Video: Colbert Frantically Denies Being Involved in #PizzaGate
Last night Stephen Colbert desperately tried to deny he’s involved in #PizzaGate, to no avail because we all know the truth, don’t we?
Last night Stephen Colbert desperately tried to deny he’s involved in #PizzaGate, to no avail because we all know the truth, don’t we?
“When the Pope’s talking poop … you know we’re in deep doo-doo…”
Great line. Magnificently crafted. Colbert’s writers have really stepped it up.
There is a growing realization that a great deal of the stuff that has been stoking the outrage factory that preys upon dimwitted rednecks and pasty-faced suburban freaks … is utter and complete bullshit.
This response to the Lie Merchants needs to keep growing & spreading. The only way to break the cycle is to mock people for believing this B.S. One Facebook post at a time.
you’ll be shocked to learn that @politico, which pub’d approx 3k Clinton-conflict-of-interest articles, makes NO MENTION of McMahon donation
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 8, 2016
FCC’s Ajit Pai says net neutrality’s “days are numbered” under Trump
Pai wants to “fire up the weed whacker” and cut down FCC regulations.
Might be time to pull that old 56000 baud modem out of the attic.
re: #1 Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)
“When the Pope’s talking poop … you know we’re in deep doo-doo…”
Great line. Magnificently crafted. Colbert’s writers have really stepped it up.
There is a growing realization that a great deal of the stuff that has been stoking the outrage factory that preys upon dimwitted rednecks and pasty-faced suburban freaks … is utter and complete bullshit.
This response to the Lie Merchants needs to keep growing & spreading. The only way to break the cycle is to mock people for believing this B.S. One Facebook post at a time.
I loved the line “They think I’m on Hillary’s payroll, for the record… she can’t afford me.”
And I think there’s a third target audience, beyond what you call “dimwitted rednecks and pasty-faced suburban freaks”, and that is people who don’t pay a lot of attention to politics. And let’s face it, most people don’t, they’re too busy and tied up with their own world - work, getting in some time at the gym, taking the kids to soccer practice, etc - to bother with the details of all this. So, maybe they hear something in passing, or on the 11:00 news before they go to bed, or on closed captioning as they sit in the doctor’s waiting room.
re: #3 jaunte
some of the payments to the Trump Foundation may have been made in exchange for Trump’s appearances on WWE programming, and as a means for him to avoid tax liability (since there’s evidence that he has been more than willing to use the charitable organization to pay off personal debts).
re: #5 KGxvi
I loved the line “They think I’m on Hillary’s payroll, for the record… she can’t afford me.”
And I think there’s a third target audience, beyond what you call “dimwitted rednecks and pasty-faced suburban freaks”, and that is people who don’t pay a lot of attention to politics. And let’s face it, most people don’t, they’re too busy and tied up with their own world - work, getting in some time at the gym, taking the kids to soccer practice, etc - to bother with the details of all this. So, maybe they hear something in passing, or on the 11:00 news before they go to bed, or on closed captioning as they sit in the doctor’s waiting room.
True. But the low-interest news consumers only hear the B.S. when it is passed along by the engaged - and enraged - core audience for Fake News.
If, rather than getting the attention they crave (or ad $$ they depend on) when they share the B.S., they instead got mockery and disgust … the incentives for sharing B.S. would start to weaken and go away.
Just a thought.
@AlecMacGillis pic.twitter.com/xraetV8U0D
— David Williams (@dznyc) December 7, 2016
A $4 million donation from wrestling magnate Linda McMahon put the Trump Foundation in the black. Now he’s named her to run Small Biz Admin. https://t.co/psZE4VpbXA
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) December 7, 2016
If anyone wants to make a movie about how the Russians groomed Trump into becoming their puppet, here’s a storyboard pic.twitter.com/P35sjqXNRa
— Adam Khan (@Khanoisseur) December 8, 2016
Every single one of Trump’s picks is problematic. Every single one.
Whether it’s incompetence/inexperience, as with Carson for HUD or the EPA pick being against environmental regulations and doesn’t believe in science, or the slew of generals who are ineligible to be confirmed without waivers, Trump’s choices are about undermining the operation of the very agencies that they seek to run.
Sen. Schumer, who’s going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting to hold Trump and his picks accountable - and to head off some of the worst offenders - is already speaking out against Trump’s Labor pick.
.@USDOL Sec nominee opposes increasing the minimum wage, the overtime rule to raise wages & his biz have repeatedly violated labor laws.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 8, 2016
Fresh Air’s next program is an interview by Terry Gross with the NYT Executive Editor Dean Banquet, on the difficulties of covering DT, and how to cover him. Imma gonna listen.
@nytimes The dichotomy in what behavior actually triggered offense to those profiled in the article is…clarifying.
— Kryptik (@Citizen_Kryptik) December 8, 2016
re: #12 Citizen K
Every reminder of the existence of Republican (and Trump-supporting) college students is deeply depressing. It should take longer to become this stupid/evil.
More insanity from Gen. Flynn’s timeline.
Well, it’s insane to anyone who is rational and fact-based. But for someone like Trump, this is why Flynn’s qualified for the job:
Very excited this guy is going to be one of the most powerful people in America pic.twitter.com/q3vUV5P5UV
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) December 8, 2016
It’s this kind of nonsense that got Former Gen. Barry McCaffrey changing course on supporting Flynn. In fact, McCaffrey said that his statements border on being demented. (And Trump probably thinks that means a ringing endorsement).
re: #12 Citizen K
I still don’t understand the “safe spaces” thing. One of the things I really enjoyed about college and law school was engaging with people on issues that had different opinions than I did on issues. Granted, I was a poli-sci major and often the one “dissenting” view in policy classes (which I tended to come at from more of a libertarian bent than a conservative one), so maybe I’m just weird like that.
Unless it’s just that people have become bigger assholes than we were back then?
re: #1 Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)
“When the Pope’s talking poop … you know we’re in deep doo-doo…”
Great line. Magnificently crafted. Colbert’s writers have really stepped it up.
There is a growing realization that a great deal of the stuff that has been stoking the outrage factory that preys upon dimwitted rednecks and pasty-faced suburban freaks … is utter and complete bullshit.
This response to the Lie Merchants needs to keep growing & spreading. The only way to break the cycle is to mock people for believing this B.S. One Facebook post at a time.
Would mocking Donald Trump have similar effect too?
He so needs to be talked about and fawned over, if the media and others all started to point out how much he is a fool and really go about embarrassing him would it make him change any?
Maybe no?
And you would be very wrong about that. LGF is a reputable site that’s been in business for more than 16 years. @addysue
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 8, 2016
re: #16 ObserverArt
Would mocking Donald Trump have similar effect too?
He so needs to be talked about and fawned over, if the media and others all started to point out how much he is a fool and really go about embarrassing him would it make him change any?
Maybe no?
I’d put more money on him lashing out at his detractors and trying to sue them for defamation. Because that’s what presidents do, or something.
re: #15 KGxvi
I still don’t understand the “safe spaces” thing. One of the things I really enjoyed about college and law school was engaging with people on issues that had different opinions than I did on issues. Granted, I was a poli-sci major and often the one “dissenting” view in policy classes (which I tended to come at from more of a libertarian bent than a conservative one), so maybe I’m just weird like that.
Unless it’s just that people have become bigger assholes than we were back then?
It’s really less about hiding from different ideas and more about being protected from the applications of some of those ideas, (such as anti-feminists trying to verbally or physically assault avowed feminists), and asking schools to actually recognize it’s not just “debate” when those kinds of things happen.
re: #19 Citizen K
It’s really less about hiding from different ideas and more about being protected from the applications of some of those ideas, (such as anti-feminists trying to verbally or physically assault
avowed feministswomen), and asking schools to actually recognize it’s not just “debate” when those kinds of things happen.
ftfy
“Feminists” are what they call “women who fight back” or “women who TALK back”
re: #18 KGxvi
I’d put more money on him lashing out at his detractors and trying to sue them for defamation. Because that’s what presidents do, or something.
Which is an even better reason to do it.
Right, it has nothing to do with Chuck C. Johnson or Pax Dickinson. Uh huh. @wesearchr @twitter @jack pic.twitter.com/nMQ7A8V9bP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 8, 2016
re: #20 The Vicious Babushka
ftfy
“Feminists” are what they call “women who fight back” or “women who TALK back”
Fair edit.
That’s kinda cute that you call this harassment/extortion scam a “business.” You bilk gullible right wingers for profit. @wesearchr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 8, 2016
re: #24 Charles Johnson
You may not be able to afford to hire an assistant to run your business’ Twitter account, but @WeSearchr can!
Right, it has nothing to do with Chuck C. Johnson or Pax Dickinson. Uh huh. @wesearchr @twitter @jack pic.twitter.com/nMQ7A8V9bP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 8, 2016
…
An assistant? Another “business that will be thrilled when they lower the minimum wage.
New Post added at Balloon Juice - Fuck You and Your “Democrats Have to End Identity Politics to Win” Bullshit -https://t.co/kafc4Wu7bf
— Everything Sucks (@Johngcole) December 8, 2016
*blink*
CA ballots all counted. Clinton 8,753,788 Trump 4,483,810. Clinton won by 4,269,978, greater than natl pop vote lead https://t.co/jTny2A7aO6
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 8, 2016
there’s been this weird subtext to the election commentary that California’s vote should be considered separate/different from the rest https://t.co/ACBEXBSBgp
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) December 8, 2016
Our national poll in the field this week, only 53% of Trump voters thought California’s votes should be included in national popular vote https://t.co/GBrsFVDTkI
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) December 8, 2016
GODDAMNED 2016
John Glenn, American hero, aviation icon and former U.S. senator, dies at 95 https://t.co/gZQ1OlA2W5 pic.twitter.com/MbjXvSsNmV
— Columbus Dispatch (@DispatchAlerts) December 8, 2016
Michigan GOP on recount: “no evidence of fraud.”
Michigan GOP on voter ID: “fraud, fraud, fraud.”https://t.co/Uzsa6zjKV5 pic.twitter.com/a5QVjx9b60— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) December 8, 2016
Basically, all of Trump’s picks to head gov’t agencies are opposed to what those agencies were created to do. @samsteinhp
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 8, 2016
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
*blink*
there’s been this weird subtext to the election commentary that California’s vote should be considered separate/different from the rest
Tell me about it. The thing people keep bringing up is ‘oh, I don’t want 57 counties deciding for 3000!’ or whatever they say. Guess what there.
1) People should count more for land or property, goddammit,
2) The fact that the vote count isn’t the entirety of the population of California means, hey, surprise, those votes actually CAN get cancelled out if there are enough of them, and
3) If you assholes represent ‘real America’ as much as you say you do, why the fuck didn’t more actual votes go to you in total?
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) December 8, 2016
He was one of a kind. This is a sad day for Ohio and the country. Rest in peace. #JohnGlenn https://t.co/DD6W1qCOkM
— Mark Zinni (@MarkZinni) December 8, 2016
Trump is putting in place an extreme right wing administration that will do its best to destroy the US government. @samsteinhp
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 8, 2016
re: #31 Charles Johnson
If there was a Secretary of Pizza, Trump would appoint a pineapple company executive to it.
re: #35 Jack Burton
If there was a Secretary of Pizza, Trump would appoint a pineapple company executive to it.
He’d appoint Rusty Nail to the Department of Tetanus Prevention.
re: #35 Jack Burton
If there was a Secretary of Pizza, Trump would appoint a pineapple company executive to it.
More likely he’d appoint an anchovy company executive.
re: #35 Jack Burton
If there was a Secretary of Pizza, Trump would appoint a pineapple company executive to it.
And make sure everyone eats it with a fork.
“It’s all choreographed! They’re choreographing things!”
Damn, was hoping Colbert would use this to segue into some sort of ensemble dance number.
TRUMP: [public statement]
PRESS: wow!
TRUMP: [action that contradicts statement]
PRESS: d’oh!
TRUMP: [public statement]
PRESS: wow!— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) December 8, 2016
re: #40 lawhawk
@SimonMaloy SEE ALSO: https://t.co/IlagOdYxOb
— Bad Hombre (@franklinftw) December 8, 2016
We are saddened by the loss of Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. A true American hero. Godspeed, John Glenn. Ad astra. pic.twitter.com/89idi9r1NB
— NASA (@NASA) December 8, 2016
re: #9 jaunte
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Sadly, it almost feels as if no one cares about how scandalous Trump’s presidency is shaping up to be (and he’s not even in office yet!!). We have stories like these but no uproar from the media or Democrats. It’s all ho hum and “isn’t Trump cute when he’s tweeting furiously at critics?”
Huge sigh.
re: #43 Patricia Kayden
The media is now every bit the enemy.
Some people care and are trying to do their jobs (Kurt Eichenwald, David Fahrenthold, Sopan Deb) but they have the extra handicap of having to break through the clutter of useless garbage… a la Chuck Todd and CNN’s insipid MBF complex.
And that’s not counting the fake news industry paired alongside propaganda outfits like Fox and Breitbart.
“I’m the union leader Donald Trump attacked. I’m tired of being lied to about our jobs.” https://t.co/X0qlQRRKZc via @PostEverything
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 8, 2016
In February, corporate officials came to our plant and announced that they were closing the facility. They would move 1,300 jobs to a plant in Mexico. (Three hundred and fifty positions would remain in Indianapolis, mostly filled by research and development staff.)
Over the next several months, my team and I worked tirelessly to keep Carrier in our city. We came up with $23 million in savings, but the Carrier brass said that wasn’t enough. They could save $65 million by moving to Mexico. We couldn’t match that unless we were willing to cut wages to $5/hour and cut all benefits.
So we started to negotiate a severance package instead — one week of pay for every year of service, a $2,500 lump sum for every employee and free health care for six months.
Then, a couple of weeks ago, Trump got involved. He sat down with Carrier leaders. Afterward, he announced that 1,100 jobs would be saved. When I first heard the news, I was optimistic. But I began to get nervous when we couldn’t get any details on the deal. I urged caution, but our members got their hopes up. They thought their jobs had been saved.
When I met with Carrier officials last Thursday, I realized that that wouldn’t be the case. Though Trump said he’d saved 1,100 jobs, he hadn’t. Carrier told us that 550 people would get laid off.
Trump didn’t tell people that, though. When he spoke at our plant, he acted like no one was going to lose their job. People went crazy for him. They thought, because of Trump, I’m going to be able to provide for my family.
re: #25 I Would Prefer Not To
The “not you, impostor, the better one” might as well be a Rage Furby signature line. Not fooling anyone, Chuckles.
This is so fucking ridiculous: pic.twitter.com/eDVyNrTUn9
— Céy (@pimpcey_) December 8, 2016
“Is this bread sourdough?”
“No, that is probably just the ball sweat.” @Warlord_Ralts @pimpcey_— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 8, 2016
re: #36 Citizen K
He’d appoint Rusty Nail to the Department of Tetanus Prevention.
Let’s not forget the possibilities of collaboration between Trump’s agency heads. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Centers for Disease Control could send smallpox-infected blankets to the reservations.
re: #47 Kragar
So if the server did everything right, the mostbtheyd get is $5? Where did this pathetic man take his wife to dinner? White Castle?
re: #47 Kragar
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$5 tip for two meals?! That guy has some balls, or they’re eating somewhere cheap as hell.
re: #49 GlutenFreeJesus
So of the server did everything right, the mostbtheyd get is $5? Where did this pathetic man take his wife to dinner? White Castle?
That was my thought.
Think I need to play The Right Stuff score on the drive home.
re: #50 Arkansawyer
$5 tip for two meals?! That guy has some balls, or they’re eating somewhere cheap as hell.
If they can get their total meal for under $25, then that tip would be… OK-ish. Unless they live in bumfuckistan (which they might, considering they think this is OK in the first place), they will have little luck getting a meal for 2 outside of a place that asks you over a bad PA system while you are sitting in your car if you want to add fries and a drink to make a combo.
John Glenn shows JFK his Friendship 7 spacecraft at Cape Canaveral 1962: #JFKL pic.twitter.com/Uv5xJNr4fw
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 8, 2016
re: #46 KGxvi
The “not you, impostor, the better one” might as well be a Rage Furby signature line. Not fooling anyone, Chuckles.
I know - he’s banned for life from Twitter and has been suspended by Facebook FOUR times so far this year. Meanwhile I have a verified checkmark on both Twitter and Facebook, and have never been suspended from either network. But I’m the “impostor?”
I don’t think so.
re: #53 Jack Burton
If they can get their total meal for under $25, then that tip would be… OK-ish. Unless they live in bumfuckistan (which they might, considering they think this is OK in the first place), they will have little luck getting a meal for 2 outside of a place that asks you over a bad PA system while you are sitting in your car if you want to add fries and a drink to make a combo.
Plus, you should always tip at a higher percentage at cheaper restaurants because the service is still service and the dollar amounts are lower.
re: #47 Kragar
Beyond the stupidity of “I’m going to take your tip away if you do a bad job”, I have to ask:
A five dollar tip on a dinner for two? Maybe this is my big city left coast bias showing, but is that even 10% on a dinner tab for two?
re: #58 KGxvi
Beyond the stupidity of “I’m going to take your tip away if you do a bad job”, I have to ask:
A five dollar tip on a dinner for two? Maybe this is my big city left coast bias showing, but is that even 10% on a dinner tab for two?
I could go to a few restaurants around here with my wife and that would be somewhere between 18-20% tip.
re: #53 Jack Burton
If they can get their total meal for under $25, then that tip would be… OK-ish. Unless they live in bumfuckistan (which they might, considering they think this is OK in the first place), they will have little luck getting a meal for 2 outside of a place that asks you over a bad PA system while you are sitting in your car if you want to add fries and a drink to make a combo.
I worked in restaurants for years, so I make sure to tip well. I’ve only withheld a tip twice. First was a waitress who took an hour to bring me my check. The second was a waiter who was so coked out that he couldn’t take a drink order correctly. I still have slight guilt about those two times. The guy in that facebook post is a Grade A asshole.
East Side Pizza, a local pie shop in Austin, has gotten caught up in #pizzagate because, well, Infowars.
Thanks, Alex! Way to go after a damn good small business, you little shit.
Oh, and rest in Peace, John Glenn. My dad flew with him in the Corps.
Getting a kick out of the people who see Alex Jones’s Bizarro World “fake news” list and tweet, “WHAT THE FUCK IS LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS!!?”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 8, 2016
re: #47 Kragar
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Such behavior doesn’t say to a server “I’m somebody you want to impress,” it says “I’m a complete dickhead and I’m going to extort you into giving me good service if you want a decent tip.” In such a circumstance, my response would be to give him the shittiest service possible short of getting fired. Then when he complains, say “Well perhaps you’ll consider that next time and start with more than $5 on the table.”
re: #47 Kragar
Tacky beyond belief. Antagonizing waitresses for lols is not cute.
re: #59 Belafon
I could go to a few restaurants around here with my wife and that would be somewhere between 18-20% tip.
I will have to look at my tabs a bit more, I guess. I swear the last couple of times I went to one of my local pubs, a beer and burger ran about $18 total, and I always go $4-5 on the tip.
I’m starting to worry that none of us are getting through 2016 alive
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re: #57 calochortus
Plus, you should always tip at a higher percentage at cheaper restaurants because the service is still service and the dollar amounts are lower.
When I’m with a group getting separate checks, I usually double my tip to cover the probability that someone else will either undertip or not tip at all.
(And when I go to restaurants where friends or kids of friends work, I usually tip more than the meal costs!)
re: #48 EPR-radar
Let’s not forget the possibilities of collaboration between Trump’s agency heads. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Centers for Disease Control could send smallpox-infected blankets to the reservations.
Nah, that’s so 1830. He’ll simply launch thermonuclear weapons on them, then pilfer the land afterwards via the EPA.
re: #60 Arkansawyer
I worked in restaurants for years, so I make sure to tip well. I’ve only withheld a tip twice. First was a waitress who took an hour to bring me my check. The second was a waiter who was so coked out that he couldn’t take a drink order correctly. I still have slight guilt about those two times. The guy in that facebook post is a Grade A asshole.
This, a million times this. I did pizza delivery in college, had plenty of friends/family that did (and still do) the bar and/or restaurant gigs.
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
The first I saw of the Trump-Carrier deal was a “Trump Carrier deal saves jobs” headline in a local paper.
This is how Trump wins with this bullshit. No amount of after the fact investigating (assuming it even happens or is reported on) will overcome that first headline.
What I think the mainstream media should do with Trump reporting is to put a mandatory 7 day delay on everything Trump-related, and use that time to investigate the substance of what’s going on.
Apparently Trump doesn’t have time to re: #66 FormerDirtDart
I’m starting to worry that none of us are getting through 2016 alive
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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards will… (I hope)
re: #47 Kragar
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A five dollar tip?
I give nearly half that when the bartender gets me a beer.
I’ve been relentlessly calling out his BS for years. He’s quite right to identify me as an enemy. @SwiftOnSecurity @Kantrowitz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 8, 2016
Obama statement on the passing of John Glenn pic.twitter.com/toJ55QjGpN
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) December 8, 2016
No word from Trump yet… and this is something Trump will have to do on a regular basis - reflect and honor those who pass away.
re: #61 austin_blue
East Side Pizza, a local pie shop in Austin, has gotten caught up in #pizzagate because, well, Infowars.
Thanks, Alex! What to go after a damn good small business, you little shit.
Oh, and rest in Peace, John Glenn. My dad flew with him in the Corps.
They’re just going to keep going after pizza shop after pizza shops, scattershot, because the conspiracy just HAS to be real, it just HAS to be!
Meanwhile, real people suffer for a fake scandal.
re: #70 EPR-radar
The first I saw of the Trump-Carrier deal was a “Trump Carrier deal saves jobs” headline in a local paper.
This is how Trump wins with this bullshit. No amount of after the fact investigating (assuming it even happens or is reported on) will overcome that first headline.
What I think the mainstream media should do with Trump reporting is to put a mandatory 7 day delay on everything Trump-related, and use that time to investigate the substance of what’s going on.
It would be great if we could convince people to read the paper and have the paper do detailed analysis a couple of days after the actual story. But it’s so much easier getting it in pieces from distilled sources.
re: #75 Citizen K
They’re just going to keep going after pizza shop after pizza shops, scattershot, because the conspiracy just HAS to be real, it just HAS to be!
Meanwhile, real people suffer for a fake scandal.
Congress will ban pizza sometime in mid-March, just to keep Alex on their side.
re: #53 Jack Burton
If they can get their total meal for under $25, then that tip would be… OK-ish. Unless they live in bumfuckistan (which they might, considering they think this is OK in the first place), they will have little luck getting a meal for 2 outside of a place that asks you over a bad PA system while you are sitting in your car if you want to add fries and a drink to make a combo.
I was on the road with my wife on a Sunday, went to a BBQ joint (Old Style Bar-B-Que in Olive Branch, MS). Saw a poor waitress with a large round table of old people obviously came from church, I don’t think there was a tip that involved paper money. The lack of generosity galled me. Get water and leave the difference between that and a drink to make it part of a decent tip if you are that strapped for money.
re: #69 KGxvi
This, a million times this. I did pizza delivery in college, had plenty of friends/family that did (and still do) the bar and/or restaurant gigs.
I still bartend the party room for a local restaurant from time to time. I think everyone should work in the service industry at least once in their life.
re: #74 lawhawk
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No word from Trump yet… and this is something Trump will have to do on a regular basis - reflect and honor those who pass away.
And the irony is that Trump was in Columbus, Ohio today as the news was breaking.
re: #74 lawhawk
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No word from Trump yet… and this is something Trump will have to do on a regular basis - reflect and honor those who pass away.
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John Glenn is dead!
[/Trump]
re: #77 scottslemmons
Congress will ban pizza sometime in mid-March, just to keep Alex on their side.
God help me, I can’t even say this sounds like a joke.
re: #74 lawhawk
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No word from Trump yet… and this is something Trump will have to do on a regular basis - reflect and honor those who pass away.
As always, the White House does it perfectly.
re: #70 EPR-radar
The first I saw of the Trump-Carrier deal was a “Trump Carrier deal saves jobs” headline in a local paper.
This is how Trump wins with this bullshit. No amount of after the fact investigating (assuming it even happens or is reported on) will overcome that first headline.
He only really wins with his 46% voting block, who won’t give two s—ts regardless of how much his actions permanently damage his standing among anyone who isn’t one of them.
It wouldn’t matter what happens… widespread rioting and wholesale union strikes grinding the economy to a halt… the military breaking in half and turning on itself due to mutiny over Trump’s suicide wishes disguised as war… US citizens and soldiers turning on their own country to fight alongside the First Nations as Trump attempts to confiscate their land… deserved retaliation over Nazi hate crimes spilling out across the country… domestic terrorist attacks that will only enable additional disunity… even the government collapsing before our very eyes… and the GOP rank-and-file behind Trump will not bother to care, right up until they inevitably lose it all.
re: #74 lawhawk
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No word from Trump yet… and this is something Trump will have to do on a regular basis - reflect and honor those who pass away.
Zaphod has to be informed who John Glenn was.
re: #76 Belafon
It would be great if we could convince people to read the paper and have the paper do detailed analysis a couple of days after the actual story. But it’s so much easier getting it in pieces from distilled sources.
The compulsion in the media to get there first with the story is a fatal flaw when covering a bullshit generator like Trump. The first report of something like the Trump-Carrier deal is going to be Trump’s press release because there isn’t time for anything else in the scramble to get the story out.
By the time investigation (if any) is done, a new piece of Trump bullshit makes headlines and buries the investigation results.
The only accurate way to report on Trump in real time is to Mad-Lib it: “Pathological Liar Trump spews bullshit about X, blames Y, says he’ll make America great again.”
re: #82 Citizen K
God help me, I can’t even say this sounds like a joke.
“All them Eye-talian names sound like Mexicans in disguise anyway!”
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) December 8, 2016
Little Green Footballs, absolutely. @Koschmar @ishaantharoor
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 8, 2016
Here’s my hot take on Trump: It is extremely damgerous to have a President who does not know or understand the meaning of the word “restraint”.
re: #91 Charles Johnson
You should thank Alex for the free advertising!
tweet is via iPhone, so staff wrote it:
Today we lost a great pioneer of air and space in John Glenn. He was a hero and inspired generations of future explorers. He will be missed.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2016
re: #85 Targetpractice
Zaphod has to be informed who John Glenn was.
Trump’s not Zaphod, he’s William J. Le Petomane and Hedley Lamarr, rolled into one.
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not by anyone working for @realDonaldTrump though.https://t.co/7awqylsJFr
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 8, 2016
re: #93 Eclectic Cyborg
You should thank Alex for the free advertising!
It’s better than Nixon’s Enemies List. Nobody listened to Nixon.
re: #95 TedStriker
Trump’s not Zaphod, he’s William J. Le Petomane and Hedley Lamarr, rolled into one.
With a touch of white supremacist Andrew Jackson and union buster Henry Clay Frick.
CA ballots all counted. Clinton 8,753,788 Trump 4,483,810. Clinton won by 4,269,978, greater than natl pop vote lead https://t.co/jTny2A7aO6
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 8, 2016
there’s been this weird subtext to the election commentary that California’s vote should be considered separate/different from the rest https://t.co/ACBEXBSBgp
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) December 8, 2016
Our national poll in the field this week, only 53% of Trump voters thought California’s votes should be included in national popular vote https://t.co/GBrsFVDTkI
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) December 8, 2016
Fine. Let us secede. I have general faith in California’s electorate not to throw me into a queer internment camp. #MyCountryIsCalifornia https://t.co/giNt3AW241
— Dana Simpson (@MizDanaClaire) December 8, 2016
Shame about John Glenn. Truly a great American hero. My great aunt was lucky to have known him and many early astronauts since she worked for NASA. He lived not too far from where my Dad grew up too.
re: #100 Myron Falwell (no relation)
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Because California isn’t “Real America”. Sigh these fucking dumbkoffs.
HFS
Alex Jones says “vicious serial killer” Hillary Clinton has “personally murdered and chopped up and raped” children https://t.co/6MP1Ss7S0Y
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 8, 2016
re: #102 HappyWarrior
Because California isn’t “Real America”. Sigh these fucking dumbkoffs.
And Trump would have won Virginia if it wasn’t for those people in Northern Virginia!!1!
re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s my hot take on Trump: It is extremely damgerous to have a President who does not know or understand the meaning of the word “restraint”.
Trump cares about only two things in the entire world: his money and his emotional gratification (i.e., ‘winning’). He is not constrained by rationality in pursuing these goals, he is a sociopath and narcissist, and he may also have age-related dementia. Trump can be strongly influenced by the last person to have spoken with him, and has chosen a neo-Nazi as his consigliere. His cabinet picks are a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
What could possibly go wrong?
re: #104 Timothy Watson
And Trump would have won Virginia if it wasn’t for those people in Northern Virginia!!1!
Yeah too bad we’re just as real Virginia as their sorry asses.
re: #100 Myron Falwell (no relation)
CA secession is a dumb idea. Our neighbor would be a heavily armed superpower run by the deplorables. It would not end well.
re: #4 Skip Intro
FCC’s Ajit Pai says net neutrality’s “days are numbered” under Trump
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Might be time to pull that old 56000 baud modem out of the attic.
Look at the bright side…we won’t be able to get Trump’s tweets.
re: #67 BeachDem
When I’m with a group getting separate checks, I usually double my tip to cover the probability that someone else will either undertip or not tip at all.
(And when I go to restaurants where friends or kids of friends work, I usually tip more than the meal costs!)
We almost always tip 20-25%. You have to really fuck up to get only 15%. Unless they’re personally rude, really rude…not busy or whatever because shit happens, but downright rude. I won’t abide that. Then I leave pennies to indicate it’s not that we don’t tip but you got what you earned.
When I was dating, I had one of those IHOP midnight coffee after date things where we had pie and coffee for a couple of hours. The waitress said most people at that time of night never left tips. I left her a $20. It made me sad that people either don’t know that wait staff makes virtually nothing in salary and everything in tips or don’t give a shit.
re: #108 EPR-radar
CA secession is a dumb idea. Our neighbor would be a heavily armed superpower run by the deplorables. It would not end well.
Who would find itself in the midst of a major economic crisis in under 5 years. So yeah, they’d be desperate enough that after a year they’d decide that wanting California gone was a bad idea.
re: #102 HappyWarrior
Because California isn’t “Real America”. Sigh these fucking dumbkoffs.
The GOP doesn’t want unity of any sort. And they’ll be acting surprised when everything disintegrates around them.
re: #74 lawhawk
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No word from Trump yet… and this is something Trump will have to do on a regular basis - reflect and honor those who pass away.
I think those are expectations that may not be met.
re: #110 MsJ
We almost always tip 20-25%. You have to really fuck up to get only 15%. Unless they’re personally rude, really rude…not busy or whatever because shit happens, but downright rude. I won’t abide that. Then I leave pennies to indicate it’s not that we don’t tip but you got what you earned.
When I was dating, I had one of those IHOP midnight coffee after date things where we had pie and coffee for a couple of hours. The waitress said most people at that time of night never left tips. I left her a $20. It made me sad that people either don’t know that wait staff makes virtually nothing in salary and everything in tips or don’t give a shit.
Even worse are the ones who leave religious tracts instead of tips.
If I ever notice groups like that, I always make sure to double my tip to try and make up the difference.
re: #111 Targetpractice
Who would find itself in the midst of a major economic crisis in under 5 years. So yeah, they’d be desperate enough that after a year they’d decide that wanting California gone was a bad idea.
Please, we’re talking about Republicans here. They would never admit error. However, they would find a way to convince themselves that invading CA and ruling it via military occupation was the right thing to do.
re: #116 BeachDem
Even worse are the ones who leave religious tracts instead of tips.
If I ever notice groups like that, I always make sure to double my tip to try and make up the difference.
I’m from Chicago. I’ve never even heard of that. Is it a southern thing? Cheaping out for Jesus? Wow.
re: #108 EPR-radar
CA secession is a dumb idea. Our neighbor would be a heavily armed superpower run by the deplorables. It would not end well.
If California goes, then New York and the New England states would want to follow suit. Then Oregon and Washington state. And then the First Nations would demand their land back.
War against California would escalate the dissolution of the republic.
re: #77 scottslemmons
Congress will ban pizza sometime in mid-March, just to keep Alex on their side.
So, there will be new ‘Untouchables’. This time centered around pizza smuggling.
Man, don’t these idiots ever learn?
re: #121 Romantic Heretic
So, there will be new ‘Untouchables’. This time centered around pizza smuggling.
Man, don’t these idiots ever learn?
They’ll just call them freedom Frisbees.
re: #119 MsJ
I’m from Chicago. I’ve never even heard of that. Is it a southern thing? Cheaping out for Jesus? Wow.
My fiancée’s grandmother will do this. I make sure to get a $20 from the ATM when we eat with them. Then I’ll “forget” something at the table when we’re leaving.
re: #117 EPR-radar
Please, we’re talking about Republicans here. They would never admit error. However, they would find a way to convince themselves that invading CA and ruling it via military occupation was the right thing to do.
Unless a foreign nation allies with California. You think Mexico would back a US-led invasion of California with Trump and the GOP rank-and-file running things?
This is jaw-dropping. Heroin deaths surpassed gun homicides last year. https://t.co/ioHry5MgZS pic.twitter.com/JIqSLgenyX
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) December 8, 2016
re: #124 Myron Falwell (no relation)
Unless a foreign nation allies with California. You think Mexico would back a US-led invasion of California with Trump and the GOP rank-and-file running things?
A wall of Taco Trucks strung across the Nevada state line…
re: #121 Romantic Heretic
So, there will be new ‘Untouchables’. This time centered around pizza smuggling.
Man, don’t these idiots ever learn?
If it’s like the Untouchables, they’ll keep raiding pizza shops until someone busts a door in a radio studio and finds the actual child slavery there instead.
re: #119 MsJ
I’m from Chicago. I’ve never even heard of that. Is it a southern thing? Cheaping out for Jesus? Wow.
Actually, I used to see it in Ohio quite often—and often at pancake places, for some reason.
re: #129 BeachDem
Actually, I used to see it in Ohio quite often—and often at pancake places, for some reason.
That…appalls me. And those pancake places usually pay those folks like $1.25 an hour. Talk about anti-evangelical work. Let’s see…feed my family or find Jesus. I know which way I’d go.
re: #120 Myron Falwell (no relation)
If California goes, then New York and the New England states would want to follow suit. Then Oregon and Washington state. And then the First Nations would demand their land back.
War against California would escalate the dissolution of the republic.
If California goes, Oregon and Washington may ty to join in that effort, I could also see Clark and Washoe counties in Nevada wanting to join. Texas would surely want out and a few neighboring states may decide to join them.
As happened in 1860, as soon as one state tries to leave there will be a domino effect of other regions looking at the possibility of splitting and what the perceived benefits would be.
I, for one, am still a believer in this grand experiment and will remain hopeful that we can and will survive the worst of it
re: #74 lawhawk
No word from Trump yet… and this is something Trump will have to do on a regular basis - reflect and honor those who pass away.
That task will ultimately be outsourced to the tag-team of Kellyanne and Mike Pence.
President Obama will no doubt offer statements that will continue to hold infinitely more weight and sincerity.
re: #132 Myron Falwell (no relation)
That task will ultimately be outsourced to the tag-team of Kellyanne and Mike Pence.
President Obama will no doubt offer statements that will continue to hold infinitely more weight and sincerity.
I hope so. That would drive trump nuts…an added bonus.
OSU attack survivor declines invitation to meet Trump https://t.co/mxtEWYkvJZ pic.twitter.com/Jt5ptugzEt
— The Hill (@thehill) December 8, 2016
Some “deal”: RNC official: Carrier union boss ‘should be grateful’ for deal | TheHill https://t.co/q3qxf4R7Lu
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) December 8, 2016
re: #129 BeachDem
Actually, I used to see it in Ohio quite often—and often at pancake places, for some reason.
I could definitely see that in the rural parts of the state… and especially Appalachia.
My former employer has a CEO who, despite having significant wealth after running the business for close to 35 years, would never offer tips whatsoever, regardless of the eating establishment. Other co-workers would have to make up for his asshole behavior.
This same CEO fired me back in mid-July after trying to goad me for months into voting for Trump, and I refused; in fact, that firing all but ensured my vote for Hillary.
actually I suddenly remembered that I have the John Glenn space shot on ViewMaster, and it’s cool as hell. yes, 3D really does make it feel like you are standing there on the deck of the ship when he’s getting out of the capsule.
re: #14 lawhawk
It’s this kind of nonsense that got Former Gen. Barry McCaffrey changing course on supporting Flynn. In fact, McCaffrey said that his statements border on being demented. (And Trump probably thinks that means a ringing endorsement).
Cue: McCaffrey and his kids throwing rocks as frightened people get herded onto flatbed trucks
re: #119 MsJ
I’m from Chicago. I’ve never even heard of that. Is it a southern thing? Cheaping out for Jesus? Wow.
Some background:
And just google leaving religious tracts instead of tips and there are all kinds of stories.
re: #131 KGxvi
If California goes, Oregon and Washington may ty to join in that effort, I could also see Clark and Washoe counties in Nevada wanting to join. Texas would surely want out and a few neighboring states may decide to join them.
As happened in 1860, as soon as one state tries to leave there will be a domino effect of other regions looking at the possibility of splitting and what the perceived benefits would be.
I, for one, am still a believer in this grand experiment and will remain hopeful that we can and will survive the worst of it
I wish I had that optimism. Problem is that one political party, despite their bullshit otherwise, is clearly rejecting the American experiment.
re: #137 Myron Falwell (no relation)
I could definitely see that in the rural parts of the state… and especially Appalachia.
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re: #29 lawhawk
GODDAMNED 2016
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95 was a good long life. I’m not going to count this one as shocking like say a David Bowie and some others.
R.I.P. Astronaut and Great Ohioan. You had one hell of a life.
re: #43 Patricia Kayden
Sadly, it almost feels as if no one cares about how scandalous Trump’s presidency is shaping up to be (and he’s not even in office yet!!). We have stories like these but no uproar from the media or Democrats. It’s all ho hum and “isn’t Trump cute when he’s tweeting furiously at critics?”
Huge sigh.
I think the Democrats are in an uproar and since it is still close to the elections, you may not be hearing anything directly from them as they may still be in shock and are now trying to figure out what to do in the future.
And as Myron said in the comment just after yours…do not count on the media overall. They are still busy playing with a shiny new toy and seeing how they can turn him into a story that brings in the bucks.
re: #74 lawhawk
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No word from Trump yet… and this is something Trump will have to do on a regular basis - reflect and honor those who pass away.
Trump will say something to make it about himself.
Remember when the wingnuts counted every time Obama said “I”? I ‘member.
re: #134 Stanley Sea
Is he literally spray-painting his hair gold to match his interior decor?
OSU attack survivor declines invitation to meet Trump https://t.co/mxtEWYkvJZ pic.twitter.com/Jt5ptugzEt
— The Hill (@thehill) December 8, 2016