WATCH LIVE: Epstein Deal-Maker Alexander Acosta Holds News Conference, at Trump’s Direction
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Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta holds news conference amid the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
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Of course the victims were scared, @SecretaryAcosta, you lying dirt bag. AS YOU KNOW, Epstein was harassing and threatening them not to testify –– YOU even discussed this with Epstein’s lawyers.https://t.co/2tB83WHr1f https://t.co/Ty2SwEct4o
— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) July 10, 2019
There’s no good answer for why Acosta gave Epstein a sweetheart deal that enabled him to continue in illegal behavior. Epstein’s conduct as outlined in the FL indictment should have ended his freedom. Thanking the SDNY for prosecuting Epstein a decade later doesn’t excuse Acosta when he could have put Epstein away for life.
The crimes alleged are so heinous and awful that he never should have seen light of day again, even under a plea. The circumstances of the plea are suspect. The slap on the wrist is suspect. That a judge signed off on this is suspect.
It reeks of power, wealth, and privilege.
And now we also know Acosta was trying to undermine US efforts to stop human trafficking by seeking to cut funding by 80% twice in 2018. That’s not normal behavior either - not when Trump routinely claims that those coming into the US illegally are doing so because of terrorists or criminal elements trafficking people. None of this adds up.
If I had to guess the factors here are (1) the risk that Roe will be overturned or gutted (2) the tanking of the religious right’s credibility given its embrace of Trump and Trumpism in defiance of their own stated principles https://t.co/HLmOYEgVEF pic.twitter.com/Zsre7O14Aw
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) July 10, 2019
Was there any monitoring of this guy under the plea deal or did they just cut him loose?
Trump is going to dump Acosta for looking weak on tv.
This news conference might not be the best way to put this problem to sleep.
I replaced the video above with the Washington Post live feed, because Chuck Todd.
Please ask him why he extended immunity to unnamed third parties and if his true motive in doing so was to cover up for powerful men including his current boss
— Cocked & Loaded Frank (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2019
Pick weak toadies because they’ll do whatever ordered,
and then pout that they don’t come off “strong looking.”
re: #6 jaunte
Trump is going to dump Acosta for looking weak on tv.
Trump’s going to ask someone to ask Acosta to resign.
Trump will not fire Acosta directly. Trump is a weak bully who can’t stomach confrontation.
re: #2 lawhawk
I want someone on that fucking sheriff who let Epstein have a private wing of the jail as he went to “work” on a bogus work release deal for a company conveniently created a few weeks before the sentencing.
Again Epstein is NOT the only sex trafficker out there. Why are women and children such objects of hate and loathing? What the hell is happening that there’s even a demand for this? WTF?
re: #6 jaunte
Trump is going to dump Acosta for looking weak on tv.
More coffee boys for the discard pile.
Lubbock’s “Mr. Conservative” holds forth on gun rights.
Sorry, Dr. Don, Scalia is extinct.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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I think the second thing is much more important than people realize. Supporting that POS has shown starkly the utter moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy of the Fundamentalist Evangelicals in this world.
That’s really interesting. Acosta says the reason he didn’t notify the victims of the deal is that he didn’t want them to know they could get money from Epstein for their lawyers. Then says it was that amendment that was added in the off site meeting with Epstein’s atty
— Mueller, She Wrote Podcast (@MuellerSheWrote) July 10, 2019
When Acosta made his plea deal with Epstein, something even more important happened…Epstein and 4 of his accomplices received immunity from ALL FEDERAL CRIMINAL CHARGES.
AND immunity was granted to “ANY POTENTIAL CO-CONSPIRATORS” who were involved in Epstein’s crimes.
WOW! pic.twitter.com/o44GPFoIKz— Cornelia (@PaladinCornelia) July 10, 2019
re: #17 jaunte
So, Acosta was victimizing the victims again - by refusing to provide them with information about how to recoup legal costs?
Yeah, that’s not a good look.
You’re there for an audience of one, Alex. Cut the bullshit.
This guy is just awful. No wonder Trump hired him.
If the Marquis de Sade had Acosta for a prosecutor, he might have become Minister of Education under the Republic.
Epstein and Acosta are screwed here. I saw a Tweet, unconfirmed, that other victims were coming forth to attorneys.
New victims.
If Trump is culpable, a wise assumption, this could overwhelm the cultist evangelical log jam of 22 current women who’ve said Trump has harassed/assaulted them.
Justice may finally be at hand for many women who had their childhood taken away.
Acosta has to push the idea that these kinds of things “used” to be culturally OK…bc boss man Trump is listening and if he says otherwise he’d be implicating him https://t.co/vKiLBEkQIA
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) July 10, 2019
Another gross Trump enabler.
Oh shit. A reporter from One America News is there asking a question.
#Acosta straight up admitting his double standard of justice
“Mr Epstein was a very wealthy and important person, his friends even more so, and these girls - much as we sympathized with them - just weren’t either of those things.” @SecretaryAcosta#AcostaResign— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) July 10, 2019
An unbelievably disgusting statement. But he has to say this to prevent implicating Trump. https://t.co/d1LCJy3Zoa
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
re: #26 Charles Johnson
WTF. He said that??!
re: #23 BigPapa
SDNY was asking victims to come forward.
If you believe you are a victim of Jeffrey Epstein, or have information about the conduct alleged in the Indictment unsealed today, please call 1-800-CALL FBI pic.twitter.com/f3ZMThOxJX
— US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) July 8, 2019
re: #26 Charles Johnson
This was allegedly a quote from a tweet by David Frum. Deleted.
re: #18 jaunte
If that was true, would what is going on in NY not be voided?
Now Acosta is for sure getting fired. He’s answering a question in Spanish.
re: #26 Charles Johnson
“Mr Epstein was a very wealthy and important person, his friends even more so, and these girls - much as we sympathized with them - just weren’t either of those things.”
You have got to be shitting me that this is verbatim. Really?
re: #18 jaunte
When Acosta made his plea deal with Epstein, something even more important happened…Epstein and 4 of his accomplices received immunity from ALL FEDERAL CRIMINAL CHARGES.
AND immunity was granted to “ANY POTENTIAL CO-CONSPIRATORS” who were involved in Epstein’s crimes.
This is, for me at least, the most important issue.
Who, exactly, were those “potential co-conspirators”? And why on earth did everyone involved essentially get mass, blanket immunity?
That’s seriously fucked up.
re: #31 Ace Rothstein
This was allegedly a quote from a tweet by David Frum. Deleted.
Yes, I just learned that Frum was being sarcastic. I deleted my retweet.
Hey, media. #Acosta did not answer the question about immunizing potential co-conspirators In #Epstein case. He deflected. Don’t let him wiggle off the hook on this one.
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) July 10, 2019
re: #10 goddamnedfrank
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Please ask him why he extended immunity to unnamed third parties and if his true motive in doing so was to cover up for powerful men including his current boss
“In your 2011 letter explaining the deal, you stated ‘Defense counsel investigated individual prosecutors and their families, looking for personal peccadilloes that may provide a basis for disqualification’. Defense counsel Alan Dershowitz says ‘That’s just dead wrong. I would never participate in anything of that kind. Of course we investigated the witnesses but not Acosta’s deputies. That’s absurd’. Who’s lying, you or Dershowitz?”
re: #36 Charles Johnson
Yes, I just learned that Frum was being sarcastic. I deleted my retweet.
Practitioners of sarcasm should be certified and licensed.
re: #37 Ace Rothstein
No. See #36 above.
The fact that Poe’s law is in play on that statement tells you just where they are. Guess what, Evangelicals, that’s where you are as well.
re: #35 Dr Lizardo
How was it in the interest of justice that immunity granted to coconspirators on child sex trafficking (reduced to prostitution)? How was it in the interest of justice to give Epstein a slap on the wrist? How was it in the interest of justice to give a sweetheart deal to a sex predator? How was it in the interest of justice to withhold specific information about compensation from the victims?
None of this was in the interest of justice.
It was entirely in the interest of protecting rich and powerful people from the consequences of their criminality.
Back in the oughts, stacking up naked bodies was considered a college fraternity prank by the intellectual brain trust of the right. Everything is always culturally OK on the right if it furthers the interest of fascism.https://t.co/DwwprpTjhr
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 10, 2019
Narrator: “You need to come forward, so that the President of the United States can say you’re crazy and too ugly to rape, @FoxNews can smear you as a drunk, and we can put your rapist on the Supreme Court with Sen. Susan Collins saying afterwards that she has ‘No regrets.’” https://t.co/apOQys3yGx
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 10, 2019
22 women have come forward accusing Trump of being a sex predator and who engaged in sexual assaults.
22 women.
Trump corroborated their statements with his Access Hollywood video, and Trump calls all of them liars and Fox smears the women.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 10, 2019
Acosta responds to a question about what he’d say to Epstein’s victims by praising the prosecutors in the case. https://t.co/ITvdeplaxd pic.twitter.com/YCj2GQkuXr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
re: #46 Charles Johnson
In a nutshell why victims don’t come forward.
re: #47 lawhawk
In a nutshell why victims don’t come forward.
THIS. Acosta is a horrible human being.
Nobody’s blaming the other prosecutors. The buck stops with him. He was the US Attorney. https://t.co/QESDYfT30S
— digby (@digby56) July 10, 2019
Maybe the Moscow/Trump/Evangelical Axis is about to unravel. I’m switching part of my portfolio from munitions to guillotine futures and weed production just in case.
Now let’s talk about Acosta’s qualifications to be Secretary of Labor, charged with protecting the health, safety, and rights of 100 million workers.
re: #50 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Maybe the Moscow/Trump/Evangelical Axis is about to unravel. I’m switching part of my portfolio from munitions to guillotine futures and weed production just in case.
Meh. Tyvek bunny suit and kevlar helmet futures :3
re: #50 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Maybe the Moscow/Trump/Evangelical Axis is about to unravel. I’m switching part of my portfolio from munitions to guillotine futures and weed production just in case.
Brick wall replacement companies might see an uptick in business as well.
Republicans are leading in voter registration in the 2020 swing states of Florida and Pennsylvania.
They are also showing net gains in states with 2019 governor races- Kentucky and Louisiana.
It’s time to register to vote!https://t.co/cUDheOwvPOhttps://t.co/rDheyI5OuO— DemCast (@DemCastUSA) July 10, 2019
Voter purging and suppression probably isn’t helping either, but…this is fucking bleak.
I can see that Acosta is the face that most victims confront when seeking help. Such stark disinterest and detachment.
re: #55 Citizen K
Voter purging and suppression probably isn’t helping either, but…this is fucking bleak.
Remember those party apparatuses - DNC, DCCC, DSCC - that Democrats no longer like to donate to?
re: #55 Citizen K
Here in San Diego county, currently there are a bit over 20k more Democratic party registrants than there was at the 2018 election.
The local GOP has increased too… by only 2k.
So the local Dems are outpacing the GOP 10:1.
So it’s kind of hard for me to grok what is in that link you posted.
re: #58 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Here in San Diego county, currently there are a bit over 20k more Democratic party registrants than there was at the 2018 election.
The local GOP has increased too… by only 2k.
So the local Dems are outpacing the GOP 10:1.
So it’s kind of hard for me to grok what is in that link you posted.
But that’s California, where the GOP is already kind of decimated. This is specifically talking about battleground and swing states, many of which already went GOP in ‘16, and seem to be surging even more red now because fuck all.
The answer was basically, there has indeed been reporting to that effect, and hey there has been reporting “to a lot of effects,” and gosh you end up down a rabbit hole with this stuff, dontchaknow.
— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan) July 10, 2019
Right wingers have been trying to use that angle to implicate Obama, but all this took place while GWB was President. Obama was still a Senator.
He might just have Resting Douchebag Face.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles:
Worshippers gathered to pray at the La Luz del Mundo church in East Los Angeles Wednesday in the wake of the church’s leader Joaquín García facing human trafficking and child rape charges.
García and a 24-year-old church follower were arrested at Los Angeles International Airport Monday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office said.
García is expected to be arraigned Wednesday.
Becerra filed 26 charges against him, ranging from human trafficking and production of child pornography to rape of a minor.
García is being held in Los Angeles on $50 million bail.
Prosecutors asked for the high bail amount because they noted the church has plenty of money and international ties. They want to ensure Garcia does not flee the country.
A criminal complaint filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges García committed the felonies over an approximately four year period.
Church officials insist the allegations are false.
I really am a broken record on this: the Republican party is explicitly becoming the party of the collapsed worldview.
It is a party which now is built on those who are afraid that their god is going to be taken away from them. (Hint: it’s already happened.)
re: #59 Citizen K
It’s still hard for me to grok. There are places in this country where the Democratic machine is working quite fine (and it’s not just because we’re California.)
Substantially, if what you are saying is true, then this is the process of redesigning our political parties in process. If the Democratic party cannot grow in certain areas, in light of the Trump disaster, then those local parties need to really change.
re: #60 lawhawk
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Right wingers have been trying to use that angle to implicate Obama, but all this took place while GWB was President. Obama was still a Senator.
You think this will matter to Republicans who still blame Obama for Katrina?
Did anybody ask Acosta why he took the unprecedented step of indemnifying unnamed third parties in Epstein’s NPA?
re: #65 goddamnedfrank
Did anybody ask Acosta why he took the unprecedented step of indemnifying unnamed third parties in Epstein’s NPA?
It’s such a simple question, really.
“Mr. Acosta, why did you take the unprecedented step of granting blanket mass immunity to unnamed co-conspirators in the Epstein plea deal?”
Napoleon here got rag-dolled lmao
What an asshole. https://t.co/CJqN5pzYVa— Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) July 10, 2019
re: #66 Dr Lizardo
It’s such a simple question, really.
“Mr. Acosta, why did you take the unprecedented step of granting blanket mass immunity to unnamed co-conspirators in the Epstein plea deal?”
It’s not so simple for a political media that has protection of Republicans by supporting the Great Both-Siderist Lie as its only job.
re: #67 goddamnedfrank
Hadda look it up.
ragdolled
To be forcefully grabbed and shaken with such ferocity that the recipient resembles a ragdoll, usually occuring when a person has to restrain from more direct attacks for the sake of some bad concequences. For example nightclub bouncers/men with angry girlfriends/prison guards etc.
The cheeky twat thought he was a proper hard c**t til the bouncers ragdolled him all over the bar before chucking him out.
re: #67 goddamnedfrank
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I can’t imagine being that angry all the time just because you’re short.
I mean, I am 4’11” and I would not have dated this shmuck.
re: #67 goddamnedfrank
He might possibly be blaming his troubles on the wrong causes.
Oh lord!
“immigrants-might-criticize-us reason” is the latest reason we need strict vetting of immigrants according to racist fool like Tucker.
This is what happens when your xenophobia cuts off the air circulation in your brain 🤣 https://t.co/Ae9KxAYu69— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 10, 2019
Laura Loomer is still whining about not being invited to the White House “social media summit,” and now she’s complaining that Holocaust denier Chuck C. Johnson didn’t get an invite either. pic.twitter.com/12tu1mVDnO
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
re: #40 Decatur Deb
Practitioners of sarcasm should be certified and licensed.
you being sarcastic there? //
The lady at the end saying “Oh my Gawd! I just wanted bagels” absolutely killed me.
re: #5 DangerMan
Was there any monitoring of this guy under the plea deal or did they just cut him loose?
That’s a great question. I suspect that he was free to do whatever he liked with no monitoring. Such a shame for his victims.
re: #74 Charles Johnson
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Chuck and Laura not being invited has me pleased to no end, Garrison being dis-invited is the icing on the cake.
re: #60 lawhawk
The answer was basically, there has indeed been reporting to that effect, and hey there has been reporting “to a lot of effects,” and gosh you end up down a rabbit hole with this stuff, dontchaknow.
so you didnt verify?
re: #67 goddamnedfrank
I’m dying of laughter. What is wrong with that little man though? Calm the hell down, Dude. Short men get love all the time.
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
I’m 5’4”. I’ve never had any problems meeting and dating women.
re: #71 The Pie Overlord!
I can’t imagine being that angry all the time just because you’re short.
I mean, I am 4’11” and I would not have dated this shmuck.
you look taller
Sure, but it made the Mad King happy, and isn’t that what really matters? https://t.co/DsSxp7dxJ3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
I’m not normally a huge proponent of physical violence but it’s hard not to laugh when a guy who keeps saying YOU WANT SUMMA THIS finally, in fact, gets summa that.
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 10, 2019
re: #82 Ace Rothstein
I’m 6’ 4”, but mostly don’t scream about my women problems at people buying bagels.
re: #77 Patricia Kayden
That’s a great question. I suspect that he was free to do whatever he liked with no monitoring. Such a shame for his victims.
*if* that’s the case you’d have to be stone stupid to think he wouldnt pick up where he left off
re: #82 Ace Rothstein
I’m 5’4”. I’ve never had any problems meeting and dating women.
5’10” or so here
mrs dm is taller than i am
re: #85 goddamnedfrank
I’m not normally a huge proponent of physical violence but it’s hard not to laugh when a guy who keeps saying YOU WANT SUMMA THIS finally, in fact, gets summa that.
I think that historically the people who yelled MOLON LABE COME AND TAKE IT: well, the opponents said ok, and did just that.
WTFITS
TRUMP: “You’ve worked so hard on the kidney. Very special — the kidney has a very special place in the heart. It’s an incredible thing.” pic.twitter.com/JLM3uCsO5u
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 10, 2019
re: #90 The Pie Overlord!
Got his turducken wires crossed.
re: #86 jaunte
I’m 6’ 4”, but mostly don’t scream about my women problems at people buying bagels.
does that mean you have a different go-to food?
re: #82 Ace Rothstein
I’m 5’4”. I’ve never had any problems meeting and dating women.
And you don’t have to embarrass the hell out of yourself in a deli to do so. 😂
re: #92 DangerMan
Man Arrested In Screaming Incident At Pho Stand
re: #47 lawhawk
That’s by design.
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re: #76 goddamnedfrank
The lady at the end saying “Oh my Gawd! I just wanted bagels” absolutely killed me.
Come for the bagels, stay to watch the ass-whuppin’.
re: #96 Dr Lizardo
Come for the bagels, stay to watch the ass-whuppin’.
Like a hockey game where a fight breaks out. It’s a two-fer!!
as you know, i cant copy/paste tweets….
@KevinMKruse
I’m *pretty* sure that child rape was frowned upon way back in 2006.Asked if he would make the same deal with Epstein today, Alex Acosta says in part: “Today’s world treats victims very, very differently.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 10, 2019
re: #94 jaunte
Man Arrested In Screaming Incident At Pho Stand
cause some dude said you mispronounced ‘Pho’, right?
I can guarantee you that Acosta locked up plenty of black and brown people in the 90s with less evidence than he had on Epstein. #deadlinewh
— Don’t boo, vote! (@EthanObama) July 10, 2019
re: #95 A Mom Anon
That’s by design.
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In any non-criminal administration, someone like Acosta would have already “resigned.”
That presser was a bad joke. But the only thing that matters is whether Trump was happy with it, and I suspect he was.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
re: #102 Charles Johnson
Didn’t he try one of these earlier this year for a different person? I want to think so, and I’m trying to remember the outcome.
re: #76 goddamnedfrank
The lady at the end saying “Oh my Gawd! I just wanted bagels” absolutely killed me.
This is the best comment in the thread:
this is the most Long Island ass shit
— Jake Baldino (@JakeBaldino) July 10, 2019
True story. This place is crawling with assholes like that.
re: #100 Patricia Kayden
There’s black people that have been prosecuted and imprisoned (without “work” privileges) longer than Epstein for a dime bag of weed.
re: #104 makeitstop
I heard Bagel Boss, and had to google to see which one this happened in… but yeah, we see these misogynstic bigots all the time. I look down on them (I’m 6’1”) and I was the runt in the family - brother is taller.
re: #102 Charles Johnson
He didn’t admit any responsibility or apologize for anything. Therefore he’ll keep his job destroying worker protections.
re: #82 Ace Rothstein
I’m 5’4”. I’ve never had any problems meeting and dating women.
I’m 5’3. I’ve had women straight up refuse to go on a date with me because of my height.
Oh well. Their loss. :P
This is true https://t.co/66GQo2hqTx
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 10, 2019
money saving tip: wear clothes more than once
— Lauren (@LLW902) July 10, 2019
re: #111 gocart mozart
$10 000 month mortgage? Get a smaller house.
$500 for Car Insurance? I pay less then half that for my two vehicles.
I think that food budget could be trimmed a bit too. $100 a day on food seems a bit excessive.
Also, Bitcoin? Are you fucking kidding me?
Lre: #90 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #111 gocart mozart
Also, maybe not have a $10k/mo mortgage, or spend $8k on things like flights, unborn child college funds, and whatever Vanguard is
re: #114 KGxvi
Also, maybe not have a $10k/mo mortgage, or spend $8k on things like flights, unborn child college funds, and whatever Vanguard is
And are Party Supplies really essential?
re: #111 gocart mozart
WHO THE HELL IS DROPPING 3K a month on food?
cripes, are they feeding a football team?
Wall-E:
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re: #116 piratedan
WHO THE HELL IS DROPPING 3K a month on food?
cripes, are they feeding a football team?
That’s $100 a day. I think you’d get fucking sick of lobster tails after a couple of weeks.
And it’s $10k a month mortgage IN KANSAS. What, they bought half the state?
re: #105 Ace Rothstein
There’s black people that have been prosecuted and imprisoned (without “work” privileges) longer than Epstein for a dime bag of weed.
,,,who are then supervisied, when they get out
re: #118 ericblair
That’s $100 a day. I think you’d get fucking sick of lobster tails after a couple of weeks.
And it’s $10k a month mortgage IN KANSAS. What, they bought half the state?
Two people eating out 3-4 times a day could probably get you to $100/day. Even if you just splurge on dinner, it’s doable - especially if you’re having a bottle of wine (or two) along with some high end steaks.
re: #114 KGxvi
Also, maybe not have a $10k/mo mortgage, or spend $8k on things like flights, unborn child college funds, and whatever Vanguard is
Vanguard is probably an IRA.
$2k on clothes per month? I don’t think I’d be able to spend that much over the span of a couple years. If I spend $500 in an entire year that’s a lot - usually shoes, and a couple of pairs of pants/dresses between me and the Mrs. $2k is like a completely new wardrobe every fucking month.
Party supplies at $400 a month?
$3k in food? Where are you buying your groceries, and are you eating out every fucking meal at a 4 star restaurant?
Bitcoin is the low-hanging fruit.
re: #107 lawhawk
I heard Bagel Boss, and had to google to see which one this happened in… but yeah, we see these misogynstic bigots all the time. I look down on them (I’m 6’1”) and I was the runt in the family - brother is taller.
OMG, it was in Bay Shore. A couple of towns over from here.
That dude’s gonna have a rough time for a while. Not undeserved.
re: #120 KGxvi
agreed, but if thats the case, you don’t drop 1K a month to charity and you make a few sandwiches, it’s like budgeting 1500 a month for a hit man to take care of your political enemies, not exactly a needed line item in the budget.
re: #118 ericblair
That’s $100 a day. I think you’d get fucking sick of lobster tails after a couple of weeks.
And it’s $10k a month mortgage IN KANSAS. What, they bought half the state?
According to the article, he claims to have purchased a $1.2M home on a 10 year note.
N.J. millionaire CEO who put his plane on autopilot to have sex with teen girl reports to prison to serve 2 sentences https://t.co/6XjlH53yTM
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 10, 2019
Millionare got 7 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 15 year old girl.
They had sexual contact June 20 and July 5, and then on his plane July 20 while he was flying her between Somerset Airport and Cape Cod, the complaint said. On the flight back, he put the plane in autopilot during one sexual act, the complaint said.
He also received sexually explicit photos of the girl, authorities said.
Here’s the full video of my appearance.https://t.co/Zc404x3Hs0
— Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) July 10, 2019
re: #101 DangerMan
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
The heart has 4 chambers, okay. Some people say 5, but it’s 4, okay. And that’s where the kidney is. It’s in a chamber close to the heart. Maybe in the heart, but also close to the heart. In one of the chambers. Close, very bigly close. Okay. Okay.
— Aღanda (@GrnEyedMandy) July 10, 2019
It should be called our president runs internment camps to appeal to his extremely racist base https://t.co/T9bXb1EePe
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 10, 2019
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
$10 000 month mortgage? Get a smaller house.
$500 for Car Insurance? I pay less then half that for my two vehicles.
I think that food budget could be trimmed a bit too. $100 a day on food seems a bit excessive.
Also, Bitcoin? Are you fucking kidding me?
why we gotta do this every few months?
re: #130 DangerMan
“How I spent a lotta money” stories must get a lot of clicks.
re: #125 lawhawk
The “rich people who aren’t assholes” list just gets shorter and shorter every day.
In six months, maybe less, he’ll just wordlessly burble at these things, or say “me make big poopies” and “choc-o-mut ice c’eams, mommy,” and all these dummies will stand behind him exactly as they’re doing now. https://t.co/h2pPXBOyct
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) July 10, 2019
re: #129 jaunte
How about Babies Behind Bars?
re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg
“What Chip Roy Doesn’t (Want To) See”
Yazmin Juarez: “All of the hard work of these doctor’s came too late. My Mariee died on what is Mother’s Day in my country…I’m here today because I want to put an end to this…It’s like they tore out a piece of my heart.”
Full video: https://t.co/usy1p9ZPDe pic.twitter.com/XJbimDoPiw— CSPAN (@cspan) July 10, 2019
re: #128 jaunte
Who you gonna believe? Our Great MAGA POTUS, or some sciency textBOOK of some kind, all full of fake newz?
re: #130 DangerMan
People need to contact the writers of this stupid irrelevant shit and their publishers. I still think there needs to be more public demand, loudly, that we need actual information to make good choices. Ridicule the fuck out of them, flood their offices with “you cannot be serious you morons” calls. They respond to being the cool kids, make fun of them. Most of the people writing this drivel are rich fucks who think 500k is poverty. Idiots.
re: #133 gocart mozart
In six months, maybe less, he’ll just wordlessly burble at these things, or say “me make big poopies” and “choc-o-mut ice c’eams, mommy,” and all these dummies will stand behind him exactly as they’re doing now.
TRUMP: “You’ve worked so hard on the kidney. Very special — the kidney has a very special place in the heart. It’s an incredible thing.” pic.twitter.com/JLM3uCsO5u
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 10, 2019
…
we ARE there and this IS that
if you consider six months AGO
re: #129 jaunte
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He’s been to the border many times but hasn’t seen a kid in a cage? Having your head up your ass will, in fact, limit your field of vision.
re: #139 DangerMan
we ARE there and this IS that
if you consider six months AGO
The kidney is in the Heart. Not many people know that.
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re: #138 A Mom Anon
People need to contact the writers of this stupid irrelevant shit and their publishers. I still think there needs to be more public demand, loudly, that we need actual information to make good choices. Ridicule the fuck out of them, flood their offices with “you cannot be serious you morons” calls. They respond to being the cool kids, make fun of them. Most of the people writing this drivel are rich fucks who think 500k is poverty. Idiots.
(one of the) keys to getting and living ‘rich’ is to maintain, to a great extent, how you lived before you came into it
otherwise you have the exact same problem as before, only now with more zeros
The best accounts get perma-banned after 10-12 months, lose all their followers, and have to start from scratch under a new identity.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 10, 2019
Tucker Carlson has contempt for America and so do all of his fans.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 10, 2019
I have watched the frozen food trust fund Nazi many times.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 10, 2019
re: #102 Charles Johnson
You won’t really know until you see how Fox and Friends feel about it.
re: #144 gocart mozart
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Trump is the one with contempt for his country. I love my country which is precisely why I despise Trump.
re: #144 gocart mozart
upding for Frozen Food Trust Fund Nazi.
re: #144 gocart mozart
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Given the numerous and sundry studies discussing that Fox viewers are woefully uninformed relative to the rest of the public, I’ll take a pass on watching it….
Does Gorka now do the voice for Sideshow Bob?
in which Sebastian Gorka learns that “Dipshit Magazine” said he’s the top journalist of the year pic.twitter.com/qQGI0Eoryh
— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) July 10, 2019
re: #120 KGxvi
Two people eating out 3-4 times a day could probably get you to $100/day. Even if you just splurge on dinner, it’s doable - especially if you’re having a bottle of wine (or two) along with some high end steaks.
Every day tho? Do you want gout? Because that’s how you get gout.
Pretty sure watching this clip knocked several points off my IQ. Beware. https://t.co/3ZEcIf5Umo
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
Gardening with dog pic.twitter.com/0uZSjz9XhP
— Jenn (@jenndangerous) July 10, 2019
re: #144 gocart mozart
Replying to @IlhanMN
Criticism isn’t the issue, any American should criticize their government. That’s part of being a citizen. Seeming to have contempt for the your country is another thing entirely. Most just want to know you want to be a part of this big crazy family. That’s it. E Pluribus Unum :)
contempt for your country, because it is behaving like an ass, is perfectly acceptable - that’s part of being a citizen
most want to be more than ‘to be part of this big crazy family’
they want to know that they are being represented and heard. that they matter and their vote matters. that their elected government doesnt ignore them, lie to them, or take them for granted.
that there is, in fact, liberty and justice for all.
because if not, there is nothing
re: #111 gocart mozart
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This bullshit reminds me of “family TV” in the 50s and 60s. As a poor but relatively smart kid, I was acutely aware that the “average” families portrayed on TV, the Cleavers et al, were in fact rich compared to my family and to most of the people we knew. Producers did not so much disparage the poor and working class as refuse to acknowledge their existence.
The same was true of minorities. When they were acknowledged, it was always in terms of do-gooder suburban stereotypes rather than real people. Later, with the rise of the “rural” sitcom, poorer people did make an appearance, as oafs and buffoons. It was all very demoralizing, especially to some of my working class contemporaries who were perhaps not as well informed as I was. They were actually about average for the time but came to feel that they were clinging to the fringe, barely part of society at all.
re: #152 goddamnedfrank
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My Lab does this. Can’t water the damn plants, and if I turn the hose on her to make her stop she LOVES it. I have to lock her inside.
re: #86 jaunte
I’m 6’ 4”, but mostly don’t scream about my women problems at people buying bagels.
“Sir, this is a bagel shop” the new Arbys.
… as having the intelligence of a “kindergartener,” “a fifth- or sixth-grader” and an “11-year-old-child,” and otherwise “dumb as s**t.” Although equally accurate, if not more so, such words would have been undiplomatic. The ambassador used no language of that sort.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 10, 2019
“Ask members of the Washington diplomatic corps about the cables that Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador who resigned Wednesday, wrote to London describing the dysfunction and chaos of the Trump administration, and their response is uniform: We wrote the same stuff,”
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Megan Rapinoe is pwning every alt-right douchebro in the universe. It’s glorious.
Sebastian Gorka says the @USWNT wants to “destroy everything that is wholesome in our country and in our Judeo-Christian civilization” pic.twitter.com/70qzrNzdxx
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) July 10, 2019
re: #151 Charles Johnson
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re: #160 The Pie Overlord!
Megan Rapinoe is pwning every alt-right douchebro in the universe. It’s glorious.
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Lol triggered baby should go back to Hungary. What a fucking loser and this asshole has Trumps ear.
re: #8 Decatur Deb
This news conference might not be the best way to put this problem to sleep.
I wonder if it’s a way to say “hey, we’re all really supportive of SDNY and what they’re doing over there” while Barr lays traps to complicate it.
re: #157 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #85 goddamnedfrank
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Really, though - how stupid do you have to be to be an asshole to people who handle your food?
In my family, when you suffer consequences of being a jerk, we call it “Paying the Asshole Tax”. I bet this guy pays it. A LOT.
re: #153 DangerMan
contempt for your country, because it is behaving like an ass, is perfectly acceptable - that’s part of being a citizen
most want to be more than ‘to be part of this big crazy family’
they want to know that they are being represented and heard. that they matter and their vote matters. that their elected government doesnt ignore them, lie to them, or take them for granted.
that there is, in fact, liberty and justice for all.
because if not, there is nothing
There are a multitude of problems that Tucker has for Omar:
1. People will elect a woman
2. People will elect a Democrat
3. People will elect an immigrant
4. People will elect a Muslim
5. People will elect someone who calls out the men
6. People will elect someone that calls out the current leadership.
On the fucking nose.
I feel like this paragraph from a Mother Jones story about the failure of “New Coke” (https://t.co/FclW9xBQXE) sums up so much that is wrong with American life in general: pic.twitter.com/wvDfP4EHjZ
— David Mack (@DavidAlanMack) July 10, 2019
re: #169 Joe Bacon 🌹
Mr. Creosote.
“And the usual brown ales?”
“Nah. I can only do six crates today.”
re: #169 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just a wafer-thin slice of clickbait!
Yes, it’s a coverup. https://t.co/9QyZebASiK
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 10, 2019
Ok, and now Joe Pesci is trending because of the Bagel Boss guy. Twitter.
A massive global reshuffling in diplomats in DC in the offing?
NEW: @sangerNYT asked foreign ambassadors in Washington about cables written by British envoy Sir Kim Darroch to describe Trump administration dysfunction and chaos. “It could have been any of us,” one said. https://t.co/gScLfxwx2i
— Lara Jakes (@jakesNYT) July 10, 2019
re: #174 Barefoot Grin
A massive global reshuffling in diplomats in DC in the offing?
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I imagine most professional diplomats are disgusted by Trump.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
I replaced the video above with the Washington Post live feed, because Chuck Todd.
You really should build a anti chuck todd filter into LGF, even if you have to spend the rest of your life doing it.
re: #175 HappyWarrior
I imagine most professional diplomats are disgusted by Trump.
Hell, most sane PEOPLE are disgusted by Trump.
re: #172 jaunte
Scathing statement from former state attorney for Palm Beach County Barry Krischer in response to Acosta presser on Epstein case: “I can emphatically state that Mr. Acosta’s recollection of this matter is completely wrong” pic.twitter.com/i84v3kUdhZ
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) July 10, 2019
For context: top Palm Beach County cops told @jkbjournalist they felt pressured by Krischer to downgrade or drop Epstein case https://t.co/5YloIZxknq pic.twitter.com/VcgHI66MfD
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) July 10, 2019
re: #180 DangerMan
actual ann coulter before/after acosta spoke spanish
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re: #181 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
This reminds me of the saying that ‘Success has a hundred fathers, but failure is an orphan’. Somehow, Epstein got a sweetheart deal but nobody negotiatied it.
https://t.co/dVoM9aLh0b pic.twitter.com/K1VaA2kmLL
— Matt Davies (@MatttDavies) July 10, 2019
Donald Trump has invited this low-life far right grifter (and convicted felon) to the White House, and he plans to advocate for some of the worst people in the US who were banned from social media sites for the ugliest forms of racism, hate speech and harassment. pic.twitter.com/T3SD9l2i7s
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
re: #185 Charles Johnson
You think Alex Jones got invited to this thing?
re: #182 HappyWarrior
Can she just admit it already that she’s a Nazi.
These are people who believe that hierarchy matters more than ethics, and they’ve developed an elaborate cultural ecosystem of pretending that (1) this produces the best moral outcomes, (2) anybody who suggests otherwise is evil and/or socialist, (3) repeating a set of stock phrases and imagery that conjures tradition and morals emanating from key cultural institutions is the same as actually actually being moral.
Ann Coulter’s a reactionary for hire and the line between her sincere convictions and when she hustles is nonexistent. Her job is to justify the status quo, and the status quo is that rich white men get to fuck whoever they want and get away with it, even when their transgression is against the norms supposedly taboo according to the “values” that inform conservative norms.
A U.S. judge in Maryland on Wednesday rejected a Department of Justice request to replace its legal team in cases concerning the 2020 census, the second time in two days a federal judge has stymied the government’s attempt to bring in new lawyers.
A new poll from @DataProgress finds:
60% of Republicans agree with this statement on migrant kids:
“These are not our children, and they should not have come or been brought here. The government is doing all that it needs to be doing.”
New piece:https://t.co/hhRUhlyE4h— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 10, 2019
The “Pro-Life” and “All Lives Matter” Party.
WebMD spam email title:
15 Reasons to Eat More Lemons and Limes
Well, you sold me! Daquiris all around!!!
.@SecretaryAcosta literally blamed the victims. https://t.co/zoTArszMSf pic.twitter.com/rMWm3wpqQp
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 10, 2019
BUT HE’S PERTECKTING AMURKA!!!11!!!!
President Trump’s military-style July Fourth parade drained a special Washington, D.C., city fund designed to help pay for extra security and anti-terrorism measures during large events in the nation’s capital, the mayor said in a letter to the WH. https://t.co/cK8ch9Xyyw
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 10, 2019
re: #175 HappyWarrior
I imagine most professional diplomats are disgusted by Trump.
Yeah, I think that’s what the guy was implying.
re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg
You think Alex Jones got invited to this thing?
Doesn’t look like it. They seem to be shunning the most radioactive creeps.
re: #195 Charles Johnson
Doesn’t look like it. They seem to be shunning the most radioactive creeps.
They even disinvited Ben Garrison.
re: #193 The Pie Overlord!
BUT HE’S PERTECKTING AMURKA!!!11!!!!
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Sigh. Not like Trump gives a shit about the DMV. We rejected him soundly.
re: #189 DodgerFan1988
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The “Pro-Life” and “All Lives Matter” Party.
Such Christians. So loving. Much tolerance.
re: #198 Eclectic Cyborg
Such Christians. So loving. Much tolerance.
They don’t care about American children either. They just want tax cuts.
UCCCCHH
New Jersey judge who told alleged rape victim to “close your legs” is “remorseful,” lawyer says. https://t.co/cjUw2opqj4
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 10, 2019
re: #199 HappyWarrior
They don’t care about American children either. They just want tax cuts.
It’s not that they don’t care about the children. They really do care what happens to them, just not in the way you or I would think of it. They want those children and their parents punished for trying to come here and sully their white, English-speaking America with their brownness and foreign language.
re: #200 The Pie Overlord!
UCCCCHH
“remorseful,”
“Gee, I sure wish I hadn’t gotten caught saying that out loud!”
Look at this Talibangelical, defending his use of “Mother’s Rule”
Before our decision to run, my wife and I made a commitment to follow the “Billy Graham Rule”, which is to avoid any situation that may evoke suspicion or compromise of our marriage. I am sorry Ms. Campbell doesn’t share these views, but my decision was out of respect of my wife. https://t.co/5tjH2x2g65
— Robert Foster (@RobertFoster4MS) July 10, 2019
re: #203 The Pie Overlord!
Look at this Talibangelical, defending his use of “Mother’s Rule”
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re: #203 The Pie Overlord!
Look at this Talibangelical, defending his use of “Mother’s Rule”
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Then you should stop running, because it’s obvious you won’t be able to do your job properly.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) July 10, 2019
BTW this quirk of Pence & now Foster, has its roots in “Issur Yichud” in Jewish halachah (religious law) in which an unrelated man and woman should not be alone in a sequestered place.
This does not apply if the man and the woman are seen together in public. If they are professionals, it’s “job-related” and if they are going out for fun, it’s a “date.”
re: #203 The Pie Overlord!
Look at this Talibangelical, defending his use of “Mother’s Rule”
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If you can’t be in the same room with a woman who isn’t your wife, maybe you shouldn’t be a politician.
re: #200 The Pie Overlord!
He needs to be fired. He’s a mess.
re: #104 makeitstop
This is the best comment in the thread:
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True story. This place is crawling with assholes like that.
I feel sorry for the instigator. He needs counseling. And he deserved to be taken down.
re: #209 Patricia Kayden
He needs to be fired. He’s a mess.
Disbar him. Seriously. He wouldn’t blame a bank owner who was robbed. He shouldn’t do that to sexual assault victims. He’s only remorseful because he’s rightfully being called out on it and the cowardly ass can’t handle criticism.
re: #211 Old Liberal
I feel sorry for the instigator. He needs counseling. And he deserved to be taken down.
Unfortunately, the guy who took him down will likely be arrested and sued in civil court.
re: #203 The Pie Overlord!
Look at this Talibangelical, defending his use of “Mother’s Rule”
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Does a woman need to accompany a male reporter, because you know how Republicans are.
re: #189 DodgerFan1988
I’m shocked 100% didn’t agree.
re: #206 The Pie Overlord!
BTW this quirk of Pence & now Foster, has its roots in “Issur Yichud” in Jewish halachah (religious law) in which an unrelated man and woman should not be alone in a sequestered place.
This does not apply if the man and the woman are seen together in public. If they are professionals, it’s “job-related” and if they are going out for fun, it’s a “date.”
If he’s a politician, with political enemies in a take-no-prisoners political culture, it might be little more than an excess of caution. I wish to god Al Franken had played closer to the Pence Rule.
re: #203 The Pie Overlord!
Be pretty goddam ironic if he got caught having it off with a man.
Also invited to Donald Trump’s creepy, bizarre “social media summit” — none other than the Stupidest Man on the Internet (a well-deserved title!), Jim Hoft, the viciously dishonest “Gateway Pundit.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
re: #216 Decatur Deb
If he’s a politician, with political enemies in a take-no-prisoners political culture, it might be little more than an excess of caution. I wish to god Al Franken had played closer to the Pence Rule.
Or they could do what was taught to them as five years old, you know, keep your hands to yourself. I trained two fellow paralegals and I didn’t get touchy nor accused of it. It’s only an issue if you make it one.
re: #151 Charles Johnson
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Perhaps it means this country was founded on hypocrisy and lies?
McGrath would’ve voted for Kavanaugh, she says; she sees Blasey-Ford as credible but finds her testimony not disqualifying. https://t.co/Fkdx2uxABN
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 10, 2019
re: #218 Charles Johnson
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re: #219 HappyWarrior
Or they could do what was taught to them as five years old, you know, keep your hands to yourself. I trained two fellow paralegals and I didn’t get touchy nor accused of it. It’s only an issue if you make it one.
Not getting touchy and not being accused of it are not the same thing in this environment. It’s an issue if someone has an interest in making it one. Caesar’s wife and Caesar’s wife’s husband have a good reason for staying out of reach of suspicion.
re: #224 Decatur Deb
Not getting touchy and not being accused of it are not the same thing in this environment. It’s an issue if someone has an interest in making it one. Caesar’s wife and Caesar’s wife’s husband have a good reason for staying out of reach of suspicion.
I’m just saying. Millions of us work daily intimately with colleagues of the opposite sex who aren’t our wives. It’s the 21st century. If he can’t be in the same room as women who aren’t his wife, he should find a new line of work.
re: #225 Blind Frog Belly White
Forget it,
JakeAce. It’sChinatownKentucky.
Like if you think the accusations have legitimacy, then you should vote against him. I’d still vote for and campaign for her if I were in Kentucky but I wish she would differentiate herself from McConnell here.
This is so right. https://t.co/kSbkA8VahQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
This is why I’m liking Warren more and more - she treats her audience like intelligent people who can follow concepts more complex than “TRUMP BAD.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2019
re: #226 HappyWarrior
I’m just saying. Millions of us work daily intimately with colleagues of the opposite sex who aren’t our wives. It’s the 21st century. If he can’t be in the same room as women who aren’t his wife, he should find a new line of work.
Maybe as a gay escort. That would be safe.
re: #228 Charles Johnson
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Yes. As I’ve said, he is the symptom not the illness. He’s just another right wing asshole in a long line of the right wing assholes who poison this country with bigotry.
re: #213 Barefoot Grin
Unfortunately, the guy who took him down will likely be arrested and sued in civil court.
Maybe but the guy was threatening multiple people
re: #229 goddamnedfrank
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I wouldn’t have voted for him based on that either. Kavanaugh is a Republican operative on scotus.
re: #231 HappyWarrior
Yes. As I’ve said, he is the symptom not the illness. He’s just another right wing asshole in a long line of the right wing assholes who poison this country with bigotry.
My joke back in 2016 (when it was still funny, not tragic) was that it was like Rupert Murdoch and the GOP had build this fantastic custom car and left it idling at the curb, waiting for Jeb Bush, but then they were surprised that Trump walked up, climbed in, and drove off in it.
re: #211 Old Liberal
I feel sorry for the instigator. He needs counseling. And he deserved to be taken down.
Dangerous chip on his shoulder.
re: #227 HappyWarrior
Like if you think the accusations have legitimacy, then you should vote against him. I’d still vote for and campaign for her if I were in Kentucky but I wish she would differentiate herself from McConnell here.
“There were plenty of other Supreme Court candidates who weren’t of questionable character. We should never send one up who isn’t clean. And that’s the problem “.
re: #207 HappyWarrior
Yeah and maybe we need to be looking a tad bit closer to their behavior towards women, see if any patterns emerge…..
re: #234 Blind Frog Belly White
My joke back in 2016 (when it was still funny, not tragic) was that it was like Rupert Murdoch and the GOP had build this fantastic custom car and left it idling at the curb, waiting for Jeb Bush, but then they were surprised that Trump walked up, climbed in, and drove off in it.
Imo Jeb was never going to be the nominee even in a non deranged GOP but the years of dog whistles finally gave them a big dog. That’s why the never Trumpers frustrate me. Trump just didn’t appear out of nowhere.
re: #232 Old Liberal
Maybe but the guy was threatening multiple people
And, you know, literally asking for it - “YOU WANT SUMMA DIS?!?”
re: #239 Blind Frog Belly White
And, you know, literally asking for it - “YOU WANT SUMMA DIS?!?”
Yes what is the legal term for provoking an assault?
re: #237 A Mom Anon
Yeah and maybe we need to be looking a tad bit closer to their behavior towards women, see if any patterns emerge…..
Yeah. I mean all this talk about how MeToo is terrible for men. I’ve never been accused of inappropriate conduct, rhetoric, or touching. My contact with my women colleagues and clients has always been professional first and foremost and non sexual.
re: #240 Old Liberal
Yes what is the legal term for provoking an assault?
Buying Skittles While Black.
re: #240 Old Liberal
Yes what is the legal term for provoking an assault?
Dunno, but he didn’t just verbally provoke it, he actually ‘chest bumped’ the guy, right?
re: #212 HappyWarrior
And according to the article, he has acted inappropriately before and is accused of sexual harassment by a clerk.
re: #228 Charles Johnson
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God, I wish I had known about this. Peterborough is great. The first town in America, maybe the world, to form a taxpayer-funded library.
re: #244 Patricia Kayden
And according to the article, he has acted inappropriately before and is accused of sexual harassment by a clerk.
Not surprised.
re: #242 Decatur Deb
Buying Skittles While Black.
I was thinking the guy who ‘ragdolled’ him should say, “I feared for my life”, but I’m not sure it works for civilians like it does for Cops.
OTOH, if this were, say, Florida and the asshole was black, he could have shot him with impunity.
re: #241 HappyWarrior
Yeah. I mean all this talk about how MeToo is terrible for men. I’ve never been accused of inappropriate conduct, rhetoric, or touching. My contact with my women colleagues and clients has always been professional first and foremost and non sexual.
When I was an executive these men complained endlessly about “where’s the line”. And I told them you stay so far away that the question never occurs to you. If you can’t accept that, let me help you pack your personal belongings. It’s not difficult unless you’re an ass.
re: #244 Patricia Kayden
And according to the article, he has acted inappropriately before and is accused of sexual harassment by a clerk.
Who’d have thought it?
(*raises hand*)
re: #245 Barefoot Grin
God, I wish I had known about this. Peterborough is great. The first town in America, maybe the world, to form a taxpayer-funded library.
I really should use the library more. Such a great resource.
re: #248 Old Liberal
When I was an executive these men complained endlessly about “where’s the line”. And I told them you stay so far away that the question never occurs to you. If you can’t accept that, let me help you pack your personal belongings. It’s not difficult unless you’re an ass.
My thoughts exactly.
re: #240 Old Liberal
Yes what is the legal term for provoking an assault?
Literally “fighting words.”
See Chaplinsky v New Hampshire
Note to right wingers coming at me with “WHAT ABOUT BILL CLINTON AND EPSTEIN??!”
If Clinton is involved I hope he goes down for it. I couldn’t care less which political party he belongs to, unlike you, you sycophantic tools. Now just fuck off.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 11, 2019
re: #248 Old Liberal
When I was an executive these men complained endlessly about “where’s the line”. And I told them you stay so far away that the question never occurs to you. If you can’t accept that, let me help you pack your personal belongings. It’s not difficult unless you’re an ass.
“Hey, but this industry is different! We work hard, we play hard! Women in this industry are tough! They love the banter!”
According to some folks who did Sexual Harassment training at a place i worked, EVERY industry says this.
re: #253 Charles Johnson
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Yep. Notice all the defenses of Weiner from Democrats you saw. Exactly.
re: #254 Blind Frog Belly White
“Hey, but this industry is different! We work hard, we play hard! Women in this industry are tough! They love the banter!”
According to some folks who did Sexual Harassment training at a place i worked, EVERY industry says this.
Yep, it’s all fun and games until someone shoots their eye out.
re: #241 HappyWarrior
And that is because you are a man of integrity. I just wish I knew why so many men seem to be so broken and want to hurt others sexually. What the Hell?
re: #243 Blind Frog Belly White
Dunno, but he didn’t just verbally provoke it, he actually ‘chest bumped’ the guy, right?
More of a belly bump tbh. Sad
re: #253 Charles Johnson
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There are so many things like this, where the Right has this idea of who we are that’s just the mirror of them. There’s the “What if Bill Clinton is implicated?” thing, where they think we won’t want him brought down.
And there was Erick Erickson’s amazingly dense Tweet that if Epstein were trafficing boys instead of girls we’d make him a hero.
It’s like they cannot comprehend the idea of “consent” - having it, not having it, and not being old enough to give it.
JFC
….serving and doing a great job as your President (including accepting Zero salary!).
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2019
re: #259 Blind Frog Belly White
There are so many things like this, where the Right has this idea of who we are that’s just the mirror of them. There’s the “What if Bill Clinton is implicated?” thing, where they think we won’t want him brought down.
And there was Erick Erickson’s amazingly dense Tweet that if Epstein were trafficing boys instead of girls we’d make him a hero.
It’s like they cannot comprehend the idea of “consent” - having it, not having it, and not being old enough to give it.
They not only can’t understand consent they can’t understand ethical behavior
re: #154 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Later, with the rise of the “rural” sitcom, poorer people did make an appearance, as oafs and buffoons. It was all very demoralizing, especially to some of my working class contemporaries who were perhaps not as well informed as I was. They were actually about average for the time but came to feel that they were clinging to the fringe, barely part of society at all.
My dad grew up in rural eastern Oklahoma in the 1930s and 1940s. He told me when I was an adult that they were dirt poor, but everyone was dirt poor. He didn’t know he was poor until he went to California in 1952. My parents vaulted into the middle class in the 1960s after my dad moved from Western Electric to selling and installing private PBXes. Neither of them talked much about their childhoods—Dad because he sure as hell was never going back to farming and Mom because she grew up in the projects in Richmond, California and her father was a mean as hell alcoholic. (He lived until I was 22 and I never met him.)
re: #256 Old Liberal
Yep, it’s all fun and games until someone shoots their eye out.
It’s all fun and games till a woman they like and respect says, “No, actually, I don’t enjoy it.”
Well, that’s for most guys. There are always the ones whose response ISN’T “Oh, wow, I’m sorry! I didn’t realize! I’ll do better!”, but rather to resent the woman who spoiled their “innocent fun”. I was happy to report guys like that to HR, at previous companies.
re: #262 Old Liberal
They not only can’t understand consent they can’t understand ethical behavior
When your ideology is more about “owning thuh libs” than about any actual coherent political philosophy, you can’t understand anything but utilitarian reactions.
re: #267 Blind Frog Belly White
When your ideology is more about “owning thuh libs” than about any actual coherent political philosophy, you can’t understand anything but utilitarian reactions.
It’s to be expected when Rush Limbaugh is what passes for a leader in your ideology.
re: #264 mmmirele
My dad grew up in rural eastern Oklahoma in the 1930s and 1940s. He told me when I was an adult that they were dirt poor, but everyone was dirt poor. He didn’t know he was poor until he went to California in 1952. My parents vaulted into the middle class in the 1960s after my dad moved from Western Electric to selling and installing private PBXes. Neither of them talked much about their childhoods—Dad because he sure as hell was never going back to farming and Mom because she grew up in the projects in Richmond, California and her father was a mean as hell alcoholic. (He lived until I was 22 and I never met him.)
I know this isn’t exactly the same, but somehow within a couple of weeks last spring I heard interviews with Stephen Daltry, Keith Richards, and a couple of other rockers. To a person, they all said: “I grew up playing in the rubble of the German bombs and everyone was in the same boat. None of us knew we were poor and we all made instruments out of what was at hand.”
re: #265 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s all fun and games till a woman they like and respect says, “No, actually, I don’t enjoy it.”
Well, that’s for most guys. There are always the ones whose response ISN’T “Oh, wow, I’m sorry! I didn’t realize! I’ll do better!”, but rather to resent the woman who spoiled their “innocent fun”. I was happy to report guys like that to HR, at previous companies.
I’ve known so many woman who were in horrific circumstances at work. Zero tolerance for me. Joke and tease after work with people you don’t work with.
That pesky media attention.
Trump Org was ok with a strip-club golf tournament for *charity* — but cancelled after the charity pulled out. https://t.co/IaTHEFzzFA
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) July 10, 2019
re: #271 Patricia Kayden
That pesky media attention.
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Oh but Michelle Obama’s arms.
I’d forgotten that Jeffrey Epstein was in the group that almost bought @nymag in 2003, along with Harvey Weinstein, Michael Wolff, and Donny Deutsch, among others. 😱 https://t.co/JETmk7srUg pic.twitter.com/pM1CPAWECs
— Lauren Starke (@LaurenStarke) July 10, 2019
re: #270 Old Liberal
I’ve known so many woman who were in horrific circumstances at work. Zero tolerance for me. Joke and tease after work with people you don’t work with.
Here I am talking tough and I walked away 14 years ago. Couldn’t take the lying and thievery that was a constant. Life is better without it.
Still thinking about all the people who claimed that Obama was undermining the dignity of his office by sometimes being photographed without a tie
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) July 10, 2019
Fun with Russian bots!
Thanks, J D! Your dear leader is a rapist. pic.twitter.com/B8x7r6aktd
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 11, 2019
Sure thing Sergey! Hope the weather is good there in St. Petersberg!
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 11, 2019
Again fake news lies u have no clue where I live makes u a liar
— J D (@Jdsbighead) July 11, 2019
It blocked me before I got to tweet at it in Russian.
No one has yet come up with how Epstein became a billionaire and a finance guy for billionaires. Nothing quite adds up, unless you think he’s got everyone in compromising positions and uses blackmail to extort everyone around him into giving him money.
Even that doesn’t pass the smell test.
re: #274 Old Liberal
Here I am talking tough and I walked away 14 years ago. Couldn’t take the lying and thievery that was a constant. Life is better without it.
So far, lying and thievery have always been above my pay grade.
re: #277 lawhawk
No one has yet come up with how Epstein became a billionaire and a finance guy for billionaires. Nothing quite adds up, unless you think he’s got everyone in compromising positions and uses blackmail to extort everyone around him into giving him money.
Even that doesn’t pass the smell test.
He kept it all in a Little Tin Box.
re: #276 teleskiguy
Fun with Russian bots!
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It blocked me before I got to tweet at it in Russian.
Innocent in America until proven guilty, but LOCK HER UP!!
More American then u will ever be again no proof lmao
— J D (@Jdsbighead) July 11, 2019
Pathetic loser cry baby grow up follow the law
— J D (@Jdsbighead) July 11, 2019
re: #280 Decatur Deb
He kept it all in a Little Tin Box.
Maybe he’s like Sonny Shine - everything on tape.
Ben Folds Five, “Philosophy.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 11, 2019
It was a genuinely life-saving album for me.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 11, 2019
Do you know who is completely innocent in any of this?
HILLARY Clinton
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Elizabeth Warren
Kamala Harris— Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) July 11, 2019
Mark plain and simple you support a bigot racist predator President who assaults women locks babies in cages is a adulterous and kills children at the border. I remember when the Republican Party stood for families values today the GOP stands for hatred and Despair #TheResistance
— William Tillotson (@TillotsonArt) July 11, 2019
re: #277 lawhawk
No one has yet come up with how Epstein became a billionaire and a finance guy for billionaires. Nothing quite adds up, unless you think he’s got everyone in compromising positions and uses blackmail to extort everyone around him into giving him money.
Even that doesn’t pass the smell test.
It’s really difficult to amass that kind of wealth by legitimate means without leaving an easily followed trail.
Almost makes you think the Epstein case is just the tip of the iceberg of a gigantic criminal conspiracy, doesn’t it?
re: #205 Belafon
So the pool boy having sex with you/your wife is ok, but any woman isn’t.
Got it.
American Taliban, right here.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 11, 2019
re: #288 The Pie Overlord!
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It’s a misdemeanor you chode. A misdemeanor. But yeah how awful. It’s a pity that your ancestors weren’t denied at Ellis Islsnd since they obviously weren’t Europe’s best if they led to you.
re: #287 The Pie Overlord!
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I get mad all over again thinking about how Obama was treated. This is a great father, husband, son in law, & President. Someone who really exemplified the best of our country.
Oh man. Here we go, folks. https://t.co/vwQ8zNxxvE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 11, 2019
Hmm, who else had a special relationship with DeutscheBank? Wait, it’ll come to me.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 11, 2019
A sign of the continuing intellectual collapse among conservatives in the Age of Trump: Jack Posobiec is going to be a fellow in a summer program at The Claremont Institute.
Normally, there’s no point in noting Posobiec’s existence, but this warranted an exception.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 10, 2019
re: #294 Blind Frog Belly White
Tom’s problem here is not recognizing that ‘Conservative Intellectual’ was always an oxymoron.
re: #295 Blind Frog Belly White
Tom’s problem here is not recognizing that ‘Conservative Intellectual’ was always an oxymoron.
Yes exactly. Despite what they think, people like Buckley and Russell Kirk weren’t all that either.
I hooked another one. But I think this is a real person.
Yikes, someone has a potty mouth 🤭
— Angela (@Angela81702575) July 11, 2019
Nope
— Angela (@Angela81702575) July 11, 2019
Not a word I use.
— Angela (@Angela81702575) July 11, 2019
Maybe you should start watching movies without the nasty language. 😄They are hard to find. 260?? Did you count them? 😂
— Angela (@Angela81702575) July 11, 2019
One of the things I love about this place is that even though Charles was is a great guitar player who played with many of the the top musicians he is a champion of so many young musicians of incredibly diverse styles. It’s really refreshing.
re: #295 Blind Frog Belly White
Tom’s problem here is not recognizing that ‘Conservative Intellectual’ was always an oxymoron.
I don’t know about the ‘oxy’, but I’ve thought Tom had a bit of the ‘moron’ going on for a long time.
re: #298 teleskiguy
“Maybe you should start watching movies without the nasty language.”
Why?
I don’t know, maybe it’s growing up with a Mom who struggled not to curse like a sailor in front of us, then going to college in the 70s and working summers in a factory, then making my career in Science, but I never can understand it when people get bent out of shape over the word “Fuck”.
We are done as a country and evil has won. But boy did this tweet make me laugh.
.@realDonaldTrump you’re trash and I hope every time you sit down you sit on your balls.
— Natasha Rothwell (@natasharothwell) July 10, 2019
re: #298 teleskiguy
I hooked another one. But I think this is a real person.
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ya know, Angela, one of the most religious people I know (VB)thinks that Lebowski and Blazing Saddles are two of the greatest movies ever made. You might like them if you take the stick out of your ass…
re: #300 wrenchwench
I don’t know about the ‘oxy’, but I’ve thought Tom had a bit of the ‘moron’ going on for a long time.
I dunno. Sometimes it’s like watching someone who’s fairly dim keep getting close to an answer and then just missing it. You keep thinking, “Maybe this time…..annnnddddd…Nope. Didn’t get it.”
re: #298 teleskiguy
I hooked another one. But I think this is a real person.
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Send her a pic of the “Fuck your Feelings” couple.
re: #295 Blind Frog Belly White
Tom’s problem here is not recognizing that ‘Conservative Intellectual’ was always an oxymoron.
As an earnest young conservative, I was dazzled by Buckley’s erudition and eloquence——— until I went to Cornell and found out how erudition and eloquence were supposed to work. There are many terms for Buckley’s technique, but “baffle ‘em with bullshit” is my choice.
re: #306 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
As an earnest young conservative, I was dazzled by Buckley’s erudition and eloquence——— until I went to Cornell and found out how erudition and eloquence were supposed to work. There are many terms for Buckley’s technique, but “baffle ‘em with bullshit” is my choice.
When Buckley used his obviously great intellect in service to the worst people in society, reason simply became rationalizing. Philosophy became sophistry.
re: #234 Blind Frog Belly White
My joke back in 2016 (when it was still funny, not tragic) was that it was like Rupert Murdoch and the GOP had build this fantastic custom car and left it idling at the curb, waiting for Jeb Bush, but then they were surprised that Trump walked up, climbed in, and drove off in it.
What actually happened, of course, is that the GOP spent decades turning its base into easily led sheeple, making the entire party into a Pigsty of Satan.
Trump is just the Pig of Destiny who barged his way into that Hog Heaven before anyone else could.
re: #290 MsJ
Before our decision to run, my wife and I made a commitment to follow the “Billy Graham Rule”, which is to avoid any situation that may evoke suspicion or compromise of our marriage. I am sorry Ms. Campbell doesn’t share these views, but my decision was out of respect of my wife.
Why is it the journalist’s responsibility to bring a chaperone/witness? If you’re running a serious campaign, isn’t there someone on your own staff who can fill that role?
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