The President’s use of military tactics against peaceful demonstrators is worrisome in so many ways, not least of which is the message it sends to local police departments, urging confrontation and domination instead of de-escalation. #Colbert #StephenAtHome #Monologue
Fuck Trump, Fuck the GOP, and Fuck the enabling mendacious media.
FIRST?! /used to be grounds for ban hammer….
I mean what can you do, it’s important to hear both sides pic.twitter.com/8YEsKSMIR4
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) June 4, 2020
Usually the US government uses “all options are on the table” as a way to threaten military operations against a *foreign nation* https://t.co/G5KTlKfnQC
— Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox) June 4, 2020
CL’d last thread:
re: #623 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ll be honest here. I really think a lot of people underestimated Biden as being the best to beat Trump. He wasn’t my first choice but with the way things turned out, I’m happy that he’s our nominee. Because it’s not just Joe. It’s about who he will have on his team and it’s whose opinions he will value too.
Abso-friggin’-lutely. One of the big flaws with this year’s Dem primary race was (IMO) the obsession with personalities (and the BernieBro cult, but I digress), and the pigeonholing of ideological issue-flogging.There was a studied ignoring of political process and partisan structure in how the governing of this country actually operates. By everybody but Joe Biden, who has spent his life studying and operating within those structures. A huge flaw and drawback for the “revolutionaries”, who can only see “politics as usual” and tend to fall - in mirror-image of the Trumpsters- into Great Man idealizations; but (as it has turned out) what I hope will be a tremendous asset in managing post-Trump America.
Will a President Joe Biden fight hammer-and-tongs for a left-wing agenda? Probably certainly not. Will a President Biden stand in the way of (discourage/obstruct/veto) any progressive legislation a D Congress might send him? Probably not, either: and the latter
- the way things are supposed to work in the US - is probably about as best as we are going to able to do.
Still a VAST improvement over the Incompetence Fascism of Trump and the GOP.
GO JOE!!
Follow up thought to this:
re: #661 KGxvi
It is much more interesting. I’m also not surprised that farmers as business owners make more than the median worker. That’s pretty much the way it goes in any industry. Partners at big firms make more than their associates, partners at small firms make more than their associates (and often times, more than the associates at big firms).
The history of how the land and wealth were acquired is despicable, to say the least. The question is, how do we change things for the better? I’m not sure “creating a whole bunch of much smaller farmers” is necessarily the best answer - could we even treat farmers as monopolies? And if we did,how would we break them up?
A very big part of the problem seems to be the over reliance on corn. That is probably something we should address by reducing corn subsidies and promoting diversification of production.
America is now so great again that the president needs to build a wall around the White House to keep out all the happy people wanting to congratulate him. pic.twitter.com/iAWJqMk8LB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 4, 2020
re: #662 sagehen
Joe Lieberman in 2008.
Was Lieberman still a Democrat at that point? I thought he threw his tantrum in 2006?
The lead GBI investigator for the #AhmaudArbery case: I don’t believe it was self-defense for Mr. McMichael. I believe it was self-defense for Mr. Arbery.”
“I think Mr. Arbery was trying to get away, he couldn’t, so he chose to fight.” @wjxt4 pic.twitter.com/H87YBfObTU— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWileyNews) June 4, 2020
Andrew Sullivan is such a piece of shit. That’s all. That’s the tweet.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 4, 2020
re: #10 Belafon
Replace foreign nation with enemy.
they’re not REAL Americans, so they might as well be a foreign nation…
re: #1 lawhawk
I was remembering that the other day :D
re: #4 jaunte
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re: #10 Belafon
Replace foreign nation with enemy.
I knew meme’ing it would come in handy!
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) June 4, 2020
re: #3 Interesting Times
Trump is scared shitless. He’s showing the rest of America - indeed, the entire world - what he well and truly is. A simpering, gutless coward.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
I used to really like Sullivan. He was my introduction to the relatively young blogsphere back in the day. And for a long time, he was one of my daily reads. But, damn, if the last decade and a half hasn’t broken his brain, I can’t think of a better example.
re: #5 Jay C
CL’d last thread:
Abso-friggin’-lutely. One of the big flaws with this year’s Dem primary race was (IMO) the obsession with personalities (and the BernieBro cult, but I digress), and the pigeonholing of ideological issue-flogging.There was a studied ignoring of political process and partisan structure in how the governing of this country actually operates. By everybody but Joe Biden, who has spent his life studying and operating within those structures. A huge flaw and drawback for the “revolutionaries”, who can only see “politics as usual” and tend to fall - in mirror-image of the Trumpsters- into Great Man idealizations; but (as it has turned out) what I hope will be a tremendous asset in managing post-Trump America.
Will a President Joe Biden fight hammer-and-tongs for a left-wing agenda? Probably certainly not. Will a President Biden stand in the way of (discourage/obstruct/veto) any progressive legislation a D Congress might send him? Probably not, either: and the latter
- the way things are supposed to work in the US - is probably about as best as we are going to able to do.
Still a VAST improvement over the Incompetence Fascism of Trump and the GOP.
GO JOE!!
Well said
Both times
No amount of fencing is going to give Trump what he wants. I wouldn’t be surprised that, within the next few weeks, Trump simply relocates to Mar-a-lago. He talks about it as the Southern White House. I could see him making some sort of proclamation that makes it “official” and scampers off to FL.
re: #7 Charles Johnson
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America is now so great again that the president needs to build a wall around the White House to keep out all the happy people wanting to congratulate him. pic.twitter.com/iAWJqMk8LB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 4, 2020
re: #14 Teukka
I knew meme’ing it would come in handy!
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So, basically, what they imply (intentionally or not is beside the point) is that if they have to, they’ll nuke the protesters?
*whistles innocently*— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) June 4, 2020
re: #11 Charles Johnson
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Sullivan can burn in hell!
I truly detest that Tory Twit ever since he single handedly turned The New Republic into The New Republican with his embrace of the Bell Curve, Contras and publishing every lie about Hillary’s health care plan by the disgusting propagandist Betsy Ross McCauley.
re: #19 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
This is what a winner tweet looks like
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Looks like he finally got his wall.
re: #21 Teukka
Further down in the same twitter thread:
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But in the chilling, Dead Zone-esque way?https://t.co/mNOivDVZWt
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) June 4, 2020
#BunkerBitch is turning the entire White House into a bunker.
Translation: she’ll look at the polling data to decide if it’s politically advantageous to break with Trump. https://t.co/MZ6PyIdRZd
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 4, 2020
re: #16 KGxvi
I used to really like Sullivan. He was my introduction to the relatively young blogsphere back in the day. And for a long time, he was one of my daily reads. But, damn, if the last decade and a half hasn’t broken his brain, I can’t think of a better example.
I used to like him too; I started reading him well after he turned against the war and enjoyed reading him during the Obama years. But he was a terrible person in the 90’s when he promoted the racist text “The Bell Curve”. It was not until he abandoned his blog that I realized that, despite his fondness for Obama, he retained his elitist and racist views.
re: #27 KingKenrod
#BunkerBitch is turning the entire White House into a bunker.
If Trump can’t go to Bunker. Bunker go to Trump.
Shorter Mitch: Nothing to see here. Go back in your shell.
In these challenging times, the President and the American people are very well-served by the expert advice and principled leadership of people like Secretary Esper and Attorney General Barr. (1/3)
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) June 4, 2020
I am glad President Trump has assembled such an impressive team that is working hard for all Americans. (3/3)
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) June 4, 2020
re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter
I used to like him to; I started reading him well after he turned against the war and enjoyed reading him during the Obama years. But he was a terrible person in the 90’s when he promoted the racist text “The Bell Curve”. It was not until he abandoned his blog that I realized that, despite his fondness for Obama, he retained his elitist and racist views.
I think I first came across him in the mid/late 90s in the early days of Hardball, and probably started reading his blog sometime around 2000. Back then, he was willing/able to engage with his readers - we even traded emails a few times, and he posted a few of my emails along the way. I think he was right when he “retired” from blogging a few years ago - paying that much attention to that much stuff can break your brain.
So this is making the rounds among the Reich WIngers (Spoilered because massive trigger warning):
BREAKING: Full George Floyd autopsy reveals his blood concentration of the powerful street opioid fentanyl was 4 times the level known to cause “fatalities.” Floyd also had speed & marijuana in system.First arresting officer on scene saw “foam” around mouth,asked if “on anything”
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) June 4, 2020
re: #31 Teddy’s Person
If Trump can’t go to Bunker. Bunker go to Trump.
The Fool Hair Bunker which is underneath the McDonalds nearest to the White House.
Here’s today’s reminder that Donald Trump is continuing to use a blowtorch on everything decent about this country. https://t.co/cQj3er01l8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 4, 2020
re: #34 Teukka
So this is making the rounds among the Reich WIngers (Spoilered because massive trigger warning):
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The white pride iron cross throat tattoo is a real puzzler too
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) June 4, 2020
re: #34 Teukka
So this is making the rounds among the Reich WIngers (Spoilered because massive trigger warning):
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Paul Sperry worked for the right wing Investor’s Daily which is the newspaper version of OANN. That alone should raise a red flag to anything that liar posts.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
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They paved Paradise because there was an economic emergency
Here’s today’s reminder that Donald Trump is continuing to use a blowtorch on everything decent about this country. https://t.co/cQj3er01l8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 4, 2020
re: #35 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The Fool Hair Bunker which is underneath the McDonalds nearest to the White House.
If he’s really that scared he can hide out in the basement of Comet Pizza! 😉
re: #39 Joe Bacon 🌹
Paul Sperry worked for the right wing Investor’s Daily which is the newspaper version of OANN. That alone should raise a red flag to anything that liar posts.
Can’t we all agree to from now on just start calling it ONAN?
re: #34 Teukka
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re: #34 Teukka
Oh for fucks sake. I saw the video of the man being led from the car in fucking handcuffs and made to sit on the sidewalk for a few minutes before the other cops showed up. It’s on fucking video. These people are EVIL. Period. Full stop. EVIL.
re: #38 goddamnedfrank
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re: #36 Charles Johnson
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Ya, I’m super excited to drive over that bridge built without any safety measures.
Drew Brees Admits He Doesn’t Trust Black People Ever Since Falcons Linebacker Stole Football Straight Out Of His Hands https://t.co/TvDYli3GZi pic.twitter.com/CjFdAmY3Vr
— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 4, 2020
re: #48 teleskiguy
Read somewhere that Brees is going to find himself on his back quite a bit if this season ever occurs because the O-line will severely underperform.
re: #48 teleskiguy
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Seen on the intertubes yesterday: Drew disrespected the flag when he voted for Trump.
So the last paragraph from the NY Times Morning News article “Trump’s Rough Patch”, delivered to my IPhone, written by David Leonhardt, states:
There are still almost five months until Election Day. A lot can change in that time. And Trump is a talented politician, with an unusual ability to shape the national debate. Right now, though, he is struggling.
It is so infuriating that they refuse to see their pivotal role in allowing this to happen. It is the MSM who created him and eagerly let him dominate them, with their despicable handling of the 2016 campaign — their willingness to pound Hillary with her emails while overlooking and ignoring his substantial flaws. And now they are trying to do this again in the 2020 election. Shame on you, NY Times. And shame on you for publishing Cotton’s outrageous column.
Hello, @benandjerrys. Hear me out. An ice cream flavor called Fudge the Police: Vanilla ice cream, fudge, and bacon bits.
— The Phuníon (@thephunion) June 4, 2020
re: #39 Joe Bacon 🌹
Paul Sperry worked for the right wing Investor’s Daily which is the newspaper version of OANN. That alone should raise a red flag to anything that liar posts.
Joe Bacon, LGF’s encyclopedia of obscure people. Keep it up, sir.
2) I am a former Senior Patrol agent. A former Senior Intelligence Agent. I know and lived those intentions. James Tomsheck, former CBP Internal Affairs Commissioner, sat in meetings where Border Patrol discussed how they could become a national police force.
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) June 4, 2020
Piling on: Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly defended Mattis over Mattis’s criticism of Trump’s handling of protests & dismissed Trump’s assertion that he fired general in 2018.
“The president did not fire him. He did not ask for his resignation” https://t.co/mIoXMnAw2Z— Laffy (@GottaLaff) June 4, 2020
I’m convinced they keep Kilmeade on the show to make Doocey look like the smart one.
— Heisenberg (@atheist_in_nc) June 4, 2020
re: #16 KGxvi
I used to really like Sullivan. He was my introduction to the relatively young blogsphere back in the day. And for a long time, he was one of my daily reads. But, damn, if the last decade and a half hasn’t broken his brain, I can’t think of a better example.
I liked him for a while too because he was a gay activist. I even bought a book he wrote defending same-sex marriage. Then I couldn’t finish the book because it was uninteresting as hell with strange logic. Then I found out he was continuing to have unprotected sex after becoming hiv positive. Then he spent a week posting stories from women about their needed abortions and decided at the end of the week that they should still not be legal. Then there were a million other reasons. He’s a self-centered dick.
EXCLUSIVE: @PhillyInquirer reporters strike over racial inequity.
“We’re tired of hasty apologies and silent corrections when someone screws up.”https://t.co/WdxyuovR4h— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) June 4, 2020
re: #27 KingKenrod
#BunkerBitch is turning the entire White House into a bunker.
Gotta give it to Trump, though. He sure knows how to decorate a spider hole.
re: #59 Decatur Deb
That is why he wanted a wall along the southern border.
re: #1 lawhawk
Fuck Trump, Fuck the GOP, and Fuck the enabling mendacious media.
FIRST?! /used to be grounds for ban hammer….
“First” is the silent part.
4) police force now even though they do not have that authority. They are literally doing it right in front of us. Why do you think they’ve tripled their forces since 9/11 even though illegal immigration dropped every single year? Why do you think that they need 20,000 agents
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) June 4, 2020
re: #56 Teddy’s Person
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re: #63 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Not all kangaroos, surely.
my daughter just said: “why does the media air the looting but not the police brutality that continues to occur against the protestors. it’s as if they want to divide the citizens and inflame the problems we already have for ratings”
she’s 18 months old— Jessi rihanna (@Jessi_Rihanna) June 4, 2020
Remember when Fox belittled kids and families afraid of school shootings. But hey how dare people be angry about murder. It’s not like they’re mad that they can’t get their haircut or their state’s law doesn’t agree with their narrow interpretation of 2000 year old biblical scripture.
Things that make you go… yeah, she and Fox are white nationalists and fascists…
Mighty white nationalist of her.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 4, 2020
re: #66 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Remember when Fox belittled kids and families afraid of school shootings. But hey how dare people be angry about murder. It’s not like they’re mad that they can’t get their haircut or their state’s law doesn’t agree with their narrow interpretation of 2000 year old biblical scripture.
Perfectly consistent — students shouldn’t be concerned about school shootings and we shouldn’t be concerned about police brutality and police murdering civilians and we shouldn’t be worried about minority workers who are dying from Covid 19 because they were forced to work for our comfort. Deaths only matter if wealthy white conservatives are the victims. Who cares about others?
Here’s the shit that keeps me awake these days:
Look at all the shit we know a lot about how much fucking illegal, shady, fucked up shit they have been doing and planned on doing for awhile now. Imagine the shit we don’t know. I’m afraid to contemplate most of it. I wonder where the kids at the border who have been separated from their parents are. Were they sold to the highest bidder? Adopted into “good Christian homes”? Where the fuck are they? And that’s just ONE thing.
I hate these motherfuckers. Every last smirking one of them.
I just went to the Nat’l Weather Service’s website to the a look at the temperature at NE Philly Airport. We hit 90 degrees. Thank G-d I put my A/C on today.
re: #70 A Mom Anon
Were they sold to the highest bidder? Adopted into “good Christian homes”?
The private agencies involved launder the payments as expenses and fees.
re: #70 A Mom Anon
Here’s the shit that keeps me awake these days:
Look at all the shit we know a lot about how much fucking illegal, shady, fucked up shit they have been doing and planned on doing for awhile now. Imagine the shit we don’t know. I’m afraid to contemplate most of it. I wonder where the kids at the border who have been separated from their parents are. Were they sold to the highest bidder? Adopted into “good Christian homes”? Where the fuck are they? And that’s just ONE thing.
I hate these motherfuckers. Every last smirking one of them.
This. ✊
re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter
Perfectly consistent — students shouldn’t be concerned about school shootings and we shouldn’t be concerned about police brutality and police murdering civilians and we shouldn’t be worried about minority workers who are dying from Covid 19 because they were forced to work for our comfort. Deaths only matter if wealthy white conservatives are the victims. Who cares about others?
Oh it’s consistent all right. It’s just more illustration that Fox only cares about wealthy whites people.
Anther day. Another Lincoln Project ad.
In an explicit show of totalitarianism, @realDonaldTrump has taken the U.S. military and police forces and mobilized them against our own citizens. pic.twitter.com/SgSL5gKpNl
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 4, 2020
re: #70 A Mom Anon
Here’s the shit that keeps me awake these days:
Look at all the shit we know a lot about how much fucking illegal, shady, fucked up shit they have been doing and planned on doing for awhile now. Imagine the shit we don’t know. I’m afraid to contemplate most of it. I wonder where the kids at the border who have been separated from their parents are. Were they sold to the highest bidder? Adopted into “good Christian homes”? Where the fuck are they? And that’s just ONE thing.
I hate these motherfuckers. Every last smirking one of them.
Yeah meanwhile Q continues with the Democrats torturing “mole children” for their adrenochrome. Not one peep about the caged kids from Q. Not one peep.
It’s been taken off of my Facebook, share before it’s deleted again. #NoJusticNoPeace #BLM pic.twitter.com/ggoSLKP7F2
— C. 💥 (@iChanteee) June 1, 2020
re: #77 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yeah meanwhile Q continues with the Democrats torturing “mole children” for their adrenochrome. Not one peep about the caged kids from Q. Not one peep.
jeez, that is a riff somebody stole from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and ran with
sick performance art gone bad
re: #77 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yeah meanwhile Q continues with the Democrats torturing “mole children” for their adrenochrome. Not one peep about the caged kids from Q. Not one peep.
Like all I hear is ONANism, all I hear is S&G singing Kodachrome.
The creature lives to serve the House of Trump.
Trump told Barr to throw himself under the bus. https://t.co/grqg6YBAmG
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 4, 2020
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL https://t.co/PzxRZOdIJC
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) June 4, 2020
re: #68 lawhawk
So she’s ok with football players taking a knee then?
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Powerful words from Tom Cotton in the New York Times. pic.twitter.com/XDcFfW458E
— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) June 3, 2020
Today at my local Acme the self-serve registers that they were pushing us to use were out of order. So one of the new clerks waited on me. He took his time and checked everything even my shopping list. He was about to ask for a price lookup when he realized it was a cell phone battery with a post-it note on it. At least I got my items and a basket discount (I accumulated enough points) and went home. The paper products are coming back slowly and Lysol spray is not there. A lot of the baking goods are coming back including whole wheat flour and organic flour but no yeast.
“…Annually, the presidentially-appointed White House Commission on Presidential Scholars chooses up to 161 U.S. Presidential Scholars from among that year’s senior class. All Scholars are invited to Washington, DC in June for the National Recognition Program, featuring various events and enrichment activities and culminating in the presentation of the Presidential Scholars Medallion during a White House-sponsored ceremony.”
en.wikipedia.org
So this year, they have to be hand picked by Cory Lewandowski and David Bossie.
It’s a little late to start up the Trump Jugend project.
re: #85 PhillyPretzel
Today at my local Acme the self-serve registers that they were pushing us to use were out of order. So one of the new clerks waited on me. He took his time and checked everything even my shopping list. He was about to ask for a price lookup when he realized it was a cell phone battery with a post-it note on it. At least I got my items and a basket discount (I accumulated enough points) and went home. The paper products are coming back slowly and Lysol spray is not there. A lot of the baking goods are coming back including whole wheat flour and organic flour but no yeast.
Ralphs (Kroger) and Vons (Safeway/Albertsons) were still closed near me. Instacart was able to deliver most of my grocery order but still cannot get Lysol, hand sanitizers or disinfectant wipes. Got toilet paper for first time since Amazon sent an order last month.
re: #77 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yeah meanwhile Q continues with the Democrats torturing “mole children” for their adrenochrome. Not one peep about the caged kids from Q. Not one peep.
A documentary on Swedish public service TV, “Att rädda ett barn” (“Saving a child”) is making the waves on this side of the pond. Long story short, a mother lost custody after totally unfounded allegations about pedophilia against the father. In the last of the three parts of the docu, Q-esque individuals make an entrance, alleging a worldwide pedophile conspiracy, pedophiles having infiltrated the top echelons of society, you know the drill…
Anyways, an organization to look out for as they spread that crap:
barnsrattsskydd.se “BRY”
re: #82 jaunte
So this year, they have to be hand picked by Cory Lewandowski and David Bossie.
Dinesh D’Sousa feels a stir in his manly loins.
Who exactly is commanding the National Guard troops who have come across the country to occupy Washington, DC?
Unless I’ve missed it, nobody appears to be taking responsibility for this.— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) June 4, 2020
Grassley grows a spine.
Im placing holds on 2 Trump Admin noms until I get reasons 4firing 2 agency watchdogs as required by law Not 1st time ive raised alarm when admins flout IG protection law Obama did same& got same earfull from me All I want is a reason 4 firing these ppl CHECKS&BALANCES
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) June 4, 2020
re: #84 gocart mozart
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— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) June 4, 2020
I took a peek at KYW1060’s website and much to my surprise the curfew will begin at 8:00 PM and go to 6:00 AM.
re: #96 PhillyPretzel
I took a peek at KYW1060’s website and much to my surprise the curfew will begin at 8:00 PM and go to 6:00 AM.
But which days?! //
Drew Brees has apologized for his commnets from the interview yesterday.
Drew Brees: ‘Completely missed the mark’ in comments on flag
In an Instagram post Thursday, Brees said he was apologizing to his friends, teammates, New Orleans, the black community, the NFL community and “anyone I hurt with my comments yesterday.”
“In an attempt to talk about respect, unity, and solidarity centered around the American flag and the national anthem, I made comments that were insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country,” Brees wrote. “They lacked awareness and any type of compassion or empathy. Instead, those words have become divisive and hurtful and have misled people into believing that somehow I am an enemy. This could not be further from the truth, and is not an accurate reflection of my heart or my character.”
re: #97 Belafon
lol. Tonight starts at 8:00 PM.
re: #93 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Grassley grows a spine.
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Trump, Barr, whoever: Because I wanted to.
Grassley: Works for me.
re: #84 gocart mozart
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— Hartmann the Anarchist (@PhilBrown62) June 3, 2020
re: #84 gocart mozart
That’s why i refer to cops as “roid cops”. They’re taking so many ‘roids that they can’t EVER get it up. They didn’t listen to their urologist when he told them what steroids could do to them. They also didn’t listen when the same doctor told them that their souls would never get it up either. They certainly have the ‘roid rage down pat.
This is worthy of an investigation. https://t.co/HkEKSeugiL
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 4, 2020
re: #104 Sherlock Hound
That’s why i refer to cops as “roid cops”. They’re taking so many ‘roids that they can’t EVER get it up. They didn’t listen to their urologist when he told them what steroids could do to them. They also didn’t listen when the same doctor told them that their souls would never get it up either. They certainly have the ‘roid rage down pat.
There are plenty of cops working out at the YMCA’s I go to who openly talked about using steroids. And they love to preen in front of the locker room mirrors thinking they are Mr. Olympia…
Lisa Murkowski is “struggling”? that’s nothing, Susan Collins is at Defcon Meh
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 4, 2020
Do you notice that the only unions Republicans do not have a problem with are POLICE UNIONS? #GeorgeFloyd
— PragmaticObotsUnite (@PragObots) June 4, 2020
re: #107 Teddy’s Person
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Susan Collins is always at Defcon-cerned. Never goes beyond that though.
Trump meme behind the link.
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2020 in a tweet. https://t.co/ZB3d9HbyIn
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) June 4, 2020
I just became a Packers fan.
Enough is enough.
It’s time for change. pic.twitter.com/AS7wP9qz2x— Green Bay Packers (@packers) June 4, 2020
re: #111 jaunte
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It’s as if Rand Paul’s present goal in life is to vindicate his neighbor with every statement he makes.
A dangerous new factor in an uneasy moment: Unidentified law enforcement officers, by Philip Bump, WaPo
re: #115 retired cynic
A dangerous new factor in an uneasy moment: Unidentified law enforcement officers, by Philip Bump, WaPo
How can we petition for the redress of grievances when we do not know the identity of aggrieving party?
re: #114 Interesting Times
It’s as if Rand Paul’s present goal in life is to vindicate his neighbor with every statement he makes.
His neighbor didn’t beat him enough.
Dear @DenverPolice
I’d like to speak with you a moment about your campaign to hunt humans on the street as sport.
This is grotesque.
Fire these officers immediately. https://t.co/CeRy4KIbx2— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) June 4, 2020
PELOSI: “Soldiers on steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Bureau of Prisons officers in Lafayette Square. The National Parks Service hassling peaceful protesters… who’s in charge? What’s chain of command & by what authority do these National Guard people come in from other states?” pic.twitter.com/mGp8sjREZk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 4, 2020
re: #120 Patricia Kayden
Keep talking Madam Speaker. Maybe someone will report it and hopefully it will go viral.
So…
Husband is a high school basketball coach. Has been very vocal on social media about BLM and supporting his black athletes and students and white fragility, etc. Posting interviews with different NBA coaches and players who are speaking out, and generally making me excessively proud of him. None of the other coaches are doing it but they’re retweeting him everywhere.
His Twitter account is his but it has the name of his school and program all over it. Well, he got an email from his principal telling him he could not be political on a school account. He told her it’s a personal account, he will take nothing down, stop posting, or in any way back down. He told me, “She can take it to HR. I don’t give a fuck. It stays.”
He just got a call from her. “I didn’t realize it’s a personal account that happens to be full of references to the school. Now I can tell parents to shut up. You have the right to say anything you want on a personal account. Just don’t speak on behalf of the school. People are going nuts.”
So, GOOD FOR HIM. And her. No one’s backing down.
re: #123 BlueGrl21
So…
Husband is a high school basketball coach. Has been very vocal on social media about BLM and supporting his black athletes and students and white fragility, etc. Posting interviews with different NBA coaches and players who are speaking out, and generally making me excessively proud of him. None of the other coaches are doing it but they’re retweeting him everywhere.
His Twitter account is his but it has the name of his school and program all over it. Well, he got an email from his principal telling him he could not be political on a school account. He told her it’s a personal account, he will take nothing down, stop posting, or in any way back down. He told me, “She can take it to HR. I don’t give a fuck. It stays.”
He just got a call from her. “I didn’t realize it’s a personal account that happens to be full of references to the school. Now I can tell parents to shut up. You have the right to say anything you want on a personal account. Just don’t speak on behalf of the school. People are going nuts.”
So, GOOD FOR HIM. And her. No one’s backing down.
My only regret is I have but one up ding…!
re: #123 BlueGrl21
We have to stand up to the assholes. When we stand up to them they fold.
Philly is going to get hit with more afternoon storms.
forecast.weather.gov
re: #120 Patricia Kayden
PELOSI: “Soldiers on steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Bureau of Prisons officers in Lafayette Square. The National Parks Service hassling peaceful protesters… who’s in charge? What’s chain of command & by what authority do these National Guard people come in from other states?”
Typical liberal elietists, hassling Trump for piddling details when the fate of the nation hangs by a thread…
Texas GOP official claims George Floyd’s death was ‘staged’ to hurt Trump in rant about mind control experiments https://t.co/hXwXzZ8DzI
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 4, 2020
At a rally a few days ago, this nutcase said that Covid19 was a hoax perpetrated by Democrats. Then she told the audience to conclude the rally by hugging each other, which most of them did. She is chair of the Bexar County GOP, which is no small thing since that is where San Antonio is.
ICYMI :
James Bennet, the New York Times’ Editorial Page Editor has written a lengthy piece regarding the paper’s publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s insane screed about militarizing the response to the recent civil unrest.
I’m just going to throw it out here: for once, this is an issue I can’t really make up my mind on.
Galaxy brain Dilbert douche has figured it out!
I’m willing to bet 90% of the protestors have seen Joker. It is so powerful and well-made that it bounces around in your brain and burrows in, forming a dominant go-to pattern for your thinking.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 3, 2020
The defense for Greg McMichael is asking the lead investigator why he accused his client of aiding his son of felony murder, specifically, he wanted to know how he helped his son pull the trigger. The agent said he told his son Arbery was running down the street to start. @wjxt4
— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWileyNews) June 4, 2020
The lead investigator says he watched video testimony where Greg McMichael told Glynn County PD officers he would have shot #AhmaudArbery himself, if Arbery got the shotgun from Travis. @wjxt4
— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWileyNews) June 4, 2020
re: #128 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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At a rally a few days ago, this nutcase said that Covid19 was a hoax perpetrated by Democrats. Then she told the audience to conclude the rally by hugging each other, which most of them did. She is chair of the Bexar County GOP, which is no small thing since that is where San Antonio is.
Because … of course…
re: #130 teleskiguy
Galaxy brain Dilbert douche has figured it out!
The notion that memes from popular culture and movie plots make up the bulk of the patterns that determine most of our thinking is something I can even begin to agree with…
Man, July 4th is going to be WILD this year.
re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, July 4th is going to be WILD this year.
I can imagine that unrest will continue to flare up all summer.
re: #135 Allow me to light that for you…
The Coop checking things out.
🥰 Cooper gives me all the feels.
re: #137 Teddy’s Person
🥰 Cooper gives me all the feels.
He is truly a teddy bear. He’s going to be one fine mutt.
re: #130 teleskiguy
I’m willing to bet 90% of the protestors have seen Joker. It is so powerful and well-made that it bounces around in your brain and burrows in, forming a dominant go-to pattern for your thinking.
Why not West Side Story?
re: #139 jaunte
Why not West Side Story?
Or Hunger Games? Or V for Vendetta? Or 1984? Or the Dark Knight Rises?
I like to be in America
Ok by me in America
Everything’s free in America
For a small fee in America
They spelled Denisovich wrong
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 4, 2020
re: #129 Jay C
ICYMI :
James Bennet, the New York Times’ Editorial Page Editor has written a lengthy piece regarding the paper’s publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s insane screed about militarizing the response to the recent civil unrest.
I’m just going to throw it out here: for once, this is an issue I can’t really make up my mind on.
I have no problem with saying the NYTimes is wrong here. What Tom Cotton was proposing is illegal *except* in the instance of a governor requesting the military, per the Insurrection Act. The Times should not be posting blatantly illegal nonsense and giving it life.
re: #139 jaunte
The 15, no Ten, The Ten Commandments!
re: #128 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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She’s stepped in it so far that even Governor “Jade Helm” Abbott is demanding her resignation. Note from my personal experience: The more senior Texas GOP leaders are often people who were raised on John Birch stealth antisemitism before the GOP became dominant.
re: #128 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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At a rally a few days ago, this nutcase said that Covid19 was a hoax perpetrated by Democrats. Then she told the audience to conclude the rally by hugging each other, which most of them did. She is chair of the Bexar County GOP, which is no small thing since that is where San Antonio is.
There is no distinguishing characteristic between being a MAGAt and mental illness.
Every Soldier and Department of the Army Civilian swears an oath to support and defend the Constitution. That includes the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. @USArmy @USNationalGuard pic.twitter.com/HEurpvNALW
— SecArmy (@SecArmy) June 4, 2020
Can we put this down as another ‘no’?
“They came after me and knocked me down and then they celebrated!”
— The Cookie Doggo (@pelecookie) June 4, 2020
re: #145 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
At a rally a few days ago, this nutcase said that Covid19 was a hoax
Just quoting what the President said…
re: #148 Allow me to light that for you…
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It didn’t take Drew long to figure out he was on the wrong side of this issue.
And then she’ll do absolutely nothing. This is a scam she’s run over and over and over throughout her career. https://t.co/KjzA4Xfbmb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 4, 2020
re: #146 NO SMOCKING GUN!
There is no distinguishing characteristic between being a MAGAt and mental illness.
The mentally ill are generally less violent.
More brass going on the record…
General @Martin_Dempsey, retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is criticizing the president’s threat to send federal troops into the states. “The idea that the military would be called into suppress what for the most part were peaceful protests” is “very dangerous.”
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) June 4, 2020
Breaking via WaPo: Trump’s ex-chief of staff John Kelly defends Jim Mattis.
⁰”The president did not fire him. He did not ask for his resignation,” Kelly said. “The president has clearly forgotten how it actually happened or is confused.” https://t.co/rR2o47dBap— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 4, 2020
re: #152 Charles Johnson
And then she’ll do absolutely nothing. This is a scam she’s run over and over and over throughout her career. ]
I assume her voting record is pure Trump
re: #150 NO SMOCKING GUN!
It didn’t take Drew long to figure out he was on the wrong side of this issue.
It’s nice to know there’s a difference between now and four years ago where he probably would have gotten away with using the military to distract from the issue at hand. As I said, being at a vigil last night really has given me hope that there’s a lot of people really upset about this and that will be voting.
Murkowski’s and Collins’ shtick of commenting like they don’t have any power to change things is getting really, really old.
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
Or Hunger Games? Or V for Vendetta? Or 1984? Or the Dark Knight Rises?
I think Hunger Games has had way more of an effect on the people protesting than the Joker.
re: #129 Jay C
ICYMI :
James Bennet, the New York Times’ Editorial Page Editor has written a lengthy piece regarding the paper’s publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s insane screed about militarizing the response to the recent civil unrest.
I’m just going to throw it out here: for once, this is an issue I can’t really make up my mind on.
re: #145 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
She’s stepped in it so far that even Governor “Jade Helm” Abbott is demanding her resignation. Note from my personal experience: The more senior Texas GOP leaders are often people who were raised on John Birch stealth antisemitism before the GOP became dominant.
Did that ass bring up Q and the Mole Children, too?
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I assume her voting record is pure Trump
She did vote to save the ACA.
re: #154 makeitstop
More brass going on the record…
I don’t think a single retired general has spoken out in defense of Trump. General Mills and Captain Crunch haven’t commented yet though. Don’t be surprised if Trump loses some support after this. I know for a lot of us and I include myself in thinking “about time General Mattis” but this might sway some older conservatives to go against Trump. Every bit helps.
re: #143 mmmirele
I have no problem with saying the NYTimes is wrong here. What Tom Cotton was proposing is illegal *except* in the instance of a governor requesting the military, per the Insurrection Act. The Times should not be posting blatantly illegal nonsense and giving it life.
Not only that, but it directly put a lot of black NYT employees, journos, columnists, etc. at risk, by not just approving of, but demanding an escalation of the kind of heavy handed police and military presence that’s already seeing countless numbers of journalists covering the protests in harms way, as well as at risk of death, not even counting the civilian protestors that will be violently suppressed at all.
It’s using the argument of free speech to promote a screed demanding the absolute suppression of free speech, among other constitutional violations. And if you take AG Sulzberger’s word on it, they explicitly endorse editorials by editing and publishing them. They’re openly defending the piece as’ “accurate” and ”good faith”.
NYT is absolutely in the deep fucking wrong here.
re: #157 Teddy’s Person
Murkowski’s and Collins’ shtick of commenting like they don’t have any power to change things is getting really, really old.
I’m a helpless member of the Senate’s Majority Party. You dear citizens, only you can help me find the talisman that will break Donald Trump’s spell on my poor party.//
re: #162 Citizen K
Not only that, but it directly put a lot of black NYT employees, journos, columnists, etc. at risk, by not just approving of, but demanding an escalation of the kind of heavy handed police and military presence that’s already seeing countless numbers of journalists covering the protests in harms way, as well as at risk of death, not even counting the civilian protestors that will be violently suppressed at all.
It’s using the argument of free speech to promote a screed demanding the absolute suppression of free speech, among other constitutional violations. And if you take AG Sulzberger’s word on it, they explicitly endorse editorials by editing and publishing them. They’re openly defending the piece as’ “accurate” and “good faith”.
NYT is absolutely in the deep fucking wrong here.
Actually enabling fascists is how civilizations crumble. See Germany, 1932. https://t.co/xqDIZJFHxK
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 4, 2020
re: #145 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
She’s stepped in it so far that even Governor “Jade Helm” Abbott is demanding her resignation. Note from my personal experience: The more senior Texas GOP leaders are often people who were raised on John Birch stealth antisemitism before the GOP became dominant.
Abbott’s opposition obviously means that this particular CT does not have the Kremlin seal of approval, at least not yet.
Someone’s rethinking their campaign strategy.
Graham delays vote on authorizing subpoenas in Russia investigation https://t.co/6LB5XfWTeP
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 4, 2020
re: #98 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
Drew Brees has apologized for his commnets from the interview yesterday.
Drew Brees: ‘Completely missed the mark’ in comments on flag
I read it as he’s apologizing for being wrong, but he doesn’t actually know what he’s wrong about.
Right now that abusive history is being challenged in newsrooms alongside the challenges to other culture abusive power structures happening on our streets.
Pay attention to who is crying hardest about what a “threat” this challenge to white male power is.— Salome Strangelove (@salstrange) June 4, 2020
re: #150 NO SMOCKING GUN!
It didn’t take Drew long to figure out he was on the wrong side of this issue.
That’s what was so maddening about his comments yesterday. Historically, Brees was pretty upfront with his support regarding civil rights and was fully supportive of his teammates taking a knee in protest of police brutality.
As has been said before, a decade of goodwill can be ruined by a single senseless statement, and he very likely lost a lot of support from a city that embraced him, which will take significant time to rebuild.
re: #164 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Nazi Germany didn’t become Nazi Germany night. It was a long and ugly process. I’m not just voting for Biden this fall, I’m voting for my faith in American liberal democracy.
re: #164 NO SMOCKING GUN!
You’ll do anything to sniff Trump’s farts.
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) June 4, 2020
Gah, how do I keep missing stuff that happens in my own backyard?
Philly Inquirer Staffers Stage Walkout Over ‘Buildings Matter, Too’ Headline
Speaks volumes of how tone deaf white people are about race that this thing went through several layers of management, they looked at the window at the riots, and went “Yep! Perfect time to publish this!”
Probably also speaks volumes that I hardly read the Inky anymore.
Trump’s was asked how to address the problem of low trust in the police among African Americans. Here’s the transcript of his response. pic.twitter.com/Z5sArhvCJX
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 4, 2020
re: #167 Belafon
I read it as he’s apologizing for being wrong, but he doesn’t actually know what he’s wrong about.
Thanks for this. I read it and couldn’t really call it a non-apology, but something seemed off. You articulated it perfectly.
re: #167 Belafon
I read it as he’s apologizing for being wrong, but he doesn’t actually know what he’s wrong about.
I’m hoping that his teammates have a good talk with him. I don’t think he’s an awful person but I do think he showed he was very tone deaf and I hope for his sake he can learn that this was never about the military at all and it really came off clueless of him to pull that stuff.
re: #167 Belafon
I read it as he’s apologizing for being wrong, but he doesn’t actually know what he’s wrong about.
Read the whole post. He took full ownership of it.
Brees concluded his post by expressing his dismay over how his words have affected people.
“I am sick about the way my comments were perceived yesterday, but I take full responsibility and accountability,” Brees wrote. “I recognize that I should do less talking and more listening … and when the black community is talking about their pain, we all need to listen.
“For that, I am very sorry and I ask your forgiveness.”
“And the quarterback, from Dunning-Kruger State…” https://t.co/gvmPUQEbAp
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 4, 2020
re: #170 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Nazi Germany didn’t become Nazi Germany night. It was a long and ugly process. I’m not just voting for Biden this fall, I’m voting for my faith in American liberal democracy.
I hope it’s true that America always does the right thing after exhausting every other option, because we can’t afford to get this election wrong.
I wanted to stay for awhile in every word of this beautiful, vulnerable, powerful piece by the great Micheal Twitty aka @thecookinggene. Pls, pls read https://t.co/aIKX4afDyY
— Maggie Hennessy (@edible_words) June 4, 2020
….”5. Bull Connor 2.0
Barr and his jowls. Mean lying cuss. Sheltering in place behind a G-d we are sure will not want him. He is playing Bull Connor for the camera. Tom Cotton is the new John C. Calhoun. 45 is Nixon in 68. How much reading do you have to do on your way to the protest to understand this hellish moment?
I am watching them hurt Washingtonians-I am screaming at the TV. 45 comes out. Gold Glory and G-dless. A TV ad shoots up the next day-crisp and clean, a totalitarian fantasy.
The sisters text me and write me-they know I am prey. They are too-but I can’t say that-I vow to die a martyr before they are disrespected. The brothers call. We want to go to war but we are past our warrior days but not quiet aged.
The white and non-Black friends call and text-they worry that I may be in my own bunker, the walls closing in.
I don’t know what to say really-so I wrote this.”
re: #175 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Now one has to wonder how many NFL players will kneel once they decide to start the season….
re: #177 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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That apology was definitely drafted for him.
re: #167 Belafon
I read it as he’s apologizing for being wrong, but he doesn’t actually know what he’s wrong about.
God, my dad was like that. I miss him, but he generally apologized only to smooth things over. Never was really about any introspective review of what he actually said.
And to ping off of my white privilege comment above: Fucking Brees lives with black teammates for four months a year, a good chunk of whom most likely have had some sort of shitty encounters with cops.
The hubris and privilege it takes to shit on why Kapernick was protesting and not expect blowback is breathtaking.
re: #59 Decatur Deb
With help from my Russian speaking daughter:
Trump = #сукабункера (suka bunkera)/#BunkerBitch
re: #180 Eric The Fruit Bat
Now one has to wonder how many NFL players will kneel once they decide to start the season….
Oh I can think of two very stupid white quarterbacks who will regret shooting their mouths off when they are repeatedly sacked…
re: #177 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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TBH, I am the only person that I, personally, trust with guns, though I do recognize that the armed forces and certain police organizations need some of them as well.
Really smart thread >> https://t.co/zesrL2iCE0
— Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) June 4, 2020
re: #151 Teddy’s Person
Teddy? Where’s Teddy? I don’t see any Teddy in that pic.
Teddy is having a very nice nap. Shhh. pic.twitter.com/dhNy3Y2a2w
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 4, 2020
re: #147 makeitstop
That you have to make that statement tells you all you need to know about the people at the top of chain of command ignoring their oaths of office.
Esper and Trump. The duo. And everyone else advising Trump to violate the law, every norm and standard, to look like a tough guy when all this does is show how weak he truly is.
re: #184 Joe Bacon 🌹
Oh I can think of two very stupid white quarterbacks who will regret shooting their mouths off when they are repeatedly sacked…
Since I’m on a Philly kick:
One of the safe quarterbacks should be the Eagles’ Carson Wentz. He basically wrote a social media post that was the exact opposite of what Brees said.
Looking forward to @sarahcpr performing this. https://t.co/3UtLGn7J4X
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 4, 2020
re: #189 Mattand
Since I’m on a Philly kick:
One of the safe quarterbacks should be the Eagles’ Carson Wentz. He basically wrote a social media post that was the exact opposite of what Brees said.
Aaron Rodgers too
re: #29 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Murkowski is just doing her usual fence straddling. She’s “safe” for 4 more years.
AK Sen Dan Sullivan (R-Trump) is the one up for re-election. I think he can be beat since he is really stuck kissing trump’s patootie. If the Lincoln Project could throw a couple of ads up here about 1-2 weeks before the election he could be beat.
Alaska is considered an R state but in reality the voters are 1/3 D, 1/3 R, an 1/3 independent or not declared. Sullivan did replace a D (Begich) 5 years ago, so D’s can win up here.
re: #192 Cheechako
Murkowski is just doing her usual fence straddling. She’s “safe” for 4 more years.
Two more years, actually - Murkowski was re-elected in 2016. (I was incorrect in my previous comment: must learn to count one of these days)
PS: You really think the Ds can nab the AK seat? WHo is their candidate?
Good morning.
Candace Owens is a Black, white Supremacist who profits off of being the black face of white racism.
Black people can always make a quick buck being willing to say all the racist stuff white racists want to but can’t. #CandaceOwens
pic.twitter.com/vtqNZRgVFO— Benjamin Dixon 🏴🚩🇺🇸 (@BenjaminPDixon) June 4, 2020
re: #130 teleskiguy
Galaxy brain Dilbert douche has figured it out!
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The Joker wasn’t masterful nor was it powerful, it was sad. For us, a great movie is one we want to watch again and again. Neither of us felt the Joker made the cut. It was mediocre.
re: #180 Eric The Fruit Bat
Now one has to wonder how many NFL players will kneel once they decide to start the season….
It will be more dramatic if they kneel on each other’s heads and sing “Oh say, can you breathe?”
That’s fine wokeness here, but the other part of the story is that the tanks were filled with Beijing area troops that didn’t want to be there doing the suppression. So the understanding General Zhao Ziyang pleaded with students to end their hunger strike and failed, he was shunted aside and more rural troops were called in who didn’t much care about “pampered” student protesters.
The Republican Party a lot of us signed up for was a party that supported the guy standing alone, not the guy in the tank. But Donald Trump and @SenTomCotton have a different view. For those of us who haven’t changed, we have no respect for the pro-tank Republican Party. pic.twitter.com/BRHuE0aAG0
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) June 4, 2020
re: #8 KGxvi
Was Lieberman still a Democrat at that point? I thought he threw his tantrum in 2006?
Lieberman was also the monkey wrench against single payer.
We support the NAACP’s call for 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence to honor the life of George Floyd. All five of our networks will go dark at 3:45pm ET to reflect on this tragedy and amplify the world’s call for meaningful change and racial equality. #WeAreDoneDying pic.twitter.com/g5JR9jQwEg
— AMC Networks (@AMC_TV) June 4, 2020
re: #198 Barefoot Grin
That’s fine wokeness here, but the other part of the story is that the tanks were filled with Beijing area troops that didn’t want to be there doing the suppression. So the understanding General Zhao Ziyang pleaded with students to end their hunger strike and failed, he was shunted aside and more rural troops were called in who didn’t much care about “pampered” student protesters.
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Only after Division sized battles between troops supporting the protesters and troops supporting the government. Allegedly you could hear the artillery from the Square. Once the pro democracy troops were defeated, so were the students.
re: #176 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
Read the whole post. He took full ownership of it.
I went and read it, and he does take more ownership than that first quote would lead to believe. I’m hoping someone explained in detail how the flag really isn’t even part of the discussion and shouldn’t be used as a shield. Leave the symbols out of it.
re: #201 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I just checked, all four major broadcast network, ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX are televising the Floyd memorial service live
We fought wars to end:
Slavery
Fascism
Genocide
You don’t have an “open debate” about these things. THEY ARE BAD THINGS, MMKAY. #VoteBlue #UniteBlue #Biden2020 #BlackLivesMatter #resist #Fascism #RacismInAmerica #GOP https://t.co/bY7lCu0BRc— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) June 4, 2020
I need some Black Church more often than not. But it’s always these circumstances. And as someone who listened to Limbaugh thru most o the ‘90s. I’ve developed a soft spot for Al Sharpton.
re: #200 Allow me to light that for you…
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I love the whisps of white on his back/side. I just want to give him most of the scritches (gotta save a few for Teddy).
Time to remember this: https://t.co/IziQU4ogra
— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) June 4, 2020
re: #151 Teddy’s Person
Nice couch! Where’s Teddy? 😁
re: #208 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So DT has had this inferiority complex since 1990. That does not make it any easier to tolerate presently.
While in the US, we draw sky dongs https://t.co/JdGsvxRMGW
— Marcus Weisgerber (@MarcusReports) June 4, 2020
Impressive. Most impressive.
Hit play for a surprise https://t.co/ZIc3zojzG1
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 4, 2020
Godsdamnit. Less than a minute! Gotta be quick here.
Wait, wut? https://t.co/TGkTPMRVuX
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) June 4, 2020
Folks. The blocks around 1600 Penn Ave are the most monitored in the world. On top of that, a thousand iPhones are rolling. Don’t you think if rioters were throwing bricks—if the crowd was violent—we’d see footage?
That’s why, instead, we’ve got a semantic debate over “tear gas”— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) June 3, 2020
When you do a photo op designed to show you’re in control, it’s probably a bad sign if you find yourself insisting afterward that you weren’t the guy giving orders.
— Jesse Walker (@notjessewalker) June 3, 2020
re: #213 lawhawk
Godsdamnit. Less than a minute! Gotta be quick here.
Almost a minute and a half actually
re: #214 jaunte
Soon-to-be-ex-Defense Secretary Mark Esper…
Bill Barr apparently canceled the Posse Comitatus Act without announcing.
re: #218 jaunte
Bill Barr apparently canceled the Posse Comitatus Act without announcing.
Trump thought it was the “Pussy Comin’ at Us!” Act…
re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump thought it was the “Pussy Comin’ at Us!” Act…
😁😂🤣🤣
If he fires Esper. The acting Defense Secretary could well be I’m not making this up but Grover Norquist’s brother.
re: #194 Jay C
Two more years, actually - Murkowski was re-elected in 2016. (I was incorrect in my previous comment: must learn to count one of these days)
PS: You really think the Ds can nab the AK seat? WHo is their candidate?
Not yet determined. There a 4 D’s and 1 I running to be the Dem nominee. The primary is August 18th. I just feel Sullivan (Carpet Bagger Dan) is beatable. He really has no signature legislation for AK to hang his hat on and he’s heavily tied to trump.
re: #214 jaunte
Likely the same forces he directed to withdraw, then cancelled yesterday
— Lewis Edwards (@hypnotoad73) June 4, 2020
Are all of the prison guards and ICE agents still in DC? Did they decide that the soldiers with potentially moral leadership could go as long as they kept the evil bastards?
Maybe Esper decided to listen to the retired brass instead of Trump?
re: #231 stpaulbear
Are all of the prison guards and ICE agents still in DC? Did they decide that the soldiers with potentially moral leadership could go as long as they kept the evil bastards?
That just occurred to me…yes, the Army still respects concepts like Chain of Command. Trump does not want to be stuck at the wrong end of a bad decision.
re: #226 Cheechako
Not yet determined. There a 4 D’s and 1 I running to be the Dem nominee. The primary is August 18th. I just feel Sullivan (Carpet Bagger Dan) is beatable. He really has no signature legislation for AK to hang his hat on and he’s heavily tied to trump.
A few months ago I got a text from the Al Gross campaign requesting financial support. I tend not to contribute to out-of-state primaries since it seems that the locals should select their candidate. Do you have any preferences for the Democratic nominee?
Trumper assaulting children in Maryland.
They were putting up signs to commemorate the death of George Floyd. He wasn’t having it. pic.twitter.com/eukrXrxoLN
— Victor Stoddard (@VicStoddard) June 4, 2020
re: #175 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m hoping that his teammates have a good talk with him. I don’t think he’s an awful person but I do think he showed he was very tone deaf and I hope for his sake he can learn that this was never about the military at all and it really came off clueless of him to pull that stuff.
I’d think they already have because he offered that apology. It was a start and way better than the typical “sorry to anyone who was offended” Nonapology bullshit.
Trumpworld dwellers seem to be caught between a rock (making Trump happy) and hard place (having a shred of respectability left in a post-Trump world). All I can say is pass the popcorn.
re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
+1
re: #236 jaunte
Trumper assaulting children in Maryland.
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Now it’s another MAGAT getting the Candid Camera treatment every hour.
re: #237 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d think they already have because he offered that apology. It was a start and way better than the typical “sorry to anyone who was offended” Nonapology bullshit.
Yeah. I’m saying face to face when they actually meet up though. Brees isn’t just any football player. He’s the face of that franchise. Granted he’s towards the end of his career.
WTF
Melania Trump Leads FEMA Briefing on Hurricane Preparedness and People Have Questions https://t.co/DKgPGV6nUr
There were various comments that William “Roddie” Bryan made that were “racial” on his phone, according to the lead GBI investigator. @wjxt4
— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWileyNews) June 4, 2020
Roddie Bryan’s attorney’s final argument is his client was minding his own business on his porch and did what “any patriotic American would do.” He says there is no proof his client had the intent to commit false imprisonment. @wjxt4
— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWileyNews) June 4, 2020
295 new cases of covid-19 reported by the Governor in Kentucky today.
re: #235 Hecuba’s daughter
A few months ago I got a text from the Al Gross campaign requesting financial support. I tend not to contribute to out-of-state primaries since it seems that the locals should select their candidate. Do you have any preferences for the Democratic nominee?
No preference yet. In the House race it looks like:
Incumbent US Rep. Don Young has two Republican primary challengers, and three people have registered for the Democratic primary, including nonpartisan candidate Alyse Galvin, who lost to Young in the 2018 general election.
This is a tough race to predict. Everyone knows Young is worthless in the House but they still vote for him. Maybe the overall built-up anger over the R’s in general will lead to his demise.
Is this the same rookie that had the 3% tattoo?
Bills rookie QB Jake Fromm apologizes for texting “only elite white people” should have guns pic.twitter.com/uJTM5fOwiB
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 4, 2020
I actually watched the first half of Candace Owens disgusting and disingenuous stance on George Floyd so you wouldn’t have to.But I couldn’t continue. She wants to criminalize the man and minimize the movement. She is TRASH, and makes me sick to my stomach.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 4, 2020
Saw many of my conservative family and friends on Facebook sharing the Candice Owens degrading George Floyd video today. I’m sorry so many people I’ve known almost my entire life feel that way.
re: #247 Teddy’s Person
Is this the same rookie that had the 3% tattoo?
Nope - that particular asshole is a punter.
re: #249 Eric The Fruit Bat
Nope - that particular asshole is a punter.
Quite the incoming class. The NFL must be so proud.
“I an sorry that I expressed my racism out loud. In the future I will limit my racism to myself and only a few trusted close friends”
“Is that good enough?”— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 4, 2020
JFC
“There doesn’t seem to be a lot of voices of color around the table.” Some Democrats worry that Joe Biden’s heavily white inner circle may be a liability as he tries to energize a multiracial coalition, anchored by black voters, to defeat President Trump. https://t.co/5ZHsP6dpgS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 4, 2020
re: #251 Teddy’s Person
Quite the incoming class. The NFL must be so proud.
Said asshole has stated he would get the tattoo removed. Yeah, right…..
He’s more afraid of the protesters than of looking weak. Maybe he’s thinking about Mussolini. https://t.co/pMPMCsPjQX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 4, 2020
re: #253 The Pie Overlord!
JFC
I’m beginning to think (narrator: he’s not beginning to think) that the NYT is trying to keep Biden from being elected.
Black Staff Matters: Behind the Scenes with the Biden 2020 Team (Source: Ebony)
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
Or Hunger Games? Or V for Vendetta? Or 1984? Or the Dark Knight Rises?
A Boy And His Dog
re: #256 Belafon
I’m beginning to think (narrator: he’s not beginning to think) that the NYT is trying to keep Biden from being elected.
They are doing their best to Hillary Biden. Maybe they should check on his email server?
re: #255 Charles Johnson
People should buy padlocks and hang them from the fence.
It’s ironic the the only wall trump is able to complete is a wall around the WH. Actually may be a good idea if the wall contains the deplorables to the WH side
re: #247 Teddy’s Person
Is this the same rookie that had the 3% tattoo?
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Nope. Fromm is QB from U of Georgia.
III% dude was a kicker from Marshall.
re: #256 Belafon
I’m beginning to think (narrator: he’s not beginning to think) that the NYT is trying to keep Biden from being elected.
The Post had an article today about some “activists” don’t trust Biden and the people quoted were Sunset Movement activist types. Pardon me if I don’t trust those people to speak for me not just as a Democrat but a progressive, liberal Democrat.
re: #255 Charles Johnson
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If it weren’t for the whole destroying American democracy part, the fact that Trump makes it so hard for his staff to make him look good would be quite funny.
re: #242 Teddy’s Person
WTF
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And how does a wing nut relative respond?
“Hillary had no business sticking her nose into fucking up my health care”…coming from an ass who refuses to sign up for Medicaid…
Right now I feel like Marty Balin at Altamont, screaming “Fight back! Fight back” when he got cold-cocked by the Hell’s Angels.
Anybody hear anything on this crises from Gates? Buffet? Bezos? Musk?
The AIDS activists had it right: “Silence = Death”.
re: #262 Cheechako
It’s ironic the the only wall trump is able to complete is a wall around the WH. Actually may be a good idea if the wall contains the deplorables to the WH side
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Although the MAGAts have glommed onto the “good fences make good neighbors” line, as usual, the whole point of the poem totally eludes them.
re: #268 BeachDem
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Although the MAGAts have glommed onto the “good fences make good neighbors” line, as usual, the whole point of the poem totally eludes them.
There’s always a West Wing episode.
re: #248 DodgerFan1988
Saw many of my conservative family and friends on Facebook sharing the Candice Owens degrading George Floyd video today. I’m sorry so many people I’ve known almost my entire life feels that way.
No one on my list has posted it, but friends of theirs are happy to dump it in comment threads -_- Here’s a great article you can post for a quick rebuttal (aimed not at the wingnuts, of course, but at undecided/unaware lurkers):
Every Receipt Proving Candace Owens Is A Con Artist Who Is Following The Money
Owens now calls the NAACP “one of the worst groups for Black people,” even though the organization helped her win a racial discrimination lawsuit. In 2007, she accused some white boys of racially harassing and threatening to kill her. Owens claimed the boys were the son of then-Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy, Connecticut’s former governor. Because of the NAACP, Owens’ family received a settlement of $37,500 from Stamford Public Schools.
re: #270 Interesting Times
No one on my list has posted it, but friends of theirs are happy to dump it in comment threads -_- Here’s a great article you can post for a quick rebuttal (aimed not at the wingnuts, of course, but at undecided/unaware lurkers):
Every Receipt Proving Candace Owens Is A Con Artist Who Is Following The Money
I’m just waiting for the New York Times to publish an op-ed by KKKandy glorifying the cops who killed George Floyd…
Re: Drew Brees
The simple fact is that respecting the flag AND kneeling to protest injustice are BOTH things very much in line with what America is supposed to stand for.
re: #270 Interesting Times
No one on my list has posted it, but friends of theirs are happy to dump it in comment threads -_- Here’s a great article you can post for a quick rebuttal (aimed not at the wingnuts, of course, but at undecided/unaware lurkers):
Every Receipt Proving Candace Owens Is A Con Artist Who Is Following The Money
She’s just like every other conservative out there that uses race politics. She’s “anti identity politics” until it’s her. This isn’t someone like Michael Steele or Condi Rice who has different political views than most of their fellow African Americans. This is a grifting, Nazi apologist who says the worst things about other African Americans to make her white audience feel they’re not racist.
re: #272 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Gives him too much credit for knowing a bible verse.
Otherworldly Forces are are only hope. https://t.co/qSS2mb0UgQ
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 4, 2020
Sharing this again because what the actual fuck:
Melania Trump Leads FEMA Briefing on Hurricane Preparedness and People Have Questions https://t.co/DKgPGV6nUr
re: #273 Eclectic Cyborg
Re: Drew Brees
The simple fact is that respecting the flag AND kneeling to protest injustice are BOTH things very much in line with what America is supposed to stand for.
The flag is less important than what it means. We’re of course proud of my cousin who seventy five years ago helped put the American flag on Iwo Jima but it’s pride in how he, a man not born in the US and scarred by previous combat experiences led Marines in one of the bloodiest battles in history.
re: #277 BeenHereAwhile
That is the version that I know.
re: #278 teleskiguy
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Too bad Darren Dalton died. (For those who don’t know) Darren Dalton was a former baseball player who claimed to be a time traveler.
re: #279 Eclectic Cyborg
Sharing this again because what the actual fuck:
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Yes, I have a few. What, in, the, name, of, & fuck?
re: #279 Eclectic Cyborg
“Melania, what would you recommend as essential to a good hurricane preparedness kit?”
re: #279 Eclectic Cyborg
Sharing this again because what the actual fuck:
I think we’re at that point in the story where the paranoid dictator only trusts family.
I know they are as meaningful as total yards in a football game, but I just looked up the national polling for the presidential election. I was unaware until now that with the exception of 2 polls listed, Trump has never led Biden nationally in 2020. In fact, if you go back to November 2019, there’s only four polls in which Trump leads nationally. And only a handful of times does he get above 45%.
re: #247 Teddy’s Person
Is this the same rookie that had the 3% tattoo?
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State prosecutors call this “a mini-trial.”
The prosecutor says #AhmaudArbery was “chased, hunted down and ultimately executed.” He says Arbery was defenseless and unarmed, shot down in broad daylight without seeing any crime or burglary. @wjxt4— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWileyNews) June 4, 2020
He closes with a quote from the bible, like the defense for Roddie Bryan did a few minutes ago, saying “how about ‘love thy neighbor’” @wjxt4
— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWileyNews) June 4, 2020
#BREAKING: The judge ruled charges will **NOT** be dismissed for all three of the men charged with felony murder in #AhmaudArbery death. @wjxt4 pic.twitter.com/hyVoFQaTC2
— Kelly Wiley (@KellyWileyNews) June 4, 2020
re: #285 Teddy’s Person
I think we’re at that point in the story where the paranoid dictator only trusts family.
I think the only people Trump has ever “trusted” are family. Because he knows, running a family business (as shady as it is), that they know their fortunes are tied to him. The Trump brand has been about Donald since at least the early 80s when he forced his way into the New York tabloid scene.
re: #285 Teddy’s Person
I think we’re at that point in the story where the paranoid dictator only trusts family.
I was thinking either that or his staff is so thin now there was literally no one else available to do it (because of course Trump didn’t want to).
Follow up:
We are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the below individual in reference to an assault that took place this morning on the Capital Creacent trail. Please contact Det. Lopez at[no phone numbers allowed] with any information. Pease reference case number 20001297. pic.twitter.com/EtC9Q0xBOp
— Park Police MC (@ParkPolice) June 2, 2020
re: #289 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Thanks for posting these trial updates!!
edited for brain fart
Here he goes again…
The Radical Left Democrats new theme is “Defund the Police”. Remember that when you don’t want Crime, especially against you and your family. This is where Sleepy Joe is being dragged by the socialists. I am the complete opposite, more money for Law Enforcement! #LAWANDORDER
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2020
Haaaa https://t.co/qxxvbORTJ1
— Janelle James (@janellejcomic) June 4, 2020
re: #290 KGxvi
I think the only people Trump has ever “trusted” are family. Because he knows, running a family business (as shady as it is), that they know their fortunes are tied to him. The Trump brand has been about Donald since at least the early 80s when he forced his way into the New York tabloid scene.
TBH, I was only vaguely aware of Trump prior to the Apprentice.
re: #293 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I filmed this video of an individual tearing down signs in Meridian Hill Park yesterday. He looks maybe a little older, but similar build and voice, as well as similar ripping down signs pic.twitter.com/pkHoEff7MK
— Lauren Starrett (@lauren_starrett) June 4, 2020
re: #286 KGxvi
I know they are as meaningful as total yards in a football game, but I just looked up the national polling for the presidential election. I was unaware until now that with the exception of 2 polls listed, Trump has never led Biden nationally in 2020. In fact, if you go back to November 2019, there’s only four polls in which Trump leads nationally. And only a handful of times does he get above 45%.
Hillary consistently led Trump. It doesn’t mean anything significant, given the Electoral College and how early it is in the campaign. Remember the MSM will pull out all the stops to defeat Biden. Remember, technically a candidate could win 65% of the popular vote and still lose the election, even with voter suppression.
The March will be on the anniversary of the original march on Washington. Martin Luther King III involved in the planning and organizing
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) June 4, 2020
Candace Owens is a pathetic, self loathing, uneducated, homely, grifting, sycophantic, white supremacy apologist who gets paid to make white racists feel comfortable as Black face cosigning their bigotry.
She’s bought and paid for.
She’s trash.#CandaceOwens— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) June 4, 2020
Imagine being driven mad — to the point that you harass children and assault someone with a bicycle — because they were mourning the death of someone murdered in broad daylight.
This level of dehumanization is not natural, it’s driven by a poisonous ideology. https://t.co/92IdqYYbzW— Zeeshan Aleem (@ZeeshanAleem) June 4, 2020
My theory is that the stark racial disparity in inherited wealth is not only a result of generations of institutional racism but is itself responsible for perpetuating racist attitudes & behaviors.
BC it keeps people who would otherwise REALLY tell off their family from doing so— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) June 4, 2020
re: #229 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Likely the same forces he directed to withdraw, then cancelled yesterday
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To the tune of “The Grand Old Duke Of York”:
“Oh Secretary Mark,
He had five thousand men:
He marched them all to Washington,
Then he marched them out again….”
re: #302 jaunte
Dude has a strong off-duty cop vibe…
It looks like Philly is going to get some more heavy weather this evening.
weather.gov
He’s just discovered that the fence is, er, locked from the outside.
— Asneakypete (@Asneakypete) June 4, 2020
Rush Limbaugh today on Mattis op-ed: “Unify the country? We’re so beyond that, it’s laughable. … The objective right now is simple. It is to defeat the forces that are arrayed against us out there that are attempting to overthrow the Trump administration…”
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 4, 2020
re: #307 Teddy’s Person
Did someone actually convince him that golfing while all this shit is going on would be seriously bad optics or was it something else?
re: #281 PhillyPretzel
That is the version that I know.
The version I put up is a guy from the Twin Cities. I’ve always liked the album it’s on.
re: #309 Eclectic Cyborg
Did someone actually convince him that golfing while all this shit is going on would be seriously bad optics or was it something else?
This all seems based on public info from the FAA. I couldn’t find any announcements from the WH for either the original trip or cancellation. Maybe they thought he could head to NJ without anyone noticing. Damn that meddling FAA.
re: #315 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The Right’s mindset in a nutshell.
And Rushbo has be spewing this us against them shit for a couple of decades.
re: #9 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I saw the video when it was hitting Twitter a couple weeks ago, and my gut reaction was this looked like a hillbilly hunting video. Three dumb fucks, all pumped up with guns and testosterone, chased this unarmed kid, actually drove him to a spot, where the pickup truck was waiting to corner him and shoot him. It’s no different than a dog flushes birds out in the open, to be shot. All they were missing was bellowing hounds and a tree for him to run and hide in (“treed”).
I think the kid thought flight wasn’t working, so he made his last stand, and those greasy fucks shot him. He was obviously trying to run until he couldn’t run any more, up to that point.
And their buddy that was flushing the kid out in the open of course videoed the whole thing, just like a stupid deer hunt or bass fishing episode for some stupidass show that airs commercials for Protect the Harvest and every other backasswards right wing cause.
This is what klukkers jerk off to. It was a snuff film.
re: #93 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Grassley grows a spine.
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WH: “We fired him because we wanted to.”
Grassley: “Well, okay then. That was all I needed to know.”
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 4, 2020
Damn. Too bad he couldn’t find his spine in February.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) blasted senators on the Judiciary Committee on Thursday for what he said was “grandstanding for the cameras” at a hearing to review former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
“It’s bullshit the way people grandstand for cameras in here,” Sasse told the committee. “The reality is if we didn’t have cameras in this room, the discussion would be different. The Senate doesn’t work. It doesn’t diffuse the partisan tensions that are leading the country toward dissolution.”
“Ninety percent of our committees are about people trolling for soundbites,” the senator added. “That’s what actually happens. Some of us have other work to do. People can troll for soundbites whenever they want.” Video at Raw Story
re: #152 Charles Johnson
It has all the wingnut buzzwords. Almost appears as marketing copy for GOP bullshit bingo. When push comes to shove, she’ll fold like a tent. Again.
Andrew is a 5th column for American fascism
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 4, 2020
re: #323 gocart mozart
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re: #320 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The fucking gall of House ᚱepublicans to make a statement about Tiananmen Square… right now. The lack of self-awareness is mind-boggling.
re: #325 Jack Burton
The fucking gall of House ᚱepublicans to make a statement about Tiananmen Square… right now. The lack of self-awareness is mind-boggling.
Lafayette Square is Tiananmen without the murder and the tanks. Don’t pretend otherwise, you tone-deaf assmaggots.
Any comment, @RudyGiuliani? https://t.co/xfvowl3x6X
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) June 4, 2020
re: #34 Teukka
Yup, and even with all that in his system, he was upright and functional right up until that unfortunate part where he was choked to death by police while begging for his life.
For those that may have forgotten, they took Ted Bundy alive.
https://t.co/To7t1M4Ie8 pic.twitter.com/0a9wnHPU5T
— Ira Madison III (@ira) June 4, 2020
re: #310 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
At least after prepping for a colonoscopy someone gives you midazolam and you don’t wake up until it’s over.
re: #329 goddamnedfrank
Nothing promotes “law and order” like police in multiple cities across the country beating the crap out of people every single night. Nice plan, Trump.
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) June 4, 2020
OT I have a question about hand sanitizer. I have a small travel bottle half filled with hand sanitizer. I have not used it for a few weeks and it appears thicker than usual. I think it is still good. Should I toss it or just use it?
re: #333 PhillyPretzel
Take a handful and rub it in your eyes. If it stings, it’s still good.//
re: #333 PhillyPretzel
Take a few drops and put it on a surface and light it. It burns, and the flame will be almost invisible, you good to go.
re: #334 PrairieQueen
Take a handful and rub it in your eyes. If it stings, it’s still good.//
It can be the glycerol added as a skin moisturizer. If it reeks of IPA or ethanol as usual sanitizer, it should be good. You might want to shake the bottle, it may make it less thick.
re: #329 goddamnedfrank
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I’m no Bill DeBlasio stan, but it’s just as likely that they’re resigning because of what the NYPD has revealed itself to be and they don’t want to be associated with that shit.
re: #337 Barefoot Grin
I’m no Bill DeBlasio stan, but it’s just as likely that they’re resigning because of what the NYPD has revealed itself to be and they don’t want to be associated with that shit.
Ditto.
Umm…. I think you got a few wires crossed.
These are fascists… pic.twitter.com/auDfpEN89S— Kyle Ruggles (@kyleruggles) June 4, 2020
Next Chris Loesch will say when he see BLM he see the KKK.
re: #333 PhillyPretzel
OT I have a question about hand sanitizer. I have a small travel bottle half filled with hand sanitizer. I have not used it for a few weeks and it appears thicker than usual. I think it is still good. Should I toss it or just use it?
I’m using a half bottle of hand sanitizer that expired in 2015 that I spiked with some 91% iso alchohol that expired in 2016. I shouldn’t try to answer your question.
I did finally find some little bottles that I can keep in the car. Some of those are very thick so I just store them upside down.
re: #328 PrairieQueen
Yup, and even with all that in his system, he was upright and functional right up until that unfortunate part where he was choked to death by police while begging for his life.
For those that may have forgotten, they took Ted Bundy alive.
Also, Timothy McVeigh.
re: #340 stpaulbear
I already put some fresh sanitizer in the bottle and it still seems a bit thick.
I’m not up on NY politics. Can someone explain to me why DeBlasio is so awful and Cuomo hates him?
re: #321 Teddy’s Person
Alas, he doesn’t have one.
The Jeff Flake of current senators.
re: #308 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Unity went out the door with impeachment.
re: #339 DodgerFan1988
I’d say he’s a solid B-cup. And Hitler had a fat ass. More of that superior bloodlines bullshit.
re: #306 PhillyPretzel
It looks like Philly is going to get some more heavy weather this evening.
weather.gov
we got about 3/4” of rain in about 10 minutes about an hour ago here in TheBackwoods
more coming
Rand Paul tried to lecture Black lawmakers on the definition of lynching. Kamala Harris delivered her response. I was going to take a snippet from the 7 minutes to highlight but I couldn’t. The entire speech is powerful and one that’ll go down in history. pic.twitter.com/qxmCi85jL6
— José (@josecanyousee) June 4, 2020
re: #348 Backwoods_Sleuth
And that is probably what is headed to Philly.
re: #343 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m not up on NY politics. Can someone explain to me why DeBlasio is so awful and Cuomo hates him?
DeBlasio is disorganized, inefficient, often late to meetings and ceremonies. He doesn’t have a comprehensive set of plans, or method of arriving at plans, he only had a couple of issues (ending stop-and-frisk, universal pre-K) and once those were taken care of he started spinning his wheels and not doing much.
re: #309 Eclectic Cyborg
Did someone actually convince him that golfing while all this shit is going on would be seriously bad optics or was it something else?
I’m guessing he may well be “indisposed”.
could also be the reason Melanoma is leading the FEMA meeting
re: #339 DodgerFan1988
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Next Chris Loesch will say when he see BLM he see the KKK.
Wait a second! Don’t I see Chris in the crowd holding a Tiki Torch?
re: #351 sagehen
DeBlasio is disorganized, inefficient, often late to meetings and ceremonies. He doesn’t have a comprehensive set of plans, or method of arriving at plans, he only had a couple of issues (ending stop-and-frisk, universal pre-K) and once those were taken care of he started spinning his wheels and not doing much.
All the above is true, but it’s important to note that running NYC is a pain in the ass on good days. Something is always going to go wrong and the mayor usually gets blammed.
re: #351 sagehen
It’s a bit more complicated than that. NYC doesn’t have home rule to do a lot of things, despite being 40% of the population and far more than that as far as the state’s economy goes. Cuomo controls the MTA, which means transit falls to Cuomo, as does the Port Authority (which controls the airports and a bunch of bridges and tunnels to/from NJ into NYC). If Cuomo doesn’t want transit projects, it throttles what the city can do, especially around subways. DeBlasio set out to do universal pre-k and ending stop and frisk, and he did those, but has been mediocre at best beyond that.
Before covid19, Cuomo was mediocre as well, but better than DeBlasio. Since, DeBlasio has been even worse and Cuomo occasionally shows that he’s got authoritarian instincts too.
And the protests/riots reveal once again that Cuomo isn’t above pandering to the cops and the police unions, instead of trying to get rid of bad cops, bad laws, and improving the situation but he’s much better at triangulating than DeBlasio, who I always thought was a poor choice for mayor and a single issue guy.
re: #343 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m not up on NY politics. Can someone explain to me why DeBlasio is so awful and Cuomo hates him?
re: #351 sagehen
DeBlasio is disorganized, inefficient, often late to meetings and ceremonies. He doesn’t have a comprehensive set of plans, or method of arriving at plans, he only had a couple of issues (ending stop-and-frisk, universal pre-K) and once those were taken care of he started spinning his wheels and not doing much.
And to all of that, one has to add the traditional rivalry between the NYC political structures and the NYS ones - the City is dependent on the State for both revenue and political cooperation on a lot of shit, and Andy Cuomo definitely has ideas as to who the top Democrat in the state ought to be. Plus, as a kicker, DeBlasio didn’t kiss the NYPD’s blue ass strongly enough from the get-go, and they’ve given him the Lindsay/Dinkins treatment.
Fundamentally, the guy has turned out to be a lackluster and ineffective Executive. And the pandemic/recession/unrest has just magnified this.
re: #352 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m guessing he may well be “indisposed”.
could also be the reason Melanoma is leading the FEMA meeting
He’s straining on the toilet bowl hoping the Miralax kicks in.
re: #355 lawhawk
What type of charter does New York City have? I know Philly has a Home Rule Charter and the Commonwealth/State is not happy about that.
What an absolute piece of shit https://t.co/0FiMhEGPuX
— kristen johnston (@thekjohnston) June 4, 2020
Sorry excuse of a human being.
Former Marine commandant denounces police brutality: ‘The time for being silent has passed’ https://t.co/o6iaX6i7fQ via @paulszoldra
— Jeff Stein (@SpyTalker) June 4, 2020
NEW: Employees at the Defense Intelligence Agency raised concerns they might be asked to support intel efforts focused on domestic unrest.
DIA says their mission remains foreign focused, has stood up an internal group to respond to interagency queries.https://t.co/U2ACIMDF8L— JennaMc_Laugh (@JennaMC_Laugh) June 4, 2020
Sigh.
Amy Cooper, Who Falsely Accused Black Man In Central Park, Gets Dog Back
Abandoned Angels said on Facebook that it returned the healthy dog to Cooper. “We have coordinated with the appropriate New York City law enforcement agencies, which have declined to examine the dog or take it into their custody. Accordingly, and consistent with input received from law enforcement, we have now complied with the owner’s request for return of the dog.”
re: #284 jaunte
“Melania, what would you recommend as essential to a good hurricane preparedness kit?”
Be Best.
re: #362 BeachDem
Damn. I feel sorry for that pup.
re: #362 BeachDem
Sigh.
Amy Cooper, Who Falsely Accused Black Man In Central Park, Gets Dog Back
Abandoned Angels said on Facebook that it returned the healthy dog to Cooper. “We have coordinated with the appropriate New York City law enforcement agencies, which have declined to examine the dog or take it into their custody. Accordingly, and consistent with input received from law enforcement, we have now complied with the owner’s request for return of the dog.”
It sucks, but there isn’t much you can do. It’s her dog and if she wants it back, barring evidence of abuse, you can’t really deny her.
re: #354 I Would Prefer Not To
All the above is true, but it’s important to note that running NYC is a pain in the ass on good days. Something is always going to go wrong and the mayor usually gets blammed.
Except, for whatever reason, Mike Bloomberg. He managed to serve three terms (the last undeservedly, but never mind) without generating the enormous ill-will De Blasio seems to have. Of course, being richer than fuck certainly didn’t hurt (since he wasn’t beholden to anyone) - but while nobody liked him much, nobody really hated him much either.
Which, in NYC is about as positive as you’re gonna get……
re: #366 KGxvi
It sucks, but there isn’t much you can do. It’s her dog and if she wants it back, barring evidence of abuse, you can’t really deny her.
Does the video with her choking it, on top of her postings of all the other “accidents” the dog has had since she adopted it count?
re: #367 Jay C
Which, in NYC is about as positive as you’re gonna get……
“Fuck you asshole!”
“Why thank you, and have a nice day too Mayor.”
The Lancet medical journal has retracted a study that found coronavirus patients who took hydroxychloroquine had a higher mortality rate & increased heart problems than those who did nothing https://t.co/3okWvD5NwY
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) June 4, 2020
Since the USA ignores international news: Yesterday, WHO announced that, after pausing hydroxychloroquine trials due to Lancet study, its own experts looked at the data and found no evidence of higher mortality and restarted trials.
(though no evidence yet if effective or not).— Jean-François Mezei (@jfmezei) June 4, 2020
re: #349 Teukka
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Great speech. Thanks for posting that.
This is the image I use in my class to drive home the point of the deliberate nature of lynching and how it was used for social control.
JFC, Trump Army
Days after tear-gassing and shooting rubber bullets to peaceful Americans, Dictator Trump is now recruiting people for the “Trump Army,” in order to “fight off the Liberal MOB.”
Trump Army? The five time draft dodger??
I just threw up in my mouth. pic.twitter.com/aRdO7NAzwO— José (@yoruguaenusa) June 4, 2020
JUST IN: DOJ inspector general announces inquiry into “the circumstances surrounding the death of inmate Jamel Floyd at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) Brooklyn on or about June 3, 2020” pic.twitter.com/Dq3zJLRjq2
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 4, 2020
re: #349 Teukka
She is magnificent. And Rand Paul if he had a decent bone in his body… oh wtf am I talking about. Harris magnificently shows why here presence is so essential. Kentucky, are you out of your minds??
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) June 4, 2020
re: #367 Jay C
Except, for whatever reason, Mike Bloomberg. He managed to serve three terms (the last undeservedly, but never mind) without generating the enormous ill-will De Blasio seems to have. Of course, being richer than fuck certainly didn’t hurt (since he wasn’t beholden to anyone) - but while nobody liked him much, nobody really hated him much either.
Which, in NYC is about as positive as you’re gonna get……
Bloomberg was. widely criticized for overly aggressive policing at the 2004 RNC, and for stop-and-frisk.
But as counterweight, his 10-year-plan to turn every inch of waterfront into public parks, and expand programming at the parks, plus bike lanes and making buildings more energy efficient, and his impeccable handling of hurricane Sandy and several blizzards and increasing city income tax and property tax… liberals have plenty to like about him too.
re: #280 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The flag is less important than what it means. We’re of course proud of my cousin who seventy five years ago helped put the American flag on Iwo Jima but it’s pride in how he, a man not born in the US and scarred by previous combat experiences led Marines in one of the bloodiest battles in history.
This is pretty much my take about the flag:
As George Carlin said, “I consider it a symbol, and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.” It’s still such a poignant turn of phrase.
People are more dedicated to performative & symbolic gestures than actual tangible expressions & actions. That’s where flag worship comes from.— Something has to change, K? (@Citizen_Kryptik) June 4, 2020
re: #330 stpaulbear
They also usually use fentanyl at the same time or if they have a nurse anestist on hand, milk of amnesia (propofol)
re: #372 Teddy’s Person
JFC, Trump Army
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That is fucking scary…and tone deaf…and repulsive.
re: #369 Nojay UK
“Fuck you asshole!”
“Why thank you, and have a nice day too Mayor.”
“If you agree with me on nine out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12, see a psychiatrist.”
—Ed Koch
re: #302 jaunte
$10 says this violent asshat is either a cop or corrections officer.
re: #6 KGxvi
How to revive the rural economy—breaking up the huge agribusinesses—is something I have thought about as well. Two things that I think would help is universal income and rural broadband.
Basically, we need more people earning a living in the country. It’s not that there aren’t people who want to live in the middle of nowhere, it’s that they can’t—the jobs aren’t there. The commute is ridiculous and wfh isn’t an option, because the internet is impossibly slow, assuming that it is available. Internet in the country, more people in the country, more service jobs in the country.
The reason that the small family farms are becoming rarer is because it it hard to risk your family’s well being on the vagaries of the weather and the markets. Larger farms/companies have more assets that they can use to smooth out downturns. If a farmer did not have to worry that a drought would mean the kids didn’t have clothes for school in the fall, they could stay small.
Medicare for all would also help, just not as much as the other two, imho. The family would not lose the farm (probably to a corporation) because someone became ill.
re: #305 jimmyvluv4u
Dude has a strong off-duty cop vibe…
Agreed.
Also…
If that app was used to find him I’d Seriously LMAO.
Hateful and stupid. 🤣🤣😭😭— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) June 4, 2020
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