Seth takes a closer look at the Republican response to President Biden’s new vaccine requirements and Rudy Giuliani’s bizarre rant at a 9/11 memorial dinner.
His blood alcohol level is irrelevant: his brains are simply pickled.
Shocked, shocked I say
As discussed on @DeadlineWH this week, Sep 18 worries me less than threats against refugees & relocation centers “Proud Boys-linked “Afghan refugee hunting permit” found at Michigan campus https://t.co/2NxfbxRSsM
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) September 14, 2021
So, a satirical website posts a satire article about a small local Baseball team in Olney, MD (referring to a website called OlneyFans):
Idiot lawyers then file lawsuit:
The humorless owner of the Olney Baseball team has had his lawyer threaten us about our satirical article about the Olney Fans article. We won’t take it down because Satire will always be protected as Free Speech! pic.twitter.com/o0oF8nPo5Y
— The Takoma Torch🔥🐓 (@TakomaTorch) September 12, 2021
and write a great letter in response:
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re: #5 BlueSpotinAL
So, a satirical website posts a satire article about a small local Baseball team:
Idiot lawyers then file lawsuit:
and write a great letter in response:
Lawyers gotta lawye.
re: #5 BlueSpotinAL
So, a satirical website posts a satire article about a small local Baseball team in Olney, MD (referring to a website called OlneyFans):
Idiot lawyers then file lawsuit:
and write a great letter in response:
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perhaps baseball folks in Olney, Illinois, can also have a word or two.
Doesn’t matter if he was drunk.
That was a drunk-ass speech regardless.
If he can give that kind of speech while sober it just means a bunch of his brain cells are dead for other reasons.
re: #9 The Ghost of a Flea
Doesn’t matter if he was drunk.
That was a drunk-ass speech regardless.
If he can give that kind of speech while sober it just means a bunch of his brain cells are dead for other reasons.
Probably the same vaccine that caused Nikki’s cousin’s fiancé swelling.
We reached agreement on the Freedom to Vote Act w/ Sens Schumer,Kaine,King,Manchin, Merkley,Padilla,Tester& Warnock to strengthen our democracy. It’s a really good bill! It stops the chaos by setting basic national voting standards, anti-gerrymandering protections & Disclose Act.
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) September 14, 2021
Per washingtonpost.com:
The new Freedom to Vote Act retains significant portions of the For the People Act, Democrats’ marquee voting legislation that passed the House this year but was blocked by a Republican filibuster in June. Those include mandating national minimum standards for early voting and vote-by-mail, establishing Election Day as a national holiday, and creating new disclosure requirements for “dark money” groups that are not now required to disclose their donors.
But it also discards significant pieces and tweaks others, largely in an effort to placate Manchin and indulge his hopes of building enough Republican support to pass the bill. Overcoming a filibuster absent a rules change would require the support of 10 Republicans in addition to the 50 members of the Democratic caucus.
I do agree with Betty Cracker, balloon-juice.com:
Of course, the likelihood of 10 Republican senators voting to hobble their party’s most effective election strategy — suppressing the votes of likely Democratic voters — is about as likely as 10 unicorns flying over my house while pissing bucketfuls of Pappy Van Winkle 23 bourbon and shitting rashers of bacon. But should we be encouraged that Manchin’s colleagues find this exercise worth their time?
Remember when Bill Wyman the Rolling Stones bassist issued a cease-and-desist order against music critic Bill Wyman?
Can Bill Wyman be Bill Wyman? No, says Bill Wyman / Rock critic takes heat from rocker of same name
Journalist Bill Wyman has been Bill Wyman since his birth on Jan. 11, 1961. Musician Bill Wyman became Bill Wyman two years later. Before that, he was William George Perks, and not as prone to writing cease-and-desist letters.
re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter
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I heard a report on MSNBC that Pfizer will apply for emergency use to vaccinate 5-11 year olds in early October.
Charles, did you see my comment in the last thread?
Hey, Charles, I may have figured out the problems some of us are seeing on the site. The feature you have that pops up the last comment on a page allowing you to click on it and go to that comment is causing a number of buttons to stop working. If I click on the page link, or click on the comment count button, it doesn’t cause this problem. I just tested this multiple times, with multiple lgf tabs, so I don’t think it’s related to cookies or style sheets.
Bob Woodward’s new book has the president acting like a 6-year old schoolchild.
It’s mind-boggling that we had an actual president this fragile and needy. pic.twitter.com/U5zBXu83qx— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2021
JFC! Totally out of touch with the real world. https://t.co/uc6xQyp8N6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2021
re: #16 Belafon
Do you mean the comment links on the front page?
re: #19 Charles Johnson
Do you mean the comment links on the front page?
Yes. The one where you hover and it pops up a link to the most recent comment on the page you want to go to. The one in the bottom right corner of each page panel on the front page. If I click that pop up link, I get the problem of buttons not working.
I don’t have the vocabulary to distinguish between being on the front page and talking about the things you see related to each page and being on an individual page thread.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Bob Woodward’s new book has the president acting like a 6-year old schoolchild.
It’s mind-boggling that we had an actual president this fragile and needy.
It never cost him support from his base
re: #5 BlueSpotinAL
So, a satirical website posts a satire article about a small local Baseball team in Olney, MD (referring to a website called OlneyFans):
Idiot lawyers then file lawsuit:
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the special discount of “olney” 5000 bucks. Oh god! Laughing my ass off!!
re: #20 Belafon
Yes. The one where you hover and it pops up a link to the most recent comment on the page you want to go to. The one in the bottom right corner of each page panel on the front page. If I click that pop up link, I get the problem of buttons not working.
OK, I found the problem - it should be fixed now.
It was related to Twitter’s embedded tweet code. They’ve been messing around with that a lot lately and some things about it seem to be broken.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
What power or authority is being discussed here?
Well actually… no, I think it’s better that he remains a sniveling little suck-up. https://t.co/ADRbY5EkDj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2021
re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
What power or authority is being discussed here?
This is about Trump’s demand that Pence refuse to certify the election, something he didn’t even have the power to do.
re: #28 Charles Johnson
This is about Trump’s demand that Pence refuse to certify the election, something he didn’t even have the power to do.
Not having the authority to do something should be no hindrance to doing it if you are called upon to do it in order to remain a True Friend of Trump.
re: #28 Charles Johnson
This is about Trump’s demand that Pence refuse to certify the election, something he didn’t even have the power to do.
And then Trump unleashed his mob on Pence because he wouldn’t do what he can’t do.
re: #22 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Bob Woodward’s new book has the president acting like a 6-year old schoolchild.
It’s mind-boggling that we had an actual president this fragile and needy.It never cost him support from his base
I’ve said throughout his presidency that Trump has the mental faculties, speaking patterns, and emotional maturity of a small child.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Balls are a relative virtue not an absolute one.
Give Mike Pence balls and he’d apply them to shit like censoring Disney films while otherwise remaining a lickspittle.
re: #28 Charles Johnson
This is about Trump’s demand that Pence refuse to certify the election, something he didn’t even have the power to do.
Waaaait a minute, I just had a blinding moment of clarity. Mike Pence is the new Robert E. Lee. If the “Big Lie” is the same as the “Lost Cause”, draw the parallel: Pence is the scapegoat, the man who was asked to do the impossible, and when he wouldn’t (or couldn’t), everyone became convinced that the war (election) could have been won, if only…
I have to admit I didn’t foresee one of the saviors of American democracy being Dan Quayle.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2021
re: #34 Charles Johnson
Anyone who was around in the 1990’s is terrified to read that sentence. The idea of J. Danforth Quayle saving, well, anything is anathema to us.
re: #33 Dopamine Fish
Waaaait a minute, I just had a blinding moment of clarity. Mike Pence is the new Robert E. Lee. If the “Big Lie” is the same as the “Lost Cause”, draw the parallel: Pence is the scapegoat, the man who was asked to do the impossible, and when he wouldn’t (or couldn’t), everyone became convinced that the war (election) could have been won, if only…
If Pence had stood up before Congress and said he refused to certify the results of the EC vote, he would have plunged the country into a massive Constitutional Crisis.
I assume that he had already talked to his friends in SCOTUS and they had refused to play along.
But Trump was not going to listen to any of that.
re: #33 Dopamine Fish
Waaaait a minute, I just had a blinding moment of clarity. Mike Pence is the new Robert E. Lee. If the “Big Lie” is the same as the “Lost Cause”, draw the parallel: Pence is the scapegoat, the man who was asked to do the impossible, and when he wouldn’t (or couldn’t), everyone became convinced that the war (election) could have been won, if only…
But Trump likes Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee would’ve defeated the Taliban.
Trump’s caught wind of those “I can’t wait to piss on his grave” stories.
As part of his in-depth look at Donald Trump’s deteriorating relationship with the locals in Bedminster, New Jersey, Business Insider’s Warren Rojas reported that the former president is currently in a stand-off with the local planning board over his desire to build a private cemetery where he would buried. Raw Story
re: #35 Dopamine Fish
Anyone who was around in the 1990’s is terrified to read that sentence. The idea of J. Danforth Quayle saving, well, anything is anathema to us.
To be fair, he did try to save us from single mom, Murphy Brown. ///
re: #39 Teddy’s Person
To be fair, he did try to save us from single mom, Murphy Brown. ///
And to correct kids’ spelling of “PotatoE”
re: #37 A Three Hour Tour
But Trump likes Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee would’ve defeated the Taliban.
Granted, the statue of Robert E Lee falling off his rearing horse because of a .60cal jezail round through the chest would definitely make a gallant statue.
re: #37 A Three Hour Tour
But Trump likes Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee would’ve defeated the Taliban.
Yes, but hopefully you see where I’m going with this. Revisionist historians who will continue to cling to the romanticized “Trump won and the election was stolen” narrative that the right wing has been foisting on us will try to rehabilitate his image as a man who wanted to do the right thing, but was prevented by the bumblings of others, a lack of cooperation with the plan, and/or the cruel machinations of The Establishment (tm). They don’t see him like that now, but the Lost Cause wasn’t born in a day, either.
Found an account on FB that spews massive amounts of anti-vaccine misinformation, and reported a lot of it. She has an alternative account she switches to when she gets a time out. FB should be permanently banning these people.
I am amused by the notion of a draft dodger telling us that a General who could not defeat the Army of the Potomac was going to prevail in a country that had sent the Mongols, Turks, British, Red Army and US Army packing
Must-read, absolutely horrific. Trump must never hold office again https://t.co/GIe6jKEWkW
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) September 14, 2021
Robert E Lee: guy who fucks up taking a hill, gets rolled by a down-slope charge.
Afghans: guys that stage ambushes from the tops of hills.
I’m perfectly fine with the Confederacy invading Afghanistan, guys.
re: #44 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am amused by the notion of a draft dodger telling us that a General who could not defeat US Grant was going to defeat an army that had sent the Mongols, Turks, British, Red Army and US Army packing
He’s not an arm chair general, he’s a phone sex operator.
He’s not second guessing old campaigns because he thinks he’s clever, he’s telling his audience their cock is big.
re: #45 jaunte
Jesus H. Fucking Christ, he really did try to kill us all.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
If Pence had had even a teensy bit more self-confidence, he might have done what Trump wanted.
re: #47 The Ghost of a Flea
He’s not an arm chair general, he’s a phone sex operator.
He’s not second guessing old campaigns because he thinks he’s clever, he’s telling his audience their cock is big.
of course, that was just a big chunk of red meat for his base to chew on
re: #50 Belafon
If Pence had had even a teensy bit more self-confidence, he might have done what Trump wanted.
And then he would’ve been overruled, and the Senate President Pro Tem would’ve taken over the electoral vote count.
re: #50 Belafon
If Pence had had even a teensy bit more self-confidence, he might have done what Trump wanted.
I suspect that he looked into it but could not get even the Trump-packed SCOTUS to back him.
re: #52 No Malarkey!
And then he would’ve been overruled, and the Senate President Pro Tem would’ve taken over the electoral vote count.
Right - he simply didn’t have the constitutional authority to do it, and he wasn’t willing to take the fall for that rat bastard.
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Right - he simply didn’t have the constitutional authority to do it, and he wasn’t willing to take the fall for that rat bastard.
Right. Mike Pence is a terrible human being, but credit where due for at least being smart enough to not get sucked into that bullshit.
You can find a number of excerpts from the Woodward and Costa book at CNN including this nightmare.
Milley’s fear that Trump could do something unpredictable came from experience. Right after Trump lost the election, Milley discovered the President had signed a military order to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by January 15, 2021, before he left the White House.
The memo had been secretly drafted by two Trump loyalists. No one on the national security team knew about it, according to the book. The memo was eventually nullified, but Milley could not forget that Trump had done an end run around his top military advisers.
Woodward and Costa write that after January 6, Milley ‘felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump and believed it was his job as the senior military officer to think the unthinkable and take any and all necessary precautions.’
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
of course, that was just a big chunk of red meat for his base to chew on
Pre-chewed meat delivered like a bird feeding its hatchlings.
re: #57 The Ghost of a Flea
Pre-chewed meat delivered like a bird feeding its hatchlings.
squeezed out of a tube like Invermectin
Jared was a spineless little twat until the end.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump took a light touch [in convincing Trump he lost], the authors write, and Kushner told aides he did not want to be the point person for an intervention.
re: #56 Teddy’s Person
Knowing that most GOP congresspeople had to know via the grapevine that all of this craziness has been coming from the Trump White House makes the performances in the recent hearings on Afghanistan even more hypocritically baroque.
Dan Quayle helped save the Republic. That’s how warped the Trump era is. pic.twitter.com/EuacpZnae6
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) September 14, 2021
When Dan Quayle is the authority on constitutional law and what the certification of the election involves, you are truly fucked up. When Quayle’s the one who ultimately prevails on the constitutionality question, I throw in the towel altogether.
This is some Matrix level fuckery.
re: #61 lawhawk
When Dan Quayle is the authority on constitutional law and what the certification of the election involves, you are truly fucked up. When Quayle’s the one who ultimately prevails on the constitutionality question, I throw in the towel altogether.
This is some Matrix level fuckery.
We all go to people we believe are knowledgeable. At least Pence went to someone pre-Bush 2.
re: #61 lawhawk
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When Dan Quayle is the authority on constitutional law and what the certification of the election involves, you are truly fucked up. When Quayle’s the one who ultimately prevails on the constitutionality question, I throw in the towel altogether.
This is some Matrix level fuckery.
I’ll beg to (minorly) differ: When the Constitutional duties of the VP - and the limitations thereon - are so obvious that even a second-rate hack and intellectual lightweight like Dan Quayle can see them and realize what the right thing to do is … well, it just makes Trump and his failed-coup plans look even worse.
Though, disgracefully, his “base” probably won’t ever realize this.
re: #59 Teddy’s Person
Jared was a spineless little twat until the end.
So glad that fucker has disappeared from public view, like a scooped up dog turd.
If your top generals have to take precautions to let other countries know you won’t be allowed to start a Wag the Dog war or a nuclear strike to stay in power, maybe you weren’t such a great President.
Just sayin, #MAGA chuds.— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) September 14, 2021
The fact that Pence even went shopping for legal justification to overturn the election results is horrifying. He should have know the duties, responsibilities and limitations of VP position already.
re: #34 Charles Johnson
Holy shit, you’re right…from the Sun:
PENCE’S INDECISION
Pence ultimately went against Trump’s wishes, though it was a decision he apparently tortured over to Dan Quayle, who had been the vice president to George H.W. Bush.He allegedly reached out to Quayle over and over, asking if there was anything he could do.
When Quayle told him there wasn’t, Pence is said to have pressed: “You don’t know the position I’m in.”
“I do know the position you’re in,” Quayle responded. “I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That’s all you do. You have no power.”
re: #24 steve_davis
the special discount of “olney” 5000 bucks. Oh god! Laughing my ass off!!
I loved:
CC Streisand
re: #67 Teddy’s Person
The fact that Pence even went shopping for legal justification to overturn the election results is horrifying. He should have know the duties, responsibilities and limitations of VP position already.
He wanted someone to take the fall for him if necesary.
re: #70 GlutenFreeJesus
Trump was going to nuke Afghanistan.
And this was BEFORE we got all our people out.
attn: darthstar
wow can’t believe she wore something so controversial pic.twitter.com/WVKjc77kdj
— GrandMaster Witch👑 (@PhunkyWitch) September 14, 2021
re: #38 Teddy’s Person
Trump’s caught wind of those “I can’t wait to piss on his grave” stories.
It’ll be the biggest crowd of people lined up since Obama’s inauguration. They’re going to have to bury him in the middle of yards of gravel just to provide adequate drainage.
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Right - he simply didn’t have the constitutional authority to do it, and he wasn’t willing to
take the fall for that rat bastard.
..look like a complete idiot
re: #75 Dangerman
..look like a complete idiot
Narrator: Pence still managed to come out of this looking like a complete idiot.
re: #74 darthstar
Maybe we CAN save the Colorado river watershed.
re: #59 Teddy’s Person
Jared was a spineless little twat until the end.
The fucking president of the united states needed an “intervention”!!!!!
The legendary comic passed away Tuesday after battling cancer for nearly a decade. https://t.co/XmUqAfedLt
— TMZ (@TMZ) September 14, 2021
re: #63 Jay C
I’ll beg to (minorly) differ: When the Constitutional duty of the VP - and the limitations thereon - are so obvious that even a second-rate hack and intellectual lightweight like Dan Quayle can see them and realize what the right thing to do is … well, it just makes Trump and his failed-coup plans look even worse.
Though, disgracefully, his “base” probably won’t ever realize this.
This! + many times
“You GOPers were always like this,” say people are going to ignore the fact that Dan Quayle - yes, him - was the guy who told Mike Pence not even to *think* about not certifying the election. (Because Pence, coward that he is, was thinking about it.)https://t.co/KoRjXVE3FH
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 14, 2021
“Aren’t you grateful some of us are capable of the actual minimum required to maintain the republic? How dare you correctly point out the ongoing strain of antidemocracy that’s been mounting?”
re: #83 The Ghost of a Flea
“Don’t call us all violent; you wanna get punched?”
JFC. How close were we to nuclear war?
“If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise,” Milley said.
Li took the chairman at his word, the authors write in the book, “Peril,” which is set to be released next week. https://t.co/PaH60y3ocg— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 14, 2021
re: #81 teleskiguy
Ugh, that sucks.
Norm went to the same college I did (different graduating years, obviously) and got his start in comedy in my hometown. His niece was in my college class while I was there and I got to meet his brother (who was a longtime broadcaster with the CBC) once.
re: #85 Ace Rothstein
He was shitfaced drunk.
He may have had just enough to feel normal, but there will be a lot of cumulative damage from his decades of drinking.
re: #83 The Ghost of a Flea
yeah Tom! How nice that we had to go down the list of GOP political sentinels to land upon Dan Quayle to state that certifying a public election was valid…
thanks for clearing that “hurdle”.
re: #81 teleskiguy
He did the voice of “Pigeon” on the Mike Tyson Mystery Show on Cartoon Network. Sad news, indeed.
re: #83 The Ghost of a Flea
“Aren’t you grateful some of us are capable of the actual minimum required to maintain the republic? How dare you correctly point out the ongoing strain of antidemocracy that’s been mounting?”
I remember people all over this site and other places knowing that we had to count on some Republicans doing the right thing. The fact that some of them did is the minimum requirement for being a good citizen, but I can’t even count on Democrats voting when their life depends on it, so I’m not going to crap on those who do the right thing when it’s needed. In fact, I’m going to be thankful they did.
Naked Capitalism: 18 Vaccine Experts, Including Top FDA Scientists, Publish Review in The Lancet Saying Current Evidence Doesn’t Support Need for COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for the Fully Vaccinated
re: #70 GlutenFreeJesus
Trump was going to nuke Afghanistan.
Apparently it was China
Twice in the final months of the Trump administration, the country’s top military officer was so fearful that the president’s actions might spark a war with China that he moved urgently to avert armed conflict,” the Washington Post reports.
re: #92 Belafon
I remember people all over this site and other places knowing that we had to count on some Republicans doing the right thing. The fact that some of them did is the minimum requirement for being a good citizen, but I can’t even count on Democrats voting when their life depends on it, so I’m not going to crap on those who do the right thing when it’s needed. In fact, I’m going to be thankful they did.
Yes, we should be thankful for the people who want to give us the same poison in smaller doses.
Emails show that senior advisers to President Trump in February 2020 privately discussed the government’s “critical mistakes” in preparing for the pandemic, countering the former president’s optimistic claims in public, the Washington Post reports.
Said adviser Steven Hatfill wrote to Peter Navarro on Feb. 29, 2020: “In truth we do not have a clue how many are infected in the USA. We are expecting the first wave to spread in the U.S. within the next 7 days. This will be accompanied by a massive loss of credibility and the Democratic accusations are just now beginning. This must be countered with frank honesty about the situation and decisive direct actions that are being taken and can be seen in the broadcast news.”
re: #90 piratedan
yeah Tom! How nice that we had to go down the list of GOP political sentinels to land upon Dan Quayle to state that certifying a public election was valid…
thanks for clearing that “hurdle”.
It makes sense. Quayle was the last GOP VP who had to certify that his President, who had served only one term, had lost the election. So the situation was analogous.
re: #96 The Ghost of a Flea
Yes, we should be thankful for the people who want to give us the same poison in smaller doses.
Unless we’re ready for the revolution the accelerationists have been jonesing for, yeah. Let’s accept a small favor.
re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter
It makes sense. Quayle was the last GOP VP who had to certify that his President, who had served only one term, had lost the election. So the situation was analogous.
Except H.W. Bush, at least, wasn’t a complete narcissistic psychopath who would sooner destroy the world than admit he lost the election.
Headline: The entire mcconnell republican caucus is vowing to destroy the American economy because a Democrat is President. https://t.co/frB3F4mQeS
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) September 14, 2021
re: #101 jaunte
Hey, Manchin, Sinema, where’s your ten Republicans going to come from?
re: #101 jaunte
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The Republican Platform is now burn it all down (and blame Biden). Instead of war with China, we’ll be giving them [insert state here] to pay off our debt.
How much does the GOP love women & girls?
Glad you asked.
The official party position is that if you’re raped and impregnated by your father, the state will require you to give birth to your own sibling.— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) September 9, 2021
re: #101 jaunte
We failed to crush these mofos in 2020. If that happens again in 2022, we have thrown the nation away.
“Well, we raised the debt ceiling because America can’t default.
I mean—that would be a disaster.”
—Senator Mitch McConnell, 2019 pic.twitter.com/N8gbKWUzR7— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) September 13, 2021
Today:
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reiterated that Democrats will not get GOP help in raising the debt ceiling: “Republicans are united in opposition to raising the debt ceiling.”
The disastrous consequences of pulling out of the Iran Deal are clear every day. The plain statement of fact below exposes the complete failure of the maximum pressure crowd which is still taken far too seriously in Washington https://t.co/D28l8NlTKY
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) September 14, 2021
re: #104 Teddy’s Person
The Republican Platform is now burn it all down (and blame Biden). Instead of war with China, we’ll be giving them [insert state here] to pay off our debt.
Mississippi. I vote me we give them Mississippi. And maybe Alabama. If need be, also North Dakota.
It surely has nothing to do with LGF’s concern for that poor guy in Trinidad, but I’m suddenly getting emailed offers for dick stiffeners.
re: #104 Teddy’s Person
Nearly all of this is the result of GOP refusal to vaccinate and the death toll rising. Vaccine availability is not issue. It’s the need for more mandates due to GOP refusing to do bare minimum to keep nation safe.
This is the outcome GOP wants, to sabotage Biden.— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 14, 2021
re: #109 sagehen
Mississippi. I vote me we give them Mississippi. And maybe Alabama. If need be, also North Dakota.
Ahem.
Here’s the full memo from Lord. pic.twitter.com/qmAPJhP6zk
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 14, 2021
A President who has been on the covid case since day one, consistently advocating for vaccinations and mask wearing and acting like an adult in the process has his approval rating for his handling of covid go down, while his predecessor who called it a hoax, said it would be gone in two weeks, and then advocating injecting bleach is considered the favorite for the GOP nomination in three years. We are totally fucked as a nation.
re: #111 lawhawk
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Biden approval on coronavirus response via Quinnipiac polling:
May 2021:
65% approve
30% disapprove
August 2021:
53% approve
40% disapprove
Right now:
48% approve
49% disapprove— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) September 14, 2021
the republican position:
:
Can government agencies quit misleading people into thinking that loose fitting cloth fabric masks are a decent substitute for tight fitting N95 masks?I feel sad when I see at risk people in at risk environments wearing loose cloth masks for their own personal protection.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 14, 2021
we don’t wear masks to protect ourselves, you moron
and he’s such a big fat liar:
I’ve worn N95s for many years on the farm to prevent allergy attacks and for respiratory health. After a couple decades of baling hay, sanding floors, cutting stones, and spraying trees, my lungs would be junk had I worn cloth masks or even surgical masks.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 14, 2021
On the rocky coast of Brittany, 111 years ago, a lone fisherman casts his gaze to the open sea. I have enhanced for you this wonderfully atmospheric autochrome, taken by Gustave Gain around 1910. It is original colour (not colourised). pic.twitter.com/BG2K0V4DLs
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) September 14, 2021
re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
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here’s the flip side to the fox hosts being vaccinated
Vanity Fair: “In fact, between June 28 and August 8 — as ICUs became overwhelmed and COVID cases among children in the U.S. jumped — Fox News’ anti-vaccination campaign got even worse; according to a report from Media Matters, the network aired 840 claims undermining or downplaying vaccinations, with hosts and guests suggesting the lifesaving immunizations were unnecessary, dangerous, a violation of personal freedom, and a plot by Democrats to win elections.”
“Which is obviously a uniquely fucked-up position to take considering vaccines have been proved to work and are our only hope of one day getting out of this nightmare. Also fucked up? That Fox hosts obviously know this and are personally following COVID protocols off the air, but assume their viewers are stupid enough to buy that they’re all in this together.”
re: #114 Decatur Deb
How far are you from Katz’s?
according to Google Maps, 5.6 miles. Or 34 minutes. (yes, we have traffic)
How does Dan Quayle even get on the “guy to ask” list? When did Dan Quayle ever have to look into this? Seriously it must be a call the chief justice moment, maybe a conference call with the AG.
The gaslighting turtle speaks. https://t.co/vGkSMGAYF5
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 14, 2021
re: #122 Rightwingconspirator
How does Dan Quayle even get on the “guy to ask” list? When did Dan Quayle ever have to look into this? Seriously it must be a call the chief justice moment, maybe a conference call with the AG.
He’s a fellow Republican from Indiana.
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s entirely full of shit.
The masks are to protect other people by reducing your own spray. Is doing things for other people just too alien to the antisocial-right? Doing the right thing would take less effort than making up excuses for your failure.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 14, 2021
re: #121 sagehen
according to Google Maps, 5.6 miles. Or 34 minutes. (yes, we have traffic)
We could stop at Paddy O’Reilly’s and catch the Prodigals on the way down.
re: #107 Dangerman
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Today:
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reiterated that Democrats will not get GOP help in raising the debt ceiling: “Republicans are united in opposition to raising the debt ceiling.”
McConnell has upped his game. His goal in 2009 was to make Obama a one-term president but he had far fewer forces at his disposal back then. Now, with an evenly divided Senate, it will not take much to destroy the Biden administration. Our democracy is hanging on a thread and it’s fraying as we watch.
re: #124 aatharuv
He’s a fellow Republican from Indiana.
Who actually did preside over the same ceremonial process Trump wanted Pence to short-circuit.
*thud*
SHOCKING: @RepJerryNadler refers to illegal aliens as “Human Infrastructure” during last night’s House Judiciary hearing on amnesty@RepThomasMassie: “The people back home are going to be surprised to learn that illegals are now part of the infrastructure of this country.” pic.twitter.com/c114ClJh4E
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) September 14, 2021
re: #124 aatharuv
He’s a fellow Republican from Indiana.
And the last VP that had to preside over certifying the opponent winning.
re: #124 aatharuv
He’s a fellow Republican from Indiana.
Also used to be VP to a guy who lost re-election.
re: #110 Decatur Deb
It surely has nothing to do with LGF’s concern for that poor guy in Trinidad, but I’m suddenly getting emailed offers for dick stiffeners.
So am I, but it isn’t going to do me any good!
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
Most of the construction sites I pass around here are filled with Latino looking folks. I’d guess a fair number are not here legally.
re: #110 Decatur Deb
It surely has nothing to do with LGF’s concern for that poor guy in Trinidad, but I’m suddenly getting emailed offers for dick stiffeners.
Well, they can be a hard sell sometimes.
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So proud to intro VT’s own Beth Robinson at her 2nd Circ. confirmation hearing this AM. Her nom. is historic: she’d be the first openly gay woman on our circ. courts. But most importantly, she’s a brilliant & impartial jurist w/ support across the political spectrum. My remarks: pic.twitter.com/JRATDkhD4X
— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) September 14, 2021
Part of me wishes trump actually tried to go through with this shit. Then he’d be rotting in federal prison.
re: #73 teleskiguy
She should have worn the real slogan: “Eat the Rich”.
re: #128 Charles Johnson
Who actually did preside over the same ceremonial process Trump wanted Pence to short-circuit.
Another good point. I just stand corrected.
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
*thud*
No one is as stupid as you pretend to be. There is no “stupidity defense” for child sex trafficking, so establishing that you’re stupid is not going to help you.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 14, 2021
re: #138 sagehen
restaurants. hotels.
schools
even governments are nothing but people and office space
Read Pergram’s thread… there’s quite a bit to take in, including parliamentary procedures, filibusters, reconciliation, and overrides.
1) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to McConnell and Democrats’ efforts to stuff immigration into the $3.5 trillion social spending bill
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 14, 2021
How do we get away from this? Nuke the filibuster and return to regular order. Bills would need simple majorities to pass the legislature, and no procedure would require a supermajority to act, especially as it relates to nominations and the Courts.
re: #114 Decatur Deb
How far are you from Katz’s?
By the way, Katz’s Delicatessen does internet orders. It’s very pricey but, based upon my experience, it seems to be able to get stuff where it is supposed to go in time.
I think this means I won our bet by default.
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) September 14, 2021
“Dan Quayle saves democracy” was not a plot twist I saw coming. pic.twitter.com/LbRNtUBjrt
— 𒇷 𒁯𒅗 (@Lee__Drake) September 14, 2021
re: #147 ckkatz
By the way, Katz’s Delicatessen does internet orders. It’s very pricey but, based upon my experience, it seems to be able to get stuff where it is supposed to go in time.
Before the plague, the Sisterhood at our town’s temple would do a yearly Sandwich Day, with deli driven down from Birmingham or flown into our commuter airport from Atlanta.
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
Does anyone know what Greg Locke @pastorlocke did to get suspended from Twitter? I’m really curious about what that scumbag did.
— Erich Kays (@ErichKays) September 14, 2021
Between the low turnout in Kentucky, and this, life is coming at him fast this week.
It tastes like victory.— “Pastor” HumanistHound (@HoundHumanist) September 14, 2021
re: #119 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The quality of these photos is stunning.
I would pay to watch footage of someone doing their “own research” on vaccines. Share your screen because I am absolutely dying to know what you’re looking at
— Jenée (@jdesmondharris) September 13, 2021
I’m going to go on a limb and say that it’s someone who goes on Facebook and sees a served up headline that says ivermectin is a miracle cure that the FDA is suppressing from use because “reasons”, or that “betadine” is preventative treatment because it’s an antibacterial.
And that’s all there is to it. Once you start down that rabbit hole of right wing agitprop, social media keeps serving up the same crap. At same time, it’s all they hear from Carlson and Hannity (who are both required to be vaccinated by *FOX*).
The first line of questioning to Secretary of State Antony Blinken from a Senate Republican during today’s hearing is Jim Risch bizarrely grilling Blinken about who in the White House has authority to “push the button” & cut off President Biden’s mic. Blinken insists nobody does pic.twitter.com/kWTmitvOXE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 14, 2021
Ron Johnson cuts off Blinken as he tries to get a word in, dismisses his comments as “bureaucratic speak” pic.twitter.com/vvBkjux8dd
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 14, 2021
Rand Paul grills Blinken on a drone strike in Afghanistan that reportedly mistakenly killed an aid worker and several civilians, including children pic.twitter.com/oqLQJmrJ6I
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 14, 2021
everybody getting their campaign ad soundbites
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thank dog that fascist is finally off twitter. I hope it’s permanent.
re: #146 lawhawk
Read Pergram’s thread… there’s quite a bit to take in, including parliamentary procedures, filibusters, reconciliation, and overrides.
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How do we get away from this? Nuke the filibuster and return to regular order. Bills would need simple majorities to pass the legislature, and no procedure would require a supermajority to act, especially as it relates to nominations and the Courts.
In prehistoric times, the filibuster was used sparingly and almost all legislation required only a majority vote. But that has become increasingly untrue over the past 30 years and now our government is no longer functional. The future looks bleak if Biden cannot succeed in getting his infrastructure packages and voting rights bill through the Congress.
Ron Johnson said Trump was so healthy he could live to be 200. https://t.co/UwujF5hcqc
— Kat 4 Obama (@Kat4Obama) September 14, 2021
Texas Man giving Florida Man a run for his money.
A Galveston attorney decided to *checks notes* cosplay as Michael Myers before Nicholas hit the Gulf coast.
More from @CillaAguirre below 🔽 https://t.co/aqddQ4pKNa— Jess Elizarraras (@JessElizarraras) September 14, 2021
If that belief was incorrect, it’s the fog of war. Distinct from that thick soup between Rand’s ears. Of course, he’s still mourning Al Waliki the terrorist
— Bill Adkins (@BillAdkinsKY) September 14, 2021
From last thread:
re: #199 Axolotl
Does anybody know how many people are expected at Saturday’s rally?
My daughter is a freshman at American University and I’m trying to gauge how concerned I should be.
re: #219 Barefoot Grin
I heard the Capitol Police spokesman yesterday say that their best guess is several hundred and that they will have fences up by the end of the week.
In short, my thought is that unless she goes looking for trouble, she’s probably fine.
I think that there are two parts to this.
First, the events Saturday daytime.
These will be concentrated in the Capitol Hill/National Mall region. Those are on a different hilltop/valley from that of American University. And several miles and multiple neighborhoods away. Iirc, public transportation, particularly the metro (subway) does not provide convenient direct service betwixt the two areas.
I would recommend that she avoid those areas as she would be indistinguishable from the herd of Trumper cannon-fodder. And would likely be treated as such, by both the Trumper leadership and the LEO (Law Enforcement Organizations).
Second, Friday and Saturday night.
There is the possibility of thugs like the proud boys running around in groups and randomly attacking passerby. If previous events are to predict, most of these thugs will be on foot and will spread out in groups from around the event (Capitol Hill/National Mall) area. They are not likely to go more than a few miles before they either get arrested or get bored and go back to their flea bag motels in Arlington.
Personally, I would avoid some of the closely located commercial areas like Capitol Hill, Dupont Circle, and Georgetown. And I would keep up situational awareness. If there is a group of clone-like males acting like jerks, it’s probably time to leave that area.
Anyway, when people are acting like assholes, why spend more time around them? Or worse yet, try to engage them.
At length, Sen. Jim Risch absurdly said someone at the White House yesterday hit a “button” to stop Biden from talking.
No. There was a planned “pool spray,” in which press/cam is allowed in for brief remarks at a meeting’s start; it ended as Biden began questioning officials.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 14, 2021
Also, like, these are the words Biden said before the feed ended: “Can I ask you a question? One of the things that I’ve been working on, with some others, is…” It wasn’t like he started telling some crazy story. (Anyway this is all ridiculous.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 14, 2021
re: #158 Teddy’s Person
Texas Man giving Florida Man a run for his money.
Because “Hold my beer” moments always turn out well…
re: #153 lawhawk
I would pay to watch footage of someone doing their “own research” on vaccines. Share your screen because I am absolutely dying to know what you’re looking at
— Jenée (@jdesmondharris) September 13, 2021
re: #31 A Three Hour Tour
I’ve said throughout his presidency that Trump has the mental faculties, speaking patterns, and emotional maturity of a small child.
This is why I have absolutely ZERO problem calling out Evangelicals for their support of the former guy, even now. Because it’s a cult.
The refugees arriving to the United States from Afghanistan have stories just like ours. They have big dreams for themselves, hopes for their families, and lives they wish to build. I hope you’ll join me and @WelcomeUs in welcoming them to the United States! https://t.co/03aS3REGiP
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) September 14, 2021
What’s particularly insulting about this insane effort is that the Elder campaign is *actively harming its own GOTV prospects.* In other words, they’re not just resigned to losing, they’re making a loss more likely, and by a larger margin. Then they’re going to cry fraud. GMAFB https://t.co/RLNAj8yx9f
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 14, 2021
re: #61 lawhawk
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When Dan Quayle is the authority on constitutional law and what the certification of the election involves, you are truly fucked up. When Quayle’s the one who ultimately prevails on the constitutionality question, I throw in the towel altogether.
This is some Matrix level fuckery.
In defense of Dan Quayle, he does have a JD from Indiana University-Indianapolis (now IUPUI). So not completely stupid. But yeah, Quayle helping to save the nation was not on my Insurrection Bingo card.
re: #122 Rightwingconspirator
How does Dan Quayle even get on the “guy to ask” list? When did Dan Quayle ever have to look into this? Seriously it must be a call the chief justice moment, maybe a conference call with the AG.
Forget it Jake, it’s Indiana…
CV Day 5—Everybody is kind of coasting. Wife has resumed her lockdown abuse of Amazon Prime shipping.
Tomorrow was to be launch of our monster camping trip, with 16 moves in 6 weeks, to the northernmost mile marker of US1. Big stops included DC, Hawk Mountain PA, a couple nights on the Hudson River at Jersey City. (We were going to bring our own couch, Sagehen.) We planned to zip across Brooklyn and Queens to take a WWII LST/ferry from Montauk to New London, and bounce up the coast.
On the way back we were to bump off the terminal of the Erie Canal at Albany, go on to a lakeside park on Lake Ontario (staying at a winery on the way). Then across Erie to PGH area, on to Portsmouth OH to walk the serpent mound, Louisville area, then past the site of the Battle of Bowling Green to a TN park, a park near Huntsville, and home.
It was to involve family we had never seen, and some we will not see again. Delta CV screwed it, but we will plan again and better for 2022. Might wind up doorknocking for Fetterman on the way.
re: #11 Belafon
My guess is that the political calculation is
- benefit is to show that Republicans refuse to responsibly govern or work with Democrats for the benefit of the country as a whole.
- cost is the calendar time required to go through with the theater
The objective is to convince members of the public that the Democrats generally have to take action on their own. This would be separate from convincing people that any proposed solution is the correct one.
re: #92 Belafon
I don’t care about individual good Republicans doing the right thing. That’s merely…nice that people can perform the absolute minimum of not being fascist.
I care about the systemic problem of Republican power brokers using their own base’s bad behavior as leverage to make the country do what they want. The center right creates economic and international-relations consequences that feed the far right’s reaction as material conditions get worse and the need for explanatory structures (that are not “free markets are actually rigged and unregulated capitalism is killing you”) leads to further scapegoating and further escalation towards eliminationism.
It’s a ratchet: the far right goes farther and the center right declares that the only way to defend against the far right is to do what the center right wants. The gear lurches us towards fascism while the pawl keeps us from adequately responding to worsening conditions that relate to income inequality, oligarchy, and a rigged market. So the choice we keep getting presented with by these people is “conservatism that facilitates fascism…or fascism” isn’t really a choice for problems to be solved or life to get better, it’s just a choice to suffer under different conditions.
re: #99 Decatur Deb
Unless we’re ready for the revolution the accelerationists have been jonesing for, yeah. Let’s accept a small favor.
I would accept a favor if it was a favor. But this is a protection racket where the mobster gets offended if you don’t play along that you’re just friends doing some business.
This is a transaction, and the people opining on what Dems must do to make “Never Trumpers” happy are defining the terms of the transaction while also wheedling about how it’s rude to actually state aloud this is a transaction. The fact that individuals within the exploitative system view themselves as good faith actors doesn’t change what the entire system does.
Here is David Frum dictating the terms of the transaction: Never Trumpers must be coddled in a way they will not coddle others. The culture must bend to be nice to them; their insecurity as whites must never be called out; and don’t fuck with the big money by addressing trade or immigration in ways they don’t like.
Give Never Trumpers everything they want and we will still be heading towards fascism, because what they want materially creates the kind of privation and desperation that leads people to authoritarianism, and Never Trumpism does not possess the cultural power to disconnect that desire for direct, bloody solutions from the long-established right-wing folklore in which all problems are caused by outsiders and weirdos and solved by cruelty and blind obedience.
Indeed, they sell a milder version of the same premise: that their base’s ugliness is self-defense, that they can demand to not be contradicted because that would be rudeness. It’s elongated “both sides” rhetoric, but with an explicit objective—don’t fuck with the money, don’t tell us we’ve been wrong—in mind
Trumpism is just a vulgar expression of the same shit Ronald Reagan pulled—though the latter actually did a far more significant bit of treason that the next president doled out pardons for—and anyone trying to tell you there was some kind of stab in the back…that this isn’t a natural elaboration of welfare queens and Iran Contra…is either a liar or a fool. Many are some hybrid variety of both…looking backwards and finding a conservative moral center that was never real, revising their own positions so that they don’t have to admit that not only were they wrong but the people they despised and dismissed were right.
That they have only ever been able to obtain their objectives by farming a base of reactionaries—actively encouraging an enclosed society of sadistic rubes that they mis-represent their policies to and then invent dolstosslegende when they fail to produce the promised outcomes—simply does not register as notable, apparently. That their policies has never achieved their putative material outcomes apparently also does not matter. Where exactly is the utility in teaming up with fools and/or liars? When they had their power they couldn’t meet their goal without appeasing ur-fascists…and just like the German “conservatives” that did that it’s gotten out of control. What, exactly, do they bring to the party?
If this was business rather than politics…these people would be fools or liars whose account books don’t match their claims.
Everything will get worse for everyone but them—the things they are demanding for their cooperation move money and power to their backers—and their stated principles have never before stopped them from believing that people can be discarded opportunistically. They haven’t abandoned the core conservative premise of hierarchy in which they are the better kind, they simply have a less bloody vision of their own dominion. The largest demands of these people is that their new “allies” should discard policies and individuals that suggest solutions that actually would affect the material conditions of this country in ways that would improve lives and decrease desperation.
The idea that these people possess a pivot upon which this country can be restored is…ignis fatuous. They don’t control the culture they catalyzed, the positions they hold have demonstrably produced failures that have created the problems we have, and they’re not even reliable allies because their capacity for self-evaluation isn’t deep enough for them to acknowledge that the specific things they have chosen to do have created the outcomes they have created.
If you think hot revolution is coming…start preparing for hot revolution, because nothing that’s being proposed by these people that are needed to make a not-fascist quorum actually address real problems that will stop societal decline.
If your societal status quo is creating the conditions that lead to revolt or reaction, you cannot stop that by maintaining the status quo.
Conservative economics is killing us…and the entire world….and the only way to conceal it’s consistent butcher’s bill is to lean into social conservative explanatory structures that either make the suffering and death earned or inevitable. But as privation gets worse, the explanations have to get bigger and more extreme. That particular ratchet has been turned many, many times—men now preaching Never Trumpism have turned that ratchet when it suited their needs—and now there’s a culture that’s just fully accommodated the idea that the world can only be fixed by targeted death and suffering rather than merely letting people die from their circumstances unremarked.
What they’re offering is…a slightly slower descent into the abyss, at the cost of forbidding measures that could actually save us from the abyss.
re: #147 ckkatz
By the way, Katz’s Delicatessen does internet orders. It’s very pricey but, based upon my experience, it seems to be able to get stuff where it is supposed to go in time.
My grandparents were Lower East Side people, they loved Katz’s. I’m an Upper West Side girl, it’s Zabar’s for me.
Check out their kosher L’Shana Tova basket:
zabars.com
re: #172 sagehen
My grandparents were Lower East Side people, they loved Katz’s. I’m an Upper West Side girl, it’s Zabar’s for me.
Check out their kosher L’Shana Tova basket:
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“Send a salami to your boy in the Ahmy.”
re: #160 ckkatz
From last thread:
In short, my thought is that unless she goes looking for trouble, she’s probably fine.
I think that there are two parts to this.
First, the events Saturday daytime.
These will be concentrated in the Capitol Hill/National Mall region. Those are on a different hilltop/valley from that of American University. And several miles and multiple neighborhoods away. Iirc, public transportation, particularly the metro (subway) does not provide convenient direct service betwixt the two areas.
I would recommend that she avoid those areas as she would be indistinguishable from the herd of Trumper cannon-fodder. And would likely be treated as such, by both the Trumper leadership and the LEO (Law Enforcement Organizations).
Second, Friday and Saturday night.
There is the possibility of thugs like the proud boys running around in groups and randomly attacking passerby. If previous events are to predict, most of these thugs will be on foot and will spread out in groups from around the event (Capitol Hill/National Mall) area. They are not likely to go more than a few miles before they either get arrested or get bored and go back to their flea bag motels in Arlington.
Personally, I would avoid some of the closely located commercial areas like Capitol Hill, Dupont Circle, and Georgetown. And I would keep up situational awareness. If there is a group of clone-like males acting like jerks, it’s probably time to leave that area.
Anyway, when people are acting like assholes, why spend more time around them? Or worse yet, try to engage them.
Could be any Friday or Saturday night in Georgetown….
Will Trump’s rally this weekend have to walk around these or just right over them? https://t.co/AkwcF9meVq
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) September 14, 2021
Stop believing that sincerity is meaningful unto itself.
Good or bad faith, the kinds of policy these people want created the problems that we’re having.
The Faustian bargain they’re offering is: we are not allowed to point out that they were culpable in what the nation has become, and as compensation we will come together to do more of the same while anticipating a different outcome.
re: #173 Juan Carlos Mescalero
Nature. Schamature.
I want a Cooper pic!!
If I don’t get it, well, to quote an EX-president, “I don’t want to be your friend anymore.”
re: #5 BlueSpotinAL
So, a satirical website posts a satire article about a small local Baseball team in Olney, MD (referring to a website called OlneyFans):
Idiot lawyers then file lawsuit:
and write a great letter in response:
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/13 Update: five attorneys have offered pro bono services so far. Thanks for being First Amendment heroes. Always helpful to have more to share the load, though, so please keep writing.
— NoLongerYourFriendHat (@Popehat) September 13, 2021
Also stop believing that the “center” axiomatically cannot be radical.
Once you start proposed that things cannot be different—that failed policy must continue even if it kills people or just burns money—and that the way things are done is FINE even if things a perceptibly not-fine…you are a radical.
You’re a villager from Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.”
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re: #181 Juan Carlos Mescalero
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re: #169 Decatur Deb
On the way back we were to bump off the terminal of the Erie Canal at Albany, go on to a lakeside park on Lake Ontario (staying at a winery on the way). Then across Erie to PGH area, on to Portsmouth OH to walk the serpent mound, Louisville area, then past the site of the Battle of Bowling Green to a TN park, a park near Huntsville, and home.
you will pass within 3 miles of my place on your way from Portsmouth to Louisville, so you MUST stop by when you reschedule the trip.
re: #176 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
With what I’ve learned to expect from them MAGAts?
Setting them on fire and impaling USCP and political opponents with them?
re: #174 Decatur Deb
“Send a salami to your boy in the Ahmy.”
Socks. And beef jerky. They can always use more socks and beef jerky.
re: #181 Juan Carlos Mescalero
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Btw…
With Hurricane Nicholas in the area, how are our Houston area Lizards doing?
re: #177 The Ghost of a Flea
Stop believing that sincerity is meaningful unto itself.
Good or bad faith, the kinds of policy these people want created the problems that we’re having.
The Faustian bargain they’re offering is: we are not allowed to point out that they were culpable in what the nation has become, and as compensation we will come together to do more of the same while anticipating a different outcome.
Some of them don’t mind that we point that out. Stuart Stevens even wrote a whole book about it, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
Then is it designed to suppress the vote of people who happen to have a propensity to vote Democratic? https://t.co/bOhZXCqgsk
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) September 14, 2021
ding ding ding
re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #190 Juan Carlos Mescalero
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More excerpts from CNN.
But after the Electoral College affirmed that Biden won the White House in December, McConnell delivered a floor speech recognizing Biden as President-elect. Trump called McConnell immediately afterward and “spewed expletives,” according to the book.
“And this is the thanks I got?” Trump asked. “You never really got me. You don’t understand me.”
…
“We can’t do it without you, Mr. President,” Graham told Trump after a round of golf in May, according to the authors. “You have to help us. But you’re going to have to focus on the future, not the past, to maximize our chance at success.”
Then Graham gave Trump a dose of tough love in a phone call, telling Trump, “You fucked your presidency up,” according to the book. Trump abruptly hung up.
I suspect the next excerpt CNN drops will be the story of how Trump ran through the White House screaming “KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!”
re: #185 sagehen
Socks. And beef jerky. They can always use more socks and beef jerky.
“Tend to their feet, Youngbody, they’re no good to you without feet.”
if southern governors’ orders superseded the president’s, segregation wouldn’t have been struck down in the 1960’s https://t.co/BCJJ23ztBs
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 14, 2021
re: #172 sagehen
My grandparents were Lower East Side people, they loved Katz’s. I’m an Upper West Side girl, it’s Zabar’s for me.
Check out their kosher L’Shana Tova basket:
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Thanks! I need to check them out. I am ‘required’ to retaliate at my siblings for sending me stuff from online places like Katz’s. :)
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Laughter is Medicine.. Baby’s First Laugh Ceremony.
A Navajo Tradition (A’wee Chi’deedloh) of Celebrating Family.
It’s believed that the first time a Navajo baby laughs is a sign the child is transitioning from the spirit world & is ready to fully join his or her family in life. pic.twitter.com/gw3TO1vBzM— 🪶Native Red Cloud🪶Mahpiya Luta 🪶5thGen🦬FM3⚡️🦉 (@Native3rd) September 14, 2021
re: #182 Teddy’s Person
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re: #171 The Ghost of a Flea
I don’t know about you, but I have often had to accept help from people that I otherwise wouldn’t have anything else to do with.
As for the Lincoln Project, their members have stated more than once that their job is not to dictate the Democrats agenda, and they have resisted doing that when they would have had the opportunity. There have been no “If the Democrats would only do this” related to policy; it’s only been in how they think it would be better to do more direct attacks on Republicans.
I am definitely a “work with Stalin” guy. When we’re truly on the other side of this, we can evaluate what it means to be an ally. But we cannot win with only Democrats. And I’m not beyond a few thanks every now and then, and a few less “but you started this” especially with those that have apologized.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
He’s probably right. It’s not political, it’s purely religious.
re: #103 Belafon
Hey, Manchin, Sinema, where’s your ten Republicans going to come from?
Can’t that be made part of the reconciliation bill? Dems could pass this but they want to have the GOP on record.
The Washington Post has an article up on the expectations regarding Saturday RWNJ event:
D.C. officials think a demonstration planned for Saturday by far-right groups supporting the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 will prove to be a small gathering, attracting no more than a few hundred people.
But city leaders are worried that those who do attend may bring firearms illegally, setting up the potential for clashes in an area expected to be bustling on Saturday with crowds at multiple events: the annual H Street festival in Northeast that typically attracts thousands; a Howard University football game at Audi Field in Southwest; a baseball game at Nationals Park; and a Harry Styles concert at Capital One Arena downtown.
…snip…
Geldart said he and other D.C. public safety officials have been monitoring social media conversations relating to the far-right protest. “There are calls on some of the disparate sites for folks to come armed,” he said. D.C. regulations make it illegal for most nonresidents to carry guns in the city, a law that the mayoral staff members brought up in their conversations with H Street workers.
D.C. prepares for far-right protesters during day of festivals, gatherings
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