Seth takes a closer look at the Justice Department effectively calling the President of the United States a criminal and Trump announcing the departure of his chief of staff.
Long, worth the journey:
a gay love story of the 1st world war’s year.
[thread by @guillemclua im just a translator]. pic.twitter.com/I3CkgKd1EO— maaayyy. (@brendonsexual) December 7, 2018
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Do read this, it’s an incredible story of twists and turns and deep sadness, but the story is told and you will not forget Emil and Xaver. *snif*
Burglar barricades himself in the men’s room at an In-N-Out Burger.
Police and Sheriff deputies surround the rest room. And they got an urge for Double Doubles waiting for the fool to surrender!
Apparently Maria Butina has reached a plea deal, but there’s still little detail on the actual arrangement:
re: #1 Danack
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God, that’s fantastic. And what brilliant detective work, too.
re: #3 Joe Bacon 🌹
Burglar barricades himself in the men’s room at an In-N-Out Burger.
Police and Sheriff deputies surround the rest room. And they got an urge for Double Doubles waiting for the fool to surrender!
A lesson learned from the Roman Empire.
This is a really, horribly bad, godawful episode of The Americans.
Total incompetence.
SCOOP: @RudyGiuliani is negotiating a security contract with the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO through an Israeli firm that was paid $8M to block additional sanctions by the TRUMP administration against the DRC for corruption & human rights abuses. https://t.co/nDH2rEU2As
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) December 11, 2018
Something’s shaking on shakedown street.
Trump’s graft is truly bottomless. https://t.co/SRLvjpZtJg— Derek Cressman (@DerekCressman) December 11, 2018
Flooding the zone with corruption.
Time for my annual Christmas tradition of sipping a glass of eggnog as I fire up some Jimmy Jules and the Nuclear Soul System. #XmasDoneGotFunky pic.twitter.com/jNqeOQZ1GI
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 11, 2018
The saga continues… 🐈 @MichaelRapaport @wilfred_warrior @iamrapaport pic.twitter.com/tM34VEimEZ
— theCHIVE (@theCHIVE) December 11, 2018
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Flooding the zone with corruption.
Seems like Shakedown Street is once again the heart of town.
re: #10 teleskiguy
Ah I love this little girl singing about her Daddy as Santa Claus! And I remember the backlash when WAMO played this in the 70s!
CNN: President Donald Trump on Friday was implicated by prosecutors in two crimes committed by his former attorney Michael Cohen. But Republicans are mostly shrugging their shoulders. https://t.co/09GKd6UfNe via @jeremyherb @mkraju @tedbarrettcnn
— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) December 11, 2018
We’re at the, “Don’t be naive, nobody said he was an alter boy” phase of Republican complicity. https://t.co/kZseRkn86u
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 11, 2018
re: #10 teleskiguy
Featuring a young James Woods on lead guitar … pic.twitter.com/xzrlmFS8P2
— Anthony Clifton (@mrunderhill98) December 11, 2018
Damn this brings back memories of my 1970 1/2 AMC Gremlin!
As Marge fired up the Gremlin, Scruffy desperately tried to warn her not to take that piece of shit out on the road. pic.twitter.com/tBYuRTcIBf
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 9, 2018
What a thing to jot down https://t.co/PEBNymXLfw pic.twitter.com/z01NUw2MRK
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 11, 2018
Smooth fuckin’ tradecraft, 007. https://t.co/Ako3QqxJbW
— Scott Lynch (@scottlynch78) December 11, 2018
“Play ‘Benghazi’!!” pic.twitter.com/SV5aiXmrn8
— Erik Truedson (@eriktruedson) December 11, 2018
re: #20 Ace Rothstein
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re: #20 Ace Rothstein
Who was it that said that if Fox had been around, Nixon wouldn’t have been impeached?
re: #22 Belafon
Who was it that said that if Fox had been around, Nixon wouldn’t have been impeached?
And if Tricky Dicky had Twitter…
re: #1 Danack
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re: #15 jaunte
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Well, it’s actually an Altar Boy, but an “alter boy” might be more more appropriate. He has certainly altered the concept of what an American President should be.
Like, he should NOT be, on top of the campaign felonies, a thieving, felonious, money-launderer.
Which we all know is up next.
re: #18 Joe Bacon 🌹
Damn this brings back memories of my 1970 1/2 AMC Gremlin!
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One of the ugliest cars ever made. Almost cute, it was so ugly.
re: #27 austin_blue
One of the ugliest cars ever made. Almost cute, it was so ugly.
I drove a Gremlin once. And a Vega. I’ve even driven the much-maligned Pinto once or twice. The one I felt I was taking my life in my hands just driving it around the block, though, was the Maverick.
re: #27 austin_blue
One of the ugliest cars ever made. Almost cute, it was so ugly.
Original base model.
No power steering,
No power brakes,
3 speed manual Borg-Warner transmission with unsynchronized 1st gear.
Windshield wipers ran off of engine vacuum and the windshield washers were a pump filled up on top of the control panel.
2 seater
No radio.
but the gas tank held 25 gallons.
re: #22 Belafon
Who was it that said that if Fox had been around, Nixon wouldn’t have been impeached?
John Dean.
“There’s social media, there’s the internet; the news cycles are faster. I think Watergate would have occurred at a much more accelerated speed than the 928 days it took to go from the arrest at the Watergate to the conviction of Haldeman and Ehrlichman and [John] Mitchell, et al.,” Dean said. “There’s more likelihood he might have survived if there’d been a Fox News.”
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
Original base model.
No power steering,
No power brakes,
3 speed manual Borg-Warner transmission with unsynchronized 1st gear.
Windshield wipers ran off of engine vacuum and the windshield washers were a pump filled up on top of the control panel.
2 seater
No radio.
but the gas tank held 25 gallons.
Borg-Warner brings back memories. My dad worked at their ac plant in Madisonville, Ky before it was off-shored. And they awarded me a 4 year national merit scholarship.
re: #31 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Borg-Warner brings back memories. My dad worked at their ac plant in Madisonville, Ky before it was off-shored. And they awarded me a 4 year national merit scholarship.
When The Gremlin came on the market in 1970, the base price was $1,970.50…
OT Rant:
I like Jodie Whittaker as the doctor — her style/ her personality— and I haven’t yet watched the final episode of the season BUT except for the Rosa Parks and the India/Pakistan partition episodes, the stories are very unimpressive. It’s been very disappointing year.
re: #27 austin_blue
One of the ugliest cars ever made. Almost cute, it was so ugly.
I think the Pacer was even uglier. American Motors clearly had no money to hire decent designers, or if they did, not enough money to produce the cars they designed. The Gremlin was just an American with everything behind the C pillar cut off. The Pacer was a new design, but so weird looking it didn’t sell.
When it came time to replace his aged VW microbus, my dad first bought a Chevette. OMG what a dog of a car! 4-cylinders and zero pickup. He sold that and got an AMC Hornet, with a V-8 and lots of pickup, but also a dog of a car. I remember the first time I drove it, I burned rubber, because that V-8 had a lot more power than my Slant-6 Dodge Dart.
When AMC and Renault merged, Dad traded in the Hornet for a Renault Encore, which though it had 4 cylinders was sooo much better than his previous three domestic cars. He drove the Encore all over the place, and only once did it fail. I liked it, too, and on reflection I should have kept it after Dad died, and sold MY car. A lesson learned.
re: #28 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I drove a Gremlin once. And a Vega. I’ve even driven the much-maligned Pinto once or twice. The one I felt I was taking my life in my hands just driving it around the block, though, was the Maverick.
The Vega may have been the worst car ever made. No inner fenders, so in most parts of the country it “rusted out before it ever left the show room floor”. In addition, it had the first GM engine with a combo iron/aluminum head/block. The cylinder head seal blew around 60,000 miles, invariably.
I had a friend in HS who had a Gremlin (aka The Gremster). It had a spunky little engine and some-get-up and-go. Lots of kids had Zippos, and none of them burned to death.
The most dangerous car during my high school years, though, was the Chevy Nova with a big block V-8 in it. Horribly overpowered and totally front-weighted, three kids in the Junior/Senior class died in them my Senior year. Absolutely no rear grip in a sharp turn.
re: #36 austin_blue
The Vega may have been the worst car ever made. No inner fenders, so in most parts of the country it “rusted out before it ever left the show room floor”. In addition, it had the first GM engine with a combo iron/aluminum head/block. The cylinder head seal blew around 60,000 miles, invariably.
I had a friend in HS who had a Gremlin (aka The Gremster). It had a spunky little engine and some-get-up and-go. Lots of kids had Zippos, and none of them burned to death.
The most dangerous car during my high school years, though, was the Chevy Nova with a big block V-8 in it. Horribly overpowered and totally front-weighted, three kids in the Junior/Senior class died in them my Senior year. Absolutely no rear grip in a sharp turn.
I think the Vega eventually went with an iron block/aluminum head, like you say. Its original engine, whose rep it never recovered from, was an aluminum-silicon alloy. There were innumerable silicon crystals throughout the aluminum, and the surface of the cylinder bores had the aluminum etched away to expose the hard silicon, so as to prevent the wearing of the bore that aluminum blocks were prone to. Didn’t work—for them. Porsche finally reduced it to practice in the 928.
re: #37 retired cynic
My grandpa had a convertible Corvair. He would take us kids for a ride in it and drive really damn fast.
It’s a miracle we survived.
re: #1 Danack
I’m so glad their story has been told. Wow.
re: #12 nines09
They should do a movie based on the cat and the guy scared of it. It could be a simple idea like The Blair Witch Project with tinges of the original Night of the Living Dead.
The cat is a horror star. I can see a series.
Nine More Lives!
re: #39 plansbandc
My grandpa had a convertible Corvair. He would take us kids for a ride in it and drive really damn fast.
It’s a miracle we survived.
Yes. Mine was no problem. The motor burned out and it would only drive about 10-15 miles an hour. I couldn’t afford to do anything about it. (That was obviously why my dad’s Friend the Car Dealer let us have it at such a low price!) So I commuted to college in across town at 10-15 mph with a trail of black smoke. My folks relented, and co-signed a note so that I could get a used white Camaro (1967) with red interior, but not a big motor. Again, my father picked it out. This time not from Friend the Car Dealer.
On the Seventh Day of Christmas, Bob Mueller gave to me:
Seven Russian spies
Six new indictments
Five guilty pleas
Four assets seized
Three warrants served
Two prison terms,
And new President in DC!
re: #39 plansbandc
My grandpa had a convertible Corvair. He would take us kids for a ride in it and drive really damn fast.
It’s a miracle we survived.
That fucker Nader—he got everyone believing that the Corvair had a transverse-leaf pure swing axle rear suspension like the Triumph Herald, even going so far as to show a diagram of the rear hiking up, like a Triumph Herald. Needless to say, this was bullshit. The Corvair was a great car, especially the later Monzas and Corsas.
What killed it was that for the American market they figured it had to have hydraulic lifters. (When they start making noise, they’ve already got your money.) For some unaccountable reason they put the pushrods above the crankshaft, so when the engine stopped running, the oil would run out of them. If you didn’t start it often enough—once a day was not really sufficient—the oil would dry, clog the lifters, and destroy the valvetrain. A few cents worth of rubber O-rings would cure the problem, but most people never learned that.
Edit: originally wrote camshaft for crankshaft—duh!
Aaaand that’s a wrap. I am now an unemployed politician.
The village board retained me as the Public Information Officer for the village (I am the only person who has been to the state school for that in the town), and as the Flag Committee Chairman.
Another trustee was moved up to the slot of Chairwoman Pro-Tempore. She noted to me I can run for her seat in 2020 (pretty sure I’m not going to do that).
re: #37 retired cynic
Corvair.
Corvair’s were interesting cars. They had opposed flat four’s (like Porsche’s and Subaru’s) and the engines were pretty good, after some growing pains. The problem was that they were were the first GM’s to have fully independent suspensions, and they weren’t very good at first. By the time GM fixed the initial problems, Unsafe At Any Speed had come out and the mark never recovered. Too bad. The late model Corsas were really good cars.
re: #38 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Dad’s first car was a Corvair. Later on he owned a Vega, which I remember mostly as the thing he was always swearing at in the garage when I was little.
Somehow we all survived….
My girlfriend from college (a good 7 year relationship) brought in a 1970 Chevy Nova. 350, double barrel carb & auto transmission. A really nice car and I’d dearly love something as good as it now.
re: #1 Danack
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It’s fiction inspired by seeing the tombstone on holiday. Link
For those of you who don’t read Spanish, the author is contrite. He wanted to tell a story of two gay men as he saw it. He also speaks about LGBT love being real and untold during that time and that is what to focus on. He never intended to deceive, only to tell a love story.
I do not think he did this as a hoax. He was simply telling a story, writing creatively, and it got picked up and passed around as truth. I feel bad for him.
re: #48 William Lewis
My girlfriend from college (a good 7 year relationship) brought in a 1970 Chevy Nova. 350, double barrel carb & auto transmission. A really nice car and I’d dearly love something as good as it now.
Friend of mine bought a ‘77 Nova new, and finally got rid of it at 450,000 miles because the seat springs kept poking him and it wasn’t worth replacing the seats.
Nebraska Democratic Party votes to eliminate caucuses, will implement a statewide primary system for the next election.
re: #46 austin_blue
Corvair’s were interesting cars. They had opposed flat four’s (like Porsche’s and Subaru’s) and the engines were pretty good, after some growing pains. The problem was that they were were the first GM’s to have fully independent suspensions, and they weren’t very good at first. By the time GM fixed the initial problems, Unsafe At Any Speed had come out and the mark never recovered. Too bad. The late model Corsas were really good cars.
I saw these race a long time ago as a kid. The Yenko Stinger. A Chevy dealer, Don Yenko, in Pennsylvania took 100 or so Corvairs and set them up for higher performance and racing. They were pretty good little race cars with the rear engine.
Of course, Jay Leno got his hands on one. Jay does know the value of little “inexpensive” fun cars like this.
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹
Nebraska Democratic Party votes to eliminate caucuses, will implement a statewide primary system for the next election.
Good move.
re: #47 ipsos
Dad’s first car was a Corvair. Later on he owned a Vega, which I remember mostly as the thing he was always swearing at in the garage when I was little.
Somehow we all survived….
After my dad got back from his tour in Japan/Vietnam (stationed in Japan but flew a lot of early supply missions into ‘Nam) we moved to Quantico where he attended Command and Staff College. We lived in the country outside of Stafford, a little town immediately adjacent to Quantico Proving Grounds. We had apple trees, wild asparagus, and a party line (one long and two shorts). We would wander in to the proving grounds and collect failed trip flares, unshot blank 7.62 NATO rounds and other paraphernalia to make mischief (mostly really intense fires). We all kept our fingers. Drove mom batshit.
My dad decided he needed a daily driver to the base and bought a used Renault Dauphine. Almost immediately, he started to refer to it as “De Gaulle’s Revenge”. When it wasn’t leaking oil, it wouldn’t start. It was a disaster of a car. This is how I learned to really utilize anglo-saxon terms to curse.
re: #50 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Friend of mine bought a ‘77 Nova new, and finally got rid of it at 450,000 miles because the seat springs kept poking him and it wasn’t worth replacing the seats.
I find that easy to believe. Solid little cars that, if you stuck the right small block chevy V8 in could surprise serious racers. Chevy was always about cheap - but a lot of times it was more “inexpensive” instead and you could surprise the kids with money for the fancy muscle cars. Hell, a nova with a 350, a four barrel & a tweaked T10? But a grandma paint job and nothing sticking out of the hood? Yeah, trust me, you could win some beer.
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹
Nebraska Democratic Party votes to eliminate caucuses, will implement a statewide primary system for the next election.
Major win for the people of Nebraska.
re: #47 ipsos
Dad’s first car was a Corvair. Later on he owned a Vega, which I remember mostly as the thing he was always swearing at in the garage when I was little.
Somehow we all survived….
Best car Dad ever had was a 1967 Chrysler Newport. Beautiful inside and out, ran like a top. Pop got 115,000 miles on it before he decided to trade it for a 1973 model which was the worst hunk of junk ever. Everything went wrong with that car. radiator leaked, piston broke, brake fluid leaked. Even the car seats were cheap, they cracked and the springs popped out. Dad just had it towed to the junkyard and he got a Ford LTD which lasted till he retired in 1983. It was a beautiful cream color. Also it was assembled in California.
re: #56 William Lewis
I find that easy to believe. Solid little cars that, if you stuck the right small block chevy V8 in could surprise serious racers. Chevy was always about cheap - but a lot of times it was more “inexpensive” instead and you could surprise the kids with money for the fancy muscle cars. Hell, a nova with a 350, a four barrel & a tweaked T10? But a grandma paint job and nothing sticking out of the hood? Yeah, trust me, you could win some beer.
Yeah, but stick a 396 in it, and it was deathtrap for an inexperienced teenager.
re: #48 William Lewis
My girlfriend from college (a good 7 year relationship) brought in a 1970 Chevy Nova. 350, double barrel carb & auto transmission. A really nice car and I’d dearly love something as good as it now.
My first car was a 1976 Chevy Vega Nomad, which I bought in 1978 with 22,000 miles on it. I sold it in 1985 with 250,000 miles on it. (The fellow I sold it to blew the engine up in it about a month later drag racing a county sheriff’s deputy trying to get away from him. Vegas don’t make good racecars with the original engine and transmission.)
My bike chain fell off once when I was coasting down a hill, so I know this fear.
— Matty NoNo (@MMnotine) December 10, 2018
re: #57 William Lewis
Major win for the people of Nebraska.
Interestingly it was Jane Kleeb who was plumping for a primary, though she was a Sanders supporter in the 2016 caucuses.
re: #59 austin_blue
Yeah, but stick a 396 in it, and it was deathtrap for an inexperienced teenager.
True you could easily go too far. The 350 was a good balance between “WOW” and “OH SHIT” in that car.
re: #60 Joe Bacon 🌹
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Oh, that’s really sweet.
Mueller *is* Trump’s stalker, and unlike the intent of the singer of the song, that is a Really Good Thing.
I am a casual aficionado of Hong Kong hop-and-chop movies. The cheaper ones have some unfortunate subtitles which can occasionally be hilarious. My favorite is one in which a crime lord thinks he has got the hero in his clutches:
“I have got him by his short rabbits!”
LOL
How much did Russia spend to promote it in 2015?
— Chris ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@yeschrisyes) December 11, 2018
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹
Interestingly it was Jane Kleeb who was plumping for a primary, though she was a Sanders supporter in the 2016 caucuses.
Maybe learned a lesson or two? We can be DSA supporters without buying his schiess afterall.
re: #67 William Lewis
Maybe learned a lesson or two? We can be DSA supporters without buying his schiess afterall.
I hope so. I pray that the Bernie cult won’t lead us to destruction again in 2020. Several on FB seem to feel that the past November success was due exclusively to victories among progressives, apparently not recognizing there were moderates too who won in this election. We even need the #fivewhiteguys, who will hopefully be sufficiently subdued not to disrupt the establishment of the new leadership in House on January 3.
So Beto made the front page of the NYT today as a “wild card” for 2020.
I’m a Texan. I gave Beto money this year. He’s a hell of a candidate. If you hear him stump, you’re like, “Hell, yeah!”.
He says all the right things. He supports all the right things. He says them the right way in both English and Texican. He was the ultimate anti-Cruz. Yeah, yeah, he got as close as any Democrat has in a state-wide election in over twenty years, but…
I love the guy. I just can’t imagine him having any legs in 2020. Just my opinion, I wish it wasn’t so. He was a House Rep from fucking El Paso, a dark corner of the US that no-one gives a flying fuck about. It might as well not be in ‘Murica at all.
re: #68 Hecuba’s daughter
I hope so. I pray that the Bernie cult won’t lead us to destruction again in 2020. Several on FB seem to feel that the past November success was due exclusively to victories among progressives, apparently not recognizing there were moderates too who won in this election. We even need the #fivewhiteguys, who will hopefully be sufficiently subdued not to disrupt the establishment of the new leadership in House on January 3.
Agreed. My personal beliefs are hard hard left but I’m a firm believer in the big tent. The only way to actually make progress towards a leftist/progress/whateveryouwanttocallit goal is if everyone is on board. That means it will always be less than I would like it to be. So fucking what? Progress is progress. If we move a millimeter forward, that is inherently better than a meter backwards. I will never accept the fallacy of “let the bad guys win to inspire revolution” because usually they then are in the position of power to prevent that revolution. Fuck that.
Keep on moving forward, no matter how little at a time. That’s the lesson of both Marx and Jesus.
re: #69 austin_blue
So Beto made the front page of the NYT today as a “wild card” for 2020.
I’m a Texan. I gave Beto money this year. He’s a hell of a candidate. If you hear him stump, you’re like, “Hell, yeah!”.
He says all the right things. He supports all the right things. He says them the right way in both English and Texican. He was the ultimate anti-Cruz. Yeah, yeah, he got as close as anyone has Democrat in a state-wide election on over twenty years, but…
I love the guy. I just can’t imagine him having any legs in 2020. Just my opinion, I wish it wasn’t so. He was a House Rep from fucking El Paso, a dark corner of the US that no-one gives a flying fuck about. It might as well not be in ‘Murica at all.
Gotta have their horse race, eh? The election is still two years away.
As for Mr. O’Rourke, I would like to think things are so awful now we could run a moss-covered boulder and win in a landslide, but I am not that confident.
In the end, it doesn’t really matter who the Dems run, the GOP is going to slag that person mercilessly. (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t even sworn in yet and they’re already after her for everything from policy to what shoes she’s wearing.)
re: #69 austin_blue
So Beto made the front page of the NYT today as a “wild card” for 2020.
I’m a Texan. I gave Beto money this year. He’s a hell of a candidate. If you hear him stump, you’re like, “Hell, yeah!”.
He says all the right things. He supports all the right things. He says them the right way in both English and Texican. He was the ultimate anti-Cruz. Yeah, yeah, he got as close as anyone has Democrat in a state-wide election on over twenty years, but…
I love the guy. I just can’t imagine him having any legs in 2020. Just my opinion, I wish it wasn’t so. He was a House Rep from fucking El Paso, a dark corner of the US that no-one gives a flying fuck about. It might as well not be in ‘Murica at all.
Maybe as a VP nominee? And remember, Lincoln was a one term Congressman who years later lost a bid for the Senate, yet he became President. Beto served three terms in Congress.
re: #72 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe as a VP nominee? And remember, Lincoln was a one term Congressman who years later lost a bid for the Senate, yet he became President. Beto served three terms in Congress.
The last Congressman elected to the White House was James Garfield.
re: #73 austin_blue
The last Congressman elected to the White House was James Garfield.
Read several biographies of Garfield. Amazing polymath.
Spoke multiple languages including German, English, French, Spanish, Greek and Latin. He was not only the first ambidextrous president, but what was incredible was that he could write in Greek and Latin simultaneously - Greek with one hand and Latin with the other!
re: #74 Single-handed sailor
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Kushner’s idea of an Israeli-Palestinian peace probably involves buying the Gaza Strip, evacuating everyone and turning it into the Trump Gaza Plaza.
re: #70 William Lewis
Agreed. My personal beliefs are hard hard left but I’m a firm believer in the big tent. The only way to actually make progress towards a leftist/progress/whateveryouwanttocallit goal is if everyone is on board. That means it will always be less than I would like it to be. So fucking what? Progress is progress. If we move a millimeter forward, that is inherently better than a meter backwards. I will never accept the fallacy of “let the bad guys win to inspire revolution” because usually they then are in the position of power to prevent that revolution. Fuck that.
Keep on moving forward, no matter how little at a time. That’s the lesson of both Marx and Jesus.
I think women candidates was a larger correlation than progressiveness…
re: #76 Joe Bacon 🌹
Kushner’s idea of an Israeli-Palestinian peace probably involves buying the Gaza Strip, evacuating everyone and turning it into the Trump Gaza Plaza.
It’s all a distraction from Khashoggi. We will end up with the royal family overthrown and a much worse situation for peace prospects in the Middle East.
Gaak. My Internet service went out for about ten minutes, came back on for a few minutes, went out again, now it’s back on.
This is even more annoying than it just going down. It has been down four times in the last twenty-four hours.
re: #77 gwangung
I think women candidates was a larger correlation than progressiveness…
But we also had winners like Ben McAdams who defeated Mia Love. It’s matching the candidate with the district. So we have new representatives from across the entire Democratic political spectrum.
re: #73 austin_blue
The last Congressman elected to the White House was James Garfield.
Well, McKinley went around his elbow (he was elected from the House to Governor of Ohio then President).
re: #77 gwangung
I think women candidates was a larger correlation than progressiveness…
I think the LARGER number of women candidates, and better women candidates, was the primary correlation.
Just saying. It was at all levels, local, state, national.
I think that was that was the real takeaway in this cycle. They stood up, and won. It was absolutely dynamic and should be wholeheartedly supported. It’s about damned time. I think the Patriarchy has run its course.
re: #77 gwangung
I think women candidates was a larger correlation than progressiveness…
Yes, it was. It’s easy though to mistake AOC’s being progressive as being more important than her being a woman candidate this past election. But we need all of us doing a variation on Galatians 3:28 - no left or right or male or female but we are instead all Proletariat :D (my priest would twitch at that one but that’s ok. He’s probably used to it by now.
re: #76 Joe Bacon 🌹
Kushner’s idea of an Israeli-Palestinian peace probably involves buying the Gaza Strip, evacuating everyone and turning it into the Trump Gaza Plaza.
Wasn’t he supposed to have solved peace in the Middle East already?
re: #82 austin_blue
I think the LARGER number of women candidates, and better women candidates, was the primary correlation.
Just saying. It was at all levels, local, state, national.
I think that was that was the real takeaway in this cycle. They stood up, and won. It was absolutely dynamic and should be wholeheartedly supported. It’s about damned time. I think the Patriarchy has run its course.
The Republican Party is making its stand for the white patriarchy. I so want them to be totally crushed. But again, the right thing is to select the better candidate, regardless of gender.
re: #83 William Lewis
Yes, it was. It’s easy though to mistake AOC’s being progressive as being more important than her being a woman candidate this past election. But we need all of us doing a variation on Galatians 3:28 - no left or right or male or female but we are instead all Proletariat :D (my priest would twitch at that one but that’s ok. He’s probably used to it by now.
She won because (1) she was more dynamic and (2) primaries tend to have very low turnout. The Congressman did not match the ethnicity of his constituents but he was popular with them. He lost because the people didn’t vote. So far, she looks like a real winner and the future of the party.
re: #82 austin_blue
I think the LARGER number of women candidates, and better women candidates, was the primary correlation.
Just saying. It was at all levels, local, state, national.
I think that was that was the real takeaway in this cycle. They stood up, and won. It was absolutely dynamic and should be wholeheartedly supported. It’s about damned time. I think the Patriarchy has run its course.
Our Senator Murray was elected in the first “Year of the Woman” in 1992, fired up by the Clarence Thomas travesty. I hope when she decides to hang it up, it’ll be another Year of the Woman—like every year from now on. Until we figure out what’s going on….
Used to watch Fox… They always told me I was going to die, immediately. After enough time realizing I wasn’t dead, I kinda figured they weren’t much good at the whole “truth” thing…
— DunningKrugerLLP (@KrugerLlp) December 11, 2018
It’s not just the Catholic priests, folks.
“More than 200 survivors — current or former Baptist church members, across generations — shared stories of rape, assault, humiliation & fear in churches where male leadership can’t be questioned.”https://t.co/V0HhCYmPrL— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) December 11, 2018
re: #78 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s all a distraction from Khashoggi. We will end up with the royal family overthrown and a much worse situation for peace prospects in the Middle East.
You better hope not. The alternative are the hardcore Salafi’s.The heir apparent is an out of control warlord, but his enemies in the Magic Kingdom are the source of every Madras in the Arab world and financed 9/11.
The situation is dire, there are no good options unless we can get someone who can calm the situation inside Saudi Arabia, shut down the Yemen war, and come to some accommodation with Iran and, in general, with the Shiaa.
Pro tip. That ain’t fucking Jared.
re: #89 DodgerFan1988
Well, yeah, rape is about power not about sex. When you have situations of power over. you will have situations of rape. For those of us who believe that’s a terribly inescapable problem until we find a way to escape hierarchies. In the Christian tradition that took on a shitload of the patriarchal and flat out women hating ethos of Rome in order to be acceptable to the goverment of Rome (and inherently became very different from what Jesus taught) that may well never be a thing that can be overcome. And if it can’t, our religion deserves to die.
re: #90 austin_blue
You better hope not. The alternative are the hardcore Salafi’s.The heir apparent is an out of control warlord, but his enemies in the Magic Kingdom are the source of every Madras in the Arab world and financed 9/11.
The situation is dire, there are no good options unless we can get someone who can calm the situation inside Saudi Arabia, shut down the Yemen war, and come to some accommodation with Iran and, in general, with the Shiaa.
Pro tip. That ain’t fucking Jared.
And that doesn’t seem to be MBS either. Isn’t the royal family still supporting the Madrassas that have infected the Sunni population throughout the world ?
re: #92 Hecuba’s daughter
And that doesn’t seem to be MBS either. Isn’t the royal family still supporting the Madrassas that have infected the Sunni population throughout the world ?
He has diverted the funding for new Madrass programs and put the money into killing Shiaa’s in Yemen.
The war is very expensive. Are the existing Madrasses up and running? Yes. Many of them are self-supporting within the countries where they exist with local funds.
The West needs to put pressure on the Sunni’s to turn the schools into secular educational institutions.
I also believe in unicorns.
re: #89 DodgerFan1988
Hundreds of press reports of Protestant ministers and other church authorities sexually assaulting or abusing children over decades.
The Catholic Church just gets better press, because it’s one organisation. If “Ninth Independent Baptist Church” of Nowhere, Kansas is dinged for this, it gets reported locally. When their board quietly fires the guy, they do the same as the RCC (give him a good letter of recommendation, &c).
The only Protestants who really seem to get a lot of attention is when they are attention-mongers themselves (televangelists).
I’m out. Sweet scaly dreams. Maybe tomorrow is Indictment Tuesday. Donny junior…..
After the U.S. state of California and Canada legalized recreational use of the drug earlier this year, the office discovered 182 illegal pot-smuggling cases, a 314 percent spike from last year. https://t.co/FYDQ1fs5U4
— The Korea Times (@koreatimescokr) December 11, 2018
hm
re: #95 austin_blue
I’m out. Sweet scaly dreams. Maybe tomorrow is Indictment Tuesday. Donny junior…..
Nighty night as well. After tonight’s marathon village board meeting and ouster (but please keep the unpaid collateral duties you had), I think it’s now rum o’clock. (I live just a bit too far north for spliff o’clock, and that would probably depress me too much.)
I’ve been bellyaching about this since the primaries started:
Opinion: Trump’s lies and disinformation require a new kind of media response https://t.co/koR5raibMW
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 11, 2018
Maybe start by actually calling them, oh I dunno, LIES? https://t.co/fnaZ1FAYke
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 11, 2018
Nothing can go wrong with this, I’m sure.
LinkedIn co-founder backs $35 million voter data project in ‘existential threat’ to Democratic Party (Goes to Politico, more at the link):
Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman has teamed up with several former Obama administration officials to create an independent — and likely for-profit — database that would store all of the progressive community’s voter data, according to three sources familiar with the initiative.
The project’s backers intend to spend $35 million in the first year alone, with Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, as the primary investor.
re: #65 austin_blue
That was the premise of Woody Allen’s What’s Up, Tiger Lily?, in a cockeyed kind of way.
Mark Steyn: Barack Obama is an African-American but he has nothing to do with the black slave experience or civil rights.
Tucker: Right
Steyn: He is black just because his father happened to be a British subject born in colonial Kenya pic.twitter.com/uSqPcLUCaV— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) December 11, 2018
It doesn’t get any more Conservative than two white guys shamelessly discussing whether or not any particular African American’s experience as a black person is authentic.
This is fucking insane, even by Tucker Carlson standards. https://t.co/PDyHYKIbBz— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 11, 2018
re: #92 Hecuba’s daughter
And that doesn’t seem to be MBS either. Isn’t the royal family still supporting the Madrassas that have infected the Sunni population throughout the world ?
It’s complicated because it’s a royal family and individual members—with enormous money and enormous reach—have their own agendas, but basically the KSA promotes very conservative Sunni Islam as an alternative to secular governance. On paper they did this for much the reason that the USA backed individuals and organizations overseas that were nominally socially conservative: because it was seen as a “healthy” alternative to godless socialism/communism in general, and to combat the spread of Baathist and Soviet soft power.
eta: I’m going to add that when I say the above, consider that KSA put trillions into soft power and proxy warfare against the Soviets, such that they were the third major player in the Cold War and not just the USA’s dopey sidekick. Indeed, if I’m feeling stroppy I’d argue they were their own side, so the entire binary “Cold War” paradigm needs to be viewed skeptically.
But almost exactly like the USA fighting “Communism” and the Soviets fighting “Capitalism” through proxy conflicts, the KSA’s fight against “Godlessness” coincidentally centralizes the priorities of the very rich princes rather than defer entirely to a ideological authority. A lot of what’s seen from the outside as driven by intense piety also sustains the monarchy as a functional political entity, both by centralizing the KSA is the politics of the Islamic world and by diverting internal-to-Islam, interal-to-Gulf-politics criticism of the monarchy.
There’s a central tendency in KSA history: trying to avoid revolt against the monarchy motivated by Islamic condemnation of the monarchy—generally from even more conservative interpreters of Islamic law who feel the the House of Saud have been lax in refining the Islamic community and (worse) allowed theological innovation (bid’ah). And the countermove has consistently been to (1) suppress the critic, (2) double down on conservatism, (3) pour more effort into external conflicts that possess a Islamic dimension. In short, they want…and also kind of need…to create mujaheddin, hoping the ones they make will stay precisely within the boundaries of very conservative religion they favor, and not venture off into a conservatism that wants to overthrow them. And in the process, some folks will radicalize and become full-on terrorists who refuse to acknowledge any Saudi stewardship of Islam. This makes their relationship to madrassas that radicalize people much like the relationship between the USA and the dictators/juntas/contras they backed. The intent was/is to create proxies who will service a goal that is both pious and practical to the KSA—servicing a cynical and an idealistic position in one go—but generally this works out about as well as building a factory to create Frankenstein monsters.
re: #83 William Lewis
Yes, it was. It’s easy though to mistake AOC’s being progressive as being more important than her being a woman candidate this past election. But we need all of us doing a variation on Galatians 3:28 - no left or right or male or female but we are instead all Proletariat :D (my priest would twitch at that one but that’s ok. He’s probably used to it by now.
Or maybe it’s just because her team treated the primary as a serious contest worth the effort, and the incumbent didn’t. She got a bunch of volunteers to knock on lots of doors, make phone calls, work social media, and the incumbent… did some mailings? Voters put their trust in the candidate who wanted to do the job.
There’s more evidence of that busy schedule he claims keeps him from being sued or indicted:
Trump Schedule || Tuesday, December 11, 2018
11:30 am || Meets with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
3:45 pm || Signs H.R. 390, the “Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018”
That bill accomplishes very little, other than urging the relevant governments to prosecute war crimes and for the US government to make progress reports on how well this bill is being implemented. It also directs the State Department to identify religious communities who are persecuted, and identify religious groups who can help with aid. (Read: Assist Christians, not Druze, Yazidi, atheists, Muslims, &c)
Mia Love: If Democrats Love Black People, Why Didn’t They Just Let Me Win? (Wonkette, more at the link, sorry Rep. Love it doesn’t work that way):
Republican Congresswoman Mia Love of Utah lost an election to Democrat Ben McAdams last month, and she is really bothered by how the Democratic Party is not doing NEARLY enough to ensure diversity among Republican legislators. Some of us figured that having Trump troll her, watching Nazis run for office as Republicans, and maybe Trump’s shithole country comments would stir up a bit of awareness in her about racism in her Republican Party. Instead, what Love learned from being one of three black Republican members of Congress — and now there are two — was the Ultimate Truth, the same Truth that Candace Owens probably taught Kanye West: Democrats are the REAL racists. That’s why most black people are Democrats! Wait. That doesn’t make sense. Democrats are the REAL racists because they run Democrats against Black Republicans! Damn. Still sounds dumb. Let’s hear it from Mia herself, maybe that will help.
re: #106 Single-handed sailor
SMOD, the sooner the better.
There’s a number of chances out there (animated chart):
44 former U.S. senators write to the Senate as the Mueller probe nears an end: “We urge current and future senators to be steadfast and zealous guardians of our democracy by ensuring that partisanship or self-interest not replace national interest.” https://t.co/yLnDBX90vQ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 11, 2018
“We all took an oath swearing allegiance to the Constitution. Whatever united or divided us, we did not veer from our unwavering and shared commitment to placing our country, democracy and national interest above all else.” https://t.co/WAbvY2EUEf
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 11, 2018
Trump has reportedly expressed concern that he could be impeached when Democrats take over the House. A source said Trump apparently sees impeachment as a “real possibility.” https://t.co/0o8ObgNaF5
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 11, 2018
Cross posted from Wonkette:
Since there hasn’t been any discussion of E-mail servers in the last five minutes:
After tonight’s village board meeting was over, I approached the county prosecutor/village attorney and asked what I should do with my official E-mail saved on my computer. I have several thousand E-mails sent from my private computer—wife’s Webhosting server to state government officials, him, other people associated with state government to and from me, &c. (I even have an invitation to the governor’s inauguration ball coming up in January—I’ll pass, Gov. Ricketts, thanks.)
He said there’s no need to keep them and I can simply erase them from my computer/my wife’s server.
He’s a nice guy, but he’s a Republican, and he’s a prosecutor. I’m thinking “no.” Burn them off to a CD or a flash drive maybe, or even print the whole slew of them and turn them over to the village clerk for public records, but wipe them out sounds too much like the GOP going after Hillary Clinton. (That, and I have a whole bunch of personal stuff on my computer and my wife’s server as well.)
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I don’t think I need to turn over a record of my E-mail to my mother or the erotic Romance publisher I worked for, however.
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
I would keep two copies: 1) digital, 2) printout.
Do not trust a Republican official.
That is the lesson of the 21st century so far.
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
Cross posted from Wonkette:
Since there hasn’t been any discussion of E-mail servers in the last five minutes:
After tonight’s village board meeting was over, I approached the county prosecutor/village attorney and asked what I should do with my official E-mail saved on my computer. I have several thousand E-mails sent from my private computer—wife’s Webhosting server to state government officials, him, other people associated with state government to and from me, &c. (I even have an invitation to the governor’s inauguration ball coming up in January—I’ll pass, Gov. Ricketts, thanks.)
He said there’s no need to keep them and I can simply erase them from my computer/my wife’s server.
He’s a nice guy, but he’s a Republican, and he’s a prosecutor. I’m thinking “no.” Burn them off to a CD or a flash drive maybe, or even print the whole slew of them and turn them over to the village clerk for public records, but wipe them out sounds too much like the GOP going after Hillary Clinton. (That, and I have a whole bunch of personal stuff on my computer and my wife’s server as well.)
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I don’t think I need to turn over a record of my E-mail to my mother or the erotic Romance publisher I worked for, however.
“WHEN WILL WE SEE THE DELETED EMAILS!?”
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re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
Be sure you acid wash your hard drive!
Good morning…..
Did Melania Trump edit this video herself or…? pic.twitter.com/Xh3tIDVc5a
— 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣 ⚡️ (@Patrickesque) December 11, 2018
Is Trump God now?
.@Bre_Payton: Turnover in White House is due to lack of faith in Trump @HillTVLive https://t.co/3dwFfJw7Wq pic.twitter.com/MYfiO7AybR
— The Hill (@thehill) December 11, 2018
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹
Is Trump God now?
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I hate to be the one to say it, but Bre Payton (whoever she is) sounds a little on the dumb side.
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹
Is Trump God now?
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Funny, so far it seems to be the exact opposite, that turnover in the White House is because Trump has no faith in anybody but himself. Every person that he’s shit-canned was because they were either telling him things he didn’t want to hear or were seen as political liabilities.
re: #115 makeitstop
I hate to be the one to say it, but Bre Payton (whoever she is) sounds a little on the dumb side.
“The swamp doesn’t like this president.” Seems like a perfectly Federalist thing to say.
Nice nails, though.
At 102, Olivia de Havilland won’t give up her fight over “Feud.” Will the Supreme Court hear her case? https://t.co/DULQSq6xMx
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 11, 2018
He’s awake and tweeting his non-threaded thread very slowly …
Despite the large Caravans that WERE forming and heading to our Country, people have not been able to get through our newly built Walls, makeshift Walls & Fences, or Border Patrol Officers & Military. They are now staying in Mexico or going back to their original countries…….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2018
Hold my Beer tweet….
“We’ll use Social Security to pay for it.”
— Steven Marzuola (@marzolian) December 11, 2018
Well, things that make you feel warm and fuzzy:
An ancient, unknown strain of plague has been found in 5,000-year-old tomb in Sweden https://t.co/AmK6BuZaxX pic.twitter.com/XLCyVSwXKw
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 7, 2018
re: #120 Dave In Austin
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The argument he seems to be going for is “It’s much cheaper than what we’ve waste…er, invested so far.” The new tactic will likely be to insist that the $5B he’s asking for is the full cost of the wall, which is total bullshit because even conservative estimates put the true cost at five times that.
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹
Well, things that make you feel warm and fuzzy:
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That reminds me, I need to finish this trilogy of books I started last year. It’s about a zombie plague that starts due to the unearthing of a mass grave from the Black Death.
I had never heard of this before:
Slave Bible From The 1800s Omitted Key Passages That Could Incite Rebellion
On display now at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is a special exhibit centered on a rare Bible from the 1800s that was used by British missionaries to convert and educate slaves.
What’s notable about this Bible is not just its rarity, but its content, or rather the lack of content. It excludes any portion of text that might inspire rebellion or liberation.
Anthony Schmidt, associate curator of Bible and Religion in America at the museum, says the first instance of this abridged version titled, Parts of the Holy Bible, selected for the use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands, was published in 1807.
“About 90 percent of the Old Testament is missing [and] 50 percent of the New Testament is missing,” Schmidt says. “Put in another way, there are 1,189 chapters in a standard protestant Bible. This Bible contains only 232.”
Schmidt says passages that could have prompted rebellion were removed, for example:
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28
re: #125 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I had never heard of this before:
Slave Bible From The 1800s Omitted Key Passages That Could Incite Rebellion
There are all sorts of Bibles edited to tell the Faithful whatever the ruling class or pastors what said.
To whomever posted this yesterday, thank you. Honestly, thank you. This is the best thing I have ever seen on Twitter. I laughed, I cried, I was on the edge of my seat until the end.
a gay love story of the 1st world war’s year.
[thread by @guillemclua im just a translator]. pic.twitter.com/I3CkgKd1EO— [may]onesa. (@brendonsexual) December 7, 2018
This is the single most amazing thread ever to exist on Twitter.
It’s a historical love story wrapped in mystery and intrigue. An emotional roller coaster ride which has you rooting for a final resolution.
Read this. You will not be sorry. Go on, what are you waiting for? https://t.co/kZ2GlesGL5— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) December 11, 2018
re: #1 Danack
Thank you so much for that thread. I hesitated reading it because, cemetery, headstone, bah, who cares. But damn, that was the story of a lifetime.
Thank you so much!!!
re: #128 MsJ
Thank you so much for that thread. I hesitated reading it because, cemetery, headstone, bah, who cares. But damn, that was the story of a lifetime.
Thank you so much!!!
Did you see the followup? The headstone is real, apparently, but everything else is a clever bit of fiction, apparently to build interest in turning the story into a movie.
….People do not yet realize how much of the Wall, including really effective renovation, has already been built. If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2018
Trump Playbook. Rule 1: When in trouble, throw red meat & try to distract attention from the very real issues of the day. https://t.co/Nxq3rXienO
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) December 11, 2018
re: #69 austin_blue
So Beto made the front page of the NYT today as a “wild card” for 2020.
I’m a Texan. I gave Beto money this year. He’s a hell of a candidate. If you hear him stump, you’re like, “Hell, yeah!”.
He says all the right things. He supports all the right things. He says them the right way in both English and Texican. He was the ultimate anti-Cruz. Yeah, yeah, he got as close as any Democrat has in a state-wide election in over twenty years, but…
I love the guy. I just can’t imagine him having any legs in 2020. Just my opinion, I wish it wasn’t so. He was a House Rep from fucking El Paso, a dark corner of the US that no-one gives a flying fuck about. It might as well not be in ‘Murica at all.
I would lay odds that the exact same thing was said about Obama at several points in his career.
Just sayin’.
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹
There are all sorts of Bibles edited to tell the Faithful whatever the ruling class or pastors what said.
Yes like that wacky Conservative Bible Project that writes all that icky Socialist stuff Jesus said right out.
The Guardians—Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo—are TIME’s Person of the Year 2018 #TIMEPOY https://t.co/HvoEaW5oUi pic.twitter.com/9Mr0wBTmvj
— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2018
re: #133 Rocky-in-Connecticut
Yes like that wacky Conservative Bible Project that writes all that icky Socialist stuff Jesus said right out.
They are looking for editors to help rewrite the passages which are not yet completed (vetted for conservative orthodoxy). Sign up for Conservapedia and get right on editing the Bible the way you’d like it.
Bleah.
Great job by Michael Anton on @foxandfriends. A true National Security expert!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2018
re: #131 Patricia Kayden
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Rule 2: Spin something that already exists (i.e. border fencing) as “new” in order to take credit for it.
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Donny not only lost for two years running, but he lost to a guy whose death he’s been covering for for weeks. That’s gonna be another gut-punch to the ol’ ego.
re: #138 Targetpractice
Donny not only lost for two years running, but he lost to a guy whose death he’s been covering for for weeks. That’s gonna be another gut-punch to the ol’ ego.
He’ll just call Time “Fake News” and move on to another Nuremberg Rally.
re: #129 ipsos
Did you see the followup? The headstone is real, apparently, but everything else is a clever bit of fiction, apparently to build interest in turning the story into a movie.
I did, but who cares? It was the story that got me. Real or not, I still sat at the edge of my seat, laughing, crying, eagerly awaiting the end. If that had been a novel it would have been a best seller.
“He stole my body, virginity and power over my body and you let him keep it all for eternity,” the woman who said she was raped by Jacob Anderson told the court.
Interesting that “Christian” gangs like oaf-keepers and wall-busters never direct their outrage and blood curdling threats at scum like this. The reason is not simple hypocrisy, though that is part of it. The real reason is the dominionist doctrine that rich boys like this were “chosen” by God for privilege and power.
Trump Administration Paid Firm Nearly $14 Million To Recruit Just 2 Border Agents (Huffington Post, more at the link, the graft rolls on, caution for auto-play video not related to the article designed to run up your data bill):
And the private company used government resources to do even that, concludes Homeland Security’s inspector general.
The Trump administration paid an astonishing $13.6 million to a private company this year to increase border protection staffing by just two agents, according to a scathing report by a federal watchdog that called for “immediate” action to rectify “serious performance issues.”
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹
Bleah.
Or in other words, the “national security” expert on Fox and Fiends is a total fraud.
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹
Bleah.
Well I guess, having watched his favorite TV program, the potus has performed his most important duty of the day, and can go back to bed or hit the golf courses in FL.
re: #131 Patricia Kayden
I’ll shut down the government if the Dems don’t give me billions of $$$ to build the really crucial Wall on Mexico which really needs to be built NOW although actually most of the Wall has already been improved and built so all’s Good anyway no matter what MAGA.
moron
Very productive conversations going on with China! Watch for some important announcements!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2018
Fake News has it purposely wrong. Many, over ten, are vying for and wanting the White House Chief of Staff position. Why wouldn’t someone want one of the truly great and meaningful jobs in Washington. Please report news correctly. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2018
re: #127 MsJ
To whomever posted this yesterday, thank you. Honestly, thank you. This is the best thing I have ever seen on Twitter. I laughed, I cried, I was on the edge of my seat until the end.
Adding my thanks to the poster too!
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The tombstone is real, the story is … not as real, but real enough.
My eyes are watering a bit anyway. The story might not be the truth, but it’s true enough.
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
Donnie is right. Mean fake news press shouldn’t report when multiple people don’t want His glorious job.
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re: #148 Seafaring, coquito drinking Santa!
Here’s the thing….
Did it move you? It moved me to a bunch of emotions…I laughed, I cried, I eagerly awaited the ending…I couldn’t read it fast enough.
That’s the thing about a good story. It moves you.
I think of Jennifer Lopez on American Idol when they always talk about connecting with an audience, of bringing out emotions…where she got goosies (goose bumps), and this story gave me goosies.
Siri, show me the perfect metaphor for how the government has handled Brexit…pic.twitter.com/NZqfrfyfcs
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) December 11, 2018
re: #89 DodgerFan1988
And it wasn’t just religious leaders, the laity were doing the abusing, too.
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Very productive conversations going on with China! Watch for some important announcements!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2018
Seconds after this tweet news breaks that China detained a former Canadian diplomat https://t.co/kejG9u2sAU
— Craig Hooper (@NextNavy) December 11, 2018
Former Canadian diplomat detained in China: sources https://t.co/5JNxxfTChC
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) December 11, 2018
Here’s why it only snowed in Middletown overnight https://t.co/1RfDD1qeaW | Via @KetchmarkWCPO pic.twitter.com/mFpJ2oNb7g
— WCPO (@WCPO) December 11, 2018
NWS officials concluded the snow was created by the AK Steel. But upon further review it was likely a new power plant in Middletown called NTE Energy. This power plant has a very large stack that throws lots of water vapor into the atmosphere, much like the Duke Energy Power Plant along the Ohio River. It’s right next to the AK Steel stacks.
The moisture coming up from the power plant facility condensed as a very low cloud, and enough moisture gathered to grow snow flakes. Those then fell from 2 to 5 a.m. in portions of the city.
This event gets added to the list of industrial-induced snow events (power plant snow in previous references), that we’ll continue to watch and investigate here in the Tri-State.
It’s becoming a frequent occurrence as morning inversions set up and additional moisture gets added into the air from local industrial sites and power plants.
re: #151 MsJ
Here’s the thing….
Did it move you? It moved me to a bunch of emotions…I laughed, I cried, I eagerly awaited the ending…I couldn’t read it fast enough.
That’s the thing about a good story. It moves you.
I think of Jennifer Lopez on American Idol when they always talk about connecting with an audience, of bringing out emotions…where she got goosies (goose bumps), and this story gave me goosies.
I’m not knocking down the story. It’s an amazing story. The best stories are the ones that involves you so deeply that you care for them. I’ve almost flung books for less. The only reason I’m not crying right now is because I’m in a public setting (among other reasons).
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
Trump’s flailing around during executive time this morning. Claiming that he’s got a big beautiful wall, and that Democrats are keeping it from being built (wee bit of cognitive dissonance there). Of course, we’re paying for the wall Trump the great negotiator claimed Mexico would pay for (they aren’t - as Vicente Fox said - Mexico isn’t paying for Trump’s fucking wall). American taxpayers are on the hook, and Trump thinks this is a great deal.
Then Trump wants people to think that everyone is clamoring to get the Chief of Staff position that no one actually wants.
Kelly’s gone - and no one wants the job. The reason Kelly lasted this long was because no one else wanted the job. Guys like Ayers were up for the job and thought twice when they realized that their financial chicanery would be scrutinized (paging David Fahrenthold).
Others want nothing to do with going down with the Trumptanic as SDNY, Mueller and who knows what other federal investigators are looking at with every member of Trump’s inner circle under the spotlight and likely to get implicated in multiple felonies.
Christie wants to be a part of that? Well, it’d be good for a laugh, since Christie is the one who put Kushner’s dad in prison. Rudy? He can’t even be bothered to do his lawyering thing.
Stephen Colbert has offered up his name, as has Jim Wright (Stonekettle). Trump may be thinking those are actually serious offers.
The reality is everyone in Trumpworld knows the walls are closing in, and no one wants to stick their neck out. Anyone stepping into this position is going to be toast, in large part because Trump doesn’t care what the CoS has to say anyways. Kelly lasted as long as he did because he agreed with Trump’s policies, and because no one else would take the job.
With Kelly gone, everyone knows that things are going downhill fast.Who wants to be on a sinking ship?
re: #69 austin_blue
You first paragraph should ease your fear. He’s in the NYT. Beto is known nationally. He received money from all over the country.
re: #156 Seafaring, coquito drinking Santa!
I’m not knocking down the story. It’s an amazing story. The best stories are the ones that involves you so deeply that you care for them. I’ve almost flung books for less. The only reason I’m not crying right now is because I’m in a public setting (among other reasons).
Oh, I know! I was just saying.
And I was balling like a baby at different points. Like, crying my eyes out.
PewDiePie is YouTube’s top creator.
On Sunday, he promoted the channel of a racist anti-Semite. Pewdiepie’s shout-out earned the channel more than 15,000 new subscribers at the time of this post.https://t.co/FA9LQlXbQr— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) December 10, 2018
Casual reminder that YouTube is a hot flaming sack of shit these days and you should definitely, definitely keep your kids far the fuck away from it. It is increasingly a haven for the worst voices, and they are well-protected there, and advertised to kids. https://t.co/r8BglVjWV7
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) December 11, 2018
re: #81 Anymouse 🌹
Well, McKinley went around his elbow (he was elected from the House to Governor of Ohio then President).
Morning!
Sounds like John Kasich’s path, only add in some time on Fox News which is important in modern conservativism. Ohio too.
Yuck.
re: #156 Seafaring, coquito drinking Santa!
Now I am left wondering why the two men were buried together.
re: #157 lawhawk
really well summarized and accurate
this one’s a +1
“what the FUCK, Mary?” pic.twitter.com/EfLubMZb1K
— Paul Bronks (@BoringEnormous) December 11, 2018
I can’t copy the image while I’m at work, but Roger Stone has decided that Trump avoided a coup by Pence since Nick Ayers decided not to take the CoS job: dailykos.com
re: #166 Belafon
I can’t copy the image while I’m at work, but Roger Stone has decided that Trump avoided a coup by Pence since Nick Ayers decided not to take the CoS job: dailykos.com
The XXV Amendment is not a coup. It is a constitutional remedy for a defective presidency.
Just finished a visit to Saudi Arabia where I had productive meetings with Saudi Minister of Energy @Khalid_AlFalih and energy industry stakeholders operating in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia is a strategic ally, especially in the energy space. pic.twitter.com/qicdqMoaHT
— Rick Perry (@SecretaryPerry) December 10, 2018
They just murdered & dismembered a Washington Post columnist who was a US resident. Then they dismembered his body and reportedly dissolved it. Then they made his son shake the hand of the man who ordered the assassination. Then your boss helped provide them with political cover. https://t.co/HmhjmMAFsD
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 10, 2018
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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Are we at the point yet when no one believes a single word coming out of Trump’s fat face?
10 people want the Chief of Staff job…it takes time to go through so many applications…Obama had three…everything is great…I’m great…
I think even the people that follow him know he is full of it, but like him nonetheless.
⚡️ “TIME Person of the Year 2018: The Guardians”https://t.co/iNBTzMi22b pic.twitter.com/CjUFYAxc5i
— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2018
don’t feel bad, Individual-1, you’ll always be Robert Mueller’s Person of the Year
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 11, 2018
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
The Spanish radio channel I listen to uses Trump saying “Fake News” as part of the intro for their news segment.
re: #166 Belafon
I can’t copy the image while I’m at work, but Roger Stone has decided that Trump avoided a coup by Pence since Nick Ayers decided not to take the CoS job: dailykos.com
Lemme guess Ayers is in the deep state according to the Nixon fanboy.
re: #171 Belafon
The Spanish radio channel I listen to uses Trump saying “Fake News” as part of the intro for their news segment.
Is that good or bad?
re: #168 MsJ
I KNOW, RIGHT??
WWI and WWII put a lot of stress on burial resources. When my father’s plane came down the German villagers gave the crew a decent burial, but put them two per coffin. (The bodies were reduced greatly by the fire.) After the occupation, the US Army Graves Registration unit reburied them in one or more cemeteries in France.
re: #173 MsJ
Is that good or bad?
I think the context is that they’re making fun of him with it, and also owning it. Like how sometimes you’ll use a mistake you’ve made to introduce yourself or insert yourself into a conversation.
re: #174 Decatur Deb
That makes sense. I wonder if that’s the only double burial in that cemetery though. I remember reading that this happened often, just never saw a grave marked as such before.
re: #176 A Mom Anon
That makes sense. I wonder if that’s the only double burial in that cemetery though. I remember reading that this happened often, just never saw a grave marked as such before.
I can’t quite tell where the history stops and the dramatization takes over in the story. Seems to be a small town. Statistically, some places get totally hit by disproportionate losses, even in the WoT.
I do recall plenty of double burials in Belgium for men killed at different times. Don’t know if this story of this love affair was true or not but there of course have always been gay men and women serving in the armed forces. We’re almost certain that my grandfather’s older brother left home because he was thought to be gay and he had served in WWII. It’s too bad because from what I know, he never talked to anyone in the family again after his mother died. I definitely found him living in Los Angeles well into my and my brother’s lifetime. A bit of a shame. If he were still alive, I’d be tempted to call him.
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
Looks like Thomas Kincade Brannigan has been stepping out on Valerie pic.twitter.com/QzLFh6dgAI
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) December 11, 2018
re: #62 Single-handed sailor
What a coincidence! Dec 12, 1989: My Chevette hit an icy patch on N. Wabash. Spun around 3 times and hit a stop sign before I got it under control. Dented the rear left bumper. Told my mom someone must have hit it in a parking lot while I was shopping. Sorry, no audio.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) December 11, 2018
re: #127 MsJ
To whomever posted this yesterday, thank you. Honestly, thank you. This is the best thing I have ever seen on Twitter. I laughed, I cried, I was on the edge of my seat until the end.
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I investigated a similar historical mystery about 20 years ago. I was researching a Civil War soldier who died at the infamous Andersonville prison camp.
Where was he buried? There was a marker with his name on it at Andersonville, and another marker at the Mikveh Israel cemetery in Philadelphia. I found the records at Mikveh Israel that confirmed he was buried there, but the historian at the Andersonville National Park insisted that he had to be buried down there.
After the war, there were many re-burials where relatives found the graves of loved ones and removed the remains to re-inter in the family plot. I found a notice in the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1866 of this particular soldier’s disinterment from Andersonville and re-burial in Philadelphia. When I sent this to the National Park historian, he checked their records and confirmed that family members had come to recover their loved one’s remains.
29,000 pounds of Jimmy Dean frozen, ready-to-eat poultry and pork sausage links have been recalled after people found metal pieces in the sausage, according to the US Department of Agriculture https://t.co/Jcfmg7nwQt pic.twitter.com/BDK5FlmlKV
— CNN (@CNN) December 11, 2018
re: #148 Seafaring, coquito drinking Santa!
I was moved by the twitter story, too. But then I keep asking myself… if those random Transylvanians had been my great-grandparents, would I be moved, or would I be a little irked that this guy had co-opted their names to tell his story?
Maybe he asked permission first. I dunno. It just feels slightly off-putting.
At Trump’s hotel, spiritual warriors pray for the president in his ‘darkest hour’
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., which towers above other buildings near the White House, is best known for hosting global diplomats and prominent dignitaries in its lavish facilities.
But last Friday afternoon (Dec. 7), one of the hotel’s many glimmering ballrooms was transformed into a sanctuary, where dozens of worshippers held their hands aloft and spoke in tongues as Jon Hamill, co-founder of Washington, D.C.-based Lamplighter Ministries, led the group in prayer.
Hamill — whom supporters describe as a prophet — closed his eyes tightly and shouted above the chattering: “In Jesus’ name, we declare the Deep State will not prevail!”
He then hammered a judge’s gavel onto a podium as people raised their voices in approval.
These cults should be taxed.
re: #58 Joe Bacon 🌹
Best car Dad ever had was a 1967 Chrysler Newport. Beautiful inside and out, ran like a top. Pop got 115,000 miles on it before he decided to trade it for a 1973 model which was the worst hunk of junk ever. Everything went wrong with that car. radiator leaked, piston broke, brake fluid leaked. Even the car seats were cheap, they cracked and the springs popped out. Dad just had it towed to the junkyard and he got a Ford LTD which lasted till he retired in 1983. It was a beautiful cream color. Also it was assembled in California.
I had a ‘68 Newport, loved that car. Was a boat but rode just great on the highway. Bought it for $300 and drove it a little over a year before hitting a deer and sold it for $250 to a guy who wanted the engine. So overall a good deal.
re: #184 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
At Trump’s hotel, spiritual warriors pray for the president in his ‘darkest hour’
These cults should be taxed.
They misspelled profit as prophet.
re: #184 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
At Trump’s hotel, spiritual warriors pray for the president in his ‘darkest hour’
These cults should be taxed.
ABSOLUTELY!
Churches want to play the politics game but the don’t want to pay. Kick these Parasite Pulpit Pimps off of the Tax-Exempt Gravy Train once and for all!
BTW, I wonder how much kiddie porn is in Pulpit Pimp Jon’s laptop?
re: #183 ipsos
I was moved by the twitter story, too. But then I keep asking myself… if those random Transylvanians had been my great-grandparents, would I be moved, or would I be a little irked that this guy had co-opted their names to tell his story?
Maybe he asked permission first. I dunno. It just feels slightly off-putting.
Good question … It’s a side of the story we might not know.
re: #89 DodgerFan1988
It’s not just the Southern Baptists molesting kids. It’s also the Presbyterians. Mom’s church twice had to get rid of pastors who were into diddling kids. Of course it was all swept under the rug!
re: #190 Teukka
Lizardim… I give you the mind fuck of the week: The Polyganal Electrodynamometer…
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Please resist the temptation to drop the schematic in the RWNJ conspiracy theorist fora on the intertubes…
I recently saw one of those in Diagon Alley.
re: #191 Belafon
I recently saw one of those in Diagon Alley.
Oooh… so that is how the bricks melt away. Magic = just advanced technology that we don’t understand!
re: #132 MsJ
I would lay odds that the exact same thing was said about Obama at several points in his career.
Just sayin’.
until….
that 2004 keynote speech of his was a barn-burner. The Sunday shows were swooning over him, said things like “a star is born!” and “that’s going to be our first black president.”
When his first book was reissued, with a full publicity tour, he was swarmed at bookstores. And the anti-Hillary, anyone-but-Hillary Dems… suddenly had a viable alternative. A super-impressive viable alternative. With all of dKos behind him, and Oprah, and he won his Senate race by landslide margins and had all of Chicago’s wealthy and powerful in his corner…
“Doing a real estate deal in Moscow is not illegal!” Sean Hannity shouts into the radio microphone. “Doing a real estate deal in Moscow with Vladimir Putin is not illegal!” Goes on to defend the hush money payments too.
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) December 11, 2018
With friends like these, it’s no wonder Trumpworld is imploding from the derp and criminality.
re: #194 lawhawk
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With friends like these, it’s no wonder Trumpworld is imploding from the derp and criminality.
I love that the right wing media machine has not grasped the issue. The RW thought it had to do a mea culpa for GWB and the Iraq War…. this next one is going to be EPIC.
re: #194 lawhawk
With friends like these, it’s no wonder Trumpworld is imploding from the derp and criminality.
“Selling Alaska to Russia to pay for the wall is not illegal!”
re: #194 lawhawk
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With friends like these, it’s no wonder Trumpworld is imploding from the derp and criminality.
So is Hannity’s name on one of those 30 sealed indictments Mr. Mueller is holding in his vault?
re: #194 lawhawk
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With friends like these, it’s no wonder Trumpworld is imploding from the derp and criminality.
Lumpy wants to be the next CoS
America is one giant criminal Enterprise, where the money rules all.
Yeah, Butina is one of those missing direct links showing Trumpworld compromised by the Russians, but she’s not alone. There’s a whole host of Russian contacts that the Trumpworld spokeshacks tried to lie away about.
Looking at the Trump campaign——> Russia ——> NRA contacts and it is plain to see Butina’s plea deal is a very big deal.
Did Torshin/Butina funnel money to prop up the Trump campaign through the NRA? pic.twitter.com/qvum5FYdF6— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) December 11, 2018
Butina is at the nexus of the Trumpworld-Russia-NRA troika. And the GOP and NRA willingly went along with all this, because the Russians knew that their interests aligned - stop Clinton from becoming President, and that it would further Russia’s agenda worldwide. GOP thinks they win even as Trump disrupts decades of American foreign policy, fucks over our allies and strategic partners, withdraws as a world leader, and Russia and China and KSA fill the vacuum.
Some wonder who was on the Russian payroll. A few might - but many more didn’t need to be bought since their interests aligned with Russia to stop Clinton from winning. They put party above nation and continue to lie and project about the endless conspiracies about Clinton while ignoring the larger conspiracy against the US charges that Mueller and SDNY can assemble against everyone in Trumpworld.
re: #199 Amory Blaine
America is one giant criminal Enterprise, where the money rules all.
Republicans make the Wu-Tang Clan look insignificant.
re: #180 Ace-o-aces
Speaking of heart-stopping accidents…
I drove my wife to work this morning because she’s flying to San Francisco this afternoon and didn’t want to leave her car in the company lot. We braved the LI traffic and I got her to work with time to spare.
As I was driving home, I got on to Route 135 (one of the major north/south highways on LI) and got into the middle lane. I looked in my rear view and saw a BMW and a Mercedes coming up behind me and they were flying - I was doing about 65, so I figure from how fast they were coming up behind me they must have been doing at least 80. They were both trying to get into the right lane to hit the westbound exit for the LI Expressway. Neither one was giving an inch, and the Mercedes clipped the rear driver’s quarter panel, sending the BMW onto the shoulder. The Mercedes, at this point barely in control, came up on my right and started going sideways as she got next to my truck. I slowed down and she slid sideways in front of me and then rammed straight into the concrete median, then the rear end swung around and she ended up facing oncoming traffic in the left lane.
I pulled over and kept an eye on the car, and once I figured she was okay I sat and waited for the police to arrive. They showed up and closed the road so she could get to the shoulder. Both passenger side tires were completely shredded and the whole passenger side of the car was wiped. The woman was extremely lucky she wasn’t hurt, and I was just as lucky. She could have easily run into me instead of the median.
It was like being in one of those movie scenes where something really crazy is happening right in front of you.
Chaser: I told the cop that I was almost involved in the accident and saw what happened, and he didn’t even take a statement, just told me I could go. Weird.
re: #202 makeitstop
Yup…. see that on the LIE, I80, and GSP all the time. Cars going 20, 30, 40 mph above the regular flow of traffic and weaving in and out as if they’re race cars and trying to get into impossible spaces with a single miscalculation resulting in a multicar crash.
Some drivers are bugnuts insane.
re: #113 Dave In Austin
Looks like they really fixed up The Stanley Hotel
re: #184 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
re: #207 nines09
Dog I hate snakes. Why cant a crazy cult use bunnies instead.
re: #125 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I had never heard of this before:
Slave Bible From The 1800s Omitted Key Passages That Could Incite Rebellion
Yep. Heard that on NPR on Sunday, driving to a potluck. Driving is the only time I get to hear it. :< Some off the charts religious station has been covering up my NPR local. grrrrrr
re: #204 lawhawk
Yup…. see that on the LIE, I80, and GSP all the time. Cars going 20, 30, 40 mph above the regular flow of traffic and weaving in and out as if they’re race cars and trying to get into impossible spaces with a single miscalculation resulting in a multicar crash.
Some drivers are bugnuts insane.
When I was still doing my weekly gig on the Lower East Side, I’d drive home on the LIE around 2 in the morning. I’d be doing 65-70, and there’d be groups of 3 or 4 cars weaving in and out of traffic doing what must have been 100 MPH. I’m surprised I didn’t see a bunch of accidents during that time.
I blame the Fast & Furious franchise. Buncha Vin Diesel wannabes, trying to see how far they could push shit.
re: #207 nines09
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Ah a couple more Darwin Award winners are on the way.
Only thing missing is seeing a couple fools drinking strychnine!
CNN has previously unreleased exit poll data that suggests the GOP’s base isn’t “white people” but more specifically “white evangelical people”.
If this keeps going, the party is going to get smaller and more insular. And that’s can’t bode well for our politics
re: #212 KGxvi
CNN has previously unreleased exit poll data that suggests the GOP’s base isn’t “white people” but more specifically “white evangelical people”.
If this keeps going, the party is going to get smaller and more insular. And that’s can’t bode well for our politics
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Well as long as the younger generations shy away from organized religion their pool of evangelicals to grift will also get smaller and smaller. A plus for ‘merica
re: #209 retired cynic
Yep. Heard that on NPR on Sunday, driving to a potluck. Driving is the only time I get to hear it. :< Some off the charts religious station has been covering up my NPR local. grrrrrr
When I got rid of the cable box and hooked up a digital antenna to the TV, I went through the scanning sequence and got 150 channels of which at least 60% are Jesus TV in a whole bunch of languages—Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Korean, Arminian, Russian, Hindi.
Oh and at least a quarter are various shopping channels too. Nothing like watching QVC in Korean…
re: #212 KGxvi
“Evangelical” people. Because they certainly aren’t particularly interested in following the Gospel or Christian teachings generally, but rather fuck you I got mine, and while we’re at it, screw everyone who doesn’t believe as I do and they have to adhere to my religious views.
re: #204 lawhawk
Yup…. see that on the LIE, I80, and GSP all the time. Cars going 20, 30, 40 mph above the regular flow of traffic and weaving in and out as if they’re race cars and trying to get into impossible spaces with a single miscalculation resulting in a multicar crash.
Some drivers are bugnuts insane.
Oddly enough I have never seen that while driving in Canada.
re: #213 CongoJack
Well as long as the younger generations shy away from organized religion their pool of evangelicals to grift will also get smaller and smaller. A plus for ‘merica
Except for that whole 2 senators per state thing and fewer liberal states part.
re: #215 lawhawk
“Evangelical” people. Because they certainly aren’t particularly interested in following the Gospel or Christian teachings generally, but rather fuck you I got mine, and while we’re at it, screw everyone who doesn’t believe as I do and they have to adhere to my religious views.
The real god of the Radical Xtians is Ayn Rand
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump threatens gov’t shutdown in heated meeting with Dem leaders over border wall, squabbling over election results.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) December 11, 2018
Trump threatens Dem leaders with a shutdown.
Good. Reminder: GOP controls Senate, House, and the WH. Democrats don’t need to play ball here - they’re not taking control of House til January. This is still on the GOP and Trump. https://t.co/7GSTTluQ6h— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 11, 2018
re: #196 Belafon
“Selling Alaska to Russia to pay for the wall is not illegal!”
Not a crime! Proove the crime! A giant waste of real estate!
re: #220 Sir John Barron
Not a crime! Proove the crime! A giant waste of real estate!
“Alaska for a Wall is no bad bargain. Alaska. Nobody goes there anymore anyway.”
The whole reason Twitler wants the wall is a monument to himself. He knows that gold-plated statues can be pulled down the second he is out of office, but “The Wall” can last as long as the Great Wall Of China.
re: #217 Belafon
Except for that whole 2 senators per state thing and fewer liberal states part.
The evangelical RW wont be able to hold on to their population long term. It is a slow death, besides which states are purely occupied by evangelicals? Do they always vote in lock step or will they learn as well?
I may be one of the few OK with the 2 senators from each state. My only issue is that DC and US territories should be made into states (or at the least have voting members in both the Senate and House).
re: #219 lawhawk
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Go ahead you stupid motherfather and shut us down right at Christmastime. I hope Mueller’s folks ignore that and continue grinding out the indictments for you and your sleazy family and friends.
Nothing would bring more joy than to see FAUX and FIENDS broadcasting from their jail cells!
re: #78 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s all a distraction from Khashoggi. We will end up with the royal family overthrown and a much worse situation for peace prospects in the Middle East.
Remember, Saudi Arabia is no monolith, it is a feudal monarchy with an ongoing power struggle. We have chosen to support MBS, but if he loses out, we will be at a great disadvantage.
re: #222 The Vicious Babushka
The whole reason Twitler wants the wall is a monument to himself. He knows that gold-plated statues can be pulled down the second he is out of office, but “The Wall” can last as long as the Great Wall Of China.
Not if it’s built by a no-bid government contractor, using papier mache.
re: #208 CongoJack
Dog I hate snakes. Why cant a crazy cult use bunnies instead.
Then they wouldn’t be crazy.
Total engagement. pic.twitter.com/oJw56CXI5q
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 11, 2018
Some part—I don’t know how much—of the RW evangelical movement is a death cult. Nothing matters as long as it hastens end times.
TRUMP: “If I needed the votes for the wall in the House, I would have them in one session.”
PELOSI: “Well then go do it!” 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/Fe3P8mEpXh— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 11, 2018
For those of you just tuning in here’s the footage of the Pelosi/Trump confrontation just now pic.twitter.com/sfMCpvbInP
— In The Blake Midwinter 🎅 (@abradacabla) December 11, 2018
This Trump-Pelosi-Schumer argument demonstrates exactly why Republicans hate Nancy Pelosi with a passion.
She is utterly tenacious, unyielding, unflappable and CANNOT be bullied.
Her non-reactivity is also a narcissist’s worst nightmare. It strips them of all power.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 11, 2018
re: #226 Decatur Deb
Cheap papier mache. The wall is less the monument to himself and more the MacGuffin that he uses to keep his base riled up. If it’s ever actually made it will be a Trump Steak (tm) of a wall.
As opposed to the much more likely case in which he relabels existing bits of border fence as “the Wall” knowing that his rubes have embraced the idea that it’s somehow a win even if there’s no tangible win because IA IA SUNK COST FALLACY FTHAGN.
Because apparently we live in the ten level of hell, which is operated by MLM boosters. Virgil’s tours are now part of the gig economy and he’s selling LuLuRoe on the side.
Trump: “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck.” pic.twitter.com/qFO6MaWOO0
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) December 11, 2018
Guys I cannot tell you how satisfying it was to see the newly empowered Nancy Pelosi drag Trump’s stupid, childish ass.
— In The Blake Midwinter 🎅 (@abradacabla) December 11, 2018
re: #233 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
Cheap papier mache. The wall is less the monument to himself and more the MacGuffin that he uses to keep his base riled up. If it’s ever actually made it will be a Trump Steak (tm) of a wall.
As opposed to the much more likely case in which he relabels existing bits of border fence as “the Wall” knowing that his rubes have embraced the idea that it’s somehow a win even if there’s no tangible win because IA IA SUNK COST FALLACY FTHAGN.
Because apparently we live in the ten level of hell, which is operated by MLM boosters. Virgil’s tours are now part of the gig economy and he’s selling LuLuRoe on the side.
Trump promised I could live in a gated malebolge.
Hell’s teeth. Pelosi really does rock!
Trump just looked………
……petulant
Of course he will blame them.
Trump gives the Democrats the best soundbite they could possibly hope for: “Yes, if we don’t get what we want…I will shut down the government. … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it.” pic.twitter.com/e4xbjlMvwj
— David Mack (@davidmackau) December 11, 2018
Patronizing Trump is the worst Trump.
Trump: “Nancy’s in a situation where it’s not easy to talk right now”
Pelosi:
“Please don’t characterize the strength that I bring to this meeting”— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) December 11, 2018
Pelosi is having none of it. She’s dragging Trump and Trump doesn’t realize that he’s screwed. Of course, Fox will turn all this around and claim that Trump gained the upper hand - by claiming that the GOP wants a shutdown.
Narrator: The GOP doesn’t want a shutdown again, especially during the holidays. Trump is a fucking moron.
re: #237 451_Montag
Hell’s teeth. Pelosi really does rock!
Trump just looked………
……petulant
While we’re casting about for woman presidential candidates…..
re: #236 Decatur Deb
Trump primissedd I could live in a gated malebolge.
I envision this in the visual vocabulary of the Boschian hellscape.
Which mostly means that somehow the “gated” part is going to involve butt stuff.
re: #229 Barefoot Grin
Some part—I don’t know how much—of the RW evangelical movement is a death cult. Nothing matters as long as it hastens end times.
There’s a pretty significant doomsday cult element to be found in the RW evangelical movement.
That particular segment of RW evangelical Christianity is a doomsday cult, simple as that. And we’ve had doomsday cults since, well, probably the beginning of recorded history. They’ll always find someone to latch onto. It’s been argued that Christianity itself started as a doomsday cult - indeed, the ancient pagan Romans seemed to have viewed it as one and the Romans certainly understood that doomsday cults can be real trouble.
re: #223 CongoJack
The evangelical RW wont be able to hold on to their population long term. It is a slow death, besides which states are purely occupied by evangelicals? Do they always vote in lock step or will they learn as well?
I may be one of the few OK with the 2 senators from each state. My only issue is that DC and US territories should be made into states (or at the least have voting members in both the Senate and House).
I’m fine with Puerto Rico becoming a state (I’d combine PR and the Virgin Islands into one state, but that’s just me); I also agree on DC, but its case is complicated by the previous compromises including the 23rd Amendment - we would have to repeal the 23rd and then cut out what would be the official seat of the federal government, and I’m not sure there’s the national political will for repeal.
The other territories, I think are way to small to become states. Guam has about 165k people, Wyoming (currently the least populous state) by contrast has 579k people. America Samoa and the Northern Marina Islands have 110k people combined, and they are not geographically close enough to make sense as a single state.
As far as 2 Senators go, I’m fine with it if we’re going to remain a bicameral legislature. There are plenty of small states that vote Democratic, so it’s not like every small state votes Republican.
re: #242 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
I envision this in the visual vocabulary of the Boschian hellscape.
Which mostly means that somehow the “gated” part is going to involve butt stuff.
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We can’t all be blowing about in a stiff wind with our sexy Italian gf.
re: #242 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
You know, of everything in that image the bit that sticks with me is the jugs as footwear.
“Walls work very well. Just look at Israel.”
Yeah, okay. The wall in Israel, the Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall… all of them are/were exactly as useful and effective as the staffing that guards the wall. In person. 24-7. Remove the trained and equipped military from that wall, and it’s like it was never even there.
But of course, if we had that kind of manpower at the border, if we had the budget for that many personnel at the border, there’d be no need for a wall.
re: #246 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
You know, of everything in that image the bit that sticks with me is the jugs as footwear.
Well, and the vaguely anthropomorphic bluebird shitting out whole human beings - while wearing jugs as footwear.
re: #190 Teukka
Lizardim… I give you the mind fuck of the week: The Polyganal Electrodynamometer…
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Please resist the temptation to drop the schematic in the RWNJ conspiracy theorist fora on the intertubes…
So, MC Escher is doing tech writing these days? :D
re: #241 Decatur Deb
While we’re casting about for woman presidential candidates…..
I’d prefer somebody too young to qualify yet for Social Security.
re: #246 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
You know, of everything in that image the bit that sticks with me is the jugs as footwear.
And it’s wearing a cauldron for a hat.
re: #248 Dr Lizardo
See, that part I can accept as “huh…guess it’s Hell.”
Jugs as footwear is just a bridge too far.
re: #215 lawhawk
“Evangelical” people. Because they certainly aren’t particularly interested in following the Gospel or Christian teachings generally, but rather fuck you I got mine, and while we’re at it, screw everyone who doesn’t believe as I do and they have to adhere to my religious views.
It’s a politicized version of Christianity, Sullivan used to call it Christianist, which is a term I’ve always liked. Their identities are tied up not only in their religion but their whiteness, and in both cases they see others having space in the body politic as an attack on them, they’ve bought into the persecution complex while also believing that their way is the only way to salvation. That’s a dangerous combination in politics.
re: #198 The Vicious Babushka
Lumpy wants to be the next CoS
I doubt lumpy would even consider a pay cut like that.
re: #254 MsJ
I doubt lumpy would even consider a pay cut like that.
He can be CoS while keeping his gig at Fox. That’s how Trumporrhoids roll!
Ah must be nice to be a rich white kid, rape a girl and get no jail time.
As an added bonus he doesn’t have to register as a sex offender, either.
Forget it Jake, It’s TexASS again…
re: #18 Joe Bacon 🌹
Damn this brings back memories of my 1970 1/2 AMC Gremlin!
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I had a Gremlin, it was the color of wet cement. Windshield defroster didn’t work, 1980 winter in Chicago, I’d get a half inch of ice on the INSIDE of my windshield. Good times.
re: #254 MsJ
I doubt lumpy would even consider a pay cut like that.
He could take the job for like a year, and then negotiate an even bigger contract when he comes back. Or he can create his own media service/app. Plus there’s the added speaking fees for a “former White House Chief of Staff” on the rubber chicken circuit.
If you look at it as a short term capital investment, it could make sense.
Trump’s gotta be a masochist.
Only reason he held that beatdown.
re: #257 Maddies Mom
I had a Gremlin, it was the color of wet cement. Windshield defroster didn’t work, 1980 winter in Chicago, I’d get a half inch of ice on the INSIDE of my windshield. Good times.
First time I heard “Bohemian Rhapsody” was driving in an AMC Gremlin between Gary and Merrillville, Indiana, with my buddy Tom, who had long blonde hair and horned rimmed glasses just like Garth from Wayne’s World…
We did not headbang.
re: #256 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ah must be nice to be a rich white kid, rape a girl and get no jail time.
As an added bonus he doesn’t have to register as a sex offender, either.
Forget it Jake, It’s TexASS again…
Tough on crime*
*Not available to white men of status.
re: #259 Varek Raith
Trump’s gotta be a masochist.
Only reason he held that beatdown.
Nah, he’s just an idiot. Probably thinks he won, like the proverbial pigeon playing chess
re: #252 Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea
See, that part I can accept as “huh…guess it’s Hell.”
Jugs as footwear is just a bridge too far.
I’m sure it’s just soaking its feet in a soothing lotion - maybe Palmolive.
Trump threatens Pelosi by claiming Trump has numbers to pass his boondoggle idiot wall.
Pelosi is having none of it. She’s all: put up or shut up.
Trump tries the patronizing crap on Pelosi and fails.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 11, 2018
That is entirely on Trump and the GOP - no one else. Trump’s negotiating skill is vaporware as usual. He doesn’t know the facts, logic, or rationale of what he’s doing, and thinks he can bluster his way through a meeting like this.
Pelosi shows that’s impossible.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 11, 2018
re: #263 KGxvi
Nah, he’s just an idiot. Probably thinks he won, like the proverbial pigeon playing chess
Fox will replay that on loop claiming that Trump showed strength in face of Democrats’ weakness on immigration.
Never mind that Trump doesn’t have the votes.
re: #250 sagehen
I’d prefer somebody too young to qualify yet for Social Security.
So I should disband my exploratory committee.
re: #265 lawhawk
Government shut down just in time for Christmas?
Worst “It’s A Wonderful Life” remake, ever.
re: #267 Decatur Deb
So I should disband my exploratory committee.
I’m sure you’d make an excellent Secretary of HUD. Or Ambassador to the UN, you’re already more qualified than the foxbot Trump wants to give that job to.
Kevin McCarthy says Democrats shouldn’t focus on investigating Trump https://t.co/t45xyfVdnn
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 10, 2018
Kevin McCarthy once said the purpose of congressional oversight was to bring down Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers.
When Trump was elected, he and his colleagues refused to do ANY oversight of this administration’s malfeasance.
Not sure he should be giving advice on the matter. https://t.co/iJqgEowqM3— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) December 11, 2018
And people wanted to replace Pelosi as Speaker, why, exactly?
Imagine some noob in that meeting. Trump would have bulled right over whoever it was.
Jennifer Rubin: Jared Kushner did what?
WaPo
re: #272 retired cynic
Jennifer Rubin: Jared Kushner did what?
WaPo
Kushner just opened the floodgates to investigating his family’s financial dealings re: Saudi Arabia.
He’s put his personal profits and finances ahead of national security, US foreign policy, and operational security by giving the Saudi sociopath MBS the notion that it’s okay to murder a US citizen with no repercussions.
re: #273 lawhawk
Kushner just opened the floodgates to investigating his family’s financial dealings re: Saudi Arabia.
He’s put his personal profits and finances ahead of national security, US foreign policy, and operational security by giving the Saudi sociopath MBS the notion that it’s okay to murder a US citizen with no repercussions.
us resident, not citizen
re: #272 retired cynic
Jennifer Rubin: Jared Kushner did what?
WaPo
FFS, he’s such a dumbass. Maybe as dumb as Trump.
Everything is so infuriating. Here is something pretty.
Over 2.5 Acres of Projected Images and Videos Illuminate Chicago’s Riverfront
re: #275 Varek Raith
FFS, he’s such a dumbass. Maybe as dumb as Trump.
Dumber. Trump, Ivanka, Eric, Don Jr… they were born into the family. Kushner joined of his own free will.
re: #277 KGxvi
Dumber. Trump, Ivanka, Eric, Don Jr… they were born into the family. Kushner joined of his own free will.
Haha, brutal.
re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You’re right. He was a US resident, and was seeking US citizenship when he was murdered at the direction of MBS.
re: #279 lawhawk
You’re right. He was a US resident, and was seeking US citizenship when he was murdered at the direction of MBS.
extraterritorial, extrajudicial executions
just like the good old days…
re: #276 retired cynic
That’s so cool.
San Antonio has something similar called Luminaria, where they have all kinds of art installations and lighting displays. Pretty spectacular stuff, and some of it is interactive.
Quebec City also does something similar. And they turned a bunch of their street lights into these awesome lampshade fixtures.
This is the incredible moment when @NancyPelosi and @SenSchumer maneuver Trump into taking blame for shutdown. pic.twitter.com/vhny69mcZt
— Tommy Keep Christ In Xtopher (@tommyxtopher) December 11, 2018
TRUMP: Rabbit Season!SCHUMER: Duck Season!TRUMP: Rabbit Season!SCHUMER (side-eyes camera): Rabbit Season!TRUMP: Duck Season!SCHUMER: RABBIT SEASON!TRUMP: DUCK SEASON FIRE! https://t.co/pnsrkOEPG1
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) December 11, 2018
Yup. pic.twitter.com/xrBfPRE7cA
— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) December 11, 2018
re: #281 lawhawk
That’s so cool.
San Antonio has something similar called Luminaria, where they have all kinds of art installations and lighting displays. Pretty spectacular stuff, and some of it is interactive.
Quebec City also does something similar. And they turned a bunch of their street lights into these awesome lampshade fixtures.
Frankfurt does that as well
10 people want the job of Chief of Staff.
10 terrorists were just caught at the border.
I think we have established what his bluffing tell is.— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) December 11, 2018
re: #282 Archangelus
In the still, Pence looks like he’s just thinking “gosh darn fiddlesticks, this guy really isn’t that smart, is he?”
.@realDonaldTrump has the Senate, the White House, and the House (for the moment) under Republican control. He has the power to keep government open – but instead, he says he’s going to shut down the government. #TrumpShutdown pic.twitter.com/Pdbo4rH0sG
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) December 11, 2018
Oi
Leave the chicken alone 😂pic.twitter.com/3M14JeDTVb— CCTV IDIOTS (@cctv_idiots) December 11, 2018
re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
First time I heard “Bohemian Rhapsody” was driving in an AMC Gremlin between Gary and Merrillville, Indiana, with my buddy Tom, who had long blonde hair and horned rimmed glasses just like Garth from Wayne’s World…
We did not headbang.
On the subject of cars - the worst car I ever had was a 1987 Jaguar XJ6. I seriously contemplated setting it on fire and rolling it off a cliff. I hated that fucking thing.
Best car I ever had was a 1989 Volvo 245. Absolutely bulletproof.
This photo was really from the Trump-Pelosi-Schumer fight today. Can someone please check to see if Mike Pence is actually still alive or is this a “Weekend at Bernies” type scenario where they just prop up Pence at meetings. pic.twitter.com/EX1qJvP5ft
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) December 11, 2018
re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth
Now in this one, he looks like he’s doing the serenity prayer.
I liked how the more Shumer openly laughed in the moron’s face, the angrier the moron got.
The most important bottom line here: this shouldn’t be a conversation about U.S. taxpayers funding a wall that Trump vowed - repeatedly - that Mexico would pay for, with his supporters chanting their complete and unambiguous understanding of that promise. https://t.co/kFf54AZU8N
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 11, 2018
On photo op argument with @POTUS, Pelosi said “we didn’t want to contradict the president when he was putting forth figures that had no reality to them. No basis in fact.” Says she didn’t want to tell him in front of press, “you don’t know what you’re taking about.” pic.twitter.com/Zz5FBfMhBL
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) December 11, 2018
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
What you did there, Speaker-designate Pelosi, it has been seen, it has been noted, it has been approved
Outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly seemed amused by the heated argument between Trump, Pelosi and Schumer and also by what @POTUS said about having lots of people who want the Chief of Staff job. pic.twitter.com/2LltBlLJxE
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) December 11, 2018
“This temper tantrum he seems to throw,” says @SenSchumer of @POTUS after meeting on border wall, “will not get him his wall and it’ll hurt a lot of people because it will cause a shutdown.” pic.twitter.com/W89Ktka2Wa
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) December 11, 2018
Pelosi and Schumer issue joint written statement after border wall meeting with @POTUS: “We gave the president two options that would keep the government open. It’s his choice to accept one of those options or shut the government down.”
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) December 11, 2018
This might answer a few questions https://t.co/LatNkbazL5
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) December 11, 2018
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) December 11, 2018
re: #296 Backwoods_Sleuth
Interesting to note that the Democrats do not have the majority in the House or Senate, but everyone is treating them as the majority - press included.
Reminder: They’re in the minority in the House (until January) and the Senate (until 2021 at the earliest). That Trump thinks he has to cut a deal with both to get his boondoggle wall shows that he’s negotiating from a position of weakness already - he doesn’t have the GOP votes sewn up and thinks he can bully the Democrats into giving him the funds (they wont).
Trump is really a stunningly awful negotiator. He telegraphs his positions from a mile away and when he doesn’t get what he wants, he blusters and holds his breath. As always, his body language shows he’s done fucked himself again.
re: #276 retired cynic
I used to work at the company that’s doing those projections.
re: #239 The Vicious Babushka
Schumer is barely containing his laughter. He is thrilled.
re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Frankfurt does that as well
They do a big artistic light show thing in Ghent, Belgium this time of year as well. Guess they’re all over the place now.
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