John Oliver Explores the Horror of Lethal Injections [VIDEO]
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John Oliver discusses the lethal injection process, which is definitely not as pleasant as talking about a squeaking frog.
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I’m super shocked that the presidents large adult son is anti-union. Lol. pic.twitter.com/ICQ7klDUcz
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 6, 2019
Official Team Trump has now turned Trump’s ‘tearful tough guy thanking him’ schtick into a meme.
re: #1 jaunte
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Official Team Trump has now turned Trump’s ‘tearful tough guy thanking him’ schtick into a meme.
You don’t know a thing about union members. Union members REJECTED your father. But yeah go ahead out of touch douchebag whine about union leaders representing what their members want.
As usual, the Trump tactic is to split, not to unify.
Maybe ot maybe not
Isn’t there some kind of emergency!!!!!! at the border that needed immediate attention?
Repurposing $ billlions. Build border wall at once?
re: #1 jaunte
Trump went out of his way to hire nonunion workers at every opportunity.
He stands accused of widespread use of undocumented workers - aka illegal aliens - to work at his golf resorts so he could maximize his profits and minimize his costs.
He repeatedly uses nonunion workers, going all the way back to the demolition of the Bonwit Teller building that made way to build his Trump tower in midtown.
He doesn’t care about unions. They’re props - and a cost to him.
re: #6 lawhawk
Trump went out of his way to hire nonunion workers at every opportunity.
He stands accused of widespread use of undocumented workers - aka illegal aliens - to work at his golf resorts so he could maximize his profits and minimize his costs.
He repeatedly uses nonunion workers, going all the way back to the demolition of the Bonwit Teller building that made way to build his Trump tower in midtown.
He doesn’t care about unions. They’re props - and a cost to him.
Yep and I think that’s what scares him and his son about Biden. Biden can talk on union issues and he can’t talk to Union workers without resorting to lying and patronizing them and they can see the contrast between him and Biden.
It’s like the president is a liar https://t.co/MQpJKLcFFS
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 6, 2019
In regards to lethal injection, even though in principle, I’m opposed to the death penalty (it’s not a deterrent to criminality and IMHO, it’s a relic of a more barbaric time) my question is instead of this fanciful cocktail of drugs, FFS, can’t they just administer a lethal OD of morphine? I confess I’m not sure as what the actual amount of morphine is necessary to induce cardiopulmonary failure, but I’m pretty sure there has to be a level that would be fatal within minutes to anyone.
That being said, I’m in favor of things like the “99-to-life” sentence for the most abhorrent criminals. And serial killers/mass murderers/spree killers (while monstrous) should be subjected to intensive psychological study in the hope that we can find out what it is that makes them do what they do.
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
In regards to lethal injection, even though in principle, I’m opposed to the death penalty (it’s not a deterrent to criminality and IMHO, it’s a relic of a more barbaric time) my question is instead of this fanciful cocktail of drugs, FFS, can’t they just administer a lethal OD of morphine? I confess I’m not sure as what the actual amount of morphine is necessary to induce cardiopulmonary failure, but I’m pretty sure there has to be a level that would be fatal within minutes to anyone.
That being said, I’m in favor of things like the “99-to-life” sentence for the most abhorrent criminals. And serial killers/mass murderers/spree killers (while monstrous) should be subjected to intensive psychological study in the hope that we can find out what it is that makes them do what they do.
Being anti death penalty doesn’t mean you think terrible crimes shouldn’t be punished. I would argue that any serial killer or rapist can’t be rehabilitated. I just don’t believe death is something the state should have the power to use on its citizenry..
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
In regards to lethal injection, even though in principle, I’m opposed to the death penalty (it’s not a deterrent to criminality and IMHO, it’s a relic of a more barbaric time) my question is instead of this fanciful cocktail of drugs, FFS, can’t they just administer a lethal OD of morphine? I confess I’m not sure as what the actual amount of morphine is necessary to induce cardiopulmonary failure, but I’m pretty sure there has to be a level that would be fatal within minutes to anyone.
That being said, I’m in favor of things like the “99-to-life” sentence for the most abhorrent criminals. And serial killers/mass murderers/spree killers (while monstrous) should be subjected to intensive psychological study in the hope that we can find out what it is that makes them do what they do.
I mentioned that to a medical person, and he told me morphine isn’t guaranteed to be lethal. News to me.
Maybe fentanyl?
@Doctrine_Man
Oh, the humanity… https://t.co/GYRARLAdwG— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) May 6, 2019
re: #11 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
I mentioned that to a medical person, and he told me morphine isn’t guaranteed to be lethal. News to me.
Maybe fentanyl?
That’s a surprise to me as well - I’m not a medical person either. I would’ve imagined that there would be a lethal dose of morphine.
New: Trump would have been charged with obstruction were he not president, hundreds of former federal prosecutors assert https://t.co/khzxXd3Kdu By @mattzap
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) May 6, 2019
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
is instead of this fanciful cocktail of drugs, FFS, can’t they just administer a lethal OD of morphine?
How about milk of amnesia? Worked on Michael Jackson….
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
In regards to lethal injection, even though in principle, I’m opposed to the death penalty (it’s not a deterrent to criminality and IMHO, it’s a relic of a more barbaric time) my question is instead of this fanciful cocktail of drugs, FFS, can’t they just administer a lethal OD of morphine? I confess I’m not sure as what the actual amount of morphine is necessary to induce cardiopulmonary failure, but I’m pretty sure there has to be a level that would be fatal within minutes to anyone.
That being said, I’m in favor of things like the “99-to-life” sentence for the most abhorrent criminals. And serial killers/mass murderers/spree killers (while monstrous) should be subjected to intensive psychological study in the hope that we can find out what it is that makes them do what they do.
He discusses it in the video - it’s no better. An opioid overdose is not like going to sleep.
He’s doing a great job pointing out why this is horrifying.
re: #16 Charles Johnson
He discusses it in the video - it’s no better. An opioid overdose is not like going to sleep.
IMHO, the death penalty just needs to be abolished. It serves no useful purpose at this point.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
Which is why he will fight even harder to not get thrown out.
re: #12 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
@thehill
WATCH: Crowd erupts into chants of “PowerPoint” after Yang pledges to use PowerPoint if he gives SOTU address hill.cm
everybody wants a catchy slogan, a cool logo, a cheer, to belong, to be on a winning team
none of them have a clue what’s important
politics aint powerpoint
re: #19 Dr Lizardo
IMHO, the death penalty just needs to be abolished. It serves no useful purpose at this point.
It is incredibly outdated.
In case you missed it… Today’s Word of the Day: STREETCH (v.) to strut, to walk haughtily; to walk or hike for exercise
— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) May 6, 2019
re: #21 DangerMan
everybody wants a catchy slogan, a cool logo, a cheer, to belong, to be on a winning team
none of them have a clue what’s important
politics aint powerpoint
The really cool candidates use Harvard Graphics.
re: #13 Dr Lizardo
That’s a surprise to me as well - I’m not a medical person either. I would’ve imagined that there would be a lethal dose of morphine.
I’m sure you’ll find one in the literature — apparently people differ enough that it’s not guaranteed.
re: #24 Decatur Deb
The really cool candidates use Harvard Graphics.
And the Republicans use MS Paint.
But they’ll have to have them all pulled out
After the anchor shuffle
(Apologies to George Harrison) https://t.co/iTUpzpz3ga— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 6, 2019
re: #22 HappyWarrior
It is incredibly outdated.
It has always been bad. It used to be acceptably bad. Oliver says, no longer, if it ever was.
There is nothing “new” about this. He is a grievance candidate. https://t.co/oQvNPRvyXu
— (((Fat Thor))) (@davitydave) May 6, 2019
re: #6 lawhawk
Trump went out of his way to hire nonunion workers at every opportunity.
He stands accused of widespread use of undocumented workers - aka illegal aliens - to work at his golf resorts so he could maximize his profits and minimize his costs.
He repeatedly uses nonunion workers, going all the way back to the demolition of the Bonwit Teller building that made way to build his Trump tower in midtown.
He doesn’t care about unions. They’re props - and a cost to him.
Standard Republican “principle” - relentlessly dump on unions by repetitive harping on “corrupt union bosses” while effusive praising the rank-and-file: when said r&f mindlessly cheerleads for RW boilerplate, that is…
Not even new with Trump, though as usual he makes everything worse…
re: #29 wrenchwench
It has always been bad. It used to be acceptably bad. Oliver says, no longer, if it ever was.
Yeah it always was awful.
re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth
In case you missed it… Today’s Word of the Day: STREETCH (v.) to strut, to walk haughtily; to walk or hike for exercise
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re: #14 Charles Johnson
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Signers incl “Donald Ayer, a former deputy attorney general in the George H.W. Bush Administration; John S.Martin, a former U.S. attorney and federal judge appointed to his posts by two Republican presidents; Paul Rosenzweig, who served as senior counsel to Kenneth W. Starr”+more
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) May 6, 2019
re: #24 Decatur Deb
The really cool candidates use Harvard Graphics.
the smart ones talk about what they’d put on the slides
re: #36 DangerMan
the smart ones talk about what they’d put on the slides
but they only have overhead projectors and transparencies.
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
but they only have overhead projectors and transparencies.
I still have parts of a Buhl epidiascope.
hahahahahahahaahaaaa
Jacob Wohl plans to hold a press conference on his Pete Buttigieg sexual assault smear on Wednesday pic.twitter.com/BS2R38PFBr
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) May 6, 2019
meanwhile in the totally unironic department, pe r AP
“The Trump administration plans to allow 30,000 more foreign workers temporarily into the United States for seasonal work through the end of September, a move that reflects how the booming economy has complicated President Trump’s efforts to restrict legal immigration,”
- how they gonna get em to leave? some kind of monitoring system? like they couldnt manage with children
- if things are that good, why not bring that 3-odd% unemployment down to totally historical levels (!!) with good old US workers?
My mom 1985: Video games are bad for you
Scientists 2019: Video game detects Alzheimer’s https://t.co/cZJDqZJsfE— Pinche-Pastor of Our 🚺of the🖕 (@Pinche_Pi) May 6, 2019
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
but they only have overhead projectors and transparencies.
and mimeograph handouts
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re: #43 DangerMan
and mimeograph handouts
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I believe those are actually spirit duplicator prints (yes, I have fond memories of those…)
Oh to hell with this.
Listen to me: If TRUMP’s policies, if Mitch McConnell’s policies, if war and bigotry, hate and walls, pollution and ruin, aren’t enough to get you to stand up and do your duty, then you deserve the world Republicans leave you.
You fucking deserve it. pic.twitter.com/W0E2VTGBqj— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 6, 2019
re: #43 DangerMan
and mimeograph handouts
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Love the smell of xylene in the morning.
re: #41 DangerMan
meanwhile in the totally unironic department, pe r AP
- how they gonna get em to leave? some kind of monitoring system? like they couldnt manage with children
- if things are that good, why not bring that 3-odd% unemployment down to totally historical levels (!!) with good old US workers?
i’ll tell you why
there are no jobs americans wont do. they just have a few ‘demands’
they want their full wages
they want their full overtime
and they want a reasonably safe work environment
thats why we import em
uh huh…
A lightning strike and full fuel tanks are the likely culprits for a fiery plane crash in Moscow, the pilot of the doomed aircraft told Russian media Sunday.https://t.co/6aTLktxOWy
— 700WLW (@700wlw) May 6, 2019
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I agree with this and I’m a Millennial. And frankly many Millennials didn’t want to listen to what HRC was actually proposing.
Jacob Wohl just does not fucking give up, does he?
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
I believe those are actually spirit duplicator prints (yes, I have fond memories of those…)
xerox, kleenex, ketchup, jello…
“dwayne elizondo mountain dew herbert camacho.” saved you a click. https://t.co/FvEtgSRKkU
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) May 6, 2019
re: #46 Decatur Deb
Love the smell of xylene in the morning.
i think we had one of those in the marching band
re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg
Jacob Wohl just does not fucking give up, does he?
He’s got a powerful benefactor I reckon.
re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth
hahahahahahahaahaaaa
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Confusingly, the Wohl/Burkman ultimatum deadline — Friday, May 7th, 2019 — is a day that doesn’t exist.
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) May 6, 2019
re: #10 HappyWarrior
Being anti death penalty doesn’t mean you think terrible crimes shouldn’t be punished. I would argue that any serial killer or rapist can’t be rehabilitated. I just don’t believe death is something the state should have the power to use on its citizenry..
As some of you all know, I go out and protest at a “church” where the leaders and attendees believe women should be executed for having abortions. I’ve had wearisome arguments about crime and punishment. Their line of thinking is: Murder is a crime > “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” * > a zygote, embryo, fetus is human > killing a human being is murder > murderers should be executed > women who get abortions are murdering human beings > therefore women who obtain abortions should be executed.
I can’t even get past point one with them because the whole “murder is a crime” statement is complex. And that’s before you get to how awful our legal system is and how the state shouldn’t be executing people anyway.
The “pastor” also believes rapists should be executed. I think rape is heinous, but given our crappy criminal legal system, should we be executing ANYONE? Nope.
Maybe for my next protest, which will be on June 3, I should have a sign asking how they want the executions of women who have abortions carried out. I’m kind of afraid of what kind of executions they have in mind. But if I can get the heinousness on video…
* They’re theonomists and believe Old Testament law should be the law of the land. Uh NOPE.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Michael Tracey is such an eejit
You can discount this but Ron Paul came in third in the 2012 GOP New Hampshire primary. There is no party registration required in NH. And there will likely be no contested GOP race. So libertarians, independents, and assorted others could easily vote for Tulsi
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 6, 2019
Lots of “libertarians” and former Ron Paul supporters ended up voting for Trump even though he denounced free trade and frequently evinced an aggressive hostility to civil liberties, so don’t tell me Tulsi is automatically disqualified by any “purity test” they may impose
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 6, 2019
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Michael Tracey is such an eejit
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Yeah Ron Paul’s influence is going to get Gabbard the Democratic primary. Keep on smoking that grass, Mike.
Ron Paul cape in third in the GOP primary so ergo Tulsi will win New Hampshire is stupid shit.
re: #61 HappyWarrior
Ron Paul cape in third in the GOP primary so ergo Tulsi will win New Hampshire is stupid shit.
He’s still suffering from the concussion he got from Waters.
thread:
This Day in Labor History: May 6, 1882. President Arthur signs the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first major law to come out of the American labor movement. Let’s talk about this horrifying racism and how white workers have prioritized whiteness over class politics, then and now. pic.twitter.com/w6bOVPw5SI
— Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) May 6, 2019
I miss the detailed read outs on leader to leader conversations put out by previous White Houses https://t.co/1lMrKF1mBK
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 6, 2019
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
thread:
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Something Sanders never talks about when he tells people to ignore “identity politics.”
Welcome to Twitter, @AstroMCollins! Just in time for #Apollo50!
You know him as the command module pilot on #Apollo11, but did you know Michael Collins was the director of the National Air and Space Museum when we opened in 1976? pic.twitter.com/dxj47oD5JY— National Air and Space Museum (@airandspace) May 6, 2019
That is that you need more than just pro worker policy, you need pro inclusion policy.
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
Future historians are going to have a hard time reporting on the specifics of this presidency.
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Did not know that. My grand aunt worked for NASA and knew all the astronauts from that era. Unfortunately she died when I was young so I never heard any first hand stories.
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
If the death penalty ever comes back to Canada which I pray it doesn’t, I want it done this way.
First, the job of executioner is filled by lottery. Every voter might someday receive a letter that reads, “On this day at this time you must be at this prison where you will kill this person.” Along with a card so the recipient can travel to the execution, obtain accommodation, and travel home.
Second, the method of execution is a 9mm hollow point in the back of the head.
You’d be surprised how many people who favour the death penalty would oppose it. With my method they might have to do their own killing, or kill someone they don’t think deserves it. Like an ammosexual having to execute Stephen Paddock. They’d be, “No! he was just using his 2nd Amendment Rights!”
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
[National Air and Space Museum]
Alamogordo, NM has an Air and Space Museum. But they keep putting stuff in it. They put a T Rex in there, but it’s just a model. so it doesn’t take up much Air, but it takes up a lot of Space.
re: #71 Romantic Heretic
If the death penalty ever comes back to Canada which I pray it doesn’t, I want it done this way.
First, the job of executioner is filled by lottery. Every voter might someday receive a letter that reads, “On this day at this time you must be at this prison where you will kill this person.” Along with a card so the recipient can travel to the execution, obtain accommodation, and travel from home.
Second, the method of execution is a 9mm hollow point in the back of the head.
You’d be surprised how many people who favour the death penalty would oppose it. With my method they might have to do their own killing, or kill someone they don’t think deserves it. Like an ammosexual having to execute Stephen Paddock. They’d be, “No! he was just using his 2nd Amendment Rights!”
I think Oliver made a great point. Lethal injection isn’t about being painless for the criminal, it’s about being comfortable for those watching.
something for the foodies here:
Were you fooled by these deceptive desserts? pic.twitter.com/KKH8aj91QE
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) May 6, 2019
re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg
Jacob Wohl just does not fucking give up, does he?
I wonder if this latest “press conference” is going to be a shitshow of no-show like his “Mueller rape charge” debacle?
mohr food…
Crispy-skinned pillows of happiness. Punch Ed potatoes by André Lima de Luca with @ValentineWarner’s killer chimichurri. I’ve had such a blast in Ireland this weekend: unforgettable food, fishing and fou rire. Thank you @MeatPeter for organising it. You are a true gent. #ireland pic.twitter.com/jL4VZQmCdG
— Del Sneddon (@WeeRascal) May 6, 2019
re: #75 Jay C
I wonder if this latest “press conference” is going to be a shitshow of no-show like his “Mueller rape charge” debacle?
Already got the date wrong so it’s a safe bet.
re: #69 jaunte
Future historians are going to have a hard time reporting on the specifics of this presidency.
I think it’s going to be easier than most, actually. For prior presidents, there was some nuance and grey areas that could be complicating factors. For this idiots it’s just “they were lying liars who lied all the fucking time… oh, and ETTD.”
re: #73 HappyWarrior
I think Oliver made a great point. Lethal injection isn’t about being painless for the criminal, it’s about being comfortable for those watching.
Yeah, people really don’t like being responsible for their actions.
Which is why I chose the method of execution. No denying what you did with a person’s brains all over the floor in front of you.
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
I believe those are actually spirit duplicator prints (yes, I have fond memories of those…)
I published 120 copies of a 100+ page “book” using that technology 1975. It was on monkey anatomy. What a job that was!
re: #80 Romantic Heretic
Yeah, people really don’t like being responsible for their actions.
Which is why I chose the method of execution. No denying what you did with a person’s brains all over the floor in front of you.
Yep. You got it.
In 2015, Alabama officials made it more difficult to obtain photo ID by closing driver’s license offices in every county in which 70% or more of the population is Black.
Fight for our rights tomorrow when the #ACLU100 stops in Montgomery. More info at https://t.co/dTII3INLgB pic.twitter.com/mF2boAGjmf— ACLU (@ACLU) May 6, 2019
re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s my wife ya’all!
re: #58 mmmirele
As some of you all know, I go out and protest at a “church” where the leaders and attendees believe women should be executed for having abortions. I’ve had wearisome arguments about crime and punishment. Their line of thinking is: Murder is a crime > “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” * > a zygote, embryo, fetus is human > killing a human being is murder > murderers should be executed > women who get abortions are murdering human beings > therefore women who obtain abortions should be executed.
I can’t even get past point one with them because the whole “murder is a crime” statement is complex. And that’s before you get to how awful our legal system is and how the state shouldn’t be executing people anyway.
The “pastor” also believes rapists should be executed. I think rape is heinous, but given our crappy criminal legal system, should we be executing ANYONE? Nope.
Maybe for my next protest, which will be on June 3, I should have a sign asking how they want the executions of women who have abortions carried out. I’m kind of afraid of what kind of executions they have in mind. But if I can get the heinousness on video…
* They’re theonomists and believe Old Testament law should be the law of the land. Uh NOPE.
im sure you werent being so exacting and you nailed it exactly where their argument falls to the ground (in the US)
while “a zygote, embryo, fetus is human” it is not ‘a human”, nor ‘a human being’. it is not a constitutionally protected singular human life (yes as you get closer to 9 months, it gets muddier)
if these people have moral concerns they should speak to someone who can help them come to terms with the reality of their having moral concerns over someone else’s legal behavior.
re: #84 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
That’s my wife ya’all!
How cool! The wings fooled me!
re: #85 DangerMan
(yes as you get closer to 9 months, it gets muddier)
Until the child is outside the womb, it’s still not a human as far as the law should be concerned.
*snerk*
Welcome to the world, young Fuck Off, Piers Morgan. https://t.co/ritlntCchq
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) May 6, 2019
re: #87 Belafon
Until the child is outside the womb, it’s still not a human as far as the law should be concerned.
outside of the womb and breathing, according to the Bible (for example, Job 33:4)
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
FFS, can’t they just administer a lethal OD of morphine? I confess I’m not sure as what the actual amount of morphine is necessary to induce cardiopulmonary failure, but I’m pretty sure there has to be a level that would be fatal within minutes to anyone.
People OD all the time. ALL. THE. TIME. Most of them not on purpose, just out of misjudging the dosage. It would be super-easy to do it on purpose.
re: #86 makeitstop
This is the cake she did for a big competition in florida. All edible. She got second, missed first by 2 points!
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re: #92 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
so amazing!
Here is a perfect example of the bravery I see in young ones every time I visit a children’s hospital. Think of her the next time you get annoyed in traffic or can’t find the remote, to put your problems in perspective. #HarrowingButHeartwarming https://t.co/bZCtsb3smZ
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) May 6, 2019
Gonna call it a day - up early for work tomorrow. Have fun, Lizards.
re: #97 allegro
Am I the only one who suspects that this wasn’t a mistake but rather the most brilliant product placement in the history of marketing?
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Well, it has got everyone talking, so there’s that.
That said though, there is no fucking way this was not on purpose; from the actors to the camera operators to the director, no one could have just missed that cup just sitting there. If it was a genuine goof, there’s a whole lot of people up and down the episode’s production who just didn’t do their jobs well right there.
re: #98 TedStriker
Well, it has got everyone talking, so there’s that.
That said though, there is no fucking way this was not on purpose; from the actors to the camera operators to the director, no one could have just missed that cup just sitting there. If it was a genuine goof, there’s a whole lot of people up and down the episode’s production who just didn’t do their jobs well right there.
Yeah, aren’t there continuity people whose job it is to study every detail so that multiple shots can be easily edited together? (I know nothing about this, just heard it somewhere.)
re: #97 allegro
Am I the only one who suspects that this wasn’t a mistake but rather the most brilliant product placement in the history of marketing?
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gotta be
because not one person caught it in post production, frame by frame editing, pre-screenings, etc
re: #99 Barefoot Grin
Yeah, aren’t there continuity people whose job it is to study every detail so that multiple shots can be easily edited together? (I know nothing about this, just heard it somewhere.)
Continuity errors are a fact of life in Hollywood, even in top-shelf productions like GoT, but glaring mistakes like this (if it was a mistake) that make it to the final cut can, depending on the egregiousness of the offense, often cost people their jobs and sully their reps badly.
re: #73 HappyWarrior
Can’t even watch someone dying in a video, so I really can’t fathom wanting to witness an execution.
On this day in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech at Grand Canyon asking the citizens to preserve it for future generations to see. (l) Roosevelt on white horse surrounded by crowd. (r) Roosevelt with AZ Gov. Brodie (far right) May 6, 1903 #Arizona -mq pic.twitter.com/TKjhmEyPSH
— Grand Canyon NPS (@GrandCanyonNPS) May 6, 2019
re: #102 plansbandc
Can’t even watch someone dying in a video, so I really can’t fathom wanting to witness an execution.
I’ve seen archive footage of the night Ted Bundy was executed. TBH I found a lot of what I saw ghoulish. Not quite Bundy himself monstrous but the whole atmosphere was creepy imo.
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
In regards to lethal injection, even though in principle, I’m opposed to the death penalty (it’s not a deterrent to criminality and IMHO, it’s a relic of a more barbaric time) my question is instead of this fanciful cocktail of drugs, FFS, can’t they just administer a lethal OD of morphine? I confess I’m not sure as what the actual amount of morphine is necessary to induce cardiopulmonary failure, but I’m pretty sure there has to be a level that would be fatal within minutes to anyone.
That being said, I’m in favor of things like the “99-to-life” sentence for the most abhorrent criminals. And serial killers/mass murderers/spree killers (while monstrous) should be subjected to intensive psychological study in the hope that we can find out what it is that makes them do what they do.
re: #71 Romantic Heretic
If the death penalty ever comes back to Canada which I pray it doesn’t, I want it done this way.
First, the job of executioner is filled by lottery. Every voter might someday receive a letter that reads, “On this day at this time you must be at this prison where you will kill this person.” Along with a card so the recipient can travel to the execution, obtain accommodation, and travel from home.
Second, the method of execution is a 9mm hollow point in the back of the head.
You’d be surprised how many people who favour the death penalty would oppose it. With my method they might have to do their own killing, or kill someone they don’t think deserves it. Like an ammosexual having to execute Stephen Paddock. They’d be, “No! he was just using his 2nd Amendment Rights!”
re: #73 HappyWarrior
I think Oliver made a great point. Lethal injection isn’t about being painless for the criminal, it’s about being comfortable for those watching.
George Carlin, patron saint of profane insightful comedy, had it right decades ago:
re: #92 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I remember when she was on the show a couple of years ago?
She is killing it!!!!
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
outside of the womb and breathing, according to the Bible (for example, Job 33:4)
Genesis 2:7 as well.
just in case this is NSFW:
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
Once again, @realDonaldTrump:
Puerto Rico has NOT gotten $91B in recovery aid. Just last week, your administration missed its deadline to release more than $8B in funds for Puerto Rico.
Democrats believe in meeting the needs of all disaster survivors.https://t.co/LkOnxnG0lw https://t.co/wav3Ijp7dw— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 6, 2019
Meanwhile in Montana…
Winter reigns. pic.twitter.com/8p0MXECpYy— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) May 6, 2019
re: #97 allegro
Am I the only one who suspects that this wasn’t a mistake but rather the most brilliant product placement in the history of marketing?
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I suspect the same.
There are many sets of eyes watching the set while scenes are filmed. If it gets past all of those eyes, you have the multiple sets of eyes in post production (and those of everyone who gets to give notes on the edits.)
I don’t watch the show, but unless what you posted is a single frame that flashes by, that cup is way too centered and unobstructed.
When mistakes like this are genuine, it is usually something off in a dim corner of the frame, or in a reflection, or something less immediately visible like a wire or cable, etc.
re: #98 TedStriker
Well, it has got everyone talking, so there’s that.
That said though, there is no fucking way this was not on purpose; from the actors to the camera operators to the director, no one could have just missed that cup just sitting there. If it was a genuine goof, there’s a whole lot of people up and down the episode’s production who just didn’t do their jobs well right there.
I mean, if the showrunners are mailing it in with respect to storytelling, why should anyone else care?
(/ like three-quarters at most)
I came into this season with lowered expectations - I feel like the further they get from the books, the worse the show has gotten. And it really does feel like they sort of checked out with how many corners they’ve cut recently.
It’s good that Trump Org. is acknowledging it kept a guy on the payroll whose job was to “muscle” and “shock” people. (Threatening journalists was among his responsibilities.) But does the company intend for this op-ed to be exculpatory in some way? https://t.co/OMHYT4xWyr
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) May 6, 2019
re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
Where’s your Global Warming now, libtard?
re: #99 Barefoot Grin
Yeah, aren’t there continuity people whose job it is to study every detail so that multiple shots can be easily edited together? (I know nothing about this, just heard it somewhere.)
Yes. They take photographs and notes, mostly to avoid things like a character’s makeup or wardrobe etc. changing when it wasn’t supposed to, etc.
2.8 billion fake accounts.
2.8 billion! https://t.co/eWLyN6hWNQ pic.twitter.com/XLpeNqJBEK— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) May 6, 2019
Is this a real question? https://t.co/Oiv1zkPmuW
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 6, 2019
So, the DOJ has responded to Nadler’s contempt citation by inviting him to ‘negotiate.’
Nope. Another cheap stall, just coincidentally scheduled for the same time as the vote on contempt.
If Nadler goes at all, it should be after the House votes to find Barr in contempt. Hardball these assholes.
Oh here’s the thread on why @lucymcbath won (not what the racist new @nra lady said): https://t.co/ar4VRPPPAS
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) May 6, 2019
I hate to be “that guy”—or a “guy” at all—but that’s Americanist revisionist history, largely because Parliament had already hamstrung the monarch to about the same degree as the 1787 Constitution would theoretically hamstring the president. Admittedly, it’s very OLD>>>
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 6, 2019
>>>but in practice, both houses were so opposed to that that the idea would never have come up until after the official declarations of war. As for Jefferson hanging everything on him, it was to scapegoat him because even then some of Congress thought that appeasing Parliament>>>
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 6, 2019
re: #114 Jebediah, RBG
I suspect the same.
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I don’t watch the show, but unless what you posted is a single frame that flashes by, that cup is way too centered and unobstructed.
[…]
Like the purloined letter?
Cute. Forgot the last tweet of the string.
Not to say that Louis XVI and Putin have anything in common except both trying to manipulate the top ranks of the American government to secure their country’s hegemony, though. I don’t know that you can hang moral equivalence on 250-year-old history.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 6, 2019
VACCINATION SAVES: advice from a New York almanac for 1808, published in the first decade that #vaccination was practiced in the United States. @nypl pic.twitter.com/jcMl42gdZl
— Joyce E. Chaplin (@JoyceChaplin1) May 6, 2019
re: #128 makeitstop
So, the DOJ jas responded to Nadler’s contempt citation by inviting him to ‘negotiate.’
Nope. Another cheap stall, just coincidentally scheduled for the same time as the vote on contempt.
If Nadler goes at all, it should be after the House votes to find Barr in contempt. Hardball these assholes.
This is the litigation equivalent of a party letting the other side know they’re preparing a motion for summary judgment only to have them ask for mediation with the intent of running out the clock on being able to file an MSJ. My approach: fuck that, file the MSJ; the fear of having to defend against an MSJ will make them more likely to settle.
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Her son’s murder was so senseless. I remember Jordan’s murderer tried to justify it by saying the loud music scared him. Such bs.
re: #116 KGxvi
I mean, if the showrunners are mailing it in with respect to storytelling, why should anyone else care?
(/ like three-quarters at most)
I came into this season with lowered expectations - I feel like the further they get from the books, the worse the show has gotten. And it really does feel like they sort of checked out with how many corners they’ve cut recently.
The last time a coffee cup showed up in game of thrones the character ended up losing the hand that held it.
re: #132 Chrysicat
Cute. Forgot the last tweet of the string.
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Spain too. The myth of tyrannical King George is way overblown. The issue was a foreign based Parliament making our laws without our say. Which makes the complaint that Obama was “anti colonial” all the more hilarious.
re: #116 KGxvi
My latest complaint with the GoT world is that a ballista was such a shocking development after a thousand (thousands?) of years of bows and crossbows.
re: #138 HappyWarrior
Spain too. The myth of tyrannical King George is way overblown. The issue was a foreign based Parliament making our laws without our say. Which makes the complaint that Obama was “anti colonial” all the more hilarious.
Well, yes, but Spain was doing it as much as a personal favour to their king’s cousin as out of any illusion that their star was going to start returning to the place it had been in prior to the War of the Succession.
I mean, they even knew that they’d be giving up a substantial portion of their Empire win or lose!
Note: obstruction charges with no charged underlying crime, just brought by AG William Barr’s Department of Justice. https://t.co/ghXbVGGkAH
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) May 6, 2019
re: #141 Chrysicat
Well, yes, but Spain was doing it as much as a personal favour to their king’s cousin as out of any illusion that their star was going to start returning to the place it had been in prior to the War of the Succession.
I mean, they even knew that they’d be giving up a substantial portion of their Empire win or lose!
True. Just pointing out another Absolute Monarch that helped us.
re: #139 jaunte
My latest complaint with the GoT world is that a ballista was such a shocking development after a thousand (thousands?) of years of bows and crossbows.
In the books, that’s actually how one of the original Targareyan dragons was killed during the reign of Aegon the Conqueror. Because Aegon couldn’t conquer Dorne, there was an ongoing conflict until one of his sister-wives and her dragon Meraxes was shot down with a scorpion.
re: #142 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The linguist should just say they didn’t like the investigation and that’s why they obstructed justice. I’m sure Barr would understand./:
re: #137 freetoken
You know that when we’ve gotten to the point where we have a “Pokemon region of your brain” that perhaps our infatuation with gaming has gone a bit far:
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It’s been downhill since we developed speech, chocolate, and bacon centers of our brain. And, if these people were really trying, they’d probably find a chess center as well.
re: #131 garzooma
In somewhat less violent surroundings, yes!
re: #146 Belafon
It’s been downhill since we developed speech, chocolate, and bacon centers of our brain. And, if these people were really trying, they’d probably find a chess center as well.
Bobby Fischer as a classic case where the chess center overloaded…
HBO’s response just now: “The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea.” https://t.co/7V5eJSXuRs
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 6, 2019
re: #142 Backwoods_Sleuth
Note: obstruction charges with no charged underlying crime, just brought by AG William Barr’s Department of Justice.
un- possible
Credit to my good friend @azaleacloud,who’s despised Bragman for years and is apparently back on Twitter after a mental-health break, for finding this one:
The long game here was “hand Donald Trump four years and at least one Supreme Court seat, and obviously a left-populist victory will come in 2020.” What if, you know, it doesn’t
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 5, 2019
re: #71 Romantic Heretic
In Arizona, the jury has to sign the death warrant if they decide, after the guilty verdict, that the person should be executed. I would refuse to serve on a d.p. case because I don’t think the state should be in the business of executing people.
re: #87 Belafon
Until the child is outside the womb, it’s still not a human as far as the law should be concerned.
That’s pretty much my position. BUT, my continued statement is that it’s not my choice.
re: #152 mmmirele
In Arizona, the jury has to sign the death warrant if they decide, after the guilty verdict, that the person should be executed. I would refuse to serve on a d.p. case because I don’t think the state should be in the business of executing people.
There’s an argument to be made that striking jurors because they are opposed to the death penalty is actually prejudicial to defendants. By only impaneling jurors who support the death penalty, you increase the odds that the jury will find it appropriate, regardless of the facts.
re: #138 HappyWarrior
Spain too. The myth of tyrannical King George is way overblown. The issue was a foreign based Parliament making our laws without our say. Which makes the complaint that Obama was “anti colonial” all the more hilarious.
I dunno, I’ve always thought the (negative) characterization of President Obama as “anti-colonial” (usually with irrelevant mention of his Kenyan heritage) was fundamentally racist code for “anti-white”: the assumption being that only bloodthirsty radical Commie-inspired terrorists could ever gainsay the “conventional wisdom” that colonialism was ever anything other than an unmitigated benefit for “savage” Third-Worlders…
Oh you have got to be fffffffucking kidding me. https://t.co/7FvzICpmXY
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 6, 2019
re: #155 Jay C
I dunno, I’ve always thought the (negative) characterization of President Obama as “anti-colonial” (usually with irrelevant mention of his Kenyan heritage) was fundamentally racist code for “anti-white”: the assumption being that only bloodthirsty radical Commie-inspired terrorists could ever gainsay the “conventional wisdom” that colonialism was ever anything other than an unmitigated benefit for “savage” Third-Worlders…
It was, yes.
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So we’ve gone from climate change is a hoax to climate change is good.
re: #89 jimmyvluv4u
Mediaite added the ever so important “holocaust denier” to the headline:
Holocaust Denier Chuck Johnson’s Far-Right Website GotNews Filed Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Petition
The FBI just released a cache of documents related to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, in response to a #FOIA suit filed by @JasonLeopold and @BuzzFeedNews — it includes several hundred pages of tips and comments sent to the FBI https://t.co/fdatfAJOJZ
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) May 6, 2019
In case you need this today: Betty White meeting some piglets. pic.twitter.com/GSEQ6ndf0K
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) May 5, 2019
re: #158 HappyWarrior
So we’ve gone from climate change is a hoax to climate change is good.
there’s still time for some of us to profit before we all die
re: #160 nines09
Now I’m going to have to go listen to everything he’s done. Thanks!
re: #158 HappyWarrior
So we’ve gone from climate change is a hoax to climate change is good.
I’ve heard this argument a few times over the years. A few different versions of it, but it’s been around for a while… usually something along the lines of “well, this might actually be good because [stupid argument about farmers having longer growing seasons or some such]”
re: #166 KGxvi
I’ve heard this argument a few times over the years. A few different versions of it, but it’s been around for a while… usually something along the lines of “well, this might actually be good because [stupid argument about farmers having longer growing seasons or some such]”
Yeah you’re right. I have seen that too. This coming from the Secretary of State tho.
re: #166 KGxvi
I’ve heard this argument a few times over the years. A few different versions of it, but it’s been around for a while… usually something along the lines of “well, this might actually be good because [stupid argument about farmers having longer growing seasons or some such]”
Part of me feels like people saying that are pushing Russian propaganda, because I’m pretty sure many Russians really believe that climate change would make Russia a temperate paradise with tons of farmland while the rest of the world burns.
re: #158 HappyWarrior
So we’ve gone from climate change is a hoax to climate change is good.
That’s not climate change, it’s just God parting the seas again.
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re: #165 plansbandc
I’m happy you like it. He’s one more I stumbled across. He’s on tour, and it will be in small venues. If I had a dollar for all the talent that talked to me that I never got to see………..
re: #170 nines09
I would definitely go see him, but almost no one comes here. A shame, because we really do like Americana here.
re: #146 Belafon
It’s been downhill since we developed speech, chocolate, and bacon centers of our brain. And, if these people were really trying, they’d probably find a chess center as well.
Chocolate was a New World discovery (along with popcorn, cocaine and tequila).
The Old World had coffee.
re: #171 plansbandc
Sometimes you have to go to them.
Thanks.
I’m out with her as I think I’d get blocked for bluntly saying, “No, Parliament raised the taxes, with a particular blame for the Lords; George just didn’t veto”.
But how did we get to a point where 80% of the country’s liberals are miseducated to the point of ‘understanding’ that the sovereign could levy taxes by himself in 1766?
George raised taxes like a tyrant & then issued what came to be called “the intolerable acts” in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party embarrassment. He was half mad & vicious. Sound familiar. That’s all I meant. And still do. Out w/any tyrant who dares to rule this land.
— G.deGuzman (@gdeguzman99) May 6, 2019
For whatever reason I’ve become obsessed with rehabilitating Great Britain’s image and doing what I can to stop burnishing the one of a Continental Congress that, when it comes down to it, was about as legal and for whom individual liberty was a novel, original concept as it was for the Confederacy.
And yes, that may be an autie thing rather than something worth discussing when we have a would-be tyrant who actually is seeing ‘his parliament’ let him be what he wants. Especially since she’s right; George would probably have preferred dictatorial power.
re: #158 HappyWarrior
So we’ve gone from climate change is a hoax to climate change is good.
It’s definitely good for Russia. They’ve expanded port facilities at St Petersburg so they can operate year-round, they’re planting flags all over the previously unreachable places they want to mine in the Arctic, and there’s a chance Siberia might become arable.
re: #174 nines09
True enough. I’ve traveled from coast to coast to see my favorite.
To distract from damning testimony from Mueller?
Carrier And Bombers Ordered To Middle East Without Any Details On Supposed Iranian Threat
thedrive.com
“In response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings, the United States is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force. The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces.”
At the same time, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that the deployment was “something we’ve been working on for a little while,” indicating that it wasn’t really a result of new intelligence or a set of evolving circumstances, while also adding that there have been “escalatory actions from the Iranians,” but giving no examples of such acts.
So, I’m reading this article on CNN on how a shitload of former DOJ officials are basically saying that Barr is negligent in his job, when I came across this gem of a paragraph (bolding mine):
The group’s assertion comes as controversy over Mueller’s findings and the attorney general’s reaction to them grows — particularly regarding whether the President obstructed justice. Since Mueller released a redacted version of his report to the public on April 18, Attorney General William Barr has faced intense criticism from Democrats who say he downplayed the findings, while Mueller has been attacked by the White House.
Am I missing something? It feels like CNN is gaslighting me and everyone reading this article. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Barr the one who’s been redacting everything? Didn’t Muller turn over the report as is, and Barr’s pudgy little sausage phalanges did all the censoring?
Jesus Fucking Christ, this is the mother fucking “liberal” CNN everyone is always bitching about. I’m almost positive even Fox News wouldn’t frame the redactions this way, and they’re bascially Trump’s propaganda mill.
re: #158 HappyWarrior
So we’ve gone from climate change is a hoax to climate change is good.
They’ve been beating that drum for some time.
re: #168 Jack Burton
Part of me feels like people saying that are pushing Russian propaganda, because I’m pretty sure many Russians really believe that climate change would make Russia a temperate paradise with tons of farmland while the rest of the world burns.
Proving, I suppose, that they’re not really all that smart (or no smarter than us)? I wonder what said Russians imagine that Siberia will look like once vast swathes of the tundra permafrost start to thaw/melt on a regular basis in the summertime? Hint: becoming a high-latitude Grain Belt probably won’t be an outcome.
re: #173 nines09
Well you’ve given me lots to listen to on my walks this week!
re: #180 Mattand
So, I’m reading this article on CNN on how a shitload of former DOJ officials are basically saying that Barr is negligent in his job, when I came across this gem of a paragraph (bolding mine):
Am I missing something? It feels like CNN is gaslighting me and everyone reading this article. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Barr the one who’s been redacting everything? Didn’t Muller turn over the report as is, and Barr’s pudgy little sausage phalanges did all the censoring?
Jesus Fucking Christ, this is the mother fucking “liberal” CNN everyone is always bitching about. I’m almost positive even Fox News wouldn’t frame the redactions this way, and they’re bascially Trump’s propaganda mill.
My understanding is that there was a collaborative effort between Mueller and the DOJ on the redactions. What I know for certain, though, is that Mueller didn’t release the report. He and his team authored a report that was given to Barr and the DOJ.
re: #179 Unshaken Defiance
To distract from damning testimony from Mueller?
Carrier And Bombers Ordered To Middle East Without Any Details On Supposed Iranian Threat
thedrive.com
“They keep wanting to have it pronounced Eh-ron rather than I-Ran, and we just won’t stand for it.”
*checks length of tinfoil*
Both Bibi and Il Douche wants a diversion from problems at home?
re: #184 Mike Lamb
My understanding is that there was a collaborative effort between Mueller and the DOJ on the redactions. What I know for certain, though, is that Mueller didn’t release the report. He and his team authored a report that was given to Barr and the DOJ.
Appreciate it. I missed that Muller had a hand in the redactions. Which, unfortunately for me, reinforces my theory that Muller is at least Protect Trump Like a Good Republican Stooge-curious.
re: #184 Mike Lamb
My understanding is that there was a collaborative effort between Mueller and the DOJ on the redactions. What I know for certain, though, is that Mueller didn’t release the report. He and his team authored a report that was given to Barr and the DOJ.
re: #184 Mike Lamb
My understanding is that there was a collaborative effort between Mueller and the DOJ on the redactions. What I know for certain, though, is that Mueller didn’t release the report. He and his team authored a report that was given to Barr and the DOJ.
My understanding is that Mueller’s redaction suggestions to Barr dealt solely with grand jury details and ongoing investigations.
So if you truly believe he’s the only one who can win, you’re telling us over 60% of America either actively wants to see LGBT suppressed from the Channel to the Pacific, or has no problem with it.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 6, 2019
re: #191 Chrysicat
Oops. Works better with context as to who I’m telling off.
#Truth But @TheDemocrats are to cowardly to back real progressives…looks like they’ve learned nothing form 2016. #StillSanders #ScrewVBNMW #PeopleOverProfits #FeelTheBern #BernItDown #MedicareForAll #OurRevolution #Sanders2020 #NotMeUs #2020election #Bernie2020 pic.twitter.com/aVrWYocJXH
— Steven GP (@spock5550) May 2, 2019
“Dangerous Ideas” by vacuumslayer https://t.co/nRACLnR6GI
— IWant2vote4SuperKarate🐒JustNotThisSuperKarate🐒 (@DeathCar72) May 6, 2019
Cornyn just moments ago on whether he wants Mueller to testify publicly: “I think it probably would be healthy for the country to move on. Because otherwise the charade is just going to continue to try to parse and pick apart every sentence and punctuation mark of that.“ https://t.co/E6hLX0fNlV
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 6, 2019
Baby Owl and tiny Kitten hanging out.. pic.twitter.com/exZvxzVrUj
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) May 6, 2019
Fuck Mnuchin. Impeach him for refusing to give the tax returns to Congress!
meanwhile in Tennessee:
BREAKING: Speaker Casada’s chief of staff solicited sex from an intern. Earlier today, he admitted to doing cocaine in the State Capitol complex.
Last week, it was revealed he called a black quarterback “thug ni**er” and texted “Black people are stupid.”
Casada stands by him. https://t.co/pWRiRWs4j1— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) May 6, 2019
Congrats to the happy couple and we look forward to meeting little T’Challa Sussex.
Please, Megs. Do it. Fuck with them hard. https://t.co/Jum45ZqnSa— Tom & Lorenzo (@tomandlorenzo) May 6, 2019
If this strikes anyone as sensitive, note that it came across my feed from our former contributor scientist psddluva. I guffawed.
re: #191 Chrysicat
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that underlying graphic is asinine broad brushing
“if democrats wanted to win…” win what? the presidency?
“they’d spend less time, blah blah blah “
- the candidates are spending almost no time blaming russia, attacking trump etc. (except biden who to a greater degree is taking trump head on)
- it’s their job as opposing primary candidates to ‘scheme against bernie sanders’
listen to any of them for five minutes and it’s clear they are speaking to the needs of their voters
democrats in congress are focusing on oversight, which includes russia, trump, the administration, etc
there is no monolithic “Democrats”
different groups of “democrats” can do more than one thing at the same time. and they are
Mr Buttigieg, tear down this Wohl.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 6, 2019
re: #199 DangerMan
that underlying graphic is asinine broad brushing
“if democrats wanted to win…” win what? the presidency?
“they’d spend less time, blah blah blah “
- the candidates are spending almost no time blaming russia, attacking trump etc. (except biden who to a greater degree is taking trump head on)
- it’s their job as opposing primary candidates to ‘scheme against bernie sanders’listen to any of them for five minutes and it’s clear they are speaking to the needs of their voters
democrats in congress are focusing on oversight, which includes russia, trump, the administration, etc
there is no monolithic “Democrats”
different groups of “democrats” can do more than one thing at the same time. and they are
I am very close to assessing anyone who uses ‘corporatist’ in a political context as an ally of V. Putin.
JFC
The whole treasonous gang belongs in prison.
BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Mnuchin denies request for Trump’s tax returns, a move that is sure to set off a legal battle. https://t.co/DjtQ8PGSEy
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 6, 2019
re: #202 wrenchwench
I am very close to assessing anyone who uses ‘corporatist’ in a political context as an ally of V. Putin.
hell, i didnt even get to the second paragraph.
BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin rejects Congress’ request for Trump’s tax returns, saying “President Trump has an Executive Privilege to commit and cover up an unlimited number of crimes from his time in office and before.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 6, 2019
Now that Treasury has officially refused to turn Trump’s tax returns over to the House, as required by law, here’s legal expert @RDEliason on why an impeachment inquiry might put Democrats in a stronger position to get them:https://t.co/gkZ5xOAYIj pic.twitter.com/P7LPJk6vgF
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 6, 2019
re: #203 The Vicious Babushka
JFC
The whole treasonous gang belongs in prison.BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Mnuchin denies request for Trump’s tax returns, a move that is sure to set off a legal battle.
‘shall’ means ‘shall’. no reason required.
besides if i remember the request Neal wrote, he included a list of legislative reasons - anticipating exactly this move
The Trump administration has made a political calculation.
Whatever the bad press Donald Trump will get for keeping his tax returns a secret would be nothing compared to the bad press he’d get if he actually released them.
Only God know the felonies hidden deep within! pic.twitter.com/abj45ybAnQ— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) May 6, 2019
re: #172 sagehen
Chocolate was a New World discovery (along with popcorn, cocaine and tequila).
The Old World had coffee.
And Tea. Blessed black tea.
re: #200 gocart mozart
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And why do Jacob and Jack think this latest stunt is going have any more credibility or newsworthiness than their last debacle (for which I am still amazed that they have not suffered any legal repercussions)?
Or does that reminder about “hotel video” portend that they are going to try to foist some O’Keeffe-style fakery (Laura Loomer in a Pete Buttigeig mask?) off as “proof” of their allegations?
re: #203 The Vicious Babushka
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Just imagine the response if Obama…
Aw, fuck it.
“I have determined that the police officer’s request lacks a legitimate law enforcement purpose. The citizen is therefore not authorized to disclose the requested license and registration - may not lawfully fulfill request”
Regardless of who is inaugurated in 2021, there will be a new statue attending the inaugural luncheon in Statuary Hall. Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca was the first Native American to win civil rights in 1879. His statue will represent Nebraska, replacing William Jennings Bryan pic.twitter.com/3Em0HvY3C4
— Brett A. Chapman (@brettachapman) May 6, 2019
Ezra 10 https://t.co/0B1TcqBNi2 I’m sorry to say. Like other biblical rules it has been constantly disobeyed (e.g. by Moses) and with good reason.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 6, 2019
“Let us therefore make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the law.”
- Ezra 10 - Nehemiah 1— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 6, 2019
Not just foreigners but Dread Illegals, taking good jobs (teaching skiing, modeling, blowing Donald) from good Americans.
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) May 6, 2019
Today, in CCJ news, the Rage Furby is in deep shit in bankruptcy court because of general fucknuttedness, arrogance and stupidity:
Splinter first reported the filing. The troll site must supply the list of creditors by Wednesday, and that list will offer a peek into who thought it was a good idea to finance Johnson.
GotNews made its name spewing a mixture of hatred and false allegations, including one article that reportedly made it to the desk of President Trump. Over the years, the website generated absurd, easily disprovable “reporting” alongside race-baiting articles, all complemented by Johnson’s own Holocaust denialism.
Facts: Euripides used to make young boys pick out the red M&Ms from the candy on the craft service table during dress rehearsals. Also, there was sodomy. https://t.co/dQsmOKz1AJ
— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 6, 2019
re: #216 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Today, in CCJ news, the Rage Furby is in deep shit in bankruptcy court because of general fucknuttedness, arrogance and stupidity:
Thanks, Senator, for promoting my piece. As a major contributor to Trump’s failed Latin America policy, your condemnation is particularly gratifying. https://t.co/uYng9DpZyy
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) May 6, 2019
re: #214 wrenchwench
Regardless of who is inaugurated in 2021, there will be a new statue attending the inaugural luncheon in Statuary Hall. Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca was the first Native American to win civil rights in 1879. His statue will represent Nebraska, replacing William Jennings Bryan
this is a huge peeve of mine
Philosophers and lawyers bicker about what grounds human rights. Do we acknowledge them and use government power to protect against their violation simply because we have a history of doing it? Does a right just pop into existence as soon as a certain number of human beings clamors for getting a law passed in its name?
danger says no:
no one is ‘granted’ human or civil rights
what happens is the mechanism of enforcement is forced into not preventing people from exercising rights they always had - and were unable to because they were repressed by the state, or, sometimes went unquestioned/unrecognized
civil rights weren’t new rights granted to people in 1964. those rights were always there. to say less is to dehumanize them as people, and to give those “granting” the rights some sort of superior benevolence in “allowing” this to happen.
these types of rights are intrinsic, even when their exercise is repressed by the state. the rights dont go away.
“giving, granting, allowing” burns me
The Trump Doctrine is just committing crimes until someone does something about it.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) May 6, 2019
My fellow journalists, there is WAY too much framing of the Trump administration ignoring subpoenas and hearings and regulations as “Republicans versus Democrats.” It’s insidious and has too much misleading propaganda baked in. It’s *Republicans versus the law.* pic.twitter.com/CCXGt0nBfV
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) May 6, 2019
re: #223 wrenchwench
The Secretary of the Treasury is now in violation of U.S. Law, specifically Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code
— Malcolm P. Johnson (@admiralmpj) May 6, 2019
re: #216 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Today, in CCJ news, the Rage Furby is in deep shit in bankruptcy court because of general fucknuttedness, arrogance and stupidity:
From that TPM article:
GotNews owes between $500,000 and $1 million to unspecified creditors, the bankruptcy petition states. The website estimated its total assets between zero and $50,000 dollars.
It was not immediately clear where the value of Johnson’s personal brand fit into that calculation.
I think I know the answer to that last point: Chuckles’ “personal brand” probably carries a value expressed as a nice round number…..
re: #227 Jay C
From that TPM article:
I think I know the answer to that last point: Chuckles’ “personal brand” probably carries a value expressed as a nice round number…..
I’m thinking something less than that.
re: #221 DangerMan
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danger says no:
no one is ‘granted’ human or civil rights
[…]
these types of rights are intrinsic, even when their exercise is repressed by the state. the rights dont go away.
“giving, granting, allowing” burns me
I totally agree, but it’s just a word, the tweeter probably would agree in principle, but I won’t ask, I’ll just post his pinned tweet:
You have to be a ‘person’ to have civil rights. Slaves couldn’t go to court until 1865. Native Americans couldn’t go to court until 1879 when my relative Standing Bear was illegally arrested by the United States Army and sued for his civil rights due him as a ‘person’ and won. pic.twitter.com/xR0GgdBD2v
— Brett A. Chapman (@brettachapman) July 17, 2018
The tweeter is a lawyer, that’s probably as succinct as we can hope for. No offense to lawyers present, absent, or in between.
Dear Headline Writers: Mnuchin is not “declining a request.”
He’s breaking the law.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 6, 2019
re: #225 jaunte
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— Malcolm P. Johnson (@admiralmpj) May 6, 2019
Imma follow that guy…
I’ll say it again — Don McLean’s “American Pie” is one of the absolute worst songs ever recorded.https://t.co/6AflQqouHy
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 6, 2019
Worst song ever = Manfred Mann’s version of Blinded by the Light
Best song ever = Springsteens version of Blinded by the Light.— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 6, 2019
re: #228 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m thinking something less than that.
Or as a commenter on TPM put it: Chuck Johnson’s personal brand is probably listed under “liabilities”.
re: #185 Belafon
“They keep wanting to have it pronounced Eh-ron rather than I-Ran, and we just won’t stand for it.”
In 2017, we tested internet security at four Trump properties.
This included parking a motor boat in a lagoon about 800 feet from Mar-a-Lago & pointing a wireless antenna that resembled a potato gun toward the club.
Security was not good:https://t.co/H3p4PQ6WNj— ProPublica (@propublica) May 6, 2019
re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg
Okay, now I want to play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Eyewitness video from 7.1 Papua New Guinea earthquake https://t.co/8pE2z67MeM
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) May 6, 2019
re: #236 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Okay, now I want to play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Then my work here is done. :D
You can’t unsee it, but you can refresh the comment.
i got a new cat guys! pic.twitter.com/CRP8pf68G7
— comrade cat (@ancomrade) May 6, 2019
Rick (again) welcome to the Senate.
May we do better at what our nation needs more of:
More grace & less gratuitous jabs.
More debating ideas & less demeaning people.
More kindness & more kindness.
I’m far from perfect in this. But I’ll do better. Let’s talk n person soon. https://t.co/Zoi1Lvfc23— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) May 6, 2019
re: #239 wrenchwench
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Octopussy?
Too obvious?
re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Got any solutions for gun violence Rick or are just another Republican paid and bought by the NRA?
re: #221 DangerMan
this is a huge peeve of mine
Philosophers and lawyers bicker about what grounds human rights. Do we acknowledge them and use government power to protect against their violation simply because we have a history of doing it? Does a right just pop into existence as soon as a certain number of human beings clamors for getting a law passed in its name?
danger says no:
no one is ‘granted’ human or civil rights
what happens is the mechanism of enforcement is forced into not preventing people from exercising rights they always had - and were unable to because they were repressed by the state, or, sometimes went unquestioned/unrecognized
civil rights weren’t new rights granted to people in 1964. those rights were always there. to say less is to dehumanize them as people, and to give those “granting” the rights some sort of superior benevolence in “allowing” this to happen.
these types of rights are intrinsic, even when their exercise is repressed by the state. the rights dont go away.
“giving, granting, allowing” burns me
This is basically the natural law theory. We all have certain rights by our nature as humans. And it is through experience, and the application of “right reason” that we come to recognize what those rights are. Thus, under this theory, the right to privacy was not created by the Supreme Court, it always existed and was simply recognized as existing by the Supreme Court.
re: #236 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Okay, now I want to play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
I still have it.
re: #242 HappyWarrior
Got any solutions for gun violence Rick or are just another Republican paid and bought by the NRA?
The answer is obviously more good guys with guns, because an armed society is a polite society… or some other bullshit.
Treating guns the way we treat cars… insurance requirements, registration and transfers of title, seem like a pretty simple thing. Adding in background checks shouldn’t be that difficult either.
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
But 10 Benghazi investigations was “healthy”? Fuck these assholes.
1. Flashback to December of 2005. Facebook had only 6 million users. The first ever tweet had not yet been sent. This was the first “viral” video that ever came across my radar. https://t.co/qJpdI5N3wU
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) May 6, 2019
2. There is a chance that I had seen this viral video first, perhaps in the summer of 2005. These were the days when one or two viral videos a year seemed like a big deal. https://t.co/Yrlc63exTx
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) May 6, 2019
Fuck’s sake, @AP, way to soft-pedal this! It’s not a ‘request’; it’s an order. The relevant law says “#SHALLFURNISH.”
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 6, 2019
I thought Republicans hated frivolous legislation. Lol https://t.co/cx5dj20ajr
— Bodak Red 🌺🌼🌺 (@AFarray) May 6, 2019
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
AARP his ass. Red or Blue, they don’t like that crap.
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
Can’t transport more than 2 non-family voters unless you fill out a form identifying them and affirming they “are physically unable to enter the polling place without personal assistance or likelihood of injuring their health.”
Seems @SenBryanHughes hates it when Texans vote. https://t.co/Aq4W9CKAhC— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) May 6, 2019
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Baby Owl and tiny Kitten hanging out.]
I knew it! They drink coffee…
GWご来店ありがとうございましたホー(*θⅴθ) pic.twitter.com/duUG5iorSg
— hukuloucoffee@OSAKA (@hukuloucoffee) May 6, 2019
re: #254 wrenchwench
I knew it! They drink coffee…
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So young, but soon they’ll be running off to the land where the Bong-Tree grows
re: #250 Chrysicat
The committee needs to go into executive session and then issue a contempt referral for Mnuenchin (or however his name is spelled)
re: #225 jaunte
I’m sure the DOJ will get right on that.
re: #223 wrenchwench
Even without Fox “News” the media would twist itself into pretzels to protect Trump and the GOP.
re: #256 KGxvi
The committee needs to go into executive session and then issue a contempt referral for Mnuenchin (or however his name is spelled)
I’m sure they’ll do that right after the do that for Barr.
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lookner on it. Watching now.
Member of border militia that detained 200 migrants at gunpoint told police another member had said, “Why are we…not lining them up and shooting them? We have to go back to Hitler days and put them all in a gas chamber” per report I obtained under FOIA: https://t.co/XLUCBIAGTo pic.twitter.com/Bdtv3H28sp
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) May 6, 2019
Multiple blog/tweet reports that Paul Ryan’s book has been remaindered to Dollar Tree.
So there’s that.
So, does Donny have to go and personally take a shit on Pelosi’s front yard before she decides that letting the man get away with as many crimes as he wants before 2020 is going to lead nowhere good?
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
Because he believes that urban legend about BUSES FROM MEXICO FULL OF ILLEGALS WHO DRIVE ALL AROUND TEH COUNTRY & VOTE EVERYWHERES!!!1!!!!
re: #265 DodgerFan1988
But they’re not racist.
That bears an implicit warning about relying on ethnic and racial identity. It’s a damn lazy strategy for progressives to wait on demographic deliverance.
re: #267 Decatur Deb
That bears an implicit warning about relying on ethnic and racial identity. It’s a damn lazy strategy for progressives to wait for demographic deliverance.
That’s not why we’re waiting. We’re waiting because most of my kind - whites - are voting racist in such numbers that the rest of us are holding on for reinforcements.
re: #268 Belafon
That’s not why we’re waiting. We’re waiting because most of my kind - whites - are voting racist in such numbers that the rest of us are holding on for reinforcements.
They’re not coming.
There is a law. It is written down. It says Mnuchin shall furnish the returns upon written request. Mnuchin is breaking this law. We don’t need to ask whether there is a legitimate legislative purpose. That’s for investigations where there’s no existing law. Here, there is a law. https://t.co/aR5Wc7FTxq
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 6, 2019
Russellville, AR this morning. This is same town where back in February, 52 of them were arrested on a number of charges including selling meth, rape, and kidnapping. pic.twitter.com/wzDca5ymrf
— Brad Betts (@870South) May 6, 2019
sigh
re: #269 Decatur Deb
They’re not coming.
Well, considering progressives have had to wait since the CRA and VRA, it’s going to require everyone.
re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Guessing Cross Guy is a counter-Nazi demonstrator, since the core of Christianity is totally antithetical to the NSDP ethos
re: #272 Belafon
Well, considering progressives have had to wait since the CRA and VRA, it’s going to require everyone.
Even old white straight male fucks.
re: #273 Decatur Deb
Guessing Cross Guy is a counter-Nazi demonstrator, since the core of Christianity is totally antithetical to the NDSP ethos
He doesn’t look like he’s standing with them.
re: #275 Belafon
He doesn’t look like he’s standing with them.
Could be Christian Identity, could be Catholic Worker. Hard to tell without a program.
This is Dobby. He doesn’t mind bath time because he knows how handsome he’ll be afterwards. 12/10 for the squeaky clean king pic.twitter.com/D2K8QuhGS1
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) May 7, 2019
O_o
.@TigerWoods delivers remarks after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House! pic.twitter.com/2m1HSdabJh
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 6, 2019
We’ve filed a lawsuit against the Trump Treasury Department & IRS for failing to respond to records requests as required by law.
The agency eliminated donor disclosure requirements for tax-exempt groups & refuses to comply w/the law to explain the rationale for these changes.— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) May 6, 2019
re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth
Another real piece of shit and Trump business partner.
And speaking of pieces of shit,
This week is the 1st anniversary of #Melania’s ‘Be Best’ campaign. A year seems like long enough to have learned necessary parts of speech, no? Be THE Best? Be YOUR Best? Be SECOND Best To Your Daughter-in-Law? How’d she get in here anyway? Oh, right, the #GeniusVisa.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) May 6, 2019
What da hell’s that gonna do? The PRESIDENT of the country where Twitter is headquartered - lies EVERY single tweet - and @Jack not only won’t do a damn thing about it, he MET with the lying sociopath. https://t.co/QQw5FM2UdI
— Paul Lee Ticks (@PaulLeeTicks) May 5, 2019
*blink*
CNN needs more people of color working in the executive, decision-making ranks. Obviously. https://t.co/QJzfMXM5qk
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) May 7, 2019
re: #288 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I know. My ears were burning. SWIM, SWIM, HUNGRY…
But your lips are OK? …must be in raven mode…
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
If Her Majesty the Queen does not care why should CNN care?
Glorious!
A group of French amateur astrophotographers called Ciel Austral (“Southern Sky”) have shared a 240-megapixel image of the Large Magellan Cloud (LMC). Constructed using 4,000 images, the seamless collage required over 1,060 hours of exposures. Together, the images form a massive digital poster with colorful explosions and pockets of cosmic dust that resemble watercolors dripped and blown across an inky black surface.
The individual photos that make up the 14,400-pixel-wide image were captured between July 2017 and February 2019 using a 160mm refracting telescope at an observatory in Chile that is owned by the photographers.
The ole-I’m-a-black-lady-running-in-a-white-district magic. Yep. https://t.co/lMVbHan7Tn
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) May 6, 2019
re: #264 Targetpractice
So, does Donny have to go and personally take a shit on Pelosi’s front yard before she decides that letting the man get away with as many crimes as he wants before 2020 is going to lead nowhere good?
Barr failed to show up on Thursday. Congress is not in session on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. Contempt proceedings started today (Monday).
Mnuchin refused Congress’s order this morning. Do you suppose you could allow 24 hours before you accuse everyone of caving?
oops
Bobcat trapped in soccer net in Colorado Springs.https://t.co/sHVn0Nw4aj pic.twitter.com/vB8W5yOrTz
— WCPO (@WCPO) May 7, 2019
re: #289 wrenchwench
But your lips are OK? …must be in raven mode…
I dunno. I think a bird would have more of a problem with being on fire than a fish.
Though when I think about it, if a fish is on fire, something is very wrong and somebody, somewhere, is having a VERY BAD DAY.
re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Did you look at the article? Or even the subhead?
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
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CNN needs more people of color working in the executive, decision-making ranks. Obviously. https://t.co/QJzfMXM5qk
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) May 7, 2019
Next up on CNN Money: Online Slave Auctions: Pros and Cons.
re: #298 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Next up on CNN Money: Online Slave Auctions: Pros and Cons.
The author of that article is black. It’s not what you think. Not even close…
re: #297 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
Did you look at the article? Or even the subhead?
I did.
The whole thing had no legitimate news value, nor a valid point to make.
re: #299 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
The author of that article is black. It’s not what you think. Not even close…
I did read it. The headline is a disaster.
re: #303 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I did read it. The headline is a disaster.
Also worth noting that the headlines are not generally written by the person who writes the article.
First they came for Milo and I was all like yeah fuck that guy
Then they came for Alex Jones and I was like what took them so damn long
Then they came for Laura Loomer and I was LOLOLOLOLOL
Laura Loomer is saying that being banned on Twitter is “literally exactly how the Holocaust happened” pic.twitter.com/WvTkIKYw7t
— AntiFash Gordon (@AntiFashGordon) May 6, 2019
re: #305 The Vicious Babushka
First they came for Milo and I was all like yeah fuck that guy
Then they came for Alex Jones and I was like what took them so damn long
Then they came for Laura Loomer and I was LOLOLOLOLOL[Embedded content]
Uh no, Laura it’s not. The Holocaust happened because whole groups of people were removed from their homes because of their religion by the government. You know kind of what you would be fine with if it was done to Muslims. You’re so profoundly uneducated that you think being banned from Twitter for being a nutjob asshole is close to state sanctioned murder.
re: #305 The Vicious Babushka
First they came for Milo and I was all like yeah fuck that guy
Then they came for Alex Jones and I was like what took them so damn long
Then they came for Laura Loomer and I was LOLOLOLOLOL[Embedded content]
Grandma could tell that fool about what the Holocaust really was but Loony Loomer is to stupid to comprehend that!
re: #305 The Vicious Babushka
First they came for Milo and I was all like yeah fuck that guy
Then they came for Alex Jones and I was like what took them so damn long
Then they came for Laura Loomer and I was LOLOLOLOLOL
Honestly, if you’re odious enough that Twitter is kicking your ass, you might just want to rethink your life choices.
If you really think being banned from Twitter is even close to the Holocaust, you really need to read a fucking book.
“Laura Loomer is saying that being banned on Twitter is ‘literally exactly how the Holocaust happened’”
Well, inasmuch as we can see right through him to the Russian hand up his ass…yes, it is! Now in the GOVERNMENTAL sense of transparency…congratulations, Warren Harding, you’re no longer the most corrupt administration ever!
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 6, 2019
re: #311 Chrysicat
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There isn’t one part of this administration that doesn’t reek of constant corruption.
re: #305 The Vicious Babushka
First they came for Milo and I was all like yeah fuck that guy
Then they came for Alex Jones and I was like what took them so damn long
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There is a cosmic irony in the Nazis being the ones whining that they’re being persecuted.
re: #313 Targetpractice
There is a cosmic irony in the Nazis being the ones whining that they’re being persecuted.
Well the Nazis themselves did that act too. Laura’s just learning from her ideological ancestors.
re: #313 Targetpractice
There is a cosmic irony in the Nazis being the ones whining that they’re being persecuted.
Nazis: WAHHHH WE’RE NOT ALLOWED TO BE ASSHOLES ON THE INTERNET ANYMORE! IT’S THE HOLOCAUST ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!
Everybody else: Shut the fuck up, Donny.
re: #273 Decatur Deb
Guessing Cross Guy is a counter-Nazi demonstrator, since the core of Christianity is totally antithetical to the NDSP ethos
The Nazis were there as a counter protest for the march for rememberance.
Looks like they were on opposite sides of the street and there were police separating them so I think cross guy is with them.
re: #307 Joe Bacon 🌹
Grandma could tell that fool about what the Holocaust really was but Loony Loomer is to stupid to comprehend that!
For one thing she is too stupid to know that Communists did not do the Holocaust.
It’s like a Klansman whining that a black man said something mean to him.
re: #317 The Vicious Babushka
For one thing she is too stupid to know that Communists did not do the Holocaust.
The Communists were victims of the Holocaust. Hell, it was one of the arguments for the Holocaust, that “Jewish Bolshevism” was an existential threat to the world and had to be wiped out.
re: #313 Targetpractice
There is a cosmic irony in the Nazis being the ones whining that they’re being persecuted.
They should count themselves lucky. Zhukov’s troops used flamethrowers to take down Radio Berlin.
re: #317 The Vicious Babushka
For one thing she is too stupid to know that Communists did not do the Holocaust.
After the Jewish people, the Nazis’ biggest victims were leftists. I’ve got no love for Communism but the Nazis biggest political targets were Communists and Social Democrats. Anyone who thinks the Nazis were on the left is an uneducated moron who doesn’t want to admit that Nazism was done by a right wing ideology.
re: #319 Targetpractice
The Communists were victims of the Holocaust. Hell, it was one of the arguments for the Holocaust, that “Jewish Bolshevism” was an existential threat to the world and had to be wiped out.
A lot of early Anticommunism was to be brutally honest based in Antisemitism.
I’m really starting to like the idea that PACs shouldn’t have to disclose how they spend, so that groups like this can fleece the rubes:
New: A political organization run by David Bossie, a top outside adviser to POTUS, has raised millions of dollars by saying it’s supporting Trump-aligned conservative candidates — but has spent only a tiny fraction of that money supporting candidates. https://t.co/HzPOe6AT3Y
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 5, 2019
re: #323 Belafon
I’m really staring to like the idea that PACs shouldn’t have to disclose how they spend, so that groups like this can fleece the rubes:
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Thus continues the theme that everything connected to Trump is one yuge grift aimed at fleecing the rubes.
Add Treasury to the list of Trump Administration agencies ignoring the law to defy Congressional oversight.
And make no mistake: Republican silence makes them complicit in this lawlessness.
It also means that future presidents can engage in corrupt conduct without constraint. https://t.co/1YoxvKlOzN— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 6, 2019
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Schiff’s missing a word there in the last bit. Only “future Republican presidents” will be afforded this luxury, as no future Democratic president will ever be allowed to violate the law so blatantly without the media calling for his head.
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
The formal opinion will be some mixture of IOKIYAR and President Man-Baby’s fee-fees Are The Law.
How did I only now learn that Trump’s effectively demanding that the presidential election be ‘postponed to 2022’?
“Are we going to be a nation of laws?” asks Democratic Rep. Jim Himes on the fight brewing between Congress and the White House over access to the President’s tax returns. “The law could not be more clear here… are we going to allow the President to blatantly ignore the law?” pic.twitter.com/C3DKgZEoQJ
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) May 7, 2019
re: #322 HappyWarrior
A lot of early Anticommunism was to be brutally honest based in Antisemitism.
After the Russian Revolution, aristocratic White Russian refugees created a regular media industry complex of anti-communist propaganda, headquartered in Paris. Many of these people were virulent antisemites from birth and it was natural for them to combine the two hatreds. Their lack of credibility discredited the opposition, just as McCarthy did 30 years later. That is one reason Stalin largely got away with the Ukrainian famine and the Great Purge: The reports were dismissed as still more White émigré propaganda.
re: #332 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
After the Russian Revolution, aristocratic White Russian refugees created a regular media industry complex of anti-communist propaganda, headquartered in Paris. Many of these people were virulent antisemites from birth and it was natural for them to combine the two hatreds. Their lack of credibility discredited the opposition, just as McCarthy did 30 years later. That is one reason Stalin largely got away with the Ukrainian famine and the Great Purge: The reports were dismissed as still more White émigré propaganda.
Yep exactly.
re: #329 EPR-radar
The formal opinion will be some mixture of IOKIYAR and President Man-Baby’s fee-fees Are The Law.
Don’t forget “Obama DOJ did something or other the GOP didn’t like and we consider that precedent to flip Congress the bird!”
re: #330 Chrysicat
How did I only now learn that Trump’s effectively demanding that the presidential election be ‘postponed to 2022’?
Honestly, I saw the headline on Fark, but I didn’t realize that it was serious.
re: #335 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Honestly, I saw the headline on Fark, but I didn’t realize that it was serious.
He RT’d Kid Falwell who very seriously suggested that “because of the attempted coup that stole the lead two years of his term, he deserves an automatic replacement on the end”.
re: #336 Chrysicat
He RT’d Kid Falwell who very seriously suggested that “because of the attempted coup that stole the lead two years of his term, he deserves an automatic replacement on the end”.
Honestly, the Christian Right has me so pissed off right now, any mention of one of the more radical idjits takes me to a very dark place in my head.
I know this. The second a Democratic President takes control of the WH. Every last Congressional Republican and their media allies will suddenly be concerned about executive power and “big government.”
re: #338 HappyWarrior
I know this. The second a Democratic President takes control of the WH. Every last Congressional Republican and their media allies will suddenly be concerned about executive power and “big government.”
If Democrats actually eliminate the filibuster, the screams will be huge.
re: #337 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Honestly, the Christian Right has me so pissed off right now, any mention of one of the more radical idjits takes me to a very dark place in my head.
I know it’s gotta be tough for you since it’s your family. Falwell Jr has no principles at all. He’s just a Republican hack.
re: #336 Chrysicat
He RT’d Kid Falwell who very seriously suggested that “because of the attempted coup that stole the lead two years of his term, he deserves an automatic replacement on the end”.
Yeah well, right after he gives Obama back the 3 years of the stupid birther bullshit.
Did you know when you posted this fake news that Kid Falwell was in the midst of encouraging them to ACTUALLY do it? (Though “table” only means “set aside for killing” in the US, so you need to fix that if you’ll keep satirising US culture).
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 7, 2019
re: #340 HappyWarrior
I know it’s gotta be tough for you since it’s your family. Falwell Jr has no principles at all. He’s just a Republican hack.
It is. And right now I’m a little sore because half the time I’ve spent on Facebook lately has been blocking stupid right wing “DONALD TRUMP IS SAVING AMERICA NOW WE NEED TO SAVE HIM” memes. I’m getting so close to just dropping the “I’m a liberal, fuck all y’all” bomb and being done with it.
re: #339 Belafon
If Democrats actually eliminate the filibuster, the screams will be huge.
Yep, FNC will make it out to be the most tyrannical thing ever. And you know what, it’ll be ugly as hell but the Senate Republicans deserve it after all the sleazy shit McConnell has pulled over the years. There’s almost a small part of me that hopes McConnell wins re-election and he has to watch everything he tried to do be dismantled in front of him but I obviously would rather have McGrath there.
re: #341 The Vicious Babushka
Yeah well, right after he gives Obama back the 3 years of the stupid birther bullshit.
Indeed.
re: #343 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It is. And right now I’m a little sore because half the time I’ve spent on Facebook lately has been blocking stupid right wing “DONALD TRUMP IS SAVING AMERICA NOW WE NEED TO SAVE HIM” memes. I’m getting so close to just dropping the “I’m a liberal, fuck all y’all” bomb and being done with it.
I try so hard not to go out on my few family and friends that support this administration. It’s really tough with my mom’s one cousin since he is honestly a good guy. He helps take care of his one aunt who is over 100 and my grandmother’s sister(his mother) but man he is so wrong on politics.
re: #346 HappyWarrior
I try so hard not to go out on my few family and friends that support this administration. It’s really tough with my mom’s one cousin since he is honestly a good guy. He helps take care of his one aunt who is over 100 and my grandmother’s sister(his mother) but man he is so wrong on politics.
And then my dad’s recent racist rant against one of the Muslim representatives… Argle bargle. I love the man but my God, can he be a royal pain in the ass.
re: #341 The Vicious Babushka
Yeah well, right after he gives Obama back the 3 years of the stupid birther bullshit.
By Donny’s crazed logic, we’re owed six more years of Clinton presidency.
re: #348 Targetpractice
By Donny’s crazed logic, we’re owed six more years of Clinton presidency.
Falwell, Donnie wasn’t stupid enough to think of this on his own. He just agreed with his Evangelical court jester.
re: #333 HappyWarrior
Yep exactly.
It took until 1939 and 3 unbelievably cynical acts to finally awaken western intellectuals to the dangers of communism: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which gave Hitler a free hand against Poland, the co-invasion of Poland with the Nazis, and the attack on Finland that led to the Winter War of 1939-40. The Finns put up a hell of a fight, but they were eventually forced to agree to a Soviet dictated armistice.
So, if they’re saying Trump deserves two more years, because he has been cheated out of them by Mueller et al, doesn’t that mean this is really Obama’s economy, not his?
re: #347 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And then my dad’s recent racist rant against one of the Muslim representatives… Argle bargle. I love the man but my God, can he be a royal pain in the ass.
You should tell him that Representative Omar has been tougher on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia than Trump and the husband of Trump’s one true love is.
re: #350 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
It took until 1939 and 3 unbelievably cynical acts to finally awaken western intellectuals to the dangers of communism: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which gave Hitler a free hand against Poland, the co-invasion of Poland with the Nazis, and the attack on Finland that led to the Winter War of 1939-40. The Finns put up a hell of a fight, but they were eventually forced to agree to a Soviet dictated armistice.
Yep a lot of people were naive as hell about the Communists which is IMO why McCarthyism was such crap.
re: #352 HappyWarrior
You should tell him that Representative Omar has been tougher on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia than Trump and the husband of Trump’s one true love is.
It was Tlaib, but he confused her with Ilhan when he called.
In case you haven’t heard:
The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is warning people of a nationwide phone scam from Sierra Leone.
It’s called the “One Ring” scam. The aim is to have you call the international number back, resulting in high phone charges. DO NOT call the number back. Instead, authorities recommend simply blocking these numbers.
They’re cycling through area codes throughout the country.
re: #291 retired cynic
But, did they find any Starbucks cups?
re: #355 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It was Tlaib, but he confused her with Ilhan when he called.
Ahhh. Speaking of her, I saw that Candece “Nazis were cool until they invaded Poland” Owens saying it would be “funny” if Trump deported her.
Asteroid on a collision course with earth and the Republican answer is “More tax cuts for the rich”.
Yellowstone caldera erupts and the Republican answer is “More tax cuts for the rich”.
North Korea nukes Guam and the Republican answer is “More tax cuts for the rich”.
Someone is constipated and the Republican answer is “More tax cuts for the rich”.
Someone has the Heartbreak of psoriasis and the Republican answer is “More tax cuts for the rich.”
Always the same answer from Republicans!
re: #358 HappyWarrior
Ahhh. Speaking of her, I saw that Candece “Nazis were cool until they invaded Poland” Owens saying it would be “funny” if Trump deported her.
Oy vey, there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.
re: #360 Blind Frog Belly White
Wait - people call back when a number they don’t know comes up on their phone?
Hell, I don’t even ANSWER. I’ve already got enough voicemail from the “Department of Social Security Administration”.
re: #362 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Oy vey, there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.
Yeah I heard TPUSA dumped her after her idiotic comments but she still makes the rounds. One of my distant cousins posted a photo with her and I was so tempted to go off but I decided it wasn’t worth it.
““If we win by four seats, by a thousand votes each, he’s not going to respect the election,” said Ms. Pelosi, recalling her thinking in the run-up to the 2018 elections.
“He would poison the public mind. He would challenge each of the races…”“— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) May 7, 2019
re: #361 Joe Bacon 🌹
Asteroid on a collision course with earth and the Republican answer is “More tax cuts for the rich”.
Yellowstone caldera erupts and the Republican answer is “More tax cuts for the rich”.
North Korea nukes Guam and the Republican answer is “More tax cuts for the rich”.
Someone is constipated and the Republican answer is “More tax cuts for the rich”.
Someone has the Heartbreak of psoriasis and the Republican answer is “More tax cuts for the rich.”Always the same answer from Republicans!
It’s all they have. Tax cuts for the rich is the Republicans “free stuff” to their donor class. The social programs that Democrats support meanwhile are what keeps us from being a neo-feudal society like the GOP dreams of.
re: #362 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Oy vey, there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.
Where do you go when ToiletPaperUSA chucks you out? I guess you go join Katie McHugh and Milo Yanipopolis…Yopadopolis…whats-his-name on the unemployment line.
re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We already knew how he was going to react when he thought he was going to lose in 2016. He is going to the most ungraceful departing President ever.
re: #363 Blind Frog Belly White
Hell, I don’t even ANSWER. I’ve already got enough voicemail from the “Department of Social Security Administration”.
We even put in in a big red banner on Social Security’s webpage telling people to protect themselves from fraudulent callers alleging to be from Social Security and people STILL gladly give out all their personal information to these fraudsters!
re: #360 Blind Frog Belly White
Wait - people call back when a number they don’t know comes up on their phone?
The same people who get conned into sending money to their “grandson” who’s in trouble.
re: #367 Blind Frog Belly White
Where do you go when ToiletPaperUSA chucks you out? I guess you go join Katie McHugh and Milo Yanipopolis…Yopadopolis…whats-his-name on the unemployment line.
I’m sure she’ll find a home and then a few years from now she’ll give an interview to Buzzfeed where she talks about how “shocked” she was to find rampant racism and sexism on the right or she’ll still be doing the same old con.
‘Amy from Georgia’ calls into @cspan and calls Sebastian Gorka a known grifter, propagandist, and provocateur who will not anything to the body politic in any kind of positive way.
“I don’t mind hearing conservative views, I just want them to be accurate, fair, above-board.” pic.twitter.com/AOzxWiY6TK— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) May 6, 2019
re: #368 HappyWarrior
We already knew how he was going to react when he thought he was going to lose in 2016. He is going to the most ungraceful departing President ever.
I don’t care how ungraceful his exit is, as long as it’s an actual EXIT.
I remember when Candece’s pal Charlie and my one friend posted it, posted a meme insisting that Trump had the most women in his cabinet of any President and it took me like two minutes to debunk it. I was nice to him since he’s an old friend but I told him pretty much that he should actually look at facts before he posts stupid political memes because they make him look unintelligent.
re: #372 Belafon
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re: #367 Blind Frog Belly White
Where do you go when ToiletPaperUSA chucks you out? I guess you go join Katie McHugh and Milo Yanipopolis…Yopadopolis…whats-his-name on the unemployment line.
Milo Yeahimadumbass
re: #373 Blind Frog Belly White
I don’t care how ungraceful his exit is, as long as it’s an actual EXIT.
No doubt. Getting Trump gone will be cause for celebration.
re: #373 Blind Frog Belly White
I don’t care how ungraceful his exit is, as long as it’s an actual EXIT.
I fear Trump will insist any election in which he loses is null and void, and he will refuse to leave office. IOW, he’ll pull an Assange and hunker down in the East Wing.
More measles cases in Los Angeles. Infected people hung around Farmer’s Market, The Grove and La Brea Tar Pits…
Thank you so much you ignorant f’m anti-vaxxers!
re: #376 The Vicious Babushka
Milo Yeahimadumbass
Milo Yapedophilaisfunnylol. Milo’s big mistake was thinking that would go over with the right. If he had been talking about underaged girls though, he would still be a prominent figure in the alt-right circle jerk.
It’s early days yet in the Democratic primary. I’m mainly focused on Virginia’s upcoming (June 11th) primary. And now that my house is sold, I’ve been able to do a bit more volunteer work: registering voters at metro, writing postcards, putting together yard signs, baking for canvassing events. But I will donate money to any Democratic candidates who promises NOT to concede the next presidential election until we are certain that every single vote has been counted correctly. We made a big mistake letting the Republicans get away with stealing Florida for Bush in 2000 and Ohio for Bush in 2004. What they (and Putin) learned was that Democrats will fold. And the result was the hacked, stolen election of 2016. Never again. I really don’t care what kind of crisis it precipitates. No more noble sacrifices for the sake of peace. We can’t keep conceding stolen elections. Want my money and my vote? Promise not to concede. - Hecate Demeter
re: #378 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I fear Trump will insist any election in which he loses is null and void, and he will refuse to leave office. IOW, he’ll pull an Assange and hunker down in the East Wing.
Well the Secret Service would have remove him. Despite what he may think, they aren’t his employees.
heh
NEW: @GovMattBevin doesn’t have the votes to call a special session aimed at fixing a pension relief bill he vetoed, lawmakers say. https://t.co/WNA8e1AjK8 #KYGov
— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) May 6, 2019
re: #379 Joe Bacon 🌹
More measles cases in Los Angeles. Infected people hung around Farmer’s Market, The Grove and La Brea Tar Pits…
Thank you so much you ignorant f’m anti-vaxxers!
Oh, yeah. Tourist sites. Places where thousands of transient visitors pass through every day, before visiting another tourist site where thousands of more transients pass through.
It’s the plot of one of those pandemic movies from a few years ago.
re: #381 retired cynic
We got a great shot at taking back the VA House of Delegates and State Senate despite that people aren’t happy with Northam, Fairfax, and Herring. I’m really happy for once though that we have the single term limits though because in 2021, we can go with a new team for the Executive branch.
This is brilliant. Watch all the way to the end. pic.twitter.com/Yw7lLHcFOz
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 6, 2019
re: #382 HappyWarrior
Well the Secret Service would have remove him. Despite what he may think, they aren’t his employees.
He may recruit his buds in ICE or Erik Prince’s goons to stand guard. Trump reminds me so much of a tinpot dictator that nothing at this point would surprise me.
Last September I posted a question here about Justice Kavanaugh’s mortgage records: https://t.co/AUhLgppbRb
Records released today show what the @FBI did with the information after someone sent it in as a tip: https://t.co/50ooiEa6We pic.twitter.com/Jss870lGEF— Steve Reilly (@BySteveReilly) May 6, 2019
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
For Dorango fans, I took Rango for a nice long walk in the park, and he came home and plopped down for a nap.
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everyone here is a Rango fan. It’s in the rules. We also miss the ones that go to heaven. Always. Always. Always.
re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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Perhaps he shouldn’t have pissed away any good will he had with his own party by calling that special session back in December for the purpose of trying to railroad a “fix” through.
re: #387 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
He may recruit his buds in ICE or Erik Prince’s goons to stand guard. Trump reminds me so much of a tinpot dictator that nothing at this point would surprise me.
Yeah I wasn’t afraid of Bush trying a third term like some of the more crazy lefties were in 2008. Bush saw his father lose re-election and I never got the impression that Bush was autocratic in nature. Wrong in policy obviously.
It’s a toss-up as to which he hates more: dark-skinned people or the rule of law. https://t.co/uCwXqtuY91
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) May 7, 2019
Trump is objectively pro murder and pro war crime. https://t.co/1kP9tSEFCE
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 7, 2019
re: #388 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Like so many other things, there is still a lot of questions about Kavanaugh that remain unanswered.
But hey Hillary the hawk and Donald the dove, right? //
So this happened over at Wonkette: They got two threats of lawsuits today.
wonkette.com
The first was from Cindy Yang (the former owner of the spa in Florida involved in the sex crime sting). Wonkette listed her as the owner, but later retracted it as “former owner.” Ms. Yang threatened to sue unless they make a more prominent retraction, which they are complying with.
The weird one is from Don Blankenship, who named several news outlets and Wonkette for tanking his race for West Virginia governor by accurately reporting he went to jail over the deaths of thirty miners.
He actually blamed the deaths in his lawsuit on Obama.
We obtained FEMA records about the contract given to a one-employee company to provide meals in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. The records show that the company only provided 50,000 of the 30 million meals they were contracted for: https://t.co/jskzESndc3 pic.twitter.com/LFsNQL1m9w
— American Oversight (@weareoversight) May 6, 2019
re: #391 HappyWarrior
Yeah I wasn’t afraid of Bush trying a third term like some of the more crazy lefties were in 2008. Bush saw his father lose re-election and I never got the impression that Bush was autocratic in nature. Wrong in policy obviously.
The Bushes, Reagan, Ford, Nixon were all bad (and good) in varying degrees, but there was never a time I suspected any one of them would try to seize power and become a dictator. They respected the office, the Constitution, the Republic and history far too much. Nixon resigned, after all.
Trump, otoh, and the people around him have no such respect. Getting rid of them is going to take a major effort by the Dems in Congress. the FBI, and the voters come November 2020. As Pelosi is quoted as saying, there will need to be a clear majority in the coming election against Trump, or he will try to weasel out of leaving office.
Vote the bums out!
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
I bet that was one enormously pissed off bobcat.
re: #398 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
The Bushes, Reagan, Ford, Nixon were all bad (and good) in varying degrees, but there was never a time I suspected any one of them would try to seize power and become a dictator. They respected the office, the Constitution, the Republic and history far too much. Nixon resigned, after all.
Trump, otoh, and the people around him have no such respect. Getting rid of them is going to take a major effort by the Dems in Congress. the FBI, and the voters come November 2020. As Pelosi is quoted as saying, there will need to be a clear majority in the coming election against Trump, or he will try to weasel out of leaving office.
Vote the bums out!
He can try to weasel out of it. I want to hear the people who think he should be allowed to ignore the results.
re: #392 gocart mozart
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Not surprising, Fox was pimping the story of this “hero” months ago.
The moral of the story is “If you are taken captive by the enemy, you deserve imprisonment and/or execution for ‘treason,’ but if you’re a war criminal then you’re a ‘hero’ who deserves to be pardoned.”
re: #401 Targetpractice
Not surprising, Fox was pimping the story of this “hero” months ago.
The moral of the story is “If you are taken captive by the enemy, you deserve imprisonment and/or execution for ‘treason,’ but if you’re a war criminal then you’re a ‘hero’ who deserves to be pardoned.”
The one thing I remember back when FNC was defending waterboarding and stuff like that was that we considered the guys who did it to our guys war criminals. Basically the whole mantra to the right is “If we do it, it’s cool.” Fox is run and full of people who have never had to put themselves in any sort of real danger. They’re a bunch of sheltered chickenshit cowards.
#MeanwhileinCanada pic.twitter.com/0935Uy9lhy
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) May 7, 2019
re: #402 De Kolta Chair
Dern, I missed the punchline!*
*Dern as in Bruce Dern, the greatest American actor of ‘em all.
re: #384 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Oh, yeah. Tourist sites. Places where thousands of transient visitors pass through every day, before visiting another tourist site where thousands of more transients pass through.
It’s the plot of one of those pandemic movies from a few years ago.
Same up here in Alaska. Cruise ship season has started and who knows what diseases will be imported.
re: #321 HappyWarrior
After the Jewish people, the Nazis’ biggest victims were leftists. I’ve got no love for Communism but the Nazis biggest political targets were Communists and Social Democrats. Anyone who thinks the Nazis were on the left is an uneducated moron who doesn’t want to admit that Nazism was done by a right wing ideology.
You forgot Slavs.
Yo, these outfits at Met Gala are wild!
Ugh, @JanelleMonae always does it right. The talent! The commitment! #MetGala pic.twitter.com/sqtJhBjOkv
— Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) May 7, 2019
me looking at a guy wearing grey sweatpants#MetGala pic.twitter.com/ecbPWS1jfn
— gabe bergado (@gabebergado) May 7, 2019
BELCALIS, PLEASE! @iamcardib did it again 😭❤️🙌🏾 #MetGala pic.twitter.com/pXCDDwLMvX
— Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) May 7, 2019
re: #407 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
You forgot Slavs.
True. Though Slavs are interesting since you had collaborators in some Slavic countries so much that the Nazis actually created puppet states I.e. Croatia and Slovakia but others that were more vehemently Anti-Nazi like Poland.
He disobeyed orders, drove a prisoner to an isolated spot, stripped him naked, and shot him to death in what he says was self defense. https://t.co/LiQi7bihtT
— paul mcleary (@paulmcleary) May 7, 2019
re: #406 Cheechako
Same up here in Alaska. Cruise ship season has started and who knows what diseases will be imported.
While there have been about two dozen measles cases in Hong Kong so far this year, AFAIK there have been none reported on the mainland. Immunizations are mandatory here; no religious or woo-woo exemptions are possible. So, even if a contagious tourist came to China, the effects would be minimal. Or so I hope. China is a very crowded country in some places.
She knows how to get under that thin orange skin
THE MEMO: Pelosi’s “tone-deaf” remarks raise ire of Team Trump https://t.co/i3JyEFg9De pic.twitter.com/ZOBnwoESdj
— The Hill (@thehill) May 7, 2019
re: #413 The Vicious Babushka
She knows how to get under that thin orange skin
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She needs to keep it up. Keep poking him until he opens his fat mouth and incriminates himself.
All I have to say is “A Horse With No Name.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 7, 2019
Go away, Joe. You, too, Bernie. https://t.co/7a5DZStaiS
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) May 7, 2019
re: #411 HappyWarrior
“Self defense.”
Trump pardons former US soldier who killed Iraqi prisoner https://t.co/liTxHQ8NvF
— Howard Altman (@haltman) May 7, 2019
“… Behenna acknowledged during his trial that instead of taking the prisoner home as he was ordered, he took the man to a railroad culvert, stripped him, and then questioned him at gunpoint about a roadside bombing that had killed two members of Behenna’s platoon.
Behenna, … said the man moved toward him and he shot him because Behenna thought he would try to take his gun. …”
re: #417 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Well yeah he was stripped and questioned at gun point. That this guy was made a hero reminds me of the worst responses to My Lai.
re: #360 Blind Frog Belly White
Wait - people call back when a number they don’t know comes up on their phone?
I’ve called a lot of strangers doing political stuff. Yes. Yes, they do.
Time to go to office. BBIAB
re: #410 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Jesus fucking christ. Trump pardoned this guy because what he did was an atrocity.
Every fucking day, every opportunity they have, every interview, every speech, Democrats should be demanding that Donald Trump release his taxes. They should be saying that he must have something to hide. It should be the only fucking thing that anyone can think of. They should get people to show up at Republican town halls to ask why the GOP doesn’t care about Trump’s taxes.
No, you won’t get Trump’s idiot hordes or his Republican lickspittles and ass remoras to turn against him (although you might succeed in getting a little creeping doubt in there). But you know that 75% who didn’t read the Mueller report ain’t just Trump-humpers. There are not only a lot of voters who are on the Democrats’ side who need a rallying point, but there are those who aren’t paying attention at all, who are disengaged, who might just fucking love the clean and clear either/or on Trump’s taxes.
So many of us on the left want Democrats to get savage. But there has to be a cohesive message behind the savagery, one that’s not complex or needs more than a bumper-sticker to explain. This idea is a damn start. Get people paying attention so that when the impeachment hearings start, they’re already on board.
re: #417 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Behenna was paroled in 2014 after serving 5 years of a 15 year sentence. He was supposed to remain on parole until 2024. The pardon releases him from parole and restores ALL of his legal rights, including the right to vote and own firearms.
re: #424 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Behenna was paroled in 2014 after serving 5 years of a 15 year sentence. He was supposed to remain on parole until 2024. The pardon releases him from parole and restores ALL of his legal rights, including the right to vote and own firearms.
So remember, folks, giving a black man who was busted for pot possession his right to vote back would be a massive disservice to the American people.
But giving a war criminal that right back? Well, that’s because he’s a “hero.”
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Well if you have HBO, I would highly recommend Chernobyl. The first show was a definite kick in the gut.
re: #427 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Well if you have HBO, I would highly recommend Chernobyl. The first show was a definite kick in the gut.
I saw the ad for that show during Game of Thrones last night and it piqued my interest. Thanks for the positive recommendation.
re: #427 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Well if you have HBO, I would highly recommend Chernobyl. The first show was a definite kick in the gut.
Good to hear. Gonna check it out.
re: #384 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Oh, yeah. Tourist sites. Places where thousands of transient visitors pass through every day, before visiting another tourist site where thousands of more transients pass through.
It’s the plot of one of those pandemic movies from a few years ago.
That’s how the killer flu spread in Stephen King’s The Stand.
re: #336 Chrysicat
He RT’d Kid Falwell who very seriously suggested that “because of the attempted coup that stole the lead two years of his term, he deserves an automatic replacement on the end”.
the 2 years with an r house and r Senate?
what or who stopped you from doing anything that you wanted?
not Mueller
not the dems
Clinton managed to govern through an actual impeachment
aren’t you like the bestest smartest president ever?
oh and ps…merrick garland
re: #338 HappyWarrior
I know this. The second a Democratic President takes control of the WH. Every last Congressional Republican and their media allies will suddenly be concerned about executive power and “big government.”
don’t forget deficits and the national debt
re: #406 Cheechako
Same up here in Alaska. Cruise ship season has started and who knows what diseases will be imported.
I’ll be up in June, and I promise you’ll get none from me (well, maybe the common cold). I’m thinking of getting a copy of my measles antibody results and carrying it with me in case I’m sharing space with an infected antivax moron.
re: #406 Cheechako
Same up here in Alaska. Cruise ship season has started and who knows what diseases will be imported.
You should only let in Smart cars. /s
re: #409 HappyWarrior
True. Though Slavs are interesting since you had collaborators in some Slavic countries so much that the Nazis actually created puppet states I.e. Croatia and Slovakia but others that were more vehemently Anti-Nazi like Poland.
My point was that Nazi policy called for eliminating them after the Jews and Gypsies were all murdered.
re: #264 Targetpractice
So, does Donny have to go and personally take a shit on Pelosi’s front yard before she decides that letting the man get away with as many crimes as he wants before 2020 is going to lead nowhere good?
I guess so. I love Pelosi but she’s really failing to hold Trump accountable in any meaningful way. He isn’t even pretending to care anymore. He’s going to ignore House Dems right up to the next election.
re: #437 Patricia Kayden
I guess so. I love Pelosi but she’s really failing to hold Trump accountable in any meaningful way. He isn’t even pretending to care anymore. He’s going to ignore House Dems right up to the next election.
It’s certainly not as though the media is holding his feet to the fire, portraying willful refusal to comply with the law as a partisan matter rather than a criminal one. What’s especially galling is that laws being broken are ones created to prevent the sort of corruption that’s going on, yet the media acts as if the violation of them is a matter for debate.
re: #382 HappyWarrior
Well the Secret Service would have remove him. Despite what he may think, they aren’t his employees.
certainly not after Roberts gives the oath to the next guy/gal
re: #436 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
My point was that Nazi policy called for eliminating them after the Jews and Gypsies were all murdered.
Yeah true. Makes the collaboration that existed all the more infuriating. FWIW my grandparents cousins were in Slovakia and Slovenia during the war. Grandpa’s cousins were Partisans.
re: #415 Charles Johnson
Those songs are Mozart & Beethoven compared to this ear garbage: https://t.co/jNt9bXwEdk
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 7, 2019
re: #437 Patricia Kayden
I guess so. I love Pelosi but she’s really failing to hold Trump accountable in any meaningful way. He isn’t even pretending to care anymore. He’s going to ignore House Dems right up to the next election.
As I noted above, this is the second business day since Barr refused to appear. Mnuchin refused to release DT’s tax returns TODAY. I say we should give her another hour or two at least.
re: #443 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
As I noted above, this is the second business day since Barr refused to appear. Mnuchin refused to release DT’s tax returns TODAY. I say we should give her another hour or two at least.
Pelosi is a politician, an Artist of the Possible. (A pretty good one.)
re: #399 plansbandc
I bet that was one enormously pissed off bobcat.
“probably won’t even give me credit for the goal”
House Judiciary Committee investigation of Nixon tax returns, reported by New York Times, April 9, 1974: pic.twitter.com/hTU8XcRLmp
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) May 7, 2019
House Foreign Affairs and Financial Services Committee chairs are demanding from Mnuchin and Pompeo the annual Magnitsky sanctions list – which is now 4 months late – and an explanation for its delay by May 17.@Billbrowder #Maddow https://t.co/tWSUzGpYCB
— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) May 7, 2019
re: #447 jaunte
I find it … interesting? … that I’ve lived long enough to witness two presidential impeachments and probably a third. Yay, America!
re: #449 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I think back to the tv room at the UT Student Union, where the television was drowned out by the students screaming curses at Nixon every time he appeared.
Because everyone needs to hear more of this fascist dirtbag’s opinions. https://t.co/cAtauTR6nz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 7, 2019
re: #448 jaunte
Deadline is May 17. I think Mueller is to appear May 15. I like how the Dems are clustering these important dates and deadlines close to each other, like they’re trying to get the Trump machine off balance.
re: #421 GlutenFreeJesus
Love me some Tool! And finally! New material! Tours!
I saw Umphrey’s McGee cover Tool at Red Rocks some years ago, 46 & 2, the drummer sang.
re: #418 HappyWarrior
Well yeah he was stripped and questioned at gun point. That this guy was made a hero reminds me of the worst responses to My Lai.
I have always believed that the My Lai massacre was not just covered up but planned, or at least instigated, by the higher command and that responsibility probably lies with M/Gen. Samuel Koster, commander of the Americal Division. Koster was in the air above My Lai through most of the morning but claims to have seen nothing. Yet Hugh Thompson and his crew were just flying through the area on an unrelated mission and saw enough that they took the extraordinary (and very dangerous) step of landing to intervene.
My suspicions of Koster actually begin with a series of similar massacres by South Korean troops in Vietnam, both before and after My Lai. It happens that fifteen years earlier during the Korean War, then-Captain Koster had been the US Far East Command’s guerrilla warfare and counter-insurgency officer. Now, Korea was largely a conventional war with fixed lines, but small scale insurgency remained a problem throughout, instigated by infiltrators, surviving pre-war communists and “stay behinds” from NK forces who had nearly occupied the entire country before being forced to retreat in the fall of 1950. The counter-insurgency effort was largely in the hands of South Korean gendarmes and local reserve troops, many of whom were older men who had been trained by the Japanese. There were constant complaints of abuse and brutality though these were mostly, but not entirely, covered up. Koster worked closely with them and would have seen their methods close up. It is interesting that the South Korean commander in Vietnam, Lt/Gen. Chae Myung-shin, was quite vocal in his defense of Lt Calley and the other Americans charged in the My Lai incident.
I think Koster gave certain officers the verbal green light to “go Korean” on the Vietnamese, and the word went down 4 levels of command to reach Calley. It is likely that this was at least suspected by Army investigators since Koster, though never formally charged, was demoted and retired in mild disgrace.
re: #452 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
It’s well past time for them to remember there are many more of us.
re: #443 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
As I noted above, this is the second business day since Barr refused to appear. Mnuchin refused to release DT’s tax returns TODAY. I say we should give her another hour or two at least.
The original deadline for the full, unredacted report came and went 96 hours ago. At which time Nadler, instead of holding a hearing on contempt charges or ordering Barr drug in by his nuts, instead extended the deadline to 9am today as a “final chance.” And now the DOJ wants to co-opt the Wednesday contempt vote by offering to “negotiate” for further access to the “less-redacted” version of the report. You’ll forgive me if I don’t have much confidence that the “Good Ol’ Boys” mentality of D.C. will see Nadler forego another attempt to “negotiate” and push forward with the vote.
re: #441 The Vicious Babushka
I refuse to believe that is a real song.
I usually consider the Washington Post to be a cut above the rest of the access media, but Steve Bannon? Damn.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 7, 2019
re: #457 gocart mozart
I refuse to believe that is a real song.
It’s one of those “For $4,000 you can star in your very own professionally produced music video!” like Rebecca Black’s “Friday, Friday” only stupider.
re: #388 Backwoods_Sleuth
Last September I posted a question here about Justice Kavanaugh’s mortgage records:
In 2005, Judge Kavanaugh had a net worth of $91K, with $10K in the bank and $25K in credit card debt: https://t.co/AyL5LcuwG1.
In Feb. 2006, property records show he took out a $980K mortgage to finance the purchase of a $1,225,000 home — indicating a down payment of $245,000. pic.twitter.com/0BImId8iCs— Steve Reilly (@BySteveReilly) September 20, 2018
…
Records released today show what the @FBI did with the information after someone sent it in as a tip: vault.fbi.gov …
Is anyone investigating how Kavanaugh suddenly acquired this wealth? Or was the original report about his finances inaccurate?
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