Jordan Klepper From The Daily Show Goes to a Trump Rally in Tennessee, Sees Horror
Trump is good at one thing, gathering thousands with no critical thinking skills in one spot.
Trump is good at one thing, gathering thousands with no critical thinking skills in one spot.
I tweeted this post a little while ago and suddenly the clicks from Twitter went wild! Somebody with a lot of followers must have RTed it, so I have no choice but to promote it to the front page. Nice find, teleskiguy!
Well Trump does so love the poorly educated. At least that’s what he claims.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
I tweeted this post a little while ago and suddenly the clicks from Twitter went wild! Somebody with a lot of followers must have RTed it, so I have no choice but to promote it to the front page. Nice find, teleskiguy!
Jordan Klepper From The Daily Show Goes to a Trump Rally in Tennessee, Sees Horror https://t.co/QVbtDYx9Vb pic.twitter.com/tAofvH5x7Z
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2017
Wow, wow, wow… https://t.co/Wag1183ihN
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 27, 2017
re: #2 Patricia Kayden
Well Trump does so love the poorly educated. At least that’s what he claims.
And Patricia they sure do love him back! Even as he wanted to take away their health care and decimate Medicare and Social Security, they STILL bow down before him and kiss his ass!
@peplamb @realDonaldTrump he deported the two Corinthians.
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) March 27, 2017
DM: The Bards sing your evil deeds.
DT: Those are Fake Bards.
DM: They persist…
DT: I summon “Abyssal Propaganda.”
FOX: You called.#GOPDnD— TheRebellionIsLive (@Solo66) March 26, 2017
re: #5 GlutenFreeJesus
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Why do so many Christians mindlessly follow Trump?
It’s because of these Pulpit Pimps!
Trump to unveil office — led by Jared Kushner — aimed at fixing the government with ideas from the business world https://t.co/BRAEElrr3y
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 27, 2017
re: #10 The Vicious Babushka
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Translation: Trump to take bigger shit on anti-nepotism laws.
I guess I just don’t find watching morons entertainig any more.
“Ideas from the business world”
Outsourcing
Bankruptcy
Spending Daddy’s Money
How educated are certain religious groups? pic.twitter.com/ApR4f1hJ0A
— Ninja Economics (@NinjaEconomics) March 26, 2017
See where education levels stack up based on religious choice (atheist is number 8).
re: #1 Charles Johnson
I tweeted this post a little while ago and suddenly the clicks from Twitter went wild! Somebody with a lot of followers must have RTed it, so I have no choice but to promote it to the front page. Nice find, teleskiguy!
Oh wow! Heh!
It’s my pleasure, Charles!
Almost 7,000 clicks on Twitter? That’s definitely a record for me.
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
“Ideas from the business world”
Outsourcing
Bankruptcy
Spending Daddy’s Money
Dump Debt on Partners
Sell Anything Not Nailed Down
re: #10 The Vicious Babushka
Has he already fixed the Middle East?
re: #10 The Vicious Babushka
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Will we finally get to fire Alabama and Mississippi for underperforming?
re: #4 Joe Bacon
“And Patricia they sure do love him back! Even as he wanted to take away their health care and decimate Medicare and Social Security, they STILL bow down before him and kiss his ass!”
It’s the same situation here in GA, especially in South GA where Trump won @ 90% of the vote. The Atlanta Journal Constitution went to that area of the state last week to talk to some persons living there about the healthcare bill. As expected, those who voted for Trump are sticking with him and can find no fault with whatever he does/says. Several rural hospitals in the southern part of the state have closed due to lack of funding. The GOP majority in the legislature in Atlanta hate Obama and Obamacare so much that they’ve adamantly refused to expand Medicaid. When they learned that Deal was talking to Pres. Obama and the HHS a few years ago, they passed a bill that forbids the Medicaid expansion without their consent. The law also mandates that no facility that receives funds from the state can be used to inform Georgians about how to apply for coverage on the exchanges here or be used to sign them up for coverage.
re: #7 The Vicious Babushka
Maybe Joy liked the Max Trumproom graphic :)
Many thanks to ObserverArt for the graphic. :)
re: #10 The Vicious Babushka
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Oh, I never forgot how Reagan did the same exact thing with The Grace Commission and I never forgot how The Grace Goon Squad determined that Social Security Offices had only two essential employees—A manager and an administrative clerk. They proposed that every other employee should be contracted out and paid minimum wage with no health insurance.
It’s so nice to have business executives tell us that our jobs taking and processing claims and handling postentitlement work were nonessential…
re: #18 Belafon
Will we finally get to fire Alabama and Mississippi for underperforming?
“We should run the country like a business!”
“So when do we start selling off states that take in more than they pay out?”
“COASTAL ELITES!!!”
Charles, there is an autoplay ad by HSP that is dragging me up to the top of the page every time it plays.
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
“Ideas from the business world”
Outsourcing
Bankruptcy
Spending Daddy’s Money
Hire lots of lawyers to cover your ass.
Proof that strangely orange things are found not only at 1600 Penn. Ave:
This was shot today at about -900m. The long stringy extensions anchored the organism to the nearby boulders, while the tiny stringy things with white tentacles at the ends would lower and rise… all the while those orange appendages waved around wildly. Still image doesn’t do it justice.
That’s got to be the strangest animal I’ve ever seen.
Assuming that is an animal and not the larval form of Cthulhu.
re: #28 freetoken
I could never live there with all those weird things crawling around.
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re: #28 freetoken
Proof that strangely orange things are found not only at 1600 Penn. Ave:
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This was shot today at about -900m. The long stringy extensions anchored the organism to the nearby boulders, while the tiny stringy things with white tentacles at the ends would lower and rise… all the while those orange appendages waved around wildly. Still image doesn’t do it justice.
That looks like a critter that was in an episode of Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea!
re: #28 freetoken
Proof that strangely orange things are found not only at 1600 Penn. Ave:
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This was shot today at about -900m. The long stringy extensions anchored the organism to the nearby boulders, while the tiny stringy things with white tentacles at the ends would lower and rise… all the while those orange appendages waved around wildly. Still image doesn’t do it justice.
Bloated, spineless, and serves no identifiable purpose besides its own perpetuation.
Must be a Republican.
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As usual, it’s comedians who tell the truth…
DM: “The Demon King whispers in your dreams he will reward you far more than the Gods of Light.”
GOP: “He makes a fair point.”#GOPDnD— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 27, 2017
re: #33 Targetpractice
Bloated, spineless, and serves no identifiable purpose besides its own perpetuation and orange with uncontrolled waving of appendages.
Must be a Republican.
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Here’s your Sunday night sermon from Pastor Manning.
re: #9 Joe Bacon
“It’s because of these Pulpit Pimps!”
Cox Cable’s service here in Middle GA is inundated with these “Pulpit Pimps,” and although I’m Christian, I avoid those channels like a 14th Century person would have tried to avoid the Bubonic Plague. They’re some of the biggest grifters in the world. They sell everything from “prayer cloths” to “miracle spring water” to “pieces of JC’s tomb,” and all of it’s fake and has the intended purpose of fleecing the gullible.
re: #26 stpaulbear
Charles, there is an autoplay ad by HSP that is dragging me up to the top of the page every time it plays.
Argh, sorry. It’s unbelievably hard to find out which ad is doing this, but I paused the ad network that’s usually (but not always) responsible. I have no idea why the people who place these kinds of ads think it’s going to help their advertisers. It’s a big-time turn-off that hurts their clients.
Hey Boss…how about whipping up a Youtube clipping tool for us so we don’t have to go around and do a proper job of posting clips?
Just a suggestion…
I miss Utah.
Big mountains, big riding; welcome to #Snowbird. 📷: @chris_segal ❄️: Bjorn Leines #snowboarding pic.twitter.com/obnz0sJwHo
— Snowbird (@Snowbird) March 27, 2017
re: #15 teleskiguy
Oh wow! Heh!
It’s my pleasure, Charles!
Almost 7,000 clicks on Twitter? That’s definitely a record for me.
Well over 8,000 now.
re: #41 Eric The Fruit Bat
Hey Boss…how about whipping up a Youtube clipping tool for us so we don’t have to go around and do a proper job of posting clips?
Just a suggestion…
Not sure what you mean by a clipping tool - please elaborate.
re: #45 Charles Johnson
Not sure what you mean by a clipping tool - please elaborate.
Where we can specify a start and end time of a Youtube video and paste the URL into our messages. Sorta like the botched link I posted above where only the link shows and not the actual video shows up inline.
Copied from downstairs because it’s relevant:
A ship on a long cruise is a great place to find People who Should Have Known Better than to Vote for Trump, so the surprise at my dinner table is to have found three people who certainly didn’t (me and two of the others). Of the other three, I suspect that at least two of them voted for Trump (from their silence when we Happy Few said some slightly disparaging things about our “President”).
That was at the beginning of the cruise. At the end (while TrumpRyanCare was collapsing and Nunez was committing his act of public self-immolation, accompanied by a chorus of Russian revelations), the table was unanimous in mocking the Great Yam and all his (unsuccessful) works.
Second thoughts? Buyers remorse? It’s not a question one asks on a cruise, but the change in attitude suggests a change of heart, possibly.
Several months before Nixon resigned, a poll was held asking people who they voted for in the presidential election. The results showed the McGovern had won in a landslide. I wonder what a similar poll would show today, and what that may say about the midterms or 2020.
Cernovich on 60 minutes. What a huge mistake. Waay too soft a touch. Needed Mike Wallace, cracking the whip. Not this guy, Scott Pelley. Seen more outrage at bald faced lies from a bowl of white rice.
EPA chief: Trump will soon sign a new order that unravels Obama’s sweeping plan to curb global warming https://t.co/V390cNUpDs pic.twitter.com/sTBWBAzo5G
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) March 27, 2017
These fucking assholes. These fucking assholes. Goddamned villains. @BostonGlobe https://t.co/36poc9Kq7v
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2017
GOP: You have access to heal spells.
Player:Then I cast heal.
GOP:Costs 500 mana
Player:I only have 50 max.
GOP:But you have access #GOPDnD— Joshua Spiegel (@zeltarius) March 27, 2017
re: #51 Charles Johnson
And you can bet he’ll have Uday and/or Qusay mosey over to Scotland and demand that the Scottish government take action to build a seawall to protect the family golf course…..
re: #50 Unshaken Defiance
“Cernovich on 60 minutes. What a huge mistake.”
Although the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory has been debunked, Cernovich claimed on 60 Minutes, “It’s 100% correct.”
Oh, brother.
re: #51 Charles Johnson
They complain about it being lenient on China, but China ratified it, and:
In order to fulfill its obligations under the Paris agreement Xinhua said China would need to cut carbon emissions by 60-65% per unit of GDP by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, and boost its use of non-fossil fuels so they accounted for 20% of its energy consumption.
The US and China account for 38% of emissions.
But, you have to love the Trump administration: Some other country won’t do the right thing so we’re not going to either.
re: #54 majii
“Cernovich on 60 minutes. What a huge mistake.”
Although the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory has been debunked, Cernovich claimed on 60 Minutes, “It’s 100% correct.”
Oh, brother.
Another reason why I gave up on 60 Minutes years ago.
re: #51 Charles Johnson
I think you could have just said “These fucking assholes”6 times and had a few characters leftover. But what else can you say?
re: #56 Joe Bacon
Another reason why I gave up on 60 Minutes years ago.
Some time ago, many years, it became clear that a show like “60 Minutes” was more for the older audience to be able to view the television news anchors they had seen as youngsters, still going. The average age of viewer for that program has to be very high.
(Well, it appears I borked my original link…let’s see if this embed works….)
As usual, it’s the comedians who tell the truth….
(Charles: this embed code is the type of utility I was referring to.)
re: #53 Eric The Fruit Bat
And you can bet he’ll have Uday and/or Qusay mosey over to Scotland and demand that the Scottish government take action to build a seawall to protect the family golf course…..
Mar-a-Lago may eventually be *in* la mar, as sea levels keep rising. Trump will need to enclose his little private enclave with a sea wall and sump pumps.
The Trump presidency is like one big game of Monopoly and we all keep landing on Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower with a hotel on each.
— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) March 27, 2017
re: #58 freetoken
Some time ago, many years, it became clear that a show like “60 Minutes” was more for the older audience to be able to view the television news anchors they had seen as youngsters, still going. The average age of viewer for that program has to be very high.
Case in point: Andy Rooney. When he was younger, Rooney had a sharp wit and delivery. As he got older, though, everything slowed down, but he soldiered on because 60 Minutes had to include 5 minutes of Andy Rooney.
Unexpected benefits from opening up to Cuba. https://t.co/M2ZpvRSCro
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 26, 2017
re: #63 Belafon
How is the Trump administration going to kill off all of those smokers if we cure lung cancer?
re: #62 wheat-dogg
Even then, for a long time he was the only thing worth bothering with even when he was just being a grumpy ass. Compared to the rest of the show it was interesting…
re: #64 Belafon
How is the Trump administration going to kill off all of those smokers if we cure lung cancer?
Simple: They’ll have the FDA ban the drug, thus the only people who will be able to access it will be rich bastards able to either illegally import it or travel to Cuba for treatments.
That unidentified orange monster (on the sea floor, not in DC) was not the most amazing thing from today’s dive.
At the very start of the dive they caught something very rarely seen - a predation event.
This was shrimp on fish. Yes, really, and the fish while probably a little more massive and stronger, lost.
Shortly after the fish was caught, the shrimp starts to tear into the body:
The fish struggles to escape, while the shrimp tears away flesh to stuff in its mouth:
The fish fights to move and does a little, but the shrimp is too fast and flips to the other side and continues to tear the flesh:
The fish continues to fight as the crustacean rabidly rips out the inside, including taking from the fish gut what one of the on-ship talking heads thought was another littler fish that was in the guts of the bigger one:
The pilot then decided to move the ROV on… not wanting to observe the spectacle to its end…
I hate to rain on the parade but that vaccine needs more testing. From washingtonpost.com,
“The vaccine developed by CIM has been approved by a number of countries, including Paraguay and Peru. Even so, Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society, has taken a cautious stance on the vaccine.
“In a post in March that society officials said was still relevant, he noted that ‘currently we do not have the information we need to have to know whether or not this vaccine could be useful in treating lung cancer or possibly be used to prevent cancer in patients at high risk of developing lung cancer. The studies that have been reported from Cuba are small and have limitations that prevent us from knowing how the treatment could be applied to the typical patient with lung cancer.’”
(Turned into a LGF Page…)
A fascinating story on how the failed War on Drugs and Police corruption has caused a massive injustice for the longest-serving non-violent juvenile offender in Michigan.
Detroit Free Press: Will films, books change White Boy Rick’s image — and life?
A new documentary about Richard Wershe Jr. opens with video clips of him inside a courtroom as a somber, pasty-faced man nearing 50.
“Being in prison the last 29 years is like being dead … Everyone knows who I am. But no one knows the real reason I’m in here,” he says in a voice-over, talking by phone from prison. Within seconds, there’s a black-and-white video clip of Wershe as a skinny kid with a wispy mustache and a gaze that seems uncertain and worried.
The compelling, convoluted story of what happened to Wershe is the focus of “White Boy,” which will have its world premiere on Friday at Freep Film Festival. Using interviews and archival footage , filmmaker Shawn Rech portrays White Boy Rick — a nickname popularized by a media frenzy in the 1980s — as a pawn in a much bigger saga of law enforcement betrayal and police corruption.
It’s a fascinating journey that feels like HBO’s “The Wire,” Netflix’s “Narcos” and a prime-time soap like “Empire” all rolled into one. And it’s only the beginning of a national spotlight aimed at the 47-year-old Wershe, the longest-serving non-violent juvenile offender in Michigan.
The documentary will be followed early next year by “White Boy Rick,” a feature film now shooting in Cleveland. It stars newcomer Richie Merritt as the young Wershe and Oscar-winning star Matthew McConaughey as his father. While the producers wouldn’t talk about any specifics, It’s been described as a father-son drama immersed in the drug epidemic of the Reagan era.
The movie will be accompanied by a memoir with the same title, “White Boy Rick,” that’s being co-written by Wershe and metro Detroit journalist Scott Burnstein. It will complement the movie by offering a deep dive into what Burnstein calls “the nooks and crannies” of the real-life tale.
In addition, veteran Detroit TV reporter Vince Wade, now living in California, is close to finishing his book on Wershe and how his story relates to the sprawling, flawed war on drugs still being waged by America.
Like a tide rolling in, the momentum of these projects could wash away the old public image of Wershe, which to some extent remains in a time capsule, and create a new one that could help his fight for freedom.
“Ask somebody if they know who Richard Wershe is. Then ask the same person who White Boy Rick is. ‘Oh yeah!’ The White Boy Rick image has been a real albatross around his neck, and he’s fighting to get rid of that,” says Wade, who maintains a blog about the case.
Wershe was locked up in 1987 on a life sentence without parole for possession with intent to deliver more than 650 grams of cocaine. Because of changes in drug laws, he is now serving life with a possibility of parole. He was denied parole in 2003 and again in 2007 and 2012. He has had one public hearing, back in 2003, during his nearly three decades in prison, though the Michigan Department of Corrections has raised the possibility of another one happening later this year.
re: #65 William Lewis
Even then, for a long time he was the only thing worth bothering with even when he was just being a grumpy ass. Compared to the rest of the show it was interesting…
Some 60 Minutes segments were pretty good, but many were as you say not worth watching.
If someone asked me which 60 Minutes report I remember most vividly, I would not be able to come up with a single example. Then again, it’s been a few decades since I watched it.
re: #71 wheat-dogg
Some 60 Minutes segments were pretty good, but many were as you say not worth watching.
If someone asked me which 60 Minutes report I remember most vividly, I would not be able to come up with a single example. Then again, it’s been a few decades since I watched it.
I saw a movie about 60 Minutes. Good one, too. “The Insider” directed by Michael Mann. Other than that I have no recall or memory of a good 60 Minutes segment.
re: #66 Targetpractice
Simple: They’ll have the FDA ban the drug, thus the only people who will be able to access it will be rich bastards able to either illegally import it or travel to Cuba for treatments.
No, the tobacco companies will find a way to get it imported so they can still sell cigarettes. Maybe hide a vial inside each Cuban cigar.
I’m enjoying these Okeanos ROV explorations for now… as when Trump and the Republicans discover NOAA is funding exploration for the sake of setting aside parts of the ocean from fishing and mining then adios.
NOAA is already under attack for its climatology work… and the ecology stuff will be next on the block.
Side-eye……
@JoyAnnReid for some reason I’m blocked by them… are they a lefty or right wing site?
— Craig (@CStein66) March 27, 2017
re: #71 wheat-dogg
Some 60 Minutes segments were pretty good, but many were as you say not worth watching.
Did you ever see the movie The Insider? To me, the whole Brown and Williamson controversy and CBS’s handling of it was atrocious and really damaged 60 Minutes badly-so much so that Lowell Bergman was essentially blackballed by CBS and now plies his trade over at PBS.
(And, ironically enough, in the movie, a reference is made to working for PBS as punishment for pissing off the corporate gods….)
re: #72 teleskiguy
saw a movie about 60 Minutes. Good one, too. “The Insider” directed by Michael Mann.
That wasn’t just a good movie-it was Fucking GREAT movie.
re: #71 wheat-dogg
Some 60 Minutes segments were pretty good, but many were as you say not worth watching.
If someone asked me which 60 Minutes report I remember most vividly, I would not be able to come up with a single example. Then again, it’s been a few decades since I watched it.
I used to watch it back in the 70s.
A bittersweet anecdote from the world of teaching.
Last week, I was looking for a TED talk about careers to show my students and found one by a dynamic guy named Scott Dinsmore, who founded an organization called Live Your Legend. The freshmen liked it, so this morning I shared it with the sophomores. During the break, I decided to visit Dinsmore’s website to check it out. Since China blocks YouTube and Vimeo, we couldn’t see the video on the main page in class. When I watched it after coming back to my flat, I got an unpleasant surprise.
Scott Dinsmore was killed in a rockslide on Mt Kilimanjaro in 2015. Everyone else in the climbing party, including his wife, survived. He was 33.
Now, if TED had bothered to note Dinsmore had died, I might have chosen a different video. As it is, I should tell my students that living your dream sometimes has unfortunate consequences.
I never met this fellow, but I’m sad he’s gone. RIP Scott.
re: #59 Eric The Fruit Bat
(Well, it appears I borked my original link…let’s see if this embed works….)
As usual, it’s the comedians who tell the truth….
(Charles: this embed code is the type of utility I was referring to.)
If you want to start a video at a certain point, just paste the video’s URL into a comment and add the “start” parameter after the video ID. It looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxKStPXyn8&start=59
Set the end point by adding the “end” parameter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxKStPXyn8&start=59&end=65
Well over 10,000 clicks on Twitter for this page o’ mine. Yikes!
re: #80 Charles Johnson
I think I’ve tried that before, and maybe I’ve fat-fingered it-I’ll give it a whirl next time-thanks!
DM: 15! You discover the king’s vizier is really a lich!
GOP: No I don’t
DM: ? Yes you do
GOP: I choose to fail my perception check#GOPDnD— Mark Wilson (@mwilsonin) March 27, 2017
re: #81 teleskiguy
Well over 10,000 clicks on Twitter for this page o’ mine. Yikes!
This one really hit a chord, dude.
Jordan Klepper From The Daily Show Goes to a Trump Rally in Tennessee, Sees Horror https://t.co/QVbtDYx9Vb pic.twitter.com/tAofvH5x7Z
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2017
OMFG some Trumpers may be dressed n groomed better but you cannot justify support without being lumped in with these ignorant racists https://t.co/QZql3SsY3J
— jeff fischer (@jefffgti) March 27, 2017
@Green_Footballs I see nothing but a incredibly small collective IQ. & I lose faith in humanity when I see it. The stupid do breed in herds
— Mike Leigh (@MichaelLeighDen) March 27, 2017
Jordan Klepper From The Daily Show Goes to a Trump Rally in Tennessee, Sees Horror https://t.co/QVbtDYx9Vb pic.twitter.com/tAofvH5x7Z
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2017
This is why it is pointless to dialogue with Trump supporters. #TrumpRussia #ImpeachTrump https://t.co/4Fveo6gfvm
— tyler malovoz (@ty6770) March 27, 2017
Jordan Klepper From The Daily Show Goes to a Trump Rally in Tennessee, Sees Horror https://t.co/QVbtDYx9Vb pic.twitter.com/tAofvH5x7Z
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2017
@realDonaldTrump @potus Wow. At least ur base is as dumb as you. My word. These folks have to be from another planet or Fricken high https://t.co/bnLDHN2KcP
— Colleen Chadwick (@trustthetruth16) March 27, 2017
Anyone got a link to an international version of this? Can’t access any versions that I come across…
Just saw this on CBC. Liberals to announce marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018
Speaking of CBC, is anybody else watching the series “Anne”? It’s an excellent rendition of Anne of Green Gables.
WATCH: Trump last year: If I’m POTUS I don’t think I’d see any of my golf courses again, I just want to stay in WH and “work in my ass off”
WATCH: Trump last year: If I’m POTUS I don’t think I’d see any of my golf courses again, I just want to stay in WH and “work in my ass off” pic.twitter.com/4nOtG7BavO
— Yashar (@yashar) March 27, 2017
His position on this has evolved…. https://t.co/hMlxlcqvFQ
— Sam Seder (@SamSeder) March 27, 2017
Is evolved the most accurate word here? https://t.co/OntyEHcJVs
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) March 27, 2017
This is by far the most popular thing I’ve ever posted to the Internet. Many tens of thousands of clicks. https://t.co/xXl18Bpp3p
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) March 27, 2017
If it weren’t for Charles and his coding wizardry it would not be possible.
I like this place.
re: #92 teleskiguy
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If it weren’t for Charles and his coding wizardry it would not be possible.
I like this place.
I do, too. It gives me a congenial and educational place to be while I play internet solitaire!
I’ve only listened to “Hotel California” up to, “You can check out any time you like.” Should I keep going? That place sounds so nice.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 27, 2017
re: #94 teleskiguy
That song is at every karaoke club in China, I’m sure. The video is usually the live version with the veerrryyy long guitar intro.
re: #94 teleskiguy
Rumor has it that the original sign checked into Diane Keaton’s backyard and she will never let it leave…
re: #97 Joe Bacon
Rumor has it that the original sign checked out and never left Diane Keaton’s estate!
That’s what my dad did after he got out of WW2. He made neon signs during the late 40s and 50s, for about a decade. Some are still around. We used to drive around and take photos of them.
re: #92 teleskiguy
“This is by far the most popular thing I’ve ever posted to the Internet. Many tens of thousands of clicks”
Congratulations to you and Mr. Johnson! I really enjoyed the video, but it was disturbing seeing how easily so many buy into BS like MO is a she-male. Her mama would know, but none of those making the claim ever tried to interview her. But, this is beside the point. I don’t have a problem with which gender people identify with because it’s their business. What I focus on when I talk to anyone are the things they say/think. I have no plan to sleep with them, and they do not live with me, so why should I even care about how they identify as to gender? It’s a stupid way of looking at people.
My favorite globetrotting pro skier is out and about. Seeing some cool places.
The magical Taksang temple above Paro, Bhutan. Also called the Tigers Nest, it was built in the 8th century. pic.twitter.com/Oiz06LUwmm
— chris davenport (@SteepSkiing) March 26, 2017
re: #100 teleskiguy
My favorite globetrotting pro skier is out and about. Seeing some cool places.
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Oh, how gorgeous! The photo is all I need; heights are not my friend, but that is beautiful!
Time travel as a genre has been a bit in-style in American television the past few years, with several new series on simultaneously.
What strikes me, among many things, is the cowardice of the producers/writers.
They recycle the same key events over and over and over… as if the audience will be totally lost somehow if the plot doesn’t involve:
1) the American revolutionary war;
2) the US Civil War; or
3) WWII, especially Hitler.
The cowardice part comes in also with the subjects that are avoided, definitely avoided. Note how religious figures and events are ignored almost totally (the key exception to this of course being Dr. Who, where the Doctor is clearly a Christ-figure, right down to his parentage.)
Contrast that to the old TV series Time Tunnel, wherein the white-washed American Christianity is intentionally reified with the travelers going back to Biblical stories.
re: #102 freetoken
Remember Sliders? They went to some pretty fucked up places on that show.
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
I only watched certain episodes of that, and only through online distributors. But in that case they went into alternative realities, but yes, those writers were much more experimental with how life can turn out.
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
Remember Sliders? They went to some pretty fucked up places on that show.
Trump being president could have been a Sliders episode.
Trump Not Faring Well In New Salesman Gig
unable to pick up knack of selling wine to frenchmen or ale to english
Blames Weather
apparently donald got tired of winning sooner than expected
Just once I’d love to see one of these American time travel shows go back and not try to kill Hitler, but instead go back and knock off Constantine before 313.
re: #109 freetoken
Just once I’d love to see one of these American time travel shows go back and not try to kill Hitler, but instead go back and knock off Constantine before 313.
In that event, there would probably be no overlap in population between our Earth of 2017 and the 2017 created in this alternative timeline; it is also likely English would never have evolved. Our fearless time travelers would return to a very alien Earth which would bear no resemblance to the world they left.
re: #109 freetoken
“Listen everyone. I know you all like Barabbas, but I’m paying out 5 denari to anyone who asks Pontius Pilate to free Jesus.”
re: #110 Hecuba’s daughter
In that event, there would probably be no overlap in population between our Earth of 2017 and the 2017 created in this alternative timeline; it is also likely English would never have evolved. Our fearless time travelers would return to a very alien Earth which would bear no resemblance to the world they left.
It would bring about possibilities for an endless TV series!
For those interested, here’s a live cam of a sleeping owl…..
re: #109 freetoken
Just once I’d love to see one of these American time travel shows go back and not try to kill Hitler, but instead go back and knock off Constantine before 313.
Or telling Caesar not to trust anyone in the Senate.
re: #4 Joe Bacon
And Patricia they sure do love him back! Even as he wanted to take away their health care and decimate Medicare and Social Security, they STILL bow down before him and kiss his ass!
because he pisses off and confounds those Washingon eleites!!!
re: #109 freetoken
Just once I’d love to see one of these American time travel shows go back and not try to kill Hitler, but instead go back and knock off Constantine before 313.
Going back to Jesus’ time, documenting that nothing described in the gospels happened, bringing back the documentation, watching the heads asplode.
re: #110 Hecuba’s daughter
Yup, entirely different 2017. Heck, we probably wouldn’t even use the same calendar so it would never be “2017” for us on this day.
But let’s take a much more gentle change in history, which is part of a series of events completely ignored by the current time-traveling TV shows, and which I’ve used before: the assassination of McKinley. Stopping just that one event would have changed American politics, possibly setting aside Teddy Roosevelt of ever becoming President (and likely FDR also), and reshaping the world-war scenario that basically enveloped the world from the start of the 20th century to the end of the cold war.
But US television shows don’t even go back to this pivotal part of American history. To today’s television producers US history is composed of 4 events;
Mayflower
1776
Civil War
WWII.
re: #116 Nyet
Going back to Jesus’ time, documenting that nothing described in the gospels happened, bringing back the documentation, watching the heads asplode.
oh some of it probably happened, just bring back documentation of what they left out, like Jesus marrying Mary Magdaline and raising a passel of children…
re: #116 Nyet
Much more effective to just go back 2000 years and bring the Chinese invention of paper to the West and let the invention of the newspaper happen 1500 years earlier than it did.
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
oh some of it probably happened, just bring back documentation of what they left out, like Jesus marrying Mary Magdaline and raising a passel of children…
Many (most?) wouldn’t believe it.
re: #120 retired cynic
Many (most?) wouldn’t believe it.
Because Religious Faith is more important than science, history or objective facts.
Good news for the golf cart industry!
The Secret Service has spent $16k so far on golf cart rentals for Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/Pgje6S1LBh
— Nathaniel Meyersohn (@nmeyersohn) March 26, 2017
Pop quiz: You invent a time machine today, in the year 2017. Someone steals it and goes back to 1918, which you discover 5 hours after they steal it.
Question: Does your thief have:
1) 99 years, or
2) 5 hours
head start on you, for you to figure out what they changed?
re: #122 wheat-dogg
Good news for the golf cart industry!
The Secret Service has spent $16k so far on golf cart rentals for Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago.
CBO should soon figure out it would be cheaper for the SS to buy its own armored high-tech golf cart….
re: #123 freetoken
He has no head start. The machine doesn’t work that way, it’s in both places at the same time, more like the movie Primer than HG Wells ^.^
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
oh some of it probably happened, …
Em, we were not discussing what actually happened. We were discussing fictional scenarios.
And if you are going for edgy, have Jesus marry some dude rather than going with the tired Dan Brown trope.
re: #126 Nyet
Em, we were not discussing what actually happened. We were discussing fictional scenarios.
I am much more interested in what they decided to leave out rather than the stuff they made up to embellish the story.
re: #102 freetoken
Time travel as a genre has been a bit in-style in American television the past few years, with several new series on simultaneously.
What strikes me, among many things, is the cowardice of the producers/writers.
They recycle the same key events over and over and over… as if the audience will be totally lost somehow if the plot doesn’t involve:
1) the American revolutionary war;
2) the US Civil War; or
3) WWII, especially Hitler.The cowardice part comes in also with the subjects that are avoided, definitely avoided. Note how religious figures and events are ignored almost totally (the key exception to this of course being Dr. Who, where the Doctor is clearly a Christ-figure, right down to his parentage.)
Just watch Rick and Morty. That’s a tv show about timespace that sure isn’t cowardly! ^.^
“The whole point of freezing time was to stop giving a fuck.”
-Rick Sanchez, SE2E01
re: #129 American Bunnygothic
Just watch Rick and Morty. That’s a tv show about timespace that sure isn’t cowardly! ^.^
“The whole point of freezing time was to stop giving a fuck.”
-Rick Sanchez, SE2E01
Mr. Peabody and Sherman were setting the Wayback Machine back when I was a kid.
re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If Jesus existed, he was probably a wandering apocalyptic preacher. I doubt this leaves much to imagination.
re: #131 Nyet
If Jesus existed, he was probably an wandering apocalyptic preacher. I doubt this leaves much to imagination.
and he was a human being, who died and was buried somewhere…
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and he was a human being, who died and was buried somewhere…
The latter is just an assumption.
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
fine, but he died and rotted somewhere….
Unless incinerated.
There’s a short story by Harry Turtledove (of alt-history fame) about Jesus actually being bitten and turned by a vampire at the time of the Crucifixion. And that Peter had him hidden away in a chamber at the very bottom of his namesake Basilica, taken care of by a secret order whose existence was known only by the reigning pope. And that a ceremony was performed where each new pope would allow Christ to feed on some of his blood.
re: #139 Targetpractice
There’s a short story by Harry Turtledove (of alt-history fame) about Jesus actually being bitten and turned by a vampire at the time of the Crucifixion. And that Peter had him hidden away in a chamber at the very bottom of his namesake Basilica, taken care of by a secret order whose existence was known only by the reigning pope. And that a ceremony was performed where each new pope would allow Christ to feed on some of his blood.
That makes just as much sense as any of the Gospels…
re: #139 Targetpractice
There’s a short story by Harry Turtledove (of alt-history fame) about Jesus actually being bitten and turned by a vampire at the time of the Crucifixion. And that Peter had him hidden away in a chamber at the very bottom of his namesake Basilica, taken care of by a secret order whose existence was known only by the reigning pope. And that a ceremony was performed where each new pope would allow Christ to feed on some of his blood.
Change the names — Jesus to Hillary, Peter to Podesta, Basilica to a pizza joint — and you’d have a new RWNJ conspiracy theory.
re: #141 wheat-dogg
Change the names — Jesus to Hillary, Peter to Podesta, Basilica to a pizza joint — and you’d have a new RWNJ conspiracy theory.
And get that story out on the Internet and soon it will be RWNJ Gospel Truth
And while I love the appeal of alt-history stories where major events in history flipped everything on their heads, that’s more fantasy than reality if you look at history. For example, the closer you get to the end of WWII, the more impossible it would to change the outcome to a total Axis victory.
re: #143 Targetpractice
And while I love the appeal of alt-history stories where major events in history flipped everything on their heads, that’s more fantasy than reality if you look at history. For example, the closer you get to the end of WWII, the more impossible it would to change the outcome to a total Axis victory.
And reading about the plot to assassinate Hitler, one has to be reminded that it might have ended the war a bit earlier, but the fellows behind it were not necessarily supporters of democracy: many of them were authoritarians or even monarchists.
Had they succeeded, Germany might well not have developed into such a successful model of democracy and peaceful society that it is now.
re: #143 Targetpractice
For example, the closer you get to the end of WWII, the more impossible it would to change the outcome to a total Axis victory.
Yet of course we have two current small-screen creations that depend upont that: TMITHC, and SS-GB. Both of which are intriguing stories, but rely on an outcome that doesn’t seem like it would ever have been possible.
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And reading about the plot to assassinate Hitler, one has to be reminded that it might have ended the war a bit earlier, but the fellows behind it were not necessarily supporters of democracy: many of them were authoritarians or even monarchists.
Had they succeeded, Germany would not be the successful model of democracy and peaceful society that it is now.
Even the assassination of Hitler is dependent on when it happened. Earlier in his reign and the war may have been averted or ended earlier with a negotiated peace that saw a return to status quo ante bellum. Late in the war and its unlikely that the Allies (especially Stalin) would have agreed to a negotiated peace and probably would have forced the new regime to choose between fighting to the last or making it easier for the Western Allies to occupy the whole of Germany before the Soviets got there.
re: #146 Targetpractice
Even the assassination of Hitler is dependent on when it happened. Earlier in his reign and the war may have been averted or ended earlier with a negotiated peace that saw a return to status quo ante bellum. Late in the war and its unlikely that the Allies (especially Stalin) would have agreed to a negotiated peace and probably would have forced the new regime to choose between fighting to the last or making it easier for the Western Allies to occupy the whole of Germany before the Soviets got there.
Point was that Germany had to be totally defeated and occupied and have the Nazi ideology totally uprooted. Ditto with Japan and its military dictatorship.
re: #145 freetoken
Yet of course we have two current small-screen creations that depend upont that: TMITHC, and SS-GB. Both of which are intriguing stories, but rely on an outcome that doesn’t seem like it would ever have been possible.
Well, the former relies upon the idea that FDR was assassinated before becoming president, replaced in history with a weaker president who let Germany and Japan consolidate their gains before turning on America. And SS-GB seems to rest on the idea that the Nazis chose not to enact Barbarossa but instead focus on invading Britain.
Not entirely fanciful ideas, but they both have a point-of-deviation well before the war had turned against the Reich.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Point was that Germany had to be totally defeated and occupied and have the Nazi ideology totally uprooted. Ditto with Japan and its military dictatorship.
Oh, it’s a fair point. Thing is, unless a true-believer like Himmler or Reinhardt came to power, the most likely replacements were either decorated generals or aristocrats. Such men would have been quick to denounce the Nazi regime and blame it for the pointless war the nation found itself in.
The same really can’t be said for Japan, as while men like Adm. Yamamoto saw the futility in a prolonged war with America, they had too much pride wrapped up in the whole venture to have backed down. Once the die was cast, the outcome was inevitable. The end may have been shortened or prolonged by certain events, but America would never have conceded the South Pacific to Japan.
re: #148 Targetpractice
Regarding TMITHC: we Americans love our guns, and that was true 80 years ago too. No way a few hundred thousand occupying troops could dominate North America. Neither Japan or Germany could have the manpower to occupy North America. Even if Germany has a working A-bomb in 1940, that would just have forced the US (and the rest of the world) into a truce, to allow Germany to hold their gains in Europe. And in the story Japan doesn’t have the A-bomb, and would have been totally dependent upon Germany (which the story alludes) which would have been a very un-Japanese thing to do.
As for SS-GB, it’s universe is a smaller scope and it’s really only centered on England proper being under German control, with the “north” wild (and presumably Ireland also). So in this sense SS-GB is not as far-fetched as TMITHC, yet I still find it problematic that the British Empire would not have fought even if England proper was occupied.
re: #149 Targetpractice
Oh, it’s a fair point. Thing is, unless a true-believer like Himmler or Reinhardt came to power, the most likely replacements were either decorated generals or aristocrats. Such men would have been quick to denounce the Nazi regime and blame it for the pointless war the nation found itself in.
But would have replaced it with another authoritarian regime, more like Franco’s Spain than the Modern Germany we know and love. Even at that, it took over 20 years before the last old Nazis were run out of their positions (or simply retired) as judges, administrators or university professors.
re: #150 freetoken
Regarding TMITHC: we Americans love our guns, and that was true 80 years ago too. No way a few hundred thousand occupying troops could dominate North America. Neither Japan or Germany could have the manpower to occupy North America. Even if Germany has a working A-bomb in 1940, that would just have forced the US (and the rest of the world) into a truce, to allow Germany to hold their gains in Europe. And in the story Japan doesn’t have the A-bomb, and would have been totally dependent upon Germany (which the story alludes) which would have been a very un-Japanese thing to do.
As for SS-GB, it’s universe is a smaller scope and it’s really only centered on England proper being under German control, with the “north” wild (and presumably Ireland also). So in this sense SS-GB is not as far-fetched as TMITHC, yet I still find it problematic that the British Empire would not have fought even if England proper was occupied.
TMITHC seems to rely on the idea that without FDR, the US never pulled itself out of the Depression and never began rearming due to isolationism. And then capped off with a nuclear strike on Washington, D.C. that forced a formal end to the war in ‘45 even though the Nazis spent a further 2 years fighting the American resistance. Meanwhile Japan was already in a formal pact with Germany, so the idea that they would have staged an invasion in concert with the Reich isn’t totally far-fetched. It would have hurt their pride that they didn’t force the formal surrender, but wiping out America as a threat and taking over the West Coast would have assuaged some of that.
re: #152 Targetpractice
TMITHC seems to rely on the idea that without FDR, the US never pulled itself out of the Depression and never began rearming due to isolationism.
I enjoyed the series, it certainly did justice to the book, which was quite a feat, as it is one of my favorites.
My favorite line from the novel came when they were discussing who should succeed Hitler (who was dying of syphilis) and someone suggested “It should be Hermann Göring: after all, he is the one who knocked out those radar towers and won the Battle of Britain”.
And it highlighted certain inevitabilities of history: just as the Allies fell out after winning and started the Cold War, Japan and Germany nearly came to blows after winning in the alternate version of history.
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But would have replaced it with another authoritarian regime, more like Franco’s Spain than the Modern Germany we know and love. Even at that, it took over 20 years before the last old Nazis were run out of their positions (or simply retired) as judges, administrators or university professors.
Whether it was the victorious Allies forcing a renouncement of Nazism or a regime installed by coup renouncing the Reich, the end result would have been pretty much the same: a lot of unrepentant Nazis running around long after Hitler died. By 1947, most of the prominent architects of the war were already dead or in prison, so we could make excuses for why this mayor or that judge could be left off the hook in order to get the country back on its feet.
re: #154 Targetpractice
It took the student revolts of the late 60’s to finally get the press and general populace to own up to the presence of old Nazis in positions of authority and to stop repressing or rationalizing their continued existence.
Gee, what was going on in here last night? That was the oddest thread that I ever read.
haha… this guy: [guardian]
re: #157 Ming5000
haha… this guy: [guardian]
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Yes, Roger, the good news is that there does seem to be a search for evidence. Stand by.
The wingnuts I talk to are absolutely convinced that two things happened last week:
- The Trump/Russia scandal was totally proven fake and Democrats are just pushing it because Hillary lost.
- Trump was totally vindicated on the “wiretapp” accusation and Obama will be facing federal charges because he gave the order to tell the press about Flynn’s conversations with Russia.
What’s that, you say? The exact opposite happened last week? Obviously you weren’t paying attention to the “real” news.
re: #158 Targetpractice
oh, and and health care reform failed because the Democrats blocked it
Due to recent events (THANKS TRUMP!) I have not been following oil prices.
Apparently there has been collusion between some oil producing states to restrict output.
Russia’s Energy Minister, Alexander Novak, recently stated that the decision to continue the agreement to restrict output has not been made as of now. [bloomberg]
“We are monitoring companies on a weekly basis for their production plans,” Novak said. “At the moment, all companies are conforming to their obligations. Companies don’t want to stand out among a group that is conforming.”
Novak declined to speculate on oil prices, after Russia’s central bank said last week that it saw a risk of oil prices falling to $40 a barrel by the end of this year without an extension in the deal and then staying close to that level in 2018-19. Benchmark Brent crude closed Friday at $50.80 a barrel.
The last time I was aware of oil prices it was in the $60 per barrel range.
re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
oh, and and health care reform failed because the Democrats blocked it
Nah, they’re either quietly dropping the whole thing or blaming it on Ryan. The dealmaker was totally hoodwinked, ya know.
re: #160 Ming5000
Due to recent events (THANKS TRUMP!) I have not been following oil prices.
All would take is the serious threat of a military conflict in or near the Persian Gulf and prices will skyrocket.
And there will be much rejoicing in the offices of the Gazpromlin.
re: #158 Targetpractice
I hope those involved have brain-wiped themselves to believe nothing happened. Stone also volunteered to appear to Congress. He has not heard back yet.
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
One mitigating factor, the renewable energy technologies have a good toe-hold. I saw that recently California generated over 50% of their energy needs during a recent midday.
So Rinsed told the press that if the Freedom Caucus won’t knuckle under to Der Trumpenfuhrer, then the White House will just bypass them and try to work a deal with moderate Democrats to get his agenda passed.
Stop laughing, he’s serious!///
re: #164 Ming5000
One mitigating factor, the renewable energy technologies have a good toe-hold. I saw that recently California generated over 50% of their energy needs during a recent midday.
Germany also found itself generating more solar than it knew how to distribute…
Big Head meets Duck Lips
It’s happening. The entertainment wing of the GOP is turning on Ryan.pic.twitter.com/CoZrdIHpXI
— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) March 25, 2017
Anyone care to add commentary. Could be fun.
@_Julian_NYC @Delta I split a fingernail on the door at work the other day. Not Happy!
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 27, 2017
Several years ago, we published a short story describing an alt timeline based on a rather original premise.
During the time of the Albigensian Crusade in Southern France in the 13th century, both Kings of England of Spain had sworn to come to the rescue of the Occitans if Northern France invaded, but in our timeline they didn’t.
In the short story in question, the author imagined that the King of England sent a Welsh long bow archer to Montsegur, the long bow being superior to anything the Norther French army had at that time. The presence of this single archer (who falls in love with a Cathar girl) prevents the Fall of Montsegur in 1244, the Siege fails, and at that point, the King of Spain decides to side with the winner and steps in.
France is thereafter split into two states, the Hundred Years War doesn’t happen, etc, etc. All because of a single archer.
re: #165 Targetpractice
So Rinsed told the press that if the Freedom Caucus won’t knuckle under to Der Trumpenfuhrer, then the White House will just bypass them and try to work a deal with moderate Democrats to get his agenda passed.
Stop laughing, he’s serious!///
If Trump is serious about crafting a stimulus package with Democrats, or a tax reform package with Democrats, that could be very interesting! Trump is already at war with the Freedom Caucus.
re: #171 Big Beautiful Door
If Trump is serious about crafting a stimulus package with Democrats, or a tax reform package with Democrats, that could be very interesting! Trump is already at war with the Freedom Caucus.
Trump would strike a deal with the Dems just to fuck with the Freedom Caucus and the GOP. That’s how he rolls.
re: #172 wheat-dogg
Trump would strike a deal with the Dems just to fuck with the Freedom Caucus and the GOP. That’s how he rolls.
It would have to be a heckuva a deal for the Democrats…
Senate investigators will question Jared Kushner as part of inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russia https://t.co/rW9qSCeAPV
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 27, 2017
re: #174 The Vicious Babushka
Senate investigators will question Jared Kushner as part of inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russia
How long until this is spun as anti-Semitic persecution?
This is the opening scene in Jeffery Deaver’s novel Steel Kiss:
Eighteen people injured at mall in Hong Kong after escalator unexpectedly goes backwards and speeds up.
Eighteen people injured at mall in Hong Kong after escalator unexpectedly goes backwards and speeds up. https://t.co/hyEiaLtO73 pic.twitter.com/SwosB1VOm0
— ABC News (@ABC) March 27, 2017
re: #176 The Vicious Babushka
This is the opening scene in Jeffery Deaver’s novel Steel Kiss:
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Actually, what most likely happened there was the axle between the escalator and its motor breaking.
re: #177 Teukka
Actually, what most likely happened there was the axle between the escalator and its motor breaking.
That’s what they want you to believe.
re: #178 Decatur Deb
That’s what they want you to believe.
That’s what I know… Notice how it speeds up instantly, but slows down once there aren’t that many peeps on it anymore?
re: #176 The Vicious Babushka
This is the opening scene in Jeffery Deaver’s novel Steel Kiss:
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An example of the engineering adage: “Service and Survive.”
Maureen Dowd put down her chardonnay to write a blistering rebuke of Donny and his failed regime https://t.co/FkRLN3tzG7
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 27, 2017
re: #179 Teukka
That’s what I know… Notice how it speeds up instantly, but slows down once there aren’t that many peeps on it anymore?
Sarc tags are for lepers.
re: #177 Teukka
Actually, what most likely happened there was the axle between the escalator and its motor breaking.
In the novel a hacker breaks into the device controller. NOT A SPOILER this is the opening scene. Although I am not certain that any escalators are equipped with a wifi-enabled controller.
LOLWUT
What if GM built a Corvette SUV? https://t.co/Cf6MzR36Ua pic.twitter.com/qZwtyU7XFp
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) March 27, 2017
re: #183 The Vicious Babushka
In the novel a hacker breaks into the device controller. NOT A SPOILER this is the opening scene. Although I am not certain that any escalators are equipped with a wifi-enabled controller.
Well, I doubt stock ones would be. But ones installed and serviced on a deregulated market…. *hint* *hint*
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
Maybe if GM could suspend the law of physics.
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
Porsche. It’s been done.
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
LOLWUT
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That. Is. Painful.
Seriously, that’s the worst thing I’ve seen since the Porsche SUV. I’m sure that, like it, a Corvette SUV would sell enough to be profitable and that’s the only excuse GM cares about but why????
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
LOLWUT
“Since the first Jeep sport utility appeared in 1984,…”
(Snicker)
re: #117 freetoken
Legends of Tomorrow has a bit more complexity than that.
WWI (meeting up with JRR Tolkien)
WWII (meeting up with other superhero group active at the time)
Revolutionary War (okay, saving Washington)
Civil War
1950s (dealing with racism/prejudice, including on college campus and anti-miscegenation).
1870s (crossover with Jonah Hex)
1980s (infiltrating WH to keep the INF treaty from getting sabotaged).
I think they pick the big 4 (Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII because they’re stuff everyone should know - but usually don’t know more than the basics).
re: #165 Targetpractice
So Rinsed told the press that if the Freedom Caucus won’t knuckle under to Der Trumpenfuhrer, then the White House will just bypass them and try to work a deal with moderate Democrats to get his agenda passed.
Stop laughing, he’s serious!///
WHITEHOUSE: If Republicans won’t work with us on healthcare we’ll just make a deal with the Democrats. pic.twitter.com/ijMhWrI0YB
— Franklin (@franklinftw) March 27, 2017
@detroitnews If GM built a ‘vette SUV, it would be neither a ‘vette, nor an SUV.
— jay (@random__name) March 27, 2017
I’m up to episode 8 of Iron Fist. It was like watching a live-action recreation of a comic book, in terms of the scenes and plot development. I didn’t have that feeling while watching the other TV MCU series. They were more like hour-long movies.
Danny’s fight with the drunk guard was a ripoff (or homage) to Jackie Chan’s Drunken Master, and serves no other purpose than as an opportunity for Danny to lose control and beat the guy’s face to a pulp. I was neither surprised nor moved, because it was an obvious setup to Danny’s inevitably learning Gao killed his parents and then inevitably charging Gao in a rage but at the last instant not killing her. Predictable.
Weakest episode yet.
re: #193 Franklin
There’s no way @speakerryan would ignore the Hastert rule unless he wants to quit being Speaker; there’d be a GOP civil war. @franklinftw
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 27, 2017
re: #165 Targetpractice
So Rinsed told the press that if the Freedom Caucus won’t knuckle under to Der Trumpenfuhrer, then the White House will just bypass them and try to work a deal with moderate Democrats to get his agenda passed.
Stop laughing, he’s serious!///
Rinsed is a funny guy.
re: #193 Franklin
WHITEHOUSE: If Republicans won’t work with us on healthcare we’ll just make a deal with the Democrats.
In business deal-making, if things fall through, you just walk away and find a new partner who is more amenable to you. Does not work that way in politics.
Is there a Democrat in the house or Senate who would make a deal with DT? At least one that the latter would agree to?
re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
More likely in the Senate. Pelosi has the House Democrats on the same page in caucus. A few Democrats in the Senate had expressed interest in what Trump was selling regarding the infrastructure nonsense, but there’s nothing to any of Trump’s plans. There’s no actual policy there. It’s all back of the napkin stuff that doesn’t have support of the GOP in any shape or form.
Even Trump’s tax policy has turned into Ryan’s tax policy, only because it’s slightly less fanciful but no less than standard GOP orthodoxy - tax cuts for the rich, and burden shifting to everyone else.
Rich see higher cuts in tax rate (absolute and percentage terms) than other groups. They see the bulk of the benefit, while service cuts are how it all gets paid for, meaning those least able to afford them are screwed.
re: #195 wheat-dogg
I’m up to episode 8 of Iron Fist. It was like watching a live-action recreation of a comic book, in terms of the scenes and plot development. I didn’t have that feeling while watching the other TV MCU series. They were more like hour-long movies.
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I wonder if it isn’t because it is a martial arts character? There seems to have been utterly no growth in the TV presentation of any martial arts, but especially those of Asia, since The Green Hornet introduced the US to them. The others all have things that are “normal” to the west but Wuxia just seems beyond the writers.
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re: #202 jeffreyw
Fluffiness is NOT part of a healthy breakfast.
re: #165 Targetpractice
So Rinsed told the press that if the Freedom Caucus won’t knuckle under to Der Trumpenfuhrer, then the White House will just bypass them and try to work a deal with moderate Democrats to get his agenda passed.
Stop laughing, he’s serious!///
Is Trump sending Rinsed out there to make an asshole of himself so Trump has a pretext to fire him, or am I just giving Trump too much credit?
re: #204 Timothy Watson
Is Trump sending Rinsed out there to make an asshole of himself so Trump has a pretext to fire him, or am I just giving Trump too much credit?
I think it is because they are that clueless and are thrashing around for solutions…a party that has a de facto majority but cannot govern.
re: #205 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think it is because they are that clueless and are thrashing around for solutions…a party that has a de facto majority but cannot govern.
Drain The Swamp! LOL.
re: #205 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think it is because they are that clueless and are thrashing around for solutions…a party that has a de facto majority but cannot govern.
Also to be thrown under the bus? Jared Kushner, whose portfolio of stuff he is now responsible for continues to grow despite know expertise on any of it - ME envoy, overhaul czar, and opioid initiative. He’s got plenty of experience meeting with the Russians off the books though, so there’s that.
JFC
Trump sees Black Caucus as potential policy ally // He’s already asked April Ryan to set up another meeting! https://t.co/Kl3GhCpr52
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) March 27, 2017
“Trump is great! He’s willing to work with Democrats to MAGA! Obama never wanted to work with Republicans!”
@anamariecox If he’s serious, then he must be on enough psychedelics to power the 1970s.
— jay (@random__name) March 27, 2017
re: #208 Franklin
“There is a path for bipartisan victories in Congress,” Geduldig says. “A coalition of Black Caucus Democrats and Republicans is kryptonite to rich white liberals. Imagine a tax and infrastructure bill that provides tax cuts for Republicans and new pipes for Flint, Michigan. How do Stabenow and Peters [Michigan’s U.S. Senators] justify voting no?”
Yeah. The GOP House that couldn’t pass a draconian healthcare bill is gonna pass an infrastructure bill that puts new pipes in Flint. Sure.
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re: #208 Franklin
JFC
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re: #208 Franklin
JFC
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“Another meeting”? Didn’t the Black Caucus refuse to meet with Trump if Bannon was going to be in the room?
re: #211 Sir John Barron
Yeah. The GOP House that couldn’t pass a draconian healthcare bill is gonna pass an infrastructure bill that puts new pipes in Flint. Sure.
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Tax cuts for the rich will not pay for an updated infrastructure project in Flint.
In fact tax cuts for the rich do not pay for anything, except more luxuries for the rich.
re: #215 The Vicious Babushka
Tax cuts for the rich will not pay for an updated infrastructure project in Flint.
In fact tax cuts for the rich do not pay for anything, except more luxuries for the rich.
Tax cuts will pay for more defense spending, The Wall, Flint pipes and a new, really terrific, wonderful healthcare bill.
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I wonder now if the House Freedom Caucus will throw a monkey wrench into lifting the debt ceiling. That would be fun.
re: #217 Sir John Barron
I wonder now if the House Freedom Caucus will throw a monkey wrench into lifting the debt ceiling. That would be fun.
You bet. The Democrats should categorically refuse to vote for an increase that isn’t clean, and the Freedom Caucus will demand draconian spending cuts, and eventually force Ryan to submit a clean bill to get democratic votes, enraging the Right. Fun times!
I have found the greatest Superman comic ever pic.twitter.com/MKCvBjYWIQ
— Ol’ QWERTY Bastard (@TheDiLLon1) April 20, 2016
I will happily use Trump to get Democratic Party platform/needs passed. If he’s decided the Republicans are useless and can’t make a deal for him and can’t govern, bring it. That would be delicious.
We look like the bigger people who are capable of actual governance. We get what we want. I’m good.
We have to very careful dealing with snakes but we’re kinda used to it now.
Are we unable to confirm this due to a lack of record keeping on WH visits?
NEW: Sources tells @jaketapper that House Intel Chair Nunes seen on WH grounds the day before announcement last week re: Trump surveillance
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) March 27, 2017
re: #221 BlueGrl21
If Trump had even a hint of moral fiber in his body, I’d agree with you 100%.
re: #221 BlueGrl21
I will happily use Trump to get Democratic Party platform/needs passed. If he’s decided the Republicans are useless and can’t make a deal for him and can’t govern, bring it. That would be delicious.
We look like the bigger people who are capable of actual governance. We get what we want. I’m good.
We have to very careful dealing with snakes but we’re kinda used to it now.
I think that this is primarily posturing in a desperate attempt to get the GOP to work in concert.
GOP finger-pointing. Ha. Circular firing squad for their incompetence. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/b5U8iELeh1
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 27, 2017
re: #228 lawhawk
GOP finger-pointing. Ha. Circular firing squad for their incompetence.
I am less despondent than I have been for some time since November…but this mess is still not good news for our nation as a whole, just slightly less bad.
Johnny Rotten, Truth in Naming…
Rich old white man is fascist racist shocker pic.twitter.com/SzK82eds3S
— Edgar Allan Proclick (@The_Swole_Nerd) March 27, 2017
WATCH: Trump last year: If I’m POTUS I don’t think I’d see any of my golf courses again, I just want to stay in WH and “work in my ass off” pic.twitter.com/4nOtG7BavO
— Yashar (@yashar) March 27, 2017
If you bought into @realDonaldTrump’s line of BS about his not playing golf, you’re dumber than you look. Trump always lies/projects. https://t.co/zKa0StdTvp
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 27, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump even got Fox News to try and lie for him that he was in WH working when he was really in VA playing rounds.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 27, 2017
I just can’t even with this story anymore
Nunes admits he was on White House grounds in a SCIF day before his infamous press conference @jaketapper reports https://t.co/R8o63OSMO0
— Yashar (@yashar) March 27, 2017
Nunes tells @jaketapper that no one at the White House was aware that he was there. https://t.co/3UfAYCuCRa
— Yashar (@yashar) March 27, 2017
Something needs to break
Our librul media at work:
Stock futures and the dollar slipped on Monday after GOP health care bill pulled on Friday https://t.co/jclBE3CgVJ pic.twitter.com/cGc5N49Qc9
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 27, 2017
Versus reality:
The stock market has been a steady decline since last week. After the bill crashed, the markets sticked UP.
re: #232 A wild WITHAK appeared!
Besides tables getting flipped, that is.
Nunes needs to be brought up on charges and arrested for his actions. Violating multiple federal laws regarding interfering with federal investigations and divulging classified info. The former is far more relevant than the latter, since it’s not clear on what he was basing his asinine statements over the past week.
re: #232 A wild WITHAK appeared!
OK, he says he was on WH grounds in a SCIF, and he says no one at the WH knew he was there? Man, that is ALL kinds of bullshit.
Rep. Nunes, I would recommend you start carrying a geiger counter with you for every meal, and stay far away from any windows above the second floor…
re: #232 A wild WITHAK appeared!
@yashar @jaketapper What. Did he jump the fence and hang out on the grounds for 16 minutes??
— efuseakay (@efuseakay) March 27, 2017
re: #165 Targetpractice
So Rinsed told the press that if the Freedom Caucus won’t knuckle under to Der Trumpenfuhrer, then the White House will just bypass them and try to work a deal with moderate Democrats to get his agenda passed.
Stop laughing, he’s serious!///
Didn’t DT blame Dems for the healthcare bill defeat just the other day?
re: #236 GlutenFreeJesus
Nunes tells Jake Tapper that no one at the White House was aware that he was there.
Such a level of awareness. I feel safer already.
re: #237 Sir John Barron
Didn’t DT blame Dems for the healthcare bill defeat just the other day?
As I said, this is just thrashing about looking for some sort of solution to the ongoing clusterfuck they have created.
New stmt to NBC: Nunes “met with his source at the White House grounds in order to have proximity to a secure location” day before anncmnt. pic.twitter.com/73dXNvkj2N
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 27, 2017
re: #237 Sir John Barron
He blamed everyone but himself.
Despite the volatile market as of late, the company that ditched Trump is doing ok. #Nordstrom #Dow pic.twitter.com/bEVguUeGmI
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 27, 2017
re: #240 lawhawk
It’s the old “Reverse Deep Throat” gambit.
re: #240 lawhawk
Thought he said nobody was aware he was there!
Flat earthers are real
@heretic24 @DoubleDumas I’d rather look to scientists who would simply point and laugh at every fucking idiot who believes in a #flatearth.
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 27, 2017
His timeline is a hoot: twitter.com
re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Such a level of awareness. I feel safer already.
Was Nunes just on a tour or something?
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re: #245 Dr. Matt
Flat earthers are real
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His timeline is a hoot: twitter.com
What the hell is a “submarine member”?
Is Kellyanne Conway breaking a major criminal conflict of interest statute? Forget it Jake, it’s Trumpland https://t.co/I57IoWZpJt
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 27, 2017
Charles, here is another photo for consideration of the “I have no idea what I’m doing” tagline:
Nunes was on WH grounds day before making bold Trump surveillance claims https://t.co/y4JYYy6sWW pic.twitter.com/bBrtLW6mTY
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 27, 2017
re: #247 Franklin
What the hell is a “submarine member”?
Likely something he saw on the StromFront equivalent of a flat earther website.
These “flat earthers” are just spoofing everyone.
Current scoreboard:
66 days of President Trump, by the numbers https://t.co/IA63XIWiHZ pic.twitter.com/v9RqozMAYq
— DemUnderground (@demunderground) March 27, 2017
re: #253 The Vicious Babushka
These “flat earthers” are just spoofing everyone.
Besides, we all know that the Earth is actually hollow and filled with Nazi flying saucers…
re: #146 Targetpractice
Even the assassination of Hitler is dependent on when it happened. Earlier in his reign and the war may have been averted or ended earlier with a negotiated peace that saw a return to status quo ante bellum. Late in the war and its unlikely that the Allies (especially Stalin) would have agreed to a negotiated peace and probably would have forced the new regime to choose between fighting to the last or making it easier for the Western Allies to occupy the whole of Germany before the Soviets got there.
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
LOLWUT
The Detroit News ✔ @detroitnews
What if GM built a Corvette SUV? detne.ws
8:45 AM - 27 Mar 2017
Retweets 4 4 likes
Going after the performance SUV market by naming it a Corvette.
See Porsche Cayenne. It even sort of looks like one. It’s just marketing.
re: #192 lawhawk
Legends of Tomorrow has a bit more complexity than that.
WWI (meeting up with JRR Tolkien)
WWII (meeting up with other superhero group active at the time)
Revolutionary War (okay, saving Washington)
Civil War
1950s (dealing with racism/prejudice, including on college campus and anti-miscegenation).
1870s (crossover with Jonah Hex)
1980s (infiltrating WH to keep the INF treaty from getting sabotaged).I think they pick the big 4 (Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII because they’re stuff everyone should know - but usually don’t know more than the basics).
And the moonshot. All the time travel shows go to the moon shot (I particularly liked Dr Who’s take on it)
This whole Nunes thing is just so damn weird. I can’t make heads nor tails of it.
But damn if the guy doesn’t look guilty of something.
re: #197 Sir John Barron
Rinsed is a funny guy.
Rinsed might not be funny for long.
I think anyone that works for Trump faces an uncertain future as to how long they will have a job. Seems Donny likes to blame his mess-ups on others so if you work for him, you could be one of those excuses and see yourself out the door before you know what happened.
re: #245 Dr. Matt
Flat earthers are real
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His timeline is a hoot: twitter.com
Flat Earthing is apparently becoming A Thing. I was reading that Shaq is into it now. :(
re: #258 sagehen
And the moonshot. All the time travel shows go to the moon shot (I particularly liked Dr Who’s take on it)
I liked the Star Trek OS take where it was a launch prior to the moon shot that was being used to stealth a nuke platform into orbit under cover of Apollo 6. Wasn’t a great episode but hardly a terrible one either.
SHOT
Did they try the golf course? RT @cnnbrk: U.S. lawmakers call on President Barack Obama for ISIS strategy. http://t.co/yjlUI3g7ki
— Michelle Ray (@GaltsGirl) August 31, 2014
CHASER
.@jesseltaylor Like I said: No one cares about Trump golfing. You care that the right isn’t complaining,.
So you complain… like children.— Michelle Ray (@GaltsGirl) March 27, 2017
It’s morning, I’m on my first cuppa.
I open LGF and see him.
I perused the entire front page and Trump is there ALOT.
It occurred to me, that we are giving him exactly what he wants. His picture everywhere.
mein furer. (I don’t know how to make those little dots)
How are you?
re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Besides, we all know that the Earth is actually hollow and filled with Nazi flying saucers…
TURTLES!!!!!
re: #264 Birth Control Works
mein furer. (I don’t know how to make those little dots)
hold down alt, type 1 2 9 = ü
re: #268 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
hold down alt, type 1 2 9 = ü
Or, you could use Character Map in Windows Accessories.
re: #259 makeitstop
This whole Nunes thing is just so damn weird. I can’t make heads nor tails of it.
But damn if the guy doesn’t look guilty of something.
I always watch people’s eye when they address the media…especially when they are under pressure for doing something questionable.
I note he spends more time looking down at the ground than looking at the audience or his questioner. Can’t look you in the eye while he lies.
re: #268 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
hold down alt, type 1 2 9 = ü
I’ll never remember that
¡™ª =what I got on mac
re: #264 Birth Control Works
It’s morning, I’m on my first cuppa.
I open LGF and see him.
I perused the entire front page and Trump is there ALOT.
It occurred to me, that we are giving him exactly what he wants. His picture everywhere.
mein furer. (I don’t know how to make those little dots)
How are you?
Hey ggt…did you see the photoshop image I did for you yesterday? It was Jesus with a Starbucks coffee and a big ol’ spliff/joint.
It’s here: Comment #7 - Stupidest Man on the Internet Quietly Deletes Lucian Wintrich #PizzaGate Screed
Written by a Man: To Win Again, Democrats Must Stop Being the Abortion Party https://t.co/NbJgiwXtmY
— ggt (@geegeetee) March 27, 2017
re: #276 ObserverArt
Hey ggt…did you see the photoshop image I did for you yesterday? It was Jesus with a Starbucks coffee and a big ol’ spliff/joint.
It’s here: Comment #7 - Stupidest Man on the Internet Quietly Deletes Lucian Wintrich #PizzaGate Screed
You are sooo kewl. I didn’t get back on yesterday after my massage.
It is saved on my hard drive!
THEY ARE NOT YOUR “CUSTOMERS” THEY ARE YOUR EMPLOYERS, DICKWAD.
These are actual words that an actual human being said aloud.https://t.co/ekJ1vwh8tJ pic.twitter.com/L1wR24lauz
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 27, 2017
RT @bannerite: Icahn Raises Ethics Flags With Dual Roles as Investor and Trump Adviser https://t.co/IouO8YDjQi via @twttimes
— ggt (@geegeetee) March 27, 2017
We’re not your customers, Jared. We’re your BOSSES. pic.twitter.com/aotoopWEHV
— Heather & Jessica (@fuggirls) March 27, 2017
MEGA-THREAD: MI6 agent Chris STEELE, author of history’s most explosive intel dossier, will soon testify against TRUMP. Read his story here. pic.twitter.com/JqovB8lo8h
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 26, 2017
Happy #MuslimWomensDay! pic.twitter.com/r0iWcLKXVK
— ESSENCE (@Essence) March 27, 2017
We also believe that viewers and listeners are the “customers” and that news & other programming are the “product”.
Wrong.
Customers are the advertisers, the product being sold by networks is advertising time. News & programming are just there to attract viewers and increase the market value of the product.
Florida: Take Action Now — Tell Lawmakers to Reject Religious Indoctrination in Public Schools
These religious privilege bills could:
-Allow teachers to promote religious viewpoints to students (for example, telling LGBTQ students they are destined for Hell);
-Allow students to demand teachers grade science papers based on religious ideas as if those claims are as legitimate as those based on science and evidence (for example, —- that God created all life in its present form 6,000 years ago);
-Undermine efforts to stop the bullying of marginalized students;
-Pollute the teaching of basic science and history with dogma and myth; and
-Sanction school-sponsored and teacher-led prayers and religious meetings.
any Florida Lizards?
re: #286 Birth Control Works
Florida: Take Action Now — Tell Lawmakers to Reject Religious Indoctrination in Public Schools
This is what B DeV wants to see at a national level.
So if my daddy taught me that 2 x 2 = 5, does that mean you cannot mark my test wrong for that?
re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is what B DeV wants to see at a national level.
So if my daddy taught me that 2 x 2 = 5, does that mean you cannot mark my test wrong for that?
re: #288 Birth Control Works
Trump Creates New White House Office Headed By His Son-in-Law Jared Kushner
Because he doesn’t have enough stuff to work on.
Each of this is a full-time job by itself, but he has enough time to do even more:
1) Middle East envoy;
2) innovation czar;
3) opioid epidemic initiative; and
4) Russia-Trump liason (oh…wait).
Nothing in Kushner’s background makes him prepared to run any of these except the Russia business. And Trump doesn’t have anyone else, so he keeps going to the one guy he remembers.
tomorrow is Pink Day
We won this fight, but we can’t let up. Stop attacks on our health, rights & communities→ https://t.co/pU1TaTkMIa #PinkOut pic.twitter.com/7V0N14SDx0
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) March 26, 2017
The Secret Service has spent $16k so far on golf cart rentals for Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/Pgje6S1LBh
— Nathaniel Meyersohn (@nmeyersohn) March 26, 2017
re: #234 lawhawk
Besides tables getting flipped, that is.
Nunes needs to be brought up on charges and arrested for his actions. Violating multiple federal laws regarding interfering with federal investigations and divulging classified info. The former is far more relevant than the latter, since it’s not clear on what he was basing his asinine statements over the past week.
What’s interesting is Gowdy saying saying about all this. Oh, he’s sending up distracting flak to say all is good.
My understanding is Chairman Nunes briefed the commander in chief on matters unrelated to the Russian investigation, so if that is big deal in Washington, then we have sunk to a new low.”
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
LOLWUT
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There are already fast smallish suv’s out there. off the top of my head: the V-6-optioned Toyota RAV4, The Suby Forrester Turbo, and the Porsche Cayenne GT twin turbo (that may even qualify as full-size)
re: #184 The Vicious Babushka
LOLWUT
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Looks like they are trying to compete with the Cayenne and Tesla Model X.
someone, find me a t-shirt with that graphic (post 298)
it’s too early for me to google
Amen
The Other 98% pic.twitter.com/wN8Cu8q1WM
— Larry Cooper (@coopah) March 27, 2017
Bullshit headline from the left: JUST IN: All 8 Supreme Court Justices Stand In Solidarity Against Trump SCOTUS Pick
re: #303 The Vicious Babushka
Jurassic Park is not actually a Thing.
So I didn’t read those novels or see those movies?
re: #304 Dr. Matt
Bullshit headline from the left: JUST IN: All 8 Supreme Court Justices Stand In Solidarity Against Trump SCOTUS Pick
Unfortunately there are a bunch of left-wing fake news sites. These include:
bipartisanreport
addictinginfo
theintercept
jacobinmag
occupydemocrats
re: #305 A wild WITHAK appeared!
So I didn’t read those novels or see those movies?
Those are FICTION.
Just like time travel and FTL space travel and hyper warp speed and teleporting are not actual Science Things, in spite of many novels and movies.
The Other 98% pic.twitter.com/XKKrIGIl8l
— Larry Cooper (@coopah) March 27, 2017
re: #308 The Vicious Babushka
Those are FICTION.
Of course they are.
Science giving us science fiction is, of course, a thing it has done for us.
re: #301 Birth Control Works
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Your humble servant worked for 7 months as a legislative fellow for Rep Holt when he was still in congress.
re: #295 Stanley Sea
The Secret Service has spent $16k so far on golf cart rentals for Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago.
Of all the attempts to monetize the presidency this scammin’ mofo is running, this charging the Secret Service probably pisses me off the most.
They’re protecting your fat ass. Comp the goddamn golf carts already.
re: #316 makeitstop
Which would be a business expense anyway, and written off.
makes u think @timkmak @BraddJaffy pic.twitter.com/S41VrgTw0b
— darth™ (@darth) March 27, 2017
re: #208 Franklin
JFC
You really should have said “HAHAHAHAHAHA”. Not only does Trump not understand the Congressional Black Caucus, he doesn’t understand what the rest of his party will do when he starts attempting to negotiate with them.
re: #308 The Vicious Babushka
Those are FICTION.
Correct but you could argue a lot of real science was used to bring the movie to life.
re: #321 The Vicious Babushka
AUTOMATIC. BLOCKING. FUNCTION. TRIGGERED.
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Is that a Pamela Geller av on that profile?
re: #318 A wild WITHAK appeared!
The Thing is also in many (mostly bad) movies.
Especially, Home Alone 2 and The Little Rascals.
Re: Nunes. I’m reading his bio on Wikipedia, and there’s nothing there to indicate why he makes a good fit for the HIC as a committee member, let alone as the chair. His background and education are in agriculture.
re: #321 The Vicious Babushka
AUTOMATIC. BLOCKING. FUNCTION. TRIGGERED.
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So hard to tell the parodies from the real thing.
It’s also NATIONAL SOMETHING ON A STICK DAY
re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg
Correct but you could argue a lot of real science was used to bring the movie to life.
Movies are reliant on science.
Without it there would be no movies.
“My campaign is a farce, a small part of a much larger scheme,” he scoffs at Question. “President. Do you know how much power I’d have to give up to be president?…I spent 75 million on a fake presidential campaign, all just to tick Superman off.”
The Many Ways Donald Trump Is a Real-Life Lex Luthor https://t.co/MIVh0vFTMU via @thedailybeast
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 27, 2017
“My campaign is a farce, a small part of a much larger scheme.” https://t.co/Y6d8Yw3SRX
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) March 27, 2017
Texas GOP is like… Hold My Beer. https://t.co/aFq3dvrP7G @JuddLegum
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 27, 2017
Nearly 1 out of every 3 days he has been president, Trump has visited a Trump property
This 14-year-old Latina is leading her team to the world robotics championship https://t.co/V0C0sxAAV8
— Global Fund forWomen (@GlobalFundWomen) March 27, 2017
re: #332 lawhawk
I can’t do google docs at work. What is it?
The markets have been on a decline ever since @POTUS @realdonaldtrump addressed the Congress & nation. Enough said. #Dow #stockmarket #MAGA pic.twitter.com/d5SeBwEN9W
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 27, 2017
Photo: Jared Kushner with mob related felon Joey “No Socks” Cinque-spending New Years together#trumpleaks #resist #trumprussia #russiagate pic.twitter.com/l2UrXjeKyi
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) March 27, 2017
Nh680HsbCVsDV+gy0+iJmHs7t+pfgkpzN7KriKBinjLZ5/B+0UHQm2eMYl3wr2WIVTkpZOmeH8kbnBf4eWJ6lwBwKrckcoBb2fXJhwW/Cso9KSFsPZnbIrU91QGmmapsKXWoxl/0QbqkUkSYc1fRibDgUAUgUKBaYB5urbqQituMf0qvR5hF+A==
While Trump trumpets the value of American innovation, his anti-science budget ensures it won’t happen under him. https://t.co/wXx1MkySci
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 27, 2017
Everywhere Jared goes, someone should remind everyone around him that he only got into college because his dad paid them $2.5M.
re: #335 Belafon
I can’t do google docs at work. What is it?
It’s Texas SB6, which is the Texan version of North Carolina’s HB2 bathroom bill.
re: #340 Belafon
Everywhere Jared goes, someone should remind everyone around him that he only got into college because his dad paid them $2.5M.
Affirmative Action for the aflluenzically challenged.
Day 67: Trump’s approval rating falls to a new low of 36% — lower than Clinton or Obama ever fell https://t.co/c88CTXe4Gc pic.twitter.com/AqGfWDS9En
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 27, 2017
@realDonaldTrump
You’ve got a tiny Caucus. pic.twitter.com/8REnQroG3S— Kaj-Erik Eriksen (@KajEriksen) March 26, 2017
re: #341 lawhawk
It’s Texas SB6, which is the Texan version of North Carolina’s HB2 bathroom bill.
Yeah, watching those.
If the US is destroyed as an entity, it won’t be morals changing, it will be those who think they can stop change. I wonder if any other civilizations were brought down this way.
The Other 98% pic.twitter.com/7URgxXMYls
— Larry Cooper (@coopah) March 27, 2017
re: #344 Stanley Sea
Yeah, but look how long it took those other guys to get those low ratings! Years! Trump’s done it just a couple of months! Making America Great! And quickly!!
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re: #346 makeitstop
In other news…three years ago today, this guy came to live with us. Much dog food has been eaten.
Happy Puppy-versary, Scout! Good boy.
My, how he’s grown!
re: #353 Stanley Sea
Tongue slip!
That pic makes me laugh every time.
I almost wish we could have kept the small version of him, but I love the big lug he’s grown into.
re: #349 gocart mozart
Mostly because his support among the GOP is still rock solid.
Trump isn’t losing his supporters yet in Trump Country. 87-4% approve among people who voted for him, 86-7% w/GOP. https://t.co/yMhQ3KV7d2
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) March 27, 2017
re: #355 lawhawk
Mostly because his support among the GOP is still rock solid.
Remember, he sold himself as the anti-politician. This means he can fail in ways that no politician has ever failed before and his supporters will still cheer him on for it.
re: #355 lawhawk
Mostly because his support among the GOP is still rock solid.
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Of course.
When you absolutely have to have 4-wheeel drive to conquer the gravel driveway at your summer home…
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Meet Lamborghini’s first SUV: the Urus. https://t.co/JNRH97CySM pic.twitter.com/RllwrhYM0H
— CNN (@CNN) March 27, 2017
Meet Lamborghini’s first SUV: the Urus.
What we might have to accept is Trump’s floor isn’t as low as we may hope.
re: #358 FormerDirtDart
When you absolutely have to have 4-wheel drive to conquer the gravel driveway at 180 mph at your summer home…
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Fixed it.
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 27, 2017
re: #359 HappyWarrior
What we might have to accept is Trump’s floor isn’t as low as we may hope.
These are the people who would have been seen in postcards of lynchings.
It just means everyone else will have to step up. Trump also has time to screw them over.
re: #361 Franklin
One thing I just noticed about Douchebro in that picture.
He is perfectly clean. His knife, his hands, his clothes. All spotless.
re: #362 Belafon
These are the people who would have been seen in postcards of lynchings.
It just means everyone else will have to step up. Trump also has time to screw them over.
Yes.
re: #364 Kragar
One thing I just noticed about Douchebro in that picture.
He is perfectly clean. His knife, his hands, his clothes. All spotless.
Precisely. He sure as hell didn’t cut that tail off. Someone did it for him, with a different knife.
re: #360 Dr. Matt
Fixed it.
Lamborghini has built a 4x4 before. They offered the “Cheetah” to the US military during the HMMWV development program.
And, years later the Ranger Regiment tested them out when procuring the Ranger Special Operations Vehicle. They went with the Land Rover Defender 110.
I’ve talked with people who were part of the RSOV testing, everyone walked away after driving it laughing and smiling, and all saying “Noooooooooooo!” Just to much power, worried that to many people would wreck the damn things.
re: #346 makeitstop
In other news…three years ago today, this guy came to live with us. Much dog food has been eaten.
Happy Puppy-versary, Scout! Good boy.
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time to bring back something from the memory closet: