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OMG, are you stupid ass clowns ever going to notice that ALL politicians are lower than used car salesmen, lower than snake oil salesmen? It’s not just the other guy, it’s your guy, too. It’s been that way for thousands of years. Why can’t you seem to grasp it?
— MikeSoja (@mike_soja) January 2, 2020
Just because you self identify as a fucking moron, doesn’t mean the bulk of the rest of the earnestly voting citizenry are fucking morons, too, though I do question their wisdom in continuing in the ongoing spectacle.
— MikeSoja (@mike_soja) January 2, 2020
I don’t know which one of you is mad at me but I am going to take this last tweet at face value and assume it is a compliment. And you’re right. I am great. Thanks.
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) January 2, 2020
It seems those fake accounts pretending to be Jews trying to drive a wedge between the Black and Jewish communities are somehow entangled with the antisemitic anti-government organization #PatriotPrayer (see next tweet for information)
Thank you for picking this up @maxsparber. https://t.co/2VNrQ7mUwb— Jeremy Price (@dr_jfprice) January 1, 2020
White nationalists also impersonating POC online to troll and incite violence
They secretly hide nazi symbols in traditionally African images in order to self identify to others using the same digital blackface tactics#JsocPolyglot https://t.co/4reLbG3vmx https://t.co/BNNGFbEmHH— SFC (Ret.) Jason E. Dunlap, USIC Professional (@Red_eyedjedi) January 1, 2020
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
Following that account for the Doctor Who reference in the bio.
My winter break ends tonight. As I go back to work tomorrow, I need to talk about something.
One of the things I did over winter break is read ALL of the Questionable Content online webcomic (I have read huge chunks of it multiple times). It’s a really good comic, but it’s most definitely an adult comic. The strange thing is how depressed it made me. It exposed a giant hole inside me that kind of hurts, the hole being a lack of friends.
I have mostly (not perfect at this) worked really hard most of my life. Some of it was expectations from my family - I was the first person to go to and graduate from college (even if it took 17 years) - but a huge portion of it was self motivation. I studied so hard in college that I burnt out. My solution, because I didn’t know what else to do, was to move from MA back to Texas. Then I joined the Navy. When I was in the Navy, I studied software development. When I got out, I came back to Texas. I worked, went to college, had two kids, and still studied non-school related software development in my free time. Even after my degrees, I still studied in my free time, though that was shortened due to children commitments. I’ve jumped jobs in part for the pay, but at times because of other factors, such as getting out of Nortel before it completely collapsed.
But this break the lack of friends caught up with me. I think what QC kind of hit was that I don’t have any friends that I can relate to. The problem with being a liberal geek at a job full of conservatives is not that they don’t agree with me on politics, it’s that most of them don’t like even a few of the things I like. The one group that I do relate to are the recent college grads, who are the age of my children. They’re the people who I can talk about anime or similar American cartoons, gaming, and cosplay.
So I’ve gone into a funk. I can’t concentrate very well. I’ve done almost no reading except for the above mentioned webcomic. And I have seriously moped.
The hard part is how to fix it. Being and atheist, I’m not going to church, which is the big thing to do here in Rockwall. And the kids parents I know about are pretty conservative, the kind that put Blue Lives Matter signs in their yards, send their kids to summer Bible camps and definitely vote for Trump.
I have found a place in Garland where I can go to meet up for D&D. So I really have to figure out how to build up a friend group from nothing, and with people who probably aren’t close to where I live.
It’s not quite a mid-life crisis, but the end of this year kind of punched me in the gut.
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Why is no one screaming????? Why???
This man is a patriot. He is being punished for trying to uphold democracy.#Enough #HappyBlueYear2020 #OneVoice1
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman to be removed from National Security Council https://t.co/XWcBrj9hem— DreaSavageXO (@DreaDrea_G) January 1, 2020
re: #5 Belafon
I can only speak from experience because I’ve been there.
I gave up on politics after Pruneface got elected and took a civil service job. Initially my aunt made me go to her Foursquare church which I DETESTED. I had several women who wanted to marry me but I fell in the trap and wound up paying 18 years of child support at the same time paying off student loans.
So I really got into chess and bridge for therapy. I got into correspondence chess and when I came home from work I’d pop dinner in the oven and start to analyze game moves. I made lots of friends that way. Politically they tended to be on the Right so we just discussed chess analysis.
However chess computers and software took the fun out of playing correspondence chess and sadly a lot of folks cheat with them when you play on the Net. Now I still play chess on the net every once in a while but I now find more solace in bridge. Also started playing Diplomacy online as well.
I learned the hard way that I’m destined to be single and after the terrible experience where I was never able to bond with my son—family life is not for me. In the immortal words of Ricky Nelson
“If you gotta play at garden parties,
I wish you a lotta luck
But if memories were all I sang,
I’d rather drive a truck
But it’s all right now
I learned my lesson well
See you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself!”
re: #7 Joe Bacon 🌹
I think I also need to get some friends where I could meet occasionally just because. As much as I like being here, I feel like I actually need to start seeing people with my own eyes and hear voices and especially laughter.
Oh, and while I can talk to the 25-28ish people at work, I think an attempt at hanging out with them would just be weird.
I’m going to hit the rack. Many museums to see tomorrow.
re: #5 Belafon
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re: #6 Citizen K
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So that story is from November. As far as I can find he is still on the NSC and scheduled to rotate out in July as he always was.
Cigar-shaped ‘UFO’ captured on video hovering over Arizona ahead of New Year https://t.co/d0bcBkK8p3
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) January 2, 2020
Kicking off #CFBPlayoffs semifinal aerial coverage with @CollegeGameDay in Glendale, Arizona #FiestaBowl pic.twitter.com/Dc6vEMwm1O
— Goodyear Blimp (@GoodyearBlimp) December 28, 2019
This timeline of stupidity makes my brain hurt.
Western music trudged along with church chants for centuries, then exploded in the 17th-19th centuries, but probably hit peak-beauty with Debussy. Maybe Puccini, but probably Debussy.
re: #8 Belafon
I think I also need to get some friends where I could meet occasionally just because. As much as I like being here, I feel like I actually need to start seeing people with my own eyes and hear voices and especially laughter.
Are you close enough to Dallas to go to their comic-con and similar events? People of all ages, panels and/or parties and/or hospitality suites broken down into very specific fandoms, etc.
re: #7 Joe Bacon 🌹
I can only speak from experience because I’ve been there.
I gave up on politics after Pruneface got elected and took a civil service job. Initially my aunt made me go to her Foursquare church which I DETESTED. I had several women who wanted to marry me but I fell in the trap and wound up paying 18 years of child support at the same time paying off student loans.
So I really got into chess and bridge for therapy. I got into correspondence chess and when I came home from work I’d pop dinner in the oven and start to analyze game moves. I made lots of friends that way. Politically they tended to be on the Right so we just discussed chess analysis.
However chess computers and software took the fun out of playing correspondence chess and sadly a lot of folks cheat with them when you play on the Net. Now I still play chess on the net every once in a while but I now find more solace in bridge. Also started playing Diplomacy online as well.
I learned the hard way that I’m destined to be single and after the terrible experience where I was never able to bond with my son—family life is not for me. In the immortal words of Ricky Nelson
“If you gotta play at garden parties,
I wish you a lotta luck
But if memories were all I sang,
I’d rather drive a truck
But it’s all right now
I learned my lesson well
See you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself!”
be careful with chess. It sucked me in and ate away about 30 years of my life when I could have been making money or engaging with other people. Chess is basically Thinking Man’s porn.
re: #16 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
My favorite composer.
Groups becoming more Democratic in Trump era:
Women
Blacks
Hispanics
Asians
College graduates
Millennials
Mormons
Urban voters
All Voters
Groups becoming more Republican
White evangelicals
White Catholics
Rural voters https://t.co/h5cXZhc3Ge— David Frum (@davidfrum) January 2, 2020
re: #17 sagehen
Are you close enough to Dallas to go to their comic-con and similar events? People of all ages, panels and/or parties and/or hospitality suites broken down into very specific fandoms, etc.
Yes. I’ve gone before. I’m not sure how you would meet at something like that and make friends.
Only 84% of Republicans wanting him to run for reelection also seems not great. pic.twitter.com/W95nVbcVod
— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) January 1, 2020
New guidelines require two side-by-side columns: one with nutritional information for a single serving, and a second with information for eating the entire package. https://t.co/M2rIc2EZON
— ABC News (@ABC) January 1, 2020
How did Biden manage to suppress his white nationalist beliefs during all 8 years he was the VP to the first black president. Must be that legendary self control of his.
— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) January 2, 2020
Every prominent left-lib Twitter account is basically going to be a bot for reproducing right wing disinformation and smears in 2020, huh?
— Bernie Is CIA Truth Movement (@OfficialSynanon) January 2, 2020
“It’s Biden’s fault I’m so gullible.” https://t.co/YyPpcx3oZv
— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) January 2, 2020
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It’s a new year with the same old problems.
Trump being Trump. A reactionary know nothing whose idiocy is damaging our national security and his base ignores his criminal acts because they think it’s pwning the libs.
Meanwhile, Julian Castro has dropped out of the Democratic party field. Money. It’s all about the money. Doesn’t matter how good your ideas are. If you don’t have the donor base, it’s not going to matter.
BREAKING: Julian Castro drops out of 2020 Democratic primary racehttps://t.co/0p0PqE46Ee
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) January 2, 2020
So, here’s another way to compare/contrast the money in the race.
For Democrats who have announced their fundraising totals so far:
Bernie took in $34.5 million.
Buttigieg took in $24.7 million.
Yang took in $16.5 million.
Trump apparently took in $46 million in 4Q 2019. That means Democrats outraised Trump by a huge margin.
re: #27 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It’s a new year with the same old problems.
Trump being Trump. A reactionary know nothing whose idiocy is damaging our national security and his base ignores his criminal acts because they think it’s pwning the libs.
Meanwhile, Julian Castro has dropped out of the Democratic party field. Money. It’s all about the money. Doesn’t matter how good your ideas are. If you don’t have the donor base, it’s not going to matter.
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Shame. Liked him. And you’re right. It’s all about money.
re: #26 Belafon
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I hate what passes for political discourse in most places in this country these days. The center left has a place and I’m glad it’s here on Lgf.
re: #28 lawhawk
So, here’s another way to compare/contrast the money in the race.
For Democrats who have announced their fundraising totals so far:
Bernie took in $34.5 million.
Buttigieg took in $24.7 million.
Yang took in $16.5 million.Trump apparently took in $46 million in 4Q 2019. That means Democrats outraised Trump by a huge margin.
A lot of trump’s money is going to be wasted on making trump rich (parties at his hotels, fees to his kids/in laws, etc).
Good people? They were lirs and crooks. And you were the one who hired them. SOTU is going to be a blast with @SpeakerPelosi sitting behind you and smirking through the whole thing knowing you are going down and going down hard.
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@michele_out) January 2, 2020
re: #32 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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When I think good people, I think of Michael Flynn offering to do hits for Erdogan and Paul Manafort protecting a Kremlin backed regime in Kyiv and spreading disinformation about pro-western and democracy elements at Vlad’s behest.
EXCLUSIVE: @just_security has obtained unredacted versions of Trump administration emails about Ukraine aid.
They show the Pentagon repeatedly sounded the alarm that the freeze on funding was in violation of the law.@K8brannen reports:https://t.co/hDce01mK5E— Just Security (@just_security) January 2, 2020
re: #31 I Would Prefer Not To
Legal defense fund.
He can legitimately use the campaign funds to pay for his legal defense.
re: #35 makeitstop
And since Mulvaney was both OMB and Chief of Staff, he knew that it was breaking the law, and didn’t care. He conspired with Trump to withhold the aid - meaning that he needs to be held to account.
re: #31 I Would Prefer Not To
A lot of trump’s money is going to be wasted on making trump rich (parties at his hotels, fees to his kids/in laws, etc).
A lot of the Democratic money is going to be worse than wasted—used to subtly or overtly kneecap the survivor.
re: #35 makeitstop
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The more that comes out, the more we see why impeachment was necessary and why removal will too. He threatened their and our national security to get dirt on a rival.
Understatement of the century.
Opinion: Wake up, Republicans. Your party stands for all the wrong things now. https://t.co/HQGLt60VC8
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 2, 2020
I noticed Mark McGrath was trending. Why would a singer from a totally irrelevant 80s band be big news today, you ask?
Congratulations to Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath & his bride Felicia. They were married today at Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/73nzqxLvVY
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@HoodlumRIP) January 2, 2020
Has-beens for Trump…
re: #41 makeitstop
I noticed Mark McGrath was trending. Why would a singer from a totally irrelevant 80s band be big news today, you ask?
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90’s. Yeah. Someone’s desperate for a second act. Okay, Xer. ) I’m making fun of McGrath btw because with all the crap boomers and millennials take, Gen X could stand some ribbing.
re: #24 Belafon
Yeah, those certainly aren’t good numbers for Trump.
Good news.
States that are boosting their minimum wages to start the year.
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Illinois
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Ohio
South Dakota
Vermont
Washington— Alexis Christoforous (@AlexisTVNews) January 2, 2020
re: #5 Belafon
My winter break ends tonight. As I go back to work tomorrow, I need to talk about something.
One of the things I did over winter break is read ALL of the Questionable Content online webcomic (I have read huge chunks of it multiple times). It’s a really good comic, but it’s most definitely an adult comic. The strange thing is how depressed it made me. It exposed a giant hole inside me that kind of hurts, the hole being a lack of friends.
I have mostly (not perfect at this) worked really hard most of my life. Some of it was expectations from my family - I was the first person to go to and graduate from college (even if it took 17 years) - but a huge portion of it was self motivation. I studied so hard in college that I burnt out. My solution, because I didn’t know what else to do, was to move from MA back to Texas. Then I joined the Navy. When I was in the Navy, I studied software development. When I got out, I came back to Texas. I worked, went to college, had two kids, and still studied non-school related software development in my free time. Even after my degrees, I still studied in my free time, though that was shortened due to children commitments. I’ve jumped jobs in part for the pay, but at times because of other factors, such as getting out of Nortel before it completely collapsed.
But this break the lack of friends caught up with me. I think what QC kind of hit was that I don’t have any friends that I can relate to. The problem with being a liberal geek at a job full of conservatives is not that they don’t agree with me on politics, it’s that most of them don’t like even a few of the things I like. The one group that I do relate to are the recent college grads, who are the age of my children. They’re the people who I can talk about anime or similar American cartoons, gaming, and cosplay.
So I’ve gone into a funk. I can’t concentrate very well. I’ve done almost no reading except for the above mentioned webcomic. And I have seriously moped.
The hard part is how to fix it. Being and atheist, I’m not going to church, which is the big thing to do here in Rockwall. And the kids parents I know about are pretty conservative, the kind that put Blue Lives Matter signs in their yards, send their kids to summer Bible camps and definitely vote for Trump.
I have found a place in Garland where I can go to meet up for D&D. So I really have to figure out how to build up a friend group from nothing, and with people who probably aren’t close to where I live.
It’s not quite a mid-life crisis, but the end of this year kind of punched me in the gut.
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I could have written exactly this, Belafon. Going through the same thing, down to the job you do, the people around you, and the loneliness. It’s punching me in the gut too.
I’m going to work next year on growing friendships. I am pretty introverted and very shy but I can do it.
I have nothing pithy to say for either of us about 2020 being our year. But I believe it will get better.
re: #22 Patricia Kayden
The GOP is heading for an electoral disaster - maybe not exactly this year, but in the not-too-distant future if they don’t find a way to claw themselves back from the abyss.
There aren’t going to be enough rural/white Evangelical/white Catholic voters to save them. And from what I’m seeing, the GOP seems to be going all in on that narrow segment of the electorate, hoping to stave off the inevitable.
Christian Post wrote a pro trump op ed after what Christianity Today wrote.
Their political editor Napp Nazworth wasn’t pleased, so he quit and wrote this scathing op-ed for The Bulwark
it’ll take two minutes to read
it starts with a list of distractions to ‘strip away’:
And to answer the real question—the primary question—you have to strip all of those other considerations away.
- It doesn’t matter how many conservative justices he appointed.
- It doesn’t matter how pro-life he is.
- It doesn’t matter how many people voted for him.
- It doesn’t matter how Christian, or not, his values are.
on and on
he then clearly states what the house R’s have been vehemently arguing against:
- The two articles of impeachment passed by the U.S. House of Representatives…are most certainly impeachable offenses….And presidents can’t be held accountable to the most representative branch of government if they are allowed to obstruct Congress.
Finally,
…when the trial takes place, we should all—especially our senators—put aside partisan loyalties and look at the evidence with an open mind.
If the evidence shows that Trump is guilty of the charges against him, then he should be removed from office.
And if he isn’t, then he shouldn’t be.
re: #46 Dr Lizardo
The GOP is heading for an electoral disaster - maybe not exactly this year, but in the not-too-distant future if they don’t find a way to claw themselves back from the abyss.
There aren’t going to be enough rural/white Evangelical/white Catholics voters to save them. And from what I’m seeing, the GOP seems to be going all in on that narrow segment of the electorate, hoping to stave off the inevitable.
I think they hope they can have an Apartheid like reality exist. I don’t know. I have to say. I hope a middle course emerges from the battles on the left between the more leftist types economically and the more conventional types like Biden and Pete. I think that’s why I was so drawn to Castro, O’Rourke, Harris, and others. I’m a social liberal first. I can tolerate a fair range of economic opinions as long as you believe in liberal social views and agree that you need to give people some services to help them out.
re: #45 BlueGrl21
I could have written exactly this, Belafon. Going through the same thing, down to the job you do, the people around you, and the loneliness. It’s punching me in the gut too.
I’m going to work next year on growing friendships. I am pretty introverted and very shy but I can do it.
I have nothing pithy to say for either of us about 2020 being our year. But I believe it will get better.
Join and serve an existing purposeful group. It could be political or whatever.
If you show up at a Habitat build with a cheap hammer, they’ll hand you a real hammer. When the house is finished in a couple months you will have a set of the best kind of friends. And you’ll know how to lay a roof. And someone will have a house.
re: #48 HappyWarrior
I think the GOP’s endgame is the perpetuation of a white, Christian, patriarchal ruling class - their efforts at voter suppression and disenfranchisement are clearly aimed at producing that result and I’m pretty sure that they’ll ramp up those efforts even more as their share of the electorate shrinks further.
Hola and Happy Belated New Year, Lizards (I’ve been away)! Hope every is doing well and looking forward to voting out the orange assclown this year! Cheers
Who the hell is Matt Stoller and WTF is this? I’m trying to read it objectively but it’s a mess. No president is perfect but it’s sorta odd push this angle at this time unless your motivation is to push ‘Democrat dysfunction.’ As if that’s going to help.
1. So-called serious thinkers *can’t* acknowledge that Obama disillusioned large numbers of people because Obama’s triumph is such an important part of who they are. He’s the North star of Democratic dysfunction. https://t.co/t18lMXU3Ti
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) December 30, 2019
How much of that $46 million that Trump raised is from foreign sources?
Asking for about 350 million friends.
re: #52 BigPapa
There is a contingent of lefties who hate President Obama. Just listen to Sam Seder from the Majority Report, for example. President Obama never ran or claimed to be a socialist. He ran in the middle and governed from the middle. I don’t see how some on the left missed that.
re: #53 Eclectic Cyborg
How much of that $46 million that Trump raised is from foreign sources?
Asking for about 350 million friends.
Probably a good-sized chunk of it. Granted, it’s a little more difficult for the Kremlin to launder money through the NRA this time, but I’m sure they’ll find alternative sources easily enough.
re: #55 Dr Lizardo
Well, Parnas delivered foreign money to the GOP, state GOP orgs, and even Trump himself.
Follow the money, and it inevitably turns up Russian backed oligarchs.
This is one of the Mexican cities DHS is sending migrants to as they wait to request asylum in the US.👇
We’re still awaiting a 9th circuit ruling on this program.https://t.co/4Z4Cm8ccfXhttps://t.co/NEO18KlnZX https://t.co/yojq3uIUM8— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) January 2, 2020
re: #54 Patricia Kayden
There is a contingent of lefties who hate President Obama. Just listen to Sam Seder from the Majority Report, for example.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that. And they sure want to keep discussing it 3 years after he’s gone. The question is why. Roundabout support for Old Yeller? Plain old white liberal racism?
re: #46 Dr Lizardo
The GOP is heading for an electoral disaster - maybe not exactly this year, but in the not-too-distant future if they don’t find a way to claw themselves back from the abyss.
There aren’t going to be enough rural/white Evangelical/white Catholic voters to save them. And from what I’m seeing, the GOP seems to be going all in on that narrow segment of the electorate, hoping to stave off the inevitable.
they are:
- destroying the Constitution in order to achieve their evangelical goals. this won’t bode well short term when a dem’s in the office, nor long term for everyone
- driving young people to abandon evangelical/fundamentalist based christianity as well as religion overall.
these are not long term winning strategies
re: #59 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)
The GOP is only thinking ahead to the next election cycle. They don’t seem to have any sort of clearly defined long-term vision beyond “get elected and impose our rule on everyone else”.
Stoller got duped by the deceptively edited Biden video, which Eclectic Brotha noted came out right after new polling showing Bernie way behind Biden with black folk.
Biden’s actually *criticizing* European and American legal culture as enabling violence against women. https://t.co/LbIYyPY3B0
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 2, 2020
re: #54 Patricia Kayden
There is a contingent of lefties who hate President Obama. Just listen to Sam Seder from the Majority Report, for example. President Obama never ran or claimed to be a socialist. He ran in the middle and governed from the middle. I don’t see how some on the left missed that.
As far as I’m concerned Obama succeeded. He made our government lead on issues we had not been. He’s not a leftist. And I’m glad. Leftists are too ideologically rigid just like rightists and capitalists.
re: #58 BigPapa
Yeah, I’ve noticed that. And they sure want to keep discussing it 3 years after he’s gone. The question is why. Roundabout support for Old Yeller? Plain old white liberal racism?
Because he didn’t give them everything they wanted. It doesn’t matter we got SSM legalized under Obama, expanded health care, began the loosening of federal marijuana illegality, got out of the Great Recession. Because Obama didn’t give them universal health care, full out legalization, or put Bush or the bankers on trial, he’s a failure to them. Obama was in a tough situation and I think he performed admirably.
re: #44 Patricia Kayden
Good news.
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1. these wage increases are from either blue state legislatures, or voter initiatives. In both cases, republicans campaigned against them.
2. trumpets are going to use them as evidence of “wages ticking up in trump’s economy.”
re: #63 HappyWarrior
Because he didn’t give them everything they wanted. It doesn’t matter we got SSM legalized under Obama, expanded health care, began the loosening of federal marijuana illegality, got out of the Great Recession. Because Obama didn’t give them universal health care, full out legalization, or put Bush or the bankers on trial, he’s a failure to them. Obama was in a tough situation and I think he performed admirably.
And Democrats around him failed him - by not supporting Obamacare as fully as they should have. They didn’t make the case, and let GOP define it to the public, instead of taking ownership for the single biggest reduction in uninsured rate in recent history.
Democrats also failed when it came to doing more to stop McConnell blocking Obama judicial picks. They didn’t take midterms seriously enough, and GOPers got to pack the bench for the next 20-40 years with right wing extremists thanks to their apathy.
re: #66 lawhawk
And Democrats around him failed him - by not supporting Obamacare as fully as they should have. They didn’t make the case, and let GOP define it to the public, instead of taking ownership for the single biggest reduction in uninsured rate in recent history.
Democrats also failed when it came to doing more to stop McConnell blocking Obama judicial picks. They didn’t take midterms seriously enough, and GOPers got to pack the bench for the next 20-40 years with right wing extremists thanks to their apathy.
Exactly. I love parts of my generation but they thought electing Obama would be this panacea. It was never supposed to be that and Obama constantly reminded them of that but so many young people are drawn to politicians like yes Bernie who promise that. Progress isn’t an event, it’s a journey.
So, Michael Savage apparently walked into a hipster bar and found someone who didn’t like NYC so they moved out.
No one believes this baffling bulkshit.
As if no one remembers the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s when all those problems were more pervasive, crime was higher, and cost of living was lower.
If anyone moves away, it’s because of cost of living.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 1, 2020
The odds that someone moved out because of crime is far lower than someone moving out because they don’t like the fact that NYC is increasingly home to folks from all around the world, and is less white than it used to be. Crime rates keep dropping under DeBlasio, so crime isn’t the reason.
It’s because the white bigots are outnumbered.
re: #5 Belafon
But this break the lack of friends caught up with me. I think what QC kind of hit was that I don’t have any friends that I can relate to. The problem with being a liberal geek at a job full of conservatives is not that they don’t agree with me on politics, it’s that most of them don’t like even a few of the things I like. The one group that I do relate to are the recent college grads, who are the age
Two words: Disc Golf (aka Frisbee Golf). Currently the fastest growing sport. Inexpensive in dollars and time. Great fun for all ages: I began twenty years ago at the age of 52 and it has majorly contributed to the best 20 years of my life: pdga.com.
Amazing camaraderie, *unmatched egalitarianism* and sense of community; new friends in minutes at any of the 6,000+ courses in the US. Fun for low skills, walk in the woods throwing a Frisbee, or extremely competitive, you choose.
re: #61 BigPapa
Stoller got duped by the deceptively edited Biden video, which Eclectic Brotha noted came out right after new polling showing Bernie way behind Biden with black folk.
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I was reading that the ancient Slovenians practiced some forms of elementary democracy. The thing is we borrow from a lot of different traditions in our culture both indigenous and from distant shores.
Meanwhile, Jared and Ivanka are going to the World Economic Forum to rub shoulders with world leaders - the same ones who openly laugh at these two for their abject lack of subject matter knowledge and experience.
These two are laughed at by world leaders. They have no business being anywhere near govt. But for Trump intervening in the security clearance process, neither would have the clearances to work for govt. Jared should have already been prosecuted for lying on his clearances.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 2, 2020
re: #68 lawhawk
So, Michael Savage apparently walked into a hipster bar and found someone who didn’t like NYC so they moved out.
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The odds that someone moved out because of crime is far lower than someone moving out because they don’t like the fact that NYC is increasingly home to folks from all around the world, and is less white than it used to be. Crime rates keep dropping under DeBlasio, so crime isn’t the reason.
It’s because the white bigots are outnumbered.
They sure aren’t flocking to Red America:
Anti-corporate populists are just as bad as conservatives. Every time I see a leftist use ‘corporatist’ as a slur it makes me realize the right would not have the power they do if they didn’t have the complicit left: the right loves corporations, the anti-corporate left hates them so much they won’t support a Dem unless the Dem wants to destroy them all. The results are the same.
We wanted a savior I concede in 2008 because yeah Bush’s wars and economy was exhausting but it was never going to be solved by one ideological approach let alone man or party so yeah I think a lot of people projected onto Obama. Obama was and is a realist. If there’s a true center in this country, it’s what Obama hoped to achieve and I think we would be if HRC had been able to continue his work.
re: #73 BigPapa
Anti-corporate populists are just as bad as conservatives. Every time I see a leftist use ‘corporatist’ as a slur it makes me realize the right would not have the power they do if they didn’t have the complicit left: the right loves corporations, the anti-corporate left hates them so much they won’t support a Dem unless the Dem wants to destroy them all. The results are the same.
I remember Sanders’ surrogates in the media, cough Sirota attacking O’Rourke for “taking corporate money”, it turned out that Beto had just gotten a lot of donations from the many Texans employed by the oil and gas industry. Bernie’s taken money from people employed by the defense industry. Ain’t no one on the left calling Bernie a tool of the military industrial complex because of that. My problem with the new left is they’re hypocritical and honestly uninterested in real goverance. They’d rather be right than work for a solution and I think that’s the real legacy of the Tea Party for both left and right. I don’t always agree with the Democratic establishment but I see them as at interested in working for process and working based on facts and reality. I don’t see that with those who despise them for “selling” out.
After a bit of insight? Coffee? Reality slap? WTF knows….
Um….. https://t.co/pA6cekqlkH
— Will Bunch 🆘 (@Will_Bunch) January 2, 2020
I’m just sick of dogmatists when it comes to economics. Smug ass libertarian bros who insist Capitalism can do no wrong and smug ass tankies who think if you don’t embrace what they call Socialism, you must be a greedy asshole. It’s not that fucking simple. Economic ideological absolutism is the problem and I blame supply side right wingers for most of that shit but I also blame parts of the left too for thinking we could just replicate the Nordic states here and all will be fine. It’s not that I don’t think we can learn from them. It’s that the political culture here is different and they refuse to acknowledge that.
re: #58 BigPapa
I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they were bitterly disappointed that President Obama wasn’t as leftist or progressive as they wanted or expected him to be. I wouldn’t claim that they want Trump to win because many of them loathe Trump and what he stands for. I loved President Obama and he accomplished more than I expected given what he was up against once Congress flipped Republican.
I’ve been searching for the perfect term for the ‘Tea Party’ left but so far the best I can do is Pot Party. I know there’s something better. The current Talibern/YoungTurk left are rabid reactionary idealists fomented by influence: instead of corporate Astroturf funding this new Pot Party left is juiced up by Russia and the right.
re: #63 HappyWarrior
Thank you. You put it better than I did.
re: #78 Patricia Kayden
I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they were bitterly disappointed that President Obama wasn’t as leftist or progressive as they wanted or expected him to be. I wouldn’t claim that they want Trump to win because many of them loathe Trump and what he stands for. I loved President Obama and he accomplished more than I expected given what he was up against once Congress flipped Republican.
I think the disappointment was real. I think what’s been frustrating to me is how they’re responding to that disappointment. I don’t like Sanders because I really see the non-ideological elements of Trump I dislike- closed-minded, egocentric, one track mind, etc in Bernie and the movement he’s trying to create. My ideal path for the left really would be unfortunately in those candidates that failed to resonate.
re: #76 Mescalero09
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The Times just seems to love to step in it again and again.
re: #76 Mescalero09
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Coming up next—Clint Eastwood’s next movie glorifying Gallagher…
Doctor Who.
I know they try not to be political. Or at least try to be as subtle as possible about it, but.
Last night’s episode.
The Master has returned. He’s using Facebook and Twitter and Google to take over the world.
Presumably, part 2 on Sunday the doctor will save us.
re: #79 BigPapa
I’ve been searching for the perfect term for the ‘Tea Party’ left but so far the best I can do is Pot Party. I know there’s something better. The current Talibern/YoungTurk left are rabid reactionary idealists fomented by influence: instead of corporate Astroturf funding this new Pot Party left is juiced up by Russia and the right.
Purity Ponies.
re: #79 BigPapa
I’ve been searching for the perfect term for the ‘Tea Party’ left but so far the best I can do is Pot Party. I know there’s something better. The current Talibern/YoungTurk left are rabid reactionary idealists fomented by influence: instead of corporate Astroturf funding this new Pot Party left is juiced up by Russia and the right.
One thing is for sure, I don’t go to Joe Rogan or Cenk and his friends for influence. I read what I already know, those I know, and that/those I want to know more about. I’m willing to seek out people in the distant past like Franklin for political inspiration but also modern leaders like Slovakia’s President who continues to impress me with her democratic and pluralistic style of leadership in a multi-ethnic nation like that one.
People seem to forget that broad coalitions are strongest. That’s what sucked about Harris: she had broad support among consitutencies but it was the other things working against her. Obama had broad support. Clinton did as well but had a coalition of forces working against her.
Purity poltics sure don’t win elections and govern. .
re: #80 Patricia Kayden
Thank you. You put it better than I did.
I mean do I have some disappointments with Obama? Of course. I think he could have been more direct leading on immigration but I also believe we’re products of our circumstances. Obama had to deal with a right wing opposition that didn’t acknowledge him as a fellow American and a left wing one with jerks like Bill Maher and Michael Moore who want him to act like their idea of a black man. Obama is his own man. He’s as much a product of his immigrant father and his multi-generation Kansas mother. What I like about the Dem Congressional leadership at least in the House is how there’s a strong progressive yet pragmatic side to them. Pragmatic progressivism seems to be losing with people my age and I think that’s a shame.
Anyhow time to read. Thanks for listening to me grant.
….had happened to a Presidential candidate, or President, who was a Democrat, everybody involved would long ago be in jail for treason (and more), and it would be considered the CRIME OF THE CENTURY, far bigger and more sinister than Watergate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2020
Who wants to tell him how centuries work?
re: #74 HappyWarrior
We wanted a savior I concede in 2008 because yeah Bush’s wars and economy was exhausting but it was never going to be solved by one ideological approach let alone man or party so yeah I think a lot of people projected onto Obama. Obama was and is a realist. If there’s a true center in this country, it’s what Obama hoped to achieve and I think we would be if HRC had been able to continue his work.
obama is a great orator
and he delivered what he could
re: #84 sagehen
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re: #90 Dr. Matt
Who wants to tell him how centuries work?
A Democratic President was impeached for lying about a sexual affair, you got impeached for abusing your power to get dirt on a political opponent from a geopolitical ally in danger from a geopolitical foe that you can’t ever criticize. Go the fuck away you rotten authoritarian aspiring asshole.
re: #75 HappyWarrior
I remember Sanders’ surrogates in the media, cough Sirota attacking O’Rourke for “taking corporate money”, it turned out that Beto had just gotten a lot of donations from the many Texans employed by the oil and gas industry. Bernie’s taken money from people employed by the defense industry. Ain’t no one on the left calling Bernie a tool of the military industrial complex because of that. My problem with the new left is they’re hypocritical and honestly uninterested in real goverance. They’d rather be right than work for a solution and I think that’s the real legacy of the Tea Party for both left and right. I don’t always agree with the Democratic establishment but I see them as at interested in working for process and working based on facts and reality. I don’t see that with those who despise them for “selling” out.
I’m not sure they actually want to win and govern any more than DT did. They just want to attack those who are trying to govern.
Julian Castro’s Story Should Cause the Democratic Party to Reflect on How It Chooses Candidates, Charlie Pierce
Julian Castro announced on Thursday that he was suspending his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. This means that there is no longer a Latino presence in the field. This means that there is no longer a Latino presence in a field that still includes two no-hope white millionaires and a crackpot who thinks you can vibe away your cancer. This also means that there will be no candidate on stage at subsequent debates who reads out the names of the victims of police violence, who points out that police violence is gun violence, and who talks as much about poverty as he or she does about the embattled middle class. All of this should make the Democratic Party wonder about how it chooses its candidates, and it should make the country in general melancholy about the state of affairs as the election season begins.
Castro should have been viable all the way to the convention. (This is also true of Jay Inslee and Kamala Harris.) But the merciless criteria of polls and money worked against all three of them. Their ideas will now get atomized and spread out among the remaining candidates, but that process will be obscured by an implacable, faceless wall of spreadsheets.
re: #5 Belafon
My winter break ends tonight. As I go back to work tomorrow, I need to talk about something.
One of the things I did over winter break is read ALL of the Questionable Content online webcomic (I have read huge chunks of it multiple times). It’s a really good comic, but it’s most definitely an adult comic. The strange thing is how depressed it made me. It exposed a giant hole inside me that kind of hurts, the hole being a lack of friends.
I have mostly (not perfect at this) worked really hard most of my life. Some of it was expectations from my family - I was the first person to go to and graduate from college (even if it took 17 years) - but a huge portion of it was self motivation. I studied so hard in college that I burnt out. My solution, because I didn’t know what else to do, was to move from MA back to Texas. Then I joined the Navy. When I was in the Navy, I studied software development. When I got out, I came back to Texas. I worked, went to college, had two kids, and still studied non-school related software development in my free time. Even after my degrees, I still studied in my free time, though that was shortened due to children commitments. I’ve jumped jobs in part for the pay, but at times because of other factors, such as getting out of Nortel before it completely collapsed.
But this break the lack of friends caught up with me. I think what QC kind of hit was that I don’t have any friends that I can relate to. The problem with being a liberal geek at a job full of conservatives is not that they don’t agree with me on politics, it’s that most of them don’t like even a few of the things I like. The one group that I do relate to are the recent college grads, who are the age of my children. They’re the people who I can talk about anime or similar American cartoons, gaming, and cosplay.
So I’ve gone into a funk. I can’t concentrate very well. I’ve done almost no reading except for the above mentioned webcomic. And I have seriously moped.
The hard part is how to fix it. Being and atheist, I’m not going to church, which is the big thing to do here in Rockwall. And the kids parents I know about are pretty conservative, the kind that put Blue Lives Matter signs in their yards, send their kids to summer Bible camps and definitely vote for Trump.
I have found a place in Garland where I can go to meet up for D&D. So I really have to figure out how to build up a friend group from nothing, and with people who probably aren’t close to where I live.
It’s not quite a mid-life crisis, but the end of this year kind of punched me in the gut.
Edited slightly.
My Trumpster brother lives in Garland. So am not sure whether you will find that these people will share your political views. But, then again, the Dallas mayor is a Democrat.
Have you thought about getting involved with local Democratic politics? That will put you in touch with people who share our political views.
re: #96 Hecuba’s daughter
My Trumpster brother lives in Garland. So am not sure whether you will find that these people will share your political views. But, then again, the Dallas mayor is a Democrat.
Have you thought about getting involved with local Democratic politics? That will put you in touch with people who share our political views.
I tried a couple of years ago. Somehow that group managed to be older than me. They were very good at meeting once a month for lunch.
re: #68 lawhawk
So, Michael Savage apparently walked into a hipster bar and found someone who didn’t like NYC so they moved out.
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The odds that someone moved out because of crime is far lower than someone moving out because they don’t like the fact that NYC is increasingly home to folks from all around the world, and is less white than it used to be. Crime rates keep dropping under DeBlasio, so crime isn’t the reason.
It’s because the white bigots are outnumbered.
A conservative never-Trumper acquaintance keeps on lambasting Illinois and promoting the stories about people leaving the state — but solely because of taxes. People leaving certain blue states tend to be motivated primarily by two factors (1) cost of living/taxes and (2) weather. And for retirees — weather seems the dominant reason (and also — moving to where their children live)
Two haiku from The Rude Pundit today:
From Seattle Steamer:
Nancy moves on Trump
Like a bitch. They let you do
that when you’re Speaker.From Grumpy, Esq:
War Criminal
Eddie Gallagher
Is the George Zimmerman of
William L. Calleys
Dear Diary, today I listed professional emolument-getting as a skill in my online resume. https://t.co/qWpmkKpiQq
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 2, 2020
re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth
“wine by the spoon offerings”
O_o
“The most original & expensive cocktail program”
re: #90 Dr. Matt
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Well, the FBI had its thumb on the scale against Clinton, yet no one is in jail…
re: #97 Belafon
I tried a couple of years ago. Somehow that group managed to be older than me. They were very good at meeting once a month for lunch.
Any of these sound interesting and/or within convenient distance?
re: #104 BeachDem
Any of these sound interesting and/or within convenient distance?
Thanks. I’ll look at it at home.
Interesting diary over at Daily Kos about the latest negotiations between the State of Wisconsin and Chinese tech giant Foxconn over the state of their much-touted (and much-subsidized) BFD electronics plant project in Racine.
Shorter version (at least AFAICT): Foxconn wants to scale back their commitments to the bare minimum, while keeping as much of the State’s cash as possible. What a surprise….
re: #106 Jay C
Interesting diary over at Daily Kos about the latest negotiations between the State of Wisconsin and Chinese tech giant Foxconn over the state of their much-touted (and much-subsidized) BFD electronics plant project in Racine.
Shorter version (at least AFAICT): Foxconn wants to scale back their commitments to the bare minimum, while keeping as much of the State’s cash as possible. What a surprise….
That entire debacle is a scam that enriches Foxconn and cost Wisconsin taxpayers dearly for a handful of jobs. The state should have clawed back all the tax benefits/incentives, but wont or can’t because the state’s clawback provisions are minimal.
Did you see my “I survived a cold you will survive Ebola” shirt?
— Bonnie (@BonnieJoy1159) January 2, 2020
The only ones with a voice are the millionaires and foreign despots and autocrats who are playing Trump and delivering them fortunes while everyone else has the burdens.
All you do is lie and crime - and you were impeached for it.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 2, 2020
re: #60 Dr Lizardo
The GOP is only thinking ahead to the next election cycle. They don’t seem to have any sort of clearly defined long-term vision beyond “get elected and impose our rule on everyone else”.
Stacking the courts all the way up to SCOTUS is enough to leave them with a legacy comparable to FDR.
This deranged right wing jackass has more than 76,000 followers on YouTube. https://t.co/Xes5yph7d6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 2, 2020
re: #108 plansbandc
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He didn’t livs through Obama. His movement had a childish tantrum and gave us Trump. This stupid cottage industry and self denying bs.
Apparently for-profit prison companies think that this is somehow wrong or illegal or improper - company sues California over ban on for profit prisons in the state.
For profit prisons benefit the shareholders. They don’t cost states less money, and there’s far more room for mistreatment. It’s part and parcel of the lie that right wingers tell of privatization as saving people money.
It does no such thing. It just means that government is paying a company more to do something that it previously did in-house.
re: #114 lawhawk
Apparently for-profit prison companies think that this is somehow wrong or illegal or improper - company sues California over ban on for profit prisons in the state.
For profit prisons benefit the shareholders. They don’t cost states less money, and there’s far more room for mistreatment. It’s part and parcel of the lie that right wingers tell of privatization as saving people money.
It does no such thing. It just means that government is paying a company more to do something that it previously did in-house.
Rehabilitation shouldn’t be for sale.
re: #73 BigPapa
Anti-corporate populists are just as bad as conservatives. Every time I see a leftist use ‘corporatist’ as a slur it makes me realize the right would not have the power they do if they didn’t have the complicit left: the right loves corporations, the anti-corporate left hates them so much they won’t support a Dem unless the Dem wants to destroy them all. The results are the same.
The German AfD is often classified as “ultra-right” or “neo-fascist”, but in the end they are populists: their social and immigration policies are nationalist and conservative but their economic policies are all full of anti-corporate populism.
Nationalism and socialism…what do you call a party that would combine those two elements?
I can’t wait for conservatives to suddenly care about the debt again the second a Democratic President decides revenue should gasp be invested in programs that benefit the American people and not the scum buckets that bankroll the Republican Party.
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The German AfD is often classified as “ultra-right” or “neo-fascist”, but in the end they are populists: their social and immigration policies are nationalist and conservative but their economic policies are all full of anti-corporate populism.
Nationalism and socialism…what do you call a party that would combine those two elements?
I did Nazi that coming.
This is a really good piece by @joanwalsh on the damage our disastrous plague of journalistic both-siderism has done to the country.
This F#$%ing Decade https://t.co/qrfCFpSK82— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 2, 2020
re: #68 lawhawk
So, Michael Savage apparently walked into a hipster bar and found someone who didn’t like NYC so they moved out.
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The odds that someone moved out because of crime is far lower than someone moving out because they don’t like the fact that NYC is increasingly home to folks from all around the world, and is less white than it used to be. Crime rates keep dropping under DeBlasio, so crime isn’t the reason.
It’s because the white bigots are outnumbered.
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
re: #117 HappyWarrior
I can’t wait for conservatives to suddenly care about the debt again the second a Democratic President decides revenue should gasp be invested in programs that benefit the American people and not the scum buckets that bankroll the Republican Party.
GOPers will caterwaul over the cost of a health care program, when they didn’t care that their tax cuts exploded the debt and deficit by a trillion dollars in a strong economy.
WTAF
What kind of psycho electrifies a campaign sign? https://t.co/3WEFt3Q2b3
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) January 2, 2020
Totally on-brand, though.
re: #119 Charles Johnson
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Hell of a read. Joan like me sees a lot of the genesis for 2016 in 2012 and she’s not wrong. Romney was in many ways running a campaign that laid a blueprint for Trump just without swearing and lewdness.
re: #124 makeitstop
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Totally on-brand, though.
Yeah that’s normal behavior but tell us more about enlightened conservatives and triggered libs.
I will never forget Romney smugly smiling after Benghazi and running until Trump the most xenophobic campaign of a major party nominee in my lifetime.
re: #127 HappyWarrior
I will never forget Romney smugly smiling after Benghazi and running until Trump the most xenophobic campaign of a major party nominee in my lifetime.
at least he released one year’s worth of tax returns…
I’m not sure how I feel about Pete but I agree with many twitter commenters that Julian Castro is the real deal that Pete is trying to seem even as he reveals himself as more and more centrist by the day. The Castro brothers, I hope, will stay active on the national level for a long time to come.
re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
at least he released one year’s worth of tax returns…
The bare minimum. That’s Mitt. I’m just saying that Romney is an asshole who needs to look at his campaign’s own role in making Trump palatable as a political leader.
re: #129 Barefoot Grin
I’m not sure how I feel about Pete but I agree with many twitter commenters that Julian Castro is the real deal that Pete is trying to seem even as he reveals himself as more and more centrist by the day. The Castro brothers, I hope, will stay active on the national level for a long time to come.
I’m so disappointed that Pete is where I think Julián ought to be. The Castro brothers are imo more savvy than Pete is about the issues and our country.
re: #130 HappyWarrior
The bare minimum. That’s Mitt. I’m just saying that Romney is an asshole who needs to look at his campaign’s own role in making Trump palatable as a political leader.
Which he had fudged by not taking certain deductions/deferments to make it look like what he paid was more than the mere 14% he declared.
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which he had fudged by not taking certain deductions/deferments to make it look like what he paid was more than the mere 14% he declared.
As I said Mitt Romney is an asshole even if he votes to remove Trump. Normalizing Kobach and the other nativist is part of why Stephen Miller works in the WH rather than being seen as a strange kook completely disdainful of what makes America work.
re: #126 HappyWarrior
Yeah that’s normal behavior but tell us more about enlightened conservatives and triggered libs.
Per the comments: teach kiddos not to trespass or touch things that belong to others.
And, hahahahhahahahhahaha
re: #134 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Per the comments: teach kiddos not to trespass or touch things that belong to others.
And, hahahahhahahahhahaha
This is the mindset that thinks it’s okay to run over protesters who disagree with you. Fuck the anti abortion and anti gay rights nuts but anyone who resorts to violence over disagreement is a coward.
re: #135 The Pie Overlord!
Probably staged.
I pay it little attention except as an attempt to paint all who oppose Trump as deranged, intolerant and prone to illegal acts.
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I pay it little attention except as an attempt to paint all who oppose Trump as deranged, intolerant and prone to illegal acts.
And of course, chortled over because of its bonus cruelty (the shock). Hurr hurr hurr…..
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I pay it little attention except as an attempt to paint all who oppose Trump as deranged, intolerant and prone to illegal acts.
It makes Trump supporters look that way. I mean yeah stealing yard signs is lame but shocking someone over it? Makes you look like a petty brat but then again that’s Dan Bongino’s entire existence since he left the Secret Service. He’s a meathead ass with no original thoughts or insights who thinks he’s hot shit on Twitter when he’s really just an echo chamber.
re: #138 Jay C
And of course, chortled over because of its bonus cruelty (the shock). Hurr hurr hurr…..
Conservatives are constantly looking for ways to justify violence against thei ideological opponents which is why so many of them love Pinochet.
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I pay it little attention except as an attempt to paint all who oppose Trump as deranged, intolerant and prone to illegal acts.
Hence, I think that it may be staged, as a way to deliver confirmation bias proof to the base.
You both should settle this with a duel rather than with the blood of Innocents. May I suggest guns at ten paces. https://t.co/ZaMtxtXfPS
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 2, 2020
….Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2019
THIS THREAD IS A THREE-POPPERhttps://t.co/Rts1FYeCAV
— Feminist Proper Gander (@dappergander) January 2, 2020
Proverbial cock pic.twitter.com/3sQJMgDShf
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 2, 2020
re: #139 HappyWarrior
It makes Trump supporters look that way. I mean yeah stealing yard signs is lame but shocking someone over it? Makes you look like a petty brat but then again that’s Dan Bongino’s entire existence since he left the Secret Service. He’s a meathead ass with no original thoughts or insights who thinks he’s hot shit on Twitter when he’s really just an echo chamber.
The tweet was from Dan Scavino not Bongino. Different douche, this one is actually in charge of social media for Trump.
re: #144 gocart mozart
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You are not real #QArmy either of you are mocking #ThePlanToSaveTheWorld
Earth is Ascending to 5D, the 5th dimension, from 3D. We too are getting DNA upgrades along with her.
Low frequency people will not shift to 5D, so check your attitude.— QAnon Michele Canada 🇨🇦 (@QanonMichele) January 2, 2020
So fucking stupid…..
Eddie Gallagher isn’t a “lifestyle brand” story: It’s a story about the rise of American fascism https://t.co/CH26rIeuTb
— Salon (@Salon) January 2, 2020
Of course, The Right worships war criminal Eddie Gallagher. They thought murderer George Zimmerman was a hero too.
re: #144 gocart mozart
What pit of craziness is that twitter thread? And I went further into the nutjobs by reading Tweets by kabamur_taygeta
and I feel ill.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“our greatest Warfighters”
jezuz godd
Here’s our actual greatest warfighters:
anti-fascists preparing to demolish a white supremacist, anti-semitic regime.
re: #145 danarchy
The tweet was from Dan Scavino not Bongino. Different douche, this one is actually in charge of social media for Trump.
Ah my bad.
re: #147 Joe Bacon 🌹
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So fucking stupid…..
Wait - the 5th Dimension? So….. the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius?
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