Ex presidents tend to get along when they don't belong to the same party.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 September 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
Pappy Bush and Jr definitely seem far less evil out of power.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 26 September 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
hey speaking of d-money, foia request got gov lepage's li'l trapper keeper of drug dealers:
https://twitter.com/mikeshepherdME/status/780409434082279424
― goole, Monday, 26 September 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
hey also if you see it on video that hug is pretty cold and lasts all of a quarter of a second
photographs lie
― goole, Monday, 26 September 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Famous TV guy weighed in on Michelle-W photo:
David Simon@AoDespairAn American Rohrschach: If offended from either end of spectrum, you're an ideologue. If just a moment, maybe not.
@ggreenwald If you're opposed to the embracing & normalizing of a torturer & war criminal, then you're a dirty "ideologue." After all, he's an AMERICAN.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 September 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
It's like what they did never happened! Etch-a-Sketch history.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 September 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Boy, you're really obsessed with this.
Just so we're all on the record, what, in this situation, should Michelle Obama have done? Spit on him? Slap him? Snub him? Shake his hand with a sneer of contempt? Please include in your answer what you think the result from the chattering classes would have been.
― Cumstaun (Phil D.), Monday, 26 September 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
exiled him to live with Snowden
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 September 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
i don't expect slime to do anything but slime, chief
Greenwald was backing that torturer and war criminal up when it actually mattered.
― Frederik B, Monday, 26 September 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
But good on him for jumping on a high horse years after the fact.
― Frederik B, Monday, 26 September 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
i'd like to see a high horse jump on y... nah, too easy
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 September 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
Money for Flint, MI may get approved today in a separate bill from the Continuing budget resolution bill that is gonna get voted on by Friday (Republicans were obsessed with using the latter bill only for aid to Louisiana)
http://patch.com/michigan/bloomfield-mi/senate-democrats-threaten-government-shutdown-over-flint-aid
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
First veto override today. Big day!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
nice election-year pandering, but it's the thought that counts
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
idk if you've noticed -- the catholic left feels like it's having a moment right now. bernie, frances, etc etc
anyway, if you want to abolish capitalism and also abortion maybe it's your thing:
http://tradinista.com/a-tradinista-manifesto/
have fun!
― goole, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
The money for Flint took TOO FUCKING LONG.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 29 September 2016 11:42 (seven years ago) link
well see the residents of Flint aren't Real Americans like the rural whites of Louisiana
― serge thoroughgoods (will), Thursday, 29 September 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
MO Senate race moved to toss-up column
http://cookpolitical.com/senate/charts/race-ratings
― Οὖτις, Friday, 30 September 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
chris christie announces deal raising new jersey's gas tax by 23 cents per gallon . . . at 5pm on a friday, of course
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 September 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
@JoseCansecowhere is the new Dick Lugar. Where?
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 October 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
@DougHenwood"I'd rather end my own life with a plastic fork than watch the VP debate." - Barbara Ehrenreich on Facebook
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Why are you crediting Doug Henwood's twitter for that? Did he write those words for a fictional Barbara Ehrenreich fb post?
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
*sigh*
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-murphy-pulls-closer-to-rubio-in-new-senate-poll-20161005-story.html
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
Why the sigh? 4 points is great right?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
Rubio's probably going to win...? It's amazing that anyone votes for such a useless feeb w no interest in his job
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
Incumbent advantage is a hell of a drug.
― i wanna fly like a beagle (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
He had a much bigger lead before iirc. It could continue to close and a strong turnout in FL (which you know team Hill is going to invest heavily in) could = squeaker upset.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
eh I wouldn't hold my breath
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link
We're stuck rooting for bland, centrist senatorial candidates in Florida and Ohio and elsewhere
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 October 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
This hasn't helped Strickland in Ohio:
Early money, amplified by the support from outside groups, allowed for shock and awe. Through the end of this June, as an illustration, Portman and his allies spent $31.7 million compared to $11.4 million from Strickland and his supporters.Strickland spokesman David Bergstein noted that more money has been spent against Strickland than any Democrat in the country – and, through the summer, that included Clinton. This drove up his negatives. “Senator Portman has spent his career in Washington pushing the agenda of the rich and the powerful at the expense of Ohio’s working families, and these shadowy special interests are trying to buy this Senate seat for their lap dog,” Bergstein said.
from Washington Post
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 October 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/06/bonus-quote-of-the-day-922
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 October 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
now I'm imagining Christie singing Beyonce's "Don't Hurt Yourself"
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
I'm not.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 October 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
you're imagining him twerking to "Sorry"?
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
I pictured him licking K-Lo's hair to "All Night."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 October 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
If Donald Trump is elected president and Republicans hold onto Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan is bluntly promising to ram a partisan agenda through Capitol Hill next year, with Obamacare repeal and trillion-dollar tax cuts likely at the top of the list. And Democrats would be utterly defenseless to stop them.
Typically, party leaders offer at least the pretense of seeking bipartisanship when discussing their policy plans. But Ryan is saying frankly that Republicans would use budget reconciliation — a powerful procedural tool — to bypass Democrats entirely. It’s the same tool Republicans slammed Democrats for using to pass the 2010 health care law over their objections.
...Both parties have used budget reconciliation in the past. George W. Bush’s trillion-dollar tax cuts were passed under the procedure in 2001 and 2003; Democrats used it in 2010 to finish passing Obamacare, with Republicans rebuking Democrats for running roughshod over the GOP.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/paul-ryan-budget-congress-229216
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 October 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
I find this feed kind of fascinating.
https://twitter.com/rockerthompson
The guy calls himself a progressive in his bio and he has moveon.org as his profile pic. He hates Trump. He thinks Clinton is corrupt. He loves pot. He's pro-choice. He thinks it's "racist" that Luke Cage has an all-black cast and that Kim Kardashian dates more black men than white men. He says things like "nothing says joy quite like being naked on a Sunday smoking while playing a video game" and "An interesting moment when I realized watching two billionaires by both of them needs it its a crime its happening while americans strave" and "call me crazy it makes me uneasy when I post about Hillary. I mean many people are dead connected to them" and "Hillary needa my help after the entire rigging and screwing bernie yeah how About no." He links to news stories about cops trying to run over civilians but also says things like "if black privilege doesn't exist how did Cosby get away with his crimes .."
This is a politics that literally makes no sense to me, I have no idea how to interpret it. What is this guy like in real life? Who is he voting for? What does he really want?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 7 October 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
he sounds pretty dumb + confused tbph
― Mordy, Friday, 7 October 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
Gaze not into the abyss
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 October 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
But Mordy, lots of dumb and confused people, maybe even MOST dumb and confused people, fit neatly into a political slot that I understand; after all, that's the simplest thing to do if you're dumb and confused! Not this guy. But what I'm asking is, maybe there's a political slot I DON'T understand, maybe one I don't even know about, and maybe lots and lots of dumb, confused people are slotted into it!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 7 October 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
alt-left
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Friday, 7 October 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link
maybe not dumb, just someone you disagree with?
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 7 October 2016 03:16 (seven years ago) link
An interesting moment when I realized watching two billionaires by both of them needs it its a crime its happening while americans strave
― DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 October 2016 05:40 (seven years ago) link
I've seen people call it the 'harassment left'.
― Frederik B, Friday, 7 October 2016 10:30 (seven years ago) link
Have you never seen a socially-liberal racist before?
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 7 October 2016 11:35 (seven years ago) link
Plenty, of the upscale "I didn't send my child to that public school because, um, TEST SCORES" variety, but this seems novel to me. Like I didn't know there were a lot of Bernie Sanders voters who think "black privilege" is a thing. Maybe I am naive.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 7 October 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, October 6, 2016 11:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
feel like this needs to be a pop-up post that flashes every time someone decides somebody else is dumb bc they have a different viewpoint
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 7 October 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
strave it off 1-2-3 and now you can count to 3.
― how's life, Friday, 7 October 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
yessssss
― DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 October 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link