Mehliana (Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana) performs “Just Call Me Nige” at Largo in LA, October 2013. The song is featured on the album Mehliana: Taming the Dragon, out now on Nonesuch Records.
CD/LP/MP3/FLAC: nonesuch.com
iTunes: smarturl.itVideo directed/recorded by Alex Chaloff
From the previous thread:
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
Is it possible I wonder for Trump to do enough economic damage to make Republicans turn on him?
Nope. Conservatism is a religion, and just as rigid as every other religion.
Trump is their prelate. To go against your pastor or high priest means you are no longer a member of that religion, and they sometimes get violent about it.
It has saints: Reagan being one of the most prominent.
It has creeds.
It has a faith-based position: Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed (compare to “we all fall short of the glory of God”).
It has speech you cannot use. It has dress codes.
In every respect it is a religion, and it’s god is power and money.
Before the midterms Don Jr was leading the push to delist suppressors from the National Firearms Act.
Handgun had a silencer on it, gunman had extended magazines. #VirginiaBeach
— CSGV (@CSGV) June 1, 2019
Don’t bother going with the “he shot his ass off” theme, it’s been done.
Repeatedly
Small Cox is a terrible disease. https://t.co/NnCHv95sWy
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 1, 2019
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Don’t bother going with the “he shot his ass off” theme, it’s been done.
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And look how many keys he has, he must be important!
re: #158 Rocky-in-Connecticut
And let’s remember during the Clinton and Obama era all those Youtube videos from fringe right wing/ Alex Jones types walking through supposed concentration camps being prepared for Conservatives.
A reminder of a rule-of-thumb for conservative politicians and talking heads: It’s projection with those assholes, always.
They said that liberals wanted to do that because that’s what they want to do to us. I am under no illusions that if the country goes full-metal wingnut I’m doomed.
When Canadian Immigration Services asked me “are you planning to stay in Canada” and I thought “why, are you offering?” maybe I should have said it out loud.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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As pointed out by a reader, he had five guns.
Is Tommy McMurtry (of Liberty Baptist Church) attracted to pumpkins? https://t.co/QtTHe8JSZd via @YouTube
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) June 1, 2019
re: #1 Anymouse 🌹
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Nope. Conservatism is a religion, and just as rigid as every other religion.
At least in the US, almost all “conservatives” are deeply tied into Christianity of some sect.
There are a few self-declared atheists who also like to proclaim themselves as “conservative”, but they are the odd duck. There are certainly some closet atheists who hang out in right-wing circles but they do not challenge the religious beliefs of their compatriots.
Part of the reason Pence is going around denying that the “nones” are gaining in share of the US population is that he knows that his supporters are the religious right, a group which must not be confronted with reality.
“I am completely and utterly perplexed by those who argue that perjury and
obstruction of justice are not high crimes and misdemeanors.” — Mitch McConnell, 2/12/99.— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) May 30, 2019
Apple is reportedly set to announce that it will replace iTunes with three new apps. Loyal iTunes users are expressing their thoughts as a result of the reports. https://t.co/DPTQUGcvfV
— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) May 31, 2019
iTunes has to be Apples worst application. Not only are its controls too minimal, the thing eventually crashes for me. Its podcast management is the worse for sure.
re: #243 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Big surprise: @LindseyGrahamSC was completely opposed to tariffs (like all Republicans) and now he is completely in favor of tariffs. https://t.co/VDTRxJKvKn
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) May 31, 2019
As I noted above, conservatism is a religion. The prelate of the Republican Party (Trump) has spoken, and now his worshipers must either go along with his declaration ex cathedra or be denied communion (committee appointments, &c) or excommunicated (primaried).
Philippines president says he “cured” himself of being gay https://t.co/EdxroNdCEs pic.twitter.com/rvkjF3cMWe
— The Hill (@thehill) June 1, 2019
re: #14 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Duterte made the comments while mocking the body movements of his political opponent Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV during a speech Thursday, Filipino news organization Rappler reported.
Duterte claimed that Trillanes’s movements show he is gay, according to the report, while adding that he was gay before he met his ex-wife Elizabeth Zimmerman.
All these petty strong men show similar traits. No wonder Trump likes Duterte.
WATCH: Record floodwaters top an Arkansas levee, causing it to breach Friday morning, prompting evacuations. More: https://t.co/aJsi91VSnB pic.twitter.com/MX35vs0v32
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 1, 2019
I think I know why Dumbo, in particular, bombed. The bigots refused to see it because they took out Jim the Crow and his chorus; the non-bigots, to an extent, saw Dumbo as a bigoted film that can’t be redeemed. Add to that removing Timothy so the furries won’t even see it!
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 1, 2019
Zebra Shark getting a belly rub pic.twitter.com/ajCh9Jf5kI
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) June 1, 2019
Isn’t that going against the grain of sharkskin? Shouldn’t that injure the diver?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 1, 2019
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Don’t bother going with the “he shot his ass off” theme, it’s been done.
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Now what happens when someone gets behind him and lifts the gun from his ass?
In which we get yet more confirmation that Michael Tracey is EXACTLY who we think he is.
It looks like Maxine Waters’ savage pipe-beating to his head and shoulders did more damage than we initially thought. https://t.co/cnCQBLFxeX— soonergrunt 🇺🇸 (@soonergrunt) June 1, 2019
Remember, one of the NRA’s goals is to get the ‘National Hearing Protection Act’ passed, which will remove any restrictions on buying and selling firearm suppresors
Virginia Beach gunman — armed with extended magazines and a suppressor — killed 12 people: report https://t.co/49NR52xplc
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 1, 2019
There’s a Denny’s next door and my wife says she wants to take me out to dinner.
Denny’s will do. I’m hangri. Catch y’all in a bit.
130 Percent of Trump’s China-Tariff Revenue Is Now Going to Angry Farmers
- My latest @CFR_org Geo-Graphics blog posthttps://t.co/sDrGehKeES via @CFR_org— Benn Steil (@BennSteil) May 31, 2019
It was bad enough this morning seeing a police shootout by the Chick Fil A across the street from work and then the Virginia Beach incident.
I’ve had it with the assholes in the Tiny Penis Club.
I hope that the New York Attorney General shuts down the Tiny Penis Club and puts it out of business once and for all. And I want those that push guns held liable for the consequences.
Oil futures gonna go up
Canadian Natural to temporarily shut in oil production due to wildfires https://t.co/e5zPMEmU6k pic.twitter.com/1k7ihqBod8
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 1, 2019
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Someday that guy is going to fall on his back and break his spine.
re: #27 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I was just in Flagstaff, there’s a wildfire burning to the east of town. Even after a wet winter, it’s not enough to stop fires. The Pacific Northwest is a freaking tinder box right now, it’s gonna be a very long fire season in some places.
Oh man, wonder if it’s gonna just be that one flight for that beast
Exclusive: Space firm founded by billionaire Paul Allen closing operations - sources https://t.co/FZNIw5hOHV pic.twitter.com/klSm2v9CUe
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 1, 2019
I would wear the fuck out of this button a rock concerts.
Peak San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/Bkt5H1lIcA
— Ed O’Keefe (@edokeefe) June 1, 2019
You want to talk about marginalized people, extreme poverty, food deserts, poor life expectancy rates? That shit doesn’t happen in a vacuum. I saw it with my own eyes driving through the utterly beautiful Navajo Nation. White people are the worst.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 1, 2019
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Anyone want to take a bet on whether he’s got one ankle holster or two?
“Later that night down in the bottom of a pit, he ordered his dinner guest to ‘put the lotion on its skin…’” https://t.co/IfEcpPQ4CY
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 1, 2019
Some of the usual suspects are claiming that the Virginia Beach shooter was a registered Democrat. They have apparently pulled this information out of their asses because the only credible source, the Virginia state registration records, requires a partial social security number for access to an individual record.
heavy.com
re: #36 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Some of the usual suspects are claiming that the Virginia Beach shooter was a registered Democrat. They have apparently pulled this information out of their asses because the only credible source, the Virginia state registration records, requires a partial social security number for access to an individual record.
heavy.com
Democrats: Both the cause of all mass shootings (at least the ones not caused by atheists) and utterly scared of guns. /s
Training conservatives in doublethink requires a lot of hard work and gutting education.
Haters gonna hate on the Netflix pic.twitter.com/DJ1YSGNapk
— Logan Everett (@wtxcottonfarmer) May 22, 2019
I miss those halcyon days on Twitter when I just gabbed with ski areas, telling them how much fun I was having.
One of my very favorite @twitter exchanges. @Arapahoe_Basin pic.twitter.com/iZfpTWDxtP
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 23, 2015
re: #42 teleskiguy
fuck
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Did that glance off his jaw before he caught it?
Nice out either way.
re: #14 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Philippines president says he “cured” himself of being gay
So he is a self-loathing gay. That explains a lot of why he is such a mean bastard.
re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
just add some distorted rock guitar and you get early Santana
Hello from Europe, one and all. Off to do a few things today.
But before I go, I just want to remind everyone that no matter what you may do today, whatever that may be, under no circumstances should anyone here Tweet this to Donald Trump.
I’m hoping Donald Trump doesn’t see this before his visit. Still, I know you guys won’t retweet it and I’m pretty sure he isn’t even on Twitter.pic.twitter.com/AK4eiBJRj0
— Not Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) May 31, 2019
Look what came unbidden into the chat where I found that New Yorker tweet I RT’d! pic.twitter.com/sAOZZ7dPYe
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 1, 2019
So I watched the intro to Amazon’s new show Good Omens and all I could think is that they owe a lot to Douglas Adams.
re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I watched the intro to Amazon’s new show Good Omens and all I could think is that they owe a lot to Douglas Adams.
This should come as little surprise; I think he and Pratchett were good friends, and I also think his writing heavily influenced @NeilHimself.
re: #16 teleskiguy
Live on a flood plain behind giant dirt walls …
re: #4 bd (Emergency!)
And look how many keys he has, he must be important!
Lots of keys is 99% of the time a dead giveaway
re: #56 Old Liberal
Lots of keys is 99% of the time a dead giveaway
I’ve noticed a lot of them that a huge key pile is something that has way too many things under lock and key. Add in the multiple firearms and you just have to think the guy is paranoid as all get out about other people touching his stuff.
re: #57 Feline Fearless Leader
I’ve noticed a lot of them that a huge key pile is something that has way too many things under lock and key. Add in the multiple firearms and you just have to think the guy is paranoid as all get out about other people touching his stuff.
So sticking a loaf of French bread in his back and yelling “Hands up!”’ is not a good idea?
(First thing that crossed my mind.)
re: #58 Decatur Deb
So sticking a loaf of French bread in his back and yelling “Hands up!”’ is not a good idea?
(First thing that crossed my mind.)
first thing that crossed my mind about shooting off his ass…too late, looks like he already did that
re: #60 jeffreyw
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I see the Navy now admits there was an email directing them to hide the John McCain. Navy Info tweet earlier said there wasn’t. This isn’t confusion it was coverup. I’m so tired of the glorification of military honor when every day is another example of the rot. Pride goeth before the fall, and those that create and maintain a false facade create a barrier to improvement and self recognition.
re: #63 Old Liberal
I see the Navy now admits there was an email directing them to hide the John McCain. Navy Info tweet earlier said there wasn’t. This isn’t confusion it was coverup. I’m so tired of the glorification of military honor when every day is another example of the rot. Pride goeth before the fall, and those that create and maintain a false facade create a barrier to improvement and self recognition.
The coverup is also with the knowledge that acceding or considering the request at all was not the right decision.
re: #64 Feline Fearless Leader
The coverup is also with the knowledge that acceding or considering the request at all was not the right decision.
Gives a new meaning to the grade “Chief Petty Officer”.
re: #61 Chrysicat
Mrs. Cardinal there looks singularly unhappy!
Nonsense! She is tickled to be first in line at the best restaurant in town.
Trump and Putin share a tender moment
Another one:
re: #62 Feline Fearless Leader
[“You have failed me jeffrey for the last time! We will have the mockingbird insult you continuously. We have no fear of the cat.”]
Big talk! Come down here and say that! I’ve given your place at the table to the catbird.
re: #12 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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iTunes has to be Apples worst application. Not only are its controls too minimal, the thing eventually crashes for me. Its podcast management is the worse for sure.
my personal favorite moments are when I discover that when an album—often one that I loaded from my personal collection—has missing songs, which are absolutely nowhere to be found in either “Purchases” or in my hard-drive Itunes library.
Sources: Kentucky man accused of asking minor for sex is a pastor, business owner
Sources tell WYMT that a man who faces child sexual exploitation charges is a local pastor and business owner.
Bobby “BJ” Blackburn is charged with using an electronic device to try to get a minor to engage in sexual activities. Police said he messaged an employee, who was a minor, and asked her to engage in a “threesome” with another minor, among other obscene messages.
Sources confirmed that Blackburn is the pastor of Elevate Church of Prestonsburg. He also owns the Giovanni’s.
Blackburn turned himself in to police Wednesday but has already bonded out at $5,000.
WYMT interviewed Blackburn in 2016 about his restaurant , which played Christian music and put Bible verses on receipts.
Blackburn is scheduled to appear in court June 19th.
re: #67 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Trump and Putin share a tender moment
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oh my god! these fuckers edited out a gay sex scene from the Elton John flick, but live in a world where you can raise some random gal’s shirt up and tit-kiss her?
re: #72 Amory Blaine
Sources: Kentucky man accused of asking minor for sex is a pastor, business owner
As if going to prison for being a pedo won’t be uncomfortable enough, being called BJ is likely not going to help matters.
More than twelve hours have passed and not one word from the orange shit weasel about the Virginia Beach shooting.
Defensive Laura Ingraham Challenges Critics To Try Making List Of Prominent Conservatives Without Including Few White Supremacists https://t.co/SNUVonXjbs pic.twitter.com/vWdLxr5kvy
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 31, 2019
Seriously. It really is the least they could do. I can’t tell you how many conversations I have had with buyers over recent weeks who have shared Fox’s spin that the Dem town halls show that it is safe for advertisers to come back in water.
Speaking up now would matter. https://t.co/wfy53kni2s— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) May 31, 2019
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
More than twelve hours have passed and not one word from the orange shit weasel about the Virginia Beach shooting.
There’s a little turmoil at the NRA right now, they haven’t told Don what to say yet.
re: #79 Eventual Carrion
Oh, when the truth can be used as satire.
The line grows thinner every day and one day will totally disappear, along with satire and comedy.
Hypocrisy is McTurtle’s middle name. And his first and last name too. What a flagrant dickhead! https://t.co/17vKziC2eJ
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 30, 2019
re: #81 Belafon
Ever thought about how many of these right wing assholes are actively praying for RBG to die?
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area!
Oh wait… I’m not lawhawk. But I’m down in the city for the weekend and couldn’t resist.
And a big FU to the jerk next to me at the Yankees game last night who felt compelled to shout “God Bless America… AND NOBODY ELSE!” during the 7th inning mandatory patriotism break. Ugh.
re: #41 teleskiguy
I miss those halcyon days on Twitter when I just gabbed with ski areas, telling them how much fun I was having.
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We all JUST HAD LIVES. I doubt that any of us figured that everyone in government was squeaky clean or holy, but we assumed that most of them were just good people doing their jobs.
What I had the most is that I am torn up with anger and dread all the time. Maybe that makes me like those RWNJ during Obama’s terms, EXCEPT that my fears come true every day, and theirs were just all in their minds.
re: #49 Dr Lizardo
Hello from Europe, one and all. Off to do a few things today.
But before I go, I just want to remind everyone that no matter what you may do today, whatever that may be, under no circumstances should anyone here Tweet this to Donald Trump.
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Is that a Boris Johnson look-a-like or actually him?
re: #72 Amory Blaine
Sources: Kentucky man accused of asking minor for sex is a pastor, business owner
This image is gonna get a lot of use, I think.
re: #86 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Is that a Boris Johnson look-a-like or actually him?
That is in fact Boris Johnson saying that.
re: #88 Dr Lizardo
That is in fact Boris Johnson saying that.
That was back during the London Olympics, wasn’t it?
re: #89 retired cynic
That was back during the London Olympics, wasn’t it?
Apparently it’s from 2015.
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
More than twelve hours have passed and not one word from the orange shit weasel about the Virginia Beach shooting.
Was the gunman an undocumented immigrant or a Muslim? If not, he doesn’t care.
re: #93 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Mconnell really does have one of the most punchable faces in politics.
*SPIT*
Spoke to Virginia Governor @RalphNortham last night, and the Mayor and Vice Mayor of Virginia Beach this morning, to offer condolences to that great community. The Federal Government is there, and will be, for whatever they may need. God bless the families and all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 1, 2019
re: #83 ipsos
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area!
Oh wait… I’m not lawhawk. But I’m down in the city for the weekend and couldn’t resist.
And a big FU to the jerk next to me at the Yankees game last night who felt compelled to shout “God Bless America… AND NOBODY ELSE!” during the 7th inning mandatory patriotism break. Ugh.
I haven’t been to a baseball game in a very, very long time, but I thought the 7th inning strech was for singing Take me Out to the Ballgame. Has that changed? Do they now sing God Bless America?
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
*SPIT*
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I know the sentiment is hollow as fuck, but I’m still surprised at the lack of “thoughts and prayers”.
re: #96 Teddy’s Person
I haven’t been to a baseball game in a very, very long time, but I thought the 7th inning strech was for singing Take me Out to the Ballgame. Has that changed? Do they now sing God Bless America?
Blame Steinbrenner for that. The Yanks started it after 9/11.
They originally used Kate Smith’s version, but changed to a different version because Kate Smith was apparently a racist.
You know another thing I’ve come to hate about mass shootings? The way everyone canonizes the first responders while continuing to do fuck all to actually help make their jobs less dangerous.
re: #72 Amory Blaine
Sources: Kentucky man accused of asking minor for sex is a pastor, business owner
Of course the christians say that anyone can fail because of el diablo but jeebus washes him clean of everything including being a hypocrite and a bigot as long as he feels bad about it and asks for forgiveness. What a system
re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg
Ever thought about how many of these right wing assholes are actively praying for RBG to die?
Fortunately there is nothing listening.
re: #101 Old Liberal
Fortunately there is nothing listening.
If there was Trump would have been dead by now.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
*SPIT*
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Isn’t the federal government always the problem not the solution? St. Ronald of Reagan established that. Why is drumpf offering Federal “help”?
re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg
You know another thing I’ve come to hate about mass shootings? The way everyone canonizes the first responders while continuing to do fuck all to actually help make their jobs less dangerous.
Yes plus all the “hero” stories they try to dig up so instead of a tragedy it becomes a feel good moment
re: #103 Old Liberal
Isn’t the federal government always the problem not the solution? St. Ronald of Reagan established that. Why is drumpf offering Federal “help”?
There is no help.
The NRA makes sure of that.
It’s just empty words.
re: #100 Old Liberal
Of course the christians say that anyone can fail because of el diablo but jeebus washes him clean of everything including being a hypocrite and a bigot as long as he feels bad about it and asks for forgiveness. What a system
Well, one kind of fundamentalist would. Another kind would say that it’s proof he’s not one of the chosen since they’d never get thrown in jail. There’s a lot of various heresies out there for Fundies to choose from.
Now, God does forgive everyone. But that’s just the beginning of it. I’d say he’s got a lot of work ahead of him if he truly repents and wants to repair the damage he’s done in the name of God since that’s what God actually expects of us.
re: #104 Old Liberal
Yes plus all the “hero” stories they try to dig up so instead of a tragedy it becomes a feel good moment
Yep.
- Person A is a hero because he barricaded a door to keep the attacker out.
- Person B is a hero because she helped get some kids out of the building to safety.
- Person C (now deceased) is a hero for using their body to shield other would be victims.
- Person D (now deceased) is a hero for bravely charging the gunman and trying to stop the attack.
And on.
And on.
re: #106 William Lewis
Well, one kind of fundamentalist would. Another kind would say that it’s proof he’s not one of the chosen since they’d never get thrown in jail. There’s a lot of various heresies out there for Fundies to choose from.
Now, God does forgive everyone. But that’s just the beginning of it. I’d say he’s got a lot of work ahead of him if he truly repents and wants to repair the damage he’s done in the name of God since that’s what God actually expects of us.
So many versions. Everyone can have one that fits them.
re: #107 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep.
- Person A is a hero because he barricaded a door to keep the attacker out.
- Person B is a hero because she helped get some kids out of the building to safety.
- Person C (now deceased) is a hero for using their body to shield other would be victims.
- Person D (now deceased) is a hero for bravely charging the gunman and trying to stop the attack.
And on.
And on.
Exactly. It’s sick.
re: #107 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep.
- Person A is a hero because he barricaded a door to keep the attacker out.
- Person B is a hero because she helped get some kids out of the building to safety.
- Person C (now deceased) is a hero for using their body to shield other would be victims.
- Person D (now deceased) is a hero for bravely charging the gunman and trying to stop the attack.
And on.
And on.
Boy are we lucky some asshole killed a bunch of people. So much positive came out of it. We need more mass murders.
Spit
I just looked it up. There is NO waiting period for someone to buy a weapon assuming a lame ass background check (which often only takes a few minutes) is passed. Assuming someone has no criminal record at the time, that’s an easy hurdle to clear. It becomes even easier if said someone exploits the “gun show loophole” to dodge the background check.
So person A has a bad few months at work and is eventually fired. Person A has no criminal record and some cash in his pocket. In his anger, person A walks down to the nearest gun store and, in a few minutes time, buys several assault rifles, silencers and high capacity magazines, along with ammunition. The next day Person A goes to his former workplace and starts mowing people down.
Is there any other developed country in the world where a person can get a hold of so many powerful weapons so quickly and with so little scrutiny?
re: #110 Old Liberal
Boy are we lucky some asshole killed a bunch of people. So much positive came out of it. We need more mass murders.
Spit
Our Tree of Liberty is sure well-watered, ain’t it?
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re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Not only five guns, five worthless guns
He just got “shot” by a camera and likely didn’t even know it
(Until he saw his ass plastered all over Twitter)
re: #96 Teddy’s Person
I haven’t been to a baseball game in a very, very long time, but I thought the 7th inning strech was for singing Take me Out to the Ballgame. Has that changed? Do they now sing God Bless America?
Last Summer I was at Wrigley and they played “Take me out to the ballgame.”
re: #63 Old Liberal
I see the Navy now admits there was an email directing them to hide the John McCain. Navy Info tweet earlier said there wasn’t. This isn’t confusion it was coverup. I’m so tired of the glorification of military honor when every day is another example of the rot. Pride goeth before the fall, and those that create and maintain a false facade create a barrier to improvement and self recognition.
This is their way
There’s now so many versions of the story there’s no way to know which is true
..shrug…
They do this with -every- issue
re: #116 DangerMan
Yep. Hard to find the truth in an endless avalanche of lies.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
*SPIT*
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Spoke to Virginia Governor @RalphNortham last night, and the Mayor and Vice Mayor of Virginia Beach this morning, to offer condolences to that great community. The Federal Government is there, and will be, for whatever they may need. God bless the families and all!
What we need is to prevent the next one
re: #115 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Last Summer I was at Wrigley and they played “Take me out to the ballgame.”
that’s been the tradition there forever.
if they stopped, Harry Caray would come back to haunt them
re: #118 DangerMan
What we need is to prevent the next one
Or at a bare minimum make it a LOT harder to carry out.
Good Thread
I do not understand the Pelosi has a constitutional responsibility to impeach argument.
For one, no she doesn’t.— Josh Huder (@joshHuder) May 30, 2019
re: #118 DangerMan
What we need is to prevent the next one
Apparently the shooter bought a bunch of weapons, and the silencer, and a substantial amount of ammo, all in the last few weeks.
If background checks were computerized, and buying lots in a short time would throw up red flags (the Vegas shooter had a similar purchase history)… that would indeed prevent some shootings.
There’s a thousand valid reasons why somebody might need fertilizer, all of which are totally legal, but if I were to try to buy 800 pounds at a time someone would take notice. Law enforcement would look into it.
There’s a thousand valid reasons why somebody might need cough syrup, all of which are totally legal, but if I were to try to buy a couple of cases at a time someone would take notice. Law enforcement would look into it.
re: #122 retired cynic
Good Thread
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Important thread. As a former House committee staffer who saw Tip O’Neill in action for years, this analysis of Pelosi’s position seems completely correct to me.
— AuntSophie (@AuntSophie1) May 31, 2019
And an interesting take on the Brexit Mess
Trump says the U.S. will end preferential trade treatment for India under the Generalized System of Preferences on June 5 pic.twitter.com/HNSINbhiHF
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 1, 2019
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m sure recently re-elected PM Modi will just be delighted at that little bit of news.
re: #117 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep. Hard to find the truth in an endless avalanche of lies.
And it desensitizes one for the truth, so it becomes even more difficult. But the truth just doesn’t care. And it always gets you.
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jesus, he really is trying to piss off the whole world except for Israel, the Philippines, North Korea, Russia, Turkey and Brazil.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
*SPIT*
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it’s Virginia. There were wonderful people on both sides of that shooting.
re: #122 retired cynic
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I get what Huder is saying here and it’s a well reasoned argument.
My concern is this: If the Democrats (and we have to except this as a reasonable possibility) do NOT move to Impeach Trump does that not send the message to ANY future Republican President that yes, you CAN get away with all of these insane things and the other side will not try to stop you.
Think about what someone smarter and more conniving than Trump could do under that kind of precedent.
What more exactly does Trump need to do that causes enough Democrats to get on board and say: “Okay, we need to impeach this motherfucker”?
Or maybe Pelosi is hoping Dems take the Senate in 2020 and make a stronger show of impeachment proceedings that way?
re: #111 Eclectic Cyborg
I just looked it up. There is NO waiting period for someone to buy a weapon assuming a lame ass background check (which often only takes a few minutes) is passed. Assuming someone has no criminal record at the time, that’s an easy hurdle to clear. It becomes even easier if said someone exploits the “gun show loophole” to dodge the background check.
So person A has a bad few months at work and is eventually fired. Person A has no criminal record and some cash in his pocket. In his anger, person A walks down to the nearest gun store and, in a few minutes time, buys several assault rifles, silencers and high capacity magazines, along with ammunition. The next day Person A goes to his former workplace and starts mowing people down.
Is there any other developed country in the world where a person can get a hold of so many powerful weapons so quickly and with so little scrutiny?
“Purpose of gun purchase?”
“Gonna kill a whole bunch of fuckers.”
“Okay, well, just check ‘other’ on the form.”
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
I get what Huder is saying here and it’s a well reasoned argument.
My concern is this: If the Democrats (and we have to except this as a reasonable possibility) do NOT move to Impeach Trump does that not send the message to ANY future Republican President that yes, you CAN get away with all of these insane things and the other side will not try to stop you.
Think about what someone smarter and more conniving than Trump could do under that kind of precedent.
What more exactly does Trump need to do that causes enough Democrats to get on board and say: “Okay, we need to impeach this motherfucker”?
Or maybe Pelosi is hoping Dems take the Senate in 2020 and make a stronger show of impeachment proceedings that way?
Democrats are not moving fast enough.
re: #132 steve_davis
“Purpose of gun purchase?”
“Gonna kill a whole bunch of fuckers.”
“Okay, well, just check ‘other’ on the form.”
Couldn’t it be a way to trip an alarm, if someone buys a lot of ammo and weapons at once, like preliminary registration, it results in a welfare check from law enforcement?
re: #130 steve_davis
it’s Virginia. There were wonderful people on both sides of that shooting.
Well the shooter was a black guy, so…
small gubmint…
The State Department now requires nearly all applicants for U.S. visas to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers, a change expected to affect about 15 million foreigners each year. https://t.co/DHoDsRT1ao
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 1, 2019
re: #130 steve_davis
it’s Virginia. There were wonderful people on both sides of that shooting.
Something I ran across in the Intertubes: Turkey is a major source of imported weapons, shotguns, rifles and handguns to the US:
In terms of importation of shotguns, the #1 country of origin is Turkey: 441,332 shotguns. No other country is close. When it comes to importation of all firearm types into the U.S., Turkey is in 4th place. Check out the import numbers from 2012.
Firearms Imported into the United States by Country of Manufacture in 2012 (Source: United States International Trade Commission)
* Brazil: 886,814 (444,346 handguns, 316,577 rifles, 125,891 shotguns)
* Austria: 832,381 (821,522 handguns, 8,620 rifles, 2,239 shotguns)
* Germany: 521,967 (414,471 handguns, 103,972 rifles, 3,524 shotguns)
* Turkey: 477,804 (35,997 handguns, 475 rifles, 441,332 shotguns)
Frank Lucas, the man who inspired Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, has passed away at the age of 88.
You know, I’m surprised no one’s ever made a film about Frank Matthews - he was not only a major player in the US narcotics trade, but he may well be the one criminal who truly got away it.
He disappeared in 1973 after making bail. He fled the US with somewhere around $15 to $20 million dollars in cash* and his girlfriend…..and he’s never been seen again.
* that’d be around between $86 million to $115 million in 2019 dollars, by the way. Nice little haul - that’d make for a sweet permanent vacation…..as well as buying citizenship somewhere and an entirely new identity.
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
I get what Huder is saying here and it’s a well reasoned argument.
My concern is this: If the Democrats (and we have to except this as a reasonable possibility) do NOT move to Impeach Trump does that not send the message to ANY future Republican President that yes, you CAN get away with all of these insane things and the other side will not try to stop you.
Think about what someone smarter and more conniving than Trump could do under that kind of precedent.
What more exactly does Trump need to do that causes enough Democrats to get on board and say: “Okay, we need to impeach this motherfucker”?
Or maybe Pelosi is hoping Dems take the Senate in 2020 and make a stronger show of impeachment proceedings that way?
There isn’t a cell in my body that believes that anything Democrats dig up will cause the GOP controlled senate to do anything other than shuffle impeachment into the trashcan. And then the story becomes about how Democrats went after the president because he’s a Republican and since they failed to remove him from office, Trump is exonerated (where have we heard that recently).
I do believe that we can convince a lot of people that that side is seriously corrupt, but this will require one major component: People to be paying attention. And there’s a reason most presidential campaigns begin in earnest after Labor Day: Because the summer is when people are paying the least amount of attention.
Congress has to play the role of State Prosecutor, and no prosecutor is going to start a case without some reasonable expectation of winning.
Granted, the calculus is somewhat different in this setting.
And may change radically when more information on Trump comes to light as the result of other related ongoing investigations.
Ninety-eight years ago on May 31–June 1, Greenwood—a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, OK—burned. White vigilantes, who believed a Black youth assaulted a young woman, descended on the town, burning homes, looting businesses and killing unarmed people.https://t.co/hIDUDpsTTg pic.twitter.com/la7T3mE21Q
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) June 1, 2019
As a resident of Virginia Beach, I should note that we just had newspaper articles last month about the anniversary of the Virginia Tech Shooting. And that I can’t turn on the local news channels any day of the week without the latest “breaking news” being yet another shooting or police investigations into a recent shooting. We had a huge festival here in VAB at the end of April that fell on what is traditionally a very busy week due to the huge college crowd, and the city was thrilled when it learned that all the added security meant this was the first such “College Beach Weekend” that didn’t end with one or more shootings.
To give you an idea of how myopic viewpoints are, there was a shooting less than a week ago in the neighboring city of Chesapeake that left 1 dead and 9 wounded. But you didn’t hear that on the national news last week because the cops don’t consider a “mass shooting” as it was two groups shooting at each other rather than one guy with a Rambo complex.
John Waters’ best line on Real Time (when asked for examples of his sorts of jokes)…
“Stormy Daniels’ lawyer is very handsome, he’ll do well in jail.”
re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if Obama knew that he could just operate as a dictator and completely ignore Congress on everything?
The start of June means the end of May…
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) June 1, 2019
re: #147 Skip Intro
I wonder if Obama knew that he could just operate as a dictator and completely ignore Congress on everything?
You can only get away with that sort of shit if you’re a rich old white guy.
Obama?
The wingnuts/GOP would’ve instantly started comparing him to Idi Amin.
re: #142 Belafon
There isn’t a cell in my body that believes that anything Democrats dig up will cause the GOP controlled senate to do anything other than shuffle impeachment into the trashcan. And then the story becomes about how Democrats went after the president because he’s a Republican and since they failed to remove him from office, Trump is exonerated (where have we heard that recently).
They already say that he’s being targeted because he’s a Republican, he already says he’s been exonerated, so if those are the biggest impediments than we just need to stop talking about impeachment because he’s already won.
I do believe that we can convince a lot of people that that side is seriously corrupt, but this will require one major component: People to be paying attention. And there’s a reason most presidential campaigns begin in earnest after Labor Day: Because the summer is when people are paying the least amount of attention.
This doesn’t sound like an impeachment strategy, this sounds like an election strategy. And that is the issue that is being brought up, that if we just treat this as a case of run-of-the-mill corruption, that nothing Trump has done is worthy of impeachment, then the next Republican in line may very well be a far more insidious bastard who builds on the precedents set. We’re very much in danger of saying that stealing an election with foreign assistance, and then covering up such through methods such as suborning perjury, are acceptable if we don’t have 67 Democrats in the Senate to vote to convict.
re: #147 Skip Intro
I wonder if Obama knew that he could just operate as a dictator and completely ignore Congress on everything?
Not so. That requires… what’s the word… oh, yes, collusion… by Congress (or at least the majority party) and he didn’t have it.
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ninety-eight years ago on May 31-June 1, Greenwood—a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, OK—burned. White vigilantes, who
believedwanted to believe a Black youth assaulted a young woman, descended on the town, burning homes, looting businesses and killing unarmed people.
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
The show was tentatively set to debut this year. However, after WGN’s parent company, Tribune Media, was purchased by Sinclair Broadcast Group in 2017, Underground and the other shows in the network’s prestige TV lineup were abruptly canceled.
Now why does THAT name not surprise me?
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
I get what Huder is saying here and it’s a well reasoned argument.
My concern is this: If the Democrats (and we have to except this as a reasonable possibility) do NOT move to Impeach Trump does that not send the message to ANY future Republican President that yes, you CAN get away with all of these insane things and the other side will not try to stop you.
Think about what someone smarter and more conniving than Trump could do under that kind of precedent.
What more exactly does Trump need to do that causes enough Democrats to get on board and say: “Okay, we need to impeach this motherfucker”?
Or maybe Pelosi is hoping Dems take the Senate in 2020 and make a stronger show of impeachment proceedings that way?
I think we are ALL, every one of us, wanting to see this “thing” impeached and imprisoned for the rest of his unnatural life. The ONLY question is, who best to get it done. And I’m not smart enough to know. I want it to happen NOW, but I have to trust Nancy to get it done right.
re: #154 retired cynic
Watching him and that inept staff fight impeachment and trying to get re elected at the same time makes impeachment worthwhile.
Personally, I think Pelosi pissed away any good will on impeachment months ago. From the moment she started the “He’s not worth impeaching” bit, she lost any chance to argue that it was about holding Trump accountable for his crimes to get elected and avoid investigations into such. Now it’s turning into an argument over whether or not he can impede investigations by Congress into his personal life and that’s not going to win much sympathy from a public who’ve watched presidents bombarded by such partisan infighting. There was too much hope put into Bob Mueller being the savior of the Republic and not enough in preparing for what to do if he didn’t live up to that role.
re: #157 Targetpractice
Mueller did what he was supposed to do.
The problem is the people who were supposed to take what Mueller did and do what THEY are supposed to do…didn’t.
re: #150 Targetpractice
This doesn’t sound like an impeachment strategy, this sounds like an election strategy. And that is the issue that is being brought up, that if we just treat this as a case of run-of-the-mill corruption, that nothing Trump has done is worthy of impeachment, then the next Republican in line may very well be a far more insidious bastard who builds on the precedents set. We’re very much in danger of saying that stealing an election with foreign assistance, and then covering up such through methods such as suborning perjury, are acceptable if we don’t have 67 Democrats in the Senate to vote to convict.
Nearly every argument being made by the “impeachment now” side is about how it will help with next year’s election. Mine isn’t any different. Most of the argument is over when the best time to do it is. And if you think impeachment without conviction will actually cause Trump or McConnell to become scared of the rule of law, then I don’t know what to say. The only real force right now is next year’s elections.
Impeachment and conviction is not a legal rememdy for anything, only a political one. All you’re punishing people with is that they cannot hold a political office. What it corrects is the fact that the person should not be in office. But, since we will not get 20 GOP senators to convict him, he will remain in office.
re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg
Mueller did what he was supposed to do.
The problem is the people who were supposed to take what Mueller did and do what THEY are supposed to do…didn’t.
Hence why I said that he was seen as the “savior of the Republic” by too many. I and others commented on such prior to the Report’s release, that there was too much hope that in it would be the silver bullet that led to immediate impeachment and the end of Trump’s presidency. But there wasn’t, because that’s not who Bob Mueller is and that’s not how he does things. We wanted a Ken Starr and were shocked that that’s not what we got.
re: #157 Targetpractice
Personally, I think Pelosi pissed away any good will on impeachment months ago. From the moment she started the “He’s not worth impeaching” bit, she lost any chance to argue that it was about holding Trump accountable for his crimes to get elected and avoid investigations into such. Now it’s turning into an argument over whether or not he can impede investigations by Congress into his personal life and that’s not going to win much sympathy from a public who’ve watched presidents bombarded by such partisan infighting. There was too much hope put into Bob Mueller being the savior of the Republic and not enough in preparing for what to do if he didn’t live up to that role.
They are scared. I don’t blame them, but we need courage. Now more than ever.
re: #160 Targetpractice
re: #159 Belafon
Nearly every argument being made by the “impeachment now” side is about how it will help with next year’s election. Mine isn’t any different. Most of the argument is over when the best time to do it is. And if you think impeachment without conviction will actually cause Trump or McConnell to become scared of the rule of law, then I don’t know what to say. The only real force right now is next year’s elections.
Impeachment and conviction is not a legal rememdy for anything, only a political one. All you’re punishing people with is that they cannot hold a political office. What it corrects is the fact that the person should not be in office. But, since we will not get 20 GOP senators to convict him, he will remain in office.
Perhaps the reason it appears as a political remedy is because it’s intended to be one. I don’t give much of a fuck if Trump ends up in prison, I care that means by which he took office are addressed and a precedent set that such will never be tolerated in our Republic. Voting him out of office won’t do that, it will just mean that the next guy who comes along will have to be better at covering his tracks. The significance of Watergate in our political landscape was not that we got an unpopular president out of office, it was that illegal acts would not be tolerated as a means of attaining the office. We are in very real danger of undoing that precedent simply because we fear that voters will become sympathetic for a crook.
Beauty break anyone? Stunning landscapes of waves.
There’s a lot of talk of holding future presidents accountable, but what do you do when one of the party’s is not going to hold the president accountable? And when the voters of that party have signaled that they either don’t want him held accountable, or don’t care, just so long as they get their abortion ban, gays shoved back into the closet, and minorities scared again.
Our compact requires that most participating members agree to follow the rules, because just waving the constitution around does nothing. And our constitution favors small, organized groups, over large, disorganized ones.
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Senet and Twenty Squares: Two Board Games Played by Ancient Egyptians https://t.co/YuTLFvGntz pic.twitter.com/JnaSzCOcNS— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) June 1, 2019
re: #163 Targetpractice
Perhaps the reason it appears as a political remedy is because it’s intended to be one. I don’t give much of a fuck if Trump ends up in prison, I care that means by which he took office are addressed and a precedent set that such will never be tolerated in our Republic. Voting him out of office won’t do that, it will just mean that the next guy who comes along will have to be better at covering his tracks. The significance of Watergate in our political landscape was not that we got an unpopular president out of office, it was that illegal acts would not be tolerated as a means of attaining the office. We are in very real danger of undoing that precedent simply because we fear that voters will become sympathetic for a crook.
That’s the lesson the GOP took from Nixon being impeached.
re: #159 Belafon
Nearly every argument being made by the “impeachment now” side is about how it will help with next year’s election….
The best time already passed. It was the morning after he fired Comey. Now we just have to cope with what we have. Homeland security as a child kidnapping ring. Foreign policy as a matter of personal presidential ego and entrapped compromise. Tweetstorms that make the descriptive term shitstorm wildly inadequate. A split legislature, a crowded election field. And a massive Russia based interference program.
re: #167 Belafon
That’s the lesson the GOP took from Nixon being impeached.
I don’t think the Senate will defect and turn on Trump the way the did on Nixon, regardless of what sort of evidence comes up, be it a pee tape or tax returns that show that he is deeply in debt to foreign interests.
re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I don’t think the Senate will defect and turn on Trump the way the did on Nixon, regardless of what sort of evidence comes up, be it a pee tape or tax returns that show that he is deeply in debt to foreign interests.
Oh they would. But I doubt anything short of the foreign interests owning Trump doing a Pearl Harbor sort of attack with clear fingerprints would incentivize them….
We brought the USS John S McCain to the White House. #KremlinAnnex pic.twitter.com/ks1SZAa1LX
— Melissa Barlow (@LiteraryMouse) June 1, 2019
Republican Official Who Called Michelle Obama An ‘Ape In Heels,’ Sentenced To Prison For FEMA Fraud https://t.co/dRbDeymHrW
— 🇺🇸🌊JoeInWV 🌊🇺🇸 (@wvjoe911) May 31, 2019
re: #165 Belafon
There’s a lot of talk of holding future presidents accountable, but what do you do when one of the party’s is not going to hold the president accountable? And when the voters of that party have signaled that they either don’t want him held accountable, or don’t care, just so long as they get their abortion ban, gays shoved back into the closet, and minorities scared again.
Our compact requires that most participating members agree to follow the rules, because just waving the constitution around does nothing. And our constitution favors small, organized groups, over large, disorganized ones.
Do you think Republicans really wanted to impeach Nixon? Of course not, he was their guy who’d just won in a “landslide” two years prior. They were fully prepared to go to bat for him…until the stench of his presidency became so great through the constant pounding of impeachment hearings that to follow him off that cliff would have meant consignment to the political wilderness for a generation or longer. The Dems had backed them into a corner and made it clear they would impeach, the only question for the Repubs was would they protect their president or their party.
Now here we are, in the same position, only now it’s the Dems who are scared of their own shadows. There’s a thoroughly unpopular president, a damning list of crimes, and yet they feel pressured to do nothing because that’s the “safer” course. And hey, painting Trump as a corrupt bastard very well may be that, it might sway enough people to win the election next year. But it could also turn into a major liability, turned into our own “Benghazi!” that makes him look less like a crook and more like the victim of a partisan campaign. I personally look forward to the squirming and murmuring from our frontrunner Joe when he’s asked aloud on live TV if he feels Donny deserves to be impeached.
re: #172 Teukka
Hold on, I got my tiny violin over here somewhere…
Personal news…
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So after the annoucment it might not be safe to wear a kippa in Germany, their leading tabloid Bild printed this:
But this week, the newspaper ran a kippah on its front page: a Jewish skullcap, which signifies reverence for God above. It’s blue and white, with Stars of David. Readers could cut out the kippah and wear it.
“Wear it, so that your friends and neighbors can see it,” wrote Julian Reichelt, the paper’s editor-in-chief. “Explain to your children what the kippah is. … Post a photograph with the kippah on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Go out onto the streets with it.”
re: #174 Targetpractice
Do you think Republicans really wanted to impeach Nixon? Of course not, he was their guy who’d just won in a “landslide” two years prior. They were fully prepared to go to bat for him…until the stench of his presidency became so great through the constant pounding of impeachment hearings that to follow him off that cliff would have meant consignment to the political wilderness for a generation or longer. The Dems had backed them into a corner and made it clear they would impeach, the only question for the Repubs was would they protect their president or their party.
Now here we are, in the same position, only now it’s the Dems who are scared of their own shadows. There’s a thoroughly unpopular president, a damning list of crimes, and yet they feel pressured to do nothing because that’s the “safer” course. And hey, painting Trump as a corrupt bastard very well may be that, it might sway enough people to win the election next year. But it could also turn into a major liability, turned into our own “Benghazi!” that makes him look less like a crook and more like the victim of a partisan campaign. I personally look forward to the squirming and murmuring from our frontrunner Joe when he’s asked aloud on live TV if he feels Donny deserves to be impeached.
You can’t really compare that Republican party to today’s. That party helped create the EPA.
re: #179 Belafon
You can’t really compare that Republican party to today’s. That party helped create the EPA.
Right and that party wasn’t corrupted by Citizens United, Fox News and the NRA.
re: #179 Belafon
You can’t really compare that Republican party to today’s. That party helped create the EPA.
True enough. And Dems once used to rail against nukes. So yeah, the parties have changed and what happened yesterday isn’t guaranteed today. But that is just as true today, where what may seem “safe” today may seem like a huge liability tomorrow. Today it seems “safe” to just focus on the elections and put impeachment on the backburner, murmuring that we’ll take it up “later” when the timing more advantageous or the evidence more damning. But our enemies aren’t waiting for tomorrow, they’re out there today making impeachment a “dirty word” that they intend to weaponize against us. I wasn’t just joking about Joe, I fully expect the nomination to hinge on support or opposition of impeachment. And we need a better answer than “Maybe.”
re: #179 Belafon
You can’t really compare that Republican party to today’s. That party helped create the EPA.
The party of Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller was indeed rather different than today’s GOP.
I think it is true that the GOP of that time was very pro-big-business, but that is a trait that sort of transcends what Trumpism is all about.
The Americanism that was not only found in the GOP but also the Democratic party of that era was a hold over from the Great Depression and WWII, a sort of memory about an America that is now gone. It was a type of identity born out of conflict.
Today’s Trumpism is a type of nationalism that is very much about self-destruction. If you look carefully at Trump’s supporters, they cling to end-times beliefs and very much an escape from the real world.
I go on and on about “worldview collapse” here… but I don’t want to write a tome.
The rise of Trump has very much to do with a loss of faith, of a deep and disturbing creeping doubt.
Instead of going through the fires of existential angst, Trumpism is about taking on very frail cloaks of sloganism and emotional highs. Trump’s gatherings are like camp meetings. It is the rush of emotionalism… of the need to believe anything that helps avoid looking at the real failures of our society.
Here’s a pic meant for memes…
When the chance of you shooting yourself in the ass is so high your ass packs heat so it can shoot back.
(pic from @Brasilmagic ) pic.twitter.com/GK3uzfxDZz— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 1, 2019
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Scary part is that Germany is probably one of the safest places to be a Jew in Europe right now…
That is incredibly ironic, isn’t it?
re: #83 ipsos
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area!
Oh wait… I’m not lawhawk. But I’m down in the city for the weekend and couldn’t resist.
And a big FU to the jerk next to me at the Yankees game last night who felt compelled to shout “God Bless America… AND NOBODY ELSE!” during the 7th inning mandatory patriotism break. Ugh.
Coming up next—waiting for the 7th Inning mandated singing of Gawd Bless The USA…
This is why I buy the MLB package and watch Pirate games at home…and it never fails that when I watch a game the Bucs lose… 🤬
re: #121 sagehen
William Weld was on Real Time last night, did pretty well.
Maher: but do you really think you have a chance? Trump’s approval rating among Republicans is incredibly high.
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Weld’s campaign will be a rerun of Pete McCloskey’s challenge to Nixon in 1972. He’ll be lucky to wind up with a single vote at the conclave convention.
I’m gonna float a theory that I’m sure will get some angry muttering: Nancy won’t drop impeachment because that would mean Trump had “won.” That the only reason the Dem leadership keep it “on the table” is because of worry that saying they won’t impeach him because of fear over failure would embolden him. And that they figure on a tactical level that if they keep him railing against their investigations, then it will sway public sentiment against him. They had no desire to go through impeachment, they don’t even have a plan for such, but to admit such aloud would be a surrender and they won’t give Trump that satisfaction.
POS John Zeigler, saying something I agree with for the first time. Jesus Christ.
…The answer to the question of what to do about all this is not nearly as obvious as the evidence against Trump. My primary desire for Trump to at least be impeached, even if it was always obvious that, barring an economic collapse, the Republican Senate would never remove him, has been from the viewpoint of history and our future.
If Trump is not at least impeached for his already proven conduct (and to be clear, there are a lot of acts which may have happened, including in the realm of “collusion” with Russia, that have not been sufficiently proven), then how could a future president, perhaps one even more overtly dangerous than Trump, ever possibly be removed? The many horrific precedents being set here would include creating an absurd new rule that, unless the president’s own party widely agrees to remove them, that impeachment is effectively totally off the table.
However, as a practical matter, it is now possible that impeaching Trump may lead to an even greater “victory” for the president than I had previously thought. This calculus has changed because it is now very clear that the forces assembled to go into this battle are not prepared to do so in a way that at least results in an honorable defeat. (The best proof of this is that the process hasn’t even started yet. If Trump is really such a great risk to the republic, then why is there no haste?!)
Central to this reality is that Robert Mueller, an honorable but antiquated public servant who is ill-suited for these bizarre times, is clearly not willing to do what would be necessary for impeachment to be publicly viable among a populace which is lazy and ignorant. His supposedly dramatic statement Wednesday was far too nuanced and reserved to impact real voters, and was easily dismissed by the state-run “conservative” media as meaningless.
re: #188 Targetpractice
I’m gonna float a theory that I’m sure will get some angry muttering: Nancy won’t drop impeachment because that would mean Trump had “won.” That the only reason the Dem leadership keep it “on the table” is because of worry that saying they won’t impeach him because of fear over failure would embolden him. And that they figure on a tactical level that if they keep him railing against their investigations, then it will sway public sentiment against him. They had no desire to go through impeachment, they don’t even have a plan for such, but to admit such aloud would be a surrender and they won’t give Trump that satisfaction.
I don’t know what to think anymore, that’s why I’m taking a break from all this and doing laundry. So u when I c u. And impeach the mother fucker.
re: #189 Amory Blaine
POS John Zeigler, saying something I agree with for the first time. Jesus Christ.
I’m often fond of honorable defeats. But I’m white, straight, male, and about to be fifty.
re: #189 Amory Blaine
POS John Zeigler, saying something I agree with for the first time. Jesus Christ.
I rather think that’s the heart of the matter: that the party making the biggest noise about how a president* is a major danger to the future of democracy…is also the party making the most excuses for why they can’t take action against him.
On more than one occasion, Pence has been drawn into discussing “nones” and his claim that said group are not rising in America.
Because he can’t admit the truth. Pence can’t tell his supporters, and Trump’s, the truth.
The truth is this - evangelical/fundamentalist Christianity is slowly losing traction in America.
This is probably due to several reasons, but first and foremost is that the world is smaller with modern communications. Ideas, arguments, images… they come at us from all around the world.
This is why in regimes like North Korea or Saudi Arabia that the powers try to manage what gets distributed electronically… because once the doors open to the outside then the populace will start to believe other things than what keeps the leaders in power.
It’s why the PRC wants to control internet connections in China.
It’s a theme common around the world.
Here in the US it has long been the case that we have had a diversity of religions, though some like to think that is not the case. Today’s “nones” follow in the footsteps of Universalists of the 19th century who did not adhere to the rigid denominations of their day. Yet there was a common theistic undertone to that which many Americans practiced in the old days.
Today that is falling away. Two centuries of funding science has undermined old beliefs so totally that there just isn’t much left. Some can reconcile modernity with a kind of belief system but it is not the belief systems of centuries past.
In the approximate century since the Scopes trial our society has had to deal with how public policy can no longer be based on a comity of theists only. Now our society has to build on what only a small minority in the 18th century held - a truly secular society. Remember, while a number of founding fathers were radical thinkers, most of the colonists were still deeply religious.
Trump’s bringing all of his adult spawn with him to the UK. That means Eric will be wiping boogers on the royal walls.
re: #182 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Today’s Trumpism is a type of nationalism that is very much about self-destruction. If you look carefully at Trump’s supporters, they cling to end-times beliefs and very much an escape from the real world.
I go on and on about “worldview collapse” here… but I don’t want to write a tome.
The rise of Trump has very much to do with a loss of faith, of a deep and disturbing creeping doubt.
I suspect many of Trump’s evangelical followers fervently believe, with every fiber of their being, that the end of the world is imminent, that any day now, Jesus himself is going to fly out of the clouds like Superman and sweep them all up to Heaven and smite their foes.
But with every passing day, week, month, year this event fails to transpire, they become ever more desperate - and more frightened. Not of the whole “wrath of God” thingy (they’re planning on skipping that part) but that maybe, just maybe……they might’ve been wrong about all that.
And wrong about a good many other things as well. Like you said, it’s worldview collapse.
And things can very ugly when a worldview implodes.
re: #189 Amory Blaine
POS John Zeigler, saying something I agree with for the first time. Jesus Christ.
This country has been on the decline since the first OPEC embargo in October 1973. Ever since then the middle class has been on the decline. The decline accelerated with the increasing implementation of the Powell Memorandum which was the blueprint which brought the New Right into power starting with Prop 13 in 1978.
If the Republicans and Putin rig the 2020 election to put Trump and the GOP back in full control it’s going to herald the end of the United States. The Economist has already downgraded the US to a “flawed democracy” and they are warning that they will drop the US to a lower level if Trump does get back in with the GOP taking back the House.
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Why I don’t respect the military. They talk about honor, they have none. Rape. War crimes. Waste. Coverups
re: #195 Dr Lizardo
I suspect many of Trump’s evangelical followers fervently believe, with every fiber of their being, that the end of the world is imminent, that any day now, Jesus himself is going to fly out of the clouds like Superman and sweep them all up to Heaven and smite their foes.
But with every passing day, week, month, year this event fails to transpire, they become ever more desperate - and more frightened. Not of the whole “wrath of God” thingy (they’re planning on skipping that part) but that maybe, just maybe……they might’ve been wrong about all that.
And wrong about a good many other things as well. Like you said, it’s worldview collapse.
And things can very ugly when a worldview implodes.
Wish that was happening but it’s not. What is happening is that the Xtians are becoming more radicalized and are increasing militia and alt-right activity. If by a miracle a Democrat wins in 2020, I fearTrump and the GOP will try to throw the election results out and Trump will call on the militias and radical Xtians to take to the streets to eliminate his foes.
re: #195 Dr Lizardo
End of the world preachers have been working marks in this country for over a century. The usual suspects still do, on Youtube, podcasts, local events, etc. No matter how many times such preachers/prophets are shown to be wrong, more marks come.
There is an important reason for this: the marks want to be worked.
They want to escape.
They don’t want to face that their belief system is false.
There’s something to be said for the old Catholic saying of the “dark night of the soul”. Trump rallies are like crack cocaine - instant gratification to cover up the need to go on a long, dark journey.
re: #198 Joe Bacon 🌹
Very few of those Christians are that radicalized. I live among them. They like to think they’re right, but they’re not running around throwing holy water at people.
re: #200 Belafon
Very few of those Christians are that radicalized. I live among them. They like to think they’re right, but they’re not running around throwing holy water at people.
Most militias carry the christian identity but most christians are not militia. But a good chunk of Christians believe in armed remedies and fighting against “the other”. I consider them my opponents who are inherently dangerous.
re: #195 Dr Lizardo
I suspect many of Trump’s evangelical followers fervently believe, with every fiber of their being, that the end of the world is imminent, that any day now, Jesus himself is going to fly out of the clouds like Superman and sweep them all up to Heaven and smite their foes.
But with every passing day, week, month, year this event fails to transpire, they become ever more desperate - and more frightened. Not of the whole “wrath of God” thingy (they’re planning on skipping that part) but that maybe, just maybe……they might’ve been wrong about all that.
And wrong about a good many other things as well. Like you said, it’s worldview collapse.
And things can very ugly when a worldview implodes.
Yep. That’s a scenario I worry about, millions of fundies either losing their faith, with all it brings, or assume that because they aren’t “raptured”, that they are eternally condemned.
Millions of people suddenly not having any of the moral stops, because their faith was what provided them, they didn’t take the time to have a way of life where the stops are intrinsic, not depended of the waxing and waning of faith.
re: #200 Belafon
Very few of those Christians are that radicalized. I live among them. They like to think they’re right, but they’re not running around throwing holy water at people.
Listen to the callers I deal with at work every day and you’ll realize that a high number of them ARE radical Xtians who will gladly pick up a gun to defend God’s Anointed King.
re: #203 Joe Bacon 🌹
Listen to the callers I deal with at work every day and you’ll realize that a high number of them ARE radical Xtians who will gladly pick up a gun to defend God’s Anointed King.
Pays to live in a Liberal Area if possible
One thing that we have to keep in mind is that there is a subset of Evangelicals, called “dominionists” who have dumped the whole notion of an imminent rapture and escape from the world. Instead, they believe they have to take over the “seven mountains” of social influence: religion, family, education, government, media, arts & entertainment, and business. (From: generals.org) Then they will present a cleaned up world in the image of what they think Jesus wants to Jesus at the Second Coming.
These people are dangerous because they’re likely to become more radical as they see how most people aren’t interested in their worldview. I’m certainly not interested in being forced to follow their religion, their beliefs about the family, their narrowmindedness regarding education, using the government to enforce their beliefs, “Christian” programming, “Christian” arts and entertainment and “Christian” business. NO FREAKING THANKS.
re: #203 Joe Bacon 🌹
Listen to the callers I deal with at work every day and you’ll realize that a high number of them ARE radical Xtians who will gladly pick up a gun to defend God’s Anointed King.
I’m sure it’s fun dealing with the 20% who make 80% of the noise. //
re: #206 Belafon
I’m sure it’s fun dealing with the 20% who make 80% of the noise. //
It ain’t 20%. Much more than that.
re: #204 Old Liberal
Pays to live in a Liberal Area if possible
I’m sure it would be, but this area went for John Ratcliffe by 50% in the last election.
re: #205 mmmirele
Dominionists are also exceedingly dangerous because they’re the most likely to become highly politically active and whereas other fundies might just stop participating in civic or political life if dealt a sufficient defeat, the Dominionists will instead double their efforts.
re: #203 Joe Bacon 🌹
Listen to the callers I deal with at work every day and you’ll realize that a high number of them ARE radical Xtians who will gladly pick up a gun to defend God’s Anointed King.
Are the callers you deal with in the first step of an inquiry, or are they the ones who have almost exhausted all resources, or all over the map? Or all over a map that nobody has ever printed?
re: #208 Belafon
I’m sure it would be, but this area went for John Ratcliffe by 50% in the last election.
Is he D or R? Received 50% of vote or 50% more than opponent?
re: #210 wrenchwench
Are the callers you deal with in the first step of an inquiry, or are they the ones who have almost exhausted all resources, or all over the map? Or all over a map that nobody has ever printed?
A lot of them got sucked into the black hole of Fox News, Hate Radio and Right Wing Preachers…especially those receiving Supplemental Security Income for mental disorders…
re: #207 Joe Bacon 🌹
It ain’t 20%. Much more than that.
I think he’s saying it may be 80% of your callers but 20% of the us population
re: #211 Old Liberal
Is he D or R? Received 50% of vote or 50% more than opponent?
R, and he won 75 to 25. I’m in what’s considered the most conservative district in the country, and that’s saying a lot.
re: #214 Belafon
R, and he won 75 to 25. I’m in what’s considered the most conservative district in the country, and that’s saying a lot.
My word. Sending you thoughts and prayers old chap.
re: #214 Belafon
R, and he won 75 to 25. I’m in what’s considered the most conservative district in the country, and that’s saying a lot.
I left a 65/35 R county and went to South America. The stupid was absolutely pervasive.
re: #215 Old Liberal
My word. Sending you thoughts and prayers old chap.
Imagine being a member of the local Democratic party with those odds.
re: #217 Belafon
Imagine being a member of the local Democratic party with those odds.
If Orange County, CA can change, I have hope that anywhere can change. But I haven’t seen everywhere.
re: #218 wrenchwench
If Orange County, CA can change, I have hope that anywhere can change. But I haven’t seen everywhere.
I hope this place will, but there are roads just outside the city limits this white boy doesn’t drive down because of the Confederate flags.
re: #217 Belafon
Imagine being a member of the local Democratic party with those odds.
Like being a Mets fan I suppose. “Get ‘em next Year”.
I know of people here who vote Republican because of abortion, and then complained to the mayor when he tried to institute a bathroom ordinance because of their trans children.
re: #219 Belafon
I hope this place will, but there are roads just outside the city limits this white boy doesn’t drive down because of the Confederate flags.
There’s a property about two minutes up the road from mine and the guy who lives there has it adorned with one American flag, two Gadsden flags and six, count ‘em, SIX confederate flags.
re: #221 Mescalero09
This Sons Of Anarchy remake looks like it’s going to suck ass.
Ok, you fooled me a bit there. :P
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
There’s a property about two minutes up the road from mine and the guy who lives there has it adorned with one American flag, two Gadsden flags and six, count ‘em, SIX confederate flags.
I find the guy here a little funny because he’s flying other state flags because they have a Confederate flag embedded in them.
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul and the tears we cause in the fabric of society when we look the other way.” https://t.co/5mU5QV5F7F
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) June 1, 2019
On June 1, 1868, after four years of being held prisoners at Fort Sumner, a treaty was signed between the Navajos and US Government. The Treaty of 1868 freed the Navajos, who survived not only the internment camp but the Long Walk, to return home to Diné Bikeyah.
— Arlyssa Becenti🗞🖊 (@ABecenti) June 1, 2019
“When that Treaty was signed and co-signed by Sherman… It immediately made every Navajo an American citizen and they played that role very well in war and peace,” said Link.
— Arlyssa Becenti🗞🖊 (@ABecenti) June 1, 2019
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Fake News CNN is at it again, falsely claiming President Trump called Meghan Markle “nasty.” Here is what he actually said. Listen for yourself! pic.twitter.com/kLuPXBLMhf
— Official Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 1, 2019
REPORTER: She said she’d move to Canada if you got elected. It turned out she moved to Britain.
TRUMP: There are a lot of people moving here [to the U.S.] So what can I say? No, I didn’t know that she was nasty.— Official Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 1, 2019
morons, all of them.
apparently, in MAGAtland, “I didn’t know she was nasty” is completely different from calling her “nasty”.
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
apparently, in MAGAtland, “I didn’t know she was nasty” is completely different from calling her “nasty”.
sounds perfectly deniable to me
I wonder how Boris Johnson is going to get out of those things he said about Trump visiting London…
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Yes, I said she was nasty but I wasn’t actually CALLING HER NASTY. Why can’t you people understand that?”
re: #145 Targetpractice
As a resident of Virginia Beach, I should note that we just had newspaper articles last month about the anniversary of the Virginia Tech Shooting. And that I can’t turn on the local news channels any day of the week without the latest “breaking news” being yet another shooting or police investigations into a recent shooting. We had a huge festival here in VAB at the end of April that fell on what is traditionally a very busy week due to the huge college crowd, and the city was thrilled when it learned that all the added security meant this was the first such “College Beach Weekend” that didn’t end with one or more shootings.
To give you an idea of how myopic viewpoints are, there was a shooting less than a week ago in the neighboring city of Chesapeake that left 1 dead and 9 wounded. But you didn’t hear that on the national news last week because the cops don’t consider a “mass shooting” as it was two groups shooting at each other rather than one guy with a Rambo complex.
Yeah, the shooting over in Holly Cove. I grew up in Western Branch and had classmates that lived in that neighborhood decades ago, so, of course, local news of that shooting came across my Facebook feed. I used to ruefully joke that our local news in the seventies and eighties consisted of the previous days five shootings before getting to the day’s top story.
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
A distinction without a difference.
This may be real, but I feel like we are getting trolled here.
Mobility Start-Up Is Bringing Shared Pogo Sticks to American Cities
In an era where opening a trampoline joint for fun exercise is a high liability risk business plan.
Kitauna Joe, 10, from Standing Rock/Coyote Canyon with her sheep Baa-Baa.
Joe took park in the Fort Defiance Treaty Day parade.
I asked if they were going to butcher him for the re-enactment BBQ and she’s all “Nooooo,” as she gently and protectively pulled him closer to her. pic.twitter.com/ofZaonam5j— Arlyssa Becenti🗞🖊 (@ABecenti) June 1, 2019
I once had a stuffed little sheep toy/art piece made by a Navajo girl. I gave it to one of my German nieces. I’m looking for another one.
re: #234 wrenchwench
That is a beautiful dress.
re: #234 wrenchwench
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I once had a stuffed little sheep toy/art piece made by a Navajo girl. I gave it to one of my German nieces. I’m looking for another one.
Spent a good deal of time on and around the Navajo Reservation, hiking to Keet Seel ruins and Canyon de Chelly
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
he just can’t fucking help himself, can he? any slight against him must be answered with escalating pettiness.
re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg
That is a beautiful dress.
Baa Baa doesn’t look old enough to be the source of the wool, but it could have been woven by Ms. Joe’s mom or grama or aunt, for this and many other occasions.
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeesh that account is a cavalcade of wingnutty retweets.
re: #239 SteelPH
Yeesh that account is a cavalcade of wingnutty retweets.
‘Cavalcade’ is a great word.
re: #234 wrenchwench
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I once had a stuffed little sheep toy/art piece made by a Navajo girl. I gave it to one of my German nieces. I’m looking for another one.
Sure nice dress and all but it is an obvious threat to white american culture (spits)
I know I’m like 5 minutes from the new thread, but I need to start getting this one signal-boosted:
I’m curious: are you VOLUNTEERING to write the “#queerGreenBook” telling us where we’re still allowed to rent 🏨 rooms, where T can still use the 🚽, and which #separatebutequal 🏥 will still treat us, or just saying someone ELSE has to?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 1, 2019
re: #240 wrenchwench
‘Cavalcade’ is a great word.
It is. I am also quite fond of words like pastiche and menagerie.
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
There’s a property about two minutes up the road from mine and the guy who lives there has it adorned with one American flag, two Gadsden flags and six, count ‘em, SIX confederate flags.
Please explain how flying the American flag and confederate battle flag next to a ne another is not a massive contradiction?
re: #246 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Please explain how flying the American flag and confederate battle flag next to a ne another is not a massive contradiction?
If your family has some connection to the Confederacy, I can begin to see it as a sort of heritage thing, but when idiots in Northern states fly one, it is a clear case of sheer bloody-mindedness and blatant racism.
re: #246 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Please explain how flying the American flag and confederate battle flag next to a ne another is not a massive contradiction?
Exactly.
re: #246 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Please explain how flying the American flag and confederate battle flag next to a ne another is not a massive contradiction?
Cognitive dissonance is at the foundation of right wing American Christian belief. I know so because I grew up knee-deep in it.
>>>I AM saying that it ends well short of having to make sure that when I get in a car crash, it’s closer to the “we accept fags” hospital than the “fags can die in our driveway” hospital the next town over.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) June 1, 2019
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