Just wanna say, The level of butt hurt on my facebook feed over the FBI decision is amazing.
re: #1 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Just wanna say, The level of butt hurt on my facebook feed over the FBI decision is amazing.
Libety or Tranny?
A Tale of Two Advance Staffers pic.twitter.com/6o0OTXi9DK
— Sam Brodey (@sambrodey) July 5, 2016
Proud as hell to have voted for this man twice and anxious as hell to vote for this woman twice.
re: #1 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Just wanna say, The level of butt hurt on my facebook feed over the FBI decision is amazing.
My basic take on it is if you said nothing about the Bush White House using a private server owned and run by the RNC for official business, and Rove deleting MILLIONS of emails, you have no ground to stand on to complain.
re: #5 Testy Toad T
Proud as hell to have voted for this man twice and anxious as hell to vote for this woman twice.
This.
It is always tempting to put POTUS campaigns in Manichean terms…but this time it is absolutely warranted. Trump represents actual evil. He is channeling the darkest and most destructive aspects of humanity, and we do not have the luxury of sitting this out. There is no neutral ground. Trump must be repudiated, and his followers must be marginalized.
I love this man so much.
“I mean, Sasha tweets.”
Look at the audience behind Obama and Clinton. Compare and contrast with who you see behind Trump.
re: #1 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Just wanna say, The level of butt hurt on my facebook feed over the FBI decision is amazing.
You’re not alone…
re: #7 Aunty Entity Dragon
This.
It is always tempting to put POTUS campaigns in Manichean terms…but this time it is absolutely warranted. Trump represents actual evil. He is channeling the darkest and most destructive aspects of humanity, and we do not have the luxury of sitting this out. There is no neutral ground. Trump must be repudiated, and his followers must be marginalized.
I do not see him as evil, but as a failure of our political system at a high level: that of a national party. The GOP has decided, as far as we know, to grit their teeth and double down and make the best of this failure. But their success would cost the nation dearly at this point, which, I agree, we cannot allow to happen.
The President sounds like he’s going to have a lot of fun campaigning for Hillary.
re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg
It was shared by an ex coworker of mine.
The one who brought guns to work and was fired as a result?
our founding fathers would have put an end to this a long time ago
— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) July 5, 2016
To what? Women and minorities holding public office? https://t.co/ZpErlGtXtd
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 5, 2016
“Republican governors and Republicans in Congress have been blocking these ideas for years!” .@POTUS after getting applause for Dem policies
— Sarah Reese Jones (@srjones66) July 5, 2016
RWNJ and BernieBros are hitting all the stages here
Stages of Grief
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
During the fourth stage, the individual despairs at the recognition of their mortality. In this state, the individual may become silent, refuse visitors and spend much of the time mournful and sullen.
And eventually they will move on to stage 5
5. Acceptance
Obama apparently not using a teleprompter. Just ripping it.
re: #20 Interesting Times
The one who brought guns to work and was fired as a result?
Uh, no. I never friended that one at work or on FB.
While Obama is hyping Clinton’s qualifications, Paul Ryan is begging Trump to not be anti-Semitic.
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) July 5, 2016
re: #21 Kragar
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Charlatans seeking public office? Ignorant twats producing terrible music? Dumbasses preaching treason?
(Ok, on that last bit, Washington did actually do something about that)
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do not see him as evil, but as a failure of our political system at a high level: that of a national party. The GOP has decided, as far as we know, to grit their teeth and double down and make the best of this failure. But their success would cost the nation dearly at this point, which, I agree, we cannot allow to happen.
What he represents is intrinsically evil:
denial of human rights
ordering our military to commit war crimes against the family members of combatants
destruction of constitutional guarantees of freedom of movement and due process
overt support of violent bigotry towards religious and ethnic minorities
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
You’re not alone…
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RWNJ transferring hate back to a Clinton Democrat after eight years hating on the black Democrat.
Just a quick OT sanity check about what really makes America great, because if I don’t go looking for this stuff to maintain my faith in humanity, I’ll end up so depressed that I won’t even be able to crawl out of bed in the morning:
Thank You, Willmar, MN: 270 Show Support for Grieving Muslim Community
BBL
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do not see him as evil, but as a failure of our political system at a high level: that of a national party. The GOP has decided, as far as we know, to grit their teeth and double down and make the best of this failure. But their success would cost the nation dearly at this point, which, I agree, we cannot allow to happen.
I’m a curmudgeonly old fart. I’ve regarded the USA as a failed state since a major party nominated Ronald fucking Reagan for President. I can’t really see how tRump is any more unqualified. My only hope is that we can keep fighting off the absolute worst for a few more election cycles—then I’ll be dead and it’ll be somebody else’s problem.
POTUS on Trump: “Republicans don’t know what the guy is talking about. If you ask them, they say I don’t know and duck”
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) July 5, 2016
POTUS is on fire!
re: #31 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I’m a curmudgeonly old fart. I’ve regarded the USA as a failed state since a major party nominated Ronald fucking Reagan for President. I can’t really see how tRump is any more unqualified.
At least Reagan had a history of serving in an elected office an the executive level. If Trump is nominated, we will see how far things have gone down since then.
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
Uh, no. I never friended that one at work or on FB.
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From the previous page:
re: #58 Charles Johnson
Trump:
Our adversaries almost certainly have a blackmail file on Hillary Clinton, and this fact alone disqualifies her from service.
I think that’s the sound of a door opening.
Obama unleashed is, and is going to be, an awesome thing.
I love no-fucks-to-give Obama. He is the best. Best best best.
re: #33 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
At least Reagan had a history of serving in an elected office an the executive level. If Trump is nominated, we will see how far things have gone down since then.
Shit, Reagan isn’t even the most unqualified president of my lifetime. I hate the fucker and reject pretty much everything he ever stood for, but to equivocate and equate Reagan to Trump is flatly ridiculous.
Lots of subtle digs at Trump. Some open digs as well. But some good subtle stuff.
re: #32 jaunte
He really is tearing it up here. He’s really intense and having fun at the same time. Not holding back.
re: #36 Sir John Barron
The Republicans have no counter for Obama and Biden
re: #21 Kragar
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Yes, the Founders would have had something to say:
Trump is unfit for office, corrupt and a danger to the Republic.
The Founders really didn’t give a shit about sexual impropriety (see Alexander Hamilton and his affair)
They cared a lot about financial corruption and using your office to enrich yourself.
Trump and his business practice is anathema to what our Founders thought proper. In fact, the attitude at the time was that successful businessmen had a duty to serve in office but should turn over their business interests to a blind trust or sell their interests so that no hint of untoward profit would remain.
LOL That’s not just something I made up and tweeted. ~POTUS~
re: #33 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
At least Reagan had a history of serving in an elected office an the executive level. If Trump is nominated, we will see how far things have gone down since then.
Yeah, being Governor of California is the next thing to being POTUS responsibility-wise. He had no business being within a million miles of that position, either. He was absolutely unqualified to hold any governmental job whatsoever.
@TedNugent Says the man who Shit His Pants to Avoid the Draft https://t.co/RuaKsZ0zDr
— (((Trump Dump))) (@dtrumpdump) July 5, 2016
“Unless you’re a native American, somebody brought you here.”
re: #23 Shimshon
RWNJ and BernieBros are hitting all the stages here
Stages of Grief
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. DepressionDuring the fourth stage, the individual despairs at the recognition of their mortality. In this state, the individual may become silent, refuse visitors and spend much of the time mournful and sullen.
And eventually they will move on to stage 5
5. Acceptance
Wingnuts never, ever get past stage 2. Outrage must be maintained and every claim about democrats (or RINO’s), no matter how utterly refuted or proven to be untrue can ever be allowed to die. Hell, my own mother is still claiming Obama went on a groveling apology tour back in his first year in office, despite no evidence of any sort to support the rumor.
re: #42 Aunty Entity Dragon
Yes, the Founders would have had something to say:
Trump is unfit for office, corrupt and a danger to the Republic.
The Founders really didn’t give a shit about sexual impropriety (see Alexander Hamilton and his affair)
They cared a lot about financial corruption and using your office to enrich yourself.Trump and his business practice is anathema to what our Founders thought proper. In fact, the attitude at the time was that successful businessmen had a duty to serve in office but should turn over their business interests to a blind trust or sell their interests so that no hint of untoward profit would remain.
Nugent knows as much about The Founders as I do about biochemical engineering. Which is nothing.
The Obama/Hillary rally feed went out on television. There are severe thunderstorms rolling into Charlotte.
— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) July 5, 2016
Chuck Todd: “Is Obama too good at this?”
Oh for Pete’s sake.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 5, 2016
Satellite feed went down. All stations lost it.
“This is not a reality show. This is not entertainment, this is real.”
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio)
Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.)
Two House Republicans (so far) have called for a new special prosecutor to probe Clinton over emails, again. https://t.co/hiQg5dJAG1
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) July 5, 2016
re: #60 FormerDirtDart
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The GOP will stop investigating the Clintons several years after they’re both cold and in the dirt.
re: #63 Dr. Matt
Obama is slaying. This IS too easy for him.
Yes but ex-congressman deadbeat Joe Walsh says people only voted for Obama because he was black.
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re: #60 FormerDirtDart
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Jesus, you’d think they’d have learned by now.
re: #66 Blind Frog Belly White
Jesus, you’d think they’d have learned by now.
What else can they do, though. Trump is their candidate.
re: #66 Blind Frog Belly White
Jesus, you’d think they’d have learned by now.
Learning is a fact-based process. This is instinctual, unthinking, reflexive.
re: #66 Blind Frog Belly White
Jesus, you’d think they’d have learned by now.
They have. They learned that investigating the Clintons is a great fund raising tool.
re: #64 Testy Toad T
The GOP will stop investigating the Clintons several years after they’re both cold and in the dirt.
WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT CHELSEA KNEW, AND WHEN SHE KNEW IT
HA GOODMAN is what happens when you allow a Juggalo to snort bath salts after midnight.
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) July 5, 2016
This week, @HillaryClinton is campaigning with @potus behind her. Trump’s party is trying to keep him from going full anti-Semite @TUSK81
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 5, 2016
Oh, and speaking of anti-Semites, blocked yet another dumbass who thinks I need to be taught what a star of David is. This winner’s name is TheLastFuhrer (killarytheliar). Cute. Instablock enabled.
Easy to forget how good Obama is on the stump — a generational talent
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 5, 2016
re: #66 Blind Frog Belly White
Jesus, you’d think they’d have learned by now.
Every RWNJ online today is having some form of “TREASON! ELEVENTY!” meltdown, so of course the GOP obsession going forward will be trying to find a reason to impeach Hillary over the same emails that the FBI just cleared her over.
We’re going to hear about these emails for the entirety of Hillary’s presidency. The GOP have found their new Benghazi/Whitewater crusade.
re: #65 Sir John Barron
Yes but ex-congressman deadbeat Joe Walsh says people only voted for Obama because he was black.
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Ya know, no matter what the reason was for Obama’s FIRST victory, he was President for 4 years before being RE-elected.
By contrast, Walsh narrowly won election during a wave year, and after two years on the job, the voters ditched him.
Ohhhhh God, Brian Williams just said Obama had a “Richard Pryor-like delivery”
— Allison Kilkenny (@allisonkilkenny) July 5, 2016
O-o
Now it is time to call for an investigation into FBI investigative practices…anything to keep this dead cockroach twitching…
What a speech! And guess what the CBS talking heads’ first comment was? She was talking at a podium that had the Presidential Seal on it. That’s RARELY done.
OUTRAGE!!!!!!11
re: #72 lawhawk
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Last week, Donald Trump campaigned with a wall of trash behind him.
A little respect please—those were all the cans tRump collected to finance his campaign.
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No. He’s fucking evil.
Brian Williams: “Now, let’s talk to Hugh Hewitt.”
[CLICK]— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 5, 2016
re: #82 GlutenFreeJesus
No. He’s fucking evil.
He was Private Citizen Evil, it is the GOP who want to turn him into (literally) Weapons-Grade Evil
re: #49 Sir John Barron
Nugent knows as much about The Founders as I do about biochemical engineering. Which is nothing.
I actually do study colonial history, and I have been reading quite a bit on social history at the time.
Sexual prudishness was not particularly in fashion outside of sternly Anglican New England. Men of substance had their affairs, and working men (cooperers, stevedores, apprentices etc) all visited the local whorehouses.
Financial impropriety was something else altogether. It was considered an attack on the underpinnings of government (and rightly so) whereas sexual matters were between you and your wife to argue over.
Now, when you move into the early Federalist period you saw attitudes change as one of the Great Religious Awakenings took hold, which is how Andrew Jackson was hit with charges of bigamy when he married Rachel Donelson supposedly before her earlier divorce proceedings from Lewis Robards were complete.
I strongly doubt this would have received as much attention in 1775.
re: #72 lawhawk
Hillary Clinton is campaigning with a sitting President…
Donald Trump is campaigning with Newt Gingrich…
Hugh Hewitt: She was not indicted but she was convicted. She was reckless with the national security…and she lied, lied, lied.
re: #33 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
At least Reagan had a history of serving in an elected office an the executive level. If Trump is nominated, we will see how far things have gone down since then.
Reagan was decent at times. The original Log Cabin Republicans were formed partly out of gratitude to then-Governor Reagan for his help in defeating some fundy-sponsored homophobe legislation. Reagan only went completely off the rails when he ran for President and decided to double down on the Southern Strategy and add evangelicals to give it a figleaf of moral standing.
The blind sheep are soullessly mindlessly grazing in the vapor trail of evil
— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) July 5, 2016
Wang dang, what a sweet poontang,
a shakin’ my thang as a rang-a-dang-dang in the bell.
She’s so sweet when she yanks on my meat.
Down on the street you know she can’t be beat. What the hell.
David Duke on Twitter talking about Hillary and “Zio-money”.
This guy….
re: #72 lawhawk
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Oh, and speaking of anti-Semites, blocked yet another dumbass who thinks I need to be taught what a star of David is. This winner’s name is TheLastFuhrer (killarytheliar). Cute. Instablock enabled.
The Nazi boys are busy today. I got a couple of them so upset they tried to report me over The Atlantic.
hehehehehehehehehe
That would be Little Green Footballs . Charles Johnson , Gay Liberal .@asdevaul @Green_Footballs
— Bitter Klinger (@KlingerBitter) July 5, 2016
SMOTI was watching the Bizarro Universe Clinton rally==>
Uh-Uh-Uh… Obama Turns Into Stuttering Mess Again While Talking About Trump in North Carolina (VIDEO) https://t.co/ezEno5clJJ @gatewaypundit
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) July 5, 2016
re: #89 gocart mozart
The blind sheep are soullessly mindlessly grazing in the vapor trail of evil
— Ted Nugent
LOL
re: #88 Shiplord Kirel
Reagan was decent at times. The original Log Cabin Republicans were formed partly out of gratitude to then-Governor Reagan for his help in defeating some fundy-sponsored homophobe legislation. Reagan only went completely off the rails when he ran for President and decided to double down on the Southern Strategy and add evangelicals to give it a figleaf of moral standing.
He said some things I could agree with, like “The best social program you can offer someone is a job.” But then went on to cut federal job-training programs…
re: #82 GlutenFreeJesus
No. He’s fucking evil.
Trump is by far the most evil major US political figure in my lifetime.
The Republican party has degenerated to the point where Trump and Trumpist imitators are simply what’s to be expected, so the GOP as a whole is evil.
It isn’t hard to see how this happened. It started with the southern strategy, and expanded over time to where the GOP establishment gave up any pretense of caring about governance in favor of stoking bigoted resentments in their base.
re: #89 gocart mozart
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Wang dang, what a sweet poontang,
a shakin’ my thang as a rang-a-dang-dang in the bell.She’s so sweet when she yanks on my meat.
Down on the street you know she can’t be beat. What the hell.
I think he’s just testing all the letters, you know, like “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”?
@TedNugent
— gocart mozart (@gocartmozart1) July 5, 2016
The creamy Nugent sheep dippers are wang danging to the sweet poontang of the trump humpers
re: #87 ObserverArt
Hugh Hewitt: She was not indicted but she was convicted. She was reckless with the national security…and she lied, lied, lied.
Every time I see that strained, tight skinned botox smirk on Hewitt’s face I think of some obsequious toady giving messages to an inquisitor in 17th century Saxony or some such.
lolwut? Nobody will ever replace Jim Hoft as the SMOTI. Nobody. https://t.co/15scBaJeAw @gatewaypundit
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 5, 2016
re: #94 The Vicious Babushka
Since he came out and keeps insisting on siding with conservatives, I honestly feel nothing but pity for Hoft. He’s either too stupid or too co-dependnent to realize he’s basically hitched his entire identity with a group of homophobes who unambiguously have stated they consider LGBT people neither American nor human.
re: #97 EPR-radar
Trump is by far the most evil major US political figure in my lifetime.
Both Cruz and Walker were pretty evil candidates too. Walker was too dumb to be effective, but what he’s done to Wisconsin (with his henchmen in the legislature) is incredibly evil and ugly. Cruz managed to put it all on display. If Trump wasn’t around, Cruz might have qualified as the most evil major player.
re: #65 Sir John Barron
Yes but ex-congressman deadbeat Joe Walsh says people only voted for Obama because he was black.
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And because we wanted free stuff. I’m still waiting for my free stuff.
re: #102 Mattand
Since he came out and keeps insisting on siding with conservatives, I honestly feel nothing but pity for Hoft. He’s either too stupid or too co-dependnent to realize he’s basically hitched his entire identity with a group of homophobes who unambiguously have stated they consider LGBT people neither American nor human.
I have a good friend who is GLBT and absolutely cannot leave the GOP for whatever reason.
re: #104 Dr. Matt
And because we wanted free stuff. I’m still waiting for my free stuff.
I could use an Obamaphone
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A Silicon Valley startup has invented a security Dalek https://t.co/CYBGj0Xt4p pic.twitter.com/hlVXUj8q5o
— Elliot Njus (@enjus) July 5, 2016
@enjus Validate. Validate. VALIDATE
— FormerDirtDart (@FormerDirtDart) July 5, 2016
re: #89 gocart mozart
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Wang dang, what a sweet poontang,
a shakin’ my thang as a rang-a-dang-dang in the bell.She’s so sweet when she yanks on my meat.
Down on the street you know she can’t be beat. What the hell.
Well, they bought his albums and went to his concerts. Chickens do come home to roost.
re: #87 ObserverArt
Hugh Hewitt: She was not indicted but she was convicted. She was reckless with the national security…and she lied, lied, lied.
Convicted in the world of wingnut media.
re: #102 Mattand
Since he came out and keeps insisting on siding with conservatives, I honestly feel nothing but pity for Hoft. He’s either too stupid or too co-dependnent to realize he’s basically hitched his entire identity with a group of homophobes who unambiguously have stated they consider LGBT people neither American nor human.
I have a buddy like that…we used to hang out a lot in college, he came out some years later…I remember him phoning in November of 2012 to gloat over Obama’s imminent defeat. I guess he did a full Karl Rove when the Ohio results came in. But he is now insisting that Trump has coherent policies.
I really don’t know how much of this he believes and how much of it just his way of getting a rise out of me…
re: #107 FormerDirtDart
Who thought that was good idea? Now we need an A-10.
On the other hand, it shows how big Doctor Who has gotten in the US. Instead of being called R2-D2, it was called a Dalek.
re: #97 EPR-radar
Trump is by far the most evil major US political figure in my lifetime.
The Republican party has degenerated to the point where Trump and Trumpist imitators are simply what’s to be expected, so the GOP as a whole is evil.
It isn’t hard to see how this happened. It started with the southern strategy, and expanded over time to where the GOP establishment gave up any pretense of caring about governance in favor of stoking bigoted resentments in their base.
I’ve seen the word ‘evil’ used so much - generally by the Right to describe practically anything they hate - that I avoid it, mostly. I reserve it for the intentional infliction of unnecessary suffering, solely for one’s own pleasure or benefit.
Viewed this way, Trump is more dangerous than evil, because he doesn’t really care about the effects of the demons he’s raising, beyond their ability to get him votes. He’s happy to appeal to the worst in white Americans and to inflame their bigotry if it gets him votes. If innocent people suffer, he doesn’t care.
I don’t even think he believes a lot of what he says. He apparently, in his unscripted speeches, basically goes where the audience leads. That is, he starts talking and listens to what gets applause, then he goes there. It’s no wonder his supporters say he says what they’ve been thinking. They’re absolutely right.
re: #105 Aunty Entity Dragon
I have a good friend who is GLBT and absolutely cannot leave the GOP for whatever reason.
Partisan attachments can be very hard to leave behind.
re: #106 Aunty Entity Dragon
I could use an Obamaphone
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I’m waiting for an Obamaphone with a Richard Pryor delivery.
re: #113 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Eww.
re: #87 ObserverArt
Hugh Hewitt: She was not indicted but she was convicted. She was reckless with the national security…and she lied, lied, lied.
Hugh, if I recall, had a brush with sanity not too long ago. Back to lying.
re: #105 Aunty Entity Dragon
I have a good friend who is GLBT and absolutely cannot leave the GOP for whatever reason.
That really is beyond comprehension. Hard core Republicans want women to be barefoot and pregnant, blacks enslaved again on plantations, and gays exterminated.
re: #112 Blind Frog Belly White
It makes me nauseous to even say this, but I think Ted Cruz was right about one thing. Donald Trump is amoral. I believe that Ted Cruz has a moral structure with which I completely disagree and think is dangerous and cruel. Donald Trump thinks morals and ethics are a nuisance and that is why he is conducting an entire presidential campaign in bad faith.
If you listen carefully to today’s rally, you can just hear the last strains of a Bernie endorsement fade into utter irrelevancy. #ImwithHer
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 5, 2016
re: #118 EPR-radar
That really is beyond comprehension. Hard core Republicans want women to be barefoot and pregnant, blacks enslaved again on plantations, and gays exterminated.
If the GOP were not so heavily in the thrall of the fundies, then gays cold be a key constituency. They tend to earn better (not having education and careers sidelined by raising a family), have fewer dependent and mortgage deductions as they do not buy big homes (for raising kids) in expensive neighborhoods (with good schools to send kids to), so they are interested in lower overall tax rates.
But the GOP insists that they are an abdomination unto the Lord, and well, Leviticus 18:22 and all that…
re: #112 Blind Frog Belly White
I’ve seen the word ‘evil’ used so much - generally by the Right to describe practically anything they hate - that I avoid it, mostly. I reserve it for the intentional infliction of unnecessary suffering, solely for one’s own pleasure or benefit.
Viewed this way, Trump is more dangerous than evil, because he doesn’t really care about the effects of the demons he’s raising, beyond their ability to get him votes. He’s happy to appeal to the worst in white Americans and to inflame their bigotry if it gets him votes. If innocent people suffer, he doesn’t care.
I don’t even think he believes a lot of what he says. He apparently, in his unscripted speeches, basically goes where the audience leads. That is, he starts talking and listens to what gets applause, then he goes there. It’s no wonder his supporters say he says what they’ve been thinking. They’re absolutely right.
I also try to be sparing in my use of the term “evil”. In the case of Trump and the Republicans, I believe it fits.
The cornerstone of Trump’s campaign is scapegoating others for political purposes. Just like the Nazis did in Weimar Germany when they still needed to do well in elections.
As you aptly say above, Trump is summoning demons, and once that fact is established, I don’t care whether Trump is a true believer or merely an opportunist.
re: #119 InfidelOfFreedom
It makes me nauseous to even say this, but I think Ted Cruz was right about one thing. Donald Trump is amoral. I believe that Ted Cruz has a moral structure with which I completely disagree and think is dangerous and cruel. Donald Trump thinks morals and ethics are a nuisance and that is why he is conducting an entire presidential campaign in bad faith.
Oh, definitely. Trump is all about, and ONLY about Trump. Cruz was happy to Lie For Christ, but at least there is a belief system there. Trump will say anything if it benefits Trump. Anything. And all for short term benefit.
re: #76 jaunte
Brian Williams just said Obama had a “Richard Pryor-like delivery
I’ve said it before - when he gets his joke on, he often sounds like the young Bill Cosby.
re: #47 Aunty Entity Dragon
Wingnuts never, ever get past stage 2. Outrage must be maintained and every claim about democrats (or RINO’s), no matter how utterly refuted or proven to be untrue can ever be allowed to die. Hell, my own mother is still claiming Obama went on a groveling apology tour back in his first year in office, despite no evidence of any sort to support the rumor.
Many of them do. They will tell themselves things I’ve read online already, like “laws are for little people” or “both parties are equally bad” and then move on to something else. They will have to be told what to be outraged about by the end of the week though, this grief over emails cannot last longer than a few days. I am sure someone will start in with what the new scandal should be, probably something about the Clinton Foundation and back to the money she received from speeches.
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If the GOP were not so heavily in the thrall of the fundies, then gays cold be a key constituency. They tend to earn better (not having education and careers sidelined by raising a family), have fewer family deductions and do not buy big homes (for raising kids) in expensive neighborhoods (with good schools to send kids to), so they are interested in lower taxes.
But the GOP insists that they are an abdomination unto the Lord, and well, Leviticus 18:22 and all that…
This may be true… But unfortunately the reason many gay couples do not have children is because Republicans and the Christian Right have fought cruelly against their right to adopt or gain custody rights, and the law has not protected their rights as parents.
re: #122 EPR-radar
I also try to be sparing in my use of the term “evil”. In the case of Trump and the Republicans, I believe it fits.
The cornerstone of Trump’s campaign is scapegoating others for political purposes. Just like the Nazis did in Weimar Germany when they still needed to do well in elections.
As you aptly say above, Trump is summoning demons, and once that fact is established, I don’t care whether Trump is a true believer or merely an opportunist.
The thing that always gets me, and I suppose this is true of Nazi Germany as well, is that evil is often done, or at least supported, by people who see themselves not as bad people, but rather as good. It’s the sweet grandmother who holds the most vile racist beliefs, or the friend who’ll give you the shirt off his back but thinks all Muslims are terrorists and should be deported.
re: #126 InfidelOfFreedom
This may be true… But unfortunately the reason many gay couples do not have children is because Republicans and the Christian Right have fought cruelly against their right to adopt or gain custody rights, and the law has not protected their rights as parents.
Because that is the Word of the Lord.
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re: #112 Blind Frog Belly White
I’ve seen the word ‘evil’ used so much - generally by the Right to describe practically anything they hate - that I avoid it, mostly. I reserve it for the intentional infliction of unnecessary suffering, solely for one’s own pleasure or benefit.
…
According to this definition, voting Republican would seem to often qualify as evil. /half
Trump is not ready for Obama in campaign mode. He’s not. pic.twitter.com/y8vvcCIj76
— Alan Kestrel (@AlanKestrel750) July 5, 2016
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump is not ready for anything, except for broadcasting the latest batch of ripe nuggets he retrieves from his own colon with his teeth.
Chuck Todd right now showing us again how to fail upwards in the DC talking head business, I see.
The Trump Nazi propaganda thing is already being drowned out by
The FBI delivered a blistering attack to her campaign today!!!!!!!!
I am beginning to think the Beltway talking head operating paradigm simply does not allow for how to treat somebody like Trump when he spews Nazi propaganda, so they simply move back to familiar territory and tell us somebody said some bad shit about Clinton.
By the by, TPM reporting that a former DoJ spokesmen say FBI Director Comey seriously violated department protocol by delivering that news conference.
You don’t say!
Some Bernie Sanders supporters are unhappy about the FBI’s decision on Hillary Clinton https://t.co/ARegX6nYrl pic.twitter.com/cqkb5fcDBL
— CNN (@CNN) July 5, 2016
But is it “lied about aluminum tubes in order to start a war” horrible? You know, on a scale of 1 to 4,500 dead GI’s https://t.co/ahwt3o7uyb
— TBogg (@tbogg) July 5, 2016
re: #134 FormerDirtDart
You don’t say!
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Real sense of team spirit, hoping a leader of your (lol) party faces jail time.
re: #134 FormerDirtDart
You don’t say!
More experts on email systems and classified information, I see.
@AriFleischer You are a much more experienced liar.https://t.co/6z1IrJKP4D
— gocart mozart (@gocartmozart1) July 5, 2016
re: #139 gocart mozart
It’s a day ending in ‘y’, so I don’t really give a fuck what Ari Fleischer has to say.
This is how @HAGOODMANAUTHOR spent his afternoon. #ClintonEmails #ButtHurt #FeelTheBurnForReal pic.twitter.com/1XzFU8etIt
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) July 5, 2016
re: #113 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Nashville:
Metro police find theft suspect in bed with stolen lingerie store mannequin
Did he look like this?:
re: #141 Dr. Matt
H. A. Goodman for the last 3 hours.
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Wonkette consoles HAHAGoodmanauthor:
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Except Not
H.A. Goodman, We Are Sorry For Your Loss
re: #89 gocart mozart
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Wang dang, what a sweet poontang,
a shakin’ my thang as a rang-a-dang-dang in the bell.She’s so sweet when she yanks on my meat.
Down on the street you know she can’t be beat. What the hell.
@TedNugent Are they Following you? Poor sheeple! Never follow a pedophilic, draft-dodging pants-shitting evil doer!
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 5, 2016
re: #143 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Wonkette consoles HAHAGoodmanauthor:
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Except Not
H.A. Goodman, We Are Sorry For Your Loss
OMG. I am watching his video right now. What.a.fucking.tool.bag
re: #86 FormerDirtDart
Hillary Clinton is campaigning with a sitting President…
Donald Trump is campaigning with Newt Gingrich…
Newt—who won TWO whole states in the 2012 primary—South Carolina and Georgia. Yeah—what an inspiring addition to the GOOPer ticket—go for it, Donald!!
I particularly love this little note.
On April 10, Santorum suspended his campaign, and Gingrich, claiming that he was the “last true conservative” still in the race, announced that he was relocating all his resources and time to Delaware, believing that a win there on April 24 would be a game-changer and would lead him on a path to prevent Romney from clinching the nomination during the primary season…
On April 24, Gingrich placed third in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York, Fourth in Pennsylvania, and a distant second in Delaware.
That Trump’s efforts to mobilize white nationalism as a force in American politics has inadvertently also mobilized anti-Semitism does not come as a surprise to either white nationalists or Jews.
i wonder what ivanka and jared think of this star of david cockup
re: #89 gocart mozart
Wango wango, tango tango
Wango wango, tango tango
Wango wango wango wango
Tango tango tango tango
The man is a fucking genius.
Crap. The blister I managed to burst during the hike in may be trying to get infected. :(
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks state of Kansas from cutting off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 5, 2016
My final thoughts on Donald Trump’s anti-semitic tweet, as an employee of the Observer. https://t.co/oLDNcrhwNp
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) July 5, 2016
This is what standing up to power looks like. Solid badassery on display here. https://t.co/74Ynxd0p98
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) July 5, 2016
good freaking grief…
.@joewebbwkrc takes you inside the new Ark Encounter! https://t.co/fXtUjFAWmJ pic.twitter.com/ppM2cGUbdR
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) July 5, 2016
I see a pattern
A map of every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003 #Iraq #Baghdad pic.twitter.com/aLlwhC0WeJ
— Reza H. Akbari (@rezahakbari) June 21, 2016
re: #148 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
They aren’t allowed to their opinions. Or else big daddy Trumpbucks will cut them off.
re: #133 Aunty Entity Dragon
Chuck Todd right now showing us again how to fail upwards in the DC talking head business, I see.
The Trump Nazi propaganda thing is already being drowned out by
The FBI delivered a blistering attack to her campaign today!!!!!!!!I am beginning to think the Beltway talking head operating paradigm simply does not allow for how to treat somebody like Trump when he spews Nazi propaganda, so they simply move back to familiar territory and tell us somebody said some bad shit about Clinton.
By the by, TPM reporting that a former DoJ spokesmen say FBI Director Comey seriously violated department protocol by delivering that news conference.
and the re-work:
Somehow I doubt this poll will get much attention today, compared to NBC and Morning Consult- Ipsos/ Reuters now have Hillary ahead by 13% among likely voters, and (very slightly) ahead among white likely voters.
re: #151 FormerDirtDart
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The hits just keep coming for the “barefoot and pregnant” crowd. Too bad, so sad.
Casual reminder left for press covering Trump today… pic.twitter.com/5HPZbsRaz9
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) July 5, 2016
Love Barack and Hillary as friends and partners rather than opponents (this brings up memories ;).
re: #163 Nyet
Love Barack and Hillary as friends and partners rather than opponents (this brings up memories ;).
Also: nice to see a diverse crowd.
re: #124 makeitstop
I’ve said it before - when he gets his joke on, he often sounds like the young Bill Cosby.
That teacher explaining something cadence. Both were teachers at one time anyway.
Just woke up from my nap to find out that the FBI did exactly what I was expecting, raking Hillary over the coals but stopping just short of recommending charges. Now the GOP’s in a bind, they spent too much time putting emphasis on how great a guy Comey was and how he wasn’t going to give into politics to accuse him of giving in to politics.
I thought I have seen insufferable gas bags before.
I was wrong.
I did not know of H.A. Goodman.
Congrats H.A. You win!
But I know I need not tell you as you are well aware of your own awesomeness. You hereby declare yourself untouchable by mere mortals.
re: #167 ObserverArt
I thought I have seen insufferable gas bags before.
I was wrong.
I did not know of H.A. Goodman.
Congrats H.A. You win!
But I know I need not tell you as you are well aware of your own awesomeness. You hereby declare yourself untouchable by mere mortals.
Salon and the Huffington Post have quite the stable of these guys. Look up Seth Abramson’s ever-more-deranged explanations of how Sanders was REALLY winning, or Walker Bragman’s belief that giving Trump the WH for four years is no biggie.
Trump pledging to launch “the largest, earliest, and most diverse ground operation in California history.” https://t.co/bA6oREPxsA
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) July 5, 2016
“Just what the TLI [Trump Leadership Initiative Fellowship Program] actually is, is not entirely clear. It is described as “an extensive training workshop to equip Trump Fellows with the skills needed to work as professional field organizers.” Those fellows “will be trained and experienced in grassroots organizing, field operations, cutting-edge campaign technology, messaging & communications, and engaging in voter contact.”
“It’s like a Trump University for field organizers.”
re: #170 jaunte
Trump’s ‘campaign’ is thinking of putting some of its scarce resources into California?
Please proceed, Mr. Vulgar Talking Yam.
re: #168 Dr. Matt
Fox’s Chris Stirewalt Suggests Donald Trump’s Daughter Ivanka For His VP Pick
I would not be all that surprised if the GOOPer convention stage is designed to look like the boardroom on the Apprentice.
re: #167 ObserverArt
Obama: “I I uh uh uh I uh uh racism”
Crowd: “👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 OMG OMG 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Obamaaaaa”
I can’t fcn believe I used to support this guy#1776Trump— Jared Wyand (@JaredWyand) July 5, 2016
Trump Talking Yam Leadership Initiative Golden Fellowship Institute Program
re: #173 EPR-radar
Trump’s ‘campaign’ is thinking of putting some of its scarce resources into California?
Please proceed, Mr. Vulgar Talking Yam.
In theory, that might make sense for a candidate who’s dead meat nationally and statewide but still popular regionally to campaign in Republican districts to try to save Darrell Issa or David Valadao or the other GOP congresscritters in the state. In practice… you can guess how well I think that will work.
re: #174 BeachDem
I would not be all that surprised if the GOOPer convention stage is designed to look like the boardroom on the Apprentice.
I was hoping it would be Vegas themed.
re: #177 Brian J.
In theory, that might make sense for a candidate who’s dead meat nationally and statewide but still popular regionally to campaign in Republican districts to try to save Darrell Issa or David Valadao or the other GOP congresscritters in the state. In practice… you can guess how well I think that will work.
I can’t see The Vulgar Talking Yam stumping for Republicans in down-ticket races.
re: #178 BeachDem
It’s about a year late for the Trump campaign to be training field organizers.
That’s more than once a week. @NationalMemo @jjmacnab
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 5, 2016
“All of this could have been prevented if you had listened to me…”
Rand Paul on today’s news https://t.co/sXX6dY0XKU pic.twitter.com/nz9WZ1s1Bf
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) July 5, 2016
re: #170 jaunte
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“It’s like a Trump University for field organizers.”
Last Field Poll had him losing to Clinton by 19 points, with 13% undecided (of that 13% undecided, 80% of them were Independents and Republicans). He’s got such a great business mind… I can’t wait until October 20th when his campaign files for bankruptcy.
More Cruz on FBI decision: Comey “has rewritten a clearly worded” law, and “I very much hope that politicization has not … corrupted” FBI
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) July 5, 2016
re: #182 jaunte
I’ll bet the Trump campaign assumed that the Republican Party would just give them a list of names and they would magically have an army of field organizers.
I’m actually surprised I haven’t gotten more Hillary hate on my FB feed over this nothingburger. Everyone’s been pretty quiet for me so far today.
re: #190 thedopefishlives
I think Twitter is the venue of the day.
So, the RNC hatefest will be in two weeks and their website (convention.gop) looks basically like a shell. Nothing about the Speakers, the platform, or even Donald Trump. Ouch.
So I’m in the Trump event in Raleigh, NC. Stood in line listening to a couple talk about anyone who doesn’t speak English being unpatriotic.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 5, 2016
Woman just screamed UNDER GOD during pledge
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 5, 2016
Crowd booing FBI soundly
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 5, 2016
re: #191 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
I think Twitter is the venue of the day.
Thank God I don’t Twitter. I’d either be in jail for assault/murder, or be in the morgue from my heart asploding.
So I suppose now we wait for that mass exodus of FBI agents we were assured would be coming when the FBI didn’t indict Hillary. Surely one of them will have the inside scoop.
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re: #177 Brian J.
In theory, that might make sense for a candidate who’s dead meat nationally and statewide but still popular regionally to campaign in Republican districts to try to save Darrell Issa or David Valadao or the other GOP congresscritters in the state. In practice… you can guess how well I think that will be.
Except Trump isn’t popular in California. That Field Poll I linked to? He had a 60% favorable rating AMONG CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS. The statewide registration is 45/27/23 D/R/I. You can pretty much guarantee that his favorable ratings for Democrats and Independents is in the toilet if he can only get 3 of 5 Republicans to like him.
re: #175 Nyet
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Here’s a recent tweet of his everyone can report for targeted harassment.
Get me a name for @younggwhite. Attack him relentlessly on here.
People who attack our military need to be exposed pic.twitter.com/gm8MBLl4X7— Jared Wyand (@JaredWyand) July 5, 2016
re: #170 jaunte
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“It’s like a Trump University for field organizers.”
Another thing for Rage Furby’s resume.
Bet the “fellows” have to pay for the privilege…
re: #184 Testy Toad T
Keep your head down. Radar up your way is ugly looking.
Eh, what’s a guy to do? Sometimes you just have to lean into the wind and keep pressing on.
Oh, you meant the actual weather.
re: #185 FormerDirtDart
“All of this could have been prevented if you had listened to me…”
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And it didn’t have a damned thing to do with Comey’s qualifications.
It was just Rand Paul stamping his tiny feet and saying NO!!!111!!!!
@JaredWyand
— gocart mozart (@gocartmozart1) July 5, 2016
I can’t fucking believe you are sentient enough to remember to breathe.
re: #202 gocart mozart
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Honestly it’s better to just report him. When you reply to shit like that you tip the person off that their tweet has been noticed, giving them opportunity to delete it before Twitter can suspend their account.
re: #170 jaunte
Trump pledging to launch “the largest, earliest, and most diverse ground operation in California history.”
Please proceed, gruppenfuhrer.
THEY ARE NOT RACIST NO SIR.
@JaredWyand @ChristiChat Not me, always new he was worthless pimp! #Trump pic.twitter.com/dDfdmyOrmq
— Eddie Munst (@eddieM1313) July 5, 2016
@thejoshuablog @Shoq pic.twitter.com/VNdH5vuT0M
— lvdjgarcia (@lvdjgarcia) July 5, 2016
I’m going to pat myself on the back and shamelessly promote my page on the Putin-Trump bromance which has racked up nearly 3,000 views today. Bam!
re: #206 gocart mozart
I like it. That Trump person would twist that paperclip into a ball.
My facebook is filled with lots of “The FBI is afraid of Hillary because everyone who goes against her winds up dead” crap.
The conspiracy theorists are utterly mainstream now.
re: #207 Big Beautiful Door
And you just got a positive upding from me. :)
re: #207 Big Beautiful Door
I’m going to pat myself on the back and shamelessly promote my page on the Putin-Trump bromance which has racked up nearly 3,000 views today. Bam!
Thank you.
re: #195 Targetpractice
So I suppose now we wait for that mass exodus of FBI agents we were assured would be coming when the FBI didn’t indict Hillary. Surely one of them will have the inside scoop.
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I eagerly await the new Michael Bay movie 13 Pages
The trajectory of Juno! pic.twitter.com/gLNQFFbYQc
— Science GIFs (@Learn_Things) July 5, 2016
re: #64 Testy Toad T
The GOP will stop investigating the Clintons several years after they’re both cold and in the dirt.
My wet dream is that the GOP makes some mistake which attracts the attention of the authorities, both nationally and internationally, so much so that when they will see what they put the Clintons through, they’d say “they had it easy”.
America’s deadliest prosecutors: five lawyers, 440 death sentences
As the Harvard team points out, as soon as Holmes retired, the number of death sentences secured in Harris County plummeted from an average of 12 a year during his heyday to just one a year now. That suggests that capital punishment in America is what the authors call a “personality-driven system”.
What Trump is attempting here makes Sisyphus’ task seem practicable by comparison. I welcome his waste of resources. https://t.co/8hMJkQKM7R
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) July 5, 2016
.@Reince Preibus on CNN, says the Trump campaign “fixed” the issue with that antisemitic tweet. Yeah, right. Until the next time it happens.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 5, 2016
.@Reince also blatantly lied & said the Trump campaign created the tweet themselves, didn’t mention they stole it from a racist antisemite.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 5, 2016
Basically, @Reince just played dumb about the whole thing, his usual schtick. “I KNOW NOTHING!”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 5, 2016
And here comes the promised storm. Thankfully, not a shitstorm, a real thunderstorm. If I disappear, I promise the local right-wing nutjobs didn’t haul me off into a FEMA camp.
re: #219 thedopefishlives
And here comes the promised storm. Thankfully, not a shitstorm, a real thunderstorm. If I disappear, I promise the local right-wing nutjobs didn’t haul me off into the a FEMA camp.
Some people hog all the good weather.
re: #92 Aunty Entity Dragon
The Nazi boys are busy today. I got a couple of them so upset they tried to report me over The Atlantic.
hehehehehehehehehe
I finally found the old butthurt level alert system which is absolutely perfect for today:
This is what is coming to Philly. weather.gov
::: blows into pitch pipe (middle C) :::
Were havin’ a heat wave a tropical heat wave the temps arisin’ not surprisin’ we are having a heat wave.
re: #124 makeitstop
I’ve said it before - when he gets his joke on, he often sounds like the young Bill Cosby.
Bill Cosby? Did you have to go there?
re: #222 PhillyPretzel
This is what is coming to Philly. weather.gov
::: blows into pitch pipe (middle C) :::
Were havin’ a heat wave a tropical heat wave the temps arisin’ not surprisin’ we are having a heat wave.
Well, it’s a July afternoon here in South City, so it’s probably about 60 degrees with 10-15 knots of wind out of the West as the fog creeps around Mount San Bruno.
This forecast will be good for the next two months.
re: #153 goddamnedfrank
Jared Kushner responds to article in Observer (via publicist). H/T @shushwalshe pic.twitter.com/yuBr9DCfEo
— Alana Abramson (@aabramson) July 5, 2016
Trump son-in-law’s response to Dana Schwartz’s article is some seriously anemic weaksauce. Totally low energy. Sad! https://t.co/rTVTxTZkhR
— Putain Démocratique (@goddamnedfrank) July 5, 2016
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
That is good. I would like that forecast but the heat warning is what I am getting. :/
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, it’s a July afternoon here in South City, so it’s probably about 60 degrees with 10-15 knots of wind out of the West as the fog creeps around Mount San Bruno.
This forecast will be good for the next two months.
Fucking California.
My final thoughts on Donald Trump’s anti-semitic tweet, as an employee of the Observer. https://t.co/oLDNcrhwNp
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) July 5, 2016
Full statement from Jared Kushner in response to this Observer article: https://t.co/GwAFkImdkm pic.twitter.com/aX8UAqhgKr
— Shushannah Walshe (@shushwalshe) July 5, 2016
re: #228 Charles Johnson
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Weak. He couldn’t comment on the sick tweets she embedded in the letter?
re: #216 Decatur Deb
This is very interesting reporting. I had not previously realized the disproportionate effect of a relatively small number of bloodthirsty prosecutors on US death penalty cases.
re: #229 Stanley Sea
Weak. He couldn’t comment on the sick tweets she embedded in the letter?
“He’s totally not antisemitic! I’m a Jew, and I’m one of his best friends!”
A Brief History of X
1) The unknown
2) The X-axis
3) X-rays
4) X-rated
5) Malcolm X
6) X-Men
7) XTC
8) The X-Files
7) Generation X
8) XOXO— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) July 5, 2016
I think he’s in PDX [Portland, OR].
.@DonaldJTrumpJr just liked a tweet by a fairly prominent alt-right twitter account pic.twitter.com/b9Qz83VP6r
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) July 5, 2016
re: #233 Charles Johnson
Donald’s such a good influence.
He didn’t just like that tweet - he’s following this white supremacist and several others as well. @RosieGray @DonaldJTrumpJr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 5, 2016
re: #233 Charles Johnson
They are gonna be SO SURPRISED to find out that they don’t have all the guns.
And, the rest of us who do have them, actually know how to use them.
SPOILER: We don’t walk around in the grocery store showing them off or post pictures of ourselves with teh precious on social media.
re: #225 goddamnedfrank
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re: #34 Interesting Times
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re: #223 Big Beautiful Door
Bill Cosby? Did you have to go there?
Hey, his comedy albums were really good.
And I’m not implying anything except he sounds like Cosby did on those albums.
re: #225 goddamnedfrank
@aabramson @shushwalshe sounds just like “he was quiet. Kept to himself. Never caused trouble.” when neighbors talk about mass a killer.
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) July 5, 2016
This is creepy as fuck==>
Let’s make “Pops” Great Again!@realDonaldTrump @DanScavino @RogerJStoneJr #tcot pic.twitter.com/bZriAivxj4
— MarkM (@mmeans68) July 5, 2016
re: #243 The Vicious Babushka
This is creepy as fuck==>
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you could make a horror movie with that thing
re: #244 b.d.
you could make a horror movie with that thing
The doll with the bizarre proportions is harmless. The real horror show is the GOP campaign of 2016.
Looks like she is doing time #HillaryEmails #ImWither pic.twitter.com/whXDhzZMAZ
— (((Deal Me In))) (@vicsepulveda) July 5, 2016
Trump advisor Stephen Miller addresses the crowd here in Raleigh. Man loudly yells, “Hang that b*tch!” re: Clinton. Smattering of applause.
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) July 5, 2016
re: #233 Charles Johnson
@RosieGray @DonaldJTrumpJr like Furher, like son.
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) July 5, 2016
re: #225 goddamnedfrank
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THAT was Jared Kushner’s response? FFS, “anemic weaksauce” is giving this mealy mumble too much credit by half…
re: #247 Charles Johnson
We’re living in one right now.
@rob0sullivan Here, have an emergency gecko™ pic.twitter.com/t3FPpgxISV
— Sabah Ibrahim (@reina_sabah) July 5, 2016
The GOP convention is going to be a real circus, Roman style, complete with a pseudo-god emperor, bloodthirsty peasants, and gladiatorial combats (though probably not in the arena). The only thing missing will be wild animals, and I would not be too surprised if some tone deaf type brings a captive elephant. I vaguely remember that it has been done before, though not in a good long time.
I actually have a couple of donkeys (well, BLM adoption burros) here at the Conspiracy Compound, but I would never expose these gentle creatures to something as barbarous as a political convention.
So I see this on Politifact:
Based on the evidence available, it seems unlikely that the Trump campaign intended to put out a Star of David image. In fact, the campaign moved to replace the star with a circle when the image gained attention.
Having said that, this seems to be yet another a case of Trump using social media to broadcast material that comes from sources with a history of spreading racism, anti-Semitism or white supremacy. It is unusual to see a presidential campaign operate with such a lack of message discipline.
I bolded what I think is a false assertion.
There is no evidence that these occurrences can be simply chalked up to “lack of … discipline”.
This is especially the case here with Drumpfskind, who has made central to his campaign the villification of the other.
Are we to believe that Drumpfskinds villification of Muslims and Mexicans is just “lack of message discipline” too??
re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth
They are gonna be SO SURPRISED to find out that they don’t have all the guns.
And, the rest of us who do have them, actually know how to use them.SPOILER: We don’t walk around in the grocery store showing them off or post pictures of ourselves with teh precious on social media.
Aw, but his baby is so cute (and so is the child in the carrier)
re: #254 Shiplord Kirel
The GOP convention is going to be a real circus, Roman style, complete with a pseudo-god emperor, bloodthirsty peasants, and gladiatorial combats (though probably not in the arena). The only thing missing will be wild animals, and I would not be too surprised if some tone deaf type brings a captive elephant. I vaguely remember that it has been done before, though not in a good long time.
I actually have a couple of donkeys (well, BLM adoption burros) here at the Conspiracy Compound, but I would never expose these gentle creatures to something as barbarous as a political convention.
I wonder if the networks will change their trend of not covering conventions and cover them gavel to gavel? At least the GOP one?
It could be shock TV like no other.
re: #112 Blind Frog Belly White
I’ve seen the word ‘evil’ used so much - generally by the Right to describe practically anything they hate - that I avoid it, mostly. I reserve it for the intentional infliction of unnecessary suffering, solely for one’s own pleasure or benefit.
Viewed this way, Trump is more dangerous than evil, because he doesn’t really care about the effects of the demons he’s raising, beyond their ability to get him votes. He’s happy to appeal to the worst in white Americans and to inflame their bigotry if it gets him votes. If innocent people suffer, he doesn’t care.
I don’t even think he believes a lot of what he says. He apparently, in his unscripted speeches, basically goes where the audience leads. That is, he starts talking and listens to what gets applause, then he goes there. It’s no wonder his supporters say he says what they’ve been thinking. They’re absolutely right.
Then Donald Trump is evil. At his own rallies he promotes violence. He offered to pay the legal fees of anyone charged with violent acts. He inflames anti-Semitism and xenophobia knowing that will cause violence.
He believes what he says (NYT advert calling for the death penalty for the Central Park Five, wrongfully convicted of rape and released years later).
Evil must be called as evil, despite how conservatives demonise everything liberals do as evil. The word must be taken back from conservatives and properly defined.
And everyone in the GOP who supports evil (Donald Trump) is also evil. And everyone who chooses to stand by and do nothing (magic balance fairy I won’t vote or vote for Jill Stein the racist) turns a blind eye to evil. Every evangelical church endorsing Donald Trump or religious figures such as Kevin Swanson and Franklin Graham need to be called out as supporters of evil too.
re: #254 Shiplord Kirel
The GOP convention is going to be a real circus, Roman style, complete with a pseudo-god emperor, bloodthirsty peasants, and gladiatorial combats (though probably not in the arena). The only thing missing will be wild animals, and I would not be too surprised if some tone deaf type brings a captive elephant. I vaguely remember that it has been done before, though not in a good long time.
I actually have a couple of donkeys (well, BLM adoption burros) here at the Conspiracy Compound, but I would never expose these gentle creatures to something as barbarous as a political convention.
“Silicon Valley” already did the elephant “thang.”
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re: #256 BeachDem
Aw, but his baby is so cute (and so is the child in the carrier)
Doesn’t he know that Kroger is a UNION shop? Consorting with the enemy. Damn RINO.
re: #255 freetoken
So I see this on Politifact:
I bolded what I think is a false assertion.
There is no evidence that these occurrences can be simply chalked up to “lack of … discipline”.
This is especially the case here with Drumpfskind, who has made central to his campaign the villification of the other.
Are we to believe that Drumpfskinds villification of Muslims and Mexicans is just “lack of message discipline” too??
These people seem to think Trump stumbled into the GOP nomination by accident. In reality he executed a well thought out strategy to stoke white racial resentment, otherwise he wouldn’t have defeated 16 other candidates, many of them skilled, experienced politicians. As Rubio would say, and say, and say, Trump knows exactly what he is doing.
re: #256 BeachDem
Nothing like a baby chestplate to deflect enemy bullets.
re: #262 Jenner7
Corker’s speaking now…
CSPAN had somebody holding up a sign blocking out both of their faces.
Trump now bragging about a new poll.
Bill…Plane…She was GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
re: #120 Kragar
If you listen carefully to today’s rally, you can just hear the last strains of a Bernie endorsement fade into utter irrelevancy. #ImwithHer
I do not have a television; did Senator Sanders endorse Secretary Clinton? If so, I personally (your mileage may vary) would not minimise that nor demean his remaining supporters (or former supporters such as me). It does nothing to elevate discourse; whether Sanders was showing bad form in a lack of concession or support in the past, doing those things now are a good thing.
re: #267 Anymouse
I do not have a television; did Senator Sanders endorse Secretary Clinton? If so, I personally (your mileage may vary) would not minimise that nor demean his remaining supporters (or former supporters such as me). It does nothing to elevate discourse; whether Sanders was showing bad form in a lack of concession or support in the past, doing those things now are a good thing.
No, he didn’t.
re: #260 Shiplord Kirel
Doesn’t he know that Kroger is a UNION shop? Consorting with the enemy. Damn RINO.
I know, Kroger presents quite a conundrum for me—supposed to boycott because gunz; supposed to support because union. I split the difference and only go occasionally (when I need a Skyline Chili fix.)
LOL, that sign still blocking Donald’s face.
The WALL!!!!!
So sad he doesn’t have anything new.
Reading notes on the podium.
Your heads will spin!!!!
Trade is so easy, we’ll knock the hell out of ISIS…
Donald really sad that Obama can multi-task.
I love Trump bragging he got more votes in the republican primary the Eisenhower did…you know…when the US population was half what it is now.
re: #256 BeachDem
Aw, but his baby is so cute (and so is the child in the carrier)
He’s got crazy eyes.
re: #269 BeachDem
I know, Kroger presents quite a conundrum for me—supposed to boycott because gunz; supposed to support because union. I split the difference and only go occasionally (when I need a Skyline Chili fix.)
Fred Meyer used to sell guns—40 years ago when I used to inventory them for sure. Now that they’re owned by Kroger they don’t. I don’t think they were a union shop before, now under Kroger they are, but I know it’s a much less pleasant place to work.
Who the hell knows what’s going on, is my point…. /
re: #148 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
That Trump’s efforts to mobilize white nationalism as a force in American politics has inadvertently also mobilized anti-Semitism does not come as a surprise to either white nationalists or Jews.
i wonder what ivanka and jared think of this star of david cockup
They would be protected from any of Trump’s proposals.
re: #277 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Fred Meyer used to sell guns—40 years ago when I used to inventory them for sure. Now that they’re owned by Kroger they don’t. I don’t think they were a union shop before, now under Kroger they are, but I know it’s a much less pleasant place to work.
Who the hell knows what’s going on, is my point…. /
Fred Meyer still sells firearms up here in AK.
re: #279 Cheechako
Fred Meyer still sells firearms up here in AK.
Oh. Well, that’s not surprising, I guess. They might in Eastern Washington, too, come to think of it.
re: #184 Testy Toad T
Keep your head down. Radar up your way is ugly looking.
It is here too:
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re: #255 freetoken
So I see this on Politifact:
I bolded what I think is a false assertion.
There is no evidence that these occurrences can be simply chalked up to “lack of … discipline”.
This is especially the case here with Drumpfskind, who has made central to his campaign the villification of the other.
Are we to believe that Drumpfskinds villification of Muslims and Mexicans is just “lack of message discipline” too??
Is there any way to notify Politifact about the source of the meme and that campaign had to specifically blot out the watermark of the original white supremacist that created it?
re: #192 Dr. Matt
So, the RNC hatefest will be in two weeks and their website (convention.gop) looks basically like a shell. Nothing about the Speakers, the platform, or even Donald Trump. Ouch.
Ha. Not a good sign. Even better is the irony of the top graphic.
Sarah Palin:
“And now, though, to be lectured, that, well, you guys are all sounding kinda angry, is what we’re hearing from the establishment.
DOGGONE RIGHT WE’RE ANGRY! Justifiably so. You know they stomp on our neck and then they tell us just chill. OK, just, yeah, just relax. Well, look, um, we are mad and we’ve been had, and they need to get used to it.”
“You know they stomp on our neck.”. Heh.