Here are some things you probably didn’t know about Thor.
Bob Schneider - Thor
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GOTV is not enough anymore, we need to be ready to confound and confusticate them at every turn!
Can I hibernate for the next 40 some odd days and wake up to the reelection of Hilary Clinton?
re: #4 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I am so sick of all this madness. Taking sanity breaks is hard too, because then you come back and it’s more shit in the shitstorm to drive you more into the abyss.
The GOP has no policy other than power, greed and criminality. Pass it on. https://t.co/qt9pbFNB1W
— Grandma Grit - former GOP (@grandmagrit) September 26, 2020
re: #1 i(m)p(each)sos
GOTV! F ‘em all!
And be on the lookout for slimy, dirty tricks.
This summer, a mystery man named James Fortune began approaching voting rights groups in North Carolina.
Fortune, who claimed to be the operator of a progressive-minded North Carolina gym called “Equality Gym,” donated a few thousand dollars to the groups. Then he started asking whether they could illegally register undocumented immigrants to vote.
As the groups became suspicious, Fortune vanished—leaving behind only a blurry picture of himself, no proof that his gym actually existed, and suspicions that he was using an alias. But the wired money came from a Georgia group with ties to a QAnon House candidate and a network of other Republican figures, raising suspicions among the groups that Fortune was working for right-wing undercover prankster James O’Keefe or an O’Keefe imitator.
re: #5 A Mom Anon
I am so sick of all this madness. Taking sanity breaks is hard too, because then you come back and it’s more shit in the shitstorm to drive you more into the abyss.
Yep. Seems like you can’t even be gone 8 hours without something blowing up anymore.
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump work a 40-hour week?
re: #10 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Yep. Seems like you can’t even be gone 8 hours without something blowing up anymore.
8 Hours?
More like every 8 minutes!!!!!
Trump work a 40-hour week?
Nope. His aides would do the shootings on 5th Ave.
Trump is too busy collecting mulligans on the golf course.
Let’s send another Pence into retirement in 39 days… https://t.co/aPOtn4onvd
— Big Mets Fan - wears mask (@bigmetsfan1) September 26, 2020
Pro tip:
You can stop reading any missive at the point where the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” or “TDS” insult is deployed.
Another pro tip:
Donate whatever you can to @harrisonjaime.#LindseyTheHypocrite https://t.co/JsYG0ToYPt— Rest in Power RBG (@halperry) September 26, 2020
Please tell me we’re not seeing purported “liberals” telling us to sit back and stop worrying about Amy Coney Barrett, that she’ll be impartial and fair, because it is OBVIOUSLY bullshit.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
It really takes some amazing cluelessness to push a line of BS like this, with recent history screaming in your face.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
Barr is not the Attorney General, he is Trump’s consigliere.
He must be impeached, and removed.
Meanwhile, who’s turn is it to babysit Judge Box Wine today? She seems to have started drinking early.— Rest in Power RBG (@halperry) September 26, 2020
“Trump ballots thrown into the garbage” is the new rallying cry.
Of course, the reason they came to be thrown out will be ignored in the shouting…
re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Trump ballots thrown into the garbage” is the new rallying cry.
Of course, the reason they came to be thrown out will be ignored in the shouting…
I didn’t see, why were they thrown out?
re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Trump ballots thrown into the garbage” is the new rallying cry.
Of course, the reason they came to be thrown out will be ignored in the shouting…
Yes that is what my Pennsyltuckian relatives are plastering all over Facebook and Twitter saying Governor Wolf is ordering Trump ballots destroyed. Now we have several Radical Republicans in the legislature calling for Wolf’s impeachment…
I’m surprised. Back in May our county had four drop boxes for ballots. Today there are 10 and one of those new ones is right down the street at one of our county libraries. I’m assuming I do not have to add postage for this, but hey, this is Georgia, a lot of shit here makes no sense.
re: #18 thecommodore
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Hint to Attorney General Barr: Hillary Clinton is not running for President.
Trying to maintain sanity. Watched the Gators beat Ole Miss. Conflicted about playing but this was admittedly good
Ole Miss fan coughing up a lung with no mask on just as cameraman turns to em
*chefs kiss* pic.twitter.com/KspOV2ozRU— Bam Adobobayo (@MannyMontana305) September 26, 2020
Now onto watching the super cheery Challenger Disaster on Netflix.
re: #21 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I didn’t see, why were they thrown out?
They were not in the proper “secrecy envelopes”, so GOP officials disposed of them in the manner prescribed by law.
That detail gets left out in cries of “fraud!”
And we can well expect that will be the case with all the charges of fraud that are made and filed as the election progresses.
re: #21 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I didn’t see, why were they thrown out?
From what I understand they were not in the security outside envelope. Law just passed that said that any not in the security outside envelope were to be discarded.
re: #21 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I didn’t see, why were they thrown out?
Because a lawsuit the PA GOP won over the Democratic governor earlier this year required all mail in ballots to be in an inner envelope, and these weren’t.
re: #28 Belafon
Because a lawsuit the PA GOP won over the Democratic governor earlier this year required all mail in ballots to be in an inner envelope, and these weren’t.
Wait wait wait. So the GOP filed the lawsuit, and they’re the first ones to get burned by it? The schadenfreude, it is delicious.
re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Wait wait wait. So the GOP filed the lawsuit, and they’re the first ones to get burned by it? The schadenfreude, it is delicious.
The best part is that when i went to go look this up, all the articles are about how it would hurt Biden.
re: #21 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I didn’t see, why were they thrown out?
At issue are nine ballots that officials said were found in an election office trash can on Sept. 16 in Luzerne County, Pa., in the northeastern corner of the state. Luzerne County Manager David Pedri said in an interview Friday that the ballots were discarded by an independent contractor who has since been fired. All nine were military ballots mailed in from overseas, he said.
Pedri said the county elections director discovered the ballots in an office trash can and “immediately began an internal inquiry.”
Pedri also said he and other local officials were not aware that seven of the nine ballots had been cast for Trump until the statement Thursday by the U.S. attorney’s office released that information.
Of course…
Attorney General William P. Barr personally told President Trump this week about an investigation into nine discarded mail ballots in northeastern Pennsylvania that the president later touted as evidence of widespread election fraud
washingtonpost.com
re: #7 Teukka
A short, but powerful segment from the movie (not the series) “Escaflwone”, penned by the even ubiquitous Yoko Kanno:
And of course, perhaps one of the best endings of any anime, also from Yoko Kanno:
re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Wait wait wait. So the GOP filed the lawsuit, and they’re the first ones to get burned by it? The schadenfreude, it is delicious.
But true to form they are blaming it on Wolf rather than them being fucking idiots.
re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Wait wait wait. So the GOP filed the lawsuit, and they’re the first ones to get burned by it? The schadenfreude, it is delicious.
But that will not prevent them from spinning it as proof of mail-in vote fraud…
…and that is what is so utterly sickening.
re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Wait wait wait. So the GOP filed the lawsuit, and they’re the first ones to get burned by it? The schadenfreude, it is delicious.
re: #30 Belafon
The best part is that when i went to go look this up, all the articles are about how it would hurt Biden.
Yes my PennsylFUCKIAN relatives are posting those presstitute pieces about how Biden will now lose Pennsylvania because of this…
re: #36 🌹UOJB!
Rescinding Roe v Wade is just the start. They will go after abortion in all 50 states.
Charles, that “Thor” song is really sweet and thoughtful. Thanks for putting it up.
I come back to LGF from working in my garage and the room I was in is empty. Luckily, someone left a cookie crumb trail for me to follow to the right room.
Quote from a BBC article:
US election 2020 polls: Who is ahead - Trump or Biden?
Voters in America will decide on 3 November whether Donald Trump remains in the White House for another four years.
and my thought: “what wishful thinking”
This election is not longer just about numbers of votes cast or about the number of electors chosen: it is about strategy, manipulation, about making false claims of electoral fraud to tie up and delay results to gain a tactical advantage.
All the while we are dealing with a desperate criminal who this time not only has a criminal organization and a foreign power supporting him, but the full powers of the Executive Branch at his disposal.
We have no reason to assume he is going to offer a clean or fair fight.
Barrett’s view on the 14th amendment (and why I don’t think just threats to expand the court will work, and that it will have to be done):
“Congress has to decide whether to … rely on the power conferred by the possibly illegitimate Fourteenth Amendment.” Or … “The originalist legislator might have to face questions … such as the legitimacy of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
re: #39 mmmirele
Charles, that “Thor” song is really sweet and thoughtful. Thanks for putting it up.
Bob Schneider is really good at writing songs that seem like they’re going to be silly at first, but end up being kind of deep.
re: #42 Belafon
Barrett’s view on the 14th amendment (and why I don’t think just threats to expand the court will work, and that it will have to be done):
Holy cow, I am ignorant! I had no idea that “serious” conservatives were pushing such a bloomin’ idiotic idea!!!
From last thread:
re: #152 SerialUpDinger
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An artist who continues to awe her audience. I wish I had taken Spanish class so I could understand the lyrics - however the guitar and other instruments bring the emotion.
re: #155 sagehen
La Llorana is a ghost story; a woman who killed her children roams the earth lamenting their deaths (and grabbing other people’s kids, living kids, to try to replace hers). Unless you’re a fan of horror stories, you really don’t want to know.
Think Medea, in denial of what she’d done, grieving endlessly over the “unexplained” deaths of her children.
it is generally some sort of a horror story that becomes particularly popular around the Halloween/Dia de Los Muertes season.
As Sagehen mentions, the back story is of a woman who drowned her children and then regrets it. The Front story is that an apparition of a weeping woman foretells a tragedy, or kidnaps and murders people, usually children, or is a supernatural creature who serves as a gateway to the realms of the dead and evil. The story is often used to warn children to stay close to the house or away from water sources.
There are also a number of horror movies about the story.
(These kind of stories are found in many cultures. A German friend once went through a lengthy list of German folk tales that were used, as she described it, “To traumatize children”.)
The song is quite popular, particularly in Mexican and Mexican-American communities.
Each singer seems to do their own lyrics. But here is one version of the lyrics:
songlyrics.com
My personal favorite version is by Tish Hinojosa.
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Today I removed all traces of Facebook from Little Green Footballs. No more share buttons, no more share counts, no more SDK loading. I’m done. Facebook is a wholly malignant influence on human society and I want nothing more to do with it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
re: #49 Charles Johnson
Facebook always seemed to me to basically be a personal data harvesting operation.
re: #42 Belafon
Barrett’s view on the 14th amendment (and why I don’t think just threats to expand the court will work, and that it will have to be done):
Does this mean Aunt Lydia shares the view that Kamala Harris is not a natural born citizen and is therefore ineligible to run for Vice President?
re: #50 ckkatz
Facebook always seemed to me to basically be a personal data harvesting operation.
That’s exactly what it is. And even having their share buttons on a web page helps them collect data, whether a person uses the button or not. I’m not going to help them any more.
re: #51 Hecuba’s daughter
Does this mean Aunt Lydia shares the view that Kamala Harris is not a natural born citizen and is therefore ineligible to run for Vice President?
Probably and I would not be surprised if that shrew declared the entire Obama Presidency illegal.
Debating whether to post a big dramatic flounce message on my Facebook page.
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Don’t say anything. Let them guess.
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Wow. Had to check to make sure this astoundingly hypocritical tweet was actually legit. https://t.co/OerBnpsRMj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Nah. Just make a low key announcement that LGF no longer links and let it go at that. Just my .02 of course.
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Debating whether to post a big dramatic flounce message on my Facebook page.
Nah, when Facebook flouncing messages become routine and unbearable in the future you can say you took take the high road and left that party quietly.
re: #23 A Mom Anon
I’m surprised. Back in May our county had four drop boxes for ballots. Today there are 10 and one of those new ones is right down the street at one of our county libraries. I’m assuming I do not have to add postage for this, but hey, this is Georgia, a lot of shit here makes no sense.
If you hand-carry your sealed and witnessed ballot to our town’s main post office, they will want 3 first-class stamps to move it 600 yds to the Absentee Voting Manger’s desk.
So, go on with your “Georgia”.
I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message… 🤪#Biden2020 pic.twitter.com/BPkHWYOxCj
— Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) September 26, 2020
re: #58 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Nah. Just make a low key announcement that LGF no longer links and let it go at that. Just my .02 of course.
Then again, another epic Why I Parted Ways With The Right type letter would be great. Now I’m split.
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Debating whether to post a big dramatic flounce message on my Facebook page.
Last thing I posted on it before I deleted my account a few years back was simply:
FUCK FACEBOOK
Republican in my apartment building yelling about the Post Office having only two clerks in 9 windows…screaming…And I remember going to Bank of America yesterday, 30 people in one line with just two tellers…yet that Republican would see nothing wrong with that…
re: #64 🌹UOJB!
Republican in my apartment building yelling about the Post Office having only two clerks in 9 windows…screaming…And I remember going to Bank of America yesterday, 30 people in one line with just two tellers…yet that Republican would see nothing wrong with that…
Tell him to ask DeJoy about that.
Rio has cancelled Carnival. Any bets on NOLA Mardi Gras?
nbcbayarea.com
Another excessive display, as usual.
Note the flags still at half-staff for Justice Ginsburg
The scene in the Rose Garden ahead of President Trump’s Supreme Court announcement pic.twitter.com/JcRpEhYCnp
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) September 26, 2020
re: #60 Decatur Deb
If you hand-carry your sealed and witnessed ballot to our town’s main post office, they will want 3 first-class stamps to move it 600 yds to the Absentee Voting Manger’s desk.
So, go on with your “Georgia”.
We do things in a much more civilized way up here in Gotham: when I mailed Mrs. Jay’s absentee ballot today, I noticed that the City had finally - after years of providing awkward outsize forms - gone to a smaller ballot that folds up into a standard envelope, and only requires a single first-class stamp. Progress and Democracy going hand in hand….
You got to be fucking kidding me.
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He’ll make the announcement in the White House Rose Garden, which has been transformed to look similar to June 14, 1993 — the day then-President Bill Clinton announced Ginsburg’s nomination to the high court.
re: #67 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
And of course being a DT so-called announcement no social distancing.
re: #70 PhillyPretzel
And of course being a DT so-called announcement no social distancing.
And few masks.
re: #67 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Another excessive display, as usual.
Note the flags still at half-staff for Justice Ginsburg
Bordering on a Nuremberg rally
Awaiting the president and his Supreme Court nominee in the Rose Garden. The band plays the Battle Hymn of the Republic. pic.twitter.com/z5jBLBu7mP
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) September 26, 2020
re: #63 Eventual Carrion
I keep going back and forth on this. On the one hand Facebook is a shit mess most of the time. On the other, my son is on it ,my hubby is and a lot of my online buds are too(including some of you all here) and I would miss them. I have cleaned out my friends list a couple of times and unliked and unfollowed a bunch of crap and it’s better as far as crap on my timeline goes. I’m still debating how to let FB go and keep in regular touch with people I have no other way of contacting.
I refuse to play along with the idea that a Supreme Court nominee’s religious beliefs should be off limits.
This rigged game of phony respect is a big reason why this country is in such trouble right now.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
Correct, it’s totally phony. They cranked up the fake outrage charade as usual, because they know they can get the gullible click-hungry media to help push it out there. https://t.co/XCcUKiWah7
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
re: #75 Charles Johnson
If I recall, President Kennedy was Catholic and was it not conservatives who lost their shit and accused Catholics of all kinds of crazy shit? Yeah they can STFU now.
How US foreign policy now works: Pompeo asked Sudan to recognize Israel & offered to take Sudan off the terror-supporting list if it agreed—shows how fake that list is. Sudan leaders understood that all is transactional and said OK but give us $3 billion. https://t.co/hnT4EOlRD4
— Stephen Kinzer (@stephenkinzer) September 24, 2020
re: #68 Jay C
We do things in a much more civilized way up here in Gotham: when I mailed Mrs. Jay’s absentee ballot today, I noticed that the City had finally - after years of providing awkward outsize forms - gone to a smaller ballot that folds up into a standard envelope, and only requires a single first-class stamp. Progress and Democracy going hand in hand….
To be fair, you can walk to the courthouse yourself, go through the Frisk-o-Matic (No Handbags or Pocket Knives), and go to the elections office with your photo ID and fill out an application which they will hand you, then you hand it back, and they give you the ballot, which you fill out and hand back, which they notarize and put in the box, and give you a little ‘I voted” sticky. We sued to get drop boxes, but that might make it easy on the serfs. I did mine as described above a week ago: “In-person Absentee”. It was almost as though I wasn’t there.
Barret (siq) I’m fucked if she get approved.
re: #42 Belafon
Barrett’s view on the 14th amendment (and why I don’t think just threats to expand the court will work, and that it will have to be done):
Ok, when I was in law school way back in the 1980s, there was no discussion about the 14th Amendment being illegitimate. I would be completely gobsmacked but there are so many Constitutional norms that have been violated since January 20, 2017 that I should not be surprised.
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to people who didn’t have it. Saying it’s illegitimate calls into question the citizenship of millions of people. This smells like Miller at work.
I refuse to play along with the idea that a Supreme Court nominee’s religious beliefs should be off limits.
This rigged game of phony respect is a big reason why this country is in such trouble right now.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
I won’t bash anyone just for being religious. But if the _content_ of their beliefs is extreme or cult-like, that has to be something that matters when a person is in consideration for a position that will give them power for their entire life.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
re: #74 Charles Johnson
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Nominate a person of the Muslim faith and see how much religion shouldn’t count when selecting a nominee.
re: #74 Charles Johnson
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Want to prove how much they’re lying about this? Nominate a Muslim justice.
re: #76 A Mom Anon
If I recall, President Kennedy was Catholic and was it not conservatives who lost their shit and accused Catholics of all kinds of crazy shit? Yeah they can STFU now.
More specifically, the John Birch Society / nationalist wing of conservatives.
The same group who now run the Republican Party.
re: #82 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
Nominate a person of the Muslim faith and see how much religion shouldn’t count when selecting a nominee.
Nominate an Aztec Jaguar Priest, and they get all pissy.
re: #83 GlutenFreeJesus
Want to prove how much they’re lying about this? Nominate a Muslim justice.
Beat ya by 5 seconds, you owe me $5. You can donate it the democratic candidate of your choice.
:)
re: #85 Decatur Deb
Nominate an Aztec Jaguar Priest, and they get all pissy.
I’d hang that Justice’s portrait on my wall.
An emerging theme from Republicans pushing SCOTUS confirmation: all convinced they’re being persecuted for their religion.
Interesting take from people who ban Muslims, cage children, hate on LGBTQs; all because a debauched pervert gave them the whip handle— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) September 26, 2020
re: #80 mmmirele
Ok, when I was in law school way back in the 1980s, there was no discussion about the 14th Amendment being illegitimate. I would be completely gobsmacked but there are so many Constitutional norms that have been violated since January 20, 2017 that I should not be surprised.
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to people who didn’t have it. Saying it’s illegitimate calls into question the citizenship of millions of people. This smells like Miller at work.
If you read the DK article, she, and other Republicans, have had this view for a while. And there are some that are worse.
The White House, professional athletes, and now airlines have access to rapid testing that allows people to live relatively normal lives.
Why doesn’t every American? Why don’t schools? Why don’t small businesses? Why don’t health care workers?
https://t.co/K8ipSDMeaT— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 24, 2020
re: #87 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
There’d be 8 new vacancies to fill, too.
re: #85 Decatur Deb
Nominate an Aztec Jaguar Priest, and they get all pissy.
There should be no discrimination on who’s heart gets ripped out and shown to them….
Not sure who needs to hear this, but women are not interchangeable. #RBG fought for equity her whole life—gender and otherwise. Amy Coney Barrett’s record shows hostility to those same rights and freedoms. It’s not the same. It’s opposite. #LetThePeopleDecide
— ilyseh (@ilyseh) September 26, 2020
Her religious beliefs are low-hanging fruit, the lightning rod that Senate Repubs will use to try to stoke “outrage” as a smokescreen. My suggestion to Senate Dems, particularly those on the Judiciary Committee, would be to go after her for the very reason the opposition is trying to rush her confirmation: Her perceived loyalty to Trump and the expectation that she will be crucial to keeping him in office. All of Donny’s screaming that he won’t go quietly has got the “undecideds” quivering, so hammer her on the possibility that it will be her vote on the bench that allows him to steal the election.
re: #92 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
There should be no discrimination on who’s heart gets ripped out and shown to them….
I just love that long architectural stairway to throw them down—just like the Good Old Cycles.
Does she know he considers #Haiti a sh*thole?
The same president who the other day said baselessly that the former Vice President is getting shots of drugs ‘in the ass’ https://t.co/y6a1d1k7Iu
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) September 26, 2020
By the way, this is how the US right wing reacted to Catholic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. (From https://t.co/vhyInKwEK9) pic.twitter.com/DiuvEla0bB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
re: #96 jaunte
I’m sure she does, too. And she thinks she’s saving those children, not only from Haiti, but from themselves and their skin color.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) September 26, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett, John Roberts & Brett Kavanaugh all worked on George W. Bush‘s legal team during 2000 recount in Florida & worked to stop votes from being counted https://t.co/JuRV4SDF12
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) September 26, 2020
re: #101 🌹UOJB!
I am sorry I could not read it. Too many pop-ups.
re: #102 PhillyPretzel
I am sorry I could not read it. Too many pop-ups.
This is Charles’ Tweet that they posted in their anti-Pompous Ass Pompeo article.
Wow. Had to check to make sure this astoundingly hypocritical tweet was actually legit. https://t.co/OerBnpsRMj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
re: #100 Dread Pirate Ron
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One of the first (if not repeated) questions to Barrett: “Will you pledge to recuse yourself from any challenges brought before the Supreme Court by either the White House, the Trump campaign, or President Trump with regards to the election and/or its outcome?”
She’s likely to answer in the negative, at which point Dems on the committee should hammer the reality that the only reason her nomination is being rushed before the election is to save Donny’s ass. And if she won’t recuse, then she is a willful participant in the subversion of the will of the voters.
re: #89 Belafon
If you read the DK article, she, and other Republicans, have had this view for a while. And there are some that are worse.
I found a law review article where Barnett goes on about this whole illegitimate 14th Amendment thing.
From page 2:
I’m under no illusions that this will hurt Facebook, or have any real effect on them at all; they’re way too enormous for that. But people who visit Little Green Footballs will no longer have to worry about being tracked and marketed by Facebook there.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
And I do mean “marketed,” because that’s what Facebook sells: you. Your data. Your habits and preferences. Every time you visit a site that loads their software, it gives them another bit of data about you. I won’t help them do that any more.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2020
Oh FEEZUS JUCKING KEY-RYE-ST!
I just got my California Sample Ballot…and I looked at the Presidential ballot…and I see Kanye West on the ballot…for Vice President…of the American Independent (George Wallace) Party with Rocky De La Fuente as their Presidential Candidate…
re: #106 Charles Johnson
I’m waiting until after the election and a Biden win. I have a lot of faces to rub in the dirt.
I was thinking of going to WeMe but the owner of that place is an idiot Libertarian. Alex Jones and all those idiots flocked there.
re: #108 🌹UOJB!
Oh FEEZUS JUCKING KEY-RYE-ST!
I just got my California Sample Ballot…and I looked at the Presidential ballot…and I see Kanye West on the ballot…for Vice President…of the American Independent (George Wallace) Party with Rocky De La Fuente as their Presidential Candidate…
Much of what we learned so painfully in the 60s and 70s has been forgotten. Same with the 30s and 40s, apparently.
re: #108 🌹UOJB!
I too am getting all sorts of stuff in the mail and over the phone. That is one of the main reasons why I am going to take my election lessons even if I do not serve at the polls.
I have to say, whatever is being done with my personal data, it is remarkably ineffective. I get a lot of ads that are completely irrelevant to my needs/interests. The only time I can remember clicking on an ad was a Kohl’s ad announcing a sale on jeans. Since Mr. C. was in need of some, I clicked through and bought a couple pairs. This was several (5+) years ago. The fact that I remember it should indicate how rare it is.
My favorite ads are the ones that I have absolutely no idea what they are trying to sell me. Generally that would be pictures of highly specialized tools or electronics and it makes me wonder why they thought I would want one of those things.
Thing about that Pompeo-guided tweet is that it implicitly defines “legitimate” protest to be whatever Pompeo and his ilk say it is, and subsequently whatever is set on the side of “illegitimate” is free game.
This has two functions.
One, it’s wifebeater semantics—I would never hit a lady, but you’re acting like a bitch so you’re fair game. It’s how you abuse power while offloading the responsibility on the abused party: there is always a Faustian exception to the hard rule that permits the thing you shouldn’t do but want to do.
Two, it’s empty virtue signaling because these people still believe that they can superficially perform virtue by sounding strong…and unfortunately they have not one but two gullible audiences: the press that’s decided it’s art critics, and the base that’s already primed to be excited by superficiality and bombast.
re: #112 calochortus
I have to say, whatever is being done with my personal data, it is remarkably ineffective. I get a lot of ads that are completely irrelevant to my needs/interests. The only time I can remember clicking on an ad was a Kohl’s ad announcing a sale on jeans. Since Mr. C. was in need of some, I clicked through and bought a couple pairs. This was several (5+) years ago. The fact that I remember it should indicate how rare it is.
My favorite ads are the ones that I have absolutely no idea what they are trying to sell me. Generally that would be pictures of highly specialized tools or electronics and it makes me wonder why they thought I would want one of those things.
Every time I buy something on Amazon (which will happen less as things start opening again, so wear your damn mask) ads for that same something chase me all over the internet. Why would I want it if I just bought it?
re: #114 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
Every time I buy something on Amazon (which will happen less as things start opening again, so wear your damn mask) ads for that same something chase me all over the internet. Why would I want it if I just bought it?
A question that has bothered me for years.
re: #113 The Ghost of a Flea
Thing about that Pompeo-guided tweet is that it implicitly defines “legitimate” protest to be whatever Pompeo and his ilk say it is, and subsequently whatever is set on the side of “illegitimate” is free game.
This has two functions.
One, it’s wifebeater semantics—I would never hit a lady, but you’re acting like a bitch so you’re fair game. It’s how you abuse power while offloading the responsibility on the abused party: there is always a Faustian exception to the hard rule that permits the thing you shouldn’t do but want to do.
Two, it’s empty virtue signaling because these people still believe that they can superficially perform virtue by sounding strong…and unfortunately they have not one but two gullible audiences: the press that’s decided it’s art critics, and the base that’s already primed to be excited by superficiality and bombast.
Three, the “legitimacy” of protests is purely subjective, hence the astounding hypocrisy of declaring that the Iranian gov’t must respect and allow protests against their own government, but the US gov’t is free to put down protests against their own gov’t with violence due to their being “illegitimate.” Iran could just as readily bring up all the protests in the US that have been put down with the truncheon and worse as “unlawful assemblies.”
re: #98 Charles Johnson
People once joked that the KKK stood against three things: Koons, K—es, and Katholics.
re: #116 Targetpractice
Three, the “legitimacy” of protests is purely subjective, hence the astounding hypocrisy of declaring that the Iranian gov’t must respect and allow protests against their own government, but the US gov’t is free to put down protests against their own gov’t with violence due to their being “illegitimate.” Iran could just as readily bring up all the protests in the US that have been put down with the truncheon and worse as “unlawful assemblies.”
Somewhere in here, it amounts to: the US can be the empire umpire on what is legitimate/illegitimate because it is strong.
well, “empire” for “umpire” was a Freudian slip….
So it’s just establishing a power dynamic, not making a moral statement.
Kind of like most conservative stuff involving fucking.
re: #118 The Ghost of a Flea
Somewhere in here, it amounts to: the US can be the
empireumpire on what is legitimate/illegitimate because it is strong.well, “empire” for “umpire” was a Freudian slip….
So it’s just establishing a power dynamic, not making a moral statement.
Kind of like most conservative stuff involving fucking.
Right. “Do as we say, not as we do.” When we do it, it’s dealing with “rioters and looters.” When they do it, it’s “repressing the voice of the people.”
re: #119 Targetpractice
Right. “Do as we say, not as we do.” When we do it, it’s dealing with “rioters and looters.” When they do it, it’s “repressing the voice of the people.”
Really, it bubbles down to “caste system.”
re: #120 Targetpractice
I thought that was my job. Just kidding. We both know it happens.
The secret is that I slowly poison the thread over time and thus am never revealed as the true thread killer.
re: #123 The Ghost of a Flea
That works for me.
re: #120 Targetpractice
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Ooops, took too long trying to decide how to spell it.
This right here.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to be replaced by a woman who walked through every door that Ginsburg opened for her so she can promptly use her position to shut them all for others behind her.
— Louise Knott Ahern (@weezwrites) September 25, 2020
re: #85 Decatur Deb
Nominate an Aztec Jaguar Priest, and they get all pissy.
I’d join just for the ceremonial masks.
.@KamalaHarris takes us back to 1992, a time when the music was better, her cooking was worse, and a job in the White House felt all but impossible.https://t.co/2iCaRoPmD7
— Bustle (@bustle) September 25, 2020
re: #127 Eventual Carrion
I’d join just for the ceremonial masks.
Hallucinogenic body paint would make deliberations pretty entertaining.
re: #52 Charles Johnson
Make no mistake, Facebook started out as a platform for entitled, often wealthy white young men a means to engage in misogynistIc behavior towards women. It is structured specifically to keep the dominant culture powerful at the expense of all others.
Nothing has changed in its entire history other than evolving from a slightly more sophisticated 4chan into a more sophisticated 4chan with billionaire board members.
Other groups can engage each other, but the dominant power (35% of this country, <2% of the world population) is given free reign to terrorize everyone else and maintain an entirely artificial universe of lies, fiction, and anti-science. Who needs Skynet when we have Facebook doing the dirty work for it?
re: #49 Charles Johnson
I’m kind of late to the Facebook exit part of this thread, but last week I had stumbled across this TED talk by the woman who outed Cambridge Analytica. It’s over a year old and talks about how Facebook was used to misinform people before the Brexit vote, but everything she says about Facebook is still completely relevant.
Edit: I guess I’m not late. I didn’t read to the bottom of the thread.
Here’s a question I’d like to see a Dem ask Amy Coney Barrett.
You made two comments on Pres Obama’s nomination of Judge Garland. One, you said a Supreme Court Justices should not be nominated in an election year. Two, a president shouldn’t nominate a justices that would alter the balance of the court. My question is how does your hypocrisy inform your judicial rulings?
Fuck these fucking fucks
The campaign arm for Senate Republicans is raising money by attempting to brand conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett as the “Notorious A.C.B.”
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T-shirts with “Notorious A.C.B.” are being given out for donations between $25 and $5,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Raw Story
re: #133 Teddy’s Person ✌
Fuck these fucking fucks
White people trying to make rap references. It only works for RBG because it sounds similar to BIG.
re: #132 Teddy’s Person ✌
Here’s a question I’d like to see a Dem ask Amy Coney Barrett.
You made two comments on Pres Obama’s nomination of Judge Garland. One, you said a Supreme Court Justices should not be nominated in an election year. Two, a president shouldn’t nominate a justices that would alter the balance of the court. My question is how does your hypocrisy inform your judicial rulings?
Even better, ask her if she still agrees with what she said in 2016, then proceed to play the clip of her saying those very things. And make clear that they are in-context, to preempt BS (from her or Repubs on the committee) that the remarks are being taken “out of context.”
re: #134 Belafon
White people trying to make rap references. It only works for RBG because it sounds similar to BIG.
Plus, she earned it.
edited to add; so far as I can tell, as a non rap listening white person.
re: #136 wrenchwench
Plus, she earned it.
This. RBG challenged the patriarchy. Amy Coney Barrett bolsters the patriarchy. Only one of those is a radical act.
re: #133 Teddy’s Person ✌
The campaign arm for Senate Republicans is raising money by attempting to brand conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett as the “Notorious A.C.B.”
They might not want to do that. There are some gender specific really bad words that start with C & B.
It really does demonstrate the tone-deafness of modern conservatism, to try to co-opt the nickname Ginsburg has held for years without the first clue why she was given that nickname or why it was so important to her supporters.
Of course, the answer is always the same for everything they do: It’s meant to piss off liberals because “stigginit.”
re: #132 Teddy’s Person ✌
Here’s a question I’d like to see a Dem ask Amy Coney Barrett.
You made two comments on Pres Obama’s nomination of Judge Garland. One, you said a Supreme Court Justices should not be nominated in an election year. Two, a president shouldn’t nominate a justices that would alter the balance of the court. My question is how does your hypocrisy inform your judicial rulings?
I’d ask her, if she wants to continue to claim to be an originalist, why she think she should be confirmed to a man’s job? Why she should be allowed to vote in elections. Women had no power and no voice in anything dealing with politics back then. So why does she feel they should now as an originalist?
re: #141 Targetpractice
It really does demonstrate the tone-deafness of modern conservatism, to try to co-opt the nickname Ginsburg has held for years without the first clue why she was given that nickname or why it was so important to her supporters.
Of course, the answer is always the same for everything they do: It’s meant to piss off liberals because “stigginit.”
It’s an offshoot of the shallowness of conservative ideology beyond accumulation of wealth and power. RBG got the nickname because she inspired passion in people and encouraged people to turn that passion into action. She became a role model who was given a kickass nickname by the people. In typically conservative fashion that passion has to be manufactured and propagated from the top down.
re: #133 Teddy’s Person ✌
Fuck these fucking fucks
Why am I thinking that the people who would want to wear that shirt aren’t the donating type and vise-versa?
re: #143 Teddy’s Person ✌
It’s an offshoot of the shallowness of conservative ideology beyond accumulation of wealth and power. RBG got the nickname because she inspired passion in people and encouraged people to turn that passion into action. She became a role model who was given a kickass nickname by the people. In typically conservative fashion that passion has to be manufactured and propagated from the top down.
I think that’s giving them way more credit than they deserve. That it’s more about twerking the noses of their opponents, the usual bullying that we’ve become familiar with in recent decades.
re: #141 Targetpractice
Purple Heart bandaids.
That’s 55,000 more Americans with a preexisting condition, in one day. https://t.co/pi6Sg8aDlJ
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) September 26, 2020
Trumpco seems to attract people lacking in character. It’s a prerequisite for the job.
Amy Coney Barrett’s qualifications are irrelevant. Her willingness to accept the nomination under these circumstances reveals a disqualifying lack of character.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) September 26, 2020
re: #146 stpaulbear
Purple Heart bandaids.
Ayep. “We’re going to take something you earned through service and sacrifice…and turn it into a joke we’re going to laugh about.”
re: #148 Teddy’s Person ✌
Trumpco seems to attract people lacking in character. It’s a prerequisite for the job.
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What it shows is the same thing we’ve seen in every person he’s surrounded himself with: A thirst for power for the sake of having power. In this case, she will have decades to impose her religious views upon generations of women, something she would probably not have attained if she continued to serve on a lower bench.
re: #148 Teddy’s Person ✌
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I gotta admit, if I was nominated to the Supreme Court, under any circumstances, including these, I’d have a hard time saying no.
re: #131 stpaulbear
Behind The Bastards podcast just did another scathing two-parter on FB.
Recommended.
re: #151 wrenchwench
I gotta admit, if I was nominated to the Supreme Court, under any circumstances, including these, I’d have a hard time saying no.
She could readily say that she would be willing to wait until after the election to accept the nomination. But I don’t imagine for a moment that Trump would have considered anyone who had the morality or ethics necessary to give such an answer.
re: #153 Targetpractice
None of DT’s nominations know the meaning of ethics or morality.
re: #154 PhillyPretzel
None of DT’s nominations know the meaning of ethics or morality.
Quite to the contrary - they know what the words mean, they intentionally strive to have neither.
Actually, that might be another question for Dems on the committee to consider:
“During your vetting by the White House, were you asked at any time about whether or not you would be willing to vote in favor of any election-related challenges they brought before the Supreme Court? And before you answer, be aware that we intend to ask the White House for all materials related to the vetting process and if your answer today contradicts any answer you gave to the White House, you could face impeachment for perjury and possible disbarment.”
Follow this thread.
I was a student at the University of Notre Dame Law School while Amy Coney Barrett was a professor.
— Julie Gunnigle (@JulieGunnigle) September 26, 2020
Graham losing would be so meaningful to me:
Crazy stat: Jaime Harrison, Lindsey Graham’s challenger, has added $16 million to his TV buy since Ginsburg’s passing.
That’s more than Graham spent on his entire 2014 reelect.
”I’m being killed financially,” Graham pleaded for $$$ on Fox News last week.https://t.co/adOSSk9dqt— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) September 26, 2020
Republicans are talking about her religion because they need it to be the issue. It’s not. https://t.co/BjnAmPfspH
— Teri Carter (@teri_atthepaper) September 26, 2020
Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County’s Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns https://t.co/DKVmEmktGC via @propublica pic.twitter.com/rOjxeNDrGq
— Defense One (@DefenseOne) September 26, 2020
re: #73 A Mom Anon
I keep going back and forth on this. On the one hand Facebook is a shit mess most of the time. On the other, my son is on it ,my hubby is and a lot of my online buds are too(including some of you all here) and I would miss them. I have cleaned out my friends list a couple of times and unliked and unfollowed a bunch of crap and it’s better as far as crap on my timeline goes. I’m still debating how to let FB go and keep in regular touch with people I have no other way of contacting.
Letters. Telephone. E-mail. Like everyone in my area does it with their family and friends. (Well, not so much E-mail since most people here have no Internet service.)
For a real emergency, Western Union telegrams still exist as well.
Make a post saying you will close your account on Date X, and privately ask for telephone numbers, E-mail addresses, or mail addresses.
Anyone who doesn’t respond to it probably doesn’t want to expend the effort to keep in contact with you anyway, so why should you?
re: #159 jaunte
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They want to make her religion the topic because they want to make her appointment about their “defending the faith” versus Dems pursuing a pogrom in the name of “socialism.”
Words you’re going to hear more than once at the hearing: “deeply held beliefs.” That’s how they’re going to spin religious fanaticism, that they’re “deeply held beliefs” that are totally legal under the Constitution and if Dems can deny her this seat for her “beliefs,” then they can deny anybody a job for having such “beliefs.”
My absentee ballots arrived today. They will be back in the mailbox on Monday. If a month and change isn’t enough time to get them to the county clerk’s office in time to be counted, then something was intentionally done to them.
In Judaism, if somebody dies during Rosh Hashanah you are not permitted to mourn until Yom Kippur has ended
they issue their videos, their T-shirts, screaming we are against religion, while they deny Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s family the chance to mourn her before replacing her— Howard ✡ (@HowardA_Esq) September 26, 2020
Much about Texas politics is now explained: Cornyn, Cruz, Abbott… https://t.co/c5N3Ei7XZB
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) September 26, 2020
File under Climate Change / unpleasant biological challenges.
really looking forward to having Roe, the ACA and the 2020 election overturned by a god-mad zealot in association with the guy who was so fucking blackout drunk all the way through prep school and college that he has no idea how many women he assaulted. America, fuck yeah
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) September 26, 2020
re: #163 Targetpractice
Words you’re going to hear more than once at the hearing: “deeply held beliefs.” That’s how they’re going to spin religious fanaticism, that they’re “deeply held beliefs” that are totally legal under the Constitution and if Dems can deny her this seat for her “beliefs,” then they can deny anybody a job for having such “beliefs.”
Exhibit A:
Man who pretends to be Christian worries real Christians may someday need to pretend too. https://t.co/WTCUkZDIR8
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 26, 2020
re: #78 Decatur Deb
To be fair, you can walk to the courthouse yourself, go through the Frisk-o-Matic (No Handbags or Pocket Knives), and go to the elections office with your photo ID and fill out an application which they will hand you, then you hand it back, and they give you the ballot, which you fill out and hand back, which they notarize and put in the box, and give you a little ‘I voted” sticky. We sued to get drop boxes, but that might make it easy on the serfs. I did mine as described above a week ago: “In-person Absentee”. It was almost as though I wasn’t there.
Here in Conservatopia we don’t have to do any of that; the drop box is outside the courthouse annex, with a tampering alarm and closed circuit cameras watching it. The Sheriff’s Office is next door to it.
re: #83 GlutenFreeJesus
Want to prove how much they’re lying about this? Nominate a Muslim justice.
Better: Nominate an atheist.
When I get my Mail in Ballot here in Texas I’m going to take it to the County Recorders Drop box and will be making a statement on my vote for twitter as I drop my ballot.
I suggest we all do the same.
I cant stop thinking: If Trump is reelected, COVID might never be controlled here. If GOP keeps senate, chances it’ll be stopped are lower. As much as we’re quarantined from the world now, it’ll get worse. We may have no choice but to become disease refugees, fleeing the country.
— Kurt “Mask Up, Vote Early” Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 26, 2020
A quick way to neuter the accusations that opposition to Barrett is about her having religious beliefs: Point out that Joe Biden is a Catholic, he regularly attends mass, and that he is not being forced to hide his beliefs. Then watch Repubs spin like dynamos as they try the “No True Scotsman” routine.
re: #166 jaunte
When I was in Ft Sill, Oklahoma some 36 years ago, there was a severe drought. A lot of the waterholes in Western Oklahoma and West Texas started drying up more than usual.
There was a report in the local paper about a 4th case of brain eating amoeba death in West Texas. It was blamed upon the water volume shrinking and concentrating the amoebas and then the victim swimming in the concentrated ‘soup’.
My first thought though, was that until recent times and modern medicine, the cause of these deaths would have been completely unknown and probably considered an act of G-d.
re: #98 Charles Johnson
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And, as (I think I have this right) Prof. Kevin Kruse demonstrated recently, the southern evangelicals were basically ok with Roe v. Wade at the time. Bringing them (“save the babies”) together with the Catholics (not a monolithic voting bloc on abortion, but the anti-abortion folks with the positions of power) in accord with the southern strategy locked abortion and 2A together to cement former foes as friends.
re: #139 stpaulbear
They might not want to do that. There are some gender specific really bad words that start with C & B.
“Another [censored censored]!”
re: #133 Teddy’s Person ✌
Fuck these fucking fucks
They don’t have an original bone in their bodies. They have to try and co-opt everything.
re: #177 Eventual Carrion
I have a feeling that’s not going to end up being the big cultural icon thing they think it will. Like most of their “creativity” it’s stolen and/or just something they think will piss us off.
I’m really confused:
Pointing out Catholic bigotry is Catholic bigotry plus the people who are Anti-Catholic are the same ones who will be voting for a Catholic POTUS?
re: #179 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
I’m really confused:
Pointing out Catholic bigotry is Catholic bigotry plus the people who are Anti-Catholic are the same ones who will be voting for a Catholic POTUS?
Just read it as GOD IS ON OUR SIDE.
re: #179 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
I’m really confused:
Pointing out Catholic bigotry is Catholic bigotry plus the people who are Anti-Catholic are the same ones who will be voting for a Catholic POTUS?
Just like those Mexicans that come to America to steal our jobs and also be lazy and collect welfare.
re: #142 rhuarc
I’d ask her, if she wants to continue to claim to be an originalist, why she think she should be confirmed to a man’s job? Why she should be allowed to vote in elections. Women had no power and no voice in anything dealing with politics back then. So why does she feel they should now as an originalist?
Wait a minute. Are originalists getting so rabid these days that they deny the legitimacy of amendments to the constitution?
re: #178 A Mom Anon
I have a feeling that’s not going to end up being the big cultural icon thing they think it will. Like most of their “creativity” it’s stolen and/or just something they think will piss us off.
These are the same people who play “Born in the USA” at rallies for the chorus without paying any attention to the lyrics.
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