.@OliverNorthFNC do you umm… how do I say this… do you remember much from the 80s? pic.twitter.com/Heu0w1lcpD
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) August 3, 2016
Donald Trump really has encouraged all the worst Republicans of the past forty years to crawl back from under their rocks into the media spotlight, hasn’t he?
And they’re garnering new fans, too…
"Fuck you, Hillary!" "Kill her!" "Hillary's a whore!" "Hang the bitch!"
This is one hell of a supercut. https://t.co/er6iUcmaaO
— Chloe Angyal (@ChloeAngyal) August 3, 2016
(Linked video obviously NSFW)
Notice, unfortunately, there’ more than a few young bros among the AARP Trumplodytes. And of course some folks have brought their kids, just like their granpas would’ve brought them to a public lynching…
RaflW
The meteor, it is Trump.
redshirt
Oliver North is one of the world’s foremost experts on bribing the Iranians.
MikeBoyScout
Oliver North – likely Trump/Putin Secretary of Iranian bendovers
gene108
The WH releasing money to Iran for the release of prisoners will be the big story pushed by the media this week.
I know the money Iran got was their money, from the sale of oil and gas that was frozen due to the embargo, but I doubt the media will bother with such pesky details and go straight to wondering, if Team Obama violated U.S, policy of not paying ransoms.
I mean, how long can we expect to the media to report about how terrible Trump is?
They have to be “fair and balanced”. I bet we’ll see some more late breaking revelations about Hillary’s email server soon.
redshirt
Well. We’ve reached that time of the night when everyone on the East Coast realizes everyone on the West Coast is soft.
redshirt
Speaking of the 80’s, anyone watching/watched “Stranger Things” on Netflix?
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
North took a King James’ Bible autographed by Reagan along with a cake baked in the shape of a key to the iranian regime that had taken americans hostage.
Mai.naem.mobile
Trump might have ADD but I think he’s got some other medical condition(s)as well. Dementia? Narcissism? The guy is unfit for the presidency.
BR
With all the other nonsense that happened today, I can see that the NYPD commissioner trashing Trump didn’t get play, but it’s big, and it could drag Trump into a bad story. He said Trump probably has never taken a punch in his life, and trashed the way Trump has been acting and talking — here’s the video of the Bratton interview.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: It’s OK, remember he sent them a Bible.
ETA: I see the esteemed Mr. Koch got there first.
redshirt
@efgoldman: Just some 15 years after Watergate too, and yet it’s like these high crimes and misdemeanors never existed for Republicans since about 15 years later.
BR
@efgoldman:
Seems that folks need to get the Bratton comments out there on twitter so that Trump runs across them.
Redshift
@gene108:
Actually, in this case it was money Iran had already paid for an arms sale that was cancelled after the revolution. They recently got a judgment that the current government was entitled to it.
Petorado
Speaking of “back in the day” personalities:
The irony of the “politically incorrect” crowd is that political incorrectness is the politically correct term for “I want to be as big an a**hole as I possibly can be yet suffer no public repercussions for it.” Yes the 1st Amendment allows you to say obnoxious things, but it provides no immunity from the rest of us viewing the offender as a complete loser.
danielx
@redshirt:
Dude – I’m two time zones west of and 8500 feet higher than my usual environment. It’s done wonders for me; not soft, but maybe more along the lines of “this is sensible, why isn’t it like this everywhere?” Aside from clean air and totally awesome views, that is.
redshirt
@danielx: C’mon! Soft.
Villago Delenda Est
@gene108: Actually, it was $400 million the Iranians had paid for US military hardware that had never been delivered due to the Revolution. The US paid back the principle and $1 billion in interest…considerably less than the $7-8 billion the Iranians thought was due them.
redshirt
According to some hasty Googling, the East Coast has double the population and GDP of the West Coast. Explains much.
Villago Delenda Est
@efgoldman: North should have been stripped of his pension and benefits for his actions, but Reagan personally intervened so that North could receive them.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: Huh? Fuck off with that shit!
redshirt
@Villago Delenda Est: I literally had a chance to rent the ex-Iranian Embassy in 1993. It was only $5,000 a month. I got the full tour – it was amazing. I tried to organize some 16 people to get in on it, but failed. I was close though, damn it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: CA has the 6th largest economy in the world, chew on that for a bit.
redshirt
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You represent, Bill. No doubt about that. But your compatriots?
redshirt
@?BillinGlendaleCA: What? The fact that if CA is 6th, what does that make the East Coast? What’s the GDP of NY?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: Less than CA.
ETA: Now I’m off to attempt another upgrade.
redshirt
@?BillinGlendaleCA: And CT and NJ and PA and even Delaware, kinda. But Delaware definitely for the GDP boost.
different-church-lady
But enough about the Daily Kos rec list…
different-church-lady
@?BillinGlendaleCA: If Canada were a US state, it would rank only third in population.
redshirt
@different-church-lady: It would be Number One in our hearts though, I bet. I love Canada!
I think my ancestors from the long ago were from Canada. I have no idea.
different-church-lady
@redshirt:
They have to get up early because all their road games take place at four in the afternoon.
Brachiator
@Petorado:
Not really a First Amendment issue, which is about government interference with speech.
It’s more a social courtesy issue. People like Eastwood and his friends could freely say vile things about various groups and women because there were usually too few (if any) members of those groups around to effectively counter the bullshit.
I wonder how the studio releasing his upcoming movie “Sully” feels about Eastwood’s frankness?
Brendancalling
@redshirt: so good!!
redshirt
@Brendancalling: I love it too. So 80’s!
redshirt
@different-church-lady: Imagine if you will the entire West Coast of North America made of marshmallow. That soft. But also sometimes fun and tasty (burnt).
Brachiator
@redshirt:
GDP of CA about twice that of NY. GDP of CA exceeds that of Canada, Russia or Australia.
redshirt
@Brachiator: And east coast doubles west coast. FL. GA. NC. VA. NJ. MA. ME LOL.
WaterGirl
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: How sad is it that I can’t even guess whether that is true or made up.
WaterGirl
@different-church-lady: hahahahaha
Laughing because what you said is pretty close to true, not at the anti-Hillary sentiment.
WaterGirl
@Brachiator: Rowdy Yates is surely rolling over in his (fictitious) grave.
WaterGirl
And I see that I am talking to myself in the middle of the night. Back to bed.
redshirt
@WaterGirl: You never even asked a quewsion.
MomSense
We went to a farm and the kid and dog ran all around with the farmer’s dogs and kids. We came home, ate dinner and then the dog and kid fell asleep together on the dog bed next to the fan. I couldn’t wake them up to go to bed so I covered them with a blankie. I keep checking on them and they are just totally zonked out. They look very sweet curled up together so I guess I’ll just give up trying to get them to go to bed.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Well, that was festive. I ended up having to disconnect my data drive, but got the update to install.
magurakurin
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Population is less as well.CA has 40 million NY 20 million. NY, PA and NJ is 40 million and combined GDP surpasses California. And the pizza….way, way better.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@magurakurin: Yeah. What you’re mostly seeing is West Coasters bragging that they only divided their coast into three states instead of sixteen.
Peale
@magurakurin: yeah. But we’ve also got more than our fair share of the national punditry. The lion’s share of dumb ideas in the country.
divF
@magurakurin: OTOH, we get the better produce. I just had a lovely midnight snack of melon and sliced tomato.
Peter
So, Trump campaign claims that in July they raised $82 Million, mostly from small donors.
Does anyone actually believe this? I don’t doubt that they did better than their sad May and June figures but this campaign has repeatedly lied in these fundraiser claims.
Barb2
@Peter:
No! Small donations are the easiest way to slip in huge donations from illegal sources – like Russia. Small donations are harder to trace. Cannon fire blog has a blog post about small donations.
Suddenly team Trump figures out email fund drive – with most of email pleas for funds hitting the trash? Good pr to send funding pleas to high profile European addresses. See he is doing something.
Lying liars.
NorthLeft12
@different-church-lady: No, Canada [+36M]would be second…..only behind California [+38M].
I suggested that if we absorbed the states into Canada, we would add about thirty new provinces. No need for separate Dakotas and Carolinas. Ditto for the Virginia situation too. Collect some of the New England states together [RI/Mass/Conn and Vermont/NH/ Maine] and the Rebel alliance too [Miss/Ala/La./Ark.]. Jam Wash. and Oregon together, and then Mont./Wyoming/Idaho. Alaska gets to be a part of the The North with Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut. Nevada and Arizona would be a nice fit, and Texas gets enlarged by adding NM and Oklahoma [that would be funny]. Finally NJ/MD/Delaware and DC are the final province.
For all that you will get single payer health care, and a political system that would really reflect the splintered consensus you currently have. Minority governments forever!
BTW, our Senators are old, powerless, and appointed, so another win there.
Uncle Cosmo
@different-church-lady: Sorry, no: Second (36,048,521) only to Kali (38,332,521). with Texas (26,448,193) 9.5M back at 3.
But why you’d admit then as a single state with a larger land area than the other 50 combined is beyond me. Chip off BC & Nova Scotia first & let the rest come tumbling down gradually…
ETA: I see NorthLeft12 got there a half hour ahead of me, dagnabit…