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blaming detention camp overcrowding and filth on “democrats” lacks even the usual measure of gop plausibility
denying that it exists and also trying to blame it on “democrats” strains it even further
declaring that the bad conditions are intended to discourage immigration, but that they don’t exist, but they are the fault of “democrats”, and believing all three, is a prodigy of doublethink that apparently 27% of american voters are perfectly capable of
I’ve been wondering why the video of the VP and senators at the border is so disconcerting. Is it that they enter, gaze at the refugees in the enclosure, and depart without even trying to speak briefly with them or wish them well—without, as it were, acknowledging their humanity?
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 13, 2019
When confronted with the depth of one’s own depravity, it can be hard to know what to do with one’s arms. Apparently. pic.twitter.com/VpAbF7Ea5g
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 13, 2019
CURSE WORDS
Seagulls are boss aren’t they hahahahahaha pic.twitter.com/GsreScfOES
— Plink2 (@plinketyplink2) July 13, 2019
re: #2 Dread Pirate
Awwww… It’s cute when they try to grow a soul.
I’ve only recently come to the realization that many of the most pious only use it as a justification for their depravity.
Hey, DangerMan!!!!
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re: #3 Mescalero09
The play by play is as good as the crime.
re: #2 Dread Pirate
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Pence: I must stand ramrod straight. I am the Vice Unpresidented of the US.
Cornyn: I must wear my concerned face.
Lindsey: Dear God I wish I were playing golf with Donald.
Marsha: Ewww! Brown people! pic.twitter.com/O4QpzIMdnO— Real Fake P0TUS (@RF_P0TUS) July 13, 2019
re: #2 Dread Pirate
When will you accept responsibility for your role in bringing Trump to power?
You laid the groundwork!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 13, 2019
re: #7 BigPapa
The play by play is as good as the crime.
That gull was working that corner all day I suspect. Not his first rodeo.
re: #1 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
blaming detention camp overcrowding and filth on “democrats” lacks even the usual measure of gop plausibility
denying that it exists and also trying to blame it on “democrats” strains it even further
declaring that the bad conditions are intended to discourage immigration, but that they don’t exist, but they are the fault of “democrats”, and believing all three, is a prodigy of doublethink that apparently 27% of american voters are perfectly capable of
Their thinking pretty much goes like this: “Since Dems won’t fix the laws that let these people enter our country without immediately being sent back, we have no choice but to make things as horrible as possible for those that come here! We can’t just let them go, they’ll disappear and we’ll never find them again! So cramming them into increasingly smaller spaces is not our fault, it’s the Dems for not adopting our viewpoint that these people need to be kicked out!”
What a surprise! On the day Turkey takes delivery of advanced Russian missiles in defiance of NATO, it renews threats to US personnel and its partner forces in NE Syria. This has always been a cynical game in Ankara. Now transparent. https://t.co/fUqBz49kTT
— Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) July 12, 2019
What a surprise! On the day Turkey takes delivery of advanced Russian missiles in defiance of NATO, it renews threats to US personnel and its partner forces in NE Syria. This has always been a cynical game in Ankara. Now transparent. https://t.co/fUqBz49kTT
— Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) July 12, 2019
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The US military is closely watching the Syria-Turkish border due to growing concerns US troops in NE Syria will be caught up in a potential cross border Turkish military operation targeting Kurds in the coming days, defense officials tell @barbarastarrcnn
— Ryan Browne (@rabrowne75) July 12, 2019
It took a while, but some of the RC bishops are getting on board with the effort to stop the torture at the border:
BE GOLDEN: Do Unto Others•All Others…Be part of the movement that’s bringing “The Golden Rule” back to our community.
You are invited to join with the Archdiocese of Louisville for a Lights for Liberty Vigil to End Human Detention Camps. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, President of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Bishop Joe Vásquez, Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration, are calling us to action because of our government’s inhumane treatment of our immigrant brothers and sisters:
“We join with our Holy Father- Pope Francis” in immense sadness, having seen the horrific images of Oscar Martinez and his daughter-“Angie Valeria” who drowned in the Rio Grande Valley while attempting to flee persecution and enter the United States. This image cries to heaven for justice. This image silences politics. Who can look on this picture and not see the results of the failures of all of us to find a humane and just solution to the immigration crisis? Sadly, this picture shows the daily plight of our brothers and sisters. Not only does their cry reach heaven. It reaches us. And it must now reach our federal government.”
To reach our federal government, the Archdiocese of Louisville invites you to attend…A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps. This event will feature music, local speakers impacted by our government’s immigration policies, a call to action and the lighting of candles and a few moments of silence to express our concern and solidarity with those detained in the inhumane conditions found on our southern border.
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Of course, to enforce this idea that there’s a “crisis” that can only be solved through draconian measures, the wingnuts also have to discount others facts.
Point out that better than 90% of asylum seekers appear for their hearings? “It’s not 100% because some know they’ll be sent back, so they go into hiding to avoid deportation!”
How about that the system is overburdened because more money is spent on housing “illegals” than on judges and counsel? “There wouldn’t be a shortage if laws didn’t tie their hands by giving ‘illegals’ so many protections!”
Bring up that many of the refugees come from failing democracies? “They need to go back where they came from and fix their problems! It’s not our fault they came from shitholes!”
US drug policies and history of supporting strongmen in the “War on Drugs”? “We gotta keep those drugs out of America! Now GTFO, I need another dose of Oxycontin.”
re: #14 Dread Pirate
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We can’t be frens with Kurds and Turks at the same time. Certain Turkish people don’t like it. To get back at us, they’re being frens with Russia.
A friend on FB (same one who says, “Trump is a pig, but I like his policies”) posted this:
Mitch McConnell, “You know, once again I find myself in the same position as President Obama, we both oppose reparations, and both are the descendants of slave holders,”
Boom!
we
So, I asked him what he thought was the ‘Boom!’ moment. He, of course, didn’t have an explanation - “It’s just funny!”
Pretty sure he didn’t realize that MOST American blacks, especially those descended from slaves, had slaveholder ancestors. I posted an article from Henry Louis Gates, about ancestry.com and others’ DNA results on American blacks, showing an average ot 20-30% European ancestry, AND about 1 in 3 black men having a European-derived Y chromosome.
That last is staggering, because it actually UNDERrepresents the percentage of black men with a white male ancestor. You’d only have that with unbroken male to male to male descent. One female in that chain and your Y would come from somebody else.
re: #16 Decatur Deb
It took a while, but some of the RC bishops are getting on board with the effort to stop the torture at the border:
Some but not all. You continue to have Catholic bishops marching lockstep with their Republican pals.
I saw something saying that Trump’s ICE raids may “hearten his base”, which really drives home how execrable they are - they’re heartened that he’s making America whiter.
Thanks, Stein voters! This is fine.
re: #20 Joe Bacon 🌹
Some but not all. You continue to have Catholic bishops marching lockstep with their Republican pals.
Baby steps.
re: #20 Joe Bacon 🌹
Some but not all. You continue to have Catholic bishops marching lockstep with their Republican pals.
Wife’s archbishop (Mobile) has been thunderously silent. She’s about 3 FaceBook posts from an auto da fe’.
re: #20 Joe Bacon 🌹
Some but not all. You continue to have Catholic bishops marching lockstep with their Republican pals.
Wonder why the Pope hasn’t called in Ambassador Calista Gingrich for a meeting?
re: #24 Decatur Deb
Wife’s archbishop (Mobile) has been thunderously silent. She’s about 3 FaceBook posts from an auto da fe’.
Why do I have the nagging suspicion if those kids were white those Bishops would be screaming?
re: #21 Blind Frog Belly White
I saw something saying that Trump’s ICE raids may “hearten his base”, which really drives home how execrable they are - they’re heartened that he’s making America whiter.
Thanks, Stein voters! This is fine.
Of course. That’s what the “crisis” really is about: The threat of “hordes” of brown people to the future of “white America.”
If a war broke out tomorrow in Eastern Europe and there were millions of white European refugees banging on our door, these same assholes worrying about the “crisis” at our Southern border would every bit as adamant that we have room enough for all those Europeans. They’d even be willing to overlook their “merit-based” BS in favor of taking in old folks and children by the bushel.
Shut up Lindsey.#SaturdayMotivation https://t.co/F5JNsVPI0Q
— Patti M Piatt (@PiattPatti) July 13, 2019
re: #25 Old Liberal
Wonder why the Pope hasn’t called in Ambassador Calista Gingrich for a meeting?
That’s a hell of a thing, isn’t it? Blow a married Speaker Of The House, then marry him after his second divorce, and you get to be Ambassador to the Vatican.
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
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As noted yesterday, the only interest these assholes have is in listening to the camp guards and their “struggle.” The people they’re keeping packed like livestock in a factory farm? “Oh, they’re doing fine, there’s no worry!”
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
“We spent no time listening to any of the brave young men who traveled hundreds of miles on foot, risking everything including their lives, to try to build a better life for their families, because, you know, they’re brown.”
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
So how brave was the guard that molested a teenage girl?
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 13, 2019
re: #24 Decatur Deb
Wife’s archbishop (Mobile) has been thunderously silent. She’s about 3 FaceBook posts from an auto da fe’.
Auto da fe’? What’s an auto da fe’?
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re: #26 Joe Bacon 🌹
Why do I have the nagging suspicion if those kids were white those Bishops would be screaming?
The US Catholic population is turning brown at a pretty fast pace. The integrating mechanism is the fact that parishes are rigidly geographic entities. You are born or move into your parish, you don’t select it.
re: #29 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s a hell of a thing, isn’t it? Blow a married Speaker Of The House, then marry him after his second divorce, and you get to be Ambassador to the Vatican.
With god all things are possible
re: #31 Blind Frog Belly White
“We spent no time listening to any of the brave young men who traveled hundreds of miles on foot, risking everything including their lives, to try to build a better life for their families, because, you know, they’re brown.”
Of course they visited a men’s prison to reinforce the scary hordes of rapists meme
re: #36 Decatur Deb
Heretic on a stick.
Heretic, theretic, everywheretic tic.
Torquemada had a rack,
EEE! AY! EEE AY! Oooooooo….
Did a basic look into the way the camps were handled by the Reich during WWII. And one thing of note was that they were actually fairly high-turnover, particularly because the guards assigned to any duties involving executions tended to burn out quickly from emotional stress. The SS actually had to constantly monitor camp morale and pull men off guard duty if they felt it was getting too much for them. Surprisingly, they also tried to monitor for the exact opposite, namely guards who took too much pleasure in wanton cruelty and murder, removing them largely because most prisoners were viewed as vital wartime labor and unnecessary injury or execution was a drain on resources.
re: #29 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s a hell of a thing, isn’t it? Blow a married Speaker Of The House, then marry him after his second divorce, and you get to be Ambassador to the Vatican.
I’m sure she already got a Papal Indulgence as a reward for bringing Tooty Frooty Newty into the fold!
Anyone know what the peak moment of perfection for western European culture was? Everyone has been complaining it’s in decline. Was it before the Romans got there? The Vikings? Maybe while they were burning witches? In granddaddy’s time?
I need a date that we can aim back towards.
re: #43 calochortus
Anyone know what the peak moment of perfection for western European culture was? Everyone has been complaining it’s in decline. Was it before the Romans got there? The Vikings? Maybe while they were burning witches? In granddaddy’s time?
I need a date.
When the first Cro Magnon and Neanderthal had it off. It’s all been downhill since.
re: #43 calochortus
Anyone know what the peak moment of perfection for western European culture was? Everyone has been complaining it’s in decline. Was it before the Romans got there? The Vikings? Maybe while they were burning witches? In granddaddy’s time?
I need a date.
1969
re: #43 calochortus
Anyone know what the peak moment of perfection for western European culture was? Everyone has been complaining it’s in decline. Was it before the Romans got there? The Vikings? Maybe while they were burning witches? In granddaddy’s time?
I need a date.
Probably when Mel Brooks sang about the Inquisition…
re: #43 calochortus
Anyone know what the peak moment of perfection for western European culture was? Everyone has been complaining it’s in decline. Was it before the Romans got there? The Vikings? Maybe while they were burning witches? In granddaddy’s time?
I need a date.
Depends who you ask. Just pack a lunch, because you’re in for a very long airing of grievances.
re: #43 calochortus
Anyone know what the peak moment of perfection for western European culture was? Everyone has been complaining it’s in decline. Was it before the Romans got there? The Vikings? Maybe while they were burning witches? In granddaddy’s time?
I need a date.
Romans had organization, roads, technology, but they also had slavery and political oppression.
19th Century Europe saw the spread of democracy and massive technological process, but also colonialism.
I think that what they have constructed since WW2 has been admirable in most all respects.
re: #33 Targetpractice
Auto da fe’? What’s an auto da fe’?
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Somethin’ you oughtn’t a-do, but you do anyway.
Really, I’d say Western Europe started trending downhill after 1945, largely because the few countries that still had colonial holdings either lost them due to war-time considerations or the immediate post-war independence movements. Britain only really came out on top because they managed to turn most of their holdings into “dominions” before the locals could launch revolutions. The French? The 20th century was not kind to them…at all.
This dog is way better than I am at this sport:
Ok so this was a brainwave that paid off. Walter loves tetherball!! @dog_rates pic.twitter.com/Fgn5WOujd0
— Wendy Sawatzky (@wendysawatzky) July 12, 2019
re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Romans had organization, roads, technology, but they also had slavery and political oppression.(snip)
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
re: #40 Targetpractice
Did a basic look into the way the camps were handled by the Reich during WWII. And one thing of note was that they were actually fairly high-turnover, particularly because the guards assigned to any duties involving executions tended to burn out quickly from emotional stress. The SS actually had to constantly monitor camp morale and pull men off guard duty if they felt it was getting too much for them. Surprisingly, they also tried to monitor for the exact opposite, namely guards who took too much pleasure in wanton cruelty and murder, removing them largely because most prisoners were viewed as vital wartime labor and unnecessary injury or execution was a drain on resources.
Once the Nazis committed to their labor/death camps, they went about it in a very German way - systematically, to maximize results. I’ve always thought this was one of the most horrifying things about the Third Reich, that they were not insane. They weren’t just ravening out-of-control murderers. Everything they did was rational, planned, even scientific.
re: #43 calochortus
Anyone know what the peak moment of perfection for western European culture was? Everyone has been complaining it’s in decline. Was it before the Romans got there? The Vikings? Maybe while they were burning witches? In granddaddy’s time?
I need a date.
Each country had a different peak moment.
Which irritates the hell out of American racists, who seem to have trouble understanding that Spanish and French, Italian and Greek, German and Dutch, do not consider themselves to be the least bit interchangeable. Not in the same category. Centuries of shooting at each other and slitting each other’s throats.
Which ought to be obvious, seeing as how each has their very own super-identifiable language, cuisine, music, religion, visual arts, breed of dog, and every other possible criteria of a “culture”, but there you have it. Obvious doesn’t work for American racists.
re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #50 Targetpractice
It was not actually a serious question, but it seems those people who are “concerned” about our perfect (white) culture being destroyed by brown people are going to have trouble with the fact that we’ve all come a long way since those selfsame brown people have influenced our culture.
The trial at the Hague is gonna be lit af
— 🇵🇷 David Beltrán (@DavidBeltran718) July 13, 2019
Funny thing. Countries that were forced to end a war via unconditional surrender don’t get to keep the laws that they passed that violate international law. They WILL be in #DenHaag for trial, but the US WILL have to lose WWIII first. I hope they enjoy the next 2 decades, atmost.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) July 13, 2019
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Once the Nazis committed to their labor/death camps, they went about in a very German way - systematically, to maximize results. I’ve always thought this was one of the most horrifying things about the Third Reich, that they were not insane. They weren’t just ravening out-of-control murderers. Everything they did was rational, planned, even scientific.
I always think of that when wingnuts rattle on about the wonders of Western Civilization - it gave us democracy and the most ruthlessly efficient mass murder in world history.
re: #50 Targetpractice
Europe is still dealing with the aftershocks of WWI and WWII.
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans at the end of the Second World War is still a source of occasional controversy here in Czech Republic from time to time. Not long ago, about one week ago actually, the widow of an expelled Sudeten German got back the family property - and that court decision (from a Czech court, no less) ignited a shitstorm of controversy.
There’s real fear (among Czechs) that one of these days, the Beneš Decrees are either going to be overtuned by the European Court of Justice or by the Czech Constitutional Court. And the fear is that could open the country to having to pay untold billions in restitution…..or hand back the property itself.
So the 20th century’s aftershocks are far from gone.
Tell me I’m paranoid. PLEASE.
I think you need to change that “shelter in place” with “evacuate if at all possible and let first responders know if you can’t”.
— Nicholas Eckert (@vidstudent) July 13, 2019
Whereas MY interpretation was that the authorities ordering a Shelter in Place for a #KatrinaRerun were TRYING to get brown people killed. Oh, well, we’ll figure out which in a couple days.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) July 13, 2019
re: #57 Chrysicat
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It is time to make clear to the Worker-bee SS that they need to worry about us, not an outside justice system. Time to start filling in names on the ICE/BP organization charts.
I was on a train back to Athens after touring the Peloponnese for a week, studying all about the various bits of civilization fighting the other bits within reach. A man returning to Athens after visiting his mother decided to practice his limited English with me, and we shared what we had each been doing last week. After my tale, he sighed and said something about the glorious Greek culture of old, ‘And now, we just fight each other.’
Somebody missed something, somewhere.
re: #60 Dr Lizardo
Europe is still dealing with the aftershocks of WWI and WWII.
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans at the end of the Second World War is still a source of occasional controversy here in Czech Republic from time to time. Not long ago, about one week ago actually, the widow of an expelled Sudeten German got back the family property - and that court decision (from a Czech court, no less) ignited a shitstorm of controversy.
There’s real fear (among Czechs) that one of these days, the Beneš Decrees are either going to be overtuned by the European Court of Justice or by the Czech Constitutional Court. And the fear is that could open the country to having to pay untold billions in restitution…..or hand back the property itself.
So the 20th century’s aftershocks are far from gone.
One of my German cousins was telling me about a fringe German right wing movement that rejects the German Republic, sees the US as occupiers, & only accepts the old empire as legitimate. Would be a great Vice documentary imo. The more I learn about the World Wars, the more I abhor modern nationalism.
This is fucking awesome.
This little girl is my hero!!
Little Girl - “You’re a disgrace to the world”
Volume up 🔊🔊🔊 pic.twitter.com/KTqaN7hA6T— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) July 12, 2019
re: #64 HappyWarrior
Yeah, the “Reich Citizens’ Movement”, the Reichsbürgerbewegung.
Analogous to the Sovereign Citizen nutjobs in the US.
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Once the Nazis committed to their labor/death camps, they went about it in a very German way - systematically, to maximize results. I’ve always thought this was one of the most horrifying things about the Third Reich, that they were not insane. They weren’t just ravening out-of-control murderers. Everything they did was rational, planned, even scientific.
This is streaming now on Netflix, and probably Prime. There are lessons…
The Photographer of Mauthausen
distractify.com
re: #68 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, the “Reich Citizens’ Movement”, the Reichsbürgerbewegung.
Analogous to the Sovereign Citizen nutjobs in the US.
Yeah. Great analogy. I was telling her about the CSA nutters. She’s been to the US but to Michigan and Ann Arbor at that. Was happy to discover she and her family are small letter l- liberal. Her father’s great great grandmother and mine were sisters. Mine left in 1882 with my Great Grandfather who was a child at the time.
re: #57 Chrysicat
The trial at the Hague is gonna be lit af
I don’t think this is the case. The US isn’t a signatory to the International Criminal Court, and in any case it’s really only for those accused of international crimes that couldn’t be prosecuted in their own country for some reason or another.
And as a plug for The Hague, it’s worth a visit. It’s the working capital of the Netherlands: it’s got nice beaches, the Girl with the Pearl Earring, and it’s got a very impressive car museum (the Louwman Museum). The traffic sucks, but what else is new.
— Stephen A. Rhodes (@StephenARhodes) July 13, 2019
re: #2 Dread Pirate
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that is what a man does with his arms when he is terrified of accepting what he is seeing. you never see a man with his arms like that unless he is completely rejecting the thing he is experiencing.
re: #74 steve_davis
That’s why it’s one of Trumps favorite poses.
Also: ICE raids begin tomorrow.
Get ready for a shitshow.
re: #72 ericblair
I don’t think this is the case. The US isn’t a signatory to the International Criminal Court, and in any case it’s really only for those accused of international crimes that couldn’t be prosecuted in their own country for some reason or another.
And as a plug for The Hague, it’s worth a visit. It’s got nice beaches, the Girl with the Pearl Earring, and it’s got a very impressive car museum (the Louwman Museum). The traffic sucks, but what else is new.
Like I said in the tweet: I really don’t think it matters that the US isn’t currently a signatory because I think Trump has put himself in a position where if he’s re-elected, they almost have to fight and lose WWIII, at which point any pre-war law won’t have the force binding two sheets of graphite.
And if you really think that either “accused of international crimes” or “can’t be prosecuted in their own country” doesn’t apply to ICEstapo, I’d love for you to tell me how they’ll ever be tried for crimes against humanity by this country.
re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
Also: ICE raids begin tomorrow.
Get ready for a shitshow.
I’d actually heard they began today and that there was a failed one in the Bronx already—or was it Brooklyn?—according to MSNBC.
re: #40 Targetpractice
Did a basic look into the way the camps were handled by the Reich during WWII. And one thing of note was that they were actually fairly high-turnover, particularly because the guards assigned to any duties involving executions tended to burn out quickly from emotional stress. The SS actually had to constantly monitor camp morale and pull men off guard duty if they felt it was getting too much for them. Surprisingly, they also tried to monitor for the exact opposite, namely guards who took too much pleasure in wanton cruelty and murder, removing them largely because most prisoners were viewed as vital wartime labor and unnecessary injury or execution was a drain on resources.
hitler kept vital trains of supplies and men from reaching the western campaign in order to prioritize jews heading east. camp commandants may have removed aggressive guards for reasons having to do with unit cohesion, but I’d doubt it was third reich policy.
re: #78 Chrysicat
I’d actually heard they began today and that there was a failed one in the Bronx already—or was it Brooklyn?—according to MSNBC.
Espontaneos.
re: #78 Chrysicat
I’d actually heard they began today and that there was a failed one in the Bronx already—or was it Brooklyn?—according to MSNBC.
“While rank-and-file cops have been given strict orders not to assist with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids expected to take place early Sunday, at least one police union leader said cops should chip in and protect ICE agents if they are in danger.”
re: #57 Chrysicat
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I swear to God, my wet dream is a world where these bastards are at the hague and the judge is reading sentences: “Death by hanging, death by hanging, for extreme acts of callousness resulting in mass deaths, death by torture….” Sadly, or possibly for the best, we do not live in my world.
Weird because congress can do something about it now. But they don’t. They just tweet.
— Lisa McTrump (@LisaMcTrump) July 13, 2019
>>>and Mexico is “proven safe” for anyone from further south? I already know your type; you are very clear that the only way these people will leave those camps alive is in a southerly direction.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) July 13, 2019
re: #80 steve_davis
hitler kept vital trains of supplies and men from reaching the western campaign in order to prioritize jews heading east. camp commandants may have removed aggressive guards for reasons having to do with unit cohesion, but I’d doubt it was third reich policy.
This is one of the reasons FDR refused to bomb the camps or even the rail lines; he pretended to be unaware of them, told a delegation of Jewish leaders that they were drama queens and shouldn’t believe the reports they’d heard. But really… it was because it kept the Nazis partially distracted from the Western Front.
(it later came out that the OSS had all kinds of proof, including aerial photographs, pretty early on, and FDR’s lie was thus super-obvious. This is why my dad always hated FDR, and loved Eisenhower. It’s why I was raised in a Republican household.)
re: #50 Targetpractice
Really, I’d say Western Europe started trending downhill after 1945, largely because the few countries that still had colonial holdings either lost them due to war-time considerations or the immediate post-war independence movements. Britain only really came out on top because they managed to turn most of their holdings into “dominions” before the locals could launch revolutions. The French? The 20th century was not kind to them…at all.
Since 1945 most European nations have come to have democracy, relatively stable economic growth without oppressive poverty and no major wars save the Balkan wars of the early 90’s.
I would call that a pretty good record.
re: #83 steve_davis
I swear to God, my wet dream is a world where these bastards are at the hague and the judge is reading sentences: “Death by hanging, death by hanging, for extreme acts of callousness resulting in mass deaths, death by torture….” Sadly, or possibly for the best, we do not live in my world.
I’d much prefer we have a moral government here in the future, and do our own laundry. It would be embarrassing as hell if the rest of the world has to do it for us.
re: #87 sagehen
I’d much prefer we have a moral government here in the future, and do our own laundry. It would be embarrassing as hell if the rest of the world has to do it for us.
We’ve got 15 months to make that possible.
Did a termite write this? https://t.co/LuDd3Biar9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 13, 2019
re: #60 Dr Lizardo
Europe is still dealing with the aftershocks of WWI and WWII.
…
So the 20th century’s aftershocks are far from gone.
I mentioned that I do translations for a former German Aristocrat who lost all his property to the Soviets directly after WW2. After reunification, it was ruled that property confiscated by the GDR would be recompensed but anything seized by Soviet authorities was lost and gone forever.
The fellow has been fighting this ruling and lost at every instance, and is now turning into a raving freier Reichsbürger, questioning the very legitimacy of the German State.
re: #89 Charles Johnson
Two words: Fire Hazard.
re: #64 HappyWarrior
One of my German cousins was telling me about a fringe German right wing movement that rejects the German Republic, sees the US as occupiers, & only accepts the old empire as legitimate. Would be a great Vice documentary imo. The more I learn about the World Wars, the more I abhor modern nationalism.
Those freie Reichsbürger again. Yes, the German state as we know it was formed under unique and somewhat historically unprecedented conditions, being comprised of three Allied Zones of Occupation (which later simply annexed the Eastern Zone)
But to deny its legitimacy as a sovereign state is just a bunch of idiot right-wing bufoonnery
On her first day in office @ewarren pledges to start a commission to investigate “crimes committed by the United States against immigrants”
— Tara Golshan (@taragolshan) July 13, 2019
re: #84 Chrysicat
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Her response, which is being scrubbed unless you specifically click “let me see offensive replies”, was “God willing. Yes.”
I’m completely unsurprised that I was right in pegging her as blaming the Dems inasmuch as “there should be no need for konzentrationläger, because the die Ausländere irgendwo anders sein sollen”.
When your acid flashbacks go haywire….. https://t.co/kIxoYjvI4y
— mescalero09 (@nines0909) July 13, 2019
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Those freie Reichsbürger again. Yes, the German state as we know it was formed under unique and somewhat historically unprecedented conditions, being comprised of three Allied Zones of Occupation (which later simply annexed the Eastern Zone)
But to deny its legitimacy as a sovereign state is just a bunch of idiot right-wing bufoonnery
For sure. But yeah to deny the legitimacy is just absurd. Right wingers are weird fuckers though.
I felt this
THIS IS THE BEST ONE YET!! pic.twitter.com/ARdmeJr2cp
— Best Fights 🎬🍿 (@30SecFights) July 9, 2019
I cannot stress enough how good a President Elizabeth Warren would be. And yet, there’s no way this country will elect her.
It hurts my heart.
re: #99 goddamnedfrank
I felt this
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Oh, that’s a broken ankle. Still a better price to pay for attempted “Klout” than the ones the #TamperingChallenge crew will be paying, though.
re: #100 plansbandc
I cannot stress enough how good a President Elizabeth Warren would be. And yet, there’s no way this country will elect her.
It hurts my heart.
I hear ya.
re: #100 plansbandc
I cannot stress enough how good a President Elizabeth Warren would be. And yet, there’s no way this country will elect her.
It hurts my heart.
at least make sure she gets a role in the next administration
re: #85 sagehen
This is one of the reasons FDR refused to bomb the camps or even the rail lines; he pretended to be unaware of them, told a delegation of Jewish leaders that they were drama queens and shouldn’t believe the reports they’d heard. But really… it was because it kept the Nazis partially distracted from the Western Front.
(it later came out that the OSS had all kinds of proof, including aerial photographs, pretty early on, and FDR’s lie was thus super-obvious. This is why my dad always hated FDR, and loved Eisenhower. It’s why I was raised in a Republican household.)
The #1 reason why I respect Ike is because he insisted on going into those camps and seeing the atrocities. Ike was counseled not to do that but he told those folks to shove it.
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
at least make sure she gets a role in the next administration
I don’t know if that will really come about.
At least from looking at my Facebook timeline, seems that the Trumper contingent isn’t going anywhere.
Yet the purity ponies that claim to be “Democrat”, at least the ones I come across online, seem quite willing to just not vote if their favorite (mostly Bernie) is not nominated.
re: #89 Charles Johnson
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I can see it now…they do a remake that combines The Towering Inferno with The Swarm…
uh…this ain’t reassuring…
When the magnitude 7.1 earthquake ruptured the earth in the Mojave Desert, it packed the energy of 45 nuclear bombs of the type that fell on Hiroshima.
I’m pretty certain through cheating and whatever horseshit, that the fat orange tyrant is going to get another term. And when he does, we’re done. I have zero optimism.
re: #108 plansbandc
I’m pretty certain through cheating and whatever horseshit, that the fat orange tyrant is going to get another term. And when he does, we’re done. I have zero optimism.
He still has a lot of aces up his sleeve…he has not been backed far enough into a corner yet to feel the need to pull them out, and that is scary
re: #108 plansbandc
I’m pretty certain through cheating and whatever horseshit, that the fat orange tyrant is going to get another term. And when he does, we’re done. I have zero optimism.
I don’t know that any cheating will be necessary. Americans will vote for the second term enthusiastically.
re: #110 Renaissance_Man
I don’t know that any cheating will be necessary. Americans will vote for the second term enthusiastically.
No doubt the MAGATS will crawl over broken glass to get to the ballot box for their God. We have to whip up everyone else to get their butts to the polls!
Hey cool, John Hodgman liked my termite joke.
re: #110 Renaissance_Man
I don’t know that any cheating will be necessary. Americans will vote for the second term enthusiastically.
“I don’t like Trump but I will vote for him because of the economy.”
re: #104 Joe Bacon 🌹
The #1 reason why I respect Ike is because he insisted on going into those camps and seeing the atrocities. Ike was counseled not to do that but he told those folks to shove it.
Not just going into those camps himself; he rounded up all the Germans who lived within 15 miles and made them march past it and see for themselves too. He also insisted on extensive documentation; film, photographs, ledgers and schedules from the camp offices, etc.
He knew even then there’d be people wanting to deny it ever happened, people who’d want to pretend it was Jewish propaganda. He made absolutely certain there’d be mountains of proof.
re: #107 Joe Bacon 🌹
uh…this ain’t reassuring…
When the magnitude 7.1 earthquake ruptured the earth in the Mojave Desert, it packed the energy of 45 nuclear bombs of the type that fell on Hiroshima.
Okay, so that sort of bullshit comparison really just doesn’t mean much. A club sandwich has something like double the energy available for the same weight that a block of semtex has, the semtex just releases it really quickly when tickled just the right way.
Same here. There’s going to be a *lot* of energy pent up in two really big bits of the Earth’s crust straining against each other - over a good couple hundred miles, and released in many seconds, rather than the fraction of a second of a nuclear weapon.
It’s just bad, sensational bullshit reporting that doesn’t actually mean anything.
re: #108 plansbandc
I’m pretty certain through cheating and whatever horseshit, that the fat orange tyrant is going to get another term. And when he does, we’re done. I have zero optimism.
Our chances are slightly better than 50-50, allowing for a lot of ratfuckery.
re: #114 sagehen
Not just going into those camps himself; he rounded up all the Germans who lived within 15 miles and made them march past it and see for themselves too. He also insisted on extensive documentation; film, photographs, ledgers and schedules from the camp offices, etc.
He knew even then there’d be people wanting to deny it ever happened, people who’d want to pretend it was Jewish propaganda. He made absolutely certain there’d be mountains of proof.
and even with the proof, we still have an entire Denial Industry
re: #115 Charles Johnson
Thank you so damn much for this site. You and the great people who populate it have helped me deal with the hell that is politics in this country. I am so happy to be a part of this sanity. Thank you Charles. Thank you so much.
re: #120 plansbandc
Thank you so damn much for this site. You and the great people who populate it have helped me deal with the hell that is politics in this country. I am so happy to be a part of this sanity. Thank you Charles. Thank you so much.
I came here back when the place was a lot more conservative, but even then it was a place where you could find sane conservatives to argue with.
re: #100 plansbandc
I cannot stress enough how good a President Elizabeth Warren would be. And yet, there’s no way this country will elect her.
It hurts my heart.
Here’s another good thing about Elizabeth Warren. She’s helping local candidates.
LOVE. THIS. SO. HARD. @BobbyBigWheel & @Futurenow are tracking every time that Dem presidential hopefuls have helped state legislative candidates—SO crucial to winning back power. Gillibrand & Warren are in the lead: https://t.co/4fMJH3jaW5 pic.twitter.com/YOzCJwfToC
— David Nir (@DavidNir) July 11, 2019
re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
“I don’t like Trump but I will vote for him because of the economy.”
There may be more of these people than we’d like. Their 401(k)s are doing well and Trump constantly boasts that he alone is the source of the continued stock market rise. Their only retirement funds are through the market since traditional pensions are obsolete. As Carville said in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid”. The fact that the continued healthy economy is due to policies implemented during the Obama years is irrelevant. It’s what’s happening now that informs voters decisions.
re: #120 plansbandc
Thank you so damn much for this site. You and the great people who populate it have helped me deal with the hell that is politics in this country. I am so happy to be a part of this sanity. Thank you Charles. Thank you so much.
You’re very welcome, thanks for your support!
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I came here back when the place was a lot more conservative, but even then it was a place where you could find sane conservatives to argue with.
One of the reasons is because I’m a real asshole when it comes to trolls, racists, etc. Or so they tell me.
re: #125 Charles Johnson
One of the reasons is because I’m a real asshole when it comes to trolls, racists, etc. Or so they tell me.
yes, you even threatened to kick me out when I got too hyperbolic at one point
re: #6 Blind Frog Belly White
Hey, DangerMan!!!!
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Got it thanks!
I was out digging and bailing in the poolpond project all day
See 15 years of earthquakes in 45 secondshttps://t.co/wjD037WBhX pic.twitter.com/A21CDi4RDq
— CNN (@CNN) July 13, 2019
re: #5 BigPapa
I’ve only recently come to the realization that many of the most pious only use it as a justification for their depravity.
The Lord uses the good ones, and the bad ones use the Lord.
I’ve got a lump in the pit of my stomach. Yesterday afternoon I noticed that water was draining very slowly out of my basement laundry sink. The last time I had this problem was back in 2006.
The drainage sewers in my very old neighborhood are carved into the bedrock under the city. At the edge of my property is a drill hole that goes down about 30 feet through the bedrock and connects to an individual tunnel that then connects to the main sewer tunnel under the middle of the street. The drill hole doesn’t have a liner once it’s below the frost line. It’s just raw bedrock. At some point in 2006, a piece of stone fell over and almost completely blocked the drill hole.
The city of St. Paul has a policy that if a drill hole is damaged, it must be replaced with a new drill hole. The city said that the cost to have this done is around $20,000 (in 2006). When I told them I didn’t have that kind of money, they told me that the city offered low-cost financing (which didn’t make things any better).
The sewer company that came out told me that they would have brought their drill out to my house except that if they were caught by a city inspector, he’d be shut down and I’d have to get the new drill hole. Instead, the sewer company bashed the rock with a metal rod until they’s gotten the hole about 50% clear. Everything had seemed fine until yesterday.
I’ve always though of it as a ticking time bomb and have often considered selling the house because of it. I’m hoping that when the same sewer company comes out next Monday that they can find a way to open it up again. This just sucks bigly.
re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
That is so cool the way the tectonic plates are outlined.
Fuck yeah Jeffrey Epstein is an “Actually it’s ephebophilia” guy pic.twitter.com/WsEltURlPx
— Jon (@JonEHecht) July 13, 2019
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #13 Dread Pirate
You piss on Turkey and you’re surprised they kick back?
The only real question is who is a bigger threat to NATO, Erdogan or Trump?
Your investment in our infrastructure matters a lot. Like, 170-million-gallons a lot. DC Water is able to report that in Monday’s storms, the new tunnels diverted & captured 170 million gallons of combined sewer overflow that would have otherwise wound up in the Anacostia River. https://t.co/kCdNygecw3
— Charles Allen (@charlesallen) July 11, 2019
re: #135 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“Yes, I like underage girls but not THAT underage. I’m not one of THOSE guys.”
Right now, countless immigrant families are living in fear of immigration raids. Mothers and fathers are wondering if they are spending their last moments with their children before being separated. Children are too afraid to play outside.
This is not the America I know.— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) July 13, 2019
Charles, I’m unable to access this site from my phone because of some rogue advert, which, when I load a page, redirects my phone to loompasplace (dot) com with the fake alert, overlaid over the LGF page:
Congratulations!
You have a chance to get a special reward!
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… and of course, if you select “Close” (or indeed, anywhere), it takes the browser to the advert landing page, and the only way you can get out of it is going back the LGF home page.
re: #141 Alephnaught
You might need to clear your browser data and start fresh.
re: #141 Alephnaught
Charles, I’m unable to access this site from my phone because of some rogue advert, which, when I load a page, redirects my phone to loompasplace (dot) com with the fake alert, overlaid over the LGF page:
… and of course, if you select “Close” (or indeed, anywhere), it takes the browser to the advert landing page, and the only way you can get out of it is going back the LGF home page.
Ugh, sorry. I’m only using the most reputable ad servers but this stuff still keeps slipping through their approval process. The spammers deliberately make it hard to track down where they’re coming from, but our ad servers are usually pretty quick at finding and blocking them.
I can report it to Google Adsense, but that’s a fairly useless endeavor.
The horror and inhumanity of this image. Poor, desperate, brown men —-refugees heading for the light of the U.S. —- trapped in cages, in conditions we would not subject animals to, and the wealthy, powerful white men observing them thru the wire w/o one word of kindness. https://t.co/bK1635It9o
— Teri Carter (@teri_atthepaper) July 13, 2019
…One ape hurls a bloody thigh bone spinning into the air… https://t.co/FFcqLY8c9K
— (((Robert Arthur))) (@jaunte) July 13, 2019
re: #146 jaunte
Clearly it’s time to turn New York off and back on again.
re: #146 jaunte
This will be ugly…… Prolly an underground switching vault
Or a cyber-attack on the grid. Closing the wrong tie-breakers can cause major issues.
re: #118 Decatur Deb
Our chances are slightly better than 50-50, allowing for a lot of ratfuckery.
Second prize is both houses of Congress, which would at least contain the damage.
But I’m not going with the 50-50. We’re way too far out to have a good idea what the odds are. Just keep plugging away with whatever you can do and hope for a good outcome (Mouse tells us Nebraska is now a swing state.)
re: #146 jaunte
Yup. Blackout reported in Midtown Manhattan, with more than 27,000 customers affected, including major hotels, Broadway, and other attractions.
Sens. Udall, Leahy, and Van Hollen are calling for the Government Accountability Office to open an investigation into “the costs and impacts associated with President Trump’s expanded Fourth of July events.” pic.twitter.com/rtXtRSyvvV
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 13, 2019
perceptions? https://t.co/hPpJDzIwyP
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) July 13, 2019
re: #150 lawhawk
Yes. NYC has a power outage. It is mentioned on yahoo news. I hope it does not spread. news.yahoo.com
re: #153 PhillyPretzel
Con Ed outage map. This gives a rough idea of where/how the outage is affecting Midtown to the Upper West Side. pic.twitter.com/jeLefeQGRk
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 13, 2019
It’s probably a substation issue.
re: #154 lawhawk
Yes. It looks like that. Well PECO will be happy to help Con-Ed get back online.
re: #154 lawhawk
And most of them are underground.
ABC News (Channel 7): No official word on what has caused the power outage, but there are reports of a transformer fire at 64th street and West End Avenue.
re: #152 Dread Pirate
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It is REALLY BAD when the Nazis come off looking better. Even Himmler made eye contact when he made an appearance at their model concentration camp. Pence and Miller literally see the Guatemalan Maya as less human than Nazis saw Jews.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) July 14, 2019
re: #152 Dread Pirate
It’s not a perception. It’s been proven as fact time and time again that Trumpworld is all chaos all the time - much of it the direct result of Trump being a reactionary know nothing who listens to only what he wants to, not what he needs to hear.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 13, 2019
re: #160 lawhawk
That, and Trump surrounds himself with corrupt, ass kissing yes men.
The president today retweeted this tweet promoting his golf courses https://t.co/n3gI6842RL
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 13, 2019
@SpeakerPelosi what are you going to do? Nothing, as usual. What a disappointment you are.
— Jacob L Peck (@jacobLpeck) July 13, 2019
— Tero Kuittinen (@teroterotero) July 14, 2019
re: #162 Dread Pirate
It’s up to the voters, 40% of whom don’t give a shit either.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) July 14, 2019
re: #1 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
blaming detention camp overcrowding and filth on “democrats” lacks even the usual measure of gop plausibility
denying that it exists and also trying to blame it on “democrats” strains it even further
declaring that the bad conditions are intended to discourage immigration, but that they don’t exist, but they are the fault of “democrats”, and believing all three, is a prodigy of doublethink that apparently 27% of american voters are perfectly capable of
They don’t give it shit, so any excuse will do, no matter how little sense it makes.
Normally wouldn’t even screencap Newsmax, but this tweet so aptly encapsulates the Brokebrain Mountain underlying conservative thinking, which hinges on the idea that only some people matter, and the only way they matter is by agreeing with conservative thinking. pic.twitter.com/FOluxGoaaq
— A.R. Moxon (Julius Goat) (@JuliusGoat) June 28, 2019
This is kind of funny because my wife and I just saw “Yesterday” this afternoon and because we don’t live in Manhattan and aren’t affected.
Wow, I can’t believe that power outage in Midtown. That’s nuts. Anyways, my friend just started singing this song called “Let It Be” and he swears it’s famous. What a weirdo.
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) July 13, 2019
Of course its all about the theater
Former ICE chief says raids announced for political gain, endangering migrants, agents
“I think it’s frankly inexcusable to promote this operation before it happens,” said John Sandweg, former acting director of the agency.
nbcnews.comJohn Sandweg, who worked for the Department of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2014, including a stint as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was critical of the Trump administration’s continued broadcasting of Sunday’s ICE enforcement action against an estimated 2,000 families with members said to be the subject of deportation orders.
Sandweg said in an interview Friday that the announcements were for political gain and could endanger law enforcement agents, cause felons to hide and discourage immigrants from reporting criminals.
re: #141 Alephnaught
I find that an ad blocker fixes that problem for me.
re: #165 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Why would she vote for the man who raped her?
re: #100 plansbandc
I cannot stress enough how good a President Elizabeth Warren would be. And yet, there’s no way this country will elect her.
It hurts my heart.
Don’t be so sure of that.
Why is pro abortion bad? I am also pro fixing femoral fractures and HPV vaccine and pro cervical cancer screening. Being pro doesn’t mean luring women into an alley. https://t.co/ue9wJUO5dg
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) July 14, 2019
re: #169 Patricia Kayden
Why would she vote for the man who raped her?
Conservative logic. As in they have no ability to think logically.
re: #170 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Don’t be so sure of that.
I love all of you guys but you’re not listened to the women here.
America won’t elect a woman.
re: #108 plansbandc
I’m pretty certain through cheating and whatever horseshit, that the fat orange tyrant is going to get another term. And when he does, we’re done. I have zero optimism.
That is a defeatist attitude. If we give up now, of course he’ll win. Lots of reason to think he won’t.
THIS. It’s a decision for each woman to make with her doctor. The government should stay the frick out of it. https://t.co/il3hBJ9odz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 14, 2019
I guess this is what they call a New York moment. After being trapped on the F for an hour because of the power outage I emerged to see dark restaurants & traffic lights, civilians directing traffic, & an evacuated Carnegie Hall concert happening in the street. #nyc #Blackout pic.twitter.com/3p9UWtRrel
— Briallen Hopper (@briallenhopper) July 14, 2019
The cast of @WaitressMusical entertaining stalled theatergoers outside during the NYC blackout. (via @meganrgaffney) #Blackout #NYCBlackout pic.twitter.com/vLLnAcKV8D
— Dave Quinn (@NineDaves) July 14, 2019
I guess this is what they call a New York moment. After being trapped on the F for an hour because of the power outage I emerged to see dark restaurants & traffic lights, civilians directing traffic, & an evacuated Carnegie Hall concert happening in the street. #nyc #Blackout pic.twitter.com/3p9UWtRrel
— Briallen Hopper (@briallenhopper) July 14, 2019
The cast of Hadestown is my favourite cast on Broadway pic.twitter.com/XM28MvaKpw
— bri (@sagittharryus) July 14, 2019
A power outage in New York, but it couldn’t stop the Millennial Choirs and Orchestras, creating a makeshift stage right outside Carnegie Hall. #nycblackout pic.twitter.com/fPQJzvTS1t
— Ravi Agrawal (@RaviReports) July 14, 2019
Here’s another civilian volunteer conducting traffic in Midtown Manhattan, this time on 49th and 10th. She brought an orange vest and flashlight with her. It’s really starting to get dark now. #NYCblackout pic.twitter.com/a0Fzawyw62
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) July 14, 2019
What most of nightfall during a quarter blackout looks like, in time lapse. The blackedout portion is lower left obvs #NYCblackout pic.twitter.com/sydTxouQPZ
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 14, 2019
Already reported this guy for responses he’d dumped earlier (or maybe later; I hate modern Twitter lack-of-timeline) on in the thread (which I’m not going to tell to his face, because I know he’d go looking for stuff he can feed to TwitterCop in order to try to get me banned in return), but I had to publicly call this one out instead just in case my telling a little birdie isn’t enough:
The entire framework rests on a bedrock assumption, that some people matter, others don’t, and it’s perfectly fine to say or do anything you want to defeat those that don’t matter, for whatever value of “defeat” you can get away with being seen making yourself comfortable with.
— A.R. Moxon (Julius Goat) (@JuliusGoat) June 28, 2019
“le evil people”?
Seriously? You’re going to try dogwhistling “Le Happy Merchant” when everyone knows all your memes by now, Groy Boy?— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) July 14, 2019
re: #166 Barefoot Grin
This is kind of funny because my wife and I just saw “Yesterday” this afternoon and because we don’t live in Manhattan and aren’t affected.
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re: #173 MsJ
I love all of you guys but you’re not listened to the women here.
America won’t elect a woman.
In 2008 I worried America wouldn’t elect a black man.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 14, 2019
Next week will be interesting in Puerto Rico. We started this week with the #TelegramGate:
On Tuesday morning, all hell broke loose on Puerto Rican social media when printed screenshots of a Telegram group chat that included governor Ricardo Rosselló and his inner circle began circulating. With only 11 out of the 889 pages leaked, the public got merely a glimpse of how top members of the Rosselló administration communicate.
Those 11 pages were enough to create a big scandal. These included negative expressions towards a NYC councilwoman and a call for organizing trolls to attack her, coordinating public travels to create difficulties to other members of his own cabinet, and a slew of misogynistic, homophobic and plain bullying comments, These were followed by another set of pages that amplified the scandal.
And today all the pages from the infamous Telegram chat were released. This had lead to many of those in the chat to leave their positions in and/or contracts with the government, others were fired, and Ricky Rossello is trying to resists calls for his resignations from just about everyone.
And that’s ignoring the major corruption scandal involving several members of the current government.
re: #185 Sea Mexican
Is that the same PR governor who praised Trump’s handling of Hurricane Maria? Not surprised at all by this scandal.
re: #173 MsJ
I love all of you guys but you’re not listened to the women here.
America won’t elect a woman.
America wouldn’t elect a black man.
re: #173 MsJ
I love all of you guys but you’re not listened to the women here.
America won’t elect a woman.
3 million voters are not being listened to. We have some bureaucracy to fix. It shall be done. It has already taken a lot of time.
re: #186 Patricia Kayden
Is that the same PR governor who praised Trump’s handling of Hurricane Maria? Not surprised at all by this scandal.
Yes, the same one.
It’s even less surprising to some of us. His father, Pedro Rossello, had what was considered at the time the most corrupt cabinet in PR history, with over 40 members going to jail. Many of his cabinet members had connections with his father’s administration.
re: #182 NO SMOCKING GUN!
In 2008 I worried America wouldn’t elect a black man.
A black MAN with exceptional charisma.
re: #190 MsJ
A black MAN with exceptional charisma.
Only a fluke kept Clinton from winning in 2016. If Comey hadn’t written that damn letter, I think she would’ve won. Next year, no-one is taking victory for granted, and we know the stakes now.
re: #190 MsJ
A black MAN with exceptional charisma.
A black man with a Muslim sounding name whose candidacy was derided and opposed by a lot of oldschool lizards, and who ran against a white Republican war hero.
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