Elizabeth Warren launched the internet into a fanatical tizzy when she refused to appear on Fox News, which begs the question: why are Democratic candidates going on Fox News at all?
Yes. I vehemently disagree with Bill Maher on this. Stay away from Fox News.
Tornado warnings up for the DC-Baltimore corridor:
The National Weather Service in Sterling Virginia has issued a
* Tornado Warning for… Central Howard County in central Maryland…
* Until 400 PM EDT.
* At 330 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Columbia, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD…Tornado and quarter size hail.
SOURCE…Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT…For those in the direct path of a tornado touchdown, flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Damage to roofs, siding, and windows may occur. Mobile homes may be damaged or destroyed. Tree damage is likely.
* This dangerous storm will be near… Ellicott City around 335 PM EDT.
Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include Simpsonville, Clarksville and Highland.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
Heavy rainfall may hide this tornado. Do not wait to see or hear the tornado. TAKE COVER NOW!
&&
TORNADO…RADAR INDICATED HAIL…1.00IN
Issued by Baltimore/Washington - MD, US, National Weather Service
Me three. Call Faux what it is: a GOP Propaganda outlet.
re: #2 Scottish Dragon
Yes. I vehemently disagree with Bill Maher on this. Stay away from Fox News.
LOL, given all the other stuff Maher is consistently wrong about, it’s best to treat him like Bill Kristol at this point.
Going on Fox legitimizes it and it’s tacit approval for their bullshit. Don’t fucking do it.
BREAKING: Tornado warning for Washington, D.C.
Live stream: https://t.co/fq6HOes7Wz pic.twitter.com/kSZaQCG5e1— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) May 23, 2019
let the smiting begin
Seems there is a public personality named Hayden Panetierre. She is in the electronic headlines again for boyfriend problems.
It might be an artifact of eye surgeries, but I can never see the mentions without reading her as “Hayden Planetarium”.
All this talk about Don McGahn and not one thing about him eating something from his ear in front of 20 million people pic.twitter.com/SLOahR7j7A
— Danny Ocean (@The_UnSilent_) May 23, 2019
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
Before I saw your comment, I was thinking the same thing!
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
let the smiting begin
If a “D” was in the White House, foxtards and all the fundie types would be screeching that their sins were responsible.
re: #11 Dr. Matt
If a “D” was in the White House, foxtards and all the fundie types would be screeching that their sins were responsible.
Whereas I did entertain that thought this morning about Missouri… Alas, the way I believe doesn’t allow for that. None of us should be judged as we deserve; give mercy instead for that is all any of us can hope for.
Totally normal that the president* is spewing deranged insults at Nancy Pelosi’s intelligence, and begging his cronies to back him up that he was supernaturally calm yesterday.
“No president in history has ever been this calm.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2019
TRUMP IS CALM, DAMMIT. STOP SAYING HE ISN’T CALM. EVERYONE SAYS HOW CALM HE IS.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2019
From the previous thread:
re: #67 DangerMan
so he apparently read the mostly unredacted (all unredacted?) report in detail
and he’s talking about it (which i thought was a no no if you agreed to read it)
ALL the dems should be lining up asking, begging, demanding to read it no differently than amash did
(yes i know ted lieu sent a letter doing exactly that)let barr say “no”
Is he talking about anything that isn’t public?
SO VERY CALM pic.twitter.com/vHDqLwjda2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2019
this…this checks out
no i am serious https://t.co/JOMNv9zJdH— darth™ (@darth) May 23, 2019
The small gummit GOP is giving 16 billion in welfare to farmers because Dear Leader is fucking them over.
This is fascinating @KellyannePolls because I once saw you hand your chewed gum to someone checking people in at a White House Correspondents after party. I have never seen anything more obnoxious and disgusting — and after living in DC for 20 years, that’s saying a lot. https://t.co/DQkg28moLS
— Elizabeth Thorp (@ElizabethEThorp) May 23, 2019
re: #20 goddamnedfrank
This is fascinating @KellyannePolls because I once saw you hand your chewed gum to someone checking people in at a White House Correspondents after party. I have never seen anything more obnoxious and disgusting — and after living in DC for 20 years, that’s saying a lot.
This is the sort of ad hominem attack that plays well with the base and gets little or no pushback from the rest of the media
and it fits their narrative of snooty privileged liberals who don’t care about white working people
The treatment Democrats would get on Fox News is basically the grown up version of the “Stop hitting yourself!” game.
this fuckin guy
The president* is out there. https://t.co/HyIQjynbm7
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2019
re: #14 Belafon
From the previous thread:
Is he talking about anything that isn’t public?
ok apparently not
from his 5/18 tweet storm
I offer these conclusions only after having read Mueller’s redacted report carefully and completely, having read or watched pertinent statements and testimony, and having discussed this matter with my staff, who thoroughly reviewed materials and provided me with further analysis.
In comparing Barr’s principal conclusions, congressional testimony, and other statements to Mueller’s report, it is clear that Barr intended to mislead the public about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s analysis and findings.
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
The treatment Democrats would get on Fox News is basically the grown up version of the “Stop hitting yourself!” game.
The only reason to go on would be to ask them the questions about why they present such a distorted and bigoted view of the news.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I believe Nancy Pelosis version of events. Why? Because it sounds EXACTLY like Trump would act.
Trump just now: “I am an extremely stable genius.”
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 23, 2019
re: #12 William Lewis
Whereas I did entertain that thought this morning about Missouri… Alas, the way I believe doesn’t allow for that. None of us should be judged as we deserve; give mercy instead for that is all any of us can hope for.
ALSO EXTREMELY CALM https://t.co/EcE7JmBcdB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2019
President Pelosi is trolling the fuck out of Donnie.
‘That’s what you get for being a fascist.’ — People are throwing milkshakes at far-right figures in the UK pic.twitter.com/evAlpO9zxT
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 23, 2019
re: #27 Charles Johnson
[stable genius]
That’s the horse that gets the oats in ADDITION to some hay.
When the “extremely stable genius” starts acting more presidential, I’ll be happy to work with him on infrastructure, trade and other issues. https://t.co/tfWVkj9CLT
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) May 23, 2019
Trump right now pic.twitter.com/WzzmxZjsQm
— A Bit Snitty (@goddamnedfrank) May 23, 2019
re: #31 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
‘That’s what you get for being a fascist.’ — People are throwing milkshakes at far-right figures in the UK
Police have been asking McD’s and similar shops not to sell milkshakes when Farage and his neo Fascist buddies are holding political rallies in the vicinity.
The Revolution will not be pasteurized!
re: #34 Charles Johnson
Pelosi is seriously winding him up now.
She knows how to draw him out and now the nation is talking about what a “stable genius” he must be…
what a fucking embarrassment
Pres. Trump: “Prime Minister Abe said to me, very specifically, you are the guest of honor. There’s only one guest of honor. You are the guest of honor. I represent the country. With all the countries of the world, I’m the guest of honor.” pic.twitter.com/gAFsHk4yd5
— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) May 23, 2019
I’m not Julian Assange’s biggest fan, but these latest charges against him are WAY over the line. And coming from the Trump gang, this isn’t just about him - it’s a direct attack on the free press.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2019
re: #36 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Revolution will not be pasteurized!
+10 Well done!
Yes, there’s absolutely no way the Trump administration would denigrate an august journalistic institution like the New York Times. Please stop and think. If publishing classified information is prosecutable, than any outlet that does so can be prosecuted. https://t.co/QMkXgeHO9j
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) May 23, 2019
re: #8 Decatur Deb
Seems there is a public personality named Hayden Panetierre. She is in the electronic headlines again for boyfriend problems.
It might be an artifact of eye surgeries, but I can never see the mentions without reading her as “Hayden Planetarium”.
Hayden was ‘The Cheerleader,’ the heroine in the late, lamented TV series Heroes.
Don’t be too rough on her, she’s a good liberal. :)
re: #34 Charles Johnson
Pelosi is seriously winding him up now.
It will get worse as the walls around him shrink.
That’s a HUGE troll….
JPMorgan Chase will no longer offer banking services to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma: report https://t.co/1Q6SUplvsE pic.twitter.com/I93U7f9mW0
— The Hill (@thehill) May 23, 2019
Breaking: Senate just passed disaster relief bill which includes help for damage from Midwest floods, Florida&Southern hurricanes & storms, Western fires and…yes and finally Puerto Rico! No coincidence that after months of waiting, the vote took place during a tornado warning!
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) May 23, 2019
re: #39 Charles Johnson
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Also seems like blatant over-compensation to show that he’s no fan of Wikileaks.
re: #41 jaunte
I can’t see what Trump is proposing, but wasn’t the original thing about Assange was that he helped whoever it was (Snowden or Manning, I don’t remember which) actually acquire the classified information?
“Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism.”
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 23, 2019
re: #48 Belafon
WaPo:
“…Prosecutors alleged in the new indictment that Assange and WikiLeaks “repeatedly encouraged sources with access to classified information to steal it” and give it to the anti-secrecy organization, posting on its website a “most wanted” list for leaks organized by country and saying the documents must be “likely to have political, diplomatic, ethical or historical impact on release.” They alleged that Manning responded to that clarion call, downloading nearly four completely government databases of war reports, Guantanamo Bay detainee assessments and State Department cables and turned them over to WikiLeaks.
The disclosures, prosecutors alleged, contained the names of local Afghans and Iraqis who had given information to the U.S., as well as other confidential sources for the U.S. government. They said the releases “put innocent people in grave danger simply because they provided information to the United States.”
Prosecutors seemed to distinguish Assange from a traditional publisher by his directions to Manning. They alleged, as they had previously, that Assange agreed to help Manning crack a password that might have helped cover their tracks — though the effort was apparently unsuccessful.
Justice Department officials could not immediately point to a successful prosecution of a case comparable to the charges filed against Assange.”
re: #2 Scottish Dragon
Yes. I vehemently disagree with Bill Maher on this. Stay away from Fox News.
Though it is kind of cool when Fox News audiences give Democratic candidates standing ovations.
“…First Amendment advocates have expressed concerns that prosecuting Assange could set a dangerous precedent. President Obama’s administration declined to charge Assange with a crime out of concern that it would be too difficult to distinguish WikiLeaks from a news organization.
Floyd Abrams, an expert in First Amendment law, previously told the Post the 101-year-old act has long been viewed by press advocates as a “perpetually loaded gun that could too easily be aimed at the press, with ultimately Supreme Court interpretation unpredictable.”
“If it violated the Espionage Act for WikiLeaks to gather information from sources not permitted to release it and then publish it, then what American newspaper could be free from risk?” said Abrams, who practices at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York.
Under President Trump the Department of Justice revived its Assange investigation, but when he was charged under seal in 2017 it was with a narrow complaint that sidestepped such concerns by focusing on a single incident of attempted hacking.”
Latest conspiracy
Open your eyes. pic.twitter.com/U2BrnELwEq
— Fall Spring (@FallSpring3) May 23, 2019
re: #46 jaunte
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When they say it is too expensive to mitigate climate change, this shit better be on the other side of the ledger. This is only the beginning of the shitstorm we are unleashing
re: #8 Decatur Deb
Seems there is a public personality named Hayden Panetierre. She is in the electronic headlines again for boyfriend problems.
It might be an artifact of eye surgeries, but I can never see the mentions without reading her as “Hayden Planetarium”.
The cheerleader in the TV series Heroes
re: #52 jaunte
I kind of lean though in the direction of him getting in trouble. If a reporter helped someone plan a bank robbery so that they could have a story, I would be in favor of the reporter getting in trouble.
re: #20 goddamnedfrank
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She’s only mad because she’s being treated like the help.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 23, 2019
re: #56 Decatur Deb
Not on my radar—thought she might be a fallen-away C/W singer.
Close! She also had a role on the TV show Nashville.
re: #56 Decatur Deb
Not on my radar—thought she might be a fallen-away C/W singer.
She played a CW singer on her next series, Nashville
President Trump:
“I’m an extremely stable genius.” (May 23, 2019)
“I’m a very stable genius.” (July 12, 2018)
“I am a stable genius” (January 26, 2018)— David P Gelles (@gelles) May 23, 2019
Advancing stability.
re: #58 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Does anyone know her official position?? Isn’t she a consultant? Not on staff? Why would anyone talk to her about anything if she holds no staff position?
re: #28 sagehen
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Yes. Exactly. I think I may have seen that one to put it into words for me, though I have believed that basic idea for as long as I have been Christian. It is, ultimately, what he was telling us: live by the golden rule and give mercy since it is what you would hope to receive. If you know your Dr Who lore, you will understand this image…
re: #64 William Lewis
Yes. Exactly. I think I may have seen that one to put it into words for me, though I have believed that basic idea for as long as I have been Christian. It is, ultimately, what he was telling us: live by the golden rule and give mercy since it is what you would hope to receive. If you know your Dr Who lore, you will understand this image…
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Possibly one of the most powerful images to come out of that fandom.
re: #63 Old Liberal
Does anyone know her official position?? Isn’t she a consultant? Not on staff? Why would anyone talk to her about anything if she holds no staff position?
Most likely she is probably classified as either an Adviser to the President or Executive Assistant to the President or Administrative Assistant to the President. Some bullshit title like that.
re: #66 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Possibly one of the most powerful images to come out of that fandom.
I am not surprised that you “get it”.
re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg
Most likely she is probably classified as either an Adviser to the President or Executive Assistant to the President or Administrative Assistant to the President. Some bullshit title like that.
I thought she wasn’t on staff. Maybe I’m wrong
Kellyanne Conway’s version: she asked Pelosi if she would like to offer “a direct response to the president.”
“I don’t talk to staff,” Pelosi responded. “I talk directly to the president.”
“Really great,” Conway replied. “That’s really pro-woman of you.”
And Conway goes on camera to describe Nancy as being arrogant and dismissive.
A slightly different wording to the quote:
Pelosi’s chief of staff Drew Hammill offered a slightly different version of events, telling CNBC that Pelosi actually told Conway, “I’m responding to the president, not staff.”
The first wording makes her sound snooty and superior, the second version is simply the response of someone who is not going to waste her time with underlings after their boss stomps off in a huff.
re: #63 Old Liberal
Does anyone know her official position?? Isn’t she a consultant? Not on staff? Why would anyone talk to her about anything if she holds no staff position?
its like they all lost the pamphlet with the rules of the game
Next week’s cover of @NewYorker: “The Shining,” by Barry Blitt. pic.twitter.com/OO62WGvjQ2
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 23, 2019
re: #74 I Would Prefer Not To
It was thaaaaat close!
How does that boot leather taste Senator? Yummy? https://t.co/g2gGi77ybN
— digby (@digby56) May 23, 2019
Here are the eight NO VOTES on the $19.1 billion disaster relief bill (all GOP):
Voting NO:
Blackburn
Braun
Crapo
Lee
McSally
Paul
Risch
Romney— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) May 23, 2019
ok i know this is totally beside the toadying aspect of this video but do people just wear hats indoors now i am seriously just asking i am out of touch i knowhttps://t.co/qWBAupkEG1
— darth™ (@darth) May 23, 2019
i am just asking i do not know white house protocol i just know grandmother protocol which would not allow for hats in the house
— darth™ (@darth) May 23, 2019
re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth
If you don’t take the hat off indoors, it’s a costume.
re: #80 jaunte
If you don’t take the hat off indoors, it’s a costume.
a clown suit, to be more exact…
re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a clown suit, to be more exact…
I suppose the white hood and robes that a MAGA hat is short for count as a clown suit.
re: #80 jaunte
If you don’t take the hat off indoors, it’s a costume.
Does that increase the pay under the Screen Actors Guild for all those campaign rally ‘attendees’?
re: #83 wrenchwench
I think they work under Renfair rules: no hat, no job.
re: #84 jaunte
I think they work under Renfair rules: no hat, no job.
And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one knew
Mongoloid he was a mongoloid
the full buttegieg exchange:
Buttigieg: “I have a pretty dim view of (Trump) faking a (bone spurs) disability to avoid serving (in Vietnam)”
moderator: “You think he faked a disability?”
Buttigieg: “Do you believe he has a disability?”
Buttigieg signals he doesn’t believe it, or “at least not that one”
re: #48 Belafon
I can’t see what Trump is proposing, but wasn’t the original thing about Assange was that he helped whoever it was (Snowden or Manning, I don’t remember which) actually acquire the classified information?
Chelsea I believe.
re: #57 Belafon
I kind of lean though in the direction of him getting in trouble. If a reporter helped someone plan a bank robbery so that they could have a story, I would be in favor of the reporter getting in trouble.
In the Pentagon Papers case, NYT and WaPo had a valid 1st Amendment defense that kept them out of trouble.
Daniel Ellsberg did not.
The NYT and WaPo had nothing to do with stealing the stuff they published; it was just dropped in their laps.
Ellsberg would have gone to prison for life, except that some seriously over-the-top prosecutorial misconduct invalidated the whole thing. (they broke into his psychiatrist’s office and stole his medical records).
If the prosecutors had stuck to legitimate, established rules of evidence, they could have put him away for life. Which is a risk he understood, and willingly accepted, when he stole the documents.
re: #91 sagehen
In the Pentagon Papers case, NYT and WaPo had a valid 1st Amendment defense that kept them out of trouble.
Daniel Ellsberg did not.
The NYT and WaPo had nothing to do with stealing the stuff they published; it was just dropped in their laps.
Ellsberg would have gone to prison for life, except that some seriously over-the-top prosecutorial misconduct invalided the whole thing. (they broke into his psychiatrist’s office and stole his medical records).
We tend to forget his insane courage now.
If the prosecutors had stuck to legitimate, established rules of evidence, they could have put him away for life. Which is a risk he understood, and willingly accepted, when he stole the documents.
re: #91 sagehen
In the Pentagon Papers case, NYT and WaPo had a valid 1st Amendment defense that kept them out of trouble.
Daniel Ellsberg did not.
The NYT and WaPo had nothing to do with stealing the stuff they published; it was just dropped in their laps.
Ellsberg would have gone to prison for life, except that some seriously over-the-top prosecutorial misconduct invalided the whole thing. (they broke into his psychiatrist’s office and stole his medical records).
If the prosecutors had stuck to legitimate, established rules of evidence, they could have put him away for life. Which is a risk he understood, and willingly accepted, when he stole the documents.
THIS.
everybody get calm now
come on get calm
do the calm stable genius dance— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2019
re: #20 goddamnedfrank
If Pelosi were some random back bencher, sure, having staff talk to them is probably fine. But Pelosi is the cotdam Speaker of the Motherfucking House of Representatives. She holds ONE OF FIVE offices actually identified in the Constitution (President, Vice-President, Chief Justice, Speaker of the House, and President Pro Tem of the Senate*). You don’t hand off discussions with any of those office holders to staff.
*Personally, I think the President Pro Tem of the Senate should be the Senate Majority Leader rather than the most senior member of the majority; but whatever.
re: #62 jaunte
Advancing stup
abilidity.
re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth
i am just asking i do not know white house protocol i just know grandmother protocol which would not allow for hats in the house
The White House probably isn’t a place to wear a hat indoors, but I’m pretty liberal on wearing a hat indoor anymore. It’s basically a question of “how formal is the location?”
“This is how we know we’re a real family here.” https://t.co/wIjmAkgGan
— digby (@digby56) May 23, 2019
“…The exchange shows that the Republican leadership in the House privately discussed Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election and Trump’s relationship to Putin, but wanted to keep their concerns secret.”
Well, this is a new kind of NAFTA story: The president is baselessly claiming that the speaker of the House has suffered a cognitive decline that has rendered her unable to understand the new NAFTA. https://t.co/6tZMpZ4Pce
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 23, 2019
For Canada and others, the unknown is whether this personal anger will or won’t prevent the White House and House from working together to get the agreement passed. Trump’s officials often engage in normal and cordial negotiations with people the president is publicly blasting.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 23, 2019
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
“For Canada and others, the unknown is whether this personal anger will or won’t prevent the White House and House from working together to get the agreement passed. Trump’s officials often engage in normal and cordial negotiations with people the president is publicly blasting.”
And apparently no one in the Republican party thinks this is a fucking problem.
SMDH.
I have no sympathy for Assange. As far as I’m concerned he’s getting what he deserved. And he has NOBODY BUT HIMSELF to blame for the situation he is now in!
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
what a fucking embarrassment
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Who are those ill-mannered dolts with their hats on in the background?
“Gentlemen will remove their hats, please. Inbred yokels may leave theirs on.”
Totally normal behavior. Not a mad king at all. https://t.co/9WHSrovvP9
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) May 23, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 23, 2019
Are there any right-wing political cartoons that aren’t jaw-droppingly awful? pic.twitter.com/O6aieEWLY5
— Steve M. (@nomoremister) May 23, 2019
Because pic.twitter.com/LgCERsyAfg
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 23, 2019
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Kellyanne Conway’s version: she asked Pelosi if she would like to offer “a direct response to the president.”
“I don’t talk to staff,” Pelosi responded. “I talk directly to the president.”
“Really great,” Conway replied. “That’s really pro-woman of you.”
Women in power need to own their power. Too many women in power think they have to be nicer as women to make people comfortable and avoid the bitch stigma. Kellyanne apparently falls into that camp.
She is not the Speaker’s equal by virtue of them both being women. A serving wench is not a queen.
re: #111 gocart mozart
Okay, help me out here. Who is Spartacus supposed to be?
How to hack plague enthusiast conspiracy brains.
h/t @charles_gaba https://t.co/W5440V2PQS— Dreadful E (@EvilCEOE) May 23, 2019
re: #78 jaunte
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??? Why did Romney vote against the bill? Sometimes I think he flips a coin to determine his position on an issue.
re: #111 gocart mozart
Steve M.
@nomoremister
Are there any right-wing political cartoons that aren’t jaw-droppingly awful?
Puzzled… given Trump’s allegiance to Russia and the support from most of the Senate GOP, why the objection to Communism???
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
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How much nose candy did Larry snort before kissing up to Trump?
re: #120 Hecuba’s daughter
Puzzled… given Trump’s allegiance to Russia and the support from most of the Senate GOP, why the objection to Communism???
You have to remember the fig leaf that Russia is not a communist state and also ignore that Putin used to be KGB.
(I need to look into the cost of a bumper sticker that says “Putin Puppet 2020 - Make Russia Greater Still”, with a appropriate illustration and a Russian flag backdrop.)
re: #112 gocart mozart
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Why do the British get a pass on Agent Orange? They invented it and deployed it extensively in Malaya years before Vietnam. The British precedent, and the deafening lack of protest that greeted it, helped convince JFK that herbicide spraying was a legal tactic of war.
There is some evidence that 2-4-5T based defoliants (the term “agent orange” was coined years later) were used against the Mau Mau in Kenya in the early 50s. It was certainly sprayed there, the only question is one of intent.
re: #122 Feline Fearless Leader
You have to remember the fig leaf that Russia is not a communist state and also ignore that Putin used to be KGB.
(I need to look into the cost of a bumper sticker that says “Putin Puppet 2020 - Make Russia Greater Still”, with a appropriate illustration and a Russian flag backdrop.)
Use the LGF bumper sticker generator to at a minimum design it.
re: #123 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Why do the British get a pass on Agent Orange? They invented it and deployed it extensively in Malaya years before Vietnam. The British precedent, and the deafening lack of protest that greeted it, helped convince JFK that herbicide spraying was a legal tactic of war.
The real persistent horror of Agent Orange is that it wasn’t Agent Orange. Dow (IIRC) contaminated it with dioxin in the manufacturing process.
re: #125 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Use the LGF bumper sticker generator to at a minimum design it.
re: #117 Decatur Deb
Cory Booker. It’s a deep cut from the Kavenaugh hearing
And if you want to print your own.
HA!
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) May 23, 2019
The president names names when I asked him who, specifically, he’s accusing of treason, which can be punishable by death. https://t.co/FuDMcFZvH7
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) May 23, 2019
Btw, my father DIED of a cancer that was officially acknowledged to have been caused by herbicide exposure (Agents Green and Purple, Orange was introduced in 1965). He was in Vietnam in 1963-64, when there few US troops (ca. 15,000) there but Operation Ranch Hand was already going full blast.
If only there was a WALL that might have stopped the fire from spreading ! ! !
oh no https://t.co/5pgE6cVSzm
— Tim Murphy (@timothypmurphy) May 23, 2019
re: #125 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Use the LGF bumper sticker generator to at a minimum design it.
Hey Charles! Just a suggestion here. Can we get the generator to allow two lines?
re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg
Okay, help me out here. Who is Spartacus supposed to be?
I’m pretty sure it’s meant to be Booker. I’m trying to think of a way to say why.
The power went out at around 2:00 and just came back on!
re: #138 Belafon
I’m pretty sure it’s meant to be Booker. I’m trying to think of a way to say why.
I think it was some mocking RW meme from something Booker said in some Senate hearing (?last year?) Something about calling BS on releasing some testimony or something (?? how quickly we forget…..)
This looks really bad for no fatalities.
BREAKING: Two hurt after plane crashes into McKinney homehttps://t.co/F01EAYnIAY
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) May 23, 2019
The fetal heartbeat bills - banning abortion at about 6 weeks - have been introduced in the michigan house.
— Kathy Gray (@michpoligal) May 23, 2019
re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If that gets to the governor’s desk she will set it on fire.
The Japan trip is winding down. The last two days were spent hitting the tourist traps of Kyoto. Those would be Kinkaku-ji, Ryoan-ji, Arashayama, the Bamboo Forest and Fushimi Inari. Holy crap. Kinkaku-ji and Fushimi Inari were like the Tokyo subway during rush hour, and the other places were less crowded mainly because they weren’t crawling with junior high school students.
Today I have a shopping trip scheduled and if my feet hold out, a trip to the Kyoto Museum of Modern Art to view famous pottery.
The short fingered vulgarian is also coming here and I am fucking mortified. He is being taken to the last day of the May basho on Sunday. A basho is a 15 day series of sumo matches held every other month. It’s causing a massive security headache. They’re going to seat him near the dohyo (ring) in a chair, instead of sitting on zabutons like everyone else who pays the approx. $88 x 4 for box seats. They’re also talking about banning beer cans. Holy crap. People bring in big bags of beer and food to the Kokugikan, carrying bags emblazoned with the name of the beer company.
The other thing about sitting him near the dohyo is that rikishi get thrown out of the ring with amazing frequency. I would love to see the Secret Service go after a 400 pound rikishi who might land near Trump, but I will be either boarding a plane or taking off from KIX during that time period.
But THIS has me worried, wondering what kind of cheap-ass trash Trump is goingvto cone up with:
Trump has said he is having a trophy made for the sumo winner, which Japanese media have already informally dubbed the “Trump Cup.”
Why can’t he sit in the emperor’s box like a normal dignitary?
re: #142 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
This looks really bad for no fatalities.
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I rode a little two-stroke Suzuki around the hangars at that airport, one Thanksgiving a few years ago… Ex-girlfriend’s family lives in the next neighborhood over. I had to double-take to be sure that wasn’t their backyard.
You can’t throw a rock without hitting a McHouse in that area but it’s not challenging terrain. I wonder what the pilot’s mistake was.
he is insane
@FoxNews Poll: A majority of Americans want the Democrats to stop investigating President Trump. The Mueller Report said very strongly NO COLLUSION, which led to NO OBSTRUCTION. The Dems can’t get over 2016 or the conclusive Mueller findings. They are now the Do Nothing Party!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2019
“Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2019
….Today’s action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions.” @PressSec
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2019
I was beaten by ten minutes, but beaten by one of the best. https://t.co/Tpm9t78B0z
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 24, 2019
Breaking Now. President Trump directs agents to cooperate with AG Barr’s review of intelligence operations in Russia investigation during campaign. Stay tuned to @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/eyTNbDgnGK
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) May 24, 2019
.@realDonaldTrump has issued a memo to heads of State, Treasury, Defense, Energy, DHS, DNI and the CIA to help AG William Barr with his “spying” review. pic.twitter.com/AgLvdvCFIy
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 24, 2019
re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If he wrecks the intelligence agencies (cumbersome as they might be) the US will be flying blind in a very hostile neighborhood. Don’t think Yoda and Luke could pull us out of this one.
Seriously looking at my bug-out plan. If you are one of the LGBTQ community, I suggest you do so as well. If you don;t have one, develop one. NOW!
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@BubbleheadII) May 24, 2019
Basically AG Barr can selectively declassify any bits he chooses about the origins of the Russia investigation, but he can’t declassify portions of the Mueller report? Am I understanding this correctly?
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) May 24, 2019
“To state the obvious, there is no new emergency reason to sell bombs to Saudi Arabia to drop in Yemen,” Sen. Murphy said. “The Saudis been dropping the bombs on civilians, so if there is an emergency, it’s a humanitarian emergency caused by the bombs we sell the Saudis.” https://t.co/zM6ie3IeLO
— Robert Franek (@robertfranek) May 24, 2019
This seems ‘ungood’.
They say managers at the FAA pressure inspectors like them to ignore critical safety issues like corrosion or making sure vendors were FAA compliant and retaliated if inspectors refused to back off.
“I’ve been flat out told to back off,” one inspector said. “I’ve had airlines contact my management and ask them not to assign me any inspections to that airline.”The other inspector said they’ve “repeatedly” been punished for finding a problem and reporting it and they’re not alone: “It’s very widespread.”
re: #152 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Seriously looking at my bug-out plan. If you are one of the LGBTQ community, I suggest you do so as well. If you don;t have one, develop one. NOW!
Pack warm, because it’s Canada, Scandinavia, or nowhere. Better to solve the problem in 2020.
What does this mean exactly? I’m hearing he wants Barr to go after the press?
Is that it?
re: #158 Dave In Austin
What does this mean exactly? I’m hearing he wants Barr to go after the press?
Is that it?
He named four “traitors” today in LE/Intelligence.
Things are fine here in KC, to the south in Missouri, big bad tornadoes, again.
I can’t be the only one who reads this and sees the VERY OBVIOUS projection of Trump’s own fears onto Pelosi. https://t.co/Ef9s1nVbpl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 24, 2019
re: #161 Charles Johnson
PROJECTING. LIKE. AN. IMAX. IN. OUTER. SPACE… SPACE… SPACE… #ImpeachTrump #TheResistance #Resist https://t.co/VqymCtHCA6
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 24, 2019
The President of the United States
Suggesting that members of his own government be put to death
For doing their jobs
There truly is no bottom https://t.co/p1lBz6i48T— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) May 24, 2019
re: #161 Charles Johnson
The Right is passing around a video of Pelosi, running at about 75% speed, attempting to show that she’s a drunkard: washingtonpost.com.
story thread time!
start here:
UPDATE ON THE UPDATE: my friend the wildlife biologist who goes to actual bird conventions thinks this is courting behavior, he was like “sorry even the birds find you irresistible”, so will update, saw him shyly hopping around this morning but no pics
— Havi Brooks (@havi) May 19, 2019
re: #164 Belafon
The Right is passing around a video of Pelosi, running at about 75% speed, attempting to show that she’s a drunkard: washingtonpost.com.
In the new world of ratfucking, that seems almost quaint.
re: #157 Decatur Deb
Pack warm, because it’s Canada, Scandinavia, or nowhere. Better to solve the problem in 2020.
Do you honestly think we (I) have that long? I hope we (I) do, but I am also preparing for the worse. Better safe than sorry.
re: #164 Belafon
The Right is passing around a video of Pelosi, running at about 75% speed, attempting to show that she’s a drunkard: washingtonpost.com.
Right - it’s very likely Trump saw one of these videos, since he has a bunch of total scumbags around him who will make sure he does. And the videos are tailor made to exploit his narcissistic disorders.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that these videos originated in a certain other country.
BREAKING: @Twitter has banned @Edkrassen (Ed Krassenstein) and @krassenstein (Brian Krassenstein).
We are not sure why and we’re currently awaiting a response from Twitter.— James Kosur (@JamesKosur) May 23, 2019
Let’s see who else gets dumped
re: #167 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Do you honestly think we (I) have that long? I hope we (I) do, but I am also preparing for the worse. Better safe than sorry.
Nothing wrong with a bit of prep. I always carried a bail-out bag on TDY, enough to let me walk out of whatever country Uncle sent me to. Don’t forget maps and little dictionaries. (Langenscheidts packed best.)
Trump Administration Announces New $20 Bill Design Honoring Harriet Tubman’s Owners https://t.co/strz07n5OB pic.twitter.com/dQTJKXTIYh
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 23, 2019
FOR FUCK’S SAKE GODDAMNIT WHAT THE FUCK HUH, I MEAN, WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!??!?
“PELOSI STAMMERS THROUGH NEWS CONFERENCE” pic.twitter.com/1OyCyqRTuk
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2019
meanwhile in Cincinnati:
Ruth requested @Skyline_Chili for dinner. Did you know pups get a free hotdog in the drive through line? #cincinnati @Local12 pic.twitter.com/BELC8ekFEO
— Elaine Kong (@ElaineKongNews) May 24, 2019
“Nancy Pelosi should not be out there doing the kinds of things she is doing. She will diminish herself and her membership. She cannot put a subject with a predicate in the same sentence. What’s going on?” Ed Rollins @GreggJarrett @LouDobbs
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2019
re: #168 Charles Johnson
Right - it’s very likely Trump saw one of these videos, since he has a bunch of total scumbags around him who will make sure he does. And the videos are tailor made to exploit his narcissistic disorders.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that these videos originated in a certain other country.
“PELOSI STAMMERS THROUGH NEWS CONFERENCE” pic.twitter.com/1OyCyqRTuk
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2019
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
If history is reliable, this road runner will either cheat on me WITH A MORMON and move to the suburbs of salt lake to marry her, or join a monastery.
— Havi Brooks (@havi) May 23, 2019
Goddamnit, did Lou Dobbs run the edited Pelosi video as though it was real?
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) May 24, 2019
Yep. We were just talking about it and it happened.
The President’s personal attorney just tweeted out a video of @SpeakerPelosi which was intentionally slowed down to make her appear drunk.
Background: https://t.co/LCcPunzUan https://t.co/eHqE8H8ROs— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 24, 2019
re: #170 Decatur Deb
Nothing wrong with a bit of prep. I always carried a bail-out bag on TDY, enough to let me walk out of whatever country Uncle sent me to. Don’t forget maps and little dictionaries. (Langenscheidts packed best.)
Rand-Mc-Nally plus USGS topos. Dictionaries will not be needed. Yeah, I will have to spend some time on major roads for times sake. On the other hand, I can bypass others.
re: #169 Dave In Austin
Operating fake accounts apparently
foxnews.com
The President’s personal attorney just tweeted out a video of @SpeakerPelosi which was intentionally slowed down to make her appear drunk.
Background: https://t.co/LCcPunzUan https://t.co/eHqE8H8ROs— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 24, 2019
re: #179 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Rand-Mc-Nally plus USGS topos. Dictionaries will not be needed. Yeah, I will have to spend some time on major roads for times sake. On the other hand, I can bypass others.
Joking aside, any coming shitstorm won’t be really sudden. The paperwork takes too long, and these doofi seemed compelled to blurt out their intent.
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
Roadrunners are pretty much my favorite thing. LOVE this thread. <3
Here’s how I hope Pelosi responds: “If they have to slow me down so the president can understand me, that’s OK.”
re: #178 The Vicious Babushka
Yep. We were just talking about it and it happened.
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So we get to point our fingers and hoot at anyone who spreads it, as too dim for words. (“The devil, that proud spirit, cannot endure to be mocked.”)
JFC, moron just retweeted this from junior…they are all nuts
A friendly reminder from @LizRNC that the Main Stream Media who suffer from Trump Detangment Syndrome made this clown a contender for President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/X9xeyNw5Bi
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 24, 2019
re: #169 Dave In Austin
It feels like Jacob Wohl is taking credit for the krassenstein ban. pic.twitter.com/0WVD4AGZLn
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 24, 2019
Rudy deleted the tweet with the doctored video.
I guess that one was different from the one Fuckface Von Clownstick posted on his Twitter. That’s just edited video of her stumbling over her words, something everybody does I don’t care how good a speaker you are. You can get 60 minutes of Christopher Hitchens waxing eloquently and edit that video to make him sound like a stammering fool. Slowing realtime video of Pelosi down to make her sound drunk, I think that’s a tad more egregious, though both tactics are fucked up.
re: #122 Feline Fearless Leader
You have to remember the fig leaf that Russia is not a communist state and also ignore that Putin used to be KGB.
re: #187 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
So we get to point our fingers and hoot at anyone who spreads it, as too dim for words. (“The devil, that proud spirit, cannot endure to be mocked.”)
Targeting Pelosi is the pastime of fools. She will not leave office until she chooses, no matter what chaff they throw. At the same time, amateurish fakery will keep driving their numbers down.
You can speed up or slow down any YouTube video by a factor of two. Just click on the little gear in the lower right of the video.
the little helper 😍 pic.twitter.com/RPipKvuDtn
— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) May 24, 2019
re: #184 Decatur Deb
Joking aside, any coming shitstorm won’t be really sudden. The paperwork takes too long, and these doofi seemed compelled to blurt out their intent.
To a degree, that’s what I am counting on. Local politics on the other hand, may force my hand.
Downstairs, my wife is watching “Little People, Big World.” Upstairs, my sons are watching Ru Paul.
Wow.
Everyone knew he was going to post this doctored video, right?
Well, he did, because he’s just a complete dirtbag. https://t.co/FWs64Be1s2— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 24, 2019
Everyone who decides that the purpose of women is to be an incubator has automatically signed up to be an immediate organ donor to a child in need, including, but not limited to, the eyes, liver, and heart.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) May 24, 2019
Thanks President Obama! https://t.co/T2mA1g4UQA
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 24, 2019
Say you’re an FBI agent, and tomorrow you discover that Russia is again taking steps to help the Trump campaign … and you see Attorney General Wiliam Barr doing this to your colleagues who investigated the 2016 Russian operation to help Trump … what do you do? https://t.co/drB2xcAaOu
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 24, 2019
re: #199 teleskiguy
Yeah, imagine what your ratings would be if the economy sucked right now.
NEWS: David Laufman, former chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section at the DOJ calls Trump’s new directive “a grotesque abuse of the intelligence community.” pic.twitter.com/iTVpl4DnKD
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) May 24, 2019
The #StableGenius reacts to “Crazy Nancy” questioning his fitness to stay in office, and suggests an intervention. pic.twitter.com/j8K5q2H0vN
— Paul Lee Ticks (@PaulLeeTicks) May 24, 2019
re: #183 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
.@RudyGiuliani has apparently deleted this tweet in which he shared an obviously slowed down video of Nancy Pelosi pic.twitter.com/y1w9TyN7Za
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) May 24, 2019
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law that places a $100 per month cap on insulin co-pays, regardless of how much insulin a patient uses. Insurance companies will pay anything more than the $100 co-pay, according to the new law. https://t.co/5U0T3eOKlS
— CNN (@CNN) May 24, 2019
re: #197 Charles Johnson
So Trump just tweeted the fake Pelosi video. I never ever want to hear another fucking word about civility from Sarah Sanders or the media
— David Nir (@DavidNir) May 24, 2019
The official White House twitter account retweeted Trump sharing the doctored video
And now the Pelosi video will be treated as gospel, just like the Hillary Clinton “fatigue” and “fainting” videos from the 2016 campaign.
re: #167 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Do you honestly think we (I) have that long? I hope we (I) do, but I am also preparing for the worse. Better safe than sorry.
Only fools do. Do what’s best for you NOW.
T-30 minutes until Starlink launch → https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 24, 2019
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC, moron just retweeted this from junior…they are all nuts
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They are all EVIL. They will get people killed and they will celebrate it.
House Judiciary Chairman Nadler tells @maddow that Robert Mueller wants to testify but only in private with a transcript released to the public. Nadler says Mueller doesn’t want to participate in a televised open hearing that could be a spectacle.
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) May 24, 2019
we are already used to spectacles…
re: #210 Ace Rothstein
And now the Pelosi video will be treated as gospel, just like the Hillary Clinton “fatigue” and “fainting” videos from the 2016 campaign.
It’s just a stupid noob ploy. Any seasoned pol knows enough to keep his hands clean of the crap and let the whispering campaigns work in the dark.
I understand that social media companies need to have a light touch but one thing that should absolutely be banned is posting doctored video. https://t.co/WIRv8qM7wq
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 24, 2019
re: #217 teleskiguy
Explain, please.
Update: Facebook says the video “has been enqueued to third-party fact-checkers for review but as of 4pm PT, no fact-checker has rated” it. If deemed misleading, “we would significantly reduce the video’s distribution in News Feed.” Meanwhile, its views have surpassed 2 million
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) May 24, 2019
This video is different from the slowed and distorted “drunk” one, but it serves the same purpose, by attempting to disparage Speaker Pelosi. It’s also stripped of context, cut and edited so as to make it hugely disorienting, probably by design https://t.co/qUbrMnjaXH
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) May 24, 2019
One of my constituents came to me recently - she has cancer, and needs a bone marrow donor - quick! (2/8)
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) May 23, 2019
I called the House Ethics Committee to see if my office would be able to promote the bone marrow drives being organized across the country for this purpose. Their answer: nope. (4/8)
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) May 23, 2019
I’m telling you this because I want the American people to know how backwards our Congressional rules can be. (6/8)
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) May 23, 2019
I understand the rules and I’m going to follow them. I also get why rules have to be strict because they could be abused. But for outsiders like me, sometimes this place just doesn’t make sense. Lots of rules, not a lot of justice. (8/8)
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) May 23, 2019
re: #219 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Explain, please.
That’s right below the Hillary Step right below the summit of Mount Everest, a couple of days ago. That’s not mountaineering. That’s mountain tourism. What’s next, top rope on El Cap?
I was posted and deleted the comment “The president of the United States is a fucking child”. My last comment to the orange choad was “The presdient is a Tyrant” and a few minutes later my account was permenently suspended.
The video is doctored you bastard. GFY.
— Jon “Bowzer” Bauman (@JonBowzerBauman) May 24, 2019
re: #222 teleskiguy
That’s right below the Hillary Step right below the summit of Mount Everest, a couple of days ago. That’s not mountaineering. That’s mountain tourism. What’s next, top rope on El Cap?
Thanks. I was wondering if it was something along those lines. Kinda lost all meaning. And definitely proof that we are really dumb hairless-apes who shoulda stayed in the trees.
Please, Please ,Please. I have stayed up way beyond my bedtime for this launch. @spaceX don’t fuck it up. Again
OK, looks like that Everest picture was taken yesterday. Someone in that line died yesterday, an American.
re: #218 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Good.
Blast from the past. The North Texas Skeptic, May 1999
POST-RATIONAL
The PQ Test
by Jimmy ReynoldsAre you a conspiracy buff? Find out with our exclusive, self scoring PQ (Paranoia Quotient) test.
Directions: It’s simple. Each of the ten questions has four possible answers. Select the answer that you think is closest to the truth, then see the scoring guide at the end of the test. This is not a scientific test. Scientists don’t know everything anyway.
1. What is the government really hiding at Area 51?
A. Secret new aircraft and related technology
B. An illegal toxic waste dump.
C. UFOs and captured aliens.
D. The Russian submarine from Hunt for Red October.2. Who really operates the mysterious black helicopters?
A. The U.S. Army. Dark green paint looks black against a bright sky, especially to sleepy-eyed Art Bell fans.
B. Some rich guys playing a practical joke with their corporate JetRanger.
C. The sinister Shadow Government’s secret force of UN monitors.
D. ‘I seen one of ‘em out between Idalou and Post.What would a helicopter be doin’ way out there? They gottabe UFOs in disguise.’3. Who really killed JFK?
A. Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.
B. A small gang of conspirators
C. An international conspiracy involving the CIA, FBI, the Pentagon, the media, the Mafia, [16,235 words deleted], space aliens, Atlantis survivors and the Plainview Flat Earth Society.
D. Nobody. He’s alive and well and living across from Elvis at Area 51.4. Why do mainstream scientists reject Creationism?
A. It’s a convoluted pseudo-science with no real scientific merit.
B. They think it’s a crude attempt to sneak religion into the classroom
C. It threatens their prestige and job security interest.
D. They’ve been brainwashed by local witch covens and devil-cults.5. Why did Art Bell announce his sudden retirement last fall?
A. It was probably a publicity stunt.
B. He had a sudden attack of conscience and rationality.
C. Skeptics kept writing him nasty letters.
D. The real Men In Black paid him a visit.6. Why did Bell un-retire just as suddenly?
A. The wave of free publicity had exhausted itself.
B. Revenue projections cured him of conscience and rationality.
C. Psychics promised to protect him from Men In Black and hostile skeptics.
D. He is a man of vision and courage who will accept any risk to put the Truth before the American people.7. Who really runs the United States?
A. Our elected leaders and a horde of civil-service bureaucrats.
B. Big Business and the Media.
C. Evil secret societies who manipulate history from behind the scenes.
D. The aliens at Area 51, with the help of highly paid agents who masquerade as skeptics and scoffers. [the checks are in the mail-JR]8. Why can’t a new Suburban get 150 miles per gallon?
A. There isn’t that much chemical energy in a gallon of gasoline.
B. The technology would cost more than anyone is willing to pay.
C. The car companies aren’t as smart as the guys who advertise in the back of mechanic’s magazines.
D. Oil companies and car makers have suppressed the magic carburetor that would make it possible.9. Why has SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) so far failed to locate alien intelligence.
A. The universe is very large and SETI lacks adequate funds for a faster search.
B. There may not be any aliens close enough to contact.
C. They HAVE succeeded and the government is covering it up.
D. The whole thing is a put-on. Aliens actually run SETI.10. Why do UFO advocates place such great emphasis on cover-ups and conspiracies?
A. They have to account for the lack of hard evidence.
B. The movement attracts people who are pre-disposed to believe in ‘hidden truths’.
C. Excessive secrecy fuels suspicion and speculation.
D. There’s obviously a cover-up. The proof had to go somewhere.11. What incentive do the world’s governments and scientists have to cover up the reality of alien visitations?
A. It doesn’t matter. It’s impossible that every government and almost every reputable astronomer in the world would go along with it for fifty seconds, let alone fifty years.
B. None. The military and most scientists would love for alien invaders/visitors to show up.
C. The worldwide shadow government knows that people would panic if they knew the Truth.
D. The economy would collapse if Earthlings knew about alien stuff like immortality pills, free energy, and big houses for everyone.Scoring Guide: Give yourself 1 point for each ‘A’ answer, 2 for each ‘B’, 3 for a ‘C’, and 4 for a ‘D’.
Find your PQ below:
10-15 points: You’re a skeptic, but you may find that hard to believe.
16-29 points: You can be a consumer-unit in the new age of unstructured knowledge. You won’t be alone; there’s one born every minute.
30-40 points: Sell your guns and seek professional help.
Jimmy Reynolds is a science teacher, a licensed aviation mechanic and the father of two grown children. He is a native Texan and lives in Lubbock
Deepfake video is going to get worse:
Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life
Note the Mona Lisa chatting is a S.Korea/Russia collaboration.
re: #232 Decatur Deb
Deepfake video is going to get worse:
Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life
Note the Mona Lisa chatting is a S.Korea/Russia collaboration.
I was thinking about fake videos and realized that someone should start a company now that certifies that a video was made by the people claiming to make it. So, a campaign video or a news video could get a certification by the company.
re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #233 Belafon
I was thinking about fake videos and realized that someone should start a company now that certifies that a video was made by the people claiming to make it. So, a campaign video or a news video could get a certification by the company.
Fine, as long as THEY don’t get to make the validation.
re: #236 Decatur Deb
Fine, as long as THEY don’t get to make the validation.
One of the things that would need to be done would be a way to look up the certification.
Main engine cutoff and stage separation confirmed. Second stage engine burn underway pic.twitter.com/trGBZyJGD1
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 24, 2019
re: #233 Belafon
236 was a cheap joke. I’d be looking for a technical solution involving a unique code embedded in video production/distribution tools to fingerprint the lineage of an image.
Well. Don’t know whether to be happy excited or panicked, but I just signed the papers to get a new computer: top of the line iMac. Not cheap. I work with one all day every day, and my 2011 baby has just had too many miles.
So scared of the expense. But excited to have one with everything working, and not to have to worry about sudden death. Had one do that years ago, and do NOT NOT NOT ever want to have that happen again.
No, @CPSUK, put yours down. If you didn’t know that the promises of Donald Trump aren’t worth the air they’re carried on, you’re part of the problem.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 24, 2019
OK, about 35 minutes until they deploy the 60 satellites
re: #222 teleskiguy
That’s right below the Hillary Step right below the summit of Mount Everest, a couple of days ago. That’s not mountaineering. That’s mountain tourism. What’s next, top rope on El Cap?
Looks like the line for the johns at a Steelers game.
re: #245 Decatur Deb
Looks like the line for the johns at a Steelers game.
Most of those people that are not sherpas probably wouldn’t stand in a queue at their local bakery, but they’ll stand in line at 28,000 feet! It’s a trophy hunt, and it looks more ridiculous every year.
re: #242 Chrysicat
Do you think that would shut Maddow up?
There’s a whole Blazzing Saddle of them
Vice President Mike Pence is Elderly Woman pic.twitter.com/6S1w7VFFkX
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 24, 2019
So Trump is taking his entire gawd awful family to England with him.
Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin is Boris pic.twitter.com/TGuKJs7Up9
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 24, 2019
re: #247 Belafon
Do you think that would shut Maddow up?
No, I think she’ll wind up an actual martyr for truth if the precedent is set quickly enough that he can file on her before Election ‘20.
That’s…not really much of an improvement over being forced into her hole.
re: #246 teleskiguy
Most of those people that are not sherpas probably wouldn’t stand in a queue at their local bakery, but they’ll stand in line at 28,000 feet! It’s a trophy hunt, and it looks more ridiculous every year.
“If you’re not the lead husky mountaineer, the view never changes.”
re: #243 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
First stage on the boat
I’m always awestruck to see SpaceX pull that off!
re: #245 Decatur Deb
Looks like the line for the johns at a Steelers game.
I don’t think there’s a porta potty at the summit…
National Security Adviser John Bolton is Gabby Johnson pic.twitter.com/rPGsyPFk6C
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 24, 2019
I feel like starting a pool to guess which American politician is going to be the first to get milkshaked…
re: #257 Joe Bacon 🌹
I feel like starting a pool to guess which American politician is going to be the first to get milkshaked…
Ted Cruz.
re: #257 Joe Bacon 🌹
I feel like starting a pool to guess which American politician is going to be the first to get milkshaked…
None of them. We’re too chickenshit.
re: #222 teleskiguy
That’s right below the Hillary Step right below the summit of Mount Everest, a couple of days ago. That’s not mountaineering. That’s mountain tourism. What’s next, top rope on El Cap?
Wasn’t always so:
First flight over Everest: Squadron Leader Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Lord Clydesdale, flying Westland WP-3 G-ACAZ, approaching the summit of Mt. Everest, 3 April 1933.
And every mountaineer knows this picture: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay at the summit, May 29 1953.
re: #260 Decatur Deb
We don’t have the restraint to keep that from escalating to deadly levels.
Good yet maddening point.
Mile 1,839: Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Okay, when we left Nebraska we expected to leave the crap weather behind us.
Who ordered severe thunderstorms and tornado warnings for Penna., New York, and New Jersey, and severe thunderstorms here? Do they even have tornado sirens in Massachusetts?
We’ve arrived for the Memorial Day parade and remembrance.
re: #261 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
At least they credited the poor sods in the camera aircraft.
re: #263 Anymouse 🌹
Mile 1,839: Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Okay, when we left Nebraska we expected to leave the crap weather behind us.
Who ordered severe thunderstorms and tornado warnings for Penna., New York, and New Jersey, and severe thunderstorms here? Do they even have tornado sirens in Massachusetts?
We’ve arrived for the Memorial Day parade and remembrance.
I was scared CENSORED when a tornado touched down a block away from our home in Ambridge PA. Worst thunderstorm we ever had there must have been dozens of lightning bolts going at the same time. the tornado then went thru the Ohio River and dissipated but when it was in the river we got the heaviest rains for a good 15 minutes…
Remark for Philly Pretzel: They just issued a tornado warning for Philadelphia.
Remark for Teleskiguy.
You might recall the discussion we had over the toll road around Denver (E-470) with their photograph tolling.
They never sent us a bill.
When I last lived in Massachusetts in the early Nineties, they used tickets and toll booths on the Mass. Pike. Today I found they use the same EZ-Pass system or photographic tolling. There are no toll takers or cash booths anywhere on the Mass. Pike.
Considering Colorado apparently didn’t recognise my license plate, I wonder if Massachusetts will. (The toll is a lot higher on the Mass. Pike,)
That makes me think that because there are so many different license plates that photographic tolling can’t catch them all (they are not Pokémon), and states like Missouri are printing their state names so small you can’t see it if you stand next to the car, I wonder if the tolling for those with EZ-Passes isn’t actually higher to make up for those of us the toll road cannot bill.
second stage 3 second burn completed
14 minutes until satellite(s) deployment
Would you rather we’d gotten it cancelled entirely? Because if, say, some “original creator” had the brilliant idea to make a vidya game version of The Turner Diaries, we’d be at the point where either it had to be cancelled or heavily modified so as not to encourage RL violence.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 24, 2019
I’m RT’ing my own REPLY 2 hours after I posted it. Now it hits my main TL rather than being buried under “tweets and replies”.
As for the delay, sometimes I let things stay buried. But once you got aggressive I decided others needed to see more easily.— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 24, 2019
It’s like people have no idea why the ability to self-RT was added…
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— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 24, 2019
re: #266 Anymouse 🌹
Remark for Philly Pretzel: They just issued a tornado warning for Philadelphia.
Really? I’m in that area and usually my watch and the phones go nuts with warnings. Checking now.
Ben Carson guts homeless shelter gender protections 24 hours after telling Congress he wouldn’t https://t.co/kA1sknwOmD pic.twitter.com/DpEf2B2Ghl
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) May 24, 2019
Hail is hitting our hotel window very hard. The storm is on.
re: #272 Anymouse 🌹
Hail is hitting our hotel window very hard. The storm is on.
Philly/South Jersey probably isn’t that far behind you. Just got the severe thunderstorm warning on my watch.
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