Democratic Debate Thread
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Hot off the Press. Hartford daily newspaper publishes an article at 8:00 pm.
Who is the Robert F. Hyde who surfaced in House Intelligence Committee documents? https://t.co/VxrCCNn9HT
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 15, 2020
re: #1 gocart mozart
Hot off the Press. Hartford daily newspaper publishes an article at 8:00 pm.
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Owes child support. Family values.
Bernies hands and arms move like a marionette. Coincidence?
re: #4 The Pie Overlord!
Trump can run but he can’t Hyde.
Here are my Dem candidates of the evening, in order:
1. Elizabeth Warren
2. Amy Klobuchar
3. Joe Biden
4. Pete Buttigieg
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infinity-1. Tom Steyer
infinity. Bernie Sanders
re: #6 The Pie Overlord!
Interesting coincidence - same for me.
Robert Hyde non disclosure agreement for campaign VOLUNTEERS!
re: #6 The Pie Overlord!
I would agree with that exact ordering.
Repeated from downstairs. Text stream of tonight’s debate.
Also: Disabled Twitter is following via hashtag, #CripTheVote
So Maddow is reading off more text exchanges between Parnas and Hyde.
They were straight up planning on murdering Yovonovitch. I cannot see any other to interpret this.
I’m paraphrasing, but “If you want her out, we have to make contact with her security detail”? How the fuck else are you supposed to interpret this shit?
re: #11 Mattand
So Maddow is reading off more text exchanges between Parnas and Hyde.
They were straight up planning on murdering Yovonovitch. I cannot see any other to interpret this.
re: #12 Mattand
I’m paraphrasing, but “If you want her out, we have to make contact with her security detail”? How the fuck else are you supposed to interpret this shit?
We’ll likely find out tomorrow or Thursday once the NYT finds a way to blame in on Dems.
See if this link works for live coverage
freeintertv.com
re: #13 Citizen K
We’ll likely find out tomorrow or Thursday once the NYT finds a way to blame in on Dems.
That’s the truth. Maddow pointed out the other day about how the NYT had all of the Butter Emails horseshit on page 1A, all the time and above the fold, and then buried her exoneration 16 pages in.
Below the fold.
I’d really like to know what the NYT has against HRC. Unless it’s a calculated effort to appeal to Fox News mouth breathers; “Hey, look, we hate Hillary, too!”
Which if that’s the case, it’s been a spectacular failure.
re: #8 gocart mozart
Robert Hyde non disclosure agreement for campaign VOLUNTEERS!
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IIJM, or does that NDA look like somebody just downloaded the form from a template, and couldn’t be bothered to edit in “Hyde For Congress Committee” or whatever, instead of just leaving it everywhere as “ORGANIZATION”??
Really professional ////
Wonder what his polling numbers are in CT-05? (West and NW CT - Now-Senator Chris Murphy’s old district) Seems solid (if not overwhelming) (D) for years….
re: #15 Mattand
That’s the truth. Maddow pointed out the other day about how the NYT had all of the Butter Emails horseshit on page 1A, all the time and above the fold, and then buried her exoneration 16 pages in.
Below the fold.
I’d really like to know what the NYT has against HRC. Unless it’s a calculated effort to appeal to Fox News mouth breathers; “Hey, look, we hate Hillary, too!”
Which if that’s the case, it’s been a spectacular failure.
The Clinton hate has been consistent over at least 3 decades, that much is clear. The slavishness to the GOP line is a little more recent and just a little less consistent. It’s been there for sure, but man did it explode in the age of Trump.
On the one hand we have Democrats talking intelligently about issues like foreign policy and on the other hand you have this asshole babbling about toilets and his hair…
“You don’t get any water!” — POTUS transitions from complaining about dishwashers to complaining about sinks, toilets, and showers. He then starts bragging about his hair. pic.twitter.com/o4nHUBkGSc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 15, 2020
Not upset by Democrats fighting over issues that matter. Upset when they don’t.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 15, 2020
Pour one out for Robert and his buddy Mike who got a raw deal pic.twitter.com/bV1aXoJiAE
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) January 15, 2020
Michael Flynn’s lawyer tonight is trying to withdraw his plea, saying the DOJ told him to lie.
Good luck.
re: #18 The Pie Overlord!
On the one hand we have Democrats talking intelligently about issues like foreign policy and on the other hand you have this asshole babbling about toilets and his hair…
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re: #18 The Pie Overlord!
On the one hand we have Democrats talking intelligently about issues like foreign policy and on the other hand you have this asshole babbling about toilets and his hair…
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“But, Ms. Overlord, I’m an American independent voter. Sure, the Democrats are talking policy and are seasoned politicians, and the Republicans are led by a possibly syphilitic, obviously criminal Alzheimer’s patient. I just don’t know which to vote!”
re: #23 Mattand
“But, Ms. Overlord, I’m an American independent voter. Sure, the Democrats are talking policy and are seasoned politicians, and the Republicans are led by a possibly syphilitic, obviously criminal Alzheimer’s patient. I just don’t know which to vote!”
I mean one candidate uses his stump speech to whine about dishwashers, the other candidate has a plan to get more Americans health insurance. I’m undecided.//
re: #16 Jay C
It’s now a lean Dem district, used to be a swing district. Hayes won by 5-7% I think. I don’t think there are any polls but I’m sure someone else will get in. The primary is not till April or May.
Seriously I’d be bored as shit at a Trump rally. If I wanted to hear an old white man complaining about modernity, I’d listen to Ben Shapiro’s podcast.
re: #16 Jay C
IIJM, or does that NDA look like somebody just downloaded the form from a template, and couldn’t be bothered to edit in “Hyde For Congress Committee” or whatever, instead of just leaving it everywhere as “ORGANIZATION”??
Really professional ////Wonder what his polling numbers are in CT-05? (West and NW CT - Now-Senator Chris Murphy’s old district) Seems solid (if not overwhelming) (D) for years….
He’s only one of five Republicans in a primary for the seat.
ballotpedia.org
The seat has actually been competitive, flipping between Dems and GOP, although held by Democrats since 2008.
en.wikipedia.org (history of voting in the district going all the way back to fights between the Democrats and Whigs).
re: #25 gocart mozart
It’s now a lean Dem district, used to be a swing district. Hayes won by 5-7% I think. I don’t think there are any polls but I’m sure someone else will get in. The primary is not till April or May.
People like Hyde I no doubt are why it’s a more Democratic district now. Republicans don’t know how to compete with voters uninterested in nativist bs. It’s why Northern Virginia went from being closely fought for by Gore and Kerry against Bush to being why Virginia has become blue.
re: #25 gocart mozart
It’s now a lean Dem district, used to be a swing district. Hayes won by 5-7% I think. I don’t think there are any polls but I’m sure someone else will get in. The primary is not till April or May.
The primary is August 11.
This is Chris Murphy’s old district. I’m a fan of Senator Murphy. He’s a foreign policy buff who isn’t afraid to stand up to the NRA. Definitely someone I could see being a Dem leader one day in the Senate or a key cabinet official. Not sure about the Presidency but he’s good to me. Connecticut has an underrated pair with Murphy and Blumenthal, the latter who is a great voice on judiciary matters.
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Then why didn’t he say that in the beginning?
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🎃
He’s only one of five Republicans in a primary for the seat.
ballotpedia.orgThe seat has actually been competitive, flipping between Dems and GOP, although held by Democrats since 2008.
en.wikipedia.org (history of voting in the district going all the way back to fights between the Democrats and Whigs).
Well so far, Hyde is the only one of the five to provide Ballotpedia with both a picture and an “essay” - a sample:
Robert Hyde is an ardent support of our duly elected president, President Trump, and his agenda of renewing American Greatness. Robert believes the residents of northwestern Connecticut in the Fifth District deserve better than their current - and past - leadership. There is no one more better than Robert Hyde to represent CT-5.
Not only is he supporting Trump’s policies, but apparently, his grammar as well…..
re: #11 Mattand
So Maddow is reading off more text exchanges between Parnas and Hyde.
They were straight up planning on murdering Yovonovitch. I cannot see any other to interpret this.
If there is an assassination, or some similarly lethal example of Republican violence, this exchange will dispose of the standard default claim that it is the work of lone-wolf crazy people. Hyde is not some kook lurking in his mom’s basement, he is a player in Republican circles. We are dealing with common criminals at every level.
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Michael Flynn’s lawyer tonight is trying to withdraw his plea, saying the DOJ told him to lie.
Good luck.
It has dawned on him that he can’t count on a pardon, even though Q assured him he would get one.
re: #31 Ace Rothstein
Then why didn’t he say that in the beginning?
Given he thought his son RTing pizzagate nuts while a USA Army officer was a good look, I have an impression Flynn isn’t that bright. Probably why it was easy to manipulate him to do the shit he did because of his personal amity to Obama.
re: #32 Jay C
Well so far, Hyde is the only one of the five to provide Ballotpedia with both a picture and an “essay” - a sample:
Not only is he supporting Trump’s policies, but apparently, his grammar as well…..
I see Elsie Stefanik’s rambles because a friend is from her district. Her rambles before she became Trump’s attack dog are world’s different between what they are now.
re: #34 The Pie Overlord!
It has dawned on him that he can’t count on a pardon, even though Q assured him he would get one.
Pretty much this.
The Q part is probably unfortunately true as well.
re: #32 Jay C
Well so far, Hyde is the only one of the five to provide Ballotpedia with both a picture and an “essay” - a sample:
Not only is he supporting Trump’s policies, but apparently, his grammar as well…..
And there’s this
Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?
Jim Jordan, Ted Yoho, Dan Crenshaw
Ewwwwww.
Another football player retired in his prime today. 28 years old. I think the NFL is on a serious decline potentially. I think a lot of these guys see the damage the game does and get our younger. Can’t wait to hear a bunch of guys who never played beyond backup on their middle school team call Luke Kuechly a wuss for not wanting to sacrifice his body for their amusement.
re: #38 BeachDem
And there’s this
Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?
Jim Jordan, Ted Yoho, Dan Crenshaw
Ewwwwww.
Makes sense. They all do nothing and just grandstand which is what I’m sure he would do if he somehow got elected.
The elephant in the room in this debate: there’s a mentally deteriorating madman in charge of the US right now. Shouldn’t this fact come up at some point?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 15, 2020
re: #41 Charles Johnson
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If only there was an amendment between 24 and 26 that calls for the removal of a President who can’t fulfill his duties. And if Trump doesn’t have dementia, he still is unfit to be President based on his actions and rhetoric.
re: #41 Charles Johnson
No member of the press is going to mention it, so it would be up to a candidate to bring it up. Would seem to be something right up Steyer’s alley.
re: #39 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Another football player retired in his prime today. 28 years old. I think the NFL is on a serious decline potentially. I think a lot of these guys see the damage the game does and get our younger. Can’t wait to hear a bunch of guys who never played beyond backup on their middle school team call Luke Kuechly a wuss for not wanting to sacrifice his body for their amusement.
Eh, before I’d start eulogizing the NFL, I’d need to see someone like Joe Burrow walk away from the multimillion dollar payday he earned himself from Cincinnati yesterday. There are a lot of kids on the college/minor league teams that are trying for a much smaller number of NFL team and practice team slots.
It’s about time we had a president that took women’s pleasure seriously. https://t.co/no9ZolhdPl
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) January 15, 2020
re: #39 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Another football player retired in his prime today. 28 years old. I think the NFL is on a serious decline potentially. I think a lot of these guys see the damage the game does and get our younger. Can’t wait to hear a bunch of guys who never played beyond backup on their middle school team call Luke Kuechly a wuss for not wanting to sacrifice his body for their amusement.
In 2012, he signed a $12M contract. In 2015, a five-year extension for another $60M. That’s enough money for a lifetime. Smart to get out while his brain and body are still functional.
re: #43 Weaselone
No member of the press is going to mention it, so it would be up to a candidate to bring it up. Would seem to be something right up Steyer’s alley.
Bloomberg has mentioned more than once, including in his 2016 DNC speech, that he believes Trump is mentally ill.
I can hardly believe CNN is turning this debate into another episode of “HOW DO WE PAY FOR IT, DEMOCRATS?”
Well actually I can totally believe it.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 15, 2020
re: #44 William Lewis
Eh, before I’d start eulogizing the NFL, I’d need to see someone like Joe Burrow walk away from the multimillion dollar payday he earned himself from Cincinnati yesterday. There are a lot of kids on the college/minor league teams that are trying for a much smaller number of NFL team and practice team slots.
Potentially. I’m just saying we’re not going to see too many guys playing long careers. I think they’ll take the first big contract and go with it. No judgment here. That game is tough on your body.
re: #48 Charles Johnson
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Be nice if that ever got asked of our Bond villain President and his whims for the border.
re: #48 Charles Johnson
I can hardly believe CNN is turning this debate into another episode of “HOW DO WE PAY FOR IT, DEMOCRATS?”
Well actually I can totally believe it.
Of course. Because only Dems are expected to have all the answers before they do anything, because Republican policies are always assumed sound by default.
re: #46 sagehen
In 2012, he signed a $12M contract. In 2015, a five-year extension for another $60M. That’s enough money for a lifetime. Smart to get out while his brain and body are still functional.
Absolutely. No judgment either way. It just seems to me that guys are only doing the two contracts at this point and then getting out. No judgment on them at all. My Dad always told me that he wasn’t allowed to play because of two early childhood concussions and that was probably the right bet. Besides music is a better bond anyhow. I did like talking football and boxing with my Grandpa tho.
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Michael Flynn’s lawyer tonight is trying to withdraw his plea, saying the DOJ told him to lie.
Good luck.
Honestly. Fuck Flynn! Send him to Leavenworth and lock that traitor up for the rest of his life!
Jim Scaiuto at CNN just tweeted out that Marie Yavanovitch’s lawyer is demanding an investigation after the evidence of Rudy Giuliani and Robert Hurd trying to surveil her movements.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Jim Scaiuto at CNN just tweeted out that Marie Yavanovitch’s lawyer is demanding an investigation after the evidence of Rudy Giuliani and Robert Hurd trying to surveil her movements.
There definitely needs to be. They’ve framed the whole thing with her as Trump had the right to fire her which yeah he does but the treatment of her with first the revelations of the smear campaign and now this? Gotta say I never liked Rudy but I had no idea that he was this scummy. I believe it honestly given how nasty he was to Obama and Clinton both but damn.
re: #8 gocart mozart
Robert Hyde non disclosure agreement for campaign VOLUNTEERS!
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Well, he’s really screwed the pooch on #4, hasn’t he?
re: #48 Charles Johnson
I’m waiting for the answer =.the tax cut we passed in 2017 paid for it already.
I hope for this answer just to see the follow up question having to admit that Republican line about tax cut finances was a fraud all along or they. STFU
Amy has brought up Robert Welch and his famous “Have you no decency” quote.
Republicans never had decency, and never will. We were never going to get a McCarthy moment. Never.
re: #58 Sherlock Hound
Amy has brought up Robert Welch and his famous “Have you no decency” quote.
Republicans never had decency, and never will. We were never going to get a McCarthy moment. Never.
We got a McCarthy moment because there were Republicans like Margaret Chase Smith and others who saw McCarthy as the demagogue he was. Meanwhile Susan Collins thinks she channels her Mainer predecessor by telling the press how concerned she is.
re: #58 Sherlock Hound
Amy has brought up Robert Welch and his famous “Have you no decency” quote.
Republicans never had decency, and never will. We were never going to get a McCarthy moment. Never.
“Never” is a long time.
Margaret Chase Smith.
(also… Earl Warren was a Republican)
re: #47 sagehen
Bloomberg has mentioned more than once, including in his 2016 DNC speech, that he believes Trump is mentally ill.
I don’t think we should stigmatize actual people with mental illness who somehow manage to not do evil shit. TRUMP IS EVIL. He may also have untreated mental illness but BEING EVIL is not an illness.
I half way through Maddow. Holy shit. These gangstar ass cretins.
re: #60 sagehen
“Never” is a long time.
Margaret Chase Smith.
(also… Earl Warren was a Republican)
Ike could have been better about McCarthy but Ike at least did something unlike Phyllis Schlafly’s favorite- Robert A. Taft who if he hadn’t died would have been fine with full on McCarthyism.
J. Fucking. C.
NEW: Ukraine prosecutor offered information related to Biden in exchange for ambassador’s ouster, newly released materials show. By @paulsonne @PostRoz @thamburger https://t.co/vKbZrG1Cbd
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) January 15, 2020
The impeachment trial will show that this is the most corrupt administration of our lives. That’s what lies at the heart of it—Trump putting Trump first. We need to draw that distinction, and show that Democrats are fighting on the side of the people. #DemDebate
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) January 15, 2020
It’s kind of amazing that the fact that we just found out that the President of the United States may have been involved in plotting violence against a US ambassador isn’t coming up at this debate. #DemDebate #CripTheVote
— Rabbi Ruti Regan 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@RutiRegan) January 15, 2020
re: #59 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
We got a McCarthy moment because there were Republicans like Margaret Chase Smith and others who saw McCarthy as the demagogue he was. Meanwhile Susan Collins thinks she channels her Mainer predecessor by telling the press how concerned she is.
Once upon a time there were such people as Liberal Republicans like Dick Schweicker, Bill Scranton, Margaret Chase Smith, Jim Pearson, Jacob Javitz, Ed Brooke, Clifford Case, John Anderson, Pete McCloskey, Charles Percy, Tom Kuchel, Charles Mathias and John Sherman Cooper. But one by one they got purged as the New Right took over the GOP.
re: #66 Sherlock Hound
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Is that stuff really a point of distinction between the candidates? Would any of them be saying “Oh, it’s OK that Trump did this.” or would it simply be a chorus of them all piling on to condemn his actions?
If the latter then use the limited debate time to help define the differences between the candidates so that the best one can be chosen.
re: #67 Joe Bacon 🌹
Once upon a time there were such people as Liberal Republicans like Dick Schweicker, Bill Scranton, Margaret Chase Smith, Jim Pearson, Jacob Javitz, Ed Brooke, Clifford Case, John Anderson, Pete McCloskey, Charles Percy, Tom Kuchel, Charles Mathias and John Sherman Cooper. But one by one they got purged as the New Right took over the GOP.
My paternal grandfather’s father was a Republican. I have no idea what kind of Republican though.
re: #68 The Pie Overlord!
Ruti blocked me. I guess she doesn’t like pie.
That’s criminal. How could anyone not like pie. BTW discovered that my niece and me have the same favorite- Lemon Meringue.
re: #69 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Is that stuff really a point of distinction between the candidates? Would any of them be saying “Oh, it’s OK that Trump did this.” or would it simply be a chorus of them all piling on to condemn his actions?
If the latter then use the limited debate time to help define the differences between the candidates so that the best one can be chosen.
That’s true. Tulsi isn’t there to blame Hillary for what happened.
re: #71 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
That’s criminal. How could anyone not like pie. BTW discovered that my niece and me have the same favorite- Lemon Meringue.
I love Lemon Meringue pie, it’s one of my favorites but it’s also the most difficult and time-consuming to make.
That oughta put an end to speculation. https://t.co/S2rcfx278P
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 15, 2020
The problem with the Republican party? They haven’t done any sort of evolution in years. In fact, they’ve gotten worse.
re: #73 The Pie Overlord!
I love Lemon Meringue pie, it’s one of my favorites but it’s also the most difficult and time-consuming to make.
Yeah it does look difficult. My one brother would only eat the lemon filling. It was our grandfather’s favorite too. My grandma when she wanted to treat me would make my favorite meal- breaded pork chops with mashed or fried potatoes and apple sauce and then lemon meringue pie for dessert. My other brother’s favorite is coconut cream. We also like Key Lime which I think came from a visit to my uncle in the Keys.
In all seriousness…who among us hasn’t got drunk and implied they were going to pay to have someone killed?
— Clay C. (@ClayC1969) January 15, 2020
re: #79 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
there’s pie….?
It’s pie o’clock somewhere alas just not here.
The Gang Who Couldn’t Conspire Straight.
re: #76 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The problem with the Republican party? They haven’t done any sort of evolution in years. In fact, they’ve gotten worse.
A lot of religious people don’t “believe” in evolution.
re: #75 jaunte
UH OH!
Somebody didn’t watch The Irishman!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 15, 2020
re: #74 Joe Bacon 🌹
A lot of people on Disabled Twitter use a certain blocklist, I believe. I am blocked by some of Disabled Twitter as well. Of course, I can’t really inquire, but my tweets are relatively milquetoast compared to some other people.
I see Twitter changed their web layout. Tweets on left, info moved to right and doesn’t scroll. tossed who to follow into top of tweet feed. As the say on Fark, “You’ll get over it.”
The glee that some reporters are taking in having fresh new scandal and a new mafia-character to talk about borders on obscene.
re: #89 Dread Pirate
I see Twitter changed their web layout. Tweets on left, info moved to right and doesn’t scroll. tossed who to follow into top of tweet feed. As the say on Fark, “You’ll get over it.”
Picked an interesting day to finally sign up for Twitter which is why I changed my handle here. Not going to be doing politics there though. Just ranting on random shit.
re: #90 jaunte
The glee that some reporters are taking in having fresh new scandal and a new mafia-character to talk about borders on obscene.
When do we get a collection of playing cards for who’s who in Trump’s crime syndicate. And who is the Paulie Walnuts of this operation?
Michael Avenatti was arrested today… in the middle of a California Bar hearing to suspend his license because he stole millions from a client. https://t.co/x21sZhayjO
— kate briquelet (@kbriquelet) January 15, 2020
re: #93 Dread Pirate
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Hey, remember when dude was running for President?
HAHAHAHAHAHA. He sure has fallen fast.
Warren mentions how the debate never touched on the issues facing the #disabilitytwitter community.
It’s a slate of crucial issues some of the candidates have just started waking up to, as @sterncarly96 and I wrote in the fall: https://t.co/3dt4MvuLuB #CripTheVote— Nicholas Fouriezos (@nick4iezos) January 15, 2020
Top Ten Trump crime movies and tv shows
Dumbfellas
The So-much-whine-os
The Donfather
Orangeface
Once Upon a Time in Russia
Little Czar
Donnie Trump-co
Mar-a-lago Empire
Blow(hard)
Angels with MAGA Faces.
Whoever wins the nomination, and with luck the election, needs Kamala Harris as AG. The unprecedented disaster of Trump requires a massive, top-to-bottom clean-up, from ordinary graft and corruption to voter suppression to outright treason and war crimes. I think she is the one to do it.
Additionally, the IRS needs to move against the corrupt pulpit pimps. It is criminal that Republican shills can hide behind a religious tax exemption. If it were up to me, the religious exemption would be abolished entirely, with limited breaks for institutions that engage in genuine charity work.
These are bad people, I’m out to expose their actions. Attack me all you want, get the facts first. The media is against me because they’re either complicit or have a hand in it, I welcome an investigation. I’ll provide my email password and hand my phone over, bring it on. #hyde
— HYDE for U.S. Congress (@rfhyde1) January 15, 2020
re: #93 Dread Pirate
Trump totally lucked out given what a goofball Avenantti is. I still believe Stormy Daniels completely but that guy was his own worst enemy when it comes to PR.
re: #81 bratwurst
I know this is nothing for some of you, but amazed that this has become my first ever “viral” tweet, 16,000+ views and 500+ likes in 20 minutes.
Hyde deserves all of the credit, of course. If an anthropomorphic mayonnaise jar in a cheap suit can’t inspire a witty tweet, nothing can!
Huge breaking news about the Parnas documents tonight. Not a single question for the Democratic candidates about it. This is bananas.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 15, 2020
So firing Yovanovitch wasn’t just to get her out of the way.
It was another corrupt Quid Pro Quo, part of the package to get dirt on Biden. https://t.co/umq4xNyXCm— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) January 15, 2020
Listening to the CNN post-debate panel, they are absolutely seething that the candidates didn’t spend the last two hours tearing each other apart, but spent the time debating issues without any sign of amicus. I used to have some respect for Chris Cuomo, but he’s really turned into the worst of the lot.
re: #97 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Whoever wins the nomination, and with luck the election, needs Kamala Harris as AG. The unprecedented disaster of Trump requires a massive, top-to-bottom clean-up, from ordinary graft and corruption to voter suppression to outright treason and war crimes. I think she is the one to do it.
Additionally, the IRS needs to move against the corrupt pulpit pimps. It is criminal that Republican shills can hide behind a religious tax exemption. If it were up to me, the religious exemption would be abolished entirely, with limited breaks for institutions that engage in genuine charity work.
Absolutely. I can think of no one better. I would also consider Klobuchar too. Both of these women have been district attorneys for large and diverse metropolitian areas. They understand how prosecution works and going after the corruption along with implementing some criminal justice reform is going to take someone who has experience in that on a big level.
re: #101 Charles Johnson
Huge breaking news about the Parnas documents tonight. Not a single question for the Democratic candidates about it. This is bananas.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 15, 2020
Given that the journalists just got the Parnas documents themselves and the candidates have not yet had time to review them and form an educated opinion, it would be premature to ask questions at this stage. We don’t even know how reliable these documents are since Parnas is not a model of rectitude anyway.
I’d like to put Steve Kornacki and Doug Collins in a small room together with bullhorns for an auctioneer-off.
Hey, who among us hasn’t had a few too many and ended up plotting the assassination of a US ambassador? https://t.co/UjVVb4hov0
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) January 15, 2020
re: #105 Hecuba’s daughter
Wouldn’t put it past him to drop
Some fake docs in an attempt to discredit the whole thing.
re: #98 gocart mozart
Dear lord, he just keeps going. I feels sorry for his lawyer.
Remember that Amb. Yovanovitch was told a security threat necessitated her immediate evacuation—just after she finished hosting an event honoring anticorruption activist Kateryna Handziuk, who succumbed to excruciating injuries from an acid attack after 3 months and 11 surgeries. pic.twitter.com/FlxltBwyY0
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 15, 2020
Remember these fucking people are murderers and murderers-in-waiting.
re: #111 jaunte
Remember these fucking people are murderers and murderers-in-waiting.
These are the people who turned a blind eye to Khashoggi’s murder. Power, it’s a hell of a drug.
re: #105 Hecuba’s daughter
Given that the journalists just got the Parnas documents themselves and the candidates have not yet had time to review them and form an educated opinion, it would be premature to ask questions at this stage. We don’t even know how reliable these documents are since Parnas is not a model of rectitude anyway.
That was my thought.
re: #109 Ace-o-aces
Dear lord, he just keeps going. I feels sorry for his lawyer.
As long as his lawyer is getting paid up front, he should be alright.
SCOOP: Robert F. Hyde, the new mystery player in the Ukraine scandal, was taken into police custody at a Trump resort last year, claiming the Secret Service & a hit man were after him. He was then involuntarily confined in a medical facility. https://t.co/7Rkx3dXlJG
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 15, 2020
re: #74 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hmmm. Rabbi Ruti blocked me too!
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Hyde posted a note on Instagram stating that he had been “Baker Acted” for nine days and placed into “a facility” where his “mental, emotional, and physical self” were “pushed.” He noted that he had passed “all medicals, physicals, psych exams and diagnoses with flying colors.”
Mini-Trump.
I find this possible to believe.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 15, 2020
re: #121 jaunte
Who talks about “passing” their diagnosis?
The Gaelic people of Ireland said that the Normans who came to Ireland became more Irish than the Irish themselves, this man has become more Trump than Trump himself. Either way, he’s one of those people Trump calls mentally ill that shouldn’t be having arsenals.
Stephen Colbert is live tonight and is now playing clips from Trump’s rally earlier this evening.
Holee crap, Trump has completely lost it mentally. Literally ‘old man yells at cloud’ territory.
And I say this as an Ambassador that had threats against her, albeit not from other Americans!
— Dana Shell Smith (@AmbDana) January 15, 2020
The story always seems to begin at Mar Al Lago. I really think Mar Al Lago is just a place where the assholes who go there pay to get access to his Royal Donald and hey maybe if he likes you enough, you can go golfing with him and he’ll tell you a fun state secret or two.
re: #125 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The story always seems to begin at Mar Al Lago. I really think Mar Al Lago is just a place where the assholes who go there pay to get access to his Royal Donald and hey maybe if he likes you enough, you can go golfing with him and he’ll tell you a fun state secret or two.
And if you give him enough money, you too might be appointed ambassador to the EU even though you have no qualifications for the position.
re: #97 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
No, Kamala Harris is too important as California’s next senior Senator when Dianne Feinstein retires. (Please make it happen soon.)
re: #123 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Stephen Colbert is live tonight and is now playing clips from Trump’s rally earlier this evening.
Holee crap, Trump has completely lost it mentally. Literally ‘old man yells at cloud’ territory.
And then FNC and OAC will tell their loyal viewers about how courageous our divinely supported President Trump was against a deceitful opposition inspired by Satan and both Marxist and Islamist.
re: #126 Hecuba’s daughter
And if you give him enough money, you too might be appointed ambassador to the EU even though you have no qualifications for the position.
Our executive branch is for fucking sale. That’s something they need to hit hard on in the Summer and Fall.
re: #125 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The story always seems to begin at Mar Al Lago. I really think Mar Al Lago is just a place where the assholes who go there pay to get access to his Royal Donald and hey maybe if he likes you enough, you can go golfing with him and he’ll tell you a fun state secret or two.
But Mar-a-Lago is so much more than that! It’s also where young girls were recruited to be sex slaves for the late Jeffrey Epstein.
re: #127 Dread Pirate
No, Kamala Harris is too important as California’s next senior Senator when Dianne Feinstein retires. (Please make it happen soon.)
I felt that way when Kaine was vetted for Clinton. I really think Harris would be a great AG but I think whatever she does, she’s going to continue to shine. She’s bright, personable, and I would be proud to call her our President.
re: #130 bratwurst
But Mar-a-Lago is so much more than that! It’s also where young girls were recruited to be sex slaves for the late Jeffrey Epstein.
The Ravenite Social Club had more class and so did the Bing.
alrighty then pic.twitter.com/9AzVoqN5VZ
— Adrenochrome Harvester (@ClenchedFisk) January 15, 2020
re: #133 gocart mozart
Well, she should look on the bright side, at least her kid didn’t do something really awful like advocating SCHIP because we know how Michelle reacts when children testify about health insurance needing to be more affordable to American children.
I found out today how opening up about our family can help others.
My two oldest sons are gay. My oldest came out his freshman year, and it eventually made its way onto Facebook (the only person I was truly worried about reacting wrong was my mom). So, it’s fairly common knowledge.
Yesterday, one of families we made friends with after I got out of the Navy all those years ago, who these days we tend to only keep in contact through Facebook, announced that one of their children is transitioning to a woman. Being Texas, you could tell the mom was worried about the push back based on her post, but I think the family decided it was time to come out. Happily, everyone in the replies was really supportive.
I found out from my wife that the mom had contacted her back in October. Because we had dealt with a son coming out as gay - which actually amounted to not having to deal with anything - she was asking for help. I’m not sure what my wife said, but I suspect it went along the lines of that we would be there if they needed us.
I’m glad it seems to be working out so far.
re: #108 GlutenFreeJesus
Wouldn’t put it past him to drop
Some fake docs in an attempt to discredit the whole thing.
That’s what scares me. I said the other day that he seems a little too ready to give shit up.
re: #135 Belafon
I found out today how opening up about our family can help others.
My two oldest sons are gay. My oldest came out his freshman year, and it eventually made its way onto Facebook (the only person I was truly worried about reacting wrong was my mom). So, it’s fairly common knowledge.
Yesterday, one of families we made friends with after I got out of the Navy all those years ago, who these days we tend to only keep in contact through Facebook, announced that one of their children is transitioning to a woman. Being Texas, you could tell the mom was worried about the push back based on her post, but I think the family decided it was time to come out. Happily, everyone in the replies was really supportive.
I found out from my wife that the mom had contacted her back in October. Because we had dealt with a son coming out as gay - which actually amounted to not having to deal with anything - she was asking for help. I’m not sure what my wife said, but I suspect it went along the lines of that we would be there if they needed us.
I’m glad it seems to be working out so far.
Your sons and their daughter are lucky to have you as parents. We talked about the unconditional love my late grandmother had for her family during the service. Neither me or my brothers are LGBT but I know that our grandmother and also our parents would still love us if we were LGBT and I think that’s why it’s so offensive when I see some conservatives act like “coming out” as conservative is somehow even close to coming out LGBT.
re: #117 Pawn of the Oppressor
…OK. Is there a recipe for that somewhere??
Ingredients
1
cup flaked or shredded coconut
3/4
cup sugar
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cup Original Bisquick™ mix
1/4
cup butter or margarine, softened
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cups milk
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teaspoons vanilla
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Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until golden brown and knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pie.
re: #133 gocart mozart
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So how much coke did Malkin snort to hallucinate that shit?
re: #137 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Your sons and their daughter are lucky to have you as parents. We talked about the unconditional love my late grandmother had for her family during the service. None of me or my brothers are LGBT but I know that our grandmother and also our parents would still love us if we were LGBT and I think that’s why it’s so offensive when I see some conservatives act like “coming out” as conservative is somehow even close to coming out LGBT.
I will say that here in the DFW area, even here in Rockwall, family seems to be really important, even with all the churches. My son had a friend who transitioned to a man in high school, and I didn’t hear anything from him that indicated there had been any problem. When the mayor tried to institute a bathroom policy at our Target, the citizens tore into him.
re: #142 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hey! Maybe Droney paid a visit to Malkin!
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It was just inspecting her kitchen to see if she had granite countertops.
re: #141 Belafon
I will say that here in the DFW area, even here in Rockwall, family seems to be really important, even with all the churches. My son had a friend who transition to a man in high school, and I didn’t hear anything from him that indicated there had been any problem. When the mayor tried to institute a bathroom policy at our Target, the citizens tore into him.
I think this is an issue that a lot of people in general are getting more progressive minded on in more heavily populated areas. And it’s why I think I think you have people like Ben Shapiro who are so loud about their transphobia. The right lost the same sex marriage debate after Bush got re-elected with the help of people voting on anti-gay marriage referendums in several states that year. And we’re seeing them lose the bathroom wars too. They just cannot accept that not everyone is a cisgendered heterosexual. Of course, we still have a long ways to go in some places as you know.
This is literally a video just released by Lev Parnas’ attorney. It is basically TV ready as an ad. pic.twitter.com/PoskMrmusA
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 14, 2020
re: #145 Joe Bacon 🌹
You know, I tell people Fargo is my favorite Coen Bros movie but it’s actually the Trump Administration because of how absurd everyone connected with them is.
re: #146 retired cynic
OMG
The Sessions baseball jersey. I mean I consider one of our former AGs to be one of my political heroes- RFK but getting a baseball jersey like that? Yikes. This really is a creepy political cult.
Their solution to that is to force him to liquidate SOMETHING in order to be able to afford to pay the wealth tax in cash.
The fact that whatever he sells will probably ding him HARD for INCOME tax the FOLLOWING year is a #featurenotbug.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) January 15, 2020
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This Parnas information might be the 18 minute gap that brings down a President.
The superseding indictment DOJ is likely going to unveil now against Flynn should be something ….
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 15, 2020
re: #152 Dread Pirate
This Parnas information might be the 18 minute gap that brings down a President.
But what is Parnas motivation for this behavior? Why did he turn on Giuliani and Trump? There was speculation a couple weeks ago that he was angered by Trump’s standard practice of denying any relationship with a suspect. But that seems like very thin gruel for taking such a drastic step. Or is there a reason that Putin wants to bring down Trump at this point. Any ideas?
The hero we need bravely marches forward into the breach!
By the by- this is not a very promising ratio. pic.twitter.com/5x5If9X1Wp
— Uriel (@sickendun2death) January 15, 2020
Just in case the bots roll in: a snapshot of failure. pic.twitter.com/tYI2IvMI5U
— Uriel (@sickendun2death) January 15, 2020
Only a 2000% disparity.
re: #95 Sherlock Hound
you’ll have to pardon me while I spit after reading this tweet…
you see, I absolutely fucking hate this framing. Why is everyone considered a default GOP voter? Why do Dems have to do anything to win them over? Which political party has advocated for the disabled in their budgeting and laws over the last five decades… Democrats. Please feel free to cite any GOP led legislation that benefited the disabled in that time frame…
I’ll wait…
Dems have to win This constituency or THAT constituency is absolute fucking bullshit, when does the GOP have to do something, anything other than spew hatred and racism to get a fucking vote? When do THEY have to moderate their image, have a fucking policy, show their goddamn work in how a tax break will actually work, or where the money for a new war will come from or even build a fucking wall on the border.
Goddamn this shite is fucking tiresome to read over and over again. Only Dems have agency, only Dems have to have plans, only Dems have to show their work, show the math proofs, have to have experience solving problems, have to be well versed on all issues, and only Dems have to keep reaching out to people who they have been helping for decades because the Press can’t be bothered to own up to the fact that they already do.
re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter
But what is Parnas motivation for this behavior? Why did he turn on Giuliani and Trump? There was speculation a couple weeks ago that he was angered by Trump’s standard practice of denying any relationship with a suspect. But that seems like very thin gruel for taking such a drastic step. Or is there a reason that Putin wants to bring down Trump at this point. Any ideas?
If Parnas does bring down Trump, especially with a dramatic revelation, he will be famous for the rest of history. People have done a great deal more for less.
re: #123 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Stephen Colbert is live tonight and is now playing clips from Trump’s rally earlier this evening.
Holee crap, Trump has completely lost it mentally. Literally ‘old man yells at cloud’ territory.
I have little doubt that Trump could completely lose it onstage, live, on TV - and I mean ranting in absolute, babbling nonsense, followed up by him shitting himself and losing control of his bladder (again, on live TV) - and his cultists would respond with, “BUT THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT TAKES CONTROL OF YOU AND YOU’RE DIRECTLY CHANNELING THE LORD!!” or something to that effect.
re: #157 piratedan
Goddamn this shite is fucking tiresome to read over and over again. Only Dems have agency, only Dems have to have plans, only Dems have to show their work, show the math proofs, have to have experience solving problems, have to be well versed on all issues, and only Dems have to keep reaching out to people who they have been helping for decades because the Press can’t be bothered to own up to the fact that they already do.
Yup.
The myth of the “left-leaning media” is going to be the death of us all.
re: #147 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You know, I tell people Fargo is my favorite Coen Bros movie but it’s actually the Trump Administration because of how absurd everyone connected with them is.
When the Netflix series is finally made about all this fuckery, it’s gonna have to be done by the Coen Brothers, because only they could properly capture the lunacy.
re: #161 Dr Lizardo
When the Netflix series is finally made about all this fuckery, it’s gonna have to be done by the Coen Brothers, because only they could properly capture the lunacy.
It’s all so absurd.
re: #162 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s all so absurd.
Armando Iannucci would be my second choice after the Coen Brothers; he’s very good at making black-humored political satires, such as The Death of Stalin.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) January 15, 2020
re: #163 Dr Lizardo
Armando Iannucci would be my second choice after the Coen Brothers; he’s very good at making black-humored political satires, such as The Death of Stalin.
Same. That would be my second choice. I just want it to be over. Peace of mind.
re: #165 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Same. That would be my second choice. I just want it to be over. Peace of mind.
Indeed. Trump is clearly deteriorating and I doubt very highly he’s going to participate in any presidential debates with the Democratic nominee.
re: #166 Dr Lizardo
Indeed. Trump is clearly deteriorating and I doubt very highly he’s going to participate in any presidential debates with the Democratic nominee.
Yeah I can totally see some excuse about him being “busy” or that the moderators suggested are biased against him.
Oh, now he’s panic deleting evidence. Somewhere, @Popehat is quietly weeping.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) January 15, 2020
Truly, this is a man who has no fucking idea how a dishwasher works.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) January 15, 2020
re: #169 Ace-o-aces
FFS, we really are in “old man yells at clouds” territory, aren’t we?
YOVANOVITCH: I have to leave because of security risks? Are they … serious?
SECURITY CHIEF: [looks to left, where Robert Hyde is attempting unsuccessfully to hide behind a small ficus] …..kind of?— EminentHat (@Popehat) January 15, 2020
re: #170 Dr Lizardo
FFS, we really are in “old man yells at clouds” territory, aren’t we?
I really think his rallies are his way to get all his resentments out and to let his supporters know he’s as miserable as they are about the modern world. Seriously though, his rallies are a fucking joke. I would feel bad who pays to hear Trump whine but there are people who go to a Trump rally and come home convinced this is the greatest American ever. As I said earlier, if you want to hear an old man whine about 2020, listen to Ben Shapiro talk about anything or read Charlie Kirk tweets, you can get that for free at least unlike paying 40 bucks for a read the transcript tee shirt and then never reading what was released nor figuring out that psst it wasn’t a transcript.
re: #172 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really think his rallies are his way to get all his resentments out and to let his supporters know he’s as miserable as they are about the modern world. Seriously though, his rallies are a fucking joke. I would feel bad but there are people who go to a Trump rally and come home convinced this is the greatest American ever.
This is why Trump seems to connect so well with his supporters; they’re people who are deeply frustrated with not only modernity, but with their own personal failings in life. Trump is their outlet, their way of expressing that frustration and their resentments against everyone and everything they hold to be responsible for their misery.
re: #169 Ace-o-aces
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He’s used to just having an underling hire an an illegal immigrant to do it as cheaply as possible.
I have my doubts that Trump has interacted with most of the usual household laborsaving appliances in the past 40 years. That is for servants.
re: #174 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
He’s used to just having an underling hire an an illegal immigrant to do it as cheaply as possible.
I have my doubts that Trump has interacted with most of the usual household laborsaving appliances in the past 40 years. That is for servants.
Precisely. Trump pays people to wash his dishes, or vacuum and dust his penthouse suite, or go get food from the supermarket or make his coffee. Put a Mr. Coffee in front of him, and he’d probably think it’s the wonder of the age.
Back on AF1 where the TVs are preset to CNN and the Dem debate…. LOL just kidding. pic.twitter.com/FfDhJllM8d
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) January 15, 2020
re: #139 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m keeping that one, thanks.
yikes pic.twitter.com/QpABP6Cb0Z
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 14, 2020
re: #24 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I mean one candidate uses his stump speech to whine about dishwashers, the other candidate has a plan to get more Americans health insurance. I’m undecided.//
One speaks “my language” and the other wants Socilism…
re: #51 Citizen K
Of course. Because only Dems are expected to have all the answers before they do anything, because Republican policies are always assumed sound by default.
And their record deficits are just glossed over…
re: #76 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The problem with the Republican party? They haven’t done any sort of evolution in years. In fact, they’ve gotten worse.
I saw a key moment when the party let Trump trash John McCain’s war record and still remain their candidate.
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
His war record and his adopted daughter if I remember correctly.
re: #147 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You know, I tell people Fargo is my favorite Coen Bros movie but it’s actually the Trump Administration because of how absurd everyone connected with them is.
The last Fargo involved a company that was having financial troubles in 2008 and accepted loans from a Russian moneylender. But it turns out that the Russians are not interested in seeing the loan repaid, they just want to use the company to launder their transactions…they gain access to information that the boss wants to keep silent, which keeps him pliable. Sound familiar?
re: #161 Dr Lizardo
When the Netflix series is finally made about all this fuckery, it’s gonna have to be done by the Coen Brothers, because only they could properly capture the lunacy.
No Country for Bald Men
The Wendell Wave has ended, I am now caught up with the thread. You may proceed…
Morning alla Y’all.
A tropical 70 deg. In the Heart of Texas this morning.
re: #188 Dave In Austin
Morning alla Y’all.
A tropical 70 deg. In the Heart of Texas this morning.
Sounds nice. It’s only about 37 F here in eastern Czech Republic.
Thanks, Bernie. pic.twitter.com/Lh01EaZp2Q
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 14, 2020
re: #184 A Mom Anon
His war record and his adopted daughter if I remember correctly.
Yes. Really sleazy shit.
re: #188 Dave In Austin
Morning alla Y’all.
A tropical 70 deg. In the Heart of Texas this morning.
53° and sunny on the Rhine. Very untypical January weather.
re: #192 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yes. Really sleazy shit.
and yet it went unchallenged for fear of alienating his supporters
re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
53° and sunny on the Rhine. Very untypical January weather.
10.8°C (51.4 °F) here in Stockholm. I remember when January days would have the same temperature, but with a minus sign in front of the centigrade degrees number (12.6°F)… And we used to have that white stuff littering the streets and roads and countryside…
re: #195 Teukka
10.8°C (51.4 °F) here in Stockholm. I remember when January days would have the same temperature, but with a minus sign in front of the centigrade degrees number (12.6°F)… And we used to have that white stuff littering the streets and roads and countryside…
I seem to recall that our last White Christmas and winter with a snow cover that lasted more than a few days was 2010-2011.
re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
53° and sunny on the Rhine. Very untypical January weather.
Looks like that warmer weather should be headed our way in the next few days or so. And yeah, that’s unusually warm for January.
Headlines, even the BBC, are giving us “Democrats in Disarray”.
While the GOP is solid as a rock in its steadfast support of a serial liar, misogynist and fraudster…
Economic growth in Germany plummeted in 2019, according to the latest figures released by the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) on Wednesday.The growth rate is the lowest Germany has seen since 2013 and comes on the heels of news that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government logged a massive €13.5 billion ($15 billion) surplus last year — reigniting calls for Berlin to spend more.
What are the latest figures?
- German growth for 2019 fell to 0.6% — down from the 1.5% growth rate logged in 2018 and significantly lower than the 2.5% rate in 2017.
- Despite the drop, the Germany economy grew for a tenth year in a row — the longest period of growth since German reunification.
- In 2019, Germany’s surplus amounted to 1.5% of its GDP, slightly down from 2018’s 1.9%.
Global problems and changes: The growth slowdown in Germany has largely been blamed on the trade war between the United States and China — which has hit Germany’s export-oriented economy hard. Political uncertainty with Brexit as well as the German car industry’s transition to electric power have also taken their toll.
And sooner or later, that’s gonna impact Czech Republic. Shit rolls downhill, after all.
re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Headlines, even the BBC, are giving us “Democrats in Disarray”.
While the GOP is solid as a rock in its steadfast support of a serial liar, misogynist and fraudster…
What are Democrats in disarray about? Or is this just more why haven’t Democratic voters already coalesced around a single candidate before the first primary votes are even cast Sturm and drang?
re: #202 Weaselone
What are Democrats in disarray about? Or is this just more why haven’t Democratic voters already coalesced around a single candidate before the first primary votes are even cast Sturm and drang?
The whole Sanders-Warren stuff. Frankly I’m glad that more people are seeing that Sanders is a patronizing jerk.
Politically sure
They get soundbites to use against Joe
And create some theater
Reality though:
Correct. If I rob some people at gunpoint because I think they robbed me at some earlier time, and I go on trial for that, my claim that I was robbed isn’t a defense, and I don’t get to put the other people on trial. Ask O.J. https://t.co/9vW4RniaO1
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 14, 2020
Hunter is neither politician nor witness to anything
Who should testify? Those who dirrctly participated in this mess whether they were in the room ever or just helped cover it up after
re: #202 Weaselone
What are Democrats in disarray about? Or is this just more why haven’t Democratic voters already coalesced around a single candidate before the first primary votes are even cast Sturm and drang?
They are torn between whether to veer hard left or simply declare the Caliphate…
Wapo
Americans who have been wondering why President Trump has taken the extraordinary step of trying to block every document from being released to Congress in his impeachment need wonder no longer. The new documents released Tuesday evening by the House Intelligence Committee were devastating to Trump’s continuing — if shifting — defense of his Ukraine extortion scandal, just days before his impeachment trial is likely to begin in the Senate. These new documents demolish at least three key defenses to which Trump and his allies have been clinging: that he was really fighting corruption when he pressured Ukraine on matters related to the Biden family; that Hunter Biden should be called as a witness at the Senate impeachment trial; and that there’s no need for a real, honest-to-goodness trial in the Senate
This whole thing is a verdict in search of a defense
Kiev-in McCarthy https://t.co/NON0ZGkNoz
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) January 15, 2020
re: #207 Dave In Austin
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McCarthy’s face is saying “Trump gets to pal around with Scott Baio and I’m stuck with the Russian mob.” I’m old enough to remember when no one knew Lev and Igor. Seems they were fixtures at Trump’s events.
re: #91 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Picked an interesting day to finally sign up for Twitter which is why I changed my handle here. Not going to be doing politics there though. Just ranting on random shit.
Youre too young to be yelling at clouds yet
The funny thing is for all the “deep state” shit, it’s more of Trump creating an apparatus that ignores what the lifers in government do. That nut Hyde attacked Yovanovitch for working for Obama’s administration but she worked for Bush’s administration too. I think Trump and his lackeys really think every appointment is an ideological one.
re: #209 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Youre too young to be yelling at clouds yet
Nah. I’m not doing politics there. Already gave my two cents on a good bookstore to one of my favorite musicians and congratulated on another on his wife (Mandy Moore from This Is Us) having a new album and complimented their performance I saw in August. It’s my way to engage with my hobbies outside politics. I call myself Leftyrambles since I’m a left handed, it’s more a reference to my baseball days and being a big mouth.
Is this even being talked about on FoxNeuz?
I also applied for a social media job. And I need to increase my SM presence anyhow.
re: #212 Dave In Austin
Is this even being talked about on FoxNeuz?
I’m sure some rando professor said something true about Trump or right wing economics and that’s what is troubling their hearts today.
re: #213 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I also applied for a social media job. And I need to increase my SM presence anyhow.
I’m not sure that’s a good thing Brother. Most of us are yearning to escape.
re: #215 Dave In Austin
I’m not sure that’s a good thing Brother. Most of us are yearning to escape.
Might well be but I’m trying to better understand this stuff. I’m going to need it after I get my certification and if I do grad school. Besides it’s apolitical. I had a shitty past three months after losing my job and grandmother. Plus I realized that I need to go back to what I really like doing and that’s baseball, lit, music, & travel. Plus I don’t use my real name. If people want to hear me rant about politics, here is good enough or with close family and friends.
re: #216 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Get to it then. Good luck with all your endeavors.
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re: #217 Dave In Austin
Get to it then. Good luck with all your endeavors.
Thanks. I’m trying to make the best of life more. Anxiety is something I’ve struggled with a lot but I’m gradually regaining my self-confidence back.
Someone caught Mitch McConnell in a rare moment of relaxation.
Cnn
A Florida woman is facing charges after she went to a Walmart in Tampa, got items from the shelves and started making an explosive device inside the store, authorities said.
Then the woman, Emily Stallard, 37, tried to detonate it in the store Saturday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Tuesday
re: #221 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
She definitely looks like she’s pondering on what brought her to this moment in life in her mugshot.
re: #210 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The funny thing is for all the “deep state” shit, it’s more of Trump creating an apparatus that ignores what the lifers in government do.
“Deep State” is a RW talking point created and applied liberally (so to speak) to discredit all those career professionals and specialists - people whom any modern government relies on to be functional - who serve the long-term interests of the nation above the short-term interests of the Trump administration.
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Deep State” is a RW talking point created and applied liberally (so to speak) to discredit all those career professionals and specialists - people whom any modern government relies on to be functional - who serve the long-term interests of the nation above the short-term interests of the Trump administration.
That’s pretty much what I said. I’m familiar with the “deep state.” Some of them are my friends, neighbors, former coworkers, & even family. Both my mom and paternal grandfather were Fed lifers. The scapegoating of hard working people who are trying to serve their nation’s interests has always ticked me off.
I’ve been on an nsaid for a bit
I think im shrinking
The new Slipknot tune pretty much sums up my current mood..
Lyrics behind the jump.
Nero Forte
Slipknot
Watch this
I’m never enough
You bled me dry, using me up
Dissatisfied, and used
Another key to the empty spot in you
I’m sick as a fuck, I’m in my prime
What do you want? I guess it’s time to see
If you’re lost in hell, you’ll find no peace
Ooh, wade through hate and fear
I haven’t felt like this in years
Not much left, so uprooted
Fist clenched tight in the pockets of my hoodie
And I know where I need to go
But the voice of reason can’t say no
It’s in the eyes and heart
Just the latest psycho off the charts
That’s what you do best
A home like yours is upside down
Too much animosity
Nobody does it better than the enemy
A hope like yours won’t help me now
You can do your worst to me
At the end of the day, that’s what you do best
A home like yours is upside down
Too much animosity
Nobody does it better than the enemy
A hope like yours won’t help me now
You can do your worst to me
At the end of the day, that’s what you do best
I know, and even if I didn’t
I would lie so many would believe it
Stand up and resist the chains
Of all the people in belligerent sick restraint
I wasn’t enough, you bled me dry
Which way is up? Oh, you’re a lie
And a fake, I hope that truth is not too late
That’s what you do best
A home like yours is upside down
Too much animosity
Nobody does it better than the enemy
A hope like yours won’t help me now
You can do your worst to me
At the end of the day, that’s what you do best
A home like yours is upside down
Too much animosity
Nobody does it better than the enemy
A hope like yours won’t help me now
You can do your worst to me
At the end of the day, that’s what you do best
That’s what you do best
That’s what you do best
That’s what you do best (hahahaha)
(Why) Why was it easy for you?
(Did) Did I deserve the abuse?
(I) I can’t believe I let it
(Not) Not what I wanted
(See) See through your bullshit
(Your) You’re so dramatic
(True) True to your form of
(Face) Every consequence
(Un-) Unintimidated
(-til) ‘Til the very end
(It) It’ll never happen
(Was) Was it all a lie?
(Too) Many motherfuckin’
(Late) That’s what you do best
(Lie) That’s what you do best
(Lie) That’s what you do best
That’s what you do best
A home like yours is upside down
Too much animosity
Nobody does it better than the enemy
A hope like yours won’t help me now
You can do your worst to me
At the end of the day, that’s what you do best
A home like yours is upside down
Too much animosity
Nobody does it better than the enemy
A hope like yours won’t help me now
You can do your worst to me
At the end of the day, that’s what you do best
A home like yours is upside down
You can do your worst to me
At the end of the day, that’s what you do best
A hope like yours won’t help me now
You can do your worst to me
At the end of the day, that’s what you do best
That’s what you do
That’s what you do best, yeah
(What you do best) Yeah
(What you do best)
(What you do best)
(What you do best)
(What you do best)
That’s what you do best
That’s what you do best
Bloomberg:
[Did Pelosi Lose Her Showdown with McConnell?]
Jonathan Bernstein: “That’s what CNN’s Chris Cillizza says. I don’t see it. The political scientist and Washington Post columnist Dan Drezner is closer to the mark. He tweeted: ‘Pelosi got little from McConnell in delaying the transmittal of impeachment. On the other hand, during the delay some damning new documents appeared, Bolton said he’d testify, and now even the Trump White House expects witnesses will be called.’ John Bolton, one of Trump’s former national security advisers, was part of the White House foreign-policy team when Trump ordered military aid withheld from Ukraine as he pressured that country to investigate a leading Democratic rival, ex-Vice President Joe Biden — the topic of one of the impeachment articles.”
“Overall, I’d say Pelosi may have marginally helped her cause, and it’s hard to make an argument that she harmed it.”
re: #227 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Bloomberg:
[Did Pelosi Lose Her Showdown with McConnell?]
Trump isn’t getting the complete dismissal of charges he wanted. That’s not good for Mitch.
A few months later, he was in the luxury suites with Trump at the World Series. https://t.co/WTnz4zGwuu
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 15, 2020
re: #229 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
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If he was in the luxury box, I absolutely believe this is legit. It would be just like Trump to take a liking to a guy like this.
Does the extra “S” in “Congresss” stand for “surveillance”? pic.twitter.com/XSB7B9ABw4
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 15, 2020
Yes, it’s real:
twitter.com
re: #228 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Trump isn’t getting the complete dismissal of charges he wanted. That’s not good for Mitch.
When more and more comes out..even after an ‘acquittal’ the r’s are gonna have a hard time with ‘well we just didn’t know that at the time’
You didn’t know because prodded at every step of the way to get engaged, open your eyes and be part of it, , you refused to even look; to find out what was being covered up withheld or buried. You had your fingers in your ears while you yelled rapid fire nonsense at any camera that would stand still.
You refused to even want to know
The “neverWarren” BS is part cult—part troll driven. Lots of the same, “I used to think that Warren was an ally, but now….” Nearly identical in hundreds of tweets. Lotta pushback, too, which is good.
re: #233 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Trump knew he was a sssnake when he picked him.
What’s going on in Russia?
Russian PM Medvedev and his government are resigning en masse, per Reuters, “to give President Vladimir Putin room to carry out changes he wants to make to the constitution.” https://t.co/3h28zSKii9
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) January 15, 2020
re: #231 jaunte
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Yes, it’s real:
twitter.com
[tinfoil]Could he be alluding to ᛋᛋ?[/tinfoil]
re: #153 Dread Pirate
Yup. Flynn got a sweetheart deal for being first to flip on Trump. Now that Flynn’s busy trying to extricate himself from that deal, prosecutors should throw the book at the fucker and his son for engaging in all the criminal acts, up to and including being an undeclared foreign agent.
Mueller gave him the sweetheart deal to gain cooperation, but it’s clear that Flynn has no remorse and isn’t cooperating.
Trumpworld is a crime syndicate. They had Rudy’s goons like Parnas go after our own ambassador to get her out of way so they could increase pressure on Ukraine to announce investigation into Biden.
It’s a criminal conspiracy all the way down.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 15, 2020
re: #239 makeitstop
What’s going on in Russia?
Putin’s popularity in the polls has dropped enough that he needs to eliminate elections to stay in power.
re: #243 Belafon
Putin’s popularity in the polls has dropped enough that he needs to eliminate elections to stay in power.
Interesting. Last time, in some districts he got 140% of the vote.
re: #239 makeitstop
Putin’s putsch? He’s consolidating power in… himself.
Breaking: Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev announced that he and the entire Russian government is to resign in a televised statement on the Russian state TV. President Vladimir Putin thanked members but added that “not everything worked out.”
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 15, 2020
re: #243 Belafon
Putin’s popularity in the polls has dropped enough that he needs to eliminate elections to stay in power.
Yep.
re: #239 makeitstop
What’s going on in Russia?
Article gives us little clue but I can only assume that the end game is to make Putin President-for-Life with near-autocratic powers.
re: #245 lawhawk
Putin’s putsch? He’s consolidating power in… himself.
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He’s definitely creating a new group of lackeys.
re: #248 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He’s definitely creating a new group of lackeys.
Call forth the Black Hundreds!!!
It’s not lost on me that it looks like Trump made up threats to 4 US Embassies (and the diplomats within them) to justify his Soleimani strike —
but threats against a US Ambassador - Marie Yovanovitch .- came from Trump and all the President’s men.— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) January 15, 2020
re: #239 makeitstop
What’s going on in Russia?
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Putin might as well pull a Napoleon Bonaparte and just have himself proclaimed Tsar. Hell, he could probably get Patriarch Kirill to crown him.
re: #166 Dr Lizardo
Indeed. Trump is clearly deteriorating and I doubt very highly he’s going to participate in any presidential debates with the Democratic nominee.
He’ll perform the same chair-humping, stalking, neck-breathing, cocaine-sniffing, shouting-over, name-calling, threats that he did in 2016.
re: #252 The Pie Overlord!
He’ll perform the same chair-humping, stalking, neck-breathing, cocaine-sniffing, shouting-over, name-calling, threats that he did in 2016.
If it is against Warren, he will dance around the stage making war whoops the entire time she is speaking…
Timothy Snyder points out the only sturdy base for a functioning state is rule of law and clearly articulated and protected rules of succession. This is very dangerous for Russia. He’s already in the process of trying to hermetically seal Russia off from outside information by creating a Russian intranet.
This is the key point. And the fact that every leak, every document, every witness that comes forward, corroborates the impeachment Articles. There’s never an exculpatory info in the new materials. The trajectory is telling. https://t.co/874XtTNmdl
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) January 15, 2020
And Trump’s fixer Rudy wanted his goons Parnas and Fruman to go after Amb. Yovanovitch and seek to do her harm to get her out of the way so Trump’s scheme could move forward. Debate moderators were silent on this. Stuck to a script designed to maximize conflict between candidates
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 15, 2020
re: #254 Barefoot Grin
Timothy Snyder points out the only sturdy base for a functioning state is rule of law and clearly articulated and protected rules of succession. This is very dangerous for Russia. He’s already in the process of trying to hermetically seal Russia off from outside information by creating a Russian intranet.
Currently in Russia, the President is the highest position then the PM is second highest. Basically, Putin’s proposed changes would mean transferring powers from the President to the Prime Minister to make the PM the highest position in Russia and the President will become the second highest. He’s doing what he did before; switching the roles so he (Putin) can become PM and then run the country for another 12 years (or longer) and by doing this he will still be the leader of Russia - but as Prime Minister, not as President. It’s the Putin/Medvedev Bugaloo.
Medvedev will still be a puppet and Putin will still run the country.
re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If it is against Warren, he will dance around the stage making war whoops the entire time she is speaking…
This.
re: #254 Barefoot Grin
Timothy Snyder points out the only sturdy base for a functioning state is rule of law and clearly articulated and protected rules of succession. This is very dangerous for Russia. He’s already in the process of trying to hermetically seal Russia off from outside information by creating a Russian intranet.
There’s a reason why the bio I read was subtitled: The New Czar. Putin is setting the Russian people up for chaos when he goes.
re: #257 Dr Lizardo
Currently in Russia, the President is the highest position then the PM is second highest. Basically, Putin’s proposed changes would mean transferring powers from the President to the Prime Minister to make the PM the highest position in Russia and the President will become the second highest. He’s doing what he did before; switching the roles so he (Putin) can become PM and then run the country for another 12 years (or longer) and by doing this he will still be the leader of Russia - but as Prime Minister, not as President. It’s the Putin/Medvedev Bugaloo.
Medvedev will still be a puppet and Putin will still run the country.
What a cheeky monkey!
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There’s also this.
re: #256 lawhawk
I think this take is accurate, though:
#105 Hecuba’s daughter
Given that the journalists just got the Parnas documents themselves and the candidates have not yet had time to review them and form an educated opinion, it would be premature to ask questions at this stage. We don’t even know how reliable these documents are since Parnas is not a model of rectitude anyway.
re: #259 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There’s a reason why the bio I read was subtitled: The New Czar. Putin is setting the Russian people up for chaos when he goes.
Just like 1613 all over again…and 1917…and 1991.
re: #259 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There’s a reason why the bio I read was subtitled: The New Czar. Putin is setting the Russian people up for chaos when he goes.
It certainly would be quite chaotic if Putin died unexpectedly, as (to the best of my knowledge) there’s really no designated successor. We’d see a classic Russian all-out brawl for power.
re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just like 1613 all over again…and 1917…and 1991.
More closer to 1929 since this is a consolidation of power.
re: #265 Dr Lizardo
It certainly would be quite chaotic if Putin died unexpectedly, as (to the best of my knowledge) there’s really no designated successor. We’d see a classic Russian all-out brawl for power.
If I could ask the Russian experts any question, it would be “Who would be the successor to Putin if Putin were to die tomorrow.”
re: #207 Dave In Austin
послушный инструмент/obedient tool
re: #267 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
If I could ask the Russian experts any question, it would be “Who would be the successor to Putin if Putin were to die tomorrow.”
He will continue to rule from beyond the grave through a medium he will reveal to us…
Media is so disappointed in the Dems:
ABC News’ @rickklein: “The promised fights fizzled. The Democrats wrapped their pre-voting debate schedule Tuesday night with an unexpected dose of Iowa nice.” https://t.co/oHznnNOPIn
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 15, 2020
A lot of people who started out with Putin when he worked with Sobchak (Anatoly not Walter). aren’t with him anymore. It really is sad that the most democratic leader that the USSR and then Russia have had is probably Boris Yelstin.
re: #270 The Pie Overlord!
Media is so disappointed in the Dems:
I fully endorse Dull 2020. https://t.co/m2RYlYAVlH
— Kayley (@JanekKayley) January 15, 2020
re: #271 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
A lot of people who started out with Putin when he worked with Sobchak (Anatoly not Walter). aren’t with him anymore. It really is sad that the most democratic leader that the USSR and then Russia have had is probably Boris Yelstin.
I’d probably have to be drunk to properly run Russia, too.
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He will continue to rule from beyond the grave through a medium he will reveal to us…
I’m being serious here. European history and geopolitics is something I’ve studied a lot of both academically and in my sparetime.
Hyde is so dumb that it almost looks like he is being set up as the patsy in all this.
re: #270 The Pie Overlord!
Media is so disappointed in the Dems:
They want laser death ray-grade disarray…
re: #273 Belafon
I’d probably have to be drunk to properly run Russia, too.
I need to learn moer about Yelstin the man but I get the impression that he was initially well intentioned but things started going to shit when he did the shock therapy economics and the interventions in the Caucasus..
re: #275 Mike Lamb
Hyde is so dumb that it almost looks like he is being set up as the patsy in all this.
A nesting doll of dumbness.
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He will continue to rule from beyond the grave through a medium he will reveal to us…
Putin will rule forever thanks to this:
re: #274 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m being serious here. European history and geopolitics is something I’ve studied a lot of both academically and in my sparetime.
I also follow it as well, and joking aside, I assume that there will be a big fight between the factions of the business of the oligarchs on one sine and the political operatives on the other, both of which will insist that they are Putin’s true heirs and successors.
re: #263 Belafon
The thing is that the news is of the blockbuster variety, and the candidates could have responded that they’d need more time to digest the consequences of it, but that it appears that more Trump crimes have been uncovered requiring more articles of impeachment - plus direct testimony from those who are implicated.
It would be a forum at which eyeballs would be focused and get news out.
The whole point of Democrats running is to give the most corrupt and criminal admin in our history the boot. Every day we learn of more crimes. It never ends. It wont end until we vote him out with such numbers that it’s impossible to ignore and to overcome the EC potential.
NEWS: @SpeakerPelosi officially names the House impeachment managers
Rep. Adam Schiff
Rep. Jerry Nadler
Rep. Zoe Lofgren
Rep. Val Demings
Rep. Jason Crow
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
Rep. Sylvia Garcia— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) January 15, 2020
re: #282 lawhawk
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Shouldn’t they all recuse themselves because they are politicians and there is an election coming up this year?
re: #267 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
If I could ask the Russian experts any question, it would be “Who would be the successor to Putin if Putin were to die tomorrow.”
Medved will be the public face.
The Oligarchs will continue to run things.
Xi will slowly take over more and more of the economy as he is here and eventually the Mao Dynasty will be the “one ring”.
re: #280 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I also follow it as well, and joking aside, I assume that there will be a big fight between the factions of the business of the oligarchs on one sine and the political operatives on the other, both of which will insist that they are Putin’s true heirs and successors.
Whomever he names as successor, if that happens, should avoid walking in front of windows.
re: #284 Belafon
Nor Swalwell. Case could be made that Swalwell or Amash would have been better fit than Jefferies.
Leading figures from the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally are headed to a militia event in Richmond on Monday, with one calling for Democratic lawmakers to be dragged out of the capitol and hung for supporting gun control laws.
https://t.co/WFD4sp2IjO— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 15, 2020
re: #282 lawhawk
Trump will hate it. He’s going to have to remember seven disparaging nicknames.
re: #282 lawhawk
Demings is a great choice.
re: #288 lawhawk
So, they’re trying to give Virginia a reason to regulate guns. Good on them.
re: #288 lawhawk
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Again, nothing says ‘sane and responsible gun owner’ than crying revolution and wanting to lynch lawmakers for daring to put any sort of restriction on guns.
re: #288 lawhawk
Keep on showing why people support gun control in this state more these days, you assholish turds.
re: #292 Citizen K
Again, nothing says ‘sane and responsible gun owner’ than crying revolution and wanting to lynch lawmakers for daring to put any sort of restriction on guns.
Exactly. We were fucking pissed when Republicans talked about forcing transvaginal ultrasounds on women wanting abortions but we never talked about hanging Republicans in the House of Delegates. We vowed to get the Republican legislative majority gone and we’ve done that just as we have elected two Dems as governors in the years to since.
re: #287 lawhawk
Nor Swalwell. Case could be made that Swalwell or Amash would have been better fit than Jefferies.
Swalwell is the name missing that I am most disappointed about. He would have been perfect in a role on that team.
re: #169 Ace-o-aces
I’d also like to know if he’s really going to try and get the regulations about water use by dishwashers changed or just shout about it.
And whether anyone is going to explain to him that that would destroy the export market for American made dishwashers, and all imported ones would probably continue to be made to European/Japanese standards.
(Assuming there is an export market for American dishwashers…)
re: #291 Belafon
So, they’re trying to give Virginia a reason to regulate guns. Good on them.
Because the 2nd Amendment doesn’t say anything about regulating…
re: #296 John Hughes
I’d also like to know if he’s really going to try and get the regulations about water use by dishwashers changed or just shout about it.
Supporting Trump is the political equivalent of shooting at a broken lawnmower filled with Tannerite. They don’t care about what happens, they just like the noise.
You will be hearing this Biden/Burism lie endlessly for the next 11 months.
Please memorize this timeline so that you can rebut the lie. 👇 https://t.co/cSveRfRDwx pic.twitter.com/KDhArzurCd— Tami Burages (@tburages) January 14, 2020
re: #270 The Pie Overlord!
Media is so disappointed in the Dems:
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the only ones who ‘promised fights’ were you lot
ABC News’ @rickklein: “The promised fights fizzled. The Democrats wrapped their pre-voting debate schedule Tuesday night with an unexpected dose of Iowa nice.” https://t.co/oHznnNOPIn
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 15, 2020
re: #272 Belafon
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calmly discussing and debating policy
it’s what adults do
I fully endorse Dull 2020. https://t.co/m2RYlYAVlH
— Kayley (@JanekKayley) January 15, 2020
As @jaybirdsatx pointed out in the replies to this tweet, this celebratory picture of Hyde with Trump is from the day Marie Yovanovitch was evacuated from Ukraine.
Mission Accomplished? https://t.co/5KZsu1D1cd— Uncle Blazer (@blakesmustache) January 15, 2020
re: #298 jaunte
Supporting Trump is the political equivalent of shooting at a broken lawnmower filled with Tannerite. They don’t care about what happens, they just like the noise.
this is a thing?
i must lead some kind of sheltered life.
So I see the White Bread Rock Hall of Fame is sticking to it’s tried and true formula of safe white rockers except if they’re safely dead. They really are the home of 70’s “classic rock” aren’t they?
re: #303 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
this is a thing?
i must lead some kind of sheltered life.
IIRC, someone died when they did that. If not died, got severely injured.
re: #304 William Lewis
So I see the White Bread Rock Hall of Fame is sticking to it’s tried and true formula of safe white rockers except if they’re safely dead. They really are the home of 70’s “classic rock” aren’t they?
It is a commercial enterprise, not a public or cultural institution. They have a brand and a product to sell.
re: #304 William Lewis
So I see the White Bread Rock Hall of Fame is sticking to it’s tried and true formula of safe white rockers except if they’re safely dead. They really are the home of 70’s “classic rock” aren’t they?
Kinda surprised to see Nine Inch Nails there, but then again, Trent Reznor has done some yeoman’s work on film soundtracks.
re: #304 William Lewis
So I see the White Bread Rock Hall of Fame is sticking to it’s tried and true formula of safe white rockers except if they’re safely dead. They really are the home of 70’s “classic rock” aren’t they?
I don’t deny Whitney and Biggie their influence on music but Rock n Roll? Just rename it the popular music hall of fame at this point. Nothing wrong with their music but it’s not Rock.
re: #307 Jay C
WTF?
They left Todd Rundgren out?
(STILL??/AGAIN??)Travesty.
He needs to tell them to “Be Nice to me” or else he’s going to “Bang on his drum” all day until he gets in the Hall and I agree that Todd belongs in the Hall. He had some hits for sure. I don’t care what the Rock HOF does though.
re: #308 Dr Lizardo
Kinda surprised to see Nine Inch Nails there, but then again, Trent Reznor has done some yeoman’s work on film soundtracks.
I really only know Hurt by NIN due to Johnny.
re: #308 Dr Lizardo
Kinda surprised to see Nine Inch Nails there, but then again, Trent Reznor has done some yeoman’s work on film soundtracks.
He became safer when Cash covered him too.
re: #311 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really only know Hurt by NIN due to Johnny.
The first NIN album is actually a good place to start.
re: #313 Belafon
The first NIN album is actually a good place to start.
Cool. I’ll give it a listen one morning. I’ve made it my goal to expose myself to more this year and beyond.
“Any witness who has information about whether” allegations against Pres. Trump “are true or not true is a relevant witness,” Rep. Jerry Nadler says.
“Anybody, like Hunter Biden, who has no information about any of that is not a relevant witness.” https://t.co/VPZMG1NIkw pic.twitter.com/VPpr8ZiK4b— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 15, 2020
re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If it is against Warren, he will dance around the stage making war whoops the entire time she is speaking…
Let him and it will be glorious to see that fat fuck throw his back out on live TV!
re: #287 lawhawk
Nor Swalwell. Case could be made that Swalwell or Amash would have been better fit than Jefferies.
Went over to Balloon Juice and John Cole thinks Jeffries was a great choice: balloon-juice.com. We’ll all have to agree to disagree.
re: #272 Belafon
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re: #288 lawhawk
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BTW has anyone heard about Baked Alaska since he flipped out at the Hollywood In-N-0ut drive in?
moron
Here we go again, another Con Job by the Do Nothing Democrats. All of this work was supposed to be done by the House, not the Senate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 15, 2020
Let’s be clear, if Chief Justice Roberts, applying legal & evidentiary principles, RULES that certain witnesses are relevant & material witnesses who should testify, but 51 Senators then vote to overrule Roberts, THAT IS A COVERUP OF TRUMP’S CRIMES. Full stop. #JusticeIsComing
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) January 15, 2020
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
He’s really taking this impeachment so well. If it’s such a sham, he should welcome anything hte Dems do but it’s not and he knows Schiff and the other managers are going to expose him for the rotten shit he is.
Schiff on the new Parnas docs: “That letter makes clear that Giuliani, in his own words, is acting at the behest and with the knowledge and consent of the president. There is no fobbing this off on others. The president was the architect of this scheme.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 15, 2020
“We have only obtained a very small sample of the universe of documents that the president is withholding.
If Mr. McConnell wants to follow the Clinton model, as he keeps professing, all of the documents were provided BEFORE the trial.” —@RepAdamSchiff pic.twitter.com/0Z06oLt75p— CAP Action (@CAPAction) January 15, 2020
re: #320 Joe Bacon 🌹
BTW has anyone heard about Baked Alaska since he flipped out at the Hollywood In-N-0ut drive in?
LOL, I hadn’t heard about that. A real-life “Sir, this is a Wendy’s In-N-Out”?
re: #326 Dr Lizardo
LOL, I hadn’t heard about that. A real-life “Sir, this is a
Wendy’sIn-N-Out”?
The thing that happens with so many of these alt right influences is they take themselves way too seriously because they got enough people following them. As I said, I’m finally on twitter. I don’t give a fuck how many followers I get. I’m just another asshole with an opinion on shit. BA and his friends convinced themselves they were latter day Greek philosophers but there’s nothing deep or insightful about what they were offering.
He doesn’t care.
McConnell is like a soiled carpet. His sham “trial” will be one more stain in a sea of them. https://t.co/WQhyRW81za— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) January 15, 2020
re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth
Worse than Watergate because of exactly this. Nixon definitely covered up Watergate and had no problem with the things like breaking into Daniel Ellsowrth’s shrink’s office but he wasn’t the mastermind behind it. I still have the opinion that Trump on 7/25 thought that Mueller’s testimony cleared him and he got arrogant.
Jeffries is Caucus Chairman which to me shows he’s well liked by the members of his party.
re: #288 lawhawk
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I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that they’re holding this event in the capitol of the Confederacy.
At this point Trump could murder somebody on 5th avenue and the Banana Republicans would not remove him from office, let alone convict him of a crime.
re: #332 sagehen
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that they’re holding this event in the capitol of the Confederacy.
Well the gun laws are being debated in our state capital which also happens to be the CSA’s old capital. What’s been interesting to watch the past ten years is Richmond and its suburbs transformation politically. Northern Va rightfully gets a lot of credit since we’re the most populated area but I will point out that Cantor’s old district is held by a Dem now and Dems have started to win there locally. This was an area vital to the GOP’s control of the state’s political calculus.
re: #333 BigPapa
At this point Trump could murder somebody on 5th avenue and the Banana Republicans would not remove him from office, let alone convict him of a crime.
“Well you know Andrew Jackson a member of hte Democrat Party once shot someone dueling, both sides.”
re: #306 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And it’s past time to stop calling it a rock and roll hall of fame. It’s a museum of music (not entirely American either, since a bunch of acts are from overseas). It’s disproportionately white rock acts that dominate.
They’ve succeeded in making me care about this more than I should. Damnit.
This is translated from Czech, via GoogleTranslate. Apparently, Putin has already chosen a new PM, Mikhail Mishustin, Director of the Russian Federal Tax Office.
Not long after Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced the resignation of his government, Vladimir Putin announced the name of the new prime minister. It should be the director of the Russian Federal Tax Office Mikhail Mishustin.
meanwhile in Kentucky
Senate Bill 89, by Sen. Stephen Meredith, R-Leitchfield, would let police officers demand someone’s ID and an explanation of what they’re doing if officers suspect criminal activities have happened or could happen. People who don’t comply can be detained for two hours. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) January 15, 2020
O_o
I wouldn’t have minded if Amash was chosen but I wonder how much actual litigation experience he has. It’s one thing to make a lot of sense in social media and Amash even though I think he’s an asshole for his vote on the first responders relief and his philosophy in general when it comes to stuff like that is able to do that, I don’t know how he would do as an impeachment manager. And I think Pelosi understandably was a little skeptical of that.
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
meanwhile in Kentucky
O_o
The GOP cares so much about individual rights and limited government.
God help the historians who have to explain this in 50 years.
“As news broke about his private agents plotting against an American ambassador, President Trump held a political rally in which he complained about a series household appliances. (No, seriously, check my footnotes!)” https://t.co/mRGeos11Xe— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 15, 2020
O_O
Senate Bill 90, by Sen. Stephen Meredith, R-Leitchfield, would prohibit discrimination against medical providers who refuse to perform certain procedures that violate their ethical beliefs. The bill doesn’t specify, so we’re just going to assume this refers to tummy tucks. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) January 15, 2020
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nothing like detaining people for the fuck of it because a cop feels like things aren’t right.
What are the odds that this would be disproportionately applied to persons of color?
100%.
How do we know that this would be applied with discriminatory intent? Because we see how every law enforcement action has been done for decades in the same exact manner.
Heck, here in progressive NYC we have cops who disproportionately stop blacks for everything from jaywalking to panhandling to fare evasion on the subways.
Missouri, where the AG publishes annual reports on law enforcement stops shows that there’s discriminatory impact on minorities for years on end.
Lawmakers to question how ‘deport’ license plate got OKed https://t.co/Io8GgKEsZs pic.twitter.com/2rGlZOEKFF
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) January 15, 2020
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Sure Uncle HW I can believe that he said he knew more than the generals but I can’t buy him going on an unhinged rant about dishwashers., sorry sounds fake to me.”
I’ve been thinking of a name for this current psychotic cult that has overtaken the GOP and conservatism, trying to incorporate Bircherism, Limbaugh, and anything else. So far I have CLIDS: Conservative Libertarian Intellectual Deficiency Syndrome. Looking for more pop.
re: #347 BigPapa
I’ve been thinking of a name for this current psychotic cult that has overtaken the GOP and conservatism, trying to incorporate Bircherism, Limbaugh, and anything else. So far I have CLIDS: Conservative Libertarian Intellectual Deficiency Syndrome. Looking for more pop.
DAMP: Do Anything to Maintain Power.
re: #345 Backwoods_Sleuth
I wonder how a FULDS666 plate would go over in Utah.
re: #327 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ve been on Twitter for ages. I couldn’t tell you who follows me. I don’t care.
(But I live in a small city, so the mayor, and the president of my school follow me. Nice. I’ll go back to not caring.)
re: #351 Sherlock Hound
I’ve been on Twitter for ages. I couldn’t tell you who follows me. I don’t care.
(But I live in a small city, so the mayor, and the president of my school follow me. Nice. I’ll go back to not caring.)
I’m following my Congresswoman who I campaigned for but more so to see what she’s focusing on in Washington.
re: #216 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Might well be but I’m trying to better understand this stuff. I’m going to need it after I get my certification and if I do grad school. Besides it’s apolitical. I had a shitty past three months after losing my job and grandmother. Plus I realized that I need to go back to what I really like doing and that’s baseball, lit, music, & travel. Plus I don’t use my real name. If people want to hear me rant about politics, here is good enough or with close family and friends.
I’ve been thinking a lot about you, HW-that-was, in this season of unwelcome changes for you. About your love of family, for your grandmother and your niece, your fascination with family history and the stories of the past. You are a link — perhaps one of the things you might do is to make a record of your place in the chain. Write down the stories your elders told you: the story itself as you remember hearing it; your memories of hearing the story told, your memories of the person telling it. Doesn’t have to be polished or perfect, just get it on record, be it paper or pixels. You can go back and add notes about things you learn from other family members or in your research that add context to the events. Get it all down somewhere — others in the family might know the stories, but no one else has your memories or feelings about it. If you are comfortable recording yourself, you could do some of it that way; maybe get your parents to sit down and tell their stories with a videocamera running while they’re still here to ask.
Then tell the stories to your niece and others of her generation. She can go back and look at the written record later too, but she’ll have the memory of hearing it from you to strengthen the link.
You can keep adding over the years, but preserve what you know now because memory fades. That’s what I’m dealing with now, trying to remember things my mother told me, my grandmother told me. Wishing I’d made a lot of notes over these last four years while I was home with her, because she talked a lot about the past and I’m struggling to remember the details. All of us kids are in our 60’s now and senioritis is setting in. We have some cassette tape recordings of our grandmother talking that I need to get digitized, just hoping the tape will still play. We have several videos of my mom talking that we need to pull together and pass out copies. Hoping to get things to where her grandkids can go back and look at things in the future.
Family matters so much to you. Hope that — along with baseball and lit and music and travel — helps you along in this tough stretch of the trail.
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
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silly hypothesis:
Trump has realized that much of his base is poor people with 30-year-old appliances; or people who were recently let go from appliance factories.
He thinks they’ll feel better about that if he can make modern appliances seem sub-standard.
re: #184 A Mom Anon
His war record and his adopted daughter if I remember correctly.
Wasn’t it Bush 41 surrogates who launched a disgusting racist attack against McCain and his adopted daughter in the 2000 South Caroline primary? Weren’t Trump’s comments during the campaign limited to disparaging McCain’s Viet Nam service? I hate Trump but I don’t recall him or his surrogates making any remarks concerning the daughter.
re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_O
“Senate Bill 90, by Sen. Stephen Meredith, R-Leitchfield, would prohibit discrimination against medical providers who refuse to perform certain procedures that violate their ethical beliefs. The bill doesn’t specify, so we’re just going to assume this refers to tummy tucks. ^JC”
Just ripe for someone to say “I cannot in good conscience treat this man for his fatal wound because he is black and it is unethical for me to treat someone I view religiously as subhuman.”
Coal company accuses protesting miners of ‘spreading lies’ and demanding ‘ransom’https://t.co/QrziyiPEko pic.twitter.com/TO9I3U85GT
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) January 15, 2020
re: #355 Hecuba’s daughter
Wasn’t it Bush 41 surrogates who launched a disgusting racist attack against McCain and his adopted daughter in the 2000 South Caroline primary? Weren’t Trump’s comments during the campaign limited to disparaging McCain’s Viet Nam service? I hate Trump but I don’t recall him or his surrogates making any remarks concerning the daughter.
Bush 43. They did a push poll asking voters “would it make a difference to you if you learned that McCain had an illegitimate black daughter”… figuring people would see the family photo and assume the adopted Indian daughter was his biologically from cheating.
Then Bush weaseled around the question with “no, I never said such a thing, why are you accusing me of spreading a lie?”
re: #353 CleverToad
I’ve been thinking a lot about you, HW-that-was, in this season of unwelcome changes for you. About your love of family, for your grandmother and your niece, your fascination with family history and the stories of the past. You are a link — perhaps one of the things you might do is to make a record of your place in the chain. Write down the stories your elders told you: the story itself as you remember hearing it; your memories of hearing the story told, your memories of the person telling it. Doesn’t have to be polished or perfect, just get it on record, be it paper or pixels. You can go back and add notes about things you learn from other family members or in your research that add context to the events. Get it all down somewhere — others in the family might know the stories, but no one else has your memories or feelings about it. If you are comfortable recording yourself, you could do some of it that way; maybe get your parents to sit down and tell their stories with a videocamera running while they’re still here to ask.
Then tell the stories to your niece and others of her generation. She can go back and look at the written record later too, but she’ll have the memory of hearing it from you to strengthen the link.
You can keep adding over the years, but preserve what you know now because memory fades. That’s what I’m dealing with now, trying to remember things my mother told me, my grandmother told me. Wishing I’d made a lot of notes over these last four years while I was home with her, because she talked a lot about the past and I’m struggling to remember the details. All of us kids are in our 60’s now and senioritis is setting in. We have some cassette tape recordings of our grandmother talking that I need to get digitized, just hoping the tape will still play. We have several videos of my mom talking that we need to pull together and pass out copies. Hoping to get things to where her grandkids can go back and look at things in the future.
Family matters so much to you. Hope that — along with baseball and lit and music and travel — helps you along in this tough stretch of the trail.
Wow, thanks for the kind words. Much appreciate it. I definitely wish I had taken some notes on what my Grandmother and other grandparents and the other older generations I’ve talked to. My belief is that even though I believe in thinking forward is the best path, we still can learn from the older generations. When I eulogized my grandmother, I really had to give some tribute also to her immigrant parents. There were some immigrants in attendence at the service- some of my mom’s friends and also my SiL and her family. I like engaging with people with different backgrounds. I’ve never liked to put myself in any box. I definitely have so called jock interests, nerd interests, and geek interests, and I try to learn more. Right now I’m reading a Ben Franklin bio. It’s been a very trying past year for me but I’m trying to get myself back on track mentally and honestly spiritually too even though I id as agnostic.
re: #234 Barefoot Grin
The “neverWarren” BS is part cult—part troll driven. Lots of the same, “I used to think that Warren was an ally, but now….” Nearly identical in hundreds of tweets. Lotta pushback, too, which is good.
re: #203 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The whole Sanders-Warren stuff. Frankly I’m glad that more people are seeing that Sanders is a patronizing jerk.
re: #191 Dave In Austin
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Let me assure you the BernieBros — real American voters — have been trying to take down anyone who isn’t Bernie from day one. They were positively vicious in their attacks against Warren last night. They gave us Trump (and Rick Wilson’s tweet overlooks the thousands of Bernie supporters in the 3 states who went for Jill) and they will do it again.
If Bernie gets the nomination, Trump will likely win in a landslide. Bernie’s association with the BDS movement will lose him many Jewish voters and his history with socialism will lose him other voters.
re: #356 Citizen K
Just ripe for someone to say “I cannot in good conscience treat this man for his fatal wound because he is black and it is unethical for me to treat someone I view religiously as subhuman.”
If there’s a shootout between good guys and bad guys and they all end up at the same hospital, ER is supposed to triage based on whose injuries are worse. But in some hospitals, the staff might prefer to triage based on which patients they suspect fit which category.
re: #355 Hecuba’s daughter
Wasn’t it Bush 41 surrogates who launched a disgusting racist attack against McCain and his adopted daughter in the 2000 South Caroline primary? Weren’t Trump’s comments during the campaign limited to disparaging McCain’s Viet Nam service? I hate Trump but I don’t recall him or his surrogates making any remarks concerning the daughter.
I’m just going to put this out there but W Bush himself never went after McCain’s daughter Bridget and neither did Rove but their surrogates did. What made Trump’s attack of McCain’s POW experience so ugly is that he did it just because he hated McCain but he insulted tons of POWs in the process.
re: #347 BigPapa
I’ve been thinking of a name for this current psychotic cult that has overtaken the GOP and conservatism, trying to incorporate Bircherism, Limbaugh, and anything else. So far I have CLIDS: Conservative Libertarian Intellectual Deficiency Syndrome. Looking for more pop.
Branch Trumpians.
re: #362 Hecuba’s daughter
Let me assure you the BernieBros — real American voters — have been trying to take down anyone who isn’t Bernie from day one. They were positively vicious in their attacks against Warren last night. They gave us Trump (and Rick Wilson’s tweet overlooks the thousands of Bernie supporters in the 3 states who went for Jill) and they will do it again.
If Bernie gets the nomination, Trump will likely win in a landslide. Bernie’s association with the BDS movement will lose him many Jewish voters and his history with socialism will lose him other voters.
Again, there’s the bros and the people who like Bernie. I know people who like Bernie who can be persuaded but I acknowledge part of that comes with that they trust my knowledge.
re: #359 sagehen
Bush 43. They did a push poll asking voters “would it make a difference to you if you learned that McCain had an illegitimate black daughter”… figuring people would see the family photo and assume the adopted Indian daughter was his biologically from cheating.
Then Bush weaseled around the question with “no, I never said such a thing, why are you accusing me of spreading a lie?”
My bad — my bad — I was thinking W but said 41 instead of 43.
re: #347 BigPapa
I’ve been thinking of a name for this current psychotic cult that has overtaken the GOP and conservatism, trying to incorporate Bircherism, Limbaugh, and anything else. So far I have CLIDS: Conservative Libertarian Intellectual Deficiency Syndrome. Looking for more pop.
This is the true Trump Derangement Syndrome, complete with projection.
re: #356 Citizen K
Just ripe for someone to say “I cannot in good conscience treat this man for his fatal wound because he is black and it is unethical for me to treat someone I view religiously as subhuman.”
Ben Shapiro loves championing these types of clauses for professional. I wonder how he would feel if someone refused to treat him medically for being Jewish. He would see it rightfully as bigotry but it’s okay with him for this kind of shit to happen to LGBT people. The problem with these stupid clauses that give a virtual license to discriminate is they always target minorities. No one is going to refuse to treat me for being a heterosexual white male and if that happens, guess what my civil rights are protected too. Idiot wingers don’t realize that hate crimes legislation is used against people who target people for being white too.
re: #315 The Pie Overlord!
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nadler correctly trying to cut off the ‘justification’ defense
Here’s an extra comparison point for good measure. pic.twitter.com/lhwcwohUDs
— Sam (@Samir_Madani) January 15, 2020
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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YOU blocked the house at every turn
senate rules and procedure are different
Here we go again, another Con Job by the Do Nothing Democrats. All of this work was supposed to be done by the House, not the Senate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 15, 2020
re: #369 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Ben Shapiro loves championing these types of clauses for professional. I wonder how he would feel if someone refused to treat him medically for being Jewish. He would see it rightfully as bigotry but it’s okay with him for this kind of shit to happen to LGBT people. The problem with these stupid clauses that give a virtual license to discriminate is they always target minorities. No one is going to refuse to treat me for being a heterosexual white male and if that happens, guess what my civil rights are protected too. Idiot wingers don’t realize that hate crimes legislation is used against people who target people for being white too.
To turn their favorite argument around on them…they don’t want equal treatment. They want special treatment that comes with being the “default” demographic that all things are catered to and molded around. They want to be treated better because they’re not the ‘other’.
re: #371 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s him. There’s plenty of video showing how he walks with his arms out like that.
re: #376 lawhawk
Isn’t there some big international shindig happening in Doha soon?
re: #313 Belafon
That album is burned into my brain. Friend and I painted apartment building interiors back in the day and we played the hell out of that cassette. :D
re: #374 Citizen K
To turn their favorite argument around on them…they don’t want equal treatment. They want special treatment that comes with being the “default” demographic that all things are catered to and molded around. They want to be treated better because they’re not the ‘other’.
Exactly and I can’t tell you how much it frustrates me that so many guys like me don’t realize we’re the default demographic. Yeah I’m autistic but I’m also white, heterosexual, and male. I don’t want people to think I have more to offer because of that. I want people to listen to me because I try to understand what’s led us to where we are in 2020.
re: #375 Backwoods_Sleuth
Quest Energy out of Oklahoma
I am posting the “Eat Shit, Bob!” song anyway.
re: #374 Citizen K
To turn their favorite argument around on them…they don’t want equal treatment. They want special treatment that comes with being the “default” demographic that all things are catered to and molded around. They want to be treated better because they’re not the ‘other’.
Government by empathy, not by fear
R’s America: Unjust, unequal, unforgiving (or compassion-less) (liberty and justice for some (us))
D’s America: liberty and Justice *for all* (a better life for everyone)
Eleanor Roosevelt: “When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.”
Sen. Fred Harris “Everybody does better, when everybody does better”
it’s right there in the pledge
- liberty (freedom to mostly do what you want and be left alone)
- justice (fairness and proportional equity in all things)
- for all (everyone’s included - we all put in and we all get out)
if it’s not ‘for all’ then it’s not for anyone
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— Geoff Ninecow (@geoff9cow) January 15, 2020
re: #382 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Government by empathy, not by fear
R’s America: Unjust, unequal, unforgiving (or compassion-less) (liberty and justice for some (us))
D’s America: liberty and Justice *for all* (a better life for everyone)Eleanor Roosevelt: “When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.”
Sen. Fred Harris “Everybody does better, when everybody does better”it’s right there in the pledge
- liberty (freedom to mostly do what you want and be left alone)
- justice (fairness and proportional equity in all things)
- for all (everyone’s included - we all put in and we all get out)if it’s not ‘for all’ then it’s not for anyone
Democrats keep trying to stop whites from being more equal than others, and that’s not fair. //
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Stephen Miller shared idea of shipping undocumented immigrants out of the U.S. on trains as scare tactic, leaked Breitbart emails reveal https://t.co/XpgDeSi7au
— Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (@esglaude) January 15, 2020
re: #385 The Pie Overlord!
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
You have no idea how much it galls me that his mother’s family is from the same place as my mother’s and he is totally oblivious to how the various ethnic groups that emigrated there got treated like shit by his ideological ancestors. I always go back to history because we can learn a lot of lessons on what to do and not to do. Despite what right wing nationalists say, European immigrants did not lose their old cultural identities when they came here. We only can look at American music, food, and entertainment’s evolution to see that.
re: #382 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Government by empathy, not by fear
R’s America: Unjust, unequal, unforgiving (or compassion-less) (liberty and justice for some (us))
D’s America: liberty and Justice *for all* (a better life for everyone)Eleanor Roosevelt: “When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.”
Sen. Fred Harris “Everybody does better, when everybody does better”it’s right there in the pledge
I still believe in the promise of Ellis Island. It doesn’t matter if you can trace your roots back to Jamestown or you just got here, what we’re supposed to be united behind as a nation are civic ideals. And those civic ideals are not limited to any one group.
re: #389 plansbandc
JFC
There’s something very wrong with Stephen Miller. I just don’t get how a person can be so cruel. It’s like he gets off on telling immigrants “Ha, ha, you can never make it here.” And you know what, that does get to me on a personal level because of all the shit I do remember hearing.
re: #390 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There’s something very wrong with Stephen Miller. I just don’t get how a person can be so cruel. It’s like he gets off on telling immigrants “Ha, ha, you can never make it here.” And you know what, that does get to me on a personal level because of all the shit I do remember hearing.
You do Nazi how a person can be so cruel?
re: #390 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There’s something very wrong with Stephen Miller. I just don’t get how a person can be so cruel. It’s like he gets off on telling immigrants “Ha, ha, you can never make it here.” And you know what, that does get to me on a personal level because of all the shit I do remember hearing.
Stephen Miller is a Nazi. Period. End of story. He’s no different from Dan Burros; I am sure he ignores his Jewish heritage and probably considers it a flaw that American Nazis will overlook because of his enthusiasm for their cause.
re: #392 Hecuba’s daughter
Stephen Miller is a Nazi. Period. End of story. He’s no different from Dan BurrosLink ; I am sure he ignores his Jewish heritage and probably considers it a flaw that American Nazis will overlook because of his enthusiasm for their cause.
Karma will bite that SOB in the ass.
re: #366 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Again, there’s the bros and the people who like Bernie. I know people who like Bernie who can be persuaded but I acknowledge part of that comes with that they trust my knowledge.
and a sizable share of “supporters” who are just trolling and ratfucking
re: #392 Hecuba’s daughter
Stephen Miller is a Nazi. Period. End of story. He’s no different from Dan Burros; I am sure he ignores his Jewish heritage and probably considers it a flaw that American Nazis will overlook because of his enthusiasm for their cause.
It terrifies me that someone like this is a key presidential adviser. Nixon and Reagan employing Buchanan was bad, this guy is even worse.
re: #385 The Pie Overlord!
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
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Because that’s not evocative of anything at all, nope….
re: #392 Hecuba’s daughter
After I mentioned on Twitter that Miller was never given a Voight-Kaampf test (from Blade Runner), I was told that he passed his Mein Kampf test with flying colors!
Truth.
re: #390 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There’s something very wrong with Stephen Miller. I just don’t get how a person can be so cruel. It’s like he gets off on telling immigrants “Ha, ha, you can never make it here.” And you know what, that does get to me on a personal level because of all the shit I do remember hearing.
He’s a neo-Nazi. A protege of Richard Spencer.
re: #385 The Pie Overlord!
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
The thing about that, is that while it immediately invokes Germany, it doesn’t invoke Eisenhower for most of us because we don’t teach about Operation Wetback in US history.
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
Are the police to be given German lessons so they can shout:
Ihre Papiere, Bitte!
In the approved way?
re: #400 Belafon
The thing about that, is that while it immediately invokes Germany, it doesn’t invoke Eisenhower for most of us because we don’t teach about Operation Wetback in US history.
I can at least grasp the notion of deterrence (although I disagree with it) if it is directed at adults. But when it is applied to families and used as an excuse to separate families or keep children in cages, then there is no excuse and nothing else behind it but evil.
re: #399 Dr Lizardo
He’s a neo-Nazi. A protege of Richard Spencer.
That’s the what he is. I don’t get how he came to be this way. He gosh let me think about it would have been maybe a year or two ahead of me in school. I think so much of this alt right bullshit comes from not understanding history and listening to those who witnessed it. I
My Twitter feed is full of Bernerrhoids attacking Elizabeth Warren. Fuck off, snakes.
re: #404 The Pie Overlord!
My Twitter feed is full of Bernerrhoids attacking Elizabeth Warren. Fuck off, snakes.
Bernie keeps on showing me who he is and I don’t like it.
re: #403 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
That’s the what he is. I don’t get how he came to be this way. He gosh let me think about it would have been maybe a year or two ahead of me in school. I think so much of this alt right bullshit comes from not understanding history and listening to those who witnessed it. I
It is also a personality type: confrontational, contrarian, domineering, spiteful, more interested in winning an argument than in establishing facts or solving an issue, and someone who takes delight in others’ misfortune, especially when they “deserve” it…
re: #403 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
That’s the what he is. I don’t get how he came to be this way. He gosh let me think about it would have been maybe a year or two ahead of me in school. I think so much of this alt right bullshit comes from not understanding history and listening to those who witnessed it. I
From what I gather, he’s always been like this, since he was in high school.
re: #385 The Pie Overlord!
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
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— Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (@esglaude) January 15, 2020
re: #395 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It terrifies me that someone like this is a key presidential adviser. Nixon and Reagan employing Buchanan was bad, this guy is even worse.
says just a tad more about his ‘employer’ than him.
re: #404 The Pie Overlord!
My Twitter feed is full of Bernerrhoids attacking Elizabeth Warren. Fuck off, snakes.
re: #405 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Bernie keeps on showing me who he is and I don’t like it.
And the unfortunate thing is that it seems to be working. My immediate circle seems to have gone super fucking all-in on the ‘burn it down’ rhetoric and see tearing down the Dem party first and foremost the only way forward because apparently all the Dems are super scared of Bernie and his invincible revolution.
I just….fuck it all.
re: #361 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s been a very trying past year for me but I’m trying to get myself back on track mentally and honestly spiritually too even though I id as agnostic.
Good fortune to you on that effort, and good luck with the next job you find.
It’ll take me a couple of threads to get used to ‘Lefty’ but your rambling style is happily familiar :)
re: #405 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Bernie keeps on showing me who he is and I don’t like it.
If Bernie doesn’t turn you off his rude and obnoxious cult members will.
re: #412 Joe Bacon 🌹
If Bernie doesn’t turn you off his rude and obnoxious cult members will.
They really don’t like hearing he’s got a poor record of passing legislation. They try to shrug it off by saying that Congress is too moderate. But Barney Frank and Ted Kennedy, equally if not more progressive got bills into laws and besides if the Congress is too moderate, how does that help Bernie. The key to progressive legislation is the Congress not the WH.
A week before Germany, France and Britain accused Iran of breaching the 2015 nuclear deal, the Trump administration privately threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on European automobiles if they didn’t, according to U.S. and European officials.
The U.S. effort to coerce European foreign policy through tariffs represents a new level of hardball tactics with America’s oldest allies and could result in the reimposition of sanctions against Iran.
re: #411 CleverToad
Good fortune to you on that effort, and good luck with the next job you find.
It’ll take me a couple of threads to get used to ‘Lefty’ but your rambling style is happily familiar :)
Thanks man. I had a tough time going honestly back to October but I’m feeling more optimistic again. I’m not going to let my anxieties rule me.
re: #415 Joe Bacon 🌹
A week before Germany, France and Britain accused Iran of breaching the 2015 nuclear deal, the Trump administration privately threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on European automobiles if they didn’t, according to U.S. and European officials.
The U.S. effort to coerce European foreign policy through tariffs represents a new level of hardball tactics with America’s oldest allies and could result in the reimposition of sanctions against Iran.
They really don’t care about American consumers because a 25% tariff won’t impact them.
re: #382 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
You don’t get freedom without equality,
You don’t get equality without solidarity,
You don’t get solidarity without freedom.
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