In the wake of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, John Oliver discusses the future of the Supreme Court, why the government doesn’t always represent the political leanings of the electorate, and how those issues will impact the next generation of Americans.
Expand the court, put an end to Conservative dominance of the judicial.
Reposted cause delicious
ABC: His taxes
CNN: His taxes
Animal Planet: His taxes
Cartoon Network: His taxes
FOX News: Hearty fall soup recipes
Hearty Fall Soup Channel: His taxes— Quinn Sutherland (@ReelQuinn) September 27, 2020
Lori Alexander and the Brain Tumor (Goes to No Longer Quivering)
This morning I awoke to Lori’s words on her blog explaining about the tumor and what has to happen next. The brain tumor story in the past was not entirely clear, I remember talk of multiple tumors, surgeries, radiation, and her claiming that she had so much faith in God she’d stopped going in for scans. This is what I was sadly sure would happen, a return eventually because many times these things come back.
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They are all so screwed
The reporters matched up the tax records with Ivanka Trump’s financial disclosures, filed when she became a White House senior adviser. They found that more than $700,000 in payments she disclosed pertaining to a consulting company were the same amount as the tax deductions for “consulting fees” on a pair of hotel projects listed on the Trump Organization’s tax records.
At the time, Ivanka Trump was a top executive at the Trump Organization, not an outside consultant. People close to Trump’s businesses “were not aware of any outside consultants who would have been paid,” the Times reported.
The reporters believe this is likely a common practice Trump has used to avoid paying taxes, and could potentially be a way to have paid his adult children without incurring gift taxes
All of this
ALL of it is “were gonna do this, let em find it and we’ll fight it forever”
Ps 70k for hair styling is in no way deductible
He’s a cheap lying thieving predatorial pig
Another reason not to be blase is that the tax story is more likely to matter if the Biden campaign tries to MAKE it matter. The EMAILS/Wikileaks stuff were nothingburgers but they mattered in part because Trump talked about them all the time, and this is a REAL scandal
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) September 27, 2020
Somebody on a hot mic on the Fox News broadcast says “ah, shit” as Trump’s press conference begins pic.twitter.com/aqXcU3al11
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 27, 2020
Brad Parscale beats his wife and he’s a piece of rancid shit who eagerly helped create Trump’s authoritarian state. You’ll have to excuse me if I have zero sympathy for him.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2020
— Ray [REDACTED] (@RayRedacted) September 28, 2020
re: #4 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lori Alexander goes by the moniker “The Transformed Wife” (with a book of the same name). She has hundreds of thousands of followers, including Nazis and other assorted bigots she rebroadcasts.
She is a covidiot, anti-masker, anti-vaxxer, anti-government libertarian. She does not believe women should have college educations (despite going to college herself and formerly being a teacher until she figured out Christians are a better source of money), and believes women should have as many babies as physically possible. She believes girls should be married as soon as possible, preferably right after high school.
When’s the last time your dad took a taxpayer-funded trip to his own golf course? HINT: It was YESTERDAY.
BONUS: When’s the last time your dad paid his fair share of taxes.
HINT: It was NEVER.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) September 28, 2020
re: #14 jaunte
Is it Eric or Don Jr who is supposed to appear in front of the NY AG?
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Florida police release body cam footage of arrest of former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale
I agree with Charles. Parscale is a piece of shit and I have NO sympathy for him.
re: #15 PhillyPretzel
Is it Eric or Don Jr who is supposed to appear in front of the NY AG?
It’s Beavis Eric.
But why not have both of them engage in a friendly Socratic dialogue with Letitia James?
This @Channel4News investigation is a huge huge deal. Evidence of 3.5 million Black votes suppressed by Trump using Facebook in 2016.
Involving - of course - my good friends #CambridgeAnalytica pic.twitter.com/hbS9pQFsIg— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) September 28, 2020
Watch the full #DeterringDemocracy investigation by the Channel 4 News Investigations Team here: https://t.co/JOAly3whBI
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) September 28, 2020
re: #16 🌹UOJB!
Florida police release body cam footage of arrest of former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale
I agree with Charles. Parscale is a piece of shit and I have NO sympathy for him.
Parscale is absolutely a piece of shit, but apparently I’m too compassionate, because I do have sympathy. Mental illness - even if it is brought on by guilt over your own wicked actions - is no joke. I hope he is able to recover to a point where he can answer for his crimes, and live with the knowledge of what he has done.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
This statement isn’t correct, “Evidence of 3.5 million Black votes suppressed by Trump using Facebook in 2016.” but it does show that there was some pretty heavy work by groups in going after particular voters.
re: #21 Belafon
And he will try the same things this election. Which is why we must get out the vote.
When I was an undocumented immigrant working for trump, I paid more taxes in a moth or two than he paid in a year.
— SandraDiazNJ (@SandraDiazNJ1) September 27, 2020
Today is a good day to remember that Facebook had staff embedded in the Trump campaign helping them do all of this. https://t.co/yRGlsmgRPu
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) September 28, 2020
re: #10 Charles Johnson
These ‘deterred’ voters from Milwaukee that they’re interviewing don’t have a clue as to what really happened to them - even when someone is showing it to their faces. They didn’t make it harder for them to vote, they made them want to not vote.
Daughter1 is surprised by the number of Doug Jones signs and lack of Tuberville signs in her Anniston suburb. Anniston, for those who don’t remember the 60s, was the Central Alabama town where black and white Freedom Riders were beat up by a mob, and their buses burned. And then there’s this:
Anniston removes Confederate monument in dead of night
al.com
re: #20 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Parscale is absolutely a piece of shit, but apparently I’m too compassionate, because I do have sympathy. Mental illness - even if it is brought on by guilt over your own wicked actions - is no joke. I hope he is able to recover to a point where he can answer for his crimes, and live with the knowledge of what he has done.
I agree, but I think the jury’s still out on whether Parscale is actually mentally ill. I think it’s more likely he was just drunk.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
I agree, but I think the jury’s still out on whether Parscale is actually mentally ill. I think it’s more likely he was just drunk.
Mentally unstable and morally twisted. The indications of spousal abuse indicate the latter.
Democrats looking at trying to flip some one member state congressional delegations in case neither candidate gets a majority of electors and the election gets thrown to the House.
Another reason everyone must vote! Trump must be defeated by a clear and convincing margin so that this nightmare scenario doesn’t come to pass.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 28, 2020
Cool
It took less than five hours for Sir David Attenborough to break Instagram’s world record for the fastest accumulation of 1 million followers https://t.co/exj68wTRba
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 28, 2020
re: #30 Patricia Kayden
Yes. That is very cool. :)
Hi Lizards! A little update about me running for office….
I have to wait four years. My district is having the election for school board this year so, I have to wait. That’s ok, it gives me time to investigate and work on what I will need to do. Reading the resumes for all the current and potential candidates, I am very under qualified, lol. I’m not giving up til the door is slammed in my face.
The salary for this job as of now is 19K, so I have to assume this isn’t full time, which is fine by me. But I will be 64, so my age could be an issue. I’m also contacting other organizations that support progressive and democratic women. We shall see.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
I agree, but I think the jury’s still out on whether Parscale is actually mentally ill. I think it’s more likely he was just drunk.
Being “just drunk” doesn’t usually get someone put on a 72 hour hold. For all we know he may be an undiagnosed alcoholic, which likely means he’s got plenty more issues he’s going to have to deal with.
I can be sympathetic to him on a human level… even if he’s a terrible person. And I hope he gets the treatment he needs, and that it makes him a better person.
I think he’s writing off piles of coke. https://t.co/7GVyHTSGiC
— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) September 28, 2020
re: #32 A Mom Anon
Do not give up on the first try. Sometimes it takes several tries to get into office. And as to experience you can volunteer to help those who are in office and that will help your resume.
WWJD. According to Mike Huckabee, cheat on his taxes. It’s a good thing for Mike that Trump is only a tax cheat and not someone with questionable email habits.
MIKE HUCKABEE (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Well first of all, it’s The New York Times. I’ll tell you what I make of it, is when The New York Times says something about Donald Trump, I kind of blow it off as totally lacking in credibility. Because how many hours, I wonder, have they spent? And what are their documents for this? They don’t tell us.
But let me give you this. So what? In a big business operation like he runs, there is a good likelihood that with all of the various business losses that he had from running for president when he wasn’t overseeing his business, maybe that’s so. I don’t know. Frankly, I don’t care. I didn’t elect him to be my tax accountant. I elected him to be president, and I’m really happy with the job that he’s doing. And when The New York Times blows this horn, you know, I’ve just got a complete hearing loss for it.
This ends justifies the means bullshit gets me hot under the collar.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
I agree, but I think the jury’s still out on whether Parscale is actually mentally ill. I think it’s more likely he was just drunk.
If he’s drinking because he’s broken, I would chalk that up to mental illness with alcohol a contributing factor. Get him mental help. The drinking is just a symptom of issues that need to be resolved. If he turns out to be mentally OK and is just an alcoholic, fine, I’d be a little tougher on him, though alcoholism is its own insidious devil.
re: #14 jaunte
Eric is just as stupid as everyone thought.
I love the way SNL portrays them with Don Jr. being semi-competent and Eric being dumb as a box of rocks.
re: #36 Teddy’s Person ✌
Handy rule of thumb for Magat behavior:
Always remember: the more criminal, racist and vicious Trump gets, the more his supporters cheer. Because it drives the libtards crazy and because he’s everything they long to be - proudly hateful and right about everything
— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) September 28, 2020
re: #33 KGxvi
Being “just drunk” doesn’t usually get someone put on a 72 hour hold. For all we know he may be an undiagnosed alcoholic, which likely means he’s got plenty more issues he’s going to have to deal with.
I can be sympathetic to him on a human level… even if he’s a terrible person. And I hope he gets the treatment he needs, and that it makes him a better person.
His wife showed evidence of recent physical abuse. That hopefully contributed to the 72 hours. I think they also removed 10 guns from his possession.
re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg
I love the way SNL portrays them with Don Jr. being semi-competent and Eric being dumb as a box of rocks.
I’ve read (as scary as this is) that Eric is actually the smart one.
re: #32 A Mom Anon
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re: #41 KGxvi
I’ve read (as scary as this is) that Eric is actually the smart one.
Jesus. No wonder they can’t do anything competent.
re: #10 Charles Johnson
Again, we have a woman that willingly hitched her wagon to a narcissistic abusive asshole with mental health concerns, but now the chickens have come to roost, and she’s the victim. Unlike many similar scenarios, she was able to walk out with her life instead of the classic murder/suicide ending that is all too common.
I abhor domestic violence. I do not excuse men beating women. That said, intelligent women of means better start making better choices if I’m handing out sympathy.
In re Parscale: Someone could argue Dahmer needed help too. Still a fuckin’ asshole. In Dahmer’s defense, he wasn’t a goddamned mercenary profiteer that would watch his entire country burn if it paid well enough. Parscale’s actions required the mental acuity, organizational skills, and the complete lack of empathy witnessed at Nuremberg.
One of the bases named after Confederates should be named in his honor.
— Grateful Daughter of WWII Vet 🇺🇸 (@SpaceFan2019) September 28, 2020
President Biden should make this a priority. There are plenty of actual heroes for whom these installations can be named
re: #16 🌹UOJB!
Florida police release body cam footage of arrest of former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale
I agree with Charles. Parscale is a piece of shit and I have NO sympathy for him.
I don’t feel sorry for him, but that’s some needlessly aggressive policing. He was standing with hards visible, no clothes to have tucked a weapon into, the cop he was speaking with could have finished the conversation, then said “turn around and put your hands behind your back”, and arrested him. The flying leap to knock him down sideways on the asphalt, then 4 cops dog-piling… unnecessary.,
re: #42 BeachDem
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re: #34 jaunte
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Ivanka: We have to get rid of the stash!
Eric: But dad’s clogged the toilet again.
Jr.: Leave it to me.
re: #47 A Mom Anon
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re: #46 sagehen
I don’t feel sorry for him, but that’s some needlessly aggressive policing. He was standing with hards visible, no clothes to have tucked a weapon into, the cop he was speaking with could have finished the conversation, then said “turn around and put your hands behind your back”, and arrested him. The flying leap to knock him down sideways on the asphalt, then 4 cops dog-piling… unnecessary.,
It did seem like unnecessary force. On the other hand, they did tell him to “get on the ground” several times and he ignored it.
In case anyone needs a GIF of Brad Parscale being tackled. pic.twitter.com/QIrs1x0WSM
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) September 28, 2020
re: #41 KGxvi
I’ve read (as scary as this is) that Eric is actually the smart one.
Hmm. Maybe he just looks like the dumber one.
re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg
Hmm. Maybe he just looks like the dumber one.
allegedly even Don Sr thinks Don Jr is the dumb one…
re: #50 Charles Johnson
It did seem like unnecessary force. On the other hand, they did tell him to “get on the ground” several times and he ignored it.
While it might be because he was drunk, I think it’s just the privilege that makes him think he can just stand there and reason with them. At least they didn’t shoot him.
re: #48 Belafon
Ivanka: We have to get rid of the stash!
Eric: But dad’s clogged the toilet again.
Jr.: Leave it to me.
The family is going to have many s’mores parties in the Rose Garden this fall.
re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg
Hmm. Maybe he just looks like the dumber one.
When the smarts were being handed out, the Trumps were in line for a second helping of hubris.
re: #50 Charles Johnson
It did seem like unnecessary force. On the other hand, they did tell him to “get on the ground” several times and he ignored it.
If Parscale was black, there is a good chance he would be dead now.
re: #57 NO SMOCKING GUN!
If Parscale was Black, there is a good chance he would be dead now.
Bingo. Was thinking the exact same thing.
re: #50 Charles Johnson
It did seem like unnecessary force. On the other hand, they did tell him to “get on the ground” several times and he ignored it.
He thought they were just his buddies from the poorer part of town, come for a visit. Fuck him as hard as he fucked the nation.
Nice [white] house. Nice [white] truck. Nice [white] SUV. Selling hatred/white supremacy has financial perks.
Remember, also - the cops were called out there because he was waving guns around, threatening to harm himself and actually harming his wife. This wasn’t a traffic stop, it was a 911 call with a violent suspect.
re: #63 Charles Johnson
And yeah, he’s lucky he’s not black.
For that matter, he’s just lucky. My own experience with police and mental health, that could’ve gone worse.
re: #34 jaunte
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young trump confirming donald has in fact not been paying federal income taxes
I think he’s writing off piles of coke. https://t.co/7GVyHTSGiC
— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) September 28, 2020
Let me guess; in two weeks. https://t.co/RIBoRdNU6M
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 28, 2020
re: #36 Teddy’s Person ✌
WWJD. According to Mike Huckabee, cheat on his taxes. It’s a good thing for Mike that Trump is only a tax cheat and not someone with questionable email habits.
This ends justifies the means bullshit gets me hot under the collar.
the NYT is not “saying” these things
the NYT (and now everyone) is reporting what trump swore to when he signed his tax returns.
re: #60 Decatur Deb
Aren’t many PoC reminded if they had only done what the police asked them to do, they wouldn’t be injured or murdered?
The police asked. He did not comply. They responded.
re: #39 jaunte
Handy rule of thumb for Magat behavior:
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he’s living in your house (the white house)
eating your food
paying less taxes than you
and stealing the tax money you do pay
Always remember: the more criminal, racist and vicious Trump gets, the more his supporters cheer. Because it drives the libtards crazy and because he’s everything they long to be - proudly hateful and right about everything
— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) September 28, 2020
Waiting for the GOP spin (Cruz or Rubio perhaps) saying that Trump’s tax cheating ways were just youthful indiscretions. ///
re: #41 KGxvi
I’ve read (as scary as this is) that Eric is actually the smart one.
i’ve never seen it come out in an interview
The officers didn’t have to kneel on his neck for 8 minutes. How White of them.
re: #46 sagehen
I don’t feel sorry for him, but that’s some needlessly aggressive policing. He was standing with hards visible, no clothes to have tucked a weapon into, the cop he was speaking with could have finished the conversation, then said “turn around and put your hands behind your back”, and arrested him. The flying leap to knock him down sideways on the asphalt, then 4 cops dog-piling… unnecessary.,
that beer can coulda looked like a gun…
re: #34 jaunte
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I pay sales taxes, property taxes, etc., and income taxes on top of that, so….
re: #68 PrairieQueen
Aren’t many PoC reminded if they had only done what the police asked them to do, they wouldn’t be injured or murdered?
The police asked. He did not comply. They responded.
Local Chief: “Man, we’re getting a bad rap all over the country for jacking up the brothers.”
Cop 2: “Well we could fuck over a few white guys.”
LC: “Where are gonna find a problem child around here?”
911 Dispatch: “Hey Chief…”
“I am an antichrist!
I am an anarchist!”
lol Johnny Rotten was always a well-marketed performer playing a punk rocker. Or, at best, he was a Nazi punk.
And @DeadKennedys taught us a valuable lesson about Nazi punks… https://t.co/aQ1BYCN8Ot— smells like guillotine spirit🌹🎃🎭 ☭ (@DylanTweetin) September 28, 2020
“God save the Queen. The fascist regime.”
re: #54 Barefoot Grin
While it might be because he was drunk, I think it’s just the privilege that makes him think he can just stand there and reason with them. At least they didn’t shoot him.
His tan wasn’t quite dark enough
re: #67 dangerman
the NYT is not “saying” these things
the NYT (and now everyone) is reporting what trump swore to when he signed his tax returns.
i repeat: Do Not lose sight of this:
no matter what devious, salacious or other details may be gleaned from the tax returns, no matter what fraud, creative accounting, aggressive tax stances, etc:
WHEN HE SIGNED HIS RETURNS, TRUMP SWORE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT:
- he has examined them
- they are true
- they are correct
- they are complete
Sometimes the safest place is on the couch. pic.twitter.com/lRllNJB384
— JBLA (@Joe_Beef) September 28, 2020
re: #76 DodgerFan1988
The placement of the inset picture over the floor lamp gave me pause for a moment.
re: #75 Decatur Deb
It will be reported he was treated unnecessarily rough because he’s a conservative, or because “he wasn’t wearing a stupid mask,” or for any number of reasons other than he did not respond to what officers asked of him. There may even be enough GOP sympathy to uncharacteristically mention he had mental health issues, unlike so many that have been injured or killed while showing signs of mental stress.
No mention he wasn’t suffocated or shot because he was white in a well-to-do zip code.
He was an asshole that smacked his wife around and was armed just minutes earlier. He ate some pavement when he didn’t comply with police. I’d say he came out better than most in similar circumstances.
re: #66 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Well, Wendy Siegelman already did a pretty good breakdown of some of the debts.
2017 chart of Trump loans from Deutsche Bank and Ladder Capital Financehttps://t.co/mtj3MohaG0
— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) September 28, 2020
re: #27 Charles Johnson
I agree, but I think the jury’s still out on whether Parscale is actually mentally ill. I think it’s more likely he was just drunk.
Coupled with being a ginourmous, entitled asshole.
Karma motherfucker.
re: #85 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Coupled with being a ginourmous, entitled asshole.
Karma motherfucker.
Police took 10 guns from Brad Parscale’s Florida home after wife showed them bruises.https://t.co/fyz0sYS9UA
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) September 28, 2020
10! Because 9 just wasn’t enough!
re: #71 dangerman
i’ve never seen it come out in an interview
It’s kind of like asking which is smarter, eggplant or summer squash.
re: #86 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
And his wife told the police he had maybe 4 guns. So she didn’t know how many guns he had.
Meanwhile, over at The View…The ladies fry Rafael Cruz’s ass…
re: #60 Decatur Deb
He thought they were just his buddies from the poorer part of town, come for a visit. Fuck him as hard as he fucked the nation.
Damn. I was just joking in #60, but it turns the main cop was a buddy:
FORT LAUDERDALE — Brad Parscale, former campaign manager to President Donald Trump, was in the middle of a standoff with police at his Fort Lauderdale home when unexpected help arrived: Officer Christopher Wilson, a personal friend.
re: #82 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #57 NO SMOCKING GUN!
If Parscale was black, there is a good chance he would be dead now.
Not to minimize the disparity of use of force against black people by police, they are killed at twice the rate of whites and that is fucking horrible and needs to be fixed, but there are over 10 million arrests in the US every year, of those about 1000 end in a police killing, of those about 250 are black and of those maybe a couple dozen are un-armed.
It is fucking tragic and police reform is necessary, they are far too ready to use force and escalate situations unnecessarily but media and social media in particular are giving an entire generation of black Americans PTSD for something that is extremely rare.
re: #92 danarchy
Not to minimize the disparity of use of force against black people by police, they are killed at twice the rate of whites and that is fucking horrible and needs to be fixed, but there are over 10 million arrests in the US every year, of those about 1000 end in a police killing, of those about 250 are black and of those maybe a couple dozen are un-armed.
It is fucking tragic and police reform is necessary, they are far too ready to use force and escalate situations unnecessarily but media and social media in particular are giving an entire generation of black Americans PTSD for something that is extremely rare.
Let’s settle on “better chance,” or “way too good a chance” then.
re: #90 Decatur Deb
Also, Parscale is 6’8”? I’d venture his tolerance for eating pavement is higher than your average bear. Physically, he could also pose a higher risk than most to resist. Perhaps that visual assessment on the part of police contributed to the method used to take him down.
Frankly, if a big guy like that is thumping on a woman, I care very little the method used to put him in a compliant position if he chooses to ignore police.
re: #94 PrairieQueen
Also, Parscale is 6’8”? I’d venture his tolerance for eating pavement is higher than your average bear. Physically, he could also pose a higher risk than most to resist. Perhaps that visual assessment on the part of police contributed to the method used to take him down.
Frankly, if a big guy like that is thumping on a woman, I care very little the method used to put him in a compliant position if he chooses to ignore police.
I dunno, his receding-hair-compensation-attempt faux-hawk has to be at least two inches of that.
re: #96 Acemarilllion
I dunno, his receding-hair-compensation-attempt faux-hawk has to be at least two inches of that.
That’s him broadcasting his Nazi-in-a-Suit shtick for the faithful.
re: #96 Acemarilllion
I dunno, his receding-hair-compensation-attempt faux-hawk has to be at least two inches of that.
Damn, you beat me to the hair joke.
/
re: #96 Acemarilllion
I wonder if his hair is a $70k yr writeoff though?
re: #46 sagehen
I don’t feel sorry for him, but that’s some needlessly aggressive policing. He was standing with hards visible, no clothes to have tucked a weapon into, the cop he was speaking with could have finished the conversation, then said “turn around and put your hands behind your back”, and arrested him. The flying leap to knock him down sideways on the asphalt, then 4 cops dog-piling… unnecessary.,
Well. They did tell him to get on the ground. 4 times…………………..
I said Trump would probably not show up for any debates, so I hereby admit I was wrong. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
On other hand there’s still time for him to stage a freakout over some bullshit or other.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2020
I can hear Kavanaugh crying already.
Pelosi Just Suggested Trump Tax Returns Could Invalidate His Supreme Court Justices https://t.co/Vv9eS2MGdD— Ronda 💜🌊🌈 I see a blue light on the horizon 💙 (@Rondaline68) September 28, 2020
re: #102 (((Archangel1)))
Ohh Nancy! Thank you for just saying that the day before the debate. Yay.
re: #102 (((Archangel1)))
He’s clearly in the pocket of a foreign adversary. Everything he has done the last 4 years should be null and void.
I wouldn’t have taken you for such an optimist!
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2020
re: #102 (((Archangel1)))
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I like this idea but who or what would do the invalidation?
re: #106 Charles Johnson
What kept this from really going bad is that it happened in daylight.
re: #105 GlutenFreeJesus
He’s clearly in the pocket of a foreign adversary. Everything he has done the last 4 years should be null and void.
I like this even better…
And there’s video! Brad Parscale joins a long list of Trump allies and staff who have been accused of assaulting women, including Rob Porter, Corey Lewandowski, Roger Ailes, Andrew Puzder, Steve Bannon, Bill O’Reilly, David Sorensen - and, of course, Donald Trump himself. https://t.co/scSX9naHPD
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 28, 2020
re: #102 (((Archangel1)))
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from the article
Speaker Pelosi is right. Trump’s enormous personal debt and his failure to separate his presidency from his finances leave the question open as to whether Trump got assurances from certain nominees for personal benefits in exchange for nominations.
imagine asking the nominee directly “has the president indirectly or directly, covertly or overtly, by himself or through others, negotiated, suggested, inferred, wondered, even “joked” as he is wont to do, etc. etc, “
re: #46 sagehen
I don’t feel sorry for him, but that’s some needlessly aggressive policing. He was standing with hards visible, no clothes to have tucked a weapon into, the cop he was speaking with could have finished the conversation, then said “turn around and put your hands behind your back”, and arrested him. The flying leap to knock him down sideways on the asphalt, then 4 cops dog-piling… unnecessary.,
We just had a very rare case here in the UK where a police officer was shot dead by a suspect. In that case the suspect had been arrested, handcuffed behind his back and transported to a police custody centre in Croydon. He managed to pull a gun from somewhere, shoot the officer and then himself according to press reports.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
I agree, but I think the jury’s still out on whether Parscale is actually mentally ill. I think it’s more likely he was just drunk.
As a DV survivor, Parscale’s behavior sounds a lot like an abuser who’s hit that moment where they feel so vulnerable they can’t figure out the precise mix of self-medicating plus power-control harm to inflict on other people to regain equilibrium.
It’s a anxiety-driven breakdown in the same way that serial killers get depressed when they can’t serial kill.
david frum / the atlantic
On the preexisting trajectory of the 2020 campaign, Trump was going to lose—and probably lose big. He needed something to happen either to help him or, more plausibly, to push the Biden camp into some mistake or misstep. Now the banana peels have been dumped beneath his own feet.”
Freep has indicated an “emergency” WH press briefing in play.
Cops pretty much take the Cobra Kai approach to conflict resolution these days (i.e. strike first, strike hard, no mercy).
re: #115 Decatur Deb
Freep has indicated an “emergency” WH press briefing in play.
Oh, man. That should be pretty fucking wild.
re: #115 Decatur Deb
Freep has indicated an “emergency” WH press briefing in play.
“We’re rounding the corner,” Trump says 9/28/20
Departs Rose Garden remarks without taking questions from press.— Cheryl Bolen (@cherylbolen) September 28, 2020
re: #115 Decatur Deb
Freep has indicated an “emergency” WH press briefing in play.
♪♫Send lawyers, guns and money -
The shit has hit the fan♫♬
re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg
Cops pretty much take the Cobra Kai approach to conflict resolution these days (i.e. strike first, strike hard, no mercy).
Fan-fucking-tastic series, by the way, if anyone is into kung fu TV/movies, the original Karate Kid movie, or the whole “kids of the parents face similar but different struggles” genre.
re: #119 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
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This was billed as a presidential announcement on a national testing strategy.
So when Trump claims a $70K tax deduction for hairstyling it’s smart business, but when workers claim unemployment benefits it’s socialism?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 27, 2020
re: #122 Teddy’s Person ✌
This was billed as a presidential announcement on a national testing strategy.
lol, here’s your strategy
Here’s a live-action self-swab #coronavirus test by @HHS_ASH Brett Giroir in WH Rose Garden pic.twitter.com/kE0QC507a3
— Cheryl Bolen (@cherylbolen) September 28, 2020
re: #123 dangerman
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Privatize the profits; socialize the costs. It’s the corporate way.
re: #124 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
lol, here’s your strategy
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“Up your nose with a rubber hose”?
Perfect, just perfect.
Doctor Fauci just told our @brianstelter he’s worried Trump is being given incorrect information about the pandemic. Fauci, Birx and Redfield were not present for COVID event in Rose Garden this afternoon. Atlas was. We’ll discuss at top of hour on @CNNSitRoom — I’m in for Wolf.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 28, 2020
Melania married this ugly, bag of wind, douche bag with a micro penis for money! For money!! Lol…😂😂😂
God she must feel dumb. #BeBest #BeBroke
Zero sympathy.— Proud Liberal🌊🌊🌺 (@PrdLiberal7) September 28, 2020
since PragerU is trending, heres a reminder that the sole purpose of their content is to normalize white nationalism for young people pic.twitter.com/nN7E7I0vee
— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) September 28, 2020
re: #128 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
Perfect, just perfect.
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Doctor Fauci just told our @brianstelter he’s worried Trump is being given incorrect information about the pandemic. Fauci, Birx and Redfield were not present for COVID event in Rose Garden this afternoon. Atlas was. We’ll discuss at top of hour on @CNNSitRoom — I’m in for Wolf.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 28, 2020
CDC Director Robert Redfield has grown increasingly concerned that President Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force, Dr. Scott Atlas, is sharing incorrect information about the pandemic with the public, NBC News reports.
Said Redfield: “Everything he[*] says is false.”
* ‘he’ is trump
re: #121 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Fan-fucking-tastic series, by the way, if anyone is into kung fu TV/movies, the original Karate Kid movie, or the whole “kids of the parents face similar but different struggles” genre.
Agreed. Also highly recommended for folks who came of age in the ’80s.
re: #123 dangerman
Town I live in, I deal with people who are barely making it who (1) are very angry that poor people don’t pay what they owe in taxes, (2) find it understandable, even admirable, that rich people don’t pay what they owe in taxes.
The secret of the USA is that not all of us rebelled against monarchism, some of us rebelled against one particular form of monarchy.
Plenty of folks out there aspiring to rise to the level of Goon Class 2 and get mopping duties at the next blood orgy.
re: #129 dangerman
She doesn’t feel dumb. Botox cured all the feels. That’s part of the benefit package.
Women like this know what they’re singing up for. It’s a transaction that worked out to an ultimate benefit. They may have buyer’s remorse in the end, but that doesn’t mean they had any integrity to begin with.
re: #92 danarchy
Not to minimize the disparity of use of force against black people by police, they are killed at twice the rate of whites and that is fucking horrible and needs to be fixed, but there are over 10 million arrests in the US every year, of those about 1000 end in a police killing, of those about 250 are black and of those maybe a couple dozen are un-armed.
It is fucking tragic and police reform is necessary, they are far too ready to use force and escalate situations unnecessarily but media and social media in particular are giving an entire generation of black Americans PTSD for something that is extremely rare.
Gonna call BS on this. It’s not just the killings, it’s the disproportionate use of targeting blacks for arrest, which as been going on since Jim Crow. It’s not PTSD. Their reaction is entirely justified. The killings by police are the highest profile, but the use of the police against blacks to subjugate them is clearly documented.
Edit: To be clear, I’m calling out the PTSD part. They have been overly targeted in way too many ways, from traffic stops that no whites would be stopped for, to far stricter courts, to unnecessary killing with no punishment for the police unless the bullets come close to white people. If it happened like this to white people, there would be complete police reform, not going after their concern about being a target.
re: #51 teleskiguy
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Like Steve Jobs and Apple products. I didn’t know I needed one until I saw one.
re: #119 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
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…Over on the corner there’s a happy noise
People come from all around to watch the magic boy
Down on the corner
Out in the street
Willy and the Poor Boys are playin’
Bring a nickel, tap your feet
re: #133 The Ghost of a Flea
Town I live in, I deal with people who are barely making it who (1) are very angry that poor people don’t pay what they owe in taxes, (2) find it understandable, even admirable, that rich people don’t pay what they owe in taxes.
The secret of the USA is that not all of us rebelled against monarchism, some of us rebelled against one particular form of monarchy.
i have no problem with rich people trying to pay as little as possible
finding every legitimate deduction, etc - that’s tax avoidance and totally legal
if you ‘don’t pay what you owe’, it means one of two things
- you have a tax debt you didnt pay - you’re a deadbeat
- your tax returns unreasonably arrived at too little tax - that’s tax evasion and illegal
and what trump did. took positions that were way too aggressive and not at all reasonable or liable to hold up under scrutiny. his hope was they would never be questioned in the first place (ie - obviously speeding and didnt get stopped. “I got away with it”)
the first guy is playing the system assertively.
the second and third are different forms of theft from the rest of us.
re: #131 dangerman
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Fauci and Redfeild will be fired the day after the election.
re: #135 PrairieQueen
She doesn’t feel dumb. Botox cured all the feels. That’s part of the benefit package.
Women like this know what they’re singing up for. It’s a transaction that worked out to an ultimate benefit. They may have buyer’s remorse in the end, but that doesn’t mean they had any integrity to begin with.
jackie didnt need the ‘assistance’
— Ravenclaw’s Prefect (@Ravencl67723814) September 28, 2020
re: #136 Belafon
Gonna call BS on this. It’s not just the killings, it’s the disproportionate use of targeting blacks for arrest, which as been going on since Jim Crow. It’s not PTSD. Their reaction is entirely justified. The killings by police are the highest profile, but the use of the police against blacks to subjugate them is clearly documented.
So I think this statement is well-intended and I agree with its objection to the post it responds to, but…
It *is* PTSD *and* it is entirely justified. Long-term trauma isn’t just about the specific instance of trauma, but about the way the traumatized person has to constantly brace because they anticipate further direct trauma. Which is very much the position blacks are in: not just coping with the things they, each as individuals, have suffered, but the gestalt picture of what they have to anticipate experienced when they look at how there is a pattern of random encounters that turn frightening, violent, and even deadly.
re: #16 🌹UOJB!
No sympathy at all. There are way too many victims of Trump policies to empathize with.
But what does it matter? He wasn’t listening to or acting on the correct information anyway. https://t.co/mKylliKjyj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2020
re: #141 dangerman
jackie didnt need the ‘assistance’
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When there are actually photos of Melania posing nude, why would you use a doctored image for that meme?
Panicked Woman Scrambles To Write Down ‘$750’ Before 24-Hour News Cycle Wipes Memory Clean https://t.co/71aQvUP35U pic.twitter.com/pH1WziJXJJ
— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 28, 2020
Pro Tip: Media will totally ignore Biden’s links to Putin and human trafficking/prostitution ring $$$s at all costs.
Their only goal is to hurt Trump even though they now inadvertently proved he has no financial ties to Russia… unlike the Biden’s. https://t.co/D0ZXJtt1nL— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 28, 2020
I’m eager to see this scumbag go to jail.
This Deterrence of 3.5m black folks voting is much more horrific than Trump’s criminality. It’s orders of magnitude more evil. What’s scary is it may not be illegal. If not, I hope it becomes illegal.
re: #150 jaunte
This scumbag? I would like to see both in jail preferably in the same cell.
JFC
Michele Bachmann warns of massive voter fraud in which pre-printed mail-in ballots from China are smuggled into the US and stored in barns until they are needed to steal the election from Trump. pic.twitter.com/orRdVXzD26
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 28, 2020
re: #155 Teddy’s Person ✌
What is she inhaling/smoking? I want to stay far away from it.
re: #155 Teddy’s Person ✌
JFC
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You’re a disgrace to my state and I’m ashamed to even know your name. STFD, STFU, GTFO, or DIAF, choose three of the above.
Heh, heh
How much more did you pay in taxes than President Trump?
Head to https://t.co/h9ZZ0iBuiE to find out. pic.twitter.com/w689uVoHq7— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 28, 2020
Studies have shown that listening to the sound of beavers enthusiastically munching on white cabbage can temporarily reduce stress levels by up to 17%. pic.twitter.com/g8jcoCYeHP
— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) September 28, 2020
re: #150 jaunte
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I’m eager to see this scumbag go to jail.
Newt or Junior? (I’d settle for both)
re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg
Yip Harburg wouldn’t like that one.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #156 PhillyPretzel
Her own gaseous emissions….
Here’s an insane story in which there’s absolutely no one good to root for:
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
I hate selfish rich people. They literally are THE biggest danger to the rest of us, no matter where they are.
re: #161 plansbandc
Studies have shown that listening to the sound of beavers enthusiastically munching on white cabbage can temporarily reduce stress levels by up to 17%.
Hmm….sorta like that Dalek relaxation tape?
Poppy Harlow is trending on Twitter because she was tough on trump WH press dude.
CNN’s Poppy Harlow to WH Spox Brian Morgenstern: “These are remarkable reporters from the NYTimes… It is not OK for you to accuse them with no facts of coordinating with the Democratic Party. Please stop doing that or this interview will end. Brian, stop attacking the press.” pic.twitter.com/XrXx8Gz8IL
— The Hill (@thehill) September 28, 2020
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s an insane story in which there’s absolutely no one good to root for:
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Isn’t that an old story? Or did it happen again?
re: #114 dangerman
david frum / the atlantic
I still think that his primary goal is to get Joe to stutter. I’m not going to watch the debate because I’m an anxiety sponge and it just gets too difficult, but I will be following here, and listening to Bob Cesca and Buzz beforehand.
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
Turning money into shit to own the poor.
I know things look bad for the president, but we Americans are a very forgetting people
— Emo Philips (@EmoPhilips) September 28, 2020
Funniest post of the day:
I suppose the administration is running smoother than the campaign. I only say that because there aren’t any reports of people in the administration trying to kill themselves before barricading himself inside his Florida home. Admittedly a low bar.
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re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s an insane story in which there’s absolutely no one good to root for:
That’s not fair, I absolutely root for the restaurant. If they can convince some stupid motherfucker to eat $2000 worth of gold just because, they are a cotdam hero in my eyes.
re: #176 KGxvi
I’m rooting for food poisoning casualties personally, but YMMV…
Just a friendly reminder that Kavanaugh’s financial disclosure reports should have revealed who paid off his debts. Either by reporting a gift in one report or by reporting a receivable in the prior report. That omission should have received more attention.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) September 28, 2020
re: #170 Dr. Matt
Isn’t that an old story? Or did it happen again?
Oh hell, you’re right. Happened in January. Don’t know why the hell a website I follow decided to feature it again.
re: #176 KGxvi
With gold at 1881.20 an once (from Kitco) he overpaid. Still my vote is for the restaurant.
re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh hell, you’re right. Happened in January. Don’t know why the hell a website I follow decided to feature it again.
Rich douchbags in the news.
re: #178 Dread Pirate Ron
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That’s why Republicans focused on reports of his transgressions when he was younger, to change the subject.
re: #174 gocart mozart
Fortunately the Democrats have a shit ton of money to run ads that will remind us again and again.
re: #161 plansbandc
I was hoping for ‘yummy’ sounds…
re: #171 stpaulbear
I still think that his primary goal is to get Joe to stutter. I’m not going to watch the debate because I’m an anxiety sponge and it just gets too difficult, but I will be following here, and listening to Bob Cesca and Buzz beforehand.
We were just discussing that. I’m not interested in watching where hubby is. I’ll watch the clips. I can’t stand listening to trump lying his ass off.
re: #185 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Same here. DT’s voice is an irritant.
Daaaayyy-UMMMM!
Live footage of Melania tonight !#TrumpTaxes#TrumpIsBroke pic.twitter.com/2n5LZ2Nuab
— Bunker Inspector - 35 days to election (@TweetiepieHawly) September 28, 2020
How old you think Barron was when he found out, his daddy put bills and credit cards in his name?
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) September 28, 2020
People are really not backing off going after Trump family members.
Then again, they’ve proven themselves to be complete amoral pieces of shit, so … meh?
re: #147 danarchy
When there are actually photos of Melania posing nude, why would you use a doctored image for that meme?
i’m just the messenger here…
re: #155 Teddy’s Person ✌
JFC
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these people do not understand how ballots are validated
Michele Bachmann warns of massive voter fraud in which pre-printed mail-in ballots from China are smuggled into the US and stored in barns until they are needed to steal the election from Trump. pic.twitter.com/orRdVXzD26
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 28, 2020
i kind of get the sense that if the Dems do sweep the table, that many of the Dems in the Senate are far less collegial than Ms. Feinstein and we may see boatload of special prosecutors being asked to trace the failures in vetting Mr. Trump, his administration and dare I say it, those in the GOP and the Press that were paid off and colluded with him to hide the truth and commit crimes.
as they not only follow the money, they find out who was talking to whom and what was being said.
I suspect that the fallout from this administration will be echoing for quite some time.
Non-Partisan Watchdog Accuses Trump Campaign Of ‘Laundering’ $170 Million https://t.co/K1LivnFPhu
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) September 28, 2020
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #180 PhillyPretzel
With gold at 1881.20 an once (from Kitco) he overpaid. Still my vote is for the restaurant.
well there was some steak in there…
re: #188 dangerman
i’m just the messenger here…
I meant you in the general sense not you specifically.
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
Where do I sign up?
re: #193 dangerman
well there was some steak in there…
Also no way there was an ounce of gold in that steak. It was probably 2 sheets of gold leaf that cost about $5
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
What can I get for $750?
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #199 jaunte
What can I get for $750?
Add two sheets of gold leaf on your tomahawk ribeye and hit Mitch with it, apparently.
If only Grassley had the power to get to the bottom of this?
— Trump Lied Americans Died (@Jmylessmiles) September 28, 2020
re: #187 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
How old you think Barron was when he found out, his daddy put bills and credit cards in his name?
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) September 28, 2020
My brother-in-law did that to their son.
re: #203 Dread Pirate Ron
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Or maybe…and just hear me out for a second Chuck… the “I’m under audit” excuse was just transparent bullshit.
re: #203 Dread Pirate Ron
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Chuck has been in the Senate since 1981. He knows why.
The IRS has never been a popular cause on Capitol Hill. But Democrats and Republicans long shared a grudging consensus that the agency’s basic work of tax collection deserved protection.
That changed when the Republican Party came into power in 1994 and Newt Gingrich became the speaker of the House. The new majority’s main priority was tax cuts, and vilifying the IRS helped its case. Some conservatives favored a “fair tax,” a consumption tax based on purchases. Proponents said that this simplified approach to taxation would allow them to “abolish” the IRS. ProPublica
re: #199 jaunte
What can I get for $750?
One audiophile stereo RCA cable, about five foot long, if you want to toss in an extra $30.
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s an insane story in which there’s absolutely no one good to root for:
Love this quote:
In his Yelp review, in which he refers to the Salt Bae as a “communist loving, piece of crap,” Miranda said he believes the waiter was trying to take advantage of the situation
He describes getting charged for an expensive meal “communist”?
re: #199 jaunte
$750? That is my mortgage payment for one month.
My dishwasher died two weeks ago and I am about done with washing dishes by hand. Anyone have a recommendation for a solid basic dishwasher that won’t break the bank. Don’t need whisper quiet, but preferably not too loud.
re: #211 danarchy
As per Consumer Reports Bosch, Thermador, Ikea, Miele, and KitchenAid are highly rated.
Whirlpool is a Best Buy.
re: #211 danarchy
My dishwasher died two weeks ago and I am about done with washing dishes by hand. Anyone have a recommendation for a solid basic dishwasher that won’t break the bank. Don’t need whisper quiet, but preferably not too loud.
I had to buy one a few months ago, and I settled on a Kenmore, I forget the model #. It’s pretty quiet. A decent one will cost $300 - $400.
He is supercool. Thank you for posting this video #PrettySoon directed by @kiiarens @nilslofgren is beyond cool. He’s a damn planet stomper. #bluewithlou https://t.co/misN1LjwS7
— Amy Aiello Lofgren (@azsweetheart013) September 28, 2020
re: #211 danarchy
Here is a link to Consumer Reports:
consumerreports.org
re: #213 PhillyPretzel
As per Consumer Reports Bosch, Thermador, Ikea, Miele, and KitchenAid are highly rated.
Whirlpool is a Best Buy.
I almost went with a Whirlpool but they didn’t have it in black when I went to the store. Appliances have to be black here.
re: #213 PhillyPretzel
As per Consumer Reports Bosch, Thermador, Ikea, Miele, and KitchenAid are highly rated.
Whirlpool is a Best Buy.
I am happy with my Bosch. Cleans well, use Cascade compete platinum tablets, accept no substitutes.
A quirk about Bosch is that they do not dry, residual heat removes most water. I open after, turn a few things over, let air dry. Super efficient.
re: #212 Dave In Austin
Hmmmmm….
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re: #213 PhillyPretzel
As per Consumer Reports Bosch, Thermador, Ikea, Miele, and KitchenAid are highly rated.
Whirlpool is a Best Buy.
I was looking at the Bosch 100 from Home Despot. Have never shopped for a dishwasher before so I really have no clue, but Bosch makes good power tools. Home Depot will do the install and haul away the old one which is a plus. The one I have came with the house when I bought it almost a decade ago.
re: #220 danarchy
if you have a Lowe’s I would suggest them, HD is owned by wingnuts
re: #221 piratedan
if you have a Lowe’s I would suggest them, HD is owned by wingnuts
I’m assuming the OP knows that since they referred to the company as “Home Despot”
There may be something for her in the Ferangi Rules of Acquisition, under snake oil and pseudoscience.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) September 28, 2020
re: #176 KGxvi
That’s not fair, I absolutely root for the restaurant. If they can convince some stupid motherfucker to eat $2000 worth of gold just because, they are a cotdam hero in my eyes.
With a decent vacuum chamber we can plate a guillotine blade with gold for that dude.
Mechanism of ion beam induced deposition of gold
avs.scitation.org
re: #220 danarchy
I was looking at the Bosch 100 from Home Despot. Have never shopped for a dishwasher before so I really have no clue, but Bosch makes good power tools. Home Depot will do the install and haul away the old one which is a plus. The one I have came with the house when I bought it almost a decade ago.
Got a Bosch; loved the goddam thing until we sold our house. So quiet they install a little red light that shines a dot on the floor while it’s running.
Also, the racks *just fit correctly.* You don’t realize what a PITA that is until you regress to a Samsung or LG. Wrestling those damn things in and our to make room for tall stuff like wineglasses or big pans is Not. Fun.
Didn’t know that about the ownership of Home Depot. Makes sense though. The employees have the hollow-eyed look of most minimum-wage slaves under Late-Stage Capitalism.
re: #214 Charles Johnson
I had to buy one a few months ago, and I settled on a Kenmore, I forget the model #. It’s pretty quiet. A decent one will cost $300 - $400.
Did you use the LGF Amazon referral link to help out our esteemed host? ;)
debate lines for biden, gleaned from hither and yon:
- Donald, my son was called to duty in the Army, yours is being called by the New York attorney general to testify
- I don’t think the American people want to listen to us going after each other’s family. So how about instead we talk about the issues that matter to families across the country?
- you know what, you bring up a good point—corruption and conflicts of interest are real problems. It’s true. And a new report from the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington looked at your administration and found 3,400 conflicts of interest. Actually those were just the ones involving you, personally; not the rest of the administration…” That’s why I pledge to make sure the government’s ethics watchdogs are strong and independent…”
he could state early that he will hold up his index finger every time Trump lies. That would be the signing equivalent of Reagan’s “there you go again”, would allow Biden to interrupt wordlessly, and would goad Trump beyond endurance. though it would probably be exhausting
Or he could quickly interject each time he speaks “the president’s nose is now xxx inches long’ then answer the question.
he could chuckle and sadly shake his head saying, “Donald you’re acting like a child again instead of the leader of the free world.
otoh, without getting into the mud in the gutter, Biden has a real chance to totally dominate the uncommitted voters by reminding them what a real President looks like
Great thread. O’Keefe is the worst, and every time he comes out with another ridiculous howler of an exposé the whole right wing universe goes nuts for it like Pavlov’s dogs. https://t.co/uj3R09luvp
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2020
re: #161 plansbandc
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re: #227 dangerman
he could state early that he will hold up his index finger every time Trump lies. That would be the signing equivalent of Reagan’s “there you go again”, would allow Biden to interrupt wordlessly, and would goad Trump beyond endurance. though it would probably be exhausting
I approve this strategy.
re: #161 plansbandc
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It goes up to 18% when you listen to this!https://t.co/y1LddDH8PM
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) September 28, 2020
re: #211 danarchy
My dishwasher died two weeks ago and I am about done with washing dishes by hand. Anyone have a recommendation for a solid basic dishwasher that won’t break the bank. Don’t need whisper quiet, but preferably not too loud.
We’ve been happy with our KitchenAid.
In an interview in Ireland, Mick Mulvaney predicts that Joe Biden will preform so badly in the first debate there will not be debates two and three. What’s that we say about projection.
The real questions is will GOPers ever stop beclowning themselves in service to serial tax cheat and all around disgusting human being Donald Trump.
re: #223 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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I suspect that this Abby is neither a nurse nor doctor. If she is she needs fired immediately. If she works in the medical records office or something like that, she needs a nurse or doctor to go talk to her.
re: #223 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #235 Eventual Carrion
I suspect that this Abby is neither a nurse nor doctor. If she is she needs fired immediately. If she works in the medical records office or something like that, she needs a nurse or doctor to go talk to her.
Could be a nurse. I’ve known some with some rather odd medical ideas.
re: #237 calochortus
Could be a nurse. I’ve known some with some rather odd medical ideas.
My mother-in-law recently became sick. She had a number of different symptoms but ultimately tested negative for Covid. It was in fact, another, much less serious virus and she is on the mend now.
But before we had the Covid test results, a very conservative church friend of ours who is also a nurse contacted my wife to let us know that if it was Covid, she could easily get us a supply of HCQ.
They’re lucky that message went to my wife and not me because I would have GONE OFF.
re: #217 Charles Johnson
We got a Whirlpool. Quiet, cleans the dishes. It was around $400.
re: #233 calochortus
We’ve been happy with our KitchenAid.
I love my KitchenAid dishwasher but it’s not an inexpensive item. It was well over $1000.
re: #239 plansbandc
I do not have that many dishes to clean so it is the ten little pixies that do the work. That also explains why I have a supply of Aloe Vera Gel and Avon Intensive Therapy hand creme.
re: #211 danarchy
My dishwasher died two weeks ago and I am about done with washing dishes by hand. Anyone have a recommendation for a solid basic dishwasher that won’t break the bank. Don’t need whisper quiet, but preferably not too loud.
If you use a lot of bowls that are even moderately deep, you might want to take one along when you look at dishwashers. We ruled out the Bosch when we bought our dishwasher because it was really hard to fit our bowls in. My brother has a Bosch and while they like it, they run it relatively empty daily (just 2 people in the household) because they have to put the bowls in the top rack along with glasses and other things that aren’t plates.
re: #240 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I love my KitchenAid dishwasher but it’s not an inexpensive item. It was well over $1000.
Can’t remember what ours cost because we bought it several years ago.
We were limited in what we could buy because our dishwasher is in a corner of the cabinetry and a handle that sticks out would prevent us from opening the adjacent drawer.
Not just an asshole. A special kind of asshole. But then, he’s from South Carolina, so I repeat myself.
Mulvaney said that it would be “fun” for one of the candidates to take the drug test and then challenge the other and that it’s merely how people in the United States “have fun with our races.”
Yeah, Mick, sounds like a real laugh riot.
And quite the prognosticator.
The former Trump aide closed by saying that he thinks Biden will do so badly that it’ll be the end of his campaign and as a result, there won’t be any other debates.
re: #240 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I love my KitchenAid dishwasher but it’s not an inexpensive item. It was well over $1000.
When you buy it as an attachment to their mixer, it can get really expensive.
You forgot one of his most ridiculous cosplay moments, when he dressed up as Osama bin Laden (including a mask) and waded into the Rio Grande on the border with Mexico to prove… something. pic.twitter.com/9UdL9ddBDj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2020
But it gets even more absurd, because John McCain then cited O’Keefe’s asinine stunt on the Senate floor. https://t.co/wXRglcSFkZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 28, 2020
I was just looking through an insurance underwriting manual from before the ACA. You know what would have gotten you denied individual insurance? Using hydroxychloroquine in the previous 12 months. pic.twitter.com/y55Ya6ftfd
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) September 28, 2020
re: #211 danarchy
My dishwasher died two weeks ago and I am about done with washing dishes by hand. Anyone have a recommendation for a solid basic dishwasher that won’t break the bank. Don’t need whisper quiet, but preferably not too loud.
I’ve owned two Bosch’s and it’s the only way to go. The Kitchenaid, Kenmore (all the slides and guts on the inside were very cheap and broke), and two Maytags lasted an average of one year. Good luck and happy shopping. I have heard it’s tough to get a good deal on appliances because of huge back orders.
re: #245 Belafon
When you buy it as an attachment to their mixer, it can get really expensive.
😂😂😂
It took me a long time to get used to my KitchenAid mixer. I didn’t like it for the first year I had it. My old MixMaster was far better for mixing.
But man, this things you can plug into that hole at the front end amazes me.
Apropos of nothing. Someone on the neighborhood listserve just asked for recommendations for an app or program that can help organize and set priorities for some household projects they are considering.
Maybe I’m not understanding what they are looking for, but wouldn’t a piece of paper and a pencil along with a conversation with your spouse do that for you?
So apparently the twitter account antifash gordon is being sued and was outed as a librarian at St Lawrence university in Canton ny.
re: #250 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
😂😂😂
It took me a long time to get used to my KitchenAid mixer. I didn’t like it for the first year I had it. My old MixMaster was far better for mixing.
But man, this things you can plug into that hole at the front end amazes me.
Amazes me too;)
re: #236 Teddy’s Person ✌
I’m super impressed with Abby’s strongly held religious beliefs from the Church of Give-Me-a-Bible-Verse to Justify My Assholishness.
Ex-Director Of Refugees Brags About Forcing Teens To Give Birth Against Their Will (Wonkette)
Scott Lloyd has an article in The Federalist with suggestions on how the Trump maladministration can keep getting around the law on this.
You all remember Scott Lloyd, right? The anti-choice fanatic lawyer who was the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement despite having absolutely no experience in that area? The guy who was part of the stellar team that oversaw the separation of children from their parents? The guy who believes no one should be able to have an abortion because his ex-girlfriend got one and he’s still mad about it? The guy who held a teen girl hostage in order to prevent her from having an abortion? The guy who forced another teen girl into an emergency room because she had taken an abortion pill and he wanted to make them reverse it? The guy who kept a freaking database of when all of the teenage girls he oversaw were menstruating and wouldn’t let them see actual doctors but instead forced them to go to crisis pregnancy centers where they got propaganda and ultrasounds and personal pleas from Scott Lloyd about the evils of abortion?
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re: #244 BeachDem
Not just an asshole. A special kind of asshole. But then, he’s from South Carolina, so I repeat myself.
Mulvaney said that it would be “fun” for one of the candidates to take the drug test and then challenge the other and that it’s merely how people in the United States “have fun with our races.”
Yeah, Mick, sounds like a real laugh riot.
And quite the prognosticator.
The former Trump aide closed by saying that he thinks Biden will do so badly that it’ll be the end of his campaign and as a result, there won’t be any other debates.
‘former’ says it all
Are we at the ignoring the courts phase of the assault on democracy? I had penciled that in for late October. https://t.co/e2xGXB3xxG
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) September 28, 2020
Y’know it kinda figures that Parscale is the kinda guy whose wife is pretty much required to get GINORMOUS boob implants.
Vulgar, tacky … it’s kinda on-brand for Trump and every lowlife and shitsucking garbage person he surrounds himself with.
It’s why his base loves him so much.
Fun fact: congress can reject the census and do another one next year of it wants to.
— Ron (@ronfromsandiego) September 28, 2020
re: #259 Dread Pirate Ron
Congress can reject the census and do another one next year of it wants to.
And make Wilbur Ross pay for it.
re: #258 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Y’know it kinda figures that Parscale is the kinda guy whose wife is pretty much required to get GINORMOUS boob implants.
Vulgar, tacky … it’s kinda on-brand for Trump and every lowlife and shitsucking garbage person he surrounds himself with.
It’s why his base loves him so much.
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I’ll go with another Wonkette story today:
There’s Nothing Funny About Brad Parscale Beating His Wife
Considering the large number of people from Trump’s camp accused of spouse abuse, I imagine that is the bigger draw.
Maybe they shouldn’t have spent all that campaign money on whatever they spent all that campaign money on. https://t.co/oSfbrKHz8T
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) September 28, 2020
There Are Fundamental Questions Amy Coney Barrett Needs to Answer by Charles Pierce
It is not “anti-Catholic” in any way to wonder if her religious affiliation is part of the basis through which the judge decides cases in secular law.
It is not “anti-Catholic” in any way to wonder if Barrett’s religious affiliation is part of the basis through which she decides cases in secular law. She should be asked about that, and she should be pressed if she tap-dances around it, and she should be ready and willing to answer straight on it anyway. For example, I’m anxious to hear her explanation for this passage from a 2006 commencement address that she gave to the graduating class at Notre Dame law school.So what then, does it mean to be a different kind of lawyer? The implications of our Catholic mission for your legal education are many, and don’t worry—I’m not going to explore them all in this short speech. I’m just going to identify one way in which I hope that you, as graduates of Notre Dame, will fulfill the promise of being a different kind of lawyer. And that is this: that you will always keep in mind that your legal career is but a means to an end, and as Father Jenkins told you this morning, that end is building the kingdom of God. You know the same law, are charged with maintaining the same ethical standards, and will be entering the same kinds of legal jobs as your peers across the country. But if you can keep in mind that your fundamental purpose in life is not to be a lawyer, but to know, love, and serve God, you truly will be a different kind of lawyer.
re: #264 retired cynic
Edited to add bolding, which was from Charles Pierce.
re: #264 retired cynic
There Are Fundamental Questions Amy Coney Barrett Needs to Answer by Charles Pierce
But at least we don’t have to worry about creeping Sharia law.
BREAKING: A federal jury has found neo-Nazi podcaster Christopher Cantwell guilty of extortion and making threats. Here’s our quick dispatch from @lilsarg. https://t.co/58gIHaQF4U
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) September 28, 2020
High quality poll released today has Biden +9 in Pennsylvania. Also C- pollster Trafalgar Group, which adds phantom Trump voters in, has Biden +3 in Wisconsin. Looking forward to watching Trump get eviscerated tomorrow night.
This needs to be an indisputable rout!
New NYT/Siena poll of Pennsylvania:
Biden 49%
Trump 40%https://t.co/RQXUvkRPXR— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 28, 2020
RE: Our good friend James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office is having none of their shit.
“Anyone with legitimate information about any possible violation of Minnesota elections law should present it to the proper authority, just as I would do,” Ellison said in a statement. “Project Veritas, a highly partisan outfit with a history of running cons, founded by someone who pled guilty to a serious federal crime, is not a trustworthy source. The timing of their allegations — within weeks of the election, and on the same day the New York Times published a carefully sourced story on the President’s failure to pay taxes — should cause all Minnesotans to be highly skeptical.”
re: #270 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I’m hearing that in Marge Gunderson’s voice.
Dumb question: Is Trump out of the loop now when it comes to his SC pick? Is it all on the senate now or does Trump need to sign off on anything.
re: #270 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Oh, shit. And I just saw in the article that the representative from the next county over, and a personal acquaintance of mine, was one of the ones who signed a letter to the Secretary of State, urging an investigation. I swear, if I ever see his mug again in church, I might need to be restrained.
re: #272 stpaulbear
Mitch is in control.
Last week, The Atlantic’s Barton Gellman reported that, in Pennsylvania, “three Republican leaders told me they had already discussed the direct appointment of electors among themselves, and one said he had discussed it with Trump’s national campaign.” What does that mean?
re: #266 Eventual Carrion
But at least we don’t have to worry about creeping Sharia law.
I’m sure we can scare the fundies with the threat of creeping canon law
Every day I see more grown adult men use emojis. There is no excuse for this. Emojis are for children and women. Do you think your great grandfather would have been caught dead using emojis if the internet existed back then? Have some self respect for God’s sake.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 28, 2020
Crickets on Trump’s childish tweets.
re: #272 stpaulbear
Dumb question: Is Trump out of the loop now when it comes to his SC pick? Is it all on the senate now or does Trump need to sign off on anything.
Trump can pull the nomination and submit a new one. But failing that, asre: #274 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus said, it’s in Mitch’s cold dead hands now.
re: #277 DodgerFan1988
Kilroy would like a word with young Mr Walsh…
re: #275 retired cynic
Why am I not surprised? The PA GOP are going to do everything they can to keep DT in the WH. That is one of many reasons why I will be attending Election classes so I can do my part to smash their hold on my (and everyone else’s) vote.
I see my Facebook “friend” count has gone down a couple of more. Hard to keep track of them so I don’t know if someone fled off in a huff because one of my replies (probably about their love of Trump), or if they decided to move on… or if Facebook just got rid of the account.
re: #279 KGxvi
Or would Kilroy count as a meme, not an emoji?
Also… all the drawings on bombers (and bombs) probably counted as emojis.
re: #281 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I see my Facebook “friend” count has gone down a couple of more. Hard to keep track of them so I don’t know if someone fled off in a huff because one of my replies (probably about their love of Trump), or if they decided to move on… or if Facebook just got rid of the account.
Facebook will never get rid of accounts… that will hurt their bottom line. It’s why it takes an act of multiple deities acting in coordination to delete your account.
Very thoughtful endorsement. https://t.co/kCCdL5RU38
— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) September 28, 2020
re: #278 KGxvi
Trump can pull the nomination and submit a new one. But failing that, as said, it’s in Mitch’s cold dead hands now.
Mitch is in control regardless of anything Donny wants to do. In no way is it possible that Trump actually know these judges, or even what he is supposed to do. Trump’s goal is to keep working the religious right, so all Trump has to do is “nominate” whatever name the GOP machine in the Senate suggests to him.
re: #279 KGxvi
Kilroy would like a word with young Mr Walsh…
The responses to Walsh’s tweet are colorful and exactly what you’d expect.
re: #277 DodgerFan1988
My great grandfather would have used the hell out of the mug of beer emoji.
re: #285 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Mitch is in control regardless of anything Donny wants to do. In no way is it possible that Trump actually knows these judges, or even what he is supposed to do. Trump’s goal is to keep working the religious right, so all Trump has to do is “nominate” whatever name the GOP machine in the Senate suggests to him.
The strangest part of the judicial nominations during Trump’s term (at least for me, as someone who used to run in those circles) is how many of the nominees were just not qualified. There are plenty of competent conservative lawyers out there who have actually handled a sufficient number of cases to be well qualified.
re: #289 KGxvi
The strangest part of the judicial nominations during Trump’s term (at least for me, as someone who used to run in those circles) is how many of the nominees were just not qualified. There are plenty of competent conservative lawyers out there who have actually handled a sufficient number of cases to be well qualified.
They don’t want qualified people. They want sycophants who will do their bidding.
re: #289 KGxvi
The strangest part of the judicial nominations during Trump’s term (at least for me, as someone who used to run in those circles) is how many of the nominees were just not qualified. There are plenty of competent conservative lawyers out there who have actually handled a sufficient number of cases to be well qualified.
Non-competent nominees can be told what to do in the service of conservatism rather than the Constitution. Competent nominees can think for themselves.
Thinking for yourself is antithetical to conservative religious belief.
re: #289 KGxvi
Trump has to find judges that he can know will do his bidding. Many “conservative” judges may not be the favorite by the usual suspects in the religious-right propaganda machine in DC (who are propping up Trump) because said judges may be less willing to do Trump’s bidding.
I think this is why we see the number of long-time self-declared conservatives be never-Trumpers. They know that Trump’s only use of them has nothing to do with their beliefs but only to do with how willing they would be to do Trump’s will.
It is a bit amazing that so many Americans who love to call themselves “conservative” cannot bring themselves to this reckoning also. So many hare deeply, deeply bought into an identity by which they close off any critical thought.
re: #204 Belafon
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re: #267 Dread Pirate Ron
Is he the crying Nazi?
re: #295 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Is he the crying Nazi?
Yes. Just over the hills from us in Keene, NH. A curious mix of hippies and extreme libertarians.
re: #204 Belafon
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re: #298 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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re: #293 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Trump has to find judges that he can know will do his bidding. Many “conservative” judges may not be the favorite by the usual suspects in the religious-right propaganda machine in DC (who are propping up Trump) because said judges may be less willing to do Trump’s bidding.
I think this is why we see the number of long-time self-declared conservatives be never-Trumpers. They know that Trump’s only use of them has nothing to do with their beliefs but only to do with how willing they would be to do Trump’s will.
It is a bit amazing that so many Americans who love to call themselves “conservative” cannot bring themselves to this reckoning also. So many hare deeply, deeply bought into an identity by which they close off any critical thought.
Members of a tribe adapt to the position of tribal leaders, even when it’s a reversal of previously held positions.
re: #204 Belafon
My brother-in-law did that to their son.
My late mother-in-law did that to my wife, while my wife was in a coma.
A federal judge has required paper backups of voter registration and absentee voting information at every Georgia polling place, a safeguard to allow voters to continue casting ballots if computers fail on Election Day.https://t.co/8pMVsnicJ4
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 28, 2020
Expect the Georgia GOP to appeal. That would foul up their voter suppression of minorities.
re: #277 DodgerFan1988
Someone should quote some of Trump’s childish shit without attribution and ask him how childish he thinks that is.
re: #299 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
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re: #299 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
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NEW: Trump yesterday repeatedly accused Hunter Biden of receiving millions from the wife of the late Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, who is described in Ron Johnson’s recent report as corrupt. But Trump himself sought millions in deals w/Luzhkov’s government. https://t.co/7m6rZhRHz8
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 28, 2020
“Trump was in Moscow,” Luzhkov told Russia’s Interfax news agency last year, adding that Trump had made contact with former Moscow construction chief Vladimir Resin “on matters related to the construction of the Okhotny Ryad underground shopping complex on Manezhnaya Square.”
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 28, 2020
re: #307 Dread Pirate Ron
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re: #308 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Standard Operating Procedure for him.
re: #299 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
What to Do If a Family Member Steals Your Identity (Money Crashers)
Use of a Minor’s Identity: People under the age of 18 can’t get credit cards, obtain loans, or any other form of credit. But, it isn’t uncommon for parents or relatives to use the personal information of a child or relative to open new accounts. In many situations, a child whose identity is stolen doesn’t learn of the theft until they are old enough to apply for credit on their own, only to discover their credit is ruined.
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re: #256 dangerman
‘former’ says it all
Not really—he’s moved on to fucking up international relations as Special Envoy to Northern Ireland (although, at one point, he kind of didn’t get that Ireland and Northern Ireland weren’t the same place.)
JUST IN: A lawyer for Peter STRZOK says some of the agent’s notes recently made ublic by the FLYNN defense team “appear to have been altered,” including with at least one handwritten notation that is incorrect >>> pic.twitter.com/yHytxGtrGO
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 28, 2020
STRZOK’s attorney also points out somethign we’ve been noting recently: The disclosures by the Flynn team appear to violate a court order issued by Sullivan months ago, asking them to stop filing piecemeal documents until the DOJ review is complete.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 28, 2020
I’ll see you all on the next post. I did make it past 300 comments this time, a record! Not sure how long I’ll be able to hang on this one. ❤️
Meanwhile at The Mary Sue:
Things We Saw Today: CNN’s Poppy Harlow Shuts Down Trump Official’s Attacks on the Press
Poppy Harlow giving us a rare sighting on cable news: an anchor who doesn’t let White House officials spread vicious propaganda on behalf of Trump. https://t.co/rKmJDVKJX6
— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) September 28, 2020
LOL
Donald Trump wrote off $70,000 on his taxes FOR HAIR STYLING
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 27, 2020
Even I never did that. https://t.co/L6j6gEzBUm
— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) September 28, 2020
WAIT! THAT’S A WRITE OFF!!?? https://t.co/AYaZ6fL4fi
— Dee Snider🇺🇸 (@deesnider) September 28, 2020
re: #310 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A friend’s husband did that to their youngest child, at least, and they didn’t find out until they were grown.
“Everything he says is false,” says CDC head Robert Redfield, in overheard phone call, of new Trump COVID-19 adviser Dr. Scott Atlas https://t.co/SVU24JHUB2
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) September 28, 2020
CNN is reporting the Salt Bae restaurant mentioned earlier has failed safety regulations and must close.
Why am I not surprised?
It essentially accuses Cameron of hiding behind grand jury secrecy requirements while misleading the public about evidence the grand jury actually saw. It asks the court to release the record in the interest of justice, transparency, and accountability.https://t.co/CRhBHVDbE0
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) September 28, 2020
re: #315 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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A key potential change — no more “guilt by association.”
“It has to be demonstrated that they participated in the unlawful action, either by engaging in destructive behavior or by actively, explicitly, verbally encouraging imminent violent destructive acts,” Willner said. https://t.co/ywFBX3rYf2— Olivia Krauth (@oliviakrauth) September 28, 2020
re: #321 gocart mozart
That witness @kyoag said confirmed that police announced before breaking down Breonna Taylor’s door?
On March 21, he said the exact opposite.
“No, nobody identify themself,” he told investigators, according to investigative documents. https://t.co/8nXRC34kbf— Darcy Costello (@dctello) September 28, 2020
Electing a lobbyist who has never been in a courtroom as AG was always problematic but when that person is a pathetic liar as well, miscarries of justice like this happen. https://t.co/OEqdWr7cDl
— Steven Romines (@Sromines) September 28, 2020
re: #319 Dread Pirate Ron
Here’s an interview with the reporter who was sitting in the seat behind Redfield on a plane. Apparently it’s fairly common reporters and health administrators to be on the same flights between DC and Atlanta.
re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #328 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah I was just reading that Cameron’s never tried a case before. Yikes.
And now I’m left wondering if the grand jury made the decisions they did because they were afraid of what would happen if they didn’t.
re: #329 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And now I’m left wondering if the grand jury made the decisions they did because they were afraid of what would happen if they didn’t.
And that’s not authoritarian at all. The slime is oozing out of all the corners now.
Oh this is going to be good:
Borat 2 imminent, reports suggest, with Trump, Epstein and Giuliani as targets https://t.co/01GxoPkdG1
— The Guardian (@guardian) September 28, 2020
WAIT! THAT’S A WRITE OFF!!?? https://t.co/AYaZ6fL4fi
— Dee Snider🇺🇸 (@deesnider) September 28, 2020
re: #280 PhillyPretzel
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My gawd https://t.co/Wk7gQ6rpnc
— Armando (@ArmandoNDK) September 29, 2020
re: #334 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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Fred Perry retires polo design embraced by far-right group Proud Boys https://t.co/YPPa1J9LOn pic.twitter.com/Oy7elff5FV
— The Hill (@thehill) September 29, 2020
The coal comeback promised by Trump in 2016 has failed to materialize, with his first term studded with bankruptcies and closures of mines and power plants. In fact, there are now about 5,000 fewer miners than when Trump strode into the White House. https://t.co/TnxTntZvqs
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) September 28, 2020
re: #339 Dread Pirate Ron
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Both of my mom’s grandfathers were miners. How he conned so many miners with lies really pisses me off. Would love to see him in the shafts.
re: #340 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
When we finally get back to some stability, there needs to be a job retraining initiative including skilled trades and alternative energy jobs. Coal is a finite resource, we’re way behind the rest of the world on this stuff.
re: #334 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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re: #341 A Mom Anon
When we finally get back to some stability, there needs to be a job retraining initiative including skilled trades and alternative energy jobs. Coal is a finite resource, we’re way behind the rest of the world on this stuff.
That’s something Biden has been talking about. You’re absolutely right. We’re well behind on this. It’s a shame too because in the past we would be leaders on this.
re: #334 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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re: #343 Patricia Kayden
An interesting segment on MSNBC about how Trump is going to be a security threat to the US for the rest of his life if he remains in debt. Security officials are worried that he’ll just start selling everything he knows about US security to whoever will pay him for it, and he may not feel any reason to ever stop selling.
Vice President Mike Pence to make campaign stop in Carter Lake this week (Omaha World-Herald)
Carter Lake is an exclave of Iowa, surrounded on three sides by Omaha, Nebraska, and the fourth by the Missouri River. It was stranded on our side of the river when the river changed course, causing a huge series of court fights between Nebraska and Iowa.
Carter Lake has a population of 3,785.
The City of Carter Lake causes confusion to tourists who fly into Eppley Airfield (Omaha’s airport) and rent a car, because when they leave the airport property they are greeted by “Welcome to Iowa” signs on Abbot Road. Nebraska does not have a sign a few yards later saying “Welcome to Nebraska.”
For those asking, this is the city’s Southeast 2 zone pic.twitter.com/YY98zImcfC
— Erin Ailworth (@ailworth) September 28, 2020
For want of empty grain pyramids to hide my stock of illegal mail-in ballots from China
Michele Bachmann warns of massive voter fraud in which pre-printed mail-in ballots from China are smuggled into the US and stored in barns until they are needed to steal the election from Trump. pic.twitter.com/orRdVXzD26
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 28, 2020
re: #346 stpaulbear
An interesting segment on MSNBC about how Trump is going to be a security threat to the US for the rest of his life if he remains in debt. Security officials are worried that he’ll just start selling everything he knows about US security to whoever will pay him for it, and he may not feel any reason to ever stop selling.
Of the many things to be worried about, this is not one. He is a stupid man who never reads anything, much less a security briefing. Also, he cannot help but lie and exaggerate. Selling ‘everything he knows’ would be more worthless to whoever is buying than ignorance.
Hi baby bunnies pic.twitter.com/mqWpSH7F0V
— Welcome To Nature (@welcomet0nature) September 27, 2020
re: #347 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Carter Lake, Iowa is confusing to the google maps search. Look at those cliffs!
re: #352 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That is so sweet. Thanks. :)
Hey what happens when you find out a Supreme Court Justice lied on his disclosures and had his debts illegally paid off for him? That would be interesting. https://t.co/j18HyrTxlY
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) September 28, 2020
re: #355 jaunte
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Nothing, just like what happens when the same evidence is presented to a Senate who really doesn’t give a shit for anything except stigginit to the Black guy who used to be President.
re: #349 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I have a mini barn in my backyard. I was in there today and surprise! No ballots anywhere. Damn it. Left out of another evil demon liberal plot. I’m so far behind….
re: #346 stpaulbear
An interesting segment on MSNBC about how Trump is going to be a security threat to the US for the rest of his life if he remains in debt. Security officials are worried that he’ll just start selling everything he knows about US security to whoever will pay him for it, and he may not feel any reason to ever stop selling.
Assuming his briefings weren’t full of disinformation to begin with…
🤯$75,000!! Let’s keep it going!!!! That’s more than 150K voters we can mail vote-by-mail applications to!!!!!
Can we hit $100K tonight?! @ChrisMurphyCT @brianschatz seems like something is happening in Texas?!
Join in here: https://t.co/KC5hiyKGQC https://t.co/mC8r5hrPrh— Luke Warford (@LukeWarfordTX) September 29, 2020
re: #357 A Mom Anon
I have a mini barn in my backyard. I was in there today and surprise! No ballots anywhere. Damn it. Left out of another evil demon liberal plot. I’m so far behind….
Sorry, the Underground Ballot Railroad is moving a little slowly after us Minnesota libruls got diverted to the ballot harvesting project.
re: #353 jaunte
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Carter Lake, Iowa is confusing to the google maps search. Look at those cliffs!
And that mountain in the background. Where the heck is that? I don’t recall any mountains the last time I was in Carter Lake.
re: #358 GlutenFreeJesus
And how much would he even actually be able to coherently describe? He doesn’t understand how insurance works, how government works and a lot more. I’m more worried about the evil behind the evil, the ones who are more evil than stupid, the ones who don’t have the proper security clearances.
re: #344 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
re: #341 A Mom Anon
When we finally get back to some stability, there needs to be a job retraining initiative including skilled trades and alternative energy jobs. Coal is a finite resource, we’re way behind the rest of the world on this stuff.
That’s something Biden has been talking about. You’re absolutely right. We’re well behind on this. It’s a shame too because in the past we would be leaders on this.
Well, it wouldn’t be the first time they heard it, either: I recall that four years ago, Hillary Clinton went to WV and told miners straight up that coal was - at best - going to be a slowly-declining industry, and that the government - in order to at least TRY to mitigate the negative economic impact - ought to get involved in that “retraining” and “alternative jobs” stuff in a big way. And what it got her was the state voting 68.5% for Trump: way preferring- and swallowing - his spread-eagle bluster about “bringing back coal” and getting them smokestacks belching again because that what was they wanted to hear. And because he was (as always) quick to find Somebody Else to blame…
re: #361 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s showing a picture of Crater Lake, Oregon.
re: #364 jaunte
It’s showing a picture of Crater Lake, Oregon.
That’s highly entertaining. Good job, Google.
He learned to look at stuff for the camera from his buddy, Kim Jong-Un.
— Hyok Lee (@hyok_lee) September 28, 2020
re: #364 jaunte
It’s showing a picture of Crater Lake, Oregon.
There are a whole lot of photos in that spread which are not Carter Lake, Iowa.
re: #357 A Mom Anon
I have a mini barn in my backyard. I was in there today and surprise! No ballots anywhere. Damn it. Left out of another evil demon liberal plot. I’m so far behind….
Did you send in your ballot-harvesting application to the Soros International Conspiracy on time? I heard they’re really strict about postmarks.
re: #363 Jay C
The Hillary hate and misogyny was mostly at fault for that one. You develop the program, fund it, implement it and let it work. I wouldn’t even make a huge deal of it til it began working. People in Appalachia have been used as props and ignored for decades. A lot of this is fear. There’s a trail of broken promises and poverty that has to be overcome. You hit up the high school seniors for some of this, they see the devastation and have directly suffered the consequences. It’s a huge hill to climb but not impossible.
re: #369 Jay C
Did you send in your ballot-harvesting application to the Soros International Conspiracy on time? I heard they’re really strict about postmarks.
And I still haven’t gotten my check.
re: #369 Jay C
Damn it. I knew I forgot something!
Annnd , in our state’s infinite wisdom/desire to kill us all. The Georgia State Fair begins Friday at Atlanta Motorspeedway. Yay. Brian Kemp needs to be removed from office. He’s a garbage person.
The trump regime conspired to put your children at risk to give trump a political win. Think about that tonight.
Trump and his toadies would sacrifice your life for another day in power. https://t.co/ZkhG59kJSU— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) September 29, 2020
Harvest is the best time of year in ballot-growing country, and when they’re all put up in the barns, we hold a community dance, a ballot ballet.
re: #375 Decatur Deb
Harvest is the best time of year in ballot-growing country, and when they’re all put up in the barns, we hold a community dance, a ballot ballet.
*WHACK!*
re: #364 jaunte
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