Is the World Finally Ready For… Clown Core? [VIDEO]
I have a pretty good idea who these two weirdos are, by the way.
I have a pretty good idea who these two weirdos are, by the way.
Really getting irritated by this talking point that economic hardship exacerbates racism. It’s ridiculous.America’s racist element has not changed one bit through the years, in good times and in bad. Racism has nothing to do with money.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
What this talking point really is? An excuse.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
We could guarantee every American a living wage for life, and the amount of racism in this country would not change one damned bit.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
I’m not arguing against improving people’s lives and prosperity. I’m saying it’s absurd to think that you’re going to address the problem of racism like this.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
Need I point out that some of the worst racists in America are the billionaires who support Donald Trump? And who run companies like Fox News?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
Improving the quality of life is a great idea. I’m all for it. But claiming that’s the way to address America’s racist problem is just bullshit.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
Def Louis Cole, but who else? I think his sax player.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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You don’t remember how racism totally went away during the heydays of the 50’s and 60’s post war boom.
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I can’t handle the cuteness of these two.
These dogs were meant to be brother and sister 💗💙 pic.twitter.com/XFsWHrFdTm
— The Dodo (@dodo) January 18, 2020
I have a 30+ year career of working for the super wealthy. They are just as screwed up as the rest of us.
re: #3 Eventual Carrion
You don’t remember how racism totally went away during the heydays of the 50’s and 60’s post war boom.
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It’s such an obviously false claim. I think the only reason so many people believe it is because it gives white people an excuse to avoid the real issues.
re: #7 BigPapa
I literally just posted this on FB and a white liberal friend showed up to say it’s because black folk are homophobic. I guess he’s a Pete fan and it got him in his feels:
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I saw that in your TL and I just sighed. And I admit I’m guilty too because I see how the AA community has embraced Biden over candidates of color like Harris and Booker but the WaPo to its credit today had a front page article about how African-Americans feel about Trump.
re: #3 Eventual Carrion
You don’t remember how racism totally went away during the heydays of the 50’s and 60’s post war boom.
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It’s why while I understand the logic about how we had the system that we did in the 50’s and 60’s working. I also understand we can’t just return to that. There’s a lot of naivete among white liberals about that era. It’s a little different than how conservatives do with that era but a lot of white progressives miss the mark big time when they act like the system just started getting unfair.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Kinda right up there with immigrants causing the affordable housing crisis. Bullies continuing lies.
Got CL’d at the end of the last thread, so…
Really getting irritated by this talking point that economic hardship exacerbates racism. It’s ridiculous.America’s racist element has not changed one bit through the years, in good times and in bad. Racism has nothing to do with money.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
There’s a key difference in “racism and classism are intertwined and neither can be addressed w/o addressing the other” and “classism causes racism and solving classism will necessarily solve racism in the end”
— Impeached K (@Citizen_Kryptik) January 18, 2020
It’s amazing how many folks are coming out of the woodworks on this particular weekend to say that Racism necessarily is caused by class and that we must only focus on class to solve it, all the while shitting on the very concept of ‘identity politics’.
It’s like…you know, MLK worked on civil rights AND worker’s rights. That doesn’t mean that they’re the exact same issue or that he believed they were the exact same issue. It just means they’re interconnected in a way that you can’t solve one without the other. Not that solving one automatically solves the other.
re: #5 BigPapa
I have a 30+ year career of working for the super wealthy. They are just as screwed up as the rest of us.
I have to deal with them twice a year because of big events and I’d rather do without them ;)
Apparently the Asteroid Belt is full of shrubbery. https://t.co/pVPL8Nnhv7
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
re: #6 Charles Johnson
It’s such an obviously false claim. I think the only reason so many people believe it is because it gives white people an excuse to avoid the real issues.
My main issue is that, in many ways, that boom happened precisely on the back of exclusion of blacks and other minorities from the benefits of New Deal programs and other things that contributed to the post-war boom, not to mention the cultural appropriations of such things like Rock ‘n Roll that ended up characterizing the generation, as well as cultural alliances with previous out-groups (such as Italians, Irish, etc.) to expand that ‘White’ pie precisely to exclude other minorities from economic benefit among other things.
This is why I can’t dismiss the idea that there’s a connection between economics and classism and racism (along with any other form of xenophobia). It’s just that it’s more likely that racism will inspire classism rather than the reverse, because half the point is to exclude the ‘other’ from what you believe to be ‘rightfully’ yours. They’re not the same issue, but they’re incestuous cousins that help propagate and perpetuate one another and compound each other’s effects.
What a lot of people don’t want to acknowledge and I say this as a descendant of that famous white working class that gets mythologized but we lost a lot of them because they didn’t like that the Dems embraced teh promise of The New Deal for people of color. That honestly is why I’m actually for all his faults a bigger admirer of LBJ than I am of FDR though obviously FDR was the better war time leader.
RANDO: Fuck you you fucking moron shut the fuck up
ME: [hits block button]
[RANDO immediately posts screenshot of blocked message and claims he won]— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
re: #3 Eventual Carrion
You don’t remember how racism totally went away during the heydays of the 50’s and 60’s post war boom.
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There were enough laws on the books we didn’t even need the civil Rights act//
re: #7 BigPapa
I literally just posted this on FB and a white liberal friend showed up to say it’s because black folk are homophobic. I guess he’s a Pete fan and it got him in his feels:
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People who identify the one reason why x politician doesn’t have the support they “deserve” usually says a lot about them
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Really getting irritated by this talking point that economic hardship exacerbates racism. It’s ridiculous.America’s racist element has not changed one bit through the years, in good times and in bad. Racism has nothing to do with money.
I grew up in the Industrial Midwest during the heyday of American industry, when a factory worker could afford a house, a car, a vacation and still put his kids through (state) college.
And those f*ckers were no less racist back then than they are now.
re: #14 Citizen K
My main issue is that, in many ways, that boom happened precisely on the back of exclusion of blacks and other minorities from the benefits of New Deal programs and other things that contributed to the post-war boom, not to mention the cultural appropriations of such things like Rock ‘n Roll that ended up characterizing the generation, as well as cultural alliances with previous out-groups (such as Italians, Irish, etc.) to expand that ‘White’ pie precisely to exclude other minorities from economic benefit among other things.
This is why I can’t dismiss the idea that there’s a connection between economics and classism and racism (along with any other form of xenophobia). It’s just that it’s more likely that racism will inspire classism rather than the reverse, because half the point is to exclude the ‘other’ from what you believe to be ‘rightfully’ yours. They’re not the same issue, but they’re incestuous cousins that help propagate and perpetuate one another and compound each other’s effects.
I agree, but what you’re saying here is that racists use economic means to enforce their power, which is definitely true. My point is simply that even if you take away all their money, racists still gonna racist. It’s not dependent on money. Money can be used to exploit racism, sure, but it didn’t cause the racism and fixing economic inequality won’t affect the racism.
re: #11 Citizen K
Got CL’d at the end of the last thread, so…
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It’s amazing how many folks are coming out of the woodworks on this particular weekend to say that Racism necessarily is caused by class and that we must only focus on class to solve it, all the while shitting on the very concept of ‘identity politics’.
It’s like…you know, MLK worked on civil rights AND worker’s rights. That doesn’t mean that they’re the exact same issue or that he believed they were the exact same issue. It just means they’re interconnected in a way that you can’t solve one without the other. Not that solving one automatically solves the other.
Scaremongering about an “other” coming to “take all the jobs” is as American as Ma and the apple pie and totally predates baseball. It initially started out on cultural lines before the rise of abolitionism scared the “job creators” that millions of freed slaves would flood the labor market and thus drive up the cost of labor. The common retort to the “Lost Cause” crowd that most folks didn’t own slaves was that white men in the South were subjected to constant scaremongering that they’d be forced to compete with “cheap” black labor if slavery went away. At least with slavery in place, they might have a chance at a job in the factories that were springing up as a result of the coming Industrial Revolution.
Fast-forward a century and the Civil Rights Era saw much of the same, namely the idea that equality would mean white men competing on equal terms with “ni-CLANGs” in a work force that was increasingly being automated. So it should come as no shock that as we experience the next big leap in automation, the increasingly smaller market for unskilled labor is driving yet another spike of racism at the same time that “identity politics” is gaining ground.
re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I grew up in the Industrial Midwest during the heyday of American industry, when a factory worker could afford a house, a car, a vacation and still put his kids through (state) college.
And those f*ckers were no less racist back then than they are now.
I remember the 1964 Pennsylvania Presidential Primary. Mom worked the election board, came home shellshocked after seeing how many people wrote In George Wallace and didn’t vote for LBJ!
My own opinion is that racism probably originally evolved as a survival trait, and is now a dangerous vestigial factor in how the human brain operates. It’s so widespread in so many societies, I believe it has to be something about the way humans are wired.
I thikn there’s this naive belief if you just promise economic populism then all the people who have voted GOP before will just hop on board. It’s just not true.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
My own opinion is that racism probably originally evolved as a survival trait, and is now a dangerous vestigial factor in how the human brain operates. It’s so widespread in so many societies, I believe it has to be something about the way humans are wired.
And this, by the way, would be why it resists all efforts to educate or argue it out of existence. The real gains against racism, it seems to me, come from mass disapproval of racists and their garbage. Right now we’re seeing what happens when the opposite is true, when the racists actually gain power because they’re being facilitated by morally bankrupt media and irresponsible social media.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
And this, by the way, would be why it resists all efforts to educate or argue it out of existence. The real gains against racism, it seems to me, come from mass disapproval of racists and their garbage. Right now we’re seeing what happens when the opposite happens, when the racists actually gain power because they’re being facilitated by morally bankrupt media and irresponsible social media.
I’d argue that what we’re seeing is more the common seesawing of national opinion as each generation ages out in favor of the younger generation. The Boomers who ushered in the Civil Rights Era are now in the spot their grandparents were, arguing that their Millenial and Gen Z grandkids are going “too far too fast” and that racial equality needs to be achieved gradually rather than forced.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
And this, by the way, would be why it resists all efforts to educate or argue it out of existence. The real gains against racism, it seems to me, come from mass disapproval of racists and their garbage. Right now we’re seeing what happens when the opposite is true, when the racists actually gain power because they’re being facilitated by morally bankrupt media and irresponsible social media.
I believe it can be inoculated against, but there will be resistance against such inoculation from the usual suspects… The simplest way to inoculate is controlled exposure to the business end of prejudice.
This idea that racism is tied to economic well being flies in the face of the history of the world, where the richest and most dominant nations still embedded racism in their societies.
re: #24 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I thikn there’s this naive belief if you just promise economic populism then all the people who have voted GOP before will just hop on board. It’s just not true.
Yeah, it’s part-and-parcel of the neo-Marxian view of the world as a place where all men act rationally on their economic interests. Why discriminate against a black guy at a lunch counter when all that does is reduce the amount of money your soda shop makes?
In a rationalist world, racism would disappear as the economic pie is more equally distributed. We do not live in that world.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
And this, by the way, would be why it resists all efforts to educate or argue it out of existence. The real gains against racism, it seems to me, come from mass disapproval of racists and their garbage. Right now we’re seeing what happens when the opposite is true, when the racists actually gain power because they’re being facilitated by morally bankrupt media and irresponsible social media.
Morally bankrupt, but acting according to clear economic interests at Fox and Clear Channel/Sinclair/OANN. Their audience of dimwit yokels responds well to Fear Of Other, whether that be black, Latino or Muslim.
The more hate/fear the rightwing outlets shovel out, the more dedicated their audience becomes, the more ads they are able to sell. But like all drugs the initial thrill of the transgressive fades, and the dosage has to get higher and higher.
What’s the end game here? Is it truly civil war II?
re: #20 Charles Johnson
I agree, but what you’re saying here is that racists use economic means to enforce their power, which is definitely true. My point is simply that even if you take away all their money, racists still gonna racist. It’s not dependent on money. Money can be used to exploit racism, sure, but it didn’t cause the racism and fixing economic inequality won’t affect the racism.
I guess we might be kinda saying the same thing. My point is that both are very real and both help perpetuate each other but each can persist without the help of the other, but at the rate they’re intertwined, you can’t really solve one without addressing the other in some capacity. But yeah, solving one still means you actually have to solve the other. Just because it’s become easier to address still means you actually have to address it. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have things like Redlining, far lesser social/economic mobility for minorities, upper class black families being treated worse than significantly poorer white families, etc. You wouldn’t have sentence disparities, stop & frisk, etc.
re: #32 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Morally bankrupt, but acting according to clear economic interests at Fox and Clear Channel/Sinclair/OANN. Their audience of dimwit yokels responds well to Fear Of Other, whether that be black, Latino or Muslim.
The more hate/fear the rightwing outlets shovel out, the more dedicated their audience becomes, the more ads they are able to sell. But like all drugs the initial thrill of the transgressive fades, and the dosage has to get higher and higher.
What’s the end game here? Is it truly civil war II?
I think that’s what they hope to get out of it, but it may spiral out of control and become a bastardized hybrid of Holocaust 2.0 and The Purge…
re: #30 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Yeah, it’s part-and-parcel of the neo-Marxian view of the world as a place where all men act rationally on their economic interests.
Let’s try again, not just Marxists…
re: #35 William Lewis
…without regulations or laws to constrain them
But to Charles’ point - the problem is not constrained to the right-wing assholes.
It’s the lily-livered “centrist” media, like the NYT, WaPo, NBC, CNN, etc., that wring their hands about using the word “racist” to describe the crazy race-hate being slung about by Trump and signal-boosted via the right-wing echo chamber.
It started with the “Mexicans are rapists and murderers” opening statement. If the news networks had gotten together and declared, “We will not give airtime to someone spouting such obviously racist views,” then Trump would have withered into obscurity.
But instead, CNN and CBS gave him $2BN worth of free airtime to inject his poisonous race hate into the veins of America.
re: #37 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
It started with the “Mexicans are rapists and murderers” opening statement. If the news networks had gotten together and declared, “We will not give airtime to someone spouting such obviously racist views,” then Trump would have withered into obscurity.
But instead, CNN and CBS gave him $2BN worth of free airtime to inject his poisonous race hate into the veins of America.
Because he is a media star and it is in their economic interest to keep him on the air to attract viewers.
re: #34 Teukka
I think that’s what they hope to get out of it, but it may spiral out of control and become a bastardized hybrid of Holocaust 2.0 and The Purge…
Or they could find themselves with a Committee of Public Safety and Reign of Terror 2 giving them free haircuts at Madam’s Barbershop :)
re: #37 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
But to Charles’ point - the problem is not constrained to the right-wing assholes.
It’s the lily-livered “centrist” media, like the NYT, WaPo, NBC, CNN, etc., that wring their hands about using the word “racist” to describe the crazy race-hate being slung about by Trump and signal-boosted via the right-wing echo chamber.
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It started with the “Mexicans are rapists and murderers” opening statement. If the news networks had gotten together and declared, “We will not give airtime to someone spouting such obviously racist views,” then Trump would have withered into obscurity.
But instead, CNN and CBS gave him $2BN worth of free airtime to inject his poisonous race hate into the veins of America.
It’s well to remember the networks are run by people who create entertainment and in many ways I guess the news is entertainment but we’ve entered an absurdity where the former host of The Apprentice is treated as credible candidate as the former Secretary of State. No, prior elected experience shouldn’t be mandatory but there was a disgusting indifference by a lot of the media to ignore Trump’s fundamental lack of qualification for the office besides the Constitutionally required. Meanwhile the same people who loved that about him or ignored that scoffed at a man who was a former US Senator and state and worked as a community organizer.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
My own opinion is that racism probably originally evolved as a survival trait, and is now a dangerous vestigial factor in how the human brain operates. It’s so widespread in so many societies, I believe it has to be something about the way humans are wired.
I must admit I tend to disagree on this one. I think it’s taught to us. Learned behavior. My bias here is that pending some better evidence I hate to give an excuse “I was born that way” to these cretins. Or harder to undue according to these hard wired impulses.
The argument against hardwired.
scientificamerican.com
And for.
dailymail.co.uk
I suspect the brain scans were showing reactions to negative stimulus, not the race angle.
In either case, it’s a choice to act on these impulses or resist them and act like a decent human being instead. I bet a buck we agree there. Like violence, which in at least a defensive sense we are surely hardwired for. But the propensity for violence varies widely in our cultures globally. It’s a puzzle.
Ugh, a musician friend of mine just messaged me a Trump 2020 video on FB, with the tag ‘Send this to all your friends!’
Me: Yeah, no.
Him: He’s getting reelected. You might not like it but it’s going to happen.
Me: Whatever, fuck that guy. Don’t send me anything having to do with him, not interested.
Kinda sucks. I’ve known him a long time and thought he was sane.
re: #43 makeitstop
Ugh, a musician friend of mine just messaged me a Trump 2020 video on FB, with the tag ‘Send this to all your friends!’
Me: Yeah, no.
Him: He’s getting reelected. You might not like it but it’s going to happen.
Me: Whatever, fuck that guy. Don’t send me anything having to do with him, not interested.
Kinda sucks. I’ve known him a long time and thought he was sane.
Been there. I just don’t get how anyone can find anything likable about him. His whole presidential campaign owed itself to the fact that he was King Birther.
This acknowledgment that they were wrong and commitment to do better is a welcome development at a time when many in government are unwilling to admit mistakes. I find this thread to be an encouraging sign. https://t.co/Wt23EjV2zs
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 18, 2020
re: #37 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
But to Charles’ point - the problem is not constrained to the right-wing assholes.
It’s the lily-livered “centrist” media, like the NYT, WaPo, NBC, CNN, etc., that wring their hands about using the word “racist” to describe the crazy race-hate being slung about by Trump and signal-boosted via the right-wing echo chamber.
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It started with the “Mexicans are rapists and murderers” opening statement. If the news networks had gotten together and declared, “We will not give airtime to someone spouting such obviously racist views,” then Trump would have withered into obscurity.
But instead, CNN and CBS gave him $2BN worth of free airtime to inject his poisonous race hate into the veins of America.
And he’s paid off
He’s made them oodles of $
Since we’re talking racism, a recent video from IAS is a presentation of a researcher looking at the history of government securitization/credit in the US and how central that has been to our contemporary lives. Racism isn’t really touched on until about 28 minutes into the video, but the whole presentation is worth watching. The systemic nature of racism in a society is something about which the reactionary right today likes to pretend isn’t a thing… but it is a thing.
re: #5 BigPapa
I have a 30+ year career of working for the super wealthy. They are just as screwed up as the rest of us.
The difference is that wealth does wonders to insulate people from consequences. The main reason that old wealthy fuckups have all the best stories is that they’re alive to tell them.
“I didn’t pay any taxes, It’s not my money”
Paging OMB officials… “Who the hell cares about the budget? We’re going to have a country,” Trump said in private remarks to donors obtained by the Washington Post. https://t.co/uhM38sQrzY
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 18, 2020
President Trump delivered a dramatic account of the airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, joked that he doesn’t care if construction projects kill all the rattlesnakes and noted his indifference to the budget during a private dinner with deep-pocketed donors Friday night at Mar-a-Lago,” according to audio files obtained by the Washington Post.“Trump, his tone subdued and conversational, explained his motivation for attacking Soleimani and recounted listening to an anonymous military official countdown to the Jan. 3 strike.”
“The president said nothing about an ‘imminent attack’ on U.S. interests or threats to four U.S. embassies as he previously has to justify the unilateral military strike that escalated tensions in the region and opened debate on presidential war powers.”
I am all out of quelle surprises
re: #48 goddamnedfrank
Exactly. And my boss and business owner had this fascination with wealthy clients, listening to anything they say, so someday, somehow, they’ll get rich too.
Republican Group Issues GOP Senators Blunt Reminder About Their Oaths
George Conway’s Lincoln Project released a new ad that demands impartiality during Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.
Humans can’t change a planet’s climate so we should focus on changing a planet’s climate is some next level thinking. https://t.co/ONavCIMuuz
— Andrew Thaler (@DrAndrewThaler) January 18, 2020
An illegal alien was arrested yesterday for planning a violent attack against state legislators.
This hasn’t been “reported” endlessly on Fox News. Why?
The illegal alien is a white guy from Canada who was planning to attack the Virginia legislature over new gun control laws.— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) January 17, 2020
Link regarding recent arrests: https://t.co/X5XcWvfmd3
— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) January 17, 2020
I’m curious whether Trump’s task force with the mandate to fearmonger about “illegal immigrants’ crimes” will hype this one…
LOL… no, I’m not actually curious. They’ll ignore it.— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) January 17, 2020
Only surprised it took her so long to get Harry to ditch his family, the Monarchy, the military and his country. What a piece of work. pic.twitter.com/734AtrYsC9
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 18, 2020
The only piece of work here is the earthworm disguised as a journalist named Piers Morgan.
re: #45 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Who made the decision to do it and why? By whose order?
re: #7 BigPapa
I literally just posted this on FB and a white liberal friend showed up to say it’s because black folk are homophobic. I guess he’s a Pete fan and it got him in his feels:
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It’s funny how Black folk are allegedly so homophobic but consistently and largely vote for the party which supports same sex marriage and equal rights for LGBTs. **rolls eyes**
Buttigieg just needs to figure out how to reach out to the Black community. His being gay isn’t an obstacle. Believe it or not, there are Black gays.
The kid keeps growing
U.S. President Donald Trump departed the White House, Friday, January 17, with first lady Melania Trump and son Barron.
(AP) pic.twitter.com/ZHAfpeRH1s— The Voice of America (@VOANews) January 17, 2020
re: #58 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
No way Barron is his.
re: #55 DodgerFan1988
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The only piece of work here is the earthworm disguised as a journalist named Piers Morgan.
Apparently she’s way smarter and stronger and Harry can’t think for himself
re: #60 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Apparently she’s way smarter and stronger and Harry can’t think for himself
Morgan keeps tweeting about the horribleness of the woman… without realizing he is claiming exactly what you have summarized.
After the whole Prince Andrew brouhaha, one would think the Brits would rejoice that here is a young royal in Harry who knows that life will be better than hanging around the decrepit old UK royal circus.
First look at Trump’s strategy: the same tired BS he’s been rage-tweeting obsessively for months. https://t.co/OBZ5gWLqx6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
re: #55 DodgerFan1988
I’m so glad that Meghan and Harry have left the UK and its racism. Hope they’re much happier in Canada. Canada has its problems but demonizing a young woman because of her race isn’t the norm.
lolwut? https://t.co/D5V6bIuN89
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
re: #64 Charles Johnson
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Trump claims to be a billionaire, why doesn’t he offer the prize?
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Humans cant change the atmosphere, but let’s change the atmosphere of other planets.
Derp.
RA Dickey, Knuckleball (Flatground/Catcher view). 😮🦋
From: https://t.co/cbmPvvbOwC pic.twitter.com/lxmk490Fpd— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) January 18, 2020
re: #43 makeitstop
I wonder why your musician friend is so sure that Trump is going to be re-elected given the midterms and special elections which Democrats have won in 2018 and beyond. Trump cheated with the help of Russia and we’re on to his game.
Funny, @SarahHuckabee, former press secretary to @realDonaldTrump, called it Embarrassing that Democrats’ new ‘star witness’ Parnas is under federal indictment | Fox Wilmington WSFX-TV. Yet @TheJusticeDept relies upon the testimony of cooperating witnesses every day. #LetLevSpeak pic.twitter.com/BijKwQPPqK
— Joseph A. Bondy (@josephabondy) January 17, 2020
Question: What’s the collective noun for a group of #GrifterBarbies. Quote-tweet your answer. https://t.co/mYzEvy8Hn8
— Shoq (@Shoq) January 18, 2020
A Coulter of #GrifterBarbies https://t.co/ar9zPKI2ac
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 18, 2020
The tenets of Trumpian (un)ethics have shifted over the years https://t.co/3A4xWQzkaM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 18, 2020
— Politics Understander🌹 (@TheranosPRGuy) January 17, 2020
Ukraine Clown Posse https://t.co/oSKkSC1Erx
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 18, 2020
They arrived in the Lower East Side of New York with little to their name. And soon the boy, like millions before and after him, shed his name to become American. “Vilmos” became “William.”William sold candy on the street. He worked as a newsboy and in a garment factory.
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) January 18, 2020
William started buying the rights to films made in the still young Hollywood — both to show them in his theaters and to distribute them to other people’s.But he didn’t like being dependent on someone else for the movies that went on his screens.
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) January 18, 2020
In 25 years, William turned that one fractional nickelodeon into a truly epic film and theater empire.
The kid who sold candy on the street was now personally worth $35 million. His companies collectively were worth $300 million — in *1929 dollars.*
Oh. 1929.— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) January 18, 2020
Franklin Graham vetoed this uniform design because he found out about Rudi Gernreich’s sinful ways… pic.twitter.com/d2MwSjBlUs
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 18, 2020
re: #68 gocart mozart
He was a pretty good hitting pitcher too
I miss RA, enjoyed his tenor with the Mets
re: #62 Charles Johnson
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Has nothing to do with article 1
Or article 2
“They were out to get me” is not a defense
And is a far cry from ” I didn’t do it”
First look at Trump’s strategy: the same tired BS he’s been rage-tweeting obsessively for months. https://t.co/OBZ5gWLqx6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 18, 2020
Hidden (© @julien_tabet) https://t.co/qko58TuSDR#photoshop #adobe #art #photography #cat pic.twitter.com/hRpXYIz2tM
— Julien.Tabet (@julien_tabet) December 10, 2019
re: #64 Charles Johnson
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Why not a co2 eating organism the excretes nothing toxic or harmful?
Then we don’t gotta move
lolwut? https://t.co/D5V6bIuN89
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 18, 2020
re: #72 gocart mozart
Bet you don’t let any of those “amazing Iowan women” onto that bus.
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) January 18, 2020
Oh Canada!!
Bonjour, you can read it here: Thread by @MuhammadLila: Something amazing just happened, and it didn’t make a single headline. It happened in a place… https://t.co/L4uy0DgJ6y. Share this if you think it’s interesting. 🤖
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) January 18, 2020
re: #82 GlutenFreeJesus
Hope they freeze their tootsies off up there….
re: #79 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Has nothing to do with article 1
Or article 2“They were out to get me” is not a defense
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If they wanted to overturn 2016, they would be impeaching Pence and Clinton would be speaker. Their arguments are so laughably bad.
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Might be useful if it could consume methane from defrosting tundra too
Why it would suck to be an alligator. https://t.co/GquZS0pETr
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 18, 2020
re: #64 Charles Johnson
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Well yeah, we could spend billions implementing changes in our basic lives that would not only slow climate change, but even work on methods of reversing it.
OR, and I think we’re all agreed this is the better option, we could spend that same money on changing a whole ‘nother planet on a timescale that ensures our planet will have long ago wiped us out by the time such efforts begin to bear fruit.
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Compare these 20 headline and see how differently royal reporters treated Kate Middleton and Meghan Marklehttps://t.co/EwwPd3waJe pic.twitter.com/WYP402SY2R
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) January 13, 2020
re: #89 Patricia Kayden
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Jesus, the racism in that thread. I don’t blame them for bailing on the Royals. Not a bit.
I think I speak for all of us when I say that arguing Trump can give an entire US state to Putin in exchange for nothing and no one can do anything about it is a great impeachment defense and you should totally lead with that. https://t.co/f333HKATIR
— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) January 18, 2020
UPDATE: The House’s formal trial argument calls on the Seante to remove Trump from office and permanently bar him from federal office, calling him an ongoing national security threat.
The president’s initial argument called the House’s process invalid.https://t.co/TLRLQINXCA— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 18, 2020
meanwhile in Newfoundland:
The view out my front door. 6 hours before it stopped snowing. pic.twitter.com/ugp5KN4ylX
— Dean Simms (@Deansimms1968) January 18, 2020
re: #92 GlutenFreeJesus
Does silicone freeze?
The layers of makeup on those women is amazing. Not a patch of actual flash shows through.
re: #41 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s well to remember the networks are run by people who create entertainment and in many ways I guess the news is entertainment but we’ve entered an absurdity where the former host of The Apprentice is treated as credible candidate as the former Secretary of State. No, prior elected experience shouldn’t be mandatory but there was a disgusting indifference by a lot of the media to ignore Trump’s fundamental lack of qualification for the office besides the Constitutionally required. Meanwhile the same people who loved that about him or ignored that scoffed at a man who was a former US Senator and state and worked as a community organizer.
The movies “Network” and “Broadcast News” were essentially cautionary tales of what may come to pass. And we’ve since blown right past that.
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re: #95 Patricia Kayden
That was similar to what was done earlier. DT’s people were arguing the principle of the law and were laughed out of a court.
moron
Another Fake Book by two third rate Washington Post reporters, has already proven to be inaccurately reported, to their great embarrassment, all for the purpose of demeaning and belittling a President who is getting great things done for our Country, at a record clip. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2020
A massive 200 Billion Dollar Sea Wall, built around New York to protect it from rare storms, is a costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won’t work anyway. It will also look terrible. Sorry, you’ll just have to get your mops & buckets ready!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2020
re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth
if the water spoke spanish he’d try to build that fucker by valentine’s day
— kilgore trout does not recall meeting lev parnas (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 18, 2020
re: #102 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Tell him you asked the water if it wanted to come in and it answered “sea.”
re: #95 Patricia Kayden
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So yeah, Senate Repubs in tight races are being told that they will vote to “acquit” simply because Donny did not like the way that the House impeached him. That after months of floating various “defenses” like “He has unlimited authority!” or “He was so concerned about corruption!” or even “This is all a hoax, read the transcript!!!”, these immoral and unethical fucks will let a criminal president slide because House Dems did not let them turn impeachment into a three ring circus.
Awesome plan, guys. Go for it.//////
The president’s formal response to impeachment: @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/sGZ3ls9ZWa
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) January 18, 2020
Captain Trips
The U.S. is screening passengers from Wuhan, China amid fears over a deadly new virus. @SarahHarmanNBC has details now on @NBCNightlyNews. https://t.co/VEGeIPCLhu https://t.co/T3wdfw6KwL
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) January 18, 2020
In their first impeachment briefs, House Managers say the Senate must ‘eliminate the threat the president poses national security.’ Republicans accuse Democrats of trying to overturn the 2016 election. pic.twitter.com/YX6ognL5y5
— Buzz Burbank (@MichaelJElston) January 18, 2020
This is kind of funny. I think @seanhannity drafted it pic.twitter.com/bolBkAwoo3
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 18, 2020
“Allowing this pattern to continue without repercussion would send the message that Trump is correct in his view that NO governmental body can hold him accountable for
wrongdoing.” That Trump cannot be held accountable is the explicit Trump/GOP position. https://t.co/nxACMtAEIM https://t.co/nHpH6ltLfs— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 18, 2020
“Dershowitz, the source said, has been telling his own associates he didn’t want to participate in the President’s trial… W.H. officials have applied a lot of pressure over the last several weeks to convince Dershowitz to join the team, the source added.” https://t.co/zPA84Txxba
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 18, 2020
The declassified FBI report is extremely damning for the Saudi government. If after this bombshell information, the Trump administration still fails to hold the Saudi government accountable, it will be nothing short of an accomplice in helping Saudi fugitives evade justice. https://t.co/xJEmRqKQs4 pic.twitter.com/BcjZf8XNdA
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) January 18, 2020
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
That doesn’t surprise me one whit.
“Have you tried yoga”
Bitch, I have cats, my entire life is yoga pic.twitter.com/ZKGr2rUxGI— Katie (@ZiziFothSi) January 18, 2020
and acupuncture…
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yes indeed. I caught and brought in a feral kitty, and have to needle points to prove it. She is very sweet, so I’m working to get her settled down enough to have her fixed, and permanently part of the family. Her mother arrived several years ago, has proceeded to have three litters of kittens, and the daughter has had two, as had a sister. And all have disappeared. Now it is bitter cold, and I just couldn’t bear to think of her outside by herself. She has one brother left that stops by every now and again, so I keep food and water out for him. This one is the only one I was able to get my hands on. The last thing I need are the 20 that were lost, but they were beautiful cats, and I hate their loss. And how they probably died. Ugh! Don’t think about it!
1) Overturning the 2016 election would mean Hillary Clinton would become president if Trump is removed. In the *real world* it’d be Mike Pence.
2) The “interference” thing is toxic, horrendous, and a prime example of how dangerous Trump is. Every second is more damage. https://t.co/QylpLA1Y2t— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) January 18, 2020
Now he suddenly DOESN’T like walls.
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A massive 200 Billion Dollar Sea Wall, built around New York to protect it from rare storms, is a costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won’t work anyway. It will also look terrible. Sorry, you’ll just have to get your mops & buckets ready!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2020
re: #117 Eclectic Cyborg
The wall is not where he wants it. It does not stop immigrants only weather.
re: #57 Patricia Kayden
It’s funny how Black folk are allegedly so homophobic but consistently and largely vote for the party which supports same sex marriage and equal rights for LGBTs. **rolls eyes**
Buttigieg just needs to figure out how to reach out to the Black community. His being gay isn’t an obstacle. Believe it or not, there are Black gays.
Black voters’ problems with Pete B is heavily based on South Bend police department issues.
theroot.com
It’s clear what State Department is doing - they are targeting Shia scholars, academics and activists. This is because of what’s happening with Iran. The US Govt believes all Shia are loyal to Iran, which isn’t true. This will get worse.
— Abed A. Ayoub (@aayoub) January 18, 2020
This was guaranteed to happen. As the rhetoric and tensions rise the US Govt, regardless of who is in office, begins to target specific communities. Many in the Shia community have been on edge knowing that they will be targeted next. There is fear.
— Abed A. Ayoub (@aayoub) January 18, 2020
That’s a myth
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 18, 2020
A number of people have emailed asking how we learned the National Archives had altered the photo from the 2017 Women’s March. The short answer is: chance. The little bit longer answer I’ll explain in this thread.
1/?— Joe Heim (@JoeHeim) January 18, 2020
I stopped to look at it. As I was trying to read some of the signs the marchers were carrying, I noticed one was blurred out. I thought that was odd and so I looked more closely at the rest of the image and saw other signs that had been blurred. So I took the photocredit info 3/?
— Joe Heim (@JoeHeim) January 18, 2020
I should add, while this story was mostly due to chance, it’s much easier if people send me tips for stories. I always like those - good news or bad. DMs open
— Joe Heim (@JoeHeim) January 18, 2020
re: #102 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Funny thing is, a lot of that water is coming from the Gulf of Mexico and that “wall” would be stopping it from raping the women and selling drugs.
Aircraft carriers are almost always named for presidents or 5-star admirals. Doris is a symbol of the inclusiveness that we should have had and didn’t, but that MLK worked for and we should all be working for. https://t.co/V2NyijMw6K
— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) January 19, 2020
Voting 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 right 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 privilege 👏🏼. https://t.co/hNKYZ9KCxv
— Bride Rose Sweeney (@RepBrideSweeney) January 18, 2020
OT I am going to give the Fire Kindle one more chance. I just ordered an HD 10 and hopefully this time it will be able to recognize my Ring Doorbell. I will also use it for my movies and TV shows so I can take it to work. I have too many people looking at my ipad on the bus.
That pretty much sums it up, @JRubinBlogger! Frankly I expected something at least slightly substantive from the Dream Team. But no such luck. Just more BS. https://t.co/hnqb4NdXl1
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 19, 2020
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
A man named Doris! A true American hero. I believe that Cuba Gooding played him in a film.
re: #128 Patricia Kayden
A man named Doris! A true American hero. I believe that Cuba Gooding played him in a film.
He did: Pearl Harbor
“This is not a request — it’s a demand.” A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official tells the AP that the agency’s issuing of immigration subpoenas to New York City is a last resort for information about inmates wanted for deportation. https://t.co/ydHo4aLXFG
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 19, 2020
Just in case you have questions about the authenticity of this flyer, it’s real:https://t.co/CR8cihBWzb
— Travis | Text FIGHT to 24477 (@travisakers) January 18, 2020
This says it all via @grantstern - republicans# candidates in FL who pandered to @realDonaldTrump to win their primary are furiously trying to delete their Trump-praise to win the general … https://t.co/EwzyLqZdAn
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) January 19, 2020
I can’t even caption this because I am just amazed. pic.twitter.com/OCMBXdkXIW
— Anthony (@Antman52899) January 17, 2020
Neither the East or West coast deserve federal help. Both the East and West coast are where the people are that hate our way of life and our Republic. If they want help first they must close down Sanctuary cities and stop protecting illegal alien criminals.
— Highlander (@Highlan63620036) January 18, 2020
The East and West cost pay the bills for your little backwater community. They also include the *vast* majority of America’s citizens, it’s industry, it’s cultural centers, and it’s infrastructure.
You might want to just say “thank you,” and shut the hell up.— Uriel (@sickendun2death) January 19, 2020
And I say that as someone who *doesn’t* live on a coast.
— Uriel (@sickendun2death) January 19, 2020
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
Aww. He sees his humans doing it and he wants the same fun. :)
So what is the monthly price?
Lol!!!!! Twitterverse and the meme generators out there, have fun.
Hey @Fred_Meyer did anyone in your marketing dept even think about how this could be taken?
Pic taken in the Twin Falls, Idaho store pic.twitter.com/l6xN8Mh6Xg— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@michele_out) January 19, 2020
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Lev Parnas is the Forrest Gump of L’affaire Ukraine.
— Dr. David Knox (@dgkdc) January 18, 2020
And now they are sending the small ones out to work in Newfoundland. #NLStorm2020 #Snowmageddon #blizzard2020 pic.twitter.com/2jcEx4veKP
— 🚀Melissa Tait (@meltait) January 18, 2020
The President has been impeached – and nothing either he or Leader McConnell can do will change that. #RealTime pic.twitter.com/SVeuVW4I2g
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 18, 2020
In an elevator lobby promotional display for our current exhibit on the 19th Amendment, we obscured some words on protest signs in a photo of the 2017 Women’s March.
— US National Archives (@USNatArchives) January 18, 2020
We have removed the current display and will replace it as soon as possible with one that uses the unaltered image.
We apologize, and will immediately start a thorough review of our exhibit policies and procedures so that this does not happen again.— US National Archives (@USNatArchives) January 18, 2020
The alteration itself is an historical event that deserves serious analysis. It says a lot about the state of public discourse in these times.
— dblight (@dblight) January 18, 2020
re: #137 b.d. (Lock Him Up!)
this is so spot on:
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This whole situation is, frankly, getting ridiculous.
I’m starting to have problems suspending my disbelief of actual reality.
Here’s your blow-your-mind tweet:
McSally calling a reporter a “liberal hack” for asking a question, and then taking high fives from today’s “conservatives” for doing so, tempts me to say: If it’s liberal to hold public officials in our liberal democracy accountable for doing their job, then I guess I’m liberal.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 17, 2020
“One good thing about surrounding yourself with tawdry gangsters and grifters is that if they flip on you, you can claim they have no credibility because they’re criminals.” https://t.co/jFozXrLqjX
— Courtney Norris (@courtneyknorris) January 18, 2020
From yesterday
re: #204 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
New: A network of at least 30 FB pages purporting to represent groups of Trump supporters from different states all appear to be set up by Robert Hyde, the latest impeachment figure. This week, they’ve shared dozens of posts defending Hyde. https://t.co/Hy0V43S4DX
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) January 18, 2020
The pages share contact information and other details with Hyde’s campaign Facebook page, and some include the email rfhyde1@gmail.com. Hyde’s campaign Twitter handle is @rfhyde1.https://t.co/WYI7OZrAWa
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) January 18, 2020
And, today
Facebook has removed a network of pages that were reported to be sending coordinated posts defending Robert Hyde, who this week was implicated in the Ukraine scandal. https://t.co/PkEjCjwAvQ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 19, 2020
This is the right thing to do, thanks for that. But I have to ask what is going on in this government that EVERYONE seems to be under the spell of a semi-literate mobbed up con man?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2020
This shit that’s going on with Trump? I never voted for any of this and it’s seriously pissing me off.
OK, you guys probably already knew that. But damn is it pissing me off.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2020
And, of course it’s Peter Thiel
— 𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) January 19, 2020
NEW: The top Russia expert on Trump’s National Security Council, Andrew Peek, has left his post, just a couple months in, sources tell me, @nwadhams and @justinsink.
That’s the Fiona Hill, Tim Morrison, Russia/Ukraine job.
Peek was escorted from WH on Friday. Story out soon.— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 19, 2020
Trump continues to weed out the less enthusiastic traitors.
Anyone looking for work?
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A small island off the coast of Ireland is looking for two people to run its coffee shop https://t.co/mEHMbvAneC pic.twitter.com/QqxVPfD3vh
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 19, 2020
** Job Vacancy **
A unique position required - looking for long term management of Island Accommodation and Coffee Shop. Couple or two friends.
1st April 2020 - October 2020 accommodation and food provided.
Email Alice on info@greatblasketisland.net for more information pic.twitter.com/RJFfrr4QDH— Great Blasket Island (@gbisland) January 10, 2020
re: #152 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Boy, if I were 30 years younger!
re: #152 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Isn’t that where Father Ted lives??
re: #154 Jay C
Isn’t that where Father Ted lives??
I doubt it. It doesn’t seem possible for that island’s rather limited population to require the services of three priests
Something silly I did:
I’m sure someone out there has done this before and better, but… pic.twitter.com/2oxKx70zEE
— Uriel (@sickendun2death) January 19, 2020
re: #152 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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I visited the Arans in college. Off the coast of Galway. These are more south. Would be a fun job. Hopefully there’s a good pub on the island with good trad music and craic.
re: #157 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I visited the Arans in college. Off the coast of Galway. These are more south. Would be a fun job. Hopefully there’s a good pub on the island with good trad music and craic.
The island is virtually deserted. There is no electricity
re: #152 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Looks like a nice place.
The Projecting Like Hell Award goes to this 👇angry white guy. https://t.co/uVJ6HCOldL
— PhatWaltJax (@phat_walt) January 19, 2020