Blimps, wall projections, and a giant penis mowed into a field. That’s the welcome Donald Trump received upon arriving to the UK. #LSSC #Colbert #Monologue
It’s why his pants are always far too long…he’s not wearing his pumps.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) June 5, 2019
NY State passed a law to give Trump’s state tax returns to Congress.
Rep. Richard Neal, chair of Ways & Means, says no thanks, he won’t ask for them because it might look like a fishing expedition, and that would be unseemly:https://t.co/AX1NlURGmj
Are you kidding me?— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) June 5, 2019
What to do about Trump’s tailoring? We asked a tailor.
plus my comment from downstairs:
an ill fitting tux
and
i brought my kids, ya got room, right?
he’s a trashy, classless effin’ piker
——
now that you’ve let everyone know it, they are not laughing with you
the only thing not yet proved is how not-rich, monetarily, you really are
tax returns, financials, that’s what you really fear, right?
The royal family has for years batted back stories that its members were joining Trump’s properties — stories that Trump spread himself to friendly tabloids. Great reporting from @KFILE @emsteck. https://t.co/5FiSXU3Uzk
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) June 5, 2019
Haven’t Democrats been having other troubles with Rep. Neal investigating Trump?
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
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In the examples, Trump would serve as an anonymous source, claiming Princess Diana or Prince Charles were joining his properties. New York tabloids would print. Wire services would aggregate, generating the fake stories world and nationwide.https://t.co/v6xQmgq9xX pic.twitter.com/4UpB7h6pH5
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) June 5, 2019
In another instance, Trump (falsely said) on the Howard Stern Show in 1993 that Princess Diana was looking for an apartment in Trump Tower. He then said how “hot” he found her and how’d like to date her to become “King of England.”https://t.co/v6xQmgq9xX pic.twitter.com/Zc123OBJRf
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) June 5, 2019
Trump’s first claim about the royals joining Trump Tower was in 1981, when he planted the story in New York Post according biographies. Unsurprisingly, he wrote about it the Art of the Deal as if he hadn’t planted the story himself.https://t.co/v6xQmgq9xX pic.twitter.com/FQrC3Gon6R
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) June 5, 2019
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
I just read a WaPo article about Wohl/Burkman, and I see where they got it. Absolutely mind-boggling. Boggled.
re: #7 retired cynic
I just read a WaPo article about Wohl/Burkman, and I see where they got it. Absolutely mind-boggling. Boggled.
And they keep getting away with that shit…
” Guns save lives !”
” So does universal health care “
” Fuck you, commie socialist!”
😉— jimmy craig (@threepeaksexp) June 5, 2019
The large echo showing up on SoCal radar this evening is not precipitation, but actually a cloud of lady bugs termed a “bloom” #CAwx pic.twitter.com/1C0rt0in6z
— NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) June 5, 2019
To the ladybug picnic obvs https://t.co/WmWJpeTNPr
— A Bit Snitty (@goddamnedfrank) June 5, 2019
From previous thread:
re: #155 Dave In Austin
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we’ll be at the parade that matters and this one isn’t it
— AXE (@AXE) June 5, 2019
Gay rights are human rights but go off jill
— AXE (@AXE) June 5, 2019
re: #8 Joe Bacon 🌹
And they keep getting away with that shit…
what we seem to be finding out in lots of different areas is when people decide not to play by established rules and standards there’s not a lot of consequences
SHOTS FIRED
“It is finally over, then, the state visit during which US president Donald Trump treated Britain like a Moscow hotel mattress” | Marina Hyde https://t.co/rv1mmOYYAI
— The Guardian (@guardian) June 5, 2019
The Guardian is on a rampage. May escalate to a spree.
re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth
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fair enough, amanda.
can we ‘politicize’ las vegas yet?
or are you being way more brazen and actually saying we literally cant politicize any ‘tragedy of this magnitude?”
cause if that’s the case i gotta say you’re brilliant suggesting we can never, ever talk about any mass fucking shooting.
then we cant talk about what to do to reduce or prevent them.
amanda, you are awesome. if you’re that craven.
otherwise you’re just an ass.
re: #13 Alephnaught
From previous thread:
Jill Lennon
@karmatastrophe
* 3h
Replying to @AXE @tonyposnanski
Good to know you don’t support straight people. How very uninclusive and intolerant of you. My straight son and my straight partner have decided to no longer use your products, since you don’t support them. I’m glad, because I think @Axe smells like garbage. #stayoutofpolitics
your son and straight partner stink (or they will)
ps: what you said is not how ‘support’ works
so you probably stink too
(yes…im having one of those days)
re: #13 Alephnaught
See, this is why I try not to let politics define my spending habits, otherwise I’d have to buy some Axe body spray, and since I’m in my 40s, that’d technically be a crime against humanity.
re: #18 KGxvi
I’m 40 and use the body wash, I like it
re: #15 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
SHOTS FIRED
The Guardian is on a rampage. May escalate to a spree.
I would argue that a rampage > spree.
re: #20 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Yes, but that’s in the Imperial system, in the Metric system, its the other way around.
re: #16 DangerMan
fair enough, amanda.
can we ‘politicize’ las vegas yet?
or are you being way more brazen and actually saying we literally cant politicize any ‘tragedy of this magnitude?”
cause if that’s the case i gotta say you’re brilliant suggesting we can never, ever talk about any mass fucking shooting.
then we cant talk about what to do to reduce or prevent them.
amanda, you are awesome. if you’re that craven.
otherwise you’re just an ass.
You just have to understand the ground rules for politicizing tragedies.
1. Was the perpetrator a straight white guy with potentially conservative (including alt-right) world views? If yes, then it can’t be politicized because obviously he was a lone wolf who doesn’t represent all straight white guys and it wouldn’t be right to blah blah blah
2. Does the perpetrator fail the paper bag test? If yes, then you can politicize it with respect to curtailing the civil rights of people who look like the perpetrator.
3. Was the perpetrator not Christian? If yes, you can politicize it in order to protect (white) Christians against the non-believers.
4. Was the perpetrator born outside the US? If yes, you can politicize it to stop the flow of all immigrants unless and until you can determine if all immigrants and their children and their children’s children should be removed from the country.
5. Did the perpetrator use guns? If so, you can’t politicize it, UNLESS your argument is that what we really need is more guns. In which case, you’re not politicizing the tragedy, you’re just pointing out the obvious fact that the only gun control that works is using both hands.
re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth
She refers to others as “Liberals, extreme Democrats and Socialists”, then immediately scolds THEM for “Politicizing” a tragedy.
SMH
It is so D-Day. https://t.co/A0H1iufxUV
— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) June 5, 2019
re: #19 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I’m 40 and use the body wash, I like it
I switched over to the newer Old Spice stuff in my early 30s. Though I’ll admit, the Axe body wash isn’t bad. Nor is the solid deodorant. It’s mostly just the spray that’s terrible.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Looks a couple of sizes too big. Some feat, considering how big-headed the wearer is.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
That entire image, it’s all photoshopped, right? Like every thing in it is from another photo, right?
re: #28 KGxvi
That entire image, it’s all photoshopped, right? Like every thing in it is from another photo, right?
who can really tell anymore?
re: #22 KGxvi
You just have to understand the ground rules for politicizing tragedies.
1. Was the perpetrator a straight white guy with potentially conservative (including alt-right) world views? If yes, then it can’t be politicized because obviously he was a lone wolf who doesn’t represent all straight white guys and it wouldn’t be right to blah blah blah
2. Does the perpetrator fail the paper bag test? If yes, then you can politicize it with respect to curtailing the civil rights of people who look like the perpetrator.
3. Was the perpetrator not Christian? If yes, you can politicize it in order to protect (white) Christians against the non-believers.
4. Was the perpetrator born outside the US? If yes, you can politicize it to stop the flow of all immigrants unless and until you can determine if all immigrants and their children and their children’s children should be removed from the country.
5. Did the perpetrator use guns? If so, you can’t politicize it, UNLESS your argument is that what we really need is more guns. In which case, you’re not politicizing the tragedy, you’re just pointing out the obvious fact that the only gun control that works is using both hands.
my favorite reply in that thread was:
“if guns saved lives we’d be the safest country in the world. We’re not.”
Churchill would have had some awesome insults for Trump.
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
who can really tell anymore?
By the old gods and the new, it’s fucking real:
‘I never knew you had that kind of sensibility!’@piersmorgan gives @POTUS a gift Winston Churchill himself would have loved 🎩@realDonaldTrump | #GMBTrump pic.twitter.com/K3nj0eGiB3
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 5, 2019
And if we’re going to play that game, Dinesh, then yes: Gays were targeted and killed in the Holocaust; are victims of hate crimes; “cured” with ice pick lobotomies; and denied the right to marry, hold a job or adopt children. So yes, let’s do exam whether gays ever suffered. https://t.co/7sEjLTYt77
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) June 5, 2019
re: #18 KGxvi
See, this is why I try not to let politics define my spending habits, otherwise I’d have to buy some Axe body spray, and since I’m in my 40s, that’d technically be a crime against humanity.
Believe it or not, a lot of people I know are in their 40s, and use Lynx, which is the UK version of Axe.
re: #19 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I’m 40 and use the body wash, I like it
I’m 65. She uses bodywash on me.
I Like It!!
re: #27 makeitstop
Looks a couple of sizes too big. Some feat, considering how big-headed the wearer is.
i think i read it wasnt an actual churchill’s hat, just the style
This hearing was wild.
First the FBI witness tried to say I was wrong. I tried to be generous + give benefit of doubt, but then we checked. I wasn’t.
Violence by Muslims is routinely treated as “terrorism,” White Supremacist violence isn’t.
Neo-Nazis are getting off the hook. https://t.co/RCjp4687by— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 5, 2019
re: #38 Charles Johnson
Violence by Muslims is routinely treated as “terrorism,” White Supremacist violence isn’t.
Neo-Nazis are getting off the hook.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 5, 2019
re: #38 Charles Johnson
When are these fools going to learn that AOC ALWAYS comes prepared?
I swear, this woman could write a heck of a tome on how to be an effective legislator.
re: #25 KGxvi
i like the wash and deodorant but i have cologne if I want to smell good and don’t have to bathe in it.
re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg
yes, the rest could. she prepares ahead of time and is ready to catch them lying. I am not nearly as socialist as she comes off as but man i like her a lot.
re: #45 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Same. Don’t agree with everything she does but I love to watch her do it lol.
re: #16 DangerMan
fair enough, amanda.
can we ‘politicize’ las vegas yet?
or are you being way more brazen and actually saying we literally cant politicize any ‘tragedy of this magnitude?”
cause if that’s the case i gotta say you’re brilliant suggesting we can never, ever talk about any mass fucking shooting.
then we cant talk about what to do to reduce or prevent them.
amanda, you are awesome. if you’re that craven.
otherwise you’re just an ass.
It is standard NRA language: it’s always politicizing these crimes if you try to suggest a solution that involves any limitations on gun ownership or gun accessories. It’s always too early to talk about what to do immediately after the tragedy — and if you delay initiating a discussion, there is a new mass shooting so once again it’s too early to talk about real solutions.
re: #32 KGxvi
By the old gods and the new, it’s fucking real:
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it’s not that the hat’s too big
it’s that the head’s too small for the kind of statesmanship the hat requires
oh if this were his dukakis tank helmet moment
re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg
When are these fools going to learn that AOC ALWAYS comes prepared?
I swear, this woman could write a heck of a tome on how to be an effective legislator.
its a stark contrast to how many of them just warm seats and take money
im not saying she and her staff arent working hard. just that most of this stuff is there for any legislator to easily find, but for the looking
she is very easily showing a lot of them this is how you do it, and by implication, that they havent been doing their jobs
re: #42 gocart mozart
Who said it, Trump or Vincent Adultman?
“I went to stock market today. I did a business.”
This is unbelievable. How fucking sick do you have to be?
The service members charged in the case were joined in the room by a Malian security guard and a British man who had befriended the Americans, Maxwell told authorities. The guard was to carry out the sexual assault, while the Brit planned to record it, Maxwell wrote.
— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) June 5, 2019
re: #49 DangerMan
its a stark contrast to how many of them just warm seats and take money
im not saying she and her staff arent working hard. just that most of this stuff is there for any legislator to easily find, but for the looking
she is very easily showing a lot of them this is how you do it, and by implication, that they havent been doing their jobs
And they hate her for making them look bad.
But tough shit, assholes.
You need this. Trust me
Y’all , watch this baby have a full damn convo with his daddy 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/gEbtJZ6xuP
— Boston George (@_11Remember_) June 5, 2019
re: #53 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
i say we put tariffs on exporting to other states to recoup the losses we have had to endure under trump’s tax bullshit. /half snark.
re: #55 Belafon
It’s in the previous thread. It is pretty awesome.
Whoops….. I guess that’s a good thing. Less time online and mote time in the shop. Bloody hothumid today. How much rain did you get? 1.27 here at the edge of Hill Country.
re: #53 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I have not fact-checked every number presented here but they do seem accurate in light of what I do know, and with the proviso that they refer to domestic production.
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Yeah but we’re getting our asses kicked by New York and Oregon on rhubarb.
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be a journalist, they said, cover important people, they said
— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) June 5, 2019
re: #58 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
Yeah but we’re getting our asses kicked by New York and Oregon on rhubarb.
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California has also lost the top spot in asparagus production, possibly thanks to the Caliphobic machinations of Gongressman Louie Gohmert (R-Oil and Gas).
re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg
Churchill would have had some awesome insults for Trump.
Something along the line of, “Every one rises to their level of incompetence. In the current President’s case, and then some.”
re: #44 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
i like the wash and deodorant but i have cologne if I want to smell good and don’t have to bathe in it.
Boy’s locker rooms in high school reek of AXE. The kids spray it on heavily so they don’t have to shower. One whiff of teenaged boy funk and AXE will put you off of the spray for a lifetime.
I have to smell it when i walk through the empty locker room to my husband’s office. It’s awful.
re: #53 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Then again, California does fall short when it comes to producing “textured vegetable protein” and “high-fructose corn syrup”.
Kragar spotting, with great news. Come back soon.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 5, 2019
re: #63 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Then again, California does fall short when it comes to producing “textured vegetable protein” and “high-fructose corn syrup”.
Raises an interesting point: California is the top ag state but super high volume crops like corn, wheat, and cotton are relatively less important than in other states. These are the crops that go mostly to industry or livestock feed. A higher percentage of California production is actually consumed by humans, making it even more dominant in the actual food supply.
re: #60 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
California has also lost the top spot in asparagus production, possibly thanks to the Caliphobic machinations of Gongressman Louie Gohmert (R-Oil and Gas).
two things i ate this weekend i dont normally
rhubarb (in a kickass lemon-rhubarb pie), and asparagus
later on things went south, as it were
correlation is not causation….i wonder….. nah.
re: #67 DangerMan
two things i ate this weekend i dont normally
rhubarb (in a kickass lemon-rhubarb pie), and asparaguslater on things went south, as it were
correlation is not causation….i wonder….. nah.
Unless you’re hanging upside down, it’s going to all go South.
re: #61 Romantic Heretic
Something along the line of, “Every one rises to their level of incompetence. In the current President’s case, and then some.”
the peter principle is (in theory) based on job performance review and promotion.
there could be some protectionism / politicking involved
trump was booted into the stratosphere way beyond his ability by the delusions of 62m idiots
re: #68 Belafon
Unless you’re hanging upside down, it’s going to all go South.
fair point
i guess its more about throughput velocity and quality, eh?
re: #66 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Raises an interesting point: California is the top ag state but super high volume crops like corn, wheat, and cotton are relatively less important than in other states. These are the crops that go mostly to industry or livestock feed. A higher percentage of California production is actually consumed by humans, making it even more dominant in the actual food supply.
Yet, California is also the largest dairy producing state in the country by quite a bit (almost 1.8m dairy cows in 2018). And is 17th in beef cows. Combining the two probably puts us in the top 10, if not the top 5.
re: #71 KGxvi
Yet, California is also the largest dairy producing state in the country by quite a bit (almost 1.8m dairy cows in 2018). And is 17th in beef cows. Combining the two probably puts us in the top 10, if not the top 5.
Well, yeah…California has happy cows! How could it not be?
There is a fight between the conservatives who want our dystopia to be “The Handmaid’s Tale” and the ones who want “The Hunger Games.” May they both lose. vox.com
re: #73 NO SMOCKING GUN!
There is a fight between the conservatives who want our dystopia to be “The Handmaid’s Tale” and the ones who want “The Hunger Games.” May they both lose. vox.com
In March, First Things published “Against the Dead Consensus,” an open letter signed by a number of prominent conservatives that served as a broadside against “fusionism,” which brought together libertarians, social conservatives, paleoconservatives, and “conservatarians” in a big tent of sorts united by opposing liberalism and the left.
I’m honestly surprised that fusionism has lasted as long as it has. I’ve been waiting for it to break apart since the mid-90s.
To a certain extent, it’s a shame we don’t have viable smaller parties like in most European nations. If the Republican or Democratic parties had to form coalition governments in the House or Senate, I think there’d be a bit less fuckery (especially in the Senate).
re: #74 KGxvi
I’m honestly surprised that fusionism has lasted as long as it has. I’ve been waiting for it to break apart since the mid-90s.
To a certain extent, it’s a shame we don’t have viable smaller parties like in most European nations. If the Republican or Democratic parties had to form coalition governments in the House or Senate, I think there’d be a bit less fuckery (especially in the Senate).
I’ve been saying that as well. The GOP coalition is held together by corporate money. The fundies will soon finally get abortion criminalized across much of the nation, while the corporatists have been allowed to rape the country for decades.
re: #45 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
yes, the rest could. she prepares ahead of time and is ready to catch them lying. I am not nearly as socialist as she comes off as but man i like her a lot.
I probably won’t live long enough to see her reach the proper age to run for president, but I would sure love to vote for her.
re: #71 KGxvi
Yet, California is also the largest dairy producing state in the country by quite a bit (almost 1.8m dairy cows in 2018). And is 17th in beef cows. Combining the two probably puts us in the top 10, if not the top 5.
California is 32nd in corn production, at 18.8m bushels. This is just .12% of the US total and 1/150th of Iowa’s total. Nationwide 6% of the corn crop is used for dairy feed and 9% for beef cattle. This means that a lot of California’s cattle feed is brought in from other states.
re: #16 DangerMan
fair enough, amanda.
can we ‘politicize’ las vegas yet?
or are you being way more brazen and actually saying we literally cant politicize any ‘tragedy of this magnitude?”
cause if that’s the case i gotta say you’re brilliant suggesting we can never, ever talk about any mass fucking shooting.
then we cant talk about what to do to reduce or prevent them.
amanda, you are awesome. if you’re that craven.
otherwise you’re just an ass.
Is it too long since Columbine? Sandy Hook? VA Tech? Binghamton? Pulse? Dallas? To GOP/NRA, it’s never the right time. Wrong. It’s past time
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 2, 2017
Still appropriate to this day.
!!! A Trump campaign supporter, and neighbor in Palm Beach, has reportedly avoided paying $1,000,000,000 in income taxes. He is yet another Koch brother. https://t.co/af2dSPY7aS
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) June 5, 2019
….”No Time Limit on Tax Fraud
If the Trump administration pursues the Koch tax behavior and finds fraud, it can collect taxes, penalties and interest back to 2010. That is because while there is a basic six-year limit on reaching back to collect unpaid taxes, there is no time limit when tax fraud is involved.
American tax law allows the IRS to reopen any audit where fraud was used to deceive auditors. Tax fraud can be pursued as a civil matter and also prosecuted as a felony, punishable with long prison terms.
Congress has absolute authority to inspect the tax returns under a 1924 anti-corruption law, to compel IRS Special Agent Galdys and others to testify in public hearings and to enact new laws to undo other tax dodges that Middleton uncovered when he was Koch’s top tax executive. Congress can also investigate who issued the orders to stop the IRS’s criminal investigation.
The next question: what happened during the audit of the 2011 and 2012 Koch company tax returns that the IRS eventually accepted as filed with no changes?”dcreport.org
FDR, December 8, 1941: “I’m asking Congress for a declaration of war!”
Isolationist GOP Congressman: “Now now, Mr. President, let’s not politicize this tragedy at Pearl Harbor.”
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
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the thing i find most sad about Trump is how different his presidency could have been, even as a Republican. he could have turned out to be one of those old-school machine politicians of the first half of the twentieth century—outspoken, but sharp as whip; mildly corrupt by necessity, but with the best interests of the country and the populace at heart. Even if he’d been the reincarnation of Huey Long, with his proto-fascist tendencies, Long was at heart a socialist who rightly despised the Big Money interests in Louisiana. He would have been dangerous if he’d become president, but he likely wouldn’t have just been thoroughly incompetent. IMagine how different our view of Trump would be if his outspokenness was pitched towards reigning in the monied class and making life better for working families.
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
who can really tell anymore?
Until someone definitively proves me wrong, I shall believe that the queen was holding up a “trump is a ****” sign at that photo-op.
re: #84 steve_davis
Until someone definitively proves me wrong, I shall believe that the queen was holding up a “trump is a ****” sign at that photo-op.
Someone enabled the “view thoughts” setting.
re: #85 Eclectic Cyborg
“Yet another Koch brother”
Holy hell, how many of these assholes are there??
All of them….. all of them.
re: #84 steve_davis
She actually was wearing her “trump is a ****” ruby brooch.
re: #89 jaunte
Actually I think it was the ruby tiara that is supposed to guard against evil.
re: #2 Belafon
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re: #82 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
FDR, December 8, 1941: “I’m asking Congress for a declaration of war!”
Isolationist GOP Congressman: “Now now, Mr. President, let’s not politicize this tragedy at Pearl Harbor.”
Shall I nitpick? I shall. I shall nitpick.
On December 8, 1941 Germany’s ambassador to the US marched up to the State Department, knocked on the door, and delivered THEIR declaration of war against US. (I’m sure the calligraphy was beautiful). At that point, Congress had no choice but to say “okay, germany, if that’s what you want then that’s what you shall have.”
FDR had been wanting to to get into that war for awhile, but the isolationist faction in the Senate, with support from the Bund, had blocked him.
(I should say, pretending to be “neutral” and “isolationist”, but what they really wanted was for Germany to win. We know they weren’t really “neutral” about wars generally, assorted Central American adventures in service of the United Fruit Company had already proved that.)
There was a significant continent of Americans who shared FDR’s view and really wanted in much earlier; they ran away to Canada to join the Commonwealth forces.
re: #67 DangerMan
Never heard of a rhubarb - lemon pie before. I’ve had and made rhubarb - strawberry pie which is delicious.
Also nothing to celebrate:
-When obstruction of justice becomes the new normal.
-When praising brutal dictators becomes the new normal.
-When destroying our institutions becomes the new normal.
-When child abuse at the hands of the government becomes the new normal. https://t.co/uKJH3rRUav— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) June 5, 2019
While an American administration sets up concentration camps at our southern border, the NYT Editorial Board tut-tuts all this negativity.
re: #93 Patricia Kayden
Never heard of a rhubarb - lemon pie before. I’ve had and made rhubarb - strawberry pie which is delicious.
rhubarb mixed appropriately with other flavors is very under-rated
re: #94 jaunte
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THIS is why trump is able to be who he is in office
the NYT and most of the rest of the media have forgotten where they put their job descriptions
re: #94 jaunte
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While an American administration sets up concentration camps at our southern border, the NYT Editorial Board tut-tuts all this negativity.
Man, they keep finding new ways of losing subscribers, don’t they?
Trump was personally taken aback by the across-the-board pushback to his administration’s consideration of pardons for several U.S. servicemen accused of grisly crimes in war zones, two sources told The Daily Beast https://t.co/K56JUfuAmG
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 5, 2019
re: #98 Charles Johnson
Stupid, tone deaf motherfucker.
re: #94 jaunte
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While an American administration sets up concentration camps at our southern border, the NYT Editorial Board tut-tuts all this negativity.
Isn’t the NYT Editorial Board actually pointing out how Trump continues his boorish dishonest ways overseas and that our allies have resigned themselves to behaving as well as possible given the impossibility of teaching him how to act appropriately? That no one is shocked any longer by his outrageous behavior and it reflects badly on us?
re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter
Isn’t the NYT Editorial Board actually pointing out how Trump continues his boorish dishonest ways overseas and that our allies have resigned themselves to behaving as well as possible given the impossibility of teaching him how to act appropriately? That no one is shocked any longer by his outrageous behavior and it reflects badly on us?
Yes, but they seem wholly ignorant of their own role in normalizing Trumps stupid and insane behavior.
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, they keep finding new ways of losing subscribers, don’t they?
Which one of the NYT stars wrote that bullshit?
re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter
I think a large part of the problem is they have a huge megaphone and in this piece they use it to talk about Trump’s undiplomatic rudeness while failing to mention the child abuse and torture.
“…Two years ago, Mr. Trump’s outrageous comments and tweets while a guest on foreign soil — calling the London mayor a “stone cold loser,” the leader of the opposition party “somewhat of a negative force” and the protests against his visit “fake news” — might have caused major shock. The inclusion of the president’s adult children in official events like a state dinner might have raised eyebrows. And the mockery of the president in the streets, including a giant statue of the president atop a golden toilet named the Dump Trump, would surely have created a stir.”
re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg
Stupid, tone deaf motherfucker.
Sociopath. He has no idea why it would be bad or why people aren’t on board.
Sure would be nice if democrats stopped attacking democrats - which led to ridiculous protest voting - and instead explain the benefits of who they support.
…or do you not realize the threat Trump poses?— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 5, 2019
Kurt just had a massive meltdown, and it hasn’t stopped.
re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes, but they seem wholly ignorant of their own role in normalizing Trumps stupid and insane behavior.
That’s for sure. But it was NBC and The Apprentice that was responsible for creating the Trump myth and NBC never apologized for their role in the origins of this national nightmare.
re: #106 Scottish Dragon
Kurt just had a massive meltdown, and it hasn’t stopped.
I don’t think it was Democrats fighting against each other that was the issue. We do that all the time. What I think happened back then is that we had far too many people thinking that Clinton was not going to lose and so they went off and protest voted or stayed home.
If there’s a group of people I worry about right now, it’s those that think that Trump will lose and decide they can either protest vote or stay home. It will be a smaller group than in 2016, but no one should not vote for the Democratic nominee.
re: #92 sagehen
Shall I nitpick? I shall. I shall nitpick.
On December 8, 1941 Germany’s ambassador to the US marched up to the State Department, knocked on the door, and delivered THEIR declaration of war against US. (I’m sure the calligraphy was beautiful). At that point, Congress had no choice but to say “okay, germany, if that’s what you want then that’s what you shall have.”
FDR had been wanting to to get into that war for awhile, but the isolationist faction in the Senate, with support from the Bund, had blocked him.
(I should say, pretending to be “neutral” and “isolationist”, but what they really wanted was for Germany to win. We know they weren’t really “neutral” about wars generally, assorted Central American adventures in service of the United Fruit Company had already proved that.)
There was a significant continent of Americans who shared FDR’s view and really wanted in much earlier; they ran away to Canada to join the Commonwealth forces.
The German Declaration of War was delivered on December 11, 1941; 4 days after the Pearl Harbor attack and 3 days after the US Congress declared war against Japan. Congress followed up with a declaration against Germany later the same day. As is customary, the German declaration was delivered to US Charge D’Affaires Leland Morris by Nazi foreign minister Ribbentrop in Berlin.
re: #109 Belafon
I don’t think it was Democrats fighting against each other that was the issue. We do that all the time. What I think happened back then is that we had far too many people thinking that Clinton was not going to lose and so they went off and protest voted or stayed home.
If there’s a group of people I worry about right now, it’s those that think that Trump will lose and decide they can either protest vote or stay home. It will be a smaller group than in 2016, but no one should not vote for the Democratic nominee.
No — I don’t think that was it. There were too many who bought into the Putin-generated lie that Clinton was worse than Trump — that she was some kind of monster. This attitude is reflected today in those leftists that rant about Democratic corporatists who are trying once again to steal the election from the one and true savior — Bernie.
With the number of asylum seekers from Venezuela skyrocketing, Trump’s foreign policy of toppling the Maduro regime is colliding with his heartless immigration policy. https://t.co/hOtVDlwp5W
— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) June 5, 2019
Ha-ha. What a dilemma.
re: #98 Charles Johnson
Trump was personally taken aback
that’s reporter-speak for ‘caught totally unawares’
he is ignorant, incurious, and happily so
he is constantly ‘taken aback’ because reality inevitably smacks him in his uninformed face
re: #112 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
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Ha-ha. What a dilemma.
Didn’t we handle a similar situation starting in the 1960’s by allowing anyone fleeing Cuba’s tyranny a home in the United States? Should this administration be publicly adopting a similar policy? ///
re: #109 Belafon
I don’t think it was Democrats fighting against each other that was the issue. We do that all the time. What I think happened back then is that we had far too many people thinking that Clinton was not going to lose and so they went off and protest voted or stayed home.
If there’s a group of people I worry about right now, it’s those that think that Trump will lose and decide they can either protest vote or stay home. It will be a smaller group than in 2016, but no one should not vote for the Democratic nominee.
i will repeat until it’s no longer necessary:
- When Democrats vote, Democrats win.
- #VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO IN 2020
Does not know that Ireland is a different country. https://t.co/5hqNHbc7RB
— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) June 5, 2019
re: #19 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I’m 40 and use the body wash, I like it
Dr. Bronner’s.
re: #108 Hecuba’s daughter
That’s for sure. But it was NBC and The Apprentice that was responsible for creating the Trump myth and NBC never apologized for their role in the origins of this national nightmare.
And then Jeff Zucker moved to CNN, where he continued to promote Trump.
re: #110 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The German Declaration of War was delivered on December 11, 1941; 4 days after the Pearl Harbor attack and 3 days after the US Congress declared war against Japan. Congress followed up with a declaration against Germany later the same day. As is customary, the German declaration was delivered to US Charge D’Affaires Leland Morris by Nazi foreign minister Ribbentrop in Berlin.
Was I at least right about the beautiful calligraphy?
re: #111 Hecuba’s daughter
No — I don’t think that was it. There were too many who bought into the Putin-generated lie that Clinton was worse than Trump — that she was some kind of monster. This attitude is reflected today in those leftists that rant about Democratic corporatists who are trying once again to steal the election from the one and true savior — Bernie.
too many americans believe everything they read on the internet
and the russians figured it out first
it is unfortunately that simple, that brilliant, and that evil
neither fb nor twitter intended this when they were conceived
now they are enabling and monetizing it for personal gain
Another Catholic bishop caught with his hands all over young priests AND in his diocese’s till. There’s just too much crazy to just excerpt.
A w.va. bishop spent millions on himself and sent cash to cardinals and young priests before his ouster, confidential Vatican report says
The Post got its hands on two versions of the report, one that was redacted as to recipients of the bishop’s largesse, and one that was not.
Four elite U.S. Special Operations troops charged in the death of a Green Beret soldier in Mali plotted to record him being sexually assaulted as part of a plan to embarrass him through hazing, according to one of the accused service members.
Marine Staff Sgt. Kevin Maxwell said in a written stipulation of facts submitted for the case that the plan included bursting into Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar’s bedroom in the capital city of Bamako with a sledgehammer, choking him until he fell unconscious, tying him up and recording the sexual assault on video. The service members involved had just returned from a night of drinking, he said.
Those statements roughly match the testimony of Chief Special Warfare Operator Adam C. Matthews, a former member of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, who pleaded guilty in the case last month.
washingtonpost.com
re: #121 DangerMan
too many americans believe everything they read on the internet
and the russians figured it out first
it is unfortunately that simple, that brilliant, and that evilneither fb nor twitter intended this when they were conceived
now they are enabling and monetizing it for personal gain
Both campaigns vastly outspent the Russians on facebook and everywhere else, I think we need to ask why the Russians were so much more effective, or if they really were that much more effective.
re: #109 Belafon
I don’t think it was Democrats fighting against each other that was the issue. We do that all the time. What I think happened back then is that we had far too many people thinking that Clinton was not going to lose and so they went off and protest voted or stayed home.
If there’s a group of people I worry about right now, it’s those that think that Trump will lose and decide they can either protest vote or stay home. It will be a smaller group than in 2016, but no one should not vote for the Democratic nominee.
I don’t know how many people really stayed home in 2016. Sure there were some protest votes (I was undecided even in the booth and considered leaving it blank - I’m in California so it wouldn’t have mattered), but I think most of those hurt Trump as much as they hurt Clinton. The turnout question is a more interesting one, though.
Trump managed to out perform Romney nationally by 2 million votes. Clinton underperformed Obama in 2012 by about 80,000 votes. But in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania the numbers are even worse.
In Wisconsin, Trump actually got a couple thousand FEWER votes than Romney did. Unfortunately, Clinton got 350,000 fewer votes than Obama did in 2012. In Michigan, Trump got 164,000 more votes than Romney did, Clinton lost 300,000 votes from Obama’s turnout in 2012. Same story in Pennsylvania, Trump got 240,000 more votes than Romney, but Clinton actually lost 68,000 votes from Obama’s 2012 figures. In each case, had Clinton been able to simply hold Obama’s numbers from 2012 in those three states, she’d be president.
(all numbers from the wikipedia pages on the elections)
re: #83 steve_davis
the thing i find most sad about Trump is how different his presidency could have been, even as a Republican. he could have turned out to be one of those old-school machine politicians of the first half of the twentieth century—outspoken, but sharp as whip; mildly corrupt by necessity, but with the best interests of the country and the populace at heart. Even if he’d been the reincarnation of Huey Long, with his proto-fascist tendencies, Long was at heart a socialist who rightly despised the Big Money interests in Louisiana. He would have been dangerous if he’d become president, but he likely wouldn’t have just been thoroughly incompetent. IMagine how different our view of Trump would be if his outspokenness was pitched towards reigning in the monied class and making life better for working families.
He has always been a grifter; that just wasn’t in the cards.
JFC, what a moron
Pres. Trump’s signature seen on D-Day proclamation, signed by 16 world leaders to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. https://t.co/g4Wd6Oq2Zr pic.twitter.com/pFc6lzDlxH
— ABC News (@ABC) June 5, 2019
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
He managed to avoid writing over the middle of the text with his black Sharpie, so good, I guess?
She’s not the one leader in this picture who defended people who march with Nazis. https://t.co/KWWGI8plxX
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 5, 2019
re: #129 jaunte
We should recreate the awkwardness for southern governors by having events remembering the Confederacy’s unconditional and total surrender on an annual basis.
re: #125 KGxvi
I don’t know how many people really stayed home in 2016. Sure there were some protest votes (I was undecided even in the booth and considered leaving it blank - I’m in California so it wouldn’t have mattered), but I think most of those hurt Trump as much as they hurt Clinton. The turnout question is a more interesting one, though.
Trump managed to out perform Romney nationally by 2 million votes. Clinton underperformed Obama in 2012 by about 80,000 votes. But in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania the numbers are even worse.
In Wisconsin, Trump actually got a couple thousand FEWER votes than Romney did. Unfortunately, Clinton got 350,000 fewer votes than Obama did in 2012. In Michigan, Trump got 164,000 more votes than Romney did, Clinton lost 300,000 votes from Obama’s turnout in 2012. Same story in Pennsylvania, Trump got 240,000 more votes than Romney, but Clinton actually lost 68,000 votes from Obama’s 2012 figures. In each case, had Clinton been able to simply hold Obama’s numbers from 2012 in those three states, she’d be president.
(all numbers from the wikipedia pages on the elections)
The protest vote hurt Clinton a lot more. The percentage of the electorate voting third party or independent went up 4 points, from less than 2% to nearly 6%. Clinton’s share of the electorate was nearly 3 points lower than Obama’s in 2012; Trump’s share was only about 1 point lower than Romney’s. 70% of the protest vote came out of the Democrat’s share.
re: #126 NO SMOCKING GUN!
He has always been a grifter; that just wasn’t in the cards.
Ace-o-Aces pointed out yesterday that in Trump’s 1990 Playboy interview, he supported the Chinese handling of Tiananmen Square because it showed strength. In the same interview, he disparaged Gorbachev:
” I predict he will be overthrown, because he has shown extraordinary weakness. Suddenly, for the first time ever, there are coal-miner strikes and brush fires everywhere—which will all ultimately lead to a violent revolution. Yet Gorbachev is getting credit for being a wonderful leader—and we should continue giving him credit, because he’s destroying the Soviet Union. But his giving an inch is going to end up costing him and all his friends what they most cherish—their jobs”
Trump has always been enamored with strongmen and has a seeming contempt for those who truly negotiate. He treats everything as a zero-sum game.
This moron is trying to make a big stink on Twitter today:
Vox went after YouTube’s #1 independent creator @pewdiepie for YEARS.
When they failed, they came after EVERYONE. #VoxAdpocalypse— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) June 5, 2019
re: #134 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This moron is trying to make a big stink on Twitter today:
Youtube pulled Crowder’s ability to make money there.
re: #132 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The protest vote hurt Clinton a lot more. The percentage of the electorate voting third party or independent went up 4 points, from less than 2% to nearly 6%. Clinton’s share of the electorate was nearly 3 points lower than Obama’s in 2012; Trump’s share was only about 1 point lower than Romney’s. 70% of the protest vote came out of the Democrat’s share.
Let’s not forget the effect of voter disenfranchisement that was widespread in Republican run states. We don’t know how many non-voters were people who deliberately stayed home or people who discovered they were purged from voting rolls.
re: #135 Belafon
Youtube pulled Crowder’s ability to make money there.
So he’s resorting to Twitter to try and make himself a grand martyr of sorts.
The hate-right is so twisted they are unable to figure out why companies’ like Alphabet don’t want them. To whit:
Tell me @facebook @twitter @YouTube @Google,
How are your OBVIOUS biased purges of users and their content any different from this?#WednesdayThoughts #VoxAdpocalypse pic.twitter.com/NJ2pjvAiGz— Angelo John Gage (@AngeloJohnGage) June 5, 2019
re: #124 danarchy
Both campaigns vastly outspent the Russians on facebook and everywhere else, I think we need to ask why the Russians were so much more effective, or if they really were that much more effective.
The Russians weren’t bound by campaign finance disclosure rules. They could disguise their posts as not being part of a campaign, and therefore be more effective.
Whether or not their influence was decisive, it definitely had some effect. Which is to say that the 2016 election was not fair.
re: #132 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The protest vote hurt Clinton a lot more. The percentage of the electorate voting third party or independent went up 4 points, from less than 2% to nearly 6%. Clinton’s share of the electorate was nearly 3 points lower than Obama’s in 2012; Trump’s share was only about 1 point lower than Romney’s. 70% of the protest vote came out of the Democrat’s share.
Actually, not really. Looking at the numbers for the Libertarians and the Greens from 2012 and 2016 in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, this is what we see:
Libertarian
Michigan (12/16) 7,774/172,136
Wisconsin (12/16) 20,439/106,674
Pennsylvania (12/16) 49,991/146,715
Total increase: 347,321
Green
Michigan (12/16) 21,897/51,463
Wisconsin (12/16) 7,665/31,072
Pennsylvania (12/16) 21,341/49,941
Total increase: 81,573
It’s fairly safe to assume that most of the increase in votes for Gary Johnson were from disgruntled Republicans, and there were significantly more of them than there were disgruntled Democrats voting for Stein.
re: #137 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So he’s resorting to Twitter to try and make himself a grand martyr of sorts.
It’s how it’s done.
And if Twitter deplatforms him, he becomes Laura Loomer.
re: #138 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That book burning ceremony was actually a symbolic purge. They are torching pornography and anti-German Communist literature. It all deserved to be on that pyre.
— ⚡FARAGIAN⚡ (@asgardianUK) June 5, 2019
What kind of person would decry YouTube deplatforming but defend Nazi book burning?
Let’s checkout his profile, shall we.
“White. Blonde. Green Eyes. 75% Viking, 25% Saxon DNA.100% European. I-L22 Haplogroup. English. Nordic. Nationalist. Brexit Party activist. Farage will be PM.”
Checks out.
re: #142 gocart mozart
“…Among the authors whose books student leaders burned that night were well-known socialists such as Bertolt Brecht and August Bebel; the founder of the concept of communism, Karl Marx; critical “bourgeois” writers like the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler; and “corrupting foreign influences,” among them American author Ernest Hemingway.
The fires also consumed several writings of the 1929 Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann, whose support of the Weimar Republic and critique of fascism raised Nazi ire. Also burned were works of international best-selling author Erich Maria Remarque. Nazi ideologues vilified Remarque’s unflinching description of war, All Quiet on the Western Front, as “a literary betrayal of the soldiers of the World War.” Works by early German literary critics of the Nazi regime were also burned, such as those of Erich Kästner, Heinrich Mann, and Ernst Gläser.
Other writers included on the blacklists were American authors Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, and Helen Keller, whose belief in social justice encouraged her to champion the disabled, pacifism, improved conditions for industrial workers, and women’s voting rights.
Jewish authors numbered among the writers whose works were burned, among them some of the most famous contemporary writers of the day, such as Franz Werfel, Max Brod, and Stefan Zweig.
Also among those works burned were the writings of beloved nineteenth-century German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who wrote in his 1820-1821 play Almansor the famous admonition, “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen”: “Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”encyclopedia.ushmm.org
re: #139 garzooma
The Russians weren’t bound by campaign finance disclosure rules. They could disguise their posts as not being part of a campaign, and therefore be more effective.
Whether or not their influence was decisive, it definitely had some effect. Which is to say that the 2016 election was not fair.
There are many people who automatically dismiss official ads from parties as biased. But when they see discussions from those they respect (and too many on the left respect Wikileaks and GG), that can have a significant effect on their votes. Or they may see a comment from a friend they respect and not realize the origin of an attack.
WHAT IN THE EVER LOVING FUCK??? https://t.co/Did6YmrVgl
— Alice Radley (@StJohnSterling) June 5, 2019
Seriously, fuck every single Republican everywhere.
Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel says this D-Day anniversary should be more about Donald. https://t.co/iMzHU0dGG9 via @HuffPostPol
— John Weaver (@jwgop) June 5, 2019
re: #145 MsJ
I hope this is investigated as a possible hate crime. Dude was an army vet too. Holy hell.
re: #140 KGxvi
…It’s fairly safe to assume that most of the increase in votes for Gary Johnson were from disgruntled Republicans,…
I don’t see that as a safe assumption. A lot of the general public has no idea the Libertarians are on the right. I could see an ignorant lefty sexist thinking G. Johnson was better than the Democrat or the Republican.
re: #140 KGxvi
One more point on this:
Johnson’s nation wide vote total went from 1.275m in 2012 to 4.489m in 2016. Stein’s went from 469k to 1.457m. Combined with Trump getting 2m more votes than Romney, that’s where most of the approximately 7m “new” voters went.
re: #146 MsJ
Seriously, fuck every single Republican everywhere.
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Stupid, tone deaf motherfuckers.
re: #148 wrenchwench
I don’t see that as a safe assumption. A lot of the general public has no idea the Libertarians are on the right. I could see an ignorant lefty sexist thinking G. Johnson was better than the Democrat or the Republican.
I think anyone willing to cast a protest vote (rather than simply go do something else) is much more likely to be someone like us - political junkies/close observers - and thus more likely to take the time to research the third party candidates.
Youtube is taking out the trash. And you’re trash, a wanna-be Alex Jones, a worker of ignorant marks.
Why would Alphabet Inc. want to be associated with the likes of you?— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) June 5, 2019
re: #146 MsJ
DT never served in the armed forces. Why should D-Day (Operation Overlord) be about a person who never served in the armed forces?
re: #154 PhillyPretzel
DT never served in the armed forces. Why should D-Day (Operation Overlord) be about a person who never served in the armed forces?
Because if it’s not about him, he’ll throw a fit and do something stupid like pull the US out of NATO and the WTO…
(I wish I was joking, but I don’t know anymore)
re: #154 PhillyPretzel
DT never served in the armed forces. Why should D-Day (Operation Overlord) be about a person who never served in the armed forces?
Not only that, but he wasn’t EVEN BORN when that event happened.
But you know the asshole will try and make it about him anyway.
re: #152 KGxvi
I think anyone willing to cast a protest vote (rather than simply go do something else) is much more likely to be someone like us - political junkies/close observers - and thus more likely to take the time to research the third party candidates.
I jumped in with ignorance. What are they protesting?
re: #157 wrenchwench
I jumped in with ignorance. What are they protesting?
The fact their preferred candidate lost in the primaries.
See also:
Sanders, Bernie
Stein, Jill
LOL that’s one way to put it buddy pic.twitter.com/0yaolXExXt
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) June 5, 2019
This is an author who wrote a history of concentration camps https://t.co/I5FCHtAF7V
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 5, 2019
re: #157 wrenchwench
I jumped in with ignorance. What are they protesting?
Depends on who you ask. I’ve voted a couple of times for the Libertarian nominee because I wasn’t happy with either of the major parties or their nominees. I think that’s what most would say. Particularly with respect to 2016 - three million normally Republican voters chose to vote for Johnson instead of Trump or Clinton (as someone who used to occupy that space, I can understand it).
re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg
The fact their preferred candidate lost in the primaries.
See also:
Sanders, Bernie
Stein, Jill
Thanks.
Lots of Berniebros operated out of sexism. They didn’t just hate Hillary, they hated the whole Democratic Party, in small part due to sexism. Make that present tense.
re: #159 gocart mozart
EXCLUSIVE: We talk to three young white guys who could be the future of the Republican party.
re: #161 KGxvi
Depends on who you ask. I’ve voted a couple of times for the Libertarian nominee because I wasn’t happy with either of the major parties or their nominees. I think that’s what most would say. Particularly with respect to 2016 - three million normally Republican voters chose to vote for Johnson instead of Trump or Clinton (as someone who used to occupy that space, I can understand it).
I used to be an activist in the Citizens’ Party. I can sympathize, and I can chastise, as I have chastised myself.
re: #154 PhillyPretzel
DT never served in the armed forces. Why should D-Day (Operation Overlord) be about a person who never served in the armed forces?
Not only did he avoid service, so did every member of his family. None served in the U.S. military. He should be humble in lauding those who actually served — but clearly such modesty is beyond Trump and his enablers. It’s always about him.
People remain the fucking worst and I don’t recommend them at all.
Just learned if you phrase the question:
Should convicts be ALLOWED to study for the GED and pursue a college education? most Americans will respond: No
If you say: Should convicts be FORCED to study for the GED and pursue a college education? most Americans will respond: Yes— Thomas Chatterton Williams 🎧 (@thomaschattwill) June 5, 2019
JFC
New: Kentucky aluminum mill says it’s not subject to national security review. via @lesleyclark @KevinGHall https://t.co/Aqxyi31AuP @heraldleader @McClatchyDC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) June 5, 2019
Trump - It will all work out very well with your wall your border…
Leo Varadkar - The main thing we want to avoid is a border or a wall.
How on earth did that man become President of the USA 🇺🇸 🤔#TrumpInIreland #PeoplesVote #FinalSay #Brexit pic.twitter.com/zQ8MiAIOWg— John Fitzpatrick 🇮🇪🇮🇪 (@Johnmfitzp) June 5, 2019
“For you with your wall, with your border…we have a border situation in the United States and you have one here.”
President Trump compares Ireland’s Brexit border issue with the USA’s - but Irish PM Leo Varadkar says “the main thing we want to avoid…is a border or wall”. pic.twitter.com/80iucZV2ZR— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) June 5, 2019
i like to leave as much of my hair. around the house as possible. it is my confetti. i am a party
— Thoughts of Dog 🏳️🌈 (@dog_feelings) June 5, 2019
re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I wish my cats wouldn’t eat their confetti, and distribute it in mache form.
re: #140 KGxvi
Actually, not really. Looking at the numbers for the Libertarians and the Greens from 2012 and 2016 in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, this is what we see:
Libertarian
Michigan (12/16) 7,774/172,136
Wisconsin (12/16) 20,439/106,674
Pennsylvania (12/16) 49,991/146,715
Total increase: 347,321Green
Michigan (12/16) 21,897/51,463
Wisconsin (12/16) 7,665/31,072
Pennsylvania (12/16) 21,341/49,941
Total increase: 81,573It’s fairly safe to assume that most of the increase in votes for Gary Johnson were from disgruntled Republicans, and there were significantly more of them than there were disgruntled Democrats voting for Stein.
That isn’t a safe assumption, since non-GOP libertarians are pro gay rights and drug legalization. Republican voters are more white nationalist and social conservative than libertarian.
re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin in 2017 helped coordinate a $15 million direct investment in Braidy, using state tax dollars, making every Kentuckian a partial owner of the company.”
re: #172 NO SMOCKING GUN!
That isn’t a safe assumption, since non-GOP libertarians are pro gay rights and drug legalization. Republican voters are more white nationalist and social conservative than libertarian.
And Gary Johnson won acclaim for his support for marijuana: Gary Johnson clip
re: #148 wrenchwench
I don’t see that as a safe assumption. A lot of the general public has no idea the Libertarians are on the right. I could see an ignorant lefty sexist thinking G. Johnson was better than the Democrat or the Republican.
William Weld was on Maher last week; he said the Johnson/Weld campaign did their own polling, and found 3/4 of their votes were from people who otherwise would have voted Trump, and 1/4 were from people who otherwise would have voted Clinton.
re: #175 sagehen
William Weld was on Maher last week; he said the Johnson/Weld campaign did their own polling, and found 3/4 of their votes were from people who otherwise would have voted Trump, and 1/4 were from people who otherwise would have voted Clinton.
No particular reason to believe Weld, especially since such polling wouldn’t be particularly accurate.
re: #176 NO SMOCKING GUN!
No particular reason to believe Weld, especially since such polling wouldn’t be particularly accurate.
I don’t think Weld would be lying but would agree that any such polling would be inaccurate. I’ve been a Weld fan for years and think he would make a good president — except it would be Democrats in the legislature that would provide his support. His natural home was in the old Rockefeller wing of the Republican party; i.e. modern day Democrats.
Wonder what would happen if Mexico decided to put a tariff on all American products until the US did something about illegal drug usage among American citizens, a problem that directly causes massive crime and violence in Mexico. https://t.co/rW5g7BPXkb
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 5, 2019
re: #176 NO SMOCKING GUN!
No particular reason to believe Weld, especially since such polling wouldn’t be particularly accurate.
Plus, that would be a good thing to say if you were running right now for the Republican nomination.
The inhumane handling of dinosaurs needs to stop. pic.twitter.com/Td9qd4EWi0
— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) June 5, 2019
Or if Mexico decided to put a tariff on all American products until the US did something about all the guns bought here in States that end up in Cartel hands. (reminder; that was sort of the point of Fast & Furious. Every massacre in Mexico, the serial numbers on weapons that were found on the scene always traced back to American retailers.)
re: #179 wrenchwench
Plus, that would be a good thing to say if you were running right now for the Republican nomination.
Johnson and Weld were both two-term Republican governors; one in New Mexico, the other in Massachusetts.
re: #182 sagehen
Johnson and Weld were both two-term Republican governors; one in New Mexico, the other in Massachusetts.
The transition between Libertarian and Republican is easier than the transition between Democratic Socialist and Democratic Party.
It’s about freakin’ time
News Media Finally Calling Trump a Liar
Washington Post: “It’s (almost) official: The president of the United States is a liar.”
This will not come as a revelation to people who have closely followed President Trump’s public statements and Twitter feed and have long doubted his veracity. It is, instead, a late-dawning recognition by mainstream news organizations, which until fairly recently shied away from branding the president’s many questionable utterances as outright lies
If he gets another 4 years, all protests will be illegal.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKhttps://t.co/m0w1EzjO60
Fuck this administration. Holy shit. I’m so pissed off now.— enderFP (@enderFP) June 5, 2019
NEW: @realDonaldTrump is staying tonight at Doonbeg, his money-losing golf course threatened by climate change. https://t.co/iSDjvGvWdm
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) June 5, 2019
Breaking:
The NC House just voted to UPHOLD Gov. Cooper’s veto of the “Born Alive Abortion Survivors Act.”
Final count: 67 for override, 53 against. They needed a supermajority (72, I think) to override.#ncpol #ncga— Andy Specht (@AndySpecht) June 5, 2019
HELP. I. CAN’T. STOP. LAUGHING
h/t @cherryemoticon pic.twitter.com/Rd4EMtHuVC— Tris Resists (@TrisResists) June 5, 2019
re: #124 danarchy
Both campaigns vastly outspent the Russians on facebook and everywhere else, I think we need to ask why the Russians were so much more effective, or if they really were that much more effective.
I can’t find the cite right now
I read on politicalwire.com yesterday that the Russians used a bunch of first tier accounts to seed the message then hundreds of secondary sccounts to pick it up and mainstream it. Then americsn gullibility took over.
The point was they were even more effective than previously thought
re: #136 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s not forget the effect of voter disenfranchisement that was widespread in Republican run states. We don’t know how many non-voters were people who deliberately stayed home or people who discovered they were purged from voting rolls.
We must start to teach/educate/remind everyone that ‘voting’ now includes verifying your registration early enough to remedy any ‘problems’
Yes, that’s a brilliant idea. Let’s open a formal inquiry into what Obama tried to do and who, if anyone, tried to stop him. cc: @senatemajldr https://t.co/HuJqH523Un
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 5, 2019
Our First Lady is actually fluent in 7 languages by that I mean she reads writes and speaks them and Barron Trump is fluent in two and learning more! So I’d bet she could out talk write and read faster in all seven better than you can speak English
— Laura (@Larlie6870) June 5, 2019
No proof Melania even has a college degree. Melania can barely speak English. There is no footage of her speaking a foreign language. You expect us to take the Trump’s word for it.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 5, 2019
ED N BRENT 🤣 you and the others I tagged are my brothers n sisters ie ACTUAL PATRIOTS 🤣 The college she claimed she graduated from said in an official statement she didn’t N THAT MADE HER SCRUB HER SITE & re route it to https://t.co/K99LArTmY0 🤣
— ☆☆☆ JaganaR ☆☆☆ (@jaganar1) June 5, 2019
New York Times, June 6, 1944: “Allied Armies Land in France….Great Invasion Is Under Way”: pic.twitter.com/N7TQgJjlOP
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 5, 2019
WTF?
Kay’s been shitty for a long while, and every time something that comes out of his mouth crosses my path, it’s shittier than the previous shitiness.
Of course he’s with Quillette, the intellectual plausible deniability wing of Brietbart/Daily Stormer/Little Green Footballs. https://t.co/9IW4EwLG68— Name (@craigen_justin) June 5, 2019
Elizabeth Warren is really killing it at this townhall. Especially her answer on the idious Hyde Amendment and Joe Biden.
re: #171 wrenchwench
I wish my cats wouldn’t eat their confetti, and distribute it in mache form.
I had to look up “mache”, but I am not sure this is correct:
THIS is Mâche — which is also called “corn lettuce” or “lamb’s lettuce”
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If it is… what wonderful cats.
re: #198 Ming5000
I had to look up “mache”, but I am not sure this is correct:
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If it is… what wonderful cats.
I was thinking more along the lines of paper mache
Bros gotta bro - again.https://t.co/Z7GyGKx2Ya pic.twitter.com/CxyZ7uZvvb
— Steve M. (@nomoremister) June 5, 2019
This is from the U.S. Ambassador for a regime in #Cuba that actually controls all the newspapers & blocks social media. https://t.co/HjBwiIzZT4
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) June 4, 2019
Remember the time that Rubio was busted pretending that his family had fled Cuba due to Communism but then it turned out he was lying and they had in fact fled from right wing military despot Batista? Lol!
Sincerely,
The son of 2 actual Castro refugees— Willfer (@fernmayne) June 5, 2019
Atlanta! Keep your eyes open. If you see Gumbo please email FindGumbo@gmail.com. https://t.co/OnZwzSFdSh
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 6, 2019
re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was thinking more along the lines of paper mache
It’s like you can see between my ears.
re: #186 plansbandc
Not protests led by “good” people such as the White Supremacists in Charlottesville.
re: #193 gocart mozart
She’s good at plagiarizing in English, I’ll say that for Melania.
I’m sorry. But this Sanders voter on the Chris Hayes show is pretty much exactly how I’ve been imagining the Sanders dudebro contingent. A stereotype, if you will.
This happened in Temecula this morning please drive safe pic.twitter.com/KAbwX4psbr
— Mia 🦋 (@meeeuuhhh) June 4, 2019
If Elizabeth Warren keeps going like this, she has my vote. She has a message that can win, and she has the courage of her convictions.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 6, 2019
re: #208 Charles Johnson
She’s killing it. I think she’s got the best messaging of any candidate running. Plus she’s just authentic as fuck when she talks about raising her kids and working for a living.
Alex Jones, the founder and face of Infowars, is expected to be deposed on July 1 and 2 as a part of an ongoing lawsuit brought by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims in Connecticut court, a source says https://t.co/5XRYIjii2X
— CNN Business (@CNNBusiness) June 5, 2019
re: #207 gocart mozart
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No idea how many people were in that car but there were no survivors. Fucking jerk in the black truck. Prison for murder.
re: #208 Charles Johnson
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That’s me, too. Biden is my least favorite right now among the candidates whose names I can remember.
I mean, you can’t go back. Biden seems to want to take us back to Clinton and Obama—and those were fine in many ways—but you can never go back.
re: #195 Charles Johnson
WTF?
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Maybe he thinks you are Chuck C. Johnson? Or maybe HE IS Chuck C. Johnson doing some misdirection.
Or else he is just another dumbass Greenwaldorrhoid.
re: #211 MsJ
No idea how many people were in that car but there were no survivors. Fucking jerk in the black truck. Prison for murder.
He’s arrested, held on $1mm bond, for murder. Killed the woman in that car and hit a pickup so hard it launched it off the highway into a parking structure with such force the structure sustained major damage. Drunk.
re: #216 MsJ
He’s arrested, held on $1mm bond, for murder. Killed the woman in that car and hit a pickup so hard it launched it off the highway into a parking structure with such force the structure sustained major damage. Drunk.
[Flips desk, lights on fire.]
That TEARS it. I’m almost in favor of mandatory interlocks on cars. Between drunk drivers and mass shooters, I’m completely ready to go radical on some shit.
This is just mean! That’s why I’m tweeting it! pic.twitter.com/Lc5fTwAoyW
— Andi G🍷💄 (@AndyGoldi) June 5, 2019
How is it possible 3 people died in @DHSgov custody in just 3 days?
That’s on top of the 6 children who have died since December. No child had died for 10 years before.
That is unacceptable. It cannot continue. And it must be investigated immediately.https://t.co/4Q4UIbgFIS— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 6, 2019
This is Norman. He was just rescued. Heading home for the very first time. Going to do his best to rescue you now. 12/10 wonderful start pic.twitter.com/6cp1nXyvcH
— WeRateDogs™ 🏳️🌈 (@dog_rates) June 6, 2019
We should make Appomattox Day a national holiday just to see how “awkward” it would be for bubbas like this one. https://t.co/ZPjI4PdsOS
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 6, 2019
“The whole world is now in on America’s dirty little secret: for Donald Trump, no jab is too low, no hour too late to tweet insults, and his grasp on global affairs and domestic, for that matter, very, very loose” - @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/MVnaZSnQoT
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) June 5, 2019
This meme is causing a stir among the “Derp, Nazis are leftists” crowd
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 5, 2019
— Possum Every Hour (@PossumEveryHour) June 6, 2019
Mile 3,861: We’re home. The Smart car goes on bed rest.
re: #211 MsJ
There was one, and no, she didn’t make it. Amazing there was only one fatality. I work right down the street. This is all anyone has been talking about since yesterday. One car went off the freeway and took out a chunk of City Hall.
I remember when wingnuts lost their fucking minds (all 2 brain cells) when the Obamas went to Hawaii for Christmas.
So I got to ask @EricTrump a question as the Trumps did a pub crawl thru Doonbeg - is his trip a good use of US taxpayer money? ‘We’re just trying to have a good time’ the answer, poses for selfies, refuses to answer further & ducks into Madigans pub surrounded by fans &security
— Nuala McGovern (@BBCNuala) June 5, 2019
re: #226 Marsupial
There was one, and no, she didn’t make it. Amazing there was only one fatality. I work right down the street. This is all anyone has been talking about since yesterday. One went off the freeway and took out a chunk of City Hall.
Someone did that, going past a car I was a passenger in. He was weaving a bit, going VERY fast, old pickup truck, nearly empty interstate in the middle of the night, and he hit the inside guardrail and just slid along it, emitting sparks all the way. We stopped, and he was perfectly fine, just drunker than a skunk. We waited until the police got there, and went on, counting our blessings that he didn’t ricochet off of us along the way.
Few things in this life are as reliable as Joe Biden’s daily unveiling of yet another reason to not vote for him
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) June 6, 2019
re: #208 Charles Johnson
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If Elizabeth Warren keeps going like this, she has my vote. She has a message that can win, and she has the courage of her convictions.
Which is why we do campaigns and have debates etc before we settle on our preferences and vote in primaries/caucuses
Everyday Americans can’t afford the GOP agenda of more tax cuts for the rich while prices balloon for everyone else & education & healthcare become unaffordable. #Warren2020 #TheResistance #Resist https://t.co/316y89Od0h
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 6, 2019
I FOUND IT! The stupidest fucking thing on Fox News. https://t.co/kwu2BWrWNz
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 6, 2019
I can’t even begin to describe the intense, fiery rage that I feel while listening to these two dumbfucks, even more than the usual rage of hearing the orange dotard’s nasal whiny mouth noise.
Who has ever been asked by the draft board if they were a “fan” of the Vietnam war? Show of hands. It was a freaking WAR not a fan club.
Jesus Christ, the stupids, make it stop. It makes my brain hurt.
No bone spurs?
“Would you like to have served your country?”
“I was never a fan of that war, I’ll be honest with you, I thought it was a terrible war, I thought it was very far away…Vietnam…nobody even heard of the country…but I think I make up for it right now…”#DDay pic.twitter.com/Z89jLwfGfq— dσxxεd Ъuт หσт σuт (@twmentality1) June 5, 2019
re: #232 gocart mozart
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I think if you just fish in the Tucker Carlson-end of the pond you’ll likely snag a few “stupidest”s each night.
I was wondering what ever happened to Ted Rall. So it was the brain worms that got him
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 6, 2019
Defeating the Nazis isn’t necessarily more important than the long term objective of purging the neo liberals from the SPD.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 6, 2019
Playing hide and seek with intel, again “US intel shows Saudi Arabia has advanced its ballistic missile program” @CNNPolitics @Phil_Mattingly @ZcohenCNN @jeremyherb https://t.co/2rAFL2EPUz
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) June 5, 2019
Missile tech from China and nuclear tech from USA, what could go wrong?
I’m pretty sure there’s proliferation violations in that mess.
JUST IN: The Trump administration is canceling English classes, recreational activities, including soccer, and legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children who are staying in federally-contracted migrant shelters.
— NPR (@NPR) June 5, 2019
“Who cares? They’re terrorists, anyway!”
re: #237 DodgerFan1988
All of these putrid motherfuckers in this disgusting abomination of the Trump administration need to spend decades dying of singularly painful and loathsome diseases before spending eternity in the deepest pits of Hell.
Fuck that fucking smegma elemental Trump, and all of his revolting supporters, with rusty and shit-stained farm implements.
re: #237 DodgerFan1988
Tell me again how these aren’t concentration camps?
Trump gets some hats pic.twitter.com/QWRTHWdhhL
— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) June 6, 2019
re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg
Tell me again how these aren’t concentration camps?
BECAUSE THAT’S NOT WHAT WE’RE CALLING THEM, LIBTARD!
And who tried to get that definition into law: Sylvia Tenney Allen. Any relation to David?
She seems to have a firm grasp on science. Her revised age of Earth is about right.https://t.co/RotjdNoDqM— jamal james (@Jamal___James) October 20, 2018
75 years since D-Day. My mother will be 72 in August, my father 71 in November. Both of their fathers fought in the war, mother’s dad was in the Marines and participated in some island hopping in the Pacific (he never spoke, ever, about his experiences) and father’s dad was in the Air Force and bombed cities in Germany, Belgium, and France (he talked about his experiences constantly, always said it was the greatest time of his life). I never met my mother’s dad, he died before I was born.
re: #226 Marsupial
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re: #242 gocart mozart
And who tried to get that definition into law: Sylvia Tenney Allen. Any relation to David?
She seems to have a firm grasp on science. Her revised age of Earth is about right.https://t.co/RotjdNoDqM— jamal james (@Jamal___James) October 20, 2018
Such stupidity should be an absolute disqualification for public office.
Tammy those guys are storming the beach to kill half your twitter followers. https://t.co/mtHrLjIU2n
— Zeddediah Springfield (@Zeddary) November 23, 2017
“If he were any other person in the United States, based on what’s documented in that report, he would be carried out in handcuffs”
— Sen. Warren on starting impeachment proceedings against President Trump #WarrenTownHall pic.twitter.com/uZ2rw7zqf3— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 6, 2019
re: #248 gocart mozart
That’s almost true. There are a bunch of other of our oligarchy that would benefit from the same “touch me not.”
I have several pictures of me shaking Elizabeth Warren’s hand and mugging for the camera. I’m realistic, but I also have high hopes. I share Charles’s sentiment.
If Elizabeth Warren keeps going like this, she has my vote. She has a message that can win, and she has the courage of her convictions.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 6, 2019
re: #250 teleskiguy
I like what I have heard of several others, too. Am very interested in hearing the “debates.”
re: #251 retired cynic
I like what I have heard of several others, too. Am very interested in hearing the “debates.”
Kamala Harris is awesome. I really wish John Hickenlooper would step aside and run for Senate against Cory Gardner in Colorado.
Being a woman is damn near a prerequisite for government offices for me these days.
re: #247 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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That posting is from November 2017 — so not a recent comment of hers; but of timeless ignorance.
re: #231 The Vicious Babushka
Warren is going to raise taxes on the mega wealthy who got a tax cut they didn’t need. She’s not raising taxes on Everyday Americans. I hope the GOP is getting pushback on that claim.
re: #237 DodgerFan1988
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“Who cares? They’re terrorists, anyway!”
They will be. That’s the kind of shit that creates terrorists.
re: #231 The Vicious Babushka
“Raise taxes to pay the minimum wage? Did you guys suddenly forget how economies work, or did you just never know?
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 6, 2019
I’m hoping beyond hope that enough people are inspired and engaged to get Fuckface Von Clownstick out of the White House. That’s a big objective, and the failure of that objective is going to be pretty catastrophic for people who aren’t white, straight, and Christian.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 6, 2019
A Fuckface Von Clownstick second term will involve more “camps” for “undesirables.” Mark my fucking words.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 6, 2019
re: #257 teleskiguy
Catastrophic for everyone, because they are tipping the planet from a possible save to certain disaster.
re: #254 Patricia Kayden
Warren is going to raise taxes on the mega wealthy who got a tax cut they didn’t need. She’s not raising taxes on Everyday Americans. I hope the GOP is getting pushback on that claim.
It didn’t help Clinton in 1993 when he raised taxes only on the top 1.2% 1.6% of income earners. The RW media, which was not as prominent then as today, castigated it as a general tax increase, and the Democrats lost both the House and the Senate in 1994 as part of the Gingrich “revolution”.
Ed: my bad. I overstated the percentage affected by the Clinton tax increase.
re: #259 Hecuba’s daughter
Then Democrats need to push hard against this GOP lie. Stop letting them get away with untruths. Warren is not proposing a tax on all Americans. Period.
Tucker Carlson: Why couldn’t you have a party that is economically nationalist and socially conservative? Why is that so hard? pic.twitter.com/6NUySPaAOv
— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) June 6, 2019
National Socialist?
LONDON IS THAT BITCH pic.twitter.com/5FcmEnmEG0
— Daniel Aubry (@Aubs89) June 5, 2019
re: #233 The Vicious Babushka
I can’t even begin to describe the intense, fiery rage that I feel while listening to these two dumbfucks, even more than the usual rage of hearing the orange dotard’s nasal whiny mouth noise.
Who has ever been asked by the draft board if they were a “fan” of the Vietnam war? Show of hands. It was a freaking WAR not a fan club.
Jesus Christ, the stupids, make it stop. It makes my brain hurt.
There are obscene things with a rusty unsharpened cactus I would do with that cabal of grifters if I could.
“Fan of the Vietnam War.” Yeah; that’s what my trip to Massachusetts was about, I’m a big fan.
BREAKING: The UK security consultant in the crosshairs of the Senate Russia probe set up a Florida LLC on the same day Wikileaks made their first dump of emails. His partner in the venture? A former Mossad official who was CEO for VEKSELBERG company https://t.co/SNprACv6mO
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) June 5, 2019
Scoop: Senate Intelligence Committee summons mysterious British security consultant, asks for closed-door testimony and any/all communications with private Israeli intel firms Psy Group, WikiStrat, Black Cube https://t.co/TUgM5RHv3J
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) June 5, 2019
re: #266 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
Could be a Big Deal!
He was too busy being a pirate at the time. pic.twitter.com/wvCXHg1ltE
— Lisa🇨🇦🏳️🌈 (@MissTotos) June 5, 2019
re: #206 Charles Johnson
I’m sorry. But this Sanders voter on the Chris Hayes show is pretty much exactly how I’ve been imagining the Sanders dudebro contingent. A stereotype, if you will.
My neighbor down the street has really degenerated into a Bernie Bro. Three years on and he’s still straight-faced saying that Clinton and the DNC conspired against St. Bernie. I had to eventually mute him on Facebook, it got so bad.
One thing he constantly does is cite the hacked DNC emails as the smoking gun of the conspiracy. Never quite puts it together that he’s basically grateful to Assange, Wikileaks, and Putin for hacking the DNC.
re: #264 Anymouse 🌹
I’m immensely glad you could take that picture. It’s whole human lives. It’s life. It might seem weird and rude, but I am happy for you, and this picture. Love you, man.
Good morning. 💙 pic.twitter.com/qHgR3gVin6
— victoria (@Doh_Doh_Burrd) June 4, 2019
Kragar still does stuff on a Twitter. This made me laugh.
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Newt’s pudgy little fingers are trembling as he types.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 29, 2019
Trump’s “bone spurs” weren’t a fan of Vietnam either.
This story deserves a lot more attention: U.S. border officials are forcing migrants to give up their medications to treat conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes. An 8-year-old boy had his seizure medicine taken away from him. #Heartless https://t.co/vchEVFwkSS
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) June 6, 2019
Pro-Life reponse: “Meh.”
re: #274 DodgerFan1988
Again, it’s by design. The suffering and cruelty is the point.
re: #274 DodgerFan1988
Needlessly, heartlessly cruel.
re: #268 gocart mozart
There’s a reason Republican politicians have been undermining the US education system all my life.
It’s really a puzzler why President Obama didn’t serve in Vietnam … after all, he was born the same year as my sister, so when my father was killed in Vietnam, that would have made Obama [pulls out calculator, damn, the batteries are dead, switch to pencil and paper, carry the nine]
six years old.
re: #268 gocart mozart
This gets runner-up:
He couldn’t be drafted without his birth certificate pic.twitter.com/JAm5Nm6FK4
— Gnarlton the Gnerd (@Crash2411) June 5, 2019
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