A Theme You Might Remember, Reinterpreted by Chris Thile and the Live From Here Band: “Linus and Lucy”
More from this week’s show: https://www.livefromhere.org/shows/2018/12/22/rosanne-cash-the-knights-jim-breuer
More from this week’s show: https://www.livefromhere.org/shows/2018/12/22/rosanne-cash-the-knights-jim-breuer
Is anyone really surprised that there was some sleight of hand involved in Trump’s “bone spur” diagnosis? Why is this any kind of topic of discussion?
Among the things I despise about the POTUS, this is not in the top 50. At least he didn’t get out of Vietnam and then later claim that he had “longed to be there” the way Mitt Romney did.
Trump had a physical in 1966 and was declared available for service. Then in 1968, he was suddenly diagnosed with bone spurs that allowed him to dodge the draft. Enter Dr. Larry Braunstein, a foot doctor who rented his office from Trump’s dad, Fred Trump. https://t.co/hktFXVRJWV
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 26, 2018
By contrast: Robert Mueller had a physical in 1966, was told his knees were too busted to deploy, spent a year repairing them, and deployed to Vietnam in 1968. More here: https://t.co/0GXz1CTiCU https://t.co/QE72NRcgcH
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) December 26, 2018
President Trump and the First Lady traveled to Iraq late on Christmas night to visit with our troops and Senior Military leadership to thank them for their service, their success, and their sacrifice and to wish them a Merry Christmas. pic.twitter.com/s2hntnRwpw
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 26, 2018
Credit where credit is due. Kudos to Trump for going. https://t.co/edAaW7iYBC
— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) December 26, 2018
On the other hand,Trump managed on one short trip to lie about the troops’ pay increase, to lead them to violate the rule against political activity by signing his campaign gear, & to expose the identity of Navy SEALs, perhaps endangering their lives. I’d say its a wash at best. https://t.co/zzw36h4gUt
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) December 27, 2018
The numbers are all fking fake, the metrics are bullshit, the agencies responsible for enforcing good practices are knowing bullshiters enforcing and profiting off all the fake numbers and none of the models make sense at scale of actual human users. https://t.co/sfmdrxGBNJ pic.twitter.com/thvicDEL29
— Aram Zucker-Scharff (@Chronotope) December 26, 2018
Accurate summary. https://t.co/07YMVgNjqN
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 27, 2018
Left behind on the last thread:
re: #280 Anymouse 🌹
Flying off the topic a minute, to discuss YouTube advert alogrithms.
I do not have a YouTube account, so I get mostly random adverts (except those based specifically on Missouri, I presume pulled from my ISP’s location).
I was watching a video in which the word “corn” appears several times, though the topic of the video was not about corn.
I got four adverts for corn seed suppliers or farm equipment suppliers (selling grain drills).
I agree with William. That was fun.
I like Thile in that he is a very accomplished serious musician, but doesn’t seem to take himself too seriously. He can be goofy and get into the spirit of the fun. Loved it.
Good musicians all around in that.
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹
Left behind on the last thread:
If you YT Last Tango in Paris, you get ads for butter and margarine.
So the president of the US makes his first official visit to Iraq in more than two years, and doesn’t even bother to meet with the Prime Minister of Iraq?
Yes, that sounds like Donald Trump.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 27, 2018
CNN talking about Trump signing campaign hats for the troops, hats saying “Trump 2020” and “Make America Great Again.” Completely inappropriate politicization of the troops.
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) December 26, 2018
“Guys, c’mon. If I HAVE to visit the troops, it at least has to be personally profitable for me. I mean, c’mon.” https://t.co/FRf6Yw6xG7
— New Jack City (@AggieJack4) December 27, 2018
David Sirota 12/9/2018: My former places of employment have no influence on my current work
David Sirota 12/26/2018: This journalist’s former places of employment are totally influencing their current work
*kisses fingers* pic.twitter.com/0l2LSTG1Yi— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) December 27, 2018
re: #12 Patricia Kayden
That is entirely inappropriate.
Look for the GOP to condemn this [who am I kidding]
Fucking David Sirota back again. The creepy bad penny.
I remarked the other day that Trump seemed to be just ticking off boxes on his checklist for the 2020 campaign and here we are again, turning a visit to the troops that was long overdue into a campaign photo-op. He went there for a 2 hour photo-shoot which he’ll be using in campaign flyers and ads come next year.
re: #16 Targetpractice
I remarked the other day that Trump seemed to be just ticking off boxes on his checklist for the 2020 campaign and here we are again, turning a visit to the troops that was long overdue into a campaign photo-op. He went there for a 2 hour photo-shoot which he’ll be using in campaign flyers and ads come next year.
And there’s the rub: The soldiers depicted in photographs may not object to their use in such a way. Regardless of whether they support or oppose Donald Trump, their photos are essentially public property.
You then wind up with the problem of a person used in an advert for a reëlection campaign, even if that person opposes Trump’s reëlection.
Fetishising Mueller as the guy to fix all of America’s government turmoil is just QAnon for libs
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) December 27, 2018
re: #18 DodgerFan1988
Fetishising Mueller as the guy to fix all of America’s government turmoil is just QAnon for libs
Starting to appreciate the turmoil. What if Trump, the GOP, and his 40% were sliding through this on a smooth, slick course?
Bruenig’s piece in the Post on Beto is just the latest attack by a supporter of Senator Sanders on Beto: joining Jilani, Jacobin and Sirota. Feels a bit orchestrated and clearly they are worried.
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) December 6, 2018
This was the one that took Bernieland’s “Beto is like Obama … so he’s bad!” frame mainstream. May be hurting Sanders numbers now. Folks don’t dig it. https://t.co/nffL2Gqad7
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) December 26, 2018
re: #18 DodgerFan1988
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Don’t quite agree with the comparison but entirely agree with the sentiment, which is why the people who have marched and run for office - and their helpers - rank way above those who hope Mueller fixes everything.
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We had a really good Christmas.
Private because they involve people besides me.
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re: #20 Patricia Kayden
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For comparison’s sake, Hillary didn’t announce her 2016 run until the middle of 2015. Yet here we are, not even 2019, and already the BernieBros have begun a coordinated attack against the one man they view as their biggest threat for the youth vote.
re: #18 DodgerFan1988
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Fetishising Mueller as the guy to fix all of America’s government turmoil is just QAnon for libs
Deal (take it any way you like)
The Kennedy Center Honors was just on; Mnuchin and Flake were there.
“2017 was the deadliest year for civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria, with as many as 6,000 people killed in strikes conducted by the U.S.-led coalition, according to the watchdog group Airwars. [An] increase of more than 200% over the previous year.”https://t.co/IkLHSd4GH3
— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) December 27, 2018
re: #20 Patricia Kayden
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She’s had three attacks on him in the past month. They’re definitely threatened by him.
These attacks on Beto are going to backfire on Bernie and his stooges.
re: #28 HappyWarrior
It’s bullshit and Tracey knows it.
He doesn’t care. He’s in the same basket as Goodman. Both want to see it all burn down.
re: #23 Targetpractice
For comparison’s sake, Hillary didn’t announce her 2016 run until the middle of 2015. Yet here we are, not even 2019, and already the BernieBros have begun a coordinated attack against the one man they view as their biggest threat for the youth vote.
They’re scared to death of Beto because Beto is more likable than Bernie will ever be. And though they’ll never admit it, Bernie ain’t likable.
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
These attacks on Beto are going to backfire on Bernie and his stooges.
One certainly hopes so.
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
These attacks on Beto are going to backfire on Bernie and his stooges.
They are. They’re showing their hand. After Trump himself, no one will miss running against Clinton more than Bernie will.
“All flights are rerouted due to #AnakKrakatau volcano ash on red alert,” the government air-traffic control agency AirNav said.https://t.co/PLYKMSdMxE#Tsunami #PrayForIndonesia
— New Straits Times (@NST_Online) December 27, 2018
re: #32 calochortus
One certainly hopes so.
I think it will. Certainly Beto deserves to have his record looked at but this will open the floodgates on Bernie’s lack of transparency regarding his and Jane’s taxes and his own shitty record on immigration.
re: #30 Joe Bacon 🌹
He doesn’t care. He’s in the same basket as Goodman. Both want to see it all burn down.
They just don’t give a fucking shit. Fucking bros are the worst.
re: #18 DodgerFan1988
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I’m guilty of that, tbh. It’s hard not to idolize Mueller when Trump appears to be getting away with so much mess.
7 more days to go before Nancy opens the House and the subpoenas start flying to the Oval Office.
re: #38 Joe Bacon 🌹
7 more days to go before Nancy opens the House and the subpoenas start flying to the Oval Office.
It will be a long 7 days for me. I take comfort in the fact it will presumably be a longer 7 days for Trump.
I expect him to double down on the stupid by next Wednesday.
The fun is really going to come when Maxine gets those tax returns and makes them public!
Grrr. Spent all of yesterday and most of today off Firefox, which is where I keep my LGF and Twitter tabs, in order to import my old computer’s profile to my new beast (it’s a 900-buck laptop that’s VR-ready!), and after all that I still didn’t do it right and ate my old profile entirely. I could have been posting these next couple, 6 hours ago!
With today’s news that #Shitler’s bone spurs were never real, I find myself wishing even more than before that #ProjectQuantumLeap WERE and that somebody could Leap into Fred Trump’s pet podiatrist and keep him from giving the diagnosis.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 26, 2018
For the record, I see #OrangeMenace as such a failure at life that there was no way he was coming home alive if he had to go to Vietna on active duty. So my anger isn’t so much “I hate him as a draft-dodger” as #ForWantOfANail, the world was lost”.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) December 26, 2018
Man, Trump is really going to lose his fucking mind when the Dem House takes over.
re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, Trump is really going to lose his fucking mind when the Dem House takes over.
He has a mind, fucking or otherwise, now?
It’s impossible to convey my love for LGF’s edit button with words.
In today’s press release, Indonesian Authorities confirm that most of #AnakKrakatau have “dissapeared”, as a result of the collapse on the 22th December. It was this collapse/landslide that caused the Tsunami. 1/2https://t.co/WybSUbhQGU
— Øystein L. Andersen (@OysteinLAnderse) December 27, 2018
#Indonesian_volcanoes [UPDATE] - From @OysteinLAnderse & @id_magma, it’s confirmed that most of Anak #Krakatau have “disappeared”. #Indonesia #volcano #update #volcanoeers #collapsed #disaster https://t.co/coL2CGEqX6
— Desianto F. Wibisono (@TDesiantoFW) December 27, 2018
Italy’s Mt Etna shakes Sicily after eruptions trigger magnitude-4.8 earthquake (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Ten people were injured in the earthquake, and several towns damaged (the article includes some photos). Experts say that the volcano is now calming down.
Man kicks black toddler and yells racial slurs at Kansas supermarket https://t.co/SQUMslTNpv
— Raw Story (@RawStory) December 27, 2018
Just a matter of time before Fox News and Breitbart will say the black toddler “instigated the encounter” and “the man feared for his life.”
re: #49 DodgerFan1988
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Just a matter of time before Fox News and Breitbart will say the black toddler “instigated the encounter” and “the man feared for his life.”
To be fair, toddlers can be scary. They’re short and maneuverable so they get in and out fast…
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re: #51 Dave In Austin
Adult rain in CenTex tonite.
We’re getting weird weather here. I ran some errands at about 9:00 and we we’re getting lots of big fluffy scenic snowflakes. It’s still snowing now but the temp is going up overnight and the snow is supposed to turn to rain soon and continue as rain all day tomorrow. We rarely get ice storms here so I’m hoping that we don’t get ice tonight. I have a doctor appointment tomorrow morning so I need to be out in it.
re: #49 DodgerFan1988
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Just a matter of time before Fox News and Breitbart will say the black toddler “instigated the encounter” and “the man feared for his life.”
Dear Tweaker:
Have you ever considered Oxy as your new drug of choice? Shoot about 5 shots of fireball whiskey and down about five of those babies, and you will have the best high of your life!
Do it alone, away from friends.
{Sorry, not sorry.}
I’ve heard farmers and Native Americans use it. My Brother and I reference it when comparing notes, he’s 80mi. south. HEAVY soaking rain.
re: #29 Joe Bacon 🌹
These attacks on Beto are going to backfire on Bernie and his stooges.
The Bernie people are irredeemable. Their goal is to damage any potential contender; I don’t know that they will accept anyone other than Bernie as the nominee.
We’re supposed to get major rain here tonight and tomorrow. Supposed to get up to 60 tomorrow, which is seriously warm, and may trigger some pretty decent storms. I’m driving tomorrow, so hope it keeps itself under control!
re: #51 Dave In Austin
Adult rain in CenTex tonite.
We’ve been getting heavy rain here in Rockwall since about six. The flash flood warning should have just ended.
re: #59 austin_blue
The Navajo call it “male” and “female” rain. Male rain is the summer monsoon/thunderstorm season. Female rain is the winter over-running fronts that result in soft precipitation.
What is pushing into Austin now is a squall-line rain complex that we normally see in September or October. This is a rare event for December. It’s also really damn warm. Thunder to the west, on its way.
re: #60 Dave In Austin
We got hail up on the N. Shore of LT
I have no doubt. That line has got a shit-pot of energy in it, and it’s REAL tall.
re: #63 Belafon
We’ve been getting heavy rain here in Rockwall since about six. The flash flood warning should have just ended.
Hail or just heavy precipitation?
MSNBC beats Fox News for first time since 2000 https://t.co/MoiuizdGGX
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 27, 2018
re: #66 austin_blue
Hail or just heavy precipitation?
Just a lot of rain here on the east side of DFW. Don’t know about the other side.
re: #67 Patricia Kayden
Ohhh, Lumpy is going to be butthurt about that.
I have close to 2 inches in the gauge for the day. Bet I do 3-3.5 before it’s over. I’m in the middle of the stream now…..
I got to ski for an hour today. It was soft and fluffy, and I skied the double black diamond terrain on the east ridge for the first time this winter. There were a lot of face shots.
re: #71 teleskiguy
I got to ski for an hour today. It was soft and fluffy, and I skied the double black diamond terrain on the east ridge for the first time. There were a lot of face shots.
Where are you this year?
I was hootin’ and hollerin’ in utter joy for a minute today.
re: #72 austin_blue
Where are you this year?
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Charlie Kirk fights like Trump, he stares down Antifa thugs in the streets, and he owns the libs like no one else. That is why Kirk is a 2018 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year! https://t.co/yXsjvT6Z1l pic.twitter.com/JCSXTwZrcu
— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) December 26, 2018
Seriously. Who the F is @charliekirk11? Is he one of those Milo, Ben Shapiro clones? I’m an adult & I have never ever, ever heard of him. How much Military service/combat does he have? Zero. Like all cowards, he “owns” the libs but hides from the Taliban & ISIS. #NoManCardHere https://t.co/1X3ulZOfS3
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) December 27, 2018
Meanwhile no rain projected in the 15 day forecast for Los Angeles.
re: #75 Dave In Austin
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Fights like Trump? Ahh — true that. Kirk lies, runs off at the mouth, and never physically confronts his opponents, but is happy to insult them.
re: #64 austin_blue
What is pushing into Austin now is a squall-line rain complex that we normally see in September or October. This is a rare event for December. It’s also really damn warm. Thunder to the west, on its way.
So, in response to this I thought I’d check the El Nino forecast page… and what do I find???
re: #70 Dave In Austin
I have close to 2 inches in the gauge for the day. Bet I do 3-3.5 before it’s over. I’m in the middle of the stream now…..
We’ve had just a steady drizzle today until the last 20 minutes. It’s really beginning to roar into town now. A lot of horizontal rain. The donder and blitzen is still about five miles west. Interesting to see if it hangs together.
As you know these squall lines have a tendency to come apart as they cross the Balcones Fault complex, which drops the elevation almost 1000 feet. That loss of elevation often tears the thunderheads to pieces temporarilly, only to re-form east of Austin and beat the fuck out of Bastrop and points east.
Right now, the squall line appears to be losing strength to the west and north, and maintaining strength south of downtown as it sweeps east. Very loud out there.
The last prediction had a weak El Nino continuing until the middle of next year:
Equatorial Pacific sea surface continues to show above average temps:
re: #81 austin_blue
Gateway to Carbondale!
Crystal Movie Theater on Main Street still screens art house flicks and independent films. And their radio station KDNK plays pretty kickin’ ass music.
re: #82 teleskiguy
Crystal Movie Theater on Main Street still screens art house flicks and independent films. And their radio station KDNK plays pretty kickin’ ass music.
Sweet!
And the thunderheads are reforming. Two downtown towers just took strikes. Really loud. It’s raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock.
re: #83 austin_blue
Sweet!
And the thunderheads are reforming. Two downtown towers just took strikes. Really loud. It’s raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock.
That saying is very common around here, which is up in rural Illinois. Interesting that it has such a national reach.
re: #84 retired cynic
That saying is very common around here, which is up in rural Illinois. Interesting that it has such a national reach.
It’s a great visual that everyone understands.
At least, those who have seen a cow pissing on a flat rock.
Impressive precipitation.
;-)
When Pelosi takes the gavel she should pass a continuing funding resolution with exactly one dollar allocated for wall funding, just to take the piss.
— Very Legal & Very Cool Frank (@goddamnedfrank) December 27, 2018
re: #86 goddamnedfrank
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Personally think she should go ahead and C&P the current Senate CR (the one that passed last week with unanimous consent) and then put it to the full House for a vote. So that, when it gets to Mitch’s desk, she can then challenge him to explain why the bill was good enough for Senate Repubs just two weeks prior, but now is unacceptable to them.
re: #86 goddamnedfrank
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I think she is going to come in with a comprehensive budget for the entire year and present it to the House Appropriations Committee on Day one, which will get passed to the House on Day two and then will be passed to the Senate on Day three.
At which time Mitch will shit his pants. January sixth is the day that Drumpf plays chicken.
For the first time ever, the United States has been added to Reporters Without Borders’ list of the most dangerous countries for journalists.
The US is listed as the 5th most dangerous country, coming in right behind Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, & Mexico.https://t.co/7H6fngw6YB— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) December 27, 2018
re: #87 Targetpractice
Personally think she should go ahead and C&P the current Senate CR (the one that passed last week with unanimous consent) and then put it to the full House for a vote. So that, when it gets to Mitch’s desk, she can then challenge him to explain why the bill was good enough for Senate Repubs just two weeks prior, but now is unacceptable to them.
This is also an excellent option! But less bold. Might be better, might not.
But if she wants to go full smashmouth, she can go with the budget she has had in her pocket for years.
re: #89 Single-handed sailor
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But still ahead of the Philippines? That doesn’t sound right.
re: #90 austin_blue
This is also an excellent option! But less bold. Might be better, might not.
But if she wants to go full smashmouth, she can go with the budget she has had in her pocket for years.
Might be better to save it for Feb, when the temporary CR is supposed to expire. Make it clear by voting on the Senate CR that the GOP are covering for Donny’s ass on the wall, rather than turning this into a fight over appropriations for the entirety of the gov’t.
re: #91 sagehen
But still ahead of the Philippines? That doesn’t sound right.
5 journalists killed in US.
re: #92 Targetpractice
Might be better to save it for Feb, when the temporary CR is supposed to expire. Make it clear by voting on the Senate CR that the GOP are covering for Donny’s ass on the wall, rather than turning this into a fight over appropriations for the entirety of the gov’t.
Excellent point.
Oh!, and I got a Stonekettle Station pen from Santa!
I am very happy.
She Who Must Be Obeyed got an absolutely gorgeous lapis lazuli pendant with a 3mm yellow sapphire on the clasp in 14 carat gold. She is also very happy.
We understand each other. It makes a marriage work. It will be twenty five years in May.
re: #93 Single-handed sailor
5 journalists killed in US.
And that was really sad, but any list without Russia far ahead of the US is suspect.
re: #95 austin_blue
Oh!, and I got a Stonekettle Station pen from Santa!
I am very happy.
She Who Must Be Obeyed got an absolutely gorgeous lapis lazuli pendant with a 3mm yellow sapphire on the clasp in 14 carat gold. She is also very happy.
We understand each other. It makes a marriage work. It will be twenty five years in May.
What day? Ours is the 16th and will be 25 years as well.
CHRISTMAS IS OVER TAKE THESE DECORATIONS DOWN KAREN pic.twitter.com/DKb1BMZWfv
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) December 26, 2018
Ann’s been hitting the sauce a wee too much.
Is hating on #Kwanzaa a thing among conservatives?
It’s a Black American creation based on African principles - which most of us barely observe though the ideas are perfectly positive enough.
Lol some snowflakes on the right are triggered by this because?— Rob Smith 🇺🇸 (@robsmithonline) December 26, 2018
Know your history: Kwanzaa is the creation of the FBI’s COINTELPRO. https://t.co/xqw6BfbwHC
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 26, 2018
re: #100 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Ann’s been hitting the sauce a wee too much.
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Does she have a job anymore?
re: #11 Charles Johnson
So the president of the US makes his first official visit to Iraq in more than two years, and doesn’t even bother to meet with the Prime Minister of Iraq?
Yes, that sounds like Donald Trump.
A visit like that has to be kept secret until the last moment due to security concerns and we have no idea how compromised the information network in Iraq is.
re: #18 DodgerFan1988
Fetishising Mueller as the guy to fix all of America’s government turmoil is just QAnon for libs
Except that he produces verifiable results and not just unfounded and self-contradicting conspiracy theories…
re: #100 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Is hating on #Kwanzaa a thing among conservatives?
It’s a Black American creation based on African principles - which most of us barely observe though the ideas are perfectly positive enough.
Lol some snowflakes on the right are triggered by this because?
ostensibly because it is “artificial” and “created by liberals” but there seem to be some other deeper reasons for their rather visceral disregard for it…
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
ostensibly because it is “artificial” and “created by liberals” but there seem to be some other deeper reasons for their rather visceral disregard for it…
Indeed.
Honestly, they accuse liberals of being snowflakes, yet every RWNJ seizes upon the most petty things to be outraged about. No one is forcing them to observe Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah, Festivus, pagan Solstice celebrations, whatever. The mere existence of such holidays is all that it takes to enrage them.
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Except that he produces verifiable results and not just unfounded and self-contradicting conspiracy theories…
Mueller himself is silent. His team doesn’t leak. Every hint comes from those who are called to testify before Mueller or court documents. We know nothing until a case goes to court, where some information is revealed — and other information is redacted. It can be as cryptic as QAnon at least until Mueller is ready to take a case to trial.
re: #107 Hecuba’s daughter
Mueller himself is silent. His team doesn’t leak. Every hint comes from those who are called to testify before Mueller or court documents. We know nothing until a case goes to court, where some information is revealed — and other information is redacted. It can be as cryptic as QAnon at least until Mueller is ready to take a case to trial.
and it is driving us to distraction: we want bombshells and sensation and massive leaks but Mueller is playing his cards so close to his chest that he will have to have them surgically removed from his rib cage.
re: #106 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Indeed.
Honestly, they accuse liberals of being snowflakes, yet every RWNJ seizes upon the most petty things to be outraged about. No one is forcing them to observe Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah, Festivus, pagan Solstice celebrations, whatever. The mere existence of such holidays is all that it takes to enrage them.
I will paraphrase this from a comment I left on Anymouse’s page on why pagans celebrate Christmas:
I have no problem with Christians choosing the Winter Solstice to celebrate the birth of their Savior. And I have absolutely no problem with their message of Peace on Earth and Good Will to Everyone.
But I get annoyed at their notion that they have some sort of exclusive claim to the season or its (often pagan) traditions and rituals
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A visit like that has to be kept secret until the last moment due to security concerns and we have no idea how compromised the information network in Iraq is.
That works both ways though, I’m sure it wouldn’t be that hard for us to figure out when the optimum time would be for the President to drop in on the the Iraqi PM, if that was our goal.
re: #110 goddamnedfrank
That works both ways though, I’m sure it wouldn’t be that hard for us to figure out when the optimum time would be for the President to drop in on the the Iraqi PM, if that was our goal.
No, the goal was to get the toddler out of the house for a few hours…
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No, the goal was to get the toddler out of the house for a few hours…
The WH equivalent of taking little Donnie to the mall for an hour or two to tire him out.
Lastly — here’s how Trump re-enacted conversations with his military leaders/advisers about leaving Syria which concludes with him saying, “Nope. I gave you a lot of ‘six months.’” It was too complicated for a series of tweets so just read the attached. pic.twitter.com/RGlftMB3tn
— Ali Rogin (@AliABCNews) December 26, 2018
re: #113 Single-handed sailor
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re: #22 calochortus
We had a really good Christmas.
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re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, Trump is really going to lose his fucking mind when the Dem House takes over.
You are assuming facts not in evidence. He has no mind to lose.
So, looks like MSNBC has beat FNC for the first time in 17 years.
MSNBC beat out Fox News last week in key ratings for first time in 17 years, topping its competitors in total average viewers for the first time since 2000, according to a news release from MSNBC.
MSNBC averaged 1,558,000 total viewers during the “sales day” (6 a.m. to 2 a.m.) between Dec. 17-21, while Fox News averaged 1,541,000 total viewers. CNN, meanwhile, averaged 975,000.Among people between the ages of 25 and 54, a key demographic for cable news networks, MSNBC also finished the week as the No. 1.
In prime time (8 p.m. to 11 p.m.), MSNBC continued to lead Fox News and CNN in total viewers and among that key age group for the fourth week in a row.
I suspect that it’s because FNC viewers skew older - and to put it quite frankly, it’s a matter of attrition through simple mortality. FNC’s viewer demographic is - quite literally - dying off.
No raccoon left behind.#Teamwork pic.twitter.com/msb1ELfKoM
— Akki (@AkkiJ_) December 26, 2018
“Walls work”. - Trump https://t.co/Cw8i6C1JZ9
Someone on @MSNBC was against @SenSanders?! No, say it ain’t so! Of course cable news is talking down Sanders. They can’t stand him because he is against their beloved status quo. Even @CNN has more progressives on-air than MSNBC does. Has anyone ever supported him on-air there?
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) December 27, 2018
moron
Just returned from visiting our troops in Iraq and Germany. One thing is certain, we have incredible people representing our Country - people that know how to win!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2018
Here’s a satellite image of Anak Krakatau; the image on the left was taken before the December 22nd eruption, the image on the right was taken after the eruption. You can clearly see that a large part of Anak Krakatau is gone; that collapse was what triggered the tsunami in the Sunda Strait a few days back.
re: #121 Dr Lizardo
And for scale, those other three islands are the remnants of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption - Anak is the latest volcano to erupt from the caldera.
re: #75 Dave In Austin
Charlie Kirk fights like Trump, he stares down Antifa thugs in the streets, and he owns the libs like no one else. That is why Kirk is a 2018 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year!
— Free Beacon
Sir, this is a McDonald’s drive-thru. May I take your order?
re: #121 Dr Lizardo
Here’s a satellite image of Anak Krakatau; the image on the left was taken before the December 22nd eruption, the image on the right was taken after the eruption. You can clearly see that a large part of Anak Krakatau is gone; that collapse was what triggered the tsunami in the Sunda Strait a few days back.
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Maybe it got moved East of Java?
Start of week: “Oh yeah, all these furloughed employees love my wall and are glad to be going without paychecks to see it built!”
End of week:
Have the Democrats finally realized that we desperately need Border Security and a Wall on the Southern Border. Need to stop Drugs, Human Trafficking,Gang Members & Criminals from coming into our Country. Do the Dems realize that most of the people not getting paid are Democrats?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2018
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Trump’s back after his 3 hour campaign tour stop in Iraq.
And he’s back to his lies.
You’re lying your ass off.
44,000 members of the US Coast Guard are not getting paid thanks to your idiocy. You think all of them are Democrats? You’re a liar and con artist, and you are not getting the wall (which wont solve any of the problems you claim it would).— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 27, 2018
He never stops lying. That’s the thing. His base loves his lies and the cognitive dissonance just grows stronger. It’s like a supermassive black hole of derp. The more Trump lies, the more his base loves him. Do they think this is winning? They’re not benefiting from Trump policies (the trade war hits manufacturing jobs and agriculture - not the tech jobs that power so much of coastal blue states). The lies are nonstop - like with Trump claiming that he oversaw a massive raise in military pay (it was a fraction of what he claimed). And then Trump violates federal law by turning the visit into a campaign stop and to reveal the identities of a SEAL team.
That’s not winning. That’s not improving national security.
That’s the opposite.
He’s a menace. He’s a clear and present danger to American national security. Even some GOP party leaders may acknowledge that in private, but they’re fucking cowards since they will continue to push the Trump position as it is their own. They’ll pack the courts with right wing extremists, even when those judges are ill-qualified, or completely unqualified by the ABA standards. They don’t care what happens to the nation so long as they get to change the course of the courts for the next 40-50 years in an attempt to roll back the social progress we’ve seen to date.
At its core, the GOP is a white nationalist party, and Trump echos/mirrors that white nationalism better than everyone else - mostly because he’s the most vulgar and direct on doing so. The GOP policies are a combination of misogyny and white nationalism because that’s what the GOP does to pander to their base. They think everything will be better if women and minorities lose the rights they’ve gained, and propose that things would be better if we went back in time and rolled back all the rights gained (to say nothing of the safety net that so many take for granted).
Sums it up perfectly pic.twitter.com/ZyuEjv3lI0
— donaldtrumpnewstoday (@irishrygirl) December 26, 2018
re: #126 Targetpractice
Have the Democrats finally realized that we desperately need Border Security and a Wall on the Southern Border. Need to stop Drugs, Human Trafficking,Gang Members & Criminals from coming into our Country. Do the Dems realize that most of the people not getting paid are Democrats?
— Donald J. Trump
Such Presidentital very leadership
re: #75 Dave In Austin
Charlie Kirk fights like Trump, he stares down Antifa thugs in the streets, and he owns the libs like no one else. That is why Kirk is a 2018 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year!
— Free Beacon
Just by the intimidating power of his massive stare-down, he terrifies the Antifa Thugs into submission and cowering fear, such a brave one we have here.
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re: #126 Targetpractice
Start of week: “Oh yeah, all these furloughed employees love my wall and are glad to be going without paychecks to see it built!”
End of week:
Good to know our POTUS doesn’t reduce everything to partisan terms and people or do things for purely partisan purposes.
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re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
So he’s saying not many Republicans work in government?
Smh.
And for the ones who do, meh, they’ll just have to suck it up and sacrifice for the good of The Wall and Border Security.
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Proving once again that everything Trump touches turns to shit.
Politicians from both sides of Iraq’s political divide are calling on parliament to vote to expel U.S. troops. Approximately 5,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Iraq as part of the coalition against the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) group.
Foreign influence has become a hot-button issue in a year that saw supporters of populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr win the largest share of votes in May elections. Al-Sadr has called for curbing U.S. and Iranian involvement in Iraqi affairs.
Mr. Trump spent three hours at a U.S. air base meeting with American troops on an unannounced visit Wednesday. He left without meeting any Iraqi officials.
Lawmakers decried the visit as arrogant and a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.
re: #135 Dr Lizardo
Proving once again that everything Trump touches turns to shit.
Oh, right. Forgot about the Iraqis….
re: #134 jeffreyw
Where’s mah breakfast?
re: #135 Dr Lizardo
Proving once again that everything Trump touches turns to shit.
Maybe DJT would understand if the Iraqis wanted to build a Wall to at least keep out photo-oping miscreants.
Do I get to find out today if my forced* quiet-time is three or five weeks? These are my current guesses as to how long the temper tantrum lasts.
*-I was planning on taking off until the 7th of January, so nothings really different, so far. The kid and I may stay up in the Allegheny mountains until he has to start classes again….
re: #138 Sir John Barron
“understand” is not something we should ever assume the orange shit-goblin can do.
re: #49 DodgerFan1988
Do you not see the supremacy in that dude? I mean, balding, unattractive, unkempt, hateful…what’s not supreme about him?
(if my eyes rolled back any farther, I could see Alaska from my front porch…or something)
re: #49 DodgerFan1988
Just a matter of time before Fox News and Breitbart will say the black toddler “instigated the encounter” and “the man feared for his life.”
Toddler was no doubt wearing a hoodie.
Got this on loop today:
I LOVE YOU❤
#あなたのインコが覚えた言葉 pic.twitter.com/gYdWcfq4pI— そねっち (@MAX_BEN_P) December 27, 2018
re: #117 Dr Lizardo
So, looks like MSNBC has beat FNC for the first time in 17 years.
I suspect that it’s because FNC viewers skew older - and to put it quite frankly, it’s a matter of attrition through simple mortality. FNC’s viewer demographic is - quite literally - dying off.
Not fast enough.
Not sure if this should have /// or not. Let me think about that for a bit.
re: #131 Sir John Barron
Just by the intimidating power of his massive stare-down, he terrifies the Antifa Thugs into submission and cowering fear, such a brave one we have here.
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Charlie Kirk would shit his pants were he ever confronted by actual street thugs.
re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg
Charlie Kirk would shit his pants were he ever confronted by actual street thugs.
Just who are these “Antifa Thugs”, anyway? What the pluperfect fuck are they talking about?
re: #131 Sir John Barron
Just by the intimidating power of his massive stare-down, he terrifies the Antifa Thugs into submission and cowering fear, such a brave one we have here.
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Hey! I’m sure if any “Anitfa Thugs” ever actually ran into Charlie Kirk, his steely glare and determined demeanor would leave them in a state of helpless paralysis!
Of course it would be because they would be laughing so hard at this ludicrous geek they would be unable to move, but still…
re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Just who are these “Antifa Thugs”, anyway? What the pluperfect fuck are they talking about?
People that actually call them out on their bs instead of acting like they own libs. Kirk is a more stupid and less successful Ben Shapiro.
re: #126 Targetpractice
Start of week: “Oh yeah, all these furloughed employees love my wall and are glad to be going without paychecks to see it built!”
End of week:
Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump
Have the Democrats finally realized that we desperately need Border Security and a Wall on the Southern Border. Need to stop Drugs, Human Trafficking,Gang Members & Criminals from coming into our Country. Do the Dems realize that most of the people not getting paid are Democrats?39.5K
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Morning!
Looks like Big Donny is throwing crap at The Wall to see what he can get to stick.
You know many people think Donny is a complete ignoramus.
Do Republicans realize that most of America want to see them all out of office for protecting him?
And I believe statistics back that up, unlike all the crap Donny is tossing.
re: #137 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Where’s mah breakfast?
Breakfast. Tacos. pic.twitter.com/ZdnOrgYLgA
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 26, 2018
re: #134 jeffreyw
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re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Just who are these “Antifa Thugs”, anyway? What the pluperfect fuck are they talking about?
Markets today are not looking so good compared with yesterday.
Gold and silver are up, equities are down.
re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Just who are these “Antifa Thugs”, anyway? What the pluperfect fuck are they talking about?
One of today’s stock rightwing boogeymen: in the “conservative” imagination, a sinister movement of black-clad, black-masked, violence-prone leftists/anarchists/Communists/whatever dedicated to fomenting street violence and riots to stifle free speech and prevent decent conservatives from ever making any public expression of their opinions, at risk of bodily harm.
These “Thugs”, btw, aren’t completely imaginary: black-clad counterprotestors DO occasionally show up at Nazi/neo-Nazi/racist demonstrations, but I would think (from what I’ve read) that if there are 200-300 of them in the whole country, that would probably be an overestimation.
re: #156 The Vicious Babushka
Curly-haired Kaitlin could never be as good as she was.
re: #127 lawhawk
I see it with my own family’s facebook posts. The more Trump lies the more they defend him. And their racism is really coming out of the closet endlessly dumping on Maxine Waters…
re: #156 The Vicious Babushka
Charlie Kirk would fill his diaper if he came face to face with this anti-fascist.
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re: #146 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Just who are these “Antifa Thugs”, anyway? What the pluperfect fuck are they talking about?
Charles Kirk actually did encounter them once at a Philadelphia restaurant when he was dining with Candace Owens newsweek.com
Other than someone pouring water over Kirk’s head, no one seemed to have emerged worse for the wear.
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Charles Kirk actually did encounter them once at a Philadelphia restaurant when he was dining with Candace Owens newsweek.com
Other than someone pouring water over Kirk’s head, no one seemed to have emerged worse for the wear.
Pretty tame stuff tbh.
BTW, I wonder where Chuck C slithered off to…
re: #153 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Markets today are not looking so good compared with yesterday.
Gold and silver are up, equities are down.
Remember — cannot tell what the market is actually going to do for the day based on the first few minutes (or even hours) of trading.
re: #157 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Curly-haired Kaitlin could never be as good as she was.
Because that one can actually shoot and isnt just polite pornography.
re: #164 Hecuba’s daughter
Remember — cannot tell what the market is actually going to do for the day based on the first few minutes (or even hours) of trading.
True. I suppose I should wait till they close before making any suppositions.
Today is Carrie Fisher’s 2nd Yorzeit.
re: #167 The Vicious Babushka
Today is Carrie Fisher’s 2nd Yorzeit.
Has it really been that long? RIP Carrie.
Is this what the Bernoid ratfuckers are going with? All righty then.
There’s no honest debate among 2020 candidates without voters acknowledging Obama was a bad President. They have not done so. I’m going to keep hitting this point because it’s simple but unacknowledged. Obama ruined the Democratic Party.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) December 27, 2018
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Is this what the Bernoid ratfuckers are going with? All righty then.
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Barack Obama is America’s most admired man for the 11th year in a row. Michelle Obama is now the most admired woman. https://t.co/viA5sUSD7H
— Axios (@axios) December 27, 2018
Incoming rage tweet-storm from the White House shitter in 3 … 2 … https://t.co/7Kefnns5E9
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 27, 2018
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Is this what the Bernoid ratfuckers are going with? All righty then.
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Yeah Obama was a bad President. Go with that. And Biden has a very impressive legislative record. These idiots have no idea what they’re doing. But be a purer than thou prick and then act shocked that no one takes you seriously.
Hell I’ll take Beto over Bernie on his immigration record alone. Bernie has no leadership on the very issue that makes Trump so repulsive.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Yes because tearing down the first Black President is a way to engage the Democratic base in 2020.
re: #175 Patricia Kayden
Yes because tearing down the first Black President is a way to engage the Democratic base in 2020.
And then they wonder why voters of color want nothing to do with them. That’s something Bernie still doesn’t get and I saw earlier in the month he’s still being a dick to Vermont voters of color.
re: #176 HappyWarrior
And then they wonder why voters of color want nothing to do with them. That’s something Bernie still doesn’t get and I saw earlier in the month he’s still being a dick to Vermont voters of color.
And that’s why he’ll lose in the primaries once again. He’s not a Democrat and not respectful of the Democratic base.
re: #97 Belafon
What day? Ours is the 16th and will be 25 years as well.
Ours was also in May, on the 19th, and it would have been 45 years in 2019.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Is this what the Bernoid ratfuckers are going with? All righty then.
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I don’t get the impression that this Stoller guy is a fan of Bernie (or any dems, actually) either.
Roseanne Barr to address Israeli parliament in January https://t.co/c7rABBQ5Xm pic.twitter.com/zx01jTABIx
— THR International (@THRGlobal) December 26, 2018
re: #177 Patricia Kayden
And that’s why he’ll lose in the primaries once again. He’s not a Democrat and not respectful of the Democratic base.
I still remember him condescendingly saying the South is going GOP anyhow when he lost Southern stares. Pretty rich shit from the guy who won plenty of equally Republican states. And then there’s complaining about closed primaries while benefiting from caucuses. The man is a hypocrite charlatan and it’s too bad more on the left can’t see that since they’re so entranced by his ideas that they can’t see Bernie will always be about Bernie first.
re: #180 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
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LOLOL!
Scene seen at Costco;). pic.twitter.com/n7a7Qetz6m
— Susan Mitchell (@susandtom) December 18, 2018
re: #179 MsJ
I don’t get the impression that this Stoller guy is a fan of Bernie (or any dems, actually) either.
I think he is a Glenn Greenwald wannabe.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Is this what the Bernoid ratfuckers are going with? All righty then.
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I have read through his thread and still can’t get any sense of what HE (Stoller) believes in.
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Charles Kirk actually did encounter them once at a Philadelphia restaurant when he was dining with Candace Owens newsweek.com
Other than someone pouring water over Kirk’s head, no one seemed to have emerged worse for the wear.
HE STARED THEM DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET RESTAURANT AND TOTALLY OWNED THEM!!!!
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Is this what the Bernoid ratfuckers are going with? All righty then.
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The reality is that change works best and tends to be the longest lasting when it’s incremental. Incremental change that leads to positive feedback effects feed on itself and lead to exponential change.
— Adam Tondowsky (@136or142) December 27, 2018
But if you don’t want change - if you just want some sort of holier than thou mostly white bro-style social club to hang with - stoller’s got it perfect.
— Queen of Trappist-E (@trappist_e) December 27, 2018
And my reply:
Well, at least I know to take @matthewstoller off of my “people to take seriously” list.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) December 27, 2018
So yesterday I had to break off a friendship with a Libertarian dude I used to be close with because he would not give up on trying to convince me that Bernie Sanders was “The future of America” and I was stupid not to support him.
re: #186 Barefoot Grin
I have read through his thread and still can’t get any sense of what HE (Stoller) believes in.
Whatever his Putinbucks (Rubles?) tell him to believe in.
re: #188 Belafon
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re: #189 Eclectic Cyborg
So yesterday I had to break off a friendship with a Libertarian dude I used to be close with because he would not give up on trying to convince me that Bernie Sanders was “The future of America” and I was stupid not to support him.
A Libertarian who likes Bernie?
Nothing makes sense.
re: #186 Barefoot Grin
I have read through his thread and still can’t get any sense of what HE (Stoller) believes in.
Yeah I can’t figure that dude out either.
re: #189 Eclectic Cyborg
So yesterday I had to break off a friendship with a Libertarian dude I used to be close with because he would not give up on trying to convince me that Bernie Sanders was “The future of America” and I was stupid not to support him.
The guy who seems to be running against Herbert Hoover is “The future of America”? OK….
re: #189 Eclectic Cyborg
So yesterday I had to break off a friendship with a Libertarian dude I used to be close with because he would not give up on trying to convince me that Bernie Sanders was “The future of America” and I was stupid not to support him.
The future of America isn’t a guy who will be 80 in 2021 and represents a state 95% white.
Dow -490 and dropping.
VIX just jumped over 33.
Another Bette Davis day on the market!
re: #178 retired cynic
Ours was also in May, on the 19th, and it would have been 45 years in 2019.
My wife and mine will be 20 years on June 18th. Hard to believe the youngest (we both had previous children when we got married, youngest is ours together) is in college already.
TBH what I worry is say Bernie was elected, his plans being implemented wrong and having non stop court challenges to his EOs and legislation. And I’m just not sold on him knowing or caring about FP.
re: #195 HappyWarrior
The future of America isn’t a guy who will be 80 in 2021 and represents a state 95% white.
This was exactly the point I made. Repeatedly.
re: #199 Eclectic Cyborg
This was exactly the point I made. Repeatedly.
Hell it goes beyond that. He doesn’t see how representing a state 95% white skews his perspective. It’s easy to make everything about economics when you have so few PoC. Reading about what minority Vermonters think of him and how he considers their interests really soured me on him.
I have friends that are transgender.
Being trans is a pre-existing condition and wasn’t covered.
Healthcare for trans people is expensive, and an inability to pay literally kills them.
My friends have a chance to live because of the ACA.
So please, sit the fuck down.— jay (@random__name) December 27, 2018
re: #201 Sufficient unto the day…
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See that just doesn’t matter because the entire system isn’t being destroyed. I can’t get denied anymore either- I have a heart condition.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Is this what the Bernoid ratfuckers are going with? All righty then.
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WTF is Stoller gibbering about here? “Obama ruined the Democratic Party”?? I mean, if he (Obama) was trying to damage the Party, he sure didn’t do a very good job, to judge by the 2018 midterm results.
Goddam purity-pony baffoon….
re: #203 Jay C
Exactly. Dude is grandstanding. Being critical is one thing. Being a buffoon with a purity complex is another
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Charles Kirk actually did encounter them once at a Philadelphia restaurant when he was dining with Candace Owens newsweek.com
Other than someone pouring water over Kirk’s head, no one seemed to have emerged worse for the wear.
I haven’t read that yet, but I already see the headline is questioning if Charlie and Candice set that up so they could get some mileage out of it as victims.
Am I going out on a limb to say that is a real possibility?
(Will read in a moment)
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
Is this what the Bernoid ratfuckers are going with? All righty then.
Matt Stoller ✔
@matthewstoller
There’s no honest debate among 2020 candidates without voters acknowledging Obama was a bad President. They have not done so. I’m going to keep hitting this point because it’s simple but unacknowledged. Obama ruined the Democratic Party.8:43 AM - Dec 27, 2018
Whut?
And here I thought it was Bill Clinton that ruined the Democratic Party.
I guess every liked Democrat that has done a decent job against the onslaught of The Republican Machine ruined the party.
Dear Bernie lovers, go away. Your thinking, tactics and outcomes causes more ruin of our politics than you will ever admit.
re: #192 Sir John Barron
A Libertarian who likes Bernie?
Nothing makes sense.
Bernie could get him the racist policies he wants without right-wing taint?
re: #181 HappyWarrior
I still remember him condescendingly saying the South is going GOP anyhow when he lost Southern stares. Pretty rich shit from the guy who won plenty of equally Republican states. And then there’s complaining about closed primaries while benefiting from caucuses. The man is a hypocrite charlatan and it’s too bad more on the left can’t see that since they’re so entranced by his ideas that they can’t see Bernie will always be about Bernie first.
That part in bold…that is a pure Trump-like excuse.
Bernie has skin as thin as Trump and seems to have some things to hide just like Trump.
Maybe David Sirota and Cenk Uygur and others like them are getting some help from Russia?
Hey, one can speculate, right?
re: #203 Jay C
WTF is Stoller gibbering about here? “Obama ruined the Democratic Party”?? I mean, if he (Obama) was trying to damage the Party, he sure didn’t do a very good job, to judge by the 2018 midterm results.
Goddam purity-pony baffoon….
everybody must agree with my personal (unsupported) opinion!
re: #144 MsJ
Not fast enough.
Not sure if this should have /// or not. Let me think about that for a bit.
I’m currently trapped in SC with a walking stereotype of a Fox News viewer. I share your ambivalence.
You think Jill Stein wil run again in 2020?
re: #209 ObserverArt
That part in bold…that is a pure Trump-like excuse.
Bernie has skin as thin as Trump and seems to have some things to hide just like Trump.
Maybe David Sirota and Cenk Uygur and others like them are getting some help from Russia?
Hey, one can speculate, right?
He’s more like Trump than most people realize imho.
re: #110 goddamnedfrank
That works both ways though, I’m sure it wouldn’t be that hard for us to figure out when the optimum time would be for the President to drop in on the the Iraqi PM, if that was our goal.
This way it just announces to the world that we don’t trust him.
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Charles Kirk actually did encounter them once at a Philadelphia restaurant when he was dining with Candace Owens newsweek.com
Other than someone pouring water over Kirk’s head, no one seemed to have emerged worse for the wear.
Jesus, I did not hear about this at all. Either I’m slipping or no one in the local media gave enough shits to cover it.
Good Morning from NoHo. Teleski guy if you see this later…
A friend sent this flat out amazing rad sport video. Para gliding like I never saw before.
re: #212 Eclectic Cyborg
You think Jill Stein wil run again in 2020?
Why not. It is good for business ($$$) and what did it cost her?
re: #218 ObserverArt
Why not. It is good for business ($$$) and what did it cost her?
I hope the Berners know she will try to screw Bernie too if he’s nominated.
My Internet service has been restored.
cnn.com
ICE dumped people in custody for a third day at a Greyhound station in El Paso.
Greyhound’s station is too small for them, so the company brought up buses and ran them so families with small children stuck outside in the night could keep warm.
They’re expected to continue doing this. The alleged reason is time they are allowed to detain people is expiring. ICE is blaming inaction in Congress as the reason.
Well, just checked the rain gauge. That little frog strangler last night dropped 4.4” on South Austin.
Flash flood alley.
re: #221 austin_blue
Well, just checked the rain gauge. That little frog strangler last night dropped 4.4” on South Austin.
Flash flood alley.
I cannot believe the amounts of rain Texas gets these days. It seems to always be deluges and not just a normal rain.
re: #180 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
She can sing their national anthem.
Remember the Georgia GOP candidate who drove around the state with his wildly racist “deportation bus?”
Yeah, about him, he’s reported to jail for alleged fraud, claiming $300,000 in Bitcoin mining computers were stolen from him.
He is a current state representative, who is apparently now representing his district from jail.
The charges against the Forsyth County Republican, who will likely remain in office until mid-January, stem from a May incident in which [Michael] Williams reported his Gainesville campaign office was burglarized. At the time, Williams’ campaign manager said $300,000 worth of computer servers that were being used to mine cryptocurrency had been taken from the building.
Williams is accused of lying to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent when he said he was at home in Forsyth County, not in the Gainesville area at the time of the purported burglary. The indictment, which doesn’t say what allegedly actually happened to the servers, accuses Williams of making a false insurance claim related to the servers.
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Trump’s SECRETARY OF STATE, America’s chief diplomat, said “We will continue to fight these battles, it is a never ending struggle… until the Rapture.” Holy shit. pic.twitter.com/M727uMoq4w
— Tommy MMXIXtopher (@tommyxtopher) December 27, 2018
Thread.
And you want to read it. It’s one thing to suspect this, know it even, another to hear them say it out loud. https://t.co/FrbRqAVQ0M— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 27, 2018
Good morning all.
Keep an eye on the wackaloon religious extremists drafting along under Trump.
re: #225 jaunte
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Keep an eye on the wackaloon religious extremists drafting along under Trump.
I wish he would just go rapture himself with a dull tool.
re: #222 ObserverArt
I cannot believe the amounts of rain Texas gets these days. It seems to always be deluges and not just a normal rain.
Well, Rick Perry did tell people to pray for rain there during the drought.
From the Principia Discordia:
Mal-2 [Malcalypse the Younger] was once asked by one of his Disciples if he often prayed to Eris. He replied with these words:
No, we Erisians seldom pray, it is much too dangerous. Charles Fort has listed many factual incidences of ignorant people confronted with, say, a drought, and then praying fervently — and then getting the entire village wiped out in a torrential flood.
re: #225 jaunte
Good morning all.
Keep an eye on the wackaloon religious extremists drafting along under Trump.
Here you go, Mr. Pompeo:
re: #221 austin_blue
Well, just checked the rain gauge. That little frog strangler last night dropped 4.4” on South Austin.
Flash flood alley.
My wooded gully in the country is gradually being eroded into a creekside swamp.
Sheesh! Still 363 days till Christmas and people already have decorations out.
re: #225 jaunte
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Keep an eye on the wackaloon religious extremists drafting along under Trump.
re: #226 HappyWarrior
I wish he would just go rapture himself with a dull tool.
The scenario that worries me is the Reich wingers deciding to speed rapture along, what someone in said thread calls “Ego-based pick-me-Jesus mentality.” Also, multiculturarism mentioned, which is sickening when you know where the word came from.
Nothing in the Steele dossier has been proven //
MCCLATCHY SCOOP: Cell phone signal puts Michael Cohen in Prague area in late summer 2016, via Peter Stone & @GregGordon2 https://t.co/ysz7bbmckG
— Ben Wieder (@benbwieder) December 27, 2018
This is why I like having a camera handy…
A man in his kitchen in England peered out his window, spotted a trail of smoke in the sky, snapped a photo, realized it was Air Force One… and Trump’s secret trip to Iraq was known ‘round the world — @NoahGrayCNN with the deets https://t.co/kfPYNHjBNQ
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) December 27, 2018
re: #233 Barefoot Grin
Cohen a proud owner of the first iTraveler autonomous phone.
re: #191 HappyWarrior
Here’s the thing about Obama. He was the most vocal supporter of lgbt rights the Oval Office has ever had by far, he got health care passed, & you can’t ignore how he helped restore our reputation abroad. Those three alone are things I can’t see Bernie or any bro type being able to do. They hate Obama because he wasn’t FDR and ignore FDR’s faults. I have disappointments with Obama but all things considered and that he dealt with an opposition that hated him simply because he was a black man, he accomplished a lot.
Also, he made it 8 years without any of his administration being indicted. Any of them. For anything.
re: #233 Barefoot Grin
Nothing in the Steele dossier has been proven //
Michael Cohen’s cell phone briefly activated near Prague around time of purported Russia meeting | McClatchy Washington Bureau https://t.co/9CrzmkpwlB
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 27, 2018
Steele dossier on Cohen and Prague: “The agenda comprised questions on how deniable cash payments were to be made to hackers who had worked in Europe under Kremlin direction against the CLINTON campaign and various contingencies for covering up these operations.” https://t.co/1xV5lmQ3wi
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 27, 2018
This is why I have zero sympathy for Cohen, or any of Trump’s lackeys.
They knew what was happening, they wanted it to happen, and they were positive they’d never get caught. They all deserve prison terms, at the very least.
Good move for potus - seeing troops in Iraq after Xmas. Yes, this potus has waited longest to do so, but he did it. And it means a lot to troops. Keep it positive and abt them - potus will get warranted positive coverage.
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) December 26, 2018
Journalists should normalize a bizarre and abnormal President—even when he does the occasional thing he was prodded to do. He also handed out maga hats and gave nutty remarks. Idiotic. https://t.co/aBYHFFqFJH
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) December 27, 2018
re: #236 sagehen
Also, he made it 8 years without any of his administration being indicted. Any of them. For anything.
Yes he deserves credit for that as well.
re: #236 sagehen
Also, he made it 8 years without any of his administration being indicted. Any of them. For anything.
PETRAEUS!!!
re: #167 The Vicious Babushka
Today is Carrie Fisher’s 2nd Yorzeit.
I’ll still be waiting for you……. pic.twitter.com/ef461OcqKJ
— Gary the Dog (@ThatJunkman) December 27, 2016
re: #232 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
A friend in Peru posted this:
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“Okay, boys, one last picture before we all get fired.”
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re: #241 bd(Redacted)
PETRAEUS!!!
I’d forgotten about him…
But he pleaded to misdemeanor charges. Indictments are only for felonies.
re: #222 ObserverArt
I cannot believe the amounts of rain Texas gets these days. It seems to always be deluges and not just a normal rain.
Hmmmmm. The non-existent warming planet thingy seems to be causing more moisture in the air, possibly maybe?
re: #236 sagehen
Also, he made it 8 years without any of his administration being indicted. Any of them. For anything.
a fave:
The account that added Matt Whitaker as a “notable player” at Iowa on Wikipedia was a user named “Whitmat” pic.twitter.com/xqXfvO65gb
— zedster (@z3dster) December 27, 2018
Here is the link to the other Wikipedia contributions of Whitmat, whoever they arehttps://t.co/BLkGCfWXvv pic.twitter.com/BAZlUS1xaZ
— zedster (@z3dster) December 27, 2018
re: #247 Anymouse 🌹
He couldn’t really be that stupid…could he?
re: #225 jaunte
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Good morning all.
Keep an eye on the wackaloon religious extremists drafting along under Trump.
Ok, I get it: The world actually ended in 2012 and this is hell. Evidence? Where else would Fundy grifters be running things?
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
He couldn’t really be that stupid…could he?
“Tell me about the rabbits, Donald….”
I’m the Kasparov of guys who haven’t played chess in years and tweet all day about politics instead
— man of probity (@tobaccoPapi) December 24, 2018
I think I’m the Kasparov of that. https://t.co/4DlPQmjy6s
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 24, 2018
re: #246 dangerman
a fave:
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re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
He couldn’t really be that stupid…could he?
Why yes, yes he could. He wasn’t hired for intelligence.
re: #225 jaunte
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Good morning all.
Keep an eye on the wackaloon religious extremists drafting along under Trump.
How would an Italian guy like Pompeo get involved with this bullshit? I mean, I know they’ve got their own bullshit, but….
re: #253 Anymouse 🌹
Why yes, yes he could. He wasn’t hired for intelligence.
His name is “Meatball” after all.
Conservatives and libertarians have to be over the moon:
The government shutdown hits the SEC starting Thursday - here’s how it’s impacted (Business Insider, more at the link):
Starting Thursday, the Securities and Exchange Commission will have a “very limited number of staff” available to respond to emergency situations.
In a full shutdown, the SEC plans to place about 94% of its staff on furlough.
Not a chance bought-and-paid for GOP Senators such as the Freedumb Caucus or Mitch McConnell are going to do a damn thing about that.
This is outrageous. Federal employees don’t go to work wearing red or blue jerseys. They’re public servants. And the President is treating them like poker chips at one of his failed casinos. https://t.co/bxkt67E9Bq
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) December 27, 2018
re: #254 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
How would an Italian guy like Pompeo get involved with this bullshit? I mean, I know they’ve got their own bullshit, but….
He was evangelised at West Point (because Christians are trying to take over the military).
He joined the Presbyterian Church (USA), but after they became LGBT friendly, he left that denomination and joined the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (wingnuts).
Thread (twenty-one tweets):
Naturally, this morning my inbox is overloaded with demands and expectations that I say something pithy about Trump’s visit to US troops in Iraq yesterday.
I do have a few things to say, but I doubt you’ll like it.
1/— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 27, 2018
Tents at Mar a Lago https://t.co/amhcoNIHAV
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) December 27, 2018
We are paying for security for the Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party during the Trump shutdown. Secret Service can continue providing essential security during a lapse of appropriations, but it’s Trump who decides that govt officials need to be at his for-profit event. Shameless! https://t.co/gGDkpL3A5X
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 27, 2018
re: #259 Anymouse 🌹
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I have to agree.
But still…give trump a fucking cookie for doing the right thing.
The softest bigotry of the lowest possible expectations.
OH Senate fails to override Kasich veto of heartbeat bill. Does vote to override gun control and first responder family benefits/lawmaker pay raise vetoes. @Local12 pic.twitter.com/uA47OK0xD9
— Jeff Hirsh (@local12jeff) December 27, 2018
re: #261 MsJ
I have to agree.
But still…give trump a fucking cookie for doing the right thing.
The softest bigotry of the lowest possible expectations.
I’m far more concerned about the officer corps at that base subverting enlisted personnel in violation of military regulations and the law.
More on that Dumpster fire speech in Iraq:
Trump used his speech to the troops in Iraq to attack Democrats: “The Democrats don’t want to let us have strong borders.” (Presumably, many of the soldiers listening to his remarks are not registered Republicans) pic.twitter.com/M1MWCLkMMb
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) December 27, 2018
And here I thought our troops fight for all Americans. Silly me. https://t.co/u0p0apQ30A
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) December 27, 2018
The Trump administration is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by several cities — including Cincinnati — for allegedly sabotaging the Affordable Care Act https://t.co/mWx3TN8r2U pic.twitter.com/UFo6ObLTwj
— WCPO (@WCPO) December 27, 2018
So then, if it starts at the top, it’s still Trump’s fault.
— Lunalf (@lunalf) December 27, 2018
The buck stops at the Resolute Desk. This is true.
But just because the president is an irresponsible and poor leader doesn’t excuse the officers below him. THEY know better. https://t.co/DKF43FKM8J— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 27, 2018
Even the plows gave up in Kansas https://t.co/Bs2OuCFJI4
— SevereStudios (@severestudios) December 27, 2018
re: #263 Anymouse 🌹
I’m far more concerned about the officer corps at that base subverting enlisted personnel in violation of military regulations and the law.
How is this worse than selling the US out to Russia? Trump and his cronies don’t care at all about that…why should this be any different?
Conservative officers have been trying to subvert liberal enlisted personnel for a long time.
An anecdote:
The first Presidential election I voted in (Carter v Reagan), I voted by Federal absentee ballot while at sea. That ballot requires either a notary public to witness your signature, or in the case of deployed military personnel, an officer ranked O-4 or above.
My department on the ship required personnel to submit their ballots to their division officers open, allegedly to see if you were the person who voted on the ballot. (There is no way to tell that, but since you’re submitting it in person, it is a very good way to see how you voted.)
I was unsurprised that my “military bearing” grades on personnel evaluations were reduced for the rest of the time I was in that command, which hurt my advancement.
But complaining about your division officer violating Federal law to seek redress would mean going to the division officer’s boss (the department head who ordered that).
re: #268 MsJ
How is this worse than selling the US out to Russia? Trump and his cronies don’t care at all about that…why should this be any different?
Because subverting the military to a particular political party means that political party controls the military. That means the military can be used to suppress opponents of that political party.
If the military’s officers in the USA become loyal to the GOP rather than the Constitution, it’s game over for a democratic republic.
re: #270 Anymouse 🌹
Because subverting the military to a particular political party means that political party controls the military. That means the military can be used to suppress opponents of that political party.
If the military’s officers in the USA become loyal to the GOP rather than the Constitution, it’s game over for a democratic republic.
Do you think this hasn’t already happened? Look around.
re: #271 MsJ
Do you think this hasn’t already happened? Look around.
Not yet, but the GOP is trying like hell.
Michelle O. Ends Hillary’s 17-Year “Most Admired” Run - https://t.co/Jly5VsxQvr pic.twitter.com/D6E4qNKRCg
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) December 27, 2018
Well, that’s it. Trump is going to have to start a nuclear war now.
Nice knowing all of you. Godspeed. https://t.co/9QPpNIjmec— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 27, 2018
2/ “Trump was frequently unprepared for these sessions, w little grasp of who had performed well. Sometimes a candidate distinguished herself …only to get fired, on a whim, by Trump. When this happened, the editors were often obliged to “reverse engineer” the episode”
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) December 27, 2018
Sounds familiar.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) December 27, 2018
@usairforce Captain playing open politics in a combat zone in front of subordinates. That’s a Art 32 offense for conduct unbecoming of an officer. https://t.co/WFwqlsCcJ7
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) December 27, 2018
Here is Diaper Dude seriously contending for the SMOTI title:
Democrats think that Russian hackers with fake Facebook accounts is a credible threat to our Democracy
Why are they okay with illegal alien votes being counted in our election?
🤔— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 26, 2018
Troopers have performed more than 60 motorist assists so far today.
Here’s a look at @Nebraska511 right now. I-80 North Platte to Lexington remains closed.
Pink is completely snow covered.
Blue in partially covered.
Red is closed.
Green is normal. pic.twitter.com/h7tWAdpIhP— NEStatePatrol (@NEStatePatrol) December 27, 2018
NDOT is notifying westbound travelers that I-80 is closed Westbound at mm 237. pic.twitter.com/oYUtpBiX0E
— NSP Troop C (@NSP_TroopC) December 27, 2018
NDOT is advising they will begin shutting down I80 Westbound at Elm Creek, Odessa, and Kearney and to make alternate travel or parking plans… pic.twitter.com/zxcpPSqbWp
— NSP Troop C (@NSP_TroopC) December 27, 2018
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nebraska is closed for winter. See you in April. /s
re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will paraphrase this from a comment I left on Anymouse’s page on why pagans celebrate Christmas:
I have no problem with Christians choosing the Winter Solstice to celebrate the birth of their Savior. And I have absolutely no problem with their message of Peace on Earth and Good Will to Everyone.
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But I get annoyed at their notion that they have some sort of exclusive claim to the season or its (often pagan) traditions and rituals
And add the date of Easter being based upon the lunar cycle.
re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will paraphrase this from a comment I left on Anymouse’s page on why pagans celebrate Christmas:
I have no problem with Christians choosing the Winter Solstice to celebrate the birth of their Savior. And I have absolutely no problem with their message of Peace on Earth and Good Will to Everyone.
But I get annoyed at their notion that they have some sort of exclusive claim to the season or its (often pagan) traditions and rituals
Also, they can’t have it both ways: if Christmas is exclusive to your “kind”, then you can’t whine when others who are not of your “kind” don’t celebrate Christmas.
(* “kind” in scare-quotes because, well, it’s obvious what’s really at the root of this.)