WATCH LIVE: President Racist Crybaby Attempts a News Conference
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See if you can count the lies.
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Notice that the Press is sitting and facing into full sun. Masked and waiting until…………
From last thread:
re: #191 Dave In Austin
“All I say is freedom of speech. It’s very simple. My attitude is freedom of speech.”
Did she ask him about the Black Lives Matter street mural in front of his building?
I just saw of clip of that on the news: he kept repeating that phrase like a parrot: or a bot with a stuck vocal chip…..
What an embarrassment.
Not started yet. Trump’s staff is trying to find a good vein.
Oh shit! Talking Points Memo just put a banner up that RGB is hospitalized with an infection…
Ah, yes, if we start listening to the Centers for Disease Control about how to control disease centrally, we could end up with a disease that is controlled. https://t.co/rAfpvVfMYJ
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 14, 2020
re: #7 Charles Johnson
Will he wear a mask? I’m guessing not.
He doesn’t want to deny his adoring fans the view of his cat-anus mouth.
fwiw, end of last thread:
KGxvi
if you are an honest civil servant and want to do a good job, you have to play the word games that Fauci unfortunately has had to play. If you’re blunt and honest with the public, you’re forced out or otherwise sidelined because Trump can’t stand hearing that he is wrong. And if you’re forced out, then you’re replaced by someone incompetent and/or willing to lie for Trump (so either incompetent in fact or in practice), which is a net public negative.
today’s electoral-vote.com
The optics of firing Fauci would be very bad, but so too were the optics of pardoning Roger Stone, and that didn’t faze Trump one bit. The real problem is that Fauci is protected by laws meant to…wait for it…insulate civil servants from political pressure. If the President wanted to can the good doctor, then first he would have to find someone above Fauci in the HHS hierarchy to do it. Secretary Alex Azar probably wouldn’t play ball, and NIH Director Francis Collins definitely wouldn’t. And even if the President found his Robert Bork, there is a lengthy termination process, in which hearings would be held, and cause must be shown. Fauci has been at this long enough to know how to keep his nose clean, and to avoid giving cause. So, even if the process got to the hearing stage, it would end with egg on the President’s face, and would be front-page news for days (or weeks).
In other words, trying to fire Fauci is a dead end. Multiple dead ends, in fact. And so, all that’s left is to try to undermine and trivialize him. Given his vast experience, calm demeanor, support in the mainstream science community and media, and lack of personal agenda, it’s not likely to work with anyone beyond the base, and maybe the occasional game show host.
there’s a bit more here
Pete Williams confirms Talking Points Memo:
NBC’s Pete Williams: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in hospital with infection
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) July 14, 2020
re: #5 🌹UOJB!
Oh shit! Talking Points Memo just put a banner up that RGB is hospitalized with an infection…
No indication that it’s covid19, though at her age any infection could be serious.
Here he comes. No mask, of course. https://t.co/85jwcxLThQ pic.twitter.com/Qi6TjCh1i0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 14, 2020
re: #2 Jay C
From last thread:
I just saw of clip of that on the news: he kept repeating that phrase like a parrot: or a bot with a stuck vocal chip…..
What an embarrassment.
Addled……. He’s not right.
He sounds like he’s barely awake. In the midst of the pandemic he’s taking action. Against China. https://t.co/85jwcxLThQ pic.twitter.com/Zg1NCOIfC9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 14, 2020
CDC director Robert Redfield said that if everyone in the U.S. wore a mask, the coronavirus pandemic could be “under control” within four-to-eight weeks, Axios reports.
Said Redfield: “If we could get everybody to wear a mask right now I think in four, six, eight weeks we could bring this epidemic under control.”
re: #2 Jay C
From last thread:
I just saw of clip of that on the news: he kept repeating that phrase like a parrot: or a bot with a stuck vocal chip…..
What an embarrassment.
he ALWAYS repeats himself, three, four, five times all within a minute or two
I am not listening. The sound is off & closed caption is on. “Nobody has done this tremendous thing in history, this thing that I have done is the greatest, big tough men come crying to me, Sir! Sir! like nothing you have ever seen before, the most incredible thing in the history of ever.”
cnn:
But with a little more than 100 days until November 3, the fight with Fauci illustrated what, to many supporters of Trump, has been a disturbing pattern: ill-timed battles with little evident public support that do nothing to define the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, articulate a rationale for another term in office or contain a pandemic that is both crippling the nation and dooming his reelection chances.”
re: #18 Dave In Austin
MSNBC is broadcasting over the blubbering.
There should no live coverage of Trump. All he ever does is lie, and live coverage of these lies is a problem.
Lying about Joe Biden. This is a campaign event, not a press conference.
This has gone from a barely veiled campaign speech from the Rose Garden to an explicit one, with Trump attacking Biden by name.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
re: #9 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
fwiw, end of last thread:
KGxvi
today’s electoral-vote.com
there’s a bit more here
Which is all well and good, if you have a president that follows the rules. But Trump doesn’t give a shit. He could also do what he did to Vindman and reassign Fauci to some other project. Trump is a reminder that any system of government is only as good and noble as the people who occupy the offices thereof.
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
he ALWAYS repeats himself, three, four, five times all within a minute or two
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Write a 100 word book report on “Peter Rabbit”
LUCY:
AND THEY WERE VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HAPPY TO BE HOMENinety-four, ninety-five…
THE VERY, VERY, VERY END.
Even though he’s very low energy today his babbling is infuriating. Shoe-throwing at-the-TV infuriating. People are dying, suffering, afraid and going broke from the pandemic and this moron is talking incomprehensible bullshit.
— digby (@digby56) July 14, 2020
re: #17 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Haven’t they been saying that for a couple of months now? Or is this the first time that an expert/government official has said so?
re: #10 🌹UOJB!
Pete Williams confirms Talking Points Memo:
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last time she was in the hospital it was also an infection.
I think hospitalization in her case is a proactive measure.
nip it in the bud
NIP IT!
And IT’S THE GREATEST THING IN ALL OF HISTORY or else it’s THE WORST DISASTER IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE.
P.T. Barnum would be like, Dude you’re not all that.
Humanity is doomed. https://t.co/Gv0hWnEY9W
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 14, 2020
Now blaming Joe Biden for not fixing the highways when he was Obama’s VP. JFC.
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
last time she was in the hospital it was also an infection.
I think hospitalization in her case is a proactive measure.nip it in the bud
NIP IT!
Apparently a blocked bile duct stent. Lots of antibiotics and keeping an eye on her.
Listening to him blather about US money to WHO vs. China, population differences, blah, blah, blah…it’s obvious he has the reasoning skills of the average high school freshman at best. Absolutely no ability to look at cost vs. benefit - probably because the only benefit he can comprehend is what benefits him.
Here are the 23 Republican Senators asking for a second chance to kill you and your family. Don’t give them that chance. 111 days to reclaiming your future. pic.twitter.com/Ue7G85P4gw
— Michael F Ozaki MD (@brontyman) July 14, 2020
Doubling down on the anti-Semitism *as part of the complaint alleging you were defamed by being called anti-Semitic* is, uh…….certainly ONE strategy. pic.twitter.com/Hs5R32g2K3
— DC_Explorer//Black Lives Matter (@DC_Explorer) July 14, 2020
Oh, great. Now we can use fighter jets against covid. That will take care of it.
incredible incredible incredible tremendous tremendous tremendous
re: #38 calochortus
Oh, great. Now we can use fighter jets against covid. That will take care of it.
Wait. He’s still nattering on about Chyna. Because that’s our biggest problem now.
Trump is straight up delivering a campaign attack speech against Joe Biden from the White House pic.twitter.com/HiHdwXFyKR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 14, 2020
And now other countries are banning us! We’re a leader.
Good call https://t.co/XwC7pfOHJc
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
re: #29 KGxvi
Haven’t they been saying that for a couple of months now? Or is this the first time that an expert/government official has said so?
they probably have
this is just today’s iteration (and therefore my outrage)
at a discussion led by JAMA about 2 reports the CDC put out this week
Redfield sports the C. Everett Koop beard/no mustache look so he’s totally believable
re: #32 gocart mozart
No, Senator Pendejo, that’s called Corporate Social Responsibility. It’s a business actually doing good things to help the world, you know, so that there are people who can still buy their products.
Fuck, I hate that guy so much.
I see they upped Trump’s dosage of Lithium. He’s just rambling like a drunk on a 3-day bender.
re: #35 KingKenrod
Listening to him blather about US money to WHO vs. China, population differences, blah, blah, blah…it’s obvious he has the reasoning skills of the average high school freshman (who didnt read the book) at best. Absolutely no ability to look at cost vs. benefit - probably because the only benefit he can comprehend is what benefits him.
re: #17 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
In other words IF WE DID THE SAME BASIC SHIT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE DOING, but we can’t stop fighting each other long enough to get there.
This is a goddamned grievance-fest. EVERYBODY FUCKED EVERYTHING UP, I FIXED IT ALL, NO ONE IS REPORTING IT, JOE BIDEN WILL KILL ALL OF YOU. That’s the gist of this fucking abomination of a speech.
re: #46 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
I see they upped Trump’s dosage of Lithium.
If he’s shaking a lot, then you know that whatever dosage of lithium he was on has been goosed.
Trump repeats his usual stuff about how 135,000 deaths is bad but it would’ve been millions if he didn’t do anything.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
Trump just said Obama/Biden “just stopped testing” on COVID-19. Somebody needs to explain to Trump what the “-19” means.
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) July 14, 2020
And now the usual brain-dead talking point about “more testing means more cases,” and then a long babble about how great things actually are and what a great job he’s doing. https://t.co/85jwcxLThQ pic.twitter.com/AIgGGls36d
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 14, 2020
I thought the bridges and roads and high speed internet didn’t get done because the GOP kept blocking funding…
A long stream-of-consciousness word salad about China. “You talk about a certain power of, the telephone, and the calls, where they would call, and say no, we don’t wanna do that, other countries would call on behalf of China…” https://t.co/85jwcxLThQ pic.twitter.com/VGYpkw3PVs
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 14, 2020
re: #53 jaunte
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Remember, he mumbled ages ago in an interview that he thought it meant there had been “Covids 1-18.”
re: #43 Teddy’s Person
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Blitzer could have stopped after “Trump is deteriorating….”
re: #52 The Pie Overlord!
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this is true
imagine how much lower it would have been if you did something
Trump repeats his usual stuff about how 135,000 deaths is bad but it would’ve been millions if he didn’t do anything.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
re: #56 Charles Johnson
“certain power of the telephone”?
It’s the 5G conspiracy theory again, isn’t it?
re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg
In other words IF WE DID THE SAME BASIC SHIT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE DOING, but we can’t stop fighting each other long enough to get there.
The US is, basically, four or five countries standing on each other’s shoulders in a raincoat. So of course we are constantly fighting with each other.
Any moment now, Donny’s gonna start babbling about strawberries…
re: #61 KGxvi
The US is, basically, four or five countries standing on each other’s shoulders in a raincoat. So of course we are constantly fighting with each other.
This might be the best description of this nation I’ve ever seen.
re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg
This might be the best description of this nation I’ve ever seen.
I wish I could take credit for it, but I think I read it somewhere else. Of course now I can’t find the original quote, so I might just claim it as my own.
re: #58 Jay C
Blitzer could have stopped after “Trump is deteriorating….”
im fine with this
let him blather
the more he does, the more people get to see it
ease the reins and give him his head
JFC
President Trump just now at the WH said: “Think of this: If we didn’t do testing — instead of testing over 40 million people, if we did half the testing we’d have half the cases. If we did another — you cut that in half, you’d have yet again half of that.”
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) July 14, 2020
The straight press should walk out of this fucking Biden insult-fest. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Wait. He goes out walking around and people would be free to just come up and talk to him if it weren’t for the need to socially distance? Have all the secret service agents quit?
I’d be more on board with the “let him talk” strategy if his enablers, including the media, weren’t doing everything in their power to normalize Needy Amin.
re: #37 gocart mozart
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Garrison’s claiming that the ADL is making edits on his cartoons to portray him as being antisemitic, which is patently false. It was neo-Nazis on sites like The Daily Stormer and on the /pol/ boards of 8chan and 4chan who made those edits, and who hold him in high regard in their efforts to trigger racial violence. Garrison has gone as far as embracing alt-right figures like the Boogaloo movement, the Q-anons, Proud Boys, and just about every other fringe right group.
re: #33 The Pie Overlord!
Now blaming Joe Biden for not fixing the highways when he was Obama’s VP. JFC.
Mike Pence has had three and a half years to fix the highways. Oh, wait! It’s not the vice president’s job to fix the damned highways.
What’s up with his right eye? Sucker’s just about fully closed.
Somebody punch him before he went on camera?
re: #71 calochortus
Wait. He goes out walking around and people would be free to just come up and talk to him if it weren’t for the need to socially distance? Have all the secret service agents quit?
Only the one’s whose pensions have vested.
re: #68 Teddy’s Person
JFC
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The logic of the ignorant: If you don’t test for something, then you won’t find it. If you don’t find it, then it must not exist. Ergo, making CV-19 “go away” is as easy as ceasing testing for it.
re: #76 makeitstop
What’s up with his right eye? Sucker’s just about fully closed.
Somebody punch him before he went on camera?
Buzz Aldrin is still around, isn’t he?
It’s unbelievably ghoulish for this corrupt skin sack to boast about the stock market, with 140,000 people dead on his watch. https://t.co/85jwcxLThQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 14, 2020
This press conference is so cringeworthy. Here is the President reminding voters why he got impeached pic.twitter.com/lYkNey7ZVP
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 14, 2020
re: #73 Teddy’s Person
I’d be more on board with the “let him talk” strategy if his enablers, including the media, weren’t doing everything in their power to normalize Needy Amin.
This.
x100
re: #78 Targetpractice
The logic of the ignorant: If you don’t test for something, then you won’t find it. If you don’t find it, then it must not exist. Ergo, making CV-19 “go away” is as easy as ceasing testing for it.
In addition, his math is bad. If we cut testing in half, we wouldn’t necessarily find half as many cases, because testing is still largely driven by symptomatic cases. So the positivity rates would look worse, and people would be pointing out how the high positivity means the US testing is inadequate, and then he’d be bitching that we need to do more tests.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 14, 2020
re: #56 Charles Johnson
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Trump’s hair is looking decidedly more silvery grey today. Time to dress him in a Nazi uniform and have him deliver his rambling, disjointed speeches from behind a curtained window like Professor John Gill in “Patterns of Force.”
I think I’ve had all I can take of this. I’ll just follow comments here for a while.
This is incoherent, rambling, and very very worrisome.
The President cannot even articulate a single sentence that makes sense or is passingly true.
I know we’re inured to a lot, but still…— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) July 14, 2020
re: #83 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
In addition, his math is bad. If we cut testing in half, we wouldn’t necessarily find half as many cases, because testing is still largely driven by symptomatic cases. So the positivity rates would look worse, and people would be pointing out how the high positivity means the US testing is inadequate, and then he’d be bitching that we need to do more tests.
To wit: in April, the positive rate was over 20%, as of yesterday, it was around 8%. Marked improvement on the percentage. But still very bad, not good, when it comes to real numbers.
I’m no longer “live”-tweeting, rather five-minutes-behind tweeting, because Trump is lying so much I keep having to stop
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
Stephen Miller created that list that Trump just read from, didn’t he?
He’s letting his racist freak flag fly, telling lie after lie about immigration.
re: #90 KGxvi
To wit: in April, the positive rate was over 20%, as of yesterday, it was around 8%. Marked improvement on the percentage. But still very bad, not good, when it comes to real numbers.
The virus doesn’t know it’s in the United States. It just goes where it’s welcomed. Florida has been running 20% recently.
re: #80 Charles Johnson
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To refresh the audience’s memory: In the spring, Donny was convinced that the market’s repeated falls were due to the media “scaring” it with negative news about the outbreak.
think i’ll watch reruns of barney miller
re: #87 Patricia Kayden
When we write about Hunter Biden, in the future, what if we just called him Hunter? There’s no need to add the Biden because we all know who it is.
re: #68 Teddy’s Person
JFC
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“We’ve had so few cases and yet hospitals are full. It doesn’t make sense. What are these people dying of?”
re: #92 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
Stephen Miller created that list that Trump just read from, didn’t he?
To continue the Star Trek Nazi-planet analogy, Miller is roughlyTrump’s Malakon, or Millerkon, if you prefer.
He’s babbling about ILLEAGLES TAKING AWAY YOUR WELFARE MONEYS!!!1!!! which is bullshit and why doesn’t somebody just stand up & scream THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!!
re: #68 Teddy’s Person
JFC
Okay, I personally think that he keeps saying this not because he misunderstands cause and effect, but because he can’t perceive the disease as a real problem and really thinks it’s better…for him, and therefore for everyone because he’s a narcissist…if we simply deny the thing makes him feel angry and ashamed; it’s better than talking about it.
I would present as justification for this position the way that Trump simply does not interact with people as people or talk about people as anything other than objects that either demonstrate his worth (because he’s invented obsequious praise they said) or are worthy of his contempt (because he’s invented some visceral, disgusting thing to say about them).
re: #96 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
think i’ll watch reruns of barney miller
Thomas J. Kopechne, the recurring perp who at various times thinks he’s a werewolf, psychic, or Jesus, has a stronger grip on reality than Donald J. Trump.
re: #100 The Pie Overlord!
He’s babbling about ILLEAGLES TAKING AWAY YOUR WELFARE MONEYS!!!1!!! which is bullshit and why doesn’t somebody just stand up & scream THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!!
Maybe that impulse is surgically removed in J-school.
re: #59 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
this is true
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HE SAID IT WOULD BE ONLY 15
re: #103 Teddy’s Person
Maybe that impulse is surgically removed in J-school.
Wasn’t where I studied. My prof was all about calling people out on falsehoods.
Our passports are worthless and the President is ranting about people wanting to pour into the country from South America pic.twitter.com/mrwYE8MrdI
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 14, 2020
re: #70 teleskiguy
The straight press should walk out of this fucking Biden insult-fest. This is absolutely ridiculous.
This says it all
I’m no longer “live”-tweeting, rather five-minutes-behind tweeting, because Trump is lying so much I keep having to stop
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
Trump just said “The liberals wouldn’t mind if people came and blew up our cities.”
That just happened.
On television.
The President is fucking gone.
Gone and never coming back.
The system has suffered a permanent crash.
Howard Hughes wasn’t this fucked up in his final days.— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 14, 2020
re: #106 The Pie Overlord!
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Who the fuck would WANT to come here right now? I follow a professional e-sports league. Literally every team that had the option fled for South Korea at their earliest convenience.
Just remembered saying sometime months ago that by the time we got to November, it would be a mantra among MAGAts that “IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE!!!”
Welcome to the beginning of that mantra.
This press conference is a fucking disaster
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 14, 2020
We’re watching the self-destruction of the president in real time.
Unreal.— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 14, 2020
This is really Jim-Jones-at-the-end level shit right here from Trump.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) July 14, 2020
This is just a standard issue campaign rally with no adoring crowd. It’s not inhibiting him which proves something I’ve long suspected. He appreciates the way a full rally *looks* on TV but what he really loves is the sound of his own voice.
— digby (@digby56) July 14, 2020
re: #102 A Three Hour Tour
Thomas J. Kopechne, the recurring perp who at various times thinks he’s a werewolf, psychic, or Jesus, has a stronger grip on reality than Donald J. Trump.
So did Exidor.
This is not a “press conference” this is an unhinged rant with a captive audience.
re: #118 The Pie Overlord!
This is not a “press conference” this is an unhinged rant with a captive audience.
Yes, he’s still going. He’s just babbling randomly now. https://t.co/85jwcxLThQ pic.twitter.com/Gh9hI6gN0b
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 14, 2020
re: #118 The Pie Overlord!
This is not a “press conference” this is an unhinged rant with a captive audience.
It’s not bothersome that the emperor has no clothes, but he’s just not that good at pole dancing.
BTW, this is federal property and the whole damn thing is completely illegal.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 14, 2020
re: #105 Eclectic Cyborg
Wasn’t where I studied. My prof was all about calling people out on falsehoods.
Also what I taught.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been taken to the hospital and treated for a possible infection, according to a court spokeswoman https://t.co/Msimj3JeKr
— CNN (@CNN) July 14, 2020
Why even have a Hatch Act?
— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 14, 2020
Over 30 times now https://t.co/tSjCxP4hQT
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) July 14, 2020
At the beginning of this press disaster, Trump said he’d take questions if it isn’t too hot. He will end his campaign speech by declaring it’s too hot to take questions.
re: #127 jaunte
A country of randomly-enforced laws.
Not randomly - enforcement is dependent on your skin color, gender, and political party affiliation. See, look at me, I’m 2 for 3 on that score, so while I can be arrested, I won’t ever be in serious trouble.
“you guys, statues and emancipation proclamations and 10 years and strong borders you look at Venezuela per capitas, ideology that I stopped, never been a time like this”
basically pic.twitter.com/iUIImzvhNr— ᑕᕼᑌᑎK (@chunkled) July 14, 2020
LOL!!!
Trump says Biden’s agenda, influenced by Bernie Sanders, is the most extreme ever for a major presidential candidate, “it’s gone so far right.” (sic)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
After a long absence, the left is back: Trump says repeatedly that human traffickers “make a left into the United States.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
hi
From the last thread:
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
Regarding the protest at the Kentucky AG’s house, and nitpicking because I think in flag a lot, I notice another conservative flag-lover who hasn’t read the flag code.
The flag is on the wrong side of his porch.
The flag should always be displayed from a gaff on a porch on the left of the door as seen from the street.
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
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See, Bugs was right, he SHOULD have turned left at Albuquerque.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
hi
From the last thread:
Regarding the protest at the Kentucky AG’s house, and nitpicking because I think in flag a lot, I notice another conservative flag-lover who hasn’t read the flag code.
The flag is on the wrong side of his porch.
The flag should always be displayed from a gaff on a porch on the left of the door as seen from the street.
that would be the AG’s house
he’s a Republican.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
hi
From the last thread:
Regarding the protest at the Kentucky AG’s house, and nitpicking because I think in flag a lot, I notice another conservative flag-lover who hasn’t read the flag code.
The flag is on the wrong side of his porch.
The flag should always be displayed from a gaff on a porch on the left of the door as seen from the street.
Interesting. Mine’s on the wrong side, then - mine’s on the left of the door as seen from my house facing the street.
Breathe deeply and realize that about 25% of the population will watch this and think of it as brave and strong…because it’s how they’d behave if they had the chance.
All pretense gone.
COVID-19 took his rallies away so he’s moved the show over to the WH.
Nine points down, he’s just on a rant.— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 14, 2020
when you’re doing an interview this is where you close your notebook and just watch
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 14, 2020
From the continuing newsfeed from the I Can’t Even station:
Wait - even in an Adderall-fueled haze, with #Qanon cherry on top, that makes no goddam sense at all.
Someone must’ve told him that suburban women, a key swing vote, are HATING him, so he’s trying to scare them? https://t.co/c7dbX7Zb7d— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) July 14, 2020
Meanwhile in Texas, Americans continue dying in increasing numbers.
FEMA told TPM that it is sending 14 “mortuary support units” to Texas in response to a July 11 request from the state’s department of emergency management. The units, a FEMA spokesperson said, “are in transit and should arrive at the state by early next week.”
The Heritage Foundation quietly received over $5.8 million from a South Korean weapons company.
Then Heritage produced a flood of research defending the legality of the company’s landmines, cluster munitions and killer robots. https://t.co/gWrStFpche pic.twitter.com/yrX9nuFxrP— Eli Clifton (@EliClifton) July 14, 2020
So has any journalist asked him about the bounty on American troops by Putin?
re: #197 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
So I took a look at the map, and what do you know - I was right. Ish. Of the four sites in the lower Twin Cities area, three of them are in Hennepin County. There’s one in Minneapolis proper, the other two are in towns that are very familiar and not too far away.
The site doesn’t list anything in the Nebraska Panhandle, though I would argue our regional newspaper should be on there.
re: #149 Patricia Kayden
So has any journalist asked him about the bounty on American troops by Putin?
No. They wouldn’t have access any more.
re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And this is why I blame our MSM for Trump. They’re absolutely useless.
My wife just came back from the general store.
WE WON THE LOTTO!
On the fifth-generation free 2x2 ticket, we won a free ticket.
Has any president ever seemed smaller and more pathetic than Trump does right now? If this is somebody’s vision of “strength,” they probably think wet noodles can flex.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 14, 2020
Sure. Go with that. https://t.co/kceO6IMJQl
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) July 14, 2020
Of course.
“Jenna Ellis voted by mail in Colorado in 2012, 2013 and 2014, according to public records obtained by CNN’s KFile.” https://t.co/4KEmeqVjol— Laffy (@GottaLaff) July 14, 2020
Trump: “If I wasn’t here to stop it, we be in some mess.” I’ll just leave that right there.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 14, 2020
A fence will go up around the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion in response to a spring demonstration where armed protesters gathered outside the home and then hanged Gov. Andy Beshear in effigy, the governor’s office said Tuesday.https://t.co/6atg6wFI17
— WCPO 9 (@WCPO) July 14, 2020
NEW: Texas deaths due to COVID-19 continue to surge. Texas is reporting 87 more deaths since yesterday and now has reported 607 deaths over 7-days. That is an average of 87 people per day during that stretch.
— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) July 14, 2020
Many states make no distinction at all between “absentees” and other mail voters - it’s just all mail voting.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
^^THIS^^
Boaters and bikers will win me the election! — Trump https://t.co/x9Sul1gP62
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) July 14, 2020
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
A fence will go up around the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion…
A chickenshit fence? They don’t make KY politicians like the used to:
Clay was elected to three terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives,[6] but he lost support among Kentucky voters as he promoted abolition. His anti-slavery activism earned him violent enemies. During a political debate in 1843, he survived an assassination attempt by Sam Brown, a hired gun. The scabbard of Clay’s Bowie knife was tipped with silver, and in jerking the Bowie knife out in retaliation pulled this scabbard up so that it was just over his heart. Sam Brown’s bullet struck the scabbard, and embedded itself in the silver. Despite being shot in the chest, Clay drew his Bowie knife, tackled Brown, cut out his eyes, and finally threw him over an embankment.[7][8]
In 1845, Clay began publishing an anti-slavery newspaper, True American, in Lexington, Kentucky. Within a month he received death threats, had to arm himself, and regularly barricaded the armored doors of his newspaper office for protection, besides setting up two four-pounder cannons inside. Shortly after, a mob of about 60 men broke into his office and seized his printing equipment. To protect his venture, Clay set up a publication center in Cincinnati, Ohio, a center of abolitionists in the free state, but continued to reside in Kentucky.[3]
Cassius Marcellius Clay—not the only Clay to decorate with cannons.
Conservative religion in a nutshell. Die on our altar, heathen.
Texas Teachers Writing Their Wills as State Promises to Open Schools in Fall (Newsweek)
My brother-in-law has already written a will and medical power-of-attorney in preparation to return to school in Alvin.
re: #164 Decatur Deb
A chickenshit fence? They don’t make KY politicians like the used to:
Cassius Marcellius Clay—not the only Clay to decorate with cannons.
we’re not allowed to duel anymore
Trump says Obama took away lobster fishing from Maine over 5,000 square miles, but he opened it back up. (Lobsters were still allowed to be caught in that monument zone until September 2023, so it hadn’t affected the industry yet.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
we’re not allowed to duel anymore
Firing a cannon from your porch isn’t a duel—it’s emphasis.
Chief Aneurysm: What’s taking so long?
Worker Aneurysms: We’re having difficulty locating the brain.#RoseGarden #TrumpPressConference— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) July 14, 2020
The Rolling Stones did not play during the exit tho.
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) July 14, 2020
Trump abruptly ends the news conference after taking just a few questions, closing with a softball from ultra-sycophantic OAN.
All in all, it was one of his nuttier press events — and the coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging life in the US was barely mentioned. pic.twitter.com/Iia7UIbLGF— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 14, 2020
re: #169 jaunte
That hits just a little bit too close to home after yesterday’s news about Grant Imahara.
Please read 👇🏻😡 pic.twitter.com/u5Q1lpGJRH
— Alida#NeedToRemove🆘 (@palomacreative) July 14, 2020
Smart from @pbump. “Trump would rather have no one be trusted than that he stand out as unusually untrustworthy, even if the cost is confidence in his team.” https://t.co/palf4kjHRP Again: hard to understand as political self-interest, explicable through the lens of narcissism.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 14, 2020
Above-mentioned CM Clay married a 15 yr old late in life—a bare stretch of the norm, but useful to his enemies. Such enemies included the sheriff, who brought friends:
He (Clay) was bound further to conclude that the mission had to do with his young bride.
“Now,” he said, “gentlemen, nobody, not even my worst enemies, ever accused Cassius Clay of ever detaining a woman against her will. And, of course, if I may be immodest, I can say this, that nobody can say that they ever took a woman away from Cassius Clay, either.” Then he said, “Mrs. Clay is up at the window. You are quite at liberty to talk to her. If she wants to go with you, instead of to remain with me, why, that is entirely all right. I’ll be very glad to place her in your charge, and you can take her. But if she doesn’t want to go, then I can only urge you gentlemen, in order to avoid the shedding of blood, to depart, and stand not on the order of your going.”
Nobody knows who fired first, but they got into a shooting match. At least sixteen bullet holes still remain in that piazza door and the columns and door frames. The old General fired his cannon and knocked down the tree that the sheriff was behind. He emptied his Winchester rifle and then charged down the steps with Lincoln’s revolver in one hand and his knife in the other. As to how that was viewed, consider the following copy of the report of the sheriff:
“Richmond, Kentucky—Wednesday, November 14, 1894. Judge John G. Chenault. Dear Judge: I am reporting about the posse, like you said I had to. Judge, we went out to White Hall, but we didn’t do no good. It was a mistake to go out there with only seven men. Judge, the old General was awful mad. He got to cussing and shooting and we had to shoot backl The old General sure did object to being arrested. Don’t let nobody tell you he didn’t, and we had to shoot! I thought we hit him two or three times, but don’t guess we did—he didn’t act like it.”
No words. Just sit with this. https://t.co/1xoitjQ40F
— Martha S. Jones, JD, PhD (@marthasjones_) July 14, 2020
I can’t fucking stand this idiotic shit. So let’s play a game - your 2020 bandname is a public intellectual of some note and the name of a famous historical disaster.
I’ll go first
Christine LaGarde and the Jonestown Flood
Actually, I would totally go to that show. Probably bad-ass blues guitarist chick and a killer backup band that plays quirky rockabilly cowpunk-infused songs about stupid dudes in pickup trucks— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) July 14, 2020
That doesn’t even qualify as word salad. That’s a little jumbled pile of useless words laying on the sidewalk like some weird, vocabulary eating dog shat them there.
— McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 (1927) (@Joseph_Joe_M) July 14, 2020
re: #178 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Aristotle and the Great Chicago Fire
I know, both historical but I don’t know what qualifies as a public intellectual
“the blessings of liberty” come after you “promote the general welfare” bud.
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 14, 2020
re: #181 goddamnedfrank
You can’t be populist and libertarian. Those things are as incompatible as a Betamax tape and a DVR
re: #178 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
I can’t fucking stand this idiotic shit. So let’s play a game - your 2020 bandname is a public intellectual of some note and the name of a famous historical disaster.
I’ll go first
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Ada Lovelace and the Foggy Rodeos.
re: #181 goddamnedfrank
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I have no love for Rafael Cruz. May he wind up on a respirator…if they can find a free one in Texas…
“I think properly understood, those concepts are complementary, and they’re not antagonistic. So I am a conservative, an unabashed conservative. I’m also a populist. I am deeply a populist,” Cruz began. “And I also have deep libertarian principles. Look, if you’re protecting liberty, that is the foundation of our country. That is the foundation of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. When it comes to populism, I think the most fundamental and important shifts in the last decade in politics is that Republicans have become the party of the working class.”
Jesus fucking Christ… just no. Absofuckinglutely fucking no.
Populism isn’t about protecting liberty it is about blaming others. It doesn’t give a shit about personal responsibility (which any serious - I know, I know - form of libertarianism requires), because every problem is somebody else’s fault for a populist.
Both Florida and Texas set new highs in daily death reports from Covid-19.
So much winning!
re: #186 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Both Florida and Texas set new highs in daily death reports from Covid-19.
So much winning!
But the right-wingers are going to focus in on BUTBUTBUT FLORIDUH HAS BEEN MISREPORTING NEGATIVE COVID TEST RESULTS! IT’S NOT AS BAD AS THE LIBRULS SAY!!!1!111
Also notable with the new Texas high is that some populous counties have yet to report.
re: #185 KGxvi
Jesus fucking Christ… just no. Absofuckinglutely fucking no.
Populism isn’t about protecting liberty it is about blaming others. It doesn’t give a shit about personal responsibility (which any serious - I know, I know - form of libertarianism requires), because every problem is somebody else’s fault for a populist.
Let’s fix that!
“I think properly understood, those concepts are complementary, and they’re not antagonistic. So I am a conservative, an unabashed conservative. I’m also a populist. I am deeply a populist,” Cruz began. “And I also have deep libertarian principles. Look, if you’re protecting liberty, that is the foundation of our country. That is the foundation of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. When it comes to populism, I think the most fundamental and important shifts in the last decade in politics is that Republicans have become the party of the brainwashed white working class who will gladly let the rich pick their pockets as long as they believe they’re better than the best colored folks.”
re: #180 KGxvi
Aristotle and the Great Chicago Fire
I know, both historical but I don’t know what qualifies as a public intellectual
Schopenhauer & the Potato Famine
Icy German synth-pop outfit that dresses like Dieter from “Sprockets” and sings atonal denunciations of collectivist agriculture
re: #178 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
I can’t fucking stand this idiotic shit. So let’s play a game - your 2020 bandname is a public intellectual of some note and the name of a famous historical disaster.
Jacques Cousteau and the Deepwater Horizon
Trump is at 39% approval on the coronavirus, per the latest FiveThirtyEight average. Obama was at 57% approval on H1N1 in a CNN poll in October-November 2009. https://t.co/DZ5JnGuoBW
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
It’s always REPUBLICANS.
It’s always REPUBLICANS.
It’s always REPUBLICANS.
Always.
Vote all Republicans out! That are all Anti-American. Every last one. https://t.co/WtiXVwp5Dq— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 14, 2020
re: #70 teleskiguy
The straight press should walk out of this fucking Biden insult-fest. This is absolutely ridiculous.
They can’t. They need the access so they can personally document the moment he becomes presidential.
re: #178 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
I’m bending the rules a bit, but The Krugman Fairfax Explosion is a great band name.
re: #183 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Ada Lovelace and the Foggy Rodeos.
Foggy Rodeo? Dunno that one off the top of my head.
How ‘bout Sartre and the Ergot-Tainted Wheat Hallucinations
They make you wonder if you’re really there or not. Kinda kills t-shirt sales, but as a bonus, you can hit up the venue manager for a bonus because everyone’s manic fits on the dance floor made it look like there were twice as many people there.
LOL, poor bastards.
I didn’t know Bongino was a part owner of Parler, it explains a lot.
Trump supporters flocked to social media network Parler last month, claiming that it would soon rival Twitter. A few weeks later, though, many of Parler’s prominent boosters have already stopped posting there, even as they continue to tweet. https://t.co/mW3bO0oqYl
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 14, 2020
re: #196 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Foggy Rodeo? Dunno that one off the top of my head.
How ‘bout Sartre and the Ergot-Tainted Wheat Hallucinations
They make you wonder if you’re really there or not. Kinda kills t-shirt sales, but as a bonus, you can hit up the venue manager for a bonus because everyone’s manic fits on the dance floor made it look like there were twice as many people there.
I’m stretching the rules a bit - the technical name of the disaster is “Tenerife”, the intersection of two fully-loaded 747’s on the runway in the fog at Los Rodeos Airport off the coast of Spain.
re: #195 stpaulbear
I’m bending the rules a bit, but The Krugman Fairfax Explosion is a great band name.
Yeah, I hearda those guys. Prog-rock trio that fancies themselves as the middle-class man’s Rush.
Maybe not the biggest fanbase, but they cut a killer deal with the label, so the guys down in Promotions are shipping their CD with a little packet of blow in it to all the radio stations, trying to recoup the initial outlay.
In other news, I seem to have attracted a Q-adjacent right-wing troll pushing some crazy Agenda-21 claptrap at me.
Please don’t fall for the Hitler’s Scientists brought over after WWllhttps://t.co/RiDrujydEX
— Lucy (@Lucy88022) July 14, 2020
re: #199 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Yeah, I hearda those guys. Prog-rock trio that fancies themselves as the middle-class man’s Rush.
Maybe not the biggest fanbase, but they cut a killer deal with the label, so the guys down in Promotions are shipping their CD with a little packet of blow in it to all the radio stations, trying to recoup the initial outlay.
Isn’t the middle-class man’s Rush, um, Rush?
re: #100 The Pie Overlord!
He’s babbling about ILLEAGLES TAKING AWAY YOUR WELFARE MONEYS!!!1!!! which is bullshit and why doesn’t somebody just stand up & scream THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!!
They’ve been claiming that since Reagan. The time to call it out was when Ronald Reagan made that claim.
re: #178 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
I can’t fucking stand this idiotic shit. So let’s play a game - your 2020 bandname is a public intellectual of some note and the name of a famous historical disaster.
I’ll go first
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Anthony Fauci and the Halifax Explosion
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
Richard Hofstadter and the Great Chicago Fire
re: #201 KGxvi
Isn’t the middle-class man’s Rush, um, Rush?
I was wondering how long it would take someone to figure that one out.
re: #197 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
LOL, poor bastards.
I didn’t know Bongino was a part owner of Parler, it explains a lot.
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At the height of Parlermania, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who was on the verge of losing an attempt to sue Twitter over a parody account, compared Twitter to dead social network Myspace amid the Parler exodus.
It’s height was like two weeks ago. 😂😂😂
re: #106 The Pie Overlord!
You can get into more countries on a Conch Republic or Sealand passport now.
U.S. court of appeals grants Dakota Access stay order, allowing oil pipeline to remain operational pic.twitter.com/KXnCg1LZh0
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 14, 2020
Trump appeared for what was billed as a press conference, gave a rally speech attacking Biden for more than 50 minutes, took questions from just 3 reporters before using a lifeline to call on OAN and then flee as reporters who waited an hour shouted questions about the pandemic pic.twitter.com/GN6zCEGmGw
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) July 14, 2020
re: #204 i(m)p(each)sos
Richard Hofstadter and the Great Chicago Fire
Spinoza and the Sepoy Mutiny
The DJ spins some sick tracks, and the Mutineers go off like Rage Against the Machine, ranting about colonizers and decadent raj collaborationists.
After the show, everyone goes out for bacon cheeseburgers.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
hi
From the last thread:
Regarding the protest at the Kentucky AG’s house, and nitpicking because I think in flag a lot, I notice another conservative flag-lover who hasn’t read the flag code.
The flag is on the wrong side of his porch.
The flag should always be displayed from a gaff on a porch on the left of the door as seen from the street.
Oh poop. So now I have to unscrew the gaff holder and put it on the other side of the door.
re: #193 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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So you don’t believe he lives in a UPS store? Or that he’s all in for Kansas, even though he has applied for the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend 11 times? And is a continual and habitual liar about just about everything?
Come on—give the guy the benefit of the doubt/////
re: #143 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Abolish the suburbs? That’s Biden’s entire path to victory.
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
he ALWAYS repeats himself, three, four, five times all within a minute or two
I do that. When I’m drunk.
re: #33 The Pie Overlord!
Now blaming Joe Biden for not fixing the highways when he was Obama’s VP. JFC.
Infrastructure week! In a time machine!
Ok, I just lack the moral fortitude to listen to this, and reading the reported snippets is obviously unfair to Dear Leader Trump, so where can I find a verbatim transcript?
(So I can print it out, tear it up, pour lighter fluid on it an set it on fire).
re: #178 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
I can’t fucking stand this idiotic shit. So let’s play a game - your 2020 bandname is a public intellectual of some note and the name of a famous historical disaster.
I’ll go first
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Neil deGrasse Tyson and The Trump Presidency
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