Sarah Huckabee Sanders could have described Donald Trump Jr.’s statement on the Russia meeting as ‘honest,’ ‘earnest’ or ‘genuine.’ Instead, she chose ‘not inaccurate.’
Why is everything so horrible now?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2017
re: #1 Charles Johnson
8 years of a successful black man in the White House made Republicans lose their fucking minds
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 3, 2017
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Well Twitter has gone to shit, among other things.
The resemblance is uncanny…. pic.twitter.com/w119dSrerq
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 3, 2017
re: #4 Kragar
More like Forrest Gump, without the kind heart.
This is an article about the fact that the President is a moron. https://t.co/Opa2lR1qLR pic.twitter.com/Kq5xtAXwV1
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) August 3, 2017
Trump’s entire White House is peopled by movie characters. A Leni Riefenstahl movie — but hey, whatever.
re: #6 FormerDirtDart
This is an article about the fact that the President is a moron. https://t.co/Opa2lR1qLR pic.twitter.com/Kq5xtAXwV1
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) August 3, 2017
If JFK had been that stupid we wouldn’t be here.
Media this morning: “It seems like Trump’s administration may have finally started to straighten out…”
Miller: *starts racist blathering*
Media: “Sorry, false alarm.”
re: #8 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
If JFK had been that stupid we wouldn’t be here.
Gives pause for thought.
From a comment from downstairs.
re: #466 Anymouse 🌹
ACLU files an amicus brief in support of John Oliver in the lawsuit against him by Robert Murray, Coal Baron (tm).
The ACLU brief is hilarious. (They ask the judge to throw out the suit.) More at the link:
You have got to read that entire brief. If all legal Briefs were like that, everyone would want to be an attorney.
re: #8 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
If JFK had been that stupid we wouldn’t be here.
Gee, that’s just what I need, the thought of how Trump would handle a modern-day Cuban Missile Crisis.
The survivors would be four roaches and Keith Richards.
re: #6 FormerDirtDart
That Trump relies on Rage Furby’s GoutNwes doesn’t shock me as much as it really should.
re: #6 FormerDirtDart
The true horribleness of POTUS Fuckface von Clownstick becomes more apparent every day.
The man is a synthesis of all negative human traits. The seven deadly sins — pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth — are just the start for tr*mp.
re: #6 FormerDirtDart
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I’m old enough to remember when people attacked our esteemed host for covering UpChuck because they said no one cared what UpChuck said.
Actually no, let me think that over again. If we had a modern-day Cuban Missile Crisis between the US and Russia, Trump would back down and spin it as his being magnanimous to Putin.
You guys probably heard what Trump told his 1%er golf pals-the White House is a dump. How dare he insult our house. That he is in charge of. If I ever get in earshot of him I’m gonna get loud and his guards are gonna be eyeing me carefully, as they should in general but I would never instigate violence. Not even a spitwad. But I got words for this man.
re: #17 Targetpractice
Actually no, let me think that over again. If we had a modern-day Cuban Missile Crisis between the US and Russia, Trump would back down and spin it as his being magnanimous to Putin.
FTR we are in a missile crisis, but not with Russia, which would be the other crisis, besides the staffing crisis and the ACA “crisis” of his own declaration.
re: #19 Unshaken Defiance
FTR we are in a missile crisis, but not with Russia, which would be the other crisis, besides the staffing crisis and the ACA “crisis” of his own declaration.
True, though in this case the danger isn’t from the country that he seems to be spoiling to pick a fight with, it’s the big brother who may not like his psychotic little brother, but isn’t about to allow the schoolyard bully to beat him up.
re: #11 MsJ
From a comment from downstairs.
You have got to read that entire brief. If all legal Briefs were like that, everyone would want to be an attorney.
I believe that the Oliver Wendell Douglass moment is when the ACLU states that you have a constitutional right to say, “Eat shit, Bob.”
“Kelly has told aides that anyone briefing the president needs to show him the information first.” @jdawsey1: https://t.co/VlmGWcAG8F
— Kate Brannen (@K8brannen) August 3, 2017
How does Kelly stop the @FoxNews flow of info? https://t.co/qpxIJYrsSw
— Kate Brannen (@K8brannen) August 3, 2017
On Tucker Carlson: “New Hillary-Huma Email Revelations” pic.twitter.com/BKSJdUSHRR
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 3, 2017
Meanwhile in the Upside Down … https://t.co/TNrbF6xE0x
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 3, 2017
re: #20 Targetpractice
True, though in this case the danger isn’t from the country that he seems to be spoiling to pick a fight with, it’s the big brother who may not like his psychotic little brother, but isn’t about to allow the schoolyard bully to beat him up.
And the big brother knows the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique that he can use on the schoolyard bully’s economy.
re: #23 FormerDirtDart
Talk about a fight he’ll never win.
re: #25 Myron Falwell
And the big brother knows the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique that he can use on the schoolyard bully’s economy.
Big Daddy Xi has many techniques to fuck with our economy. Trouble is, it would hurt his economy too.
re: #10 Barefoot Grin
re: #8 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
If JFK had been that stupid we wouldn’t be here.
Gives pause for thought.
While it has generally been overlooked by the passage of time (beginning with the post-Dallas “Camelot” mythologizing) ISTR that one of the recurring contemporary criticisms of John Kennedy as a politician (and, to a degree, as President) was that - Harvard education aside - he really wasn’t all that “smart”; and that his main gift(s) as a public figure were - besides his family money and connections - a notable ability to construct, polish and control his public image: a knack which would pay off way more in the Age of Television than it might have in prior eras.
Of course, JFK was “smarter” in numerous ways than Donald Trump (low bar, etc., I know), but at least Kennedy knew enough to surround himself with - and listen to, when necessary - people who may have been smarter than him: the Kennedy WH was often criticized for its odd mix of personnel: liberal Harvard intellectuals and old-time Boston-Irish pols; but at least they were not the toxic gang of ego-fluffing hacks, toadies, neofascists and entitled relatives we have nowadays.
re: #29 Jay C
To find a worse crew than the tr*mp administration hive of scum and villainy, nothing in US history will suffice. The Nazis, the regime of Idi Amin, and some of the worst Roman emperors are suitable points of reference.
Wow.
I knew there was a reason my ears were ringing when I heard that phrase and I couldn’t put my finger on why it made my stomach churn.😠
— longislandtonv (@longislandtonv) August 3, 2017
Please note! The “Charles Johnson” referenced here is NOT ME. It’s a Holocaust-denying white supremacist scumbag who goes by “Chuck.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2017
I love the White House, one of the most beautiful buildings (homes) I have ever seen. But Fake News said I called it a dump - TOTALLY UNTRUE
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017
Confirmation that Trump did in fact call the White House a dump https://t.co/txjbHcsOwu
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 3, 2017
re: #18 Unshaken Defiance
You guys probably heard what Trump told his 1%er golf pals-the White House is a dump. How dare he insult our house. That he is in charge of. If I ever get in earshot of him I’m gonna get loud and his guards are gonna be eyeing me carefully, as they should in general but I would never instigate violence. Not even a spitwad. But I got words for this man.
Don’t leave the country if you do that. You might be detained by Customs and Border Protection Services as the British musician was.
I’ve asked Politico writers to use “Chuck Johnson” to avoid confusing me with this creep, but they refused to do it. Thanks, Politico.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2017
re: #31 EPR-radar
To find a worse crew than the tr*mp administration hive of scum and villainy, nothing in US history will suffice. The Nazis, the regime of Idi Amin, and some of the worst Roman emperors are suitable points of reference.
Andrew Jackson and his genocidal rampage of the First Nations would be the closest comparison I can think of.
And Trump paid homage at Jackson’s grave not that long ago because of course he did.
re: #34 Kragar
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Yeah, the magazine of the one percent’s favorite sport is totally LIBRUL FAEK NOOS!11!1!!!1
Stephen Miller is 31 but he’s much older in dog-whistle years pic.twitter.com/KrlJvIKRDL
— maura quint (@behindyourback) August 2, 2017
re: #29 Jay C
That is the most important part of being a politician, whether a city council member or a president.
It is not nearly as important that you have a first-class university education, or are off the right side of the IQ bell curve, as it is you are willing to surround yourself with knowledgeable people and willing to listen to their advice.
JFK was certainly no dunce. What makes him stand out was he surrounded himself with people who were extremely good at what they did.
re: #8 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
If JFK had been that stupid we wouldn’t be here.
Except if JFK had been as stupid as Trump, the electorate of 1960 would never have elected him. He may not have been brilliant, but he was poised, educated, knowledgeable, and eloquent — and actually served during the war and had been a Senator for 8 years. None of these characteristics apply to Trump.
The Trump gang actively seeks out crackpot sources like Chuck C. Johnson. This isn’t an accident - it’s deliberate.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2017
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹
That is the most important part of being a politician, whether a city council member or a president.
It is not nearly as important that you have a first-class university education, or are off the right side of the IQ bell curve, as it is you are willing to surround yourself with knowledgeable people and willing to listen to their advice.
JFK was certainly no dunce. What makes him stand out was he surrounded himself with people who were extremely good at what they did.
Even with that, mistakes were made (e.g., Vietnam) because being president is hard. tr*mp has not yet been tested by any external events. When that test comes, he will fail. Miserably.
Tillerson Won’t Use $80 Million to Fight Isis Propaganda Because Don’t Tell Him What to Do (goes to Wonkette)—more at the link:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is doing his part to prevent the State Department from doing too much diplomacy, since as everyone knows, America needs to be tough, not talky, and that’s probably a good enough reason right there for Tillerson’s refusal to spend some $80 million already allocated to counter propaganda from ISIS and from other, ahem, foreign disinformation campaigns. Besides, some of the funding might go to messages the Russians don’t like, and we wouldn’t want them unhappy with us, would we? An investigative report in Politico has the teeth-grinding details on why Tillerson’s State Department may let money earmarked to fight propaganda just go away:
Tillerson has not issued a simple request for the money earmarked for the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, $60 million of which is now parked at the Pentagon. Another $19.8 million sits untouched at the State Department as Tillerson’s aides reject calls from career diplomats and members of Congress to put the money to work against America’s adversaries.
re: #29 Jay C
While it has generally been overlooked by the passage of time (beginning with the post-Dallas “Camelot” mythologizing) ISTR that one of the recurring contemporary criticisms of John Kennedy as a politician (and, to a degree, as President) was that - Harvard education aside - he really wasn’t all that “smart”; and that his main gift(s) as a public figure were - besides his family money and connections - a notable ability to construct, polish and control his public image: a knack which would pay off way more in the Age of Television than it might have in prior eras.
Of course, JFK was “smarter” in numerous ways than Donald Trump (low bar, etc., I know), but at least Kennedy knew enough to surround himself with - and listen to, when necessary - people who may have been smarter than him: the Kennedy WH was often criticized for its odd mix of personnel: liberal Harvard intellectuals and old-time Boston-Irish pols; but at least they were not the toxic gang of ego-fluffing hacks, toadies, neofascists and entitled relatives we have nowadays.
I’ve generally been one of those people who believes that, had JFK not been assassinated in ‘63, he’d probably have faced a difficulty reelection bid and a lot of the stuff today credited to him would have taken longer to happen. So much of the modern mystique that grew up around “Camelot” has to do with how sudden Kennedy’s end was. Plus it was the pre-Watergate days of journalism where political news was limited to policy and issues, with the muckraking kept isolated to the gossip rags and a politician’s private life respected as private.
If I see journalists cite “Cernovich Media” as a source, you’d better stand back because I’m going to hurl. Don’t. Just don’t.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2017
Percentage of Americans “proud” that Trump is the President: 26% (CNN)
Percentage of Americans who think the Sun orbits the Earth: 26% (NSF)— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 2, 2017
re: #36 Charles Johnson
They should at least use Charles C. Johnson.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) August 3, 2017
And I’m serious. The disambiguation page on wikipedia for Charles Johnson is huge.
Lawrence O’Donnell asks “Why is Trump terrified of Vladimir Putin”. Any bets that it’s Putin knows that Trump’s net worth is modest and that he owes a fortune to the Russians?
July 6, 1999
“In the new poll, about four out of five Americans (79%) correctly respond that the earth revolves around the sun, while 18% say it is the other way around. “
gallup.com
The dumbness is gaining on us.
re: #52 jaunte
July 6, 1999
“The dumbness is gaining on us.
It’s not a regression to the mean, it’s simply regression all the way down. Idiocracy was apparently not comedy but a waypoint.
PyroCATic flow?
— Portland Beer (@Portland_Beer) August 3, 2017
re: #51 Hecuba’s daughter
Lawrence O’Donnell asks “Why is Trump terrified of Vladimir Putin”. Any bets that it’s Putin knows that Trump’s net worth is modest and that he owes a fortune to the Russians?
I’d say Trump’s biggest fear is the public will learn that he’s up to his eyeballs in debt to Russian banks.
Off-topic: I went to the general store and checked a lotto ticket. Yay! I won the lotto! ($19 and a free ticket)
I need to get my laundry off the line before it rains … catch ya in a bit.
Worse really. The hat is an icon. The evil is in the lie that we need him to make it great. As if its not greater without him in sight.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) August 3, 2017
Lawrence is sooooo enjoying himself tonight, talking about how weak the yam is and continually calling Kelly the boss of trump and how the yam is terrified of Putin.
Forget keeping him away from Fox—if anyone lets him see this show, he’ll go on a tweetstorm of epic proportion.
Hannity is frustrated because Mueller has lawyers on his team that have given huge money to dems.
A) $200
B) $486.77
C) $500 pic.twitter.com/cFYngBhCy4— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 3, 2017
re: #58 BeachDem
Lawrence is sooooo enjoying himself tonight, talking about how weak the yam is and continually calling Kelly the boss of trump and how the yam is terrified of Putin.
Forget keeping him away from Fox—if anyone lets him see this show, he’ll go on a tweetstorm of epic proportion.
Sounds like Lawrence wants Trump to see it.
re: #58 BeachDem
Lawrence is sooooo enjoying himself tonight, talking about how weak the yam is and continually calling Kelly the boss of trump and how the yam is terrified of Putin.
Forget keeping him away from Fox—if anyone lets him see this show, he’ll go on a tweetstorm of epic proportion.
You’d almost think Lawrence is trying to goad Trump into firing Kelly.
re: #32 MsJ
Wow.
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The way Miller leaned into the word “cosmopolitan” while answering Acosta has a long and ignoble history in 20th century authoritarianism, especially the anti-Semitic variety. During World War II, for example, the Soviet government under Stalin used to rail regularly at “rootless cosmopolitanism,” especially in the arts. The Nazis were fond of tossing it around, too. There is no context in which Miller’s use of the word against Acosta makes sense except as a historical signaling device.
re: #49 Belafon
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And I’m serious. The disambiguation page on wikipedia for Charles Johnson is huge.
I love that, in that extensive list, Rage Furby comes dead last.
re: #59 FormerDirtDart
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Meanwhile, it’s a known fact that the FBI’s NY office tried to convince superiors to allow them to investigate the Clinton Foundation on little more than the shit published in Clinton Cash, and that Comey wrote his infamous October Surprise letter out of fear that said office would “leak” news of Huma’s emails to the press.
This has been bugging me but when I finally figured it out I discovered that Andy Richter had solved it first back in February.
I love Jonathan Banks, but I have to report that I figured it out pic.twitter.com/BKT6h4dIff
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) February 14, 2017
Played Zach, Victor Maitland’s henchman in Beverly Hills Cop.
re: #59 FormerDirtDart
Looks like Lumpy’s auditioning for The Price is Alt-Right.
re: #63 Myron Falwell
I love that, in that extensive list, Rage Furby comes dead last.
Ugh, last I checked that shistain didn’t have an entry. I was hoping it would stay that way.
re: #60 Belafon
Sounds like Lawrence wants Trump to see it.
Oh for sure—he usually uses his opening segment to bait him—and he has such an adorable gleam in his eye, it’s heartwarming.
re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg
Ugh, last I checked that shistain didn’t have an entry. I was hoping it would stay that way.
It’s definitely not a flattering entry.
re: #34 Kragar
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I love the White House, one of the most beautiful buildings (homes) I have ever seen. But Fake News said I called it a dump - TOTALLY UNTRUE
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017
Golf magazines long at the center of the liberal media conspiracy. Why can’t they just play it straight? https://t.co/7eVG7MCTZa
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) August 3, 2017
My prediction right now: In the next few weeks, some story’s gonna drop that makes it pretty much impossible for Jared to realistically stay on with the administration. Kelly will ask him to leave, Jared will refuse, and both will lobby Donny Two Scoops to take their side. Jared will get Ivanka to lobby daddy on his belief, which will lead to either Kelly resigning out of frustration or being fired for failure to fall on his sword to protect Jared.
Been playing around with the Nuke Map. Yesterday I tested various warheads against Lubbock and Fort Worth. Today I went all the way:
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re: #71 Targetpractice
My prediction right now: In the next few weeks, some story’s gonna drop that makes it pretty much impossible for Jared to realistically stay on with the administration. Kelly will ask him to leave, Jared will refuse, and both will lobby Donny Two Scoops to take their side. Jared will get Ivanka to lobby daddy on his belief, which will lead to either Kelly resigning out of frustration or being fired for failure to fall on his sword to protect Jared.
I doubt Kelly is going to last even that long.
re: #72 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Been playing around with the Nuke Map. Yesterday I tested various warheads against Lubbock and Fort Worth. Today I went all the way:
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re: #73 Hecuba’s daughter
I doubt Kelly is going to last even that long.
Well, I have to admit I’m surprised that Mueller made it to the end of July. I think that right now, the only thing keeping him on the job is the DNC refusing to allow Congress to fully adjourn. Else Trump might have gone ahead, fired Sessions by now, and recess appointed a willing stooge to do the job.
Now the question is whether the administration will do anything at all to respond to Putin’s enforced downsizing of the U.S. mission in Russia. If Trump were so inclined, there is much he could do, from slowing down the issuance of visas to Russians who want to visit the U.S., to freezing the bank accounts of Putin and his oligarch friends (it would be poetic justice to freeze 755 accounts), to adopting a Pentagon proposal to ship anti-tank missiles and other potent weaponry to the Ukrainian armed forces resisting Russian aggression.
Will Trump do any of this? Doubtful. The only anti-Russian measures he has taken are those that have been forced on him by Congress. The administration isn’t hesitating to impose personal sanctions on the dictator of Venezuela, just the dictator of Russia.
Trump’s fondness for Putin is the big mystery of global politics. Perhaps Trump simply admires the Russian strongman, or perhaps the Steele Dossier, compiled by a former British intelligence officer, is accurate and Putin has something on Trump. Whatever the case, Trump’s unwillingness to get tough with Russia saps his credibility, strengthens suspicions of collusion with the Kremlin, worries our Eastern European allies and undermines America’s standing in the world. That is a high price to pay for trying to remain in the good graces of an anti-American dictator.
Give me your English-speaking, your rich, your well-educated…
An early look at Thursday’s front page: https://t.co/127ZPlXhdd pic.twitter.com/5Dp3O6Vlm2— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 3, 2017
I’m in Twitter jail for a week! All because I called a “Christain conservative” Nazi a ****. No tweets or retweets coming from me on Twitter until next week.
re: #74 Teukka
I can’t use Nukemap, because my security software throws up a cross-site scripting command (it blocks those).
Scaramucci to hold online event Friday https://t.co/iX3mV5PorR
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 3, 2017
He’s running. https://t.co/4tChDb6xwE
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 3, 2017
Fox News is all in on trashing the poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty pic.twitter.com/1S0o84eXV7
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 3, 2017
Just received a phone call: a political survey with one question:
Do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump has done since becoming President.
(Gales of laughter)
Caller: Is that a yes or no?
Canadian Mark Steyn (who lives and works in the U.S.) trashing Emmas Lazarus’ poem on the benefits to the U.S. of immigration.
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹
Just received a phone call: a political survey with one question:
Do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump has done since becoming President.
(Gales of laughter)
Caller: Is that a yes or no?
What organization called? Do you know?
Those white guys. Getting shafted in higher education because of their race.
re: #18 Unshaken Defiance
You guys probably heard what Trump told his 1%er golf pals-the White House is a dump. How dare he insult our house. That he is in charge of. If I ever get in earshot of him I’m gonna get loud and his guards are gonna be eyeing me carefully, as they should in general but I would never instigate violence. Not even a spitwad. But I got words for this man.
Has Trump denied that he made that statement? I assume he will if pressed. His constant golfing and trips to Florida suggest that the White House is not gaudy enough for his nouveau rich tastes. I’m not surprised that such a crass man can’t appreciate the history and prestige associated with the White House.
re: #78 teleskiguy
I’m in Twitter jail for a week! All because I called a “Christain conservative” Nazi a ****. No tweets or retweets coming from me on Twitter until next week.
Really? And yet racists like Richard Spencer still have Twitter accounts, right? Wish there was an alternative.
re: #86 Patricia Kayden
“… Trump took to Twitter Wednesday night to deny he made the remark. “I love the White House, one of the most beautiful buildings (homes) I have ever seen,” he tweeted. “But Fake News said I called it a dump - TOTALLY UNTRUE.”
abcnews.go.com
You know those golf magazine leftists, always making trouble.
re: #86 Patricia Kayden
Has Trump denied that he made that statement? I assume he will if pressed. His constant golfing and trips to Florida suggest that the White House is not gaudy enough for his nouveau rich tastes. I’m not surprised that such a crass man can’t appreciate the history and prestige associated with the White House.
from #34:
I love the White House, one of the most beautiful buildings (homes) I have ever seen. But Fake News said I called it a dump - TOTALLY UNTRUE
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017
re: #72 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
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re: #84 MsJ
What organization called? Do you know?
They identified themselves, but I do not remember the name. I’m sorry. I should have noted it for future hilarity.
re: #70 BeachDem
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re: #83 jaunte
Canadian Mark Steyn (who lives and works in the U.S.) trashing Emmas Lazarus’ poem on the benefits to the U.S. of immigration.
Did Steyn ever become a naturalized U.S. citizen?
re: #72 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Dragged a realistic 800kt over Rucker, the only nearby target. Nukes are over-rated.
re: #85 GlutenFreeJesus
Those white guys. Getting shafted in higher education because of their race.
White men and Christians have it so hard in this hellhole known as the U.S. Sad!!!
re: #94 Myron Falwell
I think he is still a Canadian citizen.
re: #94 Myron Falwell
Did Steyn ever become a naturalized U.S. citizen?
No. But that fellow has an interesting (racist and fascist) history.
re: #59 FormerDirtDart
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Hannity is frustrated because he’s an idiot and nothing he spews will save his President. Trump’s poll numbers are earth shatteringly low and nothing Hannity says will halt Trump’s downward spiral. I’d be frustrated too if I hooked my wagon to Trump.
if I want to see a fascist gun nut screaming at the Statue of Liberty I’ll watch the end of planet of the apes
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) August 3, 2017
Vatican accuses conservative Catholics o/forming “alliance of hate” 2 elect Trump, not 2 far apart from jihadists.https://t.co/2sRPXdA2ks
— Tracy Jan (@TracyJan) August 3, 2017
You’ll pardon the expression but, holy shit. https://t.co/7OlNnhUx9q
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 3, 2017
re: #95 Decatur Deb
Dragged a realistic 800kt over Rucker, the only nearby target. Nukes are over-rated.
Dropped 1 800kt over where I worked, got 150k dead, 600k casualties.
Where I work would get a lot more than 1 800kt pointed at it.
re: #86 Patricia Kayden
.@GolfMagazine is great, thanks!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2014
😹 ok ok i know the ‘there is a trump tweet for every thing’ is tired but THERE IS A TRUMP TWEET FOR GOLF MAGAZINE I AM SERIOUS https://t.co/hm6iTrfU8b
— darth:™ (@darth) August 3, 2017
Update on my grandnephew Joshua—EKG and MRI show that Joshua had a stroke on the left side of his brain that has caused mobility problems on his right side. A neurologist is flying in to Pittsburgh tonight to examine Josh at Pittsburgh’s Children’s Hospital.
I just want to let everyone in this community know how much I appreciate all the positive energy you’re sending Joshua. Thank you and bless all of you.
As soon as I get another update I will post it.
re: #102 Kragar
Dropped 1 800kt over where I worked, got 150k dead, 600k casualties.
Where I work would get a lot more than 1 800kt pointed at it.
Presuming every ICBM silo would have at least one nuke pointed at it, where I live would be a crater about five hundred metres deep.
re: #102 Kragar
Dropped 1 800kt over where I worked, got 150k dead, 600k casualties.
Where I work would get a lot more than 1 800kt pointed at it.
Population density. About 7k dead here.
Our tiny installation in Italy had two 500kt IRBMs waiting in Hungary—for good reason.
Don’t complain. If you didn’t want him, you shouldn’t have bought him. He’s yours now. No refunds. No exchanges.
— Chris Sampson (@TAPSTRIMEDIA) August 3, 2017
re: #104 Joe Bacon 🌹
Update on my grandnephew Joshua—EKG and MRI show that Joshua had a stroke on the left side of his brain that has caused mobility problems on his right side. A neurologist is flying in to Pittsburgh tonight to examine Josh at Pittsburgh’s Children’s Hospital.
I just want to let everyone in this community know how much I appreciate all the positive energy you’re sending Joshua. Thank you and bless all of you.
As soon as I get another update I will post it.
I sincerely hope that first-class scientifically-minded physicians will be able to help your grandnephew. I hold your family in my thoughts.
As a person with epilepsy myself, things such as stroke and SUDEPS are never far from my mind.
re: #72 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
I “nuked” Denver with Tsar Bomba. The whole city would be completely destroyed.
Folks, please forgive me if I haven’t gotten to everyone’s replies to give them an up-ding. I’m just so worried about Josh because I’m so far away.
re: #110 Joe Bacon 🌹
Folks, please forgive me if I haven’t gotten to everyone’s replies to give them an up-ding. I’m just so worried about Josh because I’m so far away.
No problems, Joe: you have more important things to think about.
re: #95 Decatur Deb
Dragged a realistic 800kt over Rucker, the only nearby target. Nukes are over-rated.
There are certainly some wild ideas out there about their effects, such as a crater 100 miles wide or a dozen of them breaking up the planet (both of which I have heard). I think a lot of this results from counter-survival propaganda, as well as a general cultural bias against the hardships, discipline, and even brutality that would be necessary. Some of this propaganda is well-intended, based on the assumption that any belief in the survivability of nuclear war would somehow make it more acceptable. I really don’t know how many people would find a desperate subsistence level survival preferable to immediate death, though, and I have always rejected that argument. “You mean there’s a slight chance we can live on like rats in the subway instead of being flash fried? Well, hot damn! Let’s nuke the bastards!”
The real thing is entirely bad enough.
re: #110 Joe Bacon 🌹
Folks, please forgive me if I haven’t gotten to everyone’s replies to give them an up-ding. I’m just so worried about Josh because I’m so far away.
Updings aren’t needed. His improvement is.
Chris Cuomo put Ed Butowsky on the hot seat and it was awkward https://t.co/Y8oGzO8I6u pic.twitter.com/XN9rzHDFQx
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 3, 2017
re: #112 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
…snip Some of this propaganda is well-intended, based on the assumption that any belief in the survivability of nuclear war would somehow make it more acceptable. …
If Herman Kahn’t, nobody Kahn.
Worth a read, to see what churches are up to with the administration:
In the early morning hours of November 9, 2016, God told Frank Amedia that with Donald Trump having been elected president, Amedia and his fellow Trump-supporting “apostles” and “prophets” had a new mission. Thus was born POTUS Shield, a network of Pentecostal leaders devoted to helping Trump bring about the reign of God in America and the world.
Amedia described the divine origins of POTUS Shield during a gathering that spread over three days in March 2017 at the northeastern Ohio church he pastors. Interspersed with Pentecostal worship, liturgical dancing, speaking in tongues, shofar blowing, and Israeli flag waving, Amedia and other POTUS Shield leaders put forth their vision for a Christian America and their plans to bring it to fruition through prayer, political engagement and organizing in all 50 states. Among the many decrees made at the event was that Islam must be “completely broken down.”
(More at Right Wing Watch)
rightwingwatch.org
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹
Worth a read, to see what churches are up to with the administration:
(More at Right Wing Watch)
rightwingwatch.org
Here’s to hoping Trump brings this down as well.
My dad was telling me that the pastor at his church, which is the largest in the city, does not want to hear anyone say “God told me to do this.” He said that’s not how it works.
re: #115 Decatur Deb
If Herman Kahn’t, nobody Kahn.
Actually met Herman Kahn once. He weighed around 400 pounds and seemed pretty excitable. He died at 61 and did pretty well to reach even that.
Stephen Miller constantly looks like he’s trying to figure out the best way to dispose of your body. pic.twitter.com/Qux0SjB4sG
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 3, 2017
re: #72 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Been playing around with the Nuke Map. Yesterday I tested various warheads against Lubbock and Fort Worth. Today I went all the way:
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Holy Christ. The distance between FW and Possum Kingdom was an all-day motorcycle ride for me one day in April several years ago. I’m trying to think of EVERYTHING I rode through that day, covered in fire from one bomb.
The human race is really a piece of work.
My wife found out today that a co-karate student of my oldest son died from brain cancer. We hadn’t seen him since he graduated from high school, but she found out through facebook that he was diagnosed with cancer after getting headaches last september. They had performed surgery and chemo, but he did not make it. He passed away a couple of days ago and was, if we’re remembering the age correctly, about 26.
After being called out here some weeks ago for hypocrisy over Twitter, I have neither been there nor read Twitter comments pasted here.
That said, the only place I have been able to trace this is to Twitter, so I will leave this here for you.
It turns out that Stephen “English Only” Miller’s immigrant great-grandparents couldn’t speak English.
Stephen Miller favors immigrants who speak English. But the 1910 census shows his own great-grandmother couldn’t. #oops pic.twitter.com/16GZ6Wtgvf
— Jennifer Mendelsohn (@CleverTitleTK) August 2, 2017
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹
After being called out here some weeks ago for hypocrisy over Twitter, I have neither been there nor read Twitter comments pasted here.
That said, the only place I have been able to trace this is to Twitter, so I will leave this here for you.
It turns out that Stephen “English Only” Miller’s immigrant great-grandparents couldn’t speak English.
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Jim Wright drags both magical-thinking conservatives and liberal who think ignoring Trump is the best answer in his new post.
People making up shit about Bernie Bros because they’re still gullible to excuses for losing. Bernie is not the enemy. Stop getting played.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 3, 2017
I would respond directly on Twitter, but I’m in Twitter jail for a week.
Bernie Sanders is the enemy, he’s a fuckin’ old coot gleefully destroying Democratic Party unity because the BernBro factor has gone to his stupid bald fuckin’ head. He needs to shut the fuck up.
re: #121 Pawn of the Oppressor
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When does Trump sign an EO to remove the poem from the Statue of Liberty?
Until Yesterday
I’m so over the shitshow, I’m listening to my greatest hits
She bathes me in sweetness I cannot reveal
For sharing dreams I need my woman
This humble expression meagerly dressed
My eyes so mean it has no meaning
But jealous night and all her secret chords
I must be deaf on the telephone I need my love to translate
I play the piano no more running honey
This time to the sky I’ll sing if clouds don’t hear me
To the sun I’ll cry and even if I’m blinded
I’ll try moon gazer because with you I’m stronger
Arc of a diver effortlessly, my mind in sky and when I wake up
Daytime and nighttime I feel you near
Warm water breathing she helps me here
This time to the sky I’ll sing if clouds don’t hear me
To the sun I’ll cry and even if I’m blinded
I’ll try moon gazer because with you I’m stronger
Lean streaky music spawned on the streets I hear it but with you I had to go
‘Cause my rock ‘n’ roll is putting on weight and the beat it goes on
Arc of a diver effortlessly, my mind in sky and when I wake up
Daytime and nighttime I feel you near
Warm water breathing she helps me here
With you my love we’re going to raid the future
With you my love we’re going to stick up the past
We’ll hold today to ransom ‘til our quartz clock stop until yesterday
re: #126 teleskiguy
“Bernie Sanders is the enemy, he’s a fuckin’ old coot gleefully destroying Democratic Party unity because the BernBro factor has gone to his stupid bald fuckin’ head. He needs to shut the fuck up.”
I wish he’d shut the f*** up. I read a few days ago that he’s now telling liberals not to trust Democrats. This is the type of divisive BS that the Democratic Party doesn’t need. He should be working to oppose Trump and the GOPer politicians in his cabal, and telling everyone to get out and vote against them in the midterms, but noooo, he wants to continue playing the purity card. What pissed me off about Bernie was that as soon as he lost the primary to HRC, he declared that he’s no longer a member of the Democratic Party and returned to being a socialist. If this is the case, why is he constantly intervening in Democratic Party affairs? I wish Maxine Waters would get him off in a private place and tell him to stop dividing the party using language even he could understand. He needs to understand that just because he has a loyal group of followers doesn’t mean he controls a party he’s not a member of.
re: #128 GlutenFreeJesus
When does Trump sign an EO to remove the poem from the Statue of Liberty?
Seems like a good time for this:
Nevertheless she persisted. pic.twitter.com/Ln6AGj5Kzq
— Judy Chu (@RepJudyChu) August 2, 2017
A black woman writes about her experience on Facebook and Twitter.
She went into a Cracker Barrel and was concerned for her safety. She made the mistake of putting that concern on Twitter.
Twitchy picked up her Tweet, then the rape threats, death threats, hate memes, &c started pouring in. Then it went to her Facebook account. Then her children’s accounts.
Complaints to Twitter were largely successful. Complaints to Facebook got her suspended.
Such an uphill battle to keep fighting off all the misinformation and dishonest actors.
She helped banks rip people off, and for some reason a lot of people are attracted to that kind of “sensible” politics, unclear why
— resist all tories (@HongPong) July 31, 2017
Yeah, the author of the CA Homeowner’s Bill of Rights and enforcer of an 8-figure bank settlement “helped banks rip people off”. GTFOH. https://t.co/r0hYRs2FEO
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 1, 2017
Must-read thread abt the coordinated disinformation campaign targeting @KamalaHarris. They’re doing to her what they did to @HillaryClinton. https://t.co/1cHKkbEm1t
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) August 2, 2017
Stephen Miller has been a hateful guy from way back.
rawstory.com
Twenty-One Facts Explain Exactly Who Stephen Miller Is and Why the Trump Mouthpiece Does What He Does
Rude Pundit on Trump’s lie that the Boy Scouts called him up and told him that his speech was the best ever delivered to the Jamboree.
rudepundit.blogspot.com
(more at the link)
But with Trump, if you’re gonna describe something, you tell everyone it’s the best, the top, or, in this case, “I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful.” Motherfucker, in 1969, Neil Armstrong sent a message from fuckin’ space. In 1973, fuckin’ Bob Hope and Danny Thomas spoke at the Jamboree. In 1989, Steven fuckin’ Spielberg talked to the scouts. And you can bet he didn’t bring up his rich friends who lost money or his election win. Oh, and Trump never got the call from the Boy Scouts. So either he’s lying or some staff member called him up and pretended to be from the BSA to soothe Trump’s fragile ego bone.
NASA has a job opening for someone to defend Earth from aliens — and it pays a six-figure salary
OMG—if you’re bored and want to laugh at some serious melodrama, check out Laura Loomer’s twitter tirade about her tire—which she claims was slashed because she was doxed, but which even ardent RWNJ’s are laughing their asses off because it is obviously a dry-rotted piece of shit tire that blew out.
She claims that a Triple A guy, a tire guy AND the police said it was slashed—her drama knows no bounds. She is a total loon (figures she and Posobiec are BFFs)
If you won’t stand with me, then I won’t stand with you. I’m not going to defend people I disagree w/ when they won’t defend me and my tire.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 3, 2017
There are multiple tweets about her “horrific” dilemma. At one point, somebody blames ACORN.
And, of course, SMOTI rides to the rescue:
Fearless Conservative Firebrand @LauraLoomer Has Car Tires Slashed https://t.co/3CzQXzPl64
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) August 3, 2017
OK—way too much time on my hands—I should go to bed. I blame Charlie Pierce for leading me there in the first place with this tweet.
Somebody who speaks more fluent Wingnut than I is going to have to explain to me what’s up with this woman and her tire.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 3, 2017
I’m out to bed. Water test in the morning, VA appointment in the afternoon.
re: #65 goddamnedfrank
This has been bugging me but when I finally figured it out I discovered that Andy Richter had solved it first back in February.
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Played Zach, Victor Maitland’s henchman in Beverly Hills Cop.
30 years later, he’s Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
So I was listening to a pundit and managed to catch a small (very small) part of Sarah H Sanders talking about the President’s lies.
I wonder how any of these people can sleep at night. I’ve had one job where my boss wanted me to lie to clients. I didn’t get any sleep for weeks & then I resigned. Despite being a complete financial disaster, I was able to sleep.
re: #140 fern01
So I was listening to a pundit and managed to catch a small (very small) part of Sarah H Sanders talking about the President’s lies.
I wonder how any of these people can sleep at night. I’ve had one job where my boss wanted me to lie to clients. I didn’t get any sleep for weeks & then I resigned. Despite being a complete financial disaster, I was able to sleep.
They have obviously convinced themselves that we as a people do not deserve any better.
re: #141 retired cynic
They have obviously convinced themselves that we as a people do not deserve any better.
I’m thinking more about their own morality, lifestyle and beliefs than what they think of others. Working for someone who continually lies is the most stressful thing (work wise) that I have ever experienced. We see that they cannot keep the lies in order - they keep changing. Admit one lie by posing another. They don’t even try to keep the lies in sequence and when in doubt, attack Hillary Clinton.
I do believe this is why MCain turned on Trump - knowing he was heading out - he could no longer cope with the never ending lies.
re: #139 sagehen
30 years later, he’s Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Mike’s my old guy crush in Better CallSaul, before he turns nasty.
re: #143 retired cynic
Lying for “God”?
Lying “to do god’s will” perhaps? Be interesting to hear what St Peter has to say when they reach the Pearly Gates.
re: #140 fern01
I think that means you’ve still got your soul (or self-respect, same thing to me).
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹
Requirements:
First name:Doom
Surname:Guy
I hear they will also accept the names Crash* and Phobos*, or for that matter, Deimos^.
*Quake 3: Arena reference.
^Deimos is the name of one of the moons of Mars. The other Moon is called the aforementioned Phobos.
“Facebook’s Complicity in the Silencing of Black Women” by @IjeomaOluo https://t.co/YU84C6Azv4
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 3, 2017
Facebook is a fucking cancer. Twitter too tbh. Silicon Valley is enamored w/ “free speech” to the point it will condone digital lynch mobs.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 3, 2017
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@Cernovich launched https://t.co/ipD7W60JXi tonight. This is a graphic from the website. pic.twitter.com/NohVosmtR0
— Robert Caruso (@robertcaruso) August 3, 2017
Also, it looks like the Rothschilds hand in that image belongs to the Chanukah Zombie from Futurama. pic.twitter.com/PvSRQBbwJA
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 3, 2017
re: #150 teleskiguy
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re: #151 goddamnedfrank
LOL, a far right wing lunatic account by the name of PizzaGateLibya thinks this is the kind of thing that will discredit her side. Holy shit these people wtf?
This is the sort of SHIT that discredit us. FACTS, OR NOTHING.
— Rae (@PizzaGateLibya) August 3, 2017
I’m kind of pissed that Twitter came down so hard on me today. I never threatened anyone, I never revealed anyone’s personal information. All I did was call a gal (who has over 4,000 followers, but she also follows over 4,000 accounts, follow-back strategy, anyone?) some nasty names. A gal that calls herself a “Christian conservative” in her bio, who posts shit like this:
I agree. Today he proved Acosta was the racist.
— AmericanKiko (@kikobrown) August 2, 2017
Yeah, whatever. Twitter, keep letting people like Richard Spencer and David Duke spread hatred, but ban me for a week for calling this bitch a **** for her racist and utterly wrongheaded worldview.
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹
It’s not a regression to the mean, it’s simply regression all the way down. Idiocracy was apparently not comedy but a waypoint.
Read Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, another dystopian future novel…it describes America after the Currency Collapse, when the only people with access to more than the basics are the ones who own Yuan or Northern Euro-backed currency, when books are no longer published and the masses communicate through videos and emojis.
re: #154 teleskiguy
I’m kind of pissed that Twitter came down so hard on me today. I never threatened anyone, I never revealed anyone’s personal information. All I did was call a gal (who has over 4,000 followers, but she also follows over 5,000 accounts, follow-back strategy, anyone?) some nasty names. A gal that called herself a “Christian conservative” in her bio, who posts shit like this:
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Yeah, whatever. Twitter, keep letting people like Richard Spencer and David Duke spread hatred, but ban me for a week for calling this bitch a **** for her racist and utterly wrongheaded worldview.
This is why unless I see something reportable I almost always just pre-emptively block and move on. The far right has learned how to use Twitter’s automated protocols to protect themselves. It’s almost never worth engaging with them and letting them see your anger is a win for the trolls. You don’t have to agree with Twitter’s response to learn from it.
re: #156 goddamnedfrank
thank you for reminding me why I don’t tweet
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Read Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, another dystopian future novel…it describes America after the Currency Collapse, when the only people with access to more than the basics are the ones who own Yuan or Northern Euro-backed currency, when books are no longer published and the masses communicate through videos and emojis.
I’ll have to check that out; the Wiki entry shows that Showtime is developing a series to be produced and directed by Ben Stiller.
re: #156 goddamnedfrank
Believe me, lesson learned. I strayed from Charles’ mantra of “Block Early, Block Often” and now I can’t tweet for a week.
re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
thank you for reminding me why I don’t tweet
It’s a flawed medium with incredible potential, that sadly will probably never be realized because the people in charge of it are irresponsible libertarian fuckwits.
re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
thank you for reminding me why I don’t tweet
This. Using Twitter at all is a win for the far right.
re: #158 Dr Lizardo
I’ll have to check that out; the Wiki entry shows that Showtime is developing a series to be produced and directed by Ben Stiller.
I can imagine him as the protagonist…it gets truly scary at the end.
Twitter is quite the medium. A number of my hero pro skiers follow me and have engaged me on Twitter.
While more than 100 people were waiting to meet with him, Mike Coffman sneaks out early from his own community event. #9News pic.twitter.com/NAZlXTKgQm
— Nelson Garcia (@9Storytellers) January 14, 2017
.@SteepSkiing Correct you are. However I see Republican pols doing this more often, just plain ignoring constituents https://t.co/0j9ketQEie
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) January 17, 2017
Which is totally unacceptable. Politicians must be held accountable. Let’s start with local and State! https://t.co/uJBiT91Kbh
— chris davenport (@SteepSkiing) January 17, 2017
And the keyboardist of my favorite band reads my tweets too!
@teleskiguy great photo, Charlie. Can’t wait to get out there….hoping to hit a mountain both before & after our shows later this month.
— Joel Cummins (@goldlikejoel) December 16, 2015
He even came through during a suicidal bout.
hang in there Charlie. That feeling sucks, but that’s also not you. You’ve brought a lot of positivity & thoughfulness to others
— Joel Cummins (@goldlikejoel) June 14, 2016
I’ve learned some great things on Twitter. I’ve been introduced to amazing artists and have seen some great displays of support.
I don’t Tweet myself or follow anyone. You can customize your engagement level.
I’m a 19 year old artist trying to make my hobby into a career, please one RT could change my life !🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/kL3XKSc7zp
— thai 🅴 (@TShakW) July 25, 2017
If you 19 doing it like this then it’s just a matter of time before you blow. Keep going.
Future in animation?@iFrankAbney @pramsey342 https://t.co/MyECwjsyG9— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) July 26, 2017
“Social media doesn’t do anything.”
This thread says otherwise. https://t.co/Xjuo55GOJS— Sam White (@samwhiteout) August 2, 2017
There are many issues that the head honchos aren’t fixing, much like CNN. $$
re: #161 William Lewis
This. Using Twitter at all is a win for the far right.
Social and political issues are too nuanced to be discussed in memes and 140-character tweets. It is perfect for people whose preconceived notions are already set in stone and just want validation.
re: #154 teleskiguy
If you called her the C word you might have been reported by a woman who was agreeing with everything else you said. Just sayin.
re: #166 JordanRules
If you called her the C word you might have been reported by a woman who was agreeing with everything else you said. Just sayin.
Nope. Take a look at her timeline. @kikobrown
She wants a lily white Christian America.
I had to delete some tweets to *not get banned* so this is my last tweet until the evening of 9 August. Not bad, I think.
A two-month-old snow leopard, one of three born at the zoo in Mulhouse, France, is seen during one of its first outings pic.twitter.com/iC4t4s5ICM
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 2, 2017
re: #167 teleskiguy
Nope you didn’t call her the C word?
I see she’s trash and doesn’t want me in “her” country and all that.
I mean there’s a 4 letter word you wouldn’t even type out on here so I’m curious LOL
Okay, this is creepy.
Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey, and its sequel 1900: or, The Last President, are indeed real books by writer Ingersoll Lockwood. (We haven’t been able to uncover any evidence proving that Donald Trump and his family have access to a time machine, however).
However, some of these connections were slightly exaggerated or outright misstated. For one, the main character is called Baron Trump not because his name is Baron but because he is a baron — in other words, that’s his title.
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Then you just tweet a link to the in-depth pieces to get more eyes on them.
Trump has launched a “REAL news” program on his Facebook page, hosted by his daughter-in-law https://t.co/PLn7g0ZvoO pic.twitter.com/dWuDaXsTZP
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) August 2, 2017
That’s the definition of propaganda. https://t.co/GpKA3892eQ
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) August 3, 2017
re: #171 JordanRules
Then you just tweet a link to the in-depth pieces to get more eyes on them.
you mean to info wars or the like?
re: #161 William Lewis
This. Using Twitter at all is a win for the far right.
Nah, honestly that’s ridiculously reductive. Black Americans for one have done amazing work with their adoption of Twitter as a cultural force, venue for social commentary and changing the national dialog around race. It’s probably the thing Twitter does most effectively, offer a concise instantaneous and compelling method for individuals to communicate, expand their horizons and get exposed to influences and points of view that persistent de facto racial segregation might otherwise be an obstacle to encountering in the real world.
re: #169 JordanRules
Nope you didn’t call her the C word?
I see she’s trash and doesn’t want me in “her” country and all that.I mean there’s a 4 letter word you wouldn’t even type out on here so I’m curious LOL
I typed it out. Charles blocks that word on the comment board, with four stars. There’s a number of filters that he’s put in place for LGF comments, including the censoring of the word n*****.
re: #175 teleskiguy
rhymes with bunt
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I don’t understand. Fox News exists so does that mean none of the other outlets should because oh no we got a horrible perverted one? People use the tool in various ways. Doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be able to get pointed to great pieces I might not have found otherwise.
And I’m not a free speech absolutist BTW.
re: #174 goddamnedfrank
Nah, honestly that’s ridiculously reductive. Black Americans for one have done amazing work with their adoption of Twitter as a cultural force, venue for social commentary and changing the national dialog around race. It’s probably the thing Twitter does most effectively is offer a way for individuals to communicate, expand their horizons and get exposed to influences and points of view that persistent de facto racial segregation might otherwise be an obstacle to encountering in the real world.
You just explained why I love Twitter. So eloquently.
I see *other shit* on Twitter, and it makes me evaluate *my shit* on the regular.
re: #175 teleskiguy
I gotcha. Didn’t know that. Well, it’s interesting that it’s in his list of banned words and kinda highlights how it’s generally perceived as very inflammatory by women in this country.
If using Twitter at all was a win for the far right they wouldn’t have felt the need to invent gab.ai as their racist safe space.
re: #180 JordanRules
LGF is far ahead of hateful racist sexist fuckers on the web.
re: #182 teleskiguy
Indeed which is why I love this place.
Another great blog that I used to frequent had a very lax troll policy and it really started to unnerve me.
re: #183 JordanRules
Indeed which is why I love this place.
Another great blog that I used to frequent had a very lax troll policy and it really started to unnerve me.
The first blog I joined back in 1997 was founded on near total free speech principles. Basically like Gab now it was anything goes short of rank illegality. It thrived for a while back then, but it steadily devolved over time to an utter idiocratic cesspool, followed shortly thereafter by total abandonment. While that experience helped me craft my online voice it also rewarded my rhetorical tendency towards viewing argumentation as a kind of Sumo match with words where the entire goal is to push the other person in the direction I have in mind. Which ultimately is neither true dialog nor all that intellectually or emotionally enriching.
Love It or List It, but the “it” is this foundation cracked, black mold and wood rot bedeviled country.
— OuterBoroughPrincess (@OuterBoroRoyal) August 3, 2017
Canada is embracing immigrants fleeing the US and Trump’s Draconian policies.https://t.co/wYz63BSzrk …
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) August 3, 2017
re: #153 goddamnedfrank
LOL, a far right wing lunatic account by the name of PizzaGateLibya thinks this is the kind of thing that will discredit her side. Holy shit these people wtf?
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re: #177 JordanRules
I don’t understand. Fox News exists so does that mean none of the other outlets should because oh no we got a horrible perverted one? People use the tool in various ways. Doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be able to get pointed to great pieces I might not have found otherwise.
And I’m not a free speech absolutist BTW.
Twitter is a tool.
One that I have decided not to use unless I have some pressing need to do so.
Right now, my need to maintain some faith in humanity outweighs any benefits I see in using it…
Approaching three weeks without any tobacco. I should be proud of myself. I started smoking cigarettes when I was 15, and have been a back-and-forth smoker ever since, This is the longest I’ve gone without a cig in years. Tobacco is such a scourge. I want a cigarette, right now! Goddamnit!
LOL, The Blaze headline… “Adam Carolla delivers blistering testimony to Congress on removing ‘safe spaces’ from colleges.”
A comedian giving expert testimony to Congress on a subject he’s not qualified to discuss. This country is fucked.
re: #189 teleskiguy
Approaching three weeks without any tobacco. I should be proud of myself. I started smoking cigarettes when I was 15, and have been a back-and-forth smoker ever since, This is the longest I’ve gone without a cig in years. Tobacco is such a scourge. I want a cigarette, right now! Goddamnit!
I finally quit when I found myself thinking, “I don’t want a cigarette right now, but I need one!”
re: #189 teleskiguy
Approaching three weeks without any tobacco. I should be proud of myself. I started smoking cigarettes when I was 15, and have been a back-and-forth smoker ever since, This is the longest I’ve gone without a cig in years. Tobacco is such a scourge. I want a cigarette, right now! Goddamnit!
Keep it up bro. I’ve had close relatives die of AIDS complications, alcoholic cirrhosis and lung cancer / emphysema and I’d be hard pressed to tell you which was the ugliest way to go.
re: #190 Single-handed sailor
LOL, The Blaze headline… “Adam Carolla delivers blistering testimony to Congress on removing ‘safe spaces’ from colleges.”
A comedian giving expert testimony to Congress on a subject he’s not qualified to discuss. This country is fucked.
This is the sort of pressing issue we need to concentrate on. Because the slippery slope from “college safe spaces” to “full-on Sharia Law in America” is short and steep…
For me I knew I had it licked at 6 weeks. 3 weeks in you’re still vulnerable.
re: #189 teleskiguy
Approaching three weeks without any tobacco. I should be proud of myself. I started smoking cigarettes when I was 15, and have been a back-and-forth smoker ever since, This is the longest I’ve gone without a cig in years. Tobacco is such a scourge. I want a cigarette, right now! Goddamnit!
I’m coming up on a year, after 40 years of smoking. I haven’t quite quit nicotine lozenges yet, the damn things just taste too good and they deliver nicotine fast enough they give a pleasure bump to the brain. Now I cut them in half and I’m starting to cut down the dose.
re: #189 teleskiguy
Approaching three weeks without any tobacco. I should be proud of myself. I started smoking cigarettes when I was 15, and have been a back-and-forth smoker ever since, This is the longest I’ve gone without a cig in years. Tobacco is such a scourge. I want a cigarette, right now! Goddamnit!
I’m at 12 1/2 years. and that was after smoking on and off (way more on than off) for 26-27 years.
I still get urges for a smoke.
re: #192 goddamnedfrank
The biggest reason I’ve stopped smoking tobacco is the health risks. I’m 35 years old, and if I can rid myself of inhaling all that tobacco smoke the better and longer my life may be. Especially in my family (It’s just me and my cousin who take up smoking tobacco) it’s looked down upon if you need to smoke a cigarette every now and again.
Still, I’ve quit tobacco *so many times.* Alcohol too. And I always come back, sooner or later.
This time, with the tobacco, I’m hopeful.
I was at three different businesses today that sold cigarettes, and not once did I think about getting some cigs for myself.
*pats self on back*
re: #197 teleskiguy
I stopped smoking regularly at around 35. I am still Mr Occasional Smoker, I have a pouch of tobacco at home, but I smoke only once in a while on weekends.
re: #200 Amory Blaine
My TP deal went down the shitter. All 240 rolls cancelled (I think for price error). Fuck, it was .20 a roll.
I was so looking forward to hearing about your adventures in single ply…
I ain’t sayin you treated me unkind, you could’ve done better but I don’t mind, you just kinda wasted my precious time
re: #202 Amory Blaine
Song I learned this the past week or so.
The banjo has been real helpful with my fingerpicking.
I could never fingerpick a guitar to save my life but had no trouble picking it up, so to speak, on the banjo.
re: #65 goddamnedfrank
This has been bugging me but when I finally figured it out I discovered that Andy Richter had solved it first back in February.
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Played Zach, Victor Maitland’s henchman in Beverly Hills Cop.
I was just thinking that Miller was out of Central Casting for a Russian villain on the next season of 24.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
How long until he’s appointed WH communications director? @Green_Footballs @jamisonfoser
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 3, 2017
re: #59 FormerDirtDart
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$500 whole dollars? Bigly. I gave that much to Clinton last year. I’ve donated more to other Democrats, but purposefully kept it below the itemization disclosure threshold.
re: #190 Single-handed sailor
LOL, The Blaze headline… “Adam Carolla delivers blistering testimony to Congress on removing ‘safe spaces’ from colleges.”
A comedian giving expert testimony to Congress on a subject he’s not qualified to discuss. This country is fucked.
About six years ago I started listening to podcasts during running or when driving and his was one of the first I found. He could be funny at times, but the amount of time he spent ranting about how he worked his ass off and made his own way starting as a ditch digger in construction and couldn’t go to college, blah blah became intolerable after awhile. I absolutely agree that not everyone needs to go to college, and I applaud him for his hard work, but he clearly has some kind of resentment issues about higher education that go beyond the supposed “safe spaces” he was (supposedly) testifying about. And of course, this is the hot topic Glenn Beck and Tucker Carlson turn to when they’ve run out of other deflection material. Anyway, I haven’t listened to AC in five years or so.
re: #209 Barefoot Grin
I absolutely agree that not everyone needs to go to college, and I applaud him for his hard work, but he clearly has some kind of resentment issues about higher education that go beyond the supposed “safe spaces” he was (supposedly) testifying about
It is assumed that most people attending university are either blacks attending on a government affirmative action scholarship or liberal snowflakes doing it on daddy’s money…
re: #189 teleskiguy
Approaching three weeks without any tobacco. I should be proud of myself. I started smoking cigarettes when I was 15, and have been a back-and-forth smoker ever since, This is the longest I’ve gone without a cig in years. Tobacco is such a scourge. I want a cigarette, right now! Goddamnit!
I gave up 12 years ago (also started around 15 - but I was old when I stopped) and yesterday morning in the midst of a family crisis, I walked around saying “if only I could have a cigarette I could cope with this”. 12 years & I still have the craving.
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is assumed that most people attending university are either blacks attending on a government affirmative action scholarship or liberal snowflakes doing it on daddy’s money…
That sums it up pretty well right now.
I’ve been up since 3AM worrying about the usual stuff. I think I’m going to go back to bed. Be back in a scaramucci.
re: #102 Kragar
Dropped 1 800kt over where I worked, got 150k dead, 600k casualties.
Where I work would get a lot more than 1 800kt pointed at it.
isn’t anything near me worth nuking. I dropped one on Greenville which I’m pretty sure took out Bob Jones. I tried to keep Furman out of the worst of the gamma.
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹
Worth a read, to see what churches are up to with the administration:
(More at Right Wing Watch)
rightwingwatch.org
shofar blowing? Is that a category on pornhub?
re: #76 Unshaken Defiance
Yeah, ok.
Trump, to be sure, has agreed to sign a bill imposing further sanctions on Russia but only because he had no choice — it passed both houses by veto-proof margins. The legislation removes presidential discretion to lift sanctions, an extraordinary repudiation that indicates how worried lawmakers of both parties are about this president’s fondness for Russia’s dictator. Trump dragged his feet as much as possible and tried to water down the legislation, but contrary to White House claims, he did not manage to substantially alter the bill. Putin went ahead with his retaliation once the Senate and the House rejected administration entreaties to go easy on Russia.
Except there are a bunch of elected Republicans who love them some Putin.
re: #77 FormerDirtDart
re: the Daily News cover.
Hillary Clinton: “Donald looks at the Statue of Liberty and sees a 4. Maybe a 5 if she loses the torch and tablet and changes her hair.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 21, 2016
I just realized that Hillary joked about the Trump administration disparaging the Statue of Liberty in October
SHE CALLED IT ALL https://t.co/Dx7s32cxim— Emmy Bengtson (@EmmyA2) August 2, 2017
McConnell and Ryan are planning to push to raise the debt ceiling without accompanying spending cuts https://t.co/a0rqvmNmfg pic.twitter.com/ODsRvvVoBz
— POLITICO (@politico) August 3, 2017
Weird how they had to be dragged to the edge of a “cliff” to do this when Obama was President. Purely coincidental, I’m sure … https://t.co/PWNkMX7exX
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) August 3, 2017
I heard that Jared and Bannon seek to privatize the military by handing Afghanistan to Blackwater. There’s no way that can go wrnog.
While NATO leaders rightly dismiss Pence, the VEEP’s visit to the Baltics mightily angers Russia.
We’ve turned from paper tiger to drunken tiger. No clear policies, no diplomacy. Chaos looms.
Former Sputnik reporter says he was asked to push Rich murder conspiracy in much the same way WH was collaborating with Fox.
“It’s really telling that the White House is pushing the same narrative as a state-run Russian propaganda outlet,” Feinberg said.
Hmmmmm….
today’s thought / question
healthcare - couldnt get 50 votes
sanctions - overwhelming approval, both houses
immigration - a nonstarter (i predict)
these things the (p)resident wants are not attractive, let alone acceptable to all/enough R’s
“cause it will hurt their chances with re-election” is shorthand
isnt the underlying reason because theyre really bad policy or will be economically devastating?
The Trump administration has shown its total weakness by handing over executive power to Congress in the most humiliating way
— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) August 2, 2017
Buyer’s remorse. https://t.co/zPal31Ybfm
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 3, 2017
In the press room: immigration is too high. In the West Wing: subpoenas for selling green cards. https://t.co/TbQJV7wbOn
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 3, 2017
re: #140 fern01
So I was listening to a pundit and managed to catch a small (very small) part of Sarah H Sanders talking about the President’s lies.
I wonder how any of these people can sleep at night. I’ve had one job where my boss wanted me to lie to clients. I didn’t get any sleep for weeks & then I resigned. Despite being a complete financial disaster, I was able to sleep.
Coz they be lying for Jesus! Hallelujah! And praise their god - money, and their king, Trump. (spit)
re: #149 goddamnedfrank
No, they are not enamored with Free Speech. They suspend those attacked and allow the Nazis. Both Facebook and Twitter.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 3, 2017
re: #200 Amory Blaine
My TP deal went down the shitter. All 240 rolls cancelled (I think for price error). Fuck, it was .20 a roll.
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Dude, you can’t corner the market of a ceramic oval.
re: #227 Decatur Deb
Dude, you can’t corner the market of a ceramic oval.
“Brother, can you spare a square?”
re: #219 Lupin
I heard that Jared and Bannon seek to privatize the military by handing Afghanistan to Blackwater. There’s no way that can go wrnog.
Cost-plus no-bid military contracts are wonderful, except for the expense of all those forklifts to move the money.
re: #229 Decatur Deb
Cost-plus no-bid military contracts are wonderful, except for the expense of all those forklifts to move the money.
The very spirit of modern capitalism…
re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The very spirit of modern capitalism…
…With a long history going back to antiquity via the East India companies.
re: #231 Decatur Deb
…With a long history going back to antiquity via the East India companies.
The very thing that Adam Smith was arguing against in The Wealth of Nations: the state-sponsored monopoly.
They love them some “Invisible Hand” but tend to overlook his quote: “Markets are there to serve the people, people are not there to serve the markets”.
And anybody who associates Adam Smith with laissez-faire is talking out his/her ass, he never used the term, and was in favor of a robust role for government to make sure that markets work for the benefit of both producers and consumers.
re: #200 Amory Blaine
My TP deal went down the shitter. All 240 rolls cancelled (I think for price error). Fuck, it was .20 a roll.
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It just clogs up the bidet anyway.
re: #197 teleskiguy
The biggest reason I’ve stopped smoking tobacco is the health risks. I’m 35 years old, and if I can rid myself of inhaling all that tobacco smoke the better and longer my life may be. Especially in my family (It’s just me and my cousin who take up smoking tobacco) it’s looked down upon if you need to smoke a cigarette every now and again.
Still, I’ve quit tobacco *so many times.* Alcohol too. And I always come back, sooner or later.
This time, with the tobacco, I’m hopeful.
find a hobby to distract you and take up that time
skiing maybe (seasons yes, i know i know….)
re: #224 darthstar
On the Chinese side, the government in Beijing is cracking down on Chinese foreign investments, mostly by big firms like AnBang (owner of the Waldorf-Astoria now) and HNA (which has financed Trump and Kushner projects). It’s all about limiting capital flight. Beijing wants the big firms to keep their billions inside China.
AFAIK there are no such controls on individual investors, like the ones being wooed by Kushner’s firm, but likely these people are using offshore shell companies to move their millions anyway. Individuals are limited to foreign exchanges of $50,000 a year, including international bank wires.
Finally….. pic.twitter.com/xs3S9gFMDp
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 3, 2017
This one is better. :-)
Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can’t even give us HCare!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017
Yeah, John Kelly is really having an effect on Trump’s behavior. Said no one ever. https://t.co/FYbeX2gV26
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) August 3, 2017
re: #234 darthstar
It just clogs up the bidet anyway.
The Tales of My Weird Childhood include a 5-year stint using Army WWII surplus toilet paper. Someone at the military school had purchased a mound of the stuff that was at least 20X40X6 ft. It was appropriately khaki colored, tightly wound into packs about the size of a candy bar. Each toilet stall had a little wooden box full of it, refreshed as needed by the kid who had that restroom for his assigned chores.
re: #238 MsJ
Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can’t even
give usdeprive millions of HCare!
This tweet from John Roberts came 8 minutes before Trump’s Russia tweet.
Should I have another cup of coffee or tweet this now…I’ll tweet it now. You should have waited 10 minutes before declaring a pivot.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 3, 2017
Uhm…
Why Trump lying about phone calls with Mexico and the Boy Scouts matters. A lot.https://t.co/S28DhbjQF2
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) August 3, 2017
re: #243 MsJ
Uhm…
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Chris’s editor finally tell him he had to write something critical of Trump/GOP?
re: #243 MsJ
Uhm…
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they matter because he does it without thinking at all. in a sense “naturally”
he doesnt consider what ramifications there could be of being caught in a lie (that there havent been many overt ramifications is a different point - his credibility/trustworthiness is nil)
worst is he doesnt learn - he hasnt figured out how easily he has been caught - like over 800 times
re: #244 Timothy Watson
Chris’s editor finally tell him he had to write something critical of Trump/GOP?
If you’re gonna go, go big. And he did.
He must have figured out that Ivanka just isn’t worth it.
re: #244 Timothy Watson
Chris’s editor finally tell him he had to write something critical of Trump/GOP?
It must have hurt his heart to write that, the poor thing…
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“Our relationship with Russia is at a very low point but it’s VLADIMIR PUTIN’S fault,” GOP Sen. Tom Cotton on MSNBC, countering Trump tweet. pic.twitter.com/pNVCctpcPd
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 3, 2017
Russia hits Trump.
Trump hits Congress.
Congress hits Russia.#LoveTriangle https://t.co/0C6MTAJOBV— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 3, 2017
re: #249 darthstar
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How long until Trump pulls support for Cotton’s immigration bill?
An open letter to Vice President Pence from me and @Susan_Hennessey: https://t.co/reCcYDOZCx
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) August 2, 2017
re: #251 MsJ
Ford was a dork but not a homophobic fundamentalist theocrat.
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ford was a dork but not a homophobic fundamentalist theocrat.
Pence needs to be Spiro Agnew.
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ford was a dork but not a homophobic fundamentalist theocrat.
And Ford’s “Mom” (to use Pence’s word for his wife) was a huge feminist.
re: #254 dangerman
it would be lost on him if he read it
credibility?
study?
c’mon
I know. It needs to be from ChristianityTodayNowByForceIfNecessary. com for him to read it. Maybe Mother will read it to him.
re: #126 teleskiguy
People making up shit about Bernie Bros because they’re still gullible to excuses for losing. Bernie is not the enemy. Stop getting played.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 3, 2017
re: #133 JordanRules
She helped banks rip people off, and for some reason a lot of people are attracted to that kind of “sensible” politics, unclear why
— resist all tories (@HongPong) July 31, 2017
Yeah, the author of the CA Homeowner’s Bill of Rights and enforcer of an 8-figure bank settlement “helped banks rip people off”. GTFOH. https://t.co/r0hYRs2FEO
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 1, 2017
Must-read thread abt the coordinated disinformation campaign targeting @KamalaHarris. They’re doing to her what they did to @HillaryClinton. https://t.co/1cHKkbEm1t
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) August 2, 2017
What say you, Darth?
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is assumed that most people attending university are either blacks attending on a government affirmative action scholarship or liberal snowflakes doing it on daddy’s money…
Who knew Kushner was a liberal snowflake?
re: #200 Amory Blaine
We once visited a Costco outlet and bought a bale sized package of toilet paper. As we wheeled the cart to the checkout, a small boy tugged on his mama’s shirt and pointed to us, saying “they must poop a lot”.
Christ, this article.
Trump urged Mexican president to end his public defiance on border wall, transcript reveals https://t.co/71WDlLypmo
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 3, 2017
But in his first White House call with Mexico’s president, Trump described his vow to charge Mexico as a growing political problem, pressuring the Mexican leader to stop saying publicly that his government would never pay.
“You cannot say that to the press,” Trump said repeatedly, according to a transcript of the Jan. 27 call obtained by The Washington Post. Trump made clear that he realized the funding would have to come from other sources but threatened to cut off contact if Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto continued to make defiant statements.
The funding “will work out in the formula somehow,” Trump said, adding later that “it will come out in the wash, and that is okay.” But “if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that.”
He described the wall as “the least important thing we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important.”
re: #262 MsJ
Christ, this article.
He wants to negotiate some sort of agreement that will allow him to claim (plausibly enough to convince his supporters, which will not take much) that Mexico is somehow “paying” for The Wall.
Trump’s getting called out for being Putin’s bitch, this time by the LA times.
Putin’s action is a sign that he has given up hope that the Trump administration will lift sanctions on Russians and otherwise conciliate the Kremlin, as Michael Flynn, who would later be named and then deposed as national security advisor, apparently hinted to the Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak before the inauguration. U.S.-Russia relations, far from improving as Trump had promised, are in the depths of an icy freeze that is reviving talk of a new Cold War.
So far, Trump hasn’t conceded that dismal reality. His silence suggests he remains wedded to the fantasy that Putin is an admirable leader and a potential American ally in Syria and beyond, and his long-standing affection for the Russian dictator seems to have only grown stronger after the two men spent hours bonding with one another in Hamburg.
Just imagine if Rosie O’Donnell, “Crooked Hillary,” the “failing New York Times” or one of the president’s other supposed enemies had insulted him, however slightly. He would surely have gone ballistic on Twitter by now. But there is not a word about Russia or Putin in Trump’s Twitter feed, nor in his public comments, save for his ritualistic (and increasingly unconvincing) denials of any collusion between his campaign and Russia in the election.
The only official U.S. response to Putin’s act was a perfunctory State Department statement saying the expulsion was “regrettable and uncalled for.” Vice President Mike Pence is talking tough on Russia while in Estonia, but Trump continues his streak of never speaking ill of Putin, a streak all the more remarkable given how many other people Trump routinely disparages. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a recipient of the Order of Friendship from Putin, also has been thunderously silent about this unwarranted affront to the department he leads.
Trump, to be sure, has agreed to sign a bill imposing further sanctions on Russia but only because he had no choice — it passed both houses by veto-proof margins. The legislation removes presidential discretion to lift sanctions, an extraordinary repudiation that indicates how worried lawmakers of both parties are about this president’s fondness for Russia’s dictator. Trump dragged his feet as much as possible and tried to water down the legislation, but contrary to White House claims, he did not manage to substantially alter the bill. Putin went ahead with his retaliation once the Senate and the House rejected administration entreaties to go easy on Russia.
Drumbeat. This will start to permeate every aspect of this terrible presidency, and before long even those who aren’t paying close attention will be asking why Trump isn’t standing up to Russia.
re: #259 Belafon
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She still won the primary. Still lost the general. Won’t buy into the continued hate. Don’t see any point in it. Doesn’t mean Bernie’s shit doesn’t stink.
Also, I like Kamala Harris. Voted for her for Senate. Think she’s got Presidential potential.
re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He wants to negotiate some sort of agreement that will allow him to claim (plausibly enough to convince his supporters, which will not take much) that Mexico is somehow “paying” for The Wall.
All smoke and mirrors.
That entire article is stunning. I could quote almost the entire thing, there’s that much that is just too…too everything.
God, we are so fucked.
I wonder what NH thinks of this:
“We have a massive drug problem where kids are becoming addicted to drugs because the drugs are being sold for less money than candy,” Trump said. “I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den.”
And this during his talk with Turnbull (our supposed strongest ally):
“This is going to kill me,” he said to Turnbull. “I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country. And now I am agreeing to take 2,000 people.”
Fucking vomitous.
Man, I really hate Sean Hannity.
Hannity opens show claiming that Mueller is actually a criminal in violation of at least one, possibly two laws; calls for him to be fired. pic.twitter.com/WYK1iC2gZI
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) August 3, 2017
IMHO calling the former Director of the FBI a criminal, without cause, when he’s investigating a President for treason, is a firing offense. https://t.co/vHp0txXhhN
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 3, 2017
re: #244 Timothy Watson
Chris’s editor finally tell him he had to write something critical of Trump/GOP?
I think he got a little critical of Trump in something he wrote a week or so ago. Trump is making it real hard for Cillizza to cover for him. That is an accomplishment on Trump’s behalf.
But after he writes something critical of Trump, he just pulls out his 64 gig thumbdrive where he has all of his articles about Hillary’s stored in rich text. He reads a couple of them and he is right again.
re: #262 MsJ
All Trump does is lie and bully and project.
He’s an awful businessman and he doesn’t know how to negotiate for shit. He couldn’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag.
He promised everyone that Mexico would pay for the wall, and the Mexican government didn’t just say no. They said Fuck No. That’s not stopping Trump from pushing his nonsense and the House continues to give him cover all while making taxpayers cough up the money to pay for the wall.
Once again, Trump supporters are getting screwed by Trump and they don’t know or care.
re: #269 lawhawk
Once again, Trump supporters are getting screwed by Trump and they don’t know or care.
They voted for the anti-politician who would fulfill the role of their collective middle finger flipped at Washington and the Powers That Be.
In that sense, Trump is still doing the job they elected him for.
re: #266 MsJ
“We have a massive drug problem where kids are becoming addicted to drugs because the drugs are being sold for less money than candy,” Trump said. “I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den.”
So senile he thinks he won New Hampshire.
re: #251 MsJ
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Interesting that someone is already writing contingencies for Pence to deal with Trump leaving office.
Tick-tock, tick-tock.
re: #246 MsJ
If you’re gonna go, go big. And he did.
He must have figured out that Ivanka just isn’t worth it.
That article doesn’t seem like a big criticism at all. I realise that coming from Chris Cilizza even a negative comment about Trump’s tie would be a huge deviation from the norm, but saying that he lies a lot and it should matter is pretty milquetoast. The whole world has known for years that he lies all the time. He fucking called reporters and pretended to be his own publicist to lie about women, for fuck’s sake. Let me know when you think it’s a bigger deal than her emails, Chris.
re: #262 MsJ
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A perfect example of a snivelling fool. And he is our president.
So, that is great negotiation from the great negotiator. Pffft.
“I know I was wrong…but you can’t make me look bad man….whaaaaaaaa!”
“This deal will make me look terrible”: Here are the full transcripts of Trump’s calls with Mexico and Australia https://t.co/cAh6heaBj8
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 3, 2017
This deal? Trump’s actions make him look terrible because he is objectively terrible.
He’s absolutely incompetent and doesn’t know what he’s doing. He surrounded himself with people just as incompetent as he is and he chose his inner circle based on loyalty, not competence. The most competent thing anyone in his inner circle has proposed was the Mooch’s ideas to unify and clarify the communications department. Mooch never got to see that work done because he was fired before he even started the job.
Kelly’s now in the business of herding cats and trying to impose some kind of control/discipline on the WH, but given that Trump is a category 5 shit storm of epic proportions, Kelly will fail. He will be undermined by Trump’s inner circle whiz kids of reactionary ignorance: Bannon, Miller, Kushner, and Ivanka. Yeah, that’s a winning combination.
None of these people know what they’re doing - other than sabotaging functioning government, and when there’s multiple reports saying that Trump needs constant coverage to make sure he doesn’t do something rash, that’s a cry for 25th Amendment action - not to further enable his administration as hobbled as it is.
Trump is the source of all these problems. Rearranging the deck chairs by bringing in a new captain to help the Trumptanic isn’t going to stop it from sinking.
re: #273 Renaissance_Man
He fucking called reporters and pretended to be his own publicist to lie about women, for fuck’s sake.
That should be easy to figure out.
“Hi, this is Donald Trump’s publicist. Say, did you hear he’s stepping out with __________ ______________ and she’s been running around town, saying ‘Donald Trump has the biggest, the HUGEST schlong! He could be in porn - he makes John Holmes look average!!’ so yeah, it’s the biggest dong in history and you might wanna put that in Page Six.”
Speaking of Miller, this fucker’s anti-Semitic bullshit needs to be called out on top of all his other bigoted/xenophobic positions:
More: WH adviser Stephen Miller accuses reporter of exhibiting “cosmopolitan bias” in exchange over immigration plan https://t.co/PUIJZJ77c3 pic.twitter.com/aCDbs07Jw2
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 2, 2017
Fyi, the Soviet thesaurus entry for Jew is “rootless cosmopolitan”. Is “reactionary bourgeois” coming next? https://t.co/jxfueXgnSS
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 2, 2017
Also, why are these things still leaking from the White House? I thought the Mooch, then Kelly, were going to stop this? Haha.
— Mike Signorile (@MSignorile) August 3, 2017
re: #265 darthstar
She still won the primary. Still lost the general. Won’t buy into the continued hate. Don’t see any point in it. Doesn’t mean Bernie’s shit doesn’t stink.
Also, I like Kamala Harris. Voted for her for Senate. Think she’s got Presidential potential.
Why do you use the word hate?
The big thing and what is most troubling about Sanders; He could put a stop to this, but he doesn’t. He stirs it up.
I hate that. Is that hate the way you see it?
re: #275 lawhawk
He’s absolutely incompetent and doesn’t know what he’s doing. He surrounded himself with people just as incompetent as he is and he chose his inner circle based on loyalty, not competence.
A tweet I saw yesterday summed it up perfectly - ‘This whole administration is full of extremely mediocre people who all think they’re geniuses.’
re: #269 lawhawk
All Trump does is lie and bully and project.
He’s an awful businessman and he doesn’t know how to negotiate for shit. He couldn’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag.
He promised everyone that Mexico would pay for the wall, and the Mexican government didn’t just say no. They said Fuck No. That’s not stopping Trump from pushing his nonsense and the House continues to give him cover all while making taxpayers cough up the money to pay for the wall.
Once again, Trump supporters are getting screwed by Trump and they don’t know or care.
Trump’s idea of negotiating is to bully until he gets his way. This may have worked with threats of non-payment and lawsuits against us proles, but it certainly won’t work against foreign leaders, for goodness sake.
re: #279 ObserverArt
Why do you use the word hate?
The big thing and what is most troubling about Sanders. He could put a stop to this, but he doesn’t. He stirs it up.
I hate that. Is that hate the way you see it?
I’m not even gonna get started on this today, but I will say that Bernie should call his fucking dogs off, and pronto.
They are trying to systematically discredit the best that the Democrats have. He should tell them to step the fuck off - if he even has any control over his own sycophants.
re: #273 Renaissance_Man
That article doesn’t seem like a big criticism at all. I realise that coming from Chris Cilizza even a negative comment about Trump’s tie would be a huge deviation from the norm, but saying that he lies a lot and it should matter is pretty milquetoast. The whole world has known for years that he lies all the time. He fucking called reporters and pretended to be his own publicist to lie about women, for fuck’s sake. Let me know when you think it’s a bigger deal than her emails, Chris.
I have to disagree. The headline screaming LYING seems like a big step to me.
I agree with you on the rest, though.
Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can’t even give us HCare!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SIDING POLITICALLY WITH THE KREMLIN AGAINST CONGRESS. Let that insanity sink in. https://t.co/W5WQPSxRKN
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) August 3, 2017
re: #265 darthstar
She still won the primary. Still lost the general. Won’t buy into the continued hate. Don’t see any point in it. Doesn’t mean Bernie’s shit doesn’t stink.
Also, I like Kamala Harris. Voted for her for Senate. Think she’s got Presidential potential.
Who, Harris? She didn’t lose in the general.
Note, I didn’t bring up Clinton. I brought up the fact that there are people going after Democrats in a very systematic manner.
As for Sanders, he’s the one who keeps injecting himself into the 2020 run.
re: #276 Dr Lizardo
That should be easy to figure out.
“Hi, this is Donald Trump’s publicist. Say, did you hear he’s stepping out with __________ ______________ and she’s been running around town, saying ‘Donald Trump has the biggest, the HUGEST schlong! He could be in porn - he makes John Holmes look average!!’ so yeah, it’s the biggest dong in history and you might wanna put that in Page Six.”
That quote is almost verbatim.
— Robert (@RobertWalterSC) August 3, 2017
A reminder that Newt’s a two-faced SOB who will say and do anything to keep on Trump’s good side. Trump will boot Newt moment he loses trust https://t.co/8G54IVRozb
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 3, 2017
re: #282 makeitstop
I’m not even gonna get started on this today, but I will say that Bernie should call his fucking dogs off, and pronto.
They are trying to systematically discredit the best that the Democrats have. He should tell them to step the fuck off - if he even has any control over his own sycophants.
I don’t want to get into it either. I edited out a lot of my comment to go easy on Darth.
I just hope Darth realizes this posturing from the Bernie supporters could very easily muck up another election.
re: #284 FormerDirtDart
Trump’s not entirely wrong here on the constitutionality of what the sanctions bill contains. Congress is infringing on the power of the Executive (that pesky separation of powers thing). That they may have good cause to do so doesn’t mean they can ignore the Constitution. Then again, Trump can’t and shouldn’t ignore it either, and he signed it into law despite his clear statement that it was unconstitutional. That’s dereliction of duty on his part too. It is his obligation to veto the bill on those grounds, not to sign it and then bitch in a signing statement that it wasn’t constitutional.
Slate had a piece about this situation this morning.
Of course, the politics of vetoing a bill would have showed Trump’s hand too and he would have been labeled a Russia sympathizer and Putin puppet by even members of the GOP.
Trump’s weakness as an Executive continues to be exposed daily, and Congress is going to expand into the powers of the Executive and Trump is powerless to stop because he is so awful at what he’s doing.
Here’s a reminder. Trump always lies. He lies. He’s a bully. He projects his failings on to others. It’s all he’s ever does. It’s not new
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 3, 2017
Trump is an awful person and an even worse president who is an utter failure because he has thrown everything into chaos - on purpose.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 3, 2017
re: #290 lawhawk
Trump’s weakness as an Executive continues to be exposed daily, and Congress is going to expand into the powers of the Executive and Trump is powerless to stop because he is so awful at what he’s doing.
Congress is clearly derelict in its duty for not impeaching Trump for violations of emoluments clause and obstruction of justice.
re: #290 lawhawk
Trump’s not entirely wrong here on the constitutionality of what the sanctions bill contains. Congress is infringing on the power of the Executive (that pesky separation of powers thing). That they may have good cause to do so doesn’t mean they can ignore the Constitution.
But Congress has the enumerated power to regulate commerce with foreign nations.
re: #292 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I may be wrong but I think Congress may be looking for more examples to make it a better case.
Vox: The acting head of the FBI told top officials there that they should be prepared to testify in Mueller’s probe. https://t.co/D7rJk7MipJ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 3, 2017
This is not going to end well (dot dot dot)…
for the Trump admin. This goes to the FBI obstruction of justice case against Trump & cronies https://t.co/K3JaF1yVsR— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 3, 2017
Goes to Mueller’s case as well as the FBI cases that are floating out there as well.
Trump and his entire cabal of cronies have stepped in it and Trump’s still all like he has done nothing wrong.
All he does is lie, and those lies are catching up to him on the national and international stage. He lied to his supporters to win over the bigot brigade by pushing for a wall that Mexico will never pay for. He lies about everything, and the only ones he seems to avoid attacking are the ones who are vested in seeing the US fail: Putin’s Russia.
This thread and replies are an interesting read
Why leftists don’t trust Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Deval Patrick https://t.co/vAP95n6DGZ pic.twitter.com/dhZPvBPgGc
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) August 3, 2017
Hang on… so black Democrats must go begging young white leftists who were not numerous enough to nominate their preferred pick last time? https://t.co/KXpxISWdm0
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) August 3, 2017
And is anyone else troubled by the implication that black Democrats must bend the knee and sing for their supper in a party that needs them?
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) August 3, 2017
Larger question is why there are ANY pieces like this NOW. ALL focus should be on the midterms (and actually there’s big 2017 races first).
— ☪️ Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) August 3, 2017
re: #296 FormerDirtDart
This thread and replies are an interesting read
Read the first article. Alex Jones could have written it if you put Cruz, Rubio, and Kasich in place of the three mentioned.
I’m curious if Cooper is worried about Sanders not releasing his tax returns, or the loan his wife took out that has damaged the college she worked for.
re: #294 PhillyPretzel
I may be wrong but I think Congress may be looking for more examples to make it a better case.
I wish you were wrong, but I think that Congress is fully aware but simply unwilling to act.
Sebastian Gorka asked on Fox what Trump can do to pressure China over North Korea. Gorka: “We have the president’s Twitter feed.” pic.twitter.com/7VuraoKPMw
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) August 3, 2017
re: #299 FormerDirtDart
“We’ve got nothing because the president has burned all of the old bridges, but I can’t say that out loud.”
Edited
I would’ve lost my mind if transcripts of Obama’s calls to foreign leaders leaked. He wouldn’t have sounded so dumb, but it’s still absurd.
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) August 3, 2017
Obama spokesman: https://t.co/NBx7rijj3I
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 3, 2017
re: #296 FormerDirtDart
This thread and replies are an interesting read
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The comments are better than I feared, but still show a lot of blue-on-blue sniping. If we don’t knock that shit off in the next couple months the mofos will be lying about the size of his 2021 inauguration.
re: #301 Timothy Watson
Hungarian Nazis are the dumbest of Nazis.
There were Hungarian fascists before WW2…
re: #304 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There were Hungarian fascists before WW2…
There were American home-grown fascists before WWII.
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Dystopian future [where] …. and the masses communicate through videos and emojis.
How is this different than the way 90% of the world communicates now?
/(I think?)
re: #271 Timothy Watson
So senile he thinks he won New Hampshire.
My guess is he’s subtracted the “thousands of out-of-state voters bussed in” to make the claim in his addled brain.
re: #305 Decatur Deb
There were American home-grown fascists before WWII.
Yes, we often overlook how widespread the movement was all over the world…
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Read Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, another dystopian future novel…it describes America after the Currency Collapse, when the only people with access to more than the basics are the ones who own Yuan or Northern Euro-backed currency, when books are no longer published and the masses communicate through videos and emojis.
Sounds like an updated Fahrenheit 451. Also sounds like the same problem we worry about every generation.
re: #308 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, we often overlook how widespread the movement was all over the world…
Then we had the excuse of real life-threatening want and a crashed economy. What Trump has discovered is how to appeal to fascist impulses in an era of relative prosperity.
re: #304 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There were Hungarian fascists before WW2…
Oh, I know. Was it Hungary or Romania where Germany got most of its oil?
re: #299 FormerDirtDart
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re: #311 Timothy Watson
Oh, I know. Was it Hungary or Romania where Germany got most of its oil?
Romania - Ploiești oil fields.
re: #311 Timothy Watson
Oh, I know. Was it Hungary or Romania where Germany got most of its oil?
Don’t have actual stats, but the Ploesti raids give the impression it was Romania. Seizing those fields distracted one of the German advances and set them up for Stalingrad.
Edit: Scratch the reference to the diversion, that was the attempt to seize the Baku oilfields.
re: #309 Belafon
Sounds like an updated Fahrenheit 451. Also sounds like the same problem we worry about every generation.
In the novel, books have not been banned, they have just died out as a medium of communication…everybody communicates using their Appärät
re: #311 Timothy Watson
Oh, I know. Was it Hungary or Romania where Germany got most of its oil?
Romania. Also fascist.
re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Books have not been banned, they have just died out as a medium of communication…
Making the censor’s task much easier in the digital age.
re: #317 Decatur Deb
Making the censor’s task much easier in the digital age.
… thepiratebay raises their hand…
re: #307 Barefoot Grin
My guess is he’s subtracted the “thousands of out-of-state voters bussed in” to make the claim in his addled brain.
It’s the NH primary…he has to go back that far in time to find a win.
Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can’t even give us HCare!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017
If only that outrage was directed at Putin, the murderous dictator who attacked our democracy. #ChecksAndBalances https://t.co/wPDLkUbheX
— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) August 3, 2017
From the GOP Congressman from Illinois: https://t.co/S71DsgYGoT
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 3, 2017
Interesting interview on WGBH (I think it was) with one of the SI writers of the Trump golf story this morning. He said his co-writer has actually played with both Trump and Mueller and that their approaches to the game as exactly as you would expect: Trump won’t shut up about his courses, his best rounds, expects ‘gimmes’ and instant mulligans; Mueller is all business, plays quietly and exactly by the book, won’t even take a 1’ gimme….
They’re launching a rocket from the middle of a road
Camden Spaceport, Georgia
LAUNCH UPDATE: @vectorspacesys reports the launch is about 15-20 minutes out. Follow @WJXTAllyson or WATCH LIVE — https://t.co/tzMrO5zjz4 pic.twitter.com/c7aFVE7qXx
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) August 3, 2017
re: #299 FormerDirtDart
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What did we do to deserve Gorka talking about anything related to American politics?
This has all got to be karma payback for something.
re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In the novel, books have not been banned, they have just died out as a medium of communication…everybody communicates using their Appärät
Interesting, though I don’t normally communicate with people around me in book form.:) I do wonder, though. Are they defining “publish” as being printed on paper, or do eBook formats count as well.
I’ve also put in quite a lot of thought about representing information (mostly because, as a software engineer, I think of problems that would be better represented in more than one dimension). We are very linear in our thinking currently, which might be as much influenced by books as they are influenced by our character representation. What if we needed to represent information in two or more dimensions, such as with pictures or models, and what if we could convey the same information to everyone that way? Why would books as we know them need to stay around?
Completely OT - I wonder how Happy and his brother are doing on their trip? They’re probably having the time of their lives. Hope so, anyway.
re: #324 FormerDirtDart
I hope it goes off as planned but it is going to leave a mark.
re: #325 ObserverArt
What did we do to deserve Gorka talking about anything related to American politics?
This has all got to be karma payback for something.
It’s Obama’s fault. /isn’t it always?
re: #320 FormerDirtDart
The problem for the GOP congressmen from the not totally-dominated-by-religious-right districts is that they have agendas usually on economic/corporate lines that will lead them to conflict with Trump’s ego, or they are from the hawk-wing of the old right and find Trump a total disaster when it comes to anything that has something to do with any other country.
Trump’s a catch-22 of their own making.
Maybe the midterm election can see a Democratic party victory in Congress, but that still gives us a year and half window for Trump to cause some very bad problems.
re: #328 PhillyPretzel
I hope it goes off as planned but it is going to leave a mark.
I’m watching it, it really looks like the most “Georgia” thing ever
Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can’t even give us HCare!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017
Why is Trump so protective of Putin? Remember this: WikiLeaks dropped the Podesta hack w/in ONE HOUR of release of Access Hollywood tape https://t.co/RRQwj9AR0c
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 3, 2017
At darkest moment of Trump campaign - when Ryan, Priebus etc - were hiding for cover, Putin stepped in to save Trump https://t.co/eh3obJipvG
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 3, 2017
re: #326 Belafon
Interesting, though I don’t normally communicate with people around me in book form.:)
I meant as a means of communicating ideas…but that is no longer an issue as we only communicate trends, memes and rumors.
Another crack in the congressional wall of support.
Proposed today: bipartisan bill will make any discharge of the special prosecutor challengeable by three-judge panel https://t.co/1jMPniEuN2
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) August 3, 2017
Trump is going to end up completely on his own. Not good for him, pretty good for us.
re: #333 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I meant as a means of communicating ideas…but that is no longer an issue as we only communicate trends, memes and rumors.
I know. That’s why I included the :). I hoped I was implying a joke.
Let’s say you’re a Republican in Congress, and you are from a rural district and thus you’ve won your seat because of the Farm Bureau and Monsanto, and thus your primary interest is in ag exports. You’ve also grown up on the teachings of war hawks and Reagan.
And along comes Trump.
Unless you are also a white nationalist (like King of Iowa), you’re kind of stuck with what you don’t like and know will hurt your constituency.
There are a number of congressmen in this situation.
Eventually I think they can be persuaded to vote against Trump, but it’s going to take some earnest politicking to get them to finally take that step.
re: #335 Belafon
I know. That’s why I included the :). I hoped I was implying a joke.
we have lost all sense of irony as the distinction between satire and real life has disappeared…
When did Teukka first tell us about this —3? WEEKS ago. Ahead of the NYT!
TOO CONSERVATIVE FOR THE VATICAN? A Vatican Shot Across the Bow for Hard-Line U.S. Catholics https://t.co/AG2uiCMBkW
— ggt (@geegeetee) August 3, 2017
The last vehicle has left the launch site. Not long now…
re: #338 Birth Control Works
TOO CONSERVATIVE FOR THE VATICAN? A Vatican Shot Across the Bow for Hard-Line U.S. Catholics]
German Catholics were having the opposite issue with John Paul II and Benny the XVI: they were much too liberal for Rome…
re: #334 makeitstop
Proposed today: bipartisan bill will make any discharge of the special prosecutor challengeable by three-judge panel https://t.co/1jMPniEuN2
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) August 3, 2017
Pleasant as the happy tingles of schadenfreude at seeing Congress even contemplate enacting another big “F*** You” to that crooked charlatan in the White House might be: I’m just wondering if this sort of act would meet Constitutional scrutiny, or might there be some sort of separation-of-powers issue involved (like the one Trump danced around in his sanctions-bill Signing Statement)?
Historical digression: this proposal puts me in mind of another Congressional power-grab at the expense of a perceived “weak” President: the Tenure Of Office Act (1867); whose violation the Reconstruction Congress used to try boot Andrew Johnson (and nearly succeeded). The TOOA was eventually ruled unconstitutional, but, very nearly, too late to save Johnson (though what the legal status of an ex-President impeached for violation of an unconstitutional statute might be is a question fortunately left unanswered).
Of course, there are some differences: the 1867 Act was a general restriction on the powers of the (or any) President: today’s proposal relates to a criminal investigation of this President and his Admin for violations of law. (and more power to them!)*
*Edit: “them” being the investigators, not Trump
re: #338 Birth Control Works
When did Teukka first tell us about this —3? WEEKS ago. Ahead of the NYT!
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We have a very liberal Pope. It’s good to see. Is he perfect? Who is? And He still is a Catholic priest so he is going to hold to church teachings. But when it comes to the human things like healthcare, immigration, etc., he is shaking things up.
Plus, he pisses off some of the FOX News people. Bonus Points!
re: #341 Jay C
I think the wording is made to get around separation of powers. Congress can write laws, but the executive executes them. Thus, they made sure that the execute occurs in the executive branch.
Now, how a court will rule will be interesting, but, in the mean time, maybe Congress can argue that Trump can’t have Mueller fired until this plays out in court.
re: #338 Birth Control Works
This Pope here is making a very good argument for me to start going back to the Catholic Church (which I gave up at 17). He keeps doing this stuff my unborn child may have to get baptized when he is born in a few months. Conservatism has damaged Catholicism in America.
re: #342 ObserverArt
We have a very liberal Pope. It’s good to see. Is he perfect? Who is? And He still is a Catholic priest so he is going to hold to church teachings. But when it comes to the human things like healthcare, immigration, etc., he is shaking things up.
Plus, he pisses of some of the FOX News people. Bonus Points!
And he is a scientist who sees no inherent contradiction between Biblical creation and Evolution, and sure pisses off a lot of people.
re: #340 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
German Catholics were having the opposite issue with John Paul II and Benny the XVI: they were much too liberal for Rome…
I had the pleasure of knowing some retired Jesuits in Berlin. Liberal? Oh yeah. I recall one of them performing an unofficial wedding ceremony for a lesbian couple - sort of a solemnization of their relationship. But a full-on Catholic ceremony, albeit, totally off the record and not a civil marriage.
He and the other Jesuits had no problem whatsoever with it. We even had a party afterwards.
Any updates on Rage Furby’s congressional testimony?
re: #343 Belafon
It strikes me as this is just another change to the law that allows for Special Counsel.
Now if Trump overrides such a bill (assuming it could get through the House), the question is whether a veto override will be successful.
re: #341 Jay C
I believe the old independent counsel law was challenged at one point and found to be constitutional. Under that system, a 3 judge panel was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who was responsible for actually appointing the independent counsel.
On a somewhat related note, I’ve been considering doing a weekly (or so) page that provides a brief analysis of important/historic Supreme Court cases. Would anyone be interested in something like that?
re: #344 CongoJack
This Pope here is making a very good argument for me to start going back to the Catholic Church (which I gave up at 17). He keeps doing this stuff my unborn child may have to get baptized when he is born in a few months. Conservatism has damaged Catholicism in America.
Did you read Black Catholics in America? The American Church has bad history. Not Conservatism as much as Greed.
re: #339 austin_blue
The last vehicle has left the launch site. Not long now…
Truck and personnel back to the rocket
I can’t and have decided not to pay attention to the revolving door of employees at the White House.
re: #350 KGxvi
I believe the old independent counsel law was challenged at one point and found to be constitutional. Under that system, a 3 judge panel was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who was responsible for actually appointing the independent counsel.
On a somewhat related note, I’ve been considering doing a week (or so) page that provides a brief analysis of important/historic Supreme Court cases. Would anyone be interested in something like that?
Yes!!! I’m behind on SCOTUS.
There is an election next year. Congress Critters are starting to position themselves.
Thought I caught the word “Abort” in the feed (it’s real scratchy- three seconds on, five second pause, three seconds on, &c). In any case a vehicle has gone back to the pad and guys are standing around the bird.
Looks like a no-go for the time being.
re: #336 freetoken
I don’t think so.
I look at the Krugman article sets that up. There is a massive divide in the country/world where populism and tribalism reigns. I think, if you’re a republican in congress, you will be fighting your constituents because of Health Care, but depending on the main source of information your electorate has, the thought of voting democrat will be a bridge too far.
re: #343 Belafon
Thus, they made sure that the execute occurs in the executive branch.
Am I that bad for visualizing this principle as “firing squad on the White House lawn”???
Trending on Twitter:
Feasting on False and Fake https://t.co/Qm814PkUK2 #falseandfake
— ggt (@geegeetee) August 3, 2017
Imagine how disappointed this guy is today. pic.twitter.com/BmXNg9mSA7
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) August 3, 2017
This should be the new press secretary uniform.
re: #360 CongoJack
Interesting. Adding that book to my reading list!
Thanks!
It’s a good read —not too dry and scholarly.
OK, there appears to be a stray dog walking down the road to the “launch complex”
This is so damn “Georgia”
re: #302 Stanley Sea
So what is your take on the who and why?
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) August 3, 2017
re: #363 FormerDirtDart
OK, there appears to be a stray dog walking down the road to the “launch complex”
This is so damn “Georgia”
Ok, I need the link to this. Sorry. I’m still on my first cuppa.
re: #365 Birth Control Works
Ok, I need the link to this. Sorry. I’m still on my first cuppa.
On a different note. The family went away for a long weekend last weekend. Two teenage girls and their friends’ house and dog sat for us.
Upon arriving home, the dogs were thrilled to see us. A couple of days later, they are like, “ok, go away and bring back the girls.”
Are your colleagues across the aisle OK with being disrespected like this from POTUS?
— Weave (@diaper) August 3, 2017
As a former model rocket builder/flyer/contestant…this whole launch is fascinating. Seeing them out there with a portable setup and rocket on it preparing to launch looks like a huge model rocket.
I gotta do some studying on who is behind this and what they are trying to accomplish.
re: #366 FormerDirtDart
Too freakin’ funny. After visiting Canaveral a couple of years ago, this is so … Georgia!
re: #370 ObserverArt
As a former model rocket builder/flyer/contestant…this whole launch is fascinating. Seeing them out there with a portable setup and rocket on it preparing to launch looks like a huge model rocket.
I gotta do some studying on who is behind this and what they are trying to accomplish.
I believe the property is an old Thiokol rocket manufacture facility.
google.com
re: #370 ObserverArt
Perhaps Pyongyang can learn something here?
H.R. McMaster has concluded Susan Rice did nothing wrong on unmasking, @EliLake reports https://t.co/GmUi9nRPJD pic.twitter.com/u5w5oiJwVw
— Mike Nizza (@mikenizza) August 3, 2017
Okay the Trump/Turnbull phonecall transcript is absolutely incredible https://t.co/ZRTHptvhME pic.twitter.com/xxbGJkdRuV
— Tom Phillips (@flashboy) August 3, 2017
re: #376 FormerDirtDart
So McMaster will be fired in 3… 2…
re: #378 KGxvi
So McMaster will be fired in 3… 2…
Reporter: Can you comment on McMaster saying Rice did nothing wrong?
Huckabee: That’s a rather outrageous claim to say that McMaster cleared Rice of wrongdoing.
re: #373 FormerDirtDart
I believe the property is an old Thiokol rocket manufacture facility.
google.com
Thanks for that.
One of the scale rockets I built was the Morton-Thiokol Tomahawk complete with the launch pad structure. Entered that in the Nationals at Houston Manned Spacecraft Center. Came in fourth.
So, who’s actual rocket is that? That is what I can’t find so far.
re: #370 ObserverArt
As a former model rocket builder/flyer/contestant…this whole launch is fascinating. Seeing them out there with a portable setup and rocket on it preparing to launch looks like a huge model rocket.
I gotta do some studying on who is behind this and what they are trying to accomplish.
There is/was an “amateur” group from Huntsville that was trying to reach orbit via rockoons.
re: #373 FormerDirtDart
I believe the property is an old Thiokol rocket manufacture facility.
google.com
Wow, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a dog’s age.
I was a kid living in Levittown PA when the Thiokol plant there exploded.
re: #382 makeitstop
Wow, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a dog’s age.
I was a kid living in Levittown PA when the Thiokol plant there exploded.
You grew-up in Levittown?
re: #382 makeitstop
Wow, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a dog’s age.
I was a kid living in Levittown PA when the Thiokol plant there exploded.
Was that around 1971? If it was the flare plant, that was one of the most expensive accidents in munitions history. (Too many of the burned workers survived.)
re: #380 ObserverArt
Thanks for that.
One of the scale rockets I built was the Morton-Thiokol Tomahawk complete with the launch pad structure. Entered that in the Nationals at Houston Manned Spacecraft Center. Came in fourth.
So, who’s actual rocket is that? That is what I can’t find so far.
Trying again
Clearing the pad… data recording and onboard computer enabled
— VECTOR (@vectorspacesys) August 3, 2017
Found a little info on the actual company that built the rocket.
It is an Arizona-based outfit called Vector.
Here is a link for some basics
bizjournals .com - Go for launch: Rocket receives approval for Georgia’s first commercial spaceport
re: #383 Birth Control Works
You grew-up in Levittown?
I lived there for first and second grade, in the Whitewood section. Then we moved to Warminster, where I lived until I moved to NY in 1977.
Is this the explosion you are referring to?
en.wikipedia.org
re: #385 FormerDirtDart
Thanks. I just linked a little info on today’s launch that identified who it was.
re: #384 Decatur Deb
Was that around 1971? If it was the flare plant, that was one of the most expensive accidents in munitions history. (Too many of the burned workers survived.)
That was their Woodbine plant in Georgia. The one by me was in ‘62 or ‘63. I’m thinking closer to ‘62.
re: #389 PhillyPretzel
Is this the explosion you are referring to?
en.wikipedia.org
No, that was in Georgia. The one in PA was nowhere near as bad, but it was big news at the time.
re: #384 Decatur Deb
Was that around 1971? If it was the flare plant, that was one of the most expensive accidents in munitions history. (Too many of the burned workers survived.)
Holy shit.
re: #392 makeitstop
I just looked up the company’s history and I do not see anything for 1962.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #394 PhillyPretzel
I just looked up the company’s history and I do not see anything for 1962.
en.wikipedia.org
I couldn’t find it, either. But I remember it was front-page news on the Bucks County Courier-Times, the paper of record around there.
And my oldest sister lived in Indian Creek at the time, which was about a mile away. She said it rattled the glass in her china cabinet.
re: #395 makeitstop
It looks like that would require a trip to the library to find that article.
Anyone here remember that one explosion? WWI era I believe. Biggest non-nuclear blast ever recorded.
Apparently it launched
Successful launch!
— VECTOR (@vectorspacesys) August 3, 2017
Heh, they are talking about how bad their live launch quality is. They said there is no infrastructure at the compound yet.
No kidding!
Anyway, I give them credit for taking on such a task as launching a rocket. I am amazed how many private groups are in this now. When NASA got cut down in funding I thought this country would suffer.
re: #398 FormerDirtDart
Apparently it launched
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They may post quality video of the launch here soon
livestream.com
re: #397 Dr Lizardo
Anyone here remember that one explosion? WWI era I believe. Biggest non-nuclear blast ever recorded.
Texas City???
re: #397 Dr Lizardo
Anyone here remember that one explosion? WWI era I believe. Biggest non-nuclear blast ever recorded.
Tom’s River Plant in NJ? It’s been exceeded since, in experiments and perhaps by the Texas City Ammonium Nitrate explosion.
re: #396 PhillyPretzel
It looks like that would require a trip to the library to find that article.
Yeah, I don’t even know if the Courier-Times even exists any more. Or their competition, The Daily Intelligencer, for that matter. That was a Montgomery County paper.
Congratulations . pic.twitter.com/YW0BfatnjD
— MOTOKI (@detectprst21) August 3, 2017
re: #396 PhillyPretzel
It looks like that would require a trip to the library to find that article.
Google News used to have scans which had been OCR’d for a bunch of different newspapers.
So they got it off. Cool.
I hope someone posts the good quality video later.
re: #406 ObserverArt
So they got it off. Cool.
I hope someone posts the good quality video later.
re: #400 FormerDirtDart
They may post quality video of the launch here soon
livestream.com
But don’t call them deplorables:
Police in Virginia say a man has been charged with making threats against Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his family.
Henrico County Police say state police notified them that 47-year-old Leonard Szweda made threats against the governor and his family. Court records show he was arrested last week.
Police say Henrico officers found evidence at Szweda’s home that resulted in additional charges, including possession of a firearm while subject to a protective order and possession of a firearm by a mentally incompetent person.
A State Police spokesman says the threats were made over the phone, but he declined to provide further details.
Records show Szweda has an Aug. 15 hearing to have an attorney appointed. When asked about the charges, Szweda told WRIC-TV from jail “the governor’s record speaks for itself.”
Maybe he’s also audition for a role in the Trump administration.
re: #408 Dr Lizardo
It was bugging me; I looked it up.
The Halifax Explosion of 1917.
Another ship. My installation went up spectacularly in 1926, but over a period of hours. 23 Marine guards died fighting the burning magazines. We were still cleaning it up in 1985.
re: #408 Dr Lizardo
It was bugging me; I looked it up.
The Halifax Explosion of 1917.
Oh that one. I remember reading about that one too.
The history of industrial explosions is quite scary.
He built his career on the systematic oppression of blacks and Native Americans, becoming one of the country’s most influential white supremacists. For more than three decades, from 1912 until 1946, Walter Ashby Plecker used his position as head of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics to champion policies designed to protect what he considered a master white race.He was the father of the state’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which designated every person in the state as either white or “colored” and criminalized interracial marriage.
Plecker insisted that any person with a single drop of “Negro” blood couldn’t be classified as white, and he refused to even acknowledge that Native Americans existed in the commonwealth, effectively erasing their legal identities.
Then, on Aug. 2, 1947 — one year after his retirement — Plecker stepped into a road in the Confederacy’s former capital and was hit by a car. Blacks and Indians had good reason to celebrate.
re: #189 teleskiguy
Congrats! My dude just quit about the same time as you did. He started smoking when he was 9!
re: #408 Dr Lizardo
It was bugging me; I looked it up.
The Halifax Explosion of 1917.
2K killed. Wow.
this dog has an image of dog on its ear pic.twitter.com/wAjN99p5j8
— Labor Dave Weekend (@DavidCovucci) August 3, 2017
Nice graphic…
trump touches dies pic.twitter.com/yas0gwytQl
— w05ld0 (@w05ld0) August 2, 2017
And with that, I’m of to Connecticut to play a show at Foxwoods. I’ll catch you from the hinterlands.
You could damn near hear the breath holding and feet stamping during Trump’s conversation with Turnbull.
re: #416 Stanley Sea
2K killed. Wow.
Yep…….2.9 Kt of explosive force, temperatures of 5,000 °C (9,030 °F) and pressures of thousands of atmospheres accompanied the moment of detonation at the hypocenter. Like a small nuke.
.@realDonaldTrump’s comments about New Hampshire are disgusting. As he knows, NH and states across America have a substance misuse crisis 1/
— Sen. Maggie Hassan (@SenatorHassan) August 3, 2017
Instead of insulting people in the throes of addiction, @POTUS needs to work across party lines to actually stem the tide of this crisis 3/3
— Sen. Maggie Hassan (@SenatorHassan) August 3, 2017
re: #412 Timothy Watson
Yeesh. Nasty guy.
Isn’t it sad we are having these discussions? I know racism never went away, but to see it back out in the open like it is again sucks bad. It is only going to create more problems and set every back who knows how far.
Father of Afghan teen robotics captain killed in ISIS-claimed attack https://t.co/cqONLyqNd2 pic.twitter.com/0Tub1fMRPD
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 3, 2017
Trump urges Mexican president: Stop saying you won’t pay for the wall. There was a strong immediate reaction. pic.twitter.com/AzIebcgzJt
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) August 3, 2017
re: #423 FormerDirtDart
That is very sad news.
re: #351 Birth Control Works
Did you read Black Catholics in America? The American Church has bad history. Not Conservatism as much as Greed.
Greed in the Catholic church is well established. It’s nothing now compared to the pre-17th century church.
re: #426 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Greed in the Catholic church is well established. It’s nothing now compared to the pre-17th century church.
I dunno. Stuff like indulgences and simony are very visible forms of venality…but the Vatican Bank is pretty damn sinister. As is the real estate empire of the US archdioceses.
ETA: And the South America clergy are pretty damn shady, being tied in with the oligarchs of those countries (and occasionally the cartel bosses).
must read
reinstatements rarely because officer didn’t do thing that prompted firing. Usually b/c depts screwed up the firing https://t.co/SSHHfTrJPa
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 3, 2017
“What is the thing with boats? Why do you discriminate against boats?”
- Trump to PM Turnbull of Australia
“I have had it. I have been making these calls all day and this is the most unpleasant call all day. Putin was a pleasant call. This is ridiculous.” Trump to Turnbull
“The whole running for POTUS thing was a joke, I was kidding, you people got punked. Haha!”
- “Ha Ha Suckers! A memoir” release date 2021— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) August 3, 2017
re: #431 gocart mozart
As I said a few days ago, in my dreams, Trump’s resignation speech will simply be, “The Aristocrats!!”
a play in 3 parts pic.twitter.com/AeJYsMnNLF
— LT. COLONEL KRANG (@KrangTNelson) August 3, 2017
Conservatives: Obama hates the constitution!
Also Conservative: Fuck the 5th Amendment!— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 3, 2017
re: #435 gocart mozart
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Someone just slashed my tire… I’m honestly speechless. 1 week after someone doxed me. pic.twitter.com/A8HwyHdt7W
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 2, 2017
Weird that someone would slash a tire you apparently found on the bottom of a quarry lake and put on your car for some reason https://t.co/bAPgMvTrAR
— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 2, 2017
Why leftists don’t trust Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Deval Patrick https://t.co/vAP95n6DGZ pic.twitter.com/dhZPvBPgGc
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) August 3, 2017
My pattern recognition algorithm just pinged. https://t.co/ssTAAtzm6K
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 3, 2017
The only thing that article is missing is the word uppity.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 3, 2017
re: #435 gocart mozart
A seven-year-old tire? The sidewall belts are showing. Who keeps the tires on a car that long? She’s lucky the tire didn’t blow while she was going 65.
re: #436 Ace-o-aces
This liberal could give two shits and a happy fuck it about some stupid movie I hadn’t thought about, like, ever. He needs help for those imaginary liberals hiding in his head.
re: #435 gocart mozart
“You would think a woman in her 40s would know how to change a tire!”
*sees that Loomer is 24*
“OMG! Get to a doctor right now!”— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 3, 2017
Both her and that tire got some serious city miles on them.
Anyone else think the White House gave Mooch a call, and told him to just STFU for once?
No Press Event Tomorrow: Focusing on Family, My Work in The Private Sector. #MovingForward Stay Tuned!
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) August 3, 2017
re: #440 wheat-dogg
A seven-year-old tire? The sidewall belts are showing. Who keeps the tires on a car that long? She’s lucky the tire didn’t blow while she was going 65.
She probably hit a curb while drunk & doesn’t recall.
Or she pulled the photo from google.
re: #443 FormerDirtDart
Anyone else think the White House gave Mooch a call, and told him to just STFU for once?
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Heh, Cernovich is gonna be sad.
Good.
re: #443 FormerDirtDart
Anyone else think the White House gave Mooch a call, and told him to just STFU for once?
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“focusing on my family”…what “family” would that be?
re: #442 Ace-o-aces
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Both her and that tire got some serious city miles on them.
Is Loomer another cookie-cutter millennial conservative like Tomi Larsen? Neither one seems capable of much analytical thought.
“If we let fewer men into the country, women will HAVE to date me.” pic.twitter.com/zlSYUeJz79
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) August 2, 2017
Ded. pic.twitter.com/megUmNqFVd
— Kevin Fox 🦊 (@kfury) August 2, 2017
re: #448 gocart mozart
My first attempt at college was at WPI. At the time, the male to female ratio was 5:1, and yet, I’d still see three or four women hanging out with one guy. So, no, it’s not a guarantee.
re: #427 The Ghost of a Flea
I dunno. Stuff like indulgences and simony are very visible forms of venality…but the Vatican Bank is pretty damn sinister. As is the real estate empire of the US archdioceses.
ETA: And the South America clergy are pretty damn shady, being tied in with the oligarchs of those countries (and occasionally the cartel bosses).
It’s the takeover of the Hospitals we need to deal with now.
re: #443 FormerDirtDart
He has “stay tuned” just as Trump does.
No one “tunes” a TV anymore, really. We don’t dial a phone number, either, but both verbs seem common among people of a certain age.
Trump last week: Senate GOP are “quitters” if they vote on other bill before ACA repeal.
Senate GOP today: Voted on other bill, left town.— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) August 3, 2017
re: #442 Ace-o-aces
I had to stop reading that thread, it’s fucking hilarious and I have too much else to do this afternoon. Snort.
re: #447 wheat-dogg
Is Loomer another cookie-cutter millennial conservative like Tomi Larsen? Neither one seems capable of much analytical thought.
She’s the woman who interrupted Shakespeare in the Park.
Looks like Eli Roth has done a re-make of Death Wish. Starring Bruce Willis.
You know…..on this one, I gotta say “Meh”. Charles Bronson is pretty damn hard to top, IMHO. The tone of the movie seems different as well; like some sort of dark comedy/action/vigilante flick.
re: #455 A Mom Anon
I had to stop reading that thread, it’s fucking hilarious and I have too much else to do this afternoon. Snort.
🚗NO TREAD ON ME
— ouija board (@yowheez) August 3, 2017
Link contains actual Mooch/Lizza audio recording
Ryan Lizza Revisits His Phone Call with Anthony Scaramucci https://t.co/6MLTKvukFE
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) August 3, 2017
Give us your already affluent, your politically connected, your huddled selects who can pay governing oligarchs for a chance to get richer.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 3, 2017
Just watched the Vector Rocket Launch from Georgia video and I don’t know if it was the video or what, but that rocket took off like a model rocket. It was gone in 2 seconds. No slow lift at all.
Very interesting. I’m going to have to do some more reading on what that was all about.
Just like dad does! pic.twitter.com/jc1uZP5sGe
— Muckmaker (@RealMuckmaker) August 3, 2017
Couldn’t have put it better myself 😊 pic.twitter.com/JpBQdGg9WI
— Tammy Robi (@TammyRobison8) August 3, 2017
FBI arrests WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchins in Las Vegas
3 August 2017 • 5:51pm
The FBI has arrested Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old security expert who saved the NHS from cyber criminals earlier this year.
[snip]The young cyber expert was hailed as a saviour back in May for finding a kill switch for the WannaCry ransomware, which spread to more than 300,000 computers across 150 countries. Among the victims were dozens of NHS Trusts, which were forced to delay operations and turn people away.
About | WannaCry
re: #408 Dr Lizardo
It was bugging me; I looked it up.
The Halifax Explosion of 1917.
There’s a really good documentary about the Halifax explosion (if you skip past the first three minutes). Such a sad story.
re: #463 ObserverArt
This is the fundamental problem with using a propellant to get oneself out of a gravity well: the heavier the vehicle the more propellant you need to reach escape velocity; the more propellant, the heavier the vehicle.
The largest rockets have so much mass, most of which is going to burn, that they are near the limit of what can be done with propellants that we know.
Big Christian David Brody just spent 20 minutes on MSNBC defending the lying pussy grabber and then attacked Bill Clinton for being immoral
— digby (@digby56) August 3, 2017
re: #464 gocart mozart
That looks like a tire fire burning on his leg. Very apropos.
re: #468 freetoken
This is the fundamental problem with using a propellant to get oneself out of a gravity well: the heavier the vehicle the more propellant you need to reach escape velocity; the more propellant, the heavier the vehicle.
The largest rockets have so much mass, most of which is going to burn, that they are near the limit of what can be done with propellants that we know.
My understanding is this was a low altitude experiment. I’m not sure how high they were going, but maybe it did not need much propellant for this test and that is why it took off like a model rocket.
I was just surprised to see it take off that quickly.
re: #189 teleskiguy
Congratulations on three weeks!
My wife just quit, she’s at about three days…
re: #342 ObserverArt
We have a very liberal Pope. It’s good to see. Is he perfect? Who is? And He still is a Catholic priest so he is going to hold to church teachings. But when it comes to the human things like healthcare, immigration, etc., he is shaking things up.
Plus, he pisses off some of the FOX News people. Bonus Points!
IMO, Francis is decently conservo. But in several key areas for me, he has values I can stand by him with.
re: #189 teleskiguy
Approaching three weeks without any tobacco. I should be proud of myself. I started smoking cigarettes when I was 15, and have been a back-and-forth smoker ever since, This is the longest I’ve gone without a cig in years. Tobacco is such a scourge. I want a cigarette, right now! Goddamnit!
I dipped for years…since I was 10. I’m about 4 years now without a lip full. Fuckin’ hard to stop. Worth it in the end though…when you decide you’re done, you’ll be done.
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