Seth Meyers Is Back: Trump’s Racist Attacks on Democratic Congresswomen [VIDEO]
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Seth takes a closer look at the president mounting an appallingly racist attack on four Democratic women of color in Congress.
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The president is a bigot. Patriots can’t stay silent on racist remarks. [Editorial]
By The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board July 14, 2019 Updated: July 15, 2019 6:38 p.m.
“…We can’t allow ourselves to start viewing this behavior as normal, as “Trump being Trump.” Whether motivated by racism, politics, mental instability or all of the above, the impact of Trump’s comments don’t expire with the next news cycle.
They gnaw at the fabric of this country. Trump uses Twitter for “official purposes.” We should be horrified that one such purpose is for demeaning the office of the president. We should condemn elected officials whose silence equals complicity.
It is their duty — and ours — to speak out against Trump’s hate-filled rhetoric, which is corrosive to America’s fragile unity and treasonous to the ideals upon which it stands.”houstonchronicle.com
I’m blocked by Harry Turdledove and I have no idea why. This sucks. I conversed with him many times, he has liked some of my tweets, I don’t remember saying anything at all offensive.
WTH could President Obama do?
white ppl voted for a racist
Some liberal white folks were all ‘revolution’ when marginalized folks were yelling about the danger of Trump
Media helped Trump
Now you want the Black POTUS to save you from the monster you created. Y’all have got some nervehttps://t.co/N0bJgfls3Y— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) July 16, 2019
re: #1 jaunte
The president is a bigot. Patriots can’t stay silent on racist remarks. [Editorial]
By The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board July 14, 2019 Updated: July 15, 2019 6:38 p.m.
That’s great. I didn’t know this day but the Chronicle has the third highest daily circulation in the country and it’s in a red state no less.
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
WTH could President Obama do?
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We didn’t appreciate him when he was potus at all. By we I mean the country as a whole not you or Lizardom.
I mean, technically you’re allowed to hate Israel and be an American citizen. Also why is it wrong to hate Israel but cool to hate Mexico? https://t.co/aQcHxevieC
— AnnaMaria Stephens (@annamaria1word) July 16, 2019
“I say! The cheek of this sooty, giving old Uncle Sam what-for! Whilst I, a true Yank, fight for the Cawn-sti-TYOO-shun every day at the rifle range so she might have the right to shoot up a high school! Bloody nerve!” https://t.co/1ENXzwUMHY
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) July 16, 2019
Wow, the last thread competing for “shortest at Little Green Footballs.”
As a reminder of what the AP Style Guide has to say about the New York Times doing its damn best to make sure Maggie Habermann continues to have access to Trump’s speed dial. I have a copy of the AP Style Guide (from my former editing job and convenient when I write a letter to the regional newspaper).
“Do not use racially charged or similar terms as euphemisms for racist or racism when the latter terms are truly applicable.” In case you forgot the guidance of, you know, the @AP.
— Daniel Walton (@DanielWWalton) July 15, 2019
re: #6 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Because Mexico’s President doesn’t kiss Trump’s ass and Mexico isn’t part of some sick rapture fantasy. Trump has gone after far more allies in far more ugly ways than any of the four Congresswomen criticized Israel. TBH this standard with Israel is really getting ridiculous. And I blame Nethanyu for it because he’s nothing but a racist crook who treated our First African American President with contempt because of his own racism.
To distract from that he’s launching a blatantly racist attack on four members of the United States House of Representatives, all of whom are women of color. This is the agenda of white nationalists.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 16, 2019
re: #11 gocart mozart
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She actually does believe in religious freedom which is something you can’t say about Trump and the fundamentalists that kiss his ass.
AOC is somehow disrespecting Holocaust victims to call these camps concentration camps even though she did nit specifically reference the Holocaust but a member of Bibi’s government can call American Jews marrying outside their faith the Holocaust. Bibi and his government disrespect Holocaust victims everyday including their own family members by engaging in the same ugly bigotry that led to the Holocaust.
re: #11 gocart mozart
A slew of conservatives in there proving Rep. Omar’s point with racist attacks on her, “you’re the real racist,” the same bullshyte claim about marrying her brother to become an “illegal immigrant,” &c.
It is a target-rich environment for Twitterati here for blocking or reporting racism.
This is the most disgusted I’ve ever been with an American President in my 32 years. There’s so much ugliness about this son of a bitch. Not a single redeemable quality. Someone whose values are not from the Enlightenment or the basic fundamental values we learn at a young age but someone whose philosophy is rooted in autocracy, exclusion, & bigotry for anyone who isn’t like him.
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re: #15 Anymouse 🌹
A slew of conservatives in there proving Rep. Omar’s point with racist attacks on her, “you’re the real racist,” the same bullshyte claim about marrying her brother to become an “illegal immigrant,” &c.
It is a target-rich environment for Twitterati here for blocking or reporting racism.
Those pigs should answer what Judge Curiel’s parents place of birth had to do with him judging Don the Con’s fraud case. He is a racist. And the entire Republican Party enables it either out of agreement or fear of displeasing him. Either way, they shouldn’t be trusted with any political power.
re: #9 Anymouse 🌹
The sheer quantity of Trump and Trumpers racist flatulence is making me heartily tired of the word “trope.”
Imagine going on about a female 007 for 11-minutes…and then bragging about it! https://t.co/7ct5dCAn7k
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 16, 2019
re: #17 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Hooray! Rest up so you can smite ‘em hip and thigh tomorrow.
re: #16 HappyWarrior
This is the most disgusted I’ve ever been with an American President in my 32 years. There’s so much ugliness about this son of a bitch. Not a single redeemable quality. Someone whose values are not from the Enlightenment or the basic fundamental values we learn at a young age but someone whose philosophy is rooted in autocracy, exclusion, & bigotry for anyone who isn’t like him.
You’re just trying to make me feel old. /s
There’s the historical record for me of Goldwater’s invitation to the Klan and the John Birch Society into the GOP.
There was Nixon’s anti-Semitism, and his “war on drugs” calculated to disenfranchise black voters using Jim Crow felony laws.
I was disgusted at the racism and callous disregard for the AIDS issue from Ronald Reagan.
Then it got worse with GHW Bush’s attack on atheists.
There is no bottom to conservatism. The next one to come along after Trump will be worse (you can bookmark that).
Every generation coming up must be taught what conservatism is really about.
re: #20 Ace-o-aces
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What a loser he is. Yeah Ben they made a fictional character female. Oh no! But it’s we liberals who are outraged all the time. At least we’re bothered by reality. No wonder why no one will hire you as a lawyer, you’re like the joke about the doctor who finishes last in medical school, you probably just barely passed the bar.
re: #17 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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re: #17 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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re: #22 Anymouse 🌹
You’re just trying to make me feel old. /s
There’s the historical record for me of Goldwater’s invitation to the Klan and the John Birch Society into the GOP.
There was Nixon’s anti-Semitism, and his “war on drugs” calculated to disenfranchise black voters using Jim Crow felony laws.
I was disgusted at the racism and callous disregard for the AIDS issue from Ronald Reagan.
Then it got worse with GHW Bush’s attack on atheists.
There is no bottom to conservatism. The next one to come along after Trump will be worse (you can bookmark that).
Every generation coming up must be taught what conservatism is really about.
I’m aware of all that. I don’t need a history lesson. However, that’s how I feel. Trump to me stands out even compared to those other assholes. That’s my point.
re: #26 HappyWarrior
I’m aware of all that. I don’t need a history lesson. However, that’s how I feel. Trump to me stands out even compared to those other assholes. That’s my point.
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to be a history pedant.
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to be a history pedant.
It’s cool. I’m just saying. That Trump disgusts me compared to his predecessors really says a lot. It doesn’t absolve them of their crimes and sins at all.
Powerful @latimes editorial: “We shouldn’t rise to his bait, but how can we not? If we ignore him, we normalize his reckless behavior, and that’s even worse.” https://t.co/wVjN7la7hH
— Sewell Chan (@sewellchan) July 15, 2019
Historians will look back on the US media’s refusal to use the L (lie) and R (racist) words in relation to Trump as one of the most inexcusable, cowardly and shameful features of this horrific political and media era.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 15, 2019
re: #30 Belafon
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The media definitely enabled his rise by treating him like an amusing curiosity rather than the fascist racist fuck he is.
A fine generated headline
TRUMP DABBLES IN ART OF PEARL-CLUTCHING RACIAL FUMBLE
re: #17 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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We were informed that over 200 people submitted forms to be liver donors over 2 days. Most are strangers. We are amazed & humbled. This too is America. It is kind, generous and comes together to help a baby girl. I am indebted to all. Thank you. Let’s hope she finds a liver. https://t.co/KgCiKItzZA
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) July 16, 2019
re: #34 Belafon
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That’s the America I love. The one that is willing to help out complete strangers without expecting something in return.
@darth when you’re worried there won’t be any cake left pic.twitter.com/asJHwPkggp
— Stupac (@stupac34) July 16, 2019
Well I’m calling it a night. I wonder how that pig will act between now and when I have my first cup tomorrow.
Responding to Prime Minister Theresa May’s condemnation of Donald Trump with a photograph of one of her advert vans from when she was Home Secretary:
Mrs May then got into one of her vans and drove away from the scene of the hypocrisy. pic.twitter.com/8pQXV0kEV3
— Emmanuel Goldstein 🚮 (@ExitedBritain) July 15, 2019
AOC lied about what she saw at the CBP facility and then voted against funding to provide the items and space needed at the holding facilities. She also both complained about not having enough beds and attacked the company trying to provide those beds.You’re being lied to.
— Mike Zellhart (@mike_zellhart) July 15, 2019
she did not lie about what she saw at the border. Every witness, including former CBP agents, has said the same. Try a news source besides Fox and Breitbart.
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) July 15, 2019
Did you seriously just attack Fox News, then post Wonkette as if it’s a reliable source?! 😂They’re a satire and political gossip website. Please, for the sake of anyone who may actually believe what you say, get a clue!
— Mike Zellhart (@mike_zellhart) July 15, 2019
(Apparently “Mike Zellhart” doesn’t know Ms. Shoenkopf is the owner of Wonkette)
So,…which part of the DHS Inspector General’s report that I cite here is a lie? https://t.co/7KifGZdEIR
— Doktor Zoom (@DoktorZoom) July 15, 2019
re: #41 plansbandc
don’t fluff with a ciabatta, try the sourdough fer chrissakes
re: #17 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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Would you please do whatever they ask and take care of yourself?
Asking for a friend.
Me.
This is journalistic malpractice. The press long ago stopped reporting polls without full results being released to avoid by manipulations by any political player. Axios should pull this down immediately. I hope every every pollster joins me in calling for this as well. https://t.co/DmDjF7C0OZ
— Joel Benenson (@benensonj) July 14, 2019
Republicans tonight are realizing the thing that they bought in 2016 is now defining who THEY are. Anyone who defends this is sharing the racism. THEY MUST NOW CHOOSE WHERE THEY STAND. pic.twitter.com/pwZ5gMRlOB
— Steve Brodner (@stevebrodner) July 16, 2019
An older thread, fourteen tweets.
It outlines the racist history of square dance becoming the official folk dance of most states (backed with evidence), and the fact it wasn’t actually invented until the XX Century (thus not a folk dance when it was promoted).
PUT YOUR TIN FOIL HATS ON, we are about to go on a VERY wild ride.
I haven’t been this excited since I first found out about the incredibly strange world of quicksand porn.— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) December 7, 2017
re: #13 HappyWarrior
AOC is somehow disrespecting Holocaust victims to call these camps concentration camps even though she did nit specifically reference the Holocaust but a member of Bibi’s government can call American Jews marrying outside their faith the Holocaust. Bibi and his government disrespect Holocaust victims everyday including their own family members by engaging in the same ugly bigotry that led to the Holocaust.
Add this in the mix that pisses me off about Booby Nincompoopo
Israel’s newly appointed education minister has ignited an angry backlash after saying in a televised interview broadcast Saturday that he believes it is possible to perform conversion therapy on gay men and lesbians to change their sexual orientation.
Rabbi Rafi Peretz, head of the far-right, ultranationalist Jewish Home Party, also told Channel 12 News that he had personally carried out such treatments in the past, counseling young religious students who spoke to him about being gay.
“I think it is possible. I can tell you I have a very deep familiarity with this kind of education, and I have also done this,” the minister said when asked whether he thought people could change their orientations.
Peretz, a former chief military rabbi, described counseling one student, saying: “I hugged him first, then uttered very warm words. I told him that we needed to think about this, learn about this, observe this. The objective is for him first of all to know himself, and then I can give him the data.”
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹
An older thread, fourteen tweets.
It outlines the racist history of square dance becoming the official folk dance of most states (backed with evidence), and the fact it wasn’t actually invented until the XX Century (thus not a folk dance when it was promoted).
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And why am I not surprised Old Fart Ford had his anti-semetic fingers in this?
HE DID. And, as it turns out, the whole reason for him funding all this square dancing was in order to TAKE DOWN JAZZ, both because black people and Jewish people. https://t.co/clJE2YUMKl
— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) December 7, 2017
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹
NOT ONLY THAT, but his weird anti-semitic racist plot to foist squaredancing upon the country is the whole reason for square dancing in gym class. https://t.co/LBUThVJpbi pic.twitter.com/ONEMWpAEHj
— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) December 7, 2017
Back in junior high I wondered why they were having us practice square dancing when none of the adults did it.
If Mitt was a Senator during WWII:
People can disagree about religion, but what Hitler is doing to the Jews is over the line.— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 16, 2019
re: #50 jaunte
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Back in junior high I wondered why they were having us practice square dancing when none of the adults did it.
Mom pulled me out of square dance practice. She never did tell me why but I got a feeling she knew about Ford who she really hated…
Quicksand and getting your scuba hose cut were the two big dramatic threats in 1960’s adventure television.
re: #49 Joe Bacon 🌹
And why am I not surprised Old Fart Ford had his anti-semetic fingers in this?
Hi, I wrote the article, State Folk Dance Conspiracy. I’d be happy to answer any questions you have. That was a long time ago. I hope you noticed on my website that I’m into completely different things now. Okay, I’m going to read all the comments here.
— Julianne Mangin (@JulianneMangin) December 8, 2017
Robyn Pennacchia cited her article for her research into most states making square dance the official folk dance of the state.
re: #48 Joe Bacon 🌹
Add this in the mix that pisses me off about Booby Nincompoopo
Israel’s newly appointed education minister has ignited an angry backlash after saying in a televised interview broadcast Saturday that he believes it is possible to perform conversion therapy on gay men and lesbians to change their sexual orientation.
Rabbi Rafi Peretz, head of the far-right, ultranationalist Jewish Home Party, also told Channel 12 News that he had personally carried out such treatments in the past, counseling young religious students who spoke to him about being gay.
“I think it is possible. I can tell you I have a very deep familiarity with this kind of education, and I have also done this,” the minister said when asked whether he thought people could change their orientations.
Peretz, a former chief military rabbi, described counseling one student, saying: “I hugged him first, then uttered very warm words. I told him that we needed to think about this, learn about this, observe this. The objective is for him first of all to know himself, and then I can give him the data.”
Does he also believe there is a conversion therapy to convert straight men and women to gays and lesbians? I mean, who wouldn’t want to be pariahs to the majority of their societies? On the upside, they could be Reality TV stars for Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.
re: #56 jaunte
Quicksand and getting your scuba hose cut were the two big dramatic threats in 1960’s adventure television.
I remember watching Sea Hunt when I was a kid and almost every other episode had The Bad Guy cutting Lloyd Bridges’ scuba hose…
re: #60 austin_blue
Does he also believe there is a conversion therapy to convert straight men and women to gays and lesbians? I mean, who wouldn’t want to be pariahs to the majority of their societies? On the upside, they could be Reality TV stars for Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.
The same old argument with conservatives.
“Teh Geyh is a lifestyle choice.”
Okay, you’re straight, is that a lifestyle choice?
re: #56 jaunte
Quicksand and getting your scuba hose cut were the two big dramatic threats in 1960’s adventure television.
is this where the man would slap the hysterical woman to help her out?
I am not a fan of the right-wing Cuban exiles. However, when it looks like the Trump administration is throwing out an exile who has lived here for over a half-century for what appears to be bogus reasons, yeah, it’s unnerving.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has again denied permanent residence to Ramón Saúl Sánchez, leader of the Democracy Movement and a prominent member of the Cuban exile community in Miami.
Sánchez is now in an immigration limbo and could be deported to Cuba, which he left as a child 52 years ago.
“Sadly, I report to you that the U.S. government has denied me residence with a 17-page list of justifications. I am grateful for the 52 years lived in this generous land which I have come to love like my other homeland. I will continue my fight for a free Cuba,” Sánchez wrote on his Twitter account Monday.
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When Sánchez and his brother landed at Miami International Airport in 1967, he was allowed entry under parole, a special immigration category for refugees. Sánchez never changed his status to permanent resident under the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act. Like many other Cubans of his generation, he believed that assuming a new citizenship was betraying the cause of Cuban freedom.
If memory serves, up until fairly recently you couldn’t hold dual citizenship as a US citizen. Now you can, but apparently that doesn’t help this guy. But yet again, here we are, throwing someone out who has lived here most of his life.
re: #2 gocart mozart
I’m blocked by Harry Turdledove and I have no idea why.
Possibly for misspelling his name?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Little upgrade in paper planes… pic.twitter.com/sHdreUdcyY
— Learn Something (@EarnKnowledge) July 16, 2019
let’s all give trump a hearty round of applause for elevating our wonderful AOC and The Squad to SUPERSTAR status
i am so happy to see the Progressive Movement of the Future truly arrive and take its place on the american scene!
re: #66 mmmirele
I am not a fan of the right-wing Cuban exiles. However, when it looks like the Trump administration is throwing out an exile who has lived here for over a half-century for what appears to be bogus reasons, yeah, it’s unnerving.
If memory serves, up until fairly recently you couldn’t hold dual citizenship as a US citizen. Now you can, but apparently that doesn’t help this guy. But yet again, here we are, throwing someone out who has lived here most of his life.
Leopards, faces, &c.
As I understand Cuban-American politics, the older members are supporters of Fulgenico Batista (basically fascists).
if this fellow was here under the old parole programme, he couldn’t vote, but most elderly Cuban-Americans can. I imagine this will only accelerate abandonment of the GOP by the community.
re: #52 Ace-o-aces
Mitt Romney
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@MittRomney
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Replying to @MittRomney
People can disagree over politics and policy, but telling American citizens to go back to where they came from is over the line.aceoaces
@aceoaces
If Mitt was a Senator during WWII:
People can disagree about religion, but what Hitler is doing to the Jews is over the line.11:11 PM - Jul 15, 2019
The one thing that you can say about the current incarnation of Mitt — he’s always a follower, never a leader. He waited for others to issue half hearted criticisms of Trump before expanding — barely — on his initial comments.
welp
Scarlett Johansson Cast as First Black James Bond https://t.co/MqFW2jfWH9
— The Hard Times (@REALpunknews) July 15, 2019
“The silence of Republican leaders appeared to suggest either that they agreed with the views expressed by their standard-bearer or that he has so effectively consolidated his control over their party that they have grown disinclined to voice dissent.”https://t.co/nIQTort5bO
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) July 15, 2019
London Mayor Sadiq Khan: “I’ve heard it from racists and fascists. Never from a mainstream politician. Here you have the president of the U.S.A. using that same sort of language.”https://t.co/TwzV8WyG6D
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) July 15, 2019
re: #71 Hecuba’s daughter
The one thing that you can say about the current incarnation of Mitt — he’s always a follower, never a leader. He waited for others to issue half hearted criticisms of Trump before expanding — barely — on his initial comments.
And as I mentioned before, he’s a hypocrite. His campaign for president included the racist “self-deportation” nonsense promoted by Gov. Pete Wilson of California under Proposition 187. William Safire described it as the most cost-effective way to change behaviour is to make life unbearable under present conditions (the cruelty is the point written as policy for the Republicans).
re: #77 Cheechako
Alaska’s Governor, Mike Dunleavy (R), is now a contender for the worst political photograph of the year:
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If he worked really hard at it, I’ll bet he could beat Sarah Palin’s turkey pardon/slaughter video.
lol
Do you even know who she is??!!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
She is John Wonkette’s daughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!— John «Yorktown Airport» O’Connor (@JohnO0Connor) July 15, 2019
re: #17 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
*double upding* Glad to hear it, on both threads!
Founder of neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer should pay $14 million to victim of ‘troll storm,’ judge says (NBC)
The founder and editor of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer should be ordered to pay more than $14 million to a Montana real estate agent against whom he organized an anti-Semitic “troll storm,” a federal magistrate judge found on Monday.
The judgment was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Missoula, Montana, against Andrew Anglin, who encouraged the online intimidation campaign against Tanya Gersh, a Jewish real estate agent in the Montana resort town of Whitefish, her husband and their 12-year-old son.
(more at the link)
Ben Shapiro spent 11 minutes railing against a female Bond because he’s obviously **not** a misogynist. https://t.co/mh8oIIZMUi
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 16, 2019
Rick Wilson being called out in a thread for enabling the rise of Trump after he wrote this.
Shrug. I’ll just GTFO if it gets that bad. I’ve got resources. They’re stuck with him. https://t.co/3bQtZ0enbK
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 16, 2019
Wow. What a shitty thing to say.
— Czarina Renee (@CariniGambarini) July 16, 2019
I’ve made my sacrifices, thank you.
At some point, you can’t help people who don’t want help. https://t.co/LtX2CBz7Tf— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 16, 2019
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹
There’s just so many layers of stupid to getting mad about a lady 007.
Bond is a multi-layered wish fulfillment fantasy. He’s a Cold War competence fantasy (as opposed to the deeply mixed results produced by MI6) and an imperialist fantasy (tramping around the world in a fucking tux being differed to) addressing British, erm…post War inadequacies.
He’s also not such much actually competent as that movie-competence where you don’t actually do anything right but being “cool” means you eke out the win. In contrast to the grubby effortful praxis of real spies, and in particularly the really good spies (see: Ben MacIntyre’s histories or the painfully tense and precise spy fiction of John LeCarre), Bond has an unlimited expense account, is constantly flashy and leaves behind a giant debris field, and his (rape-y) sexual activity doesn’t get him immediately yanked from the field because he’s basically made of kompromat.
The character is entertaining, but has never made sense, never depicted espionage in any meaningful way (in spite of Fleming’s own experiences) since the original pieces of short fiction, and even the “realistic” Bond reboot is fucking ridiculous.
This is such a stupid hill to take a stand on, but the outrage hustlers will do it because it’s about nobody else getting to have a fantasy. They’ll dress it up as about “realism” or propose that an altered version is somehow more silly (to which I retort—any Roger Moore Bond film. I mean, I was weaned on them but gods are they ridiculous).
eta: shit, I didn’t even address how historically, there’s enough women that become incredible espionage agents that any claims about “realism” are just fucking laughable…even if you don’t take the next step and observe that extant Bond films are full of female spies that Bond seduces…. But basically we’re dealing with paste-eating narcissists who feel like they’re losing control of the world when video game tits don’t meet their expectations, and I should probably just drink more rather than think about any of this.
re: #81 Anymouse 🌹
Good to see there’s a judgement against Anglin for that shit. Sadly though, no one even knows his current whereabouts. It’s been speculated that he may well be in Russia, which would make some sense, as he wouldn’t need to fear being extradited back to the US in a worst-case scenario.
I don’t know what kind of assets he’s got that’s not tied up in cryptocurrency.
An investigative journalist is freed from ICE custody in Alabama after 15 months in the Etowah County Detention Center.Salvardoran Manuel Duran was covering a protest in Memphis when he was arrested in April 2018. https://t.co/alGHWThNUR pic.twitter.com/0KYOSPt9Kf
(He is here on political asylum, they jailed him anyway for deportation)
The media better start paying attention to this as they keep trying to Chucktodderise everything Republicans do. They’ll be next. Addiction to political access can be hazardous to your health, and may complicate pregnancy—Surgeon General, maybe
Can he sue?
— Madly Mary! 🌹BERNIE 2020🐥 (@Originalmugwug) July 12, 2019
Disgracefully, no. While he was locked up, prevented from seeing loved ones, told when/what to eat & when he could go to a rec area, under a legal fiction it’s non-punitive civil detention & not analogous to a state wrongfully imprisoning w/o charges. https://t.co/ORJpqRdZw4
— Aaron Hall (@immlawACHall) July 12, 2019
re: #84 The Ghost of Quesos Past
If James Bond existed as a real spy:
“My name is Bond, James Bond. I’ll have a vodka martini, shaken, not stirred.”
(Every foreign agent in the room opens fire on him.)
Quote of the day = @SenJohnKennedy on Trump Fed nominee Judy Shelton:
“She has a good, solid technical background. She knows an economics textbook from a J.Crew catalog. I think she’s a good choice.”#Fed #economy— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) July 15, 2019
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹
If James Bond existed as a real spy:
“My name is Bond, James Bond. I’ll have a vodka martini, shaken, not stirred.”
(Every foreign agent in the room opens fire on him.)
Exactly.
This fictional superspy, this master assassin, literally licensed to kill on behalf of the British Monarch, would end up looking like a block of Swiss cheese the instant he opened his mouth.
Every hostile intel agency on the planet (and non-state actors, too) would be gunning for this clown and whomever finally plugged him would be rewarded quite handsomely.
A lot of you ask why I don’t run for office. Here’s why👇🏽#Kompromat pic.twitter.com/BD28b5MpTF
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) July 16, 2019
Glad for AliExpress - it’s a money saver.
Today, my order arrived; a package of 20 KangerTech 1.5 ohm coils for my e-cigarette. Total cost (free shipping) was $12.95, about 295 Kč, so that’s about $0.65 each, or about 15 Kč each.
Here in Czech Republic, generic no-name replacement coils sell for about 79 Kč/piece, which works out to roughly $3.50/coil. KangerTech branded coils are about 115 Kč/piece, or $5.05/each.
Big savings, to say the least. And it arrived quickly too. About three weeks.
re: #90 Dr Lizardo
As the meltdown over a female James Bond continues on the never-ending grievance train which is the right, it would be a shame if someone told them that James is also a woman’s name.
It is not as common as it was in the past for baby girls. That said, the other James in my town is a Millenial woman.
James (girl) (goes to Baby Name Wizard, with charts, famous women and girls named James, and other information about the name)
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹
As the meltdown over a female James Bond continues on the never-ending grievance train which is the right, it would be a shame if someone told them that James is also a woman’s name.
It is not as common as it was in the past for baby girls. That said, the other James in my town is a Millenial woman.
James (girl) (goes to Baby Name Wizard, with charts, famous women and girls named James, and other information about the name)
I had no idea James was a name for girls and women as well. It must’ve become an almost entirely masculine name before I was born in 1969 as I’ve never met a woman named James.
re: #95 Dr Lizardo
I had no idea James was a name for girls and women as well. It must’ve become an almost entirely masculine name before I was born in 1969 as I’ve never a woman named James.
It was considered a unisex name until the middle of the XX Century. It peaked in the USA around the Thirties.
It is far less common for men and boys now, as it peaked in the Sixties and fell off dramatically.
The name appears to be headed the way of other no-longer used names.
re: #95 Dr Lizardo
I had no idea James was a name for girls and women as well. It must’ve become an almost entirely masculine name before I was born in 1969 as I’ve never a woman named James.
It’s rare. But Ben is being an idiot again. She’s not playing Bond. She’s playing 007. M was originally played by a man and now Dame Judi Dench’s M is as iconic as Bernard Lee’s was. I seriously feel bad for Ben’s little girl that he views women this way.
Wow, when you’re too racist for the National Review:
We should not hold immigrant citizens to a higher standard of gratitude than we apply to the people who did nothing to earn their place in this land. A response to @charlescwcooke: https://t.co/7qvr4gZyoR
— David French (@DavidAFrench) July 15, 2019
re: #97 HappyWarrior
It’s rare. But Ben is being an idiot again. She’s not playing Bond. She’s playing 007. M was originally played by a man and now Dame Judi Dench’s M is as iconic as Bernard Lee’s was. I seriously feel bad for Ben’s little girl that he views women this way.
Exactly - these nitwits are freaking about the agent code number, which presumably can be reassigned as needed. From what I can gather, the synopsis of this is that James Bond has retired, and thus his code number, 007, was reassigned to a new agent. He comes out of retirement, and the 007 code number is given back to him.
They’re freaking out over a code number. The code number of a fictitious superspy that couldn’t possibly exist in the real world because they would’ve been killed by hostile powers long, long ago.
re: #99 Dr Lizardo
Exactly - these nitwits are freaking about the agent code number, which presumably can be reassigned as needed. From what I can gather, the synopsis of this is that James Bond has retired, and thus his code number, 007, was reassigned to a new agent. He comes out of retirement, and the 007 code number is given back to him.
They’re freaking out over a code number. The code number of a fictitious superspy that couldn’t possibly exist in the real world because they would’ve been killed by hostile powers long, long ago.
Yeah that’s the story I’m seeing too. Btw this is why Ben is full of shit when he claims to dislike Trump. He’s using his influence to talk about this rather than Trumps racism. He’s such a pathetic little manchild.
re: #100 HappyWarrior
Yeah that’s the story I’m seeing too. Btw this is why Ben is full of shit when he claims to dislike Trump. He’s using his influence to talk about this rather than Trumps racism. He’s such a pathetic little manchild.
Most likely, Ben simply doesn’t see Trump’s racist and bigoted attitudes as a problem because he likely shares similar views. For Ben, it’s not an issue.
He’s a pathetic hack and a sad little manbaby.
re: #101 Dr Lizardo
Most likely, Ben simply doesn’t see Trump’s racist and bigoted attitudes as a problem because he likely shares similar views. For Ben, it’s not an issue.
He’s a pathetic hack and a sad little manbaby.
Exactly. He’s as bigoted as Trump is. I think he only doesn’t like Trump is because Trump uses populist rhetoric and Ben would prefer a full out elitist dickhead. But yeah this is exactly why he should be laughed at. 11 minute rant over a fictional character and as I said it’s not even Bond she’s playing. I wonder what upset him more though, that the character is female or black. He should read about Josephine Baker but that would mean getting out of his boys rule, girls drool clubhouse aka The Daily Wire.
wpc.ncep.noaa.gov
Latest update on Tropical Depression Barry.
The Weather Prediction Center has downgraded it to a post-tropical cyclone. It is currently near Springfield, Missouri, still moving toward St. Louis.
All sorts of flash flood warnings are up for the central and lower Mississippi River valley.
Barry is still accelerating to the NE. It is expected to maintain strength for a day or two, then dissipate in about three days.
Day 3 of the WPC national weather chart shows post-tropical depression Barry approaching Philadelphia.
PhillyPretzel isn’t out of the rains yet.
I’m off to bed.
(video, 9:51)
NEW: How Assange turned the Ecuadorian embassy into a command post for election meddling. Cache of documents and media reveal incredible new details. Our CNN exclusive: https://t.co/MQmPMELIOn pic.twitter.com/IhZrl8AJMd
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) July 16, 2019
re: #95 Dr Lizardo
I had no idea James was a name for girls and women as well. It must’ve become an almost entirely masculine name before I was born in 1969 as I’ve never met a woman named James.
Why not? Michael is.
re: #107 MsJ
Why not? Michael is.
I have a first cousin once-removed named Michael. She likes her name.
re: #107 MsJ
Why not? Michael is.
Conversely, my Great Grandfather was Jan originally but that’s a Slavic reference lol. Joking aside, it would have me laughing if this was the only thing going on.
re: #109 HappyWarrior
About 30 yrs ago I worked with a young woman my age named Scott.
re: #110 A Mom Anon
About 30 yrs ago I worked with a young woman my age named Scott.
It’s not common anymore but a lot of Catholic men used to get the middle name Maria or Mary. The most famous that comes to mind is Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front.
It’s my belief this outburst of racism is 100 percent calculated and choreographed.
To wit:
Trump voter: ‘He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting’
MSNBC
By Steve Benen
He sees himself as shoring up the base.
Meanwhile, legal woes are intensifying for Czech PM Andrej Babiš:
The police initiated criminal proceedings in connection with the management of the Čapí hnízdo farm for suspicion of a tax evasion. Criminal investigators began to investigate the case at the beginning of spring, considering the suspicion of tax evasion seriously according to media. Agrofert spokesman Karel Hanzelka said that the company is not yet familiar with it, but insists that everything was legal.
Original in Czech: idnes.cz
which you can run through a translation program.
Now Babiš is not only under investigation for EU subsidies fraud, but tax fraud as well. This story just broke a few hours ago.
His scandal-plagued government is already teetering on the brink of collapse.
re: #109 HappyWarrior
Conversely, my Great Grandfather was Jan originally but that’s a Slavic reference lol. Joking aside, it would have me laughing if this was the only thing going on.
Jan is still a very common name for guys here in Czech Republic - “Honzá” is the nickname form.
re: #112 HappyWarrior
It’s not common anymore but a lot of Catholic men used to get the middle name Maria or Mary. The most famous that comes to mind is Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Klaus Maria Brandauer, the Austrian actor and director.
re: #114 Dr Lizardo
Meanwhile, legal woes are intensifying for Czech PM Andrej Babiš:
Original in Czech: idnes.cz
which you can run through a translation program.
Now Babiš is not only under investigation for EU subsidies fraud, but tax fraud as well. This story just broke a few hours ago.
His scandal-plagued government is already teetering on the brink of collapse.
I just hope your hosts follow their Slovak cousins and elect someone who isn’t a nationalist.
re: #116 Dr Lizardo
Klaus Maria Brandauer, the Austrian actor and director.
Yeah I see it a lot in the German speaking Catholics usually Austrians or Bavarians.
re: #115 Dr Lizardo
Jan is still a very common name for guys here in Czech Republic - “Honzá” is the nickname form.
Ah! Cool. But yeah I’m not surprised. It’s pretty big in Poland too. The South Slavs have Janez and I have a few of them too.
re: #117 HappyWarrior
I just hope your hosts follow their Slovak cousins and elect someone who isn’t a nationalist.
The political scene here in ČR is a fucking mess. Slovakia is an island of sanity in comparison.
Some interesting news from Berlin:
The state of Berlin has bought back 670 apartments on the historic Karl-Marx-Allee from a private owner after decades of property privatisation in the German capital.
It’s not gonna be cheap, though:
While the price of the sale was not confirmed by either side, the move to renationalise the buildings on Karl-Marx-Allee is likely to come at a steep cost, with estimates ranging between €90m-€100m (£80m-£90m).
Berlin’s mayor said the move was indicative of a wider strategy to reacquire housing stock sold to private investors in the 1990s, following rapid rises in rental costs in the city in recent years.
“Berliners should be able to continue to afford living in the city,” said Michael Müller. “That is why it was and continues to be our intention to buy up apartments wherever we can, so that Berlin can regain control of its property market.”
re: #48 Joe Bacon 🌹
Add this in the mix that pisses me off about Booby Nincompoopo
Israel’s newly appointed education minister has ignited an angry backlash after saying in a televised interview broadcast Saturday that he believes it is possible to perform conversion therapy on gay men and lesbians to change their sexual orientation.
Rabbi Rafi Peretz, head of the far-right, ultranationalist Jewish Home Party, also told Channel 12 News that he had personally carried out such treatments in the past, counseling young religious students who spoke to him about being gay.
“I think it is possible. I can tell you I have a very deep familiarity with this kind of education, and I have also done this,” the minister said when asked whether he thought people could change their orientations.
Peretz, a former chief military rabbi, described counseling one student, saying: “I hugged him first, then uttered very warm words. I told him that we needed to think about this, learn about this, observe this. The objective is for him first of all to know himself, and then I can give him the data.”
He hugged him first, then gave him very warm words. Hey rabbi! That data you’re trying to give him doesn’t use that port, you bastard!
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
WTH could President Obama do?
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Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job
11/04/08 11:30pm
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, “It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can’t catch a break.”
re: #84 The Ghost of Quesos Past
There’s just so many layers of stupid to getting mad about a lady 007.
Bond is a multi-layered wish fulfillment fantasy. He’s a Cold War competence fantasy (as opposed to the deeply mixed results produced by MI6) and an imperialist fantasy (tramping around the world in a fucking tux being differed to) addressing British, erm…post War inadequacies.
He’s also not such much actually competent as that movie-competence where you don’t actually do anything right but being “cool” means you eke out the win. In contrast to the grubby effortful praxis of real spies, and in particularly the really good spies (see: Ben MacIntyre’s histories or the painfully tense and precise spy fiction of John LeCarre), Bond has an unlimited expense account, is constantly flashy and leaves behind a giant debris field, and his (rape-y) sexual activity doesn’t get him immediately yanked from the field because he’s basically made of kompromat.
The character is entertaining, but has never made sense, never depicted espionage in any meaningful way (in spite of Fleming’s own experiences) since the original pieces of short fiction, and even the “realistic” Bond reboot is fucking ridiculous.
This is such a stupid hill to take a stand on, but the outrage hustlers will do it because it’s about nobody else getting to have a fantasy. They’ll dress it up as about “realism” or propose that an altered version is somehow more silly (to which I retort—any Roger Moore Bond film. I mean, I was weaned on them but gods are they ridiculous).
eta: shit, I didn’t even address how historically, there’s enough women that become incredible espionage agents that any claims about “realism” are just fucking laughable…even if you don’t take the next step and observe that extant Bond films are full of female spies that Bond seduces…. But basically we’re dealing with paste-eating narcissists who feel like they’re losing control of the world when video game tits don’t meet their expectations, and I should probably just drink more rather than think about any of this.
re: #97 HappyWarrior
It’s rare. But Ben is being an idiot again. She’s not playing Bond. She’s playing 007. M was originally played by a man and now Dame Judi Dench’s M is as iconic as Bernard Lee’s was. I seriously feel bad for Ben’s little girl that he views women this way.
Not anymore. Her character died a couple films ago.
Identity Politics = Politics
It’s almost like marginalized people, who have been marginalized precisely because of their identity and nothing else, might let said identity inform their politics. Almost like because that’s how actual change happens. #JustSaying #ThisIsNotNormal https://t.co/JyXIcRwDXU— Trump is a Racist, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) July 16, 2019
re: #2 gocart mozart
I’m blocked by Harry Turdledove and I have no idea why. This sucks. I conversed with him many times, he has liked some of my tweets, I don’t remember saying anything at all offensive.
You were probably just argumentative with him; he has said he’s quick to block people.
re: #84 The Ghost of Quesos Past
There’s just so many layers of stupid to getting mad about a lady 007.
Bond is a multi-layered wish fulfillment fantasy. He’s a Cold War competence fantasy (as opposed to the deeply mixed results produced by MI6) and an imperialist fantasy (tramping around the world in a fucking tux being differed to) addressing British, erm…post War inadequacies.
He’s also not such much actually competent as that movie-competence where you don’t actually do anything right but being “cool” means you eke out the win. In contrast to the grubby effortful praxis of real spies, and in particularly the really good spies (see: Ben MacIntyre’s histories or the painfully tense and precise spy fiction of John LeCarre), Bond has an unlimited expense account, is constantly flashy and leaves behind a giant debris field, and his (rape-y) sexual activity doesn’t get him immediately yanked from the field because he’s basically made of kompromat.
The character is entertaining, but has never made sense, never depicted espionage in any meaningful way (in spite of Fleming’s own experiences) since the original pieces of short fiction, and even the “realistic” Bond reboot is fucking ridiculous.
This is such a stupid hill to take a stand on, but the outrage hustlers will do it because it’s about nobody else getting to have a fantasy. They’ll dress it up as about “realism” or propose that an altered version is somehow more silly (to which I retort—any Roger Moore Bond film. I mean, I was weaned on them but gods are they ridiculous).
eta: shit, I didn’t even address how historically, there’s enough women that become incredible espionage agents that any claims about “realism” are just fucking laughable…even if you don’t take the next step and observe that extant Bond films are full of female spies that Bond seduces…. But basically we’re dealing with paste-eating narcissists who feel like they’re losing control of the world when video game tits don’t meet their expectations, and I should probably just drink more rather than think about any of this.
Brings back memories of this classic goof on 007—James Tont vs. Goldsinger
re: #7 jaunte
I wasn’t too fond of McCain either. Not sure why he’s so adored by those on the left.
re: #16 HappyWarrior
This is the most disgusted I’ve ever been with an American President in my 32 years. There’s so much ugliness about this son of a bitch. Not a single redeemable quality. Someone whose values are not from the Enlightenment or the basic fundamental values we learn at a young age but someone whose philosophy is rooted in autocracy, exclusion, & bigotry for anyone who isn’t like him.
And I thought Dubya and Palin were the worst the GOP could do in stupidity and evil. They will have to nominate the Zombie Apocalypse to take another step down from Trump.
re: #129 NO SMOCKING GUN!
And I thought Dubya and Palin were the worst the GOP could do in stupidity and evil. They will have to nominate the Zombie Apocalypse to take another step down from Trump.
Never assume they can’t go lower. Like said, we assumed it was bad with Dubya, then they pulled out Palin. We thought Palin was the worst they could do, then Trump won and brought an extra dose of overt racism and open fascism.
The rate we’re going, they’re going to nominate an overt Neo-Nazi and he’ll still win almost half the popular vote.
re: #20 Ace-o-aces
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The best Bond movie was Melissa McCarthy’s “Spy” because it was so damn funny!
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 16, 2019
re: #46 jaunte
Trump is a reflection of the GOP base. Trump exposes the racist/misogynstic base that the GOP has always cultivated. This isn’t some sudden eruption of racism and misogyny because Trump is in office.
That racism and misogynistic worldview has been cultivated by Fox and the GOP leaders for decades. Trump was just louder and clearer in his racist and misogynistic view than any other GOPer in 2016. Coupled with an amoral flexibility that sees consorting with foreign powers to win elections and using illegal means to gain power (and hold it), and we’ve got a GOP that is continuing to enable the white supremacist agenda that has long lurked in the GOP.
Telling American citizens to go back where they came from? Yeah, he’s targeted women who are POC. That’s no accident.
That GOPers are mirroring Trump’s words, and trying to magic balance fairy the fuck out of things is how Trump remains in control. He knows how to pander to his base better than any of the GOPers, and they’re afraid to challenge his racist white supremacist views. They’re cowards.
And they’re goddamned racists.
re: #50 jaunte
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Back in junior high I wondered why they were having us practice square dancing when none of the adults did it.
What a failure of a plot; all he accomplished was to make middle school kids do a weird dance in gym they would subsequently never do again for the rest of their lives.
New @SaintAnselmPoll shows big NH bounce for @KamalaHarris, @JoeBiden still leading, @ewarren & @PeteButtigieg rounding out top 4 #FITN #nhpolitics #WMUR pic.twitter.com/SBFyUiBRKB
— Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) July 15, 2019
re: #134 lawhawk
If James Bond were about spying, I agree. All of those women should get their own movies, though.
Pelosi says the House of Representatives would not raise the debt ceiling unless it is part of a broader budget deal https://t.co/9E8dOsZM5q
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) July 16, 2019
Steven Mnuchin’s ask is that Pelosi should move a short-term, debt-limit-only hike with no deal on spending yet. She’s supposed to ask her members to take that unpopular vote now, after what the president’s been saying?
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 16, 2019
re: #130 Citizen K
Never assume they can’t go lower. Like said, we assumed it was bad with Dubya, then they pulled out Palin. We thought Palin was the worst they could do, then Trump won and brought an extra dose of overt racism and open fascism.
The rate we’re going, they’re going to nominate an overt Neo-Nazi and he’ll still win almost half the popular vote.
Just remember that Gym Jordan & Matt Gaetz are waiting in the wings to go oven lower
re: #136 Belafon
If James Bond were about spying, I agree. All of those women should get their own movies, though.
I still wanna see a Josephine Baker bio-pic.
Good morning. Managed to really piss off a Republican. I simply told him Republicans now threaten the Constitution with the 2nd A rather than defend it. Old v New GOP. Asked why the ACLU has done more to defend the 2ndA than they have the 1st A. And the 14th? An existential threat to the Trump agenda.
re: #136 Belafon
If James Bond were about spying, I agree. All of those women should get their own movies, though.
If you want to talk about bedding characters, exotic locales, and spectacular action, those women could fit the bill too.
Heck, I would still argue that among the best characters in a Bond flick was Michelle Yeoh’s agent in Tomorrow Never Dies - who was competent, kick ass, mature, and hawt.
“I cannot do this anymore. The overt racism, the corruption, the anti woman behavior, the incompetence. This is not why I became a Republican. So I’m quitting the Party.” - No one. Today.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) July 15, 2019
The GOP in a nutshell. Not a one is stepping up and admitting that their party is a bunch of racists and bigots who are led by the nose by a white supremacist in the WH.
Trump’s idiotic trade wars have cost every American $800 more in higher taxes/fees passed on to them by businesses affected by the tariffs Trump imposed. This is a tax on all Americans.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 16, 2019
re: #95 Dr Lizardo
I had no idea James was a name for girls and women as well. It must’ve become an almost entirely masculine name before I was born in 1969 as I’ve never a woman named James.
The other way ‘round, too: my husband’s farming partner was Joyce, as a first name.
re: #77 Cheechako
Alaska’s Governor, Mike Dunleavy (R), is now a contender for the worst political photograph of the year:
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Second to every photo of Donald Trump
re: #138 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just remember that Gym Jordan & Matt Gaetz are waiting in the wings to go oven lower
Jordan still being a Congressperson in good standing is one of the biggest indictments of our political process to date, perhaps only behind Steve King still being considered a Congressperson in good standing.
Vietnam draft dodger adopting “love it or leave it” is some high grade bullshit.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 16, 2019
re: #77 Cheechako
I’m going to argue that there’s nothing wrong with that. There’s a figure that is right on the left margin of the photo that also appears to have a floatation device - my guess is that their access to the firefighting location was by water - and it was. They were fighting the Swan Lake Fire.
re: #141 lawhawk
If you want to talk about bedding characters, exotic locales, and spectacular action, those women could fit the bill too.
Heck, I would still argue that among the best characters in a Bond flick was Michelle Yeoh’s agent in Tomorrow Never Dies - who was competent, kick ass, mature, and hawt.
Also, Gloria Hendry in Live and Let Die.
I’ll betcha this scene made some heads explode back in the day….and I’ll bet it still would, too:
July 16, 1969, 9:29am ET - People gathered inside the Zenith television showroom at Fifth Avenue and 54th Street in Manhattan to watch the final moments of the Apollo 11 launch countdown #50yearsago pic.twitter.com/4x3EOblHod
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) July 16, 2019
re: #150 Dr Lizardo
And the new Moneypenny - Naomie Harris too.
re: #142 lawhawk
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The GOP in a nutshell. Not a one is stepping up and admitting that their party is a bunch of racists and bigots who are led by the nose by a white supremacist in the WH.
And you know what? If, let’s say, three GOP Senators announced they were crossing the aisle and switching to the Democrats, the GOP would put the kibosh on this bullshit so fast your head would spin.
Justice Department will not bring charges against police involved in Eric Garner’s death https://t.co/65L367Jj2d
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 16, 2019
Fuck it all.
re: #150 Dr Lizardo
Also, Gloria Hendry in Live and Let Die.
I’ll betcha this scene made some heads explode back in the day….and I’ll bet it still would, too:
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The best Bond movie song as well.
re: #155 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The best Bond movie song as well.
I agree - the Bond franchise has never topped it.
re: #156 Dr Lizardo
I was perhaps a bit hasty - this one is easily the most iconic Bond opener:
But Live and Let Die ties with it.
Everyone still in the GOP is a racist or an enabler. You can’t reform it from the
Inside. If every anti-racist united we could burn the GOP to the ground, and then conservatives could rebuild a party with some human decency.
I am ashamed to have spent most of my life as a Republican. I have significant differences with AOC and her Squad—perhaps even greater differences on the issues than I have with the president—but they are better Americans than Trump. My column: https://t.co/kmAuzh3xAm
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 15, 2019
re: #135 Belafon
I left out: Look at the neighbor that isn’t in the top four.
re: #158 Dr Lizardo
I was perhaps a bit hasty - this one is easily the most iconic Bond opener:
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But Live and Let Die ties with it.
Yup this
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 16, 2019
This is an obituary that circulates at times in many organizations in Sweden…
In Memoriam: Someone else
It is with a heavy heart that we have to announce that our highly valued Someone Else has died.
Someone Elses death creates a vacancy that will be difficult to fill.
Someone Else has worked in the world since it was formed.
Someone Else did far more than a normal workload.
As soon as any job that was the least bit unpleasant, difficult, or demanding even the slightest moral courage, needed to be carried out, the reaction was “Someone Else will do it”.
It was also generally known that Someone Else during life made a tremendous effort.
Whenever there was a need for volunteers, everyone assumed that Someone Else would volunteer.
Someone Else was a wonderful creature who at times seemed superhuman.
A single person can only make a limited work effort.
To tell the truth, ordinary people expected far too much from Someone Else.
Someone Else always led by a good example.
Now Someone Else is gone and we wonder what we are going to do now.
Who’s going to do everything that Someone Else did before?
We need to realize that we cannot depend on Someone Else doing what we need to do.
That power was wielded for generations even by white children over black adults. It was wielded by white men over all women. Why do Trump’s people love him? Because he is promising to put things back to that way. And the fight against that is THE fight. Future or past. That’s it.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 16, 2019
And while the media is debating whether Trump is a racist or not, the Administration is quietly enabling the poisoning of our air and water.
The EPA selected top science advisors by a secret process that ignored federal guidelines, tapping many members from industry rather than academia without documenting its justification, a government watchdog found https://t.co/2Nl2JOMl7U
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 15, 2019
re: #162 Ace-o-aces
huh. gab has a verified twitter account.
re: #166 Ming5000
huh. gab has a verified twitter account.
Of course, even they know nobody uses Gab.
re: #168 Ace-o-aces
Of course, even they know nobody uses Gab.
Why would they need to? The Gab types have essentially taken over Twitter anyway.
re: #154 Citizen K
A white cop used an illegal choke hold to kill a harmless black man for the alleged misdemeanor of selling loose cigarettes & the only person going to prison is the gentleman of color who recorded the murder😑#ThisIsAmerica #EricGarner https://t.co/cjItaBZ5W4
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) July 16, 2019
I must repeat: Fuck it all.
re: #163 Teukka
Just a thought, but would it be doable to begin a protest with a moment of silence, and the obit for Someone Else read aloud?
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹
The same old argument with conservatives.
“Teh Geyh is a lifestyle choice.”
Okay, you’re straight, is that a lifestyle choice?
No, that’s normal ////
re: #173 Teukka
Just a thought, but would it be doable to begin a protest with a moment of silence, and the obit for Someone Else read aloud?
Let someone else start it.
re: #158 Dr Lizardo
The hooks in this song kill me. It’s just so good.
Taking this as an endorsement:
Monday’s Fox News interview concluded with Thiel’s comments about the presidential race: “Elizabeth Warren is the dangerous one.”
But white, so that makes it all ok.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 16, 2019
re: #177 Decatur Deb
Taking this as an endorsement:
I wouldn’t trust Thiel to watch my pet rock. I definitely wouldn’t trust Thiel on Fox.
I found, at myheritage.com my grandfather’s 1917 WW1 Draft Registration certificate. He was not a U.S. citizen! He never became a citizen since 1 year later he was dead from the Spanish Flu pandemic.
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹
Day 3 of the WPC national weather chart shows post-tropical depression Barry approaching Philadelphia.
PhillyPretzel isn’t out of the rains yet.
Clear outside currently just west of The Pretzel. But already fairly warm out and going to get hotter today. Humidity already high as well.
Ha, from Eugene Robinson:
“Trump is a racist” does not exactly qualify as breaking news. But the silence from prominent Republicans is staggering — and telling. It amounts to collaboration — perhaps “collusion” is a better word — with the president’s assault on diversity and pluralism. In the coming campaign, you will hear Republican candidates at every level claim to be colorblind and embrace all Americans regardless of race or ethnicity. Do not believe them. Their failure to speak out now tells us everything we need to know about their true feelings.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says they don’t do a condemnation resolution for every offensive comment Democrats make. He says, “We are the party of Lincoln. This party believes in the content of the individual.” He suggests Democrats are the real bigots.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 16, 2019
I hate this entire goddamn party so goddamn much….
re: #183 Citizen K
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I hate this entire goddamn party so goddamn much….
You stopped being the party of Lincoln the minute you nominated Goldwater after LBJ signed the CRA 1964. It’s been downhill ever since.
re: #180 The Pie Overlord!
I found, at myheritage.com my grandfather’s 1917 WW1 Draft Registration certificate. He was not a U.S. citizen! He never became a citizen since 1 year later he was dead from the Spanish Flu pandemic.
Awesome VB. I have my parents’ grandfathers. Mom’s grandfather’s were still Austrian Hungarian empire subjects at that time.
re: #183 Citizen K
I hate this entire goddamn party so goddamn much….
“We long for the day when man shall not be judged by the color of his skin but on the strength of his character and we will not be judged for our comments about color or nationality or ethnicity.”
re: #185 HappyWarrior
Awesome VB. I have my parents’ grandfathers. Mom’s grandfather’s were still Austrian Hungarian empire subjects at that time.
I also found the WW1 draft registration for my other grandfather, my mother’s father. He was a “natural born” citizen.
Tony Jackson was born July 16, 1940, yo play bass for The Searchers - Needles And Pins (‘64) .flv https://t.co/lcQQRVRgSu
— Van Dyke Parks (@thevandykeparks) July 16, 2019
re: #187 The Pie Overlord!
I also found the WW1 draft registration for my other grandfather, my mother’s father. He was a “natural born” citizen.
Dad’s Paternal grandad was born in Germany but his maternal was in Pennsylvania
Donnie’s especially unhinged…is this related to his Buddy Epstein or his Buddy Roger Stone who both are appearing in court this week?
re: #190 Dr. Matt
Donnie’s especially unhinged…is this related to his Buddy Epstein or his Buddy Roger Stone who both are appearing in court this week?
He’s freaking out about something - you’re right that he’s been especially unhinged over the last few days, so there has to be something that’s got him seriously rattled.
re: #158 Dr Lizardo
Live and Let Die, Goldfinger, and Skyfall are definitely among the top 3.
I’d also add You Know My Name (Chris Cornell’s contribution for Casino Royale).
re: #183 Citizen K
McCarthy excuses Trump’s incessant and nonstop vomit of racism.
No one even comes close to the steaming pile of racist and misogynistic statements as Trump, except for Trump’s fellow GOPers.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 16, 2019
re: #190 Dr. Matt
Donnie’s especially unhinged…is this related to his Buddy Epstein or his Buddy Roger Stone who both are appearing in court this week?
He couldn’t keep AOC, Tlaib, and Omar off the air with his usual tricks, and some in his own party are denouncing him, even if they are saying “both sides.”
re: #191 Dr Lizardo
He’s freaking out about something - you’re right that he’s been especially unhinged over the last few days, so there has to be something that’s got him seriously rattled.
He doesn’t have a poker face. His “tell” is screaming like a raging lunatic.
re: #190 Dr. Matt
Donnie’s especially unhinged…is this related to his Buddy Epstein or his Buddy Roger Stone who both are appearing in court this week?
re: #191 Dr Lizardo
He’s freaking out about something - you’re right that he’s been especially unhinged over the last few days, so there has to be something that’s got him seriously rattled.
He might be rattled about something, but lets not pretend either that this is somehow making him do things he didn’t believe in. He’s just letting his inner bile show that much more. This is what he is, this is what he actually believes in.
That the GOP is all on board, and much of the media is still equivocating it shows how debased our entire process still is.
@GOPLeader You sir, are a huge Pussy….. It’s Racism. Full stop.
You’ve failed the American People (But we already knew that).#FailedAmerican #FailedCalifornian #FailedCongressman.— 🦈E-Mail Terminator🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) July 16, 2019
@LindseyGrahamSC disagrees pic.twitter.com/Pw82Rx5P3A
— Della Cooper (@DellaCooper3) July 16, 2019
Wow. I….I want to tear my hair out right now.
NEW: A senior DOJ official said AG Barr made final call on decision not to move forward in prosecuting Officer Pantaleo in #EricGarner’s death, siding with EDNY recommendation over DOJ’s own Civil Rights division, which *recommended prosecution.*
— Alex Mallin (@alex_mallin) July 16, 2019
We literally are a goddamn tinpot country right now and Barr is ensuring that literally no Justice is ever done.
re: #198 lawhawk
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Yeah they were textbook racism and Graham said that before he submitted to Trump like a coward.
Yes…… You are. All of you. Every Racist bone in your fat assed body is racist#FailedAmerican #FailedPresident
Just FUCKING #FAILED— 🦈E-Mail Terminator🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) July 16, 2019
re: #199 Citizen K
Wow. I….I want to tear my hair out right now.
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We literally are a goddamn tinpot country right now and Barr is ensuring that literally no Justice is ever done.
Barr is giving a signal to everyone that cops can do whatever they please.
re: #199 Citizen K
Can the next (hopefully Democratically-appointed) Attorney General pick up the case, say, in 2021?
re: #190 Dr. Matt
Donnie’s especially unhinged…is this related to his Buddy Epstein or his Buddy Roger Stone who both are appearing in court this week?
Could also be the new report detailing Wikileaks’ work as Russian agent…
re: #204 sagehen
Could also be the new report detailing Wikileaks’ work as Russian agent…
Yeah, I read earlier that Ecuador figured Assange as a Russian asset.
Trump is screaming like the maniac he is because he knows there are DVDs in Jeffrey Epstein’s safe with his fat ass in them.
“I don’t have a racist bone in my body!”
Yes, I’ll take “Things only racists say” for $400, Alex.
And probably all of the above is true about why Trump is screaming.
Our FBI deserved so much better than you to ignore the rules and make claims about Hillary and her emails, while keeping quiet about the ongoing investigations into Trump (and the criminality they revealed).
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 15, 2019
You’re right, Mr. President - you don’t have a racist bone in your body.
You have a racist mind in your head, and a racist heart in your chest.
That’s why you violate the rights of children and tell the Congresswoman who represents your home borough, to “go back to my country.” https://t.co/adlCUO7r0v— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 16, 2019
re: #207 Eclectic Cyborg
“I don’t have a racist bone in my body!”
Yes, I’ll take “Things only racists say” for $400, Alex.
The bones are all going “Don’t blame us.”
re: #205 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, I read earlier that Ecuador figured Assange as a Russian asset.
I can’t believe the Ecuador Embassy allowed Assange so much latitude.
re: #140 Rightwingconspirator
Good morning. Managed to really piss off a Republican. I simply told him Republicans now threaten the Constitution with the 2nd A rather than defend it. Old v New GOP. Asked why the ACLU has done more to defend the 2ndA than they have the 1st A. And the 14th? An existential threat to the Trump agenda.
Good work. I don’t bother any more but admire those that do when necessary.
re: #206 The Pie Overlord!
Trump is screaming like the maniac he is because he knows there are DVDs in Jeffrey Epstein’s safe with his fat ass in them.
No one here would be surprised if there’s a DVD of Trump having a menage a trois with two 13-year-old blonde girls.
Sadly, I think his supporters would find some way to dismiss it, either as “fake news” or “it’s a deepfake!” or “they looked older than 13!”
There’s simply no bottom to the moral depravity of Trump’s supporters. And I presume that brow-furrowing would intensify among the GOP leadership - and that’s about it.
re: #207 Eclectic Cyborg
“I don’t have a racist bone in my body!”
Yes, I’ll take “Things only racists say” for $400, Alex.
“I can’t be racist, I have an Asian in my Cabinet!”
Correct for $600.
re: #212 Dr. Matt
I can’t believe the Ecuador Embassy allowed Assange so much latitude.
From what I remember, that was largely because of the previous President there.
re: #216 Dr Lizardo
No one here would be surprised if there’s a DVD of Trump having a menage a trois with two 13-year-old blonde girls.
And calling them both “Ivanka”.
JFC not this shit again
Democrats lied about Russia.
Mueller lied about Russia.
The destruction of Hillary Clinton wasn’t a Russian job. It was a DNC insider who witnessed Clinton’s corruption first hand against Bernie Sanders. He decided to expose Clinton and her corruption.
His name was Seth Rich.— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 15, 2019
re: #159 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Everyone still in the GOP is a racist or an enabler. You can’t reform it from the
Inside. If every anti-racist united we could burn the GOP to the ground, and then conservatives could rebuild a party with some human decency.[Embedded content]
Burn it to the ground is the only remedy. We can no longer lead by example because the reactionaries see that as weakness, not something to emulate.
re: #220 Eclectic Cyborg
And calling them both “Ivanka”.
He’s just telling them they’ll never measure up to his daughter.
re: #221 The Pie Overlord!
JFC not this shit again
Too, late, Kim. We now know this was a Russian operation.
re: #73 Dread Pirate
“The silence of Republican leaders appeared to suggest either that they agreed with the views expressed by their standard-bearer or that he has so effectively consolidated his control over their party that they have grown disinclined to voice dissent.”
They know that this will blow over to be replaced by the next scandal, so found it best to try to ignore it.
re: #225 Belafon
Too, late, Kim. We now know this was a Russian operation.
We also know that Kim is a Russian agent.
re: #193 lawhawk
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Ok McCarthy. You don’t comment on EVERY offensive drumpf statement. Do you comment on ANY? Is there a single example in the last two years where you commented? Is what you really mean that you will NEVER comment on any offensive statement?
Strange how Epstein’s safe being cracked and Pence turning his plane around seems to have predicated this latest uptick in Racist Grandpa rantings. Hard to parse the signal from the noise when it comes to Trump as he’s cunning and def not a deep thinker.
re: #120 Dr Lizardo
The political scene here in ČR is a fucking mess. Slovakia is an island of sanity in comparison.
I thought Slovakia (where my paternal grandfather came from, btw) was run by RW nationalists.
Roger Stone is in court today. His lawyers attempting to get evidence thrown out, and the Court a little annoyed that he seems to be violating the gag order.
Darren Samuelsohn of Politico there. He’s pretty much live tweeting, but not threading all that much
We begin with motions to suppress evidence from Roger Stone’s lawyers. Judge Jackson says she “may or may not” get to the gag order issue today.
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
Buschel arguing for last 15 mins now that the evidence needs to be tossed because the underlying facts of the warrants are wrong surrounding WikiLeaks receiving the stolen DNC emails from Russia. Judge Jackson sums it up, “What you are attacking is the USIC.” [Intel community]
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
Judge Jackson to Stone’s lawyers about the information in the FBI search warrants: “What is the statement that was knowingly or recklessly false? Point to one affidavit.”
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
Federal prosecutor Michael Marando swings back at Stone’s attempt to knock out evidence, saying his lawyers are pushing “conspiracy theory” that is taking the court on a “long and frolicking detour” that has nothing to do with the case against the longtime Trump associate.
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
Stone lawyer Bruce Rogow tells Judge Jackson it is indeed a Stone Instagram post but argues it’s not a violation of the gag order “because ‘Who framed Roger Stone?’ is simply a comment on his situation that he’s in court, that he’s subject to some action in court.”
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
Judge Jackson asks Stone’s lawyers to explain how this Stone Instagram post from March 29 about Rep. Adam Schiff isn’t in violation of the court- imposed gag order. pic.twitter.com/gUfzIuoDu0
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
re: #212 Dr. Matt
I can’t believe the Ecuador Embassy allowed Assange so much latitude.
Under Correa it was no surprise
re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I thought Slovakia (where my paternal grandfather came from, btw) was run by RW nationalists.
It was, but things are turning around quite rapidly, starting recently with the election of Čaputová, the new Slovak President.
Also, polls are showing that Progressive Slovakia, a socially liberal, strongly pro-EU party, have now overtaken the RW nationalists in voter preference - the next Parliamentary election is next year in Slovakia.
re: #233 Dr Lizardo
It was, but things are turning around quite rapidly, starting recently with the election of Čaputová, the new Slovak President.
Also, polls are showing that Progressive Slovakia, a socially liberal, strongly pro-EU party, have now overtaken the RW nationalists in voter preference - the next Parliamentary election is next year in Slovakia.
Oh yeah, forgot about Zuzana Čaputová’s recent election.
re: #184 HappyWarrior
You stopped being the party of Lincoln the minute you nominated Goldwater after LBJ signed the CRA 1964. It’s been downhill ever since.
The Man Who Launched the GOP’s Civil War (Politico, 2015)
The story of Roger Millikan, textile magnate, who in the Fifties planted the first ideas about trade protectionism and anti-unionism in the South.
By weaponising the racism inherent in post-Brown Dixie, he was the person who first promoted Goldwater to the Republican Party in a way to take the Solid South.
All the way back to the Fifties, South Carolina had passed a so-called right to work law, and so he moved his textile factory to Darlington to take advantage of cheap labour.
He was an early financier of the National Review and the Heritage Foundation.
What got him in the end was his cheap labour policies were then used by the same corporations which supported him to start exporting their labour to foreign markets and flood the USA and ignoring him.
By the time he realised what he had done, his textile business was put out of business. While today the company still collects billions in patents, it no longer produces anything.
You know, the optics of tweeting out a QAnon pic are not amazing. pic.twitter.com/AJeAFPGNBF
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 16, 2019
re: #236 Skip Intro
From the replies:
It’s all so disturbing. These people think our democracy is a cheap D+ knockoff of a Dan Brown novel.
— david deutsch (@gslacks) July 16, 2019
re: #221 The Pie Overlord!
JFC not this shit again
Dotcom and other wingnuts are getting it from this, a bullshyte lawsuit against the FBI to release all information about the RCH [Russia Collusion Hoax, actually referenced that way in the lawsuit].
Lawsuit outs Ellen Ratner as source for Seth Rich information (Goes to page two of the article at that wingnut’s site).
45. Mr. Butowsky stumbled into the RCH crosshairs after Ellen Rattner [sic], a news analyst for Fox News and the White House correspondent for Talk Media News, contacted him in the Fall of 2016 about a meeting she had with Mr. Assange. Ms. Rattner’s brother, the late Michael Rattner, was an attorney who had represented Mr. Assange. According to Ms. Rattner, she made a stop in London during a return flight from Berlin, and she met with Mr. Assange for approximately six hours in the Ecuadorean embassy. Ms. Rattner said Mr. Assange told her that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the DNC emails to Wikileaks. Ms. Rattner said Mr. Assange wanted the information relayed to Seth’s parents, as it might explain the motive for Seth’s murder.
46. Upon her return to the United States, Ms. Rattner asked Mr. Butowsky to contact the Rich family and relay the information from Mr. Assange, apparently because Ms. Rattner did not want her involvement to be made public. In the two months that followed, Mr. Butowsky did not attempt to contact the Rich family, but he grew increasingly frustrated as the DNC and #Resistance “journalists” blamed the Russian government for the email leak. On December 16, 2016, Mr. Butowsky sent a text message to Ms. Ratner:
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Wingnuts are claiming “there’s a lawsuit! That proves the conspiracy!”
Trump Racist Euphemism Headline Generator - for the media outlets that refuse to call the racist as fuck Trump a fucking racist.
re: #206 The Pie Overlord!
Trump is screaming like the maniac he is because he knows there are DVDs in Jeffrey Epstein’s safe with his fat ass in them.
please dont make me have to see that
re: #236 Skip Intro
Someone on 4chan got really rich off of idiots.
~*Tomorrow the President will wear a Red tie signaling that Seth Rich died at Democrats’ hands in a massive conspiracy involving Hillary Clinton and Comet Pizza. Joe Biden is from Mars.*~— Ed Chambers (@PANKsinatra) July 16, 2019
re: #239 lawhawk
Trump Racist Euphemism Headline Generator - for the media outlets that refuse to call the racist as fuck Trump a fucking racist.
TRUMP PLANTS SEEDS OF RACE-CURIOUS SNAFU
JUST NOW: I asked @KellyannePolls, who’d just said @realDonaldTrump was not telling Omar/Tlaib/Pressley/AOC to go back to Somalia/Gaza/Puerto Rico/etc, which countries he was referring to.
She responded by asking me where my ancestors came from, thereby confirming what he meant— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 16, 2019
re: #231 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Roger Stone is in court today. His lawyers attempting to get evidence thrown out, and the Court a little annoyed that he seems to be violating the gag order.
Darren Samuelsohn of Politico there. He’s pretty much live tweeting, but not threading all that much[Embedded content]
this is how you do it:
Judge Jackson to Stone’s lawyers about the information in the FBI search warrants: “What is the statement that was knowingly or recklessly false? Point to one affidavit.”
re: #237 Dr Lizardo
From the replies:
It’s all so disturbing.
These people thinkour democracy is a cheap D+ knockoff of a Dan Brown novel.
nope, they dont
To every person in media saying “Democrats’ over-reaction to Trump’s racism could cost them votes” as opposed to “Trump’s obvious racism will cost him votes”: what is wrong with you?
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) July 16, 2019
When the judge says words to the effect of “DID I STUTTER?” things are bad for you. https://t.co/6BqzeWueyb
— 1000/24thHat (@Popehat) July 16, 2019
Really not comfortable with the extent of this gag order. https://t.co/n4zFOf8XiV
— 1000/24thHat (@Popehat) July 16, 2019
re: #235 Anymouse 🌹
The Man Who Launched the GOP’s Civil War (Politico, 2015)
The story of Roger Millikan, textile magnate, who in the Fifties planted the first ideas about trade protectionism and anti-unionism in the South.
By weaponising the racism inherent in post-Brown Dixie, he was the person who first promoted Goldwater to the Republican Party in a way to take the Solid South.
All the way back to the Fifties, South Carolina had passed a so-called right to work law, and so he moved his textile factory to Darlington to take advantage of cheap labour.
He was an early financier of the National Review and the Heritage Foundation.
What got him in the end was his cheap labour policies were then used by the same corporations which supported him to start exporting their labour to foreign markets and flood the USA and ignoring him.
By the time he realised what he had done, his textile business was put out of business. While today the company still collects billions in patents, it no longer produces anything.
I actually found an old article where my dad’s father is quoted talking about how unions hadn’t been successful in the South. He worked for the NLRB.
re: #221 The Pie Overlord!
JFC not this shit again
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Thank god he’s verified by Twitter.
the latest nonsense from kellyanne
Said Conway: “What the president is doing is, we are tired — sick and tired — of many people in this country. Forget these four. They represent a dark underbelly of people in this country of people who are not respecting our troops, are not giving them the resources and the respect that they deserve.”
what this has to do with anything trump said about the congresswomen, i dont know.
maybe it’s this:
re: #243 Anymouse 🌹
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And I’ll add this both Presley and AOC’s family have been here longer than Trump’s. Tlaib is the same generation American as he is. And Omar is the same as his wife. It definitely was a racist comment and KAC knows it.
re: #221 The Pie Overlord!
JFC not this shit again
And now Conservative Treehouse and Gateway Pundit are running with the same bogus lawsuit noted above as “proof.”
It will become part of the Conservative Religion by evening. The FOX pundit listed in the lawsuit is really a “Deep cover liberal” trying to “cover up” the nonsense around Seth Rich.
Unfortunately for the Rich family, they don’t have the backing of a group like the Sandy Hook families to sue these asshats into penury for slander and libel.
re: #257 Anymouse 🌹
They do know anyone can write any kind of stupid shit in a lawsuit and file it, right?
Right?
//
re: #255 DangerMan
Demanding unquestioning support for the military… your fascist is showing, KellyAnne.
re: #250 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
To every person in media saying “Democrats’ over-reaction to Trump’s racism could cost them votes” as opposed to “Trump’s obvious racism will cost him votes”: what is wrong with you?
im just gonna go all absolutist here
any person, in the media or not, who thinks there’s an over-reaction possible to trumps racism is likely a racist
- you support a pig, you’re a pig
- you dont full throatedly denounce, condemn, despise, clearly overtly racist comments, then you are supporting a racist
- you support a racist, you’re a racist.
re: #254 Mike Lamb
Thank god he’s verified by Twitter.
Yup. Convicted of intellectual property theft.
More Twitter libertarianism.
I imagine reporting Dotcom for spreading conspiracy theory about the Rich family (which they specifically asked conservatives not to do) will amount to nothing.
There is money to be made though.
re: #258 Eclectic Cyborg
They do know anyone can write any kind of stupid shit in a lawsuit and file it, right?
Right?
//
I see you put the “surely you jest” lines in there. /s
The people spreading the lie know it. Their conservative marks do not.
re: #250 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
To every person in media saying “Democrats’ over-reaction to Trump’s racism could cost them votes” as opposed to “Trump’s obvious racism will cost him votes”: what is wrong with you?
It means you have been successfully “mainstreamed” into the position that “only racists call others out on racism”.
THREAD
“Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’…
re: #264 The Pie Overlord!
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
re: #255 DangerMan
the latest nonsense from kellyanne
what this has to do with anything trump said about the congresswomen, i dont know.
maybe it’s this:
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She deserves the “Hiding behind the troops” award.
Malcolm in the Middle…. Of things
What’s the sign that you’ve inexorably joined the #RacistPresident cult? When you carefully start styling your hair precisely like Trump. pic.twitter.com/x4Cc9etN5r
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) July 16, 2019
“Jews won’t stay silent while our historical trauma is weaponized.”
— Daniel Solomon (@Dan_E_Solo) July 16, 2019
Division of assets?
— HGTomato 🍅 (@HGTomato) July 16, 2019
re: #268 The Pie Overlord!
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I wish more descendants of Eastern European Slavs, Irish, & Germans would too. The American Jewish people know this talk too well to fall for Trump’s bs.
THREAD
It’s the racism. But it’s not just the racism. It’s sex crimes. But it’s not just the sex crimes. It’s the concentration camps. But it’s not just the concentration camps. It’s the corruption. But it’s not just the corruption.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) July 15, 2019
re: #272 Skip Intro
She went with “but where are you from from?” which is the “polite” version of “go back to where you come from.”
OOPS.
A recently released — and subsequently deleted — document published by a NATO-affiliated body has sparked headlines in Europe with an apparent confirmation of a long-held open secret: U.S. nuclear weapons are being stored in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.
A version of the document, titled “A new era for nuclear deterrence? Modernisation, arms control and allied nuclear forces,” was published in April. Written by a Canadian senator for the Defense and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the report assessed the future of the organization’s nuclear deterrence policy.
But what would make news months later is a passing reference that appeared to reveal the location of roughly 150 U.S. nuclear weapons being stored in Europe.
According to a copy of the document published Tuesday by Belgian newspaper De Morgen, a section on the nuclear arsenal read: “These bombs are stored at six US and European bases — Kleine Brogel in Belgium, Büchel in Germany, Aviano and Ghedi-Torre in Italy, Volkel in The Netherlands, and Incirlik in Turkey.”
JFC.
I think trump may not be good for the Jews https://t.co/bbJ80H7tC9
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 16, 2019
re: #259 KGxvi
Demanding unquestioning support for the military… your fascist is showing, KellyAnne.
I’m sick of that shit especially from them. They use the military and sad to say many military members abc their families fall for it since the military is after all representative of society as a whole.
re: #251 lawhawk
Here we go, back to the action
Here’s my story from the morning Roger Stone session in federal court. We’re about to return from a recess where Judge Jackson could issue her decision on the gag order violation question. https://t.co/6Pv0U2N8du @politico
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
WTFITS
.@KatrinaPierson at Women for Trump event: “Donald Trump doesn’t see color. He doesn’t see race. He doesn’t see gender. He just sees the people that he loves.” A supporter in the back stands up and yells “Gays for Trump!”
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) July 16, 2019
re: #277 The Pie Overlord!
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She said that to a Jewish reporter but we’re to believe The Squad are the Antisemites. Of course Baby Whiplash will be right on it right after he fixes our real problem, black lady 007!
re: #280 The Pie Overlord!
WTFITS
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He does treat everyone with contempt but he would never say that to a whites person. This is a political cult.
Letter from @realDonaldTrump ‘s grandfather begging not to be deported (article from 2017): “We were paralysed with fright, our happy family life was tarnished. My wife has been overcome by anxiety, and my lovely child has become sick” #CloseTheCampsNow https://t.co/QxHPIfCntj
— Aryeh Bernstein (@aryehlou) July 16, 2019
How will the Dotard, or his minions, spin this as a win?
JUST IN: Both Trump admin & plaintiffs in #CitizenshipQuestion
lawsuits in NY have agreed to proposed court order that would permanently block:
- including question on #2020Census
- delaying printing to add question
- asking people about citizenship status for 2020 census👇 pic.twitter.com/3NEMeXVhtH— Hansi Lo Wang (@hansilowang) July 16, 2019
re: #280 The Pie Overlord!
WTFITS
I’ll see your assinne comment and raise you….
Donnie: “Look at my African American over here!”
re: #283 The Pie Overlord!
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Should have sent him back to the shithole country he came from.
re: #288 Sir John Barron
He sees the people that love Him.
He only sees that when he looks in a mirror.
re: #284 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
How will the Dotard, or his minions, spin this as a win?
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They won’t, they’ll just go with the usual refrains of Deep State, Activist Judges, blah, blah, blah.
re: #284 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
How will the Dotard, or his minions, spin this as a win?
“We got people thinking about the importance of identifying citizenship. Plus, we’ve hopefully scared a lot of people into thinking that there will be a question.”
They should have also added a requirement that ICE and CPB will not following census people next year.
appropriated and adjusted comment:
There’s only one person in this country who could publicly and undisputedly tell a (more or less) colleague to go back where they come from and still have their job 24 hours later.
they are both government employees
paid by the people
both are citizens
and contrary to what trump may think, they are, in fact, equals
re: #259 KGxvi
Demanding unquestioning support for the military… your fascist is showing, KellyAnne.
But not the FBI or the intel agencies, her boss questions them CONSTANTLY.
re: #221 The Pie Overlord!
JFC not this shit again
All the negative true things the media says about DJT are fake news but here let’s spread more Seth Rich hoaxerism.
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More #NeverAgainIsNow signs. #JewsAgainstICE pic.twitter.com/OP83iIU0er
— ❄️ Solomon Granor ❄️ (@ssgranor) July 16, 2019
re: #279 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Here we go, back to the action
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Judge Jackson says Roger Stone is in violation of the gag order. She’s still reading her decision.
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
Judge Jackson: “It seems he’s determined to make himself the subject of the story.”
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
re: #293 sagehen
But not the FBI or the intel agencies, her boss questions them CONSTANTLY.
Yeah, not them, they’re Deep State.
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re: #275 KGxvi
She went with “but where are you from from?” which is the “polite” version of “go back to where you come from.”
“that wasnt the question”
Llre: #294 Sir John Barron
All the negative true things the media says about DJT are fake news but here let’s spread more Seth Rich hoaxerism.
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The Rich family needs a good lawyer. Lawsuits for Lumpy, Rush, Alex Jones, & Kim.
re: #296 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Trump is going to have a meltdown after he’s done eating KFC.
re: #280 The Pie Overlord!
WTFITS
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Amazing coincidence that he only loves straight whites.
re: #284 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
How will the Dotard, or his minions, spin this as a win?
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He can’t, that’s why he’s screaming about firing Commerce. Since he “failed”.
“Apology accepted, Captain Needa.”
BREAKING: Stone won’t be jailed or held in contempt for violating his gag order, but Judge Jackson bans him from all social media on any topic or any subject.
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
Pretty much a straight-up blanket ban.
Oh man. Roger is going to suffer through withdrawals
BREAKING: Stone won’t be jailed or held in contempt for violating his gag order, but Judge Jackson bans him from all social media on any topic or any subject.
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 16, 2019
re: #304 Dr Lizardo
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Pretty much a straight-up blanket ban.
Good. Doesn’t give him a martyr cookie but shuts him the fuck up.
re: #304 Dr Lizardo
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Pretty much a straight-up blanket ban.
So are we starting a pool to see when he violates that order.
re: #290 Eclectic Cyborg
They won’t, they’ll just go with the usual refrains of Deep State, Activist Judges, blah, blah, blah.
no one’s forcing them to agree to it…
re: #306 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Oh man. Roger is going to suffer through withdrawals
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re: #304 Dr Lizardo
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Pretty much a straight-up blanket ban.
Pity. He should have been tossed in jail till the end of his trial, at which time he could transfer to prison. He will find a way to violate this ban and he’ll still not get held accountable. IOKIYAAR.
re: #306 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Oh man. Roger is going to suffer through withdrawals
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he’ll find a surrogate to post for him?
re: #279 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The feds aren’t asking for jail? Fuck that - Stone’s prior public statements after the gag order was initiated included attacking the judge and prosecutors.
Actions have consequences, and the prosecutors are still playing to Barr. Fuck that. The judge needed to remind everyone that criminal acts have consequences, but instead gave him a blanket ban.
Whoop de do. That’ll really show him.
re: #308 Joe Bacon 🌹
So are we starting a pool to see when he violates that order.
By the end of the week.
re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
she was not about to answer the question
i know that, however i think it would have put the entire video clip in a better context:
“why are you asking me this, it’s not what the question was”
re: #308 Joe Bacon 🌹
So are we starting a pool to see when he violates that order.
I’ll take “within 8 hours”
All things “disruptive”
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) July 16, 2019
didja know this?
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission notes that immigrants are protected by laws from employment discrimination, including harassment based on national origin:
Examples of potentially unlawful conduct include insults, taunting, or ethnic epithets, such as making fun of a person’s foreign accent or comments like, “Go back to where you came from,” whether made by supervisors or by co-workers.
- Discrimination Because of a Person’s or His or Her Ancestor’s Place of Birth
- Discrimination Based on Association with Persons of a Different National Origin Group
- Practices May Have an Adverse Effect on Particular National Origin Groups
- Harassment Based on National Origin
- Discrimination Based on Accent
- Speak-English -Only Rules
- Discrimination Based on Appearance
Anti-Semitism, Noun: Left-wing Jewish criticism of right-wing gentiles. https://t.co/yXoQycoa9w
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) July 16, 2019
re: #320 DangerMan
didja know this?
- Discrimination Because of a Person’s or His or Her Ancestor’s Place of Birth
- Discrimination Based on Association with Persons of a Different National Origin Group
- Practices May Have an Adverse Effect on Particular National Origin Groups
- Harassment Based on National Origin
- Discrimination Based on Accent
- Speak-English -Only Rules
- Discrimination Based on Appearance
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission notes that immigrants are protected by laws from employment discrimination, including harassment based on national origin:
Examples of potentially unlawful conduct include insults, taunting, or ethnic epithets, such as making fun of a person’s foreign accent or comments like, “Go back to where you came from,” whether made by supervisors or by co-workers.
So they could bring an EOC suit against Trump for workplace harassment?
OMG. A border patrol agent asked a 3-year-old migrant Honduran girl to choose which parent should be sent to Mexico. She started to cry as her father was taken away. https://t.co/gunnMXOsWh
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) July 15, 2019
Border Patrol just straight up needs to be razed at this point. The entire system is rotten and no amount of good apples are going to un-rot this barrel.
re: #323 Citizen K
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Border Patrol just straight up needs to be razed at this point. The entire system is rotten and no amount of good apples are going to un-rot this barrel.
Gestspo shit
Unfu….
Nope - totally fucking believable.
a picture of one of the most murderous dictators in modern times now hangs in the White House. https://t.co/O7sHLAl8XG
— Jeff Lewis (@ChicagoPhotoSho) July 16, 2019
re: #322 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission notes that immigrants are protected by laws from employment discrimination, including harassment based on national origin:
Examples of potentially unlawful conduct include insults, taunting, or ethnic epithets, such as making fun of a person’s foreign accent or comments like, “Go back to where you came from,” whether made by supervisors or by co-workers.
So they could bring an EOC suit against Trump for workplace harassment?
as i understand it, apparently not
he’s employed by us / the people
so the remedies are impeachment and voting him out
re: #323 Citizen K
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Border Patrol just straight up needs to be razed at this point. The entire system is rotten and no amount of good apples are going to un-rot this barrel.
Definitely makes them look like The Baddies.
re: #323 Citizen K
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Border Patrol just straight up needs to be razed at this point. The entire system is rotten and no amount of good apples are going to un-rot this barrel.
Yup. It’s the Ferguson PD on a cocktail of steroids and PCP.
re: #326 DangerMan
as i understand it, apparently not
he’s employed by us / the people
so the remedies are impeachment and voting him out
He was making a comment directed at congresswomen, who are co-workers, all employed by us…
re: #323 Citizen K
OMG. A border patrol agent asked a 3-year-old migrant Honduran girl to choose which parent should be sent to Mexico. She started to cry as her father was taken away.
Border Patrol just straight up needs to be razed at this point. The entire system is rotten and no amount of good apples are going to un-rot this barrel.
no good person takes a job like this
no good person does this kind of thing to other human beings
Cool cool cool she seems nice https://t.co/yQqR3a4bdS
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 16, 2019
re: #304 Dr Lizardo
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Pretty much a straight-up blanket ban.
Can’t wait for him to violate that one and end up in jail. You know he won’t be able to resist.
re: #323 Citizen K
Yep. Border Patrol and ICE need an enema.
Fire each and every last one of them, and prohibit them from being re-employed in any capacity whatsoever. Blacklist them from further Federal employment.
re: #323 Citizen K
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Sophie’s Choice.
Fucking Nazi was probably laughing about it too.
re: #333 Dr Lizardo
Civil servants can only be fired for wrongdoing.
No matter how much you may dislike what and ICE employee may do, if it is not illegal then I doubt that person can be fired.
re: #335 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Civil servants can only be fired for wrongdoing.
No matter how much you may dislike what and ICE employee may do, if it is not illegal then I doubt that person can be fired.
And that’s why the system needs to be fixed.
re: #336 Eclectic Cyborg
And that’s why the system needs to be fixed.
Oh, Trump wishes he could fire civil servants on a whim.
re: #335 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Civil servants can only be fired for wrongdoing.
No matter how much you may dislike what and ICE employee may do, if it is not illegal then I doubt that person can be fired.
No, they can be put on the due-process path to firing for poor performance. This is not good performance.
re: #337 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Oh, Trump wishes he could fire civil servants on a whim.
I didn’t necessarily mean that kind of fixed.
But you’re right.
re: #330 DangerMan
no good person takes a job like this
no good person does this kind of thing to other human beings
I think that’s been a failure of imagination on the left though. Good people should be taking those jobs, just like good people should become policemen. It might have prevented this.
re: #335 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Civil servants can only be fired for wrongdoing.
No matter how much you may dislike what and ICE employee may do, if it is not illegal then I doubt that person can be fired.
The agency can be shuttered with all employees let go. ICE needs to be closed.
re: #137 Belafon
Josh Barro (fuck that guy) thinks that these dem women are extreme. Fuck that guy.
re: #341 William Lewis
The agency can be shuttered with all employees let go. ICE needs to be closed.
Reduction-in-force rights do not jump from agency to agency. ICE can be reorganized to oblivion.
re: #335 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Civil servants can only be fired for wrongdoing.
No matter how much you may dislike what and ICE employee may do, if it is not illegal then I doubt that person can be fired.
One EO will change all that.
re: #345 Skip Intro
One EO will change all that.
Civil service is controlled by a law that is rather extensive.
This is the nature of why our government has not been a tyrannical force, unlike various right-wing conspiracy nuts like to claim.
What needs to change, in regards to how ICE treats people, are our laws on immigration.
It is probably true that some ICE agents are currently breaking laws and regulations. The thing to do is to find them.
But I oppose loyalty tests for civil servants, to anything other than loyalty to the USA.
re: #340 Belafon
I think that’s been a failure of imagination on the left though. Good people should be taking those jobs, just like good people should become policemen. It might have prevented this.
i agree 100%
i was implying that in these current conditions..
and yes i know what it means - you’re left with bad people…
but taking a job nowadays, knowing the environment you’d be working in and the people you’d be surrounded by…, i just wonder. you need a big overhaul
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 16, 2019
re: #325 lawhawk
Unfu….
Nope - totally fucking believable.
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— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) July 16, 2019
re: #347 DangerMan
i agree 100%
i was implying that in these current conditions..
and yes i know what it means - you’re left with bad people…but taking a job nowadays, knowing the environment you’d be working in and the people you’d be surrounded by…, i just wonder. you need a big overhaul
Agree.
re: #350 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The photographer in me is screaming: “Those aren’t even good photos!”
re: #168 Ace-o-aces
Of course, even they know nobody uses Gab.
They aren’t happy at Gab…it’s a circle jerk of assholeness. They are only happy to spew their hatred elsewhere.
re: #354 MsJ
They aren’t happy at Gab…it’s a circle jerk of assholeness. They are only happy to spew their hatred elsewhere.
Do you actually go there??
Why is there no justice for Eric Garner?
Cover Up General Bill Barr, of course.https://t.co/sfbyiI2HXY— Grant Stern (@grantstern) July 16, 2019
Reminds me of Serbian government officials who treat their war criminals as heroes.
re: #353 Eclectic Cyborg
The photographer in me is screaming: “Those aren’t even good photos!”
They’re awful. The framing sucks. And that’s being kind. It’s as if someone had a smartphone cam and didn’t know how to use it. I’ve seen my young nephews take better photos.
I think what you meant to say was, “The shit just got real.” https://t.co/gjNQpeUaqr
— Doctrine Man (@Doctrine_Man) July 16, 2019
re: #346 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The law is only meaningfull when it’s enforced. See the entire Trump regime for examples.
Someone posted this summary in English about what’s happening in Puerto Rico.
To all my American, English-speaking friends,
The riot in Puerto Rico that you’re hearing about is over a Telegram (a chatting app, similar to WhatsApp) conversation that was leaked a few days ago. In it, the governor of PR and other members of his administrative team held conversations of insensitive, misogynous, homophobic and criminal nature, to say the least.
A read through the leaked conversation history reveals how throughout the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and its apocalyptic death toll, aids that were sent to PR -such as water and other provisions- were WITHHELD from people that desperately needed it and left to spoil or become unusable for the sake of political moves that would make the current administration seem benevolent and thus earn them the 2020 re-election.
Yes, there were many politically incorrect, hateful, cruel and abhorrent messages about people such as David Begnaud (a CBS reporter whose coverage of Hurricane Maria and the aftermath brought the world’s eyes to our tragedy), the city of San Juan’s mayor, Ricky Martin, and many others in the messages they exchanged, but it’s not the sole reason the people have reached the boiling point.
I’m very tempted to copy & paste the whole post because it doesn’t waste any words.
This is a very useful tool for weeding out trolls, bots and griefers.
Pro-tip: if you’re wondering if that rando who just popped into your mentions is on the up & up, go to their page on the twitter app and look at the “who to follow” section below the first few tweets. Twitter’s algorithm populates that list with accounts it thinks are similar.
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 16, 2019
re: #361 Sea Mexican
Someone posted this summary in English about what’s happening in Puerto Rico.
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I’m very tempted to copy & paste the whole post because it doesn’t waste any words.
re: #363 Decatur Deb
Mount a page.
re: #364 lawhawk
Page it.
Thirded, or maybe 4thd already.
Include any personal insights relevant to anything.
re: #353 Eclectic Cyborg
The photographer in me is screaming: “Those aren’t even good photos!”
Mrs dm just said
“Im sure they’re great pictures. The best pictures ever taken”
She’s learning…
This is a good thread on how “but I have sex with them sometimes” is not a valid defense of racist acts. Frederick Douglass was born a slave and his father was white. Do the math. https://t.co/CEkdMydfXb
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) July 16, 2019
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I have achieved some sort of balance.
re: #372 wrenchwench
I have achieved some sort of balance.
You have equilibrated with the twitterverse.
Here is why Trump is calling other people “Anti-Semites”
(In private tags because NSFW, and the Anti-Semitism is the least offensive part)
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re: #374 The Pie Overlord!
Here is why Trump is calling other people “Anti-Semites”
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re: #374 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #371 lawhawk
This is a good thread on how “but I have sex with them sometimes” is not a valid defense of racist acts. Frederick Douglass was born a slave and his father was white. Do the math.
i get the argument and i know people type fast to get thoughts out then i have lots of time to pick up on things that matter to me me me
- there is no valid defense of racist acts
- so to say this sort of implies there could be if one looks hard or careful enough
people employing this strategy arent really defending racist acts
they’re trying to say ‘im not racist because’ and so these acts arent racist
i have a jewish lawyer
elaine cho
i had a black friend…..
don’t let ‘em do it
Convening authority will likely waive the confinement for time served awaiting trial.
I would guess that would pre-empt the Article 58a reduction to E-1 requirement— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) July 16, 2019
This take is so bad it has to be a parody, right? Nobody could really think like this, right?
[Jake Tapper retweets it…]
Welp. https://t.co/vsX6SqayRH— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2019
Part 3 of the story https://t.co/abB3vKRSTL
— ⚓Brandon⚓ (@BrandyBeansH) July 16, 2019
re: #381 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Uhh….I thought it was pretty common knowledge that von Braun was, quite literally, a Nazi rocket scientist.
re: #382 Dr Lizardo
Uhh….I thought it was pretty common knowledge that von Braun was, quite literally, a Nazi rocket scientist.
These seem timely..
Did they hand out knee pads at the door, or has sufficient carpet padding been installed?
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) July 16, 2019
re: #382 Dr Lizardo
Uhh….I thought it was pretty common knowledge that von Braun was, quite literally, a Nazi rocket scientist.
Rockets were all he gave a fuck about and being a. Nazi made them happen so he was happy to be a Nazi and use their slaves.
If the Russians had gotten him, he would have happily built their ICBMs with gulag slaves.
Instead he was our pet nazi rocket builder and he was probably sad we actually paid the workers quite well.
Every time you hear a Republican say “Trump is not a racist,” just imagine they’re saying, “I am a racist.” Because they are. https://t.co/MyBBI7SFgl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2019
re: #382 Dr Lizardo
Uhh….I thought it was pretty common knowledge that von Braun was, quite literally, a Nazi rocket scientist.
People can’t be two things. Or hold opposing thoughts
Words can’t have more than one definition…
re: #359 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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So is Danny going to be bringing a whole lotta donuts to Area 51?
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹
Rick Wilson being called out in a thread for enabling the rise of Trump after he wrote this.
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You can take the man out of the GOP but you can’t take the I-got-mine-fuck-you out of the man.
re: #382 Dr Lizardo
Uhh….I thought it was pretty common knowledge that von Braun was, quite literally, a Nazi rocket scientist.
What we call “common knowledge”… is not particularly common.
Education isn’t what it used to be; and a distressing number of people will happily pretend not to know things that they used to know.
It’s as if they all decided this would be a good week to completely stop pretending.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2019
re: #356 DodgerFan1988
To be fair, did Eric Holder ever being federal charges against any of the police officers who killed unarmed people of color during the Obama administration? I don’t believe so.
This Area 51 stuff is amusing but I really fear a small gaggle of idiots is going to actually go through it and get themselves in some serious trouble…if not worse.
re: #393 Charles Johnson
Maybe our very own Pie Overlord is right and Trump’s freaking out there’s a nasty little DVD in Epstein’s possession with his name on it.
Well, his name……and the name of a 13-year-old girl. Or maybe a couple of them.
re: #393 Charles Johnson
KAC: “He made himself available to a lot of you yesterday.”
Trump: “Quiet. Quiet! Quiet!!!”
Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick: “I have come to the conclusion that the House of Representatives must open an impeachment inquiry on President Donald Trump.”
Via CSPAN pic.twitter.com/uYpwLDqxLw— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 16, 2019
re: #396 Dr Lizardo
Maybe our very own Pie Overlord is right and Trump’s freaking out there’s a nasty little DVD in Epstein’s possession with his name on it.
Well, his name……and the name of a 13-year-old girl. Or maybe a couple of them.
Who look just like Ivanka did at 12 ~ 13?
re: #400 William Lewis
Who look just like Ivanka did at 12 ~ 13?
Wouldn’t surprise me. And I’m sure of one thing - if indeed such a DVD exists, he will stop at nothing to see to it that DVD is found and destroyed.
From ProPublica:
A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It’s Really Like to Guard Migrant Children
“Somewhere down the line people just accepted what’s going on as normal.”
re: #394 Patricia Kayden
To be fair, did Eric Holder ever being federal charges against any of the police officers who killed unarmed people of color during the Obama administration? I don’t believe so.
He brought charges against entire police departments, got a bunch of consent decrees.
Which Jeff Sessions voided his first week in office.
re: #401 Dr Lizardo
Wouldn’t surprise me. And I’m sure of one thing - if indeed such a DVD exists, he will stop at nothing to see to it that DVD is found and destroyed.
I bet conservatives would still support him even if it was released. No doubt they’d find some way to make it fit in their distorted worldview.
re: #382 Dr Lizardo
Uhh….I thought it was pretty common knowledge that von Braun was, quite literally, a Nazi rocket scientist.
It was common knowledge that our space program would not have got off the ground without the aid of a lot of German scientists…
re: #396 Dr Lizardo
Maybe our very own Pie Overlord is right and Trump’s freaking out there’s a nasty little DVD in Epstein’s possession with his name on it.
Well, his name……and the name of a 13-year-old girl. Or maybe a couple of them.
I mentioned upthread there is a sworn deposition.
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