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Not that it’s shocking or anything but this thread makes it clear this press event was to frame the damage, not to do anything about it continuing. https://t.co/aSVs5r9Nwf
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 26, 2020
That would be the same White House that threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and claimed absolute power over governors, yes? https://t.co/HsjqgeDiy9
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) June 27, 2020
Absentee Ballots are fine. A person has to go through a process to get and use them. Mail-In Voting, on the other hand, will lead to the most corrupt Election is USA history. Bad things happen with Mail-Ins. Just look at Special Election in Patterson, N.J. 19% of Ballots a FRAUD!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2020
A reason to feel good about humanity for a change.
CHECK THIS OUT: Brian, Tricia and Brady Hurt were fishing in Northern Wisconsin when they spotted this bear with a plastic container over his head. After a few attempts they were able to remove the container and the bear made it back to shore! Video courtesy of Hurt Family. pic.twitter.com/fLKVWdo2AC
— NBC15 News (@nbc15_madison) June 28, 2020
Ready for an ugly ugly prediction?
John Oliver’s main story tonight was about evictions for the millions of people who can’t pay their rent because Covid cost them their jobs. So…
Imagine on August 1 (or September 1) the RNC sends out caging letters, marked “do not forward”, to all the registered voters in battleground states, informing people that if they don’t return the card within 30 days their voter registration will be stricken from the rolls. Tenants don’t get the letters, don’t return them, and even if they show up on Election Day looking for provisional ballots, their ID does not reflect their current address.
On this day in 1969, The Stonewall Riots begin in NYC’s Greenwich Village https://t.co/rTbYBz9c61
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) June 28, 2020
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
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The “process” I had to go through to get one was: Sign my name to a paper and mail it to the County Registrar.
There’s ZERO difference Herr Asshat.
A reminder: Vladimir Putin is a highly trained KGB IO. Putin does not golf. He does not tweet. He does watch RT (Russia’s FoxNews). What Putin & his intel services do every waking hour EVERY DAY, is develop & implement clandestine operations targeting the U.S. That’s all they do.
— Todd Rowley🇺🇸🌎 (@ToddRowleyPA13) June 29, 2020
Someone’s been on a roll today and I like it.
How about we send all the Confederate monuments to Dan and he can keep them on his lawn? https://t.co/rmxvOEJA9d
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) June 29, 2020
The bitch actually has her finger on the bloody trigger……. She need her CCL pulled. Shes an untrained menace to society.
— And the Wind Cries “SLOW THE TESTING DOWN!!!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) June 29, 2020
re: #13 Dave In Austin
I think someone said that the state she’s in doesn’t even require a license. She should get in trouble for pointing it at others.
Pretty good new ad. Who are these guys?
📽️ NEW VIDEO
The President knows the threat.
He knows what to do to prevent that threat.
And yet he decides to do the exact opposite. He is knowingly gambling with our lives. #EndTheNightmare pic.twitter.com/akUlNlMJZn— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) June 28, 2020
So Trump knew in March that a Russian GRU unit was paying Afghan rebels to snipe and kill Coalition troops, and that some Americans were killed and the snipers were paid by the Russians. And he did nothing. By his inaction, he agreed with the Russian action.
Full stop.
Anyone who votes for this this worthless piece of shit of a human being in November is also a worthless piece of shit.
I simply cannot tell you how enraged I am by his lack of any action. He is just an evil, evil human.
re: #12 Dave In Austin
Someone’s been on a roll today and I like it.
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Who didn’t expect Dan KKKrenshaw to ghostwrite an article for National Racists Online?
And by “Russian metal giant” they mean criminal oligarch Oleg Deripaska.https://t.co/32AhWSnHtm
— Flatten the fascism, not the webrant🕺———🕺 (@web_rant) June 28, 2020
re: #12 Dave In Austin
Someone’s been on a roll today and I like it.
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FTA:
traditional American narratives and icons
That’s the problem that you and your fellow “brave Americans” don’t get, Dan. Before last week, I doubt most people even knew that Grant had been gifted a slave by his father-in-law and that he felt so embarrassed by the “gift” that he’d let the man go free. Or that the figure of Aunt Jemima was based upon a 19th century minstrel show character. And believe it or not, folks can feel that Abe Lincoln should be memorialized for the Emancipation Proclamation without having him stand tall over the figure of a black man.
The problem is ignorance, most of it willful, and all of it harmful to race relations and the efforts to fix such. So long as a nation continues to lie to itself about its history and tells itself feel-good stories about how it’s “fixed” the errors of its past, then it’s never going to be able to move past them. I don’t give a flying fuck if you grew up with Aunt Jemima on the breakfast table and that’s what you feel comfortable with, it’s a sugar-coated lie and it needs to go.
Another day, another “Karen gone wild” moment….
JFC, these people. This is why COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing. Watch the vid with audio.
BBL: off to work.
1/ Look who’s talking about the rights of refugees! A government whose campaign motto was to “build a wall” and has been repeatedly condemned for its cruel border policies (e. g. separating migrant children from their parents), is lecturing the world about #WorldRefugeeDay. pic.twitter.com/PwhlpZZeh8
— Iran Foreign Ministry 🇮🇷 (@IRIMFA_EN) June 22, 2020
re: #21 Dr Lizardo
Another day, another “Karen gone wild” moment….
JFC, these people. This is why COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing. Watch the vid with audio.
BBL: off to work.
It’s performance art by this point, white people engaged in this behavior for no other reason than to make a scene. This is now the second one that people saw wearing a mask to gain entrance, and then removing it once inside before going berserk the moment staff told them to put it back on.
this woman’s menopause lasted longer than the Confederacy pic.twitter.com/4Tf9ZPfRFb
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) June 29, 2020
Pretty sure these assholes committed felony menacing. You can’t just point your guns at non-threatening people willy nilly. They need to go to jail for a while and have their guns taken away from them.
re: #22 Dread Pirate
Wait… The Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s last name is Destro?
It’s starting to make sense now.
re: #24 teleskiguy
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Pretty sure these assholes committed felony menacing. You can’t just point your guns at non-threatening people willy nilly. They need to go to jail for a while and have their guns taken away from them.
Ah, “responsible gun owners,” I see.
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“British security officials have confirmed to Sky News that the reports about the plot are true.”
Russia offered Taliban-linked fighters bounties to attack British troops - as senior Tory MP seeks answers https://t.co/e5RJ3cefJS— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) June 29, 2020
This husky was left in the car with windows down by his owner, but he had a very loud plan to get their attention. pic.twitter.com/5p2usUUeoB
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) June 29, 2020
re: #24 teleskiguy
She won’t hit what she’s aiming at with that much finger on the trigger. No training in technique or law. Gotta love America.
hi
My wife’s brother and his wife (that makes them my brother- and sister-in-law if you’re keeping score at home) turned up at my house this afternoon after telephoning from Alliance.
They live in Alvin, Texas. (I would say “from” but he’s from Chicago and she’s from the Soviet Union.)
When things started going south with Covid-19 they decided to go on a Great Plains vacation. They came today from Mt. Rushmore (they wanted to go there before Team Moronica arrives for Independence Day).
My sister-in-law had uploaded her photos of her trip to some sort of cloud account. She wanted to show them to us but couldn’t because the cell tower four blocks away doesn’t reach our house.
She asked “how do you get Internet service or call anyone?” (Point to dial telephone on wall.)
They are saying overnight in Bridgeport. We will go visit tomorrow.
Five new cases today in the Nebraska Panhandle, bringing us up to 279 total. 106 active, three deaths (no change).
The colour pie chart dividing cases between men and women has men as pink today and women as blue. I’m not sure why they reversed the colours.
The most cases are still women (2/3) and children (10-19).
I WON THE LOTTO! (a free ticket won a free ticket)
Gunmen attack Pakistani stock exchange in Karachi and reports say a number of people have been killed https://t.co/b84FE8lV0q
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) June 29, 2020
Four gunmen are killed in an attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi, when they pull up in a car outside the trading floor and hurl a grenade at the building before opening fire https://t.co/4hfkofNnI4 pic.twitter.com/IZzHuuXs2i
— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 29, 2020
The last post, Tom Petty’s demo of “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” was LGF’s 50,000th blog post.
Only 18 states require masks statewide. https://t.co/lykBUgC5zx pic.twitter.com/SWZ8mvj4a3
— ABC News (@ABC) June 29, 2020
From the Ken Burns thread.
re: #81 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
My sincere condolences on Chat Noir’s passing [[[FFL]]]
Here we go again, this time in Colorado (0:18)
I’ve been hearing about “Karen” but hadn’t been around one. I encountered one in the wild tonight and it blew my mind. She spit on an essential worker bc he enforced the rule of wear a mask. In response, she spit on him in. I wanted to cry pic.twitter.com/WxKMgvJvEp
— Jillcattt (@Jillcattt) June 28, 2020
Woman speaks out after tirade at Trader Joe’s store in North Hollywood (with video)
TL;DR, she claims she did what any woman would do when she’s “harassed by a man.”
“I did what any normal human being, a woman, would do if she was being harassed by a man, not knowing if he’s a crazy man, so I started yelling in self defense,” she says.
The woman says she does not regret what she said during the encounter.
“Unlike whatever lies they are putting out there, I had no political agenda. I had nothing. They might use whatever else I said later in my anger, it doesn’t matter. What happened to me should not be happening to anyone else,” she says.
The woman declined to give any details about her medical condition.
re: #40 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
This is the most stupid thing Ben Garrison has ever drawn.
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Well, thanks to wingnuts (like Mr. Garrison), the bottom right drawing is probably true.
I’m not sure I understand his cartoon though; there aren’t enough labels on it.
Chief federal judge in LA resigns over racially charged comment about Black court official (ABC)
The chief judge of the Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles, has resigned over racially charged comments about a Black court official.
re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, thanks to wingnuts (like Mr. Garrison), the bottom right drawing is probably true.
I’m not sure I understand his cartoon though; there aren’t enough labels on it.
Shorter Ben: “To be free is to welcome slow, agonizing death for you and everyone you love!”
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Woman speaks out after tirade at Trader Joe’s store in North Hollywood (with video)
TL;DR, she claims she did what any woman would do when she’s “harassed by a man.”
The normal thing for a woman harassed by a man to do is throw an empty basket while screaming that everybody wearing masks are “sheep” and “Democratic pigs”?
You learn something new every day…//////
re: #10 jaunte
A reminder: Vladimir Putin is a highly trained KGB IO. Putin does not golf. He does not tweet. He does watch RT (Russia’s FoxNews). What Putin & his intel services do every waking hour EVERY DAY, is develop & implement clandestine operations targeting the U.S. That’s all they do.
It’s not all they do, but it is what they are trained in and experienced at.
re: #22 Dread Pirate
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re: #45 Targetpractice
The normal thing for a woman harassed by a man to do is throw an empty basket while screaming that everybody wearing masks are “sheep” and “Democratic pigs”?
You learn something new every day…//////
And she has no political agenda. /s
re: #20 Targetpractice
traditional American narratives and icons
We were taught that Christopher Columbus was a symbol of the Human Spirit of Exploration, and Believing in Your Dream, etc. The role he played in the subjugation, exploitation and outright genocide of Native American peoples was generally overlooked.
Biden Leads in Polls With Senior Voters (Voice of America)
LOS ANGELES - Republicans and Democrats have been appealing to older voters, especially those 65 and older, as polls show Democrat Joe Biden is gaining ground against President Donald Trump with this key voting group.
The contest for seniors is likely to play out in battleground states with large populations of retired people, such as Florida and Arizona, says Thomas Volgy of the University of Arizona. Volgy, a political scientist, is a former Democratic mayor of Tucson, in a state that Trump won by just under four percent.
One in five eligible voters in Arizona is a senior, according to state and federal statistics, and “even more importantly,” said Volgy, “people over 65 tend to turn out in larger numbers than any other group.”
That gives them a disproportionate impact here and in other states, and both parties know this. At a White House roundtable on seniors on June 15, Trump affirmed his “iron-clad commitment” to protecting the nation’s elders. In late May, he announced a cap on insulin prices, citing seniors as a key group helped by the measure.
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I guess that announcement didn’t work, Mr. Trump. Probably something to do with seniors not wanting to die for the Dow.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Biden Leads in Polls With Senior Voters (Voice of America)
I guess that announcement didn’t work, Mr. Trump. Probably something to do with seniors not wanting to die for the Dow.
They take Covid seriously, which Trump refuses to do.
The dust did not come into my part of the state.
The cloud of Saharan dust that has been making headlines for darkening skies in the Caribbean and southern U.S. arrived in Omaha on Sunday.
A haze hung over the city for much of the day, and Paul Fajman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said it was from the Saharan dust cloud. Southerly winds ushered the dust northward from Texas and the Caribbean, he said.
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Saharan dust reaches Omaha area, making air unhealthy for some (Omaha World-Herald)
re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We were taught that Christopher Columbus was a symbol of the Human Spirit of Exploration, and Believing in Your Dream, etc. The role he played in the subjugation, exploitation and outright genocide of Native American peoples was generally overlooked.
We were also taught that people in the 15th century all believed the Earth was flat and that sailing over the edge would mean certain death. And that Columbus was somehow the only guy in all of Europe who thought it as round and was going to prove it with his voyage.
Of course, that’s easier to sell people than the reality that people back then knew the world was round because Eratosthenes had calculated such centuries earlier and to a fair degree of accuracy. The reality was that people didn’t know the exact circumference because they had no methods of measuring longitude (didn’t become a thing until the 18th century). But Columbus becomes less of a hero if you acknowledge that not only did he think the experts were wrong and the Earth much smaller, but the only reason he and his men didn’t die of starvation and dehydration at sea is because there was a whole landmass the Europeans didn’t know about. If the Americas hadn’t been there, Columbus would be a footnote in history and his voyage marked off as one of those who sailed off over the horizon and never returned.
“Very disgusting.” Employees at St. James Gate Bar & Restaurant say this woman refused to wear a mask 😷 & coughed in a bartender’s face
They’re now hoping she’ll be identified so it won’t happen to anyone else. https://t.co/PPpotMfHrH#KarenStrikesAgain pic.twitter.com/BuoIRgVWx3— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) June 29, 2020
White chicks, brah.
re: #54 Dread Pirate
White chicks, brah.
Aggravated assault. Enough cases prosecuted and perhaps feral conservatives will start behaving in public.
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Aggravated assault. Enough cases prosecuted and perhaps feral conservatives will start behaving in public.
Not a chance, they will just have a body of Martyrs to the Cause…this goes beyond logic, it is a matter of ideological purity and showing support for the Leader, who has mentioned that some people wear masks to show their opposition to him.
This makes rejecting masks all but mandatory to the True Believers out there.
Chris Janicek political death watch continues in Nebraska. He’s still holding on to his excuse that as a gay man, it’s impossible for him to harass a woman.
“It’s completely unrealistic,” said Paul Landow, a University of Nebraska at Omaha political science professor with experience in local Democratic Party politics. “His actions are irredeemable. He is done.”
Landow said voters won’t forget that Janicek texted how his campaign staff might get his new finance director “laid.” Janicek suggested possibly paying people to perform sex acts. That doesn’t get forgotten, Landow said.
The Omaha World-Herald sat down with him for an interview. He still insists that he has the best shot of making Ben Sasse a one-and-done senator.
As much as I despise Sasse, I will not vote for Janicek. The ballot line will be blank on my ballot if that’s the choice. (I’m not voting for the Libertarian, though my wife probably would.)
Janicek has until August 1 to withdraw from the election so the state party can select a replacement (likely to be Alisha Shelton of Omaha).
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not a chance, they will just have a body of Martyrs to the Cause…this goes beyond logic, it is a matter of ideological purity and showing support for the Leader, who has mentioned that some people wear masks to show their opposition to him.
This makes rejecting masks all but mandatory to the True Believers out there.
I’m fine with putting as many of these feral martyrs in jail as it takes. We can let out non-violent convicts.
“Get off my moon Neal Armstrong!” pic.twitter.com/O9dA5PHADJ
— Raymond Rowell (@PRavenCreative) June 29, 2020
Oh, and the reason why Columbus is hailed as an American hero despite never having visited North America? Sheer pettiness. The British Crown venerated John Cabot for his actual exploration of the North American coastline under the sponsorship of Henry VII less than 5 years after Columbus discovered the West Indies, so when the new United States were writing up their creation myth centuries later, they decided to use Columbus since his voyages didn’t have a connection to the Crown.
re: #59 Dave In Austin
For the love of god, someone get this woman some shredded cheese!
— I am ANTIFA. Come at me, Barr. (@n0gulag) June 29, 2020
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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As evident in the thread, there’s already wingnut talking points circling around: “It’s a gated community!” (it’s not, it’s a private street that the homeowners pay to have plowed in the winter), “It was self-defense!” (they came out pointing weapons at protestors who were just passing by), “Castle doctrine!” (generally doesn’t apply if they’re not on your property), and so forth.
The loss-of-God problem is real.
And that is what we are seeing in the US these days.
The Trumpers have glommed onto Trump because he’s their Id-gone-wild.
re: #60 Targetpractice
Oh, and the reason why Columbus is hailed as an American hero despite never having visited North America? Sheer pettiness. The British Crown venerated John Cabot for his actual exploration of the North American coastline under the sponsorship of Henry VII less than 5 years after Columbus discovered the West Indies, so when the new United States were writing up their creation myth centuries later, they decided to use Columbus since his voyages didn’t have a connection to the Crown.
And it was a sop to the burgeoning Italian-American community in order to further “Integrate” them.
re: #63 Targetpractice
I noticed. There will always be an excuse for feral conservative behaviour. If the first talking point is batted away, they will just come up with new ones.
At no point does any of them address the brandishing against protestors who are not on the homeowners’ property, the terrible gun handling (the man repeatedly aiming the muzzle of his rifle at his wife, his wife holding what appears to be a .380 in such a way if she actually shot it the gun would recoil into her face or break her wrist).
re: #62 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Father of Werner Klemperer, who played Colonel Clink on Hogan’s Heroes
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Guns are symbols and talismans (talismen?) of Personal Sovereignty
re: #64 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The loss-of-God problem is real.
And that is what we are seeing in the US these days.
The Trumpers have glommed onto Trump because he’s their Id-gone-wild.
If some people need religion to keep them from turning into criminals, by all means I don’t want them to give up their religion.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If some people need religion to keep them from turning into criminals, by all means I don’t want them to give up their religion.
That is the basis of fundamentalism: if we are not working hard or praying, then we will soon find ourselves drinking, fighting, gambling, whoring, stealing, etc.
re: #64 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why? The Atlantic
History does not often give the satisfaction of a sudden and lasting turning point. History tends to unfold in messy cycles—actions and reactions, revolutions and counterrevolutions—and even semipermanent changes are subtle and glacial. But the rise of religious non-affiliation in America looks like one of those rare historical moments that is neither slow, nor subtle, nor cyclical. You might call it exceptional.
The obvious question for anybody who spends at least two seconds looking at the graph above is: What the hell happened around 1990?
According to Christian Smith, a sociology and religion professor at the University of Notre Dame, America’s nonreligious lurch has mostly been the result of three historical events: the association of the Republican Party with the Christian right, the end of the Cold War, and 9/11.
(Unaffiliated as a religion self-identifier is now 23% … larger than any denomination of Christianity)
re: #63 Targetpractice
You forgot “They’re Coming Right for US!!”
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re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is the basis of fundamentalism: if we are not working hard or praying, then we will soon find ourselves drinking, fighting, gambling, whoring, stealing, etc.
Otherwise known as, “having fun.”
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why? The Atlantic
(Unaffiliated as a religion self-identifier is now 23% … larger than any denomination of Christianity)
Germany has also recorded a record number of people quitting their affiliation with the Lutheran and Catholic churches: nearly a half a million less over last year)
This has other reasons: the Church was always seen as a pillar of the community: where people were married, had their children baptized/confirmed and where they were buried.
And at least in former East Germany, membership in the Lutheran Church was a form of opposition to the Atheist Communist state.
re: #73 Dread Pirate
Otherwise known as, “having fun.”
I got no problem with consenting adults having fun on their own time and money.
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is the basis of fundamentalism: if we are not working hard or praying, then we will soon find ourselves drinking, fighting, gambling, whoring, stealing, etc.
Which is why fundamentalists (and those who are less so) are so desperate to suppress people like me.
Our very existence in public shows that thesis to be a lie. (Okay, I gamble on lottery tickets.) As for drinking, it’s amazing how many liquor stores you can find in areas which are predominantly fundamentalist, like the Bible Belt.
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Which is why fundamentalists (and those who are less so) are so desperate to suppress people like me.
Our very existence in public shows that thesis to be a lie. (Okay, I gamble on lottery tickets.) As for drinking, it’s amazing how many liquor stores you can find in areas which are predominantly fundamentalist, like the Bible Belt.
And how much online porn there is in the Bible Belt…
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why? The Atlantic
(Unaffiliated as a religion self-identifier is now 23% … larger than any denomination of Christianity)
You could really wrap “the association of the Republican Party with the Christian right, the end of the Cold War, and 9/11” into two words: “Religious extremism.”
Both parties had been allied with one religious denomination or another for most of the 20th century, generally as a ward against accusations that they were in league with the “Godless Reds!” But what really set the Repubs apart was that they allied themselves in the 80’s with the evangelical crowd in order to dub themselves the “moral majority,” setting off folks who saw it for what it was: unapologetic hypocrisy.
Of course, that move unwittingly coincided with the end of the Cold War, which really put the kibosh on the whole idea of the world being split between the religious West and the socialist East. And it didn’t really help that the conflicts that marked the following decade either were over resources and unpaid debts or were marked with genocide and ethnic cleansing due almost exclusively to religious differences.
All that ended up leading to 9/11 and not only the recognition that religious extremism was a universally bad thing, but that the whole Cold War mentality of supporting any groups that promoted themselves as opposed to the “Godless Reds” meant Republican administrations had bankrolled the very terrorists who ended up blowing up thousands of Americans. The fact that the president at the time dubbed the fight against those terrorists a “crusade” probably didn’t help convince folks that it was anything but another war brought on by religion.
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And how much online porn there is in the Bible Belt…
And the most popular search term (according to Pornhub) in most southern states is “interracial porn.”
Utah gets #1 for porn consumption, though.
I’m going to hit the rack. My wife and I are off later in the morning to visit with her brother.
Tonight’s low 56°F, tomorrow’s high 100°F. Ugh.
Between my Catholic upbringing and the Campus Crusade for Christ goombahs knocking on my door at college, I developed a disdain for any sort of organized religion.
Later on in life I met some people who quietly live and practice Christianity without preaching it.
Not enough to convert me, but enough to cause me to gain some admiration for what the religion can actually be if is not hijacked by a political agenda or simply used to maintain and finance a social/political institution.
re: #45 Targetpractice
The normal thing for a woman harassed by a man to do is throw an empty basket while screaming that everybody wearing masks are “sheep” and “Democratic pigs”?
You learn something new every day…//////
she needs to explain “harassed”
re: #59 Dave In Austin
It’s like Tarantino started working for The Hallmark Channel. pic.twitter.com/p52q5Gg4F9
— JudgeYouHarshly (@JudgeYouHarshly) June 29, 2020
re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We were taught that Christopher Columbus was a symbol of the Human Spirit of Exploration, and Believing in Your Dream, etc. The role he played in the subjugation, exploitation and outright genocide of Native American peoples was generally overlooked.
Columbus, slavery, the Civil War, manifest destiny, treatment of native Americans on and on….
we were basically taught fairy tales history
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Guns are symbols and talismans (talismen?) of Personal Sovereignty
talispeople?
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If some people need religion to keep them from turning into criminals, by all means I don’t want them to give up their religion.
if so they sure need to do some reevaluating there
re: #84 Dr Lizardo
That’s just pathetic, stupid and super dangerous. I am not a firearms kind of person, my husband has a handgun and a hunting rifle, they are safely stored. I could use the pistol if I had to. Even with my limited knowledge of weapons, I can tell neither of them have fired a weapon. Neither is holding them in a way to stabilize the weapon to fire without hurting themselves. This is what fear and anger mixed with a lot hatred look like, right there. They’re poster children for it, look at that shit.That house is a fortress on its own, they didn’t have to leave the comfort of their living room to be safe. I’m also sure an alarm system would have triggered a call to the cops if anyone had tried getting inside. They need to be charged and weapons taken away. Soon.
re: #85 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Columbus, slavery, the Civil War, manifest destiny, treatment of native Americans on and on….
we were basically taught fairy tales history
and the Labor Movement…
I recall a story about a German student of American history who went to the site of the Haymarket Riots, expecting to find some sort of memorial to the workers’ uprising, and discovered only a plaque commemorating the policemen who died defending Law and Order against Anarchy.
Fourth PGA Tour player tests positive for coronavirus https://t.co/TyESJunQld pic.twitter.com/czs1jcF8ZS
— SFGate (@SFGate) June 29, 2020
..even golf isn’t immune.
re: #88 A Mom Anon
That’s just pathetic, stupid and super dangerous. I am not a firearms kind of person, my husband has a handgun and a hunting rifle, they are safely stored. I could use the pistol if I had to. Even with my limited knowledge of weapons, I can tell neither of them have fired a weapon. Neither is holding them in a way to stabilize the weapon to fire without hurting themselves. This is what fear and anger mixed with a lot hatred look like, right there. They’re poster children for it, look at that shit.That house is a fortress on its own, they didn’t have to leave the comfort of their living room to be safe. I’m also sure an alarm system would have triggered a call to the cops if anyone had tried getting inside. They need to be charged and weapons taken away. Soon.
Yeah, that was a straight up display of the most colossal stupidity imaginable and in an ideal world, they’d be charged with (at the very least) brandishing firearms.
The McStroke:
12 beef patties, 6 feet under.— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) June 29, 2020
re: #92 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, that was a straight up display of the most colossal stupidity imaginable and in an ideal world, they’d be charged with (at the very least) brandishing firearms.
Narrator: They won’t be charged.
More than half a million people have died with coronavirus worldwide
In excess of ten million cases have been declared, with numbers continuing to rise in most continents, apart from Europehttps://t.co/XZbxHrNZTx pic.twitter.com/fODy3jR6aB— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 29, 2020
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Biden Leads in Polls With Senior Voters (Voice of America)
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I guess that announcement didn’t work, Mr. Trump. Probably something to do with seniors not wanting to die for the Dow.
He did a great job in not protecting them from COVID-19 - and some of them noticed. So did their children & grandchildren. Trump is on the way to the crazed 27% and the world couldn’t be happier.
re: #88 A Mom Anon
That’s just pathetic, stupid and super dangerous. I am not a firearms kind of person, my husband has a handgun and a hunting rifle, they are safely stored. I could use the pistol if I had to. Even with my limited knowledge of weapons, I can tell neither of them have fired a weapon. Neither is holding them in a way to stabilize the weapon to fire without hurting themselves. This is what fear and anger mixed with a lot hatred look like, right there. They’re poster children for it, look at that shit.That house is a fortress on its own, they didn’t have to leave the comfort of their living room to be safe. I’m also sure an alarm system would have triggered a call to the cops if anyone had tried getting inside. They need to be charged and weapons taken away. Soon.
maybe its fear and anger
to me it reeks of entitlement and white privilege
re: #89 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and the Labor Movement…
I recall a story about a German student of American history who went to the site of the Haymarket Riots, expecting to find some sort of memorial to the workers’ uprising, and discovered only a plaque commemorating the policemen who died defending Law and Order against Anarchy.
oh yes lots more examples
I was just getting started
we still live in a country where the sentiment is to laud the capitalists and criminalize the workers for desiring to be treated fairly.
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Five new cases today in the Nebraska Panhandle, bringing us up to 279 total. 106 active, three deaths (no change).
The colour pie chart dividing cases between men and women has men as pink today and women as blue. I’m not sure why they reversed the colours.
The most cases are still women (2/3) and children (10-19).
I see it as blue and orange. And the majority is blue so that has to Democrats, so who cares…amirite?
re: #28 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Dude’s uncle had a dog that would get impatient and honk the horn if Uncle stayed too long in the store. Everyone knew his dog in that town. :D
re: #40 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Yep, that is the dumbest thing he’s ever drawn. The stupidity of this country is really wearing me down.
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is the basis of fundamentalism: if we are not working hard or praying, then we will soon find ourselves drinking, fighting, gambling, whoring, stealing, etc.
Up until stealing, I was like “you said illegal.”
re: #93 (((Archangel1)))
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Name this burger pic.twitter.com/nXc90AvWWU
— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) June 28, 2020
re: #101 Colère Tueur de Lapin
we still live in a country where the sentiment is to laud the capitalists and criminalize the workers for desiring to be treated fairly.
Let alone humanely
Great. Just in time for Independence Day! Where the hell is President Whitmore when we need him? https://t.co/NB5jF1SDBT
— Robert A George (@RobGeorge) June 29, 2020
Good Morning Lizards:
@Iran_GOV not to be a snitch or anything but he be stayin over at 1600 Penn. Ave NW, Washington, D.C 20500
— ALEX J. ⚪ (@ihatealexj) June 29, 2020
I like to think that not even the devil - and really anyone in hell - would want anything to do with Trump once he does the world at large a favor and croaks…
Meanwhile in Hell, the devil hears of this and cringes accordingly… pic.twitter.com/wn4qGS6zrm
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) June 29, 2020
re: #108 Belafon
Up until stealing, I was like “you said illegal.”
again, consenting adults on their own time and their own nickel, no big concern of mine what they do unless they wanna put it in my face.
I think the world would be a better place if everyone had a happy baby goat living under their stove.pic.twitter.com/HxcuwXQejJ
— Roxi Horror 💀🌸 (@roxiqt) June 28, 2020
— Risky Liberal (@RiskyLiberal) June 29, 2020
Good point. But that baby goat is only sufficient for an amuse bouche, not a gyro.
#SCOTUS denies certiorari in challenge to the protocol by which the federal government is set to resume federal executions.
Not much else in the way of big news in today’s Order List:https://t.co/n3BINkh5QM
We’ll get 1+ decisions in argued cases starting at 10:00 EDT.— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 29, 2020
re: #25 Jack Burton
Wait… The Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s last name is Destro?
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Now I’m wondering if he is the asshole who got thrown off LGF for praising Stalin.
*NEW POLL* Americans offer some of their most dire views on the COVID pandemic to date: record numbers say efforts against the outbreak are going badly. More here: https://t.co/6ThHmclAw2 pic.twitter.com/AsjcenN27e
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) June 28, 2020
re: #118 Belafon
The numbers will look even worse as FL, TX, and AZ have to admit that they have to shut things down in ways that they never did to date.
And every day of delay is a day where exponential growth and spread of covid19 occurs.
This is all on the GOP and their failed response from Trump on down.
Oh wow. He’s going to go all in that he never heard about it, and also that it’s a “hoax.”
Doesn’t his reaction tell us everything? If he was truly learning of this now, where is the outrage? The decisiveness? The firings?
Instead he blames the NYT (Book Review ??) pic.twitter.com/hVFwQFWE8j— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) June 29, 2020
Asha has a point. He’s more pissed at a department of NYT than at Russia.
Liar.
re: #120 makeitstop
Only problem with trying to make this about the NYT is that:
WSJ, Fox, CNN, BBC, and other outlets have corroborated.
UK and NATO authorities also corroborated that Russia put bounties on allied troops in Afghanistan and that they paid out for deaths there.
If Trump didn’t know, then his ODNI and top intel officials should resign for not reporting it up to Trump.
But we know that they did - so they’re lying.
These treasonweasels think they can lie and bluster their way out of it. The right wing fever swamp’s latest attempt to deflect/project is to claim that this was a canary trap designed to out those who are leaking info to the press.
Too bad there’s so much corroboration from so many independent sources that we see that Trump’s fucked up once again.
This little guy always brings dried seed to trade for some nuts to
this apartment.pic.twitter.com/tlHg1kh8zR— Akki (@akkitwts) June 29, 2020
re: #117 The Pie Overlord!
Now I’m wondering if he is the asshole who got thrown off LGF for praising Stalin.
Oh god I forgot all about him VB. We don’t get Tankies here often thankfully.
re: #120 makeitstop
Yeah, he knew about it. He’s been caught and he’s pissed off about that.
re: #120 makeitstop
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Asha has a point. He’s more pissed at a department of NYT than at Russia.
Liar.
ALL that matters to him is if it makes him look bad. And no lie is too far if it deflects the damage from him.
re: #122 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Bartering is a fundamental trait of the animal kingdom.
re: #116 lawhawk
This is big news. Over the dissents of Sotomayor and Ginsburg, SCOTUS refuses to hear Bourgeois v. Barr, effectively allowing the Trump administration to resume the federal death penalty. Expect executions to begin soon. https://t.co/CkYyi1PJ9u pic.twitter.com/kNeAAiDrkI
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 29, 2020
Good deal!
Exclusive: NRA has shed 200 staffers this year as group faces financial crisis https://t.co/utSTYD89Dt
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) June 29, 2020
re: #121 lawhawk
If Trump didn’t know, then his ODNI and top intel officials should resign for not reporting it up to Trump.
But we know that they did - so they’re lying.
Trump needs to give the rest of the GOP something to hide behind: “We need to look into these reports from the anti-Trump liberal press before we can comment!”
Global gag rule is upheld:
First (and *not* last) #SCOTUS decision this morning is in USAID case.
Justice Kavanaugh, for a 5-3 Court, holds that content-based limits on funding of foreign affiliates don’t violate First Amendment because First Amendment doesn’t apply:https://t.co/3arSREMqfP— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 29, 2020
re: #128 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Thoughts and prayers? Russia isn’t funneling enough money to them? Aww… too bad, so sad.
re: #84 Dr Lizardo
Do you think that guy would’ve had the guts to go outside and yell at passing protesters *without* his AR-15?
re: #130 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Is it really??
The Unrestricted Free Market is a State of Nature and any attempts to regulate it are an affront to God’s Divine Order. Did you not know that?
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POS45’s Approval Rating among Republicans is 85%. It hasn’t been close to 95% since January. #voteblue #bluewave #uniteblue #strongertogether #Biden2020 #BlackLivesMatter #resist pic.twitter.com/Q5Ml7b6uOT
— #VoteBlue Blueberry Pie (@Pie_Overlord) June 29, 2020
re: #133 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Do you think that guy would’ve had the guts to go outside and yell at passing protesters *without* his AR-15?
Of course not.
Breaking: Intelligence sources confirm Taliban bounty story was in BOTH the word search AND coloring section of the President’s Daily Briefing Placemat. pic.twitter.com/zpP8EvJX5p
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 29, 2020
“Hall of Presidents” at Disney World
😂😂😂
Wait for it, I promise it’s worth it. Trump’s famous words in the Presidents Hall of Famepic.twitter.com/FVLV55IXz4— Paul the other one, it’s got bells on it. (@paulcshipley) June 29, 2020
re: #131 lawhawk
Global gag rule is upheld:
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I haven’t heard anything about what this case is, is this a good thing?
re: #140 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I haven’t heard anything about what this case is, is this a good thing?
Not familiar with the case but the decision not a good thing.
re: #140 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I haven’t heard anything about what this case is, is this a good thing?
I don’t know the particulars of this case at all, but IIRC, that will mean that abortion funding will be continued under Democratic presidents and blocked under Republican ones, until Congress does something about it.
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
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I’m wondering how future generations will study Trump. It’s all so absurd.
re: #140 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I haven’t heard anything about what this case is, is this a good thing?
I think this is the ban on funding to international based NGOs that even discuss abortion so not a good thing.
re: #140 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I haven’t heard anything about what this case is, is this a good thing?
It means international medical organizations that receive funding from the United States are not allowed to provide abortions or even mention abortion as an option to patients.
re: #143 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m wondering how future generations will study Trump. It’s all so absurd.
History is being written as we speak.
This was yesterday.
3 days in a row with no registered COVID deaths in Scotland. The sense of relief that I - & I’m sure all of us - feel as these numbers fall is enormous. But it’s coupled with an anxiety that we do all we can to keep COVID under control. So please follow the rules and #StaySafe https://t.co/b2XXn16BxT
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) June 28, 2020
Today, again, no new reported deaths in Scotland, making it 4 days in a row. (Caveat: two of the days are on the weekend when there’s less reporting.)
Biden/Duckworth 2020!
NEW Video: Imagine how @TammyForIL would take on Trump and Pence as @JoeBiden’s VP pick and win. Imagine how a #BidenDuckworth admin would inspire and restore the soul of the nation. pic.twitter.com/vULdOYJtD8
— VoteVets (@votevets) June 29, 2020
Roberts joins liberals on SC to block LA abortion law!
re: #150 retired cynic
Roberts joins liberals on SC to block LA abortion law!
Some good news at least.
re: #149 The Pie Overlord!
Biden/Duckworth 2020!
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She’s my mom’s pick. I’m on Team Kamala but I’d be happy with Duckworth too. She’s great. The whole committing to a woman running mate to me has reenforced what we’ve long known which is there are a lot of women who are qualified for the job.
Offices are being trashed at @FedSoc. https://t.co/zwlz8BeMk0 pic.twitter.com/kKWYtEp4zR
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 29, 2020
Houston Chronicle scoop: Houston hospital executives’ sudden reversal on ICU capacity followed talks with Gov. Abbott in which “the governor expressed displeasure with negative headlines about ICU capacity.”
Hats off, @zachdespart @mmorris011https://t.co/V49Sum8kJX— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) June 28, 2020
re: #150 retired cynic
Roberts joins liberals on SC to block LA abortion law!
This makes me even more confident that Roberts will vote to uphold the ACA again.
re: #152 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
She’s my mom’s pick. I’m on Team Kamala but I’d be happy with Duckworth too. She’s great. The whole committing to a woman running mate to me has reenforced what we’ve long known which is there are a lot of women who are qualified for the job.
It makes my heart happy the we have a long list of well qualified women to become Joe’s running mate.
re: #154 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
“…Abbott had expressed displeasure to hospital executives with negative headlines about ICU capacity, sources familiar with the talks said. Abbott spokesman John Wittman said any insinuation that the governor suggested the executives publish less data is false.”
Thereby confirming that Abbott would like to keep a lid on the information.
re: #156 Teddy’s Person
It makes my heart happy the we have a long list of well qualified women to become Joe’s running mate.
It’s great. A lot of these women even if they’re not VP will either be in the cabinet or run for higher office. I’m hoping Mayor Bottoms runs against Kemp if she’s not the Veep.
Randy Rainbow just dropped another hit!
🎶Don’t spread droplets all over the place, just cover your freakin’ face🎶 #CoverYourFreakinFace #WearAMask 😷🙄 pic.twitter.com/KsdLbrkRkj
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) June 29, 2020
re: #155 NO SMOCKING GUN!
This makes me even more confident that Roberts will vote to uphold the ACA again.
I don’t like Roberts but he’s different than Alito. Alito is awful.
re: #60 Targetpractice
Oh, and the reason why Columbus is hailed as an American hero despite never having visited North America? Sheer pettiness. The British Crown venerated John Cabot for his actual exploration of the North American coastline under the sponsorship of Henry VII less than 5 years after Columbus discovered the West Indies, so when the new United States were writing up their creation myth centuries later, they decided to use Columbus since his voyages didn’t have a connection to the Crown.
That’s interesting, do you have any references about it? (I had thought it had more to do with Italian immigration — especially from Genoa) and response to anti-Italian prejudice.)
re: #162 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I don’t like Roberts but he’s different than Alito. Alito is awful.
I hate that upholding people’s rights are subject to Roberts’ whims.
re: #164 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
That’s interesting, do you have any references about it? (I had thought it had more to do with Italian immigration — especially from Genoa) and response to anti-Italian prejudice.)
That’s always been my understanding too. Plus Washington Irving.
Stupid people are trying to kill us all, part 1783:
(Via NY Post) Dr. Anthony Fauci says he would “settle” for a coronavirus vaccine that’s 70 percent to 75 percent effective - but warned that the US may not achieve herd immunity to the contagion if too many people refuse to be vaccinated, according to a report.
“The best we’ve ever done is measles, which is 97 to 98 percent effective,” the top US infectious disease expert told CNN. “That would be wonderful if we get there. I don’t think we will. I would settle for [a] 70, 75 percent effective vaccine.”
Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, noted that the incomplete protection and the fact that many people say they will skip the vaccine makes it “unlikely” that the nation will achieve sufficient immunity to stem the outbreak.
A recent CNN poll found one-third of Americans said they would not try to get a vaccine — even if it is widely available and low-cost.
Read the included letter about feral conservatives (the restaurant is too kind to use that word, they used “guests”)
Both our Hugo’s Tacos locations are now closed temporarily. We look forward to reopening again soon when it’s safe! pic.twitter.com/DM3ZHOgpZV
— Hugo’s Tacos (@hugostacos) June 28, 2020
re: #120 makeitstop
Brit Intel confirmed the report. Do we no longer share Intel with GCHQ?
re: #150 retired cynic
Roberts joins liberals on SC to block LA abortion law!
It’s a 4 year old precedent. There’s a reason for stare decisis, but the fact that the Court was willing to even take up the case shows how bugnuts insane Kavanaugh and Gorsuch are - they’re intent on eliminating a woman’s right to choose. The GOP have packed the lower courts with right wing extremists even further to the right of Kavanaugh, so it’s a matter of time before this comes before the Court again.
Will this signal how they’ll respond to the ACA case? I’m not totally convinced, but it’s a small victory nonetheless.
re: #171 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Brit Intel confirmed the report. Do we no longer share Intel with GCHQ?
I think it’s actually the other way around. They no longer share a lot of shit with us because they don’t want it finding its way to Putin.
re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg
Some of that is due to Trump trying to rush a vaccine that may not get fully tested and vetted properly just to claim that a vaccine is out there before election day. The right wing has primed people to question vaccines and their safety, despite decades of research showing that they are the single biggest help to public health - preventing countless diseases and deaths worldwide.
re: #140 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I haven’t heard anything about what this case is, is this a good thing?
No. The case involves American NGOs with foreign affiliates. The case rules that the foreign affiliates have no I Amendment rights in US courts, so they may not sue over perceived breaches of free speech.
The case involves those NGOs which distribute contraception or refer women for abortions. Trump early in his maladministration reimposed the Mexico City doctrine (which says the USA will not fund any family planning clinic or physician who offers contraception or refers for abortions).
I noticed that the Lincoln Project’s ‘Greatest Generation’ spot had a different feel from the rest of their work.
Turns out it was done by the man who wrote ‘Band of Brothers.’
EXCLUSIVE: Band of Brothers Writer Makes Anti-Trump Ad as Tribute to Greatest Generation’s Sacrifices https://t.co/fq0PA0ktCi via @mediaite
— John Orloff (@johnorloff) June 29, 2020
re: #172 lawhawk
Another way to look at this: If Trump stays in power and gets to replace RBG, the next time a case like this comes up, it’ll go 5-4 for Conservatives even IF Roberts sides with the Liberal justices.
Motivated to vote yet?
re: #172 lawhawk
It’s a 4 year old precedent. There’s a reason for stare decisis, but the fact that the Court was willing to even take up the case shows how bugnuts insane Kavanaugh and Gorsuch are - they’re intent on eliminating a woman’s right to choose. The GOP have packed the lower courts with right wing extremists even further to the right of Kavanaugh, so it’s a matter of time before this comes before the Court again.
Will this signal how they’ll respond to the ACA case? I’m not totally convinced, but it’s a small victory nonetheless.
I am convinced. Roberts has affirmed the constitutionality of Obamacare twice, and the new argument against it is much worse than the previous two cases.
Some details about the charming St. Louis couple that brandished their firearms at peaceful protesters.
They are personal injury lawyers.
Their house was built by a Busch heiress and featured in St. Louis Magazine in 2018.
Patricia is a member of the Missouri Bar Association ethical review panel.
re: #176 makeitstop
I noticed that the Lincoln Project’s ‘Greatest Generation’ spot had a different feel from the rest of their work.
Turns out it was done by the man who wrote ‘Band of Brothers.’
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Translation: If Biden wins in November, he can fire Trump’s (terrible) CFPB director right after his inauguration rather than wait for her term to end in December 2023.
That’s a pretty big upside for liberals.— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 29, 2020
re: #63 Targetpractice
As evident in the thread, there’s already wingnut talking points circling around: “It’s a gated community!” (it’s not, it’s a private street that the homeowners pay to have plowed in the winter), “It was self-defense!” (they came out pointing weapons at protestors who were just passing by), “Castle doctrine!” (generally doesn’t apply if they’re not on your property), and so forth.
Any armed citizen among the marchers could have shot the woman as soon as she pointed the gun at them. Personally I would shoot the male terrorist first since he is providing overwatch with a superior weapon and in a stronger position.
re: #101 Colère Tueur de Lapin
we still live in a country where the sentiment is to laud the capitalists and criminalize the workers for desiring to be treated fairly.
“Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.”
re: #179 Teddy’s Person
Some details about the charming St. Louis couple that brandished their firearms at peaceful protesters.
They are personal injury lawyers.
Their house was built by a Busch heiress and featured in St. Louis Magazine in 2018.
Patricia is a member of the Missouri Bar Association ethical review panel.
What would be funny is if one of their competitors start an ad campaign.
Have you been threatened by people brandishing weapons? Call Dewey, Cheatham and Howe!
Are there more SCOTUS decisions coming tomorrow or is that it until the fall?
re: #179 Teddy’s Person
Some details about the charming St. Louis couple that brandished their firearms at peaceful protesters.
They are personal injury lawyers.
Their house was built by a Busch heiress and featured in St. Louis Magazine in 2018.
Patricia is a member of the Missouri Bar Association ethical review panel.
That explains why the mob was there to dispense justice.
Be mad at Justice Kavanaugh all you want but remember it was @SenatorCollins that made this all possible. pic.twitter.com/k7ZOpFqsat
— Seph Lawless (@seph_lawless) June 29, 2020
To be fair, it wasn’t just Collins, but she deserves all the scorn people can heap on her.
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
Are there more SCOTUS decisions coming tomorrow or is that it until the fall?
Tomorrow is the last day of the session so any outstanding decisions will be handed down tomorrow.
How does my right to have an abortion Undermine you right to have a gun? https://t.co/5LN1epGwku
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) June 29, 2020
re: #60 Targetpractice
Oh, and the reason why Columbus is hailed as an American hero despite never having visited North America? Sheer pettiness. The British venerated John Cabot for his actual exploration of the North American coastline under the sponsorship of Henry VII less than 5 years after Columbus discovered the West Indies, so when the new United States were writing up their creation myth centuries later, they decided to use Columbus since his voyages didn’t have a connection to the Crown.
The eventual discovery was inevitable, but the fact that there was a major landmass between Europe and Asia became widely known at that particular time solely due to Columbus’ journey, so he accelerated the exploration by several years. Whether this was due to his ignorance of the size of the earth or whether, as others have speculated, he was aware of stories that this land existed is unknowable at this time. But his trip provided a major impetus to additional explorers and discoveries.
re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg
Are there more SCOTUS decisions coming tomorrow or is that it until the fall?
Isn’t a decision on Trump taxes due this session?
China is using its soldiers as lab rats for a vaccine. Bad for them; good for us!
Which is terrible to do, full of serious risk potential for the Chinese military who literally become human lab rats. But from the vantage point of the rest of the world, a good development bc if it works w/o bad side effects/complications it speeds up the process. https://t.co/BWkSzjL4eu
— Rachel “The Doc” Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌 (@RachelBitecofer) June 29, 2020
re: #191 jaunte
Roberts is a liberal now, and that means he’s going to take away your guns. //
Matt Gaetz beclowning himself again.
Matt Gaetz says the Coronavirus positivity rate is partly a consequence of the strategic testing they are doing in Florida pic.twitter.com/MIOss3eHaM
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 29, 2020
re: #197 Teddy’s Person
DeSantis was earlier this morning blaming the spike solely on “young people partying”. Mind you that’s definitely a cause, but you’re a fucking idiot if you think that’s the only thing driving the surge.
re: #119 lawhawk
The numbers will look even worse as FL, TX, and AZ have to admit that they have to shut things down in ways that they never did to date.
And every day of delay is a day where exponential growth and spread of covid19 occurs.
This is all on the GOP and their failed response from Trump on down.
the new rise in infections means that 4 months have been wasted
lost jobs, lost businesses
we’re back to the beginning (in fact we never left the starting line)
no national testing plan, no contact tracing, no national consistent leadership or policy
all those sacrifices were for nothing
people are going to be asking why they sacrificed so much for nothing
and it’ll be clear whose fault it is
re: #199 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
the new rise in infections means that 4 months have been wasted
lost jobs, lost businesses
we’re back to the beginning (in fact we never left the starting line)
no national testing plan, no contact tracing, no national consistent leadership or policyall those sacrifices were for nothing
people are going to be asking why they sacrificed so much for nothing
and it’ll be clear whose fault it is
If only there were some experts who could have warned us about this and…oh, wait.
re: #198 Eclectic Cyborg
DeSantis was earlier this morning blaming the spike solely on “young people partying”. Mind you that’s definitely a cause, but you’re a fucking idiot if you think that’s the only thing driving the surge.
Who decided to reopen and as someone who loves a night at the bar, I haven’t been since this hit. I even skipped out on St. Paddy’s because of Covid.
The Chief Justice’s CFPB opinion is not going to get nearly the attention it deserves given his far more visible concurrence in the abortion case.
But it’s a very big deal for the separation of powers insofar as it makes it harder to have “independent” Executive Branch agencies.— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 29, 2020
The unitary executive power lurches forward.
re: #201 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Who decided to reopen and as someone who loves a night at the bar, I haven’t been since this hit. I even skipped out on St. Paddy’s because of Covid.
I have been at two restaurants drinking alcoholic drinks, but seated and on outdoor patios both times.
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Which is why fundamentalists (and those who are less so) are so desperate to suppress people like me.
Our very existence in public shows that thesis to be a lie. (Okay, I gamble on lottery tickets.) As for drinking, it’s amazing how many liquor stores you can find in areas which are predominantly fundamentalist, like the Bible Belt.
Don’t forget the porn.
re: #199 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
the new rise in infections means that 4 months have been wasted
lost jobs, lost businesses
we’re back to the beginning (in fact we never left the starting line)
no national testing plan, no contact tracing, no national consistent leadership or policyall those sacrifices were for nothing
people are going to be asking why they sacrificed so much for nothing
and it’ll be clear whose fault it is
Or it was all just a waste of time to think it could be stopped in the first place. Without a vaccine this isn’t stopping this winter.
re: #196 Belafon
Roberts is a liberal now, and that means he’s going to take away your guns. //
I think this is doing significant damage to gooper re-election prospects by itself. The relatively sane GOP supporters were told to hold their noses with the racism and the treason and the rampant incompetence and corruption, because all the gooper judges will institute permanent white Christian male minority rule. Roberts is an autocratic piece of shit who never saw a racial vote suppression tactic he didn’t like, but doesn’t want to be a drooling rubber stamp for the sorts of drunken penis doodle bar napkins that the goopers have been submitting to the courts. So, what’s the point of voting for the GOP then?
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
I have been at two restaurants drinking alcoholic drinks, but seated and on outdoor patios both times.
It just sucks man. This is my favorite time of the year. And because of shitbrains like this, I can’t enjoy myself.
Kavanaugh: I’LL HAVE MY REVENGE
Susan Collins: he probably won’t
Kavanaugh: I’M VOTING AGAINST ABORTION
Susan Collins: he’s just kidding
Kavanaugh: LA LA LA LA LOOK AT ME I’M VOTING AGAINST ABORTION AGAIN AND YOU CAN’T STOP ME
Susan Collins: he certainly is spirited isn’t he— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 29, 2020
re: #191 jaunte
How does my right to have an abortion Undermine you right to have a gun?
Because he hates God and wants to see that God’s Divine Rights to Have a Gun is restricted while the Satanic Right to Have an Abortion is upheld.
re: #179 Teddy’s Person
Some details about the charming St. Louis couple that brandished their firearms at peaceful protesters.
They are personal injury lawyers.
Their house was built by a Busch heiress and featured in St. Louis Magazine in 2018.
Patricia is a member of the Missouri Bar Association ethical review panel.
like i said above
entitlement
and white privilege
re: #205 Shropshire Slasher
Or it was all just a waste of time to think it could be stopped in the first place. Without a vaccine this isn’t stopping this winter.
If we all wore masks like every other industrialized country, then we could have reduced this down to the point where wearing masks would be the only inconvenience. Instead, we’re going to have inconveniences like not enough hospital beds, not enough room at morgues, etc.
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
I have been at two restaurants drinking alcoholic drinks, but seated and on outdoor patios both times.
Here ditto. Otherwise just takeaways and then going to a park with them.
You know what’s not a joke, SCROTUS?
The record-high number of Americans dying unnecessarily of #Covid_19 across the nation because of your sheer stupidity and staggering incompetence.
Their blood is on your little hands, now & for all time.#TrumpDeathToll #ResignNowTrump pic.twitter.com/ByBTXwGeKv— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) June 29, 2020
re: #210 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
like i said above
entitlement
and white privilege
And the fear/anger of losing them.
re: #198 Eclectic Cyborg
DeSantis was earlier this morning blaming the spike solely on “young people partying”. Mind you that’s definitely a cause, but you’re a fucking idiot if you think that’s the only thing driving the surge.
who opened the beaches and the bars?
re: #213 (((Archangel1)))
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People do want law, order, & safety. They just think that Donald Trump has no authority to speak on the subject because he’s a criminal himself.
re: #201 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Who decided to reopen and as someone who loves a night at the bar, I haven’t been since this hit. I even skipped out on St. Paddy’s because of Covid.
gmta
re: #215 Belafon
You’re failing on the safety part, Donald.
He’s failing on the law and order too. He only cares about looking tough.
re: #205 Shropshire Slasher
Or it was all just a waste of time to think it could be stopped in the first place. Without a vaccine this isn’t stopping this winter.
Except there are examples of other countries that were more serious, strict, and uniform in their lockdowns and they are reopening without a surge of new cases.
re: #217 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
People do want law, order, & safety. They just think that Donald Trump has no authority to speak on the subject because he’s a criminal himself.
And right now, I feel the most unsafe that I have in over half a century of living.
re: #220 Hecuba’s daughter
Except there are examples of other countries that were more serious, strict, and uniform in their lockdowns and they are reopening without a surge of new cases.
Germany.
But it has been experiencing a spike related to meat-packing plants.
re: #221 Teddy’s Person
And right now, I feel the most unsafe that I have in over half a century of living.
I have never felt more uncertain about our future and that orange rotten pile of flesh is why.
Selling the boogaloo
To market their products, ammo makers and gun shops are invoking the memes and rhetoric of the deadly “boogaloo” movement. by Ian Karbal (The Trace) and Nick Martin (Informant).
In mid March, Fenix Ammunition, an ammunition manufacturer in Michigan, saw its daily online sales rise from $4,000 to $40,000.
The pandemic had boosted demand for guns and ammunition around the country, and Fenix was reaping the fruits of the national following it has cultivated since its 2016 launch. In addition to record high civilian demand, Fenix also counted at least three local police departments, a law enforcement training center, and KelTec, one of the leading rifle manufacturers in America, among its clients.
But Fenix’s March profits were also driven by an aggressive social media campaign led by its owner, Justin Nazaroff.
For months, Nazaroff had been posting memes to his company’s Facebook and Instagram pages referencing the “boogaloo,” slang for the armed uprising that a loose assortment of preppers, Second Amendment activists, and anti-government extremists is getting ready for — and in some cases trying to accelerate.
“I’ll be honest, it drives sales,” Nazaroff said in April of his company’s marketing practices. “People think it’s funny. People click on boogaloo memes. It’s something that gun people enjoy joking about.”
re: #213 (((Archangel1)))
[ internal Polling Numbers.]
That phrase from trump’s face makes me think of heads on pikes.
re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Between my Catholic upbringing and the Campus Crusade for Christ goombahs knocking on my door at college, I developed a disdain for any sort of organized religion.
Later on in life I met some people who quietly live and practice Christianity without preaching it.
Not enough to convert me, but enough to cause me to gain some admiration for what the religion can actually be if is not hijacked by a political agenda or simply used to maintain and finance a social/political institution.
Memories of 1976 when KKKampus KKKrusade for KKKrist knocking on dorm doors wearing Reagan buttons and passing out leaflets for Pruneface at Pitt.
re: #205 Shropshire Slasher
Or it was all just a waste of time to think it could be stopped in the first place. Without a vaccine this isn’t stopping this winter.
stopped no
managed, controlled, contained, limited, vastly reduced death count, vastly reduced hospital admissions, vastly reduced long term and permanent health conditions - absolutely yes
and by little more than
- distancing
- masking
- and not whining that i cant do any freaking thing i want anytime i want for maybe a few months
re: #191 jaunte
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Asking for a friend 😉.
It’s time you reread the constitution and refresh on what a right is sir.— 👔Dan Whitfield For US Senate 2020 | Arkansas (@DanWhitCongress) June 29, 2020
It’s in the Preamble to the Declaration, where they say “all men are created equal and endowed with these inalienable rights”.
Doesn’t mention women at all, does it? So clearly they’re not equal, and not endowed with rights. But controlling women is part of men’s “pursuit of happiness.”
re: #206 ericblair
I think this is doing significant damage to gooper re-election prospects by itself. The relatively sane GOP supporters were told to hold their noses with the racism and the treason and the rampant incompetence and corruption, because all the gooper judges will institute permanent white Christian male minority rule. Roberts is an autocratic piece of shit who never saw a racial vote suppression tactic he didn’t like, but doesn’t want to be a drooling rubber stamp for the sorts of drunken penis doodle bar napkins that the goopers have been submitting to the courts. So, what’s the point of voting for the GOP then?
Because once RBG and Breyer are gone, if the GOP prevail, SCOTUS will have an unstoppable conservative majority and we will not recover from their damage for a generation or more.
re: #225 wrenchwench
That phrase from trump’s face makes me think of heads on pikes.
Every thing Trumpco does makes me think of heads on pikes.
re: #226 🌹UOJB!
Memories of 1976 when KKKampus KKKrusade for KKKrist knocking on dorm doors wearing Reagan buttons and passing out leaflets for Pruneface at Pitt.
They were heavily financed by the Bunker Hunt brothers, the bastards who tried to corner the silver market in the late 70’s…
re: #217 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
People do want law, order, & safety. They just think that Donald Trump has no authority to speak on the subject because he’s a criminal himself.
people, well most people, want liberty and justice for all
not for some
for all
applied consistently
not based on arbitrary things like skin color, sexual orientation, wealth or connections, etc
re: #208 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Brett Kavanaugh, Mr. Respect for Precedent, votes to overturn a 4 year-old precedent and gut abortion rights. JUST LIKE WE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO. https://t.co/xhxsOIuaMV
— Ashley Schapitl (@AshleySchapitl) June 29, 2020
beleaguered older “free speech” site lashing out at the new kid on the block. may the circle be unbroken ect. pic.twitter.com/mZ4SEtl1oF
— Kelly Weill (@KELLYWEILL) June 29, 2020
Too ominous?
I’m undecided whether the intent is to cause a civ, or just enough destabilization to get more freedom to throw their weight around. /1
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) June 29, 2020
Also, given where the current Russian president used to work, one should study the history of how the Soviet Union treated overseas collaborators once they had outlived their usefulness to the Soviet cause… /END
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) June 29, 2020
re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germany.
But it has been experiencing a spike related to meat-packing plants.
Czech Republic has a spike related to the Darkov coal mine in the Karvina region - it’s on the Czech-Polish border. Poland is experiencing an outbreak on their side of the border as well.
re: #229 Hecuba’s daughter
Because once RBG and Breyer are gone, if the GOP prevail, SCOTUS will have an unstoppable conservative majority and we will not recover from their damage for a generation or more.
They have a conservative majority now. Being told that, well, yes there’s a conservative majority on the court but you’re going to hold your nose some more to get a REAL conservative majority doesn’t go over well. There are already high-profile goopers publicly yelling about this.
And yes, it would get far worse if liberal judges get replaced by Federalist Society drones, but that’s not quite the same thing. RBG and Breyer should be sheep-dipped in Betadine and locked in a (very comfortable) bioweapon-protected bunker until January 3, 2021. This goes without saying.
re: #218 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
gmta
I only drink when I eat out. I haven’t eaten out (sitting on a bench in an open courtyard doesn’t count) since March, when all this began..
re: #220 Hecuba’s daughter
Except there are examples of other countries that were more serious, strict, and uniform in their lockdowns and they are reopening without a surge of new cases.
In my little village of 120,000, we’re still holding at about one case per day. Even with outdoor seating allowed. Of course, we’re all using wearamaskassol all the tome.
re: #238 ericblair
They have a conservative majority now. Being told that, well, yes there’s a conservative majority on the court but you’re going to hold your nose some more to get a REAL conservative majority doesn’t go over well. There are already high-profile goopers publicly yelling about this.
And yes, it would get far worse if liberal judges get replaced by Federalist Society drones, but that’s not quite the same thing. RBG and Breyer should be sheep-dipped in Betadine and locked in a (very comfortable) bioweapon-protected bunker until January 3, 2021. This goes without saying.
they dont even have to keep working
or even be able to
re: #206 ericblair
Upding for penis doodle bar napkins.
re: #244 Dr Lizardo
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Morden: What do you want?
Vir Cotto: I’d like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. [gives a mockingly cheerful finger waggle] Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?
F You Van Jones for helping Trump!
re: #245 Teukka
Morden: What do you want?
Vir Cotto: I’d like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. [gives a mockingly cheerful finger waggle] Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?
re: #245 Teukka
Morden: What do you want?
Vir Cotto: I’d like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. [gives a mockingly cheerful finger waggle] Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?
I do have a tiny Vir Cotto in my head, I’m afraid.
YES SIR! REAL PATRIOTS KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT #BountyGate - you did NOTHING WRONG!!!https://t.co/xJv8isnqZU pic.twitter.com/Yr4aN4nEsD
— J-L Cauvin (@JLCauvin) June 28, 2020
re: #248 wrenchwench
I do have a tiny Vir Cotto in my head, I’m afraid.
We all need a tiny Vir Cotto in our heads. ‘Nuff said…
re: #249 Patricia Kayden
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true or not, this is so laughable in so many ways i cant believe he actually admitted it in writing
Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an “anonymous source” by the Fake News @nytimes. Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2020
It’s really hard to tell if Republicans want a depression or don’t know how to do anything but create depressions. https://t.co/lNWfOyRJNM
— The Mysterious LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 29, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Monday to immediately start negotiations on a new coronavirus relief bill. Source: MSN
I suspect that, in addition to just not wanting Americans to see that government can work, Mitch wants to hold out on any relief bill until October to try to save the GOP’s chances in November’s election.
re: #251 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
true or not, this is so laughable in so many ways i cant believe he actually admitted it in writing
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It’s his M.O. His absolute refusal to take responsibility for anything that seems to indicate he failed or makes him look bad and he inevitably goes with one of three excuses:
1. I am just hearing about this now.
2. I don’t know / have never met the person/people talking shit about me
3. Blame whatever happened on Obama/Biden/Pelosi/Antifa/Mainstream media/etc.
re: #251 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows
From Wikipedia:
On March 6, 2020, Trump named Meadows the next White House Chief of Staff, succeeding Acting Chief Mick Mulvaney.
Was Mulvaney briefed?
Trump is parsing the living fuck out of this.
Liar.
re: #253 Teddy’s Person
I suspect that, in addition to just not wanting Americans to see that government can work, Mitch wants to hold out on any relief bill until October to try to save the GOP’s chances in November’s election.
The extra UI benefits run out well before then. Does Mitch really think millions of people are going to rush out and vote Republican just because the GOP throws them a lifeline after months of misery?
re: #253 Teddy’s Person
I suspect that, in addition to just not wanting Americans to see that government can work, Mitch wants to hold out on any relief bill until October to try to save the GOP’s chances in November’s election.
With the pandemic raging and benefits expiring, there is no way the nation can wait that long for relief.
re: #256 Eclectic Cyborg
The extra UI benefits run out well before then. Does Mitch really think millions of people are going to rush out and vote Republican just because the GOP throws them a lifeline after months of misery?
October would be far too late. The moratorium on evictions is expiring soon and there’s likely going to be a whole lot of people suddenly finding themselves living in their car - or on the street.
@realDonaldTrump stands with white supremacists, as if we already didn’t know. https://t.co/QJf1XncFXm
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 29, 2020
Happy Monday 🐖😁 pic.twitter.com/BMwbef7yhM
— т є ʀ є 🤓 (@beatshoney) June 29, 2020
BREAKING: The city of Jacksonville, Fla., host of RNC Convention in August, has just announced that masks will be mandatory indoors and in public places where social distancing is not possible.
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) June 29, 2020
Ben Garrison is not going to take this well.
Wisdom. https://t.co/hFs0N81hu5
— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) June 28, 2020
re: #254 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s his M.O. His absolute refusal to take responsibility for anything that seems to indicate he failed or makes him look bad and he inevitably goes with one of three excuses:
1. I am just hearing about this now.
2. I don’t know / have never met the person/people talking shit about me
3. Blame whatever happened on Obama/Biden/Pelosi/Antifa/Mainstream media/etc.
you’ve been president 3.5 years
these are your people
you’re admitting they dont/didnt tell you critical nat sec stuff
are you in charge or not?
do you know what your people are doing or not?
do you know what’s going on or not?
Speaker Pelosi was not invited to this, according to her office. https://t.co/gjN92A22fa
— Sam Brodey (@sambrodey) June 29, 2020
He’s a traitor AND petty.
re: #255 makeitstop
From Wikipedia:
Was Mulvaney briefed?
Trump is parsing the living fuck out of this.
Liar.
when i read this kind of stuff i wonder if he’s really that clever or just careless/sloppy or actually doesnt know who his COS was at the time
In addition to British intelligence confirming Russia’s bounty on US soldiers, NATO is now confirming they heard about it, too.
Three NATO officials say they had been briefed on intelligence that Russian operatives were secretly offering cash bounties to Taliban-linked militants for US casualties in Afghanistan — as President Donald Trump claimed he was not, and dismissed news reports on the intelligence as a “possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax.”
The revelation that US intelligence had briefed the White House on the Taliban bounties had been a closely-held secret for several months, until US officials began briefing UK and other European allies last week.
The intelligence was first reported Friday in The New York Times and has since been widely confirmed.
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However, three NATO military officials told Insider on Monday they had been briefed by US intelligence of the potential threat, with two of them saying they were given the briefing about one week ago. None of the three officials have permission to be named in the press, but their identities are known to Insider.
“We were briefed [by the Americans] on a potential threat to our troops in Afghanistan from operatives potentially linked to the Russian intelligence services,” one NATO military intelligence official told Insider on Monday.
“There is no indication that our troops — or any non-US NATO troops — have been targeted in these attacks, but all NATO services with casualties in Afghanistan over the past two years are currently checking for any connections.”
Two other NATO officials — who represent countries with troops who regularly support the NATO mission in Afghanistan — confirmed similar briefings. Twenty-six coalition members were killed in Afghanistan in 2019.
#OTD in 1958, a bomb exploded outside a Black church on the north side of Birmingham, Alabama. The church’s pastor, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, was a civil rights activist working to eliminate segregation in Birmingham. https://t.co/mBkxNKgqF6
— The Leadership Conference (@civilrightsorg) June 29, 2020
re: #258 (((Archangel1)))
Vir’s response to Morden comes to my mind far too much when seeing the BS from Trump or the GOP these days.
Especially seeing how, in the end…
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I seem to recall that he was the only one who was happy with what he got from them :D
I’m not as big a B5 fan as some, but that was a fine moment.
Hard to get too excited about the abortion decision. Roberts is doing the antis a favor, telling them “not in an election year” and “not so obviously illegal”. But if they try a little harder, he’ll give it to them.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) June 29, 2020
Thank you @RichardGrenell for your response. The allegation is not about 4 weeks ago, it’s about an alleged briefing about Russian bounties in March when you were DNI. I’m asking questions and pointing out discrepancies. That’s not politicizing intelligence, that’s doing my job. https://t.co/x3xYE53Wph
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 29, 2020
re: #256 Eclectic Cyborg
The extra UI benefits run out well before then. Does Mitch really think millions of people are going to rush out and vote Republican just because the GOP throws them a lifeline after months of misery?
Yes, I think he does. The GOP has a long history of blaming their malfeasance on Democrats. There are a lot of Republican voters out there looking for a justification to not vote for a Democrat.
Do I think it will work this time? No, but Mitch is going to give it the old college try.
re: #238 ericblair
They have a conservative majority now. Being told that, well, yes there’s a conservative majority on the court but you’re going to hold your nose some more to get a REAL conservative majority doesn’t go over well. There are already high-profile goopers publicly yelling about this.
And yes, it would get far worse if liberal judges get replaced by Federalist Society drones, but that’s not quite the same thing. RBG and Breyer should be sheep-dipped in Betadine and locked in a (very comfortable) bioweapon-protected bunker until January 3, 2021. This goes without saying.
The people who are still with Trump will have no problem with that. They see that the decision is 5-4 with the two Trump appointees in the minority and understand that they just need a Trump appointee replacing a liberal judge to get everything they want. They will be even more motivated to vote Trump.
re: #257 NO SMOCKING GUN!
With the pandemic raging and benefits expiring, there is no way the nation can wait that long for relief.
I agree, but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that any elected Republican officials care.
re: #270 lawhawk
Yep. He’s also playing the left by giving them an abortion “win” so they don’t notice the violence done to the constitution in the CFPB case to advance executive power.
“The reason Roberts decided the way he did is because he wants to energize Trump’s base to vote for him.” -Ol Stage Four Rushbo
re: #262 jaunte
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Ben Garrison is not going to take this well.
Odds that Trump and many delegates won’t wear masks anyway are 100%.
New meme to use when dogwhistles are applied by the right:
“It isn’t a dog whistle, it’s a Nazi air raid siren”…
re: #276 Ace Rothstein
“The reason Roberts decided the way he did is because he wants to energize Trump’s base to vote for him.” -Ol Stage Four Rushbo
the mama bear just wants a few minutes alone.
“Kids, we’re going to the lodge” https://t.co/ngOTYXR2yg— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) June 29, 2020
This coming from the Lincoln Project surprised me a little bit.
Kavanaugh tried to strike down a 4 year precedent, but instead strikes down Susan Collins’ 24 year Senate career.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 29, 2020
Let’s not lose sight of the bigger picture: after years of industry attacks and GOP opposition, a conservative Supreme Court recognized what we all knew: the @CFPB itself and the law that created it is constitutional. The CFPB is here to stay.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) June 29, 2020
re: #274 Teddy’s Person
I agree, but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that any elected Republican officials care.
They will care when Trump’s vaunted economic recovery collapses, and angry constituents are burning up their phone lines.
re: #275 William Lewis
Yep. He’s also playing the left by giving them an abortion “win” so they don’t notice the violence done to the constitution in the CFPB case to advance executive power.
Though it will be nice that Biden can immediately fire the current terrible director of the CFPB.
re: #284 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Though it will be nice that Biden can immediately fire the current terrible director of the CFPB.
No it’s not. Making it political in that respect weakens the agency. Congress should instead read through the decision and find a way to change the legislation to make the president incapable of firing that director. The same should then be done for all single director agency heads.
The presidency needs to be stripped of the excessive power it has accumulated over the last 75 years.
Heh. The American Conservative’s whole website has been down for at least an hour. Host error 522. Wouldn’t be shocked if some pithy group had targeted them. Dreher in particular has gone off-the-rails crazy about Black Lives Matter and the volunteers redecorating public parks via free statue removal services lately. I wonder if they’ll say what happened when they come back online.
re: #281 Teddy’s Person
This coming from the Lincoln Project surprised me a little bit.
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They aren’t taking any prisoners, going after everyone who has enabled Trump.
re: #286 Ferdinand
Heh. The American Conservative’s whole website has been down for at least an hour. Host error 522. Wouldn’t be shocked if some pithy group had targeted them. Dreher in particular has gone off-the-rails crazy about Black Lives Matter and the volunteers redecorating public parks via free statue removal services lately. I wonder if they’ll say what happened when they come back online.
Damn. Figures. Now they’re back up. Oh well. :)
The U.S. government has tried at least six times since World War II to root out discrimination and racial bias in the military. Each effort ended in failure. https://t.co/M7KL8m9qC2
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 29, 2020
re: #285 William Lewis
No it’s not. Making it political in that respect weakens the agency. Congress should instead read through the decision and find a way to change the legislation to make the president incapable of firing that director. The same should then be done for all single director agency heads.
The presidency needs to be stripped of the excessive power it has accumulated over the last 75 years.
Well I hope they wait until after the Trump director is fired.
re: #290 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Well I hope they wait until after the Trump director is fired.
I doubt you’ll need to worry. The rats will leave Washington as soon as possible after the election because they won’t want to be around for Biden’s AG to imprison them.
re: #286 Ferdinand
Heh. The American Conservative’s whole website has been down for at least an hour. Host error 522. Wouldn’t be shocked if some pithy group had targeted them. Dreher in particular has gone off-the-rails crazy about Black Lives Matter and the volunteers redecorating public parks via free statue removal services lately. I wonder if they’ll say what happened when they come back online.
Back up now. I pop in there every so often to peruse Daniel Larison’s FP rants [SPOILER: he’s still ranting, still mostly right, IMO, still a voice in the cyberspace wilderness], and the site has been plagued with issues since their redesign a couple of months(?) ago. Nothing sinister there, unless it IS cosmic revenge for Rod Dreher….
re: #291 William Lewis
I doubt you’ll need to worry. The rats will leave Washington as soon as possible after the election because they won’t want to be around for Biden’s AG to imprison them.
If Trump loses this November, we’ll probably see a tsunami of resignations between November 4th and January 20th of next year. They aren’t gonna stick around. Hell, wouldn’t even be surprised if at least a couple of ‘em fled the country entirely.
re: #292 Jay C
Back up now. I pop in there every so often to peruse Daniel Larison’s FP rants [SPOILER: he’s still ranting, still mostly right, IMO, still a voice in the cyberspace wilderness], and the site has been plagued with issues since their redesign a couple of months(?) ago. Nothing sinister there, unless it IS cosmic revenge for Rod Dreher….
Over a decade ago, I worked with Dreher briefly editing one of pieces for a magazine. Following his particular brand of wrongheadedness has been a guilty pleasure of mine ever since. He’ll blind squirrel his way to rational thinking sometimes, but for the most part reading him helps me head off my own wrong thinking because he makes so many mistakes I can learn from.
The WH press secretary is saying Pres Trump tweeted out a video of Trump supporters chanting “white power” because those supporters are often “demonized.”
Note: Shouting white power is unequivocally racist and something that would lead to someone being rightly demonized. https://t.co/SI89NI7nEx— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 29, 2020
Anyway, Putin has denied putting a price on the heads of US soldiers, so that’s that as far as Trump is concerned.
re: #157 Dr Lizardo
Goddamn, I think Rage Against The Machine just met their match!
According to the comments to this video (Which was posted in April 2019), the band were previously known as Raj Against the Machine! “Raj” means “rule” in Hindi, so it’s actually a more clever play on words than it might first appear…
Aiming your gun at protesters—and also maybe your wife—is wrong, you extremely silly gal. pic.twitter.com/Jp0Iqu03ZS
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) June 29, 2020
Don’t you love just how consistently conservatives consider folks trying to fight for equal rights and the privilege to not get murdered by police as ‘elitism’, and yet defending your fucking mansion and manicured lawn with guns against unarmed protestors not even doing anything to your property somehow doesn’t count as ‘eliitism’?
They have all the fucking power and privilege and still want to play the persecution complex to the hilt.
re: #289 Patricia Kayden
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Interesting piece, I’m sure: but links to the WSJ need a paywall warning.
Like how many Americans does Donald Trump’s incompetence need to kill before people decide its time for a change?
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) June 29, 2020
re: #295 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That was my first thought too like, don’t White Supremacists DESERVE to be demonized?
re: #289 Patricia Kayden
The U.S. government has tried at least six times since World War II to root out discrimination and racial bias in the military. Each effort ended in failure.
Remember how they set out to root our sexual harassment with a show trial that sent a Sergeant Major packing…acquitted on charges of sexual harassment but done up for falsifying evidence (in other words, he lied about not having done it), all of which allowed him an honorable discharge so he could keep his pension and benefits while still showing that the army WILL NOT TOLERATE SUCH BEHAVIOR!!!
Breaking: Intelligence sources confirm Taliban bounty story was in BOTH the word search AND coloring section of the President’s Daily Briefing Placemat. pic.twitter.com/zpP8EvJX5p
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 29, 2020
re: #259 Dr Lizardo
October would be far too late. The moratorium on evictions is expiring soon and there’s likely going to be a whole lot of people suddenly finding themselves living in their car - or on the street.
But the landlords will get relief, from that no-oversight $500B slush fund. Because their businesses are failing! They’ve lost all their rental income!
This is big, and long overdue.
🚨 Breaking: Reddit is banning the popular pro-Trump subreddit r/The_Donald & thousands of others as part of a crackdown on hate speech https://t.co/URUWWGrwfe
— Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) June 29, 2020
re: #300 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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as long as it’s not them, they dont care
and if was them, they’d be dead and still wouldnt care
I keep thinking that sooner or later these trumpists will come to their senses but that seems to not be happening.
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) June 29, 2020
re: #298 Citizen K
Meghan must not have taken her irony supplements this morning: even leaving aside the absurdity of charging “elitism” at criticism of a wealthy couple living in an enormous goddam mansion on a “private” street; the issue isn’t “arming your home”, it’s waving those arms around - dangerously - outside the home: at a peaceful protest (however annoying it might be).
Dope.
re: #298 Citizen K
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Don’t you love just how consistently conservatives consider folks trying to fight for equal rights and the privilege to not get murdered by police as ‘elitism’, and yet defending your fucking mansion and manicured lawn with guns against unarmed protestors not even doing anything to your property somehow doesn’t count as ‘eliitism’?
They have all the fucking power and privilege and still want to play the persecution complex to the hilt.
The couple, minus firearms, posing inside what appears to be a doublewide in rural St. Louis. Take that elitists! pic.twitter.com/NIN2MZb4Xz
— Osha Davidson (@OshaDavidson) June 29, 2020
re: #278 Teukka
New meme to use when dogwhistles are applied by the right:
“It isn’t a dog whistle, it’s a Nazi air raid siren”…
Other variants
“Fasisct foghorn”.
“Klan klaxon”.
Any more?
That’s not a briefing. That’s a strategy session to let House Trumpists try to coordinate their statements with Trump lies.
Everything Trump has touched has died. And the GOP keeps giving Trump cover, despite the 128,000+ dead, the Russia bounty story being true, etc.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 29, 2020
re: #308 BeachDem
Oh man, the interior of that house!
It looks like it ought to be defended by the Swiss Guard, rather than a couple of lawyers…..
re: #305 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Breaking: Reddit is banning the popular pro-Trump subreddit r/The_Donald & thousands of others as part of a crackdown on hate speech
Driving them into the arms of Parler
Rasmussen: Trump approval falls four net points overnight to 42-55.
That is the lowest job approval for Trump on Rasmussen since January 22, 2018.— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) June 29, 2020
The Russia story seems to be having an effect.
re: #312 Jay C
Oh man, the interior of that house!
It looks like it ought to be defended by the Swiss Guard, rather than a couple of lawyers…..
The place was apparently empty for better than a decade, with all the old stuff from the former tenants inside. They bought all of it with the house.
re: #313 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Driving them into the arms of Parler
At least Devin Nunes Cow is there to defend truth and justice!
re: #314 makeitstop
Who the fuck are the 42% that give him a positive job approval?
Goddamned Nazis? Millionaires making a killing while the economy collapsed and sputters along knowing that 128,000+ are dead and there’s no end in sight as GOP run states are quickly getting overwhelmed by cases?
The same right wing slack jawed yokels who attacked Obama for being a racist all while claiming that they were oppressed and showed nothing but economic anxiety?
#147 Alephnaught
Oh, I missed the other story from Scotland today. After 4 days without reported Covid deaths, there’s this:
This story on @NicolaSturgeon saying she will not rule out #coronavirus quarantine measure for from people from England coming to Scotland, in more detail now being reported by @severincarrell of The Guardian #Covid19UK https://t.co/eXnanmT5uB https://t.co/vRwkHP1IDO
re: #311 lawhawk
That’s not a briefing. That’s a strategy session to let House Trumpists try to coordinate their statements with Trump lies.
Everything Trump has touched has died. And the GOP keeps giving Trump cover, despite the 128,000+ dead, the Russia bounty story being true, etc.
He bought the GOP some time by call it all Lügenpresse but that only goes so far when it is being confirmed by “liars” all over the world
re: #315 makeitstop
The place was apparently empty for better than a decade, with all the old stuff from the former tenants inside. They bought all of it with the house.
Who were the former tenants?
The Borgias?
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re: #308 BeachDem
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Now thats gaudy without being tasteful
Aiming your gun at protesters—and also maybe your wife—is wrong, you extremely silly gal. pic.twitter.com/Jp0Iqu03ZS
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) June 29, 2020
re: #322 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Now thats gaudy without being tasteful
That’s the Trumpian decorating style.
re: #308 BeachDem
What makes them freaks is living like Louis Napoleon was still Emperor.
re: #313 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Driving them into the arms of Parler
I am all for this idea of parler
it’ll get em all in one place
Like a basket of em
Easier to identify then
re: #326 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
DeParlerables
re: #323 Teukka
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NSFW/TMI/Trigger Warning:
For added appreciation of the background on the right, it is a poster to one of 4chan or 8chan (8kun) that posted pics of bottles where he collected all his semen.
This smells like the WH trying to mislead the public. It is common for different intel agencies to attach different degrees of confidence based on the manner on underlying intel; that isn’t the same as there being disagreement over whether something happened. https://t.co/6XJRTDS6vg
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) June 29, 2020
re: #312 Jay C
Oh man, the interior of that house!
It looks like it ought to be defended by the Swiss Guard, rather than a couple of lawyers…..
I was thinking “highest tier house of ill repute.”
re: #305 NO SMOCKING GUN!
This is big, and long overdue.
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Yes, that it is indeed long overdue. Better late than never, though.
re: #332 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I was thinking “highest tier house of ill repute.”
It also looks like the home of a French provincial aristocrat, ca. 1789. We should move forward with that simile.
1.1 million views in four hours. Trump is not going to be happy. Keep retweeting. pic.twitter.com/aTzZIhgwHV
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) June 29, 2020
re: #317 lawhawk
Who the fuck are the 42% that give him a positive job approval?
Goddamned Nazis? Millionaires making a killing while the economy collapsed and sputters along knowing that 128,000+ are dead and there’s no end in sight as GOP run states are quickly getting overwhelmed by cases?
The same right wing slack jawed yokels who attacked Obama for being a racist all while claiming that they were oppressed and showed nothing but economic anxiety?
It’s Rasmussen. That means Trump’s real approval rating is probably somewhere around 35% to 38%. Trump’s in deep shit.
re: #334 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
It also looks like the home of a French provincial aristocrat, ca. 1789. We should move forward with that simile.
I was thinking it looks more like a high-class VIP French bordello.
re: #305 NO SMOCKING GUN!
First they came for r/QAnon, and everybody pointed and laughed.
Then they came for r/TheDonald and everybody said, “about bloody time”.
re: #338 Dr Lizardo
I was thinking it looks more like a **high-class** VIP French bordello.
** High class? Really.?
It’s jarring, very bad taste in fact, that Mr.and Mrs. Tort-bux would appear in public with such low class peasant type firearms. I would give them at least a few points if they had come out with a Purdy double-rifle or even a new-in-box Colt Python. Highest score would go to matched, engraved percussion-lock dueling pistols, but you couldn’t mow down a whole crowd of unwelcome pedestrians with them
re: #314 makeitstop
The Russia story seems to be having an effect.
Even those who could look past Helsinki are faced with obvious treason now.
re: #341 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Highest score would go to matched, engraved percussion-lock dueling pistols, but you couldn’t mow down a whole crowd of unwelcome pedestrians with them
That’s why you have loaders to hand you new ones.
re: #334 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
It also looks like the home of a French provincial aristocrat, ca. 1789. We should move forward with that simile.
Read that this was formerly a home owned by one of the Busch family members (aka the Anheiser Busch family).
The GOP will now be moving it’s national convention to an Arby’s parking lot outside of Branson, Mo. https://t.co/mgaeVPPZv0
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) June 29, 2020
re: #344 lawhawk
Read that this was formerly a home owned by one of the Busch family members (aka the Anheiser Busch family).
My main question (aside from how can anyone have such horrible taste) is why the fuck didn’t they just stay inside their fortress?
re: #342 William Lewis
Even those who could look past Helsinki are faced with obvious treason now.
Or the worst kind of incompetence at all levels
Personally I’m voting for we buried it / treason not we’re inept amateurs
re: #345 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
The GOP will now be moving it’s national convention to an Arby’s parking lot outside of Branson, Mo.
🤣🤣
re: #346 BeachDem
My main question (aside from how can anyone have such horrible taste) is why the fuck didn’t they just stay inside their fortress?
Economic anxiety?
I’m still going to predict the GOP convention might end up at a Trump property.
re: #346 BeachDem
My main question (aside from how can anyone have such horrible taste) is why the fuck didn’t they just stay inside their fortress?
A lot of wealthy people have a desire to be “seen”.
re: #312 Jay C
Oh man, the interior of that house!
It looks like it ought to be defended by the Swiss Guard, rather than a couple of lawyers…..
That will make a nice public library after the current occupants have been guillotined gently persuaded to pack up & flee to Costa Rica.
It’s time we remember who we are as Americans: we treat each other with dignity and respect, we leave nobody behind, and we give hate no safe harbor.
We are everything that Donald Trump is not.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 29, 2020
Sure Jann. https://t.co/9LfZoxyb0k
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) June 29, 2020
He still hasn’t been briefed? Maybe he should have passed on the golf and gotten up to speed.
Liar.
L O fuckin’ L:
Please friends - help me to raise awareness of the sudden suspension of my YouTube channel of 14 years - please politely tag @TeamYouTube to help correct this egregious error.
— Stefan Molyneux, MA (@StefanMolyneux) June 29, 2020
A whole lotta assholes are getting the banhammer on a variety of platforms.
re: #353 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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While trump and co flails at every single turn,
Almost all Joe’s gotta do is be a human being.
They have no senses. Or morals, ethics, or consciences.
They’re failed human beings. Worth. Less.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) June 29, 2020
re: #99 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
maybe its fear and anger
to me it reeks of entitlement and white privilege
Maybe they watch Tucker Carlson and believe his “THEY WILL COME TO GIT YOU” bullshit.
I will be sore disappointed if they get to keep their guns.
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