make the people vote until they get it right,’ meaning pro-EU votes. So I guess I’d say if you’re going to hold a second referendum and ‘remain’ wins, they ought to hold a third referendum and call it best two out of three,” said Bolton.
Gag.
These folk are just evil.
re: #61 NO SMOCKING GUN!
House Judiciary still demanding an unredacted copy next week, as they should.
And they should. I, myself don’t have to see the whole thing. But they do.
re: #67 freetoken
Also to no one’s surprise, Trump and Bolton are all in with stoking the fires of Brexit:
Exclusive: Trump eager for trade deal with post-Brexit Britain - Bolton to Reuters TV
Gag.
These folk are just evil.
This has the stench and grease coating of Bannon all over it. He may not be seen, but that fat dumpy friend of Trump is not out of Trump politics.
Barr now says that his 4-page letter last weekend wasn’t really a “summary” of Mueller’s report and he never intended to summarize 400 pages because that wouldn’t have been in the “public interest.” The technical legal term for this is “walking back your story.” https://t.co/4ZeUkWTnTB
— Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrien) March 29, 2019
re: #67 freetoken
We finally have something that beats Young Earth Creationism in the hotly contested wingnut delusion superbowl.
Referring to Trump as having empathy may be the eternal and all time greatest wingnut delusion.
Gotta love the tension between “the Trump economic agenda will create untold prosperity” vs. “if the Fed raises rates above 2% the whole thing will be wrecked” https://t.co/tkUaG2aELe
— Neil Irwin (@Neil_Irwin) March 29, 2019
re: #71 EPR-radar
The only thing over which Trump has empathy is his own shrunken mushroom penis.
Jerry Nadler responds to the new Barr letter: “As I informed the Attorney General earlier this week, Congress requires the full and complete Mueller report, without redactions, as well as access to the underlying evidence, by April 2. That deadline still stands.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 29, 2019
Tragedy of the Commons, essentially. They want to accrue all of the financial benefits of private ownership while simultaneously foisting all responsibility off on a nebulous “public” and fighting any genuine regulatory oversight.
— Devin Nunes’ Raging Bile Duct (@goddamnedfrank) March 29, 2019
re: #67 freetoken
Trump’s made those claims before - that if UK leaves, he’ll cut a deal with the UK.
Ummm… a deal with the UK is not likely to be more favorable than the one they already have with the US via the EU. They certainly wouldn’t and shouldn’t get more favorable terms. Why?
Trump can’t show his work, because this is just vaporware.
So, last week Trump said he was fine with AG Barr releasing all of the Mueller report.
That was probably said knowing Barr was going to put out his dodgy letter with Trump thinking he would be in the clear after what I and many think was a pre-planned, pre-written letter exonerating Trump.
So, how soon before Trump takes that back and attacks Democrats for the outrageous demands for all of the report to come out?
Will we even make it past this evening before Trump tweets to piss and moan about Barr being harassed by nasty illegal Democrats?
re: #74 freetoken
The only thing over which Trump has empathy is his own shrunken mushroom penis.
And Ivanka.
Wait, I didn’t mean to tie mushroom-head penises with the first daughter.
Or, did I???
re: #78 ObserverArt
So, last week Trump said he was fine with AG Barr releasing all of the Mueller report.
That was probably said knowing Barr was going to put out his dodgy letter with Trump thinking he would be in the clear after what I and many think was a pre-planned, pre-written letter exonerating Trump.
So, how soon before Trump takes that back and attacks Democrats for the outrageous demands for all of the report to come out?
Will we even make it past this evening before Trump tweets to piss and moan about Barr being harassed by nasty illegal Democrats?
Let him. Then you can ask people why, if it proves Trump is exonerated, he doesn’t want it released.
re: #76 goddamnedfrank
Devin Nunes’ Raging Bile Duct
@goddamnedfrank
Tragedy of the Commons, essentially. They want to accrue all of the financial benefits of private ownership while simultaneously foisting all responsibility off on a nebulous “public” and fighting any genuine regulatory oversight.4:48 PM - Mar 29, 2019
Frankdammit…did you just give one of the definitions of libertarian thinking?
Why yes, I think you did.
re: #77 lawhawk
Trump as usual is clueless.
US BigAg will push to import items (such as that nasty chlorinated chicken) into the UK that currently are either not allowed or are protected via balanced (by the WTO) tariffs.
There is no way the UK will turn on their farmers, given the whole idea of Brexit is ethno-nationalism and the rural areas of the UK are part of that stripe.
This is what the Brexiteers and Trumpers refuse to acknowledge: the UK was in a better bargaining position with world producers (US, Canada, China, Brazil, Japan…) while in the EU, than they will be outside of the EU.
US, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, etc. can overwhelm UK farmers with cheaper food.
China can overwhelm UK manufacturers (if there are any left) with hard goods.
This is where Labour has really let down the UK citizens too. The UK outside of the EU will not be a laborer’s paradise. UK workers cannot compete with the rest of the world at the current UK wage rate.
If we had a President who had both a brain and a heart, said President could try to speak the truth to the Brits.
Alas, we are stuck with the mindless and the heartless.
re: #80 Belafon
Let him. Then you can ask people why, if it proves Trump is exonerated, he doesn’t want it released.
I agree, it is just fun to predict Trump because most of the time it is so easy.
Fun in a pathetic way.
My flight attended goes to school in Canada … https://t.co/xg4doInFsN
— Devin Nunes’ Raging Bile Duct (@goddamnedfrank) March 29, 2019
re: #67 freetoken
Also to no one’s surprise, Trump and Bolton are all in with stoking the fires of Brexit:
Exclusive: Trump eager for trade deal with post-Brexit Britain - Bolton to Reuters TV
Gag.
These folk are just evil.
This isn’t going to work how they think: Google “chlorinated chicken”. It’s already an established assumption for a lot of Brits that the US will jam lower food safety standards literally down their throats if an independent and desperate UK makes a trade deal with the US. Besides the fact that you have to be really, really stupid to trust a word Trump says when you’re outside the Fox News bubble. Like, exceptionally stupid.
re: #2 Belafon
Stuff the government should be researching, but I’m glad someone is:
Tesla Installs 7-Megawatt-Hour Battery for Emergency Power at a Japanese Railway
We don’t have a functioning government.
re: #75 jaunte
Congress will probably get to see the whole unredacted thing, but we won’t.
Why would she? She did everything she was supposed to do (f*ck and s*ck Republicans, and turn them all into traitorous MFers). She should sit in an American prison for a couple of decades first. Then send her back to mother russia.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 29, 2019
U.S. allies and rivals in the UN don’t have an American counterpart with direct access to Trump https://t.co/zcl62GpLeM
— Bloomberg (@business) March 29, 2019
If this Trump first term was a pro wrestling match, we’ve reached the point where the referee has been knocked out and the bad guys are triple teaming the good guy with steel chairs and brass knuckles while the announcer is screaming: “Oh my god! Oh my god!”
It’s also the point where the fans are anxiously awaiting the appearance of a second referee from the back along with, say, Stone Cold Steve Austin.
re: #87 Sir John Barron
Congress will probably get to see the whole unredacted thing, but we won’t.
Unless someone leaks it…
re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg
If this Trump first term was a pro wrestling match, we’ve reached the point where the referee has been knocked out and the bad guys are triple teaming the good guy with steel chairs and brass knuckles while the announcer is screaming: “Oh my god! Oh my god!”
It’s also the point where the fans are anxiously awaiting the appearance of a second referee from the back along with, say, Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Roddy Piper to the rescue!
re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg
If this Trump first term was a pro wrestling match, we’ve reached the point where the referee has been knocked out and the bad guys are triple teaming the good guy with steel chairs and brass knuckles while the announcer is screaming: “Oh my god! Oh my god!”
It’s also the point where the fans are anxiously awaiting the appearance of a second referee from the back along with, say, Stone Cold Steve Austin.
The real problem is you getting to make Trump’s term a comparison to pro-wrestling.
Not saying you are wrong as much as everything is wrong with it.
re: #7 Teukka
There’s actually one of those in Fairbanks, AK:
Behold: The World’s Largest Battery
Obviously this was built brefore NiMH and Lithium cells - Cadmium is not your friend.
re: #95 ObserverArt
The real problem is you getting to make Trump’s term a comparison to pro-wrestling.
Not saying you are wrong as much as everything is wrong with it.
I agree completely. I was just trying to provide a little levity to the absolute shit show we’ve been dealing with lately here and across the pond.
“constitutional scholar” opens her mouth and spews nonsense
Delaware Joins Effort to Circumvent The Constitution, Dems Are Rejoicing Their Remake Of America https://t.co/f9PTNFKMi6
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) March 29, 2019
Swatter gets 20 years in prison for sending police to a home where an unarmed man was killed by a cop. The cop, of course, will not be charged, because he thought the unarmed man was reaching for a gun.
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
“constitutional scholar” opens her mouth and spews nonsense
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re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
The constitution says that the state legislatures can pick presidential electors any way they please.
Therefore there simply is no argument that the NPVIC is unconstitutional.
As always, right wingers believe “unconstitutional” and “things I don’t like” are synonyms.
re: #99 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Swatter gets 20 years in prison for sending police to a home where an unarmed man was killed by a cop. The cop, of course, will not be charged, because he thought the unarmed man was reaching for a gun.
Do we need to give police remedial training on what guns actually fucking look like or what?
re: #101 EPR-radar
The constitution says that the state legislatures can pick presidential electors any way they please.
Therefore there simply is no argument that the NPVIC is unconstitutional.
As always, right wingers believe “unconstitutional” and “things I don’t like” are synonyms.
This is how they think:
Arming every American = Patriotic AF
Giving every American an equal voice at election time = SOCIALISM!!
Fuck these religious fucks.
WHAT????
Is this real life???@facebook & @instagram, how does this meet your Community Standards??? pic.twitter.com/TndmQXc3oG— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) March 29, 2019
Please vote Hitler, currently in the lead.
Who do you miss the most?
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) March 29, 2019
lol, wingnuts….bless their hearts.
Who do you miss the most?
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) March 29, 2019
I honest to dog cannot handle the stupidity.
Man. Trump says that because the U.S. has a trade deficit with Mexico, closing the border would mean the U.S. would make a “profit.”
That is extremely not how anything works.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 29, 2019
My favorite thing about Linda McMahon was she got a cabinet job after being the biggest donor to Trump’s family foundation following an election in which Republicans pretended to care about family foundation ethics. https://t.co/dACMYUEQGR
— Adam Smith (@asmith83) March 29, 2019
Cillizza trying to be cute and “insider”:
This Linda McMahon resignation coming so close to Wrestlemania….is it a shoot or a work?
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) March 29, 2019
HAPPENING NOW: Pres. Trump speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago with Linda McMahon, who just announced her resignation as the head of the Small Business Administration https://t.co/DwskGi4I6c pic.twitter.com/DiOH3dfhus
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 29, 2019
re: #106 bd (Emergency!)
To be fair, people are trolling his stupid poll
Shouldn’t even tweet that without pointing out in the same tweet that Trump was lying.https://t.co/Nf871jit0J
— Warren Terra (@warren__terra) March 29, 2019
re: #103 Eclectic Cyborg
This is how they think:
Arming every white American = Patriotic AF
Giving every American an equal voice at election time = SOCIALISM!!
LOL!
Seems like a safe place to do a to turn. pic.twitter.com/UdkWK0f533
— Darwin Award 🔞 (@AwardsDarwin) March 29, 2019
re: #111 gocart mozart
To be fair, people are trolling his stupid poll
Why not? What was the point of it? It was troll bait and nothing more.
re: #110 freetoken
That’s some first class ass-kissing that Linda McMahon is doing.
re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Touche.
re: #120 The Vicious Babushka
Looks fake.
Daily Fail Chinese bus driver tries to change direction across FOUR lanes of busy motorway traffic
re: #117 Eclectic Cyborg
Touche.
yes, funny how after the Christchurch mosque shooting, we didn’t hear a lot of “if they had only been properly armed” comments…
re: #114 MsJ
Okay, this made me laugh.
— IronBoomer (@IronBoomerSTL) March 29, 2019
I think that’s Boris Johnson driving it…
— Paul Masterman (@paulmasterman08) March 29, 2019
re: #122 Teukka
Daily Fail Chinese bus driver tries to change direction across FOUR lanes of busy motorway traffic
Not sure I trust the source…it looks a little less fake when bigger. Still….
— Eli Valley (@elivalley) March 29, 2019
re: #112 gocart mozart
The Wikipedia entry on the deaths of those two children suggest there is some ambiguity… but, the Wiki entries may be an ideological battleground:
re: #50 lawhawk
The CNN headline is wrong: A strict ‘heartbeat’ abortion bill was just approved by the Georgia House, goes to governor. This is an abortion ban, because most women don’t know that they’re pregnant until weeks/months after a heartbeat could be detected.
while it may be human
and it may be ‘beating’ so that it can be detected
at 6 weeks, it is not yet a heart
re: #64 KGxvi
It depends… (falsely) accusing someone of a felony has traditionally been considered defamation per se. So there may be concerns that someone’s name being in the report would be enough to case that sort of damage, even if there isn’t proof of even probable cause (as an example of something like this happening, retired baseball player David Ortiz had his name show up in the Mitchell Report about performance enhancing drugs in the majors, but Ortiz was never actually found to have used PEDs - still a lot of people have sort of assumed he did).
That said, I’m also highly skeptical that attorneys of the caliber that Robert EFFING Mueller would have tagged for this project would be so lazy/sloppy/unprofessional/careless as to create a situation where that sort of liability might raise its head.
the remedy is to sue
not to have the government cover it up for you
Yes, this is an official account. Yes, this is the President of the United States. I am beyond embarrassed that I ever knew anyone who supports this man. pic.twitter.com/7vmqV4b1GN
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 29, 2019
re: #122 Teukka
Daily Fail Chinese bus driver tries to change direction across FOUR lanes of busy motorway traffic
It still looks like a CGI.
they also don’t invite 9/11 Truthers on, so….. https://t.co/niebmRZx8s
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 29, 2019
re: #68 Eventual Carrion
And they should. I, myself don’t have to see the whole thing. But they do.
enough elected people, who arent republicans need to see the whole thing
Greenwald: PUT ME ON TEEVEE. ME! PUT ME! ME ME ME! I WANNA BE ON TV. PUT ME ON!
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 29, 2019
The Starr Report was released to the public with no consideration for the harm done to “peripheral third parties,” sparing absolutely no one from embarrassment or harassment. If Ken Starr looked in your trash can, that was in his Report and you had to deal with everybody from reporters to conspiracy nuts knocking on your door.
Barr’s throwing up ink, the whole “peripheral third party” business is going to be an ongoing excuse for why the full report can’t be released. “YOU WANT TO DESTROY PEOPLE’S LIVES FOR SUPPORTING TRUMP!”
I had a disturbing dream last night… no, not another nuclear bomb going off or the Earth burning, as I’m ignoring those dreams (which have been occurring the past couple of years)… but a weird one (and no, it had nothing to do with sex.)
Analogous to the Roddy Piper movie They Live: some guy (unfamiliar to me, balding, squarish face, generic eastern European look) was before (me?)… and slowly the outer human facade faded away to reveal something else inside (not a scary monster as in Aliens, but something more robotic but ugly).
It would just be another weird dream except for the strong emotion that was being felt by me at the time in the dream.
Interpreting dreams is a dark art, for sure. But I get the sense that I am getting really fed up at the veneer of humanity/Christianity/whatever with all these fellow Americans of mine who are so passively accepting the badness that Trump and his ethno-nationalists are doing. And planning.
On Wednesday night, Barr had dinner with Lindsey Graham, who passed on Trump’s directives, which were concocted by legal wizard, Jared Kushner, who also hatched the brilliant plan to fire Comey. Just a guess.https://t.co/voxhch5QcP
— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) March 29, 2019
So just got back from the gun show and my gun safe is quite a bit emptier. OTOH, my desk is going to be a bit more cluttered. Parts to put together a new computer are on the way. Details behind the private tag for those who care.
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re: #140 jaunte
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My personal guess in recent days is that Barr had no intention to release a letter, did so only because Donny screamed at him to do so in order to “totally exonerate” him. It explains the reports that he was fuming when he read that the letter hadn’t done that.
AG Barr slightly misstates GJ secrecy rule - 6(e) - by saying “by law [it] cannot be made public.” He’s correct that *he* cannot make it public. But very narrow exceptions in rule allow a *court* to allow disclosure. Not saying it will happen, just that the rule is not absolute.
— Daniel R. Alonso (@DanielRAlonso) March 29, 2019
re: #142 Targetpractice
My personal guess in recent days is that Barr had no intention to release a letter, did so only because Donny screamed at him to do so in order to “totally exonerate” him. It explains the reports that he was fuming when he read that the letter hadn’t done that.
Given Barr’s history, my guess it was always his intention to release a letter but that he wasn’t expecting the pushback. Given the language in the letter, it certainly wasn’t drafted by Trump with Barr’s signature.
Maybe the anonymous hints we saw before the letter was released were correct and the report was so toxic that in a panic, Barr had to produce something quickly that would short-circuit future investigation.
re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter
Given Barr’s history, my guess it was always his intention to release a letter but that he wasn’t expecting the pushback. Given the language in the letter, it certainly wasn’t drafted by Trump with Barr’s signature.
Maybe the anonymous hints we saw before the letter was released were correct and the report was so toxic that in a panic, Barr had to produce something quickly that would short-circuit future investigation.
I think it’s somewhere in the middle: Barr intended only the release of the final report with heavy redactions that were “mandated by law,” but Trump didn’t want the matter hanging in the air that long and so pressured Barr to “put it to rest” with a white-wash letter. So Barr tried to do that by hammering out a letter he expected to give him breathing room, with vague promises that the full report would be out “eventually.”
Pres. Trump told a rally of supporters that the Mueller report offered “total exoneration”; according to AG Barr, the report states that it “does not exonerate” the president.
On Friday, Barr committed to releasing the special counsel’s report by mid-April.
Chip Reid has more pic.twitter.com/QQ8I8B9cK3— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) March 29, 2019
re: #131 jaunte
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Remember that time when a restaurant owner gave a body blow to America’s discourse by politely inviting the president’s spokesperson to dine somewhere else? https://t.co/uR71hMiEqv
— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) March 29, 2019
re: #137 Targetpractice
The Starr Report was released to the public with no consideration for the harm done to “peripheral third parties,” sparing absolutely no one from embarrassment or harassment. If Ken Starr looked in your trash can, that was in his Report and you had to deal with everybody from reporters to conspiracy nuts knocking on your door.
Barr’s throwing up ink, the whole “peripheral third party” business is going to be an ongoing excuse for why the full report can’t be released. “YOU WANT TO DESTROY PEOPLE’S LIVES FOR SUPPORTING TRUMP!”
The easy peasy, typical and most likely RNC response: We learned a lot about the harm impeachments have caused this country from both President Nixon in Watergate and The William Clinton Impeachment.
With that in mind, keeping the details of The Mueller Report from public view becomes the single important reason as to why none of this should be handled in a similar way as those unnecessary impeachments. This is done to protect our country and prevent further splits in our national politics. Let’s all agree as Americans we have all learned our lessons and move on in a bipartisan way.
We are sure President Trump has learned valuable lessons from this investigation and we must keep in mind he came to his position as a successful business man not a typical politician. As he learns the Washigton DC political game, we are sure he will now become a great and successful President.
We stand by and support the most honorable, Godly, and supremely intelligent President Donald Trump. We suggest he deserves a second term and we are prepared to do whatever we can to see that goal. God Bless America, Apple Pie and Lindsey Graham.
re: #148 bd (Emergency!)
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Media: “Blah blah that’s just who he is blah blah his supporters love it blah blah you liberals need to be more accepting.”
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re: #47 Dave In Austin
Hammer Break!
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Here are some water hammers in the Onta pottery village in Hita City, Japan. The clay is dug out of the local mountainside and then brought here, where it’s pounded into bits by these water hammers. Then it’s washed to get rid of sand, dried in a vat for 10 days, then scooped out of the vat and dried on top of a kiln for another 10 days. Finally, it’s elastic enough to be made into Onta yaki—Onta pottery. While women do not make pottery in Onta, they do all of this prep work, which is backbreaking.
I’m going on another pottery tour in May and one of the places we’ll be visiting is Onta.
re: #148 bd (Emergency!)
Those t-shirts are $28. What a fucking ripoff.
re: #152 Eclectic Cyborg
Those t-shirts are $28. What a fucking ripoff.
Let them. Every dollar ripped off from a deplorable is one less dollar that can be donated to a GOP ass-cancer candidate.
re: #152 Eclectic Cyborg
Those t-shirts are $28. What a fucking ripoff.
I haven’t looked but I’d bet $28 on what country the t-shirts are made in.
(deep sigh)
The anti-vaccine crowd has evidently decided their persecution can only be expressed in Holocaust metaphors. At a rally in Texas yesterday anti-vax media personality Del Bigtree pinned a yellow star on himself mid-speech. pic.twitter.com/m672NNiEzY
— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) March 29, 2019
“I got this Joe. Go restock he cooler and take out the trash.”
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) March 29, 2019
re: #154 bd (Emergency!)
I haven’t looked but I’d bet $28 on what country the t-shirts are made in.
Maybe a little known fact, but many printed t-shirts are produced in Mexico and they do it well and cheaper than doing it in the US. They do silkscreen and offset heat transfers so all you do is design and sell.
I know a guy that runs a pretty good t-shirt business and he uses a digital printer to do mock ups and small initial sales to see if a shirt is going to sell. If it does take off, he orders larger quantities in Mexico and has them in days.
It keeps his inventory low, overhead low, costs low and amount of staff low.
re: #136 gocart mozart
This is the Texas case, not the CT one but here is a short clip of a deposition of Alex Jones
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That is from “Juanita Jean’s” son’s deposition of AJ… She is so proud.
re: #155 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
(deep sigh)
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The Holocaust has gone from “Never again will we allow such horrors to occur!” to “I’m feeling oppressed because I can’t play Russian Roulette with my child’s life!”
This just pisses me off.
A $1.50 wager on “Call of Duty” led to a fake 911 call and an innocent man being shot on his doorstep. Now the man who made the call, Tyler Barriss, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Here’s the shocking story of how it all went down: https://t.co/2tSg6ebikY
— WIRED (@WIRED) March 29, 2019
re: #47 Dave In Austin
Hammer Break!
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Speaking of hammers, if you’re ever in Haines, AK, don’t miss the Hammer Museum. The lunatic (in a good way!) who runs/owns it has more hammers than you would believe, and for more functions than you would think possible. And he knows all about them — the Smithsonian has asked him to identify some items in their collection.
re: #160 Teukka
This just pisses me off.
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And the cop walks free because “I thought he had a gun!”
Von Clownstick’s neck is so flabby he has to fold it in half just to button his shirt.
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 29, 2019
Dance like it is Friday. pic.twitter.com/TLdE2CvpiI
— VWAimlessly (@VWAimlessly) March 29, 2019
What Nadler has sussed out is that Barr’s—mindfully or not— is a political strategy to a) keep his judgment of Mueller’s investigation as the only conclusive judgment in the public eye and b) limit info via redactions and a failure to procure court orders on grand jury testimony.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 29, 2019
re: #167 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
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Hence why he got his letter out there in less than 48 hours, while he’s dragging his feet on the release of the actual report. The hope was that the report would be accepted as the final word on the whole thing as far as the public was concerned. And if the GOP had succeeded in holding the House, even if just barely, then he would have been right.
The Justice Department says Mariia Butina should be removed from the United States after she is sentenced. https://t.co/ma58GR9H4y
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) March 29, 2019
this is how Sarah Palin explained economics…
Had the Fed not mistakenly raised interest rates, especially since there is very little inflation, and had they not done the ridiculously timed quantitative tightening, the 3.0% GDP, & Stock Market, would have both been much higher & World Markets would be in a better place!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2019
moron must be watching teevee again
Robert Mueller was a Hero to the Radical Left Democrats, until he ruled that there was No Collusion with Russia (so ridiculous to even say!). After more than two years since the “insurance policy” statement was made by a dirty cop, I got the answers I wanted, the Truth…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2019
…The problem is, no matter what the Radical Left Democrats get, no matter what we give them, it will never be enough. Just watch, they will Harass & Complain & Resist (the theme of their movement). So maybe we should just take our victory and say NO, we’ve got a Country to run!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2019
So funny that The New York Times & The Washington Post got a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage (100% NEGATIVE and FAKE!) of Collusion with Russia - And there was No Collusion! So, they were either duped or corrupt? In any event, their prizes should be taken away by the Committee!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2019
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
this is how Sarah Palin explained economics…
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re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
this is how Sarah Palin explained economics…
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Had the Fed not mistakenly raised interest rates, especially since there is very little inflation, and had they not done the ridiculously timed quantitative tightening, the 3.0% GDP, & Stock Market, would have both been much higher & World Markets would be in a better place
There is NO 3.0 gdp
Currently it’s 2.2%
re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron must be watching teevee again
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But Donny also believes that if they just investigate the Clintons again, this time they’ll finally get them on something illegal.
re: #163 plansbandc
Horrible.
re: #164 Targetpractice
And the cop walks free because “I thought he had a gun!”
We had a similar case here in town still in the system. Not a SWATting, but a man with Down’s and autism sneaks out of his home in the middle of the night to early morning with a toy gun. Because there has been issues with a disgruntled psycho of an ex threatening with firearms, neighbors react and call police, who also have the address flagged for the disgruntled psycho ex’s activities and the ex himself is marked as “dangerous”…
It ends with the poor man being shot to death.
In hindsight, yes it was a bad shooting on the side of the cops, but they did not know that as they arrived on the scene. They have to assume the situation is dangerous. The only thing that might’ve saved Andy is sadly if the police in Wichita had a firearms code like the Swedish police, which is that you go for extremities after firing warning rounds primarily if the situation doesn’t demand firing for lethal effect immediately.
Which didn’t work for poor Eric. Toy automatic weapon, poorly lit courtyard, address flagged for firearms threats… Someone walking around with an automatic or semi-automatic weapon or something which looks like it will easily escalate to shots fired. Even here in Sweden.
Not because police are trigger happy, but because that the situation is non-threatening is only revealed in hindsight.
TL;DR: It’s a fucking disgrace Andy and Eric got shot to death, but at the same time, I do understand the cops perspective. And I do understand the need for tweaked training for cops so that they have to drive a reeking prank caller or idiot with a toy or air gun to the precinct more often than they shoot innocents (yep, happened here, more than once, can’t go into detail because it’s under NDA).
re: #156 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Got into looking at some of the bodega kitties in the Bodega Cats tweet page. Thought this one was fun.
Got that pets! This place is all mine, stay out.
— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) March 11, 2019
NEW: Trump signs presidential permit for #KeystoneXL pipeline
Story TK pic.twitter.com/CjJalWDiHt— Miranda Green (@mirandacgreen) March 29, 2019
Story: https://t.co/VHxhegLzBQ https://t.co/Vdoo2NDZjT
— Miranda Green (@mirandacgreen) March 29, 2019
re: #176 Teukka
I get the cops perspective also. Relative was a cop. These are just tragic situations all around.
Evening puppies!
Friday Night side yard…its the place to be. #PoppysPuppies #FridayMotivation pic.twitter.com/ZWW0DlclQq
— Bubbagirl💙🌊 (@bubbagump324) March 29, 2019
I think we have an early winner for 2019’s Creepiest Pet Snacks Award. Literally, the silence of the lambs. pic.twitter.com/sWdXKmz2V6
— Annabel Crabb (@annabelcrabb) March 29, 2019
Me: *tries to explain why AC is (again) on the fritz because thermostat set at 68 is reading 75 in the house*
Mom: “Well, the air coming out feels cool to me.”
Me: *points out that the unit when newly-serviced was blowing frigid air at full blast*
Mom: “Well, I don’t know what to tell you, it feels cool enough to me.”
NEW: Alex Jones must face a lawsuit for portraying the man who videotaped the murder of Heather Heyer as a “deep state” operative, a federal judge in Charlottesville, Virginia ruled.
The opinion: https://t.co/TJWRHtKlzq pic.twitter.com/iyIx1H4eui— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) March 29, 2019
The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Al-Jazari was originally published in 1206. I believe these are original drawings but I’m not sure since there were a number of printings after. pic.twitter.com/jOscPIU9H1
— Rabih Alameddine (@rabihalameddine) March 29, 2019
Does Don Jr. not know that there’s a Pulitzer for Fiction? https://t.co/B7xo6EZnaV
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 29, 2019
re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Poor Alex, there’s no way to get out of a civil case by pleading insanity.
“I didn’t expect them to make total fools of themselves,” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez told @MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “I expected a little more nuance, and I expected a little more ‘concern trolling.’” https://t.co/7Y3LG9ARQa
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 29, 2019
oh…
Pat Buchanan tells Laura Ingraham that we shouldn’t bring “people from different… cultures and ethnicities and races” to America because African-Americans haven’t been “fully assimilated.” WOW! pic.twitter.com/IbEkUAcEEH
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) March 29, 2019
re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— NUCLEAR OPTION🗽#MuellerToTheHill!🏃🏽 (@TermLimitsFFS) March 29, 2019
re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
NEW: Alex Jones must face a lawsuit for portraying the man who videotaped the murder of Heather Heyer as a “deep state” operative, a federal judge in Charlottesville, Virginia ruled.
Wouldn’t he have to prove there was such a thing as the “Deep State™”? That should be interesting….
Grandpa Ranty is going to have a long weekend. https://t.co/b2lKE3UFoB
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 30, 2019
re: #191 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Wouldn’t he have to prove there was such a thing as the “Deep State™”? That should be interesting….
The poor boy probably got Deep State and Deep Throat mixed up.
The Washington Post got a Pulitzer for covering your sham “Foundation.”
Best evidence they were right? You had to shut it down. And still face criminal charges over it.— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) March 29, 2019
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh…
[Pat Buchanan tells Laura Ingraham that we shouldn’t bring “people from different… cultures and ethnicities and races” to America because African-Americans haven’t been “fully assimilated.”]
Pat Buchanan will never be fully assimilated. Even in the compost.
Another Trump record. https://t.co/mowleT1P90
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 29, 2019
A guy who doesn’t know how to close an umbrella pic.twitter.com/GJPXWPQKw2
— PatsFan (@PatriotsSox) March 29, 2019
re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Gary Armstrong (@vanityman) March 29, 2019
I am enjoying the slow grilling of one Alex Jones.
I hope when all these suits are decided he is found to be cooked thoroughly.
Asylees are arriving in Albuquerque and the support from the community has been tremendous. I sat down with interfaith leaders and met some of the families seeking asylum to discuss the current situation in the district. pic.twitter.com/65ImoZBelN
— Rep. Deb Haaland (@RepDebHaaland) March 30, 2019
Sometimes you boop the cat, sometimes the cat boops you pic.twitter.com/Zdoxa3MWc6
— Awwwww (@AwwwwCats) March 30, 2019
I never thought I’d see it, but a new day is dawning at the Associated Press.
This refusal to state the plain truth has been possibly the single most galling and alienating thing the media has done throughout the last decade and more. https://t.co/1aE8GnqI07— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2019
“…that the campaign did field ‘multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.’ Yet President Trump and others have repeatedly claimed that they had no contact with Russians, or knowledge that Russians were acting to assist his campaign…
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 30, 2019
“Remarkably, after the release of the Barr letter — which makes it undeniable that the Russians were seeking to help the Trump campaign — the president still denies it. Why?”https://t.co/1rMUd9GgYx
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 30, 2019
re: #197 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
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Scores of pathetic MAGAts find themselves shocked that women don’t find “grab ‘em by the pussy” to be that appealing.
Ooohkay, I got to the octopus in “The OA” and now I’m totally weirded out. wtf was that.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2019
“The OA” is definitely on the twee (is that a word?) side sometimes and I could really do without the pop song montages, but it has some genuine WTF?! moments that keep me watching.
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s totally about ego. Simply being “exonerated” is not enough, he has to believe that the whole matter was totally a “hoax”…because anything less would be to suggest that he won 2016 for reasons other than his being such an amazing candidate.
“What’s your name?”
“Josh Campbell”
“Like the soup?”
“Like the British super model” https://t.co/APSj3cyPsz— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) March 29, 2019
You think your last name gets tortured?!
— Lori Galen Fuchs 🦅🐶☃️⛱❤️🇺🇸 (@LoriGalenFuchs) March 29, 2019
Oooh 🤭
— ‘HOPE’ (@WomnForgngChnge) March 29, 2019
Way to hijack her thread, you sick Fuchs
— TheMotivatioNOLEone🍢🔥 (@BAnsb1976) March 30, 2019
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
It was literally the Libya model. One can only imagine Kim’s reaction: Gaddaf*ck outta here. pic.twitter.com/ZZvcwyC7Xj
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) March 29, 2019
Full @Reuters exclusive:https://t.co/hnhcVewx4C
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) March 29, 2019
That’s okay - I’ll fight for their right to healthcare anyway. https://t.co/xvp76xoPVT
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 29, 2019
Tonight on @chrislhayes - @AOC versus the creepy zombie from another era. pic.twitter.com/8pFr435lbg
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2019
re: #214 Charles Johnson
Mr. Both Sides Mirror Image.
Got to say AOC is hitting it out of the park tonight!
In case you missed this: Right after Chairman Schiff’s GREAT speech on Trump’s Russian collusion, Repubs demanded Schiff to yield
Schiff replies “I will not yield” repeatedly
He then turns off GOP Rep Turner’s mic
Who else thinks Schiff is AWESOME?pic.twitter.com/N80E20W8tG— Indivisible Network (@IndivisibleNet) March 29, 2019
“That’s what Trump does”: It was a class move for @AOC to put the man who screamed ‘moron’ at Bob Inglis in his place. While I do not agree with Mr. Inglis, he was respectfully debating. #AOCAllIn
— Bill Madden (@activist360) March 30, 2019
No prescription? No problem. New health department order will make it easier for Utah women to access birth control. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽#utpol https://t.co/3Bo9uBDBrI
— Shireen Ghorbani (@ShireenGhorbani) March 29, 2019
I’m sad tonight.
My best friend’s dad passed away yesterday, succumbed to pulmonary cystic fibrosis after battling the disease for seven years. Heartbreaking way to go. All my love to Darlene, Dustin, Amber, and Crystal. RIP Al, you were a great man.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) March 30, 2019
He was like another dad for me, him and I enjoyed each other’s company immensely, known him since the third grade. Broke my heart the last time I saw him in July, hooked up to huge oxygen machines in his home.
“Hey, that’s unacceptable”: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez responds to audience member who called fmr. Rep. Inglis a “moron” during #AOCAllIn pic.twitter.com/tcIQC1OtAa
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 30, 2019
Our special event with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has just ended but you can catch the web extra here: https://t.co/TdS7pOa1zG pic.twitter.com/THMO5r2807
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 30, 2019
Watching Crimes of Grindalwold. The scene where the wizard police try to capture him is straight up Trump.
Let’s debate, not debase. ✌🏽 https://t.co/QqmRpT92NF
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 30, 2019
re: #109 freetoken
Cillizza trying to be cute and “insider”:
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I catch Cillizza on U-tube sometimes. Cloying. Good catch.
Grifters gonna grift. https://t.co/CNQATLVCTp
— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) March 30, 2019
re: #230 jaunte
New York Times: Romanian immigrant who drove Trump family has been in ICE custody for eight months https://t.co/h7NfDWAZQV pic.twitter.com/hhgZTfWLaK
— CNN (@CNN) March 30, 2019
re: #231 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Corrupt motherfuckers all the way down. The ultimate long con. Makes me sick.
— skippy the bush kangaroo, troll hunter (@skippybkroo) March 30, 2019
That’s kinda the problem, dude. https://t.co/okf5fA7Sio
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2019
re: #231 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
You would have to be absolutely blind deaf and dumb to be any kind of Trump family retainer. Save yourself, people!
re: #233 gocart mozart
There’s a name I haven’t seen in a minute. Skippy blocked me on Twitter years ago over a stupid slight, which is too bad. I liked Skippy’s feed.
I wasn’t aware there was a “you must be this tall to be alt-right” sign somewhere because that is the only way he wouldn’t be part of that
— Kyle Stadler (@ixnay1) March 28, 2019
re: #60 freetoken
I really like the jacket Lionel Shriver has on.
I see Rude Pundit is calling William Barr a Republican sin eater, and boy, does that just exactly work perfectly right on the button!
Watching the Russiagate denialists try to convince their flock that Attorney General Bill Barr is a trustworthy figure after spending decades claiming US officials can’t be trusted isn’t primarily infuriating or funny, but sad. https://t.co/ra5u82O6Mc
— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) March 30, 2019
re: #223 teleskiguy
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re: #232 teleskiguy
Corrupt motherfuckers all the way down. The ultimate long con. Makes me sick.
re: #235 jaunte
You would have to be absolutely blind deaf and dumb to be any kind of Trump family retainer. Save yourself, people!
Apparently he was convicted in Romania, in absentia, for insurance fraud
According to the report, in 2011, Tamas, his wife and their two children — who, like their mother, are also now US citizens — “were awarded permanent residence cards after he won the diversity visa lottery.”
re: #241 teleskiguy
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Something I never miss is Juanita Jean’s weekly “Friday Toons.” Sometimes I have seen some of them, but there are always good ones to be seen.
re: #242 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Urizar told CNN that he’s “trying (his) best” to reach out to the Trump children to try to get them to help with the case, adding that he and Tamas were especially interested in getting help from Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.
Paying attention to his problems might interfere with peace in the Middle East, nukes for the Saudis, and Ivanka-branded voting machines.
Been crying off and on.
But you know what?
I found this thread!
ok twitter, so I filed a Public Records Act request for rejected vanity plates in CA. I spent *days* combing through the documents, which show the applicant’s intended meaning and the DMV’s comments. My abs still hurt. Bonus plates in thread. @LAmag https://t.co/h3Z0I71X7w
— Sam Braslow (@SamBraslow) March 28, 2019
I have hundred of plates that didn’t make it into the article. These are from the raw PRA request. First column is the plate, ignore the second, the third is applicant’s explanation, fourth is DMV response, and 5th is the verdict. Note: dollar sign = heart. pic.twitter.com/xWa8vfpdjJ
— Sam Braslow (@SamBraslow) March 28, 2019
My sister, who has a 2.5 year old son, just tried to explain the plot of “minions” to me and now i know how she feels when I, mother only of tweets, try to explain “Jacob wohl” to her
— Erin party of healthcare Ryan (@morninggloria) March 29, 2019
re: #221 wrenchwench
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Sounds good at first but I’m pretty sure the real motive behind this is so employers have an easier time refusing to allow their company plans to cover BC and foisting the costs off on employees.
Listen, I didn’t kill the thread okay, YOU killed the thread.
re: #249 goddamnedfrank
OK fine, I fess up. It was me who killed the thread.
re: #250 teleskiguy
OK fine, I fess up. It was me who killed the thread.
But you didn’t shoot the Deputy, right?
//
(deeper sigh)
Here’s the full (eye-poppingly inaccurate) quote: “Mexico is gonna have to do something, otherwise I’m closing the border. I’ll just close the border. And with a deficit like we have with Mexico, and have had for many years, closing the border will be a profit-making operation.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 29, 2019
re: #255 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
(deeper sigh)
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Just think of how cheep those midwestern farms will be. It’ll be pure profit for the large corporate farms when they gobble them up.
re: #131 jaunte
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Schiff is Californian, right? California has very specific laws about the commercial use of someone’s likeness without their permission.
re: #256 Belafon
Just think of how cheep those midwestern farms will be. It’ll be pure profit for the large corporate farms when they gobble them up.
Isn’t planting season starting?
Time to stock up on tomato sauce and canned vestibules. That stuffs gonna be like bitcoins
lol, good one pic.twitter.com/Ociinhjpb5
— Mike Bivins (@itsmikebivins) March 30, 2019
re: #257 sagehen
Schiff is Californian, right? California has very specific laws about the commercial use of someone’s likeness without their permission.
He’s also a public figure so this likely has First Amendment protections.
re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
He’s also a public figure so this likely has First Amendment protections.
Is there a “punching down” clause, where the offender (DT himself) is MUCH more famous and well-known than Schiff? To me that what make a BIG difference.
A member of our well regulated militia is in a car and sees a man running down the road. She pulls up behind him, honks her horn, then speeds away. She then stops in the road, decides she’s “in fear for her safety,” and pulls her handgun “to scare him.” https://t.co/ICCO9pjjKc
— WellRegulatedMilitia (@Well_Regulated_) March 30, 2019
re: #129 Man, DangerMan
while it may be human
and it may be ‘beating’ so that it can be detectedat 6 weeks, it is not yet a heart
At six weeks, a human embryo is the size of a large pea. It does not have a differentiated heart, only tissue that will eventually become a heart. But the embryo has more rights in the eyes of prolifers than the living woman.
Dr. Jen Gunter, the OB/GYN who takes on crackpots like Gwyneth Paltrow, had a lot to say on her Twitter feed today.
This bill #HB481 if signed into law will kill women.
Abortion aside, doctors will be afraid to intervene in bleeding situations in early pregnancies.— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) March 29, 2019
Her feed is also full of retweets of gifs of witches, because some guy said she was a witch and she needed to repent.
re: #262 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I see the good women of Florida have decided that Florida Men have fallen down on the job….
re: #157 ObserverArt
I know a guy that runs a pretty good t-shirt business and he uses a digital printer to do mock ups and small initial sales to see if a shirt is going to sell. If it does take off, he orders larger quantities in Mexico and has them in days.
Ask him if he can do silkscreens on athletic supporters…
re: #177 ObserverArt
Got into looking at some of the bodega kitties in the Bodega Cats tweet page. Thought this one was fun.
At one bookstore I visited way back when the store had a cat to deal with vermin.
And is goes without saying that number 10 Downing Street has their own Chief Mouser to The Cabinet Office named Larry
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