Video: Seth Meyers on Those Fired Trump Aides and Officials Who Suffer No Consequences
Seth takes a break from breaking news to check in on some Trump administration aides and officials who were fired or forced to resign to see what they’re up to.
Seth takes a break from breaking news to check in on some Trump administration aides and officials who were fired or forced to resign to see what they’re up to.
Aacchhh! Just found that Amazon Prime is offering this sludge from Dumbash de Felon, along with its usual shitload of other RWNJ propaganda.
In HILLARY’S AMERICA, bestselling author and influential filmmaker D’Souza reveals the sordid truth about Hillary and the secret history of the Democratic Party. This important and controversial film releases at a critical time leading up to the 2016 Presidential campaign and challenges the state of American politics.
According to reviews, this spends most of its time attempting to “prove” that Democrats supported slavery and were the main instigators of secession, as though this is some kind of new revelation. They even call it “the secret history of the Democratic Party” implying that some dark cabal of liberal plotters has suppressed the facts for 150 years, rather than it being a well attested part of history.
As I often end up saying to RWNJs I have to address, “Your ignorance is not somebody else’s conspiracy.”
Amazon is selling facial recognition to U.S. cops https://t.co/0589xjEzta (corrected) pic.twitter.com/Xhir7FAeed
— Forbes (@Forbes) May 22, 2018
Parents sue after 30-year-old son refuses to move out https://t.co/azDprQaXYC pic.twitter.com/yF4qKvghDD
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) May 23, 2018
re: #3 Kragar
Wasn’t on speaking terms with his folks, never worked around the house, refused monetary donations to move.
He’s a Bernie Sanders supporter.
“The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?”
It doesn’t go well from there. It won’t go well for Drumpf.
And hey, I’m a Deist, and don’t buy into any Book, but that’s kind of relevant, as an overall comment on human hubris. And Drumpf is all about the hubris of his plenipotentiary self.
re: #1 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Noticed last month that crap is on Amazon Prime.
Amazon takes money from wingnuts just as gladly as from the rest of us.
re: #6 freetoken
Noticed last month that crap is on Amazon Prime.
Amazon takes money from wingnuts just as gladly as from the rest of us.
Capitalism. Buy it or leave it.
re: #1 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The significance of how big the grievance industry is on the right—that massive $$ are circulated, both by bottom-rung consumers and bulk buyers—should be talked about all the time.
This is another reason I think we’re dealing with nihilists…the free and unhindered mix of pure avarice into what is putatively a coherent worldview trying to “explain” the USA in its various facets…they have no incentive to ever describe reality, no incentive to ever concede a point, no incentive to ever do anything but rachet tension up. That they view this activity as “informing” targets doesn’t suggest to me that they believe what they present, but that they treat information in the utility-only manner of bullshitters and abusers: they present what they need to present to obtain compliance, so that they can do what they want.
It’s a pyramid scheme.
“SHUT UP AND SING!”
“I am ashamed of our president.” https://t.co/BdM8wvlIuD
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) May 23, 2018
Palestinian peoplehood based on the hoax claims of their own (that Palestinians arrived in the 1930s etc. - last time popularized in a “sheer forgery” of a book by Joan Peters). And of course both sides accuse each other of racism. #Tweedledum #Tweedledee
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) May 23, 2018
My usual checking account has disappeared, along with my bank. Their website is down
Our Website is unavailable due to scheduled maintenance activities. We will return soon with enhanced functionality.
Their phone number has the same message and a debit charge for 11.99 was just refused. I have other resources but these people better have a DAMN good explanation if they want to keep any part of my business.
re: #13 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
My usual checking account has disappeared, along with my bank. Their website is down
Their phone number has the same message and a debit charge for 11.99 was just refused. I have other resources but these people better have a DAMN good explanation if they want to keep any part of my business.
“Enhanced functionality” usually means “New ways of screwing you over”.
re: #14 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
“Enhanced functionality” usually means “New ways of screwing you over”.
Actually at this point, their explanations will not do them any good. I intend to close that account, assuming the idiots get it back up and it hasn’t been stolen completely, and I will be filing a complaint with the Texas Banking Commission. I will be talking to a lawyer to make sure it sticks, too. I have had bank accounts for more than 60 years. This is the first time that one of them has failed to provide funds that I knew I had available.
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re: #13 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
My usual checking account has disappeared, along with my bank. Their website is down
Their phone number has the same message and a debit charge for 11.99 was just refused. I have other resources but these people better have a DAMN good explanation if they want to keep any part of my business.
We don’t have those sorts of banking improvements around here. Just cheques, ATM cards, and real tellers.
Hopefully they’ll get that fixed right away. Does Texas’s Banking Commission care about customers enough to act on complaints, or are they like other commissions, designed to protect businesses?
If nothing else, FDIC doesn’t show any failed banks since December.
It just might be a computer problem at your bank.
Over in the UK, TSB continues to have problems that are upsetting customers:
Surge in phishing follows TSB IT fiasco
I wonder if something similar has happened in Texas?
Paige Patterson has been removed as head of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His new title is “president emeritus.”
Non-paywall story on Patterson: star-telegram.com
Meanwhile, our daily report on worldview clashes in America and creationism:
We need to leave death in God’s hands
[…]
Doctor-assisted death/suicide would be another step in the death culture that developed in the early 20th century as Darwinism’s “man evolving from an animal” and “survival of the fittest” movements progressed to the eugenics movement, in which Virginia was infamously a leader. Darwin’s theory calls for the elimination of “all the disgraces of nature.” It reached its peak, but not its end, with the the German Holocaust.
The death culture got a jump-start again 45 years ago when the Supreme Court gave doctors the legal right to kill a baby in the womb, which has resulted in more than 60 million dead babies. This American holocaust has further allowed and encouraged movements for euthanasia and infanticide.
[…]
re: #21 freetoken
Yeah, Darwin never said we should kill the weak to benefit the strong. But if you want to demonize evolution, what better way than to demonize its co-developer.
Does Wallace ever get lambasted in the same way?
re: #21 freetoken
The death culture got a jump-start again 45 years ago when the Supreme Court gave doctors the legal right to kill a baby in the womb
Always interesting to see how the mothers’ agency gets left out of this. Roe was not a doctor, afterall.
re: #22 wheat-dogg
Yeah, Darwin never said we should kill the weak to benefit the strong. But if you want to demonize evolution, what better way than to demonize its co-developer.
Does Wallace ever get lambasted in the same way?
Wallace (and Jim Crow in general) was upheld by the Bible.
As for Darwin, he made no such arguments. The “social Darwinism” lie was made up in the service of both religion and conservatism.
re: #21 freetoken
Doctor-assisted death/suicide would be another step in the death culture that developed in the early 20th century as Darwinism’s “man evolving from an animal” and “survival of the fittest” movements progressed to the eugenics movement, in which Virginia was infamously a leader. Darwin’s theory calls for the elimination of “all the disgraces of nature.” It reached its peak, but not its end, with the the German Holocaust.
Initially, eugenics had support across the political spectrum. As scientific evidence weighed against it, liberal members of society abandoned it; it was then placed in the service of religion and conservatism.
Nazis got their ideas about eugenics from our own conservatives promoting eugenics.
Darwin’s theory calls for no such thing of course, and the writer knows it. Such people lie to their supporters (especially the religious) who do not know what Darwin’s theory is.
Nowadays, sciences such as genetics are called “liberal eugenics” (by detractors, the same people).
re: #23 Sir John Barron
Always interesting to see how the mothers’ agency gets left out of this. Roe was not a doctor, afterall.
Somehow I doubt they’re familiar with Roe’s jurisdictional history nor do they care.
They attack Margaret Sanger as a eugenics believer to discredit the pro choice movement. Ignores that unfortunately a lot of prominent people in the 20’s believed in that crap.
re: #28 HappyWarrior
They attack Margaret Sanger as a eugenics believer to discredit the pro choice movement. Ignores that unfortunately a lot of prominent people in the 20’s believed in that crap.
And they conveniently leave out the part where Margaret Sanger abandoned the eugenics movement.
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹
And they conveniently leave out the part where Margaret Sanger abandoned the eugenics movement.
Yep. And that MLK praised her. Another thing is that the Southern Baptists praised the Roe decision and saw anti abortion political activity as a “Catholic thing.” One can argue that the Evangelicals became anti-abortion not for moral reasons but for cynical reasons because they wanted to grow.
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump’s been busy tweeting this morning, which is no surprise given that he’s more interested in tweeting than doing the hard work of reading a PDB daily.
Yesterday it was reported that the admin was caught off guard by North Korea’s actions.
It would appear that no one in the WH has read a PDB ever, because if they had, they would have known that this is how North Korea operates. And Trump gave them carte blanche to do this because North Korea got Trump to agree to direct talks without North Korea having to do a single thing.
Until Trump, North Korea had to dismantle its nuclear program to get direct talks. After Trump, North Korea was elevated and wont dismantle the program that gave them parity with the US and leverage over the rest of the region thanks to Trump’s idiotic moves.
Oh, and the GOP/Trumpworld still thinks he deserves a Nobel for this? They’re already cutting the check despite the fact that everyone seems to think that the summit might not even happen and that Trump is looking to blame someone for its failure/collapse - when the only one to blame is Trump for being in this position in the first place.
Trump the great negotiator put himself in a corner and he can’t negotiate his way out of it.
Add to that the fact that his trade team with China is in chaos and everyone else around the world knows that you can divide and conquer to get what they want out of the deal.The US is left in a worse position, and the only thing Trump cares about is whether he can personally profit.
That’s why we’re in the mess we’re in.
re: #33 wheat-dogg
I too only have the vaguest of memories of that show.
re: #33 wheat-dogg
Clint Walker has gone to that great open range in the sky at age 90.
I dimly remember watching Cheyenne as a wee one. I was 7 when it went off the air, after seven seasons.
Oh, I remember Cheyenne. Used to yell at the set when it was on because Cheyenne always got beaten up in every episode. Got to the point Mom would change the channel…
re: #23 Sir John Barron
Always interesting to see how the mothers’ agency gets left out of this. Roe was not a doctor, afterall.
That is because they think women are too stupid to have agency. Evil abortion doctors trick women into having abortions because all women want to have babies. Every baby they ever are pregnant with. It sez so right in the Bible. Somewhere. Trust them.
re: #36 Done Ben Wrote
That is because they think women are too stupid to have agency. Evil abortion doctors trick women into having abortions because all women want to have babies. Every baby they ever are pregnant with. It sez so right in the Bible. Somewhere. Trust them.
Of course. It’s those door-to-door abortion salesmen and their hard-sell tactics because they’re working on commission. (or maybe it’s a multi-level marketing deal, like Amway)
So, this curious message popped up in my email just now, from the US Embassy in Beijing.
Location: Guangzhou
Event: A U.S. government employee in China recently reported subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure. The U.S. government is taking these reports seriously and has informed its official staff in China of this event. We do not currently know what caused the reported symptoms and we are not aware of any similar situations in China, either inside or outside of the diplomatic community.
Action to Take:
If you have concerns about any symptoms or medical problems that developed during or after a stay in China, consult a medical professional.
While in China, if you experience any unusual acute auditory or sensory phenomena accompanied by unusual sounds or piercing noises, do not attempt to locate their source. Instead, move to a location where the sounds are not present.
Weren’t there reports of similar disruptions at other embassies?
Good morning, everyone.
I’ve been lurking here for ages, finally decided to stick my oar in the water and register.
I brought coffee. No beer, can’t drink the stuff.
Since its inception, ProPublica has pushed itself as the sort of local-real-journalism-supported-by-you sort of outfit. And I suppose they do highlight some stories that otherwise would be lost in the dark.
But they also run some articles that just strike me as trying to be too much like the usual outlets, complete with MBFs, etc.
Example, came across my Facebook feed today:
Forced To Choose Between A Job — And A Community: propublica.org
[…]
In recent years, though, Americans have grown less likely to migrate for opportunity. As recently as the early 1990s, 3 percent of Americans moved across state lines each year, but today the rate is half that. Fewer Americans moved in 2017 than in any year in at least a half-century. This change has caused consternation among economists and pundits, who wonder why Americans, especially those lower on the income scale, lack their ancestors’ get-up-and-go. “Why is this happening?” New York Times columnist David Brooks asked in 2014. His answer: “A big factor here is a loss in self-confidence. It takes faith to move.” Economist Tyler Cowen wrote last year that “poverty and low incomes have flipped from being reasons to move to reasons not to move, a fundamental change from earlier American attitudes.”
[…]
Why are they quoting Brooks here, when his question is obviously answered by him in a manner only to avoid the real issues.
This ProPublica story later on hinted at the real reason - the cost of living in larger communities, especially the housing costs. Though the story doesn’t really come out and state that.
Sure, my ancestors had plenty of get up and go and they travelled around the world and around the US.
And you know why?
Because they could get cheap land, land taken from the Native Americans.
That’s why.
Trying to compare the US today to that of 150 years ago is folly in this regards (as to why people just don’t move.)
In fact, to even ask that question is to show one hasn’t really understand why early Americans moved around, much less why they came here to begin with.
And then the MBF bit:
[…]
The country has a long tradition of place-based investment, most notably the New Deal, which, through the Tennessee Valley Authority and similar grand-scale projects, sought to raise up Appalachia and the South. Yet there’s strikingly little support these days for similar efforts, anywhere on the political spectrum. Kevin Williamson put it most caustically in a March 2016 essay in National Review. “So the gypsum business in Garbutt ain’t what it used to be,” he wrote. “The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die.” Paul Krugman was more charitable, but hardly effusive, in a blog post last year. “There are arguably social costs involved in letting small cities implode, so that there’s a case for regional development policies that try to preserve their viability,” he wrote. “But it’s going to be an uphill struggle.”
[…]
I suppose by describing Williamson as caustic and Krugman as more charitable… that this is not an attempt at a true balance, but still, by quoting Williamson the author of this piece gives Williamson a credibility that he doesn’t deserve. Williamson knows nothing of macroeconomics (certainly not in comparison to Krugman).
Overall, this story is yet another one in a long line of real-America-is-hurting, a trendy bit of a genre that is just an excuse for not telling a straight story.
Here’s the straight story: A large corporation bought a small local electrical generation plant, decides to close it down and put the locals out of work because big corporation will raise its rates to its customers who buy electricity from more profitable generation plants.
End of story.
re: #35 Joe Bacon 🌹
Oh, I remember Cheyenne. Used to yell at the set when it was on because Cheyenne always got beaten up in every episode. Got to the point Mom would change the channel…
I remember Cheyenne as well. As a matter of fact, I was there a couple weeks ago. /s
re: #39 wheat-dogg
So, this curious message popped up in my email just now, from the US Embassy in Beijing.
Weren’t there reports of similar disruptions at other embassies?
Cuba.
re: #31 lawhawk
Trump the great negotiator put himself in a corner and he can’t negotiate his way out of it.
Yup, Trump the “great negotiator” who can’t even think a single step ahead.
re: #39 wheat-dogg
Yes and suspicions ran from ultrasound, faulty spy gear etc.
re: #42 freetoken
In the last 35 to 40 years wages have not kept up with inflation and that pretty much kills the mere thought of leaving where you are.
We’ve been trying to get out of GA for several years. My husband has 30 yrs experience in construction and building maintenance. Everything from turning wrenches to being a regional supervisor. Not a single company he’s interviewed with pays moving expenses except for upper level executives. None have offered him a salary that would cover the cost of moving to and living in places like San Francisco, Baltimore, Chicago, NYC or Miami. It’s nearly impossible to relocate if you make under 70k a year and have a family to think about. Not to mention all the corporate fuckery that’s happened to make upward mobility extremely difficult.
re: #56 Done Ben Wrote
A safe choice, you have avoided the Great Pineapple Wars…for now.
Paige Patterson was removed as the president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth very early this morning. But don’t feel sorry for him; he’s moving to President Emeritus and will still take up residence in the posh retirement home known as the Baptist Heritage Center being built on the campus of SWBTS. Oh, and so far as I know, Patterson is still giving the convention sermon at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting next month.
Southern Baptist men—letting women know how terribly valued they are since I don’t know when. /////////
Obama endorsed Antonio Villaraigosa. Ugh. Don’t like that guy at all. Used to call him the 15% mayor, for the time spent actually doing mayors work.
re: #56 Done Ben Wrote
Uhm. Pizza toppings.
*steps carefully*
Whatever whoever is buying puts on it?
I’m pro-pineapple. All these forced-toppings people can suck it.
re: #60 Belafon
I’m pro-pineapple. All these forced-toppings people can suck it.
The only time I’ve ever had pineapple on pizza is when we ended up having to order Domino’s once in a pinch.
But as an elitist New Yorker, we barely consider Domino’s to be real pizza, so I think I get to skate on the charge, your honor.
re: #55 A Mom Anon
In the last 35 to 40 years wages have not kept up with inflation and that pretty much kills the mere thought of leaving where you are.
We’ve been trying to get out of GA for several years. My husband has 30 yrs experience in construction and building maintenance. Everything from turning wrenches to being a regional supervisor. Not a single company he’s interviewed with pays moving expenses except for upper level executives. None have offered him a salary that would cover the cost of moving to and living in places like San Francisco, Baltimore, Chicago, NYC or Miami. It’s nearly impossible to relocate if you make under 70k a year and have a family to think about. Not to mention all the corporate fuckery that’s happened to make upward mobility extremely difficult.
Yup. I can’t afford to move anywhere, even down the road. I certainly can’t afford to live in a large urban area.
As for moving, except for momentos and keepsakes, sometimes it’s cheaper to sell what you have and buy replacements where you’re moving to.
re: #59 Unshaken Defiance
Obama endorsed Antonio Villaraigosa. Ugh. Don’t like that guy at all. Used to call him the 15% mayor, for the time spent actually doing mayors work.
Won’t vote for Mr. Gentrification!
re: #50 Done Ben Wrote
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Will that do in a pinch?
Perfect. Now if we can just manage to stuff it into the transpacific intertube, I’ll be set!
re: #13 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
My usual checking account has disappeared, along with my bank. Their website is down
Their phone number has the same message and a debit charge for 11.99 was just refused. I have other resources but these people better have a DAMN good explanation if they want to keep any part of my business.
i work for a too big to fail bank in technology availability and my whole job centers around investigating incidents like these and making recommendations to improve availability. I am NOT apologizing for your bank here, but in my personal experience, this sounds like a catastrophic system failure of some sort. What should happen is there should be a backup system for automatic failover. Yes, there are downsides to this, but the big downside of having upset customers complaining on Twitter and elsewhere outweighs the small downside of switching from one data center to another. I could say a lot, lot more, but then I’d be talking out of school and that would not be good. But I am dying to know if your bank had an appropriate backup system or was just winging it.
Incredible riff from @POTUS right after imploring gala attendees to support GOP candidates in the midterms: “So your vote in 2018 is every bit as important as your vote in 2016… I don’t know if I believe that…. Who the hell wrote that line?”
— Gabby Morrongiello (@gabriellahope_) May 23, 2018
“They’re not voting for me. How can it be meaningful?”
re: #61 makeitstop
The only time I’ve ever had pineapple on pizza is when we ended up having to order Domino’s once in a pinch.
But as an elitist New Yorker, we barely consider Domino’s to be real pizza, so I think I get to skate on the charge, your honor.
I’m not a great pizza connoisseur, but even I stay away from Domino’s.
re: #66 Belafon
“They’re not voting for me. How can it be meaningful?”
See? He’s so refreshingly honest!
Julie won her Primary runoff last night. She is totally unfunded and is up against an ingrained Koch Bot Roger Williams.
If you can afford a dollar or 5, I and more like us would be appreciative.
It doesn’t happen on its own.
I don’t know how to put into words what I’m feeling right now. Overwhelmed with gratitude for the sacrifice and hard work everyone has poured into this campaign to change Texas.Thank you for letting me be a part of this with you. You inspire me. Now let’s go win in November. pic.twitter.com/Q2IY71QpWf
— Julie Oliver (@JulieForTX25) May 23, 2018
re: #1 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
As I often end up saying to RWNJs I have to address, “Your ignorance is not somebody else’s conspiracy.”
That’s the best line I’ve seen in a long time. Bravo!
re: #67 Belafon
I’m not a great pizza connoisseur, but even I stay away from Domino’s.
The worst mom and pop pizza joint in NY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dominos
re: #69 Dave In Austin
Julie won her Primary runoff last night. She is totally unfunded and is up against an ingrained Koch Bot Roger Williams.
If you can afford a dollar or 5, I and more like up would be appreciative.
It doesn’t happen on its own.
Tonight I will. I’m sorry to all of the outside-of-Texas candidates I might have supported, but this year will be almost exclusively about Texas as this is a good year to move some things here back to the left.
re: #62 Anymouse 🌹
True, the paring down part. That I can handle. But someone with decades of experience no longer commands a salary that respects that skill level. Especially in blue collar professions.
re: #63 Joe Bacon 🌹
Won’t vote for Mr. Gentrification!
But look what else I found, the commercial is bogus.
Pro-Villaraigosa ad touting Barack Obama’s support leaves false impression
sacbee.com
Analysis:
The ad gives the false impression that Obama has endorsed, or is supporting in some other way Villaraigosa in his campaign for governor.
While Obama has praised Villaraigosa in the past, Obama spokeswoman Katie Hill said Obama hasn’t endorsed Villaraigosa or anyone else in the California governor’s race.
Obama did say the words highlighted in the television ad. He made the comments in July 2008 to Latino leaders in Washington, D.C. during the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Read more here: sacbee.com
re: #30 HappyWarrior
Yep. And that MLK praised her. Another thing is that the Southern Baptists praised the Roe decision and saw anti abortion political activity as a “Catholic thing.” One can argue that the Evangelicals became anti-abortion not for moral reasons but for cynical reasons because they wanted to grow.
Actually, it’s worse than that. They went with anti-abortion rhetoric because it became politically impossible to remain segregationist. In more recent years, they’ve added anti-LGBT rhetoric.
Which brings me to something I’ve been fuming about. So-called “progressive Christians” completely ignoring the persecution of LGBT persons by their co-religionists. There are a bunch of “progressive Christians” (the usual suspects, led by Jim Wallis at Sojourners) who put out a statement called “Reclaiming Jesus.” It’s not a bad statement in general—it calls out evangelicals for Christian nationalism and for failures in the areas of race and gender. BUT the big hole you could drive a Mack truck through is that the statement mentions NOTHING, and I do mean NOTHING about LGBT persons.
I know why they did it; some “progressive Christians” are so-called “third way” people who believe that LGBT Christians should remain celibate. (Oh, I could go nuts here but will spare you.) The people who put out this statement decided to cater to that bunch to increase their numbers, and people who know better (like the lauded Presiding Bishop Michael Curry from the Episcopal Church) signed on to this thing.
It’s hard for me to take so-called “progressive Christians” seriously when they deliberately ignore the suffering being perpetrated upon them by their evangelical co-religionists. Its’s the kind of thing that is pretty much ensuring that I’ll be staying out on the sidewalk with a sign rather than going into a church.
re: #74 Unshaken Defiance
But look what else I found, the commercial is bogus.
Pro-Villaraigosa ad touting Barack Obama’s support leaves false impression
sacbee.comAnalysis:
The ad gives the false impression that Obama has endorsed, or is supporting in some other way Villaraigosa in his campaign for governor.
While Obama has praised Villaraigosa in the past, Obama spokeswoman Katie Hill said Obama hasn’t endorsed Villaraigosa or anyone else in the California governor’s race.
Obama did say the words highlighted in the television ad. He made the comments in July 2008 to Latino leaders in Washington, D.C. during the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Read more here: sacbee.com
Slimy.
re: #55 A Mom Anon
In the last 35 to 40 years wages have not kept up with inflation and that pretty much kills the mere thought of leaving where you are.
We’ve been trying to get out of GA for several years. My husband has 30 yrs experience in construction and building maintenance. Everything from turning wrenches to being a regional supervisor. Not a single company he’s interviewed with pays moving expenses except for upper level executives. None have offered him a salary that would cover the cost of moving to and living in places like San Francisco, Baltimore, Chicago, NYC or Miami. It’s nearly impossible to relocate if you make under 70k a year and have a family to think about. Not to mention all the corporate fuckery that’s happened to make upward mobility extremely difficult.
Detroit. It’s not the shithole you think it is. (I think I’ll suggest that slogan to Mayor Duggan)
re: #58 mmmirele
Why did it take the board 13 hours in a meeting to come to this decision?
It should have been done in 13 minutes.
re: #69 Dave In Austin
Julie won her Primary runoff last night. She is totally unfunded and is up against an ingrained Koch Bot Roger Williams.
If you can afford a dollar or 5, I and more like us would be appreciative.
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Thanks Belafon….
Hey, if anyone here has any leverage with Nat. media. We need to get Julies face out Nationally. Roger won’t debate her and doesn’t think he has to. Won’t even acknowledge her existence. The district is heavily gerrymandered. But…. I think Republican women will be open to her story as it’s like a lot of there’s. As I told her. Dems will vote for her regardless. The key is getting get them out to vote. Forget about Republican men and their sons. Forget them and don’t look. Concentrate on Republican women and their daughters. They are vulnerable.
re: #75 mmmirele
Actually, it’s worse than that. They went with anti-abortion rhetoric because it became politically impossible to remain segregationist. In more recent years, they’ve added anti-LGBT rhetoric.
Which brings me to something I’ve been fuming about. So-called “progressive Christians” completely ignoring the persecution of LGBT persons by their co-religionists. There are a bunch of “progressive Christians” (the usual suspects, led by Jim Wallis at Sojourners) who put out a statement called “Reclaiming Jesus.” It’s not a bad statement in general—it calls out evangelicals for Christian nationalism and for failures in the areas of race and gender. BUT the big hole you could drive a Mack truck through is that the statement mentions NOTHING, and I do mean NOTHING about LGBT persons.
I know why they did it; some “progressive Christians” are so-called “third way” people who believe that LGBT Christians should remain celibate. (Oh, I could go nuts here but will spare you.) The people who put out this statement decided to cater to that bunch to increase their numbers, and people who know better (like the lauded Presiding Bishop Michael Curry from the Episcopal Church) signed on to this thing.
It’s hard for me to take so-called “progressive Christians” seriously when they deliberately ignore the suffering being perpetrated upon them by their evangelical co-religionists. Its’s the kind of thing that is pretty much ensuring that I’ll be staying out on the sidewalk with a sign rather than going into a church.
I’m in total agreement with you. Which is why I will go to the gym on Sunday mornings instead of sleeping in a church pew.
re: #50 Done Ben Wrote
Mmmm! Kringle. You from Wisconsin?
re: #22 wheat-dogg
Yeah, Darwin never said we should kill the weak to benefit the strong. But if you want to demonize evolution, what better way than to demonize its co-developer.
Does Wallace ever get lambasted in the same way?
More importantly, evolutionary biologists don’t revere Darwin. They recognize his contribution to science, and as you note, he wasn’t the only biologist who was toying with the hypothesis of natural selection leading to new species.
The anti-science creationists, intelligent design, Zork makes with playdoh, etc. that ambasting Darwin as some kind of “gotcha” are projecting their belief that damaging Darwin, then a miracle occurs, natural selection and evolution are no longer viable theories. Just like creationism fails without a supreme creator. Science don’t work that way.
.@POTUS: “Every child is a precious gift from God.” pic.twitter.com/OszcqMIK2a
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 23, 2018
They’re going to ban abortion. It’s coming. They’ve got the White House, the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court. Now is their chance and there’s NOTHING to stop them.
They’re coming for your uterus. Birth control is next.
I told you so. https://t.co/pFUiPXA08a— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 23, 2018
All you fuckers who said both parties and both candidates are the same will now find out that they’re not the same and that Trump is so much worse than Clinton in ways you wont begin to appreciate until your rights and access to care is threatened directly. https://t.co/16Vhkl9fsj
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 23, 2018
re: #82 MsJ
Mmmm! Kringle. You from Wisconsin?
I am. Somewhat more precisely, a couple blocks away from where the rioting was in Milwaukee a couple years ago.
re: #84 Colère Tueur de Lapin
More importantly, evolutionary biologists don’t revere Darwin. They recognize his contribution to science, and as you note, he wasn’t the only biologist who was toying with the hypothesis of natural selection leading to new species.
The anti-science creationists, intelligent design, Zork makes with playdoh, etc. that ambasting Darwin as some kind of “gotcha” are projecting their belief that damaging Darwin, then a miracle occurs, natural selection and evolution are no longer viable theories. Just like creationism fails without a supreme creator. Science don’t work that way.
Authoritarians just don’t understand decentralization.
re: #79 Dave In Austin
Thanks Belafon….
Hey, if anyone here has any leverage with Nat. media. We need to get Julies face out Nationally. Roger won’t debate her and doesn’t think he has to. Won’t even acknowledge her existence. The district is heavily gerrymandered. But…. I think Republican women will be open to her story as it’s like a lot of there’s. As I told her. Dems will vote for her regardless. The key is getting get them out to vote. Forget about Republican men and their sons. Forget them and don’t look. Concentrate on Republican women and their daughters. They are vulnerable.
We have the same problem here with Jane Reybould running against Senator Deb Fischer, except also with the state media. As such, Mrs. Reybould is taking her campaign on the road here to appeal directly to the voters, particularly in small rural towns where a political candidate showing up might be the highlight of the year.
re: #75 mmmirele
Actually, it’s worse than that. They went with anti-abortion rhetoric because it became politically impossible to remain segregationist. In more recent years, they’ve added anti-LGBT rhetoric.
Which brings me to something I’ve been fuming about. So-called “progressive Christians” completely ignoring the persecution of LGBT persons by their co-religionists. There are a bunch of “progressive Christians” (the usual suspects, led by Jim Wallis at Sojourners) who put out a statement called “Reclaiming Jesus.” It’s not a bad statement in general—it calls out evangelicals for Christian nationalism and for failures in the areas of race and gender. BUT the big hole you could drive a Mack truck through is that the statement mentions NOTHING, and I do mean NOTHING about LGBT persons.
I know why they did it; some “progressive Christians” are so-called “third way” people who believe that LGBT Christians should remain celibate. (Oh, I could go nuts here but will spare you.) The people who put out this statement decided to cater to that bunch to increase their numbers, and people who know better (like the lauded Presiding Bishop Michael Curry from the Episcopal Church) signed on to this thing.
It’s hard for me to take so-called “progressive Christians” seriously when they deliberately ignore the suffering being perpetrated upon them by their evangelical co-religionists. Its’s the kind of thing that is pretty much ensuring that I’ll be staying out on the sidewalk with a sign rather than going into a church.
Yes, I noticed that as well and found it aggravating - as I said I was on the vestry that moved my parish to being a welcoming parish. It’s on our web presence and on our front door. I do think that Bishop Curry signed on as a better half a loaf than none type of moment but it is why I let my subscription to Sojourners Magazine lapse. I will be going to hear Bishop Curry preach on June 23rd; god willing I can ask him about it. We can not afford to go backwards but must support everyone trying to have true & honest relationships no matter what the plumbing happens to be.
re: #39 wheat-dogg
So, this curious message popped up in my email just now, from the US Embassy in Beijing.
Weren’t there reports of similar disruptions at other embassies?
Cuba.
re: #84 Colère Tueur de Lapin
More importantly, evolutionary biologists don’t revere Darwin. They recognize his contribution to science, and as you note, he wasn’t the only biologist who was toying with the hypothesis of natural selection leading to new species.
The anti-science creationists, intelligent design, Zork makes with playdoh, etc. that ambasting Darwin as some kind of “gotcha” are projecting their belief that damaging Darwin, then a miracle occurs, natural selection and evolution are no longer viable theories. Just like creationism fails without a supreme creator. Science don’t work that way.
Frequently, creationists argue against the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection as if, it was debunked, that means God is True.
Aside from the fact that if everything about evolution is wrong that doesn’t mean Godidit, a whole lot of religious people (and not just creationists) conflate “evolution” with “atheism.” Thus, if you were to debunk evolution, you also debunk atheism.
Moreover, you debunk evolution by promoting a better hypothesis which explains all the facts, leaves none out, and can be used to make better predictions. A proper debunk of evolution would be something like “here are a bunch of facts which evolution cannot explain, and the theory cannot be adjusted to accommodate them; here is an alternative testable hypothesis which accommodates these facts.”
re: #75 mmmirele
Actually, it’s worse than that. They went with anti-abortion rhetoric because it became politically impossible to remain segregationist. In more recent years, they’ve added anti-LGBT rhetoric.
Which brings me to something I’ve been fuming about. So-called “progressive Christians” completely ignoring the persecution of LGBT persons by their co-religionists. There are a bunch of “progressive Christians” (the usual suspects, led by Jim Wallis at Sojourners) who put out a statement called “Reclaiming Jesus.” It’s not a bad statement in general—it calls out evangelicals for Christian nationalism and for failures in the areas of race and gender. BUT the big hole you could drive a Mack truck through is that the statement mentions NOTHING, and I do mean NOTHING about LGBT persons.
I know why they did it; some “progressive Christians” are so-called “third way” people who believe that LGBT Christians should remain celibate. (Oh, I could go nuts here but will spare you.) The people who put out this statement decided to cater to that bunch to increase their numbers, and people who know better (like the lauded Presiding Bishop Michael Curry from the Episcopal Church) signed on to this thing.
It’s hard for me to take so-called “progressive Christians” seriously when they deliberately ignore the suffering being perpetrated upon them by their evangelical co-religionists. Its’s the kind of thing that is pretty much ensuring that I’ll be staying out on the sidewalk with a sign rather than going into a church.
You are correct about that. Thinking LGBT people should remain celibate is incredibly insensitive.
re: #93 HappyWarrior
You are correct about that. Thinking LGBT people should remain celibate is incredibly insensitive.
My sister is a deaconess in the Metropolitan Community Church. The National Council of Churches will not admit the MCC because of their stance on inclusiveness.
5/23/2018- The Commemorative Coin #WhiteHouse #NorthKoreaSummit #Trump #KimJongUn #CommemorativeCoin pic.twitter.com/WTxIKGBYBW
— Clay Bennett (@BennettCartoons) May 23, 2018
FDA Approves Preventative Migraine Treatment (goes to Channel 4 in Jacksonville, Fla.)
The treatment is a monthly injection which is supposed to prevent migraine headaches.
I think I’ll stick to my tablets to deal with migraines as they start.
The injections are expected to be about $575 a month, so I imagine the VA wouldn’t carry that anyway, and I sure can’t afford that.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹
Frequently, creationists argue against the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection as if, it was debunked, that means God is True.
Aside from the fact that if everything about evolution is wrong that doesn’t mean Godidit, a whole lot of religious people (and not just creationists) conflate “evolution” with “atheism.” Thus, if you were to debunk evolution, you also debunk atheism.
Moreover, you debunk evolution by promoting a better hypothesis which explains all the facts, leaves none out, and can be used to make better predictions. A proper debunk of evolution would be something like “here are a bunch of facts which evolution cannot explain, and the theory cannot be adjusted to accommodate them; here is an alternative testable hypothesis which accommodates these facts.”
If geology as a science had not developed by the time Darwin came around, evolution as an idea would have never gained traction. Scientists first had to appreciate that the Earth was a lot more than 6000 years old, and that lifeforms were not all created at the same time in the remote past. Rather, organisms came and went over millions of years. Astronomers and physicists were still not very sure how the Sun could “burn” for so long, but it was clear that it did, since, well, we are here. The antiquity of the Earth gave Darwin the foundation for his theory.
Creationists, however. never attack geologists — at least directly. They attack the concepts of geology: stratification, radioactive decay rates, dynamism, plate tectonics. But they never seem to attack a single geologist, because they can’t. Modern geology is the result of hundreds of men and women working in their fields. Too many targets.
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹
My sister is a deaconess in the Metropolitan Community Church. The National Council of Churches will not admit the MCC because of their stance on inclusiveness.
I’ve never been a formal member of a church. I dunno who it was that said this but church day is the most segregated day in the country. I’m proud that my Uncle was willing to be a priest in a poor, African American parish.
DNC emails were STOLEN to benefit your campaign. That’s totally illegal.
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 23, 2018
re: #95 The Vicious Babushka
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Grift, grift, all I have to is grift.
I’m grifting my life away.
That Asshole is gonna be on my island today.
A representative of Republican Congressman Peter King told the NY Post Trump will visit Long Island on Wednesday to speak at an immigration event that will focus on an “MS-13 forum discussion.”
Trump will speak at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage Wednesday. The office of Rep. Tom Suozzi, Bethpage’s Democrat representative, told the Post he had gotten no heads up or invite to the event yet.
Word has it he’s going to ‘declare victory’ over MS-13. Asshole.
re: #99 The Vicious Babushka
Spying and criminal investigations are also not quite the same thing.
re: #102 wheat-dogg
Spying and criminal investigations are also not quite the same thing.
Precisely. He really thinks he shouldn’t have been investigated. Crooked pos.
re: #101 makeitstop
That Asshole is gonna be on my island today.
Word has it he’s going to ‘declare victory’ over MS-13. Asshole.
My evil side would like MS-13 to show up, just to prove him wrong.
re: #101 makeitstop
That Asshole is gonna be on my island today.
Word has it he’s going to ‘declare victory’ over MS-13. Asshole.
Well I speak for SoMd/NoVa in saying glad he’s not here.
BTW, greetings from Panama City Beach…been here the past couple of days on a mini-vacation. Aside from a couple of storms overnight the past couple of nights, the weather has been fantastic; I’ve also been eating myself silly, staying away from the major chains and eating local while here (I did the same thing when I came down last year).
My recommendations: Eat My Pasty (best British-style fish and chips I’ve ever had and the pastys are pretty good too) and Diego’s Burrito Factory.
re: #106 TedStriker
How far were you from the shooter incident yesterday?
re: #86 Done Ben Wrote
I am. Somewhat more precisely, a couple blocks away from where the rioting was in Milwaukee a couple years ago.
I used to go to Bucks games. I love Milwaukee. I’m originally from Chicago but lived in Il in a border town for years before leaving the country.
re: #42 freetoken
who wonder why Americans, especially those lower on the income scale, lack their ancestors’ get-up-and-go.
Shit like that infuriates me. They don’t lack “get-up-and-go,” damn it! They lack the MONEY required to pick up and move. It takes EVEN MORE money if you don’t already have a job in the new place. How do you get a job in a new place before you move there? You have to travel. Which costs money, the lack of which DEFINES “lower on the income scale.”
Blaming and shaming the poor makes me nuts. If I ever meet David Fucking Brooks face-to-face I will end up arrested.
re: #101 makeitstop
an “MS-13 forum discussion.”
Translation: drumpF on a stage bragging about his electoral college count, whining about the ‘witch hunt’ Mueller investigation, and ranting about how immigrants MS13 are all ‘animals’.
re: #101 makeitstop
That Asshole is gonna be on my island today.
Word has it he’s going to ‘declare victory’ over MS-13. Asshole.
Well, then, if he was “victorious” over MS-13, he can stop talking about them then.
re: #69 Dave In Austin
Julie won her Primary runoff last night. She is totally unfunded and is up against an ingrained Koch Bot Roger Williams.
If you can afford a dollar or 5, I and more like us would be appreciative.
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I think we have good shots in both 21 (Kopser) and 25 (Oliver).
re: #107 makeitstop
How far were you from the shooter incident yesterday?
Other side of the bay in PCB, well away from what was going down (the standoff was in Panama City proper); I had been over into Panama City Sunday night to eat dinner at Po’ Folks, however (I hadn’t been to one since the last one in Nashville closed 15-20 years ago; it was alright, but nothing special).
I found out about it while getting a shake while waiting for a pizza; the ice cream parlor had a TV on the local news and I was all like, “oh fuck…”
re: #110 Sir John Barron
Translation: drumpF on a stage bragging about his electoral college count, whining about the ‘witch hunt’ Mueller investigation, and ranting about how
immigrantsMS13 are all ‘animals’.
Aye pretty much.
re: #36 Done Ben Wrote
That is because they think women are too stupid to have agency. Evil abortion doctors trick women into having abortions because all women want to have babies. Every baby they ever are pregnant with. It sez so right in the Bible. Somewhere. Trust them.
Morning!
Welcome new contributor Done Ben Wrote. You came out firing.
re: #87 wheat-dogg
Authoritarians just don’t understand decentralization.
It is part of the problem that they have with unethical leaders—they cannot separate the message from the person. If a respected religious thinker is discredited, his message is suspect, because the message is about religion or ethics, not reality. If he is found to be an lying, abusive criminal, they must protect him. Young girls throw themselves on preachers. Or she was a lying whore. Or it wasn’t really sex. Or. Or. Or.
As long as the scientist has not committed fraud with the data, exposing a sleezebag scientist will not damage their previous work, because that work is about reality. And reality does not change, no matter what you think of it.
re: #101 makeitstop
We’ve heard that before.
Every few years the feds and local officials crack down on gangs, including MS-13, and then they come back.
They’ll have their Mission Accomplished and in a few years, we’ll be dealing with another gang outbreak because the gang reconstituted itself.
Conspiracy or accuracy? You decide.
…Follow the money! The spy was there early in the campaign and yet never reported Collusion with Russia, because there was no Collusion. He was only there to spy for political reasons and to help Crooked Hillary win - just like they did to Bernie Sanders, who got duped!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018
You know that this ends with us finding out that the Trump campaign and/or Russia had placed spies inside Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Every accusation has been a confession. That’s one of his derangements. https://t.co/JYvTelnS2X
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) May 23, 2018
re: #117 lawhawk
We’ve heard that before.
Every few years the feds and local officials crack down on gangs, including MS-13, and then they come back.
They’ll have their Mission Accomplished and in a few years, we’ll be dealing with another gang outbreak because the gang reconstituted itself.
Ya know what ends gangs…. good education and good jobs. Gangs are only created as a form of protection when resources are low and tensions are high (for the most part). Kids would not be enticed to join a gang if they knew their future was bright and not murky because of right wing policies.
As if we didn’t know:
Wow. Lesley Stahl, speaking at the Deadline Club Awards, says she once asked Trump why he continues to relentlessly attack the press.
His answer: “I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.” pic.twitter.com/YVvDTD0Pm9— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) May 22, 2018
re: #117 lawhawk
We’ve heard that before.
Every few years the feds and local officials crack down on gangs, including MS-13, and then they come back.
They’ll have their Mission Accomplished and in a few years, we’ll be dealing with another gang outbreak because the gang reconstituted itself.
Yeah, claiming victory is a fool’s errand.
But then again, look who’s making the claim…
re: #98 HappyWarrior
I’ve never been a formal member of a church. I dunno who it was that said this but church day is the most segregated day in the country. I’m proud that my Uncle was willing to be a priest in a poor, African American parish.
MLK. The most segregated hour in America is 11 Sunday morning.
re: #118 MsJ
Conspiracy or accuracy? You decide.
Speaking of Rude Pundit, I read this post last night and laughed so hard at the opening paragraph I woke up both the wife and the dog.
Behind a button because it’s brimming with F-bombs…
I have been sitting here, drinking away the lunch hour(s), trying to figure out a way to encapsulate the hogpile of fuckery that has involved the Trump administration just in the last few days.
I’ve thought about metaphors, like say Donald Trump is pretty much a guy who likes to fuck sheep but he’s always just lived on a small farm with only a couple of sheep in the barn for him to fuck, but then, all of a sudden, someone mistakes his fucking of sheep for being a really good shepherd and he’s hired to take care of a giant flock which for him is like fuck paradise and now he’s fucking all the sheep he can, fucking them every which way, in their sheep asses, in their sheep pussies, in their sheep ears, sometimes just rubbing his dick on the fleece on their bodies until he orgasms, and no one’s stopping him, no matter how much people point over the fence and say, “He’s fucking the sheep, sweet Jesus. He’s fucking the sheep,” but no one who could stop him from sheep-fucking is going to stop him, and, horrible as it is, you can’t look away because there’s a fat old man fucking sheep.
But I didn’t feel like that metaphor captured the nuances of the situation.
re: #41 Done Ben Wrote
Good morning, everyone.
I’ve been lurking here for ages, finally decided to stick my oar in the water and register.
I brought coffee. No beer, can’t drink the stuff.
Welcome. And I hear you about the beer. Don’t drink it myself at this hour. You don’t mind if I pour a little rum in the coffee, though, do you?
re: #122 sagehen
MLK. The most segregated hour in America is 11 Sunday morning.
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Compare that clip to how Chuck U Todd does the Magic Balance Fairy shtick.
re: #120 Barefoot Grin
As if we didn’t know:
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Would have been nice if Stahl and her ilk wrote about such things at the time — you know, putting accountability ahead of access. But maybe I’m old-fashioned.
re: #39 wheat-dogg
So, this curious message popped up in my email just now, from the US Embassy in Beijing.
Weren’t there reports of similar disruptions at other embassies?
Strange noises and sensations. A possible brain injury. Nobody is sure what made an American government employee in China sick, but the parallels with what happened in Cuba are striking. https://t.co/bSrltLSG9c
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) May 23, 2018
First pic: 2016
Second pic: 2018
If you thought media’s push to paint white supremacists as “dapper” or present them as indie band would fade away, I have some news for you. It has not and it won’t. History teaches us. And we are living in some real time fuckery. Shameful. pic.twitter.com/3fKW71wzZE— ReclaimingMyTime (@MonieTalks_1) May 23, 2018
Roofer just called. He will be by in the afternoon to inspect our roof and replace it after the tornado damage.
Lesley Stahl says @realDonaldTrump explained to her why he continues to attack the media: “You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.” Video: https://t.co/A9jzC7LDkI
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) May 22, 2018
Worth noting the obvious: President Trump is using the same tactics against law enforcement, intel agencies, civil service and the judiciary that he deploys against the media — trying to discredit all of them so institutions that question or check his power are undermined. https://t.co/m799M4PZzZ
— Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrien) May 23, 2018
Indeed. Months of everything being treated like the same level of four-alarm fire means that what Trump did this week has been decontextualized as just “there he goes again” instead of as a big deal. https://t.co/w5coBya5s2
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 23, 2018
More like years of Trump setting four-alarm fires and the media characterizing them as “unorthodox barbecuing techniques” has desensitized people to the grievous ongoing harm caused by this administration https://t.co/d0ZV2BAWTb
— 5’7” Black Male (@absurdistwords) May 23, 2018
Left: Today’s NY Post, where a child killed another child because he thought a gun was a toy.
Right: a child at the NRA convention treating a gun like a toy and being encouraged. pic.twitter.com/SuyAHlY4YD— Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed) May 23, 2018
re: #21 freetoken
Meanwhile, our daily report on worldview clashes in America and creationism:
We need to leave death in God’s hands
The death culture got a jump-start again 45 years ago when the Supreme Court gave doctors the legal right to kill a baby in the womb, which has resulted in more than 60 million dead babies. This American holocaust has further allowed and encouraged movements for euthanasia and infanticide.
if it’s “in the womb” it’s not a baby
re: #118 MsJ
…Follow the money! The spy was there early in the campaign and yet never reported Collusion with Russia, because there was no Collusion. He was only there to spy for political reasons and to help Crooked Hillary win - just like they did to Bernie Sanders, who got duped!
— Donald J. Trump
Very bad spying job if the FBI source didn’t know about the Donny Junior Russia meeting, which we found out only after the election, and after the investigation started.
And oh yeah, shut the eff up Donny.
Thanks for the welcome, everyone.
I’m off to be productive, which in this case means mowing the lawn. BBL.
re: #39 wheat-dogg
So, this curious message popped up in my email just now, from the US Embassy in Beijing.
Weren’t there reports of similar disruptions at other embassies?
re: #128 JordanRules
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re: #56 Done Ben Wrote
Uhm. Pizza toppings.
*steps carefully*
Whatever whoever is buying puts on it?
you answered without saying anything
“that’s politics”
Everybody is with Tomi Lahren, a truly outstanding and respected young woman! @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018
Don’t put that devil on us, pal. https://t.co/BFYJrW87TX
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) May 23, 2018
re: #135 Anymouse 🌹
You owe me a new keyboard after I spit coffee on it.
Rude is the best. Nobody slings the F-bomb like he does.
The rest of the post is even better. Once he dispenses with the trademark vulgarity, he makes a ton of great points.
Heh.
One year ago a #sinkhole appeared in front of Mar-a-Lago and now another #sinkhole has appeared on the White House front lawn.
Is this Jared creating a secret back-channel to Hell for the #TrumpCrimeFamily ?— Edan Clay 🌊 (@EdanClay) May 22, 2018
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹
Roofer just called. He will be by in the afternoon to inspect our roof and replace it after the tornado damage.
What about the interior?
re: #140 JordanRules
I bet Tomi reminds him of his daughter.
My daughter from Israel has been visiting, and I got her hooked on the sourdough bread. So now she wants her own starter. I gave her the link to the starter recipe at the King Arthur Flour but she said that’s too complicated. So she wants to take some of my starter home with her.
I’m like OK but how does she get it on the plane? I could fill one of those 3-oz travel containers and she could put it in her cosmetic bag.
re: #134 dangerman
if it’s “in the womb” it’s not a baby
Republicans: If it’s out of the womb, it doesn’t matter.
re: #140 JordanRules
Is Tomi in some kind of trouble, or just slavishly barking the company line on DrumpF?
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
I bet Tomi reminds him of his daughter.
You know Trump wants to fuck White Privilege Barbie so bad… aside from not being Eastern European, she’s just his type.
re: #131 JordanRules
Anyone who knew about Trump before he ran was warning everyone who would listen that this is how he operates. The media refused to listen or take the warnings seriously.
Even after he got the nomination, the media downplayed all this and instead focused on Hillary’s emails. Instead of getting to the bottom of why the GOP platform flipped on Russia and Ukraine and who was pulling those strings, they focused on Hillary’s emails.
Instead of focusing on Trump’s health, they questioned Hillary’s stamina because she was actually campaigning while sick with pneumonia. Trump still hasn’t gotten a clean bill of health from any reputable doctor.
Instead of focusing on Trump’s financials, we got Hillary’s emails and Clinton Foundation (whose records are an open book). And yes, I know WaPo’s Faherentholt was instrumental on trying to piece together Trump’s shady charitable dealings.
Instead of Trump’s scam school being the death knell, we got Hillary’s emails.
Instead of Trump’s Access Hollywood statements being the death knell, we got Hillary’s emails.
For any other person, one of those individual acts would have been enough to end the campaign. With Trump, he’s deflected one controversy by throwing another one at the wall.
EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. government has been so far unable to get Kremlin-linked Kaspersky Lab software off its networks. w/ @kpoulsen https://t.co/yzbWqEt8Ar
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) May 23, 2018
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
My daughter from Israel has been visiting, and I got her hooked on the sourdough bread. So now she wants her own starter. I gave her the link to the starter recipe at the King Arthur Flour but she said that’s too complicated. So she wants to take some of my starter home with her.
I’m like OK but how does she get it on the plane? I could fill one of those 3-oz travel containers and she could put it in her cosmetic bag.
Since the starter contains live yeast, y’all might want to check with US and Israeli customs on that.
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
My daughter from Israel has been visiting, and I got her hooked on the sourdough bread. So now she wants her own starter. I gave her the link to the starter recipe at the King Arthur Flour but she said that’s too complicated. So she wants to take some of my starter home with her.
I’m like OK but how does she get it on the plane? I could fill one of those 3-oz travel containers and she could put it in her cosmetic bag.
Better she carries it on and can explain it. If they see it in checked in baggage, they might think it’s bomb material.
re: #147 Sir John Barron
Is Tomi in some kind of trouble, or just slavishly barking the company line on DrumpF?
Pretty sure he was just watching her on Fox.
re: #106 TedStriker
BTW, greetings from Panama City Beach…been here the past couple of days on a mini-vacation. Aside from a couple of storms overnight the past couple of nights, the weather has been fantastic; I’ve also been eating myself silly, staying away from the major chains and eating local while here (I did the same thing when I came down last year).
It’s a great beach, part of the same area I take my username from. But I hope you aren’t still there as of Memorial Day weekend, as you will be absolutely up to your ears in drunken redneck college kids from all over the South. Someday I’ll tell the waiting-breathless world the story of how I ended up spending the night in the Port St. Joe jail because of the Memorial Day situation in PCB.
re: #149 lawhawk
I think all of that is irrelevant. Trump is good for ratings and paper sales. Period.
That’s the American way. The country doesn’t matter at all.
re: #43 wheat-dogg
I want a chocolate sprinkle.
re: #155 MsJ
I think all of that is irrelevant. Trump is good for ratings and paper sales. Period.
That’s the American way. The country doesn’t matter at all.
They thought they could use him for ratings but Clinton would win.
re: #154 whitebeach
It’s a great beach, part of the same area I take my username from. But I hope you aren’t still there as of Memorial Day weekend, as you will be absolutely up to your ears in drunken redneck college kids from all over the South. Someday I’ll tell the waiting-breathless world the story of how I ended up spending the night in the Port St. Joe jail because of the Memorial Day situation in PCB.
Nah, going back home tomorrow.
re: #124 makeitstop
Speaking of Rude Pundit, I read this post last night and laughed so hard at the opening paragraph I woke up both the wife and the dog.
Behind a button because it’s brimming with F-bombs…
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Yep. Spot on. But the trouble with citing RP is that no matter how cogent or correct the argument he makes, no one (well, no one outside the blogosphere) is going to see (or want to see) beyond the “F-bombs” and crude language. Too bad.
re: #138 Teukka
[tinfoil]Now, what if it isn’t foreign powers messing US diplomatic staffs brains up, but that it is a less-than-obvious way of the tRump admin to get rid of diplomats?[/tinfoil]
I’d doff the sombrero de aluminio here: IIRC, the problems at the Havana Embassy started before Trump took office - right after the place re-opened, I think. And still not resolved (?)
re: #151 TedStriker
In any case, even with your starter as a base, her starter will diverge from yours over time, depending on her local strains of airborne yeasts and Lactobacillus.
/learned that from Alton Brown
re: #63 Joe Bacon 🌹
Won’t vote for Mr. Gentrification!
On the other hand this pic of Newsom and the future Mrs. Jr. Trump makes me gag every time I see it.
re: #161 Skip Intro
On the other hand this pic of Newsom and the future Mrs. Jr. Trump makes me gag every time I see it.
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This is the kind of portrait that makes you wonder what the photographer said or was thinking. My guess here is that he/she just decided, Fuck it, I’ll shoot these soulless unhappy rich assholes like the soulless unhappy rich assholes they are.
Worm sign! First caterpillars of the year.
It seems Tomi had some trouble over the weekend:
Witness Devan Madison tells us he and a group of friends were at Union Restaurant in Minneapolis on Saturday where his friend was actually serving the Fox News pundit and her mother. He claims “My friend told me she [Tomi] was extremely rude and had a big attitude.”
We’re told when Lahren got up to leave the restaurant, a woman sitting at Madison’s table threw a glass of water on the conservative mouthpiece. Madison claims that “literally the entire restaurant started cheering.”
We spoke with the bouncer in the video, Jeremy Jackson (not that one), who said that Tomi claimed she saw the brunch group “scowling at her” on her way out of the eatery and said, “Just another day in the life” as she walked by them. That’s apparently when the drink was sent flying.
Patrons immediately took out their cell phones to record the aftermath while a “F**k that bitch” chant erupted in the background.
I don’t condone this (I think chanting would have been enough), but I mysteriously wouldn’t have recognized the perpetrator if asked if I had been there.
re: #164 Belafon
Oh! So that’s why Trump is shouting her out.
The lizard people are also under the control of Obama and if they can make the frogs gay, they can also turn you gay. So watch your step there Alex.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) May 23, 2018
re: #164 Belafon
It seems Tomi had some trouble over the weekend:
I don’t condone this (I think chanting would have been enough), but I mysteriously wouldn’t have recognized the perpetrator if asked if I had been there.
There’s video, sorta.
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
My daughter from Israel has been visiting, and I got her hooked on the sourdough bread. So now she wants her own starter. I gave her the link to the starter recipe at the King Arthur Flour but she said that’s too complicated. So she wants to take some of my starter home with her.
I’m like OK but how does she get it on the plane? I could fill one of those 3-oz travel containers and she could put it in her cosmetic bag.
If you’ve got a couple days before she leaves, you can dry it. Spread a tablespoon or two out on waxed paper or something and let it dry. You can freeze it for up to a year at that point (if you want to) or revive it with water and flour over the course of a few days when you get where you’re going.
re: #164 Belafon
Tomi claimed she saw the brunch group “scowling at her” on her way out of the eatery and said, “Just another day in the life” as she walked by them.
she’s so persecuted, such a victim.
//
re: #143 MsJ
What about the interior?
He’s going to look at that as well.
Betsy DeVos Wants Everyone To Be Happy. Bigots, And The Immigrant Kids They Rat Out To ICE (Goes to Wonkette, a children’s book compared to Rude Pundit, more at the link):
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is a big fan of state and local control of schools, even when that would break federal law. Not because she advocates lawbreaking, of course, but because she’s an idiot who can’t get it through her head that no matter what her ideal libertarian paradise might look like, there are some areas where federal law really does override local desires. During her confirmation hearing, she notoriously said she thought it should be up to states to decide whether kids with disabilities have full access to education. Tim Kaine angrily reminded her that equal education access is actually a federal law.
And yes, she’s at it again. Yesterday, she told a House committee that it should be up to individual communities and schools to decide whether to call ICE on children they believe are undocumented immigrants. Federal law? Supreme Court decisions? Why would she know anything about those? She’s all about local control, not silly laws.
Been watching this all morning. Pretty fascinating.
re: #167 makeitstop
There’s video, sorta.
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have the Russia-bots, I mean faithful true conservative Americans, called for boycotting this restaurant yet?
Would you wear this muzzle around the office for private calling? https://t.co/KNZKLdZIjp pic.twitter.com/M9jAXai2Wt
— CNET (@CNET) May 23, 2018
Depends on how close The Batman is to discovering my evil plan #Bane https://t.co/dSQBU2tvIM
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 23, 2018
re: #170 Anymouse 🌹
And yes, she’s at it again. Yesterday, she told a House committee that it should be up to individual communities and schools to decide whether to call ICE on children they believe are undocumented immigrants. Federal law? Supreme Court decisions? Why would she know anything about those? She’s all about local control, not silly laws.
I thought the company line was that all local jurisdictions must rat out their immigrants or be labeled a ‘sanctuary’ jurisdiction.
re: #155 MsJ
I think all of that is irrelevant. Trump is good for ratings and paper sales. Period.
That’s the American way. The country doesn’t matter at all.
As I noted before the election, Trump’s ascension was good for the media business (so did CBS’s president). At that time, I also noted that tearing him down would be good for business.
re: #163 jeffreyw
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Worm sign! First caterpillars of the year.
You gotta love this time of year. It breaks your heart and heals it like a beautiful song. This morning I saw the first mama turtle slogging her way across the yard to dig a hole and lay her eggs. Another couple of days and it’ll be like a turtle freeway out there.
re: #118 MsJ
how come such a seemingly massive amount of money was paid for services rendered - many times higher than normal…
He has a good handle on the cost of campaign spies? The RudePundit has it, he knows because he employs them.
re: #118 MsJ
Conspiracy or accuracy? You decide.
Does DrumPf really want us to ‘follow the money’? Like his money? Like his tax returns?
re: #162 whitebeach
This is the kind of portrait that makes you wonder what the photographer said or was thinking. My guess here is that he/she just decided, Fuck it, I’ll shoot these soulless unhappy rich assholes like the soulless unhappy rich assholes they are.
Looks like it was shot in Trump Tower West.
re: #175 Anymouse 🌹
As I noted before the election, Trump’s ascension was good for the media business (so did CBS’s president). At that time, I also noted that tearing him down would be good for business.
When will we get to the second part?
re: #181 MsJ
When will we get to the second part?
They’re still making money on the first part, introducing the Nazi next door who’s just like you, and interviewing every Trump voter in the galaxy.
re: #182 Anymouse 🌹
They’re still making money on the first part, introducing the Nazi next door who’s just like you, and interviewing every Trump voter in the galaxy.
Never, then.
re: #176 whitebeach
You gotta love this time of year. It breaks your heart and heals it like a beautiful song. This morning I saw the first mama turtle slogging her way across the yard to dig a hole and lay her eggs. Another couple of days and it’ll be like a turtle freeway out there.
Yes, and a wonderful playmate for the pup!
Fox and Friends of North Korea.
Fox host and Trump adviser Pet Hegseth on Kim Jong Un: “The guy who wants to meet with Dennis Rodman and loves NBA basketball and loves western pop culture, probably doesn’t love being the guy that has to murder his people all day long. Probably wants normalization.” pic.twitter.com/YQAcY1BXh7
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) May 23, 2018
No one wants to be the guy that has to murder people all day but SOMEONE has to do it. https://t.co/SFFOM9zRHu
— Ben (@BenHowe) May 23, 2018
Motherfuckers are ready to excuse any goddamn thing.
JUST IN: Democratic leaders urge Wray, Rosenstein to reconsider meeting over GOP document demands.
“Such a meeting would be highly irregular and inappropriate during any open criminal or counterintelligence investigation, much less one involving the president.” pic.twitter.com/3dWQb9jXeJ— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 23, 2018
Not normal. Not okay.
re: #184 jeffreyw
Yes, and a wonderful playmate for the pup!
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Hah!
In NYC I once found a bowling ball curbside (like I said, NYC) and brought it home and set it on the, of course, uneven floor, where it wobbled around a bit, which sent our wire-hair fox terrier into craze mode, as many things do with wire-hairs. He tried to bite that bowling ball for most of a day, and most of the next, and even years later he’d still give it a try now and then.
Same principle with dogs and turtles.
WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018
The 2018 version of “Make America Great Again!” https://t.co/eAWSxGXzWC
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) May 23, 2018
To be followed by endless declarations that this means he’s unhinged. As opposed to what it actually is, which is him thinking he’s having an effect on his people see it. https://t.co/YxLsQyggAv
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 23, 2018
He thinks he’s having an effect on people seeing it because the new media narrative is that he’s having an effect on people seeing it. https://t.co/3VkcNmadJx
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 23, 2018
The same reporters who’ll attend messaging rallies & refuse to write stories on the message of the rally - proudly declaring that it’s not their job to report the message you want - will dutifully churn out stories about Tump’s latest anti-Mueller message, despite it being a lie. https://t.co/UvouVWRmdL
— Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson) May 23, 2018
They know that reporters won’t actually believe their lies, but they sure will print them and muddy the waters for a public that doesn’t have time to sort through every detail.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 23, 2018
Then stop lying. It’s not hard….
Oh… wait.
You’re not really bothered by lying - only being caught in the lies.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 23, 2018
BBC’s Paul Wood: Michael Cohen “received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump.”
After the talks, Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency froze its investigation into Paul Manafort. https://t.co/cloO7BPydE— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 23, 2018
re: #188 JordanRules
which is him thinking he’s having an effect on his people see it.
I’m still trying to understand this sentence. I think she just means that DJT really isn’t unhinged, he just knows if he keeps repeating ‘witch hunt’ and continuing to attack the investigation that his base will love him for it.
Has bump stock Barbie’s “thrown drink” story been debunked or revised yet?
re: #188 JordanRules
WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018
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WHICH HUNT? pic.twitter.com/aqPCuMBOR8
— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) May 23, 2018
re: #191 JordanRules
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Jeez Louise! How much money was Michael Cohen handling? It’s like the guy was a one-man Bank Of Crooked for shady foreign money looking for influence with the new Administration…
Quite a step up from the “obscure lawyer with three clients” he started out as way back…. when? March??
NEW: Six families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, as well as FBI agent who responded to the scene, file defamation lawsuit against radio personality Alex Jones. https://t.co/BItBTkYmx9
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 23, 2018
re: #194 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump
Does Donald come down off his cross to tweet these things or does he do it with the nails through his palms and feet?
WHICH HUNT pic.twitter.com/wy46GRCQB3
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) May 23, 2018
WHICH HUNT? pic.twitter.com/9ktNR01jto
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 23, 2018
Thread, four tweets on what Jim Wright notes is a tactic of information warfare:
@Stonekettle I like how “her” invading your timeline is you harassing “her” pic.twitter.com/f5HAderLb1
— Chris Merlin (@cmfmerlin) May 23, 2018
See? This is a standard tactic. She showed up on MY timeline. She insulted me. She attempted to provoke a fight. She was deliberately obnoxious. When she could start a fight, when she was identified, she then tried to claim *I* was harassing HER.
This is a standard tactic. https://t.co/hhMHclJsJ3— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 23, 2018
re: #195 Jay C
Jeez Louise! How much money was Michael Cohen handling? It’s like the guy was a one-man Bank Of Crooked for shady foreign money looking for influence with the new Administration…
Quite a step up from the “obscure lawyer with three clients” he started out as way back…. when? March??
It was just all coffee money.
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re: #192 Sir John Barron
which is him thinking he’s having an effect on his people see it.
I’m still trying to understand this sentence. I think she just means that DJT really isn’t unhinged, he just knows if he keeps repeating ‘witch hunt’ and continuing to attack the investigation that his base will love him for it.
Missing a “how” right before the bolded part.
Just spent a great evening with two of my favorite authors discussing their new book, The President is Missing. It’s a page-turner! Check it out:https://t.co/Jm48OUxd53 pic.twitter.com/5TCCr4RKFB
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 23, 2018
re: #164 Belafon
It seems Tomi had some trouble over the weekend:
I don’t condone this (I think chanting would have been enough), but I mysteriously wouldn’t have recognized the perpetrator if asked if I had been there.
You may not encourage it, but that is pretty much the definition of condoning it.
such a moron…
Our Trade Deal with China is moving along nicely, but in the end we will probably have to use a different structure in that this will be too hard to get done and to verify results after completion.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018
There will be big news coming soon for our great American Autoworkers. After many decades of losing your jobs to other countries, you have waited long enough!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2018
hey autoworkers…you’re all gonna be shipped off to Chyna!!!!
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
Our Trade Deal with China is moving along nicely, but in the end we will probably have to use a different structure in that this will be too hard to get done and to verify results after completion.
— Donald J. Trump
Translation: The trade deal talks are going nowhere
Via @NFL: Here’s the league’s new anthem policy and a statement from #NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell pic.twitter.com/EqtRqaxyfd
— AJ McCord (@AJ_McCord) May 23, 2018
Yeah, Trump’s misinformed actions directly led to the need for a Special Counsel, which is currently unwinding the criminal syndicate Trump has created around him.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 23, 2018
re: #204 danarchy
You may not encourage it, but that is pretty much the definition of condoning it.
Yes, you are correct. I would have told anyone I heard planning not to do it. But, had it been done, I wouldn’t rat it out.
re: #186 JordanRules
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Not normal. Not okay.
It’s really not. You’ve got Giuliani openly stating that this is about getting information about the investigation for Trump. It’s not fucking OK, and the media is not making a big enough deal about this.
— NFLPA (@NFLPA) May 23, 2018
The NFL has unanimously (by the owners) approved assessing a 15 yard penalty for taking a knee.
Figures. The year the Jets actually get a good QB is the year I give the NFL a last, hearty ‘fuck you.’
ESPN NY talker (and former Giant) Troy Canty is going off right now.
re: #208 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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That sound you hear is wingnut heads popping like champagne corks. They’ll try to spin it as a “victory,” saying that the League will now fine those who are kneeling. But releasing the teams to keep their players off the field until after the Anthem totally undermines that.
BREAKING: We’re suing over Ohio’s congressional maps, which Republican operatives drew to guarantee themselves a supermajority in the state’s congressional delegation.
It’s unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering and must be tossed before 2020. https://t.co/4fgnCkpsRR— ACLU (@ACLU) May 23, 2018
re: #213 makeitstop
The NFL has unanimously (by the owners) approved assessing a 15 yard penalty for taking a knee.
Figures. The year the Jets actually get a good QB is the year I give the NFL a last, hearty ‘fuck you.’
ESPN NY talker (and former Giant) Troy Canty is going off right now.
The 15 yard penalty didn’t make it into the new policy did it?
I wonder if the idea of the thong came from the first nerd to get a wedgie.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) May 20, 2018
re: #212 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Such a horrible top down league. I hope their Union protects them, but the history of it is so dismal.
re: #211 Mike Lamb
It’s really not. You’ve got Giuliani openly stating that this is about getting information about the investigation for Trump. It’s not fucking OK, and the media is not making a big enough deal about this.
If it was Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch though, the media would be losing their shit.
Someone said recently there are no red lines. That appears to be even truer than it already was.
re: #214 Targetpractice
That sound you hear is wingnut heads popping like champagne corks. They’ll try to spin it as a “victory,” saying that the League will now fine those who are kneeling. But releasing the teams to keep their players off the field until after the Anthem totally undermines that.
I think it will be more noticeable when half the team stays in the lockerroom (I hope). There are probably more than a few guys that supported the protest, but for various reasons, didn’t want to kneel (see e.g., the blacklisting of Kaepernick). This gives them the opportunity.
re: #216 JordanRules
The 15 yard penalty didn’t make it into the new policy did it?
Oops, you’re right. Players get fined.
Same dif. Might as well tape players’ mouths shut while they’re at it.
re: #219 JordanRules
If it was Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch though, the media would be losing their shit.
Someone said recently there are no red lines. That appears to be even truer than it already was.
It was Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch, and they did lose their minds—and that was a giant nothingburger. This is some real, actual shit going down.
Trump shows more support for Tomi Lahren having some water splashed at her than he does for dozens of schoolchildren gunned down in their own classrooms. One hateful blonde lady means more to him than our nation’s kids murdered in cold blood.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) May 23, 2018
re: #173 JordanRules
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On Donald Trump:
“He’s a humanly impoverished con-man destitute of all decency and wielding a vocabulary of 77 words that is better called Jerkish than English.”
RIP Philip Roth, great writer, excellent judge of character#PhilipRoth #Jerkish pic.twitter.com/rsZg8a1P9S— Chris Stonehouse (@chrisasabutton) May 23, 2018
Clapper: Ryan and McConnell didn’t care about Russia meddling in election as long as Trump won https://t.co/F6EBl4g3kk pic.twitter.com/ed5Pjf0vZ0
— The Hill (@thehill) May 23, 2018
re: #222 Mike Lamb
It was Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch, and they did lose their minds—and that was a giant nothingburger. This is some real, actual shit going down.
That was my point in using that example.
Lesley Stahl says @realDonaldTrump explained to her why he continues to attack the media: “You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.” Video: https://t.co/A9jzC7LDkI
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) May 22, 2018
Worth noting the obvious: President Trump is using the same tactics against law enforcement, intel agencies, civil service and the judiciary that he deploys against the media — trying to discredit all of them so institutions that question or check his power are undermined. https://t.co/m799M4PZzZ
— Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrien) May 23, 2018
Indeed. Months of everything being treated like the same level of four-alarm fire means that what Trump did this week has been decontextualized as just “there he goes again” instead of as a big deal. https://t.co/w5coBya5s2
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 23, 2018
You are complicit in how the whole media frames everything about this administration because this is literally your job. You’re chief on this beat and you have fucked this up every single damn day since May 2015. You have no room to speak about this EVER. How dare you, honestly? https://t.co/AuIJNr4UW3
— Mx. Amadi (@amaditalks) May 23, 2018
Hey, They’re gonna die anyway right? Where have we recently heard that?
Will you be held personally responsible if they poison someone? How about Roger for #LabRat.
Better governance.. Hell, How about governance, period?? #WhyisRogerHiding #NomoreBadHaicuts #BadTaxCuts @JulieForTX25 is the only choice for #TX25 #RightToTry pic.twitter.com/f5Wgq7LaGX— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) May 23, 2018
Trump: “You go into the FBI and, a lot of those great people working in the FBI, they will tell you I did a great service to this country by firing James Comey.” pic.twitter.com/me7uKUSW7D
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) May 23, 2018
more moron…
What if players kneel to protest the criminal deep state?
— David Waldman, LLC (@KagroX) May 23, 2018
As far as I can tell this is the first time the Obama Deep State Conspiracy Theory has included the idea of “planting evidence.” Which suggests there’s now specific evidence they fear Mueller has & are looking to preemptively discredit. https://t.co/K0OB8gwJ3c
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) May 23, 2018
re: #197 Sir John Barron
Does Donald come down off his cross to tweet these things or does he do it with the nails through his palms and feet?
the story a day or so ago was that apparently his staff does some of the tweeting for him
we literally do not know whose hands are on the keyboard and whether or not trump himself vets every tweet
re: #232 JordanRules
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Nightmare fuel:
What if the tRump admin either gets pushed into a situation where they’re try extreme shenanigans to keep the Bureau’s resources tied up, or if they have something along those lines planned?
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
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more moron…
Show your work, dickhead! Release the “climate surveys” that your DOJ is withholding.
re: #233 dangerman
the story a day or so ago was that apparently his staff does some of the tweeting for him
we literally do not know whose hands are on the keyboard and whether or not trump himself vets every tweet
Which is fine since all the devices are hacked anyway. //
West Hollywood mayor and other leaders give Stormy Daniels the Key to the City in ceremony at an adult boutique. https://t.co/g6776WXXzL
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 23, 2018
“GET OFF MY LAWN!!!”
— well, aisle bee (@hog929) May 23, 2018
he’s just nutz
“We now call it SPYGATE. You’re calling it SPYGATE.” President Trump on reports an FBI source spoke with members of the Trump campaign. Based on what we know, there was never a spy inserted into the Trump campaign.
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) May 23, 2018
BBC News: - Trump lawyer Michael Cohen ‘paid by Ukraine’ to arrange White House talks https://t.co/DZz7YZC2gt
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) May 23, 2018
Not only is this rank corruption but it threatens U.S. foreign policy.
We’re in dangerous territory when a country can buy its way into the Oval Office. https://t.co/rTqKxAPrud— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) May 23, 2018
Sinkhole cover up on North Lawn of the White House. Both a metaphor and a reality. pic.twitter.com/5JdbQPiQwz
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 23, 2018
re: #234 Teukka
Nightmare fuel:
What if the tRump admin either gets pushed into a situation where they’re try extreme shenanigans to keep the Bureau’s resources tied up, or if they have something along those lines planned?
No more fuel!!!!! My nightmares are already on fire.
There are no red lines. We have no idea what awaits but extreme shenanigans are definitely in play. The desperation is palpable.
re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth
he’s just nutz
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He is, but he’s also setting up the next talking point for the press, i.e. “This is Spygate and anybody who denies that is covering up for the criminals.” Don’t be surprised when you see the press slowly moving to call this “Spygate.”
re: #203 JordanRules
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James Patterson. At least he has for years given credit to the people who actually write “his” books. Unlike, say, Tom Clancy and others.
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Hellmouth won’t be stopped that easily.
“welcome….to the white house” pic.twitter.com/ISuCsFVCVN
— darth™ (@darth) May 23, 2018
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Please, intrepid journalamists, take a poll of FBI employees…
Now we know why they wanted to hide the White House visitor logs from the public. This is pay to play. The biggest criminal enterprise is being operated out of the White House. https://t.co/6iIxA6BQUF
re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth
he’s just nutz
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I’d like to say that I will lose my dog-damned fucking mind when the media starts using the framing “Spygate”—but it’s going to happen, and I need my brain until I leave for vacation, so I won’t say it.
My wife works pretty close to where That Asshole is going to appear today.
A cow-orker who went by the site said that protesters outnumber supporters by about 4 to 1.
This surprises me, TBH. Nassau County is pretty solid Trump Country, complete with a Republican county executive who, along with his wife, was indicted for bribery.
re: #250 jaunte
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BREAKING: President Trump’s blocking of critics on Twitter is unconstitutional, court rules. https://t.co/8fZ6cdKbAL pic.twitter.com/47a0yNYYkb
— Knight 1st Amendment (@knightcolumbia) May 23, 2018
By Sunday, it will be “Spygate” to the press, at least those elements who want to keep their “access” to the White House intact.
re: #232 JordanRules
They planted such good evidence that it was never found until two years after the election.
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re: #233 dangerman
the story a day or so ago was that apparently his staff does some of the tweeting for him
we literally do not know whose hands are on the keyboard and whether or not trump himself vets every tweet
think about that - not just mueller, russiagate, cohen, and other outrages du jour
consider topics of foreign and domestic policy
re: #254 JordanRules
How the hell is snowflake going to unblock the tens of thousands of people he has already blocked?
Here is the NFL’s new national anthem policy: pic.twitter.com/ybjKoO6E3s
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) May 23, 2018
This was unanimously adopted by the teams, Roger Goodell said. “We want people to stand. We do believe that moment is important to focus on.” Also added he wanted to give players options. https://t.co/iUCYamJZco
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) May 23, 2018
By definition, a protest is an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid.
E.g. NFL’s Roger Goodell says he wants players to stand rather than kneel in protest.https://t.co/OmqcR2Wc4c https://t.co/YKa3HZ5Kzv
re: #259 Dr. Matt
I have a feeling he’s just going to say, “well, the court has ruled, now let them enforce it.”
re: #202 freetoken
For those who missed yesterday’s bad lip reading:
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A bit of wedding trivia I just learned yesterday…
Meghan’s stunning veil, that had embroidered on it all 53 flowers of the Commonwealth nations…
ALSO HAD A CALIFORNIA POPPY!!
Me, trying to find any NFL owners with common sense pic.twitter.com/tD1mp9Bql6
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) May 23, 2018
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Philip Roth. RIP. pic.twitter.com/V5lnqhF3RO
— Don Van Natta Jr. (@DVNJr) May 23, 2018
re: #258 dangerman
think about that - not just mueller, russiagate, cohen, and other outrages du jour
consider topics of foreign and domestic policy
and ill go you one further:
…being tweeted by dreaded “unelected” staff and aides
in Koreatown, L.A.
ICE is at the Ralphs on 7th and Western forcing people to show documentation as they leave the store, 670 South Western. FUCK ICE!
— Molly Lambert (@mollylambert) May 23, 2018
re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth
in Koreatown, L.A.
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this is the Ralphs by the Wiltern in Los Angeles for those asking, it’s in Koreatown by a large metro stop
— Molly Lambert (@mollylambert) May 23, 2018
re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth
in Koreatown, L.A.
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“Where are you papers? Show me your papers!”
re: #196 JordanRules
ABC News Politics ✔
@ABCPolitics
NEW: Six families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, as well as FBI agent who responded to the scene, file defamation lawsuit against radio personality Alex Jones. abcn.ws11:41 AM - May 23, 2018
I hope they are successful. It sure would be nice if they could win a monetary judgement that puts Alex Jones out of business. This country would be better off without him and hopefully it would cause others like him to shut up.
In advance of our 4PM presentation of the Key to the City, we’d like to wish everyone a Happy #StormyDanielsDay! @StormyDaniels @MichaelAvenatti #WeHo https://t.co/kLyiOmB3Jo pic.twitter.com/RrMqN6bS6l
— CityofWestHollywood (@WeHoCity) May 23, 2018
re: #196 JordanRules
Read the Documents: Sandy Hook Families Sue InfoWars’ Alex Jones https://t.co/gr9m7D5FYn via @CTLawTribune
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) May 23, 2018
The court presumes Scavino is now gonna go unblock everyone. pic.twitter.com/BpdJyXouFK
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 23, 2018
Treasury and IRS announce plans to block states that are pursuing workarounds to the GOP tax law’s limit on state and local deductions.https://t.co/2GAhOapGh0
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 23, 2018
My 8-great grandmother, Rebecca Towne Nurse, was hanged in Salem, Mass., on July 19, 1692. THAT was a witch hunt.
— Jim Carroll (@JimCarroll19) May 23, 2018
Something to pay attention to. https://t.co/usZwhcgHh5
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) May 23, 2018
re: #213 makeitstop
The NFL has unanimously (by the owners) approved assessing a 15 yard penalty for taking a knee.
Figures. The year the Jets actually get a good QB is the year I give the NFL a last, hearty ‘fuck you.’
ESPN NY talker (and former Giant) Troy Canty is going off right now.
I heard some sports radio yakking while out and about this morning.
One fact I heard…the top 50 TV markets (big cities and metro areas) didn’t care about the anthem protests.
That means it was smaller areas of the country that were making the most noise about the protests.
So, the NFL didn’t want to lose any money and set up this stupid policy to not piss off the small market folks.
What would happen to the NFL’s thinking if the large markets called them on their crap and for a few games made a point to not watch?
That would cause some scrambling for sure.
One of the complaints was the sport was being made political. I think the NFL just made the sport political.
re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth
in Koreatown, L.A.
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every one should refuse to say anything
you dont have to speak
you are not required to explain your status (legal or not)
you dont have to answer questions about birth, citizenship or anything else.
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nah, the only real witch hunt is a completely legal investigation headed by Republicans of a Republican president who very publicly made overtures to the Russian government and Russian actors during the campaign, and who has since been found to have agreed to meeting Russian representatives in an attempt to sabotage another American and their campaign.
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re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m sure the Tea Party will vigorously protest this IRS abuse of power.
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Do they have a similar policy prohibiting on the field praying?
— Truth Hertz (@umussbekidding) May 23, 2018
Good question. What is the policy on endzone prayers and “Tebowing”? https://t.co/zCq4jCg5PD
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 23, 2018
BTW, that Dave Grohl interview where he dissed Trump is really good.
There’s so much more in that interview than the Trump diss. Grohl just commands my respect as a musician and as a person.
re: #246 jaunte
The Hellmouth won’t be stopped that easily.
Maybe we can get Sarah Michelle Geller out of retirement.
re: #282 makeitstop
BTW, that Dave Grohl interview where he dissed Trump is really good.
There’s so much more in that interview than the Trump diss. Grohl just commands my respect as a musician and as a person.
We got Grohl. They have Kid Rock. Nuff said.
The NFL players who protest police violence against Blacks should carry guns during the National Anthem instead of kneeling.
• Circumvent the kneeling penalty.
• Kill the propaganda that the protest is “agains the flag.”
• Force the other side to take an anti-gun message.— JRehling (@JRehling) May 23, 2018
re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
They’d be labeled as “armed thugs”.
A sample of the “news” that circulates among the fundamentalist cults in Lubbock:
sad and not really surprising:
Most Americans don’t realize Robert Mueller’s investigation has uncovered crimes (vox)
A majority of Americans — 59 percent — say in a new survey that Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia and the 2016 campaign has not yet uncovered evidence of any crimes, even though in reality, Mueller has already obtained five guilty pleas and 17 criminal indictments.
That suggests that
- the press as a whole has not done a good job of actually conveying factual information to our audience,
- that Democrats’ messaging on the investigation has not been clear enough on the most damning point (Trump, even if otherwise innocent, is guilty of hiring crooks and trying to prevent an investigation into their activity),
- and that Trump’s counterstrategy of muddying the waters around the investigation has been fairly successful.
i separated out the three conclusions for clarity and added the bold
re: #287 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
A sample of the “news” that circulates among the fundamentalist cults in Lubbock:
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It really all depends on what they were dancing to.
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re: #252 makeitstop
My wife works pretty close to where That Asshole is going to appear today.
A cow-orker who went by the site said that protesters outnumber supporters by about 4 to 1.
This surprises me, TBH. Nassau County is pretty solid Trump Country, complete with a Republican county executive who, along with his wife, was indicted for bribery.
I think the media has done such a good job talking about the Trump voter and how they feel they completely ignore the left side of things with the Trump non-supporters.
So, in a way it appears Trump has a solid backing, but the reality may be a whole lot different. Maybe that is being shown on Long Island with the protesters. I sure hope that is the case.
re: #287 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
A sample of the “news” that circulates among the fundamentalist cults in Lubbock:
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We’re not praising Saudi Arabia, your pal Trump otoh.
re: #286 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
They’d be labeled as “armed thugs”.
not the white ones //
re: #290 ObserverArt
I think the media has done such a good job talking about the Trump voter and how they feel they completely ignore the left side of things with the Trump non-supporters.
So, in a way it appears Trump has a solid backing, but the reality may be a whole lot different. Maybe that is being shown on Long Island with the protesters. I sure hope that is the case.
I agree. The media has convinced Trump supporters that all opponents of Trump are a bunch of shadowy elites
re: #287 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
A sample of the “news” that circulates among the fundamentalist cults in Lubbock:
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this is from 2017 pants on fire real fake news
re: #259 Dr. Matt
How the hell is snowflake going to unblock the tens of thousands of people he has already blocked?
I don’t know Twitter’s setup, but maybe they could make Trump’s account not able to block anyone. Since he is using it as a public service maybe twitter needs accounts that have public servant controls and an inability to block people from your country, district, city, township…whoever you are in service too.
re: #295 ObserverArt
I don’t know Twitter’s setup, but maybe they could make Trump’s account not able to block anyone. Since he is using it as a public service maybe twitter needs accounts that have public servant controls and an inability to block people from your country, district, city, township…whoever you are in service too.
Removing the delete function for office-holders would be good too.
re: #290 ObserverArt
So, in a way it appears Trump has a solid backing, but the reality may be a whole lot different. Maybe that is being shown on Long Island with the protesters. I sure hope that is the case.
He’s got a fair amount of asshole supporters out here, for sure. Way more than I would have imagined, what with our proximity to NYC and people’s familiarity with what a dick Trump is.
A problem with Trump supporters out here is they aren’t able to shout us down. Everybody’s an asshole out here, and we can give as good as we get. :)
re: #299 makeitstop
He’s got a fair amount of asshole supporters out here, for sure. Way more than I would have imagined, what with our proximity to NYC and people’s familiarity with what a dick Trump is.
A problem with Trump supporters out here is they aren’t able to shout us down. Everybody’s an asshole out here, and we can give as good as we get. :)
The problem with Trump supporters is they’re convinced they’re the only real Americans and that’s aided not only by Trump but the media.
OT but my genealogical research gets more fascinating. Another potential murder of a fairly close relative.
re: #301 Sir John Barron
“Many people are saying….”
“people will tell you”
All Trump verbal nothingness.
re: #194 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“No sir I only asked if you wanted to try a combo.”
President Trump can not block critics on his Twitter account @realDonaldTrump, according to a new ruling on Wednesday in federal district court in New York. Read the decision here: https://t.co/bLeTdAyrz5
— NPR (@NPR) May 23, 2018
Tuesday in Puerto Rico
8 months after Hurricane Irma & Maria
13,870 customers still do not have power (Source: @AEEONLINE)
In some cases, each customer without power represents one household where multiple people are living
Hurricane season, 2018, starts in 9 days— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) May 23, 2018
re: #301 Sir John Barron
“Many people are saying….”
Step 1: Trump gets himself into trouble.
Step 2: Some wingnut figures out a really stupid theory why Trump isn’t the one in trouble, it’s really the people who figured out Trump is in trouble.
Step 3: Fox & Friends blares out theory.
Step 4: Trump tweets theory within 40 minutes.
Step 5: Newsmedia report Trump’s tweek.
Step 6: Trump says “Many people are saying [theory]”, when in fact it’s newsmedia reporting that he said it.
Lather, rinse repeat.
re: #307 HappyWarrior
But hey Trumps going to make North Korea great!
Just like he makes all his contractors and creditors rich.
Martial Law Clown Show in South Texas
Oh, and also: Do not mess with the butterfly people.
“I told the [Border Patrol] agents, ‘Don’t take this personally, but I’m fried and I’m finished and you are on butterfly property. So you call it in, you verify it, then get the fuck off my land.”https://t.co/j9aM52mgrS pic.twitter.com/Rnr7wC0kJZ— Forrest Wilder (@Forrest4Trees) May 23, 2018
“…It was hard to see how the surge was having an impact on cartel-related crime, or deterring smuggling, as DPS claimed it would. Border Patrol and DPS armored gunboats were already plying the river, so the troopers spent the majority of their time parked along Expressway 83, a major thoroughfare in the Rio Grande Valley, or on Military Highway to the south, issuing warnings and traffic citations. Austin TV station KXAN reviewed all of DPS’ border surge arrests from June 2014 to September 2016 — 31,786 violations in total — and found that just 6 percent were for felony drug possession. Even fewer arrests — 1 percent — were related to human smuggling. The vast majority were for drunk driving or misdemeanor drug possession. It seemed the surge had simply concentrated routine highway enforcement functions along the border, while enforcement dwindled in the rest of the state. In November 2016, the Dallas Morning News reported that traffic citations had risen by 30 percent and warnings by 160 percent in Starr and Hidalgo counties, while in the rest of the state both had fallen by more than 20 percent.”
re: #307 HappyWarrior
But hey Trumps going to make North Korea great!
trump’s supporters would rather their hard earned and paid over tax dollars go to north korea than to their own fellow citizens
and we’re not talking ‘welfare’ or ‘food stamps’ or something for nothing here
re: #310 jaunte
Martial Law Clown Show in South Texas
Erick son of Erick: The butterfly people are bullying me indirectly by bullying ICE.
Trump begins in Long Island: “We’re here today to discuss the menace of MS-13. It’s a menace…blood-stained killing fields…horrible people…”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 23, 2018
The “blood-stained killing fields” of suburban Long Island, where murder declined by a third in 2017. https://t.co/eggCTj2Dep
— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 23, 2018
re: #308 Blind Frog Belly White
Step 1: Trump gets himself into trouble.
Step 2: Some wingnut figures out a really stupid theory why Trump isn’t the one in trouble, it’s really the people who figured out Trump is in trouble.
Step 3: Fox & Friends blares out theory.
Step 4: Trump tweets theory within 40 minutes.
Step 5: Newsmedia report Trump’s tweek.
Step 6: Trump says “Many people are saying [theory]”, when in fact it’s newsmedia reporting that he said it.
Lather, rinse repeat.
and today’s effing insane theory is that they’re not “merely accusing the FBI of planting a spy, but of planting evidence.”
NEW: Jared Kushner got his security clearance, per @mattapuzzo https://t.co/keAdoLoOsM
— Amy Fiscus (@amyfiscus) May 23, 2018
Privilege = Being able to fuck up and not face consequences https://t.co/JAPWLX98t5
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 23, 2018
re: #308 Blind Frog Belly White
Step 1: Trump gets himself into trouble.
Step 2: Some wingnut figures out a really stupid theory why Trump isn’t the one in trouble, it’s really the people who figured out Trump is in trouble.
Step 3: Fox & Friends blares out theory.
Step 4: Trump tweets theory within 40 minutes.
Step 5: Newsmedia report Trump’s tweek.
Step 6: Trump says “Many people are saying [theory]”, when in fact it’s newsmedia reporting that he said it.
Lather, rinse repeat.
Which is similar to the Dick Cheney and Judith Miller method to get America talking about Iraq’s purchasing aluminum tubes for building nukes.
Start a fake ‘leak’ get a willing press accomplice to report as if it is fact and then go out and speak to the media now reporting the fake facts as if it is true because you read it in the papers (that you mislead).
Now it has become a political tool and some in the media still play along.
re: #288 dangerman
sad and not really surprising:
Most Americans don’t realize Robert Mueller’s investigation has uncovered crimes (vox)
i separated out the three conclusions for clarity and added the bold
And I’m not entirely surprised. The only news a lot of people around me get is from Fox.
But, the thing is, Mueller hasn’t made a big deal about it. The investigation needs a spokesperson to get this stuff out. Remember one of the criticisms of the 2009 stimulus passed by Obama and the Democrats was that they didn’t make a show, so people didn’t know anything was going on.
re: #312 Sir John Barron
Erick son of Erick: The butterfly people are bullying me indirectly by bullying ICE.
how dare people exercise their constitional rights that arent numbered “2”
re: #316 Sir John Barron
From the man who said STDs were his personal Vietnam.
re: #315 Kragar
Trump finally figured out he can just bless his son-in-law.
re: #321 Belafon
Trump finally figured out he can just bless his son-in-law.
Yup. Was wondering what took them so long.
re: #319 dangerman
how dare people exercise their constitional rights that arent numbered “2”
And he’d be against about 60% of people exercising that right.
re: #314 dangerman
and today’s effing insane theory is that they’re not “merely accusing the FBI of planting a spy, but of planting evidence.”
I despair of ever getting this country back on an even keel.
re: #325 Blind Frog Belly White
I despair of ever getting this country back on an even keel.
It’s up to us.
#Winning 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/aEJOCmB5lW
— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) May 23, 2018
When a political leader thinks silencing a minority is winning, it’s called authoritarianism https://t.co/Mr9Es9Sw9f
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 23, 2018
re: #313 jaunte
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Dangerous rhetoric.
It’s radicalizing and stochastic terrorism will continue to rise.
re: #325 Blind Frog Belly White
I despair of ever getting this country back on an even keel.
Most of what I’ve seen from Trump’s strongest supporters suggests that his redhat brigade already - and genuinely - believes that Mueller and his investigators are fabricating evidence against Trump and his inner circle, that this is all some kind of massive frameup.
Since the dopey NFL owners don’t seem to realize there’s more than one way to protest, I strongly urge all players to stand for the anthem while doing the Wakanda Forever arm-cross.
— Jeff Greenstein (@blue439) May 23, 2018
ICE Deputy Director Thomas Homan defends Trump’s “animals” comment: “I think you’re being kind. Animals kill for survival. MS-13 kills for sport.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 23, 2018
re: #314 dangerman
and today’s effing insane theory is that they’re not “merely accusing the FBI of planting a spy, but of planting evidence.”
I hope those “others” at the FBI are completely outraged by Trump trashing them and their agency and are now working overtime and on weekends to bring the Orange Creep down.
I hope he has kicked the FBI Hornet’s nest and they are going to sting his fat ass good. Maybe the other government agencies will help because they all know they could be tossed under the bus wheels in a similar manner if need be.
In Trump tone: “FBI, CIA, IRS and other Federal Agencies, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the Russian and other outside countries connections to the Trump campaign that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our people”
re: #327 Kragar
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Then you don’t get to complain about bakers baking goods for gay couples, Mike.
re: #329 Dr Lizardo
Most of what I’ve seen from Trump’s strongest supporters suggests that his redhat brigade already - and genuinely - believes that Mueller and his investigators are fabricating evidence against Trump and his inner circle, that this is all some kind of massive frameup.
40 years of being told that every bad thing they think about Democrats, especially the Clintons and Obamas, is true, and indeed just the tip of the iceberg; and that everything the media report that they don’t like is not only not true but an intentional deception have completely unmoored these people from reality. They no longer use any of the tools of reason and evidence to evaluate truth. Instead, it’s all “Does it fit with what I believe?” Anything that doesn’t must be false, no matter how much evidence there is (and therefore the evidence must also be false) and anything that does must be true, no matter how little evidence for, or how much evidence against.
I keep seeing pundits talking about a COMING constitutional crisis, but this kinda feels like the old Palmolive commercial - “You’re soaking in it!”
re: #288 dangerman
My problem is that 1 and 2 are distinctly interrelated things. It’s not like there aren’t major Dems who are saying so, and on a regular basis. It’s the fact that god help me it feels impossible to break through the filter that seems to Fox-ify any and all developments and even if the Dem message broke through, it’s immediately turned into a he-said-she-said proposition. Meanwhile, if any sort of Dem malfeasance comes up, it’s covered in stark, judgmental language and all the GOPers get to chime in, at length.
Yes, Dems need to fight to be heard, but there needs to be something that stops treating it like it’s an equal battle.
re: #327 Kragar
How exactly is this “a stunning victory for Trump”?
re: #338 Weaselone
How exactly is this “a stunning victory for Trump”?
He got the NFL to pass a ‘Dance, N****r, Dance’ rule.
re: #338 Weaselone
How exactly is this “a stunning victory for Trump”?
Because everything that ensures that black protest is stifled and delegitimized is a Victory for Trump.
re: #338 Weaselone
How exactly is this “a stunning victory for Trump”?
What do the Orange Yam and his mini me say when whole teams stay in the locker room for the anthem?
re: #334 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s like I’ve observed over the past couple of years - these folks are living in a completely alternate reality.
The USA is gonna need some kind of major de-programming effort when all this is said and done; we have to face the fact that about 40% of the population are, in essence, members of a cult.
re: #340 Blind Frog Belly White
He got the NFL to pass a ‘Dance, N****r, Dance’ rule.
I would support Black Americans turning off NFL games for however long it takes the NFL to realize that might cut into their revenue much deeper than a bunch of angry and cranky White folk crying about it all…but still probably watching the games anyway…just saying they don’t.
You want a economics war your owners will not want…keep it up NFL.
re: #343 Dr Lizardo
It’s like I’ve observed over the past couple of years - these folks are living in a completely alternate reality.
The USA is gonna need some kind of major de-programming effort when all this is said and done; we have to face the fact that about 40% of the population are, in essence, members of a cult.
It’s especially galling when the media covers that 40% like they’re literally the only part of the country that matters.
When one political party loses its mind and the other doesn’t it is not your responsibility to be “even handed” or to pretend not to see what is happening. We should not split the difference as a country and become half-crazy.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) May 23, 2018
“My son, to me, is not a criminal, he’s a victim.” Father of Santa Fe High School shooting suspect says he believes his son lashed out because he was bullied. https://t.co/25htvD2t1Q
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) May 22, 2018
HE. IS. NOT. THE. VICTIM. HE. IS. NOT. THE. VICTIM. HE. IS. NOT. THE. VICTIM. HE. IS. NOT. THE. VICTIM. HE. IS. NOT. THE. VICTIM. HE. IS. NOT. THE. VICTIM. HE. IS. NOT. THE. VICTIM. HE. IS. NOT. THE. VICTIM. HE. IS. NOT. THE. VICTIM. HE. IS. NOT. THE. VICTIM. HE. IS. NOT. THE. V https://t.co/dK8slECmuo
— Celia (@_celia_bedelia_) May 22, 2018
Jumping in to point out that, in addition to everything is this thread, people should pause and consider that the Sante Fe murderer’s dad is using the same empty good guy/bad guy construct that gun fetishists and Duterte stans use: where the killer gets to be the umpire and the aggrieved party, and “bad guy” is assigned after the fact.
It’s solving the problem by re-defining the problem. If the value of “good” has to be shortened not only to exclude that final murder spree, but also the trimming of all context that suggests things other than “good”—then “good” means nothing.
And that’s the point. You can always be moral if you have license to declare an act moral retroactively.
re: #340 Blind Frog Belly White
He got the NFL to pass a ‘Dance, N****r, Dance’ rule.
I get that…but this is also sort of a lowered expectations things. “In a stunning victory for Trump, Roger Goodell pisses on a caricature of Obama inside a toilet installed in the Oval Office.”
re: #344 ObserverArt
I would support Black Americans turning off NFL games for however long it takes the NFL to realize that might cut into their revenue much deeper than a bunch of angry and cranky White folk crying about it all…but still probably watching the games anyway…just saying they don’t.
You want a economics war your owners will not want…keep it up NFL.
What it will take is ticket buyers to stop buying them, and that will have to include whites that buy them.
re: #348 The Ghost of a Flea
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Jumping in to point out that, in addition to everything is this thread, people should pause and consider that the Sante Fe murderer’s dad is using the same empty good guy/bad guy construct that gun fetishists and Duterte stans use: where the killer gets to be the umpire and the aggrieved party, and “bad guy” is assigned after the fact.
It’s solving the problem by re-defining the problem. If the value of “good” has to be shortened not only to exclude that final murder spree, but also the trimming of all context that suggests things other than “good”—then “good” means nothing.
And that’s the point. You can always be moral if you have license to declare an act moral retroactively.
Your son murdered ten people dude.
re: #345 Citizen K
It’s especially galling when the media covers that 40% like they’re literally the only part of the country that matters.
There is probably some reality to that thinking. Maybe that 40% makes up 80% of the media companies revenue.
What if liberals and progressives have already given up on the classic media and are going to the web and social media to spread the news?
What we have may be one side of the political spectrum supporting the old media and the media is forced to cater to them to stay in business.
If that is the case, then we are paying for the changes now in really tough ways.
re: #350 Belafon
What it will take is ticket buyers to stop buying them, and that will have to include whites that buy them.
I gave my two cents. I have a feeling I’m really going to piss some people off but I don’t care. I’m tired of forced patriotism and this is even worse since it was solely done to appease Trump.
re: #348 The Ghost of a Flea
“My son, to me, is not a criminal, he’s a victim.” Father of Santa Fe High School shooting suspect says he believes his son lashed out because he was bullied. apnews.com
— AP Central U.S.
Oh for heaven’s sake.
re: #351 HappyWarrior
Your son murdered ten people dude.
His son murdered ten people using exactly the same “I get to kill because I think they’re bad, because my feelings are equivalent to morality and law” standard that we see all the time now.
re: #343 Dr Lizardo
It’s like I’ve observed over the past couple of years - these folks are living in a completely alternate reality.
The USA is gonna need some kind of major de-programming effort when all this is said and done; we have to face the fact that about 40% of the population are, in essence, members of a cult.
A big part of the problem is that they have been rewarded for their behavior. The system has a bias for conservatives, for sure, but due to a lot of crappy attitudes by liberals - I’ll vote for who I want damn the consequences, I won’t vote, etc. - they have had power for far longer than they should have. One of the ways to make them wake up is for their beliefs to finally get beaten by reality. That’s going to take a lot of the left to do their part.
re: #355 The Ghost of a Flea
His son murdered ten people using exactly the same “I get to kill because I think they’re bad, because my feelings are equivalent to morality and law” standard that we see all the time now.
“Guns aren’t the problem, the problem really is”:
1. video games
2. abortion
3. no prayer in school
4. girls not accepting dates and physical advances from my son.
re: #357 Sir John Barron
“Guns aren’t the problem, the problem really is”:
1. video games
2. abortion
3. no prayer in school
4. girls not accepting dates and physical advances from my son.
5) Doors
re: #348 The Ghost of a Flea
I’m wondering when it became a thing to pay so much attention to the murderer’s family. I mean, they ALMOST NEVER saw it coming, and they are trying to fit the reality that their child is a monster into their world.
Similarly, asking the families of victims what punishment the murderer should get. They’re not thinking straight. Why ask them?
re: #352 ObserverArt
There is probably some reality to that thinking. Maybe that 40% makes up 80% of the media companies revenue.
What if liberals and progressives have already given up on the classic media and are going to the web and social media to spread the news?
What we have may be one side of the political spectrum supporting the old media and the media is forced to cater to them to stay in business.
If that is the case, then we are paying for the changes now in really tough ways.
The New York Times.
That’s the big counterfactual to that possibility. Their main readerbase, dead tree and online, is still left-of-center because the only ones left of Limbaugh who don’t treat the paper as the Pariah of All Hate For America are those who want to troll its comments pages and Trump, vacillating between treating it like ‘fake news’ and desperately wanting it’s approval as a New York paper.
All the while running its 5000th hagiography of Trump Country, the latest Bari Weiss piece telling us how Liberal College Students have murdered free speech in its cradle, and Bret Stephens telling us how Pruitt is God’s gift to the EPA.
re: #362 Blind Frog Belly White
6) Trenchcoats.
Trench coats on a hot Texas day should be a sign of—something.
re: #352 ObserverArt
There is probably some reality to that thinking. Maybe that 40% makes up 80% of the media companies revenue.
What if liberals and progressives have already given up on the classic media and are going to the web and social media to spread the news?
What we have may be one side of the political spectrum supporting the old media and the media is forced to cater to them to stay in business.
If that is the case, then we are paying for the changes now in really tough ways.
That was one of the things I thought about last year. Liberals should pick one of the three major news channels, and not only watch it frequently, but email, tweet at, and call in to force the channel to pay more attention to the left. And they should do the same thing to local channels.
re: #350 Belafon
What it will take is ticket buyers to stop buying them, and that will have to include whites that buy them.
the real money, especially in the NFL but across all profession/college sports, is in the TV deals. And the money they get is mostly locked in but based on ratings. Turning off the TV will matter, but that has a downstream effect economically - a lot of bars in urban areas have multiple games and the Sunday Ticket package so people can watch all the games while they drink and/or eat.
re: #350 Belafon
What it will take is ticket buyers to stop buying them, and that will have to include whites that buy them.
I don’t think we are too far away from that happening. If the right messenger comes out and says somethin like “don’t go to NFL games, don’t buy NFL gear/swag and do not watch NFL games on TV for one month because this needs to be done to send a message that we are all sick and tired of being shut up and made political pawns by Trump” the NFL will be in a tough spot.
They are saying the decision was all about revenue. Make it about the revenue…only make it tough and real from the left. We have money too.
re: #361 Citizen K
The New York Times.
That’s the big counterfactual to that possibility. Their main readerbase, dead tree and online, is still left-of-center because the only ones left of Limbaugh who don’t treat the paper as the Pariah of All Hate For America are those who want to troll its comments pages and Trump, vacillating between treating it like ‘fake news’ and desperately wanting it’s approval as a New York paper.
All the while running its 5000th hagiography of Trump Country, the latest Bari Weiss piece telling us how Liberal College Students have murdered free speech in its cradle, and Bret Stephens telling us how Pruitt is God’s gift to the EPA.
I figured the NYT base was Wall Street. It was the job of the NY Daily News to represent the locals.
re: #356 Belafon
A big part of the problem is that they have been rewarded for their behavior. The system has a bias for conservatives, for sure, but due to a lot of crappy attitudes by liberals - I’ll vote for who I want damn the consequences, I won’t vote, etc. - they have had power for far longer than they should have. One of the ways to make them wake up is for their beliefs to finally get beaten by reality. That’s going to take a lot of the left to do their part.
I think the conservative-powerful-SWM bias is baked into the model and sustains itself. I don’t think liberals’ attitude, which isn’t a monolith, has much to do with it.
re: #360 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m wondering when it became a thing to pay so much attention to the murderer’s family. I mean, they ALMOST NEVER saw it coming, and they are trying to fit the reality that their child is a monster into their world.
Similarly, asking the families of victims what punishment the murderer should get. They’re not thinking straight. Why ask them?
Only white families are asked, because that normalises them and the perpetrator. Black families are not asked - they are investigated and blamed, to find anything to put the victim or perpetrator on the outside.
re: #353 HappyWarrior
I gave my two cents. I have a feeling I’m really going to piss some people off but I don’t care. I’m tired of forced patriotism and this is even worse since it was solely done to appease Trump.
It was done to not lose one dime. Trump benefits because of the owners greed. Make them pay in the way they least want it to turn. Hurt them hard on revenue.
re: #369 JordanRules
I think the conservative-powerful-SWM bias is baked into the model and sustains itself. I don’t think liberals’ attitude, which isn’t a monolith, has much to do with it.
It’s isn’t a monolith. Some are willing to give up a mile if they don’t get their inch. Some don’t want to be sullied by the process altogether.
Meanwhile…
Trump on “alien minors” crossing the border: “They look so innocent. They’re not innocent.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 23, 2018
Daniel Dale further live tweeting the atrocities. I couldn’t get past more than a handful before putting my face in my hands and holding back a sob.
re: #361 Citizen K
The New York Times.
That’s the big counterfactual to that possibility. Their main readerbase, dead tree and online, is still left-of-center because the only ones left of Limbaugh who don’t treat the paper as the Pariah of All Hate For America are those who want to troll its comments pages and Trump, vacillating between treating it like ‘fake news’ and desperately wanting it’s approval as a New York paper.
All the while running its 5000th hagiography of Trump Country, the latest Bari Weiss piece telling us how Liberal College Students have murdered free speech in its cradle, and Bret Stephens telling us how Pruitt is God’s gift to the EPA.
All I can say is I have given up on the Times to be what it should be. I think many here at LGF have told them to piss off too.
Are you giving the NY Times too much credit because of their stature?
How do we know they haven’t already decided to go more center right to attract what they may be seeing as a trend of their real customers.
Things are a mess and are changing. Trump is causing all kinds of reactions in all different directions and people are scrambling. I have a feeling nothing is as it was even 5 years ago.
The problem with messy times is it can cost in so many ways. We are at war in this country and the sides are being chosen and tactics are being worked out. It is a political culture war. The 20th Century versus the 21st and Future.
re: #372 Belafon
It’s isn’t a monolith. Some are willing to give up a mile if they don’t get their inch. Some don’t want to be sullied by the process altogether.
And the media can nutpick and use that as an excuse, I suppose, but that’s all it is. It doesn’t change the fact that this institution is steeped in the same issues effecting society at large. They reflect the powerful and mostly straight white male default and do not challenge their own biases enough; they serve a profit model which continues to reward a history of marginalization. The normalizing of this 2016 and onward iteration white supremacy and fascism is on display so fiercely as a reminder.
re: #370 Renaissance_Man
Only white families are asked, because that normalises them and the perpetrator. Black families are not asked - they are investigated and blamed, to find anything to put the victim or perpetrator on the outside.
True. Both white murderers’ families, and black victims’ families are asked where their child went wrong.
re: #337 Citizen K
My problem is that 1 and 2 are distinctly interrelated things. It’s not like there aren’t major Dems who are saying so, and on a regular basis. It’s the fact that god help me it feels impossible to break through the filter that seems to Fox-ify any and all developments and even if the Dem message broke through, it’s immediately turned into a he-said-she-said proposition. Meanwhile, if any sort of Dem malfeasance comes up, it’s covered in stark, judgmental language and all the GOPers get to chime in, at length.
Yes, Dems need to fight to be heard, but there needs to be something that stops treating it like it’s an equal battle.
well said
re: #373 Citizen K
Meanwhile…
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Daniel Dale further live tweeting the atrocities. I couldn’t get past more than a handful before putting my face in my hands and holding back a sob.
He had a chance to clarify he was only talking about the gang members, instead he labeled every child crossing the border as a gang member. Fuck him.