Rosh Hashana is a two day event, so we can all enjoy it some more. Except Ginsburg. She’s likely not enjoying it much. Sheer deep hatred is not enough to sustain life, alas.
But enough about death, let’s celebrate life by recognizing today’s birthdays, which include a dude who was totally chill; Bernie Sanders with talent; an absolute icon in American arts and letters; the true Mrs. Frank Costanza; some Italian chick; a guy who looks like every commenter on this site; and a guy who told me it would be great for me to come into work today.
Fuck work, let’s talk about Links.
This shouldn’t make me laugh, but it makes me laugh.
Wait until deBlasio hears about this.
Wake and bake has a different meaning here if you don’t pay your bills.
Has he heard of the Crosspatch Decision?
The desperation will drive her.
What can I say about Matt Lorenz that I haven’t said already? Other than, he’s got a new album dropping in November and we can hardly wait!
and a guy who told me it would be great for me to come into work today.
I was thinking Peter Drucker. The guy you mentioned is a dated architect.
I thought he was Vice President,
I thought he was looking for a cure for a plague, but every time I tried to check up on him it was just wrestling.
#MeToo
Good Morning, Banjos.
Is it Monday there?
Not yet. What do you ask, Mojeaux?
I’ll have what Tejicano here is having.
A stroke?
I just got home from a lovely evening out with a group of friends and our kids. Beer flowed as fast as I could drink it. BBQ on a terrace looking out over the city.
Sunday night, but close.
You should not be drunk on a sunday. You need to be fresh monday.
Wut4?
Is that some kind of stupid Romanian rule? Everybody knows not to buy a car built on a Monday because the factory workers are all hung over.
Bernie Sanders with talent
Wasn’t much of The Jungle a just-so story?
Yeah. It was such blatant Marxist propaganda it drove me nuts in Jr high before I knew where I was politically.
I don’t know, but I haven’t, and DDG isn’t really helping.
I plead a public school education, except for my MS in Teaching, which, well, was just in teaching – elementary and learning disabilities, so how hard did it have to be?
Ref: Stranger in a Strange Land
Thanks – it’s been a while. Literature Appreciation senior year of high school, taught by a long-term sub, a former local TV news reporter who was…kinda cosmic, if you catch my drift.
What a shame about Susan Collins, maybe if she grew a spine and stopped voting against the wishes of her constituency people would want to vote for her.
Is she one of the ones who wants the Dems to populate the SCOTUS?
Her problem is that she wants to be liked by both sides, but the Dems constantly go batshit crazy and make that difficult for her.
If she just changed parties she’d be over 50 %, get re-elected.
Well if Trump wants to start a major war like any self respecting president he needs to speed it up… Iran is right there he may not get reelected. Now is the time.
Pictured.
Wait, what?
Busted.
Dammit!
So they have a General Salami. Don’t we have a General Ham?
Give me Ham on 5, hold the Mayo.
No, but the Brits have a Colonel Mustard.
What are the odds Trump doesn’t nominate a rapist?
he should nominate a woman. only men can be rapists
Too bad Mary Kay Letourneau is dead.
WTF?
Was it intentionally designed to be stupid and prone to corruption?
Oh wait I misread. I thought the candidates got to allocate their votes.
Yes
No idea. Those sorts of shenanigans make my head spin.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)
I like the idea.
I wish we could for either “for” a candidate or “against” a candidate. One vote only. So if candidates A and B both really suck I can subtract a vote from candidate B without giving one to A by voting directly against B.
In this scenario any candidate with a negative sum vote gets a penalty. Maybe he/she can never run for any office again for 5 years. Maybe never. Maybe something more drastic.
They get the boats.
Hat tip to tarran.
In theory, a scheme like should improve support for third party candidates, or at least, reveal the actual level of support for third party candidates.
On your ballot, instead of just picking “I like X,” you pick “I like X the most, Y not as much, Z the least.”
On the first round, if no candidate has 50+% support, the candidate with the least support is dropped, and any ballots that have that candidate at the top, those ballots are reapportioned to remaining candidates based on the ballot’s next choice. This repeats, dropping low support candidates until a remaining candidate ends up with 50+%.
In this way, it is “safe” to throw your vote away voting for the Toejam and Hair Clippings Party candidate as your first choice, because when that candidate is eliminated, your ballot will go to the more mainstream candidate that is your second, or third, etc., choice. So the preferences of actual principled voting can be revealed, as opposed to just the strategic voting that you see most of the time.
I like it. However, I don’t get what’s so magical about 50%? Let’s say there were four candidates that got 27%, 26%, 24% and 23% of the vote. For some reason 73% of the population having to live under the rule of someone else’s ideology is wrong, but 49% having to do the same in a 51/49% split is just ducky. CUZ TEH FITTY PURSENT! MURJORETY RULZ!
How about 80% is the required number instead of 50? If no one can amass 80% of the votes, the seat goes empty?
IIRC, this has been the standard voting method in Australia for some time.
Explains why they are so fucked up lately.
That and the fact that voting is compulsory in Australia, so you have to vote, even if you have no opinion or don’t Have to live with the consequences.
My Aussie colleague has dual citizenship, so he gets ballots mailed to him in San Diego, dutifully marks them and mails them back.
Rather silly since he’s lived here for 15 years.
Today in Romanian music, D.E.N.I.S a eclectic style hipster who released his first album on audio cassette to be extra hipster. Full album here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=c5GSPP5mE88&feature=emb_logo
The static, crackles, and pops are part of the sonic atmosphere, symbolizing our fuzzy electric relationship with the music.
Romanian music
The keyword is Cerbul de Aur.
More Romanian music.
More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3SkZ5Lu2t0
??
A different sort of Romanian music
Letters to the Local Rag: You’re Going To Die
“ My cousin, a priest, just died of COVID-19-related conditions. Family could not visit for the 2 1/2 months he was in the hospital, and he died alone. For the commenter who wanted to live their life with the freedom to live without fear, and insisted on their right to touch, hug and kiss others, be aware that such behavior caused the death of my relative.”
“I am alarmed that the residents of Williamsburg are perhaps going to be paying the consequences of 16 William and Mary non-masked, non-social distancing, under-aged drinking partygoers. It appears the college wants to keep their area safe and bubbled, while the city residents get to pay the consequences and have the students push out into our town. For months, I have been following the guidelines with masks, distancing and staying home. I have stood by and taken their advice even though my heart aches to not see my family and friends. I would like the city leaders to speak up in this situation. Thank you.“
The priest was hugging and kissing others?
Just the cuties
Not the cuties, the handsomies
I touched his cousin? Weird, I don’t remember that.
I DO remember Governor Wolf putting COVID patients in nursing homes, where my grandfather died earlier this year.
I’m sure that was my fault too, and every one of my family who couldn’t even visit him. Not the governor’s.
Typical beaten spouse syndrome.
Are the Iranians about to riot again?
It is cool this morning and I have a lot of yard work to get done…..hmmmmm. I think I will stay in. Oh, and Pie, you should know what happens when you tell people around here what they should or should not do.
*Goes to kitchen, gets ice, vodka and Dr. Pepper*
Now I am seeing predictions of another hurricane showing up on my door step. Shit.
I’m going to guess that lots of ANTIFA kids getting arrested suddenly prompted this gem-
How mass incarceration creates ‘a tremendous amount of financial exploitation’
All thanks to Biden and Harris supporting policies to enable this.
Because everyone knows that there’s no money in the taxpayer-funded prison industry.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Sep 12
Subject only to State approval, our important Ethanol Industry will be allowed to use the 10% Pumps for the 15% BLEND. Thank you!
Dammit, man. That ain’t good for my high-strung 4 cylinder car. I know you’re about cronyism for the farmers but goddamn.
More shit fuel ethanol when gas prices are at record lows.
Perfect
Support the farmers! Oh, wait, we’re giving supplemental insurance money because covid reduced corn prices…
I’m seeing farmers around here cutting the corn before it’s dry and just grinding it, green stalks and all, into silage. I’ve never seen that in the 20 or so years I’ve been living here.
Liberals turn to drink: MSNBC guest chugs wine live on TV while mourning the death of RBG
And that ain’t a wine glass…
MD20/20?
I thought they way the masks came off these last few years that they’ve all been drunk, ever since Trump got elected. You mean they chose this bullshit stone sober?
Struggle session exhibit number whatever.
https://twitter.com/brandondarby/status/1307645664306790401
I would feel threatened in this situation.
The size of that truck?
*rolls up window*
Anyone who does not clear the right of way is going to have a bad time.
Man, fuck these people.
I need to get strapped.
Yes, you do.
You really do need to. It really has an interesting and positive effect on a lot of standard day-to-day stress knowing that you have the power to turn events to your way should a dynamic social situation go south.
And installing some South African style vehicle defense systems
The 38,840 residential and commercial customers across the Valley owed about $14 million in past-due water, sewer, solid waste and other city fees as of Sept. 1.
Residential customers make up the bulk of delinquent accounts.
Have these people been told by the government that they are not allowed to work because of the commie-cough?
I think my locality is still deferring payment. Idk because I am still paying.
Well they should have taken Cuomos advice back in May and they wouldn’t be in this situation.
The chief of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Saturday threatened to take action against anyone involved in a top general’s January killing during a U.S. drone strike in Iraq.
I voted for the guy that ordered the strike. I take that to mean I was “involved”. Before the boating accident I was armed enough to conquer a third world country. Good luck. You are going to need it.
Polls show Susan Collins below 50% support in Maine
Probably not recent enough to judge against her comments about scotus. But if she is going to lose anyway she better vote to confirm Trump’s nominee.
Is it because of her casedemic lock down measures? I find it hard to believe people at this point haven’t had enough and would vote for leaders who keep ruining lives.
I have a friend who seems to think this virus will continue for two years doing this. Strikes me as hollow.
https://mobile.twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1307589674211381249
???
No Biden (Original Song)
Things that made me laugh:
If there’s a civil war, she’ll be on the front line.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LLWBrown/status/1307136073898881024
And this one will still be yelling.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CHIZMAGA/status/1307183262041661440
Heh…
How people are that disconnected from reality still amazes me
“Grandmother, Team Resistance, Tidal Wave (which I assume stands for WAP). These people…
I’m dying.
1. the thing she was replying to: not surprising.
‘If we don’t get our way we will do violence to you’ -every democrat ever
2. This explains a lot of the bad driving around here.
Rick Wilson appears to have declared war on the GOP in the name of the GOP
https://mobile.twitter.com/chizmaga/status/1307183262041661440
Apparently somebody mailed some ricin to Trump. Stupid is as stupid does.
I read that it came from Canada.
Was there an apology note with it?
“Sore-y.”
About the only time us Canucks apologize publicly is when we aren’t being sincere.
So like southerners saying ‘bless your heart’
Re: tv host drinking on air… What message do they think this sends? To me it makes them look weak and unhinged. At least more so than they already are
Truly a very powerful moment experienced in real life and then uploaded to this website
https://twitter.com/bernybelvedere/status/1307190555936468993
I love how people just post shit that is obviously made up. Either that or they’ve been mentally abusing their kids.
Yup.
Why not both?
Yes.
Republicans: Grow a Spine, Go Nuclear, and Replace Ginsburg Immediately
I’m sorry, but Trump is hilarious.
laughing with him or?
He had a few good bits last night. And he has a decent sense of humor to the extent that he can even be self-deprecating. But Orange Man Bad.
Watched some of that rally on Friday. He is funny. I don’t agree with many of his policies, but he seems like a genuine normal person with a sense of humor.
“genuine normal person”
Super debatable. I think he’s weird, but legit funny.
Cross-section model of a ballistic missile submarine.
It is based on the James Madison class SSBN and its Poseidon C-3 missiles, each with a range of 5,300 km.
https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1306986341184536578
Woah hang on. Why did non of you tell me the Russians designed a circular battleship?
https://twitter.com/Karl_poyzer/status/1307044821685727235
Seen that before. Stupid idea.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYuQVKIVu4
LOL, wait for it.
I though ammo was expensive these days. seems a waste
I assume a BLM rally was across the street.
Given his displayed toys, I don’t think money is an issue.
“Those 30 round mags aren’t going to last forever… oh.”
“Trump’s $5billion Tik Tok pay-off to counter black history project: President blesses purchase by Oracle and Walmart if they agree to give $5 billion to educate patriotic ‘real history of our country'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8751485/Trump-gives-TikTok-deal-Oracle-Walmart-blessing.html
That’s some horse trading.
Wait, what?
That’s an interesting way to characterize the NYT propaganda effort that even various black historians have called out as such.
“‘Burn Congress down’: Former CNN host, prominent writers, and a professor all urge a violent response if Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s Supreme Court replacement is voted in before the election”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8752063/Burn-Congress-Celebrated-figures-urge-violence-RBG-replaced-election.html
Is that even legal?
I will make it legal says Nancy Pelosi
Even Canadians are getting in on the act.
For fucks sake why?
I don’t know, but an awful lot of Canucks seem overly invested in American politics, often without really understanding America’s political system and constitution. (Glib canucks excepted)
^THIS. Although to be fair, most of those Canucks seem to be located in the Lower Rainland™ of B.C. or the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). The Francophone Quebecois don’t count, as they’re too busy hating everyone who doesn’t speak fluent joual.
Probably just juvenile bluster but I’m sure Preet will be all over it.
I saw it more as (H)yperbole
Don’t speak Spanish, but his plan doesn’t seem wise in retrospect.
https://twitter.com/TheDeeGroup/status/1307358100165361665
You can’t fool me, that’s from a telenovela.
Eric Estrada in the cowboy hat?
Love the nut punch when the current boyfriend comes out and holds her (though might be her dad)
The chihuahua makes the video
The wolf is coming back, everybody hide!
Britain is likely to need to reintroduce some national coronavirus lockdown measures sooner rather than later, a leading epidemiologist said on Saturday, as new cases rose to their highest level since early May.
Neil Ferguson, a professor of epidemiology at London’s Imperial College and a former government adviser, told the BBC the country was facing a “perfect storm” of rising infections as people return to work and school.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that he did not want another national lockdown but that new restrictions may be needed because the country was facing an “inevitable” second wave of COVID-19.
“I think some additional measures are likely to be needed sooner rather than later,” Ferguson said.
Ministers were on Friday reported to be considering a second national lockdown, with new COVID-19 cases already at their highest in months, hospital admissions rising and soaring infection rates across parts of northern England and London.
“Right now we’re at about the levels of infection we were seeing in this country in late February, and if we leave it another two to four weeks we’ll be back at levels we were seeing more back in mid-March, and that’s going to – or could – cause deaths,” Ferguson said.
Could.
Why the fuck does anybody listen to that quack?
The first lockdown obviously didn’t take. Maybe lock down harder next time.
ANTIFAs have a foam sword fight in the park at the protest in #Philly. Imagine being an adult and doing this in front of people. So embarrassing.
Back in my day the white communist revolutionaries built bombs and blew shit up, while these dorks smack each other with their soft swords.
Lets hope it stays that way….
And before you know it, a quidditch match breaks out.
Nope. Quidditch is cancelled
????
That one guy is serious with all the scampering back and forth.
“n 2017, her affiliation to the small, tightly knit Christian group called People of Praise caused concern while she was a nominee for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
The group’s ultra-conservative religious tenets helped spur author Margaret Atwood to publish The Handmaid’s Tale, a story about a religious takeover of the U.S. government which is now a hit TV show, according to a 1986 interview with the writer.
Members of the group swear a lifelong oath of loyalty, called a covenant, to one another. They are also assigned and held accountable to a personal adviser, known until recently as a ‘head’ for men and a ‘handmaid’ for women.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8751771/Trumps-frontrunners-Supreme-Court-nomination-devout-Catholic-Cuban-American-judge.html
I hope Mojo and GT look good in red.
With red hair and my complexion with slightly purple undertones? Heavens no, unless it leans decidedly toward the purple side.
Fun fact: I was actually a cheerleader in seventh grade. (I don’t know what I was thinking. Reportedly, it came down to me or a chick who cussed out teachers.) The uniforms were red-orange, and I looked ghastly.
And it begins.
LOL I give this 4 trolls
????
ACB obviously.
All Amy Coney Barrets Are Bastards.
I am a rare redheaded winter. Red looks fabulous on me, hot pink even better. White, black, pink, warm yellow—great.
Ivory, tan, brown, jewel tones, pastels of not yellow or pink—I look like a cadaver.
Do blue, purple, and teal count? My best colors.
They aren’t awful, but I don’t like wearing them as a solid. If they’re part of a pattern with, say, white or hot pink, they’re fine. I find that if I feel oogey in a color, it doesn’t look good on me.
Syria war: US deploys reinforcements to Syria after Russia clashes
Hell yeah!
Fuck
WTF are we doing in Syria? What could we or the Ruskies possibly gain from a war?
Two weeks into SC’s “Hybrid” school where the 8 year old goes to school in person 2 days and is “virtual” 3 days…
This has been a terrible experience for everyone at our house. The first week the teachers literally had one job, make sure the kids have some idea how to access the virtual stuff, know where to find their assignments and, importantly, how to save those assignments so they get credit for them. None of that happened. My wife and I spent Friday evening/Saturday morning helping the 8 year old figure this shit out. First, there is no syllabus or instructions anywhere, he pretty much just got handed an iPad and sent on his way. We figured out how to find the assignments which are buried in the middle of a message conversation between the teachers in his group. So, when we click on that link we find a list of 6 items, only one of which is the actual assignment but isn’t labeled as such, we had to go through all of them to figure it out. Once we figured that out to find the actual graded questions in that particular assignment we had to find the comments appended to it like comments in a Word document. It’s a fucking mess.
“goes to school in person 2 days and is “virtual” 3 days”
How does that even make sense?
The fruits of computer modeling on viral spread.
See, if we cut the days by half, the risk is reduced by the same. Add masks and we get another 30% reduction. Plexiglass shields take another 20%. Six foot rule, 25%.
Science!
He is in person two days, the other group is in person 2 days. I guess nobody goes on Fridays. It’s stupid. The thing is, he’s at one of the best schools in the district. A friend of mine said the kids at his school didn’t do anything for the first two weeks because the teacher’s had no idea what was going on. I don’t think there is anyone left in the county that has any sympathy for the teachers.
” I don’t think there is anyone left in the county that has any sympathy for the teachers.”
They overplayed their hand.
Yeah, screaming about the virus all spring, demanding virtual school, then failing to plan for it after they got it is not a good look.
It means your child only has a 40% chance of dying of the plague now. Do you even science?
60% less than the 0% chance they already had.
We do that as well. M-Th one week, M-Wed-Thur the next.
Yep. I have resorted to telling my two teens “adapt and operate in the environment you are in. Use the internet for all I care cause your teachers obviously do not.”
Yeah, my kid’s in 2nd grade and the sheer incompetence of everyone involved with “remote” learning, I’m sorry, remote “learning” is shocking. Gotta wonder what was happening when they in the classroom? How fucking hard can it be to assign a couple of pages of math problems and some light reading/writing to 6/7 y/o’s?
Our teachers send us whining emails to us once a week how teens are on their phone or not paying attention. What did you all honestly expect?
Even when they do actually manage to assign a book that we actually can get, it asks for retarded bullshit answers that even the zoom teacher has no idea what the fuck they want. It’s the second grade! If the “common core” is that stupid, it’s garbage. The fucking teacher said just skip this question because he has no idea what the answer is! Seriously, I watched this. No wonder these kids all grow up to throw infantile tantrums in service to Marxist revolutions. Spoon fed gibberish, so bad they don’t even understand their own bullshit.
It has come to my attention that there are photos of me on social media from a decade ago dressed as Mr. T.
For some time I have been deeply embarrassed I ever thought such an inappropriate costume was a good idea and I apologise for any offence caused.
Who? And honestly, only your echo chamber cares.
“It was a serious lapse of judgement. It did not reflect my views then and does not reflect them now.”
OOOOOOHHHHH KAAAY
I pity the fool who dressed up as the T!
Mr. T was iconic. What’s the problem? These people have serious mental issues.
I don’t get it. What’s wrong with Mr. T? I like Mr. T.
Oh, goody. Herself is going to be on Meet the Press.
Rowr.
RBG?
*clap*
This kind of post tread is a significant part of the reason I spend so much time here.
Chuckie is talking about Ginsberg’s “wish” that she be replaced by some other President.
What are the odds she even said that?
Blah blah blah things are moving so fast. Nobody had any expectation that this situation could arise. Completely flatfooted, they are.
It is funny they all believe that crap.
Even funnier that they believe it must be granted.
Yeah I absolutely believe she expressed that opinion to people close to her. Probably not with her dying words, but I absolutely believe she said it, or something like it. But paraphrasing Scott Brown, it’s not her seat, it’s the people’s seat.
I’ve said it a lot lately, but the most alarming thing about the modern Left to me isn’t even so much their socialism as it is their sheer antipathy to democratic or republican forms of government. They actually believe that the country should be ruled by unelected bureaucrats and judges, that elected politicians should defer to the judgement of people who are not answerable to the voters. Granted, socialism and rule by unelected figures go hand in hand, but the old Left used to be concerned about power being concentrated in non-democratic centers and structures. They worried about the CIA, and about big corporations like Ma Bell. But that was before they controlled those institutions.
Wherever the Left is strong, that’s where they want the power to reside. If they hold the White House, they love the imperial Presidency. If they hold the Congress, then Congress can make whatever law they wish. If they hold the Court, then the Court is our cherished guardian of the American way. Since they hold is the bureaucracy, we get an endless stream of agitprop about the selfless, nonpartisan, hardworking civil servants who just want to do the right thing.
I’m alarmed that they’re not even trying to hide it any more.
I think we should honor Epstein’s dying wish. Am I doing this right?
RBG wanted very very desperately to be replaced with a progressive woman, by the first progressive woman President. She could have retired when the Democrats held the Senate and been replaced by another Obama crony. She would have been free to take it easy for the last five years of her life, collected huge speaking fees, and been free to bash Donald Trump even more than she already did. Now Trump will be putting in a 3rd SC Justice, and if he gets reelected he might be replacing Breyer to push the Court even farther right.
Oft evil will will evil mar.
Yup. She got greedy.
I think it’s indicative of her judicial philosophy as well. She was not content to let little things like limits on federal power to stand in the way of the greater good.
What she wanted was to live forever and never give up power.
If Joe Biden were to win in a landslide…
*outright, prolonged laughter*
hahahahah nice one.
“The people pick the President. The President picks the justices.”
The people picked Trump. What’s the problem?
IT’S UNSEEMLY!
I think we should honor Epstein’s dying wish.
You mean, “Stop choking me!”?
Too late.
Excellent.
He got his dying wish, just not in his timeframe.
What? It seems they did (eventually) stop choking him. He got his wish.
Chuckie is such a ferocious little interviewer.
“And after we work to command victory in November, I need folks to realize that there’s no going back to brunch.”
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1307380265933836288
Of course not. There won’t be any food.
People in general do not like drastic change and in politics its no different. They went from slowly turning up the heat on the pot to fuck it, lets just take what we want right now.
Entertaining civil war part duex was an interesting mental exercise in analyzing the current political makeup of our country but its not fun anymore with the amount of straight up political threats coming out.
Entertaining civil war part duex was an interesting mental exercise in analyzing the current political makeup of our country but its not fun anymore with the amount of straight up political threats coming out.
I don’t see how the country can hold together when the populace hold such strongly divided preferences on governance. Still worse if the country does hold together under Prog control in a Marxist dystopia. The play to pack the courts and add new liberal states is a final move played after a party does not expect to ever relinquish control again.
War is HELL — slavery is worse
Our guardian angel will now protect us from Heaven!
??? You know some news DDG doesn’t know yet?
Hillary Clinton gave us RBG!
Did you know that?
Such Presidential.
The Hildebeest was RBG’s mother?? Or did RBG spring from HRC’s head fully grown?
“NEW: I Read JK Rowling’s “Transphobic” Book So You Don’t Have To..
JK Rowling is cancelled *again* for a book activists are saying is transphobic.
Unlike those mad about something they haven’t read, I decided to read it for myself. Here are thoughts.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D90-TgFOcDo
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1307363827772661760
America is broken. Hillary blames the lust for power. Other people’s lust for power. She just wants to serve her nation, and make our lives better.
It’s as if they don’t even know how to operate any more without requiring full time, maximum cognitive dissonance from their team members.
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1307489120097366018
LOLWTF
I would do female Hitler. There, I said it.
Nice followup, Chuckie. Way to really pin her down. Make her justify those assertions.
Wait, what? The interview is over?
Why is she even on TV?
because the producers of the show figured she would draw eyeball? And they could sell ads?
“I’m confirming today that Portland Police abided by my order banning the use of tear gas for crowd control during a protest Friday night in the South Waterfront neighborhood.
I call on everyone in our community to step up and end the violence and to focus on advancing racial justice.”
https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1307426135278383105
CWAA
If you’re so concerned about “racial justice”, WTF are you doing about it, Ted? And what have you been doing about it for the last 3½ years that it isn’t solved yet?
“BREAKING: @NYCTSubway
A train appears to have jumped the tracks and smacked into pylons at the 14th Street station. 3 patients with non-life-threatening injuries approximately 30 passengers on board, per @FDNY
UPDATE: Two senior officials MTA & NYPD tell me a suspect is in custody after he was seen placing a object over the track bed prior to the train entering the station. He’s also believed to have placed a sandbag on the tracks at Fulton Street.”
https://twitter.com/MylesMill/status/1307682980199051264
Yikes!
Update: 3 injured admitted to hospital with Covid-19. DeBlasio blames Trump.
Oh boy.
This shit will not end well for regular people freedom.
Curious if it was terrorism or just the usual people tossing their garbage onto the tracks because they’re too uncivilized to walk five feet to the trash bin. I guess I’ll wait to find out what this “debris” was.
I don’t think an empty Starbucks cup is going to derail a train.
No, but I wouldn’t put it past someone to toss something more substantial down there because lazy.
“I’m a Christian, pro-life, pro-2A conservative that has never voted for a Democrat in my life and who disagrees with much of the Dem platform. But Trump and his ilk have actively degraded the GOP & pushed conservatives like me away—& I will now vote for Joe Biden as a result.”
https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1307493935187517440
cool story bro
I do think on lots of issues people can have a good faith debate about which party closer aligns to their view of the good.
But you cannot in any way, shape, or form claim to be pro 2A or pro-life and vote for 2020 Democratic Party. It’s just not possible.
Saying you are “pro-2A” but will be voting for Biden sounds to me like a guy who says he is 100% gay but still finds something sexually attractive about a woman’s breasts.
Let us know how that works out for you.
Blah, blah, blah. “I am a gun owner but even I think….”
Whatever. I may have heard that one before somewhere.
Remember the good old days of Salon “I used to be a libertarian, but then…” stories. What is it with these people and “coming to Christ” moments?
Please do this! There can’t possibly be any negative consequences whatsoever!
https://twitter.com/steveguest/status/1307677575406379010?s=21
“Missed it by this much”
Impeach the president for doing his constitutional duty. Go for it, Nancy.
Why not? They impeached him for the crime of being elected.
“If not for our aggressive actions, we would have lost up to two million people.”
Fuck off, you lying shitbag.
Who should the American people believe, about masks?
The director of HHS is a retard.
“In a slightly bizarre exchange, Stephanopoulos asks if the House would impeach Trump or Barr if Senate GOP tries to vote on a SCOTUS nom during lame duck session (to stall the confirmation), and Pelosi refuses to rule it out: “We have our options. We have arrows in our quiver.””
https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1307682483186667523
What does Barr have to do with a Senate vote?
STOP STANDING UP FOR TRUMP!!!
*lights hair on fire*
Dunno, besides the distraction, but is Georgie blatantly admitting that Pelosi’s using impeachment as a political weapon with nothing whatsoever to do with “high crimes & misdemeanors”?
They’re thinking that if the Senate is tied up in an impeachment trial, they won’t be able to take up confirmation hearings.
I guess they don’t realize it would also put Harris in DC instead of on the campaign trail. And since she’s doing most of the campaigning, it could backfire.
Umm not a lame duck session…
Barr is the swamp creature that they have to hate because he is in any way associated with Bad Orange Man.
Similar to the Styx video above, Liberty Doll had a video on the SC news.
“”There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.” — #RuthBaderGinsburg, July 2016″
https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1307401579251851264
There is also nothing about judges picking their successors.
Sean Davis (who seems to be the head of a conservative think tank) had the best reply:
@seanmdav
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It’s the Supreme Court, not the Make-A-Wish Foundation. If Ginsburg wanted a left-wing Democrat to pick her replacement, she could have resigned while Obama was president and Democrats controlled the Senate. She chose not to. Tough luck.
The original Merick Garland stuff was purely political, and now that the shoe is on the other foot, there’s plenty of hypocritical stuff from both parties on the subject.
It’s not hypocritical. Barry’s party didn’t hold the Senate. Welcome to party politics intertwined with structure of the government.
McConnell and others pretty much said the reason they were (legally) withholding the Senate’s consent was because it was an election year and the people should be able to vote and decide. That was obviously bullshit, but it wouldn’t have looked great to say it was nothing but partisan politics, even though it clearly was.
Now that the roles are reversed, that logic that McConnell claimed works against them. Hypocrites in their words. Of course since they hold both the President and the Senate, it is perfectly legal for them to appoint someone (too bad about that filibuster right Dems?) just like it was perfectly legal for them to not allow Garland. It’s just that their stated logic isn’t consistent in the two situations.
Yeah the issue is that the deliberate design of the American government, composed of co-equal branches which check and balance each other, is now considered to be DANGEROUS PARTISANSHIP WHICH THREATENS OUR DEMOCRACY.
? The president was going to definitely change in 2016. Now, not true. McConnell’s logic doesn’t actually apply, so nothing hypocritical.
is Georgie blatantly admitting that Pelosi’s using impeachment as a political weapon with nothing whatsoever to do with “high crimes & misdemeanors”?
“High crimes and misdemeanors” has officially been repurposed as “stuff we don’t like”.
Nature lovers
The Forest Service plans to move forward with two logging projects near Bozeman this fall despite the Bridger Foothills fire.
Corey Lewellen, Bozeman district ranger for the Forest Service, said the fire has not changed the timeline for work on the North Bridgers Forest Health Project and the Bozeman Municipal Watershed Project.
“(The Bridger Foothills fire) confirms that we live in fire-driven ecosystems,” he said. “We’re going to continue to be living with fire on the landscape. We need to be prepared for that.”
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The North Bridgers project targets trees impacted by beetle kill on approximately 2,300 acres in the Bridgers and Bangtails. Areas along Fairy Lake Road, Battle Ridge, Grassy Mountain and Brackett Creek face clear cuts and thinning.
Until the project purchaser submits a plan, Lewellen anticipates local crews will continue doing some work by hand that doesn’t require mechanical equipment and isn’t tied to a logging contract. That work will likely occur this fall and winter, he said.
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Environmental groups have sued the Forest Service over both projects.
Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Native Ecosystems Council both challenged the watershed project in 2012, claiming it threatened critical lynx habitat. A judge put the project on hold for seven years. The injunction was lifted this April.
The same two groups in June 2019 filed a lawsuit against the Forest Service over the North Bridgers project. They claimed the agency didn’t sufficiently consider the project’s environmental impacts before approving it. In June, a federal judge ruled in favor of the Forest Service.
Cottonwood Environmental Law Center sued the Forest Service later this summer to block the both projects. The firm accused the Forest Service of approving both plans under a 1987 forest plan that doesn’t address climate change.
“Despite” the Bridger fire? I would think that would motivate them to get busy.
Some people “love” nature too much. Or maybe they just have a political agenda.
Lol. They’re fucking unhinged.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-uses-curve-gesture-while-saying-hell-nominate-woman-supreme-court-1533141
Maybe he’s gonna nominate Demi Rose.
“Fake news! I don’t do dog whistles.”
“…just wolf whistles,”
“However, his remarks were accused of being “creepy” and “sexist” by many critics who pointed to an hourglass hand curve gesture he made while describing how a female judge may fill the vacant seat.”
Sexist for picking a woman.
Huh I didn’t see the last part of the hourglass but then again I don’t go looking for imaginary ghosts.
Did anyone actually see him do that?
Newsweek wants me to subscribe and I am not going to do that so I haven’t seen their ‘evidence’.
Amazingly, Newsweek is the only one with that video on the internet as far as I have looked.
Uh…I’m pretty sure he always makes that gesture while speaking.
He should have made a fist to indicate it would be a woman with a penis.
Written by Benjamin FEARNOW.
He just did the boobs. I didn’t see a thin waist, nor a fat ass.
One urban renewal scam, coming up
City commissioners this week declared as blighted a roughly 175-acre patch of northeast Bozeman, including the Idaho Pole Yards property, which could set in motion future development of the former Superfund site.
According to city documents, a group is interested in development there and is expected to submit an application within the next year. During Tuesday’s meeting, city staff cautioned that the blight declaration is just an early step in any redevelopment of the area.
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Blight is a legal term for an area that has any number of factors that contribute to “urban decay,” according to city documents. In this case, the city determined the area has unsanitary or unsafe conditions, defective or inadequate street layout and the existence of conditions that endanger life or property by fire or other causes, among other factors.
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Nolan Campbell, a Bozeman real estate broker representing the Idaho Pole Company, said they are under contract with a group to buy the property, but he declined to provide any information about the group or what they have planned for the site. The property was listed for $4.6 million. Idaho Pole had interested buyers in the past, Campbell said, but sales fell through because of the lack of infrastructure at the site.
“Without getting infrastructure to this area it’s going to be hard to do anything,” Campbell said.
Declaring the area blighted is a step toward creating an urban renewal district with a tax increment financing provision, which would capture any increase in taxes for the area and funnel it into redevelopment or infrastructure investment efforts.
What are the odds this project will be saddled with a bunch of “affordable housing” requirements and similar social justice add ons which will result in prohibitive costs to actually do anything?
That happened with our airport. The city took bids from companies to build. After accepting a bid the city council jumped in with a bunch of requirements. Price of the build quickly jumped and the completion date was pushed back.
Ha! I read your comment before I saw your moniker (reading bottom up) and almost posted HEY THEY DID THAT TO US TOO! LOL
100%, as atonement for the fact that this how they used to move the blacks around the chessboard. Not that they will say that.
That is an interesting take, and a nice smear. I didn’t know ACB was a member of People of Praise. Wikipedia has a more balanced article that rings truer.
Now do Barry’s church.
“God damn [the devil and God bless] America!”?
Not my cup of tea but nothing shocking that I can see – and you can be sure that both this writer and wikipedia would not hesitate to tease out the most objectionable stuff for their readership. Thus, “handmaiden zOMG!”
Let me know when they “take over the government”.