Pete Souza, the former Obama W.H. photographer, has announced that he's publishing a new book called “SHADE: A Tale of Two Presidents.” pic.twitter.com/wF0oHVEebZ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 23, 2018
It’s a real book — and already an Amazon best-seller, even though it won’t be released until mid-October. Just in time for the midterms!
In other news:
Mueller' office says in a new court filing that the special counsel's work is "an ongoing criminal investigation with multiple lines of non-public inquiry." https://t.co/xG887E0xdc
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) May 24, 2018
Mueller's office says "the overall investigation is not complete." And argues that releasing Manafort warrant materials "could harm the government’s ability to
uncover all relevant facts." pic.twitter.com/ykNFTdldXI— Brad Heath (@bradheath) May 24, 2018
Prosecutors say the details of that investigation "cannot be discussed in a public filing," but offer to share them with the judge, under seal. pic.twitter.com/7QJ0QEkVo4
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) May 24, 2018
Mueller's office repeatedly describes his investigation as a criminal probe; it does not refer to it as a counterintelligence investigation (which was what former director Comey described in his public testimony).
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) May 24, 2018
And finally…
"Fox & Friends: Brought To You By Aricept." https://t.co/Ids4LFkrnc
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 24, 2018
Will be interviewed on @foxandfriends tomorrow morning at 6:00 A.M. Enjoy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2018
Zinsky
Strange that Trump would think he could limit Mueller’s inquiry to a narrow slice of time between when he announced his candidacy to when the election took place, when the Whitewater special counsel was named to investigate a private real estate transaction that occurred 14 years before Clinton became president!!
OzarkHillbilly
Probably old news around here: Donald Trump cannot block anyone on Twitter, court rules
CarolDuhart2
Jackals who know real estate: does a sheriff’s sale mean that the property is for sale for the arrear-age only, or would a whole new mortgage be necessary? And if the arrear-age is paid in full, there is no mortgage? It’s not my property involved, but another condo has opened up in my building, and I want to get away from the spiral staircase with my increasingly stiff knees.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@CarolDuhart2: Cole would know, I think that’s how he bought his house.
OzarkHillbilly
@CarolDuhart2:
Here in Misery it is for whatever the mortgage holder can get (via auction) meaning they will take a loss just to get it off the books. YMMV as I can not be sure about the particulars of your situation. When we were buying I looked into auctions of defaulted property but found that the process did not allow for inspections of the property before bidding so I passed on that and we bought this place from one such bidder. It was still a good deal for us as we got it for $35K below assessed value.
Obviously you will have a fair idea of what you are buying.
Barbara
@CarolDuhart2: Where I live tax or mortgage default sales are handled by auction or are subject to the approval of any existing mortgagee and you arrange your own financing. That’s why it can be hard to buy or sell upside down properties. Real estate agents can usually find out for you.
raven
My ol lady is so short she could parachute off a dime!
http://www.war-stories.com/deros-crb-kornik-1969.htm
Kay
Sanders lied again yesterday.
The President is sending his employee to a briefing on the criminal investigation(s) into the President and his employees.
Brace yourselves for a barrage of lies from the Trump employees (both in the administration and in Congress) after this meeting. Remember how Kelly invented an elaborate lie to attempt to discredit the AA congresswoman and she had to produce video to defend? There won’t be video of the Trump/DOJ defense team meeting so whatever they invent is likely to become “truth”.
bystander
Rick Wilson, I never thought I’d say this, FTW.
WereBear
If I have to be in a Kurt Vonnegut satiric novel, why can’t it be the one with the alien who communicates by farting and tap-dancing?
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ??w
Baud
@Kay: It’s just an early Brady disclosure, Kay.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Just a reminder:
John Kelly ain’t shyt ?
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
satby
@CarolDuhart2: if the sheriff’s sale is following a foreclosures, there may be a redemption period where the person in default still can get their property back if they can get the funds, though that varies by state. It’s a long process unless the dwelling is already vacant.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning rikyrah ?!
JPL
I assume no one watched the asshole on Fox and Friends, because one would have reported on the performance.
Kay
This is a big deal in Ohio politics:
It happened yesterday. The storage facility is listed as rented by his campaign. There are two separate scandals, although they’re really the same scandal and they will merge into one since it’s all the same players. One scandal is around payday lenders and the other is around ECOT. ECOT is a giant online charter school. Was a giant online charter school. The state closed it down this year because the school robbed 75 million dollars. DeWine, who is running for governor, was the AG when this theft took place and he didn’t prosecute so it’s now in the hands of a county prosecutor, but he announced yesterday he’s looking to recuse because he took money from ECOT, which he didn’t bother to reveal until this raid took place. However, DeWine, the state AG and GOP candidate for governor also can’t take the case (now) because he also took money from ECOT. So next they appoint a prosecutor “by assignment” for the state case. The federal case goes on a different track.
rikyrah
Working from my Kindle Fire
Why do I have to fill in the ID information every time that I want to comment?
satby
Oh, this is a pain, the mobile site has no box to check to retain my information to comment. Guess I need to go look that up in the tread about it. That blows.
Edit, yes, I’m on a fire too. Evidently we skipped a plugin for the Silk browser, or whatever Amazon calls it.
Kay
@Baud:
Gross. They’re so corrupt. I can’t believe they’re sending the asshole enforcer in there. Trump doesn’t even trust his own lackeys in Congress. Not that he should! They’re all a pack of liars so they need layers of supervision. I wouldn’t meet with any of them unless it was videotaped.
JPL
Trump on Fox https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-on-nfl-anthem-protests-if-you-dont-stand-maybe-you-shouldnt-be-in-the-country/
Kay
I could go on and on about this Ohio GOP corruption inquiry. The corruption has been going on for years, long enough for hundreds of people to be involved. Kucinich’s running mate was once an ECOT employee, so it’s *technically bipartisan but they’re not really Democrats so I’m not sure it counts.
p.a.
@WereBear: Vonnegut? I’d say plot by Kafka, characters by Cheech & Chong.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Because everything is turning to shit.
JPL
@Kay: Of course they will.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That’s what Shit Midas does.
debbie
@Zinsky:
They would do well to remember they never would have found out about Monica Lewinsky had that investigation remained “narrow.”
JPL
How long before Trump bans peaceful marches in the name of patriotism?
debbie
@CarolDuhart2:
A sheriff’s sale is a foreclosure sale.
Baud
@JPL: If he does, we’ll march against it.
debbie
@debbie:
It’s basically terminology and is based on state foreclosure laws. See if this helps clarify things.
Gin & Tonic
As predicted last night, the official Dutch investigation into the MH17 case has concluded that the plane was shot down by a Buk anti-aircraft missile that came from Russia into Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine. This is, of course, no surprise to those of us who have been following the case.
rikyrah
@JPL:
Phuck.Outta.Here??
Schlemazel
@raven:
“I’m so short I walk out of here without opening this door”
Seen on a toilet stall door
Platonailedit
Amazing how the corrupt thugs are trying to corner Mueller, Wray, Rosentein & FBI and seem to be getting away with it.
debbie
@Kay:
Between all that and the in-fighting over who will replace Rosenberger, the Ohio GOP is now spectator sport! May it destroy them all!
Schlemazel
@satby:
Interesting because Android remembers me here
debbie
@satby:
It’s every mobile device. I hope someone’s let Alain know.
Baud
@Schlemazel: Android didn’t remember me last night.
debbie
@JPL:
Didn’t he say in the early days of his administration that the First Amendment should be revisited?
NotMax
Kilauea update.
Also:
debbie
@Baud:
For awhile last night, I didn’t need to retype nym, etc. on my iPad, but then after you started with all your testing, I did have to reenter the info every time. Thanks, Baud! //
ETA: I don’t think it’s the device; it’s the software.
satby
@Schlemazel: Kindle uses a bastardized Android called Silk. My Kindle remembers what I put into fields in sites, so it’s about five keystrokes more than just writing my comment, but still I have to do it every time.
I don’t want to switch to desktop because the mobile site is cleaner, I never got those autoplay ads you all hate. And the print is bigger for us olds.
Baud
@debbie: You saying I’m Patient Zero.
satby
@NotMax: You’re not on the big island, right? How is this affecting the other ones? Sounds terrible!
CarolDuhart2
@satby: The dwelling is already vacant, and has been for several months. It may be the owner has died (I would have to verify that) and the bank has finally gotten around to having the sale. By the way, I’m nervous. I don’t have good credit, but I am a member of the bank who already has a mortgage with them. I had a lien back in 2011 when the economy collapsed (but I had a harp for the mortgage part). I finally paid it off in 2016 (it was all condo fees-my mortgage I’ve held on with the skin of my teeth at times).
NotMax
Something which caught the eye.
Surely there’s a post the Dolt 45 administration can bestow upon him? //
debbie
@Baud:
No, more like you woke the monster.
Kay
Donald Trump’s campaign manager was appearing yesterday on criminal charges and the FBI and the DOJ agreed to meet privately with Donald Trump on the charges against Donald Trump’s employees.
It isn’t a matter of Trump firing these people anymore. They should resign. They’re terrible. Really bad. Forget Trump- all the people he hired are as bad as he is. None of this would be happening without their terrible decisions.
If you look at this like layers, as I do, the first layer would be the Trump Adminstration- no help there, they’re all corrupt. Then Congress, majority Party. Same. Now we dropped thru 2 and we’re at 3, which is law enforcement/DOJ. Now they’re gone.
That leaves courts- (some) judges. They’re 4. The last one. It’s always bad when you get to courts as the last line, but it’s not unusual in systemic corruption situations. In Ohio, for example, no one acted on ECOT until private litigants hired a lawyer and sued the school. That started it. But for it to get to a court as a “last resort” all the other layers had to fail. And they did. One by one.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie:
They do remember, that’s why they want it narrowed.
Anne Laurie
@WereBear:
“Farting & tap-dancing” sounds a lot like Donny Dollhands on camera, actually. Maybe he & his momma share that weird hairstyle because she didn’t actually immigrate from… Scotland?
JPL
@Kay: But they stand at sporting events for the national anthem, so all is good. Trump is the biggest grifter.
Joey Maloney
@NotMax: Big Island Video News is doing a great job covering events in Lower Puna up close. I check them every morning to see if my family in [thankfully, the other side of] Puna are blowed up yet.
Kay
@debbie:
It’s amazing how thorough the ECOT corruption was. They bought every big Republican in the state, down to county prosecutors. They cannot run someone who is unconnected to the scandal- they’re all connected to it.
You would think the Ohio GOP would diversify. Hold a couple of politicians back in case there’s a raid. The original ECOT lawsuit got to the Ohio Supreme Court in 2005 and there’s an extensive record there. It was clear THEN it was just a matter of time before they got busted. The stuff was crazy- a web of LLC’s all run by the founder, his wife, and his daughter. They were taking in tens of millions in state dollars and it was a family business. It wasn’t even “complex”- it was “set up LLC, all money goes to this family”.
NotMax
Hoocudanode? (Answer: anyone with half a brain.)
satby
Different island, well removed. Although have noticed that am coughing more frequently. Honolulu (Oahu) is about twice as far away as we are on Maui.
Eastern side of the Big Island (Hawaii county) is directly affected. (Big island is, well, big.) Have seen mention that cruise ships are now going to reinstate stops at Hilo, though, which is on the east side, a tell of prevailing winds blowing stuff either inland or (more rarely) northward..
Baud
@NotMax:
@Joey Maloney:
I try to keep the people hurt by this in mind, but I have to admit, the images from the eruption has been awe-inspiring.
Baud
@NotMax:
So half the country.
NotMax
@NotMax
Bad linky above on Dolt 45/China snippet. Fix.
Source
TS (the original)
I love Peter Souza – saying with pictures what the political media refuses to admit.
Baud
I’m glad that NBA player in Milwaukee wasn’t killed.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax:
There is, IMO, some kind of backstory there which hasn’t been in the press yet. His parents say if he needed move-out money, he could sell “some of his weapons”. Guy tells the judge he has “a business” which will make him self-supporting in a mere three months or so, if the old folks weren’t being so unreasonable — but he won’t describe it, because “my business is my business”.
Probably just another would-be Master of the Universe with a bitcoin
scaminvestment, but were I his parents, I’d worry about some kind of illicit drug/gun/godsonlyknow Silk Road dealing too. Kid gets busted under their roof, even if they’ve done their best not to know what he’s doing, quite possibly the federales can confiscate it & they’ll be homeless while he’s getting three colds & a bunk in a greybar hotel.Not to mention the possibility they’re afraid their kid has wandered far enough from consensus reality that he’ll decide to use those weapons to go out in a blaze of… publicity. Too many stories in the local papers about no-longer-teenage offspring, diagnosed mentally ill or not, who don’t get stopped before they murder someone — quite often their aging parents.
JPL
@Baud: I’m glad he is going to sue the Milwaukee Police Department. Enough is enough.
Schlemazel
@Baud:
I don’t use my phone often but never had a problem. that is weird
debbie
@Kay:
You don’t take precautions when you’re not feeling threatened. I’m so hoping the GOP’s comeuppance has arrived.
Kay
@debbie:
I think it’s really bad for DeWine. It hasn’t really been raised yet but the question is going to become why he did no law enforcement. Why there were no state cases. He has a state police force and a state investigatory team. They have really broad jurisdiction. ECOT operated in every county. It should have been handed off from the county prosecutor long ago, because that money was taken from every school district in the state. They were harmed. Keeping it at the location of the headquarters is really strange. It’s almost the definition of a state case, yet it wasn’t one. There’s the auditor action and the state department of ed action and then there’s…a county prosecutor? The AG belongs in that third slot- state, state, state. But they were mysteriously missing. It stinks to high heaven.
Baud
@Kay: You’ll like this. Stacey Abrams on Chris Hayes last night said she was going to put less money into TV ads and more into on-the-ground organizing. If it works, it can be a model for other Dems.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Manafort ‘s attorney is going to have to testify against him.
rikyrah
@JPL:
Sue them??
danielx
@JPL:
Sort of surprised he hasn’t tried already.
OzarkHillbilly
@Anne Laurie: But Anne, he does his own laundry so it’s all OK. (seriously, he stated that as tho it counted in his favor) I am solidly against the corporal punishment of children, but in his case I’d make an exception and say they probably should have.
Kay
@debbie:
The other “hero” in this (well, he did his job) is the director of the Ohio Dept of Ed. The only reason he was in there was Kasich’s team all had to flee for cooking the books on charter enrollment. They got caught and they all quit. That’s how he came to be, as a replacement for the Kasich crook who all of a sudden wanted to spend more time with his family. So we had a lucky break there. If the first layer of corruption hadn’t have been uncovered we never would have reached the state-wide scandal.
debbie
@Kay:
I can help with this. DeWine’s turned into a Pandering Harpy. He was too focused on shrieking about steam-cooking babies to care about ECOT, and it’s bitten him in his butt. DeWine’s pivot to newfound Trumpian Conservatism will end his career. Good riddance.
Gin & Tonic
@rikyrah: Well, his son-in-law has flipped already, so bad times ahead for Paulie. I couldn’t be happier. I hope he spends the rest of his life in prison.
WereBear
@Kay: Your stories only reinforce what is becoming clearer and clearer: as the Republican party faded as an actual political party, it became a criminal enterprise.
The only drawback I can see is how the Witness Protection program — because this is begging to be treated as the biggest RICO case ever — might just put a slimy Republican in OUR backyards…
debbie
@Kay:
We can thank the Auditor, Dave Yost, for his persistence, yet it turns out he’s not exactly squeaky clean himself. This is how deep the rot has gone. They all have to go.
Elizabelle
@Anne Laurie: At least the soon to be evictee is not slacker-ass Obamacare pajama boy:
Time magazine: 30-Year-Old Who Was Evicted by Parents Says He’s Not a Millennial Because He’s Conservative
Kay
@Baud:
I like her. I think people will feel good about backing her, which I think is really important as a contrast to how mean-spirited and petty Trump and his low quality hires are. Base Democrats will hate this, because we’re all jackals, but nice people are winning over Trumpism. The Virginia and Alabama pols won basically because they weren’t horrible, mean assholes.
Maybe Michelle O was right, but a little ahead of the cycle. Maybe it IS “go high”. That’s my sense anyway. People want to think they’re good people. Not the Trump base, but people in general. That’s why Republicans are whining so much – the complaints come down to “we’re good! We demand you say we’re good people!”
Baud
@Elizabelle:
He’s also not a millennial because he no longer lives with his parents. ???
Kay
@debbie:
No, Yost is in it up to his neck. Yost also has a police force. The auditor has an enforcement arm. They raid public schools. They raided Columbus Public Schools in 2012. Yet. They never raided ECOT.
Charters are state schools- that’s what charter means- it’s a contract between the STATE (not a local entity) and a school contractor. County auditors regulate public schools, but charters aren’t under county jurisidction. It HAS to be the state. There’s no other entity authorized to regulate them. So Yost is in worse shape than DeWine. It was his job DIRECTLY.
Baud
@Kay:
I hope so, but there will never be justice for Hillary.
Agree.
JPL
@rikyrah: Sometimes that is the only recourse. Because of Trump continually causing chaos, that is not receiving the Media time it deserves. CBS did have that story on before Trump’s defaming peaceful protests at NFL games. MSM needs to point out that the reason Kaepernick knelt in the first place was to point out the injustice that blacks receive at the hands of so called authority figures.
Baud
@JPL: Today show did a good job with that this morning. Even tied it with the NBA players arrest in Milwaukee.
rikyrah
@Anne Laurie:
Yeah, you caught that too.
He ain’t got no job.
How the phuck does he have WEAPONS-PLURAL?!??
His parents better watch their backs.
germy
@Elizabelle:
Ahh, so he’s a conservative. I see.
He’s all about self reliance, then.
rikyrah
@Baud:she seems to be about finding voters. And, doesn’t have much of an interest in reaching out to Dolt45 voters.???
germy
@Anne Laurie:
Somehow I fear this will not end well.
JPL
@Baud: Good!
Kay
@debbie:
There should be (will be, unless Trump has completely corrupted them) federal charges in ECOT. For bigger school corruption cases there always are, because about 10% of the money they pocketed and ran thru those LLC’s in their half-assed attempt at “laundering” is federal funds. It could be as much as 50% depending on the income bracket the students are in. If every county is like my county the majority of the ECOT students were low income. We had a juvenile judge here who had had it with this bullshit. He started ordering them to go to school. Show up at a school. Because they were disappearing – no one was supervising them and they’d end up in his court. The first inquiry is always truancy- why weren’t they in school? He’s a rage man and I’d see his forehead start to redden the minute they said “online school”. They don’t realize he hears this again and again and again, so they don’t understand why he’d explode. They assume they’re the only one saying this. It’s really unfair to them because they have no idea they’re walking into this mess that enrages him.
rikyrah
@Elizabelle:
He is a conservative?
Then pull your muthaphuckin’azz up by your bootstraps ??
Peale
@NotMax: he got his $500 m in financing. Then tried to crow about a “breakthrough” deal that wasn’t so much a deal as an agreement that everything would stay the way it was. I think he thinks it a win because he extorted money from them.
oldgold
@CarolDuhart2:
2 things:
The mortgagee (bank) will almost always bid the judgment amount (the full balance owing on note plus costs of foreclosure).
Check to see if the Sheriff sale is with or without a redemption period. The redemption period is the time the mortgagor (borrower) has to stay in the property and clear up the judgment debt.
In most cases you are better off allowing bank to reclaim the property and then negotiating to purchase from the bank.
A Ghost To Most
Peter King is letting his complicit flag fly on CNN right now.
clay
@NotMax:
If China pays any attention to our domestic news, then they would’ve seen Trump do his “I’ll sign any DACA deal, no I’m not signing any of those DACA deals” shtick. So they shouldn’t be surprised.
JPL
@A Ghost To Most: He sounded desperate.
Jeffro
@JPL: Hope those NFL owners are happy! They sure found a great way to resolve the issue! Awesome job, NFL owners! Perhaps the players should be put into shackles until game time, and put back in shackles immediately following the final whistle!
Fucking assholes. You can’t placate a monster and you shouldn’t even try.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Your periodic reminder that Minnesota’s junior senator is invisible and the Senate’s best voice against nascent fascism – Al Franken – is gone because of the purity crusade of #MeToo.
Jeffro
Wow, in addition to being part of the GREAT SCHOOL SAFETY DEBATE (moar gunz 4 techers! harden our schoolz! buckets o’ rocks 4 everyone! single entrance/exit sheeple!!) now public schools also get to fight Betsy DeVos’ latest bit of “astounding ignorance” – she thinks it’s okay to call ICE on undocumented students which, by law, the schools have to serve.
WRONG, Betsy Know-Nothing. Just fucking wrong. It’s not a school or local community decision, and it doesn’t need any goddamn clarification, either.
You’d think that even the most cynical of wingers could do the math and understand that for the fucking bargain price of educating a kid through K-12, society gets back vastly more in terms of productivity and taxes. I know they don’t want people going to college but who in the world wants undocumented kids NOT getting a basic education (including learning English and American history)? It’s unbelievable.
She really has turned out to be one of the top two, maybe three, absolute shit picks in this maladministration (and that is saying something)
germy
Florida Man strikes again.
‘Get Out of My Country’: Florida Man Arrested after Attacking Men with Knife, Stun Gun at McDonald’s
JPL
@Jeffro: It sad that she didn’t take civic classes in a public school.
Chyron HR
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
So we’re not even doing the “Stuart Smalley was set up” thing anymore? Just straight up “lie back and think of
Englandthe ACA, bitch”?germy
@Jeffro:
Hillary Clinton warned us. During one of the debates she said “He wants guns in schools”
The villagers chuckled at that one.
Zinsky
@debbie: So true, debbie!
Peale
@clay: The Chinese are fine with the status quo, thank you very much. The more times he renegotiates and goes back on deals, the more satisfied they will be. They also know that the point of these negotiations is to humiliate them. That was obvious from that stupid list of “demands” that were handed over at the end of the first round. They might as well have demanded that the Chinese accept opium imports…My guess in the end of these talks, Trump will end up with nothing but the kissing Chinese equivalent to kissing a ring on a middle finger.
Aleta
Suggested NYT headline, article:
Pence is Stupid
blah blah blah
blab di doo dah
two more lines
etc etc Says official in NK.
GregB
I assuming it is becoming clear to every world leader that an agreement with Trump is worthless.
Baud
@Aleta: Win!
GregB
I assume.
KithKanan
@Jeffro: Having watched in horror as 58.93% of California voters said they wanted exactly that in 1994, far more people than you would think. I was in one of the only 8 (of 58) counties that voted against.
Patricia Kayden
@JPL: I saw a clip on Morning Joe where Trump trashes the protesting NFL players and said they shouldn’t be here. Fascist scum.
Jeffro
@germy: So far I think Hillz’ predictions about Trumpov have come 110% true…where’s the story on that, NYT? Or they can give the Obamas credit for their takes on him, I don’t care either way. The point is, the Democrats from HRC and PBO on down were RIGHT: the guy is scum and Putin’s puppet and his supporters are in fact deplorable.
Xenos
@CarolDuhart2:Is Missouri a title-theory or lien-theory state?
JPL
@Patricia Kayden: Someone needs to follow up and say who else should not be in our country.
Jeffro
@KithKanan: It is the dumbest possible thing they could be advocating AND it happens to be unconstitutional (oh, that…)
And yet, like everything else about the Spite Gang, it makes sense: anything, anything at all to hate on people of color and keep them down.
rikyrah
@Kay:
I hope that Cordray nails DeWine through this scandal
H.E.Wolf
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Your periodic reminder that Minnesota’s junior senator is invisible […]
JPL
I think Democratic members need to go to the White House, and demand to be part of the intel meeting this morning.
or what Schumer said.
Schumer: “While it’s a good thing that the Gang of Eight will be briefed, the separate meeting with a known partisan whose only intent is to undermine the Mueller investigation… should be called off. What is the point of the separate briefing if not to cause partisan trouble?”
Aleta
@H.E.Wolf: Thanks.
rikyrah
@WereBear:
no lie told
CarolDuhart2
its Ohio.
KithKanan
@Jeffro: Far too many people (particularly but not exclusively white) only think in terms of “taking our money and giving it to them” and not about what we as a society gain from that. Completely zero-sum thinking. If it’s raising them up, it must be dragging me down.
rikyrah
@Jeffro:
I loathe this heifer.
Platonailedit
Platonailedit
rikyrah
@germy:
THEY.ARE.OUT.OF.CONTROL.
Platonailedit
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Chyron HR:
Currently, Jason Bateman is getting burnt to the ground by #MeToo for being insufficiently deferential to Jessica Walter’s teary description of some angry meltdown Tambor had on set, when he shouted at her (wasn’t sexual harassment, just anger). I find this ironic, given her most recent and successful character portrayals are of irredeemably angry and corrupt women.
Apparently, all male actions, reactions, responses and interpretations of events and incidents must be approved by a team of aggrieved womyns’ studies sophomore ovinar organizers.
If a man has a view on something or an interpretation of an event and there’s no #MeToo activist around to criticize his privilege or direct his response, is he still wrong?
Aleta
@JPL: I fear young thugs will follow his advice by beating up school kids who didn’t stand up in the bleachers at a JV game. Or kids whose parents spoke out.
In the end, he’s trying to legitimize attacks on protesters in the coming months. Branding himself patriotic; and those opposing him as deserving punishment.
I hope the NFL brand takes a big hit over this.
JPL
@Aleta: Trump is a fascist who wants to cheer the U.S. of Russia.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@H.E.Wolf:
That’s minimal backbench Senating, and doesn’t include the things Franken had in abundance – presence, a rapier wit and the ability to query and criticize on the fly.
rikyrah
Sources: NFL used polling firm to get public opinion on Colin Kaepernick
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sports/sources-nfl-used-polling-firm-get-public-opinion-colin-kaepernick-050421636.html?__twitter_impression=true
TS (the original)
@GregB:
Given that trump has overturned agreements made by President Obama, you can modify that to say “An agreement with the USA is worthless”.
rikyrah
Forever FLOTUS ?
And her new book ?
That cover photo ??
https://twitter.com/MichelleObama/status/999644897958420481?s=19
GregB
President Shitheel cancels NK meeting.
I assume he is now on Ebay selling those shitty tokens at a higher price.
japa21
Summit cancelled by Trump.
JPL
@rikyrah: I wish it was released before the election. The cover is beautiful!
No Drought No More
Trump’s kind of guy:
Deadspin reports: “..According to the police report, here’s what happened: Dykstra hailed an Uber early this morning, then requested to change his destination. The driver, a 47-year-old man, refused. Dykstra then put a gun to the driver’s head and threatened to kill him. The driver had an ace up his sleeve, however: He simply sped straight to a garage attached to Linden Police Department headquarters, alerting officers by honking his horn repeatedly, then stopped out front of police HQ.
Cops found no weapon when they arrested Dykstra, but they did allegedly find marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy. Dykstra told the New York Daily News that, contrary to a police report and press release, he was not actually arrested. He also blamed the driver for the incident.
“The guy went nuclear on me,” Dykstra told the paper. “He fucking kidnapped me and almost killed me going 100 mph. He locked me in his fucking car, and he wouldn’t let me out.”.
Word-for-word, does anyone doubt that’s exactly what Trump would have said?
Cheryl Rofer
Whoah!
Gin & Tonic
@japa21: There goes that Nobel.
Cheryl Rofer
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
So, what did the word “agreement” mean then?
NotMax
@japa21 – @GregB
The best negotiator.
;)
rikyrah
More trouble for Facebook
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/999624416773492737?s=19
Yutsano
@No Drought No More: Nope. Too coherent for Dolt45.
D58826
That letter sounds like one I would write to tell a merchant that I was dissatisfied with his product, I was returning said product and would not be doing business with him again.
Brachiator
@Jeffro:
Trump has cultivated a zero tolerance policy on immigration. Since undocumented people are not “supposed” to be here, they don’t deserve anything, and every service they get is stealing from “real Americans.”
Steeplejack
@Cheryl Rofer:
They can go in the vault with all the Infrastructure Week coins. Those have really been piling up.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Cheryl Rofer: Holy shit.
So, Trump supporters, how’s that great deal maker working out for you?
JPL
@No Drought No More: hmmm Did they use a taser on him, or leave him with scratches and bruises.
NotMax
@Brachiator
Tomorrow’s tweets today:
“It’s obvious there’s NO point in sending animals to School. Waste of time and money.”
Brachiator
@Cheryl Rofer:
Wait. What? Really?
It will be fun to see how right wing dopes find a way to show how this proves how strong Trump is.
ETA. Weird. My identifying info disappeared and I had to re-enter it.
germy
@Brachiator: There’s a check box that lets balloon-juice save your identifying info.
Steeplejack
@Brachiator:
This is a known problem on the mobile version of the site since upgrades were done yesterday. No fix as yet, although Alain has contacted the relevant code monkeys.
schrodingers_cat
@Cheryl Rofer: He chickened out.
Steeplejack
@germy:
The check box appears only on the desktop version of the site. The problem is with the mobile version.
rikyrah
@No Drought No More:
Fast thinking by the driver.
Brachiator
@NotMax:
Trump is vile, but consistent. From DACA to deporting people here with temporary visas, Trump doesn’t care what people have done or what they have contributed. If they don’t “belong” here, they count as nothing.
This is Trump’s America.
Matt McIrvin
@Jeffro: For them everything is zero sum. If your kid gets educated, my kid loses.
Aleta
Preemptive Break Up
Aleta
@GregB: Like failed postage stamps, their value as collectables has already shot up! Another genius move.
The Moar You Know
@Jeffro: ICE has already gone one better. I live in the magic 100-mile zone near the border that somehow allows ICE to do whatever the fuck they want to, so a few months ago they just parked outside of every elementary school in the county.
Like magic, the “undocumented” kids aren’t going to school anymore.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: @Steeplejack: As always, thanks for the lucid explanations.
Miss Bianca
@Aleta: There is something beautifully haiku-like in that proposed headline rendering. Perhaps I could interest you in writing the headlines for my newsletter? ; )
Miss Bianca
@Cheryl Rofer: I can’t believe that even Donald Trump could be this fucking disastrous a parody of himself. This has *got* to be Andy Borowitz or someone else, right?
As the old country song put it: “They call me Cleopatra…cause I’m the Queen of Denial.”
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
Thank you!
Jeffro
@Miss Bianca: What’s surprising is that Fox News dot com has the actual, full letter up for their readers to peruse. Then again, the letter is probably a better effort than 90% of Fox viewers could manage…they’ll think Trumpov is some kind of master wordsmith in addition to all his other superhuman talents.
HILFY
How can “Shade” be Amazon best seller when they don’t have a page for it yet? Grrrr.
J R in WV
@Baud:
Well, partly… But she will always have her daughter and grandchildren, be a beloved leader, and live well. Wife and I often toast when beginning dinner: “To living well!” which is after all what we aspire to.
The FBI isn’t going through our papers, really, we’re better off than Trump and all his minions. So is Hillary!
catclub
@debbie: Either Ohio is a hotbed for corrupt charter schools, or Ohio actually has the Best enforcement of law against
charter school
corruption and therefore gets the most reporting of corrupt charter schools. so even the best case is still bad.
J R in WV
@rikyrah:
“I loathe this heifer.”
Now, now, rikyrah, don’t be nasty to the pretty cows.
Heifers are really good at being milk cows, they make the most wonderful milk and cream, they give us ice cream too. Don’t call DeVos a heifer, that’s nasty to the poor cows, who can’t help how bad Betsy DeVos is.
If you care for your heifer, wash her and be with her, she will be your friend, and produce more milk than you can possibly ever use. You will give milk to your cats, dogs, pigs, neighbors and friends, make yogurt, butter, cheeses, and still sometimes pour our milk you just couldn’t get around to doing something with.
Betsy De Vos, on the other hand, will only take. No matter what.
WereBear
That does it. You are a sexist ass who doesn’t get it. In danger of being pied.
debbie
@catclub:
I know you’re long gone, but the answer is that it’s the most blantant here. There was a charter school near where I lived that disappeared overnight, along with millions of dollars worth of computers (back in the late 1990s). ECOT not only refused to return the money they hadn’t earned, they used some of the money to run political ads demanding Ohio stop persecuting them!
Groucho48
@Aleta:
I’ve seen…Trump pretended to negotiate until the “hostages” were released, then, walked away with a win.