States are passing draconian abortion laws hoping that they squirm their way to the Supreme Court, plop onto Roe V. Wade, and ironically, end the whole thing too early.
We know the President has a litmus test for his judicial nominees. Wendy Vitter checks all the boxes & if confirmed will possibly help to overturn landmark SCOTUS cases like Brown v. Board of Education & Roe v. Wade. pic.twitter.com/kEtH3Mm4QP
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) May 16, 2019
re: #1 gocart mozart
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Were that the biggest driver of such bills was ignorance, because we might be able to end them by simply teaching people. But the reality is that such bills exist because there is a significant portion of our nation’s population who believe that giving women free agency over their lives and their bodies was the biggest mistake made. If they could put a ban on women in the workplace and repeal the 19th Amendment, they would do it tomorrow.
re: #3 Targetpractice
Were that the biggest driver of such bills was ignorance, because we might be able to end them by simply teaching people. But the reality is that such bills exist because there is a significant portion of our nation’s population who believe that giving women free agency over their lives and their bodies was the biggest mistake made. If they could put a ban on women in the workplace and repeal the 19th Amendment, they would do it tomorrow.
Yes. They’re reactionary minded.
You know what? Vasectomies are reversible. Why not just make all men get them? And then if they’re truly ready to be a father, they can undo them.
What’s that? You have problems with this? Yes, you’re right, it’s wrong to regulate men’s bodies like that.— Geraldine (@everywhereist) May 10, 2019
re: #1 gocart mozart
Holy hell. Would they really go after brown v. board?
Immigrants in US military now being denied citizenship at higher rate than other foreign-born civilians https://t.co/tj0UIqGHws pic.twitter.com/lDSwfPrPFn
— The Hill (@thehill) May 16, 2019
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Holy hell. Would they really go after brown v. board?
Yes.
I think they would. I think the reactionary GOP and the Federalist/Heritage judges Trump keeps nominating and Senate GOPers keep rubber stamping, are ultimately going to go after Brown, the New Deal, and Great Society.
They want to destroy 80 years of progress.
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Holy hell. Would they really go after brown v. board?
I dunno tbh but I don’t want to find out.
re: #10 lawhawk
Yes.
I think they would. I think the reactionary GOP and the Federalist/Heritage judges Trump keeps nominating and Senate GOPers keep rubber stamping, are ultimately going to go after Brown, the New Deal, and Great Society.
They want to destroy 80 years of progress.
Yep.
#8 btw is yet another reason why I’m not budging on birthright citizenship.
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Holy hell. Would they really go after brown v. board?
Yes, the reason being is they believe that it and busing “ruined” the schools by forcing white students to be moved from great schools in white neighborhoods to failing schools in black ones in order as a form of socialism. You have to remember that, for many white folks at the time Brown was handed down, racial animosity and the push for equality had nothing to do with centuries of inequality and everything with a communist plot to “destroy” everything good about America.
These right wing judges were shaped by people who were terrified by social progress made in the Warren Court years. They’ll gladly reverse a lot of it.
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Holy hell. Would they really go after brown v. board?
What do you think “charter schools” and “school choice” is all about?
re: #16 HappyWarrior
These right wing judges were shaped by people who were terrified by social progress made in the Warren Court years. They’ll gladly reverse a lot of it.
It’s what led to the branch of wingnut judicial thought we know as “originalism,” the idea that the Warren and Burger Courts had “overstepped” on cases like Brown and Roe by not sticking strictly to what was spelled out implicitly in the Constitution, and thus had “legislated” from the bench.
re: #19 Targetpractice
It’s what led to the branch of wingnut judicial thought we know as “originalism,” the idea that the Warren and Burger Courts had “overstepped” on cases like Brown and Roe by not sticking strictly to what was spelled out implicitly in the Constitution, and thus had “legislated” from the bench.
Precisely
re: #18 The Vicious Babushka
What do you think “charter schools” and “school choice” is all about?
Yep!
Fresh Right-to-Life news from Alabama:
Defense: Alabama Governor Denies Reprieve Before Execution
Notice that most of the “journalists” shaking their fingers at Democrats for refusing to appear on Fox News are of the right or far right variety.
Now why would right wingers want this to happen so badly? Hmm? It’s a head-scratcher.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2019
re: #23 Charles Johnson
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Every morning I have two cups of coffee. Today I had three. Watch out extremists! pic.twitter.com/fuhycgQHi6
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 16, 2019
Things don’t get “more impossible.”
I remain appalled and irritated beyond belief that Democrats are even THINKING about
“ruling out impeachment.”
This is embarrassingly impotent behavior in the face of this monstrous administration. https://t.co/BjAmMUm7G9— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2019
Any advantage the Democratic Party got from the 2018 blue wave is being pissed away by leaders who are making political calculations instead of doing what they KNOW is right.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2019
re: #31 Charles Johnson
One party deserves to lose, the other doesn’t deserve to win.
Word has spread. My old co-worker in Tel Aviv facebooked Wife today: “Thinking about you two today when I heard the (Alabama) news.”
re: #10 lawhawk
Yes.
I think they would. I think the reactionary GOP and the Federalist/Heritage judges Trump keeps nominating and Senate GOPers keep rubber stamping, are ultimately going to go after Brown, the New Deal, and Great Society.
They want to destroy 80 years of progress.
What the intellectual (or whatever is left that passes for intellectual) part of the legal conservative movement really wants (and they’ve wanted it for decades) is a return to the Lochner era. They want to so weaken federal, state, and local government to the point that none of them can do anything to stop bad results. For those that don’t know about Lochner decision here, nice summary here.
re: #32 Charles Johnson
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I saw an article earlier this morning that didn’t pull punches in saying that the DNC has basically conceded the impeachment fight to Trump. That quibbling over the redacted portions of the Mueller Report may actually hurt the DNC not because it looks like they’re “harassing” Trump, but because it likely won’t change anything about the conclusions of the Report itself. And the conclusions were so damning that the DNC’s refusal to act on them can only really be read as irrational fear that doing so will “help” Trump win reelection.
The DNC has set itself up to go to the polls next year arguing that Donny’s actions are so heinous that he deserves to be removed from office, but will only lead many voters to ask why the DNC did nothing if that is the case.
Today’s meetings were a positive step forward. U.S. & #Russia have demonstrated in the past that we can cooperate on key international issues. We urge Russia to work with us to change the trajectory of the relationship for the benefit of both nations. pic.twitter.com/LDoixnsTVe
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) May 14, 2019
Secretary of State in Russia to discuss Trump Tower Moscow.
re: #36 Targetpractice
I saw an article earlier this morning that didn’t pull punches in saying that the DNC has basically conceded the impeachment fight to Trump. That quibbling over the redacted portions of the Mueller Report may actually hurt the DNC not because it looks like they’re “harassing” Trump, but because it likely won’t change anything about the conclusions of the Report itself. And the conclusions were so damning that the DNC’s refusal to act on them can only really be read as irrational fear that doing so will “help” Trump win reelection.
The DNC has set itself up to go to the polls next year arguing that Donny’s actions are so heinous that he deserves to be removed from office, but will only lead many voters to ask why the DNC did nothing if that is the case.
For two years, leadership kept saying “wait for the Mueller Report.” The Mueller Report came and now it’s basically a McGuffin… leadership’s position now seems to be “eh, what are you going to do this close to an election?” Which is stupid because we have elections all the damn time in this country.
re: #2 HappyWarrior
He was CT AG for 18 years, took over when Liieberman left to run for Senate in 1988
He seems VERY heavily medicated today. https://t.co/NKJzx5rsjA
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2019
re: #38 KGxvi
For two years, leadership kept saying “wait for the Mueller Report.” The Mueller Report came and now it’s basically a McGuffin… leadership’s position now seems to be “eh, what are you going to do this close to an election?” Which is stupid because we have elections all the damn time in this country.
There are 16 fucking months until the election. That’s almost a YEAR AND A HALF. That’s plenty of time to do shit.
Hell, the House could impeach the motherfucker tomorrow if they want it to.
If they do nothing, they send the message that tyranny is acceptable in the United States.
First album I bought, KISS “Dressed to Kill”
With Gene Simmons trending, I figured I’d share my favorite #misheardlyrics story. A friend of mine in HS thought this song went “I want to rock and roll all night, and PART OF every day.” https://t.co/FuJsLWoglF
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) May 16, 2019
Even by Trump standards, this is some disgusting bigotry and division, as he claims asylum seekers are stealing money from veterans. pic.twitter.com/FiUS21X0WX
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) May 16, 2019
Get New Trump!
now with 77% more racism!
Trump is the John Belushi of Calvin Coolidges.
High. As. A. Fucking. Kite.
re: #41 Eclectic Cyborg
There are 16 fucking months until the election. That’s almost a YEAR AND A HALF. That’s plenty of time to do shit.
Hell, the House could impeach the motherfucker tomorrow if they want it to.
If they do nothing, they send the message that tyranny is acceptable in the United States.
Pelosi Raises Impeachment as a Way to Break Trump’s Information Stonewall
https://t.co/dVoM9aLh0b pic.twitter.com/O9zX1wSVjr
— Matt Davies (@MatttDavies) May 15, 2019
re: #38 KGxvi
For two years, leadership kept saying “wait for the Mueller Report.” The Mueller Report came and now it’s basically a McGuffin… leadership’s position now seems to be “eh, what are you going to do this close to an election?” Which is stupid because we have elections all the damn time in this country.
IMHO, the problem began with Nancy’s “He’s not worth impeaching” remark to the press weeks ago. At the time, folks laughed at it and saw it as a bruise to Donny’s ego. But since then, it’s rung like false bravado, the sort of glib remark you make to explain inaction. If the Report is that damning, why hold off on going after Trump?
The bit for weeks to explain inaction has been that they’re “building the case for impeachment.” No offense to folks who still believe that, but at this point it looks more like they’re building a case for inaction. That they’re not working towards impeachment so much as working to make a case why they “can’t” impeach Trump. And even if that is not the case, it is the perception they are creating that will hurt them next year.
Holy. Shit.
From the text of the new Alabama abortion law https://t.co/7VK0moM7Ua pic.twitter.com/eOgcduD57h
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) May 16, 2019
re: #46 thecommodore
Pelosi Raises Impeachment as a Way to Break Trump’s Information Stonewall
What reason does Trump have to view that as anything but an empty threat?
— miles reed (@milesjreed) May 16, 2019
re: #49 GlutenFreeJesus
Holy. Shit.
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since i like to hear myself talk, from downstairs:
zero babies have been aborted since roe
if it’s a baby, it was born
if it is ‘unborn’ it is not a baby
codifying stupidity into law doesnt make it so
Trump borrowed $11.2 million last year. It’s unprecedented for a president to be borrowing big amounts of money while in office. (And why did he need to borrow?) https://t.co/J7iTB9Lrej
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 16, 2019
TRUMP: “And if for some reason, possibly political, we can’t get the Democrats to approve this merit-based, high-security plan, then we will get it approved immediately after the election when we take back the House, keep the Senate and, of course, hold the presidency.” pic.twitter.com/oSLsSNKqqF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 16, 2019
re: #50 Targetpractice
What reason does Trump have to view that as anything but an empty threat?
Well, Nancy Pelosi said it, and I’m still inclined to think she knows what she’s doing. I’d say Trump ignores her at his peril.
Speaking of Trump, I was going to comment on his stupid speech, but honestly I don’t know where to begin. Would it be that we don’t want foreigners taking low wage jobs, but we do want them taking middle class and higher jobs? How does that help upward mobility? Should I start with the end about how we could change the make up of the House “a lot sooner than then” (referring to the 2020 elections?) Gah.
The nation will follow along, and you’ll be able to control this narrative with daily hearings showing and exposing all of Trump’s criminal misconduct, and the misconduct of everyone in his orbit.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 16, 2019
Matt Walsh still being a stupid, evil, garbage person.
(In spoiler tags because of evil, stupidity & overall garbageness)
60 million dead humans since Roe is also an astounding number https://t.co/eZmyE5O02y
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 16, 2019
“I could handle the immigration ban on Muslims.
The caging of children.
Even the attempts to take healthcare from millions.
And glorifying despots and dictators, lying, cheating and stealing.
I mean, you know?
But now I’m suffering man.
I might go broke.
This sucks.”— nines09 (@Mescalero09) May 16, 2019
re: #54 The Vicious Babushka
Trump speaks not English, nor could he pass the most basic of civics exam. Can we deport him? Perhaps to Elba or St Helena?
re: #60 KGxvi
Trump speaks not English, nor could he pass the most basic of civics exam. Can we deport him? Perhaps to Elba or St Helena?
Where is Snowden living now?
re: #59 Wah Gwaan?!
What was Reagan’s line? “A recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose your job”?
Same basic principle.
re: #54 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #48 Targetpractice
IMHO, the problem began with Nancy’s “He’s not worth impeaching” remark to the press weeks ago. At the time, folks laughed at it and saw it as a bruise to Donny’s ego. But since then, it’s rung like false bravado, the sort of glib remark you make to explain inaction. If the Report is that damning, why hold off on going after Trump?
The bit for weeks to explain inaction has been that they’re “building the case for impeachment.” No offense to folks who still believe that, but at this point it looks more like they’re building a case for inaction. That they’re not working towards impeachment so much as working to make a case why they “can’t” impeach Trump. And even if that is not the case, it is the perception they are creating that will hurt them next year.
Which is why Barr felt comfortable about making this “joke”
re: #54 The Vicious Babushka
Also, how exactly are you going to administer civics exams in other countries? That’s what “before admission” mean, right? There’s no way our embassies and consulates could handle that as currently constructed and staffed.
re: #62 KGxvi
What was Reagan’s line? “A recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose your job”?
Same basic principle.
You do not make your neighborhood better by burning down houses.
re: #55 calochortus
Well, Nancy Pelosi said it, and I’m still inclined to think she knows what she’s doing. I’d say Trump ignores her at his peril.
Speaking of Trump, I was going to comment on his stupid speech, but honestly I don’t know where to begin. Would it be that we don’t want foreigners taking low wage jobs, but we do want them taking middle class and higher jobs? How does that help upward mobility? Should I start with the end about how we could change the make up of the House “a lot sooner than then” (referring to the 2020 elections?) Gah.
Meanwhile, in the same week, we learned that Bill Barr laughed in her face about whether she’d “brought [her] handcuffs.” That’s not a sign of an administration that takes the threat of impeachment seriously.
Thread https://t.co/jQuQo4677o
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) May 16, 2019
re: #67 Targetpractice
Meanwhile, in the same week, we learned that Bill Barr laughed in her face about whether she’d “brought [her] handcuffs.” That’s not a sign of an administration that takes the threat of impeachment seriously.
It doesn’t mean they shouldn’t take it seriously. Might even be evidence of hubris, which makes people and administrations careless.
Ted Cruz smuggles dildos. One at a time.
Sen. Ted Cruz Issues Warning About “Space Pirates” - https://t.co/KKHqYXzQYx pic.twitter.com/ky86Ap5RcT
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) May 15, 2019
re: #66 Wah Gwaan?!
You do not make your neighborhood better by burning down houses.
basic real estate
never be the best house in the neighborhood
re: #67 Targetpractice
Meanwhile, in the same week, we learned that Bill Barr laughed in her face about whether she’d “brought [her] handcuffs.” That’s not a sign of an administration that takes the threat of impeachment seriously.
People who think they are above the law laugh at the law until they get caught in it.
I can’t believe how easy that was.
This is not a human. pic.twitter.com/PKauPTxvWk
— Tree Trunks (@efuseakay) May 16, 2019
It’s a fucking canine fetus you moron. Thanks for proving that you should have no say in what women do to their own bodies.
— Tree Trunks (@efuseakay) May 16, 2019
re: #72 DangerMan
basic real estate
never be the best house in the neighborhood
Never be the house next to the house that just doesn’t give a shit.
re: #69 calochortus
It doesn’t mean they shouldn’t take it seriously. Might even be evidence of hubris, which makes people and administrations careless.
If impeachment will get her the documents and testimony she wants, and she has no reason at this point to believe the White House is acting in good faith, why threaten rather than act?
re: #50 Targetpractice
What reason does Trump have to view that as anything but an empty threat?
two good comments to that article:
“One step at a time, people. Don’t worry, it’s not like Trump is ever going to stop providing additional proof of his complete and general contempt for lawfulness”.
and
Impeachment hearings in Congress should begin with a clear explanation that they are unlikely to produce a conviction in the Senate. That can’t be emphasized too much or too loudly. The purpose of impeachment would be to acquire testimony for the public’s use in governing themselves, including calling and writing their Senate and House representatives, altering their votes, or even protesting in the streets.
Let the Republican (Trump) controlled Senate deal with trying to cover-up information. Let the Republican Senate majority deny a fair trial. The people will have been forewarned of that and will be expecting it.
trump speech today:
sedative or senility?
re: #73 Belafon
People who think they are above the law laugh at the law until they get caught in it.
and then claim they were framed, rigged, setup, unfair, abuse, etc
btw - what’s a ‘legal’ coup?
trump keeps talking about an ‘illegal coup’
The rats are living the sinking crate full of rats
*Another* TPUSA departure.
That’s three major dropouts in two weeks.
Seems safe to say that *something* is going on inside TPUSA https://t.co/fL7x4aYLNd— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) May 16, 2019
re: #76 Targetpractice
If impeachment will get her the documents and testimony she wants, and she has no reason at this point to believe the White House is acting in good faith, why threaten rather than act?
I think it might have something to do with being seen by the majority of voters who don’t currently want to impeach, to be proceeding carefully and thoughtfully. Being forced into it rather than rushing towards it. It would be way too easy for the Right to spin impeachment investigations as witch hunts, while still busily obstructing justice.
It may be the wrong strategy, or it maybe the right one, but I suspect her understanding of the politics is superior to mine.
re: #73 Belafon
People who think they are above the law laugh at the law until they get caught in it.
So do people who keep getting told “I got enough to put you away for life!” and yet keep walking free.
re: #80 DangerMan
as well
Not next door but close by…..Notice the back side glass…as he passes them he doesn’t even have to shoot the bird, bitch.
Last year.
DRUGS POURING ACROSS THE BORDER! CLOSE THE BORDER!
oops wrong border.
55 Lbs. Of Meth Seized At Blue Water Bridge, Truck Driver Arrested https://t.co/uW4V7EcbVh
— WWJ950 (@WWJ950) May 16, 2019
Wendy Vitter, Pro-Life Wife Of Sex Scandal-Plagued GOPer, Confirmed As Fed Judge https://t.co/UqyFDQfTy3 via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 16, 2019
*and Jacobin
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) May 16, 2019
>>>is also sufficiently cowed that there’s an 80-percent chance it’ll fail. Just ask the Syrians, Venezuelans (thrice!) and Hungarians.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 16, 2019
Walmart says it will raise prices on some products as a result of the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese goods https://t.co/jl9t15Vtc4 pic.twitter.com/LC7Kup1qzy
— CNN (@CNN) May 16, 2019
Powerful moment between @AOC & Heather Heyer’s mom @SusanBro7 at today’s hearing on white supremacy.
“I have been given a huge platform…because I’m white. Many Black parents, Muslim parents, Jewish parents lose their children and nobody pays attention.”
True solidarity. pic.twitter.com/imwqcOnjzT— Bend the Arc: Jewish Action (@jewishaction) May 16, 2019
re: #82 calochortus
I think it might have something to do with being seen by the majority of voters who don’t currently want to impeach, to be proceeding carefully and thoughtfully. Being forced into it rather than rushing towards it. It would be way too easy for the Right to spin impeachment investigations as witch hunts, while still busily obstructing justice.
It may be the wrong strategy, or it maybe the right one, but I suspect her understanding of the politics is superior to mine.
We were told for the better part of two years that we couldn’t take action until Mueller’s Report dropped, that he would make the case for impeachment and the DNC would go from there. Well, the Report dropped over a month ago, it made a case for impeachment, but now we’re told we have to wait until the various and sundry investigations in Congress conclude before action can be taken.
What if we get to next November and the case for impeachment has never been made? Worse, what if people decide that the DNC’s failure to impeach means that there’s no “there there” to the whole matter? That he really was “exonerated” and the DNC has spent 2 years wasting the nation’s time and money on a wild goose chase?
re: #69 calochortus
It doesn’t mean they shouldn’t take it seriously. Might even be evidence of hubris, which makes people and administrations careless.
I mean, we all know how seriously this administration takes women.
i unsuccessfully attempted to get the groundhog autopsy several years ago but will continue to pursue the truth, for charlotte’s sake https://t.co/Bm7squ8Fwb
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) May 16, 2019
It was my job as your editor to protect you from yourself. The mayor is VERY tall and has killed before.
— ‘Weird Alex’ Pareene (@pareene) May 16, 2019
re: #91 calochortus
Why am I not seeing this discussed on Free Republic?
/
It’s CNN which MAGATS believe is fake news…
Neutral good. https://t.co/4nG5a8gnst
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) May 16, 2019
re: #79 DangerMan
and then claim they were framed, rigged, setup, unfair, abuse, etc
btw - what’s a ‘legal’ coup?
trump keeps talking about an ‘illegal coup’
In a normal administration, it would be January 21 of the year following the election.
Somehow until that tweet, I didn’t even make the connection with DAVID Vitter. Oh, wow, she’s even worse than I thought! #ByeByeBrown.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 16, 2019
And now for his follow-up, @MattWalshBlog treats us to that Twitter rarity, the Concatenation Corncob pic.twitter.com/8R5mP8c9oi
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) May 16, 2019
re: #95 gocart mozart
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Feeling cute, might eat the garbage and poop on your carpet later…IDK… pic.twitter.com/FGTp6oOCJE
— The Cultured Ruffian (@CulturedRuffian) May 7, 2019
re: #90 Targetpractice
We were told for the better part of two years that we couldn’t take action until Mueller’s Report dropped, that he would make the case for impeachment and the DNC would go from there. Well, the Report dropped over a month ago, it made a case for impeachment, but now we’re told we have to wait until the various and sundry investigations in Congress conclude before action can be taken.
What if we get to next November and the case for impeachment has never been made? Worse, what if people decide that the DNC’s failure to impeach means that there’s no “there there” to the whole matter? That he really was “exonerated” and the DNC has spent 2 years wasting the nation’s time and money on a wild goose chase?
And what if they start impeachment hearings and the administration still stonewalls them and things get tied up in court for months. Will people in flyover country suddenly marching in the streets for greater transparency? If Trump is impeached will he be convicted in the Senate? (Probably not) Will that somehow convince people Trump is a crook?
None of us are psychic. I understand your frustration, and respect your take on the subject. Mine is just a bit different.
re: #99 Targetpractice
Considering I’m currently using a GrubHub coupon as a bookmark for my latest acquisition, I’d also have to fall under “neutral good.”
Gonna make a wild guess that it’s not a cookbook.
The only reasonable answer to my question do you think Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided is a resounding yes. Vitter defiantly declined to answer. Brown is more than just a historic ruling, it is about core values & principles that binds & bonds our democracy. pic.twitter.com/tcyf57SeFo
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) May 15, 2019
re: #88 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Rolling back prices to the pre-free trade era! Progress!
re: #95 gocart mozart
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Ann Coulter Has Twitter Meltdown Over Trump’s New Immigration Proposal https://t.co/cPU7hivh04 pic.twitter.com/ab92YOL1Nz
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) May 16, 2019
re: #102 Decatur Deb
Gonna make a wild guess that it’s not a cookbook.
It is not. In fact, it’s the first volume of a light novel series that I picked up yesterday at the local bookstore’s “Going Out of Business” sale. It was like a Steam Sale, only I feel a bit less guilty.
re: #106 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Ann won’t be happy until no one is allowed in the country.
re: #110 HappyWarrior
Ann won’t be happy until no one is allowed in the country.
Well, at least no one with a skin tone darker than a bleached paper bag.
re: #110 HappyWarrior
Ann won’t be happy until no one is allowed in the country.
That’s literally one of her tweets… asking what happened to the total immigration moratorium.
If you voted for Trump because something something Clinton neocon I hope you are enjoying John Bolton.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) May 15, 2019
re: #110 HappyWarrior
Ann won’t be happy until no one is allowed in the country.
She lives in NYC, doesn’t she? Couldn’t she just move away from that vibrant, immigrant-filled city to, Iowa or North Dakota or something where she doesn’t have to see brown people?
re: #114 KGxvi
That’s literally one of her tweets… asking what happened to the total immigration moratorium.
She’s such a miserable bigot.
re: #116 calochortus
She lives in NYC, doesn’t she? Couldn’t she just move away from that vibrant, immigrant-filled city to, Iowa or North Dakota or something where she doesn’t have to see brown people?
Seriously.
re: #107 KGxvi
I’m like six of those.
No, wait, seven of them… Neutral Good, Chaotic Good (very rarely, but occasionally), Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil; depending on the mood and/or situation
re: #101 calochortus
And what if they start impeachment hearings and the administration still stonewalls them and things get tied up in court for months. Will people in flyover country suddenly marching in the streets for greater transparency? If Trump is impeached will he be convicted in the Senate? (Probably not) Will that somehow convince people Trump is a crook?
None of us are psychic. I understand your frustration, and respect your take on the subject. Mine is just a bit different.
Being a recovering conspiracy theorist, I tend to discount grand plans that see people slowly being worked into inevitable doom in favor of believing that the ones in charge are gambling that their actions (even inaction) will have a favorable outcome or at least break even. And that’s what I see here, Pelosi and the rest of the leadership gambling that either they will land on a bombshell so massive that the polls will flip in favor of impeachment or that Trump’s absolute refusal to cooperate will hurt him politically.
Meanwhile, the UC peregrines have just passed their third week. That brown thing in the nest is an unhatched egg. Three weeks ago, the chicks would fit in it.
re: #90 Targetpractice
We were told for the better part of two years that we couldn’t take action until Mueller’s Report dropped, that he would make the case for impeachment and the DNC would go from there. Well, the Report dropped over a month ago, it made a case for impeachment, but now we’re told we have to wait until the various and sundry investigations in Congress conclude before action can be taken.
What if we get to next November and the case for impeachment has never been made? Worse, what if people decide that the DNC’s failure to impeach means that there’s no “there there” to the whole matter? That he really was “exonerated” and the DNC has spent 2 years wasting the nation’s time and money on a wild goose chase?
You have accurately described my thoughts on the matter as well. Then, when I see a President Pence appear in the aftermath…it becomes a sobering and almost scary thought.
Since it’s ‘Bama Day on the Intertubes:
Roy Moore wants judge removed, order vacated in Sacha Baron Cohen lawsuit
al.com
re: #121 Targetpractice
Being a recovering conspiracy theorist, I tend to discount grand plans that see people slowly being worked into inevitable doom in favor of believing that the ones in charge are gambling that their actions (even inaction) will have a favorable outcome or at least break even. And that’s what I see here, Pelosi and the rest of the leadership gambling that either they will land on a bombshell so massive that the polls will flip in favor of impeachment or that Trump’s absolute refusal to cooperate will hurt him politically.
Polls don’t flip in a short amount of time unless you do the work to convince people to change their minds. More likely, they change slowly - see marijuana legalization, same sex marriage - or they don’t change much at all. In other words: there’s no smoking gun.
As for hurting Trump politically, he’s already at his floor. His base, that 37% or so that he has a strangle hold on, isn’t going to desert him.
On an unrelated topic, apparently highly refined foods cause weight gain. Aside from the fact that nutrition, metabolism, and related things are wildly complex, and the rest of the stuff in the article, which of these diets sounds better to you:
Participants were randomly assigned to one of two diets for two-week stretches: One group was fed an unprocessed diet full of whole or minimally processed foods like stir-fried beef with vegetables, basmati rice and orange slices. The other group ate an ultra-processed diet of meals like chicken salad made with canned chicken, jarred mayonnaise and relish on white bread, served with canned peaches in heavy syrup. When the two weeks were up, the groups were then assigned to the opposite diet plan.
Everything’s Been Sold American
@realDonaldTrump’s latest financial disclosure report has a bunch of interesting figures (almost all conflating gross revenue with net profit) but one “inactive” hotel deal through T Express LLC clearly started after he entered office, in 2017: https://t.co/9f4uTZxuw9 pic.twitter.com/vXdW4fWzpp
— Derek Kravitz (@derekkravitz) May 16, 2019
2. Trump reported $22.7M in resort-related revenue from Mar-a-Lago. But we don’t know how much of this money has come from the fed gov’t (aka taxpayers), foreign governments or those seeking to influence the @WhiteHouse. We may never know: https://t.co/Hxa24Ub9l1 pic.twitter.com/wKMnCOZjxp
— Derek Kravitz (@derekkravitz) May 16, 2019
Trump borrowed $11.2 million last year. It’s unprecedented for a president to be borrowing big amounts of money while in office. (And why did he need to borrow?) https://t.co/J7iTB9Lrej
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 16, 2019
re: #128 calochortus
On an unrelated topic, apparently highly refined foods cause weight gain. Aside from the fact that nutrition, metabolism, and related things are wildly complex, and the rest of the stuff in the article, which of these diets sounds better to you:
The unprocessed is probably better, for the most part. But in reality it’s a little from column A and a little from column B. Sometimes, I just want a candy bar and a coke.
re: #112 gocart mozart
Should probably put that behind a private tag. (Nudity)
Never mind. It’s been deleted
re: #128 calochortus
On an unrelated topic, apparently highly refined foods cause weight gain. Aside from the fact that nutrition, metabolism, and related things are wildly complex, and the rest of the stuff in the article, which of these diets sounds better to you:
I want the stir-fried beef with canned peaches!
re: #133 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
I want the stir-fried beef with canned peaches!
Nah, I’ll go with the beef, rice and orange slices and then maybe some ice cream with caramel sauce.
The sad reality of modern America is so many of us want to eat that stir-fried beef, but eat the chicken salad because it doesn’t need to be kept warm, it’s what was on the shelf for cheap at 7-11, and you can hold it in one hand while you move a mouse with the other.
re: #135 Targetpractice
Stir-fried beef filled cheetos.
re: #135 Targetpractice
The sad reality of modern America is so many of us want to eat that stir-fried beef, but eat the chicken salad because it doesn’t need to be kept warm, it’s what was on the shelf for cheap at 7-11, and you can hold it in one hand while you move a mouse with the other.
Unfortunately that is so. I have the luxury of the time to cook that stuff and enough money to buy whatever ingredients I think are best. It is criminal that there aren’t good options for so many people.
re: #95 gocart mozart
I’m 8 of 9. I don’t rip pages. That’s just wrong.
re: #106 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Does Anne ride a Harley? Seriously… I wonder.
Not to horrify, but the full reality of this forced birth must be told. Mother’s water broke at 21 wks. Lungs stopped developing. When forced birth came along, skull hadn’t developed enough. Uterus crushed baby’s head on way out, but she lived long enough to suffocate in agony.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) May 16, 2019
Edible containers, dry on the outside and savory on the inside; the future of single-hand meals.
re: #145 jaunte
Edible containers, dry on the outside and savory on the inside; the future of single-hand meals.
I think we call them hamburgers.
re: #145 jaunte
Edible containers, dry on the outside and savory on the inside; the future of single-hand meals.
Where the Box IS the bun……
re: #82 calochortus
I think it might have something to do with being seen by the majority of voters who don’t currently want to impeach, to be proceeding carefully and thoughtfully. Being forced into it rather than rushing towards it. It would be way too easy for the Right to spin impeachment investigations as witch hunts, while still busily obstructing justice.
It may be the wrong strategy, or it maybe the right one, but I suspect her understanding of the politics is superior to mine.
i just jumped back in so if this has been said:
i think also she/they figures this will inevitably end up in court long before an actual senate ‘trial’ and they dont want to be booted out being told you should have done x first, or go back and do y…..
re: #128 calochortus
On an unrelated topic, apparently highly refined foods cause weight gain. Aside from the fact that nutrition, metabolism, and related things are wildly complex, and the rest of the stuff in the article, which of these diets sounds better to you:
minimum profit is in selling us wholesome food that we prepare ourselves fresh
maximum profit is in selling us bulk-produced, chemically treated processed crap that we just warm up in the nukerowave
Just had a follower tweet that what Louis CK did was really no big deal. (uh???) I pointed out that when Louis CK got back on stage one of the first jokes he told was a rape joke and that was the act of a person who just doesn’t get it. Then my follower proceeded to mansplain why rape jokes are good because they help take the power away from the topic (?!?)
Can’t decide whether I should mute him or block him.
re: #145 jaunte
Edible containers, dry on the outside and savory on the inside; the future of single-hand meals.
You mean ice-cream cones?
I rarely claim something is everything, but…
THIS. IS. EVERYTHING. pic.twitter.com/xtI2Ni0sOg— Ted Geoghegan (@tedgeoghegan) May 16, 2019
re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
minimum profit is in selling us wholesome food that we prepare ourselves fresh
maximum profit is in selling us bulk-produced, chemically treated processed crap that we just warm up in the nukerowave
Also, the highly processed stuff is carefully designed to make you want to eat more of it, even though it isn’t really highly satisfying. Or maybe because it isn’t satisfying.
re: #115 gocart mozart
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Czar-in-all-but-name Putin says “hi” back &thanks you for creating an environment where Biden and Warren are the only legitimate candidates who won’t let him have his border no further east than the Vistula. That every state to the Channel has to be his satellite is “nice”, too!
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 16, 2019
…”either you go to war AGAINST it, or eventually it will control your government enough to make you go to war ALONGSIDE it”. It’s not a case of “if we let them be, they’ll be good global citizens.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 16, 2019
Arrgh. Both actual Greens and Bernie Bros can stick it up their most-dorsally-and-posteriorly-located orifice.
“This is fine.” pic.twitter.com/OiI3ynS3bT
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) May 16, 2019
Not to horrify, but the full reality of this forced birth must be told. Mother’s water broke at 21 wks. Lungs stopped developing. When forced birth came along, skull hadn’t developed enough. Uterus crushed baby’s head on way out, but she lived long enough to suffocate in agony.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) May 16, 2019
re: #144 gocart mozart
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I’m so old, I remember the days when we were assured by the “pro-life” crowd that they would never put women in jail for having an abortion.
re: #147 Dave In Austin
Where the Box IS the bun……
Sounds like something from a dystopian future movie.
re: #135 Targetpractice
The sad reality of modern America is so many of us want to eat that stir-fried beef, but eat the chicken salad because it doesn’t need to be kept warm, it’s what was on the shelf for cheap at 7-11, and you can hold it in one hand while you move a mouse with the other.
This is the main problem. You can spend money to eat healthy, or you can get a few Tacos from Taco Bell for $3.
re: #157 Chrysicat
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Arrgh. Both actual Greens and Bernie Bros can stick it up their most-dorsally-and-posteriorly-located orifice.
They’re still going there? It’s easy to dismiss Clinton as a “hawk” when you’ve never had to make difficult FP decisions. But Sanders isn’t exactly a dove despite what his supporters think.
Trump’s gonna have to find another angle on Biden, looks like…
here’s the full story from our awesome team in ukraine: https://t.co/CcTplrJRZa
— Justin Sink (@justinsink) May 16, 2019
re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg
This is the main problem. You can spend money to eat healthy, or you can get a few Tacos from Taco Bell for $3.
That presumes you’ve got time to cook it yourself, something I can only really say I have 2 days a week.
re: #160 Targetpractice
I’m so old, I remember the days when we were assured by the “pro-life” crowd that they would never put women in jail for having an abortion.
even worse, when a woman is forced to prove her miscarriage was a miscarriage, otherwise…off to jail with you!
re: #166 makeitstop
Trump’s gonna have to find another angle on Biden, looks like…
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re: #165 DangerMan
when tsa issues a warning about carrying on bbq sauce, it’s memphis in may
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re: #155 calochortus
Also, the highly processed stuff is carefully designed to make you want to eat more of it, even though it isn’t really highly satisfying. Or maybe because it isn’t satisfying.
I saw some frozen Spanish paella in the supermarket the other week and thought “hey, this, looks healthy: chicken, rice, veggies and fish.” then checked the salt content; one serving is about 85% of your RDA, and decided to give it a pass
The city is hers now. #Batwoman is coming Sundays this fall to The CW! pic.twitter.com/r9qa9TCPRA
— Batwoman (@CWBatwoman) May 16, 2019
re: #166 makeitstop
Trump’s gonna have to find another angle on Biden, looks like…
Wait until they figure out he was Vice President.
re: #172 lawhawk
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re: #167 Targetpractice
That presumes you’ve got time to cook it yourself, something I can only really say I have 2 days a week.
I feel you. I’ve been investigating quick healthy meals i.e. stuff that I can cook in less than 30 minutes using minimal dishes. There are some options but it is challenging. The last thing that I want to do after getting home from work and saying hi to my pets and dealing with the days mail and whatever else is cook.
Sometimes I will also cook a large batch of something when I have the time and then eat off it for like four days.
re: #166 makeitstop
Trump’s gonna have to find another angle on Biden, looks like…
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Faux will “just ask questions” about why the prosecutor general “suddenly” came out to make this announcement, at which time Donny will do one of his “Some people are saying” bits where he accuses Biden or the DNC of bribery.
I started my day waking up to a tap-tap-tap sound. Did kid inventory, the bros still in the bed, The Princess absent. Tap-tap-tap… “Onyx, what are you doing?” Silence, then tap-tap-tap-tap. “Onyx! What ARE you doing?” Momentary silence, then tap-tap-tap-tap-tap…
Well shit, guess it’s time to get up anyway. If I’d gotten up a few minutes earlier I may have prevented an entire new roll of toilet paper being unrolled and lying in a pile on the floor.
So I get the coffee pot going and throw on some clothes to go empty the dog. Just as we get out the gate here comes a most annoying woman and her little dog, Larry. Larry is an unruly kid but otherwise okay. His mom? Wearing her pink Trump hat. Oh jeez. She isn’t just generally annoying, she’s a Trumper to boot. I pick up the pace, greeting her, as park etiquette requires, from as much distance as I can get.
Then Buddy stopped a bit too long to sniff and pee. Here she comes running, dragging poor little Larry along, to catch up to us. I groan, in NO mood whatsoever in my current rage at all things Trump GOP to force even casual civility. As they got close, Buddy the Hero, planted himself solidly in front of me, bared his teeth and snarled. LOL
The thing is, I knew he wasn’t snarling at Larry. He loves other dogs, Larry included. It worked. She quickly backed away, assuming it was a dog thing, with a happy “we’ll talk later!” Yeah, no, don’t think so.
We don’t deserve dogs.
re: #176 Targetpractice
Faux will “just ask questions” about why the prosecutor general “suddenly” came out to make this announcement, at which time Donny will do one of his “Some people are saying” bits where he accuses Biden or the DNC of bribery.
Deep State coverup
re: #59 Wah Gwaan?!
The only thing they care about are negative effects they feel themselves.
As I’ve been saying, these Trump voting people are evil. They are out fathers, our mothers, sisters, and brothers.
re: #177 allegro
I started my day waking up to a tap-tap-tap sound. Did kid inventory, the bros still in the bed, The Princess absent. Tap-tap-tap… “Onyx, what are you doing?” Silence, then tap-tap-tap-tap. “Onyx! What ARE you doing?” Momentary silence, then tap-tap-tap-tap-tap…
Well shit, guess it’s time to get up anyway. If I’d gotten up a few minutes earlier I may have prevented an entire new roll of toilet paper being unrolled and lying in a pile on the floor.
So I get the coffee pot going and throw on some clothes to go empty the dog. Just as we get out the gate here comes a most annoying woman and her little dog, Larry. Larry is an unruly kid but otherwise okay. His mom? Wearing her pink Trump hat. Oh jeez. She isn’t just generally annoying, she’s a Trumper to boot. I pick up the pace, greeting her, as park etiquette requires, from as much distance as I can get.
Then Buddy stopped a bit too long to sniff and pee. Here she comes running, dragging poor little Larry along, to catch up to us. I groan, in NO mood whatsoever in my current rage at all things Trump GOP to force even casual civility. As they got close, Buddy the Hero, planted himself solidly in front of me, bared his teeth and snarled. LOL
The thing is, I knew he wasn’t snarling at Larry. He loves other dogs, Larry included. It worked. She quickly backed away, assuming it was a dog thing, with a happy “we’ll talk later!” Yeah, no, don’t think so.
We don’t deserve dogs.
What kind of world are you living in where the furbaby you can’t trust is your cat, and the one you can is your dog?
Our Lab is unquestionably the one that we pretty much can’t even sleep in another room from, which is great when my parents are in town, but not good when I can’t sleep in my own bed—or theirs—because they’re out of town.👿
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Deep State coverup
Perhaps even the sinister hand of the Clinton Foundation was involved!
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FAKE NEWS ! ! !
JUST IN: Ukraine’s top prosecutor says no evidence of corrupt dealings by Bidens https://t.co/x1IYutIgNK pic.twitter.com/VZk05njEZR
— The Hill (@thehill) May 16, 2019
Ancient Italian dialect now only spoken in certain parts of New Jerseyhttps://t.co/RaqeEOye1H
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 16, 2019
re: #177 allegro
Then Buddy stopped a bit too long to sniff and pee. Here she comes running, dragging poor little Larry along, to catch up to us. I groan, in NO mood whatsoever in my current rage at all things Trump GOP to force even casual civility. As they got close, Buddy the Hero, planted himself solidly in front of me, bared his teeth and snarled. LOL
Heh. That reminds me of a section in Gavin de Becker’s book “The Gift of Fear” - he described how some people wait to see how their dog reacts to a stranger before deciding whether said stranger is trustworthy/good or not. De Becker says that if the dog reacts negatively, it’s not because they’re picking up on the stranger’s bad character - they’re actually reacting to distress cues from their owners, and then their protective instincts kick in.
The Onion Remembers https://t.co/xkci8D0jr3
— David B Larter (@DavidLarter) May 16, 2019
re: #175 Eclectic Cyborg
I feel you. I’ve been investigating quick healthy meals i.e. stuff that I can cook in less than 30 minutes using minimal dishes. There are some options but it is challenging. The last thing that I want to do after getting home from work and saying hi to my pets and dealing with the days mail and whatever else is cook.
Sometimes I will also cook a large batch of something when I have the time and then eat off it for like four days.
salmon/tuna/swordfish filet in parchment with veg of your choice (broccoli, asparagus, green beans, whatever) with lemon or (my fave) a bit of mango chutney.
prep time is about 5-10 minutes, then 20 minutes in the oven at 400F.
Disgustingly healthy and very tasty
It being Virginia, my vote would be for the Nat Turner Memorial Thruway. https://t.co/GrfYd0x1UC
— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 15, 2019
Libertarian presidential candidate Vermin Supreme’s 2020 political campaign, Pony Up America, has officially registered with the FEC pic.twitter.com/nYyxfpyBP9
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) May 15, 2019
re: #186 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Oh goodie, we can go back to being afraid of aluminum tubes again!
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re: #189 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Can’t wait to hear how he’s more better than whoever the Dems nominate from people who insist the LP is a serious party.
re: #189 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Wait wait wait.
The dude’s name is VERMIN???
Talk about facing an uphill battle with voters…
WHY ARE YOU POLLING SOMETHING THAT IS ILLEGAL AND THE STUFF OF BANANA REPUBLICS https://t.co/quF0FSCfNr
— Danielle Blake (@abradacabla) May 16, 2019
re: #189 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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He’s promising a free pony to every American. Neither Biden or Trump are promising ponies. I feel like the choice is made for me.
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Well, we finally get to know what happened to Drew, and whoa!
🎵 I go… missing
No longer exist
One day, I hope
I’m someone you’d miss 🎵https://t.co/29MGZmHsfR— Drew Magary (@drewmagary) May 16, 2019
Filming of “Plot Against America”
In Jersey City at least, I am the crown prince of pistondom today. Every Packard and Studebaker left in America is on this gig. Thanks, HBO. pic.twitter.com/KwxspbImXl
— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 15, 2019
this is called kidnapping, and you are nazis https://t.co/G2JC0JVJxQ
— An Angry Librarian (@HalpernAlex) May 16, 2019
re: #186 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 16, 2019
Also:
You mean the #PersianGulfOfTonkin incident that already came and went on Sunday? I still hope it’s so blatantly a false flag that when the Senate actually DECLARES war for the first time in 80 years, it gets declared right back against them by the EU.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 16, 2019
re: #192 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait wait wait.
The dude’s name is VERMIN???
Talk about facing an uphill battle with voters…
He actually named himself that, to make matters worse.
I would suspect it started out as a Net alias and eventually he chose to change it officially. Though why he’d go to that extra step when Theodore Beale didn’t I don’t know.
Starlink and Falcon 9 are looking good, and winds are better for tonight’s launch. The 1.5 hour launch window opens at 10:30 p.m. EDT → https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/d3LX9sZLQ4
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 16, 2019
By the way, apparently Chelsea Manning is being sent back to jail again
So, she basically got a weeks furlough
re: #185 Interesting Times
Heh. That reminds me of a section in Gavin de Becker’s book “The Gift of Fear” - he described how some people wait to see how their dog reacts to a stranger before deciding whether said stranger is trustworthy/good or not. De Becker says that if the dog reacts negatively, it’s not because they’re picking up on the stranger’s bad character - they’re actually reacting to distress cues from their owners, and then their protective instincts kick in.
I think that’s mostly true. I am completely convinced after a long lifetime shared with dogs that they are sensitive/empathetic to the point of mind-reading. I have no doubt that’s what happened with Buddy this morning. That said, I have had experiences when my dogs have reacted negatively to someone for no apparent reason that I know I didn’t communicate and that are otherwise unexplainable. Yeah, I trust the dogs and back away.
The paper that made such an utter hash of its coverage in the lead-up to the last war that most of its counterparts took turns accusing it of being the WH’s mouthpiece and it felt compelled once the truth came out to issue an public apology to its readers…thinks the smartest thing it can do when a new administration is trying to start another war is hire back the woman who was responsible for that coverage.
I can see no negative repercussions from this decision./////////
re: #195 plansbandc
Well, we finally get to know what happened to Drew, and whoa!
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re: #204 Targetpractice
The paper that made such an utter hash of its coverage in the lead-up to the last war that most of its counterparts took turns accusing it of being the WH’s mouthpiece and it felt compelled once the truth came out to issue an public apology to its readers…thinks the smartest thing it can do when a new administration is trying to start another war is hire back the woman who was responsible for that coverage.
I can see no negative repercussions from this decision./////////
It’s the Onion
re: #184 gocart mozart
And since the very first day I have called it Gabagool.
You should see the looks I get.
“Hah!??”
Like wooder.
And YO.
Philly owns YO.
Yo.
I like how they’re just trying to slowly ease us into “they changed vote totals” like an old man into a warm bath https://t.co/nRXm8TWUq6
— 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚒𝚎 (@resisterhood) May 16, 2019
re: #209 Targetpractice
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I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
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The line between satire and reality has long since been erased. The Onion really have to work hard these days to stand out as parody
re: #208 jaunte
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You know, call me crazy but I definitely think it’s possible that the votes were fucked with in a lot of key states.
re: #212 HappyWarrior
You know, call me crazy but I definitely think it’s possible that the votes were fucked with in a lot of key states.
That is the last thing that they want you to even think, much less find out
re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is the last thing that they want you to even think, much less find out
Well I’m never going to find it out. TBH I don’t know what they did or did not do definitively but they are succeeding in what they wanted to do from the beginning and that’s to cause distrust in our systems. And Trump and his allies don’t care because they control the presidency and will the judiciary and have half of the legislature.
His resignation before the department concluded it’s investigation will likely make it possible for him to apply and be hired for other LEO positions elsewhere
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) May 16, 2019
re: #98 gocart mozart
Roy Edroso
@edroso
* 19h
Now that this ball is rolling, a lot of prominent conservatives are going to reveal themselves to be total psychopaths. (Though, to be honest, I think we all knew about this guy already.)Matt Walsh
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@MattWalshBlog
If a 12 year old is raped by her father and the father takes her to get an abortion, the evidence of the crime will be destroyed and he will go on molesting his victim for years. If however the child is born, his crime will be discovered and she will be rescued from the abuse.Michael Knowles is playing down the horrible fact of the Alabama abortion ban that if a 12 year old girl gets raped by her dad she has to carry the baby. And that the rapist will spend less time in prison than a doctor who aborts the baby. This is immoral.
— PDXfanatic 🌹🇺🇸 (@PDXfanatic) May 15, 2019
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One woman dying was enough for Catholic Ireland to repeal its no-abortion law. My guess is that the “pro-life” community here wouldn’t care if a million women perished, especially if they weren’t white.
re: #212 HappyWarrior
Thought that all along. No one, in Trump’s camp including Trump himself expected to win. And Trump did not look happy at all about winning.
re: #217 Hecuba’s daughter
One woman dying was enough for Catholic Ireland to repeal its no-abortion law. My guess that the “pro-life” community here wouldn’t care if a million women perished, especially if they weren’t white.
Here’s what troubles me about all these laws. It’s a general trend moving backwards on issues. We should be strengthening not weakening the right to choose. Ireland to its credit has moved forward on choice and LGBT issues. It’s a wonderful country. I actually studied there but I never thought in my wildest dreams that they would be more socially progressive than we are.
re: #217 Hecuba’s daughter
One woman dying was enough for Catholic Ireland to repeal its no-abortion law. My guess that the “pro-life” community here wouldn’t care if a million women perished, especially if they weren’t white.
I’m skeptical of the validity of the stats. But taking them at face value, shouldn’t that be even more of a reason to include the exception?
re: #218 plansbandc
Thought that all along. No one, in Trump’s camp including Trump himself expected to win. And Trump did not look happy at all about winning.
Yeah I think he thought HRC would win and he would be able to be treated as like a Shadow President by the right who would reject everything that Clinton would do and he wouldn’t have to work too hard. He seems to hate the actual Presidenting parts of president. He loves the prestigious parts.
re: #220 Mike Lamb
I’m skeptical of the validity of the stats. But taking them at face value, shouldn’t that be even more of a reason to include the exception?
You would think but these people are assholes.
re: #217 Hecuba’s daughter
One woman dying was enough for Catholic Ireland to repeal its no-abortion law. My guess is that the “pro-life” community here wouldn’t care if a million women perished, especially if they weren’t white.
I’m sure it wasn’t the super-Catholics that got the law overturned; it was the people who hadn’t paid much attention to the consequences.
We’re never going to recover from this. The Trump years have totally transformed the judiciary into an institution to preserve some eternal conservatopia for generations.
— “Pro-Life” is Anti-Woman, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) May 16, 2019
Pro-life = Anti-Woman
Pro-life = Pro-Cruelty.
The Cruelty Is The Point. #ThisIsNotNormal #AbortionIsHealthcare— “Pro-Life” is Anti-Woman, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) May 16, 2019
It’s not just about who watches Fox at any point during the day, but Fox’s outsized influence on the entire media apparatus, where so many more legitimate news outlets follow the narratives Fox set by the nose. Fox influences far more than its nightly audience, please admit that.
— “Pro-Life” is Anti-Woman, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) May 16, 2019
It honestly feels like shit is never going to get better no matter how hard we fight.
re: #223 Belafon
I’m sure it wasn’t the super-Catholics that got the law overturned; it was the people who hadn’t paid much attention to the consequences.
it was the women, including those who flew back from far flung spots around the globe just to vote on the issue.
re: #223 Belafon
I’m sure it wasn’t the super-Catholics that got the law overturned; it was the people who hadn’t paid much attention to the consequences.
The country thankfully has seen that the RCC is as flawed institution as any other in recent years.
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
it was the women, including those who flew back from far flung spots around the globe just to vote on the issue.
I was surprised though how overwhelmingly it passed. I think Donegal was the only county where it didn’t pass.
re: #227 HappyWarrior
I was surprised though how overwhelmingly it passed. I think Donegal was the only county where it didn’t pass.
Irish women are not to be trifled with
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
Irish women are not to be trifled with
Oh yes, I know my Grand Aunts by reputation.
re: #224 Citizen K
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It honestly feels like shit is never going to get better no matter how hard we fight.
The federal judiciary below the SCOTUS level will bounce back quickly. There is a lot of annual turnover.
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
Irish women are not to be trifled with
Meanwhile we have a majority of White Women who seem content to mortgage their own bodily autonomy in order to trigger the libs. Yes, laws like in Alabama poll barely higher than smallpox, but people still turn around and vote almost solely for the fucks that make these laws reality.
re: #227 HappyWarrior
I was surprised though how overwhelmingly it passed. I think Donegal was the only county where it didn’t pass.
I think the problem here is that I could see it pass by a wide margin on a nationwide basis — but fail in GOP-lead states. The Senate would not allow such legislation to pass to protect women nationally. The only way for there to be a change in attitude is if some senior GOP officials lose loved ones because of this heinous legislation, and that won’t happen because they will just send people out of state or out of the country to have the procedure performed on them.
In Ireland, the woman who died was too ill to travel elsewhere.
Chicago PD press conference. They have 3 people in custody for the murder of the pregnant 19yo woman. The baby was still
In her womb and they removed it. The baby is on life support in critical condition.
Sure hope there’s a special place in Hell for those 3. Two of them are mother/daughter.
re: #232 Hecuba’s daughter
I think the problem here is that I could see it pass by a wide margin on a nationwide basis — but fail in GOP-lead states. The Senate would not allow such legislation to pass to protect women nationally. The only way for there to be a change in attitude is if some senior GOP officials lose loved ones because of this heinous legislation, and that won’t happen because they will just send people out of state or out of the country to have the procedure performed on them.
In Ireland, the woman who died was too ill to travel elsewhere.
No doubt. TBH I don’t advise doing what the Irish did with SSM and abortion rights being put up to the vote like that. I think certain rights like that are ingrained in our Constitution but what I was getting at was that I was surprised that abortion being legally wasn’t something that was just popular in the Irish Republic’s cities such as Dublin or Galway where I studied but it also passed in rural areas too as did SSM. What I think we’re going to need to do is have a federal bill that strengthens the right to choose. .
independent.co.uk
It’s happening in Poland too.
Woman Walking Alone At Night Picks Up Pace After Spotting Truck Full Of Alabama Lawmakers Slowly Following Her https://t.co/uAuURRh336 pic.twitter.com/PtTUYgCn57
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 16, 2019
re: #234 HappyWarrior
No doubt. TBH I don’t advise doing what the Irish did with SSM and abortion rights being put up to the vote like that. I think certain rights like that are ingrained in our Constitution but what I was getting at was that I was surprised that abortion being legally wasn’t something that was just popular in the Irish Republic’s cities such as Dublin or Galway where I studied but it also passed in rural areas too as did SSM. What I think we’re going to need to do is have a federal bill that strengthens the right to choose. .
I think the Irish powers that be that put the abortion question up to a vote by the people had no freaking clue what door they opened.
re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think the Irish powers that be that put the abortion question up to a vote by the people had no freaking clue what door they opened.
I think so too.
The ‘overwhelming’ stench of a vet’s urine sample forced the evacuation of a VA hospital in Virginia https://t.co/hKzKn0ZaRV pic.twitter.com/F1zcSiAQf4
— Task & Purpose (@TaskandPurpose) May 16, 2019
“… The station reports the smell was “chemical-like” and 50 people “were affected by it,” including the two employees who were hospitalized.
Video of the scene shows multiple fire trucks, ambulances and other emergency vehicles filling a nearby road, as media helicopters fly over.
WTKR reports the unidentified veteran’s urine sample was taken to a lab in Richmond for further study. …”
MORE: “….that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation.” (2/2)
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) May 16, 2019
re: #240 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #241 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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JUST IN: MUELLER team unseals evidence that Flynn aided the obstruction invsetigation — including providing testimony and a *voice mail* that “could have affected” his testimony. pic.twitter.com/MPar2bMGj5
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 16, 2019
Hatice Cengiz, Jamal Khashoggi’s fiance, sat down w/ some of us at the Post yesterday. She said the Trump admin. has failed to uphold American values by allowing the Saudi gov’t to avoid meaningful consequences for Khasghoggis’ murder. https://t.co/ZPXFJCTeG0 via @gregpmiller
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) May 16, 2019
The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the Trump administration’s Department of Education is blocking efforts to police the student loan industry, a letter obtained by NPR says. https://t.co/osfE7VngEG
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) May 16, 2019
re: #249 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Of course. DeVos doesn’t give a fuck about American students.
We will recover from this!
— Deb Winkleblack (@DebWinkleblack) May 16, 2019
#SocialSecurity may or may not be targeted as well. If it’s not, its only because Rs believe (most likely incorrectly) that the Boomers will vote them out for pulling up their children’s ladder to not-eating-cat-food-in-old-age.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 16, 2019
>>>and official transformation to provinces or some other name that makes it clear they are not “States”—that is to say, countries on an equal footing not with Bavaria but with Germany) is to #PackSCOTUS. Make it at least 13 Justices. But that’s another nuke option>>>
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 16, 2019
>>>as, if we do it and the Rs ever get both Houses and the Presidency ever again, they WILL expand to 19-plus and run all their “this erases all 20th-century progress” laws through AGAIN.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 16, 2019
“The granting of equal rights to women, which Marxism demands, in reality does not grant equal rights … it instead constitutes a deprivation of rights… . With every child that she brings into the world, she fights her battle for the nation.”
- A. Hitler— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 16, 2019
Edited my tweet-thread by deleting the previous final one. Hadn’t realised I’d jumped tracks with it until after it posted.
The abortion ban shows the asymmetry in how media and party leaders treat activists. Abortion ban has ~15% support nationwide, seen as mainstream in GOP. Green New Deal is popular in nearly every state in the country, yet is considered extreme left. https://t.co/m7UONV6fsa
— we’re going to pass AVR 🍉🍉 (@SeanMcElwee) May 16, 2019
Bolton and Pompeo were willing enough to entertain, reluctantly, Trump’s desire to meet with Kim Jong-un. They won’t allow that to happen with his Iranian counterparts. If Trump wants diplomacy, they’ll have to be out of the picture. https://t.co/vrO4KPR0WK
— Ned Price (@nedprice) May 16, 2019
Just like we said. No nuclear deal, then high likelihood of war. Remember how much Republicans hated that argument in 2015. Now they are proving its truth. https://t.co/lvUx7Sayc6
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) May 16, 2019
A potential sign of deescalation. But when you have to make explicit to your (Acting) Secretary of Defense that you don’t want war with Iran, the process is horribly broken. And that dysfunction can, and will, rear its head again. https://t.co/NYanHOe9xz
— Ned Price (@nedprice) May 16, 2019
re: #230 Mike Lamb
The federal judiciary below the SCOTUS level will bounce back quickly. There is a lot of annual turnover.
This assumes that Trump won’t get even more justices shoved through in the next coming year, and that we have a Congress that would ever dare allow a Dem president’s judges to ever make it. A huge reason why Trump had as many vacancies as he did was the GOP stonewalling as many of Obama’s attempts to fill vacancies as possible, and unless we own Congress wholly, it’s going to happen again on steroids
re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Begs the fucking question. Why are kids in their custody? Fucking assholes. Fuck them.
I absolutely REFUSE to believe this country cannot survive Trump. America is better than the orange shitgibbon would have you believe.
I’m not going to stop fighting.
BREAKING: Missouri Senate just passed an 8 week abortion ban (24-0). No exceptions for rape or incest. Bill moves to the Senate; Governor has indicated he will sign.
A coordinated attack on Roe v Wade and women’s reproductive freedom is well underway. #AbortionIsAWomansRight https://t.co/YXIdFBmbvf— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) May 16, 2019
typo: vote was 24-10. Still 24 lawmakers too many.
— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) May 16, 2019
re: #259 jaunte
Do most women even realize they are pregnant at eight weeks?
re: #258 Eclectic Cyborg
I absolutely REFUSE to believe this country cannot survive Trump. America is better than the orange shitgibbon would have you believe.
I’m not going to stop fighting.
“This country”, as in 50 near-sovereign-to-sovereign States under a supranational government, SHOULDN’T survive Trump. If it does, we’ll just have the same sets of problems over and over again because they’re INHERENT IN THE CONSTITUTION and it basically is incapable of being amended in our favour unless we somehow gain majorities in 20 currently-red states.
At this point, I’m much more devoted to making sure that the “ideals this country was theoretically founded on” are revived after Trump.
re: #260 jaunte
Let me venture a guess how many of those 24 were male…
“The granting of equal rights to women, which Marxism demands, in reality does not grant equal rights … it instead constitutes a deprivation of rights… . With every child that she brings into the world, she fights her battle for the nation.”
- A. Hitler— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 16, 2019
4/ “In 1932, the year before Hitler’s rise to power, just under 44,000 German women applied to terminate a pregnancy and 34,698 of these were approved. Between 1935 and 1940 there were only 14,333 applications and 9,701 approvals. “
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 16, 2019
6/ “On May 26, 1933 paragraphs 219 and 220 of the penal code were reintroduced by the government….This paragraph stated that a woman caught inducing her own abortion or allowing it to be carried out by a practitioner could be held for a period of one day to five years.”
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 16, 2019
8/
“Hitler wanted to increase the amount of Aryan marriages and raise the birth rate. He tried to accomplish this by:
* ensuring contraception was difficult to obtain;
* making abortion illegal- although later this was allowed if mothers had a “defect””https://t.co/LbplGOW7Yu— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 16, 2019
this is why Republicans won’t stop lying abt EVERYTHING: press won’t hold them accountable. press depicts Dems as the losers
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) May 16, 2019
Example #300,000,000,000 of why nothing will ever change: no matter what, it’s the Dems’ fault, and the GOP will never be given incentive to not lie and hate about everything. GOP accountability is a fucking lie and it always fucking will be, and fighting for it will only ever get you crucified all the more.
re: #266 Citizen K
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Example #300,000,000,000 of why nothing will ever change: no matter what, it’s the Dems’ fault, and the GOP will never be given incentive to not lie and hate about everything. GOP accountability is a fucking lie and it always fucking will be, and fighting for it will only ever get you crucified all the more.
So sick of this shit. Call it what it is, a lie designed to incite.
Reddit has given my last, brave, failed candidate a top view for her response to Gov Ivey and the Montgomery neanderthals:
re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg
Do most women even realize they are pregnant at eight weeks?
Most probably do at that point or at least suspect enough to get a pregnancy test. However, there’s a lot more to consider, like $. Abortions aren’t cheap. It can take time to raise the money. There are also availability issues - where is there a clinic? When can I get an appointment? And work issues - when can I get a day off? Try to squeeze all that into maybe a week.
It’s a ban.
Dear @TheJusticeDept Barr: FYI below.
Also, isn’t Michael Flynn the guy who lead chants of “lock her up”?
Let me check my notes ….
Yep, he’s that guy.#ThursdayMotivation https://t.co/RDO2qqthTm— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) May 16, 2019
re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg
Do most women even realize they are pregnant at eight weeks?
also, I can tell you when I knew I was pregnant.
It wasn’t when I missed a period.
It was when I miscarried.
Every single time.
re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth
also, I can tell you when I knew I was pregnant.
It wasn’t when I missed a period.
It was when I miscarried.Every single time.
And these legislators want to investigate miscarriages too. Scary shit.
re: #271 jaunte
It looks like Mueller has evidence of people in congress obstructing justice. I bet Devin Nunes is worried.
re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth
also, I can tell you when I knew I was pregnant.
It wasn’t when I missed a period.
It was when I miscarried.Every single time.
I knew I was pregnant but the tests kept coming up negative. They said, wait another week. Negative again. Finally, visual inspection and yeah, pretty sure you’re pregnant but gotta have that positive test. It only came up positive at about 12 weeks.
re: #274 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
It looks like Mueller has evidence of people in congress obstructing justice. I bet Devin Nunes is worried.
He should be.
re: #273 HappyWarrior
And these legislators want to investigate miscarriages too. Scary shit.
Basically, so far as I can tell, part of the effect is to make it effectively-illegal for any woman between menarche and menopause to consume alcohol, because if she does and then damages a zygote/embryo she has no idea she’s carrying, she trips the circuits in the law.
And this being amabama, there’s no way they’re gonna avoid drinking for 35 years.
As tensions between Iran and the United States increase in the Middle East, the Pentagon briefing room is being used to host Gene Simmons of Kiss. pic.twitter.com/NauZ0bfkgm
— Idrees Ali (@idreesali114) May 16, 2019
re: #274 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
It looks like Mueller has evidence of people in congress obstructing justice. I bet Devin Nunes is worried.
I hope so.
re: #250 HappyWarrior
Of course. DeVos doesn’t give a fuck about American students.
She fucking makes money off it.
re: #120 KGxvi
No, wait, seven of them… Neutral Good, Chaotic Good (very rarely, but occasionally), Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil; depending on the mood and/or situation
Which is why the so-called “alignment system” is so crappy.
re: #175 Eclectic Cyborg
I feel you. I’ve been investigating quick healthy meals i.e. stuff that I can cook in less than 30 minutes using minimal dishes. There are some options but it is challenging. The last thing that I want to do after getting home from work and saying hi to my pets and dealing with the days mail and whatever else is cook.
Sometimes I will also cook a large batch of something when I have the time and then eat off it for like four days.
Though I am now retired and thus have more time for cooking and dishes I found that getting home from work and cooking was not that arduous an activity. Routine was was a quick sort of the mail when I got home; e.g. the junk stuff went into a trash can down in the mail room and never made it into the apartment. Pets were greeted as I came in and put my bag and mail on the desk. Pets were then fed since I was usually getting home at their regular feeding time. (If I was early I did a bit of dinner prep and then fed them.)
Depending on planned meal I might have thawed things in the fridge overnight or picked something up on the walk home. Since I was only cooking for one it was pretty easy to make something like a sauce for 3-4 meals and then use that for multiple meals. And from experience putting together a quick red sauce for pasta was a fairly quick process - and the idle time while it simmered and pasta cooked was time to spend with pets or fix something to drink.
re: #230 Mike Lamb
The federal judiciary below the SCOTUS level will bounce back quickly. There is a lot of annual turnover.
Only if there is a sufficient majority in the Senate of Democrats. Otherwise any non-GOP administration will have its appointments blocked as effectively as the GOP can do so. They have learned that it works as a strategy and won’t simply give it up.
re: #258 Eclectic Cyborg
I absolutely REFUSE to believe this country cannot survive Trump. America is better than the orange shitgibbon would have you believe.
I’m not going to stop fighting.
It’s not surviving Trump that scares me. It’s the groundwork that has been laid via Trump for further erosion of the social foundation that the country’s stability depends on.
A minority thinking they can roll back the country (or world) to 1850 mores is delusional. It’s a bit like France (and the UK) expecting that post-WW2 that they were going to easily reimpose their colonial empires.
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