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Consistently wrong since 2002

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

T R E 4 5 O N

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Come on, man.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

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Putin’s Triumph Is Complete

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Responding to his U.S. lackey’s suggestion that Russia be readmitted to the G7, Putin says he’s in a better club anyway, so he don’t need no steenking alliance of Western democracies:

After being ousted from the G-7 (then the G-8) in 2014 for occupying Crimea in Ukraine, Putin joined a Chinese-commanded economic group called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Putin boasted on Sunday that the new partnership holds more global economic weight than the G-7.

“True, the seven are still richer in per capita income, as they say, but the S.C.O. economies are larger, and their population is much larger, too — half the world’s population,” Mr. Putin told reporters Sunday, according to a transcript of his remarks reviewed by the Times…

Putin said he would be willing to meet with Trump to discuss the G-7 and other matters.

“The President of the United States has repeatedly said that he considers this meeting expedient and I agree that this is indeed the case,” he said, according to the Times.

That last sentence is Putin pointing out Trump’s embarrassing obsequiousness. Trump has indeed repeatedly and pathetically begged for face time with the mob boss who runs an economy that is significantly smaller than California’s, not only because Trump owes his position to Putin but because Trump imagines he can BE Putin when he grows up.

What are the odds Trump reads Putin’s remarks, quits the G7 and humbly petitions for admission to the SCO? Does he tear up all his official papers because he keeps absentmindedly writing “Mrs. Vladimir Putin” and “DJ + VP = 4ever” in the margins?

And every day on Fox News, some GOP butt-plug trots out to announce that Trump has made America respected in the world again, while Trump’s base claps like a troupe of trained seals.

Will there be a sufficient number of American patriots to address this national humiliation and take actions to wipe the smile off Putin’s face? I guess we’ll find out in November.

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  1. 1.

    SFAW

    “Putin’s Triumph Is Complete ” should be on the front page, above the fold, in 48-point type, of every fucking newspaper in this country.

    Shitgibbon’s moronic supporters will think that’s the bee’s knees, but anyone rational, or who cares about this country, will go “What the ever-loving FUCK?”

    And fuck you, too, Mitch, you fucking traitor.

  2. 2.

    HAL

    Supreme Court screws voters again. But I’m sure Merrick Garland would have been just as bad.

  4. 4.

    piratedan

    but Betty, they’re not traitors because about a hundred and sixty years ago, Democrats supported the KKK right after the Civil War.

  5. 5.

    Cacti

    No one seriously believes that Putin is content being a junior partner to Beijing.

    But he would be content burning the G7 to the ground for throwing him out.

  6. 6.

    oatler.

    If we can’t attack the traitorous gov’t branches, can we attack the traitorous base? Asking for a friend.

  7. 7.

    Shell

    Deniro stabbed us in the back! ;-)

    Did I hear that Trump is now planning to leave the Summit early because things are “moving much quicker.” And they havent even met yet?

  8. 8.

    rikyrah

    UH HUH
    But, no difference between the candidates, right Purity Ponies?

    Supreme Court Upholds Ohio Voter Purge Law
    An eligible Ohio voter who was removed from the voter rolls prompted the case.
    headshot
    By Sam Levine

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Ohio could continue to use an aggressive process for removing people from its voting rolls, saying the procedure did not run afoul of federal voter protections.

    The decision in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute helps clarify the steps states can take to remove someone from their voter rolls, and it could encourage them to be more aggressive. The case was brought on behalf of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, a labor and civil rights group, and an eligible Ohio voter the state had removed from its voter rolls. The voter had been living at the same address for about 16 years.

    ………………………………….

    he League of Women Voters noted in a friend-of-the-court brief that only five other states ― Georgia, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and West Virginia ― use someone’s failure to vote to trigger the process for canceling their voter registration. But all those states, the League noted, give someone longer than two years of not voting before they begin the cancellation process.

  10. 10.

    rikyrah

    And every day on Fox News, some GOP butt-plug trots out to announce that Trump has made America respected in the world again, while Trump’s base claps like a troupe of trained seals.

    And, they will never be forgiven. So, MSM, stop writing articles about these muthaphuckas.

  11. 11.

    Nicole

    @HAL: This is what I’m afraid of, re: November. They know they’re in trouble so it’s about f*cking up the vote itself. I’m really worried about November. Not about the Dems not showing up to vote; they’ve made it pretty clear they’re going to. But about the elections being ratf*cked by the white supremacists. Because what do we do then? Voting them out is our only real power, and if they’re willing to ignore that, then what? Will we riot in the streets or will we accept the media’s spin of this is what Real Ammmuricans want?

    Ugh. I hate being so negative and I really really really want to be totally wrong in November.

  12. 12.

    Brachiator

    Trump has indeed repeatedly and pathetically begged for face time with the mob boss who runs an economy that is significantly smaller than California’s, not only because Trump owes his position to Putin but because Trump imagines he can BE Putin when he grows up.

    Goddam, Betty, you are on fire!

    Funny thing, though. The SCO chair is Xi of China, and I don’t think he is taking any shit from Putin. And the dominant economies as well as the larger populations, are Asian. So, Putin is creating havoc in the West, but also trying to kiss up to China. Risky play.

  13. 13.

    JPL

    @piratedan: The Klan didn’t support one specific party. In the twenties, a large majority of those that lived in Indiana supported the klan and the state was overwhelmingly republican. The opposite is true in Oregon. That is a myth that has gone on for too long.

  14. 14.

    MomSense

    @rikyrah:

    I’M STILL PISSED AT THE NADERITES FOR ALITO AND ROBERTS. AND NOW THOSE SAME FOOLS ARE PISSED ABOUT CITIZENS UNITED. HOW THE FUCK DO THEY THINK THAT HAPPENED?????

  15. 15.

    Brachiator

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Ohio could continue to use an aggressive process for removing people from its voting rolls, saying the procedure did not run afoul of federal voter protections

    This is fucking insane.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SFAW:

    And fuck you, too, Mitch, you fucking traitor.

    As I mentioned in a thread last night, SENATOR and TREASON are anagrams.

  17. 17.

    SFAW

    @Nicole:

    I think the response is to increase the registration efforts.

    “If you want to vote in November, you need to register TODAY! Even if you’ve voted in every election since Roosevelt, the Republicans are trying to make sure you don’t! DON’T LET THEM SUCCEED!! If you want or need help making sure you’re registered, please call 216-555-1212 RIGHT AWAY!!”

    Or similar. It just means we need to start a little earlier with the GOTV effort.

    Not minimizing the anti-American nature of the SCOTUS decision (fuck you Mitch!), but we just have to use it as another spur to action.

  18. 18.

    Citizen Alan

    I honestly feel sick to my stomach over the level of hatred I have for Republicans. It actually takes effort for me not to use “eliminationist rhetoric” as the saying goes whenever I talk about them.

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    @MomSense:

    I’M STILL PISSED AT THE NADERITES FOR ALITO AND ROBERTS. AND NOW THOSE SAME FOOLS ARE PISSED ABOUT CITIZENS UNITED. HOW THE FUCK DO THEY THINK THAT HAPPENED?????

    You and me both, kid.

  22. 22.

    Brachiator

    @piratedan:

    but Betty, they’re not traitors because about a hundred and sixty years ago, Democrats supported the KKK right after the Civil War.

    The Democratic Party was the party of the white racist South up through the 1960s. This ain’t ancient history.

    Hell, some racist Southerners are still registered as Democrats.

    And the klan worked both parties in a number of states.

    ETA. Ah, I see another poster noted Indiana’s background.

  23. 23.

    germy

    He seems to have completely recovered. Weren’t his injuries extensive after Maxine Waters brushed past him that one time?

    "The Western Alliance," which sanctimonious elites now posture as great defenders of, has also brought about disastrous wars, economic calamity, and decadent technocratic institutions that almost everyone else hates— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 11, 2018

    What's conversion rate on rubles, Mikey? Are you making enough to pay for the spinal reconstruction surgery you've needed after being body slammed by Maxine Waters?— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) June 11, 2018

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Shell:

    Did I hear that Trump is now planning to leave the Summit early because things are “moving much quicker.” And they havent even met yet?

    I heard that, too, on an NPR headline, but no further details. And my reaction was the same as yours.

  27. 27.

    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    @germy: It’s all good. After Trump kills our economy, this Tracey motherfucker will be under the overpass cooking pigeons on a coat hanger with me and I’ll just point and laugh at him.

  28. 28.

    rikyrah

    @MomSense:

    I’M STILL PISSED AT THE NADERITES FOR ALITO AND ROBERTS. AND NOW THOSE SAME FOOLS ARE PISSED ABOUT CITIZENS UNITED. HOW THE FUCK DO THEY THINK THAT HAPPENED?????

    yep…
    no.lie.told

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    @MomSense:

    Something something Republicrats. Both sides do it, so Democrats are responsible for everything. QED, centrists! ?

  31. 31.

    Elizabelle

    Volunteer for VoteRiders, peeps. Here’s the volunteer intake form. They especially want to hear of any special skills you can bring (attorneys, experienced at whatever) and if you can travel. You can even write post cards or phone bank.

    Maybe we could put together some Balloon Juice working meetups.

    Step 1: Volunteer Intake
    Tell us a little about yourself so we can match you to a rewarding VoteRiders volunteer opportunity. We will never (ever!) share your details with third parties.

  32. 32.

    Nicole

    @SFAW: I hope you’re right. It’s just, with so many of these states not bothering with a paper record, I’m at the point where I don’t put it past them to hack the vote totals. It’s not that voting machines haven’t been hackable since the pull lever days, but those required someone to actually manually f*ck with each machine. Now, it’s something that can likely be done remotely.

    On the other hand, the local control of elections makes it harder to do widespread shenanigans, but I’m really anxious. The GOP aren’t even trying to appeal to anyone but racists, homophobes and misogynists these days, and I feel like they figure the game has been fixed for them already; they don’t have to.

    Again, desperately wanting to be wrong and to be drinking a toast in November to the once and future Speaker Pelosi.

  33. 33.

    Elizabelle

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, saw that.

    We need to keep calling him Treason McConnell.

    Because he is a fucking traitor. As I bore you all with: I think McConnell should swing. From a noose.

  34. 34.

    Tokyokie

    @SFAW:

    “Putin’s Triumph Is Complete ” should be on the front page, above the fold, in 48-point type, of every fucking newspaper in this country.

    Only 48 point? It calls for at least 72 points, 96 if it’ll fit with a squeeze.

  37. 37.

    Elizabelle

    @Nicole: I want President Pelosi.

    And I am sick of the attacks on her, even from people who should know better. We are in perilous times.

    The Republicans hate just about ALL Democrats. They hate us/them. They’re just quiet about some of them.

  38. 38.

    bemused

    @Citizen Alan:

    It’s the republican voters I know who probably voted for trump that I will never be able to be around for any length of time anymore. Bad for the blood pressure. If they still think trump is fine or don’t care he’s an insane, sleazy degenerate at this point, they are dead to me.

  39. 39.

    drylake

    Point of information: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was founded in 2001, with Russia as a charter member; it has grown since, with India and Pakistan (both!) having joined just last year.

  43. 43.

    SFAW

    @Tokyokie:

    Only 48 point? It calls for at least 72 points, 96 if it’ll fit with a squeeze.

    Not a journamalist, so I defer to your expertise.

  44. 44.

    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    Actually Betty, you should re-title your post: John Birch Society Triumph Complete. Putin just exploited what they have been pushing behind the scenes for decades.

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    OT (sorta), but whenever I see “SCO,” I think about Santa Cruz Operation Unix.

    And I’m a hardware guy. But I’m also weird.

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I just noticed that in the rotation of G7 summits, the US is scheduled to host in 2020. Dates and location TBD.

    Assuming he is still president two years from now, I would bet good cash money that it’ll take place at either Mar-a-Lago or Bedminster. He may scorn and belittle the organization, but he’s never going to pass up the chance to line his own pockets at public expense.

  48. 48.

    Steeplejack

    @SFAW:

    Yeah, I think of that for a second too. Didn’t they get sued out of existence a while back? (Too lazy to look.)

  50. 50.

    Elizabelle

    OT: Just heard NPR newscast. Thought they were speaking of a Hurricane Baud.

    Category 3 Hurricane Bud heads north off Mexican coast

    MEXICO CITY – Hurricane Bud grew to Category 3 force off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Monday, but forecasters said it was likely to weaken before a possible brush with the resort-dotted southern tip of the Baja California peninsula late in the week.

    The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Bud had maximum sustained winds of 115 mph Monday morning. It was centered about 235 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, and was moving northwest at 10 mph.

    Forecasters said Bud was expected to strengthen further before a slow weakening trend starts Tuesday.

    “Significantly cooler waters around the southern tip of Baja California should reduce Bud’s intensity below hurricane status before it reaches that land,” the center said.

    The Hurricane Center said the storm could generate swells that cause life-threatening surf and rip currents over the coming days along Mexico’s southwestern coast. Rainfall of 3 to 6 inches, with isolated patches of 10 inches, was possible into Tuesday afternoon.

    That hurricane is short a vowel.

  51. 51.

    Elizabelle

    @raven: Charlotte Fox. Yes, that is the definition of irony.

    That said, it’s a four-story house built up a mountainside, with 77 steps. You enter the house at the top of the steps.

  53. 53.

    Brachiator

    Take of the tape

    GDP of G7 countries

    $33.93 trillion

    39% of
    world

    GDP of SCO countries in 2015

    The GDP of member-states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was over $21 trillion in 2015 and accounts for 27.1% of the global GDP,

  54. 54.

    Elizabelle

    @raven: From raven’s link, which is the FTF NY Times:

    Ms. Fox immortalized her ordeal [recounted by Krakauer in “Into Thin Air”] by choosing a custom Colorado license plate that pre-emptively responded should anyone wonder whether she would climb the world’s highest mountain again. It read, “Neverest.”

    …. Returning from dinner, weekend guests discovered her body at the bottom of a 77-step hardwood staircase connecting the four stories of her house on Tomboy Road, which undulates along a mountainside. Her front door is on the top floor.

    “When someone dies of a long illness, it gives you time to process that; it’s even a blessing,” Connie Self, a movie producer and friend of Ms. Fox, told The Telluride Daily Planet. “It’s hard to find the blessing in this. It’s a huge reminder of how vulnerable we are, how risk is everywhere.”

    … Ms. Fox’s generosity extended to individuals, including a friend whom she presented with a bracelet. The inscription was particularly apt from an alpinist who had surveyed the world from its highest vantage point, on Everest, and survived.

    “Leap,” said the inscription, “and the net will open.”

    I love that. I think she’s right; usually you find your net. Got to be audacious.

  55. 55.

    rikyrah

    This case is a stark reminder that the Trump administration wants to turn back the clock on voting rights.

    For decades, DOJ considered these purges to be illegal. Under the Trump administration, it flipped sides to support Ohio’s unnecessary restrictions on the right to vote.

    — ACLU (@ACLU) June 11, 2018

    Supreme Court says yes to voter purges, giving Republicans another way to rig elections. https://t.co/ZbPXrPhfIx

    — Gabe #DreamActNow Ortíz (@TUSK81) June 11, 2018

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I would swear that a few days ago I either heard or saw a report that a golf game between Trump and Kim was being contemplated as a post-formalities event. Guess that idea was scrapped.

  57. 57.

    rikyrah

    If you’re upset about Trump
    -ripping families apart at the border
    -attacking Canada, our closest ally or
    -undermining the Western Alliance and American standing in the world

    Do something today to create accountability for him-help a Dem take back the House or Senate or both

    — Neera Tanden ? (@neeratanden) June 10, 2018

  58. 58.

    Elizabelle

    Here’s another good article about Charlotte Fox. From Rock and Ice, the Climber’s Magazine

    Charlotte Fox, 1957-2018, Accomplished High-Altitude Mountaineer, Dies in Telluride
    She climbed five 8000-meter peaks, Dhaulagiri and Everest among them.

    When Kim Reynolds and Peter O’Neil arrived in Telluride, Colorado, on Thursday, May 24, for Mountainfilm weekend, Kim spoke to Charlotte Fox for five minutes while unloading food and gear; only five minutes, but long enough for Charlotte to say, “I love being 61.”

    I like that she was excited about 61. How often do you hear that?

  59. 59.

    satby

    OT and a cry for help! My laptop today had Windows updates pushed and so I let them run. Now it won’t let me log in because it can’t locate my user profile, though the log screen has my name on it. Same after a reboot. Any suggestions from the current IT folks?
    I have ordered to fill,labels to print, and a paperweight a laptop right now.

  60. 60.

    rikyrah

    This is a nightmare scenario for voting rights advocates. SCOTUS has effectively given red states the green light to engage in voter purges that disproportionately affect minority and low-income communities. Sotomayor’s dissent is scathing. pic.twitter.com/ORCbXY29vc

    — Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 11, 2018

  62. 62.

    rikyrah

    Have @SenJohnMcCain, @JeffFlake and @SenatorCollins forgotten that they are actual sitting U.S. Senators with the power to bring legislation to the Senate floor? Indignant and apologetic tweets are not the checks and balances that we need. Without real action, all are #complicit.

    — Paula (@PaulaBonaFide) June 11, 2018

    Easy fix, caucus with the Dems and put an end to this idiocy by implementing the checks and balances enshrined in the constitution, but we all know you’d rather just tweet about it to appear as though you actually care. ?NEWSFLASH: Tweets are not substantial action. https://t.co/hNzn0FgOwg

    — J-Rod in the PNW (@InTheKlick) June 11, 2018

    You are a US Senator. You hold one of the most powerful offices in our government. Tweets are not checks and balances. Do your job! https://t.co/yX1l32DV70

    — Angela York Crane (@toocanAnj) June 11, 2018

  63. 63.

    rikyrah

    The impact of today’s SCOTUS opinion on Ohio’s voter purge process: if you don’t vote, the state can take away that right. We can argue about the case all you want but go register, update your registration & vote in EVERY election. Make it a priority to educate yourself & vote. https://t.co/fwE3wtXrPl

    — Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) June 11, 2018

  70. 70.

    germy

    my timeline is filled with people who think that merkel picture is somehow damaging for donald, when it couldn't be more exactly what his people and breitbart's want to see
    — chris hooks (@cd_hooks) June 9, 2018

  72. 72.

    germy

    So the “B” in IHOB is for “Burger” ?

    All this time, I thought they were changing their name to “International House Of Breakfast”

    I would have lost money on that bet.

  73. 73.

    Elizabelle

    @rikyrah: I think the lesson, and Democrats really do need to learn it — you cannot take ANYTHING for granted.

    I say that because those who lean Democratic often do not vote as regularly as Republicans, and it is a real issue for our country.

    Voter suppression is a whole other issue, but voter apathy can kill a democracy. I would suspect apathy is driven by low information, but don’t know that …

    Americans pay more attention to sports teams than they do governance. It’s juvenile.

  74. 74.

    jl

    ” Trump reads Putin’s remarks ”

    Huh, what? Lady Cracker is thinking funny. I told her to be careful with those damn motorcycles. All that wind has funnied up her head.

  76. 76.

    burnspbesq

    @HAL:

    It’s statutory construction, and therefore fix-able. It makes GOTV a bit more difficult. Is it insurmountable? Fuck no, unless we’re too damn lazy to do the work.

  77. 77.

    Elizabelle

    @rikyrah: Caucusing with the Democrats could actually have saved Flake’s career, and Collins and McCain should do it.

    There is a kind of precedent: John Warner of Virginia stood up to his state Republicans when they tried to put up Oliver North for US Senate in 1994.

    It actually made Warner far more popular among Democrats, who applauded and supported actual political courage when they saw it. John Warner was re-elected with the help of Democrats for all subsequent terms.

    Mark Warner ran against John Warner in 1996, and this was going to be a problem for him. “Send John Warner a thank you note, not a vote” or words to that effect.

    I voted, happily, for John Warner. Got to reward courage, and it was obvious Mark had a bright future later.

    So: screw the GOP types flapping their lips about Trump. They are cowards if they don’t do more. (FWIW, I don’t hold McCain, now, to this standard because I have no idea what his current health is like.)

  78. 78.

    A Ghost To Most

    This doesn’t make sense

    I have no more tolerance for this highly over used phrase when applied to the Rump crime family. Assume it is owned by Putin, and everything makes sense.

  79. 79.

    germy

    The Doctrine quoted over at LawyersGunsMoneyBlog:

    Amid the international upheaval after the G-7 summit, an unnamed senior White House official summed up the Trumpian foreign policy doctrine: “We’re America, bitch.”

    According to a Monday Atlantic report, a “senior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking” explained: “Obama apologized to everyone for everything. He felt bad about everything.” The official said that Trump “doesn’t feel like he has to apologize for anything America does.”

    Another distillation of Trump’s doctrine came from a senior national security official: “permanent destabilization creates American advantage,” the official said, arguing that leaving everyone else on shaky ground makes America the sole strong power.

    A senior administration official contributed “no friends, no enemies,” a quip that encapsulates Trump’s distaste for permanent alliances in favor of shifting relationships based on his moods and impulses.

  80. 80.

    Duane

    The Supreme Court has upheld Ohio’s voter purging system 5-4. Fascism in America carries a bible, wears a black robe, and sits on the Supreme Court.

  81. 81.

    satby

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: thanks, it came as a surprise that there was no pre-update restore point saved (thanks MS ?). Once I was able to get in the update reset all my default apps.
    Going to be a long day… And after almost 5 years away from it I’ve forgotten most of my hardware knowledge.

  84. 84.

    Brachiator

    @germy:

    The Doctrine quoted over at LawyersGunsMoneyBlog

    Trump and his people are certainly full of themselves.

  85. 85.

    patrick II

    According to Larry Kudlow, Trump is upset with Trudeau because he wanted to look like a tough guy before meeting with Kim Jong Un. As if Donald would be able to intimidate a guy with bluster and grumpy looks and folded arms who had his half-brother murdered in a public airport and his uncle assasinated by multiple machine guns.
    It is more likely that Kim Jong Un tells Trump that Putin sends his congratulations for breaking up the G7, and that Putin has said that he will release the tape unless Donald goes along with Kim’s deal.

  86. 86.

    jl

    @A Ghost To Most: I agree. Everything makes sense if Trump has been corrupted by Putin and his oligarch pals, and/or, Trump is a wannabee authoritarian who wants to join the Putin/Duterte/Orban/Salman/Kim club. Time to point that out clearly.

  87. 87.

    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    “Obama apologized to everyone for everything,” the official added. “He felt bad about everything. (Trump) doesn’t feel like he has to apologize for anything America does.”

    One friend of the president offered another obscenity, and referred to former President Barack Obama, to describe the Trump Doctrine.

    “People criticize [Trump] for being opposed to everything Obama did, but we’re justified in canceling out his policies,” said Trump’s friend. “There’s the Obama Doctrine, and the ‘Fuck Obama’ Doctrine. We’re the ‘Fuck Obama’ Doctrine.”

  88. 88.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @satby: For major build upgrade they do save a copy of the previous build(windows.old), I went though something similar about 2 weeks ago when I added a NVMe SSD and wanted to change my old SSD into a cache(it didn’t work) and corrupted my desktop somehow. A couple of fun days.

  89. 89.

    Barbara

    I like how Putin talks up the SCO without acknowledging that China and many other members have rising income and associated standards of living, whereas, Russia has and has had for quite a while, falling income and associated standard of living (not to mention life expectancy). Sure, I accept that to some extent truly emerging economies are going to end up affecting wealthy nations in ways that probably will seem negative to the people living in those nations, but the people who support Trump are the ones MOST LIKELY to be affected in the most negative ways by that development. For them, this would be objectively a bad thing. It still amazes me, to think of people with genuine talent and skill in Russia, and the degree to which Putin either swallows that talent whole for his own benefit or simply destroys it if he can’t see how it helps him or his friends.

  91. 91.

    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    @Gravenstone: At the risk of being “tone policed” these guys are going to continue to run rampant and nothing will be done about it.

  92. 92.

    jc

    How to run against Trump: “There you go again, President Puppet. You didn’t just collude, it was much worse than that. You’ve got a lot of real explaining to do, spare us your weasel-y Tweets.”

  93. 93.

    cintibud

    @rikyrah: My suggested slogan for future elections – Republicans – the anti-democratic party.

    small “d” democratic

  95. 95.

    Calouste

    @Amir Khalid: The shitgibbon and his gabble of incompetents still think it’s 1980, when the US had 50% or more of the world free market economy. These days it is 25% and falling, kind of puts a dent in the leverage they have.

  96. 96.

    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    @A Ghost To Most: I ain’t prepared to do shit about it. What am I supposed to do? Take up arms? Riot in the streets? What ? The only mechanism I have is to vote and that’s it. I have no power, I am not in the Senate, or the House, or part of the Deep State. I ain’t shit.

  98. 98.

    oldgold

    NBC/WSJ poll on whether Mueller investigation should continue, by party:
    Rs – 14% yes, 68% no
    Ds – 79% yes, 8% no
    Inds – 42% yes, 33% no

    non-college men: 31% yes, 55% no
    non-college women: 31% yes, 44% no
    college grad men: 60% yes, 33% no
    college grad women: 53% yes, 27% no

    whites – 41% yes, 42% no
    blacks – 75% yes, 5% no
    Hispanics – 51% yes, 30% no

    We are running out of TIME. Mueller needs to hit the accelerator.

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    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    @oldgold: @oldgold: You’re not wrong. Again I say, if the fate of this country hangs in the balance, then where TF is the Deep State? They can burn this man to the ground in an instant by just dumping everything in the WaPo’s secure Dropbox. So I guess the powers that be are just fine with the way things are. Again, nothing will be done about Trump, other than voting out R’s across the board, which may or may not happen.

  100. 100.

    J R in WV

    @SFAW:

    I think about Santa Cruz Operation Unix.

    And I’m a hardware guy. But I’m also weird.

    Me too, and I never worked in a shop that used SCO Unix… Their law suit period was entertaining, attempting to frame Linux as stolen from SCO. Glad that never flew.

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    Amir Khalid

    @oldgold:
    The Special Counsel investigation has a broad remit. It has yielded indictments already and will yield more. It needs to go on until the Special Counsel and his team have exhausted all avenues of inquiry, and issued all the indictments that their findings justify. They are not working to any partisan political timetable; nor should they, as has already been explained. Whether the investigation goes on is a matter not of public opinion but of legal process. So calm the fuck down.

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    @MomSense:

    I’M STILL PISSED AT THE NADERITES FOR ALITO AND ROBERTS. AND NOW THOSE SAME FOOLS ARE PISSED ABOUT CITIZENS UNITED. HOW THE FUCK DO THEY THINK THAT HAPPENED?????

    Going by the Greens I know; we all didn’t vote for Nader so the Purity Poneys could denounce Nader mid election as a corporate tool and then vote against Nader in the general election, that’s why.

    As others said, way to many people think they are voting as a personal statement and not voting for public policy.

  103. 103.

    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    @oldgold: You’re not wrong. Again I say, if the fate of this country hangs in the balance, where TF is the Deep State. They can burn this man to the grown in an instant by just dumping everything in the WaPo’s secure Dropbox. Again, nothing will be done about Trump, other than voting out R’s across the board, which may or may not happen.

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    @Brachiator:

    The Democratic Party was the party of the white racist South up through the 1960s. This ain’t ancient history.

    I suspect the parties must have started shifting positions on civil rights in the ’20s because FDR went from Woodrow “I like Birth of a Nation” Wilson’s Secretary of the Navy in ’10 to being seen as pro-civil rights president in the ’30s

  106. 106.

    SRW1

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I would swear that a few days ago I either heard or saw a report that a golf game between Trump and Kim was being contemplated as a post-formalities event. Guess that idea was scrapped.

    Nuts! Even if the meeting arrived at an agreement, the two would immediately be at each others throat again over cheating at golf.

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    @germy:

    my timeline is filled with people who think that merkel picture is somehow damaging for donald, when it couldn’t be more exactly what his people and breitbart’s want to see

    It occurred to me that picture looks like the High School principal chewing out some to cool for school dudbro and never mind the youngest person in the picture in in their 60s, in the Consertard mind that’s how they see themselves; perpetual teens perpetually rebelling.

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    @Tilda Swintons Bald Cap:

    “People criticize [Trump] for being opposed to everything Obama did, but we’re justified in canceling out his policies,” said Trump’s friend. “There’s the Obama Doctrine, and the ‘Fuck Obama’ Doctrine. We’re the ‘Fuck Obama’ Doctrine.”

    So will Putin’s ass kisser going to go apologize to Al Qaeda for killing Ben Ladin next?

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    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Nicole:

    Will we riot in the streets or will we accept the media’s spin of this is what Real Ammmuricans want?

    Dead thread, but you should certainly hew closer to former than the latter. Refuse to accept their authority or legitimacy for they have none.

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    Citizen Alan

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I genuinely believe that most Republicans in Washington were utterly heartbroken when OBL was taken out. They’d much rather have a live terrorist plotting to kill us to use as a bogieman than actually do anything to prevent terrorism.

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    Brachiator

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I suspect the parties must have started shifting positions on civil rights in the ’20s because FDR went from Woodrow “I like Birth of a Nation” Wilson’s Secretary of the Navy in ’10 to being seen as pro-civil rights president in the ’30s

    The biggest change probably came from the Democrats adopting a strong civil rights plank during the 1948 presidential convention.

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