Little Miss Flint met both Trump and Obama this year. pic.twitter.com/eH15fElHqw
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 15, 2016
Snack Team Six Trial Day 3: The Political Prisoner is in Court Your Honor
Today, Ammon Bundy the leader of Snack Team Six, appeared in court wearing his prison scrubs to make the point that he is a political prisoner.
“Mr. Bundy desires to appear as he is, a political prisoner not free to dress as if presumed innocent,” attorney J. Morgan Philpot said, reading his client’s statement. “He would prefer to drop the facade and appear as the political prisoner he has been made.”
U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown asked Bundy to stand. She inquired whether it was his choice to appear in jail attire, and if anyone took his suit away.
“Your honor, I have no comment,” he replied.
The judge told him she must know if his decision was voluntary.
“I have no comment,” he repeated.
Philpot interjected, “Mr. Bundy feels he really has no choice — that that’s been taken from him.”
It appears that Mr. Bundy and the rest of Snack Team 6 seem intent on turning Judge Brown’s court into a circus to suit their own purposes. It remains to be seen just how successful they will be.
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Weekend Movie Review — Vote Early Vote Often
Between the FYWP/Firefox issue and various political happenings, last weekend’s inaugural Weekend Movie Club kinda got short shrift. Tireless commentors Schroedinger’s Cat and Mnemosyne will be doing a movie review every weekend, posted to SC’s blog and cross-posted here. Here’s your chance to vote for the next review:
… I grew up watching Hindi movies and more importantly listening to Hindi movie numbers. I must have heard and watched many more songs than the movies themselves. Growing up I used to turn up my nose at most of the offerings that came out of the movie industry which is now popularly known as Bollywood. There was a dichotomy between commercial cinema and art cinema and there very few popular Hindi movies that didn’t insult your intelligence or so it seemed to me. For twenty odd years, the new Hindi movies that I must have watched could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Now that I am at a distance from both my childhood and Bollywood, I think I may have judged those movies harshly. Hollywood can be pretty formulaic too. They have different formulas, that’s all. Since last year I have been rediscovering Indian cinema, particularly Hindi movies, mainly through their music. Through my YouTube meanderings, I have stumbled across many gems. The list of movies that I want to see keeps growing by the day. Either I have become more forgiving or the movies have gotten better. For example, there are many more movies with female protagonists which don’t have a love story as their focus, than the Hindi cinema of yore or even present day Hollywood. Here is a list of three movies with strong female leads…
Clink on the link to watch the trailers and vote for Queen, Neerja, or Jai Gangaajal. (Or, I assume, to suggest other movies for the Two Movie Kittehs to review.)
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Open Thread: Trump Thinks E coli Gets Too Much Attention
Make America Parasitic Again! E. Coli Unum!https://t.co/8P0IWvbu6r
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 15, 2016
JUST IN: Trump says he would eliminate food safety regulations https://t.co/aaEESQUYhI pic.twitter.com/OYgZICvmIL
— The Hill (@thehill) September 15, 2016
In a fact sheet posted online Thursday, the campaign highlighted a number of “specific regulations to be eliminated” under the GOP nominee’s economic plan, including what they called the “FDA Food Police.”
“The FDA Food Police, which dictate how the federal government expects farmers to produce fruits and vegetables and even dictates the nutritional content of dog food,” it read…
The fact sheet was later removed from the website and a new fact sheet detailing Trump’s economic agenda did not include mention of the FDA.
The FDA recently completed an overhaul of the food safety system with seven rules to better protect consumers from food-borne illnesses. Manufacturers of both animal and human food are now required to implement preventive controls to minimize the risk of contaminating food when it’s manufactured, processed, packed or held by a facility.
Trump’s economic policy plan also calls for “an immediate halt to new federal regulations and a very thorough agency-level review of previous regulations to see which need to be scrapped.”…
This from a notorious germophobe. Of course, what that ‘float’ was really about is the usual Republican aversion to being “forced” to spend money just to keep other people safe. Because spending a few extra pennies on providing sanitary facilities for those lettuce-pickers is just like being forced to pray to Allah — it’s a religious issue, really!
At this point he's just curious to test how stupid his supporters are exactly. https://t.co/COh02ctLKh
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) September 15, 2016
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We Need This Guy in the Senate
Here’s the best Democratic commercial I honestly think I’ve ever seen:
He’s running against Roy Blunt in Missouri, and could be the Junior Senator under Claire McCaskill.
Seems like the real deal.
*** Update ***
Donations Needed for Mr. Cracker’s Bail
Florida bringing their A game to the 2016 shitshow:
A dispute on a Florida shuffleboard court turned violent yesterday when an 81-year-old man allegedly punched a fellow pensioner and struck him with his shuffleboard cue, according to court records.
The confrontation Wednesday afternoon occurred at the Pinellas Park Senior Center, which includes an open-air pavilion with 16 shuffleboard courts (as seen below).
Police charge that octogenarian Herbert Hayden “had a verbal argument that escalated into a physical altercation.” Hayden allegedly punched the victim, James Sutton, in the face and “hit him with his shuffleboard cue causing damage to both cues.”
Don’t ever change, Florida.
Rotten Acorns Land Near Gnarly Oak (Updated)
Trump’s worthless progeny have run into some inconvenient media peasants during the last 24 hours. First, Ivanka got snippy with a Cosmo interviewer when asked about details of the circa-1960s maternity leave plan and NannyBucks proposal she and her slimy father rolled out a couple of days ago:
Donald Trump’s famously composed eldest daughter, Ivanka, accused a Cosmopolitan reporter of going “negative” and trying to “editorialize” by asking for specifics on her father’s newly announced maternity leave policy before abruptly ending a Wednesday phone interview…
Trump became testier when asked what made her father evolve on the issue of maternity leave, given that he said in a 2004 NBC interview that pregnancy was an “inconvenience for employers.”
“I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions, and I think my father has put forth a very comprehensive and really revolutionary plan to deal with a lot of issues,” Trump replied, criticizing Gupta for making a “comment like that” and arguing that her father has employed women at all levels of his company for “decades.”
Gupta said she didn’t mean to ask “negative” questions, but argued it was “relevant” to ask questions about past statements made by presidential candidates.
“You said he made those comments. I don’t know that he said those comments,” Trump said.
Gupta clarified that she was quoting directly from the NBC interview.
Trump reiterated that her father should be “celebrated” for his “really incredibly plan” before saying she had to “jump off” the phone.
She probably really did expect her creepy sexist father to be celebrated. What an unpleasant surprise.
Next, Trump Jr. let slip the real reason his scumbag father won’t release his tax returns: because then people would be able to see what’s in them:
Donald Trump Jr. said that one reason his father has yet to release his tax returns, in a break from four decades of precedent for presidential candidates, was that the complicated documents would provoke too many questions.
“He’s got a 12,000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from [his father’s] main message,” Trump Jr. said in a Wednesday interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
I think it’s time for Democrats to just assert the worst assumptions about what’s in Trump’s tax returns as if they were factual and put the onus on Trump to prove otherwise:
“How can a man like Donald Trump, who uses loopholes to pay no taxes, propose another huge tax cut to benefit rich freeloaders like himself?”
“Why does Trump keep lying about giving tens of millions to charity?”
“If Trump is such a savvy businessman, why is he in hock up to his eyeballs to Russian oligarchs and mobsters?”
Etc. Later, Trump Jr. (or an aide) stole a page from his sister’s playbook and fled an interview that wasn’t going his way:
An aide abruptly shut down a local TV reporter’s Thursday interview with Donald Trump Jr. when the real estate scion was asked about a six-foot-tall portrait of his father reportedly bought with money from the family’s charitable foundation.
“You’re a director of the Trump Foundation charity,” a reporter from Pittsburgh TV station WTAE asked in video flagged by BuzzFeed News. “Did you sign off on charity money for a portrait?”
“No, I don’t know anything about that,” Trump Jr. replied.
“So how come you didn’t know about it?” the reporter pressed.
“All right, that’s it,” a person off-camera interrupted, speaking over Trump Jr. “We have to move on. We have to move on to the next one.”
“I’m not worried—I’m not involved in it,” Trump Jr. added.
“I’m not worried”? Hmm. That sounds like a tell — kinda like “believe me.”
What a trio of despicable, entitled brats Ivanka, Uday and Qusay are. Mitt’s five Mittlets were kind of annoying and comical, but these Trump people are scum. Please FSM, let us be rid of the whole vile bunch forever come November 9.
ETA: By popular demand, here’s an account of another unbelievable comment by Trump Jr. today:
“The media has been her number one surrogate in this,” the younger Trump told radio host Chris Stigall on 1210 WPHT radio in Philadelphia. “Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up. They’ve let her slide on every in-discrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing.
“If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now.”
Lie down with neo-Nazis, wake up with Holocaust jokes and white nationalist memes, I guess. 54 more days.
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