Seth takes a closer look at the president and GOP leaders insisting that Trump’s latest racist comments are not, in fact, racist despite the fact that they are definitely super racist!
Remember in the vast majority of states in 2016, “Did Not Vote” would’ve won the election.
https://t.co/BD70sR5pvd— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) July 18, 2019
Did Not Vote can get the Rs out, but Did Not Vote has to be encouraged to get off his ass.
Our idiot fake president said today that the human trafficking across our Souther Border is, by far, the most ever in our history. We know he cannot stand to think about Black people, however, someone might remind him that slavery was a very virulent form of human trafficking
— American Veteran (@amvetsupport) July 18, 2019
re: #5 jaunte
You’d think the very last thing he’d want to draw attention to right about now is human trafficking. But then again he’s not that bright.
re: #6 A Mom Anon
It all just goes into the bucket in his head labeled “border.”
That’s what he thinks is going to win him reelection and keep him from getting prosecuted.
There were only 11 Nuremberg Rallies over a 15-year period but we’re going to have dozens of these horror shows in the next 15 months.
— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) July 18, 2019
re: #7 jaunte
After this mess, I’m seriously in favor of making a Civics and American History test be mandatory for every damned elected office. I know it’s not practical, but could we at least require a basic working knowledge of the government and the actual JOB they have to do? Also too, laws don’t mean shit if they aren’t enforced. Let’s start with all those ignored supoenas maybe?
re: #10 A Mom Anon
After this mess, I’m seriously in favor of making a Civics and American History test be mandatory for every damned elected office. I know it’s not practical, but could we at least require a basic working knowledge of the government and the actual JOB they have to do? Also too, laws don’t mean shit if they aren’t enforced. Let’s start with all those ignored supoenas maybe?
How about you can’t get a High School Diploma without a civics class.
re: #10 A Mom Anon
Apparently Congress needs a subpoena enforcement arm.
JFC. Brian Williams just referred to the Trump rally crowd’s “send her back ” chant as “new and topical.”
re: #5 jaunte
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Didn’t Ben Carson claim that Blacks came here as immigrants? I assume Trump is dumb enough to believe the same.
re: #8 jaunte
I wish that Fox News was the only channel to show Trump rallies live. There’s no reason to televise all of his hate fests.
In response the #RacistPresident’s hate rally in North Carolina I’m sending another $20.19 to North Carolina to help @McCreadyForNC in the big #NC9 special. Please help spread the word!https://t.co/3yAWFaXjd9@Indivisible9NC @NCDemParty
— Erik Halvorsen (@erikhalvorsen18) July 18, 2019
*insert endless scream*
Me too. Or someone who looks like her (is brown and wears hijab). It’s not like his followers can tell brown people apart.
— Courtney!!! Milan 🦖 (@courtneymilan) July 18, 2019
“But those same words are in the Dictionary. Does that mean that the Dictionary is now racist?” Really, it’s like something you’d have a character on Arrested Development or Veep say to show how *dumb* they are.
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) July 18, 2019
Colleen Coyle, one of the meteorologists on WFAA, announced today that she is resigning at the end of the week. Back in January, she and her husband adopted a 13 year old child. WFAA was nice in that they gave her maternity leave when they adopted, but she has decided that right now, the kid needs a full time parent at home.
Serious props for adopting a teenager.
Criticism of the president doesn’t violate anyone’s rights, dipshit. If you read 1984, you certainly didn’t understand it.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 18, 2019
You don’t even know what fascism looks like. I feel sorry for the men and women in uniform that have to call you brother. It must be humiliating to lumped into the same group as you.
— Uldihaa (@Uldihaa) July 18, 2019
Do you smell burnt toast?
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 18, 2019
Trump says a lot of people are talking about Illhan Omar being married to her brother.
re: #24 Skip Intro
Trump says a lot of people are talking about Illhan Omar being married to her brother.
But he doesn’t know anything about it. But he was able to make that statement.
re: #25 Belafon
Just wanted to get it out there on video.
Yes. The right to dissent, petition the government for redress of grievances is inherent in the fabric of our nation and deeply patriotic. Silencing or exiling that dissent is fascism. https://t.co/fS4mRGI14z
— Mieke Eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) July 18, 2019
Which is why we refer to you as National Racists Online!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 18, 2019
re: #27 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
If they are right, I know who should be deported, pronto.
re: #27 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Please define “common culture that makes us American.”
— EdnaK - Register/Vote! (@EdnaK_) July 17, 2019
Respectfully, deep fried ANYTHING is what makes us truly American. 😊 🇺🇸
🍗🍟🥓🥧🍦🍩— EdnaK - Register/Vote! (@EdnaK_) July 17, 2019
Welcome to 2019, where the Tories are (again) asking aloud if it’s right and proper that the rebel rabble can speak against the king.
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Laura Ingraham guest says @IlhanMN “is a failed American experiment…she’s not American” pic.twitter.com/UH5tc0Px2A
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) July 18, 2019
If Fuckface Von Clownstick is reelected, construction of the death camps will commence.
dibs on Cannibal Crewneck
— Ryan King (@BigPapa1849) July 18, 2019
I probably would’ve subjected myself to the evil machinations of Fuckface Von Clownstick and his fuckstick red hat army. Fortunately tonight was the one-night-only showing of Between Me And My Mind, a documentary about Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio at the cinema 23 miles away.
My Phish Phan friends thought it was the greatest. I thought it was good, and there’s no shortage of poignant happenings. But there wasn’t a lot of insight into the inner workings of the band. Which I guess is all well and good, they don’t want to give away all their trade secrets.
re: #17 jaunte
Thanks for the reminder. I threw some money at this guy.
Yes. Fascism and racism tend to overlap a lot, especially at the National Review.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 18, 2019
What was the National Reviews founder’s views on race? Let’s go to the videotapehttps://t.co/pCgDFfG5ye
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 18, 2019
He helped sell the Iraq War that killed a million people so he knows what he’s talking about here. https://t.co/tLX5NfIXUH
— Matt Bors (@MattBors) July 18, 2019
re: #37 gocart mozart
I don’t have contempt for the country but I do for the asshole President and his corrupt cronies, power tripping police and heartless Pharma companies and asshole CBP, the list goes on…
agents…
This FaceApp thing has me all confused/jaded. I mean, you gotta be pretty vain to want to know what you look like decades from now RIGHT NOW. And yet here we are, and the Russians have 150 million pictures of faces that they can do whatever they want with. 150 million people.
What if … and I am just spitballing here … BUTWhat if the Internet Research Agency in Russia is collecting all those FaceApp pictures to use for avatars on troll accounts for the 2020 election?
— Ed Bott (@edbott) July 17, 2019
Just hit “Yes to all” at the Facebook prompts and it will activate the Pro membership.
New Trump nicknames
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 18, 2019
Hey man, have you seen all the people replying to this with stuff about the Iraq War and also your anti-immigration articles and also your tweets about Trump’s strengths regarding immigration? It’s wild down here!
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) July 18, 2019
I don’t have time to go with three different names. We’ll call him Dickwad.
LGF denizens are expert ninja level when it comes to bullshit detection. Well, get ready, folks. The 2020 election might as well be christened THE GREAT BULLSHIT STORM QUAKE.
As the world gets dumber, I can’t help but think Pizza Hut should give a personal pan pizza to every adult who reads 12 books over the summer.
— SCOTTY (@MarylandMudflap) July 10, 2019
New: Satellite imagery captured by @planetlabs shows US military buildup at a Saudi Air base as the Trump administratiom prepares to deploy hundreds of US troops to the country.
Story w/ @barbarastarrcnn and analysis from @ArmsControlWonk https://t.co/9NFNc3Sora— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) July 18, 2019
Last month the administration announced it was sending 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East as Iran tensions flared but did not specify which countries they were going to.
The forces going to Saudi Arabia are part of this deployment.— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) July 18, 2019
Also worth remembering Trump is currently on his third acting defense secretary this year and his nominee for the permanent job, Mark Esper, is still awaiting confirmation. https://t.co/kg9W9ZSd4c
— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) July 18, 2019
re: #44 teleskiguy
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I’d have to check, but I’m pretty sure Frum was one of the “NeverTrump” chorus line who was declaring last October that Trump basically had the Dems in a bind as the migrant caravan (aka “the invading hordes”) and the optics thereof were so terrible for them that the party would have to either roll over and give him what he wanted or face electoral losses for looking supportive of “open borders.”
He’s now (of course) part of the same chorus of “NeverTrump” fuckwits trying to tell Dem voters that they need to embrace a moderate like Biden over the “radical” progressives like Harris or Warren.
Also, certain profile pics. If these queef weasels have one thing in common it’s an absence of originality.
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 18, 2019
Got me a live one!
Wait? What? Did she just call me racist for no reason like she doin to Trump? Cuz I support him? What? Gay black one from California who’s had enough of ppl tryin to speak for me here. You the racist girl. That man said nothing racist. I know racist. Mmmm #IStandWithPresTrump
— 🖤 Tang (@beverlyhillsluv) July 18, 2019
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 18, 2019
re: #50 Targetpractice
I’ve never trusted these NeverTrump writers. Rick Wilson put out a bunch of turds today on Twitter.
Your reminder that Never Trumpers are *not* allies. Mostly they hate Trump bc he is gauche, not bc anything he does or says conflicts w their basic ideology. This GOP is STILL the party of Reagan, it’s just coarsened in ways that make the Ricks & Peggy Noonans clutch their pearls https://t.co/7InR75ifjJ
— Jennifer (@leftyjennyc) July 17, 2019
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So, this happened in Kyoto, Japan:
Twelve people are presumed dead, fire officials have said, and more could be missing after becoming trapped by a suspected arson attack at a renowned animation production company in Japan.
Thirty-five others have been injured, some of them critically, said Kyoto fire department official Satoshi Fujiwara.
Police in Kyoto said the fire broke out on Thursday morning at a three-storey building belonging to Kyoto Animation after a man burst in and spread an unidentified flammable liquid that set off the blaze.
The 41-year-old suspect was among the injured and has been taken to a hospital, Kyodo news agency reported.
It happened at Kyoto Animation:
Police said the fire appeared to have been started deliberately. “A man threw a liquid and set fire to it,” a Kyoto prefectural police spokesman said.
Kyoto Animation is renowned for its high-quality anime productions such as Sound! Euphonium, A Silent Voice and Violet Evergarden.
re: #54 Dr Lizardo
Just to add, Kyoto police are saying the suspect in custody has never worked for KyoAni at any point in time, either now or in the past; that rules out the “disgruntled/fired employee” angle.
So then either a random homicidal nutcase or perhaps a crazed otaku.
re: #55 Dr Lizardo
As of 30 minutes ago, the following are still missing from the fire:
Ishihara Tatsuya, Director
Ishidate Taichi, Director
Takemoto Yasuhiro, Director
Kawanami Eisaku, Director
Nishiya Futoshi, Animation director
Kadowaki Miku, Animation director and character designer
re: #49 Dread Pirate
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Is this the right time to remind everyone that “US troops in Saudi Arabia” was the very specific, explicit reason given by Osama Bin Laden for why he 9-11’d us?
re: #55 Dr Lizardo
Just to add, Kyoto police are saying the suspect in custody has never worked for KyoAni at any point in time, either now or in the past; that rules out the “disgruntled/fired employee” angle.
So then either a random homicidal nutcase or perhaps a crazed otaku.
Just to add, the suspect said to Kyoto police that he’d been “ripped off” by KyoAni - that suggests perhaps some kind of intellectual property rights disupte, either real or imagined on his part.
UPDATE: A fire official says more than 20 are now confirmed or presumed dead after the Kyoto Animation studio fire in Japan #京アニ火災 #京都アニメーション #アニメ会社 pic.twitter.com/HtN530t9Nv
— Bloomberg TicToc (@tictoc) July 18, 2019
Australia attacking religious freedom:
Christian family fined after arguing taxes ‘against God’s will’
A Christian family who refused to pay income tax because it went “against God’s will” have been ordered to pay more than A$2m (£1.1m $1.4m) to Australia’s tax office.
— Francine (@ftroumpoucis) July 18, 2019
re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Australia attacking religious freedom:
Christian family fined after arguing taxes ‘against God’s will’
A Christian family who refused to pay income tax because it went “against God’s will” have been ordered to pay more than A$2m (£1.1m $1.4m) to Australia’s tax office.
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s
re: #62 sagehen
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s
stop cherry-picking Bible verses differently than I cherry-pick!!!
Meanwhile, in Brexit news:
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator said in an interview to be published on Thursday that he was unimpressed by threats of no-deal Brexit but that if the United Kingdom opted for such a course it would have to face the consequences.
Asked by the BBC what would happen if London tore up its EU membership card, Michel Barnier said: “The UK will have to face the consequences.”
“I think that the UK side, which is well informed and competent and knows the way we work on the EU side, knew from the very beginning that we’ve never been impressed by such a threat,” Barnier said. “It’s not useful to use it”.
Basically, the UK’s position is a lot like this - except that unlike the citizens of Rock Ridge, the EU isn’t falling for it.
re: #61 Dread Pirate
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He hasn’t been welcome in awhile if ever in his life. Nothing wrong with being black and conservative. But plenty wrong with staying wed to a party whose base hates your guts. I’m reminded of when a black man spoke at a Tea Party function at the peak of the GOPs obsession with ACORN(another bigoted moment in itself) and he was assumed to be an ACORN member or something like that. The GOP is a safe place for racists young and old. That’s what it is. People who can’t accept that the US isn’t an ethno state.
re: #65 HappyWarrior
The GOP needs a few token Negroes (the kind that it does not have to get from stock photos) to hold up as examples of how blacks are kept on the Plantation by the Democrat Party and offered Free Government Stuff in exchange for perpetual servitude.
But they are a party whose image of America is based on a White Christian patriarchy.
Same kind of s*it Soviets spread.
Sadly there are still so many people believing it. https://t.co/19RyYtwNDZ— Corporal (@Corporal_52) July 18, 2019
The Epstein crimes seem to have an additional path that is getting heated.
I expect some surprise resignations forthcoming for ‘health’ reasons’.
This seems like a big deal.https://t.co/9N9sXsHleL pic.twitter.com/xsyb7mnJs7
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 18, 2019
re: #68 Ming5000
The Epstein crimes seem to have an additional path that is getting heated.
I expect some surprise resignations forthcoming for ‘health’ reasons’.
Their families will be happy that they have time to spend with them…
re: #68 Ming5000
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“Therefore, I’m here today to announce that I’m stepping down, effective immediately, to spend more time with my family.”
What we’ll probably be hearing a lot of more soon, if that Tweet pans out.
re: #68 Ming5000
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“Tired of the bipartisan bickering.” Yeah. Tbh all this makes me want women candidates even more. Sick of powerful men abusing their influence.
Forget the other clowns. I want to know who left young Severus Snape into the White House. pic.twitter.com/Pd5vjHZ4SY
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 18, 2019
re: #41 teleskiguy
This FaceApp thing has me all confused/jaded. I mean, you gotta be pretty vain to want to know what you look like decades from now RIGHT NOW. And yet here we are, and the Russians have 150 million pictures of faces that they can do whatever they want with. 150 million people.
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I am a disc golfer, which means I am part of an amazingly vigorous social disc golf community that, right now, reminds me of an amalgamation of all of the old do-good social communities from last century - Elks, Eagles, Masons, Kiwanis, Moose, etc. Our entire sport and its infrastructure has been built over the last forty years mostly by volunteers. (I am working on building three new area courses right now with varying crews of friends; sport has grown from 600 to 6,000+ US courses in just the last 20 years.)
I’m also almost 72 years old and most of my thousands of social media friends are younger.
Yesterday three people posted their “aged images” on The Book of Faces and were told within minutes by their friends that they looked like Terry Calhoun 🤣😂
re: #73 Dave In Austin
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is writing to EVERY democrat in Florida to encourage them to request a Vote By Mail Ballot.
You can help. Write as many or as few as you want, whenever you want. (I do like 5 or 10 a week)
when democrats vote, democrats win.
re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Australia attacking religious freedom:
Christian family fined after arguing taxes ‘against God’s will’
A Christian family who refused to pay income tax because it went “against God’s will” have been ordered to pay more than A$2m (£1.1m $1.4m) to Australia’s tax office.
Um, folks, that’s spelled out in the New Testament that it’s not against God’s will.
re: #61 Dread Pirate
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“I’m ok with the xenophobia, the sexism, the antisemitism, not caring for the poor, taking away health care. I just don’t understand why they are going after blacks.”
re: #51 goddamnedfrank
If you’re a self-identifying deplorable - you’re blocked.
re: #77 Belafon
Um, folks, that’s spelled out in the New Testament that it’s not against God’s will.
Again, stop cherry-picking the Bible differently than I cherry-pick!!!
This is monstrous. It deserves condemnation by the free world. #IStandWithIlhan https://t.co/sOstESBjxF
— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) July 18, 2019
MP Jo Cox was assassinated by a far right Brexiteer. The serious threat to Rep. Omar’s safety is not laughing matter. https://t.co/e67ealUizp
— Kevin Collins (@kwcollins) July 18, 2019
So one of Sweden’s local comedians, Jonas Gardell, sat down with his Adobe Photoshop (I think)…
Donald Voldetrump. (OBS! Det är faktiskt ett montage, oerhört skickligt utfört av mig så det lurar ögat och man ba: “hjälp va ere som har hänt? Jag fattar ingenting! Är Donald Trump och Voldemort samma????”)
He’s got people talking about his fascist rally and not his putting kids in cages and seeking to end legal immigration for nonwhites via asylum.
He lurches from one crisis to another by being more racist and bigoted.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 18, 2019
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
MP Jo Cox was assassinated by a far right Brexiteer. The serious threat to Rep. Omar’s safety is not laughing matter.
Trump could shoot her down on Fifth Avenue, his supporters would cheer and the Press would feel compelled to report on “both sides” of the incident…
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump could shoot her down on Fifth Avenue, his supporters would cheer and the Press would feel compelled to report on “both sides” of the incident…
Franky Graham Cracker would then get on TV and say Trump was an instrument of Gawd’s will…and the majority of Xtians would agree…
If you’re wondering why impeachment isn’t being proposed by Pelosi, there are Democrats that think that yesterday’s votes backing Pelosi calling Trump a racist were like throwing them under the bus:
“While Democrats were publicly unanimous in their support of the resolution, some moderate lawmakers from Republican-leaning districts that backed Mr. Trump in 2016 privately voiced their discomfort. They said that while the president’s comments had been racist, the party was playing into his hands by spending so much time condemning his remarks, according to centrist lawmakers and senior aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions.
They were particularly angry about being asked to vote to condone Ms. Pelosi’s breach of the rules, which two of them described as throwing moderate lawmakers “under the bus” in order to help the speaker shore up support among progressives who had been alienated by her feud with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and her allies. One lawmaker described the upshot of the extraordinary episode as “another week burned on his terms instead of ours.”
Wheels (gears) of justice grind slowly. But they do grind.
New Jersey Judge Who Showed Leniency To Rape Suspect From ‘Good Family’ Resigns
After several New Jersey judges came under nationwide scrutiny for troubling remarks during separate sexual assault cases, the state Supreme Court this week announced the resignation of one judge, proceedings to remove another, and new training about sexual violence for all judges in the state.
The New Jersey Supreme Court confirmed to The New York Times Wednesday that it had accepted the resignation of Judge James Troiano, who in 2018 granted leniency to a 16-year-old rape suspect in part because he came from a “good family” and attended “an excellent school”
re: #89 DangerMan
And today we learn whether Judge Berman grants Epstein bail in his child sex trafficking case.
Based on the evidence and what we know so far, he shouldn’t get bail. Compared to R Kelly, who sits in jail awaiting trial as he was denied bail, Epstein’s criminal conduct is magnitudes worse and far more troubling - as it was enabled with sweetheart deals with prosecutors and witness intimidation continues to this day. Then there’s the matter of passports suggesting that he either has fake documents, or he’s a citizen of more than just the US making his flight risk even greater.
These GOP women see nothing wrong with Trump’s comments
- of course they dont. look at them (yes, im saying it)
screen grab here - you can follow the link to the video
It’s just shocking and depressing how swiftly we’ve backslid and regressed as a whole in this country. Last night basically was just the ‘true’ leaders of this country screaming in our face that “RACISM IS GOD, WE ARE GOD, OUR FUCKING COUNTRY”.
…and the media continues to equivocate and treat it like the most normal fucking thing ever, and how it’s oh-so-shocking that Dems could dare accuse the GOP of something as pernicious and inflammatory as ‘RACISM’.
Fuck every fucking single thing.
re: #90 lawhawk
And today we learn whether Judge Berman grants Epstein bail in his child sex trafficking case.
Based on the evidence and what we know so far, he shouldn’t get bail. Compared to R Kelly, who sits in jail awaiting trial as he was denied bail, Epstein’s criminal conduct is magnitudes worse and far more troubling - as it was enabled with sweetheart deals with prosecutors and witness intimidation continues to this day. Then there’s the matter of passports suggesting that he either has fake documents, or he’s a citizen of more than just the US making his flight risk even greater.
Yeah, under no circumstances should Epstein get bail, just on the basis of that right there alone.
Sure, he might have surrendered one passport, but what if he has other passports, from different countries, under different names? He’s certainly got the dough that he could afford to buy one, and a real one…..a bribe of a couple million $$$ would work in more than a few places around the world.
re: #4 jaunte
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Did Not Vote can get the Rs out, but Did Not Vote has to be encouraged to get off his ass.
A lot of Obama voters sat out 2016
re: #91 DangerMan
These GOP women see nothing wrong with Trump’s comments
- of course they dont. look at them (yes, im saying it)
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Someone the other day pointed out that CNN seems to keep using the same set of Random Conservative Women (tm).
re: #94 DangerMan
A lot of Obama voters sat out 2016
I would like to note that a good portion of them didn’t necessarily sit out by choice, considering the voter suppression and overt attempts to kick broad swaths of Dem voters off the rolls in ‘16.
re: #95 Belafon
Someone the other day pointed out that CNN seems to keep using the same set of Random Conservative Women (tm).
Yep. Turns out that, quelle surprise, they’re not random, nor are they your standard conservatives, they’re a full on activist group in support of Trump. And they’ve been used as a whole for at least 4 different CNN panels, all of them presenting the women as simple random panels of concerned conservative women.
re: #95 Belafon
The same way that the same black guys show up at all of Trump’s rallies (the male equivalent of Cubic Zirconia and Polyester).
re: #95 Belafon
Someone the other day pointed out that CNN seems to keep using the same set of Random Conservative Women (tm).
I expect that at some point it will come out that all of those women are members of a local Republican organization. CNN has done that before.
This is a good point. Two of the four women he’s attacking are from New York and Massachusetts, so not relevant electorally there, but Trump barely won Michigan and barely lost Minnesota, so… https://t.co/9umS9MjihX
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) July 18, 2019
re: #91 DangerMan
Ok this is weird. They showed this panel on our local Atlanta CBS affiliate yesterday afternoon/evening as part of the news programming discussing politics, but there was nothing identifiable in the screen that it came from CNN. They didn’t show the whole thing, just the parts about them supporting him even if he is a racist shit. The discussion was about how liberals are messing up by pointing this shit out when there’s so much to do. This is where I turned it off. I’m still weirded out by that whole thing .
re: #91 DangerMan
These GOP women see nothing wrong with Trump’s comments
- of course they dont. look at them (yes, im saying it)
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Didn’t I see those same women on other panels as well?
Naaaaaah, can’t be…
re: #91 DangerMan
These GOP women see nothing wrong with Trump’s comments
- of course they dont. look at them (yes, im saying it)
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washingtonpost.com
Just a random group of ‘Republicans’? CNN doesn’t tell the whole story about a Trump-loving panel
The group calls itself the Trumpettes of America 2019 Palm Beach Team, although CNN and correspondent Randi Kaye didn’t mention anything about such a group. Nor did the anchors, including Anderson Cooper, who introduced Kaye’s report.
re: #96 Citizen K
I would like to note that a good portion of them didn’t necessarily sit out by choice, considering the voter suppression and overt attempts to kick broad swaths of Dem voters off the rolls in ‘16.
Yep. Turns out that, quelle surprise, they’re not random, nor are they your standard conservatives, they’re a full on activist group in support of Trump. And they’ve been used as a whole for at least 4 different CNN panels, all of them presenting the women as simple random panels of concerned conservative women.
you’re right about some of the voters
in fact i wrote to Postcards to Voters to suggest the following:
Like your Vote by Mail campaign, maybe consider a similar type of campaign reminding voters to verify their voter registration status. This can often be done via the internet.
- All over the country, there is a concerted effort to remove people from the voter rolls.
- Additionally, people move and don’t remember to update their registration.
- And there are other reasons as well.This could be helpful in down times - when no elections are pending. And also in, say, the month or two before a particular jurisdiction’s registration deadline approaches.
re: #102 Kilroy was here
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Just a random group of ‘Republicans’? CNN doesn’t tell the whole story about a Trump-loving panel
Gosh I wonder why CNN was silent about that?
re: #101 Joe Bacon 🌹
Didn’t I see those same women on other panels as well?
Naaaaaah, can’t be…
if not them, then ones just like them // 1/2
re: #102 Kilroy was here
They’re an astroturf group. Figures.
Since 2015, CNN has distorted its on air product to present far right views as mainstream and to present paid-for or curated pro-trump commentary as just a slice of life among Republicans. You can read about it in Jason Miller’s deposition.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 17, 2019
re: #102 Kilroy was here
washingtonpost.com
Just a random group of ‘Republicans’? CNN doesn’t tell the whole story about a Trump-loving panel
The group calls itself the Trumpettes of America 2019 Palm Beach Team, although CNN and correspondent Randi Kaye didn’t mention anything about such a group. Nor did the anchors, including Anderson Cooper, who introduced Kaye’s report
I just googled T and A 2019 Palm Beach Team wit surprising results. Probably bad syntax. ; )
Oh, good morning everyone!
re: #107 Barefoot Grin
Since 2015, CNN has distorted its on air product to present far right views as mainstream and to present paid-for or curated pro-trump commentary as just a slice of life among Republicans. You can read about it in Jason Miller’s deposition.
I recall in 2015 when Trump was bragging about how exciting his rallies wehre while people were falling asleep at Jeb Bush rallies.
20 minutes later CNN aired an interview with a woman who said she had fallen asleep at a Bush rally.
That was about the last time I paid any attention to CNN as a source of news.
re: #103 DangerMan
you’re right about some of the voters
in fact i wrote to Postcards to Voters to suggest the following:
I have just worked on a mailing for a non-profit, and that is expensive. It is likely a lot of voting areas just don’t have that sort of money to spare on anything extra, no matter how useful or good.
re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall in 2015 when Trump was bragging about how exciting his rallies wehre while people were falling asleep at Jeb Bush rallies.
20 minutes later CNN aired an interview with a woman who said she had fallen asleep at a Bush rally.
That was about the last time I paid any attention to CNN as a source of news.
I generally don’t either, unless something major is happening - just to get a feel for what’s going on
A link on electoral-vote.com sent me over to CNN this AM.
this story was on the right side so i clicked
i didnt even have to watch the video - it was just so obvious to me from the picture
that there’s a backstory, well, i had no idea and quelle surprise
re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall in 2015 when Trump was bragging about how exciting his rallies wehre while people were falling asleep at Jeb Bush rallies.
20 minutes later CNN aired an interview with a woman who said she had fallen asleep at a Bush rally.
That was about the last time I paid any attention to CNN as a source of news.
I gave up on CNN in the runup to Gulf War II, when they used a graphics package calling it ‘America’s New War.’ In fact, I think that’s when I gave up on cable news altogether.
re: #110 retired cynic
I have just worked on a mailing for a non-profit, and that is expensive. It is likely a lot of voting areas just don’t have that sort of money to spare on anything extra, no matter how useful or good.
since PTV is crowdsourced, the cost is distributed and absorbed by the individual volunteers
10 cards a week is probably less than $5.00
I consider it like a donation
re: #113 DangerMan
since PTV is crowdsourced, the cost is distributed and absorbed by the individual volunteers
10 cards a week is probably less than $5.00
I consider it like a donation
I was confused, and thought you meant local government entities should do that. You are right, of course!
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Update: at least 33 people have died in a fire at Kyoto Animation, one of Japan’s most popular anime studios. The suspected arsonist is in custody.
More: https://t.co/g9O0JPC2ZV pic.twitter.com/aCqPGSes2j— Kotaku (@Kotaku) July 18, 2019
Judd Legum does a deep dive into raising the minimum wage to $15.
re: #114 makeitstop
Is anyone live-tweeting the Epstein hearing?
Adam Klasfeld has been. I think it starts at 11:30AM.
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein’s attorneys respond to the government’s letter about the stamps on his passport.
“Epstein was given the passport at issue by a friend,” they claim, insisting he never used it for international travel. cc: @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/GJVZTwwZ3h— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 18, 2019
“It’s not about race, it’s about whether you support the racist” is quite the mind-fuck https://t.co/wkaoiqbTrv
— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) July 18, 2019
re: #116 Stanley Sea
That makes it the second-worst (maybe the worst*) arson death toll in modern Japanese history (post-WWII).
*the reason for that is that there was a residential building fire in 2001 in which 44 died, but to this day, Japanese authorities have never been able to determine whether it was intentionally set or an accident.
Here is a thread about why Trumporrhoid Evangelical anti-Semites are so obsessed with calling other people “anti-Semites”
Thread.
Jews, the Christian Zionist endgame is Armageddon/ bringing the end times, during which they believe we will not be saved. We’re a tool to help them get there. Even if you like their “support for Israel” (I don’t, it’s pro-Occupation), you are cannon fodder to them. 1/x https://t.co/m90tqOaisx— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) December 27, 2018
“They also underscore the challenge his accusers and the U.S. legal system might face in seeking restitution if he is convicted of the federal sex trafficking charges filed last week.” https://t.co/VMGePhweWT
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) July 18, 2019
re: #112 makeitstop
I gave up on CNN in the runup to Gulf War II, when they used a graphics package calling it ‘America’s New War.’ In fact, I think that’s when I gave up on cable news altogether.
I gave up on CNN when their stooge set up Dukakis in the 1988 debate.
re: #118 Barefoot Grin
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein’s attorneys respond to the government’s letter about the stamps on his passport.
“Epstein was given the passport at issue by a friend,” they claim, insisting he never used it for international travel. cc:
He gave me this condom but insisted I never use it for sex!
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So support Trump or go back, nice message Lindsay. That’s autocracy.
re: #125 HappyWarrior
So support Trump or go back, nice message Lindsay. That’s autocracy.
Trump: Love Him or Leave America!!!
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump: Love Him or Leave America!!!
Sieg Trump.
re: #120 Dr Lizardo
That makes it the second-worst (maybe the worst*) arson death toll in modern Japanese history (post-WWII).
*the reason for that is that there was a residential building fire in 2001 in which 44 died, but to this day, Japanese authorities have never been able to determine whether it was intentionally set or an accident.
It’s already being called by some the single biggest mass-murder incident in post-war Japan. For comparison, the Tokyo Sarin attacks by Aum Shinrikyo possibly affected up to 6k, but the death toll itself was 13.
re: #129 HappyWarrior
I’m so sick thinking about this all.
just to see how mainstreamed these once-extremist views have become
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
just to see how mainstreamed these once-extremist views have become
Well that and the unmasking of how ugly a good chunk of our country is.
re: #128 Citizen K
It’s already being called by some the single biggest mass-murder incident in post-war Japan. For comparison, the Tokyo Sarin attacks by Aum Shinrikyo possibly affected up to 6k, but the death toll itself was 13.
I’d agree. Personally, I can’t think of a deadlier mass murder in post-war Japan’s history right off the top of my head.
re: #131 HappyWarrior
Well that and the unmasking of how ugly a good chunk of our country is.
that has been well known, but they have their champion and are no longer even making a show of decorum
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that has been well known, but they have their champion and are no longer even making a show of decorum
No, no it hasn’t.
re: #127 HappyWarrior
Sieg Trump.
That, unfortunately, translates as “Victory Trump.” “Heil Twitler” might be more apropos.
re: #134 HappyWarrior
No, no it hasn’t.
you could go to any bar or club and hear no end of the talk in private or in small circles, then you could read and hear it in fringe publications and broadcasts, but now it has moved out into the mainstream media
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I really hate this guy
McConnell: Trump ‘on to something’ with attacks on four congresswomen
“I think the president is on to something,” McConnell told the Fox Business Network, citing his opposition to policy proposals, including the “Green New Deal” and “Medicare for All,” espoused by some progressive lawmakers and 2020 White House hopefuls.
re: #139 Kilroy was here
I really hate this guy
McConnell: Trump ‘on to something’ with attacks on four congresswomen
Yes, he sent up a trial balloon and it came back with an overall positive result, it means he can step up his rhetoric and even start backing it with actions.
re: #139 Kilroy was here
I really hate this guy
McConnell: Trump ‘on to something’ with attacks on four congresswomen
“Yeah, he’s doing it right. We oppose their proposals, so the best way to attack them is to be blatantly racist.”
I know where he wants to go with this - just calling them communists is not racist - but Trump is calling them communist because he’s racist.
re: #123 Joe Bacon 🌹
I gave up on CNN when their stooge set up Dukakis in the 1988 debate.
It was a difficult question, but if Dukakis has been faster on his feet he could have answered it. Mario Cuomo had no trouble answering the exact same question when local papers asked him the next morning.
For those too young to remember:
The question was “you say you’re against the death penalty, but what if it was for someone who raped and murdered your wife?” Dukakis sort of stuttered and stammered, and in the end had nothing useful to bring to the topic.
Cuomo’s answer was “the guys who mugged my mother and put her in the hospital, if you’d put me in a room alone with them I’d have dismembered them myself. But the dispassionate, considered decision of a court of law has to be more civilized than the visceral reaction of an angry son.”
re: #142 Belafon
“Yeah, he’s doing it right. We oppose their proposals, so the best way to attack them is to be blatantly racist.”
I know where he wants to go with this - just calling them communists is not racist - but Trump is calling them communist because he’s racist.
Asking them to “go back where they came from” is racist in that it implies that non-whites do not belong in America at all, much less in Congress
re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, he sent up a trial balloon and it came back with an overall positive result, it means he can step up his rhetoric and even start backing it with actions.
A GOP analyst on NPR today said the same thing, admiringly. Steve Inskeep pointed out that it was based on a lie, and the response was basically, but it is working! Hooray!
Thread (and also why anyone in a district with a pants-pooping so-called “moderate” Dem needs to call them until their office phones melt down):
People who say “Don’t impeach because it won’t work” blow my mind. The government is shut down by a nuke-bearing sociopath who serves hostile states with a cabal of criminals whose policies include locking up kids in Texas border camps where they die.
How’s that working out?— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 5, 2019
Will the Senate impeach Trump? Not likely. If Congress did impeach Trump, would he leave office? Nope!
Is starting impeachment the right move? YES. It forces hearings, which in turn changes expectations of accountability. It helps gives the public the information they deserve.— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 5, 2019
How many whites could we deport “back” to Europe for criticizing Obama?
Interesting how the lawyers for Epstein keep having to come up with explanations for things, instead of simply saying what the passport was in the first place. And the next obvious question is *who* gave him the passport and/or modified it to have Epstein’s photo on it. (Since I am pretty sure that non-governmental modification of a passport is criminal.)
So the lawyers are now in the stage of claiming incompetence in order to avoid admitting criminality.
re: #146 Interesting Times
Will the Senate impeach Trump? Not likely. If Congress did impeach Trump, would he leave office? Nope!
I’m assuming she means convicted in both cases, because the Senate doesn’t impeach (I hope Sarah knows that because, if she doesnt, that makes the rest of her argument weak.) But, if he is convicted, it doesn’t matter if he wants to leave, he can be dragged out with handcuffs.
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re: #148 Feline Fearless Leader
Interesting how the lawyers for Epstein keep having to come up with explanations for things, instead of simply saying what the passport was in the first place. And the next obvious question is *who* gave him the passport and/or modified it to have Epstein’s photo on it. (Since I am pretty sure that non-governmental modification of a passport is criminal.)
So the lawyers are now in the stage of claiming incompetence in order to avoid admitting criminality.
LOL
On the Susan Collins front:
In previous elections, Collins received 30-40% of her funding from Maine donors. She had a strong base of support in the southern, more progressive region of the state. That support is gone. In the first quarter of fundraising this year, 1% of her donors were from Maine. In the second quarter, it was 3%.
re: #148 Feline Fearless Leader
Well, Epstein’s exposure to having false documents (a crime) is evident. And they’re still obfuscating on whether he’s a citizen of another country.
All of this is entirely besides the point. That we’re even having the discussion shows that he’s a flight risk and should not be granted bail.
re: #149 Belafon
I’m assuming she means convicted in both cases, because the Senate doesn’t impeach (I hope Sarah knows that because that makes the rest of her argument weak.) But, if he is convicted, it doesn’t matter if he wants to leave, he can be dragged out with handcuffs.
Of course she knows (and one verbal slip certainly doesn’t invalidate the principle of her argument - that, at a bare minimum, impeachment hearings are needed). And Katie Porter, a moderate Dem who got elected in a GOPer district, shows what needs to be done:
Here’s a link to the FAQ I provided when I first announced my support for initiating an impeachment inquiry, if you have additional questions about this process. https://t.co/OD9aFgtDZd
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) July 17, 2019
(and initiating a hearing as opposed to yesterday’s failed vote would’ve been far more effective politically, though of course I have the horrible feeling too many bluedog dems are looking for excuses to skip even that step)
re: #19 Interesting Times
*insert endless scream*
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most chilling moment in a pretty low-key Hitler speech to a Union organization: a brief pause taken so that someone can shout out, “Die Juden!” Yeah, we’ve been here before.
Swamp the drain:
Extraordinary memo from Wachtell tonight conceding that white collar enforcement in Trump era is way down pic.twitter.com/2ljocRQOlr
— Sujeet Indap (@sindap) July 18, 2019
For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance https://t.co/uvVWgrQ7o8
— Erica Jong (@EricaJong) July 18, 2019
I want to scream.
Looks like Pharma-Bro Martin Shkreli isn’t goin’ anywhere for the time being:
BREAKING: The Second Circuit AFFIRMED Martin Shkreli’s convictions by summary order.
Read my colleague @JRuss_JRuss’s previous coverage of Team Shkreli’s legal arguments rejected by the appellate court today: https://t.co/xBBKZWyLON pic.twitter.com/OCjNXTXp4D— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 18, 2019
good fucking grief
….of which was squandered away or wasted, never to be seen again. This is more than twice the amount given to Texas & Florida combined. I know the people of Puerto Rico well, and they are great. But much of their leadership is corrupt, & robbing the U.S. Government blind!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2019
….of gang members, in particular MS-13. ICE and Border Patrol are doing a great job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2019
re: #153 Interesting Times
Of course she knows (and one verbal slip certainly doesn’t invalidate the principle of her argument - that, at a bare minimum, impeachment hearings are needed). And Katie Porter, a moderate Dem who got elected in a GOPer district, shows what needs to be done:
(and initiating a hearing as opposed to yesterday’s failed vote would’ve been far more effective politically, though of course I have the horrible feeling too many bluedog dems are looking for excuses to skip even that step)
Adam Silverman, who totally hated yesterdays vote because it gives Trump the “impeachment failed” he’s been looking for, suggested that the hearings that are currently going on need to all be coordinated under a select committee. This would make them more visible, and provide a single source of information.
re: #156 Citizen K
I want to scream.
“For Whites Sensing Decline Who Are Idiots, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance”
Fixed, and it fits even better. “Why can’t my whiteness overcome my mediocrity?”
Trump is now and has always been a racist and misogynist.
This isn’t a coping technique. It’s who he has always been.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 18, 2019
re: #156 Citizen K
I want to scream.
They’re hoping you will scream, give up, and hide, because that’s the only way in the long run they have to win.
Doc:
The day after the Access Hollywood video dropped, Cohen received a call from Hope Hicks, the first such call in weeks. Trump joined into it. Hicks and Cohen spoke privately after; immediately after that call, Cohen called Pecker. pic.twitter.com/tPNfuq1Qlu— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 18, 2019
- criticizing the present government and its policies (hence, ‘the country), is not ‘hating america’. even if you do it loudly, or in protests, or marches, or whatever.
- isnt “Make America Great Again” a dig at America? a (gasp) critique?
- clearly it implies the country is not great right now, doesnt it?
do the president* and his 40% hate america?
re: #152 lawhawk
Well, Epstein’s exposure to having false documents (a crime) is evident. And they’re still obfuscating on whether he’s a citizen of another country.
He should go back where he came from!!!
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He should go back where he came from!!!
And take all y’all with him.
—Wovoka
Jeffrey Epstein hearing has started.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) July 18, 2019
And without further ado:
Bail denied.
Breaking on @MSNBC: Jeffrey Epstein has been denied bail. Epstein will stay in prison.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 18, 2019
Epstein has been denied bail.
re: #161 lawhawk
Thank you. Can we stop pretending that racism is a mental disease? It’s not. Trump has been racist since the 1970s when he refused to rent to Blacks.
re: #168 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Epstein has been denied bail.
some positive news, I was really expecting him to be let out
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
some positive news, I was really expecting him to be let out
Me too. I suspect the Passport shenanigans are what did him in though.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
some positive news, I was really expecting him to be let out
Next question: Is Trump stupid enough to go ahead and have Barr intervene?
re: #139 Kilroy was here
Trump never told Secretary Clinton to go back to where she came from. Nor has he told any other White opponent or Democrat to go back to his/her country. The only people he is telling to go back to their country are four women of color including an African American who probably can trace her ancestry in this country further back than he can.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
some positive news, I was really expecting him to be let out
Between the fake passport, availability of aircraft and probably undisclosed funds, there was no way this Judge was going to risk letting him out.
re: #173 Patricia Kayden
and that in and of itself is not enough to get people to recognize true racism
re: #174 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Between the fake passport, availability of aircraft and probably undisclosed funds, there was no way this Judge was going to risk letting him out.
undisclosed funds and sources of assistance
re: #173 Patricia Kayden
Trump never told Secretary Clinton to go back to where she came from. Nor has he told any other White opponent or Democrat to go back to his/her country. The only people he is telling to go back to their country are four women of color including an African American who probably can trace her ancestry in this country further back than he can.
truth upon truth upon truth ad infinito
and none of the 40% would be persuaded by any of it
re: #174 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Between the fake passport, availability of aircraft and probably undisclosed funds, there was no way this Judge was going to risk letting him out.
Exactly; he’d hope on a private aircraft with some other passport and up and disappear. Granted, there’d be an Interpol Red Notice on his ass super fast, but he’d have a solid head start.
re: #174 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Between the fake passport, availability of aircraft and probably undisclosed funds, there was no way this Judge was going to risk letting him out.
The judge indicated that the charges themselves warranted remanding to custody until trial. The additional factors of the passport (not known if fake or not), wealth, cash, funds, and flight risk, all weighed to keep him in custody.
re: #178 Dr Lizardo
Exactly; he’d hope on a private aircraft with some other passport and up and disappear. Granted, there’d be an Interpol Red Notice on his ass super fast, but he’d have a solid head start.
and he would go find a country without an extradition treaty with the US
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that has been well known, but they have their champion and are no longer even making a show of decorum
I could have told you that back in 1968 when Wallace got a significant chunk of votes in my home town.
re: #181 Joe Bacon 🌹
I could have told you that back in 1968 when Wallace got a significant chunk of votes in my home town.
They were like that in my neighborhood as well as far back as I can remember.
re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and he would go find a country without an extradition treaty with the US
If he could request asylum in Israel, it would be an ungodly mess.
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Asking them to “go back where they came from” is racist in that it implies that non-whites do not belong in America at all, much less in Congress
With that wording, as far as history is concerned, only brown and red skin should be able to stay. Native Americans (which I include Central America as Natives) were here long before the white people IMMIGRATED here.
re: #184 Eventual Carrion
With that wording, as far as history is concerned, only brown and red skin should be able to stay. Native Americans (which I include Central America as Natives) were here long before the white people IMMIGRATED here.
but even those people would be banished to reservations
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
but even those people would be banished to reservations
All us white people would have to leave as well.
And imagine what Europe would do with all of us white Americans. Think of all the screaming about concentration camps.
re: #183 Decatur Deb
If he could request asylum in Israel, it would be an ungodly mess.
Meyer Lansky was denied Israeli citizenship. My guess is that even Netanyahu would evict Epstein.
re: #186 Belafon
All us white people would have to leave as well.
you are applying logic and not bigotry to this:
blacks back to Africa
native Americans off to reservations
white Europeans get to stay
re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter
Meyer Lansky was denied Israeli citizenship. My guess is that even Netanyahu would evict Epstein.
Unless Epstein has the goods on him or one of his family…
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you are applying logic and not bigotry to this:
blacks back to Africa
native Americans off to reservations
white Europeans get to stay
I agree, but Eventual Carrion is talking about a proper interpretation of history.
re: #184 Eventual Carrion
With that wording, as far as history is concerned, only brown and red skin should be able to stay. Native Americans (which I include Central America as Natives) were here long before the white people IMMIGRATED here.
“If your not Caddo you must go!
re: #183 Decatur Deb
If he could request asylum in Israel, it would be an ungodly mess.
Or a very godly mess. Could be either, or both.
re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter
Meyer Lansky was denied Israeli citizenship. My guess is that even Netanyahu would evict Epstein.
Politics of the moment. He seems to have a better claim than the convert kid from Maryland who negotiated his murder sentence while I was there in 1998.
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you are applying logic and not bigotry to this:
blacks back to Africa
native Americans off to reservations
white Europeans get to stay
we might do well to focus on things other than the logical stupidity and hypocrisy
- enough people know about it
- it wont change one mind (imo)
as has been said time and again - you can’t fight faith-like fanaticism with reason
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you are applying logic and not bigotry to this:
blacks back to Africa
native Americans off to reservations
white Europeans get to stay
Because it’s their God-given destiny.
The others, they’re either godless heathens or Biblically cursed, so it’s A-OK to view and treat them as inhuman.
People who think like this aren’t Christians at all.
re: #178 Dr Lizardo
Exactly; he’d hope on a private aircraft with some other passport and up and disappear. Granted, there’d be an Interpol Red Notice on his ass super fast, but he’d have a solid head start.
Let’s see… white, straight, rich. Brazil with it’s lack of extradition would be happy to let him in.
re: #197 TedStriker
Because it’s their God-given destiny.
“We’re just here to spread the gospel. Got any of this yellow stuff?”
re: #191 Belafon
I agree, but Eventual Carrion is talking about a proper interpretation of history.
that exists on this site but not out there in the New Media Reality
re: #199 DangerMan
next question is what kind of accommodations?
any special treatment this time?
Pity they don’t keep federal prisoners on Rikers Island… ;)
re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that exists on this site but not out there in the New Media Reality
Everything’s gotta start somewhere.
I don’t know whether to scream or cry. Probably both. This must not be the future of America. It’s bad enough it’s the present. https://t.co/Kppp4jTPW3
— Rep. John Yarmuth (@RepJohnYarmuth) July 18, 2019
re: #199 DangerMan
next question is what kind of accommodations?
any special treatment this time?
I vote for GenPop. Who’s with me?
re: #205 makeitstop
I vote for GenPop. Who’s with me?
Works for me. Especially after all the crap Manafort pulled while he was in “solitary confinement”.
re: #173 Patricia Kayden
Trump never told Secretary Clinton to go back to where she came from. Nor has he told any other White opponent or Democrat to go back to his/her country. The only people he is telling to go back to their country are four women of color including an African American who probably can trace her ancestry in this country further back than he can.
And the one of the four who actually is an immigrant… has been here longer than Melania.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
just to see how mainstreamed these once-extremist views have become
It was just as bad in the run up to the Iraq invasion. Non stop media promotion being called a traitor if you questioned Bush. This is standard fascist playbook. Plus Bush like drumpf is (was) an illegitimate president
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
The chanting is because they know they’re losing.
re: #209 Belafon
The chanting is because they know they’re losing.
it reminds us what ugly losers they are going to be…
re: #209 Belafon
The chanting is because they know they’re losing.
May well be but this can’t go on. We can’t have one part of the country accept the present and the other like this and function.
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
it reminds us what ugly losers they are going to be…
Going to be?
Finally, we know who Individual-1 is. pic.twitter.com/N8cepqSGC7
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 18, 2019
In a warrant application, the FBI described an urgent effort by Cohen, Trump, Hicks and the head of the National Enquirer to keep @StormyDaniels quiet after the Access Hollywood outtakes became public. pic.twitter.com/3RvVqctUFZ
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 18, 2019
Amazing what FBI agents get trained on. pic.twitter.com/SOa8bseebU
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 18, 2019
President Trump had previously said he didn’t know about the payments to @StormyDaniels. The warrant applications unsealed today, which include records of his phone calls and text messages by his aides, show pretty clearly that he was lying.
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 18, 2019
womp womp
re: #199 DangerMan
next question is what kind of accommodations?
any special treatment this time?
I’m assuming it will be either MDC Brooklyn or the MCC in Manhattan (space permitting). He’ll probably be in protective custody due to the crimes involved, being a high profile inmate, and concerns for his safety.
The chants of “Lock Her Up,” “Lock Him up”, “Go Back..” are all the eliminationist ethic applied to our politics. It’s not the first time, but it is perhaps the first time it has arisen while we were so evenly divided. Even when Trump is noting more than a punchline, we will be dealing with this.
re: #211 HappyWarrior
May well be but this can’t go on. We can’t have one part of the country accept the present and the other like this and function.
Correct. We are going to have to keep defeating them often enough that it no longer becomes worth it for them to act this way. Which means it won’t be easy.
re: #217 Belafon
Correct. We are going to have to keep defeating them often enough that it no longer becomes worth it for them to act this way. Which means it won’t be easy.
sounds like 1863 all over again
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
it reminds us what ugly losers they are going to be…
We’ll never hear the end of it, I can assure you of that. Endless repetition of insane conspiracy theories that Trump/GOP actually won, but the DEEP STATE!! denied them victory.
One thing though, as bad as the jingoism was in the lead up to Iraq, I don’t remember Bush ever suggesting that critics of that should be deported. It doesn’t change that it was ugly then as was the policy but Trump directly and indirectly makes it clear he thinks his critics should leave.
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
it reminds us what ugly losers they are going to be…
I look forward to finding out for sure.
re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
sounds like 1863 all over again
More like the 1960s I think, which were still trying times. The biggest difference is that whites are about as divided as we can be, and minorities represent a larger share of the population. I’m not declaring it easy, but it’s a battle we can win if we think long term.
re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth
President Trump had previously said he didn’t know about the payments to @StormyDaniels. The warrant applications unsealed today, which include records of his phone calls and text messages by his aides, show pretty clearly that he was lying.
womp womp
this is just confirmation
we all knew this when he said it
we always knew he was individual-1
re: #121 The Pie Overlord!
Here is a thread about why Trumporrhoid Evangelical anti-Semites are so obsessed with calling other people “anti-Semites”
That’s a very good summary, Ms. Babushka (I don’t care what Twitter calls you, unless you prefer Pie Overlord now, then I’ll call you Ms. Overlord because I respect your nouns).
I would add one thing though.
Re-posting this tweet from Rabbi Ruttenberg you put up (thread, twelve tweets):
Thread.
Jews, the Christian Zionist endgame is Armageddon/ bringing the end times, during which they believe we will not be saved. We’re a tool to help them get there. Even if you like their “support for Israel” (I don’t, it’s pro-Occupation), you are cannon fodder to them. 1/x https://t.co/m90tqOaisx— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) December 27, 2018
As far as I’m aware, there is no branch of Judaism which wishes me dead because of my lack of faith in any god. I imagine some Jews might chose not to associate with me, but that’s fine if that’s what they choose to do. No branch of Judaism is trying to take away my rights (or anyone else’s) in the USA as far as I am aware, because of the very long history and experience of Jews having that done to them.
That is not true of Christianity. While individual Christians may call out Evangelicals, no church organisation does. The United Methodists or Episcopalians or Roman Catholics or whatnot as organisations all remain silent on hate preachers who would take other people’s rights or exploit Jews or others for their theological claims.
There are plenty of mainstream Christians who would call me an anti-Semite if I voiced the opinion “I don’t support some people in the Israeli government” (which they would equate with “I hate Jews”).
Muslims in this country for the overwhelming majority also wouldn’t have an issue with me. There are countries where I would be arrested (and in Saudi Arabia, considered a terrorist worthy of the death penalty re: their new anti-terrorism law).
As someone else noted, “how dare you cherry-pick Bible verses to counter my cherry-picked Bible verses.” There are far too many Bible verses which say what should be done about people like me.
I haven’t met many Jews in person outside the military, but I don’t recall any of them coming to my house on Friday before Shabbat pounding on my door asking me to convert, or threatening me with eternal hell if I don’t (regardless of how “hell” is defined).
re: #220 Decatur Deb
Hope so. Right now they are ugly winners.
They’d be losers no matter what. I didn’t mean politics wise. I mean colloquially. Anyone who thinks Trump is how a person should act is a loser.
re: #223 Belafon
More like the 1960s I think, which were still trying times. The biggest difference is that whites are about as divided as we can be, and minorities represent a larger share of the population. I’m not declaring it easy, but it’s a battle we can win if we think long term.
I think he was getting at that I was riffing on the House Divided itself kind used by Abe in 1858 against Stephen Douglas.
re: #214 lawhawk
I’m assuming it will be either MDC Brooklyn or the MCC in Manhattan (space permitting). He’ll probably be in protective custody due to the crimes involved, being a high profile inmate, and concerns for his safety.
Fuck his safety ( I know, I know).
re: #199 DangerMan
next question is what kind of accommodations?
any special treatment this time?
I assume he’d need protective custody. Kid-fuckers are really unpopular in prison.
re: #228 Eventual Carrion
Fuck his safety ( I know, I know).
We should coddle him like a baby—one of the ones on the border.
re: #225 Anymouse 🌹
Jews, the Christian Zionist endgame is Armageddon/ bringing the end times, during which they believe we will not be saved. We’re a tool to help them get there. Even if you like their “support for Israel” (I don’t, it’s pro-Occupation), you are cannon fodder to them. 1/x .
This is a nuance that is lost on a lot of Americans.
These people really don’t give a f*ck about Jews or Judaism, they just need a resurgent Israel to kick-start the Apocalypse.
re: #227 HappyWarrior
I think he was getting at that I was riffing on the House Divided itself kind used by Abe in 1858 against Stephen Douglas.
Along those lines, I was thinking that the only thing missing from the House when the Democrats condemned Trump’s racism was canes for them to beat each other with.
NEW: Sources familiar with the probe tell @ABC News Hope Hicks will NOT be charged, nor will anyone else as it relates to the investigation in the Southern District of New York https://t.co/pbwH4XeBes
— John Santucci (@Santucci) July 18, 2019
re: #221 HappyWarrior
One thing though, as bad as the jingoism was in the lead up to Iraq, I don’t remember Bush ever suggesting that critics of that should be deported. It doesn’t change that it was ugly then as was the policy but Trump directly and indirectly makes it clear he thinks his critics should leave.
Well, there was ‘You’re either with us or against us.’
I kinda took that personally.
re: #232 Belafon
Along those lines, I was thinking that the only thing missing from the House when the Democrats condemned Trump’s racism was canes for them to beat each other with.
This is where I blame a lot of the right including Trumps right wing critics. They encouraged their base and readers to reject modernity whether that is immigrants, lgbt equality, or the black president.
re: #234 makeitstop
Well, there was ‘You’re either with us or against us.’
I kinda took that personally.
I did too. You’re right. We didn’t get here without help.
This video raises the question of whether @realDonaldTrump even knows where #Myanmar is? When told about the #Rohingya, replies “where is that?” Umm, you know those people who faced crimes against humanity? Guess that was in the briefing book you didn’t bother to read, Donald. pic.twitter.com/dKPKxglCUM
— Phil Robertson (@Reaproy) July 18, 2019
re: #234 makeitstop
Well, there was ‘You’re either with us or against us.’
I kinda took that personally.
He did not threaten deportation
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
This video raises the question of whether Donald Trump even knows where Myanmar is? When told about the Rohingya, replies “where is that?” Umm, you know those people who faced crimes against humanity? Guess that was in the briefing book you didn’t bother to read, Donald.
Rohynga? Isn’t that what Epstein used to slip into those girls’ drinks?
re: #229 sagehen
I assume he’d need protective custody. Kid-fuckers are really unpopular in prison.
I was pleasantly surprised Epstein was denied bail. I fully expected him to be conditionally released, like Roger Stone.
re: #143 sagehen
It was a difficult question, but if Dukakis has been faster on his feet he could have answered it. Mario Cuomo had no trouble answering the exact same question when local papers asked him the next morning.
For those too young to remember:
The question was “you say you’re against the death penalty, but what if it was for someone who raped and murdered your wife?” Dukakis sort of stuttered and stammered, and in the end had nothing useful to bring to the topic.
Cuomo’s answer was “the guys who mugged my mother and put her in the hospital, if you’d put me in a room alone with them I’d have dismembered them myself. But the dispassionate, considered decision of a court of law has to be more civilized than the visceral reaction of an angry son.”
I would immediately answer the same way. Opposition to the state killing people can’t be just for people I think “need killin’”—because everyone has a different opinion of who “needs killin’.”
My wife was pro-death penalty before she met me; she’s come round to my position on the death penalty not being appropriate (nor fiscally conservative, nor sparing innocent people occasionally caught up in it). I’ve had discussions with her about if something like that was to happen to me: If she was to give some sort of victim impact statement to a court, she would state my opposition to the death penalty and why she wouldn’t want vengeance with someone else’s death.
That’s not the case if I come across someone attempting to kill her or any other person; I will use any means necessary to come to the defence of another.
re: #225 Anymouse 🌹
I haven’t met many Jews in person outside the military, but I don’t recall any of them coming to my house on Friday before Shabbat pounding on my door asking me to convert, or threatening me with eternal hell if I don’t (regardless of how “hell” is defined).
Pretty sure the last ones you met bought you dinner and enjoyed a pleasant evening of conversation… :)
(And would do it again next time your travels bring you this way.)
If we put enough billionaires behind bars, we should at least get a push for prison reform.
re: #246 Decatur Deb
If we put enough billionaires behind bars, we should at least get a push for prison reform.
A lot of them deserve to be there.
Piers Morgan says Trump rally ‘bordered on fascism’
thehill.com
I don’t know how to feel about this.
I mean… I agree with Piers Morgan.
I think I need to take a break and reevaluate my life.
re: #225 Anymouse 🌹
I haven’t met many Jews in person outside the military, but I don’t recall any of them coming to my house on Friday before Shabbat pounding on my door asking me to convert, or threatening me with eternal hell if I don’t (regardless of how “hell” is defined).
Not only do we not recruit, we make conversion really difficult even for people who of their own free will want it more than anything.
There’s years of study, then you have to pass examination by a panel of rabbis (almost like a thesis defense), then there’s a bunch of rituals, and for men there’s painful physical procedures. Maybe you need surgery, or if you were already circumcised for non-religious reasons they’ll do a symbolic “circumcision” that requires sticking pins in your dick until you bleed.
Would-be converts have to prove they really, really mean it.
People who want to fake-convert to Christianity find it simple — say the magic words, they sprinkle water on your forehead, and it’s done.
re: #243 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I was pleasantly surprised Epstein was denied bail. I fully expected him to be conditionally released, like Roger Stone.
18 USC 3142 governs bail, and the rules relating to bail and pretrial detention allow for someone who isn’t accused of a violent crime to post bail.
re: #248 Kilroy was here
Piers Morgan says Trump rally ‘bordered on fascism’
thehill.comI don’t know how to feel about this.
I mean… I agree with Piers Morgan.
I think I need to take a break and reevaluate my life.
When the fascism is so blatant even Piers Morgan can see it.
re: #156 Citizen K
I want to scream.
Paper which never apologised for endorsing Hitler still stoking racism, just as they did in the Civil Rights Era.
re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He did not threaten deportation
Yeah, he cleared that low bar, at least.
womp, womp
The Palm Beach County GOP disinvited Anthony Scaramucci from addressing its annual fundraising event after the short-lived White House communications director criticized President Trump’s “racially charged” tweets …
“He suggested the president’s comments were racist and that he was becoming a racist. Our board was infuriated,” said Michael A. Barnett, the Republican Party chairman in the county, home to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago getaway. Source: Politico
Congratulations. I know that was hard. I also know you’re probably moving to being an Independent, but I’d like you to know you’d be welcome in the Democratic Party should you choose to join us.
— Malcolm P. Johnson (@admiralmpj) July 18, 2019
just say it’s wrong!! the bar for decency is two inches off the ground and these creeps can’t clear it https://t.co/8VSVguSv7p
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 18, 2019
re: #255 lawhawk
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re: #91 DangerMan
These GOP women see nothing wrong with Trump’s comments
- of course they dont. look at them (yes, im saying it)
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CNN uses the same damn women over and over again, like they represent all voters. Wonkette posted a tweet a couple of days ago showing that woman (in the upper right corner - with the bad hair and no forehead) in four of their panels. Four. Panels. Same. Woman.
Yeah, lots of trump supporters.
Embattled Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter was issued a cease-and-desist letter from the Marine Corps for using its official emblem and slogan in a campaign mailer that targeted three Muslim officials. https://t.co/IxLY5b4oeS
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) July 18, 2019
re: #248 Kilroy was here
Piers Morgan says Trump rally ‘bordered on fascism’
thehill.comI don’t know how to feel about this.
I mean… I agree with Piers Morgan.
I think I need to take a break and reevaluate my life.
“But to actually watch and hear a large gathering of thousands of predominantly white Americans chanting such a blatant infamous racist trope about a democratically elected fellow American made me shudder. Then it made me angry,” Morgan said. “This should not be happening in modern America.”
I agree with him. But, frankly he has no.f’ing.right. to feel anything but guilt.
just sayin
re: #254 Teddy’s Person
“He suggested the president’s comments were racist and that he was becoming a racist. Our board was infuriated,”
“We know he’s a racist. There’s no implication.”
Even if he said “n*****” the press would say it isn’t racism. It’s that bad.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 18, 2019
re: #256 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“The president didn’t join in,” Kevin McCarthy said when asked if Trump should have stopped the “send her back” chants targeting Ilhan Omar last night.
“he may have incited the riot but didnt throw any rocks”
they are taking pretzel logic to a place steely dan never imagined
He went silent for more than 13 seconds to let the chants proceed, then kept attacking Omar without rejecting the chants in any way. https://t.co/VLnXWTr6tQ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2019
Lara Trump did a warm up act to cue the crowd for this chant. It was planned.
“Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of the president addressed the crowd before Trump spoke, saying: “If you don’t love our country — the president said it…”
“Leave!” the crowd replied. https://t.co/SX0PO4Dq2Q— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) July 18, 2019
Berman cites danger to others and to the community.
That fills more than 10 pages of the decision and order, and it is the “heart” of the decision, Berman says.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 18, 2019
Berman cites testimony of Annie Farmer and Courtney Wild in supporting his ruling.
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 18, 2019
Berman estimates the written ruling will be between 30 and 34 pages long.
Schedules a conference for Wednesday, July 31 at 11 a.m.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 18, 2019
re: #256 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“The president didn’t join in,” Kevin McCarthy said when asked if Trump should have stopped the “send her back” chants targeting Ilhan Omar last night.
The President is a sophisticated New Yorker, resident of the most diverse city in America. He is obviously held captive to the passions of a few audience members with understandable grievances.
re: #256 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Christ, there is nothing a Trump follower wouldn’t do if Trump told them to. How hard would it be for him to have done something similar to McCain when that racist old lady was calling Obama a terrorist?
And when Trump is telling them to leave, and basically letting the “send her back” chants breathe, he’s implicitly joining in.
re: #266 The Pie Overlord!
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Someone active on Twitter should tweet the video of John McCain pushing back against the woman claiming Obama was something (don’t quite rememeber exactly what racist talking point she threw out). Not that it was in any way effective, but it’s John McCain. We all know how Trump feels about the late Senator McCain.
How Minneapolis’ Somali community became the terrorist recruitment capital of America https://t.co/gw5YcyqwHB
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 18, 2019
These thugs are really trying to start a pogrom.
re: #217 Belafon
Correct. We are going to have to keep defeating them often enough that it no longer becomes worth it for them to act this way. Which means it won’t be easy.
As I’ve noted before, liberals need to train each generation on two things:
a) Why every election matters, and
2) The dangers of of the religion of conservatism are always only one election away.
re: #271 Teddy’s Person
Someone active on Twitter should tweet the video of John McCain pushing back against the woman claiming Obama was something (don’t quite rememeber exactly what racist talking point she threw out). Not that it was in any way effective, but it’s John McCain. We all know how Trump feels about the late Senator McCain.
apples and cabbages…
McCain didn’t instigate that woman’s comment, but the moron-in-chief sure as hell did at the rally by lying about Omar and the others.
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
apples and cabbages…
McCain didn’t instigate that woman’s comment, but the moron-in-chief sure as hell did at the rally by lying about Omar and the others.
Good point. He had Palin for that shit.
Meghan McCain is upset with Donald Trump because his ability to always play the victim is hurting her ability to always play the victim. Got it. https://t.co/ow0kp7FESu
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) July 18, 2019
re: #271 Teddy’s Person
Someone active on Twitter should tweet the video of John McCain pushing back against the woman claiming Obama was something (don’t quite rememeber exactly what racist talking point she threw out). Not that it was in any way effective, but it’s John McCain. We all know how Trump feels about the late Senator McCain.
Here is what John McCain said at his rally when people made false & derogatory claims about Obama #TheResistance #Resist #TrumpisaRacist https://t.co/MS9jE4WRnw
— Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) July 18, 2019
re: #272 DodgerFan1988
Because it was represented by Keith Ellison before Omar, I often hear people make incorrect inferences about the demographics of MN-5 which is a majority white district. pic.twitter.com/QCwYHxhc5p
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 18, 2019
re: #249 sagehen
Not only do we not recruit, we make conversion really difficult even for people who of their own free will want it more than anything.
There’s years of study, then you have to pass examination by a panel of rabbis (almost like a thesis defense), then there’s a bunch of rituals, and for men there’s painful physical procedures. Maybe you need surgery, or if you were already circumcised for non-religious reasons they’ll do a symbolic “circumcision” that requires sticking pins in your dick until you bleed.
Would-be converts have to prove they really, really mean it.
People who want to fake-convert to Christianity find it simple — say the magic words, they sprinkle water on your forehead, and it’s done.
Christianity lost much when it took Paul’s path instead of that of James, brother of Jesus.
re: #271 Teddy’s Person
Someone active on Twitter should tweet the video of John McCain pushing back against the woman claiming Obama was something (don’t quite rememeber exactly what racist talking point she threw out). Not that it was in any way effective, but it’s John McCain. We all know how Trump feels about the late Senator McCain.
That was one of the things that really set off the landslide of deplorability…they know that they can get away with anything as long as they are pissing off liberals or insulting dark-skinned people.
re: #234 makeitstop
Well, there was ‘You’re either with us or against us.’
I kinda took that personally.
Yup, me too. That’s a dog whistle for “you’re a traitor to your country.”
re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He did not threaten deportation
He implied treason or disloyalty. That is what Trump is implying about the Democratic congresswomen.
re: #263 Teddy’s Person
Ah yes, Lisa S Marie misses the quiet racism of Ronald Reagan.
Lot’s of people still believe the fantasy that Reagan was a “good” person and refuse to see the hate, racism and sheer murder (especially in central America) behind the “aw shucks” facade.
I’d like to believe in hell just to keep imagining him, Franco, Pinochet, and Thatcher as roommates for eternity ala Sartre’s “No Exit.”
re: #283 Anymouse 🌹
He implied treason or disloyalty. That is what Trump is implying about the Democratic congresswomen.
With a side order of incest.
The best part of the day is going to be the credulous stories quoting anonymous WH aides who tell us “Actually, Trump *wanted* to have a news cycle about the “send her back” chants. All part of the master plan.”
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 18, 2019
re: #9 I Would Prefer Not To
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re: #245 i(m)p(each)sos
Pretty sure the last ones you met bought you dinner and enjoyed a pleasant evening of conversation… :)
(And would do it again next time your travels bring you this way.)
Thanks. That was very kind.
re: #272 DodgerFan1988
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These thugs are really trying to start a pogrom.
that would give him a chance to declare martial law and make himself a national hero and healer
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“The Nike commercial featuring former San Francisco @49ers quarterback @Kaepernick7 that prompted outrage among conservatives including with @realDonaldTrump upon its release last year, has scored an Emmy nomination.” https://t.co/YvarxpTGVW
— The Black Caucus (@TheBlackCaucus) July 18, 2019
re: #254 Teddy’s Person
So the Palm Beach County GOP are racists, and they throw away the invitation for the apostate to come speak. Got it.
re: #290 Eclectic Cyborg
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re: #292 Anymouse 🌹
So the Palm Beach County GOP are racists, and they throw away the invitation for the apostate to come speak. Got it.
They have to circle their wagons and wait for this to blow over
re: #293 William Lewis
re: #293 William Lewis
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re: #118 Barefoot Grin
Adam Klasfeld has been. I think it starts at 11:30AM.
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I have Adam Klasfeld’s thread open. (Thanks for the tip!)
Very interesting.
re: #294 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They have to circle their wagons and wait for this to blow over
With the billionaire invasion of Palm Beach, the ordinary millionaires probably feel the pressures of gentrification.
re: #255 lawhawk
It’s too bad Sen. Tim Scott didn’t walk out with her. He knows good and well the history of that “go back to your country” statement.
The power of presidency in action. https://t.co/yfGYbPaS2T
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) July 18, 2019
re: #256 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Kevin McCarthy in that tweet: “You want to try to hold him accountable for something in a big audience?” he continued. “I think that’s an unfair position”
Well if he can’t control a political rally of a few hundred, he certainly is not qualified to run a country of 320,000,000 people, all of whom he’s supposed to represent.
re: #284 William Lewis
Lot’s of people still believe the fantasy that Reagan was a “good” person and refuse to see the hate, racism and sheer murder (especially in central America) behind the “aw shucks” facade.
I’d like to believe in hell just to keep imagining him, Franco, Pinochet, and Thatcher as roommates for eternity ala Sartre’s “No Exit.”
Let’s remember how Gary Webb exposed Oliver North’s Contra Cocaine flowing into South Central and that led to Gary Webb’s suicide…
re: #288 Anymouse 🌹
Thanks. That was very kind.
It was well worth it to meet you and your wife and to hear all your stories about life in Mythical Mountain Time.
(And to confirm that you’re real!)
The invitation is open to any Lizards who are traveling through western NY - I’m an hour and a half east of Niagara Falls and just off the Thruway. Stop by for a meal or a cup of coffee!
re: #284 William Lewis
Lots of White people. I don’t know if Black people were obtuse to Reagan’s racism. When he died, I don’t recall seeing many Blacks lining up to view his body in the capitol despite D.C. having a substantial Black population.
re: #37 gocart mozart
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re: #270 Mike Lamb
Christ, there is nothing a Trump follower wouldn’t do if Trump told them to. How hard would it be for him to have done something similar to McCain when that racist old lady was calling Obama a terrorist?
And when Trump is telling them to leave, and basically letting the “send her back” chants breathe, he’s implicitly joining in.
I didn’t pull the cats tail
I just held the tail, the cat ran away!
re: #41 teleskiguy
This FaceApp thing has me all confused/jaded. I mean, you gotta be pretty vain to want to know what you look like decades from now RIGHT NOW. And yet here we are, and the Russians have 150 million pictures of faces that they can do whatever they want with. 150 million people.
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re: #277 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Meghan McCain is morphing into the piece of shit she married.
Right now, this is the Fox News front page, in case anyone was wondering whether they were going to condemn last night. pic.twitter.com/8KOBar8NHk
— books i like books. (@booksilikebooks) July 18, 2019
re: #284 William Lewis
Lot’s of people still believe the fantasy that Reagan was a “good” person and refuse to see the hate, racism and sheer murder (especially in central America) behind the “aw shucks” facade.
I’d like to believe in hell just to keep imagining him, Franco, Pinochet, and Thatcher as roommates for eternity ala Sartre’s “No Exit.”
You’ll have to settle for the Fletcher Memorial Home.
Lawsuits against Trumpworld are getting dismissed along party lines. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it is a warning that McConnell packing the courts with right wing extremists will have consequences for decades to come - including what he did to the Supreme Court.
I realized @1100Penn hadn’t been consistent in that area either. So I reviewed the cases and investigations sections and made sure all judges were mentioned by name and the president who nominated them was ID’d.https://t.co/egEtXfdZmf
— Zach Everson (@Z_Everson) July 18, 2019
re: #249 sagehen
[clip] Maybe you need surgery, or if you were already circumcised for non-religious reasons they’ll do a symbolic “circumcision” that requires sticking pins in your dick until you bleed.
Would-be converts have to prove they really, really mean it.
I didn’t know about the pins part. That sounds more extreme than anything on FetLife. /s
re: #50 Targetpractice
I’d have to check, but I’m pretty sure Frum was one of the “NeverTrump” chorus line who was declaring last October that Trump basically had the Dems in a bind as the migrant caravan (aka “the invading hordes”) and the optics thereof were so terrible for them that the party would have to either roll over and give him what he wanted or face electoral losses for looking supportive of “open borders.”
He’s now (of course) part of the same chorus of “NeverTrump” fuckwits trying to tell Dem voters that they need to embrace a moderate like Biden over the “radical” progressives like Harris or Warren.
I heard Harris try to explain her Medicare for All position in a CNN interview a few days ago. Not impressed. She couldn’t even make it past the “how are you going to do that without massively increasing taxes?”
re: #292 Anymouse 🌹
So the Palm Beach County GOP are racists, and they throw away the invitation for the apostate to come speak. Got it.
Palm Beach …the county that voted buchanan 2000
re: #301 Anymouse 🌹
Kevin McCarthy in that tweet: “You want to try to hold him accountable for something in a big audience?” he continued. “I think that’s an unfair position”
Well if he can’t control a political rally of a few hundred, he certainly is not qualified to run a country of 320,000,000 people, all of whom he’s supposed to represent.
How many times did we see Obama telling his audience “don’t boo. VOTE!”
re: #284 William Lewis
If there’s a hell, I hope he’s getting extra fire for his treatment of the AIDS crisis.
re: #302 Joe Bacon 🌹
Let’s remember how Gary Webb exposed Oliver North’s Contra Cocaine flowing into South Central and that led to Gary Webb’s suicide…
You mean “suicide” (with finger-quotes).
According to the autopsy, his method of “suicide” was to shoot himself twice in the back of the head.
re: #311 lawhawk
Lawsuits against Trumpworld are getting dismissed along party lines. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it is a warning that McConnell packing the courts with right wing extremists will have consequences for decades to come - including what he did to the Supreme Court.
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No not all. On both sides
re: #304 Patricia Kayden
Lots of White people. I don’t know if Black people were obtuse to Reagan’s racism. When he died, I don’t recall seeing many Blacks lining up to view his body in the capitol despite D.C. having a substantial Black population.
His amnesty for the undocumented probably pleased a lot of Black people. Let’s not forget that included plenty of Dominicans, Panamanians, Haitians, Nigerians…
re: #32 teleskiguy
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If Fuckface Von Clownstick is reelected, construction of the death camps will commence.
Too late; children are already dying in the camps.
re: #271 Teddy’s Person
Someone active on Twitter should tweet the video of John McCain pushing back against the woman claiming Obama was something (don’t quite rememeber exactly what racist talking point she threw out). Not that it was in any way effective, but it’s John McCain. We all know how Trump feels about the late Senator McCain.
She was calling President Obama an Arab.
McCain didn’t let her finish. Instead, he shook his head, took the microphone away from her and did something that would have seemed unimaginable during the most recent presidential election: He politely defended his opponent.
“No, ma’am. He’s a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what this campaign issue is all about,” he said, prompting applause from some other audience members at the gathering in Minnesota.
The short exchange was a shining moment for McCain that gained attention at the time. Instead of indulging in his supporter’s falsehood, he corrected her and showed grace toward his political foe. And it wasn’t an isolated moment.
At the same rally, the crowd earlier had booed McCain’s response to another supporter who said that Obama “cohorts with domestic terrorists” and that Americans would have to fear an Obama presidency. McCain said Obama was a “decent person” and that there would be no reason to be scared if he won the White House.
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re: #234 makeitstop
There was also the campaign against Max Cleveland with explicit references to liberals loving terrorists. In my neighborhood I started seeing Liberal Hunting Permit bumper stickers, and there were GOP operatives and supporters making everyone scared of anyone who gave a shit about not sending people to war on lies. Ralph Reed, Fucking Newt, and a lot of other useful shitheads ruined communities and families. The hate is just more concentrated now, and there is a difference. This Shit Is Evil.
re: #311 lawhawk
Lawsuits against Trumpworld are getting dismissed along party lines. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it is a warning that McConnell packing the courts with right wing extremists will have consequences for decades to come - including what he did to the Supreme Court.
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I’m going to continue to pound on this worn out drum of mine:
Lawsuits aren’t the way to enforce the emoluments clauses (there are legitimate standing issues). There’s a constitutional remedy for the graft it starts with “im” and ends with “peachment”.
re: #313 steve_davis
We MUST massively increase taxes to the same level they were when Ike left office. M4A, infrastructure repair, fixing public education (to include free college for anyone who wants it). While cutting back the defense budget to a sane level (40 ~ 50% of current levels) will help, we need the freeloading rich to either pay their share or leave. I really don’t care which.
Same for Slash’s hat.
— Fred. (@freeloosedirt) July 18, 2019
re: #271 Teddy’s Person
Someone active on Twitter should tweet the video of John McCain pushing back against the woman claiming Obama was something (don’t quite rememeber exactly what racist talking point she threw out). Not that it was in any way effective, but it’s John McCain. We all know how Trump feels about the late Senator McCain.
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Video of the woman and McCain’s response. She also sent gave out claiming former President Obama was an Arab and a Muslim after.
She was interviewed after the late Senator chastened her in public (in the same clip). She also sent four hundred letters saying “all sorts of bad things about him” and after being told “he’s a Christian” she responded “he’s still got Muslim in him.”
re: #321 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Too late; children are already dying in the camps.
Like Dachau, these camps aren’t designed to kill. That’s simply a happy side effect to the Republicans. If he’s re-elected, the real death camps will come.
re: #304 Patricia Kayden
Lots of White people. I don’t know if Black people were obtuse to Reagan’s racism. When he died, I don’t recall seeing many Blacks lining up to view his body in the capitol despite D.C. having a substantial Black population.
I think a lot of white people even opponents saw him as a kindly grandfather type. I don’t agree with that. I see Reagan as a Proto-Trump.
re: #91 DangerMan
These GOP women see nothing wrong with Trump’s comments
- of course they dont. look at them (yes, im saying it)
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I’m trying to figure out which one of them was the one I heard on the radio claiming to be “brown.” The tanning booth “blonde,”
maybe?
re: #101 Joe Bacon 🌹
Didn’t I see those same women on other panels as well?
Naaaaaah, can’t be…
what do you mean? the fact that all of them look like 60 year old women who got dipped in a blonde candy machine?
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can someone explain how some guy throws a bottle of flammable liquid into a building, and the entire thing goes up before apparently anyone is able to get out a fire door? I assume they have building codes in Japan?
re: #330 steve_davis
I’m trying to figure out which one of them was the one I heard on the radio claiming to be “brown.” The tanning booth “blonde,”
maybe?
Back row, second from left.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
some positive news, I was really expecting him to be let out
fortunately a different judge than Roger Stone’s. Otherwise, we’d be getting a line about “what should the court do with you?” after which the answer would apparently be nothing.
re: #206 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Works for me. Especially after all the crap Manafort pulled while he was in “solitary confinement”.
he’d be dead inside a week in gen pop. he won’t be able to pay for protection because all his assets will be frozen on the assumption that there will be civil asset forfeiture through multiple lawsuits.
re: #322 Anymouse 🌹
She was calling President Obama an Arab.
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Thanks for the details!
well, some good news at least. Turns out that Hoopla is slowly getting 3 book boxed sets of Don Pendleton’s Executioner series into the system. Next up, “Sergeant Mercy,” the Executioner, takes out the Parisian mob in Continental Contract. Hard for me to imagine Mac Bolan wouldn’t be firing some rpg’s into a presidential motorcade by this point, but I guess he survived the Nixon years without killing any politicians, so he’d probably figure we’ll survive even this.
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