Colbert: Democrats Are Beating Trump According to the Latest Polls
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Joe Biden isn’t the only Democrat polling ahead of Donald Trump in 2020 general election polls. #LSSC #Colbert #Monologue
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“We have long asked the question about why good Germans didn’t intervene earlier, when it was “just” about discriminatory laws, detention, boycotts. Before things got murderous.
Now we have to ask ourselves: Why aren’t we?”@TheRaDR asks wellhttps://t.co/nT0VZoiNcv— Avraham Bronstein (@AvBronstein) June 19, 2019
Dems were beating Trump in early polls in 2015 too, weren’t they?
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) June 19, 2019
Here is a story that led me to the latest Taylor Swift video. I know our host hates the overproduced sound, but I found that the video and lyrics are worth a look at least once, since she has a huge following.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Dems were beating Trump in early polls in 2015 too, weren’t they?
They were, and the national polls were pretty much spot on. They pretty much got the margin on the national popular vote right. But that’s not the same as getting the EC right; and the credible pollsters/stats guys knew this - and they warned of Trump’s chance of winning was not zero.
We can’t be complacent or assume the polls will be any different this time around. Fight for every state, precinct, and district. Don’t give the GOP a chance.
“Obstruction of justice,” Pelosi says when I asked her about WH saying Hope Hicks cannot answer questions about her time at the WH pic.twitter.com/CLdUERqsxq
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 19, 2019
I called in my latest rainfall amount to the NWS office and they immediately issued a Flood Advisory in effect until 6:30 pm.
More than 5” of rain since Sunday (9.31 so far in June), and more on the way.
needing a boat…
Thought I’d lost the lizard until I noticed the tail sticking out pic.twitter.com/fOtnMylNek
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) June 19, 2019
Usual suspects yelping about “discrimination.” They fail to realize that “homicidal goober bigot” is not a protected category.
Heavily armed Secret Service seen taking positions behind trees on the North Lawn of the WH. Press then cleared from the area. pic.twitter.com/1zc0R3jNdO
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 19, 2019
Paranoia strikes deep.
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Usual suspects yelping about “discrimination.” They fail to realize that “homicidal goober bigot” is not a protected category.
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He probably thinks this is the worst persecution ever. Stupid bigoted asshle.
Tariffs on Bibles? That makes Trump the first president to tax Christianity. Well done, @Franklin_Graham and @JerryFalwellJr! https://t.co/Y5InekoPfa
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) June 19, 2019
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If something like this happened because of an Obama policy, Graham and Falwell Jr would be crying that it was purposeful persecution of Christians. Two pathetic morons they both are.
So now that they’ve listened to Hope Hicks give them absolutely nothing under very shaky pretenses, will they move to start Impeachment hearings?
POLLS DON’T MATTER!!!! I’D BE WINNING IF NOT FOR PHONY HOAX INVESTIGATIONS!! I’M REALLY WINNING ANYWAY!!!!
As sick as I am of Donald Fcking Trump, I think I might be even more sick of US media’s insistence on treating politics as a zero-sum sporting event.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 19, 2019
re: #16 Charles Johnson
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The media doesn’t deserve the demonizing Trump does to it but the media sure as hell deserves criticism for how they discuss political issues in this country.
Whoa. This is a dramatic loss to the institutional and practical knowledge of the SG’s office; the broader Department of Justice; and, indirectly, the Supreme Court. No one knows the maze that is the federal criminal code like Dreeben. https://t.co/5c3KTeyLQs
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) June 19, 2019
oh
The photographs show Rebecca Falwell in various stages of undress, and are said to be among those that Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, tried to quash.
— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) June 19, 2019
Don’t want to hear shit, ever, about how we are winning against the thugs. The next 15 months are going to be a knife fight, and we have a wrist tied behind our back.
WE LOST to these shitsticks, and they are fighting from the high ground now.
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I imagine there’s a lot about the Falwells that Cohen was helping ot ekep secret.
also just checking but u cut off that little stem part of the garlic right
— darth™ (@darth) June 19, 2019
BREAKING: U.S. House passes amendment to block Trump’s DOE from using clean energy funds for dirty fossil fuel projects!
The Senate is next, please text RENEWABLE to 69866 for next steps on our way to victory! https://t.co/6LsvXanzGW pic.twitter.com/XA3euGWezc— Food & Water Watch (@foodandwater) June 19, 2019
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Dems were beating Trump in early polls in 2015 too, weren’t they?
Jeb Bush was clobbering Trump this time in 2015.
re: #4 BlueSpotinAL
Here is a story that led me to the latest Taylor Swift video. I know our host hates the overproduced sound, but I found that the video and lyrics are worth a look at least once, since she has a huge following.
Thanks for sharing. Not a fan of that music genre, but good to see her using her podium for an important cause.
We could save our votes for the politician who has the moral courage to come out in favor of cancer.
re: #28 Decatur Deb
We could save our votes for the politician who has the moral courage to come out in favor of cancer.
If it would increase his popularity among the Nazis, Donnie would do it in a heartbeat.
Was it Trump? https://t.co/3GLTM3ihSt
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 19, 2019
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Dems were beating Trump in early polls in 2015 too, weren’t they?
But now everyone knows what a Trump presidency means, and a big majority still oppose him.
so proud of hisself!
The highest stick to dog ratio I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/pUALlfF61H
— Cute N Squishy (@Cute_N_Squish) June 18, 2019
re: #27 Dr. Matt
Current headline on CNN. Troll level 8.
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Says the guy cutting funds to research.
On June 19th, 1999 I got hit by a van while taking a walk. As I lay unconscious in the hospital, the docs debated amputating my right leg and decided it could stay, on a trial basis. I got better. Every day of the 20 years since has been a gift.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 19, 2019
My mother-in-law wore a wedding dress to my wedding. So, yeah, top that one, Twitter. #weddingfail @jimmyfallon pic.twitter.com/IjqvnXT6Ps
— Amy Pennza (@AmyPennza) June 19, 2019
If you look closely, you can see my clenched fist…
— Amy Pennza (@AmyPennza) June 19, 2019
BREAKING: Federal judge in Maryland says #CitizenshipQuestion lawsuit plaintiffs’ request for new ruling based on Thomas Hofeller’s files “raises a substantial issue,” setting up a potential new block against Trump admin plans to add question to #2020Census👇 pic.twitter.com/mT9A2W7vOE
— Hansi Lo Wang (@hansilowang) June 19, 2019
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A lot of King’s work is auto-biographical, so that accident and his recovery has featured prominently in his subsequent stories.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Dems were beating Trump in early polls in 2015 too, weren’t they?
and they were beating him handily in the second week of October as well, and then James Comey decided to commit treason.
The House just passed a nearly $1 trillion appropriations bill that includes 11 very crucial lines: A repeal of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
This is the first time a repeal of the 2001 AUMF has passed the House. Almost 18 years after it was enacted.— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) June 19, 2019
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
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How long before it comes out that the pictures have the pool boy in them and that Jerry was the person taking the picture? A couple of days? A few weeks?
re: #38 steve_davis
and they were beating him handily in the second week of October as well, and then James Comey decided to commit treason.
And now he owns the entire LE/Intel apparatus, with 3 years’ worth of installed stooges.
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump can’t be trusted with the AUMF or any sort of power but in all honesty, it is time to seriously re-access the strategy in the ME.
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
On June 19th, 1999 I got hit by a van while taking a walk. As I lay unconscious in the hospital, the docs debated amputating my right leg and decided it could stay, on a trial basis. I got better. Every day of the 20 years since has been a gift.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 19, 2019
Or perhaps the docs did amputate the leg and replaced it with an evil, possessed leg!?
House votes to block Trump’s transgender ban in the military
“The military is an institution with one primary mission: to fight and win our nation’s wars. Anything that interferes with its readiness for that mission poses an unacceptable risk.”https://t.co/gUZVyTeKQF— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 19, 2019
re: #43 Dr. Matt
Or perhaps the docs did amputate the leg and replaced it with an evil, possessed leg!?
Just have it to us by the end of the year, Mr. King. //
re: #37 NO SMOCKING GUN!
A lot of King’s work is auto-biographical, so that accident and his recovery has featured prominently in his subsequent stories.
He crawled through a 500 foot river of shit smelling foulness?
*shudders*
If you pry at the excuses provided by those against assisting undocumented immigrants, fleeing horrid conditions, you always end up at the same place: bigotry.
At which point, what argument can you make to convince people not to hate?
I’m stranded here:https://t.co/eWB1dEaSJM— Avi Bueno (@Avi_Bueno) June 19, 2019
re: #44 lawhawk
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My new representative has been leading on LGBT issues- her niece is transgendered. Some of the local Republicans have been whining about how it’s one of her priorities. Well guys, maybe you shouldn’t scapegoat LGBT people and deny them the right to serve our country but that would require not being pricks which is what your party is full of.
re: #4 BlueSpotinAL
I love that she’s denied White Supremacists an Ice Princess. They really thought she was one of theirs. Lol.
re: #47 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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They say the same crap that the Nazis did and then they have the nerve to liken themselves to the victims of the Nazis because liberals want to raise taxes on teh wealthiest 1%.
re: #47 NO SMOCKING GUN!
There probably is no strong logical argument for why a person should not act so ugly, as in being a bigot.
All one has is an economic argument, that is, the social cost of being a bigot has to be higher than the cost of being a decent person.
Exclusive: Federal prosecutors and the @FBI are criminally investigating @DeutscheBank for money-laundering lapses, including its handling of suspicious activity reports related to Jared Kushner’s company. with @benprotess @WRashbaum https://t.co/lM8t23fIkK
— David Enrich (@davidenrich) June 19, 2019
Grab the popcorn….
That’s true:
“The forcible relocation of U.S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority,” Roberts wrote in Trump v. Hawaii, the ‘Muslim ban’ case.
https://t.co/Qa6N3g4wwu— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) June 19, 2019
re: #43 Dr. Matt
Or perhaps the docs did amputate the leg and replaced it with an evil, possessed leg!?
named Christine…
They call us the land of the free and then they say to Transgender Americans, “sorry you can’t serve in our armed forces.” There are plenty of transgendered men and women who would make better soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen/women than I ever would. I’m not more equipped for service just for being a cisgendered male.
re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There probably is no strong logical argument for why a person should not act so ugily, as in being a bigot.
All one has is an economic argument, that is, the social cost of being a bigot has to be higher than the cost of being a decent person.
The argument I make is that if we respect everyone’s rights, that increases the likelihood that my rights will be respected as well. But they see it as a zero sum game; if someone else is gaining, they must be losing.
re: #52 lawhawk
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Grab the popcorn….
Gee another criminal enterprise in Stupid Cosa Nostra.
This is an add on LGF
1) I hate anyone that uses 9/11 for any advertisement.
2) The 9/11 terrorists came here legally (on planes).
3) Who is paying for this shit?
4) I have no problem with Charles making money on this.
it links to a gofuckme account
webuildthewall.us
re: #58 I Would Prefer Not To
This is an add on LGF
1) I hate anyone that uses 9/11 for any advertisement.
2) The 9/11 terrorists came here legally (on planes).
3) Who is paying for this shit?
4) I have no problem with Charles making money on this.[Embedded content]
“A few” as in “none.”
re: #58 I Would Prefer Not To
This is an add on LGF
1) I hate anyone that uses 9/11 for any advertisement.
2) The 9/11 terrorists came here legally (on planes).
3) Who is paying for this shit?
4) I have no problem with Charles making money on this.[Embedded content]
That’s the grifter who pulled $22 million into a gofundme, then changed the rules.
re: #56 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The argument I make is that if we respect everyone’s rights, that increases the likelihood that my rights will be respected as well. But they see it as a zero sum game; if someone else is gaining, they must be losing.
They are so threatened by change being welcoming to those they have wanted to marginalize for years. That’s what they’er afraid. They’re afraid of proud and open transgendered Americans serving their country with the same honor and sense of duty to their country that cisgendered Americans do just like they were afraid of gays doing the same as straight. Remember when the Million Moms were angry about Ellen Degeeres being a spokeswoman for J.C Penney and they more or less admitted it bothered them because Ellen Degeneres is a successful and mentally well adjusted openly gay woman.
JFC Bernie…take a fucking seat already
I’ve committed to supporting the nominee. My question to @ThirdWayKessler and the corporate wing of the party: If we nominate a progressive who supports M4A, breaking up the big banks and taking on the billionaire class, whomever that is, will you support them against Trump?
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 19, 2019
re: #63 HappyWarrior
And appears once ever 30 years.
With a tractor trailer that works like one of those self driving cars that malfunctions. And was built by the Shop who kept a little girl from her parents and got blown up by fireballs in the process.
re: #63 HappyWarrior
And appears once ever 30 years.
And frequently complains that all work and no play makes a leg dull.
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC Bernie…take a fucking seat already
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You can’t even condemn Trump on Russia, Bernie and yet you do shit like this.
My mother was going to wear a hat with a wig attached to it to my brother’s wedding. So my SiL hid it.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 19, 2019
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC Bernie…take a fucking seat already
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Yes Bernie, I’ll canvass for you. I’ll feel stupid doing it, but what the hell—it’s Alabama.
re: #66 lawhawk
With a tractor trailer that works like one of those self driving cars that malfunctions. And was built by the Shop who kept a little girl from her parents and got blown up by fireballs in the process.
And this story is narrated byMorgan Freeman and set in Maine of course.
Someone should let Mr. King know that some Lizards have written his next novel here.
re: #71 HappyWarrior
In a town with a prison and a death row known as the Green Mile.
re: #72 Dr. Matt
Someone should let Mr. King know that some Lizards have written his next novel here.
More like… Stephen King Mad Libs….
re: #73 lawhawk
In a town with a prison and a death row known as the Green Mile.
And whose town hospital nurse doesn’t like that the other townspeople characters swear.
re: #58 I Would Prefer Not To
ARGH.
The “few terrorists” that attacked on 9/11 had the support of a well banked, well connected and vast terrorist network that helped them pull the attack off. No way 19 guys could have independently planned, funded and executed that.
And let’s not even get in to the pre-9/11 intelligence failures.
re: #74 lawhawk
More like… Stephen King Mad Libs….
Kinglibs. Picked a good time of day to have that special cookie that inspired the burning down of the school during Prom.
re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
ARGH.
The “few terrorists” that attacked on 9/11 had the support of a well banked, well connected and vast terrorist network of terrorists that helped them pull the attack off. No way 19 guys could have independently planned, funded and executed that.
And let’s not even get in to the pre-9/11 intelligence failures.
Yeah this is a really stupid argument. But it’s from right wingers whose idea of freedom comes in restrictions not inclusion.
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
…taking on the billionaire class
I wonder how many billionaires are in the U.S.? 8? 75? What are they doing that requires us to “take them on”? And what would be accomplished by doing so?
What if most of the opposition to M4A isn’t the “billionaire class” but turns out to be pretty wide spread across the income distribution?
good fucking grief…
….asking Hillary Clinton why she deleted and acid washed her Emails AFTER getting a subpoena from Congress? Anybody else would be in jail for that, yet the Dems refuse to even bring it up. Rigged House Committee
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2019
re: #79 Sir John Barron
According to Mr. Google, there are 607 billionaires in this country.
If you’re having a bad day, here’s a pick-me-up: Pinochet died under house arrest and the military refused to handle his remains, while Chile’s president denied him a state funeral.https://t.co/SCv7sbwTQA
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 19, 2019
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief…
One of my favorite Saturday night activities, acid washing my deleted emails….
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
I knew he’d go back to “total exoneration” pretty quick.
re: #56 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The argument I make is that if we respect everyone’s rights, that increases the likelihood that my rights will be respected as well. But they see it as a zero sum game; if someone else is gaining, they must be losing.
it’s unfortunate that “everyone does better when everyone does better” is too abstract for many people
re: #79 Sir John Barron
I wonder how many billionaires are in the U.S.? 8? 75? What are they doing that requires us to “take them on”? And what would be accomplished by doing so?
What if most of the opposition to M4A isn’t the “billionaire class” but turns out to be pretty wide spread across the income distribution?
Well you’re not taking the Marxist approach to it is the problem. That’s why Bernie is a bad politician IMO. He only sees the class in the issues. He doesn’t understand why the more pragmatic Dems may think it’s a hard sell to go from the barely passed and I should stress for Bernie who was there- hard fought not just in Congress but in the courts ACA to go for something even more ambitious overnight. Sorry should have made it clear that I was talking about Obamacare which I concede should not be final by any means but improved on but we need to change how we discuss health care in this country before we can radically change the system like Bernie wants to and that’s even if we want to, I TBH am not 100% sold a Nordic like system would work here since our population is much bigger. I’m open if we can make it work but I understand the skepticism at the same time. That doesn’t mean I accept the status quo despite what Sanders says.
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief…
I thought subpoenas were like so much nonsense that can be freely ignored, like by your own cabinet people.
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
Did he die again? Thought he had already passed from the scene.
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A lot of right wingers find the idea of putting liberals and those they dislike in one way helicopter trips like what Pinochet and the regime in neighboring Argentina to be hilarious. Plus Pinochet proved that Capitalism doesn’t need democratic freedom to function. They LOVE him for that.
re: #79 Sir John Barron
I wonder how many billionaires are in the U.S.? 8? 75? What are they doing that requires us to “take them on”? And what would be accomplished by doing so?
What if most of the opposition to M4A isn’t the “billionaire class” but turns out to be pretty wide spread across the income distribution?
Realistically the best we can hope for if the Democrats take the Senate in the next Congress is a public option, and even that will be hard fought. More likely we’ll get incremental improvement of the ACA.
re: #63 HappyWarrior
And appears once ever 30 years.
because it keeps going thru the closet of a diner, back in time to kill lee harvey oswald
re: #85 DangerMan
it’s unfortunate that “everyone does better when everyone does better” is too abstract for many people
There are 100 people and 100 cookies. One of those 100 people gets 99 cookies because of who his father is. The other 99 people are left to fight over the remaining cookie while the guy who has 99 chastises them, saying if they wanted cookies that badly, they should have opened a bakery.
re: #88 Sir John Barron
Did he die again? Thought he had already passed from the scene.
Unfortunately he only died once but I imagine Weigel is pointing out what happened as a “put things in perspective moment.” TBH Pinochet got off so easily. He should have rotten in a cell.
re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg
There are 100 people and 100 cookies. One of those 100 people gets 99 cookies because of who his father is. The other 99 people are left to fight over the remaining cookie while the guy who has 99 chastises them, saying if they wanted cookies that bad, they should have opened a bakery.
Oldie but a goodie but basically how right wing bullshit works in this country.
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC Bernie…take a fucking seat already
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re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
ARGH.
The “few terrorists” that attacked on 9/11 had the support of a well banked, well connected and vast terrorist network that helped them pull the attack off. No way 19 guys could have independently planned, funded and executed that.
And let’s not even get in to the pre-9/11 intelligence failures.
only cause there was no gofundme yet //
re: #95 DangerMan
bernie, THIS is why your poll numbers are where they are
He thinks he’s the fairest of them all. He ain’t Snow White.
re: #78 HappyWarrior
Yeah this is a really stupid argument. But it’s from right wingers
whose idea of freedom comes in restrictions not inclusionwho dont know how to construct a reasoned, lucid, relevant and valid argument.
re: #58 I Would Prefer Not To
This is an add on LGF
1) I hate anyone that uses 9/11 for any advertisement.
2) The 9/11 terrorists came here legally (on planes).
3) Who is paying for this shit?
4) I have no problem with Charles making money on this.[Embedded content]
it links to a gofuckme account
webuildthewall.us
OK, but say we do Build The Wall between us and Mexico. Won’t the bad terrorists just cross over from the Canadian border? Or just fly in like they did before?
re: #79 Sir John Barron
I wonder how many billionaires are in the U.S.? 8? 75? What are they doing that requires us to “take them on”? And what would be accomplished by doing so?
What if most of the opposition to M4A isn’t the “billionaire class” but turns out to be pretty wide spread across the income distribution?
the single biggest problem with “M4A” right now is like so many other words, it’s got lots of differing definitions.
candidates mean different things (and support different things) when they use the term
and the public has their own ideas of what they think it will and wont do
re: #99 DangerMan
That too. But it still remains that how the right views freedom is the of freedom is it should be based in restrictions more than ti should be inclusion.
re: #101 DangerMan
the single biggest problem with “M4A” right now is like so many other words, it’s got lots of differing definitions.
candidates mean different things (and support different things) when they use the term
and the public has their own ideas of what they think it will and wont do
I M4A is a nice goal. But I think what Sanders doesn’t seem to get is that M4A will be part of a process not a single event just like Medicare itself was and that was in an era where the public was much more supportive of government expanding social programs than they are now.
re: #100 Sir John Barron
OK, but say we do Build The Wall between us and Mexico. Won’t the bad terrorists just cross over from the Canadian border? Or just fly in like they did before?
or drive, pole vault, tunnel, take a boat, swim
“Medicare” is one of those words which have become triggers in the American popular discussion.
There are good reasons to think that the current Medicare system isn’t going to be the best solution for everybody, not the least of which is that doctors may choose to not see Medicare patients.
And even if they do, they may not accept the Medicare payments as sufficient and can charge the patient more.
re: #104 DangerMan
Or get a visa.
Or be born white, privileged, and open fire on a crowd from a hotel room with an assault rifle with a bump stock.
Or be born white, privileged, and open fire on a crowd in a shul with an assault rifle.
Or be born white, privileged, and open fire on a crowd in a black church with guns.
Or be born white, privileged, and open fire on a crowd in a school with an assault rifle (multiple times).
re: #102 HappyWarrior
That too. But it still remains that how the right views freedom is the of freedom is it should be based in restrictions more than ti should be inclusion.
agreed
i generally think of us all on the same boat
if we organize the rowing we can get somewhere
if we dont row together or everyone doesnt row, then no one gets anywhere
deciding on the somewhere is a different matter
Trump’s campaign shindig brought in good ratings for the old-white-guy channel:
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There’s always money to be made off of hate and demagoguery.
re: #107 DangerMan
agreed
i generally think of us all on the same boat
if we organize the rowing we can get somewhere
if we dont row together or everyone doesnt row, then no one gets anywheredeciding on the somewhere is a different matter
Yeah I’ve never liked the idea of the one man being an island. Humanity I think while we have innate individual instincts, we also have collective ones too.
Oh my.
MIAMI HERALD EXCLUSIVE: Naked photographs of Jerry Falwell’s wife surface in Miami Beach scandal. https://t.co/42hEZ1AZQK
— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) June 19, 2019
sure, why the fuck not…
Just returning from Orlando and Doral (Miami), Florida, and heading to the Oval Office, where I will present the great Economist, Dr. Arthur Laffer, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2019
re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth
sure, why the fuck not…
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I’m the human and I’m in charge.#LiesYourParentsToldYou pic.twitter.com/c8JbC0KdLj
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) June 19, 2019
re: #93 HappyWarrior
Unfortunately he only died once but I imagine Weigel is pointing out what happened as a “put things in perspective moment.” TBH Pinochet got off so easily. He should have rotten in a cell.
I remember pissing off DF by saying how i hoped Pinochet, Franco, Reagan and Thatcher were all now roommates in Hell.
If I saw that shirt, I’d beat the shit out of the wearer and claim a fighting words defense.
re: #107 DangerMan
agreed
i generally think of us all on the same boat
if we organize the rowing we can get somewhere
if we dont row together or everyone doesnt row, then no one gets anywheredeciding on the somewhere is a different matter
re: #110 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Great point:
If only Hunter S Thompson was still alive…what a story
— Concert Parking Lot Enthusiast (@rewegreatyet) June 19, 2019
I know it’s a few days after Fathers Day, but this thread made my day today:
1/ This Father’s Day, I compiled the most on-brand anecdotes of my dad, who is basically an Asian Ron Swanson. Thread: pic.twitter.com/zlB244clSl
— Kane (@kane) June 16, 2019
re: #116 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Great point:
If only Hunter S Thompson was still alive…what a story
Larry Flynt is.
I keep reupping this, but I want to note something specific. This is for @jaketapper, @JohnAvlon, @soledadobrien, @chrislhayes, @brianstelter, @AOC, et al:
Calling concentration camps by their name is a huge step. But what we need is *intense focus.* https://t.co/pua6GhzZgq pic.twitter.com/rtiN1x4jRB— Jonathan M. Katz✍🏻 (@KatzOnEarth) June 19, 2019
re: #114 William Lewis
I remember pissing off DF by saying how i hoped Pinochet, Franco, Reagan and Thatcher were all now roommates in Hell.
If I saw that shirt, I’d beat the shit out of the wearer and claim a fighting words defense.
He didn’t like to see known mass murdering tyrants like Franco and Pinochet lumped in with his heroes and their enablers like Reagan and Thatcher (I know Reagan and Thatcher took office after Franco died but they definitely have supported him strongly.) And I wouldn’t blame you. Pinochet was a mass murderering tyrant.
re: #118 Barefoot Grin
I know it’s a few days after Fathers Day, but this thread made my day today:
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He sounds like a real character.
Life is a Black Mirror episode where the descendants of Holocaust survivors scream that history is repeating itself before their eyes and the descendants of the perpetrators keep saying “Stop minimizing the Holocaust and being antisemitic.”
— The Jewish Worker (@JewishWorker) June 19, 2019
re: #79 Sir John Barron
I wonder how many billionaires are in the U.S.? 8? 75? What are they doing that requires us to “take them on”? And what would be accomplished by doing so?
What if most of the opposition to M4A isn’t the “billionaire class” but turns out to be pretty wide spread across the income distribution?
In the U.S., there are 607 billionaires, up from 586 last year and 404 in 2010, and 14 of the world’s 20 richest are from the U.S. More than 40 percent of U.S. billionaires live in two states - California and New York
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re: #72 Dr. Matt
Someone should let Mr. King know that some Lizards have written his next novel here.
Someone should DM this thread to him.
Two possibilities here. @StateDept Special Representative to #Iran Brian Hook:
1. Doesn’t know which entity under our Constitution has the power to Declare War, or
2. Does not accept the Constitution.
Watch this testimony and ask yourself, shouldn’t he resign? https://t.co/xJ0Jcqi4pV— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 19, 2019
Weak little functionaries like this one are how you get Nazis taking over the government.
re: #129 jaunte
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Weak little functionaries like this one are how you get Nazis taking over the government.
Yikes.
re: #131 Kilroy was here
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Gotta love Stephen
they literally are trying to decide between
- “make america great again” and
- ‘keep america great”
that they are opposing ideas is totally lost on them
ICYMI: John Cornyn supports Judge who signed onto a letter calling transgender people delusional.
“John Cornyn’s judicial votes are a reflection of John Cornyn: hard-right and out of touch.” —Texas Democratic Party Communications Director @abhirahmantx https://t.co/ibzBYECb0o— Texas Democrats (@texasdemocrats) June 19, 2019
Delusional is imagining that you can erase people who aren’t like you.
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC Bernie…take a fucking seat already
This is funny. A diarist at DK took Bernies tweet to mean Bernie Sanders launches ridiculous smear campaign against Elizabeth Warren (you can see that name in the link). Admin decided they didn’t like it (this is at the top of the diary):
Original diary title was click-bait, needlessly inflammatory and did not accurately reflect the contents of the diary.
Title edited by Admin.
The title now reads ‘Bernie Sanders Pushes Back Against “Corporate Wing of the Democratic Party.’”
HA
and another thing:
trump filed to run for reelection on 1/20/17
he’s been running since the day he was inaugurated
(had to get that grift going so he could start to milk the rubes early)
yesterday was one rally in a long line of them
so it wasnt anything special
in fact a lot of the speech was right out of 2016
what they really accomplished was to get a whole host of floridians to give up their personal information in exchange to get in
re: #129 jaunte
They’ve been road testing the argument that the 2001 AUMF will give them cover to attack Iran.
An interesting poll about electability:
•When choosing a preferred president absent considerations of electability, 21% chose Warren, 19% chose Biden, 19% chose Sanders, 16% chose Buttigieg, 12% chose Harris, and 4% chose O’Rourke.
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The electability gap is driven in large part by beliefs about how gender is perceived in America today. Those who see gender as a barrier to electability consistently express beliefs that other voters will not vote for a woman. These findings suggest that many voters may not need to be convinced that female a candidate is more capable — they must be convinced that Americans are capable of electing them.
re: #132 DangerMan
they literally are trying to decide between
- “make america great again” and
- ‘keep america great”that they are opposing ideas is totally lost on them
Not really. If you believe (as many of them do) that America somehow wasn’t great when Obama was president then Make America Great Again made sense in 2016.* Now that their guy is in charge, they can argue (erroneously) that America is great again, so Keep America Great now makes sense.
*I had this argument with my mom in 2016. She donated to Trump and had a yard sign. So I asked what “Make America Great Again” meant, if that meant that America wasn’t great? And if so, when did it stop being great? She sort of blue screened for a second and then was like “Make America Greater.” And when I tried to point out that her conclusion was still contradictory to what Trump was saying, she walked off.
re: #129 jaunte
Good grief. I’m not even a freaking American I know only Congress has the power to declare war.
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
Good grief. I’m not even a freaking American I know only Congress has the power to declare war.
It’s something we get asked on grade school government tests.
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
His refusal to answer is sheer cowardice.
re: #138 Belafon
These findings suggest that many voters may not need to be convinced that female a candidate is more capable — they must be convinced that Americans are capable of electing them.
Obama went through the same thing as an African American politician. It sucks, but I suspect the first time there’s a real shot for a Latino or Asian American (or pick any other ethnic/racial group) candidate to break through, the same thing will happen.
It’s sort of a Jackie Robinson test. Once the first person gets through, it’s easier for the next person, but that first person has a lot of heavy lifting to do.
That said, I think electibility is mostly a bullshit thing in modern American politics. If you win a contested nomination in one of the two major parties, you are by definition, electable. This is especially true in presidential politics where the low water mark in a two person race is 40%
re: #47 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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So you don’t like “concentration camps” as a description of what we are doing now? How about this: Andersonville.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) June 19, 2019
First time US did not lead the world on refugee resettlement since the Refugee Act in 1980 pic.twitter.com/bK6woNsfdG
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) June 19, 2019
re: #146 Dread Pirate
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This is something we should lead on. We’re a larger economy than the other nations. Not a surprise Trump completely reversed course on that.
re: #147 HappyWarrior
This is something we should lead on. We’re a larger economy than the other nations. Not a surprise Trump completely reversed course on that.
We’ve gone from “give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses earning to breathe free” to “fuck you, we’re full, get out.” And it’s embarrassing as fuck.
BREAKING: Dominican Republic lead prosecutor says shooting of ex-Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was result of mistaken identity. https://t.co/l5Ym32cOtx
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 19, 2019
Saudi journalist Jamal #Khashoggi was the victim of a premeditated extrajudicial execution, for which the State of #SaudiArabia is responsible – report published today by @AgnesCallamard where she cites 6 violations of international law.
Learn more: https://t.co/MpsfsJRF6c pic.twitter.com/zykNt6wJLs— UN Special Procedures (@UN_SPExperts) June 19, 2019
re: #148 KGxvi
We’ve gone from “give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses earning to breathe free” to “fuck you, we’re full, get out.” And it’s embarrassing as fuck.
Yep and that is one of the worst thing about this administration. They totally reject that. Even a world class prick like Nixon wasn’t like that but this guy and his toadies?
heh
This woman has the perfect response for men who send her unsolicited dick picshttps://t.co/4bAiLbwLMJ pic.twitter.com/XmdKtAcTK8
— The Poke (@ThePoke) June 19, 2019
re: #100 Sir John Barron
OK, but say we do Build The Wall between us and Mexico. Won’t the bad terrorists just cross over from the Canadian border? Or just fly in like they did before?
Or they will just be born here.
re: #148 KGxvi
We’ve gone from “give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses earning to breathe free” to “fuck you, we’re full, get out.” And it’s embarrassing as fuck.
Hey now, we’re totally cool with bringing people in…from Norway. Or Eastern Europe. But only so long as they come here speaking English with a Southern accent and hate “foreigners” as much as “real ‘Murikans” should.
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Dutch authorities plan to name suspects in MH17 downing tomorrow. https://t.co/D1E3x13Eil pic.twitter.com/bebQIROl6v
— Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (@RFERL) June 18, 2019
re: #68 HappyWarrior
You can’t even condemn Trump on Russia, Bernie and yet you do shit like this.
As I keep repeating — Bernie is as owned by Putin as Trump. Putin would be ecstatic with a Bernie - Trump race; he may prefer Bernie who is more likely to be consistent and not exhibit erratic behavior.
re: #157 Targetpractice
Hey now, we’re totally cool with bringing people in…from Norway. Or Eastern Europe. But only so long as they come here speaking English with a Southern accent and hate “foreigners” as much as “real ‘Murikans” should.
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My Trumpster brother doesn’t care about ethnicity so much — he wants anyone who is educated, with an advanced degree, who is a brilliant programmer or entrepreneur. Though he probably prefers those from Asia because of their well-established computer skills.
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
My Trumpster brother doesn’t care about ethnicity so much — he wants anyone who is educated, with an advanced degree, who is a brilliant programmer or entrepreneur. Though he probably prefers those from Asia because of their well-established computer skills.
Let me guess, he either doesn’t work in an industry where he’d be worried those folks will “TAKE OUR JOBS!!!”…or he does, but thinks he’s so secure in his position that there’s no chance his boss would ever fire him.
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
My Trumpster brother doesn’t care about ethnicity so much — he wants anyone who is educated, with an advanced degree, who is a brilliant programmer or entrepreneur. Though he probably prefers those from Asia because of their well-established computer skills.
Nigerian immigrants almost all have college degrees, and they speak English. WIN!!
re: #163 sagehen
Nigerian immigrants almost all have college degrees, and they speak English. WIN!!
If only their Princes would stop scamming us…
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re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
My Trumpster brother doesn’t care about ethnicity so much — he wants anyone who is educated, with an advanced degree, who is a brilliant programmer or entrepreneur. Though he probably prefers those from Asia because of their well-established computer skills.
Quite a few immigrants end up being “entrepreneurs” just not in the fancy start up venture capital world. I suspect many end up starting businesses in construction, or food service, or housekeeping, some become realtors/real estate agents. And every single one of them end up working their asses off in the process.
re: #162 Targetpractice
Let me guess, he either doesn’t work in an industry where he’d be worried those folks will “TAKE OUR JOBS!!!”…or he does, but thinks he’s so secure in his position that there’s no chance his boss would ever fire him.
He did work in those industries — but he was an engineer and not a programmer. That work was outsourced to programmers in Asia.
One of my programmer friends, now retired, was originally opposed to H-1B visas for programming jobs but eventually decided that was far preferable to the alternative of outsourcing the work to Asia. That way, the work does remain here and those that come in on visas become Americans.
re: #165 KGxvi
Quite a few immigrants end up being “entrepreneurs” just not in the fancy start up venture capital world. I suspect many end up starting businesses in construction, or food service, or housekeeping, some become realtors/real estate agents. And every single one of them end up working their asses off in the process.
Yep.
Severe storms were dropping hail as big as tennis balls northeast of Dallas, Texas Wednesday afternoon. #OhHailNo #TXwx pic.twitter.com/Er0Kk8mJEs
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) June 19, 2019
re: #169 Teukka
Nope, still read the top line first. If the middle text was an image, I’d probably go there first, but with text, I still go to the first line first.
Strom Thurmond & Jesse Helms said to stop by at the cross burning tonight.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) June 19, 2019
re: #173 Scottish Dragon
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Who stopped supporting Democratic Presidents after they embraced civil rights. And the few white Republicans that existed within the South at the onset of the Civil Rights era were even more racist than the Dixiecrats. That’s why the Democrats lost Southern whites.
re: #173 Scottish Dragon
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re: #175 gocart mozart
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re: #174 HappyWarrior
Who stopped supporting Democratic Presidents after they embraced civil rights. And the few white Republicans that existed within the South at the onset of the Civil Rights era were even more racist than the Dixiecrats. That’s why the Democrats lost Southern whites.
Trump has been successful at getting people to believe his lies and so has Dinesh. Tom Cotton decided to join the alternative fact bandwagon.
re: #173 Scottish Dragon
Not this shit again.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Dems were beating Trump in early polls in 2015 too, weren’t they?
generally, yes, it looks about the same, except no democrat ever polled beating trump in texas
also, trump is now a known quantity
Most of the Republicans who supported the CRA and VRA came from states that the very party today treats as “coastal elites” while boasting about the support of “real Americans” in the very states whose Congressmen opposed desegregation and equality.
re: #181 Targetpractice
Most of the Republicans who supported the CRA and VRA came from states that the very party today treats as “coastal elites” while boasting about the support of “real Americans” in the very states whose Congressmen opposed desegregation and equality.
Yep.
TBH it’s not a coincidence most of those old Rockefeller Republican districts are now Democratic.
re: #178 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump has been successful at getting people to believe his lies and so has Dinesh. Tom Cotton decided to join the alternative fact bandwagon.
People want to believe the lies. They think it makes them better than their predecessors, or somehow different. Same thing with the concentration camp nonsense yesterday - they don’t want to admit to the truth of what they really believe.
HOLY SHIT. Watch. Watch a few more times. Retweet. Follow Democrat @KimOlsonTx. She’s at 8.280 followers. How big can we go? Reply with your follower number and let’s kick some ass in TX-24. Watch one more time after that. pic.twitter.com/2QNbT1N7MM
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) June 19, 2019
The Brexiters really are extreme reactionaries and they now control the Tory party:
UK risks Scotland split, more austerity after a no-deal Brexit - Hammond
An opinion poll published this week showed a majority of Conservative Party members - who will make the final decision on Britain’s next prime minister in July - would accept losing Scotland from the United Kingdom as long as Brexit is delivered.
Scotland really isn’t a viable polity on its own. As part of the EU it would be one of the smaller states and dependent upon a lot of support from the populous EU states.
But if the Brexiters get what they want, then so be it.
8 stages of Genocide pic.twitter.com/lXjYCemSJB
— Raging Snitty Granny🇨🇦Proud Resister 🍷🐓 (@GaleScheelar) June 19, 2019
The Eight Stages of Genocide:
1. Classification: Us and Them. Citizens and “Illegal Aliens.”
2. Symbolism: Immigrants as “MS-13 gangbangers, drug smugglers, terrorists.”
3. Dehumanization: “Illegals are leeches, cockroaches, and parasites!”
4. Organization: ICE, Tea Party, Minutemen, Proud Boys, 3 Percenters, Identity Evropa.
5. Polarization: Majority of Republicans support mass detentions and deportations.
6: Preparation: Separating migrant families. Throwing them into overcrowded cages.
7. Extermination: “2nd Amendment Solution”
8. Denial: “They’re not concentration camps!” “They deserved it for invading our country!”
Hell, wingnuts today try to insist that JFK would be a Republican if he ran today. Yet not only did he hail from a state that they now view as a “socialist hellhole,” but he promoted racial and economic equality at a time when such things were as “controversial” as suggesting M4A or a guaranteed income. LBJ gets credited with the Great Society, but most of those ideas were Kennedy’s and he was preparing to make them a major part of his reelection campaign in ‘64. And it was only the fact that JFK had introduced the CRA and VRA to Congress just prior to his death that allowed LBJ to push both through as his “legacy.”
Brexiteers really are reactionaries. From the over-linked and over-promoted (for the actual content) “Conservative Woman” website… which seems to feature mostly articles by men…
The way to a Clean Brexit? Independence from Scotland
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There is a solution: England and Wales - rather than Scotland - must leave the UK. If Britannia leaves the UK, then Britannia is an independent country out of the EU.
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re: #186 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Scotland really isn’t a viable polity on its own
Scotland was an independent country for over one thousand years.
in the super progressive blogs they don’t understand joe. they keep on saying “no democrats support him” and “he’s only winning in the polls because of name recognition”
they think all democratic voters think like them
joe represents a known path back from the crazy show. trump scares suburbians, and they are the real swing voters. joe’s gaffes make him human and likeable, not manufactured and media-ready. joe doesn’t propose “crazy” super progressive programs, just old fashioned clinton era vague democratic rhetoric about fairness. joe is calm and reassuring. you can even vote for him if you’re usually a republican but are uncomfortable with crazy trump, cuz joe doesn’t hate all republicans, you see, he just wants to get rid of trump
the long and the short of it is that biden figures the swing vote, the vote needed to make the difference, is the middle of the road suburbian vote, and if there is one thing middle of the road suburbians like, it’s bland reassurances that everything will be normal
re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was leaving work, on the south side of Greenville, when it hit on the north side. They are saying a tornado touched down on the east side.
re: #189 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Brexiteers really are reactionaries. From the over-linked and over-promoted (for the actual content) “Conservative Woman” website… which seems to feature mostly articles by men…
I’m sympathetic to Scottish independence personally so if the English/Welsh nationalists want to shoot themselves in the foot over this, that would screw them over since they want to regain Britain’s past power without fully participating in the global community.
After much trial and error, I’ve decided that Imagick::FILTER_CATROM is the best filter to use when scaling an image down to thumbnail size.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2019
re: #187 DodgerFan1988
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The Eight Stages of Genocide:
1. Classification: Us and Them. Citizens and “Illegal Aliens.”
2. Symbolism: Immigrants as “MS-13 gangbangers, drug smugglers, terrorists.”
3. Dehumanization: “Illegals are leeches, cockroaches, and parasites!”
4. Organization: ICE, Tea Party, Minutemen, Proud Boys, 3 Percenters, Identity Evropa.
5. Polarization: Majority of Republicans support mass detentions and deportations.
6: Preparation: Separating migrant families. Throwing them into overcrowded cages.
7. Extermination: “2nd Amendment Solution”
8. Denial: “They’re not concentration camps!” “They deserved it for invading our country!”
Old but great thread:
The Nazis never saw themselves as villains.
You look at the horrible atrocities they committed and you think they MUST have known they were the monsters.
But they didn’t.
Instead, the Nazis thought they themselves were the VICTIMS.
1/ pic.twitter.com/EFkL7fISe0— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 18, 2018
re: #190 Scottish Dragon
Scotland was an independent country for over one thousand years.
When the nobles road horses, the masses wore sack clothes, and kilts were more than just counterculture fashion statements.
re: #195 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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That’s correct and why the Are we the baddies comic sketch works so well. It’s easy to reduce the Nazis or any tyrannical regime bent on genocide or democide to comic book villains cackling evilly in an underground lair but the Nazis really thought they were being moral and righteous just as this administration insists it is moral to do what they are.
re: #186 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The Brexiters really are extreme reactionaries and they now control the Tory party:
UK risks Scotland split, more austerity after a no-deal Brexit - Hammond
Scotland really isn’t a viable polity on its own. As part of the EU it would be one of the smaller states and dependent upon a lot of support from the populous EU states.
But if the Brexiters get what they want, then so be it.
TBH I disagree. It would be a transition for them after being part of the UK for centuries but there are smaller EU Republics that function fine.
re: #198 HappyWarrior
TBH I disagree. It would be a transition for them after being part of the UK for centuries but there are smaller EU Republics that function fine.
Small nations do work today, but as part of larger communities.
The transition of Scotland away from England may be an idealism that just isn’t tractable. I can’t imagine the economic impact of relocating millions of people, if the new England/Wales in the grip of Brexiters doesn’t want foreigners on their soil.
The switch to the Euro would be radical but manageable, but I bet many Scots would be quite unhappy with how poor they will end up being.
For those who missed today’s new on Teegarden’s star:
Two Earth-Like Worlds Found Orbiting a Red Dwarf Only 12.5 Light-Years Away
I always gripe about “Earth-like” and there that phrase is again in a headlines.
The two planets are Earth-similar in mass. Their actual nature is unknown.
From the actual paper:
Because no transits are detected, we cannot derive the planetary radii. We therefore estimated them from mass-radius relations for various compositions (Zeng et al. 2016). The planetary radii depend weakly on the planetary mass, but strongly on the bulk composition (Fig. 12). Between the two extreme compositions, namely a pure Fe core on the one side and a cold H+He mini-Neptune on the other, the radii differ by a factor of about three (see Fig. 12). We used these radii as well as other stellar and planetary parameters to derive the Earth Similarity Index (ESI) as defined by Schulze-Makuch et al. (2011). The ESI is an indicator that compares key parameters to those of our Earth (ESI⊕ = 1). Here we used the weighted ESI, taking into account the equilibrium temperature, atmospheric escape velocity, bulk density, and radius, with a dominant contribution from the equilibrium temperature. The weights were taken from the Habitable Exoplanet Catalog12. Except for the case of a miniNeptune composition, the two planets have a high ESI. For a
potentially rocky composition, the ESI value is 0.94 and 0.8 for planets b and c, respectively. This makes Teegarden’s Star b the planet with currently the highest ESI value. However, the ESI is only an estimate, and different weighting of the parameters may lead to changing ESIs. This ESI definition, for example, does not take into account the stellar spectral energy distribution and the resulting planetary atmospheric composition, which very likely have an effect on habitability.
re: #199 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Small nations do work today, but as part of larger communities.
The transition of Scotland away from England may be an idealism that just isn’t tractable. I can’t imagine the economic impact of relocating millions of people, if the new England/Wales in the grip of Brexiters doesn’t want foreigners on their soil.
The switch to the Euro would be radical but manageable, but I bet many Scots would be quite unhappy with how poor they will end up being.
It’s a tough pickle the Scots face since their values seem to be at odds with England, Wales, & Northern Ireland. The problem I had with how opposing independence was sold is that Scots were told they would remain in the EU if they remained part of the UK. And that didn’t happen. I’m just saying I don’t feel any empathy to nationalists who thought EU withdrawal would benefit their country and then they’d see the negative economic ramifications of leaving.
re: #198 HappyWarrior
TBH I disagree. It would be a transition for them after being part of the UK for centuries but there are smaller EU Republics that function fine.
I am curious — would there be any benefit for Scotland and Ireland to form some type of bi-national union?
Still, it’s neat that there are Earth-mass planets so close to our own system.
The star is close, less than 13 light years away, but it is about as small as stars can come, so it is very faint.
Teegarden’s star is a recent discovery. Our galaxy may be overflowing with these types of stars.
re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter
I am curious — would there be any benefit for Scotland and Ireland to form some type of bi-national union?
It’s an interesting thought but I would worry sectarianism could develop. The cultures are similar but not completely close enough to blend like that. However the growing secularism in both I think helps lessen division.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 20, 2019
re: #175 gocart mozart
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If only Goya would rise from his grave and curse out this guy, as “The Third of May 1808” is a classic.
On the other hand, at least this MAGAnut didn’t paint Melania as either “The Nude Maja” or “The Clothed Maja.”
re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter
I am curious — would there be any benefit for Scotland and Ireland to form some type of bi-national union?
Well, someone might learn to play the feckn’ pipes.
re: #173 Scottish Dragon
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One of the weirdest fucking experiences of my life was finding out that one of the men in the little Primitive Baptist Church in my grandparents’ small Georgia town (pop. 300) at my grandfather’s funeral was Herman Eugene Talmadge. This was early 1980s. I know that most of my southern family (mom’s from said-GA town but married my Illinois dad and moved north where I was born) employed black workers but had strict rules about interactions. For both of my grandparents’ funerals, a large portion of the black community came out, but they stood outside the church dressed in funerary black suits. Anyway, that legacy is kind of why my mom felt she had to leave the south; my grandfather’s connection to Talmadge is unclear, but I have no doubt he held the same beliefs about segregation.
re: #197 HappyWarrior
That’s correct and why the Are we the baddies comic sketch works so well. It’s easy to reduce the Nazis or any tyrannical regime bent on genocide or democide to comic book villains cackling evilly in an underground lair but the Nazis really thought they were being moral and righteous just as this administration insists it is moral to do what they are.
The myth of the “Good German” is largely that, a myth that was conceived in post-war Germany to allow those who’d participated in the horrors a means of defending their actions. So much of it came from the need of the former Allied nations to rehabilitate their German counterparts in order to build up West and East Germany as part of the Cold War. We scoff today at the “Nuremberg Defense,” but for many of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who went on to form the nucleus of the new German armed forces, it was accepted as a valid excuse to ignore their war-time exploits. Likewise government officials and businessmen who’d taken part in the regime who weren’t drug off to the gallows got to spin themselves post-war as “quiet dissenters,” who’d wanted so badly to bring down the Reich but lived in constant fear of death or worse.
Really, if we hadn’t had to turn Germany into the frontlines of a potential WWIII, it’s very likely that we would have spent a generation de-Nazifying the entire nation, as it would have taken that long or longer to undo all the crap crammed into the heads of the children born into the Reich.
And now, with this second quote from Chuck Todd, I’m prepared to upgrade my previous comment from “ridiculous” to “fucking ridiculous.”
Is he being malicious or just clueless? Rarely have I seen a cable host so eager to embrace bad faith right wing attack lines. https://t.co/7Xye2PNzKT— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2019
re: #207 Decatur Deb
Well, someone might learn to play the feckn’ pipes.
We spell whiskey right. Sorry SD. Plus Colcannon > Haggis.
re: #212 Charles Johnson
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re: #190 Scottish Dragon
Scotland was an independent country for over one thousand years.
In a very different economic situation where they didn’t import food or energy. Now it would be much more difficult for a separate Scotland.
re: #212 Charles Johnson
Chuck does his masters’ bidding, his masters being Comcast and NBCU, who have a long history of being in business with Trump.
re: #209 Barefoot Grin
One of the weirdest fucking experiences of my life was finding out that one of the men in the little Primitive Baptist Church in my grandparents’ small Georgia town (pop. 300) at my grandfather’s funeral was Herman Eugene Talmadge. This was early 1980s. I know that most of my southern family (mom’s from said-GA town but married my Illinois dad and moved north where I was born) employed black workers but had strict rules about interactions. For both of my grandparents’ funerals, a large portion of the black community came out, but they stood outside the church dressed in funerary black suits. Anyway, that legacy is kind of why my mom felt she had to leave the south; my grandfather’s connection to Talmadge is unclear, but I have no doubt he held the same beliefs about segregation.
Gotta say something else: the place she landed, Champaign-Urbana, Il, was no better. They just hid it with redlining. To this day the majority of African-American residents live north of Bradley St. in poor-quality housing. That’s the story TN Coates was testifying about today.
I suspect some kind of word went out on the Old Boy Network™ to knock this young whippersnapper down a peg or two.
re: #210 Targetpractice
Really, if we hadn’t had to turn Germany into the frontlines of a potential WWIII, it’s very likely that we would have spent a generation de-Nazifying the entire nation, as it would have taken that long or longer to undo all the crap crammed into the heads of the children born into the Reich.
It looks like they did a fairly decent job the way they are. In reality, though, if we hadn’t had to de-Nazify Germany the way we did, we would have done a half-assed job and people would have gotten tired of it here, and we would have left them alone after a while.
re: #210 Targetpractice
The myth of the “Good German” is largely that, a myth that was conceived in post-war Germany to allow those who’d participated in the horrors a means of defending their actions. So much of it came from the need of the former Allied nations to rehabilitate their German counterparts in order to build up West and East Germany as part of the Cold War. We scoff today at the “Nuremberg Defense,” but for many of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who went on to form the nucleus of the new German armed forces, it was accepted as a valid excuse to ignore their war-time exploits. Likewise government officials and businessmen who’d taken part in the regime who weren’t drug off to the gallows got to spin themselves post-war as “quiet dissenters,” who’d wanted so badly to bring down the Reich but lived in constant fear of death or worse.
Really, if we hadn’t had to turn Germany into the frontlines of a potential WWIII, it’s very likely that we would have spent a generation de-Nazifying the entire nation, as it would have taken that long or longer to undo all the crap crammed into the heads of the children born into the Reich.
I really never thought about Germany that way but yeah that was a very real possibility.
re: #220 HappyWarrior
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re: #215 William Lewis
In a very different economic situation where they didn’t import food or energy. Now it would be much more difficult for a separate Scotland.
I’m fairly certain that Scotland has no worries about importing energy since it’s a world leader in renewables, plus there’s the North Sea oil and gas fields
re: #218 Charles Johnson
I suspect some kind of word went out on the Old Boy Network™ to knock this young whippersnapper down a peg or two.
She’s everything they hate: young, woman, smart, minority, popular, pretty, and a Democrat.
Every single thing they hate.
re: #219 Belafon
It looks like they did a fairly decent job the way they are. In reality, though, if we hadn’t had to de-Nazify Germany the way we did, we would have done a half-assed job and people would have gotten tired of it here, and we would have left them alone after a while.
We certainly did a brilliant job of changing the hearts and minds of the white supremacists of the Confederacy and their descendants ////
re: #198 HappyWarrior
TBH I disagree. It would be a transition for them after being part of the UK for centuries but there are smaller EU Republics that function fine.
They have never produced oil from the source rock of the North Sea Basin. Billions of bbls remain in place. They could provide feedstock for the petrochemical industry for a century if it was exploited.
I’m not saying they should, what I’m saying is that that one resource alone makes them viable as an economy.
re: #215 William Lewis
In a very different economic situation where they didn’t import food or energy. Now it would be much more difficult for a separate Scotland.
Hmm, how would all the off-shore resources and borders come out of a Scotland/England split? And where do the Orkney and Shetlands come in?
re: #221 lawhawk
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Current mood. https://t.co/42WYZT7hj3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2019
I just read “The Candy Bombers” about the Berlin Airlift and especially about Gail Halvorson’s choice to break rules, make parachutes out of his hankercheifs and parachute candy to children who had nothing. The airlift and the candy was more successful in fighting communism than any combat operation.
re: #227 HappyWarrior
I think I find that element of the Holocaust most horrifying. The Nazis were fanatical zealots but they succeeded due to enough indifference and casual bigotry by their neighbors.
Yes, there are definitely some disturbing parallels with 2019 America.
Here is my portrait of @Liz_Cheney pic.twitter.com/rGwyCuaMRy
— Eli Valley (@elivalley) June 20, 2019
It’s not simple ignorance. It’s starting from the assumption that AOC is ignorant and every cliché in his repertoire is a simple truth and he doesn’t have to examine a single one of his preconceptions. It’s his deep confidence in his superiority up in his View from Nowhere. https://t.co/mkYMvEfemP
— Impeachment Agnostic (@Yastreblyansky) June 20, 2019
re: #229 William Lewis
I just read “The Candy Bombers” about the Berlin Airlift and especially about Gail Halvorson’s choice to break rules, make parachutes out of his hankercheifs and parachute candy to children who had nothing. The airlift and the candy was more successful in fighting communism than any combat operation.
The Berlin Airlift was a master class in operations management. Anyone who works in ops should study it.
re: #200 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
For those who missed today’s new on Teegarden’s star:
Two Earth-Like Worlds Found Orbiting a Red Dwarf Only 12.5 Light-Years Away
I always gripe about “Earth-like” and there that phrase is again in a headlines.
The two planets are Earth-similar in mass. Their actual nature is unknown.
From the actual paper:
This star is TINY. It’s mass is 0.08 times that of the Sun. It’s a red dwarf (type M), but barely above brown dwarf status. And the Earth-sized planets? One is in an orbit of just under 5 days and the other is in an 11.4 day orbit. They’re both probably tidally locked, so broiling on one side, freezing on the other. However, the good news is they’re getting better at detecting Earth-sized objects. Remember when planets first started being discovered a quarter-century ago? What astronomers were detecting then were super-Jupiters, pretty close to brown dwarf status.
There’s probably a lot more close by low mass infrared objects nearby, still waiting to be discovered. For example, there’s Luhmann 16, a pair of brown dwarfs 6.5 light years from us, with discovery only announced in 2013. en.wikipedia.org We’re getting better at finding these tiny stars and their planets. I’m old enough to remember when we were told that we’d never direct image a planet around a star because they were too far away for telescopes. That’s changed, too.
re: #190 Scottish Dragon
Scotland was an independent country for over one thousand years.
longer than that
the romans never took it
afaik scotland was always independent until the act of onion
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes, there are definitely some disturbing parallels with 2019 America.
Indeed. I’m not saying it will help but enough people are indifferent to or accepting of casual bigotry.
re: #232 gocart mozart
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She’s treated like a stupid kid since she’s a young Latina from a modest background in elected office.
re: #237 HappyWarrior
She’s treated like a stupid kid since she’s a young Latina from a modest background in elected office.
A little blunter than my first thought, but pretty much on the dot. The idea that she speaks from “ignorance” and so much be taught what’s “right” by an elder like he.
re: #232 gocart mozart
I’m sorry, but this is so wrong. I was rereading “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis today and he had people who crossed the Corpo administration going to “concentration camps” in 1935! @AOC is right and you are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Apologize!
— Deana “Gritty Mascot is Best Mascot” Holmes (@mmmirele) June 20, 2019
re: #239 mmmirele
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She did them a disservice? Yeah because comparing people to concentration camp victims is the same as treating them like violent criminals.
Tomorrow, with @IvankaTrump, I will release the 19th Trafficking in Persons Report. The #TIPReport highlights the U.S. government’s commitment and global leadership in combating human trafficking. The Report is just the start. Governments must take action now to #EndTrafficking.
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) June 19, 2019
You coward. You’re still trying to please your NBCU/Comcast masters. You quibble over words instead of calling out liars like Trump explicitly (as a liar and conman.) If you think something like “Detention camp” makes you feel better use it, but that’s wordsmithing.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) June 20, 2019
re: #239 mmmirele
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And bear in mind in 1935, there was no Auschwitz. And Kristallnacht was still 3 years away. Americans were still admiring how Hitler had “turned Germany around” and American businessmen were still looking at opportunities to cash in on that economic revival. While Dachau had been built 2 years prior (1933), most of those who were sent there were still “political prisoners” and German communists, while most “undesirables” were being subjected to sterilization or forced to flee.
Too many women & girls find themselves the victims of sexual violence in conflict. @USAID programs work to provide victims with resources and discourage gender based violence, hopefully resulting in the end of its existence. #EndRapeinWar pic.twitter.com/JeRQiHMgyr
— Mark Green (@USAIDMarkGreen) June 19, 2019
Yeah, but fuck them for wanting to abort their rape fetus. The US will never support abortion funding.
PS. Chuck Todd is a c-nt.
re: #244 Targetpractice
And bear in mind in 1935, there was no Auschwitz. And Kristallnacht was still 3 years away. Americans were still admiring how Hitler had “turned Germany around” and American businessmen were still looking at opportunities to cash in on that economic revival. While Dachau had been built 2 years prior (1933), most of those who were sent there were still “political prisoners” and German communists, while most “undesirables” were being subjected to sterilization or forced to flee.
That was when many of the prewar right praised him even if they found the antisemitism over the top.
re: #245 HappyWarrior
Because Ivanka is qualified to combat child trafficking.
“It’s so horrible, so wrong…I could be using those kids to make my merchandise!”
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People going off on Chuck (rightfully so) thinks he’s just the host of MTP.
But he’s more than that. He’s the political editor for NBC, meaning he’s not just a host but he’s the one in charge of the content.
That MSNBC has the likes of Maddow is simply down to audience. NBCU has no problem making money off of anyone (see their long relationship with Trump.)
re: #248 Targetpractice
“It’s so horrible, so wrong…I could be using those kids to make my merchandise!”
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re: #245 HappyWarrior
Because Ivanka is qualified to combat child trafficking.
I would like to see a report on trafficking in cheap shoes manufactured in sweatshops. pic.twitter.com/sDZvLkvx80
— Hugo 🐝🦋🐴🌾🐬🌎 (@HugoBGood) June 19, 2019
re: #251 Feline Fearless Leader
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Off topic, but when I was an exchange student in Japan in 1982 the students in my high school called a bald teacher “No Hair Man.” And this was in rural Japan. The Beatles!
I think this is why Ivanka infuriates me the most in the family. She tries to sell herself as the kindly and socially conscious Trump. There’s no such thing in that family.
re: #255 HappyWarrior
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Barron grew up to be a bleeding heart liberal?
re: #256 Eclectic Cyborg
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Barron grew up to be a bleeding heart liberal?
The youngest son of the Nazi governor of Poland is resolutely Anti Nazi but I fear Barron is incredibly sheltered. I hope he turns out or is a decent person but I dunno. I hope so. The only Trumps I don’t hate are him and Tiffany and their nieces and nephews.
re: #253 William Lewis
Nice. Keeping it near your forge and anvil?
Not mine. I’m still compiling mine will be integrated with a striker anvil as one tool.
re: #219 Belafon
It looks like they did a fairly decent job the way they are. In reality, though, if we hadn’t had to de-Nazify Germany the way we did, we would have done a half-assed job and people would have gotten tired of it here, and we would have left them alone after a while.
We should have “De-Confederated” the South in the same way that we “De-Nazified” Germany.
Reagan often made up his own facts which often did not conform to reality. An actual living person, Sinclair Lewis, profoundly once said:
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
Today he might add:
“and would be wearing a MAGA hat”— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 20, 2019
And I’m blocked
Pouring down rain again. I ran out to check the gauge about 20 minutes ago, and called in that there was another .81” (in addition to the .91” earlier this afternoon).
Still raining but the water is ankle deep in my front yard so I won’t check that gauge again until morning.
My old Honeywell wireless gauge says we’ve gotten 1.39” (that would include the .81”)
Looks like we’ve broken 10” for the month (more than 6” of that since Sunday).
Definitely need a bigger boat.
Oh, NWS issued a Flash Flood Warning right after I called them.
Gonna be a fun night…
You know what he’s talking about. https://t.co/5k3HkPDQbl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2019
re: #259 The Vicious Babushka
We should have “De-Confederated” the South in the same way that we “De-Nazified” Germany.
I think we were in the process of it but then the Election of 1876 happened.
Just in case anyone was wondering about our friend Rossie… Even her profile pic was suspended. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/a75bcUPldb
— Mo Latno Bill Phelan (@MoBill) June 20, 2019
re: #260 gocart mozart
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Reagan race baited like Trump did and was an ally of McCarthyism. He was much more authoritarian friendly than the left he liked to deride as authoritarian.
The never Trump conservatives don’t acknowledge that Trump’s predecessors- men they admire like Reagan, Buckley, The Bushes all in some way helped make the right we have today that embraced Trump.
This is a good plan
I am convinced that if we all follow and unfollow Chuck Todd on twitter, over and over again, very quickly, that his hair will catch on fire.
Please join me in this important cause.— John Lurie (@lurie_john) June 20, 2019
oh dear
Perhaps @JoeBiden should read up on the considerably racist history of the “racist bone” defense before he cites it again as supposed evidence of his lack of racism. https://t.co/dDYujNniHd
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) June 20, 2019
This is @CoryBooker’s statement in full. If he called @JoeBiden a racist here, it must be in invisible ink. Biden either never got the full context of Booker’s remarks—the reporter did characterize them rather sloppily—or he willfully misinterpreted what he’d already read. pic.twitter.com/vtSHpg6py1
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) June 20, 2019
re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh dear
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Disappointed with Biden’s response. This reminds me of Bernie using his participation in Civil Rights matches to dispel criticism of his civil rights leadership lacking skill.
when mom told you not to go on the furniture because you were still a little wet from being in the rain but you’d rather be comfy than listen (cc: @darth) pic.twitter.com/dHR72hRudN
— katie dzwierzynski (@kdzwierzynski) June 20, 2019
I just wish Biden could see why praising Eastman and Talmedge, two staunch segregationists would bother people. Biden’s gotta realize that while they may have worked on some issues that put the nation’s interests before their own, they were unabashed and unapologetic segregationists and much of their political career was based on that.
If you learn that your country is putting children in concentration camps and your main problem is that they shouldn’t be called concentration camps ‘cuz by your count not enough kids have died yet…….that’s how you know that you are a stupid and bad person.
— God (@thegoodgodabove) June 20, 2019
.@chucktodd when trump called mexicans rapists, when he said black teens should be executed, when he bragged about groping women, when he pushed for a muslim ban: *crickets*
chuck todd when @AOC called out our treatment of migrants: “HOW DARE SHE”— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 19, 2019
re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth
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People dying in concentration camps is the cumulation of interning people without respect for human rights. The people in camps didn’t get there without years of justifying their dehumanization and making them pariahs.
Yes, I have interviewed Holocaust survivors for 10 years. The Holocaust did not start with the death camps, it started with Hitler’s Bund rallies https://t.co/MuPdbWGzPg
— Sandi Bachom (@sandibachom) June 20, 2019
Where is the “racist bone” located in the people whose skeletons contain it?
re: #277 The Vicious Babushka
Where is the “racist bone” located in the people whose skeletons contain it?
Somewhere “up” in the pelvis I’d imagine.
re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It ended with the death camps. And children have already died. Children have already been traumatized and why? Because Trump wants to treat immigrants like murderers.
re: #277 The Vicious Babushka
Where is the “racist bone” located in the people whose skeletons contain it?
Alternatively, can it be a typo, that it should be “racist boner”?
Semi-/// *ducks for cover*
Foreign policy is hard: With Maduro entrenched in Venezuela, Trump loses patience and interest in issue, officials say https://t.co/hQFhUIqULb
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) June 20, 2019
I’m shocked, you?
The greatest curve. Many people have said this. No one’s ever seen a curve that great. https://t.co/ZVaRfZEzUf
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) June 20, 2019
re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m shocked, you?
Of course. He supported the opposition when Maduro looked like he could be ousted so he could take credit.
Does anyone know what the House Intelligence Committee is doing about getting all their subpoenas enforced? What the hell is going on?
Yikes!
Train carrying bombs, hazardous material derails in Nevada
A train carrying munitions and hazardous material derailed in Elko County, Nevada, on Wednesday morning.
The crash happened just before noon local time near Interstate 80 about three miles east of the city of Wells.
The Nevada Highway Patrol said the derailment involved about nine flat cars, two tankers and three box cars, but the number of cars that went off the tracks has not yet been confirmed. No injuries have been reported.
Rear cars believed to be carrying munitions, hand grenades, sodium nitrate and bombs stayed on the tracks, according to public safety officials in Elko.
“Looters in giant pickups were seen fleeing toward the Bundy Ranch.”
Ok, I made up that last part.
The parallels between the Third Reich and the Trump regime.
One of the enduring myths of the Nazi era is that average Germans didn’t know what was happening to persecuted groups including the Jews. Everyone knew about the round ups and the deportations - they were impossible to miss in daily life.
— Ned Richardson-Little (@HistoryNed) June 19, 2019
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s a very rough conversion, but 10 inches of powder snow is equal to an inch of rain. So you folks in the backwoods have received 100 inches of powder snow equivalent just this month. That’s a lot of water.
re: #263 HappyWarrior
I think we were in the process of it but then the Election of 1876 happened.
The problem started sooner than that; Lincoln/Grant were committed to reconstruction, but Andrew Johnson not so much.
Here, you can see several of the Republicans who were rated as *less* aligned with the stances of the American Conservative Union than Eastland and Talmadge that year.https://t.co/zKlMOY4iK1 pic.twitter.com/BK3uAe7JBe
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 20, 2019
EEK! Flood stage at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers at Cairo is 40 feet. It’s expected to crest at 49.5 feet this weekend.
On Fox, Ingram has a graphic stating “AOC’s ignorance of history.”
re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The public perception of the Holocaust as being only the systemic killing of Jews is largely because of decades of Americans (and, indeed, must of the West) being uncomfortable with addressing the means by which the Reich made the killing seem not only necessary but beneficial. After all, the period in which we quietly dropped de-Nazification coincides with the Red Scare, which was a period in which we as a nation declared even having liberal thoughts was tantamount to betrayal of our sacred “American values.” Even today, our school children generally only get a cursory overview of the events of the 20th century, with Nazi subjugation of “undesirables” largely condensed into the highlights (Kristallnacht & death camps) so as to devote more time earlier in the school year to how awesome our Founding Fathers were.
re: #288 sagehen
The problem started sooner than that; Lincoln/Grant were committed to reconstruction, but Andrew Johnson not so much.
Yep.
re: #291 Belafon
On Fox, Ingram has a graphic stating “AOC’s ignorance of history.”
The network that let Glenn Beck compare everything Obama did to Hitler is calling AOC ignorant. Also same lady who gave a Nazi like salute to Trump and accuses ethnic minorities of the same stuff that Goebells did.
@AOC is probably the best politician today to wind up the crazies. I love it! I hope she stays in national politics for a long time.
re: #258 Dave In Austin
Not mine. I’m still compiling mine will be integrated with a striker anvil as one tool.
Ah! That would be good.
re: #289 gocart mozart
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They want to paint the Southern Democrats as liberals. They weren’t. Even reformer types like Jimmy Carter weren’t. Carter is a good man but he wasn’t a liberal for his era.
The @ACUConservative website is really well done, with ratings for both the House and Senate from 1971-2018 and easily sorted through.
Check it out here: https://t.co/zKlMOY4iK1— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 20, 2019
A big ol’ ratio…..
Mexico just ratified the #USMCA trade agreement. Delaying USMCA means fewer economic benefits to hard working Americans.
When will @SpeakerPelosi put politics aside and do what is best for America’s workers, farmers, and families? pic.twitter.com/HH8ojI99A2— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) June 19, 2019
re: #290 teleskiguy
EEK! Flood stage at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers at Cairo is 40 feet. It’s expected to crest at 49.5 feet this weekend.
I wonder if they’re going to open the Old River Control Structure again this year.
Pardon me, might I trouble you for a bit of mouse? #americankestrel #stormflysparrowsbane #falconry #babybirds pic.twitter.com/C0Agd0X4Eo
— Foxfeather Zenkova (@foxfeather) June 19, 2019
She keeps trying to stay up to watch me work but she relaxes down into a sleepy puddle, then wakes with a quiet peep and gives me this face. pic.twitter.com/70Y8gaFMnb
— Foxfeather Zenkova (@foxfeather) June 20, 2019
re: #300 teleskiguy
I wonder if they’re going to open the Old River Control Structure again this year.
Whoops! I meant the Morganza Spillway just down river. It’s only been opened twice, once in 1993 and once in 2011.
re: #298 gocart mozart
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Yep and those Republican areas like the ones that once elected more Conservative Democrats started electing Democrats after the Rockefeller Republicans retired, died, or were primaried. Civil Rights wasn’t due to the Democratic Party. It was due to liberals in both parties who thought federally protected civil rights were more important than states having the rights to be bigots. Gee those who remember the same sex marriage debate, who is that.
Has there need any conversation on this. 1st I’ve heard of it.
The weirdly persistent rumor he’s going to swap Pence for Graham is out there. By was of shaking up the reality show. https://t.co/Vra66AV2zR
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 20, 2019
Fuckface Von Clownstick is a racist. Exhibit #183456372367534
When asked by @AprilDRyan
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) June 19, 2019
re: #305 teleskiguy
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He’s never wrong. Just ask him.
Following the timeline of this new Trump State Department scandal may be the easiest way to understand it, but understanding it doesn’t make it any less bananas. pic.twitter.com/2qHcNSVAR5
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) June 20, 2019
Good evening! We’re back from a few days at Lassen Nat’l Park. There was still a lot of snow at higher elevations and the Park Rd. had just been cleared but wasn’t open all the way through yet. It meant we were a little more limited in where we could go, but it was a great chance to walk along that road and see everything at 3 mph rather than 35 mph.
There were flowers. Not great sweeps, but some interesting ones.
please enjoy these heavily cropped photos of a friend of mine who works at a bat sanctuary carrying bats around in her pocket pic.twitter.com/Qro9X0YQhd
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) June 19, 2019
you’re welcome…
The Philadelphia Police Department has pulled 72 officers off their regular duties over offensive social media posts — which ranged from racist memes, to posts celebrating violence, to Islamophobic messages. https://t.co/alpBlsPDht
— NPR (@NPR) June 20, 2019
Saw this with all the tanks, planes and battle dioramas on a scale model website:
Berlin Wall Section 1/35 scale
re: #316 HappyWarrior
Nice to know who’s protecting us.//
Shrug. I teach my son that even though I have know good cops, he can not trust any cop, any prosecutor, any judge: he is not rich and white. Presume they all are waiting for an excuse to kill and you might actually survive.
the lil side table tho https://t.co/GfgySUh7nV
— darth™ (@darth) June 20, 2019
Insane hail sizes tonight in SW Arkansas. This is from Vandervoort, Arkansas.
Photo: April Hutson pic.twitter.com/8tq8QFrYOg— Garrett Lewis (@5NEWSGarrett) June 20, 2019
YIKES!
re: #317 William Lewis
Shrug. I teach my son that even though I have know good cops, he can not trust any cop, any prosecutor, any judge: he is not rich and white. Presume they all are waiting for an excuse to kill and you might actually survive.
I hate that it has to be this way.
Always heartwarming to watch multimillionaires thanking each other for more cash—and all it cost was your children’s future. https://t.co/6wquyBWeCH
— Ted Genoways (@TedGenoways) June 19, 2019
friends of Caucasian persuasion: if you happen to say a thing that black people find racist or unacceptably coddling of racists, one way to *not diffuse things is to decide you are the victim and the black people owe YOU an apology
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) June 20, 2019
Setting aside voters, Dem nominee will have to form and mobilize coalitions of activists on the left. I know of very few black or brown organizers (esp young ones) who’d take well to the declaration from a white septuagenarian that they “know better” than to criticize him on race
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) June 20, 2019
Someone noted this in my mentions, but also tonally noteworthy that in dismissing Booker’s concerns, Biden addressed one of only black US senators in modern history by his first name. I’m not saying EYE found that offensive, but I can imagine there are some ppl out there who will
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) June 20, 2019
Biden was already well behind for me and losing steam in the weeks before this. This is quickly making him a definitive ‘Nope’ for me alongside Bernie. This is some fascinatingly awful and tonedeaf shit he’s peddling here quick.
re: #239 mmmirele
I would argue that the six immigrant children that have died in custody the last six months were done “a tremendous disservice.”
9 o’clock at night. Still dusk. Rivers and creeks are crazy high and swift. Summer is finally here in the Rocky Mountains.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 20, 2019
I drove through Glenwood Canyon today. There’s two rapids in the middle of the canyon, aptly called Upper Death and Lower Death. It looks like milk raging down the canyon, where the term “white water” comes from.
A riotious rant
…that Baltimore has lost almoat a quarter of its population since 1968 and that at the time of Freddy Gray, we had for the first time added a few thousand people and were staunching the flight. I also knew that real reform would fail if the non-violent protests and gatherings..
— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 20, 2019
re: #326 Ace Rothstein
I would argue that the six immigrant children that have died in custody the last six months were done “a tremendous disservice.”
That’s only if you consider them people to begin with.
Again, “Never Again” has quickly become “Never Enough”. There’s no threshold that can be crossed that will get them to say ‘Enough’. The dehumanization has worked, and the unironic internalization of the sentiment of ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ has succeeded. This can’t be a concentration camp because we’re doing it, and because those detained are being treated better than “they” deserve. Thus, we can’t be evil, we can’t be destroying actual lives, we are America, we are Just, and you’re the monsters for saying otherwise.
We are a total moral fucking void at this point, and those in charge will simply double down when challenged, inoculated by our country’s infinite fucking patience with the perfect golden mean and extending the benefit of the doubt only toward one side of the aisle, for all goddamn eternity.
re: #329 teleskiguy
Those big bridges are Interstate 70, that 12 mile section of highway is the most expensive public works project in Colorado history.
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
LMAO!!
I think I found the reason behind that… pic.twitter.com/TQDatIjKVx
— OpinionatedTaterTot (@TaterTots4Me) June 20, 2019
Kevin McCarthy needs to apologize to Charlie McCarthy for giving dummies a bad name. pic.twitter.com/jxDNPEWTOz
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 20, 2019
Off to bed. And there’s a flood warning in this area until 5am. So more rain for Philadelphia as well.
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re: #325 Citizen K
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Biden was already well behind for me and losing steam in the weeks before this. This is quickly making him a definitive ‘Nope’ for me alongside Bernie. This is some fascinatingly awful and tonedeaf shit he’s peddling here quick.
I really hope Joe is not trying to indulge in some kind of half-ass outreach to Trump-loving racists. It seems impossible but these days who knows. Eastland in particular was a terrible example. He was regarded as a rabidly extreme white supremacist even in the 1940s, and his subsequent 30+ years in the senate did little to change him.
During World War II, Eastland vocally opposed and degraded the service of African American soldiers in the war. He incited protests and comparisons to Hitlerism following a vitriolic speech on the floor of the Senate in July 1945, in which he complained that the Negro soldier was physically, morally, and mentally incapable of serving in combat. In contrast, Eastland claimed that the “boys from the South were fighting to maintain white supremacy.”
Same link: Interesting factoid about the 1964 election that I had not been aware of until now:
Although Republican senator Barry Goldwater was strongly defeated by incumbent Johnson, he carried Mississippi with 87.14 percent of the popular vote, which constitutes the best-ever Republican showing in any state since the founding of that party.
This shit is pretty revolting, tbh
Nice violent clickbait, yo.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 20, 2019
re: #336 teleskiguy
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re: #339 teleskiguy
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re: #339 teleskiguy
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re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth
That could cave a skull in. Damn!
Shoot me now.
Hidden because too long and boring discussion about EC —
An acquaintance who supported Bernie and hates Trump has become a real fan of the Electoral College. Apparently she is one of many who have been duped by Prager University videos and perhaps even read Tara Ross’ magnum opus on how the EC is the best invention since sliced bread. Occasionally, I saw some of Tara’s FB posts and, once in awhile, posted a mild criticism against the EC. The previous day, in a fit of madness, I once again engaged these EC fanatics and decided to criticize Tara directly, claiming that she would have taken the opposite position if the EC favored Democrats. We got into a discussion — she’s very polite (unlike some of her acolytes), but now I’ve been engaging her and another “polite” fanatic about the merits of this deplorable institution. They object to my assertion that part of the rationale for the EC vs direct election was to advantage the slave states in the battle for the Presidency (Tara pointed me to the Daily Signal for information but I demurred with the assertion that the Heritage Foundation was a propaganda mill). I branched out into other flaws of the EC — cannot believe I am wasting time in the hopeless task of educating these fanatics.
“You’re really going to stand up and tell us that being able to sleep is not a question of safe and sanitary conditions?” https://t.co/JiVWHKwWPU
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 20, 2019
re: #332 teleskiguy
They did such a nice job on it. Preserved all the beauty of the canyon.The sad news is it didn’t get finished until my family moved away from Eagle. Dad did get to go do a tour of it though.
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