Turn it up and bathe in these gorgeous cascading harmonics.
“Secret Love” appears on Tommy Emmanuel & Martin Taylor’s album, The Colonel & The Governor.
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A high-profile Chinese fugitive who belongs to Mar-a-Lago and has railed against China’s communist government is accused of being a spy for that very regime, according to new documents filed in a federal court case in New York. https://t.co/UEpdetjA9N
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 23, 2019
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 24, 2019
Tomorrow I am going to be paying particular attention to which House Democrats are team players focused on the task at hand, and which ones are there to raise their own profiles by creating viral video moments. I will look into sending money to potential primary opponents of anyone who falls into the latter category.
And of course I already know there will be plenty of stomach churning moments as human detritus like Mark Meadows and Gym Jordan compete to see who shall be named most obedient Trump defender.
So, it was an optics thing.
I mean, why the hell not explain it honestly from the beginning?
Pence canceled New Hampshire trip to avoid contact with drug trafficker: report https://t.co/D6gSKhWMOt pic.twitter.com/jfglAkxDEu
— The Hill (@thehill) July 24, 2019
“… If Pence had flown on Air Force Two for the planned opioid event in Manchester, N.H., he would have come into contact with former New York Giants player Jeff Hatch, who now works for the opioid addiction treatment center Pence was set to visit, Politico reports.
Hatch is under investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for moving more than $100,000 of fentanyl from Massachusetts to New Hampshire, and he agreed on Friday to plead guilty to the charge and will serve up to four years in prison, according to Politico. …”
So sick and tired of old white racist fucks with terrible yellowish hair.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2019
When they age enough, that yellowish hair turns white and then you get Hugh Hewitt.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2019
The hair was striving for whiteness all along, but it takes a lifetime of awfulness to get it all the way there.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2019
why does this dog look like richard gere pic.twitter.com/XLylaBofPQ
— nevona (@nevona) July 24, 2019
re: #2 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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I am not getting my hopes up for Mueller’s testimony tomorrow.
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s the hair cut, obviously
//— 𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) July 24, 2019
re: #8 Citizen K
The Onion needs to stop stealing from the actual news and get back to satire and joke headlines. ////////
Almost impossible in the Age of Trump. Much like the way the storyline in House of Cards seemed lame compared to reality.
re: #11 The Pie Overlord!
I am not getting my hopes up for Mueller’s testimony tomorrow.
I’m not either. I’m going to treat myself to a nice birthday lunch and listen to music and watch a movie.
re: #14 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Almost impossible in the Age of Trump. Much like the way the storyline in House of Cards seemed lame compared to reality.
Underwood was believable as a President.
Tommy has this subtle yet stout thread of childish joy and amazement to his style.
Wait why is Trump grabbing this young person by the shoulders if he makes fun of Joe Biden for doing the same thing?
Is it OK because this young person is a male? I assume it is a male because TPUSA is gender-role-conforming cis-hetero-normative.
The event also featured “send her back” chantshttps://t.co/06PwjE7lbw
re: #18 The Pie Overlord!
Wait why is Trump grabbing this young person by the shoulders if he makes fun of Joe Biden for doing the same thing?
Is it OK because this young person is a male? I assume it is a male because TPUSA is gender-role-conforming cis-hetero-normative.
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Rules for Trump and rules for everyone else. And that kid is going to feel like the girl who got photographed with Stalin holding her eventually.
re: #2 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Let’s be real here. The GOP cares about deficits only if money is going to help those in need; reducing taxes on the wealthy is the name of their game and it’s even better if you can use the increased deficit as an excuse to cut/destroy existing programs that help the poor or middle class.
Whenever I do something with SVG images, I feel like I’ve stepped through a combination time machine/alternate reality portal into a plane where Postscript took over the universe.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2019
re: #20 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s be real here. The GOP cares about deficits only if money is going to help those in need; reducing taxes on the wealthy is the name of their game and it’s even better if you can use the increased deficit as an excuse to cut/destroy existing programs that help the poor or middle class.
Well yes. They accuse us of doing class warfare but they’re oligarchs.
So, does the “request” for Mueller to testify before the two committees include requiring him to bring a few unredacted copies of his report for the committees? May be a missed opportunity.
re: #22 HappyWarrior
Well yes. They accuse us of doing class warfare but they’re oligarchs.
The oligarchs are engaging in class warfare, and they are winning.
re: #24 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The oligarchs are engaging in class warfare, and they are winning.
They’ve been for a long time.
You know that nothing’s going to change with the Mueller testimony, right?
Nobody is coming to save us.
We are going to have to save ourselves.— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) July 23, 2019
Trump has a laugh after someone in the crowd yells “president for life!” He responds by saying, “that’s what they’re afraid of, you know.” pic.twitter.com/OgHsrFAIVS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2019
You just know that if he loses next year he will issue an EO making himself President For Life & the Democrats will just sit on their hands.
re: #26 The Pie Overlord!
Smartest tweet of the season.
re: #28 The Pie Overlord!
You just know that if he loses next year he will issue an EO making himself President For Life & the Democrats will just sit on their hands.
That is the point where we go on general strike and march on Washington.
An ARRIVISTE is someone who ambitiously and ruthlessly advances themselves to a high-ranking position that they are largely unfit for or unworthy of.
— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) July 23, 2019
re: #27 The Pie Overlord!
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He also said and the idiots went in that he would have 100% approval if not for the media. TPUSA is just another right wing cult that will kiss his ass.
ummm
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a clear message on Tuesday: They are ready to test the limits of their budding military partnership in the Pacific https://t.co/izP8nLjTyw
— CNN (@CNN) July 24, 2019
re: #30 NO SMOCKING GUN!
That is the point where we go on general strike and march on Washington.
That is where I would probably go full radical.
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
ummm
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The new Entente. I bet Japan, South Korea, & Taiwan are just tickled pink that we have a President that cared more about kissing Putin and Kim’s ass than standing up for allies there.
re: #26 The Pie Overlord!
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No one will. No one has the guts.
They’ve won.
I’m sick for my country.
re: #36 thecommodore
No one will. No one has the guts.
They’ve won.
I’m sick for my country.
We get one more shot, and time is wasting.
It’s telling that this only makes it onto BBC Asian Network and not @BBCRadio4 https://t.co/pIKRWiHvFx
— Michael Walker (@michaeljswalker) July 23, 2019
RNC host city Charlotte votes to condemn Trump’s ‘racist and xenophobic’ commentshttps://t.co/TqqNQwX4MP
#RNC2020— The Charlotte Observer (@theobserver) July 23, 2019
Top Gun jacket worn by Cruise now 100% Japan and Taiwan-free! Gotta sell those PRC tickets….
Is it me or is @Comey the least self aware human being on the planet? Or perhaps he’s the most shameless. @NateSilver538 credibly showed the letter Comey sent to Congress 11 days before election day handed the presidency to Trump. He can have all the seats, forever. https://t.co/JIbcnaIodR
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) July 24, 2019
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
This is a real thing on sale in the Trump store right now:
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$55 for ugly swim trunks. Grift indeed.
I got it beat. They were selling plastic straws at 15 bucks for 10. The Trump campaign store is the trashy boardwalk store.
Schiff to Robert Mueller: “The DOJ Letter attempts unduly to circumscribe your testimony … The Committee categorically rejects the Department’s assertion of executive privilege … I fully expect that the DOJ Letter will have no bearing on your testimony.” Via @NBCPolitics pic.twitter.com/ZJk1yBbr7Y
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 24, 2019
re: #28 The Pie Overlord!
You just know that if he loses next year he will issue an EO making himself President For Life & the Democrats will just sit on their hands.
oh bullshit. let’s please stop with this nonsense.
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
This is a real thing on sale in the Trump store right now:
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$55 for ugly swim trunks. Grift indeed.
Anyone wearing those in a public space is just asking to have them pulled down.
*SPIT*
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children could be detained indefinitely https://t.co/JH7yvTt74p pic.twitter.com/ficE3JEzs7
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 23, 2019
re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth
*SPIT*
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children could be detained indefinitely
In Kiddie Koncentration Kamps?
re: #45 steve_davis
oh bullshit. let’s please stop with this nonsense.
Considering he’s been floating the idea of just ignoring the constitution repeatedly and wanting to serve beyond 2 terms, as well as outright telling people that the constitution makes him literally king, it’s not something I’m putting past him.
TRUMP: “Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”
(Article 2 does not in fact empower the president to do whatever they want.) pic.twitter.com/qIFP1AbHw6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2019
And it’s beyond arguable at this point that the Dem response since the election has been hopelessly anemic outside of a few firebrands like AOC.
“Have you had an occasion to read the Mueller report?” Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) asked Wray during a hearing on the FBI’s budget request for fiscal 2020.
“I have not,” Wray replied.— audiomagnate (@audiomagnate) July 23, 2019
re: #49 Citizen K
Considering he’s been floating the idea of just ignoring the constitution repeatedly and wanting to serve beyond 2 terms, as well as outright telling people that the constitution makes him literally king, it’s not something I’m putting past him.
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In that unlikely case, the commander of this element becomes the most important person in the US for a short while.
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He would operate from Colorado through the subordinate Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region.
lolwhut?
A urine therapy group in Colorado touts the benefits of drinking your own pee. Doctors disagree.https://t.co/T4VA50u25t pic.twitter.com/0KCbL2paJ5
— WCPO (@WCPO) July 24, 2019
re: #50 MsJ
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.@RepCharlieCrist: “You’re under the Department of Justice, right?”
FBI Director Wray: “Yes, the FBI is part of the Justice Department.”
Crist: “Have you had an occasion to read the Mueller Report?”
Wray: “I have not.”
Watch LIVE online here: https://t.co/c9o6WAELnd pic.twitter.com/jlAiTuGJrp— CSPAN (@cspan) April 4, 2019
Joni Ernst: “It’s just like Thanksgiving dinner. You make Thanksgiving dinner for your family, maybe 10 people, but a thousand show up at your door expecting Thanksgiving dinner. What do you do? You’ve only got two legs, come on. It is a crisis.”https://t.co/9JY9JUUqto
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) July 23, 2019
Except… Thanksgiving dinner is a reminder that showing up uninvited and demanding to stay is literally America’s oldest tradition.
— Jeremy Ray Jenkins (@JeremyRJenkins) July 23, 2019
re: #28 The Pie Overlord!
You just know that if he loses next year he will issue an EO making himself President For Life & the Democrats will just sit on their hands.
Trump, declaring himself “Dictator for Life”, would be a step too far for a majority of Americans. There would be multi-millions out in the street.
re: #56 Belafon
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Except that’s not the case at all. Your base is mad just because of who is coming here. If they looked like you, you’d be fine.
JFC what a shitshow
Tomorrow is going to be a freaking circus pic.twitter.com/Vdr4Rr9hza
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) July 24, 2019
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
lolwhut?
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Good grief. There is a reason your body dumps this stuff overboard.
NOW: The DC federal judge handling one of the challenges to the Trump administration’s new asylum rules will announce his decision on whether to grant a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the rules tomorrow at 10am from the bench pic.twitter.com/DqtKv4IwZx
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) July 24, 2019
re: #61 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Good grief. There is a reason your body dumps this stuff overboard.
I want to say urine can be consumed in a survival situation but generally speaking it’s not something that is recommended.
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, Trump is in for one hell of a morning isn’t he?
re: #64 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, Trump is in for one hell of a morning isn’t he?
I wonder how many WH Staff will call in sick tomorrow?
re: #64 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, Trump is in for one hell of a morning isn’t he?
What is the earthshaking news going to be to cause that? Trump doesn’t have a worry in the world from the Dems or Mueller, or is there something else happening I’m unaware of?
Jerome Corsi has dropped his case against Jeff Bezos and the @washingtonpost. https://t.co/GLYGzdyxfW
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 23, 2019
4. Even our closest ally the UK (with a ship seized by Iran) appeals to Europe – not Washington – to build a naval coalition and says it does not support U.S. policy.https://t.co/T4XH5jLJ9d
— Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) July 23, 2019
re: #60 The Pie Overlord!
JFC what a shitshow
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#SeanHannity is currently screaming a nonstop series of questions into the camera, most of them begin with, “Did you know Hillary paid for the dossier…” This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. He’s talking so fast he’s tripping over his words.
— LoriG (@passthepinot) July 24, 2019
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sean need to back down on the coke before he has a coronary event.
Even FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted, when asked by Senator @maziehirono today, that HE hasn’t read the entire Mueller report! The FBI Director!!! So tomorrow should be eye-opening for, oh, like pretty much EVERYBODY.@tribelaw just now . This is ridiculous ❗️
— Alida#NeedToImpeach (@palomacreative) July 24, 2019
re: #70 A Mom Anon
Sean need to back down on the coke before he has a coronary event.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh!
re: #70 A Mom Anon
Sean need to back down on the coke before he has a coronary event.
I don’t care, do you?
re: #70 A Mom Anon
Sean need to back down on the coke before he has a coronary event.
In that case he needs to not change a thing. Fox will love the ratings
“real Americans”
“alien foreigners”
Yesterday. Today. Pay attention. pic.twitter.com/OxFMjIrphP— The King Center (@TheKingCenter) July 17, 2019
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Identify these students who are assaulting an autistic classmate! Twitter, do your thing!
pic.twitter.com/Exz5ym5o3D— The Blue Djin, #IAmIlhanOmar (@TheBlueDjin) July 23, 2019
“No, sir, I don’t regard myself as a racist, and I think the biggest racists in the world are those who call other folks racist. I think the biggest bigots in the world are those who call other folks bigots.”
-George Wallace in 1968 channeling the 2019 GOP— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 24, 2019
re: #77 Belafon
Jesus Christ. I hope these assholes get identified.
re: #80 A Mom Anon
Jesus Christ. I hope these assholes get identified.
JFC. This is what happens when you treat bullying like free speech and tell the bullies to “man up.”
re: #77 Belafon
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Goddamned disgusting. Those kids parents should be held liable for what those thugs did!
This can’t possibly be true since Presidunce @realdonaldtrump and Kentucky’s Senators @senatemajldr and @randpaul said “Coal is Back”. 🤔
‘Our paychecks bounced’: US workers in limbo as coalmines suddenly close #GOPLies #Kentucky #RandPaulhatesAmerica https://t.co/W4FGUxZsJO— Private Joker, USMC (@Infantry0300) July 23, 2019
This is who the RepubliKKKlans are putting up against Ilhan.
A MAGAT who is a Qanon believer!
Hi Danielle @2020MNCongress
Is it possible clarify whether or not you consider yourself affiliated with QAnon?
The “Q” necklace in your recent photo may stand for “Queen.” But your use of the “WWG1WGA” hashtag, follows, and likes suggests a Q affiliation.
Thanks for your time. pic.twitter.com/mNmqqfkz7l— Travis View (@travis_view) July 23, 2019
re: #15 HappyWarrior
I’m not either. I’m going to treat myself to a nice birthday lunch and listen to music and watch a movie.
Happy Birthday!!
re: #86 Joe Bacon 🌹
This is who the RepubliKKKlans are putting up against Ilhan.
A MAGAT who is a Qanon believer!
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They’re not even trying to find decent candidates. Remember the Illinois Nazi?
re: #89 HappyWarrior
They’re not even trying to find decent candidates. Remember the Illinois Nazi?
Yeah. And he’s right in the mainstream of the RepubliKKKlan Party!
The Netflix show “In the Dark” is really good. Murphy reminds me of an ex-girlfriend.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2019
re: #75 Dread Pirate
Wow! Timely and powerful. Sadly, the White House is pushing a completely opposite and dangerous agenda.
“I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
—William Tecumseh Sherman on being considered for the Presidential nomination in 1884.
I wonder if Uncle Billy might change his mind if we could bring him back from the dead?
re: #94 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
—William Tecumseh Sherman on being considered for the Presidential nomination in 1884.I wonder if Uncle Billy might change his mind if we could bring him back from the dead?
The presidency wouldn’t be the right place for him.
re: #15 HappyWarrior
Have a fabulous Birthday tomorrow!! Enjoy yourself!
re: #85 Belafon
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Coal workers (working or laid off) will be left feeling had, abused, and left behind. But hey- at least they still have their Whiteness …and that’s good enough to pull the lever again from Trump.
I have no idea what it means either:
Does anyone have any insight into why Zebley’s swearing-in is an important development at all? Initially it seemed like Democrats were annoyed by it. Is Trump just tweeting whatever he can to try to derail the hearings? https://t.co/rxo6tlMFSL
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 24, 2019
re: #98 Barefoot Grin
I have no idea what it means either:
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It’s chaff, meant to distract people and give Trump supporters a reason to ignore the testimony. He’s desperate.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) July 24, 2019
re: #99 Belafon
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Or, put another way:
I don’t understand why having Mueller’s deputy, who ran day to day operations, sit alongside him & answer questions within his wheelhouse would rattle the president so? Especially since Trump has stated that the Mueller report found no collusion & no obstruction. https://t.co/WSP3pnOPwJ
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 24, 2019
NPR is not your friend
Like President Trump, Boris Johnson is a larger-than-life populist who has focused on controlling immigration and restoring his nation’s standing in the world. https://t.co/agcbt2P3Zv
— NPR (@NPR) July 23, 2019
re: #99 Belafon
Having someone to “sit beside him and help him with answers.”
Trump’s jealousy is squirting out sideways.
re: #101 gocart mozart
He’s ‘focused’ on those things, but hasn’t succeeded.
Damn. I’m behind again. About Observer Art, so bummed. When I first saw the posts I was stunned. Then busy and maybe not wanting to think about it. So my thoughts are rather belated as posts go.
Had a medical scare with my Dad today. Got the call from his medical alert service. I called him, no answer. Tried his cell, disconnected. Paramedics reported a weird address for the distress call from his emergency alert pendant. Empty house? I got the paramedics to his home address, where he was just coming home from the dentist. False alarm. But damn 90 yo elderly and no cell phone? He is getting a Jitterbug this weekend period. He is fine of course but that medical alert pendant has a problem. When they try to talk to him via the tiny speaker it’s not near loud enough. $40 a month and a lease on the device? Scammy if you ask me.
— Mia Andrews (@MiaAndr10917516) July 24, 2019
re: #86 Joe Bacon 🌹
This is who the RepubliKKKlans are putting up against Ilhan.
A MAGAT who is a Qanon believer!
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— Brent Whaley For Congress (@BrentWhaleyMN) July 16, 2019
Boris Johnson was a US citizen by birthright, born to British parents in New York City. He renounced his US citizenship in 2016. Both of his parents are still alive.
re: #106 danarchy
Looks like there is going to be a republican primary. This douchebag registered months ago
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SO it’s Q Anon vs. a worshipper of Pruneface Ronnie.
BTW, my Qwazy Q relatives still expect me to be swept up along with other Democrats tomorrow as Q says that Trump will declare martial law at 8AM Eastern time tomorrow and he will dissolve Congress…
Just when you think that phony asshole can’t get any more ass-holeyer…
Sebastian Gorka: “I think that whole trans thing started with Teletubbies. Remember? One of them wore a tutu” pic.twitter.com/i2EsYDtGMP
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) July 22, 2019
re: #110 Joe Bacon 🌹
OFFS. Get some new material, you jackasses!
re: #108 Joe Bacon 🌹
OFFS. I’m sorry your family has fallen into that abyss.
I never thought I would live to see the day where Stupidity became the national obsession.
re: #101 gocart mozart
NPR is not your friend
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re: #110 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just when you think that phony asshole can’t get any more ass-holeyer…
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Having seen some of the diagrams and graphs in his dissertation, I’d like to see him diagram his claims against the Teletubbies.
Rep. Jerry Nadler: “The president and the attorney general have systematically lied to the American people about what was in [the Mueller] report. They’ve said no obstruction, no collusion, he was totally exonerated. All of those 3 statements are not true.”
Via The Hill pic.twitter.com/BqAiWAu5bW— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 24, 2019
Hundreds of black deaths in 1919 are being remembered https://t.co/PMekyIN8K0
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 23, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) July 23, 2019
That awkward moment when you’re looking for a co-sign and instead you get …
pic.twitter.com/L9dFaF9tde— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) July 24, 2019
This elicited a much needed guffaw.
Did Ben Garrison write this?
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) July 24, 2019
He jerked off to it
— )))David Cross((( (@davidcrosss) July 24, 2019
re: #120 gocart mozart
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Quillette — isn’t that an even worse source than Breitbart?
In which we find NPR becoming an organ of the delusions of Trump with their headline writer, and author @franklangfitt glosses over the horrible performance of Trump.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) July 24, 2019
re: #121 Hecuba’s daughter
Quillette — isn’t that an even worse source than Breitbart?
Andy “Antifa Broke My Skull” Ngo is a prominent contributor an editor.
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I gave up on NPR a long time ago. It became clear that the philosophy, at least for the news, is to simply mirror the society around them, rather than do the uncomfortable job of challenging the society.
Your local public radio station, which is probably run by a local college, may be fine.
But the national organization NPR is not worth keeping around.
Replace it.
re: #124 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I gave up on NPR a long time ago. It became clear that the philosophy, at least for the news, is to simply mirror the society around them, rather than do the uncomfortable job of challenging the society.
I gave up on NPR back in the 80s when they endlessly kissed Slappy Thomas’ ass and Nina Tottenberg endlessly lied about Anita Hill.
re: #75 Dread Pirate
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Alas, I only have one upding to give. And a US National Archives version of the film:
re: #125 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
My local public radio (NPR) station is run by wealthy liberals in and around Aspen, CO.
re: #105 gocart mozart
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— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) July 24, 2019
There’s a community public radio station that I’ve been digging for years. KDNK in Carbondale, CO. Astrophysicist Katie Mack gave the station a shoutout today on Twitter.
Check out https://t.co/bgjjpoGQaJ at half past for Radio Physics — if I’ve got the date right, it’ll be my interview at @AspenPhysics from last month!
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) July 23, 2019
Forgiveness is your cross to bear - How to be a Christian Counselor 3 https://t.co/1PuC8I12Jo via @YouTube
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) July 24, 2019
I’m gonna keep saying this because it’s so poorly understood: Since 1981 the deficit has grown under every Republican president and shrunk under every Democratic president. https://t.co/UxK2iDh1dp
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 24, 2019
I’m actually lucky when it comes to public radio, I think. I listen to KVJZ all the time in my car, which is a repeater for KUVO in Denver, one of the best jazz radio stations in the United States. I love Saturday nights! The R&B Jukebox is some of the best two hours on radio.
re: #132 Teukka
Also, Re: Soundtrack for Mueller entering into hearing:
:lightning:
:clap of thunder:
Ilhan Omar’s Republican challenger for her congressional seat is a QAnon cultist. Perfect!
re: #137 teleskiguy
Ilhan Omar’s Republican challenger for her congressional seat is a QAnon cultist. Perfect!
As Al Jolson said, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”
There will be plenty more Qwazy Qs running and getting nominated in RepubliKKKlan primaries!
I am snapping hair ties left and right. I broke three today.
Maybe it’s time for a hair cut?
Airbus A400M Achieves Paratrooping Milestone https://t.co/9wI2kV9j50 #ASDNews #defense #aerospace pic.twitter.com/LrHTNylj4v
Europe finally figures out how to deploy paratroopers out of the back of a cargo plane.
re: #45 steve_davis
oh bullshit. let’s please stop with this nonsense.
It isn’t nonsense. There is a real possibility he would do something like that. Or get Barr to investigate the election ad nauseum, holding Trump in power until the matter was resolved. And the Dems will do nothing because they’re corrupted.
You all can laugh at me if I’m wrong, because that means Trump lost and is gone, and I will never be happier to be wrong, but I can’t help but feel that this nation is headed down a very dark path in the years to come.
I’d normally pass this by as the delusions of Calvinist preachers whose ties are so snug not enough blood is getting to their brains except for the political implications.
There is a group called “Founders Ministries,” a parachurch “organization” affiliated loosely to the Southern Baptist Convention. They exist, I guess, to beat back any sort of inclination to listen to people of color or women preachers or those who are advocating for child sexual abuse victims in churches. This “organization” has a “cinedoc” coming out in September and it’s going to be a doozy, a veritable cornucopia of false light defamation.
Here’s the video, it is 3 minutes and 52 seconds of garbage (but see below). It’s worth noting that one of the twits from the church I picket on Sunday was involved in filming this thing, and may have edited this. He certainly was crowing about it today on Twitter. This twit does not attend an SBC church.
At about the second minute in, they bash an unidentified liberal Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber, and then carefully juxtapose her to an unidentified Rachael Denhollander (who is pictured in various blurred formats). Ms. Denhollander has been all over child sexual abuse (she exposed Larry Nassar’s abuse) and spoke at an SBC session last month. The voiceover at that point talks about “we’re always having the powers and principalities exert pressure on us,” with the implication that Ms. Denhollander is satanically inspired.
At 3:01 in the video, there are four images carefully shown, one after another. Basically, scary women, scary SJWs, scary protesters, scary Bernie Sanders. Yeah, scary Bernie. They’re behind the button.
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What’s interesting is that Scary Nadia Bolz-Weber and Scary Protesters and Scary Bernie were left out of a version of the video Founders “leaders” shared on their YouTube program yesterday.
The video did cause an uproar and some of the men named in it objected, some strenuously, to the way they were portrayed. The thing is—with the exception of Nadia Bolz-Weber, all of the named people are very conservative Baptists, but not conservative enough for Founders. Not conservative enough, not racist enough, not sexist enough, not willing to gag women and people of color and people asking for change on child sexual abuse. Founders Ministries are a disgusting bunch who basically think liberalism “has been their core tactic for a century and a half”. That’s a quote from one of their favored guys, and the implication is pretty clear. The SBC was great when it was run by Calvinists before the Civil War.
re: #141 thecommodore
You all can laugh at me if I’m wrong, because that means Trump lost and is gone, and I will never be happier to be wrong, but I can’t help but feel that this nation is headed down a very dark path in the years to come.
I am not discounting a second term. And when that happens, well, fuckin’ all bets are off. I might flee to British Columbia.
re: #45 steve_davis
oh bullshit. let’s please stop with this nonsense.
Sorry, dude. This isn’t nonsense. It’s *reality.* The worst of Fuckface Von Clownstick’s excesses that were predicted before he became president* are coming true at an alarming rate. Wake the fuck up.
“He’s not going to do what he says he’s going to do.”
Fuck off.
No time like it. Only time I know. https://t.co/vkAZ6Wpm3p
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 24, 2019
It’s been my experience since starting to work a graveyard shift job that it’s not the nights when you know you’re walking into Hell that leave you contemplating curling into the fetal position and crying, it’s the nights when you come in thinking “This will be a cinch” that see the fecal matter hit the rotary impeller again and again. Why? Because it’s those nights when the lack of a manager on duty becomes the most obvious, as nothing you can do within the powers of your job title will satisfy the assholes who decide at 2am to make a federal case out of not being able to find a parking spot.
re: #43 HappyWarrior
I got it beat. They were selling plastic straws at 15 bucks for 10. The Trump campaign store is the trashy boardwalk store.
I prefer the swag over at Cthulhu for America. Much better stuff.
re: #115 Barefoot Grin
Having seen some of the diagrams and graphs in his dissertation, I’d like to see him diagram his claims against the Teletubbies.
It’d look like this.
re: #148 Dr Lizardo
I prefer the swag over at Cthulhu for America. Much better stuff.
Has he chosen his running mate this go around? I remember his last choice was a bit controversial as the crowds kept disappearing when they chanted his name.
re: #150 Targetpractice
Has he chosen his running mate this go around? I remember his last choice was a bit controversial as the crowds kept disappearing when they chanted his name.
LOL
re: #148 Dr Lizardo
I prefer the swag over at Cthulhu for America. Much better stuff.
Great stuff
This is my favorite, though I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing it:
Regarding that QAnon nut (Danielle Stella) who wants to run against Rep. Ilhan Omar, there’s this little tidbit…..she may not be a Q-cumber after all but rather, she’s just using it to appeal to the nutcases, riding the wave as it were.
While someone who appeared to work for the campaign told Right Wing Watch that Stella stood “100 percent” behind Q, former aides told The Daily Beast it was actually a ruse. Jodi Larson, a former Stella campaign staffer who has since backed another candidate, said Stella is just posing as a QAnon believer to gain campaign support.
“She tries to portray herself as she supports it, but she doesn’t even understand it,” Larson said.
Larson accompanied Stella on a trip to Washington, D.C. early this month, where she claims Stella wore the QAnon necklace.
“She just wears it to get attention,” Larson said.
Stella didn’t respond to a request for comment.
re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children could be detained indefinitely
Democrats need to hang these children around the GOP’s neck until all of them are accounted for and returned to their parents.
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
A urine therapy group in Colorado touts the benefits of drinking your own pee. Doctors disagree
That was all the rage in Germany in the 90’s. The range has piddled out as far as I can tell…
‘Trump has open schedule during Mueller hearings…’
Not gonna watch… sure.
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Democrats need to hang these children around the GOP’s neck until all of them are accounted for and returned to their parents.
Also, defund ICE completely and reduce the Border Patrol’s budget to where they can keep the lights on and not have to sack anyone, but that’s it.
They should have raked the forests.
— Bluedog (@trumpanhator2) July 24, 2019
re: #85 Belafon
This can’t possibly be true since Presidunce @realdonaldtrump and Kentucky’s Senators @senatemajldr and @randpaul said “Coal is Back”]
failed because Trump had not fully revoked all environmental, health and safety regulations that are choking the industry
re: #107 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Boris Johnson was a US citizen by birthright, born to British parents in New York City. He renounced his US citizenship in 2016. Both of his parents are still alive.
Send him back!!!
Some good news here:
A man whose relatives reported concerns about his behavior and far-right extremist rhetoric after last year’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge Tuesday.
Jeffrey Clark Jr., 30, of Washington, D.C., faces a maximum of 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of illegal possession of firearms by a person who is an unlawful user of a controlled substance.
Estimated sentencing guidelines call for a sentence ranging from 10 to 16 months, but U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who is scheduled to sentence Clark on Sept. 13, isn’t bound by those guidelines. The judge refused to release him before sentencing.
The FBI said Clark is a self-described white nationalist who followed Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect Robert Bowers on the Gab social media platform and referred to him as a “hero” in a post after the Oct. 27, 2018, shooting. Bowers spewed anti-Semitic hatred on his Gab account before killing 11 people inside the synagogue, authorities said.
Hopefully, ten years in the slammer. Good.
Just… no. Your flowchart is just special pleading, though for some reason you think it profound.
Do you understand the fallacy you are committing?— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) July 24, 2019
re: #163 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Really digging this Mompou.
re: #164 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Just… no. Your flowchart is just special pleading, though for some reason you think it profound.
Do you understand the fallacy you are committing?
There are natural phenomena that are (at least currently) beyond the realm of explanation by science.
That criterion used to apply to nearly everything.
Beyond the limits of science, we can apply only conjecture and faith.
But to then conclude that a 4,000-year-old Middle Eastern text (or any other scripture) is the literal and immutable Word of God is pure fantasy.
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, but that is not the fallacy they are committing.
They are doing special pleading.
First they claim that everything has to have a cause.
But… if you ask them what caused “God”, what do you think their answer will be?
re: #167 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yes, but that is not the fallacy they are committing.
They are doing special pleading.
First they claim that everything has to have a cause.
But… if you ask them what caused “God”, what do you think their answer will be?
The one mentioned in the OT, of course, the big white guy with the robe and beard…
re: #167 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yes, but that is not the fallacy they are committing.
They are doing special pleading.
First they claim that everything has to have a cause.
But… if you ask them what caused “God”, what do you think their answer will be?
They will answer that God is the one singularly unique exception to that rule.
Okeydokey - off to pay the bills. Gotta pay for the Internet and the mobile phone and renew the public transport ticket (hey, $21.75 per month for unlimited public transit ain’t bad).
re: #169 Dr Lizardo
They will answer that God is the one singularly unique exception to that rule.
Yes, an example of special pleading.
Seriously though, what happened to Lindsey Graham? pic.twitter.com/XC5aHxZJ9s
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 22, 2019
Ugh.
Have sent congratulations to @BorisJohnson. Limiting to the electorate to include only the people who will vote for you was genius.
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) July 24, 2019
re: #171 teleskiguy
Seriously though, what happened to Lindsey Graham?
He saw that DT and his bigot base were an indispensable part of their power base and caved in to the Dumb Side
re: #172 teleskiguy
Have sent congratulations to @BorisJohnson. Limiting to the electorate to include only the people who will vote for you was genius.
A throwback to the old days when only male landowners were allowed to vote.
re: #142 mmmirele
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another good bood on religion for the non-religious is
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture
by John Shelby Spong
He really tears apart the inherent flaws in modern American Fundamentalist-literalist theology and theodicy, which, despite all its claims of being traditional and going back to basics, is a modern American development.
re: #175 A Mom Anon
I like Bolz
re: #139 teleskiguy
I am snapping hair ties left and right. I broke three today.
Maybe it’s time for a hair cut?
I am out of hair ties. This is the first time this has happened that I can remember when I’ve had long hair and there’s no hair ties…
This is very near crisis level …
re: #178 teleskiguy
As long as I keep brushing it, it’s fine. But it’ll get in my mouth when I sleep later.
re: #180 teleskiguy
Is it long enough to braid?
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Democrats need to hang these children around the GOP’s neck until all of them are accounted for and returned to their parents.
Your comment makes the assumption that Republicans care about Democratic outrage or the children themselves. Neither assumption is correct. Republicans, and especially Trump, only care about their deplorable base. If their actions please the base, then it’s all good.
re: #182 Patricia Kayden
Your comment makes the assumption that Republicans care about Democratic outrage or the children themselves. Neither assumption is correct. Republicans, and especially Trump, only care about their deplorable base. If their actions please the base, then it’s all good.
I am aware of that, the GOP base applauds inhumane treatment of immigrants and foreigners. And even dark-skinned American citizens.
I am addressing the need to appeal to other voters who might consider the GOP. they have to be made aware of the inhumanity that guides GOP policy.
I took a quick tour through the cable news this morning. CNN: Mueller; MSNBC: Mueller; FnF: “Harlem kids disrespect police by throwing water on them!!!”
WH reports yesterday: The President is not at all worried about the Mueller hearings….
It’s only 8AM and the president has already tweeted about Mueller and the Russia probe 7 times.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 24, 2019
re: #185 Barefoot Grin
I took a quick tour through the cable news this morning. CNN: Mueller; MSNBC: Mueller; FnF: “Harlem kids disrespect police by throwing water on them!!!”
I can see FnF are confident that Mueller will “clear” Trump so the best solution is a fake outrage for their viewers.
re: #164 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
All of them, Katie.
Well, I checked the news and see Trump did not declare martial law at 5AM this morning like my Qwazy Q relatives said he would.
And I haven’t been arrested as they said I would.
So I sent them an e-mail asking those suckers how dumb do they have to be to believe anything that Q says. They’re being played for fools and they’re too stupid to realize it.
Things could be worse…they could be dumb enough to campaign for Marianne Williamson…
Helen America, please report to Pre-flight.
Drama In Low-Earth Orbit As LightSail2 Deploys Its Sails
universetoday.com
re: #15 HappyWarrior
I’m not either. I’m going to treat myself to a nice birthday lunch and listen to music and watch a movie.
Happy Birthday.
re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A throwback to the old days when only male landowners were allowed to vote.
I think you only have to go back to January 30, 1933.
re: #187 HappyWarrior
I can see FnF are confident that Mueller will “clear” Trump so the best solution is a fake outrage for their viewers.
Yep. Though, to be fair, I just checked again and their doing a more balanced reporting now with Bret Baier and another announcer (albeit with a slightly more Trump-leaning analyst in Andrew McCarthy who I guess is a former assistant Federal prosecutor).
re: #147 Targetpractice
It’s been my experience since starting to work a graveyard shift job that it’s not the nights when you know you’re walking into Hell that leave you contemplating curling into the fetal position and crying, it’s the nights when you come in thinking “This will be a cinch” that see the fecal matter hit the rotary impeller again and again. Why? Because it’s those nights when the lack of a manager on duty becomes the most obvious, as nothing you can do within the powers of your job title will satisfy the assholes who decide at 2am to make a federal case out of not being able to find a parking spot.
Or come in at 2am without a reservation because they just closed the bars and realized they can’t drive home but it’s the busiest weekend of the summer and you were sold out a month ago…
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
another good bood on religion for the non-religious is
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture
by John Shelby SpongHe really tears apart the inherent flaws in modern American Fundamentalist-literalist theology and theodicy, which, despite all its claims of being traditional and going back to basics, is a modern American development.
An atheist and an Episcopalian Bishop, Bishop Spong wrote a number of good books on theology and Christianity and had more than a small impact on my theology (believing God but not in an afterlife, etc.) His most recent book was “Biblical Literalism - A Gentile Heresy”.
re: #164 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Specifically, it is the Christian apologetic argument known as the Kalam Cosmological Argument.
Aside from the fact that philosophical arguments prove nothing, it fails because it makes an unfalsifiable assumption for its first argument “everything which exists must have a cause.”
It then makes an unproveable assumption “that cause must be a god, and specifically the Christian god.”
William Lane Craig resurrected this argument from mediæval Islamic scholarship. “Kalam” is actually the name of Islamic scholarship. Modern Islam has abandoned this argument for the existence of God (Allah).
So the argument for proof of a Christian god based on this argument can be debunked multiple ways:
a) It’s not a Christian argument. (Appeal to their bigotry.)
b) The correct answers to all the premises is “we don’t know,” therefore God (because God has never been demonstrated).
I addressed this as my first apologetics fail on my wife’s Website.
Apologetics Fail #1
Kalam Cosmological Argument (Goes to Cynics for a Better Tomorrow)
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