Partially based off the versions by Jeff Buckley and Per-Olov Kindgren!
A video from last summer, arranged and recorded for my mum’s birthday :) Playing with me this time is my amazing camera guy and fellow Weimar Guitar Quartet member Jakob Schmidt!
Spinning circle of death. Will reboot tomorrow. ”Nite, all.
Richard Pryor could barely spend $30 million in 30 days even with the help of John Candy and a huge coke addiction https://t.co/Q7uOU0ZSQR
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) May 8, 2019
Iran announces partial withdrawal from nuclear deal.
Precisely what Bolton and Booby Nincompoopo want so they can go to war…
Iran will announce its partial withdrawal from the nuclear deal signed with world powers, a year after Donald Trump pulled out of the agreement signed in 2015, Tehran has announced.
Wednesday’s “reciprocal measures” will be formally conveyed to ambassadors to countries remaining inside the deal - France, Britain, Germany, China and Russia. Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will separately set out the technical and legal details in a letter to the EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini.
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has been under intense domestic political pressure to produce some kind of countermeasure following the US withdrawal.
Tehran has lost patience with Europe’s efforts to create a new viable financial mechanism that would allow European firms to continue trading items such as medicines and humanitarian goods with Iran and circumvent US secondary sanctions.
Beautiful. One of my all time favorite songs.
Fox News hasn’t said much about the Times article yet, so Trump probably doesn’t even know about it. Who’s gonna tell him?
He’ll probably start the serious ranting tomorrow morning early, after he finds out from Steve Doocy.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2019
Not a fan of that song at all. In any form.
Let’s make this go viral, shall we?#BillionDollarLoser #Resist #Resistance #ObstructionOfJustice pic.twitter.com/h9vxvP08gD
— Nope. (@CrankyMcWonker) May 8, 2019
He texted a friend that “black people are idiots,” and referred to Tampa Bay quarterback Jameis Winston as a thug n-word.
Yet commented for this story that “those who know my heart, know that I am nothing even remotely resembling a racist.”https://t.co/qPVPsZFoO3 https://t.co/jFfOvSXaoh— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) May 6, 2019
re: #3 goddamnedfrank
Matt Oswalt:
Richard Pryor could barely spend $30 million in 30 days even with the help of John Candy and a huge coke addiction
That would be a higher rate of loss than Trump: 1 million a day translates to 365 million a year and then to 3.65 million in 10 years, which does exceed Trump’s outsized billion dollar loss over that period, assuming it’s a real loss and not some illegal tax manipulation that is concealing ill-gotten gains over that same period.
re: #9 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
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He talks that way regularly. That’s why it’s hard for him to remember.
I’m sure most racists, if you ask them, would deny being racists.
Got massively CL’d on the last thread (which I think may be a first for me, praise Aminah, PBUH…)
Anyway - on the topic of the soon-to-be-former New Orleans Times-Picayune…
The T-P situation is way more complicated than some of the simplistic reporting out there. The T-P didn’t sell out/fold because nobody in New Orleans wanted to read a newspaper. It failed because people in NOLA *did* want to read a daily newspaper and the T-P’s ownership bet that they didn’t. A few years ago, the Newhouse ownership radically trimmed back the T-P, printing only three days a week and going digital-only on other days. In most markets these days, you get away with that because you have no competition.
In NOLA, though, there was competition. The Baton Rouge paper, the Advocate, got a new owner who aggressively targeted New Orleans, starting a new edition there that printed and home delivered seven days a week. Turned out readers wanted that, and they supported the New Orleans Advocate pretty strongly - so much so, in fact, that it was the Advocate that ended up buying out the weakened T-P. But again, the T-P was weakened because its out-of-town ownership made the wrong bet against people still wanting print. Print actually won. And it’s likely that the Advocate will absorb at least some of the T-P’s remaining journalists once the sale closes and they’re able to do so.
Fox News hasn’t said much about the Times article yet, so Trump probably doesn’t even know about it. Who’s gonna tell him?
He’ll probably start the serious ranting tomorrow morning early, after he finds out from Steve Doocy.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 8, 2019
I am sick and tired of mass shootings in my home state. I’m also kind of numb. Goddamnit! A mass shooting took place at a school in my home state on my birthday. Fuck the Second Amendment right in the ear.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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My money is on a replay of the partial tax release from ‘16, i.e. claiming that the Times is either pitching a total fabrication or they illegally acquired the returns and need to out their source for breaking the law.
I’m leaning towards a MacBook Pro. Is the Touch Bar worth the extra few hundred dollars?
re: #15 teleskiguy
I am sick and tired of mass shootings in my home state. I’m also kind of numb. Goddamnit! A mass shooting took place at a school in my home state on my birthday. Fuck the Second Amendment right in the ear.
Virginia Tech grad here. Yup.
re: #18 unproven innocence
Virginia Tech grad here. Yup.
I saw the film ‘Inception’ at the same cinema where 50 people were shot and 12 killed, including a 5-year-old girl.
It’s fucking madness.
Mnuchin broke recent precedent for Treasury secretaries and spoke at a Trump campaign fundraiser, addressing a group of top donors that included industry executives his department regulates, @myhlee @damianpaletta & @jdawsey1 report https://t.co/0G9i0NqMh2
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) May 7, 2019
re: #17 teleskiguy
I’m leaning towards a MacBook Pro. Is the Touch Bar worth the extra few hundred dollars?
I have the latest MacBook Air that works fine for me even though it only has an i5 dual core processor.
This is pretty much my only outlet right now to vent my rage in re: mass shootings.
I’ve never called any other state home my entire life. Colorado is part of my identity. I was a junior in high school when Columbine happened just a hundred miles to the east. And I remember too many fucking other times in this state where multiple people are shot, usually with guns legally obtained.
I’m at the point right now where I think we should just goddamn fucking abolish the Second Amendment. I’m also this close to taking my three guns to my local law enforcement to be destroyed.
re: #21 Joe Bacon 🌹
I have the latest MacBook Air that works fine for me even though it only has an i5 dual core processor.
If I’m doing this, I’m going with the Pro. My mother and sister are buying it for me.
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Nadler says in statement Barr contempt vote tomorrow is still on: “In the coming days, I expect that Congress will have no choice but to confront the behavior of this lawless Administration. The Committee will also take a hard look at the officials who are enabling this cover up” https://t.co/oOzUTxlVL1
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 8, 2019
#BREAKING: Responding to the DOJ’s letter earlier tonight, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler says the committee is not backing down and will proceed with the vote to hold AG Barr in contempt on Wednesday at 10 AM.
1/ pic.twitter.com/N6HARvKQ03— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) May 8, 2019
re: #24 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
Nadler to Barr: Come at me, bro!
re: #24 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
Finally somebody got a backbone to stand up to the RepubliKKKlans.
We now know that Trump is deliberately doing this because he wants the House to impeach him. He knows that McConnell will block a trial in the Senate. This is all just more red meat thrown to the white trash base of the RepubliKKKlan Party.
re: #27 Joe Bacon 🌹
Not sure McConnell can block a trial. He can probably shape the outcome easy enough, with the help of his fellow Republicans.
re: #28 freetoken
Not sure McConnell can block a trial. He can probably shape the outcome easy enough, with the help of his fellow Republicans.
He’s broken every other rule in the Senate. He knows every Republican will back him no matter what he does. Even if he does a Chuck C Johnson and dumps on the Senate floor every Republican will continue to back him!
re: #28 freetoken
Not sure McConnell can block a trial. He can probably shape the outcome easy enough, with the help of his fellow Republicans.
Yeah but at least we can get all those assholes on the record.
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s not a “rule”, though. The Senate must try if the House impeaches. So it’s not even an option to not do it. All McConnell can do is shape how it proceeds.
re: #24 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
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The timeline provided shows something that I didn’t know because the media hasn’t covered it. While they’ve made a big deal about how the DOJ allowed a handful of Dems the chance to see the “less-redacted” version of the Report, they haven’t reported that one of the DOJ’s terms for doing so is they cannot discuss anything seen in the report with any other member of Congress, even those with the necessary security clearance.
re: #17 teleskiguy
I don’t know about the touch-bar worth, but the macbook pro is a nice piece of hardware*. You can get the same or better for less money without the Apple logo (and OS), but if price is not an issue …
* I used a mc pro for a few years for work because my employer gave it to me. I’m not a big Apple fan, but I have to admit it was a nice machine.
re: #31 freetoken
It’s not a “rule”, though. The Senate must try if the House impeaches. So it’s not even an option to not do it. All McConnell can do is shape how it proceeds.
Note how the Senate tries judicial impeachments when a dozen Senators review the evidence. I would not be surprised to see McConnell put a dozen Republicans on the review panel to kill it.
follow-up to my earlier post on China tariffs.
When President Trump put tariffs on billions of dollars in Chinese imports last year, he said it would help American workers and boost U.S. businesses.
To see how these tariffs have played out on the ground, @LauraSullivaNPR went to Ohio. #frontlinePBS pic.twitter.com/bjnBQ8K1a5— FRONTLINE (@frontlinepbs) May 8, 2019
But President Trump’s tariffs ended up raising the price of American steel, too. An Ohio-based business man told us he had to pass on the cost to his customers. #frontlinePBS pic.twitter.com/XS0g6w5uWO
— FRONTLINE (@frontlinepbs) May 8, 2019
One manufacturer in Ohio told @LauraSullivaNPR his sales to China have dropped and costs of raw materials from China have risen — leading to “several million dollars of profit lost.” #frontlinePBS pic.twitter.com/QyEuOf055r
— FRONTLINE (@frontlinepbs) May 8, 2019
Another thing I’m considering. I’ve only owned Apple mobile devices (an iPhone 4S, an iPhone Xr, and an iPad 2) but never a computer computer. All the desktops and laptops I’ve owned used some form of Windows as the OS. I’m wondering if the learning curve for the Mac OS is steep? I’ve used Macs before, but never as my personal computer.
Has this been posted yet?
One of the greatest, and most apt, quotes about Trump ever:
“The former official said he doesn’t think Trump is playing ‘the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he’s just eating the pieces.’” https://t.co/kdyV3TOwur— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 7, 2019
re: #22 teleskiguy
This is pretty much my only outlet right now to vent my rage in re: mass shootings.
I’ve never called any other state home my entire life. Colorado is part of my identity. I was a junior in high school when Columbine happened just a hundred miles to the east. And I remember too many fucking other times in this state where multiple people are shot, usually with guns legally obtained.
I’m at the point right now where I think we should just goddamn fucking abolish the Second Amendment. I’m also this close to taking my three guns to my local law enforcement to be destroyed.
I get the frustration with mass murders. We had the Westroads Mall mass murder in Omaha in 2007, the deadliest mass-murder in Nebraska in sixty years (my wife and I didn’t live here at the time, we were in Oklahoma).
I still call Michigan home (since that’s where I mostly grew up, double entendre intended). Only a few miles south of where I grew up was the deadliest mass-murder in a school (the Bath School Bombing in 1927, which still stands as the worst in the USA).
Getting rid of the II Amendment won’t fix this. If the II Amendment is not in place, then states will get to write their own laws without federal oversight.
What’s needed is to enforce federal laws and authority which the II Amendment grants. Everything from getting rid of that moronic talking point about the first clause being a preamble or something with no force, to repealing the law which says the “militia is every able-bodied male aged 17-45.”
law.cornell.edu
Leave it to Maggie to mix her metaphor.
re: #37 teleskiguy
Mac OS is the bunny hill of operating systems, so not steep :) Seriously though, it is different than Windows, but in many ways simpler. I would not worry about it. If you can do Windows you can do Mac OS.
re: #38 Teukka
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One idiot retweeting another.
As for Phony George Conway I don’t believe anything that partisan prick tweets.
re: #42 Joe Bacon 🌹
One idiot retweeting another.
As for Phony George Conway I don’t believe anything that partisan prick tweets.
I wasn’t embedding it because it was Conway, more because of the tasty quote…
Tuesday marked 57 days without an on-camera press briefing at the White House. Wednesday will be day 58. This is a record…https://t.co/CabFC5zWwz
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 8, 2019
Most transparent administration ever.
All is well.
Iran pulls out of ‘parts of nuclear deal’ https://t.co/yLUI4r7vle
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 8, 2019
“President Trump says that his protectionist trade policies have accelerated economic growth, but little evidence supports that claim.” via @jimtankersley https://t.co/IsoBZE4Gip
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) May 7, 2019
re: #46 TedStriker
And Bolton rubs his hands in sadistic glee.
Yep…..Bolton is looking for anything that could even remotely serve as a casus belli.
Taibbi has gone full Greenwald.
Taibbi’s conspiracy theory is that editors are deep state agents telling reporters how to write stories on behalf of nefarious powers that be. He has to know better than this. https://t.co/zAyT6l2XSL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2019
Never go full Greenwald.
re: #37 teleskiguy
Another thing I’m considering. I’ve only owned Apple mobile devices (an iPhone 4S, an iPhone Xr, and an iPad 2) but never a computer computer. All the desktops and laptops I’ve owned used some form of Windows as the OS. I’m wondering if the learning curve for the Mac OS is steep? I’ve used Macs before, but never as my personal computer.
I’d say not so much — some small differences in keyboard commands, and that’s really about it.
I found this about the TouchBar, which might help.
Sometimes these two can be amusing when they poke fun at each other and their respective universes.
Gonna have a loooong talk with Anakin about his boy…🙄 https://t.co/ieT5GaTxUd
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) May 8, 2019
Portland area man sentenced after trying to bribe an @ICEgov agent to deport his wife. pic.twitter.com/DTDVubl1gz
— Michel Marizco (@BorderReporter) May 7, 2019
Photoshopped, but a nice touch.
The original Jedis! 📸: @felixkunze #MaytheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay pic.twitter.com/FX8l2PSVB0
— Michael Collins (@AstroMCollins) May 4, 2019
We send strength & support to the state of Colorado & the Highlands Ranch community after today’s #StemShooting.
Nobody should experience this type of fear, not on our streets or in our schools.
We must work together to put an end to #GenerationLockdown.pic.twitter.com/t7ZbXoTCBy— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) May 8, 2019
re: #4 Joe Bacon 🌹
Iran announces partial withdrawal from nuclear deal.
Precisely what Bolton and Booby Nincompoopo want so they can go to war…
As Executive, DT has a lot of aces up his sleeve, he is preparing to start pulling them out once Congress increases pressure on him to investigate his activities.
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As Executive, DT has a lot of aces up his sleeve, he is preparing to start pulling them out once Congress increases pressure on him to investigate his activities.
This is Donald Trump, the guy who’s executive orders keep getting overturned by the courts.
He can’t tell an ace from a deuce.
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹
This is Donald Trump, the guy who’s executive orders keep getting overturned by the courts.
He can’t tell an ace from a deuce.
He can order our armed forces into combat at any time.
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹
This is Donald Trump, the guy who’s executive orders keep getting overturned by the courts.
He can’t tell an ace from a deuce.
Not executive orders. I think Wendell means that Trump will attempt some sort of military action against Iran as a means of distracting or delaying any investigations.
>> He can’t tell an ace from a deuce.
> He can order our armed forces into combat at any time.
Sadly, both these things are true :/
re: #58 Dr Lizardo
Not executive orders. I think Wendell means that Trump will attempt some sort of military action against Iran as a means of distracting or delaying any investigations.
Iran and/or Venezuela.
Hey, look what happened on my 10th birthday! It was pretty sweet when the United States had its own launch vehicle to get humans into space. Those were the days. https://t.co/Rxh6hw2q8d
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 8, 2019
re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Iran and/or Venezuela.
Porque no los dos? after all. At least, we know he won’t try to invade Russia as previous despots tried to do.
Thread …
.@SenSchumer: “I have just listened to the Majority Leader engage in an astounding bit of whitewashing… It’s sort of like Richard Nixon saying let’s move on at the height of the investigation of his wrongdoing. Of course [McConnell] wants to move on. He wants to cover up.” pic.twitter.com/JzaiNzNNPd
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 7, 2019
re: #62 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Porque no los dos? after all. At least, we know he won’t try to invade Russia as previous despots tried to do.
depends on the degree of the perceived threat (to his administration, that is)
must get to work hiking a group of American tourists up a hill in Boppard on the Rhine.
laterz
re: #61 teleskiguy
The US human space program is an example of poor follow-through. We could have leveraged our landing on the Moon for ongoing commercial and scientific purposes, even cooperated with other nations to make it possible. We could have re-engineered and improved the Space Shuttles to maintain our ability to ferry people and cargo into LEO. But, without the support of Congress and the White House, NASA would never have the budget to continue such activities. Trump’s “Space Force” is a total joke, meanwhile. It’s just a cheap ploy to give Trump an excuse to slap his name on something. It’ll never get funding, and will soon be forgotten along with all his other great initiatives, like his Greatest Health Care Plan Evah.
re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
depends on the degree of the perceived threat (to his administration, that is)
must get to work hiking a group of American tourists up a hill in Boppard on the Rhine.
laterz
And I must get to work leading a group of Chinese students up the mountain of English learning near the Yellow River.
So the last thing Fuckface Von Clownstick tweeted tonight was… a retweet of the official White House account of a video of him… get this… awarding Tiger Woods the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That was on Sunday.
re: #68 teleskiguy
“… awarding Tiger Woods, his business partner, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.”
I have to give Tiger Woods a little credit with his remarks. He only praised Fuckface Von Clownstick once, right at the end, with a simple “Thank you Mr. President.” The rest of the remarks were on point for the award he was given, including listing the other golfers that have been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and how he named his son Charlie after one of those golfers. The remarks were oddly moving.
And I fucking hate golf.
More taking credit for what the black guy did.
President Trump suggests waiver allowing service academy athletes to turn pro earlier (CBS Sports)
Kind of CBS not to mention what really happened here.
In 2016, President Obama issued a waiver for service academy personnel to participate in professional sports prior to their service obligation.
In 2017, Donald Trump rescinded that permission, because ni*CLANG.
Now, Trump promotes it as his idea, and CBS goes right along with that.
I’ve worked at three different country clubs in my day, most recently last summer. And I never last more than a few months before I just fucking…
These golfing assholes, man.
Fuckface Von Clownstick: How was that Lindsey Vonn tail, eh?
Tiger Woods: Um, well…
FVC: Those legs! And that ass! You gotta be kidding me!
TW: Well, I haven’t seen her in years, so…
FVC: You’re black, right? But you get all the best white tail! Amazing, really.
TW: Actually, I never really saw her, she was y’know, ski racing.
FVC: Lindsey’s a ski racer?!?
A new #SpiderMan Far From Home clip confirms the MCU is the Earth-616 universe in the multiverse https://t.co/Vxic8LZ0lB pic.twitter.com/rQxh1Emzz5
— Screen Rant (@screenrant) May 7, 2019
Even Sarah Palin (R-fool) managed to catch a blind acorn once or twice:
It’s very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head.
A couple years ago, the other NRA (the National Restaurant Association) held its annual convention here in Omaha.
That NRA stands behind restaurateurs who choose to prohibit open carry in their places of business.
Nebraska, like Texas, is an open-carry state. Unlike Texas, we don’t have nutbars parading around with rifles which look like they came out of a fantasy war magazine.
Open Carry Texas decided it was going to picket the sane NRA in Omaha, and tried to get a whole lot of local people in Nebraska and Iowa to show up for their picket.
No local people at all showed up. It was just four or five nutbars from Texas being studiously ignored by people here and being closely watched by the police.
Other than police officers, I have only ever seen people open carry firearms around here if they were out hunting, and only one time in the general store here in town (a rancher who’d come in from work to get some drinks for his workers and immediately left after his purchase).
Trump is going to blow his stack tomorrow morning. Over on Twitter where he lives, the hashtag BillionDollarLoser is trending.
3.64 million tweets and 5.63 million RTs used #SaveLucifer between May 8, 2018 and April 8, 2019, per @twittertv!
It’s been a long time coming, but 10 new episodes are all yours in under 10 hours. We hope #Lucifans around the world truly love Season 4 — you worked hard for it!— Netflix US (@netflix) May 7, 2019
Thread, eight tweets.
Thread
People ask me, “Why doesn’t the @GOP want to solve problems?”
Because problems = Power & Control.
If we had a fair legal immigration system that works, how do they use fear & bigotry to win elections?
If we had a fair & equitable tax system, how would they …— Proud Navy Veteran 🎖️🌊⚓️ (@naretevduorp) February 24, 2019
Does Jerry Falwell, Jr.’s “friendship” with a pool guy have anything to do with Michael Cohen “fixing” a problem with some racy photos? Confession time, Falwell. https://t.co/vgUNHem2b6
— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) May 7, 2019
re: #78 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
Crap. We won’t get to see them then, since the closest thing we have is Hulu. (Unless Netflix later puts those episodes on Hulu, which I doubt.)
re: #74 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
spoilers??
Well, it appears they’re done negotiating.
BREAKING: Wednesday at 10 a.m. @HouseJudiciary to markup contempt report for AG Barr after DOJ rejects Committee’s counteroffer to view hidden sections of Special Counsel Mueller’s report. https://t.co/BOVLeUoXpi pic.twitter.com/39PyYRLruC
— House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) May 8, 2019
re: #74 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
Here’s a bit of trivia - in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man film series, those who’ve seen it will recall that Bruce Campbell popped up in cameo appearances in all three flicks.
According to Jeff Henderson, who worked on the storyboarding for what was going to Raimi’s fourth Spider-Man film (it wound up getting cancelled), Bruce Campbell was going to be revealed as Quentin Beck/Mysterio.
That would’ve been great.
LOL
The description of the sexy Falwell photos as the kind that would normally be kept “between husband and wife” is so perfect.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) May 8, 2019
“And do you, Jerry Falwell, Jr. promise to keep all your racy photos between you and your lawfully wedded wife?”
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) May 8, 2019
The comments are hilarious.
Watching Lucifer now. 4K HDR 5.1 Dolby. looks and sounds good.
re: #88 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
Watching Lucifer now. 4K HDR 5.1 Dolby. looks and sounds good.
I hate you.
(No, not really.)
Today is VE Day.
Turns out we still have Nazis to defeat.
Deadspin figuratively flays Trump for resurrecting Obama’s idea of allowing service academy sportsball folks to participate in professional sports, after he killed it.
deadspin.com
Invoking your executive privilege after publication is akin to invoking your virginity after pregnancy. https://t.co/09lSaukMIS
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) May 8, 2019
An indictment of capitalism …
People are creating “caravans” to Canada for more affordable insulin https://t.co/krkoFGY566 pic.twitter.com/YXqvKLEwjV
— The Hill (@thehill) May 7, 2019
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹
An indictment of capitalism …
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I’ve been trying to convince my stepson and his wife to visit Canada for her insulin supplies. No luck yet, as she would first have to get a passport, and he might have to renew his. They are both covered by the VA, so maybe there’s not enough financial incentive to travel that far.
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹
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Which is what Bristol Palin did when she became an advocate for abstinence after having a baby out of wedlock. Republicans are amazing.
re: #96 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I’ve been trying to convince my stepson and his wife to visit Canada for her insulin supplies. No luck yet, as she would first have to get a passport, and he might have to renew his. They are both covered by the VA, so maybe there’s not enough financial incentive to travel that far.
My wife uses Metformin. For now, CHAMPUS pays for that. I imagine if the company which manufacturers that could get away with it, they’d do the same as has been done with insulin for type 1 diabetics.
Driving to Canada from here is a long haul, 656 miles to the border with Saskatchewan.
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹
My wife uses Metformin. For now, CHAMPUS pays for that. I imagine if the company which manufacturers that could get away with it, they’d do the same as has been done with insulin for type 1 diabetics.
Driving to Canada from here is a long haul, 656 miles to the border with Saskatchewan.
They have a camping trailer (that hasn’t left the driveway, AFAIK) and a SUV to pull it, so it would be a long haul for them, too, but maybe a fun one.
Trouble is, they have two dogs and four cats, plus a coop full of chickens, so I’m not sure they’re up for long haul travels atm.
re: #99 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
They have a camping trailer (that hasn’t left the driveway, AFAIK) and a SUV to pull it, so it would be a long haul for them, too, but maybe a fun one.
Trouble is, they have two dogs and four cats, plus a coop full of chickens, so I’m not sure they’re up for long haul travels atm.
I think I see the problem here. It’s the SUV and caravan, correct? /s
Looks like Asia Bibi has made it to Canada, where she’s been granted asylum.
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#Math
To lose $1 billion over 10 years…
- Trump lost $11,416 per hour
- Trump lost $274,000 every single day
- Trump lost $8.3 million every month
- Trump lost $100 million every year
For a decade.— Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson) May 8, 2019
Canned water brand Liquid Death claims to have a punk sensibility, but it’s unlikely to scream “anarchy.” Capitalism might be more appropriate.
The start-up just raised $1.6 million in seed funding, thanks to its marketing expertise. From its name to the melted skull on the front of the can, Liquid Death sells itself as the punk option for bottled water drinkers, saying it will “murder your thirst.”
“We started Liquid Death with the diabolical plan to completely obliterate bottled water marketing cliches by taking the world’s healthiest beverage and making it just as funny and stupid and entertaining as the unhealthy brands across energy drinks, soda and beer,” the company says on its website.
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Lots of libertarians to separate from their money, including one of the co-founders of Twitter.
re: #101 Dr Lizardo
Looks like Asia Bibi has made it to Canada, where she’s been granted asylum.
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We used to lead the way on things like this but Trump doesn’t think asylum should exist.
Watching restoration of old 80s-90s era PCs and just shaking my head at what used to be considered “cutting edge” back in the day.
re: #37 teleskiguy
Another thing I’m considering. I’ve only owned Apple mobile devices (an iPhone 4S, an iPhone Xr, and an iPad 2) but never a computer computer. All the desktops and laptops I’ve owned used some form of Windows as the OS. I’m wondering if the learning curve for the Mac OS is steep? I’ve used Macs before, but never as my personal computer.
As an iPhone/iPad lover and a Windows user I can only say this… The commands you use on Mac OS **SUCK** and learning and using them is very hard. An example is: taking a screenshot requires like a FOUR FINGER command which makes your fingers feel like they’re playing Twister.
I still have a Mac Air but literally never use it.
If you’re not doing graphics and such, I suggest sticking with what you know. FWIW.
re: #84 freetoken
In case you’re ever on a quiz show and have to identify the national anthem of Monaco:
We even visited Monaco, saw the whole country in one afternoon.
Trump: ‘in the 1980s all developers had negative worth because that’s how you got tax write-offs; it was sport! Oh, also—fake news! didn’t happen.’
I’m tired of bitching about Dems not impeaching. I don’t think they should now; public isn’t there yet. They need more documentary/testimonial proof. And they’re in the process of getting it! Make a stronger case to the public, _then_ impeach, even if it won’t pass the Senate
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) May 8, 2019
I agree with this. Impeachment will not happen without full public support. That doesn’t mean that people like Warren and the others calling for impeachment should shut up. What it does mean is that if you’re yelling for impeachment, don’t get all pissed at Democrats because it hasn’t happened yesterday.
The point of impeachment is to get the evidence out on the table for the nation to see
then let Trump go apeshit trying to explain it all away
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The point of impeachment is to get the evidence out on the table for the nation to see
then let Trump go apeshit trying to explain it all away
Precisely. Nixon had weathered months of investigations and bruising court rulings, such that the public didn’t feel impeachment was warranted. But after a few weeks of impeachment hearings, the GOP was convinced that the DNC had the votes to impeach and possibly remove him from office.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹
Trump’s simultaneously claiming it’s fake news, and confirming that he took massive and exaggerated losses to minimize his tax burden.
Except that he didn’t just minimize his tax burden.
He took NOLs for more than a decade and took more losses as an individual taxpayer than just about every other American during that period. The IRS keeps those stats, and it found that Trump repeatedly claimed the most losses among high income earners. That’s not normal.
And now that he’s admitting that he potentially exaggerated those losses, the IRS could open civil fraud investigation into those old returns (because there’s no actual SOL on civil tax fraud; criminal tax fraud does have a SOL, however).
Everything Trump does is a scam, and even when he tries to cover for one scam, he reveals others.
re: #114 lawhawk
Trump’s simultaneously claiming it’s fake news, and confirming that he took massive and exaggerated losses to minimize his tax burden.
Except that he didn’t just minimize his tax burden.
He took NOLs for more than a decade and took more losses as an individual taxpayer than just about every other American during that period. The IRS keeps those stats, and it found that Trump repeatedly claimed the most losses among high income earners. That’s not normal.
And now that he’s admitting that he potentially exaggerated those losses, the IRS could open civil fraud investigation into those old returns (because there’s no actual SOL on civil tax fraud; criminal tax fraud does have a SOL, however).
Everything Trump does is a scam, and even when he tries to cover for one scam, he reveals others.
I’m sure before week’s end, we’ll see a revival of how Trump was “smart” to commit tax fraud, that “all the rich do it,” and the wingnuts lauding him as an icon of the modern American businessman for lying to the IRS to avoid “high” taxes.
re: #97 Patricia Kayden
Which is what Bristol Palin did when she became an advocate for abstinence after having a baby out of wedlock. Republicans are amazing.
…twice…
You know, when Paul Manafort’s insane over the top purchases were made public, like that nasty ostrich jacket, something occurred to me. These rich fucks would rather literally wipe their asses with cash and set it on fire than pay taxes.And mostly it seems because they don’t want “their” money to help anyone but other rich people. Reading through some of the Manafort crap, it appears he made those dumb purchases as part of laundering but also to spend down cash he didn’t want to report. Manafort isn’t just some one off rich fuck either. There’s lots more where he and Trump came from. It’s so gross and disgusting, the whole lot of them. They deserve to live with nothing but misery.
re: #118 A Mom Anon
You know, when Paul Manafort’s insane over the top purchases were made public, like that nasty ostrich jacket, something occurred to me. These rich fucks would rather literally wipe their asses with cash and set it on fire than pay taxes.And mostly it seems because they don’t want “their” money to help anyone but other rich people. Reading through some of the Manafort crap, it appears he made those dumb purchases as part of laundering but also to spend down cash he didn’t want to report. Manafort isn’t just some one off rich fuck either. There’s lots more where he and Trump came from. It’s so gross and disgusting, the whole lot of them. They deserve to live with nothing but misery.
Makes me want to support a maximum wage for the rich where nobody can net more than 80% of the President’s salary. If you can’t make ends meet on $320K a year, tighten your belt…
Again, we’re reminded of just how utterly fucking ridiculous the media’s total obsession with Bill & Hillary’s finances really was. They offered over a decade of transparency for not only their own personal finances, but that of their Foundation, and all we got was “Look at all the foreign money they’re accepting! How can they be this rich and not owe favors to others!”
The TOTAL endowment of the Clinton Foundation… an amount so outrageously large that RWNJ’s and everyone susceptible to their propaganda thought nobody could ever possibly amass that much legitimately…
that’s how much Trump lost EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. for 10 years.
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹
I get the frustration with mass murders. We had the Westroads Mall mass murder in Omaha in 2007, the deadliest mass-murder in Nebraska in sixty years (my wife and I didn’t live here at the time, we were in Oklahoma).
I still call Michigan home (since that’s where I mostly grew up, double entendre intended). Only a few miles south of where I grew up was the deadliest mass-murder in a school (the Bath School Bombing in 1927, which still stands as the worst in the USA).
Getting rid of the II Amendment won’t fix this. If the II Amendment is not in place, then states will get to write their own laws without federal oversight.
What’s needed is to enforce federal laws and authority which the II Amendment grants. Everything from getting rid of that moronic talking point about the first clause being a preamble or something with no force, to repealing the law which says the “militia is every able-bodied male aged 17-45.”
law.cornell.edu
Plus consequential laws of responsibility and accountability
Happy 74th Nazis be gone from power in Europe day.
Very helpful for understanding this week’s news on China-US trade negotiations. https://t.co/zvBQ3IIMFv
— Kate Brannen (@K8brannen) May 8, 2019
such a moron
….you would get it by building, or even buying. You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes….almost all real estate developers did - and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport. Additionally, the very old information put out is a highly inaccurate Fake News hit job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2019
….Guess what, that’s not going to happen! China has just informed us that they (Vice-Premier) are now coming to the U.S. to make a deal. We’ll see, but I am very happy with over $100 Billion a year in Tariffs filling U.S. coffers…great for U.S., not good for China!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2019
“The real “Obstruction of Justice” is what the Democrats are trying to do to this Attorney General.” Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). @MariaBartiromo
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2019
“Shouldn’t 2015 and 2016 be revealed, how Intelligence Agencies, FBI, tried to sabotage a particular campaign - never been done before?” @SteveForbesCEO @MariaBartiromo
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2019
Well, the Nazi is getting out of jail
Release Terms Set for Coast Guard Officer Called ‘Terrorist’ https://t.co/PQFs0oCvAZ
re: #118 A Mom Anon
You know, when Paul Manafort’s insane over the top purchases were made public, like that nasty ostrich jacket, something occurred to me. These rich fucks would rather literally wipe their asses with cash and set it on fire than pay taxes.And mostly it seems because they don’t want “their” money to help anyone but other rich people. Reading through some of the Manafort crap, it appears he made those dumb purchases as part of laundering but also to spend down cash he didn’t want to report. Manafort isn’t just some one off rich fuck either. There’s lots more where he and Trump came from. It’s so gross and disgusting, the whole lot of them. They deserve to live with nothing but misery.
People like that. My Dad always called that kind of money “fuck you money”, that pretty much is the kind of people Trump surrounds himself with. It says something about our media that Trump, a pampered brat who couldn’t even describe a sacrifice he made got out to be made the champion of the everyman and Clinton, teh hardworking and self made woman got made out to be a tool of the elites, the same elites that Trump surrounds himself with and makes policy to benefit.
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
such a moron
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Quoting Jim Jordan isn’t going to make you look good to anyone who isn’t already so far up your ass that they’re in Narnia.
The FBI didn’t try to sabotage him. They found his campaign in bed with the Russian operatives they were investigating. That hack Maria knows this and is again lying to make President Poopymants happy. Trump again continues to deny that the Russians interfered let alone that they interfered to his benefit. Dumbass really thinks he won this thing through his own gifts and merit. Nope Donald, you’re a beneficiary of Vlad and you govern as such.
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹
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Lots of libertarians to separate from their money, including one of the co-founders of Twitter.
“it will “murder your thirst.”
Wait, wasn’t that the Brawndo slogan?
No, that was “The Thirst Mutilator”
Fox News’ Ainsley Earnhardt: Being a huge loser is actually being a winner because it’s complicated and we don’t understand because it’s complicated.
Fox News has killed more brain cells than huffing paint.
pic.twitter.com/RJi7PITpLC— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 8, 2019
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Just because you don’t understand doesn’t make it complicated Fox and Friends. Your successful businessman is a big loser. When’s the last time any of you losers flew on a Trump Airline plane, drank Trump vodka, or ate a Trump steak? You all are an embarrassment to journalsm everywhere because you’re nothing but Trump’s lackeys that he wakes up to every morning to find kissing his ass. You’re not helping the country. You’re just kissing the ass of a disgusting old man.
*THUD*
Ainsley Earhardt predicts that voters won’t care about Donald Trump losing historic amounts of money, year after year, because “he was campaigning on the trail with his plane behind him that’s as big as a Delta jet, with his name on it.” pic.twitter.com/QGh3EZoWVc
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 8, 2019
all of this, by the way, was lead by brian kilmeade suggesting that a billion dollars isn’t even a lot of money https://t.co/GdQlPPxuKZ
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 8, 2019
Almost forgot this Trump defense from Brian Kilmeade: “What do people not understand about he’s a little bit different than most people?” (h/t @CourtneyHagle) pic.twitter.com/yzsf3tOWCt
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 8, 2019
re: #119 Joe Bacon 🌹
Makes me want to support a maximum wage for the rich where nobody can net more than 80% of the President’s salary. If you can’t make ends meet on $320K a year, tighten your belt…
I’d prefer something like what Ben & Jerry’s had in their original corporate plans — a maximum ratio of highest-paid staffer to lowest-paid. I think at the time of original incorporation it was something like 25-1…
If your company’s successful, if you have a good product at a fair price and lots of people want it, then of course the company should be raking it in. But everyone who works there should get to share the prosperity they helped create.
I don’t question that Lee Iococca was more valuable to Chrysler than any of the line workers… I do question the notion that he was more valuable than the entire swing shift all added together. If they didn’t make a quality product in a reasonable time frame, he’d have nothing to market.
It doesn’t cost as much as it might look like upfront — Costco wages are about double what Walmart pays, plus pretty decent benefits, but because there’s much lower turnover and much lower breakage (theft), it doesn’t in the end cost twice as much.
re: #128 HappyWarrior
Quoting Jim Jordan isn’t going to make you look good to anyone who isn’t already so far up your ass that they’re in Narnia.
Trump’s ass isn’t Narnia, it’s Mordor.
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
car insurance is due tomorrow.
That was also DT’s excuse for not releasing his taxes; they would be too complicated for anyone to understand.
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Can we just call these assholes what they are? A bunch of out of touch douchebags whose entire job it is to kiss Trump’s ass. A billion dollars really isn’t a lot of money. Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense, you fake populist assholes.
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The point of impeachment is to get the evidence out on the table for the nation to see
then let Trump go apeshit trying to explain it all away
Oh, King Orange will go apeshit all right, but not “explaining” anything: Donald Trump has (AFAICT) never explained anything away in his life - certainly not in his belated political career: his reaction to any embarrassing (even to the point of criminal) revelations will likely be his usual one: very loud, very public denunciations of “FAKE NEWS!!”, “VENDETTA!!” “WITCH HUNT!!!!” , etc.: frantic whattaboutism: “CROOKED HILLARY!!! CROOKED DEMS!!!” and probably another red-hat rally in which he will lard his denunciatory rhetoric with taking personal credit for every “positive” thing everywhere in the whole country. On the (disgustingly and disgracefully accurate) assumption that his “base” won’t care.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see an official (or semi-official) communication from the WH/Admin claiming that Donald Trump’s decades of declaring staggering losses is actually proof-positive of his transcendent business genius: on the grounds that only a brilliant businessman like The Donald could lose that much money for so long, and still end up so affluent - and POTUS….
ADD: I see BWS beat me to my last point in #131. Gotta type faster…
re: #134 sagehen
I’d prefer something like what Ben & Jerry’s had in their original corporate plans — a maximum ratio of highest-paid staffer to lowest-paid. I think at the time of original incorporation it was something like 25-1…
If your company’s successful, if you have a good product at a fair price and lots of people want it, then of course the company should be raking it in. But everyone who works there should get to share the prosperity they helped create.
I don’t question that Lee Iococca was more valuable to Chrysler than any of the line workers… I do question the notion that he was more valuable than the entire swing shift all added together. If they didn’t make a quality product in a reasonable time frame, he’d have nothing to market.
It doesn’t cost as much as it might look like upfront — Costco wages are about double what Walmart pays, plus pretty decent benefits, but because there’s much lower turnover and much lower breakage (theft), it doesn’t in the end cost twice as much.
Nailed it IMO.
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹
Invoking your executive privilege after publication is akin to invoking your virginity after pregnancy.
Jeremy Herb
✔
@jeremyherb
DOJ says in a letter to Nadler it will ask the White House to invoke executive privilege over the entire Mueller report if he moves forward with a contempt vote tomorrow
invoking executive privilege, not due to legitimate EP concerns, but as retaliation because you dont like the outcome of a negotiation over you not showing up for a congressional hearing and/or subpoena is likely not gonna play well with a judge, if it ever gets that far
re: #139 Jay C
I wouldn’t be surprised to see an official (or semi-official) communication from the WH/Admin claiming that Donald Trump’s decades of declaring staggering losses is actually proof-positive of his transcendent business genius: on the grounds that only a brilliant businessman like The Donald could lose that much money for so long, and still end up so affluent - and POTUS….
Fox has already said as much, I expect him to refer to that soon.
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
*THUD*
“Let’s put this in numbers you can understand, Ainsley. If a person started spending a billion dollars from the time Jesus was born, they would have to spend more than $1300 per day. Can you spend that much every day, because I can’t.”
re: #139 Jay C
I wouldn’t be surprised to see an official (or semi-official) communication from the WH/Admin claiming that Donald Trump’s decades of declaring staggering losses is actually proof-positive of his transcendent business genius: on the grounds that only a brilliant businessman like The Donald could lose that much money for so long, and still end up so affluent - and POTUS….
He’s Milo Minderbinder!!
re: #143 Belafon
“Let’s put this in numbers you can understand, Ainsley. If a person started spending a billion dollars from the time Jesus was born, they would have to spend more than $1300 per day. Can you spend that much every day, because I can’t.”
Yeah but it’s really not “a lot of money.” I’m not big on populism but this is the kind of shit that makes me want to take every person at FNC who spouts stupid shit like this and tax them at 90%.
re: #139 Jay C
Oh, King Orange will go apeshit all right, but not “explaining” anything: Donald Trump has (AFAICT) never explained anything away in his life - certainly not in his belated political career: his reaction to any embarrassing (even to the point of criminal) revelations will likely be his usual one: very loud, very public denunciations of “FAKE NEWS!!”, “VENDETTA!!” “WITCH HUNT!!!!” , etc.: frantic whattaboutism: “CROOKED HILLARY!!! CROOKED DEMS!!!” and probably another red-hat rally in which he will lard his denunciatory rhetoric with taking personal credit for every “positive” thing everywhere in the whole country. On the (disgustingly and disgracefully accurate) assumption that his “base” won’t care.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see an official (or semi-official) communication from the WH/Admin claiming that Donald Trump’s decades of declaring staggering losses is actually proof-positive of his transcendent business genius: on the grounds that only a brilliant businessman like The Donald could lose that much money for so long, and still end up so affluent - and POTUS….
ADD: I see BWS beat me to my last point in #131. Gotta type faster…
“No one ever said that we’d run the country like a successful business.”
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The point of impeachment is to get the evidence out on the table for the nation to see
then let Trump go apeshit trying to explain it all away
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The phrase “fake it ‘til you make it” seems totally lost on these morons. “He’s got gold-plated stuff, he’s got a ‘huge’ private jet, he’s obviously gotta be successful!”
Brought to you by the network who biggest booster…is a fraud who has been sued multiple times for selling pillows using bullshit claims.
I’m thankful that we don’t have a House of Lords or titles in this country because FNC would be even worse if we actually had Lords in this country. And frankly that’s probably why Rupert Murdoch doesn’t get this country. He’s a fucking aristocratic douchebag who thinks we should be judged on what we inherited rather than our own merits.
re: #121 sagehen
The TOTAL endowment of the Clinton Foundation… an amount so outrageously large that RWNJ’s and everyone susceptible to their propaganda thought nobody could ever possibly amass that much legitimately…
that’s how much Trump lost EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. for 10 years.
I’m gonna say..for now…that’s how much trump said he lost
#ShartoftheDeal #BillionDollarLoser #Resist #TheResistance pic.twitter.com/pW25AQuSFb
— 🃏Harleen Quinzel🃏 (@JennHaQuinn) May 8, 2019
HOUSE VOTE TO HOLD BARR IN CONTEMPT: In an extraordinary hearing, the House Judiciary Committee is voting to hold Trump’s Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for defying their lawful subpoena https://t.co/2jrJUo7raF
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 8, 2019
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Fox News’ Ainsley Earnhardt: Being a huge loser is actually being a winner because it’s complicated and we don’t understand because it’s complicated
Here’s a hint
Losing money even on paper or for tax purposes is still losing money
Making money is always better than losing it
re: #152 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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Good. Fuck Barr. Btw I caught Chernobyl last night. Really good.
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We’re almost at “an average minimum wage earner made more money in that 10 year period than trump did”
re: #150 DangerMan
I’m gonna say..for now…that’s how much trump said he lost
He admits he lost a bunch and carried the losses (which is allowable under NOL rules), because that’s what he thought all real estate bigwigs did to minimize their tax burden. He’s actually suggesting tax fraud by exaggerating losses. That’s a huge no-no.
Nothing he says makes any sense.
He isn’t a successful businessman. He’s a con artist who managed to carry off his grift because he inherited a fortune that allowed him to repeatedly fail without consequences. And as the sums got larger, he got leverage over the very banks and creditors because the more he owed, the more power he had to dictate terms (which is the opposite of how it works when you don’t owe as much).
As others point out, if you owe the bank $100, the bank owns you, but if you owe the bank $1 million, you own the bank. We saw this with Deutsche Bank, which is why their cooperation with NY investigators is so worrisome for Trumpworld. They know that the tax and financial information will reveal fraud, malfeasance, money laundering, etc., and that he never should have gotten a fraction of the funds he ultimately got.
he’s nutz
Big Court win at our Southern Border! We are getting there - and Wall is being built!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2019
FNC doesn’t like people like the Clintons or Obama’s who make it on their own merits. They prefer pampered brats like Trump.
re: #156 lawhawk
He admits he lost a bunch and carried the losses (which is allowable under NOL rules), because that’s what he thought all real estate bigwigs did to minimize their tax burden. He’s actually suggesting tax fraud by exaggerating losses. That’s a huge no-no.
Nothing he says makes any sense.
He isn’t a successful businessman. He’s a con artist who managed to carry off his grift because he inherited a fortune that allowed him to repeatedly fail without consequences. And as the sums got larger, he got leverage over the very banks and creditors because the more he owed, the more power he had to dictate terms (which is the opposite of how it works when you don’t owe as much).
As others point out, if you owe the bank $100, the bank owns you, but if you owe the bank $1 million, you own the bank. We saw this with Deutsche Bank, which is why their cooperation with NY investigators is so worrisome for Trumpworld. They know that the tax and financial information will reveal fraud, malfeasance, money laundering, etc., and that he never should have gotten a fraction of the funds he ultimately got.
He literally is one giant con and frankly loser.
Democracy Update: We have our first TV ad of the season featuring a candidate shooting something in anger. #WeAreKy https://t.co/A4w3KzFOLR
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) May 8, 2019
We get it Republicans. You use guns because that’s how you blow off steam but you don’t have to tell the whole world that.
re: #156 lawhawk
He admits he lost a bunch and carried the losses (which is allowable under NOL rules), because that’s what he thought all real estate bigwigs did to minimize their tax burden. He’s actually suggesting tax fraud by exaggerating losses. That’s a huge no-no.
Nothing he says makes any sense.
He isn’t a successful businessman. He’s a con artist who managed to carry off his grift because he inherited a fortune that allowed him to repeatedly fail without consequences. And as the sums got larger, he got leverage over the very banks and creditors because the more he owed, the more power he had to dictate terms (which is the opposite of how it works when you don’t owe as much).
As others point out, if you owe the bank $100, the bank owns you, but if you owe the bank $1 million, you own the bank. We saw this with Deutsche Bank, which is why their cooperation with NY investigators is so worrisome for Trumpworld. They know that the tax and financial information will reveal fraud, malfeasance, money laundering, etc., and that he never should have gotten a fraction of the funds he ultimately got.
That’s where I was going
And yes it seems he owns what he owns using other people’s money … banks and gullible investors
re: #154 HappyWarrior
Good. Fuck Barr. Btw I caught Chernobyl last night. Really good.
With a rusty pitchfork.
I just hope the rest of the mini-series has the quality and gut punching intensity.
Bob Cesca now live on the Stephanie Miller show.
re: #165 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
With a rusty pitchfork.
I just hope the rest of the mini-series has the quality and gut punching intensity.
Bob Cesca now live on the Stephanie Miller show.
Yeah I do too. I was struck by the visuals the most honestly. It looked like hell on Earth there.
I’m starting to think that aside from sus foreign loans, Trump is desperate to hide that even when he was making easy cash from NBC and the licensing deals that show spawned, he couldn’t manage his money worth a damn.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 8, 2019
This is the kind of thing that could give the GOP an out on him: He’s not a true businessman or conservative. But they’d better go down with him.
Anti-vax Kentucky student in school vaccination case comes down with chickenpox https://t.co/cZIV4TE2tN via @courierjournal
— Deborah Yetter (@d_yetter) May 8, 2019
Don’t forget teachers. Oh and students too.
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 8, 2019
re: #167 Belafon
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This is the kind of thing that could give the GOP an out on him: He’s not a true businessman or conservative. But they’d better go down with him.
As I said, it says a lot about our media and society that he was able to sell himself as caring about the everyman but then again too many of these everymen are fine with assholes like Trump screwing them over as long as other people get screwed over more.
re: #169 The Vicious Babushka
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Uh firefighters Tomi. Cops aren’t the only people who risk their lives. And having a stressful job doesn’t justify at all what was done to Sandra Bland. We need to stop infantizing the police.
As a narcissist, Trump’s worst nightmare is being exposed as unworthy of admiration.
His entire adult life has been an act to convince people he is someone his father would have loved.
This story is his worst outing: he’s a lifelong loser who failed at daddy’s business.
8/8— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 8, 2019
The funny thing about this is that Fox’s “A loser is actually a winner” gimmick won’t work on Trump. He can’t fail to win, he will have to win.
Trump isn’t winning the narrative. FNC is going to try to get him to do so but he’s not winning it right now.
re: #165 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
With a rusty pitchfork.
I just hope the rest of the mini-series has the quality and gut punching intensity.
Bob Cesca now live on the Stephanie Miller show.
Caught the first episode of Chernobyl and the chaos we see among the plant workers, the firemen showing up, and the bureaucrats ignoring any evidence suggesting a massive failure and explosion of the core mirrors what actually happened.
The designers of the reactors claimed that the RBMK couldn’t explode, and yet it did because of known defects that they refused to share with nuclear plant operators.
Oh, and the dosimeters all maxed out, which means that no one knew exactly how much radiation they got hit with. It was a shitshow from the get-go, including when they changed the test parameters that started the chain events that led to the explosion. Low power situation made the reactor even more unstable. Adding control rods actually caused a spike in output; and by the time they tried to correct; it blew up.
State TV Declares the Emperor’s New Clothes “Impressive” https://t.co/snyaR9VFWt
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 8, 2019
re: #175 jaunte
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You know for a bunch of people who constantly compare their opponents to the Soviets, FNC does a great job of acting like Soviet propaganda. I think they took a lot of notes from the Soviet media.
I saw focus groups of Trump voters in 2016. They thought the fact he was a hugely successful businessman would make him a successful president. The fact he was a loser in business will hurt him. And that is why he’s kept his taxes secret.
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) May 7, 2019
re: #167 Belafon
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This is the kind of thing that could give the GOP an out on him: He’s not a true businessman or conservative. But they’d better go down with him.
too late
they picked him
if they didnt vet him properly, that’s on them
re: #176 HappyWarrior
I recall Mao being praised for his fabulous cross-river swimming.
re: #177 Belafon
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I rather doubt it’s the only reason, but I’m sure it’s a huge part of it.
Try again, it’s not even among the top ten most dangerous professions according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. This irrational worship of police & erroneous assertion that their job is the most dangerous is designed to lead us to fascism.https://t.co/2sX6Gb4Ye1
— A Bit Snitty (@goddamnedfrank) May 8, 2019
re: #177 Belafon
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She’s right and that’s why FNC is eager to go “Well actually this is good.” His whole image is one giant con whether it’s him portraying himself as a savvy businessman or tough guy. He’s nothing but a spoiled brat who has had everything including the Presidency handed to him in his life.
re: #169 The Vicious Babushka
Law enforcement- the only profession that puts on a badge every single day knowing there is a chance they won’t return home to their families that night. foxnews.com …
The Vicious Babushka
@viciousbabushka
Don’t forget teachers. Oh and students too.
black motorists
First one in the “to be voted out STAT” list. https://t.co/TomeR8BQdI
— Ale (@aliasvaughn) May 8, 2019
Doug Collins is a goob.
re: #181 goddamnedfrank
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It’s part of the worship cops mentality that we’ve seen since 9/11.
re: #184 jaunte
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Doug Collins is a goob.
This is fucking rich. Maybe if Barr started acting like the Attorney General and less like Trump’s personal attorney, there wouldn’t be a vote to hold him in contempt.
re: #171 HappyWarrior
Uh firefighters Tomi. Cops aren’t the only people who risk their lives. And having a stressful job doesn’t justify at all what was done to Sandra Bland. We need to stop infantizing the police.
if they’re not up to the inherent risks of the job, find other work
dont rationalize their obviously biased and bigoted bad behavior couched in “fear of my life”
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
Covington Catholic schools, naturally.
re: #187 DangerMan
if they’re not up to the inherent risks of the job, find other work
dont rationalize their obviously biased and bigoted bad behavior couched in “fear of my life”
And they know the difference between guns and cell phones, get the fuck out of here with that crap.
re: #179 jaunte
I recall Mao being praised for his fabulous cross-river swimming.
Except Mao actually did swim across the river. Trump hasn’t done any of the things he says he has done.
Okay, here we go on the Mueller report, Mueller makes a key distinction between “collusion” and “conspiracy”.
Oh, btw, Trump is claiming executive privilege on the already-released Mueller report, per my WaPo email alert.
White House asserts executive privilege over Mueller report in latest confrontation with Congress
Attorney General William P. Barr released a redacted version of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election on April 18. But House Democrats subpoenaed the underlying evidence and the full report in their investigation into whether President Trump obstructed justice.
The White House’s latest move comes shortly before the House Judiciary Committee plans to begin contempt proceedings against Barr for failing to provide the full, unredacted report to Congress.
re: #177 Belafon
I saw focus groups of Trump voters in 2016. They thought the fact he was a hugely successful businessman would make him a successful president. The fact he was a loser in business will hurt him. And that is why he’s kept his taxes secret.
what will also hurt him (as much as anything can) is that there is now actual job performance to look at and it’s anything but 1) stellar, 2) let alone merely what he ‘promised’
re: #193 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Oh, btw, Trump is claiming executive privilege on the already-released Mueller report, per my WaPo email alert.
I’m glad I got the Audible version. I’ve been listening to the released report on Audible. I say it’s pretty damning.
Also, too, I paged a thing. littlegreenfootballs.com
Like the very same report Trump is trying to keep from Congress.
re: #181 goddamnedfrank
Try again, it’s not even among the top ten most dangerous professions according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. This irrational worship of police & erroneous assertion that their job is the most dangerous is designed to lead us to fascism
i swear she’s gonna come back and say ‘none of those jobs “puts on a badge”’
re: #195 HappyWarrior
I’m glad I got the Audible version. I’ve been listening to the released report on Audible. I say it’s pretty damning.
The facts are laid out dispassionately and in excruciating detail. Only an idiot could conclude it exonerates Trump and his machine.
re: #197 DangerMan
i swear she’s gonna come back and say ‘none of those jobs “puts on a badge”’
Firefighters do, don’t they?
re: #185 HappyWarrior
It’s part of the worship cops mentality that we’ve seen since 9/11.
It’s been going on longer than 9/11. The idea of the “hero cop” is at least as old as Prohibition, but really took off after WWII with the number of ex-GIs who went into law enforcement. There was the ebb in that during the Civil Rights Era, but the rise of the “cowboy cop” genre as well as the series of serial killings that plagued the era saw cops again being viewed as the “thin blue line” protecting law-abiding folks from total anarchy.
re: #198 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
The facts are laid out dispassionately and in excruciating detail. Only an idiot could conclude it exonerates Trump and his machine.
I see you’ve met Chuck Woolery. An idiot or a complete hack. Barr isn’t stupid but he is a hack.
re: #182 HappyWarrior
She’s right and that’s why FNC is eager to go “Well actually this is good.” His whole image is one giant con whether it’s him portraying himself as a savvy businessman or tough guy. He’s nothing but a spoiled brat who has had everything including the Presidency handed to him in his life.
i just want one person to ask “you’re saying it’s better to lose money than to make money?”
re: #179 jaunte
I recall Mao being praised for his fabulous cross-river swimming.
Cross? It was end-to-end, comrade.
re: #200 Targetpractice
It’s been going on longer than 9/11. The idea of the “hero cop” is at least as old as Prohibition, but really took off after WWII with the number of ex-GIs who went into law enforcement. There was the ebb in that during the Civil Rights Era, but the rise of the “cowboy cop” genre as well as the series of serial killings that plagued the era saw cops again being viewed as the “thin blue line” protecting law-abiding folks from total anarchy.
Yeah you’re right. All those cop shows and movies.
re: #186 HappyWarrior
This is fucking rich. Maybe if Barr started acting like the Attorney General and less like Trump’s personal attorney, there wouldn’t be a vote to hold him in contempt.
or if he, you know, just showed up and testified
re: #202 DangerMan
i just want one person to ask “you’re saying it’s better to lose money than to make money?”
Well if you lose more money than I’ll ever make, that makes you a winner! //
re: #195 HappyWarrior
I’m glad I got the Audible version. I’ve been listening to the released report on Audible. I say it’s pretty damning.
are the redacted parts just 18 minutes of silence?
Conspiracy to me seems it was hard for Mueller to prove or get charges since they had to suggest that they were doing it for the explicit benefit of the Russia Federation. Anyone else get tht vibe from reading the report?
re: #198 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
The facts are laid out dispassionately and in excruciating detail. Only an idiot could conclude it exonerates Trump and his machine.
you’d have to read and/or listen to it first, rather than accept the kabuki theater version
re: #209 DangerMan
are the redacted parts just 18 minutes of silence?
The voice over just says REDCATED and the reason it’s been redacted. It’s very dry but I decided I had to get it so I would have a clue what I was talking about and to be one step over Lindsay Graham.
re: #193 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Oh, btw, Trump is claiming executive privilege on the already-released Mueller report, per my WaPo email alert.
This is gonna get laughed out of most courts, though it might carry weight with the 5 seat wingnut majority on the SCOTUS bench. Barr made a big deal about how the WH could have exercised executive privilege but hadn’t, that it had made documents and witnesses available to Mueller when it could have refused on EP grounds. The time to claim EP came and went, you can’t go back and say “Well, we choose to withhold this information now because we don’t like Congress.”
Listening to House Judiciary Republicans essentially mouth Trump “witch hunt” talking points almost verbatim right now.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 8, 2019
We Are The Trumps. You Will Be Assimilated.
re: #211 DangerMan
you’d have to read and/or listen to it first, rather than accept the kabuki theater version
Still haven’t gotten to the part where the report is “It’s cool, he had a right to obstruct because he was angry.”
re: #214 jaunte
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We Are The Trumps. You Will Be Assimilated.
They’re not independent of the executive branch.
re: #199 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Firefighters do, don’t they?
yes, though they werent mentioned in the article as one of the top 25
that picture was a logger
re: #213 Targetpractice
This is gonna get laughed out of most courts, though it might carry weight with the 5 seat wingnut majority on the SCOTUS bench. Barr made a big deal about how the WH could have exercised executive privilege but hadn’t, that it had made documents and witnesses available to Mueller when it could have refused on EP grounds. The time to claim EP came and went, you can’t go back and say “Well, we choose to withhold this information now because we don’t like Congress.”
I would hope that Roberts who sometimes is really into precedents rules against Trump using the Pentagon Papers decision. There is nothing in here that is a matter of national security, just embarrassment for Trump.
As Sensenbrenner claims that disclosing GJ material would be a crime, remember that details of how Trump Sr and Trump Jr avoided testifying is being censored as a grand jury secret. https://t.co/DHseTZ2EiH
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 8, 2019
re: #217 DangerMan
yes, though they werent mentioned in the article as one of the top 25
that picture was a logger
Taxi driver was always near the top end of workplace fatalities. That’s probably morphing to Lyft and Uber, now.
Apparently the jackass twins (Burkman and Wohl) just held another [odd] presser regarding the Mayor Pete defamation. Anyone know the outcomes?
re: #185 HappyWarrior
It’s part of the worship cops mentality that we’ve seen since 9/11.
Except that the moment 9/11 responders fell ill and need help, the GOP abandoned them at the first opportunity.
Now that the VCP is almost exhausted because far more people are suffering from 9/11 ailments, we’re finding that the GOP doesn’t give a shit about those first responders.
Oh, and the number who have died of 9/11 ailments in the 17+ years since the attacks is fast approaching the number who died on 9/11. We can thank the Bush EPA who claimed that the air was fine in the days and weeks after the attacks for part of the toll among the first responders.
re: #213 Targetpractice
This is gonna get laughed out of most courts, though it might carry weight with the 5 seat wingnut majority on the SCOTUS bench. Barr made a big deal about how the WH could have exercised executive privilege but hadn’t, that it had made documents and witnesses available to Mueller when it could have refused on EP grounds. The time to claim EP came and went, you can’t go back and say “Well, we choose to withhold this information now because we don’t like Congress.”
this this this!
re: #225 lawhawk
Except that the moment 9/11 responders fell ill and need help, the GOP abandoned them at the first opportunity.
Now that the VCP is almost exhausted because far more people are suffering from 9/11 ailments, we’re finding that the GOP doesn’t give a shit about those first responders.
Oh, and the number who have died of 9/11 ailments in the 17+ years since the attacks is fast approaching the number who died on 9/11. We can thank the Bush EPA who claimed that the air was fine in the days and weeks after the attacks for part of the toll among the first responders.
And there you underscored why I can’t stand Dan Crenshaw and his fake outrage at Representative Omar.
re: #215 HappyWarrior
Still haven’t gotten to the part where the report is “It’s cool, he had a right to obstruct because he was angry.”
you may have to play it at high speed, backwards
Part of the Nadler statement released yesterday included a timeline about efforts to “negotiate” with the DOJ to see the full report. The House Judiciary Committee floated the offer of making the full report with all but the grand jury info unredacted to the full Congress (instead of a select few), removing the DOJ’s restriction that any persons who read the report could not discuss such with other members of Congress (even those with proper clearance), and that Barr file a court order to release the grand jury information to Congress (which is keeping with DOJ precedent).
So anybody that tells you that Nadler is demanding Barr break the law by making the full report public is lying their ass off or a total idiot (or, if a wingnut, both).
🐊The alligator was spotted in a Clear Lake neighborhood after it was hit by a car Wednesday morning. A gator wrangler told ABC13 that this one is 540 lbs! https://t.co/J1yhKhZiLh pic.twitter.com/UTeTZ85RwD
— ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) May 8, 2019
It’s rainin down in Texas, and all the gators are coming out.
The Republicans are saying “move on.” No apologies from Trump for lying to the country which we now know he certainly has and has continued. No acknowledgment that Russia interfered or that he will do what he can do as President to prevent it form happening again. I have no doubt that Trump has a wink-nudge understanding with Vlad that Vlad will help him out again.
re: #229 DangerMan
you may have to play it at high speed, backwards
I’m not tehre yet lol. I’m trying to finish it in the next week.
This is the America the NRA and GOP has created.
— Mike R (@Rooster_75) May 8, 2019
re: #197 DangerMan
i swear she’s gonna come back and say ‘none of those jobs “puts on a badge”’
A key difference being that the chief danger of being a LEO comes from armed people. And they pretty much have to count on anyone they encounter as being potentially armed and dangerous.
re: #234 NO SMOCKING GUN!
This is the America the NRA and GOP has created.
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And Trump is spending the day as he always does whining on Twitter.
re: #163 HappyWarrior
We get it Republicans. You use guns because that’s how you blow off steam but you don’t have to tell the whole world that.
How else can they compensate for a tiny pee pee?
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Good Christ. It’s Judge Dredd at the Border. https://t.co/HSe2MmbFUg
— Doktor Zoom, A Bit Snitty (@DoktorZoom) May 8, 2019
re: #237 Joe Bacon 🌹
How else can they compensate for a tiny pee pee?
Heh true. And I’m glad you saw that I was making a dick joke.
re: #238 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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It is a terrible idea. Border agents aren’t equipped with the knowledge about why someone would be applying for asylum.
re: #240 HappyWarrior
It is a terrible idea. Border agents aren’t equipped with the knowledge about why someone would be applying for asylum.
Trump admin does not care, they just know that they would be merciless.
[INT. WHITE HOUSE - PRESIDENTIAL BEDROOM / 5:15 AM]
[The TV is on FOX AND FRIENDS]
BRIAN KILMEADE [ON TV]
It’s a witch hunt. It’s a total Witch Hunt. Never before in the history of this country has one party been so intent on destroying rightfully elected President.
PRES. TRUMP
That’s right. Exactly right! [taps away on his phone]
MARIA BARITROMO [ON TV]
This New York Times report is completely bonkers. It’s not accurately sourced, it’s poorly written. How can they get away with this?
TRUMP
Yes! Fake News! FAAAAKE News!
BRIAN KILMEADE [ON TV]
And why isn’t anyone investigating the Clinton campaign? I read an article this morning, an excellent article by the way, that went into exhaustive detail on all the dirty things they did and let me tell you: It will shock every American to hear it.
TRUMP
Crooked Hillary. Get her and Strzok and Page and Comey. Lock them all up! [taps away on phone]
MARIA BARITROMO [ON TV]
This just in. President Trumps approval rating has just gone up another five points. Amazing!
TRUMP
Winning! MAGA!
BRIAN KILMEADE
We’ll be right back with an exclusive interview with Glenn Greenwald.
[As the show cuts to commercial break Trump continues rapidly tapping away on his phone. The TV screen starts to flicker, then becomes filled with static. Moments later it clears, but the feed has clearly changed. A grinning ROBERT MUELLER appears against a black background]
MUELLER (ON TV)
Good morning Mr. President. Let’s play a little game.
re: #135 The Vicious Babushka
Trump’s ass isn’t Narnia, it’s Mordor.
“The very air is a poisonous fume”
re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg
Do you want to play a game?
re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump admin does not care, they just know that they would be merciless.
Oh of course. It’s not being done in bad judgment. It’s being done knowing that BP agents aren’t going to be sympathetic.
Maybe the asylum seekers should tell the BP that they got banned on Twitter in their home country. According to Laura Loomer, that’s what led to the Holocaust. I’m defintiely snarking but having done immigration law, it just frustrates me to no end how ignorant this administration is about our status quo and how they spread that to the American people.
Louie Gohmert now accusing the FISA judges of being complicit with the attempted coup against Trump, lol.
— 𝙄 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚 2020 (@williams1977) May 8, 2019
re: #218 HappyWarrior
I would hope that Roberts who sometimes is really into precedents rules against Trump using the Pentagon Papers decision. There is nothing in here that is a matter of national security, just embarrassment for Trump.
That’s actually law, not just court precident. You can’t hide something behind a clearance just because it would be embarrasing or expose a crime.
re: #248 Belafon
That’s actually law, not just court precident. You can’t hide something behind a clearance just because it would be embarrasing or expose a crime.
Correct.
A lot of judges are going to have to make a choice whether they’re happy to be assimilated by the Trump Blob too.
re: #247 jaunte
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With everything else that’s going on this morning, I keep coming back to one question - where did these tax summaries come from?
Someone speculated last night on Twitter that this is Cohen’s revenge - that he arranged to have these dropped as he was heading to prison.
Gotta wonder is this envelope is one of many that will slowly torture Trump over the next few months…
re: #250 jaunte
A lot of judges are going to have to make a choice whether they’re happy to be assimilated by the Trump Blob too.
The judicial branch are going to be the heroes or villains that either save us or damn us in this comedy. We have half of the legislature doing its job, the other not but if the judicial branch doesn’t see itself and its role as independent of Trump’s whims, we’re fucked IMO.
re: #252 makeitstop
With everything else that’s going on this morning, I keep coming back to one question - where did these tax summaries come from?
Someone speculated last night on Twitter that this is Cohen’s revenge - that he arranged to have these dropped as he was heading to prison.
Gotta wonder is this envelope is one of many that will slowly torture Trump over the next few months…
Good theory.
Well I hope Cohen gave Larry Flynt pictures of Falwell Jr doing the nasty out of wedlock…
re: #252 makeitstop
With everything else that’s going on this morning, I keep coming back to one question - where did these tax summaries come from?
Someone speculated last night on Twitter that this is Cohen’s revenge - that he arranged to have these dropped as he was heading to prison.
Gotta wonder is this envelope is one of many that will slowly torture Trump over the next few months…
That and the 14 or so other investigations from Muller’s referrals to other agencies.
re: #255 Joe Bacon 🌹
Well I hope Cohen gave Larry Flynt pictures of Falwell Jr doing the nasty out of wedlock…
His followers and the shit-for-brains’ sycophants will forgive because jebus and money.
re: #255 Joe Bacon 🌹
Well I hope Cohen gave Larry Flynt pictures of Falwell Jr doing the nasty out of wedlock…
Christians can fornicate all they want, they just have to ask Jesus for forgiveness.
But there is no forgiveness for liberals who continue to allow baby killing.
re: #253 HappyWarrior
The judicial branch are going to be the heroes or villains that either save us or damn us in this comedy. We have half of the legislature doing its job, the other not but if the judicial branch doesn’t see itself and its role as independent of Trump’s whims, we’re fucked IMO.
Their choice is pretty stark. Either we’re a nation ruled by laws, or by a dictator.
So innocent…..
So truthful…….
So victimized……
What’s a King to do?
🔥🔥 @JacksonLeeTX18: “I can only conclude that the president now seeks to take a wrecking ball to the Constitution of the United States… Anything that the Congress wants to do on behalf of the American people is now being alleged to be under the jurisdiction of privilege” 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/08FMLVpv7k
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2019
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A key difference being that the chief danger of being a LEO comes from armed people. And they pretty much have to count on anyone they encounter as being potentially armed and dangerous.
sounds like the chief danger for teachers and school children as well, and teachers and children are more likely to be shot than LEO
Grift Graft………
My congressman doesn’t care anymore.
Thank you @NAMIC for stopping by my office today in Washington. I am proud to accept the Benjamin Franklin Public Policy Award from you all and I look forward to our continued work together! pic.twitter.com/cIQDTmDrDY
— Rep. Roger Williams (@RepRWilliams) May 8, 2019
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
sounds like the chief danger for teachers and school children as well, and teachers and children are more likely to be shot than LEO
and the danger of being a young black man is being shot by a LEO
re: #259 jaunte
Their choice is pretty stark. Either we’re a nation ruled by laws, or by a dictator.
It is. And we’re going to need more than just Obama/Clinton appointed judges to back us up. It was a Reagan appointee that helped lead the eventual way for SSM.
This is my representative 🤮Texas Republican says vaccines are “sorcery,” claims “parental rights” are more important https://t.co/uxTOfuKxJv
— Beverly Hill (@HillBeverlyhill) May 8, 2019
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A key difference being that the chief danger of being a LEO comes from armed people. And they pretty much have to count on anyone they encounter as being potentially armed and dangerous.
while you are of course right in fact, the number of clearly not-armed people that are killed is not rare and is way too high
re: #267 DangerMan
while you are of course right in fact, the number of clearly not-armed people that are killed is not rare and is way too high
Because people have not learned to completely freeze when they encounter a LEO and make no movement or gesture that might be seen as threatening.
re: #247 jaunte
Louie Gohmert now accusing the FISA judges of being complicit with the attempted coup against Trump, lol.
oversight is not a coup, lou
Another part of NYC radio history is going away - iconic pop station WPLJ is shutting down.
The longstanding New York radio station that for nearly 50 years has sent pop and rock hits across the Hudson River and broadcast throughout North and Central New Jersey announced Wednesday it will cease operation May 31. The Cumulus Media-owned station was sold to Christian broadcaster Educational Media Foundation in February, and the new Christian contemporary station K-Love (WKLV) will take over the 95.5 channel June 1, RadioInsight reports.
Not for nothin’, but a Christian Contemporary station in New York City is going to go over like a fart in an elevator. They’ll be changing formats within a year, or risk becoming one of the biggest revenue losers in NYC radio history.
re: #266 Dave In Austin
This is my representative 🤮Texas Republican says vaccines are “sorcery,” claims “parental rights” are more important
Then those parents forfeit the privilege of sending their kids to public schools.
re: #261 jaunte
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re: #272 makeitstop
Nooooo!!!
re: #177 Belafon
HIS BUSINESS LOSSES IN THE 80s AND 90s SHOW HOW MUCH HE’S SACRIFICED IN THE PRESIDENCY FOR HIS COUNTRY MAGA!!!!
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because people have not learned to completely freeze when they encounter a LEO and make no movement or gesture that might be seen as threatening.
the police are supposed to be trained - to observe and evaluate
the public isnt
i swear next it’ll be “he didnt move at all and that made me fear for my life”
Okay at the Papa D part of where he got in trouble for lying to the FBI.
re: #277 DangerMan
the police are supposed to be trained - to observe and evaluate
the public isnti swear next it’ll be “he didnt move at all and that made me fear for my life”
Exactly. I’m sorry but a police officer should be better trained than they are. And frankly there is a racial component. That Dylann Roof was able to be taken alive and without physical force used on him while Eric Garner was strangled out is really fucked up.
re: #272 makeitstop
They paid a fortune, and it’ll fail.
Good.
PLJ was one of the most successful radio channels in the NYC metro area, and the format change will go over like a lead balloon.
I expect it to be back in a pop/top 40 format within a year.
Coming on the heels of the executive privilege claim by the White House: https://t.co/ztp1JwVEDu
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 8, 2019
Bunkering up.
re: #282 Teukka
DAFUQ?
Yeah no kidding. This isn’t what you choose to have your children read. This is a matter of public health.
re: #283 HappyWarrior
Yeah no kidding. This isn’t what you choose to have your children read. This is a matter of public health.
One of these days, such a move will cost people dearly.
re: #275 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Nooooo!!!
Here ya go. Indulge yourself in some Pat St. John, for old times’ sake.
re: #281 jaunte
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Bunkering up.
The “most transparent administration” is retreating to their safe space, soon to be followed by insistence that their refusal to cooperate with legal investigations is because “MUELLER SAID I WAS TOTALLY EXONERATED!!!”
Glenn Beck says migrants “will be killing farmers for food, and then it will turn into killing farmers for the land and they’ll say ‘this is my land’” pic.twitter.com/E2VEarvARy
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) May 8, 2019
This is going to get migrants killed.
re: #266 Dave In Austin
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Texas Republican says vaccines are “sorcery,” claims “parental rights” are more important
Now they’re colluding with diseases.
This is stupid on the face of it. The people also chose Bill Clinton in an election, but he was impeached for much less.
— Sue Hagadorn (@suehagadorn) May 8, 2019
re: #288 DodgerFan1988
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This is going to get migrants killed.
Glenn Beck keeps on projecting his violent fantasies on to others. He’s a fucking Streicher cosplayer.
re: #290 jaunte
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Ah! The Tomi Lahren argument, you can’t impeach him, he won! Says the same guy who would have wanted impeachment proceedings against HRC from day one. Oh and Matt, no one takes you seriously other than Trump bootlickers, you’re an embarrassment.
re: #290 jaunte
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Matt Gaetz is a perfect example of the dumbing down of America, totally ignorant of how Nixon won reelection by a landslide and yet only avoided impeachment because he resigned before the House could vote.
re: #287 Targetpractice
The “most transparent administration” is retreating to their safe space, soon to be followed by insistence that their refusal to cooperate with legal investigations is because “MUELLER SAID I WAS TOTALLY EXONERATED!!!”
Well, technically it is transparent… I mean, it’s transparently obvious Il Douche is in uncle Vova’s pocket…
re: #293 Targetpractice
Matt Gaetz is a perfect example of the dumbing down of America, totally ignorant of how Nixon won reelection by a landslide and yet only avoided impeachment because he resigned before the House could vote.
Fact, we have only impeached Presidents who were President. //
re: #288 DodgerFan1988
This is going to get migrants killed.
Hmmm, I wonder what other migrants many years ago showed up here and claimed it was “their land”.
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because people have not learned to completely freeze when they encounter a LEO and make no movement or gesture that might be seen as threatening.
And black people haven’t learned that doing exactly what the officer tells you to do will get you just as shot as not doing it. Oh, wait, they have.
re: #222 Decatur Deb
Taxi driver was always near the top end of workplace fatalities. That’s probably morphing to Lyft and Uber, now.
Commercial fisherman is near the top of the list. Electrical lineworkers. Aircraft pilots. Roofers. Garbage collectors. Farmers. Steelworkers.
re: #277 DangerMan
the police are supposed to be trained - to observe and evaluate
the public isnti swear next it’ll be “he didnt move at all and that made me fear for my life”
Remember the black nurse lying on the sidewalk with his hands up?
re: #296 Sir John Barron
Hmmm, I wonder what other migrants many years ago showed up here and claimed it was “their land”.
The Conservative foundation is a constant worry they’ll be treated the same way they treated others.
re: #296 Sir John Barron
Hmmm, I wonder what other migrants many years ago showed up here and claimed it was “their land”.
People who looked like Glenn but that was cool because Manifest Destiny yo! I’m so sick of fucking Glenn Beck’s violent fantasies being projected onto others. IT’s a good thing he’s a coward. It’s a bad thing that many people who do listen to him might take him seriously.
re: #299 Belafon
Remember the black nurse lying on the sidewalk with his hands up?
And the officer that shot him was found not guilty of aggravated assault for shooting him.
re: #299 Belafon
Remember the black nurse lying on the sidewalk with his hands up?
I remember that one since the guy he was helping was autistic.
OMG, says the man who described a blowjob in intricate detail. https://t.co/8TwxRRahNn
— Karoli (@Karoli) May 8, 2019
Everybody wants to know “Who does the baby look like?” when they really mean “How Black is the baby?”
Prince Harry and Meghan have shared a first glimpse of their son
They talked about their first few days as parents, and Meghan said: “I have the best two guys in the world, I’m really happy”
[Tap to expand] https://t.co/zKbEPiQ199 #BabySussex pic.twitter.com/7iaUBPJ9ad— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) May 8, 2019
My little granddaughter has Asian features. I suppose that must come from the 0.3% of my DIL’s DNA that 23andme said was “East Asian”
re: #299 Belafon
Remember the black nurse lying on the sidewalk with his hands up?
And his shooter was acquitted? Gleefully, by the jury?
re: #304 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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For comparison’s sake, the White House asked for advance notice that the Starr Report would be released, even if only by an hour, and the House GOP told them to pound sand.
Atop that, the House GOP actually took votes to unredact items in the Report not because they were of evidentiary value, but because they were salacious and helped push the narrative of Bill as a whoremonger.
Biggs is such an outrageous LIAR
He says Barr has a choice between releasing the report or breaking federal law.
JFC
re: #252 makeitstop
With everything else that’s going on this morning, I keep coming back to one question - where did these tax summaries come from?
Someone speculated last night on Twitter that this is Cohen’s revenge - that he arranged to have these dropped as he was heading to prison.
Gotta wonder is this envelope is one of many that will slowly torture Trump over the next few months…
I have a hypothesis…
Remember that one tax return that we suspected came from Marla, and the accountant who signed it confirmed that yes it as his signature??
He’s really old. Old enough that the thought of prison might carry no fear.
“Archie” like the comic book redheaded guy from Riverdale.
That mean he looks more like Harry than Meghan.
Harry and Meghan name their baby son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsorhttps://t.co/RGfVNp0RLf #BabySussex pic.twitter.com/wZusAzWfOj
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 8, 2019
The republicans keep insisting that making Barr produce the report is forcing him to BREAK THE LAW
good fucking grief
re: #312 The Vicious Babushka
“Archie” like the comic book redheaded guy from Riverdale.
That mean he looks more like Harry than Meghan.
Prince Archie?
(I know he’s not a prince yet, but..)
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
The republicans keep insisting that making Barr produce the report is forcing him to BREAK THE LAW
good fucking grief
War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength
Freedom is Slavery
Watching and listening to the republicans blatantly lie is just astounding.
gobsmacking, even
SIX LINES! ONLY SIX LINES!
this is insane
Donnie’s reaction over the past 12 hours is absoutely priceless (and expected).
You’d think Michael Cohen sitting in jail for protecting Trump would send a message to those lawyers currently flirting with criminal statutes to protect Trump.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 8, 2019
re: #272 makeitstop
Another part of NYC radio history is going away - iconic pop station WPLJ is shutting down.
Not for nothin’, but a Christian Contemporary station in New York City is going to go over like a fart in an elevator. They’ll be changing formats within a year, or risk becoming one of the biggest revenue losers in NYC radio history.
oh no. my youth, my youth, my (mis)spent youth
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
The republicans keep insisting that making Barr produce the report is forcing him to BREAK THE LAW
good fucking grief
The talking point is that there is no possible way for Barr to release the full report because he can’t release grand jury info. Except that isn’t true, he can file a court order to allow its release to Congress and absolutely refuses to do so.
Y’all have fun listening to the Republicans wipe Donnie’s ass on TV. I’m going to bed.
See ya later, alligator!
re: #308 Targetpractice
For comparison’s sake, the White House asked for advance notice that the Starr Report would be released, even if only by an hour, and the House GOP told them to pound sand.
Atop that, the House GOP actually took votes to unredact items in the Report not because they were of evidentiary value, but because they were salacious and helped push the narrative of Bill as a whoremonger.
And then they printed hundreds of thousands of bound copies, for distribution to bookstores…
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
The republicans keep insisting that making Barr produce the report is forcing him to BREAK THE LAW
good fucking grief
meanwhile, in the WH throne room…
Republicans shouldn’t vote for H.R. 312, a special interest casino Bill, backed by Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren. It is unfair and doesn’t treat Native Americans equally!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2019
re: #316 The Vicious Babushka
Archduke Archie
Alas, only a plain old Duke in England. IIRC, Only the Austrian Hapsburgs used the title Archduke.
re: #325 sagehen
And then they printed hundreds of thousands of bound copies, for distribution to bookstores…
And used it as an argument for impeachment based off that Clinton obstructed justice….
re: #290 jaunte
Rep. Gaetz warns Democrats not to impeach Trump because the American people chose him at the election. This is what happens when you start believing your own lies.
the goal here is to delegitimize impeachment itself (at least while an R is president)
I like Archie as a team. It’s not too stiff and formal so I’m glad Meagan and Harry went with Archie over the too aristocratic “Archibald.”
Jim Jordan: Mueller’s gonna be here next week, why don’t you wait until after then…
Nadler: Um, because we need to read all what he wrote before we question him.
Biggest duh moment yet. pic.twitter.com/1MDrSfC4UZ— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) May 8, 2019
Dopey Jordan kneejerking about “Democrat lawyers.”
re: #295 HappyWarrior
Fact, we have only impeached Presidents who were President. //
Did not prevent the GOP from trying to impeach Hillary…
re: #335 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Did not prevent the GOP from trying to impeach Hillary…
Sarc tags.
re: #334 jaunte
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Dopey Jordan kneejerking about “Democrat lawyers.”
Jordan is a buffoon.
Jordan seemed like he wanted to prosecute HRC for existing but bends over backwards to protect Trump. Creepy sex assault enabler.
re: #338 HappyWarrior
Jordan seemed like he wanted to prosecute HRC for existing but bends over backwards to protect Trump. Creepy sex assault enabler.
Obama, Hitlery, Holder, and Lynch are all going to be arrested any day now, according to my sources.
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Germany’s health minister has proposed a fine of up to 2,500 euros for parents who refuse to immunize their school-age children against measles https://t.co/5GyhviFlVl
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 7, 2019
Republicans shouldn’t vote for H.R. 312, a special interest casino Bill, backed by Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren. It is unfair and doesn’t treat Native Americans equally!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2019
re: #340 Teukka
Germany’s health minister has proposed a fine of up to 2,500 euros for parents who refuse to immunize their school-age children against measles
Germany does not allow for home schooling and it is obligatory to send children to some sort of school…
re: #342 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germany does not allow for home schooling and it is obligatory to send children to some sort of school…
Works for me.
One of my favorite German words, not for length but for consonant density:
Impfpflicht
(mandatory vaccination)
Right? Why doesn’t @Jim_Jordan just pretend like what’s upsetting him is a student being molested and raped - and completely ignore it. He’s proven capable of looking away before. Also, find a comb. https://t.co/5qyJoWUNvk
— 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚢𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚎 (@shannynmoore) May 8, 2019
BREAKING: The Florida Bar has determined that further investigation into U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz is warranted for the Republican’s menacing tweet at Michael Cohen. The case now moves into a grand jury-like phase.https://t.co/PjIUptpoa1
— Steve Contorno (@scontorno) May 8, 2019
Gaetz wrote: “Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot…”
I can’t make this up, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl are trying to give this press conference and you can’t hear them because Burkman’s trash is being taken away pic.twitter.com/aaBh3SsTM9
— Alex Thomas (@AlexThomasDC) May 8, 2019
re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
One of my favorite German words, not for length but for consonant density:
Impfpflicht
(mandatory vaccination)
“Vaccinationsplikt” in Swedish, and “rokotusvelvollisuus” in Finnish.
re: #348 HappyWarrior
A good thing imo. Homeschooling stunts social growth imo.
They do it to keep their kids from being “morally infected”.
re: #349 Backwoods_Sleuth
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JFC
And Jake and Jack are holding their “press conference” on (?) Burkman’s front stoop because…????
Too bad the trashmen couldn’t do us all a favor and haul them away, too…..
re: #351 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They do it to keep their kids from being “morally infected”.
Duh.
re: #352 Jay C
JFC
And Jake and Jack are holding their “press conference” on (?) Burkman’s front stoop because…????
Too bad the trashmen couldn’t do us all a favor and haul them away, too…..
Because you really don’t want to go into his mom’s basement.
re: #352 Jay C
JFC
And Jake and Jack are holding their “press conference” on (?) Burkman’s front stoop because…????
The Motel 6 conference room was booked.
/
The “adult” (18) shooting suspect. The second suspect is a “juvenile female” (transitioning trans male)
Well, the wingnuts are going to eat this up. Registered Dem, extensive pro-Obama/anti-Trump social media history, as well as critical of christians
Devon Erickson: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know https://t.co/RdteaIYWU8 via @heavysan
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 8, 2019
re: #356 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The “adult” (18) shooting suspect. The second suspect is a “juvenile female” (transitioning trans male)
Well, the wingnuts are going to eat this up. Registered Dem, extensive pro-Obama/anti-Trump social media history, as well as critical of christians
The issue is access to weapons. But yes, this is going to be spun as proof that the Violent Left is an existential threat to America.
re: #355 makeitstop
The Motel 6 conference room was booked.
/
Tom Bodette didn’t leave the light on for them…
re: #356 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The “adult” (18) shooting suspect. The second suspect is a “juvenile female” (transitioning trans male)
Well, the wingnuts are going to eat this up. Registered Dem, extensive pro-Obama/anti-Trump social media history, as well as critical of christians
Republican shoots someone:
Dems - People shouldn’t have easy access to guns.
Repubs - He was a loner and had every right to guns.
Democrat shoots someone:
Dems - People shouldn’t have easy access to guns.
Repubs - Democrats are targeting Christians and all blacks, Muslims and gays are corrupting our society and must answer for it.
I’ll be honest, they’ve been discussing it for a while and it doesn’t seem to have made a difference…https://t.co/9R5q4MqMS5
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) May 8, 2019
This ludicrous distortion of executive privilege is nothing but a delay tactic. The Mueller report isn’t advice to the President, which is what the privilege is meant to protect. But I guess Trump’s efforts to conceal the report show he finally understands how bad it is for him.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 8, 2019
Booooooo. https://t.co/QraIbomlPd
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) May 8, 2019
The President is pretty much saying that he used transactions w/out economic substance to inflate basis, overstate depreciation, and bilk the IRS. If anyone doubted whether House Ways & Means had a compelling oversight reason to see Trump’s tax returns, here you go https://t.co/A7DkMVYvc3
— Daniel Hemel (@DanielJHemel) May 8, 2019
While Trump bitches about the NYT story on his taxes, my state is about to lower the boom.
NY Senate voting on this today. If it passes (it’s expected it will), it means the US House will have access to Trump’s NY state tax returns. https://t.co/kI6oIbi9YV
— Sara Danner Dukic (@saradannerdukic) May 8, 2019
If he thinks it’s been a bad week so far…
re: #364 makeitstop
NY Senate voting on this today. If it passes (it’s expected it will), it means the US House will have access to Trump’s NY state tax returns.
States’ Rights!!!
re: #364 makeitstop
While Trump bitches about the NYT story on his taxes, my state is about to lower the boom.
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If he thinks it’s been a bad week so far…
What’s that sound I hear?
Why, it’s the sound of Trump shitting bricks!
Kendrick Castillo, 18, lunged after one of the gunmen from yesterday’s #StemShooting, giving his life to save countless of his classmates.
This brave member of the @Frc4418 robotics club sadly was killed just days before his graduation.
Our heroes deserve life. #RestInPower pic.twitter.com/RNZe2KLCJ5— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) May 8, 2019
Check out this liberal conspiracy theory and moron. The more that liberals project, the more we know that they are sick people. https://t.co/UFLLD1Oxms
— Kurt St. Angelo (@saintangelo) May 8, 2019
re: #356 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The “adult” (18) shooting suspect. The second suspect is a “juvenile female” (transitioning trans male)
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Unfortunately, there are a lot of things that they will eat up.
Something that will go unremarked on by these idiots: A lot of carnage was likely avoided by the fact that the shooters had handguns rather than an AR-15 or similar. Don’t fucking tell me that the type of weapons that are readily available don’t make a difference in this shit.
re: #368 gocart mozart
Kurt doesn’t appreciate you acting all presidential.
re: #364 makeitstop
I’m still hoping that NY closes the potential double jeopardy loophole relating to pardons. That’s still debatable, but this will further ratchet up the pressure on Trumpworld since he’s going to be getting it from every angle.
Mornin’ everyone…onsite interview today so I’m off to prep. But first, different animals have different needs…
Eartha - our little ice queen. Guess who she cheered for in the battle for Winterfell… pic.twitter.com/oj5MlZwZMB
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2019
Leash on…Leash off. pic.twitter.com/exMrO1ntOP
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 8, 2019
Hakeem Jeffries D-NY: You can’t assert executive privilege after the fact when the closest advisors of the president have talked to team Mueller.. .It’s a phony argument. We don’t work for Donald Trump. We work for the American people. The AG … will be held in contempt.
— Mona Austin (@4True) May 8, 2019
Awfully funny how the usual suspects who thought Obama should have no confidential national security are fine with Barr and Trump obstructing here. Why. It’s almost like they have no principles.
It’s very relaxing to watch Gaetz wave his arms while the sound is muted.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 8, 2019
If Trump lost $100 million every year for 10 years and is traveling west at 50 miles an hour and his 5 kids by 3 women are traveling north at 65 miles an hour, at what point will they meet at Mar-A-Lago to do golf and racism?
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 8, 2019
Tiresome to watch Republican representatives knowingly lying about what they’re up to.
re: #363 jaunte
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So basically, Trump is going with the “high-finance” bafflegab to explain away his decade-long tax claims of “losses” - even as he touts his “successes” as being proof of his brilliant business acumen.
I surprised that he hasn’t just stated “This is all big-business finance which is too complicated for ordinary people to understand, but I understand it because I’m such a very stable genius”
re: #382 Jay C
All of a piece with his exonerating Mueller report which must be kept hidden at all costs.
re: #382 Jay C
So basically, Trump is going with the “high-finance” bafflegab to explain away his decade-long tax claims of “losses” - even as he touts his “successes” as being proof of his brilliant business acumen.
I surprised that he hasn’t just stated “This is all big-business finance which too complicated for ordinary people to understand, but I understand it because I’m such a very stable genius”
I’m sure he’ll go for that when this gambit doesn’t work. And I honestly hope he does because it shows the true Trump, an out of touch asshole who thinks he’s better because he inherited Daddy Trump’s money.
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
Fox News’ Ainsley Earnhardt: Being a huge loser is actually being a winner because it’s complicated and we don’t understand because it’s complicated.
Fox News has killed more brain cells than huffing paint.
another thought:
do you think Fox News measures it’s own success by how much money it loses?
re: #376 jaunte
It’s very relaxing to watch Gaetz wave his arms while the sound is muted.
Now that the Florida Bar Association is investigating him, it will be even more satisfying to watch him lose his license while he whinges about “deep state lawyers” or something.
re: #384 HappyWarrior
I’m sure he’ll go for that when this gambit doesn’t work. And I honestly hope he does because it shows the true Trump, an out of touch asshole who thinks he’s better because he inherited Daddy Trump’s money.
and apparently lost it all
Typical memes and posts I’ve seen on Facebook from Conservatives regarding the NY Times article about Trump losing 1 billion dollars:
“It’s his money. Who cares.”
“Drop in the bucket compared to what Democrats wasted every fiscal year.”
“What about the billions of taxpayers dollars that Illegals stole from hardworking Americans?”
Leaving all other issues aside, what is the supposed impact of exercising executive privilege over the portions of the Report that have already been made public?
re: #388 DodgerFan1988
Typical memes and posts I’ve seen on Facebook from Conservatives regarding the NY Times article about Trump losing 1 billion dollars:
“It’s his money. Who cares.”
“Drop in the bucket compared to what Democrats waste every fiscal year.”
“What about the billions of taxpayers dollars that Illegals stole from hardworking Americans?”
They’re such trash people.
re: #389 Mike Lamb
Leaving all other issues aside, what is the supposed impact of exercising executive privilege over the portions of the Report that have already been made public?
That his campaign definitely interacted with people with ties to Putin despite his protestations to the contrary and that the Russians interfered seeing him as an asset to them. It’s all over the report and it infuriates him and Barr because Barr is a good little Republican foot soldier who does what he does not for the best interests of the nation but for the Republican PArty.
re: #388 DodgerFan1988
Typical memes and posts I’ve seen on Facebook from Conservatives regarding the NY Times article about Trump losing 1 billion dollars:
“It’s his money. Who cares.”
“Drop in the bucket compared to what Democrats wasted every fiscal year.”
“What about the billions of taxpayers dollars that Illegals stole from hardworking Americans?”
“That man claims to be a mechanic, but he can’t even air up his tires.”
“Yeah, well, I bet your gas tank isn’t even full.”
OK, now I’m baffled.
I have no idea where they’re taking the plane. My first guess would have been Blount Island. But, they’re heading the wrong way. They’re moving the plane up river (south, yes I know that can be confusing) to Green Cove Springs. Which doesn’t have anything like commercial dock/port infrastructure.
AERIAL TIME LAPSE: SKY4 captured this time lapse of Flight 293 as it was towed under the Buckman Bridge. Learn more: https://t.co/f0rzFa7aVU pic.twitter.com/e1923cSWJU
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) May 8, 2019
Chicago Cubs investigating fan who flashed apparent “white power” symbol during broadcast https://t.co/bpUeObQtgC pic.twitter.com/YUjKqWjWh0
— The Hill (@thehill) May 8, 2019
re: #388 DodgerFan1988
Typical memes and posts I’ve seen on Facebook from Conservatives regarding the NY Times article about Trump losing 1 billion dollars:
“It’s his money. Who cares.”
“Drop in the bucket compared to what Democrats wasted every fiscal year.”
“What about the billions of taxpayers dollars that Illegals stole from hardworking Americans?”
1) You supported him because he was a great businessman.
2) Citation needed
3) See #1. Trump wasn’t even good at it. Those who are have stolen a bunch more than Trump.
re: #391 HappyWarrior
That his campaign definitely interacted with people with ties to Putin despite his protestations to the contrary and that the Russians interfered seeing him as an asset to them. It’s all over the report and it infuriates him and Barr because Barr is a good little Republican foot soldier who does what he does not for the best interests of the nation but for the Republican PArty.
I mean—they assert privilege. Now what? The Committee has a copy of the redacted report. What does the assertion of privilege do with respect to the Committee? They can’t unring the bell in terms of what’s been disclosed thus far.
re: #388 DodgerFan1988
Typical memes and posts I’ve seen on Facebook from Conservatives regarding the NY Times article about Trump losing 1 billion dollars:
“It’s his money. Who cares.”
“Drop in the bucket compared to what Democrats wasted every fiscal year.”
“What about the billions of taxpayers dollars that Illegals stole from hardworking Americans?”
- apparently it wasnt his money - loans, bankruptcies, and investors took the hits while he skimmed off the top
- you have to first calculate how much tax he should have paid and didnt to determine it’s a ‘drop in the bucket’
- if someone else got the job, talk to the employers that hired them, further, that’s not stealing, and further further, they paid taxes (unless their employers cheated the system)
re: #392 Belafon
The Trumpwall is made of Whataboutery.
Trump supporters do not care about his finances as long as he gives them bigotry and xenophobia.
re: #396 Mike Lamb
I mean—they assert privilege. Now what? The Committee has a copy of the redacted report. What does the assertion of privilege do with respect to the Committee? They can’t unring the bell in terms of what’s been disclosed thus far.
I think it’s a desperate Hail Mary.
re: #399 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump supporters do not care about his finances as long as he gives them bigotry and xenophobia.
Trump’s supporters may not care, but Trump will care that people know he’s poor.
Doug Collins speedtalking like a common Duane Gish.
re: #401 Belafon
Trump’s supporters may not care, but Trump will care that people know he’s poor.
Yes, and that pleases me.
re: #389 Mike Lamb
Leaving all other issues aside, what is the supposed impact of exercising executive privilege over the portions of the Report that have already been made public?
Playing to the cheap seats, mostly. And trying to buy time.
re: #393 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
OK, now I’m baffled.
I have no idea where they’re taking the plane. My first guess would have been Blount Island. But, they’re heading the wrong way. They’re moving the plane up river (south, yes I know that can be confusing) to Green Cove Springs. Which doesn’t have anything like commercial dock/port infrastructure.
There are thirteen piers at what used to be Naval Auxiliary Air Station Green Cove Springs (now owned by the city), which also has four runways. The field is now an uncontrolled airport, but would suffice for such an operation.
NADLER: “The AG may believe he’s merely following orders by preventing Congress from carrying out its responsibilities. But history has shown the 1st line of defense against undemocratic rule is for people asked to carry out indefensible orders to show courage to just say no.” pic.twitter.com/NkqsA47BUL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2019
re: #400 HappyWarrior
I think it’s a desperate Hail Mary.
More like it’s one additional count of obstruction.
re: #401 Belafon
Trump’s supporters may not care, but Trump will care that people know he’s poor.
…and an actual failure…
losing money is making money
losing the popular vote is winning
bankruptcy is proof of success
re: #408 DangerMan
…and an actual failure…
losing money is making money
losing the popular vote is winning
bankruptcy is proof of success
Ignorance is strength.
Adultery is virtue
If (hopefully when) Barr is found in contempt, is this something that could be used in impeachment proceedings?
Another exhibit in whom are the real snowflakes, motherfuckers. See, I have the opposite response. If I know a foreign language, I’m curious about where the person is from. I attended a baseball game a few years back with my SiL’s sister and her husband. They’re from Peru and El Salvador respectively. Ahead of us was a group of other Spanish speakers so I asked my SiL’s brotehr in law if he could tell where they were from. He guessed the DR or Puerto Rico, a pretty reasonable bet IMO since he’s great with language and the DR and PR are big baseball playing places. Turned out they were from the DR and we ended up really enjoying the game together and I really liked their enthusiasm for baseball. And sometimes I don’t know the language at all and I’m curious. And then there’s last summer when I was in the part of Slovakia where my mom’s maternal grandparents were from so being able to hear the people there was in a way as close to being able to hear my mom’s grandparents talk. Plus my Dad has a long ago great great grandmother who only spoke Irish and I love that. After all that happened in Ireland to eradicate the Irish language, third Grand Nana was speaking it well into the 20th century in Pittsburgh.
re: #413 Dr. Matt
Drunk Confederate-loving man bites off elderly black man’s finger in convenience store brawl
FFS
Fine people.
re: #388 DodgerFan1988
Typical memes and posts I’ve seen on Facebook from Conservatives regarding the NY Times article about Trump losing 1 billion dollars:
“It’s his money. Who cares.”
“Drop in the bucket compared to what Democrats wasted every fiscal year.”
“What about the billions of taxpayers dollars that Illegals stole from hardworking Americans?”
And those assholes still want Hillary executed for treason…
re: #418 Joe Bacon 🌹
And those assholes still want Hillary executed for treason…
They think this is a witch hunt but they talk about executing HRC, Obama, Rice, and others. They’re a bunch of thuggish bootlickers who are mad that their guy is being investigated.
Speaking of bills that failed to do even a cursory amount of research on normal reproductive biology … here’s one that appears to assume miscarriage is uncommon and the cause is easily determined. https://t.co/gLjoNaJ7Hw
— Maggie Koerth-Baker (@maggiekb1) May 8, 2019
re: #405 Anymouse 🌹
There are thirteen piers at what used to be Naval Auxiliary Air Station Green Cove Springs (now owned by the city), which also has four runways. The field is now an uncontrolled airport, but would suffice for such an operation.
Reynolds Airpark has one runway, the rest is covered in new Kia vehicles. It isn’t owned by the city. The whole industrial park area (piers & former airfield) is privately owned. I just don’t see where they move the plane to during the investigation. I guess they can place it ashore next to the piers and tent it. To move it anyhwere else they’d need to remove the wings, and I question if the TSB want to disassemble the plane prior to inspecting
Lre: #420 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I heard the bill would punish women who get abortions out of Georgia. Sounds blatantly unconstitutional to me. This is such shit. Really is too bad Abrams’ just missed beating Kemp. Kemp is a piece of shit.
re: #388 DodgerFan1988
Typical memes and posts I’ve seen on Facebook from Conservatives regarding the NY Times article about Trump losing 1 billion dollars:
“It’s his money. Who cares.”
“Drop in the bucket compared to what Democrats wasted every fiscal year.”
“What about the billions of taxpayers dollars that Illegals stole from hardworking Americans?”
It’s now undeniable that Donnie is nothing but a fraud. But, GOP cultists are incapable of saying they were wrong. They are now doubling and tripling down their support for Dear Leader.
re: #423 Dr. Matt
It’s now undeniable that Donnie is nothing but a fraud. But, GOP cultists are incapable of saying they were wrong. They are now doubling and tripling down their support for Dear Leader.
re: #288 DodgerFan1988
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This is going to get migrants killed.
Glenn is going off history where immigrant whites came to land, killed the Native American farmers (who also hunted and gathered), and claimed the land as their own.
re: #425 Feline Fearless Leader
Glenn is going off history where immigrant whites came to land, killed the Native American farmers (who also hunted and gathered), and claimed the land as their own.
He does not care a bit about that. They believe that God gave them that land to do as they please with, and that God has empowered them to defend it with all means at their disposal.
re: #426 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He does not care a bit about that. They believe that God gave them that land to do as they please with, and that God has empowered them to defend it with all means at their disposal.
Beck sees nothing wrong with white supremacy.
re: #428 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
God is a white man.
Why do you need to state this? It is obvious. Dur.
BREAKING: The @NYSenate just passed my bill to allow state prosecutors to bring charges, DESPITE a PRESIDENTIAL PARDON. The rule of law matters & the pardon power should not be perverted to undermine it. @IndivisibleTeam @MarchForTruth17 @MillenPolitics @NewYorkStateAG
— Todd Kaminsky (@toddkaminsky) May 8, 2019
re: #83 freetoken
Great song! Thanks for posting.
Something about that song was bugging, or tugging at, me.
Obviously being from Buenos Aires, my first thought was it being a tango group. Particularly with the use of Milonga, a phrase associated with Argentina Tango dance.
I just realized that the song was done in the Portuguese Neuvo Fado style.
Here’s another song in that style. This one always impressed me as being about what is important in life
From the liner notes (second half of the song):
The smoke of the open hearth
rises over the streets
and invites one to come in
and sit at the hearty table
be thanked for sharing
the little that you posses
honor lies in the truth
of the people who live here
re: #428 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
God is a white man.
God is an American.
/bowie
Imagine if some of these people were to die and go to heaven and find out God was a black dude…
re: #394 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
They’re mixing up memes. The guy was probably doing the circle game, which I remember playing in college in the 90s.
re: #433 Eclectic Cyborg
Imagine if some of these people were to die and go to heaven and find out God was a black dude…
I wuz a good christian!! howcome I’m obviously in hell????
re: #433 Eclectic Cyborg
Imagine if some of these people were to die and go to heaven and find out God was a black dude…
we land on mars and find out that martians are 8 feet tall, black, and pissed
Swalwell: “What do you do when you have an attorney general … who failed to comply with a lawful subpoena? What do you do when someone conducts themselves that way? Mr. Chairman, you hold them in contempt & I would go as so far as to say then you move to impeach him.”
Via CSPAN pic.twitter.com/CDbKJQwC4O— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 8, 2019
re: #436 DangerMan
we land on mars and find out that martians are 8 feet tall, black, female and pissed
Trump randomly tweeted his opposition this AM to an obscure bill recognizing a Massachusetts Indian tribe.
Except it wasn’t random. One of his top advisers is a lobbyist who represents a gaming company that would compete with the tribe’s planned casino.https://t.co/bEDcQKvDgt— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) May 8, 2019
re: #436 DangerMan
we land on mars and find out that martians are 8 feet tall, black, and pissed
LOL. Oh man, that would make a great black comedy/sci-fi movie.
re: #440 Backwoods_Sleuth
in a rational world, that’d be another impeachment article for corruption.
Part of me would really love to see like 25-30 articles of impeachment pass the House. Just to force every Republican in Congress to vote on 2-3 dozen instances of blatant illegalities. Force them to say that all of this is acceptable.
I wonder if it got to that point if the sheer weight of the charges would be enough to get a conviction on just one of them. Because, really, that’s all we need.
Flashback: the last time Thing 1 and Thing 2 tried to hold a press conference, Thing 2’s fly was wide open. This has to be a hidden camera @SachaBaronCohen comedy show underway. https://t.co/IKQQw2F7P8
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 8, 2019
re: #61 teleskiguy
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Nice to have something good for your 10th BDay. My middle sons 10th BDay was the 9/11 terror attacks. Kinda put a cloud on a Sept. 11th birthday.
re: #420 Backwoods_Sleuth
Miscarriages are very common —especially for first pregnancies. It is horrifying to think about how many lives and families will be ruined by draconian laws based on ignorance.
Two weeks. Two students killed tackling shooters in their classrooms.
The families of Kendrick Castillo and Riley Howell should be planning for their futures, not funerals.
This is devastating. Our leaders owe it to them to take action. pic.twitter.com/hgaAJPjCVT— Gabrielle Giffords (@GabbyGiffords) May 8, 2019
re: #439 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that was assumed //
re: #441 Eclectic Cyborg
LOL. Oh man, that would make a great black comedy/sci-fi movie.
i think this was a robin williams joke
re: #445 unproven innocence
Miscarriages are very common —especially for first pregnancies. It is horrifying to think about how many lives and families will be ruined by draconian laws based on ignorance.
Just as planned. It’s all about the criminalization of women and their very existence.
re: #442 KGxvi
in a rational world, that’d be another impeachment article for corruption.
Part of me would really love to see like 25-30 articles of impeachment pass the House. Just to force every Republican in Congress to vote on 2-3 dozen instances of blatant illegalities. Force them to say that all of this is acceptable.
I wonder if it got to that point if the sheer weight of the charges would be enough to get a conviction on just one of them. Because, really, that’s all we need.
exactly
First teaser trailer for the HBO ‘Watchmen’ series. Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/hRnCU33f3n
— Lights, Camera, Pod (@LightsCameraPod) May 8, 2019
re: #446 Backwoods_Sleuth
Two weeks. Two students killed tackling shooters in their classrooms.
The families of Kendrick Castillo and Riley Howell should be planning for their futures, not funerals.
This is devastating. Our leaders owe it to them to take action.
our ‘leaders’ are ignorant and complicit cowards
all of them
Holy cow, I just saw the news trump is asserting executive privilege over the Mueller report. Jaw dropping assertion of raw power.
JFC
For Democrats to call a qualified and experienced public servant like the Attorney General a liar is completely over the top. They’re suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. pic.twitter.com/lMloyR4rhx
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) May 8, 2019
re: #454 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC
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hey mitch:
‘qualified’, ”experienced’ and ‘liar’ are not mutually exclusive
re: #455 DangerMan
hey mitch:
‘qualified’, ”experienced’ and ‘liar’ are not mutually exclusive
Yeah, I was going to mention that his ‘qualifications’ and ‘experience’ are mostly with covering up Republican crimes.
But sure, ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome.’ Sure, Jan.
re: #433 Eclectic Cyborg
Imagine if some of these people were to die and go to heaven and find out God was a black
dudewoman…
Also: plus-sized.
re: #272 makeitstop
Another part of NYC radio history is going away - iconic pop station WPLJ is shutting down
re: #169 The Vicious Babushka
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