The first night of the Republican National Convention was “a long midnight of the soul” according to our host, and featured speeches from Donald Trump Jr., Nikki Hayley, and Kimberly Guilfoyle as well as multiple appearances by President Trump. #LateShowLIVE #RNC2020 #Monologue
May Trump’s strategy of delaying mail backfire, producing a drubbing of epic proportions. In essence, FFVCS F’s himself.
Just got dead threaded but this podcast is of interest.
re: #263 jaunte
White House Insider: Trump Wanted to ‘Maim’ Immigrants
Here’s a half hour podcast with Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security talking with Molly Jong-Fast & Rick Wilson. The quotes [from jaunte’s links] came from this interview. Miles and Rick are laughing about how awful it was to work for Trump. IOKIYR. The info in the interview is horrifying.
So lovely 💐❣️ pic.twitter.com/ph9VDPaUwt
— CUTE EMERGENCY (@Cutemp4) August 25, 2020
I absolutely love this guy’s energy and overall approach. It’s like when a baby startles itself with a fart. https://t.co/Gl3S3Gk4FK
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) August 25, 2020
Trump’s going to be pissed that night one of the RNC was a ratings disaster. It’s not going to get any better. Why? Because more Trump isn’t going to save things. Everyone speaking is a member of Trumpworld and its inner circle and the lies are flying to fast and thick I worry for Daniel Dale’s personal well being.
Everything he touches dies, and the RNC and GOP are no exceptions. And this would be a justified homicide. It deserves to die for supporting the most corrupt and criminal admin in our history. They’ve shredded every rule and norm, and they’ve even done away with a platform because that’s too much hard work. Then they tried to recycle the 2016 platform, except that would apply to Trump, not Obama. He’s the one who has a record of nonstop failure, corruption, criminality, misconduct, and who ignores the rule of law about absolutely everything.
Doesn’t matter how much Guilfoyle yells. Doesn’t matter how much Jr. gets face time.
This is a Trump crime syndicate that is barred from operating a charity because they engaged in financial wrongdoing. Eric’s under investigation for wire/mail fraud, tax fraud, and other chicanery as we speak. Trump’s under investigation in NYS.
And we aren’t even getting to the unindicted coconspirator case (Cohen) or the impeachment obstruction charges, or the extortion for Ukraine, China, and other countries, or that he’s ignored the rules in choosing heads of DHS and other agencies, or that he’s purposefully interfering in the delivery of mail (again, a felony).
Multiple states are suing Trump and his know nothing hack DeJoy to prevent further damage, but that wont stop the damage already done by reducing capacity to handle mail. Trumpists love to claim that this was out of improving efficiencies, except by the USPS own metrics, they are less efficient today because they now have fewer of the machines needed to sort than they did, and that reduced capacity can’t be made up without adding workforce and people can’t sort as fast.
More than that, those sorting machines that are eventually replaced periodically get sold as surplus to foreign countries, so they have additional value. Trump’s pick wrecked them so that they have no value at all.
This is sabotage.
Free for all pic.twitter.com/bju57PYlFQ
— Rob Wagner 😷😷 (@wagner_rob) August 25, 2020
re: #6 lawhawk
Oh fuck him for trying to misrepresent what MLK said.
who made this pic.twitter.com/94eHh0chLN
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 25, 2020
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh fuck him for trying to misrepresent what MLK said.
Unless he really means that he’s planning to get laid as much as possible now that he doesn’t have to pretend to be a Christian.
.@realDonaldTrump it didn’t have to be this bad. pic.twitter.com/aMhxaTXnpm
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 25, 2020
So my plan to save my small but remaining sanity by not watching last night’s shit extravaganza was successful. The tiny bit I have looked at is just nauseating. And dumb and mean. That’s all they got. The big question is, how many of the 40ish percent of people who support this shit will be moved to anything besides more fear, anger and lashing out at their perceived enemies? People like you and me, trying to actually survive this enduring shitshow. Stochastic Terrorism anyone?
I don’t know how this shit airs for 3 more nights and keeps an audience. And Trump speaking every night? How is that a bonus? The nominations are already official, what do they need a convention for? I hope the TV networks cut away to other shit or talk over the idiots. From what I’ve seen so far the contrast between the 2 conventions is pretty stark, and not in a good way for the GOP. Let ‘em hurt themselves, there comes a point where even complicit media won’t be able to spin any of it positively.
re: #3 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Don’t fucking feed the wildlife. This isn’t cute, it’s dangerous.
If you play Kim Guilfoyl’s RNC speech in reverse, she invites Putin to interfere in the 2020 election while speaking perfect Russian … there’s also a very good chance she snuck some sort of dead-eyed hex into that last little bit. #Guilfoylechallenge pic.twitter.com/SP3ZveFuCu
— 𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔🇺🇸 (@christophurious) August 25, 2020
To anyone in the potential path of Hurricane Laura, get your preparations done today. And please stay safe.
re: #6 lawhawk
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Falwell’s now gonna watch the convention from a distance and let someone else take his slot
(No I can’t take credit)
Jerry Falwell Jr. just confirmed to me he has submitted his resignation to Liberty’s board.
“It’s a relief,” he said. “The quote that keeps going through my mind this morning is Martin Luther Ling Jr: ‘free at last, free at last, thank God almighty I’m free at last.”— Richard Chumney (@RichChumney) August 25, 2020
re: #16 dangerman
Falwell’s now gonna watch the convention from a distance and let someone else take his slot
(No I can’t take credit)
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Martin Luther Ling?
Sounds fishy to me….🐟🐟
JFC. That poor child.
Oh, wow. It’s even worse when you hear it. https://t.co/RV9d3PqjW3
— Dennis DiClaudio (@dennisdiclaudio) August 25, 2020
#Guilfoylechallenge rages on…
#Guilfoylechallenge
What can I say? She inspired me…😅 pic.twitter.com/Y0mUZqadyJ— JJT (@JohnJTerrible) August 25, 2020
I love a good metaphor.
Woke up to replies calling me Uncle Tom. What the fck does that even mean when applied to a Native American? The #RNCConventionFlop is not my fault. #Guilfoylechallenge pic.twitter.com/OfzN3VFAmf #CocaineConvention#TrumpChaos
— REESUS PATRIOT™💙 (@ReesusP) August 25, 2020
The RNC green room contains two items, a complimentary bowl of beta-blockers very deliberately placed next to a complimentary bowl of cocaine.
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) August 25, 2020
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️🌈 (@aravosis) August 25, 2020
OMG. I’m dying.
Here we go matty-g sound on @mattgaetz https://t.co/O4KyjQ1sOd pic.twitter.com/UyVxCRD75i
— ReefPilot (@reefpilot) August 25, 2020
When did Fournier join the Resistance?
All that and a bag of donuts https://t.co/hXkRqU1qBr
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) August 25, 2020
Are there really people so dumb-ass gullible they believe grifters and con artists like this?
(I know there are.) https://t.co/IgReFer8J6— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 25, 2020
Too much. Every single day. Too damn much.
ahhh, another ‘Christian Conservative’….very on-brand
— Wendy LooLoo (@wendy_looloo) August 25, 2020
Oh! 😳🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/zAC35vhDti
— CivMilAir ✈ (@CivMilAir) August 25, 2020
One of my favorite things is when hack propagandists like this use ultra-literalist hair-splitting to defend the indefensible. We see what you’re doing, Joel. https://t.co/wBmLaySBF2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 25, 2020
Now watch as his targets apologize to this clown.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 25, 2020
re: #12 teleskiguy
Don’t fucking feed the wildlife. This isn’t cute, it’s dangerous.
It’s also not good for your stone foundation wall.
Bizarro Jackie
Navarro: “Melania Trump is the Jackie Kennedy of her time” https://t.co/AJCUqm8kaB pic.twitter.com/WbxpnRjboI
— The Hill (@thehill) August 25, 2020
Navarro: “Melania Trump is the Jackie Kennedy of her time” https://t.co/AJCUqm8kaB pic.twitter.com/WbxpnRjboI
— The Hill (@thehill) August 25, 2020
This is chaff. Ignore it.
Trump’s steered the ship directly into the path of the iceberg. Hit iceberg. Backed up. Hit it a few more times. And then blamed the prior captain for giving instructions on how to avoid icebergs.
The entire RNC and Trumpworld is a colossal failure, and they need to deflect with something shiny. They tried it with the redesign of the Rose Garden (which got a major revamp by Jackie. Trump’s got a garish design for AF1, which would replace the JFK design. Whereas Jackie and JFK looked at classical American styles, Melania’s touch is sterile garishness. She’s not an icon or a leader.
She’s as much a corrupt facilitator of Trumpworld as anyone else, including Trump’s spawn.
Hey Charles, I know you’re watching this RNC Trainwreck. Would you comment if this horrible woman actually speaks tonight? I’m having a hard time seeing that happen.
So this is @AbbyJohnson. Abby adopted a bi-racial child. Abby is racist. Abby will be speaking to the GOP convention tonight. Here is racist Abby talking about how her bi-racial child is more likely to be a criminal. H/T @VICENews pic.twitter.com/v7H7hIKgce
— Hercules Mulligan’s back b/c that energy is needed (@johnvmoore) August 25, 2020
This reminds me of the book A Child Called It. I fear for her poor kiddo. I’m fucking heartbroken right now. I need to log off for a while….I need some brain bleach. A good murder show would be less bleak.
re: #18 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
JFC. That poor child.
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this just confirms that so many of “Christian” adoptions of minorities is to try to fix them.
re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Troll farm thread
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No Democrat would write shit like that.
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
No Democrat would write shit like that.
But two would. Using the exact same words!
:-)
re: #35 Belafon
this just confirms that so many of “Christian” adoptions of minorities is to try to fix them.
or get free houseworkers
Michelle Malkin calls for the Trum administration to “crack heads now” in response to protests in Kenosha and elsewhere pic.twitter.com/pqt5f22o6s
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) August 25, 2020
Umm…’coordinated anarchy?’
If a police officer shot someone, say that. https://t.co/ZcTR1yvSLP
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 25, 2020
re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth
If a police officer shot someone who was unarmed five times in the back, say that
re: #37 garzooma
But two would. Using the exact same words!
:-)
Lots more than two
There are tons of them. Search Twitter for the first two sentences in quotes. pic.twitter.com/cgj9eeX1AI
— Eenhoorn 🌻 (@eenh00rn) August 25, 2020
re: #12 teleskiguy
Don’t fucking feed the wildlife. This isn’t cute, it’s dangerous.
It’s a reindeer, they are domesticated and farmed all over scandinavia.
re: #31 lawhawk
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This is chaff. Ignore it.
Trump’s steered the ship directly into the path of the iceberg. Hit iceberg. Backed up. Hit it a few more times. And then blamed the prior captain for giving instructions on how to avoid icebergs.
The entire RNC and Trumpworld is a colossal failure, and they need to deflect with something shiny. They tried it with the redesign of the Rose Garden (which got a major revamp by Jackie. Trump’s got a garish design for AF1, which would replace the JFK design. Whereas Jackie and JFK looked at classical American styles, Melania’s touch is sterile garishness. She’s not an icon or a leader.
She’s as much a corrupt facilitator of Trumpworld as anyone else, including Trump’s spawn.
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re: #31 lawhawk
Trump’s steered the ship directly into the path of the iceberg. Hit iceberg. Backed up. Hit it a few more times. And then blamed the prior captain for giving instructions on how to avoid icebergs.
I am convinced that the thing that most influenced Trump’s initial reaction to Covid-19 was concern about the loss of revenue streams for his highly-leveraged properties.
That is why he panicked and flailed about and was unable to do anything but deny and deflect responsibility until things got out of hand.
watch dana perino, a former wh spokesperson, try to stop melania’s spokesperson from trashing her speech by accident. (tip: dont say “you’ll be surprised” my boss doesn’t suck) https://t.co/BRZqqaGes1
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 25, 2020
re: #32 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Abby talking about how her bi-racial child is more likely to be a criminal.
one thing she is correct about: her child is more likely to get into trouble with the police for being bi-racial thanks to current police policies
Stephanie Grisham says Melania “worked very very hard” to achieve her dream.
Coming Saturday morning to a TV near you
Tour de France 2020: full team-by-team guide | William Fotheringham https://t.co/UG8EgIX3Bc
— The Guardian (@guardian) August 25, 2020
re: #48 jaunte
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re: #51 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Coming Saturday morning to a TV near you
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If Jumbo-Visma and Roglic can’t beat Ineos this year, not sure if it will ever happen.
re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
one thing she is correct about: her child is more likely to get into trouble with the police for being bi-racial thanks to current police policies
A person of color is more likely to get stopped, detained, arrested, treated like a criminal by a cop than a white person who did the exact same thing. We see this daily. We see this in the statistics and all the studies into this across the nation.
And we see this when police engage in use of force. POC are more likely to be shot at or killed in a disproportionate number of cases.
It’s not that there are more criminals who are POC. It’s that cops treat POC as criminals and don’t give them the benefits that whites do. That’s white privilege.
I love that you’re still on that pony tail thing! Pretty much what I expected from a deeply dishonest Trump cult hack. https://t.co/xSDGw1iAQ1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 25, 2020
And now of course, here come the Breitbart idiots for their customary harassment pile-on. Cool, I needed to block some more Trumpites today.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 25, 2020
Kentucky peeps:
KET’s “Kentucky Tonight” has scheduled its candidate forums for Congress critters. The following are invited. This might be your one chance to see them outside of a commercial, so make sure you tune in. ^JC pic.twitter.com/ol8hcWxxfA
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 25, 2020
re: #54 lawhawk
It’s not that there are more criminals who are POC. It’s that cops treat POC as criminals and don’t give them the benefits that whites do. That’s white privilege.
Abby Johnson needs to be forced to watch this video on loop, eyes-propped-open Clockwork-Orange style:
YOU: TikTok is just dumb kids dancing, right? ME: You are WOEFULLY underprepared for Gen Z. https://t.co/n7XnekcZwU SOUND ON! pic.twitter.com/8sKmWT6RQ9
— Joanna Robinson (@jowrotethis) June 7, 2020
re: #54 lawhawk
A person of color is more likely to get stopped, detained, arrested, treated like a criminal by a cop than a white person who did the exact same thing. We see this daily. We see this in the statistics and all the studies into this across the nation.
And we see this when police engage in use of force. POC are more likely to be shot at or killed in a disproportionate number of cases.
It’s not that there are more criminals who are POC. It’s that cops treat POC as criminals and don’t give them the benefits that whites do. That’s white privilege.
HERE IS ANOTHER ONE
Jacob Blake was unarmed, nonviolent ambushed by multiple cops and shot multiple times at point blank range and that INFRONT OF HIS CHILDREN!!!
Meanwhile….pic.twitter.com/eRxNa8WEZ4— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) August 24, 2020
re: #55 Charles Johnson
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Is your ponytail still Jazzy?
We haven’t had an update in a while…..
This is Cowboy and his little brother Buck. Buck’s gotten bigger over the last four months but only Cowboy has seemed to notice. 13/10 for both pic.twitter.com/QeeQO7Q87q
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) August 24, 2020
This is Ziggy. He’s practicing saying hi to the other dogs in the neighborhood. Just moved here and would love to make a good first impression. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/C2ZGWM3It9
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) August 25, 2020
re: #32 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Divine wants her eyebrows back.
Not all dogs are good boys. Some of them are good girls. https://t.co/t5LPbQ08ZN
— Sora (@sora_lyee) August 23, 2020
He misspelled Michelle Obama. https://t.co/6FZeP8mMRg
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) August 25, 2020
re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Seven times.
Then it should be no problem for you to march in there and answer all questions without taking the 5th, Shemp. https://t.co/9xplhSUAQJ
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) August 25, 2020
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
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No disrespect to Jackie but I think Michelle was better.
BREAKING: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to speak at the RNC tonight is now under investigation by the House.
— Ayman Mohyeldin (@AymanM) August 25, 2020
The subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, says the speech is not only “highly unusual and likely unprecedented” but that “it appears that it may also be illegal.” Reporting per @JoshNBCNews
— Ayman Mohyeldin (@AymanM) August 25, 2020
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Didn’t your father tell HRC that he’d put her in jail? Maybe sit this one out roadkill face.
Breonna Taylor was only 26-years-old, working to save lives during the pandemic.
We need real police reform to ensure justice for Breonna’s family.
🎨: Amy Sherald pic.twitter.com/NwXCIbZLGb— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 25, 2020
O_o
Comrade Pelosi declares half the country “enemies” of the People.
This is profoundly harmful for our Democracy. https://t.co/Km7xVgTz5F— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 25, 2020
The first time? Your guy’s been president for nearly 4 years. https://t.co/BXALKxUNDn
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 25, 2020
re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth
She’s 100% correct.
For some reason, wingnut hacks like Joel Pollak seem to think it’s a deadly insult. They’ve been flinging it at me for about 10 years now. LOL. https://t.co/rUXjy6bbHD
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 25, 2020
re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
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And you were fine with Trump calling enemies of the people. Maybe sit this one out Teddy.
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So, it being the State Department and all, will they find some sort of *diplomatic* way to tell Joaquin Castro to go fuck himself, or will they just ignore the House (like everyone else in Trumpland)?
“‘People are extraordinarily upset about it. This is really a bridge too far,’ said former Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who spent 35 years in the foreign service.”https://t.co/63hfc8cFCb
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 25, 2020
re: #50 jaunte
Stephanie Grisham says Melania “worked very very hard” to achieve her dream.
Flat backing is hard work
re: #80 Eventual Carrion
Mushroom farming is heavy shit.
#Guilfoylechallenge pic.twitter.com/IGrYTptnUe
— Margaret and Helen 🌎 (@HelenPhilpot) August 25, 2020
re: #81 jaunte
Mushroom farming is heavy shit.
Melania must be a terrible mushroom farmer, can’t get the damn thing to grow.
The McCloskeys, who live and breathe the sort of bullshit frivolous lawsuits that GOP presidents used to decry, once sued their neighborhood association to enforce a prohibition against unmarried couples living together. It was because gays moved in. https://t.co/HMa9RL2HL4
— James Richardson (@JamesRichardson) August 25, 2020
re: #50 jaunte
Stephanie Grisham says Melania “worked very very hard” to achieve her dream.
‘Working very hard” means years of bulimia and nude photography trying to attract an aging Mafia Don wanna-be in order to strike it rich.
Yep- another RBG alright.
One side looks like a Pat Boone concert. https://t.co/DU2V3HFGZG
— Don Millard (@OTOOLEFAN) August 25, 2020
For some unknown reason, during the last two threads I kept thinking of this song. /////
The Speakeasy Three - When I Get Low, I Get High ( Official Music Video )
(I also liked the Lindy scenes as I used to do jitterbugging at Glen Echo and had friends into the Lindy Hop scene. All of that is, sadly, currently shut down irl due to Social Distancing requirements.)
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 25, 2020
They are treating the White House like a rented stadium/hotel conference venue https://t.co/QdPCcnaMMw
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) August 25, 2020
and now for something serious…
is the boot shape the most delicious of the four platonic chicken nugget shapes
what is your personal favorite shape and will u be trying the spicy nugget— darth™ (@darth) August 25, 2020
the four chicken nugget shapes are of course
the boot
the bitcoin
the blob
the state of michigan— darth™ (@darth) August 25, 2020
some may tell u that one shape is officially called ‘the bone’
as if mcdonalds would go thru all the tedious work to remove the bones from the chicken nuggets and then just haphazardly name one shape ‘the bone’ i mean seriously— darth™ (@darth) August 25, 2020
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Things are eerily quiet inside the Beltway as the Blue Bubble people reel from a very successful first night of the GOP virtual “convention” and realizes @realDonaldTrump may know more about TV production than they do…
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) August 25, 2020
“Blame the woman.” - Ancient evangelical proverb https://t.co/BF4R1V0hrZ
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) August 25, 2020
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Yes Hugh we know you would eat Donald’s poop in exchange for conservative judges.
“One side of the building only has one machine in it. It used to have ten.” Metro Atlanta postal workers on mail sorting machine removals, budget cuts and ballot delivery during #SaveTheUSPS rally. @wsbtv at 5. pic.twitter.com/1QxCEMTq9M
— Nicole Carr (@NicoleCarrWSB) August 25, 2020
So far Fairfax is still sunny at 4:10.
And I am not planning on trying to mow the lawn today.
Sunday I started to go out and mow the lawn around 1:45. The downpour started at 2:05. On Monday I tried again around Noon. Guess what happened a few minutes later.
Meet the USPS Fairness Act.
USPS is forced to prefund its employees’ health care at least *50 years in advance* — the #1 cause of USPS’s money problems.
On Feb 5, the House voted 309-106(!!) to repeal this monstrosity.
Mcconnell republicans have been blocking it for 202 days. pic.twitter.com/yK2HSarm2y— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) August 25, 2020
re: #64 dangerman
Better still - start labeling these bloated sacks of protoplasm using T instead of R…
‘frinstance: Sen. Ted Cruz (T-TX)…
You get the idea….
Someone in the Kushner-Trump orbit is getting paid.
Count on it. https://t.co/paHlIyqGJK— Ed Bott (@edbott) August 25, 2020
re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth
If I have one major complaint re the DNC convention, it’s that they never had a primetime speaker go into memorable detail about all the great things already passed by the House that are being deliberately, maliciously stonewalled by the GOPer senate. Hell, it should have been a group speech given by all the Dem senate challengers - “Vote for us and good things get done. Vote GOP and everything dies.”
Thread:
Hey there, @tedcruz! Let’s take a quick tour through the Texas Republican Party’s history in the civil rights era! https://t.co/uygJLkaQhA
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 25, 2020
re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth
Q: When executing government punishment, does it have to not be ‘Cruel and Unusual’ to raise a Constitutional specter?
If you can do ‘Cruel’ on its own or ‘unusual’ on it’s own, can you proceed with like, saying, dropping Pompeo into North Korea?
When a pal offers you the pick of her beautiful tomato crop. #Bruschetta #Midweek #Tomatoes pic.twitter.com/P53wLB68XQ
— Del Sneddon (@WeeRascal) August 25, 2020
re: #103 jaunte
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hey look, Kevin Kruse found a new piñata!!
I guess Dinesh was getting a little monotonous, makes sense to want to level up.
Gov Beshear: The criteria is, these folks were convicted of nonviolent and nonsexual crimes - and also, they either are within six months of completing their sentences and/or they are especially at-risk for COVID-19. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 25, 2020
re: #87 ckkatz
For some unknown reason, during the last two threads I kept thinking of this song. /////
The Speakeasy Three - When I Get Low, I Get High ( Official Music Video )
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(I also liked the Lindy scenes as I used to do jitterbugging at Glen Echo and had friends into the Lindy Hop scene. All of that is, sadly, currently shut down irl due to Social Distancing requirements.)
Fiona Apple once did a pretty psycho version of that song.
re: #107 sagehen
hey look, Kevin Kruse found a new piñata!!
I guess Dinesh was getting a little monotonous, makes sense to want to level up.
Kruse vs. Cruz!
Bring it!
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Who’s gonna tell him?
NEW: Night 1 of the Republican National Convention drew 15.8 million viewers across six networks, falling short of the 18.7 million who tuned in to the debut of the Democratic National Convention.
— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) August 25, 2020
re: #102 Interesting Times
If I have one major complaint re the DNC convention, it’s that they never had a primetime speaker go into memorable detail about all the great things already passed by the House that are being deliberately, maliciously stonewalled by the GOPer senate. Hell, it should have been a group speech given by all the Dem senate challengers - “Vote for us and good things get done. Vote GOP and everything dies.”
Ab-so-freakin’-lutely.
The House elected in the 116th Congress has passed a bunch of progressive (and popular) initiatives, and virtually NONE of them (outside of must-pass budgetary stuff) have even gotten a hearing (still less a vote) in the Senate thanks to Moscow Mitch’s iron-fisted control of that body.
I have a number of trepidation’s about the Democratic campaign strategy this year, and not driving home the point that a non-obstructionist Senate is going to be a vital necessity if a new Administration is going to be able to get ANYTHING done is one of them high on the list.
I have worked a hybrid model for most of the last 15 years, and I absolutely prefer #remotework, especially when I can work the varying hours of the day that best suit me.
Bonus: It allows me to watch over the strawberry patch and catch intruders paw-handed. #WhenRemoteWorks pic.twitter.com/qwYm2wFYXu— Kristie “Wears a Mask” Wells (@kristiewells) August 25, 2020
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And from photo’s I’ve seen lately, might be more than 3 way.
re: #109 makeitstop
Hah! I had not seen that one before. She did have a very different take on that song.
I was also amused at the drummer’s absolute lack of expression during the entire song.
Thanks for posting!
Yes, what Pompeo is doing is illegal. And so is the use of the White House as a political backdrop. It’s what Trump was Impeached over - using the government illicitly to aid his personal or political interests. It’s not legal, and folks need to loud about this and fight. https://t.co/d4gpo7Z0bk
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) August 25, 2020
So does Jacob Blake (Kenosha shooting) have a GoFundMe for medical bills? ‘Cause it’s gonna be millions…
The word for the day BOYS and GIRLS is BLACKMAIL.
Watch Kushner’s eyes whip to Trump when he thinks Trump is going to drop the blackmail right on television.
BTW: He was talking about a REPUBLICAN SENATOR here, NOT a Democrat. pic.twitter.com/b8ZVDlqspI— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 25, 2020
Hey @AshaRangappa_ as a fellow American of South Indian heritage I’m personally offended to see you bow to western culture this way while some of us go by our given names and still get called “Say-gr” or “Sah-Jar” on a regular basis
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) August 25, 2020
Yes…that’s the whole point. Indians go by more easily pronounceable (and often anglicized) names you avoid racist BS. Which contradicts Nikki’s claim that there is “no racism.”
Thanks for making my point with your big “gotcha”! 😂 https://t.co/bWch1rxCJ7— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) August 25, 2020
Hey Saagar…do Ted Cruz next
White people I can’t say this enough, stop burning down neighborhoods that aren’t yours. Don’t destroy lives that aren’t yours. Stop playing the revolutionary in neighborhoods that aren’t yours & will have to pick up the pieces of what you leave behind. Be an ally not an obstacle https://t.co/9HidKcFDOi
— Blake Allen (@Blake_Allen13) August 25, 2020
re: #111 makeitstop
Fake news!! Fifty billion people and aliens watched the RNC scream fest. It is the most watched convention ever. (I’m picturing Sean Spicer saying this with no shame or hint of conscience).
So, stupid question. The President* is all up in arms about Democratic cities that are wracked by violent riots. But when a city in a Republican-run state, Wisconsin, is rioting, wouldn’t that also be a problem?
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
For fuck sakes. I know plenty of white people who go by their middle names. A person has the right to decide what they want to be called. If I want to be “Bob Smith” and not “Amir Hussein” that’s my damn business and no one elses.
re: #122 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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Hurricane #Laura Advisory 24: Laura Moving West-Northwestward Across the Central Gulf Of Mexico. Expected to Strengthen Into a Major Hurricane Before Landfall Wednesday Night Or Thursday Morning. https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 25, 2020
4 PM CDT Tuesday, August 25 Key Messages for Hurricane #Laura: Life-threatening storm surge, damaging hurricane-force winds, and flooding rains are expected across portions of southwestern Louisiana and far southeastern Texas. https://t.co/kbOJlOuTbt pic.twitter.com/8gUrAWqZNW
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 25, 2020
re: #100 Eric The Fruit Bat
Better still - start labeling these bloated sacks of protoplasm using T instead of R…
‘frinstance: Sen. Ted Cruz (T-TX)…
You get the idea….
Not inclined to let the repugs off the hook.
re: #124 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
So, stupid question. The President* is all up in arms about Democratic cities that are wracked by violent riots. But when a city in a Republican-run state, Wisconsin, is rioting, wouldn’t that also be a problem?
Kenosha governor is a Dem. and honestly, he’s real shitty at it too.
re: #125 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s the Marion Morrison Rule.
re: #128 GlutenFreeJesus
Kenosha governor is a Dem. and honestly, he’s real shitty at it too.
Governor is a Dem as well, so even though the legislature is R, it wouldn’t be a good example.
re: #124 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
What does Trump say when anti-mask idiots are violent? This is a very red state.
Anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers can’t follow rules, vandalize Idaho Statehouse. https://t.co/259PAMiilK
— Brad Bigford, NP (he/him) (@mursebigford) August 24, 2020
from last night:
Now dishonesty from the Trump campaign about…me.
I…didn’t say Biden hadn’t called *any* protests peaceful. Biden has correctly said most protests have been peaceful.
I correctly said Biden hasn’t described *rioting* as peaceful. He’s condemned riots. https://t.co/9aBpCcW2Hf— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 25, 2020
NYT: A forklift has damaged a brick walkway at the iconic national monument Fort McHenry, where Republicans were building a stage for Vice President Mike Pence’s appearance for the party’s national convention. https://t.co/MM6meCbrPW
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) August 25, 2020
hi
Extremely local news:
My Internet service was out, so I was playing Microsoft’s solitaire games. I called it in, CenturyLink said it wouldn’t be fixed for two days.
I then got a call from the village clerk: One of the last projects I voted for when I was on the village board is underway: Contractors are in town to replace our 1930’s sewer system; they are digging up streets and alleys for the next couple months. Keep your toilet lid closed: She already got a complaint from a villager who’s toilet backed up and exploded across his ceiling. Eww.
While playing solitaire, I noticed my Internet service came back on, because in my solitaire game I got a Joe Biden advert.
Beshear: I’m sympathetic to child care centers’ financial stress right now, but safety has to be considered along with costs. “These are complicated things, the answers aren’t always pleasing to everybody.” ^JC https://t.co/OKAAGYBtpr
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 25, 2020
Breezy when a potential petter comes home pic.twitter.com/5o7VbC9hRk
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 25, 2020
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Of course it has. And I bet it will be tax payers dollars that fix it for the campaign.
‘Deliver for us.’ Postal workers rally in USPS leader’s Kentucky hometownhttps://t.co/QpQlr4pXsJ pic.twitter.com/89JuDjLPaD
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 25, 2020
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh fuck him for trying to misrepresent what MLK said.
Free of what exactly? Biblical morals? Responsibility? Judgement?
— mstewartsloan (@mstewartsloan) August 25, 2020
Letter from a Birmingham Nailed
— Matt Wilt (@MattWilt803) August 25, 2020
*THUD*
Tonight at the Republican National Convention, Ky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is scheduled to deliver a speech praising the police and calling out anti-police “anarchists” in the streets. ^JC pic.twitter.com/BnOGI1tvhU
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 25, 2020
re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth
A wave of protesters has been arrested. 40 or 50, I’d estimate. Police have moved to push the remaining protesters onto the sidewalk. #Louisville #BreonnaTaylor pic.twitter.com/2ysktaE3KC
— Hayes Gardner (@HayesGardner) August 25, 2020
This would never happen if Fort Cattis had a Roomba. I’d be riding it every time it was moving and would be sure to turn it around before it went out the door…#RoombaSafety101#TuesdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/RJWV8lv3tp
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) August 25, 2020
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Humans’ proclivity for developing attachments to literally anything is astounding.
No.
Don’t. You. Dare. Start. pic.twitter.com/uLpOs3d69e— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) August 25, 2020
re: #146 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Humans’ proclivity for developing attachments to literally anything is astounding.
You say that like it’s a bad thing. 🙂
re: #148 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You say that like it’s a bad thing. 🙂
It’s amazing. This particular example reminds me of Sergeant Stabby the Space Roomba.
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A mixed-race family got their home appraised for $330k, way below the local average
For a 2nd appraisal, they removed all black family photos/culture items & had only the white dad home. The appraisal: $465k
Black-owned homes are devalued 23% on averagehttps://t.co/PChbtDLtDF— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) August 25, 2020
meanwhile, in the UK:
It is open 24 hours. I can get cheese and banana milkshakes at any time of the day without having to go in a shop, AND support local farms. I’m very happy.
Also we’re having this for lunch pic.twitter.com/HcaExk071i— Niffer 🌊🧙♀️ (@fenifur) August 24, 2020
The map everyone is asking for https://t.co/glMx8PruMA
— Niffer 🌊🧙♀️ (@fenifur) August 25, 2020
Just posted a fun little dyptych of a tree that is becoming a usual suspect. Check it out!
re: #146 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Humans’ proclivity for developing attachments to literally anything is astounding.
I thought it was intended as a joke.
re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth
But but but RNC speaker Nikki Haley just told us that racism doesn’t exist.
My Internet service and telephone are intermittent; I don’t know if they will stay on.
Just reading through the thread I’ve gotten the endless rotating circle trying to upfist comments (indicating the service went out).
Port Arthur residents are under mandatory evacuation. Mayor says the city will close and those who choose to stay will be on their own. Bob Bowers Civic Center is where buses will take residents to Huntsville. Plan to stay 5-6 days @KPRC2 pic.twitter.com/XsNc9R81u8
— KPRC2 Rose-Ann Aragon (@KPRC2RoseAnn) August 25, 2020
@PoochParkWear Galveston and Port Arthur residents ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Laura strengthens in the Gulf of Mexico. Please do not leave your pets behind #hurricane #HurricaneLaura #dogs #dogsoftwitter #catstagram #cats #CatsOnTwitter pic.twitter.com/w8LPIr4hto
— LaylasWoof (@LaylasWoof) August 25, 2020
re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Troll farm thread
Dear Penthouse Forum, I joined Black Lives Matter and you’ll never guess what happened next.
re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I agree, but on the other hand, wouldn’t the lower appraisal lower your property tax? If so, black and white families should make pacts — the black family can be at the homes they move in, and the white family when they plan to move out.
re: #51 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I used to watch the Tour religiously. I don’t watch it at all anymore - I got too pissed off when they tossed Sagan out. I hated seeing Cav get injured - big fan of his - but it wasn’t Peter’s fault. I suspected they were looking for an excuse to get rid of him so that there would be some excitement over the race for the green jersey, instead of Peter Sagan having it sewn up pretty early. It was bullshit and it kept Sagan from having a record for consecutive green jerseys. Fuck the Amaural Sports Organization. Shame I can’t get over it, cuz it is such a fantastic race.
There are tons of them. Search Twitter for the first two sentences in quotes. pic.twitter.com/cgj9eeX1AI
— Eenhoorn 🌻 (@eenh00rn) August 25, 2020
“I didn’t know I became a Marxist?” What, is there a double-secret Marxism no one told me about? Is it part of Teh Geyh Agenda’s inner cabal?
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Did you see the twitter handle “slavic perspective?” Someone is being honest.
re: #158 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I agree, but on the other hand, wouldn’t the lower appraisal lower your property tax? If so, black and white families should make pacts — the black family can be at the homes they move in, and the white family when they plan to move out.
Hm. Where I’m at, the county appraiser doesn’t show up…so the race effect only happens when they’re trying to sell.
re: #162 gwangung
Hm. Where I’m at, the county appraiser doesn’t show up…so the race effect only happens when they’re trying to sell.
Pity. Of course you could claim you were trying to sell and take the appraisal to the county….
re: #162 gwangung
Hm. Where I’m at, the county appraiser doesn’t show up…so the race effect only happens when they’re trying to sell.
same here and every other state I have lived. Nothing to do with property taxes
BREAKING: In response to our class-action lawsuit, a federal court has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny thousands of US military service members the right to citizenship that Congress has long promised them.
— ACLU (@ACLU) August 25, 2020
I’ve been thinking about Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart lately. Only instead of the story of one man, it’s a party and possibly entire country killing itself with reactionary traditionalism and toxic masculinity.
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) August 25, 2020
Tonight, as the GOP continue to paint their apocalyptic nightmare of the horrible things goin’ on in America, ask yourself these two questions…
1) Why is it goin’ on while Trump is in office?
2) If Trump hasn’t stopped it yet, what difference will another 4 years make?— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) August 25, 2020
“he’s still there, isn’t he?” https://t.co/UhBnC4g0vm
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) August 25, 2020
re: #158 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I agree, but on the other hand, wouldn’t the lower appraisal lower your property tax? If so, black and white families should make pacts — the black family can be at the homes they move in, and the white family when they plan to move out.
No, an appraisal is used to sell a home and affects your net worth, and doesn’t affect property taxes
What you’re thinking of is assessed value. On that front, black homeowners are consistently *over* charged by 13% compared to comparable white homeownershttps://t.co/N6ELUlaZsR— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) August 25, 2020
I don’t have enough weed to watch this foolishness. #RNC
— Wanda Sykes (@iamwandasykes) August 25, 2020
Steve Doocy is sooooo close to figuring it out pic.twitter.com/WTojO9bDuu
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 25, 2020
re: #158 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I agree, but on the other hand, wouldn’t the lower appraisal lower your property tax? If so, black and white families should make pacts — the black family can be at the homes they move in, and the white family when they plan to move out.
Lower property tax means degraded public service quality and police living outside the community, which further depresses home values. Our system very deliberately incentivizes segregation.
“The Bullshitvik Revolution” as one FB poster called it.
Jim Bakker Warns That ‘We’re Gonna Have a Revolution’ if Trump Is Not Reelected
End Times prepper pastor Jim Bakker warned on his television show yesterday that if President Donald Trump is not reelected in November, “we’re gonna have a revolution” with right-wing Christians taking to the streets.
‘I’m scared for America. I really am,” Bakker said. “I want to warn America … we’ve got a few more days to stand up. It’s going to be too late after the election, I believe. I think if we elect the wrong people—and you see how wrong it’s been—we’re gonna have a revolution.”
“The church people are going to march in the street and realize they’ve gone too far, and we can’t let the murder of babies lead the way,” he continued. “We can’t let people burn America. We can’t let the rebellion takeover. This is not going to be a nice place to live.”
No one does, sister.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) August 25, 2020
re: #162 gwangung
Hm. Where I’m at, the county appraiser doesn’t show up…so the race effect only happens when they’re trying to sell.
Yep. That’s been my experience. Property taxes for individual homes/condos are based on your original purchase price, with adjustments to reflect information based on overall changes in prices. You can challenge the evaluation for property tax purposes by providing the assessor with comparable home evaluations in the neighborhood. The appraiser does not come out.
re: #77 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And you were fine with Trump calling enemies of the people. Maybe sit this one out Teddy.
The Cory Chase video at Pornhub is free for viewing after Sen. Cruz turned it into a viral video clip. Maybe he should go back and watch the whole movie.
re: #170 BeachDem
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Well, it effects the sales price, which will effect the property tax valuation. I had this happen. After I bought a property, the city came up with a massive valuation, which I got knocked down by showing what I paid.
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also: #Guilfoylechallenge pic.twitter.com/vbkz971pMk— Cajsa Lisa 🇸🇪🦎🌱🦖 (@cajsa_lisa) August 25, 2020
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That vending system in Amsterdam looks for all the world like the old Horn & Hardart Automats, which used to be a fixture in NY for generations. Though they were on the way out by the time I first used one on a long-ago trip to NYC with my parents, I can still recall the gee-whiz of putting a nickel or dime in* and getting actual food out of the little door. OK, I was about eight: things are more interesting at that age….
*yes, it was THAT long ago.
Live tweet thread from Omaha City Council:
Group of anti-maskers outside the City-County Building today trying to hand me pamphlets full of conspiracy theories so that’s fun. Got too angry to take a picture.
Everyone inside wearing a mask, though which is nice. Still 1000 degrees in this room.— dr. erin f (@emfundertaker) August 25, 2020
This Italian newspaper (Milan) has a weird Twitter translation.
Pompeo, strappo del segretario di stato al festival di Trump csera.it
Translated from Italian by Twitter
Pompeo, snatch of the secretary of state at the Trump festival csera.it
lol
Pompeo, strappo del segretario di stato al festival di Trump https://t.co/vCnpnWTL2c pic.twitter.com/hbF02P4q9H
— Corriere della Sera (@Corriere) August 25, 2020
Strappo should be translated as “Tore Up”, “Strained” or “Stressed”. Trump Festival is accurate, perhaps “worship service” would be more accurate.
re: #180 Jay C
That vending system in Amsterdam looks for all the world like the old Horn & Hardart Automats, which used to be a fixture in NY for generations. Though they were on the way out by the time I first used one on a long-ago trip to NYC with my parents, I can still recall the gee-whiz of putting a nickel or dime in* and getting actual food out of the little door. OK, I was about eight: things are more interesting at that age….
*yes, it was THAT long ago.
For 3 nickels, the shiny dolphin spouts spit a cup of the world’s second-best hot chocolate.
Stop calling nazis & white supremacists “very fine people” #voteblue #BidenHarris #KHive #Resist pic.twitter.com/HO8jzfHLzl
— #VoteBlue Blueberry Pie (@Pie_Overlord) August 25, 2020
U.S. Air Force leaders express interest in advanced air mobility vehicleshttps://t.co/Xm2JJIkTYE
— Defence Blog (@Defence_blog) August 22, 2020
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
I know of at least one cheese-vending machine in western NY. My brother has gone to it after hours to get good local cheese (for him) from a dairy/cheese maker west of where he lives.
😂😂😂
Footage from Don Jr and Kim’s Cocaine After Party. pic.twitter.com/gpgGNlf9S9
— YS (@NYinLA2121) August 25, 2020
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ve seen a Red-Tailed Hawk fly from street light to street light in a park following a woman who was walking a small dog. To the birds those dogs simply look like a meal.
My wife just got a book in the mail from a fellow she had a long conversation with while and after she was the library director here.
The man spent part of his life here, and drove about 70,000 miles in the area. The book is a collection of his stories and experiences.
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The book is “North of the Platte South of the Niobrara: A Little Further into the Nebraska Sand Hills” by Bryan L. Jones.
re: #186 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I know of at least one cheese-vending machine in western NY. My brother has gone to it after hours to get good local cheese (for him) from a dairy/cheese maker west of where he lives.
I know of a 24-hour meat vending machine in Rochester.
This could be the start of a beautiful relationship…
(unless you’re kosher; sorry, VB!)
This was very stupid for multiple reasons, but I’d also like to know who put these kids up to this. https://t.co/Mjd1ZlOlMa
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 25, 2020
re: #195 Charles Johnson
This was very stupid for multiple reasons, but I’d also like to know who put these kids up to this.
Dunno, but I know who’s happy to see it.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not just Evangelicals, see Eve in Genesis.
re: #101 jaunte
Public announcements of government official’s public movements are how aircraft get hijacked.
re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Public announcements of government official’s public movements are how aircraft get hijacked.
Not in a long time. Not since Bush stopped the Reagan plan of offering rewards.
Only the best quality people at this convention! So uplifting and positive. https://t.co/MLDY99UWOu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 25, 2020
That batshit tweet is from TODAY. She recommended antisemitic nutbaggery on the very day she’s scheduled to speak.
“Angel Moms,” by the way is a spin-off of FAIR, the infamous anti-immigrant white nationalist hate group.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 25, 2020
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
My mother used her second name all her life because she didn’t like the first. It had nothing to do with whether the former was easy to pronounce or indicated her ethnicity.
— Rebecca L (@reblau22) August 25, 2020
Same with my mother. She’s always gone by her middle name. The only time I ever use her first name is writing a letter to her.
re: #121 Patricia Kayden
This looks like rodent copulation.
re: #121 Patricia Kayden
More white people:
A different rioter tried to set another Kenosha garbage truck on fire. pic.twitter.com/7jf2O0MjN0
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) August 25, 2020
re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Same with my mother. She’s always gone by her middle name. The only time I ever use her first name is writing a letter to her.
My mother always went by her middle name too, but that was because all Portuguese women of that generation were named Maria (ok, not all, but an disproportionate number).
It got confusing so they pretty much all went by their middle names.
The smallest active-duty vessel (mini tug) of the United States Navy. pic.twitter.com/r9dIyucdF3
— Andrew McAlister (@Drumboy44DWS) August 23, 2020
re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Same with my mother. She’s always gone by her middle name. The only time I ever use her first name is writing a letter to her.
My very white, Anglo Saxon mother in law, who has very white, Anglo Saxon first and middle names goes by her very white, Anglo Saxon middle name.
re: #185 Dread Pirate Ron
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re: #18 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
JFC. That poor child.
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Abby Johnson is speaking tonight. I strongly suspect we’re going to get the 2020 version of “The Silent Scream,” with all sorts of gory footage. This is typical anti-abortion behavior. I remember all the way back to my high school days (graduated 1978) and a lawyer would stand in front of my high school with gross pictures of fetuses. Of course, there was no indication where those fetuses came from but it was all OMG YOU BUTCHERS.
Tired of this nonsense.
re: #125 Eclectic Cyborg
For fuck sakes. I know plenty of white people who go by their middle names. A person has the right to decide what they want to be called. If I want to be “Bob Smith” and not “Amir Hussein” that’s my damn business and no one elses.
I’ll quit calling you Amir Hussein then. /s
re: #187 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Lol. That guys dancing reminded me of this SNL fake ad that they made when gay weddings were finally becoming legally recognized. I remember that that was a nice summer where things seemed to be going right for a while.
The more members of BlackLivesMatter and ANTIFA that get shot, run over, badly injured and sent to jail for long periods, the sooner you’ll see an end to the mob violence they advocate. They’re living by the sword and until they start dying by it, they won’t understand.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) August 25, 2020
“All Lives Matter,” my ass.
re: #214 DodgerFan1988
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So I assume same thing applies to the Christians who will be rioting in the streets if the moron loses, as Jim Bakker promises will happen.
PROUD MAMA: A healthy baby eastern black rhino was born at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden last week. They are a critically endangered species. https://t.co/u1pEgYRBvW pic.twitter.com/LBSLOID279
— ABC News (@ABC) August 25, 2020
Okay. Just a reminder, Trump led a crowd of people in Minneapolis to BOOO refugees, who “followed the rules and obeyed the laws.”
This right here is going to be some GROTESQUE gaslighting from a white nationalist party that has completely reject immgration as a national value. https://t.co/qykia8RwyO— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) August 25, 2020
re: #214 DodgerFan1988
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“All Lives Matter,” my ass.
That acts like a threat to me. I’d report it!
re: #214 DodgerFan1988
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“All Lives Matter,” my ass.
Same justification BS that was trotted out 200 years ago. Fear and loathing that the slaves will decide enough is enough and revolt against the degradation and bullying. And thus the excuse for having a police state with mail censorship and armed patrols to both watch the underclass and act against “outside agitators” who happen to not support the current repression.
re: #203 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why are you harassing Asha?I’m a pale Anerican of English, Scots-Irish, French and German ancestry and my legal name is “Deana.” Which gets pronounced with 16 different variations of “Dana” to “Donna”. I go by “Dee” because I got tired of having my name mangled. *rolls eyes*
— Dee *Now On A Social Media Vacation* Holmes (@mmmirele) August 25, 2020
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
So I assume same thing applies to the Christians who will be rioting in the streets if the moron loses, as Jim Bakker promises will happen.
Of course not.
“You followed the rules, you obeyed the laws.”
Asking for asylum is not against the law.
re: #205 danarchy
My grandma went by her middle name because she hated her first name. Thinking this is pretty common.
re: #223 jaunte
Asking for asylum is not against the law.
It is for Republicans, unless they are bribed. I’m honestly still surprised by their endless corruption and criminality.
re: #225 EPR-radar
It is for Republicans, unless they are bribed. I’m honestly still surprised by their endless corruption and criminality.
or some hot eastern European “model”
Another speaker at tonight’s RNC supports “household voting,” ie only men head of households can vote. https://t.co/zJcWwuK7q1
— Heather Timmons (@HeathaT) August 25, 2020
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
or some hot eastern European “model”
who can then bring in the rest of her family…
oh…
[an ISP spokeswoman] released a statement saying that “Idaho State Police personnel determined they could not have made arrests on the spot without elevating the potential for violence,” and that an investigation was ongoing into any criminal behavior “that may have occurred.” pic.twitter.com/2YJLJoCq9Z
— Dianne Gallagher (@DianneG) August 25, 2020
The RNC is going to feature a naturalization ceremony tonight pretending to celebrate immigrants at the same time Don Jr is tweeting this.
When they tell you who they are, believe them https://t.co/4I8rQWxPKF— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) August 25, 2020
I’m assuming that’s “WaffenNoodles” is where you were going there. Nice word. It has flow. WaffenNoodles of Love……..
— The Wind Cries “Transparency.” (@DaveoutofAustin) August 25, 2020
re: #205 danarchy
My mother always went by her middle name too, but that was because all Portuguese women of that generation were named Maria (ok, not all, but an disproportionate number).
It got confusing so they pretty much all went by their middle names.
I’m reminded of my own heritage, in which my first ancestor to arrive in America came from a family in which all the brothers had the same first name and a different middle name - something to do with everybody having a religious or “Saints” name in the Rhineland “back in the day” (late 1600s).
And that doesn’t even touch on more casual culture. I work in the coastal southeast, and not very long after moving here & starting work in a law office, I formulated the Everybody’s Got Four Names theory:
- What your family calls you;
- What your friends call you;
- What they call you at the bar;
- What they call you at the DMV.
I’m not sure yet if four might be just a suggested minimum. I picked up a bar name in my first 72 hours of permanent residence in Georgia, and the rule came about when my then-boss asked me to “call Gator” (me, thinking: “Who the F is Gator??”)… Gator’s real name was that of a famous Scottish hero… And Gator was in our records system as the diminutive of his middle name…
So yeah, in short, names are not something to get in a snit about IMO.
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well we all saw this coming! Ammon Bundy arrested. Someone placed an order for the thunder and lightening! Certainly tops off the day!#idspecialsession #idleg #covid pic.twitter.com/2eih8xv4hH
— Brooke (@BoiseBrooke) August 25, 2020
re: #227 jaunte
The self-hate is strong with this one.
re: #227 jaunte
I see a lot of poisonings in that future.
re: #235 Belafon
I thought they wanted to go back to the 1840s, but it’s more like the 1480s.
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
But police have no problem shooting unarmed Black people in the back, hassling peaceful protesters or escalating violence against the wrong type of protesters such as those in Portland.
re: #224 plansbandc
My grandma went by her middle name because she hated her first name. Thinking this is pretty common.
I had completely forgotten…my mother has gone by her middle name all her life. I didn’t know her first name was “Mary” until I was 10 years old. (The day I found out, I introduced her as Mary (lastname) at the PTA. She didn’t realize I was calling her.) She grew up in a time when Mary seemed to be the first name for so many girls, and, so like many others, she went by her middle name.
re: #238 mmmirele
Hmm. I wonder how many punted “Mary”.
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
White Lives Matter (More)?
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re: #238 mmmirele
I had completely forgotten…my mother has gone by her middle name all her life. I didn’t know her first name was “Mary” until I was 10 years old. (The day I found out, I introduced her as Mary (lastname) at the PTA. She didn’t realize I was calling her.) She grew up in a time when Mary seemed to be the first name for so many girls, and, so like many others, she went by her middle name.
When MrBWS got his birth certificate we saw that his mom’s first and middle names were reversed from what we had all grown up with. His dad insisted that MrBWS’s birth certificate was wrong. His mom had already passed, so we couldn’t ask her.
Who knows?
And, really, at this point who cares?
I dunno if this has been discussed yet, but there is some evidence that the person calling himself “Q” is the man who owns 8chan.
LOL
Just confirmed with the Idaho Secretary of State’s office that Kanye West WILL be on the ballot in IDAHO
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 25, 2020
Racial injustice and pandemic-related concerns “cannot wait,” Sen. Megan Hunt of Omaha says. https://t.co/SaBZ1dlp3q
— Lincoln Journal Star (@JournalStarNews) August 25, 2020
This is lovely.
The Parting Glass in the west of Ireland sunshine ⛅
This song was first recorded 400 years ago in the Skene Manuscript, a collection of Scottish airs written around 1620, though it is thought to be much older. pic.twitter.com/dToNdA2ryn— Patrick Dexter (@patrickdextervc) August 25, 2020
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
When MrBWS got his birth certificate we saw that his mom’s first and middle names were reversed from what we had all grown up with. His dad insisted that MrBWS’s birth certificate was wrong. His mom had already passed, so we couldn’t ask her.
Who knows?
And, really, at this point who cares?
Actually, when she was signing the envelope for her primary ballot last month, she turned to me and said, “Does my voter registration say Mary, Pauline, or Mary Pauline?” I told her and she signed it that way.
Cynthia Hayward, a #USPS union rep in Philadelphia, told me: “If they [mechanics] are being directed by management, they have to remove the machines. …To me that’s like working towards privatization. Because what are they gonna do? Outsource sorting. So I question the motive.”
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) August 25, 2020
re: #28 Charles Johnson
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I thought only the guy running the Washington Post’s pinnochio fact checker did that kind of bullshit. “This is mostly true” is the logical equivalent of “this is false,” which would seem to be an elementary thing to grasp.
re: #162 gwangung
Hm. Where I’m at, the county appraiser doesn’t show up…so the race effect only happens when they’re trying to sell.
Our county appraiser shows up every couple years or so.
😒😐🙂🙄
He makes it seem so easy
🤷♂️🤷🤷♀️🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/RLs2UqKmuk— TheRealDWoo 🚣♀️🏡 (@TheRealDWoo) August 25, 2020
re: #182 gocart mozart
This Italian newspaper (Milan) has a weird Twitter translation.
Pompeo, strappo del segretario di stato al festival di Trump csera.it
Translated from Italian by Twitter
Pompeo, snatch of the secretary of state at the Trump festival csera.it
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Strappo should be translated as “Tore Up”, “Strained” or “Stressed”. Trump Festival is accurate, perhaps “worship service” would be more accurate.
Actually, the headline is “Lo strappo di Pompeo,” and it means, “Pompeo’s Breach.” The article (at least the first paragraph) is about his violating the rule that cabinet officials don’t attend party conventions.
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
When MrBWS got his birth certificate we saw that his mom’s first and middle names were reversed from what we had all grown up with. His dad insisted that MrBWS’s birth certificate was wrong. His mom had already passed, so we couldn’t ask her.
Who knows?
And, really, at this point who cares?
I’ve been going by my ‘middle’ name since I was a baby. Apparently the drunk priest got the order of first and middles names wrong and then tacked on a third one when they tried to correct him. They tried to correct him again but he said “what’s done is done”.
I could tell when I really upset my mother when she used my full baptismal name.
re: #232 Pawn of the Oppressor
I formulated the Everybody’s Got Four Names theory:
- What your family calls you;
- What your friends call you;
- What they call you at the bar;
- What they call you at the DMV.
I’ve got my family name, my friends name, my street name, my roommate name, my government name, my Hebrew name (only used for formal rituals) and my Yiddish name (used only by relatives old enough I’d let them pinch my cheek).
re: #254 sagehen
I have my first name, my full name (now only used in legal documents after I moved out of the house), and a handful of gamer tags and online handles, depending on who is referencing me and from where they know me.
re: #245 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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“Urban Nebraska”??!?
Wasn’t there a post earlier today about oxymorons?
Too late, The Internet Is Forever
GOP convention speaker shared — then deleted —an anti-Semitic QAnon conspiracy on Twitter https://t.co/tEieP18cdf
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 26, 2020
re: #257 The Pie Overlord!
Too late, The Internet Is Forever
So let it be written, so let it be done.
Valerie Ross Manokey works hard to honor and preserve the stories of her ancestor, Harriet Tubman. Now, climate change threatens her family’s legacy and our nation’s history. #BlackinNationalParksWeek #BlackinNPsLegacy pic.twitter.com/CK9Dpv8Elh
— National Parks Conservation Association (@NPCA) August 25, 2020
re: #257 The Pie Overlord!
Trump Administration’s Extreme Vetting Strikes Again
Guess who went into the office all day today for the first time in months, and guess who stayed home pic.twitter.com/RMgCTGAuLC
— Dan Cohen (@dancohen) August 26, 2020
re: #195 Charles Johnson
Do I spy a MAGA hat? pic.twitter.com/FHCfcwfG0W
— His Dudeness 🕶 (@ZDudeness) August 25, 2020
re: #188 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I’ve seen a Red-Tailed Hawk fly from street light to street light in a park following a woman who was walking a small dog. To the birds those dogs simply look like a meal.
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(small dog looking up): “Hey, I resent the hell out of this.”
(falcon looking down): “Sorry buddy, just part of the job.”
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Joe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
Detroit Local Powers First EV Charging Road in North America The road, about a mile from Local 58's hall, uses rubber-coated copper inductive-charging coils buried under the asphalt that transfer power to a receiver pad attached to a car's underbelly, much like how a phone can be charged wirelessly. ...
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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