Seth takes a closer look at President Trump and his allies on Fox News doubling down on racism as the strategy for his re-election.
It’s like when The Stones play “Satisfaction,” except it’s a stupid three-word tweet and not a classic of the rock ’n roll canon. pic.twitter.com/cUeAEQ7d0e
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 25, 2020
If Rosanne is saying he’s a pussy, I can see that.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) June 25, 2020
Donald waves to all his new Wisconsin voters pic.twitter.com/AFROalWL8D
— ElElegante101 (@skolanach) June 25, 2020
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
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Well, what do you know? I’ve been a lizard for a whole DECADE now. Does this mean I’m officially a member of the LGF Old Farts Club?
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GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
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Heaven Flush With Cash After Trump Administration Sends $1.4 Billion In Stimulus To Dead Americans
Yes it’s from…
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
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Well, what do you know? I’ve been a lizard for a whole DECADE now. Does this mean I’m officially a member of the LGF Old Farts Club?
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I’m celebrating 7 years as a Lizardim on this very day…
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
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Holy crap, I turn 5 on Monday.
It’s been 5 years????
I registered in 2012 on my late father’s B’day. He was the most rabid R ever. Guessing he pissed me off on his B’day and I signed up. :D RIP dad. I really do miss him.
https://t.co/PB6jJ8S91f pic.twitter.com/hLzZ0zqCDE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #14 Charles Johnson
Glenn Greenwalds takes just get dumber and dumber.
Come for the slobbering over Josh Hawley, stay for the shout out to my boy, Tucker. https://t.co/EbniASnpl1
— Glem (I Do *NOT* Support Trump) (@GlemGreenwald) June 25, 2020
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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I mean if they’re still asking this, this is I want nothing to do with either.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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“Populist” is such an empty word because it’s totally subjective. What’s “popular” today becomes “conservative” tomorrow. I mean shit, when Obama ran for his first term, he had to walk the damned “civil unions” line, but by the time 2016 came around being pro-gay marriage was seen not only as acceptable but the norm.
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
Glenn Greenwalds takes just get dumber and dumber.
Greenwald isn’t impacted by racism or sexism so he doesn’t care. Just like he’s silent on the fact that Trump has used drone warfare too.
GOHMERT! https://t.co/5A6IRGUG1b
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #20 Charles Johnson
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Oh yes noted Bolshevik Joe Biden. Meanwhile Trump has praised actual communist leaders.
Registered December 9, 2009 at 2:09PM. Seen a few prolific posters come and go. I miss Ludwig Van Quixote, SpaceJesus, CuriousLurker and Wheatdog. There are a few that I do not miss. I am grateful to the community for wide variety of personal interests and the exposure to many things I otherwise would have missed.
Texans fancy themselves as special. A special lawless breed. I know because I live among them.
— Cindy says BELIEVE SCIENCE…WEAR A MASK‼️ (@ckn4502) June 25, 2020
re: #20 Charles Johnson
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This is a truly scary time for wingnuts. They so badly overplayed their hands that instead of looking forward to another 4 years of dismantling the last 50 years of progress, they’ve instead lit a fire under the asses of an entire generation.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Obligatory soundtrack:https://t.co/QfkJBaxVJH
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) June 25, 2020
re: #23 SerialUpDinger
Registered December 9, 2009 at 2:09PM. Seen a few prolific posters come and go. I miss Ludwig Van Quixote, SpaceJesus, CuriousLurker and Wheatdog. There are a few that I do not miss. I am grateful to the community for wide variety of personal interests and the exposure to many things I otherwise would have missed.
Poor Wheat. I miss his contributions. I registered in November 2009 so I remember a lot of old names too.
re: #22 jaunte
Gohmert still running that 1954 play.
It’s about as Marxist as Martin Luther King Jr. was…and as Marxist as asking for equal treatment as whites.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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Pretty sure the white supremacists are already working together.
re: #25 Targetpractice
This is a truly scary time for wingnuts. They so badly overplayed their hands that instead of looking forward to another 4 years of dismantling the last 50 years of progress, they’ve instead lit a fire under the asses of an entire generation.
Rule 1 of Republicans - eventually, they always over-reach.
Is Devin Nunes part owner of Parler or something?
Like a poorly written piece of sponsored content over here pic.twitter.com/yPTwjjVwpF
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) June 25, 2020
re: #21 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oh yes noted Bolshevik Joe Biden. Meanwhile Trump has praised actual communist leaders.
Well, some few online commenters do refer to the former VP, as “Uncle Joe” - JUST LIKE STALIN!!!!, so there you go…
“We can do McCarthyism again and it will work for sure this time.”
Was Wheat Dogg the guy who taught in China or do I have him mixed up with someone else?
re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg
Was Wheat Dogg the guy who taught in China or do I have him mixed up with someone else?
Yep. That’s right. Had a lot of great stories about that. Really nice guy too.
FatBastardVegetarian was the first Lizard to greet me. Don’t know what happened to him but I hope he’s well.
I have been here since 2007 and there are people who I miss and those who I do not want to see again. Like any other group we have our joys and our sadness. I am thankful to be here.
re: #39 PhillyPretzel
I have been here since 2007 and there are people who I miss and those who I do not want to see again. Like any other group we have our joys and our sadness. I am thankful to be here.
The ones who have since passed on like OA, CL, & I’m sure I’m missing others. It’s sad to think about.
Maine fisheries data is here by the way: https://t.co/ktd1aNtp1V
— Shawn Donnan (@sdonnan) June 25, 2020
There are yeah some people I don’t miss but most of my interactions here have been positive.
re: #21 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m going out on a limb here and guessing this dipshit has no idea what Marxism is or what Bolshevik means. See also , socialism, communism and liberalism.
Do Republicans realize comparing the BLM movement to the French or Russian Revolutions means they’re admitting Trump is an incompetent tyrant who’s bankrupting the country and murdering its people?
— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) June 25, 2020
re: #20 Charles Johnson
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re: #39 PhillyPretzel
I have been here since 2007 and there are people who I miss and those who I do not want to see again. Like any other group we have our joys and our sadness. I am thankful to be here.
About the time I joined, and yes, the site has changed a lot since then.
re: #43 A Mom Anon
I’m going out on a limb here and guessing this dipshit has no idea what Marxism is or what Bolshevik means. See also , socialism, communism and liberalism.
Safe bet lol but yeah their understanding or there lack of of this reveals a lot
re: #39 PhillyPretzel
I have been here since 2007 and there are people who I miss and those who I do not want to see again. Like any other group we have our joys and our sadness. I am thankful to be here.
December will make 10 years for me!
Time does fly.
BREAKING: Queens Surrogate’s Court Judge refuses to block the president’s niece Mary Trump’s book, in what her attorney @BoutrousTed calls a win for free expression.
His statement. @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/te5nO7rDBP— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) June 25, 2020
I still wonder about PLL sometimes. Guy had some serious issues. I hope he got the help he needed.
re: #44 jaunte
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I mean fuck the Leninists and Jacobins but those revolutions were completely justified.
Gohmert’s engaging in stochastic terrorism, trying to whip up some freelance Black Hundreds.
re: #43 A Mom Anon
I’m going out on a limb here and guessing this dipshit has no idea what Marxism is or what Bolshevik means. See also , socialism, communism and liberalism.
it is just a smear term that he knows will resonate with his constituency
re: #49 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Good to hear. Of course, Trump will almost certainly try to kick this up to some higher courts. He’s such a whiny, litigious sack of crap.
re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg
I still wonder about PLL sometimes. Guy had some serious issues. I hope he got the help he needed.
Same. He’s on the spectrum as am I and he’s my brother’s age and I have an instinctual big brotherness. That said, I understand why he wore out his welcome.
Just a reminder that men with guns are playing war.
Make sure you give Bill a call and tell him what you think about it.[no phone numbers allowed]. https://t.co/LjbV4nQ0vY— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) June 25, 2020
re: #57 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Oh the oaf keepers, the so called anti big government losers who suck Trump’s teat.
re: #56 Teukka
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I can come up with all sorts of things that BRO would be an acronym that wouldn’t be very nice.
As Trump’s prospects for reelection continue to fade, he’s accelerating his destruction of the US government. https://t.co/HDXvrBHuSE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #61 Charles Johnson
He figures if he cannot have it no one else should have it.
re: #62 PhillyPretzel
He figures if he cannot have it no one else should have it.
People who praise Trump’s FP versus Obama are ostriches with their heads up their asses. See, Greenwald Glenn.
re: #61 Charles Johnson
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As Trump’s prospects for reelection continue to fade, he’s accelerating his destruction of the US government. https://t.co/HDXvrBHuSE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
If they would stop the polling, he wouldn’t be doing so badly in the polls
Exactly! But the people who need to hear and understand this are far beyond the reach of logic. https://t.co/zED1KSivGB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
2 masks and the guy on the far right coughs at the end of the clip
— And the Wind Cries “SLOW THE TESTING DOWN!!!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) June 25, 2020
Remember when it was an outrage of outrage that the IRS audited the Tea Party but sure RICOing protestors is legit.
re: #65 Charles Johnson
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They don’t want to reduce the number of abortions
It’s an issue useful for fundraising and gotv
Exactly! But the people who need to hear and understand this are far beyond the reach of logic. https://t.co/zED1KSivGB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #65 Charles Johnson
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That and many of them aren’t really anti-abortion, as much they are anti-female autonomy. They don’t mind abortions for their wives/mistresses/daughters. They just want “the sluts” to be punished and “put in their place”.
re: #70 Citizen K
That and many of them aren’t really anti-abortion, as much they are anti-female autonomy. They don’t mind abortions for their wives/mistresses/daughters. They just want “the sluts” to be punished and “put in their place”.
Republicans will always make sure that their mistresses will have access to abortion.
re: #71 Joe Bacon 🌹
Republicans will always make sure that their mistresses will have access to abortion.
Even if they have to fly them to Japan.
re: #70 Citizen K
That and many of them aren’t really anti-abortion, as much they are anti-female autonomy. They don’t mind abortions for their wives/mistresses/daughters. They just want “the sluts” to be punished and “put in their place”.
And that abortion “bans” be made part of the legal code as an (if not the main) expression of “virtue signaling”. Bans, of course, which can and will be (discreetly) evaded by the “right” people…..
Ken Paxton wants to take away the healthcare of millions of people in the midst of a devastating pandemic. Sheer evil; no other way to say it.
This is the face of the Republican Party. https://t.co/JZt9PW8eRL— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #43 A Mom Anon
I’m going out on a limb here and guessing this dipshit has no idea what Marxism is or what Bolshevik means. See also , socialism, communism and liberalism.
Whenever I hear someone openly fret about Marxists and socialism, I keep thinking of Mr. Burns cursing Bolsheviks and anarchists whenever something doesn’t go his way.
re: #75 Dr Lizardo
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It’s a classic. When people are delusional enough, they have no qualms about faking documents etc. “because it is all true anyway”…
re: #66 Dave In Austin
The real target for RICO investigations and prosecutions should be the Republican party and all its works.
re: #74 Charles Johnson
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Obamacare has failed, a complete disaster, but because it hasn’t really failed, because it has actually expanded health care coverage, we must make it fail.
.@SenJohnThune today suggesting @realDonaldTrump show empathy is like asking a lobomotized ferret to write a dissertation on stem cell research.
— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) June 24, 2020
We actually have two pandemics going on in the US in 2020:
1. Coronavirus.
2. Impenetrable stupidity.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #75 Dr Lizardo
So, seeing this making the rounds - and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if some numpties actually try to use this BS:
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I AM A SOVEREEN CITIXEN!
re: #81 Charles Johnson
The willful stupidity epidemic is by far the more dangerous of the two.
re: #57 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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A woman I know lives a few blocks from the South Philly Columbus statue. She was walking home the other day and got harassed by a bunch of idiots playing baseball with a live DJ near the park.
Turns out that the cops have told them they can’t overtly guard the statue, but if people just happen to be hanging around in the area, they won’t roust them *wink wink nudge nudge*
When protesters do show up, the cops are pretty much letting the goons do whatever they want. Still an occasional hatchet and gun in the crowd.
Good thing the city has a new police commissioner that won’t tolerate this stuff.
BREAKING: A NYC police officer was arrested and charged with illegally using a chokehold to subdue a man on a Queens boardwalk.https://t.co/WFQ2PkgzWl
By @AshleyAtTimes— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) June 25, 2020
re: #66 Dave In Austin
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In keeping with their desire to turn the US into a banana republic, Republicans now openly suggest criminalizing any protests that are organized, looking to further suppress freedom of expression of any views that they do not approve of.
re: #61 Charles Johnson
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Of course THIS Congress, at least its GOP members, aren’t interested in providing oversight anyway….
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re: #75 Dr Lizardo
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The answer to that “card” is simple: “No mask, no service.” The ADA says I have to accommodate disabilities, it does not bar me from refusing to serve a customer who cannot abide by store policy. Otherwise any fuckhead could walk in and declare that the “no shirt/no shoes” sign doesn’t apply to them because they’ve a disability that prevents them from wearing either.
re: #49 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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CONSERVATIVES ARE BEING CENSORED NO FREE SPEECH STOP THIS BOOK….oh wait
re: #89 Targetpractice
The answer to that “card” is simple: “No mask, no service.” The ADA says I have to accommodate disabilities, it does not bar me from refusing to serve a customer who cannot abide by store policy. Otherwise any fuckhead could walk in and declare that the “no shirt/no shoes” sign doesn’t apply to them because they’ve a disability that prevents them from wearing either.
I will citizen Arrest you if no service which I am guaranteed under
Constitution!
re: #74 Charles Johnson
Of course, Charles.
You didn’t know the Founders wanted to people die needlessly?
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re: #75 Dr Lizardo
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Nice logo, at any rate.
I was in Costco on Sunday. The vast majority of customers were wearing masks.
NJ has its problems, and God knows how much of the rest of the country straight up fucking hates us. We’re starting to show cracks in our resolve here and there, but I’d rather be here right now than a lot of states.
re: #86 Targetpractice
In keeping with their desire to turn the US into a banana republic, Republicans now openly suggest criminalizing any protests that are organized, looking to further suppress freedom of expression of any views that they do not approve of.
There have been attempts to criminalize protests since the constitution was written.
re: #75 Dr Lizardo
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Everyone of these stupid cards that I’ve seen have spelling and/or grammar errors. That right there should tell you they are bullshit.
re: #94 Belafon
There have been attempts to criminalize protests since the constitution was written.
Where are the Alien and Sedition laws when we need them?
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Three are now hospitalized, including two elderly family members and one woman battling breast cancer.
re: #93 Mattand
Nice logo, at any rate.
I was in Costco on Sunday. The vast majority of customers were wearing masks.
NJ has its problems, and God knows how much of the rest of the country straight up fucking hates us. We’re starting to show cracks in our resolve here and there, but I’d rather be here right now than a lot of states.
Here in Czech Republic, back in April, a man was literally chased out of a supermarket by an angry mob for not wearing a mask.
re: #98 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Wait, don’t tell me.
Fox news watchers, thought the whole thing was a hoax, no masks at the party, etc.
re: #99 Dr Lizardo
Here in Czech Republic, back in April, a man was literally chased out of a supermarket by an angry mob for not wearing a mask.
That’ll happen here, but it’s usually because the person was wearing a Dallas Cowboys shirt.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
Everyone of these stupid cards that I’ve seen have spelling and/or grammar errors. That right there should tell you they are bullshit.
Yeah I noticed there’s an error on that card, too. It was the first thing I noticed and it made me chuckle.
Typical wingnut bullshit.
re: #93 Mattand
Nice logo, at any rate.
I was in Costco on Sunday. The vast majority of customers were wearing masks.
NJ has its problems, and God knows how much of the rest of the country straight up fucking hates us. We’re starting to show cracks in our resolve here and there, but I’d rather be here right now than a lot of states.
No one can accuse NJ of not taking the pandemic seriously, that should be clear.
re: #99 Dr Lizardo
Can I import that angry mob for the same purposes here in the US? I would like to use them for a neighborhood supermarket and for work.
re: #98 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
No surprise. From NPR: Parties — Not Protests — Are Causing Spikes In Coronavirus
Seems protesters are smart enough to wear masks…
re: #106 William Lewis
No surprise. From NPR: Parties — Not Protests — Are Causing Spikes In Coronavirus
Seems protesters are smart enough to wear masks…
One of the people who got infect stayed on the porch because she’s also undergoing chemo. I suspect she got some hugs which was enough.
You tell him, Joe.
Biden on Trump: “He’s like a child who can’t believe this has happened to him. And all his whining and self-pity. This pandemic didn’t happen to him, it happened to all of us. His job isn’t to whine about it. His job is to do something about it.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 25, 2020
re: #75 Dr Lizardo
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Aren’t these the same people who insist that businesses can do whatever they want?
re: #98 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg
Wait, don’t tell me.
Fox news watchers, thought the whole thing was a hoax, no masks at the party, etc.
Turns out my partner is school friends with someone in that family. Her friend’s uncle is one of the 18 dead.
This woman is using her uncle as a cautionary tale to the COV-idiots out there. Sounds like she wasn’t at the party and thought it was a bad idea to begin with.
Back at the end of March, I bagged on my great uncle’s 100th birthday party because, you know, PANDEMIC. No regrets about the choice. From what I can tell, that side of the family dodged a major fucking bullet.
re: #98 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
That nephew is the one who was unknowingly infected, thinking a slight cough was the byproduct of working in construction.
Slight cough = No worries!
Things must be slow at the yam’s campaign. I’ve been getting this email for a week or two…
I’ve asked my team to print and frame the Presidential Donor List made up of the first 150 Patriots who choose to step up at this critical time. This list will proudly hang in my office, and I’ll be disappointed if I don’t see your name on there.
And there are still 17 spots remaining on the list.
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re: #112 stpaulbear
Slight cough = No worries!
That’s the scary part. We can have a slight cough from just about anything.
re: #105 PhillyPretzel
Can I import that angry mob for the same purposes here in the US? I would like to use them for a neighborhood supermarket and for work.
Even though Czechs are kind of a culturally libertarian bunch, when it came to wearing masks, that was one thing they didn’t take lightly or try to make feeble excuses or rationalizations. They adhered to it. Of course, there was some grumbling - ceaseless complaining is the Czech national pastime, after all - but they all recognized the gravity of the situation and behaved accordingly.
NEW: Coronavirus task force documents obtained exclusively by NBC News show the scope and severity of the resurgence after President Trump said the disease is ‘going away.”https://t.co/wGkcvJOaZC
— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) June 25, 2020
re: #111 Mattand
I think you mean 18 sick, not dead.
re: #110 Sir John Barron
Aren’t these the same people who insist that businesses can do whatever they want?
Yeah pretty much. BUSINESS CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT!! NO!! NOT LIKE THAT!!
re: #91 Sir John Barron
I will citizen Arrest you if no service which I am guaranteed under
Constitution!
They can bake their own fucking cake
re: #109 makeitstop
Biden on Trump: “He’s like a child who can’t believe this has happened to him. And all his whining and self-pity. This pandemic didn’t happen to him, it happened to all of us. His job isn’t to whine about it. His job is to do something about it.”
But that is the problem: it came along and threatened to wreck the economy and hence his re-election chances. And he has all but declared that dismissing the epidemic, not wearing a mask or taking distancing seriously are all a show of support for him and his policies.
If Trump had set an example by wearing a mask in public, many lives could have been saved and many people spared illness, because his cult would have followed along as they always do.
Instead he’s doing everything he possibly can to help the virus spread.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #113 BeachDem
Things must be slow at the yam’s campaign. I’ve been getting this email for a week or two…
I’ve asked my team to print and frame the Presidential Donor List made up of the first 150 Patriots who choose to step up at this critical time. This list will proudly hang in my office, and I’ll be disappointed if I don’t see your name on there.
And there are still 17 spots remaining on the list.
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What? John Barron and David Dennison couldn’t sign up their whole families???
re: #113 BeachDem
Things must be slow at the yam’s campaign. I’ve been getting this email for a week or two…
I’ve asked my team to print and frame the Presidential Donor List made up of the first 150 Patriots who choose to step up at this critical time. This list will proudly hang in my office, and I’ll be disappointed if I don’t see your name on there.
And there are still 17 spots remaining on the list.
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And you HAVEN’T donated yet?
Some patriot.
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All the white supremacists and raving propaganda-mongers are there! Fun for the whole wingnut family! https://t.co/DPYAWM7sI2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
There’s a reason why sites like parler that cater to right wing extremists inevitably fail: because these people don’t just want to hang out with each other. Their whole reason to live is to troll liberals and spread lies. You can’t spread lies to other liars.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #105 PhillyPretzel
Can I import that angry mob for the same purposes here in the US? I would like to use them for a neighborhood supermarket and for work.
I assuming you’re referring to your local Acme. If it’s anything like the one by me, those aisles are tiny. Physical distancing is almost impossible in the older ones.
re: #122 Charles Johnson
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re: #126 Charles Johnson
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re: #126 Charles Johnson
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“I’m proud to join this new platform that doesn’t discriminate against conservatives like this Twitter platform I’m tweeting from right now.”
re: #130 Sir John Barron
“I’m proud to join this new platform that doesn’t discriminate against conservatives like this Twitter platform I’m tweeting from right now.”
Let them go to Parler. I’m sure it’ll be as much a raging success as Gab. If anything else, it’ll make Twitter more tolerable.
holy shit, Proud Boy Elder Ethan “Rufio Panman” Norseman just got fired from Wally’s Chowder House by his own dad, who disavowed his son’s hateful ideology
this might be the greatest Proud Boy own in a history of massive Proud Boy owns 😂😂😂 https://t.co/Akg1dfGYjg— AntiFash Gordon (@AntiFashGordon) June 25, 2020
re: #133 DodgerFan1988
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What ultimately kills racism in a capitalist society is not government regulation or judicial intervention, but when it begins to present a danger to the continued profitability of business. Why? Because when businesses begin to see their profits dip and dive due to racism no longer selling, they’re the ones who will push for the government to regulate and the courts to intervene.
Wow, it’ll be ten years for me in December. Back in my wingnut days, I used to lurk around here, and I’ve seen the evolution up close. When I finally found the password to come into the speakeasy in 2010, I was already starting to lean left as Obama had proven himself to me. The last ten years, you all have kept me sane. Especially when I was in the hospital for a few days two weeks ago.
re: #126 Charles Johnson
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I’m tempted to sign up and see how much they are willing to put up with in the name of Freeze Peach.
Quick reminder that earlier this month this guy @tedcruz challenged a 70 year-old actor to wrestle a POS rep @Jim_Jordan who enabled rampant sexual assault and Ted wanted to watch. https://t.co/tHDMANqWrx
— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) June 25, 2020
re: #136 Eventual Carrion
I’m tempted to sign up and see how much they are willing to put up with in the name of Freeze Peach.
Since it is mostly just wingnuts posting and viewing, I expect not too many people are going to bother to complain.
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Since it is mostly just wingnuts posting and viewing, I expect not too many people are going to bother to complain.
The Biden DOJ will have a much easier time finding out who to watch.
And for what purpose does the gentleman rise?
For the purpose of being a dick, as usual.
Very well, gentleman is recognized
HERE IT IS: GOP amendment to DC statehood bill in US House that requires @MayorBowser to negotiate with US Treasury to pay for changes to the US flag pic.twitter.com/lkTBgHD9BB
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 25, 2020
Per WaPo
Larry Kudlow, the White House’s top economic official, said Thursday that the administration does not anticipate a second wave of the novel coronavirus to hit the United States and that new hot spots popping up across the country are scenarios Americans will “just have to live with.”
Kudlow’s remarks on the government’s management of the pandemic came during an appearance on the Fox Business Network and while talking to reporters at the White House, Reuters reported.
“Or, you know, die with. Whatever.”
This is the bottom line that needs to be stated clearly, and Joe is doing it. https://t.co/fKa03n6Vyl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
But this raises other more disturbing questions.
What if this isn’t just dumb whining? What if Trump does understand the situation?
What if it’s deliberate?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #141 gocart mozart
HERE IT IS: GOP amendment to DC statehood bill in US House that requires @MayorBowser to negotiate with US Treasury to pay for changes to the US flag
Were Alaska and Hawaii also required to pony up for their stars?
re: #136 Eventual Carrion
I’m tempted to sign up and see how much they are willing to put up with in the name of Freeze Peach.
You’d probably open yourself up to getting every single piece of wingnut spam that they could throw at you.
And someone here said they want a cell phone number for verification. Deal-breaker.
re: #142 stpaulbear
Per WaPo
“Or, you know, die with. Whatever.”
Again, the argument is that “People die of poverty, too!”
Which is not the case: they die of a lack of proper nutrition, shelter and medical care as a result of being impoverished because that is how our system is structured. It is not an inevitability, but it is seen by some as being “morally just”.
re: #143 Charles Johnson
But this raises other more disturbing questions.
What if this isn’t just dumb whining? What if Trump does understand the situation?
What if it’s deliberate?
He is sweating bullets about his cash flow. If he cannot get his resorts and casinos open again, his heavily-leveraged loans will come due as soon as Mneunuchin runs out of slush fund money to shovel his way, and it will look very embarrassing for him to have to declare bankruptcy to Russia, China, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia or wherever else his financing is coming from…
re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is sweating bullets about his cash flow. If he cannot get his resorts and casinos open again, his heavily-leveraged loans will come due as soon as Mneunuchin runs out of slush fund money to shovel his way, and it will look very embarrassing for him to have to declare bankruptcy to Russia, China, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia or wherever else his financing is coming from…
Read somewhere (forgot where) that Trump has about $500 million in loans coming due in the near future.
re: #143 Charles Johnson
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It’s pretty obvious to me that Trump cares about one person, himself, and everything he says and does is entirely about him. It’s not that he doesn’t deserve to be reelected because his poor response to the virus, it’s that all the people who died from Covid-19 were doing it obviously to keep him from being reelected.
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
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Well, what do you know? I’ve been a lizard for a whole DECADE now. Does this mean I’m officially a member of the LGF Old Farts Club?
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I hatched a month before you. And I will always take pride in having won the DVD of the Murrow movie that was out at the time.
re: #126 Charles Johnson
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Since I can’t stand listening to any of their obnoxious voices, I’m curious—do they pronounce it par-lay as the French word (knowing they hate everything French) or like that place the spider tells the fly to step into?
re: #149 Dr Lizardo
Read somewhere (forgot where) that Trump has about $500 million in loans coming due in the near future.
Here are the details at Mother Jones
Trump Has a Half Billion in Loans Coming Due. They May Be His Biggest Conflict of Interest Yet.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Again, the argument is that “People die of poverty, too!”
Which is not the case: they die of a lack of proper nutrition, shelter and medical care as a result of being impoverished because that is how our system is structured. It is not an inevitability, but it is seen by some as being “morally just”.
The problem with this argument is that the data shows that the $600/wk increase in UEI and the $1200 “stimulus” tax credit actually caused poverty to decrease in April and May.
It’s purely political at this point, that those payments were a “temporary” measure due to the “emergency.” Further payments would mean not simply acknowledging that this is not an “emergency” but rather an ongoing crisis, but also would risk endangering their “the only cure for poverty is a job” party BS. In the end, they’d rather millions face starvation, eviction, and disease if it means their Randian cult remains unchallenged by reality.
I block Trumpites the second they show up in my mentions.
“But Charles,” you say, “doesn’t that just create an echo chamber?”
No, I reply, because I’ve already heard too much of their BS, and these people haven’t come up with anything new in 30 freaking years.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
Parler is a right-wing data mining operation. They require a phone number as well as an email address. And they send a confirmation code to that number to confirm it before you ever get to the content.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) June 25, 2020
As y’all reminisce about when you joined this community, I’m reminded that I’m a relative newbie (2 years in August).
re: #156 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yes, very possible. I haven’t looked into who’s behind it.
Oh, look, Lumpy is pretending he’s president. Isn’t that just cute?
Sean Hannity boards Marine One ahead of the president. He saluted the marines at the door. Trump followed about a minute later. pic.twitter.com/oa5nrHxrRJ
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 25, 2020
old school dogwhistle https://t.co/7SKJyTpToq
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 25, 2020
re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg
I still wonder about PLL sometimes. Guy had some serious issues. I hope he got the help he needed.
I had been lurking here for several months but finally joined because of PLL’s postings. I miss him and his views (not all — some of them led Charles banning him from the site)
re: #152 BeachDem
Since I can’t stand listening to any of their obnoxious voices, I’m curious—do they pronounce it par-lay as the French word (knowing they hate everything French) or like that place the spider tells the fly to step into?
Ted Cruz pronounces it “parlor.” No way this gang would ever pronounce it the French way. If someone did they’d mock them.
I’ve actually wondered if the name is a misspelling, because that’s how they roll.
re: #126 Charles Johnson
Gee, Ted, what was wrong with Gab? They used the same free speech clarion call that this new upstart did. If history is an indicator, your new chewtoy will be just impactful as was the silly Gab frog.
— ericfruitbat (@ericfruitbat) June 25, 2020
CDC chief says coronavirus cases may be 10 times higher than reported https://t.co/rdI0zTj19Y
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 25, 2020
I block Trumpites the second they show up in my mentions.
“But Charles,” you say, “doesn’t that just create an echo chamber?”
No, I reply, because I’ve already heard too much of their BS, and these people haven’t come up with anything new in 30 freaking years.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #69 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
They don’t want to reduce the number of abortions
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Their desire is to make this a criminal act and to imprison those involved in performing them and those women having them. Most don’t really care whether women die from illegal abortions — they consider that a just punishment.
Twitter’s messing with the look of embedded tweets again.
re: #161 jaunte
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Sen. Tom Cotton on #DCstatehood: “Would you trust Mayor Bowser to keep Washington safe if she were given the powers of a governor? Would you trust Marion Barry?”
Ask him how he felt about the “good old days”
re: #166 Patricia Kayden
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CDC chief says coronavirus cases may be 10 times higher than reported
Speaking of covid numbers being off, NJ just added over 10% to their death toll by counting “probable” covid deaths.
re: #43 A Mom Anon
I’m going out on a limb here and guessing this dipshit has no idea what Marxism is or what Bolshevik means. See also , socialism, communism and liberalism.
he does know about the many aspersions asparagus is capable of.
Yes I am!
I keep hearing people say “there’s no enthusiasm for Joe Biden,” but I’m enthusiastic AF.
ARE YOU?— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 25, 2020
Tom Cotton gives away the GOP game here, explaining that rights are really only for industry and actual living people should get lost. https://t.co/BP2WpbWaif
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) June 25, 2020
re: #149 Dr Lizardo
Read somewhere (forgot where) that Trump has about $500 million in loans coming due in the near future.
If he’s still in office when those bills come due it’s going to be like a meteor strike. It’s going to be ugly.
re: #153 Teddy’s Person
Here are the details at Mother Jones
Trump Has a Half Billion in Loans Coming Due. They May Be His Biggest Conflict of Interest Yet.
That was it.
re: #164 Charles Johnson
Ted Cruz pronounces it “parlor.” No way this gang would ever pronounce it the French way. If someone did they’d mock them.
I’ve actually wondered if the name is a misspelling, because that’s how they roll.
That does not surprise me. Parlor would have been a better name for the morons, particularly the adjective definition:
advocating something, as a political view or doctrine, at a safe remove from actual involvement in or commitment to action
Hey Charles, I tried to reply to one of your tweets and it took no action. Also, the Spy and New Comments buttons appear to be broke as well. Could this be a side effect of the Twitter issue you were musing about?
re: #171 garzooma
Speaking of covid numbers being off, NJ just added over 10% to their death toll by counting “probable” covid deaths.
That was in today’s new death count for a bit. Now it’s removed, and likely to be distributed over revised tolls for the day of death reported.
See what I mean? pic.twitter.com/RL5FulpTDz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 25, 2020
re: #178 Eric The Fruit Bat
Hey Charles, I tried to reply to one of your tweets and it took no action. Also, the Spy and New Comments buttons appear to be broke as well. Could this be a side effect of the Twitter issue you were musing about?
That means Javascript is crapping out for some reason. Try quitting and relaunching the browser.
re: #183 Eric The Fruit Bat
Tried that, no joy.
If you open the Web Inspector window (Cmd-Option-I), do you see any errors listed at the bottom?
And clicking on the edit message does nothing.
re: #174 jaunte
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Perhaps someone might mention to Tom that he and many of his colleagues represent states who are becoming more and more of a burden on the union as their chief industries either dry up due to obsolescence or disappear to foreign locales, leaving millions dependent upon hand-outs from the federal gov’t.
re: #177 BeachDem
That does not surprise me. Parlor would have been a better name for the morons, particularly the adjective definition:
advocating something, as a political view or doctrine, at a safe remove from actual involvement in or commitment to action
I think Pallor would fit perfectly.
I just switched over to Firefox, and things appears to have the same behavior.
— John Cole (@Johngcole) June 25, 2020
I’m going to reboot and see if that doesn’t fix my anomalous browser behavior.
Well, parler (pronounced par-lay) is the French word for “speak” so it would seem an appropriate name for a social media app.
But who the fuck knows with these clowns?
re: #188 Eric The Fruit Bat
I just switched over to Firefox, and things appears to have the same behavior.
I’m running FF right now and not seeing any issues.
re: #191 Eclectic Cyborg
They won’t use the French pronunciation because they’ll think it sounds gay.
re: #188 Eric The Fruit Bat
Overly aggressive ad/script blocker? Run any plugins like noscript or ublock origin?
So, since Repubs are all running away to Parler, does this mean they’re going to drop the whole BS campaign against Sec 230 and allow Twitter to operate as it sees fit?
Yes, that’s a rhetorical question.
At this point, it’s hard to imagine that he actually wants to win in November.
Trump’s base won’t save this completely fractured GOP, and Republicans in Congress are just sitting by watching him burn it all to the ground. https://t.co/jQmSoHisId— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) June 25, 2020
re: #66 Dave In Austin
This is my asshat congressman. I hate this guy with the heat of a billion suns. If it was just this, I might laugh, but he’s soreading anti-mask propaganda.
PS There are more things to protest than statues. Like churches who own around $70 million in property full cash value and pay not a cent in property taxes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — HHS whistleblower Rick Bright files complaint alleging ongoing retaliation for revealing failures in COVID response.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 25, 2020
re: #198 makeitstop
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More details.
NEW: Dr. Bright files an amendment to his whistleblower complaint alleging more retaliation for calling out Trump’s pandemic response.
His legal team’s statement is below.
Doc: https://t.co/aULU8QqxUT
Background from May: https://t.co/G5WYzvYpYo @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/gTjQBDwPXQ— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) June 25, 2020
re: #1 Dave In Austin
Cartoon hands have a symmetry made for this. I am envious.
So to now sympathize with Eric the Fruit Bat, after a refresh of the page things are misbehaving for me as well. Using Chrome in Windows, tried with uBlock Origin both on and off.
re: #93 Mattand
I was born in Camden NJ and grew up in South Jersey; my sister still lives there. We once had a family contest to come up with a replacement slogan for Tom Kean’s “New Jersey and You, Perfect Together”. Here are some of the highlights (and we love Jersey! but yeah)
“New Jersey: You’ll pay to get out of here” (one way bridge tolls)
“New Jersey: To Infinity and Bayonne!”
“New Jersey: From AC to DC!” this was around the time of McGreevy’s coming out
“New Jersey: You gotta problem with that?”
re: #203 cat-tikvah
“New Jersey: You gotta problem with that?”
On the Belt Parkway heading east, there’s a sign that says
‘Leaving Brooklyn: Fuhgeddaboudit.’
Nicole Wallace is roasting Bolton over hot coals and he’s sizzling!
re: #200 I Would Prefer Not To
What happened to Gab?
Paypal and Stripe gave them the boot after the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting. Then they hooked up with a wingnut payment processing firm, but that all got fucked up when the owner of that firm was arrested for financial crimes.
They had to abandon plans for an IPO and are now struggling to find financing to stay afloat.
Gaah. Reboot, tried Firefox, Chrome and the new Chrome-based Microsoft Edge, same broke behavior. Disabled my VPN, same result.
This sucks.
@Eric it’s not just you, I would reply/quote you but it’s not working.
So Parler. I see that going as well as Gab, conservepedia, the conservative bible project, & the dating website just for Trump supporters.
For Charles - It keeps telling me there’s some amount of new messages, which consistently takes me back to message 162. (Example - I see message 209 now and it says 47 new comments, even though there are none. When I was at message 208 it said 46, etc, etc)
Conservatives are Joining Parler App which until now was exclusively used by NAMBLA and Child Pornographers.
Not sure they thought this out.— P A C E (@pesachlattin) June 25, 2020
I’m having similar issues now at work.
Chrome on Android.
New MS Edge (Chrome based) at home was fine.
And when I hit the “New Comments” refresh button it loads all the comments between 162 and now right after 162, and then starts again at 163 and continues to now. And when new comments come in, they do actually refresh, but on the first set that got loaded after comment 162. The actual end of the thread (210 for me right now) stays unchanged.
The Reply button appears to be broke (typing this on an Android tablet) and the Spy and New .message button don’t look to be aligned right.
re: #213 jimmyvluv4u
And when I hit the “New Comments” refresh button it loads all the comments between 162 and now right after 162, and then starts again at 163 and continues to now. And when new comments come in, they do actually refresh, but on the first set that got loaded after comment 162. The actual end of the thread (210 for me right now) stays unchanged.
It sounds like something has broken the full page download.
I’m having problems on Chrome with LGF. New comments are not showing up and the panel on the right is not there at the top of the page.
Yeah I’m having the same problem
NEW: Discord nuked the biggest Boogaloo server and permanently deleted the accounts of all 2,500 members.
The move was in response to an article @vicenews published yesterday containing screenshots from the server provided by @MeganSquire0https://t.co/JBEyTfqil5— Tess Owen (@misstessowen) June 25, 2020
re: #86 Targetpractice
In keeping with their desire to turn the US into a banana republic, Republicans now openly suggest criminalizing any protests that are organized, looking to further suppress freedom of expression of any views that they do not approve of.
This is why I prefer to protest by myself. I prefer the disorganized look, which lets people think I don’t know what I’m doing, when, in fact, I have almost a quarter century of protest experience. Plus, I am only responsible for ME.
re: #221 mmmirele
This is why I prefer to protest by myself. I prefer the disorganized look, which lets people think I don’t know what I’m doing, when, in fact, I have almost a quarter century of protest experience. Plus, I am only responsible for ME.
I want them to prove that Alabama Democrats are in any way “organized”.
Last thread:
re: #360 Belafon
Where does the word Dixie actually come from?
It is thought to have come from one of two sources:
a) Slang for south of the Mason-Dixon line
b) The state-issued Louisiana $10, which was printed in English and French, and had TEN/DIX printed on it. The slang term for that bill was the Dixie.
re: #219 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Fascinating - Reply button works of I am in Spy mode, but not in normal page mode.
Same thing with editing a posted message.
re: #260 stpaulbear
Go ahead and have one for me. It’s my birthday. 66. I receive my first SoSec deposit in about a month.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
No, it’s taking down the statues of racist traitors. Those statues should never have been put up in the first place.
Found a gay nazi, I think. At least he’s honest. Feeel free to report.
I’m stealing that!
— Kyle “Crime Stats” Macleish (@MacleishKyle) June 25, 2020
Sammy, walkin’ it back…
Sammy Hagar clarifies “we all gotta die” COVID-19 comments https://t.co/4Lfp47ce4W pic.twitter.com/c24KqG2Xmy
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) June 25, 2020
Don’t think he was ready for the ratio.
re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Last thread:
It is thought to have come from one of two sources:
a) Slang for south of the Mason-Dixon line
b) The state-issued Louisiana $10, which was printed in English and French, and had TEN/DIX printed on it. The slang term for that bill was the Dixie.
Someone had to post this (Knopfler fan).
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
Their desire is to make this a criminal act and to imprison those involved in performing them and those women having them. Most don’t really care whether women die from illegal abortions — they consider that a just punishment.
No, no…we cannot forget the 1689 Calvinists (who recently brought their circus back to my neighborhood *sigh*). These asshats want to execute women who have abortions. EXECUTE. And they teach their kids this nonsense.
That’s the end result of their crazy.
re: #164 Charles Johnson
Ted Cruz pronounces it “parlor.” No way this gang would ever pronounce it the French way. If someone did they’d mock them.
I’ve actually wondered if the name is a misspelling, because that’s how they roll.
I tried to search Twitter for “parler” this morning and dredged up a ton of tweets in French because “parler” means “to talk/speak” in French.
I’m telling you, this was a DUMB name to pick from a branding perspective.
BTW, still some Comment probs” I refreshed the page, and got up to #230 showing (and all others), but it said “69 new comments” in the NC box, and the tab. When I hit the NC box, the “new” # went off, but I still had 230 comments.
Chrome on W10
re: #233 Jay C
Either the comment refresh has itself broken or something about post #162 has derailed it.
re: #226 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thanks Anymouse. I’ve been nibbling on Blueberry/White Chocolate mini-scones from Target to celebrate. I might curbside-order a burger from my fave burger bar for dinner. No party but some nice phone calls.
re: #232 mmmirele
I tried to search Twitter for “parler” this morning and dredged up a ton of tweets in French because “parler” means “to talk/speak” in French.
I’m telling you, this was a DUMB name to pick from a branding perspective.
Sounds like wingnut MO to me.
re: #232 mmmirele
I tried to search Twitter for “parler” this morning and dredged up a ton of tweets in French because “parler” means “to talk/speak” in French.
I’m telling you, this was a DUMB name to pick from a branding perspective.
Parlez-vous extreme-droite?
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re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
But they can’t manage to get it to real, live people.
Yup. I’ve received mine, but my wife has not received hers.
I’m halfway tempted to sign up for Parler under the username “LiberalAnarchist” .
It’d probably be entertaining.
From Downstairs
re: #360 Belafon
Where does the word Dixie actually come from?
Old Hickory Blvd, Nashville, TN
Member of the family who knew the owners at the time this photo was taken, says there were still slave cabins on the property.
Property was sold several years ago, and the sign taken down.
Programming note:
The “quote” button isn’t working for me in this thread.
When I post something in this thread, if there are new comments waiting according to the radio button, my comment gets posted above those, even though those comments come earlier in time.
Strange.
re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I had something like that happen to me a while ago. I thought I must have clicked on the wrong button.
Sounds like a good one to use on them .
I’ll sign up as “weisse rose” 😎
re: #244 William Lewis
How about White Rose of York?
en.wikipedia.org
re: #302 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The reaction to Maines saying she was ashamed Bush was from Texas. Another reason why wingers have no ground to talk about ” cancel culture.”
That’s different!
They could have agreed with Natalie Maines, since he was born in New Haven, Conn. Conservatives can’t exist without their outrage, even if they have to manufacture it.
re: #245 Teddy’s Person
I have a furry house guest for the weekend. Everyone, meet Edie.
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*offers scritches*
The Trump administration and a group of Republican-led states has now officially asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act. https://t.co/iMiOBcWcqH
— Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) June 25, 2020
re: #165 Eric The Fruit Bat
This is unfair to Ms. Chase.
In case you were wondering yes this GIF is one of the results for “Ted Cruz” in GIF search… pic.twitter.com/3GwvsXzHLu
— #BLM ✊🏻 Sebastian 😷 Peitsch 🌈 (@SPeitsch) June 25, 2020
Ok, so I joined Parler to see how bad it was. A few observations:
The initial sign up process is pretty bare bones. Once you’ve established an account, they ask if you want to add news sources to your feed. Options are (among others): Breitbart, The Epoch Times, Daily Caller and the Washington Times.
The site then prompts you to add active users to follow. Now mind you they know NOTHING about me at this point aside from my email address. The users it recommends I add are Dan Bongino, Eric Trump, Laura Loomer, Rudy Giuliani, Rand Paul, Mark Levin and Katrina Pierson. Two of the current treading hashtags are #techtyrants and #twexit. Instead of tweets, posted messages are called Parleys.
The service automatically assigns you a username based on your email address, you have to go into your profile and manually change it if you want to use something else something else.
As far as actually using the service? It sucks. The interface sucks. The colors suck. The default font sucks. It’s basically a lame wannabe Twitter for wingnuts.
Here’s a screenshot so you can see how bad it is:
I might expand this critique to a full on page later, we’ll see.
The tide is still coming in up here in Alaska:
Alaska on Thursday logged the highest combined count of confirmed coronavirus infections in residents and nonresident workers and visitors since the pandemic began.
Nearly all the new nonresident cases came in seafood industry workers, who are required to get tested under plans filed by processing companies. It wasn’t clear how many, if any, reported symptoms of the illness.
Alaska’s total number of active cases — residents with positive tests who aren’t considered recovered — also increased again to a new high of 291, according to state data.
Health officials reported 46 new cases Thursday: 25 in residents and 21 in nonresidents, according to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services COVID-19 dashboard.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
As best as I can tell, the “populist left” wants things like free college and a dramatically improved minimum wage, while the “populist right” wants to kill everyone to the left of Genghis Khan and turn the country into a theocracy.
Not a lot of common ground there.
From #210:
For Charles - It keeps telling me there’s some amount of new messages, which consistently takes me back to message 162. (Example - I see message 209 now and it says 47 new comments, even though there are none. When I was at message 208 it said 46, etc, etc)
Same for me, until I recycle the page.
It must be the sideways dog photograph in #162. /s
Man who watches sex workers and even knows their patch #blocked ya flag banger - away and guard a statue https://t.co/Q1QLevlbzj
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) June 25, 2020
re: #252 stpaulbear
He stole his album cover from Heatmiser, Elliot Smith’s early band.
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Continuing the airliner theme was Swedish band Kent, on their ‘Isola’ album.
the ballad of billy barr @TheJusticeDept @realDonaldTrump @SpeakerPelosi @JerryNadler pic.twitter.com/KWBF0DpwW9
— Courtney Jaye (@TropicaliJaye) June 25, 2020
the ballad of billy barr @TheJusticeDept @realDonaldTrump @SpeakerPelosi @JerryNadler pic.twitter.com/KWBF0DpwW9
— Courtney Jaye (@TropicaliJaye) June 25, 2020
Puerto Rico’s population contains more American citizens than Arkansas. The state Cotton represents
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 25, 2020
A little hoops news - Vince Carter has retired after 22 seasons in the NBA.
Vince Carter’s career:
-22 seasons
-25,728 points (19th all time)
-6,606 rebounds
-4,714 assists
-1,530 steals
-888 blocks
-2,290 3 pointers (6th all time)
-8x All Star
-2x All NBA
-ROTY
-Dunk Contest champ
-only player to play in 4 different decades
Half Man, Half Amazing. pic.twitter.com/3z3AMl4Wgi— ethan (@okcfanethan) June 25, 2020
I used to dread when he came to MSG, because I knew he’d light the Knicks right up.
But what a career. Happy trails, Vinsanity.
re: #261 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Tom Cotton is barely even trying to hide what it is. https://t.co/alJj8hr4hB
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 25, 2020
re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth
Salamander Street is down by the docks in Leith, Edinburgh’s port town. There’s been a determined effort by the city council to gentrify the area but, well, it’s down by the docks. Calling it “Ocean Terminal” to promote tourism doesn’t fool anybody.
re: #261 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
They sooo want to represent dirt, not citizens.
re: #264 Nojay UK
Salamander Street is down by the docks in Leith, Edinburgh’s port town. There’s been a determined effort by the city council to gentrify the area but, well, it’s down by the docks. Calling it “Ocean Terminal” to promote tourism doesn’t fool anybody.
The kind of place that Beatle’s manager Brian Epstein liked to sneak off to. He used to get beat up a lot.
you made multiple appearances on fox over the past few weeks, telling everyone how your buddy @RonDeSantisFL had figured it out while the libs in the blue states were clueless.
and now people are massively infected.
you and @SenRickScott have failed along with Rona Ron. https://t.co/3dW6pcFeU0— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 25, 2020
I received this, despite not ever having given them money, let alone even clicked through from one of their emails a single time. They are selling this President like Crazy Eddie sold that ‘96 Impala that had been sitting on the lot for 2 years. pic.twitter.com/ZRMYyxau52
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) June 25, 2020
As a Trump Team Leader, I received one of these. too.
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 25, 2020
So in addition to the problems with the comments (still not loading/updating properly - all seeming to go back to #162: I’ve heard the tagline “cute doggie pictures broke the Internet” - this is the first time I’ve actually seen it happen); the RH sidebar seems to have slipped: it now appears below the bottom of the comments column; the whole page now much “longer”.
good fucking grief
“For more than 75 years, the workers of this shipyard have built some 1,500 of the finest and most fearsome vessels ever to sail,” President @realDonaldTrump says of Fincantieri Marinette Marine! pic.twitter.com/eFZiGc5kKS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 25, 2020
Today represents a victory for Wisconsin, for our military, and for the entire Nation. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/2XoJaPXxqp
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 25, 2020
“This contract will support your 1,500 full-time employees, and it will also enable you to hire another 1,000 people all across the shipyards in Wisconsin.” pic.twitter.com/qSsnd54mjf
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 25, 2020
🚨 FOX NEWS POLL 🚨
FL: Biden 49, Trump 40
GA: Biden 47, Trump 45
NC: Biden 47, Trump 45
TX: Biden 45, Trump 44— Ashley Moir (@ashleymoirDC) June 25, 2020
Today’s GOP:
This case actually turns out to be far worse than I originally thought.
The pregnant Marshallese women were kept in a prostitution camp where they had sex for food. The babies were essentially being farmed by the defendants. The women were as young as 15.https://t.co/HWmygGOYUq https://t.co/CkxcnAfFxT pic.twitter.com/GXlzIzfEbH— Jeff Yang (@originalspin) June 25, 2020
moron is very upset
Black Lives Matter leader states, “If U.S. doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it”. This is Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2020
Told that @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio wants to paint the fabled & beautiful Fifth Avenue, right in front of Trump Tower/Tiffany, with a big yellow Black Lives Matter sign. “Pigs in a Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon”, referring to killing Police, is their chant. NYC Police are furious!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2020
re: #275 jaunte
Today’s GOP:
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Verizon has pulled ads from Facebook after the Anti Defamation League published an open letter claiming that they saw “an advertisement for Verizon appearing next to a video from the conspiracy group QAnon.” https://t.co/4050JLmVJy
— Travis View (@travis_view) June 25, 2020
It’s always a blast whenever there’s an afternoon thunderstorm and I have to race to post the show before the power goes out.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) June 25, 2020
“I rise because I was #BreonnaTaylor’s congressman…” — @RepJohnYarmuth
Watch: pic.twitter.com/TcJGqegOqm #KY03— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) June 25, 2020
“…Petersen, 44, resigned from his job in Arizona as Maricopa County’s assessor in January. He pleaded guilty in that state Thursday to collaborating to get state-funded health care for adoptive mothers, even though he knew the women didn’t live in Arizona.
………..
Authorities in Utah have said he brought at least 40 women from the Marshall Islands to the Beehive State to place their babies for adoption over three years, offering each $10,000. [He charged the adoptive families $35,000]. Citizens of the island nation have been barred from traveling to the U.S. for adoptions since 2003.
The women received little or no prenatal care, prosecutors alleged.”
Especially after January 20. https://t.co/LzFiKGLlrM
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) June 25, 2020
Last night my BIL (anti-Trump and will probably vote straight D this year) started pontificating on how dreadful it was that Quaker Oats was eliminating the Aunt Jemima name from their product line because, after all, Aunt Jemima was a slave freed by the Civil War who by dint of her superb culinary skills created all this products and became a millionaire. I told him that he was wrong and that she had nothing to do with this and suggested that he look this up online; he immediately took offense and said of course he had to be wrong and I obviously knew more than anyone. After all, he had read this story in multiple places but was still ignorant. My sister came to the rescue — with google, she found the real story (maybe at Snopes), and read it to us. I mentioned that I also have corrected others on FB when they relayed false stories.
He remained irritated — and seems to go along with the philosophy that people don’t like to be corrected — so let’s not upset them. It’s really concerning how these fabrications can spread like wildfire and people who are well educated fall for them.
Is this subtweet too subtle for Dreher?
I once new a guy who believed in exorcism. He believed people could actually be possessed by demons and an ancient ritual could remove that demon. He was as nutty as this woman.
— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) June 25, 2020
Texas is a failed state.
JBSA = Joint Base San Antonio. Which includes Ft. Sam Houston, Lackland AFB & Randolph AFB
JUST IN: @JBSA_Official Commander increases the Health Protection Condition to Charlie. Only Mission critical personnel will be allowed on #military installations. #kens5eyewitness pic.twitter.com/Q7Xeb3t3ai
— Luke Simons (@LukeKENS5) June 25, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump to @seanhannity on monuments: “Every night we’re going to get tougher and tougher, and at some point there is going to be retribution because there has to be. These people are vandals, but they’re agitators, but they’re really, they’re terrorists in a sense.”
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) June 25, 2020
Trump is begging for someone to get killed.
Looks definitely like it’s a bad post - I hit reply on reply 160 and it behaved normal.
Rose: Don’t you understand? The water is freezing and there aren’t enough boats. Not enough by half. Half the people on this ship are going to die.
Cal Hockley: Not the better half. https://t.co/IYJ8aaNqY1— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 25, 2020
re: #288 jaunte
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Fixed for the truth of it.
re: #253 Eclectic Cyborg
You didn’t have to put your phone number in it to join?
I have to confess that I did not have “black lives matter is treason” on my The President Is A Rancid Fucking Moron Bingo card
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 25, 2020
lol wut pic.twitter.com/ht94mDfDCh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 25, 2020
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I think if you reload the page now it should be fixed. Somehow a closing tag in post 162 got munged.
re: #292 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You didn’t have to put your phone number in it to join?
I did. Fortunately, I have a phone I rarely use, essentially a burner number, that I was able to provide.
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
Didn’t he have the same story, better looking but cheaper, about buildings just a week ago?
That shipyard is owned by an Italian firm. https://t.co/HpW1SCnLKn
— Sue (@Pinkomomma) June 25, 2020
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I wonder how he manages to squeeze in time to redesign battleships while he’s on Twitter.
re: #299 Sir John Barron
I wonder how he manages to squeeze in time to redesign battleships while he’s on Twitter.
Jared is on it.
re: #295 Charles Johnson
That did it. At least LGF is back to normal.
re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron is very upset
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re: #299 Sir John Barron
I wonder how he manages to squeeze in time to redesign battleships while he’s on Twitter.
He always carries his Sharpie!
re: #66 Dave In Austin
Rep. Biggs, why do you hate the Constitution?
Glad we went from 15 cases all the way down to 2.3 million. Can’t wait till November.
— Alex Fuller (@atfnewmexico) June 25, 2020
The reality: As @JoeBiden says, Trump wants “take credit for Obama-Biden Administration-fueled successes in an attempt to paper over the fact that Wisconsin has been bleeding blue-collar manufacturing jobs over the past few weeks.”https://t.co/OgEWY8ZqKR
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 25, 2020
Y’all.. this just happened on our local news site.. what is life pic.twitter.com/wEvLEVzS9r
— Just Jen (@Jenwifonen) June 25, 2020
re: #311 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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“He got it from the mask”
Yikes. I do NOT want to know where that mask has been.
re: #253 Eclectic Cyborg
Looks like a bad Facebook knockoff
re: #265 jaunte
They sooo want to represent dirt, not citizens.
There is/was a line of thought among a certain branch of the Federalist Society types that believe the States qua States should matter. The basic idea is that the states are themselves an entity and should have a say in the federal government. It plays off of the idea that every state gets 2 senators and how the legislatures originally elected senators and even chose electors. My old con law professor, Jon Eastman (yes, that Jon Eastman), was a big proponent of this idea. Even when I was running in those circles, I thought it was a ridiculous idea to believe that the states were something separate from the people who lived in them but I have always been on board with the concept of popular sovereignty.
This may have already been posted here. I’ve struggled to keep up with threads the past few days. Regardless, it may me cry and needs to have the widest possible audience.
We need @JoeBiden. We need a mensch.
From Rabbi Michael Beals of Delaware :
“The story I’m about to share with you about Joe Biden is special — in fact, I’m fairly certain I’m the only living person left who actually witnessed it firsthand.
[1/12]— Stanley Krute (@StanleyKrute) June 23, 2020
re: #313 A Mom Anon
Looks like a bad Facebook knockoff
Wow, Dan Bongino, Laura Loomer, Eric Trump, Rudy G. I can’t wait to not get on whatever platform that is.
FLORIDA
If the presidential election were today …
WHITE
Trump 50%
Biden 42%
BLACK
Trump 6%
Biden 80%
HISPANIC
Trump 35%
Biden 52%
(Fox News Poll, RV, 6/20-23/20)https://t.co/K3LiwFoewK
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jeeezus F’in Christ - what a maroon.
Actually, according to a piece I read by Robert Farley over at Lawyers, Guns and Money (an authority on military stuff I’d take over Trump 24/7/365), Fincantieri Wisconsin got that contract The Orange Anus is celebrating precisely because there was no change in the design: the Navy decided to order five new frigates of an existing model they were already building, rather than go through the time and expense of designing a whole new class. Trump is right that this will keep employment up at the Marinette shipyard, though: even if it isn’t going to be used to build the new dreadnought USS Ivanka…..
ADD: re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth:
Joe’s right (unsurprisingly), one really has to wonder how busy that shipyard would be if they hadn’t had a shit-ton of Navy contracts over the years (probably why Fincantieri bought them - they build naval vessels for a slew of countries: no business like government business).
jfc
1/ A TaskRabbit contractor in San Antonio told me he stumbled onto a warehouse where people were repackaging non-medical Chinese masks so they could pass for medical use and be sold to Texas.
So began my latest journey into the world of COVID profiteers ..— J. David McSwane (@davidmcswane) June 25, 2020
re: #281 jaunte
“…Petersen, 44, resigned from his job in Arizona as Maricopa County’s assessor in January. He pleaded guilty in that state Thursday to collaborating to get state-funded health care for adoptive mothers, even though he knew the women didn’t live in Arizona.
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Authorities in Utah have said he brought at least 40 women from the Marshall Islands to the Beehive State to place their babies for adoption over three years, offering each $10,000. [He charged the adoptive families $35,000]. Citizens of the island nation have been barred from traveling to the U.S. for adoptions since 2003.The women received little or no prenatal care, prosecutors alleged.”
The ones who were sent to Arizona were signed up on the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) aka Arizona’s Medicaid. This was theft from the government because the women were not qualified, but if they got prenatal care, I’m OK with that. However, I think.most of the women were sent to Utah.
Not shown: the small child inches away with a remote control and an intent expression.
— Naomi Kritzer (@NaomiKritzer) June 25, 2020
Obviously I removed the lemonade and then put the money in the holder!
— Naomi Kritzer (@NaomiKritzer) June 25, 2020
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #317 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I’d love to see crosstabs on the Hispanic numbers. Cuban vs Non-Cuban, age, first/second/third generation, Cubans by age and generation.
re: #311 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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— Morgan (@morganfletcher) June 25, 2020
re: #319 nines09
jfc
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Doesn’t surprise me one damn bit. There are so many profiteers all over this Coronavirus stuff.
re: #315 Teddy’s Person
This may have already been posted here. I’ve struggled to keep up with threads the past few days. Regardless, it may me cry and needs to have the widest possible audience.
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Holy shit. That’s profound. I also think this goes back to the point I made earlier - Barack Obama had his reasons for choosing Joe Biden as his running mate. I believe a large part of it was that they are men of similar character.
Maybe Ben Shapiro can discuss this the next time Zuckerberg has him over for a cook-out. https://t.co/ov2ZsRAwRO
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) June 25, 2020
Fox News polls have Biden leading by 9 in Florida, 2 in Georgia and North Carolina and 1 in Texas (!!). Biden at 49, 47, 47, 45, respectively
DC should be a state. Pass it on. https://t.co/xUJ1sud76f
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 25, 2020
re: #325 Eclectic Cyborg
Doesn’t surprise me one damn bit. There are so many profiteers all over this Coronavirus stuff.
And with the Trump administration, it’s a free for all. Chinese knockoffs will kill us yet.
Your dad, off script, said the current year is “220.” https://t.co/DW7jjQHfiL
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) June 25, 2020
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
At this point, my only real question is what would the name of the state be?
I think we can satisfy the electoral college issue by drawing the lines such that the only areas making up the “seat of government” are places that do not have permanent residents.
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Maybe Ben Shapiro can discuss this the next time Zuckerberg has him over for a cook-out. https://t.co/ov2ZsRAwRO
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) June 25, 2020
re: #326 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Holy shit. That’s profound. I also think this goes back to the point I made earlier - Barack Obama had his reasons for choosing Joe Biden as his running mate. I believe a large part of it was that they are men of similar character.
The whole time I was reading the story I could clearly picture Joe Biden doing this.
OK, I’ll say it.
I do not think DC should be a state. It should be incorporated into Maryland in some way so they can have representation
re: #315 Teddy’s Person
This may have already been posted here. I’ve struggled to keep up with threads the past few days. Regardless, it may me cry and needs to have the widest possible audience.
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re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
puerto rico too, just sayin
This seems like a big deal:
ARIZONA
If the 2020 U.S. Senate election were held today …
Martha McSally (R) 38%
Mark Kelly (D) 47%
(NYT/Siena College Poll, RV, 6/8-16/20)https://t.co/K3LiwFoewK
As does this:
NORTH CAROLINA
If the North Carolina election for U.S. senator were today …
Thom Tillis (R) 37%
Cal Cunningham (D) 39%
Kevin Hayes (C) 3%
Shannon Bray (L) 3%
(Fox News Poll, RV, 6/20-23/20)https://t.co/K3LiwFoewK
And this:
GEORGIA
If the Georgia election for U.S. senator were today …
David Perdue (R) 45%
Jon Ossoff (D) 42%
(Fox News Poll, RV, 6/20-23/20)https://t.co/K3LiwFoewK
Your Parler name is the name of the street that you first showed a total lack of empathy for another human being + the worst thing you’ve ever called a dog
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) June 25, 2020
re: #335 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
OK, I’ll say it.
I do not think DC should be a state. It should be incorporated into Maryland in some way so they can have representation
One suggestion along the way was to do something like that. Where DC voters would get to vote for Representatives and Senators from either Maryland or Virginia. It’s an interesting idea, but the people of DC seem to want a state of their own, and that seems fair enough to me.
re: #254 Cheechako
Statewide, Nebraska has been declining from the peak day of 677 new cases on May 6 to 125 yesterday.
The cases and recoveries are still overwhelmingly young people (20-29), with the next generation (55-64) being the most hospitalised, and the most deaths amongst the elderly.
It would seem younger people are bringing the disease home to their parents and killing their grandparents.
In the Panhandle it skews younger with 10-19 being the largest age group to get the disease and recover from it.
Both show women are 2/3 of cases, which suggests to me that public-facing jobs such as store clerk or bank teller are most likely to contract the disease (and all it takes is one anti-mask wingnut).
Of our two banks, the one in Bridgeport won’t let anyone in the lobby at all, and the one in Lisco won’t let you in unless you’re wearing a mask.
So far today, @Mike_Pence has tweeted or retweeted 18 times about electric trucks, 3 times about the Korean War, 3 times about a Trump speech and twice about cops.
Pence, who is Covid czar with cases spiking and 122,000 Americans dead, has tweeted zero times about the virus. https://t.co/Z6UcXjLOch— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) June 25, 2020
This is everything. pic.twitter.com/EjKr79kKDg
— TurningOverTables (@OverTables) June 14, 2020
re: #335 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
OK, I’ll say it.
I do not think DC should be a state. It should be incorporated into Maryland in some way so they can have representation
One problem with that is while sometimes it has been suggested DC could be shrunk down to only the federal property, all the embassies, consulates, trade missions, lobbyists, &c are not on federal property. Maryland has been firm that they do not want DC because they cannot afford all the policing that requires.
re: #332 KGxvi
At this point, my only real question is what would the name of the state be?
I think we can satisfy the electoral college issue by drawing the lines such that the only areas making up the “seat of government” are places that do not have permanent residents.
TBH, I think the old (c. 2006??) plan of getting around the “statehood”
issue was a good one: the House would simply vote to grant the District’s currently non-voting delegate a valid vote (and never mind the Senate) - there was even a provision to add one additional House seat - in a reliably GOP state to get over the usual objection from Republicans that a DC Rep would be a reliable Democrat (gee, wonder why?): but of course, like virtually everything else relating to DC, Republicans blocked it.
this guy
The only reason Democrats want to make D.C. a state is to get two new Democratic senators in perpetuity.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) June 25, 2020
re: #315 Teddy’s Person
This may have already been posted here. I’ve struggled to keep up with threads the past few days. Regardless, it may me cry and needs to have the widest possible audience.
That is an example of Mr. Biden’s character. Ten people in a laundry room is not a political rally or a way to engender turnout for an election, especially when the story was never told. Mr. Biden showing up is because he is a decent man.
Ugh. Can we at least T.P. his house. Or post-it note his Mercedes. https://t.co/5I3vI6IHJD
— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) June 25, 2020
re: #335 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
OK, I’ll say it.
I do not think DC should be a state. It should be incorporated into Maryland in some way so they can have representation
Why? What’s your reasoning?
WashPo is showing 2483 deaths today. That can’t be right. Are they adding in ones they missed from previous weeks? Cal is 100. Tex and Florida are about 50 each. Something is off.
Also a record number of new cases.
I had my CT scan today. Nothing to report. (I was very brave, but I did not get a loly or a sticker).
If you want the District of Columbia “free from politics of the Senate and House” then that’s a fairly good reason to make it a state under its own state government and governor and not controlled by the federal government.
Try again, Sergei, try harder. pic.twitter.com/waZfSGU2jR— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 25, 2020
My Russian isn’t great, he’s either against representative democracy or mad the local grocer is out of rutabagas. https://t.co/9U00wqZzz4
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 25, 2020
re: #349 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah…this is why I’m not ready to join any sort of “trust Pelosi always” fan club. Of course we know the disgracefully corrupt and cowardly wannabe fascists in the Senate won’t convict him. So what? MAKE THEM OWN THEIR CORRUPTION. Anything else is just letting them off the hook:
Unbelievable. Barr, trump and the GOP are suppressing the voters and @SpeakerPelosi says we should just vote so she doesn’t have to do her job. https://t.co/uEKxAcAcmi
— amy (@amyinthelou) June 25, 2020
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The GOP has destroyed the economy, but they want to charge DC for the cost of changes to flags?
Priorities. Enrage the racist base that honors the Confederacy and protects statues to traitors, but hit DC up for flag change costs?
GOP Delenda Est.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 25, 2020
This is all the GOP have to muster in opposition to DC becoming a state? That they want to charge DC for the flag change, all while the Trump admin decided to send out more than a billion dollars to dead people as part of the latest stimulus package.
They spent how much money adding Trump’s name to the paper checks, and then sending out an additional letter to everyone reminding them that Trump had to sign this into law (kicking and screaming).
Palm Beach County commissioner’s meeting on masks — mashed up with “Parks and Rec” Town Hall.
The internet remains undefeated… pic.twitter.com/8r4lea9Dly— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 25, 2020
Loving your mom sometimes means pretending to like her cooking…😂😭😍
pic.twitter.com/1yXRpH8smQ— FierceWarriorNStilettos (@InactionNever) June 25, 2020
Don’t worry folks, I spent the morning going through thousands of newly unsealed pages of documents. If it’s newsy, it’s in the inbox of a local reporter with a note to pay it forward.
— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) June 25, 2020
Bless his heart.
— Dorie C (@doriecham) June 25, 2020
Princess Nepotista’s super affected porn-whisper makes my skin crawl. https://t.co/fSY3hZWf2M
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 26, 2020
re: #350 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Why? What’s your reasoning?
Because it is a single city.
All the “But, it’s population is bigger than so & so states” is a stupid argument.
The only concern should be getting DC citizens representation. And, the most sensible way to achieve that is by incorporating it in some fashion into Maryland.
re: #264 Nojay UK
Salamander Street is down by the docks in Leith, Edinburgh’s port town. There’s been a determined effort by the city council to gentrify the area but, well, it’s down by the docks. Calling it “Ocean Terminal” to promote tourism doesn’t fool anybody.
Hey, a direct bus route from Prince’s Street to the mall at Ocean Terminal and a tour of the Royal Yacht? I was so there.
Why the fuck is anyone saluting Hannity? He’s not in the chain of command, and he’s not a Marine. He’s an accessory to Trump felony conduct. He was directly implicated by Manafort as being a go-between for him and Trump. https://t.co/RIJJn8RzDA
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 25, 2020
re: #360 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Because it is a single city.
All the “But, it’s population is bigger than so & so states” is a stupid argument.
The only concern should be getting DC citizens representation. And, the most sensible way to achieve that is by incorporating it in some fashion into Maryland.
Why does it matter that it is a single city?
re: #360 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Because it is a single city.
All the “But, it’s population is bigger than so & so states” is a stupid argument.
The only concern should be getting DC citizens representation. And, the most sensible way to achieve that is by incorporating it in some fashion into Maryland.
Since Maryland doesn’t want it, that’s not so sensible.
Zane & Trixi. ❤️
24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 5 months (and during a pandemic). That’s how long the DZS animal care staff hand-reared a male chimpanzee born in early Jan. before they successfully transitioned his care to an adoptive chimpanzee mom: https://t.co/rM83lnpLve pic.twitter.com/zy9TmcwsZ7— Detroit Zoo (@detroitzoo) June 25, 2020
re: #354 lawhawk
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This is all the GOP have to muster in opposition to DC becoming a state? That they want to charge DC for the flag change, all while the Trump admin decided to send out more than a billion dollars to dead people as part of the latest stimulus package.
They spent how much money adding Trump’s name to the paper checks, and then sending out an additional letter to everyone reminding them that Trump had to sign this into law (kicking and screaming).
Most recent flag update took place back in 1959, when Hawaii was officially proclaimed the 50th state…As soon as the new flag was announced, the U.S. government probably started making contingency plans for a 51-star flag, according to Repke.
“The cost to make a new flag is no different than the cost of making the current flag,” Repke explained. “We do our star fields by giant embroidery machines that run off software, so we would just have to make some software change … that’s like uploading a digital file. There is no real expense in that.”
marketplace.org
re: #359 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #363 Mike Lamb
There is no geographical limitation, size limit, or even population size limit.
Heck, NYC has a larger population than 38 states.
NYC is roughly 300 square miles in size. It’s the most densely populated place in the US.
NJ is the most densely populated state in the nation.
Wyoming has fewer people living there than Bergen County NJ.
DC is long overdue for statehood. Doubly so for Puerto Rico.
Off topic, but a reference to Maricopa sped me into memory lane. Two of my college roommates are dead. One of them, and I had lost touch with him, called me in 2002 or so to tell me that my freshman-year roommate had died from alcohol poisoning. He was a promising research doctor who had just been hired at Duke. The guy who called me was my sophomore year roommate. Fresh and soph roommates went to the same elite private school in Massachusetts and were friends. My soph-year roommate also struggled with alcohol addiction and other addictions, but his adoptive father had been a leader on Wall Street, and so he glided into a good job after college. But he didn’t feel fulfilled. He told me that he beat drugs and alcohol, rode as an assist EMT, then went to med school at age 38 (in the Caribbean) and ended up as a family physician. He ended up in Maricopa (thus the post). And then he died of a heart attack just walking down the street two years ago.
It’s so weird to have your roommates from the first two years of college already be dead. I’m mid 50s. But they came from extremely privileged families. There is no safe haven from death.
Under a new rule issued by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, school districts are ordered to set aside a portion of their aid for private schools using a formula based on the total number of private school students in the district https://t.co/lSBky5rKu0
— NBC10 Boston (@NBC10Boston) June 25, 2020
The more we allow public taxpayer dollars to be pulled away from public education, the more we line the pockets of billionaires like the DeVos family, and like the Ricketts family which owns a private school company.
Tax dollars are for schools that serve ALL children. Not this. https://t.co/YCLkPvSuD2— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) June 25, 2020
re: #369 lawhawk
For that matter, I thought Puerto Rico voted to request statehood in a recent election. Didn’t the (Republican) Senate put the kibosh on that?
The judicial branch does not like Trump and Barr’s games https://t.co/FakVKqEa69
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) June 25, 2020
A sharpie isn’t going to fix this problem. pic.twitter.com/g2Rm8gRS0I
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 25, 2020
re: #368 Teddy’s Person
How many shower curtains were sacrificed to make that dress?
I don’t know, but at least as shower curtains they actually served a purpose.
Like a good Trumpist, McSally of AZ thinks that the way to restart the economy is to encourage people to go on vacation more than 50 miles from your home.
If you do that, you’d get more money - aka tax breaks.
This doesn’t help those making minimum wage. It doesn’t help the poor.
It helps millionaires who don’t need the money, and it doesn’t help anyone who realizes the existential threat of going anywhere during a pandemic. The pandemic means people aren’t masking up, eating out is a crapshoot, and attractions are limited in attendance to minimize risks. Nothing about this screams tax break.
The only thing that stops a pandemic is a vaccine. Having contact tracing, masking and social distancing can help the R0 burn out and prevent further spread, but Trumpists are ignoring all that.
But the Trumpists are always going to fall back on tax cuts as a solution for covid19. It’s their solution to everything.
re: #368 Teddy’s Person
No shower curtains were harmed by that dress.
That’s a Trump window shade.
No shower curtain would be caught dead in that pattern.
re: #367 BeachDem
Most recent flag update took place back in 1959, when Hawaii was officially proclaimed the 50th state…As soon as the new flag was announced, the U.S. government probably started making contingency plans for a 51-star flag, according to Repke.
“The cost to make a new flag is no different than the cost of making the current flag,” Repke explained. “We do our star fields by giant embroidery machines that run off software, so we would just have to make some software change … that’s like uploading a digital file. There is no real expense in that.”
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I kind of like this version of a 51 star flag that looks like 5 sets of bowling pins with a star in the middle. I’d sacrifice the length of the white stripe below the blue field so that the field and stars could be a little larger though.
Another racist goes away.
Very popular OG YouTuber #JennaMarbles is ashamed and embarassed because of her past problematic videos, including doing blackface, being racially insensitive towards Asian, slut-shaming and more. She just announced she’s leaving YouTube. And she may never come back! pic.twitter.com/UnL6kZZrfQ
— Perez (@ThePerezHilton) June 25, 2020
Biden: “I want every single American to know: If you are sick, if you are struggling, if you are worried about how you are going to get through the day, I will not abandon you. I will not leave you to face these challenges alone. We’re going to get through this together.” pic.twitter.com/H4O1wycXbC
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 25, 2020
Was he just using it to hold down his papers during his incoherent “speech” today or is there something wrong with his left arm? No “accordion” moves today—only the right hand was ever raised.
And what is up with his jacket sleeve in the pic? I’ve never seen wind do that to a garment.
Yeah—I need a hobby…or a life.
re: #360 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Because it is a single city.
All the “But, it’s population is bigger than so & so states” is a stupid argument.
The only concern should be getting DC citizens representation. And, the most sensible way to achieve that is by incorporating it in some fashion into Maryland.
They can’t incorporate into MD or VA - precisely because it was set aside as the seat of the federal government. Statehood is a valid option, and you can have the city of DC and the State of DC - the State being the current border, and the city could be the inner ring.
Mapmakers could have a field day with that - but it’s doable. Again, land/size is irrelevant to state inclusion. After all, DE and RI are incomprehensibly small, while TX and AK are huge. And NY, VA, and other states long claimed borders that extended all the way west before they got carved up into their current borders. So much of this was arbitrary, so too can be DC as a state.
Trump, a guy who once owned a beauty pageant: In the future, wars will be won by those with the prettiest weapons! https://t.co/zl7ykmWs3x
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 26, 2020
re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth
This business from Trump about testing causing covid cases is bizarre.
Perhaps he really has lost the concept of object permanence.
Delusion abounds on Twitter
See, Republicans don’t want power. Only Democrats do. Because Republicans don’t try to win. But Democrats do. That. That aligns with reality.
— TheEuphioAnswer (@TheEuphioAnswer) June 25, 2020
re: #384 EPR-radar
This business from Trump about testing causing covid cases is bizarre.
Perhaps he really has lost the concept of object permanence.
Reason Magazine called him out for that yesterday.
re: #385 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Delusion abounds on Twitter
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re: #387 jaunte
That one looks a little too vortex-ish for me.
re: #387 jaunte
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Gah. My quick impression was that it was a psychedelic Eye of Sauron flag.
re: #389 stpaulbear
It’s from the Watchmen series, so probably intended to be a little disturbing.
re: #367 BeachDem
Most recent flag update took place back in 1959, when Hawaii was officially proclaimed the 50th state…As soon as the new flag was announced, the U.S. government probably started making contingency plans for a 51-star flag, according to Repke.
“The cost to make a new flag is no different than the cost of making the current flag,” Repke explained. “We do our star fields by giant embroidery machines that run off software, so we would just have to make some software change … that’s like uploading a digital file. There is no real expense in that.”
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The Institute of Heraldry, which designs US flags, has prepared designs for up to 100 stars.
There are several 51 star designs.
re: #379 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Another racist goes away.
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