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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Hail to the Hairpiece / Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Running in Even Bigger Circles, Faster

Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Running in Even Bigger Circles, Faster

by Anne Laurie|  January 22, 20194:58 am| 131 Comments

This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Science & Technology, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Clown Shoes

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CERN wants to go super-sized. https://t.co/DAlFVIM08f

— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) January 22, 2019

Hmmm. $5.7B For a tunnel. Isn't there also something that costs $5.7B that's the opposite of a tunnel?

— Nymquaat (@nymquaat_bearer) January 22, 2019

It's the only way to get us out of the Trump time fart. https://t.co/lZJDVjB98p

— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 22, 2019


 
There is definitely something wrong with this particular timeline…

I don’t think “stamina” means what either Peter King or the @nytimes reporters think it means. https://t.co/QwZqqAu42H pic.twitter.com/HscQM8YQ4p

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 21, 2019

President Trump's official Facebook account has been posting photoshopped images that make his fingers look longer. Seriously. https://t.co/6DtYhICTCO pic.twitter.com/iVGfkVe5Vj

— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) January 21, 2019

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 5:38 am

    That not an example of stamina or unreliability. That’s just crazy.

    And, no, he didn’t “leap” up and punch a whole in the ceiling.

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    January 22, 2019 at 5:41 am

    What Ajerica needs now is images on social media that have been Photoshopped to make Trump’s nose look longer.

  3. 3.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 5:43 am

    North Korea: secret missile HQ uncovered as nuclear summit nears

    Revelation comes weeks before Kim Jong-un is due to meet Donald Trump to discuss denuclearisation

    I am shocked, shocked I tell you! But don’t worry, super tuff master negotiator donny dollhands will make Kim blow it up at the upcoming photo-op…. I mean summit.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    January 22, 2019 at 5:50 am

    A truncated Infrastructure Week commences…

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    January 22, 2019 at 5:51 am

    @NotMax

    Y’know what? Scratch that. Make it Infrablechture Week.

    ;)

  6. 6.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 5:51 am

    Good Morning, Everyone ???

  7. 7.

    SRW1

    January 22, 2019 at 5:52 am

    Sloppy photoshop work. They forgot to bulge up the manhood corner of Trump’s pants while they were at it.

  8. 8.

    Kay

    January 22, 2019 at 5:54 am

    And, no, he didn’t “leap” up and punch a whole in the ceiling.

    The whole thing sounds invented. “One of his executives”. Guffaw.

  9. 9.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 5:56 am

    Oliver Willis (@owillis) Tweeted:
    The right’s gaslighting of the maga kid video is right out of spousal abuse 101. “No you didn’t see what you saw, you must have been mistaken. You’re hysterical and out of control.”

    https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1087570411515273218?s=17

  10. 10.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 5:57 am

    @Baud: “And broke his hand on the 6″ sprinkler main above it.”

  11. 11.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 6:00 am

    @rikyrah: Good morning.

  12. 12.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 6:02 am

    John Lester (@lesterohio) Tweeted:
    @lisasharper Here is a picture of boys from Covington Catholic High School taunting a black player from another team in 2015. Many of them wearing black face. This school is a hotbed of racism in Northern Kentucky.

    https://t.co/7JdyNRSeBO https://twitter.com/lesterohio/status/1087379078238351361?s=17

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 6:04 am

    Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) Tweeted:
    The cultists are already screaming that Kamala Harris “is not a progressive.” But these are the same cultists who are insisting that right wing conservative Tulsi Gabbard is a progressive. We were up against this cult lunacy in 2016 and it clearly hasn’t gone away.

    https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1087427385627013120?s=17

  14. 14.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2019 at 6:06 am

    The moon lit San Gabriels.

  15. 15.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 6:09 am

    Travis Allen ?? (@TravisAllen02) Tweeted:
    Why can’t we use Thoughts and Prayers to protect the border?

    It’s what we use to protect our schools.

    https://twitter.com/TravisAllen02/status/1087441840708685825?s=17

  16. 16.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 6:12 am

    linds (@roflinds) Tweeted:
    The Covington Catholic boys harrassed my friends and I before the incident with Nathan Phillips even happened. I’m tired of reading things saying they were provoked by anyone else other than their own egos and ignorance ??‍♀️
    https://t.co/utdPFii92D https://twitter.com/roflinds/status/1087486166939680768?s=17

  17. 17.

    Betty Cracker

    January 22, 2019 at 6:14 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Pretty.

  18. 18.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2019 at 6:16 am

    @Betty Cracker: Thanks, it was the shot I wanted to try to get in addition to the eclipse shots.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 6:16 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Agree with @Betty Cracker.

  20. 20.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 6:19 am

    @rikyrah: Maybe we should judge candidates based on substance rather than labels.

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 6:24 am

    @rikyrah: Heh.

  22. 22.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 6:25 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    So pretty ?

  23. 23.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2019 at 6:25 am

    @rikyrah:
    @Baud: Thanks, I’m pretty happy with it. I darkened the skies and that provided a bit more contrast for the snow on the mountains.

  24. 24.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 6:25 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Very nice.

  25. 25.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2019 at 6:27 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Thanks.

  26. 26.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 6:27 am

    @Baud: KILL THE HERETIC! KILL THE HERETIC!

  27. 27.

    JPL

    January 22, 2019 at 6:29 am

    @Baud: hmmm Baud 2020

  28. 28.

    JPL

    January 22, 2019 at 6:31 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: The eclipse shots are pretty amazing also.

  29. 29.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 6:32 am

    Donuts before Bronuts. I’m a Kamalastan (@KildayMorgan) Tweeted:
    Come for Kamala Harris like you did for Hillary and it will be your end. We’re done being nice. We’re done forming secret groups in support of our favorite candidates to avoid harassment and we’re done giving the media a pass.

    https://twitter.com/KildayMorgan/status/1087394150834733064?s=17

  30. 30.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 6:33 am

    John Dean (@JohnWDean) Tweeted:
    The great-grandson of an immigrant is President of the USA. He has closed the government because Congress will not give him the $$ to build a wall to keep immigrants like his great-grandfather out of the country. Trump’s petty, pathetic and weird. Extortion isn’t negotiation.

    https://twitter.com/JohnWDean/status/1087603863459221509?s=17

  31. 31.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 6:42 am

    @rikyrah: trump is Hispanic? Whocouldanode…

  32. 32.

    Immanentize

    January 22, 2019 at 6:50 am

    Good Morning All! Tuesday that is Monday…. Literally in my case because there are so many Monday holidays in the spring semester, today is on a Monday class schedule….

    And it is warming up : 7 degrees now.

  33. 33.

    Ken

    January 22, 2019 at 7:06 am

    @rikyrah:

    great-grandson of an immigrant is President

    Weren’t both his mother and his father’s mother also immigrants? As are his current wife and her parents.

  34. 34.

    Ken

    January 22, 2019 at 7:07 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Especially if he’s one of the “No Labels” crowd, a.k.a “Republicans”.

  35. 35.

    debbie

    January 22, 2019 at 7:09 am

    @rikyrah:

    I just listened to an interview on NPR with a Kentucky state representative who was an alum of Covington. He blamed everyone but the kids. He even blamed the cameras.

  36. 36.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 7:11 am

    @Ken:

    No Labels is a label. #MindBlown

  37. 37.

    debbie

    January 22, 2019 at 7:18 am

    @Ken:

    Yes, yes, and yes.

  38. 38.

    Barney

    January 22, 2019 at 7:27 am

    This is an advert for corporal punishment. The subject is incapable of learning a simple fact about the building, and repeatedly returns to it and makes a fool of himself. Finally, he loses his temper so much that he punches a hole on a ceiling. The pain from this was obviously enough to make it finally stick in his mind, so that he remembered something. He knew not to go back and reveal himself as an idiot anymore.

    Moral of the story: to get Trump to learn something new, you need something to whack him with. A rolled-up copy of Forbes, say.

  39. 39.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 7:29 am

    The sun never sets on the British Empire: Hopefuls pay out thousands of rupees to chase Gurkha glory in Nepal

    Long before the sun rises above the towering Himalayan peaks that overlook Pokhara in central Nepal, scores of young men gather in the dark on the edge of the town to train for the race of a lifetime. At the starter’s signal, they charge off, first heaving a 25kg sack of sand into a “doko” wicker basket on their backs, and then starting a gruelling 5km race up the steep mountainside. Finish in less than 46 minutes and they have a chance to join the Gurkhas, the legendary brigade of the British army.

    The Gurkhas’ reputation as a fighting force is almost mythical: brave young men from the hills of Nepal who fight by the motto, “Better to die than to be a coward”. This month hundreds of Nepalese young men aged 18-21 are battling it out at the British Gurkha Camp in Pokhara for just 400 coveted places, in a series of demanding physical and mental tests, which include the feared “doko race”. To make it this far, they have already seen off more than 6,000 young hopefuls who signed up for the regional selection phase in late summer 2018.

    The prize is not just a job in the British army, but a lucrative salary and pension, and the right to settle in the UK. For young men from one of the poorest countries in Asia, it is like winning the lottery.

    The British army insists the recruitment process is, “free, fair and transparent”, but with so much riding on selection, Gurkha recruitment has become big business for private training academies across Nepal.

    It has also become the target of bribery and extortion from unscrupulous dalals, or agents. They approach families of some potential recruits claiming to be able to use contacts at the British camp to secure them a place with the Gurkhas in exchange for a payment of tens of thousands of pounds.

    Still mining their former colonies.

  40. 40.

    Sloane Ranger

    January 22, 2019 at 7:40 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Technically Nepal was never part of the British Empire.Would point out that all applicants are volunteers and pay and benefits for those who are successful are higher than they would expect to earn in Nepal. Plus opportunities for travel.

  41. 41.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 7:40 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: It’s like the NCAA.

  42. 42.

    JDM

    January 22, 2019 at 7:49 am

    @Kay:

    The whole thing sounds invented.

    The exploding at inanimate objects is classic Trump. One of the guys writing about him in the 90s, I think it was, told of seeing him go ballistic over a water fixture and physically attacking it. The guy has always been a loose cannon. Leaping, however, is not within his abilities. Clambering up on a chair, maybe.

  43. 43.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 7:49 am

    @Immanentize:
    You make me laugh about the 7 degrees. I understand ?

  44. 44.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 22, 2019 at 7:51 am

    Good morning! or Blech! as you prefer.

    It seems that the “she’s for mass incarceration” ploy has lodged in the minds of some progressives I know. Can anyone ‘splain to me what the deal is with the prosecutorial charges (heh) against Kamala? Something tells me there’s some context being left out

  45. 45.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 7:54 am

    I don’t pay attention to Rudy’s performance art… But, TAPES?

    Is that new?

    Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) Tweeted:
    Giuliani tells NYer he’s “been through all the tapes” and that’s how he knew BuzzFeed misreported. Pressed on what he means by tapes, Giuliani: “I shouldn’t have said tapes.” Pressed again, says, “I have listened to tapes, but none of them concern this.”

    https://t.co/f1DRUltSRf https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1087563055226146816?s=17

  46. 46.

    Kirk Spencer

    January 22, 2019 at 7:54 am

    @Sloane Ranger: Yep. Travel the world. Meet interesting people. Kill them.

  47. 47.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 22, 2019 at 7:55 am

    @Immanentize:

    there are so many Monday holidays in the spring semester

    Yes. I had to collapse parts of my course schedule this semester because I teach Monday nights. My students will have to scramble, but most of the scheduling pain is in the first few weeks, which is mostly review of what they should already know. After that comes the regularly scheduled pain of learning new material.

  48. 48.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 7:56 am

    @Sloane Ranger:

    While potential recruits do not have to pay anything to the British army, they are shelling out thousands of pounds to join training academies, which promise to prepare them for recruitment.

    The number of academies nationwide has increased fivefold in the past 10 years to more than a hundred. Many candidates sign up months before the British army’s first phase of recruitment, and if they make the cut, they stay on at the academies until final selection, meaning the schools are guaranteed a year-round income with no shortage of repeat clients.

    The standard admission fee is 35,000 rupees for each phase of recruitment, but a candidate who spends a whole year at an academy can easily pay £1,800 in admission and hostel fees. Nepal’s per capita income is less than £800 a year.

    “The academies are like a trap … There is a fiction that if you don’t go to an academy you can’t succeed. Nobody wants to take that risk, because [joining the Gurkhas] is a one in a million chance,” says Ashok Thapa.

    Rabi Sharma, 20, says he and all his friends have had to borrow money to pay the fees. “I didn’t join an academy in the past because I couldn’t afford it, but this is my last chance so I want to be prepared,” says Sharma, who will be too old to apply next year.

    Himal Limbu, vice-secretary of the Kathmandu branch of the Nepal Physical Training Association, the body that represents most of the training academies, says: “It’s up to a candidate to decide whether to prepare independently or go to the training centre. That’s a matter of individual choice. We have been charging a nominal fee. For most of the training centres, the fee is hardly enough to pay for renting space and staff.”

    The British Gurkhas say they have no connection to any training academies and do not engage with them. “We actively advertise that it is not necessary to attend a training academy in order to successfully pass recruitment selection,” said a spokesperson for the British Gurkhas.

    The Gurkhas say they discourage people from spending money to get selected. “All the information on our selection assessments … are available on the army website. However, we cannot force people not to go to training academies and ultimately it is their choice,” said the spokesperson.

    “It’s not our fault if people borrow thousands and thousands of rupees that they will never be able to repay if they don’t get selected, impoverishing their families for generations.”

    What they are doing is outsourcing the expense for the physical fitness training of an elite branch of their army to a poor country while reaping the benefits.

  49. 49.

    Emma

    January 22, 2019 at 7:58 am

    @rikyrah: First thing I saw in my newsfeed today was a LOOONG article at The Atlantic telling us in excruciating detail not to trust viral videos. They are bending over backwards for the slimy little shits.

  50. 50.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 22, 2019 at 7:59 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I don’t know if you follow me on Twitter – I see a lot of followers on Twitter who are pretty clearly Juicers but have different nyms there – but some of us in nuclear nonproliferation have a running discussion about The Great Negotiator’s approach to North Korea.

    (Started this paragraph three times because it’s hard to characterize what’s happening.) The administration’s demands of North Korea, as enunciated by Mike Pompeo, are that they unilaterally disarm of all nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them before the US will talk to them about anything. Kim has done a couple of token things – blown shut the openings to some tunnels at their test site and disassembled a missile test stand – and now would like to see some token things from the US, which are not forthcoming.

    Pompeo repeats the demands over and over again like an automaton. Trump wants another photo-op. Our Twitter discussion revolves around his state of mind in putting this set of actions (hard to call it a strategy) into play. The big question is how much volition or thought Trump has put into it. The differences in the discussion are coming down to how long this Potemkin negotiation can survive before it breaks down and John Bolton takes advantage of the breakdown to talk Trump into nuking North Korea. I’m arguing that it can go on for quite a while, as long as Kim provides the photo-ops. Others are more worried.

    I probably should do a post about this, but I’m currently working on getting a bill through the State Legislature, which is taking quite a bit of time.

  51. 51.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 8:00 am

    @Emma:

    From what I can tell, the argument seems to be that there were other assholes there, so it’s unfair to pick on the MAGA hats.

  52. 52.

    Ken

    January 22, 2019 at 8:00 am

    @rikyrah: Why having a senile showboater as your spokeslawyer is a bad idea, example number 183…

  53. 53.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 8:01 am

    @O. Felix Culpa:

    Can anyone ‘splain to me what the deal is with the prosecutorial charges (heh) against Kamala?

    She was once a part of our criminal justice system, therefor she is as guilty of it’s worst offenses as any cop who shot an unarmed black man in the back because she did not personally intervene and stop the bullets with her palms of steel.

  54. 54.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 22, 2019 at 8:03 am

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    The big question is how much volition or thought Trump has put into it.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Gasp! Choke! Wheeze! Oh Cheryl, you made a funny. :)

    Seriously though, thank you for your always illuminating comments and posts about nuclear issues and for your work at the Roundhouse. Fingers crossed the bill passes in good form!

  55. 55.

    Frankensteinbeck

    January 22, 2019 at 8:03 am

    Interesting health news. Apparently England’s NHS has officially removed the 7 day gap from birth control pills. They said it was never any medical reason for it, but they’d kept secret that they adopted it for political reasons. If women still had periods, they figured the pope would freak out less and they’d face less backlash. There is quite a dichotomy going on between women who knew the 7 day gap was bullshit and women furious they’re just finding out they’ve been enduring unnecessary periods. Some doctors are also saying they’ve personally recommended full month use of the pill for a long time, but actually get pushback from patients who refuse to believe it.

  56. 56.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    January 22, 2019 at 8:03 am

    @Immanentize: Because I had to live away from home during the week, my department always gave me a Tuesday/Thursday teaching schedule, so those Monday holidays never mattered. But the people teaching lab classes hated them.

  57. 57.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 8:06 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    If women still had periods, they figured the pope would freak out less and they’d face less backlash. 

    Didn’t Henry VIII solve that problem?

  58. 58.

    Emma

    January 22, 2019 at 8:07 am

    @Baud: Lately I am getting more and more depressed, more and more angry, and inmmensely more of a nihilist.

  59. 59.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 22, 2019 at 8:08 am

    @O. Felix Culpa: We made a senator very happy yesterday! There is paid lobbying going on against the bill (Senate 54), and he was delighted to see our support. He gave us a lot of good ideas for what we do next, but it’s gonna be work.

  60. 60.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 8:08 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: No, I’m not on twitter. I know my self and it would be a blackhole sucking all the life out of my existence. I do read your stuff here and at the Diner and very much appreciate your informed POV.

  61. 61.

    Chyron HR

    January 22, 2019 at 8:09 am

    @Baud:

    And, no, he didn’t “leap” up and punch a hole in the ceiling.

    Oh yeah? Then how DID he get to the warp zone in world 1-2, smart guy?

  62. 62.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 8:09 am

    @Baud: Assholes in DC??? Why I never would have guessed that!

  63. 63.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 8:10 am

    ???? Only4RM ???? (@Only4RM) Tweeted:
    @itgurl_29 @keethers Seeing a lot of “black folk” coming across the TL that I ain’t never seen before. Makes me wonder about some of these folks’ Russian fluency… #JustSayin.

    https://twitter.com/Only4RM/status/1087446250784473088?s=17

  64. 64.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 8:12 am

    @Emma: Take a break and recharge. They win by wearing us down and distracting us. We have to learn how to pace ourselves.

  65. 65.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 8:14 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Hard to believe this will be a show stopper given how popular she is in very liberal, very Democratic California.

  66. 66.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 22, 2019 at 8:16 am

    @Emma:

    Lately I am getting more and more depressed, more and more angry,

    It is hard to stay on an even keel during this terrible time in our history and it’s interesting – in a painful sort of way – to see what is the tipping point for different people. One (that is, I) so very much wanted to slap the smug mug of that smirking red-hatted CovCath punk and his peers. And yet, I am energized and hopeful, because of Nancy Pelosi and Ayanna Pressley and Ted Lieu and Deb Haaland and Adam Schiff and, yes, AOC and all the people who worked in the trenches to get them elected. The list of those on the side of democracy is long and Nancy is wielding power effectively and wisely. The revanchists still thrash and cause harm, but they will…can….MUST be defeated. Rest for a while as needed, then back into the fray. We’re in this together. :)

    ETA: Or what Baud the Succinct said in #64.

  67. 67.

    Frankensteinbeck

    January 22, 2019 at 8:17 am

    I guess not. I know in the US, at first doctors, who were men, were sure a period HAD to have some health benefit and removing it scared them. So for a long while the gap was recommended purely for that reason. By the time the science became clear, a huge inertia had set in (this happens in way more than just women’s health issues). Official best practice in the US has been no gap for a while, but only some doctors are following or even aware of that change.

  68. 68.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 8:20 am

    @O. Felix Culpa:
    Somehow, there are certain folks that want to Black Lives Matter , Senator Harris.

    That, somehow, her being a prosecutor, then AG , is supposed to be offensive to me as a Black Person, because, when I say, Black Lives Matter, it’s because I hate Law Enforcement.

    It couldn’t possibly mean that, as a Black person, I just want Equal Justice Under the Law.
    No…it couldn’t possibly mean that.

    It couldn’t mean that I want to be seen as a human being when I interact with Law Enforcement.

    No, couldn’t possibly mean that.

    It couldn’t mean that I would be thrilled by all the new progressive prosecutors , Black and White, that have recently been elected..in Philadelphia,Cook County, Missouri…Georgia….

    Nope

    Couldn’t mean that I was overjoyed to see the increase in Black judges such as Fulton county (Georgia), Harris county (Texas), Hinds County (Mississippi).

    No, I am Black, and thus, Kamala Harris’ entire professional life in the public sector should immediately disqualify her.??

    Get the ENTIRE Phuck Outta Here ? ?

  69. 69.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 8:20 am

    @Baud: It’s like they think we are pro gang bangers.

  70. 70.

    bemused

    January 22, 2019 at 8:21 am

    @rikyrah:

    Not surprising. I’ve been waiting to see videos of those brats harrassing other people because idiot, yoyo testosterone fueled teenage boys in a group egging each other on don’t stop at one incident. My husband and I talking about it this morning said at the same time, Lord of the Flies.
    I’d like to know how many chaperones there were to herd how many Covington teens and where were they? Any photos or videos of the chaperones? We raised three boys and they knew they would have been in big trouble with us if they had taken part in harrassing people or cheering it on. We would have been equally upset at sending our boys to DC from far home and then learn the chaperones couldn’t or wouldn’t supervise them properly.

  71. 71.

    Frankensteinbeck

    January 22, 2019 at 8:22 am

    @rikyrah:
    You don’t need Russians. Conservatives are obsessed with token minorities who agree with them. Carson’s ‘black culture is lazy’ TV career being a fine example. Conservatives are so obsessed, their inherent asshole nature makes pretending to be those tokens online a favorite tactic. They get a huge kick out of it.

  72. 72.

    Kay

    January 22, 2019 at 8:23 am

    @JDM:

    One of the guys writing about him in the 90s

    Trump loves people writing about him and they love him. Trump is a team effort.

    Here’s the Trump book I want to read: a bound volume of his tax returns. A compilation of his bankruptcy filings with attachments and comments from the trustee. An indictment with affidavits. You know, facts.

  73. 73.

    Frankensteinbeck

    January 22, 2019 at 8:24 am

    @bemused:
    There were a lot of chaperones, and they have publicly and personally stated they are proud of the students’ nonviolent behavior. No, I’m not joking.

  74. 74.

    Baud

    January 22, 2019 at 8:28 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Well, we do pal around with terrorists.

  75. 75.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 22, 2019 at 8:28 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: @rikyrah: You articulate what I suspected: mainly white “progressives” are arrogating to themselves what black folk should think about other black folk. Especially those of the female persuasion.

    Is there anything specific or factual in Kamala’s record that’s driving their probably bot-fueled narrative? I have one progressive friend who actually will take in new information and revise judgement accordingly. Yes, Google is my friend, but I guess I’m seeking guidance particularly from our legal beagles on legal context for the “charges” against her.

  76. 76.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 8:28 am

    Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) Tweeted:
    Iowa Dems consider “tele-caucusing” as they contemplate massive turnout. “We have to prepare like it’s Armageddon,” said one party chair. “The floors are going to buckle,” a Des Moines reported added.

    https://t.co/DxCpYiWfZN https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1087702300821458945?s=17

  77. 77.

    MattF

    January 22, 2019 at 8:29 am

    @bemused: I agree that you have to look at the adults. Given that a significant fraction must be priests, it’s a particularly ugly situation.

  78. 78.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 22, 2019 at 8:29 am

    A couple of articles on the CovCath chaperones:

    Chaperones on Kentucky high school trip defend students

    Covington Catholic chaperone: ‘Nothing the chaperones could have done differently’

  79. 79.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 22, 2019 at 8:31 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: Great news! I find that many of the legislators are very open and helpful. Had a good session with one recently. Not sure if he would be in committee on your bill, but I’m happy to give you his name off-line and do whatever else I can to support.

  80. 80.

    bemused

    January 22, 2019 at 8:34 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:
    Oh FFS! That says a lot about the school and the parents who send their kids there. Glad our sons didn’t attend a school like that. Our kids were in high school in the early 90’s but if an incident like this happened on a chaperoned trip, there would have been a lot of parents pissed off at their kids, the chaperones and the school.

  81. 81.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 22, 2019 at 8:35 am

    @O. Felix Culpa: Here are a few articles with some specifics from Harris’s record. I haven’t been keeping up with this, but I have some friends in California who are concerned.

    Kamala Harris: ‘I Take Full Responsibility’ For Decisions I Made As A Prosecutor

    Kamala Harris has been criticized for her criminal justice record. She’s just begun to offer a response.

    Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor’

    The last one seems to be the strongest criticism out there.

  82. 82.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 22, 2019 at 8:36 am

    Glad you posted that Gizmodo photoshop story so I didn’t have to!

  83. 83.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 22, 2019 at 8:36 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: Thank you.

  84. 84.

    hueyplong

    January 22, 2019 at 8:36 am

    Has “chaperone” always meant “run interference for entitled shits’ bad behavior?”

  85. 85.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    January 22, 2019 at 8:37 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: Well then, they’ve showed us who they are and it’s time to believe them.

  86. 86.

    Sloane Ranger

    January 22, 2019 at 8:39 am

    @Kirk Spencer: Yes, I first heard that one at school. They were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan (as were US soldiers including Dreamers and other non US citizens.)

    Ghurkas are based in UK, where they haven’t killed anyone, also are deployed on peacekeeping and humanitarian duties.

  87. 87.

    Phylllis

    January 22, 2019 at 8:40 am

    @Immanentize: Heh, Today is a professional development day in our district & a few parents brought their kids anyway ‘By mistake’. Nice try.

  88. 88.

    Gelfling 545

    January 22, 2019 at 8:43 am

    @Baud: Nah,that’ll never work! Must have NARRATIVE!

  89. 89.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 22, 2019 at 8:43 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: And here’s the response to Laura Bazelon’s NYT article, also published in the NYT, written by a civil rights and juvenile justice advocate: Kamala Harris, Progressive Prosecutor.

    For decades, Kamala Harris has fought to make our system more just. I give her credit and hope that others will look at the totality of her record of reform before jumping to conclusions.

  90. 90.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    January 22, 2019 at 8:48 am

    So Trump’s memory has been a mess since the get go? The man is just a retard, like his base?

  91. 91.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 8:48 am

    @O. Felix Culpa: I have seen nothing* other than, “She was a prosecutor!” but to be honest I’m not paying much attention to it at all. It just sounds like a bunch of purity pony bashing or conservatives trolling or Russian bots and I just don’t have the time or energy to wade thru that shit now.

    * the one concrete “accusation” I have read of was that she was against seeking the death penalty for a cop accused of killing a black man, which as a person who is against the death penalty I agree with. It really sounded like something a conservative might say to get BLM activists upset.

  92. 92.

    Sloane Ranger

    January 22, 2019 at 8:52 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Or, alternatively, a bunch of money hungry businesspeople are exploiting these young men for profit!

    As the extract you posted shows, the Army does not encourage applicants to use these academies in any way, shape or form.plus, don’t the applicants and their families have any agency in this matter?

  93. 93.

    Steeplejack

    January 22, 2019 at 8:52 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    LOL. That would be perfect.

  94. 94.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 8:52 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: I think I remember the Vatican say the same thing about the Spanish Inquisition. ‘Nothing the chaperones could have done differently’

  95. 95.

    Jeffro

    January 22, 2019 at 8:54 am

    Good morning everyone!

    I have to admit:
    – I don’t care that much about dumb loser MAGA kids
    – I don’t care about refuting the GOP’s dumb criticisms of Kamala Harris
    – I don’t care a whole lot about Rudy’s “tapes” slip (although it is SO Rudy!)

    I do care about this because soon we will be talking about whether or not the GOP gets to keep the spoils of a stolen election: If Trumpov Is Impeachable, So Is Pence

    In the WaPo op-ed section today, no less!

    Assume, hypothetically, that the upcoming report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, together with other evidence, were to establish conclusively that candidate Donald Trump engaged in electoral fraud or corruption by unlawfully coordinating his activities with the Russian government. Assume also that Trump derived a decisive electoral benefit from that coordination. And assume that no probative evidence exists that Vice President Pence was aware of the coordination. Trump would be impeachable. But what about Pence, who himself would have committed no impeachable offense?

    The question can be argued either way, but the better view is that Pence, too, would be impeachable. The reason is that, had Trump not engaged in electoral fraud and corruption, Pence, like Trump, would not have been elected. That Pence would still be first in the line of succession to replace Trump is the result of an unintended consequence of the 12th Amendment, which was ratified in 1804. The fate of the Republic ought not turn on a constitutional oversight.

    Before the amendment’s ratification, the original Constitution permitted removal of a president for electoral fraud. It didn’t matter whether that misconduct occurred before or after a president took office. The framers clearly intended that theft of an election through fraud and corruption constitute an impeachable offense. James Madison was not concerned only about post-election perfidy when he worried, at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that a president might “betray his trust to foreign powers.” George Mason seemingly spoke for many the same day when he asked, “Shall the man who has practiced corruption and by that means procured his appointment in the first instance, be suffered to escape punishment” by allowing him to stay in office?

    Um, no. But please continue!

    Removing a president who had procured office through corruption would not, under the original Constitution, have resulted in a friendly takeover by a vice president of the same political party. When the impeachment clause was written in 1787, political parties did not exist. Madison and Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican party began to take shape only after the Constitution was drafted, with their famous 1791 “botany expedition” to New York. The initial system was designed to select as president and vice president the two individuals most qualified to lead the nation, whatever their political philosophy. It did this by permitting members of the electoral college to cast two votes for the office of president. The individual who received the most votes would be president, and the runner-up, vice president.

    The system didn’t work as expected. With the emergence of political parties, the election of 1796 left Federalist President John Adams with a Democratic-Republican vice president, his archrival Thomas Jefferson. The election of 1800 created further problems, sticking Jefferson with the conniving Aaron Burr as vice president (whom Jefferson later ordered to be arrested for treason) — and only after a tie between the two in the electoral college led to a wrenching struggle in the House of Representatives that ultimately chose Jefferson.

    Yeah, yeah, yeah…how about if we just impeach him ’cause he’s a lying asshole and he’s been helping cover up treason from the beginning?
    Sorry, that just slipped out. Please take a minute to finish…

    The 12th Amendment was intended to remedy these ills. It did this by requiring electors to cast separate ballots for president and vice president. This enabled candidates for president and vice president to run together on a party ticket without competing with each other. Yet the change had critically important — and unnoticed — implications for impeachment. The election of a two-person ticket, rather than an individual, had the potential effect of permitting a vice president and his political party to benefit from electoral fraud by the presidential candidate so long as the vice president himself avoided committing an impeachable offense. A party’s ill-gotten gains — the presidency and all its appointments and prerogatives — would then remain in its hands even though its leader, the president, had been impeached and removed from office. Electoral corruption would still be rewarded.

    That was not the amendment’s intent. Its object was to preclude the possibility of electing a president and vice president from different parties and to lessen the likelihood of an electoral college deadlock. It was not aimed at scaling back the availability of impeachment as a means of redressing electoral fraud. Nothing in the amendment’s ratification history indicates any intent to give a political party a continuing grip on the presidency should a president gain office, and be removed, because of electoral corruption. There is, to the contrary, every reason to believe that after the amendment’s adoption, the Constitution has in this respect continued to mean what it did in 1787: that the presidency ought not be occupied by someone who attains it as the result of a stolen election.

    If Trump were impeachable for electoral fraud, therefore, Pence would be impeachable as well.

    Say it with me, mainstream media: NO person or party should benefit from treason and corruption. Winning illegitimately is called “losing”, “forfeiting”, or just plain old “being stripped of your title/medal/office”. So strip we shall!

    Wait…that didn’t come out right…

  96. 96.

    eric

    January 22, 2019 at 8:56 am

    @Jeffro: Rams on line one.

  97. 97.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 8:57 am

    Black Panther (@theblackpanther) Tweeted:
    Congratulations to Marvel Studios’ #BlackPanther on its seven Academy Awards nominations, including Best Picture! #OscarNoms

    https://t.co/ediJCl4iTS https://twitter.com/theblackpanther/status/1087709187889684481?s=17

  98. 98.

    Jeffro

    January 22, 2019 at 8:58 am

    Ok I actually do care about the MAGA loser teens but only because Brooksie is rushing to their defense this morning. So, “care” in the sense that if Brooksie is defending them, I hate both him and them today.

    Just had to put that out there.

    Ok now back to work…

  99. 99.

    MattF

    January 22, 2019 at 9:00 am

    I guess a bigger CERN accelerator would be faster than the current one… in the sense that 99.9999 percent of the speed of light is faster than 99.999 percent…

  100. 100.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 22, 2019 at 9:01 am

    @Jeffro: I read that article too and, while I wish the author’s viewpoint would hold sway, I think it’s not going to happen.

    And, I DO care very much about the preemptive slagging of women and POC candidates. We’ve seen it do real harm not that long ago.

  101. 101.

    MattF

    January 22, 2019 at 9:01 am

    @Jeffro: Ugh. I had a sinking feeling when I saw the headline on Brooks’ column, and didn’t read it.

  102. 102.

    Jeffro

    January 22, 2019 at 9:01 am

    @eric: Were they at the MAGA loser teen thing? I’m not tracking…oh, you mean re: the fruits of a stolen “win”. True. But they’re playing the Patriots in 13 days and I don’t want to distract them from the all-important task of “ABP!”

    Back to work, Rams! Rudy…keep talking! And now let’s get back to talking about “package deal impeachment”! =)

  103. 103.

    low-tech cyclist

    January 22, 2019 at 9:02 am

    CERN’s proposed supercollider would be roughly the size of the DC Beltway.

  104. 104.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2019 at 9:03 am

    @Jeffro: My feelings exactly. I haven’t seen any of the videos. Their hat wearing visages are enough to get no benefit of the doubt from me.
    Meanwhile no one is paying much attention to the fact that the DACA and TPS “compromise” is anything but. It screws over DACA and TPS recipients, guts the current asylum/refugee process and violates many of the international treaties the United States is a part of.

  105. 105.

    Jeffro

    January 22, 2019 at 9:03 am

    @O. Felix Culpa: They’re going to pre-emotively slag ANY Democratic candidate, and we’re going to punch back hard every time, every candidate. Well except for Gabbard and Wilmer of course (but then again I did say ‘Democratic’ candidates)

  106. 106.

    bemused

    January 22, 2019 at 9:05 am

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Pretty obtuse chaperones, imo. If they were waiting for buses and couldn’t move along, I think the chaperones should have made the kids keep their mouths shut, ignore whatever any other group was saying. When you are out of your element in a venue with diverse people/groups and responsible for so many teenagers, one would think chaperones would be on guard to protect the students from their own behavior.

  107. 107.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 9:05 am

    Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) Tweeted:
    Given that the Covington Catholic High School students think they’re mature enough to understand pregnancy, abortion, childbirth, and parenting — and to tell women what we should do with our bodies — it’d be great if the media would stop coddling them like they’re little boys.

    https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1087703079603130368?s=17

  108. 108.

    MattF

    January 22, 2019 at 9:07 am

    @rikyrah: Well, but the kids were bussed in to attend an anti-abortion rally. One assumes that anyone with insufficient enthusiasm would have been weeded out before getting on the bus.

  109. 109.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 9:09 am

    @Sloane Ranger:

    Or, alternatively, a bunch of money hungry businesspeople are exploiting these young men for profit!

    As the extract you posted shows, the Army does not encourage applicants to use these academies in any way, shape or form.plus, don’t the applicants and their families have any agency in this matter?

    Translation: “While the Army states they are against these practices, they continue to perpetuate a system that is ripe for the abuse and exploitation of these desperate families.” Does not the Army have any responsibility to put a stop to it?

    That’s like the GAP saying they aren’t responsible for the working conditions at their sweat shops in Bangladesh.

  110. 110.

    chopper

    January 22, 2019 at 9:10 am

    @Chyron HR:

    perfect.

  111. 111.

    FlipYrWhig

    January 22, 2019 at 9:12 am

    @Jeffro: The Gabbard thing is _truly_ baseless and bizarre. There’s nothing remotely progressive about her record and the bros would never give anyone else in her place the benefit of the doubt. But she touched the hem of Sanders’s garment so she’s been sanctified. It’s sick.

  112. 112.

    germy

    January 22, 2019 at 9:27 am

    The MAGA kids (families/school) hired a public relations firm and they’re spinning like crazy.

    But these young ladies saw how the MAGA kids were acting before the incident:

    They harrassed my friends and I as we walked by even before this incident happened ✌️ no one provoked them, no one was chaperoning them. They just screamed at anyone who walked by ??‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/rpvjHLhdwA— linds (@roflinds) January 21, 2019

    Also for those asking the full details, the interaction wasnt very complicated. We walked by, they started yelling, we asked them how old they were, they replied "old enough", kept yelling, and we rolled our eyes and kept walking. ??‍♀️— linds (@roflinds) January 22, 2019

  113. 113.

    khead

    January 22, 2019 at 9:30 am

    @Emma:

    I was gonna link to that Atlantic article last night night but figured someone else would do it. It really pissed me off.

    This is good pushback. I’ve yet to see any video that actually helps those folks. Adam posted some videos showing they were being assholes long before the video that made them famous.

  114. 114.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2019 at 9:31 am

    @rikyrah: I have seen this nonsense on second generation Indian American/ South Asian Twitter leftier-than-thou accounts too.
    Why is it so important in this country, the need to box everyone? I was born in India, but I have lived in the United States longer than I have lived in India. I don’t really identify with or feel a part of any group in particular. I dislike this American caste system as much as I loathe the Indian one. I also find this unhealthy obsession of the binary labeling of everyone by the color of their skin gross.
    /end rant.

  115. 115.

    germy

    January 22, 2019 at 9:32 am

    The Covington Catholic boys harrassed my friends and I before the incident with Nathan Phillips even happened. I'm tired of reading things saying they were provoked by anyone else other than their own egos and ignorance ??‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/utdPFii92D— linds (@roflinds) January 21, 2019

  116. 116.

    Kirk Spencer

    January 22, 2019 at 9:32 am

    @Sloane Ranger: I’ve a few years of military service behind me, I’ve heard it both with and without the one in cheek. But at root they are being chosen as agents of war. It is the UKs blessing that they aren’t needed for that much stuff of the time

  117. 117.

    rikyrah

    January 22, 2019 at 9:36 am

    Friendly Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) Tweeted:
    Skimmed through the GOP’s funding/wall/temp DACA & TPS bill, and this will (and should) get zero votes from Democrats.

    It makes it so Central American minors are ineligible for asylum if they don’t apply at a processing center (to be established) in Central America.

    https://t.co/5sPuTXw5Hv https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1087554251340083200?s=17

  118. 118.

    randal m sexton

    January 22, 2019 at 9:37 am

    @MattF: ‘speed’ isn’t the way to think about the collider, energy is, and % of C isn’t very useful, as the 1/(1 – V^2/C^2) . The current cern maxes out at 13 TEV, and the proposal is for 100 TEV.

  119. 119.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2019 at 9:41 am

    @rikyrah: Thanks for bringing this up. This is a Twitter thread about the sham bill, by an immigration attorney about its various provisions.

  120. 120.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 22, 2019 at 9:42 am

    @randal m sexton: Thanx, I was wondering about that. The couple articles I’ve read were more concerned with the costs then the energies.

  121. 121.

    JPL

    January 22, 2019 at 9:45 am

    Transgender ban in military can take effect. fuckem

  122. 122.

    gwangung

    January 22, 2019 at 10:46 am

    @germy:

    Add to that this gem:

    https://twitter.com/MeloStreetVybz/status/1087549546404691969

    Note that adult chaperones ARE present.

  123. 123.

    Matt McIrvin

    January 22, 2019 at 11:02 am

    Speaking as a guy who wanted to be a particle physicist… I am sorry to say it, but I can’t really see a good case for this big collider. LHC found about the most boring possible version of the Higgs particle that it could, and the case for there being a lot of interesting new physics just beyond LHC’s horizon is kind of weak. Particle physics has been a victim of its own success. Might be better to spend the money on lots of smaller science projects.

  124. 124.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2019 at 11:06 am

    @Matt McIrvin: I concur.

  125. 125.

    MattF

    January 22, 2019 at 11:09 am

    @Matt McIrvin: The SSC fiasco showed that particle physics is not politically hot.

    I discussed this once with an old friend who was a rather high-ranking Congressional staffer, making the argument that large, research-oriented projects were great for educating people in what we now call STEM, regardless of where the people ended up using their skills– there are, after all, lots of ex-particle physicists around. Apparently, the particle physicists never used that argument, assuming that their inherent intellectual greatness was all that was needed. Which, as an E&M guy, left me feeling… not good.

  126. 126.

    Matt McIrvin

    January 22, 2019 at 11:11 am

    It’s frustrating because there are still so many open questions– the nature of dark matter/dark energy, quantum gravity, the theoretical concerns that motivate GUTs and supersymmetry theories. But I just don’t see this accelerator shining a lot of light on them, given that LHC didn’t.

  127. 127.

    Matt McIrvin

    January 22, 2019 at 11:15 am

    @MattF: It’s not a great argument, anyway– if what you want is a bunch of people like me swarming the tech sector, surely there are more efficient ways to accomplish that. (And less afflicted by the gender/race representation issues in particle physics.)

  128. 128.

    Sloane Ranger

    January 22, 2019 at 11:24 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Does not the Army have any responsibility to put a stop to it?

    Can you suggest how?

    In Nepal, the Army only has the authority the Nepalese government allows it and that certainly doesn’t extend to the type of businesses people can set up or limiting the type of legal activities Nepalese citizens can undertake.

  129. 129.

    Miss Bianca

    January 22, 2019 at 11:27 am

    @rikyrah: Yeah, there have already been articles in the “nowadays Brocialist-fluffing” Guardian about how Harris, Gillibrand, and Booker are *not* True!Progressives! because they take money from Big Pharma and the like. All being faithfully touted by my True!Progressive! associates on FB. Let’s not focus on their voting records, let’s not focus on their legislative histories, let’s make the measure how much money they get from corporations! That’s a swell rubric, since St. Bernard, the Sage of Vermont, managed to buy his dacha on Lake Champlain with $27 donations! Yeah!

    Jesus, I am beginning to be sorry I ever opened a FB account. Need some radical (heh) trimming to my friend list there.

  130. 130.

    Searcher

    January 22, 2019 at 12:27 pm

    @Matt McIrvin: There’s a theory supported by one data point that bigger super colliders aren’t useful. What sort of experentalist is going to stop there?

  131. 131.

    Aleta

    January 22, 2019 at 2:03 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    so beautiful my mind stopped

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