Seth takes a closer look at a Senate report that provides damning new details about Donald Trump’s attempts to get the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election.
If we do not succeed in shutting these people down, they will get away with it next time.
The handful of GOP state election officials who did not go along with the Big Lie in 2020 have all been replaced with toe-the-line party hacks.
The more I learn about US Senators the more I think there should be a personal wealth cap for anyone who wants to hold office. I’m tired of these rich, jaded assholes who rarely have ever experienced any kind of hardship telling us what we are doing wrong to not be rich like them. I know there are exceptions, Sinema for example came from a poor family that experienced homelessness. But somehow, in taking care of her own self interest, she forgot about how hard that life is and a shit ton of kids in this country and in her state are trapped in a cycle it’s almost impossible to get out of. She did, but she’s forgot about the people who helped her along the way. And those people do exist because NO ONE MAKES A SUCCESSFUL LIFE WITHOUT HELP FROM OTHERS. Billionaires and millionaires don’t get there without employees, ideas, tons of staff and lots of breaks along the way. Unless they inherited wealth, like Manchin and more than a few others. I’m tired of people who do not give a damn about those of us who worked hard and are still losing everything in a country that doesn’t care about anyone making less than a few million a year. Educated (and more importantly willing to learn and grow)working class people do exist, we just can’t get elected without tons of money.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If we do not succeed in shutting these people down, they will get away with it next time.
No reason not to do it if you know you won’t face serious consequences.
re: #2 A Mom Anon
Running for office is expensive. Prospective Senators need to treat rich people nicely to ensure their campaigns are well funded. Thus, they spend a significant amount of time in circles of very wealthy people.
Then, if they do get elected, they need to provide the rich people some benefits for all the campaign donations and to guarantee the same rich people will donate to their RE-election campaigns.
Politics is not a poor mans business.
Maple Apple Walnut Muffins pic.twitter.com/oOxP7Omuu0
— Liddle Lemon Pie 🌈🍋🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) October 8, 2021
This is not true. 1/6 Committee is making significant progress and we will enforce subpoenas. Committee statement coming soon. https://t.co/syn0Rux9wb
— Rep. Liz Cheney (@RepLizCheney) October 8, 2021
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
And that’s a problem. Some people do manage to get into office that come from humble beginnings, but we see less of that as time passes, especially at the state and federal levels. Local politics is a bit less pricey, but you have to be good at fundraising or know someone who is to get seen and heard. It’s messed up and how it gets fixed I have no idea.
I know that people are skeptical of what Rick Wilson tweeted, and that’s fair.
But I’ve seen this movie before. Democratic administrations ultimately let GOP perps walk. They aren’t as brazen as the likes of Bill Barr, but the result is the same.
Look no further to the Obama DOJ not prosecuting Bush and Cheney over torture, or any other corrupt acts, along with letting the banksters walk after the ‘08 crash.
I feel sick.
re: #2 A Mom Anon
The more I learn about US Senators the more I think there should be a personal wealth cap for anyone who wants to hold office. I’m tired of these rich, jaded assholes who rarely have ever experienced any kind of hardship telling us what we are doing wrong to not be rich like them. .
Do I need to remind you that the Kennedys and Roosevelts were EXTREMELY wealthy? Michael Bloomberg is #14 on the Forbes list.
re: #6 The Pie Overlord!
It’s almost like he’s trying to sow enough anger and fear so people stay home or just give up on elections and politics overall. What his game is I have no idea, but it might be a good idea to actually talk to members of the committee before running his yap.
Liz has chimed in.
This is not true. 1/6 Committee is making significant progress and we will enforce subpoenas. Committee statement coming soon. https://t.co/syn0Rux9wb
— Rep. Liz Cheney (@RepLizCheney) October 8, 2021
re: #6 The Pie Overlord!
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Rick Wilson is catching a lo of hell over his quote but he is making the committee come out and deny it and do something. If he kept his mouth shut then chances are 100% he’d be right, glad he challenged them.
re: #10 sagehen
But the Kennedys and Roosevelts actually did shit to help people. And this was before the current toxic waste dump all over TV and the halls of Congress. We’ve always been a country at war with itself, racism, classism, misogyny, etc. But this is a different mess fueled by technology and a very shitty news media that acts like the Mean Girls in the hallway after class. This has to change. Somehow.
From downstairs:
re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth
One easy way to tell this isn’t true is that Marsha is tweeting it. https://t.co/ktw31pWVuU
— The Knoxville Holler (@KnoxvilleHoller) October 8, 2021
Having read these defenses of the “parents” earlier on a FB Trumpster page and having her and her friends attack me for my response, I find this especially disturbing. Recall over a decade ago, the DHS issued a warning about the increasing dangers of white nationalism but they faced pushback from the GOP and abandoned efforts to stop this danger. This is the GOP base; think of Blackburn and others of her ilk as being the advance guard for the fascist (neo Nazi) takeover of our nation. We underestimate their influence at our own peril — there are 74 million shock troops infesting our nation, spreading lies and hate wherever they have a voice.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Running for office is expensive. Prospective Senators need to treat rich people nicely to ensure their campaigns are well funded. Thus, they spend a significant amount of time in circles of very wealthy people.
Then, if they do get elected, they need to provide the rich people some benefits for all the campaign donations and to guarantee the same rich people will donate to their RE-election campaigns.
Politics is not a poor mans business.
Like I always say - once you announce that you’re running for office, you’re bought and paid for by somebody.
Fuck ‘em. Make ‘em work for minimum wage. After all, it’s all about public service, right?
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re: #9 The GOP is a terrorist organization
I know that people are skeptical of what Rick Wilson tweeted, and that’s fair.
But I’ve seen this movie before. Democratic administrations ultimately let GOP perps walk. They aren’t as brazen as the likes of Bill Barr, but the result is the same.
Look no further to the Obama DOJ not prosecuting Bush and Cheney over torture, or any other corrupt acts, along with letting the banksters walk after the ‘08 crash.
I feel sick.
But having Cheney on your side may prove helpful. She’s not someone troubled by the Dem weaknesses in this area. She will attack and lead the way.
The 18-year-old killed appears to be Jerry Springer-style trash, having so little self-control that she attacked a child, despite being a mother herself. It’s still murder. No one was in immediate danger. A “safety officer” murdered someone for not complying with his demands.
A school safety officer shot a fleeing teen. He has been fired and police have opened a homicide investigation. (The Washington Post via MSN)
re: #19 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The 18-year-old killed appears to be Jerry Springer-style trash, having so little self-control that she attacked a child, despite being a mother herself. It’s still murder. No one was in immediate danger. A “safety officer” murdered someone for not complying with his demands.
A school safety officer shot a fleeing teen. He has been fired and police have opened a homicide investigation. (The Washington Post via MSN)
Too bad the safety officer wasn’t a cop. They’d get qualified immunity and everyone would rush to defend them.
re: #18 Hecuba’s daughter
I could easily see Liz use this commission as a way to ascend to the head of the party… namely, it’s damn hard to run a political party, less so if all of your enemies have been tried for sedition or treason or terrorism. Is she ruthless enough…. remains to be seen. If power is a means to an end, even the power of a diminished GOP is lofty indeed and all that dark money has to go somewhere, it most likely will not find a home with Dems, so Liz gets to use the power of the government to disenfranchise her enemies in the party and make herself and those like her the only game in town for Conservative ideals that still have a platform if she decides to go all in. Would be extremely Machiavellian.
re: #20 Dopamine Fish
Too bad the safety officer wasn’t a cop. They’d get qualified immunity and everyone would rush to defend them.
Too bad for him anyway. He’s called police, but the city instantly distanced themselves because they had an out with him being a school employee rather than being a city cop.
re: #18 Hecuba’s daughter
But having Cheney on your side may prove helpful. She’s not someone troubled by the Dem weaknesses in this area. She will attack and lead the way.
Stephen Colbert, on the night the 1/6 committee roster was announced:
“So we’ve got seven Democrats to grill the seditionists, and a Cheney to shoot them in the face.”
re: #17 makeitstop
Like I always say - once you announce that you’re running for office, you’re bought and paid for by somebody.
Fuck ‘em. Make ‘em work for minimum wage. After all, it’s all about public service, right?
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I think we should go the opposite direction: Require that their only source of income for the time in office be their official salary. They cannot be earning money in any other way during that time.
re: #24 sagehen
Stephen Colbert, on the night the 1/6 committee roster was announced:
“So we’ve got seven Democrats to grill the seditionists, and a Cheney to shoot them in the face.”
She can do it; she’s a Cheney — coldblooded and willing to do anything for power. But, unlike Trump, they are not only ruthless but are intelligent, with a real ideology. Better to have her on your side than on the other side.
I wouldn’t be worried about this if I hadn’t seen the Democrats drop this particular ball over and over again.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 8, 2021
re: #25 Belafon
I think we should go the opposite direction: Require that their only source of income for the time in office be their official salary. They cannot be earning money in any other way during that time.
Dividends and interest? Gifts from parents? Royalties from a book they wrote years ago? This is untenable.
Just go back to the until-Trump standard conflict of interest ethics rules.
They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.
Barack Obama had substantial investment funds, mostly earned from book royalties, plus Michelle had a pretty good salary when she was a lawyer in private practice. But he put all that money where nobody could accuse him of anything untoward — half went into index funds, the other half into t-bills.
Let’s not let Senators (or their families) trade stocks, or buy real estate. Kelly Loeffler, I’m looking at you.
And no, I had not seen Rick Wilson’s tweet when I posted that.
But I do know that sometimes we need to get angry with politicians we otherwise like, and make noise to get them to do the right thing.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 8, 2021
re: #25 Belafon
I think we should go the opposite direction: Require that their only source of income for the time in office be their official salary. They cannot be earning money in any other way during that time.
As I said yesterday, the costs of public office are too high for those of modest means. Such a person cannot afford to live in Washington DC and retain a home in their own state. If elected, they are forced to live away from their family and their ability to help out when there are family crises is strictly limited. For those who are wealthy, they’ll be getting investment income without having to do any work to maintain a lavish lifestyle in multiple locations. We have to do more to make public office financially feasible for those of more modest means.
Thompson and Cheney - heads of Jan. 6 panel - say Meadows and Kash Patel are “so far engaging.” Bannon isn’t. “We will not allow any witness to defy a lawful subpoena or attempt to run out the clock, and we will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of Congress referral” pic.twitter.com/KQfzeKGFZt
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 8, 2021
Encouraging. Where’s Scavino, though?
re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter
As I said yesterday, the costs of public office are too high for those of modest means. Such a person cannot afford to live in Washington DC and retain a home in their own state. If elected, they are forced to live away from their family and their ability to help out when there are family crises is strictly limited. For those who are wealthy, they’ll be getting investment income without having to do any work to maintain a lavish lifestyle in multiple locations. We have to do more to make public office financially feasible for those of more modest means.
I agree, and I left out the part where I think we need to raise their salary to cover the requirements of their job. And provide other things like a place to stay when in DC. And, with it being the 21st century, maybe we need to do more about allowing them to work remotely.
If Bannon is as much a drinker as I think he is, a few hours in lockup may change his mind.
3/ “The constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield, from Congress or the public, information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the Constitution itself.”
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) October 8, 2021
re: #25 Belafon
I think we should go the opposite direction: Require that their only source of income for the time in office be their official salary. They cannot be earning money in any other way during that time.
Require that they put all their assets except for their home state home, and a DC area home into a blind trust, or that they sell them off.
If they have stock or options vesting, work out some deal to cash them out. TFG’s first Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, did this to some extent. He sold his existing Exxon stock, and agreed to put any delayed stock into a blind trust that could not invest in Exxon, and agreed not to work in the oil/gas industry for decades. This is not ideal, because he would still benefit from an increase in share price at the time his shares would have vested.
Something like this needs to be written into law.
Rex Tillerson to put Exxon nest egg in a trust over conflict of interest concerns
Of course, Exxon stock did end up dropping so he didn’t do too badly. I wonder if he agreed to this because he suspected Exxon’s price would be dropping anyways.
Oh, and he also got a tax deferral for the shares he had to sell and replace with government securities and diversified mutual funds — i.e, the taxes would be delayed until he sold whatever government securities he bought to replace his Exxon stock.
re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter
As I said yesterday, the costs of public office are too high for those of modest means. Such a person cannot afford to live in Washington DC and retain a home in their own state. If elected, they are forced to live away from their family and their ability to help out when there are family crises is strictly limited. For those who are wealthy, they’ll be getting investment income without having to do any work to maintain a lavish lifestyle in multiple locations. We have to do more to make public office financially feasible for those of more modest means.
Maybe the Legislative Branch should buy a DC hotel with at least 535 rooms and renovate it such that all incumbent members of Congress have a free place to live.
Trump led a criminal conspiracy to steal an election. He committed multiple federal crimes. Not sure why reporters are soft pedaling all this. https://t.co/SX1oqaBH8Y
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) October 8, 2021
re: #36 Sinistershade
Maybe the Legislative Branch should buy a DC hotel with at least 535 rooms and renovate it such that all incumbent members of Congress have a free place to live.
Good idea, except it’s likely that the only one available is probably a Trump property…
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re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter
We have to do more to make public office financially feasible for those of more modest means.
A congressional dorm within a couple of metro stops from the Hill. 1 bedroom 1 bath kitchenette apartments, 500 sq ft, $1500/month including hi-speed cable…
with a gym and pool table and ping pong and big screen TV and Big Kitchen in a shared common area downstairs, maybe a BBQ pit and pizza oven and picnic tables in the courtyard, to encourage them to socialize with each other.
re: #31 makeitstop
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Encouraging. Where’s Scavino, though?
They haven’t found him yet to serve him with his subpoena; I wonder who’s hiding him. (I think this is also Ali Alexander’s issue).
This piece of Trump mail is just downright embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/7R8jlLDh0y
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) October 8, 2021
Trump misled about D.C. hotel finances, House panel says
Absolutely anyone quelle surprised?
The House Oversight and Reform Committee obtained documents from the General Services Administration, which leased the Old Post Office building to Trump for his hotel.
By filing these misleading public disclosures, President Trump grossly exaggerated the financial health of the Trump Hotel,” the committee said Friday in a news release.
Peter Doocy is being a public fool trying to trip up Jen Psaki again.
BREAKING NEWS:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.#NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize pic.twitter.com/KHeGG9YOTT— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 8, 2021
re: #46 JOE 🥓
What…The…Fudge?????
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Now we know why they’re often on power lines.
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I’ve always said, keep your eye on the sparrow.
re: #46 JOE 🥓
What…The…Fudge?????
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Okay, now that gang of blue jays in my yard is making me nervous.
re: #50 Dread Pirate Ron
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The interesting thing is that birds appeared before this tech existed on Earth, so its obviously aliens watching us. The sheeple believe than an animal could fly, LOL.
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re: #51 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That is why I very rarely donate to any politicians. And if I do, I use a burner email.
when u see trick or treaters coming down the street and u already ate all the candy https://t.co/bHQ9YP8u2K
— darth™ (@darth) October 6, 2021
i am just saying why must we divide up candy as regular candy and halloween candy it is all just candy ok
— darth™ (@darth) October 6, 2021
maybe the real halloween is all this candy i already ate along the way
— darth™ (@darth) October 6, 2021
update after extensive research i have confirmed that skittles in the small halloween snack size are in fact different flavors depending on the color of the skittle
also i will not be giving out skittles for halloween unless i buy more skittles— darth™ (@darth) October 8, 2021
this will not stop me tbhhttps://t.co/OHolCaGiCw
— darth™ (@darth) October 8, 2021
re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg
That is why I very rarely donate to any politicians. And if I do, I use a burner email.
My Inbox is already a disaster, so I’m not as careful as you are.
My Inbox is already a disaster, because I’m not as careful as you are.
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
My blood-sugar feels too high after reading those Tweets.
re: #46 JOE 🥓
What…The…Fudge?????
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If there are no birds left then what are all those white spots on the sidewalk especially by light and telephone poles?
re: #58 JOE 🥓
If there are no birds let then what are all those white spots on the sidewalk especially by light and telephone poles?
Data dumps.
Vandals may have desecrated @AuschwitzMuseum with anti-Semitic graffiti but they can’t erase the memories and legacies of the more than one million Jews and other Nazi victims murdered there during the Holocaust. https://t.co/5lCOy5ImFF
— Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) October 8, 2021
If I ever start a band…I now have the name. https://t.co/u2W6kMcu9y
— Glenn Farrington (@HaHaScribe) October 8, 2021
I picked up an air-fryer a month ago, and have been using it constantly.
It’s 15 minutes from the freezer to the plate to cook frozen fries and chicken strips. The chicken strips go in at 7 minutes.
My Amazon oven took twice the time, and the food was not as crispy.
It feels like using a coffee pot that’s full of food.
‘There are two types of dogs’ hilariously nails it in 13 seconds flathttps://t.co/UIOm3jxrir pic.twitter.com/BaftzupEqn
— The Poke (@ThePoke) October 8, 2021
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
Reminds me of the Rodney Dangerfield joke, “Hey, when I was a kid nobody wanted to play with me…so…I played with myself…”
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) October 8, 2021
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am not surprised that Charlie has sexual issues. This guy needs help, but instead wealthy trash pay him to lie to idiots to help keep America stupid.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 8, 2021
re: #66 JOE 🥓
Jen should do the world a favor by taking a baseball bat and cracking Doocy in the head.
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She’s not a primitive Conservative. She destroys him with her words, and he comes back for more.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
This woman was coerced by her employer to receive the Pfizer on Saturday. This was her on Sunday.
Money ain’t worth it, people. pic.twitter.com/5Fn24oLrgO— Revelation 20:4 (@Revelation2041) October 6, 2021
It’s the leg levitating before shaking thas ending me 😭😭😭
— you look malnourished (@yolise_) October 7, 2021
sound up!
The dramatic moment Bilsdale Transmitting Station on #NorthYorkMoors was demolished this afternoon after 52 years of service. Video: Gillian Johnson pic.twitter.com/TY19x03gNF
— NorthYorksWeather (@northyorkswx) October 6, 2021
re: #46 JOE 🥓
What…The…Fudge?????
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from 1959 threw 2001. When you are afraid that the passage of time by itself is not active verb enough.
My full testimony from Tuesday is here.
Highlights from other witnesses are forthcoming… https://t.co/233phSHsbG— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) October 8, 2021
…is very much in question here.
P.S. We may learn why QAn0n was trying so hard to discredit reasonable inquiries into child trafficking.— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) October 8, 2021
re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
By now I simply assume Qanon is just another example of GOP confession by way of projection.
re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
Conservatives want all our kids in private schools like these.
And they’re not quiet about it.
re: #52 makeitstop
Okay, now that gang of blue jays in my yard is making me nervous.
It’s the blue jay way.
This is why so many willfully ignorant Conservatives had to be told to die of COVID rather than vaccinating. Mass-death of right-wing dummies, all to please their dear leader.
Donald Trump Takes Ghoulish Victory Lap Over 2021 Covid Death Toll Surpassing Last Year’s (Mediaite)
re: #58 JOE 🥓
If there are no birds left then what are all those white spots on the sidewalk especially by light and telephone poles?
Cleverly disguised tracking devices.
And BTW - they have merch.
I am tempted.
re: #46 JOE 🥓
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So, what are those things that cats keep on murdering?
re: #75 Punish Domestic Terrorists
This is why so many willfully ignorant Conservatives had to be told to die of COVID rather than vaccinating. Mass-death of right-wing dummies, all to please their dear leader.
Donald Trump Takes Ghoulish Victory Lap Over 2021 Covid Death Toll Surpassing Last Year’s (Mediaite)
That fucking piece of shit really does need to be flogged within an inch of his life.
re: #78 EPR-radar
That fucking piece of shit really does need to be flogged within an inch of his life.
Failing to hang him may be the death of our nation, which does not speak well for America. All it took was a wealthy bigoted idiot with a severe personality disorder that tells him he’s a genius to make this mess, because right-wing authoritarians are happy to live in the leader’s narcissistic inner-world.
re: #75 Punish Domestic Terrorists
This is why so many willfully ignorant Conservatives had to be told to die of COVID rather than vaccinating. Mass-death of right-wing dummies, all to please their dear leader.
Donald Trump Takes Ghoulish Victory Lap Over 2021 Covid Death Toll Surpassing Last Year’s (Mediaite)
The ironic thing is that most of this years higher death toll is made up of HIS SUPPORTERS and not, you know, people who FUCKING GOT VACCINATED.
re: #77 The Pie Overlord!
So, what are those things that cats keep on murdering?
My shins, and my vertical blinds.
Cats are all Antifa, and have been trying to destroy the “bird” surveillance system.
re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg
The ironic thing is that most of this years higher death toll is made up of HIS SUPPORTERS and not, you know, people who FUCKING GOT VACCINATED.
Republicans have much less success in getting people who are not in the cult to kill themselves to stick it to the libs.
re: #83 Punish Domestic Terrorists
My shins, and my vertical blinds.
Cats are all Antifa, and have been trying to destroy the “bird” surveillance system.
Except for Nashville cats. They do, though, play clean as country water.
re: #85 Barefoot Grin
Except for Nashville cats. They do, though, play clean as country water.
Well, they been playin’ since they’s babies…
We can all see that the Republicans made a criminal President. Does he get brought to justice, or is rule by law just something we used to value when we were a better people?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 8, 2021
re: #78 EPR-radar
More than a decade ago I got kicked off LGF, had to write a nice email of apology to Charles to get invited back on again, for saying shit like this.
This person seems to actually be what James O’Keefe pretends to be with his propaganda outlet.
re: #90 makeitstop
And there’s 1,352 of ‘em! :)
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
On a Tennessee ant hill
If the Democrats don’t keep the House and Senate next year, this country’s finished. Third world autocracy.
Natasha Sinema ignores calls from the President but she is in constant communication with Fearless Leader McConnell.
Joe Biden says Kyrsten Sinema is ignoring his calls — but she talks to Mitch McConnell
Biden has sounded “exasperated” at Sinema and fellow holdout Sen. Joe Manchin, d-w.va., who have rejected the $3.5 trillion price tag of the Democratic proposal to expand health care and family care, provide paid family leave, combat climate change, provide free community college and lower housing and prescription drug costs.
An explosion went off Friday among Shiite Muslim worshippers at a mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing or wounding at least 100 people, a Taliban police official said.https://t.co/qxYQKOMhzl
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) October 8, 2021
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
On a Tennessee ant hill
Full disclosure! :)
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
On a Tennessee ant hill
re: #89 teleskiguy
That nobody pays any mind anymore around here that we wish violence on people really goes to show how far as a country we’ve fallen. It really is a microcosm of the coarsening of discourse. The last five years have fucking sucked.
Ohio student, 10, confronts anti-maskers at board meeting: ‘Please be quiet. It’s inappropriate’
AKRON, Ohio — The youngest person who spoke in favor of masks at Wednesday night’s school board meeting in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, decided she wasn’t going to let anti-maskers steal her thunder.
Before 10-year-old Kaylan Park stepped up to the microphone at the contentious meeting, she had watched other pro-mask speakers get interrupted by heckles and boos from people who oppose the district’s mask mandate. A couple of those opponents ended up walking out of the meeting in anger.
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“It is super weird to be here because adults don’t think that their children should wear masks,” Kaylan said when it was her turn to speak. “…A lot of you guys are adults. You guys should be able to know that masks save lives.”
When some audience members voiced disagreement, Kaylan responded: “Can I please speak? Let me speak before you guys go off.”
Her demand was met with applause.
But some audience members continued talking, which prompted Kaylan to say emphatically: “Please be quiet…It’s inappropriate that you guys can’t stay quiet.”
Kaylan, who was wearing a mask bearing the message “Masks Save Lives,” noted that donning a face covering is an act of kindness toward others.
re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter
As I said yesterday, the costs of public office are too high for those of modest means. Such a person cannot afford to live in Washington DC and retain a home in their own state.
Build them a Big Brother House where we can all keep an eye on their shenanigans.
This is bugnuts insanity.
These guys participated in armed insurrection to overthrow the government and judges and prosecutors are fine with them running off to vacations and sports events.
Mighty white of them https://t.co/bLvrT6iS7t— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) October 8, 2021
The planners, Bannon, Ali Alexander, all the shitheads in the House and Senate and statehouses, up to Fuckface Von Clonwstick himself, they’re all going to skate. And Republicans will never call a Democrat win legitimate ever again, no matter how large the margin of victory. Real Orwell shit to look forward to.
re: #102 teleskiguy
The planners, Bannon, Ali Alexander, all the shitheads in the House and Senate and statehouses, up to Fuckface Von Clonwstick himself, they’re all going to skate. And Republicans will never call a Democrat win legitimate ever again, no matter how large the margin of victory. Real Orwell shit to look forward to.
The only thing that kept their plan from working in 2020 was the record turnout for Biden plus a handful of GOP state election officials with some sense of integrity and decency. Those guys are all gone, replaced by “reliable” people who will “behave” and refuse to certify votes whenever and wherever they are told (they will make sure to refuse to certify some GOP victories just to appear “balanced”)
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Reported. At least twitter has health/covid as a reason to report.
Linda is live tweeting as she reads Grisham’s little tell-all/memoir
Y’all this is happening, democracy decided on it
So here are the rules: I’m about to read “I’ll take your questions now” by Stephanie Grisham so you don’t have to
This will last for as long as my bar tab does so that’s PayPal bootstrapindustries at gmail or Venmo Linda-tirado-3 https://t.co/sBBZMdfP3p— Linda Tirado (@KillerMartinis) October 8, 2021
First thing is that we very boldly have an epigraph
I’m no expert on literature but I do know that most memoirists don’t include one
Also. It is no wonder the author is unknown because I’m 90% sure this came from a Facebook meme. pic.twitter.com/BkEtKf8mIv— Linda Tirado (@KillerMartinis) October 8, 2021
When you write an intro but nobody’s told you how delicate you have to be when foreshadowing pic.twitter.com/yAzMSNAKaA
— Linda Tirado (@KillerMartinis) October 8, 2021
As it turns out she could not quit the job where she knew she was acting immorally because Melania would talk her into staying
Because she worked for melania and trump both even though he was “the boss”— Linda Tirado (@KillerMartinis) October 8, 2021
She cannot think she wasn’t nationally humiliated then
On the one hand she has to believe that to keep working there but also does she not have Google pic.twitter.com/bjXbswwP73— Linda Tirado (@KillerMartinis) October 8, 2021
Tell 2010 me that I’d be thanking a Cheney, and I’ll cease to exist when he kills himself based on either the flaming wasteland of a country that implies, or from thinking I’d gone Republican.
Thank you!
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 8, 2021
re: #106 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Shit’s all loopy and fucked up and shit.
re: #107 teleskiguy
Shit’s all loopy and fucked up and shit.
It’s the weirdest time in my lifetime. I don’t remember the Nixon impeachment from when I was 7, but I’m sure this is worse.
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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She put her right foot in and she shook it all about. She did the hokey pokey …
Well, at least another Meal Team Six shock troop gets the possibility of a criminal record.
A federal grand jury has returned an eight-count indictment against Michael Eckerman, of Kansas, including an assault charge for allegedly knocking an officer down a set of stairs. Docs: https://t.co/lNpOyTRzeY (Correct link this time) #CapitolRiot @wusa9 @EricFlackTV pic.twitter.com/S8stor8K0Z
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) October 8, 2021
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
Look at this giant loophole Twitter wrote into their COVID-19 misleading information policy :
What is not a violation of this policy?
(3) Personal anecdotes or first-person accounts.
help.twitter.com
re: #98 teleskiguy
That nobody pays any mind anymore around here that we wish violence on people really goes to show how far as a country we’ve fallen. It really is a microcosm of the coarsening of discourse. The last five years have fucking sucked.
As an example only: It’s one thing to say a guy like Mitch Mcconnell deserves a couple of punches in the face than to say he should get a bullet in the head or something similarly severe.
I got some flak a few years ago for making a comment that referenced Trumps possible assassination (and I learned to not make comments like that anymore), so there are still some boundaries around here.
attn: darthstar
“Listen up, members of Phish, here’s the deal, all you have to do is smile at a camera like this isn’t your first time ever attempting to smile. Do this for 1/125th of a second and we’re golden. Can you pull this off?”
The band, Phish: “Yes”
… pic.twitter.com/1VbnLR5IWo— Mr Blightside (@MrBlightside) October 8, 2021
re: #108 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It’s the weirdest time in my lifetime. I don’t remember the Nixon impeachment from when I was 7, but I’m sure this is worse.
I am old enough to remember Nixon (I was 15) and there is no comparison with this ongoing idiocracy
re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
Saying someone should be tortured to within an inch of their life, is that acceptable discourse?
re: #98 teleskiguy
I think we’re all tired. And tired of being nice. I’m on the fence here because of life experience. I’m a good and kind hearted person.I’ve always tried to be helpful, smart about what I do as much as I can and all of that. And I still am that way, but my heart is fucking broken and it’s hard not to be fucking pissed about it. And to do what it takes to stop this fucked up mess.
On the flip side, I know from horrible experiences that the only way you can stop hatred is by fighting back at some point. There are just simply some people who can’t or won’t respond to kindness and integrity except to see it as weakness. If they are intent upon hurting us and destroying the country, we may well have to defend ourselves in not so nice ways. They want us dead. They do not care how we get there. Being good isn’t always a matter of clean hands. Had I kept doing that I would be dead right now, very dead. I’m not sure anymore where we’re headed, a feeling of no stability or secure futures is changing people, anxiety is awful, and it makes us judge everything from fear and we don’t make great choices based on fear, or anger.
re: #62 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I picked up an air-fryer a month ago, and have been using it constantly.
It’s 15 minutes from the freezer to the plate to cook frozen fries and chicken strips. The chicken strips go in at 7 minutes.My Amazon oven took twice the time, and the food was not as crispy.
It feels like using a coffee pot that’s full of food.
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I use it to grill steaks, burgers and chops. It takes out more grease than the old George Foreman grill it replaced!
re: #116 teleskiguy
To me personally, it’s a little harsh. However, I’m not the one who makes and enforces the rules around here.
I don’t know what else to say. Except maybe some advice, buy a shotgun and learn how to use it.
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Since @jerk won’t let me report tweets, I nuked it with megablock.xyz
I came here because the discourse is civil, as it was even back in the days when it was a lot more conservative.
My second “first” day at work was the day David Bowie died. It was when I decided to stop being what TV news said I should be and started being who I am. pic.twitter.com/O3oQEjQP7k
— janashortal (@janashortal) October 8, 2021
re: #87 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Connolly is my Congressman. I remember meeting him when I was a paralegal. He pretty much said give the Dems the House and they’d investigate. I get the impatience but I must stress it does take time to build cases. Plus you won’t see Trump be able claim EP especially for Bannon here.
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
My second “first” day at work was the day David Bowie died. It was when I decided to stop being what TV news said I should be and started being who I am.
I remember a rather well-dressed buddy of mine (who later came out gay) making a joke about my shoulder-length hair on New Year’s Eve 1979 “In five minutes, you hairstyle will be TWO decades out of fashion!”
I spent most of the 80’s overcoming my hippie tendencies, wearing my hair shorter and losing my jeans and flannel shirts only to find out that I had in fact been a decade ahead of the times.
My hair is too thin to wear long anymore but I have learned my lesson - to thine own fashion sense be true
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Sexual anarchy” Ok, sounds good to me. Wish I were younger.
re: #126 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
“Sexual anarchy” Ok, sounds good to me. Wish I were younger.
I remember when herpes and the clap were the worst things going around…
We’ve all spent the last 4+ years being hated, demonized and threatened by fellow citizens and various cultists. We’ve discovered how many people we know and may have considered friends are at heart bigots with no empathy for those outside their immediate tribe.
Knowing how corrosive hate can be, I’ve tried to categorize my feelings as anger rather than hate. But it’s an easy line to cross.
Turning the other cheek no longer seems an option. Eventually you are out of cheeks to give.
However, teleskiguy has a point. Wishing torture on another human (or rape or death) should not be appropriate in this community (just speaking as a member).
I don’t want to become my enemy.
re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
As an example only: It’s one thing to say a guy like Mitch Mcconnell deserves a couple of punches in the face than to say he should get a bullet in the head or something similarly severe.
I got some flak a few years ago for making a comment that referenced Trumps possible assassination (and I learned to not make comments like that anymore), so there are still some boundaries around here.
I think now that Episcopalians are comfortable with Trump’s assassination, we can go there now.
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re: #98 teleskiguy
That nobody pays any mind anymore around here that we wish violence on people really goes to show how far as a country we’ve fallen. It really is a microcosm of the coarsening of discourse. The last five years have fucking sucked.
I just want Trump, McConnell, Cruz, DeSantis, Abbott, et.al to Get What They Deserve
I will leave it to your imagination and discretion to fill in the details of how they get it….
re: #85 Barefoot Grin
Except for Nashville cats. They do, though, play clean as country water.
And wild as mountain dew.
“Sexual Anarchy” would also be a great title for an album. The cover art practically designs itself.
re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg
“Sexual Anarchy” would also be a great title for an album. The cover art practically designs itself.
in the UK!!!
re: #12 The GOP is a terrorist organization
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re: #134 darthstar
Rick should know better than to piss off Liz Cheney…She’ll rip off Bannon’s head and shit down his neck just to prove a point…and I’m okay with that.
But only in the figurative sense…
In TV news, Netflix is producing a follow-up to That ’70s Show called, you guessed it, That ’90s show.
Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp will return as Red and Kitty Foreman.
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember when herpes and the clap were the worst things going around…
I have a dear friend with an odd sense of humor. She is writing a country song called “I’ve got cat hair on my d*ld*”
The first single over 4 minutes, clocking in at 7:36.https://t.co/j1X9gwke2S
— Edwin (@EdMix13) October 8, 2021
Lre: #136 Eclectic Cyborg
In TV news, Netflix is producing a follow-up to That 70s Show called, you guessed it, That ’90s show.
Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp will return as Red and Kitty Foreman.
That’s gonna be so surreal because I remember watching That 70’s Show in the 90’s.
re: #98 teleskiguy
I agree that the discourse had dropped significantly and there are multiple reasons for that…
bad guys continue to be allowed to do bad guy things with little to no repercussions… for example… investigations drag on forever and no one who appears to be involved are ever called to task to answer a jury of peers or even a judge. Small fry are being allowed latitude from certain judges as if they had nothing more than a marginal DUI as a charge.
As if the risk they pose to the government itself doesn’t make them a risk to the public.
Then to watch the left continually be demonized, watch the rhetoric increase on the right accusing us of treason, pedophilia, equating our position on abortion as being akin to murder. They encourage drivers to run over protestors and applaud kids shooting protestors against police brutality.
so the response to all of this has been proportional in my mind, because they have escalated the stakes from one of political differences to one of life-death existence. To not recognize this and accept that we take their words and their attempted legislation as anything other than their heartfelt desires is unwise.
I don’t want our opponents dead, I want them defeated/powerless.
Shit Houston just broke this game way open.
re: #141 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Shit Houston just broke this game way open.
Cheaters prosper these days
re: #120 teleskiguy
I don’t know what else to say. Except maybe some advice, buy a shotgun and learn how to use it.
re: #139 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
L
That’s gonna be so surreal because I remember watching That 70’s Show in the 90’s.
I even watched That 80’s show, but only because the lead actress is cute.
re: #94 JOE 🥓
Natasha Sinema ignores calls from the President but she is in constant communication with Fearless Leader McConnell.
Joe Biden says Kyrsten Sinema is ignoring his calls — but she talks to Mitch McConnell
Biden has sounded “exasperated” at Sinema and fellow holdout Sen. Joe Manchin, d-w.va., who have rejected the $3.5 trillion price tag of the Democratic proposal to expand health care and family care, provide paid family leave, combat climate change, provide free community college and lower housing and prescription drug costs.
During a phone conversation last night, a girl friend told me that a friend who lives in Arizona was convinced that Sinema was going to switch parties. And that will end the Biden administration faster than anything. No more judges. No more approvals of appointments. No more legislation.
The only thing that gives me a little hope is that she does continue to vote with the Dems on these issues. But we will have to see.
This is horrific
Body cam footage of police officers in Ohio dragging a paraplegic Black man out of his car during a traffic stop. This is horrible. pic.twitter.com/QQJOZ6hPpR
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) October 8, 2021
This is horrific
Three police officers went to an *elementary* school in Tennessee & arrested four Black girls.
One girl fell to her knees. Another threw up. Police handcuffed the youngest, an 8 yo with pigtails.
Their supposed crime? Watching some boys fight — and not stopping them. (THREAD)— Ken Armstrong (@bykenarmstrong) October 8, 2021
re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter
During a phone conversation last night, a girl friend told me that a friend who lives in Arizona was convinced that Sinema was going to switch parties. And that will end the Biden administration faster than anything. No more judges. No more approvals of appointments. No more legislation.
The only thing that gives me a little hope is that she does continue to vote with the Dems on these issues. But we will have to see.
If she switched parties she would no longer be the center of attention.
re: #144 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I even watched That 80’s show, but only because the lead actress is cute.
I watched. That was an early vehicle for Glenn Howerton, Dennis on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, one of my favorites.
re: #147 The Pie Overlord!
3/ These arrests took place in Rutherford County, which had been illegally jailing kids for years, all under the watch of Judge Donna Scott Davenport.
— Ken Armstrong (@bykenarmstrong) October 8, 2021
5/ In this deposition, a lawyer asks Davenport about taking the bar exam.
It took her nine years and five attempts to pass.
Three years after she got her law license, she was on the bench. pic.twitter.com/VIAmakwDGf— Ken Armstrong (@bykenarmstrong) October 8, 2021
8/ Under Davenport, Rutherford County locked up a staggering 48% of children whose cases were referred to juvenile court.
The statewide average was 5%.
This graphic shows detention rates for juvenile courts in Tennessee. Rutherford County is on the far right. pic.twitter.com/ORRVeqVJx3— Ken Armstrong (@bykenarmstrong) October 8, 2021
re: #147 The Pie Overlord!
This is horrific
There’s the problem. She thinks being religious qualifies a person to be a judge, and so do her supporters.
We’ll have this problem until people understand that religion is no substitute for ability or education.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 8, 2021
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
No reason not to do it if you know you won’t face serious consequences.
“won’t face serious consequences”
How about won’t face ANY consequences. Trump has faced zero consequences for openly inciting a violent insurrection. That sends a very clear message that it’s okay to do this again.
as we all know after a never ending year and a half of this, COVID cannot spread in a private office building https://t.co/rfWkrdX77H
— Russ Bengtson (@russbengtson) October 8, 2021
re: #152 Patricia Kayden
“won’t face serious consequences”
How about won’t face ANY consequences. Trump has faced zero consequences for openly inciting a violent insurrection. That sends a very clear message that it’s okay to do this again.
He’s on track to prison in Georgia and at the Federal level. Not having consequences has let him get away with being a monster until now, but that can change.
re: #147 The Pie Overlord!
So nothing has changed since George Floyd’s murder and because of the filibuster, Congress won’t even pass a law to rein in the police. Wonderful.
Texas has asked a federal appeals court to swiftly reinstate the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., as some abortion clinics in the state resumed normal services for the first time since early September. https://t.co/u65RHU5cfI
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 8, 2021
the emergency order filing is beyond ludicrous
Lock him up. https://t.co/gpX8HDzG47
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 8, 2021
re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter
It would be a huge blow but it makes me wonder why Democrats allowed her to run for the Senate in the first place. She’s always been like this.
re: #112 jaunte
Look at this giant loophole Twitter wrote into their COVID-19 misleading information policy :
It should include “But you have to provide evidence.”
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hope the DCCC can find a good recruit. My aunt and uncle have him as their Congressman. He’s one of the worst and he’s exactly why it’s wrong to see this simply as a generational battle.
That’s between D’s and R’s unfortunately, since the Republicans did what we all expected and abandoned democracy rather than moderate their extremist goals to be more popular with the American people.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 8, 2021
White House formally blocks attempt by former President Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, setting up a legal showdown between the current and former president over executive privilege. https://t.co/YuvktMerrB
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 8, 2021
re: #162 The Pie Overlord!
I may be wrong here, but doesn’t executive privilege apply to the Office of the President, and not the individual who inhabits the office? Trump doesn’t get to claim executive privilege for life just because he was President for four miserable fucking years.
O_o
Why the fuck would this be a point of pride
“ONE THING I’M PROUD of that day was that I was the first to resign over the siege on the Capitol.”
You’re like yeah sure I was with everything up until the shit had consequences and then I CALLED ALL THE MANAGERS— Linda Tirado (@KillerMartinis) October 8, 2021
re: #151 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You ever notice how pretty much all the people who say they are “doing Gods work” are some of the most awful people doing the most horrific shit you can imagine?
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
Everyone has their own line. Republicans are OK with extreme abuse of power, so the line is not where it is for us, but a few of them do draw a line at a coup attempt.
For most, that line is probably much further down, way past coup attempts, way past Republicans trying to kill them with COVID, but is probably somewhere before Trump putting their kids in a woodchipper.
She’s arguing that she’s not so bad for a right-wing asshole, and she may be right, but as a person in general, she’s horrible.
re: #165 Eclectic Cyborg
You ever notice how pretty much all the people who say they are “doing Gods work” are some of the most awful people doing the most horrific shit you can imagine?
Yep. Religious people I know who do good things, even the Conservatives, do not call it God’s work, but these psychos all do when they’re hurting people.
followup to this yesterday:
This is Diego. He plays Cosmo the telepathic Space Dog in the pupcoming @Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy video game. He was fitted with a high-tech motion capture suit to create all the in-game footage. 14/10 would be an honor to pet #ad pic.twitter.com/xuPGmfn89P
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) October 7, 2021
is this:
OMG they did this pic.twitter.com/ao15qZ6GqB
— Mitchell Harrison (@MitchHarriso) October 7, 2021
I KNOWWW i lost my mind when they sent that over
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) October 7, 2021
re: #163 Dopamine Fish
I may be wrong here, but doesn’t executive privilege apply to the Office of the President, and not the individual who inhabits the office? Trump doesn’t get to claim executive privilege for life just because he was President for four miserable fucking years.
Correct. And this isn’t executive privilege especially regarding Bannon who wasn’t a member of the executive branch.
Such as preventing voting rights legislation? An odd perspective about how to “keep democracy alive and well.” The ability to vote is at the heart of a functioning democracy. The ability to endlessly filibuster produces a dysfunctional democracy. https://t.co/Vlxa4JRpaL
— Julian Zelizer (@julianzelizer) October 8, 2021
re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter
During a phone conversation last night, a girl friend told me that a friend who lives in Arizona was convinced that Sinema was going to switch parties. And that will end the Biden administration faster than anything. No more judges. No more approvals of appointments. No more legislation.
The only thing that gives me a little hope is that she does continue to vote with the Dems on these issues. But we will have to see.
Sinema is going to be a one term senator regardless of which party she chooses.
Both the Democratic and Republican will primary her out of the next election.
re: #169 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Correct. And this isn’t executive privilege especially regarding Bannon who wasn’t a member of the executive branch.
They don’t care what’s real. Unfortunately, thanks to McConnell, neither do a lot of judges.
re: #136 Eclectic Cyborg
In TV news, Netflix is producing a follow-up to That ’70s Show called, you guessed it, That ’90s show.
Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp will return as Red and Kitty Foreman.
In addition to Sam Elliot, Ashton Kutcher, Debra Winger and Martin Mull, it was interesting to watch various “That 70’s Show” alum appear on “The Ranch” on Netflix.
how it started:
I didn’t want to talk about Sarge’s accident until we got him home, but since so many have asked, here it is. pic.twitter.com/gOTkRfFpDw
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 26, 2021
So.
On Wednesday afternoon, our dog sitter was driving him home and — for some reason — Sarge jumped out of the window.
His leash got caught as he did, though, and as a result … he was dragged behind the fast-moving car for a decent stretch.— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 26, 2021
As horrible as the accident was — and it was a freak accident, don’t get mad at the sitter in my mentions — like all accidents it brought out the best in people.
We’re so thankful for everyone who has shown us so much kindness and shown Sarge such good care.— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 26, 2021
lots of updates and then today:
PUPDATE!!!
Sarge had all his stitches removed today *and* the bandages on both of his hind legs removed as well.
Thanks to the vets, nurses & hospital staff, this good boy is getting better and better every day. pic.twitter.com/JGx9YMhMlg— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 8, 2021
Well, the little brat from Pennsylvania who stole Nancy’s laptop has FINALLY been charged!
A Pennsylvania woman this week was formally charged with stealing Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) laptop during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
Riley June Williams, 22, was accused of stealing the laptop out of Pelosi’s office in January and then seeking to sell it to Russians. She was arrested for the alleged crime just weeks after the riot and was formally charged this week, according to an indictment that was unsealed on Thursday.
Williams was also charged with resisting police. As of Thursday, she had not entered a plea, according to CNN.
Lock that brat up. If she won’t produce Nancy’s laptop charge her with espionage since the brat said she was giving the laptop to a Russian!
re: #176 JOE 🥓
Lock her up and throw away the key.
Why we’ll never get full control of Covid-19:
Going to a seventh evening. A waste of time as no one’s mind is going to be changed.
The School Board just needs to cut off debate and make a decision that no one will be happy with.
Too many people don’t give a damn about other people.
Why would anyone want to be elected to an unpaid school board to take this sort of abuse.
Notice the Mayor, a trump copy-cat, is a major part of the problem.
“The first thing I’d say about why I stayed is that working in the White House had been my lifelong dream. Being White House press secretary, for any president, was my greatest career ambition.”
Imagine saying “I propped up some terrible shit but it was good for my career”— Linda Tirado (@KillerMartinis) October 8, 2021
“And let’s face it, somebody had to work in the Donald Trump White House.”
Honey no
They asked me to come work for them and I said they could get fucked
You could have easily said the same— Linda Tirado (@KillerMartinis) October 8, 2021
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
how it started:
It’s nice that he made a positive story about it, but that was no freak accident. A window was down with a dog in the car, and the driver was somehow oblivious when it jumped out and was dragged. I do not like this dog sitter.
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
I can live with being a sexual anarchist. DEATH TO THE PATRIARCHY!
I am very much not a sexual anarchist. I get cramps when I go that way.
re: #149 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I watched. That was an early vehicle for Glenn Howerton, Dennis on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, one of my favorites.
Now I’m going to have to watch That 80’s Show again. I saw It’s Always Sunny for the first time a couple of years ago, and did not make the connection.
re: #23 EstebanTornado1963
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One thing amongst many that our press avoids talking about is why is it that Trump supporters most hesitant or antagonistic to the covid vaccine+why are, among professional organizations mandating vaccines, law enforcement officials the most hesitant or antagonistic to the covid vaccine.
The White House on Friday formally blocked an attempt by former President Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, setting up a legal showdown between the current and former president over executive privilege,” NBC News reports.
Biden admin releases the records.
What you gonna do?
Last week my October fell into the dumper
Today I dragged it out kicking and screaming.
I will not be denied by inanimate objects or crappily written software.
I’m back to my usual chipper self
Mrsdm is pleased
She is also a saint
re: #190 Dangerman
Last week my October fell into the dumper
Today I dragged it out kicking and screaming.
I will not be denied by inanimate objects or crappily written software.I’m back to my usual chipper self
Mrsdm is pleased
She is also a saint
Saint Danger does have a rather nice ring to it.
re: #188 GlutenFreeJesus
When I was little, something from “Japan” was thought of as inferior (especially cars.)
Now, “Japan” is seen as a premium brand.
In regards to knives - because during the era when Samurai were a thing the quality of swords was indeed important. So some Japanese craftsmen became very good at making very good swords.
So I guess some today believe there is a genetic inheritance for knives???
re: #188 GlutenFreeJesus
I had to skip through that because he spent so long lamenting the name I didn’t think 18 minutes waiting for him to say it can’t hold an edge seemed excessive.
re: #192 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
When I was little, something from “Japan” was thought of as inferior (especially cars.)
Now, “Japan” is seen as a premium brand.
In regards to knives - because during the era when Samurai were a thing the quality of swords was indeed important. So some Japanese craftsmen became very good at making very good swords.
So I guess some today believe there is a genetic inheritance for knives???
I’ve used a hostel in Asakusa the last couple of times I’ve been (escorting students) and there was a block or two nearby that were almost exclusively kitchen-goods stores. There was no shortage of cheap disposable knives (and other ‘dollar store’ level stuff as well). But we do have a couple of very, very good Japanese knives that we use daily at home that my parents-in-law gave to us.
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am old enough to remember Nixon (I was 15) and there is no comparison with this ongoing idiocracy
Well, I thought the world was tumbling down at the time of Nixon’s resignation, but August 1974 was probably the worst month in my life, in between my dad wanting a divorce at the beginning of the month, Nixon’s resignation in the second week, starting high school at the beginning of the fourth week, and my mom trying to kill herself on the Friday of that fourth week. That said, Nixon and his gang didn’t try to overthrow the government SO FAR AS WE KNOW. (What sticks in my head from reading Woodward’s first of many books is how Nixon couldn’t get the childproof caps off his pill bottles and would gnaw at them and you know what, I HAD SYMPATHY FOR THE GUY.)
Compare that to me telling my mom on January 6 that Trump and his gang tried to overthrow the goverment. Heckuva thing to have to tell your mother on her 81st birthday.
re: #151 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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re: #188 GlutenFreeJesus
Anyone else bombarded with “Japanese inspired” knives on social media lately? I mean, more so than usual? The “Huusk Japan” brand specifically… well. I found this too. And just as suspected, total trash. 😅
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personally, we here in the Backwoods compound are fans of Japanny Brand knives.
An excellent line of kitchen/chef knives.
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ...
Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
