John Oliver on the Weirdest Autocrat in the World: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov [VIDEO]
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John Oliver takes a look at the president of Turkmenistan, a dangerous autocrat with some notably strange obsessions.
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As long as Putin can keep these fellows in line with his policies, then he is well on his way to restoring the old Russian Empire…all the way to Poland
With a name like that, he’d never be normal.
Carried over:
re: #248 William Lewis
My grandmother died a miserable death from cervical cancer. You goddamn betcha my son got the HPV vaccination. It needs to be manditory, with only allergy as an exception.
My aunt went through terrible treatments to eliminate her cervical cancer.
She’s grateful those terrible treatments exist, but I imagine she’d be all over the idea of a single vaccine to prevent the disease in the first place.
So like Trump then, except with a fascination of horses instead of girls that look like his daughter.
re: #4 lawhawk
So like Trump then, except with a fascination of horses instead of girls that look like his daughter.
speaking of horses (asses)
Arrived in St Petersburg Russia. Was going to arrive on a horse & shirtless but didn’t want to over excite the Russian women. pic.twitter.com/AFLcIXyQe9
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) August 12, 2019
This blew my mind: YouTube (and Google) divert users who search basic health terms to conspiracy videos that told them to fear vaccines & their doctors
Experts and fomer govt officials told us that “Dr. YouTube” is driving MULTIPLE public health crises, including Zika resurgence— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) August 12, 2019
Kurt Vonnegut was right. Big brains are not necessarily an evolutionary advantage.
re: #7 jaunte
Kurt Vonnegut was right. Big brains are not necessarily an evolutionary advantage.
Darwin would have told you that. So much of our evolution is luck. We tend to use our brains to thwart evolution anyway.
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
Pretty sure that picture of Putin was for the men.
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
speaking of horses (asses)
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Once Putin realized that communism had failed and the path to world dominance was white supremacism and kowtowing to religious fanatics, it should have been clear that Southern Baptists would fall in love with Putin.
😳What a brilliant twist on an age-old art form. pic.twitter.com/PdP5Ruwhar
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 12, 2019
re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Carried over:
My aunt went through terrible treatments to eliminate her cervical cancer.
She’s grateful those terrible treatments exist, but I imagine she’d be all over the idea of a single vaccine to prevent the disease in the first place.
they went from:
- some vaccines may have once contained mercury
- some vaccines may not have been fully and adequately tested on humans
etc
to
- all vaccines are evil
re: #7 jaunte
Kurt Vonnegut was right. Big brains are not necessarily an evolutionary advantage.
Idiocracy
From the article:
John Oliver takes a look at the president of Turkmenistan, a dangerous autocrat with some notably strange obsessions.
That was one perfect troll of the Guinness Book of World Records.
I see they haven’t added Mr. Oliver’s cake, but outlets such as Time and Entertainment Weekly are amplifying the message.
Guinness will accept as evidence things such as taped evidence in front of a live studio audience. We’ll have to see if they’re shamed into acknowledging that.
re: #6 jaunte
First, YouTube is Google (I forget if it’s a subsidiary or a division, but in contemporary techopolies that distinction doesn’t matter). Second, I remember when Google’s motto was “don’t be evil.” But if the algorithm is pushing people to conspiracy land, then it is being evil - either actively or passively, not that there’s a distinction there either.
re: #12 DangerMan
they went from:
- some vaccines may have once contained mercury
- some vaccines may not have been fully and adequately tested on humans
etcto
- all vaccines are evil
The old chestnut of “no double-blind trials.”
To conduct a double-blind trial of a vaccine, you would need to give some people the vaccine being tested, and other a placebo, then expose them all to the disease being tested and see who gets sick.
That is deeply unethical, but try to explain that to an antivaxxer.
re: #20 KGxvi
When “engagement” is the only gauge of value, you wind up in evil territory.
re: #18 Skip Intro
Meanwhile, down in Texas.
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dropping past the ‘back to school’ idiocy
“up to 50% off” actually means ‘as little as 0% off’ so bfd
but if it were real, thats gotta mean they’re having a lot of trouble moving some weaponry
re: #20 KGxvi
I remember when Google’s motto was “don’t be evil.”
ah, but the explanation is right there on YouTube…
re: #23 DangerMan
It is real. It’s a back to school sale on guns right after 22 people were slaughtered in El Paso.
re: #23 DangerMan
The gun lobby needs Democrats to be elected to scare their customers again.
re: #22 jaunte
When “engagement” is the only gauge of value, you wind up in evil territory.
See also: Twitter.
re: #20 KGxvi
First, YouTube is Google (I forget if it’s a subsidiary or a division, but in contemporary techopolies that distinction doesn’t matter). Second, I remember when Google’s motto was “don’t be evil.” But if the algorithm is pushing people to conspiracy land, then it is being evil - either actively or passively, not that there’s a distinction there either.
They all think they can write an algorithm and solve it, but that will only be true when the algorithm is able to make more complex judgements than what they are capable of now. Humans need to intervene more often than they want to pay for.
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The old chestnut of “no double-blind trials.”
To conduct a double-blind trial of a vaccine, you would need to give some people the vaccine being tested, and other a placebo, then expose them all to the disease being tested and see who gets sick.
That is deeply unethical, but try to explain that to an antivaxxer.
some vaccines are 30, 50 and even more years old
there’s some history and track record there
plus no one’s ever proved a link to things theyre scared of - autism, etc
if there were, it would be published for all to see, ripped apart, peer reviewed and duplicated time and again
all they have i stupid blathering rhetoric
re: #25 Skip Intro
It is real. It’s a back to school sale on guns right after 22 people were slaughtered in El Paso.
i didnt mean the sign, or even that there’s a ‘sale’
only that you’re not gonna find your dream weapon there at 50% off
Not even animals are safe from the wrath of Trump:
(USA TODAY) - The Trump administration announced on Monday a major overhaul to the Endangered Species Act that it said would reduce regulations. Environmentalists said the changes would push more animals and plants to extinction because of threats from climate change and human activities.
The changes end blanket protections for animals newly deemed threatened and allow federal authorities for the first time to take into account the economic cost of protecting a particular species.
The Endangered Species Act protects more than 1,600 species in the USA and its territories.
“The best way to uphold the Endangered Species Act is to do everything we can to ensure it remains effective in achieving its ultimate goal - recovery of our rarest species,” U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt said in a statement. “The act’s effectiveness rests on clear, consistent and efficient implementation.”
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said, “The revisions finalized with this rulemaking fit squarely within the president’s mandate of easing the regulatory burden on the American public, without sacrificing our species’ protection and recovery goals.”
It’s feeding time for a male red wolf in its habitat at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C.
The act helped save the bald eagle, California condor, the grizzly bear and dozens of other animals and plants from extinction since President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1973.
At least 10 attorneys general joined conservation groups in protesting an early draft of the changes, saying they would put more wildlife at greater risk of extinction.
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The old chestnut of “no double-blind trials.”
To conduct a double-blind trial of a vaccine, you would need to give some people the vaccine being tested, and other a placebo, then expose them all to the disease being tested and see who gets sick.
That is deeply unethical, but try to explain that to an antivaxxer.
Isn’t the current process that the experimenters don’t necessarily expose test subjects to the disease but just track them over time to see what percentage contract the disease and what side effects arise, and then, based on the results, decide whether to release the vaccine to a larger population. Of course, this is after animal studies to evaluate (to the extent possible) the effectiveness and dangers associated with the vaccine.
Unfortunately in many cases, it could take years or decades to do a thorough study and in the meantime, people are dying or being seriously harmed by the ailment. It’s a difficult conundrum.
The war on Roe is heating up again…
Nashville — After struggling to pass a six-week abortion ban earlier this year, Tennessee lawmakers are now considering one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country: a total ban on the procedure.
On Monday and Tuesday, the state’s judiciary committee will hear testimony from more than 20 witnesses and debate an 11-page amendment to its stalled “fetal heartbeat” bill. If the changes are adopted, the legislation will ban abortion once a woman knows she’s pregnant.
The committee, which has seven Republicans and two Democrats, is expected to accept the changes. The amended bill would be put up for a vote in January 2020, when the legislature reconvenes.
This week’s summer study comes as states have raced to pass legislation restricting abortion, hoping to challenge Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that protects access to the procedure. This year, six states — Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Ohio — passed so-called “heartbeat” bills, legislation that bans abortion after cardiac activity can be detected in a fetus. Missouri passed an eight-week ban in May, and Alabama went a step further passing a near-total abortion ban.
Tennessee nearly joined those conservative states with House Bill 77, a “fetal heartbeat” bill that doesn’t provide exceptions for victims of rape or incest.
It passed the state’s House in March but stalled in the Senate when conservative leaders questioned the efficacy of the bill, said state Senator Kerry Roberts, who serves on the state’s judiciary committee, in a telephone interview with CBS News.
“The pro-life people all agreed that they want to see restrictions on abortion, but they started disagreeing on how to do it,” Roberts said.
Roberts told CBS News the intention of Tennessee’s amended abortion bill isn’t to immediately cut off access to the procedure. The point is to provide a legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey and other Supreme Court precedent.
The original version of House Bill 77 reads similarly to many of the other “fetal heartbeat” bills introduced this year. All face court challenges and nearly all have been blocked from implementation by federal judges. The politicians behind those bills don’t consider that a problem, but rather the first step toward a multi-year journey to the Supreme Court.
I wanted to announce how excited & fortunate I am to be an official #Bernie2020 National Surrogate!
Thank you tweeps & the entire team who has welcomed me!
Bernie had me at #MedicareForAll but he’s not a one policy candidate. I support all of his policies. #NotMeUs pic.twitter.com/EBsGtdOJJJ— Dr. Victoria Dooley (@DrDooleyMD) August 7, 2019
and then she crashed and berned…
I guess she decided not to try and explain herself. pic.twitter.com/z7Fv6VhrWL
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) August 12, 2019
Little exclusive: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown tells me she’d “absolutely” sign a law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns if they want to appear on her state’s primary ballot in 2020. https://t.co/1BfM4Udt1H
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) August 12, 2019
Maybe this can be a trend into the fall.
I’m getting really tired of my telephone ringing today (one of the reasons we own an answering machine).
“We have information on how to pay off your home loan” (we don’t have a home loan)
“We have the information you requested to pay off your student loan” (lol)
“We have the information you requested about your Social Security account” (we’re not old enough).
“You’re in arrears on your Federal Income Tax. We can help you avoid tax court.” (I haven’t had to pay Federal Income Tax or even file since 1996.)
If we reported every scam call around here to the sheriff, the sheriff would block our telephone number.
We have family friends in 70s who are leaving for trip all over Africa. They have refused to get any of the CDC/WHO recommended vaccinations because they’re “toxic chemicals.” These people are highly educated-an attorney and financial adviser. And, Marianne Williamson followers.
— MoreIndictmentsPlease 🌊🌦🌈 (@Cbluedreams) August 12, 2019
Because even if there was an alleged “toxic chemical” (like water, in which you can drown) was in a vaccine, that’s so much better to avoid than say, yellow fever.
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I’m getting really tired of my telephone ringing today (one of the reasons we own an answering machine).
“We have information on how to pay off your home loan” (we don’t have a home loan)
“We have the information you requested to pay off your student loan” (lol)
“We have the information you requested about your Social Security account” (we’re not old enough).
“You’re in arrears on your Federal Income Tax. We can help you avoid tax court.” (I haven’t had to pay Federal Income Tax or even file since 1996.)If we reported every scam call around here to the sheriff, the sheriff would block our telephone number.
We don’t answer numbers we don’t recognize. That almost got me in trouble when we got our roof reshingled because Allstate uses people who work from home to handle claims. We didn’t recognize the numbers so we didn’t really know to pick up.
re: #38 Belafon
We don’t answer numbers we don’t recognize. That almost got me in trouble when we got our roof reshingled because Allstate uses people who work from home to handle claims. We didn’t recognize the numbers so we didn’t really know to pick up.
Hence the answering machine. It picks up and whatever message they have starts. If it’s someone we want to talk to, then we pick up.
It also helps since the local telephone numbers are arranged by government/business and private. In the last four digits, anything that starts 1-8 is a spoofed telephone number.
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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what i was saying above
any vaccine is now ‘toxic’
what if we started calling them something else?
“you can feel safe dear. its not a vaccine, it’s an effective preventative”
Tennessee will push for total abortion ban with sights on Supreme Court https://t.co/H4VavR4uv9 pic.twitter.com/HZnVBkj0hW
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 12, 2019
2016:
Me: Show up and vote or you’re going to lose your rights.
Twitter: Fuck you. I’m not inspired. Don’t try to scare us into voting for Killary Shillary. Besides, abortion is settled law! Settled law!
2019:
Me: ¯\(°_o)/¯
Twitter: WHY DIDN’T YOU WARN US?! https://t.co/UpQhrzIOyP— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 12, 2019
To be fair, nobody who goes on about “Killary Shillary” is likely to care about (others’) abortion rights now or ever.
— A. Mackay (@ABM_paints) August 12, 2019
re: #38 Belafon
We don’t answer numbers we don’t recognize. That almost got me in trouble when we got our roof reshingled because Allstate uses people who work from home to handle claims. We didn’t recognize the numbers so we didn’t really know to pick up.
ditto
dont leave a message? i guess you dont want to talk to me.
as if im always right there to answer my phone, never busy or on another call or whatever
of course…
AG William Barr blames New York jail for ‘failing to secure’ Jeffrey Epstein’s cell https://t.co/Ca5dL5w8Ki pic.twitter.com/bju41QaMvH
— WCPO (@WCPO) August 12, 2019
Gio Urshela ends the indignity, Yankees’ homerless at-bat streak against the Orioles ends at 15.
— Christina Kahrl (@ChristinaKahrl) August 12, 2019
re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Carried over:
My aunt went through terrible treatments to eliminate her cervical cancer.
She’s grateful those terrible treatments exist, but I imagine she’d be all over the idea of a single vaccine to prevent the disease in the first place.
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Trump surpasses 12,000 false or misleading claims in just 928 days as presidenthttps://t.co/zkcm0E6ElM
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 12, 2019
12.95 lies per day average.
re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
The war on Roe is heating up again…
Nashville — After struggling to pass a six-week abortion ban earlier this year, Tennessee lawmakers are now considering one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country: a total ban on the procedure.
On Monday and Tuesday, the state’s judiciary committee will hear testimony from more than 20 witnesses and debate an 11-page amendment to its stalled “fetal heartbeat” bill. If the changes are adopted, the legislation will ban abortion once a woman knows she’s pregnant.The committee, which has seven Republicans and two Democrats, is expected to accept the changes. The amended bill would be put up for a vote in January 2020, when the legislature reconvenes.
This week’s summer study comes as states have raced to pass legislation restricting abortion, hoping to challenge Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that protects access to the procedure. This year, six states — Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Ohio — passed so-called “heartbeat” bills, legislation that bans abortion after cardiac activity can be detected in a fetus. Missouri passed an eight-week ban in May, and Alabama went a step further passing a near-total abortion ban.
Tennessee nearly joined those conservative states with House Bill 77, a “fetal heartbeat” bill that doesn’t provide exceptions for victims of rape or incest.
It passed the state’s House in March but stalled in the Senate when conservative leaders questioned the efficacy of the bill, said state Senator Kerry Roberts, who serves on the state’s judiciary committee, in a telephone interview with CBS News.“The pro-life people all agreed that they want to see restrictions on abortion, but they started disagreeing on how to do it,” Roberts said.
Roberts told CBS News the intention of Tennessee’s amended abortion bill isn’t to immediately cut off access to the procedure. The point is to provide a legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey and other Supreme Court precedent.
The original version of House Bill 77 reads similarly to many of the other “fetal heartbeat” bills introduced this year. All face court challenges and nearly all have been blocked from implementation by federal judges. The politicians behind those bills don’t consider that a problem, but rather the first step toward a multi-year journey to the Supreme Court.
i thought i read somewhere, say in the last 6 months, that purposely crafting a draconian bill into law with the intention of getting a supreme court challenge was a sure way to have it tossed.
anyone else or just me?
DOW shedding another 400 points so far today.
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
of course…
AG William Barr blames New York jail for ‘failing to secure’ Jeffrey Epstein’s cell
uh…. who run new york jail?
re: #46 Dread Pirate
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12.95 lies per day average.
and it gets both a yawn, and ‘of course we saw this coming. we did the math ages ago”
Astronauts had a pizza party in the International Space Station and it was out of this world pic.twitter.com/OSUT9mgkjB
— Mashable (@mashable) August 12, 2019
Both are the result of easy access to guns, but thanks for playing.
The motives for both are well known, which is how you came to claim that one is pro-socialist while the other is pro-white supremacist.
You’re giving SMOTI a run for the money.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 12, 2019
re: #45 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
of course…
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Attorney General Barr should really be coming down hard on the boss of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons. Oh wait, that would be the Attorney General.
re: #46 Dread Pirate
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12.95 lies per day average.
Basically every time the fucker opens his lying pie hole.
I’m sure Barr will find a few low level fall guys to fire re: Epstein.
“Senate GOP plans to divert health, education funds to border wall”https://t.co/ES1KMrqHxH
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 12, 2019
re: #56 Dread Pirate
Attorney General Barr should really be coming down hard on the boss of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons. Oh wait, that would be the Attorney General.
ding!
re: #60 Dread Pirate
Damn good thing that Blue Wave happened in 2018 in the House.
re: #60 Dread Pirate
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I love how they keep see-sawing back and forth, one moment saying that it’s a total boondoggle and they won’t stick their necks out to get funding for it, and then in the next going out of their way to piss off voters in order to scrounge up a few bucks for at least a partial length of wall just so Donny doesn’t look like a total loser.
William Barr should resign or be impeached.
His Dept. of Justice allowed arguably the highest profile prisoner in the US to die in custody.
He’s currently flouting the constitution by defying a congressional subpoena.
1/ https://t.co/qGQF6F5jq1— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) August 12, 2019
re: #54 lawhawk
Dinesh D’Souza
✔
@DineshDSouza
* 2h
We’ve just had two incendiary mass shootings.In one, the shooter was pro-white supremacy.
In the other, the shooter was pro-socialist.
Guess which attacker’s motives have been buried by the media.@ShannonBream @foxnewsnight
Except we don’t know the Dayton shooter’s motives at all. If his target were members of the GOP or a RW organization or bankers or …, it would be justified to claim his ideology led to the massacre but has anyone figured out why he carried out this mass shooting?
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter
Except we don’t know the Dayton shooter’s motives at all. If his target were members of the GOP or a RW organization or bankers or …, it would be justified to claim his ideology led to the massacre but has anyone figured out why he carried out this mass shooting?
Misogyny seems most likely to me.
re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter
Except we don’t know the Dayton shooter’s motives at all. If his target were members of the GOP or a RW organization or bankers or …, it would be justified to claim his ideology led to the massacre but has anyone figured out why he carried out this mass shooting?
duh
motive is why you did the crime
not whether you have red hair or are ‘pro-sushi’
re: #64 Targetpractice
I love how they keep see-sawing back and forth, one moment saying that it’s a total boondoggle and they won’t stick their necks out to get funding for it, and then in the next going out of their way to piss off voters in order to scrounge up a few bucks for at least a partial length of wall just so Donny doesn’t look like a total loser.
If that wall was so important to them, they could claw back some of that Tax Scam.
They done pissed off a large portion of the military by grabbing housing and morale project money.
re: #68 William Lewis
Misogyny seems most likely to me.
The rwnj don’t care; the mere fact he identified as left wing lets them engage in whataboutism, which is all they want.
re: #68 William Lewis
Misogyny seems most likely to me.
Maybe — but then why his sibling? He murdered men and women alike and since he’s had girl friends, I’m not sure that he is an incel.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🎃
If that wall was so important to them, they could claw back some of that Tax Scam.
They done pissed off a large portion of the military by grabbing housing and morale project money.
And now they’re trying to piss off educators and healthcare workers. Why? Odds are because whoever “won” the contract is making fairly hefty “campaign contributions” to them in the hopes of seeing that contract funded before next November.
re: #68 William Lewis
Misogyny seems most likely to me.
Bear in mind the media first misreported the gender of his sibling.
The police are still investigating and have not yet released a motive. Therefore conservatives must set the narrative and make it part of their religion, so when facts come in to dispute their narrative, their faith will sustain the parishioners.
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Bear in mind the media first misreported the gender of his sibling.
The police are still investigating and have not yet released a motive. Therefore conservatives must set the narrative and make it part of their religion, so when facts come in to dispute their narrative, their faith will sustain the parishioners.
Really, it’s more about getting the narrative out there so that when the authorities do eventually establish a motive, they can tell themselves that it’s all a “cover-up.”
South Korea and Japan are having a trade dispute. Trump, of all people, are urging them to “get along”, as if he has the slightest shred of credibility.
re: #71 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The rwnj don’t care; the mere fact he identified as left wing lets them engage in whataboutism, which is all they want.
They’re doing that anyway with the El Paso mass-murderer.
Every mass shooter becomes a Democrat or an atheist in conservative religion.
re: #76 Targetpractice
Really, it’s more about getting the narrative out there so that when the authorities do eventually establish a motive, they can tell themselves that it’s all a “cover-up.”
But the narrative is to support their religious faith in conservatism.
Privilege McAmerican explains how she’s an expert on Canadian healthcare because she once saw a maple leaf. https://t.co/MtwaueDoYv
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 9, 2019
re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🎃
But the narrative is to support their religious faith in conservatism.
Exactly. And since they’ve been told the Mayor of Dayton is an enemy of their church and it’s a key tenant of their faith that liberals will always try to hide the “truth” from the faithful, they’re setting themselves up to believe that any conclusions about the gunman’s motives that don’t point the finger at the far-left are a “cover-up.”
Dumbass Jacob Wohl should expect FBI to come a calling?
He’s gone from running scams and getting banned from the NFA for life to now apparently issuing death threats, as reported by @willsommer ?https://t.co/BY6oLzA6NM— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 12, 2019
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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I never quite understood that argument. Most non-emergency visits to the doctor here in the States will mean a wait time, even if it’s only measured in hours rather than days or weeks. Only when you have the money to make their time worth it will a doctor make a house call or agree to an after-hours consult. The difference is the Canadian likely doesn’t have to sit and debate with himself on how much treatment he can afford, whether he can get that shoulder surgery or just put it off for the price of some “cheap” painkillers.
Twitter fight. It goes on for awhile
Dude - you’re obsessed. I’m flattered but I haven’t seen anyone this obsessed with me since the 7th grade. You and Josh both need a new hobby. Or lives.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) August 11, 2019
For you - tic-tac-toe. But not chess; it requires too much thought and strategy. Btw, your twitter habit is as bad as Trump’s. But it is cute how you constantly change your name. Similar to a 12 yr old.
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) August 12, 2019
re: #68 William Lewis
Misogyny seems most likely to me.
His “sister” as the media are referring to him was apparently instead just out to his family and I think the also-targeted boyfriend as a transman though hadn’t yet begun medical treatment.
Misogyny might still be a motive (inasmuch as he wasn’t going to accept his former subordinate sibling being capable of becoming a competing, equal testosterone source under his father’s roof), but I’d say transphobia is just as possible.
And that’s if it wasn’t “just’ domestic issues that would have happened either way.
Desperation Morale…
White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations
thehill.com
I wonder if they are going to do the Nightmare Before Christmas decorations like last year.
So, the DJIA took a header today: 25,896.44 -391.00(-1.49%)
NASDAQ: 7,863.41 -95.73(-1.20%)
S&P 500: 2,882.67 -35.98(-1.23%)
The markets aren’t exactly sparking confidence or showing confidence in Trump’s ongoing trade war with China, and there’s still more signs that it’s breaking and braking the economy.
re: #88 lawhawk
So, the DJIA took a header today: 25,896.44 -391.00(-1.49%)
NASDAQ: 7,863.41 -95.73(-1.20%)
S&P 500: 2,882.67 -35.98(-1.23%)The markets aren’t exactly sparking confidence or showing confidence in Trump’s ongoing trade war with China, and there’s still more signs that it’s breaking and braking the economy.
Add the protests in Hong Kong continuing and No Deal Brexit and the end of the year could be ugly for the stock market.
re: #89 Kilroy was here
No deal Brexit is going to be a shit show of epic proportions for the UK. Health experts are warning of drug shortages on both sides of the Channel likely due to all manner of trade getting gummed up should there be a no-deal exit (the most likely kind, since Boris hasn’t got a clue to do anything different than May, and he’s promised to leave, despite all evidence that this would be a stupendously bad thing - and one that he lied about regularly). [ed = edited for clarity]
In fact, it’s the warnings on health effects that are pretty hilarious considering that Boris went around the UK promising that Brexit would result in tons of money going to the NHS. The reality is that Brexit was never doing any of that. It was always a lie.
re: #86 Chrysicat
His “sister” as the media are referring to him was apparently instead just out to his family and I think the also-targeted boyfriend as a transman though hadn’t yet begun medical treatment.
Misogyny might still be a motive (inasmuch as he wasn’t going to accept his former subordinate sibling being capable of becoming a competing, equal testosterone source under his father’s roof), but I’d say transphobia is just as possible.
And that’s if it wasn’t “just’ domestic issues that would have happened either way.
Neither misogyny nor transphobia makes sense to me in light of him shooting up the area in front of a bar later.
re: #90 lawhawk
Until they leave the EU they can’t sign any trade agreements. If they are expecting other countries to give them good “deals” while they are desperate, they’re crazy.
@owillis fucking kills me. This thread. Seriously, read it. https://t.co/xkWZYIaW8j
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 12, 2019
more in the continuing sputtering “I AM NOT A RACIST!!11!!”
Two great and loyal friends! https://t.co/Fo2CLjc9YZ
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2019
followed by retweeting this:
.@DiamondandSilk on @LouDobbs talking about who’s really playing the “Race Card” pic.twitter.com/y6Wv2ZyK1E
— Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) August 12, 2019
re: #90 lawhawk
No deal Brexit is going to be a shit show of epic proportions for the UK. Health experts are warning of drug shortages likely due to all manner of trade getting gummed up should there be a no-deal exit on both sides of the Channel (the most likely kind, since Boris hasn’t got a clue to do anything different than May, and he’s promised to leave, despite all evidence that this would be a stupendously bad thing - and one that he lied about regularly).
In fact, it’s the warnings on health effects that are pretty hilarious considering that Boris went around the UK promising that Brexit would result in tons of money going to the NHS. The reality is that Brexit was never doing any of that. It was always a lie.
He and his mini-mes are trying to go around to the press, assuring them that the UK will speedily put together trade deals once Brexit happens so that there will be little disruption, with our own John Bolton out today saying that a US/UK deal will “swiftly” be hashed out come October. Were I a Briton, I would be rather scared about such as the only way such a deal gets done “swiftly” is if Boris just accepts whatever BS Donny sends him the moment Brexit happens.
re: #92 Kilroy was here
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moron-in-chief just retweeted this four-day-old tweet:
.@USAmbPoland: “Poland meets its 2% of GDP spending obligation towards NATO. Germany does not. We would welcome American troops in Germany to come to Poland.” https://t.co/kUfedr176p
— US Embassy Warsaw (@USEmbassyWarsaw) August 8, 2019
re: #86 Chrysicat
His “sister” as the media are referring to him was apparently instead just out to his family and I think the also-targeted boyfriend as a transman though hadn’t yet begun medical treatment.
Misogyny might still be a motive (inasmuch as he wasn’t going to accept his former subordinate sibling being capable of becoming a competing, equal testosterone source under his father’s roof), but I’d say transphobia is just as possible.
And that’s if it wasn’t “just’ domestic issues that would have happened either way.
Had only heard her described as a sister, so I was not aware of the trans issues. Oh, yeah, that changes the picture a wee bit.
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
more in the continuing sputtering “I AM NOT A RACIST!!11!!”
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re: #97 William Lewis
Had only heard her described as a sister, so I was not aware of the trans issues. Oh, yeah, that changes the picture a wee bit.
I saw only one source for the trans issue.
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
I call ‘em Gin & Juice.
re: #100 Ace Rothstein
I call ‘em Gin & Juice.
Bull and Shit. They’re a joke. Their whole act comes off like something out of an old time racist caricature.
“before you get angry and say something you’ll regret, I think this new blind is faulty”
📸: @patrick4587 pic.twitter.com/DHQ09rpGMP— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) August 12, 2019
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
Buckeyball and Burlap.
So I guess lots of swear words is Hateful Conduct and gets you the BanHammer:
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Considering how everything Donny touches ultimately turns to shit, these ladies better have long-term plans that don’t rely upon wingnut welfare, because that’s gonna dry up the moment he’s gone. Being “Trump’s black friends” will have all the market value of a used condom once the indictments and subpoenas start flying.
re: #106 BigPapa
So I guess lots of swear words is Hateful Conduct and gets you the BanHammer:
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When you want to own the libs, but you forgot it’s winter in the southern hemisphere pic.twitter.com/0oBXwH0QVp
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) August 12, 2019
re: #107 Targetpractice
Considering how everything Donny touches ultimately turns to shit, these ladies better have long-term plans that don’t rely upon wingnut welfare, because that’s gonna dry up the moment he’s gone. Being “Trump’s black friends” will have all the market value of a used condom once the indictments and subpoenas start flying.
Unless we nominate Harris.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
The court is letting him try to state an antitrust cause of action, but very clear that that cause of action will get tossed, too.
— Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh) June 11, 2019
and he forgot to file an amended complaint so now the entire case has been tossed. pic.twitter.com/PQwfuPpRQO
— Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh) August 12, 2019
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth
But it wasn’t dismissed with prejudice, which means that if the SOL hasn’t passed, he could refile.
re: #114 lawhawk
But it wasn’t dismissed with prejudice, which means that if the SOL hasn’t passed, he could refile.
Is there SOL on civil torts?
#BREAKING Argentine stock market plummets 37% in day after Macri vote defeat pic.twitter.com/bn5rsxxXb3
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 12, 2019
re: #115 austin_blue
Absolutely. All legal claims have to be brought within a set time period under state or federal law.
Genie: You have three wishes.
Me: I wish for more wishes.
Genie: You can’t wish for more wishes.
Me: I wish I could wish for more wishes.
Genie: sonofabitch— Rodney Lacroix (@moooooog35) August 12, 2019
re: #107 Targetpractice
Considering how everything Donny touches ultimately turns to shit, these ladies better have long-term plans that don’t rely upon wingnut welfare, because that’s gonna dry up the moment he’s gone. Being “Trump’s black friends” will have all the market value of a used condom once the indictments and subpoenas start flying.
Not just them though … pretty much every conservative wonderkind is eventually thrown under a bus when they are no longer useful to Movement Conservatism.
Kent State Gun Girl is having to beg for furniture money on GoFundMe.
Who was that teenage kid who was briefly famous for spouting conservative talking points on YouTube? Oh yes, Johnathan Krohn, who took CPAC by storm when he was thirteen. Where is he now? Here:
politico.com
He doesn’t identify as a liberal or a Democrat, but holds Democratic positions, and says he cringes when he sees the video of his CPAC speech in 2013.
Federal agents, including FBI and CBP were seen on the dock and grounds of Little Saint James, the island owned by accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The U.S. Attorney’s Office and SDNY declined to comment on the operation. https://t.co/euCLwh7rKi pic.twitter.com/leAKQqgruA
— ABC News (@ABC) August 12, 2019
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
AG William Barr blames New York jail for ‘failing to secure’ Jeffrey Epstein’s cell
Without waiting for an investigation, our AG is making blanket statements.
Our Justice system is suffering from Epstein-Barr syndrome
Robyn on YIKES. (Read this one for the ending alone.) https://t.co/AvHBEHZpTD
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) August 12, 2019
re: #117 lawhawk
Absolutely. All legal claims have to be brought within a set time period under state or federal law.
Thanks! I had no idea, but it makes sense, if you have a car accident you X months to file a tort.
Doesn’t make sense, though, if you have been exposed to a carcinogen which doesn’t kick in for 15 years.
It’s not a sport to murder and mutilate defenseless exotic animals just to watch them die. That’s actually called “being a sociopath.” No guns for you, Eric. https://t.co/IwnKCsVOCx
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 12, 2019
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Talk to your father Eric, he’s the one who repealed it but you won’t because you and your siblings are hypocrite assholes.
NY AG says they plan to sue over the Trump administration’s new “public charge” rule, which would let the government deny permanent residency to immigrants who use/are likely to use public benefits. Here’s @Haleaziz on the new rule: https://t.co/mSV1cZb7G3 pic.twitter.com/lXdpcQJfh2
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) August 12, 2019
Important to note, Federal Bureau of Prisons staff has dropped by 7,300 since 2016. Thanks in large part to the Trump administration hiring freeze in 2017. https://t.co/fQc4VnhYrX https://t.co/UuztT4lFzf
— Jamal Andress (@JamalAndress) August 12, 2019
heh
Can you imagine watching a Trump try to change a tire? https://t.co/tVFP3wgOnx
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 12, 2019
if you like to keep score, here’s the change in Dow Jones Industrial Average from Inauguration Day to Aug 12 of their 3rd year in the White House:
GHWB: +34.2%
Clinton: +42.4%
GWB: -11.9%
Obama: +41.7%
Trump: +30.1%— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 12, 2019
One extremely real concern besides loss of control over one’s body is what happens when pregnant people miscarry & are accused of aborting.
— Kira “Feral Episcopalian” Austin-Young (@kmaustinyoung) August 12, 2019
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’ll believe that ammosexuals give a damn about stopping the mentally ill from purchasing guns the moment they put forward a bill that actually addresses such without falling back on easing restrictions on involuntary admissions.
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah because Trump totally knows how to change a tire. And students for Trump? Your founder was a fake lawyer. Your opinions are bs.
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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“Isn’t there someone who I can order to do this and then refuse to pay afterwards?”
re: #132 Targetpractice
I’ll believe that ammosexuals give a damn about stopping the mentally ill from purchasing guns the moment they put forward a bill that actually addresses such without falling back on easing restrictions on involuntary admissions.
Exactly
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
Every right-wing conspiracy theorist on Twitter is on that thread throwing up DARVO at the moment.
A high-ranking U.S. border official refused to allow American citizens to enter the country on Friday, sending them back to Piedras Negras, Mexico. Then, Mexican authorities threatened to arrest them. https://t.co/vBJWieYd6m
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) August 11, 2019
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Well, if the results of other wingnut-controlled states are any guide, the result will be exactly what those same wingnuts have lied about for years when they said it would never happen: Women imprisoned for the “crime” of having a miscarriage.
re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Another libertarian who doesn’t understand how the law works or applies to him.
phoenixnewtimes.com
He ran for Jeff Flake’s seat.
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Did they bring ground-penetrating radar and cadaver-sniffing dogs?
re: #140 sagehen
Did they bring ground-penetrating radar and cadaver-sniffing dogs?
I figured it would be “Cleaners” and Bradbury’s Firemen.
Exercising while resting #MyFavoriteCombinations pic.twitter.com/QTEshKzW3F
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) August 12, 2019
re: #113 Targetpractice
And in six months, when Australia is hotter than a steel forge, D’Felon will have nothing to say.
Not to mention that unless I’m mistaken (always a possibility), snow - outside of a very few mountain heights - is quite rare even in the Australian winter. So blowing snow is likely to be a weather anomaly wherever Down Under that picture was taken. So yeah: climate change….
re: #143 Jay C
If climate change isn’t real how come PSL season comes earlier every year https://t.co/2LfAvPILfC
— Dara Lind (@DLind) August 12, 2019
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Don’t look at me. I just got a regular nitro brew just now. Actually I like pumpkin spice.
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
At least he’s not a felon. 🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/tf25mNMhrI
— WaterBluSky (@MsMariaT) August 12, 2019
moron
The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia. We have similar, though more advanced, technology. The Russian “Skyfall” explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2019
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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He always does the stupid “not good.” Man I miss having an intelligent President.
I have a new hero and yet again it’s a little old lady with a walking stick pic.twitter.com/RnQH1nfqv1
— Dan O’Hara (@skeuomorphology) August 8, 2019
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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You know, tweets like these are what I imagine Soviet-era Pravda would have put out had Twitter existed at the time.
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
Actually, he’s doing fine, you loosen the lug nuts while the tire still touches the ground, then jack it up.
— Nolan M. Workman, Jr. (@rufusbr549) August 12, 2019
Here’s the opinion from Chief Judge Beryl Howell: https://t.co/AIyXv6tcbe
Most info about the case is redacted, but it involves a criminal investigation where the target is also involved in a civil case. The grand jury issued a subpoena for sealed filings in the civil case pic.twitter.com/fn8oSpb0XL— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) August 12, 2019
The judge today denied the government’s request. She wrote that the McKeever decision cut both ways — the DC Circuit held that the list of exceptions to grand jury secrecy in the federal rules of crim procedure are “exhaustive,” and this case didn’t fall under those pic.twitter.com/863WpOociY
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) August 12, 2019
re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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Well yeah, you want to loosen the nuts when you’re not fighting against the weight of the damned vehicle. I would have thought that was basic knowledge.
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
Proof of climate change (I get to use this one again):
My favorite climate change fail was Ryan posting a photo of a cold, snowy day in his district in February. Ryan’s not stupid. He knows the difference between climate and weather. That said, I doubt Trump does.
thread
The case is about whether it is lawful under Title VII (the law that prohibits discrimination because of sex in employment) to fire someone for being LGBTQ. The consequences of a ruling against the LGBTQ employees will be far reaching. And no one is paying attention.
— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) August 12, 2019
As to “Skyfall,” unless the Air Force has been doing some testing that they by all rights should have been dissuaded from ages ago, then the closest the US ever got to a nuclear-powered cruise missile was Project Pluto back in the 50s & 60s. And the kibosh was put on that project not because anything on the ground that avoided death from the Mach 3 supersonic shockwave being right above their heads would wind up dead from the radioactive exhaust the missile put out, but because the AF rightly deduced that the Soviets would just build one of their own. And considering the state of sophistication of Soviet nuclear tech in the same time period (see: submarine K-19, aka “Hiroshima”), the idea of Moscow possessing such a weapon scared the ever-loving bejesus out of everybody with a stronger grip on reality than a character from Dr. Strangelove.
don’t hold back:
THIS IS WHY—-
1. I did my DNA
2. I learned my family history
3. I study our history.
Because you are not going to tell me who I am on anyone else’s terms but my own…
I don’t care what or who you think you are. I own my narrative. pic.twitter.com/6GgeBMOdIX— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) August 12, 2019
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
Having competed in the shooting sports my entire life, I am the most staunch Second Amendment supporter! That said, I agree 100%. Keep guns away from crazy people and the mentally ill - they give millions of great Americans, like me, that love the sport, a bad name.
good so we are free to identify only those who demonstrably do not control their weapons - because you’d have to be crazy or mentally ill to think think that rights dont come with responsibilities
excellent
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #158 Targetpractice
As to “Skyfall,” unless the Air Force has been doing some testing that they by all rights should have been dissuaded from ages ago, then the closest the US ever got to a nuclear-powered cruise missile was Project Pluto back in the 50s & 60s. And the kibosh was put on that project not because anything on the ground that avoided death from the Mach 3 supersonic shockwave being right above their heads would wind up dead from the radioactive exhaust the missile put out, but because the AF rightly deduced that the Soviets would just build one of their own. And considering the state of sophistication of Soviet nuclear tech in the same time period (see: submarine K-19, aka “Hiroshima”), the idea of Moscow possessing such a weapon scared the ever-loving bejesus out of everybody with a stronger grip on reality than a character from Dr. Strangelove.
The DOD also rightly deduced if the Soviet Union discovered there was such a doomsday missile which could fly over their territory for decades spewing radioactive particles, their only choice would be a massive first-strike against the United States to try to prevent that.
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I really don’t know where to begin with this shit. Perhaps the easiest place would be with the Confederate gov’t, which made clear on numerous occasions that it would not allow slaves to serve in any combat capacity because the greatest fear it had was armed slaves turning on their masters. The opponents of such even said aloud that if they did such, it would totally undermine the entire reason they were fighting the war. And much like the Reich shoving rifles into the arms of old men and boys in ‘45, it was only when they had virtually no warm bodies left to fight that the Confederate gov’t agreed to the formation of all-black units with the (empty) promise of freedom if they served. Which was pointless because none of those units saw active combat before the war ended.
My wife is watching a “History” Channel video on YouTube talking about MUFON.
re: #158 Targetpractice
As to “Skyfall,” unless the Air Force has been doing some testing that they by all rights should have been dissuaded from ages ago, then the closest the US ever got to a nuclear-powered cruise missile was Project Pluto back in the 50s & 60s. And the kibosh was put on that project not because anything on the ground that avoided death from the Mach 3 supersonic shockwave being right above their heads would wind up dead from the radioactive exhaust the missile put out, but because the AF rightly deduced that the Soviets would just build one of their own. And considering the state of sophistication of Soviet nuclear tech in the same time period (see: submarine K-19, aka “Hiroshima”), the idea of Moscow possessing such a weapon scared the ever-loving bejesus out of everybody with a stronger grip on reality than a character from Dr. Strangelove.
Jeez, the things you learn just by reading LGF!
I knew the G had worked on all sorts of weird atom-powered stuff back in the day, but I never knew that they had actually built a “nuclear ramjet”!
Weird
re: #148 HappyWarrior
He always does the stupid “not good.” Man I miss having an intelligent President.
“not good” is our Third Grade President’s assessment of a nuclear disaster. thank god he’s being advised by actual nuclear experts, like Rick Perry at the Department of Ener— oh hell, we’re all going to die
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) August 12, 2019
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2019
No offer of US assistance? No condolences for the dead and injured? No lecturing about the inanity of putting a nuclear power plant on a rocket? Just a “my rocket is bigger than yours” tweet?
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia. We have similar, though more advanced, technology. The Russian “Skyfall” explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2019
There has been some recent work on nuclear-thermal rockets but that is a whole different animal from the nuclear ramjet. It really is rocket surgery, though, so trying to explain the distinction to Cheeto would be like trying to teach a pig to sing (as Heinlein readers will recognize.)
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #167 Jay C
Jeez, the things you learn just by reading LGF!
I knew the G had worked on all sorts of weird atom-powered stuff back in the day, but I never knew that they had actually built a “nuclear ramjet”!Weird
You have to take into consideration that during the same time period, the ICBM was just making the transition from theory to viable weapons system. The manned bomber still reigned supreme as the nuclear delivery method, with both sides even going so far as to test a nuclear-powered bomber prototype.
But the number of bombers (and men) needed to defeat Soviet air-defense radars was cost-prohibitive, so cruise missiles became the next logical step. But even cruise missiles of today are short-ranged compared to a bomber, so in the 50s the idea of launching a missile from the US to hit Moscow was foolhardy.
Enter the boffins and their proposal of a nuclear ramjet, which eliminated the range issue and meant the missiles could be kept in the air indefinitely. Sure, the exhaust would be highly radioactive and there was a good chance chunks of the engine and tailpipe would fall off in-flight. But it was “cheap,” it was within the capabilities of the US in 1957, and it would circle the square, so the brass signed off on the project.
re: #171 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I’d rather hear of more work on the VASIMIR project is doing that the NERVA style heaters.
I’m no climate scientist but this seems real fucking bad and not at all good. https://t.co/JbnEBM5X0z
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) August 12, 2019
NEW: Two sources tell @MikeTobinFox that last Thursday August 8, fmr IL Gov. Blagojevich made it all the way to processing for his discharge from the federal prison. A member of the admin became concerned from push back after Trump went public about the possible commutation.
— Sean Langille (@SeanLangille) August 12, 2019
My fav theory
Hillary sneaked into the jail through her tunnel in the basement of Comet Pizza. Wearing a white pantsuit she pretended to be a prison nurse. Once in Epstein’s cell she began to read him her 30,000 missing emails till boredom made him want to kill himself. Typical scenario…
— Buddy Winston (@BuddyWinston) August 10, 2019
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So, much like the Iran airstrike, the motivation for shitcanning the whole idea was not that it would be morally or ethically wrong, but because of the worry of negative press.
Yegods.
Disturbing video taken in #Shenzhen just across the boarder with #HongKong. Something extraordinarily bad is about happen. #China #HongKongProtests #Democracy #SaveHongKong pic.twitter.com/Gad5R5HVZL
— Alexandre Krauss (@AlexandreKrausz) August 12, 2019
re: #179 Targetpractice
So, much like the Iran airstrike, the motivation for shitcanning the whole idea was not that it would be morally or ethically wrong, but because of the worry of negative press.
Yegods.
Well, when you die and go to heaven St. Peter does pull up all of the headlines written about you.
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More Republican corruption, a thread of four tweets and link to Texas Monthly
At 10am tomorrow, the Texas House has its first hearing into the matter of the Speaker offering access to lawmakers to a right-wing group in exchange for directing their campaign spending. It’s an unholy mess: https://t.co/XtIGwCbqt9
— the norms misser (@cd_hooks) August 11, 2019
re: #179 Targetpractice
So, much like the Iran airstrike, the motivation for shitcanning the whole idea was not that it would be morally or ethically wrong, but because of the worry of negative press.
Yegods.
Patti thought it was a done deal:
Our President’s comments on Air Force One last night make us very hopeful that our almost 11 year nightmare might soon be over. We are very grateful.
For press inquires please contact Mark Vargas [no phone numbers allowed], @markavargas .— Patti Blagojevich (@pblagojevich) August 8, 2019
Patti Blagojevich secures a balloon reading “welcome back” to her porch in Chicago’s Ravenswood Manor neighborhood on Friday. No word of Donald Trump commuting the sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich however. pic.twitter.com/9oh0lLCSzQ
— Chris Sweda (@chris_sweda) August 10, 2019
Also, that one really awkward time he pretended to smoke weed pic.twitter.com/3yeC7rkiR6
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) August 12, 2019
re: #179 Targetpractice
So, much like the Iran airstrike, the motivation for shitcanning the whole idea was not that it would be morally or ethically wrong, but because of the worry of negative press.
Yegods.
The only standard of morals and/or ethics is presidential approval ratings…
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
@atrupar - be carful retweeting these types of videos. This one has been circulating for a week and the publisher had to walk back their sourcehttps://t.co/ccLcs5Bevh
— MJR jnr (@onetruebritt) August 12, 2019
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
MrBWS shares a work photo that he took:
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You never told us he was so handsome! Rawr.
re: #187 sagehen
You never told us he was so handsome! Rawr.
LOL…he most resembles Santa Claus.
He’s the photographer…guy on the pole is one of his crew.
re: #171 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
There has been some recent work on nuclear-thermal rockets but that is a whole different animal from the nuclear ramjet. It really is rocket surgery, though, so trying to explain the distinction to Cheeto would be like trying to teach a pig to sing (as Heinlein readers will recognize.)
What is the point of these anyway, I mean given modern miniaturized warheads? The increase in payload just doesn’t seem necessary or worth the obvious downside risk. For one thing, a nuclear rocket or nuclear ramjet cruise missile is intrinsically a dirty nuclear weapon, even if you strap a conventional bomb to it. Whereas a conventional rocket or missile is a dual use platform.
I do not fucking get it.
Republicans visiting Russia is a vital and growing sector of the Russian economy https://t.co/85SbcteFtV
— David B. Larter (@DavidLarter) August 12, 2019
The acting director of the Citizenship and Immigration Service office, Ken Cuccinelli, fielded question during Monday’s White House press briefing regarding new immigration regulations. One of the more pointed questions: Should the plaque on the Statue of Liberty be removed?
Cuccinelli outlined the new “public charge” rule that allows the federal government to take into account income and education while reviewing a potential immigrant’s request for a visa or green card. Officials say this will ensure that those who are granted access to the U.S. can be financially self-sufficient taxpayers who aren’t in need of federal entitlements.
CBS Radio’s Steven Portnoy asked if the new rule comes into conflict with the Statue of Liberty’s embrace of the downtrodden. He asked if the plaque should be removed.
“As long as the public charge has been in effect since the late 1800s, there’s also been, almost as long, the words at the base of the Statue of Liberty that read, ‘Give us your tired, your poor...’ You’re implementing a public charge rule for the first time,” Portnoy said. “Is that sentiment … still operative in the United States … or should the plaque come down off the statue?”
Cucinelli said there are no plans to remove the famous plaque and cheered America’s track record as having a wide embrace.
“Well I’m certainly not prepared to take anything down off the Statue of Liberty,” he replied. “We have a long history of being one of the most welcoming nations in the world, on a lot of bases. Whether you be an asylee, whether you be coming here to join your family, or emigrating yourself … I do not think, by any means, we’re ready to take anything off the Statue of Liberty.”
Oh, fuck off Ken. Just fuck right off.
I know this country has finally gone over the event horizon when I see Mia Khalifa trending on Twitter…
Well, there are a remarkable amount of people on twitter that don’t know the northern and southern hemispheres have opposite seasons.
It’s in the same percentage as those who don’t know the sun is a star.
*weeps for the world*
Do you write your tweets or do you have help? #neverfunny
— yntbe (@yntbe) August 12, 2019
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
speaking of horses (asses)
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re: #178 I Would Prefer Not To
My fav theory
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This GIF!! 😂😂😂
And now I have to follow you too pic.twitter.com/0qcqEttdOE
— Kimmy Loves Purple💜✂️ #teampelosi (@kimmyifuplease) August 11, 2019
Open Mic, just write out this phrase and hold it up, it should help during your trip:
Мой сын убивает собак, а моя дочь была твоей самой глупой сотрудницей, и есть фотографии, где я нежно облизываю задний проход крысы метро.— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) August 12, 2019
Translation:
My son kills dogs, and my daughter was your most stupid employee, and there are photos where I gently lick the anus of the metro rat.
I’ve watched this 17,467 times pic.twitter.com/7BCgSENogW
— tuca & bertie season two (@bkkirby) August 11, 2019
re: #189 goddamnedfrank
What is the point of these anyway, I mean given modern miniaturized warheads? The increase in payload just doesn’t seem necessary or worth the obvious downside risk. For one thing, a nuclear rocket or nuclear ramjet cruise missile is intrinsically a dirty nuclear weapon, even if you strap a conventional bomb to it. Whereas a conventional rocket or missile is a dual use platform.
I do not fucking get it.
Simple answer? Range. A nuclear ramjet can be kept in the air indefinitely, meaning you could launch it from a spot that early-warning satellites don’t routinely monitor, send it on a winding path that bypasses air-defense radars, and then attack multiple targets before your enemy even realizes what the hell is going on. It’s a purely first-strike weapon, which is why the McNamara-era DOD axed it once the reality that the Soviets would develop their own put MAD in danger.
re: #189 goddamnedfrank
What is the point of these anyway, I mean given modern miniaturized warheads? The increase in payload just doesn’t seem necessary or worth the obvious downside risk. For one thing, a nuclear rocket or nuclear ramjet cruise missile is intrinsically a dirty nuclear weapon, even if you strap a conventional bomb to it. Whereas a conventional rocket or missile is a dual use platform.
I do not fucking get it.
The point is to make the target area uninhabitable permanently.
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The point is to make the target area uninhabitable permanently.
Rather than the testing area, as in this example?
re: #189 goddamnedfrank
What is the point of these anyway, I mean given modern miniaturized warheads? The increase in payload just doesn’t seem necessary or worth the obvious downside risk. For one thing, a nuclear rocket or nuclear ramjet cruise missile is intrinsically a dirty nuclear weapon, even if you strap a conventional bomb to it. Whereas a conventional rocket or missile is a dual use platform.
I do not fucking get it.
Nuclear thermal rockets are only suitable for space propulsion, where the higher specific impulse becomes an advantage. No NT rocket has enough thrust to lift itself off the ground. Once free of gravity though they can keep thrusting much longer than a chemical rocket with the same propellant mass.
The original NERVA rocket was intended to replace the SIVB as the third stage of a developed Saturn V. This was part of a huge Apollo follow-on project that would have included a space station and ebentual flights to Mars. It included a re -usable shuttle to service the space station. The latter ended up being the only part of the system to survive massive budget cuts, being recast as the all-singing, all-dancing Space Transportation System, the familiar Shuttle.
re: #197 I Would Prefer Not To
LOL (had to use a translate program though).
re: #199 Targetpractice
Simple answer? Range. A nuclear ramjet can be kept in the air indefinitely, meaning you could launch it from a spot that early-warning satellites don’t routinely monitor, send it on a winding path that bypasses air-defense radars, and then attack multiple targets before your enemy even realizes what the hell is going on. It’s a purely first-strike weapon, which is why the McNamara-era DOD axed it once the reality that the Soviets would develop their own put MAD in danger.
I guess there’s a perverse logic to that but any advantage would be ephemeral when you factor in the inevitable reprisal from enemy submarines.
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The point is to make the target area uninhabitable permanently.
That’s guaranteed already with existing weapons.
re: #198 plansbandc
I literally burst out laughing. Hubby was like I GOTTA SEE! Then he did the same.
I’m wiping my eyes still. 😂😂
re: #204 goddamnedfrank
I guess there’s a perverse logic to that but any advantage would be ephemeral when you factor in the inevitable reprisal from enemy submarines.
That’s guaranteed already with existing weapons.
The idea of the original Project Pluto was the cruise missile would carry a number of bombs, with the targets identified by downlooking cameras (we still use that technology developed in that project today).
After the bombs were dropped, the cruise missile could indefinitely fly a preprogrammed or random path for decades, unless it had a mechanical failure or was shot down. It would continuously spray radioactive particles for as long as it was in the air, hitting farms, villages, and other things not normally targeted by a nuclear weapon.
Honestly the Russians are fucking idiots if they thought they needed a nuclear ramjet cruise missile to bypass our interceptors. All they need to do is stop spin stabilizing their warheads and let them tumble on the way down. Who gives a shit about pinpoint precision when you’re lobbing city killers.
re: #205 MsJ
Cry laughed here too. The daughter’s reaction kills me.
I have an honest question. What major weapon system have the Russian’s developed and built since the fall of the Soviet Union? Not prototypes, I mean series production.
New Regulation Requires All Protected Species To Be Actively Looking For New Habitat In Order To Receive Funding https://t.co/Iedp5bQnXZ pic.twitter.com/dQdem6398L
— The Onion (@TheOnion) August 12, 2019
re: #209 Kilroy was here
I have an honest question. What major weapon system have the Russian’s developed and built since the fall of the Soviet Union? Not prototypes, I mean series production.
Please add… That’s more technologically advanced than what we have.
re: #208 plansbandc
Cry laughed here too. The daughter’s reaction kills me.
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They made this video too…… pic.twitter.com/scWHTp2Cjf
— GamecockGreats (@chantcock) August 12, 2019
re: #204 goddamnedfrank
I guess there’s a perverse logic to that but any advantage would be ephemeral when you factor in the inevitable reprisal from enemy submarines.
The general idea is that you could have multiple of these cruise missiles in a holding pattern, waiting for a “go” code to be transmitted before carrying out pre-programmed bombing runs. They’d be intended for decapitation strikes, going after sites like command centers, radar arrays, missiles sites, and airbases. By the time your enemy realizes what’s happening, his ability to respond is at worst diminished and at best totally neutralized.
re: #209 Kilroy was here
I have an honest question. What major weapon system have the Russian’s developed and built since the fall of the Soviet Union? Not prototypes, I mean series production.
The Topol-M. The latest versions have been designed with inbound phase maneuverability directly as a result of W’s unilateral withdrawal from the ABM treaty.
re: #209 Kilroy was here
I have an honest question. What major weapon system have the Russian’s developed and built since the fall of the Soviet Union? Not prototypes, I mean series production.
Borei-class SSBNs, for one.
The MUFON program my wife is watching on the “History” Channel is now talking about Admiral Byrd discovering Nazis in Antarctica.
This is bizarre. We do not have a nuclear-powered cruise missile program. We tried to build one, in the 1960’s, but it was too crazy, too unworkable, too cruel even for those nuclear nuts Cold War years. https://t.co/DWMn07yO3Y https://t.co/7Uqpx7B7Sk
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) August 12, 2019
re: #209 Kilroy was here
I have an honest question. What major weapon system have the Russian’s developed and built since the fall of the Soviet Union? Not prototypes, I mean series production.
T14 Armata
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We know how this case will turn out with the current Court; a 5-4 vote that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation isn’t sex discrimination.
re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I like these people. They make me laugh! :D
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
more in the continuing sputtering “I AM NOT A RACIST!!11!!”
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These two attention-seeking con women of course welcome their white supremacist overlords, and are reminding Trump that as trusted internet and TV talking head hucksters they can be helpful in rounding up others to once again toil in the cotton fields.
Hail Ants.
When I see something funny or interesting on Twitter, I am immediately reminded of why I won’t sign up.
Here’s an ass:
Too bad Heather didn’t go to the beach that day instead of being seduced by ANTIFA a domestic terrorist group.
Who hired Antifa to be Americas cops to fight racism anyhow???
Let her death be an example kids of what joining a domestic terrorist group can lead too.— America is a gift (@giftamerica) August 12, 2019
re: #219 Kilroy was here
Yah, but it is just an upgrade to their RT-2PM Topol which was first deployed in 1985.
And the M1A3 is an upgrade of the M1 tank that was introduced in 1980. The Army is still carrying around M16s and M4s decades after both were introduced into service. We rely upon Minuteman III missiles that were first deployed in 1970.
re: #217 William Lewis
T14 Armata
The Russian Army initially planned to acquire 2,300 T-14s between 2015 and 2020. Production and fiscal shortfalls delayed this to 2025, and then to the cancellation of the main production run.] The test batch of 100 is to be delivered and deployed to the Taman division, with delivery expected to be completed by 2020; tanks will be transferred only after the completion of all state tests.
en.wikipedia.org
So test batch only - no production run.
Why in the world is Putin wasting money on these systems when the successful Russian attacks on our election vulnerabilities has put their asset in the WH and rendered us powerless to confront them? Almost the entire GOP is in his pocket. What purpose do these weapons serve?
re: #190 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I love it when traitors to America out themselves, especially by going to Russia. You can’t argue it’s by accident.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) August 12, 2019
I just learned that “USO” stands for “unidentified submerged objects” (referring to UFOs which dive below the sea). Those donations I give to the USO? I’m supporting aliens apparently.
re: #223 Targetpractice
And the M1A3 is an upgrade of the M1 tank that was introduced in 1980. The Army is still carrying around M16s and M4s decades after both were introduced into service. We rely upon Minuteman III missiles that were first deployed in 1970.
Good point. Thanks.
Canadian farmers are increasingly looking to adopt sustainable farming techniques as worry over climate change grows. https://t.co/jLahV9sCzw
— CBC News (@CBCNews) August 12, 2019
re: #223 Targetpractice
And the M1A3 is an upgrade of the M1 tank that was introduced in 1980. The Army is still carrying around M16s and M4s decades after both were introduced into service. We rely upon Minuteman III missiles that were first deployed in 1970.
We’re also still flying B52’s and C130s, both first flew in the 1950’s.
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Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure the women of Petersburg have gotten used to mediocre over-middle-aged Western men embarassing themselves before them over the past few decades.
— Joel Wasserman (@joelw_762) August 12, 2019
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I just learned that “USO” stands for “unidentified submerged objects” (referring to UFOs which dive below the sea). Those donations I give to the USO? I’m supporting aliens apparently.
I think you’re buying them towels…
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I just learned that “USO” stands for “unidentified submerged objects” (referring to UFOs which dive below the sea). Those donations I give to the USO? I’m supporting aliens apparently.
Why “USO”? UFO can also stand for “Underwater Flying Object.” I learned that from The Abyss.
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I watched the Bill Maher show with The Mooch that put Trump’s panties in a twist. Christ, Mooch was bending over backwards to cut Trump slack, and to “Kellyanne” the rest of the group. At worst, he was praising him with faint damns (you might say).
And Trump goes nuts on Twitter. What a fucking baby!
re: #230 goddamnedfrank
We’re also still flying B52’s and C130s, both first flew in the 1950’s.
Really, the only reason that we’re flying F-22s and the Russians are struggling to build their own equivalent is purely down to funding. It’s not that the Russians aren’t innovative, they’ve certainly shown in recent decades that they still have the ability to match or even beat us. It’s just that they don’t have the raw cash necessary to keep up.
re: #225 Hecuba’s daughter
Why in the world is Putin wasting money on these systems when the successful Russian attacks on our election vulnerabilities has put their asset in the WH and rendered us powerless to confront them? Almost the entire GOP is in his pocket. What purpose do these weapons serve?
I can think of one reason:
With the massive tax scam passed by the GOP, Russia can now do to us what we did to the Soviet Union (make us spend into complete bankruptcy and collapse, followed by the breakup of the United States).
re: #234 Blind Frog Belly White
I watched the Bill Maher show with The Mooch that put Trump’s panties in a twist. Christ, Mooch was bending over backwards to cut Trump slack, and to “Kellyanne” the rest of the group. At worst, he was praising him with faint damns (you might say).
And Trump goes nuts on Twitter. What a fucking baby!
Trump sees his defenders in the media like he sees his bodyguards: They’re there to take a bullet for him, no matter how ridiculous the situation may be. If they aren’t willing to do that, then he has no use for them.
An HBO Twitter drama
Or another theory could be people that air similar views often have their accounts shit down and have to continuously rebuild them up. You could also address the argument rather than the popularity. Obama did do this and nobody said a thing.
— Comrade Billy (@SBRamone) August 12, 2019
Yeah, that’ll do it. Ignorance is a virtue and if we just block opposing opinions we can have our safe space. Who cares when they’re only bots anyway?
— Octopus reporter (@skeleto70560034) August 12, 2019
It was a quick block for me.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 12, 2019
re: #216 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The MUFON program my wife is watching on the “History” Channel is now talking about Admiral Byrd discovering Nazis in Antarctica.
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Dear Lord. I just realised how that Trump tweet can be read, by reading into the complaints from parts of National Security Twitter, and it’s not good.
Namely, that Project Pluto was never canned but just went black, that we have them up there now because we found a way to have no particles in the exhaust, and that Trump just inadvertently declassified it because the Russians slammed a SLAM into the terrain just south of Arkhangelsk.
We’re all gonna die.
re: #238 gocart mozart
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“HE DID IT FIRST!” was not an excuse for torturing POWs, it sure as fuck it not an excuse for operating concentration camps.
re: #235 Targetpractice
Really, the only reason that we’re flying F-22s and the Russians are struggling to build their own equivalent is purely down to funding. It’s not that the Russians aren’t innovative, they’ve certainly shown in recent decades that they still have the ability to match or even beat us. It’s just that they don’t have the raw cash necessary to keep up.
I put it down to brain drain brought on by 30 years of neglected infrastructure and an oppressive political climate. Way easier to get a job in the west.
re: #236 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I can think of one reason:
With the massive tax scam passed by the GOP, Russia can now do to us what we did to the Soviet Union (make us spend into complete bankruptcy and collapse, followed by the breakup of the United States).
That would be true if Russia was an economic powerhouse. But other than the oligarchs (including Putin) stealing money from their nation, what wealth does Russia have that would allow them to support this development, unless, of course, they are being funded by China which is really on target to be the wealthiest, most powerful nation on Earth.
re: #236 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I can think of one reason:
With the massive tax scam passed by the GOP, Russia can now do to us what we did to the Soviet Union (make us spend into complete bankruptcy and collapse, followed by the breakup of the United States).
Except they can’t. The US literally can’t go bankrupt; and certainly not due to an arms race with a country as poor as Russia.
re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
They seem pretty confident that SCOTUS will overturn Roe v. Wade for good and as currently configured, they’re probably right.
re: #240 Targetpractice
“HE DID IT FIRST!” was not an excuse for torturing POWs, it sure as fuck it not an excuse for operating concentration camps.
Dollars 2 donuts, if torturing little children in concentration camps was something that Obama actually did, Trump would have already abolished it by Day 2 with an Executive Order.
Trump’s vilified minorities and immigrants since the day he stepped down that escalator and announced his candidacy.
Dude’s gotta go.https://t.co/3iiA9Owl8g— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 12, 2019
Now they’re talking about Denver International Airport (urgh)
just heard from a friend that the pastor at her small-town Southern Baptist church in Oklahoma wouldn’t let young men volunteer in the nursery for fear that holding babies would turn them gay 😳
— ordinary thyme lord (@thymelord18) August 12, 2019
re: #244 Patricia Kayden
They seem pretty confident that SCOTUS will overturn Roe v. Wade for good and as currently configured, they’re probably right.
That is a double edge sword. The Republicans get out the vote campaign would lose its top seller and Blue states would still have the right in place.
Of course they still have guns but that doesn’t get the theocrats out.
OH NOES
Genius satirist @elivalley is currently suspended from Twitter because of a coordinated neo-nazi mass reporting campaign. Here is some of Eli’s work and you can follow @eli_valley for updates. pic.twitter.com/G9tUnLREz6
— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) August 12, 2019
re: #248 Kilroy was here
That is a double edge sword. The Republicans get out the vote campaign would lose its top seller and Blue states would still have the right in place.
Of course they still have guns but that doesn’t get the theocrats out.
They can still get their theocrats out by pushing for a federal law to make abortion illegal nationwide instead of just in red states.
General Richard Clarke @USSOCOM announces full ethics and culture review for 72,000 military and civilian personnel pic.twitter.com/iwtB9KJynV
— Barbara Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) August 12, 2019
re: #243 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Except they can’t. The US literally can’t go bankrupt; and certainly not due to an arms race with a country as poor as Russia.
Why can’t we? Remember Trump saying he wanted to default on the debt? Does not paying your bills (or not being able to) have the same effect?
Russia doesn’t have to produce a working fleet of these things, they just have to convince chickenhawks in Congress they can, so they spend more money on weapons programs and less on the country as a whole.
Yeah, that’ll do it. Ignorance is a virtue and if we just block opposing opinions we can have our safe space. Who cares when they’re only bots anyway?
— Octopus reporter (@skeleto70560034) August 12, 2019
Your ideas were tempered in the crucible of ideas, and found to be failures.
re: #243 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Except they can’t. The US literally can’t go bankrupt; and certainly not due to an arms race with a country as poor as Russia.
Yep —- Russia is ranked number 12 for GDP, behind Italy, Brazil, Canada, and South Korea. Its GDP is 8% of ours.
OTOH, with Trump’s brilliant management the US can go bankrupt — but not due to this arms race. After all, Trump managed to wreck every investment he had, except of course his run for the WH.
re: #227 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I just learned that “USO” stands for “unidentified submerged objects” (referring to UFOs which dive below the sea). Those donations I give to the USO? I’m supporting aliens apparently.
Tulsi isn’t popular enough to do any harm. She’s polling at 0.
Trump’s hopes:
1) Last minute deal with China, financial market spike; 2) Voter suppression in Georgia, North Carolina;
3) Tulsi Gabbard 3d party run— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 12, 2019
re: #249 The Pie Overlord!
OH NOES
He seems to be there.
Wow, the only person in an entire group of Jews arrested for protesting the Hero of American Nazism’s concentration camps who thinks it’s fine to lean against a pillar?? 👏🏻 This 👏🏻Is 👏🏻 Antisemitism 👏🏻 @TwitterSupport
(📸 @giligetz) pic.twitter.com/mCal1lBjbj— NotValleyEli (@eli_valley) August 12, 2019
If Gabbard is the only person who can beat Trump, it’s Tweedledum and Tweedledumber as far as Russo-American relations are concerned. Right down to the LGBT suppression that Russia requires of all its allies. And time for anyone who IS to start seeing who’ll consider their asylum
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) August 12, 2019
re: #256 Patricia Kayden
Tulsi isn’t popular enough to do any harm. She’s polling at 0.
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I’m next, bye for a bit pic.twitter.com/nH6K13Llg7
— Eli Valley (@elivalley) August 11, 2019
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Why can’t we? Remember Trump saying he wanted to default on the debt? Does not paying your bills (or not being able to) have the same effect?
Russia doesn’t have to produce a working fleet of these things, they just have to convince chickenhawks in Congress they can, so they spend more money on weapons programs and less on the country as a whole.
Because our debt is all in a currency we print. We could, if we wanted to, print 23 Trillion dollars and pay off all our national debt in one go, and there’s nothing our creditors could do to stop us, or demand other payment.
Other countries, whose debt is denominated in currencies they don’t control, don’t have that option. Let’s say you’re Greece, and you owe $400 Billion, denominated in dollars. You can’t print dollars. You can print a lot of drachmas, maybe, but if you do, the exchange rate would kill you and you’ll never be paid off.
Now, for the US to simply print money to cover the debt would be a TERRIBLY BAD IDEA, because it would devalue our currency, but we could literally make all the debt go away at once. And probably never be able to borrow another dime.
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Why can’t we? Remember Trump saying he wanted to default on the debt? Does not paying your bills (or not being able to) have the same effect?
The US will always be able to pay its bills because it can print its own money (unless Congress does something stupid like vote to not pay its bills, which could cause a global depression).
Russia doesn’t have to produce a working fleet of these things, they just have to convince chickenhawks in Congress they can, so they spend more money on weapons programs and less on the country as a whole.
The GOP wants to spend less money on the nation as a whole anyway; they don’t need an arms race with Russia as an excuse.
re: #254 Hecuba’s daughter
Yep —- Russia is ranked number 12 for GDP, behind Italy, Brazil, Canada, and South Korea. Its GDP is 8% of ours.
OTOH, with Trump’s brilliant management the US can go bankrupt — but not due to this arms race. After all, Trump managed to wreck every investment he had, except of course his run for the WH.
Even Trump can’t bankrupt the US, even if he tries.
re: #263 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Even Trump can’t bankrupt the US, even if he tries.
Fuck up our credit, yes. Bankrupt us, no.
From February..
More and More Russians Are Fleeing Oppression in Russia
atlanticcouncil.org
Among the newest group, 58 percent of respondents noted that they had “lived comfortably” in Russia prior to leaving, further indicating that economic hardship is less of a motivating factor for emigration than in previous decades.
Half of the respondents were under the age of thirty-four and 86 percent were under forty-four. Only 19 percent of respondents indicated that they had less than a bachelor’s degree and many said they had multiple higher education degrees.
“So long as authoritarianism and politically connected economic privilege continue in Russia,” the authors write, “talented people will continue to leave.”
NY Times editor on Trump headline: It was a ‘f—-ing’ mess
thehill.com
“He’s sick. He feels terrible,” Baquet reportedly said of the person who wrote the initial headline, which he called a “f—-ing mess” while urging staffers not to overreact to scrutiny the publication receives on social media.
- lesson ignored -
re: #261 Blind Frog Belly White
Because our debt is all in a currency we print. We could, if we wanted to, print 23 Trillion dollars and pay off all our national debt in one go, and there’s nothing our creditors could do to stop us, or demand other payment.
Other countries, whose debt is denominated in currencies they don’t control, don’t have that option. Let’s say you’re Greece, and you owe $400 Billion, denominated in dollars. You can’t print dollars. You can print a lot of drachmas, maybe, but if you do, the exchange rate would kill you and you’ll never be paid off.
Now, for the US to simply print money to cover the debt would be a TERRIBLY BAD IDEA, because it would devalue our currency, but we could literally make all the debt go away at once. And probably never be able to borrow another dime.
Except the Federal Reserve is not directly controlled by the government. The member banks would slaughter every member of the Fed if they tried that.
Even if the Fed could do that, hyperinflation is essentially the same thing. It is not bankruptcy in the sense you can’t pay your bills, but you’ve effectively made it so you can never pay a bill again.
re: #266 Kilroy was here
The Times’s publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, also addressed staff during the meeting, at one point citing a statistic that only a small percentage of Twitter users tweeting about the newspaper’s stories were clicking on them.
Why would they, with Dumpster fire headlines like that?
re: #265 Kilroy was here
From February..
More and More Russians Are Fleeing Oppression in Russia
atlanticcouncil.orgAmong the newest group, 58 percent of respondents noted that they had “lived comfortably” in Russia prior to leaving, further indicating that economic hardship is less of a motivating factor for emigration than in previous decades.
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The only reason Putin and his shills don’t openly support the “fake moon landing’ lie is the fear that Russian space scientists would leave en masse if they did.
re: #268 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The Times’s publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, also addressed staff during the meeting, at one point citing a statistic that only a small percentage of Twitter users tweeting about the newspaper’s stories were clicking on them.
Why would they, with Dumpster fire headlines like that?
Gee, I can’t understand why the Dead Tree Media is having so much trouble adapting in the era of social media. Tis a mystery…
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re: #267 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Except the Federal Reserve is not directly controlled by the government. The member banks would slaughter every member of the Fed if they tried that.
Even if the Fed could do that, hyperinflation is essentially the same thing. It is not bankruptcy in the sense you can’t pay your bills, but you’ve effectively made it so you can never pay a bill again.
Don’t conflate “bankrupt” with “not able to borrow MORE money”, because they’re not the same thing. Bankrupt means you can’t borrow more (who would loan to you?) AND you still owe all the money.
And the Federal Reserve is PART OF the government. It may act somewhat independently, but it’s still part of the government.
re: #263 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Even Trump can’t bankrupt the US, even if he tries.
With the assistance of the GOP, SCOTUS, and Russia, he could destroy this nation by fragmenting it into 50 pieces.
re: #267 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Except the Federal Reserve is not directly controlled by the government. The member banks would slaughter every member of the Fed if they tried that.
Even if the Fed could do that, hyperinflation is essentially the same thing. It is not bankruptcy in the sense you can’t pay your bills, but you’ve effectively made it so you can never pay a bill again.
Also, no, hyperinflation is NOT the same thing. Hyperinflation would essentially zero out EVERYONE’S debts, because they’re ALL denominated in dollars.
There are a lot of ways for things to be completely fucked up without them all being the same thing.
Helpful Hint!
Don’t go into a Wendy’s with a $¢ientologi$t in front of you ordering 70 burgers…
re: #268 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The Times’s publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, also addressed staff during the meeting, at one point citing a statistic that only a small percentage of Twitter users tweeting about the newspaper’s stories were clicking on them.
Why would they, with Dumpster fire headlines like that?
Perhaps someone should explain the concept of twitter ratio to Sulzberger.
re: #274 Joe Bacon 🌹
Helpful Hint!
Don’t go into a Wendy’s with a $¢ientologi$t in front of you ordering 70 burgers…
Just whisper in their ear that the restaurant puts psychotropic drugs in the meat. They’ll immediately vacate the premises like their ass is on fire.
WTFITS
Drinking bleach will not cure cancer or autism, FDA warns https://t.co/5BevnbwxfK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 13, 2019
re: #268 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The Times’s publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, also addressed staff during the meeting, at one point citing a statistic that only a small percentage of Twitter users tweeting about the newspaper’s stories were clicking on them.
Why would they, with Dumpster fire headlines like that?
For all the flaws in the NYTimes in its coverage of the 20th and 21st centuries, it is one of the few papers that still does in depth analysis of critical events and personalities of our time. You may have to wade through nonsense, but the articles are there.
re: #273 Blind Frog Belly White
Also, no, hyperinflation is NOT the same thing. Hyperinflation would essentially zero out EVERYONE’S debts, because they’re ALL denominated in dollars.
There are a lot of ways for things to be completely fucked up without them all being the same thing.
To understand this, let’s say my mortgage principal is $1 Million. And let’s say we get hit by hyperinflation, such that today’s dollar becomes worth $0.001 dollar (1000X inflation). I can now pay off my mortgage for the equivalent of $1000.
That, BTW, is way less than Venezuela’s rate of inflation.
re: #277 The Pie Overlord!
WTFITS
Drinking bleach will not cure cancer or autism, FDA warns
It may, however, end them.
re: #277 The Pie Overlord!
WTFITS
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Welcome to 2019, where our medical authorities have to address snake oil nonsense that would have been ridiculous in 1819.
re: #277 The Pie Overlord!
“Behind the Bastards” podcast did a whole thing about the nutjob who pushes the bleach. It’s vile.
re: #282 Targetpractice
Welcome to 2019, where our medical authorities have to address snake oil nonsense that would have been ridiculous in 1819.
A guy was selling a cure for infections in the early 1900s that we now call antifreeze. It killed a bunch of kids. It led to the FDA. It’s not that it has never been here. We just thought it had gone away.
A few here were asking about how goes progress on the hobbit house.
Four photos of the kitchen (private tag for those who don’t want to scroll through them):
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re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
A few here were asking about how goes progress on the hobbit house.
Four photos of the kitchen (private tag for those who don’t want to scroll through them):[Embedded content]
The ceiling is too high.
re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #284 Belafon
A guy was selling a cure for infections in the early 1900s that we now call antifreeze. It killed a bunch of kids. It led to the FDA. It’s not that it has never been here. We just thought it had gone away.
Well, it was a good run….
There is an editorial in my regional newspaper today by its political cartoonist (he sometimes writes editorials) decrying the cities of Gering’s and Scottsbluff’s residents for not providing input for the two cities’ “comprehensive plan.” (In this state, every incorporated city needs to provide such a plan to the state annually: It represents how the city is planning maintenance, expenditures, expansions, &c. Our village holds those in the meeting before the budget workshop every year.)
The thing is, the two cities did that by Internet surveys. La de da, most people even in the two largest cities in the Panhandle have no Internet service, because monopoly and $$$.
I can think of several better ways to get more people to respond in those cities, from mailing surveys to sending people round to random (or all) houses to ask questions, to even running a survey in the newspaper and asking people to drop off the answers in the mail or at the cities’ halls. (That would also cost $$$ and they’re run by Republicans, so they aren’t going to do that either.)
Here is the cartoon with the caption. pic.twitter.com/7ZGXrC1HEe
— Dan Collins (@mrtoons) August 12, 2019
re: #286 Belafon
The ceiling is too high.
LOL!
Fun fact about that ceiling: the poplar beams were salvaged from a 19th century house. The planking above the beams is tongue and groove flooring that comes from one of the biggest tobacco warehouses in the area (and where we sold our tobacco at auction back in the day). That warehouse was built in the very early 1900s.
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
He is often mistaken for Gimli.
As long as he’s not mistaken for Gimlet, because then he’d get drunk.
re: #282 Targetpractice
Welcome to 2019, where our medical authorities have to address snake oil nonsense that would have been ridiculous in 1819.
This is the “Right To Try” quack bullshit that Trump just legalized.
While we were having the horrible thunderstorms yesterday, people were out driving.
There was a two-car collision north of the county seat on US-385 resulting in five deaths. US-385 is a two-lane road (except for passing lanes in the Sandhills).
The Nebraska State Patrol says a northbound sport utility vehicle went out of control during heavy rain, crossed the center line and hit the oncoming truck.
The patrol says all five people in the SUV were killed, including the driver, 30-year-old Amy Rednest of Alliance, and an adult passenger, 31-year-old Vanessa Gomez, of Westminster, Colorado. Also killed were 14-year-old Nevaeh Montoya, of Westminster; 13-year-old Emma Reza; and 9-year-old Falicia Reza, both of Alliance.
apnews.com (Associated Press)
The driver of the truck, also from Colorado, is in the hospital in Bridgeport.
re: #277 The Pie Overlord!
WTFITS
This is the MMS nonsense which has been promoted for years. That doesn’t have anything to do with “right to try” legislation.
Miracle Mineral Supplement (Wikipedia)
MMS is chlorine dioxide mixed with an acid upon use, such as lemon juice. (The acid releases the chlorine in solution.)
As the government has cracked down on this in the USA and Canada, grifters and missionaries (but I repeat myself) have taken this snake-oil roadshow into Africa, where there are weaker oversight agencies and laws.
Being able to peddle MMS would be the logical outcome of libertarian dreams to get rid of regulatory agencies such as the FDA or FTC. As a matter of fact, you could peddle anything if you got rid of regulatory agencies.
re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
A few here were asking about how goes progress on the hobbit house.
Four photos of the kitchen (private tag for those who don’t want to scroll through them):[Embedded content]
Come do my house. /s
The key thing here is that a US congressman is not just boosting a QAnon follower, but actually promoting a QAnon clue — number #1827, which is a video of Deadpool eating popcorn because he’s excited for Democrats to get arrested. https://t.co/qgzSxWAXB6
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 12, 2019
re: #298 Anymouse 🌹🎃
This is the MMS nonsense which has been promoted for years. That doesn’t have anything to do with “right to try” legislation.
Miracle Mineral Supplement (Wikipedia)
MMS is chlorine dioxide mixed with an acid upon use, such as lemon juice. (The acid releases the chlorine in solution.)
As the government has cracked down on this in the USA and Canada, grifters and missionaries (but I repeat myself) have taken this snake-oil roadshow into Africa, where there are weaker oversight agencies and laws.
Being able to peddle MMS would be the logical outcome of libertarian dreams to get rid of regulatory agencies such as the FDA or FTC. As a matter of fact, you could peddle anything if you got rid of regulatory agencies.
Well, of course MMS is all bullshit. But this Radium Water here, that’s the real deal!!!!
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re: #297 Anymouse 🌹🎃
So sad. Just awful. I’ve lost control of a car during a snowstorm but thankfully the car I hit was parked and empty.
Whichever scumbag right wing organization is pushing the Mooch at us had a banner day today. You couldn’t escape the fucker. They won. Change the channel, there he is again! The Mooch. The fucking mooch. The guy whose nickname is a synonym for “grifting.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 13, 2019
Now THIS is a lead: “The thieves cased the area around the McGregor Mountain foothills, on the hunt for vehicles with unlocked doors — which helps you open them if you don’t have opposable thumbs and you are also a bear.”https://t.co/ihSjmqoImf
— melissa block (@NPRmelissablock) August 13, 2019
re: #264 Blind Frog Belly White
Fuck up our credit, yes. Bankrupt us, no.
Only way to do that is if Congress voted to default on our debt. They won’t do that while a Republican is in the WH, and its extremely unlikely they would do it even if a Democrat wins next year.
This may be important. His choice of lawyer may indicate he wants to make a deal.
New: Les Wexner has lawyered up, hiring Mary Jo White, the former SDNY U.S. Attorney and current Debevoise partner, per people familiar.
In recent weeks, White has reached out to SDNY on Wexner’s behalf.
w/ @karascannellhttps://t.co/SQNwyyZlC4— erica orden (@eorden) August 12, 2019
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
After 1,827 clues, you’d think they’d get a clue (like they’re being played).
re: #304 Backwoods_Sleuth
The bear “forcibly breached a hole in the wall like the ‘Kool-Aid Man’ and made its escape,” the department said
Michael Weston Narrator voice:
“Drug dealers usually have bulletproof doors, but they don’t have bulletproof walls.”
Service dogs at a relaxed performance at @stratfest @dog_rates pic.twitter.com/0SXRpAz4EX
— George Meanwell (@gmeanwell) August 12, 2019
The Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario! The doggos are watching a play ❤
— susan rojas (@16thCenturyGirl) August 12, 2019
re: #305 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Only way to do that is if Congress voted to default on our debt. They won’t do that while a Republican is in the WH, and its extremely unlikely they would do it even if a Democrat wins next year.
Or failed to vote not to default, which is more likely.
re: #306 gocart mozart
This may be important. His choice of lawyer may indicate he wants to make a deal.
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can’t find a link, but yesterday I read that Epstein’s lawyers have lawyered up, too.
re: #272 Hecuba’s daughter
With the assistance of the GOP, SCOTUS, and Russia, he could destroy this nation by fragmenting it into 50 pieces.
That is a possibility. the frightening thing is that the GOP has shown its fully ready to lead the nation into fascism if that is what it takes to retain power.
re: #307 Anymouse 🌹🎃
After 1,827 clues, you’d think they’d get a clue (like they’re being played).
It’s like the Doomsday Cults, where they believe the world will end on a particular day, and then it doesn’t, but the fact that it didn’t end THAT day is just proof that it will DEFINITELY end on some OTHER day.
re: #311 Backwoods_Sleuth
can’t find a link, but yesterday I read that Epstein’s lawyers have lawyered up, too.
The wingnuts are already in that thread with “whaddabout Clinton?”
They still don’t get it that if somehow Bill Clinton is involved in this, drag his ass to court. This isn’t political.
asshole
Enjoyed dinner on Baltic Sea with @janethuckabee & dear friends Rick and Karen Santorum. Note to media-we are not here to collude but to see if we can get the uranium back that Hillary sold. We told Vlad we could be more flexible after the election. pic.twitter.com/hsfKkE2chl
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) August 12, 2019
This is a good diet. https://t.co/EtLr7D9sob
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 13, 2019
re: #279 Blind Frog Belly White
To understand this, let’s say my mortgage principal is $1 Million. And let’s say we get hit by hyperinflation, such that today’s dollar becomes worth $0.001 dollar (1000X inflation). I can now pay off my mortgage for the equivalent of $1000.
That, BTW, is way less than Venezuela’s rate of inflation.
Unless the US becomes a failed state, I think the risk of hyperinflation is close to zero. Since our last bout of serious inflation 40 years ago, global forces have become heavily deflationary. If the US does become a failed state, we will have much bigger worries than inflation.
Trump Golf Course & Country Club, Outer Space
— Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) August 13, 2019
re: #302 Patricia Kayden
So sad. Just awful. I’ve lost control of a car during a snowstorm but thankfully the car I hit was parked and empty.
The only time I lost control of my car was on the road around NAS Oceana, when it was covered in ice. I was driving very slowly, and I just slid off the road because of its high crown into someone’s lawn.
re: #318 The Pie Overlord!
Name this place. Wrong answers only. pic.twitter.com/96b4DWurn2
— Jacopo della Quercia (@Jacopo_della_Q) August 12, 2019
That’s a moon.
re: #319 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The only time I lost control of my car was on the road around NAS Oceana, when it was covered in ice. I was driving very slowly, and I just slid off the road because of its high crown into someone’s lawn.
I lost control of my Dodge Colt on a hill and a curve with black ice. I was going very slowly, but had to accelerate a bit to get over the hill, and the little square car did a 360° rotation. I ended up where I started, facing where I was going, with no cars on the road. Stopped shaking and crept on home, about 5 miles away.
re: #321 Blind Frog Belly White
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That’s a moon.
I didn’t see it in my admittedly short search, so:
That’s a moon.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) August 13, 2019
WTH is going on in Toronto?
A woman was just caught on camera screaming racial slurs outside #Toronto City Hall https://t.co/6UOpsNpm5H pic.twitter.com/0QysQC9t73
— blogTO (@blogTO) August 12, 2019
re: #323 Belafon
I didn’t see it in my admittedly short search, so:
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I’d have thought that would be the single most obvious answer.
re: #324 Patricia Kayden
WTH is going on in Toronto?
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We’re not the only country with white supremacists.
your mom bears a cursory review.
— Patrick Cotnoir (@patrickcotnoir) August 12, 2019
Are we doing mom jokes @patrickcotnoir? Your mom is so old when she walked into the antique store they kept her. (It’s clean and kinda funny)
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) August 12, 2019
thread, thirteen tweets in response:
This joke raises so many more questions than it answers. Did she not resist? Was she alone? You said she “walked in”— how did she get there? Is this the first time that this antique store did something like this? Is she “for sale” or display only?
— Connor Ratliff (@connorratliff) August 12, 2019
re: #310 Blind Frog Belly White
Voting is so 20th century. Who needs to vote when Trump just rules unilaterally without any need for Congressional approval?
re: #326 Blind Frog Belly White
I’d have thought that would be the single most obvious answer.
Or, “Alderan’s moon.”
re: #325 Belafon
And then I found it:
I liked the tea ball better.
That no moon. It’s a tea infuser. https://t.co/OX0OVnYUb8 pic.twitter.com/vlmiJQLoXS
— Jacopo della Quercia (@Jacopo_della_Q) August 12, 2019
re: #330 Skip Intro
Voting is so 20th century. Who needs to vote when Trump just rules unilaterally without any need for Congressional approval?
“Tell ‘em I’ll pay ‘em ten cents on the dollar. What’s the worst that could happen?”
A Charlottesville writer lost her newspaper column after a police officer made an empty threat to sue her for (correctly) writing that he’d been photographed with members of white supremacist militias. https://t.co/taWPPNKe4L
— Kelly Weill (@KELLYWEILL) August 12, 2019
Thread, fifteen tweets from the columnist:
i wanted to wait until i had official confirmation that no lawsuit would be filed, but apparently another local media outlet is writing up a story on this and i wanted to tell you myself, though the timing is very ugly.
— molly 🐶 (@socialistdogmom) August 12, 2019
“When Warren told fairgoers what America could fund with her ultra-millionaires tax on Saturday, the crowd responded with a chant.
“TWO CENTS! TWO CENTS!” https://t.co/fjfpUAcC78— Adam Jentleson 🎈🐢 (@AJentleson) August 11, 2019
[T]he development that currently demands attention is the emergence of Senator Elizabeth Warren as something other than the candidate of policy wonks, dismissed as nonviable even among people who think she’d make an outstanding president. Her strong debate performances, a knack for organizing (based on her outstanding retail political skills), and the misfortunes affecting some of her rivals have combined to give her the clear path to the Democratic nomination that she really did not have in the early going.
Recent polls have clearly indicated that Warren is going places. The RealClearPolitics national polling averages show her as basically tied with Bernie Sanders for second place with Joe Biden’s lead narrowing. The two most recent national polls (from Quinnipiac and Economist-You Gov) place her seven and five points, respectively, ahead of Sanders. Just as important, she’s gaining strength in the early states. A new Monmouth poll from Iowa places her ten points ahead of Bernie, and just nine points behind Biden, in a state where everyone concedes she has the best organization. In New Hampshire polls, where Biden’s early lead was less formidable, she’s nipping at Sanders’s heels. Warren is in a similar position in Nevada (which holds its caucuses 11 days after the New Hampshire primary), where Politico reported yesterday that she has already built a “monster” of an organization.
Ex-Googler Recently Held Up As A ‘Whistleblower’ And ‘Proof’ Of Anti-Conservative Bias At Google, Actually Supported Richard Spencer, Racist Skinheads https://t.co/ELSmQliXZP
— techdirt (@techdirt) August 12, 2019
New Trump campaign merch: Back 2 Back champs t-shirt referencing SCOTUS nominees, w silhouettes of Trump & McConnell pic.twitter.com/kwVBDBC1YM
— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) August 12, 2019
WTFITS
Grover Norquist trying to get today’s Twitter ratio award.
You should stop voting for California Democrats who raise your income and property taxes
Iowans will no longer subsidize your bad choices https://t.co/YTQLVuXYn1— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) August 11, 2019
re: #340 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Grover Norquist trying to get today’s Twitter ratio award.
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“In California, each resident is sending in $348 more than they get back. In Iowa, each resident is receiving $797 more back in federal services than they paid in taxes.” https://t.co/48Zv4s2MQ0
— Striker Titan (@jrstriker12) August 11, 2019
re: #337 gocart mozart
Douchecanoes who can’t spell quickly weighing in on that.
Did you know Richard Spencer is a “leftist?”
Tomato harvest from the back yard garden pic.twitter.com/mdd4QJbML6
— Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) August 13, 2019
Renowned liar & Elmer Gantry impersonator, Mike Huckabee dines with frothy failed politician and noted Maria Butina associate, Rick “frothy mixture” Santorum. pic.twitter.com/pxmZhQV2Pt
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 13, 2019
re: #343 The Pie Overlord!
Moonbats will tell you that nightshade plant fruits like tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and potatoes will cause things such as inflammation, such as this moonbat:
unboundwellness.com
presumably due to the extremely low quantities of certain alkaloids found in them (almost none in the fruit though).
You’d better give those tomatoes to me, just to be safe. /s Since I get my alkaloids derived directly from deadly nightshade itself in my medication, I’m pretty sure a tomato won’t hurt me.
Sickest burn you will see on Twitter all day
I am the great, great niece of ragtime pianist Louis Chauvin. Listen to me play…and be vastly disappointed because I suck.
See where I am going here? You and I are aren’t dissimilar here, beloved.— Raychel Proudie (@RCProudie) August 8, 2019
How do I get one of these? pic.twitter.com/qWT3SuQDRg
— Sean Kent (@seankent) August 12, 2019
re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth
I had a self-parallel-parking Ford Escape for 3 years but I was too intimidated to use that feature.
re: #346 The Pie Overlord!
Sickest burn you will see on Twitter all day
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Not that Proudie needed my follow, but she earned it by not taking any shit in the replies.
re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth
So damn fake.. No suspension movement..
Oooh this lady takes ‘both-sides-erism’ to the nth degree. Wow. Also extra points for the me me me me—how do people fighting for the destiny of their homeland affect me???? https://t.co/ltifzUTAjm
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) August 13, 2019
re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth
Already invented in the 30tieshttps://t.co/qROzWKMDbk
— Jordan (@MrJordan911) August 12, 2019
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gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
President Trump is to address American Veterans (AMVETS) 75th national convention in Louisville Aug. 21 when he comes to Kentucky’s largest city for a private fundraiser for Gov. Matt Bevin’s re-election campaign. ^JB
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 13, 2019
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 13, 2019
thread
It seems I’ve inadvertently started something at my son’s school that might be the greatest thing I’ve ever done.
In 3rd grade, a classmate asked my son where he got his scarf and hat. “My mom made it,” he told him. The boy responded “I wish my mom could make me one too.”— 🇺🇸 Danielle Ames 🇺🇸 (@DanielleAmes10) August 13, 2019
re: #353 Backwoods_Sleuth
White South African who grew up under apartheid, who fled when democracy came to SA now complaining about democracy protests in Hong Kong.
Conservatives really don’t like democracy, no matter what country they’re from, do they?
Strawberries are in season and my grandson’s in town—that means strawberry shortcake! pic.twitter.com/sZNfWnqxmy
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 13, 2019
*shivers*.
Anyways, imagine when this is all properly weaponised on top of already fractured and extreme online ecosystems and people stop believing their eyes and ears.— Gavin Sheridan (@gavinsblog) August 12, 2019
it’s official: the value of hentai is $998 million https://t.co/VJ7U086qtV
— Gene Park (@GenePark) August 12, 2019
re: #360 gocart mozart
There is money to be made by some enterprising individual who certifies video when it’s created as genuine, so so-called “deep fakes” do not get traction.
re: #362 Anymouse 🌹🎃
There is money to be made by some enterprising individual who certifies video when it’s created as genuine, so so-called “deep fakes” do not get traction.
Exactly what I said:
It would be a good time for someone to start a company that certifies video authenticity. I don’t mean attempting to detect real from fake, but “We stamp this video as being authentic, having seen and verified the source.” It would be useful for politicians and news.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) August 13, 2019
re: #363 Belafon
Exactly what I said:
If I had the money, I’d start such a company.
I damn well wouldn’t sell it to someone like Facebook or Twitter either.
It would be much better if the balloons were all filled with deep red-tinted corn syrup.
Most people: I guess balloons are ok
Me: pic.twitter.com/urmWxJ5hI2— Jan Hakon Erichsen (@janerichsen) August 11, 2019
Stuff your “comply now” nonsense, AG Barr. Up there where you presumably stuck your copy of the Constitution.
Fourth tweet in a series about AG Barr:
And finally the role of speaking out: “The anti-police narrative is fanning disrespect for the law.” “We need public voices, in the media and elsewhere, to underscore the need to “Comply first, and, if warranted, complain later.” 4/
— Elizabeth Joh (@elizabeth_joh) August 12, 2019
Watching Hannibal, because that’s the sick mood I’m in right now.
Fun fact: Well no, it’s not a fun fact, it’s disgusting. When we saw Hannibal in the theater, we were waiting in a fairly long line to get in, and there was a seven or eight year old kid in line with his parents. JFC. Been a long time and I still remember it. I wonder what that did to his head.
re: #366 The Pie Overlord!
It would be much better if the balloons were all filled with deep red-tinted corn syrup.
That guy really hates balloons.
Paul Revere, Beastie Boys, License to Ill I had a little horse named Paul RevereJust me and my horsy and a quart of beerRiding across the land kicking up sandSheriff’s posse on my tail ‘cause I’m in demandOne lonely Beastie I beAll by myself without nobody
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 13, 2019
I hated that album the first 50 times my friend across the hall in my dorm played it 3 TIMES A DAY for a whole semester! I memorized all the lyrics against my will and then I thought “This is actually pretty cool”
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 13, 2019
re: #368 plansbandc
Watching Hannibal, because that’s the sick mood I’m in right now.
Fun fact: Well no, it’s not a fun fact, it’s disgusting. When we saw Hannibal in the theater, we were waiting in a fairly long line to get in, and there was a seven or eight year old kid in line with his parents. JFC. Been a long time and I still remember it. I wonder what that did to his head.
More than likely, nothing.
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