Stephen Colbert delivers his opening Late Show monologue LIVE following the Democratic presidential primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa. #Monologue #DemDebate #LateShowLIVE
Yikes. Bernie stans have totally swarmed the YouTube comments for this video.
Bob definitely isn’t having a good flight. And he hasn’t even left the ground.
Arg. Knees and shins are jammed against the metal and plastic armrest hinges. This’ll be fun for 3+ hours. https://t.co/UP2DCPKY8n
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) January 15, 2020
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: #1 Charles Johnson
Yikes. Bernie stans have totally swarmed the YouTube comments for this video.
As I said, I haven’t criticized Trump for being divisive and creating a presidency where you can’t disagree with him only to get a left wing version of that. Bernie has a lot of attributes that make me very uncomfortable.
And Trump can’t credibly throw Rudy under the bus & say he was lying - Trump told both US diplomats & Ukrainian President Zelensky to talk to Rudy. https://t.co/UigDYsUOFm
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) January 15, 2020
re: #5 Dread Pirate
And Trump can’t credibly throw Rudy under the bus & say he was lying - Trump told both US diplomats & Ukrainian President Zelensky to talk to Rudy.
Since when has Trump or his supporters cared about credibly?
re: #5 Dread Pirate
Just waiting for Rudy’s disbarment to proceed!
re: #9 Colère Tueur de Lapin
updinged, but…
I imagine NYS will be on that after this all gets sorted out.
re: #7 John Hughes
Since when has Trump or his supporters cared about credibly?
The three groups of American citizens who support Trump:
1. Those whose wealth or livelihood depend on the fossil fuel industry (and that includes miners who are never getting their jobs back)
2. Religious fanatics who want to outlaw abortion and institute other measures favoring theocrats, especially Christian theocrats. Trump personally doesn’t care about these issues but will implement them to retain their support.
3. Racists
They don’t care about ethics or morality or compassion — only Trump implementing policies they favor.
“The Intercept obtained police records showing that Hyde violated a restraining order issued by a Washington, DC superior court judge at the request of a Republican consultant who says that Hyde stalked her and intimidated her family over the last year.” https://t.co/XGCiWIwUkK
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 15, 2020
re: #11 Hecuba’s daughter
The three groups of American citizens who support Trump:
1. Those whose wealth or livelihood depend on the fossil fuel industry (and that includes miners who are never getting their jobs back)
2. Religious fanatics who want to outlaw abortion and institute other measures favoring theocrats, especially Christian theocrats. Trump personally doesn’t care about these issues but will implement them to retain their support.
3. RacistsThey don’t care about ethics or morality or compassion — only Trump implementing policies they favor.
I also met some sociopathic fatalists who figure that since our system is going to collapse anyways, Trump is the best man for the job of expediting and speeding up that process so we can just burn everything down and start over again. (I think Susan Sarandon belongs to that ilk)
re: #14 retired cynic
Wow, I was expecting to be a black or Hispanic person.
re: #12 lawhawk
So, if you don’t think Hyde could have actually done to Yovanovich what is being indicated by Parnas, there you go.
This crowd cheering as Trump makes up a promise that he’s giving people better dishwashers so they don’t have to wash their dishes ten times is something else. pic.twitter.com/QbQ6EYtNVa
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 15, 2020
Who could have imagined that infinite stupidity was a mathematical probability.
The House voted 228-193 to send impeachment articles over: dailykos.com.
The only Democrat to vote against it was Collin Peterson of Minnesota.
re: #18 Dread Pirate
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Who could have imagined that infinite stupidity was a mathematical probability.
I’m surprised he isn’t promising new incandescent bulbs that last longer than LEDs at a penny on the dollar, considering their hard on for them.
re: #20 Citizen K
I’m surprised he isn’t promising new incandescent bulbs that last longer than LEDs at a penny on the dollar, considering their hard on for them.
Trump allows these people to not have to think, to not have to connect a to b. But they’ve been conditioned by Fox and Limbaugh.
o.O
Garçon, please bring me a list of your finest popcorns. https://t.co/waPALHqGtw
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 15, 2020
re: #18 Dread Pirate
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Who could have imagined that infinite stupidity was a mathematical probability.
What did Einstein once say - that the difference between stupidity and the universe was that the universe was finite?
re: #23 Belafon
I wonder if Trump will schedule an impromptu rally.
He’s having one, right now.
“I could use some good legal advice. Do you have some good lawyers? Ah, to hell with it” — Trump is out here doing an improv comedy routine (he’s not getting too many laughs though) pic.twitter.com/bIY546SsY1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 15, 2020
We have been reporting since Sunday @MeetThePress that no embassies were given higher security to back up @realDonaldTrump claim. State Dept pushed back but never gave us promised evidence https://t.co/ERsA6rc6zm
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) January 15, 2020
Ill be watching ! https://t.co/4HJd9LFCr5
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) January 15, 2020
This should be good.
re: #11 Hecuba’s daughter
The three groups of American citizens who support Trump:
1. Those whose wealth or livelihood depend on the fossil fuel industry (and that includes miners who are never getting their jobs back)
2. Religious fanatics who want to outlaw abortion and institute other measures favoring theocrats, especially Christian theocrats. Trump personally doesn’t care about these issues but will implement them to retain their support.
3. RacistsThey don’t care about ethics or morality or compassion — only Trump implementing policies they favor.
And the Koch brothers sorts who want low taxes and nonexistent regulation so their companies can do whatever they want and aggregate wealth ever faster. They don’t care about any of the other groups except as they can make use of them.
re: #24 makeitstop
There are only two things that are infinite: The universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.
That’s how I remember it.
Whoa, some thread here.
We lined up the newly released Parnas messages with the records we obtained from the State Department through FOIA litigation, as well as other records and reports.
The timeline is troubling. (Thread)— American Oversight (@weareoversight) January 15, 2020
Thugs. Common fucking thugs.
re: #26 Dread Pirate
Once again proving what I said last week. If there was a threat, but no embassy saw heightened security, then Trump was derelict in his obligation to protect our embassies.
But he was worried about embassy attacks?
Yeah, it’s a lie. It was always transparent as a lie.
re: #32 plansbandc
The money hoarders are nuking our democracy.
And lying to the masses about economics.
The Equal Rights Amendment was just ratified in Virginia! Local elections matter! #ERANOW
— Mia Brett (@QueenMab87) January 15, 2020
re: #32 plansbandc
The money hoarders are nuking our democracy.
It is a mental disorder and should be treated as such. And not by a live-and-let-live modality, but with heavy medication.
re: #34 lawhawk
So, how will it play out in the courts? The DOJ has written their memo already, correct?
When presented with a photo showing one of WH staffer Rob Porter’s ex-wives with a black eye she said Porter gave her, the president suggested maybe she ran into a fridge to hurt herself to try to get money from him https://t.co/VGQZpxMcF4 pic.twitter.com/BCt43KfsqG
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 15, 2020
re: #35 Colère Tueur de Lapin
It is a mental disorder and should be treated as such. And not by a live-and-let-live modality, but by heavy medication.
Ben Franklin found the hoarding by the ultra wealthy adherent. The economic right wants to make an America where it is difficult to rise beyond your birth. You can’t preach bootstraps and then cut the leather and give the boots to someone who already has ten pairs of boots. Right wing capitalism is a bastardization of Smith’s vision and the only reason why a good chunk buys it is because right wing politicians told these people that those people benefiting from welfare, more affordable tuition, etc was the USSR. Another fine legacy of Reagan the hypocrite who loved The New Deal until it started helping PoC.
re: #36 Colère Tueur de Lapin
So, how will it play out in the courts? The DOJ has written their memo already, correct?
Lower courts will say it’s good but Roberts will nuke it. The official reason will be limit in the original legislation, real reason will be his personal extreme misogyny.
re: #38 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Ben Franklin found the hoarding by the ultra wealthy adherent. The economic right wants to make an America where it is difficult to rise beyond your birth. You can’t preach bootstraps and then cut the leather and give the boots to someone who already has ten pairs of boots. Right wing capitalism is a bastardization of Smith’s vision and the only reason why a good chunk buys it is because right wing politicians told these people that those people benefiting from welfare, more affordable tuition, etc was the USSR. Another fine legacy of Reagan the hypocrite who loved The New Deal until it started helping PoC.
I mean….Smith’s great ‘Invisible Hand’ relied on gov’t guidance to prevent monopolies, rather than discouraged it.
re: #38 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m presuming you mean abhorrent?
re: #28 Charmingly Persistent
And the Koch brothers sorts who want low taxes and nonexistent regulation so their companies can do whatever they want and aggregate wealth ever faster. They don’t care about any of the other groups except as they can make use of them.
As far as I’m concerned, Charles Koch wants the inverse of Stalinism where there are no safety nets for the less well off. Pampered rich brat would have done well to actually live under something other than Daddy Fred’s fortune.
re: #41 Citizen K
I mean….Smith’s great ‘Invisible Hand’ relied on gov’t guidance to prevent monopolies, rather than discouraged it.
We get people who confuse Ayn Rand with Smith and we get people who confuse Lenin with Marx.
re: #20 Citizen K
I’m surprised he isn’t promising new incandescent bulbs that last longer than LEDs at a penny on the dollar, considering their hard on for them.
TrumpBulbs: pitifully dim, but his voter base insists they’re the brightest thing ever!
If Dems win the next election they must form a Joint Committee to investigate EVERYTHING these people did. And congress must enact serious reforms with teeth. They can’t sweep all this under the rug. Trump and his accomplices have exposed a very serious weakness in the system. https://t.co/M7pwzqfadb
— digby (@digby56) January 15, 2020
re: #45 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
We get people who confuse Ayn Rand with Smith and we get people who confuse Lenin with Marx.
Not to mention the differences between what Marx wrote and and Engels edited…
My wife died 21 years today, right around this time of day. She was diabetic and had to have what was considered minor surgery. Something, in fact almost everything, went wrong, and she died. I still think about her every day, and dream about her every night.
re: #45 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
We get people who confuse Ayn Rand with Smith and we get people who
confuseconflate Lenin with Marx.
Just strengthening your point.
Team trump is going into hiding https://t.co/tUSAbWPzyW
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 15, 2020
re: #38 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Ben Franklin found the hoarding by the ultra wealthy adherent. The economic right wants to make an America where it is difficult to rise beyond your birth. You can’t preach bootstraps and then cut the leather and give the boots to someone who already has ten pairs of boots. Right wing capitalism is a bastardization of Smith’s vision and the only reason why a good chunk buys it is because right wing politicians told these people that those people benefiting from welfare, more affordable tuition, etc was the USSR. Another fine legacy of Reagan the hypocrite who loved The New Deal until it started helping PoC.
This. Exactly. It is the reason I hate these people with the fire of a million suns. If they had prevailed earlier in the 20th century, I would never have gone to Cornell or even escaped from the dusty trailer park where I grew up. They have spent the last 50 years working and plotting, and sometimes killing, to deny the same opportunity to others. They have largely succeeded, as the massive debt and poverty of the millennial generation shows. They want to keep it that way, as the loathesome Betsy DeVos, “Princess Amway,” has shown since Trump gave her the mandate to finish the destruction of democratic education once and for all.
re: #48 William Lewis
Not to mention the differences between what Marx wrote and and Engels edited…
Yeah I was reading Dubcek of the Prague Spring’s autobiography recently. Dubcek talked a lot about discovering that the Marx of reality was totally different than the one that the Soviets linked with Lenin and the anti-communist far right did the same thing. Marxism was never supposed to happened in Romanov Russia or Chiang’s China. The big lie that the economic ideologues tell us IMO is that we have to have a rigid economic system. I’m not an economist and I would even say economics is something I’m not particularly well versed in but I believe that economic policy should be a spectrum and not an ideology. Another thing is we had autocracy long after Capitalism was developed and we had democracy before it was developed. Democracy matters here. If we don’t get a say in how our society works, we’re damned.
re: #52 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
This. Exactly. It is the reason I hate these people with the fire of a million suns. If they had prevailed earlier in the 20th century, I would never have gone to Cornell or even escaped from the dusty trailer park where I grew up. They have spent the last 50 years working and plotting, and sometimes killing, to deny the same opportunity to others. They have largely succeeded, as the massive debt and poverty of the millennial generation shows. They want to keep it that way, as the loathesome Betsy DeVos, “Princess Amway,” has shown since Trump gave her the mandate to finish the destruction of democratic education once and for all.
Without the GI Bill to pay for my late grandfather’s trade school, he gets stuck in the mines and I’m probably on my way to becoming a fourth generation coal miner. We don’t ask for “free stuff”, man I can’t tell y’all how much I hate that phrase but we do want a floor that our parents and grandparents had. But I guess it’s easy just to look down on people when you’ve had everything handed to you like DeVos and Trump did.
There’s no shortages of challenges and dangers with this approach, but it also highlights a depressing reality:
The only lever this administration has with even our closest allies is to threaten. It used to be that merely asking would do the trick. https://t.co/CuswbFTjoG— Ned Price (@nedprice) January 15, 2020
re: #49 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
My wife died 21 years today, right around this time of day. She was diabetic and had to have what was considered minor surgery. Something, in fact almost everything, went wrong, and she died. I still think about her every day, and dream about her every night.
thanks for sharing.
you were lucky to have each other, if only for a brief period of time.
MAY HER MEMORY BY A BLESSING.
re: #55 Dread Pirate
That’s because the current GOP, and Trump specifically, doesn’t want to cooperate with the world, they want to bend it to do their will.
James O’Keefe’s demands to be taken seriously are hard to reconcile when he’s talking to Alex Jones, who spread “false flag” conspiracy theories while O’Keefe is on air as a guest pic.twitter.com/oVR7iUZQNI
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) January 15, 2020
re: #45 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
We get people who confuse Ayn Rand with Smith and we get people who confuse Lenin with Marx.
re: #45 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
We get people who confuse Ayn Rand with Smith and we get people who confuse Lenin with Marx.
And I will never forgive the Zeppo purge!
re: #58 DodgerFan1988
In a sane world, the credibility would have been gone as soon as his ACORN scam got exposed. And he’s never apologized for being a sick creep to that CNN reporter he did that creepy shit with the dildo with. O’Keefe is a disturbed man who gets enabled by Sugar Mommies and Daddies to fund his projects because O’Keefe would be broke if he actually had to make it honestly.
re: #53 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Marx never would’ve imagine his ideas in Russia, or China. Marx was looking at (at the time) highly industrialized societies like England or Germany, societies that had a plentiful proletariat that was on the cusp of class consciousness.
Russia had emerged from feudalism not long before Marx was writing down his ideas and China was, at that time, a mess.
Lenin reckoned he could leapfrog history. He was wrong.
re: #54 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Without the GI Bill to pay for my late grandfather’s trade school, he gets stuck in the mines and I’m probably on my way to becoming a fourth generation coal miner. We don’t ask for “free stuff”, man I can’t tell y’all how much I hate that phrase but we do want a floor that our parents and grandparents had. But I guess it’s easy just to look down on people when you’ve had everything handed to you like DeVos and Trump did.
My dad grew up with cardboard in his shoes, and dinner was 4 times a week.
I grew up with a swimming pool, a horse, piano lessons, summer camp and ski trips.
Free college for my dad’s generation is the entire “how’d they do that?”
Chair of Connecticut GOP > https://t.co/ol7kXkAa4s
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 15, 2020
The Virginia House of Delegates just voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution of United States of America.
“Equal rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.” pic.twitter.com/irIF1NkayJ— Danica Roem (@pwcdanica) January 15, 2020
To be precise, the Russian word снять, which is here translated as “get rid of” usually means “to remove from position” and not “to murder in a dark alley by means of a dagger to the liver.”
Doesn’t change that the whole exchange is bonkers, but we MUST be precise. https://t.co/N7ZxkGLBqL— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) January 15, 2020
Not only does he omit all punctuation and use the completely wrong form of the pronoun “me,” he can’t even spell Lutsenko’s first or last name properly.
This is the Russian of someone who really hasn’t used it in a long time and who was never well educated to begin with.— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) January 15, 2020
However, ONCE AGAIN, in the last text, it is not correct to translate “никуда не денется” as “she is not getting away.” The actual meaning is “her time will come” and it obviously refers to the word “снять”, which, again, does not mean “murder.”
I am annoyed by this translation.— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) January 15, 2020
It’s a crazy exchange, providing the circumstances and the characters involved, but I can’t imagine any Russian who would read this word and think murder or kidnapping.
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) January 15, 2020
re: #64 makeitstop
Hyde will tell them to get bent, of course.
re: #63 sagehen
My dad grew up with cardboard in his shoes, and dinner was 4 times a week.
I grew up with a swimming pool, a horse, piano lessons, summer camp and ski trips.
Free college for my dad’s generation is the entire “how’d they do that?”
And you know the thing is, there was a consensus on this sort of thing. Nixon was proposing UBI. Eisenhower thought 90% taxes on the very wealthy was sound. But oh my god propose something like that all Americans should have access to health care or higher education and you get looked at like you proposed changing the National Anthem to The Internationale.
re: #19 Belafon
The House voted 228-193 to send impeachment articles over: dailykos.com.
The only Democrat to vote against it was Collin Peterson of Minnesota.
His district must be very red, unless he’s thinking that with all the evidence coming to light it would be wise to hold the articles a bit longer.
re: #66 Belafon
“Her time will come” doesn’t fill me with a sense of peace.
re: #67 Romantic Heretic
Hyde will tell them to get bent, of course.
If Hyde can help sink the GOP, I’m all for it.
re: #62 Dr Lizardo
Marx never would’ve imagine his ideas in Russia, or China. Marx was looking at (at the time) highly industrialized societies like England or Germany, societies that had a plentiful proletariat that was on the cusp of class consciousness.
Russia had emerged from feudalism not long before Marx was writing down his ideas and China was, at that time, a mess.
Lenin reckoned he could leapfrog history. He was wrong.
It’s why if you look at Marx’s work, he was writing on the condition of the working class in England and Germany. I don’t agree with all his findings. One of my big problems with how Marxist ideology has been interpreted is it often ignores culture at the expense of class but as I said Marx wasn’t Lenin just as Smith wasn’t Rand. In fact, I think both would probably find some common ground because they were seeing systems that exploited people for the benefit of a select few and kept the already wealthy, wealthy and the poor poor unless they lucked out somehow. The worst thing we’ve convinced ourselves economically is a human’s worth is in how much $$$ he is worth.And the biggest drivers of this in 21st century America are spoiled brats who get funded by multimillion or even billionaires to spread the gospel of an economic system that never existed in anyone living’s America.
In this open mic moment, #Russia’s Vladimir Putin & #Syria’s Bashar Al Assad joke about inviting Trump to Damascus, Syria.
Putin to Assad “invite him he will come…he will change for the better.” pic.twitter.com/kYl9jz0cbo— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) January 15, 2020
re: #73 Dread Pirate
Don’t ever want to hear about how every Democrat who praises diplomacy in foreign relations is Neville Chamberlain ever again with this shit. Trump has definitely coddled these two dictators especially Putin by giving Putin credibility.
re: #69 NO SMOCKING GUN!
His district must be very red, unless he’s thinking that with all the evidence coming to light it would be wise to hold the articles a bit longer.
Near as I can see with a quick look, he’s very blue dog and it’s a conservative district - he’s part of the “pro-life” assholes who asked SCOTUS to toss RvW.
re: #75 William Lewis
Near as I can see with a quick look, he’s very blue dog and it’s a conservative district - he’s part of the “pro-life” assholes who asked SCOTUS to toss RvW.
I remember seeing his name a lot in the Blue Dog-Obama struggles. And I guess that’s the thing that gets me when I hear about how Obama moved the Dems to the right. The Blue Dogs aren’t a big factor in the caucus anymore. Yes moderates are but a moderate Democrat in 2020 is different than a moderate Democrat in 2010.
re: #75 William Lewis
Near as I can see with a quick look, he’s very blue dog and it’s a conservative district - he’s part of the “pro-life” assholes who asked SCOTUS to toss RvW.
BTW I keep on thinking about your one line about how capitalism being content under Hitler, happy with Franco, etc when I see people acting like capitalism is the only thing you need for democracy. I very much like consumer capitalism personally. I like having choices but I also like that there are some things that aren’t privatized. Privatized prisons scare the shit out of me because criminal justice shouldn’t be for sale and I think as a person who had an IEP that private schools greatly ignore children with learning disabilities and who don’t fit in with the private school’s culture.
Alright guys. I’m all economics out. Gonna finish this Ben Franklin bio and listen to some tunes and contemplate my next read. I’m thinking Korean War because I want to better understand a little of what my grandpa experienced and how we got to that point. Easy to forget that the Koreas were not a household name to most Americans until 1950.
Here we go again.
Elizabeth Warren will never get my vote. I don’t care if she’s the nominee. Warren is weaponizing her identity just like Hillary did and it’s disgusting. #WarrenIsASnake #NeverWarren
— Katie🌹 (@KatieArtigli) January 15, 2020
Cause BernieBro has nothing to do with weaponizing a personality. //
re: #6 margotdarby
Five comments in a little over eight years, with a -59 karma, and this is what you come here to post today and then log out?
and no, I’m not going to click on your website link to see who you are.
Is Trump also falsely labeling all Republicans with his antics. Hyde was operating at the behest of Trump. Be consistent and denounce Trump and call for his resignation too. Hyde is merely mini Trump.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 15, 2020
re: #67 Romantic Heretic
Hyde will tell them to get bent, of course.
Yeah, you called it…
JR RINO should resign from the @CTGOP ASAP. Never did anything but rig elections including his own and was a staunch advocate against @realDonaldTrump and still is.
— HYDE for U.S. Congress (@rfhyde1) January 15, 2020
re: #80 Dave In Austin
Here we go again.
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My dear, with everything that will be waiting for a Democrat American President, thanks to Trump, a weapon might come in handy.
re: #78 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think as a person who had an IEP that private schools greatly ignore children with learning disabilities and who don’t fit in with the private school’s culture.
Sometimes the private school suggests to the parents that a different school would be better for them. I guess that looks better than kicking them out.
When kids who need an IEP go to a public school, they are guaranteed a free and appropriate public education - which is exactly as it should be - but, at least here in CA, the principal is not given any budget increase for it. He or she has to take the required money from somewhere else in the school’s budget. Among other things, it leads to resentment from some other parents when other programs or classes get cut to cover the new expense.
I hate that the state does not help with this. To me, it kind of makes a joke of the guarantee of a FAPE. I would love to see this get addressed properly, but I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath.
re: #35 Colère Tueur de Lapin
It is a mental disorder and should be treated as such. And not by a live-and-let-live modality, but with heavy medication.
and reasonable tax rates
re: #90 Semper Fi
My dear, with everything that will be waiting for a Democrat American President, thanks to Trump, a weapon might come in handy.
I’d like to know what she defines as “weaponizing” Warren’s identity and in what sense the purported “weaponizing” somehow detracts or otherwise invalidates her policy proposals.
re: #37 plansbandc
When presented with a photo showing one of WH staffer Rob Porter’s ex-wives with a black eye she said Porter gave her, the president suggested maybe she ran into a fridge to hurt herself to try to get money from him
Based on personal experience, no doubt…
re: #49 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
{{shiplord}}
re: #45 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
We get people who confuse Ayn Rand with Smith and we get people who confuse Lenin with Marx.
The part of Adam Smith that they overlook is when he states that markets are supposed to function for all participants: producers and consumers, employers and employees, landlords and tenants, etc.
He never mentioned anything about laissez-faire. He was opposed to government-licensed monopolies on trade, like the British East India Company.
The modern equivalent of that is a no-bid, cost-plus government contract.
re: #38 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Ben Franklin found the hoarding by the ultra wealthy adherent. The economic right wants to make an America where it is difficult to rise beyond your birth.
and when we got a President who came from no sort of privileged background and got where he did through hard work, he was immediately derided as a Kenyan usurper, an affirmative-action coddled case or the Devil Incarnate.
It shows how seriously the modern Right takes the “American Dream” that anyone, regardless of race, color, religion or background, can rise to the level of their abilities and efforts.
re: #80 Dave In Austin
I don’t give a *bleep* about weaponizing her identity, not that Senator Warren is doing that. If she’s the nominee, I’ll proudly vote for her. Or the tweeter’s favorite candidate, Bernie. Or whoever the Democratic nominee is.
What everyone needs to remember is The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Though, the Senator (and everyone else running) is at the very least good and a lot closer to perfect than the person who will win if she and people thinking like her don’t vote.
re: #98 aatharuv
What everyone needs to remember is The perfect is the enemy of the good.
If they can convince enough people not to vote if their personal choice of Democratic candidate is not nominated, then that is a plus for the GOP
re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth
Five comments in a little over eight years, with a -59 karma, and this is what you come here to post today and then log out?
and no, I’m not going to click on your website link to see who you are.
It is a weird page for a fish hatchery. It is a single text page with a picture of a girl and a strange story.
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards.
re: #98 aatharuv
I don’t give a *bleep* about weaponizing her identity, not that Senator Warren is doing that. If she’s the nominee, I’ll proudly vote for her. Or the tweeter’s favorite candidate, Bernie. Or whoever the Democratic nominee is.
What everyone needs to remember is The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Though, the Senator (and everyone else running) is at the very least good and a lot closer to perfect than the person who will win if she and people thinking like her don’t vote.
One wonders how much of this is rodent-copulation by Republicans, and rodent-copulation by others.
Any ol’ body can put a rose emoji in their name and claim they are some sort of socialist. That doesn’t make her one.
Errors of comprehension by women may be fruitfully pointed out and corrected by beginning with term, “Well, actually…”
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) January 15, 2020
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🎃
It is a weird page for a fish hatchery. It is a single text page with a picture of a girl and a strange story.
life is full of random weirdness
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🎃
She also joined in May 2019.
That isn’t conclusive evidence of rodent-copulation, since people join or leave Twitter all the time. But jumping in and immediately bashing everyone but Sanders looks suspicious. Most of Sen. Sanders’s supporters have been on social media for a while.
She cannot be dumb. The court just allowed them to be released. Surely she knows this.
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 15, 2020
Breaking local news: The company my village contracts to maintain our reverse osmosis units for our water just left my house. My r/o unit is repaired. Yay.
re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Breaking local news: The company my village contracts to maintain our reverse osmosis units for our water just left my house. My r/o unit is repaired. Yay.
reverse Osmosis is when Donnie switches back to Marie?
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
reverse Osmosis is when Donnie switches back to Marie?
My Dad lives through you……… Hi Dad! Everything’s good here!
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
reverse Osmosis is when Donnie switches back to Marie?
LOL.
re: #109 Dave In Austin
My Dad lives through you……… Hi Dad! Everything’s good here!
I sometimes wake up uttering bad puns in my sleep, now I know where they come from…
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
reverse Osmosis is when Donnie switches back to Marie?
Brings back terrors of that AWFUL PRE-RAZZIE Donny & Marie movie Goin’ Coconuts. I was trapped in a theater with a nightmare date and I swore I was watching an LSD flashback on the screen!
So, we’re back to caravans because reasons?
WATCH: Caravan of hundreds from Honduras heads to US border https://t.co/qmEPIjvMcF pic.twitter.com/qEsLbe1YGS
— The Hill (@thehill) January 15, 2020
re: #112 Joe Bacon 🌹
Brings back terrors of that AWFUL PRE-RAZZIE Donny & Marie movie Goin’ Coconuts. I was trapped in a theater with a nightmare date and I swore I was watching an LSD flashback on the screen!
This Donnie and Marie cover of Steely Dan almost made me head into rehab:
A week after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico on January 7, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has decided it will finally release $8.2 billion in aid that Congress appropriated to help the island rebuild after Hurricane Maria in 2017. HUD officials readily admitted to Congress in October that they’d blown right past a September deadline to release the aid, because the department was worried about “corruption” in the territory’s government. Since then, the department hasn’t said anything at all about the continuing delays.
(more)
Puerto Rico Finally Getting Its Damn Disaster Aid (Wonkette)
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Agreed, and the same goes in the other direction. Convincing disaffected Trump voters to stay at home, just not vote for Trump, or vote for a Third party candidate is a plus for Democrats, even if its only half as useful as convincing them to vote for the Democratic nominee instead.
re: #116 aatharuv
Agreed, and the same goes in the other direction. Convincing disaffected Trump voters to stay at home, just not vote for Trump, or vote for a Third party candidate is a plus for Democrats, even if its only half as useful as convincing them to vote for the Democratic nominee instead.
I can only hope that the devotion and ardor they showed for him in 2016 has begun to dampen a bit, perhaps among the Christians who lean towards the New Testament over the Old…
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No Static at all……..
BREAKING: Va. Gov. Ralph Northam declares state of emergency ahead of gun rights rallies in Richmond. Says state has received “credible threats” of violence similar to infamous white supremacist rally in Charlottesville https://t.co/WzLoBN4GQg
— justin jouvenal (@jjouvenal) January 15, 2020
re: #116 aatharuv
Agreed, and the same goes in the other direction. Convincing disaffected Trump voters to stay at home, just not vote for Trump, or vote for a Third party candidate is a plus for Democrats, even if its only half as useful as convincing them to vote for the Democratic nominee instead.
I was still on my village board in the 2016 election. As such, I did not see it as appropriate to discourage people from voting, though it was obvious I’d first supported Sanders in the caucus, then Clinton in the general election (something about my yard signs I guess).
That didn’t deter my wife though, who talked to every person in town about what a horrible person Trump was and promoted Gary Johnson as an alternative to voting for Trump.
That might explain the large Libertarian turnout in my town in the last election (though not nearly enough to prevent Trump from taking my precinct by an overwhelming margin).
re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🎃
That might explain the large Libertarian turnout in my town in the last election (though not nearly enough to prevent Trump from taking my precinct by an overwhelming margin).
Nebraska.
I am registered in Arizona, which might go blue some day, but for now, my Presidential vote is going to get pissed away.
re: #64 makeitstop
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Giuliani also met with a Firtash lawyer in London in late June. Five days later, Lev Parnas texted Giuliani that he was off to Vienna. “Wow!” Giuliani replied. https://t.co/9AbiOvxMRD
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) January 15, 2020
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nebraska.
I am registered in Arizona, which might go blue some day, but for now, my Presidential vote is going to get pissed away.
But you can vote in other Federal-level elections, right? Your votes, plural, for the two Senate seats WILL make a difference!
re: #66 Belafon
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It’s a crazy exchange, providing the circumstances and the characters involved, but I can’t imagine any Russian who would read this word and think murder or kidnapping.
but earlier Slava says:
Not only does he omit all punctuation and use the completely wrong form of the pronoun “me,” he can’t even spell Lutsenko’s first or last name properly.
This is the Russian of someone who really hasn’t used it in a long time and who was never well educated to begin with.
my emphasis in both comments contradict each other
re: #124 i(m)p(each)sos
But you can vote in other Federal-level elections, right? Your votes, plural, for the two Senate seats WILL make a difference!
Of course, but the EC in AZ is gonna go GOP for some time to come…
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nebraska.
I am registered in Arizona, which might go blue some day, but for now, my Presidential vote is going to get pissed away.
I hear that.
The NDP is building on their successful push in 2018 to elect more Democrats at the local and state level. That resulted in the most women ever elected in the state, flipping a whole bunch of city, school board, and state legislature seats.
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I hear that.
The NDP is building on their successful push in 2018 to elect more Democrats at the local and state level. That resulted in the most women ever elected in the state, flipping a whole bunch of city, school board, and state legislature seats.
AZ used to be pretty Democratic (Mo Udall, Bruce Babbit, etc.,) until about the 80’s when it went Deep Red.
re: #81 Mike Lamb
Unfortunately, that weakness is the Electoral College.
I saw there was a modest proposal to fix that by reducing D. C. to a few federal buildings, create 127 new states out of Washington neighborhoods, then passing a slew of constitutional amendments to give every American equal representation in Congress and abolishing the Electoral College. Not going to happen, but completely constitutional.
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The 2018 election caused a weird anomaly in my town.
When our two-room school closed in 2005, the town divided itself up between two different school districts, in Dalton (in the next county south) or Bridgeport (my county seat). My house is in the Dalton school district.
Dalton (pop 300) flipped its school board from Republican to Democratic control, whereas Bridgeport remained under GOP control.
So about half my town has a Democratic school board and the other half a GOP one.
re: #91 Jebediah, RBG
Sometimes the private school suggests to the parents that a different school would be better for them. I guess that looks better than kicking them out.
When kids who need an IEP go to a public school, they are guaranteed a free and appropriate public education - which is exactly as it should be - but, at least here in CA, the principal is not given any budget increase for it. He or she has to take the required money from somewhere else in the school’s budget. Among other things, it leads to resentment from some other parents when other programs or classes get cut to cover the new expense.
I hate that the state does not help with this. To me, it kind of makes a joke of the guarantee of a FAPE. I would love to see this get addressed properly, but I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath.
Reminds me of an old quote I recently saw again. The world will be a better place when schools get all the money they need, and the Pentagon has to hold bake sales to buy new battleships.
Little surprise this nepotist overestimates the importance of a terrorist’s son. https://t.co/BgQcOj6sPV pic.twitter.com/1figooEvul
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) January 15, 2020
Here is a 1981 interview with the new mayor of Burlington Vermont.https://t.co/6w7C5trNXf
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 15, 2020
If you wanna sell Bernie, sell his virtues and well. But this thread begins on a morning when #NeverWarren is trending and I’d say the exact same thing if #NeveBernie was trending. Fuck that rank stupidity. And fuck you for deflecting straight-up criticism of that stupidity. https://t.co/1B2396yzHy
— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 15, 2020
Very strong winds from #StormBrendan caused this waterfall to go upwards at the Peak District National park, UK yesterday 13th December!! Video by 📸 Chris Hey #ukweather #Brendan pic.twitter.com/ppBmOkGs4e
— WEATHER/ METEO WORLD (@StormchaserUKEU) January 14, 2020
As the Senate cast its vote to ratify the ERA, advocates including Lynda Robb, Megan Beyer, Stewart Gamage, and Martha Marks joined many others to see their hard work finally pay off. pic.twitter.com/OFQXnjavez
— Senator Dick Saslaw (@DickSaslaw) January 15, 2020
I agree. If this was a discussion of electability or politics, and not a judgment on women’s fitness to serve, BS could just say that. Discussion over. I don’t believe him on this. https://t.co/UOY0BPqUuR
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 15, 2020
Seems like a big uproar over nothing but BS has exacerbated it with these flat denials. There are so many ways to handle it that would defuse the situation but he didn’t do that.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 15, 2020
The president brought me and other reporters briefly into a room at the White House before lunch with the Chinese guests. Jared Kushner and others were there. Number of men at the table: 26. Number of women: 0. (Female interpreters scooted back and helped with the conversation). pic.twitter.com/1JYN3sYNU1
— Tara McKelvey (@Tara_Mckelvey) January 15, 2020
“Today, we saw my dad take the first steps to fixing the shit he fucked up over two years ago.”
Fixed your Tweet, @DonaldJTrumpJr https://t.co/a3E6kaB0qY— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) January 15, 2020
— Sandy🇵🇷🇩🇪 (@saabreu56) January 15, 2020
Really says it all! 🤬#ImpeachBarrNow pic.twitter.com/LUEhmZk0UF
— 4mvp (@44mmvvpp) January 15, 2020
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If they can convince enough people not to vote if their personal choice of Democratic candidate is not nominated, then that is a plus for the GOP
It’s about Trump’s only hope for reelection.
If you are in Palm Springs please keep a look out for my friend’s little chihuahua named BeanDog. He is lost + needs to get home to his mama!
Bean is super friendly but needs his mama. Please @ me or @laladoza if you find him!#PalmSpring #california #lostpets #lostdogs pic.twitter.com/5uY3Le6wOC— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 15, 2020
re: #113 lawhawk
So, we’re back to caravans because reasons?
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BREAKING: Virgin Islands allege Jeffrey Epstein trafficked girls as young as 11 as recently as 2018 https://t.co/JJUq6KG0sS
— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) January 15, 2020
Hundreds of victims.
“…Epstein, who was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell last year, allegedly brought girls as young as 11 to his private island, known as Little St. James, and maintained a database to track their availability and movements, the lawsuit said.”
There are likely dozens of Epstein associates involved with this.
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nebraska.
I am registered in Arizona, which might go blue some day, but for now, my Presidential vote is going to get pissed away.
I think there is a real chance of Trump losing Az.
Ok, ok I’ll allow an exception for Tulsi Gabbard only because she’s not going to be the nominee.
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) January 15, 2020
re: #136 gocart mozart
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Whew! That was scary!
Trump’s China deal:
-China agrees to buy $50B of ag products this year.
-That’s a gain of $29B from before Trump tariffs.
-Trump tariffs have cost U.S. farmers $11B.
-U.S. taxpayers have spent $28B on emergency payouts to farmers.
-So loss to U.S. is $39B.
You do the math.— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 15, 2020
Larry Kudlow says he loves @RBReich but won’t answer whether today’s China trade deal amounts to a loss for the US economy @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/vd65OqSSyq
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) January 15, 2020
YIKES!!!!
In #RobertHyde’s spare time when he wasn’t stalking Fmr Amb #MarieYovanovitch with #LevParnas and @RudyGiuliani to “get her out of the way,” he was shooting at a Halloween mask of Hillary Clinton.👇
Cc: @FBI @rfhyde1#ParnasDocs #FairSenateTrial#ParnasHydeTexts pic.twitter.com/q5X2D58l3m— dσxxεd Ъuт หσт σuт (@twmentality1) January 15, 2020
re: #154 Dread Pirate
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Trump’s China deal:
-China agrees to buy $50B of ag products this year.
-That’s a gain of $29B from before Trump tariffs.
-Trump tariffs have cost U.S. farmers $11B.
-U.S. taxpayers have spent $28B on emergency payouts to farmers.
-So loss to U.S. is $39B.
You do the math.— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 15, 2020
Inbox: Sen. Kamala Harris is calling for a pause to any judicial nominees while the Senate considers the impeachment articles, noting that, in 1999, the Senate Judiciary Committee did not hold any nominations hearings or advance any nominations to a confirmation vote.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 15, 2020
oh, yes, ^^THIS^^
A neo-Nazi who threatened to exterminate every Hispanic person in Miami and tried to send $25k to someone to kidnap a Miami woman and stuff her in a Rubbermaid plastic tub pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday: https://t.co/SqBo6zUHnq
— Jerry Iannelli (@jerryiannelli) January 15, 2020
“But it’s immigrants who brings violence to our communities!”
I’m sure the extreme right wing of the US is VERY happy with this, but to everyone else it’s a big fuckyou for the rest of your life. https://t.co/8VOdtfUsnn
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 15, 2020
re: #148 jaunte
Virgin Islands allege Jeffrey Epstein trafficked girls as young as 11 as recently as 2018
Prince Andrew was unavailable for comment…
Lively day in Virginia.
Legislature passes the ERA.
State of emergency declared because gun-nut white supremacists may invade Richmond.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 15, 2020
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
YIKES!!!!
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re: #160 Charles Johnson
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You know, he doesn’t even know what these judges mean. I think he really believes that he’s singlehandedly “fixed” the judiciary because he’s gullible enough to actually buy McConnell blaming the vacancies he caused on Obama.
A Michigan state senator allegedly told a female reporter that schoolboys ‘could have a lot of fun’ with her https://t.co/eKbstqEbHC
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) January 15, 2020
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
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oh, yes, ^^THIS^^
Precedent is a motherfucker. If Mitch whines, play ads of him supporting this in 1999.
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
Slava says:
but earlier Slava says:
my emphasis in both comments contradict each other
Yeah, that kind of stood out
re: #166 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Precedent is a motherfucker. If Mitch whines, play ads of him supporting this in 1999.
He won’t care. He has no shame.
re: #165 Patricia Kayden
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Sheesh. But hey public schools and exposure to women make boys act this way. Between this, Covington, & Kavanaugh’s Georgetown Prep, not exactly ringing endorsements of what all boys Catholic high schools teach in how to respect women.
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
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oh, yes, ^^THIS^^
an impeached president should still be able to govern during the process (indicted not convicted)
clinton effectively did.
trump could have if he ever did any work.
one possibility about impeachment is removal from office.
and no one actually knows that it wont happen - not with certainty given what could come out.
when one of the charges is abuse of power of the office there are some things a president in that compromised position should not do / be allowed to do
re: #160 Charles Johnson
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everything is ‘records’ with him
I’m sure the extreme right wing of the US is VERY happy with this, but to everyone else it’s a big fuckyou for the rest of your life. https://t.co/8VOdtfUsnn
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 15, 2020
re: #133 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Reminds me of an old quote I recently saw again. The world will be a better place when schools get all the money they need, and the Pentagon has to hold bake sales to buy new battleships.
An old quote, to be sure, but it never stopped being true!
re: #168 retired cynic
He won’t care. He has no shame.
I’m sure but enough of his colleagues who fear re-election or losing the majority might. McConnell needs to become toxic to the voters for his total lack of interest in being anything but a Trump enabler.
I really hate this dumb pen tradition, it cheapens the moment https://t.co/JEiUIyLxX4
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) January 15, 2020
re: #171 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
everything is ‘records’ with him
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He’s the king of hyperbole. Ironically for someone whose movement claims they like the “ok” sign, never us anything just okay Trump, it’s always the greatest/best or worst/terrible, kinda like how Soleimani was the world’s worst terrorist. There’s no room for nuance with him. His communication is awful.
re: #174 goddamnedfrank
It’d be funny if she trolled him and signed them with these (yes they are on the official Trump site):
I did not know this. Oldest public library is in Salisbury. Salisbury is the last town in northwest CT, it borders NY and MASS
Today #CaseworkOnYourCorner visited #Salisbury at the Scoville Memorial Library. On Wednesday, January 22nd we will be at the Wolcott Town Hall from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM.Fun fact: The Scoville Memorial Library is the oldest Public Library in the country!! pic.twitter.com/VGom1nlorC
— Jahana Hayes (@RepJahanaHayes) January 15, 2020
re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg
It’d be funny if she trolled him and signed them with these (yes they are on the official Trump site):
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I’m waiting for my Trump commerative barf bag that I paid 20 bucks plus 10 for shipping and handling. This really is just about profiting off the presidency for him. Even if his claim he doesn’t take a salary is true which I doubt, he’s made so much money off the presidency already. I can already see him trying to sell himself as a President in exile if he’s defeated.
re: #136 gocart mozart
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If he has the most grass roots supporters, why couldn’t he win the primary last time? Oh right, it was “rigged by the DNC” with their diabolical scheme that the candidate with the most votes, wins…
re: #178 gocart mozart
I did not know this. Oldest public library is in Salisbury. Salisbury is the last town in northwest CT, it borders NY and MASS
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See this is how Congresspeople act. Not shooting a Halloween mask. Hayes is who Hyde is running against fyi.
re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg
It’d be funny if she trolled him and signed them with these (yes they are on the official Trump site):
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pens
this is on par with billy beer
but obama wrote a book and did a series on netflix after he was no longer president
re: #177 Mike Lamb
I have to admit that I don’t fully track the math.
And I should clarify—I understand that there is a net loss even after this super fantastic deal—I don’t get how he arrived at the loss number.
re: #183 Mike Lamb
And I should clarify—I understand that there is a net loss even after this super fantastic deal—I don’t get how he arrived at the loss number.
Agreed. Seems to me it should be a $29B gain against a $39B loss for a net loss of $10B.
re: #178 gocart mozart
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Peterborough, NH claims to have the oldest taxpayer-funded (1833) public library in the world.
There’s a weird rule of ever increasing bumblefuckness at play with Team Trump. I mean, yes he’s a narcissistic lunatic, but then when you move From Trump to Giuliani, Giuliani to Parnas & then Parnas to Hyde the level of rank shitwitted goofiness just keeps jumping exponentially
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) January 15, 2020
re: #177 Mike Lamb
I have to admit that I don’t fully track the math.
he left the last line out - ‘you do the math’
29b in new promises to buy
less 11b losses + 28b in subsidies = 39b
29-39b is a net loss of 10b
we ‘paid’ 39 billion dollars in subsidies, lost sales and other losses to get a 29 billion dollar promise of new future sales
re: #179 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m waiting for my Trump commerative barf bag that I paid 20 bucks plus 10 for shipping and handling. This really is just about profiting off the presidency for him. Even if his claim he doesn’t take a salary is true which I doubt, he’s made so much money off the presidency already. I can already see him trying to sell himself as a President in exile if he’s defeated.
its cheap and crass
sometimes i despise living in florida
Seven Republican lawmakers in Florida filed anti-LGBTQ bills late Monday, just hours before the deadline to file new bills for the coming legislative session,” NBC News reports.
“If passed, the bills would ban gender-affirming health care for transgender children, repeal municipal and county ordinances protecting LGBTQ workers, and legalize so-called gay conversion therapy in places that had banned the medically debunked practice.”
re: #187 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
he left the last line out - ‘you do the math’
29b in new promises to buy
less 11b losses + 28b in subsidies = 39b
29-39b is a net loss of 10b
we ‘paid’ 39 billion dollars in subsidies, lost sales and other losses to get a 29 billion dollar promise of new future sales
Milo Minderbinder-style.
re: #190 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
sometimes i despise living in florida
Remember when Senator Dick Joke claimed he wanted to return to the Senate to protect LGBT rights. Somehow I don’t think he’s objecting to this.
re: #190 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
sometimes i despise living in florida
“Hey guys, I got an idea! Let’s be cruel assholes just for the hell of it!”
Anyone else watching the Senate coverage right now?
I kinda get the impression Mitch isn’t enjoying this part of his job right now. His usual “fuck you, I’m gonna bull through whatever I want to do” arrogance seems to be missing.
re: #185 Barefoot Grin
Peterborough, NH claims to have the oldest taxpayer-funded (1833) public library in the world.
Library Wars!!1!! Open books at 30 paces…
re: #194 i(m)p(each)sos
Anyone else watching the Senate coverage right now?
I kinda get the impression Mitch isn’t enjoying this part of his job right now. His usual “fuck you, I’m gonna bull through whatever I want to do” arrogance seems to be missing.
he can do what he wants in the senate.
the house wont let him
and theyre shining a light on him as they fight back
re: #187 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
he left the last line out - ‘you do the math’
29b in new promises to buy
less 11b losses + 28b in subsidies = 39b
29-39b is a net loss of 10b
we ‘paid’ 39 billion dollars in subsidies, lost sales and other losses to get a 29 billion dollar promise of new future sales
Ok, that’s what I was coming up with.
re: #198 Mike Lamb
Ok, that’s what I was coming up with.
i originally read it wrong - as a 39b loss
that’s why i wrote “you already did the math’
then i realized he did what teachers do:
‘the solution is left to you as an exercise’
re: #186 goddamnedfrank
Listen, all I’m saying is if I were an epidemiologist I’d find the implications concerning
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) January 15, 2020
it was a big pot of boston baked beans
and two loaves of brown bread
so tonight’s a delicious repeat
im out
re: #200 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
i originally read it wrong - as a 39b loss
that’s why i wrote “you already did the math’then i realized he did what teachers do:
‘the solution is left to you as an exercise’
Yes, that was the confusing part for me as well.
re: #203 Mike Lamb
Yes, that was the confusing part for me as well.
no one said there would be math tonight…
The Lynchburg City Council voted not to join the more than 120 localities in Virginia that have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries. https://t.co/V1uNEks9Hm pic.twitter.com/UBLJdzkKMb
— The Roanoke Times (@roanoketimes) January 15, 2020
re: #77 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yes moderates are but a moderate Democrat in 2020 is different than a moderate Democrat in 2010.
Moderate: Somebody with stupid ideas I agree with.
Extremist: Somebody with stupid ideas I disagree with.
Or, if you’re an extremist like me:
Moderate: someone who’s ok with killing millions of people.
Extremist: Somebody who thinks megadeath might be a bad idea.
Virginia school board allows Confederate flag in dress code https://t.co/OM3e7qt6OU
A county school board in Virginia has decided not to update its dress code to ban displays of the Confederate flag. Do you agree with its decision? YES or NO? pic.twitter.com/SMnpDWDxam— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) January 15, 2020
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
“second amendment sanctuaries” for fuck sake these people are lunatics
re: #208 Jebediah, RBG
“second amendment sanctuaries” for fuck sake these people are lunatics
my county did just that in time for Christmas.
sigh
re: #208 Jebediah, RBG
“second amendment sanctuaries” for fuck sake these people are lunatics
I mean it’s kind of a waste of money and space, but if they want to provide sanctuary for all the copies of the Second Amendment they can, I’m fine with it.
re: #208 Jebediah, RBG
“second amendment sanctuaries” for fuck sake these people are lunatics
my idiot congresscritter:
In fully support the #2A sanctuary movement in Kentucky and across the country. Congrats to the activists and elected officials in Boone County!
https://t.co/wwmzi3gKXq— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 15, 2020
re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I mean it’s kind of a waste of money and space, but if they want to provide sanctuary for all the copies of the Second Amendment they can, I’m fine with it.
Ha ha yes I would be ok with that!
Won’t someone think of the poor beleaguered, discriminated guns! What about their feelings?!
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
Massie is yours? You are one lucky duck ////
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
my county did just that in time for Christmas.
sigh
It’s gonna be fucking awesome when one of these sheriffs cites such a local ordinance to refuse to comply with a court order pursuant to a state red flag law, and the subject in question goes on to become an active shooter.
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
And all the “a bunch of those firearms deaths are suicides” apologists are in that thread, because suicide doesn’t count.
Oh wait, conservatives aren’t “pro-life,” that’s just branding.
House Bill 243, by Rep. McKenzie Cantrell, D-Louisville, would replace the recently added Bible study classes in Kentucky’s public schools with study of all the religions observed by the many diverse people in the state. In other words, this bill is doomed. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) January 14, 2020
indeed
re: #214 Jebediah, RBG
Massie is yours? You are one lucky duck ////
His mom is a friend of mine..
sigh
re: #171 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
everything is ‘records’ with him
Well, impeachment is now on his permanent record.
re: #215 goddamnedfrank
It’s gonna be fucking awesome when one of these sheriffs cites such a local ordinance to refuse to comply with a court order pursuant to a state red flag law, and the subject in question goes on to become an active shooter.
I’d like to know where in their oath of office it states that it is the sheriff who determines the constitutionality of a particular law…
re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth
His mom is a friend of mine..
sigh
Did the apple fall far away from the tree in this case?
Odds of Michael Avenatti becoming United States president now no better than one in three. pic.twitter.com/WHqZEwzmRX
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) January 15, 2020
Gonna be fun when the GOP talking point becomes that we are all overreacting because they weren’t trying to kill Yavanovich but were merely stalking her with unspecified ill intent
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) January 15, 2020
this is what’s behind all this second amendment sanctuary bullshit in Kentucky:
Pro-gun demonstrators rally at KY Capitol to protest gun control bills
I had a link yesterday or the day before that detailed the actual bill.
As a gunowner, I don’t have a problem with any of it.
re: #221 Jebediah, RBG
Did the apple fall far away from the tree in this case?
his mom is nicer than he is
re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth
this is what’s behind all this second amendment sanctuary bullshit in Kentucky:
Pro-gun demonstrators rally at KY Capitol to protest gun control billsI had a link yesterday or the day before that detailed the actual bill.
As a gunowner, I don’t have a problem with any of it.
“Gun control bills”
Common sense regulations are NOT Gun control, ASSHOLES!
Schiff on @CNNSitRoom: “It’s deeply disturbing to see that it looks like somebody had the ambassador under surveillance” and “there were implicit or potential threats” to Marie Yovanovitch. “We don’t know where those originated from … but we’re determined to find out.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 15, 2020
SO: OT computer question:
I made the mistake this afternoon of trying to “improve the performance” of my old (c. 7-yo) notebook (WIndows 7 Pro) by downloading AVG Tune-Up, which prompted a restart notice in one of its “cleanup functions”. That was about an hour an, and in said reboot, it spwent about 40 minutes in “update” mode, and has now gotten apparently frozen in the start cycle where it says :
Configuring Windows updates
100% complete
Do not turn off your computer
Which it has been doing for about 25 minutes now.
Dare I push it (i.e. force-kill the power)? Or am I more likely to mess it up even further.
AVG, unsurprisingly, were no help. Even less so since I can’t open the program
This is great pic.twitter.com/28USJySQeH
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 15, 2020
“…no one is above the law…the president has been held accountable…he has been impeached, impeached forever.”
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This Donnie and Marie cover of Steely Dan almost made me head into rehab:
Damn, I was hoping it was “Hey Nineteen”.
“It’s not personal. It’s not political. It’s not partisan. It’s patriotic.” #ArticlesOfImpeachment pic.twitter.com/F3ncvd3eEZ
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) January 15, 2020
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🎃
(more)
Puerto Rico Finally Getting Its Damn Disaster Aid (Wonkette)
These fucking scumbags
Lindsey Graham during the Clinton impeachment: “Please give us a chance to present our case in a persuasive fashion because, unlike the House, everything is in dispute here. It is totally a different ballgame here. That’s why we need witnesses, ladies and gentlemen.” https://t.co/NZa5tMR5mf
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 15, 2020
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This Donnie and Marie cover of Steely Dan almost made me head into rehab:
I remember dear Allee Willis telling me about the time she saw Donny and Marie butcher her song Boogie Wonderland. She almost took out a shotgun to kill her TV…
Pompeo has some ‘splainin’ to do: https://t.co/INsJkedJCZ
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) January 15, 2020
Is it just me and @JJintheUS, or did Hyde send Parnas a tracking map showing the location of Yovanovitch’s phone and/or computer?
Guess that’s how he knew when they were on and off as well.
How was he able to track government-issued devices? https://t.co/5ykxKYtCAY— Uncle Blazer (@blakesmustache) January 15, 2020
re: #234 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember dear Allee Willis telling me about the time she saw Donny and Marie butcher her song Boogie Wonderland. She almost took out a shotgun to kill her TV…
Well, if Elvis can do it, why can’t she?
.@brianschatz: “These unreasonable restrictions must be reversed so that the press has the access they need to do their jobs, expose the truth, and keep our leaders accountable.” https://t.co/zGJVLvfgtw
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) January 15, 2020
Out now: @SenatePPG Executive Committee letter to Rules Committee, Senate leadership urging them to reverse press access restrictions for the upcoming impeachment trial. “It is the responsibility of Senate leaders to conduct this chamber’s business in a transparent way.” pic.twitter.com/zPddmEIEab
— Leo Shane III (@LeoShane) January 15, 2020
Please Let It Be, Juanita Jean
Senator Tim Kaine says that he may have as many as a dozen Republican votes to support his attempt to “curtail President Trump’s ability to go to war with Iran, thanks to the reportedly disastrous security briefing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave legislators last week.”
She also says that the Energy Department agreed to release Ukraine related docs, inc. from Perry. January 28, February 4 and March 16 are scheduled release dates.
2/ Hey @SenateGOP, you want an eye witness?
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) January 15, 2020
Impeachment articles make their way through Statuary Hall en route to the Senate pic.twitter.com/UhITVp3RLf
— Rebecca Kaplan (@RebeccaRKaplan) January 15, 2020
Lutsenko has said separately that Giuliani had offered to set up a meeting between him and Bill Barr
— Josh Kovensky (@JoshKovensky) January 15, 2020
Here we have Lutsenko telling Parnas he has evidence of payments from Burisma to Seneca (Hunter Biden’s firm) for half a million dollars. When Parnas says he can send them, Lutsenko replies “I’ll transmit them through the new ambassador :)” pic.twitter.com/uzJoXx4xod
— Josh Kovensky (@JoshKovensky) January 15, 2020
On the day Yovanovitch’s firing was announced, Lutsenko wrote Parnas “a good gift for the day of St. Yuriy,” referring to May 6, and Lutsenko’s first name pic.twitter.com/uZjJMQozDt
— Josh Kovensky (@JoshKovensky) January 15, 2020
re: #228 Jay C
Ok, I know this is too late, but:
1. On Windows: Never use an antivirus other than Microsoft’s one. All “antivirus”
programs are snake oil, at least buy it from the snake breeder.
2. Windows 7 is dead. Dump it. Nothing you can do will make it safe, Microsoft have abandoned it.
3. Windows is inherently insecure. It will always be. Use Linux if you can, or if you’re wedded to some windows program understand that it’s more “convenient” because it’s full of dangerous security shortcuts.
re: #228 Jay C
SO: OT computer question:
I made the mistake this afternoon of trying to “improve the performance” of my old (c. 7-yo) notebook (WIndows 7 Pro) by downloading AVG Tune-Up, which prompted a restart notice in one of its “cleanup functions”. That was about an hour an, and in said reboot, it spwent about 40 minutes in “update” mode, and has now gotten apparently frozen in the start cycle where it says :
Configuring Windows updates
100% complete
Do not turn off your computerWhich it has been doing for about 25 minutes now.
Dare I push it (i.e. force-kill the power)? Or am I more likely to mess it up even further.
AVG, unsurprisingly, were no help. Even less so since I can’t open the program
Wait 10 more minutes. If Windows does not respond, reset the machine (power off, wait 10 seconds, power back up).
What you’re describing is Windows Update, not AVG. AVG just starts Windows Update for you. What you describe is, unfortunately, a common Windows problem. When Windows has many updates, the process of updating can crawl.
When you force reset the machine, depending on its progress, Windows may roll back the updates. Let it do so. As soon as it let’s you into the machne, you may open up the apps window in Settings and remove AVG.
(I don’t use AVG as I have my own procedure for maintenance I prefer using. If I use a multifunction “cleanup” app, I only use one function at any one time until I understand what it is doing.
Bon courage!
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
Damn, I remember fighting my way through there in Fallout 3.
re: #243 John Hughes
“Insecurity” is relative. The most secure OS you can use is the one you are familiar with. For some, it will be Linux, but for most people, Windows, Mac or Android will be called for.
I’m familiar with all of these OS’s and none of them are free of bugs or security issues.
re: #243 John Hughes
Thanks. I know most of this: the machine in question is to be the backup laptop: I’ve just been holding on to it because as bad as W7 is/can be; I really HATE W10. But obviously, I don’t have much of a choice….
re: #245 Sherlock Hound
Thanks, also. I was thinking of doing just that.
Fortunately, I have a newer laptop as backup: so I can keep LGF “informed”…////
HONOLULU (AP) — Military officials: 3 in custody after live mortar round found in their vehicle at gate to Pearl Harbor base.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 15, 2020
re: #243 John Hughes
Ok, I know this is too late, but:
1. On Windows: Never use an antivirus other than Microsoft’s one. All “antivirus”
programs are snake oil, at least buy it from the snake breeder.2. Windows 7 is dead. Dump it. Nothing you can do will make it safe, Microsoft have abandoned it.
3. Windows is inherently insecure. It will always be. Use Linux if you can, or if you’re wedded to some windows program understand that it’s more “convenient” because it’s full of dangerous security shortcuts.
I also recommend using a virtual PC where possible. That way if it gets borked there’s no risk to your physical hardware or hard drive.
re: #250 Eclectic Cyborg
I also recommend using a virtual PC where possible. That way if it gets borked there’s no risk to your physical hardware or hard drive.
I hate Windows, and use it when I have to only on a secondary laptop in a virtual machine.
So the Senate is finally getting the Impeachment Articles. That gives them 13 working days between now and the SOTU.
I am going to go ahead and guess they’ll try and have this wrapped up by 1/25.
re: #228 Jay C
SO: OT computer question:
I made the mistake this afternoon of trying to “improve the performance” of my old (c. 7-yo) notebook (WIndows 7 Pro) by downloading AVG Tune-Up, which prompted a restart notice in one of its “cleanup functions”. That was about an hour an, and in said reboot, it spwent about 40 minutes in “update” mode, and has now gotten apparently frozen in the start cycle where it says :
Configuring Windows updates
100% complete
Do not turn off your computerWhich it has been doing for about 25 minutes now.
Dare I push it (i.e. force-kill the power)? Or am I more likely to mess it up even further.
AVG, unsurprisingly, were no help. Even less so since I can’t open the program
Mac guy here, but echoing what others have said: if you stay with Windows, get a Win10 machine ASAP. Win7 was end-of-lifed within the last week, making it automatically insecure.
Religious news from Friendly Atheist:
Dave Daubenmire: Meghan Markle “Poisoned” the Royal Family By Being “Half Black”
E.W. Jackson: U.S. Liberals Are Totally the Same as the North Korean Regime
Oklahoma Lawmaker Files Bill Declaring 2020 “Year of the Bible”
Judge Tosses Atheist Group’s Lawsuit Against IRS Over Its Tax Exempt Status
Back in 2018, the Freedom From Religion Foundation filed an important lawsuit against the IRS after the government revoked the tax exempt status of its charity “Nonbelief Relief,” which had given away more than $590,000 over the past several years to assist disaster recovery efforts, help atheists trying to escape oppressive regimes, and support groups like Doctors Without Borders.
re: #190 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
sometimes i despise living in florida
Idaho isn’t any better.
re: #251 retired cynic
I hate Windows, and use it when I have to only on a secondary laptop in a virtual machine.
First world computing problems time: the new MacOS is 64-bit, which is the end of the line for any 32-bit apps. Apple’s been warning developers about this for a few years.
My one 32-bit app I desperately don’t want to lose? Hat-simulator war game Team Fortress 2. Steam itself is 64-bit, but it’s looking like (my guess, nothing else) they’re probably taking all of their 32-bit Mac games out behind the barn, regardless of popularity, and calling it a day.
Hence my likely acquisition of a Windows 10 license, as it will likely be the only way to play TF2 on a modern Mac anytime soon.
LOL, my life is awful.
re: #253 Mattand
Mac guy here, but echoing what others have said: if you stay with Windows, get a Win10 machine ASAP. Win7 was end-of-lifed within the last week, making it automatically insecure.
I know.
My main reason(s) for holding on to my old Dell are:
1. I have MS Office/Word (2013) on it with years of documents (and have been trying to avoid having to pay for the new version)
2. I have over 40,000 games of Solitaire recorded on the old After Dark Games, and hate having to lose them (ADG was near-obsolete even in ‘13, and a PITA to port over to W7).
re: #243 John Hughes
Ok, I know this is too late, but:
1. On Windows: Never use an antivirus other than Microsoft’s one. All “antivirus”
programs are snake oil, at least buy it from the snake breeder.2. Windows 7 is dead. Dump it. Nothing you can do will make it safe, Microsoft have abandoned it.
3. Windows is inherently insecure. It will always be. Use Linux if you can, or if you’re wedded to some windows program understand that it’s more “convenient” because it’s full of dangerous security shortcuts.
I’ll fully agree with 1 and 3. 2, while true, is one of those things only you can decide. I stayed with XP for a long time after it was out of support before finally jumping all the way to 10 for my personal use of Windows. OTOH, I was prepared to wipe and reinstall at the drop of a hat with my important files stored to DVDs.
Right now Warframe needs windows. That means I stay on 10. Your mileage, will vary.
re: #256 Mattand
Losing my 32 bit apps has kept me from upgrading my Macs. I have a list, and moan over it every now and again!
re: #257 Jay C
I know.
My main reason(s) for holding on to my old Dell are:
1. I have MS Office/Word (2013) on it with years of documents (and have been trying to avoid having to pay for the new version)
2. I have over 40,000 games of Solitaire recorded on the old After Dark Games, and hate having to lose them (ADG was near-obsolete even in ‘13, and a PITA to port over to W7).
I hear ya. I had a death grip on Adobe Creative Suite CS5 for literally 10 years. Most of the work I do can be done in there. It finally got to the point where I was getting too many jobs from clients who were in Creative Cloud natively, and had to pony up.
I fucking despise the software rental model.
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
Josh is really fortunate to have Josh on his team.
re: #260 Mattand
I hear that, too. All Adobe CC2020 here. Just hope I can keep paying the dues. May have to ask my nonprofits to pony up to help on that!
re: #185 Barefoot Grin
Scoville Memorial Library is the public library of Salisbury, Connecticut. Established in 1803, it was the first in the United States open to the public free of charge. It is located at 38 Main Street, in an architecturally distinguished Romanesque 1894 building donated by Jonathan Scoville, a local philanthropist. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
(maybe not first taxpayer funded)
en.wikipedia.org
Just a question here.
Is president impeached now?
re: #245 Sherlock Hound
BTW, I followed your advice and restarted the old laptop (in Safe Mode, just to be sure), so for 15 minutes or so now, it’s been still cycling through the “Configuring Windows updates” screen: only this time frozen at 35% complete.
Thanks anyway, Lizards: I’m going on my drinks dinner break…
Schiff responds on @CNNSitRoom: “If Sen. Collins or other senators are interested in the documents or why they haven’t been available yet, they should turn those questions to the White House and say: ‘Why are you hiding this?’l
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 15, 2020
re: #260 Mattand
I fucking despise the software rental model.
I still use Photoshop CS2 for that reason that thankfully runs just fine under 10. I’d use GIMP if I had to but it sucks.
re: #250 Eclectic Cyborg
I also recommend using a virtual PC where possible. That way if it gets borked there’s no risk to your physical hardware or hard drive.
The only important thing about a computer is the information you have on it. The “physical hardware and hard drive” are not worth worrying about, and are almost never damaged by viruses anyway. It’s your private data (credit card numbers, passwords &c) and the works you have made (writing, art in general…) that are at risk. A virtual PC doesn’t help there.
What special relationship? Is that where they waited to join Britain in war only after their interests were affected or the time when some in Reagan’s admin equivocated over supporting 🇬🇧over Falklands due to their support for 🇦🇷junta?
— Zaid Alsaji (@ZaidAlsaji) January 15, 2020
re: #256 Mattand
My one 32-bit app I desperately don’t want to lose? Hat-simulator war game Team Fortress 2. Steam itself is 64-bit, but it’s looking like (my guess, nothing else) they’re probably taking all of their 32-bit Mac games out behind the barn, regardless of popularity, and calling it a day.
Makes no sense. Any decent OS can run 32 bit apps an a 64 bit system without problems.
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“…no one is above the law…the president has been held accountable…he has been impeached, impeached forever.”
Like a dog
re: #258 William Lewis
I’ll fully agree with 1 and 3. 2, while true, is one of those things only you can decide. I stayed with XP for a long time after it was out of support before finally jumping all the way to 10 for my personal use of Windows. OTOH, I was prepared to wipe and reinstall at the drop of a hat with my important files stored to DVDs.
Right now Warframe needs windows. That means I stay on 10. Your mileage, will vary.
Hell, I still have a Win 98 box that I use for PC board design (PC-Trace) and an old Canon 465 Laser jet printer to print out the negatives. Needless to say, it’s not hooked up to the house network but is still a viable system that does what I need it to do. If it works, why screw with it?
re: #265 Jay C
BTW, I followed your advice and restarted the old laptop (in Safe Mode, just to be sure), so for 15 minutes or so now, it’s been still cycling through the “Configuring Windows updates” screen: only this time frozen at 35% complete.
I have one laptop that’s been in Windows update for three years now. Every so often I boot from the Linux I usually use back to Windows to try to fix it then give up after an hour or so of faffing around.
re: #270 John Hughes
Makes no sense. Any decent OS can run 32 bit apps an a 64 bit system without problems.
Apple has always been particularly ruthless when it comes to cutting off support for older software and hardware. There’s way too many pluses and minuses in that argument to get into here.
In my case, though, not being able to play TF2 at a moment’s notice isn’t exactly the end of the world. To be honest, at my age, I probably shouldn’t be playing any video game, period.
That said, I’m a goddamn awesome Medic.
re: #266 Dread Pirate
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Schiff is a terrific leader. Great pick to lead this thing. An experienced legislator and former federal prosecutor.
re: #264 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Just a question here.
Is president impeached now?
LOL, yeah, I guess we’re burying the lead here.
re: #272 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Needless to say, it’s not hooked up to the house network
Don’t make the Iranian mistake. Stuxnet is still out there.
re: #274 Mattand
Apple has always been particularly ruthless when it comes to cutting off support for older software and hardware. There’s way too many pluses and minuses in that argument to get into here.
In my case, though, not being able to play TF2 at a moment’s notice isn’t exactly the end of the world. To be honest, at my age, I probably shouldn’t be playing any video game, period.
That said, I’m a goddamn awesome Medic.
People who are willing to play and are good at support roles are a godsend in a team game. I play a similar role as a Loki Main in Warframe.
re: #269 Dread Pirate
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I know that Helms sided with the Processo tho that was the Senate and not Exec Branch. And Pinochet got Maggie’s forever love by siding with the Brits.
So, what does Salma Hayek have to do with anything?
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… not that anyone here mentioned her name, but for some reason she popped into my head. Confuses me, these random thoughts.
re: #270 John Hughes
Makes no sense. Any decent OS can run 32 bit apps an a 64 bit system without problems.
I just re-read this. If you’re talking about Valve, they’re actually pretty picky about what they want to work on. They may figure there’s not enough cash in the Mac game market ( a very reasonable business observation) to bother bringing everything over to 64-bit.
I’ve probably read too much, studied too much, heard too much… and now just random things are leaking out of my mind.
re: #280 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So, what does Salma Hayek have to do with anything?
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… not that anyone here mentioned her name, but for some reason she popped into my head. Confuses me, these random thoughts.
She’d be a better President than Trump.
re: #283 Mattand
She’d be a better President than Trump.
And so would the Cookie Monster, but I doubt that is why I thought of her.
Oh… and Alan Alda (and possibly Loretta Swit.)
Maybe I read somewhere that Hayek is producing something… with MASH alumni?
Welp, here’s another 390 pages of Lev Parnas messages, posted by the House: https://t.co/0x2GU1xaHe
Starts off with a fun one to Parnas from a Trump PAC official: “What should I send Don to tweet?”
A tweet from Jr. soon materialized. pic.twitter.com/DN5WEfR5Kg— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) January 15, 2020
I see the Berners are pushing another stupid hashtag:
When #IStandWithBernie at the urinals in the restrooms at the Democratic convention, maybe I should start a conversation with him about why he’s running to be the Democratic party nominee but doesn’t run as a Democrat in his own races?
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) January 16, 2020
Just got back from fifteen years in the future and really need to congratulate Jonah Hill for what will be an Oscar winning performance playing Lev Parnas in Holy Shit All That Really Happened.
Unfortunately that’s all I remember from the trip because of the awesome future drugs— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) January 16, 2020
re: #136 gocart mozart
“Grass-roots” doesn’t mean “votes for Sanders.”
re: #277 John Hughes
Don’t make the Iranian mistake. Stuxnet is still out there.
Damn! That means I’ll need to move my centrifuges over to the C-64.
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re: #285 gocart mozart
We literally have thousand of pages of evidence that Trump is the most crooked POTUS ever, and:
A) it’s still not enough to bring the MAGAts back to reality, so it’s probably fair to call them a cult at this point
B) it’s stil not enough for the “independents” to go “Yeah, any Democratic President has to be better than this monster.”
Bernie Bros: the suicide bombers of the Democratic Party.
So I see in WTF-Google??? today that my google searches are now being filtered so that major news orgs and other organizations’s web pages are coming up first, complete with those little avatars which are too small to be clear.
re: #289 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Damn! That means I’ll need to move my centrifuges over to the C-64.
///
We used to run windfarms on Apple IIs.
re: #293 Dread Pirate
We used to run windfarms on Apple IIs.
We used to run nuclear ICBMs with hand-made hard wired circuits with discrete components on little boards.
Scary days, those were.
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
The cruelty is the point.
re: #295 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We used to run nuclear ICBMs with hand-made hard wired circuits with discrete components on little boards.
Scary days, those were.
They still run them on PDP-11 based hardware. 8” floppies. And here the CP-M dudes thought they bought enough to keep that media in production! ;)
re: #296 DodgerFan1988
The cruelty is the point.
If I were a rich man with a jet that could make trans-Atlantic hops, it would be fun to imagine kidnapping him (and perhaps a couple of others) and “Rendition” them to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague… ;)
Ok, based on popular demand..
Volume Up!!!
LMAO 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/TQZHz1dV6i— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) January 16, 2020
re: #290 Mattand
B) it’s stil not enough for the “independents” to go “Yeah, any Democratic President has to be better than this monster.”
You have to be careful with independents. Remember, they aren’t necessarily paying attention and when they listen to the nightly news they hear things like “Trump responded forcefully to Democrats in a wide ranging speech” to describe his batshit crazy rallies.
why is Toensing so desperate for Yovanovitch’s removal? required for her contracts with Firtash and who else?
Lutsenko? https://t.co/RHvMUS78mC— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) January 15, 2020
Yes, that’s right. It’s coming out now. The whole administration is crooked. https://t.co/WodVYyV7nw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 16, 2020
From @PhilipRucker and @CarolLeonnig’s new book:
Trump bullied Kirstjen Nielsen based on what he heard on TV. “He often called her after watching Fox Biz host Lou Dobbs complain about illegal immigration and offer wildly unrealistic policy prescriptions.” https://t.co/LtJi2fttqd— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 15, 2020
Trump told Tillerson it’s “unfair” U.S. companies can’t pay bribes to get business overseas.
He suggested Rob Porter’s ex-wife gave herself bruises to extort him. @AshleyRParker w some tidbits from the new @PhilipRucker @CarolLeonnig book.https://t.co/zzQEsswAvk— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) January 15, 2020
There it is.
“President Trump knew exactly what was going on. He was aware of all my movements. I wouldn’t do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani or the President.”
Parnas isn’t going to get leniency from the court if he lies—truth telling now is what’ll help him. pic.twitter.com/oVpApVevCL— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) January 16, 2020
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) January 16, 2020
How fitting would it be if the guy who really sinks Trump is a money launderer for the Russian mob?
There’s a goddamned crime family running the US.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 16, 2020
WUT
A team of researchers has created a new kind of concrete that is alive and can even reproduce. “It really does look like a Frankenstein material,” one researcher said. https://t.co/8fkEL72xFl
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 16, 2020
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 16, 2020
These fucking goons stalked and menaced a US ambassador. I’m still reeling at that. For my whole life Watergate has been a synonym for presidential corruption, but this is _so_much_worse_.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 16, 2020
One name we kept seeing in the #muellermemos over and over again: Sean Hannity’s. And it’s wild how much he was in contact with Trump’s inner circle. Full look from @LoopEmma and @JasonLeopold : https://t.co/bDCIS87NXD
— Kate Nocera (@KateNocera) January 15, 2020
Small things that make you happy. I just found the 4th of the 14 hidden orbs in the game Inside. Once I find them all it will unlock the ending. Sure I could just check out a YouTube vid to find where they are, but what’s the fun in that.
A former FBI agent said today, You’re “going to go through some things.”
— 🌠💥 Toonces Resists 🌠💥 (@Toonces_Resists) January 16, 2020
Now for something completely different…
Can’t get time at CERN on one of the particle accelerators to run your experiments? Well, not a problem anymore!
PARTICLE ACCELERATORS THAT FIT ON A CHIP!
If you were asked to imagine a particle accelerator, you would probably picture a high-energy electron beam contained within a kilometers-long facility, manned by hundreds of engineers and researchers. You probably wouldn’t think of a chip smaller than a fingernail, yet that’s exactly what the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Accelerator on a Chip International Program (ACHIP) has accomplished.
re: #226 Eclectic Cyborg
“Gun control bills”
Common sense regulations are NOT Gun control, ASSHOLES!
They wanna be a militia, they are gonna be regulated. Second amendment.
Gonna go out on a limb here and bet that Lev Parnas won’t get a pardon from Trump.
re: #318 Barefoot Grin
Gonna go out on a limb here and bet that Lev Parnas won’t get a pardon from Trump.
Nope.
re: #313 Dread Pirate
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump tells Hannity state secrets. I really wouldn’t.
She was angry.
I don’t blame her one bit. https://t.co/eRfu4UoOha— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 16, 2020
re: #322 Charles Johnson
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I don’t either. He’s a jerk to women who he feels are in his way. Madeline Kunin, HRC, and now Warren. All have had the audacity to run for office as a woman against him.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 16, 2020
re: #318 Barefoot Grin
Lev appears to be the type of person who wouldn’t fare very well in prison. He’ll spill every thing he knows to avoid jail time.
There are two common threads in so much of what’s happening in this nightmare era. Misogyny. And racism.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 16, 2020
Ayanna breaks from the rest of “The Squad”
I’m ready for President Elizabeth Warren pic.twitter.com/cxDv7pUxtR
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) January 15, 2020
re: #253 Mattand
Mac guy here, but echoing what others have said: if you stay with Windows, get a Win10 machine ASAP. Win7 was end-of-lifed within the last week, making it automatically insecure.
I have my old Win7 laptop about since I still have photos and some other stuff saved on it. But I also have it’s internet access turned off and only boot it up to use USB drives to get stuff off of it.
re: #328 Charles Johnson
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And I think that’s why Obama stood by HRC. They had their past differences but they both were the targets of that. I’m just tired of Bernie Sanders. It’s too bad because he’s capable of making a good point but he can be as patronizing and dismissive as anyone.
re: #238 Dread Pirate
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So freedom of the press can be restricted, but guns can’t be.
re: #329 The Pie Overlord!
Adult decisions…..
Finished Franklin. Found a new bio of George Marshall on Audible. IMO the epitome of an American statesman.
Restraining myself from tweeting any more about the BS/EW confrontation because it irritates the f out of me and E is getting a grotesque raw deal in the coverage and I don’t need another pile-on from B’s crazed followers. Shut up, Charles, just STFU for once, will ya?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 16, 2020
even if Steyer didn’t win the debate, he won our hearts. and that’s something, friends. that’s really something. pic.twitter.com/bsaetMYsd6
— Alexander Reid Ross (@areidross) January 16, 2020
re: #321 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump tells Hannity state secrets. I really wouldn’t.
I WOULD be surprised if Trump DIDN’T tell Hannity state secrets. The man has no filters. None.
re: #338 gocart mozart
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That “Yeah. Good. Okay.” pretty much sums up how I feel about Steyer being on the stage.
Haul Mike Pompeo up to the Senate. https://t.co/oR6iaiNQQX
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) January 15, 2020
I’d be OK with dropping this absurd Ritual of the Pens. It’s just weird. pic.twitter.com/bkyfpCY4he
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 16, 2020
Don’t get me wrong. I like pens as much as the next guy. But they’re not imbued with magical significance. They’re just fucking writing tools.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 16, 2020
I caught the Nicolle Wallace/Chuck Todd transition and it was awkward af (af=as fuck). Chuck was trying to find a way to say that he thought the march of the articles of impeachment was ridiculous when Nicolle saved him by saying something like, ‘I hear what you’re saying and I too think it may be off time given all of the new information that’s come to light in the last 24 hours.’ Chuck, realizing that Nicolle had saved his ass, said, ‘yeah, I think that’s it, it just feels like too much pomp and not enough substance.’
No wonder there are rumors of some scheduling changes at MSNBC.
re: #301 cat-tikvah
Having some fun with the Trump bumper sticker generator!
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I like the “Flush with Success” the best
Fox News has a huge messaging problem as more facts come out about Lev Parnas. https://t.co/qilOHbJanb
— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) January 16, 2020
I want to learn more about her, but in her appearances I’ve seen so far, I have great expectations for Val Demings.
Lev will continue to provide more documents as they can find them.
re: #292 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I see in WTF-Google??? today that my google searches are now being filtered so that major news orgs and other organizations’s web pages are coming up first, complete with those little avatars which are too small to be clear.
I think they’re attaching avatars for any website. Google “little green footballs” and you’ll see them for wikipedia and GoFundMe.
re: #347 I Would Prefer Not To
Not watching . please give us the gist. thanks.
“Could an associate report to aisle 9 with broom and pan. Beans have been spilled and they’re all over the place.”
re: #336 Charles Johnson
I noted the concern trolls on the CNN thread.
I’ll say this: In their heart of hearts, Bernie Bros don’t care about the election. If Bernie is nominated, it won’t matter if I vote for him or not, because he will be blown out in the general election.
Bernie’s peeps will be OK with 4 more years of Trump. Heightening the contradictions, tearing it all down, and ultimately all of them grifting on what’s left.
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Things I have repeatedly heard since 1978:
Arizona is about to go Blue
All the good jobs are leaving California for Texas
Environmentalists stop brush clearing and cause fires because of this militance
(when I asked about numerous posted brush clearance regulations here in Ventura County, was told problem was elsewhere)
The Angels have a contending team this year
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