Seth takes a closer look at Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell declaring an end to bipartisanship as President Biden continues fruitless talks with Republicans.
So the same night @ElieNYC and @neal_katyal were on with me to discuss the bad stuff from the William Barr DOJ that’s being continued under Merrick Garland, with Elie making a great car wreck analogy, @nytmike says the DOJ was still seeking his emails up to almost tonight. Wow.
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) June 11, 2021
re: #1 jaunte
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So, just to make sure we’re all on the same page, the DOJ under Merrick Garland is not only defending the illegal/unethical/immoral actions of the previous admin, but is also continuing the spy programs begun under the same admin.
re: #2 Targetpractice
Garland and Roberts are two peas in the same pod: damn the country, save the institutions.
Very disappointed in Merrick Garland. Who knew the GOP may have done us a favor. Smh
That’s the problem about appointing institutionalists: When the choice is being doing the right thing even if it means hurting the institution and protecting the institution at any cost, they will do the latter without a second thought.
Both Sessions and Barr did things as AG that they (reportedly) were opposed to because they feared the damage done to the DOJ by anybody Trump might replace them with, and now Garland is covering for their asses because he’s worried about the damage done to the DOJ if their crimes are made public.
The gag order was renewed three times before it expired this year and Apple notified the customers. The House committee determined that along with members of committee and staff, the dragnet collected the records of family members, including at least one minor, the person said.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 11, 2021
Also, for me if for no other reason, with any story that talks about DOJ under Sessions *and* Barr, please include any known information about what happened during the months Matthew Whitaker was in charge (or that we don’t know), because, he was in charge — for 3+ months.
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) June 11, 2021
Remembering this exchange in light of the Schiff/Swalwell news 👇 https://t.co/ivy1pIjSOy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 11, 2021
re: #7 jaunte
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So basically the DOJ’s “defense” at this point will be that no one person was specifically targeted, thus it was a legit “leak” investigation.
re: #3 Eric The Fruit Bat
Garland and Roberts are two peas in the same pod: damn the country, save the institutions.
Roberts is not an institutionalist; if he were, he would not have eviscerated the VRA. He is a racist, who is concerned about his legacy and therefore is careful in his speech and some of his rulings.
McConnell is the one who, singlehandedly, has done more to destroy both our institutions AND our democracy. It is he who implemented the “take no prisoners” approach when a Democrat was president, and sabotaged practically every initiative of Obama’s, except for the ACA. It was he who refused to allow the GOP to stand with Obama against Putin’s interference in our election. It was he who prevented Garland from being seated on the Supreme Court. Despite this, our nation could have survived Trump if McConnell had agreed to convict Trump on his first impeachment and even belatedly on his 2nd impeachment.
But now, I fear that we may be doomed because we do not have the 50 votes needed to weaken the filibuster, nor even the votes needed to get infrastructure through reconciliation, let alone 60 votes needed to pass almost all legislation. But without McConnell’s damage, we wouldn’t need 60 votes for the voting rights bills; it would be a simple majority for all legislation.
re: #14 IngisKahn
There is nothing that could get me ready for that.
re: #14 IngisKahn
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No you are not, unless you are leaving town for a month.
That is killing heat, every single day.
re: #18 IngisKahn
HEAT IS ENERGY!
Uh, huh. So is an avalanche, or an Icelandic volcano.
An excess of any of the three is also deadly.
I assume you have a point to this bold-faced claim.
When the pool water temperature is above body temperature you do have to be careful.
re: #22 IngisKahn
When the pool water temperature is above body temperature you do have to be careful.
Sure, but water takes a veeeeeeeery long time to heat up.
re: #22 IngisKahn
When the pool water temperature is above body temperature you do have to be careful.
Well, yes, we call that sous vide.
re: #23 Dopamine Fish
Sure, but water takes a veeeeeeeery long time to heat up.
Well, the water is currently 87 and a few night time lows in the 90s will help.
re: #25 IngisKahn
There is just absolutely no way…
Uhm, WHERE is this insane level of heat? I’m about ready to collapse from a week of highs in the 95 ~ 97 range.
re: #24 austin_blue
Well, yes, we call that sous vide.
And I’m off for the rack.
Not all, Sweet Scaly Dreams.
Much to be done tomorrow in the A.M.
re: #14 IngisKahn
This must be Phoenix.
(I spent 30 minutes yesterday trying to figure out why my Amazon Echo had a green blinking ring, including searching the Internet, looking at settings on the Alexa app, unplugging the damn thing, when finally Alexa pipes up with “You have a notification do you want me to read it?” and it was the heat wave coming this weekend.)
re: #27 William Lewis
It’s over 100 in Southern Arizona, expected highs of 116 in Phoenix.
re: #27 William Lewis
Uhm, WHERE is this insane level of heat? I’m about ready to collapse from a week of highs in the 95 ~ 97 range.
re: #27 William Lewis
Uhm, WHERE is this insane level of heat? I’m about ready to collapse from a week of highs in the 95 ~ 97 range.
The temperatures IngisKahn posted look like Arizona. Both Phoenix and Tucson have those forecasts.
Even mid-80’s are too high for me. Through the end of next week, highs here in the Chicago area are going to range from 70 to 84 and most of the time it will be in the 70’s!
re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter
The temperatures IngisKahn posted look like Arizona. Both Phoenix and Tucson have those forecasts.
Even mid-80’s are too high for me. Through the end of next week, highs in the Chicago area are going to range from 70 to 84 and most of the time it will be in the 70’s!
The record-breaking heat in the North Star State is about to break; thunderstorms tomorrow, with a high of “only” 87. Still unseasonably warm for this time of year, but a hell of a lot better than 97 with a heat index of 105+.
re: #17 austin_blue
No you are not, unless you are leaving town for a month.
That is killing heat, every single day.
Can’t leave town; those are temperatures that thin the air too much for planes to fly.
re: #22 IngisKahn
When the pool water temperature is above body temperature you do have to be careful.
Olympic sized jacuzzi?
re: #33 Dopamine Fish
The record-breaking heat in the North Star State is about to break; thunderstorms tomorrow, with a high of “only” 87. Still unseasonably warm for this time of year, but a hell of a lot better than 97 with a heat index of 105+.
I always tell people that no one has ever moved to Chicago for the weather. But it doesn’t look so bad right now. It may be few degrees higher than normal, but not unbearable.
re: #31 IngisKahn
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Ah. I remember the proverbial dry heat of Ft Huachuca in July watching the rain that never hit the ground but that’s way beyond even that. The 50+% humidity up here is our bane.
I’ll take 105° at 8% humidity over 70° at 80%
I did move here for the weather :p
re: #38 IngisKahn
I’ll take 105° at 8% humidity over 70° at 80%
I did move here for the weather :p
We’re at 80° and 85%, and I gave up and turned the a/c on, set at 80. Fan on me, and sweat rolling. I’m too old to manage this anymore.
re: #38 IngisKahn
I’ll take 105° at 8% humidity over 70° at 80%
I did move here for the weather :p
During one of our visits to Death Valley in the 1980’s, we were hiking in temperatures of the low 80’s with close to 0% humidity — and I practically collapsed. My favorite temperatures are in the mid-60’s to mid-70’s (without wind).
re: #39 retired cynic
This is at 1030pm.
And I’ve lived basically here all my life. You’d think I’d get used to it.
It’s 83 here right now, forecast for 97 tomorrow. Lubbock is getting blasted, 103 today and 107 tomorrow.
Well don’t hate me too much, but it’s a cool 55 here in Twin with a forcasted high of 76 tomorrow. We’ll probably start pushing 3 digit temps again starting Sunday.
Weather radio popped off with a severe thunderstorm watch.
My window air conditioner just crapped out.
Temperatures here will rise into the high nineties in a couple days. I think I need to take a trip into town to get a new one.
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
GOES East satellite image, 24 hour loop
You can see in the front range of Wyoming the storms forming in the lee and marching in our direction, with a massive storm in South Dakota.
I live in the part of western Nebraska that looks like North Korea at night.
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
GOES East satellite image, 24 hour loop
You can see in the front range of Wyoming the storms forming in the lee and marching in our direction, with a massive storm in South Dakota.
I live in the part of western Nebraska that looks like North Korea at night.
Yeah, that thing in South Dakota is going to shift slowly east during the night and into tomorrow, and start exerting its pressure on us as it meets the thermal sink of Lake Superior.
Weather report at my twenty (6,334 ft.): 73° F, dew point 16° F (dry as fuck, 11% humidity). Forecast high in the low to mid 90s next few days. Summer is not my favorite season.
This is professional surfer Billy Kemper — and his son Lion — surfing together.
Just gonna leave it here. Magnificent…pic.twitter.com/Ccv3Li053e— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 11, 2021
re: #40 Hecuba’s daughter
During one of our visits to Death Valley in the 1980’s, we were hiking in temperatures of the low 80’s with close to 0% humidity — and I practically collapsed. My favorite temperatures are in the mid-60’s to mid-70’s (without wind).
You know what’s worse than that hike? The Badwater Ultramarathon.
135 miles, from Death Valley (282 feet below sea level) to the trailhead at Mt Whitney (8300 feet above sea level). They hold it in July. JULY!! It used go to the top of Whitney (14,505 feet), but then the Park Service started requiring summit permits, so now they stop at the no-permits boundary.
In the more than 40 years they’ve been holding this race, fewer than 950 people ever finished.
Edwardians In Colour! This snapshot into another time was taken by Otto Pfenninger in Brighton in 1906 (using his own colour process invention). They are straight out of an E Nesbit novel - the original ‘Railway Children’, in colour from 115 years ago. (It is not colourised) ♥️ pic.twitter.com/68MZujkoen
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) June 10, 2021
— Possum Every Hour (@PossumEveryHour) June 11, 2021
Gag order on Apple, which started in Sessions’s tenure, was renewed three times, spanning Whitaker and then Barr. The likely highest point person signing off on the renewals was probably the DAG, Rod Rosenstein.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 11, 2021
Trump is reportedly crashing memorial services, living large ‘like Napoleon at Elba’ (Yahoo!)
Yes, people are having memorial services for deceased family members at Mar-a-Grifto.
“As Comic-Con does for actors past their prime, South Florida offers hardcore Trump fans a way to indulge their nostalgia and fawn over their favorite characters from the extended Trump Universe,” Green reports. And Trump himself is constantly “bathed in adulation. When he enters the dining room, people stand and applaud. When he returns from golf, he’s met with squeals and selfie requests. When he leaves Mar-a-Lago, he often encounters flag-waving throngs.”
Inside Mar-a-Lago, Trump will “show up for anything,” Green adds. “In recent weeks, Trump has popped into engagement parties and memorial services. A Mar-a-Lago member who recently attended a club gathering for a deceased friend was surprised when Trump sauntered in to deliver remarks and then hung around, apparently enjoying himself.”
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re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Trump is reportedly crashing memorial services, living large ‘like Napoleon at Elba’ (Yahoo!)
Yes, people are having memorial services for deceased family members at Mar-a-Grifto.
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Please, please let me crash trumps funeral. I will pay for the privilege.
Bye Bye asshole. Play stupid game, win stupid prize.
Oregon House expels state Rep. Mike Nearman, plotter of Capitol incursion
Nearman refused to resign in the face of overwhelming evidence he would be ejected from the Legislature. The four-term Republican lawmaker becomes the first person ever expelled from the Oregon House.
9-11 diverted US IC and domestic security assets for 20 years, allowing Russia, China and their traitorous tools to run wild.
it’s so much worse than currently visible
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) June 11, 2021
The first severe thunderstorm warning was just called, to my northwest, moving northeast toward Chadron.
Interestingly, temperatures range from the upper seventies in the south of the Panhandle to the lower nineties in the north.
Here it is 83°F.
Washington Post now says that Barr went after Schiff and Swalwell.
The department in 2018 secretly subpoenaed Apple for the data of two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell, as well as the data of several of their current and former staffers and family members, Swalwell and a committee official said late Thursday. The aggressive push by the Trump administration was to learn who was leaking classified information to the news media.
Both California Democrats were prominent critics of President Donald Trump. The committee official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s political sensitivity, said that Apple had notified at least 12 people of subpoenas for their data, and a minor was among those affected.
You know what goes well with 196,000 signatures to legalize medical cannabis in Nebraska? Matching shirts.
Go to https://t.co/dX3gp1xYEC to get one and support our campaign. pic.twitter.com/FEAkXwqjcW— Senator Anna Wishart (@NebraskaAnna) June 10, 2021
Criswell Bacon predicts that Devin Nunes, Gym Neighbors and Mc Carthy KNEW about Session and Barr’s subpoenas on Schiff and Swalwell.
I would not be surprised if Lindsay Graham and McConnell also knew.
Hamilton Fox III and Julia Porter are the top two lawyers running the Disciplinary Counsel’s office of the DC Bar. They are responsible for Bill Barr getting off without so much as a slap on the wrist by the legal profession. They have let Barr define integrity in the DC Bar.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) June 11, 2021
Want to know about the terrible decision not to investigate Bill Barr and move to sanction or disbar him? Read from one who knows, Michal Frisch:https://t.co/XA5eDoVBIs
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) June 11, 2021
re: #57 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
9-11 diverted US IC and domestic security assets for 20 years, allowing Russia, China and their traitorous tools to run wild.
That thread is depressing AF.
Amazing performance in the French countryside!😍 Have you ever seen anything like this? pic.twitter.com/VhSojG1IOg
— Wonderlust Collective (@bestwonderlust) June 10, 2021
re: #57 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
9-11 diverted US IC and domestic security assets for 20 years, allowing Russia, China and their traitorous tools to run wild.
So Eric Garland has gone over to the Sara Kendzior/Lincoln’s Bible side.
This seems fine. pic.twitter.com/C4hDeIS7Ko
— Vi La Bianca (@AuthorConfusion) June 10, 2021
re: #67 sagehen
That thread is depressing AF.
It sounds like a lot of CT. “Do you really think a bunch of guys with backpacks and box cutters could hit hard targets with that kind of precision?”
Yes. American aircraft have been hijacked before. The World Trade Center had been bombed before (and by the same guy). The Oklahoma City federal building was blown up by a couple homegrown wingnuts with a truck.
“vladimir putin was the very first person to call after the attacks of 9/11
cuba, iran, libya, and north korea all sent condolences.
what a sweet little bunch - dontcha think”
Every country sent condolences. Nice cherry picking there.
“all the while, we keep slashing taxes and outsourcing jobs an slashing taxes and turning our political discourse into babbling madness and slashing taxes and slashing taxes and when we’re not busy we also cut taxes
the wealthy enjoy this quite a bit no matter the damage”
Welcome to conservatism. Go back and read Edmond Burke.
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It sounds like a lot of CT. “Do you really think a bunch of guys with backpacks and box cutters could hit hard targets with that kind of precision?”
Yes. American aircraft have been hijacked before. The World Trade Center had been bombed before (and by the same guy). The Oklahoma City federal building was blown up by a couple homegrown wingnuts with a truck.
“vladimir putin was the very first person to call after the attacks of 9/11
cuba, iran, libya, and north korea all sent condolences.
what a sweet little bunch - dontcha think”
Every country sent condolences. Nice cherry picking there.
“all the while, we keep slashing taxes and outsourcing jobs an slashing taxes and turning our political discourse into babbling madness and slashing taxes and slashing taxes and when we’re not busy we also cut taxes
the wealthy enjoy this quite a bit no matter the damage”
Welcome to conservatism. Go back and read Edmond Burke.
This!
re: #73 ckkatz
This!
Okay, more!
“and then america runs off to war, first in afghanistan, but then also to iraq where the dual mission is basically guaranteed to be cripplingly resource-intensive and take years if not decades”
That was Dick and W, not Russia and China.
“meanwhile, silicon valley climbs in bed with china”
$$$$
“america and western europe sends more and more manufacturing over to china”
Yay, capitalism.
“not only to some of these wealthy people not want to pay taxes or deal with democracy
some of them have some very, very ugly ideas about biotech and population control”
An elite oligarchy which wants to put “A Modest Proposal” into action, or the CT wingnuts have claimed about the Club of Rome. [disclosure, my wife is associated with the Club of Rome, so of course I would cape for them]
“it’s been really funny for some of us to hear the qanon projection such as putting computer chips in people
some of these lunatic wealthy psychopaths have been talking that way for like 20-30 years now”
All religion seems that way to me. Qanon seems no different. As for folks writing in science fiction for a century or more about cyborgs or futurists talking about “jacking in,” so what?
“hey don’t @ me - i’m just telling you some people with a certain amount of money are batshit “
I think your screed here is batshit, and I won’t “@” you (or write to you) about it. Money doesn’t make people batshit, but money makes it easier to do batshit things. (See libertarian Art Robinson and his 14,000 urine sample collection and argues ionizing radiation is good for you.)
“they’ll settle for facebook profiles and apple watches but they talk openly (in small groups) about hoping to just have people tracked”
And you have knowledge of this how? And if they did, how does that make them different than any other common run-of-the-mill authoritarian?
“then there’s population control stuff
again, look, i’m not saying everybody over a certain net worth believes this, but there are certain number of people who very vocally didn’t mind the idea of, say, 1-3 billion of us dying
from a virus? well, as long as they wouldn’t get it
yeah, this is butt ugly, kids”
The wealthy and powerful have always disposed of “inconvenient” populations if they think it will advance their power. This ain’t a new idea.
Acer Computers is getting into the e-bike wheel hub motor business. Weird.
re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron
Acer Computers is getting into the e-bike wheel hub motor business. Weird.
I would say they should stick with computers, but……………….
Thread, five tweets. The real threat is exploitation for porn, not exploitation from politics, at least according to these guys in Canada.
Recently, celebrities including Tom Cruise and Nicolas Cage have been captured in deepfakes—startlingly realistic videos created using artificial intelligence. @internetmaggie looks at the truth about deepfakes: https://t.co/AV8G5Ot7jR 1/5
— The Walrus (@thewalrus) June 10, 2021
Referring to Ontario Conservative Party Premier Doug Ford
You can be at a vigil against Islamophobia one day and apparently block a motion for unanimous consent to condemn all forms of Islamophobia the next day.
When people show you who they are, ✨believe them✨.— Ahmed Ali (@MrAhmednurAli) June 10, 2021
(2:22:22)
Would you like to hear Jordon Peterson interview Bari Weiss for 2 1/2 hours? Now you can!
😴😴😴
re: #27 William Lewis
Uhm, WHERE is this insane level of heat? I’m about ready to collapse from a week of highs in the 95 ~ 97 range.
I lived in Phoenix in the 70’s and 80’s and recall a few days of 118°F, but that only at the height of summer in August.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Trump is reportedly crashing memorial services, living large ‘like Napoleon at Elba’ (Yahoo!)
Yes, people are having memorial services for deceased family members at Mar-a-Grifto.
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Wow, echoes of Harold and Maude
Keeping up with the Christians:
Andy Ngô just had a paid speaking engagement at the Christian Hillsdale College, on “Antifa: History and Tactics.”
I’m guessing that the libertarian shithead who was fired from Quillette surely was entirely truthful about things like his association with trying to get people killed and his association with the so-called far right. I’m sure he also presented an accurate history of antifa.
I am not going to watch an hour video of his bilge.
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Keeping up with the Christians:
Andy Ngô just had a paid speaking engagement at the Christian Hillsdale College, on “Antifa: History and Tactics.”
I hope that he started with Operation Torch in 1942…
Ride the wind and waveshttps://t.co/aukQsxUPLO
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Political repression in #Russia is now the work of thousands of officials, none of whom individually carry any political responsibility. People are now persecuted on autopilot, which means that anyone can be defined as “anti-regime,” warns @Stanovaya https://t.co/2eTNc8EZ5r
— Carnegie Russia (@CarnegieRussia) June 11, 2021
This is an interesting take, and explains a few things. We’re very prone to assuming our opponents to have Borg-like organization dominated by an evil genius (while also assuming we ourselves are a bunch of hopelessly muddled weaklings, natch). Probably not the case. And repression can escalate basically by accident by regime minions trying to outdo each other for political points with nobody willing or able to direct them.
More than a dozen cows ran wild through a Bolivian city, injuring at least four people, with the mayor declaring the animals a “danger to life, and for commuters and everyone.”
Local media reported a total of 17 cows were rounded up. https://t.co/AqMywNmKuA pic.twitter.com/BrzbfTLL3B— ABC News (@ABC) June 11, 2021
re: #87 ericblair
… And repression can escalate basically by accident by regime minions trying to outdo each other for political points with nobody willing or able to direct them.
Remember the stories about the endless ovations for Stalin because nobody wanted to be seen as the one who stopped clapping first?
But most of all, this means thousands of petty tyrants who can cause you all kinds of trouble over some minor personal matter.
re: #88 Dread Pirate Ron
More than a dozen cows ran wild through a Bolivian city, injuring at least four people, with the mayor declaring the animals a “danger to life, and for commuters and everyone.”
Meat is murder!
Super Scooper firefighting aircraft were being used to help suppress the Telegraph Fire burning in Arizona as the blaze grew to 85,000 acres. pic.twitter.com/rXQkEgTpJo
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 11, 2021
You clueless wonder. They reached a breaking point because the BPD cannot solve violent crimes and arrest those offenders in meaningful numbers. Why? Because we trained the last three generations of cops to make horseshit drug stats and not to do essential police work… https://t.co/CxSeYvcYPP
— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 10, 2021
Thread flaming Posobiec on Baltimore cops and the drug war: thirty years of drug war didn’t break the drug lords, but it did break the cops.
re: #92 ericblair
Thread flaming Posobiec on Baltimore cops and the drug war: thirty years of drug war didn’t break the drug lords, but it did break the cops.
…and broke our budget.
As the Justice Department investigated who was behind leaks of classified information early in the Trump administration, it took a highly unusual step: Prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, aides and family members. One was a minor,” the New York Times reports.“All told, the records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 2018, including those of Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, then the panel’s top Democrat and now its chairman.”
So this was a lie
Flashback: May 2019Harris: Has the president or anyone at the WH ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone?Barr: Um….Harris: Seems you’d remember something like that and be able to tell us.Barr: Yeah, but I’m trying to grapple with the word suggest. pic.twitter.com/y8ewAgVAgE
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 11, 2021
re: #94 Dangerman
Barr: Yeah, but I’m trying to grapple with the words
suggest“I’m a fat, cowardly, lying motherfucker”.
Heh. Reading the ESPN article on the Judge Caproni’s absolute beatdown of the lawsuit against MLB regarding the All-Star Game, and this part about plaintiff’s attorney Howard Kleinhendler - the buffoon who actually argued the pleading in the hearing - caught my attention:
Kleinhendler noted that one legal document described how business owners in Atlanta were reluctant to go public with the damage done to them by MLB’s decision because they feared intimidation tactics such as protests or bad online reviews would be used against them.
So in other words, THEY ABSOLUTELY DID SUFFER THE DAMAGES BUT THEY’RE AFRAID OF WOKE CANCEL CULTURE AND THAT’S WHY WE’RE SUING!!!!11!1
OFFS:
NEW: The Senate group of 5 Democrats and 5 Republicans says they have “reached a bipartisan agreement on a realistic, compromise framework” on infrastructure:
They say the plan would be “fully paid for” without tax increases pic.twitter.com/T3Il67bp72— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) June 10, 2021
“The investment would be fully paid for and not increase taxes.”
Translation: “We’re about the gut the fuck out of some government programs that benefit poor folks.”
re: #64 JOE 🥓
Criswell Bacon predicts that Devin Nunes, Gym Neighbors and Mc Carthy KNEW about Session and Barr’s subpoenas on Schiff and Swalwell.
I would not be surprised if Lindsay Graham and McConnell also knew.
Will there be any consequences based on this revelation? Doubt it. IOKIYAR.
Also, if Ron DeathSantis does something particularly petty and childish today, there’s a reason for that.
Briefing on the preliminary injunction has not even concluded and already Florida’s unconstitutional social media law appears to be in just a little bit of trouble.
That reads a whole lot like judgese for “what are you clowns thinking” pic.twitter.com/YQ2OuxAfnJ— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) June 10, 2021
re: #99 Dopamine Fish
Also, if Ron DeathSantis does something particularly petty and childish today, there’s a reason for that.
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— Zane (@ScholarErrant) June 11, 2021
Even DeSantis could not be so dumb as to see his prank as anything but grandstanding and a distraction.
If anything, it is meant to establish the talking point that even Judges have been corrupted and America’s only salvation depends on Armed Patriots.
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even DeSantis could not be so dumb as to see his prank as anything but grandstanding and a distraction.
I’m going to beg to differ. I think people like DeathSantis - governors of Republican states, Republican congresspeople or senators, men and women who have actual power instead of just talking heads like Fucker Carlson - genuinely feel that they are untouchable. They have been emboldened by their continued success in duping people into voting for them, even as they have gotten more abrasive and destructive. I think they genuinely believe that they can enact these utterly asinine laws and that, even if the laws get challenged or even overturned, it’s still a limited success because - hey, they got away with it, didn’t they? They rammed through a wildly unpopular bill over the objections of well-reasoned people, and they’ll still get to keep all their power because nobody who votes for them cares about anything except White Republican Jesus.
re: #100 Targetpractice
I particularly liked this one:
So that’s what it looks like to see a judge orally measure a law for a proverbial body bag
— Ian Ducey (@ducey_ian_22) June 10, 2021
re: #102 Dopamine Fish
They have been emboldened by their continued success in duping people into voting for them, even as they have gotten more abrasive and destructive. I think they genuinely believe that they can enact these utterly asinine laws and that, even if the laws get challenged or even overturned, it’s still a limited success because - hey, they got away with it, didn’t they?
hey know that they have nothing to lose even if the bill gets shot down, although I am sure DeSantis knows that its chances are slim but he can use it to demonstrate his loyalty to the Core Values of the Party: Trump, Trump and more Trump.
re: #57 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
9-11 diverted US IC and domestic security assets for 20 years, allowing Russia, China and their traitorous tools to run wild.
Oh bollocks.
do you really think a couple dozen assholes with backpacks and box-cutters could hit american hard targets with that kind of precision - that kind of timing and damage
or did there need to be major state backing
Yes, I do think that. Historically “major state backing” is more likely to fuck things up that a couple of dozen assholes.
re: #55 I Would Prefer Not To
Please, please let me crash trumps funeral. I will pay for the privilege.
LOL the only way I’d crash Trump’s funeral is after taking some laxative the night before and having had a big ol’ can of beans for breakfast. You get the idea 😁
re: #106 Dr Lizardo
LOL the only way I’d crash Trump’s funeral is after taking some laxative the night before and having had a big ol’ can of beans for breakfast. You get the idea 😁
Me, I’d stock up on beer. I’m not a beer drinker normally, but I wouldn’t show up to Trump’s funeral unless I was pissed and prepared to do some pissing.
re: #102 Dopamine Fish
I’m going to beg to differ. I think people like DeathSantis - governors of Republican states, Republican congresspeople or senators, men and women who have actual power instead of just talking heads like Fucker Carlson - genuinely feel that they are untouchable. They have been emboldened by their continued success in duping people into voting for them, even as they have gotten more abrasive and destructive. I think they genuinely believe that they can enact these utterly asinine laws and that, even if the laws get challenged or even overturned, it’s still a limited success because - hey, they got away with it, didn’t they? They rammed through a wildly unpopular bill over the objections of well-reasoned people, and they’ll still get to keep all their power because nobody who votes for them cares about anything except White Republican Jesus.
They pass these laws again and again because they expect to eventually succeed. And with rulings like the “AR-15s are Swiss Army knives!” ruling in CA last week, they certainly are not far off the mark. Even if they fail before the SCOTUS bench, the fact that they got that far is itself a minor accomplishment in their eyes. All it means is they need to find a new approach, a new argument, or a new voice to argue their cause before the wingnut majority.
Morning Joke falls just short of the whole point:
MSNBC’s Morning Joe ‘disturbed’ by GOP’s lack of concern over DOJ spying scandal https://t.co/QfzWmudR4e
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 11, 2021
“I’ve got to believe even some Republicans on the Hill, who actually have read the Constitution and understand what Article I of the Constitution means and understand Madisonian checks and balances and how important those are, and see themselves set apart as a separate and equal branch from the executive branch, find it hard to believe that Republicans aren’t just as concerned and disturbed by this as a lot of Democrats,” Scarborough said.
“I can tell you, when I was up there, oh, my God, if something like this had happened, the chairman, the chairwoman, the leaders would have torn to shreds a president in their own party if there had been an investigation against that president, and then the president decided to use his Justice Department to start seizing records and to spy on,” he added. “It sounds — I mean, it sounds beyond Nixonian to me.”
I think Joe knows the reason but won’t say it aloud: The GQP are not speaking up because they are totally okay with this so long as it’s aimed at Dems. Their only concern right now is if any of their own number were caught in this drag net, otherwise the argument by dinner time will be that the DOJ’s actions were “legit” if they were looking for “leakers.”
re: #97 Targetpractice
OFFS:
“The investment would be fully paid for and not increase taxes.”
Translation: “We’re about the gut the fuck out of some government programs that benefit poor folks.”
Read a brief article on CNN. They misleadingly call it a $1.2T bill. There is only $579B in new spending. Then I saw who was in the group of 10 and became even less interested. On top of all that, it still won’t get 60 votes. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if some Senate Dems vote against. Pelosi will have to do some Jedi mind control to limit opposition in the House.
Biden’s proposal is wildly popular, and Dems are blocking it, over the wishes of their constituencies. Fuck this noise.
re: #110 Mike Lamb
Read a brief article on CNN. They misleadingly call it a $1.2T bill. There is only $579B in new spending. Then I saw who was in the group of 10 and became even less interested. On top of all that, it still won’t get 60 votes. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if some Senate Dems vote against. Pelosi will have to do some Jedi mind control to limit opposition in the House.
Biden’s proposal is wildly popular, and Dems are blocking it, over the wishes of their constituencies. Fuck this noise.
WAPO had a story this morning saying (what else) that Dem support for infrastructure is “fraying” because they see it as a distraction from voting rights. Which is usually the sign that the “liberal media” sees a crack and is trying to jam a wedge in there in order to expose a weakness.
John Rich is a fucking moron whose only even tangential brush with notoriety in the past decade was being a loser on the Apprentice.
Nobody gives one hot damn what the dumber half of Big & Rich things.
Fuck off, @NRA. https://t.co/y9xOuPR1FC— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) June 11, 2021
This dude is scratching crosses into the concrete with a rock pic.twitter.com/ag9kOu4Qf8
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) June 11, 2021
Ron Brownstein: “While Sen. Joe Manchin is demanding that both parties agree on any further federal voting-rights legislation, a new study quantifies how completely Republicans have excluded Democrats from the passage of the restrictive voting laws proliferating in red states.”“In places such as Florida, Georgia, Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, and Montana, the most restrictive laws approved this year have passed on total or near-complete party-line votes, with almost all state legislative Republicans voting for the bills and nearly all Democrats uniting against them.”
“That pattern of unrelenting partisanship has left many state-level Democrats incredulous at the repeated insistence by Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia, that he will support new federal voting-rights legislation only if at least some Republican senators agree to it.”
The atlantic
re: #97 Targetpractice
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“The investment would be fully paid for and not increase taxes.”
Translation: “We’re about the gut the fuck out of some government programs that benefit poor folks.”
And redirecting covid funds, which up to yesterday was a D nonstarter
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #100 Targetpractice
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Briefing on the preliminary injunction has not even concluded and already Florida’s unconstitutional social media law appears to be in just a little bit of trouble.
That reads a whole lot like judgese for “what are you clowns thinking” pic.twitter.com/YQ2OuxAfnJ— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) June 10, 2021
2nd translation:
You in danger, girl.
re: #115 Dangerman
And redirecting covid funds, which up to yesterday was a D nonstarter
It still is, this bill is DOA before it’s even been inked. Short of agreeing to deficit spending, the only way to pay for this bill without raising taxes is to raid budgets for other programs. And that’s going to light more than a few heads of hair on fire.
re: #108 Targetpractice
It’s the same way that the ACA got the Medicaid expansion drawn and quartered, and the GOP are still at it trying to invalidate the entire ACA. They’re counting on a federal judge somewhere saying that it’s invalid, watching for a split of authority among circuits, and appealing all the way to the Supreme Court.
re: #102 Dopamine Fish
I’m going to beg to differ. I think people like DeathSantis - governors of Republican states, Republican congresspeople or senators, men and women who have actual power instead of just talking heads like Fucker Carlson - genuinely feel that they are untouchable. They have been emboldened by their continued success in duping people into voting for them, even as they have gotten more abrasive and destructive. I think they genuinely believe that they can enact these utterly asinine laws and that, even if the laws get challenged or even overturned, it’s still a limited success because - hey, they got away with it, didn’t they? They rammed through a wildly unpopular bill over the objections of well-reasoned people, and they’ll still get to keep all their power because nobody who votes for them cares about anything except White Republican Jesus.
A totally red legislature. Not a major lift really.
They pass everything over the objections of well reasoned people…the Democratic minority
re: #120 Dangerman
A totally red legislature. Not a major lift really.
They pass everything over the objections of well reasoned people…the Democratic minority
I’m more referring to the fact that they pass stuff even their own constituents don’t want - but nobody cares, because as long as they’re Republican and can recite the ritual words, “I stand by Donald J. Trump and I support overturning Roe,” they’ll reliably get re-elected.
So let’s be clear:
Twitter has the guts to stand up and fights for a pseudonymous cow and a satirical mom bit Apple rolls the hell over and coughs up the data of MEMBERS OF CONGRESS????— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 11, 2021
Oh no. We’re now being treated, not to In re: Gondor I, nor to In re: Gondor II. That’s right, people, welcome to the unholy trinity of abominations - In re: Gondor III.
A pitfalls of being in the US but professionally based in the UK is that you do have to check email immediately when you wake up - because they’ve had half their day already.
I wake up this morning to Courtlistener alerts telling me that there’s a new In re Gondor complaint.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 11, 2021
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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No thanks. 5 seconds of screeching is all my ears can take from either of those assholes.
re: #110 Mike Lamb
Read a brief article on CNN. They misleadingly call it a $1.2T bill. There is only $579B in new spending. Then I saw who was in the group of 10 and became even less interested. On top of all that, it still won’t get 60 votes. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if some Senate Dems vote against. Pelosi will have to do some Jedi mind control to limit opposition in the House.
Biden’s proposal is wildly popular, and Dems are blocking it, over the wishes of their constituencies. Fuck this noise.
There’s one other lesson that comes from these two stories, incidentally. If anyone thinks voters aren’t paying attention to what’s going on in Congress, they are. And it is very clear that many a vote will be determined by which party and which members get things done, and which do not. Exactly how those things get done—whether bipartisan or not—seems to be of little importance; what matters is that something is accomplished
Texas Republicans abandon for now their attempt to end Sunday “souls to the polls”
2. Republicans are COMPLETELY UNPREPARED to defend the substance of the bill and are abandoning major provisions.
First, the GOP claimed the ban on Sunday voting before 1PM was a typo
This isn’t credible because they defended the ban as the bill was debated
But its OUT— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 11, 2021
4. Keep in mind THESE PROVISIONS PASSED THE TEXAS SENATE AND WOULD BE TEXAS LAW HAD DEMOCRATS NOT WALKED OUT
Now Republicans are saying the bill was full of “typos” and “horrendous” provisions
WTF!— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 11, 2021
re: #116 Targetpractice
John Rich is Faux’s pet country musician, who keeps insisting that everybody in the industry is a closeted conservative who wants to come out in opposition to “woke” culture, but they’re all being “muzzled” by the industry execs.
What was their excuse 2 years ago?
Or 5?
re: #128 No Malarkey!
I guess the Texas House Republicans have amply demonstrated that their colleagues in the Senate are bewilderingly incompetent and should be replaced at the earliest convenience.
Joe Biden is made of Teflon, so the Right is trying to wreck Fauci’s reputation.
Bill Straub: Dr. Fauci is fall-back target for Republican ire, since they can’t sink Biden’s approval rating https://t.co/E7HNcP6iX8 via @nkytribune ^JB
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) June 11, 2021
re: #130 Dopamine Fish
I guess the Texas House Republicans have amply demonstrated that their colleagues in the Senate are bewilderingly incompetent and should be replaced at the earliest convenience.
It was a very good thing that Texas Democrats stopped that bill!
6. There may not be a special session until the Fall. How many more “typos” or horrendous provisions will be found before then?
When defending the indefensible, time is not on your side
For updates & accountability journalism, sign up for the newsletterhttps://t.co/TfpCItdVSo— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 11, 2021
re: #131 No Malarkey!
Joe Biden is made of Teflon, so the Right is trying to wreck Fauci’s reputation.
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Classic Repub strategy: If you can’t get the primary target, then slag everybody around in them in a “guilt-by-association” ploy. The idea being to destroy Dr. Fauci’s reputation, and then attack Biden for not firing him.
re: #131 No Malarkey!
And right on queue here comes the Florida Fuckup
The Wuhan lab conducts experiments that turn natural animal viruses which aren’t transmissible in humans into new ones that are
Fauci knew this & supports this controversial practice
Which may be why he has always downplayed the lab leak theory— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) June 11, 2021
re: #134 Targetpractice
Classic Repub strategy: If you can’t get the primary target, then slag everybody around in them in a “guilt-by-association” ploy. The idea being to destroy Dr. Fauci’s reputation, and then attack Biden for not firing him.
Won’t work
re: #133 No Malarkey!
It was a very good thing that Texas Democrats stopped that bill!
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The thing Judd has to bear in mind is that, short of TX Dems managing to elude capture until after the special session ends, TX Repubs will pass that bill. And then they’ll pass a bill or set of bills to “amend” it to cram back in all the shit that they couldn’t get originally.
re: #135 JOE 🥓
And right on queue here comes the Florida Fuckup
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Or it “may be” that he’s smarter than you and knows more About this than you.
The Wuhan lab conducts experiments that turn natural animal viruses which aren’t transmissible in humans into new ones that are
Fauci knew this & supports this controversial practice
Which may be why he has always downplayed the lab leak theory— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) June 11, 2021
re: #138 Dangerman
Or it “may be” that he’s smarter than you and knows more About this than you.
A dead clam is smarter than Moron Marco.
re: #135 JOE 🥓
And right on queue here comes the Florida Fuckup
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The GQP have decided that “CHYNA! BOOGA BOOGA!!!” is gonna be one of the pillars of their ‘22 strategy.
re: #135 JOE 🥓
I think the reason the lab leak theory is downplayed, especially by professionals, is that it would take a fuck-up of epic magnitude for it to happen. We’d be talking about a catastrophic failure in biohazard safety protocols.
Could something like that happen? Of course it could. But again, this would be a failure so complete it’s likely impossible to imagine by the people who work in that field. It’d be a Three Stooges level of failure.
re: #141 Dr Lizardo
I think the reason the lab leak theory is downplayed, especially by professionals, is that it would take a fuck-up of epic magnitude for it to happen. We’d be talking about a catastrophic failure in biohazard safety protocols.
Could something like that happen? Of course it could. But again, this would be a failure so complete it’s likely impossible to imagine by the people who work in that field. It’d be a Three Stooges level of failure.
And they are still ignoring the elephant in the room that the US response to the virus breaking loose was totally (and arguably purposefully) mismanaged and led to the unnecessary death of 500,000 citizens and a extended period of economic damage.
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
“John Rich is 100% right - country music executives are out of touch with their audience.
It’s time we gun-loving, country music fans stand and be counted.”
In other words, there are not enough Country songs about God, Guns, Family, Pickup Trucks, Patriotism, Havin’ Some Shit-Kickin’ Friday Night Fun Down at the Local Juke Joint, and Hard-Working White People from Small Towns Who Don’t Need no Handouts to Get By.
re: #116 Targetpractice
John Rich is Faux’s pet country musician, who keeps insisting that everybody in the industry is a closeted conservative who wants to come out in opposition to “woke” culture, but they’re all being “muzzled” by the industry execs.
Those “cowardly” execs who backed down after trying to ban Old Town Road from the Country charts?
re: #137 Targetpractice
The thing Judd has to bear in mind is that, short of TX Dems managing to elude capture until after the special session ends, TX Repubs will pass that bill. And then they’ll pass a bill or set of bills to “amend” it to cram back in all the shit that they couldn’t get originally.
I don’t know. It’s hard to justify adding provisions you just described as”typos” or “horrendous.”
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“John Rich is 100% right - country music executives are out of touch with their audience.
It’s time we gun-loving, country music fans stand and be counted.”
In other words, there are not enough Country songs about God, Guns, Family, Pickup Trucks, Patriotism, Havin’ Some Shit-Kickin’ Friday Night Fun Down at the Local Juke Joint, and Hard-Working White People from Small Towns Who Don’t Need no Handouts to Get By.
Don’t forget the booze, adultery, cross burnings and Oxycontin!
re: #145 No Malarkey!
I don’t know. It’s hard to justify adding provisions you just described as”typos” or “horrendous.”
That’s why you tuck that shit into other bills, usually ones that are listed as “must-pass.”
re: #141 Dr Lizardo
I think the reason the lab leak theory is downplayed, especially by professionals, is that it would take a fuck-up of epic magnitude for it to happen. We’d be talking about a catastrophic failure in biohazard safety protocols.
Could something like that happen? Of course it could. But again, this would be a failure so complete it’s likely impossible to imagine by the people who work in that field. It’d be a Three Stooges level of failure.
And so the QAnon Right is saying it was intentional, not accidental.
After earlier comparing former president Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the attorney for one of the Capitol rioters went on a rant at the end of an interview with CNN host John Berman in which he railed at Trump for sending “dummies” to do his dirty work in an effort to void the 2020 presidential election.
re: #146 JOE 🥓
Don’t forget the booze, adultery, cross burnings and Oxycontin!
Yep, I remember my ex bringing home Toby Keith’s White Trash With Money. On the liner notes, he writes: “This album is dedicated to my “Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ”.
The album ends with a song called Running Block, which is about getting drunk and hooking up with overweight women in motel rooms.
Family values, indeed.
re: #142 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And they are still ignoring the elephant in the room that the US response to the virus breaking loose was totally (and arguably purposefully) mismanaged and led to the unnecessary death of 500,000 citizens and a extended period of economic damage.
Of course the GOP is going to ignore that - mostly because that’s all on them.
Meanwhile, here in Czech Republic, the vaccination program just hit a bit of a speed bump; Jaromir Jágr, the internationally-renowned hockey player, declined to be the public face of the vaccine campaign…because he doesn’t believe getting vaccinated is necessary, at least not for COVID-19. And ‘round these parts - Jaromir Jágr is more respected than God Himself…his words carry some serious weight with the hockey-crazy Czechs.
re: #57 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
9-11 diverted US IC and domestic security assets for 20 years, allowing Russia, China and their traitorous tools to run wild.
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re: #146 JOE 🥓
Don’t forget the booze, adultery, cross burnings and Oxycontin!
Sounds like Tuesday in Lynchtown, USA.
re: #140 Targetpractice
The GQP have decided that “CHYNA! BOOGA BOOGA!!!” is gonna be one of the pillars of their ‘22 strategy.
Won’t work
re: #149 JOE 🥓
After earlier comparing former president Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the attorney for one of the Capitol rioters went on a rant at the end of an interview with CNN host John Berman in which he railed at Trump for sending “dummies” to do his dirty work in an effort to void the 2020 presidential election.
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You hate to see it.
re: #141 Dr Lizardo
I think the reason the lab leak theory is downplayed, especially by professionals, is that it would take a fuck-up of epic magnitude for it to happen. We’d be talking about a catastrophic failure in biohazard safety protocols.
Could something like that happen? Of course it could. But again, this would be a failure so complete it’s likely impossible to imagine by the people who work in that field. It’d be a Three Stooges level of failure.
This is not true. The Wuhan lab was handling coronaviruses at BSL2 when the industry recommendation for coronavirus is BSL3. That decision was really the only fuck up necessary.
re: #97 Targetpractice
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“The investment would be fully paid for and not increase taxes.”
Translation: “We’re about the gut the fuck out of some government programs that benefit poor folks.”
It includes a gas tax hike.
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“John Rich is 100% right - country music executives are out of touch with their audience.
It’s time we gun-loving, country music fans stand and be counted.”
In other words, there are not enough Country songs about God, Guns, Family, Pickup Trucks, Patriotism, Havin’ Some Shit-Kickin’ Friday Night Fun Down at the Local Juke Joint, and Hard-Working White People from Small Towns Who Don’t Need no Handouts to Get By.
Dogs, tractors
re: #149 JOE 🥓
After earlier comparing former president Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the attorney for one of the Capitol rioters went on a rant at the end of an interview with CNN host John Berman in which he railed at Trump for sending “dummies” to do his dirty work in an effort to void the 2020 presidential election.
Like Trump, the defendants’ lawyers will say whatever they think people need to hear at the time.
re: #154 Dangerman
Won’t work
The main pillars of their 2022 strategy will be gerrymandering and vote suppression. I pray to dog they don’t work.
re: #160 No Malarkey!
The main pillars of their 2022 strategy will be gerrymandering and vote suppression. I pray to dog they don’t work.
And in 2024, GOP state legislatures will simply refuse to validate any results they don’t like.
re: #157 Belafon
It includes a gas tax hike.
Which is a non-starter for the administration if they mean what they said about not raising taxes on anyone making less than $400k. ISTR that the gas tax is very just slightly regressive.
re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hey, dude, God told them to get an abortion.
re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And in 2024, GOP state legislatures will simply refuse to validate any results they don’t like.
We’ll see. They actually have to have the laws in place to allow them to do that before election day. Normally state legislatures don’t have a role in certifying elections after the fact. But I could see Trumpist election officials refusing to certify “fraudulent” election results.
re: #165 No Malarkey!
We’ll see. They actually have to have the laws in place to allow them to do that before election day. Normally state legislatures don’t have a role in certifying elections after the fact. But I could see Trumpist election officials refusing to certify “fraudulent” election results.
They’re passing and signing those laws right now. Trust me, if a Democrat wins in Georgia in 2022/2024, they will refuse to certify.
re: #166 Dopamine Fish
They’re passing and signing those laws right now. Trust me, if a Democrat wins in Georgia in 2022/2024, they will refuse to certify.
If they fuck around, they’ll find out what happens when people are disenfranchised and can only effect change via violence.
i will never again take for granted having a POTUS and FLOTUS abroad conduct themselves with dignity. We no longer need to cringe.
— Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) June 10, 2021
re: #166 Dopamine Fish
They’re passing and signing those laws right now. Trust me, if a Democrat wins in Georgia in 2022/2024, they will refuse to certify.
If they refuse to certify only once race..say prez, but a!low all the others , the pretzel logic will be astounding
Plus
They’ll be admitting *they* effed up their election admin
Opinion: Biden’s plans would give families a surprisingly big lift. New data shows how. https://t.co/mwNMJSM1oF
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 10, 2021
In a sense, Biden’s policies appropriate both progressive and conservative populist instincts. The higher taxes on the rich and corporations — which would also reduce the privileging of investment income and rein in high-end tax avoidance, including by multinational companies — would discourage socially destructive elite conduct and make the tax code distributionally more progressive.
So would the low-end tax credits. Yet these wouldn’t just fulfill a long-held progressive priority; they would also steal away ideological turf that conservative populists have of late been trying to make their own.
Obviously these Biden plans are in proposal form, and it’s anybody’s guess how much will pass. But you’d think conservative populists who like to proclaim the GOP is becoming the real working-class party might look at these developments with a touch of alarm.
re: #170 Dangerman
If they refuse to certify only once race..say prez, but a!low all the others , the pretzel logic will be astounding
Plus
They’ll be admitting *they* effed up their election admin
They already did the former. That’s literally the foundation of the Big Lie. Their “pretzel logic” was a lot of hand-waving and smoke bombs. They didn’t even try to explain it. And yet, 30% of Republican voters believe it.
re: #151 Dr Lizardo
Of course the GOP is going to ignore that - mostly because that’s all on them.
Meanwhile, here in Czech Republic, the vaccination program just hit a bit of a speed bump; Jaromir Jágr, the internationally-renowned hockey player, declined to be the public face of the vaccine campaign…because he doesn’t believe getting vaccinated is necessary, at least not for COVID-19. And ‘round these parts - Jaromir Jágr is more respected than God Himself…his words carry some serious weight with the hockey-crazy Czechs.
I met him once in a diner east of Pittsburgh when he was a teen in his 1st or 2nd season with the Penguins. Imposing physical specimen, but still something of a big kid in behavior.
re: #131 No Malarkey!
Joe Biden is made of Teflon, so the Right is trying to wreck Fauci’s reputation.
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The media is fabricating a plot-twist narrative that scientists & the media thought a lab-leak was impossible & now they think it’s possible.
As Fauci tells WSJ: “That is an accusation that I have to tell you, is preposterous” https://t.co/DSAu7aICaI— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) June 10, 2021
re: #167 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If they fuck around, they’ll find out what happens when people are disenfranchised and can only effect change via violence.
However, the GOP will think this puts them on the right side of the law (however wrong the law is) and that thus the police (and perhaps military if necessary) will back them in suppressing the perceived “rebellion”.
Consider the fact that four of the 5 blue states on the left are controlled by Republicans:
The partisan divide in States’ success in mass vaccination across the US is truly startling. #COVID19 is an equal-opportunity infector, but unused #vaccines can’t be equal-opportunity protectors.https://t.co/dzjxbQpBMY
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 10, 2021
WSJ: More people have died worldwide from Covid-19 this year than in all of 2020, according to official counts, highlighting how the global pandemic is far from over https://t.co/4THSkzBzQm
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 11, 2021
re: #177 Belafon
Consider the fact that four of the 5 blue states on the left are controlled by Republicans:
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re: #174 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I met him once in a diner east of Pittsburgh when he was a teen in his 1st or 2nd season with the Penguins. Imposing physical specimen, but still something of a big kid in behavior.
And he still is - his exploits are routine tabloid fodder here.
re: #169 Belafon
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i will never again take for granted having a POTUS and FLOTUS abroad conduct themselves with dignity. We no longer need to cringe.
— Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) June 10, 2021
re: #165 No Malarkey!
We’ll see. They actually have to have the laws in place to allow them to do that before election day. Normally state legislatures don’t have a role in certifying elections after the fact. But I could see Trumpist election officials refusing to certify “fraudulent” election results.
Because they are not going to repeat the “mistakes” they made in 2020 of trusting GOP state election officials to “do the right thing” (for the Party, not the country)
He didn’t get paid…
Jason Miller leaving job as Trump spokesperson https://t.co/q5Uskyxf1l pic.twitter.com/XaxNzVKiOw
— The Hill (@thehill) June 11, 2021
re: #177 Belafon
It’s going to be really interesting and frightening to see what the 2022 election does to our choice of Raphael Warnock. The GOP is trying to win this by painting him as a radical leftist liberal, but I am not completely convinced that will work.so far the GOP hasn’t come up with a solid challenger.
Looks like tourism to the PRC won’t be picking up anytime soon: https://t.co/mxKfViK9u2
— Rob Schmitz (@rob_schmitz) June 10, 2021
re: #185 A Mom Anon
It’s going to be really interesting and frightening to see what the 2022 election does to our choice of Raphael Warnock. The GOP is trying to win this by painting him as a radical leftist liberal, but I am not completely convinced that will work.so far the GOP hasn’t come up with a solid challenger.
Isn’t the GOP drafting Herschel Walker with Trump’s blessing to run against Rev. Warnock?
As everyone chases Joe Manchin around the Senate basement, I strongly recommend this @sambrodey piece about the Democratic Senators quietly in agreement with Manchin, letting him catch all the arrows.https://t.co/yOCyLemf18
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) June 10, 2021
re: #183 JOE 🥓
He didn’t get paid…
Will he still be impregnating strippers and slipping them abortion pills?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 11, 2021
re: #56 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Bye Bye asshole. Play stupid game, win stupid prize.
Oregon House expels state Rep. Mike Nearman, plotter of Capitol incursion
Nearman refused to resign in the face of overwhelming evidence he would be ejected from the Legislature. The four-term Republican lawmaker becomes the first person ever expelled from the Oregon House.
Good riddance.
Make sure to look at the last line:
A lot of folks on this site seem to confuse HIPAA and HIPPA, so I made a chart to clear up the confusion. pic.twitter.com/MFjVYY7cUj
— David Fry (@davidkfry) June 9, 2021
re: #180 Dr Lizardo
And he still is - his exploits are routine tabloid fodder here.
I personally thought his ascent to Asst Capt and then Capt on the Penguins was a bad move. It turned him into something of a head case. And personally I thought the Penguins should have gone with Ron Francis as Capt and potentially even kept Francis over Jagr when Carolina got to draft players when they joined the league. (Wasn’t going to happen due to the age difference and where they were on their respective career trajectories. But Francis going to Carolina was very good for the early history of that franchise.)
And the Penguins jersey I own is a Ron Francis one.
Well, the In re: Gondor III (apparently just a “Second Amended Complaint” in In re: Gondor I) live thread is well underway, and apparently he really did rewrite the whole complaint to be In re: Gondor III, complete with the right-wing wackadoodle’s lawsuit of choice… You love it, you miss it, RICO!
RICO.
Oh, Paul, no. You found the way to make this dumber.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 11, 2021
re: #188 Belafon
There’s a number of Democrats who have said they don’t want to abolish the filibuster, including Tester. But they also note that obstruction and refusal to move forward on voting or infrastructure is causing them to lose patience with the status quo and that they’d go along with ending it.
I am alarmed by Idaho, Missouri and Pennsylvania, but it is Colorado that gives me the greatest concern. pic.twitter.com/nfimoG7iNE
— Dug Begley (@DugBegley) June 10, 2021
re: #193 Dopamine Fish
Suave…. Popehat is going to be busy fielding answers about this crap.
All of these awful lawyers give the profession a bad name.
All of these lawyers not getting sanctioned and drummed out of the profession give the profession a bad name.
All of these lawyers not getting held accountable for this crap gives profession a bad name and makes you wonder why anyone bothers going to law school if you can spew this crap and waste the court’s time.
And it makes you wonder why the state bar associations aren’t taking a harsher look at egregious failures to uphold the rules of professional conduct.
re: #197 lawhawk
Suave…. Popehat is going to be busy fielding answers about this crap.
All of these awful lawyers give the profession a bad name.
All of these lawyers not getting sanctioned and drummed out of the profession give the profession a bad name.
All of these lawyers not getting held accountable for this crap gives profession a bad name and makes you wonder why anyone bothers going to law school if you can spew this crap and waste the court’s time.
And it makes you wonder why the state bar associations aren’t taking a harsher look at egregious failures to uphold the rules of professional conduct.
Paul Davis, at least, has been shitcanned and is basically flying solo on this after his law firm refused to have anything to do with the disgrace that was In re: Gondor I. I understand that the legal community is reticent to dish out additional sanctions beyond loss of reputation/business and whatever these dinguses receive in court, but at some point, they’ve got to do something about the people who are very obviously refusing to quit and are selling mentally unwell people lawsuits that can’t possibly succeed.
re: #196 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Hawaii and…Bagels?????
re: #199 JOE 🥓
Hawaii and…Bagels?????
There is a possibility they are all actually trying to find out how to spell “Beagles”
lol
re: #195 lawhawk
There’s a number of Democrats who have said they don’t want to abolish the filibuster, including Tester. But they also note that obstruction and refusal to move forward on voting or infrastructure is causing them to lose patience with the status quo and that they’d go along with ending it.
as the majority, you either control your agenda, career and legacy or you let the minority republicans do it for you.
they’re all thinking or saying ‘i wish things were different, maybe like they used to be’, and they’re trying to act that way
that’s not how things are.
right now.
at your job
you will accomplish nothing if you don’t recognize the actual reality you are in and use the only levers of power you likely will ever have.
i love this
After a London couple began working from home, Ziggy’s adorable antics became too much to handle.
“I’m all for clingy cats, but there are times where some kind of measures need to be taken,” May wrote on Reddit.
Ziggy’s habit of climbing all over May’s workspace and laptop were thwarted by her husband’s sly hack — by stuffing a pair of pants and shoes, and placing the dummy lap on the couch.
re: #187 JOE 🥓
That’s not really got much traction. So far at least. David Purdue applied to run and then backed out. Kelly Loeffler declined to run for that seat again. Doug Collins decided not to run after saying he would, etc. Walker isn’t very popular either, plus he’s black, that won’t drive turnout. Dems just need to vote in big numbers and do what we can to make sure people don’t get discouraged. That’s the whole point of all these suppression laws, to make people give up.
re: #202 Dangerman
i love this
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Tomorrow’s annual Naked Bike Ride in Montpelier—which, yes, is literally exactly what the name says it is—evidently is … masks required?! https://t.co/Sj4YHNnZ5M
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) June 11, 2021
re: #196 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Well, at least the folk of CT are very concerned about being bougie.
A digital marketing firm closely linked to the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA was responsible for a series of deceptive Facebook ads promoting Green party candidates during the 2018 US midterm elections, the Guardian can reveal.
In an apparent attempt to split the Democratic vote in a number of close races, the ads purported to come from an organization called America Progress Now (APN) and used socialist memes and rhetoric to urge leftwing voters to support Green party candidates.
Facebook was aware of the true identity of the advertiser - the conservative marketing firm Rally Forge - and the deceptive nature of the ads, documents seen by the Guardian show, but the company determined that they did not violate its policies.
re: #209 John Hughes
but the company determined that they did not violate its policies.
What the actual bejesusing fuck is wrong with Facebook’s policies?!
re: #207 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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And, in case anyone was wondering, yes, that is my primary mode of access to the rest of Jacksonville Florida and the World outside of my cave
re: #211 Dopamine Fish
What the actual bejesusing fuck is wrong with Facebook’s policies?!
Two words: “Money talks.”
re: #211 Dopamine Fish
What the actual bejesusing fuck is wrong with Facebook’s policies?!
They’re there to make money, and our current election law sucks.
re: #211 Dopamine Fish
What the actual bejesusing fuck is wrong with Facebook’s policies?!
There’s nothing wrong with them, they achieve exactly what Facebook wants them to achieve.
hmm
Rebekah Jones said she was just making a point by announcing her run against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), WFLA reports.
Wrote Jones on Instagram: “In suggesting a run in Florida 1, I was pointing out the hypocrisy in DeSantis writing a law to prevent the silencing of government critics, while simultaneously celebrating my suspension for sharing a news article that exposed the lies he made that cost so many Florida lives.”
re: #183 JOE 🥓
He didn’t get paid…
From Trump (probably):
“I’m not paying you but I’ll put in a good word for you at OANN.”
re: #216 Dangerman
$ = the actual bejesusing fuck
re: #219 wrenchwench
Winner winner chicken dinner.
Biden in the UK
“A commitment by the American people” to the world, Jill’s jacket, Joe goes for a pint (sort of), Donald who? — and the Kremlin casts a shadow over it all
Molly McKew’s substack greatpower.us
She has a number of interesting points to make. I should pay to join, but I subscribe to so many already, I just take her free posts.
re: #222 retired cynic
Biden in the UK
“A commitment by the American people” to the world, Jill’s jacket, Joe goes for a pint (sort of), Donald who? — and the Kremlin casts a shadow over it all
Molly McKew’s substack greatpower.usShe has a number of interesting points to make. I should pay to join, but I subscribe to so many already, I just take her free posts.
Keep the J. Legum. I did 6 mos. when I got a pandemic payment. I was very sad when I decided not to renew.
drip drip drip, maybe
rawstory
“Kurt Volker, Trump’s Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, appears to have lied under oath when testifying at the first impeachment trial of the former president that he didn’t know that the president wanted Ukraine to look into unfounded allegations against Joe Biden.”
“This week, CNN released recordings of Rudy Giuliani and Volker speaking to a top Ukrainian aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The recording revealed Giuliani pressing Ukraine to announce the investigation against Biden and claim that Ukraine was behind the 2016 election hack. Volker was on the call, making it clear that he was well aware of what Giuliani and Trump were working to do.”
“At no time was I aware of or knowingly took part in an effort to urge Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Biden. As you know from the extensive real-time documentation I have provided, Vice President Biden was not a topic of our discussions,” he told Congress.” ……
re: #105 John Hughes
Oh bollocks.
Yes, I do think that. Historically “major state backing” is more likely to fuck things up that a couple of dozen assholes.
It’s almost admirable that Garland manages to steal so much right-wing guano in this screed. I remember specifically the claim that “a bunch of guys who live in caves” could not have pulled this off. This was used to suggest that Saddam and Iraq, or some other suspect du jour, was involved.
I agree that 9-11 had the effect he claims, diverting American resources for 20 years, and that Americans (Repugs) were complicit, but he dives right into the bat cave by suggesting that Russia and China (which one?) concocted this as a planned strategy or that the box cutter guys needed some sort of spec-ops/ninja training to pull it off.
re: #226 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
It’s almost admirable that Garland manages to steal so much right-wing guano in this screed. I remember specifically the claim that “a bunch of guys who live in caves” could not have pulled this off. This was used to suggest that Saddam and Iraq, or some other suspect du jour, was involved.
I agree that 9-11 had the effect he claims, diverting American resources for 20 years, and that Americans (Repugs) were complicit, but he dives right into the bat cave by suggesting that Russia and China (which one?) concocted this as a planned strategy or that the box cutter guys needed some sort of spec-ops/ninja training to pull it off.
It’s a method to blame outsiders rather than admit your own analysts and departments failed to catch on in time and prevent a disaster from happening.
In break from national party, Oregon Republicans decide insurrectioning is a firing offense. https://t.co/KeQqs0MJ0M via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 11, 2021
re: #228 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Or a realization that said insurrectionists getting into their perceived secure space might have been a threat to their well-being as well.
re: #224 wrenchwench
Keep the J. Legum. I did 6 mos. when I got a pandemic payment. I was very sad when I decided not to renew.
I have. Just renewed. gulp. Kept Legum and LGF and WaPo.
re: #229 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or a realization that said insurrectionists getting into their perceived secure space might have been a threat to their well-being as well.
Which is still different than national Republicans.
re: #225 Dangerman
drip drip drip, maybe
rawstory
Kurt Volker made my spidey-sense go off. Lying would not surprise me.
More than 2000 former DOJ officials - including me - called for AG Barr to resign - time will show how right we were. Barr & his corrupt cabal degraded & disgraced the Justice Department in permanent ways that may never be repaired.
https://t.co/lMxyZE6jIx— Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu) June 11, 2021
Anti-vax caller says covid vaccines violate ‘Nuremberg Code’
Michelangelo Signorile shuts down anti-vaxxer.
re: #97 Targetpractice
OFFS:
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“The investment would be fully paid for and not increase taxes.”
Translation: “We’re about the gut the fuck out of some government programs that benefit poor folks.”
TBF. Technically, that is possible without harming the poor. Recent articles have reported that tax evasion costs us 500 billion to a trillion dollars annually. All that is needed is to do a Leona Helmsley on enough wealthy people and we may have sufficient funds to pay for infrastructure. Trump is a good starting point.
Ban Marjorie Taylor Greene for still pushing these falsehoods about the coronavirus #TimeToExpelMarjorie https://t.co/5JJB1A3nRJ
— Tara Dublin Is Vaccinated AF (@taradublinrocks) June 11, 2021
re: #152 Belafon
Too many powers attributed to the wealthy. Oh, they’re assholes, but nothing was that coordinated.
It’s sort of a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory, a practice hijacked from the right. Whether deliberately or not, it creates the impression that resistance is futile, or at least that organized opposition is a waste of time. In my personal experience, this very conclusion is endemic among working class people, causing them to ignore or discount their own very real ability to affect change through voting, supporting unions, etc.
As I pointed out in the string, Garland ignores the lack of unity among the wealthy and powerful, as well as the fundamental impossibility of that degree of unity among people whose lives and status are based on cutthroat competition. In particular, his version would have no explanation for the Cheneys’ open revolt against the Trumpist GQP, since Darth himself was at the very center of screwing up the response to 9-11.
re: #235 Hecuba’s daughter
TBF. Technically, that is possible without harming the poor. Recent articles have reported that tax evasion costs us 500 billion to a trillion dollars annually. All that is needed is to do a Leona Helmsley on enough wealthy people and we may have sufficient funds to pay for infrastructure. Trump is a good starting point.
a laudable goal
however even if an investigation/audit was started on every ‘rich’ person today - all at the same time - due processing their way through the system is so slow that not one of them would end up paying a dime for at least 5 years or likely longer
re: #239 Dangerman
Agree, but boy, do I think we should do it anyway.
Good CRT thread, featuring the founding of the U.S.
First of all, you should know that critical theory, as a tool for examining social structures, has been around for more than a century.
Broadly put, no social structure is perfect, and all social structures must be examined— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 11, 2021
This trending and hoping Jason Miller caught sepsis at a Golden Corral. pic.twitter.com/4EsCsde0l2
— monkeyrotica (@monkeyrotica) June 11, 2021
re: #241 jaunte
First of all, you should know that critical theory, as a tool for examining social structures, has been around for more than a century.
So has Bolshevism.
And look what good that did.
We can only praise the USA and maintain our standard version and vision of what it stood for AND STOP BEING SO DIVISIVE!
Now go get back to your side of the tracks and stop sullying our neighborhoods…
re: #240 retired cynic
Agree, but boy, do I think we should do it anyway.
certainly
they are clearly not paying the ‘fair share’ they all claim to be
and im only talking about the effective rate on income taxes, not as a % of ‘wealth’
didnt take long
Senate Majority Leader Schumer/Judiciary Chair Durbin: “Fmr Attorneys General Barr and Sessions and other officials who were involved must testify before the Senate Judiciary Cmte under oath. If they refuse, they are subject to being subpoenaed & compelled to testify under oath.”
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 11, 2021
re: #245 Dangerman
Schumer/Durbin: “This appalling politicization of the Department of Justice by Donald Trump and his sycophants must be investigated immediately by both the DOJ Inspector General and Congress.”
I long ago stopped asking “What would be the GOP response if a Democrat tried this?”
Asked earlier how much revenue it would bring to the table, Romney said, “Not much.” https://t.co/enoLQbnjAi
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) June 10, 2021
It should also be said, when looking at the possibility that there could be 10 Republicans in the Senate willing to actually do something to help the nation, this agreement might just be vapor as the members of the very group who supposedly reached it are definitely not on the same page.
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said talks are “in the middle stages” but that there wouldn’t be a deal Thursday. Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana said there was no agreement but “we might” get there, then listed the key problem of disagreement over total spending and how to pay for it. “For some people it’s going to be plenty, for others it’s not going to be near enough. There’s going to be challenges for Republicans and Democrats,” Tester said. “The words [Republicans] use are: we have a general, total agreement.” He’s saying, without saying it, that Republicans are lying.
That doesn’t bode well for progress in this group.
Now is the time to shift from rescue to recovery. We want communities that THRIVE and not just survive. Demand healthcare for all. #Health4All Sign petition: https://t.co/3nqf8UZKRX pic.twitter.com/ADM1TavGUF
— Dolores Huerta Foundation (@DoloresHuertaFD) June 10, 2021
re: #157 Belafon
It includes a gas tax hike.
which will have 0 effect on people who drive Prius or Tesla or any of the other electrics. There’s a new Ford truck that’s electric. Electrics will increase rapidly over the next few years.
This isn’t a revenue enhancer. Though we should hike the gas tax anyway, just to encourage new car buyers to go electric.
re: #247 Belafon
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“total spending and how to pay for it”
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