Seth takes a closer look at President Trump threatening to unleash the military on American citizens protesting the brutal police murder of George Floyd.
Repost from downstairs:
So yes, I’m saying that King losing will help the Republicans.
re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Repost from downstairs:
“The enemy of my enemy is…well, fuck them both sideways anyhow!”
Even with the national Republicans throwing all their weight behind Feenstra, his lead over King is now less than 1k.
Feenstra just knows which parts to not say out loud.
And it will still make me happy to see King lose anyway.
Democrats took the other three seats in 2018. We can take this one in 2020.
re: #5 Jack Burton
Feenstra just knows which parts to not say out loud.
Feenstra will now have to find a way to bring King supporters back in without become King.
Live primary results Iowa 4th https://t.co/BegC8gRjn0
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 3, 2020
re: #5 Jack Burton
Feenstra just knows which parts to not say out loud.
Seriously, I was just taking a quick look though Feenstra’s Twitter and his campaign website. He seems really careful never to specifically call out King’s racism. He calls him “caustic” and blames him for diminishing Iowa’s presence in Congress, but he never says “Steve King is racist”.
Remember a week and a half ago and the videos of the packed pool parties at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri? Today Missouri reported their highest day over day jump in COVID cases in a month. pic.twitter.com/IGBQenPo1m
— That Guy (@ThatGuy3002) June 2, 2020
re: #8 Belafon
Feenstra will now have to find a way to bring King supporters back in without become King.
I don’t think that will be a problem: he will conjure them back into the fold with the power of the magic rune: (R)
So Iowa looks to replace Nazi asshole with Nazi-adjacent asshole.
Ho-hum.
NEWS: DHS has warned law enforcement of white supremacists encouraging followers to shoot protesters. And on Friday, “suspected anarchist & militia extremists allegedly planned to storm and burn the Minnesota State Capitol,” per DHS intel note we obtained.https://t.co/Cz69j8sCEr
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) June 1, 2020
Despite the DHS intelligence note — which warns of far-right extremists like white supremacists and militias exploiting the protests — Trump and administration officials, including Bill Barr, have focused overwhelmingly on alleged left-wing violence. https://t.co/Cz69j8sCEr
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) June 1, 2020
re: #13 Targetpractice
So Iowa looks to replace Nazi asshole with Nazi-adjacent asshole.
Ho-hum.
Baby goosesteps.
re: #8 Belafon
Feenstra will now have to find a way to bring King supporters back in without become King.
King supporters are the heart of Trump supporters. Is there any real difference between the two men in terms of ideology? It is chilling to deal with those who remain Trump adherents — friends and family — who, outside of politics, seem like decent human beings but metastasize into something evil when politics arises. But maybe that’s because, for most of us, we end up treating issues like racism and immigration as political and thereby avoid confronting these problems in our conversations.
Good effing riddance.
IT’S OFFICIAL!RACIST STEVE KING HAS BEEN DEFEATED IN IOWA!
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 3, 2020
re: #14 Dread Pirate
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re: #18 Targetpractice
Trump and Barr are focused on Antifa because some of their best friends are white supremacists.
“Very fine people”…
Midnight in DC. Has the park emptied out of boredom? Are those robocops still profiling on the Lincoln Monument steps?
re: #17 (((Archangel1)))
Me, being the cynic that I am, don’t see it as good news.
The national GOP ran against King, because they saw him as a liability.
So they pushed Feenstra, someone who will make the same votes as King, but as someone else noted, Feenstra knows what to not say out loud.
From the Declaration of Independence:
“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power”.#TrumpOut2020 #TrumpDictatorship https://t.co/yoHcOEnlji— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) June 3, 2020
re: #10 Ace-o-aces
Seriously, I was just taking a quick look though Feenstra’s Twitter and his campaign website. He seems really careful never to specifically call out King’s racism. He calls him “caustic” and blames him for diminishing Iowa’s presence in Congress, but he never says “Steve King is racist”.
None of them can. They would lose the conservative base if they did.
re: #23 Ace-o-aces
Looking a little Blackwater-y.
When you are so desperate to stage a photo op that you’ll abuse your authority, but so disorganized that you don’t work out the actual staging of the photo op https://t.co/mIDiGhhi8o
— Keith E. Whittington (@kewhittington) June 3, 2020
Ms. Hicks came up with the visuals, but was unprepared for Trump’s inability to hold a Bible convincingly.
Today I decided that I had to spend time on something else besides news (once it appeared that he wasn’t going to attempt to send troops to the states today). I restocked at the grocery store (almost completely full paper products aisle and they had sanitizer), and spotted this in the course of my walk.
re: #27 jaunte
Ms. Hicks came up with the visuals, but was unprepared for Trump’s inability to hold a Bible convincingly.
Someone asked above where the Trumps at the altar/crucifix was shot. It was part of today’s package at the Catholic shrine for JP II.
re: #29 Decatur Deb
Someone asked above where the Trumps at the altar/crucifix was shot. It was part of today’s package at the Catholic shrine for JP II.
Is he trying to strengthen “relations” with his evangelical base by visiting a CATHOLIC shrine? To a saint?
These people are morons, part I can’t guess how large a number.
re: #30 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Is he trying to strengthen “relations” with his evangelical base by visiting a CATHOLIC shrine? To a saint?
These people are morons, part I can’t guess how large a number.
Yeah—the nutcases at Liberty and Colorado Springs love them some crucifixes and statues.
re: #10 Ace-o-aces
Seriously, I was just taking a quick look though Feenstra’s Twitter and his campaign website. He seems really careful never to specifically call out King’s racism. He calls him “caustic” and blames him for diminishing Iowa’s presence in Congress, but he never says “Steve King is racist”.
And his record/endorsements do not read “moderate” to me.
Feenstra was supported by the United States Chamber of Commerce and National Right to Life Committee. Feenstra’s candidacy has also been supported by conservative political commentator and radio host, Ben Shapiro, who urged his Twitter followers to donate to Feenstra’s campaign
Bills Sponsored By: Randy Feenstra: A bill for an act relating to the definition of person from the moment of conception until natural death under the criminal code.
Feenstra was the only candidate to have both an endorsement from National Right to Life and an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association
re: #21 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Me, being the cynic that I am, don’t see it as good news.
The national GOP ran against King, because they saw him as a liability.
So they pushed Feenstra, someone who will make the same votes as King, but as someone else noted, Feenstra knows what to not say out loud.
I would like to defeat him, but I’m also fine with going back to people being ashamed of being white supremacists in public.
re: #23 Ace-o-aces
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I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!
While they are distracted by the peotests let’s rip down all the confederate monuments, change the street and scool names, snd change the names of military bases.
— John Cole (@Johngcole) June 2, 2020
Do we like our symbolism on the nose, folks? https://t.co/RBTVR16nMB
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 3, 2020
Every flower posted on here brings me joy. Thank you for taking pics of the beauty in your neighborhoods. It really does help my heart. <3
He’s the food Hulk:
.@chefjoseandres protesting and giving food to people outside of the White House. “I’m always protesting!” he said pic.twitter.com/C5CJafYtym
— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) June 2, 2020
Nebraska continues to add more information to its so-called dashboard of Covid-19 information.
They’ve now added American Sign Language videos to explain the information on the page. The page is also available in English, Spanish, Somali, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and French. (Nebraska has the highest population of refugees per capita of any state.)
I think the initial stifling of information by our governor wasn’t going over well, since they keep expanding what’s available. To be charitable, they may also have had limited information because they had to set up an interactive Website collecting information from ninety-three counties (many without Internet service), numerous cities, and eight public health districts.
Statewide:
nebraska.maps.arcgis.com
14,611 cases (+266)
Total hospitalisations: 851 Active: 194
Largest age group: 55-64, then 65-74
Recovered: 6,161
Largest age group: 20-34, then 45-54
Hospital beds available: 42%
Deaths: 181 (+11)
Largest age group: 75-84, then 65-74
re: #30 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Is he trying to strengthen “relations” with his evangelical base by visiting a CATHOLIC shrine? To a saint?
These people are morons, part I can’t guess how large a number.
They’ll vote for Trump over an atheist liberal sochulsmism Antifa Kenyan usurper understudy.
The magic “Christian” is just as good as the magic “R” and as everyone knows there are no Christians at all in the Democratic Party.
Honestly, I’m disappointed in you all. Not a single “He did Nazi that coming” joke? Breaks my heart.
//
re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Remember, Evangelicals were all in on Mormon Mitt Romney.
re: #20 Decatur Deb
Midnight in DC. Has the park emptied out of boredom? Are those robocops still profiling on the Lincoln Monument steps?
Two hours ago:
Large crowds of protesters persist despite DC curfew (Fox 5 in DC)
WASHINGTON - Long after D.C.’s stated curfew went into effect, large crowds of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd lingered in Lafayette Park on Tuesday night.
FOX 5’s Lindsay Watts observed the protesters for several hours, and noted that they were largely peaceful.
Previous nights of social protest in the District have begun peacefully, but rapidly escalated into clashes with police.
(more)
APD admits they met with armed fascist organizations that brought out-of-state militias into ABQ to disrupt a Black-led march. https://t.co/UBBy0wIW6q
— Nick Estes (@nick_w_estes) June 3, 2020
(AP) New—Documents reviewed by AP show that if the National Guard can’t secure DC, 82nd will be deployed into DCA to secure WH complex, monuments, etc. Also, an update on #bayonets - soldiers have been told they won’t need them and have packed them away. https://t.co/ArVvwPwUGe
— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) June 3, 2020
This —><— close to going all SSSOROSSS on us.
So pathetic to watch the Fake News Lamestream Media playing down the gravity and depravity of the Radical Left, looters and thugs, ripping up our Liberal Democrat run (only) cities. It is almost like they are all working together?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2020
We’ll always have this, @SteveKingIA pic.twitter.com/xrh1XAjwVc
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 3, 2020
I miss the days when the level of fuckery hovered between “no dude, we are not selling you Greenland,” and “extorting foreign governments for made up campaign dirt isn’t great.”
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) June 3, 2020
Rep. Jim Clyburn on CNN encouraging young people to peacefully protest: “I tell people all the time, I met my wife in jail!”
— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) June 3, 2020
Eric Trump, for some reason just went on a big Twitter unfollow spree. Scroll down and see.
Tweets by TrumpsAlertSay it ain’t so, Eric!
EricTrump appears to no longer follow @TrumpHotels. (This bot cannot tell if this was an unfollow, suspension or block.)
— Trump Alert (@TrumpsAlert) June 3, 2020
EricTrump appears to no longer follow @EricTrumpFdn. (This bot cannot tell if this was an unfollow, suspension or block.)
— Trump Alert (@TrumpsAlert) June 3, 2020
EricTrump appears to no longer follow @TrumpNewYork. (This bot cannot tell if this was an unfollow, suspension or block.)
— Trump Alert (@TrumpsAlert) June 3, 2020
EricTrump appears to no longer follow @jaredkushner. (This bot cannot tell if this was an unfollow, suspension or block.)
— Trump Alert (@TrumpsAlert) June 3, 2020
The list goes on and on, check it out in the window about by scrolling down. He unfollowed hundreds and hundreds of accounts.
re: #53 teleskiguy
EricTrump appears to no longer follow @TrumpTower. (This bot cannot tell if this was an unfollow, suspension or block.)
— Trump Alert (@TrumpsAlert) June 3, 2020
#SuperBernieTuesday is now #BernieCivilWar, please make a note of it.
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 3, 2020
re: #56 Belafon
Do I have to?
Bernie campaign spokesperson blasts former adviser David Sirota: “real change happens when you steal an email list from the campaign and use it to create your own paid newsletter.” pic.twitter.com/YP7VPNaE3H
— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) June 3, 2020
I think that bot broke, ‘cause Eric Trump’s follow list doesn’t cross reference with the bot list. I’m thinking Eric might have got temporarily suspended or accidentally cancelled his account and brought it back.
re: #57 Targetpractice
I am glad that some of Bernie’s advisors are taking this opportunity to destroy their political careers.
.@PhillyPolice are launching an Internal Affairs investigation into why cops treated white “vigilantes” better than Black protesters Tuesday night.https://t.co/tyEuEpfhK9
— Christina Kristofic (@CKristofic) June 3, 2020
DCNG Commanding General has directed an investigation into the actions of our rotary aviation assets June 1. Our priority is the safety of our Guardsmen who support civil authorities. We are dedicated to ensuring the safety of citizens and their right to protest.
— District of Columbia National Guard (@DCGuard1802) June 3, 2020
I’ve followed this Tweeter for a while. It’s a helluva thread:
Black Lives Matter protesters apprehends an infiltrator who threw fireworks at the cops and gives him over to the authorities. #ItsASetUp pic.twitter.com/NOS1rVGDm1
— 🇯🇲Black🇭🇹Aziz🇳🇬aNANsi🇹🇹 (@Freeyourmindkid) June 2, 2020
A White Man From Illinois Allegedly Brought Bombs to Start a Riot at the Minneapolis George Floyd Protest - VICE https://t.co/Jw3apkmwEz
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 3, 2020
This is F-in great. Apparently everyone who called into that LA Police Commission Zoom meeting just completely blasted them, but this… this is epic: (NSFW audio on the video)
WHOEVER THE FUCK THIS IS, YOU DROPPED THIS KING 👑 pic.twitter.com/Q4nXnPx4GA
— JUSTIN /̶/̶/̶ EDGE #BLM (@djedgeofficial) June 2, 2020
re: #66 Jack Burton
This is F-in great. Apparently everyone who called into that LA Police Commission Zoom meeting just completely blasted them, but this… this is epic: (NSFW audio on the video)
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re: #31 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Here’s what one little crack in the sidewalk can produce.
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Oleander, growing outside your door.
Soon they’re gonna be in bloom up in Annandale.
re: #12 Jay C
I don’t think that will be a problem: he will conjure them back into the fold with the power of the magic rune: (R)
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but not in the IA-4.
To paraphrase Edwin Edwards, the only way a Republican can loose that district is if he’s found in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) June 3, 2020
Sandra Bland was killed in police custody in 2015. We will never forget her.
SAY HER NAME. Let’s get her case reopened. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/ZSdsmkyClz— Anonymous (@LatestAnonNews) June 3, 2020
J̶e̶f̶f̶r̶e̶y̶ ̶E̶p̶s̶t̶e̶i̶n̶ Sandra Bland didn’t commit suicide.
NEW: Terrible news. A new Ebola outbreak declared in Congo city that last saw the virus in 2018. Experimental vaccines have helped prevent spread, but no cure. Mortality rate as high as 90 percent. https://t.co/vIAoTJ6Gl6
— LenaSun (@bylenasun) June 1, 2020
Here’s footage of pepper spray being shot directly at a live CNN camera on H Street by Lafayette Park moments ago. pic.twitter.com/Puk2zxbt3b
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) June 3, 2020
“Trump protected himself from protests in a bunker in the White House.
We as Germans can say from experience: From this point on, things usually go downhill.” pic.twitter.com/pdS2iiKWnM— 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 🎺 (@davethetrumpetr) June 3, 2020
re: #73 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“Trump protected himself from protests in a bunker in the White House.
We as Germans can say from experience: From this point on, things usually go downhill.”
He is just waiting for Steiner to mass his troops and counter-attack supported by the 1,000 new Luftwaffe jet fighters…
Eye-opening tidbit from @brianstelter’s @ReliableSources newsletter tonight. #JournalismIsNotACrime pic.twitter.com/3VsXq2agB1
— First Story Strategies (@firststorystrat) June 3, 2020
re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is just waiting for Steiner to mass his troops and counter-attack supported by the 1,000 new Luftwaffe jet fighters…
Steiner… Steiner konnte nicht genügend Kräfte für einen Angriff massieren. Der Angriff Steiners ist nicht erfolgt.
Fuck, it’s like a never-ending waterfall of shit.
“Nearly a dozen federal agencies — even the Transportation Security Administration — were sent to Washington and other cities after the president vowed to “dominate” protesters.“ @KannoYoungs @ktbenner https://t.co/SuJMnPmPJC
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) June 3, 2020
ALPHA MALE SHOW DOMINANCE!!!
re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Alpha male my ass. He’s cowering in the basement like a dog frightened by thunder
I can well imagine that he phoned Vlad the other day and asked how he would handle it. To which Putin replied that he would phone his provincial governors and tell them to call out the armed forces and get things under control, show dominance and nip these protests in the bud.
And what did Trump then do immediately afterwards?
re: #79 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Alpha male my ass. He’s cowering in the basement like a dog frightened by thunder
my 100 lb rottweiler/keeshound mix used to stand on my shoulders during a thunderstorm or on 4th of July.
I used to think if they’d just called it Black Lives Matter Too then more white people would’ve got it, because you know how some of us need to be spoon fed basic concepts.
And there is some of that. But mostly it’s just us not seeing it because we are invested in not seeing it.— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) June 3, 2020
https://t.co/ApKfd72coj pic.twitter.com/jJRgDTROE8
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) June 3, 2020
re: #79 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Alpha male my ass. He’s cowering in the basement like a dog frightened by thunder
The concept of alpha maleness exists to kite disproportionate aggression and treating all interactions as power struggles as somehow natural and good as opposed to authoritarian and crude.
I mean, it’s a special kind of stupid and weak to use a debunked descriptor of a predator social hierarchy to describe a within-species, within-socialization interaction. It’s the participation trophy of evo psych pseudointellectual schemes. Might as well give yourself a ribbon for pissing on a lamp post.
re: #84 The Ghost of a Flea
The concept of alpha maleness exists to kite disproportionate aggression and treating all interactions as power struggles as somehow natural and good as opposed to authoritarian and crude.
To those who actually study the topic of animal behavior, the whole alpha thing is just part of a complex system of interaction, and is more descriptive of the position a creature currently occupies within the pack/clan/herd rather than its innate traits.
re: #82 goddamnedfrank
All Lives Matter was the slip showing on whites uncomfortable with BLM.
The words themselves said in good faith should reinforce, uplift, BLM’s message, but how they’re applied is simply whataboutism.
Blue Lives matter is the further elaboration of white supremacy intersecting with boilerplate authoritarianism: if a policeman can die on the job you cannot address the specific phenomenon of people killed by the police because…implicitly…police “survival” simply has to include a discretion to kill and it is wrong to question this axiom or call for accountability.
In many respect, it borrows from the manifold of bullshit used in reactionary gun culture: there is a deliberate linguistic walk-around the base assumption that the person using lethal force cannot be legitimately doubted in their discernment of threat.
AG Barr is advancing President Trump’s threat to treat protestors as terrorists, telling states that the Justice Department is preparing to use Joint Terrorism Task Forces as part of responding to protests. This is inappropriate and anti-democratic.https://t.co/LrUVEtGLl3
— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) June 2, 2020
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yeah, I love ethology and particular primatology.
I even read the Meck book that the “alpha” premise comes from, that he retracted after studying wild wolves instead of captive ones.
re: #87 The Ghost of a Flea
Blue Lives matter is the further elaboration of white supremacy intersecting with boilerplate authoritarianism.
I think it was Chris Rock who pointed out that he was born black, but nobody is born blue…
I hated TikTok until people started posting these videos of civil rights marchers taking down looters. They’re seriously the best thing ever. https://t.co/Xs9xXGltUt
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) June 3, 2020
re: #14 Dread Pirate
After these protests would another armed protest outside/entering the Michigan capitol by the same group as before result in the same outcome?
re: #21 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Me, being the cynic that I am, don’t see it as good news.
The national GOP ran against King, because they saw him as a liability.
So they pushed Feenstra, someone who will make the same votes as King, but as someone else noted, Feenstra knows what to not say out loud.
Pretty much anyone the GOP nominates would vote the same as King - they’re the party of lockstep and monolithic voting since GOP uber alles is stamped on them.
I’d still rather have King sidelined by *his own party* since it still is a bit of a statement that he’s gone beyond some kind of pale. Or at least enough people have decided that he’s too much of an asshole to tolerate compared to someone else. Feenstra might well be Nazi-lite and as racist (but not openly saying it), but I view him as ultimately being no worse than King.
re: #93 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Feenstra might well be Nazi-lite and as racist (but not openly saying it), but I view him as ultimately being no worse than King.
Therein lay the problem, though.
The Democrats could campaign against King and get at least some nodding agreement from the middle of the road Republicans (if any remain in Iowa.)
Feenstra will be a shiny new toy by which Iowa Republicans can feel cleaner in voting for him than they would King.
re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Therein lay the problem, though.
The Democrats could campaign against King and get at least some nodding agreement from the middle of the road Republicans (if any remain in Iowa.)
Feenstra will be a shiny new toy by which Iowa Republicans can feel cleaner in voting for him than they would King.
so you’d view the Iowa GOP voters keeping King as a mistake (or potential mistake) and thus wouldn’t want to stop them from making such a mistake.
Will also have to see if King takes his loss in stride and accepts future political obscurity, or tantrums in some way before departing.
re: #21 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Me, being the cynic that I am, don’t see it as good news.
The national GOP ran against King, because they saw him as a liability.
So they pushed Feenstra, someone who will make the same votes as King, but as someone else noted, Feenstra knows what to not say out loud.
They’re Republicans. SSDD… Same shit, different dude. Would you expect anything less from any Republican?
To me it’s not good news, it’s not bad news, it’s REPUBLICAN news.
The only thing I care about is numbers… Could the Dem win Iowa? That’s it. Everything else is Republican noise because who cares which republican? They’re all the same.
Something changed last night. I am hearing from conservative friends and relatives in states like WV, VA, and SC who are finally done with Trump. One is writing in “Romney-Mattis.” Another one is voting Biden. He just told me, “I want him [Trump] crushed.”
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) June 2, 2020
IR shows Cristobal to be hanging just off shore and drifting a bit SW. Whether the center will head inland we’ll find out tomorrow. Regardless, the large low pressure system will remain and then move north to threaten the US Gulf coast, so I hope people there are getting ready for a deluge:
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re: #99 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Something changed last night. I am hearing from conservative friends and relatives in states like WV, VA, and SC who are finally done with Trump. One is writing in “Romney-Mattis.” Another one is voting Biden. He just told me, “I want him [Trump] crushed.”
Even Conservatives are starting to see that he has no leadership to offer, just photo ops fumbling a Bible and threatening governors who do not show sufficient force.
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even Conservatives see that he has no leadership to offer, just photo ops fumbling a Bible and threatening governors who do not show sufficient force.
There’s still 5 months that they can be summoned back into line by that mystic ᚱ rune.
re: #102 Jack Burton
There’s still 5 months that they can be summoned back into line by that mystic ᚱ rune.
All efforts will be made to do so…and again, it is not just a matter of getting voters to turn out, it is a matter of getting their votes counted and registered, especially in the right places.
Trump’s entire strategy will be focused on getting 270 Electors, regardless of the results of the popular vote.
re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Any possibility that the Bernie dead enders might shut up now?
no…it is still Them vs The Establishment
I’m a dog. i showed up. Trump licked his butt in a bunker https://t.co/ImloGRcGiX
— Bailey Warren (@FirstDogBailey) June 3, 2020
How to fuck up a fake protest - know nothing about the community you’re trying to infiltrate.
Three S.E. #Wisconsin cities are in consultation with the FBI and DHS bc all were targeted by the same group that infiltrated the protests in each city & used the cover to cause extensive damage.https://t.co/h72EYC5te0
— MarkRmade🌊 (@RafalMmade) June 3, 2020
re: #99 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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No offense, but this is on the same scale of trustworthiness as “I just left a hipster coffee shop.”
Upshot: Trump wanted people to die for him.
And North Carolina said, “We want *nothing* to do with this madness.” https://t.co/JswjNx4DLb— Seth Abramson (@🏠) (@SethAbramson) June 3, 2020
re: #108 Targetpractice
No offense, but this is on the same scale of trustworthiness as “I just left a hipster coffee shop.”
It is anecdotal and wishful thinking but I would like to think that a number of former supporters are seeing that Trump’s rhetoric is not just hollow, it is dangerous. They see his lack of leadership.
President Trump will not accept the 2020 Republican nomination in Charlotte, two RNC officials tell me & @merica
The RNC, because of contractual agreements, will still be required to hold some formal portion of the convention in Charlotte.— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) June 3, 2020
re: #26 jaunte
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it just felt…random and unplanned and therefore meaningless
When you are so desperate to stage a photo op that you’ll abuse your authority, but so disorganized that you don’t work out the actual staging of the photo op https://t.co/mIDiGhhi8o
— Keith E. Whittington (@kewhittington) June 3, 2020
re: #113 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
this is what I was trying to say last thread.
it just felt…random and unplanned and therefore meaningless
desperate
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is anecdotal and wishful thinking but I would like to think that a number of former supporters are seeing that Trump’s rhetoric is not just hollow, it is dangerous. They see his lack of leadership.
Oh, I’m sure there are those who are recognizing that Donny is a shit sandwich, but most of them made peace with that ages ago because there was something in it for them. We’ve seen story after story about the people who’ve been fucked over by this administration, from farmers to factory workers, who still go to bed at night praising his name because they thing “any day now” it’s all gonna pay off for them and them alone.
For the majority of them, if they’re turning their backs on Trump now, it’s because he’s ceased being an asset and started becoming a liability.
re: #111 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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And there’s Donny in the background, telling them to rip up the contracts and offer to pay the companies 50% or less of what was originally agreed to, while floating the threat that it’ll cost them more to win a court case than what they’re being offered to go away.
re: #115 Targetpractice
For the majority of them, if they’re turning their backs on Trump now, it’s because he’s ceased being an asset and started becoming a liability.
True, not the content, just the delivery…
They could always count on their base getting out to vote. I cannot see many of them turning to the Dems but maybe some of them will no longer feel as zealous about supporting DT…
Authorities in Wuhan separately said that city-wide testing of 9.9 million people that began in mid-May found no new cases of Covid-19, and 300 asymptomatic cases. China does not count asymptomatic cases - meaning people who are infected with the virus but do not exhibit symptoms of the disease - as confirmed cases.
And
There are fears the increased use of antibiotics to combat the pandemic will strengthen bacterial resistance and ultimately lead to more deaths during the crisis and beyond, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
re: #108 Targetpractice
No offense, but this is on the same scale of trustworthiness as “I just left a hipster coffee shop.”
Is normally agree but he’s a Daily Beast writer and a CNN contributor. A little more weighty in my eyes.
Attorney for George Floyd’s family says authorities have told them the other 3 officers involved in the detainment that preceded Floyd’s death will be charged.https://t.co/Q351abIgNZ
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 3, 2020
re: #120 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Attorney for George Floyd’s family says authorities have told them the other 3 officers involved in the detainment that preceded Floyd’s death will be charged
Good news, but why did it take a week of rioting to get us there?
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Good news, but why did it take a week of rioting to get us there?
Last I heard, the MN AG Keith Ellison said the state would be charging them but it still wasn’t determined what the exact charges would be yet.
ICYMI: Ella Jones became the first African American and first woman elected mayor of Ferguson, Missouri yesterday. https://t.co/lwmbmjWxVm via @stltoday
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 3, 2020
Good early morning from Iowa’s armpit, AKA the 4th District.
I wake up to find professional bigot King is going bye-bye. Except he really won’t. He’ll either get his own show on WHO along with all the other family friendly nazis, or Trump will make him…something.
I want to be happy, but with Vander Plaats running the R machine around here it doesn’t matter. Feenstra is as bad as King, believe me. He’s just a bit savvier about saying the evil shit only in private.
He will win. Period. I’d like it not to be true, but Steve Scholten won’t win. He tries to be the Iowa Nice version of Beto, but he’s no Beto. He’s very good at pointing out the missed and bad votes of his opponent, especially concerning farming. He’d make a pretty good congressman, but this fucking part of Iowa is chock full of dead-eyed red hats.
At least Greenfield has a shot at unseating Ernst.
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Good news, but why did it take a week of rioting to get us there?
I’m assuming investigations and being certain of what laws were broken and how to write the warrants. Arrests for arrests sake is pointless if you don’t have the laws behind the arrest. These are people who didn’t kneel on the guy, they just did nothing as he died.
Personally, I’d rather the charges stick them have some bullshit show arrest.
re: #126 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
WTF BBC?
they are generally a good source on events, but some of these filler pieces are complete trash…
re: #125 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m assuming investigations and being certain of what laws were broken and how to write the warrants. Arrests for arrests sake is pointless if you don’t have the laws behind the arrest. These are people who didn’t kneel on the guy, they just did nothing as he died.
Personally, I’d rather the charges stick them have some bullshit show arrest.
I could understand that if we did not have direct video evidence of them failing to provide assistance to someone in danger of asphyxiating…
re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I could understand that if we did not have direct video evidence of them failing to provide assistance to someone in danger of asphyxiating…
Totally get that. What I’m saying is which laws were broken in doing that and how did their failure to act break those laws?
I guess you have to think like a lawyer because that’s what’s going to result in convictions. I don’t give a shit about arrests, accountability comes from convictions.
That’s what I want across the board, accountability, convictions, sentences, forfeiture of monies and property, etc., etc., etc., for everyone from trump down.
Real accountability, real ramifications. That’s the only way all this shit stops.
re: #129 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Totally get that. What I’m saying is which laws were broken in doing that and how did their failure to act break those laws?
also the context. How long would arrests have taken if we had seen a video of non-policemen clearly failing to render necessary assistance in a life-threatening situation?
Esper stood there in the photo too. Will we learn tomorrow that he didn’t realize that they were taking photos? https://t.co/R0nTOW23GP
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) June 3, 2020
moron
Really sick to watch the Fake and totally Slanted News(?) coming out of MSDNC and CNN. It bears NO relationship to the Truth or Facts. They are merely offshoots of the DNC, much like the @nytimes and the Amazon @washingtonpost. Just like 2016, but worse. Sad, but we will win big!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2020
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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How to start the day with a laugh…
So I log on to Twitter to see what fresh hell has hatched while I was sleeping, and see the trending hashtag #whiteoutwednesday. I go looking to see what stupid shit is being tweeted, and it’s full of K-Pop fancam videos. Okay, I guess…
Ten minutes later I see #whitelivesmatter trending. I go look, same thing - K-Pop fancams everywhere.
Dog bless the K-Pop Stans for saving the world this morning.
There was a time, a President walked through a park near the @WhiteHouse - No tear gas. No pepper spray.
True story. pic.twitter.com/pRyz9piDsT— Chidi®️ (@ChidiNwatu) June 3, 2020
Definitely the headline you want when you’re facing re-election. https://t.co/uzt1mzJ2JG pic.twitter.com/mpO4Q7VvRB
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 3, 2020
Morning, all!
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How long would arrests have taken if we [had][?] seen a video of non-policemen clearly failing to render necessary assistance in a life-threatening situation?
Assuming you meant “hadn’t” there, the answer would likely be “probably never” - at most, IMO, an internal “investigation”, maybe a few administrative admonitions: and/or some local demonstrations. Maybe.
A symbolic victory, but a victory nonetheless. The shadow of Frank Rizzo has kept what should’ve been a scar on Philadelphia’s racial history an open wound for decades. https://t.co/5mjcqaR3yz
— Tom and Lorenzo (@tomandlorenzo) June 3, 2020
re: #99 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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1️⃣6️⃣7️⃣ Orlando, FL: you see a protestor in gray hoodie walking away with his hands up
A cop rushes into the crowd to grab him so some officers can beat him for sport, then other officers indiscriminately pepper-spray everyone else
pic.twitter.com/rfSSFcNrmR— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) June 3, 2020
Plot twist:
May: White people with guns have a sacred right to protest that must never be infringed.
June: ABOLISH THE SECOND AMENDMENT! pic.twitter.com/4UOZmiK2KS— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) June 3, 2020
re: #137 Jay C
Morning, all!
Assuming you meant “hadn’t” there, the answer would likely be “probably never” - at most, IMO, an internal “investigation”, maybe a few administrative admonitions: and/or some local demonstrations. Maybe.
no, the key word was non-policemen, as in civilian,s especially black civilans…
re: #142 Backwoods_Sleuth
If we don’t let police do whatever they want, they will all quit and armed black men will Mau-Mau your neighborhood
If we do not let billionaires do whatever they want, they will quit and go to Galu’s gulch and armed Mau-Mau men will descend on your neighborhood.
Got it.
re: #61 Dread Pirate
We don’t need to dig that deep.
It’s the fucking racism.
Yeah, liberal cities have conservative cops and institutional racism runs hard and deep even in NYC or Philly.
So fuck Trump, fuck the GOP, and fuck the enabling mendacious media that enables the cult of Trump.
For instance:
Fucking lunatic is running unopposed and GOP is treating it like it’s some kind of achievement.
This is a cult that must be destroyed. It is irredeemably corrupt and compromised.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 3, 2020
re: #147 BlueSpotinAL
Looks good just the way it is. They should pass a law to protect it.
ppre: #149 Decatur Deb
Looks good just the way it is. They should pass a law to protect it.
My thoughts exactly.
re: #32 Decatur Deb
Yeah—the nutcases at Liberty and Colorado Springs love them some crucifixes and statues.
The Republican base has become a single issue voter - anti-abortion.
Possibly dumb question - At just about every demonstration I’m seeing the graffiti tag ‘Fuck 12’ and I’m wondering what the significance is.
Woke up to find that #WhiteLivesMatter and #WhiteOutWednesday were trending…
but
it was the kpop stans filling the hashtag with their fancams. (Translation: Korean pop idol group fans/stalkers posted videos of their favorite acts to the hashtag.)
#BlueLivesMatter is trending too, but people are filling that up with pictures of blue creatures who don’t happen to be cops. Like the blue Power Ranger.
Oh yeah, the Frank Rizzo statue got removed in Philly overnight.
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they are generally a good source on events, but some of these filler pieces are complete trash…
See what you did…
re: #151 BlueSpotinAL
The Republican base has become a single issue voter - anti-abortion.
It is one rallying point…other groups overlap: the gun nuts, the law-and-orders, the taxation-is-thefters, the ant-LGBT, but they all seem to agree on abortion (until their daughter gets knocked up by some loser or minority member)
re: #152 makeitstop
Possibly dumb question - At just about every demonstration I’m seeing the graffiti tag ‘Fuck 12’ and I’m wondering what the significance is.
It’s those young people again.
re: #152 makeitstop
Possibly dumb question - At just about every demonstration I’m seeing the graffiti tag ‘Fuck 12’ and I’m wondering what the significance is.
12 seems to stand for ‘narcotics division’ in Police Department and now it’s morphed into ‘fuck the police’
Out to the garden while it’s cool, to see if any more zucchini snuck up overnight.
re: #152 makeitstop
Possibly dumb question - At just about every demonstration I’m seeing the graffiti tag ‘Fuck 12’ and I’m wondering what the significance is.
From Urban Dictionary:
Fuck 12
Fuck 12 basically means fuck the police, but more specifically it’s means fuck the police drug unit.
Rainstorms are as usual blowing right past us in the Rhine Valley and leaving only a few drops while thunder rumbles in the distance beyond the hills…
I honestly thought it was this at first because I’m wonder bread white:
F12, the final function key, is used mostly in Microsoft Office. If you want to save your document, workbook, or slideshow with a different name or to a different location, tap F12 to bring up the Save As dialog. Ctrl+F12 will start the Open File dialog.
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rainstorms are as usual blowing right past us in the Rhine Valley and leaving only a few drops while thunder rumbles in the distance beyond the hills…
We had some light rain earlier this morning in Moravian Silesia, but aside from that, it’s been mostly cloudy with some sun breaks. This weekend should be decent - about 70 F (20 C) with clear skies.
From a friend on FB:
White people:
Hey, yo, ummmm… Black people. So, we really don’t think you should be looting and rioting as a way to protest against us murdering you guys
Black people:
But we are angry
White people:
Yeah… we get that, we really do, it’s just, we just don’t want you breaking our stuff, is the thing.
Black people:
So what do you want us to do?
White people:
Maybe you could find a way to peacefully protest us killing you?
Black people:
Like kneeling during the anthem?
White people:
Nooooo… not that. It’s like a sacred song… and the troops and all that
Black people:
Could we wear tshirts with the victims names on them?
White people:
Are we going to have to see you wear them? Like, are basketball players going to wear them for warm ups on tv and stuff?
Black people:
Yeah
White people:
No, we really don’t like that idea either
Black people:
Could we storm the capital building with AK 47s?
White people:
No. That’s just for us when we can’t go to the salon. We’d probably kill you if you tried that
Black people:
So what do you want us to do then?
White people:
Maybe you could like march around some streets together with each other like MLK did in The 60s.
Black People:
But you killed MLK and those marches never stopped our people from being killed
White people:
Sounds great. I’m glad we could clear this up.
re: #164 Dr Lizardo
We had some light rain earlier this morning in Moravian Silesia, but aside from that, it’s been mostly cloudy with some sun breaks. This weekend should be decent - about 70 F (20 C) with clear skies.
Last thing we need are more raving Silesians…
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Last thing we need are more raving Silesians…
Don’t know any raving Silesians, but here’s some rockin’ Bohemians:
seth rogen explaining it in the simplest way possible pic.twitter.com/UQ24CA1eZf
— hannah (@hsawyerrrr) June 1, 2020
We could have had her. Maybe we still will.
c-span.org
Trump is a coward. Deploying troops to make a president feel safe is cowardice. When you see the pictures of troops in DC, know that #TrumpIsACoward.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) June 3, 2020
Every day reveals cops who never should been given a badge. Every day reveals cops who let their inner fascist fly thanks to Trump giving a green light to bash skulls.
Every day reveals a justice system that is fixed to protect bad cops.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 3, 2020
re: #173 lawhawk
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re: #174 Decatur Deb
Come quietly, or there will be trouble. /Murphy.
What you, a civilian see: scary Army people here to intimidate me
What I, a NCO see: okay what’s up with this one dude wearing his PT belt and black boots, freaking Air Force pic.twitter.com/XQhV2JUAxG— Lethality Jane (@LethalityJane) June 3, 2020
Hope all those dudes pre-set their gas masks for quickly putting them on and actually have their cannisters screwed in, but I guarantee at least 10% haven’t even opened the bags to check them.
— Lethality Jane (@LethalityJane) June 3, 2020
re: #177 BlueSpotinAL
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re: #176 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
I hope all those people are embarrassed for the rest of their lives that they agreed to line up as props in Trump’s little fascist show.
in case you wondered if the biden speech was good and effective. yeah it was. https://t.co/YlmleHdbNw
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 2, 2020
re: #179 jaunte
I hope all those people are embarrassed for the rest of their lives that they agreed to line up as props in Trump’s little fascist show.
You know how companies scour the web looking for information about potential employees…
Trump says he went down into the bunker only “for inspection.”
“It was during the day,” he insists, not during nighttime protests.— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) June 3, 2020
Bunker baby is cranky.
re: #145 lawhawk
We don’t need to dig that deep.
It’s the fucking racism.
Yeah, liberal cities have conservative cops and institutional racism runs hard and deep even in NYC or Philly.
So fuck Trump, fuck the GOP, and fuck the enabling mendacious media that enables the cult of Trump.
For instance:
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Trump wins a participation award while being the only participant
Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump on winning the Republican primaries in INDIANA, MARYLAND, MONTANA, NEW MEXICO, PENNSYLVANIA, RHODE ISLAND, SOUTH DAKOTA, and DC!
The enthusiasm is on our side, and it’s why we are going to beat Joe Biden and the Democrats in November!— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) June 3, 2020
re: #179 jaunte
I hope all those people are embarrassed for the rest of their lives that they agreed to line up as props in Trump’s little fascist show.
They accomplished their mission. No one broke through to the statue of Lincoln.
re: #139 steve_davis
I’ll believe it when I see it. Republicans aren’t elephants for nothing. They almost always revert to the herd when they step in that booth.
Democrats won suburbs in 2018 because white women who were Republicans decided they weren’t anymore. That’s why Colin Allred won.
re: #178 Decatur Deb
Classic, DD, classic. Stay gold.
So powerful.
‘You wanna f*cking do something? Make sure you’re registered to vote. Don’t start another goddamn fire,’ — This Black woman went off on people trashing her NYC neighborhood pic.twitter.com/J37k7R9lbm
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 3, 2020
re: #134 makeitstop
How to start the day with a laugh…
So I log on to Twitter to see what fresh hell has hatched while I was sleeping, and see the trending hashtag #whiteoutwednesday. I go looking to see what stupid shit is being tweeted, and it’s full of K-Pop fancam videos. Okay, I guess…
Ten minutes later I see #whitelivesmatter trending. I go look, same thing - K-Pop fancams everywhere.
Dog bless the K-Pop Stans for saving the world this morning.
When one of the cities, either Dallas or New York, started asking for videos of people in the protests, they were flooded with K-Pop videos.
Ferguson elected its first Black mayor tonight, meet Mayor-elect, Mrs. Ella Jones. pic.twitter.com/UglVpk3tad
— Marquis Govan (@kpsmg1) June 3, 2020
re: #180 Belafon
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Wow.
a speech given by a presidential candidate months before an election might be part of his campaign
Whodathunkit?
in case you wondered if the biden speech was good and effective. yeah it was. https://t.co/YlmleHdbNw
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 2, 2020
1️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ Los Angeles, CA: LAPD sharing a jovial chuckle with a white woman as she spraypaints a building to make it look like it was done by protestors. You can even hear police suggest she write “Floyd” too
[Original on IG @ https://t.co/VWELQL3mjL] pic.twitter.com/Z0zMTa4aOr— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) June 1, 2020
It shouldn’t surprise anyone in America that the same Trump who wants tanks rolling on U.S. soil is the same Trump who, in a 1990 Playboy interview, praised China for killing & wounding thousands in the Tiananmen Square protests.
They used tanks there.
That’s what he wants here. https://t.co/kJdlLV7XXm pic.twitter.com/8LOmTAirYk— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) June 3, 2020
re: #187 makeitstop
So powerful.
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Obama “Don’t boo. Vote.”
‘You wanna f*cking do something? Make sure you’re registered to vote. Don’t start another goddamn fire,’ — This Black woman went off on people trashing her NYC neighborhood pic.twitter.com/J37k7R9lbm
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 3, 2020
re: #189 lawhawk
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First black mayor
First woman mayor
all in one intelligent package
Ferguson elected its first Black mayor tonight, meet Mayor-elect, Mrs. Ella Jones. pic.twitter.com/UglVpk3tad
— Marquis Govan (@kpsmg1) June 3, 2020
re: #189 lawhawk
A black female mayor in Ferguson is progress. A burned-out store is just urban renewal.
re: #191 Decatur Deb
Who shot Malcolm?
Nation of Islam, his former group. Though there are suspicions of a broader conspiracy.
OK, any person with common sense would say it’s time to hand count the ORIGINAL mail in ballots.
Filling out substitute ballots so they can be scanned sounds like a crime to me.— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 3, 2020
re: #198 Dr Lizardo
Nation of Islam, his former group. Though there are suspicions of a broader conspiracy.
My mistake. I thought it was All Black People.
re: #124 Swampwitch
Good early morning from Iowa’s armpit, AKA the 4th District.
I wake up to find professional bigot King is going bye-bye. Except he really won’t. He’ll either get his own show on WHO along with all the other family friendly nazis, or Trump will make him…something.
I want to be happy, but with Vander Plaats running the R machine around here it doesn’t matter. Feenstra is as bad as King, believe me. He’s just a bit savvier about saying the evil shit only in private.
He will win. Period. I’d like it not to be true, but Steve Scholten won’t win. He tries to be the Iowa Nice version of Beto, but he’s no Beto. He’s very good at pointing out the missed and bad votes of his opponent, especially concerning farming. He’d make a pretty good congressman, but this fucking part of Iowa is chock full of dead-eyed red hats.
At least Greenfield has a shot at unseating Ernst.
PHONY JONI MUST GO!
Thread. Seems the lobbyists are beginning to worry…
1/ It begins:
A guy who went *full* Trump for lobbying business purposes — and I mean, slavishly, insanely so — is in Phase III of Good German syndrome.
Phase I - “Hey man, things have been crazy! How are you?”
Phase II - “Yeah, you know I had a mortgage and the company…”— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 3, 2020
re: #200 Decatur Deb
My mistake. I thought it was All Black People.
Years ago, Louis Farrakhan admitted that his incendiary rhetoric may well have played a part in Malcolm X’s death and he regretted that. As to whether the NoI’s leadership was behind it…..that’s a question we’ll probably never know the answer to. There’s also suspicions his assassination may have been connected with COINTELPRO.
Maybe pictures will help? pic.twitter.com/HF17TSXT6H
— Bethany Olson (@bmolson72) June 3, 2020
Holy shit this Ben & Jerry’s statement. https://t.co/fKXlLCZ0Vl pic.twitter.com/YISf0LYaeP
— Moneybagg Yo(hannes) 🇪🇷 (@AronYohannes) June 2, 2020
And is this a former Lizard in the replies?
Here is poor Kurt’s deleted tweet pic.twitter.com/9ybs62ivsM
— Gerard Murphy (@Gerard_Murphy) June 2, 2020
If you look up ‘toady’ in the dictionary, you’ll see this.
OH MY GOD. Lindsay dyed his hair to look like Trump.
CANNOT UNSEE. pic.twitter.com/M1g7a4wEiY— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 3, 2020
re: #182 jaunte
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Bunker baby is cranky.
I like alliteration: #BunkerBitch be bummin’.
re: #206 makeitstop
Probably leakage from his head being shoved up Trumps ass for so long.
So they removed Frank Rizzo’s statue last night from the steps of the Municipal Services Building in Philly.
In the middle of the night. hahahahahahahaha.
I think it’s an absolute scream that all the Trump supporters are losing their minds over a dead Democrat.
“It’s going to take the work of a generation”
Joe Biden says US Congress should act this month “starting with real police reform” and adds “bad cops should be dealt with severely and swiftly”
Latest: https://t.co/nGrniTHVdQ pic.twitter.com/Jaai5rqba4— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 2, 2020
“We need Republicans and all decent Americans to join us in our outrage and our disgust for this injustice.” —@SenDuckworth pic.twitter.com/cqGZrHhhJx
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) June 2, 2020
The US reported +1,134 new coronavirus deaths today, bringing the total to 108,059.
Illinois led the pack with +113. pic.twitter.com/gtfzBDuvaZ— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 3, 2020
re: #210 Allow me to light that for you…
So they removed Frank Rizzo’s statue last night from the steps of the Municipal Services Building in Philly.
In the middle of the night. hahahahahahahaha.
I think it’s an absolute scream that all the Trump supporters are losing their minds over a dead Democrat.
Yeah, but Frank Rizzo was infamous for hardline racism and homophobia expressed in terms of violence and intolerance.
So their nod to “bipartisanship”…
re: #213 Jay C
I lived in Philly during his “tenure”. I am well aware of who and what he stands for.
re: #205 Alephnaught
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re: #211 Belafon
Joe Biden says US Congress should act this month “starting with real police reform” and adds “bad cops should be dealt with severely and swiftly”
Tucker Carlson spin:
“All the good cops will quit and your neighborhood will be overrun by armed rape gangs!”
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Tucker Carlson spin:
“All the good cops will quit and your neighborhood will be overrun by armed rape gangs!”
Well, the ex-cops would have more time on their hands..
Democrats need to lead with holding cops accountable when they break the law *is* law and order. If the cops wont be held accountable, then they are above the law.
Use your words. All of them. Right wing propagandists have long claimed to be for law and order all while ignoring GOPers who engage in felony conduct - from Trump on down.
No more.
“Law-and-order” President accuses American citizen of murder based on a “feeling.” https://t.co/acZ2zqnFqC
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) June 3, 2020
Days after Trump ordered soldiers to attack peaceful protesters outside the White House for a photo op with a Bible, Defense Secretary Mark Esper now says he does not support Trump’s decision to invoke the Insurrection Act.pic.twitter.com/Z8AFy9ijtu
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 3, 2020
Trump’s appointees begin to read the polls.
re: #222 Joe Bacon 🌹
I want to see Joe Scarborough sue Trump for libel.
I have zero love for Scarborough, but so do I.
Biden up by 8 points in the RCP average, and Trump is now nearly 12 points underwater in approval. Expect the GOP to throw all the mud it can at Biden to see if anything sticks, since they can’t change the fact that no one likes Trump who isn’t a member of his cult. realclearpolitics.com
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Last thing we need are more raving Silesians…
I have been tagging Trump’s Tweets with German captions (like a kind of “Downfall” in reverse). I don’t know if my German is all that correct though.
Wen glauben Sie denn? ICH, oder den Scheißlügenfernsehenapparat? pic.twitter.com/DCZL5KNkff
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) June 3, 2020
Danke zu meinen schönsten Sicherheits Scheißstaffel! pic.twitter.com/SLAmK1blE0
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) June 3, 2020
UND DIE BESTE, DIE SCHÖNSTE, DIE UNGLAUBLICHSTE GROßE SCHEIßHAUFE KOMMT BALD pic.twitter.com/4LGBa38UMf
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) June 2, 2020
UMGESCHLUNGENE SCHEIßBÜNGELEN! pic.twitter.com/OjaZiOY8LX
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) June 2, 2020
GESETZLOS! SCHEIßATOMBOMBE! pic.twitter.com/mHS6WS9RTV
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) June 1, 2020
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Tucker Carlson spin:
“All the good cops will quit and your neighborhood will be overrun by armed rape gangs!”
Feature, not a bug.
Please!
Do it! Do it!
Trump plans to ‘go even more scorched Earth’ against Biden because he has no positive agenda: report
re: #217 Decatur Deb
Well, the ex-cops would have more time on their hands..
We can hire better cops, requiring college degrees, mostly women and poc. It will cost a lot of money, so a federal police reform bill should include lots of money for state and local governments so long as they adopt reforms to change police forces into public servants instead of armies of occupation.
re: #79 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Alpha male my ass. He’s cowering in the basement like a dog frightened by thunder
this is some pretty fast dancing on his part
President Trump on Fox News Radio just said he did not go to the White House bunker on Friday night as protests unfolded just outside the White House. He said he went during the daytime to “inspect” the shelter “for a very short period of time.”
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 3, 2020
re: #220 jaunte
They see which way the winds are blowing.
re: #226 Shropshire Slasher
Feature, not a bug.
Shoving more and more good young cops into organizations with overwhelmingly corrupt leadership and culture isn’t likely to succeed.
re: #229 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
He had to check the toilet to see if it was big enough for his ass.
Not ONE SINGLE journalist asked Esper why he lied and said no rubber bullets or tear gas was used. This is why we are where we are. Call out the lies!
— Dr. Kristen Hillaire Glasgow (@KHGlasgow) June 3, 2020
re: #205 Alephnaught
In retrospect the moniker Dark Falcon is at least a yellow flag indicator of ass puckered self importance.
re: #231 Decatur Deb
Shoving more and more good young cops into organizations with overwhelmingly corrupt leadership and culture isn’t likely to succeed.
Corrupt leadership is the key word here.
re: #202 makeitstop
Thread. Seems the lobbyists are beginning to worry…
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what were you doing for the last 4 years?
1/ It begins:
A guy who went *full* Trump for lobbying business purposes — and I mean, slavishly, insanely so — is in Phase III of Good German syndrome.
Phase I - “Hey man, things have been crazy! How are you?”
Phase II - “Yeah, you know I had a mortgage and the company…”— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 3, 2020
re: #235 jaunte
Meet the new tear gas
Same as the old tear gas
Not tear gas, smoke bombs combined with chemical eye irritants; get it right! /
re: #237 Shropshire Slasher
Corrupt leadership is the key word here.
And peer development in a high-stress routine.
Feel good thread.
If you know someone who voted for Trump in 2016 but will be voting for Joe Biden in November, please post a quick comment here. Even a simple “YES” will do.
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) June 3, 2020
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To have a photo-op at St. John’s church in Washington, DC
re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth
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how?
he was somewhere else at the time.
did he hire a hit man?
“Law-and-order” President accuses American citizen of murder based on a “feeling.” https://t.co/acZ2zqnFqC
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) June 3, 2020
re: #228 NO SMOCKING GUN!
We can hire better cops, requiring college degrees, mostly women and poc. It will cost a lot of money, so a federal police reform bill should include lots of money for state and local governments so long as they adopt reforms to change police forces into public servants instead of armies of occupation.
and again, we need a separate mechanism for investing and prosecuting alleged Police crimes.
DAs are used to working with the police on most cases to obtain indictments and convictions. Asking them to investigate suspected police malfeasance constitutes a conflict of interest.
re: #220 jaunte
Why not, Biff? Fucking over innocent people is so Republican. This must be a misquote.
re: #241 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Feel good thread.
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We’ll see. In the end, I expect most Trump voters to vote for Trump no matter how bad things get because “the Democrat is worse.” Biden will win a big victory by getting back the protest votes for 3rd parties and turning out new voters, not from Trump voters switching.
re: #225 The Pie Overlord!
I have been tagging Trump’s Tweets with German captions (like a kind of “Downfall” in reverse). I don’t know if my German is all that correct though.
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— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) June 3, 2020
wapo, et al:
Trump demands journalists correct stories on the use of tear gas. According to the CDC, it was tear gas.
Robots caught in a loop:
Instead of addressing George Floyd’s death or debating a House bill to help prevent a Greater Depression, Senate Republicans are holding a hearing to get answers to questions we’ve had for three years. https://t.co/3BUeoPja2J
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 3, 2020
re: #179 jaunte
I hope all those people are embarrassed for the rest of their lives that they agreed to line up as props in Trump’s little fascist show.
You’ll notice that the braintrust of the failed photo op (Hicks, Jarvanka) are conveniently absent from the photo.
re: #239 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Not tear gas, smoke bombs combined with chemical eye irritants; get it right! /
clip/magazine…
The video in that article 😂🤣😭
CHOCOLATE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAINhttps://t.co/d34l2G62lO
— Borisof007 (@borisof007) June 3, 2020
Why are people scared of the riots and looting?
The flu kills way more people every year.— Tall Paul (@TallPaul612) June 3, 2020
re: #250 jaunte
Robots caught in a loop:
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What depression? GOP Billionaire donors are doing just fine, and, after all, does anyone else matter, really?
Vermont Ave is even weirder; there is literally nobody protesting here. No crowd to control.
But these guys all have guns to shoot whatever it is that we’re not supposed to call tear gas. pic.twitter.com/BtqsUUF62L— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 3, 2020
re: #256 Belafon
Yeah, but “Biden.” They need something to hang on Biden.
The mud slinging is going to get intense. Other than the fact that it renders my vote irrelevant, I’m glad I don’t live in a swing state.
So, this morning I went to the end of the driveway to bring in the empty garbage bins. A Black man driving an SUV stopped in front of the house and asked if I needed help. I said, “No, I got this, but thank you for being such a kind neighbor!” and then I said “You be careful and stay safe!” and he drove away with his adorable little toddler in the carseat.
Reward for supporting Trump:
Standing in the sun all day in your heat-generating black uniform and helmet.
Keep that shield up.
Need a job? Don’t know if they pay mileage and meals though.
Wanna get paid to riot? Right-wing pastor Curt Landry claims that you can just go to George Soros’s website and sign up. pic.twitter.com/BvE6IEdejU
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 3, 2020
re: #259 The Pie Overlord!
Hope Zedushka is doing better this morning.
re: #261 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
You mean I’ve been doing this wrong for 20 years? I could get paid for this?!
Sheeeeit.
re: #261 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Pastor. And you wondered where they were radicalized…..
re: #262 lawhawk
Hope Zedushka is doing better this morning.
He is bored. He asked me to send over his DVD player. No visitors allowed in the hospital so I drop it at the front desk & they take it to his room.
re: #261 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Need a job? Don’t know if they pay mileage and meals though.
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A wingnut relative just texted me a video of a guy claiming to be a paid protestor.
re: #263 lawhawk
That’s why you and me didn’t get a check. We didn’t sign up. Dammit. I love being paid to throw bottles.
re: #261 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Need a job? Don’t know if they pay mileage and meals though.
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The Pulpit Pimp bullshitting about Soros checks is the same Pulpit Pimp stuffing his pockets with cash from the Mercers, Kochs, Adelsons, Fries, Waltons and other billionaire parasites!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) June 3, 2020
re: #259 The Pie Overlord!
So, this morning I went to the end of the driveway to bring in the empty garbage bins. A Black man driving an SUV stopped in front of the house and asked if I needed help. I said, “No, I got this, but thank you for being such a kind neighbor!” and then I said “You be careful and stay safe!” and he drove away with his adorable little toddler in the carseat.
So kind. Both of you. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Lincoln Project drops another winner:
Challenge Accepted: Great American Speeches https://t.co/xMFHr7VguU via @YouTube #Biden2020
— Kori Miller (@KoriDMiller) June 3, 2020
NEW - Barack #Obama will address the nation today at 5pm EST, regarding #GeorgeFloyd & protests across #America. pic.twitter.com/gqnXIufzLA
— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) June 3, 2020
Trump’s a bunker bitch who needs the troops to expand the WH cordon to keep peaceful protests from being seen and heard inside the WH - showing how weak and small Trump is.
Warren strode among the crowd without a care in the world yesterday (other than covid19 masking precautions). Trump is too much a whiny little bitch to do anything of the sort. He’s reviled by everyone except his cult base. And the GOP keeps sucking up to him, even though they should know better.
Fuck ‘em. Let him destroy the GOP. They are irredeemably awful and should be destroyed for their amoral bulkshit and institutionalized racism, misogyny, and hate of all things that aren’t rich white guys getting richer while burden shifting to everyone else.
Remember, the GOP are the ones who love to claim Democrats are into redistribution of wealth. Well, during the Trump economic collapse, billionaires got fuck-tons wealthier, while 25% of Americans found themselves unemployed.
And guess what GOPers - the CBO is predicting that it might take a decade or more to recover from the Trump economic collapse. That means years of awful economic conditions thanks to Trump’s epic failure to heed any of the warnings by public health experts to act.
So, again, fuck Trump, fuck the GOP, and fuck all the enablers.
Vermont Avenue and Eye Street pic.twitter.com/Brg2EOhnAd
— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 3, 2020
BoP already beginning to wilt.
re: #264 Allow me to light that for you…
Pastor. And you wondered why they were radicalized…..
Tax The Churches!
If these fucking Pulpit Pimps want to play the politics game, make these fucking pimps pay!
re: #271 The Pie Overlord!
Lincoln Project drops another winner:
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re: #273 jaunte
All dressed up and no one to beat, maim, or kill.
All because the tangerine toddler needed to push protesters out of earshot/view. He thinks this makes him look strong?
It’s a sign of inherent weakness, and everyone sees it.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 3, 2020
Meanwhile in RWNJ fantasy land:
This is so awful it’s almost genius https://t.co/LUNfP9roeZ
— Matt Schiavenza (@MattSchiavenza) June 3, 2020
re: #266 NO SMOCKING GUN!
A wingnut relative just texted me a video of a guy claiming to be a paid protestor.
This again. Sigh.
Look, if somebody was going to pay protesters, wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to pay older, middle class looking people, rather than young adults?
Also, too, did someone pay the armed protesters in Michigan and Ohio, too? Trump and the GOP seemed to like the protesters that had guns and were actually a threat.
McNaughton finally stole some lighting that doesn’t look like shopping mall fluorescents.
re: #277 jaunte
Meanwhile in RWNJ fantasy land:
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Isn’t that a ripoff of some Spanish artists work? Maybe still under copyright?
re: #273 jaunte
who exactly are these dudes? U.S.military, national guard, Oath Keepers,or whatever the’re called.
re: #277 jaunte
Meanwhile in RWNJ fantasy land:
the resisters look pretty scary with their sticks. //
re: #280 Teukka
Isn’t that a ripoff of some Spanish artists work? Maybe still under copyright?
Would it be too on-the-nose to post this video in response to the artist?
En masse?
#BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has announced actions to hold AG Barr accountable. Nadler is preparing to introduce legislation to cut funding against his office by $50M.
There will also be hearings w/ DOJ whistleblowers and former DOJ officials in the coming weeks.— Hunter Cullen (@HunterJCullen) June 2, 2020
re: #273 jaunte
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BoP already beginning to wilt.
stay off the streets for a week
all the ‘military’ and militarized cop presence will withdraw because $
then come back out again
Here, for example, is 16th & Eye Street pic.twitter.com/gYJFzRWFWF
— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 3, 2020
re: #272 lawhawk
An address from President Obama?
Hope the medicine cabinet down in the BitchBunker is well-stocked with appropriate pharmaceuticals, because you know the Tangerine Toddler is going to go ballistic….
Though I think it’s even odds that Obama may never even mention Trump’s name.
re: #284 Teukka
Would it be too on-the-nose to post this video in response to the artist?
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En masse?
Ooops….
The painting is a ripoff of a Spanish artists work… Another spanish artists work…https://t.co/LeaoN39dv1
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) June 3, 2020
The painting is a ripoff of a Spanish artists work… Another spanish artists work…https://t.co/LeaoN39dv1
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) June 3, 2020
re: #249 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
wapo, et al:
1. We didn’t use tear gas, media lied.
2. OK, we used tear gas, so what, the protesters were dangerous and unamerican.
//
re: #281 Sir John Barron
As I understand it, a lot of them are Bureau of Prisons riot control people.
Marcy Wheeler live tweeting today’s Republican circus.
Starting the SJC investigation of the SJC investigation. @LindseyGrahamSC has a new haircolor. It may match Trump’s sometime haircolor, but I’m not sure.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 3, 2020
re: #290 jaunte
As I understand it, a lot of them are Bureau of Prisons riot control people.
Attica’s finch…
re: #273 jaunte
BoP already beginning to wilt.
it’s going to a hot day in the Baltimore DC area, too, into the 90’s.
re: #290 jaunte
As I understand it, a lot of them are Bureau of Prisons riot control people.
Don’t they have prisons to guard?
not sure if /
You are a sick sick man who needs psychiatric help.
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) June 3, 2020
One day you call for Black Lives Matter protestors to be run over & the next day you’ve got press credentials to be in the President’s press pool. Huh. #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/YIK1H30INq
— Andy O’Brien (@aobrien2010) June 3, 2020
re: #261 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Need a job? Don’t know if they pay mileage and meals though.
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The people that got paid for attending tRump rallies need to make a living still. Why not work both ends of the spectrum.
re: #295 Joe Bacon 🌹
You are a sick sick man who needs psychiatric help.
He is a clever, clever man who knows what sort of images sell to his target audience…
re: #280 Teukka
Isn’t that a ripoff of some Spanish artists work? Maybe still under copyright?
No: it’s a gloss ripoff of Francisco Goya’s ”Third of May, 1808” so long-time public domain.
ADD: attn: Teukka: GMTA…..😉
re: #280 Teukka
Isn’t that a ripoff of some Spanish artists work? Maybe still under copyright?
Goya is not under copyright, alas. Works name “Third of May”. What kind of sick twisted mind uses that to wave in the face of the protesters?
re: #295 Joe Bacon 🌹
Does he fondly remember American Spring and all the other numerous threats by RWNJ to remove Obama?
re: #304 Teukka
Goya is not under copyright, alas. Works name “Third of May”. What kind of sick twisted mind uses that to wave in the face of the protesters?
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It’s the day after that would start Star Wars.
re: #305 Sir John Barron
Does he fondly remember American Spring and all the other numerous threats by RWNJ to remove Obama?
Show me the difference between McNaughton’s Republican propaganda paintings and any paintings done by Soviet Russian artists for the Communist Party.
THERE ARE NO DIFFERENCES!
One not so minor detail that has largely gone overlooked—since when does the Attorney General have the authority to order the National Guard, Park Police or Secret Service to do anything, let alone fire tear gas, pepper spray & rubber bullets?!?!?
SPOILER ALERT: He doesn’t. https://t.co/a2BclzvS6t— Nick Shapiro (@nick_shapiro) June 3, 2020
Follow This Lizard to https://t.co/3PxFpIe3Ln pic.twitter.com/kjvE17Tmpp
— And the Wind Cries “YOU HAVE TO DOMINATE!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) June 3, 2020
Fox News: “Black anarchists steal nice white kid’s skateboard.”
pic.twitter.com/tlxIToZusU— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) June 3, 2020
Here’s a useful read––a reminder of the importance of de-escalation by police in their interactions with protestors.https://t.co/Ondw85gQNL
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 3, 2020
And third, an extraordinary essay by the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces, Mike Mullen, explaining the values at risk when we start using our military to control domestic protests.https://t.co/ftmm5crbgg
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 3, 2020
Francisco de Goya says ¡Chinga tu madre! #BlackLivesMatter #resist #TrumpDictatorship pic.twitter.com/9nmNtWsWJQ
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) June 3, 2020
If Obama is addressing the nation at 5, The Mango Moron is going to do a press conference, briefing or whatever he wants to call it at 4:45.
re: #315 Teukka
Nice. Edward James Olmos is a terrific actor.
re: #314 Eclectic Cyborg
If Obama is addressing the nation at 5, The Mango Moron is going to do a press conference, briefing or whatever he wants to call it at 4:45.
This is gonna drive Fox news and the other magas completely around the bend.
re: #304 Teukka
According to DSM 5, “Fascist motherfucker pretending he’s the victim to justify his bullshit existence.”
Other people’s pain existents to be consumed, digesting, and excreted through glands as a defense against accountability.
THE FLYNN BATTLE IS ABOUT THE TRUMP ERA’S TWO-TRACK JUSTICE
Is there one standard for Trump’s friends and allies and another for everyone else? That’s what Judge Emmet Sullivan is trying to find out—and the DOJ is trying to stop him. by Cristian Farias, Vanity Fair
Billy Barr is pulling out all the stops on the organ.
re: #303 Jay C
No: it’s a
glossripoff of Francisco Goya’s ”Third of May, 1808” so long-time public domain.ADD: attn: Teukka: GMTA…..😉
Which explains why the the Black guy is the center of the action and the most powerful figure. Aside from the nagging sense I’d seen McNaughton’s painting before, I wondered why the figures of Law and Order were so shadowy and weak.
edit because it’s too early for me.
The whole tear gas vs. not tear gas feels like the tired “magazine vs. clip” or “white phosphorous vs. napalm” bullshit argument over semantics designed to distract from the underlying issue.
In his concession speech, Steve King attributes his loss to super PACs but in this primary race the PACs opposing him were from his own party. My man.
— Lyz Lenz (@lyzl) June 3, 2020
… The 4th District is 92.8 percent white, making it one of the least diverse districts in the country.
It is also historically conservative, but the controversies swirling around King took a toll on his popularity. In 2016, he won by 22 percentage points over his Democratic opponent. In 2018, he beat first-time candidate J.D. Scholten by barely three points, and now Scholten is running again with a campaign war chest five times as large as that of any GOP candidate…
Force Republicans to spend money in the district.
Trump is really trying to fight the optics of being stuck down in that bunker. He hates being made to look like a coward…even though we all know he is one.
re: #321 Mike Lamb
It’s that waft of milk-breath that accompanies a ‘WELL TECHNICALLY…” argument that hinges on comma fucking and measuring gnat dicks.
re: #99 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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You can count the number of GOP votes changed on one hand. People who still supported Trump at the beginning of this year are not changing their minds. A never Trumper acquaintance posted a FB comment on his respect for George Will including a link to Will’s latest column from June 1. A Trumpster friend of his then responded: “Will’s hatred has the same origin as Bill Kristol’s and the rest of the merry band of #NeverTrumpers. He fails to meet their refined standards of civility. Furthermore, he stole their audience”. We engaged in a friendly dialogue but it was impossible for him to accept that the problem with Trump was greater than his demeanor and that criticisms of many NeverTrumpers also related to policy. The supporters are even more vile than Trump — they somehow think it requires some excessively refined sense of civility to be outraged by Trump’s bullying.
I remain totally bewildered by the failure of the GOP and their base to object to Trump’s slavish obeisance to Putin. But they look at Trump and see a great leader so clearly wherever he goes, they follow.
re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump is really trying to fight the optics of being stuck down in that bunker. He hates being made to look like a coward…even though we all know he is one.
The title from a Mark Summer post at DK: Trump was upset that people knew he was hiding in a bunker … so he got a bigger bunker.
He went from under the White House to all of DC.
re: #283 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The Gospel according to Cheeto 69:69
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That is my favorite photoshopped image to come out of this stunt. I want to see the St. John’s reverend’s reactions to seeing it for the first time.
re: #314 Eclectic Cyborg
If Obama is addressing the nation at 5, The Mango Moron is going to do a press conference, briefing or whatever he wants to call it at 4:45.
Trump @ 4:00 because he’s never on time.
And he’ll flip out (more) of Obama had better ratings.
re: #321 Mike Lamb
The whole tear gas vs. not tear gas feels like the tired “magazine vs. clip” or “white phosphorous vs. napalm” bullshit argument over semantics designed to distract from the underlying issue.
I am reminded of some Fox Newsblonde some years ago saying that pepper spray is just a “food product”
re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump is really trying to fight the optics of being stuck down in that bunker. He hates being made to look like a coward…even though we all know he is one.
facing reality sux
Look at what the writers cooked up for the season finale… https://t.co/8s154x0bkh
— YS (@NYinLA2121) June 3, 2020
re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter
You can count the number of GOP votes changed on one hand. People who still supported Trump at the beginning of this year are not changing their minds. A never Trumper acquaintance posted a FB comment on his respect for George Will including a link to Will’s latest column from June 1. A Trumpster friend of his then responded: “Will’s hatred has the same origin as Bill Kristol’s and the rest of the merry band of #NeverTrumpers. He fails to meet their refined standards of civility. Furthermore, he stole their audience”. We engaged in a friendly dialogue but it was impossible for him to accept that the problem with Trump was greater than his demeanor and that criticisms of many NeverTrumpers also related to policy. The supporters are even more vile than Trump — they somehow think it requires some excessively refined sense of civility to be outraged by Trump’s bullying.
I remain totally bewildered by the failure of the GOP and their base to object to Trump’s slavish obeisance to Putin. But they look at Trump and see a great leader so clearly wherever he goes, they follow.
I have to disagree. Sure there are trump fans but there are a ton of “what do you have to lose” people who voted on personality and see what that got them.
re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump is really trying to fight the optics of being stuck down in that bunker. He hates being made to look like a coward…even though we all know he is one.
Yeah it probably sucks to have brief moments of self-awareness that you’re a horrific flabby wuss with all the personal courage of coil of shit dropped by a baby-eating dingo.
‘If They Just Arrested Them, This Would All Stop,’ Says Woman About Not Who You’d Think: https://t.co/dxXpvi6NHL pic.twitter.com/2FRW9vIZ0q
— Reductress (@Reductress) June 3, 2020
— General William T. Sherman (@secularagnostic) June 3, 2020
re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter
You can count the number of GOP votes changed on one hand. People who still supported Trump at the beginning of this year are not changing their minds. A never Trumper acquaintance posted a FB comment on his respect for George Will including a link to Will’s latest column from June 1. A Trumpster friend of his then responded: “Will’s hatred has the same origin as Bill Kristol’s and the rest of the merry band of #NeverTrumpers. He fails to meet their refined standards of civility. Furthermore, he stole their audience”. We engaged in a friendly dialogue but it was impossible for him to accept that the problem with Trump was greater than his demeanor and that criticisms of many NeverTrumpers also related to policy. The supporters are even more vile than Trump — they somehow think it requires some excessively refined sense of civility to be outraged by Trump’s bullying.
I remain totally bewildered by the failure of the GOP and their base to object to Trump’s slavish obeisance to Putin. But they look at Trump and see a great leader so clearly wherever he goes, they follow.
in the beginning maybe they gave him a chance to see what he’d do and whether he’d be at all presidential
now everyone knows.
after 4 years all they do is look at trump and see an R
an R means we’re in power
an R means judges
an R means rolling back some regulations (temporarily and probably with no effect)
with the congressional gridlock, these days it doesnt mean much else cause they aint gonna pass any more legislation
they say he’s a great leader.
they have to maintain the fiction.
they know what he is
they also have a good idea what’s gonna happen in november
everyone, on all sides, in all countries are just hoping to run out the clock without a complete nuclear, military or other unnecessary disaster
re: #265 The Pie Overlord!
He is bored. He asked me to send over his DVD player. No visitors allowed in the hospital so I drop it at the front desk & they take it to his room.
with what discs? what’s he watching?
re: #339 stpaulbear
I’m just amazed by the discipline the skateboard-grabber showed by not hitting the kid in the head with it. It’s my first impulse when I watch it.
That’s exactly what I thought. I’d certainly have wanted to brain him with that board. Fucking punk.
re: #339 stpaulbear
Yep. My thought exactly.
re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter
You can count the number of GOP votes changed on one hand. People who still supported Trump at the beginning of this year are not changing their minds..
Trump was able to count on his rabid base turning out en masse. Even if they are not about to change over to the Dems, they might find their enthusiasm dampened and not turn out in the numbers they did in 2016, whereas an awful lot of the people who stayed home then have learned their lesson.
re: #335 Dave In Austin
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Rest of headline that Cornyn is quoting: Deployed Other Irritants Instead
They really are going to fuck this chicken, aren’t they?
Meanwhile…Merrick is trending - as in Merrick, Long Island, where people tried to stage a protest but the racist trash residents came out and stopped them from doing so.
I’m actually embarrassed to even say that I live here nowadays.
re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump was able to count on his rabid base turning out en masse. Even if they are not about to change over to the Dems, they might find their enthusiasm dampened and not turn out in the numbers they did in 2016, whereas an awful lot of the people who stayed home then have learned their lesson.
from electoral-vote.com 6/1/20
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll taken May 25-28 and released yesterday has Joe Biden at 53% and Donald Trump at 43%. There are two noteworthy aspects to this top line. First, it is a double-digit lead. There is no plausible way Trump can lose the popular vote by 10 points and somehow win the Electoral College. A 5-point loss…maybe (but unlikely), but 10 points, no way. Second 53 + 43 = 96. You probably knew that. And you probably also know 100 - 96 = 4. That means 96% of the voters have already made up their minds. Now one more bit of math. This time, an inequality rather than an equation: 43 + 4 < 53. This means that even if every undecided voter breaks for Trump, that’s not enough and he still loses. The election is still 5 months away and much can change, but as we pointed out last week, both campaigns believe that only about 5% of the voters are undecided, and this poll is consistent with that belief.
re: #295 Joe Bacon 🌹
So he views the protesters as patriotic martyrs being killed by foreign invaders. How odd
re: #347 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
That is cause for some guarded optimism, especially as Trump’s curve is towards the ever more and more irrational and self-defeating.
re: #348 John Hughes
So he views the protesters as patriotic martyrs being killed by foreign invaders. How odd
He knows that is an image that his target audience will just lap right up.
re: #349 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is cause for some guarded optimism, especially as Trump’s curve is towards the ever more and more irrational and self-defeating.
guarded yes
no coasting!
re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump was able to count on his rabid base turning out en masse. Even if they are not about to change over to the Dems, they might find their enthusiasm dampened and not turn out in the numbers they did in 2016, whereas an awful lot of the people who stayed home then have learned their lesson.
I agree. The important task is to get out our voters — trying to persuade the GOP base is a futile task. My post should have highlighted the 2nd statement: that the comment applies to those who were still devoted to him at the beginning of the year. Those who voted against Hillary rather than for Trump could be persuaded.
re: #350 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He knows that is an image that his target audience will just lap right up.
So next he just goes full out and posts bodies hanging in a concentration camp?
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