Some nutcase named Laura Loomer has donned a yellow star and handcuffed herself to Twitter’s New York headquarters because she was banned for accusing Congresswoman-Elect Ilhan Omar of supporting sharia law. Omar was recently elected to Keith Ellison’s old seat in Minnesota.
If you watch the Periscope livestream you’ll see that the police would probably be well within their rights to perform what we New Yorkers call a Mental Hygiene Arrest. But I’m not a professional and it is happy hour, so perhaps we can just enjoy the fact that she only chained herself to one of the two doors and Twitter employees are heading home while she stands there blabbing about Ilhan Omar being a jihadi.
Open thread.
JPL
I heard she was using a megaphone to say her free speech rights were taken away, because why not use a megaphone to rant about free speech. God Bless America. lol
mattH
Hahahahahah. I think it’s gonna be a long cold night.
Daoud bin Daoud
Project Veritas alumna? Say no more, say no more, nudge nudge wink wink!
Betty Cracker
So she’s not even impeding foot traffic? Good. Leave her dumb ass chained to the door forever.
TenguPhule
@Betty Cracker:
Eventually she’s going to need to pick some flowers.
PhoenixRising
51/49 and a half in process…
A Ghost To Most
rawstory
It’s about time for Yertle to get his .
JPL
@TenguPhule: Poor thing is probably thirsty. Someone needs to hand her a cup of water to drink, and maybe even some coffee. I know green tea might be better.
[Individual 1] mistermix
I wonder if she was smart enough to put on Depends before she started. I hope, for the sake of the janitors at Twitter, that she did.
JPL
@mattH: Awesome!
JPL
@[Individual 1] mistermix: lol It’s time to test that by offering her a drink.
Ladyraxterinok
Do any of you watch youtube decorating videos? Are they called vlogs?
There’s one run by a young woman who calls herself Mr Kate and her husband Joey. When I recently saw a pic of Laura Loomer, I thought she looked a lot like ‘Mr Kate’.
Just a passing noting of bizarre similarity, for the miniscule amount it may be worth.
Baud
A low of 36 degrees tonight with a 10 mph wind.
dmsilev
Did she remember to take the key for whatever lock she used? Let’s hope not.
debit
@Ladyraxterinok: I actually like Mr Kate’s ideas and designs a lot of the time, but I find her endless “OHMYGOSH” hyper squirrellady enthusiasm really annoying. That and the commercials for her sponsors.
Schlemazel
@Baud:
The high today on the tundra was not 36, cry me a glacier!
dmsilev
‘deplatformed’ is a word?
JPL
fyi Sen. Scott is a no on the Thomas Farr nomination. I assumed that when they delayed the vote. Now Mitch is trying to convince Flake to once again disappoint us.
Baud
OT. Some good news from kos.
ETA: Missed it by that much.
Yarrow
@A Ghost To Most: I said close to two years ago now, Mitch is dirty as hell and he knows they know. He’s going down, as is the top Republican leadership and a lot of the Republican rank and file and some Democrats. They’re traitors and traitors will pay.
Elizabelle
WGAF what this loon does?
Don’t harsh our mellow. Finally, a day when it looks like the walls are closing in on Trump, and we get — Laura Loomer. Uh, no.
chopper
the funniest bit:
i can’t comment about the former, but i doubt the latter very much.
TS (the original)
She thought she would be arrested and gone away long ago. Twitter declined.
JPL
@dmsilev: She’s using a f.king megaphone to protest. What else does she want? Businesses have rules and unfortunately she decided they are not for her.
danielx
@A Ghost To Most:
God doesn’t love me that much.
Roger Moore
The most recent news is that Twitter isn’t pressing charges on her, so the police are going to let her stay there handcuffed to the door as long as she likes. The best way of dealing with an attention seeker is to ignore them.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Thank you. Good news is good.
And that guy deserves to go no further. Terrible man. Voter suppression. Enough.
If Tim Scott sticks with his decision, I will call his office to thank him for it.
Baud
Reuters
delk
Her name reminds me of that Gilda Radner character.
gratuitous
The fact that this utterly embarrassing (for her) episode is only my third or fourth favorite story of the day means it’s been one of the best days in a long time.
I promise 10 bucks to any jackal in the vicinity who goes down to the scene of Loomer’s Lonely Stand with a couple of red Solo cups and slowly pours water from one to the other for her edification and enjoyment.
Baud
@Elizabelle: It’s amazing how diversity affects even the Republican side of the aisle.
japa21
@Baud: IOW, it’s going to be positively balmy, right?
debbie
But why chain herself to Twitter? What does Twitter have to do with this? And since she’s on private property, can’t Twitter have her removed from the premises?
debbie
@TS (the original):
She can’t be removed without being arrested?
Baud
@debbie: She was banned from Twitter.
Twitter could have her removed but isn’t going to.
Roger Moore
@debbie:
They banned her for violating their TOS, which is clearly the worst thing since the Shoah.
That’s exactly what she’s hoping for. The best response is to leave her there until she gives up.
Corner Stone
@debbie: If I was Twitter I would bring her coffee. Lots and lots and pots of coffee.
Baud
My mom liked her, but holy cow.
Forbes
debbie
@Baud:
36 and showers. The cesspool persists.
danielx
@Baud:
And there are a lot of people out there who believe she is really a judge.
Corner Stone
@Baud: There is no way she’s making anyone that kind of money.
debbie
@Baud: @Roger Moore:
Thanks. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of her. Who can keep them all straight?
@Corner Stone:
Or, grab her free hand and stick it in a pail of warm water.
dmsilev
@debbie: She managed, somehow, to be reprehensible enough for even Twitter to say “too much”. They banned her, and she’s having a sad. She’s having even more of a sad because they’re not rising to her bait by having her dragged off, but instead are basically just ignoring her.
TS (the original)
@debbie: That’s her choice – the police said they will cut the handcuffs if she wants to go. I’m sure she expected to be dragged away screaming – good for the film – not going to happen.
JustRuss
Projected low for NYC tonight is 30 degrees. Have a nice evening, dumbass.
ruemara
@Baud: I didn’t even know she was still on the air. weird.
I got to see a video clip of her hitting on a young cute Nazi while obvs drunk. This handcuffing episode is way less humiliating.
Baud
@JustRuss: Hmm. I googled and got 36 degrees. That 6 degrees is a big difference. I wonder if you got the wind chill.
@ruemara: Judge Judy hit on a Nazi?
A Ghost To Most
@Yarrow: His behavior almost guarantees Yertle’s complicity in the conspiracy. Now, Pence!
raven
If there are any FDL vets here it’s the Southern Dragon’s birthday. He’s been gone for years but his Facebook page persists.
Gin & Tonic
@chopper:
She should be arrested and sent to Rikers just for that egregious syntax.
Schlemazel
@debbie:
She has made racist & threatening comments on Twitter. Why they chose to ban her & not all the others like her I don’t know but banned she is. Somehow this is a violation of her 1st amendment rights.
Twitter is denying her myterdom which is what she wanted
A Ghost To Most
@JustRuss: Did you just call Baud a dumbass? You’re fucking with a legend, son.
Ladyraxterinok
@debit: Agree. Her manerisms are rather too much. Her earlier shows didn’t have many commercials, as I recall.
gene108
@dmsilev:
If deplane can be a word, why not deplatform?
debbie
@dmsilev:
These kids all think they’re so smart. //
Jay C
@JustRuss:
So, reportedly. Laura Looney sent out a request for some gloves and a heavier jacket – yellow “Jude” star optional, one supposes – to deal with the cold: I just have to wonder how she’s going to get them on over the handcuffs…
Oh well, martyrdom isn’t supposed to be easy…
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: Don’t know the details there, but Twitter probably doesn’t own the building, some REIT does. So Twitter would have to get the landlord’s management company to call for her removal.
Mary G
Before she was banned I’d see people quoting her tweets that she sent from the terrifying environment of NYC where she was persecuted because Uber or Lyft or whatever would not send her an “American” driver but only scary Muslims or blacks. She’d take pictures of women on the street in hijabs and post whatever rightwing gibberish came into her “mind” at the moment along with them. She is well deserving of being banned and it cracks me up that she expected Twitter to press charges and they are just letting her stand there raving. She has allegedly lost the keys to her handcuffs. Maybe she’ll catch pneumonia!
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: NWS has a low of 34 with winds of 7-16 mph.
debbie
@Schlemazel:
I Googled for photos. That yellow Jewish star is beyond the pale.
debbie
Ian G.
Goddamn, why do I have to be a responsible parent and go straight home after work to play with my daughter when I really want to head uptown to make fun of this person for several hours?
Baud
@Ian G.: Take the kid!
Elizabelle
@A Ghost To Most: Pretty sure the dumbass in Just Russ’s comment is Ms. Loomer.
She does bring Snack Team 6 to mind. Not dressed for the weather, and she may not have thought as far ahead as keeping her (shrill strength) energy up.
debbie
@Ian G.:
Where in NYC is Twitter HQ?
Ruviana
@raven: I remember when FDL announced his death. RIP.
Elizabelle
@Ian G.: And the kid’s water pistol!
gene108
@A Ghost To Most:
The sad thing is, I am not sure Kentucky voters would care. He’s up for re-election in 2020, and depending on who the Dems run for President , ie white man versus non-white man, they may just end up voting for Cocaine Mitch to limit what a non-white man will do in the White House.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: No.
Mary G
@Baud: My mother loved Judge Judy too, and even more her bailiff, Petri Hawkins-Byrd, who has one of the best eyerolls in the business. I Googled him and Wikipedia says:
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: It’s in Chelsea. W 17th. And it appears they may, in fact, own the building, contrary to my half-assed speculation upthread.
lollipopguild
@gene108: When you get off of the train you are detraining and when you leave the train platform you are deplatforming. When you arrive at the park you are parking and when you leave the park you are deparking. (Exiting stage left)
Ian G.
@debbie:
Not sure, probably in midtown. I work down by Wall St.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
FREEEEEEEEDUMMMMMMMM B
ruemara
@Baud: lol, Laura Loomer. Where she talked about being jewish with him and said one of the benefits is that she has big tits. It was very sad.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
I used to work at 19th and Fifth, just before Chelsea became cool.
gene108
@lollipopguild:
Considering deplane is a word, it all makes sense.
Gin & Tonic
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “Ignominy” is one of my favorite English words.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@ruemara: I got to see a video clip of her hitting on a young cute Nazi while obvs drunk.
Judge Judy?
ETA: Dammit, outpaced again!
C Stars
I just…I’m sorry but I just can’t help feeling sorry for her. That level of neediness is pathological, innit? There’s something wrong in the girl’s head. Someone needs to take her home and give her some medication.
Gin & Tonic
@debbie:
Holy cow, you’re old.
Roger Moore
@Schlemazel:
She also apparently interrupted Jack Dorsey’s congressional testimony with accusations he was silencing conservatives, so it’s possible that Twitter was interested in finding an excuse.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Which inevitably leads to Question # 2?
OzarkHillbilly
I suppose I am the only person here inclined to go down there with a blanket, a nice hot cup of soup, and a pair of bolt cutters.
Pretty sure she’d be gone by 3 AM.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and place them all just out of her reach?
Elizabelle
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That’s what she will be remembered for, after this ridiculous protest.
Peeing her pants in public. Well done, Ms. Loomer.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: I wish you could do that wearing a hijab.
ruemara
@Baud: Shit, take some warm cocoa & drink it near her.
joel hanes
@raven:
FDL
I read it for, Marcy and TRex, then for tbogg after he shut down his independent house of bassets and Shakira worship.
It became utterly weird when Hamsher went all attack-dog on the Dems, and I could no longer even.
I’m glad Marcy has her own gig now; I miss TRex and tbogg.
Elizabelle
@OzarkHillbilly: Tell her Allah sent you. Praise be to the great prophet, Mohammed.
Chyron HR
@chopper:
If THAT’S what this is about she can just go ahead and do it rather than coming up with an excuse. We’re not judgmental.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@lollipopguild: What time do you debed and then dehouse for work in the morning?
Gin & Tonic
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
Careful. Or the “The” goes back in front of “Ukraine.”
Baud
“It’s delightful, it’s delicious,
It’s delectable, it’s delirious,
It’s dilemma, it’s delimit, it’s deluxe,
It’s de-lovely”.
Baud
@debbie: haha. you mean.
raven
@joel hanes: Trex lives up the street! When Jane did that I railed until she gave me the boot. I really like Christy Hardin Smith too.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@joel hanes: Tbogg is alive and well and posting on twitter and Raw Story. I always liked Christie, who I believe posted as ReddHead and quit blogging due to health problems (?). She was a calming presence even before Hansher went fully off the rails. I hope she’s doing well.
Mandalay
According to Twitter, which never lies….
Baud
@Mandalay: Ah, well. Back to reality.
C Stars
Just read (on Twitter!) that she has ended her protest and the police cut her free. Dinnertime, I guess…
ETA Mandalay beat me to it.
TenguPhule
@Baud: Bad Precedent if subpoenas can be ignored. Comey is still “helping” us all.
stop helping, Comey.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Or somewhere….
Baud
@TenguPhule: Huh? Anyone can go to court to fight a subpoena. As they should be able to. Old and good precedent.
Roger Moore
@C Stars:
Yeah, having read some more about her previous antics, I’m pretty sure she’s not mentally well.
Elizabelle
@Mandalay: But her pants. Are they wet or dry? Is her walk normal, or urgent?
Screws loose among these Project Veritas people. Sad, sad, sad.
Roger Moore
@joel hanes:
TBogg is still posting amusing stuff on the Twitters.
japa21
@TenguPhule: I think he wants any testimony he gives to be at an open hearing rather than a closed hearing.
Major Major Major Major
@PhoenixRising:
Heh.
Ohio Mom
@OzarkHillbilly: You may be the only one person here with a pair of bolt cutters. A lot of us aren’t all that handy.
No matter what happens, I doubt that Ms. Loomer comes out of this episode any wiser than when she went in. She seems pretty incorrigible.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Good idea, If I was in NY I would.
eta: and tape it.
TenguPhule
@Ohio Mom:
Fairly sure she left emptier then she started.
Wild Cat
Per Wiki, she’s a history of earning filthy lucre from the rubes playing the right-wing hustle game .
Aleta
1–1+ min video of the Crenshaw Blvd Mural by Wanda Weaver
2–A 41 sec video of some of its parts, by Pure Heart Media Productions
3–4+ min from 2014 for The Crenshaw Wall Restoration Project, by director and Black Panther historian Gregory Everett.
“The mission of the Crenshaw Wall Restoration Project is to restore the current mural and use a special coating technique to protect it against the elements and vandalism. We also will dedicate the wall as a historical landmark, petition for a square dedication, and attach a plaque describing the mural and giving credit to its creators.”
OzarkHillbilly
@Ohio Mom: Say WHAT??? I thought everybody had a pair of bolt cutters. A thousand and one uses!
(I have 2 pair: Medium and honkin’ large.)
LesGS
@japa21: Which is smart, because if it’s a closed hearing, the Republicans would more easily be able to lie about and distort his testimony.
TenguPhule
I wonder if Trump and the GOP will shutdown the IRS, Homeland Security and the other agencies yet to be funded into the following fiscal year?
ETA: Also, December 7th would be like Peak Black Comedy Irony.
Schlemazel
@debbie:
she is below scum.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle: She and Ted Nugent friends?
J R in WV
Well, some folks are really REALLY stupid, and nazis are in the set of stupid, wioth added evil.
Hope she gets really really cold and miserable. The First Amendment is a great rule, I’m glad it restrains the government’s actions. But everyone should know it doesn’t restrain private entities much at all. There are other laws and regulations that do, but not in this case.
Cold and stupid, so sad!
MomSense
I’m making a spicy Thai butternut squash soup and jamming to this song magic blues. I’m also sipping some red wine and savoring the impending doom of the trump crime family and the rest of the traitors. Never been one for capital punishment but I wouldn’t mind if they all met Mussolini’s fate.
debbie
@MomSense:
Ha! Is there a street pole strong enough to hold Trump hanging upside down?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ohio Mom:
Not true, I have bolt cutters.
ETA: Or as my dad called them, the master passkey.
MomSense
@debbie:
We need some fortified street lamps!
Elizabelle
@MomSense: I’m down with that. Mussolini was actually a more impressive person than Trump.
I’m good with Mitch McConnell being hung for being a traitor, too.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Glad to see you in good spirits!
By the way, I think the reply button is caught up in your link, but there may still be time for you to fix it.
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’ve got bolt cutters! Whether I would use them to rescue a right wing hut job? Maybe.
japa21
@MomSense: TenguPhule, is that you?
lollipopguild
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Depends on dework schedule.
MomSense
@joel hanes:
T. rex has a podcast on patreon. I throw a few coins in his hat when I can. Hebhad a really bad heart attack a year and a half ago (or so). He lives in Raven’s town and is in a band, kompromat, that performs there.
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
I tried but it didn’t work. Must be the red wine!
Aleta
@OzarkHillbilly: I don’t know where mine went. Disappeared some years ago. Maybe I should look if someone put them with the rusted tree trimmers.
geg6
@OzarkHillbilly:
We have bolt cutters. You are not alone.
Roger Moore
@debbie:
I know a sure way of finding out.
chopper
@Schlemazel:
of course it is. the constitution says we have the right to free tweets.
Litlebritdifrnt
@dmsilev: We once had a photocopier guy come to my office to “deinstall” the paper sorter. I asked him “what the fuck is wrong with the word “remove””
chopper
@Chyron HR:
truth be told, she already has peed on herself. metaphorically speaking.
OzarkHillbilly
I am happy to hear I am not the last liberal bolt cutter.
dm
I’m hoping Adam or Cheryl will have some comments about the near simultaneity of:
– German federal authorities raid Deutsche Bank on money-laundering charges
– US federal authorities raid one of Trump’s tax lawyers in Chicago
– Oh, and Michael Cohen files more pleas
MomSense
@dm:
It means we are getting close to the big reveal. This is why I’m more relaxed tonight than I’ve been in two years.
Tick fucking tock motherfuckers.
raven
@Ohio Mom: I have 2, small and large.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: 2 here
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I have 2.
FDRLincoln
I was just laid off from my job of 13 years. No warning, and my health insurance expires in 24 hours, and i have a disabled son.
Financially I will be OK for a few weeks at least, but the health insurance thing is freaking me out.
A Ghost To Most
@MomSense: Yep. The previews are over, and the main feature is about to begin. It’s time for Arrestivus, for the rest of us.
jl
@A Ghost To Most: No Collusion! No Collusion! It was a Straight Up Deal! And was a Top, Strong Deal, very Strong, the Best Deal! No reason can’t do business while president.
CarolDuhart2
@Mary G: Not surprised. She probably has a share of everything such as: residuals from re-runs, a share of the current syndication proceeds, maybe even stock in the company. And re-runs are pure gravy: as long as they don’t look too dated, they can run forever and ever. There’s one channel that shows old game shows: Judge Judy re-runs aren’t even a stretch compared to that. And she gets paid every time they run.
I bet she also has international syndication as well.
raven
@MomSense: A friend was the ER doc that saved him. T lost his health insurance and had to do a go fund me too.
MomSense
@FDRLincoln:
This is a qualifying event but it is also open enrollment now. You can go to healthcare.gov or your state’s exchange, if you have one, and sign up for health insurance. If your son is disabled, he may qualify for additional benefits through Medicaid. David Anderson usually posts in the morning but you can go to the contact a front pager link and send him an email with the particulars of your situation. He is a fantastic resource.
I’m so very sorry this happened to you, especially at this time of year. We are here for you. Please let us know how you are holding up and what we can do to support you.
Sending you a big hug.
MomSense
@raven:
It has been such an ordeal for him. I’m amazed by how positive he has been throughout.
How are you doing?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: You and me brother.
@FDRLincoln: Get on Healthcare.gov now. My wife lost her job of 30 years on !!/2 and I put it off a couple weeks. Now we are down to the wire and her former employer is still dragging their ass on one single piece of paper work. We go naked in 36 hrs.
joel hanes
@MomSense:
T. rex has a podcast on patreon.
Thanks. Unfortunately, I only do text; podcasts, even those made by driftglass, are simply too slow.
raven
@MomSense: I’m fine, I went to the ophthalmologist today and we are actually fairly happy to know there was a reason for the vision issues (that have subsided). I had a “pons stroke”:
“Strokes in the brain stem do not affect language ability, and this makes it easier to participate in rehabilitation therapy. Vertigo and double vision typically resolve if the stroke is mild or moderate.”
So I’m jammin.
thx
MomSense
@joel hanes:
But the proleftpod is the best! You may have to log in on your computer and give listening a try.
MomSense
@raven:
Glad to hear it. I think you need a fishing trip.
joel hanes
@FDRLincoln:
COBRA
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/health-plans/cobra
It won’t be cheap, but it’ll probably be cheaper than going naked if your kid’s problems cost a lot.
If you go that route, cram in every damned covered service during the COBRA period.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Good news
raven
@MomSense: Tuesday, 10,000 Islands with my homies. First we gotta beat Bama!
Cheryl Rofer
@dm: I’ve been saying that when things happen, they will happen quickly to minimize the damage Trump can do, either to the legal case or to the country. It looks like we may be coming to that point. If that is the case, today is only the beginning.
Mueller is structuring things so that his legal filiings tell the story and are often backed up by potential action by the states, so pardons will mean little.
As to the specifics of the DeutscheBank and Chicago raids, along with the Cohen charge, we don’t know enough to draw conclusions by my standards. And we probably won’t hear about the two raids for a while. They could even be something else, but the timing certainly looks suspicious.
As more information comes out, I think we will see connections that we never would have guessed. It’s going to be a rough ride.
debbie
@raven:
Good news!
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Yea, he and my research says these kinds of strokes are hard to diagnose and the neuro just missed it on her first look at the MRI.
Cheryl Rofer
@FDRLincoln: Get on the exchange! You have two weeks to get insurance that way.
ETA: I see others have beaten me to it. Let me emphasize getting in touch with David Anderson. He knows what to do.
debbie
@FDRLincoln:
So sorry to read this. I was laid off after 16 years, but I only had me to worry about. Are you not eligible for COBRA coverage for the next year?
zhena gogolia
@FDRLincoln:
I wish you all the best. Listen to the collective wisdom of the jackals.
JR
@Jay C: I would give her a fucking space heater. She can stay handcuffed there for a week for all I care
Patricia Kayden
@FDRLincoln: Wow. So sorry to hear this news. Hoping that the ACA can help you somehow.
JPL
@C Stars: Someone is paying her, or she is auditioning for a right wing radio gig.
CarolDuhart2
@Patricia Kayden: Don’t ignore Medicaid for yourself. Apply if possible-your income will immediately drop to whatever unemployment gives you, which is probably below the limit on Medicaid and other assistance. And file for it, both for the paperwork and the money you need until other coverage kicks in.
joel hanes
@raven:
T lost his health insurance and had to do a go fund me too.
I hadn’t known. Thanks, I hit that.
Here’s the link.
https://www.gofundme.com/support-the-trex-report/
I’d be glad to help help FDRLincoln or OzarkHillbilly if they went that route.
You know, maybe we need a front-page fundraiser for a rotating fund for jackal life emergencies.
Patricia Kayden
Mueller has done a great job so far which is why Trump has recently taken to freaking out about “McCarthyism” in his rage tweets. The shoes keep a dropping.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@FDRLincoln: Oh god. I’m so sorry.
Patricia Kayden
@CarolDuhart2: That’s a great suggestion for FDRLincoln.
raven
@joel hanes: Yea I got some nice responses to the one I posted for friends of friends in Paradise.
MomSense
@raven:
Yes!!! I’m looking forward to the photos!
FDRLincoln
I live in KS which has not expanded medicaid and has the strictest eligibility requirements in the country, so no help there. I checked COBRA and that’s $1600 a month. Will check the exhange next.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@FDRLincoln: That sucks, touch base with David Anderson, he’s good but no Mayhew.
BTW, if anyone who like my pics is interested in buying one(or some) you can access my store by clicking on my nym. I’ve added a bunch of new stuff the past couple of weeks. If you liked something that you’ve seen me post here that’s not there, email me via my store’s email and I’ll make it happen.
ETA; My photos make lovely holiday gifts?.
Roger Moore
@Cheryl Rofer:
This sounds reasonable to me. It’s important to remember that Trump has surrounded himself with criminals. There’s always a chance they were under investigation already and this is completely unrelated to the Trump/Russia investigation. Even if the raids were triggered by material Cohen turned over to Mueller, it may be ancillary criminal activity that was referred to other prosecutors as not germane to the core topic of the investigation.
joel hanes
@MomSense:
You may have to log in on your computer
I am always on my computer, enjoying a 27 inch monitor, a physical keyboard, and a wired connection.
I really don’t do mobile devices, despite having made them for a living for the last decade.
Hate software keyboards; send texts only in emergencies.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@joel hanes: Same here, but I can write on my phone(I have a Note8). I usually send most of my texts or Kakaotalk from my computer.
Steeplejack
@dmsilev:
“Deplatformed”? Isn’t that when you go out a fifth-floor window and land on a pile of bullets?
Chris Johnson
@dm: But that’s the tell, you don’t need Adam to tell you that. They hit Deutsche Bank and Ed Burke, who’s really politically powerful in Chicago. This is the springing of the trap and they’re not messing around: it’s got a fair amount to do with why I think the Trump inner circle is on their way to Russia, never to return.
Trump canceled all his meetings. He tried to cancel the meeting with Putin. I think that was him being the crazy narcissist and going ‘no no I got this! I will return and I’m going to tell them all what shit they are!’ since he is a total fool.
Putin went NOPE! They will be making their rendezvous, no matter what Trump does or says en route.
What with Deutsche Bank and Burke getting swarmed by feds, there is nothing for Trump or any of his people, here. It’s starkly obvious the time is now. I wonder if they’re still in the air. I wonder where McConnell is, what Paul Ryan is doing, what Pence is thinking. I’m betting Pence is another one of Putin’s guys. His job was to do nothing and look determined, waiting for… well, it looks like, waiting for today. Or indeed tomorrow.
Interesting times. If I am wrong about this stuff, I’m very interested to learn how. But Trump trying and failing to cancel a meeting with Putin is in no way unexpected: the guy is totally unpredictable and it stands to reason he’ll even fuck up his own exit strategy, probably because he wants to go back and fight. He’d be doomed, but he’ll still want to go back and just try and narcissist his way out of it. Not happening, though.
I don’t think Putin is going to hurt them: if he meant to see ’em burned he could have just let them all stay in the USA, because they’re obviously toast and everybody who’s privy to the truth knows it. I’m not, but all this is pretty obvious so I’m calling it and hoping it doesn’t unfold quite the way I’ve outlined, because I’m describing Putin’s best possible tactics that would do the most damage. Mueller hasn’t wanted to wreck the government by rendering most of it invalid and discredited. At this point, Putin’s best tactic is whatever would discredit the US government the most.
thalarctosMaritimus
@Elizabelle:
“Hanged”. Please.
And could someone pass the brain bleach, stat?
Ben Cisco
@raven: Glad to hear you’re doing better brother.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Chris Johnson: You’ve obviously got a hold of the good stuff, the least you could do is share with your fellow jackals.
Gin & Tonic
Speaking of photos, being from the East Coast I don’t get this much – Solana Beach sunset.
catclub
@Yarrow:
Like they executed R E Lee for killing 100’s of thousands?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic: Great pic, except for the sensor dust in the upper right corner.
JPL
@Chris Johnson: Trump is curled up in knots not knowing what to do. He’d be better off chained to the twitter office in NYC.
FDRlincoln
Good news: just heard from my union rep that health insurance will be extended until negotiations for a severance package are completed next week. The package should include further extension of benefits, hopefully giving me enough time to find another job.
That’s a relief.
Brendan in NC
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I doubt it. She’s too old for Ted…
Gin & Tonic
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Little blob all the way on the left, too. Good eye.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@FDRlincoln: That helps quite a bit, timing still sucks.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brendan in NC: This is true, but it’s how he got out of Nam.
gene108
@FDRLincoln:
Healthcare.gov has open enrollment until 12/15/2018.
Take a look, as soon as you can.
Sorry you got laid off. Hopefully, you can find another job soon.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: Sunset overlooking St Helene Sound from Edisto Island!
Emma
@C Stars: The problem is that she hurts innocent people in her quest for whatever it is she needs. My sympathy gets rerouted to her victims.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@FDRlincoln: I feel relief and it’s not my insurance on the line! Thank god for unions and a rep to let you know what’s going on.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@raven: Don’t we all? I may only have the small pair left as I think my ex got the large ones in the split and I didn’t replace them (yet).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I chalked the left as some lens vignetting, but that might be an accumulation of dust there. Since I shoot with mirrorless cameras, I’m always looking for sensor dust on my stuff(Lightroom has a pretty easy way to find and get rid of it).
raven
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Ya never need em till you need em!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That comment was intended as a reply to Gin & Tonic.
@raven: Pretty good, Y’all are going to make me head down to PV to shoot again.
(Not today, it’s raining and my car’s in the shop.)
Gin & Tonic
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Fixed, I think.
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Nice. But probably not the same bird.
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I hate when this shit happens before Christmas.
eemom
Another FDL alum here. Sorry to hear that about TRex. Things still good with his husband and kitties?
Also, while I hate to admit it, I’m curious: anyone know where Hamsher vanished to after she sold her soul to the devil?
Aleta
raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Are those watermarks on your photos?
Steeplejack
@Mandalay:
Maquisard Doublé: “So no live stream then?”
Kay
Let’s welcome Cohen to the Democratic side.
He’ll be one of those horrible, bitter side-switchers, like David Brock.
Maybe this isn’t a great idea.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Yes, it’s the Alex Theater here in town. The watermarks are only on the display pics.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic: Yup, looks good.
Gin & Tonic
At the botanic garden.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: When Satan’s contractor lost their contract, we were told a week before Christmas. The charitable case for telling us before Christmas, is that if we bought the wife something expensive like a new car, you could cancel the order.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic: Good shot, I’ve not had much luck shooting them at The Huntington.
Steve in the ATL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: that’s actually a Not Shitty thing to do. Though for companies that are not in desperate financial straits, it’s better to have a “quiet period” from thanksgiving through the end of the year.
JustRuss
@Elizabelle: @Elizabelle:
Indeed. Everyone knows the first rule of BJ is never go after the Baud….and if you do, make sure you don’t miss!
Gin & Tonic
@?BillinGlendaleCA: They’re quick. You have to be very patient.
Gin & Tonic
@Gin & Tonic: Got one in Death Valley a few years ago too.
Gravenstone
@FDRlincoln: Let’s hear it for the unions backing you guys up! Hopefully you can get coverage until you get a safe landing somewhere else, and soon.
different-church-lady
That’s Future New York Times Op-Ed Writer Laura Loomer to you, buddy.
Ken
@lollipopguild: If someone who has left a plane is deplaned, I deduce that Ms. Loomer has recently left a range.
different-church-lady
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Try a net next time.
Amir Khalid
@Ken:
Well played.
Chris T.
@raven: Indeed, there’s no blood test for stroke like there is for heart attack (though the heart attack one must be done within ~6 hours of the suspected incident—it’s a test for a particular creatine kinase subtype that’s specific to cardiac muscle).
There are potential bio-markers for brain-attack, but there are no tests for them yet, at least.
Ken
@debbie:
Best time to help the company’s bottom line. Also, some manager gets to write “proactively de-enhanced headcount to actualize a strategy of transformational synergy” on his Q4 report and get a bigger bonus.
lollipopguild
@Ken: I like it!
Chetan Murthy
@gratuitous: (1) Public consumption of alcohol on the street is legal in NYC; (2) alcohol is a diuretic[1]. Instead of two SOLO cups, mix a Cosmo on the spot and offer -that- to her *grin*
[1] Bet she doesn’t know that; these conservatives are almost always dolts.
Raven
@Chris T.: And I can’t really pinpoint an incident. I experienced the peripheral double vision for a while before I went to the doc.
J R in WV
@Chris T.:
Wife was in ICU with Septic shock and a constant battery of tests showed a potential cardiac event. When she was nearing departure/discharge from hospital they did a coronary test which showed no damage nor need for other work.
They surmised it may have been a tiny bit of matter that broke off inside an artery to no real effect. I don’t know how likely that was, but she’s still kicking some years later and after trips to the Carrib islands, Spain and France, Italy and Baja California for whale petting and kissing.
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky, isn’t it?!!
lollipopguild
@J R in WV: Whale kissing? Humans and whales living together??????