Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:
The Mueller Report — NSFW; It’s a special 90 minute edition of the show as we review the redacted Mueller Report; The Goth Ninjas are here; Jody Hamilton from the Sexy Liberal Podcast Network and TRex David Ferguson from the TRex Report Podcast; With music by Battle Tapes; and much more.
Frank’s James Woods tweet to me shows the deep seated authoritarianism that is present within the Trump base’s mind. They would gladly outlaw any opposition to Trump if they could.
it’s about to get SLAPSTICK AS FUCK IN HERE pic.twitter.com/mNmaEBcoIA
— Ryan Boyd (@ryandroyd) April 19, 2019
Coulter wants Trump to be WAY more extreme than he is already, so she’s hitting him where it hurts. In the ego.
Coulter is either a genuine white supremacist or is working that angle because it’s a profitable con with the right. A distinction without a difference. https://t.co/Y5x5vcPBNN— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 19, 2019
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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Either way, her schtick has appeal with the right. I definitely resent Bill Maher for berating left wing critics of her.
re: #1 HappyWarrior
Frank’s James Woods tweet to me shows the deep seated authoritarianism that is present within the Trump base’s mind. They would gladly outlaw any opposition to Trump if they could.
All the while insisting they’re the Constitutionalists who value freedom and small government.
Among the revelations from yesterday: Even with weeks of heads-up and foreknowledge, this slow-motion trainwreck of an administration totally botched the handling of the Report’s release. The only plausible explanation is that Donny’s aides were so scared shitless for their own asses that they lied to him about what was in the report (i.e. their own testimony to Mueller) and only fed him the parts that he wanted to hear.
Well, hey now. Here’s an interesting thread. https://t.co/ealq86mimn
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 19, 2019
Former Fox News Co-Host Eboni K. Williams: Fox News Was Founded to ‘Demonize’ Racial Minorities https://t.co/T4hRnVkY5K pic.twitter.com/E7n6gV4prX
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) April 18, 2019
In other news the sky is blue and water is wet.
re: #5 Blind Frog Belly White
All the while insisting they’re the Constitutionalists who value freedom and small government.
Yeah. It’s a sham.
re: #7 Charles Johnson
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Another example of the thorough vetting practiced by the HR staff at the Sanders campaign.
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Seven hours later, his tweet still ends with a poignant ellipsis.
Probably had to unexpectedly deal with an important matter of state….
Snort. Kidding. https://t.co/U9VXaDgh9Y— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 19, 2019
re: #13 Targetpractice
Another example of the thorough vetting practiced by the HR staff at the Sanders campaign.
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It frustrates me to no end that my friends who support Bernie can’t see his team and allies role in discrediting the investigation and the Seth Rich shit.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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I thought it odd that nobody had yet posted the end of that stream of consciousness. Perhaps an aide distracted him long enough to grab the phone.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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He doesn’t know what a hoax is. The Hitler Diaries were a hoax. That Russia interfered to his benefit possibly with his inner circle’s personal blessing is not.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
Probably had to unexpectedly deal with an important matter of state….
His Big Mac and Fries arrived.
I was right. He was interrupted by an important matter of state.https://t.co/gT96W3KGC0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 19, 2019
re: #19 Blind Frog Belly White
His Big Mac and Fries arrived.
Long phone call with Vlad giving him instructions.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
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Yay Potus is golfing with a drug addict who wonders why white supremacy has a bad name and spread Notre Dame conspiracies. //
If these goddamned Berners hate the party and the party faithful so much then run as an independent you damn political blood suckers.
You are independents anyway, right? You do nothing for the Democrats except suck out resources, only to attack that assistance.
And if you are as fucking red hot as you think you are then it should be no problem.
Get out! Stand on you own and good riddance, it would be good to not have to hear you piss and moan.
re: #23 Joe Bacon 🌹
With a bucket of KFC!
I love his implicit assumption that all athletes have similarly lowbrow taste in food. “I know what kind of food you people like!”
re: #24 ObserverArt
If these goddamned Berners hate the party and the party faithful so much then run as an independent you damn political blood suckers.
You are independents anyway, right? You do nothing for the Democrats except suck out resources, only to attack that assistance.
And if you are as fucking red hot as you think you are then it should be no problem.
Get out! Stand on you own and good riddance, it would be good to not have to hear you piss and moan.
They trash the party all the time and yet arrogantly think they are our base. I’ll take the African Americans who vote for our candidates in good times and bad over the Bros any day.
re: #21 HappyWarrior
Long phone call with Vlad giving him instructions.
“Donald! Donald! Stop telling me about your electoral college win, and pay attention!”
re: #27 Blind Frog Belly White
“Donald! Donald! Stop telling me about your electoral college win, and pay attention!”
I have a mental image of Vlad laughing with “Yes Donald your win was yuggge” and then turning to an aide and saying in Russian what a fool Trump is.
When I remind a certain relative about the times he blew a gasket when Obama golfed he says it’s OK for Trump to golf because he’s a born again Christian.
He always ignores when I bring up about Trump paying Stormy $130K…
re: #28 HappyWarrior
I have a mental image of Vlad laughing with “Yes Donald your win was yuggge” and then turning to an aide and saying in Russian what a fool Trump is.
[Vlad rolls eyes theatrically to aide, mimes jerking off.]
“Yes, Donald, that was amazing! Now, about Ukraine….”
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
When I remind a certain relative about the times he blew a gasket when Obama golfed he says it’s OK for Trump to golf because he’s a born again Christian.
He always ignores when I bring up about Trump paying Stormy $130K…
“Yeah, but Obama only had to be born again once.”
re: #30 Blind Frog Belly White
[Vlad rolls eyes to aide, mimes jerking off.]
“Yes, Donald, that was amazing! Now, about Ukraine….”
“Ukraine? Why do you wanna talk about that Vladdy? I told you I’ll just call Ukraine ungrateful and it will be yours.”
Yeah, it’s pretty much confirmed that he didn’t read any of it, and took his aides’ word for how completely great the Mueller Report was for him.
Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue. Watch out for people that take so-called “notes,” when the notes never existed until needed. Because I never….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 19, 2019
re: #35 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, it’s pretty much confirmed that he didn’t read any of it, and took his aides’ word for how completely great the Mueller Report was for him.
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re: #35 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, it’s pretty much confirmed that he didn’t read any of it, and took his aides’ word for how completely great the Mueller Report was for him.
Entirely responding to what he’s hearing in the news.
Watch out for people who take notes. Uh doctors, lawyers, hiring managers, etc all take notes.
Federal authorities announced Friday that a man named John Kless was arrested for leaving voicemails in the Washington, D.C. offices of Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ) earlier this week. In every voicemail, Kless spoke about his hatred for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), whom, in the message he left on Tlaib’s voicemail, he said he wanted to “throw off the Empire State Building.”
re: #37 Belafon
Entirely responding to what he’s hearing in the news.
I bet he was furious when he found out that he really wasn’t cleared.
re: #40 HappyWarrior
I bet he was furious when he found out that he really wasn’t cleared.
Or that the only thing that saved his bacon was that his staff ignore his direct orders.
re: #17 Targetpractice
I thought it odd that nobody had yet posted the end of that stream of consciousness. Perhaps an aide distracted him long enough to grab the phone.
Seven hours fourteen minutes. Will the president eventually finish this sentence
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 19, 2019
He had to go play golf with Rush Limbaugh and some friends—hey, the guy is really busy.
re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg
Uploading because someone referenced it last thread. Fun fact: This clip is from the Simpsons 3rd season, which was all the way back in 1992.
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there used to be a piano bar around here called “Hugh Jorgan’s”
re: #17 Targetpractice
I thought it odd that nobody had yet posted the end of that stream of consciousness. Perhaps an aide distracted him long enough to grab the phone.
probably house flies
re: #43 Man, DangerMan
how do you ‘illegally start a hoax”?
I think this is Trump’s Corollary to Nixon’s Law:
Nixon’s Law: If the President does it, that means it’s not illegal.
Trump’s Corollary: If the President doesn’t like it, it’s illegal.
re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White
I think this is Trump’s Corollary of Nixon’s Law:
Nixon’s Law: If the President does it, that means it’s not illegal.
Trump’s Corollary: If the President doesn’t like it, it’s illegal.
Ha seems that way.
He thinks no one has a right to investigate him because he thinks he won fair and square and even if were true, he’s not immune to investigations. Even Nixon wasn’t that arrogant.
re: #44 Man, DangerMan
there used to be a piano bar around here called “Hugh Jorgan’s”
Ha ha ha. That’s pretty good.
I confess to a complete lack of surprise that the same folks who argued that Clinton should have been removed from office for lying in a deposition in a frivolous lawsuit are now arguing that you can’t obstruct justice if there’s no underlying crime.
re: #51 Blind Frog Belly White
I confess to a complete lack of surprise that the same folks who argued that Clinton should have been removed from office for lying in a deposition in a frivolous lawsuit are now arguing that you can’t obstruct justice if there’s no underlying crime.
Why one of them is even the Vice President.
When Kellyanne says “we had Wisconsin” she’s referring to the 600,000 people Republican governor Scott Walker purged from the state’s voter rolls. https://t.co/0jlsZ78zj5
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) April 19, 2019
re: #53 Patricia Kayden
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Mueller didn’t work for the Clinton campaign. You’re just a lying hack with no principles. You should be permanently unemployable after your stint with the orange shithead.
re: #41 Blind Frog Belly White
Or that the only thing that saved his bacon was that his staff ignore his direct orders.
Which shows how complete his disregard was for the office and the law.
He really did think he could do anything as president; as in the thought of every power hungry 10 year old brat that wants to show everyone they will get back at them when they get that power.
re: #31 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Wikipedia on the purse wielder.
A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag (Swedish: Kvinnan med handväskan, lit. “The woman with the handbag”) is a photograph taken in Växjö, Sweden on 13 April 1985 by Hans Runesson. It depicts a 38-year-old woman hitting a marching neo-nazi with a handbag. The photograph was taken during a demonstration of the Nordic Reich Party supporters. It was published in the next day’s Dagens Nyheter and a day later in some British newspapers and sparked a discussion in Sweden about “violence unleashed against innocent demonstrators.”
Runesson’s photograph was selected as the Swedish Picture of the Year (Årets bild) 1985 and later as the Picture of the Century by the magazine Vi and the Photographic Historical Society of Sweden.[1]
The woman in the photograph is Danuta Danielsson (1947-1988) She was of Polish-Jewish origin and her mother had been in a German concentration camp during World War II.[1] The photograph and its publication caused Danielsson to seclude herself in her home, and in time she suffered a severe psychological crisis that eventually led her to end her life in 1988.
The name of the neo-Nazi hit by Danielsson was Seppo Seluska, a militant from the Nordic Reich Party. Later that year he was convicted of murder after torturing and murdering a homosexual Jewish man.
In 2014, the Swedish sculptor Susanna Arwin made a miniature statue of Danielsson based on the photograph.[2] There was an initiative to erect a life-size bronze version of Arwin’s statue in the city of Växjö,[3] but the project was blocked by local politicians of the Centre Party believing that such a statue might promote violence;[4] a city councillor also stated that one of Danielsson’s heirs had objected to her being remembered that way.[5][not in citation given]
The photograph was produced using gelatin silver process and editioned by gallerist Pelle Unger.[6] Twelve copies, three AP and three PP has been produced in the size 58 by 80 centimetres (23 in × 31 in) and price ranges between €3000-6000.
re: #49 HappyWarrior
He thinks no one has a right to investigate him because he thinks he won fair and square and even if were true, he’s not immune to investigations. Even Nixon wasn’t that arrogant.
let’s remind the current president of the united states how it works, in general:
- no one has an inherent right to not be accused
- no one has an inherent right to not be falsely accused
- if you are maliciously or frivolously accused, there are remedies, otherwise you defend yourself
- like the rest of us
- you prevent these problems by staying out of compromising situations
- after accusal - you have rights to recourse if the accusation was abusive. otherwise it’s the system at work
- no one has protection from vilification in the media - certainly not a politician
- us forming opinions from media ‘info’ is not the same as one’s obligation as a juror, nor does it reflect on the basic rights given to you by the system - ie you are still innocent till proven….
re: #59 HappyWarrior
a day later in some British newspapers and sparked a discussion in Sweden about “violence unleashed against innocent demonstrators.”
Gee, I wonder who those Swedes were….
New: Seth Rich’s brother, Aaron Rich, releases statement after Mueller findings: “I hope that the people who pushed, fueled, spread, ran headlines, articles, interviews, talk and opinion shows…will take responsibility for the unimaginable pain they have caused us.” pic.twitter.com/88HfFGlN2z
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 19, 2019
re: #62 gocart mozart
I really hate doing narrator voice on that guy, but…
re: #61 Eric The Fruit Bat
Gee, I wonder who those Swedes were….
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re: #62 gocart mozart
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That alone makes me glad Assenge was arrested. There’s something really evil about that.
re: #63 Belafon
I really hate doing narrator voice on that guy, but…
I had the exact same thought. Good on him to at least say the right thing though, even if the people who actually need to listen aren’t going to give a shit.
And Hannity & the others who used Seth’s death to push CTs will never apologize or acknowledge they were wrong.
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
When I remind a certain relative about the times he blew a gasket when Obama golfed he says it’s OK for Trump to golf because he’s a born again Christian.
He always ignores when I bring up about Trump paying Stormy $130K…
Do you know why being a born again christian makes it ok to golf? Cause I don’t get the connection
re: #68 Old Liberal
Do you know why being a born again christian makes it ok to golf? Cause I don’t get the connection
It’s not that being a Christian makes it ok to play golf. Obama was a Muslim, and therefore shouldn’t have been president.
I should have brought up Seth in my page as an example of the power of disinformation.
re: #70 HappyWarrior
I should have brought up Seth in my page as an example of the power of disinformation.
you can always add it
John Heilemann on Nicole Wallace was really deconstructing Trump. If any conservatives looked at the report the way Heilemann is, Trump would be impeached immediately.
But the real fun statement was Heilemann saying the “I’m fucked” statement is the single biggest admittance of guilt you can have. At that point Trump knew he was “fucked” because he knew how illegal he had already been up to the point of Mueller being put on the job. And then after that point it was all ass protecting at any cost as he knew he was done.
As TweetWatch winds through its eighth hour, there really should be a “Finish The Tweet” contest for creative pranksters.
Cades Cove in the Smoky Mountains
This is the cutest thing ever.
My Heart CAN’T 😭
Retweet ❤️
(Via Rebecca Connell) pic.twitter.com/ToSbJzgJBq— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) April 19, 2019
re: #64 HappyWarrior
And the guy she hit later killed a gay Jewish man. Both sides.//
You know that little thought game of “if you could have stopped Hitler?”
Yeah, that.
re: #70 HappyWarrior
I should have brought up Seth in my page as an example of the power of disinformation.
new green deal = cows is another one
re: #77 Man, DangerMan
new green deal = cows is another one
Yeah that’s true. I was sticking with the 2016 election though. Or I’ll raise you what Representative Omar said about 9-11 and how people like Dan Crenshaw happily distorted what she said.
re: #72 ObserverArt
John Heilemann on Nicole Wallace was really deconstructing Trump. If any conservatives looked at the report the way Heilemann is, Trump would be impeached immediately.
But the real fun statement was Heilemann saying the “I’m fucked” statement is the single biggest admittance of guilt you can have. At that point Trump knew he was “fucked” because he knew how illegal he had already been up to the point of Mueller being put on the job. And then after that point it was all ass protecting at any cost as he knew he was done.
and now he’s conflating no indictment (yet) with “see i didnt do anything”
re: #72 ObserverArt
John Heilemann on Nicole Wallace was really deconstructing Trump. If any conservatives looked at the report the way Heilemann is, Trump would be impeached immediately.
But the real fun statement was Heilemann saying the “I’m fucked” statement is the single biggest admittance of guilt you can have. At that point Trump knew he was “fucked” because he knew how illegal he had already been up to the point of Mueller being put on the job. And then after that point it was all ass protecting at any cost as he knew he was done.
I really understand why a lot of us don’t trust the Never Trump Conservatives but as I said last night and earlier, we’re going to have a post Trump right, I’d rather conservatives who see Trump what he is be at the forefront of that rather than people who think Mueller was out to get Trump. Joe Walsh ideologically is awful and I think he’s an awful person too but he sees Trump as a criminal.
re: #79 Man, DangerMan
and now he’s conflating no indictment (yet) with “see i didnt do anything”
Shows how little he actually learned from the mobsters he was chummy with back in the day.
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
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ok, yes too cute
and still i’d like to say “no, we are not kidding you”. you said it enough times
sometimes i think people dont get what a phrase means
its a peeve
re: #72 ObserverArt
John Heilemann on Nicole Wallace was really deconstructing Trump. If any conservatives looked at the report the way Heilemann is, Trump would be impeached immediately.
But the real fun statement was Heilemann saying the “I’m fucked” statement is the single biggest admittance of guilt you can have. At that point Trump knew he was “fucked” because he knew how illegal he had already been up to the point of Mueller being put on the job. And then after that point it was all ass protecting at any cost as he knew he was done.
The “I’m fucked” was clearly an admission of guilt. However, it could have been for items unrelated to the election and he might not have understood the limits on Mueller’s investigation. Trump is a criminal seven ways from Sunday and he probably thought he was boned on those crimes, but like his idiot family, he might not have understood the particular criminality of meeting with the Russians re: “dirt” on HRC.
re: #83 Mike Lamb
The “I’m fucked” was clearly an admission of guilt. However, it could have been for items unrelated to the election and he might not have understood the limits on Mueller’s investigation. Trump is a criminal seven ways from Sunday and he probably thought he was boned on those crimes, but like his idiot family, he might not have understood the particular criminality of meeting with the Russians re: “dirt” on HRC.
I do think it’s certainly possible he doesn’t see what he did was wrong. As I said contrast what Trump’s team did with what Thomas Downey did when he got footage of GWB preparing to debate Gore in 2000.
In which Duncan Hunter self owns hard…
This is just too, too perfect. Not one to be out-stunted by his ridiculous Republican colleagues pretending to watch the wall being built at the border (they weren’t and it wasn’t) indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican, staged his own border fiasco. He staged his own “illegal” border crossing to show just how easy it was.
Except it wasn’t a border crossing, because he can’t cross the border. He’s been indicted for campaign finance violations and the terms of his parole mean he can’t leave the country. So when Hunter “eased himself over a railing in the video before proclaiming, ‘That’s how easy it is to cross the border in Yuma, Arizona,” he was actually stepping over a vehicle barrier that’s about 100 feet away from the actual border. The actual border at Yuma is the Colorado River.
re: #85 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I was really hoping he would lose re-election.
For all those that worry that the news media never use the word “lie” in anything they do; Nicole Wallace’s show today is a lie fest. I can’t count the number of times they have said Trump lied. Now they are saying Barr lied. Good times!
re: #84 HappyWarrior
I do think it’s certainly possible he doesn’t see what he did was wrong. As I said contrast what Trump’s team did with what Thomas Downey did when he got footage of GWB preparing to debate Gore in 2000.
and i’ll repeat
- zero of these people thought to talk to the fbi about russia’s advances. they all thought it was fine and they could use it to their advantage
- zero of these people thought to talk to…anybody… when the president asked them to do something illegal and they knew that it was illegal. none of them quit, blew the whistle, nothing. they all protected their jobs and selves.
re: #88 Man, DangerMan
and i’ll repeat
- zero of these people thought to talk to the fbi about russia’s advances. they all thought it was fine and they could use it to their advantage
- zero of these people thought to talk to…anybody… when the president asked them to do something illegal and they knew that it was illegal. none of them quit, blew the whistle, nothing. they all protected their jobs and selves.
You are of course 100% correct.
re: #87 ObserverArt
For all those that worry that the news media never use the word “lie” in anything they do; Nicole Wallace’s show today is a lie fest. I can’t count the number of times they have said Trump lied. Now they are saying Barr lied. Good times!
And honestly this is where I disagree with AM. I think he thinks they only hate Trump because he makes conservatism look bad and maybe that is part of it but I think with some of these people, there’s a sincere disgust with what Trump has done to our country.
It took 8 hours…
….big, fat, waste of time, energy and money - $30,000,000 to be exact. It is now finally time to turn the tables and bring justice to some very sick and dangerous people who have committed very serious crimes, perhaps even Spying or Treason. This should never happen again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 19, 2019
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
somebody remind him that Mueller made a profit on the investigation
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
It took 8 hours…
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re: #90 HappyWarrior
And honestly this is where I disagree with AM. I think he thinks they only hate Trump because he makes conservatism look bad and maybe that is part of it but I think with some of these people, there’s a sincere disgust with what Trump has done to our country.
Keep in mind that not everyone on Nicole’s show is a conservative. She has a nice variety of talking heads and uses a lot Times and WaPo people. Good group of prosecutor types too.
She is whatever she is, but she has been close enough to DC to understand how fucked up Trump is from a conservative viewpoint.
Overall, I think Nicole does a decent job of being fair and being more journalist/political commentator than Republican party person as she was.
I watch her because I find some of the points she makes differ from the others on MSNBC like Rachel and Lawrence. She is not a rabid right winger in my opinion.
By the way, Elizabeth Warren has called for impeachment. Talk of that is way up today.
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
somebody remind him that Mueller made a profit on the investigation
That’s an inconvenient truth.
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
DT needs his Executive Time. Things like this interfere with it. /half
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
It took 8 hours…
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“Spying or Treason”??
SRSLY, Donald?
I know that citing “projection” to explain many/most of Trump’s idiot tweets is a fairly stale trope by now, but this one really tops it…
re: #94 ObserverArt
Keep in mind that not everyone on Nicole’s show is not a conservative. She has a nice variety of talking heads and uses a lot Times and WaPo people. Good group of prosecutor types too.
She is whatever she is, but she has been close enough to DC to understand how fucked up Trump is from a conservative viewpoint.
Overall, I think Nicole does a decent job of being fair and being more journalist/political commentator than Republican party person as she was.
I watch her because I find some of the points she makes differ from the others on MSNBC like Rachel and Lawrence. She is not a rabid right winger in my opinion.
By the way, Elizabeth Warren has called for impeachment. Talk of that is way up today.
Yeah she’s a former member of the GOP machinery but she’s alright with me. That doesn’t mean I agree with her ideologically or want her in the party but as I said, gonna need sane people in the post-Trump right and I’d rather her than someone like KAC. Warren is calling it for it you say though. That would make her the first candidate that has then I believe. I’m gonna be interested watching how a certain Vermonter handles that given his own benefit from the Russia games was in the report.
re: #97 Jay C
“Spying or Treason”??
SRSLY, Donald?I know that citing “projection” to explain many/most of Trump’s idiot tweets is a fairly stale trope by now, but this one really tops it…
I am telling you that if unrestrained he would gladly put Mueller on trial. I think that would be a bridge too far even for Barr but I’m sure teh usual suspects: Lumpy, Massie, Gaetz, Limbaugh, and others would go along with it. And I’m sure GG would be there to say it was justified in someway.
re: #95 HappyWarrior
That’s an inconvenient truth.
Especially since it came at the expense of his buddy.
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
It took 8 hours…
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So, these are the first words he types after returning from golfing with Rush Limbaugh:
“….big, fat, waste of time…”
re: #99 HappyWarrior
I am telling you that if unrestrained he would gladly put Mueller on trial. I think that would be a bridge too far even for Barr but I’m sure teh usual suspects: Lumpy, Massie, Gaetz, Limbaugh, and others would go along with it. And I’m sure GG would be there to say it was justified in someway.
If totally unrestrained, he would probably order executions.
re: #103 SteelPH
If totally unrestrained, he would probably order executions.
Yeah. I see a lot of Stalin in Trump TBH except I will acknowledge that Stalin wasn’t a total dummy.
re: #102 Blind Frog Belly White
So, these are the first words he types after returning from golfing with Rush Limbaugh:
“….big, fat, waste of time…”
Ha!
re: #90 HappyWarrior
And honestly this is where I disagree with AM. I think he thinks they only hate Trump because he makes conservatism look bad and maybe that is part of it but I think with some of these people, there’s a sincere disgust with what Trump has done to our country.
Trump’s 2016 GOP primary campaign was basically a real-estate grab where Fox News only thought it had clear title to the pig-people.
So Trump is just a symptom of larger problems, and I have no patience for any never-Trump Republican who isn’t prepared to admit that Trump and Trumpism are monsters that Republicans have spent decades creating.
re: #103 SteelPH
If totally unrestrained, he would probably order executions.
So: if the House does pass a resolution of impeachment, you think he’d try to pull a Cromwell, and send troops in to “adjourn” the Congress?
I stand by my observation that he likes Kim Jong Un because he was impressed by how Kim deals with perceived disloyalty combined with Kim using the Swiss prep school charm.
re: #106 EPR-radar
Trump’s 2016 GOP primary campaign was basically a real-estate grab where Fox News only thought it had clear title to the pig-people.
So Trump is just a symptom of larger problems, and I have no patience for any never-Trump Republican who isn’t prepared to admit that Trump and Trumpism are monsters that Republicans have spent decades creating.
I agree with that. I’m just saying. Better then than people who think Trump is great.
re: #107 Jay C
So: if the House does pass a resolution of impeachment, you think he’d try to pull a Cromwell, and send troops in to “adjourn” the Congress?
I think he would try something if he felt his power was threatened. That’s why he needs to be impeached and then beaten resoundingly.
OH HAI! Just popping in for a short break during Passover preparation. My youngest daughter is here with her family (2 little girls & 1 husband)
re: #107 Jay C
So: if the House does pass a resolution of impeachment, you think he’d try to pull a Cromwell, and send troops in to “adjourn” the Congress?
I put nothing past that evil SOB.
re: #110 HappyWarrior
I think he would try something if he felt his power was threatened. That’s why he needs to be impeached and then beaten resoundingly.
I would have preparations in place so that if he tries anything, he is met with an effect equivalent of J. Random gangsters expecting to make a big heist, only to be met by massive amounts of SWAT and Tac cops…
re: #111 Joe Bacon 🌹
Post the Mueller report part about Assange and Berniebots retort with this…and I block all of their asses and took the post off my page…
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As I said in my page, they’re culpable for a lot of this shit too because they were butthurt that more people preferred HRC over Bernie. They have a lot of ugly tendencies in them too. The same desire to punish those they disagree with.
re: #112 The Vicious Babushka
OH HAI! Just popping in for a short break during Passover preparation. My youngest daughter is here with her family (2 little girls & 1 husband)
Oh hai! Apparently I get to be The Guy In Charge (tm) of service operations for one of our church’s campuses on Easter Sunday. No pressure or anything.
re: #112 The Vicious Babushka
And a very Happy Passover to you and your family.
It didn’t stop ol’ girl from choosing to work at Fox News, so she can miss with her whining. https://t.co/H61QpQgr3v
— PragmaticObotsUnite (@PragObots) April 19, 2019
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Cades Cove in the Smoky Mountains]
OMG. 4 cubs. That was a h*ck of a hibernation. Now for spring.
re: #114 Teukka
I would have preparations in place so that if he tries anything, he is met with an effect equivalent of J. Random gangsters expecting to make a big heist, only to be met by massive amounts of SWAT and Tac cops…
Either way, this is going be the least smooth transition of power when he leaves office either in 2021, 2025, in cuffs, or in a bodybag.
re: #106 EPR-radar
Trump’s 2016 GOP primary campaign was basically a real-estate grab where Fox News only thought it had clear title to the pig-people.
So Trump is just a symptom of larger problems, and I have no patience for any never-Trump Republican who isn’t prepared to admit that Trump and Trumpism are monsters that Republicans have spent decades creating.
To his credit, Rick Wilson has a chapter in his book where he does exactly that.
I do think that there were a surprisingly small number of genuine Conservatives (as they used to define Conservatism) on the Right, and a whole lot more whose primary motivations were race based.
For example, they all hate welfare, but the real Conservative hates it because they believe in self-reliance and small government. The rest? They hate it because black people get it, and they believe black people are lazy and shiftless.
Or on Foreign Policy, the real Conservatives believed the Iraq war would cause democracy to flower in the ME. The rest? They wanted to kill them some A-Rabs.
re: #98 HappyWarrior
Yeah she’s a former member of the GOP machinery but she’s alright with me. That doesn’t mean I agree with her ideologically or want her in the party but as I said, gonna need sane people in the post-Trump right and I’d rather her than someone like KAC. Warren is calling it for it you say though. That would make her the first candidate that has then I believe. I’m gonna be interested watching how a certain Vermonter handles that given his own benefit from the Russia games was in the report.
I think everyone can benefit by stepping back and thinking about what a Republican was like in the 1960s. Rockefeller Dirksen. They thought Goldwater was a nut, in fact the whole country thought he was a nut. We may “always have conservatives” but there isn’t a single one now who is not a fucking reactionary either for real or for the votes. Not that it matters in the real world whether I accept it or not, if you are to the right of John Lindsey (look it up) you are part of the fucking problem and go fuck off. Climate change denying creationist pro christian anti atheist gun humping gay hating immigrant bashing minority demonizing forced pregnancy anti poverty helping tax slashing school privatizing anti-unión and I’m gonna forgive? You show me where in that list any of them are “Redeemed”. The party of Cheney Nixon Bush Reagan. Redemption my ass. This “conservative” shit is exactly why the country is a joke, education a disaster, we make war, let people get sick and die. Redemption? Fuck that.
re: #107 Jay C
So: if the House does pass a resolution of impeachment, you think he’d try to pull a Cromwell, and send troops in to “adjourn” the Congress?
With Stephen Miller whispering in his ear, just about any atrocity is imaginable.
re: #120 HappyWarrior
Either way, this is going be the least smooth transition of power when he leaves office either in 2021, 2025, in cuffs, or in a bodybag.
As much as I hate him, I honestly hope that doesn’t happen. Not just to see him suffer for his crimes, but because I don’t think it would go well for the country at this particular juncture if someone killed him.
re: #120 HappyWarrior
Either way, this is going be the least smooth transition of power when he leaves office either in 2021, 2025, in cuffs, or in a bodybag.
I wonder about that. For example, the Secret Service protect the President, not the person. If Trump is not the President, they’d likely be happy to kick him to the curb.
re: #121 Blind Frog Belly White
To his credit, Rick Wilson has a chapter in his book where he does exactly that.
I do think that there were a surprisingly small number of genuine Conservatives (as they used to define Conservatism) on the Right, and a whole lot more whose primary motivations were race based.
For example, they all hate welfare, but the real Conservative hates it because they believe in self-reliance and small government. The rest? They hate it because black people get it, and they believe black people are lazy and shiftless.
Or on Foreign Policy, the real Conservatives believed the Iraq war would cause democracy to flower in the ME. The rest? They wanted to kill them some A-Rabs.
Yeah this.
re: #120 HappyWarrior
Either way, this is going be the least smooth transition of power when he leaves office either in 2021, 2025, in cuffs, or in a bodybag.
My guess is in the 22 May to 11 Sep 2020 timeframe.
In retrospect, it should be obvious that a forest of oaken beams, drying in the equivalent of a hot attic for 900 years, is unlikely to burn slowly.
Notre-Dame’s safety planners expected a fire in the cathedral to burn slowly. Experts say they underestimated the risk, with devastating results. https://t.co/brhnnOgALU
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 19, 2019
re: #123 Old Liberal
I think everyone can benefit by stepping back and thinking about what a Republican was like in the 1960s. Rockefeller Dirksen. They thought Goldwater was a nut, in fact the whole country thought he was a nut. We may “always have conservatives” but there isn’t a single one now who is not a fucking reactionary either for real or for the votes. Not that it matters in the real world whether I accept it or not, if you are to the right of John Lindsey (look it up) you are part of the fucking problem and go fuck off. Climate change denying creationist pro christian anti atheist gun humping gay hating immigrant bashing minority demonizing forced pregnancy anti poverty helping tax slashing school privatizing anti-unión and I’m gonna forgive? You show me where in that list any of them are “Redeemed”. The party of Cheney Nixon Bush Reagan. Redemption my ass. This “conservative” shit is exactly why the country is a joke, education a disaster, we make war, let people get sick and die. Redemption? Fuck that.
I don’t disagree with your take. I’m just saying I know there’s gonna be a post-Trump right and if it’s going to exist, I’d rather it be with people who have been critical of Trump rather than kiss his ass. I would love for the Rockefeller Republicans to make a comeback but they’re gone. It’s not about redemption for me. I’m not inviting these people to dinner or to help shape my ideology. I just want an opposition post Trump that acknowledges that Trump was a disaster for the country. We can hit them over the head on policy too.
re: #128 Teukka
My guess is in the 22 May to 11 Sep 2020 timeframe.
I’m going to get hammered when he’s officially gone.
re: #126 Blind Frog Belly White
I wonder about that. For example, the Secret Service protect the President, not the person. If Trump is not the President, they’d likely be happy to kick him to the curb.
Yeah that is true. I don’t think he’d be able to do a coup if he had to leave office but I think he would do anything possible to make his successor’s life hell. The incoming next President should meet with the other former Presidents and give Trump the old cold shoulder.
re: #125 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
As much as I hate him, I honestly hope that doesn’t happen. Not just to see him suffer for his crimes, but because I don’t think it would go well for the country at this particular juncture if someone killed him.
Oops I didn’t mean that as an implication of assassination, I meant bodybag as in death of natural causes and yeah I don’t want him dead either. I want him accountable to his crimes. I want him to hear it from a judge that he is a criminal who is one of the worst scoundrels in our country’s history. Plus him dying doesn’t solve anything. And the last thing I want is hi mto be a martyr.
re: #126 Blind Frog Belly White
I wonder about that. For example, the Secret Service protect the President, not the person. If Trump is not the President, they’d likely be happy to kick him to the curb.
Actually,the agents’ personal opinions notwithstanding, former Presidents do get SS protection (I’m sure Trump would prefer a different “SS”, though). Though I don’t imagine it will be considered a prime assignment (except, maybe, for avid golf fans).
But yeah, the post-Trump transition is likely to be an astonishing shitshow, even by Donny’s standards.
The best words is not “Donald Trump was pronounced dead.” The best words would be “Donald Trump lost his re-election in a landslide.” Or “Donald Trump has been indicated by the State of New York for crimes prior to and during his presidency.”
re: #134 Jay C
Actually,the agents’ personal opinions notwithstanding, former Presidents do get SS protection (I’m sure Trump would prefer a different “SS”, though). Though I don’t imagine it will be considered a prime assignment (except, maybe, for avid golf fans).
But yeah, the post-Trump transition is likely to be an astonishing shitshow, even by Donny’s standards.
That’s true, but if they had to protect the President from an Ex-President, I know where I’d put my money.
re: #135 HappyWarrior
The best words is not “Donald Trump was pronounced dead.” The best words would be “Donald Trump lost his re-election in a landslide.” Or “Donald Trump has been indicated by the State of New York for crimes prior to and during his presidency.”
Can you top “The election outcome is a given after stunning ‘hot mic’ incident involving Donald Trump and the GOP leaderhip and their subsequent incarceration.” ?
re: #123 Old Liberal
I think everyone can benefit by stepping back and thinking about what a Republican was like in the 1960s. Rockefeller Dirksen. They thought Goldwater was a nut, in fact the whole country thought he was a nut. We may “always have conservatives” but there isn’t a single one now who is not a fucking reactionary either for real or for the votes. Not that it matters in the real world whether I accept it or not, if you are to the right of John Lindsey (look it up) you are part of the fucking problem and go fuck off. Climate change denying creationist pro christian anti atheist gun humping gay hating immigrant bashing minority demonizing forced pregnancy anti poverty helping tax slashing school privatizing anti-unión and I’m gonna forgive? You show me where in that list any of them are “Redeemed”. The party of Cheney Nixon Bush Reagan. Redemption my ass. This “conservative” shit is exactly why the country is a joke, education a disaster, we make war, let people get sick and die. Redemption? Fuck that.
Left off science denying racist hypocritical liars
re: #137 Teukka
Can you top “The election outcome is a given after stunning ‘hot mic’ incident involving Donald Trump and the GOP leaderhip and their subsequent incarceration.” ?
Nah that’s pretty top notch.
Matt Gaetz has hired a former White House speechwriter who was forced out last year after it was reported that he had ties to white nationalists. https://t.co/1V1jrN5AiB
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) April 19, 2019
re: #140 Patricia Kayden
I am not surprised.
NR….
Another Warning Sign https://t.co/KUVh1J7Yaj
— Thomas Edsall (@Edsall) April 19, 2019
This extraordinary pattern in the report brought to mind an incident from very early in the Trump era. On January 15 of 2017, a few days before Trump’s inauguration, the President-Elect was interviewed by the Washington Post, and when asked about health care he said his team would soon propose its own health-care reform—that it was worked out, and that it would not reduce coverage numbers but would cost less than Obamacare. The statement sent the little conservative health policy world into a frenzy: What was this plan? Who was working on it? What kinds of ideas was it based on? The barrage of group emails was soon ended, however, by a note from a member of Trump’s little policy circle, who would soon become a senior administration official. The message was simple: Trump had no idea what he was talking about, the proposal he mentioned was a figment of his imagination, and don’t worry about it—everything was under control.
This was simultaneously reassuring and alarming in the way that Mueller’s window into the administration is. It was evidence that there were people around the president who were doing the work required to govern and make decisions, but it was also evidence that the president was not at the center of that process, and that a significant amount of their work involved deciding when to ignore him. That pattern has of course repeated over and over in the two years that have followed.
Someone posted this tweet the other day and I replied:
You’re not being replaced by Muslims. You specifically are being replaced by a better person.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 18, 2019
So someone responded to me, which called for a response:
I’m pretty sure you’re talking about Roy Moore, not a Muslim.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 19, 2019
re: #143 Belafon
Someone posted this tweet the other day and I replied:
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These fucking people.
re: #140 Patricia Kayden
Gaetz is nothing if not predictable.
It’s so precious seeing right wing sexist homophobes act like they care about gay people and women.
re: #140 Patricia Kayden
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Gaetz I guess was jealous of all the attention Steve King was getting for being the most pathetic piece of shit in Congress.
re: #142 Stanley Sea
NR….
This was simultaneously reassuring and alarming in the way that Mueller’s window into the administration is. It was evidence that there were people around the president who were doing the work required to govern and make decisions, but it was also evidence that the president was not at the center of that process, and that a significant amount of their work involved deciding when to ignore him. That pattern has of course repeated over and over in the two years that have followed.
we already know he never reads anything
he watches lots of tv
they made up a ludicrous story about his daily schedule
and he’s enraptured by house flies
there is no actual functioning president
re: #146 HappyWarrior
It’s so precious seeing right wing sexist homophobes act like they care about gay people and women.
The same people who are just fine with the “KIll the Gays” laws out there.
As for Europeans. Christchurch was in New Zealand. By their own logic, the whites there are foreign invaders and indigenous people there should have a right to kill them.
re: #149 SteelPH
The same people who are just fine with the “KIll the Gays” laws out there.
The same guys who love the transgender military ban.
re: #142 Stanley Sea
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Thank you for saving me the click I never would have made.
From your excerpt (if not whole thing) it looks like:
We have a crazy person in charge.
Crazy, yes. In charge, NO!
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
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There’s that word again, “treason.” The man really does seem to believe he is so far above the law, just questioning his actions is tantamount to betraying the nation.
re: #153 Targetpractice
There’s that word again, “treason.” The man really does seem to believe he is so far above the law, just questioning his actions is tantamount to betraying the nation.
I’d like someone to ask him what treason is.
re: #153 Targetpractice
There’s that word again, “treason.” The man really does seem to believe he is so far above the law, just questioning his actions is tantamount to betraying the nation.
I see he’s taking lessons straight from the Kim Jong Un school of leadership.
re: #154 HappyWarrior
I’d like someone to ask him what treason is.
I think like so much else, he’s simply trying to turn the words of his critics back on them without the least bit of understanding on why such were directed at him.
See also: “You’re the puppet!”
pathetic
The Washington Post and New York Times are, in my opinion, two of the most dishonest media outlets around. Truly, the Enemy of the People! https://t.co/AG3vccsJvg
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 19, 2019
and LOLOLOLOLOLOL:
Time for Democrats to accept reality https://t.co/3SyAnkSVlX
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 19, 2019
he’s also retweeting a lot of asskissers, like this nonsense:
This is why nobody but the @DNC circle jerk takes this seriously anymore. That front page is a disgrace but in its disgrace, many wake up. Thank God for @realDonaldTrump for waking millions of Americans up to the truth about the @washingtonpost
— Scott Atkins (@ScottFantasy) April 19, 2019
Rob Portman Ohio Republican Senator comments on Mueller report.
Let me preface with a hearty fuck you Rob, you weasel.
“The report confirms there was no conspiracy or collusion to violate the U.S. law between Russia and the Trump campaign,” Portman said in the statement. “Second, while the report documents a number of actions taken by the president or his associates that were inappropriate, the special counsel reached no conclusion on obstruction of justice. Attorney General Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein have concluded that the Special Counsel’s investigation did not include sufficient evidence to warrant any obstruction of justice charges.”
Park rangers in the Santa Monica mountains introduce four baby bobcats born to a mother who survived the Woolsey Fire. https://t.co/qv2Tn6Fju9 pic.twitter.com/p3wBAmcEPd
— ABC News (@ABC) April 19, 2019
Note the badge. @jjmacnab https://t.co/8hFQzedmio
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 19, 2019
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thank you. That was beautiful. :)
re: #158 ObserverArt
Rob Portman Ohio Republican Senator comments on Mueller report.
Let me preface with a hearty fuck you Rob, you weasel.
Lie of omission: Mueller made clear he could make no call on that question because of standing DOJ policy concerning the indictment of a sitting president, felt the matter should be handled by Congress where there would be no question of a conflict of power. Much like Comey was criticized for doing, Barr took it upon himself to pass judgment that the evidence was insufficient to warrant prosecution.
re: #158 ObserverArt
Rob Portman Ohio Republican Senator comments on Mueller report.
Let me preface with a hearty fuck you Rob, you weasel.
Hey Rob didn’t you vote to impeach Clinton over obstruction about an affair? So stfu.
re: #156 Targetpractice
I think like so much else, he’s simply trying to turn the words of his critics back on them without the least bit of understanding on why such were directed at him.
See also: “You’re the puppet!”
Oh absolutely I’d just love to see him pressed on that detail.
Yesterday he triumphantly tweeted Game Over! using a Game of Thrones meme.
Guess he just found out what actually happens to people like him in George R.R. Martin stories. https://t.co/rsQoQUkJY9— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 19, 2019
He didn’t wake anyone up. If anything, we have more evidence he obstructed justice than ever. He needs to go.
Remember when the press was so mad about a comedienne saying Sarah Sanders lined her eyes with lies? Ah yes… I remember that
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) April 19, 2019
re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Badge visibility:
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— Release the Unredacted Report! (@SlyDurin) April 19, 2019
‘Fugitive Recovery Agent’
re: #152 wrenchwench
Thank you for saving me the click I never would have made.
From your excerpt (if not whole thing) it looks like:
We have a crazy person in charge.
Crazy, yes. In charge, NO!
The problem being that Trump actually does have the power of the Presidency, and the sane, competent, if coopted, people around him have been forced out.
So I am not comfited.
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Michelle’s career was pretty much screwed by that fauxrage. And it pisses me off because she’s really funny and insightful. She was right.
re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Impersonating law enforcement is a crime. Applying for asylum isn’t.
re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If a US citizen was abducted by losers would a charge of kidnapping stick? Cause if it would I volunteer.
re: #169 wrenchwench
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Yeah. There’s also the Bad Guys Be Gone Patrol.
re: #173 Old Liberal
If a US citizen was abducted by losers would a charge of kidnapping stick? Cause if it would I volunteer.
I’d hope so. But I would hope that what they did would result in kidnapping charges already but I bet local Leo is sympathetic to this charade.
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And the WHCA responded by not only prostrating themselves before him for having hurt Huckaboo’s feelings by hiring a comedian they knew would not be kind, but then overcompensated for the second time in the past 3 presidencies by foregoing a comedian this year in favor of a presidential historian.
For that, their reward was his snubbing them for the third straight year.
So far it looks like the GOP is going to double down in their defense of Trump and trying to ignore the content of the Mueller Report. I can at this stage only hope that it bites them very hard in the ass in 2020 and a few elections after that as well.
I am also curious if the media circus starts to take the report seriously and possibly recover some standards of responsible journalism and reporting.
re: #176 Targetpractice
And the WHCA responded by not only prostrating themselves before him for having hurt Huckaboo’s feelings by hiring a comedian they knew would not be kind, but then overcompensated for the second time in the past 3 presidencies by foregoing a comedian this year in favor of a presidential historian.
For that, their reward was his snubbing them for the third straight year.
Yeah the WHCA acted like a bunch of cowards.
re: #177 Feline Fearless Leader
So far it looks like the GOP is going to double down in their defense of Trump and trying to ignore the content of the Mueller Report. I can at this stage only hope that it bites them very hard in the ass in 2020 and a few elections after that as well.
I am also curious if the media circus starts to take the report seriously and possibly recover some standards of responsible journalism and reporting.
We can only hope.
re: #163 Targetpractice
Lie of omission: Mueller made clear he could make no call on that question because of standing DOJ policy concerning the indictment of a sitting president, felt the matter should be handled by Congress where there would be no question of a conflict of power. Much like Comey was criticized for doing, Barr took it upon himself to pass judgment that the evidence was insufficient to warrant prosecution.
That’s why I called him a weasel.
He hangs no findings all on Mueller saying Mueller came to no conclusion and that is it. He knows Mueller said it wasn’t his job to make a conclusion and charges. Portman is just hiding in the wording for cover.
re: #180 ObserverArt
That’s why I called him a weasel.
He hangs no findings all on Mueller saying Mueller came to no conclusion and that is it. He knows Mueller said it wasn’t his job to make a conclusion and charges. Portman is just hiding in the wording for cover.
When’s this shithead up for re-election? Maybe Tim Ryan should take him on.
Uh huh. And while guys like you are cautiously weighing the political dimensions of actually DOING something, fascism rises like a fucking tide.
But yeah, while kids wait in cages, black men are shot down in the street, and the Republic falls, you take your time. Take your time https://t.co/VjQikFIdn9— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 19, 2019
re: #180 ObserverArt
That’s why I called him a weasel.
He hangs no findings all on Mueller saying Mueller came to no conclusion and that is it. He knows Mueller said it wasn’t his job to make a conclusion and charges. Portman is just hiding in the wording for cover.
They’re all doing that, leaning heavily upon Barr’s letter/presser. They just vary in the spin.
re: #58 Eric The Fruit Bat
Who didn’t se this coming?
The name of the neo-Nazi hit by Danielsson was Seppo Seluska, a militant from the Nordic Reich Party. Later that year he was convicted of murder after torturing and murdering a homosexual Jewish man.
re: #142 Stanley Sea
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For some reason, I’m also reading this as “Trump reallybdidnt have anything to do with the obstruction because he wasn’t making any real decisions.”
re: #183 Targetpractice
They’re all doing that, leaning heavily upon Barr’s letter/presser. They just vary in the spin.
Yeah and tbh I don’t see that ending well for them.
re: #185 Belafon
For some reason, I’m also reading this as “Trump reallybdidnt have anything to do with the obstruction because he wasn’t making any real decisions.”
Reminds me of the Trump is too stupid defenses.
I’m surprised this isn’t getting more comment here considering how many were calling to impeach yesterday. Liz may have just opened the door for others to come through. Pelosi is said to have told her to slow down. I am seeing others now supporting Warren by being favorable but cautious like Pelosi, but for sure a lot more “I” word.
The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty. That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 19, 2019
re: #186 HappyWarrior
Yeah and tbh I don’t see that ending well for them.
They’re trying to insist that the matter is “closed,” but Barr has already planned for appearances before Congress and Mueller has been asked to appear either prior or following Barr’s appearance. There are ongoing investigations/trials that Barr used as an excuse for many of his redactions. And Donny is pressing Barr to come down on his enemies list, something that has a habit of backfiring as Nixon demonstrated.
All the insistence that the Report is an “ending” is absolutely ludicrous.
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yep
Video from last year’s WHCD when @michelleisawolf made jokes about Sarah Sanders being a liar, liar, pants on fire. She got pilloried for that. Everyone who clutched their pearls, attacked Wolf for calling Sanders a liar to her face, owes her an apology. https://t.co/jQkNrGxIK2
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) April 19, 2019
re: #181 HappyWarrior
When’s this shithead up for re-election? Maybe Tim Ryan should take him on.
Unfortunately he was reelected in 2016. So…2022. It sucks. He sucks. That is why I ride him so hard.
Oh my god that’s what he’s screaming about. https://t.co/aEwtReC1nX
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) April 18, 2019
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The thing I would warn Stonekettle about is that things really aren’t going to get better unless Democrats win the presidency. Impeachment will take a while and the caging will continue under Pence if we got lucky.
re: #197 Belafon
Impeachment by itself won’t stop the separations. Conviction and removal probably won’t either, because Pence isn’t any better. What will stop them is a Democratic president, with preferably a Democratic Congress.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 19, 2019
And nobody let Hannity skate on his role in this. Not only boosting Assange’s bullshit but also Kim Dotcom, who got caught trying to hack and forge Rich family emails for an “exclusive” that Hannity eagerly hyped. https://t.co/iKCLwFg2nF https://t.co/3Hwib3Qh7R
— Zeddediah Springfield (@Zeddary) April 19, 2019
This one’ll make Dem heads explode. Assange just before the 2016 DNC, to “guccifer 2.0”: “if you have anything hillary related we want it in the next tweo [sic] days prefab le [sic] because the DNC is approaching and she will solidify bernie supporters behind her after.”
— Alexander Panetta (@Alex_Panetta) April 18, 2019
I always thought the earlier reference was Niccolo Machiavelli.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 19, 2019
moron is askeert
ASKEERT
retweeted this:
Mueller’s Final Report ‘Completely Vindicates’ President Trump 👇 https://t.co/t97JxHWdji
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 19, 2019
then tweeted this:
“TRUMP HAS BEEN TOTALLY VINDICATED” https://t.co/ZjmmVD1T4z
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 19, 2019
they just can’t pick one outrage story and stick with it
#BREAKING: Crews responding to fire at #BeniciaBridge toll plaza. Use alternative routes and expect delays https://t.co/V9snSbbM3K
🎥: valeriemjones pic.twitter.com/IcUrzdxPPD— KRON4 News (@kron4news) April 19, 2019
re: #109 HappyWarrior
I agree with that. I’m just saying. Better then than people who think Trump is great.
I’m not so sure about that. Perhaps if the GOP goes all-in on Trump being their Eternal Dear Leader (a la North Korea), that might finally be too much for the media both-siderists that are propping up Republicans at every opportunity.
I don’t see the GOP reforming unless it suffers crushing losses in several elections in a row, and IMO those losses aren’t going to happen as long as the media holsters for Republicans.
“I’ve read the entire report,”
Said Senator Romney. “In short,
This admin is disgraced,
Disgusting, debased,
And has my continued support.”— Limericking (@Limericking) April 19, 2019
re: #130 HappyWarrior
I don’t disagree with your take. I’m just saying I know there’s gonna be a post-Trump right and if it’s going to exist, I’d rather it be with people who have been critical of Trump rather than kiss his ass. I would love for the Rockefeller Republicans to make a comeback but they’re gone. It’s not about redemption for me. I’m not inviting these people to dinner or to help shape my ideology. I just want an opposition post Trump that acknowledges that Trump was a disaster for the country. We can hit them over the head on policy too.
Name a Republican politician (not a journalist or Twitterati) who believes that.
There are none.
The closest I can come was my never-Trumper senator Ben Sasse, who came right out of the gate and opposed Trump in every newspaper in the state, and Lindsay Graham who said he would destroy the GOP.
They sure forgot that quick when Trump was nominated. They both went party over country.
re: #123 Old Liberal
Name a Republican politician who isn’t these things (not a journalist or Twitterati).
Footsy anyone?
Oh. Well, then. https://t.co/16J0doA00l
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 19, 2019
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹
Name a Republican politician (not a journalist or Twitterati) who believes that.
There are none.
The closest I can come was my never-Trumper senator Ben Sasse, who came right out of the gate and opposed Trump in every newspaper in the state, and Lindsay Graham who said he would destroy the GOP.
They sure forgot that quick when Trump was nominated. They both went party over country.
Name a Republican politician who isn’t these things (not a journalist or Twitterati).
That’s my point. There isn’t a decent one among them. I stand by that.
re: #142 Stanley Sea
It was evidence that there were people around the president who were doing the work required to govern and make decisions, but it was also evidence that the president was not at the center of that process, and that a significant amount of their work involved deciding when to ignore him. That pattern has of course repeated over and over in the two years that have followed.
This is the very sort of President they set out to elect.
What was Grover Norquist’s comment about “as long as he can hold a pen and sign our legislation, we will do the rest”, or suchlike?
But this was a risky proposition, they did not reckon with such a completely loose cannon.
re: #188 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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Well done series all around.
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is the very sort of President they set out to elect.
What was Grover Norquist’s comment about “as long as he can hold a pen and sign our legislation, we will do the rest”, or suchlike?
But this was a risky proposition, they did not reckon with such a completely loose cannon.
GOP delenda est.
There is a party which has ballot access in all fifty states, and supports the GOP claim of being fiscal conservatives: the Libertarian Party.
I don’t hold much in common with them (other than my wife who used to be an LP officer in Colorado).
Here in Nebraska, Republican state senator Laura Ebke said “oh hell no” when Trump was elected and switched parties to the LP. In the last election, she was reëlected.
Because of their presence in all fifty states, they could in theory take over the mantle of “conservative” from the GOP. I haven’t seen a whole bunch of GOPers flock to the LP.
Bill Weld went back to the GOP to challenge Trump in the primaries. Good luck with that.
never forget pic.twitter.com/aVcGW5Imwj
— Benjamin Franklin 🍑 (@benFranklin2018) April 19, 2019
re: #214 gocart mozart
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re: #213 Anymouse 🌹
GOP delenda est.
There is a party which has ballot access in all fifty states, and supports the GOP claim of being fiscal conservatives: the Libertarian Party.
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I have nothing good to say about the Libertarian Party, nor the philosophy, such as it might be. They both seem to be as vague as they can get away with.
re: #38 HappyWarrior
Watch out for people who take notes. Uh doctors, lawyers, hiring managers, etc all take notes.
I was listening to either CNN or MSNBC briefly while driving today. Someone made the point that the craziest thing about the Mueller Report is that Trump has turned the traditional White House operations completely on its head. Normally WH staff are told “don’t take notes” because any time you right something down, it could be subject to subpoena. But because Trump was doing crimes and trying to do even more crimes, everyone was taking notes to cover their asses.
re: #216 wrenchwench
I have nothing good to say about the Libertarian Party, nor the philosophy, such as it might be. They both seem to be as vague as they can get away with.
“Conservatism” is a very broad term which is defined in different ways by its supporters.
I cannot stand the Libertarian Party’s brand of conservatism any more than the GOP except they are less upset about gays and drugs than the Republicans.
re: #55 plansbandc
Mittens needs to fuck off.
Not that I don’t agree with that general sentiment, but why now?
HAPPY PASSOVER (to those who celebrate it)
HAPPY EASTER (to those who celebrate it)
HAPPY WEEKEND (to everyone)
Stained glass seder plate & Elijah Cup #Passover #Passover2019 pic.twitter.com/eRkN6nUQtl
— The [Redacted] Babushka (@viciousbabushka) April 18, 2019
re: #222 The Vicious Babushka
Those are beautiful dishes. Wishing you and yours all the best.
Wonkette writes a tribute to investigative journalist Lyra McKee, who was killed by a wingnut group of Irish Republicans in a shoot-out with the police in Northern Ireland.
Who Is (Was) Lyra McKee, And What The Bloody Hell Is Going On In Northern Ireland?
ANY competent public corruption prosecutor would bring obstruction charges against Trump/and win. Only reason Mueller did not was because of the flawed DOJ restriction against indicting a sitting President. He said so (below). Congress now has a constitutional responsibility. pic.twitter.com/SkntzjfS5G
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) April 19, 2019
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Daughter and I just binged through all of season 2 of Star Trek Discovery
Well done series all around.
I agree, but don’t let any Star Trek:TOS purists hear you say that.
re: #213 Anymouse 🌹
GOP delenda est.
There is a party which has ballot access in all fifty states, and supports the GOP claim of being fiscal conservatives: the Libertarian Party.
I don’t hold much in common with them (other than my wife who used to be an LP officer in Colorado).
Here in Nebraska, Republican state senator Laura Ebke said “oh hell no” when Trump was elected and switched parties to the LP. In the last election, she was reëlected.
Because of their presence in all fifty states, they could in theory take over the mantle of “conservative” from the GOP. I haven’t seen a whole bunch of GOPers flock to the LP.
Bill Weld went back to the GOP to challenge Trump in the primaries. Good luck with that.
I don’t think the Libertarian Party as it currently exists can be much more than what it is. There’s too many social issues where conservatives and libertarians disagree (abortion, sex work, just to name a couple) for there to be any sort of long term coalition. And the LP as it currently exists is so far outside the mainstream on what the role of government should be in the 21st century that it would either have to fundamentally change or it would never gain mainstream votes.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that the redacted parts are worse for Trump.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) April 19, 2019
re: #216 wrenchwench
I have nothing good to say about the Libertarian Party, nor the philosophy, such as it might be. They both seem to be as vague as they can get away with.
One of my senators (Rand Paul) and my congresscritter (Tom Massie) are Libertarians pretending to be Republicans, as are just about every member of the Liberty Caucus and Freedumb Caucus.
I can’t even bother to waste spit on any of them.
re: #227 KGxvi
I don’t think the Libertarian Party as it currently exists can be much more than what it is. There’s too many social issues where conservatives and libertarians disagree (abortion, sex work, just to name a couple) for there to be any sort of long term coalition. And the LP as it currently exists is so far outside the mainstream on what the role of government should be in the 21st century that it would either have to fundamentally change or it would never gain mainstream votes.
I think the economic aspects of the LP lack appeal to the new generation.
re: #227 KGxvi
That’s probably right.
Sen. Ebke here is considerably left of her GOP colleagues in the Unicameral on many issues, so when Trump was nominated, it wasn’t hard for her to jump ship from the GOP.
There are an awful lot of Libertarian Party members who enjoy the party’s outsider status and are just fine with it.
Additionally, they say the Democratic Party is like herding cats. I watched the Libertarian party nominating convention in 2016. All I can say about that is “wow” (particularly the guy who went up on stage as a candidate party leader dancing in his underwear).
re: #230 wrenchwench
I think the economic aspects of the LP lack appeal to the new generation.
Just looking at their official platform, I tend to agree. I’m fairly libertarian in my beliefs, but the Libertarian Party’s platform on economic issues is closer to anarchism than it is to what Hamilton would have called “ordered liberty.”
— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) April 19, 2019
With the Highest Rate of Cervical Cancer Deaths in the US, Black Women in Alabama Are Losing Out on Health Care https://t.co/oq7IfQk2MS by @AnneriekeSmk pic.twitter.com/6MLJ8aMZOr
— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) April 19, 2019
re: #231 Anymouse 🌹
That’s probably right.
Sen. Ebke here is considerably left of her GOP colleagues in the Unicameral on many issues, so when Trump was nominated, it wasn’t hard for her to jump ship from the GOP.
There are an awful lot of Libertarian Party members who enjoy the party’s outsider status and are just fine with it.
Additionally, they say the Democratic Party is like herding cats. I watched the Libertarian party nominating convention in 2016. All I can say about that is “wow” (particularly the guy who went up on stage as a candidate party leader dancing in his underwear).
I guess this is 4 or 5 years old, but it’s the best thing Gary Johnson ever did. Including his time as governor of NM. It’s in the first minute:
*snerk*
She’s just so incredibly brave, lol. https://t.co/2kxIKdRxKC
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) April 19, 2019
re: #232 KGxvi
Libertarian economics basically deny that there’s coercive force inherent in monetary systems, which put them on the side of conservatism and with very little overlap with philosophical anarchists.
They’re “anarchist” strictly in the nihilist adolescent way.
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 20, 2019
re: #205 EPR-radar
I’m not so sure about that. Perhaps if the GOP goes all-in on Trump being their Eternal Dear Leader (a la North Korea), that might finally be too much for the media both-siderists that are propping up Republicans at every opportunity.
I don’t see the GOP reforming unless it suffers crushing losses in several elections in a row, and IMO those losses aren’t going to happen as long as the media holsters for Republicans.
Thing is though there are too many places in the country that will go GOP no matter what. I would love for the GOP to die but I see nothing to suggest it will. The best we can do is continue to outnumber them and force them to move to the center.
re: #207 Anymouse 🌹
Name a Republican politician (not a journalist or Twitterati) who believes that.
There are none.
The closest I can come was my never-Trumper senator Ben Sasse, who came right out of the gate and opposed Trump in every newspaper in the state, and Lindsay Graham who said he would destroy the GOP.
They sure forgot that quick when Trump was nominated. They both went party over country.
Name a Republican politician who isn’t these things (not a journalist or Twitterati).
Gonna to AtD. I’m not talking about politicians. I’m hoping 2020 is a 1974 type situation where a lot of GOP incumbents are wiped out. I want Trump to have no pull whatsoever. I’m not saying these are good people. I just simply hope that the right that exists after Trump will not be as insane as it is now. I’ll never vote Republican but I want Trump to force the GOP as it stands now away from what it is. I also want some accountability.
re: #232 KGxvi
Just looking at their official platform, I tend to agree. I’m fairly libertarian in my beliefs, but the Libertarian Party’s platform on economic issues is closer to anarchism than it is to what Hamilton would have called “ordered liberty.”
Their stated party principles are a real mess for sure.
They have things which would appeal to liberals (opposed to discrimination based on sex, gender, &c; keeping the government the hell out of a woman’s doctor’s office on abortion)
They have things which appeal to wingnuts (pro-II Amendment without regulation in any manner whatsoever)
They have things which would be opposed by most (get government out of marriage licenses, because who needs to regulate against incestuous marriages anyway).
re: #240 HappyWarrior
Thing is though there are too many places in the country that will go GOP no matter what. I would love for the GOP to die but I see nothing to suggest it will. The best we can do is continue to outnumber them and force them to move to the center.
If we overturn Citizens United, outlaw extreme gerrymandering and have meaningful campaign finance reform we have a chance at getting a less reactionary right. Not holding my breath.
re: #230 wrenchwench
I think the economic aspects of the LP lack appeal to the new generation.
It depends. We have a lot of people who embraced Luap Nor. The problem with Libertarians is the same with dyed in the wool socialists. They don’t consider nuance and that not everything is economic. They can’t appreciate that states have legalized pot because all drugs aren’t legalized. It’s no different than that element of the left who think if you’re not for instant universal health care, you’re a neoliberal corporate shill.
re: #236 Eric The Fruit Bat
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re: #243 Old Liberal
If we overturn Citizens United, outlaw extreme gerrymandering and have meaningful campaign finance reform we have a chance at getting a less reactionary right. Not holding my breath.
I agree and so it’s clear. I think conservatives need to realize their problems existed long before Trump. I just want the post Trump right to be somewhat grounded in reality. So help me if Matt Gaetz advances in leadership.
Standing room only for Sen. Harris at Winthrop University. She’s about an hour late because her flight was delayed, which by my amateur count has happened to her at least three times on the trail so far. Presidential candidates: they can’t get off the tarmac either. pic.twitter.com/f6kIH8ZKkH
— Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) April 20, 2019
Overheard from a voter as the crowd files in to some Beyoncé before Kamala Harris’s rally in Rock Hill, S.C.: “She has the BEST playlist.”
Haven’t seen much documentation of the playlist primary, and frankly I think we could all use a little more info about this.— Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) April 19, 2019
Given that there are well over 200,000 customers without power due to tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in the Carolinas, and severe weather continues there and in VA, MD, PA, WV…it should come as no surprise that Harris’ arrival is delayed.
re: #244 HappyWarrior
It depends. We have a lot of people who embraced Luap Nor. The problem with Libertarians is the same with dyed in the wool socialists. They don’t consider nuance and that not everything is economic. They can’t appreciate that states have legalized pot because all drugs aren’t legalized. It’s no different than that element of the left who think if you’re not for instant universal health care, you’re a neoliberal corporate shill.
Who or what is Luap Nor?
re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #251 Anymouse 🌹
Who or what is Luap Nor?
Ron Paul spelled backward. I have no idea why this is a thing.
re: #253 EPR-radar
Ron Paul spell backward. I have no idea why this is a thing.
Poking fun at how the libertarians treat him like a cult leader and Luap Nor sounds culty.
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
Given that there are well over 200,000 customers without power due to tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in the Carolinas, and severe weather continues there and in VA, MD, PA, WV…it should come as no surprise that Harris’ arrival is delayed.
Oh yeah. The baseball game in Baltimore was canceled hours ago.
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #256 HappyWarrior
Heavy weather is coming to Philly.
forecast.weather.gov
In case you missed it… Today’s Word of the Day: SMOODGED (adj.) slightly tipsy [Scots dial.]
— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) April 19, 2019
re: #255 HappyWarrior
Poking fun at how the libertarians treat him like a cult leader and Luap Nor sounds culty.
And defeats searches so the cultists are less likely to find a reference to Him so they can offer corrections.
re: #253 EPR-radar
Ron Paul spell backward. I have no idea why this is a thing.
I remember Republicans doing that in 1988 when Luap Nor bolted the GOP and ran as the Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate.
re: #258 PhillyPretzel
Heavy weather is coming to Philly.
forecast.weather.gov
I’ve been watching the radar around Greater Cincinnati…very weird circulation
re: #244 HappyWarrior
The Libertarian Party has problems deeper than nuance.
It’s larded with kooks, racist kooks, and people get a thrill from the idea they’re smarter than conventional politics. It’s also the home of the people too insufferable to play the conservative game of “my personal benefit is actually morality if we don’t look at the details.” And there’s a standard array of people so narcissistic that they don’t really have an ideology regardless of what they say, except more naked and more admired than the equivalent camps anywhere else.
There’s also the individualist trip they’re all on which amounts to a palingenetic fantasy where if there weren’t “the rules” then the True Meritocracy would result in each on them being John Rockefeller or Immortan Joe. Which is why libertarianism is a pipeline to fascism—no seriously there’s so much damn crossover into racism and tribalism. Individualism as an ideology is self-defeating: eventually the need for affirmation creates groupings guided by aesthetics more than morals—each individual “individual” in a way that gains acknowledgement and praise from other “individuals”—and radical distinction from the outgroup of “not-individual-enoughs” feeds into a sense of tribe.
Not everything horseshoes out such that every position has the same issues.
re: #243 Old Liberal
If we overturn Citizens United, outlaw extreme gerrymandering and have meaningful campaign finance reform we have a chance at getting a less reactionary right. Not holding my breath.
Holding your breath for those changes is an unequivocal death sentence. Please choose a different end-point.
re: #251 Anymouse 🌹
Who or what is Luap Nor?
What is a fairly apt description. Read it right to left.
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ve been watching the radar around Greater Cincinnati…very weird circulation
That’s a damn big frontal boundary.
Interesting satellite picture: The lights are on in eastern Nebraska but it’s still daylight on this side of the state. (You don’t see lights in satellite pictures at night on this side of the state because we outlawed lights or something. A picture at night here looks like North Korea.)
re: #260 wrenchwench
And defeats searches so the cultists are less likely to find a reference to Him so they can offer corrections.
Needless to say Luap Dnar hasn’t had the same appeal.
re: #263 The Ghost of Quesos Past
The Libertarian Party has problems deeper than nuance.
It’s larded with kooks, racist kooks, and people get a thrill from the idea they’re smarter than conventional politics. It’s also the home of the people too insufferable to play the conservative game of “my personal benefit is actually morality if we don’t look at the details.” And there’s a standard array of people so narcissistic that they don’t really have an ideology regardless of what they say, except more naked and more admired than the equivalent camps anywhere else.
There’s also the individualist trip they’re all on which amounts to a palingenetic fantasy where if there weren’t “the rules” then the True Meritocracy would result in each on them being John Rockefeller or Immortan Joe. Which is why libertarianism is a pipeline to fascism—no seriously there’s so much damn crossover into racism and tribalism. Individualism as an ideology is self-defeating: eventually the need for affirmation creates groupings guided by aesthetics more than morals—each individual “individual” in a way that gains acknowledgement and praise from other “individuals”—and radical distinction from the outgroup of “not-individual-enoughs” feeds into a sense of tribe.
Not everything horseshoes out such that every positions has the same issues.
Very true.
re: #266 Anymouse 🌹
That’s a damn big frontal boundary.
Interesting satellite picture: The lights are on in eastern Nebraska but it’s still daylight on this side of the state. (You don’t see lights in satellite pictures at night on this side of the state because we outlawed lights or something. A picture at night here looks like North Korea.)
No people; only cows?
re: #263 The Ghost of Quesos Past
LOL your nym.
The idea of near-absolute individual right to “contract” between individuals or businesses without regulation also opens the way for open discrimination in the public sphere against anyone you don’t like for any reason.
re: #269 Colère Tueur de Lapin
No people; only cows?
Pretty much.
In this county we have 500,000 cows and less than 5,000 people. If the cows were armed we’d be doomed. (Cue “Cows with Guns.”)
re: #266 Anymouse 🌹
That’s a damn big frontal boundary.
It’s like we have a border weather wall in the Ohio River Valley…
Yes, THIS (why do so many people blindly regurgitate this moldy-oldy myth, anyway?)
House Republicans impeached Bill Clinton.
Then Republicans won the House again in next election.
And Republicans won the Senate again.
And Republicans won the White House.
It’s a political myth that the Clinton impeachment hurt Republicans.— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) April 19, 2019
I worked for America’s Most Wanted for four years. I interviewed mobsters and murderers who were more honest. @realDonaldTrump @PressSec https://t.co/OMwU5mUvr8
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 19, 2019
The thing is, the US right now cannot get rid of the GOP in the same way the Whigs went away. There’s no other place for the crazies to go, and an industrial party would need foot soldiers to vote.
It’s in the introduction of the Mueller report. You should read it. https://t.co/hBlutUogOP
— Doremus Jessup (@DoremusJ) April 20, 2019
This is your periodic reminder that Donald Trump was not elected.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) April 19, 2019
Hoyer, yesterday: I am a coward and impeachment could hurt Democrats in an election almost 2 yrs away.
Warren, today: Initiating impeachment proceedings is our duty.
Democratic voters: pic.twitter.com/xRZYmLj4eV— Ally Maynard (@missmayn) April 19, 2019
I’m not endorsing a candidate yet because it’s too early. But Elizabeth Warren keeps impressing me with her moral clarity, practical plans, and willingness to tackle corruption head on. Pay attention to Elizabeth Warren — not just for 2020 but for today.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 19, 2019
re: #280 teleskiguy
I was just about to post that.
— The Phuníon (@thephunion) April 19, 2019
re: #270 Anymouse 🌹
LOL your nym.
The idea of near-absolute individual right to “contract” between individuals or businesses without regulation also opens the way for open discrimination in the public sphere against anyone you don’t like for any reason.
The nickname is getting farther from it point of relevance but I’ll hang on until I think of something funnier.
There’s always this denial that power exists in forms more subtle than “bat to head” that underlies arguments…libertarian or conservative…that rely on the idea that everybody’s standing on the same level in a contract situation.
Yet at the same time, there’s this hunger for old-timey manly personal use of force as justice that suggest an ugly cultural thing that is below the surface of the ideological.
I’m kind of obsessed with it, but there’s a lot of what we attribute to the role of ideology in politics is in fact something semantically deeper. Like, the current moment is really about epistemology…”true” is determined how…and that seems to emanate from culture rather than a coherent belief system.
Maybe I’m just subconsciously justifying my social science classes.
re: #143 Belafon
Someone posted this tweet the other day and I replied:
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One more reply. I’m shooting for blocking:
I’ve read the Bible. Have you?
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 20, 2019
re: #274 Interesting Times
By the way, the comments on that tweet contain an excruciatingly sharp insight, something I’ve been thinking but couldn’t put into the right words:
The Clinton impeachment was an obviously baseless and partisan process - that was clear to everyone who wasn’t a moron - but the worry at the time was that it would make impeachment routine. But it did nothing of the sort.
What it did was far worse. 2/— Al Petterson (@eyelessgame) April 19, 2019
The fallout from 1999 means that any attempt to impeach a president is now assumed - by media, by the opposition, and by people not paying much attention - to be nothing but a power grab and a partisan exercise, because that’s what we’ve seen impeachment to be, isn’t it. 6/
— Al Petterson (@eyelessgame) April 19, 2019
And this - we didn’t see it right away - was the death of democracy and constitutional rule. And we are seeing this right now in the voice of the dog that does not bark. 8/
— Al Petterson (@eyelessgame) April 19, 2019
To me, however, that makes it even more crucial to go forward with impeachment, if only as a way to reclaim what it was ORIGINALLY supposed to be for.
re: #274 Interesting Times
Yes, THIS (why do so many people blindly regurgitate this moldy-oldy myth, anyway?)
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Lawrence is a bit off in his recap, IMO: as I recall, the election closest to the Clinton impeachment was that of 1998; where the Gingrich-led House voted the articles of impeachment in a fit of pique in their lame-duck session in December, after basically going nowhere in the midterms (leaving the new Senate to judge in their next session in 1/1999).
IIRC, the GOP’s poor showing in the ‘98 midterms led to Newt’s flouncing off in a huff: the BFD impeachment stuff not proving quite the huge vote-getter (for the Repubs) he had led them to believe.
2000, though was another matter….
ADD: And what Al Petterson said as recapped in #286.
re: #266 Anymouse 🌹
That’s a damn big frontal boundary.
Interesting satellite picture: The lights are on in eastern Nebraska but it’s still daylight on this side of the state. (You don’t see lights in satellite pictures at night on this side of the state because we outlawed lights or something. A picture at night here looks like North Korea.)
WaPo today:
How living on the wrong side of a time zone can be hazardous to your health
i am cancelling men again.
— 😈sabrina, the 30 something witch😈 (@PolitikMasFina) April 19, 2019
— Harm to Ongoing Matter (@goddamnedfrank) April 20, 2019
Hero!
— 🦈DETodd🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) April 20, 2019
The Hill pretty much screwed up with this tweet. It’s “The Yard”
tinyurl.com
DC resident suggests Howard University “move the campus” after students complain yard is being used as dog park https://t.co/IXkrjqHRWe pic.twitter.com/QuNroKvc4v
— The Hill (@thehill) April 20, 2019
re: #286 Interesting Times
By the way, the comments on that tweet contain an excruciatingly sharp insight, something I’ve been thinking but couldn’t put into the right words:
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To me, however, that makes it even more crucial to go forward with impeachment, if only as a way to reclaim what it was ORIGINALLY supposed to be for.
It will still be seen as a partisan maneuver by a lot of people, especially those that can’t tell the difference between the ACA and Obamacare.
Anecdote: We were discussing something at work, and the subject came up about having to make a decision on something barely seen. And the person brought up the ACA. I told the person a better example was the tax bill, not the ACA, since the ACA was debated for a year. They quickly changed the subject.
re: #289 goddamnedfrank
Can I get some venture capital to establish a competing gender brand?
What would really help is if Mueller, in one of the House appearances, said that he thinks the president should be impeached. It would be even better if he said it without being prompted. That would remove the partisan nature for a lot of people.
re: #292 Belafon
It will still be seen as a partisan maneuver by a lot of people, especially those that can’t tell the difference between the ACA and Obamacare.
You mean those who don’t realize they’re the exact same thing? They were never going to vote for Dems anyway (no, really - the GOP’s got a lock on Dumbfuck-Americans because durr hurr we blame brown people)
They don’t want to tweet that it’s Bill Weld. Then everyone would think of his Libertarian run where he seemed stoned during every interview
GOP primary challenger blasts Trump after Mueller report release: He is a “one-man crime wave” https://t.co/yV4G3GWQ2Z pic.twitter.com/X0Di88683f
— The Hill (@thehill) April 20, 2019
He LIED. https://t.co/xUztF70MNx
— Jeff Mayers (@TimeLordJeff) April 20, 2019
Trump’s brand is racism, once Dem leaders get this, the easier it will be. His base will still be giant racists in 2020 whether you impeach or not.
You can’t lose any swing voters by impeachment because they don’t exist right now. You’re either down with his racism or not.— Danny Boy (@Care2much18) April 20, 2019
In related news, Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings is an unflattering portrayal of Sauron. Sad! https://t.co/Y0ePFXMmaT
— RL Miller (@RL_Miller) April 19, 2019
420 DEALS: The annual celebration of all things cannabis is basically the #BlackFriday of the marijuana industry.
Here are some deals around the #BayArea: https://t.co/05G8UVNBZF— KRON4 News (@kron4news) April 19, 2019
re: #301 jaunte
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Nope. I only worry about discouraging the 70% of Democratic voters that don’t catch every piece of news, some of whom could easily get discouraged if things go 2016.
re: #303 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
KRON news. *giggle*
re: #303 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
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Is anyone selling merchandise? Not weed but t-shirts, caps, snacks? Is there a 4/20 Oreo lineup.
So sickened he’ll approve all of his judicial nominations
Romney says he’s “sickened” by Trump’s behavior in Mueller report https://t.co/inTCqIu6NJ pic.twitter.com/nAKLNfgsY0
— The Hill (@thehill) April 20, 2019
re: #274 Interesting Times
Yes, THIS (why do so many people blindly regurgitate this moldy-oldy myth, anyway?)
The Republicans controlled the House under Clinton. They lost two seats in the following election (2000), insufficient to flip the House.
In the Senate, the Democrats were in the minority. They gained 4 seats, making a 50-50 split.
In the Presidential election, we now know Al Gore won the popular vote over George Bush. Florida’s hanging chads, stopped recount by the Supreme Court after the Brooks Brothers riot sparked by Roger Stone, and the nature of the electoral college meant Bush won.
The Republicans were hurt in the House and Senate, just insufficiently to flip the House.
As for impeachment itself, I’ve come round to the idea that if the evidence warrants, impeachment should go forward in the House. Hold public hearings the same as was done in Watergate. Make the Senate GOP own not voting to remove when they face a 2020 map as bad as ours was last year.
My first 4/20 proper was a year after Columbine, in Minturn, CO. There was about thirty of us in the riverside park. Right at 4:20 p.m. everybody started smoking, myself included. There were two sheriff’s deputies and one officer from town about two blocks away, they stayed away.
Man, that cloud of smoke that rose from the park. It was something to see.
re: #309 teleskiguy
My first 4/20 proper was a year after Columbine, in Minturn, CO. There was about thirty of us in the riverside park. Right at 4:20 p.m. everybody started smoking, myself included. There were two sheriff’s deputies and one officer from town about two blocks away, they stayed away.
Man, that cloud of smoke that rose from the park. It was something to see.
Blow south wind, blow. /s Contact high for all of the Nebraska Panhandle.
The are a bunch more R’s running for re-election to the Senate in 2020 than there are D’s.
Dear Dems in the House:
Just impeach the Motherfucker for obstruction and send it to the Senate where those old white men will have to own it to the voters in 2020. Don’t waste time. Do it now.
Carl’s Jr. is selling a CBD burger tomorrow in one location in Denver.
re: #286 Interesting Times
By the way, the comments on that tweet contain an excruciatingly sharp insight, something I’ve been thinking but couldn’t put into the right words:
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To me, however, that makes it even more crucial to go forward with impeachment, if only as a way to reclaim what it was ORIGINALLY supposed to be for.
Amen. Preach it, brother. (Who says they get to control all the narratives?)
Also, moral clarity.
I’m on board with impeachment if it hits around October or November.
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
One of my senators (Rand Paul) and my congresscritter (Tom Massie) are Libertarians pretending to be Republicans, as are just about every member of the Liberty Caucus and Freedumb Caucus.
I can’t even bother to waste spit on any of them.
re: #306 Belafon
Is anyone selling merchandise? Not weed but t-shirts, caps, snacks? Is there a 4/20 Oreo lineup.
usually just dispensary name brand shirts and hats.
re: #314 Belafon
I’m on board with impeachment if it hits around October or November.
It’ll take a while to draw up articles of impeachment. If I recall correctly, it took the Committee a few months the last real (i. e. Nixon) time it was done.
US Marine arrested for the North Korean embassy raid in Madrid.
bbc.com
Christopher Ahn will reportedly appear in a Los Angeles court.
It would be the first arrest over the incident, which happened in February days before US President Donald Trump met North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Vietnam.
Free Joseon, a self-styled human rights group, says it was involved.
US federal agents have also raided the apartment of Adrian Hong, one of the group’s leaders, says the Washington Post.
The US Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the BBC.
In a statement, Free Joseon said it was “dismayed” by arrest warrants being executed.
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Remembering Columbine: April 20, 1999 | https://t.co/9I1gad6bgg
An early look at Saturday’s front page… pic.twitter.com/T0tjPuHX6Z— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 20, 2019
O’Reilly’s descent into total irrelevance is deeply satisfying https://t.co/DhQlr6iGry
— Matt Bors (@MattBors) April 20, 2019
In post-storm analysis, NOAA has upgraded Hurricane Michael to Category V.
Analysis of data unavailable during forecasting as the storm approached Florida indicates the landfalling winds were 160 mph.
That makes Michael the fourth Category V storm to hit the USA since accurate records began. The others were Andrew, Camille, and the Labor Day storm of 1935.
I’m home in my bedroom and my cat saw me go in there. He left and I totally freaked him out by speaking to him through the camera in the living room. He looks so perplexed. 😆 pic.twitter.com/8r5ztyz9IS
— Nnedi Okorafor, PhD (@Nnedi) April 20, 2019
I have a tabby-point Siamese (or whatever they’re called) but he’s not nearly so Siamese looking. Mine’s more of a domestic shorthair tabby-mese.
He’s shy.
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I have a tabby-point Siamese (or whatever they’re called) but he’s not nearly so Siamese looking. Mine’s more of a domestic shorthair tabby-mese.
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He’s shy.
Also powerful. Killed the thread and pulled it under his rug.
re: #323 retired cynic
Also powerful. Killed the thread and pulled it under his rug.
He loves killing threads. The ones in the couch are his favorites.
In the Turpin family children torture case, the parents have been convicted after pleading guilty.
Most of the children say they still love their parents despite the torture. The parents have been sentenced to life imprisonment. They have thirteen children.
re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
The irony of bill old riley comment on his perceived narcissism of the millennial crowd. As he pontificates from his monument to himself in his den.
re: #325 Anymouse 🌹
I heard one girl interviewed on NPR. She said her parents took her life from her, but she had gotten it back, was in college, and was now stronger for the experience. Listening to her, I could swear she was 12. There are more problems ahead for those kids, I fear.
re: #318 Anymouse 🌹
US Marine arrested for the North Korean embassy raid in Madrid.
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How did I miss this? I would have thought that sort of attack on a Nork embassy would have made some sort of headlines here. Or was I just spending too much time on LGF to notice?
I can easily understand any arrestees not wanting to be sent to North Korea (definitely a one-way journey), but wouldn’t this be an issue for the Spanish, not the US, to prosecute?
re: #328 Jay C
It was on here, I remember seeing several posts about it. In the Age Of Trump, horrendous things emerge from the waves and sink back before you can grasp them.
re: #328 Jay C
How did I miss this? I would have thought that sort of attack on a Nork embassy would have made some sort of headlines here. Or was I just spending too much time on LGF to notice?
I can easily understand any arrestees not wanting to be sent to North Korea (definitely a one-way journey), but wouldn’t this be an issue for the Spanish to prosecute?
It did make headlines here at the time.
I’m not sure why the Marine is being prosecuted in the USA. Others are thought to be in the USA; Spain is seeking extradition for those persons.
nytimes.com (North Korea called the embassy raid a terrorist attack.)
re: #328 Jay C
A great many things happen on any given day… that just get lost in the American media noise machine.
Trump and his infantile ego has caused a great narrowing in American public discourse, with everyone consumed on fighting against the never ending trauma that Trump’s ugliness is causing.
I should know better than to look at real estate listings around San Diego county… it just makes me so sad to see how short-sighted and empty so much of what comprises real estate sales is. Perhaps it’s always been that way.
But the current, and very extremely short sighted, idea of selling a “home” is all about “curb appeal”.
This is a gimmick, a way to make buyers into marks.
Substantially, owning a house, or any property, is a burden with recurring costs. Not just obvious costs (e.g., taxes and maintenance) but very real but silent costs, such as how we structure our society, and how we live every day.
The big thing among real estate flippers has been for a few years now, here anyway, about tearing out living things (trees, shrubbery) and putting down pavers. There is usually a token palm (which again I stress are not trees) to sell San Diego as somehow an exotic paradise. Palms are used because they are relatively low maintenance, so lazy home owners don’t have to spend any effort in maintaining the property.
The entire San Diego real estate scene has been for 50 years now about flipping property as fast as possible while doing the least amount. There is no tomorrow, much less a next decade or next century. All that matters is finding a mark who thinks 10 square yards for new sod and a palm makes for “landscaping”.
The new sod will turn brown and die (San Diego climate is not a good fit for most grasses used for yards) unless one dedicates a great deal of effort and water. Palms are useless and get to be quite ugly as they grow tall into sticks.
This is the legacy of the 20th century - we are becoming increasingly disconnected from the world of living things. All that matters is being programmed by Madison Ave into eternal consumers.
re: #332 freetoken
It’s a different world out here in my section of the boonies. Thank heavens. Or I would be on the street….
re: #330 Anymouse 🌹
It did make headlines here at the time.
I’m not sure why the Marine is being prosecuted in the USA. Others are thought to be in the USA; Spain is seeking extradition for those persons.
nytimes.com (North Korea called the embassy raid a terrorist attack.)
Seems like a moot point as far as that Marine is concerned, because his ass is subject to the UCMJ, and I can’t see the Spaniards being much more strict with a potential trial and prison sentence on this, though there is something to be said for Spain’s sovereign rights to try him; in any case, he’ll likely be breaking big rocks into progressively smaller rocks at Leavenworth for a very, very long time.
re: #333 retired cynic
It’s a different world out here in my section of the boonies. Thank heavens. Or I would be on the street….
Same in my section of the boonies.
Palm trees aren’t really a good fit for our climate (duh).
A lot of landscaping here is xeroscaping, due to the extremely dry conditions. There are people who put in non-native turf lawns and spend exorbitant amounts of money on water (and bitch at me over the town’s water pricing, over which I have no control and is extremely low anyway).
Heartbroken by the murder of Lyra McKee and the violence in Derry. The challenges in NI today are real—but we cannot let go of the last 21 years of hard-won peace and progress. This tragedy is a reminder of how much everyone has to lose if we do.
— Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) April 19, 2019
Yuutoobe just offered up a suggestion for me (is Google snooping on LGF?):
I don’t know why The New Yorker seems to think gardening (in this case indoor) obsession is a new thing.
Maybe the young writers/editors are amazed that there are other living things in this world?
Unboxing videos are somewhat popular on Youtube, as far as gardening/horticulture. I’ve watched some orchid-centric channels and unboxing is a big thing. I don’t really know why, but it is.
Many people says that’s the secret handshake at Mar-a-Lago.@realDonaldTrump … all the Rubntuglicans are pulling for Trump! https://t.co/idXPzLZP4x
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) April 20, 2019
You’re kidding, right?
She wasn’t his *2016* national press secretary, she’s his *2020* one.
That’s not “a nobody”; it’s the person he trusts to articulate his campaign’s positions. Which it would appear includes “Russia didn’t hack, the dead kid did”l.— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) April 20, 2019
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