Jordan Klepper travels to Wisconsin to a rally hosted by Mike Lindell to hear all about the latest election fraud claims and goes head-to-head with the My Pillow guy himself. #DailyShow #JordanKlepper #MikeLindell
New video about the TUR. Behind the tag if you want to skip over.
TW: Firearm use & training for home defense. Don’t @ me .
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Huge ass blackout in Reno.
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) June 18, 2021
Tucker Carlson is exactly why Kaepernick took a knee. Institutionalized racism personified.
— Trent Capelli 🇨🇦 (@TrentCapelli) June 17, 2021
Too soon pic.twitter.com/UiBX8XIuBk
— 🇯🇲Black🇭🇹 Aziz 🇳🇬aNANsi🇹🇹 (@Freeyourmindkid) June 18, 2021
re: #4 Belafon
Dead Kennedys accurately predicted 2020s America in 1985.
Cold concrete apartments
Rise up from wet black asphalt
Below them a few carcasses
Of the long gone age of privacy
It takes a scary kind of illness
To design a place like this for pay
Downtown’s an endless generic mall
Of video games and fast food chains
One by one
The little houses are bricked up and condemned
A subtle hint to move
Before the rats move in
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Those new kids at school seem cool
But dad says not to talk to them
Stick to your old friends
They’re not our kind
So now there’s lots of fights
So many people I know
Come of age tense and bitter-eyed
Can’t create so they just destroy
C’mon!
Let’s set someone’s dog on fire
Empty plastic
Culture slum suburbia
Is a war zone now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs
We thought we’d left behind
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Kids at school are taking sides
Along color and uniform lines
My dad’s gone and bought a gun
He says he’s fed up
With crime in this town
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Anywhere
Everywhere
I hope I’m gone before it explodes
I linger late at night
Waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz
Could hide the oozing vibes of death
My dad’s a vigilante now
He’s bringing home these weird-ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his TV
When Kojak’s on
Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun
To his sixteen-year-old daughter’s friends
Whose sense of pride and hope
Is being in the police reserve
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Everywhere
The US needs to lift all its sanctions on Russia, stop deploying NATO troops in the former Warsaw Pact countries and former Soviet republics, and stop supporting Russia’s domestic political opponents. This way they can earn some trust from Moscow: Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin #HuSays pic.twitter.com/8bx0yFzf3V
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) June 17, 2021
Yeah, fuck that.
re: #9 teleskiguy
See also: Jello Biafra and the Guantanimo School of Medicine
You wonder where the money went when you pissed it away on the Three Percent
Stewart Rhodes, leader of the militia movement group Oath Keepers, reportedly spent money raised by the group on personal expenses, including $229 at a sex shop.
(Seems like a lot of money for a sex shop trip?!)https://t.co/WuYFZUAA6X pic.twitter.com/KSPz56rtqy— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) June 17, 2021
re: #12 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I first heard The Power of Lard EP at my best friend’s house in his bedroom when I was 14. My friend had it on vinyl. I heard the lyrics and was all like
re: #15 JOE 🥓
Leather gimp suits are much more expensive than vinyl
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 18, 2021
re: #10 Dread Pirate Ron
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The US needs to lift all its sanctions on Russia, stop deploying NATO troops in the former Warsaw Pact countries and former Soviet republics, and stop supporting Russia’s domestic political opponents. This way they can earn some trust from Moscow: Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin #HuSays pic.twitter.com/8bx0yFzf3V
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) June 17, 2021
Yeah, fuck that.
I second that, fuck off and die, Hu.
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I second that, fuck off and die, Hu.
This is a “how many useful idiot Republicans will bite” kind of editorial.
Probably a good thing they don’t need fat old farts who can’t speak the language to fight their T-64s in Ukraine.
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) June 18, 2021
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I second that, fuck off and die, Hu.
And next, they’ll want us to stop selling defensive weapons to Taiwan, ignore the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang, ignore China’s aggression against its neighbors, not even morally support Hong Kong, and conduct business as usual . And give them a pony too.
re: #21 Dave In Austin
It’s someone who has between 40 and 80 grand laying around wasted. “Economic anxiety” my ass.
He could keep 3 or 4 of his favorites, still “be a man” or whatever, and use the rest to buy a brand new car or put a down payment on a house somewhere without ridiculous real estate prices.
Speaking of Hong Kong, Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s main pro-democracy newspaper has been raided by the Hong Kong police according to the terms of the “National Security Law” that was recently imposed on Hong Kong by the PRC. The editor-in-chief, and the CEO of it’s publisher were taken away. The founder, Jimmy Lai, had been taken away for being in an “illegal protest” a few days earlier, a Tianenmen Square vigil.
Edit: This looks like this happened yesterday, so you’ve probably seen this already.
Update: HK police raid Apple Daily5 executives were taken away, including Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law and #NextDigital CEO Cheung Kim-hung.Officers were seen accessing journalists’ computers, and all employees were barred from returning to their seats to work.#AppleDailyENG pic.twitter.com/45nsFWmCfE
— Apple Daily HK 蘋果日報 (@appledaily_hk) June 17, 2021
re: #25 aatharuv
Hong Kong is just gone. I’m not sure how it can recover. What a loss!
This was a few nights ago. A stray thunderstorm over South Park made for some outstanding cloud candy.
Meteorologists explain what caused the mushroom cloud formation visible from Vail on Monday night:https://t.co/U6NibLfmUm pic.twitter.com/gczaDP3gZz
— Vail Daily (@VailDaily) June 15, 2021
Once again I ask why this traitor hasn’t been arrested?
‘Stop The Steal’ Leader Ali Alexander Tells Followers ‘It’s Time to Fight Back’
In a video posted to his Telegram account Monday, Alexander, 35, revealed that he is “not in hiding, contrary to the wishes of the violent left and corporate media” and urged his followers to “gather together once again to fight … for our republic.”
Lock. Him. Up.
When I asked my son’s school percussion teacher if he’d heard of Snark Puppy, he replied “Yeah, they’re great, and were at UNT when I was there. It only cost $5 to get into their shows.”
UNT = University of North Texas. They have a major music program at the school.
I have been thinking about the second amendment more, and I think it’s time we shifted towards the “well regulated” part some more. Not only should we make the NRA safety guidelines law, but put yearly training requirements on each weapon based on how deadly they are. And I really do mean each weapon. One AR15: 50 hours a year. Two: 100 hours. And make instructors responsible for their training.
A lawyer…lmfao
— ken (@ken89681189) June 17, 2021
Among the wasteland known as television there is a genre that is particularly mindless: gameshows.
Most require almost no skill. Jeopardy! is one of the few that presses the intellect, and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire also because a hard quiz show in the upper money echelon.
Setting aside the few shows like that, which are based on academic knowledge or cultural trivia, most game shows just requre the contestant to be loud and flashy in front of a camera.
One game show of the latter type is Press Your Luck. I never watched the original (it was a bit after my time.)
But ABC brought it back in 2019 with more glitz (and Elizabeth Banks), and it is now in the third season.
Tonight’s episode 4 is interesting, though. It really stands out for a very long shot when it comes to outcome of the game. Banks was throwing around “legendary” a bit too loosely (it is, after all, a game show). Still the entire game had improbable results. In its long history (including the original), something happened that never happened before.
So, yes, mindless, but I found it entertaining.
re: #23 aatharuv
And next, they’ll want us to stop selling defensive weapons to Taiwan, ignore the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang, ignore China’s aggression against its neighbors, not even morally support Hong Kong, and conduct business as usual . And give them a pony too.
Note how clunky and stupid China’s statement is. They actually called Central and Eastern Europe “former Warsaw Pact”, just outright calling them Russia’s property.
Apparently the mid-level diplomats know this wolf warrior shit is laughable and counterproductive, but it’s all about impressing the boss. The more dumb and aggressive it is, the more the big bosses like it, so it just escalates. Xi actually had to tell the government publicly to tamp it down a couple of weeks ago, but it’s not as simple as that, and it doesn’t mean they’ve stopped threatening their neighbors.
Rush Limbaugh is four months drug free.
— Baligubadle (@Baligubadle1) June 17, 2021
re: #4 Belafon
Marilyn in my Mansion
Talk about not being able to organize a piss-up in a brewery:
South Carolina court halts executions until firing squad is available
What about your all your goddamn well-organized militias?
re: #26 retired cynic
Hong Kong is just gone. I’m not sure how it can recover. What a loss!
Taiwan is next.
hi
One more day of very hot weather, then temperatures dramatically fall. Later it will be in the forties at night.
Rebecca Shoenkopf has opinions about her congressvarmint.
F*ck Matt Rosendale In The Eyeholes Of His White Hood: A Letter To My Congressman! (Wonkette)
jon stewart’s early iraq war coverage was really bad lol pic.twitter.com/oNScga0uoO
— jacob (@jacobdotgov) March 19, 2021
So, a new film trailer just dropped: Pig, starrring Nic Cage.
Is it a reboot of Babe?
Is it a mishmash of John Wick, Taken and Top Chef?
Is it a reinterpretation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but starring Nic Cage and a pig?
I don’t know. But I think I’ll have to see it when it comes out.
Written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, produced by Nicolas Cage and filmed on location in Portland, Oregon.
re: #43 Dr Lizardo
Is it a reinterpretation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but starring Nic Cage and a pig?
I don’t know. But I think I’ll have to see it when it comes out.
I am waiting for the sequel In a Poke
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
hi
One more day of very hot weather, then temperatures dramatically fall. Later it will be in the forties at night.
We got no relief in sight until next week.
Christian apologist has thoughts about Joe Biden.
Eric Metaxas: The Biden Administration Is “Satanically Bad” for Christians (Friendly Atheist)
Props for acknowledging Joe Biden is President I guess?
He was being interviewed by fellow Christian apologist Greg Locke.
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And besides, Biden would never use tear gas to clear the way so he can go get a photo op outside a church like a True Christian Leader would.
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is not enough to disagree with their policies. They have to be minions of The Dark Lord.
They also have to deny those who are Christians, such as Joe Biden.
Metaxas is a conservative, therefore he is a liar.
His own New Testament (which he believes is the literal word of God) has things to say on lying about other believers, for example:
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.—Romans 16:17-18
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is not enough to disagree with their policies. They have to be minions of The Dark Lord.
What surprised me about the wingnut Christian persecution complex was that almost the entire outspoken atheist community expressed its displeasure in the overt religiosity of Joe Biden’s inauguration, but they didn’t attack us. They attacked Joe Biden as “satanic.”
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t have an automatic negative reaction to overtly religious displays, just when they are clearly part of a political agenda that is out to exclude or discriminate against certain groups.
My Catholic upbringing and overexposure to Campus Crusade for Christ (and Mormon missionary) asshats in college (ASU) left me with a very bad taste for Christianity in general.
It was not until much later in life that I met some Christians who quietly and unassumingly live their faith in a positive way.
Not enough to convert me, but enough that I began to see that something like that was possible.
Counter-apologist Rick Snedeker weighs in on Johns Hopkins University Medicine, pioneers of gender reassignment surgery in 1966, restarting the procedure.
Their Catholic chief psychiatrist declared transgenderism to be a mental disorder, and prohibited them from performing any gender reassignment surgeries in 1979.
Although he left in 2001, Johns Hopkins has only just restarted the procedure in 2007.
The Christian apologetics site First Things describes Dr. Paul McHugh as “one of the adornments of American Catholicism.”
McHugh is now ninety years old, but still participates as a professor emeritus. It was his opposition based on the Christian prinicple of “natual law” which kept Johns Hopkins from performing such surgeries for six years after he left.
McHugh also occasionally writes op-eds in the Wall Street Journal opining on the evils of gender reassignment surgery or transgender people.
(A reminder that donations to the Catholic Church fund this bigotry.)
Sex Change Surgery Back at Med School, Despite Catholic Icon’s Resistance
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Counter-apologist Rick Snedeker weighs in on Johns Hopkins University Medicine, pioneers of gender reassignment surgery in 1966, restarting the procedure.
The old “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” argument?
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The old “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” argument?
And Steve is mentally ill.
Right-wing pastor Hank Kunneman warns his fellow Christians that they “better be careful” about criticizing “prophets” such as himself: “It’s a dangerous place, and some of you might get leprosy.” pic.twitter.com/SxNbggvevQ
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 20, 2021
I don’t think he knows how leprosy works.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t think he knows how leprosy works.
he knows how sociopathic manipulation works, though
Limiting standing has been a long term conservative project, so this doesn’t really change anything.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 18, 2021
re: #62 No Malarkey!
Limiting standing has been a long term conservative project, so this doesn’t really change anything.
Trump does not recognize the concept of standing
re: #62 No Malarkey!
Amy Coney Barrett voted to keep Obamacare which was upheld 7-2 in the SC. Are you starting to trust her now?
Hahaha fuck no, but you could possibly convince some goopers that she’s a traitor and they were sold a bill of goods.
re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
mental illness = demonic possession
Along with epilepsy.
re: #64 ericblair
Hahaha fuck no, but you could possibly convince some goopers that she’s a traitor and they were sold a bill of goods.
She’ll make it up to them on abortion.
re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Limiting standing has been a long term conservative project, so this doesn’t really change anything.
Trump does not recognize the concept of standing
Trump thinks standing was invented last year to steal the election from him, but conservatives have been tightening standing standards for decades.
re: #66 No Malarkey!
She’ll make it up to them on abortion.
and campaign finance and gerrymandering and voter rights…
Ted saying Republicans can’t win unless they suppress the vote.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 18, 2021
re: #69 No Malarkey!
Ted saying Republicans can’t win unless they suppress the vote.
The only other option would be to embrace policies that have an appeal outside their rabid, racist, xenophobic base, and run counter to the interests of their corporate donors.
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ted saying Republicans can’t win unless they suppress the vote.
The only other option would be to embrace policies that have an appeal outside their rabid, racist, xenophobic base, and run counter to the interests of their corporate donors.
Can’t stop being racist!
Seems like a self own though. Republicans immediately shooting it dowm doesn’t help his narrative that Democrats and Republicans can pass big bipartisan deals.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 18, 2021
Looks like the city of Long Beach, California has directly taken over the operation and maintenance of the Queen Mary after the operator she was being leased to ran into major financial problems and couldn’t afford the upkeep.
re: #72 No Malarkey!
Seems like a self own though. Republicans immediately shooting it dowm doesn’t help his narrative that Democrats and Republicans can pass big bipartisan deals.
Right. He’s getting pantsed over and over by the goopers that can’t seem to help themselves. Considering the self-regard with which he seems to hold himself, I don’t think this is deliberate. He could have just said “nope, it doesn’t look like it’s got bipartisan support, and therefore I in my infinite bipartisanitude cannot proceed” and that would be that. Instead, he keeps bringing flowers and they keep dumping them on his head.
re: #26 retired cynic
Hong Kong is just gone. I’m not sure how it can recover. What a loss!
The good thing is that Taiwan will never, never, never, ever agree to return to the fold, now that they’ve had an opportunity to watch the dress rehearsal in Hong Kong.
All the GQP legislators scoffing about it being an insurrection …
10/ “When asked by one of the individuals with whom he was texting what happens next, Taylor responded, “Insurrection!” pic.twitter.com/rvjVpStyqO
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) June 11, 2021
Trump says he’s a “non-denominational Christian.” Was raised Presbyterian. https://t.co/biNoAQ4h4Q
— 𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥’𝔰 𝔊𝔲𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔞 𝔓𝔦𝔤 4.0🇺🇲 (@DeathsGuineaPig) June 18, 2021
Happy guinea pig.
(び・ω・び)< よるのおやつー。#guineapig #モルモット #cavy #もるもる協会 pic.twitter.com/APApS1zttS
— yukazu/びび/虹ぶぶ (@yukazububu) June 18, 2021
There are people who give me the impression that they’d lose a debate on the topic of their own favourite colour.
— Paulogia (@paulogia0) June 18, 2021
Well, fuck us for thinking that maybe men should be treating women with dignity and respect instead of teaching women that they are the problem. https://t.co/njkXMH0KRA
— Godless Engineer (@GodlessEngineer) June 17, 2021
NEWS: Sex trafficking probe into Matt Gaetz intensifies, charging decision could come in July. https://t.co/ypVfDTrh8V
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) June 18, 2021
And Matt Gaetz finds out that nonconsensual probing isn’t much fun after all.
Here are the Key Messages for Potential Tropical Cyclone Three for early Friday morning. You can always catch the latest advisory at https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB pic.twitter.com/GBiX21AJWE
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) June 18, 2021
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Because seemingly all of Christianity focuses in on one singular passage with respect to women: (actually two, but I’ll correct myself)
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Body, His Church, of which He is the Savior. Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:22-24 (NIV, 1984 edition)
The problem is, they miss the context. Verse 21 says, “Submit to one another [all believers, to each other] out of reverence for Christ.” Meaning, in essence, “submit” is used to reference giving respect and deference, not just doing what you’re told - because in no way does the apostle Paul ever advocate that believers should dictate to each other what to do. In fact, he continually teaches that believers should respect each other’s beliefs, but not argue about them. And of course, in verse 25, Paul goes on to say, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church” - the model of submission is that of reverence and respect, not a dictatorship. But of course, the patriarchal Christian society doesn’t want to hear that, they just want a Biblical excuse to lord it over their wives and beat them when they misbehave.
* Footnote: The other passage I referenced is in 1 Corinthians, and it basically tells women to shut up in church gatherings. This is also commonly used to oppose women being pastors. This one has more of a historical context; Paul was basically wanting the church to maintain order instead of having people (mainly women, apparently) gossiping and having idle chitchat when they are supposed to be communing with the Lord.
Now, having typed all that out, I don my asbestos scale lizard suit and await the flames…
re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We’re supposed to get 3-5 inches of rain tomorrow into Sunday. Yay. I’m in the middle of cleaning up a huge mess outside, I am not looking forward to this.
re: #86 A Mom Anon
We’re supposed to get 3-5 inches of rain tomorrow into Sunday. Yay. I’m in the middle of cleaning up a huge mess outside, I am not looking forward to this.
We’re supposed to get about half an inch on Sunday. We are DESPERATELY dry and could use a LOT more than that, but right now, we’ll take what we can get.
re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Trump says he’s is a “non-denominational Christian.”
re: #85 Dopamine Fish
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Now, having typed all that out, I don my asbestos scale lizard suit and await the flames…
LOL
My biggest issue with all of the Bible is this:
If there was a god, and that god had an important message for its creation which is vital for its salvation, you’d think that god would be sufficiently knowledgeable about what it created to make an entirely unambiguous message, which could not possibly be misinterpreted. (Whew, what a sentence.)
Instead we have a myriad of interpretations, many of which conflict with each other, and all of which claim to be the only truth.
That doesn’t seem to me to be a very good way to impart a vital message, leaving it up to people to interpret. They can’t all be correct interpretations, but they can all be wrong.
re: #86 A Mom Anon
We’re supposed to get 3-5 inches of rain tomorrow into Sunday. Yay. I’m in the middle of cleaning up a huge mess outside, I am not looking forward to this.
Sorry about that Mom.
Our weather will be a little better than yours.
18/410AM: Five day forecast for SE WY and NE Panhandle. Unsettled weather Sunday/Monday with cooler temperatures. #wywx #newx #wyoroad pic.twitter.com/iKuCEPgtqf
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) June 18, 2021
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL
My biggest issue with all of the Bible is this:
If there was a god, and that god had an important message for its creation which is vital for its salvation, you’d think that god would be sufficiently knowledgeable about what it created to make an entirely unambiguous message, which could not possibly be misinterpreted. (Whew, what a sentence.)
Instead we have a myriad of interpretations, many of which conflict with each other, and all of which claim to be the only truth.
That doesn’t seem to me to be a very good way to impart a vital message, leaving it up to people to interpret. They can’t all be correct interpretations, but they can all be wrong.
All of religion, from ancient to modern, can essentially be distilled down to this:
Long thread:
There’s a shortage of chicken. Starbucks reported a shortage of cups and peach-flavored juice. Ketchup packets are hard to find.
And with most items, a dearth in supply has led to skyrocketing prices, leading some restaurants to increase their own prices. https://t.co/WK8yiBJXmd pic.twitter.com/KAn5tHinUy
The problem with preventing terrorism is that security services have to get it right every time. Terrorists can repeatedly fail yet cause chaos if they get it right once.
🔴 In his report examining security arrangements at Manchester Arena, inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders found there were a number of missed opportunities to prevent or minimise the “devastating impact”https://t.co/pXhzncDpoA
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 17, 2021
⚫️Read The Telegraph’s investigation into the litany of errors that led to the deaths of 22 people who simply wanted to attend a concert, but never returned home.@IzzyLyons and @RMendick report ⬇️https://t.co/vK2WE2vG7E
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 17, 2021
Missed tying the high temperature yesterday by one degree. We’ve been breaking high temperatures for the last several days.
SCOTTSBLUFF NE AIRPORT Jun 17 Climate: High: 101 Low: 63 Precip: 0.0 Snow: 0.0 https://t.co/drFNQr6XmE pic.twitter.com/ZSjCQymHhz
— IEMBot CYS (@iembot_cys) June 18, 2021
re: #87 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Caution, not fear. Fear is debilitating.
Sorry, it was a song title from John Cale. From his Island Record years, which are all available together on Itunes and are really his best period.
Huffington Post, three minutes ago.
Congressman Reveals True Terror Of Republicans Now Downplaying Capitol Riot
Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego said many GOP lawmakers now “treating Capitol Police like s**t” were frightened during the insurrection.
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) has called out Republicans who are now downplaying the riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this year, recalling the fear his GOP colleagues felt as a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the building.
“It’s true some GOP members of Congress who are treating Capitol Police like shit were the most scared on the floor,” Gallego tweeted Thursday, appearing to reference the 21 House Republicans who this week voted against honoring police who responded to the violence with a Congressional Gold Medal.
“These are the only cops those GOP Congressmen can’t avoid… It doesn’t make any sense… It is a ridiculous dynamic. We know they were scared that day because we saw them hightailing it out of that room. We saw them calling for help” - @selectedwisdom w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/rlvwZZxxWf
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) June 17, 2021
(more)
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I read that earlier; a complete chain of failure.
(8:01)
“I just got to thinking… there must be something I could do to make people aware of Juneteenth and its significance,” says Opal Lee, the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” of her iconic walks.
“I’ve kept on walking. I’ve kept on talking… now, Juneteenth is a national holiday.” pic.twitter.com/DUbnHP9os9— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) June 18, 2021
re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We love our Jeopardy, and we had a friend who was on the show and I have a relative who was also on the show with Trebek. It’s one of the few shows we watch with regularity.
The mrs and I have a certain fondness for a reality/gameshow mashup Wipeout. We loved the original hosts, but the new hosts of Nicole Byers and John Cena are pretty funny in their own way. They get a bunch of people willing to risk life and limb on a set of tasks.
Balls. Big balls. AC/DC sized big balls.
re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Among the wasteland known as television there is a genre that is particularly mindless: gameshows.
Most require almost no skill. Jeopardy! is one of the few that presses the intellect, and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire also because a hard quiz show in the upper money echelon.
Setting aside the few shows like that, which are based on academic knowledge or cultural trivia, most game shows just requre the contestant to be loud and flashy in front of a camera.
One game show of the latter type is Press Your Luck. I never watched the original (it was a bit after my time.)
But ABC brought it back in 2019 with more glitz (and Elizabeth Banks), and it is now in the third season.
Tonight’s episode 4 is interesting, though. It really stands out for a very long shot when it comes to outcome of the game. Banks was throwing around “legendary” a bit too loosely (it is, after all, a game show). Still the entire game had improbable results. In its long history (including the original), something happened that never happened before.
So, yes, mindless, but I found it entertaining.
thank merv griffin for creating both the zenith and nadir of game shows skills - jeopardy and wheel of fortune
re: #36 teleskiguy
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depends on what he was taking
you really got to do the half life calculations
Rush Limbaugh is four months drug free.
— Baligubadle (@Baligubadle1) June 17, 2021
Every one of these insurrectionist enablers and stains on the profession are about to get handed the end of their careers.
That’s how this should go down. Good. They all should be referred to authorities for disbarment. https://t.co/zB1BVmemjZ— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) June 18, 2021
The judge in the Kraken case in Michigan isn’t playing around. Federal Judge Parker is calling in every last one of the motherfucking insurrectionist/treasonweasel lawyers from Powell and Wood on down that signed any document as part of the case for a sanctions hearing. Failure to attend? Yeah, that’ll be sanctions too.
Lower the fucking boom. Refer every last one for disciplinary action - disbarment. Sanction the fuck out of them for this crap.
Someone grab the popcorn. Set a date reminder for July 6. 2pm CT.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Right-wing pastor Hank Kunneman warns his fellow Christians that they “better be careful” about criticizing “prophets” such as himself: “It’s a dangerous place, and some of you might get leprosy.” pic.twitter.com/SxNbggvevQ
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 20, 2021
Israel’s former guy acting a lot like our former guy.
Balfour under occupation: almost $2,000 worth of soft drinks delivered to PM residence just hours before Netanyahu ceased being prime minister & state stopped paying grocery bills https://t.co/IvPuF2HHj6 https://t.co/jwZ2eg3EvT
— Gershom Gorenberg 🟣 (@GershomG) June 18, 2021
re: #105 darthstar
So, former Israeli PM is occupying territory that isn’t legally his.
That’s so on brand for Bibi.
re: #72 No Malarkey!
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— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 18, 2021
ok, so you can try to make an argument that legislation should pass with some bipartisan support.
if a bill has no support from the minority, then you must ask the question why.
- is it because it’s heavily partisan, not publicly popular or in some other way politically odious?
- or is it that the minority has publicly stated that they will not support any legislation the majority puts forward and that their goal is to obstruct everything no matter what it is.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I don’t think he knows how leprosy works.
That’s some old testament level threat right there…
re: #106 lawhawk
So, former Israeli PM is occupying territory that isn’t legally his.
That’s so on brand for Bibi.
I thought they had bulldozers for situations like this.
Happy 44th Anniversary to President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, whose love is one for the ages.
How it started 💙 How it’s going 💙 pic.twitter.com/7KhCwPAFlA— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) June 17, 2021
re: #100 lawhawk
Looks like some of the raid agility puzzles in Destiny/D2
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There’s a shortage of chicken. Starbucks reported a shortage of cups and peach-flavored juice. Ketchup packets are hard to find.
The socialist hellscape of Biden’s America!!!
Tali Farhadian Weinstein paid virtually no tax on millions and millions: And she wants to be the Manhattan DA and go after Trump’s tax-dodging.https://t.co/1j9F0F381w
2/ pic.twitter.com/jCNjkJPA4R— Cory Doctorow AWAY UNTIL JUNE 19 (@doctorow) June 17, 2021
re: #108 darthstar
That’s some old testament level threat right there…
We have a lot of wingnuts in Nebraska, both Catholic and Protestant.
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We have a lot of wingnuts in Nebraska, both Catholic and Protestant.
Do you also not have a fair share of Orthodox Catholics as well?
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Do you also not have a fair share of Orthodox Catholics as well?
We have two Greek Orthodox churches in my county (one in Bridgeport, one in Bayard).
In the late XIX Century, a large Greek community came to live in Omaha. During the height of the Second Klan, they ran a pogrom against Greek Americans living in the city, and those who weren’t killed fled out here to the Panhandle where they would be left alone.
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Christian apologist has thoughts about Joe Biden.
Eric Metaxas: The Biden Administration Is “Satanically Bad” for Christians (Friendly Atheist)
Props for acknowledging Joe Biden is President I guess?
He was being interviewed by fellow Christian apologist Greg Locke.
Eric Metaxas is a total waste of a Yale education.
I’m kind of glad he went off the deep end; maybe people will stop reading his piece of junk Bonhoeffer biography. (The bio’s biggest sin, among many sins, is that it tries to take Bonhoeffer, a product of elite 20th German theological education, and turn him into an American Evangelical. Actual Bonhoeffer scholars find Metaxas’ work to be awful.)
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wait until he finds out that antibiotics work on leprosy.
Right-wing pastor Hank Kunneman warns his fellow Christians that they “better be careful” about criticizing “prophets” such as himself: “It’s a dangerous place, and some of you might get leprosy.” pic.twitter.com/SxNbggvevQ
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 20, 2021
My favourite pictures from the G7 summit. pic.twitter.com/lf6hLEg83i
— Daniel Holland🎗 (@DannyDutch) June 17, 2021
Trump is back on the tent revival circuit.
NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (AP) — For a few hours last weekend, thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters came together in a field under the blazing Wisconsin sun to live in an alternate reality where the former president was still in office — or would soon return.https://t.co/h9OQZbxR3B
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) June 18, 2021
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tali Farhadian Weinstein paid virtually no tax on millions and millions: And she wants to be the Manhattan DA and go after Trump’s tax-dodging.
Avoiding taxes on large fortunes legally is one thing (which nonetheless needs to be addressed), actual tax fraud is another, more urgent matter.
The U.S. will invest $3.2 billion to develop antiviral pills for Covid-19, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday. Such a treatment could prevent hospitalization and potentially save lives as the virus becomes a perennial threat. https://t.co/KPEYZaEERm
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 17, 2021
The pills are in development and could begin arriving by year’s end, pending the completion of clinical trials. The White House is scheduled to hold a briefing on its COVID-19 plans with Dr. Anthony Fauci. https://t.co/lpi1ddxhiD
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 17, 2021
Aw hell naw.
A member of our well regulated militia allows a 14 year old boy access to a loaded gun. The boy leaves the gun out and a 6 year old boy shoots himself in the head. He doesn’t survive. The 14 year old, not the gun owner, is charged with culpable negligence. https://t.co/Pqwpo0VJj6
— WellRegulatedMilitia (@Well_Regulated_) June 17, 2021
re: #118 Belafon
Actually, the Bible mandates that false prophets be stoned to death. He better be careful,
re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Aw hell naw.
This happened with a cop’s two year old killing himself with a gun left on a bedside table a few weeks back and he wasn’t charged.
re: #125 Patricia Kayden
Actually, the Bible mandates that false prophets be stoned to death. He better be careful,
You’d get the munchies and nap before you died.
re: #123 Belafon
That’s good news and hopefully, those anti-virals will pan out. COVID-19 is here to stay as an endemic disease and we can’t endlessly seesaw between shutdown/open cycles.
re: #126 darthstar
This happened with a cop’s two year old killing himself with a gun left on a bedside table a few weeks back and he wasn’t charged.
Well, it’s not really fair to charge a two year-old now, is it?
/
re: #126 darthstar
This happened with a cop’s two year old killing himself with a gun left on a bedside table a few weeks back and he wasn’t charged.
My partner and I keep going back and forth about getting a gun and learning how to use it, and then I see stories like this and I’m like, “I want nothing to do with this particular slice of American life.”
Prepare the vaccine crop-dusters. https://t.co/GmbNBUhtHX
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) June 17, 2021
re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, it’s not really fair to charge a two year-old now, is it?
/
Exactly. But if you started actually charging parents for their kids ‘accidents’ with guns you know what would happen? Fewer people would leave guns out where their kids could hurt themselves.
re: #126 darthstar
This happened with a cop’s two year old killing himself with a gun left on a bedside table a few weeks back and he wasn’t charged.
That wasn’t the only recent one where the child is charged and the gun owner isn’t.
A member of our well regulated militia allows two boys, 11 and 14 year old cousins, access to a gun. They play with it and the older boy shoots and kills his cousin. Police charge the boy with manslaughter. The gun owner, a family friend, faces no charges. https://t.co/5gOglKlvIK
— WellRegulatedMilitia (@Well_Regulated_) June 10, 2021
re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, it’s not really fair to charge a two year-old now, is it?
/
Sadly, there’s sort of precedent. IIRC, CBP actually brought one of the five year olds they threw in their child concentration camps into court as a defendent for a hearing. The judge flipped out on the government’s prosecutor.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That wasn’t the only recent one where the child is charged and the gun owner isn’t.
Sorry your kid killed his cousin with my gun. Can I have it back?
For the “guns aren’t the problem because lots of things can be used as a weapon” crowd - I give you the words of a 6 year old gun violence survivor who gets it. Try to keep up with him. pic.twitter.com/eNDfjDhYSZ
— WellRegulatedMilitia (@Well_Regulated_) June 9, 2021
re: #132 Belafon
The new variants of the disease will take care of that. People who substitute quack cures for vaccines to please their derpy peers have fucked around and are going to find out.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 18, 2021
I’m going to head off to bed. I’ll leave you with a funny one.
” put a bandaid over where it hurts. “
me : pic.twitter.com/9NxgMpvzE1— ً (@artfuIchaos) June 17, 2021
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL
My biggest issue with all of the Bible is this:
If there was a god, and that god had an important message for its creation which is vital for its salvation, you’d think that god would be sufficiently knowledgeable about what it created to make an entirely unambiguous message, which could not possibly be misinterpreted. (Whew, what a sentence.)
Instead we have a myriad of interpretations, many of which conflict with each other, and all of which claim to be the only truth.
That doesn’t seem to me to be a very good way to impart a vital message, leaving it up to people to interpret. They can’t all be correct interpretations, but they can all be wrong.
All of the other interpretations are Satanic, to confuse you. However, for a mere 10% of your income, I will preach the one true interpretation to you each Sunday!
Dude loses fantasy football league, pays his debt.
The sun is rising, it’s a new day and I’m never eating waffles again. That’s 9 waffles and 15 hours in this restaurant. S/o to the staff for letting me hang out on a slow night (I tipped them well don’t worry). This was horrible and I recommend no one ever do this. pic.twitter.com/PDGsuHYINf
— Lee Sanderlin (@LeeOSanderlin) June 18, 2021
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The socialist hellscape of Biden’s America!!!
Nice.
My plan to corner the market on Arby’s Horsey Sauce packets is succeeding!
re: #132 Belafon
there’s one Alabama county w/ a 15% vaccination rate
Free AR-15s with each vaccination?
Mail was just delivered here. I asked the mail carrier about the new national holiday. She said many government offices were closed today, but they were still delivering. She said that by next year delivery probably wouldn’t happen on the holiday. Guess it was just too short notice for the mail carriers to have the day off.
re: #126 darthstar
This happened with a cop’s two year old killing himself with a gun left on a bedside table a few weeks back and he wasn’t charged.
An unfortunate but inevitable sacrifice to their Blood God, the Tree of Liberty.
re: #142 JOE 🥓
Nice.
My plan to corner the market on Arby’s Horsey Sauce packets is succeeding!
Remember the Szechuan Sauce riots?
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember the Szechuan Sauce riots?
Oh yes and one of those riots were staged at the McDonald’s not too far from me thanks those assholes Rick and Morty…
Alien Visitors 2 https://t.co/L2OWDCefoM https://t.co/IdNCPVAbeS pic.twitter.com/0c6dPSS6a5
— XKCD Comic (@xkcdComic) June 18, 2021
Why Republicans Could Never Tell Their Voters the Truth About Obamacare
If the suit was so absurd that liberals deserve ridicule for thinking it stood any chance of success even in a right-wing court, what does it tell us that Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch voted for the plaintiffs? For that matter, what are we to make of the fact that the Trump administration’s Justice Department, joined by the attorneys general for 20 states, signed on to this laughably flimsy case?
The answer is that the passage of Obamacare was a traumatic event for Republicans. The wound it opened in the party’s psyche has not fully healed, and even more than a decade after its passage into law, they cannot reconcile themselves to its legitimacy.
The passage of Obamacare, even though it merely incrementally expanded an existing program (Medicaid) and copied a program designed by a Republican governor (Mitt Romney) was met by unmitigated hysteria on the right. What seemed to unhinge conservatives was less the substance of the bill than the very idea of Democrats using their control of government to … govern.
…
The pattern of the anti-Obamacare crusade has continued to define the Republican party elite’s relationship with its base. First, they make a practical decision on the basis of self-interest, then convince their voters the cause is existential, then discover they have no choice but to act as if their own lies are true. So it was with repealing Obamacare, and so it is with supporting Donald Trump. More than a decade after the law was passed, the party still has not freed itself from its own lies. When you calculate how long Trump will own them, ponder that.
Trump let his idiot son-in-law cosplay as Secretary of State with zero qualifications. But in an effort to both sides that egregious nepotism, the WaPo slandered brilliant people like Dr. Psaki by ignoring her resume and suggesting she got hired at HHS bc of Jen. Total bullshit. pic.twitter.com/ghMncxhi9C
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) June 18, 2021
BOFF SIDES
re: #149 Belafon
More than a decade after the law was passed, the party still has not freed itself from its own lies. When you calculate how long Trump will own them, ponder that.
Especially when you remind them that Obamacare was just a nation-wide version of Romneycare, which was based on recommendations from the Heritage Foundation.
re: #147 JOE 🥓
Oh yes and one of those riots were staged at the McDonald’s not too far from me thanks those assholes Rick and Morty…
Rick and Morty didn’t cause the riots. McDonald’s, while trying to capitalize on the idea, didn’t plan for the actual scale of people wanting it. But, ultimately, this all falls on the people who were idiots.
re: #30 Belafon
I always say that “infringed in any way” should include intellectual property rights like patents and trademarks. why should manufacturer be able to profit from my right? There is no right to profit and gunmakers stock and profits limit my access to my Supreme Court- codified right So every single firearm model sold here should be in the public domain instantly and only sold at cost
re: #149 Belafon
Meanwhile my brainwashed relatives refuse to participate in what they refer to as “N-Word” care.
And they have disabled children who have those pre-existing conditions that the insurance companies love to deny. Doesn’t matter to them, instead they rely on private charity, Go Fund Me and 7-11 coin cans to try to pay for medical care…
re: #152 Belafon
Rick and Morty didn’t cause the riots. McDonald’s, while trying to capitalize on the idea, didn’t plan for the actual scale of people wanting it. But, ultimately, this all falls on the people who were idiots.
and idiocy is exponential
u are seeing @GOPLeader’s influence in all of this batshittery
congressman
this is his batshittery https://t.co/16bk0E2QAR— darth™ (@darth) June 18, 2021
re: #158 JOE 🥓
Trump wasn’t kissing Putin’s feet.
He was kissing something else…
I don’t even want to see a comic of that.
re: #159 Belafon
I don’t even want to see a comic of that.
Don’t worry. Ben Garrison and McNaughton will do that to Joe…and we’ll laugh at those sick assholes…
re: #156 darthstar
Some GOP are: 1) pushing FBI conspiracies on Jan 6, 2) comparing the 2nd amendment to Vietnam and the VC, 3) scared of shaking the hands of police defending them, 4) opposing Juneteenth, 5) so much more batshittery. Would be a great time for GOP Leader to assert some influence
It is a good distraction from them methodically destroying voters’ rights and quietly dismantling the US electoral system.
re: #110 Patricia Kayden
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Yeah, we’ll be getting the heat refugees this weekend. Almost glad I’m traveling to be in 90 degree weather. pic.twitter.com/CFBw858QPs
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 18, 2021
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
All the GQP legislators scoffing about it being an insurrection …
All those cops and retired cops among the arrested, the details in their indictments… really provides vivid evidence for the “defund the police” faction.
re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Aw hell naw.
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Freedom, finances , future
Take them all from the owner.
100% responsible for losing control of ***his*** weapon
A member of our well regulated militia allows a 14 year old boy access to a loaded gun. The boy leaves the gun out and a 6 year old boy shoots himself in the head. He doesn’t survive. The 14 year old, not the gun owner, is charged with culpable negligence. https://t.co/Pqwpo0VJj6
— WellRegulatedMilitia (@Well_Regulated_) June 17, 2021
re: #164 sagehen
All those cops and retired cops among the arrested, the details in their indictments… really provides vivid evidence for the “defund the police” faction.
we need to rethink our entire concept of Law Enforcement
re: #85 Dopamine Fish
And don’t forget that Titus and Timothy - also beloved of the patriarchy - were post-Pauline letters and did not reflect his thinking which was based on equality before the lord who was returning any day now. That it did not happen before his death is what left the door open to the later writers who wanted to make nice with a very anti-equality Roman empire.
re: #92 Dr Lizardo
All of religion, from ancient to modern, can essentially be distilled down to this:
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re: #133 darthstar
Exactly. But if you started actually charging parents for their kids ‘accidents’ with guns you know what would happen? Fewer people would leave guns out where their kids could hurt themselves.
the gun owner is responsible for everything.
Its his gun. He (she) has total control. There are no excuses.
Storage
transfer
Use
Misuse
Loaning
Transporting…
I understand “parents”
But its the owner
Especially if the other was not agreeable to having it
re: #163 darthstar
Damn, that’s quite the change. Is that due to changes in elevation mainly?
re: #168 William Lewis
There is a reason the Golden Rule in some form shows up all over the world.
If I want to be treated fairly and allowed to exercise my freedoms, then I have to be prepared to do the same for others.
What is so difficult about that?
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we need to rethink our entire concept of Law Enforcement
It’s sad that it took goons trying to end democracy to show that goons should not be in charge of law enforcement.
re: #156 darthstar
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The attacks on the FBI are meant to preemptively taint any 1/6 investigations that they are a part of, eg insider help for the insurrection.
re: #172 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It’s sad that it took goons trying to end democracy to show that goons should not be in charge of law enforcement.
We had this odd notion that “more police officers = more protection against criminals” when the equation is much more complex than that
re: #173 jeffreyw
The attacks on the FBI are meant to preemptively taint any 1/6 investigations that they are a part of, eg insider help for the insurrection.
and again, if they really wanted to know what role the FBI played, a Congressional inquiry would be the best way to find out
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If I want to be treated fairly and allowed to exercise my freedoms, then I have to be prepared to do the same for others.
What is so difficult about that?
Because for a good many people, life is a grand zero-sum game.
re: #158 JOE 🥓
Trump wasn’t kissing Putin’s feet.
He was kissing something else…
Arent we a family site?
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If I want to be treated fairly and allowed to exercise my freedoms, then I have to be prepared to do the same for others.
What is so difficult about that?
If for me to feel that I’m treated fairly I have to stand on the necks of others, so be it.
As long as I get mine
re: #178 Punish Domestic Terrorists
From 9am to 9pm.
Even then, we’re really just a mostly-safe-for-work site.
Another massive rightwing hypocrite.
2020 vs. 2021 pic.twitter.com/kmQYXjCN70
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 18, 2021
Another way to look at all of it: When a party no longer offers a new party platform or new public-policy ideas, the way for its politicians to distinguish themselves is through symbols, gestures, performance art and — above all — loyalty to the former president.”
Firstread
re: #177 Dangerman
I stole this one from a tweet about kink at pride events…so NSFW
Sometimes a family is three leather mommies and a ball-gagged twink
re: #182 No Malarkey!
Another massive rightwing hypocrite.
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Or maybe its just the people Kirk knows
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If I want to be treated fairly and allowed to exercise my freedoms, then I have to be prepared to do the same for others.
Do unto others before they do unto you…
re: #186 Dangerman
Americans are too stupid to understand A holiday in June and another one in July
Or maybe its just the people Kirk knows
Someone should remind Charlie that November has *two* holidays in it.
re: #103 lawhawk
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The judge in the Kraken case in Michigan isn’t playing around. Federal Judge Parker is calling in every last one of the motherfucking insurrectionist/treasonweasel lawyers from Powell and Wood on down that signed any document as part of the case for a sanctions hearing. Failure to attend? Yeah, that’ll be sanctions too.
Lower the fucking boom. Refer every last one for disciplinary action - disbarment. Sanction the fuck out of them for this crap.
Someone grab the popcorn. Set a date reminder for July 6. 2pm CT.
The Honerable Linda V. Parker
The department spokesman told me that they will be announcing this at a press conference at 11 AM live.
The state is seeking fines up to $15,000.— Grant Stern is fully vaccinated (@grantstern) June 18, 2021
re: #184 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Western good morning!
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― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
re: #191 No Malarkey!
Unfortunately, a $15000 slap on the wrist won’t do much to stop her.
re: #193 Eclectic Cyborg
Unfortunately, a $15000 slap on the wrist won’t do much to stop her.
Just one more thing she is facing along with the defamation suit and the Michigan sanctions hearing. Just keep piling on.
re: #188 A Three Hour Tour
Someone should remind Charlie that November has *two* holidays in it.
maybe that’s why they dont want election day to be a holiday - it would get confused with thanksgiving //
If I were Russian, I may hesitate before taking the Sputnik vaccine. Americans have no excuse.
The U.S. has a higher rate of vaccine opposition than any country tracked besides Russia.
Follow our Global Vaccine Tracker for weekly updates: https://t.co/sIcPQn326C #vaccine pic.twitter.com/Wa08PmMGHz— Morning Consult (@MorningConsult) June 17, 2021
re: #194 No Malarkey!
Just one more thing she is facing along with the defamation suit and the Michigan sanctions hearing. Just keep piling on.
You love to see it.
“Look, our main crisis is we’re not the majority — that’s our top crisis,” said Representative Tom Cole
—-
And that’s the only “crisis” about which the #GOP actually gives a flying F:https://t.co/obt8LJQ2zd— Allyson Ford (@AFinLA) June 18, 2021
Ted Cruz says critical race theory “is every bit as racist as the Klan in white sheets,” at Faith and Freedom Coalition.
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) June 18, 2021
What electrical grid crisis?
THEN he adds that it is “evil” to “spread lies.”
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) June 18, 2021
re: #199 Patricia Kayden
Definitely not people dying from disease, or hunger, or being shot, or being run over, or freezing to death, or overheating.
re: #66 No Malarkey!
She’ll make it up to them on abortion.
That’s just another step on the way to overturn the Johnson Amendment.
“The slumbering church needs to wake up. The patriots across our nation who reject the stinking pile of lies that the left is selling, we need to wake up and we need to engage.”
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 18, 2021
re: #199 Patricia Kayden
Failed party before country always. They’re also incapable of leadership, instead pandering to our worst impulses, so it would be a crisis if these destructive fools were the majority.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 18, 2021
re: #201 jaunte
The racist Republicans typically call pushback against racism “racism.” They’re a lie-based party that attempted to end our democracy for a malignant narcissist, and should be treated appropriately.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 18, 2021
re: #201 jaunte
Ted Cruz says critical race theory “is every bit as racist as the Klan in white sheets,” at Faith and Freedom Coalition.
Has he even bothered to read up on CRT?
I am sure he has no idea of what it is other than to cite it as another example of what the Left is trying to foist on America to divide and conquer.
re: #207 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The racist Republicans typically call pushback against racism “racism.” They’re a lie-based party that attempted to end our democracy for a malignant narcissist, and should be treated appropriately.
see also: White Genocide and “replacement”
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
see also: White Genocide and “replacement”
Czech PM Babiš has been spouting that twaddle lately, as part of his election campaign.
re: #210 Dr Lizardo
Czech PM Babiš has been spouting that twaddle lately, as part of his election campaign.
Hanging demagogues works a lot better for a society than making them leaders does. We should try that for a while to discourage crooks from whipping up mobs to advance themselves.
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL
My biggest issue with all of the Bible is this:
If there was a god, and that god had an important message for its creation which is vital for its salvation, you’d think that god would be sufficiently knowledgeable about what it created to make an entirely unambiguous message, which could not possibly be misinterpreted. (Whew, what a sentence.)
Instead we have a myriad of interpretations, many of which conflict with each other, and all of which claim to be the only truth.
That doesn’t seem to me to be a very good way to impart a vital message, leaving it up to people to interpret. They can’t all be correct interpretations, but they can all be wrong.
“If there was a god, and that god had an important message for its creation which is vital for its salvation, you’d think that god would be sufficiently knowledgeable about what it created to make an entirely unambiguous message, which could not possibly be misinterpreted.”
He did. “You can eat from anything in the garden, but don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” We fucked around. We found out.
re: #157 Dangerman
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— Corey “The Buttercream Dream” Forrester (@CoreyRForrester) June 17, 2021
re: #207 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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Ted Cruz says critical race theory “is every bit as racist as the Klan in white sheets,” at Faith and Freedom Coalition.
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) June 18, 2021
re: #212 steve_davis
“If there was a god, and that god had an important message for its creation which is vital for its salvation, you’d think that god would be sufficiently knowledgeable about what it created to make an entirely unambiguous message, which could not possibly be misinterpreted.”
He did. “You can eat from anything in the garden, but don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” We fucked around. We found out.
You’re talking about a god that wanted people to be pets who cannot think for themselves. That’s not fucking around and finding out. That’s rebellion against a slave master.
— Guy Incognito (@GuyIncognito867) June 18, 2021
re: #168 William Lewis
There is a reason the Golden Rule in some form shows up all over the world.
Yes…It’s where the head of the cult grabs all the gold he OR she can get!
re: #83 ericblair
And Matt Gaetz finds out that nonconsensual probing isn’t much fun after all.
NEW: The love affair between Rep. Matt Gaetz and Fox News is over. @rbravender & @tomlobianco explain how the lawmaker-cable TV relationship has come to an unceremonious end. ($) @thisisinsider https://t.co/X5I3gzWFB7
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) June 17, 2021
selfless public service, right?
Rep. Ronny Jackson on being in Congress: “I’ve had better jobs. It’s alright. But what I thought it would be it’s not quite, it’s not quite as, I guess, professionally satisfying, and it’s a little more frustrating than I thought it would be.”
— Meg Cunningham (@Meg_Cunn) June 18, 2021
re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ted Cruz says critical race theory “is every bit as racist as the Klan in white sheets,” at Faith and Freedom Coalition.
Has he even bothered to read up on CRT?
I am sure he has no idea of what it is other than to cite it as another example of what the Left is trying to foist on America to divide and conquer.
Rafael went to law school. He probably skipped the class involving Critical Race Theory.
When your co-worker asks if you want to come over because she knows you like owls and her husband may have seen one in the yard and it turns out to be a mama screech owl and SIX BABIES!!!!!! 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉‼️ 😱#screechowl #easternscreechowl #owlets #PhotoOfTheDay #natgeoyourshot pic.twitter.com/UL7wnaYK7x
— Marie is a Bird Nerd 🤓🦆🦉🇨🇦 (@toothpick97) June 18, 2021
Imagining deciding to fight your nation’s flag based on your belief that you should be able to own some people, and then those same people capture your dumb ass
— Angry Staff Officer (@pptsapper) June 18, 2021
To some, Ashli Babbitt, who was killed in the Capitol riot, was a terrorist. To others, she’s a martyr and seen as a recruiting tool. https://t.co/Ia0I2pwknY
— CNN (@CNN) June 18, 2021
You know who else thinks of their members as martyrs killed while committing a terrorist attack? Hamas, Hezbollah, Irish Republican Army.
re: #224 DodgerFan1988
You know who else thinks of their members as martyrs killed while committing a terrorist attack? Hamas, Hezbollah, Irish Republican Army.
and someone Putin mentions to rationalize all the unfortunate things that keep happening to his political opponents and critics
I hope this is a
photoshop.
Someone get this new mother a BEER. Newborn 19 lbs. 2 ozs. !!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/E9dZOklhRz
— Alexandra (Alix) Hemmingsen (@AlexandraHemmin) June 17, 2021
In retrospect, the one thing TFG didn’t do was refuse to leave the White House January 20.
The Siege on Balfour, Day VI
Netanyahu refuses to leave the official residence. pic.twitter.com/77h7uPhwaP— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) June 18, 2021
re: #140 No Malarkey!
All of the other interpretations are Satanic, to confuse you. However, for a mere 10% of your income, I will preach the one true interpretation to you each Sunday!
I have heard (but not experienced, because I’ve never been to Europe) that European Protestants call US Evangelicalism’s attachment to inerrancy “the American heresy.”
That said, it’s enormously frustrating for someone like me who wants to take a more holistic look at say, the first Christian document we have, which is believed to be the first letter to the Thessalonians by Paul, Barnabas and Silas. (Yeah, it says Paul on the title, but this was before Paul broke up the band to go out on his own solo tour…ok stop with the analogies.) 1 Thessalonians is a short book, not as short as the letters attributed to John, but no 1 Corinthians or Romans. I have looked at commentaries, which are hundreds of pages long and which basically go into every jot and tittle, but they rip the text out of its context.
Things commentary writers don’t talk about (behind the button because nobody wants to read even a short rant of mine):
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So, so, so many questions, I’m keeping track of them in a notebook because it annoys me so very greatly that these questions are simply breezed over. But I will tell you this—if 1 Thessalonians was your only written document—you’d be hard pressed to know exactly what Paul, Silas and Barnabas were teaching beyond that there’s a God and Jesus is his son. Oh, and that the obsession with sex started *early* (1 Thessalonians 4:3ff)-where the writer(s) go on about keeping one’s body pure but HEY what about cheating people? Not a whiff.
re: #224 DodgerFan1988
You know who else thinks of their members as martyrs killed while committing a terrorist attack? Hamas, Hezbollah, Irish Republican Army.
Stole that.
Yes, and people who support Hamas think of them as martyrs when they commit a terrorist attack. Let’s call a terrorist a terrorist, even when white nationalist traitors don’t like hearing the truth.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 18, 2021
Swallow my pride boys https://t.co/59IYdtmSlI
— Mike Nelson (@mikenelson586) June 18, 2021
re: #228 No Malarkey!
In retrospect, the one thing TFG didn’t do was refuse to leave the White House January 20.
I think we were clear that we wanted to see him dragged out kicking and screaming for our own entertainment and emotional relief.
Maybe the Israelis didn’t make that clear to Bibi.
Vladimir Putin heaping praise on President Biden after their meeting, confirming that he is indeed NOT sleepy at all and very much on top of his game.
Wow. pic.twitter.com/m8fBqw6v0E— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 18, 2021
re: #144 Eventual Carrion
Mail was just delivered here. I asked the mail carrier about the new national holiday. She said many government offices were closed today, but they were still delivering. She said that by next year delivery probably wouldn’t happen on the holiday. Guess it was just too short notice for the mail carriers to have the day off.
The Federal Reserve is processing transactions today but the Fed itself is mostly shut down. Presumably the only people on are those needed to watch the lines and make sure everything goes through. Apparently Juneteenth is going to be celebrated on the nearest Friday or Monday to the actual day. So this year, on June 18, next year on June 20 (a Monday). We (bank employees) have not heard how they’re going to handle Juneteenth, but if the Fed is going to shut down, then it will probably be a regular holiday for us. If the Fed remains up, it’s a regular work day and we get a floating holiday.
Personally, I’d be much happier if Election Day had been made a holiday.
re: #234 Patricia Kayden
Vladimir Putin heaping praise on President Biden after their meeting, confirming that he is indeed NOT sleepy at all and very much on top of his game.
Biden did not press Germany to shut down the Nordstream pipelines
re: #196 No Malarkey!
If I were Russian, I may hesitate before taking the Sputnik vaccine. Americans have no excuse.
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re: #233 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I think we were clear that we wanted to see him dragged out kicking and screaming for our own entertainment and emotional relief.
Maybe the Israelis didn’t make that clear to Bibi.
What I think the Israeli government (or whatever agency of it is responsible for the PM’s official residence) should do is send the largest and most-intimidating process server they can recruit to go over and serve Bibi with a formal, legal request to vacate. And then have the guy remind them that the next step will be that he and a platoon of his buddies will come back and forcibly haul the Netanyahus and all their stuff out onto the sidewalk. With a reminder that littering the sidewalk is illegal….
re: #235 mmmirele
The Federal Reserve is processing transactions today but the Fed itself is mostly shut down. Presumably the only people on are those needed to watch the lines and make sure everything goes through. Apparently Juneteenth is going to be celebrated on the nearest Friday or Monday to the actual day. So this year, on June 18, next year on June 20 (a Monday). We (bank employees) have not heard how they’re going to handle Juneteenth, but if the Fed is going to shut down, then it will probably be a regular holiday for us. If the Fed remains up, it’s a regular work day and we get a floating holiday.
Personally, I’d be much happier if Election Day had been made a holiday.
Mitch won’t allow that; too many people might vote.
re: #234 Patricia Kayden
Russia’s propaganda circuit is in disarray. Putin himself disputed their narrative about Biden’s nonexistent “dementia,” describing him as an experienced, detail-oriented statesman who doesn’t miss a thing. After months of describing Biden as a wreck, they’re forced to backtrack. pic.twitter.com/pM14ORlJlk
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 17, 2021
urgent minitru potus unbrain doubleplusungood rectify antetalkshow
re: #235 mmmirele
The Federal Reserve is processing transactions today but the Fed itself is mostly shut down. Presumably the only people on are those needed to watch the lines and make sure everything goes through. Apparently Juneteenth is going to be celebrated on the nearest Friday or Monday to the actual day. So this year, on June 18, next year on June 20 (a Monday). We (bank employees) have not heard how they’re going to handle Juneteenth, but if the Fed is going to shut down, then it will probably be a regular holiday for us. If the Fed remains up, it’s a regular work day and we get a floating holiday.
Personally, I’d be much happier if Election Day had been made a holiday.
We were told that OPM issued directives that Juneteenth is treated like every other Federal holiday. If the actual day falls on a Saturday then Friday is when the holiday is observed. If the actual day falls on a Sunday then Monday is when the holiday is observed.
Now we need a holiday between President’s Day in February and Memorial Day in May. Tom Jefferson’s birthday is April 13th. Would be nice to make that a holiday.
As for Election Day, why not move it to Veteran’s Day in November?
re: #188 A Three Hour Tour
Someone should remind Charlie that November has *two* holidays in it.
Wait until Juneteenth falls on the same day as Father’s Day. I can’t wait for all the “War on Father’s Day” takes.
re: #154 JOE 🥓
Meanwhile my brainwashed relatives refuse to participate in what they refer to as “N-Word” care.
I signed up my brother for Arizona’s version of Medicare (funded by Obamacare legislation) five days after Trump became president, while he was barfing uncontrollably in the ER. (Turned out he is diabetic.) Of course, the hospital wants money, and the finance person, after getting a credit card to pay for this and learning he was employed as my mother’s unpaid caretaker, asked me if I wanted to sign him up for AHCCCS. Of course I signed him up. He was only briefly mad about it, until they rolled him into the ICU because his blood sugar was off the map bad.
Considering how many times he was in the hospital over the next few years, that was a stroke of serendipity on my part, otherwise he would have been smothered to death in thousands upon thousands of dollars in bills.
re: #188 A Three Hour Tour
Someone should remind Charlie that November has *two* holidays in it.
Thanksgiving and Black Friday. /s
re: #240 ericblair
Remarkable how closely that parallels the hubbub at Foxnews when they have to react to new information.
Where did these Christianist militants get radicalized?
Pence saved American democracy, but these people don’t want democracy. They want an autocracy led by Donald Trump. https://t.co/kyR3zHZXXP— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) June 18, 2021
re: #243 mmmirele
I signed up my brother for Arizona’s version of Medicare (funded by Obamacare legislation) five days after Trump became president, while he was barfing uncontrollably in the ER. (Turned out he is diabetic.) Of course, the hospital wants money, and the finance person, after getting a credit card to pay for this and learning he was employed as my mother’s unpaid caretaker, asked me if I wanted to sign him up for AHCCCS. Of course I signed him up. He was only briefly mad about it, until they rolled him into the ICU because his blood sugar was off the map bad.
Considering how many times he was in the hospital over the next few years, that was a stroke of serendipity on my part, otherwise he would have been smothered to death in thousands upon thousands of dollars in bills.
And when my relatives rack up those unpaid medical bills for their disabled kids who do they blame? You guessed it…they say it’s that N-Word’s fault…
re: #246 jaunte
Where did these Christianist militants get radicalized?
they were always radicalized, they were just waiting for a leader to crystallize their movement around
re: #241 JOE 🥓
We were told that OPM issued directives that Juneteenth is treated like every other Federal holiday. If the actual day falls on a Saturday then Friday is when the holiday is observed. If the actual day falls on a Sunday then Monday is when the holiday is observed.
Now we need a holiday between President’s Day in February and Memorial Day in May. Tom Jefferson’s birthday is April 13th. Would be nice to make that a holiday.
As for Election Day, why not move it to Veteran’s Day in November?
I have no problem making Jefferson’s birthday a holiday, but it will never happen because twitter will start screaming “He owned slaves!” “Sally Hemmings!” etc.
re: #242 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wait until Juneteenth falls on the same day as Father’s Day. I can’t wait for all the “War on Father’s Day” takes.
It happens! I was born on Father’s Day / Juneteenth in 1960. It was quite the coincidence, since I was my father’s first child. And then, 54 years later, my dad died on my birthday after a long life (he was 80). We were very close, even though we drove each other crazy, so it seemed more than coincidental that he died that day. On that same day, his younger brother’s much delayed memorial service took place in Colorado.
re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So. A lot of people want to believe the GOP will heal itself or “return to normal.”
But we have to talk about how the Right, from the moment of their origin, has used wild-eyed, antisemitic conspiracy theories to justify oppression and fascism.
1/https://t.co/84Ky2tJDyT— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) June 18, 2021
re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Where did these Christianist militants get radicalized?
they were always radicalized, they were just waiting for a leader to crystallize their movement around
Absolute truth. Xtians have been radicalized for 45+ years by the Religious Right which has totally fused Xtianity with the Bolshevik Republican Party!
re: #240 ericblair
makes you think that Joe maybe had one or two pointed words on just how and where he would retaliate in the Fuckaround and Find Out Sweepstakes in regards to Mr. Putin.
re: #228 No Malarkey!
In retrospect, the one thing TFG didn’t do was refuse to leave the White House January 20.
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re: #242 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wait until Juneteenth falls on the same day as Father’s Day. I can’t wait for all the “War on Father’s Day” takes.
It happens in 2022.
Read through this, and note all the self-serving flaws in the reasoning:
Ten Conservative Principles
— by Russell Kirk
re: #246 jaunte
It’s so sick that they don’t just want autocracy. They want the autocrat to be an incompetent, whining, entirely-corrupt narcissist. It seems that they identify with dysfunction and criminality.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 18, 2021
re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Where did these Christianist militants get radicalized?
they were always radicalized, they were just waiting for a leader to crystallize their movement around
They weren’t concerned back when their white-Christian authority wasn’t disturbed.
re: #255 Teddy’s Person
It happens in 2022.
That’s what we get by pinning some holidays to day of week rather than the date.
I’m not one to typically applaud John Bolton’s success, but I’ll give him this one
It’s always been clear that the Trump White House’s efforts to suppress publication of The Room Where It Happened were entirely political. See this letter from the attorney for NSC Senior Director Ellen Knight describing what really happened: https://t.co/FDjQcRcegU pic.twitter.com/wSrA8NDkNu
— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) June 18, 2021
re: #249 danarchy
I have no problem making Jefferson’s birthday a holiday, but it will never happen because twitter will start screaming “He owned slaves!” “Sally Hemmings!” etc.
One would think that would tickle the cockles of ol Turtle Fuck’s depraved soul to make Jefferson’s Birthday a national holiday!
re: #257 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They enjoy the bullying and hatred of what they perceive as their enemies (liberals) and lessors (minorities).
re: #246 jaunte
In their churches. A friend of mine worked as a poll volunteer a few elections back in Wichita, KS. Right wing Christians were showing up to vote with booklets provided by their churches that told them how to vote on everything.
— Free Association Of Oneiric Anomalies (@BestBatchYeti) June 18, 2021
re: #249 danarchy
I have no problem making Jefferson’s birthday a holiday, but it will never happen because
screamingsaying out loud where people can hear them “He owned slaves!” “Sally Hemmings!” etc.
Slightly editorialized. I’m a little bit sorry.
re: #261 JOE 🥓
One would think that would tickle the cockles of ol Turtle Fuck’s depraved soul to make Jefferson’s Birthday a national holiday!
Well if that is the motivation, Andrew Jackson’s birthday is March 15th
re: #263 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Memories of my insane aunt forcing me to go to her Foursquare church and yes the bulletins had stuffers from the KKKristian KKKolaition telling the marks who to vote for on Election Day and it sure was amazing to see the KKKristian KKKoalition tell people to vote for every fucking Republican on the ballot because Jay-Zuss says so…
re: #83 ericblair
And Matt Gaetz finds out that nonconsensual probing isn’t much fun after all.
Seditionists like Matt Gaetz are trying to pin their attack on our democracy on the FBI. Fortunately, even the people at Fox News can see that this particular traitor is going to prison for sex trafficking. It’s over for this spoiled child of privilege.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 18, 2021
re: #262 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
They enjoy the bullying and hatred of what they perceive as their enemies (liberals) and lessors (minorities).
Republicans encourage the worst aspect of human nature. It was entirely natural that they’d make a demagogue President. They’re all the weak links in our democracy.
Meanwhile back at the FRAUDIT…
Why did they send Arizona ballots to a secluded cabin in Montana?
Isn’t that a violation of the 22 month chain of custody under Federal law, Mr. Garland?
Why aren’t you intervening and shutting this shit show down?
César Chávez Day is a U.S. federal commemorative holiday, proclaimed by President Barack Obama in 2014. The holiday celebrates the birth and legacy of the civil rights and labor movement activist César Chávez on March 31 every year.
Maybe just make it a regular federal holiday.
re: #268 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They’re happy to be royalists as long as they have a place in the upper half of the feudal hierarchy.
Once you realize that our “political leaders” are not leaders at all but embedded parasites, everything makes much more sense. https://t.co/nGCWhFEcBj
— Dr. Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) June 18, 2021
Georgia releases names of over 100K people at risk of having voter registration canceled https://t.co/LgRWq6i6bI pic.twitter.com/hzmir6qKAV
— The Hill (@thehill) June 18, 2021
That’s so good, but I think the belt still belongs with this one. pic.twitter.com/oPHS8YFX18
— Schrödinger’s Litter Box (@Brewjew308) June 15, 2021
re: #256 jaunte
Read through this, and note all the self-serving flaws in the reasoning:
Ten Conservative Principles
— by Russell Kirk
moral truths are permanent.
like the moral principle that blacks and women are inferior to white males
conservatives uphold voluntary community, but oppose involuntary collectivism
but opposing labor or consumer unions as “collectivist”
freedom and property are closely linked.
yes, those who own enough property can get away with a lot more then those who own little or none. Property is taxed at a much lower rate than income.
The Former Guy said that if he lost the election, we’d never hear from him again, so… what’s the fucking holdup?
— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) June 18, 2021
re: #276 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You see how it works; and so mildly presented.
“Claims to be” because they threw it all away for the pussy-grabber.
It’s nice that there is a line at Fox. It’s way beyond where the line is anywhere decent, but there is a line. The sedition was fine, but they can’t sell sex trafficking minors to an audience that claims to be religious Conservatives.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 18, 2021
re: #259 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s what we get by pinning some holidays to day of week rather than the date.
Germans are fond of that: Good Friday and Easter Monday, Pentecost Monday, Ascension (a Thursday, so most folks take the Friday off and make a long weekend out of it) and Christi (likewise always a Thursday)
For that, if another fixed-date holiday like May 1st or Christmas falls on a weekend, tough luck.
The Republican platform we’ve all been waiting for — holidays are bad and there should be fewer of them https://t.co/8iJsVvhtx2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 18, 2021
Y’all.
I realize I’m going at this real hard, but..this thing with presenting Trump as subbing to Putin is not a good look because it’s just the liberal version of nationalism, and nationalism is not only generally horseshit, but specifically the horseshit that gets the USA into trouble over and over.
Like, of course a bunch of American reactionaries defer to Putin…he’s the localized strain of American kleptocracy and authoritarianism, run rampant in a country with no immune system. You literally have the line of attribution backwards…Putin is doing what white American dudes used to do everywhere—steal shit and kill people because they’re inconvenient; blur nation, faith, and personal gain into a slurry—while using identical justifications give or take a few search/replace terms. Trump has no filter and a more basic, primal love of cruelty, but he’s not an exception within his time or across time.
I hammer on this because it’s worse than “these guys love a foreign dictator”…you’re doing that thing where you imagine that the problem is some kind of alien influence, and it’s the exact opposite: the people that used to destroy other places and people have realized that, yeah, they actually can shit where they eat. The cannibals are no longer willing to commute for a meal, and the perverts have realized that your suffering is actually more tangibly delectable than the suffering of some random brown person around the Equator.
And Putin is just another case of the short term money coming back to fuck us. Kind of like China…the “Communist” country we offshored all of our production to because, putatively, that would result in capitalism and therefore democracy, but instead resulted in a bigger authoritarian state playing with ethnic nationalism and the obliteration of manufacturing (but also helped murder retail).
I talk about this over and over because there’s no influence to purge, and the status quo has always involved somebody getting screwed over…it just wasn’t local. Now it’s local…the Dracula Factory finally got the paperwork in and can sell off its own floor rather than package all models for export.
“Are we going to do one for the Native American Indians?”
A more absurd outcome is unimaginable to a conservative.
re: #267 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Seditionists like Matt Gaetz are trying to pin their attack on our democracy on the FBI. Fortunately, even the people at Fox News can see that this particular traitor is going to prison for sex trafficking. It’s over for this spoiled child of privilege.
He was so used to getting away with everything that he did not understand the importance of covering his tracks.
Next, the natives are going to expect to be treated like humans!
re: #234 Patricia Kayden
Vladimir Putin heaping praise on President Biden after their meeting, confirming that he is indeed NOT sleepy at all and very much on top of his game.
It’s a trick!
Putin is obviously spreading disinformation.//
re: #276 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
freedom and property are closely linked.
Every freakin’ non Randian religion would disagree with this.
re: #249 danarchy
I have no problem making Jefferson’s birthday a holiday, but it will never happen because twitter will start screaming “He owned slaves!” “Sally Hemmings!” etc.
And I have absolutely ZERO problem with that. Jefferson may have been brilliant, but a good chunk of that brilliance was bought through the sweat, labor and abuse of enslaved persons. Jefferson never freed his own children by Sally Hemings, the four children who survived to adulthood basically ran away, were not pursued, and emancipated themselves. One of the sons, Eston Hemings (later Jefferson) moved first to Ohio, and then, after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, to Wisconsin, to be further away from slave catchers.
So, no, let’s not honor the guy who couldn’t even legally emancipate his own children. Nope.
Wow!
The Republican National Committee, er, Catholic Bishops are now moving to deny communion to Joe Biden and any other politician who supports abortion rights.
re: #281 jaunte
My very cool employer gave us an extra floating holiday this year for Juneteenth, and will add it to the holiday schedule for 2022.
This is a national disgrace.
I’m in Tijuana, where deported veteran Andrew De León is about to reenter the United States, over a decade after he was removed. He’s being given a Title 42 exception due to his age and the hardships he’s faced in Mexico. Other deported veterans walked him to the port of entry. pic.twitter.com/eb0zWpcDiJ
— Max RN (@MaxRivlinNadler) June 17, 2021
The US is one of relatively few countries that allow non-citizens to join their armed forces. It is a very old tradition in the US military and has never NOT been policy. A few years ago, I happened to mention to a wingnut I knew (a non-veteran ammosexual) that there were many non-citizens in the US armed forces. He was enraged: “WHEN THE HELL DID OBAMA START ALLOWING THAT?” he demanded. I patiently explained that every President since George Washington has “allowed” it. He was skeptical. I said, “Ok, even if you don’t jack about real history, you have surely seen some John Ford movies. All those Irish sergeants are stock characters for a reason.”
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