John Oliver Digs Into the Trump Gang’s Effort to Destroy the National Weather Service [VIDEO]
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John Oliver discusses the tension between the public and private worlds of predicting the weather.
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Everything Trump touches dies.
Trump would gut the NWS, which forms the basis of all weather forecasts in the US, so that Accuweather can corner the market and require people to pay for weather forecasts, which everyone uses nationwide.
Thing is that the nomination has already been held up for 2 years, and it’s likely to be held up still because Trump can’t find anyone else to work for Trumpworld (and this too is on McConnell who doesn’t have the stones to tell Trump to quit with this and find someone more acceptable, and that’s even with McConnell pretty much rubber stamping everyone with a pulse that Trump sends his way for confirmations).
Clicked through to the essay that was posted here by Thanos - it’s an extraordinary disquisition on the nature and toxicity of narcissism, and how that applies to the actions of one such as Trump.
It is at once, both reassuring (because we can at least know what is coming next), and deeply alarming (because what is coming next is a virtual Pandora’s Box of horrors, each worse than the next).
It’s like going mad on a desert island, only with sycophants and room service. It’s like having a compliant compass that agrees north is whatever you want it to be. The tyrant of a family, the tyrant of a little business or a huge enterprise, the tyrant of a nation. Power corrupts, and absolute power often corrupts the awareness of those who possess it. Or reduces it: narcissists, sociopaths, and egomaniacs are people for whom others don’t exist.
re: #4 I Would Prefer Not To
Do we really need this?
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They had to figure out something to do with the leftover flavoring powder from the failed ketchup flavored ones.
And now, just some more blatant ugly racism from the Trump gang. https://t.co/QXbacTNZY3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
re: #1 lawhawk
…this too is on McConnell who doesn’t have the stones to tell Trump to quit with this and find someone more acceptable, and that’s even with McConnell pretty much rubber stamping everyone with a pulse that Trump sends his way for confirmations).
This is the true corruption. Trump is a toddler, an endlessly whining, crying spoiled brat. Brats throw tantrums out in public.
It is the overly indulgent parents who refuse to deliver the swift whack to the behind that enable the continuing tantrums and shitting in public.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Warren ought to put out a statement that says “The Trump administration continues to think that calling me one of the greatest women to live on the continent is an insult. It’s not. And I will represent all Americans, not just one particular group.”
DANG!
Neil Cavuto gave Fox viewers nothing but the truth in this clip. Must watch. pic.twitter.com/qDoo4SW4uv— Ed (@EdbrohamLincoln) October 14, 2019
And what’s Milo up to now?
A website owned by alt-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos has been sold just one month after he said he was struggling to put food on the table
Gosh it sucks (in more ways than one) to be you, Milo.
BTW—Why hasn’t this ass been deported?
This was not the case for a black Pennsylvania family. As KYW Newsradio reports, one family is questioning why the Chester Police Department arrested them—twice—for allegedly “loitering” in their own yard.The chain of police buffoonery kicked off on Oct. 1, when Officer Pasquale Storace III arrested Rachel Briggs’ sons and nephew for playing in her front yard; Storace, who is white, charged the young men with “loitering.”
According to Briggs, the boys were thrown in jail, forcing their families to scramble to raise money for their bail. When they were freed the next day, family members were on hand to welcome them back—right back on Briggs’ front lawn.
Some of the arrests were caught on video. As police arrest two of the family members, family members scream and beg for an explanation.
“They maced my son. He got asthma,” Briggs says later, as her son sits in the cop car. “My son can’t breathe, sir.”
Found at balloon-juice.com
re: #14 Belafon
Found at balloon-juice.com
Another reason why I left Pennsylvania for good in 1982 and will never return.
re: #14 Belafon
The cruelty is the point.
The pain is the point.
The financial hardship is the point.
It’s all designed to keep minorities subservient and to remind them of their place in society.
Here lies the Republican Party…
Republicans continue to ignore President Trump’s actions and their own oaths of office.https://t.co/RTtxd7aI5I pic.twitter.com/eyQw7f1XdI— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) October 14, 2019
I know it’s “funny” that Matt Gaetz invited himself to impeachment proceedings. But it’s worth noting that the OGR/HJC investigation into the investigation last year improperly obtained sensitive documents shared with HPSCI and released them.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 14, 2019
Gaetz on the Judiciary? He has no legal education or experience.
I was wrong: he’s been arrested for DUI multiple times and threatened Mueller.
Posted this earlier and people thought I was asking about the grammar. I’m asking what “We are here to finish what we started” means on this day when our President ordered our Army to retreat. Is he contradicting the president or gas lighting us? https://t.co/QcfsFeLQ33
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) October 14, 2019
If they’re ‘acting’ for Trump, expect a liar.
re: #13 Joe Bacon 🌹
Devastating news. I’m so sad to hear this!! /
The pond scum who produced that violent video has been suspended.
Looks like @CarpeDonktum’s Twitter account was suspended in the last few minutes. He’s been tweeting a lot this morning. https://t.co/6Ipw98EJWj pic.twitter.com/APqZTeuaH1
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) October 14, 2019
This is what pusillanimous clickbait journalism look like. Logan Cook is the name of the MAGA propagandist invited to the White House.
His Carpe Donktum account was just suspended.https://t.co/cjHs2U3qui pic.twitter.com/6PvQzWiqdh— Luke O’Brien (@lukeobrien) October 14, 2019
Fifty. Nuclear. Weapons.https://t.co/qQw5Qv6P53 pic.twitter.com/F1wWdNiUgJ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
BTW, the New York Times is still giving Op-Ed space to more “Cletus safari” thumbsuckers about how much “President” Trump is still beloved Out There In The Heartland (Iowa this time). The title says it all:
Where the ‘Loony Libs’ Are Self-Destructing, Not Trump
This piece is slightly different from most: it eschews the usual folksy Farmer-Joe-down-at-the-diner stuff in favor of generalities, but Jeez, Louise! It’s hard to tell whether or not this is meant to be critical or complimentary of its subjects: Leonard paints “rural conservatives” as a bloc of mindlessly ideological drones, utterly epistemically-closed (and locked and nailed shut); prone to excuse any and everything Trump (and/or Republicans) might do, while giving any Democrat exactly zero breaks on any matter whatsoever. I’m not sure how painting “Heartland voters” as hopelessly self-ghettoized in an alternative reality is meant to be positive (and the NYT has no comments for this column) - but damn! They sure seem determined to try.
re: #26 Jay C
BTW, the New York Times is still giving Op-Ed space to more “Cletus safari” thumbsuckers about how much “President” Trump is still beloved Out There In The Heartland (Iowa this time). The title says it all:
Where the ‘Loony Libs’ Are Self-Destructing, Not Trump
This piece is slightly different from most: it eschews the usual folksy Farmer-Joe-down-at-the-diner stuff in favor of generalities, but Jeez, Louise! It’s hard to tell whether or not this is meant to be critical or complimentary of its subjects: Leonard paints “rural conservatives” as a bloc of mindlessly ideological drones, utterly epistemically-closed (and locked and nailed shut); prone to excuse any and everything Trump (and/or Republicans) might do, while giving any Democrat exactly zero breaks on any matter whatsoever. I’m not sure how painting “Heartland voters” as hopelessly self-ghettoized in an alternative reality is meant to be positive (and the NYT has no comments for this column) - but damn! They sure seem determined to try.
No one accuses them of living in safe spaces.
Starting to think this whole social media thing was a terrible idea.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
The two people in the upper left of this Garrison cartoonhttps://t.co/9KT15Fj3et
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 14, 2019
And now I’m guaranteed to get about 50 replies like this.
Starting?
— Justin Koniz (@JKoniz) October 14, 2019
re: #2 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I wonder, sometimes, what the history of the world would have been if the Aztecs or Maya or Inca had decided to explore the oceans and stumbled upon Europe before the Europeans landed on these shores.
Especially depending on the timing… Like imagine if the Aztec Empire spread far north and then turned east just as Europe began recovering from the black death.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
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IOW, what’s referred to as an “Emergency Evacuation” in US military nuclear incident jargon.
Other terms from that jargon I don’t want to hear after hearing they’re doing an Emergency Evacuation are “empty quiver”, “nucflash”, and “pinnacle”.
My father raised my brothers and I with dignity and honor.
So, I will not dishonor them by giving you the respond you deserve.
But I will pray for your disturbed and filth mind. https://t.co/U3eZoxTCXN— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 12, 2019
Not the time, Walter
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) October 12, 2019
re: #35 lawhawk
And Broken Arrow.
Yeah, but Broken arrows aren’t as serious as an Empty Quiver… That would be a nightmare.
If Putin could write the script it would go:
- U.S. lets Turks slaughter Kurds, pushing Kurds closer to Assad/Russia
- U.S. then panics and sanctions Turkey, splintering NATO & solidifying Russia/Iran/Turkey axis.
But Putin didn’t have to write it. Trump & GOP did it for him.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 14, 2019
re: #25 Charles Johnson
And what happens when Turkey starts actually targeting US soldiers, and Trump decides to pull the troops out, missiles be damned?
re: #32 HappyWarrior
Ben Garrison is such a terrible cartoonist.
But every part is so clearly labeled!
So, in regards to the big Facebook bombshell from the other thread:
So, I was wrong. Zuckerberg isn’t a fellow traveler after all. Just a gutless coward and shameless lickspittle. Again, compare his response to conservative threats compared to responses to Warren’s statements.
— Exhausted K (@Citizen_Kryptik) October 14, 2019
I mean…cowardice is not much better than being a true believer like Jack seems to be. You still end up with the same result either way: the coddling of conservatism’s worst devils for fun, profit, and influence while everything burns down because you’ve turned the firemen into boogeymen.
re: #1 lawhawk
Everything Trump touches dies.
Trump would gut the NWS, which forms the basis of all weather forecasts in the US, so that Accuweather can corner the market and require people to pay for weather forecasts, which everyone uses nationwide.
Thing is that the nomination has already been held up for 2 years, and it’s likely to be held up still because Trump can’t find anyone else to work for Trumpworld (and this too is on McConnell who doesn’t have the stones to tell Trump to quit with this and find someone more acceptable, and that’s even with McConnell pretty much rubber stamping everyone with a pulse that Trump sends his way for confirmations).
Republican followup on Rick Santorum’s National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, in which taxpayers would have to pay private companies like AccuWeather for weather forecasting, based upon resources and research funded by taxpayers.
As a native Floridian, you learned to depend on NOAA’s hurricane forecasting to tell you when to get out of town.
(native Floridians know three things:
how to maintain a swimming pool.///
how to water ski///
and get out of town when a hurricane is heading your way)
IAE, comparing NOAA hurricane forecasting with Accuweather’s at that time, I found that NOAA was more accurate.
Coq au Vin pic.twitter.com/BMhfgAUXF5
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) October 14, 2019
Seeing lots of reports that Trump “condemns” that violent video. So where exactly is he doing that? He’s been tweeting all morning again, blasting away at the “fake news,” but not a single word about the video.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
WATCH: Former National Security Council official Fiona Hill arrives on Capitol Hill for a closed deposition before House committees leading the impeachment inquiry against Pres. Trump; Hill, who is testifying voluntarily, does not intend to hand over documents or texts. pic.twitter.com/0UrACY6Jh9
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) October 14, 2019
re: #42 BeenHereAwhile
The claim that we shouldn’t get data directly from the NOAA because our weather models weren’t good during Sandy and had to rely on the EU model is mind-boggling awful, since we have a data sharing deal with the world’s meteorological associations so that everyone can improve their weather collection, reporting, and forecasting abilities.
re: #44 Charles Johnson
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He doesn’t and he never will, there were fine people who made that video.
The Landing page for the US State Department website as of noon on Monday October 14. pic.twitter.com/NKWpJvCFzU
— aderson francois 🇭🇹 14th Amendment Baby (@abfrancois) October 14, 2019
After reading the critiques of movie theaters and remembering some of my worst experiences at local movie theaters I decided to wait for the Downton Abbey dvd to come out. That way I can watch it when I want and in complete comfort with my idea of snacks.
A brain cleanser for all the crazy items in my news feed.
re: #49 PhillyPretzel
After reading the critiques of movie theaters and remembering some of my worst experiences at local movie theaters I decided to wait for the Downton Abbey dvd to come out. That way I can watch it when I want and in complete comfort with my idea of snacks.
Find a movie theater with recliners and watch it there. Most of the AMC and Cinemark theaters have them now.
Great question. This has been a problem for years, it’s been covered massively in media, but Twitter still has no way to specifically report it.
They also have no way to report people who re-register after being suspended. The only explanation is that they don’t care. https://t.co/VdQEtYWJ2B— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
re: #51 Belafon
I have already pre-ordered the dvd. I will do it that way.
re: #44 Charles Johnson
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All talk, no action. I’ll believe him when he actually has rallies that aren’t Nuremberg like.
re: #52 Charles Johnson
Because it’d once again recognize that a certain segment is disproportionately responsible for the bulk of the misinformation and agitprop - the right wing echo chamber. You should be able to shut down even Trump’s twitter feed for misinformation on such a massive scale.
And you just know that the right wingers would demand that very outcome if there were a D in the WH spewing agitprop and misinformation to any extent, let alone the firehose of bulkshit Trump spews.
The flip side is that the right wing lunatics would weaponize this to try and shut down those exposing the liars and propagandists, though they’re already doing this.
I’m starting to imagine Trump as Denethor in the Two Towers.
re: #48 DodgerFan1988
I’m thinking this, and Barr’s speech last week, are part of a campaign strategy to whip up the Talibangelicals into a froth over impeachment. See “Evangelicals See Trump Impeachment as an Attack on Their Values”
re: #57 Belafon
Theoden, while under the influence of Grima and Saruman.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
Fifty. Nuclear. Weapons
Specifically 50 B-61 ‘dial-a-yield’ nuclear gravity bombs.
Stored in these hardened aircraft bunkers
google.com
re: #59 lawhawk
Theoden, while under the influence of Grima and Saruman.
Except there’s no good guy underneath. That’s why I lean towards Denethor.
The Fort Worth police chief says a white officer accused in the fatal shooting of a black woman in her home has resigned. https://t.co/ic6gtdQPJO
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 14, 2019
Fort Worth police officer who fatally shot woman in her own home has resigned and faces criminal charges, police say https://t.co/qP5ifCuKcG
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 14, 2019
Yesterday @PenzeysSpices pledged to use every dollar spent on spices by new customers towards buying more impeachment-related ads on Facebook
Per their newsletter just now: “As of this moment your efforts have brought us to $263,136 in new customer spending!” https://t.co/aXmmE60hKK— Helen Rosner (@hels) October 14, 2019
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Watch the wingnuts who love Chik a Fila act like this should be illegal.
re: #57 Belafon
I’m starting to imagine Trump as Denethor in the Two Towers.
Presumably not Tolkien’s version, but John Noble’s portrayal in Peter Jackson’s movies? Stress-eating and yelling at clouds while his city crumbles under attack around him?
re: #62 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Good. I read about that. Officer sees her silhouette through a window, “perceives a threat”, and shoots her.
On a welfare call because the neighbor observed her doors were uncharacteristically open at night.
re: #62 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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So? He will still walk in the end and get hired as a gun toting blue uniformed thug within months.
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
A handy reminder to see if I need anything besides cinnamon and stop in at our local Penzey’s.
re: #62 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
We’ll see what happens, but I’ve been thinking about the shooting in Dallas (Ft. Worth’s big brother), and while there’s a lot of crap going on here, at least Dallas can say they prosecuted a cop. It seems like a rather strange accomplishment, but other big cities seem to have trouble holding their department that accountable.
re: #65 Jay C
Presumably not Tolkien’s version, but John Noble’s portrayal in Peter Jackson’s movies? Stress-eating and yelling at clouds while his city crumbles under attack around him?
Yes. I should have clarified the movie version.
My first encounter with a Denver airport therapy dog 😭💙 Jake! pic.twitter.com/CFC9OIvTzf
— Molly Samuel (@mollyis) October 14, 2019
re: #64 HappyWarrior
Watch the wingnuts who love Chik a Fila act like this should be illegal.
people who never heard of Penzys will now boycott them
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I bought from Penzey’s on Friday because of this. I have a local spice shop I use and hadn’t used my Penzey’s account sine 2015.
re: #61 Belafon
There are no good guys in Trumpworld. None.
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
“How dare Democrats use capitalism against Trump!”
re: #52 Charles Johnson
Please. Have you ever seen the BS promoted tweets for absolute BS that Twitter is promoting?
One included a financial app that when you visited the website did so many redirects, my phone said NOPE.
For a financial app. That wanted to be involved with your money.— Yeah Sure Whatever (@YeahSureWhatev2) October 14, 2019
A white former Georgia police officer was found guilty of several lesser charges, but not on the murder charge he faced, for the 2015 killing of Anthony Hill, an unarmed black man and Air Force veteran https://t.co/mJr7RxxPBI
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 14, 2019
Former police officer found not guilty of murder in shooting death of unarmed black veteran - via CNN
A former Georgia police officer was found not guilty of murder Monday more than four years after he killed a naked, unarmed black man who was mentally ill.
A jury in DeKalb County found Robert “Chip” Olsen guilty of aggravated assault, making a false statement, and two counts of violation of oath, but acquitted him on two felony murder charges.
Olsen faces up to 35 years in prison and is due to be sentenced November 1. Judge Latisha Dear Jackson said he can remain out on an $80,000 bond until then, though he will have an ankle monitor and be subject to a curfew.
SNL had a great line on Weekend Update this week:
“In reacting to the situation, President Trump said the Kurds didn’t help us in World War II but it’s not really clear who he meant by us.”
re: #68 calochortus
A handy reminder to see if I need anything besides cinnamon and stop in at our local Penzey’s.
I need more Provincial Herbs. I should orfer them from them.
re: #46 lawhawk
The claim that we shouldn’t get data directly from the NOAA because our weather models weren’t good during Sandy and had to rely on the EU model is mind-boggling awful, since we have a data sharing deal with the world’s meteorological associations so that everyone can improve their weather collection, reporting, and forecasting abilities.
I wasn’t on the ground for Sandy, so my impression of reported local preparation before landfall, ranged from “they always exaggerate these things” to “there’s nothing we can do.”
As for the claim that NOAA’s modeling was not good enough, it was always good enough for me to know which Florida coast was safe, and how far north or south my family needed to be.
re: #79 BeenHereAwhile
I wasn’t on the ground for Sandy, so my impression of reported local preparation before landfall, ranged from “they always exaggerate these things” to “there’s nothing we can do.”
As for the claim that NOAA’s modeling was not good enough, it was always good enough for me to know which Florida coast was safe, and how far north or south my family needed to be.
But they always get Alabama wrong. //
re: #79 BeenHereAwhile
I wasn’t on the ground for Sandy, so my impression of reported local preparation before landfall, ranged from “they always exaggerate these things” to “there’s nothing we can do.”
As for the claim that NOAA’s modeling was not good enough, it was always good enough for me to know which Florida coast was safe, and how far north or south my family needed to be.
They never lied to alabama
re: #78 William Lewis
I need more Provincial Herbs. I should orfer them from them.
I’m lucky, I don’t even need to order-they’ve got a store 2 blocks from my bank. It is sadly easy to browse around and find an interesting blend.
re: #13 Joe Bacon 🌹
And what’s Milo up to now?
A website owned by alt-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos has been sold just one month after he said he was struggling to put food on the table
Gosh it sucks (in more ways than one) to be you, Milo.
BTW—Why hasn’t this ass been deported?
He married an American.
re: #64 HappyWarrior
Watch the wingnuts who love Chik a Fila act like this should be illegal.
They already are.
Pulpit pimps are calling for a boycott of Penzey’s!
hahahahahahahahahahaha:
Mike Bloomberg keeps talking to allies about running for president as Joe Biden struggles against Elizabeth Warren
Just what we were wanting Mike and you aren’t doing Joe any favors by thinking that he would be fine by you!
re: #84 sagehen
He married an American.
Foreign born husband of an American here.
It is still possible to get deported even after you have married an American but there are many variables in the equation. I don’t know Milos status for sure, but if he is a naturalized citizen now I’m not sure he can be deported at all.
re: #79 BeenHereAwhile
I wasn’t on the ground for Sandy, so my impression of reported local preparation before landfall, ranged from “they always exaggerate these things” to “there’s nothing we can do.”
As for the claim that NOAA’s modeling was not good enough, it was always good enough for me to know which Florida coast was safe, and how far north or south my family needed to be.
I was. The EU model was warning of the left hook directly into the NYC metro area, while the US models took longer to identify the turn. But ultimately they came into agreement, and everyone took it very seriously here. Even still, dozens died, billions of dollars in property was destroyed, and millions lost power. There are some areas that still haven’t recovered, and some mass transit that was affected is still being fixed even now.
re: #85 Joe Bacon 🌹
They already are.
Pulpit pimps are calling for a boycott of Penzey’s!
“We don’t hold with no fancy, elitist spices!”
re: #70 Belafon
Yes. I should have clarified the movie version.
Actually. the only Tolkien character Trump reminds me of is the Master of Laketown in The Hobbit (especially the film version played so wonderfully by Stephen Fry). Arrogant, greedy and vain; fond of gaudy display and arbitrary whims of power, but ultimately cowardly: bugging out with his cash when shit gets real…
Every headline says trump condemned that video. He has done no such thing. The only statement from the WH says he hasn’t even seen it. Asshole is on twitter all day. When he wants to condemn something, he does. Stop giving him free passes.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 14, 2019
He is STILL upset with that Fox poll from last week… even after a full weekend of golf and TV. https://t.co/rLWCwPi2MX
— Aaron Booth (@ActorAaronBooth) October 14, 2019
Sorry I can’t. Too busy fleeing Rojava, leaving Kurdish friends to the mercy of Assad and the military assault started when you told Erdogan you wanted out of ‘endless wars’. https://t.co/j5NTFQcMNi
— Lindsey Hilsum (@lindseyhilsum) October 14, 2019
Yeah, when I saw the report Trump had condemned that video I was like: “Wait, seriously? He never really condemns ANYTHING.” I even went to his Twitter feed to look for the condemnation.
Imagine my shock to find the report is likely inaccurate.
And he’s back
Twitter:0
Logan Cook: Ugh pic.twitter.com/8eo4LWcoia— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 14, 2019
this was before google and i was fascinated by ‘riboflavin’ tbh it was in everything
— darth™ (@darth) October 14, 2019
also were u amazed to find out later in life how many of those ingredients were just different ways of saying ‘sugar’ i was amazed tbh
— darth™ (@darth) October 14, 2019
the two greatest tricks of nutritional labels:
1) with or without milk
2) suggested serving size six chipshttps://t.co/BgMo11sLzc— darth™ (@darth) October 14, 2019
I could have written those exact tweets
re: #89 lawhawk
I was. The EU model was warning of the left hook directly into the NYC metro area, while the US models took longer to identify the turn. But ultimately they came into agreement, and everyone took it very seriously here. Even still, dozens died, billions of dollars in property was destroyed, and millions lost power. There are some areas that still haven’t recovered, and some mass transit that was affected is still being fixed even now.
The real question is whether any pre-planning decision making based on the two models would have done anything differently. And would the result have been markedly different. If not then…
Aerial video shows the extent of damage after Hard Rock Hotel construction site collapse in New Orleans. https://t.co/etbKJ5OrXR pic.twitter.com/nyphbNiTiX
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 14, 2019
re: #73 lawhawk
There are no good guys in Trumpworld. None.
There’s at least two (the whistleblowers).
JFC
….and Assad to protect the land of our enemy? Anyone who wants to assist Syria in protecting the Kurds is good with me, whether it is Russia, China, or Napoleon Bonaparte. I hope they all do great, we are 7,000 miles away!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2019
Trump surrenders to Putin. https://t.co/vt4aT5R6K0
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) October 14, 2019
The actual Elizabeth Warren, however, did considerably more than Bernie to push the party in a more left and populist direction before 2016, which is why Bernie ran only because she didn’t and built on the “Draft Warren” infrastructure.
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) October 14, 2019
Yep.
For instance, this is 2011…https://t.co/QNklLUY3Qj— She’s breaking up, she’s breaking up- (@Sock_EffOne) October 14, 2019
re: #79 BeenHereAwhile
I wasn’t on the ground for Sandy, so my impression of reported local preparation before landfall, ranged from “they always exaggerate these things” to “there’s nothing we can do.”
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As a New Yorker, I assure you your impression is mistaken. We prepared up the wazoo, Mayor Bloomberg did everything as perfectly as was possible.
Including closing the subways several hours before landfall, and publicizing for a full day ahead of time that he’d be doing that. Having hospitals in lower Manhattan move every movable machine from the basement levels up a few floors. Putting out flood zone maps and urging evacuations in all the right places, stocking high-ground shelters, etc.
Even the TV screens and news crawls in Times Square were telling everyone for at least 12 hours ahead what they should be doing to prepare.
Rep. Jamie Raskin: “Everybody is telling us the same thing, which is that phone call was just the tip of the iceberg on July 25. What was underneath it was a very deliberate, premeditated strategy by the president to withhold $391 mil in military and security assistance.” @MSNBC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 14, 2019
re: #103 sagehen
There’s at least two (the whistleblowers).
They’re not part of Trumpworld, from all accounts they are career civil servants. Trumpworld is the grifters, thugs, and general low lifes one would expect to find at Mos Eisley.
This is entirely on Trump. Including whatever terrorist attacks these monstrous escapees pull off. https://t.co/1Ci7N3iWwj
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 14, 2019
re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth
We’re 7,000 miles away, by that logic we shouldn’t really care what Iran or North Korea does either.
re: #48 DodgerFan1988
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Noting a distinct lack of any picture of the Pope or the Orthodox Popes in that State Department splash. It would make one wonder if the new Federal Government agenda was to promote a specifically American-ized version of Fundamentalist Christianity… one steeped in abject white supremacism and class hierarchy.
Just makes one wonder.
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I could have written those exact tweets
Me, too. Except that we read the cereal boxes so that we didn’t have to talk to each other at breakfast.
re: #110 Patricia Kayden
You say that like trump could ever possibly care.
Psychopaths have no conscience and narcissistic psychopath cares even less, unless it personally affects them.— Yeah Sure Whatever (@YeahSureWhatev2) October 14, 2019
Just seeing this now. Good.
Fort Worth police officer who fatally shot woman in her own home has resigned and faces criminal charges, police say https://t.co/qP5ifCuKcG
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 14, 2019
re: #106 gocart mozart
That said, I’ll take Warren’s technocratic approach over Bernie’s populism. But then, I don’t trust populism of any sort, it’s playing with fire.
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
Donald Trump, founder of ISIS II: Electric Boogaloo. https://t.co/ker4QhZA6N
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) October 14, 2019
re: #117 Patricia Kayden
Do we have any fact checking on this whole “ISIS fighters came from European countries” bit? Because that sounds an awful lot like bullshit to me.
re: #118 KGxvi
Do we have any fact checking on this whole “ISIS fighters came from European countries” bit? Because that sounds an awful lot like bullshit to me.
It’s bulkshit.
The overwhelming majority were Syrian or Iraqi, and they were safety detained thanks in large part to the Kurds.
Trump’s actions opened the door to the resurgence of ISIS coupled with giving al Qaeda a jolt thanks to deciding to send troops to Saudi Arabia to defend the oil and the regime.
UPDATE: added the link to AP fact-check and modified the stats slightly (and they’re even less favorable to Trump).
re: #118 KGxvi
Do we have any fact checking on this whole “ISIS fighters came from European countries” bit? Because that sounds an awful lot like bullshit to me.
Of course it’s bullshit: look who’s making the claim! Although a lot of ISIS fighters DID come from European countries, I think the bulk of them were more-or-less “locals”: mainly Iraqi Sunnis. And unemployed jihadis from all over the Middle East.
It’s just Trump doing what he does best*: trying to tweet his way out of a shitstorm of his own making by frantic blame-shifting. So what else is new….?
*and even that not very well.
re: #111 KGxvi
We’re 7,000 miles away, by that logic we shouldn’t really care what Iran or North Korea does either.
but our 50 air-dropped thermonuclear bombs stored at Incirlik Airbase are a whole lot closer to Syria
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
The stupidity of this is mind boggling:
We have military bases and strategic interests all throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world. Everything is far closer than 7,000 miles away. Terrorists have hit our bases, ships, and embassies. You imperil all of that.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 14, 2019
Strategy is not a concept that trump could manage to spell let alone understand
— Yeah Sure Whatever (@YeahSureWhatev2) October 14, 2019
Twenty-six tweets/retweets by Donald Trump today and NOT ONE of them is “condemning” that insane violent video that was shown at his resort.
But media still reporting that “the White House” has condemned it. That house must be able to speak, because Trump sure hasn’t.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
And that should be the story. And tell everyone he’s put our nukes in Turkey under threat.
re: #114 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is entirely on Trump. Including whatever terrorist attacks these monstrous escapees pull off
In a rational world, Trump would bear responsibility. But if one of these fellows comes to our shores and commits an act of Terror, Trump will use it as an excuse to declare martial law and clamp down on everyone and everything that has been bothering him…
re: #123 lawhawk
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[1941Trump] PEARL HARBOR IS 5,000 MILES FROM WASHINGTON DC, IF THE JAPANESE WANT IT THAT BADLY THEN THEY CAN HAVE IT!!!!! [/1941Trump]
re: #126 Belafon
And that should be the story. And tell everyone he’s put our nukes in Turkey under threat.
yes, especially since putting our own troops in peril apparently isn’t outrageous enough
It doesn’t take a genius to know that our security is directly threatened because of terrorists escaping the SDF facilities in Syria thanks to Trump’s sheer dumbfuckery.
We have military bases all over the region.
We have embassies.
We have consulates.
We have strategic interests.
We have personnel in the region.
We have ships that transit the region.
Every last one of those aforementioned items has been a target in the past, and would be again.
For those that need a recap:
African embassy bombings.
Benghazi.
Khobar Towers
Beirut bombings (Marine Barracks)
USS Cole
Tucking tail and running doesn’t eliminate the threat.
Running and releasing the very terrorists who are the threat makes the threat so much worse. We now have to deal with the consequences, which will be even more difficult since Trump threw the SDF under the bus and aided Putin and Erdogan make inroads into undermining US strategic and tactical interests all through the region.
Putin couldn’t plan this any better had he tried.
re: #128 b.d. (Lock Them Up!)
[1941Trump] PEARL HARBOR IS 5,000 MILES FROM WASHINGTON DC, IF THE JAPANESE WANT IT THAT BADLY THEN THEY CAN HAVE IT!!!!! [/1941Trump]
Meanwhile, Premier Tojo congratulates Trump on his new casino and pachinko parlor…
Trump: The Kurds didn’t fight on our side in WWII.
Are we sure we know what side Trump’s talking about?
re: #128 b.d. (Lock Them Up!)
[1941Trump] PEARL HARBOR IS 5,000 MILES FROM WASHINGTON DC, IF THE JAPANESE WANT IT THAT BADLY THEN THEY CAN HAVE IT!!!!! [/1941Trump]
Wouldn’t surprise me if Fred said something like that… I can imagine that the white supremacists weren’t too keen on having a territory occupied by so many non-whites back in the day.
re: #123 lawhawk
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Yeah, but it’s 7000 miles FROM HIM, so he doesn’t care about it, because he’s the center of the universe, and the only thing that matters.
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination https://t.co/lypacl3R6h
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) October 14, 2019
re: #133 KGxvi
Wouldn’t surprise me if Fred said something like that… I can imagine that the white supremacists weren’t too keen on having a territory occupied by so many non-whites back in the day.
Nah. They liked colonies where the white people could rule over the others.
re: #134 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, but it’s 7000 miles FROM HIM, so he doesn’t care about it, because he’s the center of the universe, and the only thing that matters.
But it’s only a few hundred miles from the nearest building with a Trump logo on it.
re: #135 Dread Pirate
Yeah, but he SAID he didn’t, and it was a really strong denial, so of course he didn’t.
Trump would be bragging about his many properties in Germany, Italy, & Japan and saying we should understand that the Sudentland is German territory.
I’m reading in various places that the whole Turkey/Kurds/Erdogan thing was Trump ‘going with his gut’, which of course he trusts over everyone else. Of course, his gut, like everyone else’s is full of shit.
Pretty sure Trump never heard of that whole “The Buck Stops Here” thing.
re: #141 jaunte
Pretty sure Trump never heard of that whole “The Buck Stops Here” thing.
Truman? I wasn’t a fan. //
re: #134 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, but it’s 7000 miles FROM HIM, so he doesn’t care about it, because he’s the center of the universe, and the only thing that matters.
How far away are the troops that Trump is sending to Saudi Arabia going to be?
re: #140 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m reading in various places that the whole Turkey/Kurds/Erdogan thing was Trump ‘going with his gut’, which of course he trusts over everyone else. Of course, his gut, like everyone else’s is full of shit.
He thinks the cabinet and joint chiefs are there just to kiss his ass.
China wants more talks before signing Trump’s “phase one” deal https://t.co/rLcbqjjvxj
— Bloomberg Economics (@economics) October 14, 2019
re: #112 Florida Panhandler
Noting a distinct lack of any picture of the Pope or the Orthodox Popes in that State Department splash. It would make one wonder if the new Federal Government agenda was to promote a specifically American-ized version of Fundamentalist Christianity… one steeped in abject white supremacism and class hierarchy.
Just makes one wonder.
I want to point out that the American Association of Christian Counselors is a scam organization. None of their “counselors” are licensed by any state. (Just based on Arizona, which I checked a couple of years ago, none of their AZ counselors had an AZ license.) They don’t follow counseling best practices. The churches they work with use counselors as a way to get information out of church members. And they use the Bible, first and foremost, for counseling. These people are horrible. Basically, church members get shunted into these unlicensed, untrained (except in Bible) fake counselors when they should be going to psychologists or psychiatrists!
Warren Throckmorton has been all over these guys for years regarding their political positions. wthrockmorton.com
This is from five years ago, but Kathryn Joyce knows what she’s talking about: psmag.com
re: #142 HappyWarrior
Maybe he understood it in the Emoluments sense.
“The Buck Stops Here Because I’ll Stiff Anyone Who Works For Me.”
If you want to know why Evanglicals (and by this I mean white supremacists) are backing Trump and Republicans:
A reminder that opposition to same-sex marriage is a view held only by a small—and shrinking—minority. @Civiqs polling finds support for SSM at 62-28, and the trendlines only keep improving (on Election Day 2016 it was 58-33) https://t.co/Njvz0CIZOz pic.twitter.com/Ou1ZqgpAuX
— David Nir (@DavidNir) October 12, 2019
They’d allow trump to violate the three or four commandments he hasn’t to stay in power.
Brad Parscale is taking his cut before Trump gets his hands on the money.
Just ask them if a Republican president should be allowed to commit crimes. https://t.co/ij79oBUhFa
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 14, 2019
This is … garbled nonsense.
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) October 14, 2019
re: #155 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Yoda voice: ‘Do or do not, there is no “soon.”
re: #145 Dread Pirate
This happens every time. Trump is so horny for a win on trade that he prematurely tweets out having made a deal, and in that moment China realizes that they have him over a barrel and decides to fuck him over even more https://t.co/wYAlBYNk37
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) October 14, 2019
re: #135 Dread Pirate
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
In Turkey
With help of Trump family members
Impeachable offense
NEW: @realDonaldTrump plans to respond to his dictator friend Erdogan’s invasion and ethnic cleansing against Kurds in Syria by…raising taxes on American companies that import steel from Turkey and on American consumers who buy products containing Turkish steel. pic.twitter.com/MV1vTTgZYD
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) October 14, 2019
re: #152 Belafon
So, last week, Tom Nichols gets all concerned that the Democrats are blowing 2020 by focusing a day of the year-plus long primary campaign on LGBTQ day, and Elizabeth Warren’s viral ‘if you can find one’ moment in particular.
I’m pretty sure the Venn diagram of “People who might vote for a Democrat against Trump” and “People who still think Marriage Equality is bad” would show a razor thin to nonexistent overlap. Unless he thinks there are people who support marriage equality but who would still be offended by insufficient respect for an opinion they themselves don’t hold.
re: #60 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Specifically 50 B-61 ‘dial-a-yield’ nuclear gravity bombs.
Stored in these hardened aircraft bunkers
google.com
Bunkers are on the north side of the base. Been there for decades.
someone sounds testy pic.twitter.com/6ypsbcHgng
— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) October 14, 2019
Entitled shithead.
re: #159 jaunte
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also, and threatening the US trade deal with Turkey?
Turkey don’t care…they have Russia now
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
also, and threatening the US trade deal with Turkey?
Turkey don’t care…they have Russia now
Trump, as a simpleton and narcissist, believes other countries only exist as a function of their interactions with the United States, so it’s not possible that we don’t have the whiphand in all negotiations, because trading with us is the only thing that matters to them. They couldn’t possibly make deals with anyone else because nobody else is us.
I have at least a half bushel of apples that one of the neighbors gave me.
Pray for me as I deal with them…
Trump’s going to issue an EO on imposing sanctions against Turkey.
It also means Americans are going to pay more to buy Turkish goods. It wont stop Turkey’s ethnic cleansing and hanging Kurds out to dry.
All that is on Trump and his idiotic decision to withdraw US troops. Russia wins. Again.
re: #172 lawhawk
Trump’s going to issue an EO on imposing sanctions against Turkey.
It also means Americans are going to pay more to buy Turkish goods. It wont stop Turkey’s ethnic cleansing and hanging Kurds out to dry.
All that is on Trump and his idiotic decision to withdraw US troops. Russia wins. Again.
Next up: A ban on all Turkeys, just in time for Thanksgiving next month.
re: #172 lawhawk
Trump’s going to issue an EO on imposing sanctions against Turkey.
It also means Americans are going to pay more to buy Turkish goods. It wont stop Turkey’s ethnic cleansing and hanging Kurds out to dry.
All that is on Trump and his idiotic decision to withdraw US troops. Russia wins. Again.
Oh joy!
And over the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, about 250 miles from the Syrian border, according to two American officials.
Those weapons, one senior official said, were now essentially Erdogan’s hostages. To fly them out of Incirlik would be to mark the de facto end of the Turkish-American alliance. To keep them there, though, is to perpetuate a nuclear vulnerability that should have been eliminated years ago.
“I think this is a first — a country with U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in it literally firing artillery at US forces,” Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies wrote last week.
re: #172 lawhawk
Trump’s going to issue an EO on imposing sanctions against Turkey.
It also means Americans are going to pay more to buy Turkish goods. It wont stop Turkey’s ethnic cleansing and hanging Kurds out to dry.
All that is on Trump and his idiotic decision to withdraw US troops. Russia wins. Again.
The only way this doesn’t end badly is for the US to step up and reassert authority in the area, which is going to cost US lives.
I count on nothing going right with Trump on this.
Shorter Mark Zuckerberg:
Hanging out with bigots is open-minded, you bigots! https://t.co/NEWIJs8g2V— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 14, 2019
Meanwhile…. I’m surprised Trump hasn’t gone off on a rant against the UAW over their ongoing strike with GM.
re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have at least a half bushel of apples that one of the neighbors gave me.
Pray for me as I deal with them…
What kind of apples?
Would it surprise you if they moved to Saudi Arabia?
Just askin for a friend.
They need to come straight home of to Germany— 🦈And the Wind Cries “ImpeachMoot”🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) October 14, 2019
re: #179 Blind Frog Belly White
What kind of apples?
four different kinds, so I’ll be mixing them up.
re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg
Next up: A ban on all Turkeys, just in time for Thanksgiving next month.
It’ll be played as a big win for ham producers.
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
four different kinds, so I’ll be mixing them up.
mostly I’ll be making up pint jars of apple pie/strudel filling and applesauce. Neighbor made apple butter out of what he kept.
re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg
Next up: A ban on all Turkeys, just in time for Thanksgiving next month.
You mean Freedom Birds?
re: #184 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Hanging out at the spa (hot water vent):
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A capybara spa is the level of weekend chill we should all aspire to.
📹: Imgur user theshadowlander pic.twitter.com/C4fXVPEkb6— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) October 13, 2019
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
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In case you’d forgotten, this is why Keith is no longer welcome. 🔊 pic.twitter.com/xawVrxDaaK
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) October 13, 2019
re: #184 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Hanging out at the spa (hot water vent):
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“Any space in there for me?”
“No. It’s all octopied.”
current mood:
“fuck it. close enough”
📹: Reddit user natsdorf pic.twitter.com/QR52cRvTPz— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) October 14, 2019
re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg
Next up: A ban on all Turkeys, just in time for Thanksgiving next month.
Gotta call a fowl on that one…
“No, no! We’re not removing them permanently! Nothing of the kind! They just need to be….polished? Yeah, polished! So they look their best! We’ll bring them back right after, all shiny and new looking! Trust us!”
I hope we’ve been doing more than reviewing it… https://t.co/ZHWDwE0EbK
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 14, 2019
5452re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
well, that’ll take care of two or three of them.
Dessicate & freeze. Delicious in February.
re: #111 KGxvi
We’re 7,000 miles away, by that logic we shouldn’t really care what Iran or North Korea does either.
Or any internecine conflict in the Middle East.
Translation of this gibberish: He made an reckless move without consulting anyone, created chaos, is now responsible for uncountable atrocities and murders, and says he’s going to make Americans pay for it with more asinine tariffs. https://t.co/Elb2FzRae6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
re: #192 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s an octopod city:
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looks like somebody got goosed:
oh my!
re: #194 Decatur Deb
5452
Dessicate & freeze. Delicious in February.
I have a dehydrator!
Forgot about that!
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In a rational world, Trump would never be president.
bear responsibility. But if one of these fellows comes to our shores and commits an act of Terror, Trump will use it as an excuse to declare martial law and clamp down on everyone and everything that has been bothering him…
re: #196 Charles Johnson
Not true! He consulted the Turks and the Russians.
The Grand Progress 2019 is finished. 5452 miles, 32 days, 20 days with camper teardown/setup, 1 rain event (late night). Almost every planned event was met, with an improvised balloon flight and a seafood festival thrown in. One of the many purposes was to test my new (June) hip. It works.
Now to tear off Trump’s balls.
re: #192 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s an octopod city:
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Where the seaweed’s green and the sand is gritty
re: #200 DangerMan
In a rational world, Trump would never have become famous and would be nothing more than a former slum lord sued out of all his real estate holdings
be president.bear responsibility. But if one of these fellows comes to our shores and commits an act of Terror, Trump will use it as an excuse to declare martial law and clamp down on everyone and everything that has been bothering him…
Fixed a second time.
re: #199 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So the science team uses the thermal probe on the arm to test the hot water vent… and one of the octopus decides to jump on the arm and take it on:
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I am having too much fun:
RAH RAH TEAM!
re: #145 Dread Pirate
schroedinger’s deal
China wants more talks before signing Trump’s “phase one” deal https://t.co/rLcbqjjvxj
— Bloomberg Economics (@economics) October 14, 2019
re: #157 goddamnedfrank
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while im not thrilled rooting for china, they are lucy to trump’s charlie brown every time
First thought: Wait, there were negotiations underway for a $100 billion trade deal with Turkey? A deal bigger in headline value than that with China? Did Congress know about this? https://t.co/TBjqxi6cD0
— Shawn Donnan (@sdonnan) October 14, 2019
re: #177 jaunte
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Zuckerberg went on to tweet: “…For instance, dining with Republicans I learned just today that minorities are inferior to whites and that women are not to be trusted and should be back in the kitchen baking cookies anyway? Who knew?”
parody, of course.
re: #199 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So the science team uses the thermal probe on the arm to test the hot water vent… and one of the octopus decides to jump on the arm and take it on:
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re: #208 Stanley Sea
Via the US Trade Representative (and google fu)
U.S. goods and services trade with Turkey totaled an estimated $24.0 billion in 2017 (latest data available). Exports were $12.7 billion; imports were $11.2 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade surplus with Turkey was $1.5 billion in 2017.
Trump’s talking out his ass again. Same as always.
re: #176 Belafon
The only way this doesn’t end badly is for the US to step up and reassert authority in the area, which is going to cost US lives.
I count on nothing going right with Trump on this.
and while i agree, how exactly does that work unless trump gives the order?
re: #191 b.d. (Lock Them Up!)
re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg
Next up: A ban on all Turkeys, just in time for Thanksgiving next month.
Gotta call a fowl on that one…
Naaah, it’s Trump.
He’s going to duck the issue. Or just chicken out.
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
well, that’ll take care of two or three of them.
Applesauce.
Apple butter.
Apple chips.
Apple jam and preserves.
I once went to Vermont for tree-color season and there were an unlimited range of apple food products available.
I tried to google for what more of them might be, but just got a list of Apple stores. Sorry.
EVERYTHING is the democrat’s fault:
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) suggested on Fox & Friends that Turkey’s invasion of Syria and attack on America’s Kurdish allies was tied to Democrats launching an impeachment inquiry against President Trump.
Said Cheney: “I also want to say that the impeachment proceedings that are going on and what the Democrats are doing themselves to try to weaken this president is part of this.”
She added: “It was not an accident that the Turks chose this moment to roll across the border.”
of course it wasn’t an accident ya bonehead.
re: #216 DangerMan
EVERYTHING is the democrat’s fault:
of course it wasn’t an accident ya bonehead.
Such fucking bullshit and Liz knows it. Stop making pathetic excuses for him.
Here’s Porkchop with some bubbles to brighten your day pic.twitter.com/7qAVMA3XsK
— noah the candy corn hater (@noahreservation) October 14, 2019
This chart is just unbelievably bad and wrong. Who is https://t.co/V1UzSe3qw6 and why is anyone supposed to believe they’re an authority on this? Because they clearly are NOT.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
re: #213 DangerMan
and while i agree, how exactly does that work unless trump gives the order?
Exactly.
re: #216 DangerMan
EVERYTHING is the democrat’s fault:
of course it wasn’t an accident ya bonehead.
Of course Trump was influenced by this. But that’s on Trump, not the Democrats. He’s the pathetic one, and you are as well for backing him, Liz.
re: #199 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So the science team uses the thermal probe on the arm to test the hot water vent… and one of the octopus decides to jump on the arm and take it on:
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Don’t scientists know not to violate the prime directive?
In recent months, Tucker Carlson said that immigrants were making America “dirty” and women who earn too much money are responsible for a spike in drug & alcohol abuse
Mark Zuckerberg responded by inviting Carlson to his house to discuss “partnerships”https://t.co/YlHkp3LtL9— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 14, 2019
re: #222 Belafon
Don’t scientists know not to violate the prime directive?
Which prime directive are we talking about?
Those “sanctions” don’t sound very “sanction like.” https://t.co/qDS4r9dFRV
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 14, 2019
re: #219 Charles Johnson
New York Times opinion as Far Left - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s a good one.
In case you are wondered how Kremlin propaganda outlets are trolling Trump’s debacle in Syria… https://t.co/Cf8uCVv8r9
— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) October 14, 2019
America is now going to sanction Turkey for doing the thing the US tactically endorsed last week which absolutely everyone said would turn out this way.
This is the “incoherent drunk” school of foreign policy. https://t.co/6Zoa9bLBTV— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) October 14, 2019
re: #226 Patricia Kayden
It’s a mercantilist’s view of diplomacy.
Minor quibble:
3rd rate Fox hack Payne caught manufacturing bullshit https://t.co/c358zkhJwz
— Malia boo ❤️🤙 (@kronocide1) October 14, 2019
Go to this website and play Make the Graph Look Like You Want. I was able to replicate his graph then horizontally shrink my web browser for extra awesomeness with little effort.
Mere seconds later:
No reply yet, me must be working up something special.
re: #226 Patricia Kayden
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Tariffs on Turkish steel?
How the hell much of that do we import, anyway? And unless Trump sets them high enough to make the steel price-competitive with platinum, how badly is that going to hurt them/benefit us? Or not just get passed along to the consumer (like all Trump’s stupid tariffs)?
This is uh, pretty wild:
(CNN)A man walked from an Indianapolis suburb to Wisconsin — a 351-mile journey — to have sex with a person he believed was the 14-year-old girl he had been talking to on Facebook, prosecutors said.
Instead, 32-year-old Tommy Lee Jenkins had been talking to a Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputy working with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, a statement from the US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Wisconsin said.
He is charged with using a computer to attempt to persuade, induce or entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity, the office said, and faces 10 years to life in prison if convicted.
CNN has reached out to Jenkins’ attorney, a federal defender, and has not received a response.
Apparently it took him about 10 days to complete the journey, which, given the average human walking speed of about 3 MPH, means he was walking for between ten and thirteen hours each day.
Every job site must have one old white guy who is somehow simultaneously pedantically hyper literal while also inferring ridiculous shit that was never said, written, or even remotely implied.
It’s the law— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) October 14, 2019
re: #233 Eclectic Cyborg
This is uh, pretty wild:
(CNN)A man walked from an Indianapolis suburb to Wisconsin — a 351-mile journey — to have sex with a person he believed was the 14-year-old girl he had been talking to on Facebook, prosecutors said.
Instead, 32-year-old Tommy Lee Jenkins had been talking to a Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputy working with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, a statement from the US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Wisconsin said.
He is charged with using a computer to attempt to persuade, induce or entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity, the office said, and faces 10 years to life in prison if convicted.
CNN has reached out to Jenkins’ attorney, a federal defender, and has not received a response.
Apparently it took him about 10 days to complete the journey, which, given the average human walking speed of about 3 MPH, means he was walking for between ten and thirteen hours each day.
Maybe he walked all that way to save money so he could take his “girlfriend” out on a nice date?? //
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
Funny, he left out *which* political party he worked for.
“…John Gable offers a unique combination of technology and politics. He started in tech 24 years ago by joining the original Microsoft Office team, then became the PM team lead for Netscape Navigator. He also led ZoneAlarm at Check Point Software, and cofounded and sold Kavi Corp. Gable was previously a Republican operative, working for three Senate majority leaders (Howard Baker, Trent Lott, Mitch McConnell), the Republican National Committee and George H.W. Bush.”
ted.com
Republican Operative Founds Pseudo-Balanced Political Website
re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth
Points of view as disparate as Trent Lott to Mitch McConnell to the RNC.
re: #236 Jay C
At least he won’t have to deal with an impounded car.
re: #236 Jay C
Maybe he walked all that way to save money so he could take his “girlfriend” out on a nice date?? //
This Proclaimers cover sucks. https://t.co/xOkObp9VSE
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 14, 2019
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
well, that’ll take care of two or three of them.
Apple brandy. I have a buddy who makes some mean apple brandy. Uses raisins for an extra sugar content boost.
re: #219 Charles Johnson
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But of course, how they determine it is very hush hush, top secret (at least that’s usually what “our patented system” means):
AllSides rates media bias using a patented media bias detection and display technology that drives what is arguably the world’s most effective and up-to-date media bias detection engine. It’s powered by the best statistical research and methodologies. We’ve rated the bias of nearly 600 media outlets and writers.
Actually, come to think of it, anyone want to search the PTO website and see if they actually have a patent? Because if the do, the application has to explain what it is.
re: #219 Charles Johnson
How the fuck is NYT opinions on the left when David Fucking Brooks has a lifetime position there shitting out his both-siderist poison?
This is comical
Pence: “The President could not have been more firm with President Erdogan today.” pic.twitter.com/Av2wYCjC5Y
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) October 14, 2019
re: #246 Stanley Sea
This is comical
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all three of those guys are graduates of the Trump School of Weird Posture.
re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth
all three of those guys are graduates of the Trump School of Weird Posture.
The “I fucked up my life” pose
re: #246 Stanley Sea
This is comical
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Could be true. Trump couldn’t have been more firm. Any normal human being could have been much more firm.
re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth
They stand weird so that DT’s posture looks “perfect.”
re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth
all three of those guys are graduates of the Trump School of Weird Posture.
The guy on the right shouldn’t be wearing a single button jacket, those don’t work for someone with a gut.
Mnuchin and Pence both look like they’re standing on a sloped driveway… yet while standing right next to each other, make it look like the driveway is sloping in multiple directions, which is… impressive.
re: #250 PhillyPretzel
Looks.like Pence and Mnuchin have sticks up their asses….
re: #251 KGxvi
They’re ready to slide out of view any second.
re: #251 KGxvi
Mnuchin and Pence both look like they’re standing on a sloped driveway… yet while standing right next to each other, make it look like the driveway is sloping in multiple directions, which is… impressive.
True: I know some Republicans like to believe in an alternative reality: these guys look like they’re standing in one.
(burp)
— 𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) October 14, 2019
re: #254 Jay C
True: I know some Republicans like to believe in an alternative reality: these guys look like they’re standing in one.
In the slightest bit of fairness to Mnuchin, he may have been caught leaning to see someone/thing on the other side of Pence. But there’s really no explanation for Pence’s stance, it’s just weird.
Didn’t the President explicitly tweet that he did immediately after the call with Erdogan? https://t.co/6EqrsvV8xO
— Scott Gilmore (@Scott_Gilmore) October 14, 2019
Trump literally tweeted “let them” when describing Turkey fighting the Kurds. https://t.co/pH33vZN1Aa
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 14, 2019
re: #258 jaunte
Trump literally tweeted “let them” when describing Turkey fighting the Kurds
that wasnt what he meant
it was a joke
he’s being misinterpreted
witch hunt
fake news
kangaroo court
re: #245 EPR-radar
How the fuck is NYT opinions on the left when David Fucking Brooks has a lifetime position there shitting out his both-siderist poison?
And Bari Weiss. And Bret Stephens.
Trump did not act impulsively on Syria. He tried pulling out troops month earlier causing Mattis to resign.
Erdogan finally caught him on a Sunday afternoon with no other adults in the room and Trump gave in to the worst demons of his nature.— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) October 14, 2019
re: #262 jaunte
Trump gave in to the worst demons of his nature.
Bold of them to assume Trump has any other kinds of demons of his nature.
re: #219 Charles Johnson
This chart is just unbelievably bad and wrong. Who is allsides.com and why is anyone supposed to believe they’re an authority on this? Because they clearly are NOT.
re: #245 EPR-radar
How the fuck is NYT opinions on the left when David Fucking Brooks has a lifetime position there shitting out his both-siderist poison?
Well, we know what chart Dean Baquet is consulting when determining the editorial direction of the paper, that’s for sure.
Well, that’s some timely warning…
A massive, 111-foot asteroid is expected to travel uncomfortably close to Earth tonight at approximately 6:53 p.m. ET https://t.co/fj18s5wQZo
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 14, 2019
See everyone on the other side?
Per WSJ, prosecutors investigating Giuliani’s bank records.
Reminder: hiding the nature or purpose of payments so as to conceal another crime is money laundering.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 14, 2019
re: #268 jaunte
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This is a witch hunt. They should be investigating that other guy.//
re: #263 KGxvi
Bold of them to assume Trump has any other kinds of demons of his nature.
If you only have one kind of demon, then they’re all the worst.
re: #267 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
935,000 miles is almost four times the radius of the Moon’s orbit, so I won’t be losing any sleep.
re: #267 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
935,000 miles, about 3.5 times the average distance to the moon
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nice . I love Penzeys. Just got this one today.
re: #267 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Well, that’s some timely warning…
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See everyone on the other side?
hmmm…our dog just started going ballistic outside
It’s revealing to see all these “free thinkers” coming to Mark Zuckerberg’s defense for hanging with Tucker Carlson.
P.S. For “free thinkers” read “Nazis.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
hmmm…our dog just started going ballistic outside
Probably an ice cream truck
Trump threatens to sanction himself. https://t.co/5P0Ib77DtH
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 14, 2019
re: #276 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Probably an ice cream truck
probably just a deer on the other side of the fence taunting her
re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth
Or a neighbor’s cat walking near the fence.
You can pretty much substitute the name of any GOPer senator:
I thought Susan Collins held that record. https://t.co/LrQOHV8tbA
— Dawna (@VaGyver) October 14, 2019
re: #267 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Well, that’s some timely warning…
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See everyone on the other side?
I’m at 7:01 ET so guess all is w
In fairness, everything he does creates a national emergency. https://t.co/9e4Wb7VBbJ
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) October 14, 2019
I started wondering whether anyone ever asked Trump if he’s a creationist or believed in evolution, but realized he probably has no idea what either of those things are.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
re: #273 Amory Blaine
Nice . I love Penzeys. Just got this one today.
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My parents have a huge pile. I have the Penzy’s pepper mill as a gift from them.
Then my dad saw their left wing lean.
He boycotted & they are suffering with the spices they LOVED, but can’t replenish.
The caterpillar of the Sino-Korean Owl Moth
(Photo: Igor Siwanowicz) pic.twitter.com/BA50FSTZwk— 41 Strange (@41Strange) October 14, 2019
re: #284 Stanley Sea
They cannot compromise. It’s a cult.
TFW you realize you’ve been conned. https://t.co/gSguEGjlmk
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 14, 2019
I downloaded one season of Bob Ross that I got today on amazon. I can honestly say I am enjoying it. He soft and easy going voice is a pleasure to listen to and the pictures are great. :)
By making people look up the word #dotard, Kim Jong Un has done more for American education than Betsy DeVos.
— The Incredible Sulk (@TurnUp_TheTweet) September 22, 2017
Matt Gaetz is an embarrassment to all functioning alcoholics.
— The Incredible Sulk (@TurnUp_TheTweet) October 14, 2019
And this is the moth it becomes. pic.twitter.com/ZdDxEG2dzA
— Michiel van Reenen (@Chielie) October 14, 2019
Florida Republican Governor linked to arrested Giuliani henchmen Lev Parnas in videohttps://t.co/wiOfGAxcN3
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 14, 2019
Fiona Hill is still testifying - hour 10 https://t.co/AxgztGNGBi
— Ani Wandaryan (@GoldenTent) October 14, 2019
nothing to see here…all is well…
“The House gone rogue! I want to remind you a little bit about the ring leader in this whole rogue operation against the President of the United States…” @MarkLevinShow pic.twitter.com/EkXsaR9GPh
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2019
Mnuchin yesterday: “The president has authorized me to effectively shut down the entire Turkey economy, and we can do that at a moment’s notice.”
Mnuchin today: “As we’ve warned all long, our desire is not to shut down the Turkish economy” but to see an appropriate response. https://t.co/3GNfW4IknP— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 14, 2019
too late, turtleman…
We must avoid strategic calamity in the Middle East. My statement: https://t.co/MRitbPA2ID pic.twitter.com/7psb842jcm
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) October 14, 2019
re: #282 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
It allows Republicans to delegate more authority to him.
Pleased to have a conversation with Senator @LindseyGrahamSC this morning. Our first order of business was to agree that we must have a bipartisan, bicameral joint resolution to overturn the President’s dangerous decision in Syria immediately.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) October 14, 2019
re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth
Those Republicans knew all along that Trump was never going to do what he said. They just play along for their own benefit.
Pat Bagley is the editorial cartoonist for the Salt Lake Tribune. He reposted this to his Twitter today (from last year) and damn, but it is ON POINT.
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) October 14, 2019
This is an interesting development.
But didn’t the United States just days ago give up its position in northern Syria?
And didn’t the president tweet just three hours before Pence spoke that he didn’t care if the Kurds turned for help to “Russia, China or Napoleon Bonaparte”? https://t.co/hKk0pijV9C— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) October 14, 2019
*checks notes* why, yes, the moron did exactly that
Foggy Bottom is imploding.
NEWS: Former Pompeo adviser Michael McKinley, who resigned last week, will testify in closed session on Wednesday before House impeachment investigators, according to an official working on the inquiry.
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) October 14, 2019
Cool. Now do the senate. https://t.co/IhZfGGgQPf
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 14, 2019
ok…
London police arrest protester dressed as broccoli pic.twitter.com/3VSLb1jz2f
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 14, 2019
We won the election without foreign help. Is that what you mean by “hijacked?” https://t.co/KgFvCJQFQk
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) October 14, 2019
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Vile weed!”
~Newman
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
— 𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) October 14, 2019
You can’t kick someone out who was never invited in. Rep. @mattgaetz is not on any of the committees and your side’s stunt wasted an hour of time. It’s time to get serious. @realDonaldTrump confessed to a crime and we have a country to protect. https://t.co/TG6gyZsQ2h
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) October 14, 2019
Republicans will argue with a straight face that they are so suggestible that if you tell them they love eating shit for long enough they’ll start eating shit just so they can blame you for something https://t.co/pM8698ZDUl
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) October 14, 2019
Sorry to hear that Tulsi didn’t stand on principle and will participate in tomorrow’s debate. C’mon Tulsi, stay strong! It’ll teach them a lesson if you stay away!
Giuliani: Sondland was in charge. Sondland: Giuliani was in charge. https://t.co/MLXYeH1tW4
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) October 14, 2019
re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Had Jim Jordan showed up for more than a couple of them he’d know his Benghazi committee interviewed nearly 60 State Department witnesses in the same location and barred non-members from attending. https://t.co/RIqi8hapXG
— Austin Evers (@AREvers) October 14, 2019
re: #312 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Sorry to hear that Tulsi didn’t stand on principle and will participate in tomorrow’s debate. C’mon Tulsi, stay strong! It’ll teach them a lesson if you stay away!
The only reason she even flirted with boycotting is that she doesn’t want to talk about Syria. I expect her to get completely destroyed.
Bless his heart.#KYgov https://t.co/8Go9ctgMkF
— Patti M Piatt (@PiattPatti) October 14, 2019
re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg
New York Times opinion as Far Left - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s a good one.
The Economist is lefty? Sure Jan.
They can’t help themselves. https://t.co/8VjxtXz9ae
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 14, 2019
TINY TARDIGRADE TOESSSS!!! 😍 https://t.co/uBSy9eg2Q4
— Ashley Hall ℹ (@LadyNaturalist) October 13, 2019
BREAKING: Fort Worth officer who shot, killed Atatiana Jefferson booked into jail, charged with murder. pic.twitter.com/DdBWU2i6OU
— Kaley Johnson (@KaleyAJohnson) October 14, 2019
I hope this is true.
BREAKING: Fort Worth officer who shot, killed Atatiana Jefferson booked into jail, charged with murder. pic.twitter.com/DdBWU2i6OU
— Kaley Johnson (@KaleyAJohnson) October 14, 2019
Who is standing the weirdest in this picture, spoiler it’s still Junior pic.twitter.com/9xV8Wb6NtX
— Evan Hurst (@EvanHurst) October 14, 2019
re: #322 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Trump Boys all stand like centaurs missing the back half.
Which is odd, given they’re all horses’ asses.
re: #321 goddamnedfrank
“Dean was listed as an inmate in the Tarrant County Jail as of 6:50 p.m. Monday night, according to records.”
star-telegram.com
re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We’re again reminded that Repubs think that mindlessly engaging in endless “investigations” is only cool if the target is a Democrat.
Someone on here said Trump “stands like a centaur without its hind legs”, and I’ll be damned if it ain’t true. pic.twitter.com/ZJcC4cTAxG
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) September 5, 2019
re: #298 Amory Blaine
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BWAHAHAHA! Just the hint of her coming between Trump and his pet will be awesome.
re: #321 goddamnedfrank
I hope this is true.
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His entire world view is transactional: “How does it benefit me?” In this case, he doesn’t feel he’s getting any benefit from protecting the Kurds, so he’s totally cool with making it somebody else’s “problem.” After all, he accomplished his goal (“defeating” ISIS), so he thought that it would be cool to scratch off another campaign promise by pulling troops out of Syria. After all, if Turkey promises they won’t massacre the Kurds, isn’t that enough?
re: #329 Targetpractice
It’s weird that he even makes an attempt to fulfill campaign promises when he could just lie about the results, as he does anyway.
re: #330 jaunte
It’s weird that he even makes an attempt to fulfill campaign promises when he could just lie about the results, as he does anyway.
If you look at it from a point of view that he’s given up on broadening his party’s base and instead is trying to maximize what they have, then it starts to make a twisted sort of sense. Isolationist wingnuts have spent ages wondering why we have troops “over there” and not confined to the continental US, so throwing them a bone by ending US involvement in Syria might be worth a point or two next November. And when you’re looking at pulling off a very narrow victory, a point could be enough to get over the finish line.
re: #310 HappyWarrior
Yeah we should just do everything Republicans want.//
Of course! Isn’t that the usual media definition of “bipartisanship”?
re: #331 Targetpractice
Just start calling him President Runaway.
re: #327 Blind Frog Belly White
Someone on here said Trump “stands like a centaur without its hind legs”, and I’ll be damned if it ain’t true. pic.twitter.com/ZJcC4cTAxG
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) September 5, 2019
couple days ago I saw someone stating that Trump stands like a Centaur, but without back half of the body.
Now I can’t unsee it pic.twitter.com/Z6m1VMA5Yy— 𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) September 9, 2019
The White House announced on October 6, “Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria” and “Turkey will now be responsible for all ISIS fighters in the area captured over the past two years.” https://t.co/56kdCvK7ee
That’s a green light. https://t.co/DaUlyUPXVn— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) October 14, 2019
re: #320 jaunte
Imagine if Texas does a better job of holding its police officers accountable than New York, Philadelphia, or Illinois.
re: #336 Belafon
Imagine if Texas does a better job of holding its police officers accountable than New York, Philadelphia, or Illinois.
Weaker union?
Mr. President, why is it taking you so long to condemn this video?
You tweet all the time.
I don’t want to hear from your press secretary…
who says you strongly condemn the video…
I want to hear from YOU. pic.twitter.com/8mDpKOQVPS— Brooke Baldwin (@BrookeBCNN) October 14, 2019
Fiona Hill, who ran Ukraine, Russia and all of Europe policy in the Trump White House for 2.5 years, started testifying at 10am today and is still going, 10 hours later.
— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) October 15, 2019
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
Bad news for Trump- Rep Denny Heck says Fiona Hill is the “most substantive witness he’s ever seen”. Has “Total recall”, a “photographic memory.”
Dems- Add some sizzle to the days impeachment recap. Educate the public a/b new info. Too much secrecy holds back impeachment support— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) October 15, 2019
mrs dm made a joke and now this song is in my head all night
at least it nudged out that sheriff’s birthday song
moron
Shifty Schiff now seems to think they don’t need the Whistleblower, who started the whole Scam. The reason is that the Whistleblower has lost all credibility because the story is so far from the facts on the Transcript. Also, the second Whistleblower is no longer even mentioned!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2019
A big scandal at @ABC News. They got caught using really gruesome FAKE footage of the Turks bombing in Syria. A real disgrace. Tomorrow they will ask softball questions to Sleepy Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, like why did Ukraine & China pay you millions when you knew nothing? Payoff?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2019
re: #340 Mescalero09
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Oh, I mentioned the other day about wife deciding what movie to go see. We didn’t go that day because something else came up, went yesterday. Saw Joker. Liked it. Different.
UPDATE: He hated this shit 😫😫🤣🤣 https://t.co/KrBGzZCbZp
— Dr. Amber Thornton (@dramberthornton) October 13, 2019
re: #344 Eventual Carrion
Revenge flick or something more dark?
re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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Generally when investigators start saying they don’t require the testimony of the original complainant but the investigation is still moving forward, that’s usually not a good sign for the target of the investigation. Why? Because it’s generally a sign that the investigation has hit a much richer vein of testimony from other witnesses and feels they no longer need the person who tipped them off to make their case in court.
But much like the Russia investigation, Trump still thinks if he destroys the reputation of the whistleblower, he can somehow discredit the entire investigation itself.
re: #346 Mescalero09
Revenge flick or something more dark?
Deeper, darker. Some revenge but more a slow slide into not giving a fuck madness.
re: #345 goddamnedfrank
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA….
*gasp*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!
*cough, cough*
That there is what it’s like raising kids.
Spend a lot of time carefully and lovingly making something special for your kid, and you can almost guarantee they won’t like it.
I lovingly sawed and scraped and carefully tillered bows for both The Boys. Hand-twisted the bowstrings. Crested and fletched arrows for them. Cut out and hand-stitched back quivers for them.
Took them to the archery range with me, and the ungrateful little fuckers would rather catch lizards!!!!
re: #348 Eventual Carrion
I just Wiki’d it.
Birth of……..no spoilers from me.
re: #267 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Well, that’s some timely warning…
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See everyone on the other side?
These guys slay me. The brush past probably won’t even be inside moons orbit.
Puréed carrots make a nice addition to Shepards pie. Remember to season each layer on its own.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) October 15, 2019
re: #33 Teukka
IOW, what’s referred to as an “Emergency Evacuation” in US military nuclear incident jargon.
Not just the US that has to worry about cases like that. A fun bit of French history is what happened during the Gerboise Verte nuclear test in Algeria — they had to explode the bomb prematurely in order to top it falling into the hands of the OAS putchists.
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