The president’s spokespeople took to the airwaves over the weekend to defend Trump against charges that he encouraged racist chants at his MAGA rallies.
NEWS: Robert Mueller’s team is requesting that one of his deputies, Aaron Zebley, be sworn-in at the hearings tomorrow to testify alongside the former special counsel, a source familiar tells @AlexNBCNews & @mikememoli. First reported by CNN.
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) July 23, 2019
DoJ frantically scrambling to get him a threatening letter too.
The threat of caravans always returns when Trump faces problems at home. https://t.co/D0dZkanAU9
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 23, 2019
This is the atmosphere stoked up by the racist in the White House. https://t.co/BnWrFjUp2s
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) July 23, 2019
Their propaganda will keep getting more extreme.
re: #2 Dread Pirate
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They let you back in this country and you have a criminal record. I am sick of this lying sack of shit scapegoating people who just want a better life for their families. And I’m even more sick of millions of Americans cheering him on as he does it. UnAmerican swines.
Head of the state GOP county chairmen’s association called the posting “unauthorized.” Then he explains how they have a “multi-stage, approval process for all social media posts on any of the RCCA’s social media properties.” The process, he said, is being “re-evaluated.”
— Rick Pearson (@rap30) July 21, 2019
“…Mark Shaw, the Lake County GOP chairman who heads the state county chairmen’s group, said the posting was “not authorized by me” and said he was “sorry if anyone who saw the image was offended by the contents.”
re: #5 jaunte
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“Leave it to the interns only, that way we can act like we didn’t know when the shit hits the fan and we don’t have to take responsibility.”
re: #6 jaunte
“…Mark Shaw, the Lake County GOP chairman who heads the state county chairmen’s group, said the posting was “not authorized by me” and said he was “sorry if anyone who saw the image was offended by the contents.”
a classic non-apology
re: #6 jaunte
“…Mark Shaw, the Lake County GOP chairman who heads the state county chairmen’s group, said the posting was “not authorized by me” and said he was “sorry if anyone who saw the image was offended by the contents.”
And I’m sorry your state party founded by the great Abraham Lincoln resembles the party of George Lincoln Rockwell more than it does Abraham Lincoln. Nah I’m not sorry. Your party deserves that after you decided to embrace the bigots on Civil Rights rather than going along with what LBJ and many in your party wanted on Civil Rights wanted because you really wanted those angry Southern whites in your party.
We are judging Trump on the content of his character. We don’t know the color of his skin.
Heh.
re: #11 lawhawk
Heh.
This is racist. /// Say people who think nothing can be racist against PoC unless it’s criticism of a PoC or especially a white conservative.
re: #8 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a classic non-apology
They are only sorry they got called out on it.
Linking back to the Mr. Rogers discussion, Lady Aberlin is a Rogers torchbearer. She maintains a twitter presence, and said:
Betty Aberlin @bettyaberlin
Actually Stephen Colbert is this generations’ Fred. Hanks & I both worked with Holland Taylor & love typewriters, but that’s only 2 degrees of separation, & not much else in common except I lived it & he’s playing his part in the hagiography franchise.
Finished my first 10 postcards for Postcards to Voters. They’re focusing on encouraging Florida Democrats to request a vote by mail ballot. It’s very satisfying, especially since right now since I have more time than money.
Senate confirmed Esper as new Sec Def 90-8.
The no votes included 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. Esper refused to recuse himself from matters related to Raytheon, where he was a lobbyist.
Voter fraud is extremely rare in the United States. George W. Bush’s DoJ studied voter fraud & found it occurs on 0.00000013% of ballots. A recent study found 31 cases out of a billion ballots from 2000-2014. Trump is lying (again). https://t.co/Fu4GvC8Adv
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) July 23, 2019
I’m old enough to remember when bringing facts to an argument was an effective counter.
re: #18 Dread Pirate
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I’m old enough to remember when bringing facts to an argument was an effective counter.
And most of the documented fraud has come from Republicans themselves. It’s almost like they don’t like non whites voting because they don’t believe in democracy.
re: #18 Dread Pirate
In a more recent example, a NC prosecutor dropped a case where a woman cast ballot in the stead of her recently deceased mom. The vote was cast for Trump. The prosecutor was a GOPer.
Tell me again how this works?
re: #19 HappyWarrior
And most of the documented fraud has come from Republicans themselves. It’s almost like they don’t like non whites voting because they don’t believe in democracy.
Nah, they just know they can’t win without cheating.
Lady Aberlin also said:
Betty Aberlin @bettyaberlin
3h3 hours agoIf the “lock her up!” “send her back” audiences watched our program when they were young, we failed children & society in my opinion.
and
Betty Aberlin @bettyaberlin
3h3 hours agoI’m concerned about Evangelical “Christianity” and its relation to current policies, I’m concerned about celebrity-worship, concerned about the power of TV to normalize the unspeakable & justify th reprehensible. about children in cages, children & adults enslaved by devices. my
Betty Aberlin @bettyaberlin
own addiction to social media, etc. the Spirit moved through him. he was a wonderful piece of stained glass in the mosaic of infinite seeking through whom the light of purity, love & kindness to others shone. that light shines this moment through us all,Betty Aberlin @bettyaberlin
regardless of denominational scrupulosities or any of the isms and diversities of our religious practices or lacks thereof that divide us from being a celestial neighborhood on earth.
Think I’ll hang in Lady Aberlin’s neighborhood.’
re: #17 lawhawk
Senate confirmed Esper as new Sec Def 90-8.
The no votes included 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. Esper refused to recuse himself from matters related to Raytheon, where he was a lobbyist.
I’ve made peace with the fact that the mess the GOP has made of America won’t be cleaned up in my lifetime, but I do want to see the GOP ground to dust before I shuffle off this mortal coil. I want to see the Trump family and their enablers thrown in jail for the rest of their miserable lives.
I want to crush the GOP, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their donors.
re: #1 jaunte
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DoJ frantically scrambling to get him a threatening letter too.
I know people testifying in Congress bring staff. To the legal eagles out there, what’s the significance of swearing them in?
Journalism professor Jay Rosen is desperately trying to shift media perceptions that calling racist language/attitudes/policy out as racist is somehow “taking sides” …
One of the most important passages yet written about the problem of how to cover Trump. https://t.co/kx2gHf3gIF But even in sharing and praising it, I despair. Because I know that what @brianbeutler says here will be rejected by the people who most need to let it sink deeply in. pic.twitter.com/hihGGeqbgO
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 23, 2019
“That language is elusive now because to deploy it against Trump is to implicate millions of people who relish those very values … until Trump, they could still leave certain moral abominations outside the sphere of respectable discourse. Trump forces reporters, editors, commentators, to choose between the principle of neutrality and personal fidelity to the tenet that racism is unacceptable.”
There is going to have to come a moment when we as a society collectively say, ‘If you are a Trump supporter, you are a moral defective, a bad person. Like neo-Nazis or the Klan. Choose wisely, for we will remember.”
….Tariffs, Remittance Fees, or all of the above. Guatemala has not been good. Big U.S. taxpayer dollars going to them was cut off by me 9 months ago.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2019
“I don’t want to kill 10 million people. I have plans on Guatemala that if I want to win that war, Guatemala would be wiped off the face of the earth, it would be gone, it would be over literally in 10 days. And I don’t want to do that - I don’t want to go that route.”
Since William Barr is now pushing the monumentally bad idea of building a “back door” into mobile devices that law enforcement will use to break in, here’s a thread expressing the appropriate amount of disdain. https://t.co/rt8usl034b
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
re: #26 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Journalism professor Jay Rosen is desperately trying to shift media perceptions that calling racist language/attitudes/policy out as racist is somehow “taking sides” …
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“That language is elusive now because to deploy it against Trump is to implicate millions of people who relish those very values … until Trump, they could still leave certain moral abominations outside the sphere of respectable discourse. Trump forces reporters, editors, commentators, to choose between the principle of neutrality and personal fidelity to the tenet that racism is unacceptable.”
There is going to have to come a moment when we as a society collectively say, ‘If you are a Trump supporter, you are a moral defective, a bad person. Like neo-Nazis or the Klan. Choose wisely, for we will remember.”
Unfortunately, we no longer can even agree on the part about Neo-Nazis and Klan being bad. THey’ve been almost fully and wholly rehabilitated in the public eye.
The media has done a good job of pointing out the racism and xenophobia of Fox News in recent years, but most news outlets have come up lamentably short at connecting the dots and making clear to their readers and viewers that the Murdoch family is behind — and profiting from — the poison that’s broadcast by the network
Until we as a society collectively overcome the urge to grovel at the feet of billionaires and stigmatize and punish (asset seizure, revocation of broadcast licenses, forced divestment of media properties) Murdoch and Clear Channel and Sinclair will continue to make money by infuriating the rubes.
re: #28 Charles Johnson
Democrats should demand the DOJ open an investigation into Barr by OSC to investigate Barr’s actions and obstruction of justice by interfering in the ongoing investigations of Trump.
Barr’s elevation to AG coincides with Mueller finalizing his report, the SDNY stopping their investigations, etc., and the timeline just fits with someone who threw their weight on to ending the investigations before they were complete - that their findings would have shown more Trump criminality, and Barr was doing Trump’s bidding.
US elects a narcissistic authoritarian dumbass with really bad hair who proceeds to lay waste to democratic institutions.
Britain: that looks pretty cool, we should do that too.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
re: #30 Citizen K
Unfortunately, we no longer can even agree on the part about Neo-Nazis and Klan being bad. THey’ve been almost fully and wholly rehabilitated in the public eye.
Rather like how Putin & his team have rehabbed Josef Stalin’s image in Russia.
Twelve years ago, when I was working there, Stalin and Beria and the whole communist epoch were anathema. Just to mention them was to elicit a strong reaction.
Now? People shrug and say, “Well, he wasn’t so bad, at least … “
Twenty-two years in the making, @Campaign_Carl has a Fox News scoop he’d like to share: “right-wing hosts drowned out straight journalism with partisan misinformation.” https://t.co/nc5t7eYNVh
— empathy4all (@emp4all) July 8, 2019
We have to drill down to the root of the problem. It’s the relentless right-wing propaganda machine that has 1/3 of the U.S. under its thrall.
re: #23 Decatur Deb
If he were still around today, Fox News would called Mr. Rogers a socialist.
re: #30 Citizen K
Unfortunately, we no longer can even agree on the part about Neo-Nazis and Klan being bad. THey’ve been almost fully and wholly rehabilitated in the public eye.
You need a better public.
re: #35 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
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We have to drill down to the root of the problem. It’s the relentless right-wing propaganda machine that has 1/3 of the U.S. under its thrall.
I’m not diving in to the comment cesspool, but I suspect that 45% of the responders will blame Obama.
re: #30 Citizen K
Unfortunately, we no longer can even agree on the part about Neo-Nazis and Klan being bad. THey’ve been almost fully and wholly rehabilitated in the public eye.
Because Fascism and White Supremacism are seen as points along the accepted political spectrum instead of being totally anathema to American values and our understanding of democracy.
Trump’s utterances were clearly racist. Granted, one can perhaps argue whether he personally or his supporters are racist (I think they are) but denying the racist sentiment behind is tweets is denying their very wording and context.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
[Britain: that looks pretty cool, we should do that too.]
Also Britain: OURS HAS WORSE HAIR!
US: Hold my phone…
Lre: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
If he were still around today, Fox News would called Mr. Rogers a socialist.
They already do.
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
If he were still around today, Fox News would called Mr. Rogers a socialist.
I don’t have the link, but I think they pretty much did not long ago.
re: #30 Citizen K
Unfortunately, we no longer can even agree on the part about Neo-Nazis and Klan being bad. THey’ve been almost fully and wholly rehabilitated in the public eye.
If they were really rehabilitated, Republicans wouldn’t keep using them as symbols against the Democrats.
Late to the party:
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹
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(Second tweet: Because those in uniform aren’t concerned with laws, rights, and the Constitution.)
This is something the police on site has repeatedly said through the protests. And police is throwing tear gas consistently after 11 pm.
Awww, little Gym Jordan has a sad.
Rumor is that Aaron Zebley (Mueller’s Chief of Staff) will be on the witness panel with Mueller.
You don’t get to change the rules right before kickoff, especially after a 22 month, $30 million investigation.— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 23, 2019
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
If he were still around today, Fox News would called Mr. Rogers a socialist.
There was a famous incident of a motel owner dumping bleach into his pool to drive off his black guests.
Not long after that, Mr Rodgers invited a black policemen on his show to come share his wading pool.
re: #45 Teddy’s Person
Awww, little Gym Jordan has a sad.
I’m sorry, Gym, but as you said, this started over two years ago.
re: #45 Teddy’s Person
Rumor is that Aaron Zebley (Mueller’s Chief of Staff) will be on the witness panel with Mueller.
You don’t get to change the rules right before kickoff, especially after a 22 month, $30 million investigation.
Neither do you get to ignore Congressional subpoenas…or do you?
re: #45 Teddy’s Person
Awww, little Gym Jordan has a sad.
Rumor is that Aaron Zebley (Mueller’s Chief of Staff) will be on the witness panel with Mueller.
You don’t get to change the rules right before kickoff, especially after a 22 month, $30 million investigation.
what “rule”?
re: #46 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a famous incident of a motel owner dumping bleach into his pool to drive off his black guests.
Not long after that, Mr Rodgers invited a black policemen on his show to come share his wading pool.
I knew that. That’s why Mr. Rogers was so awesome. He’d tackle that shit head on.
re: #46 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a famous incident of a motel owner dumping bleach into his pool to drive off his black guests.
Not long after that, Mr Rodgers invited a black policemen on his show to come share his wading pool.
He lived his life by example. That’s why he is so loved.
re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Neither do you get to ignore Congressional subpoenas…or do you?
Yeah, it’s kind of like the only rule Republicans recognize is IOKIYAR.
re: #45 Teddy’s Person
Awww, little Gym Jordan has a sad.
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re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg
I knew that. That’s why Mr. Rogers was so awesome. He’d tackle that shit head on.
As I said. Mr. Rogers was a quiet rebel. And I mean that as the greatest compliment.
Why are you silencing drunks? You’re the real drunks! Free speech isn’t just for sober people. https://t.co/8Cpc7f0yqE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
Like this guy with the “I stand for the National Anthem” t-shirt who promptly uses the flag to keep his brains dry. pic.twitter.com/PGgxyb0OQC
— E. Jack Elation (@JacksRBD) July 23, 2019
re: #56 Teddy’s Person
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You mean his ass. His butt is on one of the Dakotas or Washington state.
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
If he were still around today, Fox News would called Mr. Rogers a socialist.
Well, they called him “evil” once. So yeah, they probably would.
re: #57 HappyWarrior
You mean his ass. His butt is on one of the Dakotas or Washington state.
I think the suggestion is that his brains are in his ass.
re: #58 Dr Lizardo
Well, they called him “evil” once. So yeah, they probably would.
Yeah they claim he ruined kids because he didn’t do what they’d do if FNC ever had a children’s show.
Trump’s golf resorts used undocumented workers for years.
Trump’s demolition of Bonwit Teller used undocumented workers.
If you’re going to investigate and prosecute - start with the Trump Org. Because they’ve benefited and personally profited from this criminality for decades.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 23, 2019
Lindsey’s gotta Lindsey.
…[ FBI Director Christopher] Wray appeared at an oversight hearing a day before Robert Mueller, the former special counsel, was due to testify publicly before Congress about his two-year investigation of Russian interference to sway the 2016 presidential race toward President Donald Trump.
“Everything we’ve done against Russia has not deterred them enough?” asked Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican committee chairman. “All the sanctions, all the talk, they’re still at it?”
“Yes. My view is until they stop they haven’t been deterred enough,” Wray responded. … Source: Reuters
He’s either complicit or incompetent. Either way, he’s unfit for public office..
re: #60 HappyWarrior
Yeah they claim he ruined kids because he didn’t do what they’d do if FNC ever had a children’s show.
Now THAT would be scary as hell!
re: #63 Teddy’s Person
Lindsey’s gotta Lindsey.
He’s either complicit or incompetent. Either way, he’s unfit for public office..
Lindsay is Trump’s covefe boy.
re: #64 Eclectic Cyborg
Now THAT would be scary as hell!
No kidding. Remember kids, don’t wash your hands because germs don’t exist! Thanks Uncle Pete Herskith$
re: #55 Charles Johnson
Now I’m just waiting for the inevitable angry reply from someone who doesn’t get the very obvious sarcasm in this tweet, because Twitter.
re: #66 HappyWarrior
No kidding. Remember kids, don’t wash your hands because germs don’t exist! Thanks Uncle Pete Herskith$
And don’t listen to what your commie history teachers tell you in school!
Trump claims he’s not a racist, just like Nixon claimed he wasn’t a crook pic.twitter.com/WUWHdKnfOZ
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 23, 2019
re: #62 lawhawk
Haha “Inspections of worksites”. For what, the bribe envelope?
re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg
And don’t listen to what your commie history teachers tell you in school!
Seriously FNC went from a Bush cheerleading network to an outright white nationalist network. Can’t say they don’t know what their viewers want I guess.
re: #67 Charles Johnson
Now I’m just waiting for the inevitable angry reply from someone who doesn’t get the very obvious sarcasm in this tweet, because Twitter.
Trump has broken the country’s sarcasm receptors. Now the only thing that seems to be getting through is frequent loud repetitive chants.
re: #2 Dread Pirate
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HERE THEY ARE AGAIN! STRAIGHT FROM THE DESERTS OF GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS!
re: #76 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
HERE THEY ARE AGAIN! STRAIGHT FROM THE DESERTS OF GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS!
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They’re bringing tacos! And they’re bringing burritos! Some I assume taste better than the crap I sell at my hotels.
Now that the FBI director is admitting openly that the majority of domestic terrorism cases are linked to white supremacism, now’s a good time to remember how conservatives went absolutely ballistic when DHS warned that white supremacist terrorism was a serious threat.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
re: #76 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
HERE THEY ARE AGAIN! STRAIGHT FROM THE DESERTS OF GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS!
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That would actually be a truly awesome invasion.
re: #63 Teddy’s Person
Lindsey’s gotta Lindsey.
He’s either complicit or incompetent. Either way, he’s unfit for public office..
I may not be a superhero, but I am a proud South Carolinian, and I’m ready to fight for a better future for our state and our country. I hope you are, too. Find out how you can #JoinJaime and get involved: https://t.co/2jIqtqbKAB pic.twitter.com/zTjktJ1RpA
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) May 29, 2019
re: #76 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Shiny, chrome, with syncopated rhythm.
Dang! Drudge is turning on Trump.
Can’t tell if this is ideological - i.e. “You promised us you’d exterminate them subhuman brown people! Waaah!”
Or if they’re just trying to hold Trump to his promises. (Good luck with THAT one)
re: #76 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
What a lovely day… what a lovely day…
Are they bringing tacos with them? And mole sauce? Because I was promised tacos on every corner!
Well, the heatwave broke last night here with some rain and temps dropping to the 70s. Still pretty humid, but tolerable enough for me to go outside and do things like weeding the plant beds.
Cats are happy to have some open windows to peer out of as well. They prefer things warmer than I like it as well. I’ve also been running the dehumidifier in the basement a bit to help the A/C in driving the humidity down in the apartment. (75% -> 55%)
re: #82 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Dang! Drudge is turning on Trump.
Can’t tell if this is ideological - i.e. “You promised us you’d exterminate them subhuman brown people! Waaah!”
Or if they’re just trying to hold Trump to his promises. (Good luck with THAT one)
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re: #82 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Dang! Drudge is turning on Trump.
Can’t tell if this is ideological - i.e. “You promised us you’d exterminate them subhuman brown people! Waaah!”
Or if they’re just trying to hold Trump to his promises. (Good luck with THAT one)
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Trump lied to us!!!! Yeah, we told you he was a liar but you were too busy chanting lock her up.
From January 2017 to March 2019, only one person in the world was asked to meet separately with both Vladimir Putin and Robert Mueller. That person was @realDonaldTrump. He met with Putin six times. He never met with Mueller. #MuellerHearing
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) July 22, 2019
re: #83 lawhawk
What a lovely day… what a lovely day…
Are they bringing tacos with them? And mole sauce? Because I was promised tacos on every corner!
Oh dammit! Now you’re making me miss the awesome Oaxacan restaurant that was on Hauser & San Vicente, that used to deliver the MOST AWSOME MOLE CHICKEN!
Thick, black, spicy sauce slathered all over, hot chewy tortillas, queso fundido sprinkled over refried beans …
(Drools)
re: #85 Teddy’s Person
Or maybe Drudge can’t make bank if only Trumpers click.
Thing is: Drudge sets the agenda for so very many right-wing Talking Heads. He also is the first thing “The Base” checks every morning when they crawl out from under their rocks.
If Drudge is going after Trump on immigration, he’s going to have to respond, one way or another. And if it’s just more empty show, they’re starting to catch on …
🤟🏼Jared Kushner is deploying a data operation to sway Arab media on Middle East peace https://t.co/JzTCv3uk8P
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 23, 2019
re: #82 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
That’s a combo-platter.
ICE is bitching that Trump tipped off everyone that the raids were coming, so ICE couldn’t track them down.
Drudge is bitching that despite all the buildup, all they managed was 35.
The reality is that criminals are harder to catch and deport than it is to go and find immigrants who are trying to be part of the community and have families and children in school. Those are the ones Trump has been trying to deport to boost the numbers.
One of the things Obama did during his 8 years was try to focus deportation on people who are criminals, as opposed to those who merely overstayed visas - focus on real threats, as opposed to those subject to the broken immigration system.
re: #88 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Oh dammit! Now you’re making me miss the awesome Oaxacan restaurant that was on Hauser & San Vicente, that used to deliver the MOST AWSOME MOLE CHICKEN!
Thick, black, spicy sauce slathered all over, hot chewy tortillas, queso fundido sprinkled over refried beans …
(Drools)
Culinary enrichment alone is a reason to welcome immigrants.
Trump boycotts NAACP national convention to attend unite the white rally. This is who Trump is. https://t.co/PcL8VHzNxP
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) July 23, 2019
re: #92 lawhawk
That’s a combo-platter.
ICE is bitching that Trump tipped off everyone that the raids were coming, so ICE couldn’t track them down.
Drudge is bitching that despite all the buildup, all they managed was 35.
The reality is that criminals are harder to catch and deport than it is to go and find immigrants who are trying to be part of the community and have families and children in school. Those are the ones Trump has been trying to deport to boost the numbers.
One of the things Obama did during his 8 years was try to focus deportation on people who are criminals, as opposed to those who merely overstayed visas - focus on real threats, as opposed to those subject to the broken immigration system.
Obama was and is someone who lives in the 21st century. Trump’s base wanted a child like simplicity in solving problems and that’s what has happened.
So how come Trump never accuses actual neo-Nazis and white nationalists in this country of anti-Semitism? That should tell you how phony his baiting is.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 22, 2019
If you’re a NoVa resident, you may want to give this woman some business.
Alisa Rabinovich, who owns and operates Nosegay Flowers in D.C. and Galleria Florist in Falls Church, Virginia, said she designed custom flower arrangements to send to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) to show the women support.
“It’s really not about politics for me,” Alisa Rabinovich said in a statement sent to WAMU. “I’m not a terribly political person. It’s about these women being bullied by the President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, and standing up for themselves.”
She delivered the flowers on Thursday with a note thanking the Congresswomen.
The notes read: “Thanks for being a role model for women everywhere. You are the best part of America!”
Click through for a picture of the arrangements.
re: #95 lawhawk
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re: #98 Teddy’s Person
If you’re a NoVa resident, you may want to give this woman some business.
Click through for a picture of the arrangements.
I don’t need flowers that often and I’m a ways from Falls Church but I’ll keep her in mind.
re: #94 HappyWarrior
Culinary enrichment alone is a reason to welcome immigrants.
I love the fusion cuisine in large American cities; it’s spreading throughout Latin America.
If you have the chance, and you are a foodie, man … go to Lima, Peru. The heavy Asian influence there has commingled with the traditional recipes & ingredients to create crazycool takes on traditional dishes that just blow your mind.
I had sworn off ceviche after some nasty stuff in Mexico gave me stomach problems for a week. But the ceviche in Lima is off the charts! Wild citrus spices, crispy exotic veggies, fish so fresh and good it just explodes in your mouth. Wash it down with a Pisco Sour and know true taste-bud bliss…
re: #88 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
One of our favorite Mexican restaurants is this authentic place in Paterson NJ. They recently renovated and expanded the restaurant but haven’t been back since it reopened, but they had a delightful mole - and it was impossible to get seats after 6pm because the place was packed.
The only other place where I had a mole as good as that was in CA. They had impossibly large portions, but the mole was so divine - luscious with chocolate, coffee, and cinnamon notes.
re: #101 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
I love the fusion cuisine in large American cities; it’s spreading throughout Latin America.
If you have the chance, and you are a foodie, man … go to Lima, Peru. The heavy Asian influence there has commingled with the traditional recipes & ingredients to create crazycool takes on traditional dishes that just blow your mind.
I had sworn off ceviche after some nasty stuff in Mexico gave me stomach problems for a week. But the ceviche in Lima is off the charts! Wild citrus spices, crispy exotic veggies, fish so fresh and good it just explodes in your mouth. Wash it down with a Pisco Sour and know true taste-bud bliss…
My sister in law is from Lima and I’m in fact a foodie. I love lomo saltado.
I have Czech liquor in my room in anticipation for my birthday tomorrow. Had a Cubano today for lunch.
Totally not an antisemite.
ht @Laura_E_Adkins https://t.co/7j5rHFuqLN— Elad Nehorai (@PopChassid) July 22, 2019
re: #105 HappyWarrior
I have Czech liquor in my room in anticipation for my birthday tomorrow. Had a Cubano today for lunch.
Teddy sez: Happy early B-Day.
I hope you have some fun plans in the works.
re: #106 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #107 Teddy’s Person
Teddy sez: Happy early B-Day.
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I hope you have some fun plans in the works.
Thanks Teddy! Yeah might be going to Georgestown to a German restaurant over the weekend.
Missing teens now suspects in 3 deaths on northern B.C. highways https://t.co/QhdyNuggin
— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) July 23, 2019
My nephew is taking this story very hard. He spent months traveling through Europe with the murdered Lucas Fowler.
re: #69 The Pie Overlord!
Sure, Jan. pic.twitter.com/IpYwR3KVMc
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 23, 2019
re: #78 Charles Johnson
Now that the FBI director is admitting openly that the majority of domestic terrorism cases are linked to white supremacism, now’s a good time to remember how conservatives went absolutely ballistic when DHS warned that white supremacist terrorism was a serious threat.
I recall that hissy fit…not that the FBI is ignoring or coddling Islamist terror, it is simply doing its job of protecting America against terrorism regardless of its ideological origin.
Guilty:
GUILTY: Jury rules Michael Flynn’s former business partner is guilty of lobbying for Turkey https://t.co/IODS4VXzG8
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 23, 2019
There had been a concern that the prosecutors botched the case. Turns out the fear was unwarranted.
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall that hissy fit…not that the FBI is ignoring or coddling Islamist terror, it is simply doing its job of protecting America against terrorism regardless of its ideology.
You mean the DHS report that predated Obama but Napolitano and Obama got accused of hating whites and vets over?
re: #113 lawhawk
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There had been a concern that the prosecutors botched the case. Turns out the fear was unwarranted.
Good job.
re: #114 HappyWarrior
You mean the DHS report that predated Obama but Napolitano and Obama got accused of hating whites and vets over?
Yes, and that reaction disgusted me because it was clearly supported by objective evidence from the FBI
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, and that reaction disgusted me because it was clearly supported by objective evidence from the FBI
Yep. And the truth is vets are targeted by right wing hate groups.
JUST IN: The Senate has voted to extend the 9/11 Victim Compensation fund through 2092.
The fund was set to run out by 2020, and would have affected 93,000 first responders and survivors still being treated or monitored. https://t.co/VzHoIaotzM— Axios (@axios) July 23, 2019
Of course they were.
They’re always quick to do photo ops with first responders and the military, but when those first responders and servicemembers need help, they’re MIA. Same as always.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 23, 2019
re: #95 lawhawk
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re: #119 lawhawk
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Yep and Rand had the nerve to call the Squad unAmerican. Dude literally employed a “Confederate avenger”.
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
how many of those great and smart young people will he encourage to join the military for his wars?
Charlie and Candice would shit themselves if they had to leave this high paying grift for something noble like military service.
re: #83 lawhawk
What a lovely day… what a lovely day…
Are they bringing tacos with them? And mole sauce? Because I was promised tacos on every corner!
VH Day! Victory over Hunger! The masses liberated from Taco Bell tyranny!
re: #121 HappyWarrior
Yep and Rand had the nerve to call the Squad unAmerican. Dude literally employed a “Confederate avenger”.
What can you do with a mindset that equates supporting the Confederacy as a form a “patriotism”?
re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What can you do with a mindset that equates supporting the Confederacy as a form a “patriotism”?
Well you could vote them out. Unfortunately Kentucky didn’t do that.
Just reviewed a bunch of my LGF articles from 2009 about that DHS report on right wing extremism, and I think people may have forgotten what a sheer unbelievable shitstorm the conservative movement raised about this totally factual, even prescient report.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
Their grotesque attempt to cover up the extent of the problem was absolutely massive, and employed the same kinds of lies and distortions we see the Trump gang using today.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
It was a unison attack by _every_ conservative outlet, media site, blog, pundit, all of them. And it worked. Anti-terrorism units focused on right wing extremism were disbanded.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
Law enforcement training to deal with it was halted and personnel were assigned to other tasks. The conservative movement essentially forced the agency that’s supposed to protect us from domestic terrorism to ignore a growing threat.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
SCOOP: @kylieatwood reports Amb. Zalmay Khalilizad met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and other officials on Tuesday in what was described as a tense and confrontational meeting, following @realDonaldTrump claims US could wipe it ‘off the face of the Earth’
— CNN NationalSecurity (@NatSecCNN) July 23, 2019
re: #113 lawhawk
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There had been a concern that the prosecutors botched the case. Turns out the fear was unwarranted.
Another Trump crook bites it.
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
how many of those great and smart young people will he encourage to join the military for his wars?
Trump: I could blow up the world, but I don’t want to do that. [gibberish, I’m the best, yada, yada yada] When that day comes, all patriotic, rich, white Americans will join me in the Bone Spurs Brigade.
Crowd: Bone Spurs Rock! Bone Spurs Rock!
Trump (arms folded in his best Mussolini pose): I may pay for those who don’t actually have bone spurs. You’ll know in two weeks when some thing bigly happens. Believe me.
“It didn’t help warm the chill when the four-star commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command (@INDOPACOM’s Adm. Philip Davidson) declared Japan as possibly the top US ally in the world…A British official could be seen having an intense conversation with him after the event.” https://t.co/kJhbtNp62Q
— Ryan Browne (@rabrowne75) July 23, 2019
re: #130 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“It didn’t help warm the chill when the four-star commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command INDOPACOM’s Adm. Philip Davidson) declared Japan as possibly the top US ally in the world…A British official could be seen having an intense conversation with him after the event.”
The UK can always turn to the EU for support…
And the reason why all these conservatives were so vehement is even more obvious now with the Trump crime family in power - they saw themselves as ideologically aligned with these extremists. Oh, not that they’d condone violence, of course! Perish the thought.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
But they circled the wagons and defended these groups because they recognized their family members.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
re: #127 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
That US Ambassador should get a dressing down and then some. Trump set back US foreign policy and diplomatic efforts around the world. Who would ever want to work with US?
Putin couldn’t be happier with this.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 23, 2019
Putin’s Russia, along with China, couldn’t be happier with Trump in the WH. They’re laughing at Trump’s superior intellect and dismantling decades of US leadership in world events because he’s dumber than a bag of hammers and actively undermines our allies and alliances.
been watching a live streamed continuing professional education seminar all afternoon
inane, fatuous, 4 hours (maybe 10 minutes worth of valuable information)
i am brain dead
re: #130 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Interesting. Leader says comments about hypothetical genocide of his people are not okay. https://t.co/w9RvZTdyGq
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 23, 2019
Go figure.
re: #119 lawhawk
In case anyone else missed it.. That is Mitch walking by.
Awesome moment: Jon Stewart embraces a crying John Feal, the 9/11 first responder who led the organization pushing for the full extension of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, just after the bill passed in the Senate 97-2: pic.twitter.com/ombosZSxr0
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) July 23, 2019
Tbf, we don’t know much about her kids. That could have been their time out. https://t.co/3NqNFBzj65
— Nada Bakos (@nadabakos) July 23, 2019
This is more bonkers than I thought. Presumably realizing that the “legitimate legislative purpose” argument wasn’t going to fly here, Trump is claiming the NY law *violates his First Amendment rights* because it’s retaliation against his “speech”… https://t.co/k0JZjpRAYp
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) July 23, 2019
Thrashing fruitlessly against the coming sunlight
re: #138 jaunte
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Jon Stewart deserves a lot of thanks for helping this get passed. Will Trump give him props? Nope because Trump is a petty douchebag.
re: #141 jaunte
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Thrashing fruitlessly against the coming sunlight
Tough shit Donnie.
re: #142 HappyWarrior
Jon Stewart got an actual tough guy crying and thanking him. Trump will NEVER live it down.
re: #144 jaunte
Jon Stewart got an actual tough guy crying and thanking him. Trump will NEVER live it down.
Yep. And unlike Trump, Jon won’t brag about this. He did what he did because he actually remembers 9/11 rather than uses it to attack political opponents. Jon Stewart is an American treasure. I expect Trump will sign this but he won’t question the American loyalty of Lee and Paul.
re: #132 Charles Johnson
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Resign and go knit, because your hot takes are beyond awful.
You don’t care about the deficit or debt. You supported Trump’s idiotic tax scam TCJA. That’s $1 trillion added in debt just this year. https://t.co/x9UBTTS4Oa— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 23, 2019
re: #147 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
There is a tacit assumption on the right that force and violence will eventually settle the issue in their favor and, indeed, that this is the only way they could achieve a favorable outcome. Conservatives have been losing intellectually and politically for 200+ years. At some level most of them know this, but the NRA and it’s sacred talisman, the civilian firearm, have promised a solution. They are badly mistaken in their blind faith that they have a monopoly on guns, let alone on the knowledge of how to use them but I fear that it will take an enormous tragedy to convince them of their error.
Conservatism I think one had a good about the excesses of the French Revolution. Other than that? It’s been defenses of slavery, child labor laws, opposing Civil Rights, etc. Now Republicans have been in the right on some of these issues but conservatives by and large have not. Conservatives are quite frankly too chickenshit to deal with change because they’d rather live in la la land.
re: #119 lawhawk
That smile on Jon’s face is the best thing I’ve seen today.
The NAACP is openly calling for Trump’s impeachment.
Members of the NAACP are calling for President Trump’s impeachment, the latest effort to push members of Congress to pursue impeachment against the president.
NAACP delegates representing local branches of the civil rights organization voted unanimously on Tuesday to call for Trump’s impeachment, the group announced on Twitter.
The group is holding its annual convention in Detroit. The Hill has reached out to the NAACP for a statement on its decision. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the vote.
“Trump’s misconduct is unmistakable and has proven time and time again, that he is unfit to serve as the president of this country,” NAACP president Derrick Johnson tweeted.
Jon Stewart wasn’t talking about himself after 9/11. He was stunned as we all were. Trump? Bragging that he now had the biggest building. But which one wraps himself in the flag and hides behind the military, cops, firefighters, and others?
re: #149 HappyWarrior
Conservatism I think one had a good about the excesses of the French Revolution. Other than that? It’s been defenses of slavery, child labor laws, opposing Civil Rights, etc. Now Republicans have been in the right on some of these issues but conservatives by and large have not. Conservatives are quite frankly too chickenshit to deal with change because they’d rather live in la la land.
But was the French Revolution a reaction to conservative abuse in the first place? Abuse that was excessive?
re: #152 HappyWarrior
Jon Stewart wasn’t talking about himself after 9/11. He was stunned as we all were. Trump? Bragging that he now had the biggest building. But which one wraps himself in the flag and hides behind the military, cops, firefighters, and others?
Yes but many of the cops and military are rabid trump supporters. They have tossed in their lot.
re: #152 HappyWarrior
I remember the first Daily Show after 9/11. He was amazing then, just as he has been through this whole fight. I miss him, he’s a genuinely honorable man.
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Loved the article on him. He’s such a cool guy. google.com
re: #154 Old Liberal
But was the French Revolution a reaction to conservative abuse in the first place? Abuse that was excessive?
That’s certainly true as well. I’ve said often about the Bolshevik Revolution that it didn’t just happen out of the blue.
re: #155 Old Liberal
Yes but many of the cops and military are rabid trump supporters. They have tossed in their lot.
That’s not what I mean. Strictly talking about the difference between Jon and Trump.
“An 18-year-old Dallas-born U.S. citizen has been in the custody of CBP & ICE for more than 3 weeks, his attorney says.
Now his family fears he may be deported.”https://t.co/S7be0SygpF— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) July 23, 2019
First they came after the undocumented, then they came after the migrants, then they came after the refugees, then they came after the legal, then they came after the citizens.
re: #159 HappyWarrior
That’s not what I mean.
I’m just saying that he wraps himself and they go along enthusiastically. When they should resent being used.
re: #156 A Mom Anon
I remember the first Daily Show after 9/11. He was amazing then, just as he has been through this whole fight. I miss him, he’s a genuinely honorable man.
Indeed.
re: #161 Old Liberal
I’m just saying that he wraps himself and they go along enthusiastically. When they should resent being used.
Oh I gotcha and agree 100%.
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First they came after the undocumented, then they came after the migrants, then they came after the refugees, then they came after the legal, then they came after the citizens.
I said they nothing because they did not look like me.
And then they came for me.
I think TPUSA was the Soviet youth movement in a past life.
Expect Republicans to turn Mueller Wednesday “into a circus with unfounded allegations and enraged rants,” writes @DavidCornDC, who came up with this helpful guide to the coming bullshit: https://t.co/kit5sVPrzH
— Ian Gordon (@id_gordon) July 23, 2019
re: #167 MsJ
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Good. People will see unhinged Gym Jordan and calm former mafia prosecutor Mueller.
Ben Shapiro gets the most anti-Semitic hate Tweets but he still believes they will kill him last. #TheResistance #Resist #AntiSemitism https://t.co/lJFhUhGeAS
— Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) July 23, 2019
re: #155 Old Liberal
Yes but many of the cops and military are rabid trump supporters. They have tossed in their lot.
Cops are probably over-represented among Trumpisti. Don’t bet on junior military officers and enlisted.
re: #167 MsJ
Expect Republicans to turn Mueller Wednesday “into a circus with unfounded allegations and enraged rants,” writes @DavidCornDC, who came up with this helpful guide to the coming bullshit:
i expect he’s too smart to play (edited to remove NOT)
when the R’s start to rant and rave, i figure he’ll sit there kind of stoic, maybe bored
and if he’s not asked a direct question may say “is there a question?”
re: #171 DangerMan
i expect he’s too smart not to play
when the R’s start to rant and rave, i figure he’ll sit there kind of stoic, maybe bored
and if he’s not asked a direct question may say “is there a question?”
It is my sincerest wish that is exactly what Mueller does. Let’s them spout their BS and then calmly makes them look stupid by not engaging and basically talking down to them like they are petulant children.
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Great news that the 9/11 bill finally got passed but I’m not about to give too much credit to a Senate that waited way too fucking long to do it.
Outstanding. 🙄
NEW: A spox for a Republican candidate hoping to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2020 told me that the House hopeful “stands 100%” behind QAnon.https://t.co/341LuCC8TP
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) July 23, 2019
So with Boris Johnson as PM, does that mean “No Deal” is practically guaranteed to happen?
re: #175 MsJ
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re: #170 Decatur Deb
Cops are probably over-represented among Trumpisti. Don’t bet on junior military officers and enlisted.
Yeah the military is a different matter.
“Language considered to be racist and offensive” ARGH
He said President Obama had an “ancestral dislike” of Britain because he was “part Kenyan.” https://t.co/o080XlZnXS— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
re: #175 MsJ
There is an opportunity there to make this idiocy very public and embarrassing, and not for the sitting congresswoman.
re: #175 MsJ
FFS, the QAnon loonies are running for office.
I guess the stars are right after all. Oh, well. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
re: #179 HappyWarrior
Yeah the military is a different matter.
DoD isn’t a world where it’s easy to get trustworthy stats. For that matter, much of what we assume about the current state of the nation is a wild-assed guess.
re: #170 Decatur Deb
Cops are probably over-represented among Trumpisti. Don’t bet on junior military officers and enlisted.
Cops are particularly vulnerable to fear-based messaging. Addiction to Fox News spreads like a virus through a department.
My relatives are cops with teenaged daughters. They live in a state of perpetual terror that their girls are going to be kidnapped and chopped into mincemeat by MS-13.
To be fair, they see horrific shit every day on the job, but why go out of your way to find things to be afraid of?
Isn’t he following your PNAC blueprint?
Sure, he’s saying the nutty parts out loud (which is your real issue), but this is all you.
Reap what you’ve sown for decades.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 23, 2019
re: #180 Charles Johnson
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re: #184 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Cops are particularly vulnerable to fear-based messaging. Addiction to Fox News spreads like a virus through a department.
My relatives are cops with teenaged daughters. They live in a state of perpetual terror that their girls are going to be kidnapped and chopped into mincemeat by MS-13.
To be fair, they see horrific shit every day on the job, but why go out of your way to find things to be afraid of?
It reinforces their reason for existing. Cousin was a nice kid who became an NYC vice cop. Then he stopped being a nice kid.
re: #184 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Cops are particularly vulnerable to fear-based messaging. Addiction to Fox News spreads like a virus through a department.
My relatives are cops with teenaged daughters. They live in a state of perpetual terror that their girls are going to be kidnapped and chopped into mincemeat by MS-13.
To be fair, they see horrific shit every day on the job, but why go out of your way to find things to be afraid of?
It’s a nasty cycle. FNC loves keeping people like your relatives scared. Crime has been going down and the country is more diverse than ever.
re: #155 Old Liberal
Yes but many of the cops and military are rabid trump supporters. They have tossed in their lot.
And he cultivates them every time he speaks. The budget deal wasn’t for Americans, it was for his Great Military and Vets, except the vets will get nothing again, like always.
Question 1: Did you conclude that there was NO OBSTRUCTION?
Mueller: No.
Question 2: Did you conclude that there was NO COLLUSION?
Mueller: No
On repeat.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 23, 2019
The Republicans at Mueller’s testimony are going to be puffed up with fake outrage, ranting like rabid hyenas on meth. So we have that to look forward to.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
While I support our heroic first responders, I can’t in good conscience vote for legislation which to my dismay remains unfunded. We have a nearly trillion dollar deficit and $22 trillion in debt. Spending is out of control.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 23, 2019
Go fuck yourselfSincerely,America
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) July 23, 2019
re: #184 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Cops are particularly vulnerable to fear-based messaging. Addiction to Fox News spreads like a virus through a department.
My relatives are cops with teenaged daughters. They live in a state of perpetual terror that their girls are going to be kidnapped and chopped into mincemeat by MS-13.
To be fair, they see horrific shit every day on the job, but why go out of your way to find things to be afraid of?
My mom worked at a jail, so trying to deal with her racism has had an extra challenge. “Mom, that’s kind of a specailly selected group. Some of them are self-selected, but let’s talk about about why minorities are over-represented.”
re: #192 Charles Johnson
It will be interesting to watch Mueller deal with children.
re: #197 Belafon
It will be interesting to watch Mueller deal with children.
I predict many “WTF?” looks and stern glares.
About that Appomattox Church:
APPOMATTOX, Va (WSET) — The congregation at a local church walked out of the service on Sunday, July 21.
A sign at a local church has gone viral in connection to President Trump’s comments to Congresswomen.
Pastor E.W. Lucas put up the sign “America: Love it or leave it” at Friendship Baptist Church in Appomattox.
… Lucas says during the Sunday school service, some members of his church led the congregation out of the service in a stance against him.
How did I never notice that?
“No, really—TORCHWOOD is an anagram for DOCTOR WHO!”
— Kaje “(they do not move)” Munser (@jasjr74) July 23, 2019
re: #199 Belafon
About that Appomattox Church:
Pastor Lucas, you’d be well to read about the history of where you live. Robert E. Lee did in fact try to leave it and got a bunch of Americans killed over it and he got a pardon. AOC and the Squad just criticized policy. Go fuck yourself dude.
re: #200 MsJ
How did I never notice that?
Yes, and it was originally created so that the writers could walk around with scripts without being noticed. It was later turned into the name of the organization.
This thread about Universal Basic Income really resonated with me today.
When discussing Universal Basic Income, inevitably the retort comes: “So you just want people to not have to work, is that it?” Accompanied by a smug smirk, expecting me to backpedal and hem and haw, say “Of course not, that’s silly.” Except…yes. Yes, I do. 1/11
— MadLori (@madlori) July 23, 2019
re: #203 Teddy’s Person
This thread about Universal Basic Income really resonated with me today.
I will have to read the thread later, but I think the number of hours people have to work should be directly proportional to their need to be in other people people’s business. Thus, most evangelicals will need to work at least 119 hours per week.
re: #204 Belafon
I will have to read the thread later, but I think the number of hours people have to work should be directly proportional to their need to be in other people people’s business. Thus, most evangelicals will need to work at least 119 hours per week.
I approve and would subscribe to your newsletter.
re: #203 Teddy’s Person
This thread about Universal Basic Income really resonated with me today.
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I see Cillizza is trying to sound all smart:
The tea party was born February 19, 2009.
It’s all a retcon.
re: #203 Teddy’s Person
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It’s not as crazy as it seems. I just know Yang wouldn’t have a clue to implement it.
re: #42 Decatur Deb
Except Boris’ whole Brexit push will have real world consequences far earlier than Trump’s efforts to destroy international norms. And the UK does not have the superpower muscle to withstand pissing off allies and enemies alike for the numbers of years like Trump’s woeful leadership has.
The reality is probably going to be a UK Pound that is below $1.
I don’t know the exact number but Mueller’s been in the House chamber to give testimony many, many times. This will probably be the first time he’s faced with raging, posturing, sycophantic Republicans protecting a criminal.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
re: #203 Teddy’s Person
People shouldn’t HAVE to work. People should WANT to work. Sharing in the labor of building and maintaining a society because it benefits everyone should be desirable, not forced. It shouldn’t be something we do because we’ll die otherwise. 2/11
— MadLori (@madlori) July 23, 2019
Ok, that may sound all good, but I propose that this really goes against our nature.
We’re barely beyond flinging poo at each other from the limbs of trees.
It may sound all nice to believe in an egalitarian society with no fear of losing healthcare and shelter, but even in the most successful fictional representation of that, Star Trek, presents that idea as a consequence of (1) unlimited energy, and (2) replication machines.
We have neither.
As I get older I worry about my retirement, the fact that I underprepared (in my carefree youth, why worry about old age?), and how all this works out for everyone else too.
In the end I think the idea of a basic income is a sort of a public fall-back position from using words that few politicians will want to utter from their lips - “raise taxes”.
The dotard doth protest too much, methinks.
President Donald Trump opened a new front in the battle to protect his tax returns from any prying Democratic eyes, filing a lawsuit against the congressional committee seeking his returns, as well as two top New York state officials.
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Although Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) has said he won’t be taking New York up on its offer to supply Trump’s state returns, Trump’s lawsuit—filed as a private citizen using his own lawyers, not Department of Justice attorneys—contends that Neal might be wavering. Specifically, the suit cites an NBC News article from Monday that claimed Neal is under increasing pressure from progressives in the Democratic Party to be more aggressive in his effort to get Trump’s tax returns. The suit also cites the fact that Neal now has a primary challenger.Trump’s lawsuit claims that if New York authorities, specifically the state attorney general and the New York Department of Taxation and Finance, were allowed to hand over Trump’s state tax records, it would violate his First Amendment rights because it would be done purely to punish him for his political beliefs. Trump’s lawsuit also claims that it would be unfair because he would have no opportunity to argue against the release, and that the records are out of Neal’s jurisdiction because they are state and not federal tax records.
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Source: Mother Jones
We can’t have it all because unlike the Star Trek universe we do not have unlimited energy and replicators.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) July 23, 2019
re: #211 Rocky-in-Connecticut
Except Boris’ whole Brexit push will have real world consequences far earlier than Trump’s efforts to destroy international norms. And the UK does not have the superpower muscle to withstand pissing off allies and enemies alike for the numbers of years like Trump’s woeful leadership has.
The reality is probably going to be a UK Pound that is below $1.
The racism is worth it to many a Brit.
re: #213 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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Ok, that may sound all good, but I propose that this really goes against our nature.
We’re barely beyond flinging poo at each other from the limbs of trees.
It may sound all nice to believe in an egalitarian society with no fear of losing healthcare and shelter, but even in the most successful fictional representation of that, Star Trek, presents that idea as a consequence of (1) unlimited energy, and (2) replication machines.
We have neither.
As I get older I worry about my retirement, the fact that I underprepared (in my carefree youth, why worry about old age?), and how all this works out for everyone else too.
In the end I think the idea of a basic income is a sort of a public fall-back position from using words that few politicians will want to utter from their lips - “raise taxes”.
The time is going to come where there just aren’t enough jobs for all the people who want them.
Either you go with basic income or you kill those who are starving and desperate.
Gabbard says Harris ‘not qualified to serve as commander in chief’
thehill.com
I guess Putin’s check cleared.
re: #218 Kilroy was here
Gabbard says Harris ‘not qualified to serve as commander in chief’
thehill.com
I guess Putin’s check cleared.
But she thinks she is. Priceless.
Excellent piece https://t.co/ijHcArqTPO
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) July 23, 2019
re: #211 Rocky-in-Connecticut
Mixed-up sequence?
UPDATE: Francisco Erwin Galicia has been released from ICE custody, his attorney and mother confirmed to @dallasnews:https://t.co/DdkEHCDDLt
— Obed Manuel 🌮 (@obedmanuel) July 23, 2019
Lre: #218 Kilroy was here
Gabbard says Harris ‘not qualified to serve as commander in chief’
thehill.com
I guess Putin’s check cleared.
So we know who Vlad is afraid of.
re: #210 HappyWarrior
It’s not as crazy as it seems. I just know Yang wouldn’t have a clue to implement it.
Yang has gone way in depth on how it would be implemented, many many videos on you tube
re: #224 VegasGolfer
Yang has gone way in depth on how it would be implemented, many many videos on you tube
Fair enough. I just feel skeptical towards businessmen with big words.
The thing is the economy is in transition like never before in recent memory. When I was a kid and it wasn’t that long ago, I only really remember a couple people who worked from home. Now it’s different.
The frightening thing is that he seems to actually believe this. More frightening: he and McConnell have installed an attorney general who behaves as if he believes it too. https://t.co/Ik09dUGn3M
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 23, 2019
Joy forgot to mention a media apparatus spearheaded by Fox that sincerely seems to believe this too.
They’ve literally gone out of their way to turn Trump into an unaccountable King.
If it’s Tuesday it must be musical chairs day at the Pentagon
From @ChiefPentSpox: “Following confirmation by the U.S. Senate, the president appointed Dr. Mark T. Esper to be the 27th secretary of defense. @EsperDoD has been sworn in and has the full authority and responsibility of the secretary of defense.
— Lee Hudson (@LeeHudson_) July 23, 2019
under secretary of defense (comptroller)/chief financial officer. @secnav76 has ceased to serve as acting secretary of defense and, as delegated by @EsperDoD, is now performing the duties of deputy secretary of defense, in addition to remaining secretary of the Navy. #MakingWaves
— Lee Hudson (@LeeHudson_) July 23, 2019
From @ChiefPentSpox: “With @EsperDoD’s resignation as secretary of the #Army @UnderSecArmy is now acting secretary of the Army.
— Lee Hudson (@LeeHudson_) July 23, 2019
re: #192 Charles Johnson
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Question is if you took an 1/16th of a shot for every time Strzok or Page or missing texts are mentioned, would you still need your stomach pumped?
David Sirota: MY PHONE, TABLET, LAPTOP AND DESKTOP SUDDENLY DON’T WORK AND I HAVE DIPHTHERIA
— Fuck Conservatives (@FuckCons) July 23, 2019
re: #230 MsJ
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The twitter desktop redesign makes me want to interact on twitter less than ever. More is not always better.
re: #213 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ok, that may sound all good, but I propose that this really goes against our nature.
We’re barely beyond flinging poo at each other from the limbs of trees.
It may sound all nice to believe in an egalitarian society with no fear of losing healthcare and shelter, but even in the most successful fictional representation of that, Star Trek, presents that idea as a consequence of (1) unlimited energy, and (2) replication machines.
We have neither.
As I get older I worry about my retirement, the fact that I underprepared (in my carefree youth, why worry about old age?), and how all this works out for everyone else too.
In the end I think the idea of a basic income is a sort of a public fall-back position from using words that few politicians will want to utter from their lips - “raise taxes”.
I would disagree with that though. If we create robots that can drive us around, pick fruits and vegetables, ship goods, stock shelves, prepare basic food, perform simple clinical diagnoses, and clean for us, should we require people to work to take care of basic needs? There’s really no way to get around money, because even if people are now doing more artistic and scientific endeavors, people still going to need a way to exchange their goods and services for value. Thus, there will need to be a basic amount of money needed.
re: #214 Teddy’s Person
The dotard doth protest too much, methinks.
Al Capone would have loved those arguments.
re: #232 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The twitter desktop redesign makes me want to interact on twitter less than ever. More is not always better.
Could you screen capture it? I’m still not seeing it.
re: #235 MsJ
Could you screen capture it? I’m still not seeing it.
I’m trying out the gray skin to see if it helps me focus… but it’s not working:
I mean, really? https://t.co/HpRAhNHtMi pic.twitter.com/xdlwKW9FsJ
— Nick Baumann (@NickBaumann) July 23, 2019
Quelle surprise. Not only failing to crack down on the crazies but allowing an environment for them to thrive even more than before. What a shock.
One of the new layout’s problems is the three columns. Not that three columns are necessarily bad, but they should be colored differently, with different size fonts.
And now that Twitter sneaks in the advertisements seamlessly, like Facebook, it all seems too much noise in the system.
If you could give Mueller entrance music for when he walked into the chamber tomorrow, what would it be?
re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg
Twilight Zone.
re: #236 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m trying out the gray skin to see if it helps me focus… but it’s not working:
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I like that.
re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg
If you could give Mueller entrance music for when he walked into the chamber tomorrow, what would it be?
Ideally “I Fought The Law And The Law Won”.
re: #241 MsJ
I find the sneaking in of adverts and push-tweets to be most annoying.
.@ilhan has co-sponsored legislation to combat FGM & voted earlier this year to direct $1M to fight it. There were six no votes in the House: Reps. Arrington, Massie, Davidson (OH), McClintock, Rice (SC) and Rooney (FL). This took five minutes of research. https://t.co/bdU6759A43
— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) July 23, 2019
A fire hose of lies.
re: #243 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I find the sneaking in of adverts and push-tweets to be most annoying.
I get “promoted” tweets all the time. And they are almost all fake news (usually surrounding celebrities).
NYPD brass blast scoundrels caught on viral videos dousing cops with water during weekend heatwave, promising culprits will be arrested
But in the same breath NYPD Chief Terence Monahan drubbed the cops who took the abuse. “We don’t take that.”https://t.co/GvZLyFLi6Z— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 23, 2019
NYPD brass on Tuesday blasted the scoundrels caught on viral videos dousing cops with water during the weekend heatwave, promising that the culprits will be arrested.
But in the same breath NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan drubbed the cops who took the abuse.
“Any cop who thinks that that’s all right, that they can walk away from something like that, maybe they should reconsider whether or not this is the profession for them,” Monahan said Tuesday during an NYPD Longevity Celebration at police headquarters in Lower Manhattan, where cops who served 30 years or more were honored. “We don’t take that.”
“Deescalation” is a four-letter word to cops today.
re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg
If you could give Mueller entrance music for when he walked into the chamber tomorrow, what would it be?
The Final Countdown.
re: #100 HappyWarrior
I don’t need flowers that often and I’m a ways from Falls Church but I’ll keep her in mind.
Delivers!
re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg
If you could give Mueller entrance music for when he walked into the chamber tomorrow, what would it be?
The Twitter poll put up by Mr. Atheist in conjunction with his latest video…
Please watch today’s episode before answering! https://t.co/ZZwkzs4Led
Do you believe Trump is an atheist?— Mr. Atheist- The Pumpkin King 🎃 🎩 (@DearMrAtheist) July 23, 2019
And apparently who also believes he has unlimited power (see Trump’s comments today on Article 2.)
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) July 23, 2019
re: #105 HappyWarrior
I have Czech liquor in my room in anticipation for my birthday tomorrow. Had a Cubano today for lunch.
Happy Warrior Birthday.
“we just don’t want to destroy the color … uh the culture of the country” … the starchy Brit guests awkward “right” is priceless. pic.twitter.com/q29iL3O5JF
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 23, 2019
re: #254 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #209 Stanley Sea
They have a Facebook page- which includes menu and photos.
If Republicans ask Mueller about their dumb “deep state” nonsense tomorrow, he won’t be able to answer, according to guidance from the DOJ that he can only talk about what’s in his report.
It’s sure they’ve thought of that.— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) July 23, 2019
re: #244 Dread Pirate
I have no problem with the way she replied
re: #254 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Nice slip Brit. We see you. As for the culture. You’re full of shit.
https://t.co/z5H8MJFcH3 pic.twitter.com/VepD5TOAuB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
re: #244 Dread Pirate
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A fire hose of lies.
She also played a role in the 9/11 first responders bill. She shouldn’t have to condemn Al Queda any more than my grandfather Nazism.
re: #260 Charles Johnson
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re: #260 Charles Johnson
I thought Mueller cleared you. What happened to as NO COLLUSION and NO OBSTRUCTION?
You’re now admitting you lied?
Again? With every breath you take?— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 23, 2019
re: #259 HappyWarrior
Nice slip Brit. We see you. As for the culture. You’re full of shit.
That’s Kilmeade not Brit
Look at how he swings back and forth between NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION, TOTAL EXONERATION!!!!!! and RIGGED WITCH HUNT!!!!!1!!
Which is it?
Just got back only to hear of a last minute change allowing a Never Trumper attorney to help Robert Mueller with his testimony before Congress tomorrow. What a disgrace to our system. Never heard of this before. VERY UNFAIR, SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED. A rigged Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2019
re: #95 lawhawk
Nazi going to a Nazi rally to be with other Nazis to get their Nazi on.
— Tree Trunks (@efuseakay) July 23, 2019
re: #266 The Pie Overlord!
Look at how he swings back and forth between NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION, TOTAL EXONERATION!!!!!! and RIGGED WITCH HUNT!!!!!1!!
Which is it?
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Its whichever Trump needs it to be at the moment he is tweeting, silly.
NEW: A neo-Nazi has been charged in SDNY with making threats to an unnamed Jewish organization in Manhattan.
The criminal complaint has a photo from his Facebook page, bearing a Pepe meme with a Warsaw ghetto backdrop.
Doc: https://t.co/ozM1jxtjpq
cc: @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/TG6P3wJemd— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 23, 2019
This particular neo-Nazi white supremacist considered himself part of an offshoot known as “Asatru,” a group seen among the associated fascists at Charlottesville. pic.twitter.com/hvZLKyXGeU
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 23, 2019
re: #268 Decatur Deb
Fully rigged witch
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That son- (daughter?) of- a-bitch looks fast and mean.
Privateer?
re: #265 danarchy
That’s Kilmeade not Brit
Fair enough. Same jackass mindset over there. And yeah I see what I did. I saw Brit and thought Hume.
re: #271 austin_blue
That son- (daughter?) of- a-bitch looks fast and mean.
Privateer?
First of the great clippers.
Later in the 1850s, Sea Witch physically deteriorated and her place in the fast-freight trade was taken over by newer vessels. The aging clipper ship was reassigned to serve as a steerage vessel carrying immigrants to the Western Hemisphere. In 1856, with approximately 500 immigrants from China on board, she ran aground 12 miles (19 km) west of Havana.[9]
The cruelty is the point. #TheResistance #Resist https://t.co/qqJFOitjd6
— Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) July 23, 2019
Uuuuh, this is not maple syrup. No, it’s not honey either
Maple syrup getting poured is the most relaxing thing to watch! pic.twitter.com/RXRd4j2WK1
— Tasty (@tasty) July 23, 2019
This is what it really is:
”No, I can’t believe they chose him either” #ToryLeadershipElection pic.twitter.com/H41l5KuLfX
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 23, 2019
@BorisJohnson I like my breakfast at 11, my lunch at noon and a belly rub while napping in between.
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 23, 2019
@cathynewman Apologies, been a long day pic.twitter.com/aSLEdrfALI
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 23, 2019
Every time I see “TPUSA” I think of Donnie climbing onto that plane with toilet paper stuck to his shoe. https://t.co/nAcnINRPSL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 23, 2019
re: #280 Dread Pirate
“Wyoming’s population drops for the third consecutive year | Business …”
Yep, families are flocking to that state.
Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania.
re: #264 MsJ
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re: #280 Dread Pirate
“Wyoming’s population drops for the third consecutive year | Business …”
Yep, families are flocking to that state.
It’s Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
moron
Just watched Rep. Eric Swalwell be asked endless softball questions by @marthamaccallum on @FoxNews about the phony Witch Hunt. He was just forced out of the Democrat Presidential Primary because he polled at ZERO. Fox sure ain’t what it used to be. Too bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2019
Oh well, we still have the great @seanhannity who I hear has a really strong show tonight. 9:00 P.M.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2019
“Hither, thither & (mostly) yon: People are fleeing Pennsylvania”
Pennsylvania is once again a place that people love to leave. Although the state’s births outnumbered deaths, more people left the state last year than moved in, resulting in a population loss of almost 7,700 people.
There, a headline that fits, barely.
A newbie’s tale:
So this is Twitter, huh? Wow pretty cool! Look at all the doggo pics and musicians and comedians and…
Hey wait a minute. Who let all these Nazis in here?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2019
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
He really thinks that Hannity’s got the inside scoop on how to question career prosecutor Mueller, when Democrats have a bunch of prosecutors and expert lawyers ready to ask questions that cut to the heart of the report and what Democrats need to surface.
GOPers have Gohmert? Meadows? Jordan?
Yeah, I’m sure Mueller’s really going to crumble under that barrage of bulkshit.
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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You wanted the soft balls for yourself. But yeah Lumpy will always be there to be LeFou to your Gaston.
LOLOLOLOL https://t.co/obC4iAXIOe
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 24, 2019
re: #289 lawhawk
He really thinks that Hannity’s got the inside scoop on how to question career prosecutor Mueller, when Democrats have a bunch of prosecutors and expert lawyers ready to ask questions that cut to the heart of the report and what Democrats need to surface.
GOPers have Gohmert? Meadows? Jordan?
Yeah, I’m sure Mueller’s really going to crumble under that barrage of bulkshit.
Mueller dealt with clever mob attorneys. He’ll be ready for these idiots.
For those of you hoping for an early look at what former special counsel Robert Mueller plans to say tomorrow, no such luck: His spox says they won’t be sending out his opening remarks tonight, and they aren’t giving anything to Congress either
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 23, 2019
re: #294 HappyWarrior
If they get rid of the Nazis, I’m there.
They got rid of VB but the nazis are still there.
Trump’s Staff every time he mentions Article 2 - knowing Article 2 contains the Impeachment Clause. pic.twitter.com/YF7XQlIduq
— Melissa Morales (@Melissa_In_FL) July 23, 2019
re: #295 The Pie Overlord!
They got rid of VB but the nazis are still there.
Pie hating fascists. But jokes aside, it really is appalling they ban you and these right wing asses get protected and they have the balls to claim political persecution.
On the very same day the FBI Director testified that most domestic terrorism arrests now involve white supremacy. https://t.co/ZhYefWCz81
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 24, 2019
re: #275 The Pie Overlord!
Something ominous is in that article…the school board asshole hinted that they were looking for other ways to get that money. Wanna bet it’ll be via a collection agency?
re: #289 lawhawk
He really thinks that Hannity’s got the inside scoop on how to question career prosecutor Mueller, when Democrats have a bunch of prosecutors and expert lawyers ready to ask questions that cut to the heart of the report and what Democrats need to surface.
GOPers have Gohmert? Meadows? Jordan?
Yeah, I’m sure Mueller’s really going to crumble under that barrage of bulkshit.
Hannity never graduated from college. Nor Rush. No real erudition or logical thinking skills. No really ability learn how to learn (the most important skill of college). Lock-step losers of the Modern Right.
As bad as you know it is going to be
re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Isn’t Antifa not even an official organization so much as an informal movement? Good job, Ted, you’re asking DoJ to investigate something that doesn’t have a structure but you knew that already because you’re eager to deflect the alt right bullshit that your party enables.
re: #300 austin_blue
Hannity never graduated from college. Nor Rush. No real erudition or logical thinking skills. No really ability learn how to learn …
But they learned how to milk marks, and milk them well.
re: #300 austin_blue
Hannity never graduated from college. Nor Rush. No real erudition or logical thinking skills. No really ability learn how to learn (the most important skill of college). Lock-step losers of the Modern Right.
Yeah two really dumb guys. Rush and Hannity would fail if they ever had to leave the radio booth or tv seat for a “real job.”
re: #303 wrenchwench
That’s a ‘never-click’, right there.
National Review was the first clue. I hate those assholes.
re: #289 lawhawk
He really thinks that Hannity’s got the inside scoop on how to question career prosecutor Mueller, when Democrats have a bunch of prosecutors and expert lawyers ready to ask questions that cut to the heart of the report and what Democrats need to surface.
GOPers have Gohmert? Meadows? Jordan?
Yeah, I’m sure Mueller’s really going to crumble under that barrage of bulkshit.
Hannity is going to do a tutorial for Republicans on how to question Mueller.
Not a republican propaganda network. Nope. Not at all.
re: #299 A Mom Anon
Something ominous is in that article…the school board asshole hinted that they were looking for other ways to get that money. Wanna bet it’ll be via a collection agency?
They threatened to have the kids put into Foster care.
Fuck that guy. With a rusty shovel. A big one.
re: #303 wrenchwench
Popped up on the suggested for you. And my God. I clicked it and it was terrible
re: #307 MsJ
Hannity is going to do a tutorial for Republicans on how to question Mueller.
Not a republican propaganda network. Nope. Not at all.
Do wingnuts who complain about a “biased liberal media” even remotely see how nuts that is? Imagine Maddow prepping the Dems.
re: #308 MsJ
Happens a metric crap ton where I live. Kids going to foster care due to the school and various things that the school seems unacceptable
re: #309 nowherenorth2
Popped up on the suggested for you. And my God. I clicked it and it was terrible
National Review usually is unless it’s this sentence “Due to a lack of reader interest, we are closing the National Review. This will be our last issue.”
re: #306 HappyWarrior
Agreed. As stated. I am a glutton for punishment sometimes
re: #213 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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Ok, that may sound all good, but I propose that this really goes against our nature.
We’re barely beyond flinging poo at each other from the limbs of trees.
It may sound all nice to believe in an egalitarian society with no fear of losing healthcare and shelter, but even in the most successful fictional representation of that, Star Trek, presents that idea as a consequence of (1) unlimited energy, and (2) replication machines.
We have neither.
As I get older I worry about my retirement, the fact that I underprepared (in my carefree youth, why worry about old age?), and how all this works out for everyone else too.
In the end I think the idea of a basic income is a sort of a public fall-back position from using words that few politicians will want to utter from their lips - “raise taxes”.
I hope that at almost Level 72 I am not overly optimistic, but things look good from wher I am.
re: #308 MsJ
They threatened to have the kids put into Foster care.
Fuck that guy. With a rusty shovel. A big one.
Because it’s not really about being paid.
It’s about MAKING certain people pay. https://t.co/VaMOV3nqWX— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 23, 2019
re: #313 nowherenorth2
Agreed. As stated. I am a glutton for punishment sometimes
Yeah no knock on you at all, I just get flashbacks of National Review and hearing how Kevin Williamson’s got some good points. Haha.
Oh fachrissake, Mueller starts at 8:30 am ET? Am I really going to have to get up at 5:30? Goddammit.
At least there won’t be any kids on my lawn at that ungodly hour.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2019
re: #317 Charles Johnson
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re: #317 Charles Johnson
You did NOT just ask me to get up at 2:30AM. I get up at 3:15 or later ya bastages.
re: #308 MsJ
I know, but that had no legal basis. 1000 families got that letter and I can only imagine the distress that caused those families. And now they won’t take a donation to pay the debts in full? Yeah, something is fucked up there.
I have a call in to our county school nutrition office to talk to the boss lady. I want to know if this kind of callous shit happens here if families don’t quite meet the poverty requirements. Do the kids starve or is there a fund to cover that sort of stuff? Or do they get a damned cheese sandwich and a glass of milk and that’s all. Food is a human right. Too many people think it’s a privilege.
re: #315 Backwoods_Sleuth
There is a possibility, and I am leaving room for this, that the district’s claim that the parents are in fact able to pay is true. So while it seems petty of the school district to turn down the offer of some rich dude to pay the bill, OTOH the district may be afraid that indeed able-to-pay parents are just not paying the bills.
If the latter is true, then I don’t know what it says about that community. IIRC, when I went to school I carried my lunch. Then sometime in Jr. High I gave that up for the cafeteria food.
re: #302 HappyWarrior
Isn’t Antifa not even an official organization so much as an informal movement? Good job, Ted, you’re asking DoJ to investigate something that doesn’t have a structure but you knew that already because you’re eager to deflect the alt right bullshit that your party enables.
Didn’t stop them from going after Black Lives Matter before. Meanwhile, actual, literal white supremacist organizations with actual organization and leadership, get ignored. Proud Boys despite their PR drops earlier this year, still get treated with kid gloves in the way that it matters.
re: #320 A Mom Anon
Twitter, do your thing. Contact this appalling school official.
There’s no reason to threaten parents that their children will be taken away over school lunch debt. Especially not when a good Samaritan had offered to step in and help.
Call your legislators, too. https://t.co/WLGcZRPEGe— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 24, 2019
re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ha! Mueller knows how to make Trump squirm.
re: #321 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There is a possibility, and I am leaving room for this, that the district’s claim that the parents are in fact able to pay is true. So while it seems petty of the school district to turn down the offer of some rich dude to pay the bill, OTOH the district may be afraid that indeed able-to-pay parents are just not paying the bills.
If the latter is true, then I don’t know what it says about that community. IIRC, when I went to school I carried my lunch. Then sometime in Jr. High I gave that up for the cafeteria food.
Does it matter? What sane official turns down a $22k donation?
re: #322 Citizen K
Didn’t stop them from going after Black Lives Matter before. Meanwhile, actual, literal white supremacist organizations with actual organization and leadership, get ignored. Proud Boys despite their PR drops earlier this year, still get treated with kid gloves in the way that it matters.
Yeah that’s what I mean.
Trump’s suit to stop the NY AG and House Ways and Means from getting Trump’s state tax returns is as without merit as you’d expect it to be.
He’s truly afraid of the information in those tax returns being made public knowledge.
That should be a red flag that he doesn’t want the scrutiny because of what he had been doing all these years.
It’s also a red flag as to how he scammed the IRS and state authorities with complex returns; shell companies and none of this ends well.
re: #321 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
How the hell would he know if those 1000 families are able to pay or not? There were so many other ways this should have been handled. The fact he wouldn’t take the money after making those not at all legal threats and having to publicly walk that back says he’s full of shit.
I could not make it past 30 seconds into this video.
I made it four minutes into this video and every single person I saw in it is white. It’s quite astounding. https://t.co/qUqnimQn53
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 24, 2019
re: #324 Eclectic Cyborg
Ha! Mueller knows how to make Trump squirm.
Just by being there he does. Mueller could do a one man show of The Big Lebowski tomorrow and it would still be more dignified than anything Trump has ever done.
re: #321 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There is a possibility, and I am leaving room for this, that the district’s claim that the parents are in fact able to pay is true. So while it seems petty of the school district to turn down the offer of some rich dude to pay the bill, OTOH the district may be afraid that indeed able-to-pay parents are just not paying the bills.
If the latter is true, then I don’t know what it says about that community. IIRC, when I went to school I carried my lunch. Then sometime in Jr. High I gave that up for the cafeteria food.
I lived a block away from elementary school, and went home for lunch. Until one day, I went home at first recess, thinking it was lunch already. Mom was surprised, but figured she lost track of time. Until the school called when I didn’t come back from recess. It was the most embarrassing thing ever (up to that point), going back to that classroom. I started carrying lunch soon after.
re: #331 William Lewis
Rights? Hah. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
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re: #318 HappyWarrior
One thing is for sure Mueller isn’t making this a circus.
If anybody is going to play this by the book and not make it a shitshow, it will be Mueller.
Which begs the question: what book was written on this particular shit show?
re: #332 wrenchwench
I lived a block away from elementary school, and went home for lunch. Until one day, I went home at first recess, thinking it was lunch already. Mom was surprised, but figured she lost track of time. Until the school called when I didn’t come back from recess. It was the most embarrassing thing ever (up to that point), going back to that classroom. I started carrying lunch soon after.
When I was living with my mother (in a room behind a Chinese laundry) the nuns gave her shit for sending me to school with ketchup sandwiches and Army surplus clothes. She fixed it by dropping me on their doorstep to raise. (Different, cooler, nuns for accuracy.)
re: #334 BigPapa
If anybody is going to play this by the book and not make it a shitshow, it will be Mueller.
Which begs the question: what book was written on this particular shit show?
I don’t know. I’m just glad Mueller is all business.
re: #336 HappyWarrior
I don’t know. I’m just glad Mueller is all business.
One thing that seems apparent about Mueller: he won’t give us want we want. But he may give us what we need. That’s the most I think we’ll get.
re: #335 Decatur Deb
When I was living with my mother (in a room behind a Chinese laundry) the nuns gave her shit for sending me to school with ketchup sandwiches and Army surplus clothes. She fixed it by dropping me on their doorstep to raise. (Different, cooler, nuns for accuracy.)
That’s a tough start. It’s hard to tell on the internet, but you seem to have turned out OK.
re: #338 wrenchwench
That’s a tough start. It’s hard to tell on the internet, but you seem to have turned out OK.
Those were good days. It kept me from ever liking Dickens.
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