Nate Smith — drums
Cory Wong — small guitar
Mark Lettieri — medium guitar
Joe Dart — big guitar
Alekos Syropoulos — small sax
Kenni Holmen — medium sax
Grace Kelly — big sax
Michael Nelson — horn arranger
Jack Stratton — camera, composer
Caleb Parker — mixing
Joseph Lorge — engineer
BREAKING NEWS: @realDonaldTrump asks Navy to send USNS COMFORT to Arizona to assist with COVID-19 pandemic.
— Jeff Swanson 💨🌊 (@swanson1954) July 2, 2020
The absolute worst people in the US are in charge of the federal government at the absolute worst possible time. It’s a cosmic shitshow.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 2, 2020
re: #2 Belafon
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But.. just… how…
I know, I know. He knows nothing, no need for further explanation.
re: #4 Jack Burton
But.. just… how…
I know, I know. He knows nothing, no need for further explanation.
I suspect Poe’s Law on this tweet.
KAREN IS GOING TO JAIL 🚨 pic.twitter.com/rkCHJ1ihf0
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) July 2, 2020
Got CL’ed:
re: #121 jaunte
Yes, thank you for asking. The last couple of days have by far been as close to normal as I can think of since three weeks ago. The staff at Memorial Hermann are incredible. The day I had my angiogram, it felt so routine, it was like going to get an oil change.
re: #6 Belafon
Update!!!!! They were let go !!! The police just took the guns away !!! Ridiculous!!!! They said they couldn’t arrest her because my niece mother hit there car (with her hand ) to stop them from hitting my niece!!! Justice needs to be served! This is white privilege 🤦🏽♀️
— 🦋Makay (@makaysmith10) July 2, 2020
re: #6 Belafon
Wait- you can arrest and put handcuffs on people while they are standing up? I thought they had to be thrown to the ground, choked, and kneeled on. #doingitwrong
— Deborah Eakin (@Tesseract_115) July 2, 2020
Holy shit!
Gunmen kill 24 people in attack on Mexican drug rehab centre
At least 24 people were killed in an armed attack on a drug rehabilitation facility in the central Mexican city of Irapuato, Mexican police said on Wednesday, underlining the challenge the government has in fulfilling a pledge to stop gang violence.
Police in the city, located in Guanajuato state, said the gunmen also wounded seven in what was the second such attack to take place in Irapuato during the past month. The attack was also confirmed by a federal government official.
This is the second such attack in recent weeks. Ten people were killed in an attack on a rehab center in Irapuato on June 6.
Job update! Today is my first day working for the @JoeBiden campaign as supervising producer. I’m grateful to have worked for @BernieSanders during and after his primary campaign. Excited to join #TeamJoe, produce some great videos, and help get him elected our next president.
— Sara Pearl (@skenigsberg) July 1, 2020
re: #3 Charles Johnson
The absolute worst people in the US are in charge of the federal government at the absolute worst possible time. It’s a cosmic shitshow.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 2, 2020
It would have be worse to have these people in charge in 1940. It would have been “Plot Against America”.
Because the concept of a whistleblower… necessary in any entity that requires oversight… is now poisoned. Thanks to this administration that poisons everything right and good.
— Waynue (@waynueny) July 2, 2020
It must suck to be so paranoid to believe that everything around you is a hoax.
Russian interference was a hoax
Coronavirus was a hoax
Ukraine impeachment was a hoax
Russian bounties are a hoax
It must be exhausting.— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) July 2, 2020
re: #12 Hecuba’s daughter
It would have be worse to have these people in charge in 1940. It would have been “Plot Against America”.
That would be like having William Dudley Pelley and the Silver Shirts in charge.
The George W Bush Super PAC says it’s suspending all operations with GOP as long as Trump is running. Will move all funds to help elect @JoeBiden.
— Johnathan Ford💭 (@FordJohnathan5) July 1, 2020
re: #17 Jack Burton
And Father Coughlin’s radio show would be the Sean Hannity/Fox and Friends equivalent.
re: #18 Dread Pirate
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Ex-George W. Bush officials launch super PAC backing Joe Biden for president
A group of former George W. Bush administration and campaign officials have launched a new super PAC supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the latest in a growing number of Republican groups to come out in support of the former vice president over President Trump.
The group, called 43 Alumni for Biden, has recruited at least 200 former White House officials, campaign aides and Cabinet secretaries who worked under Bush to join the push against the Republican incumbent. They’re planning to roll out supportive testimonial videos featuring high-profile Republicans and to launch an effort in key states aimed at turning out disaffected Republican voters. News of the group was first reported by Reuters. Bush was the 43rd president.
re: #21 Scout
To all my fellow lifelong Star Trek nerds, this says it all, right here:
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Nope, you’re the first.
re: #2 Belafon
Pretty sure this is a joke as Arizona has no coastline.
re: #9 Patricia Kayden
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Not surprising. And I won’t be surprised if there’ll more more incidents like this, and which end much worse…
re: #20 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Ex-George W. Bush officials launch super PAC backing Joe Biden for president
Interesting, isn’t it? It’s almost like Old Republican money is reaching out to R Senators in risky seats to turn on Trump to save the Senate Majority. This smells entirely of Karl Rove, aka “The Turd Blossom”.
If W. himself would have the guts to break precedent and speak out against Trump, it would finish off the Orange abomination, and go a long toward redeeming the Bush legacy.
Thank you all for your condolences on the loss of my dog Riley. He was laid to rest earlier in the back of our property alongside one of his favorite toys.
re: #2 Belafon
“Many people have said I made a mistake with this request, but have they ever thought of having ships fly? Someone should look into that.”
SCOOP: Bill Zollars, now on USPS board, was CEO of a company that got a $700M COVID bailout today because of Pentagon contracts. (It’s only worth $70 million.) The DOJ is now suing that company for defrauding the Pentagon… while Zollars was CEO. @salonhttps://t.co/6oDRmY23nV
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) July 2, 2020
Trump nominated Zollars to USPS board of governors in May after he forced out deputy general Ron Stroman. His Senate confirmation in June restored the board’s quorum. Trump wants to privatize the USPS and claims it will make voter fraud easy.
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) July 2, 2020
re: #25 austin_blue
Interesting, isn’t it? It’s almost like Old Republican money is reaching out to R Senators in risky seats to turn on Trump to save the Senate Majority. This smells entirely of Karl Rove, aka “The Turd Blossom”.
I think so. The Republicans who are implicated in Trump’s crimes will have to go down with the ship. The others, though, are scrambling to save the party. it could become an avalanche.
#FactCheck: Sen. Inhofe won’t stand up for Oklahoma soldiers Trump may have allowed Russians to target. But @abbybroyles will. Flip the senate with Abby. Send $1 to https://t.co/2DDnyDIh3i https://t.co/VdMXwsXcNo
— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) July 2, 2020
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
Pretty sure this is a joke as Arizona has no coastline.
Well I hate to “actually’ you, but the Colorado River flows through Yuma on the way to the Gulf of California, and on a day after really hard rains, you might be able to get a canoe up there.
Good point:
I don’t know if the Republicans are trying to get Joe elected or trying to get trump off the ticket before the Aug nomination
— Stephannie (@stephannie1226) July 2, 2020
re: #33 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Good point:
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I don’t think that’s possible. Most of the States have selected their delegates and they will vote to renominate Trump. I can’t imagine a process that will change that at this time, unless he strokes out.
re: #21 Scout
To all my fellow lifelong Star Trek nerds, this says it all, right here:
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The redshirt has been sent to kill off the leadership so that no more crewmembers die.
re: #35 Belafon
The redshirt has been sent to kill off the leadership so that no more crewmembers die.
That redshirt is dead meat.
re: #31 Dread Pirate
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Jeeezus, Inhofe still flogging the old “Obama ruined the military” bullshit line? Did he omit the “out of ammunition” claim only because of Twitter limits?
re: #32 austin_blue
Well I hate to “actually’ you, but the Colorado River flows through Yuma on the way to the Gulf of California, and on a day after really hard rains, you might be able to get a canoe up there.
Lol well yes, I knew that but you damn sure couldn’t fit a Navy ship through there.
re: #33 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Trump’s ego isn’t going to let him withdraw.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 2, 2020
re: #34 austin_blue
I don’t think that’s possible. Most of the States have selected their delegates and they will vote to renominate Trump. I can’t imagine a process that will change that at this time, unless he strokes out.
Yeah, he has the nomination nailed down but I was thinking they might be able to strongarm him into withdrawing.
re: #36 austin_blue
That redshirt is dead meat.
Definitely, but he’s going to infect them if he has the virus.
That priest who called BLM people maggots has been suspended.
(I will not be surprised if he’s quietly transferred, but at least he won’t be in charge at his — formerly — current place.)
re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg
Lol well yes, I knew that but you damn sure couldn’t fit a Navy ship through there.
Just put it on the canoe and row.
re: #43 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Just put it on the canoe and row.
Brilliant!
And I’m off to bed.
Who knows what new hells will await in the morning?
Sleep well. all.
Yes, just wait until we find out how Tulsa played out. https://t.co/DjSfjxV3UD
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) July 2, 2020
What galls me most about the spike in #Covid19 cases in the U.S. is that all the economic, psychological, physical pain we went through in the spring was all for naught. All our sacrifice was nullified by a handful of states who, like Trump, just hoped the virus would go away.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) July 2, 2020
Texas Tribune:
“Vanilla Ice has a July 3 concert planned at a venue outside Austin, sparking concerns about social distancing as coronavirus cases surge in Texas. As of Wednesday night, however, only 84 tickets had been sold.”
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
Pretty sure this is a joke as Arizona has no coastline.
Not many people know that…
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
Pretty sure this is a joke as Arizona has no coastline.
Some Arizonans probably think of Rocky Point (aka Puerto Peñasco) as part of Arizona, even though it’s quite decidedly in Sonora state, Mexico.
There is absolutely no excuse for this. Avoiding this exact goddamned outcome is why we shut down. It was supposed to buy us enough time to get broad testing, contact tracing and isolation capability in place. That time was just fucking squandered.https://t.co/MdQCkHFIuS
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 2, 2020
Subtlety just ain’t in 2020’s toolkit https://t.co/PObCO1TR7L
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 2, 2020
re: #18 Dread Pirate
Man, do I have mixed feelings about this.
— Antifa Air Force Commander (@aceoaces) July 2, 2020
re: #52 goddamnedfrank
— Antifa Air Force Commander (@aceoaces) July 2, 2020
Give it a week or so and Loving v Virginia will be a topic of controversy because hey it’s July
— DJ Jimo (@TheJimJamMan) July 2, 2020
re: #48 jaunte
Texas Tribune:
“Vanilla Ice has a July 3 concert planned at a venue outside Austin, sparking concerns about social distancing as coronavirus cases surge in Texas. As of Wednesday night, however, only 84 tickets had been sold.”
That’ll make social distancing easy.
re: #10 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Holy shit!
Gunmen kill 24 people in attack on Mexican drug rehab centre
This is the second such attack in recent weeks. Ten people were killed in an attack on a rehab center in Irapuato on June 6.
I assume that some of the people in the center were former associates, rivals or customers of the gang that did the hit.
https://t.co/BJWJTivr6g Well it gets worse the panel will consist of a 6-4 conservative majority
— Patrick (@patrickdemdude) July 1, 2020
re: #21 Scout
To all my fellow lifelong Star Trek nerds, this says it all, right here:
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to repost would be illogical.
don’t forget Glenn Greenwald https://t.co/wAcgirEsxJ
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 1, 2020
If Putin is paying 100k for Taliban to kill American soldiers, how much do you think he’s paying Trump to kill America? @realDonaldTrump
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) July 2, 2020
Today’s top-performing Facebook link posts in the US are from:
1. Fox News
2. Franklin Graham
3. ForAmerica
4. Franklin Graham
5. Fox News
6. ComicBook .com (Beavis and Butthead reboot!)
7. Fox News
8. Dan Bongino
9. Dan Bongino
10. Ben Shapiro— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) July 2, 2020
Facebook must be a cesspool, not a user.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 2, 2020
re: #63 teleskiguy
You should get a year credit for each month of 2020.
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
Pretty sure this is a joke as Arizona has no coastline.
Well, not now.
But Arizona had a coast at one time.
And will again, someday, as the Gulf of California grows northward and Yuma becomes a port.
Someday.
Trump: “You know, they say — everybody says it, and nobody even disputes it — in the history of our country, nobody has done more than I have in the first 3-and-a-half years.”
This is what *he* says. Some of his supporters do too, but it is widely disputed.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 2, 2020
hi
Panhandle cases are accellerating, especially in my county. The site was down yesterday.
pphd.org
They added individual county data since the start of the outbreak here, which might explain why the site was down.
Total cases: 312 (+7 today, +3 yesterday, +16 June 29)
Most by county: Scott’s Bluff 215 (+1, +1, +5), then Morrill 41 (mine, +3, +1, +7)
Total tests: 5,400 (5.6% positive)
Women are two-thirds of cases; women are blue on the chart, men are pink.
Most by age: 10-19 (53), then 20-29 (51)
Deaths: 3 (+1, Scott’s Bluff County)
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
hi
Panhandle cases are accellerating, especially in my county. The site was down yesterday.
Then stop testing!
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Oklahoma woman shot while trying to remove Nazi flag (BBC)
TL;DR: A woman ripped a Nazi flag down from a man’s home and ran. He came out and shot her in the back four times. A neighbour intervened, putting his truck between the shooter and the woman, while another brought out a gun and covered his house until the sheriff came to arrest him.
She is expected to live. He’s in jail.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Oklahoma woman shot while trying to remove Nazi flag (BBC)
TL;DR: A woman ripped a Nazi flag down from a man’s home and ran. He came out and shot her in the back four times. A neighbour intervened, putting his truck between the shooter and the woman, while another brought out a gun and covered his house until the sheriff came to arrest him.
She is expected to live. He’s in jail.
Is he going to plea “Stand Your Ground”?
This cat stowed away on a military cargo plane that landed in Bangor. Now he needs help finding his way home. https://t.co/BXRyoLVr5T pic.twitter.com/idl8VaF8iB
— Bangor Daily News (@bangordailynews) July 1, 2020
re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is he going to plea “Stand Your Ground”?
He might. That law as written usually includes using a firearm to stop any crime. Stealing his flag would be a crime, and thus to a wingnut, worthy of the death penalty.
On the other hand, shooting her in the back as she was running doesn’t really qualify as standing ground. The article notes the sheriff has security video from his home, and he made no attempt to stop her or call out to her other than to come out and shoot at her.
re: #51 goddamnedfrank
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It was squandered because red state governments put an emphasis on “reopening” to satisfy Trump’s ego. And if it weren’t an election year, they’d continue plowing forward while insisting that the outbreak will eventually burn itself out and “we can’t let the cure be worse than the disease!!!”
The Torrington, Wyo. fire department exploded tonight.
starherald.com
The fire department had a trailer of fireworks inside the fire hall, stored there for Torrington’s fireworks show for Independence Day.
Fire departments from Lingle and Yoder assisted Torrington in putting their fire out. An investigation is underway.
The explosion rocked the whole city. No one was injured in the blast.
re: #74 Targetpractice
It was squandered because red state governments put an emphasis on “reopening” to satisfy Trump’s ego. And if it weren’t an election year, they’d continue plowing forward while insisting that the outbreak will eventually burn itself out and “we can’t let the cure be worse than the disease!!!”
And red states which aren’t stressed excessively (mine for example) are still pushing forward.
As long as we get those taco trucks idgaf https://t.co/taDA2BIfYb
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 2, 2020
re: #77 goddamnedfrank
I have not been following Dilbert lately, but he used to generally keep the stories free of any sort of political message.
But wtf does he mean by that statement?
Armed Mau-Mau rape/revenge gangs taking over our neighborhoods while disbanded police precincts are turned into touchy-feeling therapy and counseling centers for hardened criminals?
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
Thank you all for your condolences on the loss of my dog Riley. He was laid to rest earlier in the back of our property alongside one of his favorite toys.
{{{EC}}}
Bellevue woman welcomes House’s approval of bill that requires auto shut-offs in keyless ignitions (Omaha World-Herald)
TL;DR, a woman who thought her parents were on an Alaska cruise last year found her parents dead in their home after two weeks.
They died of carbon monoxide poisoning after their keyless ignition vehicle started in the garage and ran through its whole tank of gasoline.
She’s since been pushing for a bill to have cars with an automatic shut-off with keyless ignitions. That bill passed the House on a party-line vote.
The Senate is expected to kill the bill.
This. (My wife long ago stopped complaining about me giving very large tips in restaurants.)
Bruh, if your waiter looks like this, that means you need to take your bourgeoisie ass home and learn to cook until this thing is over pic.twitter.com/rpcpi5inh6
— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) July 1, 2020
This.
Support restaurant workers by getting carry out and wearing a mask.
Call the restaurant, don’t use third-party apps.
And tip big. Like 40-50%. The minimum wage for servers in Nebraska is $2.13/hour. https://t.co/6UzIlyXfpt— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) July 2, 2020
@NebraskaMegan do you personally tip that high? A generous tip is 25% depending on the restaurant that $2.13 becomes $22.13 with one table!
— HockeymomRN (@alinn29) July 2, 2020
During COVID, absolutely. My expenses are lower, I go out to eat *never,* takeout is a luxury, and I know many servers are working for $2.13 without healthcare or benefits and have to share tips with other staff. I add more to make up for ppl who don’t tip. https://t.co/t1A3iodG7M
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) July 2, 2020
“A generous tip is 25%”
Says someone who’s never worked food service in their pampered ass life. Especially in a state that pulls that $ 2.13/hour horseshit.
If I give you 25%, that means: “I didn’t hate you”
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Torrington, Wyo. fire department exploded tonight.
starherald.comThe fire department had a trailer of fireworks inside the fire hall, stored there for Torrington’s fireworks show for Independence Day.
Fire departments from Lingle and Yoder assisted Torrington in putting their fire out. An investigation is underway.
The explosion rocked the whole city. No one was injured in the blast.
The ad at the top of the news page was this…
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This. (My wife long ago stopped complaining about me giving very large tips in restaurants.)
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I’m totally on the same wavelength as Sen. Hunt, dining out should be a luxury at this time, if only because you are asking people to put their health at risk so that you can be waited upon rather than calling in an order for pick-up or delivery. If you’re not willing to pay for the experience, then take your cheap ass to the McD’s drive-thru. At least there they only have to pretend to like you until you drive off.
re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have not been following Dilbert lately, but he used to generally keep the stories free of any sort of political message.
But wtf does he mean by that statement?
Armed Mau-Mau rape/revenge gangs taking over our neighborhoods while disbanded police precincts are turned into touchy-feeling therapy and counseling centers for hardened criminals?
We should definitely encourage all MAGAts that this is a serious danger, and they should immediately hide in their basements, refuse to go out for any reason whatsoever, until we give them the all clear signal. Sometime after November and a COVID virus is available. Maybe. If we remember.
The bar owner Jake Gardner who killed James Scurlock at the beginning of protests in May had an expired concealed carry permit. He was taken to the police station but released without charge. The county prosecutor was shamed into appointing a grand jury to investigate, and an independent prosecutor has taken over the case.
A woman was one of the witnesses; when the man came out with a gun she tackled him from behind and brought him to the ground. The man fired what was described as “two warning shots” which caused the woman to jump off him; Scurlock then tackled him and the bar owner shot him in the chest.
The witnesses say they tried to identify themselves to the police but the police ran them off. Thirty-six hours later the prosecutor said there would be no charges.
[Alayna] Melendez approached a crowd of people that had gathered outside a nearby bar and saw a man (who would later be identified as Gardner) with a gun in his hand, waving it around.
“I was taught gun rules from a very young age,” said Melendez. “My grandpa told me never to point a gun at anybody, even a BB gun.”
In video footage from the scene, Melendez can be seen standing behind Gardner. She was, she said, contemplating how to disarm him.
“I thought, I need to take this man down,” she said.
Melendez, who weighs 130 pounds and is 5 feet 3 “on a good day,” says she had never tried to wrestle a gun from anyone before. But as soon as Gardner placed the gun back in his waistband, she saw an opening, grabbed him from behind and brought him to the ground, landing in a puddle in the street.
With the young woman on his back, Gardner quickly fired what the county attorney would later describe as “two warning shots.” Melendez said it took her a second to register that the loud noise was not the flash-bangs police had been throwing to disperse crowds. “As soon as I realized they were gunshots, I ran away,” she said.
“Ku Klux Karen” goes viral after being offended by a Target employee’s “Black Lives Matter” mask on Long Island.
re: #31 Dread Pirate
Senator, either condemn Trump’s inaction regarding the Russian bounties on American Soldiers or prepare for the unemployment line. This country will not allow anyone to remain in office who refuses to condemn such acts against our own. The longer you wait, the worse it will be.
— Soseeopath (@C_Thrasher01) July 2, 2020
Vandals recently spray-painted racist and violent images and slurs in a grass field at Zorinsky Lake Park.The graffiti, sprayed near a parking lot in blue paint, included a racist word, a crude drawing of a stick-figure person being hanged and a swastika.
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re: #89 Patricia Kayden
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I would love to hear how we have “fallen behind” China and Russia militarily by any measure. This sounds too much like the “Gap” logic of the Cold War, of which we had numerous examples (Bomber, Missile, Cruiser, etc) that turned out to be either entirely fictitious or far less dire than depicted by those on Capital Hill whose defense industry buddies were desperate for new/bigger contracts.
re: #91 Targetpractice
I would love to hear how we have “fallen behind” China and Russia militarily by any measure. This sounds too much like the “Gap” logic of the Cold War, of which we had numerous examples (Bomber, Missile, Cruiser, etc) that turned out to be either entirely fictitious or far less dire than depicted by those on Capital Hill whose defense industry buddies were desperate for new/bigger contracts.
In the movie “Amazon Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,” the premise is the USA is falling behind the USSR in an “avocado gap.” (The sinister political plan is to round up the independent tribal women of California’s Avocado Jungle led by a rogue women’s studies professor.)
BREAKING: A new bipartisan bill would bypass Trump’s refugee cap and allow Hong Kong residents to apply for permanent residency in the US from HK or a third country.
“We will ensure they don’t fall through the cracks of our broken immigration system.”https://t.co/1do3bo6s9I— Gregory A. Maniatis (@gmaniatis) July 1, 2020
Holy hell. I appear to be prohibited from signing in to a new session on Parler but I’m still signed in on this PC, where they want me to follow this horrifying crew. pic.twitter.com/jWlLG1cCSU
— Ed Bott (@edbott) July 1, 2020
Of course zero-f*cking-hedge is still alive and well on this thing 🙄 https://t.co/eyo96o0kT9
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) July 1, 2020
I’m gonna have Mt. Rushmore dynamited and replaced with a sculpture of Maxine Waters lightly pushing you. https://t.co/EJuDo8xXyd
— Eyes on the Right (@EyesOnTheRight) July 2, 2020
He was convicted of burglary and assault. He spent twenty years in prison.
Maya Moore gave up her 2019 WNBA season to help Jonathan Irons overturn his conviction on charges of burglary and assault.
Today, he was freed from prison. (via @mooremaya) pic.twitter.com/8mnEPgW8WA— ESPN (@espn) July 2, 2020
Michael Tracey has simply never been the same since that day Maxine Waters powerbombed him into the pavement.
been awhile since i read dilbert but it’s buckwild as hell now pic.twitter.com/Pu8ZkbFtyT
— untitled struggle tweeter (@KickSewly) July 1, 2020
re: #97 Targetpractice
Michael Tracey has simply never been the same since that day Maxine Waters powerbombed him into the pavement.
He seems to be a garden-variety moran.
Totally speculative, but it’s possible that US pandemic response would be even MORE chaotic and uneven under a Democratic president: because there would be exponentially more resistance to federal directives. Think the “Re-Open America” protests, but many times larger and angrier
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 2, 2020
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He seems to be a garden-variety moran.
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That’s cute that he thinks there are that many Republicans that there would actually be protests. The “Re-open America” movement was a fizzle and only got attention because they were carrying guns in the open.
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He seems to be a garden-variety moran.
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Problem with this line of “logic”: Poll after poll has shown that voters are upset with the total lack of leadership during this outbreak from the federal gov’t.
4:40am Mythical Daylight Time: The birds were just switched on.
Extremely local news: A couple days ago my sister-in-law noticed water running down the outside of our house; it appears we have a leaking pipe.
I can’t find any flooding in the cellar, nor can I find the pipe which is leaking. All the water is pooling under my kitchen window.
We’ll have a plumber out next Wednesday from Scottsbluff (charge just to come to my house: $75).
Republicans are the proof to the Dunning-Kruger hypothesis.
re: #66 Dread Pirate
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this is not braggadocio or spin or overselling
its pure delusion
the man is insane
certifiable
Trump: “You know, they say — everybody says it, and nobody even disputes it — in the history of our country, nobody has done more than I have in the first 3-and-a-half years.”
This is what *he* says. Some of his supporters do too, but it is widely disputed.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 2, 2020
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
4:40am Mythical Daylight Time: The birds were just switched on.
Extremely local news: A couple days ago my sister-in-law noticed water running down the outside of our house; it appears we have a leaking pipe.
I can’t find any flooding in the cellar, nor can I find the pipe which is leaking. All the water is pooling under my kitchen window.
We’ll have a plumber out next Wednesday from Scottsbluff (charge just to come to my house: $75).
Do you have a stethoscope in your frontier first-aid kit?
re: #104 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
this is not braggadocio or spin or overselling
its pure delusion
the man is insane
certifiable
Well, let’s be fair, there is one thing he has done more than anyone else - nobody has murdered more Americans than he has. I mean, at this point, even the goddamn actual Nazis haven’t killed as many Americans as President Trump has.
re: #104 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
this is not braggadocio or spin or overselling
its pure delusion
the man is insane
certifiable
I don’t think we’ve ever had a President like Trump; an overflowing cup of neuroses and psychological, emotional and behavioral disorders. He’s the entire DSM-5 come to life.
re: #83 Jack Burton
“A generous tip is 25%”
Says someone who’s never worked food service in their pampered ass life. Especially in a state that pulls that $ 2.13/hour horseshit.
If I give you 25%, that means: “I didn’t hate you”
work for tips once in your life and you’ll instantly get it
re: #108 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
work for tips once in your life and you’ll instantly get it
Making the reward for hard work depend on the kindness of strangers is an obscenity. Pay workers an enforceable living wage. Other countries do.
I worked as a dishwasher in high school. We didn’t get any of the tips, fuck the waiters.
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I assume that some of the people in the center were former associates, rivals or customers of the gang that did the hit.
Or, rehab is bad for business and doing this makes people scared to go into rehab.
re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Or, rehab is bad for business and doing this makes people scared to go into rehab.
I leaped to a Synanon vibe on the thin report.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #111 Dread Pirate
I worked as a dishwasher in high school. We didn’t get any of the tips, fuck the waiters.
There is no system to it—just a mishmash of weak state labor law, managerial greed, and the good will of an ill-willed public.
re: #107 Dr Lizardo
I don’t think we’ve ever had a President like Trump; an overflowing cup of neuroses and psychological, emotional and behavioral disorders. He’s the entire DSM-5 come to life.
It just amazes me that he thinks he’s accomplished so much and his predecessors accomplished nothing. He’s a sad, deluded sack of shit.
re: #105 Decatur Deb
Do you have a stethoscope in your frontier first-aid kit?
LOL … in fact my wife does have a stethoscope.
I suppose I could probe the outside wooden siding and see if I can hear running water. The amount running down the outside of the house isn’t very much though.
re: #113 Decatur Deb
I leaped to a Synanon vibe on the thin report.
en.wikipedia.org
I remember them, they were in the news a lot around 1970. This is the first time I’ve heard their name since then.
Trench Lawfare: Inside the Battles to Save Democracy From the Trump Administration (Time)
A lot of what goes on is not flashy or dramatic in trying to prevent Trump and his allies from undermining democracy.
The article goes into a legal group founded just after Trump was elected and some of the many things they’ve done to prevent abuse of power through the courts or other actions.
While started by Democrats, the group now includes Republicans.
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL … in fact my wife does have a stethoscope.
I suppose I could probe the outside wooden siding and see if I can hear running water. The amount running down the outside of the house isn’t very much though.
Listen to exposed pipes, like under the sink. Determining whether hot or cold system reduces the diagnosis. If in doubt, you can listen for a drop when you turn off the intake to the water heater.
re: #117 Dread Pirate
I remember them, they were in the news a lot around 1970. This is the first time I’ve heard their name since then.
I am aware of all pre-Internet traditions.
Oklahoma will probably have the same problem we do with Medicaid expansion: The GOP doesn’t give a damn what voters pass in a referendum. It’s been two years here now.
The level of audacity, partisanship, and heartlessness required by @GovRicketts to delay affordable healthcare for 90,000 Nebraskans after the people voted it in, particularly during a pandemic, still blows my mind. https://t.co/Qcw27EAi3w
— Senator Adam Morfeld (@Adam_Morfeld) July 1, 2020
BREAKING (WASHINGTON POST): A new Trump COVID-19 scandal has broken. Just before the Tulsa event, Trump staffers started testing positive for COVID-19 in large numbers. The campaign conspired to hide the outbreak in Tulsa by giving medical staff a rigged list of staffers to test. pic.twitter.com/2v4WwktiSg
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 2, 2020
Why our chances of holding campus voter registration drives are very poor: Alabama students are treating CV-19 like an ice bucket challenge.
Alabama students throwing ‘COVID parties’ to see who gets infected: Officials
abcnews.go.com
re: #123 Decatur Deb
Why our chances of campus voter registration drives are very poor: Alabama students are treating CV-19 like an ice bucket challenge.
Alabama students throwing ‘COVID parties’ to see who gets infected: Officials
abcnews.go.com
They need to enforce this part:
Arrol Sheehan, spokesperson for the Alabama Department of Public Health, said the state’s “Safer at Home Order” explicitly states that people who test positive “shall be quarantined to their place of residence for a period of 14 days.”
Sheehan stressed that violation of the heath order is a misdemeanor and fines for each violation can be up to $500.
“Suspected violations of the home quarantine order should be reported to law enforcement and the local health department,” she said in a statement to ABC News.
re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In 30 days their place of residence will be a funky, crowded dorm.
“They put money in a pot and they try to get COVID. Whoever gets COVID first gets the pot. It makes no sense,” McKinstry said. “They’re intentionally doing it.”
Our best and brightest.
re: #127 Targetpractice
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Good God, I hate my generation so much.
Nah—stupidity is shared evenly across the generations. The younger stupids just haven’t killed themselves off yet.
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Maybe it’s a good thing I didn’t go to college.
To be fair, that is ‘Bama. Roll Tide.
I don’t know the people behind MeidasTouch but they do good videos.
When America Needed Leadership…#HeWentToJared and we went to hell.
From @MeidasTouch - Pass it on. pic.twitter.com/ZDz7dKRmOe— Southern Sister Resister (@ResisterSis20) July 2, 2020
re: #123 Decatur Deb
Why our chances of campus voter registration drives are very poor: Alabama students are treating CV-19 like an ice bucket challenge.
Alabama students throwing ‘COVID parties’ to see who gets infected: Officials
abcnews.go.com
As hubby says, the TidePod Challenge kids have growed up.
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL … in fact my wife does have a stethoscope.
I suppose I could probe the outside wooden siding and see if I can hear running water. The amount running down the outside of the house isn’t very much though.
It could be a blocked condenser drain line, if there is an AC condenser in the attic, as is sometimes the case with a two story house. If the condenser line is blocked, the water will go into a drain pan and that drain line frequently empties through the eaves.
While house sales are down, there are a few surprises which show up on the market.
In one of San Diego counties exclusive neighborhoods a mid-century modern classic is now for sale: Antelline House
Current listing is secretive, but you can find pictures at an older listing here.
A good example of mid-century modern.
The only bad thing is that the street it is own is now a busy street. When it was built the road was much more a country road: goo.gl
If it was priced cheaper (I think when it last sold in 1998) the price was only $788k) then I suspect that a “developer” would just come in and bulldoze it to build some oversized monstrosity, given that developers want new.
re: #134 HeelBearCub
It could be a blocked condenser drain line, if there is an AC condenser in the attic, as is sometimes the case with a two story house. If the condenser line is blocked, the water will go into a drain pan and that drain line frequently empties through the eves.
Yes—even our 1-story originally had the drain from the attic. The replacement is in a 1st floor closet, but still pumps the condensate up to the original line.
re: #134 HeelBearCub
It could be a blocked condenser drain line, if there is an AC condenser in the attic, as is sometimes the case with a two story house. If the condenser line is blocked, the water will go into a drain pan and that drain line frequently empties through the eaves.
Not in this case. I have a one-story house, and only a window air conditioner in the bedroom.
Chobani, UBuffalo join list of companies pulling Facebook ads; Mark Zuckerberg says no change https://t.co/gexbv5fFb9
— Geoff Herbert (@deafgeoff) July 2, 2020
re: #138 Decatur Deb
If anyone watches the Bravo show Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, this season the first big budget house is one in San Diego, called the “Razor House”.
On the show Altman and Flagg convince the seller to drop the price from $30M to $25M. Well….
They did end up selling the house, the episode has not aired yet, but the sales data shows that the final selling price was only $21.6M.
It’s a cliffside monstrosity, a memorial to “new money”: 
Anyway, in this much newer house one can find design clues that go back to the older houses like the Antelline House. But the newer house I find grotesque, while the older house is much more graceful.
re: #140 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Isn’t that Tony Stark’s house?
re: #141 dharmamark
Isn’t that Tony Stark’s house?
The real estate sales guys are pitching the house to sellers as if it was the inspiration for the Stark’s house in the movie.
I was glad to see that I am not alone in noticing a decline in the quality of Russian trolls, particularly in the essential skill of colloquial American English. Quite a few people here and elsewhere, including real experts, have noticed the same thing. Obviously the unexpected opportunity presented by Covid19 would create an increase in demand but I wonder if there might be another factor: Skilled trolls who are perfectly willing to get Trump re-elected, recruit spies, or incite goober militia might balk at a project whose objective is to spread disease and mass death. Under-handed propaganda for political and military advantage is one thing, putting yourself in line for the Julius Streicher seat at an international tribunal is something else entirely.
re: #141 dharmamark
Isn’t that Tony Stark’s house?
Apparently it was inspired by Tony Stark’s house in the Iron Man films. I’m pretty sure that was just a movie set, like the house in Parasite - and BTW, it blew me away when I found out that particular house was just a set….I thought it was a real house somewhere in the Seoul area.
On Sarah Palin:
Funny story. I was on active duty, at a luncheon in Wasilla where she was mayor. She looked at the medals on my chest and called me a hero.
A few years later, she was governor and McCain’s running mate. I was a writer. She called me a traitor to America.
What do you think? https://t.co/jbAPod6G7U— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 1, 2020
The follow up is this: I voted for her. For governor. That’s right.
You see, her predecessor was one of the most corrupt, rotten politicians Alaska has ever had. So, compared to that, Palin seemed pretty good.
That guy? Lisa Murkowski’s dad.
That’s right.
2/2— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 1, 2020
re: #144 Dr Lizardo
The house in La Jolla came first. I think it was built in 2007.
Just in time for that superspreader event at Mt. Rushmore….
.@realDonaldTrump’s legacy is his countless failures, and the damage he’s done to America and its people.
Our Founding Fathers look down at him with disdain. pic.twitter.com/UEtXJUIldv— Paul the other one, it’s got bells on it. (@paulcshipley) July 2, 2020
Sorry, Beach Dem.
SC beach linked to hundreds of coronavirus cases as it braces for 4th of July tourists https://t.co/k44UiWjIrd pic.twitter.com/Jqf9KIZX7W
— The Hill (@thehill) July 1, 2020
re: #146 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The house in La Jolla came first. I think it was built in 2007.
Huh - so maybe the production designers on Iron Man took inspiration from it then. Meh, why not?
re: #144 Dr Lizardo
Apparently it was inspired by Tony Stark’s house in the Iron Man films. I’m pretty sure that was just a movie set, like the house in Parasite - and BTW, it blew me away when I found out that particular house was just a set….I thought it was a real house somewhere in the Seoul area.
I thought they used the big white house that juts out above the Hollywood Hills (that Spielberg used to own) as Tony Stark’s house.
I’m shocked the Parasite house was a set. It was gorgeous. And that movie was… Holy shit… Good.
re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And I see Florida is getting really bad….while Mayor Vaughn Governor DeSantis is planning on keeping the beaches open for the Fourth of July holiday.
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Chobani, UBuffalo join list of companies pulling Facebook ads; Mark Zuckerberg says no change
Wonder when Zuck is going to figure out that Facebook is turning into the Philip Morris of the 2020’s: from an untouchable juggernaut success story in public opinion to a money grubbing death merchant.
re: #149 Dr Lizardo
The Razor house has been in a lot of media ever since it was built, and it was going to be sold for peanuts on the dollar at one time:
re: #153 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
From the prior link:
Public records show about $34 million was spent building the 11,000-square-foot estate, which has never been occupied. Construction began in 2002 and was completed in 2008. The original sale price was set at $45 million but has consistently been slashed according to the market and even more when it became a bankruptcy property.
It’s a classic case of trying to build a monument but the market just doesn’t support such outlandish stuff.
Even on one of the most prime pieces of real estate in the world.
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This. (My wife long ago stopped complaining about me giving very large tips in restaurants.)
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Around the Metroplex, we have noticed that the prices of food at restaurants has gone up to compensate for the lack of drinks being bought. I leave at least a 20% tip for pickup, or at least $10, which I did the other day at Luigi’s restaurant when I picked up $7 of dinner rolls. You could tell the waiter was pretty shocked at that one.
I guess the takeaway for me is that American society is full of outlandish demonstrations of wealth, but the reality of life is that functionality and beauty are more important than public monuments to one’s wealth.
re: #110 Decatur Deb
As a former restaurant worker, I couldn’t agree more.
re: #156 Belafon
Around the Metroplex, we have noticed that the prices of food at restaurants has gone up to compensate for the lack of drinks being bought. I leave at least a 20% tip for pickup, or at least $10, which I did the other day at Luigi’s restaurant when I picked up $7 of dinner rolls. You could tell the waiter was pretty shocked at that one.
Baggers at the market who carry out our groceries seem consistently surprised when I give them a $5 tip. I think I’m the only person around here who does that.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“Ku Klux Karen” goes viral after being offended by a Target employee’s “Black Lives Matter” mask on Long Island.
When Tara started taking the order of the person behind Karen after her complaining, and Karen complained about being ignored, Tara could have gone “All customers matter.”
re: #156 Belafon
Around the Metroplex, we have noticed that the prices of food at restaurants has gone up to compensate for the lack of drinks being bought. I leave at least a 20% tip for pickup, or at least $10, which I did the other day at Luigi’s restaurant when I picked up $7 of dinner rolls. You could tell the waiter was pretty shocked at that one.
Since bars have been able to offer pickup service, we’ve been getting our beer from a local brewery. They let you order online and they can the beer fresh from the tap for you to pick up.
The ordering software defaults to a 10% tip, but we always max it out to 25%. The brewery has been struggling, so we’re trying to help them by ordering regularly (and I’ve picked up some of their merch with that cool Commie logo). It’s the least we can do in return for good beer.
re: #157 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I guess the takeaway for me is that American society is full of outlandish demonstrations of wealth, but the reality of life is that functionality and beauty are more important than public monuments to one’s wealth.
Got to tour the Kauffman house, Fallingwater, on our last trip to PA. It’s too far off the beaten path to be a public monument, and the family who built it were totes progressive for the day.
Perhaps the oldest identified residence in the Americas is not too far away.
heinzhistorycenter.org
Another Republican criminal goes down. This time the county clerk of Goshen County, Wyoming [seat Torrington].
Carlson interviewed Rickard at a Scottsbluff hospital on Jan. 24, 2019, as she was a patient there. During that interview, Rickard initially denied knowing how the funds were missing, but eventually admitted to taking some money from the bank deposits. She allegedly said she was sorry and admitted the money was used to pay bills, rent and a cell phone for a relative. She said her family, which also owned Wyoming Theatre, was living from paycheck to paycheck.
That is one rugged picture of her in the article at the Star-Herald.
The funds were discovered missing when the Goshen County Attorney was notified cheques drawn on the county’s bank account bounced.
She will be sentenced in mid-July.
The Darkov coal mine in Karvína, the one I’ve written is the center of a localized outbreak? Looks like it’s going to have to shut down…..the majority of the workforce are either sick or in quarantine. The operator of the mine, OKD, will maintain a skeleton crew for the time being.
No word on when - or if - it’ll re-open; it was scheduled to cease operations entirely by June 2021, so looks like the end just came a bit sooner.
Chilling article explains why it’s critical that Biden win a decisive popular vote and electoral college victory. Wherever we live, we must vote for Biden; the fate of the nation depends on it. amp.ft.com
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re: #165 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Chilling article explains why it’s critical that Biden win a decisive popular vote and electoral college victory. Wherever we live, we must vote for Biden; the fate of the nation depends on it. amp.ft.com
Paywalled, but I know the lyrics. A sloppy American electorate done fucked up, and we’re going to pay for it. We won’t be that lucky again.
Trump’s failure to deal with covid19 wrecked the economy and reopening too fast means some jobs were able to be recovered but those will get shuttered again as cases soar.
Trump’s legacy is a wrecked economy and 131,000+ dead so far. https://t.co/gGzhuNnkKD— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 2, 2020
The economy continues grinding away. Trump’s failures continue piling up, and the unemployment rate is still well above the peak from the Great Recession. It’s also an illusion because reopening too soon may have generated some of the recovery, but as businesses are forced to close again particularly in states like FL, TX, CA, and elsewhere (NY, NJ) are looking at delaying/prolonging shutdowns due to cases climbing there, it’s going to be a prolonged depression.
It didn’t have to be this way, but Trump and his cult followers decided to ignore the health experts and wont mandate mask wearing, even though that’s critical to the economic recovery.
Only thing we want to hear is his resignation. Everything else is just bluster, bulkshit (warehouse sized portions of BS), projection like IMAX, or straight up lies.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 2, 2020
Graham is busy complimenting Trump on his golf game.
That’s right - suck up to Trump on the golf course, all while the economy craters, 131,000+ are dead from his malfeasance, and he’s a treasonweasel who refused to protect our troops from Russian bounties all while sucking up to Putin.
That makes Graham a complicit accessory to Trump’s misconduct.
Trump’s golfing is more concerning to @LindseyGrahamSC than the fact that Trump’s failed covid19 response destroyed the economy or killed 131,000+ Americans
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 2, 2020
re: #167 Decatur Deb
Paywalled, but I know the lyrics. A sloppy American electorate done fucked up, and we’re going to pay for it. We won’t be that lucky again.
Hmm. It didn’t flag me for a paywall. I can read the article.
The Pentagon has always found “war games” indispensable. Informed role players provide a sharper sense of how military escalations unfold. The same is true of the electoral battlefield. In three out of four US election games run by the Transition Integrity Project, a non-partisan group created by Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law school and Nils Gilman of the Berggruen Institute, the US republic hit constitutional impasse by the conclusion in January 2021.
Even in the fourth scenario, where Mr Biden had clearly won the popular vote and the electoral college, the result was contested. Mr Trump only agreed to leave office after Mr Biden promised him a blanket pardon.
It is the other three prospects we should worry about. Much like the situation outlined above — in which I helped play the role of the media — presidential incumbency is a huge advantage. America is unique in giving its losing chief executive another 10 weeks of power — nuclear button included — before handing over to the winner.
It is one thing when the defeated president is Jimmy Carter or George HW Bush (the last two one-term presidents). They personified fair play. It is quite another if the loser is Mr Trump. As they say, possession is nine-tenths of the law.
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re: #166 plansbandc
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The Great American Comeback is underway!
June: 4.8 MILLION JOBS ADDED vs 2.9 million estimate.— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 2, 2020
Dude’s getting dragged, mercilessly. Hate to see it.
Jeffrey Epstein accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, arrested by the FBI per MSNBC!
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 2, 2020
Aurora PD breaking up the peaceful violin vigil for the very kid they murdered. #ElijahMclain pic.twitter.com/OP4TlawVk5
— Jessie B (@jessiedesigngal) June 28, 2020
re: #170 lawhawk
Graham is busy complimenting Trump on his golf game.
That’s right - suck up to Trump on the golf course, all while the economy craters, 131,000+ are dead from his malfeasance, and he’s a treasonweasel who refused to protect our troops from Russian bounties all while sucking up to Putin.
That makes Graham a complicit accessory to Trump’s misconduct.
That goes back to Sen. Graham’s first private golf outing Donald Trump invited him to, when Graham was an implacable enemy of Trump. He came out of that golf game as one of Trump’s strongest supporters.
I don’t know what Trump has on Graham, but it would seem to be something that would not only end his career, but maybe send him to jail.
re: #174 lawhawk
Jeffrey Epstein accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, arrested by the FBI per MSNBC!
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 2, 2020
And…..she’s dead already. She just doesn’t know it yet. IIRC, she knows as much as Epstein did.
re: #169 lawhawk
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re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Hmm. It didn’t flag me for a paywall. I can read the article.
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Thanks, but their “war game” is lame. Trump doesn’t have to play fair. He stops being president on January 21, 2021. There is no negotiating with a former president.
re: #176 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So, they’re breaking up something that not only isn’t illegal, but falls under the first amendment, and they still can’t grasp why people aren’t putting up with them anymore.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 2, 2020
re: #180 Belafon
Thanks, but their “war game” is lame. Trump doesn’t have to play fair. He stops being president on January 21, 2021. There is no negotiating with a former president.
I could see Trump trying to pull off some kind of “President in exile” bullshit. And you know what? I’m fine with him doing that.
He can do all that from his corner office in the Kremlin, never able to return to the USA, while his kids and his son-in-law are arrested, while the Trump Organization is brought down and as Trump Tower is seized by the city of New York and condemned as unfit for human habitation.
re: #180 Belafon
Thanks, but their “war game” is lame. Trump doesn’t have to play fair. He stops being president on January 21, 2021. There is no negotiating with a former president.
If he’s as crazy as we make him out, Pence needs to be President on Nov 5.
re: #180 Belafon
Thanks, but their “war game” is lame. Trump doesn’t have to play fair. He stops being president on January 21, 2021. There is no negotiating with a former president.
More on that from the same article:
The other games began with a narrow Biden victory and an inconclusive electoral college result. In both cases, Mr Trump threatened to federalise the national guard to skew or shut down ballot recounts in contested states. Bill Barr, the US attorney-general, helped Republican legislatures certify results that contradicted their Democratic governors. Four swing states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina — have split party control. In each scenario, Mr Trump leverages his office to gain the upper hand. The Supreme Court remains aloof.
None of this is far-fetched. No matter who was playing the game, Mr Trump’s instincts were never in question. The participants — senior legal, political and former government figures — were split between Republicans and Democrats. These were exercises rather than forecasts. Yet they left little doubt that the only prospect for a peaceful transition would be a strong victory for either candidate in November.
Since Mr Trump has almost no chance of winning the popular vote, the most realistic hope for US stability would be a clear Biden victory. Today’s polls suggest he would win comfortably. But Mr Biden’s lead will probably narrow in the 18 weeks between now and then. The closer the race, the less soundly we should sleep. American democracy is heading into the mother of all stress tests.
Ugh.
These so much bullshit in this article that I’m surprised they managed to get to their single-sentence punchline.
This isn’t an article worth reading, IMHO. https://t.co/8noIH0Oj4y— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 2, 2020
re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Even in the fourth scenario, where Mr Biden had clearly won the popular vote and the electoral college, the result was contested. Mr Trump only agreed to leave office after Mr Biden promised him a blanket pardon.
I’d say ‘Sure, blanket pardon it is,’ and then once he’s gone from the White House, send federal agents to arrest him and tell him ‘Sue me.’
re: #174 lawhawk
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Fact: when President Trump took office in January 2017, there were 241 Republicans in the House.
Since then, 115 (48%) have either retired, resigned, been defeated or are retiring in 2020.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) July 1, 2020
For reference, this 48% figure exceeds the attrition rate of Democrats at this point in Obama’s first term - 112/256 (44%) - and note that 2012 being a redistricting year contributed to plenty of Dem retirements/losses.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) July 1, 2020
re: #185 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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— Peggy Stuart (@PeggyStuart) July 2, 2020
Until I created this map, I hadn’t appreciated how bad the situation in the US is. These maps show districts with over 50 cases per 100k in the last week (Germany’s “emergency brake” trigger for local lockdowns) in 🇩🇪, 🏴, 🇺🇸
The USA right now has 1000 Leicesters or Güterslohs pic.twitter.com/seMnorew3h— Ste JM 🚊🛰🐦 (@stejormur) July 1, 2020
re: #178 Dr Lizardo
There it is in the news:
Jeffrey Epstein Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested, Sources Say (NBC New York)
Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and heiress who became a confidante of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and was later accused of involvement in his alleged sexual crimes, has been arrested by the FBI, two senior law enforcement sources tell News 4 New York.
She was arrested in Bedford, New Hampshire around 8:30 a.m. on charges she conspired with Epstein to sexually abuse minors and is expected to appear in a federal court later today, the sources say.
Her father Robert Maxwell was a piece of work himself. He escaped from the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and built a media empire in the United Kingdom. When he died in 1991(found floating in the Atlantic next to his yacht Lady Ghislaine), huge discrepancies were found in the accounts of his company and banks started calling in loans. It was found he embezzled the pension funds of his company. The company collapsed shortly thereafter.
re: #190 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Yay, my county is highlighted in red. What do we win?
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yay, my county is highlighted in red. What do we win?
16 of the counties in the DFW Metroplex are red. Going strong.
They found Ghislaine in Bedford? I guess there are a lot of mansions down there—wealthy Trump area (though Seth Myers and Sarah Silverman are both from there).
So, learning new information in the intervening 5 years should not matter?Good to know.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 2, 2020
Ruffini is a GOP pollster - facts and new information are an anathema to GOPers.
(EDIT-added):
I’ve been to the Black Hills once. I’ve written about it, and I was fascinated to learn the history of how the US fucked over the Sioux and their claims to the Black Hills. It was set out in the Treaty of Fort Laramie. The moment gold was found in the Hills, the US abrogated the treaty and seized the lands. Even Mount Rushmore was expropriated by the US and state of South Dakota over objections of the tribe.
The parklands (Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, etc.) may now preserve the land, but it wasn’t meant to be federal land in the first place. It was set aside as tribal land. And we’re still fucking over the tribes. The US offered up a monetary settlement, but the tribe wants the land so the money sits in escrow in the meantime - now over $1 billion. That’s a pittance compared to the value of the land and gold extracted from just Lead, South Dakota mine district (which extracted ~1.2 million kg of gold over life of the mine).
If a kg of gold is worth around $50,000, that means you’re looking at $60 billion in gold alone.
MAGA: Make American Graves Again. https://t.co/Vr9LChuGDz
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 2, 2020
re: #195 lawhawk
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I didn’t have a problem with Trump 5 years ago…
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re: #193 Belafon
16 of the counties in the DFW Metroplex are read. Going strong.
4 of the eleven counties in the Panhandle are in red (looking at the map it’s Scott’s Bluff, Sioux, Sheridan, and Morrill).
Dixie looks like a bloodbath on that map.
re: #195 lawhawk
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A good rule is that if you didn’t have a problem with something 5 years ago, you shouldn’t have a problem with it today. For example, if you weren’t a Mt. Rushmore revisionist then, you shouldn’t be now.
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) July 2, 2020
Hunter Biden is glad to hear that.
re: #189 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is the article.
Wholly crap, they go after Democrats because of Trump right out of the gate. The lede:
The Trump years have scrambled old ideological lines. So perhaps it is not so surprising that in recent days George F. Will, the elegant dean of conservative columnists, and Matt Taibbi, a raucous liberal iconoclast, found themselves gnawing on different parts of the same bone.
Here’s what made their agreement noteworthy: It had nothing to do with Donald Trump. In this case, both writers were agitated by what they see as the left’s effort to stifle free thinking and bully those who dissent from its rigid ideological and racial orthodoxy.
“… stifle free thinking and bully those who dissent, &c …”
I’m fine with bullying Nazis and racists. I guess that makes me a “rigid iconoclast.”
re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
4 of the eleven counties in the Panhandle are in red (looking at the map it’s Scott’s Bluff, Sioux, Sheridan, and Morrill).
Dixie looks like a bloodbath on that map.
Maybe Sherman is marching again.
Sometimes autoplay and subtitles are your friend, because I really don’t watch most ads:
Presidential. pic.twitter.com/rinetwB0IT
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 1, 2020
re: #199 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
A good rule is that if you didn’t have a problem with something 5 years ago, you shouldn’t have a problem with it today. For example, if you weren’t a Mt. Rushmore revisionist then, you shouldn’t be now.
— Patrick Ruffini
“revisionist”
So if you thought anti-miscegenation laws were fine five years ago, you shouldn’t change now.
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wholly crap, they go after Democrats because of Trump right out of the gate. The lede:
“… stifle free thinking and bully those who dissent, &c …”
I’m fine with bullying Nazis and racists. I guess that makes me a “rigid iconoclast.”
That they’re holding up Matt Fucking Taibbi as an iconic leftie made me want to hurl. I guess greenwald wasn’t available.
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yay, my county is highlighted in red. What do we win?
Almost all of Florida is red
I am an optimist, so I think the country can recover from Trump, but I knew there would be a major test during Trump’s presidency and I knew he would fail it and it would do harm to us.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 2, 2020
re: #205 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That they’re holding up Matt Fucking Taibbi as an iconic leftie made me want to hurl. I guess greenwald wasn’t available.
I have to believe the same things I did in 2015? So in 2025, I need to believe the same as I do in 2020, which should be the same I did in 2015. In 2030, I should believe the same things I did in 2025, which were the same as 2020, which were the same as 2015. I could keep going.
— Brooke (@brooketorious) July 2, 2020
https://t.co/UrUaJ8vw2c pic.twitter.com/KA9l2b5Um4
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 2, 2020
(VIA Daily Beast) “What has been created is a mindset of a large segment of the population that COVID is not real, that it isn’t serious,” said Shelton, a Democrat. “There’s the far-out conspiracy theorists that think this whole thing’s an effort to hurt President Trump. I mean, just really outlandish conspiracy theories floating around, which is hampering the ability of all levels of government to respond to COVID-19.”
And now his home state of Mississippi, like others across the country is facing the potential consequences.
Shelton is among those in the state who have continued to show concern over the statewide handling of the pandemic, which has seen Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves mix in severe warnings about the coronavirus with loosened statewide rules in recent weeks that came before the state’s recent spike in cases.
Those issues culminated Wednesday in Reeves announcing he was pausing the state’s reopening and emphasizing “this is not a hoax,” as the state considers next steps. The state needs “more cooperation, not more mandates,” Reeves said.
“Additional orders are useless if people will not follow what we have in place now,” Reeves told reporters during a press briefing. “And you and I both know that is the reality on the ground.”
Republicans have spent decades creating this monster, now they’re pissed because they’re losing control of it.
It would almost be funny if there wasn’t so damn much at stake.
re: #207 Belafon
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I had a best case scenario which is not too far from the current situation.
The worst case scenario?
Don’t ask….— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) July 2, 2020
I just can’t even.
But sure y’all wanna come for Biden’s mental day faculties
— Federico Chispas (@dfsparks) July 2, 2020
Haha so if you find out your best friend of 5 years has been nailing your wife, is he still your best friend?
— Adamish (@Adamish_1) July 2, 2020
re: #212 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Trump on resurgence of virus as cases are spiking in several states: “We are putting out that life because it’s a bad life that we’re talking about.”
WTF is that even supposed to mean? Anyone here speak jive Trump?
Harsh book about Trump family by president’s niece can be published, judge rules (NBC News)
An appeals court has overturned the initial ruling.
So, I just want to be the first to say, Ghislane Maxwell didn’t kill herself.
Such a tragedy - accidentally and brutally decapitating herself while combing her hair. Another senseless hair grooming tragedy. And what’s that? The CCTV in her cell didn’t work? Really, that sort of thing needs looking into.
re: #214 Dr Lizardo
WTF is that even supposed to mean? Anyone here speak
jiveTrump?
After reading it a half-dozen times, I think he’s going for “life unworthy of life.”
Reading through the Arizona triage scoring system, one of the negative scores is for neurological problems. If you have those, they argue your quality of life is lessened and critical care should be withheld if resources are strained.
Epilepsy fits into that definition, but I don’t see my quality of life lessened because I have epilepsy.
Fuque the GOP for creating this mess.
re: #216 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Harsh book about Trump family by president’s niece can be published, judge rules (NBC News)
An appeals court has overturned the initial ruling.
As expected, the court refused to stop the book publication on prior restraint grounds. They sidestepped issue of the NDA.
re: #218 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
After reading it a half-dozen times, I think he’s going for “life unworthy of life.”
Reading through the Arizona triage scoring system, one of the negative scores is for neurological problems. If you have those, they argue your quality of life is lessened and critical care should be withheld if resources are strained.
Epilepsy fits into that definition, but I don’t see my quality of life lessened because I have epilepsy.
Fuque the GOP for creating this mess.
Maybe it just didn’t translate well from
the original German…..
You know what I’m really looking forward to if Biden wins? Being able to wake up each day and NOT have to ask myself: “I wonder what stupid shit the President tweeted this morning?”.
re: #199 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
Hunter Biden is glad to hear that.
What that guy is describing is religion. Religion doesn’t change with new information.
re: #221 Eclectic Cyborg
You know what I’m really looking forward to if Biden wins? Being able to wake up each day and NOT have to ask myself: “I wonder what stupid shit the President tweeted this morning”.
Yeah. Biden will be “boring”. I want boring.
re: #219 lawhawk
As expected, the court refused to stop the book publication on prior restraint grounds. They sidestepped issue of the NDA.
So is another appeal likely?
The litigious Trump in the book case is Robert, not Donald (I think), but there seems to be a family tendency towards reflexive lawyering-up (and up-lawyering), if only to play for time.
Though ISTM that they may only be able to postpone publication for a short time: til right before Election Day?
re: #186 makeitstop
I’d say ‘Sure, blanket pardon it is,’ and then once he’s gone from the White House, send federal agents to arrest him and tell him ‘Sue me.’
Or pardon Trump, and only Trump, in exchange for all the documentation and access to records that will put Barr, Trump’s children, and all the GOP hangers-on in jail and broke for the rest of their lives. I’m sure Mitch McConnell will love that.
re: #225 Jay C
So is another appeal likely?
The litigious Trump in the book case is Robert, not Donald (I think), but there seems to be a family tendency towards reflexive lawyering-up (and up-lawyering), if only to play for time.
Though ISTM that they may only be able to postpone publication for a short time: til right before Election Day?
It’d go up to the 3d Department Appellate Division. From there, it’s the State Court of Appeals (top level court in NY). But I’d go out on a limb to say those other courts would rule that prior restraint wins the day and allows publication. They’re not going to deny the publication here.
re: #227 lawhawk
Agreed. I don’t see Trump winning many cases in NY courts anytime soon.
re: #226 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or pardon Trump, and only Trump, in exchange for all the documentation and access to records that will put Barr, Trump’s children, and all the GOP hangers-on in jail and broke for the rest of their lives. I’m sure Mitch McConnell will love that.
Then let the state of NY prosecute Trump, because a presidential pardon doesn’t cover state crimes.
Good article about how Atlanta reduced its jail population by 90%, from 700 a day to 70.
slate.com
re: #202 Belafon
He’s a good man. It will be really really great to have a good man be President again.
re: #220 Dr Lizardo
Maybe it just didn’t translate well from
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I see your NSDAP poster and raise you a schoolbook for kids…
re: #190 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Until I created this map, I hadn’t appreciated how bad the situation in the US is. These maps show districts with over 50 cases per 100k in the last week (Germany’s “emergency brake” trigger for local lockdowns) in 🇩🇪, 🏴, 🇺🇸
The USA right now has 1000 Leicesters or Güterslohs
The situation in Gütersloh, Germany, is connected to a single meat packing plant. And do you know what the government is doing? Invoking the Defense Production Act to force people back to work while exempting employers from liability?
No, they are reforming legislation concerning working conditions and the treatment of animals in the meat packing industry, as this is badly damaging Germany’s reputation as a producer/exporter of quality meat products.
re: #224 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah. Biden will be “boring”. I want boring.
he’ll likely be doing his job and that doesnt leave much time for tweeting about things that are not about the job
This guarantees further spread, and prolongs the economic wreckage due to Trump and GOP failures to require masking and social distancing - more people will die thanks to DeSantis and Trump. They own this disaster. All of it.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 2, 2020
re: #224 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah. Biden will be “boring”. I want boring.
The media love Trump because he offers them a 24/7 political reality/crime/scandal show…starting with his morning tweets, followed by reports of some scandals involving him or his family or party, then the rebuttal, comments, and of course the rallies…
they will be loath to see him go.
re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The media love Trump because he offers them a 24/7 political reality/crime/scandal show…starting with his morning tweets, followed by reports of some scandals involving him or his family or party, then the rebuttal, comments, and of course the rallies…
they will be loath to see him go.
I’m not talking about the media. I’m talking about myself.
re: #237 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m not talking about the media. I’m talking about myself.
of course, but it is clear whose side the media are on…they are willing to put up with four more years of bumbling outrageous shitshow because it brings in better ratings than a boring old guy doing a competent job…
re: #234 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
he’ll likely be doing his job and that doesnt leave much time for tweeting about things that are not about the job
People are going to see Biden be President and remember “ Yeah the Presidency isn’t an elephants and peanuts show.” It will be nice not to ask “what did he do this time?”
re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
of course, but it is clear whose side the media are on…they are willing to put up with four more years of shitshow because it brings in better ratings than a boring old guy doing a competent job…
I said nothing about the media. Just that I want a boring presidency. Who gives a fuck?
Local Kroger update: at 10:15 am, about 80% of the people are wearing masks. The crazy ones must be at work.
Sorry Wendell but who gives a shit about the media’s desires at this point? At this point the American electorate just wants this shit show to end and to have a boring presidency.
Wait Biden had a phone call with Angela Merkel and he didn’t insult her and he talked about our shared interests as nations? That’s what we’re going to get and I can’t wait for it. I want people to see that the President of the United States isn’t supposed to be addicted to seeing his name in the news daily.
re: #232 Teukka
I see your NSDAP poster and raise you a schoolbook for kids…
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re: #242 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Sorry Wendell but who gives a shit about the media’s desires at this point? At this point the American electorate just wants this shit show to end and to have a boring presidency.
I want to see the electorate (and you) get your wishes.
re: #241 Belafon
Local Kroger update: at 10:15 am, about 80% of the people are wearing masks. The crazy ones must be at work.
I have noticed during my past couple of supermarket visits that even in this deep red state there’s been a higher number of mask wearers. Still not as many as I’d like to see, but progress is progress.
re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg
Good God, that font hurts my eyes.
Same here. It takes several seconds for my brain to adjust to it.
Sweet jeebus. That’s quite the albatross catch:
Even better with the Chariots of Fire song underneath pic.twitter.com/RsRGkyEfJx
— Michael Schwab (@michaelschwab13) July 2, 2020
re: #199 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
“A good rule is that if you didn’t have a problem with something 5 years ago, you shouldn’t have a problem with it today.”
Conservatives waste a lot of money spending those years in college.
re: #250 jaunte
Conservatives waste a lot of money spending those years in college.
“A good rule is that if you didn’t have a problem with something 5 years ago, you shouldn’t have a problem with it today.”
Nice to know that the Republicans are going to quit whining about Mitt Romney.
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re: #245 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I want to see the electorate (and you) get your wishes.
They are. We’re seeing it.
re: #251 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
Nice to know that the Republicans are going to quit whining about Mitt Romney.
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I like how they complain about how Romney was treated but no introspection about Kerry and the Swift Boat crap.
Has Alan Dershowitz taken Ghislaine Maxwell’s case yet?
re: #235 lawhawk
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BREAKING NEWS: Florida hit a grim record today, posting more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases. It’s the largest daily increase of the pandemic as June’s surge pushes into the July 4 weekend. https://t.co/d8MKZB1NgZ pic.twitter.com/BMp9Ya4r0t
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) July 2, 2020
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) called for the White House coronavirus task force to be disbanded “so that President Trump’s message is not mitigated or distorted,” Politico reports.
He said that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx “continue to contradict” Trump’s goal of reopening the economy.
definitely suppress all the valuable information so that only the president’s insanity will be heard
Tuberville campaign bus catches fire in Alabama during test drive https://t.co/nVjelyzHtL pic.twitter.com/KaGtnugIkG
— The Hill (@thehill) July 2, 2020
re: #257 lawhawk
Dumpster fire
If you have HBO, watch “I’ll Be Gone In The Dark”. It’s really damn good.
It’s about the book that led to the capture of the Golden State Killer.
So good.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’VE SEEN THAT MOVIE!
Bill Maher was in it.
And Christine Lavin wrote a song about it. Clip includes info about concert later this week.
re: #257 lawhawk
Seems like an appropriate metaphor.
re: #211 Teukka
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re: #259 plansbandc
If you have HBO, watch “I’ll Be Gone In The Dark”. It’s really damn good.
It’s about the book that led to the capture of the Golden State Killer.
So good.
Made me so sad for Patton because Michelle really dedicated her life to finding out who this killer was. My hometown also got a mention since Patton’s folks live there and he himself grew up in a neighboring town and even went to school with my cousins.
The Ghislane Maxwell affadavit is quite the read.
My favorite part: pic.twitter.com/PsJJg5j2QG
— Pádraig Ó Séaġḋa (@poshea) July 2, 2020
re: #264 BigPapa
The Ghislane Maxwell affadavit is quite the read.
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re: #264 BigPapa
The Ghislane Maxwell affadavit is quite the read.
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Others Known Unknown. Hmmm
re: #265 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Looking at that album cover my first two thoughts are “What are all those people doing so close to each other?!” and “Why aren’t they wearing masks? Are they crazy?”
re: #263 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
God. They really truly loved each other. She’s a damn hero too. What a tragedy she died before seeing that piece of garbage arrested. I’m so sad for her family and friends
I’m so glad Patton found another good woman. Love him.
re: #267 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Others Known Unknown. Hmmm
Cue the Q idiots to fill in the names…..
re: #269 plansbandc
God. They really truly loved each other. She’s a damn hero too. What a tragedy she died before seeing that piece of garbage arrested. I’m so sad for her family and friends
I’m so glad Patton found another good woman. Love him.
She is. And yeah he really loved her. I’m glad he found love again. He’s good people.
re: #270 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
Cue the Q idiots to fill in the names…..
“Alreddy onn ittt”
re: #264 BigPapa
First thing that crossed my mind? Trump’s modeling agency. That line about “…and coerce one or more individuals to travel in interstate and foreign commerce”.
A guy who claimed he could have played in major league baseball stands as if it’s the first time he’s picked up a bat. Ever.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 2, 2020
re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg
Good God, that font hurts my eyes.
And the concepts it espouses hurts even more.
re: #274 lawhawk
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He Built a Privately Funded Border Wall. It’s Already at Risk of Falling Down if Not Fixed.
Trump supporters funded a private border wall on the banks of the Rio Grande, helping the builder secure $1.7 billion in federal contracts. Now the “Lamborghini” of border walls is in danger of falling into the river if nothing is done, experts say.
geniuses
re: #278 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
He Built a Privately Funded Border Wall. It’s Already at Risk of Falling Down if Not Fixed.
geniuses
Haw haw
re: #274 lawhawk
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‘spirit of america’????
what a self serving propaganda stunt
do some fucking work whydontcha
At “Spirit of America” event, Pres Trump examines Made in America products including baseball bats from Texas Timber Company. He practices a swing pic.twitter.com/4XUdGV5A1R
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 2, 2020
SDNY just announced the Ghislaine Maxwell case - like the original Epstein case - is staffed by the Public Corruption Unit.
I worked at SDNY and did sex trafficking cases. They do NOT run out of Public Corruption - unless there is some potential angle against a public official.— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) July 2, 2020
Given who Epstein has run with before his death, this suggests that anyone from Trump or Bill Clinton to other notables like Dershowitz or Rudy.
Pull no punches. Announce indictments against all of those involved, all of them - regardless of political party. This is sex trafficking of minors for their personal benefit.
President Donald Trump was briefed less and less with warnings about Russia’s behavior toward the US because he would get angry when presented with intelligence about it, CNN reported on Wednesday.
Early in Trump’s presidency, officials learned to limit their verbal briefings on the topic and would often see their written materials ignored, former administration officials told CNN’s Jim Sciutto.
“The president has created an environment that dissuades, if not prohibits, the mentioning of any intelligence that isn’t favorable to Russia,” a former senior national security staffer told CNN.
Our president is a manchild who sticks his fingers in his ears and babbles “LALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!” if anything bad about his goddamn sugar daddy Putin is said.
Just…what the fuck.
re: #266 Teukka
I wonder if she will die in questionable circumstances…
Barr is planning that right now.
re: #270 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
Cue the Q idiots to fill in the names…..
Yes they’re already trending “Clinton Body Count” on Twitter…
re: #282 Citizen K
Our president is a manchild who sticks his fingers in his ears and babbles “LALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!” if anything bad about his goddamn sugar daddy Putin is said.
Just…what the fuck.
He’ll call Merkel stupid but heaven forbid you tell him the truth about Vlad. He’s a traitor,
Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing, over 130 000 are dead, Russians are trying to get our soldiers killed for money, our economy is on the brink of collapse…and the President is standing around taking shitty looking swings with a baseball bat.
re: #278 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Building in the riparian floodplain is a fool’s errand, because flooding can change the centerline of the river, which is the border. And this idiotic plan will never connect with any actual official wall, meaning all anyone has to do is walk up to 1.5 miles in either direction to circumvent entirely. This guy’s a dumbass and anyone who funded him is a gullible rube.
re: #280 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Not a mask in sight. No social distancing either.
re: #286 Eclectic Cyborg
Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing, over 130 000 are dead, Russians are trying to get our soldiers killed for money, our economy is on the brink of collapse…and the President is standing around taking shitty looking swings with a baseball bat.
We are leaderless. Trump has hit the iceberg and declared the iceberg is good for the ship.
re: #280 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
‘spirit of america’????
what a self serving propaganda stuntdo some fucking work whydontcha
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re: #287 lawhawk
Building in the riparian floodplain is a fool’s errand, because flooding can change the centerline of the river, which is the border. And this idiotic plan will never connect with any actual official wall, meaning all anyone has to do is walk up to 1.5 miles in either direction to circumvent entirely. This guy’s a dumbass and anyone who funded him is a gullible rube.
There’s a gem deep in the article—this crook is a partner of Brian Kolfage (We Build the Wall), the father of wall crooks.
re: #282 Citizen K
Our president is a manchild who sticks his fingers in his ears and babbles “LALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!” if anything bad about his goddamn sugar daddy Putin is said.
Just…what the fuck.
….SO THEY STOPPED BRIEFING HIM!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????
what the everloving fucking fuck?
re: #286 Eclectic Cyborg
Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing, over 130 000 are dead, Russians are trying to get our soldiers killed for money, our economy is on the brink of collapse…and the President is standing around taking shitty looking swings with a baseball bat.
this!!!
In case you’re wondering about Parler, it’s still a cesspool. The first person to get to one million followers there is Dan Bongino.
re: #287 lawhawk
Building in the riparian floodplain is a fool’s errand, because flooding can change the centerline of the river, which is the border. And this idiotic plan will never connect with any actual official wall, meaning all anyone has to do is walk up to 1.5 miles in either direction to circumvent entirely. This guy’s a dumbass and anyone who funded him is a gullible rube.
well they did manage to score some government contracts and you can be sure there was ample skimming off of that
wanna bet they go back for more because now they have to ‘fix’ it?
re: #287 lawhawk
Building in the riparian floodplain is a fool’s errand, because flooding can change the centerline of the river, which is the border. And this idiotic plan will never connect with any actual official wall, meaning all anyone has to do is walk up to 1.5 miles in either direction to circumvent entirely. This guy’s a dumbass and anyone who funded him is a gullible rube.
Yeah, that “Lamborghini of walls” is looking more like a Yugo: sounds like the first bad flood of the Rio Grande will wash most of it away.
But it seems to have accomplished its principal function, anyway: not deterring border-crossers, of course, but qualifying its grifter builder for more Federal bucks. Mission Accomplished….
re: #297 Eclectic Cyborg
In case you’re wondering about Parler, it’s still a cesspool. The first person to get to one million followers there is Dan Bongino.
Let me guess—half of those are Russian accounts…
re: #295 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
….SO THEY STOPPED BRIEFING HIM!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????
what the everloving fucking fuck?
I’m afraid of Trump because the people who are supposed to help him, and therefore the rest of us, are afraid to do anything helpful.
Trump: “We signed a bill. You play with our monuments, or our statues, you go to jail for 10 years.”He did not sign a bill. That penalty is in a 2003 law. Trump issued an executive order that referred explicitly to the existing law.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 2, 2020
This is the 2003 law. https://t.co/squRhEN3hA
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 2, 2020
Trump on the Rushmore event he’s going to after allowing fireworks over enviro, safety concerns: “It’s going to be a fireworks display like few people have seen. It’s going to be very exciting. It’s going to be beautiful. They’ve been wanting to do that for years. Fireworks.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 2, 2020
Trump on script at an economic event: “The American Dream is the sacred birthright of every American child.”Trump ad-lib: “And nobody’s gonna shatter the American Dream. Not the anarchists, not the agitators, not the fools, not the looters.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 2, 2020
re: #4 Jack Burton
But.. just… how…
I know, I know. He knows nothing, no need for further explanation.
picturere: #4 Jack Burton
But.. just… how…
I know, I know. He knows nothing, no need for further explanation.
picture a scene of a bunch of welders at work, including a clicheic scene of various iron workers putting red-hot metal into dousing buckets, while theme music from the work scene from saruman’s tower plays loudly. then, we cut to a scene where the ship is cruising down the highway on giant tires.
re: #303 Backwoods_Sleuth
[Trump on the Rushmore event he’s going to after allowing fireworks over enviro, safety concerns: “It’s going to be a fireworks display like few people have seen. It’s going to be very exciting. It’s going to be beautiful. They’ve been wanting to do that for years. Fireworks.”]
I assume the raking is taking place all around, right now.
Since I’ve been in the dumps, thought I would finish watching the cheerful Chernobyl.
While he calls today’s job report “positive news,” @JoeBiden says “make no mistake: we are still in a deep, deep jobs hole because Donald Trump has so badly bungled the response to the coronavirus.”
— Sarah Mucha CNN (@sarahmucha) July 2, 2020
“There’s no victory to be celebrated. We should hope — but there’s no victory to be celebrated. We’re still down nearly 15 million jobs and the pandemic is getting worse, not better,” Biden says.
— Eric Bradner (@ericbradner) July 2, 2020
Biden often addresses big portions of his speeches directly to Trump. Here’s how he ended: “Quit hoping for the best, Mr. President. Quit claiming victory with almost 15 million Americans still out of work. … Act. Lead. Lead. Or get out of the way so others can, Mr. President.”
— Eric Bradner (@ericbradner) July 2, 2020
Some more good news (besides Ghislaine Maxwell being arrested): Judd Legum has finally got Facebook to start — START — taking Ben Shapiro’s FB money making scheme apart.
re: #306 wrenchwench
I assume the raking is taking place all around, right now.
Big rakers, with tears in their eyes.
Yet another story of why Trumps love of War Criminals is so utterly Evil.
If you can read this at WaPo, it’s depressing but worth the time.
He Was Convicted of Murder Then Pardoned By Trump. His Troops Suffered A Different Fate
By Greg Jaffe
July 2, 2020
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Only a few hours had passed since President Trump pardoned 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and the men of 1st Platoon were still trying to make sense of how it was even possible.How could a man they blamed for ruining their lives, an officer the Army convicted of second-degree murder and other charges, be forgiven so easily? How could their president allow him to just walk free?
“I feel like I’m in a nightmare,” Lucas Gray, a former specialist from the unit, texted his old squad leader, who was out of the Army and living in Fayetteville, N.C.
“I haven’t been handling it well either,” replied Mike McGuinness on Nov. 15, the day Lorance was pardoned.
“There’s literally no point in anything we did or said,” Gray continued. “Now he gets to be the hero . . .”
“And we’re left to deal with it,” McGuinness concluded.
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“The Unbroken Circle”
re: #266 Teukka
I wonder if she will die in questionable circumstances…
I hear they’re placing her in the ‘Sleepy Guards and Malfunctioning Video Cameras’ wing of the jail…
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re: #315 William Lewis
So. Went out to breakfast for the first time since Corona. Crowded and no masking. All it would take up here in northern Wisconsin is a single Corona Mary and we’d be [expletive deleted].
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Have to be damn good pancakes…
re: #301 wrenchwench
I’m afraid of Trump because the people who are supposed to help him, and therefore the rest of us, are afraid to do anything helpful.
Malicious narcissists can’t handle criticism or the implication that they are responsible for anything bad. Bringing up Russia, no matter the context, would be perceived by Trump as a reference to the whole Russia election scandal and as such, a criticism.
Narcissists react to any real or perceived criticism by punishing the offending party, by attacking and denigrating the person, since to them, no criticism is valid.
All his hires are the “best” until they leave, then he immediately trashes them, especially if they speak negatively about him. His only motivation in current hires is putting sycophants in place to ensure loyalty to him rather than the country.
Knowing the pettiness of the orange leaky bag of mostly stupidity, I can only image the dread of being assigned the task of trying to get information through the membrane of reality-denying ignorance containing all the concentrated stupidity. Especially in light of his history of vindictiveness for those trying to follow their oaths to the constitution, instead of being blindly loyal.
That doesn’t change the fact that any functional administration wouldn’t have this issue, or that speaking truth to power is the obligation of those in public service.
I’d say fuck trump, but we’re the ones who are fucked until we get rid of that putrid puss-sack sliming the Oval Office.
re: #317 Decatur Deb
Have to be damn good pancakes…
Wasn’t bad but not worth it compared to where I used to go.
The good place is still closed because the building they were in got sold to become a new location for the local Kwik Trip convenience store. They bought out a different restaurant to restore and rename but aren’t done yet. So I checked out another place because I was too lazy to cook. So too is every other tourist in town… O_o
re: #317 Decatur Deb
Have to be damn good pancakes…
They should come with ear-hanger loops. Butter the inside only!
So I guess Maxwell was found in Bradford, not Bedford as national media was claiming. That makes more sense. Bradford is in the lakes region where lots of wealthy people from out of state have second homes, but it’s also somewhat isolated away from the main areas.
re: #318 A Cranky One
Malicious narcissists can’t handle criticism or the implication that they are responsible for anything bad. Bringing up Russia, no matter the context, would be perceived by Trump as a reference to the whole Russia election scandal and as such, a criticism.
This is a clear indication that he is totally beholden to Russia and to remaining in their good graces.
Just imagine the potential of a Giant Military Karen pic.twitter.com/PFe3anhAAl
— Giant Military Cats (@giantcat9) June 29, 2020
re: #323 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Maybe we should deploy Karen to Afghanistan. The Taliban won’t know what to do since the manager won’t believe them.
re: #320 wrenchwench
They should come with ear-hanger loops. Butter the inside only!
Totally lost—googling didn’t help.
re: #325 Decatur Deb
Totally lost—googling didn’t help.
A pancake you hang in front of your nose and mouth, with only the most discrete nibbling accomodated. Syrup could be a problem.
re: #320 wrenchwench
They should come with ear-hanger loops. Butter the inside only!
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