I believe I posted this once before, but I just re-discovered it so I believe I will post it again, because it’s worth it. A heartbreaker of a story from one of Ben Folds’ best records, co-written with Nick Hornby.
Got CL’d- just sharing something goofy I did:
I’m sure someone out there has done this before and better, but… pic.twitter.com/2oxKx70zEE
— Uriel (@sickendun2death) January 19, 2020
If Trump comes out of this exonerated, it will be the death knell of the American experiment.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2020
If Trump gets away with this and gets re-elected with a Republican Congress, I will gladly sign the California Secession Initiative petition and vote Yes when it’s on the ballot.
Trust me, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Eric Gardner, Trayvon Martin, and Atatiana Jefferson did not die from “Economic Anxiety”.
— Malcolm P. Johnson (@admiralmpj) January 18, 2020
How are you spending your Saturday night? The president is live-tweeting Justice with Judge Jeanine on Fox News.
Left, Fox’s Justice, 9:03 p.m.
Right, Trump, 9:12 p.m. pic.twitter.com/dbcIc5HcsH— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 19, 2020
re: #2 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
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the company they keep
I see this was already posted last thread….
Good stories are worth retelling
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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We really should fix the language going forward
He’s always impeached. For all time
The only thing left is he’s removed or not
he is never “exonerated”
re: #8 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
We really should fix the language going forward
He’s always impeached. For all time
The only thing left is he’s removed or nothe is never “exonerated”
Exactly. And his nonstop whining won’t change that.
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
I’m glad you’re still pissed off.
re: #2 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
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Donny Two Scoops doesn’t know who his children are hanging around with. Such a terrible parent.
*sigh*
My mother is doing ok—she was taken off her blood thinners—but she’s still at the hospital because it’s Saturday and home health care has not been approved. She can get around but she’s rather wobbly. Part of the problem is she refuses to use a walker and she needs to do so. I just texted my brother that she might be stuck there until Tuesday because it’s a holiday weekend. His response: “Maybe [name of hospital] needs butts in beds.”
re: #12 mmmirele
Glad that it wasn’t worse. Falls are just not good, especially at that age!
That awkward moment when you’re trying to buy Adderall on the dark web and you get meth instead so of course, you leave a negative online review. pic.twitter.com/Wp2oAFCA6m
— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) January 18, 2020
I have fans
The Projecting Like Hell Award goes to this 👇angry white guy. https://t.co/uVJ6HCOldL
— PhatWaltJax (@phat_walt) January 19, 2020
re: #17 gocart mozart
Yes, Edwin, why are your campaign manager and former lawyer in jail now?
You know, I’d be a little more supportive of Bernie if he’d just quit doing this shit. Like, read the speech right up to that point, skip the idiotic pandering, and move on to the rest of the speech.
.@BernieSanders: “Barack Obama won 10% of the white vote in Mississippi. That speaks to very bad work done by Democrats there. 90% of white people in Mississippi are not racist.” pic.twitter.com/hj9B027HQq
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) January 18, 2020
I am without speech. I am speechless. https://t.co/kNCsMokpGZ
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 19, 2020
re: #20 uriel
You know, I’d be a little more supportive of Bernie if he’d just quit doing this shit. Like, read the speech right up to that point, skip the idiotic pandering, and move on to the rest of the speech.
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I suspect that will do nothing to help him with African Americans there because they know what the white people around them are like.
Oh look it’s Jefferson Beauregard sessions and Lev Parnas. https://t.co/5UnMnINf0T
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 19, 2020
I went and saw Weathering With You. It’s by the same guy who did Your Name. If you liked Your Name, brush up on it and see Weathering With You.
re: #20 uriel
You know, I’d be a little more supportive of Bernie if he’d just quit doing this shit. Like, read the speech right up to that point, skip the idiotic pandering, and move on to the rest of the speech.
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Bernie, I graduated from high school in Mississippi. Not 90% true, but a large percent of that 90% are.
re: #25 Eventual Carrion
Bernie, I graduated from high school in Mississippi. Not 90% true, but a large percent of that 90% are.
most whites in MS are probably Republican.
“Mississippi has the third most hate groups in the country with five hate groups per million residents and 15 total hate groups operating within the state”
clarionledger.com
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
re: #21 jaunte
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NYT folk know what they’re doing. There’s no excuse for them. They want this shit, they crave this shit.
re: #26 Dread Pirate
most whites in MS are probably Republican.
Mississippi white dude here. I can vouch for the accuracy of this statement.
(I am not Republican)
re: #21 jaunte
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re: #33 Jay C
But usually “overachieves” to rank 48th, 49th or 50th in most social indicators…
No offense,
And sometimes it sinks to 52 behind DC and Puerto Rico!
re: #20 uriel
You know, I’d be a little more supportive of Bernie if he’d just quit doing this shit. Like, read the speech right up to that point, skip the idiotic pandering, and move on to the rest of the speech.
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He loves to shit on Obama. And he’s totally ignorant of Deep South history and politics.
re: #22 Belafon
I suspect that will do nothing to help him with African Americans there because they know what the white people around them are like.
There’s a great article in today’s WaPo about how African Americans feel about Trump and what he’s created. Bernie needs to stop this shit.
re: #26 Dread Pirate
most whites in MS are probably Republican.
Most whites are Republicans in most states. Sanders’ Vermont is an exception which I think in part is why he’s so naivety frustrating about racial politics.
re: #35 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He loves to shit on Obama. And he’s totally ignorant of Deep South history and politics.
If he has his supposed Civil Rights experience than he’s being willingly ignorant of Deep South history.
who is this guy calling himself bill Kristol
There’s a real threat of violence Monday. The governor has announced a state of emergency. FBI has arrested three white supremacists with weapons they planned to take to Richmond. A real president would offer help to our state government and emphasize violence won’t be tolerated. https://t.co/LXS4Mtlbja
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 17, 2020
Trump’s answer to the impeachment contains an objective lie. It says that “President Trump also raised the important issue of Ukrainian corruption” in his July 25 call with Zelensky. The “transcript” does not mention corruption at all. Not once.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) January 19, 2020
re: #38 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
If he has his supposed Civil Rights experience than he’s being willingly ignorant of Deep South history.
I really think he’s like the white leftists that Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison wrote about. Either way, he never misses an opportunity to crap on the Obama coalition that this Southern white man was honored to be a part of. He just doesn’t seem to like the fact that whites in most states are Republicans and instead of actually trying to realize that maybe he sees things too black and white, he says stupid shit like this. Vermont isn’t representative of our nation and that blinds Bernie so much politically.
re: #39 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
who is this guy calling himself bill Kristol
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The Neoconservatives sucked but they’re not white supremacists. Overly romantic about aggressive FP sure but not Nazis.
You @GOP clowns are going to have to come up with a better line of bullshit.
Let @SenatorLeahy hold your hand and walk you through it: pic.twitter.com/OAqaSdhqYq https://t.co/2I5obv7WNb— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 19, 2020
UFC show is over: Conor Macgregor won 40 seconds into the 1st round.
re: #33 Jay C
But usually “overachieves” to rank 48th, 49th or 50th in most social indicators…
No offense,
None taken. As most of y’all know, I’m Canadian so I don’t really think of Mississippi as my home in a patriotic sense.
What bugs me is this state can do a lot better but it’s probably not going to happen if we’re stuck with GOP Governors until the end of time.
“Come Together” was inspired by a request from Timothy Leary to write a song for his campaign for governor of California against Ronald Reagan, which promptly ended when Leary was sent to prison for possession of marijuana.
The thing was created in the studio. It’s gobbledygook; Come Together was an expression that Leary had come up with for his attempt at being president or whatever he wanted to be, and he asked me to write a campaign song. I tried and tried, but I couldn’t come up with one. But I came up with this, Come Together, which would’ve been no good to him—you couldn’t have a campaign song like that, right?
Thank you Wikipedia.
I tried three new (to me) strains of cannabis this month. There wasn’t much of a selection, only 14 varieties and most were cheaper strains.
Budzilla
Chemdawg 4
Blue Lemon Thai
I chose well. ha ha, ha ha.
re: #25 Eventual Carrion
Bernie, I graduated from high school in Mississippi. Not 90% true, but a large percent of that 90% are.
I spent a couple of years in Greenville when I was shuttling back and forth between my mom and dad. The first day there my dad and his friends spent a large part of the evening discussing the previous night’s news that a cop had cut off the ear of a black man with a garden hoe. Didn’t really seem to be any particular reason- cop just got angry, and well, there you go. Should have known better.
No charges were ever filled.
Racism in Mississippi is as intrinsic to its character as kudzu, spanish moss and the dead, moist heat.
re: #50 uriel
Racism in Mississippi is as intrinsic to its character as kudzu, spanish moss and the dead, moist heat.
THIS.
I’m wondering why, and how, Ohio has managed to earn North Carolina’s hate
florida hates itself lmao pic.twitter.com/AMGPucMhdb
— Price (@Price__TW) January 17, 2020
Well, What say you?? 40sec Whammy.
The entire McGregor victory #UFC246
pic.twitter.com/O4Ifgpozdj— 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐞 (@FrankiesTooLoud) January 19, 2020
re: #49 Dread Pirate
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re: #54 BigPapa
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re: #49 Dread Pirate
I tried three new (to me) strains of cannabis this month. There wasn’t much of a selection, only 14 varieties and most were cheaper strains.
Budzilla
Chemdawg 4
Blue Lemon ThaiI chose well. ha ha, ha ha.
I picked up some Emerald Family Farms Sherbet on Friday and I really like it. Their Platinum OG was a little stronger but was also kind of harsh so I’m using that to slow brew tincture.
re: #53 Dave In Austin
Well, What say you?? 40sec Whammy.
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Tweet deleted. But it was the shoulder bump that broke Cowboys nose that sealed it.
re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg
Tweet deleted. But it was the shoulder bump that broke Cowboys nose that sealed it.
Ah Ha!!
It’s interesting to see people openly discussing cannabis sales; it’s still a very controversial subject here in Czech Republic, despite the fact that some 40% (or more) of the population uses cannabis on a regular basis. Indeed, though it’s technically illegal, you can find cannabis-based products everywhere, even in the supermarket that’s a five-minute walk away from my place.
The controversy comes up when talking about outright legalization - there’s still a ton of political dinosaurs here that constantly insist that it’s a “gateway drug” and that if it’s legalized, the Czech Republic will collapse into anarchy overnight (they seem to think that Reefer Madness is a completely factual documentary, LOL).
Eventually, of course, it’ll happen, but probably not for another decade or so, I figure.
re: #45 Eclectic Cyborg
Holly won. I was pleased. Actually got to watch the fight.
I’m listening to these Beatles songs (from link above of 40 songs), all different takes of the same songs. I’m amazed at how the songs of history could have sounded so different depending on which take they cut to the album.
E.g. Mean Mr. Mustard (Take 20)
Meanwhile, in ol’ Virginny……
Virginia’s House Republican leader said on Saturday that white supremacists and any other groups trying to spread “hate, violence, or civil unrest” were not welcome at a pro-gun rally in the state’s capital on Monday, which is expected to draw thousands.
The House Republican leader’s statement came a day after the state’s top court upheld a ban by the governor on weapons in the area around the Capitol in Richmond where the rally is set to take place by demonstrators protesting against Democrats’ push to stiffen the state’s gun laws.
“Any group that comes to Richmond to spread white supremacist garbage, or any other form of hate, violence, or civil unrest isn’t welcome here,” House Republican leader Todd Gilbert said in a statement. “While we and our Democratic colleagues may have differences, we are all Virginians and we will stand united in opposition to any threats of violence or civil unrest from any quarter.”
Militias, neo-Nazis and other groups have vowed to attend the rally. Authorities say they are expecting several thousand people and are trying to keep the event from becoming violent.
Sounds like Gilbert is trying to cover his ass if everything goes sideways - and he might well be expecting a shitfest come Monday. This way, if it all goes to hell, he can say, “Hey, don’t look at me…….I told them not to come and start trouble.”
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oh to be a capybara surrounded by other capybaras taking a yuzu hot bath in the winter pic.twitter.com/TaQmuZohhp
— jonny sun (@jonnysun) January 19, 2020
re: #64 Dr Lizardo
When I hold you in my arms (ooh, oh, yeah)
And I feel my finger on your trigger (ooh, oh, yeah)
I know nobody can do me no harm (ooh, oh, yeah)
Because
Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
re: #67 Dread Pirate
When I hold you in my arms (ooh, oh, yeah)
And I feel my finger on your trigger (ooh, oh, yeah)
I know nobody can do me no harm (ooh, oh, yeah)
Because
Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
And of course, if there is some incident of violence (though hopefully not) the ammosexuals will instantly start screaming, FALSE FLAG! CRISIS ACTORS! IT WAS ANTIFA!! as sure as the Sun sets in the West.
This should shut the site down for an hour……….
Twilight Zone 👀🤭🤭🤭😳pic.twitter.com/IrIjWLYzaz
— Linda🇳🇴 (@LindaViking77) January 18, 2020
J’ai mauvais caractère
Peut-être même un peu cruel
Un fichu caractère
J’suis un caractériel
Déjà quand j’étais p’tit
J’étrivais mes amis
J’ai donné des ulcères
À mon père pis ma mère
I have bad character
Maybe even a little cruel
A damn character
I’m a character
Already when i was little
I was entertaining my friends
I gave ulcers
To my father and my mother
It wasn’t-see below. In fact, families all across America have lore that’s loosely based in reality that gets passed on & repeated. And then there’s all of us adoptees who were raised to believe one thing, repeated it, only to find out as adults that it was a total fabrication. pic.twitter.com/0YF7DjVvWR
— RanchoMiragian (@rancho_steve) January 18, 2020
“STEALING OTHER CANDIDATES’ POLICIES”?
She’s not a songwriter, a novelist, or a creator of visual art. ADOPTING the policies of other candidates is normally done in order to get THEIR goals enacted even if they themselves aren’t elected.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) January 19, 2020
re: #72 Chrysicat
Silly fools, it doesn’t matter in the end.
Outside November, I’m lying on my big bed
Out of the corner of my eye out the window I see the hospital
Chu not able to believe that I have to stop here
But all by myself, worse anyway it hurts me too much
My body is a country at war about to end
Army general expects the worst
I’m hungry, I’m fret, I’m too weak to wake up
We’re going to raise the white flag one point that’s all
I hear the phone screaming, I have friends
I wish I could get it up to talk to them
Say hello! I’m correct, always alive
The planet spins, isn’t supposed to spin without me
My enemy is arrogant and silent
It’s fun to know so young or old
He is sure of himself, he is methodical, he takes his time
Is in the service of death, does not know the feelings
These last days I have aged 4000 years
Visiting old memories that I’m not proud of
To make peace with your regrets, it takes time
I find myself a hundred times more tired, too tired but less bitter
The history of the world and my history are mixed
I just lived a hundred thousand other lives in a second
All my bullshit and the ambition of humanity
It comes down to the same thing, there’s no culprit, there’s no shame
But I’m happy because at least I’m dying with peace of mind
I’m going to start my other life the same way
I’m going to have instinct, I’m going to stay true to my style
The perfect harmony between my heart and my reason
The harmonica is not a violin, it is not eternal
And then it cries as if it was aware of its fate
Besides at night I allow myself to cry with her
I’m waiting a little, I’m in no hurry, I’m waiting for death.
re: #57 Dread Pirate
We had a sherbert on the delivery list…
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Taxes included.
LOL! “Taxes included,” because the state isn’t going to intentionally do anything that is going to let the Feds go after its citizens with a paper trail.
re: #72 Chrysicat
The Republican narrative is that Elizabeth Warren invented the story of her Native American Heritage to gain undue advantage through some Affirmative Action program.
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewBatesNC) January 19, 2020
via Huffpo
President Donald Trump offered chilling details to GOP donors about the airstrike assassination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 2 — and a new reason for the hit: He was saying “bad things” about America.
“How much of this shit do we have to listen to?” Trump asked his audience of well-heeled contributors Friday night at Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, according to audio recordings of his comments obtained by CNN and The Washington Post.
“He was saying bad things about our country, like ‘we’re going to attack, we’re going to kill your people,’” Trump said, according to the Post.
The president didn’t mention any “imminent attack” planned by the military commander.
Virginia braces for enormous gun-rights rally Monday
“Convoys and militias are coming, if social media posts are to be believed, headed to Virginia’s capital on Monday to take a stand for gun rights — or, in the words of some, to fan the flames of a civil war.
“I’ll be rolling into town early. I can’t give you my exact time for security reasons,” said Christian Yingling, head of the Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia and a leader at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
“I organized a convoy, places we can meet up and drive up together. I’ll be leading it,” said Tammy Lee, a militia activist in Oklahoma.
Both Lee and Yingling were members of groups that signed consent decrees never to return to Charlottesville while armed, part of a lawsuit settlement over the violence there. But there is no restriction against coming to Richmond.”
“For security reasons?” What a ridiculous poseur. Still, these goobers have guns, they are obsessed with them, and they have the administration, the NRA, and, ultimately, the Russian oligarchy behind them. It’s likely that nothing untoward will happen but disaster is a real possibility and it will be very tense until these mutants get out of town and crawl back to their caves and ‘burbs.
re: #50 uriel
I spent a couple of years in Greenville when I was shuttling back and forth between my mom and dad. The first day there my dad and his friends spent a large part of the evening discussing the previous night’s news that a cop had cut off the ear of a black man with a garden hoe. Didn’t really seem to be any particular reason- cop just got angry, and well, there you go. Should have known better.
No charges were ever filled.
Racism in Mississippi is as intrinsic to its character as kudzu, spanish moss and the dead, moist heat.
I graduated HS in Greenville, MS. My dad was born there and I have many family members still living there. I know exactly what you mean. Was shot at one night by some redneck shitstains because my best friend there was black and we were hanging out. I know those fuckers well.
re: #78 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Can you choose both? Because if you remove the yes and no I agree with both statements.
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I’m expecting the police to treat these White Supremacists with kid gloves and spend their energy harrassing counter protesters. That’s how such rallies usually play out.
re: #82 Patricia Kayden
I’m expecting the police to treat these White Supremacists with kid gloves and spend their energy harrassing counter protesters. That’s how such rallies usually play out.
Trump needs to go from “good people on both sides” to “good people on gun-rights side and bad people on gun-control side”. I have a feeling that there are people working on presenting that scenario to the press…
Important thread. Also kind of terrifying https://t.co/SypkadyQRS
— Crows in Autumn (@AutumnCrows) January 19, 2020
re: #77 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
via Huffpo
“Saying bad things about us?” I guess Cheeto will have to nuke Primrose Hill in London. That’s the uber-chic ‘hood where all the “rich lefties” (BBC presenters, communard celebrities, general chatterati etc.) are alleged to live.
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
rump need to go from “good people on both sides” to “good people on gun rights side and bad people on gun-control side”. I have a feeling that there are people working on presenting that scenario to the press…
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Right: just what Trump needs at this juncture: openly put himself firmly down on the side of Nazis, racists and gun nuts (because you just know that’s who will be highlighted as the “stars” of the Richmond rally): should do wonders for his public-opinion numbers…
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And yeah, I realize he’s pretty much done that already…
re: #86 Jay C
[sarc]
Right: just what Trump needs at this juncture: openly put himself firmly down on the side of Nazis, racists and gun nuts (because you just know that’s who will be highlighted as the “stars” of the Richmond rally): should do wonders for his public-opinion numbers…
[/sarc]And yeah, I realize he’s pretty much done that already…
The point will be to portray the Antifa and gun-control activists as dangerous radicals.
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The point will be to portray the Antifa and gun-control activists as dangerous radicals.
Well, when at least some of those “dangerous radicals” are a duly-elected State Legislature, it’s kind of hard to paint them as just some fringe: one presumes that the slate of gun-control measures they are considering - as the NYT condenses:
The measures limit purchases of handguns to one each month; require that gun buyers submit to background checks; and allow local governments to ban guns in parks and public buildings. [Governor] Mr. Northam has said he would sign each of the bills.
has to have some some of public support behind them. These measures seem pretty mild to me: MAYBE excepting the monthly limit - though of course, to the gun-nut crowd, ANY firearms-controlling measures are intolerable.
“Antifa”, though, is another matter: if only for the boogeyman-factor they unfortunately evoke in most of the media. Hopefully, their presence will be minimal, and their “services” NOT required…
re: #89 Jay C
has to have some some of public support behind them. These measures seem pretty mild to me: MAYBE excepting the monthly limit - though of course, to the gun-nut crowd, ANY firearms-controlling measures are intolerable.
Slippery slope and all, soon they will be coming and confiscating.
After all, the 2nd Amendment don’t say nothin’ about no regulations, do it?
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The point will be to portray the Antifa and gun-control activists as dangerous radicals.
Pic related?
re: #91 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
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They get much more excited when the lotto is at an all time high. At least they have a chance then.
From that new book “a very stable genius”
Trump “doesn’t fire people … he tortures them until they’re willing to quit”
I’m seeing lots of tweets about Harry and Meghan and what a vicious social climber Meghan is and how unfair it is to be accused of racism and wonder why English soccer fans have to be reminded by public announcements at games not to yell racist stuff at black players but aren’t told “don’t call them social climbers.”
re: #93 Eventual Carrion
They get much more excited when the lotto is at an all time high. At least they have a chance then.
Lottery sales are highest in the high population states (of course). Powerball jackpot is currently creeping up to real-money territory and the sales are starting to go up.
Lottery sales have been down, significantly, for the draw games the past year. This has not been covered enough, as I think it is a window into America.
re: #92 Teukka
Pic related?
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Yes, holding that view and also “Immigrants come to steal our jobs, and they are lazy and don’t want to work”. I figure these people are just hooked on opioids and not too bright, hence I call them Oxy-morons.
re: #41 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really think he’s like the white leftists that Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison wrote about. Either way, he never misses an opportunity to crap on the Obama coalition that this Southern white man was honored to be a part of. He just doesn’t seem to like the fact that whites in most states are Republicans and instead of actually trying to realize that maybe he sees things too black and white, he says stupid shit like this. Vermont isn’t representative of our nation and that blinds Bernie so much politically.
Bending reality to his view (which must be the right one)
re: #49 Dread Pirate
I tried three new (to me) strains of cannabis this month. There wasn’t much of a selection, only 14 varieties and most were cheaper strains.
Budzilla
Chemdawg 4
Blue Lemon ThaiI chose well. ha ha, ha ha.
How far we’ve come in such a short time. ;-)
Also posted pro-Trump messages. Guy is 53, WAS employed by Delta subsdiary Endeavor Air. He’s apparently done quite a bit of this.
Two boys decide to prank their grandmother by meeting her at the airport dressed as dinosaurs. Grandma heard about it and decided to prank them first.
Maybe the greatest prank ever!
pic.twitter.com/o7rmikctYj— Akki (@akkitwts) January 17, 2020
re: #63 Hecuba’s daughter
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I thought you were taller
Your sister too
re: #103 Belafon
That was funny. Thanks for making me laugh. :)
Meghan as a social climber while Prince Andrew consorts with scumbag serial rapists…that is social descent, not climbing…
re: #76 Patricia Kayden
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Here’s a hell of a sentence:
“And on that frigid day in January 2009, when I had to tell the air traffic controller at New York Departure Control that I was about to land US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, after a bird strike following takeoff caused both engines to fail, my words came out with precision and control, even in the stress of a life-threatening emergency,”
re: #76 Patricia Kayden
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I have a stutter myself. Thanks Sully. Lara Trump can screw off. Her family can’t talk issues so they do shit like this.
re: #107 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Um that’s capybara soup
I believe that would be more of a capybara tea. Based on the inclusion of the lemons (or oranges)
Hello,
I’m off to my comedy class. This is the 2nd time and I have to do 4 minutes on stage. Nervous, but fun. I will report back latter. Have a day.
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Virginia braces for enormous gun-rights rally Monday
“Convoys and militias are coming, if social media posts are to be believed, headed to Virginia’s capital on Monday to take a stand for gun rights — or, in the words of some, to fan the flames of a civil war.“I’ll be rolling into town early. I can’t give you my exact time for security reasons,” said Christian Yingling, head of the Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia and a leader at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
“I organized a convoy, places we can meet up and drive up together. I’ll be leading it,” said Tammy Lee, a militia activist in Oklahoma.
Both Lee and Yingling were members of groups that signed consent decrees never to return to Charlottesville while armed, part of a lawsuit settlement over the violence there. But there is no restriction against coming to Richmond.”
“For security reasons?” What a ridiculous poseur. Still, these goobers have guns, they are obsessed with them, and they have the administration, the NRA, and, ultimately, the Russian oligarchy behind them. It’s likely that nothing untoward will happen but disaster is a real possibility and it will be very tense until these mutants get out of town and crawl back to their caves and ‘burbs.
Not to minimize the potential..still remember “million trucker March”?
re: #112 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Not to minimize the potential..still remember “million trucker March”?
I do. Another fake populist movement by President Gold Toilet’s allies.
re: #112 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
Not to minimize the potential..still remember “million trucker March”?
I think more of possible outcomes like the time rival biker gangs showed up to the same chain restaurant in Waco, TX.
re: #85 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Saying bad things about us?” I guess Cheeto will have to nuke Primrose Hill in London. That’s the uber-chic ‘hood where all the “rich lefties” (BBC presenters, communard celebrities, general chatterati etc.) are alleged to live.
The story keeps morphing cause there was no actual story.
Not that he could stay on message two days running anyway
re: #52 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I’m wondering why, and how, Ohio has managed to earn North Carolina’s hate
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South Carolina hates Ohio, North Carolina hates South Carolina.
The Michigan/Ohio mutual hate stems from the football rivalry between the Wolverines (U. of Michigan) and the Buckeyes (Ohio State)
My mom was a Wolverine. I am a Blue Devil (LTU, not Duke) so it doesn’t mean much to me.
re: #99 Eventual Carrion
Yes, holding that view and also “Immigrants come to steal our jobs, and they are lazy and don’t want to work”. I figure these people are just hooked on opioids and not too bright, hence I call them Oxy-morons.
By putting both ideas out there they get more “coverage”.
Some buy into the first
Some the second
And noone hears or cares about the other contradictory comment floating around
re: #116 The Pie Overlord!
South Carolina hates Ohio, North Carolina hates South Carolina.
The Michigan/Ohio mutual hate stems from the football rivalry between the Wolverines (U. of Michigan) and the Buckeyes (Ohio State)
My mom was a Wolverine. I am a Blue Devil (LTU, not Duke) so it doesn’t mean much to me.
Plus you guys had some conflict over Toledo when both states were part of the Northwest Territories. We don’t really “hate” West Virginia here. Definitely some looking down though but WV definitely has elements that hate how socially liberal Va has become. I honestly don’t hate any state though I could easily say I hate the political culture of a few.
re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Meghan as a social climber while Prince Andrew consorts with scumbag serial rapists…that is social descent, not climbing…
And apparently he is so weak she can manipulate the hell out of him
re: #111 I Would Prefer Not To
Hello,
I’m off to my comedy class. This is the 2nd time and I have to do 4 minutes on stage. Nervous, but fun. I will report back latter. Have a day.
Hahahahahahahaha
Too early?
re: #118 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Plus you guys had some conflict over Toledo when both states were part of the Northwest Territories. We don’t really “hate” West Virginia here. Definitely some looking down though but WV definitely has elements that hate how socially liberal Va has become. **I honestly don’t hate any state though I could easily say I hate the political culture of a few.**
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— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 19, 2020
re: #119 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
And apparently he is so weak she can manipulate the hell out of him
Look at Malkin calling him emasculated. There are other bits of there referring to him as a SoyBoy.
And an article mocking her
The Emasculation of Prince Harry in Six Pictures.
The toxic impact of SJW Hollywood feminism on Western man cannot be understated. pic.twitter.com/wMLNQ6uzOk— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 13, 2020
re: #123 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Look at Malkin calling him emasculated. There are other bits of there referring to him as a SoyBoy.
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And what does her husband do? It’s funny. All the talk about beta males and soy boys comes from people like Malkin who just spew shit for a living. Better a SJW lefty than an impotent rage right winger.
The real betas are dipshits who think compassion and empathy are weakness.
Hugh Hewitt looks like a corpse. Three years of defending Trump will do that to you.
re: #125 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Compassion and empathy are strengths. They make people see how others live and should be treated.
re: #47 Dread Pirate
“Come Together” was inspired by a request from Timothy Leary to write a song for his campaign for governor of California against Ronald Reagan, which promptly ended when Leary was sent to prison for possession of marijuana.
Thank you Wikipedia.
Got them sued by Chuck Berry too, because Lennon nicked the ‘Here come old flat top’ line from ‘You Can’t Catch Me.’
Now in the 21st Century, I always sing ‘Here come old laptop.’
re: #125 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The real betas are dipshits who think compassion and empathy are weakness.
The concept of alpha or beta anything (except various descriptors of particles) is dumb.
re: #127 PhillyPretzel
Compassion and empathy are strengths. They make people see how others live and should be treated.
The golden rule but I’m sure that’s just “cultural Marxism.”
re: #123 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Look at Malkin calling him emasculated. There are other bits of there referring to him as a SoyBoy.
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I’ll say it: Sharing a bed with Meghan Markle every night is most definitely not evidence of emasculation.
re: #129 Colère Tueur de Lapin
The concept of alpha or beta anything (except various descriptors of particles) is dumb.
Incredibly so.
re: #131 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I’ll say it: Sharing a bed with Meghan Markle every night is most definitely not evidence of emasculation.
She pisses off Piers Morgan. I reckon she’s doing something right.
re: #133 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Look up “wanker” in the dictionary, and there’s a picture of Piers Morgan.
re: #129 Colère Tueur de Lapin
The concept of alpha or beta anything (except various descriptors of particles) is dumb.
The people who use it most often have no concept of what it means; it describes an individual’s (current) status in a social hierarchy. It is a fluid term, it says little to nothing about the inherent nature of the individual, just how it stands in relation to others.
re: #131 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I’ll say it: Sharing a bed with Meghan Markle every night is most definitely not evidence of emasculation.
We were joking that patrick j Adams (suits) gets to say he kissed her a lot and way before Harry ever did
re: #134 Ace Rothstein
Look up “wanker” in the dictionary, and there’s a picture of Piers Morgan.
What kind of person whines about vegan sausage? I mean given the choice I prefer the real thing but Piers is so whiny about vegans. As I said the other night, it’s enough to make me wish for really painful dumps for him.
re: #137 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
What kind of person whines about vegan sausage? I mean given the choice I prefer the real thing but Piers is so whiny about vegans. As I said the other night, it’s enough to make me wish for really painful dumps for him.
“Real Men Eat Meat” is one of the Pillars of Toxic Masculinity
re: #78 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
from nbcnews website. 13k votes aint nothing:
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Totally meaningless poll — like all internet polls. Even worse than the infamous Literary Digest poll of 1936 which included over 2 million responses and predicted a Landon landslide. At least there is no reason to doubt that the 2 million were real people; with internet polls there is no way to know whether the votes are real people or even one person voting 13k times.
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The people who use it most often have no concept of what it means; it describes an individuals (current) status in a social hierarchy. It is a fluid term, it says little to nothing about the inherent nature of the individual, just how it stands in relation to others.
Except that in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” it wasn’t fluid. You were either Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon. And you were expected to either live up to or stay in your place. And I believe this whole business about alphas and betas may have come from that, ultimately. The book was published in 1932; my mother read it in high school in the later 1950s. (Imagine my surprise finding out my mother had read “Brave New World” in high school. Then again, she went to school in California, while I was edumacated in Texas.)
re: #137 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
What kind of person whines about vegan sausage? I mean given the choice I prefer the real thing but Piers is so whiny about vegans. As I said the other night, it’s enough to make me wish for really painful dumps for him.
Here’s a question for piers:
Can I eat the same ingredients if they are in a different shape and not called a sausage?
If so then you’re an arse.
On reflection you’re an arse anyway
re: #89 Jay C
Well, when at least some of those “dangerous radicals” are a duly-elected State Legislature, it’s kind of hard to paint them as just some fringe: one presumes that the slate of gun-control measures they are considering - as the NYT condenses:
has to have some some of public support behind them. These measures seem pretty mild to me: MAYBE excepting the monthly limit - though of course, to the gun-nut crowd, ANY firearms-controlling measures are intolerable.
“Antifa”, though, is another matter: if only for the boogeyman-factor they unfortunately evoke in most of the media. Hopefully, their presence will be minimal, and their “services” NOT required…
Will be curious how many Nazi and neo-Nazi symbols will be openly displayed at that rally. Not all gun-nuts are Nazis and it will be interesting to see how they take being cheek-to-cheek with the open supremacists in that crowd.
I doubt the media however will broadly paint them with the brush that they’re all Nazi sympathizers since conservatives always get the benefit of the doubt as compared to how liberal protests are portrayed by them.
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Real Men Eat Meat” is one of the Pillars of Toxic Masculinity
re: #140 mmmirele
Except that in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” it wasn’t fluid. You were either Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon. And you were expected to either live up to or stay in your place. And I believe this whole business about alphas and betas may have come from that, ultimately. The book was published in 1932; my mother read it in high school in the later 1950s. (Imagine my surprise finding out my mother had read “Brave New World” in high school. Then again, she went to school in California, while I was edumacated in Texas.)
Side note, check out Huxley’s follow-up to “Brave New World”, “Brave New World Revisited”.
re: #139 Hecuba’s daughter
Totally meaningless poll — like all internet polls. Even worse than the infamous Literary Digest poll of 1936 which included over 2 million responses and predicted a Landon landslide. At least there is no reason to doubt that the 2 million were real people; with internet polls there is no way to know whether the votes are real people or even one person voting 13k times.
Nothing serious
Just a bit of Sunday morning fun
re: #97 Barefoot Grin
I’m seeing lots of tweets about Harry and Meghan and what a vicious social climber Meghan is and how unfair it is to be accused of racism and wonder why English soccer fans have to be reminded by public announcements at games not to yell racist stuff at black players but aren’t told “don’t call them social climbers.”
No one taught them to use “uppity” yet.
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re: #99 Eventual Carrion
Yes, holding that view and also “Immigrants come to steal our jobs, and they are lazy and don’t want to work”. I figure these people are just hooked on opioids and not too bright, hence I call them Oxy-morons.
Translates as “They are a threat, but we’re still superior to them.” Pretty much the standard “other” treatment by the bigots since whenever. Dutch/Germans, Irish, Italians, Russians, etc. going back to the 13 Colonies. The labels just change every so often.
re: #88 jeffreyw
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If you look closely you can see Lev Parnas in the shade of the tree.
re: #97 Barefoot Grin
I’m seeing lots of tweets about Harry and Meghan and what a vicious social climber Meghan is and how unfair it is to be accused of racism and wonder why English soccer fans have to be reminded by public announcements at games not to yell racist stuff at black players but aren’t told “don’t call them social climbers.”
Before Kate produced heirs, she and her sister Pippa were called social climbers. The UK press even nicknamed them, “the wisteria sisters”.
/3 Interesting comment from Cornyn on @FaceTheNation: “There’s no question there have been a series of grifters & other hangers-on who have associated themselves with the president’s campaign or claimed to have special relationships with the president.”
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) January 19, 2020
Cornyn admits he met the Trump family.
re: #149 Barefoot Grin
If you look closely you can see Lev Parnas in the shade of the tree.
LOL
Though Lev is in even more pictures than Maria Butina!
re: #140 mmmirele
Except that in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” it wasn’t fluid. You were either Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon. And you were expected to either live up to or stay in your place. And I believe this whole business about alphas and betas may have come from that, ultimately.
That again shows how clueless the people who use it are. That is a work of fiction about human breeding, but when they talk about “alpha male” I believe they generally have a pride of lions in mind. (totally forgetting that in hyenas, females are the alpha)
re: #140 mmmirele
I had to read it in either middle school or high school in Abilene in the 80s.
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That again shows how clueless the people who use it are. That is a work of fiction about human breeding, but when they talk about “alpha male” they have a pride of lions in mind. (totally forgetting that in hyenas, females are the alpha)
And your status was pretty much due to genetic engineering carried out before you were born as well. Artificially created castes, not an inherent evolutionary (or God-intended) superior status as these yahoos are implying
i’m not crying pic.twitter.com/N7ngvxJbGI
— lujain (@urIastbraincell) January 18, 2020
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That again shows how clueless the people who use it are. That is a work of fiction about human breeding, but when they talk about “alpha male” they have a pride of lions in mind. (totally forgetting that in hyenas, females are the alpha)
It was about programming humans — not really breeding. Children were brainwashed from the time they were infants on their role in society. Of course, the novel preceded computers but wasn’t the message, in effect, society can implant whatever software is needed to control an individual’s intellectual and social development? i.e. in the nature vs nurture argument, it was the ultimate in supporting the nurture side.
re: #158 Hecuba’s daughter
It was about programming humans — not really breeding. Children were brainwashed from the time they were infants on their role in society. Of course, the novel preceded computers but wasn’t the message, in effect, society can implant whatever software is needed to control an individual’s intellectual and social development? i.e. in the nature vs nurture argument, it was the ultimate in supporting the nurture side.
It was also breeding: alphas were bred one egg per individuals, the other classes were bred in multiples, dozens at a time, which also made industrial and social standardization a lot easier.
Speaking of corpses, Doucheawitz is on This Week.
re: #84 Patricia Kayden
Christian Evangelicals are an End Times cult: that’s why they DGAF about climate change or Agent Orange’s character flaws. Now they control US war machine and nukes.
I always thought the alpha/beta male concepts came from wolves. There was a widespread—but wrong—idea that wolf packs were organized around “alphas”. Not true. Wolves organize through familial lines, just like most other mammals. Many places still teach this.
So Huge Hewitt just said he’s voting for Bernie in Virginia on Meat the Chuck.
The Ratfuckularity is coming along nicely. But I do like the fact that it’s clear they want to run against St Bernardus. Stocking up on popcorn watching the Talibern respond.
I mean we just found out Devin Nunes was a key player in the criminal scheme he sat in judgment over in the House, pretending the whole time like none of this was believable while knowing it def happened, BECAUSE HE WAS THERE, but sure, let’s spend Sunday on the election news.
— 🆘Rev Magdalen |This Machine Dismantles Patriarchy (@revmagdalen) January 19, 2020
re: #97 Barefoot Grin
Social climber? WTF they are climbing down from the top of their social circle
I was watching the LA 2-9 TV News/psyops, and they televised an interview with a “Royal Watcher” who had palpable seething rage over the whole thing. The unsaid: how dare they leave the club to which I’ve aspired to join my whole bleeping life!
I went from Meh to ardently backing Meghan and Harry on the spot
Speaking of novels, I finished reading “The Testaments” which is the sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
It has a bazillion spoilers in case you are not caught up on all the Hulu series episodes, all I can tell you is
that while the original was only in Offred (June’s) voice, this book has 3 voices: Hannah (June’s daughter), Nicole (who was smuggled to Canada at the end of Season 2) and Aunt Lydia.
re: #165 So Cal Greek Hippie
Meghan and Harry spilling the beans from the inside on the Royal Watcher industry is an existential threat.
re: #165 So Cal Greek Hippie
Social climber? WTF they are climbing down from the top of their social circle
I was watching the LA 2-9 TV News/psyops, and they televised an interview with a “Royal Watcher” who had palpable seething rage over the whole thing. The unsaid: how dare they leave the club to which I’ve aspired to join my whole bleeping life!
I went from Meh to ardently backing Meghan and Harry on the spot
Seems to me that if you are a member of a royal family and marry anyone except a very close relative (see: 19th century European royal families and how did that work out?) you are marrying “down” and your new spouse has climbed socially. (See also: so what?)
I keep seeing McSally-related stuff constantly in my Twitter feed. Starting to get really annoying, since that unelected hack is really one of the worst…
When casting directors eventually start filling roles for the movies we’re going to get based on the actions of this administration, the role of McSally should just go to a random extra.Because any random person would likely do a better job acting the part than McSally herself.. https://t.co/EB99T4Jw7c
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) January 18, 2020
re: #153 Hecuba’s daughter
LOL
Though Lev is in even more pictures than Maria Butina!
Lev is the Maria Butina of Rudy Giulianis.
re: #165 So Cal Greek Hippie
Social climber? WTF they are climbing down from the top of their social circle
I was watching the LA 2-9 TV News/psyops, and they televised an interview with a “Royal Watcher” who had palpable seething rage over the whole thing. The unsaid: how dare they leave the club to which I’ve aspired to join my whole bleeping life!
I went from Meh to ardently backing Meghan and Harry on the spot
Yeah: JIMO, the whole “Megxit” thing has pushed a whole lot of buttons in the British “public” - or at least the “public” the trash media wants to promote as the “normal” - and that’s just one of them.
To me, the whole subtext is that Royals like Prince Harry owe a “duty” to the country/the people/the society in return for their social standing smack atop the pyramid of privilege in British society (and, of course, though it’s seldom stressed, the enormous wealth). That Harry has decided that said “duty” doesn’t entail having to put up with endless public scrutiny/gossip/abuse of him, his wife, and his children by a vicious and unethical gutter press, and that he wants out, just ticks off too many Brits for whom “It Just Isn’t Done” is still a main guiding principle…..
re: #168 calochortus
For sure.
Crazy that a telegenic mom who is a former TV Star is thought incapable of doing the “Royal Duties“, most of which seem to involve looking good on TV, knowing your lines and birthing a child.
I also think the idea of more genetic material in that scene is really good from a “they are right on the edge of inbred!” perspective.
re: #111 I Would Prefer Not To
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re: #171 BigPapa
McSally is representative to what’s happened to the GOP as a whole… she won in what used to be AZ-8 as a moderate in a highly competitive district that used to be represented by Gabby Giffords, it incorporates a fair bit of Metro Tucson, offset with a boatload of rural SE AZ comprised of a whole lotta ranchers and small business types that usually gravitate to the GOP, they ARE concerned about the border because the coyotes that traffic people/drugs can be destructive, knocking down fences and vandalizing property and when they started trending more to combing drugs with people, it attracted more violent types… So in short, our drug problem and our illegal border crossing problems here in Southern AZ became intertwined. Giffords believed in enforcement and in attempting to tackle the money aspect of the issue by pushing for not only better enforcement of people coming in, but money going out. McSally, not so much and soon morphed from a military vet who was a trailblazer and who had her own stories of sexual assault while rising thru ranks to leading the GOP cheers to gut the ACA and succumb to the “it’s either them or us” mentality that is so pervasive.
It’s sad to watch some devolve politically like this… I loathe what she stands for and her own personal failings from respected vet to just another Fox spewing fanatic
re: #176 Teukka
rofl. That is certainly true.
re: #175 piratedan
McSally is representative to what’s happened to the GOP as a whole… she won in what used to be AZ-8 as a moderate in a highly competitive district that used to be represented by Gabby Giffords, it incorporates a fair bit of Metro Tucson, offset with a boatload of rural SE AZ comprised of a whole lotta ranchers and small business types that usually gravitate to the GOP, they ARE concerned about the border because the coyotes that traffic people/drugs can be destructive, knocking down fences and vandalizing property and when they started trending more to combing drugs with people, it attracted more violent types… So in short, our drug problem and our illegal border crossing problems here in Southern AZ became intertwined. Giffords believed in enforcement and in attempting to tackle the money aspect of the issue by pushing for not only better enforcement of people coming in, but money going out. McSally, not so much and soon morphed from a military vet who was a trailblazer and who had her own stories of sexual assault while rising thru ranks to leading the GOP cheers to gut the ACA and succumb to the “it’s either them or us” mentality that is so pervasive.
It’s sad to watch some devolve politically like this… I loathe what she stands for and her own personal failings from respected vet to just another Fox spewing fanatic
Trump touched the GOP and poisoned it. There was a lot wrong there before Trump since he’s their rotten underbelly turned to “11”, but a lot of people in the party who seemed to have some good in them appear to have doubled down on the ugly and transformed out of a misplaced sense of party loyalty and/or greed to maintain power.
re: #162 Sherlock Hound
I always thought the alpha/beta male concepts came from wolves. There was a widespread—but wrong—idea that wolf packs were organized around “alphas”. Not true. Wolves organize through familial lines, just like most other mammals. Many places still teach this.
also, alphas often spend so much time fighting for dominance that the betas sneak in and mate with the females while they are distracted…it is a lot more complex than these dimwits would like to make it out…
re: #178 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Trump touched the GOP and poisoned it. There was a lot wrong there before Trump since he’s their rotten underbelly turned to “11”, but a lot of people in the party who seemed to have some good in them appear to have doubled down on the ugly and transformed out of a misplaced sense of party loyalty and/or greed to maintain power.
He started an attention-grabbing race to the bottom: anything that was seen as critical of their opposition or the Left in general went undisputed, no matter how far-fetched, contradictory or unfounded.
There is no bottom, this is turtles all the way down now, and the GOP has the choice between alienating these people entirely or losing the rest of the electorate.
re: #180 TedStriker
owww. I need some Trifoils. If I do not get them I will die. (I do like Thin Mints and Trifoils)
Reliable Sources re: A Very Stable Genius.
Meridith McGraw: “Bucks traditional presidential ways”.
Margaret Sullivan: Overall themes are familiar but details are shocking
Dahlia Lithwick: “We’re slowly dying by reality show.”
We need more Dahlia and less Meridith. We are frogs in boiling water and and when this is over, our nation will be dead.
State of the Union:
And shouldn’t publicity hound Dershowitz be indicted for his involvement with Epstein?
re: #182 PhillyPretzel
Fellow Trefoils fanatic here. Thin Mints are delicious too, and I wouldn’t say no to the peanut butter ones either.
Catch me if you can 🚀🚀🚀 pic.twitter.com/9Xa8jTCMwZ
— Jesus Chrysler (@JesusChrysler15) January 19, 2020
re: #175 piratedan
McSally is representative to what’s happened to the GOP as a whole… she won in what used to be AZ-8 as a moderate in a highly competitive district that used to be represented by Gabby Giffords, it incorporates a fair bit of Metro Tucson, offset with a boatload of rural SE AZ comprised of a whole lotta ranchers and small business types that usually gravitate to the GOP, they ARE concerned about the border because the coyotes that traffic people/drugs can be destructive, knocking down fences and vandalizing property and when they started trending more to combing drugs with people, it attracted more violent types… So in short, our drug problem and our illegal border crossing problems here in Southern AZ became intertwined. Giffords believed in enforcement and in attempting to tackle the money aspect of the issue by pushing for not only better enforcement of people coming in, but money going out. McSally, not so much and soon morphed from a military vet who was a trailblazer and who had her own stories of sexual assault while rising thru ranks to leading the GOP cheers to gut the ACA and succumb to the “it’s either them or us” mentality that is so pervasive.
It’s sad to watch some devolve politically like this… I loathe what she stands for and her own personal failings from respected vet to just another Fox spewing fanatic
McSally did not win. She got her ass handed to her by Kristen Sinema, and then was appointed to McCain’s seat after John Kyl was done being a placeholder.
THAT DOES NOT COMPUTE, WILL ROBINSON!
Dershowitz: “An American should not collude with a foreign power…in an effort to enhance his candidacy,” but many presidents have done that so it’s not impeachable and voters whose votes may be cancelled or altered by the foreign power can decide what to do about it.👇
🙄🙄 pic.twitter.com/cX7C3NYjAw— dσxxεd Ъuт หσт σuт (@twmentality1) January 19, 2020
Hey Captain Underpants! Just come out and say that Republicans are above the law!
re: #125 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The real betas are dipshits who think compassion and empathy are weakness.
re: #127 PhillyPretzel
Compassion and empathy are strengths. They make people see how others live and should be treated.
Unfortunately in the last few decades or so, we’ve seen the political limits of how far compassion and empathy can get you, compared to the absolute power of unfiltered resentment, hate, and assholery.
For all the paeans to grace, compassion, etc. this country has, it truly does worship the platonic ideal of the asshole a lot.
re: #182 PhillyPretzel
owww. I need some Trifoils. If I do not get them I will die. (I do like Thin Mints and Trifoils)
At least with Thin Mints, there’s a year-round version readily available: Keebler Grasshoppers.
And now Chris Wallace beats down Queen Lindsay!
re: #191 TedStriker
Lorna Doones are a good substitute for Trefoils.
Oh, for fuck’s sake….
instead it’ll be described as “fiery” https://t.co/zZ47aVgdDQ
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 19, 2020
lol, NPR goes w/ “forceful” https://t.co/BQ2FaUNppu
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 19, 2020
re: #193 plansbandc
They are good but I like Walkers. :)
Mr. Schiff Stands Firm
Americans overwhelmingly want to see a fair trial. That is the foundational issue on which everything else rests.
But will Senators allow witnesses and subpoena documents?
If Senators are true to the oath they have taken to impartially administer justice, they must do so. pic.twitter.com/9cHAOODgow— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) January 19, 2020
“House managers seek to present new information..since the articles..were passed in the House. Under these rules, it would be up to” Trump’s “counsel to object to evidence presented or testimony sought…It would then be up to..Roberts to decide..”
➔ https://t.co/vTErGwQJTE pic.twitter.com/V55eYSUOud— Puesto Loco™ (@PuestoLoco) January 19, 2020
re: #195 PhillyPretzel
Walker’s are killer good. So buttery.
re: #187 makeitstop
McSally did not win. She got her ass handed to her by Kristen Sinema, and then was appointed to McCain’s seat after John Kyl was done being a placeholder.
And another factor (inescapable, but still sad to see), as a Senator, McSally has to appeal to a statewide, rather than a local, electorate*: and in AZ GOP terms, I’m guessing, that equals unquestioning Trump-cultism, xenophobia, and party-before-country in each and every consideration. Fortunately, I think the Loser Stink may sink her in the fall: the main announced (D) contender - Mark Kelly - has reportedly been consistently polling ahead of her.
ETA: The Republican electorate, that is….
re: #199 Jay C
And another factor (inescapable, but still sad to see), as a Senator, McSally has to appeal to a statewide, rather than a local, electorate*: and in AZ GOP terms, I’m guessing, that equals unquestioning Trump-cultism, xenophobia, and party-before-country in each and every consideration. Fortunately, I think the Loser Stink may sink her in the fall: the main announced (D) contender - Mark Kelly - has reportedly been consistently polling ahead of her.
ETA: The Republican electorate, that is….
McSally: I’m a fighter pilot!
Kelly: That’s nice, dear.
I love Mark and am contributing $$ to him, Amy and Jamie every month. Want to see every Republican stooge get fired in November!
re: #203 Dr Lizardo
So, it snowed a bit earlier today. A photo taken from my balcony earlier today.
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The snow that played hell out here yesterday and last night is pretty much gone this morning.
Yesterday at this time it was in the mid-twenties, today it’s hovering around 40. This weather is gonna give me whiplash, I swear.
In much brighter news, this was in my timeline: A livetweet thread of someone’s very first time watching Princess Bride with minimal cultural osmosis. It really is a trip and shows how magical the movie is even in 2020.
OKAY. The Princess Bride. Super well known and beloved film, and I have absolutely no idea what it’s about. Now I did initially think it was the one (also not seen) where the lady comes down on a meteor or something but apparently not so, and I think I also got it-
1/ #Yubiviews— Yubi 🎲 Makin’ Iroh Proud (@uzbadyubi) January 18, 2020
Hey Frank, thanks for the RT. It sent a horde of Trump cultists spewing Fox News propaganda at me, as I’m sure you knew it would. But that’s OK, because I’m developing an app that helps shut down these harassment pile-ons, so this was a good way to test it. https://t.co/F5BehfQ9V6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2020
re: #204 makeitstop
The snow that played hell out here is pretty much gone this morning.
Yesterday at this time it was in the mid-twenties, today it’s hovering around 40. This weather is gonna give me whiplash, I swear.
Heh. We were at 60. Now we at 10, with wind chills below zero. I’d settle for 40!
re: #206 Charles Johnson
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Maybe you can name it after him?
The Frank Foiler? The Lunatic Luntz Blocker? The Luntz Wingnut Sweeper?
re: #205 Citizen K
In much brighter news, this was in my timeline: A livetweet thread of someone’s very first time watching Princess Bride with minimal cultural osmosis. It really is a trip and shows how magical the movie is even in 2020.
THAT is the finest thing I have ever seen on twitter. Thank you.
re: #187 makeitstop
she did win as a Congressional candidate, when I cited AZ-8, that was the Congressional district in question. I know full well that she was appointed to McCain seat by Governor Douchebag (Ducey)
There needs to be a word stronger and dumber than gaslighting for this. Asslighting? https://t.co/lZgf7rvK34
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 19, 2020
The constant, obvious lying by Republicans is enraging.
heads up Texas!
I will be going to Austin, Texas. Leaving soon. Always like (love!) being in the Lone Star State. Speaking to our great Farmers. They hit “paydirt” with our incredible new Trade Deals: CHINA, JAPAN, MEXICO, CANADA, SOUTH KOREA, and many others!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2020
still a moron:
I have never seen the Republican Party as Strong and as Unified as it is right now. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2020
On the contrary, I totally expect you to call out the flying monkeys on your perceived enemies. It’s standard procedure for right wingers with large followings.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2020
Well, this certainly explains a lot. https://t.co/92bMp94090
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2020
“Hundreds of millions of years?”
It’s just painful when right wingers try to pretend they understand scientific concepts. https://t.co/dtgLjusaAv— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2020
re: #217 Charles Johnson
That’s a home-made Rapture. If they have an area on the moon that can hold some people in an acceptable atmosphere, after they have this world on the brink of destruction, they can take their small number (whisk them away!) to the moon and have their own Rapture.
re: #118 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Plus you guys had some conflict over Toledo when both states were part of the Northwest Territories. We don’t really “hate” West Virginia here. Definitely some looking down though but WV definitely has elements that hate how socially liberal Va has become. I honestly don’t hate any state though I could easily say I hate the political culture of a few.
This born and bred Virginian hates West Virginia, but that hatred didn’t come until weeks after I had moved there at age 29 when my wife took a job at a now defunct college/university run by an autocratic Trumpian grifter who was once the highest paid private university president in the nation. (Google College of West Virginia/Mountain State University. Also google “Charles Polk” and “Apex Learning” for the former university president’s business ethics philosophy.) I was stuck in West Virginia for nine years. I regard that period as our personal “lost decade.”
No wonder the GOP is trying to derail the Senate trial. The words we’ve already heard spoken by the president’s closest advisors condemn him, even without the witnesses & documents Trump has managed to keep from Congress. https://t.co/jvUxYapkzU
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) January 19, 2020
I don’t think this user name means what they think it means. pic.twitter.com/P3Z2SLHOaP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2020
re: #216 Charles Johnson
Was completely dumbfounded by this revelation on Dershowitz. Hopefully this will derail his appearance for Team Trump. Not that he had any credibility with me before then — his specialty seems to be helping criminals escape convictions for their felonies; he treats the law as a game where the search for truth is irrelevant and winning by any means is the only goal.
re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So basically, the House has delivered a lengthy, well-referenced clearly-reasoned legal indictment of President Trump, and the President’s “defense” team has responded with a string of Trump-tweets?
woke up to a text from my mom about how a wild elephant went into a Sri Lankan hotel and gently wandered around while poking stuff with his trunk pic.twitter.com/C2biQT8C30
— Upuli 🇱🇰 (@upidaisy) January 19, 2020
re: #218 retired cynic
That’s a home-made Rapture. If they have an area on the moon that can hold some people in an acceptable atmosphere, after they have this world on the brink of destruction, they can take their small number (whisk them away!) to the moon and have their own Rapture.
That’s the libertarian fantasy right there. It is. I read the same science fiction they did, and I belonged to the L5 Society for a time. Stanley Schmidt, who edited Analog SF Magazine, was always running stories with that trope, and the idea of escaping the statists.
I have really mixed emotions: I love space. But as a disabled person on assistance, I am just the kind of person the libertarians want to escape from!
Well-done! Hyde drinks a lot, sure, but pretty interesting that he was cutting and pasting those chilling texts from de Caluwe during such an important week in this narrative. Who, or what, prompted Hyde, a landscaper, to open a gov’t relations/lobbying “firm” in December 2018? https://t.co/ME9XEDNBSB
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) January 19, 2020
NEW: Pete Brown, Trump’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, is being moved out of his role after about six months, sources say.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 19, 2020
BOOM. A vivid description: It is R Senate that is on trial. We KNOW Trump is guilty
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 19, 2020
re: #219 A Three Hour Tour
This born and bred Virginian hates West Virginia, but that hatred didn’t come until weeks after I had moved there at age 29 when my wife took a job at a now defunct college/university run by an autocratic Trumpian grifter who was once the highest paid private university president in the nation. (Google College of West Virginia/Mountain State University. Also google “Charles Polk” and “Apex Learning” for the former university president’s business ethics philosophy.) I was stuck in West Virginia for nine years. I regard that period as our personal “lost decade.”
Oh, I don’t doubt you for a second. I just don’t “hate” it. Unfortunately though, Trumpism does lend itself very well to WV politics and business. The current governor of WV is out of central casting to play a 19th century robber baron antagonist.
we still talk about the pasta shapes bracket from several years ago bc two of my friends almost got in a fistfight over rotini vs spaghetti
— christine lynn herman 🌑 (@christineexists) January 19, 2020
re: #229 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oh, I don’t doubt you for a second. I just don’t “hate” it. Unfortunately though, Trumpism does lend itself very well to WV politics and business. The current governor of WV is out of central casting to play a 19th century robber baron antagonist.
I’ve had conversations with the current governor of West Virginia when he served on our local school board. Back then, he could talk a good game, but after a while, you’d wonder how much you could really trust him, and then, he’d eventually flake out and prove unreliable.
Cory Booker was a candidate of grace in an ugly political climate, by Karen Tumulty in WaPo.
…”But I do not believe you can campaign wrong and then hope to govern right.”
As he announced his departure, Booker said that while he fell short in his campaign for president, he has not lost the central belief that animated it. “I’m proud I never compromised my faith in these principles during this campaign to score political points or tear down others,” he said. “And maybe I’m stubborn, but I’ll never abandon my faith in what we can accomplish when we join together.”
Booker’s may not have been the right rallying cry for the fevered 2020 primary campaign. But it will be a terrible thing for the country if it cannot strike a chord somewhere down the road.
Priceless. From @gtconway3d https://t.co/E7bxENUX3l
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) January 19, 2020
TLDR: Good law firms won’t work for Trump because he’s stolen so much of their services that the word is out. Thief is the word.
Tomorrow is going to be a total shitshow in VA isn’t it?
re: #233 retired cynic
I would like if President Warren would pick him as VP.
re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg
Tomorrow is going to be a total shitshow in VA isn’t it?
Yeah I’m dreading it. I just hope it causes even more backlash against the gun nuts. The Republican majority in Richmond for years ignored gun violence.
re: #236 GlutenFreeJesus
I would like if President Warren would pick him as VP.
That wouldn’t be a bad team. I like Warren-Castro as a possibility too.
re: #236 GlutenFreeJesus
I would like if President Warren would pick him as VP.
I’m not sure where I want him. Depends on who wins the nomination, I guess.
re: #219 A Three Hour Tour
This born and bred Virginian hates West Virginia, but that hatred didn’t come until weeks after I had moved there at age 29 when my wife took a job at a now defunct college/university run by an autocratic Trumpian grifter who was once the highest paid private university president in the nation. (Google College of West Virginia/Mountain State University. Also google “Charles Polk” and “Apex Learning” for the former university president’s business ethics philosophy.) I was stuck in West Virginia for nine years. I regard that period as our personal “lost decade.”
Whoa, I hadn’t heard of MSU and Polk’s Apex Thinking (I just read a bit in an editorial from WV Observer that quoted some real Machiavellian shit in Polk’s book. Sorry to hear of your family’s travails.
Batteries are dead on this thing pic.twitter.com/qOGgirpNRm
— Ned Pyle (@NerdPyle) January 19, 2020
re: #239 retired cynic
I’m not sure where I want him. Depends on who wins the nomination, I guess.
My two tickets would be Biden-Harris and Warren-Castro. But the VP probably won’t or shouldn’t be a former candidate. Then again, it worked out okay for Obama and Biden.
Another one of those 4-second out-of-context clips that BernieBros use to ratfuck other Democrats.
Biden accuses Sanders campaign of sharing “doctored” video of him attacking Social Security https://t.co/Viq8kfVDqP pic.twitter.com/uC2RodPDD2
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 19, 2020
So Chuck Todd has conservative Hugh Hewitt - whose son worked for Trump at the EPA - on Meet the Press to say he’s voting for Bernie Sanders.
Mr. Todd *yet again* is not disclosing that his wife’s firm is *still* being paid by Bernie Sanders. https://t.co/2x70KRFQCU pic.twitter.com/6pA9dNKU5o— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) January 19, 2020
And for those who would claim that there’s some barrier between a firm’s clients and its owners, when you take partnership profits and salary, there is no real difference.
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) January 19, 2020
re: #243 The Pie Overlord!
Another one of those 4-second out-of-context clips that BernieBros use to ratfuck other Democrats.
Bernie campaigns a lot like Trump. A messiah complex and trashing everyone who doesn’t share his absolutist approach. I don’t want Bernie for President because I want progress. If you want progress, you shouldn’t be looking at him as a serious candidate.
re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hugh Hewett is only endorsing Bernie Sanders in order to fuck a [Democ]rat.
re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s going to happen again isn’t it? Bernie’s going to get votes from people who will support Trump and he’s going to use that to argue that’s why he should be the nominee.
It’s all just a very unfunny joke https://t.co/wqKb6CCTze
— kristen johnston (@thekjohnston) January 19, 2020
re: #247 The Pie Overlord!
Hugh Hewett is only endorsing Bernie Sanders in order to fuck a [Democ]rat.
I mean it’s the same thing Limbaugh tried urging his listeners to do with Obama 12 years ago so I don’t necessarily blame Bernie for it. Where I do blame Bernie is this. Acting like his wins in Republican primary mostly white states is an argument for why he should be the nominee and shitting on the more diverse electorate. When Biden beats him considerably in SC, we’re going to see so much shitting on that state from his campaign.
No, they’re not “mistakes”.
Trump acts with intent. He doesn’t stumble into corruption, collusion, conspiracy, and abuse of power. https://t.co/PE13YBFM1U— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) January 19, 2020
re: #240 Barefoot Grin
Whoa, I hadn’t heard of MSU and Polk’s Apex Thinking (I just read a bit in an editorial from WV Observer that quoted some real Machiavellian shit in Polk’s book. Sorry to hear of your family’s travails.
Yeah, the place had a real coal-camp mentality.
No academic freedom. No tenure. Low pay. You could be fired, locked out of your office, and escorted off the premises for any reason. We were warned that they kept track of which faculty members and their families didn’t show up for the president’s beginning of the academic year’s mandatory cookout.
The president’s attitude was that PhDs were a dime a dozen and easily replaced and EdDs weren’t worth hiring. (His own degree was an EdD, BTW.
But, he had cut a Gospel CD, and in Southern WV, that apparently covers a lot of sins.
This video of someone unwrapping a beanbag chair is a very satisfying watch (with an unexpected plot twist)https://t.co/KEMGjr5sVE pic.twitter.com/NOLjJ2SQtF
— The Poke (@ThePoke) January 19, 2020
Watching this guy unwrap this giant - it turns out - beanbag chair is a very satisfying watch, with the bonus of an unexpected plot twist.
Well, unexpected to anyone who doesn’t own a dog.
Honey is too busy protecting us to care about lightbulbs. 😁 pic.twitter.com/1bB2iNIuqm
— Tessa (@TessaLightsItUp) January 19, 2020
re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jesus Christ! What’s Dory doing in the UK?
re: #237 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah I’m dreading it. I just hope it causes even more backlash against the gun nuts. The Republican majority in Richmond for years ignored gun violence.
IMO, it’s all going to come down to the level of violence the march engenders. If it comes off with a hitch, or at least only minor, non-casualty-inducing hitches, it’s probably going to be reported (unfortunately) as at least moderately favorable to the marchers. Or, in any case, frantically both-sidered.
However, if there is, (Dog forbid) a Charlottesville-type incident, yeah: I think the backlash is going to come: I’m sure that there are going to be plenty of swastikas, Odin runes and SS-symbols in evidence: it’s not likely to make the march organizers look good if their “Second Amendment” turnout devolves into a Nuremberg Rally, still less if violence breaks out.
re: #257 Jay C
IMO, it’s all going to come down to the level of violence the march engenders. If it comes off with a hitch, or at least only minor, non-casualty-inducing hitches, it’s probably going to be reported (unfortunately) as at least moderately favorable to the marchers. Or, in any case, frantically both-sidered.
However, if there is, (Dog forbid) a Charlottesville-type incident, yeah: I think the backlash is going to come: I’m sure that there are going to be plenty of swastikas, Odin runes and SS-symbols in evidence: it’s not likely to make the march organizers look good if their “Second Amendment” turnout devolves into a Nuremberg Rally, still less if violence breaks out.
Probably there will be only 10 attendees and 35 journalists.
I am so, so comfortable with setting the precedent that if the next president abuses her/his power to extort a foreign government into opening a bogus investigation into a political opponent for political gain, they will also get impeached. https://t.co/wBjYSehEX7
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 19, 2020
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is the GOP talking head dropping back into the standard criminality vs incompetence defense and choosing the latter.
re: #260 The Pie Overlord!
I am so, so comfortable with setting the precedent that if the next president abuses her/his power to extort a foreign government into opening a bogus investigation into a political opponent for political gain, they will also get impeached
And if this President’s personal lawyer, campaign chairman and personal adviser are also convicted of various crimes in which the President is an unnamed co-conspirator, I am also comfortable with the ensuing “witch hunt”…
JFC
Anti-anti-Trump pundits credulously promoting anti-Democrat troll accounts is how the 2020 election will play out. 2016, but somehow dumber. pic.twitter.com/fQboNFR5jQ
— Charles Я. Davis (@charliearchy) January 19, 2020
re: #252 A Three Hour Tour
Yeah, the place had a real coal-camp mentality.
No academic freedom. No tenure. Low pay. You could be fired, locked out of your office, and escorted off the premises for any reason. We were warned that they kept track of which faculty members and their families didn’t show up for the president’s beginning of the academic year’s mandatory cookout.
The president’s attitude was that PhDs were a dime a dozen and easily replaced and EdDs weren’t worth hiring. (His own degree was an EdD, BTW.
But, he had cut a Gospel CD, and in Southern WV, that apparently covers a lot of sins.
Holy moly. I worked as visiting at a place that hired a former Goldman-Sachs exec who got a PhD midlife and immediately became a college president. He was shown the door when there was a nearly unanimous non-confidence vote from the faculty for his heavy-handed influence in faculty decision making. I was being considered for permanent employment, but the brouhaha made any hiring out of the question at the time. It can be a shitty world, academia.
“In selecting this name, we honor the contributions of all our enlisted ranks, past and present, men and women, of every race, religion and background.” -@SECNAV https://t.co/ASz5kkUXYC
— Navy Chief of Information (@chinfo) January 19, 2020
We can make this happen and it will have national repercussions if we do.
Democrats just need to take a handful of seats to flip the Texas state House.
The repercussions are far-reaching as redistricting approaches.
One of those seats can flip in the Jan 28th Special Election for HD-28.
Let’s help boost Democrat @ElizMarkowitz! #DemCast #DemCastTX https://t.co/WL389WHxFy— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 #DemCast (@DemWrite) January 19, 2020
If the Texas House flips and Trumputin goes down to defeat, I’ll be able to hear wingnut heads exploding all the way from DFW. I may go up to the second floor verandah and sip Famous Grouse as I listen to that cheerful pop-pop-pop on election night.
— Köksal Akın (@newworlddd555) January 19, 2020
re: #269 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
If the Texas House flips and Trumputin goes down to defeat, I’ll be able to hear wingnut heads exploding all the way from DFW. I may go up to the second floor verandah and sip Famous Grouse as I listen to that cheerful pop-pop-pop on election night.
Like the climax of “Mars Attacks”, right down to the Slim Whitman yodeling.
re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth
Aww. That one is a cutie.
BREAKING: Honolulu police said two officers responding to an assault call were shot and a home the suspected gunman was believed to be inside has been engulfed by flames. https://t.co/X5p0Mf304f
— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) January 19, 2020
It’s a grim day in Honolulu. From @HawaiiNewsNow:
“Two police officers killed in shooting near Diamond Head” Plus multiple homes on fire. https://t.co/Di0ajJ52FQ— Linda Nagata (@LindaNagata) January 19, 2020
re: #260 The Pie Overlord!
Lindsey Graham claims unironically that Trump’s biggest concern right now is with the sanctity of the office of the presidency.
“The one thing he talks to me constantly about is, what does the next president do after this if this is successful?” Graham says.
Of course, this is a veiled threat that if Trump is removed, the Republicans will impeach and remove the next Dem president. And, of course, they would do that anyway if they could get away with it, Trump impeachment or no Trump impeachment, so fuck their whining.
Newfoundlanders are well known for lending a hand in a storm.
When USS Truxtun was sinking off the coast of Newfoundland in 1942, Lanier Phillips’ was told he’d be lynched if he made it ashore through the frigid and oil-covered Atlantic waters.
A thread for #MLKDay. #nlwx pic.twitter.com/81Ylmpmvd4— Canadian Forces in 🇺🇸 (@CAFinUS) January 19, 2020
thread starts here:
Then, as almost always happens, antivax groups on @Facebook got mad and decided that they had to “educate” the doctor…and also attempt to destroy her reputation with fake Yelp & Google reviews, barrage her contacts in DMs, etc, make creepy lying memes, call with threats, etc. pic.twitter.com/rcKb8RLPXp
— Renee DiResta (@noUpside) January 19, 2020
re: #222 Hecuba’s daughter
Newspaper archive searches for Alan Dershowitz sure are interesting. Here’s Dershowitz writing an op-ed titled “Statutory Rape is an Outdated Concept” for the Los Angeles Times on May 7, 1997 https://t.co/3ahsRu5IXB pic.twitter.com/rnl7HlQTWZ
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) January 19, 2020
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
To paraphrase the Monkeys,
Another Gun Humper Sunday
Gun powder burning everywhere
Another Gun Humper Sunday
Here in the dead and dying land
re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth
Most important tweets in the thread, but yes, the entire thing is worth the read:
and that’s why the flying monkeys do it. When it’s clear that the cost of producing a cute public health PSA is abuse, death threats, and attempts to tank your livelihood, what 👩⚕️ or 👨🔬 really wants to bother? pic.twitter.com/q8BX73fqAn
— Renee DiResta (@noUpside) January 19, 2020
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you think it was proper for the president to solicit foreign interference in our election?
.@SenShelby: Well, I don’t know that has been actually proven
S: He’s on tape asking Ukraine & China to get involved
SHELBY: Well, those were just political statements pic.twitter.com/Gs6OrOr5TG— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 19, 2020
re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth
Shelby is saying that no one should believe him about anything from this day forward.
they are flailing soooo hard…
Cornyn invents theory that Giuliani’s letter to Zelensky could be fraudulent — and that Parnas (who Giuliani once defended and invited to work on Trump’s legal defense) is too close to Russian oligarchs to be trusted. https://t.co/QWvXqvOlqD
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 19, 2020
re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth
That is how the R’s are going to write it off.
The signature moment of the Trump Era was the moment Melania wore the coat that said “I really don’t care, do you?” That defined Trumpism & the GOP. They don’t care about the law, the people, the Constitution, national security. As long as they get their way, they’re happy.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) January 19, 2020
re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Remember where Shithead Shelby spent a 4th of July…in Moscow getting his orders from Putin!
The American people agree: the Senate needs to see the witnesses and documents that President Trump blocked in the House. Just like every other impeachment trial, just like any trial. The question is whether their Senators will listen. #RealTime pic.twitter.com/D79Ni6WcrX
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 19, 2020
re: #279 Ace Rothstein
Interesting — certainly suggests that Dershowitz may very well have practiced what he preached. He needs to be brought down by MeToo. Too many predators are still allowed free rein — and too many misogynists are still accorded respect despite their disgraceful rants.
Seriously. That last one makes her a forever hero of the human race. https://t.co/qDxKaEeOEO
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) January 19, 2020
Now Mini Mike Bloomberg is critical of Jack Wilson, who saved perhaps hundreds of people in a Church because he was carrying a gun, and knew how to use it. Jack quickly killed the shooter, who was beginning a rampage. Mini is against the 2nd A. His ads are Fake, just like him!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2020
re: #290 Hecuba’s daughter
Interesting — certainly suggests that Dershowitz may very well have practiced what he preached. He needs to be brought down by MeToo. Too many predators are still allowed free rein — and too many misogynists are still accorded respect despite their disgraceful rants.
Dershowitz claims he kept his underwear on while getting that massage. The way men’s underwear is constructed, you don’t absolutely have to take them off so someone can have access to your relevant naughty bit.
(Note: autocorrect changed “Dershowitz” to “Fetishists” above, but I caught it before posting.)
This. Is. Hilarious. 😂pic.twitter.com/lakyV9pSY9
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) January 12, 2020
re: #276 ericblair
Of course, this is a veiled threat that if Trump is removed, the Republicans will impeach and remove the next Dem president. And, of course, they would do that anyway if they could get away with it, Trump impeachment or no Trump impeachment, so fuck their whining.
The republicans will not take the house
Yes I’m saying it
re: #260 The Pie Overlord!
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You lie Lindsey. This President thinks only of himself.
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