“If I was doing the shit that the police have been doing, I wouldn’t want anyone recording it either.”
Cops respond to protests against systemic racism and police brutality with military tactics, macing and more of the same violence that protesters are working to shut down. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #BlackLivesMatter
Hoping for a quick recovery to Ace.
Oh, and Fuck Trump, Fuck the GOP, and Fuck the Mendacious Media.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 10, 2020
oh god I don’t think I’ll ever stop LOLing https://t.co/uuYmBi4aMr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
I mean, I’m LOLing but it’s not really funny that the president of the US is insane.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
re: #2 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Seems like a “You can’t handle the truth!” gif is in order.
This is just a preview of how Trump is going to behave when he loses the election.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
Unconfirmed reports suggest the Trump Admin also wants CNN to apologize for:
- saying Oprah Winfrey is black
- describing objects covered in water as “wet”
- An in-depth report that the sky is blue
- A multi-segment series claiming rich people have a lot of money
The bumper sticker version… https://t.co/M21MZtkBld pic.twitter.com/UOL9V6DUvE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
re: #2 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The most batshit thing about it is that it was a formal C&D letter from his lawyer.
re: #11 Citizen K
The most batshit thing about it is that it was a formal C&D letter from his lawyer.
Trump has spent his career bullying people with lawyers. He may think this will actually work.
Just finished reading the brief. Judge Gleason is not messing around…. https://t.co/6i8A3xktxF
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) June 10, 2020
Can CNN do a segment where they just show the text of the letter with a very loud laugh track playing behind it. And somehow leak the video quickly onto the internet to go viral?
When worlds collide
What percentage of @Bodegacats_ are former Giant Military Cats? https://t.co/piQxr4zLUq
— Giant Military Cats (@giantcat9) June 10, 2020
re: #2 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Help me out here, Lizards: I saw a familiar name in that CNN piece: Jenna Ellis, the Trump campaign’s “senior legal advisor”, and it struck a familiar note: wasn’t she recently in the news for publicizing some other stupid shit on behalf of the campaign? Or making some unfathomably dumb comment or other?
Don Lemon or Anderson Cooper can ask why, if Trump doesn’t watch CNN anyway, does it matter.
re: #17 Belafon
Don Lemon or Anderson Cooper can ask why, if Trump doesn’t watch CNN anyway, does it matter.
I would guess Trump would claim CNN is making a statement it knows is false to damage his election prospects.
LOfuckingL
Of course the moron retweeted this
Last night’s primaries were an emphatic reminder of the enthusiasm for @realDonaldTrump’s agenda that is sweeping the nation.
President Trump added to his undefeated 73-0 record of candidate endorsements in congressional primary and special elections this cycle. pic.twitter.com/5sd1KaWZst— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 10, 2020
re: #16 Jay C
Help me out here, Lizards: I saw a familiar name in that CNN piece: Jenna Ellis, the Trump campaign’s “senior legal advisor”, and it struck a familiar note: wasn’t she recently in the news for publicizing some other stupid shit on behalf of the campaign? Or making some unfathomably dumb comment or other?
ADD: never mind: I googled Jenna Ellis, and found out she’s like the wingiest wingnut in Wingnutland - finding “stupid shit Jenna Ellis has posted” is both too easy and too hard (to have to sift through)…
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is one of the oddest 2020 trends. The RNC has also been alerting reporters to how GOP candidates endorsed by the president are winning primaries, even though many are incumbents w gadfly challengers. https://t.co/seFERUD3EW
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 10, 2020
re: #16 Jay C
Help me out here, Lizards: I saw a familiar name in that CNN piece: Jenna Ellis, the Trump campaign’s “senior legal advisor”, and it struck a familiar note: wasn’t she recently in the news for publicizing some other stupid shit on behalf of the campaign? Or making some unfathomably dumb comment or other?
The most recent thing that comes up on the Google is an interview with Laura Trump posted to Donny’s YouTube channel. I didn’t watch much (and watched with closed captions) but it pretty much Donald Trump is the best president ever and his actions totally uphold his constitutional oath.
Here’s a recent tweet
Is anyone willing to say of BLM, the emperor has got no clothes?
This really isn’t about “systemic racism.”
It’s about social Marxism and the transformation of America.
And they’re trying to use fear to keep people from speaking the truth.
Don’t ever bend the knee to the mob.— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) June 10, 2020
Seems pretty standard Trump enabler-speak.
I don’t know if it has been posted here, but apparently George Floyd was victimized by a crooked cop in Houston before running into the MPD. From the Daily Beast:
Goines [the Houston cop] had been the one and only witness when he arrested Floyd back on Feb. 5, 2004, for supposedly providing him with less than a gram of cocaine.
[…]
Goines’ veracity in general was called into question after he was arrested last year. He was alleged to have cited a fictitious informant in securing a search warrant for a house where there was supposed drug dealing. The ensuing raid resulted in Dennis Tuttle and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, being shot to death by police, who also killed their dog. No drugs were found. The couple seems to have been wholly innocent.[…]The Harris County district attorney subsequently sought to overturn 73 cases in which Goines was the only person who witnessed the supposed transaction.
That included the case against Floyd, who subsequently went from encountering one of the very worst cops in Houston to encountering one of the very worst cops in Minneapolis.
re: #13 jaunte
Yikes! Bad luck that DOJ filed a brief making *the exact opposite* legal argument only three days before filing its motion to dismiss the Flynn case. pic.twitter.com/U7fUPkpANz
— Carissa Byrne Hessick (@CBHessick) June 10, 2020
Every aspect of the DOJ filing in the Flynn case was bulkshit and prejudicial in favor of Flynn whereas every other defendant who has ever made any remotely similar claim has been strenuously opposed by the same DOJ.
The law of the case (the facts and ruling that guide the case as it progresses through the courts) all goes against the DOJ filing to drop the Flynn case.
It again points to prosecutorial misconduct by Barr and helping out Trump cronies despite the settled law and facts of the case.
re: #23 garzooma
I don’t know if it has been posted here, but apparently George Floyd was victimized by a crooked cop in Houston before running into the MPD. From the Daily Beast:
Apparently, not only did Chauvin and Floyd work together, they clashed. This could provide a motive sufficient to increase the charges to 1st degree murder. slate.com
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #21 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
This is one of the oddest 2020 trends. The RNC has also been alerting reporters to how GOP candidates endorsed by the president are winning primaries, even though many are incumbents w gadfly challengers.
It’s not ‘odd’, it’s par for the course. It’s Trump and his enablers once again punching strawmen and setting the bar so low that even a perennial failure like him can clear it, atop chronic toadyism in the GOP.
re: #22 Teddy’s Person
Yeah, that “social Marxism” tweet seem to be her biggest hit: it pops up in all the links.
Well, I’m impressed… ////
re: #21 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So I guess the RNC is getting desperate to prove that Everything Trump Touches doesn’t necessarily Die?
I wonder how many of those vaunted endorsements were for (R) candidates in unopposed races?
Or how many were those boilerplate Twitter pieces the Orange Anus cranks out:
“Vote for [INSERT NAME HERE] in Tuesday’s primary! Strong on Borders! Strong on the Military! MAGA!!”
I’m just waiting for the day when some staffer will slip up and actually send out a Presidential endorsement for candidate “[INSERT NAME HERE]”…..
This is why tear gas is banned in war. https://t.co/cbF4VyXw9N
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) June 9, 2020
re: #23 garzooma
On the judicial/legal side of the system, there are some major changes that need to happen. Chief among them is the tendency of judges to rubber stamp warrants. Another is building something of a wall between prosecutors and the police.
re: #24 lawhawk
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Every aspect of the DOJ filing in the Flynn case was bulkshit and prejudicial in favor of Flynn whereas every other defendant who has ever made any remotely similar claim has been strenuously opposed by the same DOJ.
The law of the case (the facts and ruling that guide the case as it progresses through the courts) all goes against the DOJ filing to drop the Flynn case.
It again points to prosecutorial misconduct by Barr and helping out Trump cronies despite the settled law and facts of the case.
I’m guessing hornbook criminal law is not a compliment
re: #22 Teddy’s Person
The most recent thing that comes up on the Google is an interview with Laura Trump posted to Donny’s YouTube channel. I didn’t watch much (and watched with closed captions) but it pretty much Donald Trump is the best president ever and his actions totally uphold his constitutional oath.
Here’s a recent tweet
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Seems pretty standard Trump enabler-speak.
She’s on the religious nut job circuit; fellow at Liberty University center for something or other. I’d bet dominionist.
This is one of the oddest 2020 trends. The RNC has also been alerting reporters to how GOP candidates endorsed by the president are winning primaries, even though many are incumbents w gadfly challengers. https://t.co/seFERUD3EW
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 10, 2020
This is not odd at all. Trump is losing, bigly, virtually across the board. This is about the only area they can present as some kind of “victory” for him so that’s what they are going with.
Can’t stop kissing the ring, no matter what.
re: #24 lawhawk
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Every aspect of the DOJ filing in the Flynn case was bulkshit and prejudicial in favor of Flynn whereas every other defendant who has ever made any remotely similar claim has been strenuously opposed by the same DOJ.
The law of the case (the facts and ruling that guide the case as it progresses through the courts) all goes against the DOJ filing to drop the Flynn case.
It again points to prosecutorial misconduct by Barr and helping out Trump cronies despite the settled law and facts of the case.
The funny thing about all of this is that Trump could have just pardoned Stone and while people would have bitched about an abuse of the pardon power, it would blow over in a few days because it’s not like the House would impeach him over it and it’s not like the Senate would remove him over it. Instead, Barr has led the DOJ on a parade over the department’s metaphorical dick.
re: #30 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
I’m guessing hornbook criminal law is not a compliment
Hornbook: legal textbooks.
Basically, judge is saying that DOJ is ignoring settled law to spew this crap that would be a textbook example of what not to do.
re: #27 Jay C
Yeah, that “social Marxism” tweet seem to be her biggest hit: it pops up in all the links.
Well, I’m impressed… ////
So I guess the RNC is getting desperate to prove that Everything Trump Touches doesn’t necessarily Die?
I wonder how many of those vaunted endorsements were for (R) candidates in unopposed races?
Or how many were those boilerplate Twitter pieces the Orange Anus cranks out:
“Vote for [INSERT NAME HERE] in Tuesday’s primary! Strong on Borders! Strong on the Military! MAGA!!”
I’m just waiting for the day when some staffer will slip up and actually send out a Presidential endorsement for candidate “[INSERT NAME HERE]”…..
I love the smell of desperation in the morning…
re: #33 KGxvi
Someone at DOJ told Trump that pardoning Flynn or Stone would open the door to them testifying against Trump without any 5A protections, exposing Trump to more liability than if they tried to cover it up in the way done so far.
But it’s also elevated the calls for Barr to be investigated for interfering in these investigations and throwing out well settled law (and law of the case) to help out Trump’s criminal cronies.
re: #34 lawhawk
Hornbook: legal textbooks.
Basically, judge is saying that DOJ is ignoring settled law to spew this crap that would be a textbook example of what not to do.
Yeah, it’s also a really nice way of saying “this is shit that every first year law student learns and the fact that they’re ignoring it means they’re either fucking lying or crooked”
gonna be a bumpy day
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— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) June 10, 2020
re: #34 lawhawk
Hornbook: legal textbooks.
Basically, judge is saying that DOJ is ignoring settled law to spew this crap that would be a textbook example of what not to do.
He’s also saying: “how the fuck can you justify saying thing A in this brief when you are COMPLETELY CONTRADICTING YOURSELVES in this other brief?”
re: #34 lawhawk
Hornbook: legal textbooks.
Basically, judge is saying that DOJ is ignoring settled law to spew this crap that would be a textbook example of what not to do.
So shit that a first year should know?
re: #37 KGxvi
Yeah, it’s also a really nice way of saying “this is shit that every first year law student learns and the fact that they’re ignoring it means they’re either fucking lying or crooked”
Gmta
re: #37 KGxvi
Yeah, it’s also a really nice way of saying “this is shit that every first year law student learns and the fact that they’re ignoring it means they’re either fucking lying or crooked”
Or both.
re: #29 KGxvi
On the judicial/legal side of the system, there are some major changes that need to happen. Chief among them is the tendency of judges to rubber stamp warrants. Another is building something of a wall between prosecutors and the police.
Very hard to do since they have to work as a team to build criminal cases for trial. I would suggest a special state division of prosecutors and investigators who solely investigate and prosecute cops, so they don’t have a relationship to protect.
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
He’s also saying: “how the fuck can you justify saying thing A in this brief when you are COMPLETELY CONTRADICTING YOURSELVES in this other brief?”
General rule, judges really don’t fucking like it when parties do that.
I came across some cases years ago where courts were furious with lenders in mortgage fraud cases (and in particular the MERS system) where they would tell one court they were the lender and another they’d tell they were “just the servicer” (even though nobody had a working definition of “servicer” at the time) basically changing who they were based on the jurisdiction and claims.
So whiny letter to CNN about a poll is today’s Trump bunker baby moment. Tune in tomorrow as Trump will complain that George Floyd’s family has spoken positively of Joe Biden in their grief.
Has Trump commented yet on Judge Gleeson calling out Barr’s behavior yet?
You would think this hurts republicans and helps dems. Perhaps republicans are really that stupid.
Coronavirus In Ohio: Tens Of Thousands Told To Repay Unemployment Benefits
re: #43 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Very hard to do since they have to work as a team to build criminal cases for trial. I would suggest a special state division of prosecutors and investigators who solely investigate and prosecute cops, so they don’t have a relationship to protect.
It’s doable, but it will require changing the culture in DA’s offices. And that, more than anything, will be hard to do.
re: #36 lawhawk
Someone at DOJ told Trump that pardoning Flynn or Stone would open the door to them testifying against Trump without any 5A protections, exposing Trump to more liability than if they tried to cover it up in the way done so far.
But it’s also elevated the calls for Barr to be investigated for interfering in these investigations and throwing out well settled law (and law of the case) to help out Trump’s criminal cronies.
Shifting the heat from Trump to Barr, which Trump is fine with.
Good afternoon Lizards, It is going to get even more pathetic as time goes on…isn’t it?
Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading https://t.co/4hrInEKswU
— Donie O’Sullivan (@donie) June 10, 2020
re: #44 KGxvi
General rule, judges really don’t fucking like it when parties do that.
I came across some cases years ago where courts were furious with lenders in mortgage fraud cases (and in particular the MERS system) where they would tell one court they were the lender and another they’d tell they were “just the servicer” (even though nobody had a working definition of “servicer” at the time) basically changing who they were based on the jurisdiction and claims.
Your honor, my client does not own a dog. In the alternative, he always keeps his dog on a leash.
re: #37 KGxvi
Yeah, it’s also a really nice way of saying “this is shit that every first year law student learns and the fact that they’re ignoring it means they’re either fucking lying or crooked”
With Trumpworld, it’s both fucking lying and crooked.
re: #48 KGxvi
It’s doable, but it will require changing the culture in DA’s offices. And that, more than anything, will be hard to do.
Is DA always an elected office?
re: #53 wrenchwench
Is DA always an elected office?
I don’t know if there are any states in which DA’s aren’t elected.
re: #53 wrenchwench
Is DA always an elected office?
Typically. But it’s the assistant district attorneys that handle most cases. And from my experience in law school and the practice, those who go that route tend to lean towards the law and order conservative types.
re: #46 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Has Trump commented yet on Judge Gleeson calling out Barr’s behavior yet?
that would require reading, unless somebody told him
re: #50 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
Good afternoon Lizards, It is going to get even more pathetic as time goes on…isn’t it?
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Oh yeah. Culminating in the election aftermath when he rants and raves about the “massive voter fraud”
re: #54 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I don’t know if there are any states in which DA’s aren’t elected.
Some DAs deserve a lot of respect and votes. K. Harris is first in my mind.
re: #47 I Would Prefer Not To
You would think this hurts republicans and helps dems. Perhaps republicans are really that stupid.
Coronavirus In Ohio: Tens Of Thousands Told To Repay Unemployment Benefits
Please proceed, GOP. I’m sure your constituents will be just THRILLED with this.
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re: #55 KGxvi
Typically. But it’s the assistant district attorneys that handle most cases. And from my experience in law school and the practice, those who go that route tend to lean towards the law and order conservative types.
Though my friend who was Commonwealth Attorney prosecuted most cases himself because it was a small, rural office.
re: #55 KGxvi
Does culture remain, while DAs come and go?
Gun-toting racist threatens to kill Black family after teen accidentally brushes against his car https://t.co/Ldxw91v2QH pic.twitter.com/twNFpI8yBE
— CitizenWonk (@CitizenWonk) June 10, 2020
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC. These people will use LITERALLY ANYTHING as an excuse to lash out.
re: #56 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
that would require reading, unless somebody told him
If it wasn’t on Fox or OAN, he doesn’t know. There’s more of a delay if it were reported on CNN or MSNBC.
re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg
JFC. These people will use LITERALLY ANYTHING as an excuse to lash out.
Permission has been granted…
re: #55 KGxvi
Typically. But it’s the assistant district attorneys that handle most cases. And from my experience in law school and the practice, those who go that route tend to lean towards the law and order conservative types.
I’ve known some very liberal ADAs (in NYC). It’s a stepping stone. Think going into politics latter. You can say you were a crime fighter. JFK jr, for example.
re: #61 wrenchwench
Does culture remain, while DAs come and go?
Yes. Most DA’s are elected on “tough on crime” platforms.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground…
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
– Frederick Douglass— Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) June 10, 2020
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
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These peoples economic anxiety really manifests itself in strange ways for weird reasons.
re: #46 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Has Trump commented yet on Judge Gleeson calling out Barr’s behavior yet?
Maybe he’s waiting for Judge Sullivan’s definitive ruling on the DoJ motion before blowing up in a paroxysm of incoherent rage commenting?
I mean, It seems like Judge Gleeson’s “review” would give Sullivan all the cover he needs to dismiss the motion and tell Barr to go fuck himself, if that’s what he’s looking for, but IANAL….
Scott (R-SC) on police reform efforts: “There’s some common ground between the House bill, our bill and the White House bill.”
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 10, 2020
Scott after hearing parts of George Floyd’s brother House hearing testimony: “It’s obvious that he wants reform done as quickly as possible and it he’s very passionate about it, and he should be.”
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 10, 2020
Scott on releasing his police reform bill w/Senate GOP Friday:”As long as we can the text back from the leg counsel, we’re in good shape. We’ve asked Ldr’s office to ask the leg counsel..If they could prioritize some of the simple things we need to be added, that would be great.”
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 10, 2020
Scott on POTUS: “I try to make sure they’re sensible and directed towards the American people and towards partisan or politics at all. Hopefully, he’ll have the same approach.”
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 10, 2020
pretty sure I can see the basic flaws in this explanation
re: #31 retired cynic
She’s on the religious nut job circuit; fellow at Liberty University center for something or other. I’d bet dominionist.
Her idiocy came up last week because of this:
Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis says that the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, who oversees St. John’s Episcopal Church, “is unfortunately a pawn of the leftist media that thrives on destruction of all that is moral and just.” pic.twitter.com/PuSliXQyLC
— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) June 2, 2020
My comment at the time was:
All I need to know about Jenna Ellis:
Director of Dobson Policy Center
James Dobson Family Institute
2018 - 2019 1 year
You’ll be shocked to learn Donald Trump is in favor of naming things after racists who committed treason. https://t.co/PCfEAAitcf
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 10, 2020
General Lee and the tradition of winning. pic.twitter.com/5ptYE04gFa
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 10, 2020
Another breaking murder story in Sweden… Police main theory is that the double murderer in Linköping was driven by Xenophobia:
thelocal.se
re: #74 jaunte
Ask him about the history of the men who those forts were named after. I’m definitely for remembering history. Bring on Fort Thomas, bring on Fort Meagher, bring on Fort Humphrey, and other civil war names that have been forgotten because the Lost Causers got their participation trophies in the early 20th century.
re: #78 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Trump’s Lost Cause.
re: #74 jaunte
Honest question: what has happened at/to any of those military bases that make them “legendary”?
…Our history as the Greatest Nation in the World will not be tampered with. Respect our Military!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2020
Serious question: If the military decides to rename a base can Trump actually do anything to stop them?
Or give me Fort Delaney.
pacivilwar150.com
Martin Delaney’s memory is a lot more worth preserving than Bobby Lee’s and Jeb Stuart’s.
re: #80 KGxvi
Trump has heard mention of them. That’s it.
re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg
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Serious question: If the military decides to rename a base can Trump actually do anything to stop them?
Because everyone knows that if we re-name these bases, that means we didn’t actually train soldiers there to fight in WWI, WWII, etc. etc.
re: #74 jaunte
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So make them
Ft Grant
Ft Thomas
Ft Chamberlain
Ft Scott
All winners.
re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg
Serious question: If the military decides to rename a base can Trump actually do anything to stop them?
I’m not sure. How the hell is this disrespectful to the military? That we might rename forts that are named after men who literally wanted to do all they could to separate the United States? As I said, I’m all for remembering our history which is why I want Union heroes especially African-American ones to get their due in history. Not just Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, but other names. Earlier in the year, I visited the African-American Civil War Memorial and I was struck by a though as I’m a descendant of a Civil War veteran but the African Americans who fought for the Union or aided its military in any way during the war risked a lot more than my Great Great Grandfather.
re: #86 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Fort Truth would be pretty cool.
The White House delayed the briefing 30 minutes, then handed out President Trump’s tweet about not renaming military bases to reporters before the press secretary came out to read it.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 10, 2020
re: #85 William Lewis
So make them
Ft Grant
Ft Thomas
Ft Chamberlain
Ft ScottAll winners.
I’m not sure if Trump likes or dislikes winners, though.
What’s next, renaming legendary and historical sports arenas?
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The U.S. will hit over 2 Million reported cases of Covid-19 before any other country even reaches 1 million.
re: #85 William Lewis
So make them
Ft Grant
Ft Thomas
Ft Chamberlain
Ft ScottAll winners.
There are so many great Union heroes that this country doesn’t know about. As I said, I’m all for talking about the history. The history of brave Union men of all races and ethnicity that didn’t embrace secession. Right wingers talk about patriotism. Nothing says patriotism more than those four generals mentioned.
It was hard not to weep with him as Philonese Floyd discussed the video that showed his brother’s death.
“That’s all people talk about. Kids have to watch the video. His kids have to watch the video. It’s a lot of hurt. It’s a lot of pain.”— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) June 10, 2020
re: #87 jaunte
Fort Truth would be pretty cool.
She’s also famous in suffrage and women’s rights history as well. Fascinating lady.
Asked about the Dem calls for federal ban on police tactics like chokeholds, overhaul qualified immunity so it’s easier to sue cops in civil court and create a national database to track police misconduct, Tim Scott said: “I don’t see how those things get to the finish line.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 10, 2020
Pretty clear Trump vastly prefers defending the Confederacy and police brutality than he does his response to COVID.
— Joe Berkowitz (@JoeBerkowitz) June 10, 2020
re: #80 KGxvi
Honest question: what has happened at/to any of those military bases that make them “legendary”?
Nothing, other than Trump never actually going through any of them as an active duty or reserve force member.
What we saw in Georgia was the latest Republican attempt to suppress the vote—and another wake-up call heading into November.
We need every level of government to secure protections now so that everyone can vote safely and easily. Join the fight: https://t.co/NK8WD3Vuir https://t.co/zyo0ftXC5z— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 10, 2020
re: #69 Eventual Carrion
These peoples economic anxiety really manifests itself in strange ways for weird reasons.
and oddly, more and more in front of cameras
re: #90 A Cranky One
What’s next, renaming legendary and historical sports arenas?
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There’s an idea; sell the naming rights of our military bases to corporate sponsors!
re: #77 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Orwell was quite the precient dude.
A Final Warning.
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And I think he might have actually met Kaleigh in an earlier life:
“She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her.”
1984
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
Those are pretty big fucking issues there Tim. This is why your party is rightfully going to get wiped out over this. You claim to be all anti big government but when push comes to shove, you’re nothing but bootlickers.
We’re not saying you should reply to @SenJoniErnst or @joniernst’s tweets with a 🦗because Iowans haven’t heard a thing from her in 6 years.
Nope. Definitely don’t tweet at @SenJoniErnst or @joniernst with a 🦗.
🦗.— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 10, 2020
re: #100 NO SMOCKING GUN!
There’s an idea; sell the naming rights of our military bases to corporate sponsors!
“Good morning and welcome to Smoothie King AFB!”
re: #92 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There are so many great Union heroes that this country doesn’t know about. As I said, I’m all for talking about the history. The history of brave Union men of all races and ethnicity that didn’t embrace secession. Right wingers talk about patriotism. Nothing says patriotism more than those four generals mentioned.
Petraeus weighed in on this in the Atlantic:
Take the Confederate Names Off Our Army Bases
It is time to remove the names of traitors like Benning and Bragg from our country’s most important military installations.JUNE 9, 2020
His whole argument is worth the read. But I liked this tidbit:
It also happens that—Lee excepted—most of the Confederate generals for whom our bases are named were undistinguished, if not incompetent, battlefield commanders.* Braxton Bragg, for example, left a great deal to be desired as a military leader. After graduating from West Point in 1837, he served in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican War. His reputation for physical bravery was matched by one for epic irascibility. Bragg’s temper was so bad, Ulysses S. Grant recounted in his memoirs, that an old Army story had a superior once rebuking him, “My God, Mr. Bragg, you have quarreled with every officer in the army, and now you are quarrelling with yourself!” Bragg’s inability to cooperate diluted his effectiveness until his resounding defeat at the Battle of Chattanooga, in November 1863, precipitated his resignation from the Confederate army.
re: #86 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m not sure. How the hell is this disrespectful to the military? That the military itself might rename its own forts...
oh
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re: #105 garzooma
Petraeus weighed in on this in the Atlantic:
His whole argument is worth the read. But I liked this tidbit:
Yeah Bragg is widely considered to have been an awful general. Hood is the answer to the question who lost the Georgia campaign to Sherman too. And I don’t see Fort Longstreet because that’s right, the Lost Cause boys hated him because he became Catholic, Republic, served Grant’s administration, and didn’t push the Lee was a saintly general bs and admitted that they seceded over slavery.
How about this. We will rename the forts and roll out the Tubman 20 dollar bill when Joe Biden becomes POTUS.
fuck trump
re: #106 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
I imagine the Union veterans of the Civil War would’ve felt highly disrespected that these bases were named after the traitors they defeated.
re: #106 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Seriously. Guy who has never had anyone in his family serve in the military has a lot of opinions about this sort of thing.
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
I bet the main commonality of the three approaches is that they all use the words “law enforcement” at some point. Beyond that I’d guarantee nothing.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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But hey, Tim’s new mask has the flag AND God Bless, so what more does anyone want?
re: #110 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I imagine the Union veterans of the Civil War would’ve felt highly disrespected that these bases were named after the traitors they defeated.
I’m not sure when they started naming them but I want to say it was around the time that the veterans started getting older in the years leading up to WWI or shortly after. The last Union veteran died in 1956 for reference.
re: #75 jaunte
Interesting illustration. Is that supposed to be a painting of Lincoln on the wall there?
(Also, IIRC from reading, Grant was wearing a private’s coat with 3-star general rank markings sewn on. I bet those has a lot less brass buttons.)
Why a GOP Convention in Jacksonville Could Be a Disaster
The decision to move the event from Charlotte has the makings of a political debacle and a health crisis. by Martin Longman, Wash. Monthly
More thoughts. Are the same people going to be in Charlotte for meetings and votes and Jacksonville for speeches? Can’t be in two places at once.
Many of the delegates are elderly, including a lot of the Reps and Sens. Are they going to be happy cramming in for a convention like usual?
Jacksonville will have to relax its own regulations to allow for this.
Obviously, a prerequisite of the deal is that the city gives assurances that social distancing won’t be required, but objectively there isn’t much rationale for this. Florida is currently getting more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 a day, and their R value is 1.07, meaning that the infection is spreading rather than contracting.
We’re talking about bringing people from every state and territory in the country to Jacksonville, most of them on airplanes, having them mingle closely in a closed arena, and then sending them back to the communities from which they came. This could create a nationwide spike in COVID-19 which would become evident by mid-September. Quite apart from the health component, I don’t think that’s good politics.
So, yes, I think Trump and the Republicans are setting themselves up for disaster and a well-deserved rebuke by the voters.
re: #92 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There are so many great Union heroes that this country doesn’t know about. As I said, I’m all for talking about the history. The history of brave Union men of all races and ethnicity that didn’t embrace secession. Right wingers talk about patriotism. Nothing says patriotism more than those four generals mentioned.
And you don’t have to stick to Civil War heroes. World War 1 is over a 100 years over, and World War II nearly 75 years past. Plenty of heroes there to use as names, even if you’re trying to match the heroes’ home state to where the base is located; e.g. finding a Georgian to use to replace the name for Fort Benning.
Also, how is sending African-Americans to train at a base named after Confederate generals anything other than disrespectful/a slap in the face to those service members?
re: #116 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Interesting illustration. Is that supposed to be a painting of Lincoln on the wall there?
(Also, IIRC from reading, Grant was wearing a private’s coat with 3-star general rank markings sewn on. I bet those has a lot less brass buttons.)
That’s right. I think I remember reading that when Grant met with Lee at Appamatox. The Southern officer corps, like Lee pretty much all from the old plantation aristocracy were shocked at the modesty of his dress. I still need to see the Grant history channel thing and read Chernow’s biography but I am glad Grant is getting his due not just as a general but as an American too. He had flaws for sure but he did the heavy lifting on Reconstruction that Johnson did not do and that Hayes was willing to end Reconstruction in exchange for the South letting the shady events of the 1876 election go.
re: #119 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And you don’t have to stick to Civil War heroes. World War 1 is over a 100 years over, and World War II nearly 75 years past. Plenty of heroes there to use as names, even if you’re trying to match the heroes’ home state to where the base is located; e.g. finding a Georgian to use to replace the name for Fort Benning.
I like that. And I definitely think a Fort Truman in Missouri would be good for Harry. His WWI service isn’t that well known but like my own grandfather, he was an artillery man.Truman often talked about how his experiences influenced him.
re: #102 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Those are pretty big fucking issues there Tim. This is why your party is rightfully going to get wiped out over this. You claim to be all anti big government but when push comes to shove, you’re nothing but bootlickers.
And “won’t get to the finish line” is basically saying that the GOP Senate (and rest of the party) will obstruct and fight those measures every step of the way.
re: #66 I Would Prefer Not To
I’ve known some very liberal ADAs (in NYC). It’s a stepping stone. Think going into politics latter. You can say you were a crime fighter. JFK jr, for example.
It’s also a way to get a lot more courtroom experience than a junior associate at a private firm.
re: #117 retired cynic
Would it be bad for me to say ‘go for it and fuck yourselves over’? ‘Cause that’s kinda where I am, philosophically.
re: #110 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I imagine the Union veterans of the Civil War would’ve felt highly disrespected that these bases were named after the traitors they defeated.
A bunch of these bases were opened after WWI in the South. No doubt the Southern bigots wanted to honor their own. And that’s what they did.
One of the things that does not change is that feeling you get while waiting for a package to be delivered. It was originally scheduled for tomorrow but UPS said it is coming today. They got five more hours to deliver it.
re: #124 sagehen
It’s also a way to get a lot more courtroom experience than a junior associate at a private firm.
Unfortunately one of my few full trial jury experiences included watching a Philadelphia ADA do some very bad lawyering.* Or at least in my view in a legal sense. And I’m pretty sure his boss came into the room during at least part of the trial to see what he was doing.
* - The defense lawyers were no gems either. Both sides got sidebarred by the judge at least once regarding how to conduct proceedings and making statements that were immediately objected to. Typical BS stuff trying to sway the jury emotionally.
re: #114 BeachDem
But hey, Tim’s new mask has the flag AND God Bless, so what more does anyone want?
he should wear that while walking up to the police during a protest and see how that works out for him
re: #117 retired cynic
Why a GOP Convention in Jacksonville Could Be a Disaster
The decision to move the event from Charlotte has the makings of a political debacle and a health crisis. by Martin Longman, Wash. MonthlyMore thoughts. Are the same people going to be in Charlotte for meetings and votes and Jacksonville for speeches? Can’t be in two places at once.
Many of the delegates are elderly, including a lot of the Reps and Sens. Are they going to be happy cramming in for a convention like usual?
Jacksonville will have to relax its own regulations to allow for this.
too early to buy popcorn futures?
re: #116 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Interesting illustration. Is that supposed to be a painting of Lincoln on the wall there?
(Also, IIRC from reading, Grant was wearing a private’s coat with 3-star general rank markings sewn on. I bet those has a lot less brass buttons.)
Quite: this is obviously one of those “kids’ history” illustrations.
Though Lee was togged out in his fanciest dress uniform (which he had never worn before). It had been sent to him as a present by a committee of admirers in Richmond, and by the time he got to Appomattox, it was the last clean one he had left. Bet his supporters didn’t anticipate what occasion he’d be wearing it on….
Jingoistic jackass. https://t.co/ltznW35SPu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
re: #123 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And “won’t get to the finish line” is basically saying that the GOP Senate (and rest of the party) will obstruct and fight those measures every step of the way.
or to say it plainly, ‘we don’t want those things’
Hey conservatives? I’m pretty sure nobody’s ever going to be able to erase the Civil War and the Confederacy traitor state from history, even if they wanted to.
But you do you, ya whiny racist snowflakes.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg
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“…history of Winning”. Didn’t those Confeds lose?
(1) From Politico - this is amazing. If you’re not following what’s going on with General Flynn, Judge Sullivan & Judge Gleeson, you should start:
“A former judge selected to advise on a path forward in the criminal case against Michael Flynn is accusing the Justice Department— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 10, 2020
re: #119 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And you don’t have to stick to Civil War heroes. World War 1 is over a 100 years over, and World War II nearly 75 years past. Plenty of heroes there to use as names, even if you’re trying to match the heroes’ home state to where the base is located; e.g. finding a Georgian to use to replace the name for Fort Benning.
Max Cleland, if the person can still be alive
One thing’s guaranteed: Donald Trump knows almost nothing about the Civil War or the Confederacy. All he knows is that the rubes he’s conning love it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
I watched Gone with the Wind a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, and it stank. It’s not a good movie and I’ve never understood why it has a reputation as a great film. Boring as hell, except when the Confederate Army sets fire to Atlanta and leaves.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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O_o
When asked whether Pres Trump believes black people and people of color are treated unfairly by the police, @PressSec said, “Stop vilifying our officers.”
Facts speak: Black men and boys are almost two-and-a-half times more likely to be killed by police than white men and boys.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 10, 2020
Respect our Military!
…even when they’re tear gassing you in the streets for doing nothing wrong…
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re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth
Christ what an airhead. It’s always black and white with these morons.
You can take issue with police conduct WITHOUT vilifying cops.
re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg
Christ what an airhead. It’s always black and white with these morons.
You can take issue with police conduct WITHOUT vilifying cops.
Holding cops accountable for when they engage in criminal acts is law and order. Otherwise, cops are just an organized gang with authority to kill anyone they deem fit and claim immunity under the law to justify it.
Also, “History of Winning”? Outside of the first Gulf War, it’s tough to say we’ve won many conflicts of the last 60 or so years (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq…not much winning).
re: #148 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, “History of Winning”? Outside of the first Gulf War, it’s tough to say we’ve won many conflicts of the last 60 or so years (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq…not much winning).
We didn’t win Korea. Didn’t lose either but that war is still technically going on. It’s just been an armistice that’s held formally since Ike.
re: #141 Charles Johnson
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I watched Gone with the Wind a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, and it stank. It’s not a good movie and I’ve never understood why it has a reputation as a great film. Boring as hell, except when the Confederate Army sets fire to Atlanta and leaves.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
JFC
In her final comments before departing daily briefing, @PressSec reads from prepared news clips to compare Joe Biden to Confederate generals and segregationists. “Should we then rename the Biden Welcome Center?” she asks.
— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) June 10, 2020
re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg
Christ what an airhead. It’s always black and white with these morons.
You can take issue with police conduct WITHOUT vilifying cops.
But they also like the status quo a lot just as it is now.
(spit)
re: #142 Eventual Carrion
Well Tim, it’s much easier to see many things once you pull your head out of
yourmitch’s and/or trump’s ass.
re: #141 Charles Johnson
I had to watch Gone With the Wind years and years ago in a film study class and frankly, I didn’t like it. Excessively melodramatic. Granted, the “burning of Atlanta” scene was well-done (and damn dangerous to pull off), but that’s really about it.
re: #154 Dr Lizardo
I had to watch Gone With the Wind years and years ago in a film study class and frankly, I didn’t like it. Excessively melodramatic. Granted, the “burning of Atlanta” scene was well-done (and damn dangerous to pull off), but that’s really about it.
I shall always be overly fond of the horse carriage driving in front of the flames
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #118 Teukka
So, just watched this… What do you think?
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Okay, the minute he got to “Karens” and stepped around the definition of the slang that specifically was about white women abused privilege I started getting skeptical.
But going farther…bullshit.
Comparing restrictions based on pandemic conditions to restrictions based on national security of the post-9/11 era is flawed. The further declaration that our “obedience because it makes us feel safe” is the same under those two conditions, and “bad” is flawed. Specifically honing in on the idea that ruling about essential/nonessential businesses being forced closed is tyranny, and that George Floyd’s status as an unemployed non-essential worker somehow contributed to his death is disgusting. The tacked-on idea that this upheaval is the product of COVID rather than the endpoint of decades of bullshit is wretched. The further attempt to both-sides an authoritarian state versus rioters is the ultimately mealy-mouth simpering about only getting change the right way that caused no inconvenience…which dovetails well with the message that we must take “risks” (return to the status quo in spite of coronavirus) to be free and to return to a society.
The way that it ducks around anti-black racism in the US and how that’s THE obstacle to everyone just trusting one another feels downright Procrustean. This isn’t a video about the world, it’s fitting what’s happening into the author’s worldview so that what makes him comfortable is what’s right and good.
ETA:
Hey, chances are pretty good it’s a Randroid channel, if you look at the other stuff it puts up and the endless anti-leftist comments that specifically see the tyranny referenced in the video as Cultural Marxists and political correctness, with no reference to the reactionary political project actual the problems right now.
re: #154 Dr Lizardo
I have watched it too and except for that shot (crane shot?) of wounded in Atlanta I did not think too much of it. Now the back stories of how it was made and all of the things that went on behind the scenes might be interesting.
re: #146 Allow me to light that for you…
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re: #158 PhillyPretzel
I have watched it too and except for that shot (crane shot?) of wounded in Atlanta I did not think too much of it. Now the back stories of how it was made and all of the things that went on behind the scenes might be interesting.
I recall seeing in the Eastman House in Rochester, NY they had a on-going display that was filmed screen tests for various actors and actresses for some of the GWTW roles.
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC
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— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 26, 2020
The only reason to watch the film is to use it as a starting point for all of the confederate myths. But I also like to think that Scarlet represents the South and Rhett represents the North.
re: #158 PhillyPretzel
I have watched it too and except for that shot (crane shot?) of wounded in Atlanta I did not think too much of it. Now the back stories of how it was made and all of the things that went on behind the scenes might be interesting.
That actually would be interesting as hell to see. I’d watch that, because I’ve always enjoyed the technical aspects of film making.
re: #110 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I imagine the Union veterans of the Civil War would’ve felt highly disrespected that these bases were named after the traitors they defeated.
Union veterans hated any monuments to the South. The Grand Army of the Republic spoke out against it loudly.
“We reiterate that we are opposed to the erection of monuments by the great or small upon the battlefields of Gettysburg or any other place that will in the slightest degree make glorious the deeds of those who trampled under foot the national ensign. We believe in making treason odious.”
re: #163 Belafon
The only reason to watch the film is to use it as a starting point for all of the confederate myths. But I also like to think that Scarlet represents the South and Rhett represents the North.
More like Scarlett was the romantic past of The South, with it’s stubborn determination to adhere to the past and Rhett a more realistic and adapting part that would cooperate with the new forces in the region. But if it came down to it, still act to maintain what was determined to be the proper social order.
I guess CNN is not going to apologize.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 10, 2020
re: #163 Belafon
The only reason to watch the film is to use it as a starting point for all of the confederate myths. But I also like to think that Scarlet represents the South and Rhett represents the North.
Which is also part of the confederate myth. There was a whole genre of literature featuring romances between southern women and northern men that symbolized the reunion of north and south and most importantly moving on.
re: #168 BeachDem
I guess CNN is not going to apologize.
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re: #168 BeachDem
I guess CNN is not going to apologize.
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— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) June 10, 2020
re: #159 Teddy’s Person
Every thread is better with a little Cooper!
Thank you! I saw the responses and thought a picture or two a day would be enjoyed. We can all certainly use a smile and a laugh.
He screws with me. It’s ALL a big game.
Very smart and very energetic.
Hard to run his puppy meter down.
Loves the water and rain.
re: #168 BeachDem
I guess CNN is not going to apologize.
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a long way to say ‘fuck no’
throw every christopher columbus statue in the ocean and let that dizzy bitch think he discovered atlantis
— ziwe (@ziwe) June 10, 2020
God, I fucking hate “Gone with the Wind” and have since I was in single digits.
I’ve mentioned him before, and it’s where I originally heard of the Grand Army of the Republic’s statement against Confederate monuments, Youtube channel Atun-Shei Films has some extremely informative and entertaining videos about the Civil War (and other eras of history as well). I highly recommend them. His video on Nazi Archaeology is also one I highly recommend.
His Recent Confederate Monuments Video
The Lost Cause Myth
And an almost RedLetterMedia style teardown of the Movie Gods and Generals as the horrible Neo Confederate Propaganda that it is.
re: #171 Teukka
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Does he take the law into his own hands?
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re: #178 Jay C
CNN’s lawyer is named David Vigilante?
Does he take the law into his own hands?
Just watches carefully.
Do you want to tell her or should I? 😬 pic.twitter.com/bXtgS4DmIM
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 10, 2020
George Floyd’s brother Philonise says he lives in fear of being targeted by police: “Every day I walk around, I ask myself, ‘Am I next? Am I next?’ all the time…Just a black man trying to go to work every day and get home safely” https://t.co/bcSZeCE63F pic.twitter.com/p0ZhRfEr72
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 10, 2020
re: #178 Jay C
CNN’s lawyer is named David Vigilante?
Does he take the law into his own hands?
re: #180 Decatur Deb
Just watches carefully.
Over/Under on the head of CNN’s legal department getting the Trump letter, getting a very mischievous smile on his face, calling David on the intercom and going “Yo Dave, I have something I need you to write”?
re: #179 Decatur Deb
They should not rename Ft. Hood. He was such a fuckup he materially advanced the Union victory.
As did Bragg.
re: #176 The Ghost of a Flea
God, I fucking hate “Gone with the Wind” and have since I was in single digits.
If we lose GWTW, our children will never understand the genius of Carol Burnett.
Interesting stuff popping up in the press here in Sweden re: Palme investigation…
Stig Engström worked in the same building as a right-wing “stay behind” paramilitary organization…
Hearing some people I know are conservatives at work, and one of them said “Racism is part of the human condition.”
re: #148 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, “History of Winning”? Outside of the first Gulf War, it’s tough to say we’ve won many conflicts of the last 60 or so years (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq…not much winning).
Grenada!! We sure showed them…
no one is suggesting the forts are somehow inherently racist kayleigh
just your boss https://t.co/7QDRPcSuxK— darth™ (@darth) June 10, 2020
re: #185 Decatur Deb
If we lose GWTW, our children will never understand the genius of Carol Burnett.
Not to worry:
“Gone With the Wind” zipped to the top of Amazon’s best-sellers sales chart for TV and movies, a day after WarnerMedia’s HBO Max pulled the movie for “racist depictions.”
Amazon bases its rankings on sales data. The site currently offers the 70th anniversary two-disc DVD edition of “Gone With the Wind” starting at $29.55, while Amazon Video offers the movie as a digital HD rental at $3.99 and for purchase at $9.99.
Meanwhile, on Apple’s iTunes movie chart for the U.S., “Gone With the Wind” on Wednesday was in the No. 5 spot.
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I don’t think Kayleigh knows the GI names for these installations. My last post, for instance was Mother Rucker”.
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
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OFFS this is a baby step and they can’t even do this. You could rename the forts after decorated heroes of other wars. But nah gotta pander.
re: #188 Belafon
Hearing some people I know are conservatives at work, and one of them said “Racism is part of the human condition.”
Fear of others is probably part of the human conditions. A few thousand/million years of evolution where food was scarce and competition high probably contributed to that. And then layer on a few thousand years of human history where the same instincts for resources drove civilizations to conquer others didn’t help any. But racism in the modern sense (let’s say post-1500 CE) is something different. At that point, it’s a power structure created and enforced by regional powers to consolidate and expand their power.
re: #188 Belafon
Hearing some people I know are conservatives at work, and one of them said “Racism is part of the human condition.”
So is the clap.
good fucking grief
Mike Johnson suggests an activities night:
“invite one black church and one white church … let em get to know each-other”
pic.twitter.com/ufze62oEE3— Brennan Murphy (@brenonade) June 10, 2020
I find it amazing that despite all available evidence to the contrary — and despite the testimony of black people in their own party, white Republicans continue to insist that they are the authority on whether something they would never experience exists. https://t.co/xdbA6puNWn
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 10, 2020
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
And they are not wearing masks. So there are quite a few things they do not believe.
“Even worse were those occasions when ICE conducted an arrest in the courthouse itself, resulting in ‘complete chaos,’ … (testimony of a Brooklyn assistant district attorney), as well as physical damage.”
Read the full, blistering opinion here: https://t.co/4HY8PAJ64o pic.twitter.com/jclicVGGBV— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) June 10, 2020
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
“the last bit of American (blank) they (blank) before they went overseas and lost their lives”
Fill in whatever you need to make use of American war dead.
re: #197 KGxvi
At least there’s penicillin for the clap.
K-pop isn’t the only thing that came from Itaewon.
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hey, Dan: Because of our current policy, someone got murdered.
Someone needs to send to Johnson that tweet thread about black involvement in their communities.
Why we fight pic.twitter.com/jTU9SuI9Z7
— Duffel Blog (@DuffelBlog) June 10, 2020
re: #174 Allow me to light that for you…
throw every christopher columbus statue in the ocean and let that dizzy bitch think he discovered atlantis
— ziwe (@ziwe) June 10, 2020
The big irony about Columbus is that he was so stupidly, stubbornly wrong in his initial assumption, that Japan lay within practical sailing distance westward. The “learned men” who advised against the trip were exactly right. They knew the Earth was round, they knew how big it was and they knew the approximate distance to Japan. This was all common knowledge among educated Europeans. Thanks to accounts from Marco Polo and lesser known travelers, they knew that Japan lay in the ocean not too far eastward of China. I suspect that the absurd “flat Earth” myth was invented specifically to make him less of a fool so he could be glorified as a needed hero.
If the un-suspected continent had not intervened, Columbus would have sailed off into the setting sun never to be seen again. He would be remembered, if at all, as an arrogant numbskull who ignored science and took a hundred men and 3 ships with him when he committed suicide.
re: #66 I Would Prefer Not To
I’ve known some very liberal ADAs (in NYC). It’s a stepping stone. Think going into politics latter. You can say you were a crime fighter. JFK jr, for example.
He’s alive, you know. Q said so. 👀
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ve been thinking about the whole “who will protect us if not the police” argument and the more I think about it, the more I have come to the conclusion that the police don’t really stop crime.
Like, yes, there are situations where they do. But those usually involve investigations of ongoing crimes and undercover/sting operations. But the typical cop that most people think of (blue uniform, driving around in a car, wearing a badge, carrying a gun), they don’t really stop crime. They are more a reactionary force.
Outside of the instance where, for example, a dude decides to rob a liquor store, walks in with a gun in his waist band and sees a cop getting a cup of coffee and then decides not to go through with it, a beat cop isn’t stopping a lot of crime. And even in that example, he’s probably completely unaware that he “stopped a crime.”
More often, what the police do is show up after a crime has happened, take a report, and (depending on how big the crime was) do some investigating. But if it was a case of someone breaking your car window in the middle of the night and rummaging for change, chances are, that report is going to go into a file and nothing will come of it. Same, most likely, if your house is broken into and you don’t have some sort of video security system in place.
re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
The White House Bill? Really?
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Before someone gets hurt”. Yes. He really said that to George Floyd’s brother.
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) June 10, 2020
re: #209 Decatur Deb
Damn, that was fast…and brilliant.
A slightly larger font would be an improvement
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief
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I still can’t figure out what the point was of Bongino testifying. What particular insight was he supposed to bring to the party?
re: #214 BeachDem
I still can’t figure out what the point was of Bongino
testifying. What particular insight was he supposed to bring to the party?
I don’t either.
Blazing Saddles was anti racism. You must have missed that part. https://t.co/75YBHUMKbX
— The Captain’s carpenter. (@OldManNamedFudo) June 10, 2020
re: #210 KGxvi
The same people who say we need the police are also the same people who claim they stockpile guns because they don’t rely on the police to protect them.
re: #31 retired cynic
She’s on the religious nut job circuit; fellow at Liberty University center for something or other. I’d bet dominionist.
She was babbling about “social Marxism.” I have my suspicions, which I couldn’t confirm with a quick search of Google. However, if I was a betting woman, I would say that she goes to a Reformed Baptist church of some sort where many of the members used to go to a Southern Baptist church, but left because they believe that the SBC is pushing Marxism. I’m probably wrong, but if someone finds out what church she attends, I’d like to see how close to right I am.
ETA: if Ellis is one of these types (or pretty much any Evangelical), she likely thinks Bishop Budde really isn’t a Christian. Yeah, seriously.
Churchill fought AGAINST fascists.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 10, 2020
re: #207 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The big irony about Columbus is that he was so stupidly, stubbornly wrong in his initial assumption, that Japan lay within practical sailing distance westward. The “learned men” who advised against the trip were exactly right. They knew the Earth was round, they knew how big it was and they knew the approximate distance to Japan. This was all common knowledge among educated Europeans. Thanks to accounts from Marco Polo and lesser known travelers, they knew that Japan lay in the ocean not too far eastward of China. I suspect that the absurd “flat Earth” myth was invented specifically to make him less of a fool so he could be glorified as a needed hero.
If the unknown continent had not intervened, Columbus would have sailed off into the setting sun never to be seen again. He would be remembered, if at all, as an arrogant numbskull who ignored science took a hundred men and 3 ships with him when he committed suicide.
I might be misremembering this, or misinterpreting some of the myth around Columbus, but weren’t his crews close to mutiny when they stumbled upon the Bahamas?
gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Trump: “We are doing well in so many ways. You see what’s going on with NASDAQ.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 10, 2020
re: #217 GlutenFreeJesus
The same people who say we need the police are also the same people who claim they stockpile guns because they don’t rely on the police to protect them.
Like rain on your wedding day, or 10,000 forks when all you need is a spoon.
re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They ain’t even removing it. They’re just putting historical context in it. It amazes me that so many people want to act like a movie made 74 years after Appamatox isn’t racist. I still remember how much they hated 12 Years a Slave and that was actually based on a memoir rather than a person born after the war romanticizing the old ways.
re: #210 KGxvi
Their use in preventing a crime is that there will be someone to arrest you if you are caught doing it.
re: #214 BeachDem
I still can’t figure out what the point was of Bongino
testifying. What particular insight was he supposed to bring to the party?
He was the GOP’s “Look, not all black men think we need to do anything.”
re: #220 KGxvi
I might be misremembering this, or misinterpreting some of the myth around Columbus, but weren’t his crews close to mutiny when they stumbled upon the Bahamas?
Pretty much, yes. At that point, they probably could not have survived the return voyage without replenishing their fresh water.
re: #219 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Our first century had a civil war. Those generals renounced the US. They didn’t want to be Americans. Why honor them? Honor men and women who were devoted to their country.
re: #214 BeachDem
I still can’t figure out what the point was of Bongino
testifying. What particular insight was he supposed to bring to the party?
He’s been arrested a lot and most people want to beat him up?
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re: #141 Charles Johnson
The only reason why “Gone with the Wind” is even remotely rated as any kind of film was the fact of the at-the-time considered obscene:
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn!
White supremacist harasses an Asian man and gets knocked the fuck out. You hate to see it. pic.twitter.com/QOIG551tjZ
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) June 10, 2020
.@PressSec on Trump tweet about 75-yo protester: “It’s not a baseless conspiracy theory”
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 10, 2020
“How does that work in terms of physics?” @jeffmason1 asks McEnany about Trump’s tweet that the Buffalo man “fell harder than he was pushed” by police.
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) June 10, 2020
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
That was perfect. The Nazi got what he and all of them deserve.
Rich people pay FOX people to make Middle Class prople blame Poor people. https://t.co/rBkZ4zerC9
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 10, 2020
TRUMP SIDES W/ THE CONFEDERACY pic.twitter.com/BCdx68tWPh
— revolυтιon ιѕ υpon υѕ! (@DumpTrump202012) June 10, 2020
re: #197 KGxvi
At least there’s penicillin for the clap.
Only if you are lucky to have been infected with a non-resistant strain.
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A bullseye on his back? He says the same lame shit every night.
President Trump says his first rally since March 2nd will be in Tulsa, Oklahoma next Friday.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 10, 2020
re: #220 KGxvi
I might be misremembering this, or misinterpreting some of the myth around Columbus, but weren’t his crews close to mutiny when they stumbled upon the Bahamas?
I read recently but can’t remember where so I may also be misremembering (it was probably something I stumbled across while trying to keep my course material fresh).
There was a cash prize for the crew member who first spotted land. Someone did and Columbus took the credit and the cash. If true, I suspect ole Chris wasn’t too popular.
re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Is he, or anybody on his staff, well-read enough to understand the symbolism of choosing that particular venue?
This is why aliens refuse to visit our planet. pic.twitter.com/J2Uda0fZcA
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) June 10, 2020
re: #241 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Good! I don’t want him to visit PA.
Blink, blink, blink… whut???
NASCAR prohibits the confederate flag at future events. https://t.co/Tuw8BRbFth
— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) June 10, 2020
re: #242 sagehen
Is he, or anybody on his staff, well-read enough to understand the symbolism of choosing that particular venue?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAA
re: #245 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Good luck NASCAR enforcing that….
(How the ever-loving fuck did we make driving nothing but left-hand turns in anything BUT a real off-the-lot car a fucking sport? NASCAR should be sued out of existence for fraud)
re: #233 (((Archangel1)))
New polls showing Texas and Iowa now tied.
Good, but not great.Texas going blue would be excellent.
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I’m gonna disagree. Texas being tied is awesome. The GOP will have to blow a crapload of money here, because they’re not going to get any of the urban areas, they pissed of the suburbs, which means they’re going to have to reach into the backwoods to get voters to vote.
Texas going blue might cause my head to explode.
re: #168 BeachDem
I guess CNN is not going to apologize.
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Did you see the name of the lawyer? It’s so appropriate: “David C. Vigilante.”
re: #241 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Of course he goes to a very Republican state and area.
Ah, he probably wants to commemorate the Tulsa Riot Massacre because of his total admiration and understanding of the black experience. Will say something like, “Not many people know this, but there was once another Wall Street, and had I been president at the time, it would have done very, very well and black people would have been even better off than they are today here in Tulsa.”
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re: #233 (((Archangel1)))
New polls showing Texas and Iowa now tied.
Good, but not great.Texas going blue would be excellent.
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So my quick and dirty scratch calculation is that Biden needs one of the barely-dem states in that map (the blue-bordered states) to win. I’m… nervous about that for a lot of specific reasons. It’s definitely a dominant position.
In general though, it’s back to “Trump has to run the table” - but that’s what I said just before election night 2016, and that makes me want to go puke.
re: #117 retired cynic
I’m all for it. Pack em in. The more the merrier, the older the better, and please God, be really rich.
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 10, 2020
re: #219 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Their statues should be torn down and pissed on by every American. They levyed war against the United States. That is treason. They should have all been hung not glorified with statues.
US Constitution
Article III
Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
I pretty much think this every time someone says the GOP is finally finished, or Bob Cesca says “Trump always makes things worse for Trump” on his podcast:
re: #253 NetworkKed
So my quick and dirty scratch calculation is that Biden needs one of the barely-dem states in that map (the blue-bordered states) to win. I’m… nervous about that for a lot of specific reasons. It’s definitely a dominant position.
In general though, it’s back to “Trump has to run the table” - but that’s what I said just before election night 2016, and that makes me want to go puke.
2016 was the convergence of every possible bad outcome, including a target that had been harrassed for 30+ years.
re: #251 BeachDem
Ah, he probably wants to commemorate the Tulsa Riot Massacre because of his total admiration and understanding of the black experience. Will say something like, “Not many people know this, but there was once another Wall Street, and had I been president at the time, it would have done very, very well and black people would have been even better off than they are today here in Tulsa.”
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re: #258 Belafon
2016 was the convergence of every possible bad outcome, including a target that had been harrassed for 30+ years.
He actually has to defend his record now.
re: #233 (((Archangel1)))
New polls showing Texas and Iowa now tied.
Good, but not great.Texas going blue would be excellent.
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I can live with Biden winning PA and either WI or MI, since that’s what fucked HRC over last time.
Meanwhile in Fort Trump… #BunkerBoy plans his next tweet attack pic.twitter.com/Cyq98Z0Gb9
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) June 10, 2020
Lre: #261 Mattand
I can live with Biden winning PA and either WI or MI, since that’s what fucked HRC over last time.
I think he wins all three.
The thing about Ted Cruz is he’s not actually nearly this stupid, but he’s just dumb enough to think that acting this stupid is smart https://t.co/dJlhAwvP86
— flavortown alderman (@jesseltaylor) June 10, 2020
re: #263 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Fort Trump, yuck.
After Trump is booted out of the people’s house, will there be the concerted effort by Republicans to rename shit after him like they did with Reagan?
re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth
Good idea, Ted. I will make sure that Congress passes no law…
Someone stole his ravioli. https://t.co/5XGZq5rgyu
— Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) June 10, 2020
re: #217 GlutenFreeJesus
The same people who say we need the police are also the same people who claim they stockpile guns because they don’t rely on the police to protect them.
Or think the police are incapable of protecting them.
Basically Schrödinger’s Cop.
The next Trump rally is going to be a whole new level of insane, y’all.
re: #270 Eclectic Cyborg
The next Trump rally is going to be a whole new level of insane, y’all.
I’m gonna start a GoFundMe to build a wall along the Red River.
re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth
Waiting for Ted to demand that Liberty University allow pro LGBT groups on their campus. But he won’t. He’s a dishonest fucker who uses pop culture that he never watches to try to act like he’s hip when he’s really a puritanical dickhead.
“Let’s go! We’re done! Press! Let’s go!” — get a load of this White House official *screaming* at reporters to leave the room at end of Trump’s event pic.twitter.com/4AI1ROCB92
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 10, 2020
NASCAR just banned the Stars and Bars.
Maybe Jesus is coming back…..
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
Another day, another tantrum. We live in a country with a free press, you safe space babies who can’t handle the orange shithead being questioned.
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) June 10, 2020
The American Academy of Ophthalmology releases statement about the use of rubber bullets.
Money quote:
While classified as non-lethal, they are not non-blinding.
re: #264 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Lre: #261 Mattand
I can live with Biden winning PA and either WI or MI, since that’s what fucked HRC over last time.
I think he wins all three.
Love to see it, but just off the top of my head (or out of the other end), I think Joe can “afford” to lose either WI or MI* - I beleieve the put-him-over-the-top state is going to be Florida, though (fuckin’ AGAIN!) - and I think NC is going to go blue, as are AZ, NV and IA. TX is sadly out of reach, IMO (as is GA): but the real surprise on that map is OH. Biden gets Ohio, it’s Game Over….
* though I think he’ll win both.
re: #275 Dave In Austin
NASCAR just banned the Stars and Bars.
Maybe Jesus is coming back…..
I Still don’t understand how they can call themselves NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) and run cars that are anything but stock.
re: #268 gocart mozart
The comments are tearful 😂😂😂
William Barr’s Potemkin Efforts to Deal with Police Violence
He wants “voluntarily” reforms to avoid offending the cops. by Nancy LeTourneau June 9, 2020
Oddly enough, Barr lies about the Harvard 2009 study on “Policing Los Angeles Under a Consent Decree” to say that it says the opposite of what it says.
Funny man. spit
Just filed: A lawsuit challenging the Trump admin’s decision to fence off large areas around the White House from protesters and deploy resources to “dominate” the spaces (i.e. military vehicles), arguing it’s an unconstitutional prior restraint of speech https://t.co/QAjjIy6keB pic.twitter.com/YvMYddXlfU
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) June 10, 2020
BREAKING: Atlanta police say two more police officers have been fired after two students were pulled from a car during a protest against police brutality, Four officers have now been fired over the incident. They and two others face criminal charges. https://t.co/jZtmczP06o
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 10, 2020
Trump’s next Corona virus cure.
In addition to recommending a number of gemstone amulets against the plague, he [Issac Newton] gave detailed instructions on how to make the putrid toad-vomit treatment, according to two unpublished pages handwritten by Newton that are now on the auction block.
Newton describes in detail how to suspend a toad by its legs in a chimney for three days, until it vomits up “earth with various insects in it.” This vomit must be caught on “a dish of yellow wax,” he added. Source: Live Science
re: #285 Teddy’s Person
That sounds like something DT would go for.
re: #279 Jay C
Love to see it, but just off the top of my head (or out of the other end), I think Joe can “afford” to lose either WI or MI* - I beleieve the put-him-over-the-top state is going to be Florida, though (fuckin’ AGAIN!) - and I think NC is going to go blue, as are AZ, NV and IA. TX is sadly out of reach, IMO (as is GA): but the real surprise on that map is OH. Biden gets Ohio, it’s Game Over….
* though I think he’ll win both.
I’m not too surprised about Ohio tbh.
re: #251 BeachDem
Ah, he probably wants to commemorate the Tulsa Riot Massacre because of his total admiration and understanding of the black experience. Will say something like, “Not many people know this, but there was once another Wall Street, and had I been president at the time, it would have done very, very well and black people would have been even better off than they are today here in Tulsa.”
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it’s even worse
Trump’s first rally in months in Oklahoma is being held on Juneteenth, a day that celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S.
— Nancy Cook (@nancook) June 10, 2020
About damn time. pic.twitter.com/oK2x837d8T
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) June 10, 2020
re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s even worse
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1:1 odds he claims he’s done more than anyone since Lincoln who a lot of people don’t know was a Republican.
We remember Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, who died heroically #OTD 11 years ago, protecting Museum visitors and staff. His memory occupies a permanent place in our hearts. https://t.co/5vPBzvbAUg
— US Holocaust Museum (@HolocaustMuseum) June 10, 2020
re: #280 Eric The Fruit Bat
I Still don’t understand how they can call themselves NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) and run cars that are anything but stock.
Well, it actually started as legit stock car racing. In fact, in the early days, some of the competitors would drive to the racetrack and back in the exact same vehicle they’d race in.
As the years passed, the race cars got faster and more advanced and no longer “anything but stock” but since the name was already so well known, it continued to be referred to as NASCAR.
I’ve been working on this poem for a while. I call it …
The Confederacy
L— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
[ stunned pause, followed by the sound of frenetic finger-snapping… ]
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
News: @SpeakerPelosi calls for all statues of Confederate soldiers and officials to be removed from the U.S. Capitol.
— Taylor Griffin (@Tay_Griffin14) June 10, 2020
Local Covid-19 update: the number of ICU cases has slowly declined, along with a slow hospitalization numbers.
HOWEVER, the % testing positive appears to have reached some sort of local minima last week, and indications are that the percentage testing positive is beginning to increase again.
Given what is going on elsewhere, I think it is obvious that shut-downs really did slow the spread. Now with everyone thinking the pandemic is past, we’re going to really see a surge in cases.
What’s the real story with @Mike_Pence ??? @VP
with @LincolnsBible @CaslerNoel pic.twitter.com/iWs38DZjZ4— John Melendez (@stutteringjohnm) June 10, 2020
This you? pic.twitter.com/6edIW9EdWk
— Bespoke Named J.J. (@J_Dot_J) June 10, 2020
re: #294 jaunte
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If your state can’t find better people than Confederate generals to represent your state, you’re doing it wrong. True fact, the CSA has more representation in the busts than women do.
Observation: the local San Diego county websites are rejecting my VPN. They didn’t used to do this, it started a couple of weeks ago.
I wonder if the Registrar sent out a warning about vulnerability of data systems to attacks? If it’s not about fears over security, I don’t know what it could be.
re: #300 Ace Rothstein
Still alive? What happened?
I just read a previous post. I hope you make a complete recovery.
Wow 😳 & thank you. pic.twitter.com/lLkDrHsnxO
— Laurence T 💙 (@laurence8645) June 10, 2020
The US flag bore 33 stars, one for each state, at the start of the Civil War. 35 by the end
*L*— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 10, 2020
re: #303 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Can’t expect Vlad’s warriors to know our history.
re: #298 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
If your state can’t find better people than Confederate generals to represent your state, you’re doing it wrong. True fact, the CSA has more representation in the busts than women do.
Not far from me is the Jefferson Davis Manor and Presidential Library. JD was of course the first and only President of the CSA.
The JD Library is not an official Presidential Library and is not administered by the same group who handles the Libraries of legitimate American Presidents. Instead, the JD Library is supported mostly by donations.
I’ve visited the Manor before (it was free at the time so why not?) and it’s interesting from an architectural and historical perspective, but I don’t really care about the Library.
I’m wondering if there might be a push around here to close it down or change it given all that’s been happening, but then again, the fight has been going on for years to get the Confederate Flag off the MS state flag without success, so I’m not holding my breath.
re: #301 PhillyPretzel
From a couple of threads ago.
re: #114 Ace Rothstein
Fellow Lizards, I am in the ER. Early this morning I woke up in a cold sweat, with dizziness and nausea. The worst is I can’t keep my balance. Had a scan done and I have an aneurysm, and had two mini strokes last night. Heartbeats was also at 38. I feel fine now but I can’t walk without falling over. I’m having surgery in the morning to repair the vessel. They’re running a line up my leg and installing a clip (like a stint for an artery.) Procedure takes about an hour. If all goes well I should be able to get my walking back. My understanding is this area of the brain controls the right side of my body. Also, I can lift, stretch , and push with power from all my limbs. I’ll be up all night reading, I’m bored AF.
That said, FUCK TRUMP!
re: #305 Eclectic Cyborg
Not far from me is the Jefferson Davis Manor and Presidential Library. JD was of course the first and only President of the CSA.
The JD Library is not an official Presidential Library and is not administered by the same group who handles the Libraries of legitimate American Presidents. Instead, the JD Library is supported mostly by donations.
I’ve visited the Manor before (it was free at the time so why not?) and it’s interesting from an architectural and historical perspective, but I don’t really care about the Library.
I’m wondering if there might be a push around here to close it down or change it given all that’s been happening, but then again, the fight has been going on for years to get the Confederate Flag off the MS state flag without success, so I’m not holding my breath.
I don’t think it should be closed down but it should definitely talk about what Davis did dishonored the oath he swore as a US Army officer.
re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth
Tulsa? Really? OFFS, the racial history of that city, plus all that’s happening with confronting racism and protests and police brutality and then you add Trump and a speech/rally/wtf and it couldn’t get more tone deaf, to put it mildly. God the racists will be out in droves.
From the gym with the racist workout.
NEWSER) - A Wisconsin gym has apologized for an “I Can’t Breathe” workout that was apparently well-intentioned—but staggeringly misguided. Photos shared on social media show a whiteboard at the Wauwatosa branch of Anytime Fitness with a drawing of a kneeling black figure, the words “I Can’t Breathe” and “Don’t You Dare Lay Down,” and a list of exercises. Co-owner Jen Dunnington tells TMZ that she “deeply apologizes” to the many people offended by the sign. She says a trainer intended to “honor” George Floyd, who repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe as a police officer knelt on his neck for more than 8 minutes. She says the exercises were meant to “be a workout so hard that we felt what he felt.”
Corporate management issued a statement saying they were “shocked and devastated to see that one of our franchise locations chose to offer an ‘I Can’t Breathe’ workout.” They said they are sharing the incident with franchise owners worldwide as “an example of what not to do.” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel notes that “I Can’t Breathe” has been chanted at protests worldwide over Floyd’s death, including one involving hundreds of demonstrators in Wauwatosa days before the workout sign went up.
She’s not making it better.
I see the excuses made that states mattered more than the country in 1861. Every state and territory sent volunteers to protect the Union. And the CSA repressed secession within its borders too.
Study suggests that routine face mask use by 50% or more of the population reduced COVID19 spread to an R of less than 1.0. Other studies have generated similar estimates. More widespread masking with higher quality masks could help mitigate a second wave. https://t.co/tIqQJfXNV8
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 10, 2020
re: #312 Dread Pirate
And that’s why I’m keeping my fucking mask on, unlike 80% of the people I see at Wal-Mart.
re: #312 Dread Pirate
I certainly hope so. I always wear my mask when I go out.
So Bunker Baby is firing up his hate rallies in Oklahoma, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, starting next week.
The Typhoid Trump US Tour 2020.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
re: #315 Charles Johnson
Expect no mention of the Tusla riots that left 100s of African Americans lynched by whites who destroyed what was known as Black Wall Street. But he’ll pander to the white nationalists that are his base and who he encourages to act on impules.https://t.co/0AC2vqw8NG
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 10, 2020
JUST IN: Mermaids Swallow Entire Town of Humans https://t.co/ij6g5bMgMS
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) June 10, 2020
UPDATE: This AM, I reported @PapaJohns was still advertising on Tucker Carlson
It sent me a statement last nite indicating it had no plans to stop
In a new statement, sent to me moments ago, the company said it will no longer advertise on Tucker Carlsonhttps://t.co/bjUXjkl30U— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 10, 2020
Conservatives comparing Gone With the Wind to Blazing Saddles. “If they think GWTW is bad wait til they see Blazing Saddles! Hard de har har!”
Somehow they missed that Blazing Saddles is extremely anti-racism. It’s a comedy but it makes a serious point.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
They love to focus on the words but ignore the context and meaning. For some reason. [cough]
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 10, 2020
re: #317 lawhawk
He’s doing they on purpose.
re: #269 Mattand
Or think the police are incapable of protecting them.
Basically Schrödinger’s Cop.
To them the police’s job is not to harass them, but to go harass the “other” people.
re: #261 Mattand
I can live with Biden winning PA and either WI or MI, since that’s what fucked HRC over last time.
If Biden wins the HRC states, he also needs all three of these to become president. Obviously, if Biden wins Texas or Florida or other states, he doesn’t need all three of these.
re: #320 Charles Johnson
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Like when they called Obama a racist for using the n word in context. They’re disingenuous shitheads.
Because it’s a day ending in “y”, Dinesh does dimwittery:
Their real rage at Columbus is not because he was an evil man—he wasn’t—but rather because he was a white man smart enough to figure out a way to cross the ocean from Europe to America. Notice that no native Indians crossed the ocean from America to Europe https://t.co/xLAh4bTf2W
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) June 10, 2020
re: #320 Charles Johnson
Blazing Saddles was a critique of the fucking racists who now dominate the GOP.
And Mel Brooks is still alive and we can ask him about that - and he’d say as much. There’s interviews of him saying as much. He worried about how far he could go on racism, but one of his cowriters was Richard Pryor who said for him to go further. And they did.
So fuck these fuckers who are trying to equate GWIW and Blazing Saddles. If you don’t get the satire in Blazing Saddles, you’re the common clay of the West - you know - morons.
re: #320 Charles Johnson
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Next thing will be them calling The Producers pro-Nazi (because they truly don’t understand parody, or comedy, or metaphors or well, much of anything.
re: #275 Dave In Austin
NASCAR just banned the Stars and Bars.
Maybe Jesus is coming back…..
This will be interesting to see what the Facebook folk start to say about “tyranny” now. I’m sure it’ll also be lots of “my 1st Amendment rights are being trampled on!” crying as well.
And I fully expect that the number of Gadsden flags in use will multiply greatly as the fallback.
Plus wearing of Confederate battle flags on clothing, flags on cars, at houses, etc. outside of the venues where it’s been banned.
Which to a degree I find useful since it’s assholes self-identifying and thus easier to keep clear of.
Will Trump give his much talked about speech that will heal the nation’s racial issues before or after his Tulsa rally? Most likely any thought of that speech has been jettisoned down the memory hole and all West Wing focus is on the rally.
re: #327 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Because it’s a day ending in “y”, Dinesh does dimwittery:
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Yeah that’s why. Not the whole genocide thing. Dinesh is such a dimwit.
re: #280 Eric The Fruit Bat
I Still don’t understand how they can call themselves NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) and run cars that are anything but stock.
Name reflecting their roots and not what they’ve evolved into.
re: #327 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Dinesh d’felon who ignores that the Vikings already did the Americas thing centuries before Columbus stumbled upon the Caribbean (he never set foot in Continental North America!)
And he thought he landed in Asia.
re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s even worse
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If they sell plastic MAGA warbonnets, that should complete the Circle of Derp.
These two beautiful figurines of girls on a swing (AD 300-900) from Veracruz, Mexico, show us that fun and happiness are two essential elements of #childhood. Besides, these figurines are whistles, so we also have to imagine the music. #MuseumsUnlocked @MuseoMAX #Mesoamerica pic.twitter.com/GpMyRliLsv
— Liana Osorio (@LianaOsorio1) June 10, 2020
re: #280 Eric The Fruit Bat
I Still don’t understand how they can call themselves NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) and run cars that are anything but stock.
I don’t know how Ford can call a truck a Ranger that is as big as the old F150s, but here we are. :)
re: #233 (((Archangel1)))
New polls showing Texas and Iowa now tied.
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If Trump has to spend time/money in Texas, Iowa, Missouri, and even Ohio, that’s going to make it rather difficult for him to hold Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, and/or Florida.
Ronald Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign just a few miles from a horrific murder of voting rights activists with a speech about “states rights.”
Trump: Hand me my white robe. https://t.co/74nf8EA9z3— Ed Bott (@edbott) June 10, 2020
Had an anogram(?) early this morning. After getting high as fuck off the gas, they ran a line up my leg to my brain and looked around. They decided to not clip the vessel. They left it alone and there’s plenty of circulation to my brain. I had a spinal tap NOT FUN and the fluid is clear but they will look at it with a microscope to make sure there is no blood.. I’m real sore but thinking clearly and have not lost my sense of humor. The doctor in the operating room also said I will get my balance and walking ability back. I’m very lucky to be alive, and there was no way I was going to die before seeing that orange bastard lose on Nov 3.
Thanks to everyone here for the thoughts and prayers. LGF is still the greatest place on the net. Thank you Charles for running it all these years.
Peace.
Human effigy bowl. Nodena Site, Mississippi County, Arkansas. Late Mississippian. Hampson Museum State Park, Arkansas.#Archaeology #Arkansas pic.twitter.com/rgeV7CU69u
— Reid Farmer TR_Farmer_archaeology (@farmer_tr) June 10, 2020
re: #307 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I don’t think it should be closed down but it should definitely talk about what Davis did dishonored the oath he swore as a US Army officer.
Or the oath of a US Senator. Which he was at the time of secession.
re: #340 Ace Rothstein
That’s great news. Hope you have a swift recovery!
re: #340 Ace Rothstein
Awesome to see you’re doing well.
re: #332 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah that’s why. Not the whole genocide thing. Dinesh is such a dimwit.
If you read the tweet closely, Dinesh is suggesting that Columbus was smart enough to find America.
However, in reality Columbus was trying to find trade routes to the Far East.
And the only reason Columbus beat the others by a few years is because he got the Spanish crown to fund him.
And another thing: not only did Native American ancestors cross dangerous ice bridges collapsing at the end of the last glaciation, they did so without any apparent instruments.
Indeed, I think we can look back and say that Dinesh’s vaunted Christian Europe was way behind the times. Pagan vikings made it across the Atlantic. A millennium earlier Chinese sailers made it Africa. Polynesians started off somewhere around Taiwan and eventually ended up in Easter Island, and that is a long, long way.
In the end, all Dinesh has is stupid religious bigotry.
re: #342 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or the oath of a US Senator. Which he was at the time of secession.
That’s right.
re: #345 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
If you read the tweet closely, Dinesh is suggesting that Columbus was smart enough to find America.
However, in reality Columbus was trying to find trade routes to the Far East.
And the only reason Columbus beat the others by a few years is because he go the Spanish crown to fund him.
And another thing: not only did Native American ancestors cross dangerous ice bridges collapsing at the end of the last glaciation, they did so without any apparent instruments.
Indeed, I think we can look back and say that Dinesh’s vaunted Christian Europe was way behind the times. Pagan vikings made it across the Atlantic. A millennium earlier Chinese sailers made it Africa. Polynesians started off somewhere around Taiwan and eventually ended up in Easter Island, and that is a long, long way.
In the end, all Dinesh has is stupid religious bigotry.
Yeah I caught that. He’s a bigot and stupid.
re: #256 Eventual Carrion
Their statues should be torn down and pissed on by every American. They levyed war against the United States. That is treason. They should have all been hung not glorified with statues.
US Constitution
Article III
Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
This allows me to use my favorite GRRM quote from ASOIAF:
“Father had only gone out to ransom Petyr Pimple. He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway.”
“Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.”
He won this state by damn near 40 points. There isn’t even a political benefit to it. He’s just gonna risk people dying of Rona because he’s desperate to be worshipped. https://t.co/eOGKhTZ1ZY
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) June 10, 2020
just heading to his safe spaces
WATCH: “Had we already banned chokeholds, George Floyd would be alive.
“Had we already banned no-knock warrants, Breonna Taylor would be alive.
“Had we already had a federal database of misconduct [for police] … so many people would still be alive.” — @repjayapal #MTPDaily pic.twitter.com/Ib7yFvqBIH— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) June 10, 2020
JUST IN: The @courierjournal editorial board endorses @Booker4KY in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. https://t.co/DIVwWhqB2A #KYSen
— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) June 10, 2020
not a surprise
re: #243 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I, for one, am happy to see the morons branding themselves. Saves me the trouble of even attempting to communicate.
re: #351 Belafon
She needs to be holding Excalibur.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some… farcical aquatic ceremony!
re: #356 sagehen
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some… farcical aquatic ceremony!
re: #356 sagehen
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some… farcical aquatic ceremony!
We watched that last friday. My parents had not seen it. This Friday is the Princess Bride.
Re: Gone With the Wind
I saw it when in grammar school and loved it then — but that’s because it was a romance and the larger historical issues escaped my understanding. It wasn’t until becoming an adult after the VRA and CRA that I began to understand how vile the story actually was.
re: #360 Hecuba’s daughter
That is why I stated earlier I rather discuss what went on behind the scenes and how they worked with those closet sized Technicolor cameras.
jeebus
So honored by Archbishop Viganò’s incredible letter to me. I hope everyone, religious or not, reads it! https://t.co/fVhkCz89g5
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2020
re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth
the attack to which you were subjected after your visit to the National Shrine of Saint John Paul II is part of the orchestrated media narrative which seeks not to fight racism and bring social order, but to aggravate dispositions; not to bring justice, but to legitimize violence and crime; not to serve the truth, but to favor one political faction.
Love it when Republicans talk about being the party of Lincoln while defending their confederate heroes in the same day.
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) June 10, 2020
re: #340 Ace Rothstein
Had an anogram(?) early this morning. After getting high as fuck off the gas, they ran a line up my leg to my brain and looked around. They decided to not clip the vessel. They left it alone and there’s plenty of circulation to my brain. I had a spinal tap NOT FUN and the fluid is clear but they will look at it with a microscope to make sure there is no blood.. I’m real sore but thinking clearly and have not lost my sense of humor. The doctor in the operating room also said I will get my balance and walking ability back. I’m very lucky to be alive, and there was no way I was going to die before seeing that orange bastard lose on Nov 3.
Thanks to everyone here for the thoughts and prayers. LGF is still the greatest place on the net. Thank you Charles for running it all these years.
Peace.
You’ll be able to walk. Great. How about tap dancing?
re: #356 sagehen
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some… farcical aquatic ceremony!
Look, after the last three years, we should at least consider that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords might just be a better way of choosing a president than the electoral college.
Regarding Dinesh D’stupid:
Columbus was looking for a passage to the Far East to open up trade routes.
The native cultures who were already in North America realized they lived in a vast land rich with flora, fauna, minerals and other resources. They didn’t need to explore anywhere else or seek out trade because they already had plenty of anything they might need.
re: #364 DodgerFan1988
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KKK were Democrats!
Okay let’s take down that Nathan Bedford Forrest statue!
My heritage!
Y’all are fucking nuts.
heh
We remember the day Johnny Cash sang Christmas carols in Fife church after almost being killed by his pet ostrich https://t.co/dBbXZprerX pic.twitter.com/8NKZkdcNWB
— The Courier (@thecourieruk) June 10, 2020
re: #366 KGxvi
Look, after the last three years, we should at least consider that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords might just be a better way of choosing a president than the electoral college.
It’s true, strange women in ponds would have never given Trump a sword.
re: #359 Backwoods_Sleuth
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There’s “too clever by half” and then whatever the fuck it is they’re attempting here. About a million ways this can go horribly wrong, including the very real possibility of a Juneteenth Tulsa police riot at people demonstrating against Trump. Also, even if Stephen Miller manages to craft some speech diametrically opposed to his own thinking on race he’s still a shit writer and Trump will be saying words he doesn’t believe.
The degree of difficulty is just unfuckingbelievable, like me attempting to pull off a Biles II.
re: #370 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s true, strange women in ponds would have never given Trump a sword.
Oh, she might have.
Right through the liver.
Despite $2800 limit on contributions to candidates, Trump donors will contribute $580,600 to party with him tomorrow through “joint fundraising committee”—a scenario we predicted to SCOTUS in McCutcheon, which Court said was “divorced from reality.” 1/ https://t.co/b93339Ep5X
— Paul Seamus Ryan (@ThePaulSRyan) June 10, 2020
“…The event will take place at Gateway Church’s campus in North Dallas, according to an invitation obtained by The Dallas Morning News. The evangelical megachurch, led by senior pastor Robert Morris, one of Trump’s outside religious advisers, boasts weekly attendance of 30,000 at a half-dozen campuses in North Texas.
The visit comes at a moment of uncertainty over Texas’ political direction, with polls showing Trump in a fight to hang onto a state that Republicans haven’t lost since 1976.”
re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
Regarding Dinesh D’stupid:
Columbus was looking for a passage to the Far East to open up trade routes.
The native cultures who were already in North America realized they lived in a vast land rich with flora, fauna, minerals and other resources. They didn’t need to explore anywhere else or seek out trade because they already had plenty of anything they might need.
I do wonder sometimes, had Columbus sank or been strung up from a palm tree, how the Americas develop over the next century. It may well have only been a matter of time before they found their way to Asia or Europe just by following the land north.
“Under current campaign rules, any individual can give up to $580,600 to Trump Victory, a partnership between the reelection campaign, the Republican National Committee and 22 state parties.”
Just think of the return you get.
re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He’s quite the busy letter writer. per wiki:
On 7 June 2020, Viganò released a 3-page letter describing the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests stemming from the Killing of George Floyd as a Biblical struggle between “the children of light and the children of darkness.” He argues that the children of darkness are the “Invisible Enemy of all humanity.” Moreover, Viganò argues that riots are orchestrated by the children of darkness to serve the “purposes of those who would like to see someone elected in the upcoming presidential elections who embodies the goals of the deep state”. Viganò goes on to denounce Catholic Bishops who’ve expressed support for the protests, saying “They are subservient to the deep state, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing Christian about it”
I didn’t expect Trump to start promoting the Curse of Ham so soon, to be honest. (Really, this disgraced priest describes BLM protesters as the “children of darkness” and “the enemies of all humanity.” Also contains Protocols of the Elders of Zion content.)https://t.co/HuF6qh5wzI
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) June 10, 2020
Haven’t caught up, so apologies in advance if already posted.
Black people have been calling out racism for generations.
We said it calmly.
We shouted it in the streets.
We put it in writing.
We put it in our music.
In our movies and our shows.
We put it on stages.
In our art.
And you danced.
You laughed.
You clapped.
But you never heard.— Wyatt Cenac (@wyattcenac) June 10, 2020
SO GLAD YOU ARE RECOVERING ACEY!!
re: #268 gocart mozart
Seb Gorka looks like a young Wilford Brimley from an alternate timeline where the Nazis won
This is such an incredible embarrassment to every US soldier who has ever partnered with NATO and our friends in Germany. Shameful. https://t.co/uVuWu3gEsm
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) June 10, 2020
HUGE 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/IemNOVpWXS
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) June 10, 2020
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re: #370 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s true, strange women in ponds would have never given Trump a sword.
Honestly, I’ve always been partial to Lewis Black’s old idea… I just can’t find a clip to do it justice.
Remember when Vicksburg didn’t celebrate the 4th of July for 81 years because they’re sore losers? Yeah the Confederates really loved America.
— Lethality Jane (@LethalityJane) June 10, 2020
re: #340 Ace Rothstein
Had an anogram(?) early this morning. After getting high as fuck off the gas, they ran a line up my leg to my brain and looked around. They decided to not clip the vessel. They left it alone and there’s plenty of circulation to my brain. I had a spinal tap NOT FUN and the fluid is clear but they will look at it with a microscope to make sure there is no blood.. I’m real sore but thinking clearly and have not lost my sense of humor. The doctor in the operating room also said I will get my balance and walking ability back. I’m very lucky to be alive, and there was no way I was going to die before seeing that orange bastard lose on Nov 3.
Thanks to everyone here for the thoughts and prayers. LGF is still the greatest place on the net. Thank you Charles for running it all these years.
Peace.
When I had an stent installed many years ago, a nurse with an eastern European accent came in to describe what was going to happen. One of the things she said was that “we will give you something to make you feel in-different”. It was a drip rather than gas, but she sure had that right!
I hope everything continues to go well for you.
The force of evil rises. Centuries of human creation shall be buried in dust. pic.twitter.com/I4n5BuqVb3
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) June 10, 2020
How a ‘Flying Photographer’ Sees the World From Above
The perspective made George Steinmetz an “accidental environmentalist.” Atlas Obscura
AMAZING photography!!!
Sen. Duckworth discusses the Trump admin.’s use of a military helicopter to suppress protests in D.C.:
“There’s all sorts of FAA and army regulations about how to fly above crowds … Somebody gave them the order to do it and I want to know who.” https://t.co/oigev0vujH— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) June 10, 2020
re: #340 Ace Rothstein
spinal tap
I had a myelogram, which is a spinal tap where a dye is injected and x - rays are taken. Normally the injection site heals up just like a spinal tap would. In my case it didn’t, and when you lifted your head and trunk up the spinal fluid would leak out giving you the worst of all headsches. Fixing it required performing a blood patch, where they inject blood at the original injection site.
re: #391 Backwoods_Sleuth
Also worth finding out: who followed the unlawful orders?
re: #69 Eventual Carrion
These peoples economic anxiety really manifests itself in strange ways for weird reasons.
I was kind of thinking the same thing. Partly it’s Carlin’s statement that half of Americans are actually dumber than the average American. But I think it’s also that our society has built-in shit that causes large numbers of people to basically be mentally ill, if nominally functioning.
This is literally vocal perfection. Holy fucking fuck. #respect https://t.co/udFVwc9nlE
— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) June 10, 2020
Speaking of GWTW
BLAZING A TRAIL
Hattie McDaniel wasn’t allowed to attend the Gone With the Wind premiere in Atlanta because of her race. Shortly afterward, she won an Oscar for her performance and earned an indelible place in movie history. Vanity Fair
Eighty years ago, in 1940, the Academy Awards were held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Hattie McDaniel, radiant in a rhinestone-studded blue evening gown, was relegated to a small table along a side wall, apart from Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and the rest of her Gone With the Wind castmates. The reason was as simple as it was outrageous: The hotel had a no-blacks policy. Months earlier, McDaniel had been excluded from the movie’s premiere in Atlanta for the same reason. If not for the film’s producer, David O. Selznick, having called in a favor, she wouldn’t have been permitted inside the Ambassador, either.
Upon receiving the Oscar for her role as the sassy maid, Mammy, McDaniel told the audience—which was all white, save for her escort, F.P. Yober— ” I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.”
Seventy years later, when Mo’Nique won an Oscar for her role in the movie Precious, she wore white gardenias in her hair, just as McDaniel had done. ” I want to thank Ms. Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to,” she said when accepting the award. …
Done. #BlackLivesMatter
📸 // John Merrick Media pic.twitter.com/uFJfnhlAxQ— City of Charlotte (@CLTgov) June 9, 2020
re: #384 HRH Stanley Sea
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HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Trump strangled his personal assistant Carolyn Gombell to death in October 2000? https://t.co/8f906Jhg6k
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 10, 2020
re: #400 Backwoods_Sleuth
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA
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Called the Cavuto mark back in the day.
re: #312 Dread Pirate
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“Mitigate a second wave”
We are a little too late for that. I’ve heard from local people in the medical field that i’m acquainted with, that in some San Diego area hospitals, the ICUs are very nearly filled to capacity with COVID patients now.
re: #376 KGxvi
I do wonder sometimes, had Columbus sank or been strung up from a palm tree, how the Americas develop over the next century. It may well have only been a matter of time before they found their way to Asia or Europe just by following the land north.
Basque fishermen knew of the cod fishing grounds off of the coast of Massachusets. The Vikings had come and gone. There was no way that there wouldn’t be lots of Europeans in North America before long.
I just don’t get why they’re so defensive about Columbus but then act like people from the lands he colonized have no place here.
I tried to comment on the article but I seem to be banned from commenting at Life Site News
Crazy Fascist Archbishop Viganò’s pens unhinged letter to Crazy Fascist President Trump: Takes Evil Side in Eternal struggle between good and evil. https://t.co/gsKohixzEB
— Eddie Mix (@TheEdMix) June 10, 2020
re: #340 Ace Rothstein
Had an anogram(?) early this morning. After getting high as fuck off the gas, they ran a line up my leg to my brain and looked around. They decided to not clip the vessel. They left it alone and there’s plenty of circulation to my brain. I had a spinal tap NOT FUN and the fluid is clear but they will look at it with a microscope to make sure there is no blood.. I’m real sore but thinking clearly and have not lost my sense of humor. The doctor in the operating room also said I will get my balance and walking ability back. I’m very lucky to be alive, and there was no way I was going to die before seeing that orange bastard lose on Nov 3.
Thanks to everyone here for the thoughts and prayers. LGF is still the greatest place on the net. Thank you Charles for running it all these years.
Peace.
Bless you, Ace! You’re in my prayers to be well soon!
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
He said “sorry” and tried to help that piece of garbage up. Amazing.
Sweet. Oh the chaos and fist fights and outrage. Should be a blast when they come back to spectators.
re: #404 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I just don’t get why they’re so defensive about Columbus but then act like people from the lands he colonized have no place here.
Especially funny since Columbus was an Italian Catholic sponsored by the Spanish Catholics and you know how neither Italians, Spanish, or Catholics (might as well throw in the Irish) weren’t considered “white” for the longest time.
Honestly, I think it is mostly a case of wanting to believe a myth over the truth of history. Myths are nice, they’re stories that have the rougher edges all sanded down, none of the messy facts of history. Same thing with the confederacy. They want to believe the myth that their ancestors weren’t fighting for a racist institution but was instead because of some truthy northern aggression.
Now seems like a good time to roll out my plan for renaming every military base after whichever company pays the most to license it. Welcome to Fort GEICO!
— Eric Nelson (@literaryeric) June 10, 2020
re: #340 Ace Rothstein
Glad to hear you are doing well. Hope you will be home soon and fully recovered!
re: #410 KGxvi
Especially funny since Columbus was an Italian Catholic sponsored by the Spanish Catholics and you know how neither Italians, Spanish, or Catholics (might as well throw in the Irish) weren’t considered “white” for the longest time.
Honestly, I think it is mostly a case of wanting to believe a myth over the truth of history. Myths are nice, they’re stories that have the rougher edges all sanded down, none of the messy facts of history. Same thing with the confederacy. They want to believe the myth that their ancestors weren’t fighting for a racist institution but was instead because of some truthy northern aggression.
I think so too.
We’re sorry you’re losing. https://t.co/lNU0409jcV
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 10, 2020
re: #411 teleskiguy
It’s all fun and games until American Airlines gets two forts like they did with basketball arenas
I also wonder which base will be the first to demand the naming rights be like the Rose Bowl where it’s Fort X presented by AT&T
I’m guessing Westpoint or Annapolis would do that.
My favorite story of all the winning the Confederacy did was when Jeff Davis was caught trying to escape Union troops dressed in women’s clothes pic.twitter.com/Mju9rXDy3o
— Attorney@Law (@TheGlare_TM) June 10, 2020
re: #236 gocart mozart
That sounds like Sam Elliot.
re: #376 KGxvi
I do wonder sometimes, had re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth
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HOLY FUCKING HELL.
That letter is an justifcation for casus belli by the racists.
We will also discover that the riots in these days were provoked by those who, seeing that the virus is inevitably fading and that the social alarm of the pandemic is waning, necessarily have had to provoke civil disturbances, because they would be followed by repression which, although legitimate, could be condemned as an unjustified aggression against the population. The same thing is also happening in Europe, in perfect synchrony. It is quite clear that the use of street protests is instrumental to the purposes of those who would like to see someone elected in the upcoming presidential elections who embodies the goals of the deep state and who expresses those goals faithfully and with conviction. It will not be surprising if, in a few months, we learn once again that hidden behind these acts of vandalism and violence there are those who hope to profit from the dissolution of the social order so as to build a world without freedom: Solve et Coagula, as the Masonic adage teaches.
Although it may seem disconcerting, the opposing alignments I have described are also found in religious circles. There are faithful Shepherds who care for the flock of Christ, but there are also mercenary infidels who seek to scatter the flock and hand the sheep over to be devoured by ravenous wolves. It is not surprising that these mercenaries are allies of the children of darkness and hate the children of light: just as there is a deep state, there is also a deep church that betrays its duties and forswears its proper commitments before God. Thus the Invisible Enemy, whom good rulers fight against in public affairs, is also fought against by good shepherds in the ecclesiastical sphere. It is a spiritual battle, which I spoke about in my recent Appeal which was published on May 8.
…
For this reason, I believe that the attack to which you were subjected after your visit to the National Shrine of Saint John Paul II is part of the orchestrated media narrative which seeks not to fight racism and bring social order, but to aggravate dispositions; not to bring justice, but to legitimize violence and crime; not to serve the truth, but to favor one political faction. And it is disconcerting that there are Bishops - such as those whom I recently denounced - who, by their words, prove that they are aligned on the opposing side. They are subservient to the deep state, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing Christian about it, but which evokes the Masonic ideals of those want to dominate the world by driving God out of the courts, out of schools, out of families, and perhaps even out of churches.The American people are mature and have now understood how much the mainstream media does not want to spread the truth but seeks to silence and distort it, spreading the lie that is useful for the purposes of their masters. However, it is important that the good - who are the majority - wake up from their sluggishness and do not accept being deceived by a minority of dishonest people with unavowable purposes. It is necessary that the good, the children of light, come together and make their voices heard. What more effective way is there to do this, Mr. President, than by prayer, asking the Lord to protect you, the United States, and all of humanity from this enormous attack of the Enemy? Before the power of prayer, the deceptions of the children of darkness will collapse, their plots will be revealed, their betrayal will be shown, their frightening power will end in nothing, brought to light and exposed for what it is: an infernal deception.
And Trump’s giving a speech in a week in the same place as the Tusla massacre??!? And that speech is being written by Stephen “lets have a race war” Miller?
This is not looking good.
re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
Regarding Dinesh D’stupid:
Columbus was looking for a passage to the Far East to open up trade routes.
The native cultures who were already in North America realized they lived in a vast land rich with flora, fauna, minerals and other resources. They didn’t need to explore anywhere else or seek out trade because they already had plenty of anything they might need.
Columbus innovated the means of coerced labor used centuries later by Leopold II in Congo.
re: #136 Allow me to light that for you…
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(1) From Politico - this is amazing. If you’re not following what’s going on with General Flynn, Judge Sullivan & Judge Gleeson, you should start:
Heh, from TPM:
The former judge even cited Barr himself as saying that Trump’s public statements about ongoing Justice Department cases “make it impossible to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the department that we’re doing our work with integrity.”
That’ll leave a mark.
re: #418 Danack
I’ve had low esteem for the Catholic Church ever since I was a kid in school and several boys and girls said they wanted nothing to do with certain priests and nuns.
I read the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report on the depravity of Catholic Bishops covering up child molesting priests and nuns. It hurt so much to know that the District Attorney for my home county (Beaver) who Dad always respected conspired with those perverts.
The Republican Party has become the defender and enabler of child molesting priests and nuns. It’s time to round up these short eyes and lock them in jail for the rest of their perverted lives.
1250 former DOJ employees urge investigation of Attorney General Bill Barr. @mattzap https://t.co/JT9U4R04v3
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) June 10, 2020
Hey, @DevinNunes, adding this to your campaign website that I own. pic.twitter.com/fkfLhVGh9Z
— Toby Morton (@tobymorton) June 10, 2020
re: #418 Danack
Okay.
So anybody going to bring up that the president to posted a letter from a dude who thinks there’s a Masonic Conspiracy to do anything other than two fish fries and a smoked pork butt sale per year?
OH WAIT THE PRESIDENT DOESN’T ACTUALLY READ
re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
Regarding Dinesh D’stupid:
Columbus was looking for a passage to the Far East to open up trade routes.
The native cultures who were already in North America realized they lived in a vast land rich with flora, fauna, minerals and other resources. They didn’t need to explore anywhere else or seek out trade because they already had plenty of anything they might need.
I could also point out that the Basques almost certainly knew about North America. The fishing fleet went out every year, disappeared over the horizon and then reappeared months later with lots and lots of dried fish. You can’t dry fish on a little boat at sea. They landed somewhere and weren’t about to share the fishing location with the competition.
wait for the smile
Columbus statue has fallen outside MN Capitol. pic.twitter.com/rbj9muDmQh
— Jessie Van Berkel (@jessvanb) June 10, 2020
Dude, I really want the breathy middlebrow thinkpiece about how dissing the Masons is the thing that will finally do in Trump.
re: #300 Ace Rothstein
I’m still alive! Oh, and FUCK TRUMP!
Fabulous!! That’s awesome!
Still reading the thread but please give us a full update when you’re up to it.
re: #128 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Unfortunately one of my few full trial jury experiences included watching a Philadelphia ADA do some very bad lawyering.* Or at least in my view in a legal sense. And I’m pretty sure his boss came into the room during at least part of the trial to see what he was doing.
* - The defense lawyers were no gems either. Both sides got sidebarred by the judge at least once regarding how to conduct proceedings and making statements that were immediately objected to. Typical BS stuff trying to sway the jury emotionally.
when i was thinking of going to law school, I found myself on a forum where there was a lot of discussion about fourth-tier law schools and just how bad the lawyering was. Somebody had put up audio from a courtroom where a lawyer from I think Loyola in New Orleans was being held in contempt by a judge for being grossly incompetent. He said something about writing a letter to the law school admonishing them for the pathetic quality of their graduates (apparently this was not the first really bad lawyer from that school he’d encountered).
how have i never seen this pic.twitter.com/nVvKXPybRn
— j aubrey 🤠 (@jaubreyYT) June 9, 2020
it’s real
Was photo bombed yesterday by a wise guy when I left the set of @LateNightJimmy…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 27, 2013
re: #432 steve_davis
School’s reputations for the quality of their graduates gets around pretty quickly in professional circles. Might be bases on very small sample sizes, but if an incompetent from a particular school gets loose the school’s reputation is probably wrecked for a period of time in that location.
I know that the group of engineers my father worked with in the 1970s thought poorly of engineers from Case & Western, but never heard or found out the reasons why.
No seriously folks.
Masons.
Masons.
MASONS
So not only is my home of Bristol doing the right thing (eventually) when it comes to statues, we’re also doing okay at the Covid.
No new coronavirus cases have been recorded in the Bristol area in the past 24 hours.https://t.co/cbNE3CDtQu
— Bristol Live (@BristolLive) June 10, 2020
re: #439 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Full of colorful bees?
Something I was totally unaware of! In my home full of uneaten apple butter made at a distant in the past family reunion.
Former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Barry Friedman, the founding director of the NYU Policing Project, will serve as special advisors to my investigation of the NYPD.
Our investigation will be all the more powerful because of their support.— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) June 10, 2020
re: #436 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
MASONS
Dan Brown wrote a sequel to The Da Vinci Code, titled The Lost Symbol, in which the antagonist threatens to reveal the “Secrets of the Masons” by uploading a video to YouTube (but with no idea of how to make it go viral) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SPOILER: The “Lost Symbol” is not lost, or a secret, in fact it is a corporate logo that you see every day, but Dan Brown wants you to think that no one knows this.
I am sure there are like a bazillion YouTube videos and websites revealing “The Secrets Of The Masons” but I am too lazy to Google.
Stacey Abrams received an absentee ballot,
but discovered the return envelope was sealed.
She tried steaming to open but could not.
Any other way to open the return envelope of her absentee ballot would have resulted in a void vote.#StaceyAbrams#MSNBC
8 pm est tonight
06.10— Lisa Shannon (@Lmadame1) June 10, 2020
re: #442 The Pie Overlord!
Odd. thing you should mention it because I am watching “Great Estates of Scotland” and the fourth episode is “Rosslyn” which does mention all of the Dan Brown theories.
In addition to everyone being packed in like sardines and not a mask in sight, Pence put the one black guy in the group front and center. https://t.co/9rmHp0o81o
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 11, 2020
re: #207 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The big irony about Columbus is that he was so stupidly, stubbornly wrong in his initial assumption, that Japan lay within practical sailing distance westward. The “learned men” who advised against the trip were exactly right. They knew the Earth was round, they knew how big it was and they knew the approximate distance to Japan. This was all common knowledge among educated Europeans. Thanks to accounts from Marco Polo and lesser known travelers, they knew that Japan lay in the ocean not too far eastward of China. I suspect that the absurd “flat Earth” myth was invented specifically to make him less of a fool so he could be glorified as a needed hero.
If the un-suspected continent had not intervened, Columbus would have sailed off into the setting sun never to be seen again. He would be remembered, if at all, as an arrogant numbskull who ignored science and took a hundred men and 3 ships with him when he committed suicide.
they knew the world was round. they miscalculated just how round it was because they had no good way of gauging longitude. There is also a rumour that Columbus had access to a Turkish map that was surprisingly good but which also didn’t show the Americas because the Chinese map it was based on also didn’t have the Americas on it. In other words, he was honestly not stupid. He was pretty damned brave. He also turned out to be rapacious and brutal towards natives. Then again, that was par for the course at the time.
re: #442 The Pie Overlord!
Dan Brown wrote a sequel to The Da Vinci Code, titled The Lost Symbol, in which the antagonist threatens to reveal the “Secrets of the Masons” by uploading a video to YouTube (but with no idea of how to make it go viral) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SPOILER: The “Lost Symbol” is not lost, or a secret, in fact it is a corporate logo that you see every day, but Dan Brown wants you to think that no one knows this.
I am sure there are like a bazillion YouTube videos and websites revealing “The Secrets Of The Masons” but I am too lazy to Google.
I’ve read all of Dan Brown’s books. Some of the early ones were pretty good (though I was not impressed by The Da Vinci Code), but mostly I read them out of a morbid fascination with a guy who is utterly formulaic and definitely a conspiratard.
re: #220 KGxvi
I might be misremembering this, or misinterpreting some of the myth around Columbus, but weren’t his crews close to mutiny when they stumbled upon the Bahamas?
re: #248 Eric The Fruit Bat
Good luck NASCAR enforcing that….
(How the ever-loving fuck did we make driving nothing but left-hand turns in anything BUT a real off-the-lot car a fucking sport? NASCAR should be sued out of existence for fraud)
that’s one of my favorite parts of old Nascar footage: “Wait, is that a fucking station wagon going 200 miles an hour?!”
“…amazing record breaking crowds…” “…spreads love and cheer…” You’re fuckin’ trippin’, lady. pic.twitter.com/XTZFR2DQqZ
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 11, 2020
re: #327 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Because it’s a day ending in “y”, Dinesh does dimwittery:
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That guy is why the term “Fucking Moron” was invented.
Ok you’re all right, these should be permanent.
— Jack (@GayLaVie) June 10, 2020
re: #266 Teddy’s Person
Fort Trump, yuck.
After Trump is booted out of the people’s house, will there be the concerted effort by Republicans to rename shit after him like they did with Reagan?
I wonder if another train load of shit gets stranded in Alabama, if it could be named after Trump. The poop train even came from New York.
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Written in haste at 1 a.m. for two magnificent hounds@MrAndrewCotter #MabelandOlive pic.twitter.com/G4inpHXSmL
— Tim Rice (@SirTimRice) June 9, 2020
Well, it’s a short sporting event, but a deal is a deal. pic.twitter.com/EPMzHhTcGl
— Andrew Cotter (@MrAndrewCotter) June 9, 2020
re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
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Crazy Opus Dei whack job. Been at the Vatican since 2009. Hates Francis.
re: #393 KGxvi
Also worth finding out: who followed the unlawful orders?
They’ve been IDd and grounded pending investigation.
re: #433 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kinda like how Hitler was a good artist but we only talk about that bad shit he did that overshadowed that.
— upstart (@uphstart) June 10, 2020
re: #427 calochortus
I could also point out that the Basques almost certainly knew about North America. The fishing fleet went out every year, disappeared over the horizon and then reappeared months later with lots and lots of dried fish. You can’t dry fish on a little boat at sea. They landed somewhere and weren’t about to share the fishing location with the competition.
Irish, too.
re: #459 Belafon
What in the actual fuck is relatable or charming about Trump? He only smiles when he’s being an asshole and then it’s so forced that it comes off like he has to take a shit.
re: #456 austin_blue
Crazy Opus Dei whack job. Been at the Vatican since 2009. Hates Francis.
It seems almost impossible to hate Pope Francis. The dude is possibly the best pope to have been elected in recent memory. He’s made mistakes, but overall, he’s been incredible as a servant of mankind.
re: #455 Backwoods_Sleuth
Olive and Mabel love you even more now. And damn my lack of musical knowledge…..
— Andrew Cotter (@MrAndrewCotter) June 9, 2020
It was May 15 when Arizona’s stay-at-home order lifted despite indications COVID was still on rise. We reported live from a water park that day.
Three weeks later, 11 AZ hospitals have hit ICU bed capacity & 7000+ new cases in 6 days.
With @csiemaszko: https://t.co/SCNn7fZ3mD https://t.co/bLDxVIp2nt pic.twitter.com/WthgGMUjdx— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) June 10, 2020
prediction: cable networks will carry the entire of this rally live, even while choosing to not do the same for Biden events https://t.co/xFHol9WL0r
— Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) June 10, 2020
re: #459 Belafon
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Hitler was a mediocre artist at best, which is why he kept getting rejected from art schools. What he would have been better at was architecture, as he had a great eye for detail when it came to buildings and geography, but he was utter shit when it came to actually painting people.
This would also explain his obsession with the various architectural ambitions of post-war Germany, whether it was minor monuments to the grand restoration of Berlin that was simply dubbed “Germania.”
re: #460 austin_blue
Irish, too.
Possibly. It’s known that Columbus had made a couple of voyages to Ireland when he was younger - probably as as the junior navigator on Genoese trading convoys; and possibly as far as Iceland too. So old Chris had a practical knowledge of (at least some part of) Northern waters as well as the Med and the Azores.
It’s still likely, though, that he deliberately bullshitted Ferdinand and Isabella over his “shorter” route to “Asia”, but that’s ancient history, now….
re: #467 Jay C
The one thing that we know of more or less for certain is that he had knowledge of the trade winds that circulate over the Atlantic, and that bespeaks some knowledge of both North and South. Columbus would pioneer the routes that would dominate the Europe-Africa-Caribbean-North America circuit for the next 400 years.
It’s a movie I like. Every time I watch it, no matter what, Sherman shows up and fucks all those people up. Fucks them up good. I like that. It reminds me that those people got all fucked up.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) June 10, 2020
In any event, I’ve made it through 42 years being able to see Gone with the Wind every time I need to see those people get fucked up, without ever being able to stream it. I can still do that.
I’m sure that HBO Max didn’t burn GwtW like Sherman burned the fuck out of Georgia.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) June 10, 2020
Ooh, this will cause deep puckering in Israel, Switzerland… https://t.co/MzKLvSZGz3
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) June 11, 2020
Yes, and little known fact for some I guess, it won the Civil War, crushing its opponent in 4 years.
— Dave Anderson (@FeltsBrook) June 11, 2020
We’ve all got to do our bit. pic.twitter.com/BY91utbwkl
— FFA Cup Seagull (@FFACupSeagull) June 10, 2020
re: #474 Backwoods_Sleuth
Amazing how some birds are smarter than humans.
re: #457 William Lewis
Perhaps there is hope. I don’t know but perhaps…
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His town is probably within 100 miles of here. Our (larger) town has had 3 rallies at the courthouse. They went just as he described. And we got kids registered to vote. I’m still a little pissed that the organizers violated the shit out of coronavirus measures, keeping older, smarter people across the street on in our parked cars, honking.
I continue to find myself amused every time I see articles like these:
‘There’s no sign yet of a mass exodus from the runaway Trump train’ for the GOP: reporthttps://t.co/kU9fhpvsg7
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 10, 2020
Short of some major political miracle that boosts his approval ratings, the GOP is gonna spend the next five months ducking the press and practicing their Sgt. Schultz routine.
Wow.
“The co-owners of the Missourian newspaper have resigned over an editorial cartoon published in Wednesday’s paper by the publisher & editor, William Miller Sr., who is their father.” https://t.co/VnUN8WZwCX— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) June 10, 2020
re: #445 teleskiguy
Why’d you delete this tweet @Mike_Pence? pic.twitter.com/mnWwsVDW5A
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 11, 2020
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