Seth takes a closer look at President Trump’s poll margins declining as he continues to ignore the coronavirus spike and threatens to leave the country if he loses the election to Joe Biden.
You should never say bad things about those who are dying, you should only say good … Rush Limbaugh is dying. Good! https://t.co/g2pAXfET4G
— Ed Monster Mix (@TheEdMix) October 20, 2020
I don’t want Trump to leave…. I want him to stay…. to stand trial for his crimes.
Trump says he’s going to leave the country if he loses.
That’s not quite accurate. Trump actually is showing intention to flee the US to avoid prosecution when he loses.
That’s what’s happening here. He’s so desperate to avoid prosecution for his felony conduct that he will say and do anything to avoid it. He will commit more crimes, conspire with foreign powers time and time again, utilize Russian propaganda and misinformation, and have his GOP buddies press on the levers of power to pack the courts with his right wing lunatic fringe to try and cover for Trump’s misconduct and malfeasance.
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re: #2 piratedan
I don’t want Trump to leave…. I want him to stay…. to stand trial for his crimes.
I will forgive his crimes if he finishes his life’s mission—the destruction of the Republican Party.
re: #5 Decatur Deb
Nope. I want ‘em all to pay the price. Prison time would be too good for Trump and his crime syndicate. I want the GOP driven from power. And I want to see the courts expanded to redress the wrongs the GOP inflicted by denying President Obama more than 100 judicial nominees, including Merrick Garland. The GOP shrank the courts to protect their minority rule. Now they’re packing the courts to do the same.
End the GOP here and now. Expand the courts. Expand the number of circuits. Expand Congress. Add DC and PR and Guam/American Samoa as states.
Get all of this done to expand representation for all Americans. And on top of that ambitious agenda, reinstate the VRA and VAWA.
Things you love to see: People rising above voter suppression 😍 https://t.co/zuiM4VAHyb
— Sima Ladjevardian (@SimaforTX) October 20, 2020
re: #2 piratedan
I don’t want Trump to leave…. I want him to stay…. to stand trial for his crimes.
I think trump will not leave the US because who would want him? Just imagine the political and economic pressure that will be placed on any country who would accept him. Most countries don’t need this problem. As it is right now, I expect the new Biden administration (and Congress) to place enormous restrictions and sanctions on Russia for interfering in the current and previous elections. Payback time! Played right these sanctions just might bring down Putin.
re: #8 Cheechako
I think trump will not leave the US because who would want him? Just imagine the political and economic pressure that will be placed on any country who would accept him. Most countries don’t need this problem. As it is right now, I expect the new Biden administration (and Congress) to place enormous restrictions and sanctions on Russia for interfering in the current and previous elections. Payback time! Played right these sanctions just might bring down Putin.
Putin gone. What could be better?
NBC News: The White House nor the Trump campaign have responded to our requests for comment about an alleged Chinese drug cartel money launderers presence as a ‘VIP’ at a Trump rally.
The mysterious story of Antony Liu: https://t.co/iHRWwIe7zL pic.twitter.com/6uDQUWasT7— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) October 19, 2020
Damn @JeffreyToobin pic.twitter.com/ZkS1gFsyyi
— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) October 20, 2020
“The indictment also says Xizhi Li owned and operated a casino in Guatemala City, Guatemala, which he used to launder money and provided him a place to meet drug traffickers.”
What a coincidence!
Trump isn’t going anywhere. He’ll believe himself to be like Silvio Berlusconi, able to mount a political comeback in 2024. And with his cultish base, who in the GOP will be able to stop him? Cotton? Rafael? Nimrata?
re: #9 Semper Fi
Putin gone. What could be better?
I want the US to put The Fear into him first.
As much as I want vengeance for Trumpism, I want twice that for Putin. Take his money. Reduce his influence. Expose his corruption. Jail his sycophants in this country.
I want our government to fuck with him and impede him to the point where he’s dragged into the street by his own citizens. And what they do to him is none of my concern.
re: #14 TarHellion
Trump isn’t going anywhere. He’ll believe himself to be like Silvio Berlusconi, able to mount a political comeback in 2024. And with his cultish base, who in the GOP will be able to stop him? Cotton? Rafael? Nimrata?
Think of the casualties.
As for Trump, he’ll be dead in a few years and I don’t care if he dies in a cell or a brothel.
re: #15 makeitstop
Expose his corruption.
Russians really need to see how much he and his gang have stolen and moved out of their country.
Florida shattered its opening day record for in-person early voting Monday, with at least 350,000 people casting ballots and election officials continuing to count statewide late into the night,” Politico reports
The Commission on Presidential Debates adopted new rules to mute microphones to allow Donald Trump and Joe Biden two minutes of uninterrupted time per segment, the AP reports.
re: #14 TarHellion
Trump isn’t going anywhere. He’ll believe himself to be like Silvio Berlusconi, able to mount a political comeback in 2024. And with his cultish base, who in the GOP will be able to stop him? Cotton? Rafael? Nimrata?
There will be no comeback… his entire grift/stichk/gimmick is that he’s a “winner” once he loses that all goes away. He will get memory holed by the GOP true believers the same way W was
FUCK 2020.
As the Dude would say.. New S**T has come to light.
I have been diagnosed with Lymphoma. Although it is a serious disease, I feel fortunate that I have a great team of doctors and the prognosis is good.
I’m starting treatment and will keep you posted on my recovery.— Jeff Bridges (@TheJeffBridges) October 20, 2020
BOFFO.
Or is it BOFA? https://t.co/D1Sb9W9pC8— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 20, 2020
re: #21 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
C’mon, Dude. You can beat this!
Our seven day rolling average of new Covid cases is now up to 59,124 per day.
I mean, who are you going to listen to: the scientist who has spent his entire life studying viruses, or the stupid fucking moron who thinks windmills cause noise cancer
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) October 19, 2020
We are aware of the President’s statement regarding a hypothetical call with our CEO…and just so we’re all clear, it never happened.
— ExxonMobil (@exxonmobil) October 19, 2020
re: #28 teleskiguy
Just a guy who never made it outta 1935.
re: #28 teleskiguy
I actually used boffo in my newspaper writing. Of course, I also had to explain to my editor what “winnowing” meant when it came to a primary vote.
re: #16 Decatur Deb
Think of the casualties.
As for Trump, he’ll be dead in a few years and I don’t care if he dies in a cell or a brothel.
How about a cell in a brothel?
The forgotten working man in Youngstown reads Variety religiously.
re: #15 makeitstop
I want the US to put The Fear into him first.
As much as I want vengeance for Trumpism, I want twice that for Putin. Take his money. Reduce his influence. Expose his corruption. Jail his sycophants in this country.
I want our government to fuck with him and impede him to the point where he’s dragged into the street by his own citizens. And what they do to him is none of my concern.
I want the Internet Research Agency to suffer an outage.
Permanently.
A cruise missile to their peering point will do.
Tough shit. They could have removed him from office when they had the chance. Sux 2 b them.
Republican senators are increasingly voicing fears that Trump could lose the election, and some are openly fretting that he’ll turn GOP candidates into electoral roadkill.
“I’m now looking at the possibility of a Republican bloodbath in the Senate.”https://t.co/0aXfbitKRK— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 20, 2020
re: #38 The Pie Overlord!
Tough shit. They could have removed him from office when they had the chance. Sux 2 b them.
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I want to see a nice big Republican bloodbath not only in the Presidential and Senate races. I want to see Republicans slaughtered across the board.
re: #38 The Pie Overlord!
GOP Senators: retiring from your Senate seat as a multimillionaire is not by any stretch a “bloodbath.”
— A Nation Experiencing Covid-19
re: #38 The Pie Overlord!
Tough shit. They could have removed him from office when they had the chance. Sux 2 b them.
“I’m now looking at the possibility of a Republican bloodbath in the Senate.”
I’m now looking forward to the possibility of a Republican bloodbath in the Senate.
Wow. I’m almost a Republican.
re: #40 jaunte
GOP Senators: retiring from your Senate seat as a multimillionaire is not by any stretch a “bloodbath.”
— A Nation Experiencing Covid-19
They’re lucky that a literal bloodbath, a Red Wedding, isn’t within the Overton Window.
Not yet, not today.
re: #38 The Pie Overlord!
Tough shit. They could have removed him from office when they had the chance. Sux 2 b them.
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Music to my ears. Fuck then all. Every last one.
re: #38 The Pie Overlord!
Exactly. They’re trying to return their shitty purchase without a receipt, after the return period, in very much used condition. No, they fought tooth and tail to keep this guy and supported every shitty decision he made, remained silent as he spewed conspiracy theories and outright lies. Buyer’s remorse at this stage of the game is counterfeit as fuck.
I wish the bloodbath part was guaranteed though. They’ve overstayed their welcome. Time to go.
just read how nuts this tweet is https://t.co/DZjMJuKHld
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 20, 2020
Longing for a less batshit politics.
FWIW, I received my ballot in the mail today. Didn’t even bring it to the house - I stayed in my vehicle and filled it out, right on the spot. Straight Dems down the line, didn’t matter if I even knew who the candidate was, no way in hell I’m supporting another GOP sonofabitch in my lifetime. Make no mistake, I want them out. Gone. Kaput. Extinct.
After I filled it out and put it in the special envelope, I drove straight to the ballot box collection station and tossed it in.
Time from receipt to dropoff: 30 minutes. Done.
For every suppressed voter standing in line, I salute you. I hope this is the last year any voter has to suffer undue hardship to have a voice in this country. Fuck you Donald Trump for turning the voting process in our country to something like a “third world shithole.” Biden/Harris 2020.
re: #45 jaunte
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Longing for a less batshit politics.
It would be funny if Giuliani’s daught replied to his tweet and said “Mine.”
re: #46 PrairieQueen
May I quote on my FB? That’s so well put.
re: #38 The Pie Overlord!
Tough shit. They could have removed him from office when they had the chance. Sux 2 b them.
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re: #45 jaunte
Ghouliani deep in the sauce. Then again, when is he not.
The ongoing Gen X conversation is interesting because those of us who were in high school in the early 90’s got that first hard-core recruiting pitch from the military. It coincided with increasing college costs (which Black Boomer parents largely couldn’t cover) & a recession
— ❄Mikki Kendall❄ (@Karnythia) October 20, 2020
I honestly don’t care if you stand, sit, kneel, bow or burn a flag. I am in that window where it was never peddled as being something to think about outside of revelry & funerals. We made it underwear & bikinis & blankets. But even that was for the 4th of July not year round.
— ❄Mikki Kendall❄ (@Karnythia) October 20, 2020
Plus Gen X vets not only watched Boomer vets get screwed over, we got the shaft too. I still maintain people who talk about respect for the flag don’t give a tiny tin fuck about the Constitution or veterans. They love the flag because it doesn’t require thoughts or feelings
— ❄Mikki Kendall❄ (@Karnythia) October 20, 2020
Especially that last one.
Jerk
50 Cent calls on followers to vote for Trump citing Biden tax rate plan https://t.co/hmR8RnXiWb pic.twitter.com/93ihBvsz3x
— The Hill (@thehill) October 20, 2020
re: #48 Rightwingconspirator
Here I will remind y’all that the odds of winning at PowerBall are less than 1 in 302 MILLION, yet there are several winners a year.
Am I having a weird deja vu moment or did something like this happen a few months ago? https://t.co/kSEJ1a5jZn
— ❄Mikki Kendall❄ (@Karnythia) October 19, 2020
re: #52 Belafon
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Especially that last one.
Patriotism as a way of life and not just a symbolic gesture. One of my most proudest moments is preparing people including my sister in law for naturalization. I still would like to attend a ceremony one of these days.
re: #56 Belafon
Kind of like the editor’s note we received when the USA was playing Italy in a 2000 prelim Olympics game.
“Note: Fucka is player for Italy.”
Gregor Fucka to be precise.
re: #55 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Here I will remind y’all that the odds of winning at PowerBall are less than 1 in 302 MILLION, yet there are several winners a year.
Yes, and if more than 302M tries are made, the odds are pretty good one person is going to get it.
There’s also a nonzero probability that a jet engine could fall from the sky and land in your bedroom. I’m not going to live in fear of the engine falling. The real question when that happens is will you see a man dressed like a rabbit. (// on the last sentence.)
Do you see evidence that people are looking at charts like that and going “Cool, I don’t need to do anything”?
re: #57 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Several years ago my small design company acquired a smaller one. We just trusted that their employees were in the country legally, but surprise! One wasn’t.
He had to go back to Malaysia and begin the process of entering legally. We sponsored his employment (which required a lot of paperwork to show we were paying him well within the professional range) and moved him back to the U.S. Two years ago he and his wife became citizens. He’s very excited about voting in his first presidential election.
re: #49 Rightwingconspirator
Be my guest, spread the love.
Something I did not know:
The Kentucky meat shower was an incident occurring between the hours of eleven and twelve o’clock[1] for a period of several minutes on March 3, 1876, where what appeared to be chunks of red meat measuring approximately 2 by 2 inches (5 cm × 5 cm); with at least one being 4 by 4 inches (10 cm × 10 cm) fell from the sky in a 100-by-50-yard (91 by 46 m) area near the settlement of Rankin in Bath County, Kentucky.[2] There exist several explanations as to how this occurred and what the “meat” was, the most popular being the vulture theory, in which a group of vultures regurgitated their meals; and the pieces fell to earth from a reasonable height. The exact type of meat was never identified, although various reports suggested it was beef, lamb, deer, bear, horse, or even human.
I see Roberts has dived off the SS Trump. He may hate giving any non-white voting rights but that’s still less of a danger to him than supporting Trump and leaving himself open to impeachment if we get the votes. So, he’s basically said with the PA case that they won’t interfere to protect himself. So be it. But may the Lord of Light help us all if we get the votes to impeach the fascists on the court.
re: #53 Patricia Kayden
He can go fuck himself.
re: #43 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Extinction level event
re: #67 plansbandc
Honestly you think these fools would have learned something after seeing how other assholes self-destructed…
Today @benshapiro announced he was supporting the reelection of a man who, just last month, he claimed lacked even the minimum cognitive ability needed to be considered a functioning adult. pic.twitter.com/pfoHjwVKVT
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) October 20, 2020
Because I believe in Science, I block the bat-sh*t crazy of science-deniers. If you promote the arrogance of ignorance, I say good bye & good luck. @StarTrek is based on real science. If you dismiss a great scientist like Dr. Anthony Fauci, you’ve missed the point of Star Trek.
— Robert Picardo (@RobertPicardo) October 20, 2020
re: #68 🌹UOJB!
When no previous bad crash and burn example is enough to keep you from pulling a Toobin.
re: #64 William Lewis
I see Roberts has dived off the SS Trump. He may hate giving any non-white voting rights but that’s still less of a danger to him than supporting Trump and leaving himself open to impeachment if we get the votes. So, he’s basically said with the PA case that they won’t interfere to protect himself. So be it. But may the Lord of Light help us all if we get the votes to impeach the fascists on the court.
He still thinks he has a positive legacy but history will judge him harshly for how he weakened the VRA and he’s as responsible as anyone for the facade that right wing judges have been pushing for years. My hope is if Biden expands the court, he finds a lot of his bad rulings overturned.
re: #67 plansbandc
It’s the 2020 version of
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Hope the jolly was worth losing his career over.
Give her a sword…
re: #69 Ace-o-aces
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Well that’s Ben too. He’s just another Buckley. A full of himself faux intellectual asshole who believes he’s a profound thinker.
re: #63 Belafon
Also known as high school lunch.
re: #75 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Well that’s Ben too. He’s just another Buckley. A full of himself faux intellectual asshole who believes he’s a profound thinker.
Buckley, for all his real faults, was still 1000% better a person. Benji is just a POS.
“Your state is doing great with the pandemic,” President Trump said at a rally in Arizona, where there have been an average of 796 coronavirus cases per day over the past week.
Here’s a snapshot of how the state has been doing:https://t.co/pGOtl59AZV— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 19, 2020
re: #77 William Lewis
Buckley, for all his real faults, was still 1000% better a person. Benji is just a POS.
Yeah I can’t see Buckley belittling his kids to make a stupid sexist point.
re: #78 Patricia Kayden
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Arizona gets another spike timed perfectly for Election Day…
No plant, no flowers, no pineapple. Come on. @ratemyskyperoom LOL it is perfect. @springsteen Always a 10 https://t.co/z6J8cK7E2Y
— Amy Aiello Lofgren (@azsweetheart013) October 20, 2020
Kamala Harris is dancing in the Florida rain. pic.twitter.com/z2lxKMJ89e
— The Recount (@therecount) October 19, 2020
re: #80 🌹UOJB!
makes me happy that most of us Dems here have mailed in our ballots already… if these folks wait until the Election Day itself, good luck filling out a ballot from the morgue…
re: #79 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah I can’t see Buckley belittling his kids to make a stupid sexist point.
Buckley at least had a certain version of the Catholic faith to center himself on. We can argue about it’s strengths but he had it and Benji has thrown away his tradition rather totally.
2. Many of us who worked on Cuba in the Obama Administration suspected Russian involvement from the beginning. When I conducted secret negotiations with the Cubans, I was occasionally tailed by Russians.
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) October 20, 2020
re: #85 William Lewis
Buckley at least had a certain version of the Catholic faith to center himself on. We can argue about it’s strengths but he had it and Benji has thrown away his tradition rather totally.
I’d be embarrassed if I had graduated from Harvard and found myself forced to prostitute myself to the Kochs and Mercers to make ends meet.
ADAM SCHIFF IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST LIARS I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE
(oh and Trump, who I do not support, also lies occasionally too) pic.twitter.com/I5h290EJF4— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) October 20, 2020
re: #64 William Lewis
Roberts is trying to preserve some “credibility” for the Court. The looming 6-3 majority will erase that, even if he votes to make it 5-4.
Should the Democrats win, they need to exercise their power over the next two years to prevent being marginalized for generations. Yes, add four justices. Yes, add DC and Puerto Rico as states. Yes, inquire how Kavanaugh “paid” off his debts. Yes, prosecute Trump and his family for their crimes
For 20 years, I have witnessed Republican fuckery that has brought our country to the brink of unfettered authoritarianism.
This is our last shot. If we do not win and capitalize on it, we are nothing more than a banana republic with nukes, as Krugman would say.
re: #88 Patricia Kayden
Greenwald is Officially Dead To Me. Let Bolsanaro have him…
re: #73 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It makes you wonder, just a smidge, about the long-term sense of appointing someone as young and green as Coney Barrett to a lifetime SCOTUS seat.
If she’s really smart (and I know I’m delving into the counterfactual here), she’ll realize that once she’s seated, she owes her backers nothing. She will be on the court long after McConnell and Graham and even Sasse and Rubio are out of office, forgotten and maybe even dead.
And because she comes in with such thin experience on the bench, sure, she’ll probably start out looking to Alito and Thomas and Gorsuch as models for how to judge… but who’s to say she doesn’t learn from Sotomayor and Kagan and Breyer along the way, too?
I’m probably overestimating her, and she really is as shallow and predictable and programmed as she appears to be. But I know if someone handed me a lifetime job and I knew I’d never have to answer to them again, I’d find it WAY more engaging to be an iconoclast than I would be to spend the next 30 or 40 years rubber-stamping things just like I was told to when I was barely 40.
(Not to mention that the judges who go the first route tend to be remembered much better in history than the ones who go the second route. Beyond the drama of their confirmation hearings, what history book will have more than a few lines on Thomas or Kavanaugh?)
re: #91 retired cynic
Greenwald has been dead to me for years.
re: #62 PrairieQueen
Be my guest, spread the love.
Thank you. Genuine persuasion wins friends and sows dissent among our enemies. :-)
re: #45 jaunte
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Longing for a less batshit politics.
Office-holders have a certain amount of protection from slander/libel suits, even when they say outrageous they-know-it’s-a-lie bullshit.
Rudy Giuliani is not an office-holder.
re: #86 Dread Pirate Ron
What interests do Russia and China have in Cuba? Other than it being a market that the US isn’t in?
I suppose if we normalized relations and started trading, it might improve conditions in Cuba in a way that would undermine the Russian/Chinese narrative that capitalism and western democracy had failed?
re: #55 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Here I will remind y’all that the odds of winning at PowerBall are less than 1 in 302 MILLION, yet there are several winners a year.
Ummm, no. The odds that someone will win at PowerBall are 100%. What is unlikely is that you will be that someone.
re: #93 plansbandc
Greenwald has been dead to me for years.
Greenwald has been on death row for me for years… O_o
re: #92 i(m)p(each)sos
It makes you wonder, just a smidge, about the long-term sense of appointing someone as young and green as Coney Barrett to a lifetime SCOTUS seat.
If she’s really smart (and I know I’m delving into the counterfactual here), she’ll realize that once she’s seated, she owes her backers nothing. She will be on the court long after McConnell and Graham and even Sasse and Rubio are out of office, forgotten and maybe even dead.
And because she comes in with such thin experience on the bench, sure, she’ll probably start out looking to Alito and Thomas and Gorsuch as models for how to judge… but who’s to say she doesn’t learn from Sotomayor and Kagan and Breyer along the way, too?
I’m probably overestimating her, and she really is as shallow and predictable and programmed as she appears to be. But I know if someone handed me a lifetime job and I knew I’d never have to answer to them again, I’d find it WAY more engaging to be an iconoclast than I would be to spend the next 30 or 40 years rubber-stamping things just like I was told to when I was barely 40.
(Not to mention that the judges who go the first route tend to be remembered much better in history than the ones who go the second route. Beyond the drama of their confirmation hearings, what history book will have more than a few lines on Thomas or Kavanaugh?)
When Blackmun was appointed to the SC, he and Burger were described as the Minnesota Twins: 2 very conservative justices, close friends, from Minnesota. But over the years Blackmun drifted away and developed a more liberal bent. So your thesis is possible but highly unlikely in this situation. Think of her as the female Clarence Thomas, another young judge who never wavered from his fanaticism. She will not change but likely grow more set in her ways.
I spent the weekend diving into the IRS Form 990’s for the Tommy Tuberville Foundation after reading how so little of the money went to the mission of supporting veterans. I’ve been a veterans advocate for 10 yrs and seen a lot of these. Strap in for a long thread! #Alabama
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) October 19, 2020
Short version: Tuberville is another charity defrauder.
I guess I find it quaint that these bad faith actors, who for years have been piling it high and wide, now demand to have this latest tripe taken seriously. They got what they wanted, some “source” on the NY Post editorial staff rammed this shitburger into the public sphere to give it a patina of possible plausibility so they could have everyone else cite and run thru their e-mails 2020 protocol. Never mind that the idea is fucking implausible, lacks credibility and when requests are made for them to prove it, the response is “trust us”…..
ummmm no….
and yet, when someone from a national network tries to pass this off to “get a reaction” and is shocked to find out that the Dad for the subject in question calls him on his bullshit, the media circles the wagons as if they were the Fraternal Order Of Police in defense of someone who is deliberately being a shit, isn’t offering anything of note to the political discourse in a character attack not on the candidate himself, but his family.
I’m supposed to suddenly man the barricades in defense of this shit? Wow, did you see everyone else rise to the defense of Savannah Guthrie when the President castigated her for actually asking him a question about the lack of follow thru on an earlier promise. Talk about being wired for Republicans…..
Have to give it to Putin to have us question our institutions that can be manipulated so easily and at the expense of what are supposed to be the foundational tenets of our country. I just wish that our institutions were populated by better people who had an understanding of the civics context we all have to live in. They STILL don’t seem to understand that we’re at war, sure no tanks have crossed our borders but these boundaries don’t correspond to lines on a map.
Quick question: in the totally believable Hunter Biden story, is there an email showing how he skimmed money from a kids’ cancer charity and now isn’t allowed to form a charity foundation in his home state? No? Then maybe STFU.
— Josh Moon (@Josh_Moon) October 20, 2020
New episodes of Unsolved Mysteries are up on Netflix. Tsunami Spirits is absolutely devastating. (First episode)
Over 4,000,000 votes were cast in Texas in the first 5 days of early voting. That’s 45% of the the TOTAL vote in 2016, and early voting runs until 10/30.
The wave hasn’t crested yet. When it does, a lot of Republican senators are going to be underwater.— Hal Marshall (@HalMarshall2309) October 20, 2020
re: #90 🌹UOJB!
Tom Tomorrow needs to slam Greenwald in his next strip!
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re: #21 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
FUCK 2020.
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In support of Jeff Bridges, I made an extra donation to No Kid Hungry—he’s been involved with them for a long time.
He’s truly one of the good guys. Here he is at the 2012 Dem Convention. Rock on, Dude!
If only we could have seen this coming pic.twitter.com/YHOUbdFWaI
— Wilson (@VolleyBaws) October 19, 2020
re: #107 sagehen
um… when Diane Feinstein hugged Lindsay Graham, do you think she was aware he’s been spending a lot of time with Civid-Positive peeps and won’t say if he’s been tested?
When I saw that it only proved I made the correct decision voting for Kevin DeLeon in 2016. The last two California Senate elections had two Democrats in the General Election. DeLeon was far more liberal than DiFi.
re: #96 KGxvi
What interests do Russia and China have in Cuba? Other than it being a market that the US isn’t in?
I suppose if we normalized relations and started trading, it might improve conditions in Cuba in a way that would undermine the Russian/Chinese narrative that capitalism and western democracy had failed?
It’s REALLY close. An hour by speedboat. 1/2 an hour by Cessna 172. Commercial radio can broadcast that far. WWI-era weapons could hit a target at that distance.
90 miles. I’ve driven that far for dinner.
re: #111 sagehen
It’s REALLY close. An hour by speedboat. 1/2 an hour by Cessna 172. Commercial radio can broadcast that far. WWI-era weapons could hit a target at that distance.
90 miles. I’ve driven that far for dinner.
Paid much more for dinner.
You know what’s even more believable than the Hunter Biden laptop story? Rush Limbaugh today said he has an incredibly close relationship with Jesus Christ.
re: #113 Ace Rothstein
You know what’s even more believable than the Hunter Biden laptop story? Rush Limbaugh today said he has an incredibly close relationship with Jesus Christ.
One of the best thing about being a Christian? I can honestly believe that as soon as he dies in this world, Rush will wake up in hell. He won’t try to use the “forgiveness” route for the simple reason he’s stupid enough to think he’s good. He’ll die, wake up in hell and be waiting to torment Trump when he gets there… :D
Jordan Peterson has returned, after months in Russian and Serbian hospitals. https://t.co/owLefGBuPz
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) October 20, 2020
re: #115 gocart mozart
Send him the fuck back
re: #113 Ace Rothstein
They never stop working the Je$u$-marks, because that is their most reliable customer base.
Adam Silverman speculates that Hunter’s phone may have been hacked, and what is coming out is a mix of real and fake stuff so that he can’t claim it’s all fake.
re: #106 Patricia Kayden
We need to be careful with this thinking. Lots of republicans are early voting too.
re: #120 GlutenFreeJesus
We need to be careful with this thinking. Lots of republicans are early voting too.
And it’s running about 2:1 in favor of the Democrats.
re: #120 GlutenFreeJesus
We need to be careful with this thinking. Lots of republicans are early voting too.
Same as regular voting…
But I’m keeping an eye on total turnout…the bigger the better for Democrats….
re: #121 Belafon
Indeed. Don’t get me wrong. I’m really hoping it’ll be enough in TX on Election Day.
— Ed Monster Mix (@TheEdMix) October 20, 2020
There’s not really any difference between Tucker Carlson and Glen Greenwald. https://t.co/6ryoYPtMEB
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) October 20, 2020
re: #92 i(m)p(each)sos
You assume that she is sane. Look at the rulings by Alito. He wants to revisit gay marriage. She is the Manchurian Candidate conservatives have dreamed of. Smart? Yes. A female? Yes. Utterly devoid of the human condition? Yes.
Willing to advance a 1789 worldview? Duh.
With her as the swing vote, the definition of the 14th Amendment is at risk, let alone the 1st. And forget about the 9th Amendment, which was Madison’s way of saying that maybe a right to privacy should have been construed.
I could see Barrett joining with Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch to overturn Griswold v Connecticut and Gideon v Wainwright.
Forget about Roe v Wade. This court will determine that life begins in the testicles. And that masturbation is punishable by death.
re: #91 retired cynic
Greenwald is Officially Dead To Me. Let Bolsanaro have him…
So, Greenwald made just the sort of accusation against Adam Schiff that you would expect the Putin apologist who really hates being called a Putin apologist and who used to use sockpuppet accounts to go after his critics to make.
Birx told Pence’s office that she does not trust Atlas, does not believe he is giving Trump sound advice and wants him removed from the task force. @yabutaleb7 @PhilipRucker @jdawsey1 @costareports https://t.co/nkVVUwPexh
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) October 19, 2020
There’s dumb, dumber and then there’s McSally
GOP Sen. Martha McSally’s Campaign Ad Mistakenly Shows Opponent’s Twin Brother
US Const. Art. II s. 2:
“The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States; he shall deny allegations of rape that may arise in the course of carrying out his duties …”https://t.co/nLJmLyHtzc— Aya Gruber (@ayagruber) October 19, 2020
re: #130 Dread Pirate Ron
I’m sure she’ll go away now that she knows that she was raped “for the good of the country”….
Christ I wouldn’t be shocked if DJT made Ted Cruz’s wife blow him and make him watch…
re: #131 piratedan
please I don’t want to go there…
Nothing to see here. Just another never-before-seen photo of Trump with his young children and Jeffrey Epstein. pic.twitter.com/vwu7mHmXUg
Move along, move along.
re: #129 BeachDem
There’s dumb, dumber and then there’s McSally
GOP Sen. Martha McSally’s Campaign Ad Mistakenly Shows Opponent’s Twin Brother
Careless — but a minor mistake. They are identical twins and both are astronauts. There was nothing demeaning about the wrong picture.
Even in the coronavirus response, those who boost the President politically appear to carry more weight than experts within the government, as is this administration’s pattern.https://t.co/BufSUGEXuR
— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) October 19, 2020
re: #20 KGxvi
There will be no comeback… his entire grift/stichk/gimmick is that he’s a “winner” once he loses that all goes away. He will get memory holed by the GOP true believers the same way W was
Not a political in any case, the GOP will finally, after having gone along with him, realize what he cost them in votes and image.
re: #52 Belafon
I still maintain people who talk about respect for the flag don’t give a tiny tin fuck about the Constitution or veterans. They love the flag because it doesn’t require thoughts or feelings
They do not understand what the flag really stands for and cling instead to arbitrary symbols and associations, like lapel pins, guns and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, etc…
Here’s @JoeBiden’s vision for Greek Americans and U.S.-Greece relations. 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 pic.twitter.com/pzuVd8AP73
— Michael Carpenter (@mikercarpenter) October 19, 2020
Here’s Joe Biden’s vision for Greek Americans and U.S.-Greece relations…
(page of topics and references)
Here’s Trump’s vision for Greek Americans and U.S.-Greece relations:
“They have to give us back their Formula 16 or we cancel the Olympics!”
re: #63 Belafon
Something I did not know:
What? You haven’t read the combined works of Charles Hoy Fort back to front and front to back until the pages fell out?
re: #67 plansbandc
International authorities suspect that a Puerto Rico-based bank, Euro Pacific Bank, has become a money laundering and tax evasion hub. Here’s a look inside the investigation, by @MattGoldstein26 & @damiencave https://t.co/pI59yVwt5W
— Emily Flitter (@FlitterOnFraud) October 19, 2020
re: #45 jaunte
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Longing for a less batshit politics.
just read how nuts this tweet is https://t.co/DZjMJuKHld
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 20, 2020
“why won’t anyone traffic this nonsense so we can hurt the guy whose way ahead?”
cmon we got nothing else
re: #70 DodgerFan1988
@StarTrek is based on real science.
He described how the writers would just insert “tech” into the scripts whenever they needed to resolve a story or plot line, then they’d have consultants fill in the appropriate words (aka technobabble) later.
“It became the solution to so many plot lines and so many stories,” Moore said. “It was so mechanical that we had science consultants who would just come up with the words for us and we’d just write ‘tech’ in the script. You know, Picard would say ‘Commander La Forge, tech the tech to the warp drive.’ I’m serious. If you look at those scripts, you’ll see that…
“It’s a rhythm and it’s a structure, and the words are meaningless. It’s not about anything except just sort of going through this dance of how they tech their way out of it.”
From Charles Stross, via Scalzi.
re: #140 John Hughes
What? You haven’t read the combined works of Charles Hoy Fort back to front and front to back until the pages fell out?
Seems like a delightful fellow from his wiki, as long as he didn’t fall for any of his own ideas. (I had always mistakenly viewed him as a pitcher of woo, because of the people his group attract.)
Negotiating with gangsters, televangelists, Russian oligarchs and other top GOP donors for private jets to get himself, and a few other privileged Trump lackeys out of the country before the inauguration. Trump’s own 757 can’t hold them all.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) October 20, 2020
I wonder if televangelist Kenneth Copeland will loan his Gulfstream to help evacuate Texas GOP fatcats to Russia? It can make Anadyr Siberia (site of an infamous gulag) non-stop.
re: #143 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The video maker goes on about the quake not being close to a fault line.
But I think that is not important here as this quake is not the result of strike-slipping at the surface.
Instead, at a depth of 40km this quake is all about the subduction going on, which at ocean floor depth is about 50km to the southeast of the epicenter. The Aleutian Arc is the result of the old Kula ocean plate subducting under what appears to be now the extension of North America. It’s all very complex geology.
re: #71 jaunte
When no previous bad crash and burn example is enough to keep you from pulling a Toobin.
apparently that’s what he was doing
re: #84 piratedan
makes me happy that most of us Dems here have mailed in our ballots already… if these folks wait until the Election Day itself, good luck filling out a ballot from the morgue…
we’ve been waiting 4 years to be able to do something, anything that would be effective. to end the nightmare idaily onslaught firehose of idiocy.. because it seemed endless and possibly to go on for 8 years
once we can see the light at the end of the tunnel and were evety one of us running g for it with all due dispatch
re: #92 i(m)p(each)sos
It makes you wonder, just a smidge, about the long-term sense of appointing someone as young and green as Coney Barrett to a lifetime SCOTUS seat.
If she’s really smart (and I know I’m delving into the counterfactual here), she’ll realize that once she’s seated, she owes her backers nothing. She will be on the court long after McConnell and Graham and even Sasse and Rubio are out of office, forgotten and maybe even dead.
She has seven kids. Some of them will want to fail upwards on the Wingnut Welfare circuit like SCJ Kennedy’s nephew did and for that she’ll have to produce the goods for the right-wingers on a regular basis so her offspring can become commentators, think tank pundits and Federalist Society middle-rankers in their turn.
re: #14 TarHellion
Trump isn’t going anywhere. He’ll believe himself to be like Silvio Berlusconi, able to mount a political comeback in 2024. And with his cultish base, who in the GOP will be able to stop him? Cotton? Rafael? Nimrata?
I think 10 years in state pokie for orchestrating tax fraud will make this unlikely.
re: #45 jaunte
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I’m assuming there does come a point where no court in the land would rationalize how this isn’t thoroughly malicious slander, no?
Morning Lizardim. How go things among the lizardfolk as the first snowpocalypse commences?
It is what it is. https://t.co/nFRrSCJS3o
— Arch (@Arch_LGF) October 20, 2020
When the moist air hits the blades of the V-22 Osprey, it turns into a beautiful smoke ring. pic.twitter.com/ef0VbLsGN3
— Caesar (@Ninja998998) October 19, 2020
re: #92 i(m)p(each)sos
It makes you wonder, just a smidge, about the long-term sense of appointing someone as young and green as Coney Barrett to a lifetime SCOTUS seat.
If she’s really smart (and I know I’m delving into the counterfactual here), she’ll realize that once she’s seated, she owes her backers nothing. She will be on the court long after McConnell and Graham and even Sasse and Rubio are out of office, forgotten and maybe even dead.
And because she comes in with such thin experience on the bench, sure, she’ll probably start out looking to Alito and Thomas and Gorsuch as models for how to judge… but who’s to say she doesn’t learn from Sotomayor and Kagan and Breyer along the way, too?
I’m probably overestimating her, and she really is as shallow and predictable and programmed as she appears to be. But I know if someone handed me a lifetime job and I knew I’d never have to answer to them again, I’d find it WAY more engaging to be an iconoclast than I would be to spend the next 30 or 40 years rubber-stamping things just like I was told to when I was barely 40.
(Not to mention that the judges who go the first route tend to be remembered much better in history than the ones who go the second route. Beyond the drama of their confirmation hearings, what history book will have more than a few lines on Thomas or Kavanaugh?)
It happened to Thomas More.
re: #126 TarHellion
You assume that she is sane. Look at the rulings by Alito. He wants to revisit gay marriage. She is the Manchurian Candidate conservatives have dreamed of. Smart? Yes. A female? Yes. Utterly devoid of the human condition? Yes.
Willing to advance a 1789 worldview? Duh.
With her as the swing vote, the definition of the 14th Amendment is at risk, let alone the 1st. And forget about the 9th Amendment, which was Madison’s way of saying that maybe a right to privacy should have been construed.
I could see Barrett joining with Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch to overturn Griswold v Connecticut and Gideon v Wainwright.
Forget about Roe v Wade. This court will determine that life begins in the testicles. And that masturbation is punishable by death.
this is where biden & Co. will have to play a bit of a long game. They’ll first give Republicans a chance in the new congress to not filibuster every bill that comes up. when that fails, they’ll drop the filibuster. They’ll give the supreme court the chance to affirm roe v. wade and aca. when that fails, we’ll have a fireside moment with Biden, who will tell us that Democracy will not be shortchanged by a partisan court, and he’ll “reluctantly” agree that adding 4 more justices in short order is the only option.
I have no issue with this concept. But I really need to know why Satan has to be depicted as black.
— And The Wind Tweets: “I Couldn’t Care Less” (@DaveoutofAustin) October 20, 2020
re: #159 steve_davis
this is where biden & Co. will have to play a bit of a long game. They’ll first give Republicans a chance in the new congress to not filibuster every bill that comes up. when that fails, they’ll drop the filibuster. They’ll give the supreme court the chance to affirm roe v. wade and aca. when that fails, we’ll have a fireside moment with Biden, who will tell us that Democracy will not be shortchanged by a partisan court, and he’ll “reluctantly” agree that adding 4 more justices in short order is the only option.
exactly
spot on
it’s not much
its not nothing either
Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele endorsed Joe Biden for president.
re: #159 steve_davis
this is where biden & Co. will have to play a bit of a long game. They’ll first give Republicans a chance in the new congress to not filibuster every bill that comes up. when that fails, they’ll drop the filibuster. They’ll give the supreme court the chance to affirm roe v. wade and aca. when that fails, we’ll have a fireside moment with Biden, who will tell us that Democracy will not be shortchanged by a partisan court, and he’ll “reluctantly” agree that adding 4 more justices in short order is the only option.
If they don’t drop the filibuster at the beginning of the 2021 session, they can’t drop it until 2023.
re: #163 Belafon
If they don’t drop the filibuster at the beginning of the 2021 session, they can’t drop it until 2023.
I thought they made their own rules?
re: #163 Belafon
Also, it’s not just the Supreme Court. When Barrett is seated, someone will challenge Roe at a lower court first. This will take its time working up the courts, and while this is happening, women in part of the country will be completely denied the right to have an abortion.
re: #164 Axolotl
I thought they made their own rules?
They can only change them at the beginning of each legislative session.
re: #166 Belafon
They can only change them at the beginning of each legislative session.
But what happens if Republicans filibuster the proposed changes to the filibuster?
(This is not a joke question)
re: #167 Jay C
But what happens if Republicans filibuster the proposed changes to the filibuster?
(This is not a joke question)
Can’t - it’s a straight majority vote.
re: #168 NetworkKed
Can’t - it’s a straight majority vote.
OK: I will freely admit to not knowing enough about the Senate’s internal procedures for changing the rules on things like filibusters, so I’ll withdraw the question for now.
Though it reminds me of something ISTR reading in Robert Caro’s bio of Lyndon Johnson. Arriving in Washington after stealing his Senate seat, the freshman Senator Johnson asked a clerk to get him a copy of the full Senate Rules (to try to find loopholes to exploit so he could grab power). The clerk was supposedly surprised: outside of the Senate parliamentarian, nobody (even Senators) ever bothered to research the whole rule book they operated by. LBJ did though: it’s why he was such an effective (I.e., iron-fisted ball-buster) Majority Leader.
re: #147 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
One really bad aspect of Barr and the rest of his henchmen being tossed out of the DOJ is that there will be very real physical destruction of records, materials and computer systems on their way out. We are talking about actual fires and smoke damage in order to destroy evidence. This goes for numerous other government facilities as well as Trump’s 150% corrupt sycophants realize what they have done the last 4 years and no Pardon umbrella from above to protect them anymore.
Mafia criminal gangsters will do what they have always done- use the facility for their own purposes then torch the place when they are done.
re: #146 Decatur Deb
Seems like a delightful fellow from his wiki, as long as he didn’t fall for any of his own ideas. (I had always mistakenly viewed him as a pitcher of woo, because of the people his group attract.)
I guess being a pitcher of woo is better than being a bucket of piss.
The 2nd debate finals from Nielsen via cnn
New York (CNN Business)Joe Biden’s town hall on ABC averaged 14.1 million viewers on Thursday night, easily surpassing the Nielsen ratings for President Trump’s town hall on NBC.
That alone was a result virtually no one in the TV business expected. And that’s not even the most surprising part.
The Trump town hall was simulcast by two of NBC’s cable channels, MSNBC and CNBC, but even when those channels are included in the total, Biden — on only one network — still prevailed.
The Trump town hall averaged 10.9 million viewers on the NBC broadcast network. On MSNBC, Trump reached 1.8 million viewers, and on CNBC, about 720,000 viewers. So Trump’s gross audience across the three channels was 13.5 million, still fewer than Biden’s audience on ABC alone
Wow. This is Florida. pic.twitter.com/iITsjUHCbh
— not to -fu*king-day. (@LeeMES123) October 19, 2020
Daily Beast
“Even by post-Citizens United standards, it is an absurd, Scrooge McDuck-level haul. The Biden campaign could suspend fundraising entirely and drop more than $20 million a day, every day, until the election without bouncing a single check. But according to top-level donors and an ambitious schedule of upcoming fundraisers, there’s no plan to slow down—just in case the trove of ‘fuck you’ money needs to become ‘see you in court’ money.”
This picture! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Caption this…..then go VOTE. pic.twitter.com/tqng1pcltD
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@K_JeanPierre) October 20, 2020
re: #174 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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But where are the boats 🚤🚤🚤🚤?
Isn’t Trump relying on the boats for his margin of victory?
re: #170 Florida Panhandler
One really bad aspect of Barr and the rest of his henchmen being tossed out of the DOJ is that there will be very real physical destruction of records, materials and computer systems on their way out. We are talking about actual fires and smoke damage in order to destroy evidence. This goes for numerous other government facilities as well as Trump’s 150% corrupt sycophants realize what they have done the last 4 years and no Pardon umbrella from above to protect them anymore.
Mafia criminal gangsters will do what they have always done- use the facility for their own purposes then torch the place when they are done.
I think this is a risk, but if your staff doesn’t play along you’re going to have a hell of a time trying to get rid of things. Plus, with the more secured records, there are logging and auditing tools that would need to be circumvented, knowing that the new administration is going to want to know what happened.
Where I work, we have the official registry copies of documents, but of course I have seven drafts of the work product plus old emails plus workgroup folders plus whatever other places these documents are copied. And I can bet a lot of people in the government are keeping copies of the key documents stashed away in cupboards and in encrypted files called something like christmas_party_2016.zip .
And another first
USA Today, one of the largest newspapers by circulation in America, gave Joe Biden its first-ever presidential endorsement on Tuesday.
Brutal line: “If this were a choice between two capable major party nominees who happened to have opposing ideas, we wouldn’t choose sides.”
re: #179 dangerman
“But, when the platform of one party is ‘Suck on Covid’ the choice is pretty clear.” (Not an actual quote.)
This is why the Trump administration feels like a foreign occupation. If you’re a Trump supporter living in a so-called blue state, you’re voting for congressional representatives and a president who want to take your tax money, give it to other states and inflict harm on you. https://t.co/W2pK1Ibzd5
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) October 20, 2020
re: #181 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Then only money from red states should be used to fund it.
re: #179 dangerman
And another first
Of course “If this were a choice between two capable major party nominees who happened to have opposing ideas, ** we’d probably be in Canada***”
re: #183 dangerman
Remember the guy Trudeau defeated? He was a proto-Trump.
re: #183 dangerman
Of course “If this were a choice between two capable major party nominees who happened to have opposing ideas, ** we’d probably be in Canada***”
You’re giving Erin O’Toole WAY too much credit. He’s a racist caveman and just like trump only he speaks better.
re: #184 Belafon
Remember the guy Trudeau defeated? He was a proto-Trump.
The new guy isn’t any better.
re: #181 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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I’m really getting sick of how Republicans in red states get away with a fuck you attitude to blue states. Wonder how this jackass would feel if Obama had decided after a massive tornado that Missouri shouldn’t get aid. Yet it’s acceptable to do this to blue states because “elitism.’
Trump calls into Fox & Friends
How it started How it’s going pic.twitter.com/tjjD8Ud1KE— Richard Hine (@richardhine) October 20, 2020
I see Trump is up and narcississing.
— Liddle’ Savage (@littledeekay) October 20, 2020
re: #187 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m really getting sick of how Republicans in red states get away with a fuck you attitude to blue states. Wonder how this jackass would feel if Obama had decided after a massive tornado that Missouri shouldn’t get aid. Yet it’s acceptable to do this to blue states because “elitism.’
And because the media go along with it.
Sonoran Gophersnake being evicted from a pool cover. pic.twitter.com/ViTsuJrqjM
— Bryan D. Hughes (@rattlesnakeguy) October 20, 2020
King of bankruptcy bankrupts his campaign
Not only is Trump using his campaign to fund most of his retributive lawsuits. But now many of the legal bills are going unpaid - apparently because the campaign is broke. https://t.co/9RfsQfpgZ0 via @politico
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 20, 2020
re: #159 steve_davis
We, as a nation, can’t afford to wait on the filibuster. It’s death needs to happen the first day of a democratic majority in the Senate. Period. Play the “lets pretend the GOP aren’t traitors” game with SCOTUS if you want, but we have to be able to pass relief bills NOW.
re: #185 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You’re giving Erin O’Toole WAY too much credit. He’s a racist caveman and just like trump only he speaks better.
Ok, then another country
I just picked canada cause it’s close by
re: #190 Jebediah, RBG
And because the media go along with it.
Yep. No one ever calls Republicans out for treating blue starters especially urban ones like they’re not really Americans. It’s fucking offensive as hell.
re: #181 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This right here is THE biggest problem we face over the long haul, the idea that you only represent the people in your party and only red states matter or deserve any help, money for anything, etc. Dems need to amplify what they are saying and hammer on this. If you feel this way you have no damned business being in public office. NONE.
re: #196 A Mom Anon
This right here is THE biggest problem we face over the long haul, the idea that you only represent the people in your party and only red states matter or deserve any help, money for anything, etc. Dems need to amplify what they are saying and hammer on this. If you feel this way you have no damned business being in public office. NONE.
It’s part of Limbaugh’s legacy and it needs to be discussed when he dies instead of using bs phrases like “firebrand” rather than divisive bigoted asshole when Rush goes.
re: #196 A Mom Anon
This right here is THE biggest problem we face over the long haul, the idea that you only represent the people in your party and only red states matter or deserve any help, money for anything, etc. Dems need to amplify what they are saying and hammer on this. If you feel this way you have no damned business being in public office. NONE.
ThEyLookfienus!
But it’s perfectly acceptable for me to suggest they’re not real Americans because they live in a city or diverse suburb.
re: #194 dangerman
Ok, then another country
I just picked canada cause it’s close by
I totally get your point… But wanted to clear that up.
No harm no 🐓
America or Trump
As a ‘citizens’ political party they’ve been over since the days of Newt Gingrich. They’re whores for corporate pimps and a crime syndicate. Their base is a cult. Their ‘President’ is a corrupt degenerate.
Is the Republican Party over?https://t.co/OS1n01bwOW— Republican Swine (@RepublicanSwine) October 20, 2020
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New Ad: “Team 46” #4Bid3n pic.twitter.com/NRLsVfYNHX
— 43 Alumni for Biden (@43Biden) October 16, 2020
re: #197 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s part of Limbaugh’s legacy and it needs to be discussed when he dies instead of using bs phrases like “firebrand” rather than divisive bigoted asshole when Rush goes.
His and Newt’s.
re: #201 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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It’s not over but I do think they’re not going to get a 2010 redux. And the demographics catch up with them daily.
Long and worthy thread. https://t.co/prYhtIwWu9
— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) October 20, 2020
re: #192 dangerman
Famously the beginning of the end for Mobutu Sese Seko was when he stopped paying his presidential guard. Up until that point the Zairian army had been split into two parts, the larger army which had rudimentary equipment and, most importantly no bullets and the presidential guard who had spiffy uniforms, guns, ammo and so on.
Another data point in the “Trump is not only a dictator wannabee, he’s no fucking good at it” files.
re: #201 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Nope. The Republican Party is far from over. It still has fervent, dangerous supporters. The election will be much more closer than the polls show as Trump’s supporters crawl over glass to vote for Dear Leader. Biden will win according to the polls but Republicans aren’t disappearing any time soon.
re: #201 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Today, a group called “43 Alumni for Biden” released an ad called “Team 46.” It says that they are all lifelong Republicans, but because they recognize the qualities of leadership—including empathy- everyone “on this team” is voting for Biden. “Let’s put Joe Biden in the White House.” The ad features a number of pictures of President George W. Bush, the forty-third president, and is narrated by someone whose voice sounds like his. Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance notes, “This looks awfully close to an endorsement of Biden from George W. Bush.”
They’d have more luck with suing Facebook because there are no competitors. Google has many.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) October 20, 2020
re: #196 A Mom Anon
This right here is THE biggest problem we face over the long haul, the idea that you only represent the people in your party and only red states matter or deserve any help, money for anything, etc.
This is a natural consequence of the electoral college.
If you want politicians to chase over the votes of people you have to let people vote, not land.
One person one vote. Not one accidental near arbitrary historical territory one vote.
re: #206 Patricia Kayden
Nope. The Republican Party is far from over. It still has fervent, dangerous supporters. The election will be much more closer than the polls show as Trump’s supporters crawl over glass to vote for Dear Leader. Biden will win according to the polls but Republicans aren’t disappearing any time soon.
I kinda do and don’t disagree. Supporters aren’t going anywhere but I believe the party is. A party catering to 30% of the public (in specific states) isn’t viable as a national party.
I see a split coming. But that’s just my take.
re: #197 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s part of Limbaugh’s legacy
No it’s not. It’s written into the US constitution. Hell, it’s written into the very name of the “country”.
re: #208 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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2/3 of Americans are ready for expansion of healthcare to include a public option.
And I think it’s intuitive why that’s the case: where the free insurance market fails to cover you, government ought to provide support. And that support can form a baseline for the industry.— Charlie wears his mask (@CharlesJIsaacs) October 20, 2020
re: #208 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Question both serious and rhetorical:
How long do these major antitrust suits usually take to wind through the court system?
My guess is some 5-10 years after Apple and Microsoft will have stopped supporting their next OSs….
re: #179 dangerman
Of course, with nobody traveling and staying in hotels, no one will actually read the endorsement
re: #212 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I didn’t read the legal complaint (if it has even been publicized), and the article was very vague on the specifics. It is reading like it is a Republican partisan attempt to hurt somebody, anybody, for the tailspin of negative coverage that has been dragging the GOP into the abyss.
Yeah, we’d have to see the full complaint because what that article says about using it’s clout as a market leader to retain its market share is what all corporations do.
And that only Republican attorneys general have signed on is another tell.
Goggles stock ROSE on the news of this lawsuit. I’m pretty sure this is going nowhere.
You want to come after Google make a better product (Gab and Parlar anyone?)
re: #215 KGxvi
Of course, with nobody traveling and staying in hotels, no one will actually read the endorsement
That was my first thought, too.
re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The public option is still, inherently, a market based solution. It is government not as market regulator but as market participant. Similar to Gillibrand’s postal banking plan. In markets where there are so few options (and for most people in health insurance you don’t get a choice between insurers - your employer makes that choice for you) having the government as a competitor can probably do a lot to move the market toward better/more equitable outcomes
re: #192 dangerman
Not only is Trump using his campaign to fund most of his retributive lawsuits. But now many of the legal bills are going unpaid - apparently because the campaign is broke.
Anybody who works for Trump on anything but a cash-up-front basis should not be surprised if they get stiffed…
re: #210 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I kinda do and don’t disagree. Supporters aren’t going anywhere but I believe the party is. A party catering to 30% of the public (in specific states) isn’t viable as a national party.
I see a split coming. But that’s just my take.
But there’s the main problem: a unified and politically extremist bloc of 30%* is too small to significantly sway the political balance of power, but way too big to ignore or sideline.
And also (as copiously noted here, and elsewhere), our federal system gives that 30% outsize leverage on the national government as a whole, since it is concentrated, rather than diffuse.
*Or even the “crazification factor” of 27%
re: #197 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s part of Limbaugh’s legacy and it needs to be discussed when he dies instead of using bs phrases like “firebrand” rather than divisive bigoted asshole when Rush goes.
gadfly
re: #214 Jay C
Question both serious and rhetorical:
How long do these major antitrust suits take to wind through the court system?
My guess is some 5-10 years after Apple and Microsoft will have stopped supporting their next OSs….
In US v Microsoft, the earliest events (including a settlement with the feds) started in like 1993/94. The law suit wasn’t filed until mid-1998, the DC Circuit Court of Appeal didn’t get the case until 2001. And the case likely would have dragged on longer, but in Sept 2001, the government announced they were no longer seeking to break up Microsoft but instead settle the case
re: #201 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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That ad is about as close to a Bush endorsement of Biden as we’re gonna get. I’ll take it.
re: #222 KGxvi
In US v Microsoft, the earliest events (including a settlement with the feds) started in like 1993/94. The law suit wasn’t filed until mid-1998, the DC Circuit Court of Appeal didn’t get the case until 2001. And the case likely would have dragged on longer, but in Sept 2001, the government announced they were no longer seeking to break up Microsoft but instead settle the case
Thanx: I was actually thinking more of the AT&T breakup suit, which a quick wiki showed took ten years (1974-84) from original filing to settlement.
Of course, that was back in the day when phones had cranks, and modems were powered by kerosene…… ;)
re: #222 KGxvi
In US v Microsoft, the earliest events (including a settlement with the feds) started in like 1993/94. The law suit wasn’t filed until mid-1998, the DC Circuit Court of Appeal didn’t get the case until 2001.
Don’t forget the granddaddy of the tech anti-trust lawsuits, IBM vs. The Entire Universe. It is said that greenhorn lawyers fresh from law school joined law firms, started working on the IBM defence team and later retired having worked on no other case in their entire careers.
So, Tiffany caught a buzz and made a ‘speech’ to a ‘rally’ of LGBTQ Trumps supporters yesterday…
I could only get about 20 seconds in before her Racist Store brand Marilyn Monroe act made me bail. It’s horrible.
The daughter he knows nothing about representing a community he knows nothing about 💛 pic.twitter.com/uLkl5RhbO4
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) October 20, 2020
re: #208 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Google has more than 90% market share in the search industry, it’s biggest competitor, bing, has a little under 3%. That has got to be a monopoly by just about any definition.
That isn’t to say they shouldn’t be going after Facebook, Amazon, and Apple too.
hi
Local news: Douglas County/Omaha Public Health District has moved it’s risk for Covid-19 into the “high” category.
Here where I live, Panhandle Public Health District moved it’s risk higher, to just below the “high” category.
Nebraska is now 5th highest per capita for new Covid-19 infections.
Governor Pete Ricketts is still resisting the calls of public health officials, physicians, and epidemiologists to impose stricter restrictions on the state. His rationale is that “the heavy hand of government” should not impose itself on the citizens (he is still pro-genocide). The governor has ordered all hospitals to retain 20% of ICU beds in the state open for non-Covid-19 cases (not applying the heavy hand of government there) such as heart attacks or automobile accidents.
He has reduced the amount of people in restaurants and bars by a maximum of 20%.
Panhandle Public Health District Dashboard
Most cities, villages, and unincorporated towns have now been moved into the “high” category. In my county, the city of Bayard (800) remains at “medium,” Bridgeport (1,100, the county seat) into “high,” and my village (124) still has no cases.
Across the rest of the Panhandle, unincorporated Lisco (64) and the village of Llewellyn (224) are the only other towns with no cases.
The weekly infection rate in the Panhandle is 23.5%.
Yesterday there were 13 new cases, the day before there were 36.
re: #226 makeitstop
So, Tiffany caught a buzz and made a ‘speech’ to a ‘rally’ of LGBTQ Trumps supporters yesterday…
I could only get about 20 seconds in before her Racist Store brand Marilyn Monroe act made me bail. It’s horrible.
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Not that it makes any difference, really, but why has the campaign apparently designated *Tiffany Trump* as the “Official LGBTQ Community Liaison”?
She isn’t gay herself, and she doesn’t even do Bimbo Chic very well (despite the genes).
re: #230 Jay C
Not that it makes any difference, really, but why has the campaign apparently designated Tiffany Trump as the “Official LGBTQ Community Liaison”?
She isn’t gay herself, and she doesn’t even do Bimbo Chic very well (despite the genes).
Slightly less Trump stank on her than the rest of them. Although she’s been trying real hard since the convention.
She must really believe there’s actually going to be something of value in the old man’s will.
GOP MO Sen Hawley on if Senate GOPers could back a $1.8 trillion coroanvirus bill: “If it includes blue state bailout money then I’d say that’s probably a hard no. That’s probably a red line for this caucus including for me”
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 20, 2020
This is a GOP talking point. Governor Ricketts said the same thing almost word-for-word in his “coronavirus update” yesterday.
He has now completely blocked the state epidemiologist from appearing in government briefings, using his hand-picked state medical officer instead (the state medical officer is a surgeon).
re: #231 makeitstop
Slightly less Trump stank on her than the rest of them. Although she’s been trying real hard since the convention.
She must really believe there’s actually going to be something of value in the old man’s will.
I assume she was offered a juicy cash-up-front payment, heck, she knows what her daddy is like.
re: #230 Jay C
Not that it makes any difference, really, but why has the campaign apparently designated *Tiffany Trump* as the “Official LGBTQ Community Liaison”?
She isn’t gay herself, and she doesn’t even do Bimbo Chic very well (despite the genes).
Because she is harder to dig up opposition research on.
re: #126 TarHellion
You assume that she is sane. Look at the rulings by Alito. He wants to revisit gay marriage. She is the Manchurian Candidate conservatives have dreamed of. Smart? Yes. A female? Yes. Utterly devoid of the human condition? Yes.
Willing to advance a 1789 worldview? Duh.
With her as the swing vote, the definition of the 14th Amendment is at risk, let alone the 1st. And forget about the 9th Amendment, which was Madison’s way of saying that maybe a right to privacy should have been construed.
I could see Barrett joining with Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch to overturn Griswold v Connecticut and Gideon v Wainwright.
Forget about Roe v Wade. This court will determine that life begins in the testicles. And that masturbation is punishable by death.
Both the porn industry and the erotic Romance novel industry are concerned she will be the vote to extinguish both.
A number of court cases are moving right now that argue both are not protected I Amendment speech, because laws protecting them are written vaguely and subjectively.
Conservatism has always been against free speech (see the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Comstock Acts, &c).
Should the other court conservatives rule against them, that will throw a chilling effect on all free speech: Is this porn? Should I publish it?
The problem was once defined by Penthouse in free speech arguments that no one wants to be seen as defending the rights of the porn industry, because then a conservative politician can paint you as being “for porn.”
re: #235 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The problem was once defined by Penthouse in free speech arguments that no one wants to be seen as defending the rights of the porn industry, because then a conservative politician can paint you as being “for porn.”
Until someone leaks that conservative politician’s browser history
They want to go beyond Roe v Wade and ban abortion entirely in all states.
re: #187 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m really getting sick of how Republicans in red states get away with a fuck you attitude to blue states. Wonder how this jackass would feel if Obama had decided after a massive tornado that Missouri shouldn’t get aid. Yet it’s acceptable to do this to blue states because “elitism.’
Remember Ted Cruz leading the charge against Hurricane Sandy relief?
Speaking of hurricanes, Tropical Storm Epsilon is up and running in the Atlantic. It is expected to reach hurricane strength before approaching Bermuda.
re: #196 A Mom Anon
This right here is THE biggest problem we face over the long haul, the idea that you only represent the people in your party and only red states matter or deserve any help, money for anything, etc. Dems need to amplify what they are saying and hammer on this. If you feel this way you have no damned business being in public office. NONE.
My representative when I call: I only represent Republicans.
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They want to go beyond Roe v Wade and ban abortion entirely in all states.
It’s funny how they think they can ban abortion and it will go away but always INSIST the bad guys will still find a way to get guns if we dare discuss banning those.
re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s funny how they think they can ban abortion and it will go away but always INSIST the bad guys will still find a way to get guns if we dare discuss banning those.
if fetuses were armed, there would be no abortions!
Funny thing is, there are a lot of Republicans in NY, IL, CA and other Blue States, but since they are not in a position to help Trump or any Red State senators get re-elected, they have been written off…
re: #201 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Here, after state senator McCollister (R) called out the Republican party for encouraging white supremacists and endorsed Joe Biden for President, the state GOP started to move to eject him from the party.
The Unicameral is ostensibly non-partisan, but the senators are members of one or the other parties (other than Senator Ernie Chambers, who is term-limited but says he’ll be back running in the next election after the waiting period is over). Senators Chambers, Megan Hunt, and Adam Morfeld all thanked Senator McCollister for calling out what they also see.
Governor Ricketts was (not) embarrassed when his first spokesperson was outed as a member of VDare.
re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
gadfly
Rush Limbaugh: Yellow Jacket (just a nasty bastard)
(Yes, and same for Newt)
re: #246 retired cynic
Rush Limbaugh: Yellow Jacket (just a nasty bastard)
(Yes, and same for Newt)
I still remember Newt talking about Obama’s “Kenyan worldview”
No, he did not mean “Kenya, a former British colony that rebelled and won its independence”, he meant “Kenya, where armed Mau-Mau gangs went around massacring white people”…
re: #238 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Remember Ted Cruz leading the charge against Hurricane Sandy relief?
Speaking of hurricanes, Tropical Storm Epsilon is up and running in the Atlantic. It is expected to reach hurricane strength before approaching Bermuda.
Yes that’s exactly what I was referring to. Our leaders don’t care who your state voted for when a disaster hits.
Governor Ricketts has again rejected additional funding for SNAP for those affected by Covid-19, so Nebraska remains the only state to do so.
Yesterday he released another tranche of relief aid from the CARES Act ($300 million), primarily to businesses. Much of the funding given to the state remains, and if not used by the end of the year has to be returned to the federal government. He intends on returning most of it.
“A huge reason that our politics is not so extremely polarised and so far out there is because we no longer have any Murdoch-owned press” // Why New Zealand rejected populist ideas other nations have embraced https://t.co/Ds1qsmf82y
— Prof Fiona de Londras (@fdelond) October 19, 2020
re: #228 danarchy
You can’t sue someone for just being the only or major provider in a market. You have to show intent to hurt others to maintain that market.
re: #250 Belafon
You can’t sue someone for just being the only or major provider in a market. You have to show intent to hurt others to maintain that market.
That is one thing to prove in a commercial marketplace where physical goods and services are traded, but an much different thing in the marketplace for digital & Internet services are offered
re: #247 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I still remember Newt talking about Obama’s “Kenyan worldview”
No, he did not mean “Kenya, a former British colony that rebelled and won its independence”, he meant “Kenya, where armed Mau-Mau gangs went around massacring white people”…
Yeah, I remember back in the Obama Era, RW media hacks were always trying to fit “anticolonialist” (i.e. code for “hates white people”) into their Barack-bashing narratives, but IIRC, it was too complicated a dodge for their audience of mouthbreathers….
re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is one thing to prove in a commercial marketplace where physical goods and services are traded, but an much different thing in the marketplace for digital & Internet services are offered
If I were a Google lawyer, I would pull up their website, google Bing and Yahoo, and follow the results to those locations and do a lookup there.
re: #252 Jay C
Yeah, I remember back in the Obama Era, RW media hacks were always trying to fit “anticolonialist” (i.e. code for “hates white people”) into their Barack-bashing narratives, but IIRC, it was too complicated a dodge for their audience of mouthbreathers….
I really felt bad for Obama because he had the far right attacking him constantly and the far left with unrealistic expectations and a side topping of bigotry from the Michael Moores and Bill Mahers of the world.
re: #211 John Hughes
No it’s not. It’s written into the US constitution. Hell, it’s written into the very name of the “country”.
When the Constitution was written, the authors believed that the house would have people who were intent on supporting their own state and district, while the senate would be able to look beyond their states to consider the nation as a whole. Sometimes it worked that way….
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They want to go beyond Roe v Wade and ban abortion entirely in all states.
Uhm, Amy Coney Barrett could be one of those anti-abortion Catholics who believe that hormone-based contraception is an abortifacient (it’s not) and want to get rid of the birth control pill as well.
You know, 37 years ago I remember sitting in an undergrad classroom with a bunch of sullen classmates, all of us who just *refused* to move on from a discussion of Griswold v. Connecticut without discussing Roe v. Wade. The professor (who was ancient and had clerked for Felix Frankfurter) completely hated the reasoning of Griswold and believed the case was wrongly decided. He thought after totally beating Griswold to death, we’d just skip over Roe. Nope.
I would say that Roe was the case for our generation, but nearly four decades on, I’d almost agree with him that Roe was wrongly decided, but not on the reason why. Today, I’d make an argument that anti-abortion laws should be struck down as a violation of the First Amendment right to freedom of religion. And no, I’m not talking about The Satanic Temple. Other religious groups do not share the beliefs of the Catholic church and Protestant Evangelicals regarding life starting at conception, to say nothing of the millions of Americans who are not religious at all. I do think the case could be made that anti-abortion laws are fundamentally religious at the core and need striking down for that reason alone.
That said, given the extreme deference religion is given in this country, it would be a tough case to make. But it has to be out there for discussion. It has to be brought up. We have to stop being afraid and stop letting a religious minority bulldoze us.
re: #252 Jay C
That’s a Newt talking point. I loathe that shithead. Him and Ralph Reed created such mean and nasty divisions here since 9/11. Both of them deserve the same evil back they have put out into the world.
Americans have lost trust across the board in the people and institutions informing them about the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts.The poll finds that the percentage of people saying they trust COVID-19 information from their state or local governments, the news media, social media and their friends and family has dropped significantly compared to similar questions in April. A large chunk of Americans say they find it hard to know if coronavirus information is accurate.
Just 16% say they trust coronavirus information from President Donald Trump a great deal or quite a bit, down from 23% in April. And 64% now say they trust Trump only a little or not at all on COVID-19. Only social media, at 72%, is less trusted.
Even though Paula Randolph opposes the Republican president, she said she trusted the White House on coronavirus information when the pandemic started.
“Because of the history of the presidency of the United States, it was no matter what, they’ll tell us the facts,” said Randolph, a 49-year-old disabled woman in Dixon, Missouri. “It became a circus, and I no longer trust it.”
She even remembers the day she lost trust in the White House on the coronavirus: April 30. Trump, who by that point had been promoting an anti-malaria drug unproven on COVID-19, had a press conference on the pandemic that day, calling his response to the virus “really spectacular.”
(more at the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
AP-NORC/USAFacts poll: US trust in COVID-19 information down
re: #252 Jay C
Yeah, I remember back in the Obama Era, RW media hacks were always trying to fit “anticolonialist” (i.e. code for “hates white people”) into their Barack-bashing narratives, but IIRC, it was too complicated a dodge for their audience of mouthbreathers….
It is clear from their rhetoric that they believed that although white Americans deserved freedom from colonialism, it was a different matter for the Third World
re: #257 A Mom Anon
That’s a Newt talking point. I loathe that shithead. Him and Ralph Reed created such mean and nasty divisions here since 9/11. Both of them deserve the same evil back they have put out into the world.
The GOP like to frame Democrats as out of touch but the GOP has only won the popular vote once in a presidential election since 1992 and yes I know all about the EC so don’t remind me but what needs to be pressed is the GOP are the ones who are out of touch.
re: #260 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The GOP like to frame Democrats as out of touch but the GOP has only won the popular vote once in a presidential election since 1992 and yes I know all about the EC so don’t remind me but what needs to be pressed is the GOP are the ones who are out of touch.
GOP is in touch with the sources of power and money
re: #256 mmmirele
to say nothing of the millions of Americans who are not religious at all
We don’t count. We’re not real Americans. What part of This is a Christian Nation do you not understand?/s
re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
GOP is in touch with the sources of power and money
You know what I meant.
re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
GOP is in touch with the sources of power and money
At least power. They don’t seem to have the money thing locked up right now.
re: #264 Belafon
At least power. They don’t seem to have the money thing locked up right now.
They tend to parscale it from each other.
re: #255 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
When the Constitution was written, the authors believed that the house would have people who were intent on supporting their own state and district, while the senate would be able to look beyond their states to consider the nation as a whole. Sometimes it worked that way….
Which is kind of odd because the house is the bit that’s fairly democratic. The senate and, more notoriously the EC, are the bits that mean that people who live in some states get a bigger say, and therefore more attention from politicians, than others.
re: #256 mmmirele
Today, I’d make an argument that anti-abortion laws should be struck down as a violation of the First Amendment right to freedom of religion. And no, I’m not talking about The Satanic Temple. Other religious groups do not share the beliefs of the Catholic church and Protestant Evangelicals regarding life starting at conception, to say nothing of the millions of Americans who are not religious at all. I do think the case could be made that anti-abortion laws are fundamentally religious at the core and need striking down for that reason alone.
I’d go with the Thirteenth Amendment; I see an unwanted pregnancy as involuntary servitude. Having to put your internal organs to somebody else’s service… and at the end of gestation, there’s a reason they call it labor.
re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s funny how they think they can ban abortion and it will go away but always INSIST the bad guys will still find a way to get guns if we dare discuss banning those.
They don’t think it will go away. They want women to pay a price up to and including death for trying to obtain one.
re: #228 danarchy
Google has more than 90% market share in the search industry, it’s biggest competitor, bing, has a little under 3%. That has got to be a monopoly by just about any definition.
That isn’t to say they shouldn’t be going after Facebook, Amazon, and Apple too.
My congressman, David Cicilline, who has been pushing anti-trust action against tech companies, calls this “long overdue.”
Congressman David Cicilline
Three weeks ago, I released a report outlining steps Google took to maintain and expand its monopoly power through anti-competitive actions.
Today, DOJ finally brought an antitrust lawsuit against Google. This step is long overdue. It is time to restore competition online.
re: #264 Belafon
At least power. They don’t seem to have the money thing locked up right now.
money follows power and now the GOP are starting to smell like losers
re: #266 John Hughes
Which is kind of odd because the house is the bit that’s fairly democratic. The senate and, more notoriously the EC, are the bits that mean that people who live in some states get a bigger say, and therefore more attention from politicians, than others.
You do realize that when we talk about the founding fathers, we’re talking about the 18th century?
re: #267 sagehen
I’d go with the Thirteenth Amendment; I see an unwanted pregnancy as involuntary servitude question. Having to put your interior organs to somebody else’s service… and at the end of gestation, there’s a reason they call it labor.
I’m not opposed to that argument either. I think it’s a good argument and it’s one I regularly make to forced birthers, that they have no problem enslaving women’s bodies to their religious beliefs, which kind of reminds of the antebellum religious types who used the Bible to prop up slavery.
And completely out of nowhere—I’m having a great craving for Kraft Mac n Cheese (the blue box, with the powder). Why, I have no idea.
Joni Ernst is running a campaign advert in the Omaha market featuring a woman who’s daughter was killed by someone drag racing in Omaha. The racer was an undocumented immigrant, and subsequently disappeared after being released on bail.
When folks say “well, why do people who live farthest from the borders care about undocumented immigrants,” this is why. They are in fact everywhere in our country.
That said, the overwhelming majority just want to stay out of trouble. The outlier cases like this one are what Republicans can use to spin up fear in the voter base.
re: #272 mmmirele
I’m not opposed to that argument either. I think it’s a good argument and it’s one I regularly make to forced birthers, that they have no problem enslaving women’s bodies to their religious beliefs, which kind of reminds of the antebellum religious types who used the Bible to prop up slavery.
And completely out of nowhere—I’m having a great craving for Kraft Mac n Cheese (the blue box, with the powder). Why, I have no idea.
It requires as a premise that a fetus (or even a blastocyst) is a person, a step I’m not willing to take.
And I’m not free of urges for truly junky junk food (I eat candy corn once a year), but Kraft Mac n Cheese? Try a bit of real cheese, and if the urge persists, seek help.
re: #226 makeitstop
Trump tried to kick transgender people out of the military. He has nominated Supreme Court justices who are anti-LGBT. How the hell is he an ally?
re: #272 mmmirele
I’m not opposed to that argument either. I think it’s a good argument and it’s one I regularly make to forced birthers, that they have no problem enslaving women’s bodies to their religious beliefs, which kind of reminds of the antebellum religious types who used the Bible to prop up slavery.
And completely out of nowhere—I’m having a great craving for Kraft Mac n Cheese (the blue box, with the powder). Why, I have no idea.
Christians just pull in the Natualistic Fallacy: That’s the way women’s bodies are supposed to work. It’s not slavery.
In the same manner of “do you want to be painted as supporting porn” the argument “you monster, how dare you paint a baby as a parasite.”
It doesn’t matter that “baby” doesn’t exist. It also doesn’t help that virtually every pregnant woman who wants a baby starts talking about their baby long before there is a born baby. The fuzzy language surrounding “baby” allows Christians to paint supporters of choice as “baby-killers,” even though they never intend on giving that so-called baby any real rights or support.
re: #276 Patricia Kayden
Trump tried to kick transgender people out of the military. He has nominated Supreme Court justices who are anti-LGBT. How the hell is he an ally?
Note Tiffany Trump eliminated the T from LGBT. Erasing trangender people is part of their religious faith.
re: #276 Patricia Kayden
Trump tried to kick transgender people out of the military. He has nominated Supreme Court justices who are anti-LGBT. How the hell is he an ally?
It seems that most of the internet realizes this, too.
Tiffany’s reviews are, shall we say, brutal. And the people she’s fooling least are the LGBT community.
Just like with her old man, the lies don’t stick like they used to after four years.
re: #178 ericblair
Nothing is stored locally anyone (at least at FDA) they’d need to firebomb the servers, torching computers won’t do jack shit.
re: #277 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Christians just pull in the Natualistic Fallacy: That’s the way women’s bodies are supposed to work. It’s not slavery.
In the same manner of “do you want to be painted as supporting porn” the argument “you monster, how dare you paint a baby as a parasite.”
It doesn’t matter that “baby” doesn’t exist. It also doesn’t help that virtually every pregnant woman who wants a baby starts talking about their baby long before there is a born baby. The fuzzy language surrounding “baby” allows Christians to paint supporters of choice as “baby-killers,” even though they never intend on giving that so-called baby any real rights or support.
It’s a purely emotional ploy: “We’re protecting babies! From murder! How can you support murdering babies?!”
re: #225 Nojay UK
Don’t forget the granddaddy of the tech anti-trust lawsuits, IBM vs. The Entire Universe. It is said that greenhorn lawyers fresh from law school joined law firms, started working on the IBM defence team and later retired having worked on no other case in their entire careers.
If the parties have deep enough pockets (and resentments/interests), a case could easily last over a decade. One as complicated as an anti-trust case against one of the largest corporations in the world could easily span two decades, but an entire career seems less likely (though I suppose plausible if you include post judgment/settlement oversight issues).
This thread is spot-on….#Toobin was masturbating during a work meeting. It would be sexual harassment if he’d done it at the office. Instead, he did it in a Zoom meeting.
Guess what? It’s STILL sexual harassment.
Enough excusing creepy white men.#MeToobin https://t.co/X8drqsjwpY— Crissie Brown 🏳️🌈 (@ComiCrissieB) October 20, 2020
Ten Legitimate Reasons to Pull Out Your Dick On a Zoom Call (Goes to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)
re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Make Medicare the Public Option, open it to everyone and expand it to include coverage for vision, dental, hearing aid and long term care.
I shouldn’t have had to wait to 65 to get a basic health care package.
One really cool thing about the Trump era is how scientists and opposing politicians live in constant fear of being murdered by Trump supporters. pic.twitter.com/Y4fdGIcRQi
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) October 19, 2020
Can confirm. https://t.co/7s7YlScYn3
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) October 19, 2020
She has received death threats for being a liberal, a Democratic Socialist, bi, and an atheist.
Looks good to me. https://t.co/v818Zn8YDn pic.twitter.com/tcfB6PpADf
— Giant Military Cats (@giantcat9) October 20, 2020
re: #282 KGxvi
If the parties have deep enough pockets (and resentments/interests), a case could easily last over a decade. One as complicated as an anti-trust case against one of the largest corporations in the world could easily span two decades, but an entire career seems less likely (though I suppose plausible if you include post judgment/settlement oversight issues).
In the early 80’s, I was a paralegal on the asbestos litigation. It had been going for decades already when I started. It’s still going today.
re: #286 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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She has received death threats for being a liberal, a Democratic Socialist, bi, and an atheist.
That’s the defining aspect of this administration. They’re completely comfortable with encouraging violence against the opposition.
Gee, I wonder what message this cop is sending as he patrols a polling place?
Here is @CityofMiami Police Officer Daniel Ubeda, in full uniform with badge and gun wearing his Trump mask inside of the polling location in government center.
This is city funded voter intimidation.
Ubeda should be suspended immediately. pic.twitter.com/TbJxu6mcem— Steve Simeonidis (@stevesimeonidis) October 20, 2020
QAnon is now a mainstream belief among GOP voters. New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Half of Trump supporters believe QAnon’s imaginary claims
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re: #291 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Qanon is now a mainstream belief among GOP voters. New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Half of Trump supporters believe QAnon’s imaginary claims
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Christ.
re: #291 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Qanon is now a mainstream belief among GOP voters. New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Half of Trump supporters believe QAnon’s imaginary claims
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100% of the brainwashed assholes who go to the ASSemblies of Gawd churches that brainwashed my relatives believe the Q shit. And it’s reinforced by the Pulpit Pimp Preachers all the time!
re: #285 🌹UOJB!
Make Medicare the Public Option, open it to everyone and expand it to include coverage for vision, dental, hearing aid and long term care.
I shouldn’t have had to wait to 65 to get a basic health care package.
If SCOTUS strategically severs the mandate from the ACA and affirms the rest of the law, I predict the Democrats won’t go beyond studying the issue of court reform. So I find myself rooting for SCOTUS to strike the ACA, to shock the Democrats into reforms to save democracy.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) October 20, 2020
re: #290 🌹UOJB!
Gee, I wonder what message this cop is sending as he patrols a polling place?
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— Miami PD (@MiamiPD) October 20, 2020
re: #293 Colère Tueur de Lapin
And this is what we’ll be left with to clean up. These people are not going anywhere and short of pulling every Q forum and website offline to starve them of fake nonsense, I see no way to make any kind of progress in ridding ourselves of this madness. It’s a big negative reinforcement loop, how to fix that I have no idea.
How many times does JFK Jr. have to NOT show up before the Q bots realize someone is yanking their chain?
So I had to go on some errands this morning and on the drive home, for some reason my MP3 music player didn’t connect & the local AM “all news” radio station kicked on. They were playing some sound bites where Trump is saying that Adam Schiff should be imprisoned (not after being found guilty in a court of law by a jury of his peers), and he is appointing a “special prosecutor” to investigate “Joe Biden’s corruption” based on the NY Post article.
I missed when did he actually say this? Was it during his morning chat to “Fox & Friends”?
I suppose that no one told him that none of that “Hunter Biden laptop” shit is actually admissible evidence.
re: #299 The Pie Overlord!
So I had to go on some errands this morning and on the drive home, for some reason my MP3 music player didn’t connect & the local AM “all news” radio station kicked on. They were playing some sound bites where Trump is saying that Adam Schiff should be imprisoned (not after being found guilty in a court of law by a jury of his peers), and he is appointing a “special prosecutor” to investigate “Joe Biden’s corruption” based on the NY Post article.
I missed when did he actually say this? Was it during his morning chat to “Fox & Friends”?
I suppose that no one told him that none of that “Hunter Biden laptop” shit is actually admissible evidence.
Trump thought this would be his Comey letter, and he is desperate for the story to gain some traction to save his campaign. He can’t appoint a special prosecutor.
re: #225 Nojay UK
Don’t forget the granddaddy of the tech anti-trust lawsuits, IBM vs. The Entire Universe. It is said that greenhorn lawyers fresh from law school joined law firms, started working on the IBM defence team and later retired having worked on no other case in their entire careers.
Sounds like Dickens’ “Bleak House” which was required reading in my freshman Humanities class over 50 years ago. A family spent decades fighting over an inheritance.
Spoilers below:
The case is finally settled when new evidence is produced only to discover that the entire estate was consumed in paying for the legal battles!
re: #290 🌹UOJB!
Gee, I wonder what message this cop is sending as he patrols a polling place?
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re: #281 Targetpractice
It’s a purely emotional ploy: “We’re protecting babies! From murder! How can you support murdering babies?!”
Which is why I refuse to get into the “it is a baby” argument. I stick strictly to the “why are you wanting to enslave female bodies?” argument. I’ve also added to it the “nobody is getting a late-term abortion on a whim” argument, which is, late term abortions are expensive (low five figures). Nobody is getting one because they want one. They’re getting one because the outcome is devastating to the woman or the fetus or both.
But you can’t reason with people who think women should sacrifice our bodies to giving birth. Fuck that noise. Modern health care and contraception freed women. Like fuck we are going back.
re: #296 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
We are aware of the photograph being circulated of a Miami Police officer wearing a political mask in uniform.
That’s half the problem. The other half is that no one gets to wear any candidate/partisan symbolism in our state’s polling places. The fact that he’s an armed cop is just a multiplier.
re: #231 makeitstop
Slightly less Trump stank on her than the rest of them. Although she’s been trying real hard since the convention.
She must really believe there’s actually going to be something of value in the old man’s will.
Maybe she just wants to be front and center for dear ol’ dad’s epic defeat and humiliation…
re: #303 mmmirele
But you can’t reason with people who think women should sacrifice our bodies to giving birth. Fuck that noise. Modern health care and contraception freed women. Like fuck we are going back.
The Dominionists among them see themselves as fighting for the very survival of America: We are God’s Chosen Nation because our laws reflect (their interpretation of) HIs Divine Will on Earth.
If we abandon that plan and start allowing things like socialized medicine, gun control, babymurders and gayboning, we are just asking for God up open up a Kingdom-of-Heaven sized can of Smite upon us.
re: #307 Kilroy was here
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File under #YouHadOneJob or #RightWingFails ?
re: #307 Kilroy was here
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Adding to the officer’s stupidity, this is what his mask says.
Yep. There’s a dude just down the street from me that has that on a giant flag in his yard.
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They want to go beyond Roe v Wade and ban abortion entirely in all states.
Alito and Barrett, definitely. But I don’t think that Roberts, Gorsuch, Thomas, and Kavanaugh are likely to take such a drastic step. Aren’t they more likely to vote to return the decision to the states?
Two days ago I asked if anyone had seen her since the diagnosis
Melania Trump cancels appearance at Pennsylvania rally due to ‘lingering cough’ https://t.co/MRcGnKQJ8g
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 20, 2020
re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg
How many times does JFK Jr. have to NOT show up before the Q bots realize someone is yanking their chain?
As many times as my brainwashed family insists that The Rapture is coming…week after week after week over the past 40 years…
re: #310 Hecuba’s daughter
Alito and Barrett, definitely. But I don’t think that Roberts, Gorsuch, Thomas, and Kavanaugh are likely to take such a drastic step. Aren’t they more likely to vote to return the decision to the states?
Yes. The GOP will be running on passing a federal law banning abortion after Roe is reversed.
re: #313 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Yes. The GOP will be running on passing a federal law banning abortion after Roe is reversed.
But it won’t be enforced when Christ Centered GOP Rep. Scott DesJarlais gets another mistress pregnant again.
re: #313 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Yes. The GOP will be running on passing a federal law banning abortion after Roe is reversed.
Pretty sure Thomas is Opus Dei too. Roberts and Kavanaugh are Catholic as well though I’m not sure if OD. Note not all conservative Catholics are OD. Santorum notably is not.
Yeah, this story isn’t going away
Cop in Florida wears ‘Trump 2020’ mask near voting site; agency calls it ‘unacceptable’ https://t.co/u82Givnu8r pic.twitter.com/RURprlmZh3
— Orlando Sentinel (@orlandosentinel) October 20, 2020
re: #316 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Yeah, this story isn’t going away
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re: #311 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Two days ago I asked if anyone had seen her since the diagnosis
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That may just be an excuse. I predict that soon after the election, her and Barron will move back to Trump Tower. No way she wants to decorate the WH for “fucking Christmas” again. Man, if Michelle had said that, there would’ve been wall-to-wall outrage coverage on Fox News right up to election day.
re: #290 🌹UOJB!
Gee, I wonder what message this cop is sending as he patrols a polling place?
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“The law does not bind me, it binds you.”
To the great people of New York, California, and Illinois, your states are way too highly taxed, big crime, people fleeing, and just about every other problem you can have. VOTE TRUMP, I will turn them around for you, FAST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2020
Sure, Jan.
re: #314 🌹UOJB!
But it won’t be enforced when Christ Centered GOP Rep. Scott DesJarlais gets another mistress pregnant again.
Laws are only for little people. The rich will have no problem getting abortion drugs when they need them.
“That’s kind of a stupid question,” Grassley tells me when asked if he agrees with Trump that Fauci is a “disaster” and other government scientists are “idiots”
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) October 20, 2020
When you have no answer, attack the question.
re: #311 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Two days ago I asked if anyone had seen her since the diagnosis
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Melania is just done with this stuff, I’d imagine she’s already packing to leave on election night.
re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg
Christianity is doing well and fine at least a thousand years since their Golden Boy failed to make his much-heralded reappearance and there have been enough prophecies and expectations since then by various True Believers that have failed to eventuate that you’d think the death-cultists would have given up by now. But no.
re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg
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Sure, Jan.
You have been President over three years, why haven’t you “turned them around” yet?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) October 20, 2020
re: #267 sagehen
I’d go with the Thirteenth Amendment; I see an unwanted pregnancy as involuntary servitude. Having to put your internal organs to somebody else’s service… and at the end of gestation, there’s a reason they call it labor.
That’s how I have looked at it for a while. If a fetus is a person, and that person can demand the use of a woman’s organs, and she is not permitted to refuse, then if I need one to survive, I can demand a kidney from someone else, and they must give it to me. I won’t survive without it, so hand it over!
re: #318 NO SMOCKING GUN!
That may just be an excuse. I predict that soon after the election, her and Barron will move back to Trump Tower. No way she wants to decorate the WH for “fucking Christmas” again. Man, if Michelle had said that, there would’ve been wall-to-wall outrage coverage on Fox News right up to election day.
24 hours apart
Yesterday
Confirmed: FLOTUS will make her first post-Covid campaign stop with POTUS on Tuesday at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania https://t.co/KKtU4ZsNkX
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) October 19, 2020
Today
New: FLOTUS now will *not* travel to Erie, PA with POTUS to campaign rally:
“Mrs. Trump continues to feel better every day following her recovery from COVID-19, but with a lingering cough, and out of an abundance of caution, she will not be traveling today.” - @StephGrisham45 https://t.co/oxrtiVKpdA— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) October 20, 2020
re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg
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Sure, Jan.
If so many people are “fleeing” New York, WTH is the City so crowded?
Moron.
re: #327 Jebediah, RBG
That’s how I have looked at it for a while. If a fetus is a person, and that person can demand the use of a woman’s organs, and she is not permitted to refuse, then if I need one to survive, I can demand a kidney from someone else, and they must give it to me. I won’t survive without it, so hand it over!
The forced birthers would say she volunteered when she had sex. Remember, they believe that women who are “really raped” have a way of shutting things down so they don’t get pregnant.
re: #329 Jay C
If so many people are “fleeing” New York, WTH is the City so crowded?
Moron.
NY, CA, and IL pay more in federal taxes than get back in transfer payments.
NJ too. For every $1 a state like NY, NJ, CA, or IL pay, they get back less than $1.
That means those states have to impose taxes to cover the difference. Meanwhile, states like KY are takers who get more than they give.
This is on 90% of the Trump flags flying in Texas. That and the f*cking boat parades.
re: #307 Kilroy was here
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re: #328 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“Mrs. Trump continues to feel better every day following her recovery from COVID-19, but with a lingering cough, and out of an abundance of caution, she will not be traveling today.” - @StephGrisham45
There’s that phrase again.
Remembering Fayard Nicholas, born on this day in 1914 in Mobile, Alabama. Here he is dancing with his younger brother Harold in the 1943 film “Stormy Weather.” pic.twitter.com/pVSAfUtLaY
— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) October 20, 2020
re: #311 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Two days ago I asked if anyone had seen her since the diagnosis
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I guess Mel didn’t get the Gold Ticket meds.
Every day is the end times when you’re 1,000 years old like Pat.
— Deems (@WYankowy) October 20, 2020
re: #335 makeitstop
I guess Mel didn’t get the Gold Ticket meds.
Will I’m glad that the Bride Of Fuckupstein isn’t coming to infect the good people of Erie.
re: #301 Hecuba’s daughter
And I had to go confirm my memory that the fictional court case was Jarndyce v Jarndyce. Which it was.
re: #317 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I didn’t even wear my Drive By Truckers resist t-shirt when I voted in the primary nor my Don’t blame me I voted for Kodos tee.
Vote at home by mail
Wear all the campaign related stuff you want
re: #310 Hecuba’s daughter
Alito and Barrett, definitely. But I don’t think that Roberts, Gorsuch, Thomas, and Kavanaugh are likely to take such a drastic step. Aren’t they more likely to vote to return the decision to the states?
We have a law here on the books in Arizona that would ban abortion if Roe is overturned. So in the moment Roe is overturned, abortion would become instantly illegal in many states. Sending abortion back to the states would be a disaster.
re: #290 🌹UOJB!
Gee, I wonder what message this cop is sending as he patrols a polling place?
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re: #336 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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That asshole said the Rapture would come with Pruneface in 1980, Old Fart Bush in 1988 & 92, Pineapple Dole in 1996, Dumbya in 2000 and 2004, McCain in 2008, Romney in 2012 and Fuckupstein in 2016.
Pulpit Pimp Pat gonna get the shock of his life when JC and his Sonshine Band pull a no show at Armageddon…
re: #340 mmmirele
We have a law here on the books in Arizona that would ban abortion if Roe is overturned. So in the moment Roe is overturned, abortion would become instantly illegal in many states. Sending abortion back to the states would be a disaster.
Illinois protects choice. The question is under the Arizona law: could Arizona charge a woman with a crime if she travels to another state to have an abortion?
re: #340 mmmirele
We have a law here on the books in Arizona that would ban abortion if Roe is overturned. So in the moment Roe is overturned, abortion would become instantly illegal in many states. Sending abortion back to the states would be a disaster.
Oh it wouldn’t be a disaster for any rich white Republican Born Again Blue Blooded Christian He-Man Member of Congress like Scott DesJarlais! Why I’m sure he’d be able to arrange an abortion for his mistress and he’d also get an “indulgence” from his bishop when that happens!
re: #343 Hecuba’s daughter
Illinois protects choice. The question is under the Arizona law: could Arizona charge a woman with a crime if she travels to another state to have an abortion?
Oh I’m sure that them there born again Christians would demand the burning at the stake thing…
This is going to be interesting https://t.co/4eH8DSHCK7
— Miss Aja (@brat2381) October 20, 2020
re: #316 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Yeah, this story isn’t going away
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Anybody know what the logo on his hat is all about?
re: #343 Hecuba’s daughter
How would they know?
Fuck cancer and fuck 2020. As a Dude who has seen much sorrow from cancer, I can’t abide:
I’m profoundly grateful for the love and support from my family and friends.
Thank you for your prayers and well wishes. And, while I have you, please remember to go vote. Because we are all in this together. https://t.co/6sAU4MYixl
Love, Jeff— Jeff Bridges (@TheJeffBridges) October 20, 2020
Queen of shade
“I don’t want to carry over the droppings of this grotesque elephant into the next presidency. We’ve got to get something big, and we’ve got to get it done soon and we’ve got to get it done right.”
— Speaker Nancy Pelosi, quoted by the New York Times, on negotiating a new economic relief deal with the Trump administration
re: #330 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The forced birthers would say she volunteered when she had sex. Remember, they believe that women who are “really raped” have a way of shutting things down so they don’t get pregnant.
It is difficult, maybe pointless, to argue with people who, along with being so empty of heart, are rigorously and rigidly afactual.
The impact of @realDonaldTrump’s super spreader events “rips through communities and have a deadly impact on individuals who have no connection to the event at all.https://t.co/kpZXPYhWdJ
— Protect Our Care (@ProtectOurCare) October 20, 2020
re: #347 BeachDem
Anybody know what the logo on his hat is all about?
Google suggests it’s a Motorcyle Officer symbol.
re: #336 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
God sure has told old Pat a lot of fibs over the years. Wonder if he’ll ever catch on.
re: #339 dangerman
Vote at home by mail
Wear all the campaign related stuff you want
I forget what shirt I was wearing on Sunday night haha.
re: #350 lawhawk
Fuck cancer and fuck 2020. As a Dude who has seen much sorrow from cancer, I can’t abide:
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Kick that lymphoma’s ass, Sir.
Best of luck and hang in there, I know the treatment can be a wee bit rough.— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) October 20, 2020
Today’s MIT event was on patients, discussing how the disease affects people from in virto to the elderly. She also discussed therapies that are being used and investigated. It was truly fascinating.
First she used a case study on a 47 year old guy who was mostly healthy, some minor comorbidities. He spent 61 days in the hospital. The second was a 74 yo overweight with full access to the best options available (!!) going into remsidir(sic) - cost very high $3000 -and dimethsone(sic) - very inexpensive - and the tests are ongoing for them being used for COVID globally. Both are showing potential for being helpful (still being evaluated) if used early in reducing the length of the illness… But that’s still being investigated.
This was extremely informative.
Not to just rip off @Redistrict, who you should be following anyway, but these internals that show Trump running far behind in districts he won four years ago are arguably the gloomiest stuff going for Rs. https://t.co/dmopAkAkmb
— Dave Weigel, Re-Animator (@daveweigel) October 20, 2020
Fuck Republicans.
Texas social workers can now turn away LGBTQ and disabled clients. https://t.co/YOjmPcBAUv
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 20, 2020
re: #359 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
People ignore this but HRC actually outperformed Obama in a few districts. Biden has a good chance at outperforming both. I have to admit that I slept on him a little as a candidate because I thought he was a little too old school. Now? I think Biden’s what the country needs.
re: #360 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck Republicans.
Fucking assholes. God I cannot wait for that state to become blue so Abbott, Dan Patrick, and Ted Cruz will be in misery.
re: #304 Decatur Deb
That’s half the problem. The other half is that no one gets to wear any candidate/partisan symbolism in our state’s polling places. The fact that he’s an armed cop is just a multiplier.
According to Florida rules:
Voters may wear campaign buttons, shirts,
hats, or any other campaign items when
they enter the polling place to vote; voters
may not otherwise campaign there.
re: #331 lawhawk
NY, CA, and IL pay more in federal taxes than get back in transfer payments.
NJ too. For every $1 a state like NY, NJ, CA, or IL pay, they get back less than $1.
That means those states have to impose taxes to cover the difference. Meanwhile, states like KY are takers who get more than they give.
It has been a few years since you could include CA and IL on that list, they receive just a little more than they contribute these days. There are only 9 states that contribute more than they receive.
re: #360 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck Republicans.
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It’s hilarious watching a desperate Trump pleading with Barr to churn out a last minute hit piece no-one will believe. https://t.co/Qgs3MdEWe0
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) October 20, 2020
The miami police dept does not stand w officer Ubeda, he is breaking the law and u are encouraging it. Voting precincts are safe zones. Go encourage breaking the law elsewhere. Stay out of miami https://t.co/j5jKEo6LOP
— Al Cardenas (@AlCardenasFL_DC) October 20, 2020
re: #360 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck Republicans.
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Screw Abbot. With Allen West running the Texas GOP Gov. Abbot won’t even make it out of his own primary in less than 2 years.
I want this to be the last gasp of the Texas GOP.
re: #365 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Hell even if Barr wants to do it, it’s no guarantee. You need a grand jury to go along. And I think Barr knows that Trump is a lost cause.
re: #367 b.d. (Enough!)
Screw Abbot. With Allen West running the Texas GOP Gov. Abbot won’t even make it out of his own primary in less than 2 years.
I want this to be the last gasp of the Texas GOP.
Crapping on urbanites and diverse communities is going to bite them in the ass.
Thank you again https://t.co/AfYQUdxS2G
— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) October 20, 2020
re: #364 Eclectic Cyborg
Guy in a wheelchair says “Fuck you” to other people like him.
Eugenics is for poor people.
re: #354 Eclectic Cyborg
Google suggests it’s a Motorcyle Officer symbol.
Thanks. Good eyes. I thought the wings were rabbit ears and was very confused.
re: #368 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Hell even if Barr wants to do it, it’s no guarantee. You need a grand jury to go along. And I think Barr knows that Trump is a lost cause.
Everything Trump depended on for for 3+ years is breaking down. The rallies, the lying, the sycophantic appointees…even the tweets.
“Joe Biden has begun to draw more engagement per post on Twitter than President Trump…”https://t.co/e3pojTyiim
— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) October 20, 2020
Trump Fatigue is real. He’s finally worn out his welcome.
— Carp (@robcarpenter81) October 20, 2020
He learned his lesson all right. https://t.co/2S8Vb1eZGL
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) October 20, 2020
re: #360 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck Republicans.
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re: #373 makeitstop
Everything Trump depended on for for 3+ years is breaking down. The rallies, the lying, the sycophantic appointees…even the tweets.
Trump Fatigue is real. He’s finally worn out his welcome.
I’m not going to count my eggs just yet but I honestly thought and yeah I admit I was trying to find a silver lining after the worst political night of my life. But my thought was that Trump was going to be a Pyrrhic victory for the GOP and right. Trump is going to define the GOP in the decades to come.
re: #373 makeitstop
Everything Trump depended on for for 3+ years is breaking down. The rallies, the lying, the sycophantic appointees…even the tweets.
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Trump Fatigue is real. He’s finally worn out his welcome.
He’s SO fucking short-sighted.
If he’d handled the pandemic properly, he’d be cruising to reelection. And he doesn’t even realize.
Rich people can have a failson shaped like a seal fucked a Hapsburg and still believe themselves to be genetically superior.
can’t stop thinking about japanese dub al pacino pic.twitter.com/0lGX9YhXuA
— ▀▀▀▀▀▀ (@immolations) October 20, 2020
re: #370 gocart mozart
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Multnomah County! Make a plan to Vote! Mine involves bagpipes, a unicycle, and an official ballot dropbox. What’s your plan??
More info on how to vote at https://t.co/AidWANVlQp @multco @MultCoElections #VOTE #Elections2020 pic.twitter.com/k9qTYu5X8H— The Unipiper (@TheUnipiper) October 19, 2020
re: #381 makeitstop
Until he made that ad for MJ Hegar, I hadn’t put it together that Rex Chapman was the basketball player Rex Chapman. I just thought he was some dude who posted cool stuff on Twitter.
I thought it was him but wasn’t sure. I think I might have seen him play at the old US Air Arena in Landover when the Wizards were still the Bullets. That or I remember him in NBA Jam and playing as the hometown team.
re: #378 sagehen
If he’d handled the pandemic properly, he’d be cruising to reelection. And he doesn’t even realize.
SO true. It was an absolute no-brainer, but so is the guy we’re talking about.
re: #380 gocart mozart
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re: #381 makeitstop
Until he made that ad for MJ Hegar, I hadn’t put it together that Rex Chapman was the basketball player Rex Chapman. I just thought he was some dude who posted cool stuff on Twitter.
Oops. He made the spot for Amy McGrath, not MJ.
re: #378 sagehen
He’s SO fucking short-sighted.
If he’d handled the pandemic properly, he’d be cruising to reelection. And he doesn’t even realize.
Funny thing is, it’s the same quality that made him attractive to his audience that makes him so incredibly ineffective in a pandemic, and that now is driving down his popularity.
He treats everything as pure rhetoric because as a narcissist he can’t conceive of a world that exists independent of his impressions and whims; he’s incapable of honesty with others because he has no interest in reality.
He can’t bullshit a pandemic; he can’t bully and belittle a virus; he can’t unclinch his ego long enought to defer to an expert.
Whatever part of him was capable of deferring gratification is now burned away. More and more he’s making threats and selling the idea that if the country lets him down it deserves whatever harm he inflicts.
re: #280 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Nothing is stored locally anyone (at least at FDA) they’d need to firebomb the servers, torching computers won’t do jack shit.
And all the backups
re: #290 🌹UOJB!
Gee, I wonder what message this cop is sending as he patrols a polling place?
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He should be good with my “Fuck the Police” mask then.
re: #302 Mike Lamb
Aside from the voter intimidation aspect, doesn’t basically every state have laws prohibiting electioneering within a certain distance of a polling station or drop box?
In Pennsylvania we do. But hey he’s a cop, they don’t have to follow the law
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