Seth takes a closer look at Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire primary win and Trump bullying the Justice Department into going easy on one of his convicted henchmen.
So Max Boot, who only recently became a Democrat, is getting yelled at for preferring Mike Bloomberg, who only recently became a Democrat, over Bernie Sanders, who only recently became a Democrat, to stop Donald Trump, who only recently became a Republican.
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 12, 2020
As a former member of the Leopards Eating People’s Faces party until it became extremist, I can tell you that the Let’s Not Eat Anyone’s Face party will get nowhere unless it elects a candidate who wants leopards to eat *some* people’s faces.
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) February 12, 2020
And of course, in government we must restore the leopards to their treasured place in our nation’s capital. To hunt them would be as gross a crime as those who unleashed them into the nurseries.
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) February 12, 2020
trump is practically begging to be impeached again.
I say we do it:
Impeached forever…TWICE.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) February 13, 2020
The US Senate will protect Iran from Trump, but it won’t protect America from Trump. https://t.co/uZcZGOYaUw
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) February 13, 2020
Can any Democrat actually win the Democratic nomination? It remains to be seen!
re: #1 Belafon
Letting facts get in the way of a snark post:
Bloomberg was a D before 2001 and from 2018 to now.
He switched parties to run for NYC mayor since it was easier to win as a GOPer.
He then switched again to independent from 2007 to 2018.
Sanders never became a Democrat. He’s still a registered Independent (and arguably shouldn’t even be in the primaries but for the DNC allowing him to do so by their good graces).
re: #6 lawhawk
And Donnie became an R when he discovered racism sells.
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
Nothing in the Constitution says that a President can’t be impeached multiple times.
Trump’s blatantly breaking the law - time to draw up new articles of impeachment.
re: #7 Dr. Matt
But when you think about it, he always fit in to that line of “fuck the people” thinking. Like a duck to water.
Respectfully, @vonderleyen, isn’t it time the 🇪🇺 calls a spade a spade and keeps #Huawei OUT OF ALL EUROPEAN 5G?
We have great 🇪🇺 companies such as @nokia and @ericsson that we can trust. So can we please make sure we have 5G that protects all 🇪🇺 citizens? https://t.co/2ckXUlasS3— Anne Geurts (@Geurtie) February 13, 2020
RICO, baby, sweet RICO.
Act like Mobsters, here’s a nice big cup of RICO! 😈😈😈🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕😀😀 https://t.co/jRuKjGVeb3— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) February 13, 2020
Speaker Pelosi: “The president talks about farmers, farmers have record numbers of bankruptcy now and in the budget the president slashes the farmers’ safety net by $60 billion while stealing $200 billion from SNAP.” pic.twitter.com/Dzmy5wiGzW
— The Hill (@thehill) February 13, 2020
McEntee was fired in 2018 after a gambling addiction and alleged financial crimes led to WH revoking his security clearance.
Given this history, 29 yo McEntee is a very, very unusual pick to direct the WH Office of Presidential Personnel, in charge of vetting job applicants. https://t.co/f1Z9uphTjp— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) February 13, 2020
Holy cow! He appears to be engaging in another quid pro quo right before our eyes. I don’t know what to say but HOLY COW! NY must drop its lawsuits against him if New Yorkers want Global Entry status? HOLY COW!!! HOLY COW!!! https://t.co/4NPUgc9LNt
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 13, 2020
We really do need more than two parties…
— Tam S. Lowe (@tam_lowe) February 13, 2020
…IF the effing Repubs hadn’t invited the white supremacists, who deserve NO welcome in ANY party, into theirs and then made it increasingly comfortable for them to stay in it.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t think people get the connection between farm/agriculture and SNAP aid.
SNAP is a direct contributor to food production and distribution. Reducing SNAP would have a drastic effect on farming and food processors and distributors.
SNAP is also one of the most effective economic generators that the government can do - for every $1 in SNAP funding, it creates $1.50 or more in economic activity, with a big chunk going to farmers and the food supply chain.
Compassionate. Brilliant. Presidential. pic.twitter.com/bEMKezRuKd
— Jason Overstreet (@JasonOverstreet) February 13, 2020
Things troops do that draw attacks from trump:
- testify to Congress
- disagree publicly
- disagree privately
- provide information
- perform their duties
- resign from office
- get brain injuries
- get captured
- die
Things troops do that draw praise from trump:
- war crimes— Jake Maccoby (@jdmaccoby) February 13, 2020
I heard about Hope Hicks coming back to the WH, but Preibus and Spicer, too? They’re getting the band back together before Granpa’s brain goes blank…
Hope Hicks, Sean Spicer, and Rience Preibus all returning to the WH has Ivanka’s fingerprints all over it.
She knows he dad is mentally deteriorating, and it’s only accelerating. She’s surrounding him with people he remembers to try and buy time to make it to November.— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) February 13, 2020
(Trump supporter started his thread by stating that the reason that Rs give Trump sole credit for any job created since the recession is that we do the same for Obama)
— DJ_D2H (@d2harris) February 12, 2020
Depending on how many ancillary expenses the job adds, and how much extra damage someone does to their health by pushing through to do it (the vast majority of make-work jobs are make-BACK-BREAKING-work), that actually may be an accurate statement, not the straw man you call it!
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
re: #18 makeitstop
Damn, I hadn’t thought of that but Tomlinson may be on to something.
Of course, it could also be that Trump has burned so many bridges that no one else wants those fucking jobs at this point.
re: #19 Chrysicat
(Trump supporter started his thread by stating that the reason that Rs give Trump sole credit for any job created since the recession is that we do the same for Obama)
I can’t read the thread right now, but we do give Bush credit for the bank and auto bailouts.
Some Californians have received “2020 Congressional District Census” questionnaires—but they were actually RNC mailers. Ploys like this increase confusion and distrust, when the census already struggles against disinformation. I called on the Census Director to do something. pic.twitter.com/8oE5wCv4L1
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) February 13, 2020
re: #16 gocart mozart
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Here’s a history lesson on the racist legacy of redlining, if any presidential candidate needs a refresher. pic.twitter.com/PiyJrEFXcV
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) February 13, 2020
This is kinda funny- (The second one, I mean. The first one is just jeanine pirro being jeanine pirro, but I don’t know how to just display the one.)
This is really something when you add the “A Quiet Place” soundtrack under it pic.twitter.com/wZ0xnuAP6y
— claude zeins (@czeins) February 9, 2020
Does Trump think these sentences are too long? https://t.co/LGpj3bKsGE
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) February 13, 2020
re: #13 jaunte
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Trump to NY: “I’d like you to do me a favor, though.” https://t.co/dvl91jzW0r
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) February 13, 2020
Senate-confirmed Jessie Liu is out as US Atty and Barr’s close aide Tim Shea is in as acting US Atty without Senate confirmation, just as key decisions are being made for Flynn, Stone and McCabe. Just a coincidence? https://t.co/HYwNL7xhlx
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) February 13, 2020
An AG who wanted to protect the actual and perceived independence of the Department of Justice would issue a statement about what on earth happened in the Stone case. With Barr’s silence, we are left to assume the worst. https://t.co/5JncGbTNPR
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) February 13, 2020
Do you ever have an unexpressed thought? @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/SzSsWJtq9A
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) February 13, 2020
re: #24 uriel
This is kinda funny- (The second one, I mean. The first one is just jeanine pirro being jeanine pirro, but I don’t know how to just display the one.)
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Donald Trump’s whiny nasal mouth noise is the most annoying, maddening sound ever heard, but Judge Ducklips is the maddening mouth noise runner up.
re: #14 Chrysicat
This is probably true. That’s why we have the primaries, 2determine which factions in the party get 2put their concerns front and centre this term.
The alternative would entail three no-confidence votes, with snap elections, by ‘25.
Go on the record, please. Do you favour that?— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
re: #18 makeitstop
I heard about Hope Hicks coming back to the WH, but Preibus and Spicer, too? They’re getting the band back together before Granpa’s brain goes blank…
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I have family with mid-stage dementia. This is probably right; these are the last close people he’s actually retained in what’s left of his mind. His post-“acquittal” rant was full of non sequiturs, looping and repeating threads, and all the rest of the goodies that make normal people’s relatives start shopping around for retirement communities with memory units.
The not-black-but-probably-medium-gray swans in this election are shitgibbon and/or Bernie dropping off their perches in mid-rant. For Trump, I can see him drooling and semi-conscious, surrounded by his handlers and gooper congresscritters too scared to do anything about it until he’s safely flatlined, right out of Death of Stalin.
re: #8 Dr Lizardo
Nothing in the Constitution says that a President can’t be impeached multiple times.
Trump’s blatantly breaking the law - time to draw up new articles of impeachment.
constitution says “impeachment’ not ‘impeachments’ //
Even if this was true, which it is emphatically NOT, there is separation between law enforcement and the court on purpose.
When the police become also jury and judge, when the president becomes all three, then fascism has arrived full blown. https://t.co/WrqVG0S5XA— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 13, 2020
Trump doesn’t get how any of this works. He thinks he’s an autocrat and can do what he wants. He ignores his oath and the rule of law.
Democrats have to enforce the law because the GOP are complicit in covering up Trump crimes.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 13, 2020
We’re only 3 years in. Another 5 years of the goon squad and we ain’t keeping the republic.
re: #16 gocart mozart
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this is another of those “toxic masculinity hurts us all” datapoints.
Sheila Bair saw the crash coming, about two years before it happened. She tried to warn everyone. But Bernanke, Paulson, Geitner, Greenspan… they were the big swinging dicks of Wall Street (yes, they actually call themselves that) and no little girl from Kansas was going to tell them anything. They patted her on her head, sneered about how women just don’t understand money, and shoo-ed her away.
Roger Stone is now trying to ratfuck his jury. I don’t approve of it, but I’m impressed by his dedication to the one technique that propelled his career in politics. https://t.co/j0UkZTexTD
— Travis View (@travis_view) February 13, 2020
90% chance he thinks they’re too SHORT. As in “should be life”. Also as in, now he has the road map on what to do if WE protest peacefully.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
“I was told there would be lobster sliders…” https://t.co/79LpJybaps
— Leftfielder™ (@DaleMoss2) February 13, 2020
I love my state AG.
When you stop violating the rights and liberties of all New Yorkers, we will stand down.
Until then, we have a duty and responsibility to defend the Constitution and the rule of law.
BTW, I file the lawsuits, not the Governor. https://t.co/tsOLeEgiQp— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) February 13, 2020
Surf’s up and waves are massive: Kai Lenny wins the men’s wave of the day award at the annual Nazare big-wave competition.
Video from @sntvstory pic.twitter.com/PnPFm26d4y— AP Sports (@AP_Sports) February 13, 2020
re: #36 lawhawk
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he thinks governor is the king of the state like he thinks he’s king of the country
(and why dont they run their states like i run my country)?
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
His lawyers didn’t object to the jury during voir dire. He’s pulling out all the lies and stops to claim that he was railroaded. He was convicted by a jury of his peers and should get a max sentence regardless of what Trump and Barr say.
CLed from last string:
re: #412 jaunte
Breitbart commenters already raging about RINOs and Mormons.
The Mormon Church needs to run, not walk, away from its defacto alliance with Evangelicals. Bullshit “common values” are not worth being thrown in a concentration camp by a theocratic dictatorship you helped install.
Trump says previous presidents also had lawyers who would “do things for them.” He adds, “It’s really circumventing — but very legally — and maybe getting things done faster.” He adds that Giuliani is “working with the Justice Department, from what I understand.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 13, 2020
Thank you, Maya. The rest of legal Twitter needs to be calling this out, as Maya has done. This is Ukraine again. https://t.co/hsT8Nurhjb
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 13, 2020
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is not the portrait of a man of endurance. This is a guy who should be looking for cracks in the sidewalk and any errant banana peels.
Borowitz:
JUDGE SENTENCES ROGER STONE TO HOUSE ARREST IN SUSAN COLLINS’S HOME
In a decision that Donald Trump called “incredibly unfair,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson has sentenced Roger Stone to ten years of house arrest in the home of Senator Susan Collins, of Maine.
As part of the sentence, Senator Collins will be required to live under the same roof as Stone, in Bangor, and insure that he is properly fed, clothed, and exercised until 2030.
The sentence immediately drew howls of protest from Stone, who claimed that living with the ceaselessly waffling Collins would “send me over the edge.”
“Judge, can we revisit the whole prison idea?” Stone begged Jackson.
For her part, Collins said that she was unsure whether becoming Stone’s jailer was a good idea, adding that she would “need more time to think about it.”
Jackson said that Stone’s house arrest will not go into effect until after the 2020 election, at which point Collins is expected to be home on a permanent basis.
Holy cow! Are Twitter and the media just going to join the Senate Republicans in shrugging off presidential extortion. Is that the new normal? Members of Congress across the aisle too?? What in the world is going on right now?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THIS?!!!!! https://t.co/pMaF2YHwuX
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 13, 2020
re: #18 makeitstop
I’ve said before, I don’t think Trump is going to debate whomever the Democratic nominee ends up being; he’ll make up some BS excuse. But that’s gonna be a conflict for President Bigly Cheeseman….he loves the limelight and skipping the debates means he’s not in the limelight.
Most likely, instead of debating, he’ll do one of his MAGA rallies.
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
You guys are posting tweets from all over the place about it, so I don’t think people on twitter are ignoring it. But also, if it weren’t for Twitter, Trump would have just been saying it in the White House.
Crosby getting all blunt
Trump knows absolutely nothing about women
To him they are tits and a mouth
He has only ever been serviced
He has never made a woman come
He doesn’t even think they are people
And no …I don’t think he’s familiar with the location of the fun button https://t.co/SN9tIw7a5N— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) February 13, 2020
Re: Judy Shelton hearing—so how do you think he’ll vote?
“I’m undecided,” Kennedy said after the hearing, adding that it doesn’t bother him that someone might change their mind on a position but that “nobody wants anybody on the Federal Reserve that has a fatal attraction to nutty ideas.”
Strangely, although they talked about many of her weird stances, no mention of her desire to end FDIC.
“Last night on CNN, Bernie Sanders called me a political hack. That’s exactly who the fuck I am! I am a political hack! I am not an ideologue. I am not a purist. He thinks it’s a pejorative. I kinda like it! At least I’m not a communist.”— James Carville, in an interview with Vanity Fair.
again this is how some dems are handling this
though communist? really?
the R’s are gonna eviscerate bernie over ‘socialism’, democratic or otherwise
they didnt in 2016 because they didnt have to. and now there’s this borg/cult thing besides….
Taco Stop in Dallas Receives Hate Mail in Response to Owner’s Charity
After a national spotlight was cast on Emilia Flores’s coat donation program, an expletive-drenched letter arrives at her taqueria.
he profane and racist letter, typewritten and postmarked December 26, surprised Emilia Flores when she returned to her Dallas taqueria from a Christmas visit to her mother in Mexico. She texted me a photo of the letter, which you can see below, soon after she received it. Its message is shocking, especially considering that it arrived in response to an act of charity.Each winter since 2015, Flores has been putting out a rack for coats at her Taco Stop. A sign above it reads, “Are you cold? Take one. Do you want to help? Leave one.” Late last month, she and the program received national media attention, including from the Washington Post, cable news networks, and the Weather Channel.
New: The Defense Department plans to take $1.3billion from the National Guard budget and use it for border fencing and security
Story: https://t.co/u4e2hGEw3R— Betsy Woodruff Swan (@woodruffbets) February 13, 2020
On “Newsmax TV” (which appears to be carried by most providers)
Sean Spicer launching cable news talk show ‘Spicer & Co.’ in March https://t.co/l8JukJ8DOm pic.twitter.com/wJpaAHslnv
— New York Post (@nypost) February 13, 2020
Congress should cut military budget by $50 billion, they obviously get so much more than they need that they can donate it to CBP many times a year.
I’ll admit, I wouldn’t be fighting this guy if he hadn’t pushed—well, apparently about as many buttons as I pushed on him.
I don’t think I’ve seen this much back and forth in ages, particularly with no one RTing or faving either of us.
Again. Two choices.
The ONLY result you can get from ten parties all having representation is a coalition government. You would need to be able to call a vote-of-no-confidence, or the last half of something—probably a Pres. term but possibly a Congress—— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
—would generate less legislation than the Polish-Lithuanian Sejm of 1746. Your choices are our system or governments that fall “mid-term”. The UK just proved that to be true of ANY system tha allows no-confidence votes. In addition, the @CPUSA is unlikely to be a power-broker.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
You’re just sore that I correctly pegged you as thinking the @CPUSA SHOULD be a power broker. Though how they got their account perma-banned, I have no effing clue and agree shouldn’t happen in the absence of the type of legal proscription supposedly forbidden to the US gov’t.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
Been so long since I’ve had a good insult session. Too bad he’s resorted to just throwing insulting memes instead of using his words.
re: #59 Dread Pirate
Might as well be thousands of miles of 24k gold toilets; no reason to have it, no oversight, irresponsible spending, environmental destruction, pay through the nose, and it’s all for appearance’s sake. GOP fingerprints are all over it.
Racist dogs hit with $150,000 in damages
A Georgia couple who evicted a white tenant after she brought an African-American family into her home has admitted to making a series of racist remarks — telling her they don’t “allow n——-s” or “black dogs” on their property.https://t.co/ix25csiLd4
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 13, 2020
re: #59 Dread Pirate
Trump’s screwing up the defense budget and the budget generally building a boondoggle wall that is destroying national monuments, sensitive habitats, and trampling all over Native American sacred sites.
Of course, that’s his brand.
Reality is that the Trump defense budget is a mess, and throwing more money at it isn’t delivering results. Trump wants a 350 ship Navy, and the Navy itself is seeking to retire a bunch of newly built littoral combat ships because they’ve failed to live up to expectations (LCS was a program begun under Bush and the first ships fielded under Obama). It was meant to be multi-modal and allow ships to be reconfigured for different missions on the fly.
If they retire those ships now, there’s no way to get to 350 as Trump promises because there aren’t ships being built to take their place. There are other higher needs too. But Trump loves touting round numbers and biggest strongest bestest bulkshit.
Details don’t matter to him. He’d rather spend billions or trillions updating nuclear weapons platforms (a process started under Obama, but with Obama he was doing it under existing treaties, and Trump killed the INF and is making mess of the rest of the nuclear nonproliferation scheme too).
re: #59 Dread Pirate
Hmmm…
An intriguing idea. An “invisible” wall.
And, think of the kickbacks available at around $80 Million per every 35 ft of wall— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) February 13, 2020
re: #66 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Why not just paint scenes on pieces of exterior plywood? The roadrunner fooled the coyote countless times that way.
re: #66 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That’s an idea - Trump could say, “It’s a forcefield we put up on the border, you know, like you see in Star Trek and all that. And we’re gonna build our first Star Destroyer starting soon, folks, you’ll see, it’ll be the most beautiful Star Destroyer anyone’s ever seen and it’s gonna have that same forcefield, believe me.”
Good gawd. Is this 2020 or 1920? Though at least unlike the actual 1920, we’re still allowing plaintiffs to win lawsuits if they take offence to the discrimination.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
This is big. A federal judge appears to believe there may be merit to Amazon’s contention that Trump prioritized his personal vendetta against Bezos and The Washington Post over national security by seeing to it that Amazon lost an important DoD contract. https://t.co/MfIicKO2Yr
— Ned Price (@nedprice) February 13, 2020
“Mr. Durham appears to be pursuing a theory that the C.I.A., under its former director John O. Brennan, had a preconceived notion about Russia or was trying to get to a particular result.”https://t.co/jXjd1DwbQ3
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) February 13, 2020
“Go and get me the invented details of the story I want to tell.”
I believe I just coined a new word and would like full credit
insane to me how trump, who is no wordsmith, will bluntly say something, and then the mainstream media will take it and finesse it. “apparently.” “appears to.” “suggested.” “hinted.” “was interpreted by some as.”
theyre covering.— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 13, 2020
A wordsmidge if you will
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 13, 2020
re: #70 Dread Pirate
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Apparently MSNBC is “no media” now. Not sure if they’ve harped on it on TV, but their prime-time talent is tweeting their takes on that to death. Not sure about CNN or the over-air networks either.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
re: #56 BeachDem
Re: Judy Shelton hearing—so how do you think he’ll vote?
“I’m undecided,” Kennedy said after the hearing, adding that it doesn’t bother him that someone might change their mind on a position but that “nobody wants anybody on the Federal Reserve that has a fatal attraction to nutty ideas.”
Strangely, although they talked about many of her weird stances, no mention of her desire to end FDIC.
We’re seriously putting a goldbug who believes either that there should be no paper money or that every bank should be responsible for its own and none of them considered legal tender on the FDIC board?
Although admittedly, that’s probably the type of nominee any of the 2016 Repubs would have been in favour of. Goldbuggery was already the majority in the party then, even if it wasn’t ubiquitous like now because the last people to respect the Fed have now been purged.
You may be wondering why Trump wants to shut down NY lawsuits and investigations.
Here’s an incomplete list:
-NY DA sued for tax returns
-NY AG forced $2 mil settlement for misuse of Trump charity
-SDNY & EDNY are investigating inaugural
-NY AG is investigating Trump Org loans pic.twitter.com/6VyWPq7h5b— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 13, 2020
Where was he during the hearings? https://t.co/Pht7MwGedK
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) February 13, 2020
re: #71 jaunte
“Go and get me the invented details of the story I want to tell.”
The preconceived notion being that the country is our enemy not our friend. A view I share.
re: #74 Chrysicat
We’re seriously putting a goldbug who believes either that there should be no paper money or that every bank should be responsible for its own and none of them considered legal tender on the FDIC board?
Although admittedly, that’s probably the type of nominee any of the 2016 Repubs would have been in favour of. Goldbuggery was already the majority in the party then, even if it wasn’t ubiquitous like now because the last people to respect the Fed have now been purged.
Argh. My bad. She only wants to uninsure banks, not end the Federal Reserve. I conflated two programs.
Interestingly, that means that anyone who can’t afford private deposit insurance should keep all their cash in the mattress, because her policies would also almost guarantee five bank-runs a quarter. The only hope is that’s “five nationwide” rather than “five per state”.
re: #74 Chrysicat
“nobody wants anybody on the Federal Reserve that has a fatal attraction to nutty ideas.”
But since he’s Kennedy (Afraid Of Trump, LA) he’s down as ‘undecided.’
Barr is happy to intervene to help Flynn and Stone, happy to launch baseless probes into Brennan, Clapper, and Comey. But Trump can’t stop saying the quiet part out loud and making Barr’s actions look as political as they are.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) February 13, 2020
Shocked. Shocked I say.
AP Exclusive: President Trump said in his State of the Union speech that a homeless vet turned his life around thanks to a company using the administration’s Opportunity Zone tax breaks. But the man never worked at a site taking advantage of the breaks. https://t.co/CIVp9fMzdL
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 13, 2020
Today Rowan Farrow’s Catch and Kill podcast features model and Playmate Karen McDougal for anyone who’s interested.
Yeah, no matter what Trump claims about his brain or his genius-ness, it really all comes down to him being an insecure pussyhound with a resume of extramarital affairs and receipts for sex. Nothing very special.
Barr to @realDonaldTrump: Stop saying the quiet part out loud or these idiots will figure it out. https://t.co/QydWmqa5Qi
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) February 13, 2020
re: #81 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“was not quite true.” LOL AP.
As far as I can tell, it’s mainly responses to this tweet that are causing “Columbine” to trend on a day that has no significance related to any Colorado mass shooting:
IF YOU WERE BORN BEFORE 1995 did you grow up fearing a mass shooting at your school?
— internet jew (@tashakaminsky) February 13, 2020
And of course I had to respond without pumping the trend:
Said school was ARAPAHOE, which DID eventually get shot up; the principal during my era (‘95 for me, ‘96 for friend) kept a better lid on the anti-poptart/jock resentment than either his (that-school) counterpart or his successor managed.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
Yet the 4 prosecutors resigned over interference from higher up in the DOJ. That comes from Barr. That comes from Trump.
Barr’s lying and covering for Trump but unless Barr’s testifying under oath, treat as unconfirmed statements. We’ll find out that he had comms with Trump too.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 13, 2020
re: #84 Ace Rothstein
“Fucking Liar Fucking Lies Again” probably not in the AP stylebook, but should be.
Barr is in own way raising questions about how out of control and reckless the President has become. He is implicitly raising questions about whether the President is still together enough to hold the office. This is no small matter. https://t.co/5Piy3Ws5Ee
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) February 13, 2020
“You’re too crazy to let me help you be a dictator” is quite a message.
Las Vegas Weekly endorses Joe Biden … AND Amy Klobuchar.
The Culinary Union all but warns its members to NOT vote for Bernie Sanders … but refuses to endorse someone TO vote for.
Funny, I thought the point of endorsements was to *help* people make up their minds.— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) February 13, 2020
The whole point of an endorsement from a union or a media outlet is to indicate who to vote for.
Media outlet again fails to do their job. One of them is superior to the other. Pick one.
The union’s stance is a bit more nuanced, but it still comes down to fact that they don’t want Bernie. Anyone but Bernie. That’s significant. Unions are a big component of Democratic party turnout, so if they’re saying not to pick Bernie, that’s a big ding.
re: #89 lawhawk
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The whole point of an endorsement from a union or a media outlet is to indicate who to vote for.
Media outlet again fails to do their job. One of them is superior to the other. Pick one.
The union’s stance is a bit more nuanced, but it still comes down to fact that they don’t want Bernie. Anyone but Bernie. That’s significant. Unions are a big component of Democratic party turnout, so if they’re saying not to pick Bernie, that’s a big ding.
Yeah I don’t get the dual endorsements.
re: #90 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’ll split the vote and actually increase the chances Bernie emerges with a plurality.
re: #80 jaunte
Trump: “Bill, I don’t think *wink* that we *wink* have to do anything *wink wink* on this case, do you?
Barr later: The President never told me to interfere in the case.
re: #91 lawhawk
It’ll split the vote and actually increase the chances Bernie emerges with a plurality.
It’s a tacit admission that each endorsee is only half a candidate.
re: #91 lawhawk
It’ll split the vote and actually increase the chances Bernie emerges with a plurality.
Exactly. Recipe for chaos in Milwaukee.
Remember: We’re only 8 days removed from acquittal. This shit is spiraling FAST.
re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg
Remember: We’re only 8 days removed from acquittal. This shit is spiraling FAST.
8 days? Feels like 8 years.
I’m NOT. As a matter of fact, I’m not even paraphrasing from Wiki. That was off the top of my head knowledge because I find history, government, and thus the history OF government, fascinating.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
I pray you’re wrong.
But if you’re not, it explains why so many of your peers would prefer that this be the last time they “have” to vote, and they can just leave approving candidates up to a Politburo in the future.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
re: #89 lawhawk
The whole point of an endorsement from a union or a media outlet is to indicate who to vote for.
Media outlet again fails to do their job. One of them is superior to the other. Pick one.
The union’s stance is a bit more nuanced, but it still comes down to fact that they don’t want Bernie. Anyone but Bernie. That’s significant. Unions are a big component of Democratic party turnout, so if they’re saying not to pick Bernie, that’s a big ding.
But by being indecisive, they give Bernie a chance to win.
me: i’ll have the mouse, please
waiter: that’s mousse, sir
me: never mind then, that’ll be way too much food— Taming Fred Savage (@FredTaming) February 13, 2020
Why, yes, I am.
OTOH, I’m afraid I have no ready-made “anti-intellectual alert” meme to post for you.
I’d accuse you of being in the Pol Pot Appreciation Society, but I suspect it’s the first time you’ve ever heard the name.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
re: #98 Belafon
But by being indecisive, they give Bernie a chance to win.
The Union has apparently had its leadership doxxed by the bros. Bernie is creating a Trump of the left movement. I don’t like this at all.
re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg
Ummm… acquittal? What case is that?
Stone was convicted on all counts. Sentencing is on the 20th. He’s a convicted felon.
Or are you talking about some entirely different case?Strike that. You’re referring to the Senate covering up Trump’s crimes by refusing to hold him accountable and remove him from office.
Former DOJ spokesman in previous administration: https://t.co/goiPUyZbTb
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 13, 2020
re: #103 lawhawk
Ummm… acquittal? What case is that?
Stone was convicted on all counts. Sentencing is on the 20th. He’s a convicted felon.
Or are you talking about some entirely different case?
Trump’s acquittal.
And a choice between re-education and concentration camps is what YOU’RE likely to get for NOT thinking.
Ignorance is about the furthest thing FROM bliss right now.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
re: #70 Dread Pirate
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everything he does is for his own personal gain, or advantage, or grievance
This is big. A federal judge appears to believe there may be merit to Amazon’s contention that Trump prioritized his personal vendetta against Bezos and The Washington Post over national security by seeing to it that Amazon lost an important DoD contract. https://t.co/MfIicKO2Yr
— Ned Price (@nedprice) February 13, 2020
re: #105 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, just realized that - refresh my earlier post.
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Well if I hear the piano exit for Layla, I won’t complain because Jimmy the Gent got his in the end. But we’re watching a budding autocracy before our eyes. They have the Presidency and Senate.
re: #102 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The Union has apparently had its leadership doxxed by the bros. Bernie is creating a Trump of the left movement. I don’t like this at all.
I don’t think it’s quite that. I think they might like Amy, but have a lot of members that like Joe. They probably wouldn’t have endorsed at all had health care not turned into the issue it has.
re: #109 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Well if I hear the piano exit for Layla, I won’t complain because Jimmy the Gent got his in the end. But we’re watching a budding autocracy before our eyes. They have the Presidency and Senate.
Yep, but it wasn’t enough for them to keep the House.
re: #108 lawhawk
Yeah, just realized that - refresh my earlier post.
That reminds me of my retort whenever I go to pick up a printout and see the notice “Printer Is Refreshing”:
‘Not especially.’
Here’s Rachel’s A Block from last nite
Fully worth the watch.
We got a lot of requests to post last night’s A-block in full. Finally corralled all the necessary gizmo’s and sign-offs, so here it is: https://t.co/LGJ1GMPOkj
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) February 13, 2020
re: #110 Belafon
I don’t think it’s quite that. I think they might like Amy, but have a lot of members that like Joe. They probably wouldn’t have endorsed at all had health care not turned into the issue it has.
I’m not sure. But I think Joe or Amy is the best choice right now. Joe gets my respect for not letting the bros define Obama as a failure and Amy for being resilient and practical minded.
“Just keep your mouth shut and your head down and you can be happy under any regime”.
You know that only doesn’t sound TERRIBLE in German or Russian, right? Maybe, MAYBE Mandarin.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 13, 2020
re: #111 Belafon
Yep, but it wasn’t enough for them to keep the House.
Yeah that’s why it’s important not to get divided and let them take back the House. Jim Jordan is posed to chair the Judiciary if they do.
re: #81 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Shocked. Shocked I say.
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whether Rankins himself believed this, how does no one in the admin check this out first?
i know. they dont really care if it’s true.
re: #115 Chrysicat
They’ve given up liberty for safety. Remind them of what Franklin said about that.
re: #112 Blind Frog Belly White
That reminds me of my retort whenever I go to pick up a printout and see the notice “Printer Is Refreshing”:
‘Not especially.’
re: #117 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
whether Rankins himself believed this, how does no one in the admin check this out first?
i know. they dont really care if it’s true.
During that one deposition Trump submitted to, he said something like he was a majority partner in some venture in which he owned something like 30%, because he always FELT LIKE he owned more than that.
re: #115 Chrysicat
Today’s Germans mostly know better.
re: #97 Chrysicat
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Why are you c/ping from textbooks?
— Tam S. Lowe (@tam_lowe) February 13, 2020
personally im glad youre on our team large (dem) and small (lgf)
It wasn’t botched, NYT, Maggie, it was sabotaged. The prosecution claimed they filed the wrong sentence recommendation “by accident.” This is clearly bullshit. Four prosecutors have resigned. pic.twitter.com/xPxzWbdgM3
— Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein) February 13, 2020
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- sure, shall i cut it in 6 slices or 8?
make it 6. im not hungry enough to eat 8
re: #110 Belafon
I don’t think it’s quite that. I think they might like Amy, but have a lot of members that like Joe. They probably wouldn’t have endorsed at all had health care not turned into the issue it has.
this is what happens when people cant distinguish between three things
- what policies might be nice / good to have over a longer time frame
- what’s likely to be possible to achieve in the next 2-4 years
- what it takes to beat the current president
the dem debates (none of which i watched) were fine, though the candidates (yes it’s their fault) let them stray too far into misguided territory.
- they were - so far, theoretical arguments over where we should/could or might want to be heading…in the longer run.
and so they changed the focus from how do we get this guy out and if when we are successful, what will we be able to do with a likely R senate.
coupled with how do we plan to win again with the same or a different D in 2024 and take the senate if we havent already.
instead we got nevada unions saying ‘they’re gonna steal our hard earned healthcare’ and people like carville and that rep from SC? yesterday throwing around ‘socialism’ and ‘communism’ re: bernie.
eye on the fucking ball people.
re: #112 Blind Frog Belly White
That reminds me of my retort whenever I go to pick up a printout and see the notice “Printer Is Refreshing”:
‘Not especially.’
shirt and shoes must be worn.
mine always are. both ways.
re: #124 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
i’d like a large pizza
- sure, shall i cut it in 6 slices or 8?
make it 6. im not hungry enough to eat 8
Except that that one sort of makes sense if you turn it a couple of degrees.
It’s fully possible to be interested in a third, or two thirds, at one time, without being able to handle 7/8 or 3/4.
I am so livid right now.
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SO if you thought that the 2016 election was marked by ratfucking, hold onto your butts.
2020 is already off to a great awful start: the Iranians are now impersonating liberal journalists and targeting conservatives
According to FireEye:
Personas on Twitter that we assess to be a part of the Distinguished Impersonator operation engaged in concerted replies to tweets by influential individuals and organizations, including members of the U.S. Congress and other prominent political figures, journalists, and media outlets. The personas responded to tweets with specific narratives aligned with Iranian interests, often using identical hashtags. The personas sometimes also responded with content unrelated to the tweet they were replying to, again with messaging aligned with Iranian interests. For example, a tweet regarding a NASA mission received replies from personas in the network pertaining to Iran’s seizure of a British oil tanker in July 2019.
re: #127 Chrysicat
Except that that one sort of makes sense if you turn it a couple of degrees.
It’s fully possible to be interested in a third, or two thirds, at one time, without being able to handle 7/8 or 3/4.
it’s my joke.
that’s not what he meant
;-)
re: #128 2020 Blue Wisconsin
I am so livid right now.
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re: #128 2020 Blue Wisconsin
I am so livid right now.
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re: #97 Chrysicat
I’m beginning to understand how being an “influencer” on YouTube is a paid job these days.
re: #131 retired cynic
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re: #126 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
shirt and shoes must be worn.
mine always are. both ways.
re: #128 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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re: #134 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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re: #128 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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OH HAI all you old programmers, I just got this job description which intrigues me but I’m not gonna come out of retirement & move to Colorado unless I get the really big bucks:
Client needs someone who can look at their VAX servers, read the code, and explain it to them.
They should be programmatically sound with VAX(EDT Editor), Fortran, and Pascal. MUST HAVE ALL THREE.
If the code is compiled and there is no source code, they are fucked.
If there is source code but they can’t understand it, that’s gonna cost the big bucks.
Why didn’t they do this 20 years ago at Y2K? That was the last time I worked on a VAX.
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re: #140 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg
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meanwhile in North Carolina after 328 days in space:
Not sure who was more excited. Glad she remembers me after a year! pic.twitter.com/sScVXHMHJn
— Christina H Koch (@Astro_Christina) February 13, 2020
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
OH HAI all you old programmers, I just got this job description which intrigues me but I’m not gonna come out of retirement & move to Colorado unless I get the really big bucks:
If the code is compiled and there is no source code, they are fucked.
If there is source code but they can’t understand it, that’s gonna cost the big bucks.
Why didn’t they do this 20 years ago at Y2K? That was the last time I worked on a VAX.
Colorado is beautiful…
re: #128 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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My eyes just rolled so far backwards they’re in my colon. https://t.co/Fn2QUAkCYN
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) February 13, 2020
re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg
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The irony is that Barr seems to have done this in order to preempt Trump pardoning Stone which would have causes massive blowback at DOJ. But instead he overplayed his hand and it ended up being even worse for Barr than a pardon (which is all Trump) would have.
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) February 13, 2020
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
OH HAI all you old programmers, I just got this job description which intrigues me but I’m not gonna come out of retirement & move to Colorado unless I get the really big bucks:
If the code is compiled and there is no source code, they are fucked.
If there is source code but they can’t understand it, that’s gonna cost the big bucks.
Why didn’t they do this 20 years ago at Y2K? That was the last time I worked on a VAX.
Good grief. That’s simple stuff - EDT sucks, but hey EMACS can be compiled easy on VMS. As for Pascal is easy to read and FORTRAN really isn’t that much harder. Smells like a company that got bought out, fired the previous IT and then discovered their own folks were young punks that only know Microshaft.
re: #142 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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Navy Punishes Sailors Over ‘Make Aircrew Great Again’ Patches Worn at Trump Speech https://t.co/SSPmzJclt8
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re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
OH HAI all you old programmers, I just got this job description which intrigues me but I’m not gonna come out of retirement & move to Colorado unless I get the really big bucks:
If the code is compiled and there is no source code, they are fucked.
If there is source code but they can’t understand it, that’s gonna cost the big bucks.
Why didn’t they do this 20 years ago at Y2K? That was the last time I worked on a VAX.
in a former life back in the 80’s i was quite proficient with TPU and DCL. fortran even longer ago than that. guess ill stay where i am and play in the sand
re: #152 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
As a former sailor, all I have to say is good.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) February 13, 2020
Oh, look! #NepotismBarbie got a fake award in a photo op for doing other fake stuff in other photo ops. https://t.co/oxXgZGeKev
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) February 13, 2020
re: #142 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
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politics aint beanbag
suck it up ya damn snowflake
or if you can’t take it, quit.
My eyes just rolled so far backwards they’re in my colon. https://t.co/Fn2QUAkCYN
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) February 13, 2020
When Congress was debating Net Neutrality, @RandPaul said, and I quote, “I don’t want to see regulation of the Internet”
Well, Senator, wish granted.
Sure does suck when the unregulated Free Market you libertarians love so damned much comes for YOU though, doesn’t it?
2/2— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 13, 2020
Why can Bill Barr immediately sit down with ABC but not under oath before Congress?
— Karen Schwartz (@pithywidow) February 13, 2020
Lre: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Rand Paul is a fraud. Always was one just like his old man.
re: #145 William Lewis
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re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
Because Democrats might ask follow up questions.
re: #153 William Lewis
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re: #166 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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re: #167 William Lewis
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Translation: #Barr is upset that #Trump is making their #coverup activities and #ObstructionOfJustice public. Better to just let me undermine the #RuleOfLaw discreetly, says the #AttorneyGeneral of the United States. #Bullshit#ImpeachBarr #ImpeachTrump #DumpTrump2020 #Resist https://t.co/IbZxLLCQHO
— Steve Hurley (@steve_hurley) February 13, 2020
re: #169 The Pie Overlord!
“Ix-nay on the ardon-pay!”
re: #169 The Pie Overlord!
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Apparently Trump ain’t happy about this. Good. Let em fight among themselves
re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth
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In other words, “Pay no attention to that nonsense written on the Statue of Liberty.”
What a disgrace. https://t.co/DbBCgtJR34— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) February 13, 2020
A chilling and disturbing day in America when giant web companies such as @YouTube decide to censor speech. Protected speech, such as that of a senator on the Sen floor, can be blocked from getting to the people. This is dangerous & politically biased. https://t.co/LnbkZJOYgS
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) February 13, 2020
YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY FUCKING FREE SPEECH RIGHTS ON YOUTUBE!
They are a PRIVATE company, NOT the government. They can censor your ass if they want.
The sudden emergence of “Vote for Bernie, he doesn’t actually have a chance of passing the thing you don’t like” is fascinating https://t.co/ZCLToPlMkS
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) February 13, 2020
re: #174 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Then your family should have stayed where they were from. This is such stupid logic.
re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
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AOC made a big mistake tying her future to Bernie. I like her so I hope it doesn’t cost her but Bernie is toxic.
re: #174 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
— Matthew Worden (@MattTheRurouni) February 13, 2020
re: #174 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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“Maintain hope in your leaders.”
JFC
because leaders like Erdogan, Assad et al are the very definition of “reasonable”
re: #180 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Fucking Pilgrims should have stayed in England!
Someone pees on a hippie’s rug. The hippie goes bowling with his friends and they try to figure out who peed on the rug. That’s it, that’s your movie.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 13, 2020
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #174 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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“Support your communities”
because cartels are just looking out for their neighbors…
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
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1. National Association of Manufacturers sent Trump admin a list of 132 regulations they didn’t like, from the Clean Power Plan to net neutrality
2. Trump admin has moved to implement 64% of NAM’s recommendations
3. NAM granted Ivanka Trump an awardhttps://t.co/uBpNqLKWtH— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 8, 2020
re: #183 gocart mozart
Disobedient orphan travels to faraway land, kills one leader and forces another to flee.
an astronaut reuniting with her dog is all i needed to see today. 14/10 for both https://t.co/JI3D0EwTiY
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) February 13, 2020
hi nasa
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) February 13, 2020
This is Theo. He hasn’t asked his crush to be his valentine yet. Would appreciate if you lowered your voice about it. He still has an entire day. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/HSmgSJIQev
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) February 13, 2020
Bill Barr: President Trump is making it extremely difficult for me to secretly turn the DOJ into a corrupt political arm of his campaign by constantly bragging and tweeting about it
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 13, 2020
Poor Roy Moore. He’s just not able to get into the teens anymore….
New: Club for Growth poll (conducted by WPA) shows tight race in AL Senate primary. pic.twitter.com/k7C7VhMO29
— James Arkin (@JamesArkin) February 13, 2020
re: #191 Blind Frog Belly White
Poor Roy Moore. He’s just not able to get into the teens anymore….
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re: #191 Blind Frog Belly White
Poor Roy Moore. He’s just not able to get into the teens anymore….
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re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
i c whut u did there…
To be fair, I am not the first to make that joke, by a considerable distance!
re: #183 gocart mozart
Man’s plans to broaden his horizons are continuously dashed, leading him to attempt suicide. He eventually resigns himself to his small life.
Said pretty much every labradoodle owner at one time or another. https://t.co/f5fZQ8EEtg
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 13, 2020
What would either of these two know of honor? They both willingly went to work for the most dishonorable excuse for a president this nation has ever suffered, and they did it KNOWING who Trump was.
So long as he was screwing people they didn’t like, they were fine with it. https://t.co/MgGRDcK1VO— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 13, 2020
re: #175 Eclectic Cyborg
The Libertarian solution to Sen. Rand’s issue is of course that the “free market” will guide an invisible hand that will create another online platform that will carry Sen Rand’s message. But we all know there are plenty of other existing platforms that carry any message Sen Rand wants to issue, most of them right wing garbage dumps. And that is the real problem for Sen. Rand.
Right wing garbage dump websites (and other American right wing platforms like Fox News) appeal to about 35% of the US population and about 2% of the world population in a circle jerk of fantasy-land ignorant nonsense combined with raw sewage parody of reality. There is a reason why nationalist right wing media outlets are fringe outlets on the world stage. But Rand wants his message forced onto everyone, not just the 2%.
His Hissy fit is a indirect threat towards “liberal” websites that they must carry his message in direct opposition to his (evidently fraudulent) claims of Libertarian business-knows-best ideology. Sen Rand is just another Libertarian (but only if white men are in charge) fake phony fraud.
lol
In a Trump’s razor sense it’s at least 50 percent likely that he fired Vindman’s brother because he worried Alex would pose as his twin and sneak back into the White House if he didn’t get rid of both of them. Right?
— subscribe to my newsletter (@brianbeutler) February 13, 2020
This is a breed of cat from Singapore, called Singapura. They are extremely inbred, and that has caused genetic problems, so some breeders are beginning to use some other related exotic lines (like Burmese or Abyssinian) to help spread the gene pool. These are a result of that. The lighter one meets the breed standard better. They are tiny cats, only weighing a few pounds. If there is anything cuter, I don’t know what it is. (A friend of mine has three of them now — not for breed or show, just for love, one a sister of these boys — and she has had others before these. So I have met them, and they are just adorbs.
re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That was, in fact, my exact thought, but of course, Trump being a Boomer and a TV addict, he probably thought…. “Yeah, but if you fire Patty but leave Cathy, Patty could sneak back in by pretending to be Cathy!”
.@ChrisCuomo once claimed it was the equivalent of the N-word to Italians.@realDonaldTrump just told @GovCuomo not to bring “Fredo” to an upcoming meeting, in reference to Chris.https://t.co/Y4LyBSZk0k
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 13, 2020
oh…
New pod cast is up.
re: #201 retired cynic
I know two people who bred Burmese cats. Burmese are pretty small, as cats go. Also, strangely, the only cats to which I am allergic. At a time when we had THREE cats with no allergy problems at all, I couldn’t visit their houses without starting to wheeze a bit.
re: #180 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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We’ve come a long way from the “we like immigrants as long as they follow the rules to get here” BS.
They got tired of trying to cover up their racist hatred.
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s probably the same as ginger to redheads, but few people would get that.
re: #206 b.d. (Is Rush Dead Yet?)
We’ve come a long way from the “we like immigrants as long as they follow the rules to get here” BS.
They got tired of trying to cover up their racist hatred.
Stephen Miller makes it clear. Immigrants aren’t welcome in Trump’s America. It’s a profoundly anti American message.
re: #201 retired cynic
What’s their temperament like?
re: #209 Dave In Austin
What’s their temperament like?
Doesn’t that depend on whether you are being appropriately subservient?
BREAKING Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington also issued a rare statement responding to President Trump’s attacks on Stone’s sentencing judge, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, and defending the integrity of the courts. https://t.co/LhicnjBjNx pic.twitter.com/MSiNthX3lS
— Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) February 13, 2020
re: #208 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Stephen Miller makes it clear. Immigrants aren’t welcome in Trump’s America. It’s a profoundly anti American message.
It used to be that, when I was accused of “hating America” by Conservatives because I criticized some policy or brought up some historic wrong America committed, I’d always respond with my true feelings - that no matter what we’d done in the past, what made America great, and why I love America is that we have always been about trying to be better. Yes, we used to enslave an entire race, and then we made them second class citizens for another hundred years, and we still haven’t achieved racial equality, but we keep trying. We used to topple governments in Latin America and beyond and put terrible people in power just to serve the narrow interests of our own policy, and worse, sometimes simply the desires of American corporations, but we’ve tried to stop doing that, too. Again and again, our past is full of horrors, but we try to be better than we were.
I feel like, with Trump, America is giving up on that aspiration, and without that aspiration, we’re not only no better than any number of countries, we’re actually worse than a lot of them.
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hullabalooloo, don’t bring Lulu,
She’ll come by herself.
re: #212 Blind Frog Belly White
It used to be that, when I was accused of “hating America” by Conservatives because I criticized some policy or brought up some historic wrong America committed, I’d always respond with my true feelings - that no matter what we’d done in the past, what made America great, and why I love America is that we have always been about trying to be better. Yes, we used to enslave an entire race, and then we made them second class citizens for another hundred years, and we still haven’t achieved racial equality, but we keep trying. We used to topple governments in Latin America and beyond and put terrible people in power just to serve the narrow interests of our own policy, and worse, sometimes simply the desires of American corporations, but we’ve tried to stop doing that, too. Again and again, our past is full of horrors, but we try to be better than we were.
I feel like, with Trump, America is giving up on that aspiration, and without that aspiration, we’re not only no better than any number of countries, we’re actually worse than a lot of them.
I’m telling you. The rise of isolationism really pisses me off. This whole deluded attitude about how other countries should just shut up about us.
re: #128 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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In that his job is intervene in DOJ actions at the Presidents request. But quietly, out of the public view
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) February 13, 2020
re: #211 Belafon
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I was curious to see how the wingnuts were treating Barr’s statement. What is left of FreeRepublic had 1/2 of the crowd calling for Trump to immediately fire him and the other 1/2 were agreeing with Barr. I would have thought that more folks would know enough to agree with Barr, that this was just a BS cover line but I forgot how stupid that crowd is.
By purporting to “criticize”Trump publicly, Barr (and Trump) were trying to buttress their claim that Trump had not influenced Barr’s decision to undermine the line prosecutors. This was not only a coordinated public relations move; it was also a coordinated legal defense move. https://t.co/ivzMaZO48y
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) February 13, 2020
re: #212 Blind Frog Belly White
It used to be that, when I was accused of “hating America” by Conservatives because I criticized some policy or brought up some historic wrong America committed, I’d always respond with my true feelings - that no matter what we’d done in the past, what made America great, and why I love America is that we have always been about trying to be better. Yes, we used to enslave an entire race, and then we made them second class citizens for another hundred years, and we still haven’t achieved racial equality, but we keep trying. We used to topple governments in Latin America and beyond and put terrible people in power just to serve the narrow interests of our own policy, and worse, sometimes simply the desires of American corporations, but we’ve tried to stop doing that, too. Again and again, our past is full of horrors, but we try to be better than we were.
I feel like, with Trump, America is giving up on that aspiration, and without that aspiration, we’re not only no better than any number of countries, we’re actually worse than a lot of them.
Until the rise of Trumpism in the US, I had no appreciation for just how contagious pure political evil can be.
The Republican party is actively engaged in a project to perfect its own evil and to get enough of the electorate’s mushy middle to go along with that for frivolous reasons (e.g., ‘for the lulz’, for the ratings, etc.) to set up some kind of Mordor in the US.
re: #217 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Then quit, Billy.
re: #215 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m telling you. The rise of isolationism really pisses me off. This whole deluded attitude about how other countries should just shut up about us.
It’s not just the isolationism. There was an article today about race-based bullying in grade schools, where kids as young as 6 are using Trumpian language to attack and demean other kids they perceive as different. We have a President who attacks a decorated veteran for telling the truth and lionizes a war criminal who was turned in by his own unit.
Every way in which we were getting better, he’s undoing, and 40% of America LOVES IT.
They never shared that understanding of America. It’s always been just Blood And Soil to them. They just didn’t have a leader who’d make it alright for them to admit it.
re: #220 EPR-radar
Until the rise of Trumpism in the US, I had no appreciation for just how contagious pure political evil can be.
The Republican party is actively engaged in a project to perfect its own evil and to get enough of the electorate’s mushy middle to go along with that for frivolous reasons (e.g., ‘for the lulz’, for the ratings, etc.) to set up some kind of Mordor in the US.
We’re becoming a trollcracy. Rule by trolls.
re: #222 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s not just the isolationism. There was an article today about race-based bullying in grade schools, where kids as young as 6 are using Trumpian language to attack and demean other kids they perceive as different. We have a President who attacks a decorated veteran for telling the truth and lionizes a war criminal who was turned in by his own unit.
Every way in which we were getting better, he’s undoing, and 40% of America LOVES IT.
They never shared that understanding of America. It’s always been just Blood And Soil to them. They just didn’t have a leader who’d make it alright for them to admit it.
Yeah the stories about increased bullying worry the hell out of me.
re: #223 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
We’re becoming a trollcracy. Rule by trolls.
The parallels between the US today and Weimar Germany are multiplying like the first pair of rabbits in Australia.
America’s goddamned bones are cracking under the strain of Trump’s infantile, tantrum prone ego and all Republicans can do is shrug while making sure the country is tied down good and tight
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 13, 2020
re: #224 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah the stories about increased bullying worry the hell out of me.
And as the father of two Special Needs kids, this whole “Make Bullying Great Again!” vibe really infuriates me. Pretty sure my grandchildren, should I ever be blessed with any, will not be neurotypical.
re: #222 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s not just the isolationism. There was an article today about race-based bullying in grade schools, where kids as young as 6 are using Trumpian language to attack and demean other kids they perceive as different. We have a President who attacks a decorated veteran for telling the truth and lionizes a war criminal who was turned in by his own unit.
Every way in which we were getting better, he’s undoing, and 40% of America LOVES IT.
They never shared that understanding of America. It’s always been just Blood And Soil to them. They just didn’t have a leader who’d make it alright for them to admit it.
this article:
“Many bullies now target other children differently than they used to, with kids as young as 6 mimicking the president’s insults and the cruel way he delivers them.” NEW, based on a Post study https://t.co/f9EmiOd7aH
— Missy Ryan (@missy_ryan) February 13, 2020
re: #229 Blind Frog Belly White
And as the father of two Special Needs kids, this whole “Make Bullying Great Again!” vibe really infuriates me. Pretty sure my grandchildren, should I ever be blessed with any, will not be neurotypical.
We’ve taken so many steps back on that front. And you know I’m ASD myself, it’s so disheartening.
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Of course. They hear their parents & grandparents applaud it and it’s acceptable. I really hope the nominee makes the increased bullying an issue.
re: #232 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Of course. They hear their parents & grandparents applaud it and it’s acceptable. I really hope the nominee makes the increased bullying an issue.
Be Best
re: #233 I Would Prefer Not To
Be Best
The most empty slogan by the most empty FLOTUS. At least Just Say No probably had some sincere concern for kids getting into drugs behind it.
re: #186 BeachDem
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I must be in a Sam L Jackson frame of mind, my brain read the groups name as “National Organization of Motherfuckers.”
Jessie Liu, ex-U.S. attorney who oversaw Roger Stone case, resigns from Trump administration https://t.co/UqFtpcDVbu pic.twitter.com/nYrGMXB01y
— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) February 14, 2020
re: #234 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The most empty slogan by the most empty FLOTUS. At least Just Say No probably had some sincere concern for kids getting into drugs behind it.
While Oliver North flooded South Central Los Angeles with Contra Cocaine…
If you think Trump and Barr coordinated this shit today you’re high.
This is just another in a long list of instances where Trump’s lackeys & handlers frustratedly decided that the only way to get him to actually listen to something important is to get everyone talking about it— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 14, 2020
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Support your communities”
because cartels are just looking out for their neighbors…
Wasn’t that also the approach this country took when the St. Louis carried 901 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany? So this is not a new evil for us — just an evil resurrected from what we thought was long gone. Of course, then we just rejected them rather then telling them to try to make their communities better.
re: #209 Dave In Austin
What’s their temperament like?
Very affectionate and friendly; quite playful; easy to get along with.
re: #238 goddamnedfrank
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re: #237 Joe Bacon 🌹
While Oliver North flooded South Central Los Angeles with Contra Cocaine…
I doubt Nancy knew about that but fair point. I’m just pissed by the fact Trump has made bullying kids acceptable. I’m gonna tell my niece to embrace the hell out of being Hispanic.
lolololololollolollll
NOW: WH official says administration is crafting a “statement” after AG Bill Barr said @realDonaldTrump tweets about Roger Stone are making it hard for him to do his job.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) February 13, 2020
Update: and yet another official says “probably not” but maybe. I guess @realDonaldTrump hasn’t decided what he wants to do yet!
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) February 13, 2020
I wonder what the odds are that Trump fires Barr soon and replaces him with someone even WORSE?
re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder what the odds are that Trump fires Barr soon and replaces him with someone even WORSE?
Who is Barr’s deputy?
re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder what the odds are that Trump fires Barr soon and replaces him with someone even WORSE?
Devin Nunes is the only clearly worse possibility that immediately comes to mind.
The apple rots at its core.
re: #229 Blind Frog Belly White
And as the father of two Special Needs kids, this whole “Make Bullying Great Again!” vibe really infuriates me. Pretty sure my grandchildren, should I ever be blessed with any, will not be neurotypical.
I cannot upding this comment enough.
re: #115 Chrysicat
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Isn’t the Chinese proverb something like “Nail that sticks up gets hit with a hammer.”?
these morons…
NOW: @PressSec released a statement on AG Barr, but Only to a select few. @realDonaldTrump says he wasn’t angry “at all” but he will continue to tweet and go after “The Fake News.” pic.twitter.com/S9cAA7KjdZ
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) February 13, 2020
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Depends on what he ate and how long he will be on the shitter.
Being a bully is just one of Trump’s innumerable character flaws, but it’s especially destructive.
What the hell do parents tell kids about bullying not working out for the bullies when the biggest bully in the world is having a fine time in the White House?
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
these morons…
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I hope the next president doesn’t use Twitter this much. It can be an effective platform but it’s not meant to be potus’s soapbox go whine
re: #238 goddamnedfrank
Maybe, but I’m not sure there’s anyone that independent left inside.
Maybe the AG also shouldn’t sit in the front row of the President’s WH “celebration” of his acquittal for an hour,clapping while Trump lists his enemies,” disparages the “top scum at the FBI,” the FISA Court, the “lowlifes,” and vows to “do something about” what happened to him. https://t.co/3mYdX5b0Nr
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) February 13, 2020
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s the one.
The extent to which children mimic and emulate Trump’s bigotry is, for me, the surest evidence that Trump’s explicit racism is the main thing that breaks through to the public and the source of his appeal. https://t.co/C8TCvwXsl0
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) February 13, 2020
“I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody,” Barr said of @POTUS’ comments.”
…fearlessly flouting the Boss. Sure.
Trump has “full faith and confidence in the AG”. Where have I heard that before?
re: #248 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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Rand Paul is literally a NATIONAL SOCIALIST in the exact sense intended by the originators of that term: Private enterprise subject to government control when such control suits “national” objectives as defined by the political leadership. In this case that means government forcing key privately-owned media to relinquish control of their content, which is exactly what he and other national socialists have advocated.
Forgot about “it can happen here,” folks. It’s here.
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think Barr is just sticking a finger up in the air and weighing a distance away from Trump knowing that many associates and lackies of the Trump Crime Family will be spending time behind bars when he loses the election.
Barr does not want to be one of these felons and is building evidence to try and exonerate himself should his time for prosecution come.
re: #262 Florida Panhandler
I think Barr is just sticking a finger up in the air and weighing a distance away from Trump knowing that many associates and lackies of the Trump Crime Family will be spending time behind bars when he loses the election.
Barr does not want to be one of these felons and is building evidence to try and exonerate himself should his time for prosecution come.
pretty sure he’s too late for that
re: #258 Jason Munro
Translation: “Barr is gone by noon tomorrow.”
Zero. His record is clear. https://t.co/RSIYfR3dyB
— Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) February 14, 2020
You know your an old bachelor when you go to cook homemade pizza for your son, take one look at your old measuring spoons, cups & etc and say nope all the way to the trash can and go buy new ones before cooking.
re: #263 Backwoods_Sleuth
pretty sure he’s too late for that
I think he wants to be the prosecutor, not the prosecutee.
Steve Mnuchin admits Trump’s budget cuts Social Security even as president claims he is ‘not touching’ the program https://t.co/xKtMiSHSKY pic.twitter.com/XdhcO1yHRW
— R. Saddler 📎🗽🌊🌊🌊 (@Politics_PR) February 14, 2020
re: #264 Ace Rothstein
Barr is gone by noon tomorrow.
I doubt it. No one else would so icily do Trump’s bidding. He’d have to get AIDs for Trump to disown him./
Bret: Democrats say there are 395 House bills sitting in the senate… Is that true?
Mitch McConnell: It is true… They’re right, we’re not going to pass those pic.twitter.com/EwXYwf6V6h— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) February 13, 2020
re: #264 Ace Rothstein
Aside from the eventual ass clown that replaces him, I hope so. Barr is the most dangerous Trump sycophant IMO. He is in a position to really damage democracy and is one slippery weasel word mother fucker. If I was the crimer in chief and wanted to commit fucking crimes all the time I would be smart enough to NOT fire him as he is really good at smoothing over the constant crimes. So Trump probably will fire him.
*fingers crossed*
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
OH HAI all you old programmers, I just got this job description which intrigues me but I’m not gonna come out of retirement & move to Colorado unless I get the really big bucks:
If the code is compiled and there is no source code, they are fucked.
If there is source code but they can’t understand it, that’s gonna cost the big bucks.
Why didn’t they do this 20 years ago at Y2K? That was the last time I worked on a VAX.
Heh. I haven’t worked on a VAX since the early 2000s. “Tell us what the codes mean” is pretty funny since that can vary depending on where the codes are coming from. I do recall seeing a few custom objects compiled from FORTRAN that translated the FMS (Form Management System) codes from a numeric to a piece of text that provided some context.
I just made this tiny hairless animal. He is one of my top two favorites pic.twitter.com/SomXpTvqlQ
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) February 13, 2020
Trump was asked in November if he directed Rudy to go to Ukraine. Trump said: “No, I didn’t direct him.”
Trump was asked today if he was sorry that he sent Rudy to Ukraine. Trump said: “No, not at all.” and said he needed to “use” Rudy instead of the FBI.https://t.co/ADHvbvZqXN— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) February 13, 2020
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
“Client needs someone who can look at their VAX servers, read the code, and explain it to them”
If the source code is available and you can grok it, that sounds like some pretty serious leverage to ask for what you want :)
Trump would bizarrely “ask if Priebus had any photos of badgers he could show him, and if Priebus could carefully explain to him how badgers ‘work’ exactly.” “What kind of damage could a badger to do a person with its flashy, sharp claws?” https://t.co/tGdIXxDxbo
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) February 13, 2020
If you have to threaten legal action to keep former employees from talking about how you were a really bad boss…
…you’re a really bad boss. https://t.co/TzNFmZzefJ— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 13, 2020
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Because one freely facilitates his lying and the other (if it’s the House) doesn’t?
he should say it a lot, over and over, everywhere he goes. i think it should work out about right for everyone.
— Devin Nunes is a TOUGH GUY FOR TRUMP! (@da_zin_guy) February 13, 2020
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Statute of Liberty just fell into the sea. Nicely done.— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) February 13, 2020
How soon until Barr is thrown under the bus? Who would he be replaced by to continue our downward slide into depravity?
Attorney General David Duke?
“I barely knew Bill Barr. He wasn’t up for the job. When I fired him he begged to stay like a dog. He was a volunteer. Coffee boy.” https://t.co/UljecGgqub
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 13, 2020
Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the biggest chicken sh*t in all the land: Donald Trump’s lackey Attorney General, William PEE Barr. pic.twitter.com/LNMhLbIyE5
— Paul Lidicul (@PaulLidicul) February 14, 2020
Why the hell do they want to say the n word so badly anyhow? Fuckers claim we’re the heirs of the Klan but they’re the ones crying about saying the n word being socially unacceptable which despite what moron Prager wants his legion of idiots to believe is not the same as illegal.
re: #260 A Mom Anon
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re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL Prager. Good plan dude you should keep pushing that. WTF we are in the stupidest timeline imaginable.
bwaaaahaaaa!
Lou Dobbs attacks Bill Barr, suggests he’s part of the “deep state,” calls the Justice Department “rancid, corrupt” pic.twitter.com/PzjnieGrlK
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) February 14, 2020
You tell ‘em Lou!
re: #290 b.d. (Is Rush Dead Yet?)
bwaaaahaaaa!
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You tell ‘em Lou!
So when does Trump start trashing Barr on Twitter because his buddy Lou told him that Barr’s part of the deep state. FNC is our equivalent of Putin’s state tv.
re: #183 gocart mozart
Two women fight to the death over a pair of shoes.
— Apple Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) February 14, 2020
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It was a trade off Dennis, we told you that you couldn’t use the N word but we let you say Merry Christmas.
We have a deal!
Everyone arriving to Chicago for #AllStarWeekend
Welcome to Chicago 🥶 pic.twitter.com/b2ZKgQHDhT— Unu Chinzorig (@unuChinzo) February 13, 2020
Up ‘til now, winter has been lulling us into a false sense of security.
Shoveled out the driveway today. Facial fur froze solid to my scarf.
re: #294 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Up ‘til now, winter has been lulling us into a false sense of security. Shoveled out the driveway today. Facial fur froze solid to my scarf.
Low tonight in the wild north country: Approximately -20 degrees F (-28.9 degrees C). Time to do the boiling water trick!
re: #291 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So when does Trump start trashing Barr on Twitter because his buddy Lou told him that Barr’s part of the deep state. FNC is our equivalent of Putin’s state tv.
Equivalent but opposite. Putin controls state tv …
It would be pretty sweet if Trump fires Barr.
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
these morons…
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Was she drunk as usual when she said that?
re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder what the odds are that Trump fires Barr soon and replaces him with someone even WORSE?
Jared is about done with fixing the Middle East. Sounds like justice would be the natural next thing…
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This filing, asserting that the Probation office found Stone’s offense level to be 29 was submitted by [takes off old lady glasses and squints really hard bc you’re not going to believe this] Roger Stone.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 14, 2020
re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder what the odds are that Trump fires Barr soon and replaces him with someone even WORSE?
Louie Gohmert….
re: #296 Jason Munro
Equivalent but opposite. Putin controls state tv …
It would be pretty sweet if Trump fires Barr.
Yeah true. Barr being canned would be to our advantage.
re: #296 Jason Munro
Equivalent but opposite. Putin controls state tv …
It would be pretty sweet if Trump tweet fires Barr.
FTFY!
re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth
Here’s how I’d like to explain badgers to Trump.
First explain the whole room 101 situation from 1984, since naturally Trump has never read that GOP instruction manual.
Then, tell Trump that he should really experience it for himself, with a badger substituting for the rat.
re: #302 Hecuba’s daughter
FTFY!
I won’t feel bad for Barr if that happens. He deserves far worse. As a legal professional, the disgrace he’s brought on DOJ is nothing short of insidious.
Told ya. https://t.co/437iPdUMfh
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 14, 2020
re: #283 Dread Pirate
My mother’s parents left Germany for good when Hitler was coming into power. This Republican fuckwit really needs to disappear up his own gaping asshole. Preferably on live TV.
re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder what the odds are that Trump fires Barr soon and replaces him with someone even WORSE?
I don’t think he would. Remember, Barr knows how to work the levers.
You can’t just put some rando sycophant in there. It has to be a sycophant who knows how to do shit. That’s why Barr’s in there in the first place.
Or maybe Barr is worried that the New York City Bar asked Congress to investigate whether he’s corruptly using the “levers of government.”
(Narrator: Barr is corruptly using the levers of government)
And Congress IS investigating.#ResignBarr https://t.co/Twafe4O334 https://t.co/3LzuR7BSIJ pic.twitter.com/iB3l8eJxF8— Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield) February 13, 2020
re: #292 The Pie Overlord!
Two women take a long road trip off a short cliff.
Guess we DO negotiate with terrorists after all. https://t.co/2SdeQsBIxf
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 14, 2020
re: #290 b.d. (Is Rush Dead Yet?)
bwaaaahaaaa!
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You tell ‘em Lou!
So the question is, would it have been even more insane if Fitton had been allowed to talk instead of Lou’s 2-minute (1:44 for accuracy’s sake) hate going uninterrupted?
re: #246 EPR-radar
Devin Nunes is the only clearly worse possibility that immediately comes to mind.
Judge Jeanine Ducklips
re: #307 makeitstop
I don’t think he would. Remember, Barr knows how to work the levers.
You can’t just put some rando sycophant in there. It has to be a sycophant who knows how to do shit. That’s why Barr’s in there in the first place.
This. Barr is a uniquely qualified sycophant.
re: #287 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They’re not trying to make sense. Not making sense is the point. Prager and people like him long for a system in which they have vaguely-defined intellectual and socio-political “authority” that people don’t question, such that both “what is right” and “what is true” are not properties of a structured thought, but is handed down. One of the big things Prager pushes is lack of gratitude, and what he means by it is…deference to authority figures; specifically never getting angry or questioning their motives.
Ultimately he’s going to complain about any standard that suggests HE and his fellow authoritarians should limit how they can behave, because that’s an inversion of the natural order in which they are axiomatic Right (moral) and Right (correct).
Which is why the right is festooned with quacks and pseudointellectual buskers; because the very premise of “listen uncritically to your betters” is a petri dish for people who can pull of superficial performance of authority: looking right, speaking well, making people feel comfortable.
As always, there is less than meets the eye to these folks. There’s a bolus of strong emotional impressions that they’re either scared to say aloud—simply announcing “I am one of the better kinds of people and you should submit” won’t get the desired results—or live so deeply in lack of self-awareness that they don’t notice how they change out all the pieces of their ideology.
re: #301 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah true. Barr being canned would be to our advantage.
Be careful what you wish for—with this gang it can ALWAYS get worse.
Again, the story is not that Barr criticized a fucking tweet.
It’s that Barr offered no explanation for why he overrode a guidelines sentencing recommendation. https://t.co/Ns1cTKIpqt— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 14, 2020
re: #313 Jason Munro
This. Barr is a uniquely qualified sycophant.
This is underestimating Barr. He isn’t just following orders — he has been guiding Trump on what powers the President has and what levers to push to become a dictator. Of course that won’t protect Barr if the TV tells Trump that Barr is harming him or betraying him.
re: #277 Jason Munro
“Client needs someone who can look at their VAX servers, read the code, and explain it to them”
If the source code is available and you can grok it, that sounds like some pretty serious leverage to ask for what you want :)
NFW am I moving to Colorado for a year. I just posted it here in case some other Lizard is interested (there are a lot of Old Programmers here).
re: #307 makeitstop
I don’t think he would. Remember, Barr knows how to work the levers.
You can’t just put some rando sycophant in there. It has to be a sycophant who knows how to do shit. That’s why Barr’s in there in the first place.
Lindsey? Trey? Tom Cotton? Pam Bondi—oops, forgot that it had to be somebody who knows how to do shit.
re: #320 BeachDem
Lindsey? Trey? Tom Cotton? Pam Bondi—oops, forgot that it had to be somebody who knows how to do shit.
RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!
i crack myself up…
re: #316 BeachDem
Be careful what you wish for—with this gang it can ALWAYS get worse.
True. God I hate all this.
re: #183 gocart mozart
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there’s a super-famous one:
“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”
re: #290 b.d. (Is Rush Dead Yet?)
I can’t believe Lou is still alive.
re: #290 b.d. (Is Rush Dead Yet?)
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