John Oliver talks about India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, why he’s popular, why he’s controversial, and where things are headed for the largest democracy in the world.
CL’d because somehow I forgot that 13:00 is always a new thread:
re: #168 Dr Lizardo
A new Czech documentary film will be premiering this week - and it’s likely gonna be somewhat controversial.
As the article notes, police investigations have already been launched against some of those who contacted the decoy girls.
We did that in the twokays. Called it “To Catch a Predator”. It also inevitably led to charging the catfished creepo.
The White House wants you to believe Trump was required by law to dismiss Joseph Maguire. He wasn’t. https://t.co/Rqs2FOMVjK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 24, 2020
When Trump national security adviser Robert O’Brien convenes meetings with NSC officials, he sometimes opens by distributing printouts of Trump’s tweets on the subject at hand. Their job is to find ways of justifying, enacting or explaining Trump’s policy. https://t.co/x3O3hd3hFo
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 22, 2020
re: #3 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Therefore, Trump’s tweets are policy.
re: #3 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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re: #3 NO SMOCKING GUN!
When Trump national security adviser Robert O’Brien convenes meetings with NSC officials, he sometimes opens by distributing printouts of Trump’s tweets on the subject at hand. Their job is to find ways of justifying, enacting or explaining Trump’s policy.
I thought that was Fox News’ job…
Jesus Christ on a motorized pogostick.
Bernie Sanders is DEFENDING the Castro regime? In Florida?
Not to bring up a sore subject, but Gore lost by 400 votes in 2000, and that was with a so-so opposition from the Gusanos on Calle Ocho.
Bernie Sanders defends his 1980s comments about Fidel Castro in an interview on 60 Minutes. https://t.co/ySqvQKoiBU pic.twitter.com/lTwuXWp9sA
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 24, 2020
Not just South Florida, but pretty much any Republican in the southeastern U.S. was just handed a great big stick to beat Bernie with…
The terrible #PublicCharge rule for new green card applicants starts today.
Make sure mixed status families know it’s SAFE for kids & pregnant women to stay in programs like Medicaid/CHIP.
Here’s more info: https://t.co/m2p3PeyHK3 #ProtectFamilies— Laura Guerra-Cardus (@lauraguerrac) February 24, 2020
Just in time for coronavirus.
re: #12 jaunte
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I read one of the factors that can be considered to support rejection of a person applying for a green card on the grounds that they may become a public charge is … applying for a green card.
re: #11 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Jesus Christ on a motorized pogostick.
Bernie Sanders is DEFENDING the Castro regime? In Florida?
Not to bring up a sore subject, but Gore lost by 400 votes in 2000, and that was with a so-so opposition from the Gusanos on Calle Ocho.
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Not just South Florida, but pretty much any Republican in the southeastern U.S. was just handed a great big stick to beat Bernie with…
Florida was already gonna be tough as is. Why does he kneecap us in a state that is vital to a Democratic victory.
I think Warren would do great in Florida. Just saying.
re: #14 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Florida was already gonna be tough as is. Why does he kneecap us in a state that is vital to a Democratic victory.
Because his boss, Comrade Putin, told him to? / only 1/2 I fear.
re: #16 William Lewis
Because his boss, Comrade Putin, told him to? / only 1/2 I fear.
I honestly don’t know but his stupidity is going to hurt a lot of vulnerable Democrats if he’s the nominee. I did see that the South Florida Dem house members understandably pounced on it.
re: #14 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Florida was already gonna be tough as is. Why does he kneecap us in a state that is vital to a Democratic victory.
Because it’s possible he has less of a filter than I do. I’m autistic and was lucky to even hold down the jobs I did before I was informally diagnosed; why he lacks one too I have no idea!
Also, he may think that Trump got where he is by doing only the exact opposite of what common sense would suggest, so he needs to as well.
And then there’s the minor issue that he really does think Cubans and Venezuelans were better off than anyone below middle management in the US in 1988.
Metallica sent out an email:
Dear Metallica Family,
It pains me to write this, but I have to let all of you know that I cannot make it to Sonic Temple in Columbus and Louder Than Life in Louisville this year. As part of my continuing effort to get and stay healthy, I have critical recovery events on those weekends that cannot be moved. I apologize to all of our fans who have bought tickets for these festivals. We are working with the festival promoters to provide for refunds or exchanges. My intent with this statement is saying “I apologize” to each one of you. The reality is that I have not prioritized my health in the past year of touring and I now know that my mental health comes first. That might sound like a no-brainer for most of you but I didn’t want to let the Metallica team/family down and, I alone, completely compromised myself.
Looking on the brighter side, my therapy is going well. It was absolutely necessary for me to look after my mental, physical, and spiritual health.
I want to stress that the band will play all other announced 2020 shows.
I am looking forward to getting back to playing and seeing all our great South American fans in April. And, of course, playing the Epicenter in Charlotte, Welcome to Rockville in Daytona and Aftershock in Sacramento. We will still play two unique sets at each of these festivals.
Beyond 2020, I am optimistic about the blessings I have been given and what the future brings. I appreciate all the great prayers and support from everyone since I went into rehab last September. Like the moth into the flame, being human in this career has its huge challenges and can be difficult. Your understanding helps the healing.
- James
There was a discussion downstairs of Supreme Court appointments if DT wins gets a second term. Lawhawk noted that if the Dems have the Senate and the House, he can be prevented from putting in more toadies and traitors.
And Ghost of a Flea spent yesterday (?) texting in support of downticket races (I was phone banking, not for as long).
Please put these three threads together.
re: #18 Chrysicat
Because it’s possible he has less of a filter than I do. I’m autistic and was lucky to even hold down the jobs I did before I was informally diagnosed; why he lacks one too I have no idea!
Also, he may think that Trump got where he is by doing only the exact opposite of what common sense would suggest, so he needs to as well.
And then there’s the minor issue that he really does think Cubans and Venezuelans were better off than anyone below middle management in the US in 1988.
I have no idea but I guarantee this, he wouldn’t like it and I would agree with him completely if he took offense to the narrative that Pinochet wasn’t that bad because of Chilean social security program that right wingers love to laud Pinochet for.
re: #20 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
There was a discussion downstairs of Supreme Court appointments if DT
winsgets a second term. Lawhawk noted that if the Dems have the Senate and the House, he can be prevented from putting in more toadies and traitors.And Ghost of a Flea spent yesterday (?) texting in support of downticket races (I was phone banking, not for as long).
Please put these three threads together.
I think it’s a reasonable bet if Trump wins re-election, he will have retained the Senate at least. Can’t say for sure about the House but at the very least he will not have lost House seats in a re-election. Downticket matters though for sure. My district went to a Democrat for the first time in 40 years.
re: #11 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Jesus Christ on a motorized pogostick.
Bernie Sanders is DEFENDING the Castro regime? In Florida?
Not to bring up a sore subject, but Gore lost by 400 votes in 2000, and that was with a so-so opposition from the Gusanos on Calle Ocho.
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Not just South Florida, but pretty much any Republican in the southeastern U.S. was just handed a great big stick to beat Bernie with…
Frank Luntz has prepared a massive attack dossier on Sanders. This is a taste of what is to come from Luntz and it will be BRUTAL!
re: #22 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think it’s a reasonable bet if Trump wins re-election, he will have retained the Senate at least.
That does not excuse you from trying. (Also, what makes you think that? Consider the popularity of some Senators. We only need to pick up four seats.)
re: #11 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Jesus Christ on a motorized pogostick.
Bernie Sanders is DEFENDING the Castro regime? In Florida?
Not to bring up a sore subject, but Gore lost by 400 votes in 2000, and that was with a so-so opposition from the Gusanos on Calle Ocho.
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Not just South Florida, but pretty much any Republican in the southeastern U.S. was just handed a great big stick to beat Bernie with…
Per the 2017 Census estimate, there’s about 2.3 million Cuban Americans across the US. 33k in Nevada, which Clinton won by 27k votes. 28k in Pennsylvania, which is about half the margin that Trump won by in 2016. It’s not just Florida that stupid shit like this could cost Democrats.
I’m Cuban, my mom came with her sister and parents with a suitcase between them in the 60s. A year after my uncle and his cousin came alone so they wouldn’t be conscripted as 12 year olds into Castro’s new army. I’ve got extended family that were Marielitos. You can talk about a new/better policy toward Cuba without offering praise to an authoritarian who killed thousands and exiled millions.
I swear to the old gods, we’re back to the point where one party deserves to lose and the other doesn’t deserve to win.
re: #11 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Jesus Christ on a motorized pogostick.
Bernie Sanders is DEFENDING the Castro regime? In Florida?
Not to bring up a sore subject, but Gore lost by 400 votes in 2000, and that was with a so-so opposition from the Gusanos on Calle Ocho.
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Not just South Florida, but pretty much any Republican in the southeastern U.S. was just handed a great big stick to beat Bernie with…
This is just the beginning.
re: #11 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Jesus Christ on a motorized pogostick.
Bernie Sanders is DEFENDING the Castro regime? In Florida?
Not to bring up a sore subject, but Gore lost by 400 votes in 2000, and that was with a so-so opposition from the Gusanos on Calle Ocho.
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Not just South Florida, but pretty much any Republican in the southeastern U.S. was just handed a great big stick to beat Bernie with…
Gore “lost” because Elian Gonzalez’ mother perished on her fateful voyage to the United States and our government returned him to his father in Cuba. If not for that tragic event, the numbers would have not been so close and Gore would have coasted to victory.
re: #24 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
That does not excuse you from trying. (Also, what makes you think that? Consider the popularity of some Senators. We only need to pick up four seats.)
Oh, of course, absolutely. I’m just saying that the odds are if he’s won re-election, he’s kept hte Senate. That said getting back the Senate and retaining/increasing hte House is of utter most importance. That’s why I hope the nominee realizes that.
re: #28 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oh, of course, absolutely. I’m just saying that the odds are if he’s won re-election, he’s kept hte Senate. That said getting back the Senate and retaining/increasing hte House is of utter most importance. That’s why I hope the nominee realizes that.
You are correct. There isn’t as much ticket splitting as there use to be.
Why does Ben get to decide who’s Jewish? https://t.co/byMa5vzdpH
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 24, 2020
re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter
Gore “lost” because Elian Gonzalez’ mother perished on her fateful voyage to the United States and our government returned him to his father in Cuba. If not for that tragic event, the numbers would have not been so close and Gore would have coasted to victory.
re: #29 NO SMOCKING GUN!
You are correct. There isn’t as much ticket splitting as there use to be.
Yeah it’s extremely unlikely that Trump wins and loses the Senate. I think it’s more likely that he loses and the R’s retain the Senate than the former but the most likely situation is Trump wins/R’s retain Senate/make gains in House, or Dems win/retain House/gain Senate. It’s why the comments mentioned above aren’t helpful. Three Florida Democrats who are in fairly tight districts won close elections and re-elections. KG’s right, there’s a way to discuss Cuba without this.
OK, this is a little harsh & nasty. But funny.
The Dow is dropping faster than Melania’s panties at a “modeling shoot”.
— Paul Lidicul (@PaulLidicul) February 24, 2020
just last week Cenk was trying to hang this on IATSE as some sort of electoral ploy https://t.co/scFtmBgZtl
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) February 24, 2020
then this, LOLOLOLOLOLOL:
ahhhhhhhh https://t.co/jgPx1uhXaj
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) February 24, 2020
Cenk is a moron
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Cenk can bend his knee to Christy when he’s conceding.
Trump stands in front of a Taj Mahal that he didn’t bankrupt, for a change. pic.twitter.com/VPLaHQUaQ1
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) February 24, 2020
re: #23 Joe Bacon 🌹
Frank Luntz has prepared a massive attack dossier on Sanders. This is a taste of what is to come from Luntz and it will be BRUTAL!
And yeah, from the previous thread, I *get* that the GOP is going to call any goddam Democrat a Commie because that’s just How They Do.
But fuckballs & funbags, don’t hand them a reasonable-media stick that all the Serious People on the Sunday morning shows can frown & nod seriously about. Six months of Tweetie and his crew moaning about how Real Americans just won’t vote for a Commie, and we’ll have a GOP landslide in the last election that will ever be held in the U.S.
re: #25 KGxvi
I’m Cuban, my mom came with her sister and parents with a suitcase between them in the 60s. A year after my uncle and his cousin came alone so they wouldn’t be conscripted as 12 year olds into Castro’s new army. I’ve got extended family that were Marielitos. You can talk about a new/better policy toward Cuba without offering praise to an authoritarian who killed thousands and exiled millions.
Respect (*thumps chest*)
I was in Cuba in ‘88, and it was the grimmest goddamn place I’ve ever been, and dude, I’ve been to Chernobyl, South Sudan & Azerbaijan.
I have good friends who live & try to work in Cuba, trying like hell to pry the fucking withered, evil claws of the bastards in the Cuban Communist party just a micron off the throats of ordinary people.
I am a full-throated leftie. But Communism does not work. Human nature just isn’t built that way. Free people living & working under common-sense regulations that APPLY TO ALL, especially towards breaking up monopolies, is the best system we’ve come up with, even if the Washington elites starting losing their goddam minds under Reagan and now the middle class is getting roto-fucked.
re: #31 BeenHereAwhile
This is a lesson, too, that totally unexpected random events can change the course of history. For example, for this year, depending on how it plays out, it could be the coronavirus, assuming that it retains its global impact throughout the year. The Trump administration disbanded the pandemic readiness team — a careful handling of this flawed decision could land a devastating blow on the notion of Trump ability to look out for our nation.
re: #37 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
And yeah, from the previous thread, I *get* that the GOP is going to call any goddam Democrat a Commie because that’s just How They Do.
But fuckballs & funbags, don’t hand them a reasonable-media stick that all the Serious People on the Sunday morning shows can frown & nod seriously about. Six months of Tweetie and his crew moaning about how Real Americans just won’t vote for a Commie, and we’ll have a GOP landslide in the last election that will ever be held in the U.S.
Exactly, you make Sanders the nominee, this is going to be what we’re going to have to deal with. It annoys the crap out of me when Trump says nice things about how certain dictators are tough on drug dealers and I’m not going to give Bernie a pass because he praised a literacy program. If Bernie wanted to say that we need to normalize relations with Cuba because it would help democratic elements there, then I guarantee there wouldn’t be much outrage except for those who want outrage anyhow. And I guarantee that we will see the line of him saying he was disgusted by the sound of JFK’s voice at some point. It’ll be sick and cynical to see Trump citing JFK but Sanders may allow him to do that. We have to prevent that.
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
There’s always a goddamned tweet with these fuckers. Always. Sometimes in the same day.
re: #38 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Respect (*thumps chest*)
I was in Cuba in ‘88, and it was the grimmest goddamn place I’ve ever been, and dude, I’ve been to Chernobyl, South Sudan & Azerbaijan.
I have good friends who live & try to work in Cuba, trying like hell to pry the fucking withered, evil claws of the bastards in the Cuban Communist party just a micron off the throats of ordinary people.
I am a full-throated leftie. But Communism does not work. Human nature just isn’t built that way. Free people living & working under common-sense regulations that APPLY TO ALL, especially towards breaking up monopolies, is the best system we’ve come up with, even if the Washington elites starting losing their goddam minds under Reagan and now the middle class is getting roto-fucked.
There’s a reason why people risk their lives to come here. One of my biggest problems with Trump has been his hostility to refugees be they the result of economics, warfare, or politics and I’m not okay with saying “Well it wasn’t all bad” when you need a state that has a lot of people there who either they themselves or their parents or grandparents fled with their lives.
Bernie’s comments about Castro show someone who’s not able to say he’s changed his opinion, even when it would be politically advantageous. Apparently it’s not in him to come up with some kind of equivocal statement, like most politicians would. His followers see that as a strength, and that right there is the heart of the problem with Bernie, because we’re in a position where Democrats simply cannot afford to lose the next election. And winning elections does take someone who knows how to play this frustrating but necessary game.
And Fidel Castro was a murderous SOB, no matter what good he may have done. At the very least, Sanders should have acknowledged THAT much. It’s just amazingly tone deaf to phrase it like, “Well, he wasn’t ALL bad.”
Meanwhile, Stephen Miller is quietly winning his War Against Brown People and the media still wants to focus on white guys wearing flannel sitting in midwestern diners as the bellwether for Real America
Rise in denial rates across employment-related visas H-1B/L-1/O-1/P/NAFTA TN visas. The agricultural seasonal worker visas don’t seem to be affected, but we also know they’re the visas where workers are exploited so much. pic.twitter.com/kHmDl1F6E3
— Sinduja Rangarajan (@cynduja) February 24, 2020
This is Ethnic Cleansing. And nobody in the New York studios of NBC, CBS or ABC has the balls to call it what it is.
re: #41 lawhawk
There’s always a goddamned tweet with these fuckers. Always. Sometimes in the same day.
The dirtbag left are just a bunch of trust fund edgelord asshole bros. It’s all performance. As soon as they feel their wallets getting lightened, then The People can go fuck themselves. I’m glad he’s losing by a ton.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
And Fidel Castro was a murderous SOB, no matter what good he may have done. At the very least, Sanders should have acknowledged THAT much. It’s just amazingly tone deaf to phrase it like, “Well, he wasn’t ALL bad.”
Not just murderous. Utterly incompetent. Friends of mine in Havana have been working on a project to track the effects of the toxic waste left behind by the Soviets, that is poisoning & killing people.
An entire housing development was evacuated when lead & heavy metals were found in basically every surface, and that were killing & deforming children. And then, a year later, the people who fled were rounded up and forced back into the grim apartment blocks, because their continuing emptiness was politically embarassing, an undeniable daily demonstration of failure.
Fuck those murderous bastards.
It wasn’t just the Russians who helped Trump.
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: New York Times bestselling epic PROOF OF CONSPIRACY lays out the evidence—with 4,300+ citations—that the Saudis and Emiratis helped Trump win in 2016, consistent with their NYT-reported offer to do so. This man says he’s an eyewitness. https://t.co/8CyPHktH64
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 24, 2020
re: #47 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The girl on the right should never go out in the sun without wearing at least SPF 50.
re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter
Gore “lost” because Elian Gonzalez’ mother perished on her fateful voyage to the United States and our government returned him to his father in Cuba. If not for that tragic event, the numbers would have not been so close and Gore would have coasted to victory.
and that photo surfaced of a raid to seize Elian from his family and return him to his father, showing an armed cop pointing a gun at his shocked aunt…
re: #47 NO SMOCKING GUN!
It wasn’t just the Russians who helped Trump.
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How much can we rely on that report? The Spectator family of magazines isn’t quite so bad as The American Spectator, but the parent is still the best source of Tory cabinet ministers in the UK.
re: #44 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Meanwhile, Stephen Miller is quietly winning his War Against Brown People and the media still wants to focus on white guys wearing flannel sitting in midwestern diners as the bellwether for Real America
This is Ethnic Cleansing. And nobody in the New York studios of NBC, CBS or ABC has the balls to call it what it is.
The next president should appoint an all-minorty group to investigate Miller’s involvement in the government.
Bernie condemned Castro’s authoritarian regime but observed that it gained popular support in the early years with things like a literacy program.
Bloomberg, in December, literally said “Xi Jinping is not a dictator.”— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 24, 2020
re: #46 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Not just murderous. Utterly incompetent. Friends of mine in Havana have been working on a project to track the effects of the toxic waste left behind by the Soviets, that is poisoning & killing people.
An entire housing development was evacuated when lead & heavy metals were found in basically every surface, and that were killing & deforming children. And then, a year later, the people who fled were rounded up and forced back into the grim apartment blocks, because their continuing emptiness was politically embarassing, an undeniable daily demonstration of failure.
Fuck those murderous bastards.
It really might have been one thing if Sanders had criticized the policy of refusing to have relations with Cuba while doing the dance routine we’ve done with China since Nixon recognized the PRC 48 years ago. However, he came off as very cavalier about what people like your friends and KG’s relatives have experienced in that interview. And I don’t think Castro was doing a literacy program out of decency, he needed some political capital. And what really bugs me is I feel like I can see a Republican ad coming using JFK’s voice that most Americans feel gives them pride juxtaposed with Bernie saying it made him sick and the line used here. I shouldn’t be able to be able to predict the Democratic frontrunner’s hit ads.
re: #51 Chrysicat
How much can we rely on that report? The Spectator family of magazines isn’t quite so bad as The American Spectator, but the parent is still the best source of Tory cabinet ministers in the UK.
I don’t know; I guess we’ll see if this story has legs.
Were Bloomberg staff lurking here and seeing all those “if you have dirt on Bernie, drop it now” posts?
NEW: Mike Bloomberg’s campaign is preparing a media onslaught against Bernie Sanders. Opposition research, more digital ads, op-eds and surrogate TV appearances are all in the works to attack the Democratic front runner. https://t.co/AZ1lXEFyif
— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) February 24, 2020
re: #53 NO SMOCKING GUN!
It’s that how he said it in the interview?
re: #56 Interesting Times
Were Bloomberg staff lurking here and seeing all those “if you have dirt on Bernie, drop it now” posts?
If anyone wants to whine about it, tell them this: It’s better it comes out now than after the nomination. He has time to deal with it.
re: #58 Belafon
It’s that how he said it in the interview?
Yeah it came off as “Well people in Cuba supported Castro because of the literacy program.” I mean it’s easy to act like every Cuban exile was a former beneficiary of the Batista corruption but it also ignores that a lot of Cuban refugees are people who participated in the revolution and then turned against Fidel and his brother as it became more autocratic.
re: #59 Belafon
If anyone wants to whine about it, tell them this: It’s better it comes out now than after the nomination. He has time to deal with it.
My thoughts exactly.
re: #61 Interesting Times
My thoughts exactly.
Exactly, vet him, see how he responds to this. He’s had three Florida Congresspeople condemn his remarks on this. Bernie’s nomination as a possibility impacts them too so don’t expect them to be silent especially since he’s being crowned the frontrunner.
Here’s a better and longer clip of Bernie Sanders telling Anderson Cooper to “go easy on the word ‘political revolution.’”
Cooper: “You’re the one who’s using the word!”
If Bernie is telling you he’s politically toxic, Democratic voters should believe him. pic.twitter.com/eweFh0TTUJ— Tommy X-TrumpIsARacist-opher (@tommyxtopher) February 24, 2020
You know who’s really injured in Flint, Bloomberg? The kids poisoned by Rick Snyder, the guy you supported. #FlintWaterCrisis https://t.co/3KqZHo3wuh
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) February 24, 2020
re: #60 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah it came off as “Well people in Cuba supported Castro because of the literacy program.” I mean it’s easy to act like every Cuban exile was a former beneficiary of the Batista corruption but it also ignores that a lot of Cuban refugees are people who participated in the revolution and then turned against Fidel and his brother as it became more autocratic.
Anything like that is going to be complicated. If he was initially treating people better that what had come before, then of course they’re going to support him. But I suspect it waned after a while, because the initial results weren’t being sustained.
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
Looks like Cenk threw a fit when his staff wants to unionize!
NEW: In a tense all-hands meeting, Cenk Uygur urged staff at The Young Turks not to form a union, arguing the progressive network couldn’t sustain one. “The reality is we’re in a precarious position,” Cenk told me. https://t.co/1dlN2rVdOS
— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) February 24, 2020
You could fix their entire water problem by writing one check, Mike.
The people of Flint don’t owe you anything. https://t.co/gyLu5I7Dg9— 🗽Geek Girl “#WarrenIsElectable” Diva (@geekgirldiva) February 24, 2020
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rich tastes gamey.
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and that photo surfaced of the raid, showing an armed cop pointing a gun at his shocked aunt…
It says a lot about the armed federal agent’s training that he didn’t shoot Al Diaz (who took the photograph) after being startled by the camera’s flash.
re: #65 Belafon
Anything like that is going to be complicated. If he was initially treating people better that what had come before, then of course they’re going to support him. But I suspect it waned after a while, because the initial results weren’t being sustained.
I actually watched that Netflix documentary on Cuba recently and I’ve taken a class on Latin American history. I am by NO means an expert on the subject but I think the revolution was an understandable consequence just as I think the Russian revolution was but the final product? Nope. It’s just like not everyone who fled the Russian Revolution was a Czarist or right winger. Hell, I think I read Ayn Rand started out as Menshivik and then completely repudiated any sort of welfare state system.
re: #66 Joe Bacon 🌹
Looks like Cenk threw a fit when his staff wants to unionize!
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Shades of Ralph Nader.
A Bloomberg reporter was literally suspended because he reported unfavorably on the Chinese Communist Party https://t.co/XMCC23UDnY https://t.co/bXHie0gD2Y
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 24, 2020
There’s always a goddamned tweet.Trump has now been in office during 8 of 10 biggest point drops (not percentage terms):After today, it’ll likely be 9 of 10. pic.twitter.com/ou3DZ8x6X3
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 24, 2020
And yeah, just realized it’s 7 of 10 currently. He owns the top 5 worst point drops on his watch.
Two cannibals meet one day. The first cannibal says, “You know, I just can’t seem to get a tender Missionary. I’ve baked them, I’ve roasted them, I’ve stewed them, I’ve barbecued them, I’ve tried every sort of marinade. I just cannot seem to get them tender.”
The second cannibal asks, “What kind of Missionary do you use?”
The other replied, “You know, the ones that hang out at that place at the bend of the river. They have those brown cloaks with a rope around the waist and they’re sort of bald on top with a funny ring of hair on their heads.”
“Ah, ha!” the second cannibal replies. “No wonder. .. those are friars!”
re: #73 lawhawk
Market volatility under trump is higher than I have ever seen. The crash of 89 seems a minor incident in comparison.
re: #76 fern01
Market volatility under trump is higher than I have ever seen. The crash of 89 seems a minor incident in comparison.
I think some of that is the Administration spending a lot of money to prop the market up. It doesn’t last very long. We probably should already be in a decent Wall Street correction.
After actually listening to Bernie’s comment, it seems it wasn’t full throated support for the Castro regime after all. Much different from Trump’s love affair with murderous communist dictator Kim Jong-Un.
re: #77 Belafon
Trump’s entire mindset is to convince people the economy is doing swell and buying on credit. He says as much.
The reality is he’s racking up debt and nothing to show for it except millionaires getting rich from the tax cuts.
The economy isn’t growing any faster than under Obama when the TCJA didn’t exist and the GOP weren’t busy gutting the administrative state.
All Trump’s done is made redistribution of wealth to millionaires like himself easier, and the burdens shifted to everyone else.
re: #78 NO SMOCKING GUN!
American politics is rarely about nuance.
re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
American politics is rarely about nuance.
True and as usual, our side gets roasted for much less egregious behavior than what Trump engages in daily.
Bloomberg knows how to throw bombs on social media. Which can be a good thing. Hopefully whoever is the candidate can encourage Bloomberg to go after Trump like no one else ever has.
re: #77 Belafon
I think some of that is the Administration spending a lot of money to prop the market up. It doesn’t last very long. We probably should already be in a decent Wall Street correction.
the longer they artificially prop it up, the more it crashes, to the point that they have to intervene to artificially resuscitate it.
Like subsidizing agriculture and then paying to buy up surplus production.
re: #78 NO SMOCKING GUN!
After actually listening to Bernie’s comment, it seems it wasn’t full throated support for the Castro regime after all. Much different from Trump’s love affair with murderous communist dictator Kim Jong-Un.
ah, but you actually listened, which is not what 90% of the public is going to do
re: #75 Shropshire Slasher
Two chickens were talking the other day and the first one said “I’ve been thinking about going into the priesthood”
“Oh?” The second one goes. “Why is that?”
“I overheard Farmer Brown telling the missus that I would make a great friar.”
Based solely on the fivethirtyeight.com odds, which just upped the chances of Sanders winning a majority of the delegates to 51%, the best chance of stopping him is for everyone else to drop out and endorse Biden, since he has the support of the most Bernie skeptical Democrats, African-Americans. projects.fivethirtyeight.com
One man was shot and six other people were injured when a gun discharged during a dance at a flea market in Houston Sunday night https://t.co/Ytzrsxe6Ep
— CNN (@CNN) February 24, 2020
Yee haw.
Markets - not just futures, but equities, etc. - are supposed to be anticipative.
How much of the equity market today is the pricing of Bernie Sanders becoming President?
re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
None.
And frankly the markets convulsing about coronavirus are also overblown IMO.
We have far more influenza cases being reported nationally and internationally with a far higher body count, and no one seems to pay that any mind. But this novel disease that basically operates the same way is garnering all the press (and conspiracy theories to boot).
re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Markets - not just futures, but equities, etc. - are supposed to be anticipative.
How much of the equity market today is the pricing of Bernie Sanders becoming President?
I’ve heard it’s coronavirus, since it appears to be pandemic.
re: #59 Belafon
And rest assured, he will deal with it in the most incompetent way.
re: #89 lawhawk
I’m not sure. It is a quandary, how the markets will react to Bernie.
Regarding diseases - I made the case the other day that the flu is still likely to kill more people than the coronavirus. Overlooked quite a bit in this country, unless you or a family member are quite elderly, in which case the flu is a likely method of decease.
re: #89 lawhawk
Also, there’s the conscienceless calculation that coronavirus is disrupting manufacturing in China because the specific response is to severely limit people’s activity. And South Korea is considering the same kind of safety procedures.
That’s the kind of thing that’s going to scare the market: the possibility of more and more disruption…what will Italy do as the hottest spot in Europe, or what happens if this turns up in a manufacturing center like, say, Jakarta….
Oh, and the time for everyone to drop out and endorse Biden is right now, because he’s in a tight race with Bernie in SC, and if Sanders beats Joe there, it will become close to impossible to stop him.
re: #95 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Oh, and the time for everyone to drop out and endorse Biden is right now, because he’s in a tight race with Bernie in SC, and if Sanders beats Joe there, it will become close to impossible to stop him.
What does polling look like in SC right now?
re: #87 Dread Pirate
What the fuck kind of gun was that that it could “Accidentally” discharge and still manage to hit SEVEN people?
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
Probably 9mm and the others were hit by knocked off framents and shrapnel.
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
It was probably one person shot and injured by the bullet, and 7 others who were injured trying to run out of the area and hitting other people/objects on the way (aka trampling).Corrected after reading other articles, it may have involved alcohol and multiple shots fired.
re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg
What the fuck kind of gun was that that it could “Accidentally” discharge and still manage to hit SEVEN people?
Probably people injured in the ensuing chaos as people tried to get out.
re: #96 Belafon
What does polling look like in SC right now?
pretty tight according to the RCP average, Biden is up on Bernie by about 3 points.
I really wish our discourse was not so stupid.
Trump speaks wistfully of his dictator buddies’ extrajudicial killings and it’s all good, but Sanders says - correctly - that Castro did something popular that helped consolidate his power by more than just brutal repression, and suddenly he’s “praising Castro”.
It’s a bit farfetched to think that Castro is alone among the world’s dictators in having no support among the people of his country, and that he maintained power SOLELY through brutal repression. Plus, you know, there’s a reason why Cubans supported revolution 60 years ago. It’s ridiculous that we even have to have this conversation, but because Cuban Americans are a key demographic in Florida, we have to pretend that Castro was uniquely bad, compared to all the other dictators.
And I can say ALL THAT without supporting Castro.
re: #96 Belafon
What does polling look like in SC right now?
According to 538, Sanders has a slightly better chance of winning than Biden, but it’s basically a toss-up.
re: #103 NO SMOCKING GUN!
According to 538, Sanders has a slightly better chance of winning than Biden, but it’s basically a toss-up.
Like I said yesterday, there’s a reason Biden has never been nominated before.
re: #73 lawhawk
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And yeah, just realized it’s 7 of 10 currently. He owns the top 5 worst point drops on his watch.
The only thing that matters is percentage change NOT point change. The 500 point drop in 1987 was 22%; a 500 point drop today would be about 2%. Absolute numbers are meaningless in this situation.
re: #89 lawhawk
None.
And frankly the markets convulsing about coronavirus are also overblown IMO.
We have far more influenza cases being reported nationally and internationally with a far higher body count, and no one seems to pay that any mind. But this novel disease that basically operates the same way is garnering all the press (and conspiracy theories to boot).
If the market is already in need of correction, something like the CV is going to precipitate the snap. And the global world just-in-time trade and manufacturing system is going to see a serious shock when it can no longer rely on its established sources and timetables.
I just read that a number of major electronics trade fairs have been cancelled, as much out of fear of spreading the virus as out of fear that companies will not be able to supply the new products they are planning to launch there.
re: #96 Belafon
South Carolina Poll (released 23 Feb 20)
CBS News/YouGov
Biden 28
Sanders 23
Steyer 18
Warren 12
Buttigieg 10
Klobuchar 4
Gabbard 1
re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If the market is already in need of correction, something like the CV is going to precipitate the snap. And the global world just-in-time trade and manufacturing system is going to see a serious shock when it can no longer rely on its established sources and timetables.
If there is a recession, I hope it happens in time to hurt Trump’s reelection bid. Not that I want a recession, but timing is everything.
re: #108 NO SMOCKING GUN!
If there is a recession, I hope it happens in time to hurt Trump’s reelection bid. Not that I want a recession, but timing is everything.
If the economy is doing well it will only help the incumbent.
re: #89 lawhawk
None.
And frankly the markets convulsing about coronavirus are also overblown IMO.
We have far more influenza cases being reported nationally and internationally with a far higher body count, and no one seems to pay that any mind. But this novel disease that basically operates the same way is garnering all the press (and conspiracy theories to boot).
Yes — it’s true that seasonal flu so far kills many more BUT we don’t know as yet how far this disease will spread and what its mortality rate is. The speculation by the experts is 2% — and if that is true and COVID-19 becomes as prevalent as normal seasonal flu, it will kill 20 x as many people as the flu. Until we know for sure, this disease has to be treated with the utmost caution.
re: #105 Hecuba’s daughter
The only thing that matters is percentage change NOT point change. The 500 point drop in 1987 was 22%; a 500 point drop today would be about 2%. Absolute numbers are meaningless in this situation.
Also, the larger the market, the bigger the point drops, so saying Trump has 7 of the 10 biggest point drops is like saying Obama got more votes than anyone before him - there were more votes to get than ever before.
re: #102 Blind Frog Belly White
The reason why this is an issue is that for decades certain parts of the American Left have in turn longed for a Benevolent Dictator who was all of the socialist dream without the messy stuff of elections and having to convince people who were not “enlightened”. So they turned a blind eye to the repression. Literacy means little if they tell you what to read and censor the books. Or throw writers and such in jail for daring to write something that the regime doesn’t like.
This is true in China as well-and by the way, they praised Mao too until China at least tried capitalism with a mean face.
Each new revolutionary in turn gets praised until the purgings start, or they prove to be less than woke.
re: #112 CarolJ
The reason why this is an issue is that for decades certain parts of the American Left have in turn longed for a Benevolent Dictator who was all of the socialist dream without the messy stuff of elections and having to convince people who were not “enlightened”. So they turned a blind eye to the repression. Literacy means little if they tell you what to read and censor the books. Or throw writers and such in jail for daring to write something that the regime doesn’t like.
This is true in China as well-and by the way, they praised Mao too until China at least tried capitalism with a mean face.
Each new revolutionary in turn gets praised until the purgings start, or they prove to be less than woke.
The reason why it’s an issue is that for as long as I’ve been alive, the Right has exaggerated just how large those “certain parts of the American Left” have been, while overlooking the fact that those revolutions did not overthrow benevolent egalitarian democracies.
This might be the creepiest image I have ever seen. It’s haunting on a cellular level https://t.co/jNb7AQqywZ
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 24, 2020
JFC!
I feel so much better about this administration’s ability to deal with coronavirus after reading this tweet https://t.co/tKrMQiua0j
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) February 24, 2020
re: #112 CarolJ
Each new revolutionary in turn gets praised until the purgings start, or they prove to be less than woke.
counterrevolutionaries supported by foreign governments…
re: #111 Blind Frog Belly White
Also, the larger the market, the bigger the point drops, so saying Trump has 7 of the 10 biggest point drops is like saying Obama got more votes than anyone before him - there were more votes to get than ever before.
Or it’s like saying that a $10,000 drop in income for someone earning a million annually is more meaningful than a drop of $5000 is to someone earning $20,000. For the millionaire, the decline is not noticeable, for the poor worker it has a disastrous effect.
re: #120 Hecuba’s daughter
Or it’s like saying that a $10,000 drop in income for someone earning a million annually is more meaningful than a drop of $5000 is to someone earning $20,000. For the millionaire, the decline is not noticeable, for the poor worker it has a disastrous effect.
“He paid $10 Million in taxes!” Yeah. On $100 Million in income!
re: #117 goddamnedfrank
JFC!
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Hopefully FoxNews will put up a graphic soon. Shame he has no other data at his disposal?
I don’t think anyone’s dropping out before the SC primary. Here are just some of the events going on this week. Hidden to avoid boring many.
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re: #116 Joe Bacon 🌹
Was he auditioning for the New Zoo Revue?
Has a TV that kinda looks it came from that era. Ours at that time had a bigger cabinet because there was a turntable on one end and a radio/8-track player on the other. With the TV between speakers facing front.
re: #123 BeachDem
I don’t think anyone’s dropping out before the SC primary. Here are just some of the events going on this week. Hidden to avoid boring many.
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We should just get Bernie to drop out, that would be easier!
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re: #113 Blind Frog Belly White
The reason why it’s an issue is that for as long as I’ve been alive, the Right has exaggerated just how large those “certain parts of the American Left” have been, while overlooking the fact that those revolutions did not overthrow benevolent egalitarian democracies.
And the right has bern pushing and praising dictators ever since they turned their backs on reconstruction. There is a reason that few if any Republicans would say ill about Pinochet and wish they could murder leftists as openly for daring to oppose them.
Bah, this is why I spent all Sunday just buried in my photography…
re: #117 goddamnedfrank
JFC!
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re: #117 goddamnedfrank
Same admin that thinks we don’t need embassy staffers assembling news and gathering intel - it’s something they can get from the internet.
These fuckers are dangerously clueless.
re: #125 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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The Secret Service spent $159k at Trump’s DC hotel in 2017 alone.
Eric Trump says the Trump Org charges the Secret Service “like $50” per night to stay at Trump properties.
If Eric is right, that would mean 3,180 stays in one year. https://t.co/6nqw1ytEMg— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 24, 2020
re: #127 William Lewis
And the right has bern pushing and praising dictators ever since they turned their backs on reconstruction. There is a reason that few if any Republicans would say ill about Pinochet and wish they could murder leftists as openly for daring to oppose them.
Bah, this is why I spent all Sunday just buried in my photography…
“It’s not repression if Anaconda Copper is doing well!”
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not necessarily so. Some people go crazy with power. Some schemes trample over human and property rights. And the messianic zeal takes some over to the point they forget their humanity.
re: #130 BeachDem
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re: #133 CarolJ
Not necessarily so. Some people go crazy with power. Some schemes trample over human and property rights. And the messianic zeal takes some over to the point they forget their humanity.
“We just need to leave the military in charge, while we wait for things to calm down enough to hold free elections!” - every successful revolutionary movement.
re: #115 goddamnedfrank
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Holy shit. Maybe it’s the Roy Room:
On Mar-a-Lago’s website, I stumbled on this photo of one of their guest rooms. If you’ve stayed here, tell me what they charged you! Also, tell me what the deal is w/the frog. pic.twitter.com/pthnq4pH4m
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 24, 2020
re: #117 goddamnedfrank
JFC!
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Stop watching Pornhub and do your job!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) February 24, 2020
Using the descriptor “convicted rapist” rather than “disgraced producer” would be a good start https://t.co/EAnEhVbtRD
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) February 24, 2020
when you’re taking things like a man pic.twitter.com/1nTHPavtxB
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) February 24, 2020
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
Since most convicted rapists are male, ‘accepting the verdict like a man’ would seem par for the course.
re: #139 jaunte
No, I doubt he can pronounce Narendra, but he can tweet in Hindi how he’s going to meet everyone when he goes to India. Everyone.
He can also invite them to the Trump Taj Mahal for Diwali, instead of going to the original Taj Mahal, which Indians of course always go to for Diwali*.
Oh wait, he can’t do that anymore..
*When the Trump Taj Mahal opened up 30 years back, he basically said that very thing.
Delete your account. https://t.co/N0PILsdnoA
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 24, 2020
So which are you voting for to save us from Trump v. Sanders campaign?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) February 24, 2020
Producers get annoyed with IATSE because they make payroll more expensive but who fucking cares because producers are always making an unfair amount per job relative to what crew makes so fuck ‘em. The reason these rules exist is for the sake of equity and to curtail exploitation
— LARGE MARXISTS (@non_bona_dicta) February 24, 2020
Cenk fighting unionizing TYT makes me wonder what they’ve been contributing to their employees P&H, what does their OT look like, do they pull 6th days a lot, are they invading rest time, and finally are they paying independent contractors when they should be hiring employees?
— LARGE MARXISTS (@non_bona_dicta) February 24, 2020
^^THIS^^
Oh fucking of course. https://t.co/SthRqupNpT
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 24, 2020
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #149 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
But Trump capitalized every letter in troops in a tweet once.
They make excellent props.
We’re still trying to prove Trump Org right! They said they charge taxpayers only “like $50” when Secret Service agents need rooms at @realDonaldTrump’s properties.
Still haven’t found that.
These are the charges we found instead: pic.twitter.com/J2pOgCZmuD— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) February 24, 2020
$17,000 a month for a cottage. JFC.
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
Probably not. The “cause” is more important than employee health and safety, more important than paying a living wage. If you work yourself into the hospital due to exhaustion or lose your marriage because of too much overtime it’s all good. Psychic benefits are supposed to make up for other benefits.
Of course this isn’t true for the heads of the venture, who go home after 8 hours and 5 days of work, can take vacations and get a good bulky amount for what they do.
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re: #151 jaunte
Bigger question - why the jump in costs to Secret Service at Corruptalago between 2018 and 2019. If they were being charged bare-bones rate (cost), why go from $396 to $650 per night.
Put simply, they’re gouging and racking up the costs with taxpayers filling Trump’s personal coffers.
re: #153 lawhawk
Other way (they dropped the rate) but yes, why did it start at 650 and then get cut?
O.K. everyone. Time for an afternoon/early evening sanity break. Enjoy:
What the sourdough bathtub controversy of 1946 tells us about changing times in Alaska
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
Is it because Democrats refuse to use troops as props that Republicans can get away with this stuff?
This is what a LITERAL sled dog looks like. https://t.co/n6DjlJfmn9
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) February 24, 2020
re: #154 jaunte
You sure? That looks like 2017 and 2018, not 2018 and 2019.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 24, 2020
And if you actually have followed me for years, then you know I don’t need anybody to explain “neoliberalism” to me.
You should also know that I’m not exactly shy. If I had meant Sanders, I would have said Sanders.
2/2— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 24, 2020
— The Black Sage™☮️🍌 (@TBlackSage) February 24, 2020
re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I have a question. If Bernie hated the Dem establishment so much. Why did he let the DSCC give him money in 2006 when he first ran for Senate. Bernie’s revealed himself to be a hypocrite time and time again. He whines about identity politics but yet has his surrogates use the race card when they’re criticized. And I hope someone hits him on this but his double standard about gun manufacturing liabilty is completely inconsistent with his other positions. The dirty truth about Bernie Sanders is he is what people hate about politicians but he’s selling a generation of young people that he’s not a typical politician. He very much is.
DON’T LOOK AT YOUR 409K STATEMENT. pic.twitter.com/RrvIU8Uxc8
— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) February 24, 2020
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
The DOW lost 3.56%, down 1031.
re: #163 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I have a question. If Bernie hated the Dem establishment so much. Why did he let the DSCC give him money in 2006 when he first ran for Senate. Bernie’s revealed himself to be a hypocrite time and time again. He whines about identity politics but yet has his surrogates use the race card when they’re criticized. And I hope someone hits him on this but his double standard about gun manufacturing liabilty is completely inconsistent with his other positions. The dirty truth about Bernie Sanders is he is what people hate about politicians but he’s selling a generation of young people that he’s not a typical politician. He very much is.
But a typical politician is far less dangerous in office than a revolutionary who actually plans on bringing the house down. OTOH, he may be typical but he doesn’t possess the congenial personality or ability to play well with others that allows a typical politician to accomplish their objectives.
If you ever need a non sequitur logical fallacy, this is a pretty good example right here. https://t.co/zeEtF8HEhi
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 24, 2020
re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter
But a typical politician is far less dangerous in office than a revolutionary who actually plans on bringing the house down. OTOH, he may be typical but he doesn’t possess the congenial personality or ability to play well with others that allows a typical politician to accomplish their objectives.
Sure but I mean he’s a typical politician in he plays the same political games that people profess to hate about politicians. But you are right, he has no political skills. He’s been in Congress since 1990 and he has little legislation to his name and yet he’s running on radical change. I don’t buy him being effective and I especially don’t when he has the entourage around him that he does that doesn’t encourage challenging the old man on anything and just making him feel like he’s a great hero.
it’s like 3 or 4 am or so in India, and the moron is tweet storming
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 24, 2020
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 24, 2020
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Anna Maltese (@MalteseAnna) February 24, 2020
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Good. Can’t wait for the debate and hopefully for Biden to call him on it directly. Bernie was willing to risk us getting Romney because Obama wasn’t good enough for him.
If I am not mistaken todays drop in the DOW was the second largest single day drop ever.
I control both robots with an app…still doesn’t clarify things.
— Nnedi Okorafor, PhD (@Nnedi) February 24, 2020
So @realdonaldtrump thinks we should be allocating more funds to disease control efforts? That’s great. I agree completely. Let’s also introduce Trump to the Centers for Disease Control, the government agency he just proposed cutting by 17%. https://t.co/JoUjZ6AuT5
— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) February 24, 2020
I’m ashamed to be vegetarian. https://t.co/7VP9MRGzFQ
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) February 23, 2020
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
If I am not mistaken todays drop in the DOW was the second largest single day drop ever.
And who knew convicting Harvey would cause such a drop?!
/1/3 since I could be right.
re: #182 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There is a possible link between how humans contracted the coronavirus and contact with an animal with the current variant of the virus.
But PETA runs with that.
BTW, humans exchange all sorts of pathogens with other animals.
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
If I am not mistaken todays drop in the DOW was the second largest single day drop ever.
Only point wise, which makes headlines but is meaningless. Percentage drop is a much better measure, and today’s drop is probably not in the top 100 by that measure.
re: #185 JC1
Only point wise, which makes headlines but is meaningless. Percentage drop is a much better measure, and today’s drop is probably not in the top 100 by that measure.
Probably the best measure is to look at one’s own portfolio (if one is fortunate to have such) and its value. Look at the drop in that value as a fraction of you annual income or expected/desired income. That will tell you how meaningful such group (e.g., DJIA, S&P, etc.) are to you.
Because not only have the groups been redefined over time but the value of the dollar has change, in regards to what one dollar means to a person. It meant a lot a century ago, but today a dollar is like the dandruff we shake out of our hair.
tangentially related to coronavirus but more directly to the trump admin rollback of parts of the ACA and junk insurance that’s filling the vacuum
In 2018, President Donald Trump’s administration rolled back Affordable Care Act regulations and allowed so-called “junk plans” in the market. Consumers mistakenly assume that the plans with lower monthly costs will be better than no insurance at all in case of a medical catastrophe, but often the plans aren’t very different from going without insurance altogether.
Hospital officials at Jackson told the Miami Herald that, based on his insurance, Azcue would only be responsible for $1,400 of that bill, but Azcue said he heard from his insurer that he would also have to provide additional documentation: three years of medical records to prove that the flu he got didn’t relate to a preexisting condition.
sure. that’s how they sell this nonsense.
if you have a preexisting condition you can get insurance, so yeah, ‘you’re covered’.
but the plan wont pay anything
re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth
Is there someone out there telling the ‘bots and morons to push the “the Dow falling is great, buy low, sell high” spin? This blip is irrelevant in the long term; anyone with oodles of spare cash is already in the market, who are these phantom buyers (that don’t exist)?
If you thought Roy Moore’s 2008 run for Alabama’s Senate Seat was insane, meet the men trying to prove they’re the most racist, pro-Jesus, Anti Kaepernick of Alabama’s 2020 Senate candidates: https://t.co/pkkXONuK0d pic.twitter.com/0QKKBsZyHQ
— The Root (@TheRoot) February 24, 2020
re: #188 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Is there someone out there telling the ‘bots and morons to push the “the Dow falling is great, buy low, sell high” spin? This blip is irrelevant in the long term; anyone with oodles of spare cash is already in the market, who are these phantom buyers (that don’t exist)?
and anyone smart enough to ‘buy low, sell high” must have sold off before the drop today, right? i mean they knew, didnt they? being clairvoyant and all.
otherwise how do you know when ‘low’ and ‘high’ are?
oh wait, you’re just guessing, like everyone else
because if anyone had the secret their statements wouldn’t all read:
“past performance is not an indication of future results”
:-|
re: #187 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
tangentially related to coronavirus but more directly to the trump admin rollback of parts of the ACA and junk insurance that’s filling the vacuum
sure. that’s how they sell this nonsense.
if you have a preexisting condition you can get insurance, so yeah, ‘you’re covered’.
but the plan wont pay anything
Being poor is no excuse for not having GOOD health insurance. I wonder if he did not try the exchange for the lowest price ACA bronze plan in his state.
re: #188 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Is there someone out there telling the ‘bots and morons to push the “the Dow falling is great, buy low, sell high” spin? This blip is irrelevant in the long term; anyone with oodles of spare cash is already in the market, who are these phantom buyers (that don’t exist)?
Despite near all time highs in the markets, there’s a lot of money on the sidelines, though I doubt this dip would make anyone want to jump in and buy. Commodity markets are pricing for a recession, and until today equities were in lala land. Amazing amount of complacency. Though I guess that’s what you get when you get when we’ve had QE by various names going on for the better part of the decade.
re: #188 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Is there someone out there telling the ‘bots and morons to push the “the Dow falling is great, buy low, sell high” spin? This blip is irrelevant in the long term; anyone with oodles of spare cash is already in the market, who are these phantom buyers (that don’t exist)?
Bottom fishing. What a great strategy. However some Freepers are all over it since everything works together to show Trump is a genius.
re: #189 The Ghost of a Flea
so bush was an easily manipulatable idiot?
was cheney asleep for 8 years?
re: #189 The Ghost of a Flea
Yeah they set him up by *looks at notes* being the minority party in Congress. Fuck off Rush. You were chastising Iraq War critics as terrorist sympathizers. You don’t get to retcon yourself as an opponent.
re: #190 gocart mozart
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Privated because I’m just whining.
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re: #86 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Based solely on the fivethirtyeight.com odds, which just upped the chances of Sanders winning a majority of the delegates to 51%, the best chance of stopping him is for everyone else to drop out and endorse Biden, since he has the support of the most Bernie skeptical Democrats, African-Americans. projects.fivethirtyeight.com
I told Scarborough to fuck off when he said it.
Now I’m going to tell you that screwing over Warren like that is unforgivable, and that the real best chance of stopping Bernie is a brokered convention. A one-on-one race prolly gets him on the first ballot instead.
Two polls out of Kentucky:
Garin-Hart-Yang:
Amy McGrath (D) 40%
Mitch McConnell (R) 43%
Brad Barron (L) 5%
Undecided (12%)Change Research
Amy McGrath (D) 41%
Mitch McConnell (R) 41%
Brad Barron (L). 7%
Undecided 11%
MOE’s are 3.5%.
Details here: dailykos.com.
re: #200 Chrysicat
I told Scarborough to fuck off when he said it.
Now I’m going to tell you that screwing over Warren like that is unforgivable, and that the real best chance of stopping Bernie is a brokered convention. A one-on-one race prolly gets him on the first ballot instead.
Nationally, among Democrats, Warren is second, so it would seem to make more sense for everyone else but her to drop out.
re: #178 gocart mozart
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OK, I am honestly surprised he’s going to Rikers until March 11th
Obviously, they’ll be keeping him in the hospital ward
Harvey Weinstein will sleep in the custody of the state of NY tonight. Judge Burke ordered him remanded until his March 11 sentencing, where he faces a max of 25 years in prison.
— James Queally (@JamesQueallyLAT) February 24, 2020
re: #196 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah they set him up by *looks at notes* being the minority party in Congress. Fuck off Rush. You were chastising Iraq War critics as terrorist sympathizers. You don’t get to retcon yourself as an opponent.
Mr. Anal Cyst can go to hell. I have NO sympathy at all for him. I will celebrate when that pig gets his dirt nap!
Doctors I’m speaking to are asking how it’s possible countries neighboring or near to China (India/ Indonesia) have few or no reported virus cases when Italy is finding hundreds in tiny hilltop villages. Is it a case of don’t look for what you don’t want to find, they wonder.
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) February 24, 2020
Technically that is not “vandalism”. That is called “leaning an art & craft project against a brick building.” https://t.co/37VeA0EIAr
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 24, 2020
re: #204 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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After Harvey Weinstein was convicted, he was taken by ambulance to an infirmary at the Rikers Island jail.
The latest: https://t.co/IKyHIR0Jcp— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) February 24, 2020
The way to stop a market panic would have been to mobilize immediately and effectively a U.S.-led, multilateral international response. In trying to make everything seem likes it’s going great to avoid spooking markets, Trump is making it worse. https://t.co/qkz2XN1BRQ
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) February 24, 2020
re: #209 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Because who the fuck cares if more people die so long as Trump gets back into the White House?
Most Anti-american President ever.
re: #203 William Lewis
Damn she was good looking then and still is today.
Yep. I like Blondie’s version of “Hanging on the Telephone,” but I like The Nerves original better:
re: #202 Belafon
Nationally, among Democrats, Warren is second, so it would seem to make more sense for everyone else but her to drop out.
As someone pointed out yesterday, Bill Clinton won ONE of the first 11 primaries in 1992 and at that point had 85 delegates, trailing Tsongas with 170, Harkin with 145 and just ahead of Brown with 70.
re: #212 BeachDem
As someone pointed out yesterday, Bill Clinton won ONE of the first 11 primaries in 1992 and at that point had 85 delegates, trailing Tsongas with 170, Harkin with 145 and just ahead of Brown with 70.
Saw that. I was just commenting on the of who should remain if the non-Bernie candidates were to drop out. It is still too early to write anyone off right now. I think the right answer is look at who blacks are supporting. If they’re definitive, that person will be the nominee. If they’re as muddled as the rest of us, we’re going to the convention.
re: #209 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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re: #214 Eventual Carrion
At least he isn’t always campaigning like that … Obama did!
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Trump got around the complaint against Obama—that he used the personal pronoun “I” too much—by replacing all personal pronouns when convenient with “America” or “USA.”
It feels like what the country’s REALLY always been.
The problem is, the majority of folks who recognised that prior to 2001 also felt that not only had the wrong faction won the cold war, the proper outcome would have been for the other to win it outright.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 25, 2020
I was told there would be cinnamon peeps
Thanks Trump!
The Dow fell by more than 1,000 points today pic.twitter.com/g4SU3vsH7N
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 25, 2020
re: #218 Shropshire Slasher
I was told there would be cinnamon peeps
Dow has to lose 2,000 before we really celebrate! ////
re: #198 calochortus
Privated because I’m just whining.
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re: #220 Barefoot Grin
Dow has to lose 2,000 before we really celebrate! ////
I grabbed some root beer peeps instead
re: #219 Patricia Kayden
It’s past 3 am in India and Trump is tweeting the stock market looks very good on a day when the Dow was down 1000 points. pic.twitter.com/bsMOKQRYzW
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) February 24, 2020
This is the sort of thing DOJ’s new FARA unit should be all over. By which I mean Bill Barr is probably already on the phone telling them to do nothing at all. https://t.co/pspHQk2wjx
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) February 24, 2020
re: #212 BeachDem
As someone pointed out yesterday, Bill Clinton won ONE of the first 11 primaries in 1992 and at that point had 85 delegates, trailing Tsongas with 170, Harkin with 145 and just ahead of Brown with 70.
Difference between then and now is that in 1992 on March 3 (the first mini-Super Tuesday after the first four), there were 304 delegates at stake. This time around, there’s 1,344 at stake (a third of the total delegates at stake in the race). We are basically going to either have a Democratic nominee by next Wednesday or we will be looking at a brokered convention of some sort.
re: #213 Belafon
Saw that. I was just commenting on the of who should remain if the non-Bernie candidates were to drop out. It is still too early to write anyone off right now. I think the right answer is look at who blacks are supporting. If they’re definitive, that person will be the nominee. If they’re as muddled as the rest of us, we’re going to the convention.
At this point why would anyone drop out before super Tuesday? It is a week away and 1/3 of the delegates are up for grabs. After super Tuesday if we have more than 3 candidates moving forward(not counting Tulsi) I will be surprised.
For the first time in human history, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s air reached 400 parts per million.
The last time the planet experienced such high levels was more than 3M years ago. https://t.co/MQgBF3FutY— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 25, 2020
I can’t explain why Matthews still has a job
Chris Matthews just apologized for comparing Sanders’ Nevada win to the Nazis taking over France.
“I was wrong … Congratulations to you, Sen. Sanders, and to your supporters on a tremendous win down in Nevada”— Eliza Relman (@eliza_relman) February 25, 2020
re: #223 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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However, it occurs to me that being “in contact with everyone” is not necessarily what you want when you’re talking about a possible pandemic. (And yes, I know that doesn’t mean in physical contact.)
But climate change is a Chinese hoax.
Antarctic heat wave melted 20 percent of an island’s snow cover in days https://t.co/r1risWS9VB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 25, 2020
WTFITS
LMFAO!! HAHAHAHA 😂😂
I found the video. Watch Trump try to sit down. Watch Trump try to pay attention. Watch Trump look like a complete idiot!! pic.twitter.com/UlbXcDCEQl— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) February 24, 2020
re: #231 The Pie Overlord!
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I think they lost him at “the dignity of labor.”
Seriously get the man a wheelchair. He is literally using Melania as a crutch.
HOW MUCH of the $3 Billion will be spent at NEW TRUMP INDIA Hotel?
When floods cover lower India, @2412 feet above sea level, its a reason to deny climate change..#Impotus & Flotus visit Taj Mahal during India visit https://t.co/j3J2xjQIgt via @YouTube #resist #truth #India— Nice Guy Mick (@mehendrick9) February 25, 2020
re: #224 Dread Pirate
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To be fair, if we knew of Orban before this afternoon, we were ALREADY supposed to hate Hungary if we had any respect for the idea of a rule of law that doesn’t only cover the sitting government’s ENEMIES.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 25, 2020
re: #231 The Pie Overlord!
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He better watch out. That spinning wheel looks like a windmill. He might get cancer.
re: #233 The Pie Overlord!
Seriously get the man a wheelchair. He is literally using Melania as a crutch.
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I didn’t see it. They were holding hands the entire time after leaving the bench area, but while I can’t understand how she can tolerate that type of forced intimacy in public, I didn’t see him placing all or even most of his weight on that held hand.
HE IS A TERRIBLE PRESIDENT AND A TERRIBLE PERSON https://t.co/skdKdz2ycs
— (((Rachel Sklar))) ❄️ (@rachelsklar) February 25, 2020
re: #236 Chrysicat
I didn’t see it. They were holding hands the entire time after leaving the bench area, but while I can’t understand how she can tolerate that type of forced intimacy in public, I didn’t see him placing all or even most of his weight on that held hand.
He is squashing her hand. They are not holding hands like young lovers.
Am shocked to learn that nationalist governments suck at addressing intrinsically international problems
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 25, 2020
re: #238 The Pie Overlord!
He is squashing her hand. They are not holding hands like young lovers.
That’s abuse. I wasn’t denying that. I’m denying that he was leaning all his weight into that side.
I’ll vote for any Democrat the party nominates, Donald Trump is a horror show, but I ask those of like mind to remember a quote from George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) February 23, 2020
Which he will only sign if it’s exactly the language he sent to the House. He thinks that Americans will channel the Yellow Vest Riots to force especially the Senate to pass it untouched.
That’s delusional on his part, and the alternative of just proclaiming it would be worse.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 25, 2020
So this clip came across my TL and I’m like OH NOE NOT MOAR BELGIAN CARNIVAL but it’s an actual Jewish wedding.
אדר סינדראם pic.twitter.com/VDjO5mDQa7
— Hasidic2 (@hasidic_1) February 25, 2020
Some extremely high-risk reading by Trump during his speech in India pic.twitter.com/3xxyVZUsAm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 24, 2020
You know what this reminds me of, Ambassador Graham Martin during the fall of South Vietnam. A man deliberately refusing to do anything to mitigate an absolutely imminent disaster because of fear over losing control of the optics
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 25, 2020
Wanna screenshot that since he locked his account after getting dragged for it?
Or are you rightly worried he’d block you if you tried it?— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 25, 2020
re: #244 jaunte
Wow that’s a butchering of Swami Vivekananda even for him, assuming that’s who he was referring to.
Rush Limbaugh: “It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. … The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.” https://t.co/Uqc8df1X98 pic.twitter.com/ZWR6ymTFWH
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) February 24, 2020
So apparently, Rush’s take on a disease that’s killed a couple thousand people already amounts to….
re: #227 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I thought that happened 7 years ago:
MAY 10, 2013
We hit a new carbon dioxide milestone yesterday:
Scientific monitors reported that the gas had reached an average daily level that surpassed 400 parts per million
motherjones.com
Maybe I’m confused (hey)—climate science not really my strong point.
My mother did. Tried to get me to de-transition by waving four times my annual income in front of me at a time I still HAD an annual income.
But my family is composed of the daughter of one self-made millionaire [woman] who married another self-made millionaire, so we’re weird.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 25, 2020
Aaaand in addition if we ever got out of it today, we were already into overnight mode by 20:00.
Meeting Tina brightened my day — and she made a pretty good point at the end. pic.twitter.com/tgMPk7ISGN
— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) February 25, 2020
re: #252 BeachDem
I thought that happened 7 years ago:
MAY 10, 2013
We hit a new carbon dioxide milestone yesterday:
Scientific monitors reported that the gas had reached an average daily level that surpassed 400 parts per million
motherjones.comMaybe I’m confused (hey)—climate science not really my strong point.
Welp, the NBC story acknowledges the 2013 event and says
what was once seen as an alarming threshold has now become business as usual. This year, scientists are forecasting that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide will likely peak at around 417 ppm, signifying that for every 1 million molecules of gas in the atmosphere, 417 are carbon dioxide.
So the story was right, but the tweet was weird.
re: #250 Blind Frog Belly White
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Uh, no. rhinovirus cause the common cold.
re: #255 BeachDem
Welp, the NBC story acknowledges the 2013 event and says
what was once seen as an alarming threshold has now become business as usual. This year, scientists are forecasting that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide will likely peak at around 417 ppm, signifying that for every 1 million molecules of gas in the atmosphere, 417 are carbon dioxide.So the story was right, but the tweet was weird.
I seem to remember that too much carbon dioxide/not enough oxygen… makes people stupid. Before it gets bad enough to make people pass out, it makes them unable to process information and make rational decisions.
re: #231 The Pie Overlord!
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It’s a charkha. It’s a symbol of Indian independence. The wheel of the charkha is on the Indian flag. Gandhi had people spin their own cotton and weave their own cloth to break the control of the British over fabric production. (Cotton was sent to Britain, spun and woven into fabric and then sent back.) This is a rather fancy charkha, but I’ve lusted after a book charkha in the past. Cotton is very different than wool or flax to spin. It has very short (by comparison) fibers and needs a small wheel so that you can get more revolutions per minute to get enough spin to keep the cotton together in a thread.
Probably more than you ever wanted to know about charkhas…oh, you mean the bozo people? No idea.
re: #181 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
And pus caskets is an anagram for peta sucks.
What’s your fucking point?— Uriel (@sickendun2death) February 25, 2020
Sorry but I’m not an Assange fan. He has supported rightwing fascists in Europe and here in the U.S. I don’t get the lefty love for him.
.@RogersWaters says he wants WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange out of prison “immediately.” Waters participated in a march in London in support of Assange. pic.twitter.com/QRk1ZG9SVW
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) February 24, 2020
Justice Sotomayor Just Called Out the Supreme Court’s Conservatives for Being White House Errand Boys Charlie Pierce
Make no mistake. In this dissent, Justice Sotomayor is calling out the new 5-4 conservative majority—which includes Chief Justice John Roberts—for being White House errand boys. This is an astonishing development. You simply do not ever see this kind of attack on the Court’s objectivity from inside the temple. And the hell of it all is that she’s right. There was no reason for the Court to act so precipitously on this noxious principle except to do the White House’s bidding, and, by doing the White House’s bidding in this way, the 5-4 majority submarined the authority of the appellate system all the way down through the federal judiciary.
There was a time when I actually believed that Roberts cared enough about the institution over which he presides that he never would let it become an adjunct chop-shop to a criminal enterprise. Madame Justice Sotomayor just told me how wrong I was. I stand corrected.
re: #181 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
PETA runs slaughterhouses for unwanted pets so it’s strange to see them pontificating.
re: #260 Patricia Kayden
Sorry but I’m not an Assange fan. He has supported rightwing fascists in Europe and here in the U.S. I don’t get the lefty love for him.
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re: #258 mmmirele
It’s a charkha. It’s a symbol of Indian independence. The wheel of the charkha is on the Indian flag.
Just a minor clarification — the charkha is not actually what’s on the Indian flag. A different type of wheel known as the Ashoka chakra, or the wheel of justice is what’s actually on the flag, named after the Indian emperor Ashoka.
The charka, though, is a symbol of independence, and India’s Congress party (which led the independence struggle, and ruled India for most of it’s time post-independence), still has it on it’s flag.
But it’s easy to confuse the two, especially given their similar names and functions.
Juanita Jean: “As an aside, people are suggesting the fear that Trump won’t leave the White House if he’s defeated in 2020. I used to hear the same rumors from Republicans about Barack Obama. Trump will leave the White House. I personally know a goat roper with the instincts of a mountain lion and a horse named Prissy who who will bring that piece of livestock out the front door while you time her.”
#WarrenTime pic.twitter.com/WjyWlH0WeD
— Jack Black (@jackblack) February 24, 2020
Trump has never read a book.
Listen to the idiot back in 1987 when asked who his favorite author was & what book he was currently reading.
The interview did not go well.
Instead of reading books, what was Trump really doing in 1987? pic.twitter.com/AYhEP9lXsH— cαηα∂α нαтεs тя☭мρ (@Trump_Detester) February 23, 2020
re: #267 Belafon
I’m not entirely sure that picture is helping, unless the goal is terrifying small children into persistent phobias that Jack Black is hiding under their bed.
(I kid! I kid!)
re: #269 uriel
I’m not entirely sure that picture is helping, unless the goal is terrifying small children into persistent phobias that Jack Black is hiding under their bed.
(I kid! I kid!)
Jack, I don’t think there will be a remake of Lord of the Rings.
#Wattlegate: Is the President Digitally Touching Up His Neck? An Investigation The Rude Pundit
OMG, DT is having his videos airbrushed! It is so weird!
re: #269 uriel
I’m not entirely sure that picture is helping, unless the goal is terrifying small children into persistent phobias that Jack Black is hiding under their bed.
(I kid! I kid!)
But seriously, he makes Alan Moore look non-threatening by comparison.
And before she transitioned, Ghastly made very clear what she thought of that idea.
re: #260 Patricia Kayden
Sorry but I’m not an Assange fan. He has supported rightwing fascists in Europe and here in the U.S. I don’t get the lefty love for him.
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re: #271 retired cynic
#Wattlegate: Is the President Digitally Touching Up His Neck? An Investigation The Rude Pundit
OMG, DT is having his videos airbrushed! It is so weird!
#Wattlegate …I love it!
re: #271 retired cynic
What do you expect from DT? Mr Reality TV Star of course would have his videos and photographs retouched. He has also had interviewer’s videos edited to make himself sound better.
re: #260 Patricia Kayden
Sorry but I’m not an Assange fan. He has supported rightwing fascists in Europe and here in the U.S. I don’t get the lefty love for him.
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Very simply put? Because once we get to the Image: 85zorfdjbwi41.jpg types, they want to believe the “Clinton body count” as much as the right does, because it makes it easier to rationalise that yes, they want gulags, “but the centre wants us dead”.
re: #269 uriel
I’m not entirely sure that picture is helping, unless the goal is terrifying small children into persistent phobias that Jack Black is hiding under their bed.
(I kid! I kid!)
That’s what my beard looks like in the morning after wearing a CPAP mask all night.
re: #260 Patricia Kayden
Sorry but I’m not an Assange fan. He has supported rightwing fascists in Europe and here in the U.S. I don’t get the lefty love for him.
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I don’t know the early Pink Floyd, but I’ve never been a fan of the popular band that Roger Waters was a part of. So it doesn’t hurt me that he’s a Susan Sarandon of the rock world.
Sarandon poking her ratfucking nose into Kentucky politics
Check out this article about @Booker4KY who’s running against McConnell.
“We won’t beat Mitch McConnell by running to the soft center and not taking any real positions. Democrats have tried that, and it fails every time.”
https://t.co/rARkvZ89eQ via @commondreams— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) February 24, 2020
😍HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!😍Columbus Zoo welcomes two Cheetah cubs through IVF https://t.co/IuyHit4UkA
These cubs were born through in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer. INCREDIBLE! pic.twitter.com/5xz2owidUG— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) February 25, 2020
O_o
Unless I’m very much mistaken, Jackson’s news conference was in early January 2018 and he left the WH in December 2019.
Couldn’t get a diet off the ground or an exercise bike installed in that time? pic.twitter.com/REfDekB4I5— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 25, 2020
re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“We were putting cauliflower into the mashed potatoes.”
jeebus
Yeah, because you ordered your guys to put the word out under threat of firing and Twitter flaming. You’re a tiny liddle’ man who needs all kinds of help because you can’t govern — or win — on your own accord. https://t.co/szMcq9MHnc
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) February 25, 2020
re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth
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..It has been a scam right from the beginning with the illegally started Mueller Report, FISA, the leaking, lying & more. Schiff should not have access to Intelligence, he is a corrupt pol. “Amazing that they went to Bernie Sanders, but not to President Trump.” @marthamaccallum
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2020
re: #205 Joe Bacon 🌹
Mr. Anal Cyst can go to hell. I have NO sympathy at all for him. I will celebrate when that pig gets his dirt nap!
Teaser. I did a joke last night in my set about Rush and will post latter in the week.
HR1: Democracy
HR3: Prescription drugs
HR4: VRA
HR5: LGBTQ rights
HR6: Immigrant rights
HR7: Equal pay
HR8: Background checks
HR582: Minimum wage
HR1230: Older worker protections
HR1423: Arbitration
HR1500: Consumer rights
HR1585: VAWA
HR2474: Unions
HR4617: Foreign interference— Vanita Gupta (@vanitaguptaCR) February 24, 2020
re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I know they can’t possibly be, because no one would be that careless, but those heads look downright shooped onto those bodies.
And for that matter, human-head-based vs feline to boot.
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
Cheechako
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
