On today’s episode of The Bob Cesca Show’s Interviews From Earth One: NSFW! My guest today is the great Sarah Kendzior, Russia expert and co-host of the Gaslit Nation Podcast with Andrea Chalupa, who we spoke with two weeks ago on this show. Today we’ll talk about the Mueller Report as especially the bombshell letter Mueller wrote to Bill Barr that dropped in The Washington Post yesterday. Follow Sarah on Twitter and Facebook.
Don’t all employers ask for periodic progress reports?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2019
At this point, the only explanation is that they are trying to push us past the breaking point.
re: #3 I Would Prefer Not To
At this point, the only explanation is that they are trying to push us past the breaking point.
I want every last one of them on trial when this is done.
so the president of the united states is bragging that he told the head of the country that meddled in our election that he doesn’t believe the report that proves they meddled in our election and please explain to me again about how we can’t impeach this brazenly traitorous fuck
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 3, 2019
The whole WH crux is “We’ve got the Presidency and you don’t.” Well, let’s first impeach the son of a bitch and then kick his ass in the election and put him on trial. Vlad won’t protect you then, Donald.
Oh, isn’t that nice that they could find areas of agreement.
This is fine. https://t.co/zofbOi1As0— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2019
re: #5 jaunte
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Not only should we impeach him, we should give him a one way ticket to ADA Florence.
I don’t know how more plain it has to be that the president is not actually loyal to this country.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 3, 2019
re: #8 Belafon
Everyone involved in destroying the rule of law has NOT thought it through.
\re: #12 Belafon
Who is also not loyal to this country.
Huckabee Sanders
Barr
Javanka
Don Jr
Mulvaney
The narcissist in chief is just shoving his traitorous behavior in our faces now. It’s like he’s daring the country to do something about him. It’s just one more way he establishes his fucked up dominance. https://t.co/AtVDixRQza
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2019
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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He insists getting along with Russia and China is a good thing and it would be if the Russian government wasn’t subverting democracy around the world. And he has no room to talk given how he has no desire to get along with our actual allies like France, Germany, and Canada because they see through his bullshit.
You know though, this is alone to make me think Biden might be the best pick. I do want someone young and fresh but someone’s going to have to restore our allies confidence in us and I do think of everyone running that Biden represents that best. I’m beyond angry at how Trump repeatedly betrays the country and flaunts it and that liar Huckabee Sanders is there to taunt us. And Trump is completely okay with it. He’ll trash long time allies but he’ll never ever have a disparaging word for Putin. And the reason is because Putin owns his sorry ass.
re: #16 HappyWarrior
You know though, this is alone to make me think Biden might be the best pick. I do want someone young and fresh but someone’s going to have to restore our allies confidence in us and I do think of everyone running that Biden represents that best. I’m beyond angry at how Trump repeatedly betrays the country and flaunts it and that liar Huckabee Sanders is there to taunt us. And Trump is completely okay with it. He’ll trash long time allies but he’ll never ever have a disparaging word for Putin. And the reason is because Putin owns his sorry ass.
What about him as SoS?
On a lighter note…
A couple weeks ago, The Older Boy and I went to see “Captain Marvel” and there was a trailer for “Rocketman”, the Elton John biopic. It got me to start listening to my old Elton John albums - well, really, downloading the MP3s of them. On the way to work, I was listening to “Tiny Dancer”, on “Madman Across The Water”, and it occurred to me that there are two very different ways to parse the following line:
Jesus freaks out in the street.
re: #16 HappyWarrior
You know though, this is alone to make me think Biden might be the best pick.
Sarah Kendzior couldn’t disagree more:
If Biden makes it to the debates, ask him why the Obama admin did nothing when Russia infiltrated the US Treasury in 2015.
There’s a difference between malice and incompetence. Trump is malice. Biden is incompetence. Both endanger our national security, intentionally or not.— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 25, 2019
So because most govts also blew it we should bring back a guy who has a proven record of blowing it? That makes no sense. We can do better than Biden. I’ll vote for the Dem nom no matter who it is. But we should consider the national security implications. We are still in crisis.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 25, 2019
re: #17 Belafon
What about him as SoS?
That would work. That’s not an endorsement. Just that I definitely understand why he’s got front runner status because I think a lot of people are thinking that. But you are right that HRC as SoS did wonders to restore confidence for Obama.
Blexit, if you will. https://t.co/83g5i1STEJ
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 3, 2019
“not some kind of extremist figure”
lol ok pic.twitter.com/LP4T1mARUK— Travis View (@travis_view) May 3, 2019
re: #19 Interesting Times
Sarah Kendzior couldn’t disagree more:
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That’s fair. I just don’t know who is the best choice after him that would have a great rapport with our allies.
Let’s shine a little sunlight on this: when now-AG Bill Barr’s father, Donald Barr, was headmaster at the Dalton school in NYC, he hired a two-time college dropout to teach physics and calculus to high school students.
That teacher’s name was Jeffrey Epstein.
Fucking hell. This shit is so tangled up, I can’t even wrap my fucking brain around it.
re: #21 Blind Frog Belly White
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Candece will be a subject of a Buzzfeed article down the road where she talks about how she “regrets” her role in what she’s done. Bank on it.
OT. (boring work related)
Do any of my my fellow lizards have any contacts at Amazon’s Seller Central? I’m trying to sign my company up to sell our products (we sell pillows). Application keeps getting rejected by robots (this is not an exaggeration, auto replies that make little sense). The used to have a phone number, but took it down. Not much info is online except that everything has to be in the correct format.
Any help would be appreciated.
Example communication below.
Why is this happening?
We found that your account is related to another account that may not be used to sell on the site. Due to the nature of our business, we do not provide details on our investigation methods.
re: #24 makeitstop
Fucking hell. This shit is so tangled up, I can’t even wrap my fucking brain around it.
This is how I felt when I saw Trump had ties to the Jupiter Massage Parlor.
It’s fake-puzzling that Trump and Putin agreed there was no collusion when last time they spoke in person they agreed that Russia didn’t do anything at all.
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) May 3, 2019
Erik Prince tried to train James O’Keefe’s undercover conservative operatives, but the instructor quit because the group “wasn’t capable of learning.” https://t.co/mySwpruApU
— Patrick (@TrickFreee) May 3, 2019
re: #30 gocart mozart
Hopefully they’re not capable of breeding either.
re: #28 HappyWarrior
This is how I felt when I saw Trump had ties to the Jupiter Message Parlor.
I’m literally at a loss for words here. These fuckers have been in cahoots for a long, long time.
The sex, the espionage, the money laundering, all of it. I’m starting to think they’ve been setting up the destruction of our country for years.
Stunned. Fucking stunned.
re: #31 Ace Rothstein
Hopefully they’re not capable of breeding either.
The threshold for that is remarkably low.
This is why I tweet about the Trump/Russia issue so much.
We cannot address *any* of our problems when the primary purpose of government is to add to the personal fortunes of a few dozen assholes.
Corruption must be dealt with first.— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) May 3, 2019
re: #29 jaunte
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I really want the next President to make life hell for Vlad. Make no mistake, what Vlad did to us was 21st century warfare.
re: #28 HappyWarrior
Are the messages at the message parlor text messages, voice messages…?
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re: #32 makeitstop
I’m literally at a loss for words here. These fuckers have been in cahoots for a long, long time.
The sex, the espionage, the money laundering, all of it. I’m starting to think they’ve been setting up the destruction of our country for years.
Stunned. Fucking stunned.
It’s crazy isn’t it?
re: #36 Ace Rothstein
Are the messages at the message parlor text messages, voice messages…?
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Ha ha, thanks.
re: #22 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Well, if Donald Trump looks presidential to you, it kinda shifts the window on what ‘extremist’ is.
re: #6 HappyWarrior
The whole WH crux is “We’ve got the Presidency and you don’t.” Well, let’s first impeach the son of a bitch and then kick his ass in the election and put him on trial. Vlad won’t protect you then, Donald.
The exact opposite. A career KGB agent like Putin will ‘clean up loose ends’.
re: #41 Romantic Heretic
The exact opposite. A career KGB agent like Putin will ‘clean up loose ends’.
Yep. His usefulness to Vlad will be done as soon as he’s out of office.
At this point I want someone, anyone with the power to do so, to start going after Trump.
JFC!
New @mmfa study: Major media outlets fail to debunk President Trump’s false or misleading statements in their tweets 65% of the time, amplifying his misinformation an average of 19 times per day. https://t.co/8OV2FGddbn
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 3, 2019
re: #44 Charles Johnson
JFC!
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They are so petrified of Trump or the right in general going after them for being “biased.”
Due to the ongoing shitsorm we’re living in, I missed this bit of news the other day..
Oh, look.
Jim Jordan is d-u-n done.https://t.co/topccZGn2F— random facts girl. (@soychicka) May 2, 2019
Wonder if ol’ Gym is sweating bullets or just pissing himself right now…
re: #46 makeitstop
Due to the ongoing shitsorm we’re living in, I missed this bit of news the other day..
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Wonder if ol’ Gym is sweating bullets or just pissing himself right now…
I forgot all about that since so much has happened. Man I would love to see him go down.
re: #45 HappyWarrior
They are so petrified of Trump or the right in general going after them for being “biased.”
They’re afraid of losing their precious “Access”.
re: #16 HappyWarrior
You know though, this is alone to make me think Biden might be the best pick. I do want someone young and fresh but someone’s going to have to restore our allies confidence in us and I do think of everyone running that Biden represents that best. I’m beyond angry at how Trump repeatedly betrays the country and flaunts it and that liar Huckabee Sanders is there to taunt us. And Trump is completely okay with it. He’ll trash long time allies but he’ll never ever have a disparaging word for Putin. And the reason is because Putin owns his sorry ass.
I may intensely dislike Bernie and absolutely hate Trump but I’m not persuaded by the notion that the antidote to two egotistical old white guys is a third, slightly less overtly egotistical old white guy.
Also, the obstruction was of 1) the Russian attack which Trump continues to deny & 2) “any” crimes Mueller could’ve found along the way while investigating Trump (see SDNY & other referrals) & 3) I do believe some of the attempts were successful like the Manafort pardon dangling.
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) May 3, 2019
re: #49 goddamnedfrank
I may intensely dislike Bernie and absolutely hate Trump but I’m not persuaded by the notion that the antidote to two egotistical old white guys is a third, slightly less overtly egotistical old white guy.
Trust me he’s not my choice. I just can see why people would want him. Right now, I’m leaning Harris’s way. She’s got the right qualifications for the job. I just think one can’t underestimate the FP know how that Biden has. But as Belafon said, he could always be SoS or at the very least informally advise a President Harris.
You know who’s been really weak on Barr though? Bernie.
re: #52 HappyWarrior
You know who’s been really weak on Barr though? Bernie.
Is it just me being in Europe, or has he said basically butkis about Barr?
“please attack us,” said the traitor https://t.co/rbENskjQrb
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 3, 2019
re: #51 HappyWarrior
Trust me he’s not my choice. I just can see why people would want him. Right now, I’m leaning Harris’s way. She’s got the right qualifications for the job. I just think one can’t underestimate the FP know how that Biden has. But as Belafon said, he could always be SoS or at the very least informally advise a President Harris.
I really, really like Harris.
Of course https://t.co/9aOYZhcVsX
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 3, 2019
re: #53 Teukka
Is it just me being in Europe, or has he said basically butkis about Barr?
I think he had a statement but that’s it. He’s continuing to treat this administration like any other Republican one.
Huh? We consider a cyber attack on Japan as an armed attack but are cool when it is done to us. Pompeo might want to speak with his boss.
https://t.co/RgOmE8p0n3— John Sipher (@john_sipher) April 22, 2019
re: #55 Scottish Dragon
I really, really like Harris.
I do too. There are some things about her AG work that I disagree with but I A) Like her, B) think she has a progressive yet pragmatic agenda, & C) I think she’s immensely qualified for the job.
Relevant to the discussion.
We have to pay more attention to our seniors so they don’t lash out by running for president.
— Kashana (@kashanacauley) May 3, 2019
I’m so looking forward to the context-free lukewarm both-sides media coverage of Trump’s latest conversation with the Russian who put him in office.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2019
Jesus Christ https://t.co/WYCjvrHfyY
— IWant2vote4SuperKarate🐒JustNotThisSuperKarate🐒 (@DeathCar72) May 3, 2019
Bernie made an album, it’s the opposite of punkhttps://t.co/mc4YcHOMzH
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 3, 2019
re: #48 Eclectic Cyborg
In this day and age they probably also fear for their lives.There was a reason Reporters without Borders added the US to its list of countries dangerous to journalists
re: #56 gocart mozart
Someone should quote Heinlein at those douchenozzles.
It’s what you learn after you know it all that really counts.
re: #63 gocart mozart
I guess it’s too much to expect him to cover Rage Against The Machine.
re: #3 I Would Prefer Not To
At this point, the only explanation is that they are trying to push us past the breaking point.
I sort of wonder what things would look like if we were to push past the breaking point. Completely hypothetically…
Let’s say things get so bad, we actually get the votes for a new constitutional convention. Like the convention of 1787, there’s no way it ends up being “just a few tweaks” to the existing constitution.
No wonder Twitter is so messed up. The CEO lives in cloud cuckoo land. The super-rich version.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2019
re: #68 Charles Johnson
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Walks like a pretentious out of touch douche, quacks like a.
re: #63 gocart mozart
I’ll vote for who ever covers Pennywise’s Fuck Authority.
(obviously NSFW, I mean, see the title of the song)
re: #68 Charles Johnson
Reminds me of the old line that the difference between “crazy” and “eccentric” is a few million dollars. Given inflation, it’s probably about few hundred million dollars now, but the point still stands.
re: #70 KGxvi
I’ll vote for who ever covers Pennywise’s Fuck Authority.
(obviously NSFW, I mean, see the title of the song)
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Think Beto is the best bet there. He’s got the strongest punk cred of anyone running.
I am not an “extremist”. I have never advocated any “extremist” beliefs. https://t.co/DIuPWXL5pm
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) May 3, 2019
the government is coming to kill you is an extreme belief
the 9/11 was a false flag stuff, yeah, that makes an extreme piece of shit pic.twitter.com/IHDYGGXWLn— Dusty Giebel (@DustinGiebel) May 3, 2019
Trying to imagine the failed “intelligence” lessons for O’Keefe’s “Project Veritas” morons:
Instructor: Okay, so one important thing to remember …
Student: Hey, do we get fancy spy briefcases? You know, like James Bond carried?
Instructor: No, that’s just the movies. Now, again, it’s important that…
Student: What about drinks? I like Cosmos. Do I have to start drinking Vodka Martinis? I don’t like vermouth.
Instructor: No. Now, as I was sa…
Student: Watches! Do we get watches with lasers?
Instructor; NO! Now, class….
Student: Oooo! Oooo! Do we get to have sex with beautiful women? I’ve never had sex, so that’d be nice!
Instructor: STOP IT! There are no ‘spy drinks’, no special spy briefcases, no watches with lasers! And jesus, have NONE of you ever gotten laid?
Student: I got close once. My cousin let me feel her boob over her blouse…
Instructor: Christ. Okay, that’s enough for today! Let’s get a fresh start tomorrow.
re: #73 gocart mozart
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re: #74 Blind Frog Belly White
Trying to imagine the failed “intelligence” lessons for O’Keefe’s “Project Veritas” morons:
Instructor: Okay, so one important thing to remember …
Student: Hey, do we get fancy spy briefcases? You know, like James Bond carried?
Instructor: No, that’s just the movies. Now, again, it’s important that…
Student: What about drinks? I like Cosmos. Do I have to start drinking Vodka Martinis? I don’t like vermouth.
Instructor: No. Now, as I was sa…
Student: Watches! Do we get watches with lasers?
Instructor; NO! Now, class….
Student: Oooo! Oooo! Do we get to have sex with beautiful women? I’ve never had sex, so that’d be nice!
Instructor: STOP IT! There are no ‘spy drinks’, no special spy briefcases, no watches with lasers! And jesus, have NONE of you ever gotten laid?
Student: I got close once. My cousin let me feel her boob over her blouse…
Instructor: Christ. Okay, that’s enough for today! Let’s get a fresh start tomorrow.
Nah, they just watched the first three seasons of Archer
re: #74 Blind Frog Belly White
Trying to imagine the failed “intelligence” lessons for O’Keefe’s “Project Veritas” morons:
Instructor: Okay, so one important thing to remember …
Student: Hey, do we get fancy spy briefcases? You know, like James Bond carried?
Instructor: No, that’s just the movies. Now, again, it’s important that…
Student: What about drinks? I like Cosmos. Do I have to start drinking Vodka Martinis? I don’t like vermouth.
Instructor: No. Now, as I was sa…
Student: Watches! Do we get watches with lasers?
Instructor; NO! Now, class….
Student: Oooo! Oooo! Do we get to have sex with beautiful women? I’ve never had sex, so that’d be nice!
Instructor: STOP IT! There are no ‘spy drinks’, no special spy briefcases, no watches with lasers! And jesus, have NONE of you ever gotten laid?
Student: I got close once. My cousin let me feel her boob over her blouse…
Instructor: Christ. Okay, that’s enough for today! Let’s get a fresh start tomorrow.
This needs to be done in Archer animated style of course.
re: #78 HappyWarrior
GTMA!
How about JK Simmons as the instructor, doing the “Upper Level CIA guy” from “Burn After Reading” voice, and H. John Benjamin from “Archer” as the student, doing…well, the same voice he does for literally every character he plays on any show, really.
re: #79 Blind Frog Belly White
How about JK Simmons as the instructor, doing the “Upper Level CIA guy” from “Burn After Reading” voice, and H. John Benjamin from “Archer” as the student, doing…well, the same voice he does for literally every character he plays on any show, really.
Yep. You got it down.
JK Simmons btw can play John Kelly in the movie too I just realized.
re: #74 Blind Frog Belly White
Day 2
Student: You know what would be cool to have? Ninja throwing stars!
Instructor: Huh? What the hell do you need ninja stars for?
Student: For like, killing people and stuff.
Instructor: Who said anything about killing people?!
Student: Have you ever used X-ray glasses?
Instructor: Those…aren’t real. That’s just stuff you see in movies.
Student: No, they’re real. Check out this guy on Youtube, he has proof!
Instructor: Sigh…
Instructor: Whatever, put your phones away and pay attention. Now, to effectively blend in you need to…
Student: Wear a red Trump hat wherever we go??
Instructor: Yes, the easiest way to blend in is to wear a GIANT RED HAT. NO, you idiot! Now be quiet and LISTEN.
Student: We are listening.
Instructor: No, you’re not.
Student: Yes, we are.
Instructor: ENOUGH. Okay, so to blend in you’ll need to have…
Student: Sunglasses? A striped suit? A black goatee?
Instructor: Oh, for fuck sakes.
re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg
Day 2
Student: You know what would be cool to have? Ninja throwing stars!
Instructor: Huh? What the hell do you need ninja stars for?
Student: For like, killing people and stuff.
Instructor: Who said anything about killing people?!
Student: Have you ever used X-ray glasses?
Instructor: Those…aren’t real. That’s just stuff you see in movies.
Student: No, they’re real. Check out this guy on Youtube, he has proof!
Instructor: Sigh…
Instructor: Whatever, put your phones away and pay attention. Now, to effectively blend in you need to…
Student: Wear a red Trump hat wherever we go??
Instructor: Yes, the easiest way to blend in is to wear a GIANT RED HAT. NO, you idiot! Now be quiet and LISTEN.
Student: We are listening.
Instructor: No, you’re not.
Student: Yes, we are.
Instructor: ENOUGH. Okay, so to blend in you’ll need to have…
Student: Sunglasses? A nice suit? A black goatee?
Instructor: Oh, for fuck sakes.
This needs to be done. I read this in Benjamin and Simmons’ voices.
By the way, according to the Kremlin, the phone call was Trump’s idea. https://t.co/fGn1vexCp1
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) May 3, 2019
re: #84 Charles Johnson
He wants reassurances from Vlad that he’s not totally fucked.
i wonder if Prince’s intelligence instructor gave up before or after O’Keefe’s binLaden at the border stunt…
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
i wonder if Prince’s intelligence instructor gave up before or after O’Keefe’s binLaden at the border stunt…
I would guess before…
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So it turns out that the NBC report that Trump discussed with Putin whether he should let McGahn testify was a misinterpretation of what the reporter said. To be fair, it DID sound like the kind of thing Trump would do, but NOT the kind of thing Sarah Sanders would admit to.
But, you know, discussing the Mueller Report with the Russian President who directed the election interference that the Mueller Report documented, but NOT apparently discussing the election interference? That, they admitted to.
re: #83 HappyWarrior
This needs to be done. I read this in Benjamin and Simmons’ voices.
Even if it’s Benjamin and Jessica Walter as Sterling and Malory, it would work.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to get a non-anthro dog to understand that “leave it” is the standing order unless specifically told to interact with an object/animal? (For that matter, how to get an ANTHRO dog to do the same! 😼)
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 3, 2019
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
i wonder if Prince’s intelligence instructor gave up before or after O’Keefe’s binLaden at the border stunt…
Teacher: Okay so disguises are vital to blending in.
O’Keefe: I bought a Bin Laden Mask
Teacher: Disguises are about blending in.
O’Keefe: Yeah no one would suspect Bin Laden on the Southern border.
Teacher: firstly, he’s dead. Secondly-
O’Keefe: I paid 25 bucks for this at Costume City and I already removed the tag. They said no returns.
Teacher: Sigh, I hate my life
re: #91 Chrysicat
Also - don’t ask me. I can’t get Rango to understand the permanence of “No!”
re: #92 Blind Frog Belly White
Anthro?
Obligatory reminder that I’m a furry.
An “anthro[pomorphic] dog” would be another member of said culture, who ID’s canine to my mainly-feline-and-vulpine :-P
re: #91 Chrysicat
My sister had a corgi that at a very young age was taught “leave it” and “wait” along with “ok” for go. I think that’s one of those things you have to instill very, very early.
re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg
He wants reassurances from Vlad that he’s not totally fucked.
Like every authoritarian, Trump has only two modes: being a tyrant, and cringing and scraping at his master’s feet.
It looks like today was a cringing and scraping day.
re: #96 Chrysicat
Obligatory reminder that I’m a furry.
An “anthro[pomorphic] dog” would be another member of said culture, who ID’s canine to my mainly-feline-and-vulpine :-P
Ah.
This, of course, is sheer bullshit. And Rudy knows it is. https://t.co/lfTYq8u854
— SnittyGrappleHat (@Popehat) May 3, 2019
good boy doesn’t let a fight break out pic.twitter.com/zTJqhAAxFz
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 3, 2019
re: #97 KGxvi
He’s probably about 2 or 2 1/2 and was likely feral until 4 months ago. That said, he’s house-trained successfully and has learned “leave it”, but I have to say it—and thus treat him—about 20-25 times when we’re out in the (very wild) yard for about 25 minutes because he investigates every little clump of bushes that’s hiding some ‘local resident’.
It sometimes almost seems like he’s hunting less to try to catch the prey and more to force me to reward him for leaving it.
Teacher: So keep a low profile.
Student: Is it okay if I tell Fox News, I want my mom to see how badass I am.
Teacher: Uh no
Student: Breitbart then.
Teacher; Espionage is about blending in. If you do your job….
Student: But what’s the fun in being a spy if no one knows about it?
Teacher: NO ONE is supposed to know. I quit.
Student: Man he was mean.
May the cosmos protect me from ever being described as a “manfluencer.”
re: #102 Chrysicat
He’s probably about 2 or 2 1/2 and was likely feral until 4 months ago. That said, he’s house-trained successfully and has learned “leave it”, but I have to say it—and thus treat him—about 20-25 times when we’re out in the (very wild) yard for about 25 minutes because he investigates every little clump of bushes that’s hiding some ‘local resident’.
It sometimes almost seems like he’s hunting less to try to catch the prey and more to force me to reward him for leaving it.
It’s quite possible he’s trying to reverse Pavlov train you.
It’s also equally possible that he’s just curious.
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
I wonder how many people Rudy secured convictions on for obstruction of justice when he couldn’t prove an underlying crime? And I wonder how many of them are now asking lawyers if they can get their convictions overturned?
#BeBreast pic.twitter.com/nR6coqblVC
— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) May 3, 2019
How dare Zirconia & Polyester try to culturally appropriate our white Kentucky colonels! https://t.co/TZtPy8ee2Z
— Patrick Henry 🇺🇸 🌊 (@Phenry_1984) May 3, 2019
re: #106 KGxvi
I wonder how many people Rudy secured convictions on for obstruction of justice when he couldn’t prove an underlying crime? And I wonder how many of them are now asking lawyers if they can get their convictions overturned?
Damn good question. Rudy has really debased himself. Never was a fan but man he’s such a blatant hack.
re: #109 HappyWarrior
Damn good question. Rudy has really debased himself. Never was a fan but man he’s such a blatant hack.
There was a time when I thought he could have moved the party to a more socially liberal or at least socially tolerant place, but those days are long past. And I really don’t understand why he (or really anyone in what is left of the GOP establishment) was so willing to ride or die with Trump.
I just realized who would be a perfect Bannon had he not died, Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
re: #110 KGxvi
There was a time when I thought he could have moved the party to a more socially liberal or at least socially tolerant place, but those days are long past. And I really don’t understand why he (or really anyone in what is left of the GOP establishment) was so willing to ride or die with Trump.
Partisanship imo. Same reason for Barr.
re: #110 KGxvi
There was a time when I thought he could have moved the party to a more socially liberal or at least socially tolerant place, but those days are long past. And I really don’t understand why he (or really anyone in what is left of the GOP establishment) was so willing to ride or die with Trump.
The GOP establishment is scared to death of the pig-people. The establishment did what little they could to stop Trump in the 2016 primary, including an effort on Fox News, without the slightest apparent effect. So now they are just hoping to get more tax cuts out of the circus.
I think initially you can’t dismiss the deep seated sexism and hatred of HRC as a factor too.
If you want to feel like some kind of goddamned Kaiju just try to shop for quality made in Japan clothing while having 20 inch shoulders. It’s fucking great, no matter how much weight I lose some of these brands will always say I’m a triple or even quad XL.
Assholes.
re: #110 KGxvi
There was a time when I thought he could have moved the party to a more socially liberal or at least socially tolerant place, but those days are long past. And I really don’t understand why he (or really anyone in what is left of the GOP establishment) was so willing to ride or die with Trump.
Blackmail
To quote the great Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddamn:
School officials in Mississippi named a white student the salutatorian of a recently integrated high school over a black student with better grades “to prevent white flight,” according to a new federal lawsuit.
re: #115 goddamnedfrank
If you want to feel like some kind of goddamned Kaiju just try to shop for quality made in Japan clothing while having 20 inch shoulders. It’s fucking great, no matter how much weight I lose some of these brands will always say I’m a triple or even quad XL.
Assholes.
Welcome to the world women have faced for years. Even back when I was 25 pounds lighter, I was an extra large because 5’10” and a sturdy bone structure.
re: #44 Charles Johnson
JFC!
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It’s NOT that the. Corporate Controlled Conservative Press fails to state that Trump lies in his Tweets.
It’s that they WON’T!
Close but no Darwin: Survived with serious injuries.
Visitor crosses barrier and falls 70 feet into the Kilauea volcano’s crater
A visitor to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park climbed past the metal railing, lost his footing and fell into the Kilauea volcano caldera, according to Ben Hayes, spokesperson with the National Park Service.
Hayes said on Wednesday evening, authorities got a call that a man had fallen into the caldera — the crater formed by previous volcanic activity. He was with a group, which is why the call came in instantly.
“He had crossed over a metal railing to get closer to the cliff edge where he lost his footing and fell in,” Hayes said. “Park officials immediately launched a search and rescue operation with the Hawaii County Fire Department and around 9 p.m. local time search and rescue located the man. He was seriously injured, perched on a narrow ledge 70 feet from the cliff edge.”
re: #107 gocart mozart
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Please put behind a private tag. I just saw that and I’m glad no students were nearby.
re: #122 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Close but no Darwin: Survived with serious injuries.
Visitor crosses barrier and falls 70 feet into the Kilauea volcano’s crater
Idiot.
And on a lighter note. Ants are eating my rosebuds. Actually, it’s OK. They are winter ants and are just porking up for their summer slumbers. The funny thing is that they love my “Gertrude Jekyll” and really aren’t interested in the “Perdita” or the “Cecile Brunner.” I assume the fresh rose buds are high in sugars, and Gertrude Jekyll must be particularly sweet.
They leave them alone when the buds break open, and they’ll be heading deep underground soon so won’t have a long term effect on the blooms. They’re natives, so we’re just leaving them to do their thing.
re: #26 HappyWarrior
Candece will be a subject of a Buzzfeed article down the road where she talks about how she “regrets” her role in what she’s done. Bank on it.
You realize this is Candece we’re talking about, right? We’ll probably get an article about her grandfather.
REPORTER: During your phone call with Putin, did you ask him not to meddle in the upcoming presidential election?
TRUMP: “We didn’t discuss that.” pic.twitter.com/bHmRBcCzXU— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 3, 2019
re: #128 Belafon
You realize this is Candece we’re talking about, right? We’ll probably get an article about her grandfather.
In any case, she’s going to discover those she thought were her friends weren’t.
oh
The revised plan announced Thursday calls for phasing in the proposed surcharges for every electric bill in the state — residential customers would pay 50 cents a month in the 2020 and then see that increase the following year to $2.50 monthly.https://t.co/w2boihen4G
— WCPO (@WCPO) May 3, 2019
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rudy used to prosecute mobsters and terrorists on obstruction charges. He knows damned well that you can indict and convict on the obstruction even if you can’t prove the underlying crime.
But here’s the rub. You can prove the underlying crimes vis a vis Trump. Mueller indictated as much and but for DOJ rules, he would have indicted. Instead, he stated explicitly that Congress is the express venue to address Trump’s malfeasance, which means impeachment and removal from office.
re: #133 lawhawk
Rudy used to prosecute mobsters and terrorists on obstruction charges. He knows damned well that you can indict and convict on the obstruction even if you can’t prove the underlying crime.
Martha Stewart.
I don’t need to spy to know what was said.
1. Ukraine belongs to RU.
2. Venezuelan oil production harms RU interests.
3. NK won’t make a fuss as long as Trump behaves himself.
4. The Russian hoax accusations hurts Vlad’s feelings.
5. Nuke arms controls hurt both US and RU.— Milton Wiltmellow (@Wiltmellow) May 3, 2019
re: #135 Chrysicat
Or, y’know, the one I meant to embed, my own:
Awful close. “The Ukraine” belongs to Russia. At this point, it’s probably almost a declaration of war to not refer to it as a rogue oblast, not a country that was ever legitimately independent.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 3, 2019
Most adorable Russian spy yet! washingtonpost.com
Here’s the hill I think we should die on.
Impeach trump for the following:
NOT PROTECTING OUR ELECTIONS.
The Mueller report was clear that Russia interfered. Trump doesn’t even acknowledge there is a problem. Reason enough why he shouldn’t be president.
Doesn’t matter if we lose in the Senate. Don’t know to your try, present the evidence. I will not support Democrats who don’t fight.
If not now, when?
So, apparently, Senator Butters has decided to go full “Simpsons did it” and become Senator Sideshow Bob and step on some rakes:
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham sent a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday asking whether Mueller felt Attorney General William Barr misrepresented their phone conversation in his Senate testimony this week.
Can’t see how this doesn’t go bad for Butters.
re: #113 EPR-radar
The GOP establishment is scared to death of the pig-people. The establishment did what little they could to stop Trump in the 2016 primary, including an effort on Fox News, without the slightest apparent effect. So now they are just hoping to get more tax cuts out of the circus.
AND more rubber stamps on the courts.
re: #139 KGxvi
So, apparently, Senator Butters has decided to go full “Simpsons did it” and become Senator Sideshow Bob and step on some rakes:
Can’t see how this doesn’t go bad for Butters.
Somehow he remains popular in South Carolina.
re: #138 I Would Prefer Not To
There were 11 articles of impeachment brought against Andrew Johnson. Two of them were basically: “Insulting Congress in speeches” and “Bringing disgrace to the Office”.
Clownstick’s shenanigans with heads of the FBI and DOJ are similar to what the other 9 charges were (having to do with appointments in the Department of War, trying to bypass Senate approval, etc.).
Even if there was no Russia issue or none of the other myriad of crimes he’s involved in, this alone is worthy of bringing an impeachment based on historical context.
re: #141 HappyWarrior
Somehow he remains popular in South Carolina.
Too small to be a country, too large to be an insane asylum.
re: #141 HappyWarrior
Somehow he remains popular in South Carolina.
According to this poll, he’s only at 51/36 approval. Trump meanwhile is 43/46 in South Carolina, which seems… crazy.
And more fun, the guys on PSA mentioned yesterday that apparently McConnell has an 18% approval rating in Kentucky. I can’t find the poll, but if that’s true, that seems… not good for him.
re: #145 KGxvi
According to this poll, he’s only at 51/36 approval. Trump meanwhile is 43/46 in South Carolina, which seems… crazy.
And more fun, the guys on PSA mentioned yesterday that apparently McConnell has an 18% approval rating in Kentucky. I can’t find the poll, but if that’s true, that seems… not good for him.
I think Mitch could actually lose this time.
re: #94 Blind Frog Belly White
Also - don’t ask me. I can’t get Rango to understand the permanence of “No!”
When we solve that, can we get my beast to stop pulling so hard when I walk her? Today she yanked so hard on a muddy patch of sidewalk that she took me down with her. Ripped my jeans, scraped my knee and everything.
If she weren’t so damn cute…
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
REPORTER: During your phone call with Putin, did you ask him not to meddle in the upcoming presidential election?
TRUMP: “We didn’t discuss that.”
EFFING simple FOLLOWUP: “Why not?”
2020 candidate Kamala Harris responds to President Trump calling her “nasty”: “His primary interest has been to obstruct justice. My primary interest is to pursue justice. You can call that whatever name you want, but I think that’s what the American people want in a leader.” pic.twitter.com/KFuUzZWVA9
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 2, 2019
“She nailed every aspect: a strong woman, a professional woman, and tough as bleep. If you want to measure the candidates, you have to watch them in the ring with the most similar to Trump kind of politician. To see her take him on was as good a trial run as Dems are gonna get.” pic.twitter.com/Qj5PYImBZ3
— Ian Sams (@IanSams) May 2, 2019
re: #145 KGxvi
According to this poll, he’s only at 51/36 approval. Trump meanwhile is 43/46 in South Carolina, which seems… crazy.
And more fun, the guys on PSA mentioned yesterday that apparently McConnell has an 18% approval rating in Kentucky. I can’t find the poll, but if that’s true, that seems… not good for him.
I’m seeing approval ratings of 33-34% for him. But that’s not good either. For him anyway.
Anyhoo, we’re having friends over for dinner tonight and for once in my life I have a totally do-ahead menu so I can be in the living room with the guests and not in the kitchen. The downside of do-ahead is that you have to actually do it ahead. Which would be now.
I’ll still be able to keep an eye out for Friday afternoon news dumps. Hope springs eternal.
re: #138 I Would Prefer Not To
Here’s the hill I think we should die on.
Impeach trump for the following:
NOT PROTECTING OUR ELECTIONS.
The Mueller report was clear that Russia interfered. Trump doesn’t even acknowledge there is a problem. Reason enough why he shouldn’t be president.
Doesn’t matter if we lose in the Senate. Don’t know to your try, present the evidence. I will not support Democrats who don’t fight.
If not now, when?
i’d like to see it be one of a very very long list grouped in volumes like:
- explicit constitutional crimes
- actual, you know, felonies
- dereliction of duty of the office
etc
re: #145 KGxvi
According to this poll, he’s only at 51/36 approval. Trump meanwhile is 43/46 in South Carolina, which seems… crazy.
And more fun, the guys on PSA mentioned yesterday that apparently McConnell has an 18% approval rating in Kentucky. I can’t find the poll, but if that’s true, that seems… not good for him.
That 18% approval poll for McConnell in Kentucky crossed my Facebook dash a few days back. I shared it without checking it out. Turned out that it was from 2017.
I’m locked out for a week because I cursed at Susan Sarandon last nite. I was booted literally 5 sec. after I told her to fuck off and die.
Yeah yeah I know. I don’t care much anymore.
Any who…. My Congressman if anyone cares to comment.
The U.S. jobs machine continued surging with record numbers in April, adding a robust 263,000 new hires while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation! #MAGAhttps://t.co/PO4Gth9ddx
— Roger Williams (@RogerWilliamsTX) May 3, 2019
re: #142 Jack Burton
There were 11 articles of impeachment brought against Andrew Johnson. Two of them were basically: “Insulting Congress in speeches” and “Bringing disgrace to the Office”.
Clownstick’s shenanigans with heads of the FBI and DOJ are similar to what the other 9 charges were (having to do with appointments in the Department of War, trying to bypass Senate approval, etc.).
Even if there was no Russia issue or none of the other myriad of crimes he’s involved in, this alone is worthy of bringing an impeachment based on historical context.
And Johnson, facing a hostile Senate, escaped conviction. Yes, he should be impeached but only after Nancy has had sufficient hearings to persuade an unbiased jury of Trump’s guilt. Unfortunately, we are facing a situation where the entire Republican Party is compromised by a hostile enemy and where tens of millions of Americans support this relationship. And is there a single Republican out there who is capable of changing their existing views by reading the Mueller Report? Who is becoming concerned about the fate of our nation under the rule of this crime family?
re: #155 calochortus
Anyhoo, we’re having friends over for dinner tonight and for once in my life I have a totally do-ahead menu so I can be in the living room with the guests and not in the kitchen. The downside of do-ahead is that you have to actually do it ahead. Which would be now.
I’ll still be able to keep an eye out for Friday afternoon news dumps. Hope springs eternal.
what’s on the menu?
re: #111 HappyWarrior
I just realized who would be a perfect Bannon had he not died, Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
I think he could still pull it off.
re: #146 HappyWarrior
I think Mitch could actually lose this time.
We’ll see if the Democrats can recruit a formidable candidate. Mitch always has a huge war chest and very effective negative ads. Kentucky is old, white and poorly educated; the heart of Trump country.
re: #159 Hecuba’s daughter
And Johnson, facing a hostile Senate, escaped conviction. Yes, he should be impeached but only after Nancy has had sufficient hearings to persuade an unbiased jury of Trump’s guilt. Unfortunately, we are facing a situation where the entire Republican Party is compromised by a hostile enemy and where tens of millions of Americans support this relationship. And is there a single Republican out there who is capable of changing their existing views by reading the Mueller Report? Who is becoming concerned about the fate of our nation under the rule of this crime family?
A few; not nearly enough.
re: #162 NO SMOCKING GUN!
We’ll see if the Democrats can recruit a formidable candidate. Mitch always has a huge war chest and very effective negative ads. Kentucky is old, white and poorly educated; the heart of Trump country.
Amy McGrath is running against him.
re: #162 NO SMOCKING GUN!
We’ll see if the Democrats can recruit a formidable candidate. Mitch always has a huge war chest and very effective negative ads. Kentucky is old, white and poorly educated; the heart of Trump country.
It’s certainly possible that he would lose to someone even more extreme. Isn’t that what happened to Cantor? Kentucky is Trumpland.
Republican elites want morons at all levels of government except where their stupidity might damage stock portfolios.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 3, 2019
Tweeted right around when the announcement went official, but for some reason not yet embedded here:
On the bright side, a replacement for Bennet would at least be appointed by another Democrat. This state gets bluer every election. As for Hick, he’s probably too old to run against Gardner anyway. My BIG worry about MB is that his cancer will un-remit on the campaign trail.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 3, 2019
re: #167 Chrysicat
Tweeted right around when the announcement went official, but for some reason not yet embedded here:
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That said, I have more confidence in Mayor Pete’s electibility, and a lot of that went out the window when he coseyed up to Goop Paltrow…
re: #162 NO SMOCKING GUN!
We’ll see if the Democrats can recruit a formidable candidate. Mitch always has a huge war chest and very effective negative ads. Kentucky is old, white and poorly educated; the heart of Trump country.
McGrath seems like a good candidate to me.
re: #162 NO SMOCKING GUN!
We’ll see if the Democrats can recruit a formidable candidate. Mitch always has a huge war chest and very effective negative ads. Kentucky is old, white and poorly educated; the heart of Trump country.
Amy has already agreed
re: #165 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s certainly possible that he would lose to someone even more extreme. Isn’t that what happened to Cantor? Kentucky is Trumpland.
Cantor lost because he is Jewish. True story.
re: #156 DangerMan
i’d like to see it be one of a very very long list grouped in volumes like:
- explicit constitutional crimes
- actual, you know, felonies
- dereliction of duty of the office
etc
A few categories:
The obvious — There’s at least 9 articles for obstruction of justice. Probably 3-4 articles for violations of the emoluments clauses. Contempt of Congress. Obstruction of Congress. Violations of campaign finance laws - he’s an unindicted co-conspirator in the SDNY int he Michael Cohen case; and seeking in kind contributions from Russia and other foreign entities (the emails). Corruption and graft (this has been charges multiple times in history).
The less obvious but still important if you want to reign in the executive branch - Violations of the War Powers Act in Yemen and (possibly to come) Venezuela. Several counts of abuse of power (everything from kids in cages to denying asylum to declaring a national emergency in the face of Congressional opposition to granting security clearances to those who did not pass background checks). Failure to see the law is faithfully executed (refusal to defend valid laws in Court, including the ACA).
The unique to time and place — Nepotism.
The likely to come out in time: Making false financial disclosures. Tax evasion.
re: #159 Hecuba’s daughter
1 vote short, with far less against him. I was just pointing out how low the bar for this actually is, while everyone is acting as though it’s not been reached yet. (What is required for some people? A Babylon 5 President Morgan-like turn the nukes on ourselves moment?)
That said, Pelosi is already doing impeachment hearings, just not calling them that yet.
Even if they are not successful, Democrats have a ready made campaign for 2020: Fuckface von Clownstick is a criminal agent of Russia, and the Republican party is complicit. Save America, vote for us.
This is Brody and Flynn. Flynn wanted to be as tall as Brody, but now Brody is much more susceptible to sneaky forehead chomps. 14/10 for both pic.twitter.com/Fiz2INOHPj
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) May 3, 2019
Finally listening to the Mueller Report on Audible.
re: #81 HappyWarrior
JK Simmons btw can play John Kelly in the movie too I just realized.
hey, kelly’s got a new gig:
John Kelly has joined the board of the company operating the largest shelter for unaccompanied migrant children, CBS News reports
re: #173 Jack Burton
1 vote short, with far less against him. I was just pointing out how low the bar for this actually is, while everyone is acting as though it’s not been reached yet. (What is required for some people? A Babylon 5 President Morgan-like turn the nukes on ourselves moment?)
That said, Pelosi is already doing impeachment hearings, just not calling them that yet.
Even if they are not successful, Democrats have a ready made campaign for 2020: Fuckface von Clownstick is a criminal agent of Russia, and the Republican party is complicit. Save America, vote for us.
To be fair to Johnson (and I think Johnson was wrong while the radical Republicans were right on reconstruction), the Tenure of Office Act was passed essentially to put him in a position to be impeached.
re: #177 HappyWarrior
Jeezus.
“Caliburn is the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services, which operates Homestead [Florida] and three other shelters for unaccompanied migrant children in Texas.”
re: #179 DangerMan
“Caliburn is the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services, which operates Homestead [Florida] and three other shelters for unaccompanied migrant children in Texas.”
Grift.
re: #171 Eclectic Cyborg
Cantor lost because he is Jewish. True story.
One of those times when an upding just doesn’t feel right, because it’s such a disgusting—but totally accurate—statement.
I would guess most non-Jewish Kentuckians, at least outside Covington and Lervill, feel that ‘every Jew really has dual citizenship with Israel” at best, just like Trumpatine. (At worst, they feel the Jews’ American citizenships are invalid).
I don’t get it. Out here in Colorado, I’m not sure that even 10% of the state population is legitimately-Antisemitic, and I’ve never actually seen one willing to admit it (and I was passing as an unconfirmed-Methodist boy teen in the 90s). Though maybe Colorado Springs evangelicalism is that way. The mainstreamers ain’t, though I will admit that my sister left Methodism as “too liberal” and at least 2 out of her 3 churches since have appropriated the Feast of Tabernacles, which I don’t know if that’s trying to usurp the Jewish G*d by following the laws of the Tanakh or not.
Still, she sees Jews as “just another American” herself, too, not as a fifth column.
And then you get to “true evangelicalism”, Talibengelical religion, where they despise Jews, but can no longer kill them, because “Israel exists and we need to deport them there where they can die to fuel the LORD’s return”. I almost have a harder time wrapping my head around that, and that that’s what most Christian Zionists were really doing by welcoming even the existence of Israel, than I do the crap the Nazis pulled.
Am I off-base in painting the Teavangelicals that way?
re: #181 Chrysicat
One of those times when an upding just doesn’t feel right, because it’s such a disgusting—but totally accurate—statement.
I would guess most non-Jewish Kentuckians, at least outside Covington and Lervill, feel that ‘every Jew really has dual citizenship with Israel” at best, just like Trumpatine. (At worst, they feel the Jews’ American citizenships are invalid.
I don’t get it. Out here in Colorado, I’m not sure that even 10% of the state population is legitimately-Antisemitic, and I’ve never actually seen one willing to admit it (and I was passing as an unconfirmed-Methodist boy teen in the 90s). Though maybe Colorado Springs evangelicalism is that way. The mainstreamers ain’t, though I will admit that my sister left Methodism as “too liberal” and at least 2 out of her 3 churches since have appropriated the Feast of Tabernacles, which I don’t know if that’s trying to usurp the Jewish G*d by following the laws of the Tanakh or not.
Still, she sees Jews as “just another American” herself, too, not as a fifth column.
And then you get to “true evangelicalism”, Talibengelical religion, where they despise Jews, but can no longer kill them, because “Israel exists and we need to deport them there where they can die to fuel the LORD’s return”. I almost have a harder time wrapping my head around that, and that that’s what most Christian Zionists were really doing by welcoming even the existence of Israel, than I do the crap the Nazis pulled.
Am I off-base in painting the Teavangelicals that way?
I think you got them. Evangelicals will talk about how they support Israel but also use Antisemitic tropes.
re: #178 KGxvi
To be fair to Johnson (and I think Johnson was wrong while the radical Republicans were right on reconstruction), the Tenure of Office Act was passed essentially to put him in a position to be impeached.
The bottom line is that Congress can impeach the President for anything it damn well pleases, and IIRC that’s pretty much how the founders hoped it would be — the President faithfully executing laws as passed by Congress under perpetual threat of removal from office.
The imperial presidency that we have would have horrified the founders (probably even Hamilton himself), since it is now clear that political inertia is the only real check on the president’s power (at least if he is a Republican).
re: #181 Chrysicat
One of those times when an upding just doesn’t feel right, because it’s such a disgusting—but totally accurate—statement.
I would guess most non-Jewish Kentuckians, at least outside Covington and Lervill, feel that ‘every Jew really has dual citizenship with Israel” at best, just like Trumpatine. (At worst, they feel the Jews’ American citizenships are invalid).
How on earth do you go from Cantor losing in Virginia because he’s Jewish to making such a blanket (and completely baseless) statement about Kentuckians?
also, I’m trying to figure out what “Lervill” means.
re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
I believe by “Lerville” she is referring to Louisville, KY.
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
I believe by “Lerville” she is referring to Louisville, KY.
thought so, but don’t know why she seems to think Covington and Louisville are some sort of localized hotbeds of Judaism in Kentucky.
and still trying to figure out what Cantor has to do with any of it
John Kelly has joined the board of the company operating the largest shelter for unaccompanied migrant children, CBS News reports.https://t.co/zjRXN8lP1H
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 3, 2019
re: #176 DangerMan
hey, kelly’s got a new gig:
re: #157 A Three Hour Tour
That 18% approval poll for McConnell in Kentucky crossed my Facebook dash a few days back. I shared it without checking it out. Turned out that it was from 2017.
Should be lower now. //
re: #173 Jack Burton
(What is required for some people? A Babylon 5 President Morgan-like turn the nukes on ourselves moment?)
President Clark - where ISN was gushing over Clark’s “widely successful” martial law….
re: #107 gocart mozart
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Why did you wear a diaper to own the libs? Why do you think it’s OK for you to wear a diaper to own the libs and not OK for the libs to laugh at you for wearing a diaper to own the libs? pic.twitter.com/hGnPFfWp7u
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 3, 2019
re: #192 gocart mozart
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What is he whining about now? He really doesn’t understand socialism at all. There’s a reason why his dumbass does what he does and didn’t get a West Point appointment because he’s too stupid.
re: #188 Patricia Kayden
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 3, 2019
re: #19 Interesting Times
Sarah Kendzior couldn’t disagree more:
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Unhelpful at best. Damn close to purity pony bullshit.
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
and still trying to figure out what Cantor has to do with any of it
Not wrt Kentucky, anyway. I thought Eric Cantor’s fate was usually framed as a “classic” case of the Establishment Party Stalwart getting sandbagged by his constituents in favor of the Extremist-but-Popular Insurgent.
That he was also virtually the last Jewish Republican in any serious national office was probably irrelevant.
re: #193 HappyWarrior
Bernie made money selling his book instead of giving it away free because socialist hypocrite or something.
They unfriended 6 million people, I heard.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 3, 2019
re: #197 gocart mozart
Bernie made money selling his book instead of giving it away free because socialist hypocrite or something.
God don’t make me defend Bernie but that’s so stupid.
re: #198 gocart mozart
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Yeah the Nazis banned people from a private social media platform. Stop cosplaying Holocaust victims for your own agenda. When I joined Facebook, old assholes like Beck couldn’t even join and no one was crying that was censorship let alone akin to the Holocaust.
As I was just saying: “act of war.” https://t.co/7HTNtGiQiZ
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 3, 2019
re: #196 Jay C
Not wrt Kentucky, anyway. I thought Eric Cantor’s fate was usually framed as a “classic” case of the Establishment Party Stalwart getting sandbagged by his constituents in favor of the Extremist-but-Popular Insurgent.
That he was also virtually the last Jewish Republican in any serious national office was probably irrelevant.
I would agree with that. I know Cantor’s district. It’s more classic right wing economic snobs tho they did elect a Democrat.
re: #201 jaunte
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re: #200 HappyWarrior
Yeah the Nazis banned people from a private social media platform. Stop cosplaying Holocaust victims for your own agenda. When I joined Facebook, old assholes like Beck couldn’t even join and no one was crying that was censorship let alone akin to the Holocaust.
Here’s my piece explaining that the @facebook ban is not the same as the holocaust.https://t.co/eWCtZZGNrS
— Molly “not super smart” Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 3, 2019
my piece explaining that the @facebook ban is not the same as the holocaust
We are truly living in absurd times.
re: #200 HappyWarrior
Yeah the Nazis banned people from a private social media platform. Stop cosplaying Holocaust victims for your own agenda. When I joined Facebook, old assholes like Beck couldn’t even join and no one was crying that was censorship let alone akin to the Holocaust.
That was before people figured out how to monetize social media beyond mere ads. Now, there’s real money to be made there
re: #202 HappyWarrior
I would agree with that. I know Cantor’s district. It’s more classic right wing economic snobs tho they did elect a Democrat.
Yeah, I was in Ashland at the time. Lots of Brat signs; only a few anti-Cantor signs.
Enjoyed a little storm action here in Spring, TX! pic.twitter.com/fqhhUdMjs3
— ♡ (@tweetsbybria) May 3, 2019
“…So how does climate change impact the water cycle?”
climaterealityproject.org
re: #206 jaunte
We are truly living in absurd times.
Whole new spin on “may you live in interesting times”
re: #206 jaunte
We are truly living in absurd times.
That this even needs to be written is infuriating. Even before they were murdered and interned, Europe’s Jews had their property stolen, civil rights taken, & countries invaded. It’d be nice if these people stopped the bs pretense of caring about Jews because they clearly don’t as they make a mockery of a genocide.
re: #207 KGxvi
That was before people figured out how to monetize social media beyond mere ads. Now, there’s real money to be made there
True. I miss that FB. It was just a way to stay in touch with friends at other schools sigh.
re: #196 Jay C
Not wrt Kentucky, anyway. I thought Eric Cantor’s fate was usually framed as a “classic” case of the Establishment Party Stalwart getting sandbagged by his constituents in favor of the Extremist-but-Popular Insurgent.
That he was also virtually the last Jewish Republican in any serious national office was probably irrelevant.
I think another aspect was Cantor’s belief that he was safe and didn’t have to work much for re-election.
re: #208 Barefoot Grin
Yeah, I was in Ashland at the time. Lots of Brat signs; only a few anti-Cantor signs.
Yeah I remember now, you’ve met Brat iirc. Weird guy with his Randian Calvinism.
Wait, wait, wait, so people who say that the Holocaust never happened also say that being banned from social media for saying the Holocaust never happened is the same as the Holocaust?
*HEAD EXPLODES*— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 3, 2019
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think another aspect was Cantor’s belief that he was safe and didn’t have to work much for re-election.
What did Crowley in favor of AOC in NYC.
Those are her old kidneys. The new ones haven’t been displayed yet.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) May 3, 2019
Csntor’s old district is a little like mine but not as diverse, less federal workers, & more old South in culture.
Misled?
Nah. Where I am from, we call that lying. https://t.co/JP3P7Z4psH— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) May 3, 2019
The interesting thing to me about the Mueller Report so far is the cultural impact too.
the problems, as I understand it (and maybe I don’t), that Congress has to rely on DoJ to enforce things like “contempt” and other punishments. How likely is it that Barr will decide to enforce a contempt charge against himself?
NEWS: Nadler has made a new offer to AG Barr over the subpoena for the unredacted Mueller report and evidence. Nadler has given Barr a deadline of 9am Monday and says he will move to hold Barr in contempt if he won’t comply, w/ @mkraju https://t.co/8ZvXMAS6GZ
— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) May 3, 2019
Kamala Harris is demanding that the Justice Dept. Inspector General investigate whether the White House improperly ordered or pressured A.G. Barr to open investigations, following her exchange with Barr at the Senate Judiciary Cmte. hearing this week. pic.twitter.com/253ZIfFV6I
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 3, 2019
re: #221 Barefoot Grin
the problems, as I understand it (and maybe I don’t), that Congress has to rely on DoJ to enforce things like “contempt” and other punishments. How likely is it that Barr will decide to enforce a contempt charge against himself?
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There’s three ways to enforce contempt. The statutory process relies on the DOJ. The inherent power relies on the House Sargent at Arms to make the arrest. Then there’s also a civil process that involves the committee or chamber suing.
re: #221 Barefoot Grin
the problems, as I understand it (and maybe I don’t), that Congress has to rely on DoJ to enforce things like “contempt” and other punishments. How likely is it that Barr will decide to enforce a contempt charge against himself?
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Either house of Congress can vote to hold in contempt a witness who refuses to provide testimony or produce requested documents pursuant to a congressionally authorized subpoena. As set out in 2 U.S.C. § 194, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia has the “duty [] to bring the matter before the grand jury for its action.” Contempt of Congress, which is a federal misdemeanor, is punishable by a maximum $100,000 fine and a maximum one-year sentence in federal prison. But if the executive branch is not inclined to prosecute a contemnor (the contemnor is a person or entity who is guilty of contempt before a judicial or legislative body), Congress will have a difficult time implementing such a penalty. Congress can also file a lawsuit asking a judge to order the witness to provide the information, raising the additional possibility of imprisonment for contempt of court.
more at lawfareblog.com
re: #152 calochortus
I’m seeing approval ratings of 33-34% for him. But that’s not good either. For him anyway.
Of Republicans or of the entire populace?
The people “betrayed” here are the badly misled readers of pundits who were so desperate for Hillary Clinton to lose that they farcially read an anti-neocon agenda into Donald Trump’s militaristic gibberish
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) May 3, 2019
re: #137 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Most adorable Russian spy yet! washingtonpost.com
Somewhere the Russian Spy Whale comments commingle with the “O’Keefe Spy School” comments and I envisioned a dimwitten redneck whale masturbating instead of learning how to tail a harbor seal without being spotted.
And of course the poor whale doesn’t want to go back to Russia; a steady diet of vodka and creamed herring for dinner probably upset its poor whale tummy.
re: #173 Jack Burton
That said, Pelosi is already doing impeachment hearings, just not calling them that yet.
THIS.
This is why Trump is afraid of Pelosi. She’s tough as nails and she keeps her coalition together. Each week will bring another hearing. Each hearing will lead to the next. The noose will tighten.
This is the way that REAL prosecutors work, not soft man-babies like Wm. Barr. You just keep cranking the pressure up, bit by bit, and watching for the ultimate target to start to crack and act out. Trump has such a lack of impulse control, he will just keep lashing out and fueling the fire.
Each tweet - and there will be many of them - will add fuel to the fire.
Interesting thing about the Mueller Report. The role of the IRA in stirring up Confederate love.
re: #221 Barefoot Grin
the problems, as I understand it (and maybe I don’t), that Congress has to rely on DoJ to enforce things like “contempt” and other punishments. How likely is it that Barr will decide to enforce a contempt charge against himself?
Congress’s Inherent Contempt Power
The contempt of Congress statute is not Congress’s only tool when it comes to contempt. Since the early 1800s, the Supreme Court has recognized that Congress has its own inherent contempt power - the power to hold witnesses in contempt itself and even to lock them up. Although not specifically provided for in the Constitution, the Court has found that this inherent contempt power is essential to Congress’s ability to investigate and legislate effectively.When the inherent contempt power is invoked, the House or Senate directs the Sergeant-at-Arms to bring the individual before the bar of Congress to be tried. (Trials in Congress are not unheard of, of course; it wasn’t that long ago the Senate held the impeachment trial of President Clinton.) If found guilty of contempt, the witness may be incarcerated until he or she complies with the order in question or until the expiration of the current session of Congress.
The witness would have certain due process rights such as the right to counsel, to be advised of the nature of the charges, and to confront witnesses and compel them to appear. The witness could also resort to the courts, for example by seeking a writ of habeas corpus if wrongfully detained. If the dispute were over something like executive privilege, you’d expect the Executive branch to seek judicial intervention at the outset to head off the proceeding — but even then, at least Congress would get a judicial ruling on the privilege question, rather than being forced to rely simply on the Executive’s own interpretation.
According to a detailed study of Congress’s contempt power by the Congressional Research Service, this inherent contempt power has long been dormant. Congress has not sought to use it since 1935, perhaps because it is too unwieldy and time-consuming or is politically unpalatable. From time to time, partisans on one side or another argue that Congress should dust off this power and start arresting witnesses for contempt on its own rather than relying on the statutory process of a referral to the U.S. Attorney.
In some ways the inherent contempt power would better further the goals of Congress seeking to investigate a particular issue. The witness detained to coerce compliance with a subpoena may ultimately turn over documents or testify in order to purge themselves of contempt and be released. A witness prosecuted for contempt by the U.S. Attorney, on the other hand, may end up with a criminal charge but that still does not get Congress the information it originally sought. The inherent contempt power of Congress, like that of a court, may help it to coerce a recalcitrant witness to comply with its demands.
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think another aspect was Cantor’s belief that he was safe and didn’t have to work much for re-election.
My original point, inartfully expressed, was that the low approval ratings for McConnell don’t necessarily portend a victory for justice or truth, but possible a victory for someone even more malevolent than he is. Of course, now that he’s brought home the bacon to Kentucky by having a large investment from a Russian oligarch, he’s probably gold in the state.
Caramel pecan coffee cake pic.twitter.com/tzAkA4RkRf
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 3, 2019
re: #19 Interesting Times
Sarah Kendzior couldn’t disagree more:
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I finally realized what I dislike about this take: “FDR was weak on port security for failing to stop the attack on Pearl Harbor.”
re: #239 Patricia Kayden
Hopefully she’ll be VP after November 2020.
I think she can be the nominee. I’m not sold on Biden as the nominee yet.
re: #145 KGxvi
According to this poll, he’s only at 51/36 approval. Trump meanwhile is 43/46 in South Carolina, which seems… crazy.
And more fun, the guys on PSA mentioned yesterday that apparently McConnell has an 18% approval rating in Kentucky. I can’t find the poll, but if that’s true, that seems… not good for him.
If trumps unpopular in SC it’s only because he isn’t machine gunning the asylum seekers
GOP strategy for 2020: hope no one points out that the proper term for what Republicans call a “socialist” is “social democrat,” a term meaning something *completely* different from socialist to any person who’s ever been to school https://t.co/ovZd3hAVgP
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) May 3, 2019
re: #243 Patricia Kayden
Yeah, but we need a majority of the voters.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) May 3, 2019
re: #243 Patricia Kayden
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Lol. You’re a joke, Mike. Btw Trump has actually done some stuff that could be called socialist but you’re too stupid to know that since you’re too busy trying to avoid women who aren’t Mother.
I’m putting this in a spoiler tag because it’s kinda weird and you can’t “unsee” it. (Why Sarah Sanders should never show her knees)
Whoa, what’s that on her knee?#SarahSanders #TheResistance #MAGA #Trump #Resist #ImpeachTrump #TrumpObstructed pic.twitter.com/o77dymHNfC
— Fredon Moniteau (@FMoniteau) May 3, 2019
re: #246 The Vicious Babushka
I’m putting this in a spoiler tag because it’s kinda weird and you can’t “unsee” it.
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Oh my eyes!
How long will it take adult content to make it back to Tumblr after their BS conservaderp CEO banned it?
Verizon is seeking to sell Tumblr. Pornhub is looking to buy it.
re: #248 Anymouse 🌹
There’s definitely some poetic justice there.
re: #221 Barefoot Grin
the problems, as I understand it (and maybe I don’t), that Congress has to rely on DoJ to enforce things like “contempt” and other punishments. How likely is it that Barr will decide to enforce a contempt charge against himself?
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I’ll be damned if I can find it today, but while reading someone’s twitter account last night, I saw that there’s a way to end-run Barr’s control of contempt citations. To the best of my memory, it goes like this - if Nadler can get a circuit judge to sign on, then that judge can appoint his own prosecutor to go after Barr.
Imma have to go looking for that tweet. Wish I could remember on which of the 30 or so Twitter accounts I have bookmarked on my Kindle it appeared on. Needle, meet haystack.
Oh, godDAMMIT. DARKWING FUCKING DUCK (or at least his voice) just got #MeToo‘d, and it’s probably worse than anyone short of Epstein! #Idontwanttoliveonthisplanetanymore
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 3, 2019
re: #188 Patricia Kayden
Removing all doubt about his intentions and being a bigot/enabling bigotry. Profiting from separating kids from their parents. https://t.co/uj5pSJ73hy
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 3, 2019
re: #253 lawhawk
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He’s a scumbag. Rep Wilson was right about him on so many levels.
Jack Dorsey would be living in a cardboard box under a highway overpass within a week. https://t.co/QVJmXf85rG
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 3, 2019
Oh boy. Bill de Blasio says he’s going to run now. Another white guy who figures if a fuck nugget like Trump can win, he’s got a shot. pic.twitter.com/FIqDjAQMmj
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 3, 2019
re: #253 lawhawk
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wow what are the fuckin odds this would happen https://t.co/Y5DUuiNuzN
— darth™ (@darth) May 3, 2019
It’s been clear since he was a li’l bitty kitten that Storm is a fuck-up. He’s a big just-barrel-thru-it kid with limited mental agility, quite the opposite of his sister who is the definition of grace, smarts and elegance. A friend calls him a “galoot”, appropriately.
What I realized today is that not only is he a fuck-up, he’s a carrier, like the Typhoid Mary of Fuck-Ups. I was just fixin Chicken Cordon Bleu and had a box of toothpicks on the counter. Here comes Storm and I’m like “I KNOW he’s gonna knock this box of toothpicks flying” so I grab for them before he gets there and… I knock the box of toothpicks flying. Last weekend I had a guest who, likewise, saw Storm coming at high velocity so he tries to get his glass of wine outa the way and… yeah, he knocked it over. This happens a lot.
Yell at the cat and he’s like “Wut? I didn’t do it. You did it. Why you yell at me?” He’s got a valid point. As Twitter darth would say “Storm is INNOCENT!”
This would be a good time to share with the American people what the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the president has found. https://t.co/sq9NNMtgK7
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) May 3, 2019
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
Among Democrats in the 2020 primary, they chose Biden over Sanders by a 2:1 margin - 34% to 17% (Table 126). Who has best chance of beating Trump? Biden, again by a wide margin 40 to 14 over Sanders (Table 129).
So much for Sanders being a frontrunner, let alone the chosen one.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 3, 2019
The current participants are really Biden and everyone else a distant second at the moment.
Biden more than doubles Sanders’ showing. Harris, Warren, Beto, are all well behind.
To me, the big outcomes from this poll reveal that Trump’s hopes that the economy will save his ass aren’t likely. People already separate his performance from that of the economy.
And as we enter the summer season, it’s not going to get better for Trump. Hearings and more wrongdoing will be revealed. Impeachment talk will grow louder. Barr’s actions will become a direct focus for his removal as well. Slate ran a piece about the Barr - Nadler dustup, and I think that Nadler’s actions are moving us towards impeachment because to get the full report and Mueller’s testimony the best and only way to break through Barr’s nonsense is to declare that Trump’s impeachment is on the table and to identify specific crimes, we need to look at the report that was authored to investigate the matter.
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He and Bennet are entering too late. Biden can pull it off because he’s Biden. These two are going to be lucky to get 0%.
re: #258 allegro
sorry (not sorry) I am laffing so hard because it’s the same thing that happens here EVERY FREAKING DAY.
At last Storm hasn’t broken your arm like Growler did to me (little miss picture of elegant innocence that she shows to the outside world…)
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Running for President” is not always about actually running for President.
For a politician, such a maneuver allows one to set up a campaign, that can take donations (and give them to other candidates.)
And it makes for opportunities for free advertising, as media of all sorts propagates a person’s name, etc.
re: #261 Belafon
He and Bennet are entering too late. Biden can pull it off because he’s Biden. These two are going to be lucky to get 0%.
It’s ridiculous. I’m hoping the field will be narrowed by the time the primaries begin.
A willingness to dry hump the American flag is not the proper measure of patriotism
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 3, 2019
re: #263 freetoken
“Running for President” is not always about actually running for President.
For a politician, such a maneuver allows one to set up a campaign, that can take donations (and give them to other candidates.)
And it makes for opportunities for free advertising, as media of all sorts propagates a person’s name, etc.
much like Mayor Pete…he’s running for something else because President is not one of his reliable potential outcomes
re: #263 freetoken
And money can sometimes get reused for legal defense funds…
This is a not overrated purpose.
President Trump welcomed Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini of the Slovak Republic for his first visit in the Oval Office today! pic.twitter.com/c2xxw22rf1
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 3, 2019
a bit of arm yanking handshake going on as usual
Heck, I should “run for President”.
Doing so would probably provide for a better retirement income than I now have.
For my campaign slogan I’d like to use “The rent is too damn high”… but that was already taken.
I know… I’ll use
The Rent Is Still Too Damn High.
Zero lessons have been learned from 2016:
1. Mainstream outlet credulously accepts Trump conspiracy about opponent
2. Trump propaganda machine uses story to spread the conspiracy on social media and through digital ads
3. Voters believe it, ignoring subsequent fact checks https://t.co/2QNuvIQTaI— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 3, 2019
re: #272 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
Man was I happy to see the Epoch Times disappear from the free newspaper bins around here. What a pile of propaganda that is.
Mark Halperin is the Chris Cillizza of Chuck Todds.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 3, 2019
“And the area is more like a cross between a trail run and a hike than a normal neighbourhood walk, particularly since there are no sidewalks and only our street is even paved. And the shortest round-trip is 1.8 miles.”
Really hoping that’s the only time I have to do that.— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 3, 2019
I have no idea what this means. I probably should have only had one gummy.
I’ll take this a sign. It’s happening. (thank you!) https://t.co/1tUl8BZFfD
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 3, 2019
JFC
The International Association of Firefighters Union is rebelling on their very foolish leader. Perhaps they will vote him out of office. He doesn’t get it! https://t.co/NmaasMxOLE pic.twitter.com/7tMG5NtvwO
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2019
I am continuing to monitor the censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS on social media platforms. This is the United States of America — and we have what’s known as FREEDOM OF SPEECH! We are monitoring and watching, closely!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2019
re: #270 freetoken
For my campaign slogan I’d like to use “The rent is too damn high”… but that was already taken.
I know… I’ll use
I’m getting too old for this shit.
We kicked the Nazis’ asses once. We can do it again.
Freetoken 2020 - Ridding DC of the scum and villainy.
re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To
OT. (boring work related)
Do any of my my fellow lizards have any contacts at Amazon’s Seller Central? I’m trying to sign my company up to sell our products (we sell pillows). Application keeps getting rejected by robots (this is not an exaggeration, auto replies that make little sense). The used to have a phone number, but took it down. Not much info is online except that everything has to be in the correct format.
Any help would be appreciated.
Example communication below.
I don’t know if someone else has helped you, but I do know someone there, and forwarded your query to her. I’ll let you know by private message if I get a usable response.
Mueller:
“THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT INTERFERED IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN SWEEPING AND SYSTEMATIC FASHION”
(emphasis mine) https://t.co/37lADOC9pB— David S. Joachim (@davidjoachim) May 3, 2019
re: #281 HappyWarrior
How many of these firefighters are Russian?
how many are actual firefighter union members?
Did you feel the space-time
in which you sit
oscillate
just a little bit?
The false alarm rate for our new #GravitationalWaves candidate is about once every 19 years. And on the eve of #StarWarsDay it’s looks like #S190503bf happened “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”, roughly about 1.4 billion light years distant! #O3ishere 3/3 pic.twitter.com/ukzXW7fIsF
— LIGO (@LIGO) May 3, 2019
Ummm.
It never went away in the Western US (or apparently Mongolia), but yeah, now it’s back in Europe thanks to these ya-yas.— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 3, 2019
re: #283 freetoken
Did you feel the space-time
in which you sit
oscillate
just a little bit?
Burma Shave.
re: #278 lawhawk
I’m getting too old for this shit.
We kicked the Nazis’ asses once. We can do it again.
Freetoken 2020 - Ridding DC of the scum and villainy.
Actually “we” didn’t do anything of the kind. Dead people did it. “We” just post things on the internet.
re: #289 Skip Intro
Actually “we” didn’t do anything of the kind. Dead people did it. “We” just post things on the internet.
“Was that me and you, Tommy? We saved the French? Jesus. I know I blacked out a little after that fourth shot of Jägermeister last night, but I don’t remember… I know we were going through the Wendy’s drive-thru to get one of them ‘Freshetta’ sandwiches that looked so alluring on the commercial, but then we ordered it and realized we had no money, and we had to ditch out before the second window, and those douche-bags in line behind us with the bass music probably got our order and we laughed about that. But I don’t remember saving the French at all. I went through the last ten calls on my cell phone and there’s nothing from the French, looking for muscle on a project. I checked my pants; there’s no mud stains on the knees from when we were garroting Krauts in the trenches at Verdun. I think *we* didn’t do anything but watch sports bloopers while we got hammered. I think *we* should shut the fuck up.” -Doug Stanhope
re: #290 lawhawk
Royal we.
The Germans didn’t overthrow the nazis and we are facing a man who has weaponized government and will use it to prevent anything even approaching a fair election. His call today to Putin was the last straw. When the rule of law is gone, what’s left?
So who is Steven Cox, the only declared candidate against McConnell in KY? Instead of every Dem running for president, maybe they should be targeting the lower offices where they might have a chance of winning and doing something positive.
I eagerly await the inevitable explanations from Republican apologists and enablers about why the President told Putin that he doesn’t accept the Mueller Report, and why he won’t let McGahn testify.
If you think I’m questioning anyone’s patriotism, let me just assure you: I am.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 3, 2019
JFC
The wonderful Diamond and Silk have been treated so horribly by Facebook. They work so hard and what has been done to them is very sad - and we’re looking into. It’s getting worse and worse for Conservatives on social media!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2019
re: #293 Skip Intro
So who is Steven Cox, the only declared candidate against McConnell in KY? Instead of every Dem running for president, maybe they should be targeting the lower offices where they might have a chance of winning and doing something positive.
I thought Amy McGrath had or was at least in the process of declaring. I agree though. There’s a lot of candidates running for President that should be running for the Senate, Governor, or even the House.
re: #295 The Vicious Babushka
JFC
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re: #295 The Vicious Babushka
Work? Trump has never worked an honest day in his life. Even for a synthesis of gross incompetence like Trump, it is singularly inappropriate for him to comment on other people either ‘working’ or ‘not working’.
Trump, in Oval, describes his phone call with Putin.
“He is not looking at all to get involved in Venezuela” other than wanting a positive outcome, Trump says.— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) May 3, 2019
The Venezuelan people are fighting for the triumph of true democracy and the rule of law.
The real “coup” in Venezuela is Cuba and Russia’s support for a violent Maduro dictatorship with no legitimate claim to power.
Here are the facts: https://t.co/JWM389zHWn— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 2, 2019
re: #293 Skip Intro
So who is Steven Cox, the only declared candidate against McConnell in KY? Instead of every Dem running for president, maybe they should be targeting the lower offices where they might have a chance of winning and doing something positive.
Amy McGrath is a Dem running and she has a really good chance to kick Mitch’s ass.
re: #299 HappyWarrior
Well Hillary Clinton once talked to a Russian. //
And not only talked to them, but sold them all the uranium in the country! For a donation to the crooked Clinton Foundation! And used the money to murder her opponents! And cover up eighty million stolen Top Secret emails which she coded into Anthony Weiner’s dick pics!! LOCK HER UP!!!1!!!!111!!!!
re: #301 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
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Reminds me of what he did with Otto and North Korea insisted that Kim had nothing to do with what was going on. Now he’s saying he doesn’t think Vlad is why Russia supports Maudro’s dictatorship.
re: #303 Jay C
And not only talked to them, but sold them all the uranium in the country! For a donation to the crooked Clinton Foundation! And used the money to murder her opponents! And cover up eighty million stolen Top Secret emails which she coded into Anthony Weiner’s dick pics!! LOCK HER UP!!!1!!!!111!!!!
DISCLAIMER: May not have actually happened.
re: #295 The Vicious Babushka
I actually researched this extensively and you’ll be shocked to learn that this is absolutely false. Diamond and Silk are generally given more favorable treatment on Facebook than other publishers. https://t.co/KWCuPMf1xd https://t.co/8F65LpG3oY
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 3, 2019
victimhood
And now, the president* of the US flat out promoting hateful far right conspiracy-spewing creepazoids like these two dirtbags.
He’s getting worse, not even trying to keep up a pretense now. pic.twitter.com/eTGuPWSI21— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2019
re: #307 Charles Johnson
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Wait, wait he just said Woods and Watson were “thinkers”? But yeah those two are genuinely nuts. I didn’t know Woods was one of the ones they banned. I guess they realized they had to do something about the has been threatening people.
CONSERVATIVE THINKERS.
The chemtrails Alex Jones sidekick is a “conservative thinker.”
Well, I guess he pretty much is, these days.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2019
re: #273 EPR-radar
Man was I happy to see the Epoch Times disappear from the free newspaper bins around here. What a pile of propaganda that is.
ALL this shit flows together. Epoch Times dropped a bunch of money earlier this year to promote itself in Talkers, the trade publication all your favorite Rush/Hannity local clones swear by. For months, it’s been full of ads offering Epoch Times reporters as talk show guests, and there was this puff piece a while back…
So surprised to see Conservative thinkers like James Woods banned from Twitter, and Paul Watson banned from Facebook! https://t.co/eHX3Z5CMXb
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2019
re: #311 gocart mozart
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Maybe because he threatens and harasses people. If they were banning them just because they were conservatives, every hack on FNC would have lost their account. It really is funny as hell that conservatives like Woods and Watson think they can harass all the people they want and there to be no consequences because “free peach!”
update: Hoffman’s been serving on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board since March 2019.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 3, 2019
re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth
Amy McGrath is a Dem running and she has a really good chance to kick Mitch’s ass.
She’s a potential candidate. I don’t see where she’s declared.
re: #313 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
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I’m awaiting the appointment of A. Hungry Foxx to be in charge of the nation’s henhouses.
And James Woods is NOT BANNED FROM TWITTER.
I feel like I just crossed over into the Twilight Zone below the regular Twilight Zone we all live in now.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 3, 2019
re: #209 jaunte
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“…So how does climate change impact the water cycle?”
climaterealityproject.org
We are getting absolutely freight-trained here in Austin right now:
You and James have a lot in commonhttps://t.co/qDjoWYWyyF
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 3, 2019
re: #313 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
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And how many times between 2015 and 2016 did the GOP pass around baseless rumors about the Clinton investigation they’d heard on Faux News, many of those rumors having sprung from even less reputable far-right “sources”?
re: #316 Charles Johnson
[I feel like I just crossed over into the Twilight Zone below the regular Twilight Zone we all live in now.]
It’s Twilight Zones all the way down.
re: #319 Targetpractice
And how many times between 2015 and 2016 did the GOP pass around baseless rumors about the Clinton investigation they’d heard on Faux News, many of those rumors having sprung from even less reputable far-right “sources”?
The loop on Fox was Cavuto asking the question, the morning crew the next day talking about how questions were being asked, and by the afternoon it was “news.”
re: #322 Belafon
The loop on Fox was Cavuto asking the question, the morning crew the next day talking about how questions were being asked, and by the afternoon it was “news.”
With Donny tweeting the next morning “Some people are saying…”
Misplaced #newknees #yellowrumpedwarbler pic.twitter.com/vS9qn12u2D
— False Knees (@FalseKnees) May 4, 2019
re: #295 The Vicious Babushka
JFC
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Trump won’t talk to Putin about not interfering in future American elections but he will tweet about Diamond and Silk and their troubles with Facebook.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 3, 2019
re: #320 wrenchwench
E.g., a possible first contact with travelers from parallel dimensions.
Visitors: “How have the past few presidential elections gone for Republicans?”
Us: “Two elections for Nixon”
Visitors: “Ugh.”
Us: “Two terms for Reagan”
Visitors: “Oh dear.”
Us: “Two terms for W Bush”
Visitors: “We’ve ended up in one of those time lines.”
Us: Trump election in 2016
Visitors: Run screaming back to their space ship like a Looney Tunes short.
re: #325 Stanley Sea
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There’s a pattern there. Just like he will call American journalists derogatory names but he won’t ever say anything remotely critical about Vlad.
re: #325 Stanley Sea
Of course. The only thing Trump and the Republicans want to do about Russian interference in the 2020 election is to have more of it.
Even Trump knows you can’t say that out loud.
So at the end of the week, we’ve gone from “Democrats need to accept the findings of the Mueller Report and move on!” to “The Report is total bullshit, it was an illegal investigation to start with, and Robert Mueller is still a partisan hack!”
Guitar porn.
Her name is Felicia. @prsguitars #myPRS pic.twitter.com/dgX4DqwqY8
— Umphrey’s McGee (@umphreysmcgee) May 3, 2019
— Umphrey’s McGee (@umphreysmcgee) May 3, 2019
re: #317 austin_blue
We are getting absolutely freight-trained here in Austin right now:
Stay safe.
Here it’s sunny and 66°F, and the remainder of the snow is still melting.
re: #330 teleskiguy
Guitar porn.
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Those are nice guitars. I’ve had three PRS over the years, always top-notch build quality.
re: #331 Anymouse 🌹
Stay safe.
Here it’s sunny and 66°F, and the remainder of the snow is still melting.
Thanks. We are on high ground betwixt two urban creeks. West Bouldin Creek is out of its banks and crashing over the Barton Springs Road bridge. Quite the sight.
re: #332 makeitstop
Those are nice guitars. I’ve had three PRS over the years, always top-notch build quality.
My father has a PRS. My father has *a lot* of guitars. And I get them when he croaks, it’s in the will.
being a female bartender in NYC = she’s heard it ALL before from abusive men
— Vivian (@suchnerve) May 4, 2019
jeebus
As the great people of IA, IL, & MO continue to confront the devastating flooding, know we are here for you and ready to help! My team remains in close contact with @IAGovernor, @GovParsonMO, @GovPritzker, and the local officials managing the impacts of the destructive flooding.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2019
02:00 am EDT
Welcome to launch day! We are currently targeting no earlier than 06:00 UTC / 18:00 NZT for today’s launch of the STP-27RD mission from Launch Complex 1. Learn more about the mission here: https://t.co/82Sf4VOa9v pic.twitter.com/MB3QSolAcp
— Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) May 3, 2019
And, a little later, this
All systems are currently go and weather is 70% favorable for launch of Dragon’s seventeenth resupply mission on May 4 at 2:48 a.m. EDT, 6:48 UTC.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 3, 2019
O_o
WATCH: President Trump says President Putin “sort of smiled” when they discussed the Mueller report’s findings about Russian interference in the US election. https://t.co/dFbdyebWNO pic.twitter.com/dWxeT3AdBa
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 3, 2019
From a source at Twitter: Woods was told by Twitter all he needs to do for his account to be restored is delete the tweet that broke their rules.
The tweet in question had the hashtag #HangThemAll in it, by the way. https://t.co/mc3FJpAGNl— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 4, 2019
re: #334 teleskiguy
My father has a PRS. My father has *a lot* of guitars. And I get them when he croaks, it’s in the will.
God bless the guitar collectors. :)
Why is everything so goddamned crazy in this country now?
I know I know, not the first time I’ve asked. But why is it?
OK, I’ll stop now. As soon as I get a good answer.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 4, 2019
re: #339 teleskiguy
I’m on 7 day right now. Did he remove the tweet?
re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
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Yeah because he knows what he did and he knows you won’t do anything to stop it because you don’t care as long as it benefits you.
re: #341 Charles Johnson
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We elected an unqualified moron President over a qualified intelligent woman.
re: #341 Charles Johnson
It’s getting worse. Wait till next year
re: #341 Charles Johnson
To try and answer this honestly, it’s crazy because a lot of people have worked for a long time to create a perfect conservative utopia. It’s been a number of small things over the years, all of it leading up to today. It’s crazy because the crazy people have been playing the long game while the sane and rational folks have been assuming that they could deal with the crazy and show them that they were crazy if the time ever came. The time is here, we’ve shown them they’re crazy, and their response is, “NO U” and “Who cares, we won, besides, God”.
re: #342 Dave In Austin
*emerges from effluent pool*
Not sure. But scrolling through his feed, he’s obsessed with AOC, I mean, obsessed!
re: #344 HappyWarrior
Or, as someone said in the replies:
Because we finally have a president with the moral and intellectual capacity of the average American, and our institutions are totally unprepared to deal with this.
— Chris Protopapas (@CProtopapas) May 4, 2019
re: #345 Dave In Austin
It’s getting worse. Wait till next year
At this point, unless the DNC leadership get over their hang-ups over how the GOP will not vote to remove him and begin the impeachment process, I can’t see us getting through next year without an announcement that one or more candidates are “under investigation.”
re: #342 Dave In Austin
And don’t fuck with blue checks, they’re special and if you tell them how you really feel you get timeout.
re: #347 teleskiguy
I cussed at Susan Sarandon. They hit me within 5 seconds.
re: #347 teleskiguy
*emerges from effluent pool*
Not sure. But scrolling through his feed, he’s obsessed with AOC, I mean, obsessed!
See a lot of that on the far right very white demographic. Dem women really frighten the MAGA men.
re: #353 Dave In Austin
I got a 12 hour timeout last week ‘cause I sent John Cornyn a string of obscenities. And that’s all it was, random cuss words.
Pretty sure the one week thing is the only time that happens. You violate again you’re gonna get suspended.
re: #327 HappyWarrior
There’s a pattern there. Just like he will call American journalists derogatory names but he won’t ever say anything remotely critical about Vlad.
Same as Alex Jones, Greenwald, Rick Wiles etc.
re: #301 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
Why would Trump stand for democracy in Venezuela when he’s doing his best to stomp it out here?
Ah, yeah. Freedom!
re: #305 HappyWarrior
DISCLAIMER: May not have actually happened.
Who cares? We’re now high as kites on hate which is why we believe this!
All we care about is getting high on hate. It’s such a fucking rush, man,
re: #307 Charles Johnson
‘Conservative thinker’ Is an oxymoron.
re: #348 Belafon
Or, as someone said in the replies:
Because we finally have a president with the moral and intellectual capacity of the average American, and our institutions are totally unprepared to deal with this.
Think of how stupid the average person is. Now realize, half of everyone is stupider than that.
—George Carlin
re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
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