Huckabee-Sanders just announced that Trump will bestow the rose on contestant DACA recipient or contestant white nationalist on Tuesday:
JUST IN: Sarah Huckabee Sanders says President Trump will make DACA announcement on Tuesday https://t.co/aH8HDD42uH
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 1, 2017
Earlier, asked when he’d make a statement on DACA, Trump said, and I quote, “Today maybe over the weekend. Sunday, Saturday, Monday at the latest.” The explanation for the delay, according to Huckabee-Sanders? “He loves people,” so he wants to make the correct decision. Yeah, right.
Huckabee-Sanders is just a godawful flack — so peevish and insincere. Even if she weren’t flacking for a heinous, impulsive, lying creep, she would be a terrible, no good, very bad flack. Huckabee-Sanders’ awfulness is a measure of just how hard the Trump regime has had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to staff their joke of an administration.
The slats at the bottom of that barrel are long gone, and Huckabee-Sanders is a freakish creepy-crawler excavated from the earth’s mantle and thrust, blinking angrily, onto the global stage. I’d pity her if she wasn’t such a thoroughly dreadful person.
Anyhoo. Open thread.
efgoldman
Well, look who her father is.
Smiling Mortician
Nice wordsmithing, Betty. I want to applaud.
TenguPhule
Don’t hold back Betty, tell us how you really feel about her.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman:
Must I?
cmorenc
@Betty Cracker:
You shouldn’t be so subtle, restrained, and polite. Many of us might misunderstand your words as being equivocal about Trump. Tell us how you REALLY feel, Betty!
Hill Dweller
The Huckabee family portrait that’s been floating around the interwebs for a few years is one of the creepier things I’ve ever seen.
TenguPhule
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
But thou must.
Amir Khalid
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Baud
I still haven’t gotten an offer.
Amir Khalid
And I thought this post was going to be about someone getting mooned. I am very disappoint.
TenguPhule
I already saw the first version of this movie and I don’t much care for a shittier sequel.
George Spiggott
“Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.”
efgoldman
@Amir Khalid:
Huh? Did you say something?
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Because you’re too intelligent to qualify.
Droppy
Every once in a while, I find myself feeling sorry for SHS – why? I don’t know. Reminds me of the kid everyone made fun of, I guess. Wants to be liked but has no redeeming characteristics to make her likable. But then she just sneers out lying, stupid justifications of some policy that no person with a soul could possibly consider good, and it goes away.
bystander
Somebody explain those eyebrows of Huckleberry-Sanders. If the same person is doing both eyebrows, he or she seems to get very angry between the right side and the left side. Don’t get me wrong. They’re perfection in context.
I liked when she angrily turned on the press for reminding everyone that there is no reasoned, rational discussion of DACA and that she can only blather the party line. “I’m sounding like a broken record because you are making me sound like a broken record.”
Amir Khalid
@TenguPhule:
Maybe der Trump is going to fire her and bring in Katrina Pierson.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
“You gotta watch out for those gigantic swarms of centrists, man. You think Gamergaters are bad, but last centrist swarm around here blocked the sun for six straight hours.”
TenguPhule
Speaking of ends…..Mmmm, cured wagyu beef hams.
cmorenc
Prediction: Trump will announce on Tuesday that ALL DACA immigrants who are sufficiently Aryan in appearance will be allowed to stay. Others, not so much, unless they can provide geneological proof in official records that they are at least half-Aryan.
Laura
So the Russian Consulate in San Francisco is currently ablaze and unsafe. I’m sure it’s a coincidence
George Spiggott
Scraping the bottom of the shoe, not barrel.
Baud
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Yeah, I don’t know whether that was a good political for her or not, but she can’t win over Bros any more than a Blue Dog can win over bigots.
Betty Cracker
@Laura: Wow, no shit? Hope everyone made it out safely. I wonder if a document burning session got out of control?
Baud
@Betty Cracker: That was my first guess.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
@Baud:
My second guess was Hillary’s revenge.
TenguPhule
Is there anything Trump’s people can’t get wrong? Anything?
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Baud: Cooper’s Gamergate aside is also an exemplar of the first part of Cleek’s Butthurt POE Corollary in action.
d58826
@TenguPhule: beat me to it
Baud
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): The Machiavelli of our time, he is.
Laura
@Betty Cracker: check SF Gate for dets!
https://www.google.com/amp/www.sfgate.com/aboutsfgate/amp/Smoke-seen-pouring-from-Russian-consulate-in-San-12167619.php
azlib
I gather you do not like her very much.
geg6
She’s so awful you almost wish her brother had done to her what he did to dogs. Almost.
trollhattan
Am newly informed by my bro of Boston’s Allston Christmas, which he scrupulously avoids. I can see why.
Stay weird, y’all.
rk
Is there a reason for the delay or is he just being an ass?
Baud
@rk: He always does this. He is stupid and a coward.
trollhattan
@Laura:
There is definitely no new Russian Pope.
pat
He is delaying the announcement in order to instill the most fear and apprehension in thousands of innocent people on a holiday weekend.
That’s why he’s delaying it.
He is cruel and evil
Tim C.
@rk: he wants it both ways. He wants to be the guy who is loved by the big business wing for his making business great again and by the racists for making America Hite again. Previous GOP presidents at least understood the inherit contradictions and tried to avoid mousetraps like this, but Trump… is dumb and now he can’t have it both ways.
Mike in NC
@TenguPhule: Costco offers Japanese wegyu steaks at something like four 12-ounce cuts for about $499, or $100 off if you order online. We’d be a lot more likely to become vegetarians than pay $225 a pound for meat.
geg6
@Laura:
Lotsa docs to burn!
Mike in NC
@rk: Trump has elevated being a callous dick to an art form. Ask Spicy.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Baud: I’ve read the Prince (and some of the Discourses) and must confess I’m not entirely sure what’s so Machiavellian about Cooper.
He’s also absolutely refusing to understand the criticism he got for that piece. If he was actually trying to defend the Twitter-left 2020 scorn cycle he’d have put Gillibrand in place of Deval. By choosing a guy with no prior heat about his run (and then using a human-shield argument), Cooper showed his ass as, at best, engaging in racially-charged trolling (in which case he should have a THICKER FUCKING SKIN).
TenguPhule
@Mike in NC:
Its actually cheaper to fly to Japan, buy the wagyu steaks there and cook it yourself. Which I did. It worked out to about $40 a kilogram and I also got a vacation in Tokyo out of it.
Kay
It’s so funny to watch it slowly dawning on Team Trump that they’re horrible and mean-spirited and most people don’t like them.
I don’t think they can change, though.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
They’ve always known that. Now its just that they’re beginning to get a clue that consequences for their actions might actually be on the table this time.
Baud
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): I was talking about Cleek!
TenguPhule
Look on the bright side, we could be Great Britain instead.
Kay
I have some sympathy for Huckabee Sanders – her father is exactly the kind of phony-religious man I avoided as a kid. It was gut-level. I knew they were mean. They are, too. Huckabee’s eyes don’t even change when he smiles. Mean as a snake.
The Moar You Know
I wonder if she’s ever tortured and killed a homeless stray dog? You know. Like the rest of her family does.
I’m betting “yes”.
Teddys Person
@Kay: They can’t change because they don’t believe that they are horrible and mean-spirited. The people who don’t like them are horrible and mean-spirited.
Kay
@TenguPhule:
I don’t think they do. They really mean it. They think they’re great. Oddly, it just adds to the dislike of them, the need to be loved- not just horrible but also needy and demanding. They don’t “try too hard”. They don’t try at all and demand a lot in return.
trollhattan
@The Moar You Know:
She’s more civilized and limited herself to stompin’ ducklings.
Patricia Kayden
@efgoldman: And her stray-dog-murdering Brother. Just an all round awful family.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Baud: The POE Corollary was mine though. Just like how Davis X.’s “bearded-Spock exceptionalism” serves as an unofficial corollary regarding the Trü Lëft on foreign policy.
NeenerNeener
@Mike in NC: I’ve had hamburgers from Kobe beef. They were mushy and I was underwhelmed. The rest of the order sat in my freezer until the next time the power went out, and were then discarded.
trollhattan
@Kay:
I might eke out some sympathy had she not chosen to go work for a monster and compounding that, be a paid liar on his behalf.
TenguPhule
@trollhattan:
Brainbleach, stat!
Patricia Kayden
@Droppy: I feel no sympathy for anyone associated with Trump’s regime. They’ve agreed to work for a bigot so they deserve no sympathy. They deserve every drop of ridicule which can be thrown their way. Hope they all are torn down by Mueller when he sets the screws to Trump.
TenguPhule
@NeenerNeener:
There is a special level of hell for the people who came up with the idea to destroy perfectly good steaks and peddle the results as hamburger.
Kay
I think it’s pretty simple- the Dreamers are sympathetic. People don’t hate them reflexively. They’re hard to bully.
It’s like the disabled people who helped kill the health care bill. They made Republicans look bad.
They don’t want a group of patriotic, over-achieving young people making Donald Trump look bad, which won’t be hard to do since any one of them is better than him.
Baud
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): You are our John Locke!
efgoldman
@Teddys Person:
Sure they do. They know, they care, and they revel in it. Look at Mulvaney, Mnuchin, and Granny Starver.
trollhattan
@TenguPhule: UB quick. I saw it post and changed it, but not before an involuntary “eek!”
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: How is deporting these people going to make the President look good? If anything he is going to look worse except may be to those people with torches in Charlotesville.
Kay
@trollhattan:
For some reason she makes me sad. Her face is like a mask of fear. She’s deeply uncomfortable up there. I think the expressionless, blank look she has is fear- it’s defensive. She shuts down emotionally in order to get thru the job. This is in no way natural or easy for her.
sigaba
@Laura: The Russians are burning the codebooks and their local copy of the RNC emails.
The Moar You Know
@TenguPhule: Agreed. Also like to point out that the best burgers come from the cheapest meat, the tough stuff. I’ve had Kobe burgers. They were shit. Soggy and mushy, as NeenerNeener notes above. Which is what you’d expect – way too much marbling in that beef to ever make a good burger.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: She does look extremely uncomfortable up there, unlike Mr. Believe Me.
Baud
@Kay:
@schrodingers_cat:
The question is whether she’s uncomfortable being a horrible person, or if she’s uncomfortable being a horrible person publicly.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
Oh, I agree. I think they’re figuring out people don’t like assholes. In general. Too bad Donald Trump is one. He isn’t gonna change into a completely different person. He’s a nasty piece of work and he’s always been a nasty piece of work. It’s like asking a fish to change into a dog.
SiubhanDuinne
@Hill Dweller:
If it’s the one I’m thinking of (haven’t seen it in a while, have no desire to search), all the men are wearing matching oversized striped shirts that look like they’re made of mattress ticking, and none of them has a neck. Their heads sprout directly out of their humped shoulders. Very creepy indeed.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
His base loves the thought of punching down on brown illegals. And make no mistake, that’s what this shitfest is going to be sold as by these assholes, darkskinned illegals coming here and taking all the jobs and sleeping with the white women.
Roger Moore
@Kay:
Anyone trying to make Trump look bad can count on Trump for a big assist. It’s pretty easy to make him look bad because he really is bad.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Kay: @schrodingers_cat: huh, I get a totally different vibe. She knows she’s bullshitting, she thinks she’s untouchable and she enjoys it.
I thought Spicey looked more uncomfortable, if not quite bright enough to grok exactly why. But then even he had to know he was making an ass of himself by making the crowd size nonsense his debut
TenguPhule
@The Moar You Know:
Agreed. And fillings make it taste better and make it more healthy. Carrots, bread crumbs, onion soup mix, mashed potatoes all add character to the mix. 100% all beef patties are shitty.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Baud: Then what would that make Davis X?
And I’d add that the basic mechanism behind the first part is intentionally mistreating “leftism pissing centrists off” and “oneself, pissing centrists off” as one and the very same.
Baud
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Hobbes.
momus
She’s even less sincere than her father? Hard to imagine.
SiubhanDuinne
@Laura:
Wow.
The Moar You Know
@Kay: Interesting. I don’t discount it, but that’s not what I see up there. I see a spoiled, entitled brat is who is utterly furious that she has to answer to anyone for anything. And I’m not in any way surprised by that, because I’ve seen her dad take uncomfortable questions and respond with the same mix of absolute rage and contempt. That’s a family that really doesn’t think they have to answer to anyone for anything. Unlike the Trumps, the Huckabees feel utterly justified in everything they’ve done. The Trumps at least know their entire lives have been criminal and work very hard to hide it. The Huckabees don’t give a fuck.
ETA: you do see a mask, Kay. But it’s of rage, not of fear.
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker:
That was the first thing that occurred to me. Either that, or a giant arsonic “fuck you” to the entity that owns the building.
Frankensteinbeck
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
I want to shoot the writer of that article in the face. I could only wade through part of it, because of the smug suggestions that only the Sanders wing’s policies are good policies, and minorities should rightly be on their side. What a head-up-his-ass privileged shit.
TenguPhule
@The Moar You Know:
That’s what I see too. Why the press corp keeps putting up with her bullshit and bullying is beyond my understanding.
pat
@SiubhanDuinne:
According to TPM, they are burning stuff in a fireplace. Speculation in the comments is that they are destroying hard drives and CDs.
Kay
He’s probably leaving for a more lucrative grift but it sure looks like fleeing the scene!
O. Felix Culpa
Ok, so I try not to go all emo online, but the accumulation of awful events is…well accumulating. A good friend who was also our County Democratic Party Chair was killed in an awful accident this weekend. So we’re all in shock and grieving. One of her many gifts was that she was an effective and credible bridge between the Bernie and Hillary people. (I will also add that there’s only one group that continues to relitigate the primaries with a fierce, abiding sense of grievance. That group has also claimed for themselves the mantle of True Progressives. The rest of us are, apparently, swiss cheese or something.)
I found out this morning that the True Progressives have also proclaimed themselves the keepers of our late friend’s legacy and are holding somewhat secret meetings at headquarters to discuss who will replace her. (We will have to hold elections in about 60 days.) They have invited some county ward officials, but not others, and have been directed by the organizer(s) to restrict the meeting info to their social networks and NOT publicize it to the entire ward structure. Apparently without irony, they want to uphold her legacy of inclusiveness by being exclusive. Openness and transparency are progressive values only when convenient, it seems.
This is small potatoes In comparison with people losing homes, being unjustly incarcerated, or in danger of being cruelly deported, but it grieves me that my friend is dead only five days and factionalism is already threatening the county party, which was growing and going strong under her leadership. This isn’t the end of the story and there is still hope that we build on the foundation she laid, but may I say that, in this moment of emotional abandon and grief, I hate these fucking splitters and faux progressives? Seriously, in the Age of Trump they need to play purity politics and potentially split the organization? We have elections to win and a state and country to rescue. Fuck these people.
I’ll recover and behave with a cooler head and heart shortly. But thank you for tolerating my rant.
Frankensteinbeck
@The Moar You Know:
You’re reminding me of Cheney’s interviews after Bush left office. The guy was seethingly angry that America did not appreciate that he was always right about everything.
SiubhanDuinne
Sorry if this has already been posted; I haven’t read through all the comments yet. Trump’s private security guy and designated firer, Keith Schilling, evidently wants to leave the WH. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the rumors are not true, so I assume it’ll happen very soon.
Schiller is the guy who delivered the “You’re fired!” letter to FBI HQ when Trump got tired of Comey, and was also tasked with canning the poor schlub who failed to produce record-breaking crowd numbers in zohoenix last week. I’m sure over the years he’s been
askedordered to carry out plenty of chores that were even more unsavory.ETA: Drat you, Kay, for getting there first!
efgoldman
@The Moar You Know:
Worse yet, they’re convinced it’s gawduh’s wee-yill
Baud
@O. Felix Culpa: I’m sorry all around. New Mexico has been a bright spot. I hope it stays that way.
TenguPhule
@pat:
With fire? Aren’t there less hazardous ways of disposal?
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Maybe she’s just uncomfortable standing in front of other people talking. Plenty of people hate, hate, hate public speaking. Not a good thing if you’re a PR representative, though.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Don’t know and don’t care.
SiubhanDuinne
Deleted. Jokes the second time around are never funny.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Me either. Just passing the time.
Betty Cracker
@O. Felix Culpa: I’m so sorry about the loss of your friend. And how crass and horrible that the grievance mongers are attempting to use the tragedy to gain power. That’s just unspeakably scummy.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
QUESTION: What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy?
chopper
@SiubhanDuinne:
don’t know, don’t care.
ETA: dammit, didn’t read the other post. you jerks.
Bonnie
Oh, but, Betty, she is a born again Christian . . .
SiubhanDuinne
@pat:
I will bet you everything I own that he enjoyed S-L-O-W-L-Y pulling the wings off flies when he was a youngster. Maybe even now.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: Different motivation, same end result.
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
They’re going to care a lot more about effectiveness than safety. I wouldn’t be surprised if they put everything in the fireplace and set off a thermite grenade or something similar on top of the pile.
O. Felix Culpa
@Baud: @Betty Cracker: Thanks, both of you. Your kind and understanding words make a difference. I think I’m going to go cry in the shower now. Maybe that will help too. :)
efgoldman
@SiubhanDuinne:
In Russia, white smoke chooses you.
pat
@TenguPhule:
Well I guess they could take them outside and have them run over by a steamroller.
schrodingers_cat
@O. Felix Culpa: {{{ }}}} Don’t let the shitty BSers get you down. You will ultimately prevail!
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@efgoldman: Wouldn’t it actually be the Patriarch (at least the Ecumenical Patriarch, anyway)?
SiubhanDuinne
@The Moar You Know:
You know that family with a million kids on TV, the one where one of the sons sexually abused his sisters a few years ago? Can’t remember their name, but I’m almost positive the Huckabees came very publicly to the boy’s defense.
LurkerNoLonger
It would be pretty funny if SNL decided to use Melissa McCarthy again this season to play the part of The Possum Queen. Come on, Lorne Michaels, I know you’re reading this.
geg6
@Kay:
Tough shit. She should quit then. But she doesn’t, so fuck her.
SiubhanDuinne
@O. Felix Culpa:
That is tragic on so many levels. You have my deepest sympathy for the loss of your friend, and my partnership in rage that her death has already been turned into a piñata for control of the party. I hope you’re able to focus on her life and legacy over the next few days; time enough for internecine crap. {{{{{hugs}}}}} to you, OFC.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@SiubhanDuinne: Duggars. Never watched the show (and had quit TLC around the time they stopped showing The Magic School Bus).
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Yup.
debbie
@Baud:
Except who we really need is John Snow.
SiubhanDuinne
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
Duggars, that’s it. Thanks. I guess.
Mary G
@Kay: @SiubhanDuinne: CNN sez:
This is my disbelieving face, or would be if I could find an emoji.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
They’re the only ones he cares about. He’s worked up some kind of warped math where he can win reelection with 30% support.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@TenguPhule: You think Russians of all people would trust their secrets to electronics devices?
MoxieM
@Laura: Black smoke, tho’, so they didn’t pick a Pope on that ballot.
debbie
@Laura:
Couldn’t they carry their stuff out under diplomatic immunity?
O. Felix Culpa
@schrodingers_cat: @SiubhanDuinne: Thank you for your encouragement. It’s stunning that people who STILL complain about the alleged coronation of a candidate are seeking to do precisely that themselves. I hate this stupid, draining factionalism. We have work to do. Let’s go do it. Eyes on the prize, folks. That’s what our late friend would have wanted and I don’t want her legacy harmed by her so-called gatekeepers. I don’t want to oust them, but rather turn their and all of our energies to winning elections and not fracturing into a million pure little pieces.
Mel
@O. Felix Culpa: I am really sorry, both that you have lost a dear friend and that you are having to deal with other people’s manipulative nonsense during the time when you should just be able to grieve the loss and try to process all the feelings that come with it.
Please take good care of yourself right now. That is most important.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@debbie: Who exactly’s shooting fluids out their gunshow poopholes?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@The Moar You Know:
Anger is typical a bluff to hide their fear.
Her body langauge is always defensive. Like I said, you want to tell what these people are really thinking watch them talk with the sound off.
O. Felix Culpa
@Mel: Yes, grieving her loss needs to be a focus. We met just a few days before her accident and were planning to meet again this week. I can still hear her laugh and her funny verbal tics. She had a kind and generous heart and amazing organizational chops. She galvanized all kinds of people who had never been active before to get involved in the party. We were actually DOING things to prepare for 2018. I hope we can continue in the strength she provided.
Among other things, she was a fabulous gardener. She had drifts and drifts of irises in her garden, so many that she gave us a bunch to replant this spring when she was thinning them out. For months they looked dry and dubious, but now we see their bright green blades shooting up all over our garden. It looks like we’ll get a beautiful fall showing of her irises. I hope this turns out to be a metaphor for her work in the party too.
Mom Says I*m Handsome
Just wanted to thank Ms Cracker for the correct usage of “flack”. Many higher-paid and lesser-skilled writers would use “flak”, which I think is some sort of airborne shrapnel.
While I’m here, let me please put in a comment re another word confusion:
disinterested: neutral or impartial
uninterested: uninterested
Villago Delenda Est
He doesn’t “love people”. There is no evidence of that. None.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mom Says I*m Handsome: Well, yes, “flack” is the PR person. “Flak” is short for FliegerabwehrKanone, the German term for anti-air defense cannon.
schrodingers_cat
@Villago Delenda Est: He is kind to his kind.
Steeplejack
@Mom Says I*m Handsome, @Villago Delenda Est:
Flak also has come to mean criticism or disapproval. “He took some flak from party leaders for his failure to endorse Trump.”
Heywood J.
Sanders looks, sounds, and acts like she’s spent most of her adult life angrily defending her brother’s sadism and her father’s faux-genial theocratism, mostly with the classic retort nuhh-unhhhhh, you are! She probably terrorizes her children.
hueyplong
The worst, and most accurate, thing I can say about Sanders-Huckabee is that she’s a good fit for the Trump Administration.
tomtofa
@Kay:
If this is true it will be a bigger blow to Trump than one might think. From the CNN article:
rikyrah
Black students declining at Chicago’s top public high schools and in CPS overall
By Alden Loury @AldenLoury
August 31, 2017
rikyrah
NBC NewsVerified account @NBCNews
JUST IN: Another large explosion and fire at flooded chemical plant in Crosby, Texas. #Harvey
rikyrah
FOREVER FLOTUS SLAYING!!
https://twitter.com/mefeater/status/903737052751155202
rikyrah
Aman BathejaVerified account @amanbatheja
Aman Batheja Retweeted Patrick Svitek
Governor of Texas just said he won’t call a special session for Harvey aid. Means state won’t tap $10 billion Rainy Day Fund til 2019.
Ruckus
On a bit of an up note, I had someone ask me about a sign that says do not run water from hose bib to the street. The sign is on an industrial property and the questioner couldn’t see the reason. I explained to him that run off water from an industrial property could have any number of chemicals in it that should not be in the water system. Many of the drains in CA go right into the ocean so any chemicals could be harming us all. He understood and agreed that was a good idea, even if the sign could be better worded and therefore better understood. I did have to explain it in a context that made a lot of sense for him, that when he was growing up in socal you couldn’t see the mountains that are about 5 miles away, due to smog. But that the changes to autos and to the diesel truck he drives has made it possible to actually be outside because the smog is so dramatically less. The sign is there to make the same change to our water.
So unlike what we hear about TX, CA is/has made a positive difference to it’s citizens, and it doesn’t seem to have hurt our businesses at all. We have refineries in CA, several of them in fact. We have a couple of very large ports that move ton upon ton of freight daily. And we have a larger population than TX by far. How can that be with all these job killing regulations?
rikyrah
Yashar Ali
?Verified account @yashar
New: Keith Schiller, who has been with Trump for years, and knows everything, is leaving the White House.
O. Felix Culpa
@rikyrah:
Why won’t he call the session to tap the funds? They’ve certainly had rainy days and then some, which is what I would have thought this fund was intended for.
Waspuppet
@efgoldman: It’s not easy to make Sean Spicer seem smart and friendly, but she manages.
The Lodger
@rikyrah: I can hear Peter Sagal now doing Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank:
“Because Texas Gov. Greg Abbott won’t call the state legislature into session to deal with Hurricane Harvey, they won’t be able to spend money from what?”
TenguPhule
@rikyrah:
So entirely dependent on Federal Bailout money then.
Texas governor is a fucking moocher.
TenguPhule
@O. Felix Culpa:
I’ll take, “because he’s a fucking asshole determined to take advantage of this disaster to suck up as much federal funding as he can” for $500, Alex.
tybee
@Baud:
dead thread but i larfed.
J R in WV
@O. Felix Culpa:
Sounds like with your cooler head you should get together with the county ward chiefs NOT invited to those meetings and schedule a meeting to oppose the pseudo-progressive bros and their attempt to benefit from the death of a real Democratic leader. You might invite a few of those invited to the first Bro meeting, the ones you feel might be offended by the naked power grab.
Invite a reporter to your inclusive meeting, tell him all about the exclusive, not-inclusive meeting the bro-others held, see what happens when that story hits the evening news or morning paper. Or just talk to friends you know about doing this kind of thing – I’ll bet anything you won’t be alone being upset with this kind of back door work.
J R in WV
Also, O. Felix Culpa, sorry to hear of your friend’s sudden accidental death. That’s the most difficult of that kind of loss to deal with. Sudden death of a lively, productive, out-going person.
Take care, grieve, and then get back to doing the work your friend would have loved to see you all doing.
Poptartacus
https://youtu.be/-z2F96rCnHg
Nuff said
O. Felix Culpa
@J R in WV: Dead thread, but thank you for both your messages. A number of friends and I are considering joining their meeting and inviting as diverse a group of people as possible to come as well. Just showing up and sitting down with them. Being part of the conversation. They can’t shut us out and if they try, then cell phone videos are a mighty powerful tool, as we have seen.