Michael Mayo, vocals
Jacob Mann, keys
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Director and Editor: Alex Chaloff
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Video Resurfaces Featuring Images Of Hitler And San Diego GOP Party Chair Tony Krvaric | KPBS https://t.co/dJaqQ3ZaT3
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 22, 2020
re: #318 sagehen
Jews don’t believe in hell. Does that help?
There is that. Thank you for the correction; I knew that but was not clear in my comment.
Shooting at Fayette Mall in Lexington, Kentucky. One dead so far and others hospitalized.
re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Clarifying my own comment.
By the way, if you go to hell, we’ll see each other there cause Jews aren’t getting into heaven either.
My husband is an atheist (he made it to first communion and bailed). I’m Jewish, but I’m a whole lot less concerned with what people believe than in how they act.
My point before was that many people vehemently defend what they claim is the literal word of God, which in this case is rife with mistranslations and in which interpretation is everything.
It seems a fundamental (no pun intended) human challenge to live in a free and open society and be able to navigate the cognitive dissonance in saying that your own religious truth is neither negated or threatened by someone else’s different religious truth.
Perhaps this is easier if you have had the experience of living as a minority in a majority culture. I don’t need other people to be the same as me; I only need them to acknowledge my freedom to not be like them.
Ha:
We’ve got to stop the white house to prison pipeline
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) August 23, 2020
Who says the US conservatives are the only group capable of a shitshow?
Canada’s conservative CPC are showing they can be just as shitty.
They can’t even open envelopes.
You know what? Good mothers don’t spend four years helping drug addicted madmen lock up other peoples kids in cages and force children back to schools in the midst of a deadly pandemic. Spare me the KellyAnne kudos. @KellyannePolls
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) August 24, 2020
re: #4 cat-tikvah
Clarifying my own comment.
By the way, if you go to hell, we’ll see each other there cause Jews aren’t getting into heaven either.My husband is an atheist (he made it to first communion and bailed). I’m Jewish, but I’m a whole lot less concerned with what people believe than in how they act.
My point before was that many people vehemently defend what they claim is the literal word of God, which in this case is rife with mistranslations and in which interpretation is everything.
It seems a fundamental (no pun intended) human challenge to live in a free and open society and be able to navigate the cognitive dissonance in saying that your own religious truth is neither negated or threatened by someone else’s different religious truth.
Perhaps this is easier if you have had the experience of living as a minority in a majority culture. I don’t need other people to be the same as me; I only need them to acknowledge my freedom to not be like them.
Perhaps Pie Overlord can make us some good baked goods there? /s
I am a minority in a majority culture, though I don’t have to put up with viscous anti-Semitism. I get the idea of freedom to not be like others though.
Most people just want to be left alone to do their thing, but an awful lot of others want to tell them, force, beat them, or kill them to let them know their thing is “wrongthink.”
Lucky me pic.twitter.com/vOoeVWKTwN
— Fiddler (@cFidd) August 24, 2020
Kim Jong Un is basically Kenny from South Park
— Nicholas Gangwer (@NicholasGangwer) August 24, 2020
re: #4 cat-tikvah
It seems a fundamental (no pun intended) human challenge to live in a free and open society and be able to navigate the cognitive dissonance in saying that your own religious truth is neither negated or threatened by someone else’s different religious truth.
I think this is a byproduct of monotheism. The Greeks and romans, from what I’ve read, were typically more accepting of different beliefs because of the nature of their polytheism. But when you believe in not only the one true god but also the one true interpretation of him, then the idea that someone can believe in something else becomes problematic. If you’re a fundamentalist the existence of other belief systems calls into question you’re own belief system and that is rarely something a fundamentalist can tolerate.
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
waiting for Trump to apply his usual panache in dealing with his sister, that he’s employed with all of his other relationships with women that have been so incredibly stellar. Maybe he can drop 250K of taxpayer cash on her in hopes of getting some “foreign” policy….
Incoming coronavirus cases for the Panhandle.
People traveled from multiple states for the High Plains Riot, held in Mitchell. https://t.co/QZ7JABd5zx
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) August 24, 2020
Biden did her three times, now.
Now suddenly it was three times. I wonder if she bumped it up in preparation for a convention speech. https://t.co/0wg4EoAlNQ
— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) August 24, 2020
re: #12 KGxvi
I think this is a byproduct of monotheism. The Greeks and romans, from what I’ve read, were typically more accepting of different beliefs because of the nature of their polytheism. But when you believe in not only the one true god but also the one true interpretation of him, then the idea that someone can believe in something else becomes problematic. If you’re a fundamentalist the existence of other belief systems calls into question you’re own belief system and that is rarely something a fundamentalist can tolerate.
Buddhists in Burma don’t seem to be too keen on Muslims, nor are Hindus (definitely polytheists) keen on either Christians or Muslims.
I think it’s more a factor of religion.
When I lived in Jacksonville I ran into a share of Wiccans who were absolutely vile to anyone not Wiccan.
Maybe consider mentioning the white cops who shot a black guy seven times in the back https://t.co/PhrBQDKf1I
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 24, 2020
re: #13 piratedan
waiting for Trump to apply his usual panache in dealing with his sister, that he’s employed with all of his other relationships with women that have been so incredibly stellar. Maybe he can drop 250K of taxpayer cash on her in hopes of getting some “foreign” policy….
I think yesterday the White House released a statement saying she was an old relative that Trump didn’t have much to do with.
Ummm… did you conveniently forget only WHITE WOMEN got the right to vote? They betrayed all others. To quote Marilyn Manson, “I was not born with enough middle fingers.” https://t.co/pzZxWuhsDS
— Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) August 22, 2020
That isn’t true, the 19th Amendment came decades after the 14th Amendment, so when white women got the right to vote, black women did too. It may have been difficult to enforce the right in some places, but they had the legal right to vote and many did.
— Larry Siegel (@LaurenceBSiegel) August 23, 2020
I was really hoping it was the Borowitz Report
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) August 24, 2020
I’m really really reality warped right now. Watching the last episode of Ozark, the 4th for today, 15 mins in I get a text that Kelly Anne and George are ‘leaving for family,’ now get back on the puter and another black man is shot dead for what seems to be trifling shit.
re: #20 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Democrats, you’re just not in the proper amount of disarray and this is unfair to Republicans so stop it okay?
— AAL (@anamericanlion) August 24, 2020
re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I mean, literacy tests and poll taxes didnt go away until the 1960s… so theres that
Incoming hot take from the Wall Street Journal
Biden says he’d defer to scientists on Covid-19 lockdowns. That’s not a President’s job. https://t.co/wsIsPtLb7a
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) August 23, 2020
Apparently, it’s the president’s job to ignore science and medicine (and the Generals) and instead go with his ample “gut” https://t.co/dedTLyOLRX
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 23, 2020
re: #20 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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The Republican Presstitution NEVER stops.
Shots fired:
A presidents job is to delegate responsibility to those who actually have training and expertise in any given area.
Kind of like how a toxicologist would be responsible for determining if a dirtbag tried to dose his girlfriend with abortion induction medication.— Dave Lister (@DaveListerD) August 23, 2020
re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Incoming hot take from the Wall Street Journal
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The President’s job is to defend the American people from all enemies, including viruses…and lying adulterers like YOU!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) August 24, 2020
Is there any way we can acknowledge how deeply awful Kellyanne Conway is, as well as her role in the most dangerous and disgusting presidency ever, while also giving her minor child the benefit of the doubt?
I do not imagine for one moment this person is above using her daughter as a pawn in her scheme to escape a sinking ship. Even so, I feel like the possibility that there is a genuinely troubled young person at the heart of this is reason enough to take a step back.
If you have never experienced a family crisis (or in my case, been the cause of one), consider yourself lucky. If there is a 1% chance this is totally what it appears to be, that is enough for me to demonstrate a level of human decency. If you disagree, I won’t argue with you…but I wish you’d reconsider.
I am a mediocre human being at best, but I aspire to be better than anyone who works for Trump. That is what I am going for here.
re: #28 🌹UOJB!
Trump Campaign Sr. Advisor Jason Miller facing criminal contempt of court charges (Grant Stern at Washington Press, today, the lede)
The Trump campaign’s senior advisor and top national spokesman is facing a hearing in which a Florida judge will decide about the appointment of a special prosecutor to pursue criminal contempt of court charges against him. (court document embedded below)
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Trump Campaign Sr. Advisor Jason Miller facing criminal contempt of court charges (Grant Stern at Washington Press, today, the lede)
Deadbeat Daddy Jason blocked me on Facebook when I brought up his stiffing AJ Delgado out of child support payments.
re: #28 🌹UOJB!
Hello, Twitter? I’d like to report a murder. pic.twitter.com/drERMa3Aqr
— Hopeful Antifa Prospect (@kronocide1) August 24, 2020
This!
re: #30 bratwurst
Is there any way we can acknowledge how deeply awful Kellyanne Conway is, as well as her role in the most dangerous and disgusting presidency ever, while also giving her minor child the benefit of the doubt?
I do not imagine for one moment this person is above using her daughter as a pawn in her scheme to escape a sinking ship. Even so, I feel like the possibility that there is a genuinely troubled young person at the heart of this is reason enough to take a step back.
If you have never experienced a family crisis (or in my case, been the cause of one), consider yourself lucky. If there is a 1% chance this is totally what it appears to be, that is enough for me to demonstrate a level of human decency. If you disagree, I won’t argue with you…but I wish you’d reconsider.
I am a mediocre human being at best, but I aspire to be better than anyone who works for Trump. That is what I am going for here.
I agree with your sentiments on the Conways.
I have never met any of the Conway family. However, based upon her professional and public activity, I detest Kellyanne Conway. And I hope that she does jail time.
But I dont agree with the folks who are trying to push buttons on a 15 year old girl in order to shiv her parents.
I see a bunch of humans not a bunch of memes and stereotypes.
Girls often go through a developmental stage in their mid-to-late teens where they begin to separate from their parents on the road to becoming an individual. It often involves a lot of drama from the teen. Who is trying to work out in her own mind what is going on. And it usually ages the parents of that teen a good bit.
Attempting to use a 15 year old girl, in order to destroy she and her family, for one’s own political purposes strikes me as sociopathic. And socially irredeemable.
— Sarah E. Minnis, PhD 😷👏🏡 (@dr_seminnis) August 23, 2020
I find the two adult Conways insufferable. They are grifting attention whores to the nth degree. I think the kid stands a chance because she gets what enormous assholes her parents are.
I want them all to go away and try to fix their shit. Hopefully they go away for a long long time.
OAN pic.twitter.com/vWa74sK5rx
— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) August 23, 2020
re: #37 plansbandc
I want them all [The Conways]to go away and try to fix their shit. Hopefully they go away for a long long time.
Definitely works for me too!
Fun fact: George and Kellyanne were introduced to each other by Ann Coulter.
re: #41 teleskiguy
Fun fact: George and Kellyanne were introduced to each other by Ann Coulter.
Even unlikable wingnuts need love… I guess… Better each other than anybody I might know.
Fun fact: George has been on The New Abnormal podcast a couple of times and I HATED him. He’s for sure Kellyanne’s soulmate. Tries really hard to be funny, so isn’t. Is obviously a POS R like Kell. They are both totally vile.
re: #4 cat-tikvah
My point before was that many people vehemently defend what they claim is the literal word of God, which in this case is rife with mistranslations and in which interpretation is everything.
It seems a fundamental (no pun intended) human challenge to live in a free and open society and be able to navigate the cognitive dissonance in saying that your own religious truth is neither negated or threatened by someone else’s different religious truth.
Problem there is that you have to reject not only science and history, but also logic, as the Bible contradicts itself in several places. There is no arguing with such people, one can only hope to limit the amount of damage they can cause.
Conservatives really out here on the “we like it when black people die” ticket tonight
— Vaush (@VaushV) August 24, 2020
re: #36 Dread Pirate Ron
Has the Administration condemned the suspected attack on Navalny yet and/or expressed support for Russian civil society and opposition members?
Over on the page full of Putinversteher, I am reading that Navalny was not poisoned, just went into diabetic shock.
re: #45 DodgerFan1988
Conservatives really out here on the “we like it when black people
dieget what they deserve” ticket tonight
2/ Remembrr those nude pics of Becki had Jerry needed Michael Cohen’s help to make disappear? Well jerry accidentlly sent a bunch of them to liberty university staff. Mistakes happen nd couples can take pics of themselves if that’s their jam. But one key clue from this story …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 24, 2020
Jerry and Giancarlo at the secluded Florida Keys resort where jerry, Giancarlo and Becki vacationed together. Because what middle aged couple doesn’t have a 23 year old join them on vacation? pic.twitter.com/FYv3O9NWrw
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 24, 2020
re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron
Jerry and Giancarlo at the secluded Florida Keys resort where jerry, Giancarlo and Becki vacationed together. Because what middle aged couple doesn’t have a 23 year old join them on vacation?
God has already forgiven them, so let’s just move on…
Interesting bit of hurricane history from the Washington Post:
Both Laura and Marco are exceptional storms, the earliest L and M systems in the Atlantic on record. They are the latest dominoes to fall in a season that has already featured the earliest C, E, F, G, H, I, J and K tropical storms and hurricanes. With already more tropical systems than in an average year, the season has been twice as active as average.
Five named tropical systems have made landfall along U.S. shores in 2020. If Laura and Marco follow suit, as forecast, 2020 will break the record for the most continental U.S. landfalls in a single year.
If Laura and Marco churn through the Gulf of Mexico simultaneously, it will mark just the third time on record that two storms coexisted there. The other two times were in September 1933 and June 1959, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. If both storms manage to become hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time, it would be a first. However, the storms may be spread far enough apart that they end up not being in the Gulf at the same time.
Hurricane warnings issued as Gulf Coast prepares for back-to-back strikes from Marco and Laura
washingtonpost.com
re: #44 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Problem there is that you have to reject not only science and history, but also logic, as the Bible contradicts itself in several places. There is no arguing with such people, one can only hope to limit the amount of damage they can cause.
Pope John Paul II noted in an encyclical that faith does not contradict correct reason (presumably reason which doesn’t contradict Catholic theology).
Martin Luther on the other hand argued faith is antithetical to reason. That comports to many verses in both the Old and New Testaments, aside from 1 Peter 3:15 (The Great Commission, you should be able to give reasons for your faith).
re: #46 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Over on the page full of Putinversteher, I am reading that Navalny was not poisoned, just went into diabetic shock.
If they mean insulin shock, it would take about fifteen seconds to cure. No medevac required.
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
God has already forgiven them, so let’s just move on…
Jerry Jr will be back at LIBERTINE University in a week or two to pick up on fleecing the flock…but I got a feeling a lot of pissed off parents and patrons will be filing lawsuits against the Pants Monster Of Love for his ordering kids back to the college to get infected…and then there are all those athletes of color who suffered discrimination…oh and maybe dissidents in the flock don’t want to be fleeced anymore…
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
God has already forgiven them, so let’s just move on…
Your personal testimony is the central part of Charismatic Evangelism.
The reason Evangelical preachers who are caught being hypocritical to what they espouse as their faith is because confession, repentance, and forgiveness are built into Christianity, and Evangelicals take it seriously.
The Testimony consists of what convinced or brought a person to Jesus. Christians are expected to stray (I’m not perfect, just forgiven, is a common Protestant rubric), and they are expected to confess their sins to God and work to do better.
Confession in Evangelical churches is similar to early Christianity, where it was public.
Thus, the confession of sins, and the forgiveness of the congregation, is expected of evangelical members. Thus people such as Jim Bakker or Kent Hovind are permitted back into the fold to preach again. Most people religious or not want to see the good in others, and everyone knows that people seldom measure up to arbitrary ideals, so Christian Evangelicals are willing to give their preachers a pass for even terrible crimes.
It’s not just evangelicals though, pretty much every Christian faith does this to some degree (without the public confessions). Note how long virtually every church will fight allegations of child rape (Catholics aren’t alone in that, they just get better press because of lingering anti-Catholic bias in the country).
It is rare for Christians to consider a person within their faith to be wholly irredeemable. Evil is only reserved for people who aren’t Christians.
Amongst other things, that’s why atheists are less trusted in our society than rapists and paedophiles (who are mostly Christians).
re: #46 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Over on the page full of Putinversteher, I am reading that Navalny was not poisoned, just went into diabetic shock.
Heh. I’ve never heard anyone scream in pain like he was on the plane, from diabetic shock.
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Pope John Paul II noted in an encyclical that faith does not contradict correct reason (presumably reason which doesn’t contradict Catholic theology).
Martin Luther on the other hand argued faith is antithetical to reason. That comports to many verses in both the Old and New Testaments, aside from 1 Peter 3:15 (The Great Commission, you should be able to give reasons for your faith).
Yes, I find it scary that I actually agree with the Pope on a key point of theology. But he has at least made it clear that there is no inherent contradiction between Creation and Evolution, which is a major bone of contention with the Fundamentalist Literalists.
Again, Evolution is about how we cam about, Biblical Creation is about why. It shows a great lack of basic education in our country that people cannot make that distinction.
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Your personal testimony is the central part of Charismatic Evangelism.
Their thinking is simple (I will not call it logic as it defies all reason)
God forgives your sins and you move on. But God will not forgive Liberals and Democrats as long as they support babykillers and condone homosexual abdonimation.
All they have to do is give up those positions and they, too can enjoy God’s Grace.
Looks like Marco is going to come ashore in far west panhandle of Florida, near baja ‘Bama.
Marco progressed fast enough that it didn’t let a trough move through in the southern US before getting steered by it.
The official guidance still has Marco turning a sharp left before it hits land, but looking at the satellite images I’m wondering how that will be possible.
re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Their thinking is simple (I will not call it logic as it defies all reason)
God forgives your sins and you move on. But God will not forgive Liberals and Democrats as long as they support babykillers and condone homosexual abdonimation.
All they have to do is give up those positions and they, too can enjoy God’s Grace.
That’s because we are not willing to make our public testimony that we sinned in holding these positions and ask for forgiveness.
To a lesser extent, this is why some Catholics and other Protestants also condemn liberals as well. Note periodically some Catholic dioceses will say Democrats should not receive the Eucharist (this is totally not political, see, it violates their religious views).
re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s because we are not willing to make our public testimony that we sinned in holding these positions and ask for forgiveness.
To a lesser extent, this is why some Catholics and other Protestants also condemn liberals as well. Note periodically some Catholic dioceses will say Democrats should not receive the Eucharist (this is totally not political, see, it violates their religious views).
I recall our priest giving a sermon stating that the Catholic SCOTUS judge who voted to support Roe vs. Wade should be excommunicated.
re: #59 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Looks like Marco is going to come ashore in far west panhandle of Florida, near baja ‘Bama.
Marco progressed fast enough that it didn’t let a trough move through in the southern US before getting steered by it.
The official guidance still has Marco turning a sharp left before it hits land, but looking at the satellite images I’m wondering how that will be possible.
Water vapour loop shows it going right into the Florida Panhandle, with strong storms firing up in Apalachicola Bay to its east.
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall our priest giving a sermon stating that the Catholic SCOTUS judge who voted to support Roe vs. Wade should be excommunicated.
I am theologically ignorant.
However, I remember listening to a philosophy lecture years ago where the lecturer noted that a big difference between the Western and Eastern Empires (Rome versus Byzantium) was how they treated religious infractions against the state church. The Roman Empire punished religious violations, such as witchcraft, under civil law. The Byzantine Empire required actual, provable damage from things like witchcraft before they would prosecute.
I cannot say that I ever personally followed up to verify this, though.
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall our priest giving a sermon stating that the Catholic SCOTUS judge who voted to support Roe vs. Wade should be excommunicated.
A letter writer in the Omaha World-Herald a few days ago made a similar assertion over the LGBT anti-discrimination ruling (to which I called him out as a bigot).
The Catechism of the Catholic Church has a rule in which it is not up to individual Catholics to say who is a “good Catholic,” a rule which it seems is often violated by the members of that church.
re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Water vapour loop shows it going right into the Florida Panhandle, with strong storms firing up in Apalachicola Bay to its east.
On one hand, the highest point in Florida is in the panhandle. On the other hand, it is all of 345 ft high. (Its north of, and between Panama City and Pensacola, near the Alabama state line.)
Well, sweet lizard dreams to the night crew. It’s off to bed with me.
re: #63 ckkatz
I am theologically ignorant.
However, I remember listening to a philosophy lecture years ago where the lecturer noted that a big difference between the Western and Eastern Empires (Rome versus Byzantium) was how they treated religious infractions against the state church. The Roman Empire punished religious violations, such as witchcraft, under civil law. The Byzantine Empire required actual, provable damage from things like witchcraft before they would prosecute.
I cannot say that I ever personally followed up to verify this, though.
I’m not a counter-apologist, I just play one on social media. /s
A Witchcraft Trial in Eighth Century Constantinople (goes to Daimonologia, a blog about Orthodox culture)
In the case described, the judges determined it was the accusers who were deceived, not the accused witches. They were accused of killing children in spirit form, entering homes through locked doors, the usual stuff.
Da Fuck is this shit??
I plan to vote for Biden and a straight democratic ticket. It’s not based on “accelerationism” or anything like that; the liberals are clearly more competent people.
— Richard 🦁 Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) August 23, 2020
re: #68 Dave In Austin
Da Fuck is this shit??
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Yes, America’s leading white supremacist is a progressive Democrat! I showed this in my last movie but the Left pretended it was not the case. So let him tell you himself https://t.co/izBg9nZ31a
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 23, 2020
re: #68 Dave In Austin
Da Fuck is this shit??
Rodent copulation. Either that or frozen chicken copulation.
A response in that thread to D’Felon promoting Richard Spencer (I thought he was thrown off Twitter … that’s what I said upthread about my problem with Twitter is its Nazi problem):
The difference is that the democrats most likely wont embrace his hatred. Looks like when people are dying even white supremacists want to live to continue promoting their hate. He thinks the dems are the only ones with a real plan for him to continue living.
— ndukaa1 (@ndukaa1) August 23, 2020
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Rodent copulation. Either that or frozen chicken copulation.
Why I never kill snakes for any reason.
Wingnuts are busy digging into the criminal record of man who was killed by police in Kenosha, Wisc. to “justify” his being shot in the back by the police. (Assuming they have the right man or criminal record.)
This is how you guys justify things. To dig into their past. We do not expect him to be an angel and neither dispute that he may be “bad”.
The man was shot 7 times in the back.
THAT is what we are pissed about.— Thomas Lahti (@thomas_lahti) August 24, 2020
The AQI here is 212 tonight. The smoke is infiltrating the house. Yuck.
re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron
The AQI here is 212 tonight. The smoke is infiltrating the house. Yuck.
Airnow only gives Omaha and Lincoln in Nebraska. You can search no other city.
That said, the National Weather Service still has us under an air quality alert..
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
According to Airnow, the nearest air quality sensor to my town is in Cheyenne, 130 miles away.
The Global Super Tanker makes an appearance over Dry Creek Valley during the #Walbridgefire in Sonoma County, Friday evening. @NorthBayNews #LNULightingComplex #kentporterphotography pic.twitter.com/pQ7cWt8Z7E
— Kent Porter (@kentphotos) August 22, 2020
Part of the #MilkyWay is seen in the night sky as the #LNULightningComplex fire continues burning vegetation in Healdsburg. Read our coverage on the Bay Area fires. My colleagues, editors and designers are doing tremendous job! @mercnews @EastBayTimes https://t.co/VtEJ5QVCsv pic.twitter.com/EbpxC6yNQx
— Ray Chavez (@rayinaction) August 22, 2020
I usually photograph sports so I have the utmost respect for the photojournalist who cover natural disasters like this on a daily basis. pic.twitter.com/yvUdbbvOG3
— Jose Carlos Fajardo (@jcfphotog) August 23, 2020
At 100 AM CDT (0600 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Marco was
located by an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter plane near latitude
27.2 North, longitude 87.9 West. Marco is moving toward the
north-northwest near 12 mph (19 km/h). A turn toward the northwest
is expected later this morning. Marco is forecast to approach the
coast of Louisiana this afternoon, and then turn westward and move
near or over the coast through Tuesday.
Data from the Hurricane Hunter plane indicate that maximum
sustained winds have decreased to near 65 mph (100 km/h) with higher
gusts. Fluctuations in intensity are possible during the next 24
hours, but Marco is forecast to weaken rapidly by early Tuesday.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles (110 km)
from the center.
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Most of the convection is on the far north east corner of Marco, so when looking at the satellite images one can think the center of the storm is closer to Florida than it really is.
Still, Marco does seem farther north at this time than had been expected when the official guidance was put out (several hours ago.)
Regardless, it is not a very big storm. All the high level sheer took its toll.
Time lapse of fire burning through Lick Observatory compound atop Mt. Hamilton. Structures appear to have survived. Update from observatory expected soon. #SCULightningComplex pic.twitter.com/cQ9vg4mntA
— Bob Redell (@BobNBC) August 20, 2020
More footage from the firefight taking place at the peak of Mt. Hamilton this evening (East of San Jose). Your SLO City and fellow California Firefighters are working hard to protect and defend landmarks, buildings and infrastructure. #SCULightningComplex pic.twitter.com/qfB4COztnB
— SLO City Fire (@SLO_City_Fire) August 20, 2020
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At 100 AM CDT (0600 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Marco was
located by an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter plane near latitude
27.2 North, longitude 87.9 West. Marco is moving toward the
north-northwest near 12 mph (19 km/h).
nhc.noaa.gov?
re: #35 ckkatz
This!
I agree with your sentiments on the Conways.
I have never met any of the Conway family. However, based upon her professional and public activity, I detest Kellyanne Conway. And I hope that she does jail time.
But I dont agree with the folks who are trying to push buttons on a 15 year old girl in order to shiv her parents.
I see a bunch of humans not a bunch of memes and stereotypes.
Girls often go through a developmental stage in their mid-to-late teens where they begin to separate from their parents on the road to becoming an individual. It often involves a lot of drama from the teen. Who is trying to work out in her own mind what is going on. And it usually ages the parents of that teen a good bit.
Attempting to use a 15 year old girl, in order to destroy she and her family, for one’s own political purposes strikes me as sociopathic. And socially irredeemable.
I’ve got teenage girls around that age. Their Tiktok and Instagram are full of BLM, cop shootings, kids in cages on the border, Trump’s sexual assaults. They know the news as soon as we do. It’s not the same world as when we were kids. And, of course, they can smell out hypocrisy a mile away. We roll our eyes at it because we’re used to it, but they don’t.
I have no idea what’s going on in the Conway family, and definitely the girl doesn’t need online randos telling her what to do.
re: #82 ericblair
I’ve got teenage girls around that age. Their Tiktok and Instagram are full of BLM, cop shootings, kids in cages on the border, Trump’s sexual assaults. They know the news as soon as we do. It’s not the same world as when we were kids. And, of course, they can smell out hypocrisy a mile away. We roll our eyes at it because we’re used to it, but they don’t.
I have no idea what’s going on in the Conway family, and definitely the girl doesn’t need online randos telling her what to do.
Agreed. Marianne Williamson with her hundreds of thousands of followers should back off telling her “love wins out” crap, and encouraging them to harass her.
Back when I was a kid, it was impossible to get people in authority to believe you when you said your family was doing something to you that was criminal, and no other way to get attention to the problem.
There has never been a time in a teenager’s life today when there was no Internet. Maybe Claudia Conway is just looking for attention (what I was told as a teenager by every adult I disclosed to), or maybe she’s looking for help.
One way or another that should come out since she has now disclosed publicly. (Something something believe all women, at least until they are shown to be lying.)
Someone had to cash in on it:
When you can’t go out, let love in. Stream @FreeformTV’s new limited series, #LoveInTheTimeOfCorona now on Hulu. pic.twitter.com/1FHesnxMae
— Love In The Time of Corona (@LoveinCoronaTV) August 24, 2020
I never get tired of DC-10s dropping retardant.
HOLY WILDFIRE! 😳😳😳 @ksbw
My former track and field coach sent this video to me, from the very top of Pine Canyon Road during the #RiverFire.
[warning: explicit language] pic.twitter.com/DLe7nd1drB— Alexandria Leavenworth (@AlexLeavenworth) August 17, 2020
I’m off to bed.
We’re running the a/c constantly to try to filter out any smoke which gets in the house. So far the air inside seems to be okay, but it’s pretty cool in here.
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wingnuts are busy digging into the criminal record of man who was killed by police in Kenosha, Wisc. to “justify” his being shot in the back by the police. (Assuming they have the right man or criminal record.)
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According to the article:
Blake is now in serious condition, the officers have been placed on leave, and the city of Kenosha declared an emergency curfew after destructive protests rocked the city into early Monday morning. It’s the latest case of police violence caught on camera in a summer overwhelmed by escalating rounds of protests following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
Reuters: JAPAN PM ABE SAYS HAD FOLLOW-UP HEALTH EXAM; SAYS TO TAKE CARE OF HIS HEALTH, DO HIS BEST AT HIS JOB
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) August 24, 2020
Reuters: JAPAN PM ABE GETTING TREATMENT FOR CHRONIC ILLNESS, NOT A CHECK-UP - NIPPON TV, CITING MULTIPLE GOVT AND RULING PARTY SOURCES
— Vincent Lee (@Rover829) August 24, 2020
re the rs lack of a platform
( because writing one is so hard)
Over time parties taken over by authoritarians lose identity apart from the leader- their resources and time are monopolized by the need to defend him no matter what he says or does. https://t.co/s33CslP0tW
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) August 24, 2020
News: Senate Majority PAC and Women Vote! (IE arm of EMILY’s List) funded Sunflower State, the pop-up super PAC that meddled in Kansas Senate primary, officials confirm to me.
SMP $3.55 million.
Women Vote! $1.75 million. https://t.co/poAQ2eYvI0— James Arkin (@JamesArkin) August 20, 2020
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
re: #91 Dread Pirate Ron
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Spending money on politics is evil when it’s the other guys.
A good mapping of fire burn areas. (2223.5 square miles)
Retweet @ CopernicusLand: RT NOAASatellitePA: UPDATE: Yesterday evening NOAA’s #GOES17🛰️ detected the heat and watched the billowing smoke from the massive LNU #Lightning Complex #Fire in Northern California. At last report, the #LNULightningComplex was … pic.twitter.com/E53Xf0UcAG
— eos (@eo_services) August 24, 2020
#MondayMotivaton
And the Oscar goes to…
…..Mr Mongoose for playing dead so well. pic.twitter.com/F3fHyjrYLJ— PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE (@Protect_Wldlife) August 24, 2020
re: #91 Dread Pirate Ron
Meddled? Isn’t that the purpose of superPACs, to meddle?
re: #97 Kilroy was here
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We really are going to need investigations and trials for these monsters.
Jeff Flake a group of other Republican former lawmakers come out for Joe Biden.
Flake will even be campaigning for Biden, giving a speech later today. pic.twitter.com/rOaZO5YBwu— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) August 24, 2020
re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Someone had to cash in on it:
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I’ve seen a ton of ads that have masks in them, recommend spending money doing projects because you’re stuck at home, or in some way acknowledge the pandemic. I was wondering how long it would take to get an actual show acknowledging it.
re: #100 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Jeff Flake? Could AZ be turning blue?
You know I don’t have a history of dodging questions. But I don’t know how to answer that. There is no consistent philosophy, You can’t say it’s about making America great again at a time of Covid and economic distress and social unrest. It’s just not credible… That’s the best I can do.”
— GOP pollster Frank Luntz, quoted by Politico, when asked, “What do Republicans believe?”
Not wearing a mask is now a religion pic.twitter.com/bt1F65JhEu
— Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ) (@benjancewicz) August 24, 2020
re: #105 dangerman
— GOP pollster Frank Luntz, quoted by Politico, when asked, “What do Republicans believe?”
It’s all about adherence to Trump.
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jeff Flake? Could AZ be turning blue?
Don’t know but mcsally is down by 16 points the last I saw.
Locally, though, they appear to remain racist af.
re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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My response: “Well, my religious views say that as owner of this establishment, I don’t have to serve assholes. So kindly take your sorry ass back the way you came.”
re: #108 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Don’t know but mcsally is down by 16 points the last I saw.
Locally, though, they appear to remain racist af.
McSally is a really bad candidate and Kelly is really good. IMO Arizona might be trending blue. It depends how long the GOP want to piss off the elderly and Hispanics. I think HRC’s campaign saw Arizona had potential because I remember her campaigning there last time and then Sinema won.
re: #109 Targetpractice
My response: “Well, my religious views say that as owner of this establishment, I don’t have to serve assholes. So kindly take your sorry ass back the way you came.”
My religion says I don’t have to pay for high-end cameras. Except Nikons—Nikon is of The Devil.
re: #109 Targetpractice
My response: “Well, my religious views say that as owner of this establishment, I don’t have to serve assholes. So kindly take your sorry ass back the way you came.”
Ha exactly
- Bannon indicted for swindling Trump’s base
-Trump ordered to pay Stormy’s legal fees
- trump is slapped down re Vance subpoena
- trump loses lawsuit against PA re voting
-Trump’s niece recorded the sister saying he’s a cruel, phony, liar
-Conway Family saga
-meadows: we don’t have a clue what q-anon is but we endorse those who endorse them
-Now, Jerry Falwell says his wife, not he (at all), had affair w/the pool boy
Who is writing this stuff for them?
Eta’. That was just the last week
re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not wearing a mask is now a religion
I have a religions exemption against observing your dimwitted religious exemptions. Now put on a mask or go elsewhere.
“My religious beliefs say I don’t have to wear a mask!”
“What religion is that?”
“Well, I’m a Christian…”
“Then render unto Caesar, asshole.”
re: #38 teleskiguy
Kellyanne Conway is a fucking monster.
She’s a product of the South Jersey Mob. That’ll tell you all you need to know.
The Dow is expected to open almost 300 points higher, based on Trump’s non-news about plasma treatment. I used to think money people were at least money-smart.
As I said in the last thread regarding Claudia Conway: if she’s telling the truth, she needs help; if she’s lying, she needs help. It’s pretty obvious that family is messed up. Either they’re the biggest con family going, or the fights between mom and dad aren’t fun to be around. I would say that, in either case, she’s being ignored by her parents.
re: #105 dangerman
— GOP pollster Frank Luntz, quoted by Politico, when asked, “What do Republicans believe?”
What does the Republican Party stand for? @BrendanBuck: “Owning the libs and pissing off the media… That’s what we believe in now. There’s really not much more to it.” https://t.co/3hyuqEOTqy
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) August 24, 2020
re: #41 teleskiguy
Fun fact: George and Kellyanne were introduced to each other by Ann Coulter.
Truly a match made in Hell
This is interesting. I know the name Tim Alberta, but can’t recall much else. Is he a republican?
It’s time to say what is painfully apparent.https://t.co/KTbz3gP6DA
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) August 24, 2020
I decided to call Frank Luntz. Perhaps no person alive has spent more time polling Republican voters and counseling Republican politicians than Luntz, the 58-year-old focus group guru. His research on policy and messaging has informed a generation of GOP lawmakers. His ability to translate between D.C. and the provinces—connecting the concerns of everyday people to their representatives in power—has been unsurpassed. If anyone had an answer, it would be Luntz.
“You know I don’t have a history of dodging questions. But I don’t know how to answer that. There is no consistent philosophy,” Luntz responded. “You can’t say it’s about making America great again at a time of Covid and economic distress and social unrest. It’s just not credible.”
Luntz thought for a moment. “I think it’s about promoting—” he stopped suddenly. “But I can’t, I don’t—” he took a pause. “That’s the best I can do.”
When I pressed, Luntz sounded as exasperated as the student whose question I was relaying. “Look, I’m the one guy who’s going to give you a straight answer. I don’t give a shit—I had a stroke in January, so there’s nothing anyone can do to me to make my life suck,” he said. “I’ve tried to give you an answer and I can’t do it. You can ask it any different way. But I don’t know the answer. For the first time in my life, I don’t know the answer.”
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A response in that thread to D’Felon promoting Richard Spencer (I thought he was thrown off Twitter … that’s what I said upthread about my problem with Twitter is its Nazi problem):
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America’s leading white supremacist is a progressive Democrat!
Because of how he’s voting this time he is a dem. And a progressive one too. With an exclamation point!
So are all the prominent and high profile Rs who are publicly declaring their vote for biden now all democrats too?
Lre: #122 dangerman
Note the language
Because of how he’s voting this time he is a dem. And a progressive one too. With an exclamation point!
So are all the prominent and high profile Rs who are publicly declaring their vote for biden now all democrats too?
It’s all so stupid. Dinesh didn’t care about David Duke backing Trump.
Let’s be honest, the whole of Repub messaging has been “Let’s piss off the Dems!” for years now. For all the talk about how “Repeal and Replace,” their Quixotic quest against the ACA was purely about jamming a finger in Obama’s eye. Name a policy or action Obama did and odds are you’ll find Repubs opposed to it for no real reason other than because it came from him. That’s what appealed to them and their voters about Trump: He promised to undo the Obama presidency and they loved him for it. He didn’t mumble things about “alternatives” or “better ideas,” he just said he’d make it all go away and they were sold.
re: #117 Decatur Deb
The Dow is expected to open almost 300 points higher, based on Trump’s non-news about plasma treatment. I used to think money people were at least money-smart.
These are not people, these are corporations bloated with government largess.
re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Truly a match made in Hell
By the Sister of Satan
re: #121 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is interesting. I know the name Tim Alberta, but can’t recall much else. Is he a republican?
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Political correspondent at Politico. Never Trumper, I believe.
re: #100 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Like I was saying, ask dinesh if now they’re all “progressive democrats!!!”
Jeff Flake a group of other Republican former lawmakers come out for Joe Biden.
Flake will even be campaigning for Biden, giving a speech later today. pic.twitter.com/rOaZO5YBwu— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) August 24, 2020
re: #124 Targetpractice
It even has a name: Cleek’s Law.
re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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— Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ) (@benjancewicz) August 24, 2020
Some wimp-assed religion
It’s got an expiration date!!!!!
re: #130 dangerman
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Some wimp-assed religion
It’s got an expiration date!!!!!
They do indeed.
If you’re wondering what will succeed the Trump/Teabag/Evangelical axis when it inevitably goes down in flames, Project Lincoln is the preview.
Instead of trying desperately to stay ahead of the tsunami, the PL leaders are getting behind it do they can land on their feet when it washes over.
re: #132 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
If you’re wondering what will succeed the Trump/Teabag/Evangelical axis when it inevitably goes down in flames, Project Lincoln is the preview.
Instead of trying desperately to stay ahead of the tsunami, the PL leaders are getting behind it do they can land on their feet when it washes over.
If they think the GOP will go back to what they never were (small government, yada yada yada), they’re nuts. Republicanism is Trumpism now.
re: #118 Belafon
As I said in the last thread regarding Claudia Conway: if she’s telling the truth, she needs help; if she’s lying, she needs help. It’s pretty obvious that family is messed up. Either they’re the biggest con family going, or the fights between mom and dad aren’t fun to be around. I would say that, in either case, she’s being ignored by her parents.
Working for trump was more important than her family.
In essence kac destroyed her family to own the libs
ETTD
re: #132 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
If you’re wondering what will succeed the Trump/Teabag/Evangelical axis when it inevitably goes down in flames, Project Lincoln is the preview.
Instead of trying desperately to stay ahead of the tsunami, the PL leaders are getting behind it do they can land on their feet when it washes over.
The country needs two parties, and the other one will be conservative. What we don’t want is crazy. One of the things members of the Lincoln Project want is for Republicans to spend time in the wilderness.
re: #130 dangerman
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Some wimp-assed religion
It’s got an expiration date!!!!!
Planned obsolescence?
Oh, good morning!
re: #134 dangerman
Working for trump was more important than her family.
In essence kac destroyed her family to own the libs
ETTD
But she’s FABULOUSLY wealthy now.
In case you missed it on Friday night, CREW received Hope Hicks’ financial disclosures. In less than a year and a half at Fox, she made $1.9 million. When she left the White House in 2018, her only reported asset was less than $15,000 in a bank account. https://t.co/TMvTHevdpd
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 24, 2020
re: #100 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If only Jeff Flake had been in some sort of position of power to actually oppose the Trump regime…
So the RNC “platform” is much like the party’s approach has been the last 4 years: “Whatever Trump does is okay with us, unless it polls poorly in which case we’ll be…concerned.”
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
These are not people, these are corporations bloated with government largess.
And algorithms. Can’t forgot those.
re: #141 Targetpractice
So the RNC “platform” is much like the party’s approach has been the last 4 years: “Whatever Trump does is okay with us, unless it polls poorly in which case we’ll be…concerned.”
Disappointed even.
re: #133 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If they think the GOP will go back to what they never were (small government, yada yada yada), they’re nuts. Republicanism is Trumpism now.
That’s what the platform says
re: #133 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If they think the GOP will go back to what they never were (small government, yada yada yada), they’re nuts. Republicanism is Trumpism now.
No, “small government” bullshit, ie Reaganism, was really the beginning of the Tea Party and Trumpism. If that’s where PL wants to go, they will just be Trump lite and they will fail in turn. If they had any sense of history, they would reach farther back, to Rockefeller, Eisenhower and Wendal Wilkie.
re: #133 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If they think the GOP will go back to what they never were (small government, yada yada yada), they’re nuts. Republicanism is Trumpism now.
The base won’t let them.
re: #133 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If they think the GOP will go back to what they never were (small government, yada yada yada), they’re nuts. Republicanism is Trumpism now.
So who is going to wade in to pick up the base?
re: #145 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
No, “small government” bullshit, ie Reaganism, was really the beginning of the Tea Party and Trumpism. If that’s where PL wants to go, they will just be Trump lite and they will fail in turn. If they had any sense if history, they would reach farther back, to Rockefeller, Eisenhower and Wendal Willie.
Yep. Reaganism helped begot Trumpism. I don’t expect Biden to say that but I have no problem saying that.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So who is going to wade in to pick up the base?
Barnum and Bailey.
re: #132 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
If you’re wondering what will succeed the Trump/Teabag/Evangelical axis when it inevitably goes down in flames, Project Lincoln is the preview.
Instead of trying desperately to stay ahead of the tsunami, the PL leaders are getting behind it do they can land on their feet when it washes over.
That’s always been my impression - laying the groundwork for a new party. When they started setting up state offices kind of bore it out.
Probably to be named the Lincoln Party. The term Republican is stigmatized, perhaps for all time at this point.
re: #130 dangerman
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It’s got an expiration date!!!!!
If I got one of those signed by the Paramount Jaguar Priest would they let me do a virgin sacrifice in Aisle 3? I need to know by the new moon.
re: #145 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
No, “small government” bullshit, ie Reaganism, was really the beginning of the Tea Party and Trumpism. If that’s where PL wants to go, they will just be Trump lite and they will fail in turn. If they had any sense of history, they would reach farther back, to Rockefeller, Eisenhower and Wendal Wilkie.
If they had any sense theyd look forward to see the threats and challenges facing the country and the world that are coming at us and that we will have to face to survive
The Tea Party was when the inmates took over the asylum. The GOP was afraid to call them out on their excesses or even distance themselves, and that led to an attention-seeking rush to bottom and they are still on their way down.
Because there is no bottom for those people.
Claudia Conway is an attention whore and she and her dad should be ashamed of what they have done to their family because of their selfishness. https://t.co/1Ox7SokqZN
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) August 24, 2020
I promise I cackled after reading this. pic.twitter.com/Ao4ZQbFac7
— Shanelle (@Sha_Moore) August 24, 2020
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So who is going to wade in to pick up the base?
The right will splinter. Trumpism vs who knows what.
re: #154 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Exactly.
They were given power hungry racism. They’re not going to go from that to something light. The best we can hope for is a long political wilderness years where the GOP dies off and conservatives in this country actually have to run on something other than resentment.
re: #156 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The right will splinter. Trumpism vs who knows what.
Daily reminder that Ted Cruz was Trump’s closest competitor.
Zoom is partially down this morning.
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And before leading the crowd in the pledge, Alaska delegate Peter Goldberg reminded them that “at least two caucuses” at the DNC did not say “under God” in the pledge.
“We would never do that,” he said. “Let me remind you, there is no comma before ‘under God.’”— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 24, 2020
That Alberta piece is really good, BTW. It’s an extremely detailed picture of the corner conservatives have painted themselves into.
If there is one principle driving Republican politicians today, it is that traditional American values—faith, patriotism, modesty, the nuclear family—are under siege. There is no use adjudicating this dispute or enumerating the ways in which Trump has himself undermined these ethics. Rather, what’s fascinating to observe is the shift in priorities and proportionality. What was once a source of annoyance and frustration for one sect of the party, social conservatives, has turned into the dominant lifeforce for the GOP. The good news for Republicans is that “grievance politics,” as Sasse describes it, continues to be highly effective in motivating their base. The bad news? It has diminishing returns when it comes to the many millions of persuadable voters in the middle. It’s also especially difficult for an incumbent party to sell grievance to the masses, as it amounts to a tacit acknowledgment of powerlessness. This is perhaps the most baffling aspect of the GOP’s approach to 2020: Instead of downplaying the social upheaval, treating it as a fleeting phenomenon that will pass with time and promising better days ahead, they are highlighting it at every turn, claiming it’s a sneak preview of Biden’s America when it is, factually speaking, the feature presentation of Trump’s America.
That’s a burning truth, right there.
When Joe Biden says we are in a battle for the soul of our nation against vile forces of hate who have come crawling out from under rocks, you are the epitome of what he means. What you stand for is absolutely repugnant. Your support is 10,000% percent unwelcome here. https://t.co/86reJEoTCd
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewBatesNC) August 24, 2020
re: #162 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ritual replaces thought.
re: #163 makeitstop
That Alberta piece is really good, BTW. It’s an extremely detailed picture of the corner conservatives have painted themselves into.
That’s a burning truth, right there.
Exactly. Trump doesn’t seem to get that he’s in charge and he can blame “Democrat cities and mayors” all he wants but the reality is his presidency not his projections of Biden’s. It really was easier when he was just running against HRC. He’s doing a terrible job telling why we should give him four more years.
re: #152 dangerman
If they had any sense theyd look forward to see the threats and challenges facing the country and the world that are coming at us and that we will have to face to survive
Sure, but my context was the search for antecedants, which every movement must acknowledge (lessons of history, all that). “Looking forward to see the threats facing the country”etc. was a big part of what the Rockefeller wing, and especially Wilkie, were about. I recommend the latter’s book, One World. He was truly a visionary.
re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Tea Party was when the inmates took over the asylum. The GOP was afraid to call them out on their excesses or even distance themselves, and that led to an attention-seeking rush to bottom and they are still on their way down.
Because there is no bottom for those people.
The Tea Party is an object lesson in why promoting “political outsiders” only works if you have control over those “outsiders.” The Repubs pursued Citizens United because they thought it would open the funding taps, that they could have unlimited funds to build the party. What they ignored until it bit them in the ass is relatively unregulated funding meant people who weren’t allied with the Old Guard could fuck the party over a bramble patch and there was like the OG could do about it. Just ask guys like Eric Cantor about what happens when you get primaried by a guy who isn’t afraid of threats to be cut off from RNCC support because Super PAC money is there to make up the difference.
In keeping with all the 1930s analogies we’ve been using for years now, Trump’s nomination was the Austrian corporal being appointed Chancellor: The party thought the real power would remain in the legislature, while all they needed was a meat puppet to smile for the cameras and sign any bills put in front of him. They thought they could control him, not the other way around.
re: #167 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Exactly. Trump doesn’t seem to get that he’s in charge and he can blame “Democrat cities and mayors” all he wants but the reality is his presidency not his projections of Biden’s. It really was easier when he was just running against HRC. He’s doing a terrible job telling why we should give him four more years.
Let’s get out of his way
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jeff Flake? Could AZ be turning blue?
Hasn’t Jeff Flake been a never trumper from the beginning?
DeJoy getting grilled now.
Please baste liberally.— Steve Brodner (@stevebrodner) August 24, 2020
re: #168 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Sure, but my context was the search for antecedantes, which every movement must a knowledge (lessons of history, all that). “Looking forward to see the threats facing the country”etc. was a big part of what the Rockefeller wing, and especially Wilkie, were about. I recommend the latter’s book, One World. L He was truly a visionary.
Oh I know what you meant and you’re right
I was just going directly for “conservatives need to be more progressive” ;-)
re: #169 Targetpractice
Riddle I made up:
Q: What’s history’s version of “Hold my beer”?
A: “We can control him.”
re: #171 danarchy
Hasn’t Jeff Flake been a never trumper from the beginning?
Yes but actually endorsing Biden and saying he’ll campaign for him is different than merely opposing Trump which is what many 2016 Never Trumpers did.
re: #117 Decatur Deb
The Dow is expected to open almost 300 points higher, based on Trump’s non-news about plasma treatment. I used to think money people were at least money-smart.
There are two economies.
People in the lower half of the income curve (maybe even the lower 60%) — they’re seriously hurting. It’s been a shitshow for them, they’re staring down hunger and homelessness. These are people who were barely getting by when the economy was good, they certainly weren’t buying stocks.
But people in the upper half of the income curve… we have the kind of jobs that can be done on the phone or computer, we’re working at home and our incomes are the same as they’ve always been. We’re the kind of people with 401K’s and savings accounts.
But we’re not buying gas or paying bridge tolls or parking. Car insurance and gyms are rebating a significant chunk of what we were budgeted for annually. We’re not going to bars and restaurants, we’re not buying concert and theater tickets, we’re not buying plane tickets and hotel rooms and souvenir tchotchkes that used to be part of our routine annual vacation, we’re not buying new clothes. We have more disposable cash than ever because the ways we used to dispose of it are all just soooo 2019. We haven’t seen this kind of slack in our finances since 3 jobs ago; in fact, we’re pretty damn flush. Those of us who donate some of that money to food banks and so on… we’re probably not giving them all of our newfound excess. Even if we don’t pour it into the stock market, we’re leaving it in our savings accounts and the bank is putting it into mutual funds.
re: #169 Targetpractice
The Tea Party is an object lesson in why promoting “political outsiders” only works if you have control over those “outsiders.” The Repubs pursued Citizens United because they thought it would open the funding taps, that they could have unlimited funds to build the party. What they ignored until it bit them in the ass is relatively unregulated funding meant people who weren’t allied with the Old Guard could fuck the party over a bramble patch and there was like the OG could do about it. Just ask guys like Eric Cantor about what happens when you get primaried by a guy who isn’t afraid of threats to be cut off from RNCC support because Super PAC money is there to make up the difference.
In keeping with all the 1930s analogies we’ve been using for years now, Trump’s nomination was the Austrian corporal being appointed Chancellor: The party thought the real power would remain in the legislature, while all they needed was a meat puppet to smile for the cameras and sign any bills put in front of him. They thought they could control him, not the other way around.
Von Papens.
re: #171 danarchy
He said the right things but voted party line.
re: #169 Targetpractice
The Tea Party is an object lesson in why promoting “political outsiders” only works if you have control over those “outsiders.” The Repubs pursued Citizens United because they thought it would open the funding taps, that they could have unlimited funds to build the party. What they ignored until it bit them in the ass is relatively unregulated funding meant people who weren’t allied with the Old Guard could fuck the party over a bramble patch and there was like the OG could do about it. Just ask guys like Eric Cantor about what happens when you get primaried by a guy who isn’t afraid of threats to be cut off from RNCC support because Super PAC money is there to make up the difference.
In keeping with all the 1930s analogies we’ve been using for years now, Trump’s nomination was the Austrian corporal being appointed Chancellor: The party thought the real power would remain in the legislature, while all they needed was a meat puppet to smile for the cameras and sign any bills put in front of him. They thought they could control him, not the other way around.
They probably could have if they didn’t become such cowering effing cowards all at the same time
re: #152 dangerman
If they had any sense they’d look forward to see the threats and challenges facing the country and the world that are coming at us and that we will have to face to survive
Except that for what seems to be the majority of the Republican Party these days, the sole -Pavlovian - response to any possible “threats and challenges facing the country” is to reflexively and angrily push the blame onto “Them” (Democrats/liberals/media/Those People, etc.), and then double down on the politics of grievance, resentment and hate. And not care about any of it. Or view democracy, per se, as anything but a stumbling-block to “righteous” governance.
This is what chaps my backside when I see things like that Biden/Harris interview on ABC last night: for all that they both (IMO) are capable, intelligent and competent people, the continual pitching of Joe as a “uniter-not-a-divider” and similar themes may be, objectively, right and worthy: but I’m really unsure how politically effective it is going to be in 2020.
What that approach fails to recognize, IMO, is that there is a sizable, irreducible and unapproachable bloc of the electorate who DON’T WANT to be “united” and for whom the political system is a zero-sum game of rulers and ruled. And who are going to be around, probably even angrier, for years into the future.
re: #182 dangerman
They probably could have if they didn’t become such cowering effing cowards all at the same time
All that tough talk Republicans have what they’ll do if libs try to take their guns but afraid to rebuke Trump. Read the Politico article, my favorite is how they’re convinced that Trump stands for America. Yeah that’s what laying down for Putin is.
re: #182 dangerman
YES! The GOP could have stood up to Trump, demanded he respect democratic and institutional norms…but they didn’t. And predictably, one little compromise led to another and another and another.
ETTD.
I blame the GOP more than even Trump for precisely that reason. Scorched earth election, followed by banishment to the political wilderness, never to return except perhaps to linger as a fringe element, a badge of shame.
No one gets to claim they were innocent or worked to stop Trump. They didn’t. They are complicit as hell and every single one needs to be ousted and replaced by a Dem. Now we know what they do with power. They betray democracy, whatever the cost.
re: #176 sagehen
There are two economies.
People in the lower half of the income curve (maybe even the lower 60%) — they’re seriously hurting. It’s been a shitshow for them, they’re staring down hunger and homelessness. These are people who were barely getting by when the economy was good, they certainly weren’t buying stocks.
But people in the upper half of the income curve… we have the kind of jobs that can be done on the phone or computer, we’re working at home and our incomes are the same as they’ve always been. We’re the kind of people with 401K’s and savings accounts.
But we’re not buying gas or paying bridge tolls or parking. Car insurance and gyms are rebating a significant chunk of what we were budgeted for annually. We’re not going to bars and restaurants, we’re not buying concert and theater tickets, we’re not buying plane tickets and hotel rooms and souvenir tchotchkes that used to be part of our routine annual vacation, we’re not buying new clothes. We have more disposable cash than ever because the ways we used to dispose of it are all just soooo 2019. We haven’t seen this kind of slack in our finances since 3 jobs ago; in fact, we’re pretty damn flush. Those of us who donate some of that money to food banks and so on… we’re probably not giving them all of our newfound excess. Even if we don’t pour it into the stock market, we’re leaving it in our savings accounts and the bank is putting it into mutual funds.
The 24 gallons of gas in my old Land Rover was bought in March. It is heading towards a carburettor varnish problem. You are describing a slow freeze in the economy that will leap the gap between those two worlds.
re: #182 dangerman
They probably could have if they didn’t become such cowering effing cowards all at the same time
Two words: Job security. Between Citizens and the gerrymandering, the party stalwarts actually boxed themselves in, such that while the seat may never go blue, it can always get a deeper shade of red.
re: #183 Jay C
Timothy Snyder, Yale historian who wrote On Tyranny, describes this in The Road to Unfreedom as the “politics of eternity”. Nothing will ever get better, all that matters is that the “innocent, pure” nation is under perpetual attack from outside (or in this case inside) and only the anointed ruler can defend and protect it.
The trump of the north. Great job Canadian conservatives.
Good job to whoever cooked up this “parody”. I put parody in quotes because O’Toole throws around the “take Canada back” mantra a lot and it’s a straight up dog whistle to racists. Even if he meant take Canada back from the left it’s a weird slogan given +60% canadians vote left. https://t.co/cUGJ4dxcG1
— Jamie (@Cheekierbobcat) August 21, 2020
re: #186 Decatur Deb
The 24 gallons of gas in my old Land Rover was bought in March. It is heading towards a carburettor varnish problem. You are describing a slow freeze in the economy that will leap the gap between those two worlds.
Meanwhile, “essential” workers like myself wish we had that problem, with the only consolation prize for us being that all the office workers staying home means that gas prices have dipped.
.@Mike_Pence officially renominated as GOP VP nominee.
— David Chalian (@DavidChalian) August 24, 2020
The GOP remains the weisswurst ticket.
Mike Pence officially nominated to another 4 years as nation’s creepy uncle.
Comer is drawing the sting to bring up the power point referenced by Maloney that was submitted to her by an internal whistleblower. He’s trying to discount it like we are taking about Ukraine again. That tells us the document has some great info, look alive. #DeJoyHearing
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) August 24, 2020
re: #183 Jay C
Except that for what seems to be the majority of the Republican Party these days, the sole -Pavlovian - response to any possible “threats and challenges facing the country” is to reflexively and angrily push blame onto “Them” (Democrats/liberals/media/Those People, etc.), and double down on the politic of grievance, resentment and hate. And not care about any of it. Or view democracy, per se, as anything but a stumbling-block to “righteous” governance.
This is what chaps my backside when I see things like that Biden/Harris interview on ABC last night: for all that they both (IMO) are capable, intelligent and competent people, the continual pitching of Joe as a “uniter-not-a-divider” and similar themes may be, objectively, right and worthy: but I’m really unsure how politically effective it is going to be in 2020.
What that approach fails to recognize, IMO, is that there is a sizable, irreducible and unapproachable bloc of the electorate who DON’T WANT to be “united” and for whom the political system is a zero-sum game of rulers and ruled. And who are going to be around, probably even angrier, for years into the future.
You are right on both counts
I do believe that the irreducible Bloc is under 40% and that somewhere over 50% still want a country where Bidens appeal will be politically effective
(And I did say if they had any sense…)
They were trying to write “horrible?” https://t.co/kzeAJHXRpz
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) August 24, 2020
re: #192 Targetpractice
Mike Pence officially nominated to another 4 years as nation’s creepy uncle.
The Haley switcheroo was never happening.
re: #191 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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The GOP remains the weisswurst ticket.
Oh, so Trump isn’t going to dump Mike Dense for Nikki Haley or Ivanka, after all?
Disappointing - must be because they’re too cheap to want to reprint all the signs.
Jacob Blake, the man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisc., has a history of assaulting police. He also has past charges for domestic abuse & a sex crime. There’s a warrent for his arrest. BLM rioters are currently destroying the city to avenge the shooting. https://t.co/BErLeJdPwj pic.twitter.com/JhHcbis5kf
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 24, 2020
Sad. Jacob Blake looks like he could have been grabing a gun. He wouldn’t have got himself shot if he had just followed the cops’ reasonable instructions in Kenosha WI. pic.twitter.com/rkYxJr0Pkp
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) August 24, 2020
#JacobBlake had an outstanding felony warrant and a history of violence.
A warrant is the court saying “bring him in now, no exceptions.”
Cops had zero discretion. Blake resisted then lunged under his driver side seat.
This is as justifiable as a police shooting gets.— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) August 24, 2020
The Far Right always get a hard-on whenever a black man gets shot by cops.
re: #190 Targetpractice
Meanwhile, “essential” workers like myself wish we had that problem, with the only consolation prize for us being that all the office workers staying home means that gas prices have dipped.
That’s why I used that illustration. I didn’t need gas to get to the store I didn’t shop at for the clothes I don’t need for the trip I’m not taking. I’ve offered to siphon the gas to a still-working kid’s car.
re: #197 Jay C
Oh, so Trump isn’t going to dump Mike Dense for Nikki Haley or Ivanka, after all?
Disappointing - must be because they’re too cheap to want to reprint all the signs.
I don’t think it was ever happening. Just noise. Haley isn’t going anywhere in 2024,
re: #191 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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The GOP remains the weisswurst ticket.
Who?
.@Mike_Pence officially renominated as GOP VP nominee.
— David Chalian (@DavidChalian) August 24, 2020
re: #196 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The Haley switcheroo was never happening.
I’m convinced most of those “rumors” were perpetuated by the party itself in the hopes that Donny might bring onto the ticket somebody with more appeal than a mayonnaise sandwich.
re: #198 DodgerFan1988
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The Far Right always get a hard-on whenever a black man gets shot by cops.
Will it be okay if the cops shoot Trump if he tries to run away when he’s arrested?
So the Republican position is … checks notes … that the mail is NOT being delayed at all; that everyday people and @USPS whistleblowers are just hallucinating that mail and Social Security checks and packages and ballots are severely delayed. That THIS PHOTOGRAPH isn’t real. https://t.co/IUSm2muiIH
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) August 24, 2020
re: #202 Targetpractice
I’m convinced most of those “rumors” were perpetuated by the party itself in the hopes that Donny might bring onto the ticket somebody with more appeal than a mayonnaise sandwich.
Hey those white Evangelicals love their mayonnaise sandwiches.
This is not good.
NEW: A man in Hong Kong has become the first confirmed patient to be infected with the coronavirus a second time, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong. https://t.co/UwDIc0jsDk
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 24, 2020
re: #198 DodgerFan1988
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The Far Right always get a hard-on whenever a black man gets shot by cops.
Wingnuts saying in so many words the same thing they say after every such incident: “That NI-CLANG GOT WHAT HE DESERVED!!!”
re: #200 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I don’t think it was ever happening. Just noise. Haley isn’t going anywhere in 2024,
It was mostly Dem noise
The RS never even thought of it //. 1/2
James Comer whining that the Republicans aren’t getting an opening statement.
Victims again.
re: #209 jaunte
James Comer whining that the Republicans aren’t getting an opening statement.
Victims again.
Try keeping the majority in the House next time.
GOP: Uhh, We didn’t know we’d get two opening statements.
Dems: WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME.
GOP: This is just a rushed process.
Dems: YOUS A BUM— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) August 24, 2020
re: #162 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
“Why won’t Republicans run on anything other than opposing Democrats?”
The INCOMPETENCE on display by the Republicans party is just shocking sometimes. And their voters stand for it because they deliver racism.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) August 24, 2020
Now Republican spending time casting doubt on the validity of mail in ballots.
Republicans are bleating toxic Trump propaganda, disinformation, perpetuating their efforts to scare voters and suppress the vote. #USPSsabotage #USPSHearing
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) August 24, 2020
re: #215 jaunte
“It will be filled with fraud!”
Wonder how many of these guys have benefited from mail ins and used them themselves.
re: #217 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
These people are really off the rails.
re: #204 jaunte
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DeJoy sat in front of the Senate on Friday and kept telling them the same WH-approved talking point: All that’s happening is “slack” being taken out of the system. Machines being removed is due to duplication, any mail boxes removed is due to being in low-traffic areas, and mail not being moved is because workers are lazy assholes who work slow in order to clock overtime. That the whole of the USPS is composed of gold-brickers who are the reason why it’s not “profitable.” And all he’s doing is making them “work for a living.”
re: #217 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Wonder how many of these guys have benefited from mail ins and used them themselves.
All of them, Katie.
re: #218 jaunte
These people are really off the rails.
What would you expect from House Republicans? They have little/no power to direct anything (election year notwithstanding), so loud propagandistic posturing is really all they have left. So they’re going to milk it for as many (carefully-edited) soundbites as they can.
re: #207 Targetpractice
Wingnuts saying in so many words the same thing they say after every such incident: “That NI-CLANG GOT WHAT HE DESERVED!!!”
Really
What were the cops “reasonable instructions?”
And 6 times in the back??
Is that better or worse than 8 minutes on his neck?
re: #221 Jay C
Oh, god, now Walker (R) is saying that DeJoy is a victim of cancel culture.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) August 24, 2020
They’ve degenerated to sloganeering.
re: #212 Belafon
“Why won’t Republicans run on anything other than opposing Democrats?”
See our 2020 platform.
We spent zero minutes on it.
Just follow the link to the other guy’s bullet point list
re: #169 Targetpractice
In keeping with all the 1930s analogies we’ve been using for years now, Trump’s nomination was the Austrian corporal being appointed Chancellor: The party thought the real power would remain in the legislature, while all they needed was a meat puppet to smile for the cameras and sign any bills put in front of him. They thought they could control him, not the other way around.
They assumed he would listen to reason and defer to experts and people with more experience.
Without any evidence that he was or had ever been capable of doing so.
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They assumed he would listen to reason and defer to experts and people with more experience.
Without any evidence that he was or had ever been capable of doing so.
They thought he would be another Dubya, that Mike would be the real power behind the throne and he was just there to serve as a hate magnet.
re: #228 Targetpractice
They thought he would be another Dubya, that Mike would be the real power behind the throne and he was just there to serve as a hate magnet.
Yep. Except Mike is no Cheney. Idiots.
re: #230 Ace Rothstein
Seen in a white suburb of Houston (Spring TX).
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There’s someone at my defense contractor job that has had a QANON sticker on for at least three years.
That said, there are parts of the 2016 Republican platform that work pretty well in 2020.
I’m just a little surprised to see the @GOPconvention embracing statements like this about the current president. Wow. pic.twitter.com/NKpwesaicW— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 24, 2020
re: #232 The Pie Overlord!
I’m just a little surprised to see the GOP convention embracing statements like this about the current president. Wow.
Those don’t apply because the current President is white and Republican
“The Devil and Daniel Webster 2: The Devil’s Revenge” https://t.co/TMsq5fAP7G
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 24, 2020
Next up is Trump could beat George Washington in a battle.
re: #198 DodgerFan1988
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So, how many times does an interaction like that not end up with a person shot multiple times at point blank range? These assholes think this was the logical, reasonable outcome?
Louis DeJoy is up there saying he didn’t direct ANY of the things that have been going on at USPS, including the overtime ban.
Bullshit. He’s perjuring himself again.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 24, 2020
re: #237 jaunte
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simple question:
then who did?
Louis DeJoy is up there saying he didn’t direct ANY of the things that have been going on at USPS, including the overtime ban.
Bullshit. He’s perjuring himself again.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 24, 2020
re: #236 Mike Lamb
So, how many times does an interaction like that not end up with a person shot multiple times at point blank range? These assholes think this was the logical, reasonable outcome?
We are no longer looking at individual incidents here, we have to look at this incident in the light of the history of the relations between white police officers and black suspects.
re: #237 jaunte
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I’m confused: Is he still denying that it’s going on or is he denying that he had any involvement?
re: #240 jaunte
DeJoy exposed for withholding documents.
Maloney says DeJoy was asked for data on metrics. And he said nothing to Senate about it.
Instead he dismissed nationwide delays as a “dip” and refused to turn over analysis that he had.
This document below. https://t.co/P0NWAW6CBF— Brandi Buchman (@BBuchman_CNS) August 24, 2020
re: #241 Targetpractice
He’s consistently evading responsibility.
re: #244 jaunte
He’s consistently evading responsibility.
It sounds to me like the shitheel is trying to thread the needle: “Anything positive is my responsibility, anything negative is a consequence of actions I had nothing to do with or are temporary.”
The Republican position on the Post Office seems to be “we’re going to make these changes to make the USPTO financially viable (to accommodate our deliberate sabotage) while “streamlining” services and if any of you have to suffer with non-delivered medication while it happens, blame the local carrier, not management. Oh, and mail in ballots lead to major fraud.”
re: #244 jaunte
He’s consistently evading responsibility.
Of course he is! After all he’s just another Soviet er, Republican apparatchik!
Virginia Foxx confirms mail delivery delays to herself and her husband, but she’s treating DeJoy like everything’s fine. Again, they have no idea how to defend DeJoy’s actions. Either the USPS needs the funding or it doesn’t. It can’t be both.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 24, 2020
re: #246 jaunte
The Republican position on the Post Office seems to be “we’re going to make these changes to make the USPTO financially viable (to accommodate our deliberate sabotage) while “streamlining” services and if any of you have to suffer with non-delivered medication while it happens, blame the local carrier, not management. Oh, and mail in ballots lead to major fraud.”
IOW, the union-breaking has begun, please mind the mess.
Republicans keep claiming Democrats are unwilling to enact any “meaningful reform” the Postal Service needs. But they can’t name any reform they have in mind.
Meanwhile they never seem to suggest repealing the bill THEY PASSED in 2006 that caused the Postal Service’s losses.— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 24, 2020
And the GOP KKKonKKKlave starts off with a Pulpit Pimp praising Gawd for Trump.
hmmrmmm ending the prayer with WWG1WGA is a tad over the top isn’t it?????
re: #248 jaunte
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It’s a “vulture capitalism” tactic: Deliberately take actions meant to starve a “failing” company of revenue, then use the company’s debts as an excuse to shut it down and sell off the assets like a chop shop stripping a car for parts.
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wingnuts are busy digging into the criminal record of man who was killed by police in Kenosha, Wisc. to “justify” his being shot in the back by the police. (Assuming they have the right man or criminal record.)
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It’s kinda hard to dig into the police backgrounds of the cops who murdered this person by shooting him repeatedly in the back because police departments around the nation routinely shield the police records of excessive force and abuse complaints so we don’t know how many other incidents involving these officers included excessive force.
You know, because a few bad apples conduct a shit ton of excessive force and rots the entire barrel of cops who ignore/condone/excuse/enable the bad cops to continue being bad cops and violating the rights of those they come in contact with.
re: #132 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
If you’re wondering what will succeed the Trump/Teabag/Evangelical axis when it inevitably goes down in flames, Project Lincoln is the preview.
Instead of trying desperately to stay ahead of the tsunami, the PL leaders are getting behind it do they can land on their feet when it washes over.
And then they’ll start applying the same attack dynamics to democrats again.
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
all the polling seems to indicate it… trending from 2018 with taking CD01, taking the Secretary of State position, and Sinema’s win…all seem to be a harbinger. The current polling puts Kelly anywhere between 5 to 9 points ahead of McSally and in CD05, Tiperneni is within the MOE of Schweikert from what I’ve seen. Still going to take a lot to beat back the GOP gerrymander at the state level, but you get a sense that AZ is moving into a purple rather than a red tone.
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