Video: Samantha Bee’s Ted Cruz Primer
It’s true. Not even the Man Upstairs can stand having a direct conversation with Ted Cruz.
It’s true. Not even the Man Upstairs can stand having a direct conversation with Ted Cruz.
Thanks for the tip, Mr. Sunshine! https://t.co/AMghetOqKC @realDonaldTrump @megynkelly
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 18, 2016
Subtle “fuck you” from Obama to Sanders:
President Obama will not pull back the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in a lame-duck session of Congress if Democrats keep control of the presidency, the White House reiterated on Friday.
“I cannot imagine a scenario where the president would withdraw support from his nominee,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.
The day before Earnest’s comments, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said if he succeeds Obama in the White House, he would ask the president to withdraw Garland so he could pick a more progressive nominee.
But the White House stressed Obama believes Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, is the best candidate to fill the court vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
First she was crazy, now she’s sick?
I don’t care who the woman is, Trump is a pig.
re: #3 Nyet
I’m starting to like Samantha Bee.
Same here. She would’ve been a better replacement for Jon Stewart, IMO.
re: #6 CuriousLurker
Same here. She would’ve been a better replacement for Jon Stewart, IMO.
Hear, hear!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
Christie: Trump didn’t mean “literal riots” he meant “political riots” https://t.co/a7lhNa8Xne pic.twitter.com/NfRbKaLxQu
— The Hill (@thehill) March 18, 2016
Sheriff Joe Arpaio to police Donald Trump’s Arizona rally https://t.co/fez3m7dBr1 | Getty pic.twitter.com/AVMVwU59Cz
— POLITICO (@politico) March 18, 2016
I see idiots repeating again and again that Hillary is not liberal enough.
Clinton was one of the most liberal members during her time in the Senate. According to an analysis of roll call votes by Voteview, Clinton’s record was more liberal than 70 percent of Democrats in her final term in the Senate. She was more liberal than 85 percent of all members. Her 2008 rival in the Democratic presidential primary, Barack Obama, was nearby with a record more liberal than 82 percent of all members — he was not more liberal than Clinton.
Clinton also has a history of very liberal public statements. Clinton rates as a “hard core liberal” per the ontheissues.org scale. She is as liberal as Elizabeth Warren and barely more moderate than Bernie Sanders. And while Obama is also a “hard core liberal,” Clinton again was rated as more liberal than Obama.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
Like when he said “knock the hell out of” a protester - he only meant POLITICALLY!
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
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This guy said the same thing:
Not Kidding: Senior Donald Trump Advisor Says Riots Aren’t Violence https://t.co/3qgzQi39T3 #lolwut? #GOP #violence #thugs #p2 #tiot
— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) March 18, 2016
re: #2 Lidane
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There must be many gods as the dudes in Stryper are all looking in slightly different directions.
re: #13 CuriousLurker
In other news, “Shame if anything happened to it” is actually an expression of empathy.//
re: #11 Jebediah, RBG
Like when he said “knock the hell out of” a protester - he only meant POLITICALLY!
Christie only POLITICALLY ordered a bridge blocked too.
:p
UPDATED STORY: Judge denies Bevin’s request to close Lexington abortion clinic; it will reopen Monday https://t.co/Rz8j6dUBMA
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 18, 2016
A judge has denied a request by Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration to temporarily close a Lexington abortion clinic that the state claims is operating illegally.
Fayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone ruled Friday against the state’s request for an injunction to close EMW Women’s Clinic on Burt Road. He said the Cabinet for Health and Family Services failed to present adequate evidence during a hearing Wednesday that it will eventually prevail in the lawsuit or that allowing the clinic to remain open as the lawsuit proceeds would cause “irreparable injury.”
“In addition to the evidence indicating that EMW is operating legally and in conformity with the most important regulations of a licensed abortion facility, closing the clinic is against the public interest,” Scorsone wrote. “EMW is the only physician’s office that routinely provides abortion services in the Eastern half of the state, and both parties agree that a right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy is constitutionally protected. Closing EMW would have a severe, adverse impact on the women in the Eastern part of the state.”
Bevin is, of course, going to appeal.
re: #9 Stanley Sea
Mexicans stay far far away…
re: #10 Nyet
I see idiots repeating again and again that Hillary is not liberal enough.
Just words and votes. She doesn’t have the hair. //
So more info about the capture of the Paris Attack Mastermind:
In the end police trapped the 26-year old a few hundred yards from where he grew up and where he was last spotted the day after the Paris attacks - in Molenbeek, the suburb home to several of the Paris gunmen and which has been described by some experts as a “den of Islamists”.
Wounded in the knee during the police raid and taken to hospital, Abedslam “instantly” confirmed his identity from his bed.
He used to be a terrorist, but then he took a bullet to the knee.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
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On behalf of New Jersey, please accept my heartfelt apologies for foisting this guy on the rest of America.
I have to admit, I almost feel sorry for Christie. Seeing tough Mr. Turn Trenton Upside Down reduced to a fawning lickspittle to Donald Trump, the new leader of the Republican Party, is kinda sad.
Then I remember how Christie posted videos of himself humiliating teachers and I think “Fuck you, asshole. Your chickens are coming home to roost and they’re bring Molotov cocktails.”
And as always, allow me to wallow in the fact I didn’t vote for this guy either time.
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
Mexicans stay far far away…
Also, anybody who looks like maybe they might be from Mexico. Arpaio profiles based on looks.
First GOP senator breaks with party leaders, calls for vote on Obama’s Supreme Court nominee: https://t.co/J4pfM1CiJ3
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 18, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Mark Kirk became the first Republican senator to break with party leaders and call for a vote on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court selection, saying Friday, “It’s just man up and cast a vote.”
The statement by Kirk, who faces a difficult re-election battle this fall in Democratic-leaning Illinois, came two days after Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy created by the February death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Garland, a Chicago native, is chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Kirk’s stance directly contradicts the path charted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that most GOP senators have followed. McConnell has said for weeks that there will be no Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for any Obama nominee for the vacancy and no confirmation vote by the Senate.
“Right, it’s just man up and cast a vote,” Kirk said on the “‘Big’ John Howell” show on Chicago radio station WLS. “The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get yes or no votes. Your whole job is to either say yes or no and explain why.”
Kirk said he believes McConnell won’t relent, saying, “I don’t see his view changing too much.”
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
As mentioned before, this is Kirk making a desperate attempt to keep from getting creamed by Duckworth in November.
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
As mentioned before, this is Kirk making a desperate attempt to keep from getting creamed by Duckworth in November.
Absolutely.
He’s still gonna get creamed.
re: #21 Ziggy_TARDIS
So more info about the capture of the Paris Attack Mastermind:
He used to be a terrorist, but then he took a bullet to the knee.
Maaan ;)
re: #13 CuriousLurker
So what happened in Chicago was a big group hug!
re: #27 Nyet
Purity, how does it work?
I joked, but really, that’s why primaries are so nasty. There’s so little difference that everything has to be magnified.
Experience has shown that it mostly goes away after the primary is over.
SAD TRUMPSUCKER HAZ MOAR SADS & NOW TEH RAGE
@viciousbabushka There’s no proof, you ignorant Liberal’s just pull lies out of your asses!! Can’t wait to see your faces when trump wins!!
— Zach Varbel (@ZacharyVarbel) March 18, 2016
The right hates Hillary’s guts. Tell me again how she’s a Republican in Dem skin.
Whoa. This might put Gawker out of business. Rage Furby is going to gloat like crazy even though he had nothing to do with it.
Jury awards Hulk Hogan $115 million in damages #hulkvsgawk
— Anna Phillips (@annamphillips) March 18, 2016
re: #32 Nyet
The right hates Hillary’s guts. Tell me again how she’s a Republican in Dem skin.
Only and idiot would see Hillary as a Republican.
re: #31 The Vicious Babushka
I can tell he is one of the smarter wingnuts, since he doesn’t know the difference between a possessive and a plural.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
The moment she says something nice about @realDonaldTrump, he’ll call @megynkelly the greatest journalist ever.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) March 18, 2016
The man is easily manipulated by flattery.
One of the side effects of the rise of Trumpism is that the religious right’s fixation with a handful of social issues is taken a back seat - no, rather, put into the trunk - to the Drumpfskind himself.
Looking over the blogosphere of the religious right reveals a scattering of the faithful. The usual outlets are spending half their energy with a StopTrump or NeverTrump campaign.
Slowly the change in America’s religious practices are being felt in our politics. I gather the religious right now feel as if victory has been snatched away from them, right before they accomplished their goal of gaining control of at least 2 branches of the federal government.
Economic concerns and fear of demographic change have clearly trumped (heh) the old religious right’s goals of social Christianization.
Ted Cruz is the ideal religious right candidate, but he is being smoked by someone who is the most obvious self-congratulating sinner to run for President in a long time.
Oh, the irony.
Whoa. But they’ll definitely be appealing that. https://t.co/Wk2Hps8gp3 @BuzzFeedNews
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 18, 2016
That’s $115 million just for compensatory damages - they’re going to award punitive damages as well. This is gigantic.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Whoa. This might put Gawker out of business. Rage Furby is going to gloat like crazy even though he had nothing to do with it.
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I bet he starts suing Hogan for his “cut”.
I won’t cry because of Gawker’s demise, they deserve it, although it would have been nice if they destroyed lil’ Chucky first.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Whoa. This might put Gawker out of business. Rage Furby is going to gloat like crazy even though he had nothing to do with it.
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He’s going to think that Hulk should give him some of the money for softening Gawker up. It’s going to bring him to a boil that he hasn’t gotten any money. Haha.
Going to venture up to SLC to see the protests. Will post about it later tonight. Have a good evening, Lizards.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
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WTF is a political riot, Big Chicken?
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Whoa. This might put Gawker out of business. Rage Furby is going to gloat like crazy even though he had nothing to do with it.
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— Danny Yadron (@dannyyadron) March 18, 2016
re: #44 BeachDem
WTF is a political riot, Big Chicken?
Dunno.
Still trying to figure out Pussy Riot.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Whoa. This might put Gawker out of business. Rage Furby is going to gloat like crazy even though he had nothing to do with it.
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That’s crazy. Though it was kind of clear they were heading this way when the judge allowed the jury to ask a female editor if she slept her way to the top.
The Conservative Anti-Trump Strategy Is Taking Shape
re: #39 Charles Johnson
WWE dropped Hogan like a hot potato once the story surfaced.
Now Hogan’s actual losses can be no where near $115 million. His career not only in the WWE was pretty much extinct but his other efforts mostly have all ended in failure.
In other words, this is a big windfall for Terry Bollea, probably at least 10x, maybe 100x, his actual losses.
re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mark Kirk is also on the critically endangered list for GOP Senators this fall. I’ll take what I can get from a Republican, but there’s nothing more to this than a (hopefully futile) attempt to survive in a general election in Illinois.
re: #37 freetoken
That’s a generous read.
Mine is that a considerable chunk of the religious right has bent for Trump because they have already created an “Americanist” heresy in which they are divinely entitled to their greed and their cruelty.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Nope. It wont put them out of business - yet. There will be the inevitable appeal. And that verdict is likely to be reduced.
The question will be by how much it will be reduced. I frankly don’t know.
But I know Chucky will be taking credit for all of it, even though he’d do the same thing Gawker did if the same kind of stuff fell in his lap.
re: #47 goddamnedfrank
That’s crazy. Though it was kind of clear they were heading this way when the judge allowed the jury to ask a female editor if she slept her way to the top.
Note: The female editor was the only one at Gawker who the jury saw fit to ask this question, not the male writer of the article.
Fox’s Dobbs Cites “Great Reporting” From Misogynist To Attack Michelle Fields https://t.co/8LT0l4cmih pic.twitter.com/eP04ajIzjP
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 18, 2016
re: #52 The Ghost of a Cunning Plan
Well, I’m in a generous mood today.
We must keep in mind that not every who self-labels as an “evangelical” is a fundamentalist.
Among the fundamentalists Drumpfskind has little support, outside of the scammers themselves who sit at the top of religious pyramid schemes.
Many religious people get drawn into the Drumpfsbetrug because they are habituated to being scammed in a similar manner.
But the more dogmatic fundamentalists are huffing and puffing at Drumpfskind.
I hope that in all the anti-Trump furor, we don’t let anyone forget that Ted Cruz is as bad, if not worse, and twice as scary as Trump.
ALERT THE MEDIA!!
She’s back…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada conservative Sharron Angle is making an encore bid for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Reid.
— Michelle Rindels (@RindelsAP) March 18, 2016
re: #53 lawhawk
But I know Chucky will be taking credit for all of it, even though he’d do the same thing Gawker did if the same kind of stuff fell in his lap.
Heck, Chuck’s new venture is going to be a website where people will have to pay to keep embarrassing information from being published.
re: #55 Ace-o-aces
See the R mainstream align themselves with the “alt-Right”.
re: #50 freetoken
WWE dropped Hogan like a hot potato once the story surfaced.
Now Hogan’s actual losses can be no where near $115 million. His career not only in the WWE was pretty much extinct but his other efforts mostly have all ended in failure.
In other words, this is a big windfall for Terry Bollea, probably at least 10x, maybe 100x, his actual losses.
The art world is unimpressed. An image of Lisa Gherardini is worth 800 million, and she kept her clothes on.
re: #57 BeachDem
I hope that in all the anti-Trump furor, we don’t let anyone forget that Ted Cruz is as bad, if not worse, and twice as scary as Trump.
ALERT THE MEDIA!!
This.
Some Rs acts as if they deserve a cookie for being anti-Trump - while supporting Cruz.
re: #62 Nyet
This.
Some Rs acts as if they deserve a cookie for being anti-Trump - while supporting Cruz.
It’s especially annoying when present day Cruz supporters previously pretended to be never-Cruz types because Cruz is a nut job.
So we are to believe that Cruz has become less of a nut job between then and now?
White male privilege is getting awarded $115 million for proof of having gone on a racist tirade while committing adultery. #hulkvsgawk
— UnprintableHandleGuy (@goddamnedfrank) March 18, 2016
re: #56 freetoken
Indeed, I am a big fan of Fred Clark, who is himself an evangelical.
I’m just never sure what word to use to describe the politics-and-vanity-driven religion of wingnuts.
re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh dear. Isn’t this try No. 3?
2nd senate run, ran for congress (Nev 2nd) in 2006
re: #6 CuriousLurker
Same here. She would’ve been a better replacement for Jon Stewart, IMO.
Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Stephen Colbert and Larry Wilmore all would’ve been better replacements for Jon Stewart. Except for the little detail that all of them had network offers before he decided to retire. I think maybe it was all of them moving on that made him think it was time, he really didn’t want to stick around to recruit and train a whole new crop.
I did hear a rumor that Jessica Williams was offered the job, but felt it was too soon and she wasn’t ready.
re: #68 sagehen
I did hear a rumor that Jessica Williams was offered the job, but felt it was too soon and she wasn’t ready.
She at least implied as much, and I think was right (though I love her dearly). I also think Samantha and the others were right to establish their own shows, if the Daily Show was going to insist on the exact same format. So, a new face made sense. And anyway, Noah is growing on me.
re: #63 EPR-radar
It’s especially annoying when present day Cruz supporters previously pretended to be never-Cruz types because Cruz is a nut job.
So we are to believe that Cruz has become less of a nut job between then and now?
Exactly. It’s a load of hollow shit.