Happy Thanksgiving
Nov 23, 2017
Nov 22, 2017
Today's Tweet
A poem
White man is a pedophile— Chris (@goingglocal) November 21, 2017
Defend him
Black man doesn't say "thank you" to Trump
Condemn him
White people have a disaster in Texas
Help them
Puerto Ricans without electricity
Ignore them
White rich men want a tax cut
Oblige
Black Haitians need help
Evict
But Trump's not racist
Not Just Yet
I think it has to be obvious to most of us that there's a substantial chunk of the deep south that's still pretty fucked up in the head.
But once in a while we see that faint glimmer of hope.
Patricia Murphy, Daily Beast:
B.L. Shirley is a Republican woman from a Republican county who always—always—votes Republican. And yet, on a windy, grey morning last weekend, the Talladega, Alabama, retiree found herself in, of all places, a Democrat’s campaign office, wondering just what she could do to defeat the GOP candidate running for a seat in the U.S. Senate from her state.
“Roy Moore,” she said, when asked why she would go canvassing for Democrat Doug Jones before the special election on Dec. 12. “I think Roy Moore is an impostor. I am a Christian and I don’t want to be counted in his camp. He’s a divisive person.”
Things change when we change. And they change for the better or for the worse according to how we change ourselves.
Things change when we change. And they change for the better or for the worse according to how we change ourselves.
Today's Both Sides
Max Greenwood, The Hill:
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) will not support GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in Alabama's special election, even after President Trump stood by him on Tuesday.
Officials with the RNC and the NRSC, the party's Senate campaign arm, told The Associated Press they have no intention of reconsidering their decision to pull support for Moore, who has been accused of pursuing sexual and romantic relationships with teenage girls while he was in his 30s.
The two GOP committees severed ties with the candidate earlier this month, ending their financial and field support for his campaign. Dozens of Republican officials have called on Moore in recent days to withdraw his Senate bid.
Think about it for just a short minute: Al Franken gets slagged and the Dems are on him like he's moldy bread. But Trumpublicans had to have a meeting to decide where they stood on Pedophilia.
What was the holdup?
I remember when "conservatives" were saying a Democrat couldn't order pizza without running it by a focus group.
Yeah - and again: Trumpulicans had to huddle up and be told that pedophilia is something they should probably not support.
PEDOPHILIA...
...for fuck's sake.
Think about it for just a short minute: Al Franken gets slagged and the Dems are on him like he's moldy bread. But Trumpublicans had to have a meeting to decide where they stood on Pedophilia.
What was the holdup?
I remember when "conservatives" were saying a Democrat couldn't order pizza without running it by a focus group.
Yeah - and again: Trumpulicans had to huddle up and be told that pedophilia is something they should probably not support.
PEDOPHILIA...
...for fuck's sake.
Nov 21, 2017
Today's Podcast
Preet Bharara's podcast - with Jeff Flake:
Flake seems like a decent and at least marginally reasonable guy, but don't mistake him for any kinda hero.
The issue of guns comes up at about 34:00, and Bharara asks him about Congress Critters voting with the NRA every time because they're afraid of what the Ammosexuals will do if they don't vote that way. Flake runs as fast as possible to the False Equivalence of a Both-Sides response, saying there're plenty of instances of members "on the left" being influenced by big money donors blah blah blah.
I think about that for a short minute and I'm left with the notion that Flake is saying it's OK for him to trade dead kids for the safety of a continued stream of campaign donations and the near-guarantee of no primary challenges.
In a very real sense, he admitted his vote against gun control is - and has always been - for sale.
Today's Tweet II
As could be expected, the Dems are in the process of becoming paralyzed by their knee-jerk reaction to even a hint of hypocrisy, which inevitably leads to a long session of navel-gazing.
It's not like Republicans don't know this. And since they don't give one empty fuck about hypocrisy to begin with, they're free to exploit it in order to use it against the opposition.
We can't have a 100% honest conversation about sexual harassment while toleratin' a confessed sex predator livin' in the People's House. #TrumpMustGo— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) November 21, 2017
No, I'm not saying we need to be like those other guys - if you don't understand that; or you can't tell quite tell the difference by now, you need to recalculate your dosage or just stay the fuck outa the way.
So here it is:
- We gotta have Al Franken in the game
- Stop apologizing for every little thing that floats by and get back on offense
Today's Tweet
Yo, "conservatives" - just a heads up here - get those thoughts and prayers warmed up.
“If we don’t get the monies we need in the next few months, I would say 125,000 little boys and girls will die.” --David Beasley, Executive Director of The World Food Programme on #YemenFamine. #60Minutes pic.twitter.com/YVYQ1d4w74— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017
Truth Lives On
While irony dies a thousand deaths.
Emily Shapiro, ABC News:
A man accidentally shot himself and his wife in their Tennessee church after he had taken his gun out during a discussion about weapons in places of worship, police said.
The man, 81, and his wife, 80, both suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The incident happened Thursday afternoon as members of the First United Methodist Church in Tellico Plains -- about 60 miles southwest of Knoxville -- were gathered at the church for a pre-Thanksgiving lunch, Tellico Plains Police Department Chief Russ Parks told ABC News.
The church members were discussing weapons in places of worship on the heels of the shooting at a Texas church earlier this month that killed over two dozen people, Parks said, and "one of the gentlemen said, 'Well, I take my gun with me everywhere.'"
Emily Shapiro, ABC News:
A man accidentally shot himself and his wife in their Tennessee church after he had taken his gun out during a discussion about weapons in places of worship, police said.
The man, 81, and his wife, 80, both suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The incident happened Thursday afternoon as members of the First United Methodist Church in Tellico Plains -- about 60 miles southwest of Knoxville -- were gathered at the church for a pre-Thanksgiving lunch, Tellico Plains Police Department Chief Russ Parks told ABC News.
The church members were discussing weapons in places of worship on the heels of the shooting at a Texas church earlier this month that killed over two dozen people, Parks said, and "one of the gentlemen said, 'Well, I take my gun with me everywhere.'"
Today's Tweet
It's not funny if there's no kernel of truth in it.
In the Bad Timing Department, Charles Manson died just before @realDonaldTrump could pardon him & put him in charge of the CDC.— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) November 20, 2017
Sad!
Nov 19, 2017
Amy's List
Amy Siskind - the past week's list of shit 45* is pulling:
November 18, 2017 (week 53)
This week the headlines and narrative were dominated by women (and men) sharing their stories of sexual assault and harassment — a historic movement. Stories entered the political domain with accusations against men of both parties, reopening questions about Trump’s sordid past. Trump tweeted himself into the sexual assault discussion, almost as if to be part of the zeitgeist, despite the perilous risks. This is the shortest list in many weeks as Trump was largely absent from the narrative and headlines.
This week the Russia probe entered Trump’s inner-circle, as more lines of direct and indirect communications surfaced, and efforts at cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia were revealed. A political backlash against Trump continued as a special election in Oklahoma 37, a district Trump comfortably won by 40 points, went to a Democrat — a 26 year-old lesbian whose wife is African American.
Some hi-lites:
2. On Sunday, in response to Trump siding with Putin over US intelligence on Russian interference in Week 52, ex-intelligence chiefs James Clapper and John Brennan said Trump is being “played” by Putin.
6. On Monday, Trump met with controversial leader Duterte. Trump boasted of their “great relationship,” and laughed when Duterte called journalists “spies.” At least 177 Filipino media workers have been killed since 1986.
7. The WH said the two leaders “briefly” discussed human rights, but Duterte’s spokesman denied that the issue was discussed. Tuesday, Trudeau did bring up human rights, which Duterte called an “insult.”
10. On Monday, WAPO reported Jeff Sessions is considering a second special counsel to investigate GOP concerns, including the Clinton Foundation, Uranium One, and Hillary’s emails. Trump has been encouraging this.
11. NYT reported Sessions is shattering longstanding norms by doing so, and so the credibility of any investigation presumably would be called into question since Trump is publicly going after a political rival.
Nov 17, 2017
Sam Bee
Some of the best commentary anywhere.
Full Frontal - Samantha Bee:
Full Frontal - Samantha Bee:
And Allana Harken is getting really good:
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