And Now, Sassy Trump in “I Don’t Stand by Anything”
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Spencer is such a snowflake:
Getting a warm welcome at the University of Buffalo and ready to confront the left-fascists! pic.twitter.com/l7DfwybDEW
— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) May 1, 2017
I’ve yet to listen to a ‘Sassy Trump’ video. Is it like the Honey Badger Don’t Give a Shit narration from a few years ago? Slightly femmed out? Am I missing out on something awesome?
re: #1 electrotek
Spencer is such a snowflake:
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@jihadwatchRS That poor bigoted bastard has an ass as big as Trump’s.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 2, 2017
re: #3 darthstar
Context:
@JC_Christian @realDonaldTrump Leave Donald’s ‘freakishly huge ass’ alone! Besides, It’ll probably be his next SCOTUS pick.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 1, 2017
The man certainly has a femtometer-sized epidermis……
I found myself wondering for a moment when the media was finally going to drop the fantasy that Trump is going to “pivot” and all this “early days” bullshit would be put by the wayside.
But then I realized it will never happen because there’s too much wrapped up in “Bothsiderism” to ever acknowledge that the leader of one side is batshit insane and his followers are the worst sort of people around.
re: #6 Targetpractice
“Bothsiderism” is good for ratings, dumbass!
re: #6 Targetpractice
I found myself wondering for a moment when the media was finally going to drop the fantasy that Trump is going to “pivot” and all this “early days” bullshit would be put by the wayside.
But then I realized it will never happen because there’s too much wrapped up in “Bothsiderism” to ever acknowledge that the leader of one side is batshit insane and his followers are the worst sort of people around.
Equalization has become normalized these days.
Of course, the other part of it is the journalistic equivalent of Battered Wife Syndrome, as decades of fear of being branded with the scarlet “L” of Liberalism has made the media absolutely afraid to address the reality that we’ve a complete moron in the White House and the only reason the country hasn’t come completely off the rails yet is because the gears of bureaucracy grind so slowly.
If Andrew Jackson had just specialized in necromancy we wouldn’t have all these problems.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) May 2, 2017
re: #9 Targetpractice
Of course, the other part of it is the journalistic equivalent of Battered Wife Syndrome, as decades of fear of being branded with the scarlet “L” of Liberalism has made the media absolutely afraid to address the reality that we’ve a complete moron in the White House and the only reason the country hasn’t come completely off the rails yet is because the gears of bureaucracy grind so slowly.
And years of FOX News Channel insisting to its viewers, and reich-wing and Christian hate radio all claiming the media is liberally-biased, means that the both-siderism isn’t going to work anyway.
The New York Times isn’t going to win conservative readers by giving a platform to a climate change denier. MSNBC is not going to win conservative viewers by hiring people like Greta Van Sursten.
They will sacrifice their audiences on the altar of magic balance fairyism though.
@realDonaldTrump Jackson was a Democrat! I’m glad the civil war wasn’t on his watch! Blacks would still be the slaves they try to make us think they are!👎🏼
— SenaKathrynXX (@SchneiderSena) May 2, 2017
This is the cognitive dissonance version of a Calabi-Yau Manifold. https://t.co/TZ8DYkC5Xy
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) May 2, 2017
Trump says he could’ve prevented the Civil War by making a deal, so let’s all chip in for a DeLorean for him to go back to 1860 and try.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 1, 2017
re: #13 goddamnedfrank
… and history ended with the Southern Strategy.
Okay another one …
The White House ethics office says it wasn’t consulted about Ivanka Trump’s adviser job https://t.co/4G8oun3v6C pic.twitter.com/EXFSrMjNQV
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 2, 2017
You don’t ask your mom if your weed smells right. https://t.co/ZleMY1Rfsm
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 2, 2017
re: #11 Anymouse
And years of FOX News Channel insisting to its viewers, and reich-wing and Christian hate radio all claiming the media is liberally-biased, means that the both-siderism isn’t going to work anyway.
The New York Times isn’t going to win conservative readers by giving a platform to a climate change denier. MSNBC is not going to win conservative viewers by hiring people like Greta Van Sursten.
They will sacrifice their audiences on the altar of magic balance fairyism though.
The truly sad part is this desperate ploy is being spun (in part as a defense mechanism) into some true blossoming of liberalism by giving “both sides” a platform to argue their case. As we saw this past weekend, all that does is give the people who already are trying desperately to keep some measure of faith in the media the final straw they need to call it quits. “Free speech” is now being twisted into a battle cry of privileged assholes who can’t accept that their readers don’t want to pay to be told they’re idiots for buying into the climate change “hoax.”
You have to watch this video just for the last five seconds when our baby president has to retreat behind his desk to shuffle papers.
re: #9 Targetpractice
Of course, the other part of it is the journalistic equivalent of Battered Wife Syndrome, as decades of fear of being branded with the scarlet “L” of Liberalism has made the media absolutely afraid to address the reality that we’ve a complete moron in the White House and the only reason the country hasn’t come completely off the rails yet is because the gears of bureaucracy grind so slowly.
You know, it’s funny. Fox News is falling apart, and part of that is that their audience finally got what they want. And a just this moment, when the Resistance movement is gaining traction, and followers, MSNBC, which had built its name on being a home for liberals, decides that NOW is the time to try to be Fox News.
I mean, OF COURSE Fox is crashing! They’re no longer the Opposition. And of course MSNBC had been having problems increasingly for 8 years. Under Obama, they had no mission. NOW, with Trump, they have one.
re: #14 Anymouse
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This is meant as a joke, but it’s pretty much the greatest example of the wingnut ignorance of history in full blossom. Lincoln was open to the idea of basically offering to pay owners a “fair” price for their slaves. But by 1860, slaves represented a greater financial investment than any other in the US. There was simply not enough money in the coffers to buy every single slave. And that assumes something that the secessionists pretty much shot to shit the moment they made their break official: They were prepared to tear the country apart to keep their slaves.
re: #20 Targetpractice
The South decided they would rather see dead Americans than free blacks
Trump spent more time playing golf over the last week than the GOP did to rewrite the health care bill.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) May 2, 2017
re: #21 Kragar
The South decided they would rather see dead Americans than free blacks
And initially President Lincoln was not arguing for freeing slaves anyway, he wanted to preserve the Union, while France, Britain, and Spain all looked on to regain their lost colonies as the nation tore itself apart.
South Carolina opened fire first, and Lincoln wasn’t even sworn in yet.
re: #21 Kragar
The South decided they would rather see dead Americans than free blacks
All the talk about “Southern culture” ignores one major item: Southern “culture” was built largely upon the idea that the white man was superior to the black. It was how his entire world worked, what put food on the table, what kept a roof over his family’s heads, and what put money in his pocket. The idea that the races were equal, that a white man was no different from the black man who he forced to work in his fields, challenged that entire world to its very core. And that was not something the South was ever going to accept, no matter what “deal” was made.
‘sorry, feeding you would be a waste of resources. i’m just not seeing results.’ pic.twitter.com/o4Jt55iNt3
— jordan 🌹 (@JordanUhl) March 16, 2017
LOL. Fifth highest Twitter hashtag:
#TrumpTeachesHistory
re: #27 Anymouse
You’re an astute Twitter observer. Get an account! Participate! I would follow you.
re: #28 teleskiguy
You’re an astute Twitter observer. Get an account! Participate! I would follow you.
I can’t. My stalker ex-wife is on Twitter.
And for everyone’s perusal. The police have declared a riot in Portland, Ore.:
oregonlive.com
thinkprogress.org
Out of 11,767 people in Mississippi who applied for TANF benefits that amount to $170 a month for three people, the state approved 167.
The article notes no other state has a rejection rate over 90% but Texas is close.
Przez 27 lat nie było takich zdjęć. Możliwe tylko w #PaństwoPiS. Demony przeszłości obecne w przestrzeni publicznej bo jest na to zgoda PiS. pic.twitter.com/SDFhjNqtkn
— Michał Szczerba (@MichalSzczerba) April 30, 2017
Since 1989, there were no photographs like one, showing a fascist group marching in Warsaw. Now possible thanks to far-right government. https://t.co/b4GevOv3dG
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) May 1, 2017
Poland will appoint honorary counsuls, that is, volunteers in other countries who would be willing to give aid to Polish travellers, promote Poland’s tourism, &c. The requirements are basically a desire to do that, and the ability to speak Polish. (My wife is considering this.)
An honorary counsul in Akron, Ohio has been suspended by the Polish Foreign Ministry after depicting Donald Tusk (President of the Council of Europe) as a Nazi.
She says her social media accounts were hacked and she would not do such a thing. She also says she doesn’t have a Twitter account (one of the places the image appeared).
Maria Szonert-Binienda, who became Polish honorary consul in Akron, Ohio, earlier this month, has slammed what she described as a media “campaign of lies and slander” against her.
Further decisions on her future will be made after Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski returns from a trip to Australia, the PAP news agency reported.
A lawyer for Tusk on Saturday took the case to prosecutors, urging them to open proceedings.
The lawyer said a digitally-altered image of Tusk posted on Twitter — allegedly by Szonert-Binienda — was defamatory and “so shocking that it could not be left without a reaction”.
But Szonert-Binienda said she did not use Twitter at all, adding that her Facebook account had been hacked. She said that she condemned the promotion of Nazi themes.
(more at Radio Poland)
re: #31 Anymouse
This state of mine has some serious issues to work out. I’ve seriously thought about running for governor at some point after becoming a citizen.
re: #35 Eclectic Cyborg
This state of mine has some serious issues to work out. I’ve seriously thought about running for governor at some point after becoming a citizen.
You could run on replacing the Dixie Swastika in the canton of the state flag with the Canadian maple leaf. /s
The only way I’d have a chance in hell of winning down here would be to run GOP and I don’t I’m not sure I could ever bring myself to do that.
Racism is expecting Obama to work for free while letting Trump siphon tax payers dollars through his business: https://t.co/Q9OgIJ035Y pic.twitter.com/4ZY3IEvQXD
— AFROPUNK (@afropunk) May 1, 2017
I just read that Hannity may be leaving Fox. Now, we just need to make sure that MSNBC doesn’t hire him.
— deray mckesson (@deray) May 1, 2017
re: #39 Birth Control Works
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That was my first thought when I heard Lumpy was thinking of quitting Faux, that he’ll just land somewhere in “serious” pundit land, paid to offer a “conservative voice.”
re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg
The only way I’d have a chance in hell of winning down here would be to run GOP and I don’t I’m not sure I could ever bring myself to do that.
It wasn’t too long ago Mississippi had a Democratic House. (That ended in 2010 I believe, but I would have to look it up and I am lazy.)
If the GOP’s wheels come off under Donald Trump, a Dem might have a shot at it.
Why did conservative @USRepLong come out against Trumpcare today?
His daughter has cancer & he knows how important pre-ex protections are.1— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) May 2, 2017
re: #41 Anymouse
Did you see my private message to you Sunday?
re: #17 Targetpractice
The truly sad part is this desperate ploy is being spun (in part as a defense mechanism) into some true blossoming of liberalism by giving “both sides” a platform to argue their case. As we saw this past weekend, all that does is give the people who already are trying desperately to keep some measure of faith in the media the final straw they need to call it quits. “Free speech” is now being twisted into a battle cry of privileged assholes who can’t accept that their readers don’t want to pay to be told they’re idiots for buying into the climate change “hoax.”
Interesting story about Andy Lack (appropriately named) and the mess he’s making of MSNBC.
My kid: Why does every generation of parents think they can stop THEIR teenagers from having sex?
Me: Do you have enough condoms?— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) April 30, 2017
no, not this parent, and many of my friends. Those that do can’t be talked out of it, they tend to have “issues.”
If what mostly happened in academia was searching for new knowledge and teaching that process, we’d be better at the fight with the right.
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) April 30, 2017
If the humanities die, it will be because identity politics were too long mistaken for scholarship. https://t.co/qgTjyq7HaT
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) April 30, 2017
re: #25 Targetpractice
All the talk about “Southern culture” ignores one major item: Southern “culture” was built largely upon the idea that the white man was superior to the black. It was how his entire world worked, what put food on the table, what kept a roof over his family’s heads, and what put money in his pocket. The idea that the races were equal, that a white man was no different from the black man who he forced to work in his fields, challenged that entire world to its very core. And that was not something the South was ever going to accept, no matter what “deal” was made.
The only southern Civil War plaque I admire (at the Clarion Hotel in Columbia.)
re: #42 Shiplord Kirel
Did you see my private message to you Sunday?
No, I apparently overlooked it, so I will read it now.
[Jeopardy theme]
As for that “conventional religious expression” you say you used, I either missed that too, or I got over it. (I normally don’t get upset at religious expressions put my way like “God bless” or “I’ll pray for you.” I only get upset at pushy evangelists after I’ve asked them to stop.)
I’m not a “student” of Joseph Campbell, but I did read a couple of his books a very long time ago and found them quite interesting.
Pope-to-Dope : when conditions are right you can rip it 5th gear taped 🏂. Never thought I would literally be doing that on April 29th on my Kx450 🏍 in all time conditions!@timbersledproducts #anywhereyouwanttogo #keepthefalllinereal
Those tracks are from TimberSleds.
re: #43 BeachDem
Interesting story about Andy Lack (appropriately named) and the mess he’s making of MSNBC.
I read that article and noted just as when Andy Lack was in charge at NBC, now at MSNBC he seems intent on pushing out all the non-white on-air personalities.
re: #25 Targetpractice
All the talk about “Southern culture” ignores one major item: Southern “culture” was built largely upon the idea that the white man was superior to the black.
It was based on the notion that those white settlers were too damn lazy to do the hard work of raising sugar, cotton or tobacco and found it easier to import slaves and threaten them with physical harm if they did not comply.
re: #30 Anymouse
I can’t. My stalker ex-wife is on Twitter.
Twitter allows handles. You could be @SamSpade if you wanted (more likely @SamSpade1000000, but that’s besides the point). How would she ever know who you are?
re: #54 MsJ
Twitter allows handles. You could be @SamSpade if you wanted (more likely @SamSpade1000000, but that’s besides the point). How would she ever know who you are?
FB allows you to block people entirely, as I have done with my ex-wife.
Young dudes are ridiculous.
Girls think Men grow beards for them 😂😂😂. B listen we ain’t spending 3 years growing a beard for your opinion.
— Mr Controversial (@ZaakH_ad) May 1, 2017
RT this if you’ve literally never thought that men grow beards for girls https://t.co/Hf68xs7mWN
— Kelly (@kellyblaus) May 1, 2017
@kellyblaus @AbelUndercity LOL, dude acts like there’s effort involved. The truth is men grow beards because we’re lazy af. It’s literally the result of doing nothing.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) May 2, 2017
re: #56 goddamnedfrank
The truth is men grow beards because we’re lazy af. It’s literally the result of doing nothing.
Dammit, you’ve given up the whole game! Men, everywhere, are doomed now!
Woman refuses to take off MAGA hat for license photo, cites RELIGION👌 pic.twitter.com/RjOOTFpnnU
— Tennessee (@TEN_GOP) May 1, 2017
Watch this. @jmeacham says on @Morning_Joe that Trump told him a year ago that he thought he could have done a deal to avert the Civil War.
.@jmeacham Watch this. @jmeacham says on @Morning_Joe that Trump told him a year ago that he thought he could have done a deal to avert the Civil War. pic.twitter.com/IFc0q5zG2m
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 2, 2017
re: #1 electrotek
So the University of Buffalo is okay with inviting a White Supremacist to speak? Good to know. How nice for the minority students who are busting their guts to afford to go there.
re: #39 Birth Control Works
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I’m sure the New York Times will gladly give L’il Lumpyass a slot on the OpEd page!
re: #38 Birth Control Works
Democrats in Congress need to make much more noise about the grifting that Trump and his family are doing. I understand that they don’t have much power being in the minority, but they need to keep the story in the forefront. It is not normal for a President to be making money off his office. Nor for his kids to be doing the same to line their pockets.
Had to say goodbye to my 14 year old Viszla last night. Man, he was the weirdest, sweetest, most fun dog ever. My 3 year old son knew something was wrong last night, but fell asleep before we left. I’m not looking forward to answering his question.
re: #61 Patricia Kayden
Good Lord, when I was a Freshman at Pitt in 1974, the Young Americans for FreeDUMB were alive and well on the campus organized by a gay Libertarian. Right from the start their worshipping at the alter of Buckley turned my stomach. Then the Young Libertarian Alliance started organizing with lots of cash from Kochs.
Bad enough studying Economics with a department split between Rothbard and Milton Friedman. And when Carter was elected the classes became more politicized. Yet I can remember all too well how the crackers in the Pennsyltucky legislature constantly bullshitted about them “left wing perfessers”!
re: #60 The Vicious Babushka
Watch this. @jmeacham says on @Morning_Joe that Trump told him a year ago that he thought he could have done a deal to avert the Civil War.
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OK, it’s time to start a Kickstarter campaign to buy a souped up DeLorean for Orange Foolius!
re: #67 Joe Bacon
OK, it’s time to start a Kickstarter campaign to buy a souped up DeLorean for Orange Foolius!
Nope. Send Trump back in time and he’d likely screw something up bigly and ruin the timeline for everyone.
re: #64 Mike Lamb
Sorry to hear of the loss of your buddy.
Per Trump:
Former US President Obama = “sick and bad”
Kim Jong Un = “pretty smart cookie” he’d be “honored” to meet with— Zac Petkanas (@Zac_Petkanas) May 2, 2017
Pretty strong putdown here by Rangel. https://t.co/dPzNULibTC pic.twitter.com/hi2PBD3tIA
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) May 2, 2017
AUNTIE LYDIA COMPLAINS ABOUT BEING OPPRESSED, HELP! HELP!
Living “The Handmaid’s Tale” — courtesy of the secular liberal elites of L.A., writes @MeanCharlotte https://t.co/AdRDejUS8K @latimesopinion pic.twitter.com/8FHRMIMMyZ
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 2, 2017
So the whip count hasn’t changed all that much since the first time Trumpcare failed (it even failed to be relabeled Ryancare by the WH)
Here’s where we stand: There are 19 Republicans look firmly against AHCA, 9 others leaning no, and more undecided. https://t.co/BVsezZP6QB
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) May 2, 2017
re: #76 The Vicious Babushka
Living ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ — courtesy of the secular liberal elites of L.A.
[…]
Washington-based Charlotte Allen writes about social and cultural issues.
Where’s my Castle GIF?
A woman is on trial for laughing during Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing. https://t.co/1Ocupk5EEe
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 2, 2017
#Ivanka’s new book “is not really offensive so much as witlessly derivative.” Review via @nytimes https://t.co/6mseV4cea0
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) May 2, 2017
re: #81 darthstar
Okay…the NYT review is worth a read
Just looking at “Women Who Work” gives you a clue. It’s a strawberry milkshake of inspirational quotes. Lee Iacocca appears two pages before Socrates. Toni Morrison appears one page after Estée Lauder. A quote from Nelson Mandela introduces the section that encourages women to ask for flextime: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
Jared Kushner didn’t disclose stake in real estate finance startup as well as $1 billion in loans. Via @WSJ https://t.co/TkS9bQRq1d
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) May 2, 2017
BREAKING: Jared Kushner is George Soros’ still-active business partner (this should go over well) https://t.co/BiXy1PwoIv
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 2, 2017
@realDonaldTrump You stupid fucker. “Our country needs a good “shutdown”“? Do you think adding quotes makes that sound responsible?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 2, 2017
re: #85 darthstar
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Wowzer, a President openly advocating for a government shutdown…
re: #83 darthstar
@BraddJaffy That’s on top of his lies on the security clearance forms. In any other admin, this would be grounds for dismissal. Here? Not even crickets
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 2, 2017
either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good “shutdown” in September to fix mess!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2017
Listen, if you need to change the rules or blow up the government in order to get your way, then maybe your way sucks. https://t.co/iYDwEZKInm
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 2, 2017
re: #85 darthstar
@realDonaldTrump Our economy needs a better president, because you’re failing spectacularly on all the basics.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 2, 2017
Trump’s taking up Ted Cruz’s mantle of seeking a government shutdown that will cripple the economy all because the GOP doesn’t know how to govern.
Trump doesn’t know how to government. Presidenting while issuing diktats isn’t what presidents do. That’s all Trump knows how to do, and when he doesn’t get his way, he gets in a huff and threatens to do even more bad stuff.
Morning.
I see VB has a video up from Morning Joke’s show this morning. I decided to watch the first half hour to see what they would say about our scrambled-brain President.
Here is the whole first segment. Joe and Mika think he is getting worse and is a mental mess. It’s long but interesting.
re: #89 lawhawk
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Trump’s taking up Ted Cruz’s mantle of seeking a government shutdown that will cripple the economy all because the GOP doesn’t know how to govern.
Trump doesn’t know how to government. Presidenting while issuing diktats isn’t what presidents do. That’s all Trump knows how to do, and when he doesn’t get his way, he gets in a huff and threatens to do even more bad stuff.
Exactly. Even if they destroy the filibuster they won’t be able to get shit done because the GOP is too fractured with Teabag/Freedom Caucus and “Moderates” hating each other like Hatfields and McCoys.
The 2013 government shutdown cost the government and economy a massive amount of money https://t.co/DzMTzzVnWG pic.twitter.com/Gz2dcD3HPI
— Elise Foley (@elisefoley) May 2, 2017
re: #58 Dr. Matt
This gives me an idea: I want a baseball cap decorated to look like a colander.
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area. The Times continues their normalizing bullshit. This time, it’s how Ivanka is some kind of moderating effect on Trump. That couldn’t be further from reality, as Trump’s regressive and misogynistic agenda shows absolutely no sign of moderation.
Ivanka Trump’s West Wing Agenda https://t.co/aEMREEXSne
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) May 2, 2017
@nytpolitics She’s complicit as a part of this admin when they back gutting health coverage for millions, when women lose access via GOP agenda
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 2, 2017
@nytpolitics And her signature child care ‘plan’ is nothing but a tax gift for the rich while everyone else can’t afford child care to save in 1st place
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 2, 2017
Nothing about this is normal, and now there’s more questions about her husband’s financial disclosure forms - he lied on them just as surely as he lied/omitted on his security clearance forms. Stuff like this would be disqualifying for any other admin, but here, it’s not even crickets.
Did Jared bother to sign Trump’s vaunted “ethics” pledge? Does that even mean anything when no one cares what ethics or morals are when you’re talking about Trump and this GOP?
re: #64 Mike Lamb
Had to say goodbye to my 14 year old Viszla last night. Man, he was the weirdest, sweetest, most fun dog ever. My 3 year old son knew something was wrong last night, but fell asleep before we left. I’m not looking forward to answering his question.
Awww. Sorry to hear that Mike. I hope your son is going to take news well. Thoughts for the family.
@PoliticusSarah You can keep your slaves but they all have to wear Chains by Ivanka.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 2, 2017
I think #3 is possible.
@wccubbison Maybe he thinks a shutdown breaks the Senate Union and allows him to hire all new Senators.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 2, 2017
Jared is Soros’ mole in the Trump admin…
@SteveKandell Ha!
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 2, 2017
re: #96 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area. The Times continues their normalizing bullshit. This time, it’s how Ivanka is some kind of moderating effect on Trump. That couldn’t be further from reality, as Trump’s regressive and misogynistic agenda shows absolutely no sign of moderation.
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Nothing about this is normal, and now there’s more questions about her husband’s financial disclosure forms - he lied on them just as surely as he lied/omitted on his security clearance forms. Stuff like this would be disqualifying for any other admin, but here, it’s not even crickets.
Did Jared bother to sign Trump’s vaunted “ethics” pledge? Does that even mean anything when no one cares what ethics or morals are when you’re talking about Trump and this GOP?
Ivanka like her Dad cares about what’s good for her. And yeah there’s no evidence at all that she’s a moderating influence. The Sec of Army pick for example.
I don’t know…the dead body in the tub kind of takes away from the whole thing.
i need a house with a view like this pic.twitter.com/yKBVUWP6Ik
— seabreeze (@aquaticvibe) April 25, 2017
I just died. .@realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/XWelK06uVW
— ❄️ Dr. A ❄️ (@AAPsyc) May 2, 2017
If you want to see the amount of Spencer fanboys who don’t understand what freedom of speech means, look no further than the comments section of this UB newspiece.
re: #64 Mike Lamb
Had to say goodbye to my 14 year old Viszla last night. Man, he was the weirdest, sweetest, most fun dog ever. My 3 year old son knew something was wrong last night, but fell asleep before we left. I’m not looking forward to answering his question.
Viszlas are great dogs. I am sorry for your loss and send my condolences. Dogs are great beings. The only sad thing is we outlive them - but for the short time we have them they are so happy how could you say no to them.
*hug*
re: #64 Mike Lamb
Had to say goodbye to my 14 year old Viszla last night. Man, he was the weirdest, sweetest, most fun dog ever. My 3 year old son knew something was wrong last night, but fell asleep before we left. I’m not looking forward to answering his question.
So sorry…
Hell has frozen over, because there’s one thing I agree with Trump on.
And that is the need to increase fuel taxes to fund infrastructure projects.
Am I going nuts now? Or is this another example of a broken clock being correct once in a full moon?
re: #108 electrotek
Hell has frozen over, because there’s one thing I agree with Trump on.
And that is the need to increase fuel taxes to fund infrastructure projects.
Am I going nuts now? Or is this another example of a broken clock being correct once in a full moon?
Only because those “infrastructure projects” would go to DT’s cronies and donors, and produce very little benefit for a lot of tax expenditure.
re: #108 electrotek
Hell has frozen over, because there’s one thing I agree with Trump on.
And that is the need to increase fuel taxes to fund infrastructure projects.
Am I going nuts now? Or is this another example of a broken clock being correct once in a full moon?
It’s another case of dead on arrival verbal diarrhea from Trump.
Even if he has the right policy idea.
re: #108 electrotek
Hell has frozen over, because there’s one thing I agree with Trump on.
And that is the need to increase fuel taxes to fund infrastructure projects.
Am I going nuts now? Or is this another example of a broken clock being correct once in a full moon?
I heard on the news this morning that Trump mentioned breaking up the big banks. I expect it to go exactly nowhere, but the report noted that the banks and Wall Street were all in a huff.
A former South Carolina police officer is pleading guilty to violating the civil rights of an unarmed black motorist he shot and killed as the man ran from a 2015 traffic stop, according to a copy of the plea agreement obtained by The Associated Press.The 13-page document also notes that as part of the deal, state prosecutors are dropping a pending murder charge against Michael Slager, effectively bringing to a close both parallel cases against the former North Charleston police officer.
Slager, 35, had been scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday for motions ahead of his federal trial planned for later this month in the April 2015 death of Walter Scott.
Agh what the hell did i do to deserve getting the inspiration for Officer Barbardy, Dennis Prager’s videos on my Facebook. He has a screed whining about why communism isn’t as hated as Nazism. Well for one we never fought an official war against the Communists and two people like YOU, Dennis have a bad habit of lumping anything not lassaize-faire capitalism as being akin to Stalinism or Maoism.
re: #113 HappyWarrior
Agh what the hell did i do to deserve getting the inspiration for Officer Barbardy, Dennis Prager’s videos on my Facebook. He has a screed whining about why communism isn’t as hated as Nazism. Well for one we never fought an official war against the Communists and two people like YOU, Dennis have a bad habit of lumping anything not lassaize-faire capitalism as being akin to Stalinism or Maoism.
Hmm…Charles mentioned PragerU yesterday because he was getting their ads on YouTube prior to watching Keith Olbermann’s video.
I wonder if some ad network connected the information.
An Irish Le Pen supporter getting upset over a photo of a French flag being stomped on:
@danja84 Yeah its pretty offensive to French people if i’m honest……Don’t see anything wrong with that……
— Kop Tek Dy Mude (@IronicTrollFace) May 2, 2017
The country that is home to Charlie Hebdo, whining about being offended? Tell them to harden up.
PS it’s just a fucking flag, get over it https://t.co/fiPBUCrH6h— دانیال (@danja84) May 2, 2017
So, another day of crazy with the emperor who has no clothes.
re: #64 Mike Lamb
My sympathy to you and your family. My most painful decision was to put my 15 year old mutt to sleep; he had battled liver cancer for over two years and I wanted to be with him when he passed away.
God, someone mentioned a couple weeks ago about how bad that new Weezer album was. I just heard part of one of the songs (“Feels Like Summer”) and want to deafen myself.
re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Only because those “infrastructure projects” would go to DT’s cronies and donors, and produce very little benefit for a lot of tax expenditure.
I’m not holding my breath on this one either, but I’m surprised that he brought up the need to increase the fuel tax when other politicians consider it political suicide to even suggest such a thing.
re: #114 Timothy Watson
Hmm…Charles mentioned PragerU yesterday because he was getting their ads on YouTube prior to watching Keith Olbermann’s video.
I wonder if some ad network connected the information.
Perhaps. Anyhow, the other thing is Dennis is wrong, people in this country do hate communism a lot. How else can you explain why to so many, Sanders’ Democratic Socialism is seen as no different than Stalinism or Maoism and you know me man, I’m far from a Bernie fan but I’m not spiteful enough to say Bernie’s a Stalinist, Maoist, or Chavezist. He’s someone whose beliefs come from the Scandinavian post war tradition.
re: #115 electrotek
An Irish Le Pen supporter getting upset over a photo of a French flag being stomped on:
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Conservatives are the ultimate snowflake hypocrites.
I always enjoy wingnut infighting:
State Sen. Frank W. Wagner, R-Virginia Beach, on Monday ripped Ed Gillespie’s tax cut promises, saying “Gillespie’s claim of putting nearly $1,300 per year back into the pockets of a family of four is dishonest, phony math and bad public policy.”
re: #6 Targetpractice
I don’t think the media cares about Trump pivoting. They’re now very busy normalizing Trump’s awfulness. They’re trying to make it seem that Trump is just an average President no different from his predecessors.
re: #108 electrotek
Hell has frozen over, because there’s one thing I agree with Trump on.
And that is the need to increase fuel taxes to fund infrastructure projects.
Am I going nuts now? Or is this another example of a broken clock being correct once in a full moon?
The gas tax has been at 18.4 cents per gallon since 1994. It hasn’t kept up with inflation, and as vehicles get more efficient, there’s more usage and less money coming in to maintain roads and infrastructure.
That said, the fuel taxes are a regressive tax and would adversely affect those who are least able to afford hikes. Trump/GOP tax plans need to be viewed as a whole to see just how much more they’d pay under a tax hike here (which would be felt every time you hit the fuel pump) and what pittance of savings you might see in your annual returns.
Given that the GOP is adverse to higher taxes, I don’t give this much of a chance of success.
re: #94 lizardofid
When our little girl was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome 28 years ago, I was fortunate enough to be covered by primary and secondary health insurance policies. Unfortunately, she died shortly after major heart surgery. I imagine we would still be paying those medical expenses off had we not had insurance. You don’t decide whether you can afford the care, you just want your loved one to be there tomorrow, and the day after that, and so on. No one should have to worry about the expense. Basic health care should be a right for all in this wealthy country.
re: #113 HappyWarrior
Agh what the hell did i do to deserve getting the inspiration for Officer Barbardy, Dennis Prager’s videos on my Facebook. He has a screed whining about why communism isn’t as hated as Nazism. Well for one we never fought an official war against the Communists and two people like YOU, Dennis have a bad habit of lumping anything not lassaize-faire capitalism as being akin to Stalinism or Maoism.
umm, “veetnaaam”? (Laos, Cambodia)
re: #122 Timothy Watson
I always enjoy wingnut infighting:
I do too. BTW, did you catch the debate between Perriello and Northam? Pretty civil. I am still with Tom but this was my first real introduction to Ralph too and I really came off impressed with how Ralph talked about gun control.
re: #126 caseyjr
umm, “veetnaaam”? (Laos, Cambodia)
An official war as in a declared one. But point noted.
re: #125 Momkat56
When our little girl was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome 28 years ago, I was fortunate enough to be covered by primary and secondary health insurance policies. Unfortunately, she died shortly after major heart surgery. I imagine we would still be paying those medical expenses off had we not had insurance. You don’t decide whether you can afford the care, you just want your loved one to be there tomorrow, and the day after that, and so on. No one should have to worry about the expense. Basic health care should be a right for all in this wealthy country.
Well said.
re: #127 HappyWarrior
I do too. BTW, did you catch the debate between Perriello and Northam? Pretty civil. I am still with Tom but this was my first real introduction to Ralph too and I really came off impressed with how Ralph talked about gun control.
I missed it. I’ve been meaning to find a replay but haven’t had a chance.
re: #90 ObserverArt
Joe and Mika championed Trump during his campaign so I just can’t take any of their criticism seriously. Way late when it may have been effective before the election.
re: #128 HappyWarrior
An official war as in a declared one. But point noted.
Insofar as the justification was 100% anti-commie. Domino theory and all that.
re: #130 Timothy Watson
I missed it. I’ve been meaning to find a replay but haven’t had a chance.
Hopefully you can find one. Honestly, it was a breath of fresh air since I think both candidates were pretty civil to each other. As you know, I like Ralph but I prefer Tom. And if Ralph becomes the nominee on June 13, I will gladly champion him.
re: #132 caseyjr
Insofar as the justification was 100% anti-commie. Domino theory and all that.
Correct. I guess what I mean is the Nazis being the ultimate baddie in the public’s eye comes from the footage that came from the Concentration Camps. A lot of American anti-communism wasn’t inspired so much by what people had seen but from rhetoric. Not saying anti-communism is a bad philosophy but I think many people like Prager try to attack anything left of them economically as being communism.
re: #119 electrotek
I’m not holding my breath on this one either, but I’m surprised that he brought up the need to increase the fuel tax when other politicians consider it political suicide to even suggest such a thing.
Think of all the times DT has gotten away with saying or doing things that would have been political suicide for any other candidate…I guess that could theoretically be an advantage.
Theoretically. Practically, it is a license to run us to rack and ruin.
re: #108 electrotek
Hell has frozen over, because there’s one thing I agree with Trump on.
And that is the need to increase fuel taxes to fund infrastructure projects.
Am I going nuts now? Or is this another example of a broken clock being correct once in a full moon?
Well, President Donald Trump is less of a “stopped” clock than a severely malfunctioning one, running forward or backward at varying rates with no discernible pattern, but I’m guessing that a Federal gas tax hike is going to have little-to-no chance in Congress because (in no particular order) 1) the Republican fetish against ANY “taxes”; 2) consumer resistance; 3) Limited “State” participation (i.e. state/local grift by the GOP owners of State Legislatures); 4) the primal fear that a nickel or two of Fed money might go to anything rail-related, etc.
re: #119 electrotek
I’m not holding my breath on this one either, but I’m surprised that he brought up the need to increase the fuel tax when other politicians consider it political suicide to even suggest such a thing.
I’m not: it’s an cheap out to try to look “Presidential” in terms of policy: Trump can make a suggestion (good, bad or indifferent) on a policy that he knows won’t fly: then, when it shows up DOA in Congress, he can just shrug and say “well, I tried”. And get media points for (finally) not looking like a complete political moron and backing a not-completely-moronic policy.
re: #93 darthstar
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It’s cool, we can just file bankruptcy. Shaft the investors and walk away clean, right Donnie?
Wait, hold up, let’s savor this: Donald Trump *didn’t even begin to understand* a metaphor made by *George W. Bush.* pic.twitter.com/s9sc9zpI6y
— Kaleb Horton (@kalebhorton) May 2, 2017
re: #132 caseyjr
Insofar as the justification was 100% anti-commie. Domino theory and all that.
What about the Korean War? Wasn’t that also based on our desire to prevent Communism from spreading?
re: #139 Hecuba’s daughter
What about the Korean War? Wasn’t that also based on our desire to prevent Communism from spreading?
Yes. Undeclared as well though. But I did misspeak I concede. I still think Nazism’s horrors grabbed the public’s imagination more than Communism’s though.
In its latest hagiography about the lovely Ivanka, the NYT actually says:
By inserting herself into a scalding set of gender dynamics, she is becoming a proxy for dashed dreams of a female presidency
nytimes.com
Uh—NO!
(And, of course, it mentions her “book” that of course she is not promoting due to ethics issues, but let us tell you about her “book” that she is not promoting.)
re: #141 BeachDem
she is becoming a proxy for dashed dreams of a female presidency
Go home, NYT, you’re drunk.
re: #138 Stanley Sea
Kaleb Horton ✔ @kalebhorton
Wait, hold up, let’s savor this: Donald Trump *didn’t even begin to understand* a metaphor made by *George W. Bush.*
My mother had dementia; you could not use any type of humor or metaphor in her presence without her misinterpreting your words; she took everything literally too, just like Trump.
re: #141 BeachDem
In its latest hagiography about the lovely Ivanka, the NYT actually says:
By inserting herself into a scalding set of gender dynamics, she is becoming a proxy for dashed dreams of a female presidency
nytimes.com
Uh—NO!(And, of course, it mentions her “book” that of course she is not promoting due to ethics issues, but let us tell you about her “book” that she is not promoting.)
Yeah you can tell how much Ivanka really cares about women’s issues when it came out that the administration was cutting Mrs. Obama’s program that helped educate girls. Ivanka’s in this for Ivanka. This is the most male dominated administration in a long time.
re: #139 Hecuba’s daughter
What about the Korean War? Wasn’t that also based on our desire to prevent Communism from spreading?
Wasn’t the Korean war also a UN Policing Action - not necessarily an American War. Also the French messed that area up (Korea, Vietnam) before hand and maybe it was the feeling as though they broke it and need to fix it.
re: #141 BeachDem
In its latest hagiography about the lovely Ivanka, the NYT actually says:
By inserting herself into a scalding set of gender dynamics, she is becoming a proxy for dashed dreams of a female presidency
There is a kernel of sense behind this: I am sure that Ivanka is consciously positioning herself to appeal to a certain subset of HRC supporters who really did want to see a strong woman in the WH
@kalebhorton Trump doesn’t get basic facts or logic, so why should it surprise anyone he doesn’t get a metaphor. pic.twitter.com/JX7No02x3G
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 2, 2017
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a kernel of sense behind this: I am sure that Ivanka is consciously positioning herself to appeal to a certain subset of HRC supporters who really did want to see a strong woman in the WH
Ivanka is not a strong woman, she’s a cardboard cut-out, she is a token. You can’t find even one achievement that she has independently accomplished.
re: #143 Hecuba’s daughter
My mother had dementia; you could not use any type of humor or metaphor in her presence without her misinterpreting your words; she took everything literally too, just like Trump.
He was also just being obtuse and bristling at the implication that he might have something to hide.
re: #143 Hecuba’s daughter
My mother had dementia; you could not use any type of humor or metaphor in her presence without her misinterpreting your words; she took everything literally too, just like Trump.
My grandmother went through the same (my love to you and your mother). Every time we would visit Granny would call my mother Sarah (not my mothers name) and would ask where my mother was (she was right there *sigh*). Then Granny would go off that my mother would usually call her at that time of day so my mother would have to sneak out and call her on her cell phone while we were visiting.
Sounds a little like tRump calling Paul Ryan Ron, calling out names aimlessly looking for the person not noticing they are right in front of them. Taking a kids hat to sign - then forgets the kid gave him the hat and then throws it in the crowd.
Yep… tRump has something wrong, though my sympathy cannot be conjured because when he is lucid he is still a dick.
re: #148 The Vicious Babushka
Ivanka is not a strong woman, she’s a cardboard cut-out, she is a token. You can’t find even one achievement that she has independently accomplished.
That is entirely true, but it is about the image she is trying to project.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a kernel of sense behind this: I am sure that Ivanka is consciously positioning herself to appeal to a certain subset of HRC supporters who really did want to see a strong woman in the WH
Well, if so, it’s a subset I haven’t encountered.
re: #150 CongoJack
My grandmother went through the same (my love to you and your mother). Every time we would visit Granny would call my mother Sarah (not my mothers name) and would ask where my mother was (she was right there *sigh*). Then Granny would go off that my mother would usually call her at that time of day so my mother would have to sneak out and call her on her cell phone while we were visiting.
Sounds a little like tRump calling Paul Ryan Ron, calling out names aimlessly looking for the person not noticing they are right in front of them. Taking a kids hat to sign - then forgets the kid gave him the hat and then throws it in the crowd.
Yep… tRump has something wrong, though my sympathy cannot be conjured because when he is lucid he is still a dick.
Man our families have a lot in common. That’s how it was with my dad’s mother too. It was really sad because she mistook my Dad for my grandfather a couple of times- my grandfather had been gone over 20 years at that point. It was so sad to watch because she was such a sweet old lady who despite having six kids and several grand and great grandkids could see them all as individuals. It saddens me my youngest brother didn’t get to know her more and my other brother’s daughter never met her.
re: #147 lawhawk
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Makes sense. Drax the Destroyer doesn’t understand metaphors. Donald the Destroyer doesn’t understand as well. The only different is what they destroy.
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is entirely true, but it is about the image she is trying to project.
I don’t see her projecting any image other than entitled, privileged, rich white girl. She may have made an earlier attempt to appeal to upper-middle-class professional women with her product line but she’s not even trying for that any more.
re: #145 CongoJack
Wasn’t the Korean war also a UN Policing Action - not necessarily an American War. Also the French messed that area up (Korea, Vietnam) before hand and maybe it was the feeling as though they broke it and need to fix it.
Actually, it was only Vietnam that the French messed up - and even single-handedly, they managed to do a bang-up job of it - Korea was a different brand of fail. A (unitary) Korea had been a Japanese colony/possession until the end of WWII, afterwards the USSR and the Allies (i.e. the US) jointly occupied the country, splitting it at the 38th Parallel, and each Occupier setting up a “friendly” regime: with, IIRC, vague intentions of “reunifying” the country at a later date. However, in June of 1950, the North decided that the “later date” was come…
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Except none of the policies are transferable between Clinton and Trump. There’s a Grand Canyon sized chasm between what their policies are (such as it is with Trump’s incessant vaporware/malware).
There’s no daylight between Ivanka and Donald. If there is, no one is seeing it, and Ivanka wouldn’t say something counter to what her dad’s doing. There’s no moderation in what Trump’s pushing either. None of Ivanka’s policies are getting advanced, and Trump’s positions are undermining everything Ivanka supposedly claims to be for.
This pair is a father/daughter version of Eva and Juan Peron.
re: #118 Timothy Watson
God, someone mentioned a couple weeks ago about how bad that new Weezer album was. I just heard part of one of the songs (“Feels Like Summer”) and want to deafen myself.
Whut?
Overall, Weezer has been pretty consistent. I’m gonna have to check that out.
re: #156 Jay C
Actually, it was only Vietnam that the French messed up - and even single-handedly, they managed to do a bang-up job of it - Korea was a different brand of fail. A (unitary) Korea had been a Japanese colony/possession until the end of WWII, afterwards the USSR and the Allies (i.e. the US) jointly occupied the country, splitting it at the 38th Parallel, and each Occupier setting up a “friendly” regime: with, IIRC, vague intentions of “reunifying” the country at a later date. However, in June of 1950, the North decided that the “later date” was come…
Right the Korea peninsula was never a French possession.
re: #148 The Vicious Babushka
Ivanka is not a strong woman, she’s a cardboard cut-out, she is a token. You can’t find even one achievement that she has independently accomplished.
She was blessed to be born with good looks into a wealthy family. That’s about the extent of her “accomplishments”.
re: #108 electrotek
Hell has frozen over, because there’s one thing I agree with Trump on.
And that is the need to increase fuel taxes to fund infrastructure projects.
Am I going nuts now? Or is this another example of a broken clock being correct once in a full moon?
No need to wait for Trump. CA just raised the gas tax by IIRC about 12 cents/gallon to do just that. Registration costs go up too. But we’ll get infrastructure. And conservatives will get something to whine about.
The 2 nanny 3 kid syndrome
Ivanka Trump didn’t understand why women needed maternity leave when running her company @maggieNYT reports https://t.co/dJxw3SqNzT pic.twitter.com/1mf6P7U5CF
— Yashar (@yashar) May 2, 2017
re: #158 ObserverArt
Whut?
Overall, Weezer has been pretty consistent. I’m gonna have to check that out.
It was me.
It’s a terrible single. Weezer’s just mailing it in now, and it’s sad.
re: #153 HappyWarrior
Man our families have a lot in common. That’s how it was with my dad’s mother too. It was really sad because she mistook my Dad for my grandfather a couple of times- my grandfather had been gone over 20 years at that point. It was so sad to watch because she was such a sweet old lady who despite having six kids and several grand and great grandkids could see them all as individuals. It saddens me my youngest brother didn’t get to know her more and my other brother’s daughter never met her.
Yep. Similar in a dozen different ways.
Sympathy hugs all around.
God bless those nurses and care providers for people with dementia - most under appreciated job in America (possibly only outdone by teachers).
re: #160 Patricia Kayden
She was blessed to be born with good looks into a wealthy family. That’s about the extent of her “accomplishments”.
Those photos of preteen Ivanka with Daddy just give me the creeps every time I see them.
re: #164 CongoJack
Yep. Similar in a dozen different ways.
Sympathy hugs all around.
God bless those nurses and care providers for people with dementia - most under appreciated job in America (possibly only outdone by teachers).
When we finally had to move her into a home, we gave her little dog to one of the caregivers. I also remember the Meals on Wheels volunteers who were always so kind to her. Nana was lucky though to have a lot of us helping her. My dad would help her out in the days and one of my cousins would help her out at night. She really was the most gentle soul I ever knew and I miss her everyday.
re: #162 Stanley Sea
The 2 nanny 3 kid syndrome
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“I went back to work one week after having my child”
What breathtaking bullshit. I see she has inherited Daddy’s skill at telling lies.
re: #161 calochortus
No need to wait for Trump. CA just raised the gas tax by IIRC about 12 cents/gallon to do just that. Registration costs go up too. But we’ll get infrastructure. And conservatives will get something to whine about.
Given how awful LA roads are, especially DTLA, this is long overdue.
re: #123 Patricia Kayden
I don’t think the media cares about Trump pivoting. They’re now very busy normalizing Trump’s awfulness. They’re trying to make it seem that Trump is just an average President no different from his predecessors.
I have a feeling we may be at the tipping point where the obvious issues with Trump outweigh the media trying to make him normal. You can only cover over the mess so long before the mess is just overwhelming. At that point the media will look bad if they don’t tell the truths.
Should someone in the media go all in on an expose of Trump’s issues and gets a lot of attention from it, then the media might all jump on. We know the media loves to jump in when the water is warm and act like they’ve been into it all along. Should it happen it might start Trump’s downfall.
re: #169 The Vicious Babushka
“I went back to work one week after having my child”
What breathtaking bullshit. I see she has inherited Daddy’s skill at telling lies.
Yep.
In response to the Donald J. Trump for President campaign’s accusations of ad censorship: pic.twitter.com/0Rbanpf0dn
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) May 2, 2017
re: #167 CongoJack
Thanks for the refresher!
I need to go read a few of my college texts books again.
Yr welcome. I’d especially recommend reading up on the history of Vietnam, and the Vietnam War - the whole “war”, not just the American part of it. IMO, it’s fascinating: if, unfortunately, a subject still distorted (for American audiences, anyway) by the colorations of “wartime propaganda”.
Guess I’m not the only one who has noticed Maggie Haberman et al’s penchant for melodrama:
The political is personal at the New York Times in soap opera-style take on Pelosi and Trump
re: #175 Jay C
Yr welcome. I’d especially recommend reading up on the history of Vietnam, and the Vietnam War - the whole “war”, not just the American part of it. IMO, it’s fascinating: if, unfortunately, a subject still distorted (for American audiences, anyway) by the colorations of “wartime propaganda”.
I do need to read more about that. The one thing I was not aware of when I was younger was the conflict between Vietnam’s primarily Catholic elite and Buddhist peasantry.
re: #131 Patricia Kayden
Joe and Mika championed Trump during his campaign so I just can’t take any of their criticism seriously. Way late when it may have been effective before the election.
This goes to the comment I made to you just above. I don’t care for Joe and Mika either. I am interested in seeing Trump gone. So, I’ll take what they are saying and forget the personalities delivering the message.
I don’t watch Fox News at all, but should the day come they too start doing reports on Trump’s issues and caution their viewers there are problems I will be glad that Fox did it. I still won’t watch.
It’s all about the message and facts and saving this country from the Orange Oaf. Whoever helps make it happen helps make it happen. We need everyone in on this.
re: #177 HappyWarrior
I do need to read more about that. The one thing I was not aware of when I was younger was the conflict between Vietnam’s primarily Catholic elite and Buddhist peasantry.
And much of the Catholic elite from Vietnam are in Garden Grove, CA nowadays.
re: #175 Jay C
I have an old text book whose title I cant remember that went through every conflict since WWII. It was a good full representation of each war/conflict (not just ones the USA was involved in - my favorite and the one I remember the most was the Pakistani and Indian conflict).
Now that is going to bother me until I get home and dig through a few boxes to find it.
re: #175 Jay C
Yr welcome. I’d especially recommend reading up on the history of Vietnam, and the Vietnam War - the whole “war”, not just the American part of it. IMO, it’s fascinating: if, unfortunately, a subject still distorted (for American audiences, anyway) by the colorations of “wartime propaganda”.
I’ve encountered Vietnamese here who wax poetics about Ngo Dinh Diem, it’s pathetic. The man was a brutal psychopath who literally wanted an Inquisition in the country to rid the country of Buddhism.
re: #175 Jay C
Yr welcome. I’d especially recommend reading up on the history of Vietnam, and the Vietnam War - the whole “war”, not just the American part of it. IMO, it’s fascinating: if, unfortunately, a subject still distorted (for American audiences, anyway) by the colorations of “wartime propaganda”.
I agree, and wonder if Truman had been more receptive to Uncle Ho when he reached out in 1946, could history have been much different. Ho and his men were very helpful during the second world war, rescuing many allied airmen. I’m not sure he was so radical that he should have been untouchable.
re: #177 HappyWarrior
I do need to read more about that. The one thing I was not aware of when I was younger was the conflict between Vietnam’s primarily Catholic elite and Buddhist peasantry.
Proving my point: the Catholic-Buddhist divide (a lasting relic of French colonialism) was an essential faultline in Vietnamese society for many decades; yet in the 1960’s the whole issue - aside from the occasional depiction of Vietnamese Buddhists as loony self-immolaters - was generally (in American media, anyway) ignored or subsumed in a simplistic “Communist/Anti-Communist” dichotomy.
re: #181 electrotek
I’ve encountered Vietnamese here who wax poetics about Ngo Dinh Diem, it’s pathetic. The man was a brutal psychopath who literally wanted an Inquisition in the country to rid the country of Buddhism.
Also if memory serves Diem was given a path to peace with LBJ but the Nixon campaign intervened during the election and told Diem not to take the deal and that Nixon would give him more money/power (to thus make the war a campaign issue that Nixon was doing quite well playing the anti-war candidate).
Diem was killed a year or two later I believe.
re: #179 electrotek
And much of the Catholic elite from Vietnam are in Garden Grove, CA nowadays.
OC right.
re: #185 HappyWarrior
OC right.
Yup, aka “Little Saigon”. They also tend to staunchly vote Republican. It’s not uncommon to encounter a lot of Trump supporters among their community.
re: #168 HappyWarrior
I work in an Assisted/Independent Living community.
You and CongoJack are absolutely correct — the caregivers who work with dementia/Alzheimer’s patients are the most caring and loving people (I know there are some shitty ones out there, luckily they are the exception and not the rule). They are also underappreciated and woefully underpaid. We see it everyday.
re: #182 lizardofid
I agree, and wonder if Truman had been more receptive to Uncle Ho when he reached out in 1946, could history have been much different. Ho and his men were very helpful during the second world war, rescuing many allied airmen. I’m not sure he was so radical that he should have been untouchable.
Uncle Ho was pragmatic, and that pragmatism meant that having good relations with the Chinese was more important than embracing US capitalism. That automatically turned him into an enemy of the our ideology.
re: #181 electrotek
I’ve encountered Vietnamese here who wax poetics about Ngo Dinh Diem, it’s pathetic. The man was a brutal psychopath who literally wanted an Inquisition in the country to rid the country of Buddhism.
My brother one time visited a Cuban restaurant owned by a guy who was very much part of the pre-revolution elite. He said the guy was nice enough but very defensive when it came to talking about how Cuba was before the Revolution. It’s interesting though because I imagine if most right wing racists saw the people you’re talking about, they’d have tons of racial slurs in mind not aware that the person is like minded.
re: #181 electrotek
I’ve encountered Vietnamese here who wax poetics about Ngo Dinh Diem, it’s pathetic. The man was a brutal psychopath who literally wanted an Inquisition in the country to rid the country of Buddhism.
It would have been kind of an uphill slog, as (I think) 85-90% of (South) Vietnam was Buddhist, but yeah….
re: #174 Stanley Sea
@CNNPR Very nicely said, though “Fuck you and your juvenile ‘fake news’ mantra, Donald” probably would have sufficed.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 2, 2017
re: #182 lizardofid
I agree, and wonder if Truman had been more receptive to Uncle Ho when he reached out in 1946, could history have been much different. Ho and his men were very helpful during the second world war, rescuing many allied airmen. I’m not sure he was so radical that he should have been untouchable.
Ho was pro-American until America started to invade. Then out of necessity he went to the communists states for assistance. He was not a communist ideologue - he just wanted equality (to cut a long story short).
re: #183 Jay C
Proving my point: the Catholic-Buddhist divide (a lasting relic of French colonialism) was an essential faultline in Vietnamese society for many decades; yet in the 1960’s the whole issue - aside from the occasional depiction of Vietnamese Buddhists as loony self-immolaters - was generally (in American media, anyway) ignored or subsumed in a simplistic “Communist/Anti-Communist” dichotomy.
Right, it’s something that no one really talked about during hte Vietnam Era. I wasn’t alive but it was all Domino Theory and all that. Honestly, anti-communists in their zeal never understand why some groups turned to the Communists. Latin and South America, a lot of the things going on there that we intervened in during hte Reagan years were conflicts between elites and indigenous peoples.
re: #184 CongoJack
Also if memory serves Diem was given a path to peace with LBJ but the Nixon campaign intervened during the election and told Diem not to take the deal and that Nixon would give him more money/power (to thus make the war a campaign issue that Nixon was doing quite well playing the anti-war candidate).
Diem was killed a year or two later I believe.
IIRC, Diem was assassinated in 1963 - a few weeks before JFK, actually.
re: #190 HappyWarrior
My brother one time visited a Cuban restaurant owned by a guy who was very much part of the pre-revolution elite. He said the guy was nice enough but very defensive when it came to talking about how Cuba was before the Revolution. It’s interesting though because I imagine if most right wing racists saw the people you’re talking about, they’d have tons of racial slurs in mind not aware that the person is like minded.
Reminds me of Iranian exiles in LA and DC who believe “Islam ruined Iran”…nevermind the fact that Iran has been Muslim for over a thousand years and that even their beloved shah himself was known to make pilgrimmages to Makkah.
re: #184 CongoJack
Also if memory serves Diem was given a path to peace with LBJ but the Nixon campaign intervened during the election and told Diem not to take the deal and that Nixon would give him more money/power (to thus make the war a campaign issue that Nixon was doing quite well playing the anti-war candidate).
Diem was killed a year or two later I believe.
I believe that was Anna Chennault. Diem was dead by then though. having died in ‘63.
re: #194 HappyWarrior
Right, it’s something that no one really talked about during hte Vietnam Era. I wasn’t alive but it was all Domino Theory and all that. Honestly, anti-communists in their zeal never understand why some groups turned to the Communists. Latin and South America, a lot of the things going on there that we intervened in during hte Reagan years were conflicts between elites and indigenous peoples.
Not the same, but the idea of why in the 50’s and 60’s, some Blacks turned to the nation of Islam, away from Christianity.
re: #194 HappyWarrior
Right, it’s something that no one really talked about during hte Vietnam Era. I wasn’t alive but it was all Domino Theory and all that. Honestly, anti-communists in their zeal never understand why some groups turned to the Communists. Latin and South America, a lot of the things going on there that we intervened in during hte Reagan years were conflicts between elites and indigenous peoples.
This all calls for a people with enough knowledge of history to understand pollitical, social, cultural and religious nuances. Not people who think Andrew Jackson is twice as valuable as Hamilton, four times more valuable than Lincoln and twenty times more valuable than George Washington…
Furthermore, a lot of the Vietnamese Catholic elite obviously settled in France over a span of a few decades during French colonial rule and post-colonial rule and are very well integrated to French society.
Gee, wonder why?
re: #187 electrotek
Yup, aka “Little Saigon”. They also tend to staunchly vote Republican. It’s not uncommon to encounter a lot of Trump supporters among their community.
It sounds similar to the Cubans in Miami honestly. I imagine the younger generation is less right wing though much like the Cubans.
re: #144 HappyWarrior
Yeah you can tell how much Ivanka really cares about women’s issues when it came out that the administration was cutting Mrs. Obama’s program that helped educate girls. Ivanka’s in this for Ivanka. This is the most male dominated administration in a long time.
Trump’s kids are brainwashed. I don’t think they can think any other way than what in it for them personally. That family was so tight it is almost inbred. It’s like Trump protected them so much he has made them socially unaware and that other real people exist and are not all marks for their con.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This all calls for a people with enough knowledge of history to understand pollitical, social, cultural and religious nuances. Not people who think Andrew Jackson is twice as valuable as Hamilton, four times more valuable than Lincoln and twenty times more valuable than George Washington…
People want simple answers to complex questions.
re: #201 HappyWarrior
It sounds similar to the Cubans in Miami honestly. I imagine the younger generation is less right wing though much like the Cubans.
It’s ironic because a lot of them had to rely on state-sponsored assistance and federal welfare programs to get by after they came here on boats literally.
On one hand, from a fiscal viewpoint I would understand why they would gravitate towards the GOP as they really worked their way up to get where they are at now, but on the flipside, they are the living proof that state-sponsored assistance helps people give them a lift to self-sustainability.
And that is why being a Republican is counterproductive from that viewpoint.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This all calls for a people with enough knowledge of history to understand pollitical, social, cultural and religious nuances. Not people who think Andrew Jackson is twice as valuable as Hamilton, four times more valuable than Lincoln and twenty times more valuable than George Washington…
Imagine the deal Benjamin Franklin could have made to stop the Civil War!
re: #182 lizardofid
I agree, and wonder if Truman had been more receptive to Uncle Ho when he reached out in 1946, could history have been much different. Ho and his men were very helpful during the second world war, rescuing many allied airmen. I’m not sure he was so radical that he should have been untouchable.
My favorite part of the history of the US and Vietnam is when Ho Chi Minh attempted to petition Woodrow Wilson to get the French out. Wilson had made this great speech, the 14 points speech, about how countries needed to be left on their own, and Ho Chi Minh thought it could be applied to Vietnam. But Wilson was talking about the Soviet’s intervention in Europe and, due to his racism, thought the French were good for Vietnam, so he refused to acknowledge Ho Chi Minh.
Sad news, but he died doing what he loved best. RIP.
Col. Bruce Hampton dies after collapsing on stage during his own birthday concert
re: #204 electrotek
It’s ironic because a lot of them had to rely on state-sponsored assistance and federal welfare programs to get by after they came here on boats literally.
On one hand, from a fiscal viewpoint I would understand why they would gravitate towards the GOP as they really worked their way up to get where they are at now, but on the flipside, they are the living proof that state-sponsored assistance helps people give them a lift to self-sustainability.
And that is why being a Republican is counterproductive from that viewpoint.
The GOP wants to delude you into thinking that you alone made it to where you are wtthout anyone’s help. Anyone President Ford’s policies on Vietnamese refugees is a credit to him as both a man and president. Compare him with Trump.
re: #206 Belafon
My favorite part of the history of the US and Vietnam is when Ho Chi Minh attempted to petition Woodrow Wilson to get the French out. Wilson had made this great speech, the 14 points speech, about how countries needed to be left on their own, and Ho Chi Minh thought it could be applied to Vietnam. But Wilson was talking about the Soviet’s intervention in Europe and, due to his racism, thought the French were good for Vietnam, so he refused to acknowledge Ho Chi Minh.
He briefly—and inadvertently— gave hope to Koreans, Chinese, and Indians, too.
re: #206 Belafon
My favorite part of the history of the US and Vietnam is when Ho Chi Minh attempted to petition Woodrow Wilson to get the French out. Wilson had made this great speech, the 14 points speech, about how countries needed to be left on their own, and Ho Chi Minh thought it could be applied to Vietnam. But Wilson was talking about the Soviet’s intervention in Europe and, due to his racism, thought the French were good for Vietnam, so he refused to acknowledge Ho Chi Minh.
He also was a dick to the Irish due to his Anglophila. He was worse to Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese delegation though. Wilson’s principles were good except that he was a racist ass.
re: #209 Barefoot Grin
He briefly—and inadvertently— gave hope to Koreans, Chinese, and Indians, too.
Which is why as much as I hate Glenn Beck, he’s not wrong about Wilson being crappy albeit for different reasons.
either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good “shutdown” in September to fix mess!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2017
@realDonaldTrump Our unhinged Narcissist in Chief is now calling for a government shutdown. JFC. https://t.co/HmqQ2CDhKL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 2, 2017
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Uncle Ho was pragmatic, and that pragmatism meant that having good relations with the Chinese was more important than embracing US capitalism. That automatically turned him into an enemy of the our ideology.
I accept that, but then why did he reach out? Is it possible that his ideology could be looked at as a spectrum. Did the burden of shedding French colonialism, without help from the capitalist Americans, push him further to the left?
I’ll readily admit I’m way out of my depth here. But still I wonder.
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— The Root (@TheRoot) May 2, 2017
re: #193 CongoJack
Ho was pro-American until America started to invade. Then out of necessity he went to the communists states for assistance. He was not a communist ideologue - he just wanted equality (to cut a long story short).
Actually, I think the “invasion” that cemented Ho’s ideological enmities was in 1946, when, for a number of reasons, new French leader De Gaulle sent French forces to Vietnam to re-establish their colonial regime, and eliminate the indigenous government Ho had declared in Sept. 1945.
Given the choice between supporting “France”, or, what they viewed as a mere gang of little Asian commies, the Truman Administration went with the “obvious” choice. The rest, sadly, is history…
re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Uncle Ho was pragmatic, and that pragmatism meant that having good relations with the Chinese was more important than embracing US capitalism. That automatically turned him into an enemy of the our ideology.
Though his good relations with China didn’t extend to China trying to move into the country after the US left.
new @Heritage_Action key vote: NO on #omnibus spending bill (#HR244) https://t.co/n2Vh9tjfnJ pic.twitter.com/0DE2O0h5hn
— dan holler (@danholler) May 2, 2017
What’s funny about this is this is EXACTLY why Republicans lost the funding fight. Not enough R votes led to D wins since Ds voted needed https://t.co/jlUAvn6wQE
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) May 2, 2017
re: #216 Belafon
Though his good relations with China didn’t extend to China trying to move into the country after the US left.
China invaded for about one month in 1979 to teach the Vietnamese a lesson for their invasion of China’s primary ally Cambodia. It turned out to be a costly lesson for the Chinese, but they got to spin it as victory.
re: #216 Belafon
Though his good relations with China didn’t extend to China trying to move into the country after the US left.
Well Ho was first and foremost a Vietnamese nationlaist so that makes sense. Mao didn’t like Stalin and Khrushchev interfering in Chinese affairs eitehr.
re: #212 Charles Johnson
He is desperate to get some legislation passed.
re: #193 CongoJack
Ho was pro-American until America started to invade. Then out of necessity he went to the communists states for assistance. He was not a communist ideologue - he just wanted equality (to cut a long story short).
More nationalist than hard communist? If so, maybe he could have/should have been accommodated and the French rubber plantation owners told to pound sand.
Taken as a package, the 100 Days interviews sound like evidence submitted in an involuntary commitment hearing to a mental institution.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 2, 2017
re: #180 CongoJack
I have an old text book whose title I cant remember that went through every conflict since WWII. It was a good full representation of each war/conflict (not just ones the USA was involved in - my favorite and the one I remember the most was the Pakistani and Indian conflict).
Now that is going to bother me until I get home and dig through a few boxes to find it.
That book can never truly be old. Hopefully it has new editions because sadly the wars/conflicts haven’t stopped and most likely never will.
re: #215 Jay C
Actually, I think the “invasion” that cemented Ho’s ideological enmities was in 1946, when, for a number of reasons, new French leader De Gaulle sent French forces to Vietnam to re-establish their colonial regime, and eliminate the indigenous government Ho had declared in Sept. 1945.
Given the choice between supporting “France”, or, what they viewed as a mere gang of little Asian commies, the Truman Administration went with the “obvious” choice. The rest, sadly, is history…
Wonder if there are any French folks who cry about the loss of French Indochina the way they still cry about the loss of Algeria.
re: #221 lizardofid
More nationalist than hard communist? If so, maybe he could have/should have been accommodated and the French rubber plantation owners told to pound sand.
I think De Gaulle was playing cute with NATO participation in exchange for US support, IIRC. Also, “containment” was the watchword.
re: #222 makeitstop
And yet the GOP took all the accumulated evidence and was like? Okay. No biggie. Let’s just move on to agenda item Order 66 (crush health care coverage for millions).
re: #221 lizardofid
More nationalist than hard communist? If so, maybe he could have/should have been accommodated and the French rubber plantation owners told to pound sand.
I think he was both a nationalist and someone who wanted to fix the wide disparities that existed in Vietnamese society and our FP makers weren’t interested in hearing about that. A lot of the people we labeled communists in the Cold War were honestly people who wanted to modernize their country after yars of colonial rule and fix the problems that colonialism had created.
Re: Mao, a lot of people don’t know this or at least I didn’t know the USSR favored Chiang Kai-Shek and the KMT before they did the Chinese Communist Party. Stalin saw the Chinese Communist Party as a threat. We weren’t the only ones that played realpolitk to achieve our goals.
re: #114 Timothy Watson
Hmm…Charles mentioned PragerU yesterday because he was getting their ads on YouTube prior to watching Keith Olbermann’s video.
I wonder if some ad network connected the information.
Somehow PragerU ended up in my YouTube subscription list and I swear I never subscribed to it. Anyway, I unsubscribed. It was a close call.
And our anti-communist zeal did NOT extend to Romania even though Nicolae Ceausescu was brutal. He didn’t like Moscow though so we even our hardliners like Reagan left him alone.
re: #230 HappyWarrior
And our anti-communist zeal did NOT extend to Romania even though Nicolae Ceausescu was brutal. He didn’t like Moscow though so we even our hardliners like Reagan left him alone.
That was Ceaucescu’s last gambit when he was going down: he recalled the times that he “stood up to Moscow”
We used anti-communism often as an excuse whether it was keeping a racist regime in charge- South Africa, a regime whose economic policies benefitted us- Iran, or for geography the many right wing regimes in Latin America.
re: #186 makeitstop
It’s like Rivers is going Brian Wilson on us.
There always seems to be that time in many rockers careers where they want to become more than rockers and be what they see as famous songwriters in a classical sense…and be known as an Irving Berlin or George Gershwin for all time.
To me Elvis Costello passed into that for some time. And then he decided to get back to his rocking roots. Others have gone through it too.
re: #212 Charles Johnson
Anarchy is a secret sauce that authoritarians seem to love.
re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That was Ceaucescu’s last gambit when he was going down: he recalled the times that he “stood up to Moscow”
Him, Hoxha, and Tito were the only Eastern bloc nations that opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 IIRC. We never tried extending branches to Hoxha though because Ol’ Enver thought that Mao wasn’t pure enough for his vision of communism.
re: #232 HappyWarrior
We used anti-communism often as an excuse whether it was keeping a racist regime in charge- South Africa, a regime whose economic policies benefitted us- Iran, or for geography the many right wing regimes in Latin America.
And The USSR also kept tinhorn authoritarian dictators in charge of its central Asian and Caucasus republics as long as they served Moscow’s interests…
re: #232 HappyWarrior
We used anti-communism often as an excuse whether it was keeping a racist regime in charge- South Africa, a regime whose economic policies benefitted us- Iran, or for geography the many right wing regimes in Latin America.
And many Muslim governments used anti-Communism as an excuse to prop up Islamic movements as a counterweight to the secular leftists at the time.
re: #194 HappyWarrior
Right, it’s something that no one really talked about during hte Vietnam Era. I wasn’t alive but it was all Domino Theory and all that. Honestly, anti-communists in their zeal never understand why some groups turned to the Communists. Latin and South America, a lot of the things going on there that we intervened in during hte Reagan years were conflicts between elites and indigenous peoples.
I note how religion also played into the politics of the wars. So many wars have the two tied together.
Trump, in Rose Garden speech to honor Air Force football team, has now turned to talking about building the wall
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 2, 2017
re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And The USSR also kept tinhorn authoritarian dictators in charge of its central Asian and Caucasus republics as long as they served Moscow’s interests…
Almost symbiotic.
Trump, in speech to honor Air Force football players behind him, talks about building the wall & repealing Obamacare https://t.co/a21N6Yaefk
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 2, 2017
Trump: “I used to be a donor; used to get everything I wanted. This is what winning looks like.” https://t.co/8ZfnUSD9KF
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 2, 2017
re: #238 ObserverArt
I note how religion also played into the politics of the wars. So many wars have the two tied together.
Yep.
re: #233 ObserverArt
There always seems to be that time in many rockers careers where they want to become more than rockers and be what they see as famous songwriters in a classical sense…and be known as an Irving Berlin or George Gershwin for all time.
To me Elvis Costello passed into that for some time. And then he decided to get back to his rocking roots. Others have gone through it too.
Rivers is an odd dude to begin with, and from reading interviews with him he’s always seemed to float just outside the ‘rock star’ classification, even while cleverly using it and turning it on its head by presenting Weezer in different ways. I think his upbringing in an ashram gave him built-in ironic distance and he realized the difference between being a rock star and acting like one. He’s always kept a separation there, and I think that’s what endears him to so many of his fans.
Still - not feelin’ the new album, at least not yet.
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
He thinks ever public appearance is a fucking campaign rally.
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hey, Donald, welcome to the world the rest of us enjoy. We don’t always get what we want, or what we need, and we have to compromise with those around us. Deal with it and grow up.
re: #208 HappyWarrior
The GOP wants to delude you into thinking that you alone made it to where you are wtthout anyone’s help. Anyone President Ford’s policies on Vietnamese refugees is a credit to him as both a man and president. Compare him with Trump.
There really is no comparison. Old time Republicans like Gerry Ford are simply no more.
re: #14 Anymouse
@TeaPartyCat
“I got a fantastic settlement and were gonna put the slaves to work on a classy classy hotel in Atlanta.”— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) May 2, 2017
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re: #212 Charles Johnson
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Next up: holding his breath, stomping his feet and crying he is not getting his way.
re: #247 ObserverArt
There really is no comparison. Old time Republicans like Gerry Ford are simply no more.
I have no idea how I would have voted in 1976 but Gerry Ford was a good man.
re: #251 HappyWarrior
I have no idea how I would have voted in 1976 but Gerry Ford was a good man.
I was not voting age yet, but would never have considered voting for the man who pardoned Richard Nixon
re: #246 Belafon
Hey, Donald, welcome to the world the rest of us enjoy. We don’t always get what we want, or what we need, and we have to compromise with those around us. Deal with it and grow up.
“You can’t always get what you want!”
I think those are the lyrics of a famous song by a famous rock band that had the song used in some political campaign just last year. Hmmm.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has responded to the question of a 2020 presidential run https://t.co/UChvsN1Ddn pic.twitter.com/P9T3EHdRVt
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) May 2, 2017
Gillibrand says she’s focused on running for reelection next year for the US Senate. That wont stop the speculation though, and she’d be a good choice. Pragmatic, decisive, and she took a stronger stance against Trump nominees than everyone else, including Booker or Sanders.
A good test will be to see what she does w/infrastructure coming up later this year, and whether she can get funding secured for the Northeast Corridor (assuming the Trump/GOP even pushes a bill forward).
Secretary Wilbur Ross needs to apologize. US military is not a toy and should never be used for “entertainment.” https://t.co/8v3JaqL0GY
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) May 2, 2017
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was not voting age yet, but would never have considered voting for the man who pardoned Richard Nixon
That probably would have been a deal breaker for me too even if he did ultimately do the right thing.
re: #254 lawhawk
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Gillibrand says she’s focused on running for reelection next year for the US Senate. That wont stop the speculation though, and she’d be a good choice. Pragmatic, decisive, and she took a stronger stance against Trump nominees than everyone else, including Booker or Sanders.
A good test will be to see what she does w/infrastructure coming up later this year, and whether she can get funding secured for the Northeast Corridor (assuming the Trump/GOP even pushes a bill forward).
I like her a lot.
re: #249 makeitstop
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re: #255 darthstar
Reflecting on last month’s strike, ordered as Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said: “It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment.”
“The thing was, it didn’t cost the President anything to have that entertainment,” Ross said
Makes you wonder how he’ll see ground war battles.
MOOD (via @JamesAALongman) pic.twitter.com/1dzfQfjfNw
— First We Feast (@firstwefeast) May 2, 2017
And it’s still early.
I know it’s futile of me to try, but I add @POTUS to the most egregious things Trump does so there’s a chance it’ll be in a permanent archive somewhere…
Secretary Wilbur Ross needs to apologize. US military is not a toy and should never be used for “entertainment.” https://t.co/8v3JaqL0GY
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) May 2, 2017
Bombing Syria as a form of entertainment? Makes you wonder how much concern for our troops the @POTUS actually has. https://t.co/8LjOZyKlix
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 2, 2017
re: #259 darthstar
Makes you wonder how he’ll see ground war battles.
Coffins as props for him to look “presidential.”
VERIFIED: MacArthur Amendment strengthens AHCA, protects people with pre-existing conditions. https://t.co/6W7bDEO40r
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) May 2, 2017
Ryan tweets a link to his own website, and it explains how Trumpcare weakens protections for pre-existing conditions https://t.co/BIb5oD6ZGe
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 2, 2017
re: #263 FormerDirtDart
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Not so smart are you Paul. Too bad your father died because if he hadn’t, you would have actually had to see what other people go through.
Just called my rep’s office again. He’s an undecided, but is never on any list.
CALL
re: #258 ObserverArt
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VERIFIED: War is peace. Vote Trumpcare(tm), Citizen
re: #263 FormerDirtDart
Remember, before the ACA, how the GOP fought to protect people with pre-existing medical conditions?
Yeah, me neither.
LePage, Don Young of AK & the Yam.
All addled & in office.
Gov. LePage vetoes Republican-sponsored Community Litter Day. Questions timing in May, when “litter is known to be washed away” by thaw. pic.twitter.com/7rXhyGE9j4
— Marina Villeneuve (@marinav13) May 2, 2017
re: #272 Stanley Sea
LePage, Don Young of AK & the Yam.
All addled & in office.
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re: #260 Stanley Sea
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And it’s still early.
I saw a tweet yesterday where that girl meets Goth-with-a-raven-on-her-knee girl, and they feed pizza to the raven.
@jbendery Irresponsible. Craven. Hypocritical. Liars. Take your pick from a thesaurus. Because Ryan’s all of the above - all to get tax cuts for rich
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 2, 2017
Watch & prepare to tear up. Thanks @jimmykimmel for sharing your story & reminding us what’s at stake w/health care.https://t.co/2kTEeUEG2f
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 2, 2017
Ryan lies. Clinton drops a truth bomb courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel’s moving story about his newborn child’s health crisis.
WTF MarketWatch?!
Hypocrite Obama cashes in instead of manning the barricades
Yeah. I sent them a nice tweet.
Daily Stormer calls Sebastian Gorka “one of our guys.” pic.twitter.com/sNNWQHQZbp
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 2, 2017
re: #276 GlutenFreeJesus
WTF MarketWatch?!
Hypocrite Obama cashes in instead of manning the barricades
Yeah. I sent them a nice tweet.
“manning the barricades”?
re: #268 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Austin Lounge Lizards did a song on that topic
Ha! I did the Pizza on the Ground thing on one of my first nights in Austin. Actually, it was pizza on the ground(w/pineapple) from the heavy metal pizza joint on 6th street.
4 REASONS FOR THE CIVIL WAR
@JoyAnnReid This should cover everything.
1. It was over slavery
2. States rights….to keep slaves
3. Economics…free slave labor
4. Slavery!— JeffreyT.Armstrong (@ClownshoeTrump) May 2, 2017
Well covered. https://t.co/oYUsgzPdeF
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 2, 2017
re: #276 GlutenFreeJesus
WTF MarketWatch?!
Hypocrite Obama cashes in instead of manning the barricades
Yeah. I sent them a nice tweet.
Has any President done that sicne leaving office or does the far left just extend their bullshit expectations to Obama because they feel he “betrayed” them. I’m getting really sick and tired of the far elft. The BB in my time line is bitchng about EMILY’s list today. I swear nice person but if someone doesn’t endorse Sanders, they’re dead to them and it really pisses me off that Sanders has created a cult of personality like this.
If who meets who? https://t.co/UTdebCnruO
— Elliot Carter (@OmElliotCarter) May 1, 2017
I saw mention of Goth being a guy.
re: #175 Jay C
Recommended read on the subject: The Ten Thousand Day War.
Obama spent the past 25 years fighting for progressive causes. He stood up for the rights of LGBT Americans like no president before. Oh but he’s not demanding that we throw people in jail because they work on Wall STreet. HE’s dead to me! //
Damn it sure is freaking windy today here in Ohio. Strange weather this spring or summer or whatever it is.
Found on the internet:
I love the internet. Game.Set.Match. #TrumpTeachesHistory pic.twitter.com/0VLvSxXATS
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) May 2, 2017
Detroit techno legend and Underground Resistance founder Jeff Mills getting his much-needed recognition here:
The Wizard is honored for services to the rave. https://t.co/lY5zRLStZq
— FACT (@FACTmag) May 2, 2017
Good thing this was done before Marine Le Pen takes over.
re: #281 The Vicious Babushka
Meanwhile for those clinging to gauzy lies on the causes of secession, here it is in the South’s own words: slavery.
It takes a special sort of revisionist white supremacist mental acrobatics to go from “There were causes other than slavery that also led to the Civil War” to “Slavery was not a cause of the Civil War!”
And yes, it is true that most of the Confederate soldiers did not even own slaves…because slave owners with more than twenty slaves at home were exempted from the draft.
And again, remember, all you fans of Southern Heritage, that the reason for slavery was that the white settlers were too damn lazy to do all the hard work of raising tobacco, sugar and cotton, so they found it easier to import people as agricultural machinery and threaten them with hunger, hardship, pain, disfigurement or even death if they refused to work for free.
Of course this is just snark, as they would never be in favor of the little people having access to easier protections under bankruptcy laws…
JUST IN: Republicans to add to new healthcare bill a provision for expedited bankruptcy procedures for people with pre-existing conditions.
— Ivan the K, LLC™ (@IvanTheK) May 2, 2017
re: #291 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It takes a special sort of revisionist white supremacist acrobatics to go from “There were causes other than slavery that also led to the Civil War” to “Slavery was not a cause of the Civil War”
And again, remember, all you fans of Southern Heritage, that the reason for slavery was that the white settlers were too damn lazy to do all the hard work of raising tobacco, sugar and cotton, so they found it easier to import people as agricultural machinery and threaten them with hunger, hardship, pain, disfigurement or even death if they refused to work for free.
And yet these are the same kind of people who talk about “moochers.”
My wife and I welcome a new baby and it is quite a story… https://t.co/VTT0oBsRFK
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 2, 2017
Well said, Jimmy. That’s exactly why we fought so hard for the ACA, and why we need to protect it for kids like Billy. And congratulations! https://t.co/77F8rZrD3P
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 2, 2017
It’s also a reminder that far too many Democrats ran away from defending the ACA/Obamacare, and folded like cheap suits when the GOP lied about what the ACA/Obamacare would do.
The GOP is still at it with the lies, all to further their tax cutting and burden shifting agenda, but at least there’s a sizable number of Democrats are who pushing back against the lies.
The lies are starting at the top - with Ryan and Trump both making bogus claims about how Obamacare is failing, or what’s contained in their zombie Trumpcare v.2 regarding preexisting conditions. They have to lie to further their agenda, because if the facts were known and acknowledged by the GOP, they’d be unable to move this bill any more than they could the first crapulent version.
re: #295 HappyWarrior
A creationist who denies the Theory of Relativity too apparently.
Can’t make this shit up, can you?
re: #295 HappyWarrior
A creationist who denies the Theory of Relativity too apparently.
But probably loves Social Darwinism and Great Big Nukes.
re: #296 lawhawk
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It’s also a reminder that far too many Democrats ran away from defending the ACA/Obamacare, and folded like cheap suits when the GOP lied about what the ACA/Obamacare would do.
The GOP is still at it with the lies, all to further their tax cutting and burden shifting agenda, but at least there’s a sizable number of Democrats are who pushing back against the lies.
The lies are starting at the top - with Ryan and Trump both making bogus claims about how Obamacare is failing, or what’s contained in their zombie Trumpcare v.2 regarding preexisting conditions. They have to lie to further their agenda, because if the facts were known and acknowledged by the GOP, they’d be unable to move this bill any more than they could the first crapulent version.
It’s funny. I remember watching Jimmy and Adam Carrolla on the Man Show. Jimmy turned out to be a great guy. Adam turned out ot be “Fuck you, I’m rich.”
re: #298 Dr. Matt
Can’t make this shit up, can you?
Does he forget that Lincoln, the putative violator of the Declaration of the Principles of the Declaration of Independence, was a (gasp) REPUBLICAN?!?
re: #64 Mike Lamb
Had to say goodbye to my 14 year old Viszla last night. Man, he was the weirdest, sweetest, most fun dog ever. My 3 year old son knew something was wrong last night, but fell asleep before we left. I’m not looking forward to answering his question.
[[[Mike Lamb]]] I’m so sorry for your family’s loss of it’s beloved furball.
re: #298 Dr. Matt
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Then “Dr.” Duke, you can explain why the CSA suppressed secession within its borders. Oh and genius, Lincoln wasn’t President when most of them seceded .IT was a gigantic temper tantrum because they couldn’t accept Lincoln’s presidency and opposition to slavery.
Love can be a form of resistance. (Image by @thereaIbanksy ) pic.twitter.com/SUaPUfCKye
— Lee Weissman (@JihadiJew) May 2, 2017
re: #299 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But probably loves Social Darwinism and Great Big Nukes.
He has a R next to his name, guaranteed.
As families prepare for summer vacations in our National Parks - Democrats threaten to close them and shut down the government. Terrible!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 27, 2017
#TheResistance
Trump Yesterday: US ‘needs a good shutdown.’
Trump 5 Days Ago: https://t.co/SsARXbmgGo— Dr.SpaceWorm (@DrSpaceWorm) May 2, 2017
Accusations of rough treatment by @BikersforTrump at last rally could add to Trump’s legal woes https://t.co/8nlNLSzfHx via @politico
— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) May 2, 2017
re: #64 Mike Lamb
So sorry for your loss. 14 years seems like a long time, until you get to the end of it. Knowing what a great life you gave him might not help much today but eventually it will. My condolences to you and everybody else who loved him.
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