The price tag for President Biden’s pandemic rescue plan has a bipartisan group of Senators including Maine’s Angus King expressing concern, while Republican Senators like Marco Rubio have signaled they’ll vote for acquittal when the previous president’s impeachment trial begins in that chamber. #Colbert #ALateShow #Monologue
Heads up, science people! https://t.co/jHlq0XeRQk
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) January 26, 2021
re: #1 Teukka
I always warned people to be wary of social media sources on Covid, but what kind of sick fucks feel compelled to spread misinformation this way?
She’s not entirely incorrect….I suppose. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pamela Anderson Quits Social Media Forever Because Big Tech Wants ‘Control Over Your Brain’ https://t.co/06l0GkdkI0
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 26, 2021
ABL is channelling me this morning. I am so happy to be wrong
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I always warned people to be wary of social media sources on Covid, but what kind of sick fucks feel compelled to spread misinformation this way?
Buy a vowel to answer the puzzle!
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Re: KKKellyanne KKKonway Saga:
Seeing some people claiming that Kellyanne Conway’s Twitter was hacked which is how CP of her daughter got posted.
Unless her iCloud got hacked, there’s no way a hack would get those pictures.
Even if this was the case it would mean that she had those pics on her phone.— Coping MAGA (@CopingMAGA) January 26, 2021
this guy seems greeeeat https://t.co/yBObqBgYQH
— Master Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King (@commiegirl1) January 26, 2021
re: #6 Teukka
Re: KKKellyanne KKKonway Saga:
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My phone/account was hacked is 2021’s my dog ate my homework
Scott Lively: God Let Trump Lose to Punish Him for Being Too Gay-Friendly https://t.co/SPLyHu7yQx pic.twitter.com/BlwT9IzsBm
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) January 26, 2021
Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany is the latest official to take advantage of the revolving door between Fox News and the Trump administration,” according to her termination financial disclosure report.
Was she ever not working for fox?
re: #401 Dr. Matt
This is very enlightening. I didn’t realize 1) the proud boys were the ones to break down that barrier and 2) that was going on during Donnie’s speech. I thought all the clashes occurred after his rant was complete. Interesting and damning evidence.
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Lawmakers in Canada’s House of Commons voted unanimously on Monday to classify the extremist far-right group Proud Boys as a white supremacist terrorist organization.
Canadians begin considering labeling Proud Boys as a terrorist group following the riot at the U.S. Capitol in January. A member of the Florida chapter of the Proud Boys was arrested on Wednesday on charges connected to his participation in the riot. Canadian Parliament member Jagmeet Singh introduced the proposal to classify the Proud Boys as a terrorist group on Monday.
Singh said that all parties had agreed to provide unanimous consent to the motion, which called on the Canadian government to “use all of available tools to address the proliferation of white supremacists and hate groups, starting with the immediate designating Proud Boys as a terrorist entity.”
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Proud Boys Unanimously Designated White Supremacist Terrorist Group by Canadian Lawmakers (Newsweek, yesterday)
For reconciliation purposes, how about a 90 percent employer-side payroll tax on wages that are below $15/hour.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 26, 2021
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well at least Canada sees terrorists for what they are. Now all we have to do is convince a good part of the population here in the US that the so-called proud boys are terrorists.
By “this cycle” they mean 2022, right?
— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 26, 2021
“We cannot divide this country into two camps — one camp that condemns the incitement of an insurrection that murdered a Capitol Police officer and sought to gas the rest of us, and another camp that says, ‘hey, that’s why pencils have erasers!’” https://t.co/wQfBHpOohP
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 26, 2021
I’ve been hanging out rather passively today, because I’ve been doing a lot of networking reconfiguration. For the past few months, I’ve noticed unacceptable latency when trying to play games with my friends from my console upstairs in the bedroom, which is also the furthest away from the router. I tried adding a wireless extender into the loop, to no avail; so signal strength wasn’t the problem. The router and modem were both new. Eventually, after a couple of Mondays spent intensively flipping switches, I discovered the culprit: My router’s firmware had a broken traffic prioritization implementation. I replaced the firmware with a Linux-based solution, configured a proper QoS stack, and now all the various networked devices in my home are much happier.
re: #9 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I knew the “Trump wasn’t conservative enough” takes would be coming soon.
PETER DOOCY: Mr President, what did you talk to Vladimir Putin about?
PRESIDENT BIDEN: You. He sends his best. pic.twitter.com/Fq0zglc9aK— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2021
re: #20 jaunte
Okay, not going to lie, I had to actually listen to the quote because I didn’t believe he actually said that. Ho-lee fuck, I love this man.
Trump not only incited the riot, evidence appears to show his administration took deliberate steps beforehand to worsen it.
This was an outright attack on the United States.
The commander of the D.C. National Guard said the Pentagon restricted his authority ahead of the riot at the U.S. Capitol, requiring higher level sign-off to respond that cost time as the events that day spiraled out of control,” the Washington Post reports.
“Local commanders typically have the power to take military action on their own to save lives or prevent significant property damage in an urgent situation when there isn’t enough time to obtain approval from headquarters.”
“But Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, said the Pentagon essentially took that power and other authorities away from him ahead of a pro-Trump protest on Jan. 6. That meant he couldn’t immediately roll out troops when he received a panicked phone call from the Capitol Police chief warning that rioters were about to enter the U.S. Capitol
Officials say a Florida man who had been recently named “Paramedic of the Year” helped a supervisor steal COVID-19 vaccines meant for first responders. Police say the man forged paperwork to help cover up the theft of 30 doses of the Moderna vaccine. https://t.co/g5N9vmXNS8
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 26, 2021
re: #18 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I’ve been hanging out rather passively today, because I’ve been doing a lot of networking reconfiguration. For the past few months, I’ve noticed unacceptable latency when trying to play games with my friends from my console upstairs in the bedroom, which is also the furthest away from the router. I tried adding a wireless extender into the loop, to no avail; so signal strength wasn’t the problem. The router and modem were both new. Eventually, after a couple of Mondays spent intensively flipping switches, I discovered the culprit: ****My router’s firmware had a broken traffic prioritization implementation. I replaced the firmware with a Linux-based solution, configured a proper QoS stack,**** and now all the various networked devices in my home are much happier.
*** you kids and your lingo
re: #26 Dangerman
*** you kids and your lingo
Non-nerd version: I hacked my router and told it to do a better job of shoving stuff into tubes in the right order to make my games go faster.
re: #6 Teukka
Re: KKKellyanne KKKonway Saga:
If this is true, it is also a federal offence as well as a state one. The local police can be bypassed by the FBI.
Perhaps we will see Kellyanne Conway trotted off in handcuffs.
NEW: Pres. Biden says he will rescind the Trump’s administration’s “harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training, and abolish the offensive counterfactual ‘1776 Commission.’”
“Unity and healing must begin with understanding and truth—not ignorance and lies.” pic.twitter.com/Gwize6vW0l— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) January 26, 2021
Trump rioter who smoked a joint in the Capitol arrested by FBI after his co-workers turn him in
James Bonet has been charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authorities and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
“Capitol building smoking with all my people!” Bonet says in one video, which shows him smoking a joint with other rioters.
re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Kellyanne would look good with stainless steel bracelets.
re: #31 PhillyPretzel
Kellyanne would look good with stainless steel bracelets.
No, she still wouldn’t look good, but I’ll agree she would look better.
re: #32 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
That works for me.
re: #6 Teukka
Re: KKKellyanne KKKonway Saga:
I don’t know what kind of fuckery goes on in that household, but it’s strange. Because of their opposing viewpoints, I can’t see George and Kellyanne being in the same room, and their daughter seems like a typical entitled brat teenager (in those awful teenage years) that uses social media to manipulate and embarrass her parents to an audience of millions while pushing her boundaries.
I don’t know how topless photos of a daughter wind up anywhere they can be hacked from her parent’s devices, but… Never occurred to me to have nude-ish photos of my kid I could use to blackmail them into some sort of compliance. Who would even? It’s nuts.
Nobody wins here. It’s a freak show.
re: #15 PhillyPretzel
Well at least Canada sees terrorists for what they are. Now all we have to do is convince a good part of the population here in the US that the so-called proud boys are terrorists.
I’m not sure how Interpol works, but I imagine Canada can now approach Interpol and other nations’ foreign ministries to get that enforced worldwide.
BREAKING: Biden is ordering his Department of Justice to end private prison contracts. This is huge.
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) January 26, 2021
Oh man. Gonna take a while to get used to good news everyday.
re: #36 DodgerFan1988
Of course, companies like CCA and their ilk will file lawsuits to try to get this stopped…
re: #38 Eric The Fruit Bat
Of course. DT and his ilk live off of that sort of stuff.
Claudia Conway has posted a tiktok disavowing earlier accusations of abuse saying it’s just normal “mother-daughter” stuff and that she’ll be off social media for awhile. Says “not a forced video… please don’t post hate about my family.”
Our daughter Claudia asked me to tweet this statement for her. https://t.co/ilH7IFqERB
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 26, 2021
re: #40 Barefoot Grin
Claudia Conway has posted a tiktok disavowing earlier accusations of abuse saying it’s just normal “mother-daughter” stuff and that she’ll be off social media for awhile. Says “not a forced video… please don’t post hate about my family.”
Given the personality of KKKellyanne, is it a genuine disavowing, or is it KKKellyanne twisting Claudia’s arm?
Elements of the quotidian world, #1
The supermarket where I picked up supplies this morning has had its liquor license suspended. They have stocked the shelves with paper products instead. The locked shelves (still locked, I checked) have the toilet paper.
Elements of the quotidian world, #2
At the checkout stand, the National Enquirer front page:
WHITE SUPREMACISTS STARTED THE CAPITOL RIOTS
exclamation. point. I may not have the wording just right.
This may be a backhanded way of exculpating DT, but I was still a bit surprised to see it.
re: #41 Teukka
Given the personality of KKKellyanne, is it a genuine disavowing, or is it KKKellyanne twisting Claudia’s arm?
I can’t vouch for the veracity of the photo, but if it’s real it got out there somehow. I’m not sure that’s going to be so easy to paper over.
In talk w/Putin, Biden reaffirmed “support for Ukraine’s sovereignty” and raised “SolarWinds hack, reports of Russia placing bounties on United States soldiers in Afghanistan, interference in the 2020 United States election and the poisoning of Aleksey Navalny,” per White House.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) January 26, 2021
And did White House announce call in real time not hours after Kremlin? Regime change.. https://t.co/pkrfMrsKed
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) January 26, 2021
curious if SCOTUS is going to continue its crusade against nationwide injunctions or if that was just a thing when the president is a republican https://t.co/5fkxUv4Eai
— Sen. Lemon Gogurt (R - MS) (@Ugarles) January 26, 2021
Texas claims it has standing because it has to spend money on services for people subject to an order of removal during the moratorium. That’s the irreparable harm. Fucking gibberish.
— Sen. Lemon Gogurt (R - MS) (@Ugarles) January 26, 2021
re: #45 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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The fact that the harm can be quantified should have made it really difficult to argue “irreparable” harm.
And let’s not even get to the fact the Feds are the top dog on immigration. They can change whatever the fuck they want.
re: #47 steve_davis
Such a pretty girl. ❤️❤️❤️
re: #47 steve_davis
Cute cat. Is that her “I am innocent” look?
re: #18 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I’ve been hanging out rather passively today, because I’ve been doing a lot of networking reconfiguration. For the past few months, I’ve noticed unacceptable latency when trying to play games with my friends from my console upstairs in the bedroom, which is also the furthest away from the router. I tried adding a wireless extender into the loop, to no avail; so signal strength wasn’t the problem. The router and modem were both new. Eventually, after a couple of Mondays spent intensively flipping switches, I discovered the culprit: My router’s firmware had a broken traffic prioritization implementation. I replaced the firmware with a Linux-based solution, configured a proper QoS stack, and now all the various networked devices in my home are much happier.
The last time I noticed unacceptable latency it took me a decade to realize that it was actually acceptable.
re: #49 PhillyPretzel
Cute cat. Is that her “I am innocent” look?
Looks more like “I own you, food slave. Worship me!”
re: #46 Mike Lamb
The fact that the harm can be quantified should have made it really difficult to argue “irreparable” harm.
And let’s not even get to the fact the Feds are the top dog on immigration. They can change whatever the fuck they want.
the fact that any state of the union has to bear financial costs because of a federal policy is not ‘harm’.
it’s a cost of being a state in the union.
this is very close to ‘i dont want my tax money paying for xxxx’
re: #49 PhillyPretzel
Cute cat. Is that her “I am innocent” look?
Classic cat expression:
“Whatever it is, I am innocent of it!”
So 🥰
55-45, Senate votes to table Paul’s motion to dismiss the impeachment trial
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 26, 2021
re: #55 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
And that could very well be the end score in the impeachment itself. Honestly, I’d kinda call that a win, even though Trump really shouldn’t be allowed to run for office ever again.
So, 45 GOP treasonweasels think that Trump should not face consequences of inciting an armed insurrection that threatened the lives of members of Congress, the VP, and GOPers?
90% of GOP in Senate are fine with being treasonweasels protecting Trump at all costs. https://t.co/2vnMm7j8Nh— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) January 26, 2021
re: #47 steve_davis
Miss cutie van pootie, today’s lizard dose:
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re: #58 Teddy’s Person
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Teddy is so raggedy, but we’re both still a bit traumatized by his FHO surgery that I don’t have the heart to take him to the groomers just yet.
He looks absolutely beautiful! Gorgeous. Divine!
Republicans continue to be a threat to democracy.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) January 26, 2021
re: #17 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Fucking country is already divided asshole. When they’re through with Trump hopefully they’ll come for you😡
re: #49 PhillyPretzel
Cute cat. Is that her “I am innocent” look?
that’s kind of it. when she really wants to look innocent, she’ll walk under my chair and then look up at me with the sweet green eyes. It’s funny, ‘cause when she’s hanging out in the bed with me, she mostly has that elderly gal who’s seen it all look about her. I think that comes from her Reno days, when she shot the man just to watch him die.
re: #40 Barefoot Grin
I call bulkshit.
She’s being forced to say this because there’s abusive relationship written all over this.
Let Child Protective Services make the call whether there’s additional crimes here. Indict for child porn and revenge porn (prosecutors can get a grand jury to find a reason to indict if they want for pretty much any crime).
McConnell still a piece of shit.
Mitch McConnell just voted “No” on Constitutionality of Trump impeachment trial.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) January 26, 2021
re: #58 Teddy’s Person
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Good thing I took the dogs to the beach this morning…it’s about to get wet. pic.twitter.com/lNvEt0ym2Y
— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 26, 2021
re: #4 Charmingly Persistent
ABL is channelling me this morning. I am so happy to be wrong
This seems like a weird complaint of Biden:
Ultimately, I thought his candidacy was simply a reflection of vanity. He didn’t really want to put in the work that being president after Trump would require; the presidency was simply the last notch that he wanted to be able to etch onto his political bedpost.
He seems like the least vain politician in American politics in my life time. Sure, you have to be somewhat vain to run for office, let alone the presidency, but relatively speaking, “vain” isn’t a term I’d throw at Biden.
Otherwise, it’s hard to complain about the points she raises.
re: #45 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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“If anyone is deported during the time I wanted it paused, Texas can pay for their return after the stay is overturned.” - Biden.
re: #70 Belafon
“If anyone is deported during the time I wanted it paused, Texas can pay for their return after the stay is overturned.” - Biden.
Hold the ICE agents personally liable.
re: #58 Teddy’s Person
Gives you more time to brush Teddy and Teddy would like that.
re: #57 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
And that could very well be the end score in the impeachment itself. Honestly, I’d kinda call that a win, even though Trump really shouldn’t be allowed to run for office ever again.
career, then party, then something something something, then maybe country
re: #72 nines09
Gives you more time to brush Teddy and Teddy would like that.
Nooooo, Teddy does not like to be brushed (unkind brushing experiences in his years before me), which is why I like to keep him short.
re: #59 lawhawk
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So, 45 GOP treasonweasels think that Trump should not face consequences of inciting an armed insurrection that threatened the lives of members of Congress, the VP, and GOPers?
90% of GOP in Senate are fine with being treasonweasels protecting Trump at all costs. https://t.co/2vnMm7j8Nh— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) January 26, 2021
re: #64 steve_davis
that’s kind of it. when she really wants to look innocent, she’ll walk under my chair and then look up at me with the sweet green eyes. It’s funny, ‘cause when she’s hanging out in the bed with me, she mostly has that elderly gal who’s seen it all look about her. I think that comes from her Reno days, when she shot the man just to watch him die.
oh what you did there
re: #4 Charmingly Persistent
ABL is channelling me this morning. I am so happy to be wrong
There are areas of disagreement between Biden and progressives, to be sure. Progressives want universal health care (although there’s plenty of fighting on how to do it). A growing number of progressives want Biden to wipe out student debt entirely. And almost every progressive wants that $2,000 stimulus check and to make those checks retroactive to the beginning of the pandemic.
I want all of those things. I also want Biden to unpack the courts by expanding the federal judiciary and adding as many as 20 new justices to the Supreme Court. (If that sounds bonkers, read Elie Mystal’s take on it in the Nation—he’ll make a believer out of you.) And it is practically a foregone conclusion that progressives, particularly anti-imperialist progressives, are going to find much of Biden’s foreign policy to be immoral. That’s the nature of being anti-war in an imperialist country that traffics in death and destruction in the Global South.
He might have some control over the federal student loan part, but the rest of it, the writer needs to be told, is up to Congress, not Biden.
re: #70 Belafon
“If anyone is deported during the time I wanted it paused, Texas can pay for their return after the stay is overturned.” - Biden.
It’s a weird injunction, because they can fairly easily slow walk these proceedings… a couple of continuances of hearings or taking a ruling under consideration rather than making it at the hearing. Like, it’s incredibly easy, whether in court or administrative law courts, to burn 100 days.
re: #55 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Is there going to be a motion to send the trial to a committee? Because that’s really what they should do. Fuck giving the orange idiot center stage again.
re: #78 KGxvi
It’s a weird injunction, because they can fairly easily slow walk these proceedings… a couple of continuances of hearings or taking a ruling under consideration rather than making it at the hearing. Like, it’s incredibly easy, whether in court or administrative law courts, to burn 100 days.
or in fact, almost an entire presidential administration
re: #74 Teddy’s Person
Ah. Got ya. Cooper likes it except when he doesn’t. We compromise.
re: #74 Teddy’s Person
Nooooo, Teddy does not like to be brushed (unkind brushing experiences in his years before me), which is why I like to keep him short.
Have you tried a dog comb? He might perceive that as something different from the Evil Brush.
re: #75 Dangerman
republicans ok with insurrection as long as it’s our insurrection
If there was an insurrection attempt on behalf of a Dem president, the GOP would impeach him/her, even if there was a video of the President trying to act as a human shield to prevent people from entering the building.
of course trump didnt/doesnt care about them and mostly, neither do i
so..tough
a new corollary to ettd: everything that touched what trump also touched, dies
New York Times: “The pardon also left three other men who were indicted with Steve Bannon in an unusual and unenviable predicament. None of them received pardons and so they still must face a trial in May. What’s more, legal experts said, Mr. Bannon could now be called as a government witness to testify against them, potentially increasing their legal jeopardy.”
US Justice Dept *will* bring sedition charges (20 year felonies) in US Capitol insurrection. “We are working on those cases. They will bear fruit very soon”
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) January 26, 2021
Acting U.S. Atty Michael Sherwin said “specialized teams” are investigating Sicknick’s death & fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt — “We can’t comment on those grand jury investigations at this point, but we’re hopeful we’re going to be able to have results soon in those cases.”
— Mike Levine (@MLevineReports) January 26, 2021
re: #82 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Have you tried a dog comb? He might perceive that as something different from the Evil Brush.
I use a comb, when I subject us to the process.
re: #55 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Only 5 GOP senators voted NOT to dismiss the impeachment trial:
Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, and Toomey— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 26, 2021
note: not mcconnell
Like almost all Senate Republicans, it is my strongly held belief that you get to break any workplace law you want once you’ve put in your two-week notice.
Sorry, you can’t arrest me for embezzlement, I’m out of here next Friday!— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 26, 2021
re: #85 Dread Pirate Ron
They are moving very fast. Maybe we will have something that will help convict DT.
does this seem relevant?
Has no one mentioned the reason this impeachment trial is starting after Trump’s term is because the GOP Leader said he would not allow it to begin until then?
— Jonathan Nicholson (@JNicholsonInDC) January 26, 2021
i wonder if mitch and scotus (re emoluments) read from the same playbook
re: #74 Teddy’s Person
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It’s misreading DC to say that the problem is partisan gridlock. That’s a symptom. The problem is the GOP is committed to inherently bad policies—racist, anti-democratic, corrupt, anti-environment, inequality deepening ideas that any moral politician should not countenance.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) January 26, 2021
re: #90 nines09
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They have to get 67 votes to convict Trump. 45 Republicans said no today. That means it’s very unlikely he’ll be convicted unless something changes drastically.
re: #89 Dangerman
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i wonder if mitch and scotus (re emoluments) read from the same playbook
Zero question that Satan’s Turtle thought that he could capitalize on running out the clock.
we’re trending towards “execute our opponents” as not-entirely-fringe GOP/conservative position. https://t.co/C56sGdJIL9
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 26, 2021
In a speech that she posted on Facebook live, Green suggested that Nancy Pelosi could be executed for treason.
She replied to a comment about hanging Obama and Clinton by saying “the stage is being set.”https://t.co/SPhtAHF2bn— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 26, 2021
The GOP shouts it out loud- there is one rule of law for us - and another for the president. I do not ever want to hear a claim that the GOP is the party for law and order. It is a seditious lie. Vote them all out. https://t.co/lnMkt7AjE6
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) January 26, 2021
45 Republican Senators just voted to drop the case against a guy who sent a mob to kill them.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) January 26, 2021
re: #97 Dangerman
Of course. DT promised them things.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
They have to get 67 votes to convict Trump. 45 Republicans said no today. That means it’s very unlikely he’ll be convicted unless something changes drastically.
The problem is that the MAGA-heads ARE the GOP base now. Alienate them (by voting against their God-King) and the GOP Senators risk losing their re-election bids.
It’s not about protecting Trump (well okay, it’s not ONLY about protecting Trump), it’s about saving their own asses.
it’s like there’s an underground tunnel between the trump white house and fox
or a teleporter
or a highline transfer chair
or the metaphor of your choice
Larry Kudlow, the former CNBC star who served as director of President Donald J. Trump’s National Economic Council, was named the host of a new daily show on Fox Business set to begin later this year, the New York Times reports.
Okay, so let’s say Biden sent a bunch of Muslim guys to attack Republicans…these same assholes would be falling over each other to be the first to vote: “Yea”
re: #93 Charles Johnson
They have to get 67 votes to convict Trump. 45 Republicans said no today. That means it’s very unlikely he’ll be convicted unless something changes drastically.
They want to have an excuse to acquit him without examining his behavior. Just disgusting.
re: #97 Dangerman
I didn’t even get an automated reply to my message to Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE3) about voting against the impeachment of the guy who sent a mob to kill him.
I continue to be on “shred before reading” from the representative who says he only represents Republicans.
re: #102 KingKenrod
They want to have an excuse to acquit him without examining his behavior. Just disgusting.
Too bad in this impeachment trial there will be witnesses.
re: #101 Eclectic Cyborg
Okay, so let’s say Biden sent a bunch of Muslim guys to attack Republicans…these same assholes would be falling over each other to be the first to vote: “Yea”
Biden could send a bunch of middle-aged women wearing p#ssy hats to peacefully protest at the Capitol and these same assholes would be falling over each other to be the first to vote: “Yea”. //
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Too bad in this impeachment trial there will be witnesses.
Just remember: No matter what, the Senate has already proven that they will not convict him. He’s successfully tampered with the jury.
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I didn’t even get an automated reply to my message to Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE3) about voting against the impeachment of the guy who sent a mob to kill him.
I continue to be on “shred before reading” from the representative who says he only represents Republicans.
it could be your hat (j/k)
look i’ve got desantis, scott and rubio
fortunately i also have DW Schultz
re: #97 Dangerman
Here’s the thing…. They don’t feel he sent them over to kill all of the Senate, just the liberals/Democrats. And the GOP is A-fucking-okay with it.
So fuck them, fuck their fake calls for unity. Take whatever we can (within the rules) and ram it right down their fucking throats.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
They have to get 67 votes to convict Trump. 45 Republicans said no today. That means it’s very unlikely he’ll be convicted unless something changes drastically.
I want a conviction, but I also want the testimony that comes out to cause that few percent of conservatives I know to decide that they can’t be in the current Republican party. That would be enough to seriously damage the party in 2022 and 2024.
re: #89 Dangerman
does this seem relevant?
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i wonder if mitch and scotus (re emoluments) read from the same playbook
I wonder if they will vote to give Jimmy Carter and his family their peanut farm back and compensation for the loss of revenue from the time they made him give it up to become president to present
re: #107 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Just remember: No matter what, the Senate has already proven that they will not convict him. He’s successfully tampered with the jury.
Maybe. They’ll have to vote though, and the hearings will be public. Any such vote against (assuming the evidence is clear) can be hung around the neck of every Republican up for reëlection (and might explain why some Republicans like Pat Toomey have decided to take a powder).
re: #109 2020 Blue Wisconsin
Here’s the thing…. They don’t feel he sent them over to kill all of the Senate, just the liberals/Democrats. And the GOP is A-fucking-okay with it.
So fuck them, fuck their fake calls for unity. Take whatever we can (within the rules) and ram it right down their fucking throats.
And pence couldn’t muster up the balls to stand up for himself.
A profile of Manchin: washingtonpost.com
John Cole’s takeaway:
Again, there are a few things you need to know about Manchin to understand him.
1.) He honestly, truly, 100% believes that the key to anything is negotiation. He came up in the good ole boy/girl system and totally thinks that there is nothing that can not be accomplished after you build the right relationships.
2.) He will always have as his primary focus getting money and jobs to WV.
3.) He knows that WV is a small state and that things like the filibuster give us outsized political power, and he is not going to give it up.
He can be infuriating, but this is who he is. At least he is open about it.
Jared Kushner, who served as Acting President from 1/20/17 to 1/20/21, is responsible for all the current problems with vaccine manufacture & distribution. Get his Slenderman butt to testify before Congress. We need the truth. https://t.co/J08AL4WkGz
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) January 26, 2021
Trump is now threatening Republicans that he’ll “come after them” in their next primaries if they support convicting him.
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Too bad in this impeachment trial there will be witnesses.
Will some of the R senators riot to keep the witnesses from speaking? We’re approaching that point.
re: #109 2020 Blue Wisconsin
Here’s the thing…. They don’t feel he sent them over to kill all of the Senate, just the liberals/Democrats. And the GOP is A-fucking-okay with it.
So fuck them, fuck their fake calls for unity. Take whatever we can (within the rules) and ram it right down their fucking throats.
no one has (yet) explained how they were going to sort them out
re: #116 Charles Johnson
Trump is now threatening Republicans that he’ll “come after them” in their next primaries if they support convicting him.
I’ll bet they grow a spine now.
lol
re: #110 Belafon
I want a conviction, but I also want the testimony that comes out to cause that few percent of conservatives I know to decide that they can’t be in the current Republican party. That would be enough to seriously damage the party in 2022 and 2024.
This. Also, to make every one of those traitors stand up and cast a vote where we can all see and hear them.
re: #119 nines09
But why don’t they fear Democrats?
And THAT is the $64,000 question.
It’s snowing here again. Temps are plunging rapidly, so I just got back from plugging in my milk house heater to keep my pipes from freezing.
Moderna vaccine update #3: My whole upper left arm is stiff and painful, and eating half a peanut butter sandwich has my stomach doing backflips. The myalgia from yesterday is down though.
My wife says the solution to this is homemade chicken soup.
re: #122 nines09
But why don’t they fear Democrats?
And THAT is the $64,000 question.
Because Democrats aren’t the ones who have to vote to get them re-elected.
re: #118 Dangerman
yeah, my guess is that if they were chanting “Hang Mike Pence, Kill Mike Pence” that these folks weren’t packing flash cards to note friendlies.
Yet, they continue to ride the tiger and they continue to make the Dems handle all of the hard decisions, with nary a moment of introspection for what they’ve wrought. I think at the core of who these people are, they are essentially cowards, who have been fed a lie that all of their lives that because they are white and male; that they SHOULD be in charge, that they ARE special and because they sometimes have even gone to church and missed the first part of the early football game, that they have somehow sacrificed enough to keep themselves in charge.
They mimic faith, they mimic morality, they pose but they are, at their core… empty.
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Chicken Soup is always the solution. Sometimes it is difficult to apply to the body but taken internally it is delicious.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
But what if the conviction vote was done in secret - and passed? Sure it would drive Trumpers batshit crazy, but then a lot of the folks they would try to primary in the GOP side would be even crazier than those who are already in the Senate. And, assuming that the conviction passes, it would pass with a spilt-50/50 and Harris breaking the tie.
re: #126 PhillyPretzel
Chicken Soup.
Capitol Letters.
It Fucking Works.
I shit you not, this is a client:
My internet drops, please fix.
OK, when, what device, where were you?
I was watching Sling.
OK, which TV?
It was the Apple TV.
Which room were you watching the Apple TV in?
The Master Bedroom.
OK, I made some adjustments on Friday morning. Is it working same, better, or worse?
It is really random. So hard to know.
re: #127 Eric The Fruit Bat
But what if the conviction vote was done in secret - and passed? Sure it would drive Trumpers batshit crazy, but then a lot of the folks they would try to primary in the GOP side would be even crazier than those who are already in the Senate. And, assuming that the conviction passes, it would pass with a spilt-50/50 and Harris breaking the tie.
Conviction needs 67 votes.
If conviction happens, which I agree is looking highly unlikely, it’s a majority vote to bar him from holding future office. I expect that would be a 51 or 52 vote situation with Romney and maybe Murkowski joining the Dems.
— miss hazel jade. (@MissHazelJade) January 26, 2021
On the earlier discussion about doubling up masks -
From the Washington Post Coronavirus Update News letter:
Today’s answer comes from Allyson Chiu, The Post’s wellness reporter, who smartly noticed that many readers (and even some of her colleagues) were asking about the rising double mask phenomenon.
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Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine and an infectious-disease expert at the University of California at San Francisco, suggests doubling up on face coverings if you are spending time indoors in crowded spaces or in areas where transmission rates are high. People who are medically vulnerable should also consider layering their masks, she says.
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The purpose of wearing two masks is to improve fit and filtration, Gandhi says. And if the masks are layered properly, they can closely simulate the effectiveness of an N95 respirator, which many experts consider to be the gold standard.
Option 1: Wear a tightly fitted, multiple-layer cloth covering over a surgical mask. “The non-woven polypropylene material of the surgical mask is electrostatically repulsing the virus and then the cloth mask literally forms a physical barrier with fibers going every which way,” Gandhi says.
Gandhi says she does not recommend putting a cloth mask over an N95. “An N95 is as good as it gets,” she says.
Option 2: Wear a three-layer mask with tightly woven fabric outer layers sandwiching a middle layer made out of a “nonwoven high-efficiency filter material,” such as a vacuum bag filter, the article states. The filter material will act similarly to a surgical mask or other medical-grade covering, Gandhi says.
and their article:
FAQ: Single or double? The latest advice on masks and covid.
washingtonpost.com
Edited to add where I had removed article paragraphs. I usually add OpenAngle-Bracket SNIP CloseAngleBracket. But the display code apparently does not display this. So I change to SquareBracket instead. Lets see if that displays.
re: #117 stpaulbear
Will some of the R senators riot to keep the witnesses from speaking? We’re approaching that point.
Hawley would. That’s apparently his thing. I saw where he did that at some school meeting to keep the speakers from answering questions.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
They have to get 67 votes to convict Trump. 45 Republicans said no today. That means it’s very unlikely he’ll be convicted unless something changes drastically.
Unlike the previous impeachment, this trial will present all the evidence.
Time for Jared to be dragged before Congress to testify.
Please amplify:
The trump admin used FEMA to seize PPE, tests, & other supplies/ materials critical to COVID response. I suspect Jared led this.
FEMA officials told companies that they (admin) had “the algorithms” for distribution.
Biotech execs will talk.
Put a reporter on it.— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) January 26, 2021
Ohhh Kayyyy. (He has left his post to spend more time with his voodoo dolls.)
Wisconsin priest who livestreamed exorcisms aimed at rooting out voter fraud leaves diocese
usatoday.com
re: #125 piratedan
yeah, my guess is that if they were chanting “Hang Mike Pence, Kill Mike Pence” that these folks weren’t packing flash cards to note friendlies.
Yet, they continue to ride the tiger and they continue to make the Dems handle all of the hard decisions, with nary a moment of introspection for what they’ve wrought. I think at the core of who these people are, they are essentially cowards, who have been fed a lie that all of their lives that because they are white and male; that they SHOULD be in charge, that they ARE special and because they sometimes have even gone to church and missed the first part of the early football game, that they have somehow sacrificed enough to keep themselves in charge.
They mimic faith, they mimic morality, they pose but they are, at their core… empty.
That’s because wingnuts write letters like this (at the Omaha World-Herald)
In my almost 80 years I have found that when Democrats don’t have a good argument, they always call Republicans every name in the book but, mostly, racist; they love that word. And now they want to send all 75 million Trump voters to reeducation camps. Kind of makes you think of China or Russia, doesn’t it?
It amazes me that President Trump was able to get anything done while having to fight Democrats, the MSM, social media, the deep state and even RINOs.
I just read an article where this person felt God would intervene at the last minute to save America. I disagreed. I believe this nation has left God out far too long, and now it’s payback time. I just hope he gives us a reprieve in four years and doesn’t make us wait 40 years as he did his people after they left Egypt or, worse, let us wait 400 years as he did to his people when conquered by the Babylonians. God have mercy on us.
re: #137 darthstar
Ask Gov Hogan of Maryland. The Feds tried to seize the tests he ordered directly from South Korea.
Alabama is still not managing its CV19 data anything like realtime. It looked like we might be cooling off with a handful of daily deaths. Today we submitted 234.
President Joe being President.
And I think a great one at that.
re: #141 Decatur Deb
I wouldn’t anticipate a cool off anywhere for at least a couple of months.
re: #116 Charles Johnson
Trump is now threatening Republicans that he’ll “come after them” in their next primaries if they support convicting him.
How’s anyone going to know if he is? He can’t rant on social media any more. If the GOP had half a spine they would realize they could curbstomp him while he’s down with no real consequences except for looking like they actually care about the country and democracy.
Only the cultiest of the cult will remember any of it in 2 to 4 years.
Also. Clownstick might be “going after them” from ADX Florence or Riker’s Island by then.
re: #138 Decatur Deb
Ohhh Kayyyy. (He has left his post to spend more time with his voodoo dolls.)
Wisconsin priest who livestreamed exorcisms aimed at rooting out voter fraud leaves diocese
usatoday.com
The previous bishop would have been assisting him so I suppose Francis is making some progress.
So these folks are “Standing with Domestic Terrorism and the Murder of a LEO.
HYPOCRISY?? Thy name is REPUBLICAN.— And The Wind Cries: ” ” (@DaveoutofAustin) January 26, 2021
The other good thing about the impeachment trial is it gets Republicans on record about their love for this country before Democrats in DC and other states like New York (think AG) clean up their mess again.
re: #134 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Hawley would. That’s apparently his thing. I saw where he did that at some school meeting to keep the speakers from answering questions.
If Hawley tries to disrupt the Senate trial, he can be removed from the Senate floor, and likely will be. I think tolerance for the usual GOP bullshit is mostly gone in the Senate.
re: #116 Charles Johnson
Trump is now threatening Republicans that he’ll “come after them” in their next primaries if they support convicting him.
Given Trump’s record for election endorsements (IIRC, it was only slightly better than his run-of-luck with his campaign’s election-related lawsuits), I’m not sure how worried they should be.
re: #149 Belafon
The other good thing about the impeachment trial is it gets Republicans on record about their love for this country before Democrats in DC and other states like New York (think AG) clean up their mess again.
The best thing about an impeachment trial is that evidence against Trump will get more into the news than it already is, and there simply is no defense for Trump (even before we get to the fact that his defense people will be clowns).
re: #151 Jay C
Given Trump’s record for election endorsements (IIRC, it was only slightly better than his run-of-luck with his campaign’s election-related lawsuits), I’m not sure how worried they should be.
Collectively, they have less courage than a Girl Scout Samoa-selling squad.
My Trumphorrid older brother used to call my mother frequently and engaged her in his beliefs that Trump can do no wrong.
Since the turnover to Biden, not a peep has come out of him. And I am sure as hell won’t call to dunk on him for his misplaced alliance with the Trumphorrid’s - and I think the Jan 6th events may have woken him up (but I doubt it.)
acchhh! I’ve waited for two weeks to finally get my hands on a Yamaha CP88. I plug everything in, power it up, and realize my headphones have 1/8 jack and I need 1/4. This is going to be a fucking miracle if Walmart has an adapter.
Edited: Ha! I knew I kept all that miscellaneous crap in the box for a reason!
re: #155 steve_davis
This is going to be a fucking miracle if Walmart has an adapter.
50/50 odds they will have one.
re: #155 steve_davis
Here is what I found on amazon:
amazon.com
re: #156 Eric The Fruit Bat
50/50 odds they will have one.
see above. I had a deus ex machina moment.
re: #155 steve_davis
acchhh! I’ve waited for two weeks to finally get my hands on a Yamaha CP88. I plug everything in, power it up, and realize my headphones have 1/8 jack and I need 1/4. This is going to be a fucking miracle if Walmart has an adapter.
I don’t know where you are but you might try Best Buy if one is nearby. look for an audio jack adapter on their website.
re: #145 Jack Burton
How’s anyone going to know if he is? He can’t rant on social media any more. If the GOP had half a spine they would realize they could curbstomp him while he’s down with no real consequences except for looking like they actually care about the country and democracy.
Only the cultiest of the cult will remember any of it in 2 to 4 years.
Donald Trump’s ardent supporters, who are also their voters, are the majority of Republican voters.
If they go after Trump, he takes his supporters and curb-stomps the party.
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Donald Trump’s ardent supporters, who are also their voters, are the majority of Republican voters.
If they go after Trump, he takes his supporters and curb-stomps the party.
They also have the attention span of gnats. They won’t remember or care in a couple of years.
The invasion of Detroit-style pizza has started, and there is no defense!
Even tho it isn’t a Buddy’s, Shields’s, Little Caesar’s or Jet’s, its a massive attack.
NEW: Justice Department officially rescinds policy that led to family separations at the border.
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) January 26, 2021
re: #169 Belafon
If the contempt for the law Republican politicians demonstrate daily ever spreads to the general population, they’re done for.
re: #166 Eric The Fruit Bat
NOM. School cafeteria pizza!!
MAGATs are turning on Clownstick in droves. The QuQluxQlanners are visibly giving up or moving on to crazy that doesn’t involve Clownstick, or casts him in a negative light.
All the plans for “protests” they had for Jan 16-20 completely fell apart as soon as Clownstick was sent to Twitter Hell (where Jack cast him into the Twitter Lake of Twitter Fire). This shows his threats to go after GOP in 2 years if they do anything he doesn’t like are just hot air he can’t backup now, no less in a couple of years.
Lotto update:
I did not win yesterday’s Wyoming Lottery Cowboy Draw.
However, the Wyoming Lottery has a second chance drawing for losing tickets (the prize is $1,000 per game played on the ticket). That goes in the mail today.
re: #167 jaunte
May history take mercy on Trump…if my kids came out looking like Eric and Don Jr. I’d probably want to kidnap everyone else’s
— Hector Trujillo (@sdsteeler) January 26, 2021
re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lotto update:
I did not win yesterday’s Wyoming Lottery Cowboy Draw.
However, the Wyoming Lottery has a second chance drawing for losing tickets (the prize is $1,000 per game played on the ticket). That goes in the mail today.
You have a 50/50 chance.
re: #27 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Non-nerd version: I hacked my router and told it to do a better job of shoving stuff into tubes in the right order to make my games go faster.
My router name is seriesoftubes
re: #9 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
“He defied God on a fundamental tenet of the Bible and never repented of it,” Lively said.
More than thirty thousand violations of the Ninth Commandment, Scott?
re: #159 Belafon
I don’t know where you are but you might try Best Buy if one is nearby. look for an audio jack adapter on their website.
well, the issue was solved, thanks to my randomly holding on to crap. and oh yes, this is one sweet stage piano. I’m basically “bach two part invention, with 3 weeks of intense practice” level, but the piano samples alone, combined with the key action, are worth it.
No. Terrible precedent. Trump committed a crime and MUST have a trial in the Senate.
No censure unless it’s in ADDITION to the impeachment trial. https://t.co/p11dNAuoRs— Laffy (@GottaLaff) January 26, 2021
re: #179 jaunte
“Censuring” is what concerned people do.
re: #180 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Save billions in trial and prison costs by simply “censuring” criminals.
Appeals Court: Boston Does Not Have to Allow a Christian Flag Outside City Hall (Friendly Atheist)
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the city of Boston was within its rights to reject the flying of a Christian flag outside City Hall Plaza.
Some background: Harold Shurtleff is the director and co-founder of Camp Constitution, a non-profit group that promotes the idea that we live in a “Christian nation.” (He’s wrong.) In 2017, Shurtleff applied for a permit to raise a Christian flag on a pole outside City Hall Plaza to commemorate “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day”… but the city of Boston rejected the request.
Shurtleff contended this was religious discrimination even if the same rules prohibited atheist flags from going up. He said there were plenty of other flags with religious symbols that the city put up, including the national flag for Portugal — which includes a religious symbol — during the city’s Portuguese-American festival. The city even acknowledged that significance on its website at the time. Plus, the city flag for Boston includes a Latin phrase that translates to “God be with us as he was with our fathers.”
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re: #179 jaunte
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Censure?! For waging war against the United States? Fuck that nonsense.
re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
More than thirty thousand violations of the Ninth Commandment, Scott?
Scott Lively is only concerned about “killing the gays. ” That’s why his nickname is Scott “Kill the Gays” Lively.
re: #179 jaunte
Republican Senators won’t go for this, anyway… they are still scared of Trump, either as a kingmaker in the GOP or as a third party threat via his rumored Patriot Party (which, really, I encourage Trump to pursue… I mean, who wouldn’t want to put Wyoming in play?)
re: #179 jaunte
Kaine should be ashamed of himself. A censure isn’t enough for advocating the violent overthrow of the election process. WTH is Kaine thinking?
re: #184 Jebediah, RBG
Censure?! For waging war against the United States? Fuck that nonsense.
Trump doesn’t even know what that word means.
Republicans are unyielding because the opposition too early begins searching for another route.
Deli night at the Pielord’s!
Sourdough Rye Bread with “Everything” topping pic.twitter.com/CrnwFmarsn
— #BlueWave Blueberry Pie (@Pie_Overlord) January 26, 2021
Only 5 out of 50 Republican Senators voted to hold the impeachment trial of a man who committed numerous impeachable offenses. The GOP will do GOP stuff until they are voted out. Vote them out.
— Eric Segall (@espinsegall) January 26, 2021
re: #179 jaunte
It must be clear by now that modern Republicanism desires the USA’s traditional notions of justice to fail and for the country itself to fall. They more or less openly want a failed state.
Democrats must proceed with Impeachment and prosecution of all other secessionists and let it be known that this and other current Trump criminal activity are considered an existential crisis to the United States. It is important that the severity of our current crisis is made clear to all Americans and goes way beyond Democrats wanting to score simple political points.
Modern Republicans want nothing to do with traditional democracy. In their failed state fever dreams with the USA’s absence they want a feudal society locally ruled by Evangelical Christian hucksters who use fake phony Libertarian talking points as wall paper. In reality it would be a corrupt kleptocracy along the lines of current Russia ruled by warlord oligarchs and a central dictator.
re: #190 The Pie Overlord!
Ohhh. They look delicious.
Total COVID-19 deaths exceeded 433,031 today, which was the census estimated population of this US City at the end of 2019:
Dammit.
Curious.
Mitch McConnell refused to reconvene the Senate before January 19 to allow Trump’s impeachment trial to start while he was still in office.
Then Mitch McConnell just voted in support of the motion that Trump’s trial is unconstitutional because he’s not in office.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 26, 2021
I closed a felony case today not by a trial or by bringing charges but by stressing the need for ‘unity’ and saying that holding someone accountable for their obvious repeated crimes would only ‘divide’ us…sure it will work out great.
— Patrick Skinner (@SkinnerPm) January 26, 2021
Complicit. https://t.co/D9haiD4dj2
— Kim Sherrell (@kim) January 26, 2021
re: #196 Mike Lamb
It might get like 2 additional GOP votes. Stupid idea.
Censure as an alternative to impeachment only makes sense if it include the bar on Trump ever seeking federal office again.
re: #195 The Pie Overlord!
That was their big play to avoid having to vote against the evidence directly.
Image being this disingenuous. This man who scorched Senate comity for the last 12 years. https://t.co/KLtHrqNmOg
— tippdx 🇺🇸 (@TipPDX) January 26, 2021
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
Time to investigate Mitch’s wife.
re: #201 Backwoods_Sleuth
it would drain the consent and comity out of the institution
Some of us think the institution is past its sell-by date.
Better off without it, let’s not worry about consent and comity.
re: #182 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Appeals Court: Boston Does Not Have to Allow a Christian Flag Outside City Hall (Friendly Atheist)
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What the hell does a “Christian Flag” even look like?
This is the Flag of the only extant Christian City State in the world, but I bet it wouldn’t pass muster with the gaspers:
re: #201 Backwoods_Sleuth
You’re not the leader, asshole. You’re the minority leader. Sit down and wait until you’re called on to vote.
— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 26, 2021
re: #204 austin_blue
What the hell does a “Christian Flag” even look like?
This is the Flag of the only extant Christian City State in the world, but I bet it wouldn’t pass muster with the gaspers:
When I was in a baptist high school for a year(9th grade) we pledged the American flag and then the Xian flag before every class. Once I got swats (with a wooden paddle) because the teacher asked me to lead the salutes while he went to the office and when he returned I had everyone in class doing a Nazi salute to the Xian flag. They didn’t like me because I was Catholic. I didn’t like them because they were assholes.
re: #203 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Some of us think the institution is past its sell-by date.
Better off without it, let’s not worry about consent and comity.
This. The Senate itself is a problem, since it has a high chance of calcifying into a permanent GOP majority if 26+ states become solid red.
re: #204 austin_blue
What the hell does a “Christian Flag” even look like?
This is the Flag of the only extant Christian City State in the world, but I bet it wouldn’t pass muster with the gaspers:
Something like this.
re: #207 EPR-radar
This. The Senate itself is a problem, since it has a high chance of calcifying into a permanent GOP majority if 26+ states become solid red.
But of course, to them, that’s a feature. It’s a guarantee that they will always have power, no matter how fascist they become.
If there’s any justice in this world, Putin will go to the hospital for a routine check up and fall out of a 4th story window.
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) January 26, 2021
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Cavuto: You do know that next year you could be facing a primary challenge? There’s talk that Ivanka Trump is interested in running against you. What do you think of that?
Rubio: Bu Bu Bu But… pic.twitter.com/MW7h6S5poS— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) January 26, 2021
re: #204 austin_blue
What the hell does a “Christian Flag” even look like?
This is the Flag of the only extant Christian City State in the world, but I bet it wouldn’t pass muster with the gaspers:
The Christian Flag is a white field with a blue canton, within which is a red Latin Cross.
There is also a Christian Anthem for that flag, and a Christian Pledge of Allegiance.
The flag was developed in 1897, intended to represent ecumenism between Christian churches, and adopted by forerunner of the National Council of Churches in 1943.
That organisation has also adopted display criteria for the flag when it is in a church, displacing the US Flag from its position of honour as set forth in the Flag Code.
Roman Catholic churches usually do not use this flag, as they display the flag of the Holy See (but they follow the US Flag Code).
Christian Flag (Wikipedia, history, examples, churches which use it [most Protestant ones], wording of pledges)
Apparently a buffer overrun in sudo can grant any logged-in user root privilege on Linux systems. The defective code has been in the wild for over a decade, apparently.
Time to patch.
re: #207 EPR-radar
This. The Senate itself is a problem, since it has a high chance of calcifying into a permanent GOP majority if 26+ states become solid red.
But as states like Arizona, Georgia and hopefully Texas and NC turn purple, or even blue, that becomes harder to achieve. The GOP can’t gerrymander Senate races.
re: #208 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Something like this.
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When was the vote taken to adopt that ugly rag? Who got to vote? If it is such a powerful symbol, why haven’t I ever seen it before.
At least the Vatican Rag (hah!) got on the Wiki list of National Flags.
Funny, McConnell didn’t seem to care about the Senate’s structure when he killed the filibuster to ram through Trump’s Supreme Court nominees.
Also, the filibuster isn’t in the Constitution. https://t.co/ev4jyYdbbN— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 26, 2021
re: #214 No Malarkey!
But as states like Arizona, Georgia and hopefully Texas and NC turn purple, or even blue, that becomes harder to achieve. The GOP can’t gerrymander Senate races.
I like the trends in AZ, GA and TX, of course, but the GOP is making inroads in the midwest. E.g., OH is behind the GOP’s iron curtain these days.
GOP state governments that deliberately fail and fuck things up (but blame it all on the Democrats) are the obvious way for the GOP to make new red states. That contemptible strategy is likely to work well in the rust belt.
… now, and where he is being evaluated.” -David Carle, Leahy spox
— Trish Turner (@caphilltrish) January 26, 2021
re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Christian Flag is a white field with a blue canton, within which is a red Latin Cross.
There is also a Christian Anthem for that flag, and a Christian Pledge of Allegiance.
The flag was developed in 1897, intended to represent ecumenism between Christian churches, and adopted by forerunner of the National Council of Churches in 1943.
That organisation has also adopted display criteria for the flag when it is in a church, displacing the US Flag from its position of honour as set forth in the Flag Code.
Roman Catholic churches usually do not use this flag, as they display the flag of the Holy See (but they follow the US Flag Code).
Christian Flag (Wikipedia, history, examples, churches which use it [most Protestant ones], wording of pledges)
Thanks!
But you know, I went to parochial school (daily Mass) on and off for 12 years, and attended Sunday Mass until I was eighteen, but I never saw the flag of The Vatican City until I went to…..
The Vatican City.
I really hope Leahy’s okay. I don’t want to hand the Senate back to McConnell.
re: #108 Dangerman
it could be your hat (j/k)
look i’ve got desantis, scott and rubio
fortunately i also have DW Schultz
The only way to change your state from red to blue is by abolishing the poll tax. And that won’t happen until SCOTUS turns blue. Or am I being too pessimistic here?
Hawley’s big ad when he ran for AG featured a bunch of politicians climbing ladders, and he mocked them for getting elected to one job and immediately running for another. He was sworn in to his AG job in 2017 and announced his senate run that year. https://t.co/xWFFiDUjm1
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 27, 2021
re: #220 austin_blue
Thanks!
But you know, I went to parochial school (daily Mass) on and off for 12 years, and attended Sunday Mass until I was eighteen, but I never saw the flag of The Vatican City until I went to…..
The Vatican City.
I was familiar with the Holy See’s flag due to my interest in politics and geography, but I never saw one until I went to the Holy See myself.
The only other place I’ve seen one is a little desk flag, and in the Catholic Church in Bridgeport (I was there for a funeral, not getting religion).
I find the idea of national flags on the dais of a church somewhat upsetting, as the imagery mixes State and Church (which I imagine is the idea).
BREAKING: Sen. Leahy, who will preside over fmr. President Trump’s second impeachment trial, has been taken to a local hospital for observation and is being evaluated after an examination by the Capitol Attending Physician, a spokesperson tells @NBCNews.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 26, 2021
I wouldn’t be surprised if Russian FSB operatives were involved.
re: #226 DodgerFan1988
I wouldn’t be surprised if Russian FSB operatives were involved.
Yeah this timing seems suspicious as fuck.
re: #226 DodgerFan1988
I wouldn’t be surprised if Russian FSB operatives were involved.
Or Republicans still spreading their coronavirus.
re: #226 DodgerFan1988
I wouldn’t be surprised if Russian FSB operatives were involved.
Or maybe he is just a really old guy who hasn’t looked real well for a while.
re: #222 darthstar
I really hope Leahy’s okay. I don’t want to hand the Senate back to McConnell.
Vermont law says the governor (who is Republican, alas) can name an interim replacement - but a special election must be held within six months.
I can’t imagine a Republican winning a federal election right now in Vermont. Like Massachusetts, they’ll put moderate Republicans in state offices, but they won’t send them to Washington.
re: #226 DodgerFan1988
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Vermont governor is Republican. This is a nightmare. However vacancies are filled by special election but that can take months. Biden will never be able to get anything done if McConnell becomes Majority Leader.
Voting to help the poor? https://t.co/TwEsCOCaWc
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 27, 2021
re: #235 jaunte
Voting against the party line.
re: #235 jaunte
Voting to raise taxes on the wealthy.
This could be very bad news about Sen. Leahy.
Vermont does not fill Senate vacancies by gubernatorial appointment.
A special election must be held to fill the seat on a date set by the governor within six months following vacancy
re: #235 jaunte
Voting to help the poor?
6:18 PM • Jan 26, 2021
So what *would* be over the line for the GOP now. What would get you into trouble with the party. What would count you out from, say, qualification for federal office. cnn.com …
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) January 26, 2021
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Voting to impeach Trump.
re: #239 austin_blue
Voting to help the poor?
6:18 PM • Jan 26, 2021
So what *would* be over the line for the GOP now. What would get you into trouble with the party. What would count you out from, say, qualification for federal office. cnn.com …— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) January 26, 2021
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Voting to impeach Trump.
Voting to convict Trump.
Giving Trump the side-eye.
Not supporting Javanka in their run against Li’l Marco in ‘22.
re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter
Vermont governor is Republican. This is a nightmare. However vacancies are filled by special election but that can take months. Biden will never be able to get anything done if McConnell becomes Majority Leader.
The Dems can just filibuster any proposed rules that McConnell offers in the interim and keep the gavels, like he had done the last week or so.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin tells @wolfblitzer that Sen. Pat Leahy’s wife Marcelle, a nurse, said “things are going well.”
“We’ve all got our fingers crossed he’ll be back tomorrow.” pic.twitter.com/nPcwUAp4UN— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) January 26, 2021
Bright side, per the CNN story:
Sen. Dick Durbin, the second highest-ranking Senate Democrat, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday evening that Leahy could be back in the chamber Wednesday.
re: #235 jaunte
I believe there has to be a vetting system for anyone who wants to run for office. We should not have anyone who is known to be tied to extremist groups or has an arrest record or felony. If they have no respect for the law, how can they be responsible for making them?
— Pattie 🦒🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 (@Pattie1962) January 26, 2021
Nope. An arrest record is not a constitutional bar from holding office. If that was a bar by statute, it would bar both Raphael Warnock and John Lewis though.
re: #238 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
This could be very bad news about Sen. Leahy.
Vermont does not fill Senate vacancies by gubernatorial appointment.
A special election must be held to fill the seat on a date set by the governor within six months following vacancy
OK, I missed that the governor make interim appointment. But, Vermont has no requirement to appoint a member of the same party as the vacated Senator
re: #244 KGxvi
Bright side, per the CNN story:
“The Senator had the ‘All-you-can-eat’ fried clam special at Ho-Jo’s last night. These things happen.”
re: #247 austin_blue
“The Senator had the ‘All-you-can-eat’ fried clam special at Ho-Jo’s last night. These things happen.”
Heh, yep. That can lead to some discomfort for sure…
re: #238 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
This could be very bad news about Sen. Leahy.
Vermont does not fill Senate vacancies by gubernatorial appointment.
A special election must be held to fill the seat on a date set by the governor within six months following vacancy
The governor has to call a special election that must be held within 6 months. But he can also appoint an interim senator.
Anti-Mask Pastor Tells Judge She “Ruled Against God” After Another Legal Setback (Friendly Atheist)
That would be Louisiana pastor Tony Spell.
That guy is still in trouble with the law. Yesterday, a judge denied his motion to dismiss the six criminal counts he faces — and he didn’t even get that news directly from her. He had to hear it from his lawyer outside the building, because he wasn’t allowed inside, because he chose not to wear a mask, because he’s a professional Christian asshole.
“You just ruled against God,” Spell said outside the 19th Judicial District courthouse. “Get ready for the judgment of God.”
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Dozens from his flock joined him outside the building — where they eschewed masks, held American flags and wore T-shirts in support of “free breathing.”
“We will never comply, and we will always resist,” Spell said. “We will always stand up for the word of God and the First Amendment of the United States.”
420,000 people have died from COVID, many of them because of Christians like Spell who refuse to take even the most basic of precautions because they’re too arrogant to think about anybody else. Spell deserves the prison time he faces if convicted of these charges,
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Fortunately Biden can do a lot of good that Mitch can’t prevent. And let’s not put Leahy in the grave yet.
President Biden just signed an executive order that will ultimately end the Justice Department’s use of private prisons.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 26, 2021
The Preston Brooks Caucus in the House https://t.co/6vczupIdqK
— Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) January 27, 2021
“…In one post, from January 2019, Greene liked a comment that said “a bullet to the head would be quicker” to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In other posts, Greene liked comments about executing FBI agents who, in her eyes, were part of the “deep state” working against Trump.”
re: #250 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Anti-Mask Pastor Tells Judge She “Ruled Against God” After Another Legal Setback (Friendly Atheist)
That would be Louisiana pastor Tony Spell.
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Which Commandment is “Thou shalt not wear a mask during a pandemic”?
re: #253 No Malarkey!
Which Commandment is “Thou shalt not wear a mask during a pandemic”?
It’s in The “Trump Tweets” bible that a relative takes to church every Sunday.
Today I had the pleasure of speaking with my Canadian counterpart @HarjitSajjan. We discussed many challenges, including COVID-19, and we reaffirmed our commitment to the U.S.-Canada bilateral defense relationship. https://t.co/ifbrgwql13
— Secretary of Defense Austin (@SecDef) January 27, 2021
Sigh. I’ll be one of the first ones lined up against the wall and shot.
Just a fun ongoing reminder that a large number of your fellow citizens think you deserve to die for having different views or for being involved in wholly imaginary conspiracies.
— OfficeOfTheFormerHat (@Popehat) January 26, 2021
Guess Who is running for a seat in the Michigan legislature?
Hint—She made an asshole of herself in a hearing where Giuliani farted…
re: #257 🌹UOJB!
Guess Who is running for a seat in the Michigan legislature?
Hint—She made an asshole of herself in a hearing where Giuliani farted…
Giuliani election witness who testified at Michigan hearing says she’s running for state house seat https://t.co/7G64NUjIPQ pic.twitter.com/ADzdu8Hdon
— The Hill (@thehill) January 27, 2021
Whether it’s Pat Leahy’s illness, Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer, RBG’s ailments… a system in which the entire balance of the government over 330 million people can be completely tipped by the health (or lack thereof) of a single one of those 330 million people is just fucking nuts.
ummm…
Pat Leahy is the only Democrat Vermont has ever sent to the Senate since 1791
There were a couple Democratic-Republicans back in the day but even then it was mostly Federalists and Whigs— dylan matthews (@dylanmatt) January 27, 2021
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh
Rand Paul goes on a bizarre rant where he suggests that climate change is mostly the result of the earth’s tilt, not greenhouse gases (scientists disagree) pic.twitter.com/VQvVf0h3PI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 27, 2021
re: #252 jaunte
“…In one post, from January 2019, Greene liked a comment that said “a bullet to the head would be quicker” to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In other posts, Greene liked comments about executing FBI agents who, in her eyes, were part of the “deep state” working against Trump.”
Too bad “likes” aren’t posts.
I could like a hilarious post of kittens posted by The Shrieking Harpy Atlas Juggs and it would not necessarily endorse said Shrieking Harpy.
On the other hand, I will bet you dollars to donuts that the Feebs are watching Greene vewy vewy cwosewy.
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
Randpaul always makes me think of this quote:
“The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.”
FBI sending a clear signal they are not backing down.
“If a crime was committed we are charging you, whether you were outside or inside the Capitol.” #SeditionTrack https://t.co/mdpJDkiAMn
re: #260 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
ummm…
Pat Leahy is the only Democrat Vermont has ever sent to the Senate since 1791
There were a couple Democratic-Republicans back in the day but even then it was mostly Federalists and Whigs
Jim Jeffords was the last Republican Senator from Vermont, re-elected in 2000. Then left the party to serve as an Independent, after His fellow GOP Senators refused to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
He did not run for re-election in 2006
re: #260 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
True, but also misleading.
Vermont underwent a big, big shift in its national politics only in the last 30 years or so. Until it voted for Clinton in 1992, the only Democrat who’d ever gotten Vermont’s EVs was LBJ in his 1964 landslide. From 1992 on, Republicans haven’t had a chance at Vermont’s EVs at all.
And since Leahy has held his seat since 1975 and Sanders since 2009, there hasn’t been much opportunity for Senate elections that reflect that transition in how Vermont votes.
It’s equally correct to say that the last time Vermont elected a new Republican to federal office was in 1989 when moderate Rs Jim Jeffords and Peter Smith were elected to the Senate and House, respectively. And that the last time a Republican won federal election in Vermont, period, was when Jeffords was reelected in 2000 - and then he left the party a year later to serve out the rest of his term as an independent.
This is a great idea.
We’ve designed a system that makes vulnerable people come to the vaccines.
Why not bring the vaccines to the vulnerable people? https://t.co/IsHZGwzuwW— Matt Largey (@mattlargey) January 27, 2021
Milo’s first day at doggy daycare and coming home on the bus.
Merle of course, hasn’t needed a leash getting off the bus since he was a pup. pic.twitter.com/Nw2Qf0ZUw0— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 27, 2021
re: #259 ipsos
Whether it’s Pat Leahy’s illness, Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer, RBG’s ailments… a system in which the entire balance of the government over 330 million people can be completely tipped by the health (or lack thereof) of a single one of those 330 million people is just fucking nuts.
Yeah, well, agreed. But it’s the system we’ve got. Since it works pretty well, I can’t see dying on that particular hill.
But YMMV. Any suggestions to improve the existing system would be welcome. It’s a decent discussion topic.
re: #253 No Malarkey!
Which Commandment is “Thou shalt not wear a mask during a pandemic”?
Certainly not the New Testament passages which say to obey government authority
Hebrews 13:17
Romans 13:1-5
Titus 3:1
1 Peter 2:13-15
I am on my MacBook Air and so far I am okay.
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Canadian Minister of Defence isn’t just funny, he’s Sikh!
Ma’am, the only thing you’re going to get from me are my deepest condolences. https://t.co/Qtt7gFQ6sx
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 27, 2021
The D’Souzas are pulling the old creationist gambit, trying to achieve legitimacy by sucking a knowledgable opponent into a “debate.”
re: #263 jaunte
Randpaul always makes me think of this quote:
“The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.”
Must be because of the french poodle he wears on top of his head.
Better supper tonight than some. I was digging in the freezer yesterday looking for something to eat and found a frozen package. Took it out and now that it’s thawed I’m going to have a couple of Chicken Salad with Cranberries and Almonds sandwiches and some air fryer diced potatoes. A mug of tea and unsweetened applesauce for dessert.
Nom!
re: #271 GlutenFreeJesus
Charles. Safari is crashing again.
I haven’t been able to use Safari here or for twitter for awhile. Firefox plays well for me. This is mostly because my OS is old.
So is the rule of law. Congratulations. We see you. https://t.co/FqIIFUcX8W
— Eric Idle (@EricIdle) January 27, 2021
I don’t think most of these clowns who tried to steal the election and insert Fuckface as der Führer even realize that they’ve committed actual crimes.
No they might not all end up in prison, many wont. But they still very likely have “Defendant” on their resume soon. At the very least Dominion should be going after that drunk crazy woman.
re: #269 austin_blue
Yeah, well, agreed. But it’s the system we’ve got. Since it works pretty well, I can’t see dying on that particular hill.
But YMMV. Any suggestions to improve the existing system would be welcome. It’s a decent discussion topic.
I think the most practical path forward is massive expansion of representation. 21 SCOTUS justices representing 21 circuits. A House of 1200 or so. The Senate, as ever, is more intractable. Could you make a case for 4 or 5 Senators per state? Maybe, though you’d need an amendment to the Constitution that’s probably impossible.
re: #270 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Certainly not the New Testament passages which say to obey government authority
Hebrews 13:17
Romans 13:1-5
Titus 3:1
1 Peter 2:13-15
All late stuff added when the apocalypse failed to happen and getting along with Rome had more survival value than Paul’s much more radical teachings about No Jew or Greek, male or female. Similar disconnects between eras abound in the books of the New Testament, from the earlist book (1 Thessalonians) to the last in the canon (Titus or 1 Peter depending on who you agree with, long after Peter and Paul were dead).
re: #285 danarchy
It also has Tor service built into it’s inprivate browsing, and since it is basically a fork of the chromium code it also supports chrome extensions. I am a fan.
I found out Microsoft Edge supports chrome extensions today as it’s also a Chromium with a fresh skin. My employer doesn’t allow Chrome extensions (on Chrome) but with Edge I’m able to use dev extensions I need on my work machine.
You want rules? We’ll play by the rules…
Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning to work overtime to unveil a COVID relief package that will only need 51 votes in the Senate to get to President Joe Biden’s desk.https://t.co/ITN4jb3bPy via @politicususa
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 27, 2021
Congrats, Debbie. I think you’re the first woman to ever scream, “DEBATE ME!”
— Donnie Two Peaches (LOSER) (@Unabogie) January 27, 2021
re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth
Golly, Rand!
I thought that you, as a juror in a TRIAL, along with your cronies, would actually like, you know, hear the EVIDENCE before coming to a conclusion of guilt or innocence.
That has been the standard of being a juror since before this country was the good ol’ U S of A.
Seems like you, and your cronies, don’t believe in our system of jurisprudence!
If that’s the case, how can you represent Kentucky as a Senator?
re: #270 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Certainly not the New Testament passages which say to obey government authority
Hebrews 13:17
Romans 13:1-5
Titus 3:1
1 Peter 2:13-15
In the rigid nun-taught catechism of the 1950s and 60s, needlessly risking your life and health and those of another was a violation of the 5th Commandment—Thou shall not kill. (Heretics who use the KJV count funny.)
re: #288 Unabogie
Gotta admit - I would never have pegged D’Felon as being married to someone who’s wearing a mask in her profile pic.
I guess someone in that family has at least a lick of good sense. (But not much. She married him, after all.)
re: #288 Unabogie
That’s a little weird and not at all intimate. Maybe you two should consider seeing a counselor.
— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 27, 2021
re: #283 ipsos
I think the most practical path forward is massive expansion of representation. 21 SCOTUS justices representing 21 circuits. A House of 1200 or so. The Senate, as ever, is more intractable. Could you make a case for 4 or 5 Senators per state? Maybe, though you’d need an amendment to the Constitution that’s probably impossible.
I’d like to see 1 senator per 5 million population, with 2 minimum. Wyoming will still have 2, but California will have 8. Most states would remain unchanged, but California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, and Michigan would stop being royally screwed by the Senate. It’s an Amendment that would probably never pass either.
21 Districts and 21 SCOTUS justices is… “A touch much” don’t you think? 13 is probably the best to match one to one per Federal district.
re: #292 ipsos
Gotta admit - I would never have pegged D’Felon as being married to someone who’s wearing a mask in her profile pic.
I guess someone in that family has at least a lick of good sense. (But not much. She married him, after all.)
Some women marry serial killers and visit them in jail. I’ve long since stopped trying to figure out why some women are attracted to bad people.
One of my favorite celebrity follows…her boots were made for kicking ass.
fear
— Nancy Sinatra (@NancySinatra) January 27, 2021
You fuckin’ rock, Nancy.
— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 27, 2021
re: #292 ipsos
Gotta admit - I would never have pegged D’Felon as being married to someone who’s wearing a mask in her profile pic.
I guess someone in that family has at least a lick of good sense. (But not much. She married him, after all.)
I’ve noticed that of the few right wing-ish friends I still have and their social circles: The ones who seem reasonable on the whole COVID thing, including masks are the ones who are married to, dating, or related to doctors and nurses.
D’felon’s wife might have a relative that’s a nurse or something?
re: #283 ipsos
I think the most practical path forward is massive expansion of representation. 21 SCOTUS justices representing 21 circuits. A House of 1200 or so. The Senate, as ever, is more intractable. Could you make a case for 4 or 5 Senators per state? Maybe, though you’d need an amendment to the Constitution that’s probably impossible.
An admirable breadth of vision, and some good stuff in there. But what if it’s a an R Prez who gets to add 12 Justices? What if the majority of States have R Legislatures to gerrymander all those 800 new Congressional Districts? And more Senators per State will be a continuation of the status quo ante, which kinda sucks.
re: #276 William Lewis
Better supper tonight than some. I was digging in the freezer yesterday looking for something to eat and found a frozen package. Took it out and now that it’s thawed I’m going to have a couple of Chicken Salad with Cranberries and Almonds sandwiches and some air fryer diced potatoes. A mug of tea and unsweetened applesauce for dessert.
Nom!
We went with pureed cauliflower onion broccoli soup and Brazilian cheese breads (with gruyere)
Kathy Baldock is an evangelical Christian who also happens to support LGBTQ rights. As she explains on her personal ministry’s website, that required a major shift in her thinking a while back, but she’s been trying to make amends for it ever since.One of the ways she’s done that is by offering honest, thorough reviews of anti-LGBTQ books written by fellow Christians on Amazon. She knows their tricks. She knows how they misuse the Clobber Verses. She knows that a lot of these authors “lack personal experience” with Christians who are LGBTQ. So she points out all these flaws in their books — in a place where their potential readers can see them.
The reviews are never just rants. She purchases the books herself, reads them carefully, then highlights the problems in great detail. It’s exactly what you would want from a review. As she told me yesterday, “I counter the misinformation with truth and research. Then I write and rewrite.”
And then, a month ago, on Christmas, all of her reviews were taken down from Amazon.
She was also told she would not be permitted to post any reviews in the future, either. The reason? The company told her via email that she had repeatedly violated their guidelines… without explaining what rule(s) she violated.
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Why Did Amazon Remove Reviews of Anti-LGBTQ Books from This Pro-LGBTQ Christian? (Friendly Atheist)
For the same reason atheists get booted from social media. “Blasphemy” is treated as “hate speech.” A Christian writing a thoughtful critique of a Christian bigot has blasphemed and will be reported and removed.
Very rough days around here. Mom in law is dying at home. A long time friend died yesterday. But the circle of life, right? This made my afternoon. These two will grow up together. With luck, that cat will see the baby become an adult. And that baby gets to see “growing up” in a furry friend as he or she becomes a child.
re: #290 austin_blue
Golly, Rand!
I thought that you, as a juror in a TRIAL, along with your cronies, would actually like, you know, hear the EVIDENCE before coming to a conclusion of guilt or innocence.
That has been the standard of being a juror since before this country was the good ol’ U S of A.
Seems like you, and your cronies, don’t believe in our system of jurisprudence!
If that’s the case, how can you represent Kentucky as a Senator?
They did it last time too
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2/ The investigation walks through the footage (props to @WSJ, there’s so much!) starting with Proud Boys staging under the direction of leaders including (now-arrested) Joe Biggs outside the #Capitol pic.twitter.com/XHb2aY35Uf
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) January 27, 2021
re: #297 Jack Burton
D’felon’s wife might have a relative that’s a nurse or something?
We have a friend who dated a woman for a few years who was a piece of work. One night after a few cocktails she confided in us that she had a felony (we don’t know what for, we think drunk driving)…but forever after that when one of us (at home, away from our friends) referred to her we’d say, “the felon” as in, “The felon sent an invite for a charity golf tourney again…should we go? It was fun last time.”
West Virginia Woman Sentenced for Willful Retention of Top Secret National Defense Information and International Parental Kidnapping: Elizabeth Jo Shirley retained classified documents that she hoped to sell to Russian officials. #NatSec @FBIPittsburgh https://t.co/JdQRCkY1zT pic.twitter.com/DOGFto3tpR
— FBI (@FBI) January 27, 2021
I thought a three-gun battery {as was used during the recent inauguration) was supposed to use a 5-second interval between the firing of it’s two primary guns.
Which seems to be what happenedhttps://t.co/TSy0sHHHbS— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) January 27, 2021
(a Four-gun battery would fire on a 3-second interval, using three primary guns)
re: #303 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Let’s take the fucking capitol!
Let’s not fucking yell that out loud, asshole!
That is pretty damning audio to use in court.
re: #301 Rightwingconspirator
[[RWC]]
That’s really hard on anyone. I’m sorry your family is having so many difficulties.
re: #283 ipsos
I think the most practical path forward is massive expansion of representation. 21 SCOTUS justices representing 21 circuits. A House of 1200 or so. The Senate, as ever, is more intractable. Could you make a case for 4 or 5 Senators per state? Maybe, though you’d need an amendment to the Constitution that’s probably impossible.
You can grant statehood to D.C. and the territories.
re: #301 Rightwingconspirator
Sorry to hear of the loss but happy to see the pic.
re: #298 austin_blue
An admirable breadth of vision, and some good stuff in there. But what if it’s a an R Prez who gets to add 12 Justices? What if the majority of States have R Legislatures to gerrymander all those 800 new Congressional Districts? And more Senators per State will be a continuation of the status quo ante, which kinda sucks.
You’d have to space out the SCOTUS expansion - maybe add a seat each year over the course of three presidential terms? And perhaps do the same with the new House seats being added, so they can’t be swung so hard by one particular bad year?
As for 21 circuits, there’s actually a good case to be made for that, given how overloaded some of the busiest circuits have become. The ninth alone should probably be split into four or five circuits given how much population it covers.
Detailed figures posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website Tuesday showed that the government plans to make about 10.1 million first and second doses available next week, up from this week’s allotment of 8.6 million.https://t.co/WuxM5b6QgC
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 26, 2021
re: #298 austin_blue
An admirable breadth of vision, and some good stuff in there. But what if it’s a an R Prez who gets to add 12 Justices? What if the majority of States have R Legislatures to gerrymander all those 800 new Congressional Districts? And more Senators per State will be a continuation of the status quo ante, which kinda sucks.
Most of the new representatives would go to the biggest states which have large minority populations.
re: #269 austin_blue
Yeah, well, agreed. But it’s the system we’ve got. Since it works pretty well, I can’t see dying on that particular hill.
But YMMV. Any suggestions to improve the existing system would be welcome. It’s a decent discussion topic.
The system doesn’t work. It doesn’t work at all. The fact that the world’s largest political entity is almost a complete oligarchy where a single person can prevent the entire legislative process from occurring for years, and wildly shift the entire federal judiciary, without any checks, balances or consequences, isn’t a functional system. It is a failed state, kept afloat only by a high average standard of living.
JFC
Fox News is now claiming Dr. Fauci is responsible for the existence of COVID-19 pic.twitter.com/FBrnajMtFX
— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) January 27, 2021
re: #315 GlutenFreeJesus
Sorry. Mobile Safari.
Speaking of mobile Safari, I had to validate a bug and couldn’t find my iPhone (I have iPhone, iPad, iPad Pro 12.9, Android, etc. for work) and thinking I accidentally dropped it into a box of Xmas crap I bought a refurbished one on Amazon figuring I’d use it ($350). Three days later I found the iPhone my company bought. Posted the new one on NextDoor for $250 (idiot tax) and sold it in five minutes.
O_o
After saying Twitter ran his account from Germany for two weeks and peddling more false and baseless voter fraud conspiracies about Dominion, Mike Lindell ends his interview by thanking Tucker and saying “God bless you.”
Tucker: “Amen, God bless you!” pic.twitter.com/MjgO8wek5j— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 27, 2021
re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth
Huh? I am very glad I subscribe to The Washington Post.
REVEALED: world’s most prominent public expert on infectious diseases earns less than 4% of the highest paid state official in Alabama, its football coach. https://t.co/oPP6jz7hPQ
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) January 26, 2021
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
It goes to show that Alabama thinks more of its football coach.
First Case of B.1.1.7 COVID-19 Variant Identified in Virginia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE · January 25, 2021
Related info:
Variant of Concern 202012/01
Recent modeling suggests new variant(s?) could overtake currently dominant variants in Canada (and elsewhere, of course) by March or April:
High-transmission variants in Canada
January 26, 2021
What happens if a high-transmission variant becomes established, and is transmitted in the general community in Canada?
I learned of these modeling projections from Dr John Campbell’s youtube™ video named March dangers and homeopathy dated January 25 2021.
Can’t find the link right now, but several minutes ago, I read that the new B.1.1.7 variant has been detected in over 20 states in the US.
VP Harris will ceremonially swear in @SecBlinken as Secretary of State tomorrow at 11:45 at the White House.
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) January 27, 2021
I just can’t imagine a House with 1200 Representatives. How could anything get accomplished? Every Representative would want to comment for the TV soundbites and have about 12 seconds to speak. We couldn’t afford to build enough facilities for all the prima donnas and their fancy offices.
I do not see anyway to get past the Constitutional barriers for these changes. Doing this change by Constitutional Amendment or Convention is just not possible.
We have to learn better to deal with what we have.
re: #323 unproven innocence
Kentucky reports 2,714 COVID-19 cases Tuesday, including first cases of UK variant https://t.co/2PiSHvhVpa via @courierjournal
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) January 26, 2021
Leahy is home, according to his spokesperson: “After getting test results back, and after a thorough examination, Senator Leahy now is home. He looks forward to getting back to work. Patrick and Marcelle deeply appreciate the well wishes they have received tonight.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 27, 2021
re: #325 Cheechako
I just can’t imagine a House with 1200 Representatives. How could anything get accomplished? Every Representative would want to comment for the TV soundbites and have about 12 seconds to speak. We couldn’t afford to build enough facilities for all the prima donnas and their fancy offices.
I do not see anyway to get past the Constitutional barriers for these changes. Doing this change by Constitutional Amendment or Convention is just not possible.
We have to learn better to deal with what we have.
They don’t get in front of many cameras in the chamber. And there are places with larger bodies, such as New Hampshire. And changing the size of the House or the Supreme Court doesn’t require a Constitutional amendment, otherwise we wouldn’t be at 9 or 435.
This makes the call to Tuberville on Mike Lee’s phone during the riot more suspect. Was Trump coordinating with Tuberville to keep the senate in chambers until the rioters could breach the Capitol?
Lots of questions we need the answers to. https://t.co/FtU4jTDiKj— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) January 27, 2021
Observation: the animated movie Ferdinand is Logan’s Run with bulls.
re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Christian Flag is a white field with a blue canton, within which is a red Latin Cross.
There is also a Christian Anthem for that flag, and a Christian Pledge of Allegiance.
The flag was developed in 1897, intended to represent ecumenism between Christian churches, and adopted by forerunner of the National Council of Churches in 1943.
That organisation has also adopted display criteria for the flag when it is in a church, displacing the US Flag from its position of honour as set forth in the Flag Code.
Roman Catholic churches usually do not use this flag, as they display the flag of the Holy See (but they follow the US Flag Code).
Christian Flag (Wikipedia, history, examples, churches which use it [most Protestant ones], wording of pledges)
There is no “Jewish” flag but every synagogue (which includes Reform, Conservative, Young Israel & mainstream Chabad) I have ever attended displays the flag of Israel. There is also the Yellow Crown Flag of some rogue Chabad extremists & the “Na Nach” flag of the Breslovers.
“… Among the attendees, according to Herbster’s post, were Tuberville, former RAGA director Adam Piper, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, adviser Peter Navarro, Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and 2016 deputy campaign manager David Bossie.
RAGA’s dark-money fundraising arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, led by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, paid for robocalls directing people to the March to Save America and rally, which took place just before the Capitol attack.”
alreporter.com
re: #332 jaunte
“… Among the attendees, according to Herbster’s post, were Tuberville, former RAGA director Adam Piper, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, adviser Peter Navarro, Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and 2016 deputy campaign manager David Bossie.
RAGA’s dark-money fundraising arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, led by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, paid for robocalls directing people to the March to Save America and rally, which took place just before the Capitol attack.”
alreporter.com
If at first you don’t secede, try, try, again.
If you avt ANY doubt about what #Trump did on #January6th & how it incited the crowd, you must watch this. Make sure that you send it to @ChuckGrassley, @SenJoniErnst and that snappy #MAGA brother-in-law! #IaPolitics #Impeachhttps://t.co/6AeXKw1OAc
— Bob Krause (@KrauseForIowa) January 27, 2021
re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
there’s more…
Sooooo here’s Mike Lindell on Tucker Carlson’s show saying Dominion “hired hit groups and bots and trolls and went after all my vendors and box stores to cancel me out.” pic.twitter.com/8DOyVHxj4K
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 27, 2021
re: #325 Cheechako
I just can’t imagine a House with 1200 Representatives. How could anything get accomplished? Every Representative would want to comment for the TV soundbites and have about 12 seconds to speak. We couldn’t afford to build enough facilities for all the prima donnas and their fancy offices.
I do not see anyway to get past the Constitutional barriers for these changes. Doing this change by Constitutional Amendment or Convention is just not possible.
We have to learn better to deal with what we have.
The New Hampshire House of Representatives has four hundred representatives and they manage in that tiny state.
I’m fine with not quite so many: The least-populous state (currently Wyoming) gets one representative. All other districts are based on the population of that state.
Wyoming has 578,000 people. So that’s one district (as it is now).
California, with 39,000,000 people then gets sixty-seven representatives.
Meet Squints and Smalls. They are future guide dogs. Squints isn’t sure what he’s gotten himself into, but Smalls is h*ckin ready. 13/10 for both pic.twitter.com/Uqs2Cp4NUg
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) January 26, 2021
These Textbooks In Thousands Of K-12 Schools Echo Trump’s Talking Points (Huffington Post)
Their religion-centered, anti-Democrat, anti-science, anti-multicultural message mirrors the Christian nationalism seen at the U.S. Capitol riot.
Christian textbooks used in thousands of schools around the country teach that President Barack Obama helped spur destructive Black Lives Matter protests, that the Democrats’ choice of 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton reflected their focus on identity politics, and that President Donald Trump is the “fighter” Republicans want, a HuffPost analysis has found.
The analysis, which focused on three popular textbooks from two major publishers of Christian educational materials ― Abeka and BJU Press ― looked at how the books teach the Trump era of politics. We found that all three are characterized by a skewed version of history and a sense that the country is experiencing an urgent moral decline that can only be fixed by conservative Christian policies. Language used in the books overlaps with the rhetoric of Christian nationalism, often with overtones of nativism, militarism and racism as well.
Scholars say textbooks like these, with their alternate versions of history and emphasis on Christian national identity, represent one small part of the conditions that lead to events like last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, an episode that was permeated with the symbols of Christian nationalism. Before storming the Capitol, some groups prayed in the name of Jesus and asked for divine protection. They flew Christian and “Jesus 2020” flags and pointed to Trump’s presidency as the will of God. The linkage between Christian beliefs and the violent attack on Congress has since pushed evangelical leaders to confront their own relationship with Trump and their support for the rioters.
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re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
re: #325 Cheechako
I just can’t imagine a House with 1200 Representatives. How could anything get accomplished? Every Representative would want to comment for the TV soundbites and have about 12 seconds to speak. We couldn’t afford to build enough facilities for all the prima donnas and their fancy offices.
I do not see anyway to get past the Constitutional barriers for these changes. Doing this change by Constitutional Amendment or Convention is just not possible.
We have to learn better to deal with what we have.
The size of the House is set by law. It can be changed without amending the Constitution.
re: #283 ipsos
I think the most practical path forward is massive expansion of representation. 21 SCOTUS justices representing 21 circuits. A House of 1200 or so. The Senate, as ever, is more intractable. Could you make a case for 4 or 5 Senators per state? Maybe, though you’d need an amendment to the Constitution that’s probably impossible.
Practical?
You’re forgetting that we don’t have enough votes for any bold legislation.
Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ...
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
Cheechako
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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Trump’s “Stolen Election” Lie Based on Evidence From Pervy Bathroom Cam-Spy OK, this really takes the cake. If you have relatives that still cling to the “election was stolen, dadgum, I jes’ KNOW IT … This should be a slight remedy to the stubborn madness Thanks to online anonymity, the ... Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Best of April 2024 Nothing new here but these are a look back at the a few good images from the past month. Despite the weather, I was quite pleased with several of them. These were taken with older lenses (made from the ...
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
