John Oliver Dives Into Legal Immigration [VIDEO]
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John Oliver explains how our legal immigration system works, and how it often doesn’t.
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Get in line.
The line is nearly 30 years old. That is, if you got on the line now, they’re taking cases that were first ingested into the system more than 30 years ago. This is no way to run an immigration process. Clean up the backlog and that means devote resources to get those visas processed, green cards issued, and naturalize those in the system.
It doesn’t mean shut it all down to nonwhites, which is exactly what Trump and the GOP wants. They have framed this as merely waiting in line, but when you create a line that is 30 years long, and there’s no sign anyone will ever get to immigrate from nonwhite countries in any reflection of the numbers that would want to come here, “getting in line” is a dodge for the reality that the GOP wants to preserve white power in the country for as long as possible.
re: #1 lawhawk
Shutting it down to non-whites is the “moderate” position among the white wing. Deep down, most of them really want zero immigration.
re: #2 KGxvi
Shutting it down to non-whites is the “moderate” position among the white wing. Deep down, most of them really want zero immigration.
Negative immigration - kicking the nonwhites out (including American citizens who are not white). That’s the ultimate position.
re: #3 lawhawk
Negative immigration - kicking the nonwhites out (including American citizens who are not white). That’s the ultimate position.
And a sure-fire death to America knell.
That’s cute. You think we’re done with the Mueller Report. Stay tuned. https://t.co/FSQftSqJJc
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) September 16, 2019
re: #3 lawhawk
Negative immigration - kicking the nonwhites out (including American citizens who are not white). That’s the ultimate position.
remember “self-deportation”?
THE WORLD IS FULL OF IDIOTS PART 4935943454850485
Watch Ben Shapiro die on the “nobody has yet to described Kavanaugh’s penis” Hill. https://t.co/dPZkRoo10o
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 16, 2019
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s cute. You think we’re done with the Mueller Report. Stay tuned.
He assumes that Barr fixed it with his four-page summary.
If you think Obama signing a deal with Netflix after leaving office is remotely similar to Trump shaping policy about countries where he has business interests or trying to host the G7 Summit at his resort without divesting, then you are—I can’t emphasize this enough—an idiot. https://t.co/Phkn5FeJjn
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) September 16, 2019
re: #9 jaunte
If you think Obama signing a deal with Netflix after leaving office is remotely similar to Trump shaping policy about countries where he has business interests or trying to host the G7 Summit at his resort without divesting, then you are—I can’t emphasize this enough—an idiot.
This does reveal a degree of desperate thrashing about for arguments.
re: #10 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This does reveal a degree of desperate thrashing about for arguments.
I don’t think it tops my number 7 above.
Union official laughs at the idea of Trump mediating the General Motors strike. https://t.co/XIaksZee8K pic.twitter.com/K8hV16mTJa
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 16, 2019
re: #8 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He assumes that Barr fixed it with his four-page summary.
That and if the Dems had anything why didn’t they do it the day the report came out.
Preparation and investigation are for losers
I’m going to get Baby Whiplash trending as an ode to Pie Overlord.
I hate that it took losing Ric Ocasek for me to remember how much I loved The Cars. I have been listening and dancing in my chair at work all morning.
The world sucks a whole lot lately, but there is also, “My Best Friend’s Girl,” and “Magic,” to help it suck a bit less.
re: #3 lawhawk
Negative immigration - kicking the nonwhites out (including American citizens who are not white). That’s the ultimate position.
Just not letting anyone else in would result in negative migration - there are (and sit down, this might come as a shock to some) people born in the US who decide to go live elsewhere in the world… and not just as a political stunt because their preferred presidential candidate lost.
But yes, the furthest reaches of the white wing would want to kick out naturalized or even natural born citizens who don’t pass the paper bag test.
Those cones are good for something pic.twitter.com/HLjz8osga4
— Jesus Chrysler (@JesusChrysler15) September 16, 2019
Even though Joe’s Corn Pop story seems mostly true, ‘Biden’s Negro Summer Safari Adventure’ still hits. Or I should say, Pops.
(ducks)
‘Trollbots’ Swarm Twitter with Attacks on Climate Science Ahead of UN Summit — I comment. Via @MLavelles of @InsideClimate News: https://t.co/7eXb8YEsBu
— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) September 16, 2019
In a short while I will be presenting the New York @Yankees @MarianoRivera, the greatest relief pitcher (Closer!) of all time, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the @WhiteHouse!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2019
FIND ME A HISPANIC TO HONOR FOR HISPANIC HONORING MONTH!!!!!
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2/ Tension grew in the wee hours Monday in Flint, where UAW workers used their bodies to block salaried GM employees from getting to work. At least one person was “bumped” by a fender. https://t.co/C1kHJQn1Po
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) September 16, 2019
re: #10 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This does reveal a degree of desperate thrashing about for arguments.
You are talking about someone who drew a Sharpie mod on a weather chart and then went on TV to show his forgery as justification for an incorrect earlier statement.
The Simpsons, Onion, National Lampoon, or any other comedic entity would never have published or aired such a episode. The humor would have been just too juvenile and way way too lazy.
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
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FIND ME A HISPANIC TO HONOR FOR HISPANIC HONORING MONTH!!!!!
Mariano Rivera was born in Panama. Immigrant.
Legal immigrant here. Can attest the system is fucked up, convoluted and expensive and that’s coming from a white guy who has not run into major issues (just minor annoyances) on his immigration journey.
Did I mention this has cost me almost $10 000?
I think at this point some of these assholes are scoring their ratios as badges of honor.
The irony here is not lost on us John. I’ll be voting for your opponent, whoever that may be, in 2020. We need Leadership in the position you’re currently holding. Your deeply partisan attitude is harming America at this point and you need to go to time out.
— 🦈E-Mail Terminator🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) September 16, 2019
re: #25 sagehen
Mariano Rivera was born in Panama. Immigrant.
“It is my pleasure to present Mr. Mary Anne Rivera with this beautiful medal…”
re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg
“It is my pleasure to present Mr. Mary Anne Rivera with this beautiful medal…”
“Did you know that Rivera means river?”
re: #29 Belafon
“Did you know that Rivera means river?”
“Not many people know that…not even that loser fake Geraldo”
re: #29 Belafon
“Did you know that Rivera means river?”
Most people don’t know that.
Hey, Marianne, are you related to Chita?
Presented without comment. https://t.co/SbOzQGhzTV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2019
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
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FIND ME A HISPANIC TO HONOR FOR HISPANIC HONORING MONTH!!!!!
“That can’t be the guy! Where’s his mustache? Where’s his sombrero? I said a Hispanic, dammit, not a random brown guy!”
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
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FIND ME A HISPANIC TO HONOR FOR HISPANIC HONORING MONTH!!!!!
BRING ME A TACO BOWL FROM TRUMP TOWER GRILL! THE HISPANICS LOVE ME!1!!
I didn’t know Mariano Rivera got to the Bigs in 1955. Amazing.
“After five years playing in the minors, in 1955, Mariano finally made it to the big leagues.” —@realDonaldTrump on Mariano Rivera’s debut with the Yankees. pic.twitter.com/WNHBOALl3F
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) September 16, 2019
NEW: State prosecutors in Manhattan have subpoenaed President Trump’s accounting firm to demand eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns https://t.co/oJxnHJqgS1
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 16, 2019
Why does Garbage Hobbit sound like Alvin from The Chipmunks? Is that his actual voice?
Ben Shapiro dismisses allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh with “Nobody has yet described Kavanaugh’s [genitalia]” pic.twitter.com/j7HiXsB5zb
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) September 16, 2019
Can’t the Secret Service just rent their jet skis from the Trump Water Sports Organization?
re: #38 jaunte
Can’t the Secret Service just rent their jet skis from the Trump Water Sports Organization?
They have to buy them first, so they can sell them to TWSO for $0, and then lease them on contract, before they can rent them.
re: #39 Belafon
They have to buy them first, so they can sell them to TWSO for $0, and then lease them on contract, before they can rent them.
Given Trump’s proclivities, I would use bleach and perhaps a flamethrower to sterilize the seat on said jetskis before ever I sat upon it.
re: #7 I Would Prefer Not To
THE WORLD IS FULL OF IDIOTS PART 4935943454850485
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Dear @Benshapiro,
When a guy is shoving his dick in a person’s face against that person’s will, the victim is more likely to be avoiding the dick than studying it for an artist’s sketch.
They’re avoiding the dick, Ben. You know, like people avoid you. Same basic concept.— Jon Zal (@OfficialJonZal) September 16, 2019
Reminder: state charges are not pardonable https://t.co/C1E1ZF4u0Y
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) September 16, 2019
re: #42 jaunte
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Does NY state have written on a piece of napkin (like the DOJ) that they cannot indict a sitting president?
re: #43 Eventual Carrion
I have a feeling they never saw the need.
We have set down early in Somewherelse, Oklahoma. Oklahoma is big. And flat. And full of commie windmills.
The campground is huge, with 3 other RVs in place. We’re having brie on saltines, box wine (Pinot Grigio). Feel so white I might join the Concerned Citizens’ Council or the NHL.
So I’m going back and forth with a misogynist and Twitter told me it gave me a time out that starts when I go back to Twitter. I go back to Twitter and… nothing. Can still Tweet and Reply. Whatever.
re: #45 Decatur Deb
Don’t get the Commie Windmill Cancer.
.@benshapiro’s statement that “nobody has described Kavanaugh’s genitalia” may seem hilariously stupid to people with brains, but this is standard unassailable right wing logic and not a single conservative will laugh at it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2019
re: #37 The Pie Overlord!
Why does Garbage Hobbit sound like Alvin from The Chipmunks? Is that his actual voice?
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Yes, that is his actual voice.
This is my flawless Ben Shapiro impersonation. pic.twitter.com/tsRfiz3J01
— Dennis DiClaudio (@dennisdiclaudio) September 16, 2019
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
In all seriousness, every president since JFK (less Nixon) has eventually been awarded the Medal of Freedom. I suspect that a “normal” Republican president would have given it to GW Bush. And a Democratic president is sure to give it to Obama. But who, if anyone, would give one to Trump?
I sometimes forget that there are still many people who don’t know what “water sports” is slang for.
I too was once that innocent, many years ago.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2019
McConnell on the Senate floor now, will address calls to impeach Kavanaugh. Tells reporters, “I’m going to make some remarks on the floor and you are all free to listen.”
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) September 16, 2019
gotta clean the catboxes…
re: #51 KGxvi
In all seriousness, every president since JFK (less Nixon) has eventually been awarded the Medal of Freedom. I suspect that a “normal” Republican president would have given it to GW Bush. And a Democratic president is sure to give it to Obama. But who, if anyone, would give one to Trump?
[ resists the urge to vomit ]
President Trump, Jr.
[ vomits ]
re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth
McConnell doesn’t get a say in whether or not Kavanaugh is impeached. He only has a say in whether or not the Justice is removed from office.
re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth
$5 to each Democrat that coughs *Moscow Mitch* during his condesencion speech.
re: #54 makeitstop
[ resists the urge to vomit ]
President Trump, Jr.
[ vomits ]
Heh. I was going to make the joke that Trump would just give it to himself on January 19, 2021.
re: #55 KGxvi
McConnell doesn’t get a say in whether or not Kavanaugh is impeached. He only has a say in whether or not the Justice is removed from office.
McConnell’s got to tell Trump what to say.
We’re reaching a point in our marriage where my wife is cracking jokes and fucking with me. I’m usually the Causer of Giggles and playful treachery. Still weird for me.
I have to remember, it’s not a competition.
re: #59 BigPapa
We’re reaching a point in our marriage where my wife is cracking jokes and fucking with me. I’m usually the Causer of Giggles and playful treachery. Still weird for me.
I have to remember, it’s not a competition.
Don’t dish it if you can’t take it.
Why bother listening? Everyone already knows what he’s going to say. https://t.co/P2PRkVkdK9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2019
Bummer. Now Milo’s going to have to try to return his costume. https://t.co/6B9f5wTua4
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2019
re: #61 Charles Johnson
I’m kind of going for Bingo:
1. Boys will be boys.
2. Democrats want a do-over.
3. It’s already been looked at.
4. Sore losers.
re: #59 BigPapa
We’re reaching a point in our marriage where my wife is cracking jokes and fucking with me. I’m usually the Causer of Giggles and playful treachery. Still weird for me.
I have to remember, it’s not a competition.
Of course it is. He who dies with the most lol’s wins.
MIL to wife-to-be, 1966: “I don’t know why you have to marry that penniless Yankee.”
Wife: “I never have to explain the punchline.”
re: #62 Charles Johnson
“Um, it’s you. You can keep it. In fact, let me rip that store tag out first.”
Trump added that the US is more prepared for war than any country in the history of “any history.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2019
Worst president in the history of any history.
Of course the studies are “strong studies.”
Who would go to war on a weak study, Republicans?
Mitch McConnell blames Iran for the attack on Saudi oil facilities.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) September 16, 2019
Reichstag oil fire.
Soon after saying it looks like Iran is responsible, a reporter tells Trump he said he thinks Iran is responsible. He says, “I didn’t say that. Why do you say that? I said I think we know who it was, but I didn’t say anybody. But certainly it would look to most like it was Iran.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2019
re: #67 jaunte
Demonstrably false given that a carrier task force - the USS Harry Truman task force to be specific - set sail for an overseas deployment without its carrier because of issues with its electronics.
A carrier force sailing without its carrier.
Best Navy Ever.
This isn’t one of the new Ford class carriers, but one of the more recent Nimitz class (improved). They couldn’t get another carrier to deploy in its stead because they were short due to other overhauls/work in Newport News.
The Arizona state Supreme Court has decided that a cslligraphy shop can discriminate against LGBTQ people, because religion and the First Amendment trump discrimination laws.
Where does this end?
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Q: Why are we about to enter a second disastrous, un-winnable war in the Middle East?
A: https://t.co/fYl3lnPJMi— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) September 16, 2019
Such an _obvious_ lie. Will Mattis respond? https://t.co/35Attv2YdZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2019
It’s not impossible that Iran actually was responsible for the oil field attacks. But Donald F. Trump absolutely CANNOT BE TRUSTED to deal with a crisis like that, even if it’s true. He doesn’t understand the region or the issues, and has no interest in learning.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2019
If you think Trump might be telling the truth that the US military was out of ammunition before he took office, you might be an idiot.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2019
re: #74 Charles Johnson
Dude holy shit that is one of the stupidest fucking things he’s ever said. The US military, short on ammunition. What. The. FUCK!
They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume are good people.
~ Presidunce @realdonaldtrump pic.twitter.com/8VOEIkrBgM— Private Joker, USMC (@Infantry0300) September 16, 2019
Long WaPo article about Kamala Harris attending Howard University because she wanted a black college experience and the comments are disgusting. She’s not black enough. WTF
re: #38 jaunte
Can’t the Secret Service just rent their jet skis from the Trump Water Sports
OrganizationCharitable Foundation?
He’s asking for a pass. https://t.co/WDJKAUTeH3
— HGTomato 🍅 (@HGTomato) September 16, 2019
re: #64 Belafon
I’m kind of going for Bingo:
1. Boys will be boys.
2. Democrats want a do-over.
3. It’s already been looked at.
4. Sore losers.
in other words, totally irrelevant
No more spots on my dystopian hellscape bingo card for Milo as a furry. Sorry. https://t.co/y74ZR8X2hK
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 16, 2019
BREAKING: Citing security concerns, Colorado has become the first state to stop counting ballots w/ printed barcodes. The state’s secretary of state felt it was necessary to ensure Colorado maintains its position as a national leader on election security. https://t.co/OAVmAKlids
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) September 16, 2019
re: #74 Charles Johnson
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Trump kept going and going, adding new details to emphasize this story and asking the Crown Prince of Bahrain if he could imagine being told this as US president. He said again that Mattis’s message was even more dire than “low” ammunition, but “I’m not gonna go there.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2019
The 3rd & 4th Stupidest People In Congress:
Today’s Left wants to:
-Take away your private healthcare
-Take away your drinking straws
-Take away your firearms
-Take away your Supreme Court Justice
-Take away your President
They want to take away your Freedom. https://t.co/PT9JcB1n3F— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 16, 2019
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He’s lying, of course, but Mattis will probably refuse to comment due to national security concerns.
An Emmy? Is that one of those awards @realDonaldTrump has never won? https://t.co/SQC5JL6ScW
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) September 16, 2019
Mi-Lo Pony is Fursona Non Grata
I just want everyone to understand that the furry community kicked Milo Yiannopoulos to the curb a million times faster that the mainstream GOP pundit class ever dreamed of doinghttps://t.co/cX4BAggul7
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) September 16, 2019
(Fursona Non Grata is not mine)
God killed every first born child in Egypt to prove a point to Pharaoh. Exodus 11:1-12 https://t.co/Q6qtaRrE5i
— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) September 16, 2019
oh and the Flood incident…
re: #43 Eventual Carrion
Does NY state have written on a piece of napkin (like the DOJ) that they cannot indict a sitting president?
But they can go after his accountants…
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
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oh, and that fella named Jesus…
I’m no fan of Biden, but didn’t I read the local NAACP affirming the existence of Corn Pop and read his 2016 obit in a local paper? I mean, as street names go Corn Pop is positively routine. Maybe these dunks aren’t what you imagine as a highlight reel.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 15, 2019
When everything is a dunk, nothing is a fucking dunk.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 15, 2019
Whole cities get canceled. Lots of children too.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2019
re: #38 jaunte
Can’t the Secret Service just rent their jet skis from the Trump Water Sports Organization?
I think they’ve BEEN renting them, from Mar-a-Lago, and somebody finally realized people are noticing how much money they put in his pocket; if they buy them they can keep them, and use them for the next President as well (plus, the Obamas just bought a beach house. Jet-skis might be useful for his detail too).
oh…
Rumors of Trump pocketing NYC tax refunds for tenants have followed him for decades. I’d love to know if Trump Properties ever got refunds and if they ever issued checks to tenants. #TrumpTaxScam https://t.co/3hC6eHo2e7
— Naveed Jamali (@NaveedAJamali) September 16, 2019
KMFDM drops a new video. They mince no words. Behind the button for language and imagery.
(Happy to see my friend Andee [guitar player] featured in the video!)
re: #95 gocart mozart
Two of my favorite rappers are Ice T and Ice Cube. I can totally buy Corn Pop.
re: #99 makeitstop
KMFDM drops a new video. They mince no words. Behind the button for language and imagery.
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(Happy to see my friend Andee [guitar player] featured in the video!)
Wow. Not my type of music, but it held me all the way to the end!
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
If the Trump Org got tax rebates they were supposed to pass on to tenants, I will bet dollars to donuts that Trump pocketed the money. Like there aren’t odds good enough to take that bet. It’s got to be -10,000 pocketed to +25,000 that they didn’t.
re: #103 retired cynic
Wow. Not my type of music, but it held me all the way to the end!
They’re one of the pioneering bands of industrial music. They’ve been around since 1984 (my friend just joined last year), but they haven’t lost a step.
re: #101 Belafon
Two of my favorite rappers are Ice T and Ice Cube. I can totally buy Corn Pop.
Just leave Vanilla Ice out of things, okay?
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Charlie Pierce (yeah, I re-subscribed, because I just missed him): President Trump Eyes Iran Because We’ve Learned Nothing From Iraq or Anything Else
I’m guessing somebody may have mentioned this to the moron-in-chief
Netanyahu wanted to start a war in Gaza last week and inquired about delaying the election (which is tomorrow). He was stopped by Israel’s security chiefs and his own attorney General. Bombshell report by Haaretz colleagues Amos Harel and Chaim Levinson https://t.co/awBeF1af6J
— Amir Tibon (@amirtibon) September 16, 2019
re: #100 retired cynic
WTF???
Buildings that are co-ops, the building as a whole pays property tax (an expense which figures into each owner-tenant’s monthly maintenance fees). But sometimes there’s property tax abatements for one reason or another, and the refund is sent to the Corporation. Which is then supposed to pro-rate the shares and distribute them to tenants.
The abatements on my apartment that I can remember off-hand were from when we did environmental things the city wanted to encourage, half the cost of these green improvements was knocked off our property tax on the theory that we were helping save the city from having to construct more steam and water and electric infrastructure.
re: #107 retired cynic
Charlie Pierce (yeah, I re-subscribed, because I just missed him): President Trump Eyes Iran Because We’ve Learned Nothing From Iraq or Anything Else
Welp:
JUST IN: American intelligence shows that the attack on a major Saudi oil facility was launched from Iran, 3 people familiar with the intelligence tell @NBCNews. https://t.co/Q4gW6Ag7DF
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 16, 2019
re: #104 KGxvi
If the Trump Org got tax rebates they were supposed to pass on to tenants, I will bet dollars to donuts that Trump pocketed the money. Like there aren’t odds good enough to take that bet. It’s got to be -10,000 pocketed to +25,000 that they didn’t.
There’s been rumors/suspicion about this for years; that’s why tenants in 160 and 180 Riverside Dr organized to take over the co-op board and fire Trump Org as their administrator.
With Russia’s formidable commitment to safety, what could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/YwYCP6WZGU
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 16, 2019
re: #110 retired cynic
Welp:
Weren’t the attacks on the tankers also confirmed by US intelligence, we just didn’t know which intelligence.
re: #112 Dave In Austin
Can’t wait for the docudrama in a couple of decades.
re: #114 Belafon
As I posted… Wait a week or 2 for the bodies to start showing up.
re: #105 makeitstop
They’re one of the pioneering bands of industrial music. They’ve been around since 1984 (my friend just joined last year), but they haven’t lost a step.
Moscow Mitch mug shot was a nice touch.
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
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oh and the Flood incident…
Worse, earlier God deliberately hardened Pharaoh’s heart so he wouldn’t listen to Moses just as God had told Moses would happen. Exodus 9:12
“I guess God has a plan for all of us.” -Angela Dodson
“God’s a kid with an ant farm, lady. He’s not planning anything.” -John Constantine— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) September 16, 2019
I totally trust the Russian government.
To lie about everything.
Shane Gillis will be crying to Joe Rogan, Steven Crowder and Ben Shapiro about “cancel culture” and how not being able to toss around racial slurs in the name of “comedy” violates his free speech. He has a lucrative career as a right wing grifter ahead of him.
— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) September 16, 2019
#BREAKING Chairmen @RepCummings and @CongressmanRaja launch investigation of ethics allegations against Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. https://t.co/hOCLUEFQd1 pic.twitter.com/p4fVfLocMB
— Oversight Committee (@OversightDems) September 16, 2019
Reps. Cummings and Krishnamoorthi to Elaine Chao: “The Committee is examining your misstatements of fact, your actions that may have benefited the company in which you continued to hold shares, and your compliance with ethics and financial disclosure requirements.” https://t.co/2z3P8BG2Wt
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 16, 2019
re: #107 retired cynic
Charlie Pierce (yeah, I re-subscribed, because I just missed him): President Trump Eyes Iran Because We’ve Learned Nothing From Iraq or Anything Else
No, the majority of us have learned and were strong opposed to the misadventure in Iraq as well.
re: #119 Barefoot Grin
What TF is this shit?
Shane Gillis reached out. Looks like we will be sitting down together soon.
— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) September 16, 2019
Some bullshit about “cancel culture”. What TF is Yang DOING?
re: #117 goddamnedfrank
The OT God is such a massively manipulative asshole. He’s just putting on a puppet show using people for his own entertainment. Which honestly makes a lot of sense in that it fits right in with the polytheistic Greek, Sumerian and Babylonian contemporaries. Life is mostly just a bunch of random shit that happens so it probably helps to think everything is due to the vagaries of bored omnipotent fuckwits.
re: #124 goddamnedfrank
The OT God is such a massively manipulative asshole. He’s just putting on a puppet show with people for his own entertainment. Which honestly makes a lot of sense in that it fits right in with the polytheistic Greek, Sumerian and Babylonian contemporaries. Life is mostly just a bunch of random shit that happens so it probably helps to think it’s all due to the vagaries of bored omnipotent fuckwits.
It is difficult to think of a worse character in literature than the OT God. Ironically, the only real contender may be the NT God, with this novel business of eternal torment in Hell for the thought crime of non-belief.
re: #124 goddamnedfrank
The OT God is such a massively manipulative asshole. He’s just putting on a puppet show with people for his own entertainment. Which honestly makes a lot of sense in that it fits right in with the polytheistic Greek, Sumerian and Babylonian contemporaries. Life is mostly just a bunch of random shit that happens so it probably helps to think everything is due to the vagaries of bored omnipotent fuckwits.
Replace “gods” with “billionaire heads of state” and you get the saame thing.
re: #126 EPR-radar
It is difficult to think of a worse character in literature than the OT God. Ironically, the only real contender may be the NT God, with this novel business of eternal torment in Hell for the thought crime of non-belief.
The Roman/Greek gods were pretty good contenders as well. Think of Medusa.
re: #119 Barefoot Grin
In his own statement on Twitter, Gillis said in part, “Of course I wanted an opportunity to prove myself at SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction. I respect the decision they made. I’m honestly grateful for the opportunity. I was always a Mad TV guy anyway.”
re: #123 mmmirele
What TF is this shit?
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Some bullshit about “cancel culture”. What TF is Yang DOING?
I read a long thread from Yang yesterday and I grudgingly support him in reaching out, but he has to use the opportunity (should it occur) to drive home some important points about “casual” racism (there’s no such thing as “casual”, of course).
re: #129 MsJ
Entitled ass to the end.
re: #130 Barefoot Grin
I read a long thread from Yang yesterday and I grudgingly support him in reaching out, but he has to use the opportunity (should it occur) to drive home some important points about “casual” racism (there’s no such thing as “casual”, of course).
Yang seems off to me. He has a tendency to embrace and reinforce the model minority myth….which is a tool used to pit minority groups against each other, all the while decrying identity politics.
New: Alt-right grifter Jacob Wohl and all-but-admitted white nationalist Nick Fuentes are planning a “free speech” rally on some sort of yacht in Miami next week: https://t.co/hE0dVqfnwW
— Jerry Iannelli (@jerryiannelli) September 16, 2019
re: #123 mmmirele
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These “Who? No chance.” candidates aren’t really Democrats. Tulsi is headlining some conservative freak show. It’s a way to fuck Democrats and get some press at the same time.
Reminder: Saturday Night Live is a terrible TV show. Excepting Fey’s Palin and Baldwin’s Trump there has been a single digit number of laughs for me there since the mid 90s. Weekend Update is MAYBE the 4th best comedic news presentation on TV these days. #SNL
— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) September 16, 2019
re: #131 gwangung
Entitled ass to the end.
Yang seems off to me. He has a tendency to embrace and reinforce the model minority myth….which is a tool used to pit minority groups against each other, all the while decrying identity politics.
Thanks for your input. Reading the profile of Constance Wu in New Yorker today, I got a sense of the difficulty navigating American racism for Asian Americans.
re: #128 Belafon
The Roman/Greek gods were pretty good contenders as well. Think of Medusa.
The Greek Gods were shitbirds to the Greeks and mostly irrelevant to outsiders. Ditto for the Aztec gods etc.
This business of universal salvation (and its dark side, universal damnation) didn’t really exist until Christianity.
The Muslim-American mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey, was harassed and wrongfully detained by Customs and Border Protection after flying into John F. Kennedy International Airport last month, saying that agents asked him if he knew any terrorists during the nearly three hours he was held.Mayor Mohamed Khairullah and his family had actually been vacationing in Turkey and were returning home to Prospect Park when the CBP agent’s questions went from standard—“like about where he traveled from and who he visited,” CNN said—to downright offensive and discriminatory, asking Khairullah “did you meet with any terrorists?”
…
CBP’s treatment of Khairullah was “a clear case of profiling,” said Ahmed Mohamed, litigation director for the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “He gets treated as if he was a terrorist in this situation. That’s conduct that should be unacceptable to every single American in this country.”
re: #135 Barefoot Grin
Thanks for your input. Reading the profile of Constance Wu in New Yorker today, I got a sense of the difficulty navigating American racism for Asian Americans.
I can’t play oppression olympics here; marginalized groups all have different experiences. But I think it’s fair to say, “Don’t make life harder than it has to be” for folks.
Yang was targetted directly by that loser, so however he responds to that direct attack is up to him….but there are always responses to span the gamut, from useful to….not useful.
re: #117 goddamnedfrank
Or, why I’ve never found the idea that “It’s all part of God’s Plan” comforting. It all makes more sense if nobody’s driving.
re: #119 Barefoot Grin
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re: #112 Dave In Austin
Rick Wilson
✔
@TheRickWilson
With Russia’s formidable commitment to safety, what could possibly go wrong?Meanwhile in Russia… There was an explosion at a research center which stores one of the world’s largest collections of viruses including small pox & ebola. All glass in the building was shattered per RFE/RL, but Russian gov’t says no biohazards released https://t.co/NV0oXUPJXb
— Amy Mackinnon🐡 (@ak_mack) September 16, 2019
…
Chernobyl — great HBO series — made the point that under Gorbachev, a Russian leader with real concern for his nation, Russians on the ground were attempting to conceal the extent of the damage from both Russian leadership and the outside world. Fortunately, the Western scientists were able to detect and reveal the seriousness of the accident; and Russian scientists were able to prevent a true catastrophe.
Under Putin, who knows what Russian scientists would be willing to reveal to their leaders knowing that polonium poisoning would likely be the fate of any who told the truth. Terrifying possibility that these diseases could be released into the community.
re: #123 mmmirele
What TF is this shit?
“Mr. Yang - May I call you Andrew? - anyway, Andrew, what I wanted to ask you was, can I have a job? I just lost a lucrative gig….”
re: #131 gwangung
Yang seems off to me. He has a tendency to embrace and reinforce the model minority myth….which is a tool used to pit minority groups against each other, all the while decrying identity politics.
This is the bulk of my gripe with him, which dovetails into his fairly blasé attitude towards being championed by extremely online racist chaos agents and his tendency to say cryptic, disturbing shit like this:
This country pays a lot of attention to its outliers. We should be paying more attention to the normal person.
— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) August 31, 2019
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re: #140 Blind Frog Belly White
Why is it that damn near every single time I’ve seen or heard a complaint about ‘Political Correctness is killing comedy!” it’s always from a White Guy?
A White Guy who is lazy at comedy.
If you really want everybody at the New York Times to resign, you can’t just “call for” it. You have to “hereby order” it. In a tweet. Three times.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 16, 2019
re: #147 Charles Johnson
There’s no way that’s Trump.
Twitter is a dark, dank, hole in the ground, but still produces gems
@AoDespair
Was ‘Corn Pop’ a character in The Wire?— Dr. Manhattan - Just admit you hate poor people (@JohnnyHoncho11) September 15, 2019
I’ve heard far stranger streetnames if you mean to imply that Corn Pop is unbelievable. By standards of streetnames it’s positively routine.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 15, 2019
Have I seen The Wire?
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 16, 2019
re: #149 goddamnedfrank
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re: #150 Jebediah, RBG
Oh, my…
IIRC, this is the second time in as many months that someone’s told him he should watch The Wire.
re: #151 Blind Frog Belly White
Really? Wow. I mean, the internet is a great place for blowhards to pop off without doing any research or checking, but that has just got to be the absolute pinnacle of cluelessness.
re: #152 Jebediah, RBG
Really? Wow. I mean, the internet is a great place for blowhards to pop off without doing any research or checking, but that has just got to be the absolute pinnacle of cluelessness.
Really. Last month, during the Trump/Cummings/Baltimore Infestation kerfuffle, someone told him about this great show, The Wire, where he could learn about Baltimore.
re: #124 goddamnedfrank
The OT God is such a massively manipulative asshole. He’s just putting on a puppet show using people for his own entertainment. Which honestly makes a lot of sense in that it fits right in with the polytheistic Greek, Sumerian and Babylonian contemporaries. Life is mostly just a bunch of random shit that happens so it probably helps to think everything is due to the vagaries of bored omnipotent fuckwits.
There’s actually a decent argument that the early Israelites were actually polytheistic. At least according to this PBS series. I kind of want to do more reading on that idea, because it does sort of make some of the OT stories make a little more sense.
Wasn’t “their 9/11” 9/11? https://t.co/vuwmCsbSH0
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) September 16, 2019
re: #153 Blind Frog Belly White
Really. Last month, during the Trump/Cummings/Baltimore Infestation kerfuffle, someone told him about this great show, The Wire, where he could learn about Baltimore.
This is the kind of thing that can make me hope for a Giant Asteroid.
re: #129 MsJ
If I recall correctly, MadTv was pretty diverse so I doubt his racist behind would have been welcomed there either. Racists need to understand that while they’re embraced by fellow Conservatives, they’re not welcome in most of the entertainment business. You can’t make anti-Asian “jokes” and expect to be embraced by the larger society. Racism isn’t funny.
re: #155 gocart mozart
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So 3000 Saudi citizens were killed by Wahhabi terrorists that snuck into the country and used commercial airliners to strike major landmarks?
No?
Then no, it’s not “their 9/11.”
re: #157 Jack Burton
This is the kind of thing that can make me hope for a Giant Asteroid.
The best thing (or worst) was that the tweet was written with such smarmy authority, such condescension.
re: #159 Targetpractice
So 3000 Saudi citizens were killed by Wahhabi terrorists that snuck into the country and used commercial airliners to strike major landmarks?
No?
Then no, it’s not “their 9/11.”
Were there any deaths due to the attack? I only heard about damage to the facilities but nothing about fatalities.
Hey, so you know how Trump’s talking about going to war four our “friends” in KSA? Guess which country is 3rd in the world in military expenditures? And tops in terms of expenditures as a % of GDP?
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Were there any deaths due to the attack? I only heard about damage to the facilities but nothing about fatalities.
Maybe not directly but heads will probably roll inside the Saudi air defense command. This is fucking embarrassing for them.
re: #163 goddamnedfrank
Maybe not directly but heads will probably roll inside the Saudi air defense command. This is fucking embarrassing for them.
Literally, considering SA’s method of capital punishment.
So, he wants to shake down the Saudis just like he shakes down NATO?
“The Saudis are going to have a lot of involvement in this if we decide to do something … and that includes payment and they understand that fully,” Trump tells @jonkarl when asked if he thinks it’s the responsibility of the Saudis to defend themselves https://t.co/LikcIgXaoi pic.twitter.com/FFQ4Z8Bu3b
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 16, 2019
re: #158 Patricia Kayden
If I recall correctly, MadTv was pretty diverse so I doubt his racist behind would have been welcomed there either. Racists need to understand that while they’re embraced by fellow Conservatives, they’re not welcome in most of the entertainment business. You can’t make anti-Asian “jokes” and expect to be embraced by the larger society. Racism isn’t funny.
There’s ways to make fun of stuff. His way wasn’t one.
Jackie Mason was brutally funny about Jews (he’s Jewish) and my parents (also Jewish) loved him. He made my ex-husband (not Jewish) roll on the damn floor.
re: #165 The Pie Overlord!
So, he wants to shake down the Saudis just like he shakes down NATO?
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re: #167 Targetpractice
Somehow, I suspect the House of Saud is gonna stiff us on the bill.
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They could roll barrels of cash to Mar-A-Lago and label it “Oil”
Trump wants to rent out our sons and daughters to die in a war for profit. Fuck that shit.
just once I’d love to go into a public place with a grotesquely over the top display of ammo porn.
Just not sure if I should use a replica minigun with 500 round ammo boxes on my hip + mini RPG’s on my helmet, or dual muskets/side muskets/sabres and a 5lb bag of black powder. With a Bowie knife.
Weighing my options for freedom right now.
OH HAI all u Jill Stein shills who told us that “Hillary Clinton is a warmonger!” #TheResistance #Resist #ImpeachTrump #StillWithHer #HillaryWasRight https://t.co/6pD9RclI7H
— Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) September 16, 2019
re: #167 Targetpractice
Somehow, I suspect the House of Saud is gonna stiff us on the bill.
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The House of Saud will be delighted to get us involved in their conflict and have our military die for them — we are just their hired guns. But as I keep saying — maybe naively — this is not the Trump way; he won’t be starting a new conflict that would produce significant American casualties. Yes — he will misjudge the situation, like he misjudges everything except the gullibility and racism of much of the American public — but actual conflict, now that Bolton is gone, seems increasingly unlikely.
re: #169 Dread Pirate
Trump wants to rent out our sons and daughters to die in a war for profit. Fuck that shit.
Meanwhile Chris Matthews: “Are the Democrats pushing too far Left?”
re: #172 Hecuba’s daughter
The House of Saud will be delighted to get us involved in their conflict and have our military die for them — we are just their hired guns. But as I keep saying — maybe naively — this is not the Trump way; he won’t be starting a new conflict that would produce significant American casualties. Yes — he will misjudge the situation, like he misjudges everything except the gullibility and racism of much of the American public — but actual conflict, now that Bolton is gone, seems increasingly unlikely.
Think he’ll do a Venezuela? Rattle the saber a while then lose interest?
re: #172 Hecuba’s daughter
The House of Saud will be delighted to get us involved in their conflict and have our military die for them — we are just their hired guns. But as I keep saying — maybe naively — this is not the Trump way; he won’t be starting a new conflict that would produce significant American casualties. Yes — he will misjudge the situation, like he misjudges everything except the gullibility and racism of much of the American public — but actual conflict, now that Bolton is gone, seems increasingly unlikely.
He won’t get us involved in another war, because that would be long and messy and hurt his reelection chances. No, he’ll be swayed by a general or a paper-pusher at the Pentagon who will tell him that we can launch air strikes that will be quick, safe, and decisive so that he looks awesome for “doing something.”
re: #167 Targetpractice
Somehow, I suspect the House of Saud is gonna stiff us on the bill.
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The guy with the bone-saw has your check, just go through that door.
re: #174 Blind Frog Belly White
Think he’ll do a Venezuela? Rattle the saber a while then lose interest?
That is his thing, isn’t it? Saber rattling as part of the negotiation to get your enemies to the bargaining table. He’ll soon be gushing about the beautiful letters Rouhani is sending him.
re: #175 Targetpractice
He won’t get us involved in another war, because that would be long and messy and hurt his reelection chances. No, he’ll be swayed by a general or a paper-pusher at the Pentagon who will tell him that we can launch air strikes that will be quick, safe, and decisive so that he looks awesome for “doing something.”
The one silver lining of his unshakable base is that he can’t lose them by looking/acting weak, because NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES, they interpret it as strength.
re: #153 Blind Frog Belly White
Really. Last month, during the Trump/Cummings/Baltimore Infestation kerfuffle, someone told him about this great show, The Wire, where he could learn about Baltimore.
Dang.
Bet he really appreciated the heads up.
re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter
That is his thing, isn’t it? Saber rattling as part of the negotiation to get your enemies to the bargaining table. He’ll soon be gushing about the beautiful letters Rouhani is sending him.
Or, like Maduro, just never mentioned again.
re: #178 Blind Frog Belly White
The one silver lining of his unshakable base is that he can’t lose them by looking/acting weak, because NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES, they interpret it as strength.
You are so right. Our Trumpster brother keeps on praising his negotiating skills which he honed as a brilliant real estate developer. Our brother is in sales and thinks of Trump as a perfect model of how to get your opponent to agree to your conditions to close a deal. But it’s not just Trumpsters who have this attitude. A small business owner friend who loved Bernie in 2016 (and voted for Hillary in the general) has repeatedly described Trump as typical of many of the business owners he knows — boastful, arrogant, and confident in their skills, regardless of the reality of the situation.
The security guards at the Abqaiq refinery reportedly tried to shoot down the drones using small arms fire, which tells me:
1. They were not flying that fast, there was enough time for guys with rifles to try to engage.
2. The Saudis never thought to install point defense weapons systems around a piece of key infrastructure prone to secondary explosions.
Saudi Arabia should fight their own wars, which they won’t, or pay us an absolute fortune to protect them and their great wealth-$ trillion!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 31, 2014
re: #155 gocart mozart
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re: #180 Blind Frog Belly White
I think this really is one of the keys to understanding Trump. We worry about him starting a war because he’s a saber-rattling clown, but really, he’s afraid of war because it’s real. Parades, bragging about how much you’re spending on the military, having your picture taken with soldiers - none of that is REAL. It’s all show. Soldiers dying, cities bombed, children killed and displayed on network TV - that shit is REAL. And if the enemy doesn’t just fold, and it drags on and on….
I mean, Iran is a big country, with 81 Million people, more than 3 times as many as Iraq. And we didn’t just kick the shit out of them ten years prior, like we had with Iraq. And though the government might not be all that popular with the average Iranian citizen, you can just dambetcha it will become super popular the moment we start lobbing bombs at them. Plus, they fought Saddam at his strongest to a standstill.
Trump’s fear of the effect a long, drawn out war would have on his popularity will, I hope and expect, keep him from launching a war, though like Venezuela, he’s likely to back down close to the last minute.
re: #69 jaunte
Presumably Pompeo is heading for the UN to lie to everyone there because - Iran needs to be obliterated by US bombs. Welcome to the war of 2020s - and I’ve no doubt Australia’s PM at his wonderful White House Dinner will “stand with trump”. Hopefully Boris will be too busy with his brexit problems to stand with anyone.
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
Was he screwed by those who supported and encouraged him (and then walked away). He really has no life left anywhere on the planet.
I lived in Queens Village until I was about 10 years old, and the local tough guy back then (not far from Biden’s time) was named “Bug.”
He was a tough guy because if you got in a fight, he’d actually punch you in the face, not just the stomach.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2019
re: #188 Charles Johnson
I HATE getting punched in the face.
WTFITS
Well. #DWTS has @seanspicer ! pic.twitter.com/pgPDBhhA03
— Ryan Vaughan (@ryanvaughan) September 17, 2019
Selling our public lands to land rapers and greedheads so they can poison our air and water is no solution. #KochSucker
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 17, 2019
re: #190 The Pie Overlord!
::: running to get some brain bleach :::
This is incredible:
1. North Carolina GOP Sen. Alexander walks into the redistricting room and discovers that his district has been made competitive.
2. He quietly slices up the district to cut out Democratic voters.
3. He gets caught.
4. He announces his retirement. https://t.co/dJRfuLhxGY— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) September 16, 2019
re: #188 Charles Johnson
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Ever.
re: #192 jaunte
Who dressed Spicer as a shrubbery?
it’s what he does ever since he hid in the WH shrubbery
Vicious queen who picked out that outfit for Sean: Call me. Let’s have lunch.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) September 17, 2019
Sorry Rick, you had a good run. pic.twitter.com/pd32pgH1vw
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 17, 2019
re: #199 The Pie Overlord!
Like the Seinfeld “Puffy Shirt”, but in fluorescent chartreuse.
re: #194 goddamnedfrank
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Merrick Garland couldn’t be reached for comment. https://t.co/l2wRZ3YEoq
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 17, 2019
Proud to recognize Mariano Rivera at the @WhiteHouse today to receive the Medal of Freedom. We celebrate his incredible career in baseball and ability to bring people together not only through love of the game, but also his philanthropic efforts. pic.twitter.com/Zo3r0bgw36
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) September 16, 2019
None of the trumps had the first fucking clue who this man was before today.
he is the convenient Hispanic who isn’t Puerto Rican.
re: #165 The Pie Overlord!
So, he wants to shake down the Saudis just like he shakes down NATO?
…except the Saudis might say “yes” to that kind of deal.
It used to be that they got ground forces by big military contracts with Pakistan and a several other Sunni-majority nations, but several of them have started saying “no.”
Which begs the question…if it’s a successful shakedown, isn’t that a different kind of pathetic where we’re directly being goons for a monarchy?
Sean Spicer proudly stood up behind a White House podium and vigorously lied to every American. Fuck him.
Weight loss journey update: Now down over 50 lbs from my peak, am at just over 200 lbs now. Developed a Morton’s neuroma in my left foot a couple months ago from all the hiking, went to an orthopedist and got a cortisone shot and started going to the YMCA instead. Mostly rocking the rowing machine now, with some weight stuff and the stationary bike for added flava. Had blood drawn for labs last week, all readings kick ass. Cholesterol is amazing, especially considering I’m still on a keto diet and just carnivorous af. My A1C dropped from 5.8 to 4.9, the earlier reading was just inside the pre-diabetes range, which is what scared me silly and prompted me to get serious about this shit.
Just looked at this tweet again, and am I the only one totally creeped out by his description of the New York Times as a woman whose virtue has been “destroyed” and reputation has been “ruined?” This is some very ugly rapey language here. Creepy af. https://t.co/ycMz7XZKoB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2019
re: #208 goddamnedfrank
I keep intending to use the pool at the Y, but then I remember it’s basically chlorinated human soup.
re: #209 Charles Johnson
It tells you a great deal about Trump and nothing about the target.
AAAAAHHHHHHHHH https://t.co/YpJP9JGTfh
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2019
re: #208 goddamnedfrank
Weight loss journey update: Now down over 50 lbs from my peak, just over 200 lbs now. Developed a Morton’s neuroma in my left foot a couple months ago from all the hiking, went to an orthopedist and got a cortisone shot and started going to the YMCA instead. Mostly rocking the rowing machine now, with some weight stuff and the stationary bike for added flava. Had blood drawn for labs last week, all readings kick ass. Cholesterol is amazing, especially considering I’m still on a keto diet and just carnivorous af. My A1C dropped from 5.8 to 4.9, the earlier reading was just inside the pre-diabetes range which is what scared me silly and prompted me to get serious about this shit.
Well done!
(But how the hell can you stand a stationary bike? After 20 minutes I want to do literally anything else)
When I was 48, after decades of 110/70, my BP was 140/90. I told my doctor I wanted to try diet and exercise. So for 3 months, I ate mostly lean meat and bushels of salad, rode 100 miles a week, lost 10#, etc. My BP after all that?
140/90. Friggin’ genetics!
On the plus side, my cholesterol and triglycerides have always been really good, so genetics giveth, and genetics taketh away.
re: #212 Charles Johnson
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Michael Moore irritates tf out of me, because he mixes some perceptive shit with a lot of really bad ideas, and he ends up making things worse every goddamned time he steps in.
re: #213 Blind Frog Belly White
Well done!
(But how the hell can you stand a stationary bike? After 20 minutes I want to do literally anything else)
Podcasts, mostly.
re: #216 goddamnedfrank
Podcasts, mostly.
It takes all my concentration, and loud music with a fast beat, to keep my HR >120. After 45 minutes, I’m exhausted. On the road, I can do 2 hours easily, with my HR mostly over 130.
But, that’s me.
re: #209 Charles Johnson
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And Senator Collins.
re: #210 goddamnedfrank
I keep intending to use the pool at the Y, but then I remember it’s basically chlorinated human soup.
I used to be a swimming fanatic, but I just can’t get past this fact you eloquently state in my old age.
After a VERY bad period of health early this year, I finally felt good enough to exercise on March 1. I have done at least 45 minutes of heart rate raising cardio and/or strength training (all on dry land)102 days out of the last 200. I’ve lost about 30 pounds in that time. My situation means I could start feeling awful at any time with pretty much no warning at all, but feeling very satisfied that I’ve made the most of my time while feeling pretty good.
Move over Rick Perry GIF, we have a new champ. pic.twitter.com/9SRckLCOeN
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 17, 2019
The wardrobe director was diabolical here. Kudos.
“It complements your natural coloring, Sean! It will look great on TV.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2019
“Oh you were attacked? Describe his dick then!”
“It looked like a fucking dick, Ben, look in a mirror, idk.”— Courtney Enlow (@courtenlow) September 16, 2019
Meanwhile in the UK…#DefendDemocracy #RuleOfLaw https://t.co/meqISPoo71
— Alice Stollmeyer (@StollmeyerEU) September 16, 2019
Funny you don’t care that the women he sexually assaulted are daughters tho. Or the torture it must have been for the Obama daughters or Chelsea Clinton as y’all were attacking them because of their parents.
Nobody is dragging the Kavanaugh children into this scandal but you. pic.twitter.com/ZqCtnALmSg— Kathy🦋(#FuckTrump)🌺Hays (@everybodyzzmama) September 16, 2019
^^this^^
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Do the MPs follow Boris’s order or not?
Sometimes to save a government you have to fight against it.
re: #212 Charles Johnson
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Some Democrats are worried that if they impeach Trump & Kavanaugh, they’ll alienate centrist voters who don’t give a shit about women being sexually assaulted and raped.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) September 15, 2019
re: #191 teleskiguy
Selling our public lands to land rapers and greedheads so they can poison our air and water is no solution. #KochSucker
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) September 17, 2019
OK, even leaving aside for a moment that this is a Republican Senator who’s tweeting (and therefore “making sense” rarely, if ever, enters the picture) - how TF would the Green New Deal “increase our reliance on foreign sources”? Does Sen. Gardner imagine that we would be paying a royalty for sunlight? Buying wind from China?? A “federal ban on fracking” - ecologically beneficial as it might be - might (probably would): assuming of course, that (fossil-fuel) energy demand might not fall under a GND: but that’s another issue.
re: #224 Belafon
Do the MPs follow Boris’s order or not?
Sometimes to save a government you have to fight against it.
well, Boris has lost several of his party’s MPs when they crossed over to the other side
I’m sure this has nothing to do with the $4.5 million Saudi Arabia spent to purchase an entire floor in Trump World Tower…
…or the $270K the Saudi embassy has spent at Trump’s DC hotel since his election. https://t.co/4HynEi4PpX— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 16, 2019
“My Republican colleagues and I will fight to preserve a fair and independent judiciary.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL https://t.co/trOVObWMBx— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) September 17, 2019
The politician who stands up for what’s right is worth so much more than the one who hides behind what’s politically expedient. Fight me.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2019
re: #194 goddamnedfrank
This should be all the evidence the court needs to draw the maps themselves.
— Fel (@FelWrites) September 16, 2019
re: #190 The Pie Overlord!
He should look ridiculous.
Does Iran know that all they have to do is write trump a few ‘beautiful love letters’ and they can do pretty much whatever they want?
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) September 16, 2019
Genetic genealogy has been such a game changer in the hunt for serial killers and rapists. Think we are in a golden age for solving these cases. We really need to make funds available to go back and review all of the cold cases with unknown DNA available.
Israeli PM again vows to annex ‘all’ West Bank settlements https://t.co/CihD28MqLn pic.twitter.com/Kf11N2veSZ
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) September 16, 2019
re: #234 danarchy
Genetic genealogy has been such a game changer in the hunt for serial killers and rapists. Think we are in a golden age for solving these cases. We really need to make funds available to go back and review all of the cold cases with unknown DNA available.
I would like to see satisfactory DNA check as one of the requirements for gun ownership thus necessitating a vast increase in the ability to do those tests. Maybe then we could handle all those untested rape-kits.
An explosion rocked a Russian research facility known for housing the smallpox virus
An explosion Monday caused a fire at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, a biological research facility in Siberia known for being one of the two centers in the world housing samples of live smallpox virus. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta is the only other place known to maintain live samples of the deadly pathogen.
re: #194 goddamnedfrank
I luv this guys argument:
“If you really think about it, it was only the last meal that caused your heart attack.”
Statewide elections are decided by the voters. The fact that the precincts are so skewed away from what the statewide results show means the districts are unrepresentative.— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) September 17, 2019
Really, it’s not the people that decide at large elections at all. //
re: #153 Blind Frog Belly White
Really. Last month, during the Trump/Cummings/Baltimore Infestation kerfuffle, someone told him about this great show, The Wire, where he could learn about Baltimore.
I think this was a better reply to a self-own tweet.
Yes, I’m sure my mother would be devastated to find out that I’m a pro-choice feminist. https://t.co/wKNo9PsUxZ
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 7, 2019
If you’re confused as to why Colorado has gone bluish, this might help clear it up for you. #copolitics https://t.co/EWdv1P8LyI
— Michael Littwin (@mike_littwin) September 17, 2019
It’s as if education attainment is a testament to living comfortable lives, and how people vote.
re: #240 teleskiguy
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It’s as if education attainment is a testament to living comfortable lives, and how people vote.
Texas is the only outlier.
I have NO idea who dude is…. https://t.co/lCLvf3B2Ny
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) September 16, 2019
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OMG
I’ve seen that tweeted/posted dozens of times today. Never looked closely at it.
Thought it was Harvey Korman from the Carol Burnett Show— 𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) September 17, 2019
re: #244 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Don’t insult Harvey like that.
I-25 North from the airport up was closed for at least half an hour before he landed. hard to see rude hand gestures on an empty road! https://t.co/g4swSPDR6R
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) September 17, 2019
Kamala Harris impressing the hell out of me on the @maddow show.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2019
.@ewarren camp says at least 20,000 people attended her rally in Washington Square Park tonight.
(They got 23K rsvps, an aide says, and stopped counting attendees at 20K once Warren began speaking.)
This is her biggest event yet, following a Seattle rally that drew 15,000. pic.twitter.com/Exj6CsxKlA— Ruby Cramer (@rubycramer) September 17, 2019
re: #247 Charles Johnson
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I still with Warren.
I’m also listening to The Cars.
It’s time to call it a night.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) September 17, 2019
Trump then says “nobody loves the Hispanics more” than his supporter Steve Cortes. He then asks Cortes, “Who do you like more, the country or the Hispanics?” When Cortes apparently says “the country,” Trump says, “I don’t know.” https://t.co/5zl7TnJL5o
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2019
re: #247 Charles Johnson
If Biden and Sanders hadn’t ran, I think we could have had some very good debates on topics between Warren, Harris, Beto, Pete, and possibly Castro and Booker.
Joshua Chamberlain called. He wants to recall his bayonet charge.
Trump claims that the United States had “very little, slash, no ammunition” when he took office. Seriously. He wants his fans to believe this. pic.twitter.com/P30B8m9Sxh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 17, 2019
re: #251 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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One thing that separates Trump from, say Biden and my mom, is that he has to restrain himself from being full blown racist. My mom’s racism is more like “that was racist. I didn’t know that, that’s how I was raised. I’ll try not to do it again.”
Boom. One of the 7/11’s here in Cedar Park,TX had gas at $2.04 this morning.
$2.39 tonite. And I think it’s just getting started.
Speaking of no ammunition…
Trump says he called Warren “Pocahontas” “too early,” but don’t worry, he’s bringing it back.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2019
re: #253 The Pie Overlord!
Melania whispers “He’s projecting again. That’s why he says I have a son.”
Nice. That was the reference I was looking for but couldn’t find, The mask.
— Dusty (@DustinGiebel) September 17, 2019
re: #256 The Pie Overlord!
Speaking of no ammunition…
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The Albuquerque metro area, of which Rio Rancho is a part, is bounded on three sides by Indian reservations: Santa Domingo Pueblo to the North, Laguna Pueblo to the West, and Isleta Pueblo to the South.
I saw the clip of Spicey getting down with his bad self…
We are definitely witnessing the fall of the American empire…
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
I see the presidential lean is in full effect.
Does he really think we all don’t know he’s wearing lifts?
Oh yeah, Ben’s really gonna win over the youth with hot takes like, “I hate rap and it isn’t even real music anyway”.https://t.co/2CyL73UfE7
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) September 17, 2019
re: #262 Ace-o-aces
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Heck, he’s not even going to win over this old white person with that line of “reasoning.”
Do I listen to rap? No, of course not. Do I care if anyone else does? No, why would I?
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