The President is rebranding the GOP as ‘the party of healthcare’ while his administration attempts to strike down the Affordable Care Act and its protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
“We will kill off the weak, thereby increasing the national health.”
re: #1 Belafon
Ahh yes. Health care from ancient Sparta. /
.@GreggJarrett: “Trump-Russia ‘collusion’ was always a hoax — and dirtiest political trick in modern US history” https://t.co/H59Q1UL64g
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 27, 2019
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 27, 2019
….Also discussed political fairness and various things that @Google can do for our Country. Meeting ended very well!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 27, 2019
moron
re: #2 PhillyPretzel
Ahh yes. Health care from ancient Sparta. /
MACATI
Make America Come and Take It
re: #1 Belafon
“We will kill off the weak, thereby increasing the national health.”
Municipal Darwinism from Mortal Engines…but in a more direct social context….
Characterizing these people as eugenicists fails to acknowledge the underlying grift in which they’re going to keep people alive, but minimally cared-for and suffering, specifically so they can extract as much value as possible
re: #6 The Ghost of Quesos Past
Characterizing these people as eugenicists fails to acknowledge the underlying grift in which they’re going to keep people alive, but minimally cared-for and suffering, specifically so they can extract as much value as possible
We are not accusing them of having anything as lofty as an ideology beyond profits.
Dear Donald, thanks for reminding everyone that if they want affordable healthcare they need to vote Democratic.
Sincerely,
Nancy Pelosi
Trump is already planning to blame the Democrats for not stopping him. https://t.co/ItEde9J8hD
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 27, 2019
THANKS TRUMP
Ford says it will close 3 plants, leave passenger market altogether in Russia https://t.co/UrnYX9FmPV
— MLive (@MLive) March 27, 2019
re: #10 The Vicious Babushka
So much winning that auto plants are closing.
Cuts to autism funding and ending all for @SpecialOlympics is outrageous. When I was chair of the House Budget Cmte, we worked to balance the budget & these types of programs were off limits – for good reason. Hope ldrs in DC stop this ridiculous proposal. https://t.co/7Y6VxyKQW8
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) March 27, 2019
re: #11 PhillyPretzel
So much winning that auto plants are closing.
Many recent market indicators have been pointing towards a recession.
In Russia, plant closes you!!!
re: #10 The Vicious Babushka
THANKS TRUMP
I wonder if it will be Toyota, Nissan, or Honda that will absorb Ford in the future. The F-150 would be too good of a brand to pass up.
And we’re supposed to believe Bill Barr adequately summarized the report in less time it takes me to hammer out a @Salon article? Yeahokay. https://t.co/9CogDaqncJ
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 27, 2019
Sen. Coons tells me a pre-scheduled lunch with AG Barr and other Dems on the Justice Approps subcommittee was inexplicably cancelled today. He was planning on asking Barr about when Congress would get the Mueller report given that Judiciary Dems haven’t heard much from DOJ.
— Marianna Sotomayor (@MariannaNBCNews) March 27, 2019
This is repulsive! Let’s see what accountability looks like for this member of Congress 🤔 https://t.co/efhPYgHPE8
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) March 26, 2019
And I want to know what Hoyer thinks.
re: #17 Belafon
I wonder if it will be Toyota, Nissan, or Honda that will absorb Ford in the future. The F-150 would be too good of a brand to pass up.
I’d love an electric one.
Racist white man goes to a Mexican restaurant and freaks out because the menu includes “Especial de Viernes”: dailykos.com (video at the link).
BREAKING: A Pentagon war court appeals panel has temporarily blocked a Gitmo judge’s plan to take closed-court testimony tomorrow from a former CIA black site interpreter who ended up on a 9/11 case defense team.
A defendant, 12 news organizations and the ACLU opposed closure. pic.twitter.com/zM3VPxZFac— Carol Rosenberg (@carolrosenberg) March 27, 2019
YIKES
Authorities in Arkansas say a truck hauling a chemical exploded, killing the 63-year-old driver and creating a massive crater in the road. https://t.co/18KNECSmdP
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) March 27, 2019
QAnon world has turned all its power onto targeting Sebastian Gorka. Q is calling on his followers to call the FBI on Gorka; a major QAnon spiritual leader says “the hunter has become the hunted.” https://t.co/eZ7Oraaufe
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) March 27, 2019
re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg
The nuts are turning on each other. OMG
Sure, let’s put him in charge of money. https://t.co/BP2IrEicHg
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 27, 2019
Boris Johnson used to hate May’s Brexit deal… but since she’s offering to resign if it passes, all of a sudden he supports it (who could have guessed this one, eh?)
Boris Johnson is now supporting the Brexit deal - but once said it was like ‘a suicide vest’
May doesn’t really want to quit… which means even she is betting on her deal going down in flames.
This has to go down in textbooks on management under the chapter “How to be sure you’ll fail.”
Did anyone post this take?
Imagine if the Starr Report had been provided only to President Clinton’s Attorney General, Janet Reno, who then read it privately and published a 4-page letter based on her private reading stating her conclusion that President Clinton committed no crimes.
— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) March 27, 2019
Then
if. fucking. only. https://t.co/6N7SFiKRln
— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) March 27, 2019
re: #29 PhillyPretzel
The nuts are turning on each other. OMG
All we need to do is make sure we can get them to turn on Trump.
Maybe his going after the ACA (preexisting conditions mainly) will do that.
re: #33 Unshaken Defiance
That is exactly the point. Barr is one of DT’s cronies and keep that time factor in mind.
Nearly two years after Jared Kushner promised a new Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, nothing has happened, writes journalist Sarah Helm https://t.co/zz5bVD1ol8 pic.twitter.com/9N45WNDmmZ
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 27, 2019
The United States may not be able to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the Trump administration should avoid making it worse, argues Philip H. Gordon. https://t.co/PnTOU4GX7J
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) March 27, 2019
re: #37 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
Nearly two years after Jared Kushner promised a new Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, nothing has happened, writes journalist Sarah Helm
what do you mean nothing has happened? Israel has reclaimed Jerusalem and the Golan Heights with his dad’s blessing…
/
re: #37 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
the Trump administration should avoid making it worse
That Kushner has left the barn.
I’m just old enough to see this change: I’m glad women cuss without fear.
Let’s be clear: @SeemaCMS did this. Every health expert told her this would happen, and she blew them off because she doesn’t care if the poor get sick or die.
I hope someday she is charged with 18,000 counts of reckless endangerment. https://t.co/j7qz0cdJr0— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) March 27, 2019
Again: allow me to point out that since the Mueller Report dropped last Friday, Trump has ONLY quoted Fox News and his own idiot son about the contents.
If it says what he says it does, then why doesn’t HE QUOTE THE REPORT ITSELF?
Or, you know, make it public. https://t.co/76juK7x5wB— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 27, 2019
It’s like every little faction of UK politics are posturing against each other unto the bitter end:
re: #44 jaunte
Judge blocks Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky, Arkansas https://t.co/ms5wvFZT0K
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 27, 2019
I am a worn out broken record… but to repeat one more time, the reason Trump got as many votes as he did is because a large fraction of the US electorate are in a religious crisis that they can’t even bring themselves to address head on, so it gets suppressed and comes out in never ending battles that should be all OBE:
SLPS board candidates debate as seven vie for two open spots on April 2
Should teachers in the Saint Louis Public Schools teach creationism and intelligent design in the classroom alongside evolution?
Yet surprisingly, the firm “no” responses only came from three of six Saint Louis Public School (SLPS) Board of Education candidates who were present at the forum on Monday, March 25. The debate was moderated by the League of Women Voters and hosted by the St. Louis Young Democrats and Democrat groups for the 5th, 7th and 15th Wards.
One candidate - Barbara A. Anderson - said that schools should teach both.
“I believe that creationism and evolution can possibly fit into the same curriculum,” said Anderson, a longtime SLPS educator. “Where do I think they belong? Science, social studies.”
Anderson said that the district’s job is to “disseminate information, not opinions.”
“It’s not up to us to tell our children what they should and should not know,” Anderson said. “We should teach them everything.”
[…]
They are literally the know-nothing party.
re: #44 jaunte
Let’s be clear: @SeemaCMS did this. Every health expert told her this would happen, and she blew them off because she doesn’t care if the poor get sick or die.
Does a single Republican in the House or Senate actually care about this? Poor people dying early reduces health care costs and Social Security costs. It helps with the bottom line. These people are evil, every one. I’m sure Susan Collins is continuing to express her concern.
If there were 4 decent Republicans in the Senate, they would by now have declared their switch to the Democratic party and have thrown out McConnell. It reminds me of the story in Genesis about Abraham pleading to save Sodom and Gomorrah — G-d said that if he could find 10 righteous citizens, the cities would be spared. But there weren’t and the cities were destroyed. There aren’t even 4 decent Republican Senators — actually there probably isn’t even one .
re: #46 freetoken
It’s like every little faction of UK politics are posturing against each other unto the bitter end:
SRSLY: on that Reuters link, a box pops up - right over the article - saying the DUP still won’t vote for May’s Brexit deal - Rees-Mogg’s posturing notwithstanding.
The Mother of Parliaments really is turning into the Motherf*ck*er of Parliaments right before our eyes…..
re: #48 freetoken
I am a worn out broken record… but to repeat one more time, the reason Trump got as many votes as he did is because a large fraction of the US electorate are in a religious crisis that they can’t even bring themselves to address head on, so it gets suppressed and comes out in never ending battles that should be all OBE:
SLPS board candidates debate as seven vie for two open spots on April 2
They are literally the know-nothing party.
She needs to have her teaching license immediately revoked.
Retired U.S. Air Force Officer David Merideth is an SLPS alum, and several of his 11 children are SLPS students or graduates. He hoped the question was based on the discussion currently happening in the state Legislature regarding bills to bring Bible school into the schools.
That’s how America got Trump for President, right there.
re: #44 jaunte
Let’s be clear: @SeemaCMS did this. Every health expert told her this would happen, and she blew them off because she doesn’t care if the poor get sick or die.
I hope someday she is charged with 18,000 counts of reckless endangerment.
Boy, they sure don’t pay attention to that important book they claim to love so much, do they?
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
Matthew 25: 41-45, NIV
PowerBall beckons tonight… the jackpot is getting back up to where I can label it “real money” again.
“so, just so we are clear…” 😹 omfg duncan https://t.co/0t1DZoh5sy
— darth™ (@darth) March 27, 2019
re: #49 Hecuba’s daughter
It reminds me of the story in Genesis about Abraham pleading to save Sodom and Gomorrah — G-d said that if he could find 10 righteous citizens, the cities would be spared. But there weren’t and the cities were destroyed. There aren’t even 4 decent Republican Senators — actually there probably isn’t even one .
So is the sprinkler system in the Senate chamber capable of handling a rain of brimstone? (and meanwhile melting away the pillar of salt that used to be Mitch McConnell)??
re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone might want to inform UK politicians that Monty Python skits were intended for entertainment only and not as proscriptions for how to live.
re: #44 jaunte
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there are two things I would half-seriously like to see brought back, because it would put an end to a lot of this behavior: torture, and dueling. If you knew your words could get you killed, you’d generally be much more civil. If you knew your actions could eventually get you some time with a guy or gal whose job is to keep you alive as long as possible while inflicting maximum damage, you would probably be more inclined to try to lead a righteous life.
BREAKING NEWS: Theresa May throws herself under the bus. Misses.
— The Poke (@ThePoke) March 27, 2019
“The Republican Party will soon be known as the party of health care. You watch.” - President Trump, yesterday. https://t.co/ojKs9NPm7A
— Rep. John Yarmuth (@RepJohnYarmuth) March 27, 2019
re: #60 steve_davis
there are two things I would half-seriously like to see brought back, because it would put an end to a lot of this behavior: torture, and dueling. If you knew your words could get you killed, you’d generally be much more civil. If you knew your actions could eventually get you some time with a guy or gal whose job is to keep you alive as long as possible while inflicting maximum damage, you would probably be more inclined to try to lead a righteous life.
That didn’t work out so well — Aaron Burr was allowed to murder Alexander Hamilton. Men were not more civil in those days.
Twitter is telling me that #MAP_OF_THE_SOUL_PERSONA has… get this… 2.5 million tweets, and thus is trending.
I have no idea why such a thing exists or why so many could be tweeting about it.
Evening Lizardim. How go things?
re: #61 freetoken
BREAKING NEWS: Theresa May throws herself under the bus. Misses.
because the double-decker bus had no driver on the top
re: #65 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Evening Lizardim. How go things?
Idiocracy is rampaging throughout this world!
re: #65 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Evening Lizardim. How go things?
Currently I hate the internet.
Yes, I know I am on an internet site. Still, I hate the internet and how such simple little things can turn into major issues.
re: #53 Eclectic Cyborg
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
Wingnuts see that verse and they only see the word left and what comes immediately after it, and they make a joke about it (I have seen that at Free Republic a bazillion times) and the rest of the stuff they just ignore.
**BREAKING** Same-day and automated voter registration was just signed into law by @GovMLG! “It’s a game-changer for #NewMexico’s voting and elections.” -Sec. Toulouse Oliver #nmpol #nmleg #voting #elections #avr #sdr pic.twitter.com/g1ybW4TWaV
— NM Sec of State (@NMSecOfState) March 27, 2019
re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because the double-decker bus had no driver on the top
Upding for the LH&R ref.
re: #69 The Vicious Babushka
Wingnuts see that verse and they only see the word left and what comes immediately after it, and they make a joke about it (I have seen that at Free Republic a bazillion times) and the rest of the stuff they just ignore.
Which is a complete disrespect and deliberate misinterpretation of this scripture. Never mind that no one living in the time of Jesus had a fucking clue what “Left wing” and “Right wing” even were because those terms would not be coined until over 1500 years later.
But, given the amount of ignorance involved, that’s about par for the course for these nutjobs.
This is how you correct someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about without being a jerk.
Megan McCain said Dems don’t like the results of the Mueller Report but um…..WE HAVE NO REPORT YET.
Enter Stacey. This. Is. Masterful. https://t.co/OJbMGfXjvY— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) March 27, 2019
Regarding PowerBall:
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BBC reporting that Theresa May’s authority “may be ebbing away”.
That tide’s already further out than at Southport beach.— Tripe Marketing Board (@TripeUK) March 27, 2019
re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg
“Qanon spiritual leader”
Good god, these people are insane.
The spiritual leader lives four miles due south of my house. Yes, I know where he lives. I like to keeptrack of local nutbars.
re: #76 mmmirele
The spiritual leader lives four miles due south of my house. Yes, I know where he lives. I like to keeptrack of local nutbars.
I don’t blame you. I tend the note the properties around here that I drive by with Confederate and/or Gadsden flags on display.
re: #77 Stanley Sea
Have you watched the Marvelous Ms. Maisel?
This reminded me.
I LOVE THAT SHOW!!!
Smart story on Trump’s use of executive orders that mostly just allow him to go on TV being an orderin’ executive: https://t.co/zmkceSoYXe
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 27, 2019
God wants you to buy a PowerBall ticket:
NC gospel singer read in the newspaper that someone had a $1 million Powerball ticket. It was him - https://t.co/qkzQWkbMyy #GoogleAlerts
— Ernst Nordholt (@ErnstNordholt) March 27, 2019
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
BBC reporting that Theresa May’s authority “may be ebbing away”.
That tide’s already further out than at Southport beach.
From the Beeb
MPs are awaiting the results of votes on eight different proposals for the future of Brexit.
Options they are considering include leaving without a deal, a customs union and a confirmatory referendum.
They need to be sent to the Confirmatory…
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh, so Trump is just playing president.
Just like he played a successful businessman on a stupid reality TV show.
And now for something totally unrelated: I find myself having difficulty getting the right balance of character development and story progression on my 9/10/01 novel. As the title suggests, the book follows a number of different characters (including two of the terrorists) on the day prior to 9/11.
But I decided early on to NOT use any flashbacks or similar devices because to me that almost felt like cheating. Part of the concept here is that we only have insight into a single day of these peoples lives and its up to the reader to fill in many of the before and after components to the story.
Initially I didn’t think it would be such a challenge to confine everything to a single day but it has proved more daunting than anticipated. I’ve been making progress though and about to crack 100 pages so I’m about halfway to my goal.
Here’s hoping I can hang in there and see this thing through.
#BREAKING British MPs vote against all alternative Brexit options pic.twitter.com/7MhKC2IB1C
— AFP news agency (@AFP) March 27, 2019
The man convicted on state murder charges in a deadly car attack at a white nationalist rally in Virginia has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges.
READ MORE -> https://t.co/ifaKtNwSTA pic.twitter.com/hjQAc2jej3— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) March 27, 2019
TFW your only remaining leverage is how much everybody hates you. https://t.co/HCW5uOR7EI
— Devin Nunes’ Raging Bile Duct (@goddamnedfrank) March 27, 2019
NC gospel singer read in the newspaper that someone had a $1 million Powerball ticket. It was him.
Dockery told lottery officials he intends to “pay off his house,” give some money to his church, and indulge himself with a new guitar.
“I need to make sure I have a good guitar if I’m going to keep singing,” Dockery said in a release.
Dockery had one of seven tickets in the country to win $1 million in last weekend’s Powerball drawing, officials said. He matched numbers for five white balls, beating “odds of one in 11.7 million,” said a release.
The gospel singer said he was glad he followed his gut and didn’t buy more tickets, according to the press release.
“When I saw how much the jackpot was, I almost bought two tickets,” said Dockery in the press release. “But then I figured, if I’m going to win, I only need one.”
I could argue with his innumeracy… but then again, he’s the one with the (after taxes less than a ) million dollars.
re: #79 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I LOVE THAT SHOW!!!
Took me many months to watch. Then I spent a weekend. So cutting. So visual.
re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg
And now for something totally unrelated: I find myself having difficulty getting the right balance of character development and story progression on my 9/10/01 novel. As the title suggests, the book follows a number of different characters (including two of the terrorists) on the day prior to 9/11.
But I decided early on to NOT use any flashbacks or similar devices because to me that almost felt like cheating. Part of the concept here is that we only have insight into a single day of these peoples lives and its up to the reader to fill in many of the before and after components to the story.
Initially I didn’t think it would be such a challenge to confine everything to a single day but it has proved more daunting than anticipated. I’ve been making progress though and about to crack 100 pages so I’m about halfway to my goal.
Here’s hoping I can hang in there and see this thing through.
Take some time off from the project. Clear your head, don’t think about it for a couple days, and then go back fresh.
I find as a graphic artist and also as a drummer that when you get to a frustrating point in your development of your art, you are at a point where you are making a new stride, but it isn’t coming to you and you get into a block.
Walk away and come back and many times you find you now know where to go.
I don’t know why, but it works and in conversing with other artists, it seems many find the same method works. Time to reset is important.
Good luck!
It’s nutso bananas, wacky, completely screwy - a measure of how far we’ve been degraded and debased - that this is even being discussed as an acceptable option. https://t.co/vhExbEv6yB
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 27, 2019
242-187: House passes pay equity legislation (HR 7) to close gender wage gap for women and minorities. 7 Republicans voted Yes on one of House Democrats top 10 legislative priorities for 116th Congress. Bill by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) now heads to Senate. pic.twitter.com/jpTPvydcSB
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) March 27, 2019
The likelihood of you winning at PowerBall is proportional to the number of tickets you buy.
You can assure yourself winning $4 by buying 26 plays, each with a different PowerBall (red ball) number. So you pay $52 to win $4. Not a good strategy.
Getting one whiteball pays nothing. Getting two whiteballs correct pays nothing (which is aggravating absurd given that any casino pays out handsomely in an equivalent situation.)
re: #95 freetoken
The likelihood of you winning at PowerBall is proportional to the number of tickets you buy.
You can assure yourself winning $4 by buying 26 plays, each with a different PowerBall (red ball) number. So you pay $52 to win $4. Not a good strategy.
Getting one whiteball pays nothing. Getting two whiteballs correct pays nothing (which is aggravating absurd given that any casino pays out handsomely in an equivalent situation.)
Except casinos do not offer a huge payoff that increases every time that no one matches all numbers.
re: #60 steve_davis
there are two things I would half-seriously like to see brought back, because it would put an end to a lot of this behavior: torture, and dueling. If you knew your words could get you killed, you’d generally be much more civil. If you knew your actions could eventually get you some time with a guy or gal whose job is to keep you alive as long as possible while inflicting maximum damage, you would probably be more inclined to try to lead a righteous life.
Fuck torture. Fuck anyone who suggests it should ever be government policy, because you can trust me, the justice system is somewhat messed up already (see Manfort’s 3 year verdict) do you really believe that torture wouldn’t end up getting handed out like the death penalty is, disproportionally to those with little political or economic power regardless of the actual crime severity involved?
re: #96 Hecuba’s daughter
Except casinos do not offer a huge payoff that increases every time that no one matches all numbers.
Because it’s not a very good way to make money (for the casinos).
A casino stays in business (unless it’s owned by Trump) by making gambling almost worthwhile for the customer.
The only reason the state lotteries have such huge jackpots is because the customer base is huge (in the many millions). Your local casino is probably fishing for profit from only a few hundred thousand likely customers.
re: #83 ObserverArt
Oh, so Trump is just playing president.
Just like he played a successful businessman on a stupid reality TV show.
Except - unfortunately - this time we can’t get rid of through bad ratings…
re: #74 freetoken
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Your local casino has to have “loose” slot machines, so if a customer sits in the room they will occasionally hear the bells go off. This is the reinforcement that is needed to keep people coming back.
At the BlackJack table… if the table is full, say 5 people, you will see at least one of them make some money during the night, which reinforces the belief of the others that they can too.
This is how gambling works as a business.
A casino only has to keep a few percent of the money that gets played, in order to be profitable (how did Trump go bankrupt??)
Yet the state lotteries only return less than 50% of the payout, and that is highly weighted towards the top prizes.
re: #100 Eric The Fruit Bat
I think only 7 jurisdictions allow winners to remain anonymous.
Here in California you can’t even hide behind a trust. If you win an amount that is large enough to make the state treasury print a check, you are public.
re: #96 Hecuba’s daughter
Except casinos do not offer a huge payoff that increases every time that no one matches all numbers.
They sort of do with games that have progressive jackpots however, there’s always a max, the jackpot can’t just go up indefinitely like in a lottery.
re: #101 freetoken
A casino only has to keep a few percent of the money that gets played, in order to be profitable (how did Trump go bankrupt??)
In metro Detroit, there are 3 casinos (MGM Grand, Motor City, Greektown) - in the rest of the state, they are all owned/run by Native Americans.
re: #99 Jay C
Except - unfortunately - this time we can’t get rid of through bad ratings…
We will be allowed to vote him off the island. But they only hold that vote every four years.
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re: #101 freetoken
A casino only has to keep a few percent of the money that gets played, in order to be profitable (how did Trump go bankrupt??)
Fundamentally, (AFAICR), through:
1. Treating his casino investments as (abstracted) RE/branding exercises
2. Ignoring the basic economics of the casino business; i.e.:
3. Assuming the “Trump brand” would bring in enough rubes marks business to overcome the negatives of 2.
4. (Probably) over-leveraging said assets so that he ultimately had to bail. (And, of course, rely on the “Trump brand image” to kill the bad PR which the numerous bankruptcies would otherwise entail).
re: #107 Jay C
Fundamentally, (AFAICR), through:
1. Treating his casino investments as (abstracted) RE/branding exercises
2. Ignoring the basic economics of the casino business; i.e.:
3. Assuming the “Trump brand” would bring in enoughrubes marksbusiness to overcome the negatives of 2.
4. (Probably) over-leveraging said assets so that he ultimately had to bail. (And, of course, rely on the “Trump brand image” to kill the bad PR which the numerous bankruptcies would otherwise entail).
Trying to open a second one near the first one because reasons was stupid.
re: #83 ObserverArt
Oh, so Trump is just playing president.
Just like he played a successful businessman on a stupid reality TV show.
I’ve said for some time that Trump LARP*ed being a business genius on The Apprentice.
*Live-action role playing.
This is usually good for getting a rise out of online Trumpists.
re: #97 jamesfirecat
Fuck torture. Fuck anyone who suggests it should ever be government policy, because you can trust me, the justice system is somewhat messed up already (see Manfort’s 3 year verdict) do you really believe that torture wouldn’t end up getting handed out like the death penalty is, disproportionally to those with little political or economic power regardless of the actual crime severity involved?
Pretty much all of human history confirms this point — torture is always and everywhere a disgrace and cancer, only put into use by evil regimes.
And the US post-9/11 is no exception to this rule.
re: #108 Belafon
Trying to open a second one near the first one because reasons was stupid.
Hey! Inescapable logic!*
If one Trump Casino can make X million bucks, then two Trump Casinos are going to make 2X million!
If not more, because all the rubes marks customers at Trump 1 are going to be flocking to Trump 2 to try to recoup their losses! In “elegant” “classy” surroundings, no less!
*well, “logic” by Trump standards…..
re: #110 EPR-radar
Pretty much all of human history confirms this point — torture is always and everywhere a disgrace and cancer, only put into use by evil regimes.
And the US post-9/11 is no exception to this rule.
Exactly, it is an inefficient method of getting information (because people will say whatever they think you want them to say just to make the pain stop) and on top of that, what kind of person is going to be able to torture his fellow human beings because his government tells them to? Either they will end up killing themselves out of guilt, or we’ll have empowered a sadist.
The youth these days are clever:
Honestly, I’m just banking on my parents winning the Powerball jackpot tonight 💰💸
— Ashley Portillo (@AshleyPorteeyo) March 27, 2019
re: #105 ObserverArt
It’s tough to compress all of the evil, crime and corruption of Trump’s revolting career into sufficiently punchy text/images.
So for the moment I content myself with pure mockery. E.g.:
Do we now have President Asswipe?
Or is it President Buttmunch?
Parliament is broken. Check out @David_K_Clark’s Tweet:
So, the Commons has rejected every Brexit option along with a second referendum and May’s deal. It also has no appetite for an election. That leaves revolution, a military coup or alien invasion as the only ways left to escape this hell.
— David Clark (@David_K_Clark) March 27, 2019
re: #114 EPR-radar
It’s tough to compress all of the evil, crime and corruption of Trump’s revolting career into sufficiently punchy text/images.
So for the moment I content myself with pure mockery. E.g.:
Do we now have President Asswipe?
Or is it President Buttmunch?
I was just going with a designer poster type of thing with the main point being we still have Individual No. 1 to deal with and then tie him to his own known crimes with his family, not even dealing with the crap he has pulled in office.
Russia has rejected a demand by the U.S. to withdraw its military personnel from Venezuela, saying that their presence in the country is legitimate. https://t.co/JadsHP04XP
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 27, 2019
re: #115 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The way forward really is just down to this: a no-deal Brexit in a couple of weeks.
The UK will end up being financially troubled, but Labour seems inept in getting enough support in the country to force an election. And a Labour PM will not be able to undo Brexit anyway, after the exit.
So the UK is just going to have to suffer the consequences of their decision.
re: #115 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Can’t the Queen just say “we are not amused” and revoke Article 50?
re: #119 KGxvi
Can’t the Queen just say “we are not amused” and revoke Article 50?
The queen has no legal power.
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
Quite the dilemma for Trump… his boy Vlad is flirting with his old boo in Venezuela.
My own belief about these lotteries is this: follow your heart.
In the end, life is too short to worry about the small bits. Most people gambling like this are older anyway, and in the end whatever money is lost wasn’t going to change fundamentally their lifestyles anyway.
Gambling is a diversion, like so much else that we humans create.
The state lotteries are small compared to what is wagered on sports, the latter is at least twice the former and that is ignoring the international and offshore betting.
The lotteries are terrible returns, for the person who bets. Yet it allows people cheap entertainment compared to many alternatives.
If you want to win by gambling your only real choice is to become a card counter and work the BlackJack tables, until the casino kicks you out.
If you want the thrill of gambling but want something with more skill then play poker.
Everything else is a fantasy, not unlike RPGs or your local S&M club.
re: #120 Belafon
The queen has no legal power.
I meant that mostly as a joke. But is there an actual law limiting royal prerogative or is it mostly practice/tradition? And wouldn’t this be a case where royal prerogative without advice from the PM would actually make sense?
re: #122 freetoken
I enjoy gambling, and made a run at playing poker full time a little more than a decade ago. I didn’t do it the smartest way (I quit a job I hated with no backup plan, hadn’t set up my finances/budget right, and basically just set “fuck it, let’s give it a try”), but did well enough to make it work for a few months. I’ve often thought about doing it again, but haven’t been a financial position to pull it off the right way.
But yeah, your take on gambling is mostly right - it’s entertainment, and if you’re not betting more than you can afford to lose (and/or don’t have an addiction), then just take it as entertainment.
re: #124 freetoken
So if nobody wins tonight, Saturday will probably hit a billion dollars again? That’s what happened last time it got close to $900m, right?
re: #46 freetoken
It’s like every little faction of UK politics are posturing against each other unto the bitter end:
the incomparable Tracey Ullman as Rees-Mogg’s “nanny” nails it.
When you want Brexit now and to be Prime Minister, ‘cos you’re a big boy Rees-Mogg! *stamps foot* pic.twitter.com/7ger94Q4ch
— BBC Comedy (@bbccomedy) July 2, 2018
re: #126 KGxvi
$900M is the Saturday jackpot if no one wins tonight.
This is currently the longest run of no-win jackpots in PowerBall. even the $1B prize in 2017 was done at week 23.
This time the jackpots are rising more slowly. I conjecture that the lotteries are not keeping newbie players since a newbie will almost certainly lose and not come back.
Something else that’s being covered-up by Bill Barr and Mistah Trump. https://t.co/W3MDgtzY7H
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 27, 2019
re: #129 freetoken
$900M is the Saturday jackpot if no one wins tonight.
This is currently the longest run of no-win jackpots in PowerBall. even the $1B prize in 2017 was done at week 23.
This time the jackpots are rising more slowly. I conjecture that the lotteries are not keeping newbie players since a newbie will almost certainly lose and not come back.
Nah I got THE ONE. /////
— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) March 27, 2019
re: #125 KGxvi
I enjoy gambling, and made a run at playing poker full time a little more than a decade ago. I didn’t do it the smartest way (I quit a job I hated with no backup plan, hadn’t set up my finances/budget right, and basically just set “fuck it, let’s give it a try”), but did well enough to make it work for a few months. I’ve often thought about doing it again, but haven’t been a financial position to pull it off the right way.
But yeah, your take on gambling is mostly right - it’s entertainment, and if you’re not betting more than you can afford to lose (and/or don’t have an addiction), then just take it as entertainment.
That’s the way I look at it: entertainment. If we win it will change our lives; if we lose, it has no financial effect on us.
re: #129 freetoken
$900M is the Saturday jackpot if no one wins tonight.
This is currently the longest run of no-win jackpots in PowerBall. even the $1B prize in 2017 was done at week 23.
This time the jackpots are rising more slowly. I conjecture that the lotteries are not keeping newbie players since a newbie will almost certainly lose and not come back.
That $900m is estimated though. I feel like the Mega and Power that got that high ended up jumping quite a bit when people saw it that big.
I also suspect that you’ll get more players because the prize is so big. I know I don’t tend to get a ticket unless I see it up around $300m or more.
JUST IN: House Defense Appropriations chair Pete Visclosky rejects DoD’s bid to shift $1B to a border wall. DoD says it will do so without approval.
“With this unilateral action, the historic and unprecedented comity…between the Committee and the Department has been breached.” pic.twitter.com/kn5ZWyly8I— Connor O’Brien (@connorobrienNH) March 27, 2019
Marvel is doing a movie for Morbius, the Living Vampire. They have Matt Smith as the villain, Loxias Crown. I’m wondering which villain Peter Capaldi will play in a future Marvel story.
re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I found it hard to pay attention while being mesmerized by Meghan’s ridiculous false eyelashes. Jeez.
this is the face of total pup innocence i am serious https://t.co/pLM52FfZBV
— darth™ (@darth) March 27, 2019
re: #137 Belafon
They’re allegedly considering a Blade reboot, so there’s that…
Also, if Capaldi gets a role, that will be four of the five “new” Doctors to be in the MCU.
Kentucky’s 2 new abortion laws suspended indefinitely by federal judge https://t.co/jny0PMnJsK
— Courier Journal (@courierjournal) March 27, 2019
Let me modify my earlier comment:
GFIjq5e7zEw/AfgCcCVD/7TFe4+1dg0yRVVgkAh9BMlUPNeNuzaXDwh4vME15LchXFg+ExNUnTRCuh6GIqf1eA/lj18/U9BLM4vU0OsnlnJB/I0bWUI3YMUPrUBH1jAL9tmWYug6KKj9fuJNKyyykrz6pl8t398JXyLSHjlCxwADoW0GVcNK6YB6SH6FcFBm2Ef+WME3GiR68Tfa7qFoxmTCnZtJPgw9iPFeOjlzd3YihkXE5SSxpHpmbGhDT/vWMtATGN2c77q9NG2LCnkqdeJ8q9RhmI/i49elRGaQqCWtQtfW7rrbgk/iDqoyJv8eNOGki1sfuordHboeg8SnUQbJp00BsxdJPw1nKe0810HbIQCsRo6WkQ==
ST:TNG tried to explain how the transporters got around uncertainty by claiming there existed a “Heisenberg compensator”.
If only.
re: #134 KGxvi
That $900m is estimated though. I feel like the Mega and Power that got that high ended up jumping quite a bit when people saw it that big.
They are, from the looks of it, taking into account how slow the sales have been this year.
The cat has arrived and believe me, she has Opinions about today’s Brexit shenanigans 😬😬 pic.twitter.com/oHqlq8PsL5
— Kate Bevan (@katebevan) March 27, 2019
That’s it, nothing else for it - the cats are taking over Brexit. #indicativevotes
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) March 27, 2019
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
She has some very nice cat pics.
re: #143 freetoken
ST:TNG tried to explain how the transporters got around uncertainty by claiming there existed a “Heisenberg compensator”.
If only.
I suppose if we understood the uncertainty more, we could develop a way to make it more… certain?
As President Trump made clear today, “Russia needs to get out” of Venezuela.
— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) March 27, 2019
John Bolton’s Mustache issues demands.
that’ll kill an appetite
Guess who’s sitting across from me. pic.twitter.com/vOIF5UYNdD
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 27, 2019
Here’s the Bevin administration’s reaction to the Medicaid waiver getting struck down for the second time by a federal judge: https://t.co/drgSUuhg0g pic.twitter.com/y7vnUnQUTK
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 27, 2019
Please compare the priority of these projects against the $7.2B in military construction funds designated for the Wall and backfill for projects already raided for same.
Thanks,
American taxpayers.— Mieke Eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) March 27, 2019
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
that’ll kill an appetite
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JFC
And Rudy said loudly, “I could be your lover or your friend.” pic.twitter.com/8WZEgNattN
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 27, 2019
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC
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That lady will need a set of rabies shots after contact with Screwdy!
oh
“Major flooding across the U.S. Midwest has reached at least eight Superfund sites…The @EPA said it is unable to access the sites containing arsenic, benzene, cyanide and other toxins, because of the floodwaters inundating the facilities.” via @bpolitics https://t.co/rYsDVBc4Zn
— NRDC 🌎 (@NRDC) March 27, 2019
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe I’m just a bit jaded… but what I see is how the inside crowd (and that includes the tweeter) go to restaurants habitually and drop more on a dinner tab… than what most Americans are able to do.
The streams of digital enlightenment are full of laments about Americans spending $20 on lottery tickets… while the 1% spend $200 on elitist snacks…
It all seems so comedic to me.
re: #120 Belafon
The queen has no legal power.
That’s what she wants you to think, she has been waiting patiently for 67 years ready to pounce.
//
re: #120 Belafon
The queen has no legal power.
I wonder what would happen if Liz spoke out publicly about how messed up this whole thing has been?
re: #149 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
INT. OVAL OFFICE
RED PHONE RINGS. President Trump picks it up.
TRUMP: Vlad, how are…
PUTIN (V.O.): You need to get out of Venezuela. Tonight.
TRUMP: I can’t do that, Vlad. And you really shouldn’t…
PUTIN (V.O.): I wonder if I should give the pee tape to Maddow or Blitzer? First.
PHONE LINE CLICKS.
Trump turns to Bolton and other advisors.
Trump: We are getting out of Venezuela, immediately. I’m tweeting it.
re: #158 bd (Emergency!)
That’s what she wants you to think, she has been waiting patiently for 67 years ready to pounce.
//
RELEASE THE CORGIS!!!
“there’s just no talking to you sometimes, Sandra” pic.twitter.com/JkWB9IWW48
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) March 27, 2019
I’m on a FB board for people w/ thyroid issues and a woman posted that her husband “dared” her to eat only salad until she lost 5 lbs b/c he “deserves a pretty wife.” I’m pretty sure that the whole board will be assisting w/ his murder & I am now part of Big Little Lies Season 2.
— Fiona Taylor (@fionaleslie) March 27, 2019
re: #55 freetoken
PowerBall beckons tonight… the jackpot is getting back up to where I can label it “real money” again.
Got three quick picks. If I win I’m buying the ski area I work at outright, closing it for two years for big time capital improvements all over the place, then using it as a tax write off and free skiing for all my family and friends forever. Then I’d take the rest of the $700 million or so and give it away to lots of charities and adult toy companies (sports cars, boats, etc.) and buy some land in the Roaring Fork Valley.
.@brigitte_amiri (cont.): We will continue to hold anti-abortion state legislators accountable as long as they abuse their power to try to push abortion out of reach.” #HB5 #SB9 #kyga19 #stopthebans
— ACLU of Kentucky (@ACLUofKY) March 27, 2019
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Update & VICTORY: The Temporary Restraining Order blocking enforcement of Reason Abortion Ban House Bill 5 and 6-week Abortion Ban Senate Bill 9 has been extended until the final ruling in the district court. #HB5 #SB9 #kyga19 #stopthebans pic.twitter.com/HcNhAO8WwZ
— ACLU of Kentucky (@ACLUofKY) March 27, 2019
If you’re big take away from becoming a nazi is ‘it’s been terrible for my employment opportunities” it’s probably good that you’re having a hard time on the job market. https://t.co/tOBibqGXmk
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 28, 2019
re: #148 KGxvi
I suppose if we understood the uncertainty more, we could develop a way to make it more… certain?
Alas… no.
What we have discovered so far is that everything is made up of “stuff” which behaves, in the small, not how we humans have evolved to deal with things in the (relatively) large.
Human intuition fails when dealing with scales far beyond our haptic/visual/auditory response.
The uncertainty principle exists in part because “things” in the small do not behave as points. Instead we model them as waves. We keep these models because they work remarkable well, better than anything else we have discovered about the universe (other than general relativity.)
Inevitably all the hidden variable models get stood up by experiment or other thought experiments.
However, uncertainty does not rule out super-determinism. But it does limit out how well we can test that if it truly describes existence.
re: #120 Belafon
The queen has no legal power.
I thought that the Queen could dissolve the House of Commons and call for a new election still. It hasn’t been done since the 1830s, but to my knowledge is still within the right of the monarch.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
Let’s see a photo of her husband.
re: #169 Jack Burton
I thought that the Queen could dissolve the House of Commons and call for a new election still. It hasn’t been done since the 1830s, but to my knowledge is still within the right of the monarch.
From businessinsider.com:
The Queen has the power to form governments. The Queen previously wielded the power to dissolve Parliament and call a general election, but the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act put an end to that in 2011. Now a two-thirds vote in the commons is required to dissolve Parliament before a five-year fixed-term is up.
This is Penny. She would like to take a moment and teach you about determination. A stick calculating queen. 14/10 never give pup pic.twitter.com/ejvzyJMjr9
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) March 28, 2019
was not interested in the new frozen sequel but elsa may have changed my mind https://t.co/jP12T72yFb
— darth™ (@darth) March 28, 2019
The cinema event of the decade. https://t.co/DUL8S59wuD
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) March 27, 2019
#AvengeTheFallen
The Avengers (left)
The Fallen (right)#AvengersEndgame
4.26.2019 pic.twitter.com/Oz4ec5i1Vb— Fandango (@Fandango) March 26, 2019
The most lewd sounding town name in each state pic.twitter.com/S4oK0svlYi
— Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) July 19, 2018
When I see the title of this thread out of the corner of my eye, I see it as “Colbert: Trump Suddenly Remembers He Needs to Kill Millions of People”
re: #177 teleskiguy
PA Amish have some odd names for towns.
Bevin is having a hissy fit
More Bevin: “Every one of the able-bodied people taking (Medicaid) is taking it right out of the hands, right out of the mouths and right out of the pockets of the people for whom Medicaid was designed.” ^JC https://t.co/zettnSltu2
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 28, 2019
A spoonful of Ringo dressing room moments we are in Japan now peace peace and love. 😎✌️🌟❤️🌺🦏🥦🎵😍☮️ pic.twitter.com/tOccGOYket
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bevin is having a hissy fit
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Bevin just wants the people he’s cutting aid for to quietly find a ditch to die in.
Why does everyone always get so mean about standard GOP budget priorities where one GOP donor’s two dozenth yacht is more important than helping dozens of people to stay alive?
What? https://t.co/12CxeiE2Vv
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) March 28, 2019
should be a first class shitshow
#HANNITY EXCLUSIVE TONIGHT: One-on-one with @realdonaldtrump — the President’s first interview since Mueller found no collusion! Tune in at 9PM ET! pic.twitter.com/Kj9fb80INn
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 27, 2019
re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
With Hannity it always is.
Trump vowed to unveil a health care plan, which would offer better coverage at a lower price, in January 2017. https://t.co/vs7H3P1iB3 That was more than 26 months ago.
Neither he nor his team ever presented a plan. https://t.co/jCT6Uhp9qV— Steve Benen (@stevebenen) March 28, 2019
This is why I keep Facebook.. 😅😂 pic.twitter.com/09Z7L2CWRv
— TC (@tyrelcline) March 27, 2019
Oh, it gets more interesting. SFW
heh
Amazing. @realDonaldTrump’s Tower in Chicago contains the city’s biggest real-estate failure: a massive, hard-to-reach, below-grade retail space it hasn’t managed to rent out in 10 years. https://t.co/QXhHqA1VVN
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 27, 2019
Identity Evropa, now American Identity Movement, was banned from Facebook and IG, according to its founder: pic.twitter.com/ppK3XSrnco
— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) March 27, 2019
re: #176 Belafon
And some people have taken the theme in directions that are why the internet exists:
i’m just gonna go and cry now #AvengeTheFallen pic.twitter.com/AXv3pSnIZb
— 𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞 (@malfoylumos) March 27, 2019
#AvengeTheFallen pic.twitter.com/DhKV6keRM8
— where’s my check, Buzzfeed? (@lukeisamazing) March 27, 2019
— darth™ (@darth) March 26, 2019
#AvengeTheFallen pic.twitter.com/xPdtid0qaL
— Dani (@ctrlalt_d) March 27, 2019
I had too… #AvengeTheFallen pic.twitter.com/UkJHAOEGRi
— 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 🚀 PAX East (@steinekin) March 26, 2019
And one for the laugh:
#AvengeTheFallen #LifeAlert pic.twitter.com/ASfYrkK184
— Smosh (@smosh) March 26, 2019
BREAKING: Trump Tried to Undo Sanctions on 2 Chinese Companies for Violating North Korea Nuclear Sanctions. Officials devised misleading explanation to obscure his effort Full Story: https://t.co/LdGVS8OxDE @SelahaMohsin @JenniferJJacobs @NWadhams via @bpolitics
— Mike Dorning (@MikeDorning) March 26, 2019
This is some premium shade.
Snyder fans are the worst.
But sadly, it makes sense why they’re so rabidly online. After all, it’s not like they have any good movies they could be watching instead? https://t.co/GG7y48lIp5— Casey Eggsplosion 🥚 (@CaseyExplosion) March 27, 2019
current mood: absolutely losing it over these pics of bad panoramas of dogs pic.twitter.com/bnUpLztGbH
— jocelyn (@jocelynseip) March 27, 2019
Jesus fuck Fuckface Von Clownstick is talking to Hannity tonight?!? Maybe I should start eating acid everyday.
Trump tells Hannity, extremely inaccurately, that you’re only allowed to launch an investigation “legally” if there is a crime. “There was no crime,” he says, obviously not mentioning Cohen, Manafort, Gates and Flynn.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 28, 2019
Trump on either Page and Strzok specifically or the investigation more broadly: “It was treason. It was really treason.” (Treason has a definition, and this is not it.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 28, 2019
Asked if he’d consider pardons for Flynn or Papadopoulos, Trump says, “Many, many people were hurt, incredibly hurt, by this whole scam.” He says Flynn had a great record in the military. He adds, “I don’t want to talk about pardons now, but…it’s so sad on so many levels.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 28, 2019
Trump: “It’s a very, very dark period, and maybe we’re shedding a lot of light. We’re going to come into a bright, sunny day.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 28, 2019
If reincarnation is a thing, I want to be a bird of prey after I die.
re: #178 EPR-radar
When I see the title of this thread out of the corner of my eye, I see it as “Colbert: Trump Suddenly Remembers He Needs to Kill Millions of People”
My reaction too — because that’s what his policy will eventually do.
Trump says a Clinton presidency would have been better for Russia than his, since, under Clinton, there’d be no domestic fossil fuel industry: “There’d be no oil. There’d be no gas.” There would have been oil and gas.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 28, 2019
Trump has moved from calling the investigation a failed “illegal takedown” to calling it a failed “Illegal takeover,” suggesting that his enemies were trying to perpetrate a literal coup.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 28, 2019
— Devin Nunes’ Raging Bile Duct (@goddamnedfrank) March 28, 2019
Just when you think this turd can’t get any worse…
Alex Jones is a despicable human being who can’t spare a moment before he spits on the grave of a man who died by suicide. https://t.co/QCSGtjp1su
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) March 26, 2019
As it turns out, #BatmanVSuperman could’ve been much worse. pic.twitter.com/EU52JFs2pR
— Amon Warmann (@awarmann) March 27, 2019
Years of legal practice have taught me to be suspicious when a person won’t even quote a full sentence from another document, much less a paragraph. If Barr had any real victories in Mueller’s report, he would’ve block-quoted them in context for everyone to see. pic.twitter.com/ks3UrF7qvL
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) March 28, 2019
re: #204 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just when you think this turd can’t get any worse…
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Just got one of those phone calls.
My one older brother passed away from complications due to his advanced Parkinson’s. He was 74.
I haven’t seen him in a few years because he moved back out to Arizona and after I lost my job, I haven’t had the travel time and money to get out there.
His wife said they are not having any service, as he has donated his body to University of Arizona for research. So she said don’t worry about making it out.
We weren’t real close ever, but it all makes me feel terrible not being able to see him for so long.
Damn.
re: #208 ObserverArt
So sorry, fella. I know how it feels.
re: #205 goddamnedfrank
That a turning point in the BvS plot was the two heroes both having mothers named Martha was bad enough. Giving them the same mother would have pissed off every comics fan and probably killed the movie completely.
Also, a rich socialite from Gotham City moving to Smallville like Sarah, Plain and Tall would have raised some eyebrows in a farm town, even if she had a cover story and new identity.
Dumb idea. Snyder should be banned from making comics-based movies for life.
Did you guys see Trump’s numbers in this CNN poll? Not good - at this point, only 50% of Republicans are planning to vote for him.
It doesn’t get any better for Trump as you dig into the groups in the CNN poll, either.
These numbers are so bad it’s hard to believe they aren’t an outlier. pic.twitter.com/rrqbpBHf1H— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) March 27, 2019
re: #208 ObserverArt
My sympathies. Even if one hasn’t been close, losing a sibling is always painful.
— Barney’s Nose (@BarneysNose) March 27, 2019
re: #205 goddamnedfrank
Unless an idea is created, it’s just an idea. Sometimes you throw wild things out because they might have sounded better in your head, and sometimes you throw them out because it might spark others to come up with something you didn’t think of.
I mean, if it hadn’t been for Bobby Ewing waking up from a dream, we wouldn’t have had the ending to Newhart.
I am glad they didn’t go with that idea, though.
re: #214 Belafon
Sometimes you throw wild things out because they might have sounded better in your head, and sometimes you throw them out because it might spark others to come up with something you didn’t think of.
Sometimes you need the room.
re: #177 teleskiguy
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I’m calling bullshit. A bunker is not a town, and there are no towns on the Nevada Test Site.
No one in line to buy lottery tickets at my local store… unusual.
I think I should graph out PowerBall sales the past few years, showing how the sales have slowed down. It’s not a secret, but I bet almost no one in the public knows that.
And certainly the various media outlets don’t seem to report on it, save for the very rare story.
re: #211 makeitstop
Did you guys see Trump’s numbers in this CNN poll? Not good - at this point, only 50% of Republicans are planning to vote for him.
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Polls at this point are worthless. As a reminder, in May 1988, Dukakis led Bush by 16 points, and that was in the same year as the election and not in March of the prior year.
He really, really wants to kill a bunch of people.
Here’s the President of the United States saying he isn’t going to shoot undocumented immigrants but shooting undocumented immigrants would be very effective pic.twitter.com/wWg2ThaP56
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 28, 2019
re: #216 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
I’m calling bullshit. A bunker is not a town, and there are no towns on the Nevada Test Site.
Google maps lists it….
re: #219 The Vicious Babushka
His eldest son.
Another hot picture of you after you cut the tail off of a elephant pic.twitter.com/l77dmXZOIC
— Sandy (@srose57) March 26, 2019
re: #220 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
Google maps lists it….
I went exploring. You can’t get close to it, or even Mercury, NV, which is south of it. I do like the alien spacecraft thing Google gives you if you try to drop the avatar on the road.
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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“These efforts have proven futile: In 2018 alone, the tower’s leasing brokers, RKF and ARC Real Estate, spoke with at least 77 potential tenants — mostly cafe and restaurant operators — to discuss a potential lease, according to the tax appeal documents. All said no.”
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
If I won tonight’s Powerball, I would buy a house in Toronto.
re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
If I won tonight’s Powerball, I would buy a house in Toronto.
I would also rebuild my son’s teardown house so that it looks like most of the other McMansions on his block.
re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth
My heart fair bleeds for him.
re: #219 The Vicious Babushka
And that is why I have this take on the headline.
Colbert: Trump Suddenly Remembers He Needs to Kill Healthcare for Millions of People
re: #208 ObserverArt
I live over 1000 miles from most of my immediate family. I feel for you, I really do.
re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
If I won tonight’s Powerball, I would buy a house in Toronto.
If my sister and I were the sole winners of the Powerball, I would finally hire an accountant to handle my taxes instead of having an annual meltdown trying to get TurboTax to operate successfully.
If I win Powerball Charles gets 10 million dollars.
Yippee, I baked my first batch of saltines today! Or, as the rest of the world calls it, flatbread. Anywho, yippee!
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bevin is having a hissy fit
You know, you could have a program take words randomly out of the dictionary and it would have more to do with reality.
Question for any guitar or bass players: Does it just take a bit to get used to the arm positions necessary to play? Specifically, in order to get my arms in the position so that my fingers are reaching all of the strings, my upper left arm really a good stretch. Put your left elbow up against your body, hold your palm up with your arm parallel to the ground, then try to rotate your arm counterclockwise as far as you can. That stretch.
re: #220 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
Google maps lists it….
It’s a bunker. In the Test Site. That’s not a town, dammit!!!! LOL.
re: #222 Belafon
I went exploring. You can’t get close to it, or even Mercury, NV, which is south of it. I do like the alien spacecraft thing Google gives you if you try to drop the avatar on the road.
Yeah! And this! If you can’t even access it, it’s not a town.
re: #208 ObserverArt
My older sister, Patricia, died in Tucson last year. She was older than me by one year and 11 hours (I was her birthday present). She is survived by six kids, twelve grandchildren, and two very large iguanas. She took me to see Alice Cooper’s band in a Phoenix dive bar in ‘72. Gawd, she was a character, and a wonderfully eccentric sister. :-)
And on that note, I’m off to bed and hopefully will get some non-hot flash sleep.
Sugar Bunker, located to the left of 5-01 Road in the Nevada Test Site.
The bunker was used for various experiments during the voluntary nuclear testing moratorium (October 31, 1958 - September 15, 1961) implemented by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
If I won tonight’s Powerball, I would buy a house in Toronto.
You need to win the Powerball to buy a house in Toronto.
You might be better off somewhere else in the GTA. Our Premier intends to burn Toronto to the ground. We didn’t vote for him and we’re going to pay for that.
Plus his base hates Toronto the same way Trump’s base hates New York and Los Angeles.
re: #210 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
That a turning point in the BvS plot was the two heroes both having mothers named Martha was bad enough. Giving them the same mother would have pissed off every comics fan and probably killed the movie completely.
Also, a rich socialite from Gotham City moving to Smallville like Sarah, Plain and Tall would have raised some eyebrows in a farm town, even if she had a cover story and new identity.
Dumb idea. Snyder should be banned from making comics-based movies for life.
Considering that the three non-Snyder DC movies — Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Shazam — are considered way better movies than anything Snyder made, I suspect he won’t get another crack at them.
re: #240 can’t think of a decent username
Considering that the three non-Snyder DC movies — Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Shazam — are considered way better movies than anything Snyder made, I suspect he won’t get another crack at them.
Wait!? There’s a Shazam movie? How did I miss that one?
{Checks Wikipedia}
Oh, it’s not out yet. Still I had no idea one was in the works.
re: #241 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Wait!? There’s a Shazam movie? How did I miss that one?
(looks around nervously)
Did I miss a sarc tag?
“What We Do In the Shadows” TV series, starring Matt Berry, with both Clement and Waititi involved?
Did I do something right and the universe is rewarding me?
re: #243 The Ghost of Quesos Past
“What We Do In the Shadows” TV series, starring Matt Berry, with both Clement and Waititi involved?
Did I do something right and the universe is rewarding me?
I’d really love to watch that one, but I don’t wanna pay for another streaming service. (Same reason I’m missing out on “Doom Patrol”)
I’m watching Paul Feig’s 2013 comedy The Heat, starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, and there’s a scene of an FBI confab, and on the wall there’s a large photo of then-FBI head Robert Mueller. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
re: #241 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Wait!? There’s a Shazam movie? How did I miss that one?
Who’s going to play Gomer and who’s going to play Goober?
re: #241 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Wait!? There’s a Shazam movie? How did I miss that one?
If you haven’t actually heard of it, here’s the first trailer.
Comes out in early April, but early buzz is very positive.
re: #246 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Who’s going to play Gomer and who’s going to play Goober?
Just the thought of Gomer yelling SHAZAM and turning into Captain Marvel…
re: #246 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Who’s going to play Gomer and who’s going to play Goober?
I see what you did there.
Just don’t call DC’s Billy Batson Captain Marvel, or there will be trouble.
The U.S. worries that Chinese investments in Europe could undermine NATO’s effectiveness. https://t.co/UTVFmqqUJb
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) March 28, 2019
It’s a good thing Trump built strong bridges with his EU counterparts in the beginning. They know who their friends are. //
re: #247 can’t think of a decent username
I’m so old I remember when Shazam! was Captain Marvel.
The coming attraction makes me want to see it.
It is kinda of funny that Marvel’s Captain Marvel and DC’s No-Longer-Captain-Marvel-Because-Lawsuit had movies come out so close to one another.
re: #252 De Kolta Chair
I’m so old I remember when Shazam was Captain Marvel.
The coming attraction makes me want to see it.
It’s one of those countless copyright/trademark issues created by competing interests holding rights to different parts of the original intellectual property. See also, Spider-Man and Star Trek.
re: #255 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Give it a year, and Disney will own it all!
re: #251 Dread Pirate Whitebeard
China is investing (and potentially saddling its partners with massive debts) all over the globe, as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. If Clinton — or anyone else with a brain — were in the White House, the USA would be trying to counter China’s expansionism with comparable efforts. Instead, we have an isolationist, mercantilist White House that’s more than willing to cede American influence over to China and Russia.
re: #256 De Kolta Chair
Give it a year, and Disney will own it all!
Probably we’ll end up with a crossover of The Incredibles with the Avengers and Justice League.
re: #258 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
In the mid-1980’s, I did some freelance paste-up for D.C., and I probably could’ve bought the company then for $35 and change.
re: #259 De Kolta Chair
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In the mid-1980’s, I did some freelance paste-up for D.C., and I probably could’ve bought the company then for $35 and change.
Comics publishers had a hard time back then, just like their decline during the early 1950s. It’s a wonder DC and Marvel survived long enough to be bought up by larger concerns, who may have finally realized what a gold mine of movie and TV concepts they were.
re: #260 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Marvel filed for bankruptcy in the 90s. That helped a lot.
re: #60 steve_davis
there are two things I would half-seriously like to see brought back, because it would put an end to a lot of this behavior: torture, and dueling.
That seems a bit extreme. My personal solution has always been the slapping police- get some smarter ex-pro-wrestler types (like Mick Foley, Kevin Nash, Beth Phonex, etc.) train them up on the detection of tomfoolery. Then turn them loose on the streets with the mission to search out those getting up to nonsense, and whap them on the back of the head while shouting “Stop it, ya goof!”
I think it would do wonders for the public discourse.
re: #263 uriel
Man, I really hope I’m wrong, but I just can’t see how that is going to be anything less than awful.
Some friends of my wife have seen it and they said it was good.
re: #264 Belafon
Well, I’m going to try to go in with a fresh eye- but for some reason, the trailers rub me the wrong way.
But, at least it ain’t Snyder. So there’s that.
re: #245 De Kolta Chair
I’m watching Paul Feig’s 2013 comedy The Heat, starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, and there’s a scene of an FBI confab, and on the wall there’s a large photo of then-FBI head Robert Mueller. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There’s a silly time-travel show on Hulu called Future Man; when he visits his childhood home in the early 90’s, the idol/hero posters on his bedroom wall are Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson.
re: #267 sagehen
There’s a silly time-travel show on Hulu called Future Man; when he visits his childhood home in the early 90’s, the idol/hero posters on his bedroom wall are Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson.
I get the irony of the personalities who later are tarnished goods but in all actually in the early 90’s they should have been Boys 2 Men, Eddie Murphy, and Michael Jordan. It bothers me when they get things wrong like that in movies.
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