“Our article says that [Bannon] acknowledged that Donald Trump had a plan to lie about the election results—he isn’t denying that at all. He in fact confirms that he advocated that,” says Dan Friedman, who obtained the audio of Steve Bannon describing the Trump coup plot before Election Day.
If an 11-year-old has a baby, its rape.
— Citizen D (@touchmeimdic) July 15, 2022
Touching on the white supremacist history of the anti-abortion movement:
“Black women are more likely than white women to experience health and economic disparities related to the lack of reproductive care [and] the history of the anti-abortion movement is “rooted in white supremacy.”https://t.co/Qd7ThhKaum
— Movement 4 Black Lives (@Mvmnt4BlkLives) July 15, 2022
Trump telegraphed his plan as early as 2016 when he insisted that he had also won the popular vote but Hillary packed the ballot boxes will millions of illegal ballots.
(Of which a en´lectoral fraud commission that he himself called into life found no evidence.)
But it was clear to anyone listening that he was going to do the same in spades in 2020 if he lost (and everybody knew he would lose the popular vote, it was just a matter of gaming the system as efficiently as he did in 2016.)
And he knew that he would be leading in votes counted at the end of the day on Tuesday but that the mail-in votes would skew against him.
We all knew these things. Our media knew these things. Even the relatively sane people in the GOP knew these things.
But they were willing to run roughshod over the electoral system to get their man in.
Things are heating up in Georgia, as the Fulton County DA has sent target letters to top Georgia Republicans involved in the faked electors scheme, and she said she might subpoena Trump to testify to the Grand Jury. That’s what I’m talking about!
Brownshirts
NOTE - Proud Boys are providing security services per Miami Herald https://t.co/IfVzlNTHuN
— Frank Sowa (@FrankSowa1) July 15, 2022
Does anyone else think it’s completely fucked up that Tony Ornato - a trump loyalist who tried to convince Mike Pence to leave the Capitol on Jan 6th, still has a job with the Secret Service?
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) July 15, 2022
Another 1/6 sentencing today. Guy with multiple felonies and dishonorable discharge from military was claiming he was sorry and wanted 60 days on leniency. Prosecutors sought 1 year.
Judge sentenced to 5 months and 3 years probation.
Judge sentences Terry Lindsey to 5 months in prison. Less than the 1-year sentence the Justice Dept sought. And three years probation.
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 15, 2022
How is that justice served?
Once again, judges claim that they’re being harsh and doling out slaps on the wrist.
This guy was a serial felon and an ongoing threat to public health and safety, threatening to bring a gun the next time. He entered the Capitol twice on 1/6. Throw the book at ‘em.
re: #364 Dr Lizardo
“JUST LOOK AT THAT PINT-SIZED HUSSY!!”
Would it surprise you if I told you that I’ve seen a conservative drop a remark to that effect in real life?
Has Dear Leader labeled Bannon as a deep state RINO yet? Wait for it…. ⏲
ICYMI: Republican Congressman Blames Mass Shootings on Women Having Rights https://t.co/7IKvA4rJKI
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) July 15, 2022
Some hospitals in Texas have reportedly refused to treat patients with major pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state’s abortion ban, the Texas Medical Association said in a letter this week. https://t.co/zVsY9ERNi1
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 15, 2022
Brought you by the National Association of We Fucking Told You So.
Yes, completely fucked up indeed. I seriously do not understand why one of the Biden administration’s first jobs wasn’t cleaning out the Trump loyalists installed throughout the federal government. https://t.co/i3oPgnKPcb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
The House has passed the bill that makes Roe v. Wade the law of the land. We urge the U.S. Senate to pass this bill by @RepJudyChu. https://t.co/b2omHHi6mq
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 15, 2022
re: #10 Teukka
Would it surprise you if I told you that I’ve seen a conservative drop a remark to that effect in real life?
Not one iota.
— 🍑2cannan🍑 (@2cannan1) July 15, 2022
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ladies, Jabba the Hut has an opinion. https://t.co/EcYzNVTVkv
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) July 15, 2022
I have been trying to tell those people who continue to insist Mitch must have cheated that the plethora of registered “Dems” have always voted Republican in federal elections. These “Dems” have always been “blue dog” Dems, aka “Republican light. https://t.co/RUnJAmrhxO
— justice4all 🏳️🌈⚖🇺🇦 (@justice4all01) July 15, 2022
re: #2 wrenchwench
Tina, you moldy muffin, an 11 YO CANNOT CONSENT. So it doesn’t matter—it’s r*pe or sexual assault. To repeat: an 11 YO CANNOT CONSENT TO SEX. Period. End of story! /another day where I’m glad I failed out of UT Austin’s journalism school in 1982!
— Dee “I support transgender people” Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) July 15, 2022
I am fucking not in the mood for idiots right now. A child cannot consent to sex under NO CIRCUMSTANCE that I am aware of. So maybe you don’t want to call it r*pe. Well, call it the legal term used in most states: sexual assault. But don’t imply there might be a fucking legal reason for an 11 YO to be pregnant, or I will call you a moldy muffin (or worse!).
And look who voted NO: Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney. https://t.co/u6UFXSZeHr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
raise your hand if you would like to see the head of the Secret Service testify under oath in front of Congress for 11 straight hours on live television to explain how the fuck every text message from Jan 6 got ‘accidentally’ deleted, because we’re not fucking buying it
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) July 15, 2022
The only way a child under the age of 15 can get pregnant in the US is if they were raped. Period. The lowest age of consent in the nation is 16. With defenses/mitigating circumstances of the assailant being within a year or two of the age of the victim, it is rape.
Children under 15 can get pregnant as a result. To deny this is to deny reality and the GOP Christian fascists are doing just that.
They wont call what happens to these girls rape. They wont call the procedure to terminate these pregnancies rape.
It’s rape.
These girls were forced into a situation without any say, and the GOP would force them to carry a fetus to term, even if it kills the girl.
The GOP are cruel, evil, and malicious Christian fascist luddites.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
As Republicans they support lawful evil, but not Trump’s chaotic evil.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
The only issue they are on the right side of is opposition to a violent coup. The fact that this is going to get them drummed out of their party and out of Congress tells you how far gone the GOP is.
Biden does a quick fist-bump with Mohammed bin Salman, fearing that if they shook hands, the Saudi Arabian murderer would cut his off with a bone-saw. pic.twitter.com/ugcvHkHCcC
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 15, 2022
re: #26 Crush White Nationalism
This kind of shit is so irritating.
Did I say I was surprised?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
re: #25 lawhawk
Aren’t there some states where girls 16 and younger can get married?
re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg
Aren’t there some states where girls 16 and younger can get married?
Yes. If I recall correctly, not so long ago a child of any age could marry in Kentucky with their parents’ consent.
re: #21 mmmirele
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and yet now that 11 yo will become a mother
who is now 11 or 12.
how does this person act as a mother?
she’s not old enough to contract.
how does she make health decisions for the baby?
if a legal guardian is forced upon her, that still doesn’t address how she pays for anything
or does that become someone else’s job?
of so who, why and how?
will the baby be taken from her by force?
what if in this absurd world, she refuses and wants demands to be an active mother?
And of course they respond by being even more of an asshole.
Why ask why I’m surprised when I never said I was surprised? Do you have any idea how irritating that is?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
Be aware @texasdemocrats, the alt-right is in the convention right now. #TXDems22 #TxDemCovention https://t.co/S0mbbYWpaZ
— Shell_Seas (@LivingBlueTX) July 15, 2022
re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg
Aren’t there some states where girls 16 and younger can get married?
Yes, there are a few additional exceptions/caveats - a parent could consent to a child’s marriage. Child marriage is a defense to statutory rape. A number of states have no statutory minimum age for entering into a marriage (caselaw may set a higher number).
re: #33 Dangerman
and yet now that 11 yo will become a mother
who is now 11 or 12.
how does this person act as a mother?
she’s not old enough to contract.
how does she make health decisions for the baby?if a legal guardian is forced upon her, that still doesn’t address how she pays for anything
or does that become someone else’s job?
of so who, why and how?
will the baby be taken from her by force?
what if in this absurd world, she refuses andwantsdemands to be an active mother?
Let them explain out loud how this is all supposed going to work
THREAD 👀:
🚨 🚨 w/RECEIPTS: given the interest in the below tweet thread, let me present the most astounding receipt you will ever see
It is the report by the EEO investigator of the meeting she had w then-AG Mike DeWine about her investigation into a sexual harassment
1/ https://t.co/BjvlpGq5sr pic.twitter.com/lqgagfu4If— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) July 15, 2022
And now, blocked.
I’m done playing word games with people who don’t give a shit about getting more democrats elected to the House and the Senate and just want to whine.
— T….🇺🇲🌻 (@TForDemocracy) July 15, 2022
re: #34 Charles Johnson
And of course they respond by being even more of an asshole.
This is why I stay off Twitter.
re: #33 Dangerman
and yet now that 11 yo will become a mother
who is now 11 or 12.
how does this person act as a mother?
she’s not old enough to contract.
how does she make health decisions for the baby?if a legal guardian is forced upon her, that still doesn’t address how she pays for anything
or does that become someone else’s job?
of so who, why and how?
will the baby be taken from her by force?
what if in this absurd world, she refuses andwantsdemands to be an active mother?
We have the ability to do a DNA test on a baby or the products of an abortion. We have the ability to prosecute the sperm forcer. We have the ability to give the victim some rights.
I knew it would end up with me blocking this asshole.
From now on I’m just going to block anyone who comes at me with that “why are you surprised” shit.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
Not a good look. At all. https://t.co/uJh0K3I3sT
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
re: #34 Charles Johnson
And of course they respond by being even more of an asshole.
Typing a tweet isn’t exactly taxing. And they’re missing that you’re trying to push back on the narrative that somehow those two are heroes. So goofy.
The Democrat who voted NO is Henry Cuellar of Texas. Of course.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
In hindsight Major Biden clearly knew something was shady with the secret service and is further proof as to why dogs remain undefeated
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) July 15, 2022
re: #33 Dangerman
I’d have to guess the 11 year olds parents would become legally responsible for both the girl and her baby until the girl is 18.
re: #48 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d have to guess the 11 year olds parents would become legally responsible for both the girl and her baby until the girl is 18.
When suddenly the mother can take herself and her ‘baby’ (first grader) out of their father’s home.
Kevin Sorbo says he is thinking about making a movie about Trump’s life story. He says whenever he talks to liberal friends, he asks them “what were the policies of his that you didn’t like? And they can’t answer that question. And everything he said, he did.” pic.twitter.com/tbE9gEbYM0
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 15, 2022
Major Biden getting ready to testify against the secret service pic.twitter.com/TyMgdVMItj
— ☀️ Rebecca ☀️ (@beccavexed) July 15, 2022
Stress relief:
Hello. My two-year-old had a slight NY accent (his nanny is my 64-year-old Jewish dad) so when he says the work “fork” it sounds astonishingly like “fuck.” I apologize to the table next to us when he called to the waitress “My mama needs a fork!”
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) July 15, 2022
re: #48 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d have to guess the 11 year olds parents would become legally responsible for both the girl and her baby until the girl is 18.
i think that’s a question that’s sure gonna be put to the test
we’ve always sort of assumed that parents have a lot of implied power w/r/t their kids, that for the most part isn’t / cannot be questioned
that power is not automatically assumed with grandparents
discipline
education
religion
diet
health decisions
friends
on and on
re: #48 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d have to guess the 11 year olds parents would become legally responsible for both the girl and her baby until the girl is 18.
If this is really the girl’s mother, the poor kid doesn’t stand a chance. Ugh.
WATCH: The mother of the Ohio 10/y rape victim tells Telemundo’s @MariaVargasPion that the child “is fine”, and “everything they say about (Gerson Flores) is a lie.” pic.twitter.com/Vtpyn404g7
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022
re: #54 BeachDem
Something is not adding up here. There’s more to this story.
re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
Something is not adding up here. There’s more to this story.
Somewhere (can’t remember which story) I read that the Indiana doc’s report said the rapist was 17 years old—so if momma went to Indy with the little girl and gave that story, she lied—probably covering up for her boyfriend, the rapist. Just a theory…
re: #56 wrenchwench
It’s a thread.
Ah, thank you. Here’s some of the key stuff:
The mother’s distressed defense of the rapist suggests that
a: She is also here illegally and fears deportation
b: The defendant is the family’s sole source of income
c: There is a likelihood of other children in the home— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 14, 2022
re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg
Ah, thank you. Here’s some of the key stuff:
I guess Jorge and I have the same theory.
re: #59 BeachDem
I guess Jorge and I have the same theory.
A big deal is being made of one case out of thousands per year.
re: #6 jaunte
Brownshirts
Most folks are bitching about Lowes being there. All’s they have to do is look and they will find independent hardware dealers all around them. I can think 3 around me. That doesn’t include Harbor Freight. Fuck that guy.
re: #60 wrenchwench
A big deal is being made of one case out of thousands per year.
Wingnuts pretended the timing was suspicious, because not understanding that this happens all the time is part of their willful ignorance.
re: #2 wrenchwench
At the clinic I volunteer at in Nebraska, we had a young teen yesterday. A child.
Besides her, dozens driving 13+ hours from all over the country to access care.— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) July 15, 2022
Russia making more threats of nuclear holocaust.
In the foreseeable future, #Putin may decide to launch a massive missile attack on this #nuclear power plant located in western Ukraine and in close proximity to European countries.
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) July 15, 2022
This is the only nuclear power plant that the Russians can destroy without damaging themselves, while causing maximum damage to European countries and Ukraine.
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) July 15, 2022
Folks, I’m well aware that the US can’t ignore Saudi Arabia.
That does not mean I have to like it.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
re: #52 wrenchwench
Stress relief:
“Hey! I’m toddlin’ here!”
— Krister Johnson (@KristerJohnson) July 15, 2022
re: #35 jaunte
Have some of the other African American delegates walk around striking up conversation, just casually mentioning that George Floyd was a hero.
Breaking @ Fox News: “Oil Companies Are Suffering!!!” //
1/🚨Gas prices have now dropped for 30 days(!) in a row — and a gallon at the pump costs 44 cents less than last month.📉
Hot off the press for @BusinessInsider:https://t.co/JnfwKoY7fl— Phil Rosen (@philrosenn) July 15, 2022
re: #66 Charles Johnson
If we kicked our dependence on fossil fuels for renewables and nuclear, we could. It’s like a drug addiction we won’t get treatment for.
re: #69 Dr. Matt
Breaking @ Fox News: “Oil Companies Are Suffering!!!” //
This week it dropped to $3.99 a gallon in Frankfort.
re: #52 wrenchwench
See also, “I wanna fork! On the table!”
re: #70 No Malarkey!
If we kicked our dependence on fossil fuels for renewables and nuclear, we could. It’s like a drug addiction we won’t get treatment for.
Welp, Joe Manchin just made sure that isn’t going to happen any time soon.
re: #72 EPR-radar
See also, “I wanna fork! On the table!”
get a toddler to say “dump truck” and you have a party.
Yet another recorded demand from a GOP official to falsify an election.
“A recorded audio conversation appears to show Colorado District 4 Congressman Ken Buck pressuring an El Paso County GOP official to falsify election results in the State Senate District 10 race.”
— 5/18/20 #GOPElectionFraud 1/ https://t.co/98Zc3bKmES— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) July 15, 2022
re: #60 wrenchwench
A big deal is being made of one case out of thousands per year.
That’s just it. This stuff happens ALL the time. It’s just never all over the headlines like this.
re: #70 No Malarkey!
If we kicked our dependence on fossil fuels for renewables and nuclear, we could. It’s like a drug addiction we won’t get treatment for.
We had a wake-up call nearly 50 ears ago and were even on the way to doing something about it until Reagan/GHW Bush and GW Bush did their best to get us back on the needle.
re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s just it. This stuff happens ALL the time. It’s just never all over the headlines like this.
But they knew how to spin it.
Raping a series of women in your own home shows a disturbing level of confidence that you will not be held accountable for your actions.
Scrubs and Californication co-executive producer Eric Weinberg was arrested today by the LAPD on multiple sexual assault charges. The arrest is related to a series of rapes and more that the police say occurred between 2012 and 2019.
Picked up at a Los Feliz residence, the TV scribe was booked by police this afternoon and is being held on bail of $3.225 million, say law enforcement officials. Detectives are expected to pass their investigation over the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office soon , I’m told.
“When the case is submitted, we will review it and determine if charges are appropriate,” a spokesperson for L.A. District Attorney George Gascón’s office told Deadline today of the Weinberg arrest.
according to the LAPD, Weinberg predatorily singled out women in their 20s and 30s “in grocery stores, coffee shops and other public places” and would try to convince them to participate in a photo shoot. If the women agreed to have their picture taken by Weinberg, his modus operandi was to rape them during the secluded session at his home.
‘Scrubs’ Co-EP Eric Weinberg Arrested On Rape Charges; Held On $3.2M Bail By LAPD (Deadline)
re: #15 Charles Johnson
The US Secret Service is part of the federal civil service. President Biden does not have the authority to fire them.
The anti-abortion movement has always been based on lies, distortions, fake science, and intimidation, all backed up with the implicit and sometimes explicit threat of violence. https://t.co/kf006XuchR
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
re: #16 lawhawk
And it will die in the Senate.
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We had a wake-up call nearly 50 ears ago and were even on the way to doing something about it until Reagan/GHW Bush and GW Bush did their best to get us back on the needle.
We weren’t ready at the time, so it was more token gestures meant to build into something meaningful over time back then. Today we could actually transition to solar and windmills since efficiency has gone up significantly.
re: #82 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And it will die in the Senate.
Just like many pregnant women.
Settle down, this is not an erasure of your work. https://t.co/tq8vnNsyTi
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 13, 2022
It’s good to do this anyway. Anything is better than inaction. https://t.co/8Kx6q5sEIX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
re: #83 Crush White Nationalism
We weren’t ready at the time, so it was more token gestures meant to build into something meaningful over time back then. Today we could actually transition to solar and windmills since efficiency has gone up significantly.
Like the ACA or any other forward thinking actions.
re: #81 Charles Johnson
When a movement exists solely because the children of terrible people rejected their racism, and they needed some other form of abuse to hold their rotten subculture together, it’s going to be ugly.
re: #68 Belafon
Have some of the other African American delegates walk around striking up conversation, just casually mentioning that George Floyd was a hero.
Or simply have them strike up random conversations about how all these “hot women should be put back in their place” and if they agree, Bingo.
Pure simple misogyny is the main driving force behind a ton of minority support for Trump and Republicans. The actual aftermath of a white supremacist autocracy I guess doesn’t rank high in the thought process.
re: #83 Crush White Nationalism
We weren’t ready at the time, so it was more token gestures meant to build into something meaningful over time back then. Today we could actually transition to solar and windmills since efficiency has gone up significantly.
We were in a position to start improving energy efficiency, enhancing public transportation, conservation and basic technologies like passive solar, but that did not fit in with the GOP vision of America: we still like to measure our wealth and prosperity in terms of how many resources we consume.
Must see TV. The J6 Committee has being doing a bang up job of presenting the case against Trump. Thank Dog McCarthy pulled all the traitors off the committee so they couldn’t muddy the water.
It’s been sort of a moving target. But House Jan 6 Committee chair Bennie Thompson says next public hearing is Thursday 8pm. Prime time
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 15, 2022
re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg
Just like many pregnant women.
Pregnant women dying in the Senate is one way to get through to some of our Senators.
re: #86 Charles Johnson
Imagine if the media had reported every time House Democrats passed these bills. People might get the impression they tried to do something.
But there’s always room for “why didn’t they do something before?” so we would have that to deal with.
re: #93 Belafon
Imagine if the media had reported every time House Democrats passed these bills. People might get the impression they tried to do something.
But there’s always room for “why didn’t they do something before?” so we would have that to deal with.
I was in an airport in the summer of 2016, flying back to the USA. Every TV was tuned into an empty podium waiting for DT to appear to talk his way out of discrepancies in his charitable foundation spending.
What was Hillary up to? She was giving a speech about improving job opportunities for the handicapped.
Empty podium won out.
re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We were in a position to start improving energy efficiency, enhancing public transportation, conservation and basic technologies like passive solar, but that did not fit in with the GOP vision of America: we still like to measure our wealth and prosperity in terms of how many resources we consume.
I was out the other night and walked past a TV that had Tucker Carlson on. Swear to God, the story was about how renewable energy was the real reason for whatever power crisis he was lying about; I’m guessing TX.
Lots of people still very upset that there are dwarves and elves with too much melanin:
Yes, I read Tolkien’s letters. Such as where he admits Numenor is Atlantis. Also that he believes in Catholic miracles, and the Virgin Mary, and a whole lot of nonsense.
But nowhere can you find Tolkien wanting apartheid. He was against it.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) July 15, 2022
— Kristine Coratti Kelly (@kriscoratti) July 15, 2022
re: #97 Charles Johnson
Good heavens, whatever will that crowd do should a President bow to a leader of the KSA???
re: #95 Mattand
I was out the other night and walked past a TV that had Tucker Carlson on. Swear to God, the story was about how renewable energy was the real reason for whatever power crisis he was lying about; I’m guessing TX.
Remember all those frozen windmills.
I also recall the CA power crisis of 2000, with Rush was on the air blaming it on all the “Environmental Whackos” who blocked construction of new power plants, when it was all about Kenny Lay and Enron jerking the market around speculating on energy prices.
I think the fist bump was more a Covid greeting than a “Hey, how you doing, bro?” kind of thing.
Shitty optics regardless.
re: #98 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Good heavens, whatever will that crowd do should a President bow to a leader of the KSA???
It was their reporter who was murdered and dismembered by the guy Biden fist-bumped.
re: #98 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Good heavens, whatever will that crowd do should a President bow to a leader of the KSA???
What if Biden had been putting hands on a glowing orb of power and then sword dancing with them?
re: #101 Charles Johnson
It was their reporter who was murdered and dismembered by the guy Biden fist-bumped.
I agree with the feeling of disgust.
But I also know that leaders often feign a relationship, especially leaders of countries that are nominally friends and allies.
Biden has to do his job. It is his job. Even if it is unpleasant, it is his job.
re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg
I think the fist bump was more a Covid greeting than a “Hey, how you doing, bro?” kind of thing.
Shitty optics regardless.
Biden has to secure gas supplies for the Western World, and needs this fucker’s cooperation.
re: #74 I Would Prefer Not To
get a toddler to say “dump truck” and you have a party.
my niece had that ‘problem’
re: #97 Charles Johnson
We have an insane people with money problem, and we’re going to lose our democracy if we just go along with these fools.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) July 15, 2022
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Biden has to secure gas supplies for the Western World, and needs this fucker’s cooperation.
This.
With Russia showing no signs of giving up their aggressive stance, the fact that the world still runs on petroleum makes the KSA the deal breaker for many nations needing petroleum.
The US has to make sure that KSA maximizes output to shore the world economy.
re: #97 Charles Johnson
1. Fist bumps have replaced hand shakes in a lot of places now. It is no more or less intimate than a hand shake.
2. Let me know when Biden bows to get his medal. I had an argument with a guy who was all upset about Obama bowing for the medal until I showed him a picture of Bush getting his.
I cannot blame the Washington Post for reacting negatively to this.
re: #103 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I agree with the feeling of disgust.
But I also know that leaders often feign a relationship, especially leaders of countries that are nominally friends and allies.
Biden has to do his job. It is his job. Even if it is unpleasant, it is his job.
Global politics is like dealing with family members because you can’t get rid of them without doing some serious damage.
re: #109 Charles Johnson
I cannot blame the Washington Post for reacting negatively to this.
Neither can I.
re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This.
With Russia showing no signs of giving up their aggressive stance, the fact that the world still runs on petroleum makes the KSA the deal breaker for many nations needing petroleum.
The US has to make sure that KSA maximizes output to shore the world economy.
I think Biden is also trying to get Sunni countries to cooperate with Israel on security in the region to counter Iran.
re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg
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Yeah, definitely needs scare quotes around those “liberal friends”…
But SRSLY, Kevin: what “policies” did Trump come into office on? I can recall just 3:
1) “Repeal and replace Obamacare” - and never mind the utter lack of any “replacement”.
- abandoned after an unprecedented negative public outcry.
2) Cut taxes (only/mainly for the wealthy, but not pitched that way).
- Passed by GOP - no surprise.
3) Building a huge “impenetrable” wall (only) on the Mexican border.
- Do we even need to discuss?
Or TFG’s foreign-policy “triumphs”??
Actually, there was ONE: an easing of relations between Israel and (some of) the UAE (and Saudi Arabia). And not really that much of a “triumph”.
re: #112 Belafon
I think Biden is also trying to get Sunni countries to cooperate with Israel on security in the region to counter Iran.
He has a job to do, he is not just there to pursue his own family business interests.
re: #110 Belafon
Global politics is like dealing with family members because you can’t get rid of them without doing some serious damage.
The observation has been made many times, about FDR with Stalin.
FDR is all smiling and polite and congenial.
Of course FDR knew Stalin order the killing of his own people.
But world politics makes for the strangest bedfellows.
If the world had heeded the cries that we just get off fossil fuels then we’d be far better off, and eliminating the politics of oil is right at the top of the list.
In a radio interview, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) denied last night’s reports that he killed the climate and tax portions of the Democratic spending package.Said Manchin: “I said, ‘Chuck, can we just wait until the inflation figures come out in July? Until basically the Fed rate — the Reserve, are they going to raise interest? How much more, and how much damage is that going to be? And then make a decision what we can do and how much we can do?’ He took that as a ‘no,’ I guess, and came out with this big thing last night.”
NO.
NO NO NO
that’s not how you do this if your goal is to pass it
you get it done. NOW. while there’s agreement and momentum.
if you’re concerned about the economy you tweak the package you proposed and everybody agreed to:
- if inflation at the end of july, august, whenever is X, then the package is capped at Y$, otherwise it’s $Z.
THEN YOU PASS IT. NOW.
that’s how you be productive and get the job done.
this is you being either disingenuous or a clueless idiot
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Biden has to secure gas supplies for the Western World, and needs this fucker’s cooperation.
We would get quicker cooperation if MBS’s jet had an unfortunate accident and if someone more stable took over.
re: #116 Dangerman
Manchin is just lying again. He does this all the time.
re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
Something is not adding up here. There’s more to this story.
Yes. That guy works for the wingnut site News Busters.
re: #116 Dangerman
He was looking for an excuse. Interest rates are an excuse. High gas prices are an excuse. Low gas prices are an excuse. The ending of Roe is an excuse. Too many people near his yacht is an excuse.
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Biden has to secure gas supplies for the Western World, and needs this fucker’s cooperation.
Yep. The pitfalls of diplomacy.
re: #116 Dangerman
NO.
NO NO NOthat’s not how you do this if your goal is to pass it
you get it done. NOW. while there’s agreement and momentum.
……..
this is you being either disingenuous or a clueless idiot
I vote for disingenuous.
To update an old aphorism for modern times: “never attribute to malice stupidity that which is adequately explained by stupidity malice or greed.”
re: #115 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The observation has been made many times, about FDR with Stalin.
FDR is all smiling and polite and congenial.
Of course FDR knew Stalin order the killing of his own people.
But world politics makes for the strangest bedfellows.
If the world had heeded the cries that we just get off fossil fuels then we’d be far better off, and eliminating the politics of oil is right at the top of the list.
And in the end, at that time, Hitler was an existential threat to the US. The Soviet Union was not. That would change later, but at the time FDR had to deal with Ol’ Joe, he really was the lesser of two evils.
re: #116 Dangerman
NO.
NO NO NOthat’s not how you do this if your goal is to pass it
this is you being either disingenuous or a clueless idiot
Manchin is trying to have his cake and eat it too.
re: #118 Charles Johnson
Manchin is just lying again. He does this all the time.
jojo is hot today
81,283,098 Americans voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
290,510 West Virginians voted for Joe Manchin in 2018.
And that Maserati driving, house boat living special interest stooge thinks he’s in charge?
Yeah, F that and F him.— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) July 15, 2022
Unlike Elon Musk, when I do a multibillion dollar deal, IT CLOSES. https://t.co/U6yxFEEK6l
— Governments shouldn’t discriminate vs trans kids (@legalminimum) July 15, 2022
re: #127 Dangerman
jojo is hot today
There is one Joe Manchin and fifty Republicans who won’t vote for the bill. Joe Manchin is maddening, but we literally can’t replace him with a better alternative. We can replace some of the Republicans this November; that is who we should aim our fire at.
re: #128 Dopamine Fish
The company that made Halo is now owned by Playstation?
re: #123 Jay C
Why not both?
he’s got enormous power given the position he’s found himself in.
he could get almost anything he wants, or wants for WV.
he doesnt seem to want anything.
he’s just a bizarre kind of attention whore.
re: #127 Dangerman
jojo is hot today
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Except thanks to our Constitution, Senate rules, an obstructionist GOP, and a 50-50 Senate, Manchin is in effective charge of what is passed in the Senate.
A friend who has ties to AZ told me that Kelley was going to lose because he is having an affair and that information is widespread among voters in the state. I still recall what happened in 2020 where the NC Democratic candidate lost for that very reason.
Two insurrectionists going to prison for a few years.
NEW: Judge sentences high-level Jan 6 defendants Cody Mattice & James Mault to 44 months prison
Mattice called his actions “stupid & ignorant”.. Mault blamed “mob mentality” (common phrase used by Jan 6 defendants)
Both part of group accused of assaulting police
Via @RobLegare https://t.co/Bmx2VUGHjN— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 15, 2022
“Trump didn’t commit ordinary crimes (well, he probably did, and that weighs on all of this too, but it’s not the main thing). He attempted to overturn an election that he had lost, and used the presidency to do so. That’s become clearer and clearer as the House committee investigating the assault on the US Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021 has presented its case.”
“Experts seem to believe that the evidence is there and that conviction is likely for Trump’s efforts to pressure election officials to falsify results, to gin up slates of fake electors and to provoke the Capitol mob. And it’s highly relevant that Trump to this day, long after the election, continues to try to overturn the legitimate result. Prosecutors should take it into account if a person constantly takes to the biggest stages and in effect brags about his crimes and promises to commit them again if he has the chance…”
“If all of this sounds as if the ultimate decision by the Justice Department will be political in nature… well, that’s correct. Prosecutors have to balance the threat to the nation from indicting a former president against the threat to the nation of not doing so. Given the facts we’ve seen, it’s just not that hard a choice. Trump’s crimes are too important, and too dangerous, to ignore.”
re: #82 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And it will die in the Senate.
And if it somehow passes, the Supreme Court will strike it down. We are already a theocracy.
Biden just was asked about the fist bump, and he just laughed at the ridiculous made up controversy about it
re: #132 Hecuba’s daughter
Except thanks to our Constitution, Senate rules, an obstructionist GOP, and a 50-50 Senate, Manchin is in effective charge of what is passed in the Senate.
A friend who has ties to AZ told me that Kelley was going to lose because he is having an affair and that information is widespread among voters in the state. I still recall what happened in 2020 where the NC Democratic candidate lost for that very reason.
Is that actually being reported? I would have thought it would have made news here.
re: #132 Hecuba’s daughter
Except thanks to our Constitution, Senate rules, an obstructionist GOP, and a 50-50 Senate, Manchin is in effective charge of what is passed in the Senate.
A friend who has ties to AZ told me that Kelley was going to lose because he is having an affair and that information is widespread among voters in the state. I still recall what happened in 2020 where the NC Democratic candidate lost for that very reason.
I hope that is just an ugly rumor.
President Biden on meeting with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman: “With respect to the murder of Khashoggi…I said, very straightforwardly, for an American president to be silent on an issue of human rights is inconsistent with who we are and who I am.” pic.twitter.com/LQq3lPwRC0
— CSPAN (@cspan) July 15, 2022
re: #130 Belafon
The company that made Halo is now owned by Playstation?
Halo 1 and Marathon more like. Good enough to turn a PowerPC mac into a real game machine and threat to the PC hegemony. That couldn’t be allowed to stand so MS bought out Bungie and that was that.
Pres. Biden says MBS “basically said that he was not personally responsible” for murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
“I indicated he was.” https://t.co/eUb6C7t3Ju pic.twitter.com/BoU3xIN4pF— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) July 15, 2022
This is the greatest video produced by the Russians yet…why they’d publish this is beyond me.
😂Remember all those awesome Ukrainian DIY combat drones? Russians thought they could be like Ukrainians.
But it turns out they are still Russian. pic.twitter.com/nH7XCAwL9D— Captain Black Sea (@CaptainBlackSe1) July 14, 2022
re: #137 EstebanTornado1963
Biden just was asked about the fist bump, and he just laughed at the ridiculous made up controversy about it
Are they yet calling it a “terrorist fist bump” like the Pajamanoids did with Obama?
I look forward to the day that Manchin and MBS are both irrelevant.
Best view in about two minutes. Live view.
re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And if it somehow passes, the Supreme Court will strike it down. We are already a theocracy.
People really have little understanding currently how normalized pre-industrial age customs like slavery, child marriage and women as entrenched 2nd class citizens will become after 2025 if a Republican takes the White House.
Across the South and West, these customs once considered archaic and immoral will quickly race back into legal status and embraced by the Christian overlords who rule these states. And whoever wins the White House in 2024 will pack the SCOTUS, especially a Republican. A Republican will pack the Court with at least 5 more cult-following Justices who are all in their 30’s primed and ready to enforce Radical Christian rule for 40 or more years.
re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Astronomers are unclear how large the comet is. Estimates range from eleven to one hundred miles in diameter.
re: #132 Hecuba’s daughter
zero veracity to that rumor, none.
sounds like typical GOP ratfucking
it may be well known in GOP MAGAland as their deepest fantasy, but all the ads here for MAGA ness all are trying to focus on two things….
Biden’s outrageous liberal agenda
securing the border
the only anti-Kelly dark money ad to surface thus far is how Kelly, a Democrat, voted with the Democratic agenda 97% of the time.
Lets not add any details that any and all bullshit GOP legislative items never reach the Senate.
to say that they are trolling low-info voters is a real thang.
re: #130 Belafon
The company that made Halo is now owned by Playstation?
To be clear, Microsoft still owns the Halo IP, so this deal doesn’t mean Halo games are going to start popping up on Playstation.
re: #152 No Malarkey!
Start disbanding and redistributing Fort Hood assets around the entire country now. Or simply shut it down.
right now.
— Dave McMahan (@deadhedave) July 15, 2022
Lots of people are apparently pretending they’re not sea cucumbers https://t.co/0Be5NufUhO
— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) July 15, 2022
re: #158 jaunte
I can tell you how I eat sea cucumber—I don’t. They are nasty, imo. But that was fascinating.
re: #140 No Malarkey!
I hope that is just an ugly rumor.
The only thing I find in a quick search is the Washington Free Beacon claiming Mark Kelly wanted his ex-wife jailed, back in 2020.
The first several pages of a search under “Mark Kelly affair” are all stories about the great love between him and Gabrielle Giffords, and nothing at all about an affair.
Tim Ryan, Rafael Warnock, and Val Demings all outraised their GOP Senate opponents in Q2.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 15, 2022
Biden is hitting a lot of wrong notes for me today, but I can tell my criticisms are not wanted so I’ll keep them to myself.
re: #155 Florida Panhandler
Start disbanding and redistributing Fort Hood assets around the entire country now. Or simply shut it down.
right now.
you can secede any time you want.
you dont get to take steal the land or the assets that belong to the country
re: #162 Charles Johnson
Biden is hitting a lot of wrong notes for me today, but I can tell my criticisms are not wanted so I’ll keep them to myself.
I’m fine with them, for the record. Leaders aren’t infallible. Presidents always misstep here and there.
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The only thing I find in a quick search is the Washington Free Beacon claiming Mark Kelly wanted his ex-wife jailed, back in 2020.
The first several pages of a search under “Mark Kelly affair” are all stories about the great love between him and Gabrielle Giffords, and nothing at all about an affair.
I hope you are right. It’s not something she knows first hand; it’s from a good friend of hers in AZ. But this is the kind of story, if true, that could be spread quickly close to the election to sabotage Democratic chances.
OTOH My friend, who is from WI though now an IL resident, is absolutely convinced that Ron Johnson is going down.
📣📣📣 THREAD: Dems are facing strong headwinds in 2022, but DON’T accept defeat as inevitable.
In 2020 we saved democracy. In 2022 we need to do it again. Money isn’t everything, but it’s still an important tool.
Here’s links to multiple fed/state races to support: 1/— Charles Gaba 🇺🇦 (@charles_gaba) July 8, 2022
re: #54 BeachDem
If this is really the girl’s mother, the poor kid doesn’t stand a chance. Ugh.
They know that it’s more or less routine that the mother will desperately defend a boyfriend, spouse etc when she finds out her daughter has been abused. They’re weaponizing it to throw doubt on whether the 10-year old was really raped…
“When people accidentally let their mask slip and show who they really are, believe them.”
Completely vague PAC ads from American Edge and Computer and Communications Industry Association are telling Americans in swing states like mine that the Democrats “agenda” will disrupt innovation and keep you from getting Amazon deliveries on time, etc. American Edge is really a Facebook/Meta funded PAC and CCIA represents FB, Amazon, Apple and others (but mostly Amazon). The ads explain nothing. It’s just propaganda to create fear over Klobuchar-sponsored anti-trust legislation. Most of you probably don’t see them, but they are obnoxious and play all the time.
Saudi interests paid foreign agents over $25 million for lobbying & influence ops during President Joe Biden’s first year in the White House—more than any year other than 2018 as Saudi Arabia spent to clean its image around when Jamal Khashoggi’s killing https://t.co/Gh3hc5FSxG https://t.co/2o3gF1GNCV
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) July 15, 2022
re: #162 Charles Johnson
Biden is hitting a lot of wrong notes for me today, but I can tell my criticisms are not wanted so I’ll keep them to myself.
I’m not happy with a lot of things but as long as he’s the prez, they’re what we’re going to get. It’s like his infatuation with the damaging fantasy that everyone can still get along like they used to; it’s not going to change.
re: #166 Charles Johnson
I was wondering if we were going to do something like Balloon Juice does, and pin some races with links to donations somewhere on the site.
re: #162 Charles Johnson
Biden is hitting a lot of wrong notes for me today, but I can tell my criticisms are not wanted so I’ll keep them to myself.
I think a lot of people need to differentiate between “valid criticisms of a leader I would like to see changed, but are still better than the alternative” and “things that are deal-breakers that will cause me not to vote for him/her”. There’s quite a lot that Biden could do that would make me angry at him, but it’s a pretty distant line to me saying I wouldn’t vote for him if he’s the 2024 nominee. I mean, he’s gotta be worse than TFG, and if he’s THAT bad, well, he wouldn’t be eligible to be voted for.
re: #163 Dangerman
you can secede any time you want.
you dont get totakesteal the land or the assets that belong to the country
My point being see how loud they bawl and cry about all that Federal Government money $$$ spending going away from Central Texas *poof, just like that.
re: #163 Dangerman
you can secede any time you want.
you dont get totakesteal the land or the assets that belong to the country
You keep some useless assets but don’t telegraph the fact that they’re now useless so that when they try to take it over, you can declare the state in rebellion, kick their Senator’s from the Senate, arrest the state government* (or at least everyone who voted to seceded or willingly worked in the secessionist government), and reconstruct the state.
*Sedition if they’ve just declared independence, and treason if they’re actually collaborating with a foreign power. Though I know treason is really really hard to prosecute on — even the Rosenberg’s weren’t prosecuted for treason.
re: #152 No Malarkey!
The last three paragraphs of that article, showing conservatives are deluded:
When asked to compare red states with blue states on a host of issues, red-state Trump voters say by wide margins that blue states have more gun deaths (68%) and discrimination (56%) while red states have more economic growth (75%) and education (55%).
Blue-state Biden voters, in contrast, say it is red states that suffer more gun deaths (62%) and discrimination (75%) — and blue states that enjoy more economic growth (65%) and education (77%).
Obviously, both sides can’t be right. (According to Brownstein, blue-state Biden voters are closer to the mark; other analysts might disagree.) But that isn’t stopping either side from thinking the worst of the other.
re: #167 Teukka
They know that it’s more or less routine that the mother will desperately defend a boyfriend, spouse etc when she finds out her daughter has been abused. They’re weaponizing it to throw doubt on whether the 10-year old was really raped…
“When people accidentally let their mask slip and show who they really are, believe them.”
A 10 year old cannot consent. She was pregnant; ergo she was raped. Period. End of story.
re: #176 Hecuba’s daughter
A 10 year old cannot consent. She was pregnant; ergo she was raped. Period. End of story.
Exactly. Anything else is rape apologism.
Major updates to this story!
1) Secret Service did NOT conduct an after-action review after Jan. 6
2) The IG said the Secret Service has not been fully cooperative with its investigation.
3) The IG went to DHS Sec “more than once” about the problems before going to Congress https://t.co/IXsMkMpEtU— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) July 15, 2022
re: #162 Charles Johnson
Biden is hitting a lot of wrong notes for me today, but I can tell my criticisms are not wanted so I’ll keep them to myself.
It may not be perfect, but it’s not Fat Donny calling the shots or rubbing the orb.
re: #178 Charles Johnson
As RATM says: Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.
Seems to be true no matter what type of law enforcement agency is involved.
re: #51 Charles Johnson
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would be great if the dog sounded like Jimmy Durante, while giving testimony.
re: #167 Teukka
They know that it’s more or less routine that the mother will desperately defend a boyfriend, spouse etc when she finds out her daughter has been abused. They’re weaponizing it to throw doubt on whether the 10-year old was really raped…
“When people accidentally let their mask slip and show who they really are, believe them.”
also because ‘how could let this happen to your daughter? how come you didnt ‘supervise’ her better?”
The Secret Service story is really beginning to smell like an attempted cover-up.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
re: #182 Dangerman
also because ‘how could let this happen to your daughter? how come you didnt ‘supervise’ her better?”
Yep. Classic.
I wonder if the Duggers ever had to take a quick “vacation” on behalf of one of their daughters.
If you’re looking for a label to give me, you can just call me “Governor.” https://t.co/lFtYXlcL4x
— Kathy Hochul (@KathyHochul) July 14, 2022
re: #155 Florida Panhandler
Start disbanding and redistributing Fort Hood assets around the entire country now. Or simply shut it down.
right now.
Move everything NASA to California.
re: #158 jaunte
Sea cucumbers eat through their butts. pic.twitter.com/my05xyfllL
— Weird Science (@weird_sci) May 24, 2015
and
Pearlfish have a special relationship with sea cucumbers
They often seek shelter, up a sea cucumber’s anuspic.twitter.com/OePZ1V5xo8— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) July 15, 2022
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Libertarians: It’s called hebephilia
Correction, with a 10-year old it’s pedophilia proper. You know, there are strict definitions for hebephilia and ephebophilia, yanno… And the names being different doesn’t necessarily mean more acceptable…
re: #173 Florida Panhandler
My point being see how loud they bawl and cry about all that Federal Government money $$$ spending going away from Central Texas *poof, just like that.
oh sure
i’m just trying to disabuse them of the notion that ‘the land’ is theirs and it’s somehow severable from the nation
it’s all of a piece
the land, the military, all the infrastructure…
Ornato, DeJoy…I can’t remember, but there are certainly multiple examples of the Biden administration leaving in place malign actors and not doing appropriate house cleaning. Maybe it’s not as easy as I thought it would be, but Trump seemed to churn through anyone who seemed even slightly of the “wavering class.”
re: #190 Teukka
Correction, with a 10-year old it’s pedophilia proper. You know, there are strict definitions for hebephilia and ephebophilia, yanno… And the names being different doesn’t necessarily mean more acceptable…
clip/magazine - it’s all creepy
re: #193 Dangerman
clip/magazine - it’s all creepy
“How dare you! I’m no pedophile, I’ll have you know. I’m a hebephile.”
re: #190 Teukka
Correction, with a 10-year old it’s pedophilia proper. You know, there are strict definitions for hebephilia and ephebophilia, yanno… And the names being different doesn’t necessarily mean more acceptable…
I agree none of it is acceptable. Hebephilia refers to a non-adult looking but pubescent child.
This is why child rape apologists and Libertarians will come down so hard on anyone using the term paedophilia when the child has reached puberty.
re: #113 Jay C
Yeah, definitely needs scare quotes around those “liberal friends”…
Or TFG’s foreign-policy “triumphs”??
Actually, there was ONE: an easing of relations between Israel and (some of) the UAE (and Saudi Arabia). And not really that much of a “triumph”.
Which was ongoing before TFG & Jared came on the scene, they just claimed the credit (& Jared took the loot)
re: #192 Barefoot Grin
Ornato, DeJoy…I can’t remember, but there are certainly multiple examples of the Biden administration leaving in place malign actors and not doing appropriate house cleaning. Maybe it’s not as easy as I thought it would be, but Trump seemed to churn through anyone who seemed even slightly of the “wavering class.”
In DeJoys case, Biden can’t just fire him straight up. There’s a USPS oversight board that would have to remove him.
re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg
In DeJoys case, Biden can’t just fire him straight up. There’s a USPS oversight board that would have to remove him.
And one of the Democrats likes DeJoy.
re: #132 Hecuba’s daughter
Except thanks to our Constitution, Senate rules, an obstructionist GOP, and a 50-50 Senate, Manchin is in effective charge of what is passed in the Senate.
A friend who has ties to AZ told me that Kelley was going to lose because he is having an affair and that information is widespread among voters in the state. I still recall what happened in 2020 where the NC Democratic candidate lost for that very reason.
I live in Arizona and I have heard nothing of the sort. Not a word, not a whisper. Absent anything more, I’m currently considering this horseshit.
re: #192 Barefoot Grin
Ornato, DeJoy…I can’t remember, but there are certainly multiple examples of the Biden administration leaving in place malign actors and not doing appropriate house cleaning. Maybe it’s not as easy as I thought it would be, but Trump seemed to churn through anyone who seemed even slightly of the “wavering class.”
You might recall Trump was pushing very hard to be able to fire civil service workers he didn’t like, essentially returning the government to the old Spoils System.
Like the OnlySky article I noted about “effective altruism,” giving the power to fire Civil Service workers to the executive branch then depends on never electing a despot.
My representative forgot he was a Republican for a moment on the House floor, apparently.
Families should never have to experience the despair of worrying whether shelves will be stocked with the formula they need to feed their infants.
The bipartisan FORMULA Act helps make infant formula more accessible & affordable⤵️ pic.twitter.com/puzCn5UbyW— Rep. Adrian Smith (@RepAdrianSmith) July 15, 2022
Dr. Bernard’s counsel has sent a c&d letter. pic.twitter.com/0aBcM8hrLC
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 15, 2022
I think I remember reading once that the Secret Service uses end-to-end encryption for texts; not sure if it’s the Signal app or something else. It depends how thoroughly they could delete the messages, or if they’re still stored on a server somewhere.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
re: #203 Charles Johnson
The most formal email ever written.
re: #192 Barefoot Grin
Ornato, DeJoy…I can’t remember, but there are certainly multiple examples of the Biden administration leaving in place malign actors and not doing appropriate house cleaning. Maybe it’s not as easy as I thought it would be, but Trump seemed to churn through anyone who seemed even slightly of the “wavering class.”
I’ve been yelling about this for years - it was obvious that Trump was stacking the federal government with goons, idiots, and grifters loyal to him. But I haven’t seen any indication that the Biden administration is even aware of the problem.
“The Atlanta-area district attorney leading a wide-ranging criminal investigation into election interference by Donald Trump is weighing whether to call the former president before a special grand jury,” USA Today reports.
re: #206 Charles Johnson
I’ve been yelling about this for years - it was obvious that Trump was stacking the federal government with goons, idiots, and grifters loyal to him. But I haven’t seen any indication that the Biden administration is even aware of the problem.
Early on, Biden removed a number of people that were quickly appointed to the DoD, including, IIRC, Dinesh de Snooza.
re: #209 Dangerman
Shorter AG office response: We’re lying, you know we’re lying, we know you know we’re lying, we’re going to continue to lie.
re: #208 Belafon
Early on, Biden removed a number of people that were quickly appointed to the DoD, including, IIRC, Dinesh de Snooza.
I think the same Civil Service protection that kept good people on board is allowing bad actors to remain in civil service (not appointed) jobs.
After originally releasing that a 13-year-old boy was driving a pickup truck responsible for a Texas crash that killed six University of the Southwest golfers and the coach back in March, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board made a shocking announcement on Thursday — that the boy’s 38-year-old father was driving the truck and he had methamphetamine in his system.According to an Associated Press story Thursday, the NTSB said that DNA testing confirmed that the father, Henrich Siemens, was driving and that toxicological testing showed the presence of methamphetamine in Siemens’ blood.
Truck that killed University of the Southwest golf team members and coach was driven by man with meth in his system (USA Today Sports)
re: #206 Charles Johnson
I’ve been yelling about this for years - it was obvious that Trump was stacking the federal government with goons, idiots, and grifters loyal to him. But I haven’t seen any indication that the Biden administration is even aware of the problem.
Republicans are the enemy and too many Democrats, including Biden, don’t get that.
It’s always “$600 checks two years ago and 50-cent raises for workers are causing inflation”
and never “$3 trillion from the Fed to bail out the stock market, $1 trillion in annual corporate stock buybacks and a 1,322% rise in CEO pay since 1978 are causing inflation”— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) July 15, 2022
re: #211 gwangung
I think the same Civil Service protection that kept good people on board is allowing bad actors to remain in civil service (not appointed) jobs.
This. Republicans are good at inserting their agents into senior civil service ranks where they can pursue their political goals while keeping civil service protections.
re: #213 EPR-radar
Republicans are the enemy and too many Democrats, including Biden, don’t get that.
That’s because he’s been in public office for 50 years — when he started off, you could still work with Republicans, and there was even a bit of an overlap, and he’s forgetting the facts on the ground.
re: #215 EPR-radar
This. Republicans are good at inserting their agents into senior civil service ranks where they can pursue their political goals while keeping civil service protections.
Can’t civil service people be moved to sinecures?
re: #208 Belafon
Early on, Biden removed a number of people that were quickly appointed to the DoD, including, IIRC, Dinesh de Snooza.
The Secret Service is part of the Executive Branch and the president has the power to fire them, so I don’t understand how Tony Ornato still has a highly-placed job.
The Secret Service also took the unprecedented step of allowing the former detail leader to temporarily leave his job to become a White House political adviser. Anthony Ornato was hired as White House deputy chief of staff earlier this year. In that role, he helped coordinate a controversial June photo opportunity in which Trump strode defiantly across Lafayette Square to pose with a Bible after the park was forcibly cleared of peaceful protesters.
Ornato also helped coordinate numerous rallies across the country during the pandemic, per Trump’s wishes. The mass gatherings were blamed for increasing the spread of the coronavirus in some of the communities where they took place and left many in the ranks of the Secret Service infected or exposed.
Some good news & cute kids behind the tag.
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re: #215 EPR-radar
This. Republicans are good at inserting their agents into senior civil service ranks where they can pursue their political goals while keeping civil service protections.
We have been too, it’s just that ours aren’t trying to overthrow the government.
But this goes back to how much power do you want the president to have.
re: #208 Belafon
Early on, Biden removed a number of people that were quickly appointed to the DoD, including, IIRC, Dinesh de Snooza.
And Kelly Ann. I had forgotten about that. He took those losers out, it’s true.
Now that our trip to Canada seems to be back on again, my wife is watching a government tourist Website of things to do in Labrador. (I suggested claiming asylum.)
Batman doesn’t believe in death ft. @pattonoswalt pic.twitter.com/R8F5SWevvC
— Pete Holmes (@peteholmes) July 15, 2022
Hmm.
Ivana Trump died of blunt impact injuries to the torso sustained as the result of a fall. The medical examiner’s office has determined the death to be an accident.
— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) July 15, 2022
Reagan brought these Christian fanatics into the Republican Party as part of Atwater’s Southern Strategy, the Bushes Sr. and The Lesser enabled and encouraged them, and Trump gave them license to be absolutely the worst possible version of themselves out loud.
And here we are. https://t.co/JohMFyxVXN— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 15, 2022
Future “arrested for child porn” headline right here.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) July 15, 2022
Any day now! This dude is a seething mass of bad craziness.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
I’m making tomato baisted chicken thighs. It calls for thyme, which we usually have. But…wait for it…baby baby baby we’re out of thyme, I said…..
re: #224 Charles Johnson
Hmm.
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Who knew the HBO Max series is going to have a Season 2! Stopped in the middle of episode 6 but now think I’ll try to get through the rest.
re: #222 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Now that our trip to Canada seems to be back on again, my wife is watching a government tourist Website of things to do in Labrador. (I suggested claiming asylum.)
is the dog named after the place, or the place named after the dog?
re: #218 Charles Johnson
The Secret Service is part of the Executive Branch and the president has the power to fire them, so I don’t understand how Tony Ornato still has a highly-placed job.
secretservice.gov (wanna job with the Secret Service? They’re hiring).
The Secret Service is part of the US Treasury Department. The head of the Treasury Department and associated deputies are Executive Branch appointees.
That is why Tony Ornato had to request a leave-of-absence from his superiors to go work directly for the Trump Maladministration. Had he been a political appointee, Trump could have simply reassigned him.
re: #226 Charles Johnson
Because the Middle Ages were SO fucking awesome! Endless wars, mountains of corruption, the black death…
re: #230 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s no longer part of the Treasury Department - it’s been under the DHS since 2003.
In the Central Pacific, Darby (originally formed in the Caribbean) has been downgraded to a tropical storm. It is expected to pass south of the Big Island Saturday morning, and become a post-tropical depression Sunday morning.
Tropical Depression Six-E has formed along the southern coastline of Mexico. It is expected to strengthen and move away from land.
re: #219 The Pie Overlord!
Some good news & cute kids behind the tag.
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re: #231 Eclectic Cyborg
Because the Middle Ages were SO fucking awesome! Endless wars, mountains of corruption, the black death…
I JUST SAID THAT TO TRIGGER THE LIBS!!! LOL LIBTARDS R SUCH SNOE FLAIKES.
I got to use my French today…I went to a government website to get data & it was down for maintenance until further notice.
Several choice French words.— James Green disagrees with SCOTUS (@J_Green_505) July 15, 2022
re: #232 Charles Johnson
It’s no longer part of the Treasury Department - it’s been under the DHS since 2003.
Thanks. I forgot they moved the Secret Service.
Don’t forget that the Secret Service also funneled large amounts of money into Trump’s bank accounts by staying at his properties and paying exorbitant rates.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2022
re: #224 Charles Johnson
Hmm.
Lotta speculation in that thread. If my neighbour fell down and died, I seriously doubt it would get any media attention outside of my county newspaper. A seventy-two year old woman falling and dying is unremarkable.
Because this is Ivana Trump, it’s world news, so lots of people want to ascribe a nefarious purpose to it, even the quick coroner’s update. I imagine the coroner would be compelled to provide updates quickly because she’s famous and to rule in-or-out foul play.
re: #239 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lotta speculation in that thread. If my neighbour fell down and died, I seriously doubt it would get any media attention outside of my county newspaper. A seventy-two year old woman falling and dying is unremarkable.
Because this is Ivana Trump, it’s world news, so lots of people want to ascribe a nefarious purpose to it, even the quick coroner’s update. I imagine the coroner would be compelled to provide updates quickly because she’s famous and to rule in-or-out foul play.
Also this event allowed Trump and his spawn to avoid giving testimony today.
Not American Taliban. Just fucking normal Christian fascism like it always has been.
Don’t make a racist comparison to label what is fundamentally normal fucking Christianity.— Adam Slater (@Tatakai_no_Kami) July 15, 2022
re: #234 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #229 sagehen
is the dog named after the place, or the place named after the dog?
The Labrador Retriever is a British breed of dog, imported originally from the Colony of Newfoundand.
In the 1830s, the 10th Earl of Home and his nephews the 5th Duke of Buccleuch and Lord John Scott, imported progenitors of the breed from Newfoundland to Europe for use as gundogs. Another early advocate of these Newfoundland fishing dogs was the 2nd Earl of Malmesbury, who bred them for their expertise in waterfowling.
During the 1880s, the 3rd Earl of Malmesbury, the 6th Duke of Buccleuch, and the 12th Earl of Home collaborated to develop and establish the Labrador Retriever breed. The dogs Buccleuch Avon and Buccleuch Ned, given by Malmesbury to Buccleuch, were mated with bitches carrying blood from those originally imported by the 5th Duke and the 10th Earl of Home. The offspring are the ancestors of all modern Labradors.
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