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Even though it’s a pain in the backside to be on call four days in a row over a holiday weekend, there are benefits. Especially when the holiday weekend is also at the end or beginning of the month, because those usually coincide with month-end freezes. And usually people don’t push in changes during month-end freezes because, well, ***HOLIDAY***. In fact, I’d rather be on call over a holiday weekend and have nothing happen, rather than be on call for a mere 24 hours and have
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That said, our management said that we may have to complete a particular PowerPoint form for lower-level issues for our executive management. Blargh.
5/6 interesting word this time. A first for me in a way.
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In a 3-way primary race for Arkansas GOP Lt. Gov in 1990, an avowed Nazi got 46% of the vote. This article from The Nation noted with some alarm that the national GOP had yet to take a public stand in regard to the coming runoff election. pic.twitter.com/pncXhsf6Hr
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) July 5, 2022
The father of the Chicago shooter is likely f*cked.
FOID cosigner responsibilities in Illinois pic.twitter.com/1mhVeK4c8b
— Monica Eng (@monicaeng) July 5, 2022
re: #6 JC1
He SHOULD be…but I’m afraid he’s not going to be held responsible…
re: #4 JC1
5/6 interesting word this time. A first for me in a way.
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Arrgh! 5 for me too — Grunthos said it would be challenging..
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“Asked to clarify what kind of balance Buckmaster sought, he recommended that the students read about the Rape of Nanjing, Zielke said.”
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“Buckmaster confirmed that the book was brought to the committee but was never moved forward to the full board. But he wrote that “at no point was this book banned or denied by the committee of the board or the full board.”“
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“”At one point, Terri Boyer, in the meeting, did say, ‘How would you feel if they were only allowed to choose books by white people?”
You mean, like school boards for the last century?
Jeezus…..every action these bozos took just screams of racism….
re: #5 jaunte
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It was clear where the GOP was heading even then. They were outright racist and have continued to devolve ever since.
re: #9 gwangung
You mean, like school boards for the last century?
Jeezus…..every action these bozos took just screams of racism….
Americans raped Nanjing? Because that’s who were interred in US concentration camps.
Both the UK and the US are unraveling because, it turns out, the “one simply doesn’t do that” crowd has no defense against “well, we’re doing it anyway.”
— Eric Rauchway (@rauchway) July 5, 2022
Karen in Kalifornia. https://t.co/pAA45RAcTp
— Jeff Stein (@SpyTalker) June 26, 2022
I’m glad twitter videos start with the sound off.
“It’s not the guns, it’s the weed.” pic.twitter.com/vQhFYNWNj4
— John Daws 🇺🇸 (@grajillas) July 6, 2022
It’s been a weird day. I just did the wordle of what is now two days ago some places, I think. 381.
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On to yesterday!
re: #9 gwangung
You mean, like school boards for the last century?
Jeezus…..every action these bozos took just screams of racism….
Is the Rape of Nanjing part of American history? I was under the impression it was on a whole ‘nother continent, on the other side of the world’s biggest ocean.
F-35, what country would want that boondoggle of an aircraft?
All The German F-35s To Be Stationed At Büchel Air Base: https://t.co/Tx2amCXKYR
— The Aviationist (@TheAviationist) June 13, 2022
Greece Sends Official F-35 Lightning II Purchase Request To The United States https://t.co/LaPtv1EeKZ
— The Aviationist (@TheAviationist) July 1, 2022
Czech Republic Eyes F-35 For Gripen Replacement - Reports: https://t.co/MK013GOVsw
— The Aviationist (@TheAviationist) June 27, 2022
re: #20 Captain Ron
With the eternal drought, any time can be fire time in CA. However, the normal dry season is roughly April to November, so the worst fire danger is late in the dry season when everything is bone-dry.
re: #4 JC1
5/6 interesting word this time. A first for me in a way.
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re: #5 jaunte
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Two words: Lyndon LaRouche
He is a bit of a cult figure among RW extremists in Germany
re: #12 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Both the UK and the US are unraveling because, it turns out, the “one simply doesn’t do that” crowd has no defense against “well, we’re doing it anyway.”
Up to now, Boris has gotten away with just shaking his head and stamping his feet like a three-year-old caught with a hand in the cookie jar and saying “nuuh-unh!!!”, and the GOP insist that what they are doing is perfectly fine, all in the name of Making America Great Again.
re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Up to now, Boris has gotten away with just shaking his head and stamping his feet like a three-year-old caught with a hand in the cookie jar and saying “nuuh-unh!!!”, and the GOP insist that what they are doing is perfectly fine, all in the name of Making America Great Again.
BoJo will hang on to 10 Downing Street with every last scintilla of his strength and the loyalists around him will too, because they know full well that no one else would ever put them in senior government positions. This is their one-and-only chance and if Boris goes, they’re out too.
Johnson will have to be dragged out of No. 10 kicking and screaming. Hell, the SAS will probably have to get involved once BoJo barricades himself inside the building, refusing to leave.
The 1922 Committee, which governs the Conservative Party, is mulling over the idea of changing their internal party rules to allow for another party-wide no-confidence vote in Johnson. If they announce that, likely in the next couple of weeks, then Boris will either have to suck it up - or threaten to call a General Election, which he (and everyone else) knows the Tories will lose badly. That threat is BoJo’s nuclear option.
But that’s all he’s got left at this point.
The resignations continuing apace in the UK.
NEW: The resignations have started again this morning.
2019 intake MP Laura Trott has resigned as a PPS to the Department of Transport. pic.twitter.com/AkYqqnVU2c— Balance of Power (@BalancePowerUK) July 6, 2022
With great sadness and regret, I have this morning tendered my resignation to the Prime Minister after I accepted and repeated assurances on Monday to the media which have now been found to be inaccurate.
I wish my successor well - it is the best job in government. pic.twitter.com/65EOmHd47p— Will Quince MP 🇬🇧 (@willquince) July 6, 2022
Tory rebels considering no-show at #PMQs as a visible sign support for the PM is collapsing
— Jason Groves (@JasonGroves1) July 6, 2022
Legendary US guitarist Carlos Santana collapses on stage https://t.co/CgXi2My8FZ
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 6, 2022
re: #317 Hecuba’s daughter
My Trumper relatives on FB have mostly gone quiet since FB cut off a whole bunch of propaganda accounts.
I do suspect that some of them have gone to Truth Social. I’ll never know.
re: #29 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
My Trumper relatives on FB have mostly gone quiet since FB cut off a whole bunch of propaganda accounts.
I do suspect that some of them have gone to Truth Social. I’ll never know.
My brother and SiL have left their Episcopalian church because they found it too “woke”.
He does not post, last post I saw from SiL was an invitation to go see the latest Dinesh D’Souza documentary….
Two talents who had their own big hits teamed up, but now mostly forgotten.
Youtube Video
It’s out of that old-school Country heart-break genre.
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From James Forsyth, the political editor of The Spectator (a very Tory publication):
One senior figure on the ‘22 tells me that they now favour a delegation going to tell Boris Johnson that it is over, and that they’ll change the rules if he won’t resign
— James Forsyth (@JGForsyth) July 6, 2022
re: #32 Dr Lizardo
I really don’t understand why the Tories are so down on BoJo now. He’s done what many of them wanted: pushed Brexit, scuttled the agreement about Ireland, etc.
Suspect that the powers that be in the upper class of the UK, specifically the English Tories, now see BoJo as a negative for them to reach their next goals.
Sort of like Rogan turning on Trump. Even Rogan can read the writing on the wall, that the GOP knows it needs a new figurehead (DeSantis?) to be able to install their agenda.
re: #33 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I really don’t understand why the Tories are so down on BoJo now. He’s done what many of them wanted: pushed Brexit, scuttled the agreement about Ireland, etc.
Because he’s absolutely scuttling their chances at re-election. BoJo is determined to cling to power, despite some fresh new hellish scandal virtually every week, and the Tory bigwigs see him leading the party to an absolute electoral fiasco.
re: #33 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I really don’t understand why the Tories are so down on BoJo now. He’s done what many of them wanted: pushed Brexit, scuttled the agreement about Ireland, etc.
He embarrassed them with illicit partying and sex scandals. That makes them look low-born.
re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Suspect that the powers that be in the upper class of the UK, specifically the English Tories, now see BoJo as a negative for them to reach their next goals.
Sort of like Rogan turning on Trump. Even Rogan can read the writing on the wall, that the GOP knows it needs a new figurehead (DeSantis?) to be able to install their agenda.
Or the GOP turning on Nixon.
But if they turn on TFG, they will lose a big chunk of their base.
Many will still come out to vote against whoever the Democrats are running, but a lot of them will just stay home, and the big thing about the DT base was that they could always be counted on to get out in big numbers.
Another resignation - albeit, a rather minor one, but as the old saying goes, from the little is built the big.
John Glen is about to resign as economic secretary to the Treasury, one source in the department says
— Eleni Courea (@elenicourea) July 6, 2022
re: #35 Dr Lizardo
Because he’s absolutely scuttling their chances at re-election.
Isn’t Labour still led by their amazingly clueless tall guy?
I suspect the real issue is that the Tories are looking for someone to blame as the Northern Ireland issue unravels, yet again.
Here for example is an editorial by a Brexiteer:
Ben Habib: We will not get Brexit under Boris Johnson, but rather the break-up of the UK
From the outset of Brexit it’s been my opinion that it was unworkable with Northern Ireland. If the Brits want hard borders then that means a hard border between NI and the Republic of Ireland.
And that hard border will be hated by many Irish.
I also suspect that what set off this round of Tory unease is the polling showing that Sinn Fein is growing in popularity in NI. The Unionists in NI knew they were going to be in trouble with Brexit, but the English masses in the countryside don’t care about them and voted to Leave.
Probably the best strategy for the Tories is to actually lose a quick election, put Labour in charge, so when NI blows up then Labour can be blamed.
re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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From the outset of Brexit it’s been my opinion that it was unworkable with Northern Ireland. If the Brits want hard borders then that means a hard border between NI and the Republic of Ireland.
And that hard border will be hated by many Irish.
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Probably the best strategy for the Tories is to actually lose a quick election, put Labour in charge, so when NI blows up then Labour can be blamed.
Just like many in the the GOP realized that their best move was to put the Democrats in charge when the follow-on effects of the Pandemic really hit home economically?
And don’t forget the half-trillion dollar Wall Street bailout from DT. This puts Biden in the position of either bailing them out again or presiding over its inevitable Market Adjustment (i.e., crash).
Any internal border in Ireland will be a violation of the Good Friday Accords. Ignoring the fact that there is a border will be in violation of international trade agreements.
So damned if they do and damned if they don’t, might as well let the other party sweat it out.
Another one, this time a Parliamentary private secretary, saying Johnson’s position is “untenable”.
It is with great sadness that I have tendered my resignation today as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Please find my resignation letter below. pic.twitter.com/SbBqNGO5Pn
— Felicity Buchan MP (@FelicityBuchan) July 6, 2022
PSA: If your party is taking your video games and pot before they even consider taking your guns… news flash — you’re in a fucking cult.
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) July 6, 2022
EXC: The 1922 Committee will meet at 5 pm and if it’s quorate in favour of changing the leadership rules it will do so and there could be a ballot on Johnson’s leadership next week.
Read our live blog: https://t.co/Z8aTAiTTsk— Kitty Donaldson (@kitty_donaldson) July 6, 2022
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Throwing tomatoes at the creator of today’s puzzle. Rotten ones. LOL.
re: #36 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He embarrassed them with illicit partying and sex scandals. That makes them look low-born.
Similar to the Madison Cawthorn kerfuffle here in the United States; while still a dyed-in-the-wool Trumper loyalist, they turned on him when he inadvertently exposed the base corruption amongst the movers and shakers in Washington. It’s not that they disagree with anything he’s done while behind the wheel, except for making the Tories look bad, that’s the unforgivable sin here.
Another BoJo loyalist resigns:
BREAKING: Another loyalist resigns - Victoria Atkins resigns as Home Office Minister.
Total total chaos.— Shehab Khan ITV (@ShehabKhan) July 6, 2022
re: #44 Dopamine Fish
Wow. What a word.
No kidding.
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Heh. How incredibly accurate.
Screaming angry racist Bill O’Reilly, or as we know him now, the moderate wing of the GOP https://t.co/ah1B3WQkkL
— CyborgSlavesOfPopehat (@Popehat) July 6, 2022
re: #49 Dopamine Fish
Heh. How incredibly accurate.
What did the Highland Park shooting have to do with minorities, drugs or gangs?
It was about guns and extremism.
And this one just as Prime Minister’s questions start. Way to twist the knife, LOL.
BREAK: As PM gets to his feet another minister resigns. Tally now 17 https://t.co/UWP5qswa50
— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) July 6, 2022
re: #51 No Malarkey!
He be getting a bankruptcy attorney.
Let this be the first of a landslide of personal liability suits for recklessly careless gun owners.
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What did the Highland Park shooting have to do with minorities, drugs or gangs?
It was about guns and extremism.
You and I both know that Bill O’s schtick here is just a deflection. He is saying that we need to fix the “gang problem” before we can fix the “mass shooter problem”, because he, personally, is more afraid of the feral gangs of Black people that exist only in his fever dreams than he is of getting shot while out shopping, or at a parade, or at a concert.
re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or the GOP turning on Nixon.
But if they turn on TFG, they will lose a big chunk of their base.
Many will still come out to vote against whoever the Democrats are running, but a lot of them will just stay home, and the big thing about the DT base was that they could always be counted on to get out in big numbers.
That is the thing, isn’t it? People worry about DeSantis as a “smarter Trump.” But the thing about Trump is he has the persona developed over decades and pushed in “The Apprentice” as a brilliant businessman who gets things done, and DeSantis is just another politician. Will the people who don’t usually vote but turned out for Trump turn out if Trump isn’t on the ballot? I have my doubts.
re: #54 Dopamine Fish
You and I both know that Bill O’s schtick here is just a deflection. He is saying that we need to fix the “gang problem” before we can fix the “mass shooter problem”, because he, personally, is more afraid of the feral gangs of Black people that exist only in his fever dreams than he is of getting shot while out shopping, or at a parade, or at a concert.
Or by Mau-Mau rape and revenge gangs terrorizing white neighborhoods left unprotected by a defunded and demoralized police force.
re: #55 No Malarkey!
That is the thing, isn’t it? People worry about DeSantis as a “smarter Trump.” But the thing about Trump is he has the persona developed over decades and pushed in “The Apprentice” as a brilliant businessman who gets things done, and DeSantis is just another politician. Will the people who don’t usually vote but turned out for Trump turn out if Trump isn’t on the ballot? I have my doubts.
I can see Josh Hawley taking on the mantle of the “man of the people” for the GOP base, but again, while a lot of them will get out to vote against the Democratic candidate, many of them will not be as fired up to vote for anyone but their Spiritual, Ideological and Moral leader, DT.
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or by Mau-Mau rape and revenge gangs terrorizing white neighborhoods left unprotected by a defunded and demoralized police force.
Exactly. He is essentially saying, “You need to prioritize my fears over reality, because I am loud and rich and white and powerful.” The quintessential Trump-humper, in a nutshell.
re: #9 gwangung
Japanese Americans (emphasis on Americans) weren’t interned because of what Japanese soldiers did in Nanjing. What a stupid equivalence.
Even when I’m lucky I manage to bungle it up…
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re: #59 Patricia Kayden
Japanese Americans (emphasis on Americans) weren’t interned because of what Japanese soldiers did in Nanjing. What a stupid equivalence.
There was a reasonable argument for protecting them from reprisals, and the government could not rule out the possibility of spies and infiltrators hiding in their midst.
But that does not begin to justify the way we went about expropriating and interning them.
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re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oof.
That’s now three Tory MPs who have used their question to ask @BorisJohnson to resign #PMQs
— Andy Bell (@andybell5news) July 6, 2022
Zahawi, June 2019: “The public is clear what they don’t want: a controversial face from the past. 53% of voters think Boris Johnson would be a bad prime minister. This is a serious moment in our history – colleagues should follow the evidence and elect a fresh face”
What changed?— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
My ultimatum has received more RTs and likes than the resignation of the actual Chancellor of the Exchequer.
I love Twitter. pic.twitter.com/rfk4MSb2Ld— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
re: #28 Captain Ron
Our sister station @wxyzdetroit reports that Carlos Santana collapsed during a performance Tuesday night. His manager reports it was due to dehydration and heat exhaustion @WCPO #CarlosSantana https://t.co/zh1pTO9OdI
— ADRIAN WHITSETT (@AdrianWhitsett) July 6, 2022
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. For all the people claiming that gas prices are too high, this one is for you - especially those who decided to take rolls of $20s and burn them over the weekend as part of the 4th typical festivities of blowing stuff up.
I’m sure that’ll buff right out… /
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) July 6, 2022
I’m pretty sure, they wont need to worry about gas prices for a bit…
re: #1 A Cranky One
Do orange vests make them work faster?
Boris Johnson’s position as PM is becoming increasingly untenable:
It is with sadness that I am resigning as Housing Minister.
I pay tribute to all my ministerial colleagues, officials, and civil servants in the Department and the wider sector.
I look forward to continuing to serve my constituents in Pudsey, Horsforth, and Aireborough. pic.twitter.com/wTnrr9rcSu— Stuart Andrew (@StuartAndrew) July 6, 2022
Powerful & dignified statement from @sajidjavid, made all the more deadly ‘cos it was delivered not in anger but regret: “I’ve concluded the prob starts at the top, that it is not going to change; & that those of us in a position to do so have a responsibility to make a change”
— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) July 6, 2022
Full statement from @sajidjavid > https://t.co/FcGEJLpXX2
— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) July 6, 2022
“It is with sadness that I am abdicating as Queen and for the entire House of Windsor to pursue a career in the tourist resort industry at Balmoral.”
-Elizabeth II Regina
re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think he was the first one to resign
“When things are tough of course people turn their fire on the leader of the country” the Prime Minister says in response to another question.
— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) July 6, 2022
re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think he was the first one to resign
Yep, and Rishi Sunak (Chancellor of the Exchequer) followed up almost immediately.
The resignations today will be driven at the Minister of State level not the cabinet (who made their shoddier pact yesterday). We are seeing many of the brightest + most able of the sub-cabinet Ministers dropping one by one. Momentum building. Replacement increasingly implausible
— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) July 6, 2022
Tories sitting behind PM in open revolt 👇🏼 https://t.co/7tx7niFMHC
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 6, 2022
🙄 FFS, Boris is as delusional as Trump….
NEW: Downing Street confirms that Boris Johnson would fight any new confidence vote - and says PM believes he still has the support of a majority of his MPs.
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 6, 2022
re: #55 No Malarkey!
That is the thing, isn’t it? People worry about DeSantis as a “smarter Trump.” But the thing about Trump is he has the persona developed over decades and pushed in “The Apprentice” as a brilliant businessman who gets things done, and DeSantis is just another politician. Will the people who don’t usually vote but turned out for Trump turn out if Trump isn’t on the ballot? I have my doubts.
That is essentially the hope regarding the GQP. That Trump is the necessary glue to hold the base together as lockstep supporters and ardent voters.
BREAKING: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vows to remain in power a day after two key Cabinet ministers quit in protest over his handling of scandals including the case of a senior official accused of sexual misconduct. https://t.co/RcYCKsoKfz
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 6, 2022
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
🙄 FFS, Boris is as delusional as Trump….
Nadine must have been exceptionally convincing during their pep rally/meeting last night at 10 Downing.
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nadine must have been exceptionally convincing during their pep rally/meeting last night at 10 Downing.
Either that, or Boris has broken into his emergency stash of blow.
re: #81 Dr Lizardo
Either that, or Boris has broken into his emergency stash of blow.
Both is a good option here.
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was a reasonable argument for protecting them from reprisals, and the government could not rule out the possibility of spies and infiltrators hiding in their midst.
But that does not begin to justify the way we went about expropriating and interning them.
And there was no similar or widespread effort concerning German-Americans. And the German American Bund did not, as far as I know, have a Japanese-oriented equivalent that obtained any sort of size and influence.
Watch as Boris Johnson faces a grilling at PMQS https://t.co/9w56gtLbjc
— The National (@ScotNational) July 6, 2022
“You off too, mate?”
@Number10cat pic.twitter.com/Ksrr39UhcR— Carl Dinnen (@carldinnen) July 6, 2022
Wait! @Number10cat may have been talked back in. Must have been offered a promotion… pic.twitter.com/TATzXOgNEm
— Carl Dinnen (@carldinnen) July 6, 2022
— B.J.A 🐝 (@AshdownAshdown) July 6, 2022
Nadhim Zahawi is the new chancellor and these 16 reactions are on the money.https://t.co/4CanpUVBWr pic.twitter.com/U8DYjK0btO
— The Poke (@ThePoke) July 6, 2022
Marge Greene has solved the problem of mass shootings in America: “I want to talk about with psychiatric medications like SSRIs. They have side effects. They do. They have side effects, like, thoughts. They cause thoughts .. It’s all over the internet. This is easy knowledge!” pic.twitter.com/gLXA6iqUZG
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 6, 2022
Brief airdrop.
Thank you Mr. Johnson for that music selection. I’ve never heard of the musician before, but that’s a poignant and touching piece of music.
Trolling for good wishes. I have to go to the Cheyenne VA again today.
Psalm 23:4, LGF version
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Wyoming, I will fear no wingnut: for LGF is with me; thy blog and thy lizards they comfort me.
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Best of luck to you, my scaly friend. You can do it. Bourbon can help. (Not while driving, obviously.)
re: #90 Dopamine Fish
Much rum at Chez Tumbleweed.
Psalm 23:5, LGF version
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of wingnuts: thou anointest my head with points; my karma runneth over.
re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Much rum at Chez Tumbleweed.
Psalm 23:5, LGF version
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of wingnuts: thou anointest my head with points; my karma runneth over.
Ah. I approve. Rum is good. Well, I’m not picky really, except I do not drink the devil’s brew known as tequila. I can’t stand the taste of it.
On cue, as gas prices fall (and therefore inflation eases), GOP pivots back to the border and claiming it’s a crisis situation.
America deserves to see all those who carried out seditious conspiracy to end democracy prosecuted for their roles - that includes Trump and yourself.
Trump and GOP are still engaging in a crime spree. You’re the bigger threat.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) July 6, 2022
re: #95 lawhawk
On cue, as gas prices fall (and therefore inflation eases), GOP pivots back to the border and claiming it’s a crisis situation.
Rep. Stefanik, representing (checks notes) a district on the Canadian border.
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
Everything but the fucking guns that kill 40,000+ Americans every year for decades on end.
GOP solution to gun violence is to make guns even easier to get at. The do-something crowd complains, but when Congress is stymied by GOP/NRA obstructionists, the states are doing their part.
Do something about gun violence? Democrats deliver as Gov. Murphy signs 7 new laws to tighten N.J. gun regulations, vows more action on firearms https://t.co/qUyK0DQSAz
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) July 6, 2022
While GOP states are relaxing gun laws and make it easier for people to get firearms like the AR-15, Democrats are pushing gun laws that a majority of Americans want, and are trying to make it safer for all Americans.
The problem remains that we are only as safe as the least restrictive gun law states. Guns flow from these lax gun law states to those states that limit purchases and regulate more tightly.
Even still, the strong gun law states have a far lower per capita gun death rate than those with weaker gun laws.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Of course. All borders must be secure. /half
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
took a chance:
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That’s how I ended up with a 3/6 also. I thought “Nah, they wouldn’t do that. Well maybe” and it turns out they did. Just a wild ass guess.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The people claiming there’s a crisis at the southern border (because it’s never about the border with Canada) are also the ones living furthest from the border - all fixated on the feels of the white nationalist GOP base.
re: #10 Hecuba’s daughter
It was clear where the GOP was heading even then. They were outright racist and have continued to devolve ever since.
Hell, I knew back in the 70’s when I was a little kid where the Republican Party was headed when the last holdouts of my entire extended racist family in Texas jumped ship from the Democratic Party to vote for Reagan. But that really started back in Nixon’s days.
I seem to recall my last remaining Great-grandfather at the time (age 98 or so) as being the very last Democratic Party holdout because according to him they were still “the party of poor farmers like him” despite him also being a really nasty racist.
It’s not the men in grey suits he needs, it’s the people in white coats.
— The Modern Aurelius 🇺🇦 (@modernaurelius) July 6, 2022
re: #101 lawhawk
The people claiming there’s a crisis at the southern border (because it’s never about the border with Canada) are also the ones living furthest from the border - all fixated on the feels of the white nationalist GOP base.
Literally the most distanced from reality. Not a coincidence.
Not sure I have ever seen @HSJnews go for a new health secretary with such vitriol on day one. Blistering opening quote here in piece from @HSJEditor https://t.co/m8gsN8OeO2 pic.twitter.com/NwBnWu95lw
— Shaun Lintern (@ShaunLintern) July 6, 2022
shuffling deck chairs…
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
This does seem to be what they are hanging their hat on being the problem here. Thing is, those meds possibly helped this from happening earlier. It is very possible he was prescribed these meds and they were working but he quit taking them.
I believe that is Boris in those cars, people are shouting liar at him and the media are running down parliament street. What a time to be alive. pic.twitter.com/SqdNeDriNC
— Ryan Riley (@RyanRileyy) July 6, 2022
Ta Ra https://t.co/3qMoZISL8P
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
re: #106 Eventual Carrion
This does seem to be what they are hanging their hat on being the problem here. Thing is, those meds possibly helped this from happening earlier. It is very possible he was prescribed these meds and they were working but he quit taking them.
That was Mrs. Fish’s question as soon as I mentioned that Republicans were fixating on prescription meds as being “the problem”. Being familiar with psychiatric medications and the effects of being taken off them, she said it was more likely the case.
Larry The Cat looks fed up pic.twitter.com/ESIOY8tOST
— Charlie Proctor (@MonarchyUK) July 6, 2022
With good reason; preparing myself for another new lodger
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
re: #101 lawhawk
The people claiming there’s a crisis at the southern border (because it’s never about the border with Canada) are also the ones living furthest from the border - all fixated on the feels of the white nationalist GOP base.
She must be concerned with the borders of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. /s
I remember the story a couple years ago about the wingnut with a northern Minnesota vacation home who was concerned all the “illegals” were going to come up and take over her lake house in the middle of Minnesota’s winter.
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
How many MPs will quit today?
heh
🧵3/6: Late breaking dishonor. As UK prime minister Borisgate That’s-Some-Ugly-Johnson continues to hemmorhage cabinet members, Nadhim Zahawi is his newest Chancellor.
But his not-so-bright Culture Minister @NadineDorries congratulated
Zahawi on becoming…HEALTH Minister 🤦🏼♂️ pic.twitter.com/IcXCEMLNQD— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 6, 2022
Johnson being clear at PMQs -
‘I want to be clear er, what I, what I, want to say is, er, I, I and I, I, say it again, er, I, I, regret the way the, er, appointment, er happened, and I, I was, er clear with the house….’— Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) July 6, 2022
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We have to secure the Delaware River. It leaks all the time; we cannot stop it. /
Source on 1922 exec tells me fear after PMQs is that Boris Johnson is willing to “tear the party apart”.
1922 meeting at 4pm is intended to be a discussion about changing rules to allow 2nd confidence vote, with decision taken at later meeting. But poss it could all move fast.— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) July 6, 2022
The move towards authoritarianism is a worldwide phenomenon.
The article gives statistics on how Arab countries are viewing democracy as being detached from economic success. This view is not just an Arab view, but a more and more common failure inside places like the USA as well.
Without a strong social safety net and strong civil right guarantees, democracy by itself is only a means of selecting which leader is going to seek personal advantage over everyone else, and perhaps bring along and elevate the select part of the population just like himself. The USA, with our utterly corrupt SCOTUS and white supremacist fascist Republican Party, is busy rejecting civil rights and safety nets and are the first things to be destroyed towards creating economic distress and social chaos in order to achieve greater and greater power. Democracy is only the means. The goals can be expressed and attempted by any form of government and right now Arabs under economic stress are feeling the failures of societies without safety nets and strong government institutions. Republicans want to take us the US there as well.
Whether Neville Chamberlain would have committed his own holocaust is, of course, an open Q.
— NIH Llamas (@NIH_LLAMAS) July 6, 2022
re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ray needs to read a bit more history. Appeasement never works.
re: #121 PhillyPretzel
Ray needs to read a bit more history. Appeasement never works.
It was meant as snark to Dan McLaughlin and is a response to this comment (there are a lot more like it):
It now seems very clear that Joe Biden beating Donald Trump in 2020 was bad for America but good for the Republican Party.
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) July 5, 2022
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I am sure there are more comments like that one.
re: #101 lawhawk
The people claiming there’s a crisis at the southern border (because it’s never about the border with Canada) are also the ones living furthest from the border - all fixated on the feels of the white nationalist GOP base.
re: #125 darthstar
It looks like we have another Darwin Award candidate.
re: #116 Dr Lizardo
Can we send an express shipment of shivs to London?
Brilliant question by @hammersmithandy on the ‘40 new hospitals’ pledge. Two of which, in his constituency, opened in 1902 and 1816.
“Like all his promises, they exist only in his warped imagination. As this is likely to be his last #PMQs, will he finally tell the truth?” ~AA pic.twitter.com/hsLA1XJk1P— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) July 6, 2022
boom
re: #101 lawhawk
The people claiming there’s a crisis at the southern border (because it’s never about the border with Canada) are also the ones living furthest from the border - all fixated on the feels of the white nationalist GOP base.
The last Republican I heard campaign on closing the border with Canada was Rev. Pat Robertson in the 1984 GOP Primary.
Kamala Harris Keeps Beating Ron DeSantis In Polls. Why Don’t We Hear More About That?https://t.co/LPGSbIv3zn by @DoktorZoom
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) July 6, 2022
re: #127 PhillyPretzel
It looks like we have another Darwin Award candidate.
Pro tip: Don’t buy a house next to the Darwin family.
Honesty isn’t exactly one of the criteria that gets evaluated for a Trump endorsement. https://t.co/1hUD5tFC68
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 6, 2022
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Larry, please jump for the light switch on your way out the door. Saves on the light bill.”
//
Russian code for KIA is 200. Code for WIA is 300. So we often see people misinterpreting information like this:
In Melitopol, as a result of a strike on one of the four Russian bases, 200 Russian invaders were killed,another 300 were injured. Now the invaders are afraid to go to work. The Ukrainian military, using American HIMARS equipment, delivered 30 precision strikes on a military base pic.twitter.com/HYIASGK4l1
— BSA (@BSA32747289) July 5, 2022
re: #132 darthstar
I have one that lives across my street. They were the ones who were shooting off fireworks until 3 AM on July 5th.
Picture appears to show rubble at site of mysterious Georgia Guidestones after reports of ‘boom’ https://t.co/xWAr6JsK0P
— WYFF News 4 (@wyffnews4) July 6, 2022
That many people are resigning from Johnson’s government that they’ve run out of House of Commons paper and are having to sign the same letter: https://t.co/1erFhn94LI
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
Republicans are asking the Supreme Court to adopt a fringe legal argument that is the single most important legal theory the Trump GOP tried to advance in 2020 and are planning for 2024.
Pay attention because in the Supreme Court this Fall democracy will be on the docket. pic.twitter.com/8HmIVUfZdO— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) July 6, 2022
re: #132 darthstar
Pro tip: Don’t buy a house next to the Darwin family.
Problem is if you were there first
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Can we send an express shipment of shivs to London?
Naaah: thanks to Brexit, they’re going to have to rely on domestic suppliers.
Somehow, I think they’ll manage.
🚨 Exclusive
Michael Gove has told Boris Johnson he must go
Housing Secretary delivered message to PM this morninghttps://t.co/DUWIHFxXRt— John Stevens (@johnestevens) July 6, 2022
Wild!! 🏌♀️
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BREAKING: The Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria gas pipeline has been completed
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) July 6, 2022
— absolutely insane youtube comments (@insanepplYT) July 5, 2022
What Republicans Do with Power
- a raped and pregnant 10-year-old crossing state lines for an abortion.
- A coup against our government led by a president eager to send a mob he knew was armed to threaten the vice president and members of Congress.
- A Supreme Court that rules against the majority of the country on:
—guns,
—abortion,
— climate change
- and may side with Republicans next year who want partisans to decide our elections.
- Texas AG admitting he would welcome the return of anti-sodomy laws.
“After years of tumultuous change and accelerating division, these past days and weeks have made perfectly clear…just what Republicans do with power.”
re: #143 Dr Lizardo
The Nixon moment. Is the Ceausescu moment next?
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Trump is a godless heathen, but these Christian fascists have latched on to him because he’s their ticket to the End Times.
So GOP smear a religious man like Biden, who goes to church regularly and knows from loss and the cost of sending troops into combat. Projecting like IMAX— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) July 6, 2022
re: #149 lawhawk
I regret I can only give one upding.
re: #148 Sherlock Hound
The Nixon moment. Is the Ceausescu moment next?
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I can definitely see Boris doing his damnedest to hang in there. He’s a sociopathic clown and he’s probably going to try to pull out all the stops in a last-ditch desperate bid to stay in power.
The UK at least seems to have the ability to be embarrassed by people on their own team
— jasonthfc (@jasonthfc2) July 6, 2022
re: #9 gwangung
You mean, like school boards for the last century?
Jeezus…..every action these bozos took just screams of racism….
How many of those Americans who were interned participated in the “Rape of Nanjing”?
Thread reporting on the temporary injunction hearing against Kentucky’s trigger law banning almost all abortions. The Kentucky Supreme Court refused to dissolve the TRO allowing the clinics to remain open, so this hearing is big for abortion rights. If Kentucky’s clinics can remain open, that will help relieve the pressure on Illinois clinics.
Judge Mitch Perry will decide whether to grant a temporary injunction further blocking enforcement of Ky’s trigger law that bans nearly all abortions, as well as an law banning abortions after 6 wks of pregnancy.
— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) July 6, 2022
re: #152 Dopamine Fish
….”The UK at least seems to have the ability to be embarrassed by people on their own team”
BoJo is not a cult leader. The voters of UK do not worship him as a Messiah. The problem was that the Labour Party has had terrible leaders; with any decent one, BoJo would have been history.
re: #151 Dr Lizardo
I can definitely see Boris doing his damnedest to hang in there. He’s a sociopathic clown and he’s probably going to try to pull out all the stops in a last-ditch desperate bid to stay in power.
How’s he going to find enough bodies to replace all the people who resigned?
The idea here, from Texas Republicans, is that young girls can be raped and forced to give birth against their will, but aren’t “mature” enough to talk about it on Instagram. https://t.co/4WweamKl4K
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) July 6, 2022
Graham is fighting the subpoena requiring him to testify in Fulton County about the coup attempt, which is part of his regular duties as a member of the Judiciary Committee.
NEW: Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will go to court to challenge the subpoena from grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia
Statement from attorney accuses grand jury of working “in concert” with House January 6 Select Committee pic.twitter.com/AwfJLn2RBm— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 6, 2022
re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg
How’s he going to find enough bodies to replace all the people who resigned?
There may be enough ambitious mediocre backbenchers who would otherwise never have an opportunity to become a Cabinet member.
re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg
He will dig them up if he has to.
re: #157 jaunte
Another clear violation of the First Amendment, not that that bothers grandstanding Republicans.
re: #158 No Malarkey!
Graham is fighting the subpoena requiring him to testify in Fulton County about the coup attempt, which is part of his regular duties as a member of the Judiciary Committee.
Slimy asshole will probably find a way to win, too.
re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg
Slimy asshole will probably find a way to win, too.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a Graham perp walk.
I’m sure somebody posted about it, but DeSantis is really going to order universities to survey political beliefs over the perception that universities discriminate against conservatives?
Ron DeSantis threatening to defund universities unless the majority of students are Republicans is not shocking in any way, but still appalling.
— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) July 5, 2022
re: #164 Barefoot Grin
I’m sure somebody posted about it, but DeSantis is really going to order universities to survey political beliefs over the perception that universities discriminate against conservatives?
Of course; DeSantis is building his street cred by relentlessly waging the culture war.
re: #164 Barefoot Grin
GOP hates educated people, so he’s going all purity pony on politics at colleges in FL.
If that wrecks the FL education system further, that’s a feature, not a bug.
They want people uneducated.
re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Isn’t Labour still led by their amazingly clueless tall guy?
I suspect the real issue is that the Tories are looking for someone to blame as the Northern Ireland issue unravels, yet again.
Here for example is an editorial by a Brexiteer:
Ben Habib: We will not get Brexit under Boris Johnson, but rather the break-up of the UK
From the outset of Brexit it’s been my opinion that it was unworkable with Northern Ireland. If the Brits want hard borders then that means a hard border between NI and the Republic of Ireland.
And that hard border will be hated by many Irish.
I also suspect that what set off this round of Tory unease is the polling showing that Sinn Fein is growing in popularity in NI. The Unionists in NI knew they were going to be in trouble with Brexit, but the English masses in the countryside don’t care about them and voted to Leave.
Probably the best strategy for the Tories is to actually lose a quick election, put Labour in charge, so when NI blows up then Labour can be blamed.
This guy replace Jeremy Corbyn two years ago as head of Labour.
re: #158 No Malarkey!
Graham is fighting the subpoena requiring him to testify in Fulton County about the coup attempt, which is part of his regular duties as a member of the Judiciary Committee.
What information does he have that he believes should not be shared with the J6 committee?
Lindsey needs a better argument that doesn’t scream “I got stuff to hide!”
re: #166 lawhawk
GOP hates educated people, so he’s going all purity pony on politics at colleges in FL.
If that wrecks the FL education system further, that’s a feature, not a bug.
They want people uneducated.
When your base are the ignorant, you need to keep as many people ignorant as possible.
tbh I kinda want it to get to the point where he’s answering the phones and doing the typing himself. https://t.co/aSEf9uw0Yh
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 6, 2022
In addition to thousands of meal kits for families (6,200 today!), the WCK team in Kramatorsk & Slovyansk in eastern Ukraine brings food for the animals! Some cats get a little excited & jump right in 🤷♂️ The situation here worsens each day, so we’re delivering while we still can. pic.twitter.com/hHbwnXvG9V
— Nate Mook (@natemook) July 6, 2022
Here is my daughter with her new little baby. Look at that cleft chin! Future Hollywood heart throb.
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Rudy knows he’s in hot water, and he keeps turning up the temperature.
Rudy: “Everyone in Washington wants to make me a liar and a crook, and I’m not. I could’ve asked for a pardon for a very good reason - because I don’t want to get framed. I know I didn’t do anything wrong. I don’t lie .. I don’t take money .. I’ve acted honorably all my life.” pic.twitter.com/EjYkjFJ9Hp
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 6, 2022
This isn’t the defense he thinks he’s got. It shows that he knows he was engaging in malfeasance, but keeps digging in deeper.
So, why did it take to yesterday for Boris Johnson’s govt to realize Boris is a fucknut and want to resign? Did they have an epiphany?
No, they’re all seeing the writing on the wall and want to bail before it gets truly bad.
Johnson was always awful, and things have not improved.
re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg
How’s he going to find enough bodies to replace all the people who resigned?
He probably won’t. He’s basically just going to try to muscle his way through this, but I doubt it’s going to work.
re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s up to 31 resignations now.
re: #172 The Pie Overlord!
Here is my daughter with her new little baby. Look at that cleft chin! Future Hollywood heart throb.
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re: #173 lawhawk
Rudy knows he’s in hot water, and he keeps turning up the temperature.
This isn’t the defense he thinks he’s got. It shows that he knows he was engaging in malfeasance, but keeps digging in deeper.
The “I am not a crook” defense worked really well for Nixon.
re: #176 Dr Lizardo
It’s up to 31 resignations now.
Imagine a Monty Python-esque skit where Boris is trying to hold his government together (with increasingly futile results) that eventually ends up with people resigning BEFORE HE HIRES THEM.
he’s running https://t.co/jnMPvTDAWT
— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) July 6, 2022
re: #173 lawhawk
Rudy knows he’s in hot water, and he keeps turning up the temperature.
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This isn’t the defense he thinks he’s got. It shows that he knows he was engaging in malfeasance, but keeps digging in deeper.
i did nothing wrong
but i’m gonna get framed
“So, let’s talk about what an assault weapon is designed to do. An assault weapon is designed to kill a lot of human beings quickly. There is no reason that we have weapons of war on the streets of America.” https://t.co/5AqlNv0GPc
— Herbie Ziskend (@HerbieZiskend46) July 6, 2022
There is a climate emergency, but being a performative, entitled fuckwhit by shutting down traffic isn’t protest-it’s narcissism. https://t.co/Wk2el9Wino
— 🏳️🌈🇺🇦*THEE* Bougier Than Thou 💉💉💉💉 (@ScottyBurberry) July 6, 2022
Huw Merriman’s sitting opposite me at the liaison committee. Pretty sure he actually looked Johnson in the eye when he pressed send on this. Oh the drama. https://t.co/QZD3huGarW
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) July 6, 2022
“i’m here to talk about what the government is doing.” It’s resigning en masse, Boris. There’s no-one fucking left.
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) July 6, 2022
Nothing to lose now, Boris should just cut loose at the committee meeting. ‘YOU KNOW WHAT? I DID IT ALL. BUNGS, BLOW JOBS, ARCURI, THE LOT. AND IT WAS FUCKING BRILLIANT.’
— Chris Deerin (@chrisdeerin) July 6, 2022
An interesting thread here about what’s going on in Britain right now….
Well-placed source convinced Boris Johnson won’t quit, even if the 22 change the rules, and he loses a VONC.
Instead, he’ll claim he has a mandate from 14m voters, and will threaten to force an election - but not before deselecting everyone who voted against him.— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 6, 2022
I can massively recommend this live committee with Boris Johnson - probably his last day in power, fittingly spent having MP after MP list things he hasn’t done as he looks like a dog on it’s final trip to the vet: https://t.co/da1Db9vpid
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) July 6, 2022
re: #186 Dr Lizardo
An interesting thread here about what’s going on in Britain right now….
Maybe he’ll get a group of people to storm the House of Lords.
re: #186 Dr Lizardo
Sabotage…. they’re actively sabotaging the British govt and wrecking the institutions.
Johnson is doing that brilliantly. They all knew he was this awful.
DC Metro says they had a warrant for his arrest out of Maryland.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) July 6, 2022
Gah
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Wow, there are a of cops there. David “Santa” Riddell is being arrested, the rest of the group is mad and yelling at the cops- demanding he be let go. #convoywatch #1776RM 12 of n pic.twitter.com/mL4sZf3ayY
— QRR (@QRemedyResearch) July 6, 2022
Wow. I look away for a few minutes, and a whole bunch more rats start jumping into shark-infested waters.
re: #188 Belafon
re: #189 lawhawk
I can’t recall exactly who it was who noted it, but they said that Johnson had a certain nihilistic streak in him. It’d be in Johnson’s character to figure that if he can’t be PM - owing to Tory machinations - then he’ll burn the party to the ground and take them all down with him.
Oil prices are continuing to decline, now well below $100/barrel. Relief at the gas pump could help Democrats in the midterms.
If pot is the reason there’s so much gun violence, I’m assuming Cheech & Chong, Willie Nelson & of course, Snoop Dogg are all mass murderers.
If not, then the weed argument is just a coverup for the guns & a bunch of angry white Republican men.
I’ll wait…— The Jewish Ginger Resister (@JewishResister) July 6, 2022
— *Shakes Fist* (@ShakesFist) July 6, 2022
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She must be concerned with the borders of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. /s
I remember the story a couple years ago about the wingnut with a northern Minnesota vacation home who was concerned all the “illegals” were going to come up and take over her lake house in the middle of Minnesota’s winter.
More likely the borders of New York City, Buffalo, and Philadelphia.
re: #197 DodgerFan1988
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If pot is the reason there’s so much gun violence, I’m assuming Cheech & Chong, Willie Nelson & of course, Snoop Dogg are all mass murderers.
If not, then the weed argument is just a coverup for the guns & a bunch of angry white Republican men.
I’ll wait…— The Jewish Ginger Resister (@JewishResister) July 6, 2022
you’d think there’d be way more violence in colorado and oregon
re: #197 DodgerFan1988
Tucker revealed its actually women’s fault for lecturing young men about their privilege. You ladies need to just stfu, or we men will have no choice except to randomly spray bullets into crowds.//
Conservatives’ masculinity panic has been a constant as far back as we care to look, back to Antiquity. Tucker Carlson’s version of shrewish harpies feminizing men is straight out of a misogynist ’50s comedy, either the 1950s or the 350s BCE. https://t.co/jTN6k64Zvu
— Jason Colavito (@JasonColavito) July 6, 2022
re: #196 No Malarkey!
Oil prices are continuing to decline, now well below $100/barrel. Relief at the gas pump could help Democrats in the midterms.
And have a significant negative effect on Russia’s economy.
Win-win.
As per WaPo Pat Cipollone will testify before the J6 committee.
washingtonpost.com
Another resignation:
Mike Freer has resigned as minister for exports and minister for equalities, saying the government is “moving away from the one nation Conservative party I joined, not least in creating an atmosphere of hostility for LGBT+ people”. His full resignation letter is here.
re: #203 PhillyPretzel
As per WaPo Pat Cipollone will testify before the J6 committee.
washingtonpost.com
At last, we get to hear from the legendary Patsy Baloney!!
re: #117 Florida Panhandler
The move towards authoritarianism is a worldwide phenomenon.
The article gives statistics on how Arab countries are viewing democracy as being detached from economic success. This view is not just an Arab view, but a more and more common failure inside places like the USA as well.
Without a strong social safety net and strong civil right guarantees, democracy by itself is only a means of selecting which leader is going to seek personal advantage over everyone else, and perhaps bring along and elevate the select part of the population just like himself. The USA, with our utterly corrupt SCOTUS and white supremacist fascist Republican Party, is busy rejecting civil rights and safety nets and are the first things to be destroyed towards creating economic distress and social chaos in order to achieve greater and greater power. Democracy is only the means. The goals can be expressed and attempted by any form of government and right now Arabs under economic stress are feeling the failures of societies without safety nets and strong government institutions. Republicans want to take us the US there as well.
The GOP wants a fig-leaf republic to cover up the authoritarian/oligarch reality. Much as the USSR was an authoritarian oligarchy with a fig-leaf layer of “People’s Socialist Republic” layered on top.
re: #203 PhillyPretzel
As per WaPo Pat Cipollone will testify before the J6 committee.
washingtonpost.com
He will always be Patsy Bologna.
re: #119 Dangerman
And their son gets the gun.
//
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Can we send an express shipment of shivs to London?
Was Boris warned to fear the Ides of July?
re: #196 No Malarkey!
Oil prices are continuing to decline, now well below $100/barrel. Relief at the gas pump could help Democrats in the midterms.
Local price is $4.01 and falling.
From Jan.-Oct. 2021 (the study’s endpoint), Covid was the leading cause of death for Americans aged 45-54, and the 2nd-leading cause of death for ppl aged 35-44. That was because of the low vax rate in Americans under 60, particularly in red states. https://t.co/vKWqPwhhgj
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) July 6, 2022
8 victims now.
UPDATE on another victim of the parade shooting.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has been notified of the death of 69-year-old Eduardo Uvaldo. He was pronounced dead today at 7:47 a.m. at Evanston Hospital. #HighlandPark #masshooting pic.twitter.com/yqNvsj76ST— ReginaWaldroupNBC5 (@ReginaWaldroup) July 6, 2022
re: #174 lawhawk
So, why did it take to yesterday for Boris Johnson’s govt to realize Boris is a fucknut and want to resign? Did they have an epiphany?
No, they’re all seeing the writing on the wall and want to bail before it gets truly bad.
Johnson was always awful, and things have not improved.
I think it penetrated to the leaders and also enough of the rank and file that BJ scandal after BJ scandal, along with the clueless leadership, was going to get the Tories crushed in the next election. So damage control is to jettison him now and hope that his removal lessens that damage; e.g. the voters think BJ is the problem and not the Tories in general.
That we are living in one of the most dynamic American economies in modern times remains completely absent from the national conversation. https://t.co/l3kRZkNXcM
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) July 6, 2022
re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth
Would some sort of singularity have occurred if these people had managed to do their block/slowdown right in front of the “People’s Convoy” slowdown effort?
A pandemic and the loss of full citizenship for more than half the population do tend to obscure positive economic news.
one of those too big to fail banks
insists on sending me a verification code every time i log in
right now that service is ‘temporarily unavailable”
so i cant login
to pay bills
or do anything else..
re: #186 Dr Lizardo
An interesting thread here about what’s going on in Britain right now….
So this would be BJ threatening to burn down the party if they don’t kowtow to him?
Will be interesting to see if the 1922 Committee has a spine. And what other party rule changes are made afterwards if BJ carries out his threat. (I expect if all that occurs the leader of the party has their powers seriously curtailed and handed to a committee of some sort.)
re: #214 jaunte
Of course the dynamics of the US economy aren’t part of the “national conversation”: all of the RW media are only interested in making the conversation about how awful things are (for exploitation for political gain), while the rest of the media just goes along, as good news doesn’t generate the clicks/views/ratings that bad news does…
re: #143 Dr Lizardo
lol sky news has a running tally of resignations during boris johnson’s hearing and it keeps ticking up while he’s talking pic.twitter.com/aFGK9YWfVi
— Jack Mirkinson (@jackmirkinson) July 6, 2022
The idea here, from Texas Republicans, is that young girls can be raped and forced to give birth against their will, but aren’t “mature” enough to talk about it on Instagram. https://t.co/4WweamKl4K
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) July 6, 2022
re: #213 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And one of those scandals was a bona-fide bj scandal. Apparently, someone walked in on Bojo getting a hummer from his wife in his office in No. 10.
LOL.
re: #222 lawhawk
They did such a good job putting an end to rap music.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pat Cipollone, Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, is scheduled to testify Friday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a person briefed on the matter.Cipollone, whose reported resistance to Trump’s schemes to overturn his 2020 election defeat has made him a long-sought and potentially revelatory witness, was subpoenaed by the select committee last week after weeks of public pressure to provide testimony to the panel.
The person briefed on the matter, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss private negotiations, said Cipollone agreed to appear before the committee for a private, transcribed interview.
Trump White House counsel Cipollone to testify to 1/6 panel (AP)
re: #223 Dr Lizardo
And one of those scandals was a bona-fide bj scandal. Apparently, someone walked in on Bojo getting a hummer from his wife in his office in No. 10.
LOL.
Don’t they have interns, like an exceptional government?
This makes Game of Thrones look like Mary Poppins 😄
Told a delegation of three cab ministers - Zahawi, Hart and Lewis (who is currently in Belfast) have made it clear to chief whip it’s time for PM to go. This trio say his position now untenable.
— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) July 6, 2022
And even better? Zahawi just got the Chancellor of the Exchequer cabinet post yesterday.
re: #223 Dr Lizardo
And one of those scandals was a bona-fide bj scandal. Apparently, someone walked in on Bojo getting a hummer from his wife in his office in No. 10.
LOL.
Which sounds like the least scandalous scandal you could have.
re: #228 Belafon
Which sounds like the least scandalous scandal you could have.
They scared the cat.
re: #225 Crush White Nationalism
Trump White House counsel Cipollone to testify to 1/6 panel (AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pat Cipollone, Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, is scheduled to testify Friday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a person briefed on the matter.
think he’s getting a barrage of ‘encouraging’* emails and phone calls right now?
* you know - to ‘do the right thing’
re: #224 jaunte
Fucking fascist GOPers are looking at govt so small that they want to regulate where/how people under 18 can talk and what they can learn. They want to inject themselves into blocking kids from using social media where they can learn just what the fascists are up to and do something about it.
GOP are all into thought control, and denying women access. It’s a combination platter of power and control to deny others their rights.
No-one cares anymore, but we have another serious outbreak of Covid in Kentucky, with the positivity rate having soared to 15.75%. However, “only” about a half dozen people give or take are dying from Covid every day, so la dee da.
re: #230 Dangerman
John Barron on line 2. David Dennison on line 3. John Miller on line 1.
A GOP operative told NBC News that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is holding off on more restrictive abortion bans than the 15-week ban already in place while he seeks re-election, but is expected to go further if he wins a second term.Said the operative: “The strategy is obvious. Do it after the gubernatorial so as to not piss off suburban women, then screw them over after the election in order to appease fire-breathing pro-lifers in a presidential primary.”
take note: the ‘operative’ saying this is a republican
re: #232 No Malarkey!
No-one cares anymore, but we have another serious outbreak of Covid in Kentucky, with the positivity rate having soared to 15.75%. However, “only” about a half dozen people give or take are dying from Covid every day, so la dee da.
I expect a lot of that from 4th of July gatherings. The latest variants are incredibly contagious.
re: #235 Crush White Nationalism
I expect a lot of that from 4th of July gatherings. The latest variants are incredibly contagious.
Alabama is over 20, in a poor testing environment. Cities like Mobile are floating the return to mask mandates.
we don’t get to watch.
:(
New: former White House counsel Pat Cippolone to sit for a transcriber videotaped interview behind closed doors this Friday. @January6thCmte reporting by @AnnieGrayerCNN @ZcohenCNN @kaitlancollins @PamelaBrownCNN https://t.co/2Sdx441Uzx
— Jamie Gangel (@jamiegangel) July 6, 2022
re: #230 Dangerman
I can only hope he’s saving all those messages.
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
we don’t get to watch.
:(
I would guess he is going to assert attorney-client and executive privilege to most of their questions anyway.
Return to indoor masking due to surging COVID cases, Mobile County officials recommend
re: #239 Crush White Nationalism
Two million dollars.
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This is beginning to feel like a Batman plot.
re: #227 Dr Lizardo
This makes Game of Thrones look like Mary Poppins 😄
And even better? Zahawi just got the Chancellor of the Exchequer cabinet post yesterday.
Absolutely huge Death of Stalin vibes https://t.co/JGCl1pP1Bd
— Donaeld The Unready (@donaeldunready) July 6, 2022
re: #201 No Malarkey!
Tucker revealed its actually women’s fault for lecturing young men about their privilege. You ladies need to just stfu, or we men will have no choice except to randomly spray bullets into crowds.//
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um… is Tucker’s marriage in trouble? Is the shrewish harpie threatening to take the kids and go?
Police in Richmond, Virginia, said Wednesday that they thwarted a planned July 4 mass shooting after receiving a tip that led to arrests and the seizure of multiple guns: https://t.co/xJRuns3Huy
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) July 6, 2022
An Oregon Army National Guard crew exemplified the high-risk, high-altitude flying that military helicopter aviators often encounter.https://t.co/nz7ERo6tOO
— Paul Szoldra (@PaulSzoldra) July 6, 2022
“…According to a Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office press release, the man lost his ice ax, fell 600 to 700 feet, and sustained serious injuries at around 6:30 that morning. Professional and volunteer searchers combed the mountain before reaching the injured climber about four hours later. At around 1:00 p.m. the Oregon National Guard helicopter arrived and dropped off two medics who packed the patient onto a litter, then loaded him into the helicopter, which then flew him to a Portland-area hospital.”
re: #223 Dr Lizardo
And one of those scandals was a bona-fide bj scandal. Apparently, someone walked in on Bojo getting a hummer from his wife in his office in No. 10.
LOL.
at least it was his wife, and not one of the interns?
//
re: #243 Belafon
This is beginning to feel like a Batman plot.
I hope it’s not a fake GoFundMe. The person running it is Irina Colon. Irena was the dead mother’s name, so this name does look like someone pulled it out of their ass.
re: #250 Crush White Nationalism
Irina is a not uncommon Spanish female name, isn’t it?
re: #250 Crush White Nationalism
I hope it’s not a fake GoFundMe. The person running it is Irina Colon. Irena was the dead mother’s name, so this name does look like someone pulled it out of their ass.
I’m mostly sure it’s real, I’m just imagining an anti-gun vigilante in the future.
re: #248 jaunte
A group associated with the Sikorski family tries to keep a world-wide, all-time record of the lives saved by his invention. IIRC, they count more than 2,000,000.
sikorskyarchives.com
acg.no
Still not a peep from @laurenboebert or @tedcruz.
It’s now been 21 days, but who’s counting?
Oh, that’s right, I am! And will continue to. https://t.co/M3fezZ31cQ— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 6, 2022
re: #251 Eclectic Cyborg
Irina is a not uncommon Spanish female name, isn’t it?
Several sites say it’s Greek, but I’ve never met an Irena in America.
this is good news for Johnson’s albeit dwindling camp https://t.co/UTvlTMBfbW
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) July 6, 2022
I’m with them. The fridge has been locked. Big dog’s about to be put out of his misery #kitileaks https://t.co/Y5hvkwKFgy
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
For those asking, Dilyn’s here too. Man can’t even command loyalty from his dog.
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
re: #255 Crush White Nationalism
Several sites say it’s Greek, but I’ve never met an Irena in America.
English-speakers use Irene—all the same Greek saint.
goarch.org
re: #228 Belafon
Which sounds like the least scandalous scandal you could have.
Yeah, I would be willing to let that slide. His home, his wife. But some of the other shit cannot slide.
All eyes on Downing Street where cabinet delegation is about to meet with PM. It ain’t gonna be the 1922 what does it. At least not until after Monday.
— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) July 6, 2022
re: #255 Crush White Nationalism
Several sites say it’s Greek, but I’ve never met an Irena in America.
Russian.
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
Looks like the 1922 Committee is content with letting the cabinet go all Julius Caesar on Boris.
re: #221 Crush White Nationalism
“At the tone, Mr. ______, is resigning. BEEP.”
Boris on the next flight to Rwanda https://t.co/fgF0QL9bN1
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) July 6, 2022
Boris Johnson just came down the escalator glued to his phone. Asked him if he was going to resign when his cabinet told him. A young staffer shouted “resign!”
— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) July 6, 2022
re: #258 Decatur Deb
English-speakers use Irene—all the same Greek saint.
goarch.org
Irene sounds more familiar to me, but I can’t think of any Irenes I’ve met either.
The cabinet have agreed who should deliver the message to Boris Johnson the he has to resign: it’s going to be Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on a Zoom call. It’s what he would have wanted. #kitileaks
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth
She found out that Boris was born in NYC, so she’s gonna deport him to Kigali. 😄
re: #230 Dangerman
think he’s getting a barrage of ‘encouraging’* emails and phone calls right now?
* you know - to ‘do the right thing’
That would be an interesting thing for the DOJ to predict happening and getting a warrant for a phone tap. Because some of these people are obviously too stupid to use a burner phone to make an intimidation call. Or would need to identify themselves in any case.
Several Cabinet ministers in No 10 have their resignation letters in their pockets and ready to go
If the PM refuses to go the message is clear - they will resign themselves
It’s the final extraordinary standoff with the PM - surely no way he can survive this— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) July 6, 2022
re: #274 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Never mind Stalin—it might be like the death of Beria!
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re: #240 No Malarkey!
I would guess he is going to assert attorney-client and executive privilege to most of their questions anyway.
Didn’t someone say that the attorney-client part would not fly since it can’t be used as an excuse for taking part in a criminal conspiracy?
re: #276 Dr Lizardo
At least these Cabinet ministers are showing more backbone than the R’s who support DT.
re: #278 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Didn’t someone say that the attorney-client part would not fly since it can’t be used as an excuse for taking part in a criminal conspiracy?
But if he refuses to answer their questions on that basis, they have no way to compel an answer other than to refer him to the DOJ for criminal prosecution.
Grim mood in Downing Street. No 10 insider says “lots of tears” in building. “Writing on the wall now. The working assumption is that it will be today”.
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 6, 2022
The hearing on Kentucky’s abortion ban continues.
Dr. Lindo outlines key conclusions from his research: KY’s enforced trigger law, beyond just reducing abortion access, will “impose serious costs…disproportionately borne by KY’s most vulnerable populations: low-income residents & ppl of color”
— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) July 6, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden calls wife of detained WNBA player Brittney Griner, pledges US working to secure her release from Russia.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) July 6, 2022
Kentucky AAG asserts that its good that poor women will be coerced into giving birth.
Deputy AG Maddox’s turn: asks Lindo to reiterate that KY’s trigger law will result in fewer abortions being performed in the state (yes)
Maddox, touching on the fundamental & explicitly stated point of the trigger law: “That’s actually the point of the law, right?”— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) July 6, 2022
FYI about the GoFundMe
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I’ve been keeping my head low as of late because just way too much going on these days, and things are pissing me off a lot more than usual. But as usual, we find the press has decided their job is not to report reality, but to run interference for GOP BS and elevating them to exclusion.
The political media whitewashing of Glenn Youngkin apparently knows no bounds. “Affable, fun-loving, up for anything: It’s hard not to like Youngkin,” writes @mollyesque(!), who defends(!) his attacks on critical race theory(!). https://t.co/sLhSBwxKde https://t.co/ls3NXaPLeb pic.twitter.com/fICtn7Aa5G
— Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org ☮️ (@froomkin) July 6, 2022
EDIT: Adding more, because shit is just bad.
While they hammer Dems about “urgency” white dude journalism is still playing this gullible routine where they act like deliberate misinformation is “just an opinion” because the bothsidesism business model and outrage porn profits IS HOW WE GOT HERE. https://t.co/J9vtegpBaI
— Salome Strangelove (@salstrange) July 6, 2022
Mainly explaining to Shapps what Wordle is.
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
Good lord, the British are harsh…
— Iceland Foods ❄️ (@IcelandFoods) July 6, 2022
Did not have the Dilbert guy saying “you have to murder your sons before they go bad” on my bingo card https://t.co/1O7RIZDS3F
— Tommy (@NYCFirm) July 6, 2022
re: #288 Teukka
This is where the phrase “Politics is dirty” came from.
re: #223 Dr Lizardo
And one of those scandals was a bona-fide bj scandal. Apparently, someone walked in on Bojo getting a hummer from his wife in his office in No. 10.
LOL.
So whose wife was she? Bojo’s wife (in which case who cares) or wife of the person who walked in on them? (in which case whoa)
re: #278 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Didn’t someone say that the attorney-client part would not fly since it can’t be used as an excuse for taking part in a criminal conspiracy?
this here says no privilege would probably work
In my view, Cipollone has no valid legal basis to refuse to appear—and once in the witness chair, there are no valid claims of privilege that would permit him to refuse to answer questions relating to matters the committee is investigating.
as to attorney client specifically:
Second, whereas the White House Counsel represents the President in his official capacity, much (or all) of Trump’s conduct relating to the January 6 Committee was undertaken in his personal or campaign capacity. …
Trump’s efforts to corrupt and obstruct the Joint Session—including his incitement of an armed, violent mob to attack the Capitol—reflected his private pursuit of power, not any presidential function. Because he was acting only as a person seeking office (a.k.a., a candidate), he exceeded his official capacity and lost the prerogatives that come with it.
Cipollone’s communications with Trump on this subject thus did not occur between a government lawyer and his client, and so they are not privileged.
re: #290 PhillyPretzel
This is where the phrase “Politics is dirty” came from.
well it ain’t beanbag
I regret to inform you that Nadine is currently in the cupboard where people hang up their coats. We’re not sure why. https://t.co/lKBO4j2cRO
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
re: #291 The Pie Overlord!
So whose wife was she? Bojo’s wife (in which case who cares) or wife of the person who walked in on them? (in which case whoa)
It was Johnson’s wife. It’s really not a scandal, TBH. At least not as far as I’m concerned, though I can imagine some of the more prudish Tories might well have been horrified.
Boris Johnson admits he “probably did” meet ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev *without* officials when he was Foreign Secretary on a 2018 trip to Italy.
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 6, 2022
re: #292 Dangerman
this here says no privilege would probably work
as to attorney client specifically:
But, the Committee has no way to compel him to answer their questions. If he asserts A-C and Executive privilege, the most they can do is hold him in contempt and refer him to the DOJ for criminal prosecution. They aren’t going to get answers unless he chooses to give them of his own volition.
Rifle used the Highland Park shooting was a Smith and Wesson MNP 15, legally obtained by Robert Crimo, prosecutors said.
— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) July 6, 2022
Robert Crimo was ordered held without bond after his initial appearance before a judge, who noted that Crimo faces a mandatory life sentence if he is convicted of killing 7 people at the Highland Park July 4 parade.
— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) July 6, 2022
While the motive for the July 4 attack remains unclear, police said Crimo had an affinity with the numbers 4 and 7 based on the music he liked.
— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) July 6, 2022
Crime had another 60 rounds available for this considered second attack, police said, before he decided against it
— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) July 6, 2022
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
Marge Greene has solved the problem of mass shootings in America: “I want to talk about with psychiatric medications like SSRIs. They have side effects. They do. They have side effects, like, thoughts. They cause thoughts .. It’s all over the internet. This is easy knowledge!”
Summertime, and the knowledge is easy…
Stay mad, weird beard https://t.co/b1aMJczCGI
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) July 6, 2022
The nation’s drinking strategy: https://t.co/FH0GrerNCm
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) July 6, 2022
I’m doing everyone a favour - just email now and cancel whatever it is you’re doing tomorrow morning, before you’re too pissed. The hangover we’ve all got coming will not be work-friendly
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) July 6, 2022
re: #117 Florida Panhandler
The move towards authoritarianism is a worldwide phenomenon.
The article gives statistics on how Arab countries are viewing democracy as being detached from economic success. This view is not just an Arab view, but a more and more common failure inside places like the USA as well.
If your entire economy depends on selling off a single resource (like oil) that can be easily controlled by a few producers, then Democracy sucks as a model.
re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth
An article I read yesterday claimed the 47 tattoo is a reference to AK-47.
There’s no way the death toll was intentionally seven. He shot a lot more people.
re: #272 Crush White Nationalism
I think Russians use Irina.
True, but everything gets scrambled after a decade or so in America.
re: #304 Crush White Nationalism
An article I read yesterday claimed the 47 tattoo is a reference to AK-47.
There’s no way the death toll was intentionally seven. He shot a lot more people.
It’s up to 8 now. Another victim died this morning.
re: #303 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If your entire economy depends on selling off a single resource (like oil) that can be easily controlled by a few producers, then Democracy sucks as a model.
Yep, and that’s why petrostates are corrupt. Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Texas have this in common.
Two Fox News haters debate who they should hate more. Immigrants, or the “woke” left?
re: #304 Crush White Nationalism
An article I read yesterday claimed the 47 tattoo is a reference to AK-47.
There’s no way the death toll was intentionally seven. He shot a lot more people.
Just relaying the information that was presented in court
re: #304 Crush White Nationalism
An article I read yesterday claimed the 47 tattoo is a reference to AK-47.
There’s no way the death toll was intentionally seven. He shot a lot more people.
I read it as 7/4 July 4
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
“So, let’s talk about what an assault weapon is designed to do. An assault weapon is designed to kill a lot of
human beingsferal hogs invading our mobile homes quickly. There isnoa good reason that we have weapons of waron the streetsin the trailer parks of America.”
Theocracy is here. https://t.co/src5GEoGms
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 6, 2022
re: #311 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Feral hogs is also a euphemism for immigrants.
re: #304 Crush White Nationalism
An article I read yesterday claimed the 47 tattoo is a reference to AK-47.
There’s no way the death toll was intentionally seven. He shot a lot more people.
also, not sure that the number has anything to do with the death toll. Prosecutor said it was related to music he liked.
Oh, Christ. It’s this asshole again.
US Senate candidate Eric Greitens is back with another ad shooting and blowing things up with his “army of patriots.” pic.twitter.com/5pwvq6PQUz
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 6, 2022
re: #304 Crush White Nationalism
Most likely it’s for Agent 47 from the Hitman movies/video games. He’s even in photos dressed up just like the character. Dark suit/red tie.
AZ GOP Congressional candidate Jerone Davison releases an ad that AR-15s and high capacity mags should be legal in case he has to defend against “a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods.” pic.twitter.com/OXT3eip6oH
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 6, 2022
re: #316 GlutenFreeJesus
Most likely it’s for Agent 47 from the Hitman movies/video games. He’s even in photos dressed up just like the character. Dark suit/red tie.
I had this same thought.
re: #311 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If feral hogs weren’t a problem back at the founding, Alito says they should be n/a
And if there was a feral hog problrm back then, *they* managed it with single shot rifles, right?
it is never not funny this https://t.co/SPZ6cMUsA1
— Jenny Colgan (@jennycolgan) July 6, 2022
re: #316 GlutenFreeJesus
Most likely it’s for Agent 47 from the Hitman movies/video games. He’s even in photos dressed up just like the character. Dark suit/red tie.
I’m somehow entirely unaware of that game and movie series. The games Hitman 1 and Hitman 2 have very good reviews on Steam. Hitman 3 appears to have been a flop.
re: #317 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Russian as well
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re: #15 wrenchwench
It’s been a weird day. I just did the wordle of what is now two days ago some places, I think. 381.
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On to yesterday!
It was a weirder night. I started 382, paused for about 11 hours, then finished it.
Wordle 382 4/6
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Whiff, two, three, pause (weird evening, sleep, get up), put in the answer.
He’s not wrong. #LarryForPM https://t.co/o4e5FZQqWr
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 6, 2022
re: #312 Charles Johnson
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This court obviously doesn’t care about optics
And there’s no recourse if a judge won’t self recuse
This is where were at..the Rs own the court
Pass it on and be angrier. pic.twitter.com/8U2ZsgFScg
— Brown Eyed Susan🇺🇦 (@smc429) July 3, 2022
re: #318 Backwoods_Sleuth
Republican propaganda doesn’t have to make any sense. It just has to be able to be flung and stick to the wall like a pile of shit.
Republican pretending to care about poc by forcing black and hispanic women to give birth in a hearing on Kentucky’s abortion ban.
Maddox asking if Lindo thinks fewer Black & Brown babies is a good thing reminds me of Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs, when he claimed that some pro-Repro-rights advocates have “been motivated by a desire to suppress the size of the African American population”
— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) July 6, 2022
An ancient Hebrew stone carving placed 3500 years ago in Jerusalem’s ancient temple district has finally been deciphered.
Its message, intended for the ancient city’s highest authority, is as follows:
“Damned, damned, damn you to death.
Mister mayor, damn you to death.
Damned, damned, damn you to death “
Proving that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
The world was in need of a good visual to explain why shooting a solid-rocket motor at close-range is not a great idea. https://t.co/uoawmG829u
— Dr. Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) July 6, 2022
A woman has been stabbed at the Almedalen political festival on the Swedish island of Gotland, and a man has been arrested. https://t.co/iXa63yTKd0
— The Local Sweden (@TheLocalSweden) July 6, 2022
There is chatter in local media that the perpetrator has connections to the Nordic Resistance Movement. Police is planning a presser for 20:00 local tonight. I hope it isn’t a politico that got stabbed.
re: #335 Dangerman
so
“You actually pray with the Supreme Court justices?” the live streamer asked. “I do,” Nienaber said. “They will pray with us, those that like us to pray with them.”
Liberty Counsel’s founder, Mat Staver, strenuously denied that the in-person ministering to justices that Nienaber bragged about exists. “It’s entirely untrue,” Staver tells Rolling Stone. “There is just no way that has happened.” He adds: “She has prayer meetings for them, not with them.”
one of these two is lying.
not ‘mistaken’ or some other weasel word
they both made clear, definitive statements.
at opposition to each other.
they cant both be true
one is lying.
they should read up on bearing false witness
oh and also, remember back when zomygod Loretta Lynch (still AG) met Bill Clinton on a plane? she wasn’t even handling Hilary’s cases. but they harped and harped on how it appeared
these SCOTUS Justices are directly passing judgments on these religious cases.
re: #296 Dr Lizardo
It was Johnson’s wife. It’s really not a scandal, TBH. At least not as far as I’m concerned, though I can imagine some of the more prudish Tories might well have been horrified.
Why? Most Tories are dressing up in latex and being beaten by their doms.
re: #298 No Malarkey!
But, the Committee has no way to compel him to answer their questions. If he asserts A-C and Executive privilege, the most they can do is hold him in contempt and refer him to the DOJ for criminal prosecution. They aren’t going to get answers unless he chooses to give them of his own volition.
Please, please, please can we bring back the rack? Ineffective as it may be, it seems justified.
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