When Warren arrived at work Tuesday, she had no intention of calling for Trump's impeachment on Senate floor. Mitch McConnell made her do it, she said.
“I felt a responsibility to go to the floor to say: ‘Case not closed, buddy,’” she says in interview https://t.co/wuHOoq7Vnl
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) May 8, 2019
"I had never intended this to be any part of my presidential campaign. I’m running on how to make this government work," Warren says of impeachment. Dems say it's good for primary, potentially bad for the general
Seems "a popular position with the Democratic base," says Shaheen
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) May 8, 2019
As is her wont, Warren is serving as point-person here. And — as is hers — Speaker Pelosi is proceeding, with all due deliberation, along the same path:
#BREAKING: Pelosi says Barr should be held in contempt of Congress, impeachment isn't "off the table" https://t.co/LuJx0bluK7 pic.twitter.com/chLx4pRvcZ
— The Hill (@thehill) May 8, 2019
Mary G
All the lefties screaming about Nancy SMASH are idiots.
OzarkHillbilly
Blech. My knee hates this nonstop rain.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
Awe…Feel better??
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
SFAW
@Mary G:
“Wimp” Pelosi should be DEMANDING that Barr impeach himself, and that Rump SELF-IMPEACH and SELF-CONVICT!!!!! True Dems didn’t elect her to be a shill for the Rethugs! Is anyone checking her E-MAILS??!?! Why won’t she just send the Marshal of the
Supreme CourtHouse of Representatives to arrest the Traitor-in-Chief!!!!etc.
Baud
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/a-conservative-christian-group-is-pushing-bible-classes-in-public-schools-nationwide–and-its-working/2019/05/08/f3bb490e-39e8-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html
Steve in the ATL
@OzarkHillbilly: hell, I’m in Rome and it’s raining here!
If it’s like this when I get to Egypt then prepare for the apocalypse.
WereBear
Yep. Damp cold is the worst. Also, it is crisp in the morning, and by the time a person leaves work, it is sunny and warm and the jacket gets forgotten at work.
I’m amassing a collection.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Misery too.
@Steve in the ATL: If it starts raining frogs and toads, we’re done for.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s heading this way.
OzarkHillbilly
All of a sudden I feel the urge to cheer for the Carolina Hurricanes, and I’m not even a hockey fan. Or maybe I just really want the t-shirt. Whatever, unlike everyone else in the NHL, at least they’re having fun.
Derelict
Yes, impeaching Trump seems to be popular with the Democratic base. And the one thing no Democratic politician EVER wants to do is please the Democratic base. For Democrats, pleasing your base voters is suicide. You MUST take center-Right or even Rightwing positions.
For Republicans, of course, pleasing your base is always top priority, no matter how extreme-Right the base becomes.
OzarkHillbilly
Haysoos fucking Chrispo:
Yeah, sure, nobody is to blame here, certainly not the coach who had nothing to do with his sprinters running backwards towards a javelin that nobody at all left sticking up out of the ground at an angle.
Baud
@Derelict:
80 percent of the people who think they’re the Democratic base are not.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Knees, the ficklest of joints. Can’t live with ’em,. can’t live without ’em.
And they always decide to act up at the most inopportune times.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Javelins stuck pointy side up are the ultimate act of God.
Mary G
Warren is on the next cover of Time.
SFAW
@Mary G:
I would love to see the cover say something like “Smarter Than Trump” or something which would similarly drive the Traitor-in-Chief to apoplexy.
NotMax
@Mary G
Does TIME even still maintain a newsstand edition of any reach? And if so, is it destined for any more than staring up at parakeets’ butts?
Immanentize
@Baud: pointy sticks in the ground helped Henry V beat the French. Maybe it was a combined Track Practice/History/English class. You know how cuts have affected curriculum….
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Everybody in construction has an impalement story and while the middle parts and the endings vary in often surprising ways, they all begin exactly the same: “Some fucking idiot…”
Immanentize
@SFAW:
Sadly, Time might feel it must somehow slip “DNA” into the caption.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Huh. I wouldn’t have thought that Shitgibbon would ever go to actual construction sites.
SFAW
@Immanentize:
Although I understand your trepidation (so to speak), I doubt they’d be THAT stupid.
Of course, I’ve been wrong more than a few times in the past.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
The coach’s answer was pure litigation advice. Dare I say some Lawyer coached him. Too bad it wasn’t at the music festival because then I could have written the headline:
Coach Coached at Coachella.
Jeffro
@Baud: Sometimes, it’s hard to believe it’s the 21st century.
However, I’m not sure that “nationwide” = “Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Kentucky” (not arguing with you, I’m arguing with the author’s unwillingness to say “schools in the South”).
ETA yes, there’s a brief mention of North Dakota…still…
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Let he who has thrown javelins and always remembered to retrieve them cast the first…
Wait! What the fuck? How do you not see a 6-foot spear sticking out of the ground? Especially when you’re about to send people running toward it in a non-battle situation?
Glad a full recovery is expected.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
I have questions – many, many questions.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: If Baud is right, somebody should sue God.
debbie
@Baud:
We have to include ourselves in our efforts to drive 1,000,000 species to extinction.
SFAW
@Immanentize:
I can’t decide if you deserve a two-minute penalty, a five-minute major, or a game misconduct for that one.
NotMax
Soo-prixe, soo-prize.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
In this weather, I almost literally creak all the way to the coffeemaker. Hope the achy passes soon.
NotMax
Coding fix.
Soo-prixe, soo-prize.
Chyron HR
@Baud:
“Are we the baddies?”
Baud
@debbie:
That’s one alternative to evolution.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: The answer is always “Amputation.”
Immanentize
@SFAW: I’ve seen worse. Skate on!
Baud
https://www.governing.com/daily-digit/53-percent-voting.html
mrmoshpotato
@SFAW:
I’m leaning toward being the first person to return to the moon.
Baud
They’re coming for your porn.
https://www.governing.com/government-quotes/gov-arizona-porn.html
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
There exist times when necessity dictates operating on blind trust.
SFAW
@mrmoshpotato:
As in “One of these days,
AliceImma, TO THE MOON!” ??OldDave
@SFAW:
Double minor – it drew blood.
RAVEN
@OzarkHillbilly: How bout them Dawgs!
SFAW
@Immanentize:
Hell, I’ve done worse. But it’s still an infraction, unless you’re in the bag for [pick a team].
RAVEN
@OzarkHillbilly: Just a FYI
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek: I’m sorry. The answer is ‘What is 42?’.
Patricia Kayden
@Mary G: We’re not screaming. I think some of us are just feeling frustrated. It appears that Trump and his imps are getting away with lawlessness. Hopefully, something will change. And soon.
Baud
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/9/18518997/harry-reid-senate-filibuster-mcconnell-trump
germy
SFAW
@OldDave:
Drew blood? I was thinking more like Teddy Green/Wayne Maki
NotMax
@SFAW
A perennial (guilty) chuckle.
satby
Good morning, good morning, good morning! I was supposed to drive to Chicago for dinner yesterday on my day off but my son cancelled because it was supposed to rain. Of course it turned out to be a gorgeous sunny day. Now it’s raining and will continue all day, and I have to go after I get done at the market today.
At least I got more stuff planted yesterday.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Hence increased efforts at voter suppression by Republicans.
mrmoshpotato
@SFAW: Was thinking more Saturn V, less wife beating.
germy
SFAW
@mrmoshpotato:
OK, good.
Kind of amazing what used to be considered “funny.”
OzarkHillbilly
Britain’s equivalent to Tutankhamun found in Southend-on-Sea
Just a weeeee bit hyperbolic but still a very interesting and edifying find.
Raven
@NotMax: I’ve got a nice “ice sleeve” on my elbow right now. This constant casting is killing but I gotta press one.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Baud: from my cold dead hand!
debbie
@germy:
Yeah, wow, and he bought a big boat, too. //
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Saturn V = “give us enough kerosene and one match….”
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
This has to make Wilmer furious (photo)
Baud
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Nice use of singular. Kudos.
Baud
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
I thought she was gaining on him, but then I saw a poll yesterday that had her way behind.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I only wonder if they will ever recognize the health threat of abject moronitude.
NotMax
@Raven
While I can understand your dedication would also note the agony is a telegraph message perhaps better not ignored.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: “Jamie wants big boom.”
rikyrah
Mr. Weeks ?? (@MrDane1982) Tweeted:
If women can’t have abortions then the government need to stop wasting $85M prescribing viagra for broken dicks.
God broke your dick, the consequences of life.
Broken dicks is the natural way of life just like babies. No abortions for women, no fix a broken dick pill for men. https://twitter.com/MrDane1982/status/1126339054222618624?s=17
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly:
For true equivalence, the artifacts should be displayed in Cairo for the next eighty years, then slowly sent back to British museums.
Amir Khalid
@Immanentize:
It would seem self-evident that someone left that javelin sticking dangerously out of the ground after practice. If the javelin was university property, then someone on the university staff, probably a javelin coach, signed it out of storage and was responsible for it. That particular someone was negligent, and will be found out as soon as the university looks through the duty roster and equipment records. Although the sprint coach is probably not quite out of the woods themselves since they didn’t ensure the field was safe for the exercise.
rikyrah
thefieldnegro (@fieldnegro) Tweeted:
The Red Sox visit the white house today less all of their players of color. The optics should be interesting. I see u Boston. Your team is a lot like your city: Divided. #redsoxwhitehouse https://twitter.com/fieldnegro/status/1126430308562341888?s=17
germy
rikyrah
A black woman who always vote (@grandoftwo) Tweeted:
Bernie Sanders needs Hillary’s voters in the primary. This black woman says hell-to-the-no! I didn’t vote for him in 2016 and won’t in 2020 he will never earn my vote. That’s all. https://t.co/qN6f1L1DxE https://twitter.com/grandoftwo/status/1126336707924713473?s=17
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Can I interest you in an 18-month horserace? I swear it won’t drive you to madness.
Why did my phone try to capitalize ‘madness?’
OzarkHillbilly
@RAVEN: I had assumed it was the blunt end of the javelin that did the damage. You’d be surprised how easily a 2′ piece of #5 rebar will go thru a man when he falls on it from a ht of 4′.
germy
rikyrah
Thread
(((David Avallone))) (@DAvallone) Tweeted:
My mother was big in the abortion rights movement. In the early 1960s, when abortion was still illegal, she had a miscarriage at around six months. So she’s covered in blood, with a dead fetus between her legs, and the doctor told her she couldn’t be cleaned up yet. GUESS WHY? 1/ https://t.co/AyUjp4sNeS https://twitter.com/DAvallone/status/1126280699122671616?s=17
rikyrah
BlueSteelDC (@BlueSteelDC) Tweeted:
Democrats are more likely to believe healthcare is a right but don’t want you changing their structure for getting it. They want you to improve the quality and the cost. https://twitter.com/BlueSteelDC/status/1126420545023696897?s=17
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Baud: some of these polls are goofy.
“The Hill” published one this week that was in reality an internet poll and not a random sample of the population contacted by landlines and cell phones and weighed by historical demographic turnout.
One poll I saw last week that had Dump up in his approvals, but it drastically over sampled Independents (41%) versus historic behavior of Independent voters (31% in 2016, 30% in 2018).
rikyrah
StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) Tweeted:
Gerry Condon, a Vietnam veteran being beaten then arrested by DC police for attempting to deliver food and water to people in the Venezuelan embassy who’ve had their electricity and water cut off by the US government in violation of international law
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!
Retweet https://t.co/0W18B1Ff8G https://twitter.com/_SJPeace_/status/1126419654572957696?s=17
SFAW
@rikyrah:
As well as their manager (Alex Cora), I believe, who is sitting it out as a protest for the treatment his home received (and is still receiving) — the place the Fuckhead-in-Chief called, in his assholish, exaggerated manner, “Pooo-AIR-toe REE-co.”
rikyrah
I use them all the time
Deafinitely Girly (@deafgirly) Tweeted:
Subtitles aren’t just for deaf people. Lots of my hearing friends use them, too. If you’re hearing and find yourself using subtitles on Netflix and TV and would quite like them at the cinema, please retweet to help normalise their presence! Big thanks #DeafAwarenessWeek https://twitter.com/deafgirly/status/1126053718426886144?s=17
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Steve in the ATL: It rained all week when I was in Galway a couple summers ago but the Irish know how to handle miserable cold rain: go into the pub, listen to local musicians jamming, and have a hot tea or an Irish coffee.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: I turn them on if I think I misheard something.
Aside – Vocal inflection on the audio description tracks can be unintentionally hilarious.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@rikyrah:
many, many people are now referring to Boston players visiting Dump as the “White” Sox
zhena gogolia
@Mary G:
When I look at a twitter feed, I definitely feel as if there are Russian bots pushing this line.
tobie
@NotMax: I’ve been wondering if, come Jan 20, 2021, we have the good fortune to have a Democrat in the White House, can she just cancel the Trump administration’s census plans and put in her own?
rikyrah
Claudia (@WayAheadUK) Tweeted:
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” – Elie Wiesel https://twitter.com/WayAheadUK/status/1126438169128386560?s=17
Kathleen
@Baud: Good Morning Baud and Jackals.
Punditlandia response to dats: “Good news for Republicans,”
rikyrah
Scott Dworkin (@funder) Tweeted:
Last night Trump laughed about shooting immigrants. It’s a new new low for the biggest traitor in American history. Disgusting. Absolutely pathetic & un-American. He should be impeached just for this. Abhorrent & gross. Where’s the Republican outrage? I hear *crickets* #PutinsGOP https://twitter.com/funder/status/1126436231468990465?s=17
tobie
@rikyrah: If people prove to be happy with a Medicare buy in, they will clamor for a redesign of the entire health system. But until they have this experience, they will go with what they know and feel is safe.
OzarkHillbilly
Some years back my youngest gave me a novel about the 7 levels of death (as best I recall anyway) By my counting this poor guy is on level 5.
PenAndKey
@rikyrah: we used them all the time in my home when watching a movie with my son running around like the crazy child he was. At the time it was the only way to catch the dialogue without cranking th volume so high it ticked off the neighbors. It also oddly enough, helped him learn to read. Win.
OzarkHillbilly
Stormy Daniels talks about Trump and ‘the worst 90 seconds of my life’ on standup tour
Coming to a club near you. Maybe.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I see Trump’s schedule says he’s welcoming the Boston Red Socks [sic]. Does no one over there know anything?
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
75 seconds of which involved her using a Q-Tip to clean up after the Needledick-in-Chief
SFAW
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Someone should ask Jethrene about the rumored appointment of Eustace Dunning-Kruger as the new “Secretary of Being Smart But Not ‘Stable Genius’ Smart.Because NO ONE IS SMARTER Than Himself”
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: If they did that would disqualify them for any job working for trump.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
We all know it won’t stop with joking about killing immigrants. During the 2016 campaign he joked about 2nd amendment solutions for Hillary Clinton. Why not joking about killing journalists or Democrats or prosecutors?
The Pale Scot
Do ya’ll wanna see a seal slap a guy with an octopus?
Of course u do
kindness
I’m a little taken aback & tired of the people slamming Nancy Pelosi. Nancy isn’t against impeachment, she just wants to get all the evidence out there so the bulk of America is on our side. Just like they had to do with Nixon and Watergate. Nancy is right in that if Trump were charged with impeachment and all the dirt wasn’t there to come out, it may very well help Trump with the yokels in the 2020 elections. This isn’t rocket science imho.
schrodingers_cat
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Autocorrect?
@kindness: Conservative response to T’s crimes
When in doubt, what about,
Purity left response: When you want someone to blame, Democrats are fair game.
tobie
@kindness: I agree with you. Pelosi is trying to find a way to move the public toward impeachment. She had good reason to assume there would be robust investigations following the release of the Mueller report, but with Trump’s stonewalling she will have to think of new tactics. I trust her on this. Last night Jeff Merkley called for the creation of special committee in the House devoted to the Mueller report but stopped short of calling for impeachment.
Democrats are in a tough position: they see the urgency of acting before the story gets stale and at the same time they see that the public’s not with them and if they move forward with impeachment, the cries of witch hunt will grow louder and become more persuasive. It’s a tough situation and I’m not going to Monday-morning quarterback it.
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: For all our immigrant mythology, the last 3 years have demonstrated how much people really care about immigrants.
The only immigrants most care about are their dead forefathers.
How many people on the supposedly good side were willingly to throw away the rights of the current immigrants including who they can sponsor for an absolutely shitty deal with the Liar-in-chief.
rikyrah
@NotMax:
UH HUH
UH HUH
schrodingers_cat
Undocumented immigrants have paid more in taxes than the head of the government in WH.
rikyrah
This new Georgia law is straight out of the Handmaid’s Tale – potential life in prison for a miscarriage? Or for leaving the state to terminate a pregnancy? And there’s more: https://t.co/nYsyxV8Nby pic.twitter.com/uNs2jHlwRA
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 9, 2019
Citizen Alan
@mrmoshpotato:
Maybe it likes the band.
rikyrah
??
Matt Gaetz: We will lock up the people who investigated Trump’s crimes
by @KailiJoy https://t.co/eH5VuIs3g6
— Shareblue Media (@Shareblue) May 8, 2019
JoeyJoeJoe
@NotMax: Maybe not; there’s this guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Hill
OzarkHillbilly
Heh, Inside the Falwell, Cohen, Granda ‘Totally Normal Nothing to See Here’ Den of Iniquity
Josh Marshall issues a dare:
burnspbesq
@SFAW:
Three-game suspension.
rikyrah
Uh huh
Uh huh ??
“Black and Hispanic players and coaches are expected to justify their reasons for not going to Trump’s White House. But the real question is: Why have so many of the white players on the Red Sox chosen not to support their black and brown teammates?” https://t.co/RbsVd9SE7W
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) May 8, 2019
Just One More Canuck
@SFAW: Clearly not even a penalty if he’s a Broons fan
rikyrah
Stelter wrote that women were being ‘hysterical’ comparing the GOP and predicting the coming of The Handmaid’s Tale.
……………………..
Uh huh ??
I’d like @brianstelter to print this tweet out, and then eat the entire printed page. Because women in Georgia are about to be imprisoned for up to ten years for going out of state to obtain a legal abortion and anyone who helps them charged as accessories. Gaslighting garbage. pic.twitter.com/nu6Pbm2RZN
— Allison Floyd (@AllisonRFloyd) May 8, 2019
rikyrah
Trump versus the Mueller investigation: one fight on many fronts
Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump’s flailing effort to prevent Congress from conducting any oversight or investigations into him or his campaign and points out that while Washington may appear to be roiling with many disparate fights, there is actually just one root conflict.
J R in WV
@Baud:
Which “Bible”? I got nothing to say… but I bet other religions don’t care for it much if at all. I wouldn’t touch it with a long stick, personally. And how likely are kids who don’t want to take Bible classes to get beat up by the Christian kids?
Seems Evil to teach one religion without others for comparison. Especially since today’s Christians seem to have perverted their own religion beyond recognition. If they only used the red letter texts…? How are they going to deal with the inherent contradictions? Guess I had more to say than I thought…
I thought it was unconstitutional for government to establish a religion? Shows how much I know… Oy, yeh:
rikyrah
Democrats’ Mueller questions show public need for more details
Rachel Maddow explains why Donald Trump is so afraid of Robert Mueller testifying about his investigation, and reads highlights from a list of questions prepared by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee that show how much remains unanswered about Robert Mueller’s investigation.
tokyokie
@rikyrah: Let’s not forget which was the last team in Major League baseball to integrate. (Pumpsie Green in 1959.)
tobie
I just came across this article about Beto’s visit to Minnesota and, like every other news item I’ve read about him of late, he just seems like a genuinely nice guy:
I also think he’s very smart. Harris, Booker, and Beto are consistently positive about all the Democratic candidates so I’m happy to put the at the top of my list.
Mike in Pasadena
“The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.” George Sand
Quoted on my May calendar.
J R in WV
@NotMax:
Well, since they’re only planning to count white xtianists, they wouldn’t need nearly as many counters, now will they? Plus it’s being managed by some incompetent RWNJ also too.
Steve in the ATL
@mrmoshpotato:
Late to the party, but how did Immanentize not respond “because ska is back, baby!”
Steve nowhere near the ATL
Gin & Tonic
Today, May 9, is celebrated in the former Soviet countries as “victory over fascism” (others may know it as V-E Day.)
I wonder whether the US is getting to a point where there will need to be a struggle celebrated by my grandchildren a half-century from now as victory over fascism.
rikyrah
@J R in WV:
Piggybacking on your previous post:
tobie
@rikyrah:
On the positive side: as a private citizen John Thompson can testify before Congress. Dems should schedule this under the radar.
J R in WV
Re: The Census.
Shouldn’t a failure to properly manage the Constitutionally Required Census be one more count in any forthcoming Impeachment Bill~!!!~?????
There will be so MANY counts in that puppy!!!
tobie
@J R in WV: Interesting idea. One can also add violations of the emoluments clause, incitement to violence, tax fraud which Trump foolishly copped to in response to the NYT article on his taxes, and violations of the Federal Records Act. I’m sure of missed tons of other crimes not included in the Mueller report but this is a start.
debbie
@tobie:
You’re long gone, but no. The census will have already taken place (2020).