Watch as the incomparable Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, AKA Fantastic Negrito, gets the band back together at a safe social distance for this dynamic performance of “Chocolate Samurai” off the forthcoming album “HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND YET?” which comes out on August 14th. Find out more at http://www.fantasticnegrito.com.
Fcuk Little Rally Donnie
Trump thinks KPOP is a left-wing talk station based in Berkeley
LOUD APPLAUSE, DONNIE - you used the apostrophe correctly!
You’re on a roll @realdonaldtrump.
Yesterday you drank water using just one hand.
What feat will be your next BIGLY achievement?
Perhaps hitting the jackpot of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND #COVID KILLS BEFORE 4July2020? pic.twitter.com/DpQDnFSCGr— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) June 21, 2020
It’s not your imagination. Every week—sometimes every day—the Trump Administration is mounting another major assault on civil rights protections. Seeing them all in one place is a good reminder of what’s on the ballot in November. https://t.co/tjybJpZVYt
— Sasha Samberg-Champion (@ssamcham) June 22, 2020
My nephew (niece’s husband) told me today that they were very upset because Trump is apparently going to suspend most visas , including H-1B visas, through the end of the year. This affects my niece and her husband because they had hired an au pair who was going to join them in August to help with the child they are expecting in July. Of course, the pandemic might interfere with those plans anyway but Trump’s war against foreigners (even those from Europe) continues apace.
why are we Both Sides-ing official attendance figures? https://t.co/IsUg4g5EdT
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) June 22, 2020
Joust?
Looks like Laura Ingraham’s apple didn’t fall far from her father’s tree. https://t.co/2MNhZGwRVP
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) June 22, 2020
The country is burning down, the U.S Government stopped working. 122,000 dead, 40 million unemployed, rampant police brutality, no justice at @TheJusticeDept. And we pay you $174,000 to tweet this shit! Do your damn job! https://t.co/C8XteNB1Fi
— cowboytexas🇺🇸🌊 (@cowboytexas) June 22, 2020
fwiw
Bolton told the Daily Telegraph that he plans to vote for Joe Biden
And just like that, Trump effectively confirms Bolton’s book claim that Trump gave Xi tacit approval to throw Muslims in concentration camps.
Party of religious freedom, faith and life, folks. https://t.co/wUBpOFQd7I— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) June 21, 2020
re: #14 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
fwiw
Bolton told the Daily Telegraph that he plans to vote for Joe Biden
We don’t want him:
.@AmbJohnBolton is NOT voting for @JoeBiden: pic.twitter.com/ht3Jto1fF0
— Ben Siegel (@benyc) June 22, 2020
Wow, Ken Griffey Jr. had a really damn good reason to never play for the Yankees.
“Look at third base.” pic.twitter.com/2v7DoBYyYC— Roger Cormier (@yayroger) June 22, 2020
John Bolton really wants Martha Raddatz to know that while he may be a warmonger and an ethnocentrist, he doesn’t subscribe to Donald Trump’s particular brand of overt racial division.
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) June 22, 2020
The only problem he and many Republicans have is the overt part.
Lincoln project is on it
12 = a dozen
144 = a gross
6200 = a @parscale— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 21, 2020
Moved from the previous thread because I am way behind:
re: #77 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The police viewing “Black Lives Matter” as an insult or challenge that must be painted over repeatedly are showing further that they just don’t get it.
I’m pretty sure they get it, and that’s exactly why they’re doing it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaHAHA pic.twitter.com/Ejfbj2DJcy — Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) June 21, 2020
re: #17 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“Look at third base.”
I knew that was gonna be about Nettles.
President Trump “was stunned, and he yelled at aides backstage while looking at the endless rows of empty blue seats in the upper bowl of the stadium, according to four people familiar with what took place.” https://t.co/8c6Jx0z3rz
— David Gura (@davidgura) June 21, 2020
Oh yeah, I can easily imagine Trump had an absolute fit after that blunder. That MAGA flop must’ve been a serious narcissistic injury, especially after his lickspittles told him the Tulsa rally was “gonna be yuge!!”
re: #25 Dr Lizardo
And Parscale was MIA during the event. That’s his campaign manager.
And Jared was MIA as well. That’s his shadow campaign manager. The two of ‘em were MIA because they knew this was going to be a shit show and didn’t want to be in the room where it happened.
Why? Because Trump would fire’em? They’re both incompetent hacks, but Jared’s seen as indispensible by Trump - mostly because he tells Trump what he wants to hear, and because he’s schtupping Trump’s daughter that Trump lusts after.
Parscale is expendible, but not before Parscale can get off a final grift on the grifter Trump.
Let ‘em all fight it out - and I hope for a 20-30 point blowout at the polls, and a landslide of epic proportions.
“You know, whoever hired Bolton should get fired.”
— John Bolton, in a USA Today interview, when asked about President Trump calling him a “sick customer,” a “dope” and “washed up guy
re: #26 lawhawk
And Parscale was MIA during the event. That’s his campaign manager.
And Jared was MIA as well. That’s his shadow campaign manager. The two of ‘em were MIA because they knew this was going to be a shit show and didn’t want to be in the room where it happened.
Why? Because Trump would fire’em? They’re both incompetent hacks, but Jared’s seen as indispensible by Trump - mostly because he tells Trump what he wants to hear, and because he’s schtupping Trump’s daughter that Trump lusts after.
Parscale is expendible, but not before Parscale can get off a final grift on the grifter Trump.
Let ‘em all fight it out - and I hope for a 20-30 point blowout at the polls, and a landslide of epic proportions.
They weren’t there because the yelling would have been audible from the ISS, even with the vacuum-of-space gap.
What’s the significance of Graig Nettle’s son at 3rd base to Griffey? That he was about out?
Welp
GoFundMe Suspends Candace Owens After She Repeatedly Trashes George Floyd https://t.co/IFWdnLR2nz
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 22, 2020
re: #31 Patricia Kayden
Welp
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Well we know what the Three Stooges on Fox and Fiends will be whining about tomorrow morning…
re: #31 Patricia Kayden
Looks like the free hand of the market just flipped her the bird. 😄
re: #33 Dr Lizardo
Looks like the free hand of the market just flipped her the bird. 😄
Yes but Robert and RebeKKKah Mercer will continue to put Wingnut Welfare Cash in KKKandy’s bank account.
But the day will come when the Mercers cut her off the same way they cut Milo off.
BTW Milo’s husband split from him yet?
re: #27 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
“You know, whoever hired Bolton should get fired.”
— John Bolton, in a USA Today interview, when asked about President Trump calling him a “sick customer,” a “dope” and “washed up guy
Bolton is a warmongering fanatic who should not be permitted to hold any governmental office, but I don’t recall that he had a reputation as a liar or racist. Certainly he would shade information if it would help him promote conflict against whatever nation he perceived as a foe. But in any dispute between Trump and him about the veracity of his claims, I’d go with Bolton. Indeed, in any factual dispute between Bolton and any current member of the Trump administration or anyone loyal to Trump, I’d go with Bolton.
re: #35 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yes but Robert and RebeKKKah Mercer will continue to put Wingnut Welfare Cash in KKKandy’s bank account.
But the day will come when the Mercers cut her off the same way they cut Milo off.
BTW Milo’s husband split from him yet?
Sooner or later, her Uncle Ruckus shtick won’t be able to pay the bills.
re: #37 Dr Lizardo
Sooner or later, her Uncle Ruckus shtick won’t be able to pay the bills.
I expect she’ll be yesterday’s news soon enough and write about how “shocked” she was that the GOP is in fact racist.
re: #36 Hecuba’s daughter
Bolton is a warmongering fanatic who should not be permitted to hold any governmental office, but I don’t recall that he had a reputation as a liar or racist. Certainly he would shade information if it would help him promote conflict against whatever nation he perceived as a foe. But in any dispute between Trump and him about the veracity of his claims, I’d go with Bolton. Indeed, in any factual dispute between Bolton and any current member of the Trump administration or anyone loyal to Trump, I’d go with Bolton.
Are you forgetting he was a birther?
Amazing how many conservatives are upset by one porn actress who continues to beat Tang the Conqueror in court.
And…? https://t.co/vRdbKv8a5N
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) June 22, 2020
re: #39 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Are you forgetting he was a birther?
I don’t recall ever hearing about his involvement in birtherism at all.
re: #30 BigPapa
What’s the significance of Graig Nettle’s son at 3rd base to Griffey? That he was about out?
Impression I got is both Griffeys saw a double standard with the younger Nettles able to take infield while Jr wasn’t allowed in the dugout.
re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter
I don’t recall ever hearing about his involvement in birtherism at all.
I swear I remember it. Maybe I’m wrong but he definitely pushed the crap about Obama hating America because of his racial background.
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Amazing how many conservatives are upset by one porn actress who continues to beat Tang the Conqueror in court.
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I read Tang the Conqueror and now I got to wipe my monitor screen!
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Amazing how many conservatives are upset by one porn actress who continues to beat Tang the Conqueror in court.
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Trump’s a bigger slut than Stormy. Stormy never compared her STDs to Vietnam.
re: #44 Joe Bacon 🌹
DAMN!
I read Tang the Conqueror and now I got to wipe my monitor screen!
I was just chuckling at that too. Well played.
re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter
I don’t recall ever hearing about his involvement in birtherism at all.
An example:
[Pamela] Geller and [Richard] Spencer’s anti-Muslim track record didn’t deter Bolton from enjoying a warm public relationship with the duo after his departure from government service in 2006. Bolton has been interviewed multiple times on camera by Geller since 2009 and he strongly endorsed her and Spencer’s 2010 book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America.
Bolton even wrote the foreword for the book, concluding:
This book carries forward the ongoing and increasingly widespread critique of Barack Obama as our first post-American president. What it recounts is disturbing, and its broader implications are more disturbing still. Most Americans believe they elect a president who will vigorously represent their global interest, rather than electing a Platonic guardian who defends them only when they comport with his grander visions of a just world. Foreign leaders, whether friend or foe, expect the same. If, by contrast, Obama continues to behave as a post-American president, our adversaries will know exactly what to do. [Emphasis mine.]
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John Bolton’s Cozy Relationship With Anti-Muslim Hate Groups Should Disqualify Him From Public Service (The Nation, 14 DEC 2016)
re: #30 BigPapa
What’s the significance of Graig Nettle’s son at 3rd base to Griffey? That he was about out?
re: #42 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Impression I got is both Griffeys saw a double standard with the younger Nettles able to take infield while Jr wasn’t allowed in the dugout.
It’s pretty crystal clear to me; the Nettles were white, the Griffeys were black, and security was there on Steinbrenner’s orders to get Junior out of the dugout while the younger Nettle was allowed on the field and taking balls from the players.
re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter
I don’t recall ever hearing about his involvement in birtherism at all.
Bolton did a radio appearance on a Birther’s World Nut Daily broadcast.
I cannot stress this enough: There is always next year. https://t.co/YjFJKOJZhG
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 19, 2020
Major League Baseball is temporarily shutting down every single spring training facility for a deep cleaning after several players tested positive for COVID-19. https://t.co/Gi5Cn9wjkd
— AP Sports (@AP_Sports) June 20, 2020
why in god’s name were they practicing in florida are there any adults left https://t.co/phQSOGNoVG
— kilgore trout, a ramp with no steps (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 19, 2020
For the second time in 3 months we need the NBA to take the lead, cancel their season and shake the rest of us out of apathy. https://t.co/yaBlWUXsq7
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 19, 2020
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
An example:
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John Bolton’s Cozy Relationship With Anti-Muslim Hate Groups Should Disqualify Him From Public Service (The Nation, 14 DEC 2016)
Yeah I knew I remembered him doing this.
re: #48 TedStriker
It’s pretty crystal clear to me; the Nettles were white, the Griffeys were black, and security was there on Steinbenner’s orders to get Junior out of the dugout while the younger Nettle was allowed on the field and taking balls from the players.
That’s the impression I got too. Loved Griffey Jr. My favorite non Oriole growing up.
re: #36 Hecuba’s daughter
Bolton is a warmongering fanatic who should not be permitted to hold any governmental office, but I don’t recall that he had a reputation as a liar or racist. Certainly he would shade information if it would help him promote conflict against whatever nation he perceived as a foe. But in any dispute between Trump and him about the veracity of his claims, I’d go with Bolton. Indeed, in any factual dispute between Bolton and any current member of the Trump administration or anyone loyal to Trump, I’d go with Bolton.
I don’t know about racist, but he’s definitely virulently Islamophobic and associates with extremists like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, and with hate groups like the Gatestone Institute.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
I don’t know about racist, but he’s definitely virulently Islamophobic and associates with extremists like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, and with hate groups like the Gatestone Institute.
Way I look at it especially considering his snide remarks at the Congressional Dems for “impeachment malpractice” while he sat on his ass knowing this book would pay him, he can fuck off with Trump. I believe what he alleges about Trump is true. That he did nothing about it is a great illustration of who he is along with the aforementioned palling with Spencer and Geller.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
An example:
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John Bolton’s Cozy Relationship With Anti-Muslim Hate Groups Should Disqualify Him From Public Service (The Nation, 14 DEC 2016)
re: #43 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I swear I remember it. Maybe I’m wrong but he definitely pushed the crap about Obama hating America because of his racial background.
Bolton definitely hates Iran and detested Obama’s foreign policy, but I have never recalled that his objections to Obama had any personal racial component to them, unlike, for example, Newt Gingrich’s antipathy to Obama.
re: #38 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I expect she’ll be yesterday’s news soon enough and write about how “shocked” she was that the GOP is in fact racist.
Yeah, I could easily see her doing that. Having a sudden epiphany about the GOP’s racism and crying, “they used me!” Then she’ll look for a new set of marks for her grifting.
Maybe you should actually take a look at that statue. You might understand why the Museum of Natural History is in favor of removing it. https://t.co/7Q7nF2Z2IG
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 22, 2020
re: #55 Hecuba’s daughter
Bolton definitely hates Iran and detested Obama’s foreign policy, but I have never recalled that his objections to Obama had any personal racial component to them, unlike, for example, Newt Gingrich’s antipathy to Obama.
I think you’re being way too generous to him. A lot of the shit directed at Obama was because of his background. Bolton wasn’t criticizing Obama’s policy with Geller and Spencer, he was pushing the ugly lie that Obama being a first generation Kenyan-American meant he wasn’t really American and he harbored anti American ideology. How’s that not racist as shit?
re: #56 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, I could easily see her doing that. Having a sudden epiphany about the GOP’s racism and crying, “they used me!” Then she’ll look for a new set of marks for her grifting.
Yeah I expect it at some point. She doesn’t really have a coherent ideology except to make white conservatives feel better for being bigots because a young, Black woman says what they think.
This is the statue you’re defending. pic.twitter.com/IT8fyej64h
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 22, 2020
re: #53 Charles Johnson
I don’t know about racist, but he’s definitely virulently Islamophobic and associates with extremists like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, and with hate groups like the Gatestone Institute.
I definitely agree with that assessment.
re: #61 Charles Johnson
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There are better statues of him they could have. I like how statues and monuments are supposed to be here forever which is why the Eastern Bloc never took down their Communist statues.
re: #63 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There are better statues of him they could have. I like how statues and monuments are supposed to be here forever which is why the Eastern Bloc never took down their Communist statues.
Or the statues of Saddam that didn’t get pulled down when we “liberated” Iraq.
New York Times Pitch Bot: “Is White Savior Racism Truly Racism?”
re: #61 Charles Johnson
Republicans don’t have any sort of nuance or interpretive skills.
Yikes.
Talladega, Alabama: NASCAR says a noose has been found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace at the race in Talladega.
NASCAR - long perceived as a bastion of white male conservatism - announced earlier this month that it would ban the Confederate battle flag or “Southern Cross” from its races because many see it as a symbol of racism.
Wallace is the only full-time Black driver in NASCAR’s elite Cup Series. Two weeks ago, he successfully pushed for the association to ban the Confederate flag at its tracks and properties.
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Well, this turned into international news quickly. More at the Sydney Morning Herald.
‘Despicable’: noose founds in NASCAR black driver Bubba Wallace’s garage
Narrator: This is not the shit that gets Trump re-elected.
re: #64 TedStriker
Or the statues of Saddam that didn’t get pulled down when we “liberated” Iraq.
Seriously. And considering how much fucking Republicans love to cut education, I don’t want to hear it from them about forgetting history. They ignore history every chance they get.
Wife: What are you reading?
Me: #JohnBolton’s book.
Wife: Did you get an advanced copy?
Me:…sure, let’s go with that.— Antifa Air Force Commander (@aceoaces) June 22, 2020
re: #68 jaunte
Narrator: This is not the shit that gets Trump re-elected.
I mean TR’s own great grandson thinks it should go. As I said, acting like we need to keep every statue in ever is stupid. Maybe we should build new statues and memorials.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yikes.
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Well, this turned into international news quickly. More at the Sydney Morning Herald.
‘Despicable’: noose founds in NASCAR black driver Bubba Wallace’s garage
Should I assume that NASCAR has extensive video surveillance, and they’ll be able to quickly identify the perpetrator?
re: #72 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Public art like this was intended to deliver a message about who’s supposed to be in the saddle.
re: #61 Charles Johnson
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Both of those figures are heroic and need their own space.
Mystery Solved For Football Sized Antarctica Fossil https://t.co/iV9EFRs3kr pic.twitter.com/zoYRyB28Ob
— Reg Saddler (@zaibatsu) June 22, 2020
re: #54 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Way I look at it especially considering his snide remarks at the Congressional Dems for “impeachment malpractice” while he sat on his ass knowing this book would pay him, he can fuck off with Trump. I believe what he alleges about Trump is true. That he did nothing about it is a great illustration of who he is along with the aforementioned palling with Spencer and Geller.
Geller and Spencer are both birthers. Bolton knew that, yet wrote a forward for their book.
It’s similar to the question “are you a racist if you endorse a racist?” I would argue if you endorse a birther, you are too.
And yet it’s not just Teddy in that statue, is it? Please address his subservient companions in context and make your case to keep it.
— Manksy (@TheManksy) June 22, 2020
re: #79 Rightwingconspirator
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re: #73 sagehen
Should I assume that NASCAR has extensive video surveillance, and they’ll be able to quickly identify the perpetrator?
We can hope so. I imagine surveillance around the maintenance garages for the racers and their teams is pretty tight, because there are a lot of douchecanoes, and the equipment and cars are very expensive.
As to whether they can identify who did it, I suppose that depends on if it is someone from another racing team or a NASCAR fan. If it’s from another team, they should be able to identify the person quickly. If a fan, maybe not.
re: #73 sagehen
Should I assume that NASCAR has extensive video surveillance, and they’ll be able to quickly identify the perpetrator?
I think you could make that assumption. We’re talking about expensive cars parked back there, plus NASCAR keeps an eye on things to make sure people aren’t cheating.
NASCAR is not happy about this at all, and it comes after a day when people flew the loser flag over Talladega and drove it around the outside of the superspeedway, since it was banned around two weeks ago.
Vehicles lining the boulevard outside of Talladega Superspeedway waved the Confederate flag after NASCAR banned the flag from being displayed at its events.
https://t.co/wOGByOjgAl— ESPN (@espn) June 21, 2020
W
Blergh. Apparently the Mayor of Phoenix (aka not my mayor, I live in Mesa) is not going to enforce the mask proclamation at the Tuesday coronapalooza.
*drily* not that their security & rent a cops were wearing masks today when they came down to check on me when I was protesting the location. (pictured: one @dreamcitychurch security guard and two city of Phoenix cops) C’mon @MayorGallego you can do better than this. pic.twitter.com/hoqo4WF7rb
— Dee “I’m not Mrs. Holmes, that’s my mom” Holmes (@mmmirele) June 22, 2020
Look, we allied with Stalin to stop Hitler. We can put up with Steve Schmidt for a few months.
— Antifa Air Force Commander (@aceoaces) June 22, 2020
re: #87 Ace-o-aces
To borrow a Reagan line:
Trust but verify.
Assuming Biden wins in November, the question will be what the Never Trumpers do in subsequent elections. Do they continue to go after the Trump bootlickers? Do they oppose the Cottons and Rubios and Cruzes in 2024? Or do they pretend it is back to business as usual?
My hope is that there are at least a few who will continue the fight.
And there’s a reason why. https://t.co/r1xurrJoEa
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) June 22, 2020
re: #85 mmmirele
Blergh. Apparently the Mayor of Phoenix (aka not my mayor, I live in Mesa) is not going to enforce the mask proclamation at the Tuesday coronapalooza.
Mayor Gallego was one of the people who pushed Governor Douchy to permit the city to impose mask requirements and other needed measures.
I’m guessing she’s afraid of a Christian backlash by imposing them on a church.
A good Last Week Tonight. Prison releases for Covid-19.
re: #324 retired cynic
Good job!
Thanks. I have a lot of other information sent to me from various people who were friends of my father at the time which I have not added to the shadowbox because it doesn’t really fit.
I learned a lot more about my father’s service posting his shadowbox than I ever did from either the Navy or my mother.
My own shadowbox has a little more information about my father (but to be fair, it’s mostly about me).
My sister also has a shadowbox at Army Together We Served.
My Shadowbox at Navy Together We Served
I had it made into a poster to display in my house (why yes, I have what recruiters call a “love me” wall).
re: #83 mmmirele
I think you could make that assumption. We’re talking about expensive cars parked back there, plus NASCAR keeps an eye on things to make sure people aren’t cheating.
NASCAR is not happy about this at all, and it comes after a day when people flew the loser flag over Talladega and drove it around the outside of the superspeedway, since it was banned around two weeks ago.
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Surely there are security cameras in/around Bubba Wallace garage. Let’s see the video… does the rope appear on video, when does it appear, who comes & goes… oh, BTW- Jussie Smollett… https://t.co/9QTGBjXXUm— Grizzly Joe 🇺🇸🇮🇱 #CPAC2021 2/24-27 (@GrizzlyJoeShow) June 22, 2020
MAGAts already calling Bubba Wallace another Jussie Smollett.
re: #100 DodgerFan1988
MAGAts already calling Bubba Wallace another Jussie Smollett.
And if that’s the case, NASCAR will call him out for that.
As for “release the Kraken video,” they will only do that after any criminal or internal investigation is complete.
Fuqueyoo asshat.
It’s gonna be packed with boomers anyway let’s goooo someone gotta have the rona..
— yohaun5 (@yohaun51) June 22, 2020
re: #324 retired cynic
Good job!
The P-3 Orion my father was a crewmember aboard was the only P-3 ever shot down in combat.
One of the weird pieces of information which I received came from the squadron historian.
It turns out when the Navy and Lockheed were developing the EP-3E electronic warfare version of the aircraft, the prototype was “disguised” using the BUNO (Navy Bureau of Aeronautics serial number for an aircraft) of his aeroplane. There are numerous photographs and reports of the prototype EP-3E with the BUNO of his aeroplane flying up-and-down the East Coast while the Navy was evaluating Lockheed’s prototype.
The Navy eventually accepted the aeroplane into service. The other weirdness of all that was I worked on EP-3E equipment while I was stationed at NAS Rota.
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Why Grant?
smithsonianmag.com
Ulysses S. Grant Launched an Illegal War Against the Plains Indians, Then Lied About It
The president promised peace with Indians — and covertly hatched the plot that provoked one of the bloodiest conflicts in the West
He stole South Dakota (and parts of Wyoming and Montana) from the Lakota, in violation of the 1868 Laramie Treaty. Because there was gold there.
Extremely local news:
After our failed attempt to take photographs from the summit of Scott’s Bluff National Monument, I tried out a different battery charger for our camera.
It turns out the charger I was using is bad. The new charger fully charged the camera battery we used at the time.
Next time we go out for a drive or an appointment, I’ll be able to upload new pictures of our area.
Photos show devastation unleashed on terror leaders by sword-carrying ‘Ninja bomb’ (Military Times)
Well, this sounds terrifying.
Detailed reports first surfaced in 2019 of the existence of a precision warhead equipped with six sword-like blades that allow the missile to cut through buildings or cars with ease.
The weapon had been in use for some time, reports claimed, with development dating back as far as 2011 under former President Barack Obama. It wasn’t until 2019, however, that over a dozen current and former U.S. officials discussed the vicious attributes of the R9X — also known as “the flying Ginsu” or “ninja bomb” — a non-explosive munition that was spawned from the widely used Hellfire missile.
The R9X, which deploys its six fixed blades in a halo seconds before impact, is believed to have been designed with the intent of eliminating high-value targets while drastically reducing the risk of collateral damage, traits multiple officials believe should have been publicly disclosed years ago to illustrate a willingness to minimize civilian deaths in densely populated urban centers in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia or Yemen.
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The missile is alleged to be able to target a driver of a car who is a military target, while sparing the passenger of the same car (assuming it doesn’t crash).
The military alleges this missile will substantially reduce “collateral damage” (unassociated civilians killed).
Soldiers celebrate ‘breaking the chains’ at inaugural Juneteenth celebration at Camp Humphreys (Stars & Stripes)
CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — Nearly 1,000 people turned out for a celebration here Friday that aimed to raise awareness about the day the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas, to tell African Americans slaves they had been freed.
Juneteenth is not a federal holiday but is celebrated with gatherings and festivals in Texas and many other states.
Army Maj. Ryan Vandrovec, an intelligence officer for the 2nd Infantry Division, said he had never heard of Juneteenth, even though he gave Black History Month lessons as a high school teacher in Florida.
“I’m from Miami, where it is super multicultural,” he said during the event, which featured historical readings, music, food and games. “It was just never brought up down there.”
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re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Photos show devastation unleashed on terror leaders by sword-carrying ‘Ninja bomb’ (Military Times)
Well, this sounds terrifying.
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The missile is alleged to be able to target a driver of a car who is a military target, while sparing the passenger of the same car (assuming it doesn’t crash).
The military alleges this missile will substantially reduce “collateral damage” (unassociated civilians killed).
This can’t be far behind:
Troops would see 3 percent pay raise, more child care and family support programs under House plan
Dead on arrival in the Senate. Republicans do not care about people. They are conservatives; they care about power. Child care for the troops does not expand their power. (Military Times)
Union Votes Strike At Bath Iron Works; Destroyer Fleet At Risk (Breaking Defense)
WASHINGTON: Some 4,300 shipyard workers at a Maine shipyard voted Sunday to strike, stopping work on six new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, and the last of three Zumwalt destroyers.
Members of the Machinists’ Union Local S6 will put down their tools at midnight Sunday, after 87 percent of them voted to reject a three-year contract from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works to keep the shipyard running.
The union members rejected what the company called its “last, best, and final” offer last week. The company’s proposal would have given the production workers a yearly 3 percent raise, but the sticking point for the union was the hiring of subcontractors, and a proposal to change preferences for shifts and locations that the union saw as an assault on seniority. But the Local S6 union posted on their Website: “We are officially on strike. Stand strong. United we’re one. Divided we’re done!”
The six destroyers and Zumwalt in the docks at Bath are already six months behind schedule, according to BIW President Dirk Lesko. It’s hard to estimate the strike’s effects since we don’t know how long it will last.
General Dynamics offered a 3% pay rise each year for three years. The union’s concerns are over subcontracting work and Covid-19.
Readiness concerns have also led the Navy to take the unprecedented step of calling up over 1,600 Reservists earlier this month to fill labor shortages at shipyards repairing aircraft carriers and submarines in a desperate effort to get them back out to sea as soon as possible.
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Opened YouTube to look for ideas for the closed discussion group on religion I run for an international organisation.
Search term “atheism.”
Chock full of Christian, Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish apologetics videos blaming everything from societal moral decay to Covid-19 (that was Catholics) on atheism.
Apologists from every major faith say the solution is to either jail or kill us.[click]
Thank you Senator Hunt.
Sending big love today, too, to everyone who is hurting today because their dad isn’t in their life for whatever reason, and to the dads who don’t have their children in their lives. Illness, violence, incarceration…Sending love and peace for you all. ❤️🧡💛
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) June 22, 2020
re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Opened YouTube to look for ideas for the closed discussion group on religion I run for an international organisation.
Search term “atheism.”
Chock full of Christian, Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish apologetics videos blaming everything from societal moral decay to Covid-19 (that was Catholics) on atheism.
Apologists from every major faith say the solution is to either jail or kill us.[click]
Because we are a threat to their claims to authority; moral, political and economic.
Interesting.
Morning Consult has Ben Sasse (R-NE) at a 45% approval and 35% disapproval.
Tough hill to climb, but that 20% undecided could in theory be flipped. They’ll have to decide one way or another.
It’s really hurting the Nebraska Dems right now that Chris Janicek is still refusing to withdraw. The party is united behind Alisha Shelton (the second-place candidate in the primary). He has until August 3 to withdraw from the ballot to allow the NDP to substitue Ms. Shelton in his place on the ballot.
The party has entirely withdrawn its support from Mr. Janicek. I don’t see how he can continue a campaign for US Senate against the incumbent Sen. Sasse.
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Interesting.
Morning Consult has Ben Sasse (R-NE) at a 45% approval and 35% disapproval.
Tough hill to climb, but that 20% undecided could in theory be flipped. They’ll have to decide one way or another.
It’s really hurting the Nebraska Dems right now that Chris Janicek is still refusing to withdraw. The party is united behind Alisha Shelton (the second-place candidate in the primary). He has until August 3 to withdraw from the ballot to allow the NDP to substitue Ms. Shelton in his place on the ballot.
The party has entirely withdrawn its support from Mr. Janicek. I don’t see how he can continue a campaign for US Senate against the incumbent Sen. Sasse.
Sounds like she is indirectly supporting Sasse by staying in the race.
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sounds like she is indirectly supporting Sasse by staying in the race.
Chris Janicek is a man.
He seems to think that because he won the primary (before the horrendous sexual harassment recording of one of his staffers came out) he deserves to stay on the ballot.
Chris Janicek ran in the Democratic Caucus before (against Deb Fischer) and lost to Jane Raybould.
Already the Libertarian Party candidate is running print attack ads against Janicek.
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Photos show devastation unleashed on terror leaders by sword-carrying ‘Ninja bomb’ (Military Times)
Well, this sounds terrifying.
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The missile is alleged to be able to target a driver of a car who is a military target, while sparing the passenger of the same car (assuming it doesn’t crash).
The military alleges this missile will substantially reduce “collateral damage” (unassociated civilians killed).
Seen plenty of images of vehicles post strike. No one is walking away unscathed. Unless it was a large model American car. And, I haven’t seen one of those yet.
First image I saw a few years ago I assumed they had used a training round with no warhead, or it had failed to detonate.
The covid-19 superspreader tour! https://t.co/65Jc3gVapV
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 22, 2020
Gotta confess, I don’t care if the numbers are accurate. People should flood twitter with them. Look what all the chatter about the ramp and water glass accomplished
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH #@realDonaldTrump #TrumpTulsaRally #Trumprally https://t.co/8HT6n9VTzI pic.twitter.com/iCNBXFnnqE
— Debra Messing✍🏻 (@DebraMessing) June 22, 2020
re: #119 NO SMOCKING GUN!
In Phoenix, and the mayor has decided not to enforce the mask requirement.
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In Phoenix, and the mayor has decided not to enforce the mask requirement.
I hope it flops as badly as the Tulsa rally.
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I love Stormy. She gives as good as she takes. It’s hilarious to read Trump supporters attacking her and ignoring the fact that we wouldn’t even know her name had Trump not cheated on his wife with her. He’s the adulterer after all.
re: #123 Patricia Kayden
I love Stormy. She gives as good as she takes. It’s hilarious to read Trump supporters attacking her and ignoring the fact that we wouldn’t even know her name had Trump not cheated on his wife with her. He’s the adulterer after all.
From her campaign for Senate against David Vitter that ended with her campaign manager’s car being blown up:
In April 2010, Daniels finally declared herself a Republican candidate. Her decision was inspired by disclosures that the Republican National Committee (RNC) had paid expenses for fundraisers at a “lesbian bondage themed nightclub” in Los Angeles, stating that the revelations “finally tipped the scales”. She explained that the RNC’s use of party funds for sex convinced her that Republicans represented her libertarian values best: Daniels said she has been a registered Democrat throughout her life, “But now I cannot help but recognize that over time my libertarian values regarding both money and sex and the legal use of one for the other is now best espoused by the Republican Party.”
re: #125 Patricia Kayden
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My parents made an accidental right-wing faux pas when they were talking about some random topic, I can’t remember which off the top of my head, and my mom says, “Your comfort is not as important as my safety.” I almost looked at her and said, “So wear the damn face masks.”
re: #122 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I hope it flops as badly as the Tulsa rally.
They are going to do everything to assure that it is somewhat less of an abject failure and then hype as Trump, the “Comeback Kid”.
re: #126 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
My parents made an accidental right-wing faux pas when they were talking about some random topic, I can’t remember which off the top of my head, and my mom says, “Your comfort is not as important as my safety.” I almost looked at her and said, “So wear the damn face masks.”
There is no logic to their utterances, just a series of disconnected, self-contained talking points.
A Christian fighting against “tyranny” (masks for Covid-19). She wants to “educate” you on the laws which protect you (i.e.—none), the trials and tribulations Christians are going through being publicly “harassed” (held responsible).
She is a “wellness educator” and an opponent of “medical terrorism” (she’s a libertarian).
First: Don’t speak to anyone wearing a mask, it’s discrimination, menacing, and a a “demonic device.” Whinge “Ma-ma-I cannot hear” to force them to take off the mask in a store to talk to you.
Gaa.
(12:05, caution for brain-cell death)
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Whinge “Ma-ma-I cannot hear” to force them to take off the mask in a store to talk to you.
Well, I suppose if someone tried to pull that on me, my response (through a face mask, of course) would be a rather curt, “Blow it out your ass” and if she still didn’t hear me then it gets elevated to me yelling, “Perhaps you don’t parlez the Anglais. Go fuck yourself. Can you hear me now?”
You know, don’t you, why “conservatives” don’t wear masks?
Halitosis. They can’t handle their own breath.
We have to teach them to wash their hands, AND brush their teeth, and wear a mask!
Trump has made it clear that he disapproves of masks and they want to make it clear to the world how much they love Trump.
What an odd scene! Displaying Chinese National Flags on a negotiating table without China’s consent!
Good luck on the extension of the New START!
Wonder how LOW you can go?— Fu Cong 傅聪 (@FuCong17) June 22, 2020
re: #133 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
This is not a real photo from the talks: as Kommersant learned the Russian delegation objected to Chinese flags in the absence of Chinese, so the US made this pic and then removed ALL flags before the meeting started https://t.co/ZetZOiURUt https://t.co/DYaE5e7JUN
— Elena Chernenko (@ElenaChernenko) June 22, 2020
Iran is now a bit over a week into their second wave. Maybe not as deadly as the first wave, but time will tell.
moron sounds upset
Barr: Mail-in Ballots ‘Absolutely Opens the Floodgates to Fraud‘ https://t.co/vd4AD3EPb0 via @BreitbartNews. This will be the Election disaster of our time. Mail-In Ballots will lead to a RIGGED ELECTION!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2020
RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2020
re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron sounds upset
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As usual, whatever they’re screaming about, odds are generally good that’s what they’re planning to do.
There are two types of people: people who say it’s too hot, and people who tell those people to shush
— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) June 22, 2020
re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth
RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!
just setting the narrative to explain his defeat, and grounds to deny it…
re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If that is the case, then I want them to propose elimination of the ability for mail in ballots for all states that currently do it. See how that flies.
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
just setting the narrative to explain his defeat, and grounds to deny it…
Nailed it.
re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #141 Dr Lizardo
Breaking. Bond villain accidentally exposes his own plan on twitter https://t.co/dtijTvjWCK
— Dan Kaszeta (@DanKaszeta) June 22, 2020
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are going to do everything to assure that it is somewhat less of an abject failure and then hype as Trump, the “Comeback Kid”.
thats reaching for the stars
When they finally break, the bulk of Trumpisti will be unforgiving. There will be no comeback. The question is: Will they break in time?
A redditor provided this link to the Charity Navigator list of trusted/effective civil rights funds. Because of their vetting process, it tends to be the more established resources.
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Here in Southern Maryland, she wouldn’t be allowed in any place of business without a mask. If she doesn’t want to wear a mask, she can just stay home. Simple.
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Why Grant?
When Grant got married, his father-in-law gave him a slave. Grant kept him for a year and then freed him. He also worked with the slave out in the fields on his farm.
re: #17 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I’m a true blue Yankee fan, and looking back, to see how George treated black players and their families was disgraceful. That he treated Junior so poorly and differently from Greg Nettles’ kid, is nuts.
Now imagine had Steinbrenner done the right thing and treated Griffey and his son properly? Who knows what would have happened. Junior might never have gone to Seattle. He might have seen NYC as the place to be, not the place to destroy over his career - and he took delight in destroying us time and again. It was a sight to behold - that was one of the sweetest swings I’ve ever seen.
re: #149 Belafon
When Grant got married, his father-in-law gave him a slave. Grant kept him for a year and then freed him. He also worked with the slave out in the fields on his farm.
That history channel thing on Grant was excellent.
re: #98 danarchy
Apparently he owned a slave and released him before the Civil War
He didn’t own a slave so much as his wife inherited one from a relative. As I recall, Grant was deeply embarrassed about it and released the guy, as someone else mentioned.
let me point out something that might be over obvious to those quicker than me
it’s not that covid ‘is still here’ or that that covid ‘has not abated’, or that we’ll have to live with it, or whatever
it’s that at least a dozen states - florida, texas, arizona etc are setting records for new cases
and these records cannot be attributed to ‘more and better testing’
just check the ICU’s
even desantis finally admitted this
re: #150 lawhawk
I’m a true blue Yankee fan, and looking back, to see how George treated black players and their families was disgraceful. That he treated Junior so poorly and differently from Greg Nettles’ kid, is nuts.
Now imagine had Steinbrenner done the right thing and treated Griffey and his son properly? Who knows what would have happened. Junior might never have gone to Seattle. He might have seen NYC as the place to be, not the place to destroy over his career - and he took delight in destroying us time and again. It was a sight to behold - that was one of the sweetest swings I’ve ever seen.
Junior was going to Seattle anyhow (draft) but Steinbrenner’s actions ensured that the NYY would never be considered by Griffey in Free Agency or included in allowed teams in a no trade clause. And yeah that left handed swing. Cal Ripken was my childhood hero but we all loved Griffey.
I didn’t know about the territory grab by Grant, though, so I’ll have to add that to my list of problems with our predecessors.
re: #144 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
thats reaching for the stars
something that looks like less of an abject failure
re: #152 steve_davis
He didn’t own a slave so much as his wife inherited one from a relative. As I recall, Grant was deeply embarrassed about it and released the guy, as someone else mentioned.
This was a point repeatedly mentioned during a tour of Grant’s home in Missouri - White Haven. It’s explicitly mentioned on the NPS site and the enslaved blacks were from his wife’s family.
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A Christian fighting against “tyranny” (masks for Covid-19). She wants to “educate” you on the laws which protect you (i.e.—none), the trials and tribulations Christians are going through being publicly “harassed” (held responsible).
She is a “wellness educator” and an opponent of “medical terrorism” (she’s a libertarian).
First: Don’t speak to anyone wearing a mask, it’s discrimination, menacing, and a a “demonic device.” Whinge “Ma-ma-I cannot hear” to force them to take off the mask in a store to talk to you.
Gaa.
(12:05, caution for brain-cell death)
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re: #53 Charles Johnson
I don’t know about racist, but he’s definitely virulently Islamophobic and associates with extremists like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, and with hate groups like the Gatestone Institute.
Any quarrel between Trump and any of a long list of former fans like Bolton or Ann Colter without fail involves Donald in some aspect not being Nazi enough.
This tweet has more likes than any sent by Trump this year
Told ya’ll he exaggerates about the size of things.
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) June 21, 2020
6200. That could have been a Zoom meeting.
Same energy, minus the #coronavirus risk. https://t.co/Ozh77k6ixF— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) June 22, 2020
re: #153 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
let me point out something that might be over obvious to those quicker than me
it’s not that covid ‘is still here’ or that that covid ‘has not abated’, or that we’ll have to live with it, or whatever
it’s that at least a dozen states - florida, texas, arizona etc are setting records for new cases
and these records cannot be attributed to ‘more and better testing’
just check the ICU’s
even desantis finally admitted this
The states that rushed to reopen are the ones experiencing new daily records of cases, and they’re the ones who are seeing their ICU capacity getting stretched and hospitals filling up to capacity.
They ignored the lessons from NY metro area - and are determined to ignore all the death and misery here, by repeating all the mistakes and all the errors in judgment by Trump. They’re ignoring the health experts and ignoring the masking requirements and social distancing to stop and slow the spread.
That the death toll isn’t soaring is due to the doctors learning from what happened in NY and having a better idea of on treatment options, but the deaths are a trailing indicator, not a leading one. Cases are growing, and the deaths will follow.
Meanwhile, Brazil just crossed a million cases, Peru is following behind, and the deaths are climbing there as well.
This is all part of the first wave. And instead of bending the curve back down, the US has plateaued started rising again on both cases and deaths. That all rests with the fuckups in Trumpworld and Trumpists like Abbott and DeSantis.
Thomas Jefferson
1743 - 1826
Harriet Tubman
1822 - 1913
Ronald Reagan
1911 - 2004
History was not so very long ago.— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) June 21, 2020
re: #160 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
This tweet has more likes than any sent by Trump this year
She has the mockery game down pat.
Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group Kicked Off AmazonSmile, Will Have To Find New Way To Fund Bigotry (Wonkette)
The hate-group in question is Tony Perkins’s Family Research Council.
and although widespread protests also led to increased numbers of cases, there is little causal link, there are record cases in places where there were no large protests.
A good time to remember that Trump’s Press Secretary committed voter fraud by registering to vote using her parent’s address in Florida, even though she had a Jersey license and was living in DC.
And she has yet to be asked about it https://t.co/W0cM1xmDBQ— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) June 22, 2020
Last month Lindsey Graham told me that success for Trump in battling the pandemic would be limiting American deaths to 120 thousand. We’ve now crossed that line. https://t.co/1mYyC9Kf59
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 21, 2020
Tracking the pandemic: Some states have falling #coronavirus rates as others have begun to skyrocket. The contrast here between NY & AZ https://t.co/jlPLrmmNwK
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) June 21, 2020
As coronavirus infections continue to surge in Texas, Florida and Arizona, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said these states could begin to see cases rise exponentially this coming week pic.twitter.com/XuFjMUaAkN
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 22, 2020
re: #149 Belafon
When Grant got married, his father-in-law gave him a slave. Grant kept him for a year and then freed him. He also worked with the slave out in the fields on his farm.
Mrs. Grant owned a couple of slaves. According to her memoirs, one of them ran off (“She fell in love” said the romantic Mrs. Grant) but the other one was not freed until the 13th Amendment was passed.
re: #155 Belafon
I didn’t know about the territory grab by Grant, though, so I’ll have to add that to my list of problems with our predecessors.
For your list:
Pyramids at Gizeh
Aztec pyramids
Mayan pyramids
Great Wall
None of these were volunteer projects, so let’s get to it.
re: #157 lawhawk
This was a point repeatedly mentioned during a tour of Grant’s home in Missouri - White Haven. It’s explicitly mentioned on the NPS site and the enslaved blacks were from his wife’s family.
True. Old Colonel Dent (Julia Grant’s father) was a diehard slave owner and vigorous secessionist and pro-Confederate. He hated Grant (thought him a drunk and a failure and way beneath his daughter) - and after Grant became President, he moved to Washington where he would hang out at the White House making nasty comments about his son-in-law. He was about as bad a loudmouthed old asshole as Grant’s own father, just with added slavery.
Though I was curious about someone defacing a statue of Grant, if was BLM, I would think they would have needed to brush up on their history: outside of Lincoln, no 19th- Century US President backed more initiatives to actually help African-Americans, vs. either keeping them in bondage, or Ignoring their horrible disenfranchisement under Jim Crow.
But yes, Grant’s actions towards the Plains Indians were not particularly creditable. Not as overtly genocidal as some American leaders of the time, but still wrong
Supreme Court watch - just one case today, nothing earth shattering - equitable relief in an SEC proceeding.
We have just one SCOTUS opinion today, Liu v. SEC, which is not one of the blockbusters you are all waiting for. https://t.co/PvALbPFM38
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 22, 2020
This is projection like an IMAX IN OUTER SPACE. He already has the voting machines in red states “rigged” to malfunction, and much fewer of them.
Because of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, 2020 will be the most RIGGED Election in our nations history - unless this stupidity is ended. We voted during World War One & World War Two with no problem, but now they are using Covid in order to cheat by using Mail-Ins!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2020
I think that as far as the list of People Whose Monuments Need to be Toppled goes, Grant is pretty low on the list…
re: #172 The Pie Overlord!
Because of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, 2020 will be the most RIGGED Election in our nations history - unless this stupidity is ended. We voted during World War One & World War Two with no problem, but now they are using Covid in order to cheat by using Mail-Ins!
What the fuck is he on about WW1 and WW2? As if millions of GI’s did not vote by mail?
This is perfect. (Must have sound on!)
Your campaign was so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. pic.twitter.com/cfAAkGLttH
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 22, 2020
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think that as far as the list of People Whose Monuments Need to be Toppled goes, Grant is pretty low on the list…
A wave of iconoclasm has its own momentum. I’ve said we should use the Roman recycling process—make all monumental statues with interchangeable heads to keep up with the imperator of the moment.
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think that as far as the list of People Whose Monuments Need to be Toppled goes, Grant is pretty low on the list…
Grant’s low on that list, alongside TR, but the AMNH in NYC is looking to move the statue to Roosevelt away from the entrance. I think that’s a mistake - a plaque updating with the controversy and more information should be sufficient.
TR was one of the great conservationists in history - and his actions led to the formation of the national park system (though it also needs to be pointed out that national parks also involved appropriating lands meant for Native Americans). Those historical wrongs do need to be corrected in some fashion. We need to have a reckoning with the racist underpinnings to so much of what our nation did, how we shaped it, and how we operate today.
Historically bad take by Cato Institute - desegregation was the result of libertarian effort.
But for the robust federal govt intervention, desegregation of schools would not have happened. It took federal action to force state actors to stop discrimination and enforce voting rights.
All that hard work is still needed today as Trumpists have undermined govt protections— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 22, 2020
re: #177 lawhawk
Grant’s low on that list, alongside TR, but the AMNH in NYC is looking to move the statue to Roosevelt away from the entrance. I think that’s a mistake - a plaque updating with the controversy and more information should be sufficient.
TR was one of the great conservationists in history - and his actions led to the formation of the national park system (though it also needs to be pointed out that national parks also involved appropriating lands meant for Native Americans). Those historical wrongs do need to be corrected in some fashion. We need to have a reckoning with the racist underpinnings to so much of what our nation did, how we shaped it, and how we operate today.
How about replacing the statue of TR with a statue of Robin Williams as TR from “Night At The Museum”?
re: #177 lawhawk
Grant’s low on that list, alongside TR, but the AMNH in NYC is looking to move the statue to Roosevelt away from the entrance. I think that’s a mistake - a plaque updating with the controversy and more information should be sufficient.
TR was one of the great conservationists in history - and his actions led to the formation of the national park system (though it also needs to be pointed out that national parks also involved appropriating lands meant for Native Americans). Those historical wrongs do need to be corrected in some fashion. We need to have a reckoning with the racist underpinnings to so much of what our nation did, how we shaped it, and how we operate today.
After seeing the statue, it’s the two people with him that are the issue.
re: #181 Belafon
After seeing the statue, it’s the two people with him that are the issue.
TR’s descendants seem to agree.
A Schlapp in the face, by Judd Legum on popular.info.
Looks into Matt Schlapp’s deplorable history of racism and bigotry, and then details various companies that pay him big bucks to lobby for them in DC. He’s pushing them to drop him, and is starting to be successful. Verizon says they have terminated with him.
Maybe we should build a museum to the harms we committed and a lot of these statues can be part of it.
re: #181 Belafon
After seeing the statue, it’s the two people with him that are the issue.
If you just take away the damn horse, yer problem is solved.
“Racist” and “culturally offensive” images pulled from hugely popular trading card game https://t.co/hPNUxbARKh
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 22, 2020
Didn’t @TimScottSC vote *against* calling Bolton as a witness? #justchecking https://t.co/YgL9HR3h40
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) June 21, 2020
re: #179 lawhawk
Senator Rand Paul, who has self identified as Libertarian, is opposed to the Civil Rights Act because it forces private businesses to serve people of color. Libertarians are okay with discrimination.
re: #175 The Pie Overlord!
Your campaign was so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
This is his “please clap” moment…
re: #177 lawhawk
Grant’s low on that list, alongside TR, but the AMNH in NYC is looking to move the statue to Roosevelt away from the entrance. I think that’s a mistake - a plaque updating with the controversy and more information should be sufficient.
Just like pointing out that Grant did more than any other Union General to defeat the Confederate Army and and put an end to the Confederacy and slavery on US soil.
re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron sounds upset
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2020
Adam Schiff turns 60 today. Got an email from his campaign, signed by his wife, Eve. Yes, they’ve heard about that a time or two!
Someone pointed out that the Germans have two types of statues: a Denkmal (a memorial, from the word denken, to think) to honor a person or event, and a Mahnmal (more of a monument to serve as a warning or memorial of something to remembered, but not necessarily honored, from mahnen, to forewarn or exhort)
And I think that is what we need to do with a lot of these Mahnuments…contextualize them so people understand that we are not necessarily celebrating the history we are commemorating with them.
re: #192 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
He took time to press the shift key
and to hold it down for each new letter!!!
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tells the Associated Press she “would think very seriously about” trying to stop President Donald Trump from holding a rally in Michigan during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/gE4LL0P3lD
— Craig Mauger (@CraigDMauger) June 22, 2020
re: #197 The Pie Overlord!
She should say “any candidate”. DT’s supporters would be just as offended, but it would make her look more fair.
re: #181 Belafon
After seeing the statue, it’s the two people with him that are the issue.
Yes: discussions of the aesthetic ramifications of public art can get to be sticky at times, but in the era the AMNH Roosevelt monument was sculpted (1939, by James Earle Fraser) the flanking figures of the generic “African” and “Native American” were probably meant to be more of a symbolic hommage to Roosevelt’s career and contributions to the Museum, in the European-derived traditions of “heroic” public sculptured memorials*. That they would come to seen more as symbols of racism, colonialism and cultural mis-appropriation was probably not clearly foreseen at the time. The group should be moved, IMO, and replaced by some another sort of monument to TR, should one be thought to be required.
* Though Fraser, typically, added a specifically “American” touch to the composition by casually dressing Teddy as a Mexican bandito hunter, rather than the uniform, or formal dress common in European sculptural aesthetic.
re: #196 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
The problem with the second cartoon is that we didn’t stop the first wave. It’s still the first wave, and cases are building because Trumpists ignored the experts and wasted the past 5 months doing nothing to prepare for it. Instead of being on top of the situation, they’re enabling a longer duration high intensity pandemic before we even get to the second wave.
re: #150 lawhawk
I’m a true blue Yankee fan, and looking back, to see how George treated black players and their families was disgraceful. That he treated Junior so poorly and differently from Greg Nettles’ kid, is nuts.
Now imagine had Steinbrenner done the right thing and treated Griffey and his son properly? Who knows what would have happened. Junior might never have gone to Seattle. He might have seen NYC as the place to be, not the place to destroy over his career - and he took delight in destroying us time and again. It was a sight to behold - that was one of the sweetest swings I’ve ever seen.
This is one of the many reasons you should acknowledge the Dodgers’ inherent superiority. GO BLUE!
WaPo has Robert Costa doing live interviews with John Bolton on Tuesday and Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, both at 1pm ET. You can join the stream here: washingtonpost.com and request a reminder.
re: #201 sagehen
This is one of the many reasons you should acknowledge the Dodgers’ inherent superiority. GO BLUE!
I’m from Brooklyn and that’s a Hell to the Fucking No. They had a chance to have a stadium built where the Barclay’s Center now stands, and decided to go to California instead. Nope. Not doing it, even if the Dodgers broke the color barrier and supported integration.
re: #200 lawhawk
The problem with the second cartoon is that we didn’t stop the first wave. It’s still the first wave, and cases are building because Trumpists ignored the experts and wasted the past 5 months doing nothing to prepare for it. Instead of being on top of the situation, they’re enabling a longer duration high intensity pandemic before we even get to the second wave.
We’ve projected political boundaries on a bug that doesn’t know from state and national lines. In some places we have a second wave beginning, some are in a prolonged first wave, and in some places the virus hasn’t fairly started yet.
Things might get pretty ugly if we have to lock things down again for awhile.
Members of the @HispanicCaucus are on our way this morning to inspect two ICE detention centers in Texas following reports of family separation, forced labor and the spread of COVID-19 within the facilities during the pandemic.
They’ve been without oversight for 3 months.— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 22, 2020
re: #205 Eclectic Cyborg
Things might get pretty ugly if we have to lock things down again for awhile.
We’re not that smart, collectively.
re: #166 jaunte
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Will the DC Press Corpse ask Nazi Barbie about that bit o’ voter fraud?
Nope.
re: #208 Joe Bacon 🌹
Might lose access to hear the next laughable lie.
re: #207 Decatur Deb
We’re not that smart, collectively.
Not even close. Men In Black said it best: “People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals”
re: #210 Eclectic Cyborg
Not even close. Men In Black said it best: “People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals”
Our best and brightest were in the streets.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. MAGAKAGA https://t.co/4H4gkPIJjn
— Ed Bott (@edbott) June 22, 2020
re: #198 retired cynic
She should say “any candidate”. DT’s supporters would be just as offended, but it would make her look more fair.
Yes, they are going to dogpile on this…the same people who have fits of vapors over Black Lives Matter
re: #212 jaunte
And she will never lie to you.
re: #177 lawhawk
Grant’s low on that list, alongside TR, but the AMNH in NYC is looking to move the statue to Roosevelt away from the entrance. I think that’s a mistake - a plaque updating with the controversy and more information should be sufficient.
They already have an entire exhibit, IN THE MUSEUM, about the statue and why it’s problematic.
I assume this is the room they’ll be moving it to.
re: #215 retired cynic
All the red-faced screaming was just a fit of good spirits.
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The unregenerate old Imperialist Rudyard Kipling wrote a couple of science-fictional short stories (or scientific romances as they were called back then). The second, “As Easy As ABC” is about an outbreak of Democrats in a mostly-libertarian world which causes riots and disorder in and around Chicago. Part of the story involves a statue which was the sort of memorial intended as a warning to future generations.
“Chicago?” said Takahira. “That’s the little place where there is Salati’s Statue of the N***** in Flames. A fine bit of old work.”
“When did you see it?” asked De Forest quickly. “They only unveil it once a year.”
“I know. At Thanksgiving. It was then,” said Takahira, with a shudder. “And they sang MacDonough’s Song, too.”
“Whew!” De Forest whistled. “I did not know that! I wish you’d told me before. MacDonough’s Song may have had its uses when it was composed, but it was an infernal legacy for any man to leave behind.”
“It’s protective instinct, my dear fellows,’ said Pirolo, rolling a cigarette. “The Planet, she has had her dose of popular government. She suffers from inherited agoraphobia. She has no - ah - use for crowds.”
The whole story along with its predecessor “With the Night Mail” is on my friend Marcus Rowland’s “Forgotten Futures” website here.
re: #186 Patricia Kayden
And suddenly the original sets become very expensive collector’s items.
re: #216 sagehen
They already have an entire exhibit, IN THE MUSEUM, about the statue and why it’s problematic.
I assume this is the room they’ll be moving it to.
Though it’s called the Natural History museum, it’s as much a museum of ethnography and ethnohistory. The consequences of contact between traditional and technology-heavy cultures is totally in its charter.
re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What the fuck is he on about WW1 and WW2? As if millions of GI’s did not vote by mail?
Or like the Germans and Japanese were bombing our cities or something.
re: #222 Eventual Carrion
Or like the Germans and Japanese were bombing our cities or something.
After the Japanese invaded Poland and the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor…
re: #155 Belafon
I didn’t know about the territory grab by Grant, though, so I’ll have to add that to my list of problems with our predecessors.
I suggest you research it first. I don’t have time now, but a quick dive into Dee Brown does not support this. To say the least.
(This is why I draw the line at toppling Civil War traitors. Good riddance to them, but beyond that requires nuance, for which mobs are not noted. Did you know they allso defaced the Cervantes statue?)
re: #157 lawhawk
This was a point repeatedly mentioned during a tour of Grant’s home in Missouri - White Haven. It’s explicitly mentioned on the NPS site and the enslaved blacks were from his wife’s family.
The one exception being the one Grant freed — because he could.
re: #178 The Pie Overlord!
Or hero doggies. K9 and service pups. I could get behind that. Cleo agrees…
re: #203 lawhawk
I’m from Brooklyn and that’s a Hell to the Fucking No. They had a chance to have a stadium built where the Barclay’s Center now stands, and decided to go to California instead. Nope. Not doing it, even if the Dodgers broke the color barrier and supported integration.
They went to California because Robert Moses wouldn’t let them build there.
(in addition to being the first team to hire Black players, Dodgers were also the first team to hire a Japanese player and a Korean player, the first team to let women sportswriters into the locker room, the first team to have a woman head trainer).
Magic Johnson and Billie Jean King are among the general partners.
re: #227 sagehen
(Let me see if I can get New Yorkers arguing over Ebbets Field.)
Reveille! Reveille! pic.twitter.com/GbmViSckXH
— Observation Post (@MilitaryTimesOP) June 22, 2020
re: #228 Decatur Deb
(Let me see if I can get New Yorkers arguing over Ebbets Field.)
And Chicagoans arguing over Wrigley Field vs Cominskey Park
Some Psychedelically Bizarre Decisions Will Soon Come Before the Supreme Court, by Charlie Pierce
There’s a joker deep in the deck. With the unconscionable assistance of Mitch McConnell, the administration has salted the federal judiciary’s lower courts with unqualified political coatholders and think-tank fanatics freshly emerged from their chrysalises within the Federalist Society terrarium. It is unavoidable that some truly psychedelically bizarre decisions are going to come before the Supreme Court over the next decade or so. If Roberts really does have a tiny institutionalist’s conscience that pings away from time to time, it’s guaranteed to be ringing like a Chinese gong pretty regularly. So there will be incoherence and chaotic legal thinking in the federal courts long after this president* is kicking his ball onto the fairway in the Beyond. Lasting impacts, you know, tend to last.
re: #137 Targetpractice
As usual, whatever they’re screaming about, odds are generally good that’s what they’re planning to do.
Or, more likely, have already done.
re: #232 A Three Hour Tour
Wasn’t there a story quite awhile back about Ivanka getting patents for voting machines made in China? How is that even legal?
re: #227 sagehen
They went to California because Robert Moses wouldn’t let them build there.
(in addition to being the first team to hire Black players, Dodgers were also the first team to hire a Japanese player and a Korean player, the first team to let women sportswriters into the locker room, the first team to have a woman head trainer).
Magic Johnson and Billie Jean King are among the general partners.
Sigh. And I grew up in a place where the Dodgers were our hereditary enemies.
re: #233 A Mom Anon
Wasn’t there a story quite awhile back about Ivanka getting patents for voting machines made in China? How is that even legal?
re: #227 sagehen
They went to California because Robert Moses wouldn’t let them build there.
(in addition to being the first team to hire Black players, Dodgers were also the first team to hire a Japanese player and a Korean player, the first team to let women sportswriters into the locker room, the first team to have a woman head trainer).
Magic Johnson and Billie Jean King are among the general partners.
We could have a discussion about Dodger Stadium, too.
re: #236 wrenchwench
We could have a discussion about Dodger Stadium, too.
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Yeah. One of LA’s nastiest chapters. (they did the same thing when Mulholland wanted a dam in the Baldwin Hills, and again for the Arroyo Seco freeway to Pasadena. The barrios have repeatedly been flooded, bulldozed and pogrom’d whenever the LA City Council got a whim to put something else in that location).
re: #238 sagehen
Yeah. One of LA’s nastiest chapters. (they did the same thing when Mulholland wanted a dam in the Baldwin Hills, and again for the Arroyo Seco freeway to Pasadena. The barrios have repeatedly been flooded, bulldozed and pogrom’d whenever the LA City Council got a whim to put something else in that location).
Which is something they have explored in the new Penny Dreadful season.
I’m waiting for Ford Motor Company to announce that they are removing the statue of Henry from the World Headquarters building.
re: #175 The Pie Overlord!
This is perfect. (Must have sound on!)
The Lincoln Project
@ProjectLincoln
Your campaign was so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
It was probably Trump’s insistence that wore them down. He needed his rallies and had been too infuriated for them to resist his demands any longer.
Following Trump’s lead, DeSantis is fighting the pandemic by suppressing information.
Amid surge in Florida COVID-19 cases, Fla. Gov. DeSantis changed guidelines for ICU reporting. He doesn’t want hospitals to report the number of patients in ICU beds. He only wants hospitals to report number of patients in ICU beds who require an “intensive level of care.”
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) June 22, 2020
re: #243 jaunte
What does the I in ICU stand for, Governor?
Beat me to it. It’s like saying “ATM Machine” or “PIN Number”
Of course we all know this is Rons latest ploy because he desperately needs an excuse to NOT have to shut his state down again.
Troll level: Grandmaster
Elect women.
They can lift heavy glasses with one hand. pic.twitter.com/Ma11glpNvw— Rhuta Bhayga (@RhutaBhayga2) June 21, 2020
re: #242 jaunte
Following Trump’s lead, DeSantis is fighting the pandemic by suppressing information.
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Hey, that suggests he has a sense of humor — or the brains of a gerbil. How many patients in ICUs do not require an intensive level of care?
Last night I predicted that Parscale would be gone by the end of the week. I might have to revise that prediction…
Trump is now apparently referring to Parscale as “the website guy.” https://t.co/gWeQXuQLgG
— Jon Ward (@jonward11) June 22, 2020
‘The website guy.’ Ouch.
re: #247 makeitstop
Time for Parscale to make a getaway with his rakeoff.
re: #239 Belafon
You mentioned the Arroyo Seco Freeway to Pasadena - on a somewhat related note to that part of the City of Angels, my dad was one of the original core group of South Pasadena residents that prevented the I-710 from cutting through South Pasadena. To this day, the “South Pasadena gap” is still there.
re: #243 jaunte
What does the I in ICU stand for, Governor?
Intermediate.
Indifferent.
I don’t care. Do you?
The older I get the more I see many practices of Judaism as not only theologically significant but socially wise. (e.g., the routine in Shiva which guides how Jews mourn loved ones who passed away)
I’m coming around to Judaism’s aversion to statues for the same reason.— Alex (@JewishWonk) June 22, 2020
re: #198 retired cynic
She should say “any candidate”. DT’s supporters would be just as offended, but it would make her look more fair.
All Whitmer needs to do is to remind everyone that any political rally must conform to state restrictions on gatherings. That would certainly be sufficient to deter Trump from having his gathering.
a couple of weeks back (May 15, seems so long ago) I posted On November 3, 2020, the Presidential Election *Will* Take Place
“There is no delay, there is no postpone, there is no cancel.”
Then Greg Palast came out with a book and we discussed it here briefly.
Electoral-vote.com got to it on Saturday and basically said nuh-uh..
they had some choice words for Salon “a burning trash heap”
…Palast, the “investigative journalist” who is the subject of this piece, is basically a conspiracy theorist who traffics mainly in suppositions and vague accusations rather than hard evidence.
Are shenanigans possible on Nov. 3? Yes. Are they likely? Also yes. But hijacking a presidential election is no small feat, and other than repeatedly asserting that millions of Democratic votes will be wiped out, Palast is extremely vague as to exactly how Team Trump might pull off the feat…
then they re-explain who certifies the results in each state and why there arent enough R’s out there
I updated my post to include the link.
re: #253 Hecuba’s daughter
All Whitmer needs to do is to remind everyone that any political rally must conform to state restrictions on gatherings. That would certainly be sufficient to deter Trump from having his gathering.
You are more optimistic than I am.
re: #242 jaunte
Following Trump’s lead, DeSantis is fighting the pandemic by suppressing information.
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re: #249 Dr Lizardo
You mentioned the Arroyo Seco Freeway to Pasadena - on a somewhat related note to that part of the City of Angels, my dad was one of the original core group of South Pasadena residents that prevented the I-710 from cutting through South Pasadena. To this day, the “South Pasadena gap” is still there.
The neighborhood I live in fought I-35E for years and finally relented when the section of freeway through my neighborhood was given limited exits (you can’t get off when you’re coming from the south), landscaped center medians, and a 45 MPH speed limit.
One of the local columnist refers to the stretch as a practice freeway for people learning how to drive. People generally do slow down for the stretch and drive about 55. There have been attempts made to raise the limit but the 45 limit has stood firm. People from southern MN (especially R legislators) hate it.
Don’t be fooled by these Lincoln Project Republicans. Their only problem with Trump is that he’s an embarrassment and says the quiet things out loud. They have no problems with any of the legislation. The ads I have seen so far only attack him personally. Nothing about the Nazis. Children in cages. Rolling back of environmental protections. Racist cop culture. His conflicts of interest. His sucking up to authoritarians. You get the idea. Don’t fall for it.
This shows a very serious cognitive problem. There’s no other explanation
He honestly seems to believe that this is a competition with other countries, the COVID Olympics, in which the goal is to have the lowest numbers. And because he is corrupt, he wants to rig the results. https://t.co/8riNGeKDPw— digby (@digby56) June 22, 2020
re: #258 stpaulbear
The neighborhood I live in fought I-35E for years and finally relented when the section of freeway through my neighborhood was given limited exits (you can’t get off when you’re coming from the south), landscaped center medians, and a 45 MPH speed limit.
One of the local columnist refers to the stretch as a practice freeway for people learning how to drive. People generally do slow down for the stretch and drive about 55. There have been attempts made to raise the limit but the 45 limit has stood firm. People from southern MN (especially R legislators) hate it.
There’s been a few ideas floated over the decades to close the South Pasadena gap, including the idea of 4.5 mile long tunnel, but the residents of South Pasadena remained staunchly opposed. I looked it all up, and apparently, the planned freeway construction in that area has been officially terminated.
re: #261 jaunte
This shows a very serious cognitive problem. There’s no other explanation
He honestly seems to believe that this is a competition with other countries, the COVID Olympics, in which the goal is to have the lowest numbers. And because he is corrupt, he wants to rig the results.
He has made that clear from the very beginning when he did not want to admit a cruise ship: “That was not our fault! it should not count!”
He is a sick fuck. And his main concern is not even the economy in general, it is the drop in revenues on his own properties.
re: #261 jaunte
The problem is that all his fucking yes men are telling him he is doing an awesome job with the virus response but the numbers aren’t reflecting it.
So naturally he thinks something must be wrong with numbers because they are not in line with the “reality”.
There’s also that oft repeated conspiracy theory that hospitals are goosing COVID numbers to make more money which is why many a right winger will tell you cases are LOWER than what is being reported.
re: #264 Eclectic Cyborg
The problem is that all his fucking yes men are telling him he is doing an awesome job with the virus response but the numbers aren’t reflecting it.
Trump has lived in a reality bubble all his life. And that bubble really held up well until about March…now it is making a large popping noise and his aides are scrambling to stuff his ears so he won’t hear it…
re: #260 GlutenFreeJesus
Don’t be fooled by these Lincoln Project Republicans. Their only problem with Trump is that he’s an embarrassment and says the quiet things out loud. They have no problems with any of the legislation. The ads I have seen so far only attack him personally. Nothing about the Nazis. Children in cages. Rolling back of environmental protections. Racist cop culture. His conflicts of interest. His sucking up to authoritarians. You get the idea. Don’t fall for it.
Their attacks on him personally led to him spending 30 minutes talking about a ramp.
I am under no illusion that they won’t complain about corporate tax rates come January 21. I’m not twelve. The daily reminders I need are to bring my mask to work and to fill out my prescreen. But if they get him out of office, then I’ll let them complain about corporate tax rates with all the first amendment rights they have.
South Carolina Refuses To Remove Confederate Flag From Capitol Trailer https://t.co/9lYXvyuQxF pic.twitter.com/PPMtCmxfA3
— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 22, 2020
re: #260 GlutenFreeJesus
Don’t be fooled by these Lincoln Project Republicans. Their only problem with Trump is that he’s an embarrassment and says the quiet things out loud. They have no problems with any of the legislation. The ads I have seen so far only attack him personally. Nothing about the Nazis. Children in cages. Rolling back of environmental protections. Racist cop culture. His conflicts of interest. His sucking up to authoritarians. You get the idea. Don’t fall for it.
They also really really hate his foreign policy, and what that’s doing to our standing in the world. The Russia stuff, the Turkey stuff, the Saudi stuff, the Kurds, etc.
re: #266 Belafon
Absolutely. I think they’d be even more effective if they went after his actual record. But they’ll never do that. And we here all know why.
re: #260 GlutenFreeJesus
Don’t be fooled by these Lincoln Project Republicans. Their only problem with Trump is that he’s an embarrassment and says the quiet things out loud. They have no problems with any of the legislation. The ads I have seen so far only attack him personally. Nothing about the Nazis. Children in cages. Rolling back of environmental protections. Racist cop culture. His conflicts of interest. His sucking up to authoritarians. You get the idea. Don’t fall for it.
“The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.”
— Maxim 29
re: #270 William Lewis
Agreed. I don’t like them either but we need all the help we can get to bring Trump down.
Somehow I missed that Trump’s next rally is in Phoenix in 2 days. Um … pic.twitter.com/gDRRSt8NDa
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 21, 2020
I was going to say something flippant. But this is an almost unfathomable catastrophe — and blame rests squarely on Trump and his party. https://t.co/fKe1l0QttD
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 22, 2020
— Doktor Zoom (@DoktorZoom) June 22, 2020
re: #186 Patricia Kayden
The article made it look like they banned the entire Amonkhet set, but it looks like so far just one card that looks racist, sounds racist, and was made by a racist.
Slavery and racism could be part of any fantasy world for sure (“Slave” magic cards), But that card carried racist imagery from our world and applied it in a way that doesn’t make sense with regards to in-game races.
re: #269 GlutenFreeJesus
They may or may not be OK with Trump’s record, but they KNOW the ad’s target audience is. They are trying to convince other Republicans to not vote for Trump, even if they like his court picks, his overt racism, his jingoism, and so on. Criticizing his policy would appeal to us, but turn off the Republican viewers.
re: #274 IngisKahn
I was wrong, there are more:
these cards have been banned from play and scrubbed from the magic the gathering website
for being racist obviously pic.twitter.com/Sl7QMtQjZ2— DB (@Just_someNobody) June 11, 2020
re: #272 Dread Pirate
Krugman:
I was going to say something flippant….
Flippancy discipline is tough these days.
Yeah, where in the Gospels does it say that Jesus owned other people?
Statues of Jesus are next. It won’t end. Pray for the USA
— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) June 22, 2020
How conspiracy theories about the NYPD Shake Shack ‘poisoning’ blew up. No one ever even got sick. But that didn’t stop @NYCPBA from jumping all over this being an assassination attempt. https://t.co/vLGmzOsOxN via @nypmetro
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 22, 2020
Another reason to end the PBA? They made up the whole fucking story about 3 officers getting poisoned at Shake Shack. No one ever even got sick. 3 officers ordered shakes online and when they went to pick them up, they noted an off taste, threw them out, spoke to a manager, who gave them vouchers for a free shake. That should have been the end of it - but instead, we got a lunatic sideshow where cops accused Shake Shack of attempting to poison cops.
Who’s going to hold Pat Lynch and the PBA responsible? Or the SBA? Because they jumped on the claims that 3 were intentionally poisoned, and then backtracked to claim that it was mistakenly poisoned.
Now we learn there was never anyone poisoned at all. It was all bulkshit on a stick from the lunatics at the PBA who jumped to conclusions, and the NYPD overreacted by calling in ESU to investigate the situation.
The three officers were down from The Bronx, on protest duty in Lower Manhattan, on June 15 when they ordered the now-infamous mid-shift treats via a mobile app around 7:30 p.m., purchasing three shakes across two separate orders, sources said.
Their drinks were waiting for them when they arrived at the Shake Shack on the second floor of 200 Broadway a few minutes later. A female officer picked up her strawberry shake from the front counter, and her two male colleagues grabbed their cherry and vanilla drinks from a side counter, sources said.
Police sources explained it was clear that the workers couldn’t have known cops had placed the orders “since it wasn’t done in person” — and they couldn’t have dosed the drinks after the officers arrived, because they were packaged and waiting for pickup when the trio walked in.
Soon after sipping the shakes, however, the cops realized they didn’t taste or smell right, so they threw the drinks in the trash and alerted a manager, who apologized and issued them vouchers for free food or drink, which they accepted, according to sources.
But when the cops told their sergeant about the incident, the supervisor called in the Emergency Service Unit to set up a crime scene at the fast-food joint for an evidence search around 9:20 p.m. — nearly two hours after they first got the sour shakes.
Let’s recap. They called in an order, and the Shake Shack folks never would have known who were getting them. It wasn’t an in person order.
But someone at the NYPD determined that this was a criminal act to potentially get a bad shake.
What is it with Pete Williams on MSNBC? Is he just another Maggie Haberman working as a stenographer for the administration? Pete just provided a ridiculous story that Clayton wanted to leave his current position and return to New York and the proposed appointment to replace Berman was really being done as a favor to him. How gullible do they believe we are? Oh, wait, the country elected Trump as President. We are that gullible.
re: #278 The Pie Overlord!
I don’t think Jesus asked people to make statues.
re: #278 The Pie Overlord!
Yeah, where in the Gospels does it say that Jesus owned other people?
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Over the last few months, even though I’ve moved to a digital SLR for my primary camera, one of my reasons for doing so is the vast number of very high quality yet reasonably priced older lenses available for Nikon. Most of these are pre-AI lenses (that is, pre 1977) that required a small modification (when sufficiently snarky, I refer to it as getting them circumcised since the modification requires removing a small bit of material from the mating end… ) to meter on more recent cameras. So here’s my current pile of old glass that I love using on my far more recent camera:
Before & After… The Tulsa Rally pic.twitter.com/WvloFx8KrS
— Paulie Jones (@eburgpaulie) June 22, 2020
re: #278 The Pie Overlord!
Yeah, where in the Gospels does it say that Jesus owned other people?
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This is art https://t.co/RtRbqHRQ2P
— Eddie Mix (@TheEdMix) June 22, 2020
re: #281 jaunte
I don’t think Jesus asked people to make statues.
No but I think there was something in there about being kind, honest and helping out the poor…
re: #256 Eventual Carrion
So how many people do they have in the Intensive Care Unit that don’t need Intensive Care?
I can think of one--Ron DeSADIST!
re: #278 The Pie Overlord!
Yeah, where in the Gospels does it say that Jesus owned other people?
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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