Seth has some strong words for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after he had a heated exchange with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly when he was questioned about Ukraine.
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re: #283 I Would Prefer Not To
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Returned from Easter Island, too tired to upload lots of pictures (besides, most are on my camera, not my phone), but here’s one:
Unlike Republicans who are mostly the same race and ideology, I guess.
The Democratic Party has fissures along generational, ideological and racial lines—and you’re beginning to see those in whom officials are aligning themselves with. https://t.co/QNvkrQwdEn
— ABC News (@ABC) January 29, 2020
re: #1 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
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Returned from Easter Island, too tired to upload lots of pictures (besides, most are on my camera, not my phone), but here’s one:
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re: #2 Patricia Kayden
Unlike Republicans who are mostly the same race and ideology, I guess.
Shorter ABC: Democrats in disarray. C’mon guys, you know the journalistic drill over there.
From the previous thread:
re: #57 plansbandc
I have never hated anyone more in my life. Never.
And a large portion of Trump’s supporters think AIDS is God’s punishment for Teh Geyh. Why would they care about spending any money at all on HIV/AIDS research (other than to lie about Obama)?
re: #1 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
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Thanks. good start, but need more. I assume that like me, many lizards have dreamt of a trip to Easter Island.
re: #7 I Would Prefer Not To
Thanks. good start, but need more. I assume that like me, many lizards have dreamt of a trip to Easter Island.
Only a couple are on my phone and uploadable now, but I have loads on my camera. Not before next week, alas.
Falling asleep now. Night.
re: #1 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
Okay, missed a bunch of context: how’d you get to Easter Island? I’m envious, and want to go.
Other than that:
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If you were in the last thread, I posted this tweet:
QAnon conspiracy theorists are urging their fans to ward off the coronavirus by drinking bleach.
https://t.co/UYRT3mYN7F— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 28, 2020
I made the mistake of a snarky response, suggesting that some might say the more QAnon folks do this, the better off the nation.
Well my mentions went kablooey and I got accused of being a Nazi, wishing death on people etc.
Hey, it wasn’t MY idea for QAnon people to drink bleach. It was one of THEM!
I don’t know how Charles and others here deal with maniacs as a matter of course. They are going through and replying to old tweets of mine. It’s like finding your home infested with ants.
re: #10 bratwurst
So they’re trolls then and making a mockery of their followers. Interesting.
You are one miserable SOB @SenRickScott. Held hostage? No, held hostage is what happened to my daughter when she could not escape the killer in her school. You remember that, don’t you? You are not held hostage. You are doing your job. If you do not like your job, resign. https://t.co/KhqAH4htB6
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) January 29, 2020
Trump aides are delivering a stern warning to Republican senators: Make a wrong move and your spring could be ruined by the stain of impeachmenthttps://t.co/FmpeB3UbXD
— POLITICO (@politico) January 29, 2020
re: #9 The Ghost of a Flea
Okay, missed a bunch of context: how’d you get to Easter Island? I’m envious, and want to go.
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re: #12 makeitstop
Fox News Analyst Quits, Calling Network a ‘Propaganda Machine’
Hasn’t Fox been a propaganda machine for at least a dozen years? Why did he just find out now? Is he stupid?
How utterly fucking embarrassing
Alan Dershowitz: “Hunter Biden is obviously a relevant witness for the state of mind of the President” pic.twitter.com/12p0SwLLdO
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) January 29, 2020
re: #16 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
‘Stand or go down with me’ when they may already be done.
re: #18 stpaulbear
Hasn’t Fox been a propaganda machine for at least a dozen years? Why did he just find out now? Is he stupid?
Peters quit Fox and called them a propaganda machine in March, 2018.
re: #19 goddamnedfrank
How utterly fucking embarrassing
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These guys minds are melted.
re: #18 stpaulbear
Hasn’t Fox been a propaganda machine for at least a dozen years? Why did he just find out now? Is he stupid?
He’s not stupid, just not getting paid enough.
re: #19 goddamnedfrank
How utterly fucking embarrassing
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What does Hunter Biden know about the President’s state of mind, just because he lives there rent free?
OT: I just got around to watching the first episode of Star Trek: Picard.
It’s got me hooked and begging for more…damn good.
OK, my latest TV binge addiction is The First 48
Record 7,423 US bombs dropped in Afghanistan in 2019; at least 717 civilians killed in the first half of last year https://t.co/aGlDn0hMkJ
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) January 29, 2020
A Trump rally is like an explosion at a moron factory.#TrumpRallyNJ
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) January 28, 2020
Learned about this artist today, and she blew my mind: harmoniarosales.com
I love every single image I saw.
re: #29 retired cynic
Learned about this artist today, and she blew my mind: harmoniarosales.com
I love every single image I saw.
And forgot an image:
re: #12 makeitstop
Something weird at Fox, part 368
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…ashamed at what the channel “had become???”
Where has thins guy’s head been all along? Stuffed up the GOP’s ass?
re: #32 Florida Panhandler
Somebody earlier said his resignation from Fox was several years ago. I dunno.
This is crying out for a title competition!
What’s the movie called, internetizens? https://t.co/FzDs1PLjUp— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) January 28, 2020
Das Boot
Saving Private Parking
Enemy At The Gate Gas Station
re: #32 Florida Panhandler
…ashamed at what the channel “had become???”
Where has thins guy’s head been all along? Stuffed up the GOP’s ass?
Someone pointed out earlier that the story was from 2018. My bad.
Rick Wiles: God Has Sent the Coronavirus to “Purge a Lot of Sin Off This Planet” (goes to The Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, a religious counterapologist).
Right-wing anti-Semite Rick Wiles, who retains media credentials from the White House, would like you to know that the coronavirus was sent by God to purge the world of sin.
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Wiles thinks Jesus confers immunity to disease. As if the virus works by seeking out atheists or lapsed Christians specifically.
Or maybe we shouldn’t be taking medical advice from a man who said the blood of aborted fetuses was in our drinking water.
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I get all my water treatment supplies from Planned Parenthood, usually by the barrel. /s
Just watched The Laundromat (about the Panama Papers.) I really liked it—Meryl has one scene where she’s in church, praying and this speech is just sooooo on the mark.
(bolding mine)
Thank you, Lord, thank you. Thank you for everything. I hate to ask this, but I was just wondering when exactly the meek will be inheriting the Earth? Will that be in my lifetime, or in my grandkids? And the part about the first being the last, and the last shall be first, when does that start? Hm? And what about the rest of us in the middle, you know? We’re just falling further, and further, and further behind.
My mother used to say, “May lightning strike them all without hitting me.” Well, aren’t you still in charge of lightning? I know. I know, I know, I know. I know I’m supposed to say, “Forgive them, Father. They know not what they do.” But I think they do know goddamn well what they’re doing, they just don’t care. If just one of them could say, “I’m sorry,” you know, and mean it. Or go to jail. Or both. Yeah. Hey, that would be nice. How about both?
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Rick Wiles: God Has Sent the Coronavirus to “Purge a Lot of Sin Off This Planet” (goes to The Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, a religious counterapologist).
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I’d be a lot more calm about this if Mike Pence wasn’t possibly days away from being sworn in as president.
And the Trump administration first covered up, then tried to minimize these injuries, for political benefit. https://t.co/1tllZB1O36
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2020
We all know that the Republicans are going to vote to continue Trump’s crime spree, right?
Just checking. It shouldn’t be a surprise when they do it. And they will.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2020
NPR is doing a story on Harvey Wiley and his crusade against the food industry and the creation of the FDA. Substitute Warren for Wiley and the CFPB for the FDA and it really translates to modern times.
Dersh is such a clinically fucking absurd little grundle-goblin
I mean how the hell is Hunter Biden supposed to know what Trump was thinking, but if that’s the test you know who WOULD actually be a relevant witness to the state of mind of the President?
The goddamned President https://t.co/BEU3VwKRDE— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) January 29, 2020
re: #43 goddamnedfrank
The President is a lousy witness as to the mindset of the President. How is anyone supposed to have an effing clue?
re: #44 Rightwingconspirator
The President is a lousy witness as to the mindset of the President. How is anyone supposed to have an effing clue?
I mean if he wants to tell his side of the story he can do so under oath.
re: #43 goddamnedfrank
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The US Department of Energy has released a new batch of documents related to its former Secretary Rick Perry and Ukraine https://t.co/EpGmywrkKX
— CNN (@CNN) January 29, 2020
As senators mull a proposal by two Republican colleagues for the White House to send them John Bolton’s book manuscript to review, an open question is whether the administration would even be legally allowed to do such a thing https://t.co/DIShv3dEsD
— CNN (@CNN) January 29, 2020
re: #47 Targetpractice
This makes as much sense as the Senate Dems demanding that Linda Tripp be drug in during the Clinton impeachment to be interrogated as to why she sold out a friend to go after a president and whether she was part of a grand Repub conspiracy to destroy the Clinton administration.
It makes far less sense in that Tripp played a highly active role in the Independent Counsel’s investigation. Hunter Biden is being victimized for, at worst, somewhat crassly trading on his family name.
re: #19 goddamnedfrank
How utterly fucking embarrassing
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Wait!! You mean Hunter Biden is telepathic????? What a revelation! Or is Dersh suggesting that Trump was in written communication or phone communication with Trump? And has documents from these communications that testify to Trump stated views? I iz confused!!
Or maybe it’s just that Dersh has always been an unprincipled weasel who delights in getting murderers, pedophiles, and rapists acquitted of the felonies they actually committed. It’s all a game to him — he is as dishonest as Trump.
re: #39 Joe Bacon 🌹
Dershowitz—what a whore…
One of the few MAGAts left on my FB feed actually refers to Dershowitz as a liberal. Very interesting window into how the Trumpers process reality.
re: #47 Targetpractice
This makes as much sense as the Senate Dems demanding that Linda Tripp be drug in during the Clinton impeachment to be interrogated as to why she sold out a friend to go after a president and whether she was part of a grand Repub conspiracy to destroy the Clinton administration.
It makes less sense than that. Linda Tripp was at least involved in the Great Penis Hunt.
Hunter nor Joe Biden have diddly squat to do with Trump’s corrupt phone call to Zelenskyy.
re: #39 Joe Bacon 🌹
Dershowitz—what a whore…
Whore libelz. Sex workers do honest work (though moral scolds make that illegal).
Am I oversimplifying things by thinking that getting one Biden or another to testify as an impeachment witness is basically a ploy to legitimize the whole “Ukraine hacked the elections” horseshit?
re: #56 Mattand
Am I oversimplifying things by thinking that getting one Biden or another to testify as an impeachment witness is basically a ploy to legitimize the whole “Ukraine hacked the elections” horseshit?
It doesn’t have to make sense. They will just say the words in the same sentence, and that makes it all work for them.
re: #51 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
State of mind?
You ever watch an episode of a crime drama where the defense attorney, stuck with a client who is (to use a legal term) “guilty as fuck” and there’s no real way to argue reasonable doubt that they committed the crime, so they instead try to throw up a huge smokescreen by delving into the actions and motives of the victims? Or trying the time-dishonored tradition of “putting the system on trial”?
re: #56 Mattand
Am I oversimplifying things by thinking that getting one Biden or another to testify as an impeachment witness is basically a ploy to legitimize the whole “Ukraine hacked the elections” horseshit?
I don’t think this is related to that at all — it’s merely an attempt to destroy the reputation of the person Trump believes would be his most effective opponent. It’s as simple as that. Hillary faced 25 years of unrelenting attacks on her reputation; Trump is trying to accomplish a similar objective in only one year.
re: #58 Targetpractice
You ever watch an episode of a crime drama where the defense attorney, stuck with a client who is (to use a legal term) “guilty as fuck” and there’s no real way to argue reasonable doubt that they committed the crime, so they instead try to throw up a huge smokescreen by delving into the actions and motives of the victims? Or trying the time-dishonored tradition of “putting the system on trial”?
No, I’m familiar with the concept. It’s just so bizarre. Is he seriously suggesting that Trump’s extortion was a crime of passion?
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
I don’t think this is related to that at all — it’s merely an attempt to destroy the reputation of the person Trump believes would be his most effective opponent. It’s as simple as that. Hillary faced 25 years of unrelenting attacks on her reputation; Trump is trying to accomplish a similar objective in only one year.
They are out for more than Hunter or Joe Biden. They are trying to destroy the entire system of governance.
People like the Kochs, the Mercers, the Murdochs, and Steve Bannon have had this as their objective for decades.
re: #60 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
No, I’m familiar with the concept. It’s just so bizarre. Is he seriously suggesting that Trump’s extortion was a crime of passion?
He just loved America so much, he had to take a mistress. Or rape another country. Or something.
re: #56 Mattand
Am I oversimplifying things by thinking that getting one Biden or another to testify as an impeachment witness is basically a ploy to legitimize the whole “Ukraine hacked the elections” horseshit?
That is basically the defense’s “theory of the case,” that Trump was not asking a foreign gov’t to interfere in the 2020 election by spreading dirt about a political opponent, but was instead working to prevent a “corrupt” politician from winning the election. Declaring that what looks like “corrupt intent” on Trump’s part is actually a dedication to going after “corruption” and he just happened to go after one man in one company in a country that is supposed to be rife with corruption.
re: #62 retired cynic
He just loved America so much, he had to take a mistress. Or rape another country. Or something.
I mean there’s something unique about the Bidens that Trump and I would add Putin can’t stand. I know what it is for Putin. Biden was part of Obama’s administration and we know Putin hates Obama and Clinton. I really think Trump uniquely fears Biden as an opponent though.
re: #64 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I mean there’s something unique about the Bidens that Trump and I would add Putin can’t stand. I know what it is for Putin. Biden was part of Obama’s administration and we know Putin hates Obama and Clinton. I really think Trump uniquely fears Biden as an opponent though.
I genuinely believe it was Trump being Trump, i.e. an impulsive idiot who got conned into doing someone else’s bidding, in this case a Ukrainian oligarch trying to avoid extradition on bribery charges. Rudy’s original job wasn’t even to look into the Bidens, it was to look into Crowdstrike and for “evidence” that Ukraine was responsible for the DNC hack. Firtash and/or his goons who floated the idea of looking into the Bidens and promised dirt on them if Rudy could convince his “client” to get the DOJ to drop the bribery charges.
In other news, @BBCRadio2 is going to be running a SUPER BOWL-themed show on their midnight programme their Monday morning/our Sunday night. Not sure if this is encouraging or distrubing, that the NFL has enough influence to make their presenter see this as a good idea.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) January 29, 2020
What’s everyone else’s opinion, too? (And no, “distrubing” was an intentional typo; I understand it’s somewhat of a meme when something really goes there!)
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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re: #65 Targetpractice
I genuinely believe it was Trump being Trump, i.e. an impulsive idiot who got conned into doing someone else’s bidding, in this case a Ukrainian oligarch trying to avoid extradition on bribery charges. Rudy’s original job wasn’t even to look into the Bidens, it was to look into Crowdstrike and for “evidence” that Ukraine was responsible for the DNC hack. Firtash and/or his goons who floated the idea of looking into the Bidens and promised dirt on them if Rudy could convince his “client” to get the DOJ to drop the bribery charges.
Ahhh and that would explain the attacks on Yovanovich who was going to deny the visa to the corrupt former prosecutor.
re: #68 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Ahhh and that would explain the attacks on Yovanovich who was going to deny the visa to the corrupt former prosecutor.
Firtash and other Ukrainian oligarchs wanted Yovanovich gone because she was getting in the way of business, so they sold Rudy and Trump on the idea that she was disloyal. That was what really set Trump off, the idea that “Obama’s” ambassador was undermining his authority by telling the Ukrainians and others not to bother listening to him because he’d be impeached “soon.” It fed into the general paranoia of Mad King Don that the entire diplomatic corps was set against him and working to destroy him.
re: #69 Targetpractice
Firtash and other Ukrainian oligarchs wanted Yovanovich gone because she was getting in the way of business, so they sold Rudy and Trump on the idea that she was disloyal. That was what really set Trump off, the idea that “Obama’s” ambassador was undermining his authority by telling the Ukrainians and others not to bother listening to him because he’d be impeached “soon.” It fed into the general paranoia of Mad King Don that the entire diplomatic corps was set against him and working to destroy him.
Yeah they all gained something from this.
re: #67 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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PZ Meyers (biologist, science communicator, religious counter-apologist) is done after the reporting of a FOX host curating Facebook’s new newsfeed.
Goodbye, Facebook friends. Up yours, Facebook. (Goes to Pharyngula)
re: #72 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🎃
PZ Meyers (biologist, science communicator, religious counter-apologist) is done after the reporting of a FOX host curating Facebook’s new newsfeed.
Goodbye, Facebook friends. Up yours, Facebook. (Goes to Pharyngula)
Really disgraceful. Some on the right — Rick Wilson, Nicole Wallace, Jennifer Rubin, etc — do have valuable insights on the issues of the day. But that certainly doesn’t seem to apply to anyone affiliated with Faux News.
Which gets back to this:https://t.co/uV0GtTSp6T
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 28, 2020
Swarms of Flying Homosexual Chemtrail Fire Ants Are Coming For England (Goes to Liberal Darkness)
It’s hard to tell if this blog is a Poe or not. The About page is in Latin.
Since my Latin is about as good as my Sanskrit, I ran it through Google Translate. Reading it in English, I still can’t tell if it’s a Poe.
Nevertheless, the lede.
The World Heath Organization has put England on high alert as swarms of genetically engineered fire ants have been seen swarming the countryside in quick approach to London. The ants have been laced with chemical homosexuality via a modified homosexual chemtrail containing liquid sweat from gay men.
The F1 hybrids from Obama’s Jade Helm homosexual chemtrail fire ants that have been biting Christians in Texas have made their way to England and are swarming from Sheffeld to London, descending on Christian towns and seeking the flesh of straight males. Once bitten, the CDC estimates one’s innate desires of homosexuality will grow to at least secretive or agnostic levels.
These mutated ants are thought to be the first filial (F1 hybrid) generation offspring of the the fire ants Obama deployed in Texas to bite Christians and turn them to homosexuality, a part of the Jade Helm invasion.
The link in the lede goes to The Independent, on an article about a flying ant swarm. The flying ants are common black ants, and such swarms are common.
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Whore libelz. Sex workers do honest work (though moral scolds make that illegal).
The difference between Dersh and sex workers:
They have boundaries.
re: #76 Dread Pirate
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Right hand has no fucking clue what the left hand is doing. That explains why they basically danced around the manuscript today, with the only mention being that it’s an “unsourced manuscript” which Senators totally can’t believe.
“The court invalidated a law that was plainly designed to stop Native American, Hispanic, and black voters from casting a ballot—not just because it happened to burden minorities more than whites, but because it is flat-out racist.” https://t.co/pzPI87x2kx
— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) January 29, 2020
Shameless page promotion in the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs:
Russian Journals Retract More Than 800 Papers After ‘Bombshell’ Investigation (reporting from Science)
re: #80 Dread Pirate
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The GOP really will do anything that makes voting harder for anyone not in their base. But yeah this isn’t new in Arizona. The GOP also knows that Arizona could easily be lost for then after Sinema beat McSally and now Kelly outpolling and winning the fundraising game.
re: #82 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The GOP really will do anything that makes voting harder for anyone not in their base. But yeah this isn’t new in Arizona. The GOP also knows that Arizona could easily be lost for then after Sinema beat McSally and now Kelly outpolling and winning the fundraising game.
Well, in states where they have a huge advantage like mine, they make voting easy. (Hence we’re the only red state with 100% mail voting.)
Nevertheless, even here I’m paranoid about things like my voter registration. (I check often. State law requires the county election commissioner to hold your signed registration card as the ultimate proof you are registered to vote. You can check on-line and apply to register there, but the requirement is that signed card.)
Interestingly, when we left Oklahoma and moved here, we tried to end our voter registration in Kay County. The Kay County elections commissioner wrote us back and said that we could not simply call her or even write a letter asking to be removed from the voter rolls under Oklahoma law. What we had to do was get a notarised letter from a government official here. As such, the county prosecutor/village attorney did that for us, and Kay County, Okla. removed us from their rolls.
Since the GOP has been using software to identify people registered in two or more places as “proof of voter impersonation fraud,” that seems to be a wise decision on our part, even though it was a pain in the butt to get Oklahoma to delist us.
re: #11 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Fitting for tonight, after Trump rants again: “No President Has Done More”
Mr. Deity’s counter-apologetics videos are quite hilarious with the way he uses graphics, while thought-provoking.
And he’s right about his liberal leanings as an anti-theist: There should be no way an anti-theist (an atheist who believes religion is harmful to society) should be supporting Donald Trump (or the GOP in general).
This isn’t exactly good news…..
Beijing government says rising number of coronavirus cases suggests the situation in the capital is moving from the “import phase” to the “spreading phase”
— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) January 29, 2020
re: #85 Dr Lizardo
This isn’t exactly good news…..
We’ll have to see what’s happening.
China seems to be more open about this than they were about SARS. That said, they have an authoritarian government, and those are known for promoting positive information and suppressing negative information.
Regardless of what China is putting out for public consumption, we live in an age where nearly everyone has access to any information at all, anywhere on the planet.
A mysterious disease that has killed a couple hundred people in a country of over a billion people somehow seems scarier than the firearms violence right here at home that kills as many people as the Armed Forces lost in the Vietnam War every single year.
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Because of course he did, Coach [not a coach] Dave Went to the Virginia Gun Protest [18:27, caution for coarse language and adult subject matter, anti-abortion apologetics]
I can’t say I’m surprised by this:
A woman, played by Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow, returns home to Minnesota from a business trip in Hong Kong. Though she exhibits fatigue and cold-like symptoms, she dismisses it as jet lag. Within 24 hours, she’s dead, alongside her young son. Her husband, played by Matt Damon, is somehow immune and survives.
Thus begins Steven Soderberg’s 2011 movie Contagion. Over the next hour and 46 minutes, the movie tracks what happens when a deadly China-born virus goes global and leads to mass chaos as epidemiologists race to find a vaccine.
On Tuesday, the thriller rocketed to No. 10 on the iTunes movie rental chart, where it shares space with such of-the-moment titles as Joker (No. 1), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (No. 3), Parasite (No. 4) and Hustlers (No. 8).
Contagion was definitely one of Soderberg’s best films. I saw it years ago when it hit theaters here, and I enjoyed it immensely; well-written, well-acted and had an almost documentary feel to it. I also appreciated how the film touched on tangential issues, such as Jude Law’s conspiracy theorist/snake-oil salesman character, itself a fine performance on his part.
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The fatalities still outnumber the recovered, and the critical condition patients has increased 10 fold in 3 days.
re: #89 Dread Pirate
The fatalities still outnumber the recovered, and the critical condition patients has increased 10 fold in 3 days.
That’s certainly cause for concern.
I’m not ready to go to the gun shop and buy a case of shotgun shells to defend my food supply just yet, though. I imagine some people are though, which is why I brought it up.
Extremely local news:
a) We won nothing in the lotto this week, not even a free ticket. It happens.
b) We received a cheque from our credit card company for overpayment by over $2,000. That surprised my wife, so she went back through the cancelled cheques to make sure it wasn’t some sort of error on their part or a fake. She found the payment she made. It turns out that although she wrote “Two Hundred” on the payment line, she added an extra digit “2” in the numerical box ($2200 instead of $200). They also paid a small amount of interest.
It wasn’t exactly free money, but that was nice to get.
I had no idea that India had a Ministry for Alternative Woowoo and Quack Medicine.
As the outbreak of new Coronavirus spreads rapidly, stirring fear and concern, the AYUSH ministry on Wednesday issued a health advisory and recommended that homeopathic and unani medicines could be effective in the prevention of novel coronavirus (nCoV) infections.
The advisory was issued following a meeting on Tuesday of the scientific advisory board of the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH) under the Ministry of AYUSH to discuss ways and means for prevention of the nCoV infection through homoeopathy, the ministry said in a statement.
It has recommended that homoeopathic medicine Arsenicum album 30 could be taken empty stomach daily for three days as a prophylactic medicine against the infection.
Advisory for #CoronaVirus
Homoeopathy for Prevention of Corona virus Infections
Unani Medicines useful in the symptomatic management of Corona Virus infection
Details here: https://t.co/OXC7PtM7L3— PIB India (@PIB_India) January 29, 2020
*headdesk*
total number of confirmed infection increased to 5,974, with 1,239 in critical condition, 132 dead and 103 recovered.
20% of the patients are critical, that’s diluted by the number of new infections, extrapolate that back to early patients (from 2 days ago number of infected) and it could be way over 50%.
re: #92 Dr Lizardo
I bet they don’t get many repeat patients.
re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🎃
My wife always over pays bills. It drives some companies crazy.
re: #94 Dread Pirate
I bet they don’t get many repeat patients.
That kind of bullshit is what gets people killed.
So today my daughter noticed the dog’s face was swollen, almost twice it’s normal size and his lips, gums, eyelid edges, whites of his eyes, were all bright red and his eyes were swelling shut. We took a trip to the Emergency Veterinary Hospital and the dog got massive doses of antacid and antihistamines and steroids. $300 poof. He’s doing much better, he had a hard time swallowing water when we got home but is now able to. He gets 75 mg of Benadryl 3 times a day and 40 mg of Pepcid twice a day for a while. I learned Pepcid helps the Benadryl work. I think he ate a wasp and got stung multiple times and even in his throat. Dogs, bro.
Islamic State’s ‘very own Jabba the Hutt’ captured in Mosul (goes to Stars and Stripes)
This guy provided the religious justification for enslaving women for Islamic State.
Iraqi security forces captured him. He was known as the Mufti of Mosul.
He weighs 254kg / 540 lb / 40 st.
Months after the 2014 attack on the Yazidis, Dabiq, a digital magazine published by ISIS on the dark web, ran an article saying that female members of the Yazidi, an ethnically Kurdish minority, could be enslaved and treated as spoils of war.
“One should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar — the infidels — and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of Shariah or Islamic Law,” according to the October 2014 report in the magazine titled The Revival of Slavery Before the Hour or judgment day.
The article continued that “after capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic state … to be divided as spoils of war.”
re: #98 Dread Pirate
Here’s hoping doggo has a swift recovery.
My mother’s pit bull (now deceased) suddenly had all his feet swell up. A bunch of money went up in flames to discover why that was; it turns out that Bambi was allergic to grass.
re: #34 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Das Boot
Saving Private Parking
Enemy At The Gate Gas Station
Band of Bubbas
re: #98 Dread Pirate
Hope he recovers. And hope that your wallet recovers too.
Had a friend years ago in rural Pa one of whose dog was totally unbothered by skunk spray. The dog would fearlessly kill skunks.
It also managed to tree a groundhog once while I was visiting. The friend and I wandered over to see what the excitement was. And saw a groundhog on a branch about 8 feet up the tree looking very embarrassed. As the friend had horses, we ended up shooting the groundhog.
re: #60 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
No, I’m familiar with the concept. It’s just so bizarre. Is he seriously suggesting that Trump’s extortion was a crime of passion?
It’as what Real Men do when they are passionate about Freedom.
re: #34 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Das Boot
Saving Private Parking
Enemy At The Gate Gas Station
The Ugly, the Ugly, and the Ugly.
re: #65 Targetpractice
I genuinely believe it was Trump being Trump, i.e. an impulsive idiot who got conned into doing someone else’s bidding, in this case a Ukrainian oligarch trying to avoid extradition on bribery charges.
And he was so blatant and ham-handed at it. I am sure there could have been ways to do it that left him some layers of distance and deniability.
Kazakhstan will suspend all flights, bus and rail transportation to China and will stop granting visas to Chinese nationals in order to prevent the spread of 2019-nCoV.
Translated:
The inter-ministerial commission under the government has taken a number of additional protective measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Kazakhstan, tengrinews.kz reports, citing primeminister.kz.
Passenger bus services between Kazakhstan and China have been suspended since January 29.
Passenger trains on routes between Kazakhstan and China have been suspended since February 1.
Regular air traffic between Kazakhstan and China has been suspended since February 3.
The issuance of visas to Chinese citizens has been suspended.
Original source: tengrinews.kz
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And he was so blatant and ham-handed at it. I am sure there could have been ways to do it that left him some layers of distance and deniability.
As was noted before, the GOP controlled the House and Senate up to 2019. They could have opened investigations if the Bidens were some sort of concern.
Trump could have also asked the Department of Justice to open an investigation.
This only became a problem when Joe Biden started gaining in polling. There was no “there” to investigate legally. That’s why first the pressure on Zelenskyy to appear on CNN and make an announcement (even if there was no investigation afterward), and when he cancelled, the hold up of military aid and outsiders like Giuliani doing it.
re: #92 Dr Lizardo
I had no idea that India had a Ministry for
AlternativeWoowoo and Quack Medicine.*headdesk*
They’ve had it for a while now. They also promote Ayurvedic Medicine as official policy.
For coronavirus, they are promoting this homeopathic solution:
In homeopathy, arsenicum album (Arsen. alb.) is a solution prepared by diluting aqueous arsenic trioxide generally until there is little or no arsenic remaining in the solution.
It is promoted for a range of things, from arsenic poisoning (funny we don’t use it in our public water system), digestive disorders, to liver diseases.
It is considered one of the fifteen “essential” homeopathic remedies. It has been extensively tested. Apparently the only thing it will cure is dehydration (if you drink enough of it).
re: #106 Dr Lizardo
White House considers ban on flights to China amid coronavirus outbreak (USA Today)
Several businesses in the USA have also banned travel by their employees to China for company business.
Coronavirus Outbreak: Companies Halt Operations And Restrict Employee Travel To China (Forbes)
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🎃
This is certainly gonna hit global GDP. Right now, I don’t think it’d be enough to trigger a global recession or anything, but if the situation were to worsen, it could certainly cause a global economic slowdown, maybe recessions in some countries or regions.
If/when it starts significantly affecting global supply chains, that’s gonna be a whole different kettle of fish.
re: #110 Dr Lizardo
This is certainly gonna hit global GDP. Right now, I don’t think it’d be enough to trigger a global recession or anything, but if the situation were to worsen, it could certainly cause a global economic slowdown, maybe recessions in some countries or regions.
If/when it starts significantly affecting global supply chains, that’s gonna be a whole different kettle of fish.
Business watchers are noting it is already starting to affect intra-region trade in eastern Asia and Oceania. That’s a significant chunk of the global economy.
Hong Kong banned train travel to and from the mainland. That’s going to bite, on top of the restrictions placed on the capital Beijing.
Considering how many US companies source their parts or products from China, I imagine a trade slowdown is going to bite here pretty soon, unless the disease can be brought under control (which doesn’t seem soon at the moment).
WHO was criticised for being slow about declaring a health emergency after China and other nations provided them with their data. They have now raised the risk to “high.”
WHO Has Admitted an Error in Its Assessment of Wuhan Coronavirus Risk (Science Alert, via AFP):
The World Health Organization, which has sometimes been criticised for its handling of past disease outbreaks, admitted an error on Monday in its risk assessment of China’s deadly virus.
The Geneva-based UN agency said in a situation report late Sunday that the risk was “very high in China, high at the regional level and high at the global level.”
In a footnote, the WHO explained that it had stated “incorrectly” in its previous reports on Thursday, Friday and Saturday that the global risk was “moderate”.
The correction of the global risk assessment does not mean that an international health emergency has been declared.
The WHO on Thursday stopped short of declaring the novel coronavirus a public health emergency of international concern - a rare designation used only for the worst outbreaks that would trigger more concerted global action.
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And of course we have derp spreading in the USA on Faceborg:
The coronavirus plaguing China was not created by a US government agency (goes to AFP Fact Check)
Facebook posts claim that the coronavirus spreading in China was created by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2015, offering a real patent as proof. This is false; the CDC did register a patent, but in an effort to combat a different strain than the one that caused the outbreak that started in the city of Wuhan.
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According to the latest CDC in-season #flu burden estimates, there were at least 15 million flu illnesses, 140,000 flu hospitalizations and 8,200 flu deaths between Oct. 1 and Jan. 18. Learn more: https://t.co/kfI18PWwiI. pic.twitter.com/ie2Up6lqGC
— CDC (@CDCgov) January 28, 2020
If nCoV2019 reaches epidemic proportions of this size look forward to 300,000 deaths.
re: #113 Dread Pirate
If nCoV2019 reaches epidemic proportions of this size look forward to 300,000 deaths.
Job openings. /s
re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I think that CT started with the Washington Moonie Times.
re: #115 Dr Lizardo
I think that CT started with the
WashingtonMoonie Times.
That wouldn’t surprise me much. That said, there are so many places CT starts I’m surprised InfoWars can still compete. I guess their manly-man soy supplements which will keep you from becoming a soy boy (but might give you lead poisoning) are what keeps them afloat.
Today, we mark the 102nd anniversary of the death of John McCrae. An accomplished Artillery Officer, doctor and poet, he was driven by service and humanity. McCrae penned In Flanders Field during WWI, a poem that has become both a tribute and a legacy. pic.twitter.com/hl2wV0nluX
— Canadian Army (@CanadianArmy) January 28, 2020
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead, short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
-John McCrae
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— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 29, 2020
One of these is not like the other two.
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🎃
That wouldn’t surprise me much. That said, there are so many places CT starts I’m surprised InfoWars can still compete. I guess their manly-man soy supplements which will keep you from becoming a soy boy (but might give you lead poisoning) are what keeps them afloat.
Yeah, I’d imagine that hawking snake-oil woowoo is InfoWars’ primary source of income. Like with Jeff Rense - look at his site, and you’ll see tons of embedded ads for quack products like “bio-superfoods” and “carbon-60” and “nature’s nutritional powerhouse!” and the like. I’d imagine that’s a big source of $$$.
You know how stupid your point is? You know how many Commies are in the AntiGG crowd? No GG was not mostly Nazis, Sexists or whatever other buzzwords you want to tack on
— Butters-/k/un (@CzarButters) January 28, 2020
“Liberal democracy as we’ve known it” is off the table because once the Soviets were discredited as a possibly-better model that people could emulate by force, capitalists decided that anything freedom-of-the-proletariat needed to be banned.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) January 29, 2020
I do worry that with Bernie’s rise, this is a true statement, rather than just frustration.
re: #120 Chrysicat
They had Milo leading Gamergate, along with anonymous douches on 4chan and Twitter.
re: #120 Chrysicat
Butters- /k/un is a “Senior 4chan Correspondent” according to his or her bio on Twitter.
Is that like the rank of Shitposter First Class or something?
re: #98 Dread Pirate
So today my daughter noticed the dog’s face was swollen, almost twice it’s normal size and his lips, gums, eyelid edges, whites of his eyes, were all bright red and his eyes were swelling shut. We took a trip to the Emergency Veterinary Hospital and the dog got massive doses of antacid and antihistamines and steroids. $300 poof. He’s doing much better, he had a hard time swallowing water when we got home but is now able to. He gets 75 mg of Benadryl 3 times a day and 40 mg of Pepcid twice a day for a while. I learned Pepcid helps the Benadryl work. I think he ate a wasp and got stung multiple times and even in his throat. Dogs, bro.
Our little ball of joy got spaded yesterday so she isn’t all that chipper. So far I am over $500.00 in vet bills. For such a small thing, she sure is costing me a bundle.
In other news. For you rocket launch fans.
Space X is targeting Wednesday, January 29 at 9:06 a.m. EST, or 14:06 UTC, for its fourth launch of Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Falcon 9’s first stage previously launched Crew Dragon on its first demonstration mission in March 2019 and the RADARSAT Constellation Mission in June 2019. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Approximately 45 minutes after liftoff, SpaceX’s two fairing recovery vessels, “Ms. Tree” and “Ms. Chief,” will attempt to recover the two fairing halves.
SpaceX’s live launch coverage will begin about 15 minutes before liftoff. To watch the webcast or to learn more about the mission, visit spacex.com.
Thread: The IS leadership message announcing a new phase of the group’s jihad focused on targeting Jews inside and outside Israel, coincides with the unveiling today of Trump’s deal of the century, welcomed by Israeli officials and denounced by Palestinians.
— Mina Al-Lami (@Minalami) January 28, 2020
B) Win the support of ordinary Palestinians (IS has in the past failed to establish a foothold in Palestinian territories) and the support of Muslims more broadly, and what better time to do it than now.
— Mina Al-Lami (@Minalami) January 28, 2020
First signs of blowback*.
*Originally, blowback was CIA internal coinage denoting the unintended, harmful consequences—to friendly populations and military forces—when a given weapon is used beyond its purpose as intended by the party supplying it. Examples include anti-Western religious figures (e.g. Osama bin Laden) who, in due course, attack foe and sponsor; right-wing counter-revolutionaries who sell drugs to their sponsor’s civil populace (see CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US); and banana republic juntas (see Salvadoran Civil War) who kill American reporters or nuns (e.g. Dorothy Kazel).
re: #120 Chrysicat
Once we get past the primary it will settle down. And I don’t see Bernie winning. They will make a lot of noise but in the end they will lose. And Bernie won’t win against Fat Donny from Queens (R-Imp.).
I only have 1 Question for any dumb assed BB.
Will you vote for whoever the Dem candidate is regardless of the outcome?
It’s the only question there is.
Will I vote for Bernie if he’s the candidate?
It’s a question we all have to ask ourselves as well.
And I will hold my nose and hope we survive.
re: #9 The Ghost of a Flea
Okay, missed a bunch of context: how’d you get to Easter Island? I’m envious, and want to go.
I’ve been traveling a lot since I retired — because I can, and also it’s the overcharged stock market that makes it possible for me, and I don’t expect that to last forever. This time it was a cruise from FL to Santiago with detour to Easter Island (four days to get there, four days back), and also a side trip to.the Galapagos. Home next week.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🎃
It looks like a satire site to me — take a look at their “news” page.
I searched for anything regarding Wuhan corona virus recovery.
On the one hand, if you have a mild case you might recover in one week. uh huh…suuure. No info on how many cases might be “mild”.
On the other hand, if you get full blown Wuhan corona virus you are looking at weeks of intense medical care and a long recovery.
This case is about an Indian ex-pat in China who teaches at an international school. She was admitted to hospital Jan 11 and the update is Jan 28:
Preeti is currently undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit at Shekou Hospital in Shenzhen.
suffering from coronavirus Pneumonia, Type 1 respiratory failure, Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS) and septic shock.
per doctors, Preeti’s lungs have started showing signs of recovery, though she still continues to be on life support and critical care treatments. However, she is off ECMO machine (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) and she is conscious.
The doctors have started wheelchair therapy on Monday for 60 minutes in the morning and evening. Doctors are hopeful that based on the early signs of recovery in the lungs they may be able to remove the ventilator in a week
Wow, IF you do survive, it will be after a long and expensive process. The burden on medical resources is huge. Once the available beds/equipment/doctors are engaged their will be triage and an increased % of fatalities.
re: #124 Dread Pirate
Interestingly, the definitions of blowback given there all seem to stem from GOP programs.
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re: #126 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
How big was the ship? Was the trash in the ocean as bad as I’ve heard, especially in the deep pelagic areas? Did you hit weather rough enough to make it interesting?
re: #130 Dave In Austin
How big was the ship? Was the trash in the ocean as bad as I’ve heard, especially in the deep pelagic areas? Did you hit weather rough enough to make it interesting?
Huge ship (passengers plus crew equals about 3400). Trash in the ocean ends up concentrated in particular areas — none seen on this trip. Rough seas for a couple of days in the Caribbean, but not since (mostly sunny or cloudy weather, a bit of rain). We’ve spent most of our time in the tropics or subtropics, so that’s not a surprise.
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Rick Wiles: God Has Sent the Coronavirus to “Purge a Lot of Sin Off This Planet” (goes to The Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, a religious counterapologist).
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I get all my water treatment supplies from Planned Parenthood, usually by the barrel. /s
“god” is certainly cryptic and inefficient
Looking at the Wuhan corona virus data (Mapping the Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV))from Hubei more closely:
As of Jan 22 there were 444 confirmed cases reported. (earliest data)
As of Jan 28 there were 125 dead and 80 recovered.
Assuming it takes some time to succumb, most deaths would have come from the 444 confirmed cases as of Jan 22.
re: #132 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
God will also be credited with the recoveries, should they occur.
hmm… makes me think of Trump’s MO
Falcon 9 and Starlink are looking good ahead of this morning’s launch at 9:06 a.m. EST, 14:06 UTC, and weather is 80% favorable. Webcast will go live ~15 minutes before liftoff → https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/m8tgt8JPTR
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 29, 2020
re: #9 The Ghost of a Flea
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re: #132 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
Why does god need a spaceship?
He again trump admits he hired someone he didn’t want to
Someone he didn’t think was up to the job
So how easy is he manipulated?
I only hire the best
“For a guy who couldn’t get approved for the Ambassador to the U.N. years ago, couldn’t get approved for anything since, ‘begged’ me for a non Senate approved job, which I gave him despite many saying ‘Don’t do it, sir,’ takes the job
re: #138 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
Trump hires all the best people, right until they’re disposed of because they failed the personal loyalty test. The moment anyone does something he doesn’t like, he’s done with them. He throws them under the bus.
What’s hilarious is how Fox turned on the Trump dime - from big Bolton supporters to questioning everything Bolton did and that he’s a deep state plant or more.
Heck, I’ve got people getting up in my twitter feed saying he’s bought and paid by Ukrainian oligarchs who funded the Clinton Foundation (because of course they are).
You picked the guy and now can’t way to throw him under the bus because everyone knows he’s telling the truth and you engaged in multiple felonies as part of your Ukraine caper via Parnas, Rudy, and Fruman.
But for the GOP being craven and complicit, you should be removed from WH— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 29, 2020
The bots are running on overdrive. Because of course they are.
Trump’s desperate, so that means he’s got to flood the interwebs to deflect and smear and project his criminal conduct on everyone else.
re: #140 lawhawk
The bots are running on overdrive. Because of course they are.
Trump’s desperate, so that means he’s got to flood the interwebs to deflect and smear and project his criminal conduct on everyone else.
Yeah I can see the bots. They’re the ones who always seem a little off in their phrasing.
Who is the actual national security adviser since Bolton left.
re: #141 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah I can see the bots. They’re the ones who always seem a little off in their phrasing.
As long as enough people still fail to differentiate between an Internet presence and a real person, bots will continue to be cost-effective.
Trump trying to buy Black votes.
Cash giveaways in black communities are a new tactic for Trump allies, per @SchreckReports https://t.co/lvBY0P43Yn
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 29, 2020
re: #140 lawhawk
The bots are running on overdrive. Because of course they are.
Trump’s desperate, so that means he’s got to flood the interwebs to deflect and smear and project his criminal conduct on everyone else.
I guess the GOP’s new motto is “snitches get stitches”.
re: #144 Patricia Kayden
Trump trying to buy Black votes.
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W-9s are for income id usually, to get the SSN
It’s got nothing to do with vetting a recipient as a legit charitable cause
Asked about the legality of the giveaways in a brief phone interview, the Urban Revitalization Coalition’s CEO, Darrell Scott, said that most gifts were between $300 and $500, and that the group mandates that anyone who receives over $600 fills out a W-9 form in order to ensure compliance with tax law. He did not respond to follow-up questions about how the giveaways were structured and whether they met the legal standard for a charitable act
The whine of the bots - why aren’t crimes identified in Code sections in the articles of impeachment.
Because they aren’t necessary in the articles of impeachment.
But we can point to them. We can show ‘em that the literal words of the articles of impeachment identify criminal acts and misconduct.
None of it matters to the bots. It’s all designed to deflect and dodge.
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As long as enough people still fail to differentiate between an Internet presence and a real person, bots will continue to be cost-effective.
I think people are more keen to them now. As I said, you can always tell when they’re off.
re: #146 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
W-9s are for income id usually, to get the SSN
It’s got nothing to do with vetting a recipient as a legit charitable cause
I mean over $600 sounds like theyre gonna issue 1099s.
And if they do they’re admitting the payoffs outs weren’t a qualified charitable purpose
Then it’s not charity
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🎃
They had Milo leading Gamergate, along with anonymous douches on 4chan and Twitter.
By the way where is Queen Milo?
re: #147 lawhawk
The whine of the bots - why aren’t crimes identified in Code sections in the articles of impeachment.
Because they aren’t necessary in the articles of impeachment.
But we can point to them. We can show ‘em that the literal words of the articles of impeachment identify criminal acts and misconduct.
None of it matters to the bots. It’s all designed to deflect and dodge.
he never used the words ‘quid pro quo’
Meanwhile relatives are endlessly posting “Make Hunter Biden Testify” shit on Facebook.
re: #150 Joe Bacon 🌹
By the way where is Queen Milo?
Hopefully back in England. Brexit happened. He should be happy.
re: #139 lawhawk
One of the responses suggesting Trump was playing Sun Tzu by “exposing” Bolton gave me a good morning laugh.
re: #154 jaunte
One of the responses suggesting Trump was playing Sun Tzu by “exposing” Bolton gave me a good morning laugh.
They misspelled Stalin.
We’re all trying to persuade the GOP to leave its abusive spouse, but they won’t. “But he’s good to me … sometimes.”
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) January 29, 2020
re: #156 jaunte
We’re all trying to persuade the GOP to leave its abusive spouse, but they won’t. “But he’s good to me … sometimes.”
“He will take my obnoxious, bratty kids with him!”
Kushner tells Sky News Arabia he has read 25 books on the Israel-Palestine conflict
— Abbas Al Lawati (@allawati) January 29, 2020
I’ve read science fiction for almost sixty years and I still can’t teleport.
Webcast is now live for this mornings launch.
Who in this thrice-benighted confederation talked to #MrMorden and when did they do it?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) January 29, 2020
So, basically you have shitty judgement?
You keep picking such unqualified losers, right?#Sessions#Coats#Tillerson #Acosta #Nielsen#Pruitt#McMaster#Mattis#Price#Cohen#McCabe#Priebus #Gorka#Scaramucci#Bannon#Porter#Zinke#Shine
More firings than the Apprentice https://t.co/9xX0Q34MPX— The Mike Malloy Show (@MikeMalloyShow) January 29, 2020
re: #156 jaunte
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Why he even got them beautiful federal judges, this Christmas give your Republican Senator the gift that cares with handpicked right wing judges. Every kiss begins with Kavanaugh errr Kay.
re: #134 Ming5000
God will also be credited with the recoveries, should they occur.
hmm… makes me think of Trump’s MO
That’s why Trump acts that way. He wants the worship and “faith” and thus he gets *all* the credit when things go well, and none of the blame when things go bad - since bad things are him punishing others who deserved it and “sorry about the collateral damage, it builds character.”
re: #160 jaunte
Is inherited money a damper on intelligence?
not necessarily so, but it removes a lot of incentive to work hard to get ahead…
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Everyone told me I could do anything.”
re: #164 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
That’s why Trump acts that way. He wants the worship and “faith” and thus he gets *all* the credit when things go well, and none of the blame when things go bad - since bad things are him punishing others who deserved it and “sorry about the collateral damage, it builds character.”
Just a headache, nothing too serious…
re: #158 jaunte
So this barely makes him qualified to start the literature review of a Masters degree dissertation. https://t.co/xwctsnKbkS
— Stephanie Carvin (@StephanieCarvin) January 29, 2020
Remember Republicans, Trump directed all of the witnesses who were subpoenaed not to show up and then claimed he was kept out of the process. Republicans are free to call witnesses at any time, they have the majority… https://t.co/KREO74osLe
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) January 29, 2020
T -1
re: #170 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Unfortunately his dissertation adviser has only read what people on FNC have said about the Middle East. Joking aside. Oh, Jared’s read 25 books about the Middle East. I took a whole class on Middle Eastern history in college among other places. That wasn’t enough to get an entry level job with the State Department. Jared is only here because of who his wife is. And it would be nice if the media just said it. We all know it’s true. Yeah I can actually buy that Jared has read about the ME. That doesn’t qualify him.
re: #171 Patricia Kayden
They know that if they did their Biden stunt that it would backfire on them. They’re trying to do the same shit to Biden that they did Clinton. That idiot Ernst more or less admitted it.
re: #170 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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What is a bit curious about this (on second thought, maybe not) is given that how the Trumps appear to be heavily in the pockets of the Saudi Arabians why they are unilaterally tossing out a “take it or leave it” deal that runs entirely in Israel’s favor and not taking Palestinian concerns into account or even consulting them.
My second thoughts is that this is another iteration of the Arab world throwing the Palestinians under the bus as a convenient victim in pursuit of their own anti-Israel policies. Saudi Arabia is not hurt much, if at all, by Israel doing things here. But this will keep the Palestinian Authority riled up, possibly rile up Jordan enough to mess up their truce/peace with Israel, and be steps towards ratcheting up the tensions in the Middle East.
re: #119 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, I’d imagine that hawking snake-oil woowoo is InfoWars’ primary source of income. Like with Jeff Rense - look at his site, and you’ll see tons of embedded ads for quack products like “bio-superfoods” and “carbon-60” and “nature’s nutritional powerhouse!” and the like. I’d imagine that’s a big source of $$$.
Mona-Vie!
re: #170 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I read far more than 25 books to get my master’s degree in political science specializing on the Arab-Israeli peace process. My thesis cited everyone from Kenneth Waltz and Kissinger to Schlessinger and interviews with Shimon Peres.
Reading a few books doesn’t qualify you as an expert on ME politics. Putting together a map doesn’t qualify you either. Maps are the easiest thing to do - there are 100s of potential variations on how a 2-state solution could be drawn.
The problem is everything else - the political will to accept a 2-state solution, addressing right of return, status of Jerusalem, and all the other sticky bits that Trump couldn’t give a shit about.
Kushner is a babe in the woods and when Kushner speaks, you can see MBS’ hand moving.
Successful landing of the booster on the drone ship.
A dog owner is using a Super Bowl ad to thank the vet school that saved his pet’s life https://t.co/at6vNIwq31
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 28, 2020
re: #178 lawhawk
I read far more than 25 books to get my master’s degree in political science specializing on the Arab-Israeli peace process. My thesis cited everyone from Kenneth Waltz and Kissinger to Schlessinger and interviews with Shimon Peres.
It is 25 more books than his father-in-law ever read and probably more books on politics that his supporters have ever read, combined.
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is 25 more books than his father-in-law ever read and probably more books on politics that his supporters have ever read, combined.
Low bar. We know that. And honestly I wonder which 25 books and how many of them were written by self fancied “ Islam experts.” The same people that “deduced” Obama was a Muslim by “common sense.”
re: #171 Patricia Kayden
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This parts just a lie
“Witnesses are up to the House, not up to the Senate. “
Then why is the Senate considering calling witnesses?
re: #182 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’ll probably be all the ones that claim that Israel should impose a peace unilaterally and not do anything else. Kahanists who’d openly push for ethnic cleansing to rid the West Bank of the Palestinian presence, etc.
re: #176 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
What is a bit curious about this (on second thought, maybe not) is given that how the Trumps appear to be heavily in the pockets of the Saudi Arabians why they are unilaterally tossing out a “take it or leave it” deal that runs entirely in Israel’s favor and not taking Palestinian concerns into account or even consulting them.
My second thoughts is that this is another iteration of the Arab world throwing the Palestinians under the bus as a convenient victim in pursuit of their own anti-Israel policies. Saudi Arabia is not hurt much, if at all, by Israel doing things here. But this will keep the Palestinian Authority riled up, possibly rile up Jordan enough to mess up their truce/peace with Israel, and be steps towards ratcheting up the tensions in the Middle East.
They used a “let’s build a resort here ” template document
re: #185 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
It’s a resort development proposal surrounded by a map.
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is 25 more books than his father-in-law ever read and probably more books on politics that his supporters have ever read, combined.
As an adult, and in this context, it’s just a damned boneheadedly stupid thing to say
re: #185 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
They used a “let’s build a resort here ” template document
I said all along that we’ll see the Trump Gaza Plaza breaking ground…
re: #173 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Unfortunately his dissertation adviser has only read what people on FNC have said about the Middle East. Joking aside. Oh, Jared’s read 25 books about the Middle East. I took a whole class on Middle Eastern history in college among other places. That wasn’t enough to get an entry level job with the State Department. Jared is only here because of who his wife is. And it would be nice if the media just said it. We all know it’s true. Yeah I can actually buy that Jared has read about the ME. That doesn’t qualify him.
Years and years ago, I read a section in the Bluejacket’s Manual on how to perform an emergency field appendectomy.
Doesn’t mean I’d even think of actually trying it.
re: #152 Joe Bacon 🌹
Meanwhile relatives are endlessly posting “Make Hunter Biden Testify” shit on Facebook.
Warren was on NPR this morning and was repeatedly asked about Hunter testifying as an exchange. She made is clear that it would be nothing but theater and distraction and provide nothing towards the actual trial.
re: #160 jaunte
Is inherited money a damper on intelligence?
No, but it can hamper ones ability to use that intelligence (Malibu Ken doesn’t have any, but some do) because there is a belief that money makes right so you don’t need to think.
re: #190 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Bidens are not fact witnesses to Trump criminal conduct.
They were the focus of Trump’s criminal conduct. They would be the distraction and deflection from Trump’s criminal conduct because the GOP would attempt to smear both and try to hobble Biden’s run as Sen. Ernst already admitted was the entire purpose of this charade.
re: #170 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Masters Thesis; Ph.D. is a dissertation.
Got another vet bill/pet issues anecdote for the pile.
Chat Noir was acting “cat sick” just over a week ago. Sour breath smell, losing weight, and just not being himself. So I took him in to the vet.
The sour breath smell is apparently an indication of kidney issues. He was somewhat dehydrated, some blood in the urine sample, but otherwise vital organs appeared to be working. He got some subcutaneous fluids there in the office, an antibiotic shot, and I was sent home with an appetite stimulant for him, an IV saline bag and needles to do daily subcutaneous fluids on him (100-150ml). The next day the blood work came back and I went and picked up a phosphate-fixing powder to give him twice a day mixed into wet food. All together about $400 for lab work, etc.
He responded pretty well to things. Was heartily eating within a day and was acting much more like himself. Doesn’t like getting fluids, but puts up with it. And he had a vet visit yesterday as a followup. Weight is up a pound, sour breath smell almost gone, and everything else is going pretty well. Keeping him on fluids and the powder for another two weeks and then he will go in for blood work again to see what his kidney numbers have stabilized at. (Hopefully back close to where they were before, he has above normal numbers, but not anything really hazardous.)
re: #186 jaunte
It’s a resort development proposal surrounded by a map.
And how much security surrounding the resort?
re: #192 lawhawk
Bidens are not fact witnesses to Trump criminal conduct.
They were the focus of Trump’s criminal conduct. They would be the distraction and deflection from Trump’s criminal conduct because the GOP would attempt to smear both and try to hobble Biden’s run as Sen. Ernst already admitted was the entire purpose of this charade.
re: #190 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Warren was on NPR this morning and was repeatedly asked about Hunter testifying as an exchange. She made is clear that it would be nothing but theater and distraction and provide nothing towards the actual trial.
It would be like Jody foster testifying at mark David Chapman’s trial
Make America Garbage Again https://t.co/MsuEQKZnGB
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 29, 2020
re: #197 jaunte
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To be fair, ins’t that what Wildwood usually looks like after a usual Saturday night in-season?
re: #198 Jay C
To be fair, ins’t that what Wildwood usually looks like after a usual Saturday night in-season?
That looks like what is generally left over from most any public event…
re: #198 Jay C
People actually leaving their chairs behind.
I don’t know how most rally aftermaths look but I have seen countless times on FNC and right wing media snickers about how left wing protesters are dirty and right wing protesters are clean so I’m fine with giving the hypocrites a taste of their own medicine.
This is a preview of the cleanup job after the Rapture.
re: #203 jaunte
This is a preview of the cleanup job after the Rapture.
Donald Trump III will be creating Rapture hotels in the year 2070. //
“Go back to your s—-hole countries !!!! Hi, how are you?” Dan Schultz of Maryland at Trump Rally scene on Boardwalk in Wildwood. pic.twitter.com/u01hy8eSX5
— Amy S. Rosenberg (@amysrosenberg) January 28, 2020
re: #206 jaunte
Mar Al Lago?
I target the GOP not because they are conservative, or white, or Christian, or whatever, but because they are criminals who abuse human rights to increase their wealth and power. That is something autocratic parties across the ideological spectrum do.
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) January 29, 2020
A five-star interview by @HeidiNBC. Watch in full. Pay close attention to Rep. Stefanik: she obviously is so ticked off by Heidi’s refusal to go along w the twisted, BS #GOP *narrative* that she looks about ready to fight Heidi! https://t.co/3K7U9xLyRv
— Amy Alexander (@AmyAlex63) January 29, 2020
Watch these assholes bluster and blame the reporter to avoid answering questions.
re: #210 jaunte
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Someone in the comments made the point that ‘now that Netanyahu has been indicted for corruption the Trump administration should be ready to withhold aid until Israel cleans house, right?’
Actually, I agree, in fact I think the Senate should call every single American whose work in Ukraine the president spent a year secretly investigating as part of his lifelong fight against corruption. What’s that? The only person in the WORLD he investigated was Joe Biden’s son? https://t.co/Cz7nDHhW5g
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 29, 2020
re: #212 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
It’s absurd.
Will they be issued space blankets? pic.twitter.com/IP7qzYGxXJ
— 𝘞𝘉 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) January 29, 2020
LevWatch:
We’re headed to Washington DC, to watch the historic Senate trial & show our support for a fair proceeding, with witnesses & evidence. Lev Parnas will be joining us, as we walk to the Capitol. #StephanieSchuman @LeafLegal #JosephBondy @josephabondy #LetLevSpeak #CallTheWitnesses pic.twitter.com/7QTFH4ABop
— Joseph A. Bondy (@josephabondy) January 29, 2020
re: #210 jaunte
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this is what ive been asking for days
what happened in those 55 days with respect to the bidens that changed the president’s mind to release the aid?
they didnt ‘investigate’ in those 55 days and ‘clear’ the bidens or any concerns, making the release ok. proof - they still say he’s corrupt and want him to testify
the answer is: nothing. nothing changed.
they released the money anyway.
if they believed biden was somehow in fact corrupt and so the money needed to be withheld in the first place, they still released the money. why? i mean aside from they got caught.
re: #216 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
*Obfuscates until everyone gets tired and tunes out*
Fox News story:
Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Doug Jones of Alabama are undecided on whether to vote to remove the president from office and agonizing over where to land. It’s a decision that could have major ramifications for each senator’s legacy and political prospects — as well shape the broader political dynamic surrounding impeachment heading into the 2020 election.
Fox News headline:
TRIO OF DEM SENATORS CONSIDERING VOTE TO ACQUIT TRUMP
Kushner:
No one has every put together a detailed plan and map the way I did.
Bulkshit on a stick.
Oslo was far more comprehensive, setting up a path to a negotiated settlement. What Kushner and Trump have done is promote a DOA plan that doesn’t do anything except stick a fork in Oslo and any peace process because the US is no longer playing mediator/broker, but rather gone all in for Bibi.
re: #158 jaunte
Kushner tells Sky News Arabia he has read 25 books on the Israel-Palestine conflict
How many Palestinians did he talk with?
re: #27 Dread Pirate
Record 7,423 US bombs dropped in Afghanistan in 2019; at least 717 civilians killed in the first half of last year
Seven thousand bombs dropped in a year and only seven hundred civilians dead in the first six months, pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
re: #221 I Would Prefer Not To
None. No Palestinians were consulted in any of this.
re: #160 jaunte
Is inherited money a damper on intelligence?
There’s some actual evidence that it is. Generational decay is one of the big, though seldom mentioned, concerns of the REAL Republican Base, the privileged but perpetually threatened hinterland gentry. Everyone knows the local fatcat whose children couldn’t find their asses with both hands, who would squander their inheritance on drugs or stupid investments if they had the chance. This is the result of bad reproductive choices in a notably patriarchal demographic (“marrying for tits”) and worse child-rearing practices, both of which are deeply embedded in the culture. Combined with general social progress, this reduces the long-time heart of the Republican Party to abject desperation. Trump and his regime of lies and grift are the result. No matter how awful he is, they hope, or believe, or desperately assume that he can save them from the doom they really see as all but inevitable. It’s all they have and they are betting the ranch on it, literally so in the case of some of my neighbors.
re: #223 lawhawk
None. No Palestinians were consulted in any of this.
To be fair, the Palestinians refused to participate in talks after the US Embassy moved to Jerusalem
re: #82 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The GOP really will do anything that makes voting harder for anyone not in their base. But yeah this isn’t new in Arizona. The GOP also knows that Arizona could easily be lost for then after Sinema beat McSally and now Kelly outpolling and winning the fundraising game.
North Dakota got away with a law designed to hurt Heidi Heitkamp and suppress Native American voting. There is no doubt that the Federalist Society reactionaries who reign in the SC will do anything to preserve GOP power and will overturn this decision.
re: #220 lawhawk
A plan that refuses to even include anything at all from one of the combatants or give them say in the process is not a peace plan.
This is a land theft plan.
A quick thread summarizing the basic aspects of the Trump anti-peace plan:1) Palestinians get the trappings of statehood but no state whatsoever2) Israel will maintain all security control, including over coastal waters, airspace, electromagnetic spectrum and everything.
— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) January 28, 2020
3) Palestinians must recognize Israel as a “Jewish state” without any definition of what that means legally or practically4) Israel will annex all settlements, the Jordan Valley and other areas in perpetuity, Palestinians there not entitled to Israeli citizenship nonetheless
5) Israel will have extraterritorial jurisdiction over all Jewish Israelis in the “Palestinian state” who will remain citizens of Israel and subject only to Israeli jurisdiction in all things, including zoning and planning.
A quick thread summarizing the basic aspects of the Trump anti-peace plan:
1) Palestinians get the trappings of statehood but no state whatsoever
2) Israel will maintain all security control, including over coastal waters, airspace, electromagnetic spectrum and everything.— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) January 28, 2020
3) Palestinians must recognize Israel as a “Jewish state” without any definition of what that means legally or practically
4) Israel will annex all settlements, the Jordan Valley and other areas in perpetuity, Palestinians there not entitled to Israeli citizenship nonetheless— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) January 28, 2020
5) Israel will have extraterritorial jurisdiction over all Jewish Israelis in the “Palestinian state” who will remain citizens of Israel and subject only to Israeli jurisdiction in all things, including zoning and planning.
— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) January 28, 2020
6) It’s not clear, but it looks like Palestinians in the small triangle of land transferred by Israel will probably lose their Israeli citizenship as well
— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) January 28, 2020
7) the Palestinian “state” will be demilitarized, and unable to enter into agreements with other states or join multilateral institutions without Israeli permission
8) Israel can even veto the entry of Palestinian refugees into the Palestinian state— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) January 28, 2020
9) Palestinian refugee status will cease to exist and UNRWA will be disbanded
10) Palestinians can only have this limited, compromised autonomy if they meet a series of complex hurdles to the satisfaction of Israel— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) January 28, 2020
11) The Palestinian state mainly exists to enforce counterterrorism
Those are the main points that jumped out at me on first scan. I recommend Appendix 2C as particularly ludicrous and insulting to the intelligence.— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) January 28, 2020
This proposal gives the most extreme Israelis – except those who want to completely annex all of the occupied territories rather than just maintain de facto control over them – everything they could have ever wanted. It gives the Palestinians virtually nothing of political value.
— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) January 28, 2020
So the PA would have no control over anything at all. Not the citizens, not their defense, not even their TV and radio, nor who would be allowed in , not what international organizations they could join, nations they could deal with , trade…nothing.
This come very close to feudalism. They are relegated to a type of serfdom where they are permanently tied to a plot of ground that they cannot leave without permission; they can only do commerce with permission, and have no say in the government that controls every aspect of their existence.
re: #225 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
To be fair, the Palestinians refused to participate in talks after the US Embassy moved to Jerusalem
That was meant to provoke them in the first place.
re: #53 Mattand
One of the few MAGAts left on my FB feed actually refers to Dershowitz as a liberal. Very interesting window into how the Trumpers process reality.
Dershowitz always claims to be a “liberal”. I suspect he means he’s liberal in what he allows himself to do. While wearing underwear, of course.
re: #209 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
Is trump above the law?
Currently, it appears to be “yes” when the law is being enforced by the legislature.
re: #224 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
And being raised in privilege often doesn’t prepare you for facing adversity when it appears, or dealing with someone who you can’t simply buy off or demand that you accede to your side of the disagreement.
The good parenting side of it is also in the “you don’t get the goodies until you’ve learned a thing or two” approach where the offspring are put into the company at an entry-level position to learn the ropes first-hand, or being told they are not guaranteed a seat on the board at all.*
* - In one company I worked for the controlling family self-limited themselves to *one* family member on said board. And they were selected on merit in addition to having worked for the company at entry-level or low-level management before consideration for higher posts.
re: #226 Hecuba’s daughter
North Dakota got away with a law designed to hurt Heidi Heitkamp and suppress Native American voting. There is no doubt that the Federalist Society reactionaries who reign in the SC will do anything to preserve GOP power and will overturn this decision.
Why yes, that’s why the idiotic purer than thou need to look at why every election matters. We have a majority in Richmond here today precisely because we focused on building from the ground up.
re: #223 lawhawk
None. No Palestinians were consulted in any of this.
Only in trump world is reading 25 books an accomplishment.
Nice. @realDonaldTrump, you might want to withdraw the veto threat your administration issued just two days ago against this legislation. https://t.co/yRosJBY6ZR
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) January 29, 2020
re: #232 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
* - In one company I worked for the controlling family self-limited themselves to *one* family member on said board. And they were selected on merit in addition to having worked for the company at entry-level or low-level management before consideration for higher posts.
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re: #234 I Would Prefer Not To
Only in trump world is reading 25 books an accomplishment.
did he say ‘read’ or ‘took out of the library’?
BREAKING: These sheet cakes are being delivered to all GOP Senators tomorrow.#ImpeachmentCakes #JohnBoltonMustTestify pic.twitter.com/4PqPb8gTQM
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 29, 2020
New Quinnipiac poll:
Registered voters say 75–20% that witnesses should be allowed to testify in the impeachment trial
Support for witness testimony includes 49% of Republicans, 95% of Democrats, and 75% of independents.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 28, 2020
Oh, what a corner McConnell has painted himself into…
re: #239 makeitstop
Oh, what a corner McConnell has painted himself into…
Maybe it’s time to acknowledge this. Mitch may not be as clever as we thought.
these people are stupid AND think that everyone else is stupid.
Jared Kushner on Fox “Past proposals have been 2 to 3 pages — this is an over 80-page proposal with a map. Never been done before.”
WITH A MAP
back to work.
FUCK TRUMP
Magnitude 5.1 earthquake
Affected countries: The Bahamas, Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba
80 miles from Montego Bay, Jamaica * 9:53 AM
re: #93 Dread Pirate
total number of confirmed infection increased to 5,974, with 1,239 in critical condition, 132 dead and 103 recovered.
20% of the patients are critical, that’s diluted by the number of new infections, extrapolate that back to early patients (from 2 days ago number of infected) and it could be way over 50%.
Those figures suggest a much more dire threat than the reports elsewhere that did not provide that level of detail. Of course, everything depends on the actual number of people originally infected — and as yet there is no way to gauge that number. People with mild symptoms would not be heading to the doctor. Certainly possible that under 1918 medical technology, this would prove as deadly as the 1918 pandemic but with modern technology, the fatalities will be far lower. Or this will turn out not to be as dangerous as initially thought. The official Chinese reaction suggests that they are very concerned and that should be enough to make us all concerned.
re: #237 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
did he say ‘read’ or ‘took out of the library’?
Nah, he just got the Cole’s notes versions and went with it.
Trump begins to thank senators in attendance for the USMCA signing, then says, in a reference to the impeachment trial, “Maybe I’m being just nice to them because I want their vote. Does that make sense?”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2020
re: #245 lawhawk
“Am I a blackmailer? Yeah probably but I need their votes, do I ever make any goddamn sense?”
re: #237 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
did he say ‘read’ or ‘took out of the library’?
Donald Trump has “written” more books than he has ever read…
re: #239 makeitstop
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Oh, what a corner McConnell has painted himself into…
Yeah, but it’s Mitch McConnell: he’ll just walk out the corner and wipe his shoes on anyone who complains (or the nearest reporter) - since when has public opinion, in general, ever mattered shit to this guy?
The only way I can see Sen. McTurtle allowing witnesses in the Senate trial at this point is if he thinks he can manipulate the process to bolster Trump’s “case”; i.e. get Hunter (or Joe) Biden in to be insulted and accused on TV, or whatever: since there really is no “defense” for Trump’s actions, little/nothing they can do at this point - other than deflect, obfuscate, bullshit, lie and insult can help.
Presented without comment.
— John Barron’s Ghost (@BarronGhost) January 29, 2020
Colleague Jason Donner rpts Parnas is now picking up his tickets for the trial from Schumer’s office. But unclear how Parnas will be allowed to enter the chamber since electronic devices are prohibited & he is wearing a court-ordered GPS tracker
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 29, 2020
re: #178 lawhawk
I read far more than 25 books to get my master’s degree in political science specializing on the Arab-Israeli peace process. My thesis cited everyone from Kenneth Waltz and Kissinger to Schlessinger and interviews with Shimon Peres.
Reading a few books doesn’t qualify you as an expert on ME politics. Putting together a map doesn’t qualify you either. Maps are the easiest thing to do - there are 100s of potential variations on how a 2-state solution could be drawn.
The problem is everything else - the political will to accept a 2-state solution, addressing right of return, status of Jerusalem, and all the other sticky bits that Trump couldn’t give a shit about.
Kushner is a babe in the woods and when Kushner speaks, you can see MBS’ hand moving.
As a reminder, MBS and the Arabs of other nations (except, perhaps, for Jordan) don’t care about the Palestinians. They are considered a nuisance. Trump certainly doesn’t care about them — but then he doesn’t care about anyone other than himself. Unfortunately, the Palestinians have also lacked the leadership that would get them a state. At Camp David in 2000, Arafat had a chance to bring a real peace settlement to his people but he was too afraid that the same fate would befall him as Rabin and Sadat and others, and so the process failed.
Maybe, if Democrats win the WH in 2020, there will be a new opportunity to address this conflict. If the GOP wins, we will face a 1000 years of darkness.
re: #251 Hecuba’s daughter
I’ve little doubt that most anti Israeli provacateurs don’t give two shits about Palestinians.
As well, I doubt most American right wingers actually give a shit about Israelis. They care about Israel the nation state as far as end times prophecy goes but anti-Semitism has a much comfier home in the right than the left.
Since ppl are threatening you on DM, I figured I’d DM my own threat…to have a great day. With Olde Ocelot. And some smiles.
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) January 29, 2020
I’m still hating on Jared.
Ivanka has a new line of candles coming out that smell like Jared Kushner’s vagina. @IvankaTrump https://t.co/ppwTHqVII9
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) January 28, 2020
now I’m really getting back to work.
re: #248 Jay C
Yeah, but it’s Mitch McConnell: he’ll just walk out the corner and wipe his shoes on anyone who complains (or the nearest reporter) - since when has public opinion, in general, ever mattered shit to this guy?
The only way I can see Sen. McTurtle allowing witnesses in the Senate trial at this point is if he thinks he can manipulate the process to bolster Trump’s “case”; i.e. get Hunter (or Joe) Biden in to be insulted and accused on TV, or whatever: since there really is no “defense” for Trump’s actions, little/nothing they can do at this point - other than deflect, obfuscate, bullshit, lie and insult can help.
McConnell has been historically pretty bad far as approval, hasn’t he? And yet he still persists and still wins because even if the shit he pushes, promotes, and muscles through is about as popular as he is, he’s still a Republican leader, and Republicans never pay any actual consequences. Too much of the country simply cannot suffer liberals, Dems, “the other” to live and thus will crawl on hands and knees over barbed wire and napalm to spite us, thus McConnell can do almost anything with impunity and the GOP will never suffer for it.
IOW, I’ll believe he’ll pay a price when I see it and not a moment before.
re: #252 BigPapa
I’ve little doubt that most anti Israeli provacateurs don’t give two shits about Palestinians.
As well, I doubt most American right wingers actually give a shit about Israelis. They care about Israel the nation state as far as end times prophecy goes but anti-Semitism has a much comfier home in the right than the left.
Both are proxies in something dangerous and it’s why I hate that Bibi panders to American Christian fundamentalists who have no real interest in Israel’s long term security other than to be the place for the rapture and you’re right about alot of Anti-Israeli and “Anti-Zionist” activists too. The only way this gets solved is a two state solution where leaders of both Israel and Palestine operate in good faith and I haven’t trusted Bibi to do that since he showed more respect to Glenn Beck than Obama and Abbas and Hamas on the Palestinian side never really fill me with confidence either.
re: #251 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe, if Democrats win the WH in 2020, there will be a new opportunity to address this conflict. If the GOP wins, we will face a 1000 years of darkness.
If Trump gets elected, the damage could be irreversible and in the best possible scenario, take decades to recover from…
re: #240 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Maybe it’s time to acknowledge this. Mitch may not be as clever as we thought.
facts and sunshine can upend the best of cover ups
re: #240 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Maybe it’s time to acknowledge this. Mitch may not be as clever as we thought.
As long as he controls the votes and the Senate process, that is all that matters to him.
re: #258 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
facts and sunshine can upend the best of cover ups
I just choose not to despair because I think this is a completely different blal game than 2020. But yes as more facts come out, the more Mitch is on the defensive. Hate to say it but Mitch was able to dominate the 2016 questoin about the SCOTUS vacancy.
re: #250 lawhawk
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really? can he tweet on it?
hearing aids and pacemakers are ‘electronic devices’
re: #255 Citizen K
McConnell has been historically pretty bad far as approval, hasn’t he? And yet he still persists and still wins because even if the shit he pushes, promotes, and muscles through is about as popular as he is, he’s still a Republican leader, and Republicans never pay any actual consequences. Too much of the country simply cannot suffer liberals, Dems, “the other” to live and thus will crawl on hands and knees over barbed wire and napalm to spite us, thus McConnell can do almost anything with impunity and the GOP will never suffer for it.
IOW, I’ll believe he’ll pay a price when I see it and not a moment before.
they hate him while he brings home the bacon
as long as i get mine….
Trump used to stalk the lobby of his Tower, looking for school trips that would stop by-he would hit Starbucks and Asprey a lot. His big line when he saw a pretty teenager: ‘Wow, you should be a model, have you thought about modeling, I have an agency you know.” @realDonaldTrump
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) January 29, 2020
I was a teen model, I got many warnings to stay away from the trump agency, they said it was really an escort service for his rich friends.
— Abby S. Pumpkins (@MissAbbyNormal) January 29, 2020
re: #262 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
they hate him while he brings home the bacon
as long as i get mine….
The people who hate big government but then embrace it when it suits their interests.
re: #263 Scottish Dragon
I can totally believe that. Trump’s always been a creep.
re: #260 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I just choose not to despair because I think this is a completely different blal game than 2020. But yes as more facts come out, the more Mitch is on the defensive. Hate to say it but Mitch was able to dominate the 2016 questoin about the SCOTUS vacancy.
everybody knows the truth
everybody
the vote to not convict wont change that
everybody knows
Like most of you, I have received many calls (even this morning!) on how my extended car warranty is expiring or how my credit card can be exchanged for one with lower interest rates etc. But yesterday, it was a first!! “Call me Raj” actually called me!! A personal call and I don’t even live in his district! When I questioned why he needed funds for the primary, he explained that there were several candidates attacking him from the left. Maybe Joe Crowley’s fate has scared others.
re: #264 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The people who hate big government but then embrace it when it suits their interests.
selfishism
what really separates the r’s from the d’s
re: #268 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
selfishism
what really separates the r’s from the d’s
Republican policy really is just a bunch of sugar highs. Watch if a Democrat wins the Presidency, they suddenly become concerned about the debt again even though the Trump Administration has flat out said they don’t care about debts. And Trump isn’t the first high profile Republican in the exec branch to say this. Cheney did. I don’t know how important the debt really is but I do know this, Republicans are always selectively outraged about it. It’s a time honored scam.
Trump didn’t ask DOJ to formally request law enforcement cooperation. Nor could he have in the absence of a criminal predicate and on basis of a debunked conspiracy theory his own staff rejects. Instead he asked for a personal “favor” in the form of violating a citizen’s rights.
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) January 29, 2020
re: #271 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
He really is at his core an autocrat who thinks he’s above the law. This is fake though per Snopes.
re: #271 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
refresh 271, do not retweet
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re: #274 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
refresh 271, do not retweet
snopes.com
And this is exactly why I only do politics on LGF, we’re willing to fact check stuff. So thanks FDD.
re: #271 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Debunked it on a friend’s site about 15 minutes ago. Seems to be circulating today.
re: #276 Hecuba’s daughter
Debunked it on a friend’s site about 15 minutes ago. Seems to be circulating today.
Unforunately a lot of us fall for fake stuff too or repost stuff that happened a year ago. I’ve had to tell people and stress to them that I agree with what they’re saying that they’re posting something from two or even three years ago. Trump’s quote about how Article ! lets hi mdo whatever he wants is bad enough.
re: #254 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m still hating on Jared.
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now I’m really getting back to work.
Ha, I was just about to post “Jared is such a queef” when I saw this.
And Finland has its first case, it wouldn’t surprise me if the other Nordics follow soon :(
Finland’s first coronavirus case confirmed in Laplandhttps://t.co/JEZPy3BYKE
— Yle News (@ylenews) January 29, 2020
re: #280 Teukka
And Finland has its first case, it wouldn’t surprise me if the other Nordics follow soon :(
The whole world is going nuts. It’s almostl ike it’s everything the end times assholes have ever wanted. An unstable US President, a possible pandemic, rising tensions in hot spots, etc.
I bet they are going to come up with some absurd theory to retroactively classify Bolton’s conversations with the president and use those to try and block both the book publication and testimony. https://t.co/WQ3e0GIrCq
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 29, 2020
Trumpworld now in process of retconning everything related to Bolton, and Fox will dutifully do the same like the agitprop outlet it is.
re: #281 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The whole world is going nuts. It’s almostl ike it’s everything the end times assholes have ever wanted. An unstable US President, a possible pandemic, rising tensions in hot spots, etc.
Only, it isn’t the end times they’re hoping for, just a major bump in the road for humanity. I worry how they’ll react when that dawns on that part of the religio-political spectrum.
Me and the misses communicate to our 3 year old only in Facebook memes and he’s recently been elected GOP chairman of our local town committee here in Elbow Fat, Alabama.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 29, 2020
re: #284 gocart mozart
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I learned the Swedish language in a different way from other kids. For a bit, other kids would become scared because I “talked like a grownup”…
re: #283 Teukka
Only, it isn’t the end times they’re hoping for, just a major bump in the road for humanity. I worry how they’ll react when that dawns on that part of the religio-political spectrum.
Oh yeah it’s more like 1914. The crises are of our own making not some vengeful God punishing us.
re: #265 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I can totally believe that. Trump’s always been a creep.
Veronica Mars 2006.
re: #282 lawhawk
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Trumpworld now in process of retconning everything related to Bolton, and Fox will dutifully do the same like the agitprop outlet it is.
no matter how the impeachment in general, and the events of this week unfold, bolton and the publisher planned for this from the start
if trump doesnt find out till publication - ie even if the book hadnt leaked, those doing the vetting totally kept it from reaching the prez at all.
not likely, cause they’d be hung after it went public.
re: #283 Teukka
Only, it isn’t the end times they’re hoping for, just a major bump in the road for humanity. I worry how they’ll react when that dawns on that part of the religio-political spectrum.
they move the end times date forward
re: #287 BeachDem
Veronica Mars 2006.
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As I’ve said, the people who knew him best- New Yorkers knew he was a creep. The peopel who don’t know him- people in the middle of the country fell for his game the most. Now I feel bad because his policies do hurt them but at some point you have to stop watching FNC which is full of those so called elitists they claim to hate and realize that the man is nothing more than a bullshit artist.
re: #272 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He really is at his core an autocrat who thinks he’s above the law. This is fake though per Snopes.
Yeah, grammar was too good. Cheeto would never say something like “capitulate” right off the top of his head.
re: #284 gocart mozart
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what self possessed bozonity feels the need to share this kind of twaddle publicly?
re: #289 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
they move the end times date forward
I meant as in shit getting enough real for them to believe that it is the end times, but as JC and the Sonshine band pulls a no-show, they believe they missed the Rapture Express world tour…
re: #288 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
not likely, cause they’d be hung after it went public.
Hanged.
re: #291 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Yeah, grammar was too good. Cheeto would never say something like “capitulate” right off the top of his head.
Yeah that’s always a good first clue. If he sounds somewhat articulate in his twitter rants, it’s not him. He does sometimes sound somewhat normal but that’s when someone else is tweeting for him when something happens that he has to look like he’s presidenting.
re: #294 Teukka
I meant as in shit getting enough real for them to believe that it is the end times, but as JC and the Sonshine band pulls a no-show, they believe they missed the Rapture Express world tour…
if they dont get raptured away, their only out is ‘it was just a fake, meant to tempt us’
So, got done watching the first episode of Star Trek: Picard and I gotta say, it’s a strong start to the series. I hope they can maintain that throughout the series run. Nice to see Patrick Stewart back as Jean-Luc and it’s different than your typical Star Trek series, which is appreciated, at least by me.
re: #298 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
i did it on porpoise
how about hung on a pike?
Hoist on your own petard…
re: #299 Dr Lizardo
So, got done watching the first episode of Star Trek: Picard and I gotta say, it’s a strong start to the series. I hope they can maintain that throughout the series run. Nice to see Patrick Steward back as Jean-Luc and it’s different than your typical Star Trek series, which is appreciated, at least by me.
Started on October Faction last night. Interesting, although the HS kids are far too sophisticated for real teenagers.
re: #293 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
The mockery is hilarious.
Someone climb in trump’s ass and wake Lindsey Graham up. He’s gonna want to hear this. https://t.co/BxZXEv5crt
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 29, 2020
re: #282 lawhawk
i know this isnt gonna happen..
ok, we wont ‘publish’ it, but oops, the whole thing just leaked in its entirety
somone musta pressed the wrong button - you know the same way that perfect call ‘transcript’ wound up by accident on the super secret server
re: #303 goddamnedfrank
Wonder what it could be.
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cnat find it now
i read this morning there were letters written to lindsey
re: #306 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
cnat find it now
i read this morning there were letters written to lindsey
Yeah that’s what I just saw in Adam’s feed. Something to do with Giuliani and reform efforts in Ukraine.
re: #15 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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this is apparently going viral.
and as usual for all the wrong reasons, rick
You are one miserable SOB @SenRickScott. Held hostage? No, held hostage is what happened to my daughter when she could not escape the killer in her school. You remember that, don’t you? You are not held hostage. You are doing your job. If you do not like your job, resign. https://t.co/KhqAH4htB6
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) January 29, 2020
re: #308 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
this is apparently going viral.
and as usual for all the wrong reasons, rick
Even though he’s not up for re-election for a while, use that ad against him and all Republicans who have been complaining about having to do this. What an insensitive prick.
re: #309 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Even though he’s not up for re-election for a while, use that ad against him and all Republicans who have been complaining about having to do this. What an insensitive prick.
too lazy to do his job / doesnt even know what the duties of the job are
re: #306 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
cnat find it now
i read this morning there were letters written to lindsey
Were they on a bathroom wall?
//
Looks like Lindsey Graham is going through some stuff https://t.co/iNlgwmazOU
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) January 29, 2020
My Shadenfruede-y-bone is getting tickled, and I’m here for it.
I’m here for all of it. We’ve earned this. Let’s enjoy it.
Impeachment: Jay Sekulow bumbles the John Bolton witness question
Following Sekulow’s logic, unless the defense produces its own evidence, the Senate is duty-bound to find all the charges against Trump to be true because there is no admissible evidence to rebut them.
(it doesnt matter of course because the vote to not convict wont be based on the record that was produced.)
In an effort to put out this growing firestorm, Sekulow, the last speaker making President Trump’s opening statement in the Senate trial, argued that the Senate should ignore Bolton’s allegations, “I don’t know what you call that. I call it inadmissible but that’s what it is.”
In just two ad libbed sentences, Jay Sekulow managed to blow up the very basis of President Trump’s no-witness strategy, that senators have heard enough and that no further evidence is necessary. Worse, he made the case that Trump himself has to be brought in as a witness because none of the various statements he has made to the press or on Twitter are admissible either. (By contrast, all the testimony taken under oath by the House is.)
I’m thinking of a word, begins with ‘B’…
Nothing to see here. Move right along. https://t.co/FNyf0xcaEa
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 29, 2020
re: #314 Joe Bacon 🌹
Oh my! Miss Lindsay got that peed in her pants look 👀!
LOL yep, that’s the looks that says, “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I seem to have shit myself so I need to change.”
re: #316 makeitstop
I’m thinking of a word, begins with ‘B’…
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My guess is they couldn’t bribe Mitt.
And didn’t Trump want to weaken the federal anti bribery statute?
re: #284 gocart mozart
The guys a psychotherapist, his children are doomed.
re: #293 Dangerman (slowly converting a pool into a pond)
what self possessed bozonity feels the need to share this kind of twaddle publicly?
I had to look:
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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