Have you ever been to a party and then when you get there realize everyone is awful and you’re not actually sure who invited you? Well, we put together some of our favorite segments of people you would never want to be at a party with. We present to you, the President’s evil henchmen part one. #FullFrontalRewind
From downstairs:
re: #210 gocart mozart
Stephen Miller (born August 23, 1985)
He turned 34 last fucking Friday!!— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 26, 2019
He’s 34?! Could’ve fooled me, dude looks like he’s in his 40s.
When you fall down the stairs on your way into the club but style it out like a bosspic.twitter.com/pCJ1l4HLTR
— Jack D 🌷🌹 (@JackDunc1) August 26, 2019
I was curious last week what GOP strategist Liz Mair did to be named in the Devin Nunes lawsuit against Twttier. Some believe that she may be the individual behind the @DevinCow Nunes parody account, but this just didn’t seem right to me. The person who writes those tweets is amusing on a semi-regular basis, something that has never been said of Liz Mair.
This evening Newsweek has perhaps shed a bit of light on the situation. Maybe I am wrong, it’s not like the article linked totally clears her of having something to do with the parodies. Even so, awfully hard to imagine someone so difficult to like (even being anti-Trump) is behind the fun cow character.
Be a pity if #TrumpBedBugs trended 🤷♀️ https://t.co/41W9UIv7i8
— ᎠᏌNᎬᎷYᎢᎻᎪNᏩ™️ (@Kris_Sacrebleu) August 26, 2019
This is Moose. He was attempting a mid-snoozle stretch. Incredibly risky while elevated. 14/10 nailed the dismount pic.twitter.com/g9UoQPioXP
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) August 27, 2019
Slamma bamma evangelist Todd Bentley is in trouble again.
Back in 2008, Bentley first became famous/notorious for his actions at the “Lakeland (FL) Revival.” At first it was his unconventional healing technique, in which he claimed God told him to kick people. He got a LOT of people to come out to Lakeland in the late spring of 2008 and GodTV was showing the revival nightly. He was attracting such great crowds that prominent charismatics, such as Ché Ahn, Bill Johnson, John Arnott, and Rick Joyner and Peter Wagner showed up to commission Bentley an evangelist in late 2008.
Two weeks later, the “revival” started to fall apart. The ABC show Nightline did a story about the alleged healings at the revival, including stories of people being raised from the dead, and found…nothing. A month after that, the revival had basically closed up shop, after it emerged that Bentley had filed for divorce from his wife and had had an “inappropriate relationship” with a ministry assistant.
Now, with that background, come up to 2019. Last Friday, a former ministry associate of Bentley’s named Stephen Powell accused Bentley of having a “perverse, bisexual open marriage.” The associate spoke of some incidents, including but not limited to naked pictures, sexting, masturbation and gay activities.
Here’s the article from Christian Post: christianpost.com
But, I should note, Powell did not provide any hard proof of the allegations. Instead, he claimed that he’d gotten a vision from God, that this whole thing was playing out in the “courts of heaven.” Powell claimed he tried to contact the men who had “restored” Bentley after the 2008 debacle. And then the report leaked out. One of the guys who restored Bentley in 2008, Rick Joyner, disclaimed any authority over Bentley, but accused Powell of operating in a “spirit of witchcraft” because Powell had gone public with his allegations.
This link to Charisma News, the house organ of the charismatic movement charismanews.com gives a window into the crazy going on.
Now, given Bentley’s past, I can surely see this. It’s not merely that he dumped wife 1 for wife 2. But there’s also the fact that he was convicted at age 15 of sexually assaulting a boy two years younger and spent time in jail. But I’m skeptical until I see more than “I had a dream/vision/bad indigestion and God’s going after this guy.” I thought we left spectral evidence in Salem in 1692.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
Trump: The Doral is 5 minutes from the airport
Google Maps: Fastest route: 19 minutes
He lies about everything
ICYMI: Trump Doral settles lawsuit over biting bedbugs #TrumpBedbugs https://t.co/QuFCrrYwu7— Richard Hine (@richardhine) August 27, 2019
“One prosecutor quit the case and has expressed frustration with how it was being managed, according to person familiar with her departure….” 🤔 https://t.co/IE7BRq1WXO
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) August 27, 2019
Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial have until Tuesday by 4 p.m. to tell the court if they are in possession of any of President Trump’s tax returns. If they won’t answer they need to explain in detail why. Here’s today’s court order 👉 pic.twitter.com/emc4xETzQL
— Susanne Craig (@susannecraig) August 26, 2019
From the previous thread:
re: #201 Blind Frog Belly White
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No, little one. That was the war where the South killed hundreds of thousands of men to preserve and extend slavery.
Most people on the right seem to think history stopped in the 1960s. You think it stopped in the 1860s.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) August 27, 2019
By the way, if any right wing oppo hit squads want to read through thousands of my old tweets to find incriminating stuff, just let me know how I can help.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 27, 2019
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
I can see why Po was the chosen one.
“The woman was hired… Ten days after the move was complete, the new employee’s father sent Deutsche Bank a request for a proposal on a bond deal worth more than $2 billion, a deal the bank ultimately won.”https://t.co/WCRZeblYMp
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 26, 2019
I’m just thankful we didn’t have the internet when I was in my 20s because hoo boy
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 27, 2019
I would be living in a cave today if that had been the case.
You and I were probably equally outspoken in those days.— Ed Bott (@edbott) August 27, 2019
re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth
Corruption all the way on down.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trumps Hotel has Bedbugs
Coincidence? How many times has Maggie stayed at the Doral? Irresponsible not to ask.
Remember after hurricane Maria when most of the 78 mayors in Puerto Rico didn’t have a satellite phone or a way of communicating with the central government? FEMA just confirmed that they have 78 sat phones & they will “hopefully distribute them tomorrow” to each mayor.
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) August 27, 2019
BREAKING: Trump to send Stephen Miller to his Doral resort in Florida to eat all the bed bugs #TrumpBedBugs pic.twitter.com/ugbMsntALE
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) August 26, 2019
I’ve tweeted 33,415 times as of this comment. There’s unflattering shit in there, no doubt about it. There’s unflattering shit of me here at LGF being a stupid pissant
AfLNQR5zfrI4m15bmvsv0GnIoa5Zk56DguPLfCPoxery4rN6qsN/PRrvgbOgtP0cgo4LweQrA+yAaAWKcNiBTbNnh/gHpS2Lket05C7jhhQWNXYh9yTlE/vkkGT8pEzLaK1G5hpdRQJ4LRqV8bAcNicGbO454eO+AvyCly/fPvCCae4Qqq9/H7go2dPcsxEGv9Uub6R6a3Q9OuKE6DQNSpSQotdWhOaGCh0X1UR8le1bGOSUdni6VNpEIddkk1JcQBD9tn4evLE=
this is true. There’s tweets of me saying I want to kill myself. There’s tweets of me being mean and unforgiving. I cuss a lot. But it’s all there. No mass deletions from me. Because in a way it is me. It was me at a certain time and place.
Check it out. If any RWNJ wants to comb through them and discredit me, be my guest. I might even learn something about myself if you find some egregious shit.
Until this moment, I didn’t realize that at nine years, I possessed the intellect, rhetoric and vocabulary to be a U.S. President. Previously under this regime, I thought I needed to be at least eleven. And mind you, at eleven I didn’t know how to make a bed or jerk off properly. https://t.co/4rxkdDqqSM
— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 26, 2019
heh
Jump right in, candyass. The water’s fine. https://t.co/lJ7F5cLuGt
— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 26, 2019
LOL. This dude didn’t pay his child support and said virulently racist shit on Twitter, but the second he says some bad things about the president, he loses his job. https://t.co/srSgzrgySc
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) August 27, 2019
Womp Womp, motherfucker. https://t.co/anKUoYLzkt
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) August 27, 2019
“When neighbors start talking, good things happen.” 🏡 pic.twitter.com/PmOaZ6j4zk
— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) August 27, 2019
re: #22 Belafon
Andy Ngo just removed Quillette from his bio…
… the same day it was revealed that Ngo and the violent far-right group Patriot Prayer had an “understanding” that he would protect them and they’d protect him.
(h/t @Avi_Bueno) pic.twitter.com/WDJRST8EYJ— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) August 27, 2019
Just a quick FYI:
Joe Walsh isn’t running against Trump because he thinks Trump is an evil bastard.
He’s running against Trump because he thinks Trump is an incompetent bastard.
Walsh has no problems with Trump’s evil shit. He just wants it to be more efficient.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 27, 2019
this is 1000 times funnier than the david french trial balloon pic.twitter.com/S3m8Te93Jp
— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) August 27, 2019
re: #30 MsJ
Yes it is. Also those dang pop-ups made it difficult to read the article.
You know what? If the 2020 Democratic nominee for president wins Texas, it’s over, Donnie loses bigly. #OneTermDonnie #ImpeachTrumpNow #25thAmendmentNow
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) August 27, 2019
There are plenty of Texas Lizards on the ground, and as far as I’ve heard from y’all that ain’t outside the realm of possibility.
re: #29 gocart mozart
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Andy Ngo is gone from Quillette’s website, as of tonight. He was still listed an hour ago. https://t.co/BvnQUORTn6
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) August 27, 2019
With so much hate and division in the world, its good to know that there are still people tickling bats.
📹: https://t.co/9fyokjFGgE pic.twitter.com/MHZhS3AAfx— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) August 24, 2019
re: #34 teleskiguy
You know what? If the 2020 Democratic nominee for president wins Texas, it’s over, Donnie loses bigly.
Same could be said for Florida, too, I suppose.
re: #34 teleskiguy
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There are plenty of Texas Lizards on the ground, and as far as I’ve heard from y’all that ain’t outside the realm of possibility.
If it does happen, I’ll probably have to take a week off after the election to recover. But Trump is making it more and more likely. We really need a huge voter registration and GOTV effort targeting this state, and probably a lot of people volunteering to be election monitors because the GOP running it are going to do whatever they can, and probably turn their heads whenever they can, to keep the numbers down.
I’m not feeling well, so you are going to have to deal without me for the rest of the evening.
Keep this in mind
1) Ben Shapiro is an idiot.
2) Joe Walsh is a racist.
3) Donald Trump is both of the above.
peace.
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
There’s a lot to hate about social media, but I’ve been introduced to more interesting types of animals than I knew existed because of social media. Who knew hedgehogs could be cute? Or that bats liked to be scratched? Or watched a baby hippo grow up? That’s one good thing about social media. The rest, not so much.
re: #39 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m not feeling well, so you are going to have to deal without me for the rest of the evening.
Keep this in mind
1) Ben Shapiro is an idiot.
2) Joe Walsh is a racist.
3) Donald Trump is both of the above.peace.
Feel better!
I looked up the video (https://t.co/vE8r4XCG2p) because this tweet has been going around. Biden was talking about costs he says he incurred putting three kids through college, not debt for his *own* schooling. https://t.co/546d3hFHnK
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 27, 2019
From the filing:
“McGahn and the Executive Branch are encroaching on the Committee’s power to consider articles of impeachment, obstructing its efforts to consider legislation and conduct oversight, and irreparably injuring Congress’s stature as a co-equal branch of government.” pic.twitter.com/oaPwTSZYcT— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) August 27, 2019
I’m really hoping the Democratic debate next month whittles the candidates down to a reasonable amount of people. Like, six, maybe seven.
If it were up to me? It would be Biden, Sanders (I know, groan, but he has support to keep going in the primaries at this point), Warren (I hate this fucking metaphor, but, my horse in the race), Harris, Booker, Buttigieg, and O’Rourke.
re: #44 teleskiguy
That’s my breaking point; agree.
re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Please, oh please indict and prosecute… the Discovery phase will send many prominent Republicans to prison.
ICYMI: @jheil pushes @WalshFreedom on his past comments
“You get that… calling the president Muslim, saying he was born in Kenya, etc, etc… makes people doubt your moral standing to take on someone who, one of his primary moral failings is his racism…” pic.twitter.com/lKiPEfbPjA— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) August 26, 2019
re: #33 PhillyPretzel
Yes it is. Also those dang pop-ups made it difficult to read the article.
Sorry. I never see those because I’m always on my phone. If I had, I’d not have posted it.
Not just a bat, but a bat with a ladybug pacifier.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 27, 2019
re: #1 SteelPH
From downstairs:
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He’s 34?! Could’ve fooled me, dude looks like he’s in his 40s.
Gee. Thanks!
I just found out I’m the *exact* same age as Matt Gaetz. We were both born on 7 May 1982. Life is too fucking weird.
Former Vet who went undercover to document Patriot Prayer may sink Andy Ngo’s career. “Ngo tags along…[and] doesn’t film Patriot Prayer protesters discussing strategies. There’s an understanding, that Patriot Prayer protects him and he protects them.” https://t.co/shmXqXNv1I
— It’s Going Down (@IGD_News) August 26, 2019
A Real American Hero.
re: #37 teleskiguy
Same could be said for Florida, too, I suppose.
I dunno: Florida is one of those perennial “battleground” states (tho the GOPers tend to win a bunch - usually by cheating, IMO) but Texas? Even the hint that TX might be trending blue has got to be giving the Republicans the shit-fits….*
* good
re: #54 Jay C
I dunno: Florida is one of those perennial “battleground” states (tho the GOPers tend to win a bunch - usually by cheating, IMO) but Texas? Even the hint that TX might be trending blue has got to be giving the Republicans the shit-fits….*
* good
If nothing else, every dollar spent by Democrats in Texas next year will have to be matched by money from the GOP, and this is a state they can’t afford to spend money on.
re: #54 Jay C
I dunno: Florida is one of those perennial “battleground” states (tho the GOPers tend to win a bunch - usually by cheating, IMO) but Texas? Even the hint that TX might be trending blue has got to be giving the Republicans the shit-fits….*
* good
Texas is gerrymandered to within an inch of its life.
re: #56 The Pie Overlord!
Texas is gerrymandered to within an inch of its life.
We still managed to get Allred elected, and the presidency doesn’t care about the gerrymandering.
re: #54 Jay C
I dunno: Florida is one of those perennial “battleground” states (tho the GOPers tend to win a bunch - usually by cheating, IMO) but Texas? Even the hint that TX might be trending blue has got to be giving the Republicans the shit-fits….*
* good
We delivered Florida to Obama in 2012. His OFA organization had a very well supported border-crosser component. (And his microtargeting was state-of-the-art.)
Getting back home after taking a few days‘ road trip - including our National Parks! 🏞 At @SequoiaKingsNPS, anyone can preside over the House 😉We all should fight to protect the land, *and* so every American can have the ample, necessary time off to recuperate & enjoy it. pic.twitter.com/IaaRG6PFw6
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 26, 2019
You’re an idiot. wildrose.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 26, 2019
How is she trying to “take the vote away from the people who live in places like this”? There are so many stupid conspiracies on the right I can’t keep track. If you explain it to me and it’s not ridiculous, I will apologize for calling you an idiot, I promise.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
Let’s see if she responds. I looked at her timeline and I may have overestimated her intelligence by a wide margin, ooh boyee!
I bet it has something to do with eliminating the EC
re: #60 gocart mozart
Give ThE VoTe Back To The NaTioNal pArks
re: #31 teleskiguy
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He has no problems with Trump’s domestic evil shit.
He does have a problem with Trump’s Putin-crush.
We should offer Arkansas as a trade. Our national security depends on it. If @SenTomCotton really cared about his country he would support this Arkansas trade.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
re: #64 gocart mozart
We should send Tom Cotton to survey the Greenland coast first. By kayak.
re: #65 jaunte
We should send Tom Cotton to survey the Greenland coast first. By kayak.
Twice.
Just to be thorough….
re: #67 Jay C
The magnetic pole IS on the move; he’ll have to keep at it.
1) It’s not for sale.
2) The people there don’t want anyone to buy it.
3) Thanks in part to that idiot tax cut you voted for, we’d have to borrow money from China to make the price.
4) It is not 1804.#bobblethroatedslapdick https://t.co/Sp0QTOBl4K— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 27, 2019
Nobody from the party who wants to buy Greenland is ever allowed to ask a Democrat how they are going to pay for something ever again.
One person one vote and all votes treated equally = trying to take the vote away from people who live in places like Sequoia National Park?
You’re a much bigger idiot than I previously thought.— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
Senator Collins has voted to confirm more than 30 of Trump’s anti-choice judicial picks. Women deserve better. #WomensEqualityDayhttps://t.co/VEYV3XRoQv
— Sara Gideon (@SaraGideonME) August 26, 2019
re: #60 gocart mozart
People don’t live in National Parks. If they do they are “illegal” (& by that I don’t mean they are immigrants)
re: #60 gocart mozart
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Let’s see if she responds. I looked at her timeline and I may have overestimated her intelligence by a wide margin, ooh boyee!
I bet it has something to do with eliminating the EC
Ah never mind, don’t bother to respond, just block it. it’s a bot.
Update on a story I posted a while back.
Lubbock man gets 4 years for impersonating public servant
A Lubbock man has been sentenced to four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony count of impersonating a public servant.
Donn Wojtowicz, 48, was sentenced on Friday and as part of his plea a second case of impersonating a public servant was dismissed.
The plea stems from a mid-November incident in which Wojtowicz followed a Lubbock city council member in his car to the Costco on 34th Street and West Loop 289. Wojtowicz was driving erratically and began yelling at the council member once they both got to the superstore’s parking lot.
He walked to the council member’s vehicle and started yelling, saying he worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a police report.
That council member called police and Wojtowicz left the area. However, his license plate number was written down and Wojtowicz was arrested a short time later.
re: #75 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Spelled just like it’s pronounced.
Why is there not something the matter with Kansas?
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
Alright fine… here is the email: pic.twitter.com/A4E5I6CoB6
— davekarpf (@davekarpf) August 27, 2019
ha
Omg pic.twitter.com/scU2nzP7ho
— Kristen (@kristenish) August 27, 2019
re: #80 A Three Hour Tour
Wojohowicz???
Close enough. Depends on which side of the Pittsburgh street he lives.
re: #75 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Update on a story I posted a while back.
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Pronounced just like my last name only whiter.
re: #75 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Impersonating a public servant is a crime in Texas?
That’s bad news for Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, Ken Paxton, Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert and so many more….
You should bring your significant other.
Your significant other should be in a full body bedbug costume. The kind where only his face shows out of the plushy big suit.
Neither of you should say ANYTHING about the costume. Not a word. Act surprised/confused if he brings it up.— Christopher (@Cpackal) August 27, 2019
Must away. The Republican National Committee has asked me to give the Presidaint my advice and support by filling out a very extensive Trump Agenda Survey. Hate to disappoint.
re: #85 DangerMan
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If I had kept my mouth shut, people might have thought I was clever.
re: #86 Decatur Deb
Must away. The Republican National Committee has asked me to give the Presidaint my advice and support by filling out a very extensive Trump Agenda Survey. Hate to disappoint.
Give ‘em what-for for me!
re: #86 Decatur Deb
Must away. The Republican National Committee has asked me to give the Presidaint my advice and support by filling out a very extensive Trump Agenda Survey. Hate to disappoint.
Z got one of those. I didn’t.
re: #83 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Impersonating a public servant is a crime in Texas?
That’s bad news for Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, Ken Paxton, Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert and so many more….
I’ve been trying for some time to get the Travis County courts to appoint guardians for this gang and most of the legislature.
(Article V, Section 16 of the Texas Constitution of 1876 empowers county courts to appoint guardians for all “idiots, lunatics, persons non compos mentis, and common drunkards.” I figure that has the Perry/Abbott regime pretty well covered. )
Wait for it 😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/FQK2EnKL90
— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) August 26, 2019
Has anyone heard of this singer? She’s good.
This is a great version of this Nine Inch Nails song, almost as good as Mr Cash’s versionhttps://t.co/l7eiJCXJw9
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
re: #79 gocart mozart
You mean “noted free speech advocate and definite non-bedbug Bret Stephens”? https://t.co/iRw8eDvWxR
— Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein) August 27, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
re: #92 The Pie Overlord!
That did make me giggle.
re: #97 GlutenFreeJesus
Here’s the actual tweet.
This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2012
Has the Weekly World News officially come out as satire?
But meanwhile - can’t we have some fun?!
— Weekly World News (@weeklyworldnews) August 27, 2019
Are you guys now officially a satire publication or are you still in the closet?
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
Brett Stevens stepped in deep do do.
WTF. You had this your feed 10 days ago, and now you’ve narced on some college professor because he called you..checks notes..a “bedbug.” Motherfucker, any day I don’t get addressed here as a libtard, cuck, Hollywood Jew and (((David Simon)))? I’m not even trying. You hypocrite. https://t.co/vQlKUV8ieU
— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 27, 2019
re: #99 teleskiguy
Here’s the actual tweet.
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Well, that hasn’t aged into a fine whine, has it?
re: #102 austin_blue
I wouldn’t want Simon on my tail….
re: #101 gocart mozart
Brett Stevens stepped in deep do do.
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David Simon is a National Fucking Treasure.
“[T]he discussion quickly turned even more fundamental: Whether the leaders should assign any special weight to being a democracy, officials said.
Most of the other participants forcefully believed the answer was yes. Trump believed the answer was no.”https://t.co/JSL5AYRmbH— Dan Eggen (@DanEggenWPost) August 26, 2019
re: #105 Dread Pirate
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It appears that at some point, Macron convinced DRumpf that he was just fucking the dog and steered him toward meeting the Iranian govt as a means of salvaging *something* from the conclave. Good for him, and dog bless France. Of course, DRumpf could fuck up a wet dream and Walrus Stache will ensure he does.
“I can’t go back,” my client told me as soon as he sat down at the table in ICE detention.
“They will kill me.”
I believed him.
The judge agreed that they probably would kill him, just before he denied his asylum claim.
He was deported.
They did.
I just found out today.— Matt Cameron 🗽 (@matt_cam) August 27, 2019
RESPECT THE REF pic.twitter.com/u2PGX7AEkj
— Helen Dale (@_HelenDale) August 27, 2019
“What’s all this fuss I keep hearing about too much violins on television?”https://t.co/QHjfvXqnsJ
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
re: #108 gocart mozart
Damn. Dude went nuts on the other refs too.
There is a crazy person in my mentions, a minarchist he calls himself. He thinks Trump is too left wing but not as bad as that commie Hillary.
What about Trump is right to you? (1 of 2)
1. The use of tariffs?
Spite as policy is common among fascists
2. His staunch anti 2nd amendment stance?
He’s a tool of the NRA
3. His appointment of pro-abortion Kavanaugh?
WTF, Brett will 100% vote to overturn Roe— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
The GOP in general is center left, with Paul Ryan comming in at just right of center.
The NRA is center, center left. They support bans on automatics and bump stocks. They’re for heavy regulations on the right to arm. Absolutly not for liberal, free, gun policy.— Jon Sellers (@JonSellers11) August 27, 2019
Do you think hand grenades and rocket launchers should be legal to own by private citizens? What about nuclear weapons?
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
Hand grenades, rocket launchers & nuclear devices ARE legal to own by private citizens. But the hoops you have to jump through to bear those arms should be less infringing, or non existent. Criminals don’t have to jump through the hoops why should law abiding citizens have to?
— Jon Sellers (@JonSellers11) August 27, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
@mattgaetz You and I were born on the exact same day, 7 May 1982. I want to know, do you think families seeking asylum at our southern border with Mexico are stupid brown people who need to go back and die?
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) August 27, 2019
Charlie Vogel. That’s my name. I don’t care. RWNJ’s? Have at it. Go to town. Find all my embarrassing shit. Please.
— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) August 27, 2019
— Hugh Goggins 🐼 (@guiltypanacea) August 27, 2019
why is everything so FUNNY pic.twitter.com/ulE1H1FMRb
— 🍒 13 Leading Scholars 🍒 (@christapeterso) August 27, 2019
re: #52 teleskiguy
This UPSETS ME. It’s a meaningless coincidence, and yet I am pretty mad about the whole thing.
Looking forward to next week’s Jacobin article declaring that nuking hurricanes is the only way to defeat neoliberalism. https://t.co/6CD0RiU8e1
— Robert Farley (@drfarls) August 27, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) August 27, 2019
Happy #InternationalDogDay2019 from the whole Lofgren tribe. pic.twitter.com/J9SLAk1cTr
— Nils Lofgren (@nilslofgren) August 27, 2019
“Kimmy invited us to a sleepover at her house tonight.”
“Oh I’m sorry, sweetheart. You can’t go.”
“Mom, c’mon! Whyyyy?”
“Don’t use that tone with me, young lady. Your father has invited a man from the internet to come over, with a date, and insult him in front of all of us.”— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 27, 2019
D’oh! The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from the nation’s bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website where it was vulnerable to attacks by hackers for over a decade @Emily_Baum https://t.co/Ktye4EJlgQ
— Mark Z. Barabak (@markzbarabak) August 25, 2019
Got a couple of robo-messages today from these folk:
scammer.info[no phone numbers allowed] (the LGF hamsters will eat the number with dashes, but it is 8062986128 .)
Always frustrating when I come across SS# scammers.
#NowPlaying Frank Zappa > The Lost Episodes > Run Home Slow Theme https://t.co/CFGk7YPKcd
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) August 27, 2019
The Italians are laughing at how ridiculous our government is
Trump è più imbecille dei sovranisti nostrani e di chi li vota… Per combattere gli uragani: “Distruggiamoli con armi nucleari” ci sarebbe quasi da ridere…https://t.co/YSe8T5xMSU via @repubblica
— HorasDesign (@HORASDESIGN) August 27, 2019
David Lynch’s hair pic.twitter.com/cJUNE1CiMu
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) August 27, 2019
Devolution? Keio University team designs wearable robotic tail to help elderly keep their balance https://t.co/WRf6hC7cnR
— The Japan Times (@japantimes) August 27, 2019
Mate that to an exoskeleton and AI and you could turn soldiers into velociraptor soldiers, with frikkin’ lasers attached to their heads.
teleskiguy will agree with me on this.
re: #99 teleskiguy
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And Obama would have won without popular vote. He’s one of three: Ike, Reagan, & himself to win over 50% of the vote twice since WWII. Trump like many of Obama’s haters couldn’t accept Obama was popular.
Why every office should allow dogs 😂 pic.twitter.com/EOxBA0v5vX
— The Dodo (@dodo) August 26, 2019
I’ve decided to get my wife the latest Ninja Foodi FD402 Pressure Cooker for her birthday. So far everybody has been impressed with the results of this style of cooking. I’ve never experienced pressure cookers or air fryers, this is new to me. I hope it works out.
re: #133 Dread Pirate
Love wheeler walker jr. Got his album randomly in Burlington after my first stroke
re: #138 nowherenorth2
Love wheeler walker jr. Got his album randomly in Burlington after my first stroke
First stroke, that sounds bad. I’m 4 years older than my father was when he died in 1992, that freaks me out. My future health possibilities freaks me out even more, especially since my high school friend just died of cancer. Facing my own mortality really sucks…
re: #139 Dread Pirate
I have spoke about it here before. I am 36. I have a rare rheumatological disorder called antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. Thin blood but clots really easy. I had a stroke in June of 2017, a TIA or mini stroke in May of 2018, and another stroke in july of 2018.
Many doc appointments and regulations regarding blood. Prone to clot problems in the legs and heart and strokes.
re: #84 gocart mozart
That’s the Trumpian way of going after people.
The responses in that thread are hysterical.
Someone should tell Bret Stephens about this affront to free speech, he will surely come to your defense pic.twitter.com/q1FIIfg5sx
— Hilary Agro 🍄 (@hilaryagro) August 27, 2019
LOL pic.twitter.com/rZRzhidRF5
— Stark Raving Mad 🚁 (@StarkRav1ngMad) August 27, 2019
Streisand effect, indeed.
Insect-based food ‘better for pets than top steak’ https://t.co/HW3JjqOkLQ
— BBC Science News (@BBCScienceNews) August 27, 2019
My pet food expert, Roswell II the Atomic Pound Pup, says this is a Russian propaganda trope designed to create conflict and dissension between people and pets.
re: #103 retired cynic
I wouldn’t want Simon on my tail….
The next script he works on week have someone called a bedbug. Mark my words.
😂😂😂
Already changed, though the wikipedia does have a factual entry on the bedbug caper.
Insect-based food ‘better for pets than top steak’ https://t.co/HW3JjqOkLQ
Who did this? pic.twitter.com/MRPLK4s2gX
— Victor Yo, Proletariat Ray (@victorerikray) August 27, 2019
re: #144 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Already changed, though the wikipedia does have a factual entry on the bedbug caper.
Someone shudda changed the picture. That would be visible forever in the way back machine.
A little known professor calls a right wing columnist a bedbug, the latter freaks out. Tell me more about overly sensitive people on campuses, NRO.
Time to do what I long ago promised to do. Twitter is a sewer. It brings out the worst in humanity. I sincerely apologize for any part I’ve played in making it worse, and to anyone I’ve ever hurt. Thanks to all of my followers, but I’m deactivating this account.
— Bret Stephens (@BretStephensNYT) August 27, 2019
Snowflake Brett retreats to his safe-space.
re: #147 Ace-o-aces
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Snowflake Brett retreats to his safe-space.
You got called a bedbug ffs.
#BretBug leaving the office this morning. pic.twitter.com/wD9l2xYBJ9
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 27, 2019
re: #57 retired cynic
AAARRGGHHH!
CNN: The US is throwing away at least 3,500 donated kidneys every year, study finds
UNOS has rules for when a less than optimal organ can be used in a transplant. They revised those rules a few years back to try and improve the situation, but the opposite occurred, the discard rate increased. The rate is also different depending on the region of the country.
But it’s also a good reminder that Trump/GOP policies are likely to result in more fatalities as a result of people unable to afford insulin and medical treatment to prevent the need for transplants all together, and then once they receive them, higher insurance costs due to preexisting conditions.
“I trust what trump is doing. Also, I own several time-shares and buy commemorate plates as an investment.”
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 27, 2019
re: #152 Ace-o-aces
Making it clear everyone knows Trump’s a goddamned racist and that they don’t want to appear racist themselves.
But more than that - they’re ignoring facts and logic and skipping right on to belief that Trump will provide for them. He wont. He hasn’t. He’s made it worse for them— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 27, 2019
re: #147 Ace-o-aces
And the snowflake Bret Stephens (bed)bugs off to his safe space.@AoDespair if your next script doesn’t have some douchebag named Bedbug Snowflake, I will be disappointed. pic.twitter.com/njv2rIuwFd
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 27, 2019
I love how Johnson & Johnson shares rose 2% in pre-market trading on the paltry (“smaller than expected”) fine in the opioid ruling.
America.
re: #150 DangerMan
A ***metaphorical**** bedbug
It’s a metaphorical metamorphosis!! (Too meta? Too Kafkaesque?)
re: #157 MsJ
I love how Johnson & Johnson shares rose 2% in pre-market trading on the paltry (“smaller than expected”) fine in the opioid ruling.
America.
Well, when everyone was expecting multibillion dollar verdict and they got $574 million fine, yeah, J&J shares will rise.
Thing to remember is that J&J is facing similar suits nationwide and will likely lose ‘em in similar fashion. The ultimate tally will be in the billions of dollars, and it still wont be enough.
J&J also faces the ongoing talcum powder suits as well, and those have a similar trajectory too.
re: #158 Decatur Deb
It’s a metaphorical metamorphosis!! (Too meta? Too Kafkaesque?)
It’s only a metaphorical metamorphosis when you persistently fail to follow proper protocol.
re: #113 gocart mozart
There is a crazy person in my mentions, a minarchist he calls himself. He thinks Trump is too left wing but not as bad as that commie Hillary.
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Ah, Minarchists! They were the John Hospers wing of the Libertarian Party which lost to Murray Rothbard’s Anarcho-Capitalists. Oh and back in the 70s one of the leaders of the Minarchists was one…Dana Rohrabacher…
re: #128 teleskiguy
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I saw Run Home Slow back in the 70s on a double bill with The World’s Greatest Sinner. Frank did the music score for both movies. Ah the good times at Pitt in the mid 70s…
re: #161 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ah, Minarchists! They were the John Hospers wing of the Libertarian Party which lost to Murray Rothbard’s Anarcho-Capitalists. Oh and back in the 70s one of the leaders of the Minarchists was one…Dana Rohrabacher…
I was housemate with a Randian proto-Libertarian at Indiana University in the late 70’s, I think he was more one of the Rothbard school. I put up with him because he had excellent taste in music and we used to listen to Miles Davis Live at the Fillmore together, or Chick Coreas Köln Concert both double albums, all four sides in one evening….
re: #147 Ace-o-aces
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Snowflake Brett retreats to his safe-space.
One less asshole on Twitter. Now if only Metamucilini would follow Bedbug Brett’s example…
Jamie Bouie pokes the republic not a democracy idiots in the NYT
(ty, whoever made this) pic.twitter.com/ajgo89uV3a
— Nate L (@oldsackabones) August 27, 2019
The stunning optical illusions by prof. Kokichi Sugihara https://t.co/9eJSwjko3h [more about prof. Sugihara: https://t.co/ciNwB1X6aQ] pic.twitter.com/bxmAdXdWKp
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 27, 2019
re: #152 Ace-o-aces
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“And ah got me one of them Trumpy Bears that I sleep with every night. Put him right next to me right after ah fluff up the My Pillow!”
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) August 27, 2019
Making His Horse a Consul Is a Brilliant Move on Caligula’s Part, by Tomus Cottonus https://t.co/N1zXOmdO2y
— Steve M. (@nomoremister) August 27, 2019
re: #168 gocart mozart
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Did Bibi give you this idea too?
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) August 27, 2019
re: #169 Joe Bacon 🌹
If America doesn’t expand its presence in the Arctic Circle, China will take full advantage of our vulnerability. We ought to buy Greenland to secure our interests and make all Greenlanders better
He knows that most Greenlanders are innuit, doesn’t he?
We know what a good job America did of making its other native peoples “better”…
re: #171 Dr Lizardo
No. They don’t.
And as for Cottonmouth’s claims that we need to do more to protect our interests in the Arctic Circle, Trump has done nothing but cede to Russia. Trump’s given Russia carte blanche everywhere Putin looks. That includes Russia’s expansionist views towards the Arctic Circle and mineral resources there.
Trump hasn’t done anything, even minimal efforts like calling for new USCG heavy icebreakers that could help keep waterways clear of ice to allow navigation as the seas become less ice-choked thanks to global warming.
re: #171 Dr Lizardo
WTF is wrong with these people?
Greenland is not for sale.
Do they simply not grasp this?
There are established diplomatic ways that one goes about making an offer to exchange sovereign territory for money. In one narrow sense, it is a “real estate deal”, but there is a lot more to it than that, and Trump and his people seem to be clueless of those conventions.
re: #171 Dr Lizardo
WTF is wrong with these people?
Greenland is not for sale.
Do they simply not grasp this?
Of course they do.
It’s just that hacks like Tom Cotton (not to mention the generality of Trumphumper Republicans) won’t- probably can’t- ever admit that any of their ideas might ever be stupid, wrong, or misguided. Not in public, anyway.
Thanks to former White House aide Omarosa Mangault Newman, we now know that there are section leaders at each Trump rally who are tasked with urging the crowd to chant and also leads them in certain chants. And one of those section leaders is none other than a man named John Pence, who just so happens to be the nephew of Vice President Mike Pence.
The criminalization of brownness continues apace, along with criminalization of dissent. Doesn’t even have to be you dissenting long as they find it on one of your devices. OTHER PEOPLE’S social media will be held as evidence against YOU. #ThisIsNotNormal #ImmigrationReform https://t.co/JxH2cwg7LO
— (Don’t Nuke) Hurricane K (@Citizen_Kryptik) August 27, 2019
Just hang the “Whites Only” sign around the Statue of Liberty and hunt down the insufficiently devoted. If you’re brown, this country hates you and doesn’t want you, and woe be to you if you even have someone in your feed who doesn’t think Trump is a literal God-King, because FUCK YOU.
I’m still waiting for them to openly announce their plans to revoke citizenship as policy, because at this rate, it’s going to happen.
re: #159 lawhawk
J&J also faces the ongoing talcum powder suits as well, and those have a similar trajectory too.
That one is really weird. My OB/GYN told me for years to not use talc “down there”. There’s so much noise around that suit…it is going to be fascinating to follow.
re: #171 Dr Lizardo
WTF is wrong with these people?
Greenland is not for sale.
Do they simply not grasp this?
As with any gangster, a first refusal is an opportunity to present the “offer you can’t refuse.” using any and all pressures including threats of and actual violence.
Never put it past this administration or any other right wing administration to go full gangster.
re: #171 Dr Lizardo
WTF is wrong with these people?
Greenland is not for sale.
Do they simply not grasp this?
These are citizens of The Republic of Wealth.
Everything, everyone, is for sale.
re: #178 Rocky-in-Connecticut
As with any gangster, a first refusal is an opportunity to present the “offer you can’t refuse.” using any and all pressures including threats of and actual violence.
Never put it past this administration or any other right wing administration to go full gangster.
no, they will just pay a thug in a leather jacket driving a Lada to pay a visit
#BretStephens says that there is a “bad history” of totalitarian governments using “insect language” to “dehumanize” people.
— Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) August 27, 2019
And spare me the #BretStephens “dehumanizing language” claim he just made on @MSNBC. The @nytopinion writer has NO PROBLEMS using this type of “dehumanizing language.”https://t.co/Ji1EG4RPiy
— Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) August 27, 2019
Bret Stephens is a cancer. Wait, is that too dehumanizing to use against him? Let me try again:
Bret Stephens is a humanoid hemorrhoid masked as an alt-right-curious shit-weasel. How’s that?
Trump Making Canada Great Again as US lobster exports to China plunge and Canada’s surges. apnews.com
re: #171 Dr Lizardo
WTF is wrong with these people?
Greenland is not for sale.
Do they simply not grasp this?
But we want it and god says we should have it
re: #178 Rocky-in-Connecticut
As with any gangster, a first refusal is an opportunity to present the “offer you can’t refuse.” using any and all pressures including threats of and actual violence.
Never put it past this administration or any other right wing administration to go full gangster.
I feel fairly confident that even if Trump went mad enough to order an invasion of NATO ally Denmark, that shit would be leaked and no-one in the Pentagon would lift a finger to initiate the planning process.
I’m torn between laughing and crying at this. It’s such a bleakly genius joke that could only be made about us. #LaughingStockOfTheWorld pic.twitter.com/Z3XtOA1Nno
— (Don’t Nuke) Hurricane K (@Citizen_Kryptik) August 27, 2019
re: #142 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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My pet food expert, Roswell II the Atomic Pound Pup, says this is a Russian propaganda trope designed to create conflict and dissension between people and pets.
My sister had a dog that would eat junebugs so I don’t see this as a stretch.
re: #187 Belafon
My sister had a dog that would eat junebugs so I don’t see this as a stretch.
Protein is protein. And it wouldn’t be processed.
re: #158 Decatur Deb
It’s a metaphorical metamorphosis!! (Too meta? Too Kafkaesque?)
“One morning, as Brett Stephens was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous insect. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.
‘What’s happened to me,’ he thought. It was no dream.”
Here’s @BretStephensNYT: pic.twitter.com/EWPkWRQOjc
— Eli Valley (@elivalley) August 27, 2019
Last September but I had never seen it before.
Harrison Ford: “Stop Giving Power to People Who Don’t Believe in Science”
Celebrities often use their platforms to spread awareness on important issues. But while many of us have become numb to their warnings, there’s something about Harrison Ford that makes people sit up and listen.
Maybe it’s the cult following he’s acquired from playing heroic characters like Indiana Jones and Han Solo.
More likely, though, it’s because Ford doesn’t tiptoe around important issues, he charges through them with guns blazing.
Speaking at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco this week, the 76-year-old actor and tireless climate activist issued a sober warning: “If we don’t change the path that we are on today, the future of humanity is at stake”.
re: #188 MsJ
Protein is protein. And it wouldn’t be processed.
On “Marketplace” this morning there was a report on “pea-based” proteins used in meatless meat products. David Broncaccio (sp?) noted at the end: “pea-based—meaning ‘green legumes’.”
What a precious, delicate li’l snowflake.
I love how Bret Stephens quit Twitter, like that was his problem
Twitter didn’t force Stephens to email a random person’s boss, complaining about a harmless tweet
Twitter didn’t make Stephens who he is https://t.co/gv1JKo3M3m pic.twitter.com/lxNG3ITUBB— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 27, 2019
re: #21 gocart mozart
Russia has its submarine. That’s where they do their submarine work and that’s where they dock large and powerful submarines but not as powerful as ours and not as large as ours but they have their submarines.
Largest US submarines: Ohio class, 18,750 tonnes (submerged).
Largest Russian submarines: Typhoon class, 47,240 tonnes (submerged).
Trump is, as always, an idiot.
re: #196 I Would Prefer Not To
The bad news, Bret will be back.
Bret will never leave. There will be “Sock Puppet Bret” for months to come.
re: #196 I Would Prefer Not To
The bad news, Bret will be back.
I mean….Bret left Twitter. He didn’t leave the Times, meaning the Times itself will still go about promoting his grievance-mongering.
And reminder: The Times eliminated its public editor because they figured the internet would serve that purpose instead.
It was the publisher, then Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. who made that point. The public editor reported to him, not to Baquet. https://t.co/3dnnlb6O5u “Our followers on social media and our readers across the Internet have come together to collectively serve as a modern watchdog.” https://t.co/dnnvZwOBvt
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) August 27, 2019
re: #197 John Hughes
Are they still building those Typhoon Class Boomers? Or did that go out with the crash?
re: #199 Citizen K
I mean….Bret left Twitter. He didn’t leave the Times, meaning the Times itself will still go about promoting his grievance-mongering.
And reminder: The Times eliminated its public editor because they figured the internet would serve that purpose instead.
“And we don’t have to listen to them.”
Oh for fuck sakes:
Brazil rejects $22 Million in Aid pledged at G7 - Sort of
Hours after leaders of some of the world’s wealthiest countries pledged more than $22 million to help combat fires in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil’s government angrily rejected the offer, in effect telling the other nations to mind their own business — only to later lay out potential terms for the aid’s acceptance.
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil expressed his ire in a series of Twitter posts on Monday, and specifically criticized and taunted President Emmanuel Macron of France, who had announced the aid package at the Group of 7 summit meeting. Their comments extended a verbal feud between the two leaders.
But early the next day, Mr. Bolsonaro offered possible terms for the acceptance of the aid package when he spoke to reporters in the capital, Brasília.
Straight out of the Trump playbook. This toxic fascism and incompetence is literally DESTROYING OUR PLANET.
Detroit company to start making Gibson guitars in Michigan again https://t.co/qV5kc4zbC5
— Local 4 WDIV Detroit (@Local4News) August 27, 2019
re: #200 Dave In Austin
Are they still building those Typhoon Class Boomers? Or did that go out with the crash?
Only one of the seven Typhoons is still in service. Of the others, one was never finished, 3 have been scrapped after withdrawal, and two are in reserve.
re: #195 The Pie Overlord!
He will be back as an anonymous account to continue his trolling.
re: #204 The Pie Overlord!
Detroit company to start making Gibson guitars in Michigan again
Interesting backstory there. Echo Park Guitars has a dodgy rep in the custom guitar community - like the story says, they’ve built guitars for a lot of big rock stars, but there are a lot of stories out there about people who aren’t big rock stars getting treated like crap, with Gabe Currie promising delivery in 6 to 8 months but then not delivering for up to two years. And Currie regularly goes on Insta and mocks people who complain that his delivery is too slow and a lot of the work is sub-standard.
And Echo Park’s guitars price out for between 8 and 10 grand. Gibson may have bet on the wrong horse here.
re: #188 MsJ
Protein is protein. And it wouldn’t be processed.
In Zimbabwe a few years ago I saw a huge baboon hanging around at a customs shack who would greet each newly arrived vehicle by scraping its bumper and fender for bug bodies. Yummy!
re: #207 makeitstop
Interesting backstory there. Echo Park Guitars has a dodgy rep in the custom guitar community - like the story says, they’ve built guitars for a lot of big rock stars, but there are a lot of stories out there about people who aren’t big rock stars getting treated like crap, with Gabe Currie promising delivery in 6 to 8 months but then not delivering for up to two years. And Currie regularly goes on Insta and mocks people who complain that his delivery is too slow and a lot of the work is sub-standard.
And Echo Park’s guitars price out for between 8 and 10 grand. Gibson may have bet on the wrong horse here.
Didn’t Gibson get in big trouble some years back for the sourcing of the wood they were using? IIRC, there was some big environmentalist whoop-de-do about importing old-growth deforestation something something?
The worst thing you can call someone, basically! ✒ https://t.co/fWJMMDaOPw pic.twitter.com/LmXeeglWGy
— The Nib (@thenib) August 27, 2019
re: #207 makeitstop
Interesting backstory there. Echo Park Guitars has a dodgy rep in the custom guitar community - like the story says, they’ve built guitars for a lot of big rock stars, but there are a lot of stories out there about people who aren’t big rock stars getting treated like crap, with Gabe Currie promising delivery in 6 to 8 months but then not delivering for up to two years. And Currie regularly goes on Insta and mocks people who complain that his delivery is too slow and a lot of the work is sub-standard.
And Echo Park’s guitars price out for between 8 and 10 grand. Gibson may have bet on the wrong horse here.
I owned a Gibson J-45 back in the day (50 years ago). I have been thinking about taking up guitar again now that I am retired (officially not until 12/2019).
re: #184 DangerMan
But we want it and god says we should have it
“We WANTS it, we does! It is OURS, Precious!”
re: #199 Citizen K
I mean….Bret left Twitter. He didn’t leave the Times, meaning the Times itself will still go about promoting his grievance-mongering.
And reminder: The Times eliminated its public editor because they figured the internet would serve that purpose instead.
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Also NYT: “You damned readers have no clue how wrong you are! We’re journalists and criticizing us is tantamount to silencing the press!!!”
CONFIRMED: Doral is utterly swarming with bedbugs.
No bedbugs at Doral. The Radical Left Democrats, upon hearing that the perfectly located (for the next G-7) Doral National MIAMI was under consideration for the next G-7, spread that false and nasty rumor. Not nice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019
re: #214 The Pie Overlord!
Trump Doral was not inspected as required. https://t.co/wI7yD6L0AT
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 27, 2019
Trump facilities have significant health code violations and fails inspections at greater rate than other properties.
re: #195 The Pie Overlord!
What a precious, delicate li’l snowflake.
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Maybe I’m being too soft on Bret but let’s face it, we all talk about how Twitter is a cesspool and many here (including me) have never joined it. Perhaps his decision to quit was motivated by his realization that he, as a supposed voice of reason, had an over-the-top reaction to (as Twitter goes) a fairly mild insult — it didn’t even threaten his life or livelihood. He discovered that he really doesn’t have good control of his temper and perhaps he has decided a medium which encourages instant thoughtless responses, rather than carefully crafted comments, is too toxic for him to handle.
I certainly know that there have been times on FB when I’m tempted to call out someone personally for their absolute allegiance to Trump (or Bernie) but have always restricted myself to rebuttals, rather than insults (except for those rare occasions when commenting on news stories, where I accuse someone of working in St. Petersburg).
re: #211 The Pie Overlord!
I owned a Gibson J-45 back in the day (50 years ago). I have been thinking about taking up guitar again now that I am retired (officially not until 12/2019).
Go for it. I know that my Epiphone Casino Coup that I bought 4 ish years ago as my “Mid life Crisis” has been nothing but fun.
re: #216 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe I’m being too soft on Bret but let’s face it, we all talk about how Twitter is a cesspool and many here (including me) have never joined it. Perhaps his decision to quit was motivated by his realization that he, as a supposed voice of reason, had an over-the-top reaction to (as Twitter goes) a fairly mild insult — it didn’t even threaten his life or livelihood. He discovered that he really doesn’t have good control of his temper and perhaps he has decided a medium which encourages instant thoughtless responses, rather than carefully crafted comments, is too toxic for him to handle.
I certainly know that there have been times on FB when I’m tempted to call out someone personally for their absolute allegiance to Trump (or Bernie) but have always restricted myself to rebuttals, rather than insults (except for those rare occasions when commenting on news stories, where I accuse someone of working in St. Petersburg).
The problem is that it’s hardly the first time he did something like that, and judging from his appearance on MSNBC, it was all about his personal grievance and zero amount of soul searching on his part. Zero self-awareness and 100% victim complex.
EDIT:
On MSNBC, Bret Stephens characterizes Dr Dave Karpf referring to him as a metaphorical “bedbug” on Twitter as akin to language used by “totalitarian regimes,” adds that he had “no intention whatsoever to get him in any kind of professional trouble” when he tattled to Karpf’s boss pic.twitter.com/iNJAvzPnMt
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 27, 2019
re: #209 sagehen
Didn’t Gibson get in big trouble some years back for the sourcing of the wood they were using? IIRC, there was some big environmentalist whoop-de-do about importing old-growth deforestation something something?
Yes, the feds seized a bunch of rosewood from their Nashville plant, under suspicion that it was illegally harvested in violation of the CITES regulations that placed most rosewood on the endangered list. I believe a lot of it was ultimately returned to them, but it’s forced them and other guitar companies to come up with alternate woods (like pao ferro and baked maple) for use on fingerboards.
A lot of purists howled about it, but I’ve got a Les Paul with a baked maple fretboard and I honestly can’t tell the difference.
CITES regulations also restrict international shipping of rosewood. I missed out on a stellar Fender Telecaster a couple of years ago because a store in Montreal couldn’t guarantee that it would get through Customs.
mrs dm cant block any more numbers on her phone
i said unblock an old number that doesnt call any more and block the new ones
she said “my block capacitor is broken”. totally deadpan
i love my wife
re: #200 Dave In Austin
Are they still building those Typhoon Class Boomers? Or did that go out with the crash?
According to the every accurate Wikipedia, no. Now they build the Borei class, 24,000 tonnes submerged. Trump remains an idiot.
(And the US isn’t building any more Ohio class boats).
re: #216 Hecuba’s daughter
Twitter is a place where these guys try to maximize their value/potential reach by getting more eyeballs. They then complain when people call them out for being racists, bigots.
He’s a thin-skinned bigot, racist-enabler, and decided to quit Twitter all while writing about how Twitter is mean to him and calling out one of the people who called him out.
If you are that thin-skinned, you don’t belong in the position of an op-ed writer at a major media outlet, because that’s your job. You write opinions, and if you can’t handle the fallout from your free speech, then you’re a garbage person.
For everyone else? Yeah, this is nothing compared to what women normally get online (as with gamergate and its ongoing fallout, etc.)
re: #211 The Pie Overlord!
I owned a Gibson J-45 back in the day (50 years ago). I have been thinking about taking up guitar again now that I am retired (officially not until 12/2019).
Oh, what that J-45 would be worth today…
Obama announces new effort in fight against gerrymandering https://t.co/wtG5maDdnR
— Ramon E Garcia (@RamonEGarcia2) August 26, 2019
re: #214 The Pie Overlord!
CONFIRMED: Doral is utterly swarming with bedbugs.
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So, the Chosen One has spoken. We can safely assume then that the place is overrun with giant, atomic-mutated bedbugs and construction is at a standstill because workers keep disappearing and equipment is jammed with disgusting slime.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) August 27, 2019
re: #222 lawhawk
Twitter is a place where these guys try to maximize their value/potential reach by getting more eyeballs. They then complain when people call them out for being racists, bigots.
He’s a thin-skinned bigot, racist-enabler, and decided to quit Twitter all while writing about how Twitter is mean to him and calling out one of the people who called him out.
If you are that thin-skinned, you don’t belong in the position of an op-ed writer at a major media outlet, because that’s your job. You write opinions, and if you can’t handle the fallout from your free speech, then you’re a garbage person.
For everyone else? Yeah, this is nothing compared to what women normally get online (as with gamergate and its ongoing fallout, etc.)
Bingo. He got called a ‘bed bug’. Which is infinitely tamer than the abuse slung at millions of users, openly, and usually encouraged by the likes of Stephens under the guise of ‘free speech’. When he got called out for trying to ruin someone’s career for it, he ran and hid and then complained about how he was being persecuted with ‘dehumanizing language’, comparing the reactions to him to ‘totalitarian regimes’. It shows it’s no ‘coming to Jesus’ moment, it’s his bruised privilege.
re: #222 lawhawk
Twitter is a place where these guys try to maximize their value/potential reach by getting more eyeballs. They then complain when people call them out for being racists, bigots.
He’s a thin-skinned bigot, racist-enabler, and decided to quit Twitter all while writing about how Twitter is mean to him and calling out one of the people who called him out.
If you are that thin-skinned, you don’t belong in the position of an op-ed writer at a major media outlet, because that’s your job. You write opinions, and if you can’t handle the fallout from your free speech, then you’re a garbage person.For everyone else? Yeah, this is nothing compared to what women normally get online (as with gamergate and its ongoing fallout, etc.)
re: #223 makeitstop
Oh, what that J-45 would be worth today…
Sadly it was destroyed by airline baggage handlers. Air France, not United.
it’s just ‘the official twitter account’ so i guess it doesnt mean anything yet.
The official Twitter account for the White House apparently confirmed that President Trump’s private resort in Miami is the location for next year’s G7 summit.
click the link and see whose response is first!
Oh and after Bret Stephens did this he suffered no professional consequences and was instead hired by the New York Times and few if any of the elites now fretting on Bret’s behalf criticized him for it.https://t.co/Nice8WD5Qu
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) August 27, 2019
re: #214 The Pie Overlord!
CONFIRMED: Doral is utterly swarming with bedbugs.
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Again @realDonaldTrump tells an easily disproven lie.https://t.co/12PI6PHE7K
If there were no bed bugs, why the settlement? https://t.co/Y1mEZQLo5V— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@michele_out) August 27, 2019
This whole Bret Stephens thing is SO 2019.
re: #226 Citizen K
Bingo. He got called a ‘bed bug’. Which is infinitely tamer than the abuse slung at millions of users, openly, and usually encouraged by the likes of Stephens under the guise of ‘free speech’. When he got called out for trying to ruin someone’s career for it, he ran and hid and then complained about how he was being persecuted with ‘dehumanizing language’, comparing the reactions to him to ‘totalitarian regimes’. It shows it’s no ‘coming to Jesus’ moment, it’s his bruised privilege.
Basically his final tweet was that sort of swan song anybody who has spent time on political BBSs in the past will be familiar with: the passive aggressive nature of criticizing how “toxic” or “mean” the board has become, the insincere “apologies” for having taken part in it, and the empty “apologies” to those few friends they still have for why they’re being “forced” to leave.
re: #234 Targetpractice
Basically his final tweet was that sort of swan song anybody who has spent time on political BBSs in the past will be familiar with: the passive aggressive nature of criticizing how “toxic” or “mean” the board has become, the insincere “apologies” for having taken part in it, and the empty “apologies” to those few friends they still have for why they’re being “forced” to leave.
Pretty sure several boards and sites (including Daily Kos, if I remember?) had a term for that: GBCW - Goodbye Cruel World. In other words, a blown up post in a vain attempt to grasp martyrdom for yourself.
re: #235 Citizen K
Pretty sure several boards and sites (including Daily Kos, if I remember?) had a term for that: GBCW - Goodbye Cruel World. In other words, a blown up post in a vain attempt to grasp martyrdom for yourself.
maybe this whole bit of performance art is some kind of metaphor
maybe he only metaphorically left twitter
after all he was only called a ‘metaphorical bedbug’
Al Haynes, the pilot of United 232 at Sioux City, Iowa in 1989 has passed away.
A pilot who is credited with saving dozens of lives has died. United Flight 232 went into total hydraulic failure while Al Haynes was at the controls in 1989. With the help of three other pilots, he maneuvered the DC-10 to a miraculous crash landing in Sioux City, Iowa, and 184 of the 296 people on board survived.
Haynes is widely seen as a hero among aviation experts, akin to Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his “miracle on the Hudson.” Haynes’ son Dan confirmed to NPR that his father had died.
Haynes was in the middle of the flight from Denver to Chicago when an engine suddenly failed. Shortly after that, First Officer Bill Records said he was unable to control the aircraft, as Haynes later recounted to New York magazine.
“I thought to myself, How are we going to keep this thing in the sky? You don’t train or drill for something like this, because it’s just not supposed to happen,” he said.
re: #235 Citizen K
Pretty sure several boards and sites (including Daily Kos, if I remember?) had a term for that: GBCW - Goodbye Cruel World. In other words, a blown up post in a vain attempt to grasp martyrdom for yourself.
Daily Kos got tired of them, so the site banned them, because they were exactly what you described.
re: #235 Citizen K
Pretty sure several boards and sites (including Daily Kos, if I remember?) had a term for that: GBCW - Goodbye Cruel World. In other words, a blown up post in a vain attempt to grasp martyrdom for yourself.
Here at LGF we call them “Flounces”
I’m not making this s██t up, really…https://t.co/8MEloORsMj
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) August 27, 2019
re: #237 William Lewis
I remember that incident and later investigations. The engine in the tail failed severing all the hydraulic lines, meaning the plane was essentially a dead stick. They managed to keep the plane in the air by adjusting the power to each of the engines.
And there was a plane crash in Russia this past month where like the Sullenberger flight it ran through a flock of birds causing engine failures and he was able to crash with no loss of life.
re: #240 Teukka
Someone should ask him about Rand taking SSDI.
such a pathetic suckup
I have gotten to know President @jairbolsonaro well in our dealings with Brazil. He is working very hard on the Amazon fires and in all respects doing a great job for the people of Brazil - Not easy. He and his country have the full and complete support of the USA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019
Starting to look good for the highly respected Prime Minister of the Italian Republic, Giuseppe Conte. Represented Italy powerfully at the G-7. Loves his Country greatly & works well with the USA. A very talented man who will hopefully remain Prime Minister!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019
and some whine:
The G-7 was a great success for the USA and all. LameStream Media coverage bore NO relationship to what actually happened in France - FAKE NEWS. It was GREAT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019
Nuke you like a hurricane.@BrianMc_Fadden ✒ https://t.co/EPXpd1Guvq pic.twitter.com/nfKxjysj07
— The Nib (@thenib) August 27, 2019
Also, I like how he talked about mothers doing what they do out of love, which is not that Rand thought was useful at the end of Atlas Shrugged.
LOLWUT
In spoilers because WTF
Surgeons save man’s hand by attaching it to his groin for two weeks https://t.co/hFeuCwb6WY
— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 27, 2019
I see that Bret Stephens has withdrawn to his safe space, aka The Greenwich Country Club. Probably best for everyone. His next column on political correctness run amok is going to be lit.
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) August 27, 2019
Hey @realDonaldTrump you should follow @ddale8 who is doing a great job documenting your lies and false statements. Would be a good source for you to keep track of them all.
— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) August 27, 2019
911 OPERATOR: what’s your emergency?
BRET STEPHENS:
911 OPERATOR: Bret I swear to Christ this better not be about twitter…
BRET STEPHENS: *hangs up the phone*— Michael Tannenbaum (@iamTannenbaum) August 27, 2019
It seems some birds in Dallas have been watching too much Alfred Hitchcock:
Garry Black never thought picking up the newspaper in the morning would be an event.
The Black family lives in North Dallas, where trees are cherished and a healthy tree canopy is a result. But in the late part of July and early August, the family started getting visitors that made life interesting.
—-
“When he comes in it’s like, whoosh!” Black said.
There is a pair of Mississippi kites dive-bombing every visitor that comes near their nearly 60-year-old live oak. It is a spectacle done justice only by what the Ring camera caught.
Videos show several instances where UPS, Amazon, and post office drivers run to their vehicles as they are chased by a bird.
State Auditor Mike Harmon said one of the items redacted from a pension system’s investment contract - the table of contents. But that seems fair, because who knows sensitive info what we could learn from that? ^JC pic.twitter.com/p0IaSuwITq
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 27, 2019
my shocked face…
You mean like trump often refers to those he dislikes as animals, quite often dogs (usually for women, who are also “nasty”)? Like that, Bret?
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 27, 2019
Trump himself tweeted in February that European countries should take back their “800” nationals captured in Syria. pic.twitter.com/JHoy1ilEcf
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 27, 2019
.@SpaceX’s #Dragon is on the way home, headed for splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. It’s carrying science investigations for analysis on Earth, a drive with film footage documenting life and research aboard @Space_Station and more. What’s on board: https://t.co/nh6iRJ9Qfj pic.twitter.com/NjcD14XJ9W
— NASA (@NASA) August 27, 2019
re: #249 lawhawk
I kinda like the No Fucks To Give Souza.
re: #240 Teukka
Or if the moral praise showered on Mother Teresa went to someone like Lloyd Blankfein, who, in guiding Goldman Sachs toward billions in profits, has done infinitely more for mankind.
Because making a shit-ton of money is not automatically equivalent to creating wealth or helping humanity.
We are still stuck in this Calvinist bubble that sees wealth and an outer sign of inner grace.
re: #257 MsJ
I kinda like the No Fucks To Give Souza.
And his photos are still amazing compared to the shit that whoever is doing Trump’s photographs.
It appears every last one of Trump’s photos are poorly framed or shot. Forget the subject - the objective photo is awful. Ignores rules of thirds, perspective, focus, framing, etc. It’s like a toddler with a camera is shooting for the first time.
A DC federal judge just heard arguments on whether to grant an injunction blocking the White House from temporarily suspending reporter Brian Karem’s White House credentials – no ruling from the bench, the judge said to expect one by Friday or Tuesday at the latest
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) August 27, 2019
You are the original bedbug.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) August 27, 2019
re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth
He is working very hard on the Amazon fires
He sure is. Working hard on getting people to start them.
re: #261 Dave In Austin
So it’s wrong for Trump to offer to purchase Greenland but it’s ok for Europe and American lefty elites to suggest that Brazil’s land should be governed by the world? It never stops
im gonna locate my pig farm on the land next to your house
it’s one fucking planet, ya knobhead
re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth
Starting to look good for the highly respected Prime Minister of the Italian Republic, Giuseppe Conte.
It sure is, now he’s going to be dumping the vile right wing scum of the League and making a coalition with the left wing Democratic Party. Funny for Trump to be celebrating that…
re: #261 Dave In Austin
Ughh, Schlapp is an asshole.
1) Greenland IS NOT FOR SALE. End of story. Hard stop. No deal.
2) We don’t have many rainforests on this planet. Brazil is home to one of the largest. It’s kind of a pretty fucking vital place that other countries do indeed have an interest in.
3) No one is talking about governing. We’re talking about PUTTING THE FUCKING FIRES OUT AND REHABILITATING THE LAND. You know, stuff that’s kind of important for HUMAN SURVIVAL!
These people are horrible human beings.
re: #264 John Hughes
It sure is, now he’s going to be dumping the vile right wing scum of the League and making a coalition with the left wing Democratic Party. Funny for Trump to be celebrating that…
he doesnt understand it
re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg
Ughh, Schlapp is an asshole.
1) Greenland IS NOT FOR SALE. End of story. Hard stop. No deal.
2) We don’t have many rainforests on this planet. Brazil is home to one of the largest. It’s kind of a pretty fucking vital place that other countries do indeed have an interest in.
3) No one is talking about governing. We’re talking about PUTTING THE FUCKING FIRES OUT AND REHABILITATING THE LAND. You know, stuff that’s kind of important for HUMAN SURVIVAL!
These people are horrible human beings.
An incoming Harvard freshman, a 17 year old Palestinian boy, had his visa cancelled & was deported because US officials searched his phone/laptop & said his friends had social media posts that were critical of the US.
Yup.https://t.co/FUGZNtE132— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) August 27, 2019
re: #263 DangerMan
im gonna locate my pig farm on the land next to your house
it’s one fucking planet, ya knobhead
build a wind farm instead, that will get him even more worked up
re: #270 DangerMan
OT survey question:
for those of you under 35 or 40 or so, what do you think of Pink Floyd’s music as a whole?
not merely dark side of the moon, or the wall
do you listen to them, ever? does their entirety resonate at all?[Embedded content]
“On the Turning Away” makes a hell of an activist anthem. (Got two of the kids to the concert in Venice lagoon.)
re: #270 DangerMan
OT survey question:
for those of you under 35 or 40 or so, what do you think of Pink Floyd’s music as a whole?
not merely dark side of the moon, or the wall
do you listen to them, ever? does their entirety resonate at all?
OT response from a 60-year-old
We used to be fond of any obscure British band that had not yet made it big in the ‘States (like Slade, Hawkwind, T Rex, the Strawbs, Barclay James harvest) and Pink Floyd was all but unknown in the ‘States until Dark Side of the Moon, which was about the last album of theirs that I paid much attention to, and I found The Wall so pretentious and self-obsessed that I really gave up on them after that.
And after telling the story of how I had to pass up a bitchin’ guitar because of CITES regulations, I stumble across this story: Musical Instruments To Be Exempt From Restrictions On Heavily Trafficked Rosewood
Wonder if that guitar’s still there…
re: #270 DangerMan
Well, I’m 38.
I do listen to them.
I happen to think their music is some of the best rock music ever written. It’s great musically and I also like the deep political and cultural themes in a lot of it. It’s like they weren’t just trying to entertain, they were trying to send a message.
Now of course you need to understand the culture their music came out of to really appreciate it in 2019 but in other cases the songs will remain eternally relevant. The Wall, Part 2 and Money are just two examples of songs that resonate as well now as they did then.
I can’t really explain it that well, but when I listen to Floyd, I know I’m listening to something special.
re: #273 Decatur Deb
Keep Talking from the Division Bell.
Dogs of War from Momentary Lapse of Reason.
re: #273 Decatur Deb
“On the Turning Away” makes a hell of an activist anthem. (Got two of the kids to the concert in Venice lagoon.)
OTOH, I’m 35 plus 40, so that might not be valid answer.
re: #271 The Pie Overlord!
Palestinians can be critical of the U.S.???
I am shocked, SHOCKED I say!
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Seriously though, FUCK Trump for turning our country into this. How do you think this poor 17 year old feels about America now?
*spit*
re: #270 DangerMan
OT survey question:
for those of you under 35 or 40 or so, what do you think of Pink Floyd’s music as a whole?
not merely dark side of the moon, or the wall
do you listen to them, ever? does their entirety resonate at all?[Embedded content]
I like em. Wish You Were Here is a great song. I probably did my best karaoke performance singing it. Not my favorite band ever but I like em. Plus my cousin’s husband is a sound engineer for Dave.
re: #277 lawhawk
Keep Talking from the Division Bell.
Dogs of War from Momentary Lapse of Reason.
Animals. All of it.
And “Learning to Fly” marked the great age of MTV videos.
re: #280 HappyWarrior
I like em. Wish You Were Here is a great song. I probably did my best karaoke performance singing it. Not my favorite band ever but I like em. Plus my cousin’s husband is a sound engineer for Dave.
you’re almost related!
re: #279 Eclectic Cyborg
Palestinians can be critical of the U.S.???
I am shocked, SHOCKED I say!
//////////
Seriously though, FUCK Trump for turning our country into this. How do you think this poor 17 year old feels about America now?
*spit*
“Why do people hate America?”
“Well, one kid was going to go to college until the administration ended his visa on a trumped up reason.”
re: #282 makeitstop
Wish You Were Here. Entire album.
Maybe we should rev up the frequency with which we use the phrase “trumped up”?
re: #284 DangerMan
you’re almost related!
I’ve been to the barge where they record too. Charlie Chaplin once lived on it too.
Baby goats are adorable but they can’t be housebroken as this clip shows.
Baby goats and Sharon Jones make everything better pic.twitter.com/WjfxGFZgRr
— Story of the Goats (@storyofthegoats) August 27, 2019
re: #270 DangerMan
OT survey question:
for those of you under 35 or 40 or so, what do you think of Pink Floyd’s music as a whole?
53 yo man (I’m a 12yo at heart, ask SWMBO) - I know that The Final Cut was panned by many, but it is a brilliant composition of angst and anger directed at the conservatives; Reagan and Thatcher
re: #259 lawhawk
And his photos are still amazing compared to the shit that whoever is doing Trump’s photographs.
It appears every last one of Trump’s photos are poorly framed or shot. Forget the subject - the objective photo is awful. Ignores rules of thirds, perspective, focus, framing, etc. It’s like a toddler with a camera is shooting for the first time.
Well, Kellyanne with her phone are not the best ones for professional pics.
Anti-Semitic racist asshole
Congressman Steve King tries to make a joke about China’s alleged treatment of Muslims. He said the Chinese are sterilizing Muslim women and making them eat pork.
“That’s the only part of that I agree with,” King said. “Everyone should eat pork.” pic.twitter.com/oyEsiq9GBh— Paige Godden (@PaigeGodden) August 27, 2019
Dumbasses are still trying to excuse Trump’s Greenland effort - as though it’s something worthy of doing (and if not Greenland, somewhere else?!).
Dumbassery from Crudele at Fox/NYPost: Trump can’t buy Greenland, so why not Italy or Vietnam? https://t.co/myXahMlycn
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 27, 2019
Crudele is excusing Trump dumbassery and doubling down by claiming he’s a great businessman who knows how to close big deals and acquisitions.
Ummm… not so much. He is so leveraged right now he can’t build anything on his own and trademarks his name to plaster over buildings built by others. He can’t get loans from domestic banks because he’s a pariah.
But besides all that - none of these places are for sale and Trump has no way to “pay” for any of it. And knowing Trump’s history, everywhere Trump would look to acquire will be significantly higher cost than otherwise - because Trump wont care about the cost. He’ll just throw it on the tab and let others have to bear the burden.
re: #292 MsJ
An actual First Amendment violation.
I remember having an argument a couple of years ago about how the first amendment applies to foreigners. I argued that it restricted what the government did in all cases, but there were some that argued that non-citizens could be looked at differently.
re: #287 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
Maybe we should rev up the frequency with which we use the phrase “trumped up”?
im waiting for Hoyle to rewrite the rules of Bridge
re: #295 Belafon
I remember having an argument a couple of years ago about how the first amendment applies to foreigners. I argued that it restricted what the government did in all cases, but there were some that argued that non-citizens could be looked at differently.
I get that…but the offensive information was not from him. That should not apply.
re: #294 lawhawk
Dumbasses are still trying to excuse Trump’s Greenland effort - as though it’s something worthy of doing (and if not Greenland, somewhere else?!).
Crudele is excusing Trump dumbassery and doubling down by claiming he’s a great businessman who knows how to close big deals and acquisitions.
Ummm… not so much. He is so leveraged right now he can’t build anything on his own and trademarks his name to plaster over buildings built by others. He can’t get loans from domestic banks because he’s a pariah.
But besides all that - none of these places are for sale and Trump has no way to “pay” for any of it. And knowing Trump’s history, everywhere Trump would look to acquire will be significantly higher cost than otherwise - because Trump wont care about the cost. He’ll just throw it on the tab and let others have to bear the burden.
And the point of Greenland is the artic circle. Neither Italy or Vietnam offer that access.
re: #270 DangerMan
OT survey question:
for those of you under 35 or 40 or so, what do you think of Pink Floyd’s music as a whole?
not merely dark side of the moon, or the wall
do you listen to them, ever? does their entirety resonate at all?[Embedded content]
Soon to be 56, Floyd is “ok”. Nothing special, nothing bad.
The Clash, The Who, Husker Du, The Replacements, The Foo Fighters, even Garbage were all far more important to me over the years. I saw the movie when it came out and that was probably the high point of Floyd for me. It’s slowly downhill since (espcially when Waters gets stupid).
re: #293 The Pie Overlord!
Anti-Semitic racist asshole
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Hurr hurr forcing people to eat meat is funny
re: #293 The Pie Overlord!
Congressman Steve King tries to make a joke about China’s alleged treatment of Muslims. He said the Chinese are sterilizing Muslim women and making them eat pork.
“That’s the only part of that I agree with,” King said. “Everyone should eat pork.”
Even Jews?
Conservatives are getting better at comedy and it’s making liberals nervous. https://t.co/zjWeNFGguN
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 27, 2019
This guy is a real piece of work. Did you know that when he worked at the Wall Street Journal, one of his researchers was none other than Chuck C. “Rage Furby” Johnson? https://t.co/S1mx5KaDFD
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 27, 2019
re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even Jews?
They stupidly think their Muslim pork humor is only offensive to Muslims.
re: #306 The Pie Overlord!
Don’t forget vegetarians.
All vegetarians are atheists so they don’t really count. //
moron
The Federal Reserve loves watching our manufacturers struggle with their exports to the benefit of other parts of the world. Has anyone looked at what almost all other countries are doing to take advantage of the good old USA? Our Fed has been calling it wrong for too long!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019
Kellyanne needs to take a seat
Messy.
John Kerry’s son cut business ties with Hunter Biden over Ukrainian oil deal https://t.co/HQGYWOrD8q— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) August 27, 2019
and the moron can just STFU
Wow! Yet another big storm heading to Puerto Rico. Will it ever end? Congress approved 92 Billion Dollars for Puerto Rico last year, an all time record of its kind for “anywhere.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019
re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
“Has everyone noticed how their shampoo smells like bubble gum? I mean think of all the traffic jams that occur because because the word color has two o’s in it.”
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
and the moron can just STFU
“Why do we keep having to take care of American citizens?”
Thoughts & prayers
Sen. Susan Collins told Politico that she is “sad” that her support for Brett Kavanaugh could cost her votes in her upcoming election. pic.twitter.com/HcnVXCxIX6
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) August 27, 2019
re: #300 HappyWarrior
Hurr hurr forcing people to eat
meatanything they don’t want to is funny
re: #219 makeitstop
Yes, the feds seized a bunch of rosewood from their Nashville plant, under suspicion that it was illegally harvested in violation of the CITES regulations that placed most rosewood on the endangered list. I believe a lot of it was ultimately returned to them, but it’s forced them and other guitar companies to come up with alternate woods (like pao ferro and baked maple) for use on fingerboards.
A lot of purists howled about it, but I’ve got a Les Paul with a baked maple fretboard and I honestly can’t tell the difference.
CITES regulations also restrict international shipping of rosewood. I missed out on a stellar Fender Telecaster a couple of years ago because a store in Montreal couldn’t guarantee that it would get through Customs.
I just heard on NPR yesterday that there was just a change in the rules to allow musical instruments to be made of rosewood and to get through international travel.
re: #279 Eclectic Cyborg
Palestinians can be critical of the U.S.???
I am shocked, SHOCKED I say!
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Seriously though, FUCK Trump for turning our country into this. How do you think this poor 17 year old feels about America now?
*spit*
From the Harvard Crimson piece linked in no. 271:
“Applicants must demonstrate they are admissible into the U.S. by overcoming ALL grounds of inadmissibility including health-related grounds, criminality, security reasons, public charge, labor certification, illegal entrants and immigration violations, documentation requirements, and miscellaneous grounds,” McCarthy wrote. “This individual was deemed inadmissible to the United States based on information discovered during the CBP inspection.”
Well, OK, Chief: seeing as how Harvard U. itself not only arranged Ismail Ajjawi’s transit, his visa, AND is providing him with a scholarship, I think we can dismiss the “public charge”, and “immigration violations” crap: he’s 17, so presumably healthy (aside from Muslim Cooties or whatever), so basically, his rejection and deportation has to fall under those “miscellaneous grounds” - which sounds to me little better than “we don’t like your face”.
But yeah, seriously FUCK the government that can get away with garbage like this. Harvard seems quite pissed at this incident, though: I hope they can do something about it.
re: #307 Belafon
All vegetarians are atheists so they don’t really count. //
are all atheists vegetarians? just curious
re: #317 DangerMan
are all atheists vegetarians? just curious
Hindus and Buddhists are vegetarians. The Jain are even fussy about which vegetables are acceptable as food, apparently some of them have souls or something.
re: #293 The Pie Overlord!
Anti-Semitic racist asshole
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Every single one of these White Supremacist right wing loons are abject cowards who spit their awful bile only in front of local or a few select foreign tribally-minded audiences they feel share their awful views. These cowards and would cower in fear of saying this stuff in front of any sort of general international or cosmopolitan domestic audience.
re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
The Federal Reserve loves watching our manufacturers struggle with their exports to the benefit of other parts of the world. Has anyone looked at what almost all other countries are doing to take advantage of the good old USA? Our Fed has been calling it wrong for too long!
the fed’s purpose(s) are clear enough
manufacturing, exports and trade don’t enter into it
re: #317 DangerMan
are all atheists vegetarians? just curious
unless you count the babies that they eat…
re: #318 sagehen
Hindus and Buddhists are vegetarians. The Jain are even fussy about which vegetables are acceptable as food, apparently some of them have souls or something.
brussels sprouts have no souls
re: #317 DangerMan
are all atheists vegetarians? just curious
I’m not, though the impossible meat might turn that around, but I don’t think that counts quite the same way.
re: #317 DangerMan
are all atheists vegetarians? just curious
If so, quess I’m a Weberite, ribs-leaning but with a taint of bratwurst heresy.
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
and the moron can just STFU
Wow! Yet another big storm heading to Puerto Rico. Will it ever end? Congress approved 92 Billion Dollars for Puerto Rico last year, an all time record of its kind for “anywhere.”
1. congress did not approve 92 billion
2. if they did, then was all 92 billion sent to the island?
no it was not. because
Congress has allocated $42.5 billion in disaster aid for Puerto Rico, according to federal data, but the island had received less than $14 billion through May, 2019.
that’s about a third of the allocated funds
and last, the 90-92 billion dollar figure was the total amount of damage done.
asshat
re: #313 The Pie Overlord!
Thoughts & prayers
Sen. Susan Collins told Politico that she is “sad” that her support for Brett Kavanaugh could cost her votes in her upcoming election.
maybe you should have listened to your constituents.
or are you saying you shouldnt have voted that way to save your job, craven as that would be?
or is it how dare your constituents have an opinion different from yours?
re: #322 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
brussels sprouts have no souls
artichokes and palms have hearts
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
and the moron can just STFU
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The Hurricane season is YEARLY Donald. Puerto Rico is going to KEEP GETTING THEM.
And no, nukes won’t change that.
Fucking idiot.
re: #324 Decatur Deb
If so, quess I’m a Weberite, ribs-leaning but with a taint of bratwurst heresy.
i always liked the term ‘meatatarian”
Is Susan disappointed? I really want her to be disappointed. She seems so disappointed by her own votes.
Vote her out so she has something worthy of being disappointed over.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 27, 2019
re: #328 Eclectic Cyborg
If we let these right wing loons have their way with about a dozen hurricanes every single year (and a propensity for showing off the biggest military hardware every chance they get) that would mean a dozen Tsar Bombas exploding every year over the Atlantic. …All in vain. Loons every single one of them.
To stop himself being made the butt of jokes, in 1862 a man named Joshua Bug changed his name to Norfolk Howard. After his story was reported in the press, however, people began using NORFOLK HOWARD as a slang name for a bedbug instead.
(Slang & Unconventional English, 1937) pic.twitter.com/1paRVJLdGt— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) August 27, 2019
Remember this story every time some democrat says they need to be “inspired” to vote. And then understand why I say these people are narcissistic sociopaths - their vote is about how they *feel*, not about the actual well being of others. https://t.co/lAT6b8EWWh
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) August 27, 2019
re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth
To stop himself being made the butt of jokes, in 1862 a man named Joshua Bug changed his name to Norfolk Howard. After his story was reported in the press, however, people began using NORFOLK HOWARD as a slang name for a bedbug instead
bret is so screwed
re: #326 DangerMan
or is it how dare your constituents have an opinion different from yours?
I think that is a problem in congress. The critters that inhabit the hill seem to think that their districts/states should mirror the thoughts of the critters and not the other way around.
re: #317 DangerMan
are all atheists vegetarians? just curious
Not me. When hungry, most anything is fair game.
It seems Kamala Harris has a new statement that gets her crowds chanting: “Dude Gotta Go.”
re: #318 sagehen
Hindus and Buddhists are vegetarians. The Jain are even fussy about which vegetables are acceptable as food, apparently some of them have souls or something.
Some Buddhist schools (Jodo Shinshu and some other Pure Land schools) eat meat. But generally, yes, Buddhists tend towards vegetarianism (not sure about Nichiren though).
re: #321 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
unless you count the babies that they eat…
Come on, we don’t eat babies, Jeez. We just drink their blood.
re: #329 DangerMan
i always liked the term ‘meatatarian”
Dietary rules are a neolithic affectation. Real hominids don’t walk (swing) away from calories.
re: #340 Eventual Carrion
Come on, we don’t eat babies, Jeez. We just drink their blood.
I thought we used them for bait…
re: #334 DodgerFan1988
Once again, the cruelty IS THE FUCKING POINT.
delusional morons…all of them
100% Confirmed! https://t.co/qVsmc9zXk4
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019
re: #336 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I think that is a problem in congress. The critters that inhabit the hill seem to think that their districts/states should mirror the thoughts of the critters and not the other way around.
I think it’s definitely a problem with Susan Collins: she’s spent years on The Hill trying to buff her image as The Respected Stateswoman and Voice Of Rational Moderation (in an otherwise prone-to-extremism GOP) that she reflexively takes it amiss when others - especially her constituents - call her out on her bullshit, and bring it out in public that despite the oft-expressed Questions And Concerns, she rarely -if ever - bucks the Party leadership, and votes the straight GOP line time and again.
re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth
To stop himself being made the butt of jokes, in 1862 a man named Joshua Bug changed his name to Norfolk Howard. After his story was reported in the press, however, people began using NORFOLK HOWARD as a slang name for a bedbug instead.
(Slang & Unconventional English, 1937) pic.twitter.com/1paRVJLdGt— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) August 27, 2019
So, bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) will henceforth be known as “bret stephens.” In a hundred years they will be “bret bugs” or just “brets.”
Now he’s accusing the Federal Reserve of deliberately sabotaging the US. https://t.co/oN6UC9fKcu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 27, 2019
Comedian Pete Davidson, who is one of the more combustible celebs on the scene at the moment, got pissed while doing his act at University of Central Florida. Millennial kids did what they do: took offense.
Pete Davidson’s set at the University of Central Florida Monday night reportedly took an offensive turn when he went on a rant about the audience, calling them “all fucking retarded.” The Hollywood Reporter says Davidson called the crowd “privileged little assholes,” after some people took out their phones. “I don’t have to be here,” the stand-up comedian said, “I can just give them their money back because I don’t give a fuck.” He added that the school was in the “middle of fucking nowhere,” and that the world is going to end in 25 years “because you’re all fucking retarded.”
This is the kind of outrage culture stuff that gets thrown in my face whenever I confront one of my relatives about Trump.
The last time I was in Amsterdam (2012, not counting the 6 hours I spend at Schiphol in 2015 waiting for the flight to Prague) there were more bicycles than cars on the streets, not to mention state of the art electric trams. So I think that it is possible.
Amsterdam has bold plans to ban all gasoline and diesel vehicles from the city by 2030 https://t.co/m7Vu0frEn2 pic.twitter.com/LDqBWAhhlv
— CNN (@CNN) August 27, 2019
re: #347 Charles Johnson
One step away from “rootless cosmopolitans’.
re: #314 DangerMan
Hurr hurr forcing people to eat
meatanything they don’t want to is funny
By the time I was one year old, my mother learned she couldn’t force me to eat anything I didn’t want!
re: #347 Charles Johnson
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Trump is messing with the most powerful force in America:
Old. White. Money.
Fucking with the Fed is fucking with their wealth. That ain’t gonna go on for very long.
re: #345 Jay C
I think it’s definitely a problem with Susan Collins: she’s spent years on The Hill trying to buff her image as The Respected Stateswoman and Voice Of Rational Moderation (in an otherwise prone-to-extremism GOP) that she reflexively takes it amiss when others - especially her constituents - call her out on her bullshit, and bring it out in public that despite the oft-expressed Questions And Concerns, she rarely -if ever - bucks the Party leadership, and votes the straight GOP line time and again.
You’d think she would have taken the clue when her vote to not overturn Obamacare (it was her, Murkowski and McCain)… resulted in her being greeted at the airport by cheering crowds with “THANK YOU THANK YOU!!” signs.
Her constituents are paying attention. They know and care how she votes.
re: #235 Citizen K
Pretty sure several boards and sites (including Daily Kos, if I remember?) had a term for that: GBCW - Goodbye Cruel World. In other words, a blown up post in a vain attempt to grasp martyrdom for yourself.
We used to call it “flouncing”, back when peopled flounced, here. But GBCW is good, too.
re: #349 The Pie Overlord!
The last time I was in Amsterdam (2012, not counting the 6 hours I spend at Schiphol in 2015 waiting for the flight to Prague) there were more bicycles than cars on the streets, not to mention state of the art electric trams. So I think that it is possible.
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For about 7 years, I had to fly thru Schiphol, and took advantage of the long layovers to spend weekends in Amsterdam. The trams and the bicycles and the city’s layout made it an amazing antidote to the Los Angeles/Moscow endpoints of my journey.
I would move there in a heartbeat. Not because of the weed - we can get that here in L.A. It’s a city that works, that pays attention to infrastructure, that is full of smart, interesting people trying to live decent lives.
And drunken Canadian tourists shitting in the canals.
So Stephens used his status as a times writer to silence a critic for an anodyne insult by contacting his superiors, got to go on tv to defend himself, and the response is…here’s another platform? https://t.co/e3OvOnqmV7
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) August 27, 2019
This sounds like GW University basically rewarding Stephens with a speaking gig and throwing their own professor under the bus.
re: #346 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
So, bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) will henceforth be known as “bret stephens.” In a hundred years they will be “bret bugs” or just “brets.”
We got Rick Santorum memorialized, time to do the same to this dickbrain
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
and the moron can just STFU
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That’s got to be one of his most used lies.
re: #349 The Pie Overlord!
The last time I was in Amsterdam (2012, not counting the 6 hours I spend at Schiphol in 2015 waiting for the flight to Prague) there were more bicycles than cars on the streets, not to mention state of the art electric trams. So I think that it is possible.
and canals!
buddy of mine had a 20-foot yacht that was just the right size for the canals there, and i am now totally spoiled. Nothing is cooler than mooring up to a cafe, climbing over the fence and taking a table to all the people nodding and commenting “now that’s the way to get around here!”
re: #356 Citizen K
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This sounds like GW University basically rewarding Stephens with a speaking gig and throwing their own professor under the bus.
Neat if it’s a cryptic invitation to a nose-to-nose “debate”’.
re: #356 Citizen K
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This sounds like GW University basically rewarding Stephens with a speaking gig and throwing their own professor under the bus.
I disagree — they politely told Bret that the professor enjoys free speech and can say what he pleases. My guess is that if Bret actually took the university up on the offer, he would discover the students would be armed with his hypocrisy on this subject, assuming he was willing to take questions from a less than friendly audience.
LOLWUT
You can not. CAN NOT write this type of scene involving #Trump. Hollywood would kick it back and say: “That would NEVER happen.” And yet.. It did! At the #G7Summit no less. 😳😱😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/x1TloCPMEi
— D. Garza (@Dgarza888) August 26, 2019
re: #356 Citizen K
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This sounds like GW University basically rewarding Stephens with a speaking gig and throwing their own professor under the bus.
I dunno…think of what kind of reception he’s going to get from students…..
re: #365 retired cynic
That HAS to be a fake soundtrack!!!!!
It would have been even better with fart noises.
Judd Legum has a good column, An Election without Rules, on his blog, Popular Information. It’s about the absolute decimation of the FEC.
re: #364 gwangung
I dunno…think of what kind of reception he’s going to get from students…..
I mean, student reception and school intentions are completely separate things. We’ve had speakers scheduled as a favorable gig from the school administration that the students revolted against after all.
re: #345 Jay C
I think it’s definitely a problem with Susan Collins: she’s spent years on The Hill trying to buff her image as The Respected Stateswoman and Voice Of Rational Moderation (in an otherwise prone-to-extremism GOP) that she reflexively takes it amiss when others - especially her constituents - call her out on her bullshit, and bring it out in public that despite the oft-expressed Questions And Concerns, she rarely -if ever - bucks the Party leadership, and votes the straight GOP line time and again.
+1
re: #348 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Comedian Pete Davidson, who is one of the more combustible celebs on the scene at the moment, got pissed while doing his act at University of Central Florida. Millennial kids did what they do: took offense.
This is the kind of outrage culture stuff that gets thrown in my face whenever I confront one of my relatives about Trump.
Not saying what he did was appropriate at all, but Pete lost his dad during 9/11 and it hit him really hard, he’s also had issues with substance abuse and has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. My mom has the same condition. People with it tend to have narcissistic tendencies and give no shits about anyone but themselves. They are also prone to exactly these kinds of emotional outbursts.
I hope Pete gets the help he needs.
re: #369 Citizen K
I mean, student reception and school intentions are completely separate things. We’ve had speakers scheduled as a favorable gig from the school administration that the students revolted against after all.
I dunno….I clearly see the sharpened knives the college is preparing…..
re: #365 retired cynic
That HAS to be a fake soundtrack!!!!!
It is. There’s info in the replies about where it came from.
re: #361 DangerMan
“easy open” is a vicious lie
I recently bought a watermelon that said “seedless” in English but kernarm (literally “seed-poor”, or low-seed) in German
I am speech-poor over this deception.
re: #374 DangerMan
The fed does monetary policy, not trade
You really expect Trump to know or care about the difference?
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re: #374 DangerMan
The fed does monetary policy, not trade
LOL like Trump knows a single goddamn thing. He probably thinks they hand out credit cards.
re: #363 The Pie Overlord!
LOLWUT
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re: #376 Eclectic Cyborg
You really expect Trump to know or care about the difference?
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could be that someone has attempted to explain it to him, but he knows his supporters don’t…I see this as him setting them up to take the blame when his policies lead to serious economic downturns
re: #351 Hecuba’s daughter
By the time I was one year old, my mother learned she couldn’t force me to eat anything I didn’t want!
When I was a babe my mom fed me beets
Apparently I had a spoon in my hand and sent smash into the bowl
Once
She learned fast
We had stains on the ceiling for 10 years easy
re: #363 The Pie Overlord!
LOLWUT
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That recording is of a band made up of old (very old), retired Royal Navy sailors in a small town in England. It is an old chestnut in the classical music-verse, akin to tapes of opera tenors cracking on high notes. Jollity ensues.
re: #377 Dr Lizardo
LOL like Trump knows a single goddamn thing. He probably thinks they hand out credit cards.
and personal loans
re: #352 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Trump is messing with the most powerful force in America:
Old. White. Money.
Fucking with the Fed is fucking with their wealth. That ain’t gonna go on for very long.
He only wants a rate cut cause it’ll save him money
Otherwise he couldn’t care less
re: #380 DangerMan
When I was a babe my mom fed me beets
Apparently I had a spoon in my hand and sent smash into the bowl
Once
She learned fastWe had stains on the ceiling for 10 years easy
there are still indentations at the end of our wooden kitchen table from my daughter attacking it with her fork. most have been sanded away, but some are still visible
re: #382 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #377 Dr Lizardo
LOL like Trump knows a single goddamn thing. He probably thinks they hand out credit cards.
and personal loans
And mortgages to undeserving deadbeats (out of “political correctness”)…
re: #385 Jay C
And mortgages to undeserving deadbeats.
this is why he hates the Fed.
they won’t give him a loan, line of credit, or a mortgage
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
this is why he hates the Fed.
they won’t give him a loan, line of credit, or a mortgage
I wouldn’t surprise me at all if he’d actually approached Powell about getting a personal line of credit or something. LOLOL
re: #356 Citizen K
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This sounds like GW University basically rewarding Stephens with a speaking gig and throwing their own professor under the bus.
And a reminder: the actual tweet got 9 likes
There gonna rename streisanding to stephening
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
this is why he hates the Fed.
they won’t give him a loan, line of credit, or a mortgage
Domestic banks refuse to lend to Trump because he’s a credit risk. Most foreign banks wont lend to him for the same reason.
He’s gone to Deutsche Bank because they’re the only ones who’d lend to him.
Trump is a credit risk. He is a risk to defaulting on his loans, and therefore is charged higher interest rates than others.
He is highly leveraged and has low liquidity (cash reserves). Those are bad signs. So, even though he’s got a lot of NYC metro area real estate, the reality is that unless he sells them, he doesn’t have much cash on hand and has to borrow against himself to have cash. It’s a house of cards.
re: #380 DangerMan
I feel that way about beets.
re: #223 makeitstop
Oh, what that J-50 would be worth today…
Yea, it’s amazing.
I paid $50 for my J-50 in Macon GA in 1964.
A couple of years ago, was over at a friend’s house, and listening to his son play his guitar.
“Damn he’s a lot better player than I” and my J-45, Yamaha 12 string and, Ovation 6 string don’t get played much, so I gave him the J-50 and 12 string.
I’m glad that such nice guitars went to a good home.
Kept the Ovation to noddle on.
(Edited J-50 not a J-45)
Mormon church leaders explicitly ban all lethal weapons from houses of worship
The move comes in response to a new Texas law, which will allow licensed parishioners to carry firearms in churches, synagogues and other religious buildings.https://t.co/HE9faPj9FZ— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 27, 2019
Brought by states, cities and counties, the lawsuits — some of which have been combined into one massive case — allege the company and the Sackler family are responsible for starting and sustaining the opioid crisis.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 27, 2019
re: #392 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
New York Daily News
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@NYDailyNews
Mormon church leaders explicitly ban all lethal weapons from houses of worshipThe move comes in response to a new Texas law, which will allow licensed parishioners to carry firearms in churches, synagogues and other religious buildings.trib.al
How does that work? Can a house of worship ban guns by parishioners on its property?
A federal judge has blocked Missouri’s new abortion law banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy.https://t.co/XqGCbFimFI
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 27, 2019
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
this is why he hates the Fed.
they won’t give him a loan, line of credit, or a mortgage
He hates EVERYTHING that’s not Donald J. Trump. Only exception is Russia.
re: #380 DangerMan
When I was a babe my mom fed me beets
Apparently I had a spoon in my hand and sent smash into the bowl
Once
She learned fastWe had stains on the ceiling for 10 years easy
When I was a young newlywed I had a next-door neighbor who was a young newlywed although she had been married for 6 months when I moved in.
Anyway there was a big stain on the ceiling in her kitchen right over the stove. I asked her what happened and she said she was cooking something in the newfangled pressure cooker when her husband came home and saw the jiggling regulator and was like “what does this thing do?”
re: #393 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Purdue is a privately held company and it’s believed that they have about $3 billion in revenue per year. This would basically try to settle for 4ish years of revenue, probably spread out over several years.
They’d get to write down the value so that the cost to them isn’t the full value of the settlement, but those funds would help states and localities suffering from the epidemic they started. Of course, Purdue and other pharma companies also benefit from the drugs that counter opiod overdoses and for treatment/withdrawal.
re: #391 BeenHereAwhile
Yea, it’s amazing.
I paid $50 for my J-50 in Macon GA in 1964.
A couple of years ago, was over at a friend’s house, and listening to his son play his guitar.
“Damn he’s a lot better player than I” and my J-45, Yamaha 12 string and, Ovation 6 string don’t get played much, so I gave him the J-50 and 12 string.
I’m glad that such nice guitars went to a good home.
Kept the Ovation to noddle on.
(Edited J-50 not a J-45)
I’ve given away 3 guitars this year. I’m in a ‘paying it forward’ mindset nowadays.
There’s a shop in Brooklyn called Orphan Guitars, that sells guitars and uses part of the profits to buy local kids music lessons. I’m thinking of loading up 5 or 6 of my old acoustics and dropping them off there.
Brazil will reject the offer of $20 million in aid for the Amazon fires pledged at the G7 summit in France.
“We are thankful, but maybe those resources would be more relevant to reforest Europe,” Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff said
https://t.co/wkq86RmLCD— CNN (@CNN) August 27, 2019
re: #393 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
NBC News
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BREAKING: Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, are offering to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits against the company for $10B to $12B, according to 2 people familiar with the mediation. nbcnews.to - @strickdc
Not enough — the people running the company need prison time —- long prison time + forfeiting all their assets. I am tired of wealthy executives getting away with destroying people’s lives and paying some money to escape responsibility for the damage they have inflicted.
re: #400 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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well, Brazil isn’t the only country affected, so I’m sure the others won’t have a problem accepting the help.
“Alabama Republicans Attempt to Nullify the Votes of Minnesota Democrats” Yeah—that’ll work.
— Linda Hagge (@LindaHagge) August 27, 2019
When you’re that intent on transporting hate across multiple state lines.
re: #379 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
could be that someone has attempted to explain it to him, but he knows his supporters don’t…I see this as him setting them up to take the blame when his policies lead to serious economic downturns
“Why can’t we nuke the fed?”
re: #403 Citizen K
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When you’re that intent on transporting hate across multiple state lines.
Mo Brooks is more of an Anti-Semite than Ilhan Omar.
In which Mo Brooks, who read Mein Kampf on the House floor, responds to me by explaining he was using Hitler’s idea of the Big Lie to call out “Socialists, Communists.”
In other words, he is doubling down on his antisemitic tropes.
This should be getting national attention. https://t.co/EeHJ4DMkoo— Elad Nehorai (@PopChassid) August 26, 2019
re: #391 BeenHereAwhile
Yea, it’s amazing.
I paid $50 for my J-50 in Macon GA in 1964.
I fetched a 1978 Gibson SG in a music shop in Flagstaff, AZ, for $250.
I handed it over as collateral on a loan to my ex to finance my car, I would like to get it back some day. She still plays it.
re: #403 Citizen K
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When you’re that intent on transporting hate across multiple state lines.
I think the icc covers that
re: #399 makeitstop
I’ve given away 3 guitars this year. I’m in a ‘paying it forward’ mindset nowadays.
There’s a shop in Brooklyn called Orphan Guitars, that sells guitars and uses part of the profits to buy local kids music lessons. I’m thinking of loading up 5 or 6 of my old acoustics and dropping them off there.
Keep me in mind if you need a home for a 12 string electric… ;)
More seriously, i haven’t played my tele in a year because I love my casino coupe so much. I should probably find someone who can put it to good use. Then maybe I’ll get an inexpensive Ibanez 12 string electric.
re: #394 Hecuba’s daughter
How does that work? Can a house of worship ban guns by parishioners on its property?
The Mormons have excommunication; any parishioner who tries to “but state law says…” can be denied all religious ritual for all time. If they’re still believers they think they’ll be banned from heaven, if unbelievers they can be banned from their own kids’ weddings or grandkids’ christenings…
ETA: Mormons have as much enforcement powers over their membership as the Scientologists do.
Jews have nothing even vaguely similar. The most we can do is stuff like when Ruth Madoff tries to attend services, everyone sits as far away from her as possible and nobody will speak to her.
re: #348 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Comedian Pete Davidson, who is one of the more combustible celebs on the scene at the moment, got pissed while doing his act at University of Central Florida. Millennial kids did what they do: took offense.
This is the kind of outrage culture stuff that gets thrown in my face whenever I confront one of my relatives about Trump.
I don’t know what kind of routine he does, but we had a comedian come to WPI when I was there in ‘89. It took him about 20 minutes before he got his first laugh. He wasn’t bad, it was just not the kind of thing we found funny at first.
re: #322 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
brussels sprouts have no souls
But bean sprouts are still alive and viable as you crunch them with your teeth. I sometimes imagine I can hear their their tiny cries
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