An awesome solo performance by Ben Folds for one of the great songs from his collaboration with British writer Nick Hornby.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch the Chuck Todd Forum on Misinformation tomorrow because I have a sinking feeling I already know what it’s going to look like and I just can’t even.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 29, 2019
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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I’ll give you a synopsis from the future: “Both sides lie, the media is bad for not catching them in the lies, so the obvious answer is to work harder to call out lies by Democrats…er, both sides.”
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Right. Nothing says “don’t believe in violence” like a gun cave.
— Manksy (@TheManksy) December 29, 2019
Chuck U will have The Usual Gang Of Idiots on to trash Democrats. Which is why I never waste any time watching Press The Meat!
The problem with a “Forum on Misinformation” being run by the media is that the media are some of the loudest complainers when called out for misinformation and the promotion thereof. That a guy who infamously declared that it’s not his job as a journalist to call attention to misinformation, but rather that President’s to “sell” a law, is put in charge of said “forum” shows it’s less a serious discussion of the media’s part in indulging in such misinformation and more some studio exec’s idea of a “serious discussion.”
I don’t expect much more to come from it than the usual repetition that politicians lie, we should be used to politicians lying, and that the media can’t be expected to catch and kill every lie.
Anti-Semitic stabbing attack at a synagogue in Monsey, NY
Stabbing In Monsey now A few victims on Forshey Rd By a shul pic.twitter.com/YuYBb5iPUG
— Rockland Buff (@Rockland_Buff) December 29, 2019
There appears to have been a mass stabbing of Jews in synagogue tonight after shabbat in Monsey, New York, according to initial reports: https://t.co/jHOhmyCQFv
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) December 29, 2019
re: #7 The Pie Overlord!
Damn it. Sigh. I am just fried from all the hate. And pissed.
re: #9 A Mom Anon
Damn it. Sigh. I am just fried from all the hate. And pissed.
Stock with pissed. They want you to be tired.
re: #8 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #11 Joe Bacon 🌹
Stochastic terrorism. Someday when someone writes an accurate history of this fucking shitshow, Trump will be taught as a classic terrorist using this method. “Let’s you and them fight”. From a POS who couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper sack.
re: #13 Joe Bacon 🌹
P.S.
Fuck You, Richard Spencer!
Initial reports claim the suspect is a Black male.
Wait for the racism.
re: #14 The Pie Overlord!
Initial reports claim the suspect is a Black male.
Wait for the racism.
Similar to the previous attack?
Gecko with sand hat pic.twitter.com/p6p0KJD834
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) December 29, 2019
Trump has been president almost three years.
He’s already appointed four times more lobbyists to government jobs than Obama had six years into office.
It’s one lobbyist for every 14 political appointees. An ethics watchdog called it “staggering.” https://t.co/Fa12mhCYfe— ProPublica (@propublica) December 28, 2019
The stupid never stops from the INCELS!
Coming this May, to a convention center of some kind in Orlando, Florida, the most repulsive and least self-aware men on the entire internet will come together to finally teach women a lesson.
A lesson in how to be the women of their dreams.
Yes! For the low, low price of $1,999 a ticket ($999 a ticket and a plus one if you act now!), you can learn all of the secrets to reeling in the kind of man who sits on YouTube all day whining about how women aren’t all barefoot and pregnant anymore. Men like Stefan Molyneux, Mike Cernovich, and organizer Anthony Dream Johnson (who claims he is the 1st President of the Manosphere), along with a bunch of other creepy dudes you’ve never even heard of and definitely have no interest in speaking to for more than five minutes, never mind marrying.
The conference is called The 22 Convention (We do not know why!) and features the tagline “Make Women Great Again.” According to the website, it is “destined to be the mansplaining event of the century.”
A man charged into a shul in Monsey NY tonight and attacked the rabbi and others celebrating shabbat with a machete. It’s a very, very, very anxious time for Jews. https://t.co/HfHeCyNym2
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) December 29, 2019
re: #3 Rightwingconspirator
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People who want to start a shooting war, a civil war, because they’re so conservative they can’t bear the thought of liberals winning an election…
Have fundamentally misunderstood the definition of conservative.
Radical right-wingers aren’t “conservative.” Actual conservatives, the way the dictionary uses the word… believe very strongly in “let’s not change things. let’s stick with as-is.”
re: #21 sagehen
But Trump has empowered them with the belief that it’s OK to act like a spoiled brat!
So, some just posted this on a chat I’m on… Please tell me this is parody…
— Cursed Conspiraboomer Images (@conspiraboomers) December 29, 2019
re: #24 Teukka
So, some just posted this on a chat I’m on… Please tell me this is parody…
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The drunk and stupid is strong in this one.
re: #24 Teukka
So, some just posted this on a chat I’m on… Please tell me this is parody…
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I’d just like to know WTH they’re planning with those “Weaponized LED Streetlights”?
re: #24 Teukka
So, some just posted this on a chat I’m on… Please tell me this is parody…
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Okay, so that’s a thing.
President Trump’s retweet of a post that included the alleged name of the anonymous whistleblower appeared to many users to have been deleted for several hours, but Twitter says a glitch was responsible. The retweet reappeared Saturday night. https://t.co/VCWR7t6Ijb https://t.co/war9feAzNc
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 29, 2019
re: #26 Jay C
I’d just like to know WTH they’re planning with those “Weaponized LED Streetlights”?
Qwazy Qs allege LED lights emit frequencies to brainwash people and turn them into Marxists.
re: #26 Jay C
I’d just like to know WTH they’re planning with those “Weaponized LED Streetlights”?
Probably when the muni/county cheaps out on the streetlights and buys ones with off color temp and poor reservoir caps that are hard on the eyes.
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
Qwazy Qs allege LED lights emit frequencies to brainwash people and turn them into Marxists.
That’s preposterous! I would never…never…Workers of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains!!!
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re: #26 Jay C
I’d just like to know WTH they’re planning with those “Weaponized LED Streetlights”?
Sounds like a hidden national defense system like something from a Stross novel.
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
Qwazy Qs allege LED lights emit frequencies to brainwash people and turn them into Marxists.
Nonsense!
I’ve had LED bulbs in my house for years, and the oppressed proletariat STILL hasn’t risen up to overthrow the hegemony of bourgeois capitalist oppression!
Must not be working, obviously….
Good night for college football. I cam actually look forward to the game on the 13th now.
That came out with an unexpected look. Super Slo mo on and Samsung, but forgot the kitchen light would strobe. Unlike the led spot I had on her face.
re: #24 Teukka
I find the crow/raven silhouette interesting. I can think of three possibilities off the top of my head:
1. There is a Brit phrase “Combat Recruit of War” or crow for a raw Army recruit. This reference would imply that the graphic developer is likely European and quite possibly Russian.
2. Scandinavian neo-paganist reference to Odin and his Ravens. This would imply neo-Nazi ties. Or maybe the artist likes Baltimore football. :)
3. A US military acronym for “Common Remotely Operated Weapon System”.
re: #37 ckkatz
I find the crow/raven silhouette interesting. I can think of three possibilities off the top of my head:
1. There is a Brit phrase “Combat Recruit of War” or crow for a raw Army recruit. This reference would imply that the graphic developer is likely European and quite possibly Russian.
2. Scandinavian neo-paganist reference to Odin and his Ravens. This would imply neo-Nazi ties. Or maybe the artist likes Baltimore football. :)
3. A US military acronym for “Common Remotely Operated Weapon System”.
I find 2 the most probable.
re: #36 Rightwingconspirator
That came out with an unexpected look.
The lights pulsing in the background are artifacts of your 60 Hz house current.
Well, I just decided to write a long rant in response to a FB friend’s posting of the recent WSJ opinion piece Tax Reform Has Delivered for Workers by Gary D. Cohn and Kevin Hassett. The FB friend is a sort-of Never Trumper who loves the strong stock market since he’s a money manager for a large firm. As always, I describe the WSJ opinions and editorials as being Info Wars before Alex Jones. I really hate that publication, although they do have some top notch journalists.
Here is Rudy’s director of communications and traveling companion. Recalls Maria Butina.
Christianné Allen is the 20-year-old Director of Communications for Rudy Giuliani. She has not yet graduated from college. pic.twitter.com/BgqhLkSWXm— GrassRootsGuy (@GrassRootsGuy) December 21, 2019
I can’t help but imagine what she would have done for the Nazi’s had she been born in Germany.
re: #38 William Lewis
I find 2 the most probable.
I suspect that you are not referencing Baltimore football. :)
I tend to agree with you.
The deep alt right memes are so transitory these days; And there are so many trolls throwing in stuff; That it is hard to track them all; And even harder to care.
I just try to recognize enough to know when to identify a poster as a neo-nazi.
re: #41 Belafon
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Kinder, Küche, Kirche?
It always seemed to me that the Nazis were more into guys…
re: #41 Belafon
GrassRootsGuy
@GrassRootsGuy
Here is Rudy’s director of communications and traveling companion. Recalls Maria Butina.
Christianné Allen is the 20-year-old Director of Communications for Rudy Giuliani. She has not yet graduated from college.I can’t help but imagine what she would have done for the Nazi’s had she been born in Germany.
Is she auditioning for the role of wife #4 for Rudy?
And Dad joke of the day:
If a child refuses to sleep during nap time, are they guilty of resisting a rest?
On that, I’m out.
Sweet Lizard dreams to all!
re: #19 Joe Bacon 🌹
The stupid never stops from the INCELS!
Coming this May, to a convention center of some kind in Orlando, Florida, the most repulsive and least self-aware men on the entire internet will come together to finally teach women a lesson.
A lesson in how to be the women of their dreams.
Yes! For the low, low price of $1,999 a ticket ($999 a ticket and a plus one if you act now!), you can learn all of the secrets to reeling in the kind of man who sits on YouTube all day whining about how women aren’t all barefoot and pregnant anymore. Men like Stefan Molyneux, Mike Cernovich, and organizer Anthony Dream Johnson (who claims he is the 1st President of the Manosphere), along with a bunch of other creepy dudes you’ve never even heard of and definitely have no interest in speaking to for more than five minutes, never mind marrying.The conference is called The 22 Convention (We do not know why!) and features the tagline “Make Women Great Again.” According to the website, it is “destined to be the mansplaining event of the century.”
What sort of self-respecting woman would voluntarily pay money to sit and be lectured to by insecure men about what they want in a woman?
Oh wait, I think I just answered my own question.
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
Qwazy Qs allege LED lights emit frequencies to brainwash people and turn them into Marxists.
Wasn’t there a movie about that? With Rowdy Roddy Piper?
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“He can SEE!”
re: #47 Sherlock Hound
Wasn’t there a movie about that? With Rowdy Roddy Piper?
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“He can SEE!”
They Live, by John Carpenter. One of his better films, and nowadays, a cult classic. It was sunglasses that would enable the wearer to see things as they truly are. Hell, even Green Day had a video inspired by They Live, so it’s certainly entered into pop culture consciousness.
re: #48 Dr Lizardo
They Live, by John Carpenter. One of his better films, and nowadays, a cult classic. It was sunglasses that would enable the wearer to see things as they truly are. Hell, even Green Day had a video inspired by They Live, so it’s certainly entered into pop culture consciousness.
Great movie with a waaaay too long fight scene.
re: #41 Belafon
Why would she let where she was born get in the way?
I.M. Pei-ing for part of this exhaustively-Instagrammed vacation, aren’t I? pic.twitter.com/XSmYzDzXGI
— David Gura (@davidgura) December 29, 2019
Evil knife attacker has been arrested.
The incident is the latest in an area spate of violent incidents against the Orthodox Jewish community. So far during Hanukkah, eight anti-Semitic attacks have been reported in New York City.
The NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau tweeted that the incident is being monitored.
“I am horrified by the stabbing of multiple people at a synagogue in Rockland county tonight,” Gov. Cuomo tweeted.
America’s Electronic Voting System is Corrupted to the Core
Just two vendors — Election Systems & Software, LLC (ES&S) and Dominion Voting — account for eighty percent of US election equipment. Thus, corrupt insiders or foreign hackers could wreak havoc on elections throughout the United States by infiltrating either of these vendors.
Guess who owns these two companies.
Chuck U. Todd’s special about Alternative Facts just started in the Meat the Press timeslot.
It’s actually not awful… yet. Even if, amidst the Trump bulkshit in the intro, he had to include Clinton’s “depends what the meaning of is is,” because bothsiders gonna bothsides.
re: #50 Shropshire Slasher
Speaking of extended fight scenes.
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Just started season three of the wire
Our new favorite expression: “Adjourn your asses”
re: #54 BigPapa
America’s Electronic Voting System is Corrupted to the Core
Guess who owns these two companies.
Frightening and infuriating, especially seeing the donations to various republicans by the companies, including McConnell who is blocking the bill to protect our elections.
These people and how they manage their cognitive dissonance.
Go to about half way through when the interviews about space force start.
We really got some work to do.
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Please pay attention. This month:
-the Sixth & I synagogue in Washington DC was vandalized with swastikas
-the sanctuary of the Nessah synagogue in LA was vandalized
-Anti-semitic graffiti, including”time to pay,” was spray-painted on the sign of American Jewish University (1/x)— Jessica Price (@Delafina777) December 29, 2019
Scene of last night’s anti-Semitic attack in Monsey (in spoiler tags because it is graphic)
אידיש בלוט גיסט זיך אויפן ערד אין פארשעי. pic.twitter.com/ex5XMNLijI
— Hasidic2 (@hasidic_1) December 29, 2019
When I visited Moscow in 2007, and Frankfurt in 2008, all the synagogues were protected by armed guards. The 3 Moscow synagogues (Choral, Bolshaya Bronaya, and Marina Roscha) had metal detectors at the doors. The Frankfurt synagogue had bollards in the street to prevent vehicles from ramming into the building.
We can expect to see that in the U.S. now. The synagogue that Z & I have attended for 30 years always had its doors open, but now they are locked by a keypad.
re: #65 The Pie Overlord!
Just a series of unfortunate coincidences. All of them, all over the country.
The “Alternative Facts” special Chuck did in place of Meat the Press today is actually (and I can’t believe I’m saying this) quite well done. Worth watching when it repeats on MSNBC later, or if your local NBC station hasn’t aired MTP yet today.
I don’t know why Jewish people were attacked in Rockland county last night but I do remember the last time I saw Rockland County in a major news story.
Anti-Semitism of every stripe thrives in an environment this permissive to it and openly saturated with it. https://t.co/u1JC84yTtW— Zeddy (@Zeddary) December 29, 2019
Meanwhile over in Brexitland:
The antisemitic graffiti appeared in “at least 12” locations in north London during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah https://t.co/4fMoySoLtk
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 29, 2019
The anti-Semitic video created and shared on social media by the Rockland County GOP Committee is disgusting, and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.
Every single member of New York’s GOP must openly denounce this hateful rhetoric immediately. pic.twitter.com/KPm1pP9NgT— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) August 29, 2019
Anti-Semitic acts are increasing because there’s an environment where it’s more permissive, if not encouraged. Boils me blood every time I see Soros invoked. Sure, I mock it sometimes, but other times I’ll just reply ‘Soros = ‘the Jews’ because that’s what it is: the direct message is not polically correct so it hides behind a facade.
Also, ‘globalists’ reeks of anti-Semitism.
re: #71 BigPapa
This. Anti-Semites are more empowered than ever in this nation.
Rockland County GOP leader vows to re-air ‘anti-Semitic’ attack ad
September 5, 2019
“…The head of the Rockland County Republican Party intends to re-show the inflammatory “A Storm Is Coming” video that was taken down last week after critics called it anti-Semitic for warning of a “takeover” by the Orthodox Jewish community.
“The Video came down for 2 reasons: first accomplished its goal of highlighting the issues that face our county. And second, took it down because the controversy stopped adding to number one above,” Rockland GOP chairman Lawrence Garvey said in a Facebook post on the Village of South Nyack site.
“However,” Garvey added, “the video will be back, because this conversation is important to Rockland.”
nypost.com
re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg
This. Anti-Semites are more empowered than ever in this nation.
No, but we’re a couple steps down the path. That’s not acceptable.
re: #73 jaunte
Rockland County GOP leader vows to re-air ‘anti-Semitic’ attack ad
September 5, 2019
Yeah, you just keep doubling down on the stupid, there, folks.
Like many moms, mine is a master multi-tasker who can be many places at once. For instance, this Christmas she is cuddling with her youngest granddaughter in beautiful California - while apparently living rent-free in someone’s rage-tweeting head. #HappyHolidays
— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) December 26, 2019
re: #75 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, you just keep doubling down on the stupid, there, folks.
They’ve done the calculation that airing it will garner them more votes than it will lose.
I’m just exhausted by the hate and Trump only cares about himself and being seen as a savior.
OFFS
Franklin Graham links Hanukkah party stabbing to ‘hatred for Trump’: ‘I blame people in the media’https://t.co/mTa4Jm6B3j
— Raw Story (@RawStory) December 29, 2019
re: #78 HappyWarrior
I’m just exhausted by the hate and Trump only cares about himself and being seen as a savior.
Not just “a” savior, “The” Savior. He’s gotta be Jesus incarnate so he can woo the religious sheep.
re: #78 HappyWarrior
I’m just exhausted by the hate and Trump only cares about himself and being seen as a savior.
American’s are at each other’s throats. Here’s one way out. WaPo
re: #79 Targetpractice
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They were targeted for being Jews. But yeah blame people rightfully hating Trump while Graham himself did everything to incite hate against Obama. Graham can go fuck himself as can all the other Evangelicals who hide their Antisemitism behind supposedly supporting Israel. Graham doesn’t give two fucks about American Jews or really anyone who isn’t a doomsday betwetter like he is.
re: #79 Targetpractice
Yes, obviously the supporter of the “Jews Will Not Replace Us” marchers is the real victim.
WaPo had an Editorial Board essay this morning that helped me a bit:
19 good things that happened in 2019
1. Scientists announced a new therapy that seems likely to benefit 90 percent of people who have cystic fibrosis, until now a terribly debilitating disease. As we noted in an editorial, the achievement is the result of a generation of persistence by patient advocates and scientists who never threw in the towel, even when the goal seemed impossible.
re: #83 jaunte
Yes, obviously the supporter of the “Jews Will Not Replace Us” marchers is the real victim.
Always the victim or savior. Fascism has arrived in America and its face is Trump and men and women like Graham are its foot soldiers.
re: #80 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Not just “a” savior, “The” Savior. He’s gotta be Jesus incarnate so he can woo the religious sheep.
And they go along with it because it’s a mutually beneficial relationship.
re: #86 HappyWarrior
And they go along with it because it’s a mutually beneficial relationship.
In the meantime, people my age and younger are fleeing churches in droves. Churches are trying to change to accommodate them and bring them back in the fold, and in the process, they alienate the older generation, who are usually the heavy financial backers. They’re destroying themselves and they don’t even understand how.
re: #79 Targetpractice
Unbelievably bare-faced propaganda to segue from discussing an antisemitic attack to portraying Trump as a victim of political hate.
Another epic rant from anti-cheeto firebrand Rick Hiller. If he were much older I would be worried about his health
re: #87 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
In the meantime, people my age and younger are fleeing churches in droves. Churches are trying to change to accommodate them and bring them back in the fold, and in the process, they alienate the older generation, who are usually the heavy financial backers. They’re destroying themselves and they don’t even understand how.
They really have no idea how much they’ve alienated young people. I’m not anti religion or spirituality but the Grahams of the world are nothing but charlatans.
re: #73 jaunte
Rockland County GOP leader vows to re-air ‘anti-Semitic’ attack ad
September 5, 2019
It looks a lot like the “Gathering Storm” ugly ad that NOM ran against gay marriage. (So, not even original hate—but just as ugly)
re: #84 retired cynic
And, of course, reading deeper: treatment costs over $300,000 a year. And minorities tend to have a different, rarer mutation, and probably won’t be helped, and the push to search for a treatment for that rarer mutation is likely to be slower or non-existent. Damn.
re: #87 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
In the meantime, people my age and younger are fleeing churches in droves. Churches are trying to change to accommodate them and bring them back in the fold, and in the process, they alienate the older generation, who are usually the heavy financial backers. They’re destroying themselves and they don’t even understand how.
They recognize the hypocrisy and leave. Otherwise they are embracing the hate.
Those organizations that change will lose membership for changing, are not noticed or quoted by more than local media (if at all), and perhaps unfortunately are not seen as publicly speaking out against the hatred by their fellow Christians. Assuming they do so.
not even once in my life have I ever had faith in anything as much as the Deplorables have faith that an ignorant, undisciplined, easily-goaded Russian-mob-money-laundering game show host and con artist with fucked up hair who bankrupted six casinos is going to give them a pony
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 29, 2019
re: #91 BeachDem
It looks a lot like the “Gathering Storm” ugly ad that NOM ran against gay marriage. (So, not even original hate—but just as ugly)
It’s the same playbook since whenever. You can dig up anti-immigrant or anti-Jewish or anti-whatever rhetoric from the 19th century and just change out the labeled group it is railing against and/or adjust the drawings to accent whatever stereotypical appearance that group supposedly has.
They’re selling emotional hatred, that’s all. And they just switch groups to match the flavor of the times.
re: #81 retired cynic
Interesting OpEd. This is what struck me:
That sounds familiar. In a 2017 survey of 1,000 Americans, 40 percent of both Republicans and Democrats said that the other party was “not just worse for politics — they are downright evil,” researchers Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason found. Five to 15 percent said they would support some level of violence against their political opponents. (And this range was the same on both sides.)
Two issues here. One policical party is not functioning as one, it’s working against the rule of law. But an even deeper problem: hate has been fomented for decades by one party against the other. Paranoia and malign intent is part of their identity.
One party stoked the hot rhetoric and hate, and now one party is actively working against the rule of law and destroying our administrative state.
One party actually is evil.
re: #7 The Pie Overlord!
Anti-Semitic stabbing attack at a synagogue in Monsey, NY
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My folks used to live a few miles from there. It’s a Chabad House and it hits close to home.
Real close. Fuck Trump and the bigotry the fucknut has unleashed on the world.
re: #81 retired cynic
A majority of Americans want Trump gone from office. A majority did not support his election in the first place. A majority want health care and gun control.
It’s a distinct empowered minority that deprives the nation of both of these key policies, all while using racism and bigotry and misogyny to keep angry white guys angry at everyone but the millionaire class who continues to divide and conquer to accumulate more wealth and power at the expense of everyone else.
re: #96 BigPapa
Interesting OpEd. This is what struck me:
Two issues here. One policical party is not functioning as one, it’s working against the rule of law. But an even deeper problem: hate has been fomented for decades by one party against the other. Paranoia and malign intent is part of their identity.
One party stoked the hot rhetoric and hate, and now one party is actively working against the rule of law and destroying our administrative state.
One party actually is evil.
One party’s signature legislation of the past decade was to attempt to make health care more affordable for all. The other party? They want to build a wall. I don’t want to think people I disagree with are evil but Republicans and me don’t have a disagreement of ideology, we have one of morality.
I did it! Finished all 448 pages of the Mueller Report. Before I dig into the IG Report I have to do a foodie post to clean out the debris and maybe finish up my summary.
While there were many problems and evidence of criminality in Volume 1 (Russia Interference) it would have been difficult to prove in court as proof required is complex, legal precident is spare, and intent is also required. Fredo Jr could make a case that he was a dumbfuck, even though there was evidence he knew they were in a dubious situation. Volume 1 makes clear that Team Trump is a bunch of grifting idiots who have no idea of how government works or should work, and nothing about statecraft. It’s all about how much $ and power they can accrue. Which is exactly what Russia is good at exploiting.
Volume 2 is more damning: Mueller could have brought charges on Trump but he didn’t. It’s clear there was evidence of Obstruction, enought to make a case. But OLC Memo.
Trump could be charged after he leaves office.
But here’s a baby rhino just because
I didn’t know I needed a baby rhino in my life today, but I did.pic.twitter.com/RAN49PBubI
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) December 26, 2019
re: #98 lawhawk
A majority of Americans want Trump gone from office. A majority did not support his election in the first place. A majority want health care and gun control.
It’s a distinct empowered minority that deprives the nation of both of these key policies, all while using racism and bigotry and misogyny to keep angry white guys angry at everyone but the millionaire class who continues to divide and conquer to accumulate more wealth and power at the expense of everyone else.
If we were ever to have a prole revolution in this country, it would be fathered by billionaire* Trump, not millionaire Berrnie.
re: #98 lawhawk
A majority of Americans want Trump gone from office. A majority did not support his election in the first place. A majority want health care and gun control.
It’s a distinct empowered minority that deprives the nation of both of these key policies, all while using racism and bigotry and misogyny to keep angry white guys angry at everyone but the millionaire class who continues to divide and conquer to accumulate more wealth and power at the expense of everyone else.
A distinct minority that gets told constantly that they are the only real Americans. That an America that doesn’t look, think, pray, live, etc like them aren’t real Americans. I see a lot of shit about “urban elites” but there’s an elitism more aptly bigotry to Americans who don’t fit “Middle America.” And it’s seldom called out because our national conversation isn’t interested in pluralism.
re: #98 lawhawk
Class war being disguised as a race/other/culture war. And the Trump base eats it up since the hatred is all they have to prop up their “superiority” and act as a party to blame for their own failings and lack of success.
re: #100 BigPapa
First the Mueller Report, then the IG? Did a judge sentence you to this? Should have taken the year in County.
How many Trump diner stories has the NYT published? But how many stories about the Obama and then Clinton coalition that reflects the American we breathe, eat, & dream in? Rural white America is America but so are our cities, so are parts of the South where African Americans have lived for generations, so are immigrants contributing to our economy.
re: #104 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
You guys ever hear that “what do you get if you play a country song backward?” “You get yer hound dog back, yer truck runs, mom gets out of prison…”
What does the world get if you play the Trump admin backward?
You get your truth, air, water and kids back?
re: #107 Rightwingconspirator
You guys ever hear that “what do you get if you play a country song backward?” “You get yer hound dog back, yer truck runs, mom gets out of prison…”
What does the world get if you play the Trump admin backward?
You get your truth, air, water and kids back?
Does that require Superman flying around the Earth really fast for a while?
re: #87 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
In the meantime, people my age and younger are fleeing churches in droves. Churches are trying to change to accommodate them and bring them back in the fold, and in the process, they alienate the older generation, who are usually the heavy financial backers. They’re destroying themselves and they don’t even understand how.
I don’t think the Catholic Church will be around another ten years. They won’t have any money.
Five Jews are in the hospital after being chopped up at a menorah lighting, following a spree of anti-Semitic assaults in NY all Hanukkah. Fortunately, President Tweet is doing presidential things, reassuring the Jewish community and confronting the issue. Haha, who am I kidding. https://t.co/JTJVIxylc4
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) December 29, 2019
re: #109 Shropshire Slasher
I don’t think the Catholic Church will be around another ten years. They won’t have any money.
There are over a billion catholics in the world, even if they are much diminished, the idea there will not be a catholic church in a decade is a fantasy
re: #105 Decatur Deb
I did it for you so you don’t have to. Now give me my $2 so I can get a beer and forget about all that shit.
re: #108 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Does that require Superman flying around the Earth really fast for a while?
Or an infinity stone…
re: #111 danarchy
There are over a billion catholics in the world, even if they are much diminished, the idea there will not be a catholic church in a decade is a fantasy
Catholicism is as much cultural as it is religious. I haven’t attended Mass in years but it’s still influenced me.
I’ve always thought there should be some super pot for sale called Infinity Stoned.
re: #109 Shropshire Slasher
I don’t think the Catholic Church will be around another ten years. They won’t have any money.
Plenty of conservative Catholics still around who have (and will) put up with a lot due to tradition and rallying around Abortion as the sole important litmus test.
I know a lot of them who did a lot of hand-wringing over the various scandals and cover-ups in the priesthood. And they’d probably only consider leaving the Church if it was their own parish priest caught up in it - and maybe only if it was their children.
I’ve been avoiding political discussions with them for the most part (last long one was held in October of 2016). I’ve seen glimmerings and defensive statements regarding having voted for Trump from some of them. But have also been hearing anti-immigrant rhetoric and some of the standard talking points as well. So I’m not sure to some degree where they will end up next year when that decision needs to be made. (Though unfortunately I expect that white privilege and lip service to their own creed is going to lead them towards doubling down.)
re: #116 BigPapa
I’ve always thought there should be some super pot for sale called Infinity Stoned.
Illinois will have legal rec marijuana in the new year. I’ve seen lots of stories that the next town over has approved the sale but nothing about who will sell it, or where the stores will be, or at what cost it will be available. Pretty convoluted regs so it will be a while before it all shakes out. Looking forward to it.
re: #117 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Plenty of conservative Catholics still around who have (and will) put up with a lot due to tradition and rallying around Abortion as the sole important litmus test.
I know a lot of them who did a lot of hand-wringing over the various scandals and cover-ups in the priesthood. And they’d probably only consider leaving the Church if it was their own parish priest caught up in it - and maybe only if it was their children.
I’ve been avoiding political discussions with them for the most part (last long one was held in October of 2016). I’ve seen glimmerings and defensive statements regarding having voted for Trump from some of them. But have also been hearing anti-immigrant rhetoric and some of the standard talking points as well. So I’m not sure to some degree where they will end up next year when that decision needs to be made. (Though unfortunately I expect that white privilege and lip service to their own creed is going to lead them towards doubling down.)
Within Wife’s 1500-member parish are a shitload of RWNJ Trump supporters and a nun who rides a bus. Pope or not, the RC church is not monolithic. (The last couple popes did the math and overtly gave up on the secularized First World. They are focused on Africa and Latin America—a much better fit for essentially medieval ideas.)
re: #65 The Pie Overlord!
When I visited Moscow in 2007, and Frankfurt in 2008, all the synagogues were protected by armed guards. The 3 Moscow synagogues (Choral, Bolshaya Bronaya, and Marina Roscha) had metal detectors at the doors. The Frankfurt synagogue had bollards in the street to prevent vehicles from ramming into the building.
We can expect to see that in the U.S. now. The synagogue that Z & I have attended for 30 years always had its doors open, but now they are locked by a keypad.
Sidewalk barriers have been installed in several major temples here in Los Angeles. And sadly there are armed guards, metal detectors and scanning machines installed in more of them.
So much for Freedom Of Religion…
re: #120 Joe Bacon 🌹
Sidewalk barriers have been installed in several major temples here in Los Angeles. And sadly there are armed guards, metal detectors and scanning machines installed in more of them.
So much for Freedom Of Religion…
The RC parish described in #119 has formed a volunteer usher/security force. It refuses to declare whether it is armed or not. So there’s that.
re: #121 Decatur Deb
Since they are “fans” of DT it is better to presume that they are armed. Never under estimate your enemy.
re: #76 Belafon
Oh she isn’t the only one living rent free in Orange Foolius’ head! pic.twitter.com/sTQEib0A8c
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) December 29, 2019
re: #117 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Plenty of conservative Catholics still around who have (and will) put up with a lot due to tradition and rallying around Abortion as the sole important litmus test.
It’s weird how they insist they’re “following the teachings of their faith” when they vehemently oppose any legislation that disagrees with the Pope about gays or abortion (and OMG, it’s religious bigotry to suggest they shouldn’t be motivated by sectarian teachings, their faith is the most important thing in the world to them and informs all their political views); yet they just as vehemently support legislation that directly contradicts everything the Pope has ever said about immigration, refugees, health care, income inequality, or environmental protection (and OMG, it’s religious bigotry to wonder why they’re not driven by sectarian teachings on these issues, how dare anyone question that they have minds of their own and their faith doesn’t drive all their views).
re: #123 Joe Bacon 🌹
Are they preparing a room for Warren in case she gets the nomination?
re: #122 PhillyPretzel
Since they are “fans” of DT it is better to presume that they are armed. Never under estimate your enemy.
It’s Alabama.
re: #124 sagehen
It’s weird how they insist they’re “following the teachings of their faith” when they vehemently oppose any legislation that disagrees with the Pope about gays or abortion (and OMG, it’s religious bigotry to suggest they shouldn’t be motivated by sectarian teachings, their faith is the most important thing in the world to them and informs all their political views); yet they just as vehemently support legislation that directly contradicts everything the Pope has ever said about immigration, refugees, health care, income inequality, or environmental protection (and OMG, it’s religious bigotry to wonder why they’re not driven by sectarian teachings on these issues, how dare anyone question that they have minds of their own and their faith doesn’t drive all their views).
Pope’s Christmas message talked about mistreatment of immigrants and refugees. And called out mistreatment of Christians in a few specific places. But skipped mentioning the US treatment of Catholics along the southern border I think.
(Though perhaps he is not interested in “interfering” with US internal politics. After all, the conservatives in 1960 claimed that electing Kennedy was going to make the Executive be under Papal control.)
re: #79 Targetpractice
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re: #87 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
In the meantime, people my age and younger are fleeing churches in droves. Churches are trying to change to accommodate them and bring them back in the fold, and in the process, they alienate the older generation, who are usually the heavy financial backers. They’re destroying themselves and they don’t even understand how.
And that is a good thing. Love how young people are leading the movement away from churches because they are repulsed by the endless Republican propaganda from the pulpit!
re: #127 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Pope’s Christmas message talked about mistreatment of immigrants and refugees. And called out mistreatment of Christians in a few specific places. But skipped mentioning the US treatment of Catholics along the southern border I think.
(Though perhaps he is not interested in “interfering” with US internal politics. After all, the conservatives in 1960 claimed that electing Kennedy was going to make the Executive be under Papal control.)
Is there something I don’t know about the treatment of Catholics along the border? I thought they were mistreating border crossers and refugees without reference to religion.
re: #130 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!
Is there something I don’t know about the treatment of Catholics along the border? I thought they were mistreating border crossers and refugees without reference to religion.
Just demographics. Most are going to be some shade of Catholic, depending on the place of origin.
re: #129 Joe Bacon 🌹
And that is a good thing. Love how young people are leading the movement away from churches because they are repulsed by the endless Republican propaganda from the pulpit!
I’m actually arguing the opposite. The Church (as a collective, not the Catholic Church or any other specific church) needs to divorce itself from the Republican Party, because despite the tremendous damage they have done in our country, the Church also has tremendous potential for good, and they have been good about using it elsewhere in the world. I want that to remain, and to improve.
re: #111 danarchy
California and New York changed their statute of limitations to go after pedophiles in organized religion. I can’t see how any church can bleed money like that without filling the pews.
Well, I came home from the gym this morning and what was outside the door of my apartment building?
A bunch of leaflets for Yang…and a bunch up of ripped up ones for Bernie…
re: #132 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I’m actually arguing the opposite. The Church (as a collective, not the Catholic Church or any other specific church) needs to divorce itself from the Republican Party, because despite the tremendous damage they have done in our country, the Church also has tremendous potential for good, and they have been good about using it elsewhere in the world. I want that to remain, and to improve.
THIS.
re: #132 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I’m actually arguing the opposite. The Church (as a collective, not the Catholic Church or any other specific church) needs to divorce itself from the Republican Party, because despite the tremendous damage they have done in our country, the Church also has tremendous potential for good, and they have been good about using it elsewhere in the world. I want that to remain, and to improve.
Won’t happen. Churches will continue to march lockstep with Republicans to roll back same sex marriage and women’s health.
re: #135 Joe Bacon 🌹
Well, I came home from the gym this morning and what was outside the door of my apartment building?
A bunch of leaflets for Yang…and a bunch up of ripped up ones for Bernie…
Not cool to destroy opposition stuff—even Bernies. Probably a crime some places.
re: #125 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Are they preparing a room for Warren in case she gets the nomination?
She’ll get her own room, along with Hillary and Nancy. It will be a whole Trump condo in his head….
re: #137 Joe Bacon 🌹
Won’t happen. Churches will continue to march lockstep with Republicans to roll back same sex marriage and women’s health.
I tend to agree with you, but I’m expressing the change I am trying to drive, as much as someone like me has any influence over the juggernaut of the Church.
re: #140 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I tend to agree with you, but I’m expressing the change I am trying to drive, as much as someone like me has any influence over the juggernaut of the Church.
The immutable church mutates as needed.
re: #133 Decatur Deb
My HS/seminary barracks-mate, Cardinal O’Malley, serving communion through the (old) border fence:
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Do you stay in touch?
Stay tuned for more exciting news about Thomas Becket in 2020 – the 850th anniversary of his assassination – including an upcoming exhibition featuring manuscripts, jewellery, sculpture and sacred reliquaries. Read more: https://t.co/Oa0LBRluEO #Becket2020 pic.twitter.com/DUFR2WPO94
— British Museum (@britishmuseum) December 29, 2019
No more self-awareness than a dog licking its own sweaty asshole in public. https://t.co/cMDufY5j5G
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 29, 2019
re: #142 Dave In Austin
Do you stay in touch?
No, but if he ever becomes pope, I’m mooching the hell out of some Vatican library time.
TOUCHEBAG (n): Irritating person who admittedly has some pretty good comebacks.
— 𝕧𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕒 𝕘𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕒 (@kronocide1) December 29, 2019
Looking at the calendar and realizing…1 year and 2 days before Medicare activates for me…and 4 years and 2 days before I’m eligible for a full civil service pension…
re: #137 Joe Bacon 🌹
Won’t happen. Churches will continue to march lockstep with Republicans to roll back same sex marriage and women’s health.
They don’t do that where I live. Hardly surprisingly, the churchgoing population reflects the general population, so in liberal areas we have mostly liberal churches.
re: #116 BigPapa
It took me a little while to find this one but I believe you may enjoy the read.
washingtonpost.com
Guy who spreads Pizzagate and Nazi memes wants you to think he’s a champion of the Jewish people. https://t.co/rSk2CbjjYi
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 29, 2019
In their usual disgustingly racist way, wingnuts like @JackPosobiec and @StefanMolyneux and @gatewaypundit are now using the attack in Monsey to spread hatred against African Americans.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 29, 2019
NOW: While @realDonaldTrump is busy elsewhere, The Kremlin has released a transcript of a phone call between Trump and Putin. Today is one for history: Russia is supplying news to the U.S. through its official filter before our own president. pic.twitter.com/kUBnMnmMYX
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) December 29, 2019
re: #149 PhillyPretzel
Thanks! Good read. They should legalize everywhere here, release people in prison for pot and wipe the crimes, then give them priority in hiring to grow and process the stuff because they’ll need jobs after prison. Why not?
re: #153 BigPapa
Thanks! Good read. They should legalize everywhere here, release people in prison for pot and wipe the crimes, then give them priority in hiring to grow and process the stuff because they’ll need jobs after prison. Why not?
California is an example. We now have licensed pot shops here in Los Angeles managing a booming business and organized crime lost a cash cow just like they did when prohibition was repealed.
That horse left the barn a long time ago. https://t.co/Qkz6IIgSdV
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) December 29, 2019
I’ll rely on Twitter to tell/show me anything worthwhile from Chuck Todd’s Disinformation Extravaganza. I just can’t with Chuck Todd any more.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 29, 2019
Yeah, that should help…
The Guardian Angels, a private, unarmed crime-prevention group, says it will start patrolling Brooklyn following a series of anti-Semitic attacks. https://t.co/0nB3oKEyjX
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 29, 2019
re: #157 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Yeah, that should help…
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Geez, Curt Sliwa is still around? I would have thought he’d need a walker (or a motorized scooter) to do his patrols these days..
“They like Trump because he’s a fighter” seems to be the new talking point to avoid mentioning the racism.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 29, 2019
Instant pot loading time:
1 2lb elk roast (from the local pantry! given by the hunter of the first legal wisconsin elk in a century!)
Beef broth
Potatoes
Corn
Sauerkraut
Pressure cook high for 45 minutes and let depressurize slowly.
Should be a delight.
re: #154 Joe Bacon 🌹
California is an example. We now have licensed pot shops here in Los Angeles managing a booming business and organized crime lost a cash cow just like they did when prohibition was repealed.
What’s frustrating about the national prohibition on pot is that it keeps many banks out of providing financial services to growers, distributors and retail sellers. Not speaking for my own employer, but I bet it grinds somebody’s gears that we can’t get into that business.
re: #158 Jay C
Geez, Curt Sliwa is still around? I would have thought he’d need a walker (or a motorized scooter) to do his patrols these days..
The Pie Overlord! may know more about this, but the Shomrim isn’t enough? Again, never been to NYC, don’t have a clue about the situation, but it was my understanding that the Shomrim were like a souped-up neighborhood watch for the Jewish community in NYC.
re: #162 mmmirele
The Pie Overlord! may know more about this, but the Shomrim isn’t enough? Again, never been to NYC, don’t have a clue about the situation, but it was my understanding that the Shomrim were like a souped-up neighborhood watch for the Jewish community in NYC.
Monsey isn’t NYC
re: #161 mmmirele
What’s frustrating about the national prohibition on pot is that it keeps many banks out of providing financial services to growers, distributors and retail sellers. Not speaking for my own employer, but I bet it grinds somebody’s gears that we can’t get into that business.
It also encourages robberies at the pot shops, since they have to keep the cash on the premises (and can’t take credit cards)
re: #161 mmmirele
What’s frustrating about the national prohibition on pot is that it keeps many banks out of providing financial services to growers, distributors and retail sellers. Not speaking for my own employer, but I bet it grinds somebody’s gears that we can’t get into that business.
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WATCH: Officials give updates on a deadly church shooting in White Settlement, Texas https://t.co/H9n7JKbYS7 pic.twitter.com/37hZ6s5uL8
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 29, 2019
re: #167 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
UPDATE: At least two people were reportedly killed inside a Texas church.
The shooting took place at West Freeway Church of Christ in the city of White Settlement.https://t.co/ZJewIJFCu2— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 29, 2019
re: #163 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Monsey isn’t NYC
OK, so I had to look at a map. I thought Monsey was a neighborhood in NYC. My bad. /notes that her county, Maricopa, is nearly 80 miles across east to west and 50 miles across north to south.
re: #167 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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re: #171 sagehen
I’ll bet there’s a story behind the naming of that town.
The name of “White Settlement” was originally bestowed upon the community by several Indian tribes in the area. The city got its name because it was the lone village of white pioneers amid several American Indian encampments in the Fort Worth area in the Texas Republic territory in the 1840s.
re: #160 William Lewis
Beer and onions are a nice addition too.
re: #147 Joe Bacon 🌹
Looking at the calendar and realizing…1 year and 2 days before Medicare activates for me…and 4 years and 2 days before I’m eligible for a full civil service pension…
Hang in there…it’s a hell of a good life.
re: #130 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!
Is there something I don’t know about the treatment of Catholics along the border? I thought they were mistreating border crossers and refugees without reference to religion.
I was more pointing out that the Pope specifically mentioned places where non-Christians were picking on Catholics while skipping mention of Catholics being abused by “Christians” in a western nation. The Pope and Catholics *should* be concerned about the mistreatment in any case whatever the religion is of the refugees.
re: #145 Decatur Deb
No, but if he ever becomes pope, I’m mooching the hell out of some Vatican library time.
To break that da Vinci code finally?
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