He Started 45 Minutes Ago and He’s Still Ranting: Trump Gloats About Escaping Justice
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President Trump delivers a statement on the Senate acquittal on two articles of impeachment.
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Now dunking on Iowa Democrats for “not being able to count votes” and talking about how great his victory in Iowa was.
If President Trump blows any more smoke up my ass I’m going to get lung cancer!
Trump just named checked Matt fucking Gaetz.
Now he’s on to Jim Jordan. Touting his wrestling record.
He will do more crimes and get impeached again.
Trump muses about Rep. Jim Jordan never wearing a jacket. He says Jordan is “obviously very proud of his body.” He then talks about Jordan’s ears.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 6, 2020
Trump is currently raving about Jim Jordan’s amazing physique. https://t.co/6W0q79hIS9 pic.twitter.com/wzfqDyOvMg
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 6, 2020
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
Now he’s on to Jim Jordan. Touting his wrestling record.
As ignoring multiple reports of a sex predator going after students and failing to report as a responsible party under OSU and state rules?
That Jordan?
Fuck that guy. Fuck Trump.
Claims Desantis has 70 percent approval in FL.
One trillion documents of Russian election interference = Hoax
Zero evidence of anything = Greatest scandal in the history of democracy.— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) February 6, 2020
Out comes that gross tongue. https://t.co/6W0q79hIS9 pic.twitter.com/u9FOsTEgIb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 6, 2020
Calls Devin Nunes: “The Democrats worst nightmare”
re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg
Claims Desantis has 70 percent approval in FL.
Fact check: False, according to Morning Consult.
They do rank him as the seventh-most popular governor, with +58 and -22 approval rating.
If your spouse behaved this way you’d leave the house and go stay with a friend.
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 6, 2020
“the other side folds up so fast we’ll probably need you guys again soon”
We are all trapped in a reality TV show #resist https://t.co/R8n5NRjo6b
— Apple Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) February 6, 2020
He’s currently pointing out, praising and thanking all the worst liars, scoundrels and racists of the Republican Party.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 6, 2020
Calls Steve Scalise “the bravest guy in the room”
Claimed Scalise “set a record for blood loss”
It’s like President Trump is spanking the Democrats saying “this hurts me more than it hurts you!”
Now he’s admitting the shooting at the baseball practice was prevented by cops. NOT good guys with guns. COPS.
To be filed under, “Things the Corporate Media Can’t be Arsed to Do”:
Headline writers: If you do not include “rant” or “unhinged” or “frightful” in your story about this you are doing this wrong.
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 6, 2020
also media, you have an obligation to ask R’s like @SenatorCollins about how she feels having enabled this monstrous president. Did she protect the people of Maine? Did she think about the greater good?
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 6, 2020
This is like to worst nightmare of your life and you can’t wake up.
re: #25 Jebediah, RBG
Claimed Scalise “set a record for blood loss”
Not be excessively morbid, but I’m pretty confident that the victims of Jack the Ripper would beg to disagree.
re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg
Now he’s admitting the shooting at the baseball practice was prevented by cops. NOT good guys with guns. COPS.
One of whom was a gay black woman, as I recall.
re: #32 Dr Lizardo
Not be excessively morbid, but I’m pretty confident that the victims of Jack the Ripper would beg to disagree.
As would any number of WWI soldiers.
This clearly wasn’t telepromptered at all. He’s just rambling.
So is any outlet going to have the guts to turn him off and stop carrying this bullshit?
Now he’s praising Elise Stefanik.
Total number of nonwhite people Trump has praised today: 0
re: #36 Citizen K
Is any outlet going to have the guts to report what he actually said?
re: #38 Skip Intro
Is any outlet going to have the guts to report what he actually said?
I hope so, because this shit is insane.
re: #36 Citizen K
So is any outlet going to have the guts to turn him off and stop carrying this bullshit?
He should be hauled away in a straight jacket after this.
re: #31 Skip Intro
This is like to worst nightmare of your life and you can’t wake up.
“There is no bottom to the barrel” is an insult to barrels.
Calls the GOP senators “Great warriors” again.
re: #41 Skip Intro
He should be hauled away in a straight jacket after this.
At the rate we’re going, I’m half surprised he hasn’t had troops march in to try and disappear the entire Dem delegation away. It’s clear he things he has all right and ability to at this point.
People told him he “should run for politics”
would have been a “horrific incident for our country” if I wasn’t acquitted. Now he’s on to Strzok and Page.
Now he’s doing impressions of Strzok and Page. Calls them “lowlifes”
re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg
would have been a “horrific incident for our country” if I wasn’t acquitted. Now he’s on to Strzok and Page.
So this isn’t a press conference, this is a child’s tantrum.
re: #30 Interesting Times
To be filed under, “Things the Corporate Media Can’t be Arsed to Do”:
MSNBC @craigmelvin had no problem calling Speaker Pelosi’s comments a rant.
— ginny (@gc4ginger) February 6, 2020
Just repeated that he fired “That sleazebag” James Comey.
He’s gonna pull a Fidel Castro*, isn’t he?
*Castro was notorious for insanely long-winded extemporaneous speechifying.
re: #31 Skip Intro
Every fucking day shitler has been the red state’s “president”. My theory is we are all dead and in hell.
re: #55 Dr Lizardo
He’s gonna pull a Fidel Castro*, isn’t he?
*Castro was notorious for insanely long-winded extemporaneous speechifying.
Good analogy.
Jesus Christ. Anybody still in that room by choice isn’t much better than the orangeanus
re: #52 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So this isn’t a press conference, this is a child’s tantrum.
Or a Trump rally. I’m glad y’all are watching it for me. I’ve run out of rum anyway.
And now this madman is ranting about Lisa Page and Peter Strzok AGAIN. https://t.co/6W0q79hIS9 pic.twitter.com/J3rKevW4ow
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 6, 2020
re: #35 Eclectic Cyborg
This clearly wasn’t telepromptered at all. He’s just rambling.
No teleprompter was set up in the room. This is a bulkshit dump of epic proportions because Trump needed to remind everyone that he’s a criminal above the law.
re: #52 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So this isn’t a press conference, this is a child’s tantrum.
But remember that it’s Pelosi who was the unhinged one for tearing up a speech copy… ///
Remember, he can commandeer airtime anytime he wants to do this.
Wingnuts don’t like hearing that Mittens is a better person that they are. Much indignant.
Live look at the East Room of the White House pic.twitter.com/UdIjWw7abD
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) February 6, 2020
CLINTON in 1999 after being acquitted: “I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events…”
TRUMP today after being acquitted: “We went through hell, unfairly, did nothing wrong, did nothing wrong…”— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) February 6, 2020
“I’m really not a bad person.” https://t.co/6W0q79hIS9 pic.twitter.com/t9SqflWYvL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 6, 2020
“This is a day of celebration because we went through hell”
“Pelosi, Cryin Chuck will try to cook up other things. Instead of wanting to heal and fix our country they want to destroy our country.”
Now he’s asking others to praise him.
re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Or a Trump rally. I’m glad y’all are watching it for me. I’ve run out of rum anyway.
I’m not watching either. And I’m about to stock.
This is fucking BIZARRE.
Even by Trump standards. I mean, I was expect nuts, but this is … bizarre.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 6, 2020
“Impeachment is so divisive to the country that it should not be considered unless there is something overwhelming and bipartisan, which there wasn’t because we were 197-0.”
Says Romney ran one of the “Worst campaigns in the history of the country”
re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg
“This is a day of celebration because we went through hell”
“Pelosi, Cryin Chuck will try to cook up other things. Instead of wanting to heal and fix our country they want to destroy our country.”
Now he’s asking others to praise him.
He’s trying to keep them from bringing up new impeachment articles.
“We’ve cut regulations at a level nobody thought possible”
Well, I think he might be right on this one.
re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg
“This is a day of celebration because we went through hell”
“Pelosi, Cryin Chuck will try to cook up other things. Instead of wanting to heal and fix our country they want to destroy our country.”
Now he’s asking others to praise him.
That this isn’t going to get covered for the fascistic narcissistic sermon for the “Church of Me” that it’s openly presented as is the biggest indictment of the media ever.
Calls Democrats “evil and sick people”. Name checks Barron.
This is the death rattle of the Republican Party, the final surge of energy before complete extinction. Its true constituency, the hinterland gentry, has reached a state of abject terror and desperation, thanks to demographic change and generational decay, and they have formed themselves into a mindless, violent cult that sees Trump as an actual messiah. This is unsustainable, of course, and it will collapse with startling suddenness. The light at the end of the Trump tunnel is an oncoming train. The only question is just how much damage they can do on the way out. It may take decades to recover our position in the world, with major Constitutional change in the process.
Btw, I think Wendell Zurkowitz is right that Romney foresees this and is positioning himself to pick up the pieces and form a new party.
Bad for America, Good for CBS and all that:
Networks carrying Trump’s batshit presser today should permanently convince you that organizations profiting from this insanity aren’t our allies in ending it.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) February 6, 2020
He’s finally done. That lasted about an hour and seven minutes.
Now I need to find out how to get my brain cells back…
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Btw, I think Wendell Zurkowitz is right that Romney foresees this and is positioning himself to pick up the pieces and form a new party.
Romney will be excommunicated from his own party as a traitor, even if Trump loses.
re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg
He’s finally done. That lasted about an hour and seven minutes.
Now I need to find out how to get my brain cells back…
I’m about to buy some whiskey and listen to Irish rebel music.
You know what? We need to start sending “thank you” postcards to Pelosi, Mittens, all of the house managers, EVERYONE that voted to impeach this sick clown, and everyone who’s supported the impeachment process. They all need to know as much as possible that we’re still with them. This is not an ending.
re: #84 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Isn’t all Irish music rebel music?
re: #80 Interesting Times
Networks carrying Trump’s batshit presser today should permanently convince you that organizations profiting from this insanity aren’t our allies in ending it.
Trump is ratings gold, they do not want to see the ultimate political reality-TV show cancelled, regardless of what it does to our country…
One last flash of his grotesque tongue as he and his horrible wife finally wrap it up. https://t.co/6W0q79hIS9 pic.twitter.com/Sc5y51vAja
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 6, 2020
re: #23 Charles Johnson
He wants to takeover Rush’s show, but from the WH live.
re: #86 LadyBehir
Isn’t all Irish music rebel music?
No, there is also music that is just about drinking and moonshining and raising hell and chasing women…
Did I ever tell you guys that my 1 percenter siblling has attended the prayer breakfast? Horrifying, isn’t it?
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Or the death rattle of the country.
I doubt any of my coworkers will hear much of it. But I think the people who watch the late night shows will get the details.
re: #88 Charles Johnson
Did she have more kidney surgery?
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
This is unsustainable, of course, and it will collapse with startling suddenness. The light at the end of the Trump tunnel is an oncoming train. The only question is just how much damage they can do on the way out. It may take decades to recover our position in the world, with major Constitutional change in the process.
from Nick Hanauer’s pitchforks essay:
politico.com
“What everyone wants to believe is that when things reach a tipping point and go from being merely crappy for the masses to dangerous and socially destabilizing, that we’re somehow going to know about that shift ahead of time. Any student of history knows that’s not the way it happens. Revolutions, like bankruptcies, come gradually, and then suddenly. One day, somebody sets himself on fire, then thousands of people are in the streets, and before you know it, the country is burning.”
re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No, there is also music that is just about drinking and moonshining and raising hell and chasing women…
Loss. That’s what I’m gonna drink to. I’m not angry. Just disturbed about this being our reality.
re: #85 stpaulbear
You know what? We need to start sending “thank you” postcards to Pelosi, Mittens, all of the house managers, EVERYONE that voted to impeach this sick clown, and everyone who’s supported the impeachment process. They all need to know as much as possible that we’re still with them. This is not an ending.
Yep I’m going to write my Rep and Senators.
re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg
Now I need to find out how to get my brain cells back…
I’m going the other strategy, going to have some beer to make sure the brain cells that processed that ‘speech’ don’t infect the others…
And now, to make it even worse, there will be a bunch of mainstream news articles that don’t even mention how completely insane this was.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 6, 2020
Charlie Sykes is being underbussed on his Twitter feed.
Nobody in the Republican Party takes Charlie Sykes seriously anymore. He’s still Butthurt and needs to get over it.
— Shawn (@ShawnGrams) February 6, 2020
re: #88 Charles Johnson
Melania is smiling because Trump got all of his hate out and will be exhausted for the next couple hours.
BREAKING: Two men in first and second place. One man still in fourth. What is this “third place” you speak of? pic.twitter.com/jbJnB0ZSS6
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) February 6, 2020
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Unfortunately I don’t believe this is the death rattle or death knell at all. Trump can win in November if our side doesn’t come out to vote after bitter and divisive primaries. Plus, our side has to overcome foreign interference and voter suppression. We need to be vigilant.
re: #104 Patricia Kayden
Unfortunately I don’t believe this is the death rattle or death knell at all.
~40% of America is completely cool with a GOP fascist dictatorship. That’s what needs to be overcome.
re: #97 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Loss. That’s what I’m gonna drink to. I’m not angry. Just disturbed about this being our reality.
The New Media Reality. I saw it descend on us the day that Trump supporters insisted despite photographic evidence, that his inaugural crowds were historically large.
Of course, it had been around, like with Trump’s (generally unchallenged) claims that he would have won the popular vote as well if not for massive illegal alien voter fraud…
re: #93 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Not at all. Some beautiful reels too.
and melancholy sea shanties
re: #104 Patricia Kayden
Unfortunately I don’t believe this is the death rattle or death knell at all. Trump can win in November if our side doesn’t come out to vote after bitter and divisive primaries. Plus, our side has to overcome foreign interference and voter suppression. We need to be vigilant.
And if Trump can at least keep some key economic indicators looking rosy, that will work in his favor.
And again, he has a media industry that is doing well with this ongoing political reality-TV crime drama. They have no interest in seeing that show cancelled.
re: #106 Interesting Times
~40% of America is completely cool with a GOP fascist dictatorship. That’s what needs to be overcome.
And a higher proportion of that ~40% tends to vote no matter what than the rest of the population because spite for the “other” is all-powerful in this country.
Meanwhile we have potentially millions balking and raging at the idea of having to vote for a ‘lesser evil’.
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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To be fair, news is when something unexpected happens. Warren was pretty much predicted to be 3rd, but the polls had Biden and Sanders fighting for the number 1 spot.
re: #106 Interesting Times
~40% of America is completely cool with a GOP fascist dictatorship. That’s what needs to be overcome.
Well, there are black, brown and yellow people who just need to shut up and be sent back to where they came from!!!11!!!!!!!!!
Except, ya know, the guy down the road who is cool. But everyone else? Fuck em.
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The New Media Reality. I saw it descend on us the day that Trump supporters insisted despite photographic evidence, that his inaugural crowds were historically large.
Of course, it had been around, like with Trump’s (generally unchallenged) claims that he would have won the popular vote as well if not for massive illegal alien voter fraud…
Well yes. I was here for this.
Imagine if Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch had implemented this policy during or after the Clinton email investigation.
I’m not saying that the Department isn’t well-intended, but I don’t think this is the solution they think it is. https://t.co/PXHUijB9Mf— Lisa Page (@NatSecLisa) February 6, 2020
re: #111 danarchy
To be fair, news is when something unexpected happens. Warren was pretty much predicted to be 3rd, but the polls had Biden and Sanders fighting for the number 1 spot.
Pete has a good game. I’m curious to how it translates to the other primaries.
re: #111 danarchy
To be fair, news is when something unexpected happens. Warren was pretty much predicted to be 3rd, but the polls had Biden and Sanders fighting for the number 1 spot.
Put enough doubt into the populace and it takes hold. It did for Hillary, now for Biden and it will for any Dem candidate, whomever they are.
NYC Women’s Caucus Calls On Manhattan DA Cy Vance To Resign over failing to adequately prosecute and seek justice in sex crimes and crimes against wealthy white guys who donate to his campaign https://t.co/0OmXMiI4QJ via @gothamist
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 6, 2020
Tallahassee Flashbacks: Bush seizing victory over Gore and never looking back.
Facts First: Sanders does lead in the “popular vote,” but it’s 2,518 after realignment, not 6,000.
And nominees are selected with delegates. At this moment, Buttigieg very narrowly leads Sanders. https://t.co/zwWMipytjc— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) February 6, 2020
And it’s over. That has to be the most bonkers speech ever delivered at the White House.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 6, 2020
re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Well, that’s true.
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Either way, it’s gonna be Sanders and Pete’s delegates going to Milwaukee.
re: #119 lawhawk
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Good and long overdue (I know it won’t happen). Jr. and Ivanka skated for these reasons (probably in the article, but I have to run to a meeting).
re: #123 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Either way, it’s gonna be Sanders and Pete’s delegates going to Milwaukee.
maybe, maybe not…they still have to make it through the Iowa convention
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Romney will be excommunicated from his own party as a traitor, even if Trump loses.
The Republican party came out of the implosion of the Whigs. History doesn’t repeat itself but sometimes there’s some mighty loud echoes. Mittens is a lot of things - some good and some not so good - but stupid is not one of them. This little shiv is strategic, tactical and, most emphatically, revenge served very cold for that photo of him and Trump at dinner that time when he thought he had a chance at the cabinet.
Lawfare Blog appears to be not working. I cannot connect to it.
Best part of this @BernieSanders press conference so far:
Reporter: “Two questions—“
Bernie: “Well, we’ll see how the first one goes.”— Paul Heintz (@paulheintz) February 6, 2020
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
maybe, maybe not…they still have to make it through the Iowa convention
You’re right. I forget they had a state convention before they go on to the DNC. Anyhow, disappointed that he won the plurality but that really doesn’t surprise me. What frustrates me about him and his team is thy’re still not understanding that it’s not just about the Presidency.
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
He really is a Trump of the left in a lot of ways. Biden annoys me but I’ve never really seen him go out of his way to be a jerk.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is withholding approval for at least six commercial orders for arms and ammunition from US companies to Ukraine together worth roughly $30 million. The sales have been delayed for a year+ and nobody knows why exactly. https://t.co/2HYhssucZA
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 6, 2020
After more than a year of waiting and making down payments for the arms and ammunition, Ukraine now wants its money back. https://t.co/2HYhssucZA
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 6, 2020
re: #38 Skip Intro
Is any outlet going to have the guts to report what he actually said?
HuffPo
HORROR SHOW IN THE EAST ROOM: UNHINGED TRUMP VICTORY LAP
Well, I just did an “around the block” look at webpages for the major TV networks and and newspapers to see how they are reporting on Trumps insane rant. I don’t see any outlet that’s brutally kissing Trumps ass (I purposely ignored Fox News). Most seem to be reporting it factually, one headline described Trump as “defiant” in his speech.
re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, I just did an “around the block” look at webpages for the major TV networks and and newspapers to see how they are reporting on Trumps insane rant. I don’t see any outlet that’s brutally kissing Trumps ass (I purposely ignored Fox News). Most seem to be reporting it factually, one headline described Trump as “defiant” in his speech.
Maybe I’m naive but when do enough of our people get tired of this and just say no more. Anyhow, I’m not upset like I was in the aftermath of SOTU. More so stunned by this is where we are in 2020.
I thought IMPOTUS doesn’t like AM radio propagandists that get cancer.
As I discussed with @ThePlumLineGS, the White House appears to be directing the NSA to violate its statutory obligation to share relevant information with Congressional overseers. Neither we nor Congress know what NSA might have in its holdings, but… https://t.co/scHOFfceZh
— Ned Price (@nedprice) February 6, 2020
Hmm. NPR just reporting on his “speech” called it a “Victory rally”, notes that he “remains the third president impeached” and referred to his delivery itself as “unleashed a diatribe”. Now admittedly he won’t understand the big words, but I find it interesting they are being the Anti-NYTimes in this.
re: #138 William Lewis
Hmm. NPR just reporting on his “speech” called it a “Victory rally”, notes that he “remains the third president impeached” and referred to his delivery itself as “unleashed a diatribe”. Now admittedly he won’t understand the big words, but I find it interesting they are being the Anti-NYTimes in this.
I really don’t get what the NYT’s deal is.
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
and melancholy sea shanties
And of course (because we really need it today)
re: #133 BeachDem
HuffPo
HORROR SHOW IN THE EAST ROOM: UNHINGED TRUMP VICTORY LAP
That sounds about right to me.
re: #141 BeachDem
And of course (because we really need it today)
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True story but I lived in Ireland for a month during Obama’s first summer. Had a cab driver ask me what I thought and I was candid- Yeah I voted for him and I was excited. I think we seriously can’t discount how much our next President needs to heal the wounds that Trump has caused in international relations. It’s why even though I wish he would be more harder on Republicans, I like Biden the most when it comes to any of the Dems when it comes to FP. Needless to say I consider FP a big issue.
re: #104 Patricia Kayden
Unfortunately I don’t believe this is the death rattle or death knell at all. Trump can win in November if our side doesn’t come out to vote after bitter and divisive primaries. Plus, our side has to overcome foreign interference and voter suppression. We need to be vigilant.
Oh, I agree that we have to be vigilant. Trump won last time only because of targeted foreign interference in a few key states. Awareness of Russian meddling is much greater now, though. Trump lost the popular vote pretty decisively and approximately zero Hillary voters will be switching to him, while a few may make the opposite jump. As always, the things to look for are voter suppression, foreign rat copulation, and media malfeasance. Democratic campaigners have to have their ducks in a row, and they have to be willing to use the masses of ammunition the depraved right has given them. it is theirs to lose.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🎃
$$$$$
They could make just as much money doing actual journalism. It’s not just money.
Worth mentioning again: Total number of nonwhite people praised by Trump today? 0
re: #57 plansbandc
Every fucking day shitler has been the red state’s “president”. My theory is we are all dead and in hell.
So..not the good place?
Anyone else think it might be a wee bit sexist that CNN has allowed their usual daytime female anchors to get back on the air now that impeachment is over?
What bible verse is hiring a hit man to kill your son in law?
Book of Iceman, .40:06
In his White House monologue, Trump suggested he had to inform Ukraine about alleged corruption because of a 20-year old treaty.
There is a reason Trump’s legal team never used this defense.https://t.co/iiCKMJTy3A— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) February 6, 2020
Trump refers to 2001 treaty “that we will work together to root out corruption in Ukraine. I probably have a legal obligation…to report corruption”
Except treaty:
1. Doesn’t compel such things
2. Requires him to use DOJ
3. Exempts “political offenses”https://t.co/iiCKMJTy3A— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) February 6, 2020
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I believe that is identified on Schedule FU-DP Line 6.
re: #152 Dread Pirate
He was so concerned about corruption in Ukraine that Paul Manafort ran his campaign. He doesn’t give a fuck about Ukraine and he’s probably stained US-Ukrainian relations for a long time. Not like that moron’s supporters care because they genuinely think you can shit on allies and all will be fine.
Annnnnnnd, that’s why I signed up today to volunteer for Hickenlooper’s senate campaign. And why I’ve donated $$ to Hickenlooper as well. Cory Gardner is such a weasel. Either soliticing foreign interference is inappropriate or not. It’s not about corruption.
— C’mon Lynn (@Cmon_Lynn) February 6, 2020
re: #136 BigPapa
I thought IMPOTUS doesn’t like AM radio propagandists that get cancer.
upding for IMPOTUS
re: #155 Dread Pirate
They’re so petrified of even criticizing Trump. It is quite honestly one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen.
Just waiting for Trump to bend over and command his stooges to kiss his ass..
re: #159 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just waiting for Trump to bend over and command his stooges to kiss his ass..
Oh he already has. He just doesn’t want to show his fat ass on camera.
re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg
“This is a day of celebration because we went through hell”
“Pelosi, Cryin Chuck will try to cook up other things. Instead of wanting to heal and fix our country they want to destroy our country.”
Now he’s asking others to praise him.
He’s doing so much to ‘heal and fix’ our country, isn’t he?
re: #157 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They’re so petrified of even criticizing Trump. It is quite honestly one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen.
I mean, I know the GOP is all about “dance with who brung ya”, but this kind of grovelling, this cringing lickspittle behavior is like nothing I’ve ever seen.
re: #157 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They’re so petrified of even criticizing Trump. It is quite honestly one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen.
The terrified and petrified party
re: #157 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They’re so petrified of even criticizing Trump. It is quite honestly one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen.
A US version of clapping for Stalin.
The mask of civility the GOP once had has now been ripped off to reveal the horrors for all to see.
I’ve long wanted this mask of civility to be gone, but I was unprepared for just how bad the horrors are, and how litter difference it seems to be making, especially in the both-siderist media.
I’m convinced that today’s NYT if sent back in time to Weimar Germany would have both-sidered every step in the Nazis’ rise to power.
re: #162 Dr Lizardo
I mean, I know the GOP is all about “dance with who brung ya”, but this kind of grovelling, this cringing lickspittle behavior is like nothing I’ve ever seen.
I remember as a teenager thinking Bush was the worst they could give us and nope. And yes I know Bush has caused more deaths but Trump may be the one that turns us into our a dictatorship.
I was out this morning with my mom.
Missed a shit show didnt i?
re: #166 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
I was out this morning with my mom.
Missed a shit show didnt i?
Big time.
re: #151 BigPapa
What bible verse is hiring a hit man to kill your son in law?
Book of Iceman, .40:06
I can’t find one, but a sincere prayer for forgiveness puts him right with God again.
re: #164 EPR-radar
A US version of clapping for Stalin.
The mask of civility the GOP once had has now been ripped off to reveal the horrors for all to see.
I’ve long wanted this mask of civility to be gone, but I was unprepared for just how bad the horrors are, and how litter difference it seems to be making, especially in the both-siderist media.
I’m convinced that today’s NYT if sent back in time to Weimar Germany would have both-sidered every step in the Nazis’ rise to power.
it’s a party and movement that knows that demographically they’re bound to lose in a democratic society. So instead of you know acknowledging that they need to be more than just the weisswurst party, they’ve gone full support of autocracy.
re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I can’t find one, but a sincere prayer for forgiveness puts him right with God again.
As long as it’s in the national interest, right?
re: #162 Dr Lizardo
I mean, I know the GOP is all about “dance with who brung ya”, but this kind of grovelling, this cringing lickspittle behavior is like nothing I’ve ever seen.
US movement conservatives get off on fantasies of the land of the free and home of the brave.
That’s really something, coming from such a group of sniveling, cowardly proto-fascists.
re: #170 Sir John Barron
Oh,
Even if true, so what?
He really thinks approval ratings mean you can do anything, even grab their democracy. The man has no understanding of democracy or democratic values. His values don’t come from the Enlightenment. They come form the autocrats.
re: #166 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
I was out this morning with my mom.
Missed a shit show didnt i?
Lucky you.
Time to call it a day…up early for work tomorrow, but hey, at least it’s the weekend after that.
Have fun, Lizards.
re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh, I know. I was just transcribing.
Thanks for doing that. I couldn’t even if I wasn’t out at the time.
re: #151 BigPapa
What bible verse is hiring a hit man to kill your son in law?
Book of Iceman, .40:06
I think that’s miscited: Book of Gunmetal, .30-06
I’m going to hit the rack now.
Thanks for filling me in on the important parts of Mr. Trump’s rant before a bunch of preachers this morning.
Religious leaders debasing themselves before the Golden (spray-tan) Calf. I believe there’s a warning in the Old Testament about that somewhere.
They’re doing a marvelous job of recruiting for my team. /s
re: #181 Sherlock Hound
I think that’s miscited: Book of Gunmetal, .30-06
My bad. Don’t shoot me over it! I’m not up on the Book of Hell and Tarnation.
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re: #180 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Thanks for doing that. I couldn’t even if I wasn’t out at the time.
History isn’t always pretty to look at, but it is always important to pay attention to.
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
History isn’t always pretty to look at, but it is always important to pay attention to.
It certainly is. That’s why I caught the impeachment managers’ presentations.
re: #183 BigPapa
My bad. Don’t shoot me over it! I’m not up on the Book of Hell and Tarnation.
I hear the Foghorn Leghorn translation is quite something.
//
re: #164 EPR-radar
A US version of clapping for Stalin.
The mask of civility the GOP once had has now been ripped off to reveal the horrors for all to see.
I’ve long wanted this mask of civility to be gone, but I was unprepared for just how bad the horrors are, and how litter difference it seems to be making, especially in the both-siderist media.
I’m convinced that today’s NYT if sent back in time to Weimar Germany would have both-sidered every step in the Nazis’ rise to power.
They did. And they didn’t need to be in Weimar Germany to do it. I learned from them that Hitler had a very nice mountain house, and Göring was a loveable, fat, rascal.
re: #188 Sherlock Hound
They did. And they didn’t need to be in Weimar Germany to do it. I learned from them that Hitler had a very nice mountain house, and Göring was a loveable, fat, rascal.
After the failed putsch, it should have been a hint. But we can’t ignore the ingrained societal antisemitism of that era.
From the WaPo editorial board yesterday.
Good news outta Virginia today:
We just made history in Virginia,
Today, both houses of the Virginia General Assembly officially passed the Virginia Values Act — a comprehensive bill that provides non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people and expands protections for all Virginians — and it will head to the governor for his signature later this month.
re: #192 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Cool!
re: #193 Jebediah, RBG
Cool!
I repeat this. All elections matter. And my state senate going from an Assad fan homophobe to normal Democrat helped.
re: #192 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Good news outta Virginia today:
We just made history in Virginia,Today, both houses of the Virginia General Assembly officially passed the Virginia Values Act — a comprehensive bill that provides non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people and expands protections for all Virginians — and it will head to the governor for his signature later this month.
A small bright spot in a terrible last couple of weeks. Good on Virginia at least.
re: #195 Citizen K
A small bright spot in a terrible last couple of weeks. Good on Virginia at least.
I’m sure other stuff is happening in other states too. But yeah it goes to show you the positive consequences of elections.
re: #196 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m sure other stuff is happening in other states too. But yeah it goes to show you the positive consequences of elections.
That was what the governor of Michigan said in her response to Trump, listing out things Democratic led states were doing.
re: #197 Belafon
That was what the governor of Michigan said in her response to Trump, listing out things Democratic led states were doing.
And as you know, Pelosi and the Dems in the House have been passing stuff too. We can win this if we win the message battle. And I saw earlier you posted that we’re outraising the Reps in the House races too.
IMPOTUS rant fest just reminds me of the many years we all endured the CHARACTER IS KING mantra from the GOP faithful.
re: #199 Sir John Barron
IMPOTUS rant fest just reminds me of the many years we all endured the CHARACTER IS KING mantra from the GOP faithful.
That to me was always bs because it was coming from people who laughed at Limbaugh’s jokes. The difference now is that Limbaugh is in charge now. Figuratively speaking that is.
re: #200 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
That to me was always bs because it was coming from people who laughed at Limbaugh’s jokes. The difference now is that Limbaugh is in charge now. Figuratively speaking that is.
Yeah, it’s weird, the modern GOP has been this mix of seeming highmindedness and crudeness.
did somebody post this yet?
An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter
And today her model tells her the Democrats are a near lock for the presidency in 2020, and are likely to gain House seats and have a decent shot at retaking the Senate. If she’s right, we are now in a post-economy, post-incumbency, post record-while-in-office era of politics. Her analysis, as Bitecofer puts it with characteristic immodesty, amounts to nothing less than “flipping giant paradigms of electoral theory upside down.”
Look for Trump to get markedly worse in his cruelty and brazenness in the next few weeks.
re: #202 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
did somebody post this yet?
Saw the headline in my TL. Reading now.
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
Look for Trump to get markedly worse in his cruelty and brazenness in the next few
weekshours.
FTFY.
It is really pretty accurate to describe the Trump administration as a cancer, pushing out healthy tissue and replacing it with dysfunctional parodies. https://t.co/BFczjhFAhy
— skullsinthestars (@drskyskull) February 6, 2020
OT: last week I was listening to my favorite cinema-related podcast, the BBC’s Kermode and Mayo. A listener wrote in with a minor complaint about 1917. He—an experienced birder—noted that after about 10 minutes during a scene in the trenches, the lonesome call of a bird can be heard. He immediately noted that the bird was the Great Northern Diver (aka Loon) and that it would not be anywhere remotely near where those battles were taking place, and that while for a normal moviegoer it wouldn’t be an issue, it startled him for a few moments.
It didn’t startle me when I saw the movie last weekend because I never would have caught such a thing in the first place, but it was fun to know it was coming. Loved 1917. Anyway, here’s the mournful mating call of the loon:
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
It may take decades to recover our position in the world, with major Constitutional change in the process.
Btw, I think Wendell Zurkowitz is right that Romney foresees this and is positioning himself to pick up the pieces and form a new party.
There is certainly a place for Sane Conservatives. It is going to require that they say goodbye to State TV, aka Fox News. They aren’t going to be able to wrap themselves in the comforting blanket of lies, distortions, half-truths and victimization/conspiracy theories that Fox and Hate Radio offer them on a daily basis.
Trouble is, the amount of reality that it’s going to take to pop this bubble is going to be end-of-the-Third-Reich level.
re: #206 jaunte
It’s just nepotism all the fucking way down with these people.
re: #201 Sir John Barron
Yeah, it’s weird, the modern GOP has been this mix of seeming highmindedness and crudeness.
That paradox is found in all authoritarian/totalitarian regimes.
E.g., KGB thugs using “not cultured” as an insult, Nazi artistic and aesthetic pretensions, the ‘honor code’ of the antebellum US south…
The reality is very different. If you compare poll averages to outcomes, Warren appears to have overperformed the polling average by roughly 6 points, finishing in a strong third. Yet from most of the coverage, you’d think she dramatically disappointed pic.twitter.com/ITXrXseZ07
— Evan Sutton (@3vanSutton) February 6, 2020
The replacement of the usual “three tickets out of Iowa” story with a “LOL Iowa” story has probably been most helpful to Biden and most harmful to Warren. https://t.co/Qpyxe9Kz0Q
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 5, 2020
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
It may take decades to recover our position in the world, with major Constitutional change in the process.
If I became president, I wouldn’t try to become the 2015 America to the world, because we can’t. I would just try to reestablish the proper relationships - with the West, wary of China, and hostile to Russia - and just be there when we’re asked for help.
It sounds like running a couple errands and taking a nice little hike was an excellent alternative to listening to Trump rant.
re: #206 jaunte
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It is really pretty accurate to describe the Trump administration as a cancer, pushing out healthy tissue and replacing it with dysfunctional parodies. https://t.co/BFczjhFAhy
— skullsinthestars (@drskyskull) February 6, 2020
re: #210 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s just nepotism all the fucking way down with these people.
“It’s generally very rare for a [deputy chief of mission] to be removed by the ambassador. It does happen. Sometimes it happens for a good cause. But it’s rare. And it is now becoming an epidemic” senior diplomat who heads union representing foreign service officers tells me
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) February 6, 2020
2/2 So therefore, its worth reading this interview the ambassador did with @dailymaverick on her priorities for the US-South African relationship. I included some excerpts in my story: https://t.co/FgR2IidicF
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) February 6, 2020
re: #217 Dread Pirate
It’s why I just have to laugh when they claim they were so concerned about Hunter being on the board. Hunter also was appointed to the board of Amtrak by that noted Democrat, George W Bush. No Republican cared about Hunter being on the board and Biden firing the prosecutor until Trump needed something to discredit Biden for. I’m sick of this shit. I might even just vote Biden as a protest against this disingenuous bullshit.
Great to know that my effective tax rate was 20x higher than amazon.my effective tax rate is over 20%. Amazon paid 1.2% on $13 billion. https://t.co/gqubjhB1u8
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 6, 2020
I haven’t yet done my taxes for this year, but if last year is any indication, my tax burden will be magnitudes higher in percentage terms than Amazon. This is what happens when the tax cuts help millionaires and businesses shift the burdens on to everyone else.
re: #202 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
did somebody post this yet?
It’s an interesting article. One point that it could make, but doesn’t, is that a 21st century swing voter either has some pathological political ideology, or no ideology at all and votes D or R for the most frivolous reasons.
Rational swing voters existed (and the idea wasn’t intrinsically ludicrous) decades ago, back when the two parties still had an ideological overlap.
But this just further reinforces the article’s main thesis — general elections are driven by base turnout, not by some farcical appeal to a mythical middle.
re: #211 EPR-radar
It makes sense when you realize that enforcing a rule on someone else while transgressing that rule is a display of power, and groups that prioritize power over any specific operating principle both need to legitimate themselves by aping cultural norms, but also breach those norms to demonstrate their license.
“I get to be polite to demand similar norms from you, but I also can be not polite and you can’t stop me because I will not reciprocate on those norms.”
Like a bunch of shit we’re watching right now, it’s a pattern that’s visible in interpersonal abuse that translates up to larger social structures.
A Study In Impeachment Acquittals
One was contrite, the other just bragged. Here are the very different statements that President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump gave after their impeachment acquittals.
re: #222 BeachDem
A Study In Impeachment Acquittals
One was contrite, the other just bragged. Here are the very different statements that President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump gave after their impeachment acquittals.
There hasn’t been anything that shows he feels bad about what happened. Plenty that he wants to go after the people who impeached him and voted for his removal. I think that’s why the idea that anyone could both sides these two situations even without getting into what they were impeached over is being absurd.
Don’t get angry. Don’t tune out.
Get pissed. Get out and vote and make sure everyone else gets out and votes because turnout remains the key to defeating the dark forces of the GOP and Trumpworld. They remain in power because just enough people tuned out entirely or tuned in to their alternative reality bulkshit and thought it was more appealing than Clinton.
Now, we’ll watch Trump try to do to whoever the Democratic nominee is that which he did to Clinton, except he’ll have all the power of the WH and foreign interference flowing in to help.
Turnout matters. Not just in the blue states, but in the battlegrounds where turnout matters. It means supporting the down-ticket races in those states and turning out people like Collins and Gardner who are complicit treasonweasels who try to hide their cowardice but fail.
re: #224 lawhawk
Don’t get angry. Don’t tune out.
Get pissed. Get out and vote and make sure everyone else gets out and votes because turnout remains the key to defeating the dark forces of the GOP and Trumpworld. They remain in power because just enough people tuned out entirely or tuned in to their alternative reality bulkshit and thought it was more appealing than Clinton.
Now, we’ll watch Trump try to do to whoever the Democratic nominee is that which he did to Clinton, except he’ll have all the power of the WH and foreign interference flowing in to help.
Turnout matters. Not just in the blue states, but in the battlegrounds where turnout matters. It means supporting the down-ticket races in those states and turning out people like Collins and Gardner who are complicit treasonweasels who try to hide their cowardice but fail.
I’m actually more determined than ever after reading the play by play of this.
re: #223 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There hasn’t been anything that shows he feels bad about what happened. Plenty that he wants to go after the people who impeached him and voted for his removal. I think that’s why the idea that anyone could both sides these two situations even without getting into what they were impeached over is being absurd.
That video has the highlights/lowlights.
re: #226 BeachDem
That video has the highlights/lowlights.
Video isn’t loading for me for some reason and I have no desire to punish myself by watching the entire screed by Trump.
re: #227 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Video isn’t loading for me for some reason and I have no desire to punish myself by watching the entire screed by Trump.
Go to HuffPo—it’s on their front page—and it’s only 2 minutes long (and it has closed captions, so you don’t even have to listen to the thing rant)
Guess if nothing else we can now claim Bill Clinton was innocent since he was also not removed after getting impeached.
re: #228 BeachDem
Go to HuffPo—it’s on their front page—and it’s only 2 minutes long (and it has closed captions, so you don’t even have to listen to the thing rant)
Okay danke.
re: #229 Eventual Carrion
Guess if nothing else we can now claim Bill Clinton was innocent since he was also not removed after getting impeached.
Why not. And it actually was a bipartisan acquittal.
re: #221 The Ghost of a Flea
The other thing is that fascists constantly borrow existing cultural sources of legitimacy to attempt to disguise nonsensical, narcissistic twaddle as a meaningful and relevant thought.
This is most obvious when they do stuff like glob together pseudoscience or counterfactual history, but also includes norms of presentation and display.
Some do this cynically…look at Richard Spencer trying to clean up the alt right’s presentation in public spaces…but others are sincere in a stupid, shallow, transactional way. For both, the appropriation is about obtaining or maintaining cultural capital and thus power. And there’s always a break point where the narcissistic shit leaks through.
re: #231 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Why not. And it actually was a bipartisan acquittal.
Unlike the bipartisan vote to impeach Donald Trump (Democrats and the Independent) and the tripartisan vote to convict Donald Trump (all Democrats, all Independents, and a Republican).
re: #233 aatharuv
Unlike the bipartisan vote to impeach Donald Trump (Democrats and the Independent) and the tripartisan vote to convict Donald Trump (all Democrats, all Independents, and a Republican).
And more people voted for his impeachment and removal than anyone before. I know how much he loves numbers. Remind him and his cult of that.
re: #157 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They’re so petrified of even criticizing Trump. It is quite honestly one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen.
Ritualistic self-mutilation akin to the followers of Cybele in ancient Rome.
Just pass these out at the next CPAC and tell all the Trumpsters that they’re going to need to prove their loyalty to their Orange Emperor…Yes. Yes, we do
There’s something soul-crushing about the fact that so many on the right, formerly principled conservatives, have seemingly put out their eyes and now all kneel before their naked Emperor, praising his beautiful clothes…— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) February 6, 2020
The second parapgraph in this tweet is everything the both-siderists willfully, stupidly ignore:
I’m for peace, but civility & injustice don’t mix.
Those who are complicit in racist, inhumane, cruel policies & rhetoric can’t legitimately call for civility.
Justice is on the path to civility.
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”— Be A King (@BerniceKing) February 6, 2020
We just filed another FEC complaint against an LLC super PAC donor, which involves facts strikingly similar to those that led to the arrest of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman: https://t.co/yeGt3Fl1uq
— Brendan Fischer (@brendan_fischer) February 6, 2020
O’Brien again seems to imply here that there is a difference of opinion between Kim Jong Un and his top officials on denuclearization. https://t.co/3X7rNP9i3G
— William Gallo (@GalloVOA) February 6, 2020
— William Gallo (@GalloVOA) February 6, 2020
The irony is not lost on me that one of Satan’s most memorable lines in the bible is when he tempts Christ…by quoting scripture to him. https://t.co/69fQxWaxaT
— Brandi Buchman (@BBuchman_CNS) February 6, 2020
I mean, with the Sherrod Brown piece today, I think it’s worth pointing out that we’re talking about millionaires with enormous political and cultural capital scared of Trump calling them names because they’ll…have less than all the political and cultural capital.
That’s the stakes they’re selling us out for. Not life or death, just less than everything they get already.
The folks that issued a condemnation walking out the door to retirement weren’t particularly brave: they were off to languish in their wealth and maybe a new lobbying job. Who we’re watching now are the people who were less brave and less principled than that. They might believe they believe things…but it keeps being demonstrated that their only guiding star is that their kind of people cannot be wrong or do wrong or be held to account after what was transparently, by their own standards, wrongdoing.
The erosion of whatever good character they had started long before Trump, and will not reset should Trump and Trumpism be miraculously subtracted from the world.
re: #238 Dread Pirate
Trumpworld is absolutely delusional and incompetent - criminally so on both counts (as well on its own count - they’re all crooks).
No one thinks North Korea is denuclearizing and there’s no deal for them to do so. Every time they suggest denuclearization, they point to the US doing the same, which is something the US would never do.
All the North Koreans have done is gained parity with Trump and have the time to expand their nuclear blackmail capabilities while Trump has undermined our alliances with North Korea and Japan and SE Asian partners. China benefits from the chaos Trump’s engaging in (mostly because Trump dumped the TPP and Trump’s trade war has harmed the US more than China - but the big winners are actually countries like Vietnam that pick up slack in areas like clothing manufacturing.
re: #240 The Ghost of a Flea
And, as always:
Take a look at what they did to God and the Bible over the last century plus to understand how deep this goes.
There is a reason why Dante consigned to the vestibule of hell those people who maintain neutrality in times of moral crisis. They neither enter hell nor deserve heaven, as Virgil explains to the poet he is guiding.
These have no longer any hope of death;
And this blind life of theirs is so debased,
They envious are of every other fate.
No fame of them the world permits to be;
Misericord and Justice both disdain them.
Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.”
After the past month, hell’s going to need a bigger vestibule.
re: #243 retired cynic
Odd. I can’t get the italics to work on the full Dante quote. Anyway, you can see the quotation marks.
I’m sure the South Koreans are just thrilled that we think it’s the “North Korean Peninsula” now.
the president* finished his qualifications for an extended run in the Fifth Circle of Hell by using the occasion of the National Prayer Breakfast—in which no president ever should participate, but that’s another argument for another day—to rage, fume, and whine against the awful fate which he so narrowly avoided. It was an astonishing profanation of the event, to say nothing of an exercise in public psychopathy.
See, he agrees with us here!
re: #244 retired cynic
Odd. I can’t get the italics to work on the full Dante quote. Anyway, you can see the quotation marks.
I’ve been having the same problem for awhile. I can only get italics to work if I wrap codes around each separate paragraph.
re: #246 retired cynic
See, he agrees with us here!
and more (I love Charlie):
As dozens of attendees stared into their fruit cups and longed for the sweet release of the Rapture, the president* continued to read from Paul’s Second Epistle to the Hannitites.
re: #243 retired cynic
I don’t know how to fix the italics, but you can put blockquotes inside other blockquotes.
re: #243 retired cynic
Dante consigned to the vestibule of hell those people who maintain neutrality in times of moral crisis.
The other classic that comes to mind is the Goya painting “Saturn Devouring His Son.” In a nutshell, that is Trump and the GOP.
We saw just a glimmer of courage when Romney bucked his party and did not maintain neutrality in a time of crisis, but in Goya’s world he’s devoured.
Exactly https://t.co/Uc3dcpiWn8
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 6, 2020
re: #224 lawhawk
Don’t get angry. Don’t tune out.
Get pissed. Get out and vote and make sure everyone else gets out and votes because turnout remains the key to defeating the dark forces of the GOP and Trumpworld. They remain in power because just enough people tuned out entirely or tuned in to their alternative reality bulkshit and thought it was more appealing than Clinton.
Now, we’ll watch Trump try to do to whoever the Democratic nominee is that which he did to Clinton, except he’ll have all the power of the WH and foreign interference flowing in to help.
Turnout matters. Not just in the blue states, but in the battlegrounds where turnout matters. It means supporting the down-ticket races in those states and turning out people like Collins and Gardner who are complicit treasonweasels who try to hide their cowardice but fail.
if Decatur Deb was here, he’d most likely say exactly that.
He’s not here for now because he is doing exactly that
The reality of what we’re up against: Last night the Fox News shows parroting the Trump lines dominated the ratings, with some shows topping 5M viewers, which is very high in this day of cable TV:
A huge bump for some of those shows.
America has a deep love for fantasy and fascistic strong men.
re: #253 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The reality of what we’re up against: Last night the Fox News shows parroting the Trump lines dominated the ratings, with some shows topping 5M viewers, which is very high in this day of cable TV:
A huge bump for some of those shows.
America has a deep love for fantasy and fascistic strong men.
Or maybe we just have way more racist assholes around than we realize.
re: #253 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
…America has a deep love for fantasy and fascistic strong men.
For example, that recent wingnut drivel about it possibly being a crime for Pelosi to rip up a copy of Man-Baby’s Whinefest 2020.
It’s a copy, for fucks sake. It can’t possibly have any archival significance.
But wingnuts are reacting to the perceived lese-majeste vs. their God-Emperor.
re: #254 Eclectic Cyborg
A love of fascism etc. probably correlates well enough with being a racist asshole to spoil any real distinction between the two groups.
re: #222 BeachDem
A Study In Impeachment Acquittals
One was contrite, the other just bragged. Here are the very different statements that President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump gave after their impeachment acquittals.
one has self awareness and is not a sociopath
re: #249 Belafon
I don’t know how to fix the italics, but you can put blockquotes inside other blockquotes.
i didnt know that
now i do
and im happy about it
Welcome to a mafia state.
Criminal mafia regime is going after US citizen @AlexandraChalup for trying to warn about the attacks on America by Russia by highlighting Putin’s decade long agent Manafort who happens to be a 40 yr associate of Trump. Via our tax funded agencies https://t.co/08gFilZz1M— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) February 6, 2020
The Trump Admin is trying to implement rules that would allow them to unilaterally reshape immigration policies & severely limit legal immigration to the US in ways that Congress never authorized.
We’re fighting back to stop the president’s continued assaults on immigrants.— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) February 6, 2020
Perhaps that’s why Kirk Douglas passed away last night…
I went to an obscure hearing today in the Danish Parliament. It blew my mind, not because of the substance, but because the US Congress has totally warped my view of hearings. And I’m just dorky enough to do a thread about it. 1
— Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) February 6, 2020
re: #262 jaunte
That thread really frustrates the hell out of me. That’s the kind of stuff I remember growing up in Canada. That’s how politics SHOULD be.
re: #263 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s how it was here too. Sigh. Things were in bad shape before Trump but he’s made a lot of things worse.
re: #264 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s how it was here too. Sigh. Things were in bad shape before Trump but he’s made a lot of things worse.
he’s had a lot of help
Just so we are clear here: FOX NEWS is calling out FOX NEWS pundits for spreading propaganda on FOX NEWS. I’ve never seen anything like it. https://t.co/tNsxFiN2fd
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) February 6, 2020
re: #267 jaunte
I fully support this circular firing squad.
“…Last year’s document urges Fox employees to consider diGenova and Toensing’s failure to note during their Fox appearances that they were employed by Firtash. It advises employees to focus on the pair’s “non-disclosure of financial motives and representation of Firtash while spreading false and misleading stories.”
“…The briefing also dings Hannity for failing to mention, in a segment Toensing and diGenova about an affidavit filed on behalf of Firtash, that the pair were working for the Ukrainian oligarch Firtash—an obvious conflict of interest.”
Donald Trump has a draft of one of the least damaging executive orders of his presidency — Only neoclassical style for federal buildings. No more modernism, brutalism, or any architectural styles Donnie hates..
[Updated] Potential executive order might force neoclassical style on federal buildings
We really need to redirect his energies towards _relatively_ harmless ideas like this…
oh dear
Nevada, I hear you on Yucca Mountain and my Administration will RESPECT you! Congress and previous Administrations have long failed to find lasting solutions – my Administration is committed to exploring innovative approaches – I’m confident we can get it done!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2020
Nuclear waste, a great binder for asbestos insulation.
so this business:
“A planned UK tour by US evangelist Franklin Graham is in question after every venue booked by the preacher canceled planned appearances, following an outcry over his homophobic and Islamophobic comments,” CNN reports.
they booked a tour so there was some advance work
did not all the venues know who he was when every single one of them first agreed?
heh
I saw The Rolling Stones on their farewell tour… 30 years ago. https://t.co/YF7QsPi9oL
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) February 6, 2020
re: #270 jaunte
“…The briefing also dings Hannity for failing to mention, in a segment Toensing and diGenova about an affidavit filed on behalf of Firtash, that the pair were working for the Ukrainian oligarch Firtash—an obvious conflict of interest.”
well hannity is a conflict of interest with anything he ‘reports’ about trump - or any one running against trump
being an ‘informal’ direct advisor and all
re: #274 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
so this business:
“A planned UK tour by US evangelist Franklin Graham is in question after every venue booked by the preacher canceled planned appearances, following an outcry over his homophobic and Islamophobic comments,” CNN reports.
the booked a tour so there was some advance work
did not all the venues know who he was when every single one of them first agreed?
Activists raised a ton of shit over the bookings.
Frankie, you’ve been cancelled (La Femme Nikita style. [I wish])
re: #276 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
Obviously the Fox research team must be purged of unbelievers.
re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth
Donnie is going to mandate that all Roman columns in all new Neo-classical federal buildings be painted with nuclear waste. To glow in the dark.
re: #278 jaunte
Obviously the Fox research team must be purged of unbelievers.
I can’t imagine a more miserable job than essentially being a fact checker at Fox News.
New Bob Cesca podcast is now up.
re: #276 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
well hannity is a conflict of interest with anything he ‘reports’ about trump - or any one running against trump
being an ‘informal’ direct advisor and all
I want to know how many state secrets Trump has spilled to Hannity.
re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t imagine a more miserable job than essentially being a fact checker at Fox News.
Only for people who take reality seriously. No such person should be at Fox News in the first place.
re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t imagine a more miserable job than essentially being a fact checker at Fox News.
I can. Being the young intern that has to deal with all the creepy old men that work there.
re: #282 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I want to know how many state secrets Trump has spilled to Hannity.
And Russia and NoKo and China.
re: #286 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And Russia and NoKo and China.
and Saudi Arabia and whoever else buttered him up. God I get so mad thinking about all this.
Lyrics
Lick my arse nicely,
lick it nice and clean,
nice and clean, lick my arse.
That’s a greasy desire,
nicely buttered,
like the licking of roast meat, my daily activity.
Three will lick more than two,
come on, just try it,
and lick, lick, lick.
Everybody lick their arse for themselves.
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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Someone on Twitter dubbed it the ‘Steel Wheelchair’ tour. Heh.
driftglass: On Speaking Murrican
driftglass ripping into Brian Williams’ interview with Blue Dog Dem Joe Donnelly that complained about Democrats not speaking American:
You know what, Brian? We Democrats speak American just fine. In fact, if you’d like to drop around Springfield sometime, I’d be more than happy to deconstruct your failings as a journalist in some genuine, Midwest, heartland idiomatic American right to your face. Sure, I’m definitely gonna use some words you’ve never heard from the sycophants on your cable news panels (unless you eavesdrop on them in the Green Room) but I promise you the gist of them will be perfectly clear.
And speaking of speaking American, when Hillary Clinton went to coal country she absolutely spoke to the people there as Americans. As Adult American, with families and deep roots in their communities who are facing the implacable reality of being at the bitter end of a dying industry. And in genuine, Midwest heartland American she offered them a vision of a different future. A better future.
When Trump went to coal country he brayed at them like idiot children, promising everyone a pony, and a cookie, and great health care that would cover everyone for a fraction of what it costs now, and to turn back the clock to 1950 when Coal and Jim Crow were King. So maybe the problem is that, in the specific example you’re using, the voters in question have let Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity take a daily dump in their skulls for so long that they are no longer competent to make adult decisions.
Oh and by the way, if you trouble yourself to listen to any Democratic candidate’s stump speeches, or any of their town halls, all of them are talking pretty plainly and clearly and Americanly about jobs and college and health care and clean water and air and a better future for our kids. But of course acknowledging that would blow all the fuses on the “Snooty coastal elites don’t know how to talk to Real Murricans!” line of ersatz homespun horseshit you pass off as journalism, so as we say here in the middle of Middle America, how about just taking a flying fuck at the moon instead?
still has to insert himself into the accomplishment
Welcome back to Earth, @Astro_Christina, and congratulations on breaking the female record for the longest stay in space! You’re inspiring young women and making the USA proud! Enjoyed speaking with you and @Astro_Jessica on the first all-female spacewalk IN HISTORY last year.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2020
re: #292 retired cynic
driftglass: On Speaking Murrican
driftglass ripping into Brian Williams’ interview with Blue Dog Dem Joe Donnelly that complained about Democrats not speaking American:
Ire: #292 retired cynic
driftglass: On Speaking Murrican
driftglass ripping into Brian Williams’ interview with Blue Dog Dem Joe Donnelly that complained about Democrats not speaking American:
And speaking of speaking American, when Hillary Clinton went to coal country she absolutely spoke to the people there as Americans. As Adult American, with families and deep roots in their communities who are facing the implacable reality of being at the bitter end of a dying industry. And in genuine, Midwest heartland American she offered them a vision of a different future. A better future.
When Trump went to coal country he brayed at them like idiot children, promising everyone a pony, and a cookie, and great health care that would cover everyone for a fraction of what it costs now, and to turn back the clock to 1950 when Coal and Jim Crow were King. So maybe the problem is that, in the specific example you’re using, the voters in question have let Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity take a daily dump in their skulls for so long that they are no longer competent to make adult decisions.
Democrats Have Successfully Implemented a 50-State Strategy
by Nancy LeTourneau, Washington Monthly
A really inspiring article about a change in party fundraising that began before the 2018 midterms, and has really proven to be an engine. The DCCC is sending funds out to the candidates and doing less themselves, and that, along with ActBlue, is pushing money out to the grassroots.
I like hearing good things, and we need to have some hopeful stuff today!
edited to add the missing link!
re: #295 retired cynic
edited to add the missing link!
BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAAA
Twitter said Nunes’ attorney, Steven Biss, was trying to circumvent the discovery process in Nunes’ own lawsuit against Twitter by requesting identifying info on @DevinCow in an unrelated case: https://t.co/VN7XO8rM6U
— Kate Irby (@kateirby) February 6, 2020
Twitter responded that it only meant that “@JesselynRadack, like hundreds of thousands of other Twitter users, found some of @DevinCow’s commentary about Congressman Nunes to be entertaining.” https://t.co/VN7XO8rM6U
— Kate Irby (@kateirby) February 6, 2020
AG Barr Calls for Bailing Out Foreign Companies to Counter Huawei
by JM Ashby, on bobcesca.com
Yes, our tax money not to our companies but to foreign ones. I wonder who is getting a rake off on this???
The Trump regime’s official position and policy toward Chinese-owned telecommunications giant Huawei is literally undecided as the regime has scheduled a meeting for later this month to decide what their policy is, but Attorney General William Barr may have just given us some idea of what could come out of that meeting and in the months to follow.
Speaking at an economic and security conference hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Barr bizarrely called for the government to take a controlling stake in foreign telecommunication companies to counter Huawei’s growing access to the world’s telecommunications market.
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
An asshole lawyer for an asshole congressman. Makes sense.
FUCK. This is heartbreaking. Anti-vaxxers kill. This baby did not have to die. Get vaccines and listen to your fucking doctors. https://t.co/uOXLv7cosp
— Amanda Deibert🏳️🌈 (@amandadeibert) February 6, 2020
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
Charge the mother with murder.
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
Can we charge mom as an accessory to murder?
re: #303 Eclectic Cyborg
Can we charge mom as an accessory to murder?
Can we charge the facebook group members too?
re: #304 aatharuv
She didn’t have to listen to the FB group members though. If your child is sick, you listen up the doctors.
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
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How is this any different than Michelle Carter (the girl who went to prison for convincing her boyfriend to commit suicide?)
Tell me again Putin isn’t done with trumpf. https://t.co/jKV7TSqv5R
— Badd Company (@BaddCompani) February 6, 2020
thread starts here:
First, a recap: This is Yamen. He’s 8.
Yamen wanted to play hockey just like his friends, but he didn’t have any equipment.
When a local hockey dad named Michael (@CJPDoyle) found out, he went online and asked if anyone could help.
He had no idea what was about to happen. pic.twitter.com/IFDy605UaL— Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) February 6, 2020
re: #298 retired cynic
AG Barr Calls for Bailing Out Foreign Companies to Counter Huawei
by JM Ashby, on bobcesca.comYes, our tax money not to our companies but to foreign ones. I wonder who is getting a rake off on this???
So it turns out Republicans ate just peachy great fine with state-owned companies. Note for future reference.
re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh dear
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Deep ocean sea creatures i warn you right now to start evolving legs and lungs. Or thanks to Trump You are about to start glowing soon.
The good news for Rick? His followers have heeded his word and stockpiled their supplies. The bad news? They bought it all from Jim Bakker and they’re going to starve to death.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) February 6, 2020
And Jennifer Rubin goes after not only Republicans, but the media:
He appeared unhinged, angry and resentful in what was billed as a speech but amounted to a disjointed stream of consciousness…
Throughout the appearance, Trump seethed with resentment, resorting to vulgarity (“It was all bullshit,” he said of impeachment) and insisting (sorry, Sen. Collins) that he did nothing wrong. Fury and vindictiveness oozed from every pore. Seeing the commander in chief in full rage-mode, plainly willing — and eager, even — to wreck vengeance on his critics should be deeply disturbing, particularly to the party that just rationalized acquitting him…
And yet, after this eye-popping performance, you will see mildly worded headlines describing Trump as holding a “celebration” for his acquittal. The effort to cast Trump in a setting of normalcy seems unabated, no matter how inappropriate to the events playing out before our eyes…
It is incumbent on the media to inform the public when the president behaves in such an aberrant manner. Indeed, it misleads readers and viewers to cast the event as an innocuous “celebration.” The media have struggled to appear “balanced” and objective in an era in which the president behaves in shocking and unprecedented ways. They need to find a language to convey vividly the unhinged anger and obsession with retribution that Trump occasionally unleashes in public.
re: #295 retired cynic
Democrats Have Successfully Implemented a 50-State Strategy
by Nancy LeTourneau, Washington MonthlyA really inspiring article about a change in party fundraising that began before the 2018 midterms, and has really proven to be an engine. The DCCC is sending funds out to the candidates and doing less themselves, and that, along with ActBlue, is pushing money out to the grassroots.
I like hearing good things, and we need to have some hopeful stuff today!
edited to add the missing link!
This is not to give any credit to Trump, but it really was going to take someone like Trump to get Democrats off their collectives asses.
re: #314 BeachDem
And Jennifer Rubin goes after not only Republicans, but the media:
He appeared unhinged, angry and resentful in what was billed as a speech but amounted to a disjointed stream of consciousness…
Throughout the appearance, Trump seethed with resentment, resorting to vulgarity (“It was all bullshit,” he said of impeachment) and insisting (sorry, Sen. Collins) that he did nothing wrong. Fury and vindictiveness oozed from every pore. Seeing the commander in chief in full rage-mode, plainly willing — and eager, even — to wreck vengeance on his critics should be deeply disturbing, particularly to the party that just rationalized acquitting him…
And yet, after this eye-popping performance, you will see mildly worded headlines describing Trump as holding a “celebration” for his acquittal. The effort to cast Trump in a setting of normalcy seems unabated, no matter how inappropriate to the events playing out before our eyes…
It is incumbent on the media to inform the public when the president behaves in such an aberrant manner. Indeed, it misleads readers and viewers to cast the event as an innocuous “celebration.” The media have struggled to appear “balanced” and objective in an era in which the president behaves in shocking and unprecedented ways. They need to find a language to convey vividly the unhinged anger and obsession with retribution that Trump occasionally unleashes in public.
When she’s right, she’s right.
re: #316 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
When she’s right, she’s right.
And, might I add, she’s throwing a bit of shade at her own employer,
Indeed, it misleads readers and viewers to cast the event as an innocuous “celebration.”
whose headline is
Trump celebrates acquittal at White House
re: #318 BeachDem
And, might I add, she’s throwing a bit of shade at her own employer,
Indeed, it misleads readers and viewers to cast the event as an innocuous “celebration.”
whose headline is
Trump celebrates acquittal at White House
Yep. This wasn’t a celebration in the slightest.
re: #317 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Evening Lizardim.
(looks outside)
Uh, not quite. But it’s really trying.
re: #320 BigPapa
(looks outside)
Uh, not quite. But it’s really trying.
This is a matter of geography. Here, it is most definitely evening.
Trump is more full of himself than ever. He is going to do something monumentally stupid, even for him.
Salt Lake Tribune editorial:
“Romney just could not avert his eyes from the fact that this president had, without a shadow of a doubt, abused his power as commander and chief… Romney deserves nothing but our thanks and our support.”
Thank you, Utah.
Utah!— JRehling (@JRehling) February 6, 2020
Thank you, Interim President @jguaido, for joining us today to discuss the plight of the people of Venezuela. We stand with you and support your calls for free & fair elections. pic.twitter.com/TvGOiJYhbl
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) February 6, 2020
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
thread starts here:
Ah. Canada. No wonder it’s a good ending.
I was afraid it would be in the states and not be so… good… of an ending.
DUBAI/LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - An OPEC+ technical panel has recommended a provisional cut in oil output of 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) in response to the coronavirus’ impact on energy demand as it awaits Russia’s final position on the proposal, three sources said.
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) February 6, 2020
Reuters: “The recommendation is for a cut of 600,000 bpd. Russia has asked for more time for consultations,” one of the sources said.
Another OPEC source said the proposed output cut of 600,000 bpd, if agreed by all members, will start immediately and continue until June.— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) February 6, 2020
re: #327 EPR-radar
What’s next? Raw onions up the rectum?
No, you goof, that’s the cure for colon cancer. DUH.
US military convoy reportedly blocked and made to retreat by #Syria army.
Location & timing unclear, but believed to be recent. US helicopter can be seen circling above.
No shots fired 👇🏻
pic.twitter.com/Yo7vH565rP— Firas Maksad (@FirasMaksad) February 6, 2020
re: #314 BeachDem
We need to see things like “unhinged”, “meltdown”, “presidential lies” etc. in headlines in this era of Trump.
The US political media has about a 95% failure rate with doing its only fucking job.
#SCOTUS denies stay of execution in case of Texas death-row inmate Abel Ochoa, convicted of 2002 shooting deaths of 5 people, including his wife and daughters. Execution is scheduled for tonight. No dissents noted.
— Amy Howe (@AHoweBlogger) February 7, 2020
The U.S. government with the *exception* of the commander-in-chief https://t.co/h4fZ6lF3ou
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 6, 2020
GOP senator loaned her own campaign $5 million - and she’s charging interest || By Dan Desai Martin https://t.co/HUfvWGV4KY
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) February 7, 2020
Grift Over Party
I wonder if @realDonaldTrump realized he will forever be the benchmark in politics. As in “that was bad but it wasn’t Trump bad” or “He’s horrible yes but he’s not Trump horrible” #impeached4life
— Margaret and Helen 🌎 (@HelenPhilpot) February 7, 2020
Remember when they used to count how many times Obama said “I” in a speech? I get 282 on this gem. https://t.co/FNhoQ5CGxF
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 7, 2020
Here’s the transcript of Trump’s comments about Steve Scalise getting shot, wives, and former New York Yankee Bobby Richardson. pic.twitter.com/JMrWRKOsOx
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 6, 2020
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Megachurch pastor allegedly hired a hitman to kill his son-in-law. (Since he’s a pastor, does “assassination” have a block on IRS form 1040 for religious deductions?)
Goes to The Non-Prophets, part of the Atheist Community of Austin, 5:28)
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MacDonald was ousted from Harvest Bible Chapel last year. An investigation commissioned by the church after his ouster and completed by a law firm found that MacDonald had basically used HBC as his personal piggy bank.
From January 2016 through mid-February 2019, MacDonald’s spending included $170,851 on hunting and fishing trips; $139,502 on meals and entertainment; and over $94,000 for clothing and eyewear. The church maintained two private checking accounts that gave MacDonald $3.1 million during those three years.
But this is not the end of the story! MacDonald announced yesterday that he’s starting a home church network for those who want to skip the drama of large churches. Uh, yeah, RIGHT.
If James MacDonald is sponsoring it, I guarantee that there is lots of $$$$$ involved. And guess who gets it.https://t.co/ON7Leg3HCq
— Dee Parsons (@wartwatch) February 6, 2020
re: #333 jaunte
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Grift Over Party
I will always refer to her as Ms. “I married the boss and then we donated big bucks and look at me now—I’M A SENATOR!!”
(probably tough day for poor little Kelly though, as she was a big Romney fan back in the day, but is now a huge Trump ass-kisser.)
re: #338 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Scalise is an ass but I wonder how he really feels about Trump turning the worst day of his life into a bizarre stream of consciousness rant.
Hallelujah! Finally can turn off the preview autoplay.
So they’re predicting snow, a rarity for Fort Cattis. That would explain why my neighbors have all come back carrying bags full of bread and milk and beer. (Humans should really try catnip. It wouldn’t be nearly as heavy as a case of beer…) #ThursdayThought pic.twitter.com/KSYUxNHpbM
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) February 6, 2020
The expanses of wind-swept badlands, narrow slot canyons and towering rock formations are sacred to Native American nations and prized by scientists and outdoor enthusiasts. But they also harbor oil, gas and grazing land the administration aims to develop.https://t.co/RoMzNm7sV4
— Sarah Kaplan (@sarahkaplan48) February 6, 2020
But ranchers welcomed the new access to grazing land, and several Utah officials have praised the Trump administration decision.
“Monuments should not be created over the objections of local communities,” Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert (R) said.— Sarah Kaplan (@sarahkaplan48) February 6, 2020
It’s outrageous that anyone would suggest we need more info and vetting of SNAP applicants than the people running the program.
See @SenRickScott overseeing as CEO of med co. one of the largest Medicare frauds in our nations history, paying $1.7 B fine.— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 7, 2020
No link to this story; it’s part of a WaPo compilation for today:
South Florida Democrats file bar complaint against Rep. Gaetz
The Miami-Dade Democratic Party has filed an official complaint with the Florida bar assocation against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of Trump’s staunchest allies.
The complaint hinges on Gaetz’s leading role in storming the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) where closed door depostions were held in October at the beginning of the House impeachment inquiry.
“He’s #impeachedforever, no matter he says or whatever headlines he wants to carry around. You’re impeached forever. You’re never getting rid of that scar and history will always record that you were impeached for undermining the security of our country.” #NancyPelosiROCKS pic.twitter.com/kbOe2ZHtPh
— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) February 6, 2020
re: #341 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Scalise is an ass but I wonder how he really feels about Trump turning the worst day of his life into a bizarre stream of consciousness rant.
Proud.
This continues to amaze me…..
A coyote and a badger use a culvert as a wildlife crossing to pass under a busy California highway together. Coyotes and badgers are known to hunt together.
🎥Peninsula Open Space Trust pic.twitter.com/oS9BL5JOoK— Russ McSpadden (@PeccaryNotPig) February 4, 2020
re: #351 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Proud.
That’s how he publicly feels but do you really think he likes Trump doing this? I mean fuck that guy- the David Duke without the baggage is bad enough but the way Trump creepily talks about the day he was shot is just well creepy as fuck eevn for Trump.
re: #353 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
That’s how he publicly feels but do you really think he likes Trump doing this? I mean fuck that guy- the David Duke without the baggage is bad enough but the way Trump creepily talks about the day he was shot is just well creepy as fuck eevn for Trump.
Yes, I do.
Tragic. They murdered that child. https://t.co/4SWu4anjg8
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) February 7, 2020
re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth
Humans should really try catnip.
Live PD detained some youths and they thought one had weed but he was smoking catnip. He said he liked the high.
re: #354 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yes, I do.
Fair enough. I hope you realize that was not a defense of the guy but more rather an observation of how fucking creepy Trump always has to be.
re: #355 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The Vaxxers are why people in this country have got no business throwing shade on China.
re: #352 Dave In Austin
This continues to amaze me…..
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Come on little buddy—I’ll catch it, we’ll kill it, then you tear it apart so we can eat it (?)
re: #357 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Fair enough. I hope you realize that was not a defense of the guy but more rather an observation of how fucking creepy Trump always has to be.
I understand.
You’re just a good guy (which I’ve said multiple times). You’re optimistic where I see every every republican as a total piece of shit with zero - and I mean not one - redeeming factor.
Scalise got shot and was all like GUNS! FUCK YEAH! I’m sure he was proud.
re: #359 Barefoot Grin
Come on little buddy—I’ll catch it, we’ll kill it, then you tear it apart so we can eat it (?)
The coyote’s behavior is very familiar to dog owners whose puppies want to play.
re: #360 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I understand.
You’re just a good guy (which I’ve said multiple times). You’re optimistic where I see every every republican as a total piece of shit with zero - and I mean not one - redeeming factor.
Scalise got shot and was all like GUNS! FUCK YEAH! I’m sure he was proud.
It’s not so much optimism but more bewilderment at how anyone could not be creeped the hell out by something like that happenng and then for Trump to describe it as if it was like “Hey remember when I got drunk and did a really bad version of Living on a Prayer at karaoke.” It’s just creepy as shit and I would hope that even a fuckwad like Scalise would be weirded out by that. You ain’t wrong though. He did double down on his stupidity when it comes to guns.
re: #361 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The coyote’s behavior is very familiar to dog owners whose puppies want to play.
Our half coyote/half Sheltie could have acted that role very convincingly!
re: #363 retired cynic
Our half coyote/half Sheltie could have acted that role very convincingly!
Is that a rescue or did you have a dog that sneak out for a midnight trist?
War in the wild north country: A giant (and I mean GIANT, as in, the size of a small bear) raccoon versus our outdoor kitteh. So far, it’s Cat 2, Raccoon 0.
re: #361 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The coyote’s behavior is very familiar to dog owners whose puppies want to play.
Interesting. But I was reacting to the info that coyotes and badgers sometimes hunt together. They must have established their own roles.
re: #365 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
War in the wild north country: A giant (and I mean GIANT, as in, the size of a small bear) raccoon versus our outdoor kitteh. So far, it’s Cat 2, Raccoon 0.
Kitties can lose that war!
re: #295 retired cynic
Democrats Have Successfully Implemented a 50-State Strategy
by Nancy LeTourneau, Washington MonthlyA really inspiring article about a change in party fundraising that began before the 2018 midterms, and has really proven to be an engine. The DCCC is sending funds out to the candidates and doing less themselves, and that, along with ActBlue, is pushing money out to the grassroots.
I like hearing good things, and we need to have some hopeful stuff today!
edited to add the missing link!
I still like to see it expanded to an every seat strategy
My rescue, by the way, is a turd hunter extraordinaire.
BREAKING: United States of America now on track to become 7th bankruptcy of Trump’s career https://t.co/RuLpDoe9Iw
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) January 28, 2020
re: #314 BeachDem
And Jennifer Rubin goes after not only Republicans, but the media:
He appeared unhinged, angry and resentful in what was billed as a speech but amounted to a disjointed stream of consciousness…
Throughout the appearance, Trump seethed with resentment, resorting to vulgarity (“It was all bullshit,” he said of impeachment) and insisting (sorry, Sen. Collins) that he did nothing wrong. Fury and vindictiveness oozed from every pore. Seeing the commander in chief in full rage-mode, plainly willing — and eager, even — to wreck vengeance on his critics should be deeply disturbing, particularly to the party that just rationalized acquitting him…
And yet, after this eye-popping performance, you will see mildly worded headlines describing Trump as holding a “celebration” for his acquittal. The effort to cast Trump in a setting of normalcy seems unabated, no matter how inappropriate to the events playing out before our eyes…
It is incumbent on the media to inform the public when the president behaves in such an aberrant manner. Indeed, it misleads readers and viewers to cast the event as an innocuous “celebration.” The media have struggled to appear “balanced” and objective in an era in which the president behaves in shocking and unprecedented ways. They need to find a language to convey vividly the unhinged anger and obsession with retribution that Trump occasionally unleashes in public.
As I’ve been saying if you don’t report it accurately you are not doing journalism or reporting. You are creating fiction actually lying and creating truly fake news
Ha, they’re calling Trump’s shit fit today the “Pettysburg Address.”
re: #372 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Ha, they’re calling Trump’s shit fit today the “Pettysburg Address.”
I love it!
.@SpeakerPelosi: “I tore up a manifesto of mistruths…It was necessary to get the attention of the American people, to say this is not true…And I don’t need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the United States, about dignity.” pic.twitter.com/N4PLK1wGyG
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 6, 2020
Just completed an Ethics Complaint Form on both Pat Cipollone & Jay Sekulow at https://t.co/SqAYjYbK44
for violation of the “Candor Toward the Tribunal”, Rule 3.3 which states “an attorney shall not knowingly make a false statement of fact or law to a Tribunal”. There’s that!!!!— Knocker 🌊 (@katalva3) February 6, 2020
We will have to rely on the foreign media for accurate reporting.
‘It was all bullshit’: Trump delivers mocking, vitriolic speech after acquittal https://t.co/E3InkWB2wy
— The Guardian (@guardian) February 6, 2020
First it was ISIS. Now it’s Al Queda. No one knows what nonsense you’re trying to brag about and no one cares. Your impeached disgrace of a father is owned by our worst enemies including Saudi Arabia who he let’s chop up our journalists and kill soldiers on our own soil. https://t.co/FnoxF8sbjP
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) February 7, 2020
The courtroom of history will deliver a different verdict on Trump’s acquittal https://t.co/PPuAIfH8kY @GlobeDebate pic.twitter.com/BiGB298f8B
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) February 6, 2020
re: #378 The Pie Overlord!
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But at the trial, it was clearly the Republicans who were triumphant in the debasement sweepstakes. Jeff Flake, the former Republican senator from Arizona, revealed the degree to which his party members were terrorized by what boss Trump might do to them if they spoke their minds. If there were secret ballots, he said, at least 35 Republican senators would have voted to convict. Such a number would have been enough to remove him from office
re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth
Funny, I didn’t see Don Jr giving Obama any credit when he got Bin Laden but I get it, Don Jr is a pathetic dipshit so desperate for daddy’s approval. PS, Don Jr, you’re not ever going to be President because you’re somehow stupider than your father which I have to admit is quite an accomplishment.
re: #379 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
Flake thinks that reflects well on his former colleagues. It does not and it’s exactly why they should all be out of jobs.
Breaking: Matt Gaetz accidentally initiates impeachment proceedings for Trump’s repeated tearing and ripping of official documents that must be preserved by law. #kitm https://t.co/WckXoLj2h5
— Mike Musson (@mmusson) February 6, 2020
re: #380 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Funny, I didn’t see Don Jr giving Obama any credit when he got Bin Laden but I get it, Don Jr is a pathetic dipshit so desperate for daddy’s approval. PS, Don Jr, you’re not ever going to be President because you’re somehow stupider than your father which I have to admit is quite an accomplishment.
Stupidity is no bar to the GOP presidential nomination. In fact, it’s now one of the qualifications.
Some good news
“The roughly four dozen most endangered House Democratic incumbents raised a collective $28.5 million in the last three months of 2019, a staggering total that is nearly twice the sum of all of their Republican challengers combined.”
re: #382 Dread Pirate
Heckuva job Matty.
re: #382 Dread Pirate
More wingnut bullcrap about the Mango Moron having a copy of his lies torn up being a crime.
Lese-majeste is not a crime in US law, or in the law of any state.
re: #383 EPR-radar
Stupidity is no bar to the GOP presidential nomination. In fact, it’s now one of the qualifications.
True but I still think he’s not going anywhere near the presidency.
re: #381 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Flake thinks that reflects well on his former colleagues. It does not and it’s exactly why they should all be out of jobs.
Profiles in discourage
re: #388 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
True but I still think he’s not going anywhere near the presidency.
I agree on that point. Don Jr’s fatal flaw is that even Republicans see him as totally and intrinsically worthless. The Salacious Crumb to Trump’s Jabba the Hutt.
re: #390 EPR-radar
I agree on that point. Don Jr’s fatal flaw is that even Republicans see him as totally and intrinsically worthless. The Salacious Crumb to Trump’s Jabba the Hutt.
Yeah I don’t think anyone actually likes him. He’s just the boss’s kid who is only where he is for that reason. Even his dad doesn’t like him taht much.
re: #386 goddamnedfrank
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Yes, it’s incrementalism that kills. Right. Because apparently all change and progress must happen all at once or else it’s invalid and just for show,
Not like we’re dealing with an electorate that keeps anyone who actually tries to push progressive goals forward on the tightest of goddamn leashes and pulls screaming toward the right at the first sign of not even trouble, but not fixing problems left to said fixers fast enough…
Again, this “burn it all down” shit presumes you’ll be capable of building atop the ashes of what was, rather than just being left with ashes.
re: #352 Dave In Austin
This continues to amaze me…..
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And it was captured in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near here!
My neighborhood is currently getting buzzed by a gigantic murder of crows. Thousands of ‘em. And they are LOUD.
I, for one, welcome our new corvid overlords.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 7, 2020
re: #372 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Perfect!
re: #394 Charles Johnson
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Tippi Hedren must have moved into the neighborhood. That worked out rather badly for Bodega Bay……
re: #392 Citizen K
Yes, it’s incrementalism that kills. Right. Because apparently all change and progress must happen all at once or else it’s invalid and just for show,
Not like we’re dealing with an electorate that keeps anyone who actually tries to push progressive goals forward on the tightest of goddamn leashes and pulls screaming toward the right at the first sign of not even trouble, but not fixing problems left to said fixers fast enough…
Again, this “burn it all down” shit presumes you’ll be capable of building atop the ashes of what was, rather than just being left with ashes.
Do the dummies who are still Bernie or bust know that if Bernie ever gets elected he’s going to need Democratic support? God I could almost get Bernie if he was just super idealistic but he’s really not A) and B) he inspires this only I can do it bullshit. We expanded protections for LGBT people today in Richmond with probably the most moderate minded Democratic governor we’ve had since I started voting but we did it ebcause we got a legislative majority. That’s something the Bernouts need to think about rather than trying to make a guy who turns 80 years old next year into a standard bearer.
He is not exonerated.
You’re thinking of the Central Park Five. https://t.co/hP0O99JXxA— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 6, 2020
re: #398 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Do the dummies who are still Bernie or bust know that if Bernie ever gets elected he’s going to need Democratic support? God I could almost get Bernie if he was just super idealistic but he’s really not A) and B) he inspires this only I can do it bullshit. We expanded protections for LGBT people today in Richmond with probably the most moderate minded Democratic governor we’ve had since I started voting but we did it ebcause we got a legislative majority. That’s something the Bernouts need to think about rather than trying to make a guy who turns 80 years old next year into a standard bearer.
Sanders supporters are the least well equipped faction to persuade and energize low information and fence sitting voters.
re: #399 Backwoods_Sleuth
The technical term is “not guilty”, and it just means that the court refused to convict - whether due to lack of evidence, hung jury, or in this case, because they’re a bunch of corrupt partisan assholes who would acquit Hitler if he was a Republican. Doesn’t mean he didn’t do it.
re: #400 gwangung
Sanders supporters are the least well equipped faction to persuade and energize low information and fence sitting voters.
They make me feel like a moderate and I was a teenaged Kucinich supporter FFS. I regret that of course but they make me feel like a moderate and I hate feeling that way because I’m not.
re: #401 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The technical term is “not guilty”, and it just means that the court refused to convict - whether due to lack of evidence, hung jury, or in this case, because they’re a bunch of corrupt partisan assholes who would acquit Hitler if he was a Republican. Doesn’t mean he didn’t do it.
Susan Collins would say she disqualifies of Herr Hitler’s harsh words about the Jewish people stabbing the German people in the back but aren’t the Social Democrats just as bad for pointing out that Jews served honorably in the war?
re: #386 goddamnedfrank
She’s not all that politically savvy, if she’s going back to this well after everything that’s happened:
You mean last time a democrat was president, when we got Sotomayor and Kagan?
Or you mean last time people told you we needed to defeat Trump because of judges, and you guys went “whatever!” and Trump did exactly what we warned you of?
Sorry, this tweet was poorly thought out.— Uriel (@sickendun2death) February 7, 2020
Google: Barack Obama, Lyndon B. Johnson, Franklin D. Roosevelt & Harry S Truman
“This President has done more for African Americans in this Country than any President since Lincoln.” @LouDobbs
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 7, 2020
re: #404 uriel
She’s not all that politically savvy, if she’s going back to this well after everything that’s happened:
She’s not an American.
honestly if I were an American citizen I would not be “Bernie or bust” and would vote for whoever the ends up being the Dem nominee. I just hate seeing the “‘Bernie or bust’ comes from a position of privilege” shit
— Avery Edison (@aedison) February 6, 2020
That’s foreign rodent-copulation right there.
Ask her how Brexit’s doing.
If you look at her bio, you’ll note you can buy her nude pictures from her Website.
re: #164 EPR-radar
I’m convinced that today’s NYT if sent back in time to Weimar Germany would have both-sidered every step in the Nazis’ rise to power.
New York Times
April 4, 1933
“it may be fair to Hitler himself to say that in all probability he did not himself sanction either the violence directed towards the Jews or the boycott plans. His anti-Semitism is understood to have been mainly rhetorical.”
re: #356 Dread Pirate
Live PD detained some youths and they thought one had weed but he was smoking catnip. He said he liked the high.
re: #359 Barefoot Grin
Come on little buddy—I’ll catch it, we’ll kill it, then you tear it apart so we can eat it (?)
Might also be the badger digging out the ground squirrel and the coyote standing by to help catch it when it makes a run for it.
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