Lewis Black has this bit in his act where he reads rants submitted by his audience, and this was the funniest one I’ve heard yet. It’s a side-splitter. Definitely not safe for work.
Sisters Sasha and Andrea bring their family feud to the Hoyt-Sherman Theater in Des Moines.
I expect Republicans to impeach the next Democratic President as revenge for Trump.
One of the most Orwellian moments of the impeachment trial flew below the radar: Republicans and Trump’s lawyers suggesting on Thursday that Biden, but not Trump, has committed impeachable offenses. pic.twitter.com/BkHU4lsyHx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 1, 2020
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
I expect Republicans to impeach the next Democratic President as revenge for Trump.
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Remember that they wanted to pre-Impeach Hillary when they thought she would win. They literally wanted to use the buffer time between election and inauguration to impeach her.
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
I expect Republicans to impeach the next Democratic President as revenge for Trump.
They were already preparing to do it to HRC too. The whole party are scumbags.
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
I expect Republicans to impeach the next Democratic President as revenge for Trump.
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Then we’ll just have to keep them from regaining power.
re: #2 Citizen K
Remember that they wanted to pre-Impeach Hillary when they thought she would win. They literally wanted to use the buffer time between election and inauguration to impeach her.
Graham even bragged that they would block her SCOTUS pick and then the goat fuckers had the nerve to cry about any oposition to Trump’s SCOTUS picks. Tehy don’t operate in good faith and I hope that yesterday was the beginning of the end of them as a party. They can join the Whigs and Federalists in the graveyard.
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
I expect Republicans to impeach the next Democratic President as revenge for Trump.
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How did impeaching Clinton work out for them?
re: #6 garzooma
How did impeaching Clinton work out for them?
Lost seats in the 2000 race but unfortunately due to shenanigans won the Presidency. The Republican Party has only received over 50% of the vote once since I turned 2.
From downstairs since I’m still catching up (dog picked the worst time for a potty run):
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We need a faction within the Dem party that prioritizes democratic structural reform of American government over more narrow public policy issues
— Glacial Burners (@glacialburners) February 1, 2020
Unfortunately, that PARTICULAR reform is literally set in stone and it would be considered unconstitutional treason to try to fix it even by AMENDMENT. We’d be better off trying for an amendment to re-draw the states than ending equal senators for each.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 1, 2020
re: #6 garzooma
How did impeaching Clinton work out for them?
re: #8 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Lost seats in the 2000 race but unfortunately due to shenanigans won the Presidency. The Republican Party has only received over 50% of the vote once since I turned 2.
And they got close enough to steal it because the conservative and moderate wings of the party convinced Gore to run the fuck away from Clinton and take someone like Lieberman as Veep because of the impeachment stink, despite Clinton’s actual popularity and utility. So…yeah.
and the followup, re-written from scratch:
In theory, there’s also the option of a whole from-scratch constitution as well, but the runaway Article VI convention needed to produce it is almost assured of being run by Charles Koch, not us. It’s more likely to OFFICIALLY crown the Trumps and establish nobility.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
The noise level in here has been at a bazillionty decibels but now all the kids except 2 daughters have departed (to prepare for my next Birthday Party in 2 hours) while Z enjoys a cigarette.
So what did I miss? Is it the end of the Republic?
well, this is an interesting development:
Braidy CEO says his removal would cause ‘significant damage’ to company and Ashland area
ASHLAND, Ky. (WSAZ) — In the wake of news from Braidy Industries that CEO Craig Bouchard has been removed from his position, Bouchard is still fighting back calling the decision “unexplained action.”
Early Saturday morning, Bouchard posted a lengthy statement on social media saying, “I believe the sudden and unexplained action taken by the Board of Directors of Braidy Industries to attempt to remove me as CEO is without basis and, if allowed to stand, threatens significant damage to Braidy Industries, its stockholders and the Ashland community. I have certain contractual rights as a major stockholder of Braidy Industries, and I am evaluating my options in light of them.”
Bouchard claims the origin of the “disagreement” is his pursuits of foreign strategic partners, while some board members want to focus on finding American private equity investment. Bouchard says private equity would not be a good fit for Braidy.
my bold…this is the company that got the proposed aluminum plant with Russian money
re: #6 garzooma
How did impeaching Clinton work out for them?
Given that their owners tore down American democracy within a generation, pretty well.
TFW you’re writing such willful nonsense you can only publish it in The Hill. https://t.co/20MjPmGZW1
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 1, 2020
I am sick and tired of the whitewashing: the use of words like “inappropriate” minimizes Trump’s impeachable conduct.
The Senate was tasked with the job of trying an impeached president.
Don’t punt on your duty & burden-shift to the American people. https://t.co/d3b7u2prUQ— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) February 1, 2020
They are in Southeast Florida as well.
Roving band of herpes-ridden monkeys now roaming northeast Florida https://t.co/qB4SMl9zYt pic.twitter.com/sBmXVTsaPp
— New York Post (@nypost) February 1, 2020
re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth
well, this is an interesting development:
Braidy CEO says his removal would cause ‘significant damage’ to company and Ashland areamy bold…this is the company that got the proposed aluminum plant with Russian money
Wut, SRSLY?
This is Kentucky? Is this the much-touted RUSAL big-fucking-deal “investment” to boost the local economy that Sen. Mitch McConnell sold out sanctions on the crooked Russian Oligarch to get??
Gee, one would think there was some chicanery going on…. [sarc]
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Schiff pretty well eviscerated this bad faith argument by pointing out that the WH was not only telling the public one thing (“This has to be litigated in the courts!”) and the courts a totally different one (“The courts have no business in disputes between the WH and Congress!”), but they were appealing every adverse ruling on “absolute immunity” with the understanding that if they lost those fights they’d just start it all again on “executive immunity” grounds. The WH was intent on fighting until one of three things happened: They lost every single court case, the election happened, or the House gave up and dropped their investigations.
re: #15 Renaissance_Man
Given that their owners tore down American democracy within a generation, pretty well.
To be fair, this is not directly because of impeaching Clinton. It is because American culture is tightly controlled by its media - once newspapers, then cable TV, and now social media. And for the last 40 years, that media-controlled culture has been heavily focused on destroying democratic institutions, normalising white supremacy, plundering public resources and constructing a neo-feudal society ruled by wealthy white men. Republicans, who stand for these things, naturally benefit.
This is why, despite the fact that American people favour good public policies such as universal healthcare or less gun violence, those same American people will crawl over broken glass to vote against the same policies they say they support. They will vote against it because they do exactly what their media sources tell them to do.
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Alexander might as well just say “I’m gone by this time next year, I couldn’t give a fuck less what happens.”
veggie wars are everywhere…
What I did with my Saturday:
Brisket. Bourbon salt dry rub, in the fridge overnight. Into the smoker (apple wood) for 14 hours. Wrap in foil and let rest for an hour. Thin sliced, served with garlic roasted balsamic brussels sprouts and baked potato. pic.twitter.com/RM5Gi6gafr— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 2, 2020
Wait ‘till tomorrow morning, it’ll be down right 3rd World in here. https://t.co/mF1uXQ8DsB
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 2, 2020
One of my favorite bits from the Q&A session was Philbin seeming to have a chuckle at how the McGahn litigation was moving “fast” because it had gone from initial filing to final deliberation in 9 months. Only for Schiff to come back to remark that that was indeed “fast” for litigation, except for one problem: There was still no ruling!
OT, sad news from the fish household behind the jump…
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re: #26 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
{{gentle hugs}}
re: #26 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
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What do they do for fun in this guy’s heaven? https://t.co/dvfM80N2qu
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 1, 2020
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sit on clouds and play harps. Which isn’t exactly my idea of a good time, but what do I know?
If there’s a hell, it should be probably filled with people who claimed faith in Jesus, while trying to strip the sick of care, the terrified of refuge, and the vulnerable of protection—and reveling as if this was a righteous victory. https://t.co/Vx1P5u5FBc
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) February 1, 2020
re: #30 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
He probably has something against music too. He seems to hate everybody.
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump can build himself a beautiful resort on the River Styx.
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
Actually, he’s more right than he knows. I’m sure more of those people will wind up in hell than they think. I’ve said before, there will be a lot of surprised people come Judgment Day.
Schumer: “Every single Republican Senator voted to endorse the W.H. cover-up of these potentially important truth-revealing emails … the full truth will eventually come out and Republicans will have to answer for why they were so determined to enable the president to hide it.” https://t.co/1tPWlFRxqC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 1, 2020
If they could get them deep fried, super-sized, and served on a donut bun, maybe. https://t.co/YVO5Y84YEM
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 2, 2020
for the record: I like Brussels sprouts
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
Me too especially with butter. :)
Impeachment isn’t about overturning the will of the voters. The Electoral College already did that. pic.twitter.com/3qTyxtInMT
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) February 1, 2020
re: #37 PhillyPretzel
Me too especially with butter. :)
here, tossed in olive oil with herbes de Provence, then roasted; or simmered in chicken broth
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
here, tossed in olive oil with herbes de Provence, then roasted; or simmered in chicken broth
Chicken broth for me!
True, but every law-enforcement officer in America and probably every person to have ever served in the military is basically constrained to arrest anyone who tries to abolish the Senate or make it proportional to population.
I can’t name another clause where that’s true.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
re: #25 Targetpractice
One of my favorite bits from the Q&A session was Philbin seeming to have a chuckle at how the McGahn litigation was moving “fast” because it had gone from initial filing to final deliberation in 9 months. Only for Schiff to come back to remark that that was indeed “fast” for litigation, except for one problem: There was still no ruling!
The McGahn situation is the real impeachable offense. Ok. One among many, but major.
raw Brussels sprouts are also really good shaved thin, with slivered broccoli and carrots tossed with a sweet slaw sauce, garnished with dried cranberries and sunflower kernels
re: #34 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Actually, he’s more right than he knows. I’m sure more of those people will wind up in hell than they think. I’ve said before, there will be a lot of surprised people come Judgment Day.
Probably including some who were convinced they were damned, not just ones who were convinced they were saved.
re: #45 Chrysicat
Probably including some who were convinced they were damned, not just ones who were convinced they were saved.
Yes indeed.
re: #43 retired cynic
I didn’t know that!
No official constraint, but it’s stated in that section that you literally are forbidden to change the proportional representation of the Senate even by amendment (though there might be arguments that you could alter the number of senators each state gets).
I don’t even think it would be advisable to try to pass an amendment overturning the forbidding, and then pass another amendment to alter representation.
re: #30 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Sit on clouds and play harps. Which isn’t exactly my idea of a good time, but what do I know?
They worship God at his feet. Forever.
Went out to feed the horse and then hike down the lane for the mail, but decided against the hike. There was a herd of about 30 deer there, and I didn’t want to spook them. They were just peacefully eating. One especially had a notable rack.
re: #48 Belafon
They worship God at his feet. Forever.
“I ‘unno, folks, if this guy as described really is the god of everything, maybe he’s not worthy of adulation let alone worship.”
Not to mention that the way that Hebrew religion grew from henotheism makes you wonder if That One even has jurisdiction over the entire world or only has the right to be a jealous god in his own original territory.
Yesterday’s vote by Republican senators against a fair trial shouldn’t leave us feeling defeated. Remember what Coretta Scott King told us: the fight for civil rights, the fight for justice, the fight for equality must be fought & won with each generation.
We will keep fighting.— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) February 1, 2020
I’m deeply disappointed with the rushed and questionable process that lead to the closure of Seattle’s National Archives facility. I’ll keep working to ensure these important records continue to be accessible to families and communities statewide.https://t.co/YiahkamUUt
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) February 1, 2020
To fully understand how 2-bit this presidency is, consider that the White House was fighting with the National Weather Service over Trump using a sharpie to alter a forecast map the same weekend Trump ordered Gordon Sondland to tell Ukraine’s president to lie about Biden on CNN https://t.co/oWx16puaWQ
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) February 2, 2020
All those stunned and appalled ex-Trump staffers just weren’t up to the job. https://t.co/QVmqQiZrJJ pic.twitter.com/GnkA6oucp9
— digby (@digby56) February 2, 2020
“…Speaking of Trump, he went on to say that Democrats “were saying they wanted to impeach him before he even got on the phone with the President of Ukraine, so I think it’s been a real embarrassment for our country, I think it’s a real shame. I think people want to blame the President for the country being divided, but I think they should look at the Dems and what they are doing.”
“That’s so true. If only everyone would just shut up and go along with everything Trump says and does, we wouldn’t have these problems. When they disagree he’s forced to act like a barbarian to “fight back” and who’s fault is that anyway? Why do you make me hurt you baby?”
In minor, completely off-topic news, I parked next to a car today containing a tiny little dog wearing a tiny little leisure suit. Imagine Hugh Hefner, mid-70’s, if he were a dog greeting guests for an intimate party.
Jebus Crisco….
Folks celebrating the end of this attempted coup. All asking me are Biden, Schiff, Comey, Hillary, etc going to get away with this. I told them keep watching https://t.co/qOGCEox3q5 pic.twitter.com/eCrCb36yS3
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) February 1, 2020
The…program…that…was…originally…created…by…the…@HeritageFoundation…as an alternative to a more-nearly-single-payer #HillaryCare in 1995…&was then promulgated in Massachusetts by Republican governor Romney…is leftist. Love that #OvertonWindow being moved like goalposts!
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
re: #55 Dave In Austin
Jebus Crisco….
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He just basically announced that there will be active Justice Department stings being run on each starting Monday.
re: #34 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Actually, he’s more right than he knows. I’m sure more of those people will wind up in hell than they think. I’ve said before, there will be a lot of surprised people come Judgment Day.
A joke I love to tell on newly deceased fundamentalists:
The last words they often utter:
“Allah?”
To be clear, #RudysteinsMonster, you just basically announced publicly that everyone involved with the prosecution effort against His Majesty is going to be arrested for treason this week.
If Dems are all traitors anyway…well, all Dems, even un-elected, need to fill in d’blank.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
One of several Vogel’s Pit Vipers found in a relatively short time in Thailand. Not in the photo: thousands of terrestrial leaches swarming us at all times. pic.twitter.com/jNmKFNAOSR
— Bryan D. Hughes (@rattlesnakeguy) February 2, 2020
That second part…I know you expect US not to be able to see with the gaslight in our eyes but how do you because at that point it’s in YOURS too?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
Today on the 60th anniversary of the Woolworths sit-in, we remember the bravery and sacrifices of the Greensboro Four and the power of coming together to sit in for each other and for the betterment of our nation. #BlackHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/lY5B6qm0i3
— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) February 1, 2020
re: #61 Dave In Austin
GAH! I have a primeval fear of of pit vipers! Discovered when I was taking a class of students on a field trip to the St Louis Zoo. In the reptile house, we were enjoying looking at the critters when suddenly, not like Harry Potter and the snake, I found myself looking at a pit viper, a rattlesnake I think, and I nearly freaked.
A coral snake would probably kill me, as I wouldn’t be afraid of it, but any pit viper… ugh, ugh, ugh!
Scientists found the head of a 330-million-year-old shark in a Kentucky cave: https://t.co/Wk3EzToDC7
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) February 2, 2020
i have questions…
First off, he obviously wasn’t making a pinko slur.
Second, right now Repubs/MAGAts/American Nazis own that colour and thus being worried about them is legit a Red scare.
Third, I’ll make a wild guess that you’d rather it still be associated with the Left instead. Am I far off?— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
re: #64 retired cynic
Bryan is currently in Peru doing snake things.
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
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i have questions…
But it’s a useful reminder of the life span of the Galapagos tortoise.
re: #68 Barefoot Grin
But it’s a useful reminder of the life span of the Galapagos tortoise.
Sorry. I meant Louisville tortoise.
re: #69 Barefoot Grin
Sorry. I meant Louisville tortoise.
Now you leave Mitch Mcconnell out of this!
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— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 1, 2020
Tomorrow is Ground Hog day, which means if Pompeo removes his head from Trump’s ass and sees Lindsey Graham’s shadow, we’ll have four more years of fascism.
— 🌊 Death Row Tull 🌊🆘🗽🐕 (@dukewindsor388) February 2, 2020
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
Notice that racists, bigots, sexists, xenophobic people and bullies aren’t on that list so Trump will be in heaven, I guess.
OMG. This thread is life. Watching Raiders for the first time.
“We got very good music”. Yes. Yes we do.
Also NSFW language, but it’s riotous. [Tip o’ the fedora to @donttrythis.] https://t.co/d0v0EavnNN— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) February 2, 2020
Now, now. There are plenty of indications that He lived like a fun-loving mortal while he was here (like water into wine even if it _was_ the low-alcohol variety the Romans normally served). Either his pops or his Paul, though…oof!
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
Zennies don’t know that Harrison Ford was in The Fugitive, or Air Force One, or that Air Force one was kind of trading on his performances as Jack Ryan?
I’m gettin’ too old.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
But I repeat myself pic.twitter.com/MKLYLPjJGr
— Comfortably Numb (@YGalanter) February 2, 2020
re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth
Twitter is so messed that I can’t even read the full thread on twitter. Luckily someone got it unrolled. I can see the first three tweets, and then I see other people, and can’t find the fourth.
re: #26 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
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30% of Americans agree with me that beets are bad
but turnips are even worse https://t.co/9AfsbZ0uKA— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2020
I’m “Rooting” for Parsnips myself……
— And the Wind Cries “We Have All the Documents!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) February 2, 2020
Tell him he’s at the wrong place, and hand him a map of Florida with directions to Mar-a-Lago… https://t.co/S4S59s2qzI
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) February 2, 2020
Not sleeping and now really quite irritated that I didn’t notice that a few minutes ago the time/date was:
02/02/2020 02:02:02
#02022020020202
Thanks to @Antiproton_com
For pointing this out! 😊— Graham Taylor (@Pottedhistory) February 2, 2020
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2020
re: #92 Teukka
Now there’s a movie I haven’t seen in awhile.
Mayor Pete calling to demand CNN not release their final Iowa poll. pic.twitter.com/uCCSMVxQpU
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) February 2, 2020
re: #91 Charles Johnson
Beet greens are quite excellent, though.
re: #94 Eclectic Cyborg
Now there’s a movie I haven’t seen in awhile.
With the current news, it felt appropriate to listen…
re: #91 Charles Johnson
— And the Wind Cries “We Have All the Documents!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) February 2, 2020
re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth
Graham Taylor
@Pottedhistory
Not sleeping and now really quite irritated that I didn’t notice that a few minutes ago the time/date was:02/02/2020 02:02:02
#02022020020202
Actually, the time he should want is 02:22:20.
The date is a rare palindrome. The time should be too.
Pete Buttigieg is so white he called the manager on a poll he didn’t like. https://t.co/UCDXAhGMOM
— Florida Chris (@chrislongview) February 2, 2020
That really should not be possible outside Florida, South Texas or Coastal California at this time of year. I’m at 6000 feet and well inland instead.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
re: #101 goddamnedfrank
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These aren’t South Bend fastballs, Pete. Been saying since early on when I liked him more but not ready for prime time.
Chinese regional dishes cheering on Wuhan’s signature noodle dish. Their little signs say “keep fighting, Hot Dry Noodles”*. I can’t fucking take these emotions. pic.twitter.com/AyrYPvb3fj
— Sneer Review (@TheSneerReview) February 1, 2020
#BranchBernidians and the #YangGang
Poll: Will you support the Democratic nominee even if it is not your candidate? #AMJoy pic.twitter.com/Cb1IwxadLT
— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) February 1, 2020
Jesus Fuck who ordered the tanker truck full of extra stupid conspiracy fuel? https://t.co/O0WzmnUZ5u
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 2, 2020
re: #105 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
#BranchBernidians and the #YangGang
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Did they just forget to ask any Klobuchar voters?
#BeBest my ass……https://t.co/DyVp4UYaNS
— And the Wind Cries “We Have All the Documents!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) February 2, 2020
Folks, I’m beginning to suspect Trump doesn’t spend every weekend at his $200k/yr membership private businesses just to work on his short game. https://t.co/oX0AGA7bLk
— zeddy (@Zeddary) February 2, 2020
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
I expect Republicans to impeach the next Democratic President as revenge for Trump.
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They impeached Clinton as revenge for Nixon.
re: #110 thecommodore
They impeached Clinton as revenge for Nixon.
and they screwed Merrick Garland as revenge for Robert Bork.
re: #110 thecommodore
They impeached Clinton as revenge for Nixon.
And Bork getting rightfully rejected.
re: #111 sagehen
and they screwed Merrick Garland as revenge for Robert Bork.
Reagan doesn’t get enough criticism for Bork. He knew the Democrats had regained the Senate and he knew that Bork would be controversial. I guess he had to make the crowd that hated O’Connor happy.
So last Saturday my brother stomped out of mom’s house in a pissed off mood after a week of great stress. And my mother looks at me and says, “What can I do to make things better for him?
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The real reason the DMR poll got pulled was because The Corn demanded a sacrifice
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 2, 2020
Out with mrs. i on a Saturday night… at a bar where one of her favorite local bands is playing.
She beat me there and was all excited when I arrived.
“They were doing a Steely Dan cover before you got here. They played Egg!”
“I… I don’t think I know that song?”
“Yeah you do! The one that goes, ‘Egg, it will come back to you’”
Oh…
re: #116 goddamnedfrank
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He Who Walks Behind The Rows is totally a Trump supporter.
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If there’s one thing I learned in college it’s that Corn Demons hate tariff wars.
re: #119 goddamnedfrank
If there’s one thing I learned in college it’s that Corn Demons hate tariff wars.
Yeah, but think about it: He constantly pushes a twisted form of religion that benefits him, he uses kids to do all his work while they live in squalor, he has some little shit in a vest who doesn’t look old enough to shave running everything, and whenever he does his job he blames his followers and punishes them.
He is the 1%!
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Flag Observances for February (and confusing history)
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens has some quotes about that:
“Go to heaven for the climate, and hell for the company.”
“I don’t like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.”
“What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!”
“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
The Washington Post just sent me a free 30-day digital subscription pass.
They state that using the pass requires no obligation.
As always, first one in gets it:
I just spit wine on my computer. https://t.co/TikUe2xUeu
— Talky Tina (@krazybitzz) February 2, 2020
But I’m not seeing any Buttigieg fans claiming conspiracy.
It’s only the Bernie fans claiming it’s somehow a conspiracy against Bernie.
Search Twitter for “Iowa poll” and look at the tinfoil hat lunacy being posted by tons of Bernie fans. Their whole world is a conspiracy.— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) February 2, 2020
Interesting how exactly TWO Dem candidate’s supporters–not “don’t have a problem with Trump being supported by Russia”–but don’t believe it happened. How much of a coincidence is it that they’re the two who are for “friendly relations” with Russia?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
Fascist brainwashing is strong.
Because…follow along with me here…they saw that their own party had been pulled far enough right that it was the absolute most they could manage. You may not remember pre-2010, but anyone without an actual EMPLOYER–including small-business owners–>>>
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
The “theoretical solution” to un- or self-employed people being uninsurable was what was called a high-risk pool and it cost 3 thousand dollars a month. Further, even Medicare was off-limits unless you were a *mother* whose husband didn’t have a family health policy at work.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
Those of you who are honest will come out and SAY that that was your god sending inescapable poverty to us and that if we’d repented from our sins, our health would have been preserved. Or that He was actively trying to have us DIE and leave six-figure debt to our parents/kids.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
re: #127 Chrysicat
Fascist brainwashing is strong.
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For the ways the parties are aligned here, it is a liberal piece of legislation. And considering how many times any type of health care initiative has failed in this country, the ACA was a pretty big accomplishment for the Democrats.
*taps finger to ear, nods*
My producer wants me to remind everyone that it all comes down to who scores the most points— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 2, 2020
Nice attempt at a ST. Might have worked except that RTs still pop up your new tweet on my TL.
And what would your solution to someone with pre-existing conditions, no ability to be an actual EMPLOYEE, and no children, have been in 2009 anyway?— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
Mitch McConnell, transgender action and reaction, and authenticity in Dickens | Rowan Moore https://t.co/f6AknRkXSY
— The Guardian (@guardian) February 2, 2020
I keep trying to figure out what this story is about, but I’m pretty sure I don’t want to masturbate to it.
re: #130 Chrysicat
I see whoever you’re arguing with there is desperately trying to deflect from the religious Problem of Evil by calling you crazy.
I don’t know what ST is either though.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Is ST “subtweet?”
Yes, and IIRC, that’s when they’re trying to call you out without you knowing about it.
I also recall metatweet—MT—but I can’t remember exactly what that one is.
re: #135 Chrysicat
Yes, and IIRC, that’s when they’re trying to call you out without you knowing about it.
I also recall metatweet—MT—but I can’t remember exactly what that one is.
I looked it up. A metatweet is a thread about threads.
re: #73 Patricia Kayden
Notice that racists, bigots, sexists, xenophobic people and bullies aren’t on that list so Trump will be in heaven, I guess.
All of that is justified in the Bible.
The latest stats from 2019-nCoV
As of 24:00 Saturday, deaths caused by coronavirus have risen to 304, 328 people have been cured and discharged from hospital. The number of suspected cases stands at 19,544.
Why is the recovery rate so low? It has been close the death rate the whole time.
re: #138 Dread Pirate
The latest stats from 2019-nCoV
Why is the recovery rate so low? It has been close the death rate the whole time.
The most cases are in China, where a lot of people do not have access to first-class healthcare, or rely on traditional Chinese medicine.
No person who has developed the disease outside China has died from it.
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The most cases are in China, where a lot of people do not have access to first-class healthcare, or rely on traditional Chinese medicine.
No person who has developed the disease outside China has died from it.
how many have recovered from it?
re: #138 Dread Pirate
The latest stats from 2019-nCoV
Why is the recovery rate so low? It has been close the death rate the whole time.
From what I understand, just that even if your immune system doesn’t lose the battle immediately, the virus is so resilient that it still takes weeks to convalesce.
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The most cases are in China, where a lot of people do not have access to first-class healthcare, or rely on traditional Chinese medicine.
No person who has developed the disease outside China has died from it.
There was a death in the Philippines today.
re: #140 Dread Pirate
how many have recovered from it?
I can’t say for sure with just a cursory scan of WHO’s Website.
Their latest situation report came out yesterday.
60% of reported cases are in Hubei province.
The virus was first identified on 31 December, so it’s only been about five weeks. I’m still recovering from the flu from my Chicago trip.
According to the charts provided by WHO, the overwhelming number of cases were identified between 20 and 27 January.
re: #138 Dread Pirate
The latest stats from 2019-nCoV
Why is the recovery rate so low? It has been close the death rate the whole time.
It’s likely that addresses only those ill enough to be hospitalized; those with milder symptoms may remain at home and most may recover on their own.
Rick Wiles (wingnut, anti-Semite, racist, conspiracy theorist, radio host, White House correspondent for TruNews, senior pastor of non-denominational Flowing Streams Church in Vero Beach) has a theory about why the coronavirus outbreak is happening. It’s a stupid theory, a theodicy about the Problem of Evil (as in those people are evil and they deserve it, because God is omnibenevolent).
Goes to Utah Outcasts, caution for all the hate from Rick Wiles in the clip above, and coarse language from the hosts saying exactly what they think Rick Wiles, 13:31)
re: #144 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s likely that addresses only those ill enough to be hospitalized; those with milder symptoms may remain at home and most may recover on their own.
This is my guess: the statistics will be heavily distorted by who is officially diagnosed and who is official tracked.
This is not the first time Rick Wiles has tried to use disease to press his glorification of people dying for the Glory of God (tm). He also did it during the Ebola outbreak, saying
It may be the great attitude adjustment that I believe is coming… Ebola could solve America’s problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography and abortion.
This sort of apologetics will convince no one who does not hold religious views (or even does hold religious views, but not his).
That sort of hellfire-and-brimstone preaching is designed to keep parishioners in fear, to prevent them from looking outside their religion or inside their own holy book.
Pastor Rick Wiles: Ebola could solve atheism, homosexuality, promiscuity, porn, and abortion. (Goes to the Patheos blog What Would JT Do, 2014).
Man, it must be great to be a Christian and to be able to see the silver lining even in a tragedy like the more than 1,000 people killed by the Ebola outbreak.
SWISS drops chocolate maker accused of homophobia (SwissAir)
For ten years, little boxes of Läderach pralines were given to some passengers flying on Swiss International Air Lines. From mid-April this will no longer be the case, following negative headlines (goes to Beobachter, in German) about the Läderach CEO’s opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.
The carrier dropped the maker of premium chocolate in November, according to a report in Swiss news magazine Beobachter on Wednesday.
(more at the link)
Bernie’s people seem super calm and confident huh, not out here making a bunch of dumb fucking own goals or anything
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 2, 2020
re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Thanks AM, The Professor Stick overview was worth a listen.
Comparing the Wuhan coronavirus’s deaths with the USA’s seasonal flu deaths this season.
Fear of “teh otter” sells news. The virus in China is novel and not-well understood. Everyone’s heard of influenza and lots of people seem to think it’s some sort of mild disease.
The CDC gives ranges of numbers because flu cases are unclear (not every flu case is caught by a physician).
Maximum numbers given by the CDC through January:
26,000,000 illnesses
12,000,000 medical visits
310,000 hospitalisations
25,000 deaths
China’s population is about three times ours.
Could the coronavirus outbreak be dangerous to the world? Sure.
On the other hand, influenza is a known danger for centuries. It already has a vaccine (though this year’s choice did not match the actual strain, the vaccine will still provide some protection).
re: #152 Ming5000
Thanks AM, The Professor Stick overview was worth a listen.
This was the first half of his discussion about the coronavirus [10:00]
He speaks about the attempt by China to contain the outbreak. Professor Stick was in Wuhan just before the outbreak started.
Damn. I wonder if Nicolas Cage is still single?!
They almost made it two weeks.
Pamela Anderson and Jon Peters have separated after tying the knot just 12 days ago, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The former “Baywatch” star has asked for a “break.”
“I have been moved by the warm reception to Jon and my union,” said Anderson, 52.
“We would be very grateful for your support as we take some time apart to re-evaluate what we want from life and from one another.”
Anderson and Peters, 74, reportedly had not yet filed the marriage certificate from their Malibu wedding before calling things off.
“Life is a journey and love is a process,” Anderson said. “With that universal truth in mind, we have mutually decided to put off the formalization of our marriage certificate and put our faith in the process.”
Berners and Trumpers are converging:
You’re hardly a Democrat interested in the Democratic party. You are an act, a way of pretending to care when your own Twitter stream reveals what you are: a Trumper in (poor) disguise.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) February 2, 2020
re: #157 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Berners and Trumpers are converging:
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This is really old. I am so tired of it having to be Bernie or no one.
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
If there’s a hell, it should be probably filled with people who claimed faith in Jesus, while trying to strip the sick of care, the terrified of refuge, and the vulnerable of protection—and reveling as if this was a righteous victory.
and professed to “support Israel” when they did not care a whit about Jews or Judaism, they just needed a resurgent Israel to fulfill their Apocalyptic End Times prophecies…
Please boycott his book.
It’s sickening to think John Bolton will further cash in on book sales next month while cleverly & cynically refusing to come forward on his own & publicly assert what he knows. He has committed a grave disservice to our country by facilitating Trump’s escape from accountability.
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) February 2, 2020
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
for the record: I like Brussels sprouts
there are a couple of dimple tricks to cooking Brussels Sprouts to make them tastier. We often recall being forced to eat them boiled whole, which makes them mushy on the outside but still undercooked in the middle.
Either halve them (then they can be roasted) or simply cut an x-shaped incision at the base when boiling them so that the insides get tender before the outside gets mushy.
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
there are a couple of dimple tricks to cooking Brussels Sprouts to make them tastier. We often recall being forced to eat them boiled whole, which makes them mushy on the outside but still undercooked in the middle.
Either halve them (then they can be roasted) or simply cut an x-shaped incision at the base when boiling them so that the insides get tender before the outside gets mushy.
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I looked it up. A metatweet is a thread about threads.
I saw a show on British TV in which the people discussed what had happened in the most recent installment of “Big Brother”. Metameatheads.
MAGAs think they’re donating to help Trump get re-elected, while their $ goes to Trump & his kids & his lawyers. If Dems don’t turn this into a campaign ad that airs on FOX News, like, TOMORROW, I’m not sure they deserve to win. https://t.co/6AbITgZoST
— Serenity Now! (@Cpo10za) February 1, 2020
Be the change you want to see. https://t.co/bLMWtewa08
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) February 2, 2020
re: #170 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
Harry continues to give the correct answer.
re: #171 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
Owning the libs by paying Donald Trump, Jr’s tab.
Last night was absolutely LIT! All my 9 kids in the same room and no fights broke out.
The festivities continue today as I take my little granddaughters to see Frozen 2.
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re: #173 PhillyPretzel
Harry continues to give the correct answer.
My grandfather adored Truman. I prefer Truman to FDR. Truman actually had a lot of courage on racial issues that FDR did not.
re: #175 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #171 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
And fox will run it for what reason? And the party that doesn’t care about emoluments will care about this why?
I wish people would stop with these “I’m not sure the Democrats should win” statements. Your anger should be focused on the Republicans.
re: #175 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #175 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #175 The Pie Overlord!
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😂 oh man😂😂, who is this man and how can I be his friend? pic.twitter.com/g9e1V6zfQG
— Covie (@roper_93) February 2, 2020
“80 million people were not persuaded to follow Hitler because they knew he was going to murder people … they did not follow him because he seemed evil, but because he seemed extraordinarily good. And what convinced them of this was Goebbels’ brilliant propaganda.”
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) February 2, 2020
Note that Putin’s KGB specialty was monitoring Western media. Is he as brilliant a propaganda manipulator as Goebbels? Probably not. The Russians have made many mistakes in their campaign. For example, they have tried to treat the “Texas secession movement” as a serious separatist campaign rather than the long-running joke it is. They have also perhaps been too obvious, though this hasn’t hurt them so far and may have a kind of brilliance all its own.
Otoh, they have incomparably greater resources than Goebbels did. This obviously includes modern media but, more crucially, they have recognized, mobilized, and exploited a vast, ready-made complex of willing accomplices in the target country. This is what could be called the “Grift Sector” of the American economy; crooked evangelists, MLM hucksters, pseudoscience profiteers, talk-radio shills and commercial conspiracy theorists among many others. This is the raw material of subversion.
I do not think that Boris Badanov type characters are routinely handing bags of cash to these American hucksters, though that could be happening in a few cases. Instead, the Russians support and direct the traitors and opportunists with their bot-troll operations and provide guidance with sources they control directly, like zerohedge and RT.
Is Putin as evil as Hitler? Probably not, though the final chapter has yet to be written and he may well be more destructive to this country (indeed, already has been). Like Hitler, though, he cannot do his work and achieve his goals without willing accomplices.
re: #182 The Pie Overlord!
There’s a whole lot of context in the replies, including a story about the confrontation in the Tampa Bay Times.
re: #183 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
And they wanted to be convinced.
LAMAR ALEXANDER: If the president was upset with what the Bidens were doing in Ukraine, he should’ve called the attorney general
CHUCK TODD: Why didn’t he then?
ALEXANDER: Maybe he didn’t know to do it pic.twitter.com/nHqcSgm8ve— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 2, 2020
re: #186 jaunte
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Ah, the President is a colossal moron defense. I’ve seen this before.
The guy in the cart is Ed McGinty.
Here’s the story from the Villages newspaper on Wednesday:
He’s been getting threats.
The Villages is a Republican stronghold. Blergh.
re: #190 mmmirele
The guy in the cart is Ed McGinty.
Here’s the story from the Villages newspaper on Wednesday:
He’s been getting threats.
The Villages is a Republican stronghold. Blergh.
“You don’t say that about the President.” Well we missed you when Trump was saying Obama wasn’t American. Good for him, it’s nice to see someone standing up against Trump in Trumpland.
“Supporters retreated” strikes me as a kind way to say that Republicans who know better again covered for, accommodated & enabled the racists, homophobes & misogynists who now control their party. https://t.co/5bumUL3nun
— Matt Angle (@LSPmatt) February 2, 2020
Back in the closet with you!
re: #192 jaunte
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Back in the closet with you!
Remember when Trump was the most lgbt friendly candidate not just Republican ever. I ‘member.
re: #193 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Remember when Trump was the most lgbt friendly candidate not just Republican ever. I ‘member.
I remember when Trump promised to “protect” the LGBT community after the Pulse nightclub shooting—by banning Muslims.
re: #193 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Remember when Trump was the most lgbt friendly candidate not just Republican ever. I ‘member.
And you didn’t believe his bloviations, I think.
re: #192 jaunte
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Back in the closet with you!
Log Cabin Republicans, the likes of Candace Owens, Diamond andSilk, and certain other loons remind me of the Association of German National Jew aka “Jews for Hitler”. Before a eliminationist nationalist movement is able to assume control enough to finally carry out their agenda there are almost always those that are directly threatened yet eager to support the movement. The calculus of grift, denial, and blind nationalism is strong enough to overpower a short term personal safety instinct but cannot stop the inevitable outcome once power is consolidated. They too will end up eliminated.
re: #194 The Pie Overlord!
I remember when Trump promised to “protect” the LGBT community after the Pulse nightclub shooting—by banning Muslims.
Hack job Rubio too.
Dammit.
A man has been shot by armed officers in south London in an incident that the police said was terrorism-related.
The Metropolitan police said a number of people had been stabbed in Streatham.
“The circumstances are being assessed; the incident has been declared as terrorist-related,” the Met said in a tweet.
Bloomberg campaign spokesperson Julie Wood has now sent me this comment: “The president is lying. He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan.” https://t.co/1EPlZ0sdzs
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 2, 2020
The #birthday cake pic.twitter.com/TkDEF36iCD
— Apple Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) February 2, 2020
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re: #183 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Note that Putin’s KGB specialty was monitoring Western media. Is he as brilliant a propaganda manipulator as Goebbels? Probably not. The Russians have made many mistakes in their campaign. For example, they have tried to treat the “Texas secession movement” as a serious separatist campaign rather than the long-running joke it is. They have also perhaps been too obvious, though this hasn’t hurt them so far and may have a kind of brilliance all its own.
Otoh, they have incomparably greater resources than Goebbels did. This obviously includes modern media but, more crucially, they have recognized, mobilized, and exploited a vast, ready-made complex of willing accomplices in the target country. This is what could be called the “Grift Sector” of the American economy; crooked evangelists, MLM hucksters, pseudoscience profiteers, talk-radio shills and commercial conspiracy theorists among many others. This is the raw material of subversion.
I do not think that Boris Badanov type characters are routinely handing bags of cash to these American hucksters, though that could be happening in a few cases. Instead, the Russians support and direct the traitors and opportunists with their bot-troll operations and provide guidance with sources they control directly, like zerohedge and RT.
Is Putin as evil as Hitler? Probably not, though the final chapter has yet to be written and he may well be more destructive to this country (indeed, already has been). Like Hitler, though, he cannot do his work and achieve his goals without willing accomplices.
I think we have to be prepared to use the same social media stuff. So much of modern politics is in that. I don’t like Twitter/Facebook playing the role they’ve come to have in our discourse but here we are. I think the best way of dealing with the bots and trolls is to mock the shit out of them.
re: #202 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think we have to be prepared to use the same social media stuff. So much of modern politics is in that. I don’t like Twitter/Facebook playing the role they’ve come to have in our discourse but here we are. I think the best way of dealing with the bots and trolls is to mock the shit out of them.
As long as people are unable to distinguish between an Internet presence and the real human being behind it, bots and trolls will continue to be cost-effective.
Where might one find the crowd at whom this message is directed? Looks like a hell of a party.
The scary thing is, people like this are in deadly earnest. They want the 16th century back again. https://t.co/Cuouj2lcYv
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) February 1, 2020
re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As long as people are unable to distinguish between an Internet presence and the real human being behind it, bots and trolls will continue to be cost-effective.
That’s pretty much what I just said but if we act like “Oh it’s just Facebook/Twitter, no biggie” that’s foolish” FDR used the radio, the Nazis used movies, etc. Social media is part of how we have this conversation. We can’t act like it’s not even with the bots and trolls out there is my only point.
re: #204 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
He’s engaged in a bit of self-damnation:
“Bitter people, merciless devils, envious and thankless idolaters, prideful scoffers.”
re: #204 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Where might one find the crowd at whom this message is directed? Looks like a hell of a party.
There’s a deeply reactionary element in this country that has been exposed the past decade. It’s honestly always been there but it was given voice first by the Tea Party hypocritical dipshits and then by Trump. And now it’s a full fledged cult.
re: #205 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
That’s pretty much what I just said but if we act like “Oh it’s just Facebook/Twitter, no biggie” that’s foolish” FDR used the radio, the Nazis used movies, etc. Social media is part of how we have this conversation. We can’t act like it’s not even with the bots and trolls out there is my only point.
Yes, we discount any form of communication at our own peril.
re: #205 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
That’s pretty much what I just said but if we act like “Oh it’s just Facebook/Twitter, no biggie” that’s foolish” FDR used the radio, the Nazis used movies, etc. Social media is part of how we have this conversation. We can’t act like it’s not even with the bots and trolls out there is my only point.
When people began to rely on their FB feeds for information beyond what their friends and family are up to, and when “Trending on Twitter” became a news item in itself, I began to despair for the future of the Republic.
re: #206 jaunte
He’d engaged in a bit of self-damnation:
“Bitter people, merciless devils, envious and thankless idolaters, prideful scoffers.”
A Trump rally then. I’ll pass.
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When people began to rely on their FB feeds for information beyond what their friends and family are up to, and when “Trending on Twitter” became a news item in itself, I began to despair for the future of the Republic.
We know, you’ve said it before but it’s the reality of how we have conversations in 2020. Belafon has kids around my youngest brother’s age and while I’m older than they are, I see how modern communication is. We don’t like it. I don’t like it but it’s a reality.
re: #197 Florida Panhandler
Log Cabin Republicans, the likes of Candace Owens, Diamond andSilk, and certain other loons remind me of the Association of German National Jew aka “Jews for Hitler”. Before a eliminationist nationalist movement is able to assume control enough to finally carry out their agenda there are almost always those that are directly threatened yet eager to support the movement. The calculus of grift, denial, and blind nationalism is strong enough to overpower a short term personal safety instinct but cannot stop the inevitable outcome once power is consolidated. They too will end up eliminated.
So, in other words, they’re fucking morons.
Swear to God, I will never understand Log Cabin Republicans. I mean, I realize you just explained it, but still. The GOP has been very unambiguous about their stance LGBQT people.
re: #208 Belafon
Yes, we discount any form of communication at our own peril.
Yes, the battleground politc is not just in the phone banks, door knocking, but also social media. Do I like it? No, I’d rather not have our political conversation be decided by the anoyaomity of the internet and possible trolls/bots up for a ratfucking game but ignoring it is a mistake. Fortunately, I think we’re ready for it.
re: #212 Mattand
They value money over people, it’s simple.
re: #204 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Where might one find the crowd at whom this message is directed? Looks like a hell of a party.
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Mary-worshiping Catholics?
That’s a thing that people hate?
re: #212 Mattand
So, in other words, they’re fucking morons.
Swear to God, I will never understand Log Cabin Republicans. I mean, I realize you just explained it, but still. The GOP has been very unambiguous about their stance LGBQT people.
Yeah I don’t get it either. The party is outright hostile to LGBT people but hey tax cuts or civil rights, such a hard decision. //
re: #215 Mattand
Seems like a straight anti-Irish line from this guy to the Butcher Bill nativists of Gangs of New York.
re: #200 jaunte
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I don’t know if I’d really like Bloomie as president, but as far as trolling Trump goes he’s A-OK in my book.
re: #214 jaunte
They value money over people, it’s simple.
If I agree with Sanders on one thing, it’s that money definitely corrupts the conversation, where I disagree with him is we can’t act like it’s just money. And despite what his surrogates and supporters say, he does make it out that way when he tells people to be quiet about “idenity politics” which pisses me off since three house Bernie loves to talk about as if he’s working class and just took the subway or bus to work because he can’t afford a car. And I really resent the far left who never liked FDR (who I have my own criticisms) of him claiming Bernie as the new FDR.
re: #214 jaunte
They value money over people, it’s simple.
I was at a dog park years ago during the Bush II: Electric Boog-a-loo administration, when I first became aware of these idiots. I was talking with a gay woman about current events and what not, and asked her was there something I just wasn’t getting about the LCR?
She just shook her head and was like “I’m just as confused as you are.”
re: #215 Mattand
Mary-worshiping Catholics?
That’s a thing that people hate?
Look at the stuff Falwell was saying before Roe, Matt. I have my problems with the RCC as a baptized Catholic and someone whose identity was indirectly shaped by a bunch of former once a week mass attendees and Catholic school kids but they’ve never liked Catholics. It’s part of why they hate Hispanics too because Hispanics tend to actually live the family values stuff that fundamentalists tend not to.
re: #217 jaunte
Seems like a straight anti-Irish line from this guy to the Butcher Bill nativists of Gangs of New York.
It’s funny, I grew up Catholic. The Philly/South Jersey area has fairly large Catholic population. I had my share of really racist Catholic relatives and acquaintances.
As a kid, I was really shocked to find out how hated Catholics were in the US. Especially given that some of the language used against Catholics was nearly identical to what I was hearing from relatives about Jews and other religions.
Should have gone atheist right then and there, LOL. That was a major hint that I didn’t process until decades later.
re: #215 Mattand
Mary-worshiping Catholics?
That’s a thing that people hate?
True Fundies see it as a form of idol worship, yes.
re: #200 jaunte
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Timothy O’Brien (perfect choice) is the Bloomberg campaign’s official spokesman. He was just on AM Joy; his response to this line was “Bloomberg can stand on his stack of accomplishments, that makes him 10 feet taller than Trump.”
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
True Fundies see it as a form of idol worship, yes.
Not just Mary but all the saints. I won’t lie. I still have a litle bit of cultural Catholic in me since I do sometimes in jest thank St. Anthony if I find something missing but that’s just because I often have to find stuff that’s missing. The modern religious right as we know it began when the Falwells of the world who actually didn’t care about Roe teamed up with Catholics who genuinely did. I don’t agree with the Catholic hierachy response to Roe but it’s been more consistent than the right wing fundamentalist one that cheers on war, supports the death penalty, adn opposes refugees/immigrants.
re: #201 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #224 sagehen
Timothy O’Brien (perfect choice) is the Bloomberg campaign’s official spokesman. He was just on AM Joy; his response to this line was “Bloomberg can stand on his stack of accomplishments, that makes him 10 feet taller than Trump.”
Bloomberg isn’t my choice but he is the self made businessman with accomplishments that Trump thinks he is.
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
True Fundies see it as a form of idol worship, yes.
Growing up in a Fundamentalist region I can verify the anti-Catholic sentiment amongst a huge percentage of these people. They do view Catholics as worshipping Mary as a false idol and the church hierarchy as against the Bible (their view) if not Satanic.
Note that a lot of these fundamentalist churches view each other with suspicion and compete against each other for followers. Even outwardly slight variances and differences between individual churches within the same overall sect can be personal and divisive.
Fundamentalism heavily weighs on a collective political struggle in order to institute a personal sectarian agenda… “every man for himself.”
re: #225 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The modern religious right as we know it began when the Falwells of the world who actually didn’t care about Roe teamed up with Catholics who genuinely did. I don’t agree with the Catholic hierachy response to Roe but it’s been more consistent than the right wing fundamentalist one that cheers on war, supports the death penalty, adn opposes refugees/immigrants.
Yes, I recall the Campus Crusade for Christ yahoos banging on dormitory doors…between that and my Catholic upbringing, it was enough to put me off Christianity for a very long time.
re: #227 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Bloomberg isn’t my choice but he is the self made businessman with accomplishments that Trump thinks he is.
He’s not mine either, but when our candidate does emerge, I just hope he throws his ad team behind them.
re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, I recall the Campus Crusade for Christ yahoos banging on dormitory doors…between that and my Catholic upbringing, it was enough to put me off Christianity for a very long time.
For me, it was a friend in the neighborhood bragging about shouting at abortion clinic employees. This was all after quite a few abortion doctors had been murdered in cold blood. I don’t blame all Christians or Catholics for it but I will never like political Christianity of that kind.
re: #230 lizardofid
He’s not mine either, but when our candidate does emerge, I just hope he throws his ad team behind them.
I think he will. Bloomberg’ doesn’t strike me as someone who is that vain.
re: #232 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think he will. Bloomberg’ doesn’t strike me as someone who is that vain.
He’s already said that he’s ready to drop a billion on campaign ads, even if he isn’t the nominee.
We’re gonna need it, and his ad guys seem to be able to find Trump’s weak spots.
re: #231 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
For me, it was a friend in the neighborhood bragging about shouting at abortion clinic employees. This was all after quite a few abortion doctors had been murdered in cold blood. I don’t blame all Christians or Catholics for it but I will never like political Christianity of that kind.
My first GF (around 1980) was a fallen Catholic (fallen away but still never fully recovered, that is) and her younger sisters were the sort of anti-abortion activists who chained themselves to clinics and the like.
I remember once getting in a car with them and the back seat was covered in plastic fetus models that they used to demonstrate what they were opposing. I recall at that point regretting that I never learned to juggle while singing “I don’t care if it rains or freezes, as long as I’ve got my plastic fetus ridin’ in the backseat of my car…”
re: #233 makeitstop
He’s already said that he’s ready to drop a billion on campaign ads, even if he isn’t the nominee.
We’re gonna need it, and his ad guys seem to be able to find Trump’s weak spots.
Problem is that Trump’s weak spots are what many see as his strengths…
re: #233 makeitstop
He’s already said that he’s ready to drop a billion on campaign ads, even if he isn’t the nominee.
We’re gonna need it, and his ad guys seem to be able to find Trump’s weak spots.
Yep and I think that will help out a lot.
I just heard of this O’Brien guy and I like him already.
Omg @TimOBrien just described Trumps head space as “A putter, a cheeseburger, a porn video, and somebody else’s credit card.” 👏 👏 👏
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 2, 2020
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Problem is that Trump’s weak spots are what many see as his strengths…
He still needs an electoral majority. Tell me what gains he’s really made the past four years. As I recall, you seemed adamant that the Iran action would have helped him. I get that we shouldn’t underestimate him but we do our candidates a great service by acting like a bunch of sacred shitless rabbits.
re: #230 lizardofid
He’s not mine either, but when our candidate does emerge, I just hope he throws his ad team behind them.
He’s already said he would. Along with his voter registration/GOTV team, his online team and everybody else. He’s promised his staffers their jobs will last until Election Day, and their salaries to the end of the year.
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Problem is that Trump’s weak spots are what many see as his strengths…
This is a fundamental problem; when your opponent revels in their antisocial proclivities, it’s hard to point out why we are better.
re: #239 sagehen
He’s already said he would. Along with his voter registration/GOTV team, his online team and everybody else. He’s promised his staffers their jobs will last until Election Day, and their salaries to the end of the year.
He’s playing the long game. That’s fine with me.
re: #238 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He still needs an electoral majority. Tell me what gains he’s really made the past four years. As I recall, you seemed adamant that the Iran action would have helped him. I get that we shouldn’t underestimate him but we do our candidates a great service by acting like a bunch of sacred shitless rabbits.
Iran would have helped buck up his approval numbers over the short term.
The GOP (even if not DT) know that they will not likely gain a majority of votes, they just need enough votes in the right places to keep DT in office.
re: #233 makeitstop
He’s already said that he’s ready to drop a billion on campaign ads, even if he isn’t the nominee.
We’re gonna need it, and his ad guys seem to be able to find Trump’s weak spots.
This. The work I’ve seen so far is very savy. “Consumer products” level marketing.
re: #239 sagehen
He is showing that he is not a Mitt Romney type candidate. I am starting to like Mike Bloomberg. :)
re: #243 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Iran would have helped buck up his approval numbers over the short term.
The GOP (even if not DT) know that they will not likely gain a majority of votes, they just need enough votes in the right places to keep DT in office.
And yet it did not. I’m sorry but I get so exhausted by this what I’d call eternal pessesism. I get it. 2016 was a nightmare. I’m still emotionally hungover from it but a lot has changed now. This is like still letting Manassas rent space as Sherman marches through Georgia. We haven’t won yet but we are in better shape today to defeat him than we were and that’s with an on paper decent economy. I mean for crying out loud dude, Lindsay Graham’s opponent is polling dead even with him in SC. I just can’t constantly point out that shit isn’t as bad for us electorally as we fear.
re: #245 PhillyPretzel
He is showing that he is not a Mitt Romney type candidate. I am starting to like Mike Bloomberg. :)
I like him as a surrogate just not the solution but I won’t deny that he isn’t without accomplishments in both business and government.
re: #237 makeitstop
I just heard of this O’Brien guy and I like him already.
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He’s written several books about Trump. When Trump sued him for libel (for claiming T’s net worth was only a couple of hundred million, not even close to the billion he was claiming)… O’Brien’s publisher backed him and the case had serious discovery. O’Brien has seen Trump’s tax returns (sadly, NDA), and there’s a videotape of Trump committing perjury dozens of times in his deposition.
The end result of the case was Trump had to pay all of O’Brien’s legal bills, and admit that the book was all true.
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Problem is that Trump’s weak spots are what many see as his strengths…
Yep
Decent person: “Trump is a lout, an oaf, and a bully!”
Trump goober: “Yeah! Ain’t it great!”
Progressives and moderates: Don’t destroy each other
The enemy is Trump, not Clinton or Obama. EJ Dionne, WaPo
Long read, but some good lines.
The Democratic campaign was destined to entail an argument about the party’s direction for the next decade. Is this election about restoration, after the madness of Trump’s time in office? Or should the accent be on transformation, to grapple with the underlying problems that led to Trump’s election in the first place?
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What should bring moderates and progressives together is an idea put forward long ago by the late social thinker Michael Harrington: “visionary gradualism.” The phrase captures an insight from each side of their debate: Progressives are right that reforms unhinged from larger purposes are typically ephemeral. But a vision disconnected from first steps and early successes can shrivel up and die. Vision and incremental change are not opposites. In our nation’s history, the two have reinforced each other — for example, in protecting the environment, achieving social security for the elderly and assistance to the unemployed, protecting civil rights, and expanding health insurance coverage. This lesson will apply for any new Democratic president, no matter which wing of the party she or he represents.
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You might say that reality itself has moved left since 2008, not to mention 1993.
re: #250 retired cynic
Progressives and moderates: Don’t destroy each other
The enemy is Trump, not Clinton or Obama. EJ Dionne, WaPoLong read, but some good lines.
To me, it’s all about building a majority in Congress and legislatures around the country. That means the best possible candidates we can find not necessarily the most ideological.
re: #250 retired cynic
Progressives and moderates: Don’t destroy each other
The enemy is Trump, not Clinton or Obama. EJ Dionne, WaPoLong read, but some good lines.
Perhaps put more succinctly, “Incrementalism is not the enemy of progress”. And that’s something I’ve been trying to tell folks for a while, but it feels like more and more they’re demanding that everything be done in an immediate dash or it’s a mass betrayal.
re: #252 Citizen K
Perhaps put more succinctly, “Incrementalism is not the enemy of progress”. And that’s something I’ve been trying to tell folks for a while, but it feels like more and more they’re demanding that everything be done in an immediate dash or it’s a mass betrayal.
The thing that gets me angry with the self fancied more progressive than thou is they ignore that a lot of the legislation that FDR, the man they claim is Bernie’s direct ancestor in the WH got passed Congress through compromise and incrementalism. Social Security was denied to agricultural workers because Southern Democrats did not want to include African-Americans, who at that time represented a large number of agricultural workers. They call Obama, HRC, and Biden warmongers yet ignore that FDR was called one for doing all he could to support the Allies before Pearl Harbor without explicitly violating neutrality. These guys will be in for a rude awakening if Bernie ever won because the right would make him a huge boogeyman and you know what, they would succeed, Bernie is very easy to do that too. And I really don’t like a lot of people in my generation woh after Obama won sat on their asses and didn’t vote in the midterms because Obama wasn’t pure enough for them. That’s the problem with the Sanders base. They’re as ignorant about how shit actually gets done as the Trumpers and I hate it because I share some of my philosophy with them.
re: #175 The Pie Overlord!
Last night was absolutely LIT! All my 9 kids in the same room and no fights broke out.
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That is wonderful, both for all nine kids together, and for a night with no fights :)
A glowing joy for you and Zedushka, a warm memory for the kids and grands.
This trip was worth whatever it cost!
With so much darkness clouding around, you’re giving us a vicarious spark too. Hope you and the girls enjoy the movie excursion, and the rest of the festivities.
P.S. And a lovely cake!
When the attending teaches you a procedure & then you try it #stewardmeme pic.twitter.com/YQxfCKFvqs
— Aditya Shah (@IDdocAdi) February 2, 2020
re: #253 retired cynic
YES
As observed in my biography that I read on Benjamin Franklin, America always does our best when we combine idealism and pragmatism. Both Biden and Amy I know have a plan to make community college free for all Americans. And truthfully, I think that’s a great idea. I can tell you all a lot about how community college made me a better student. I was an average high school student, a slightly above CC one, and an above average undergraduate. Biden’s wife teaches in the same community college system I attended. She was never my instructor though since she taught at a different campus.
Why, why did I choose to search “branch bernidian”?
“We are coming for you too” https://t.co/1wZAo7QMlw
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) February 2, 2020
Or they think it’s morally wrong TO figure out. They really are the perfect photo-negative to MAGAts, right down to preferring all votes to belong to a politburo rather than themselves.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
re: #244 lizardofid
This. The work I’ve seen so far is very savy. “Consumer products” level marketing.
I don’t know, that talking dog ad was about as cheesy as it gets and I love dogs.
re: #260 danarchy
I don’t know, that talking dog ad was about as cheesy as it gets and I love dogs.
Which one?
Two of those can be argued in your favour. As for the third? She wanted war FOR Ukraine, not against it. Unless you consider even tacit support of #Euromaidan as “war on ‘the’ Ukraine”, anyway. Which only those in favour of Russian annexation agree to be true.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
re: #262 Chrysicat
The Bros get their opinions on Russia-Ukraine from the hacks like Greenwald and his friends who push the Kremlin line on Ukraine. Oh and as for Libya? Bernie supported tha too. So sick of the fucking different rules for St. Bernard of Burlington and how everyone else gets treated like a wamonger. This shit needs to be nipped soon.
What is this. I can’t even. #resist #abomination pic.twitter.com/WpfQAwtidC
— Apple Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) February 2, 2020
re: #265 The Pie Overlord!
I’m not even going to ask
re: #265 The Pie Overlord!
Miami bagel? It is certainly colorful.
re: #265 The Pie Overlord!
An abomination on the name of good bagels everywhere.
Did have a man try to explain childbirth to me once. It broke my mentions. pic.twitter.com/QrMmt4b6UE
— Kiran Manral (@KiranManral) February 2, 2020
re: #263 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The Bros get their opinions on Russia-Ukraine from the hacks like Greenwald and his friends who push the Kremlin line on Ukraine. Oh and as for Libya? Bernie supported tha too. So sick of the fucking different rules for St. Bernard of Burlington and how everyone else gets treated like a wamonger. This shit needs to be nipped soon.
Of course they do. Half of them are convinced that at its heart, Russia still either is, or at least wants to be, Communist and that Putin isn’t an oligarch, but a man preventing the “real (((Western Oligarchy)))” from becoming the main employers there.
They want above all else to end shareholder capitalism, and don’t much care who controls things in the aftermath.
The bar for entering this thread is “being aware there are already strict regulations on trans athletes in most relevant fields”. If we can hit at least that baseline, then we’re actually having a conversation
— Jack Saint (@LackingSaint) February 1, 2020
EDIT: The irony of Common Sense is that it’s not really common, and often doesn’t make sense under scrutiny.
re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth
We reached peak mansplain folks. Pack your bags.
re: #270 Chrysicat
Of course they do. Half of them are convinced that at its heart, Russia still either is, or at least wants to be, Communist and that Putin isn’t an oligarch, but a man preventing the “real (((Western Oligarchy)))” from becoming the main employers there.
They want above all else to end shareholder capitalism, and don’t much care who controls things in the aftermath.
Putin plays so many dumb Westerners like a fiddle.
re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth
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For a superset of mansplaining shit, see the “Don’t you know who I am?” subreddit.
Tim O’Brien is right. Bloomberg would destroy Trump in a debate.
The problem is his base would neither recognize it nor admit it. #AMJoy— 🇺🇸Cpt. Funkadunk🇯🇵 (@cptfunkadunk) February 2, 2020
re: #212 Mattand
So, in other words, they’re fucking morons.
Swear to God, I will never understand Log Cabin Republicans. I mean, I realize you just explained it, but still. The GOP has been very unambiguous about their stance LGBQT people.
I have several Log Cabin Republicans in my office. They are only into their stock portfolios and side businesses. Their greed TRUMPS everything else.
re: #274 Teukka
For a superset of mansplaining shit, see the “Don’t you know who I am?” subreddit.
And it’s almost always white guys like me who do it. I guarantee Trump has trashed Val Demmings as being “anti cop” while ignoring that both her and her husband are following officers. I believe in the husband’s case, he still is.
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hillary destroyed him, and they certainly did not recognize or accept it. I think any thinking person could destroy him in a debate. That’s not the game he’s playing.
re: #278 retired cynic
Hillary destroyed him, and they certainly did not recognize or accept it. I think any thinking person could destroy him in a debate. That’s not the game he’s playing.
Hate to say it but the sexism helped. HRC talked about issues during the debate. Trump was putting on his bizarre performance art.
Well, that’s disappointing. https://t.co/MafM0q1mDv
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 2, 2020
Good point! And I got caught up in it.
No, Impeachment Did Not Backfire or Enable Trump
by David Atkins February 2, 2020, Washington Monthly
Could Trump immediately begin to cheat in similar and worse ways, once the craven Republican Senate acquits? Of course. But he would already be doing so anyway without hesitation if the whistleblower had never stepped forward, and if the House had never made the effort to impeach.
It was worth it. The only way to stand up to a bully is to punch back, and history would not have been kind to the Democratic majority in the House had it avoided doing all it could to hold Trump accountable on the basis of political expediency or fear of emboldening him.
my new kink is trolling Talibern. It’s not helpful or healthy but fukitall.
re: #229 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, I recall the Campus Crusade for Christ yahoos banging on dormitory doors…between that and my Catholic upbringing, it was enough to put me off Christianity for a very long time.
Pitt in the Mid 70s when the KKKampus KKKrusade for KKKrist reserved every meeting room and pushed their obnoxious shit on everyone.
re: #281 retired cynic
Good point! And I got caught up in it.
No, Impeachment Did Not Backfire or Enable Trump
by David Atkins February 2, 2020, Washington Monthly
The other thing that impeachment did was validate the whistleblower coming forward, and encourage others to do likewise if/when Trump tries this again. Just knowing this will constrain his options.
John Bolton, you had the power and ability to stop an American injustice. Instead, you looked on in silence as Lev Parnas stood alone. #TrialsHaveWitnesses #LevRemembers https://t.co/hYLNTEBOBr
— Joseph A. Bondy (@josephabondy) February 2, 2020
There’s this mentality that I see a lot on social media when people from other countries comment on Trump or our country in general “Just shut up and focus on your own country.” Yet they’re fine with Trump’s stupid tariff policies.
Trump has been president for 3 years and people are still defending him by saying that maybe he just doesn’t know any better.https://t.co/mIzSQt4g9v
— Alana Horowitz Satlin (@achorowitz) February 2, 2020
re: #258 Chrysicat
Thank you for giving me the final reason to mark my ballot for Elizabeth Warren!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) February 2, 2020
re: #285 garzooma
The other thing that impeachment did was validate the whistleblower coming forward, and encourage others to do likewise if/when Trump tries this again. Just knowing this will constrain his options.
That’s right. I genuinely think that this was the Senate’s actions were of a party petrified of crossing Trump and their base to the point that they were willing to completely ignore how everyone else who isn’t the MAGA cult feels.
re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth
If that’s their best argument, then it’s a hell of an argument against his re-election. “Vote Trump, he’s too stupid to know how to conduct a proper investigation of alleged corruption.” But Alexander knows the truth which as dumb as Trump can be, that really wasn’t the case and it certainly wasn’t the case by the high up aides who covered up for him.
This is a big deal that people should make more of. Shareholder capitalism allows people to become rich without ever being executives and without winning a lottery.
But because not everyone can pull that off, Sandernistas want it abolished.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
And now you know yet ANOTHER reason that I’m sure US foreign policy continues dancing to the Russian piper if Tulsi is elected and possibly if Bernie is.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
STFU, you impeached-for-life dimwit. He MADE his money HIMSELF, and is morally, financially, and intellectually worth 100 of you. “Really not fair”? coming from the likes of you, you fraud? What the fuck do you know about fairness, you lying cheating backstabbing traitor?? https://t.co/yKYpZltka4
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) February 2, 2020
re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump is who he really is. A spoiled rich brat who looks down on anyone who isn’t him. The one thing I look forward to in this campaign is destroying the myth that Trump cares about the everyman once and for all.
re: #258 Chrysicat
Several folks have pointed out that letting Bloomberg into the debate isn’t by any means a bad thing for the other candidates.
And I don’t think putting a former Republican billionaire on stage is going to be BAD for Sanders or Warren or any of the other candidates for that matter.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 1, 2020
The difference here is that no one was planning a re-conquest of Cuba until AFTER the Russians put nukes on it.
Russia has been claiming that “the” Ukraine never legitimately was granted independence since the last years of the Yeltsin regime.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When people began to rely on their FB feeds for information beyond what their friends and family are up to, and when “Trending on Twitter” became a news item in itself, I began to despair for the future of the Republic.
This is no different than relying on your friends, family, colleagues, or other people in your social circles for information, as had been done for thousands of years.
Every Senator out there pushing this “Trump learned his lesson” fantasy today is going to look even more idiotic 5 minutes into the State of the Union.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 2, 2020
Looking idiotic doesn’t seem to mean as much to them as it used to.
re: #230 lizardofid
He’s not mine either, but when our candidate does emerge, I just hope he throws his ad team behind them.
He said his campaign staff would be available to the nominee. I wonder how the Bernites will handle that, or would Bernie not take him up on the offer.
Gross Old Pawn plays dumb, so they can continue the plundering. https://t.co/d60JFPqYkh
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2020
re: #297 Belafon
This is no different than relying on your friends, family, colleagues, or other people in your social circles for information, as had been done for thousands of years.
The problem isn’t IMO the network itself but how people respond to the news. It’s the dumb quick takes, the stupid memes, etc but having real time access to information as it happens is a good thing. It’s that we let the conversation be dominated by trolls/bots. What annoys me on social media is when people just dump link after link without looking at things like context and date of publication.
re: #298 jaunte
Looking idiotic doesn’t seem to mean as much to them as it used to.
Nah they’ll just say that Trump’s speech was graceful and about bringing the country together even though we’re guaranteed a snide remark about Pelosi, Schiff, the Bidens, the other impeachment managers, the people who testified against him, and your usual bragging and complaining in the same breath. Fortunately, it’s gonna be on full display for the ads. I actually think Trump in a bizarre way is at an unique disadvantage as an incumbent. He’s in charge of the Presidency now. The Dem nominee needs to ask this question, “Do you trust your president more now more than you did four years ago?” I sure as hell don’t and it’s actually got nothing to do with Trump’s ideological if you could call it that, agenda. It’s the non stop easily verified lies. It’s the contempt for truth that his administration has.
None of these Republicans who are out there telling the media that Trump “learned his lesson” are naïve. It’s pure bullshit. They all know he’s going to continue criming. That’s why they’re shutting down the trial, because it’s what they WANT him to do.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2020
A friend who’s fairly liberal generally surprised me the other day by posting one of those “If you believe the minimum wage is too low, have you considered acquiring a skill that’s worth more than minimum wage?” memes on FB. This surprised me coming from him, because as I say, he’s mostly reliably liberal.
So I responded, “What if you already make many times minimum wage, but you aren’t a dick? Can I still think the minimum wage, which hasn’t increased in 11 years, is too low?”
He’s a farmer, an orchard man, part of the same grower-owned cooperative that my Dad worked for from the end of WWII till he retired. Turns out, he’s caught between labor cost on one side and what the market will pay for the product on the other. And he didn’t say it, but I suspect the attack on minimum wage workers arises out of his frustration at the situation, rather than animus at the workers. Right now, they’re competing with imported fruit products AND the Trumpian trade war has severely reduced their export market.
This is the same thing happening in many parts of the economy and has been happening for decades - American cannot compete with other nations for low wage jobs that can be done anywhere. Apparently, the tart cherry market is now dominated by Turkey. Now apples are under pressure, too.
So, what’s the solution? We can’t keep forcing low wage workers to keep taking the hit, which failing to raise the minimum wage does. And do we really want to go protectionist, which simply forces consumers to pay more? Maybe there isn’t a solution that keeps the workers, the growers, the processors, and the consumers whole.
re: #271 Citizen K
“Common sense”, in my experience, meant one of the following things:
1. It was a way for people to get out of explaining why they did something that made no sense.
2. It was a way for people who knew I was smarter than them to talk down to me when I made mistakes or didn’t know something.
3. It was a way for them to justify doing the wrong thing.
The Senate debacle demands other means of checking the president
Jen Rubin
Worth reading in total because she is proposing a number of solutions that the next President and Congress (hopefully Democratic) should take to prevents such a corrupt actor.
Of course, corruption is like water; it will find a way. But she is right with her proposals. And I am sure that serious Democratic lawmakers are working on this right now, and have others.
As for the embarrassing abdication by Senate Republicans of their oversight and impeachment obligations (and legislative sloth in doing virtually nothing other than ram through judges), the solution is simply to throw them out in the 2020 election and those that follow.
Executive branch reform is not a cure-all for everything that ails our political system, which also requires an infusion of direct democracy. Yes, it is high time to revisit the electoral college. (Democrats need to start winning statehouses to pass either an amendment or the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which requires electoral votes to go to the winner of the national popular vote.) Statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico should be on the table. Automatic voter registration and enhanced access to voting are likewise essential. The tyranny of the minority — a white and largely rural minority — must come to an end.
Crazy
99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route! #googlemapshacks https://t.co/3gixMxopE6 pic.twitter.com/6KcMm1XgAF
— Simon Weckert (@simon_deliver) February 1, 2020
re: #305 Blind Frog Belly White
This is the same thing happening in many parts of the economy and has been happening for decades - American cannot compete with other nations for low wage jobs that can be done anywhere.
We are a service economy, not a producer economy.
re: #308 goddamnedfrank
Brilliant, or asshole? If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
re: #308 goddamnedfrank
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Mostly crazy because someone decided it needed to be done. A glass of water won’t kill you, but trying to drink ten gallons will.
— JFWin802 (@JWin802) February 2, 2020
re: #300 Charles Johnson
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I really do not care what that whore Alexander says. That whore has give carte blanche to the traitor in the Oval Office.
re: #307 retired cynic
The Senate debacle demands other means of checking the presidentLink
Jen RubinWorth reading in total because she is proposing a number of solutions that the next President and Congress (hopefully Democratic) should take to prevents such a corrupt actor.
Of course, corruption is like water; it will find a way. But she is right with her proposals. And I am sure that serious Democratic lawmakers are working on this right now, and have others.
Obama’s judicial picks might be saving the day there too.. I’ve been reading about how some of Obama’s lower court picks have been writing decisions that are severely critical of too much executive power. It’s going to take sharing powers again with the other two branches of government that is going to help us overcome Trumpism.
Sure thing, AP. Optimistic. Right. https://t.co/tU65xH7aIu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 2, 2020
re: #307 retired cynic
I don’t know why I keep getting an italicized title and the link at the end. But anyway, this one is fixed.
re: #186 jaunte
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CHUCK TODD: Why didn’t he then?
ALEXANDER: Maybe he didn’t know to do it pic.twitter.com/nHqcSgm8ve— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 2, 2020
“Maybe he didn’t know to do it “
Or maybe he did call the attorney general, and was told that the Justice Department wouldn’t go along. Which we don’t know because you refused to call witnesses.
re: #317 garzooma
“Maybe he didn’t know to do it “
Or maybe he did call the attorney general, and was told that the Justice Department wouldn’t go along. Which we don’t know because you refused to call witnesses.
And maybe the President of the United States three years into his term should know how to talk to the Department of Justice more so than Rudy Giuliani and his island of weirdos.
re: #271 Citizen K
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As for men cheating: how do you propose to tell the difference between a transwoman and a man pretending to be a transwoman in order to cheat? Is Laurel Hubbard a transwoman? Is Veronica Ivy? What about Jessica Yaniv or Karen White? How can you tell?
— Nathaniel Hart (@Nathani58692113) February 2, 2020
Any man who’d undergo *S-FUCKING-R-S* and push gender dysphoria on HIMSELF for the rest of his life is punishing himself far more than the world could by keeping him out of competition and I’m sure he’d try to keep others from following his path.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 2, 2020
Also, as one of our two or three resident trans-girls (I hate what the one above me in that thread said and either hyphenate or don’t space; she doesn’t speak for us all), thank you for bringing that thread in particular to my attention.
The admitting he did it just insults my intelligence. No one should believe that any Republican would be okay if Obama had done something like this with evidence clear as day that he did it. No Republican would want to act like Obama describing a situation that was anything but perfect as “perfect” as acceptable would be okay. They’re gaslighting all of us.
re: #296 Chrysicat
Straight-up unfiltered, Soviet-vintage Russian propaganda from Berner, coincidentally mis-leading typo included (a familiar Kremlin technique). Sanders is a Cold War legacy asset and the sooner we face it, the better. I don’t know if the Russians want him nominated to assure Trump’s re-election or if they might be entertaining some notion that he could actually win. With their help, he just might pull it off. A strategic “leak” of dirt on Trump just might do it. Cthulhu knows they have enough.
re: #319 Chrysicat
Also, as one of our two or three resident trans-girls (I hate what the one above me in that thread said and either hyphenate or don’t space; she doesn’t speak for us all), thank you for bringing that thread in particular to my attention.
What’s really upset me about the birth of very loud anti-trans bigotry in an age where it seems that homophobia has decreased is the whole treating transmen and women such as yourself like you’re perverts, predators, have an agenda, etc. As someone on the autistic spectrum, I cannot tell you how much I empathize with what the community is going through. You want to be you. People are acting like transgendered is a new thing in our world, it’s not, it’s just that more people are comfortable with being open about it IMO since we thankfully did get rid of the gay marriage bans.
re: #321 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Straight-up unfiltered, Soviet-vintage Russian propaganda from Berner, coincidentally mis-leading typo included (a familiar Kremlin technique). Sanders is a Cold War legacy asset and the sooner we face it, the better. I don’t know if the Russians want him nominated to assure Trump’s re-election or if they might be entertaining some notion that he could actually win. With their help, he just might pull it off. A strategic “leak” of dirt on Trump just might do it. Cthulhu knows they have enough.
Putin is known to play the two sides games. I really hate to say it because I at one thought the American far left was maybe more reasonable than their counterparts in other countries but I’m not. I see people who seem to have a hostility to actual democracy, unrealistic expectations economically, and a terrible understanding of foreign policy if not willingly. since as you say, you see them echoing old talking points.
I’m not going to call myself a “Putin expert” but I do read about him and see documentaries on Russia, Ukraine, and that part of the world so I understand a little. Putin thinks the most tragic day in world history was when the USSR fell apart. That he’s gotten so many Americans to agree he is one of their favorite foreign leaders rather than say Merkel- a conservative and actual victim of communism in the DDR, Macron- a moderate shaped by the previous twenty years, or Trudeau- a broad minded liberal is terrifying. Putin likes to hedge his bets. It’s why you did see some overlap sadly in Brexit, Macron’s successful election and the recent protests there, and other elections and issues around Europe.
re: #175 The Pie Overlord!
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