Seth Meyers: Trump’s Sharpie Scandal Is Simultaneously Ridiculous and Serious [VIDEO]
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Seth takes a closer look at the growing scandal of President Trump doctoring a map of Hurricane Dorian with a Sharpie.
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I have this mental image of a bunch giddy Trumpers rolling their Confederate Flag draped pickup trucks to the Southern Border, grabbing their metal penis replacements and becoming utterly shocked and pissed off that there is…no one there to shoot.
The U.S. / Mexico border is fucking huge and vast sections of it are almost completely empty of human presence. Trump would have us think the illegals are storming the gates like the Uruk-hai at the end of the Two Towers but that’s just not the case.
From last thread:
re: #248 Barefoot Grin
This matches what I’m thinking about the McCabe GJ:
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So: [IANAL DISCLAIMER]: basically it seems like Barr’s DOJ has “recommended” indictment of Andrew McCabe for [???] but a real prosecutor/Grand Jury isn’t having any of it because they see it’s Trumpian political bullshit?
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
I have this mental image of a bunch giddy Trumpers rolling their Confederate Flag draped pickup trucks to the Southern Border, grabbing their metal penis replacements and becoming utterly shocked and pissed off that there is…no one there to shoot.
The U.S. / Mexico border is fucking huge and vast sections of it are almost completely empty of human presence. Trump would have us think the illegals are storming the gates like the Uruk-hai at the end of the Two Towers but that’s just not the case.
In fiscal year 2018, the government apprehended 400,000 people at the border. The border is 1954 miles long. Playing some averages, that’s about 1,096 people per day, or about one person, per day every two miles.
I mean, she’s not wrong. https://t.co/uWFhZcCUCz
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 13, 2019
From downstairs.
re: #211 Florida Panhandler
Ahh yess.. that horrible show with badass spaceships and dumb as fuck premise. Even a talent like Martin Landeau couldn’t save it from being utter dreck. Ever tried watching it now? Unwatchable.
The Eagle spaceships were still badass though. They could conceivably even work in real life- artificial gravity ignored of course.
Dragon’s Domain was freaking terrifying, though. Legit one of the most horrifying monsters I have ever seen on TV…still. Scared me to death as a kid and one of the few that still genuinely holds up.
Kurt has entered the Jim Jones phase of his gun cult freak trajectory.
Eh. I lived long enough. No need to run out the clock as a serf. Let’s rock.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 13, 2019
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
they’ll have each other to shoot at…
re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump continually repeats that he’s building a wall, and points to footage of contractors building steel fencing.
Except the reality is far more nuanced. They’re replacing Normandy barriers and short fencing with the monstrosity that Trump wants. It doesn’t improve our security or safety in the slightest, and anyone intent on coming in will still be able to use ropes and ladders to enter (or if they’re more determined, tunnels and blowtorches). Even those involved in this effort say that they aren’t building fencing across the entire border because it’s not needed - that tech can handle large swatches of desert where no one normally crosses.
This is all about fear mongering and preying on white nationalist fear of nonwhites coming in and that whites are a shrinking proportion of the nation’s demographic makeup. Purity of white blood and all that bulkshit.
re: #7 Scottish Dragon
Kurt has entered the Jim Jones phase of his gun cult freak trajectory.
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He needs to be red flagged; it looks like he’s planning a mass murder spree.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 13, 2019
re: #10 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I’m sure it has nothing to do with today’s date.
Imagine thinking @benshapiro is an intellectual 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/f1VLGOq0aN
— MEANS TV (@means_tv) September 13, 2019
re: #10 NO SMOCKING GUN!
He needs to be red flagged; it looks like he’s planning a mass murder spree.
80% of GOP voters should be red flagged.
Not every day you see real honest to god sedition.
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@Celticlassy10) September 13, 2019
I generally stay away from him, but his crazification level entered Jim Jones territory last night and today because of Beto talking about mandatory rifle buy backs…and ppl starting noticing he is really saying some *red flag this guy is dangerous* stuff.
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@Celticlassy10) September 13, 2019
re: #13 Dr. Matt
80% of GOP voters should be red flagged.
That’s their fear - they know that those laws, like the ones that flag bad actors on Twitter/Facebook for being goddamned Nazis, disproportionately fall to them because they are the problem.
re: #12 gocart mozart
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Ben Shapiro defends the US healthcare system, saying life expectancy is high “if you take away car accident deaths, and homicide, and suicide” pic.twitter.com/cdxR4cikfn
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) September 13, 2019
re: #16 NO SMOCKING GUN!
My response:
And here’s the life expectancy by state - note that GOP dominated states do demonstrably worse than blue states. pic.twitter.com/B2VCaAfWqO
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 13, 2019
Basically, the conclusion is that the GOP controlled states drag down life expectancy rates in the US significantly. That’s due to a combination of awful health policies they enact, along with lax gun control laws.
For the love of Dog
The man is certifiably clueless
President Trump: “I don’t think the Israelis are spying on us. I really would find that hard to believe.” https://t.co/t0PuhDeJcj pic.twitter.com/meb47jeIMN
— The Hill (@thehill) September 13, 2019
re: #16 NO SMOCKING GUN!
So basically: “Fuck all those people who committed suicide because they couldn’t afford their medical bills!” ?
California bans private prisons - including Ice detention centers | Via Guardian https://t.co/WzEdplzc4E
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) September 13, 2019
about damned time.
re: #20 Scottish Dragon
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about damned time.
Unfortunately ICE is a Federal entity. California may not be able to do this.
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
Unfortunately ICE is a Federal entity. California may not be able to do this.
I believe federal facilities are still required to meet state licensing requirements.
IRC that’s why Texas waived their requirements for the feds child detention camps
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
Still bound by state regs, as noted above. They can’t stop ICE from operating, but they damned well can dictate where ICE holds people and under what conditions.
OH! How conveeeeenient. https://t.co/h6HP8QinYu
— Karoli (@Karoli) September 13, 2019
re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg
So basically: “Fuck all those people who committed suicide because they couldn’t afford their medical bills!” ?
GOP message in a nutshell.
re: #16 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Jason Campbell
@JasonSCampbell
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11:48 AM - Sep 13, 2019
And, in any case, what support does he provide for that assertion? Just makes things up?
Nate Silver has Warren winning the debate.
Of the top 4 candidates going in, Warren was the only one who emerged with more voters considering her than before the debate. Note: with our polling partner @Ipsos, we re-polled the same voters both before and after the debate, so this data is less noisy than usual. pic.twitter.com/TFJF0PO9pY
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 13, 2019
re: #23 Scottish Dragon
Still bound by state regs, as noted above. They can’t stop ICE from operating, but they damned well can dictate where ICE holds people and under what conditions.
It should be absolutely illegal to imprison anyone in any facility that is not a state institution; private prisons should be outlawed nationwide.
re: #16 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Ben Shapiro defends the US healthcare system, saying life expectancy is high “if you take away car accident deaths, and homicide, and suicide”
life expectancy is higher if you ignore a bunch of the ways people die
I am following this account now.
WS-61 Sea King pic.twitter.com/kW4JRc3iMI
— Military Giant Cats (@GiantCat9) September 13, 2019
re: #6 Scottish Dragon
From downstairs.
Dragon’s Domain was freaking terrifying, though. Legit one of the most horrifying monsters I have ever seen on TV…still. Scared me to death as a kid and one of the few that still genuinely holds up.
Yeah, the critter from that episode stuck with me; I saw it as a kid in re-runs.
Freaked me out too.
re: #7 Scottish Dragon
Kurt has entered the Jim Jones phase of his gun cult freak trajectory.
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We should be so lucky. But they never get the order right. If they would only take themselves out of the gene pool and leave everyone else alone.
re: #29 DangerMan
life expectancy is higher if you ignore a bunch of the ways people die
This reminds me of a similar assertion by my RW brother years ago: he claimed the life expectancy of whites was comparable to other countries. I thought that was an outrageous comparison; it should be based on life expectancy of all residents and there we were behind many other nations; and I suspect it wasn’t even true anyway.
Good news: There is a high chance you will live to be 90.
Bad news: If you don’t work 2 jobs plus a side gig, you will be housed in in a wooden crate and harvested for plasma.— Ruxypin (@SkeddyRuxypin) September 13, 2019
Man! That’s a pretty tough tweet! I bet you were impressively manly as you typed those strong words out on a phone in the middle of the night.
Did you have the lights off as you menacingly tippy tapped your thumbs?
Cause that would make it even more scary!— Uriel (@sickendun2death) September 13, 2019
re: #20 Scottish Dragon
So, this week…
trump is asking for places where ICE can practice Urban Warfare.
trump threatens to round up all homeless people in California.
California bans detention centers amongst all the other things trump hates CA for.
I think he is planning on letting ICE thugs loose in CA to do very illegal things.
re: #32 MsJ
We should be so lucky. But they never get the order right. If they would only take themselves out of the gene pool and leave everyone else alone.
But does he really mean any of this? So hard to tell whether someone is a true believer or a grifter. Look at Joe Walsh who now admits that his prior over-the-top rhetoric wasn’t really honest.
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
Unfortunately ICE is a Federal entity. California may not be able to do this.
My reading of the article is that the bill prohibits county and city governments from doing business with ICE with respect to private prison projects. There would also likely be licensing issues for the private prison businesses.
re: #37 Hecuba’s daughter
But does he really mean any of this? So hard to tell whether someone is a true believer or a grifter. Look at Joe Walsh who now admits that his prior over-the-top rhetoric wasn’t really honest.
I don’t know but put those two tweets together (i reported both of them) and it is a full out threat.
Eh. I lived long enough. No need to run out the clock as a serf. Let’s rock.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 13, 2019
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 13, 2019
re: #26 Hecuba’s daughter
And, in any case, what support does he provide for that assertion? Just makes things up?
“High” is also a meaningless adjective. “Life expectancy is high” in isolation conveys no meaning, because it’s not compared to anything.
High compared to what? Not compared to countries like us.
Note also that this provides the perfect opportunity to say, “So you’re saying that our homicide and suicide rates - driven primarily by gun homicides and suicides - significantly reduces our overall life expectancy? Doesn’t that argue for reducing the number of available guns?”
And getting back to the comparisons, if he ever did them - which I strongly doubt - did he compare the US life expectancy with car accidents, homicides and suicides removed to the OVERALL life expectancy of other countries? I.e. “This apple is clearly closer to the ideal apple than this orange!”
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
This reminds me of a similar assertion by my RW brother years ago: he claimed the life expectancy of whites was comparable to other countries. I thought that was an outrageous comparison; it should be based on life expectancy of all residents and there we were behind many other nations; and I suspect it wasn’t even true anyway.
It’s the worst kind of cherrypicking - comparing a subset of Group A to ALL of Group B, even though they contain the same subsets. You can compare all of Group A to all of Group B. You can compare the subsets of Group A to all of Group A, or to each other. You can compare the same subset in both Groups to each other. But you can’t meaningfully compare a subset of one Group to the whole of another if they contain the same subsets.
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
This reminds me of a similar assertion by my RW brother years ago: he claimed the life expectancy of whites was comparable to other countries. I thought that was an outrageous comparison; it should be based on life expectancy of all residents and there we were behind many other nations; and I suspect it wasn’t even true anyway.
Life expectancy of people with good insurance or their own money is excellent; if you factor in those 15% who until Obamacare had no coverage at all, and still have trouble affording their insulin or asthma meds or epi-pens or whatever, plus the maternal and infant mortality rates in jurisdictions that have closed the Planned Parenthood offices, plus the OD’s from opioid epidemic…. the overall national average looks a lot worse.
I was having a conversation with a friend last night during the debate. She’s on board with the quick transition to a universal system. I’m still more in the medicare as market participant model. But one of the questions I had, and I’m wondering what some of you think about on this, is:
if we go to a Medicare for All, socialized medical insurance program, how do we determine what we pay doctors? Meaning, how do doctors in private practice make their businesses work? How do we ensure they are able to cover their overhead and pay nurses and staff a livable wage?
re: #42 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s the worst kind of cherrypicking - comparing a subset of Group A to ALL of Group B, even though they contain the same subsets. You can compare all of Group A to all of Group B. You can compare the subsets of Group A to all of Group A, or to each other. You can compare the same subset in both Groups to each other. But you can’t meaningfully compare a subset of one Group to the whole of another if they contain the same subsets.
well if youre gonna use logic and math ‘n stuff…
re: #44 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Speaking of healthcare
House Republicans say they’ll run in 2020 on repealing Obamacare and reducing the debt they helped grow
‘helped grow’ is nonsense.
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
This reminds me of a similar assertion by my RW brother years ago: he claimed the life expectancy of whites was comparable to other countries. I thought that was an outrageous comparison; it should be based on life expectancy of all residents and there we were behind many other nations; and I suspect it wasn’t even true anyway.
Your brother was literally making an argument for apartheid, that there’s no problem as long as the whites are doing OK.
Random Wildlife pic.twitter.com/1TmOp62q7S
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) September 13, 2019
Just a reminder: a homeless black woman got five years in prison for lying about her child’s residence to get him in a better school district.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 13, 2019
re: #35 uriel
Contra Sammy Hagar, apparently there’s more than one way to rock.
re: #45 KGxvi
I was having a conversation with a friend last night during the debate. She’s on board with the quick transition to a universal system. I’m still more in the medicare as market participant model. But one of the questions I had, and I’m wondering what some of you think about on this, is:
if we go to a Medicare for All, socialized medical insurance program, how do we determine what we pay doctors? Meaning, how do doctors in private practice make their businesses work? How do we ensure they are able to cover their overhead and pay nurses and staff a livable wage?
They won’t starve on Medicare rates, which are higher than Medicaid rates. But it’s a moot point because Medicare for all can’t pass Congress anyway.
So the dow is up less than 30 points even after China says it will lift pork and some ag products.
I am surprised.
abcnews.go.com via @ABC
A man spent 36 years in prison for stealing $50 from a bakery.
Felicity Huffman got 14 days. https://t.co/G5JwQiv1UO via @ABC— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) September 13, 2019
Everything wrong with the justice system in a nutshell. White privilege is baked in (also where white collar crimes don’t get the severity of punishment as other crimes). Petty theft is treated more harshly than mail fraud. https://t.co/WyagZ0mT1Y
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 13, 2019
re: #45 KGxvi
if we go to a Medicare for All, socialized medical insurance program, how do we determine what we pay doctors? Meaning, how do doctors in private practice make their businesses work? How do we ensure they are able to cover their overhead and pay nurses and staff a livable wage?
Fuck if I know. It’s a massive planned economy problem and anybody who claims to know the answer is either the smartest person on the planet, deluded, or lying. The whiplash would be immense, you can’t just take a group of ego gassed professionals and force them to accept an entirely new market dynamic without allowing the most narcissistic (and sometimes genuinely talented) to opt for alternative high end markets like premium private insurance and concierge service.
re: #52 NO SMOCKING GUN!
They won’t starve on Medicare rates, which are higher than Medicaid rates. But it’s a moot point because Medicare for all can’t pass Congress anyway.
Congress is just the first hurdle, with the way Trump has packed the courts any meaningful change has to survive an entire gauntlet of right wing judges. It would have to be so perfectly designed and immediately, overwhelmingly popular that the entire Republican apparatus becomes terrified of overturning it. It’s Sisyphus and the Rock.
re: #27 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Warren looks like the only one who had a change outside the margin of error. But the really interesting numbers are the likelihood of beating Trump. More people think Biden would absolutely lose to Trump after the debate than before. Sanders stayed the same, everyone else improved. Granted many fewer people thought Biden would absolutely lose to Trump than most of the other candidates, but that’s probably not something Biden’s camp wants to hear.
How the President of the United States greets actual, real-life authoritarians https://t.co/xRP0DbRwZ8 pic.twitter.com/CTa0QJZxTM
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) September 13, 2019
re: #45 KGxvi
One of the problems with the buzz phrase “Medicare for all” is that many people have negative views of Medicare.
re: #57 goddamnedfrank
One issue that those who want easy answers overlooked is the size of the US and the disparity between regions. A specialist doctor working here in San Diego is going to make more money, and have higher costs, than say someone working in TN.
Now insurance companies have long tried to level the field by paying low standard rates… but that sort of side-steps the problem of getting enough medical professionals to work in the fields needed.
This is why rural areas don’t have sufficient specialists - because they literally can’t support (money) what is needed. Large metropolitan regions where there are millions of potential patients can support the existence of all kinds of specialists.
Candidates who promise easy fixes just are throwing out words in the hopes that they connect with the listeners. Trump is an expert at this.
But there are no really easy answers to the hard problems in life. Which is why they are called the hard problems in life.
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
I really don’t know what to think about that. I mean, I want to give him props for calling the guy a dictator. But adding “favorite” to that is a bit weird. As is saying it out loud in a diplomatic setting.
re: #59 plansbandc
PAN PAN PAN is a universal distress declaration as well.
Since the pancake looks like Michael Myers’s mask…..
re: #62 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s also a hard problem because a whole lot of people are frightened by trying anything different.
The reason we have skyrocketing deficits is because demagogues like Trump ignore reality. He just wants to give millions of dollars to his friends, and screw anybody else.
But if we want to really have improvement in healthcare in this country we have to answer some hard questions:
1) if the choice is to build another aircraft carrier, or to build 10 hospitals, which do we want?
2) If we significantly raise taxes, are we going to renegotiate international treaties on the flow of money, to keep people and corporations from sheltering trillions of dollars in offshore banking?
3) Are we going to have industries where it has long been known that their workers and the local residents suffer health problems as a side effect of the industry - petrochemicals in particular - keep avoiding from pricing the damage in their product? Are we going to tackle the socialism-for-corporations-but-not-for-people problem, in other words?
re: #45 KGxvi
I was having a conversation with a friend last night during the debate. She’s on board with the quick transition to a universal system. I’m still more in the medicare as market participant model. But one of the questions I had, and I’m wondering what some of you think about on this, is:
if we go to a Medicare for All, socialized medical insurance program, how do we determine what we pay doctors? Meaning, how do doctors in private practice make their businesses work? How do we ensure they are able to cover their overhead and pay nurses and staff a livable wage?
We currently have Medicare setting reimbursement rates. Insurers right now provide similar rates, which are negotiated, and are similar to the Medicare rates, but are usually higher because they don’t have the purchase power of Medicare. European health care providers get reimbursed to cover their costs, while out of pocket costs to the insured (the sick person) are minimized because taxes cover the costs.
It’s all about where/how the money is paid to cover health care costs and the sheer amount of waste in the US health care system. Does a doctor’s office need an army of insurance billing experts to decipher reimbursement rates and to track down patients to send collections agencies after them? Not in Germany, they don’t.
Doctors do well in Germany; paid out of the insurance sickness fund (NPR had a story going back a decade about how this works). There are no out-of-network doctors, since there’s no such thing as a network. You don’t get surprise bills. There might be some regional variation in the US due to size/scaling - the Northeast and CA might have higher rates than the South or Midwest, but that’s not much different than applying COLAs.
Another way to address coverage is to do superimposed coverage (employer-added coverages), so that specialized care is covered - like say for IVF, additional mental health, addiction, etc., is covered above and beyond the basic coverage allowed under the M4A plan.
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
If we significantly raise taxes, are we going to renegotiate international treaties on the flow of money, to keep people and corporations from sheltering trillions of dollars in offshore banking?
How does Europe do it?
re: #62 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Flip side is that we don’t have enough generalists and GPs, because the cost to become a doctor is seen as so high that doctors go into lucrative specialities to pay back the costs of their education - which can easily cost $250,000 or more for all school, not counting lost wage opportunities for that time.
re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are not particularly successful at it either.
There’s a lot of different models, that I know. Which ones have had the most success?
re: #69 Belafon
How does Europe do it?
There’s a reason that certain countries were/are considered tax havens. Ireland. The Caymans, etc., all were seen as being good places to park money to avoid tax consequences elsewhere (or in their home nation).
re: #65 Eric The Fruit Bat
PAN PAN PAN is a universal distress declaration as well.
Since the pancake looks like Michael Myers’s mask…..
I don’t get the picture. I did think it was something to do with Friday the 13th the movies, though.
re: #74 mmmirele
I don’t get the picture. I did think it was something to do with Friday the 13th the movies, though.
A big, big deal with some people. My son went as Jason last Hallowe’en
It might be funny to see all these right wingers acting outraged about the Democratic candidates calling Trump a racist and a white supremacist, if it weren’t so disgustingly dishonest. They know exactly what Trump is. It’s why they support him.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2019
re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My money is always on Jamie Lee Curtis, if not Sigourney Weaver. They are the true survivors.
re: #70 lawhawk
Flip side is that we don’t have enough generalists and GPs, because the cost to become a doctor is seen as so high that doctors go into lucrative specialities to pay back the costs of their education - which can easily cost $250,000 or more for all school, not counting lost wage opportunities for that time.
A problem that can be solved by enacting debt free college.
“And now his Watch is ended.”
USGS posted a photo on Facebook of a seismometer melted in a fire caused by encroaching lava during the eruption of 2018. “One of the closest monitoring stations to Fissure 8, it sent its last pieces of valuable data as it was being consumed by flames on July 31st, 2018.” pic.twitter.com/44dhObWMat
— Jascha Polet (@CPPGeophysics) September 13, 2019
re: #79 NO SMOCKING GUN!
A problem that can be solved by enacting debt free college.
It’s almost as if Socialism might work.
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re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The reason we have skyrocketing deficits is because demagogues like Trump ignore reality. He just wants to give millions of dollars to his friends, and screw anybody else.
But if we want to really have improvement in healthcare in this country we have to answer some hard questions:
1) if the choice is to build another aircraft carrier, or to build 10 hospitals, which do we want?
2) If we significantly raise taxes, are we going to renegotiate international treaties on the flow of money, to keep people and corporations from sheltering trillions of dollars in offshore banking?
3) Are we going to have industries where it has long been known that their workers and the local residents suffer health problems as a side effect of the industry - petrochemicals in particular - keep avoiding from pricing the damage in their product? Are we going to tackle the socialism-for-corporations-but-not-for-people problem, in other words?
Notice when the GOP enacts it’s priorities of massive tax cuts for the wealthy, defense budget hikes or waging war on brown people, it never asks how to pay for it, it just does it. But before Democrats can help a single person in need, instead of killing them, we face this brick wall of resistance over funding.
re: #81 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s almost as if Socialism might work.
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Socialism seems to work just fine for police and fire departments.
Property owners pay for them to exist. Tenants, homeless and tourists passing through don’t put up any of the money.
But the service is for everyone. When you call 911, nobody asks did you pay your membership fees. The level of service is in no way related to how much money you’ve contributed. Their only questions to you are “what’s your location?” and “what kind of help do you need?”
You don’t even have to tell them who you are to get them to come.
CSpan represents
This caller put Jeanine Pirro and Fox News on blast for their racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric pic.twitter.com/TB3fSgPrnn
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) September 13, 2019
re: #86 Jay C
Hello?
Tried to edit no. 85, but blanking out
I just knew you mean to have something in there…
re: #83 sagehen
Socialism seems to work just fine for police and fire departments.
Property owners pay for them to exist. Tenants, homeless and tourists passing through don’t put up any of the money.
But the service is for everyone. When you call 911, nobody asks did you pay your membership fees. The level of service is in no way related to how much money you’ve contributed. Their only questions to you are “what’s your location?” and “what kind of help do you need?”
You don’t even have to tell them who you are to get them to come.
As a tenant or tourist, your share for police and fire departments is baked into your rent and hotel rates. So we’re all paying for it.
re: #82 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Notice when the GOP enacts it’s priorities of massive tax cuts for the wealthy, defense budget hikes or waging war on brown people, it never asks how to pay for it, it just does it. But before Democrats can help a single person in need, instead of killing them, we face this brick wall of resistance over funding.
Well that’s because GOP priorities pay for themselves.
re: #83 sagehen
But the service is for everyone. When you call 911, nobody asks did you pay your membership fees. The level of service is in no way related to how much money you’ve contributed.
For now. After another GOP Administration, I wouldn’t be so sure
re: #31 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, the critter from that episode stuck with me; I saw it as a kid in re-runs.
Freaked me out too.
the only creature that made me nervous as a child was the zombie from kolchack. remember when he had to fill the mouth with salt and then sew it shut…..and failed?
re: #54 MsJ
So the dow is up less than 30 points even after China says it will lift pork and some ag products.
I am surprised.
american farmers have already permanently lost those markets.
re: #90 Jay C
For now. After another GOP Administration, I wouldn’t be so sure
Exactly. Remember a few years ago where a fire department let a house burn down because the homeowner hadn’t paid some fee?
They were at least nice enough to make sure no people or animals remained inside.
re: #92 steve_davis
american farmers have already permanently lost those markets.
Yep. Why take a risk when you don’t have to?
This is what happens when the President is a volatile, knee jerk reactionary whack job.
The NY AG’s office has “tracked about $1 billion in wire transfers by the Sackler family, including through Swiss bank accounts, suggesting that the family tried to shield wealth as it faced a raft of litigation over its role in the opioid crisis.” https://t.co/56QoVWZDUw
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 13, 2019
For the record since there have been a bunch of wrong articles on this: Trump’s slip wasn’t calling Mike Pence “Mike Pounce.” He was listing people who attended an ethanol meeting and called South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds “Mike Pounds.” It was a Rounds slip, not a Pence slip.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2019
re: #94 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep. Why take a risk when you don’t have to?
This is what happens when the President is a volatile, knee jerk reactionary whack job.
Or maybe he is doing the bidding of Putin to destroy our country. Remember Russia cannot become powerful, as China is doing, by growing their economy to be the most powerful in the world. Instead Russia becomes rich by comparison by damaging every one else and reducing their influence.
Snort. Don forgot the promotion of
cannibalism, which is the other side of the Democrats’ proposed beef ban.
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Gee, no wonder the Sacklers were so accommodating in ginning up that “settlement” deal to “divest” from Purdue Pharma. (Though IIRC, they would have made out handsomely in any case). That extra billion slated away must be the “rainy-day” fund. (Hurricane Dorian level)…
re: #99 Jay C
Doesn’t the IRS frown on Swiss accounts? Maybe only for the plebes.
I would bet the family accountants checked the ‘no foreign accounts’ box.
re: #95 jaunte
The Sacklers need to be bankrupted for real. None of this “We’ll hide most of the assets to set up a show of impoverishment” before the judgements come in like a ton of bricks.
re: #98 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“The Green New Deal Food Collective urges you to try their new Alferd Packer brand beef/pork/chicken free hot dogs at your next Bible-fueled cookout and virgin sacrifice. Available in barbecue, Bircher, and plain Republican flavors. Tasty and peculiarly satisfying!”
re: #97 Hecuba’s daughter
Or maybe he is doing the bidding of Putin to destroy our country. Remember Russia cannot become powerful, as China is doing, by growing their economy to be the most powerful in the world. Instead Russia becomes rich by comparison by damaging every one else and reducing their influence.
Mrs. FBW and I go round and round on this, with her suggesting Putin’s got dirt on Trump and on prominent Republicans so they do his bidding, and me countering that Putin doesn’t need to have anything on Trump because Trump is stupid and narcissistic with authoritarian longings, and the base of the GOP follows him with cultlike slavishness and will end the career of any GOP politician who crosses him.
I think it’s that she wants it to be Putin’s doing, because to think that we as a country did this to ourselves is too depressing.
We are happy to be supporting The Deuce, pornography and the eighties 🤘🏻@HBO @AoDespair @EarlOfEdgecombe #thedeuce pic.twitter.com/J2BWNWVg03
— Chris Stein (@chrissteinplays) September 13, 2019
re: #65 Eric The Fruit Bat
PAN PAN PAN is a universal distress declaration as well.
Since the pancake looks like Michael Myers’s mask…..
Jason Voorhees not Michael Myers. Michael Myers wore a bleached William Shatner mask.
re: #101 jaunte
I would bet the family accountants checked the ‘no foreign accounts’ box.
…signed under penalty of perjury
Narcos laundering their money.
“Already, these records have allowed the state to identify previously unknown shell companies that one of the Sackler defendants used to shift Purdue money through accounts around the world and then conceal it in at least two separate multimillion-dollar real estate investments back here in New York, sanitized [until now] of any readily detectable connections to the Sackler family,” wrote lawyer David E. Nachman from James’s office in a letter to the court, according to the Times.thehill.com
i am not sure if u have seen three legged muddy paw bandit before but if u have not then today is your lucky dayhttps://t.co/YoYsdwIy64
— darth™ (@darth) September 13, 2019
re: #103 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“The Green New Deal Food Collective urges you to try their new Alferd Packer brand beef/pork/chicken free hot dogs at your next Bible-fueled cookout and virgin sacrifice. Available in barbecue, Bircher, and plain Republican flavors. Tasty and peculiarly satisfying!”
Heh. Upding for Alferd Packer ref…
A Houston police officer is recovering after authorities say he was shot during a struggle with a suspect who along with three others stole two vehicles and attempted to kill a priest in a crime spree just miles from the Democratic presidential debate. https://t.co/PQF7k8t0ou
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 13, 2019
re: #108 jaunte
I wonder if any of those “multi-million-dollar real estate investments back here in New York” start with (a big, gold) “T” ??
Head over to the The New Tri-State Defender website to see how you can help: https://t.co/nIOf0r5PXO
— Withers Museum (@withersmuseum) September 13, 2019
re: #112 Jay C
I wonder if any of those “multi-million-dollar real estate investments back here in New York” start with (a big, gold) “T” ??
Perhaps. One rational reason I can think of for this being unlikely is that Trump is too small-ball to launder money on the scale that the Sacklers need to do it to hide their assets.
But the best reason for this not being the case is that people like the Sacklers don’t get to be as rich as they are by including clown circuses like Trumpco in their crimes.
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re: #83 sagehen
Socialism seems to work just fine for police and fire departments.
Property owners pay for them to exist. Tenants, homeless and tourists passing through don’t put up any of the money.
But the service is for everyone. When you call 911, nobody asks did you pay your membership fees. The level of service is in no way related to how much money you’ve contributed. Their only questions to you are “what’s your location?” and “what kind of help do you need?”
You don’t even have to tell them who you are to get them to come.
Depends on where you are.
There was a famous case here in TN back in 2010 where, in South Fulton, someone’s house burned to the ground with the local FD standing there watching because said homeowner hadn’t paid their yearly fire protection fees.
meanwhile in Kentucky
Earlier this week, Matt Bevin got caught taking a taxpayer-funded state plane all over the country. Now, he’s telling Kentuckians it’s “none of their business” what he was doing on these personal trips. Folks, this is YOUR plane, it IS your business. He needs to come clean. pic.twitter.com/5qxF1TrvH2
— Andy Beshear (@AndyBeshearKY) September 13, 2019
BTW, I got a Bevin mailer yesterday where he claims to have protected retirements for teachers and state employees.
I’m sure that has got to be news for them.
Not what I meant & I apologize for the way it came out. I simply mean without a secure border we don’t know who is coming into our nation & those who wish to do us harm will exploit it. I’m NOT advocating for violence against any person, regardless of race or immigration status. https://t.co/JJjkfplFmk
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) September 13, 2019
The “my words were misunderstood/get out of jail” free card.
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m sure that has got to be news for them.
Is he sending out flyers with his endorsement from Kim Davis?
re: #120 DodgerFan1988
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The “my words were misunderstood/get out of jail” free card.
Translation: “I wanted to see how this would go over and it didn’t go over well.”
You know something’s wrong when a person can launder money in the United States using a shell company literally called “75 Blah Blah Blah LLC.” Here’s why I’m working on legislation to clean up these anonymous shell companies: https://t.co/mTwevYXEnO
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) September 13, 2019
She survived the bombing of her home by white supremacists in 1957 and kept on going. https://t.co/MQF969DEwI
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) September 13, 2019
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
This isn’t a new thing.
Some of the companies Andy Fastow created to prop up Enron before it all came crashing down were named after Star Wars characters.
Sometimes I think Barr needs to go more than Trump, because Barr believes that the President is above the law.
BREAKING: DOJ has filed a 40-page brief arguing that the Judiciary Committee’s “impeachment investigation” really isn’t one. Cites Pelosi and Hoyer’s statements form *yesterday* as evidence.
Story w/ @AndrewDesiderio TK pic.twitter.com/4nPA246NV4— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 13, 2019
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The “my words were misunderstood/get out of jail” free card.
Well, to be fair, I’m sure it was extremely painful for her to take even that mealy mouthed, bare minimum step of addressing us plebeians at all.
After 12 days in the hospital, Sadie is headed home with some new hardware!
Thank you to Drs. Mavis, Sudan, Collins and Vikirman. Everyone at Dukes Children’s Hospital has been awesome.
Thank you all for your prayers! #SadieForPresident#BeAnOrganDonor pic.twitter.com/aqkn7ar4Iw— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) September 13, 2019
CNN analyst Bakari Sellers’ baby daughter receives liver transplant, ending months of waiting
A CNN commentator’s 8-month-old baby is on the road to recovery after receiving a liver transplant less than two weeks ago at Duke University Hospital.
Bakari Sellers’ daughter Sadie was born in January with a rare liver condition that placed her on the transplant list for three months, Sellers said Thursday morning on CNN’s “New Day.”
“She’s doing well. She kept me up last night,” Sellers said. “She is coming back to life and showing us those glimmers in her eyes. We are just happy to be at Duke. Happy to have the care that we got. We’re just very thankful at this time and very thankful to the donor’s family who saved our daughter’s life and many lives as well.”
Sadie was born with biliary atresia, a condition in infants in which the bile ducts outside and inside the liver are scarred and blocked, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The disease affects roughly 1 out of every 12,000 infants in the US, the NIDDK added. Sadie’s twin brother Stokely does not suffer from the disease.
TFW you’re in charge of the largest, most powerful, most well funded government information system in the history of humanity, but you have to tweet an opinion piece from an infotainment channel to prove how awesome you’re doing.
¯\(°_o)/¯ https://t.co/SkBTAGJKlT— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 13, 2019
❤️LOCAL HEARTWARMING STORY!❤️ Fishermen who were participating in the Rising Sun Catfish Tournament this past weekend came upon a helpless buck in the middle of the river. Thankfully, they managed to rescue him 🦌❤️
READ MORE -> https://t.co/Y8QpMfX7ex
(Video: The Hodge family) pic.twitter.com/fgQebvLz4L— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) September 13, 2019
TRANSLATION FROM TRUMPENESE: Everybody is depressed as shit.
These graphics are not photoshopped. Lou Dobbs’s coverage of Trump would fit right in on North Korean state TV. https://t.co/kJzy5v9tuq pic.twitter.com/BUbPGy7AMT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2019
moron
While I like the Vaping alternative to Cigarettes, we need to make sure this alternative is SAFE for ALL! Let’s get counterfeits off the market, and keep young children from Vaping!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2019
Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, and Roasted Cauliflower pic.twitter.com/ve1zDSma6j
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) September 13, 2019
re: #115 The Pie Overlord!
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The USAF is using this “since 2015” language, and not giving us a breakdown of # of stays since 2017. But a couple figures worth noting:
1) Turnberry was closed for renovations from 9/2015-mid 2016.
2 Overnights in the area have increased from 40 in 2015, to 220 in 2018-2019. https://t.co/htnZj5i0zr— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 13, 2019
The government is speaking in weasel words.
re: #131 The Pie Overlord!
TRANSLATION FROM TRUMPENESE: Everybody is depressed as shit.
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#BreakingAway40🚴🏻♂️🚴🏻♂️🚴🏻♂️🚴🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/kiW3kUvWRn
— Dennis Christopher (@DennisChristo4) September 12, 2019
HOLY FUCK! FORTY YEARS?
That must mean I’m….old.
re: #137 Blind Frog Belly White
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HOLY FUCK! FORTY YEARS?
That must mean I’m….old.
Spent the better part of fifteen years cycling the roads around Bloomington. (And witnessed a near-tragedy at the “quarry.”)
re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are not particularly successful at it either.
EU average: 3.05 physicians/1000 pop
US: 2.3/1000 pop
Old figures (2002) but the first I could find.
re: #137 Blind Frog Belly White
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HOLY FUCK! FORTY YEARS?
That must mean I’m….old.
“Remember to punch the clock!”
There goes my fuckin weekend https://t.co/bbhRXOl9bf
— No War But Class War (@DelibrtlyObtuse) September 13, 2019
re: #143 MsJ
Gross.
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I beg of thee, my Lord, on bended knee, please let that spawn of satan be naught but of ye ol Photoshop…
Just overheard a conversation between two Trump women.
W1: Black people hate Trump.
W2: Only because they got used to having a black president. They’re racists!
W1: I know, right?! And Trump was the only president to go to Japan and meet that fat guy!
W2: He is the best!— Sergio (@ResisterSiano) September 13, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) September 13, 2019
Although there is still a whipped cream vodka flavor, for some reason.
re: #146 William Lewis
I beg of thee, my Lord, on bended knee, please let that spawn of satan be naught but of ye ol Photoshop…
Alas. For them.
re: #145 jaunte
Apparently discontinued.
burnettsvodka.comI guess vodka drinkers agreed.
The buying public agreed.
HMMM: SCHIFF has issued a cryptic subpoena, claiming an intel community whistleblower’s complaint has been withheld from Congress — and could, perhaps, involve the president. pic.twitter.com/tywA66W4Ma
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 13, 2019
re: #148 TedStriker
I’m at work and can’t see the contents of the tweet; what is it?
Pumpkin spice vodka. 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
A Shocker: Kremlin-controlled Russian bank hires Trump insider as a lobbyist. https://t.co/J7SJcTPtc4
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) September 13, 2019
If people on more than 3 continents at once are hearing you’re an asshole, you fucked up
— the norms misser (@cd_hooks) September 14, 2019
re: #151 Dread Pirate
I assume this will be ignored just like all the other ones have.
re: #156 Skip Intro
I assume this will be ignored just like all the other ones have.
Barr is more corrupt than trump. That’s quite a feat.
re: #155 jaunte
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heard it in Kentucky and that was even somewhat shocking to some of us here.
This means somebody got Trump’s ear and told him he shouldn’t be so hard on vaping. Probably one of his cronies with money in the business. https://t.co/vxWqSfXIgU
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2019
The Archaeological Conservancy and community members hope to raise $400,000 in pledge money to acquire the land.
If they are unsuccessful, it is a missed opportunity to preserve and learn more about the sacred site and the Hopewell. https://t.co/fKWqFbNtAf— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) September 14, 2019
Fortified Hill is a 2,000-year-old earthwork built by the Hopewell Tribe. The hilltop enclosure is thought to be a ceremonial site where members would come to worship.
The owner of the land, who passed away, registered the property to be a historical site in the ’70s. After passing, Dr. Jeff Leipzig, a community activist, said they ran into a problem.
“Lou and his wife Donna knew this site was here and they wanted this to be a special place. The only difficulty was he didn’t put it in his will that he wanted to turn it into a special place,” said Leipzig.
Fortified Hill is up for auction on Sept. 28. The Archaeological Conservancy and community members in Hamilton hope to raise $400,000 in pledge money to acquire the land. If they are unsuccessful, it is a missed opportunity to preserve and learn more about Hopewell land.
Totally didn’t CARE about BORING #DemocraticDebate last night as I watched it with Pence in our Putin jammies!
What a bunch of LOSERS!
You call THAT debating?
Not one nasty nickname, no made-up facts, no one bragging about the size of their penis?
Don’t they know it’s a TV show?— DONALD J. TRUMPier (@Trumptweets2020) September 13, 2019
Here’s Mike Pence making bizarre facial expressions while telling a story today about American Pharoah purportedly biting him. The manager of the farm where the incident allegedly occurred has already gone on record to say it never happened: https://t.co/G6KeVBNbK6 pic.twitter.com/PPBMI5qICC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2019
re: #147 gocart mozart
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I wonder what was their explanation for black people also hated George Bush (those of us with brains understand that it was because 1) Florida 2000 voting roll purges and 2) Katrina — but I’m guessing these particular women wouldn’t consider that)
I still think Melania’s son was caught vaping
— Ian McCellan (@IanMcCellan) September 14, 2019
A plausible hypothesis.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2019
The brain worms eventually eat their way through the reasoning centers. https://t.co/WhEURCmlZI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2019
About time. https://t.co/BMW87x5vn4
— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 13, 2019
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #149 jaunte
Although there is still a whipped cream vodka flavor, for some reason.
‘Cause it’s tasty?
Or Threads. Or The Day After. Or Testament.
— Echuta (@Echuta) September 13, 2019
Needless to say, the whole POINT of the statutory mandate is to deny intelligence officials discretion to keep Congress from hearing whistleblower reports. That would let the people implicated in the report decide whether to bury it.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 14, 2019
So, yesterday Trump was banning all vaping, and now he’s just going after counterfeits?
What happened….did the crooked head of the NRA call him? https://t.co/XMZaRjU5Ft— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) September 14, 2019
… the hell… https://t.co/Uoe5bQ5Jn5
— MyYaya (@TotesTired) September 13, 2019
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
“these are trump faces”
seems exactly righthttps://t.co/ZlR0WljmCF— living in post The Onion world (@PostTheOnion) September 14, 2019
re: #174 gocart mozart
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We could tell who my brother had been with because he would act like them.
re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth
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More children have died in ICE custody that from vaping.. just saying https://t.co/bmkGROBY5D
— Al Cardenas (@AlCardenasFL_DC) September 12, 2019
It’s a lie! Undocumented make things happen, pay taxes, and You Mr. President build towers with them, run golf courses with them, made wine with them….It doesn’t cost America what you say! Actually we are all richer because them….and it’s wrong! Without them economy collapse! https://t.co/7h2pc8qZnH
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 14, 2019
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s a lie! Undocumented make things happen, pay taxes, and You Mr. President build towers with them, run golf courses with them, made wine with them….It doesn’t cost America what you say! Actually we are all richer because them….and it’s wrong! Without them economy collapse!
Illegal Immigration costs the USA over 300 Billion Dollars a year. There is no reason for this, and things are being set in motion to have this number come WAY DOWN. Democrats could end Loopholes and it would be a whole lot easier, and faster. But it will all happen anyway!….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2019
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 14, 2019
Huge thank you to Congresswoman Escobar for showing me the border and talking to me about the reality of what’s happening down here around El Paso!
🙏🙏🙏
Keep up the fight and leadership out in DC! pic.twitter.com/hBAULdQiP4— J.D. Scholten (@JDScholten) September 13, 2019
Boris Johnson is heckled during a speech in Rotherham.
Heckler: “Maybe get back to Parliament.”
Johnson: “I’m all in favor of our MPs.”
Heckler: “Why are you not with then in Parliament sorting out the mess you created?”pic.twitter.com/YjQYuTpfvL— Bill Maxwell 🌊 #CountryOverParty (@Bill_Maxwell_) September 13, 2019
BREAKING: After pressure from @MomsDemand, @GiantEagle has reversed its open carry policy.
The company owns 216 stores (Giant Eagle, Market District) and 250 convenience stores (GetGo, 56 Ricker’s) in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Maryland. #GroceriesNotGuns https://t.co/HavdVIh9KN— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 13, 2019
First one to guess what this is wins nothing pic.twitter.com/A4zuBF1aul
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) September 14, 2019
re: #183 gocart mozart
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The stuff @TomiLahren drinks before she tweets.
— Michael Orlando (@mike_works) September 14, 2019
Could be something. https://t.co/E2yAkoBueE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2019
re: #185 Charles Johnson
I get my hopes up so easily!
Federal court rules hotel and restaurant owners can sue Trump over unfair competition https://t.co/Kyi54mMwwT
— Shareblue Media (@Shareblue) September 13, 2019
when you successfully sneak a kiss pic.twitter.com/fAcG3QgVpL
— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) September 14, 2019
The parents of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich can proceed to trial in lawsuit against Fox News, appeals court rules. https://t.co/ILKP3lnieM
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 14, 2019
re: #189 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Please let them win. The good guys need some wins, big public ones. Please….
re: #190 A Mom Anon
Please let them win. The good guys need some wins, big public ones. Please….
+ a bunch
We couldn’t celebrate #breakingconcreteceilings without jamming to my hometown girl @lizzo 🤣 https://t.co/zAXsGTkeeR
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) September 14, 2019
This is the worst social media challenge in history and we demand that all of you stop it AT ONCE. Books are precious objects that deserve our respect.
Now go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done in the name of “content.” https://t.co/rexTG3pBwh— Random House (@randomhouse) September 13, 2019
A federal court ruled that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s decision to label the Center for Immigration Studies a “hate group” was not RICO. Case dismissed. pic.twitter.com/CdFodFuYtY
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) September 14, 2019
Getting some good news out of the courts today!
re: #190 A Mom Anon
Please let them win. The good guys need some wins, big public ones. Please….
Not holding my breath here. Fox got sued by and for firing their “talent” (two people) in Florida when they, the talent, told the truth (something about Monsanto) and Fox won. They’re Entertainment. Truth doesn’t matter.
have a great weekend. the president makes such a thing possible for us all pic.twitter.com/KBaOZ2VPxB
— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) September 14, 2019
About 140 New flags along Pennsylvania Ave from White House to Capitol. These flags all have 51 stars. @MayorBowser ordered them installed ahead of @DCstatehood51 hearing next week. #DCStatehood #51state pic.twitter.com/LPAKUHQ2Iv
— Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) September 13, 2019
Suppose I shan’t be buying your book on amazon for $23.95 because it must not be important https://t.co/w0VJROhgbw
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) September 14, 2019
Sorry Paul I didn’t sell my company to yahoo for billions so imma still have to be paid for the things I write even if you can throw your essays up for zero dollars
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) September 14, 2019
re: #199 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I don’t know her, but her pinned tweet made me laugh:
Hello I do not need to do any more tweets now pic.twitter.com/RIoZhCmV7p
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) August 22, 2019
2/2 These anti-vaxxers are engaging in criminal behavior. They’ve now repeatedly assaulted Senators & are engaging in harassing & intimidating behavior every single day, as we try to do the people’s work. They’re a cancer on the body politic & are attacking democracy.
— Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) September 14, 2019
JFC, these people!
NEW from @jaketapper: Homeland Security is investigating who drew a swastika inside one of its buildings https://t.co/lSBxEhPQ9v
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) September 14, 2019
Incredible details at the bottom of @jaketapper’s story:
“An employee commented on the email but accidentally replied to all.
‘Check out the latest I&A insanity — as if leadership really cares,’ the employee wrote. ‘I guess I should not be surprised.’”https://t.co/EjkJOBLU1T— Kyle Feldscher (@Kyle_Feldscher) September 14, 2019
Have you been waiting for a 1500 word treatise from the Claremont Institute making the intellectual case for calling David French a cuck? pic.twitter.com/tqM9HuJNkm
— Adrenochrome Harvester (@ClenchedFisk) September 13, 2019
Remember, the Claremont Institute is one of the first places to employ Chucky “Rage Furby” Johnson.
And this looks important:
Finally had time to read this monster project. The time @sarahkleiner9 spent on this is evident. Congrats to all at @publicintegrity https://t.co/hzOGgsW3Ec
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) September 14, 2019
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) September 14, 2019
— Possum Every Hour (@PossumEveryHour) September 14, 2019
niterz, lizardz
Is this the same Kate Hopkins who’s had 3 pregnancies on the NHS as well as brain surgery to alleviate her epilepsy? pic.twitter.com/SufKFDTWnk
— Monsignor it’s all Corbyn’s fault, Proud Crank. (@ItCorbyn) September 13, 2019
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Sorry, that possum is definitely planning something evil….
re: #208 Jay C
Sorry, that possum is definitely planning something evil….
Or… Patiently waiting for something.
re: #126 thecommodore
Sometimes I think Barr needs to go more than Trump, because Barr believes that the President is above the law.
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The year is 2142. Republicans are still running on repealing Obamacare. They still do not have a replacement plan.
— Grace (@flopgrace) September 13, 2019
re: #52 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Doctors do okay here in Canada. Although what we have is single payer healthcare rather than Medicare-for-all. Essentially the provinces set up an insurance company and all billing goes to it. The federal government sets the standards and splits the bill with the provinces.
This allows doctors to make good money, and lead a better life.
First, all bills are paid without argument. Doctor submits their claim and it is paid. No muss, no fuss.
I have an uncle who is a lawyer. He was a lawyer before we had public healthcare. A fair number of doctors went to see him with a sheaf of unpaid bills and asking him what to do about it. “Hire a collection agency,” was the only advice he could give.
Doctors also have less overhead as they don’t need to hire a bunch of assistants to wheedle insurance companies.
Quality of life is better because doctors don’t have to spend as much time begging to be paid by insurance companies. They can work 35 hour weeks if they want and still live well.
There are a couple of articles here and here explaining the differences between American healthcare (Pre ACA) and Canada’s healthcare.
re: #212 Dread Pirate
The year is 2142. Republicans are still running on repealing Obamacare. They still do not have a replacement plan.
There’s still Republicans in 2142? You’re making me sad.
Related.https://t.co/xxtq4fP1S2
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) September 14, 2019
re: #213 Romantic Heretic
I was going to say “Isn’t M4A just a rebranding of single payer” but that looks more like Medicaid for all. The states operate Medicaid with Fed assistence.
Doctors do okay here in Canada. Although what we have is single payer healthcare rather than Medicare-for-all. Essentially the provinces set up an insurance company and all billing goes to it. The federal government sets the standards and splits the bill with the provinces.
re: #80 Blind Frog Belly White
“And now his Watch is ended.”
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My first thought looking at that picture was, “Always keep the vents and fans of your hard drives clean.”
re: #207 Ace-o-aces
Britain really doesn’t need its own Ayn Rand.
In San Francisco news. My daughter will be delayed on her return flight.
With its 11,381-foot Runway out of commission for reconstruction, lighting, and drainage work, San Francisco International Airport is experiencing traffic woes. https://t.co/rrttHjQr0U
— Aviation International News (@AINonline) September 11, 2019
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2019
So an update to an earlier report: The white supremacist sticker that was in one of my walking parks is now gone. Walked there last night and it was gone, at last.
Don’t know who this person is, but imagine this happening to you:
Still alive. But. Omg. 😢 pic.twitter.com/zC4S6ZSmGJ
— 🍒🎶 Orphaned Annie 🎶🍒 (@orphaned_annie) September 13, 2019
Connect the dots:
1 Spy extracted from Russia is outed w/ MSM coverage
2 Schiff says DNI is withholding urgent whistleblower info
3 IG agrees- urgent
4 Barr helps cover
Guess only- Trump’s ppl planned to expose spy to Putin. Going public stopped the plan.https://t.co/PJxyCpw8Gb— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) September 14, 2019
re: #223 gocart mozart
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They’re traitors, their supporters are collaborators, they must be dealt with accordingly.
re: #216 gocart mozart
From what I understand of the American system I think that would be a good comparison.
WOW! My number one, favorite most-wanted copy of any World War II book has come on the market.
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