Also they're good at sports.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 November 2017 04:31 (six years ago) link
There are not two more media figures that deserve each other than Trump and LaVar Ball.
― earlnash, Monday, 20 November 2017 04:31 (six years ago) link
It's one of the more peculiar bits of genius Trump's pulled off--He's this "famous for 'being famous'" guy who's really connected with his base by dissing and feuding with genuinely talented people.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 November 2017 04:44 (six years ago) link
and LaVar Ball too
― frogbs, Monday, 20 November 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
Definitely a nexus of horsexxxt when those two tango, hopefully they go all in.
― earlnash, Monday, 20 November 2017 04:51 (six years ago) link
I read Dave Weigel of the Washington Post tweet that not a single Democratic Senator was on the talk show circuit Sunday (and thus only Republicans got to talk about the tax bills)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 November 2017 05:42 (six years ago) link
I’ve been told all my life the Sunday talk shows exist but i have never ever seen one; I don’t think I know anyone who has.
― .oO (silby), Monday, 20 November 2017 06:18 (six years ago) link
They exist mainly to provide pull-quotes for news articles and sound bites for television news. Also, to fulfill public service programming in time slots that wouldn't sell ads anyway. As I understand it only political junkies ever watch them.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 20 November 2017 06:22 (six years ago) link
Political Junkies who are--if the non-PSA commercials are to be believed--also in the market for prescription and/OTC drugs with side effects including vomiting, diahrrea, constipation, blurry vision, suicidal thoughts, and errections lasting more than four hours.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 November 2017 06:31 (six years ago) link
eh, aren't the ads all about how Archer Daniels Midland is saving the world, etc?
― President Keyes, Monday, 20 November 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
I misread this very badly
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Monday, 20 November 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
haha
― crüt, Monday, 20 November 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
also in the market for prescription and/OTC drugs with side effects including vomiting, diahrrea, constipation, blurry vision, suicidal thoughts, and errections lasting more than four hours.
coincidentally also the side effects of watching Sunday political talk shows
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 20 November 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
my dad and i would yell at each other about Reagan in the '80s when the Sunday shows were on, and my mom would literally run in and turn the TV off.
good times
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 November 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
http://images.rcp.realclearpolitics.com/329890_5_.jpg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 November 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
pbs fridays -- shields and (boo!) brooks -- is where it's at
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 20 November 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
ok *now* I think Franken could be in real trouble: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/20/he-put-his-hand-full-fledged-on-my-rear-why-al-franken-is-in-a-lot-more-trouble-now/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_fix-franken-1040am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.263c95b22692
but we'll see
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 November 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
Keystone XL pipeline is a go, kinda
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 November 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
gross
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 November 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
I'm honestly surprised something like this didn't surface sooner
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/sources-mcmaster-mocked-trumps-intelligence-in-a-private
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 November 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
But these new details reveal that the subject matter of McMaster’s dinner with Catz, which sources tell BuzzFeed News took place on July 18 at the Washington, D.C., restaurant Tosca, ranged far from geopolitics. Indeed, three of the sources said that McMaster disparaged multiple members of the administration to Catz, including Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, and President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. Of Kushner, one source told BuzzFeed News, McMaster said he had no business being in the White House and should not be involved in national security issues.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 November 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
Of Kushner, one source told BuzzFeed News, McMaster said he had no business being in the White House and should not be involved in national security issues.
what's sad is that this isn't even remotely controversial to anyone outside of the trump family.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 November 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-values-that-values-voters-care-about-most-are-policies-not-character-traits/
this seems like something that should be obvious but maybe isn't
― k3vin k., Monday, 20 November 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
Oh this is a crazy deep dive
https://www.gq.com/story/inside-rand-pauls-neighborhood-fight
Like most everyone else in the Rivergreen development, Goodwin told me, Boucher pays in the ballpark of $150 a month for professional landscaping, while Paul insists on maintaining his yard himself. Goodwin said that part of what nagged at Boucher was the difference in grass length between his lawn and that of his libertarian neighbor's. "He had his yard sitting at a beautiful two-and-a-half, three inches thick, where Rand cuts it to the nub," Goodwin said.Also at issue, according to Goodwin, is Paul's tendency to mow outward at the edge of his property, spraying his clippings into Boucher's yard. Boucher, he said, has asked Paul to instead mow inward when near the boundary line, and even sought help from the Rivergreen Homeowners Association but has gotten no relief.
Also at issue, according to Goodwin, is Paul's tendency to mow outward at the edge of his property, spraying his clippings into Boucher's yard. Boucher, he said, has asked Paul to instead mow inward when near the boundary line, and even sought help from the Rivergreen Homeowners Association but has gotten no relief.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 November 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
Elsewhere in the White House
As if we needed more evidence that trickle-down economics are a scam. https://t.co/GvagiFRRiM pic.twitter.com/qrOvhyNXCS— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) November 20, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 November 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't the principled libertarian perspective be that, just as Paul's right to fling his fists stops at the end of his neighbor's nose, his right to spew his grass clippings hither and thither stops at the sacred line dividing their properties?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
And libertarians are nothing if not consistent in exercising their logically-airtight principles.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
hahahahaha that excerpt Ned posted
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
This strikes me as a stretch. A few people said Catz said that McMaster said this. Everyone in actual attendance denies it was said and Catz denies telling anyone it was. https://t.co/x5csfh18gV— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) November 20, 2017
would love if some anti-mcmaster bannon holdover (or, even better, kushner) leaked an untrue story whose details show that the source thinks trump is stupid
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
learning that RP is apparently a good tipper disturbs me in that I no longer completely hate him
― Simon H., Monday, 20 November 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
A viable story in national politics hinges on grass length? Okay. Whatevs.
If the blades are short, you must report. If the clippings blow out, it's time to shout.
― you had better come correct (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
Has anyone made the joke yet that the Rand Paul fight gave new meaning to the term “petty bourgeois”?
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
Atlas Mowed
― you had better come correct (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
honestly now that the severity of the injuries and assault is clearer I don't find the story funny anymore. the descriptions in the GQ piece are savage
― Simon H., Monday, 20 November 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
it's still funny
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
given the amount of actual physical suffering on the part of the populace that this dude is responsible for, I consider it karma
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
The next paragraph after the ones I quoted:
Goodwin recalled picking up Boucher, a devout Catholic, at his home after church one Sunday afternoon several years ago. Boucher had confronted Paul about his yard-maintenance practices a few minutes before Goodwin's arrival, to no avail, and Goodwin saw Boucher grow agitated as they both watched Paul blow grass onto his lawn. "I've asked him and I've asked him and I've asked him," Goodwin recalls Boucher fuming. "How long can you sit there taking someone plucking a hair out of your nose?" Goodwin asked. "How long could you take that before losing your temper?"
How long has this been going on, indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
two bad neighbors
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
Meantime, this guy
http://ijr.com/2017/11/1020133-exclusive-30-sources-expose-sexually-explicit-evidence-harassment-ohio-gop-rep-wes-goodman/
Per another comment: "Best bit is when someone texted Goodman about his room # so they could close his bar tab, but he misunderstood and wrote back with the number and a ;)"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
President Donald Trump said Sunday a final decision would come this week on whether to maintain a ban on importing elephant hunting trophies from two African countries, indicating he was leaning toward keeping the Obama-era rules in place.
"Big-game trophy decision will be announced next week but will be very hard pressed to change my mind that this horror show in any way helps conservation of Elephants or any other animal," Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday night.
...Criticism from allies who have big platforms on the right clearly moved the needle. Conservative radio host Michael Savage, who is very popular with the Trump base, and Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham, who recently published a pro-Trump book, both spoke out against getting rid of the Obama-era policy. - Washington Post
So Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham care about elephants? Kinda surprised (figured elephants were dispensable to them) Maybe cuz the animal is a symbol of the Republican party...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 November 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
tbf to Boucher, if he'd asked Paul numerous times to change what he was doing, and the solution was as simple as turning the mower around and mowing the edge going the opposite direction, then every time Paul went the 'wrong' direction he was pointedly saying "fuck you" to his neighbor. depending on how often Paul mowed, that's a lot of "fuck you". otoh, a "devout Catholic" should have turned the other cheek.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
on a more topical note, what or who is going to save us from this egregious republican tax bill?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
Big-game trophy decision will be announced next week but will be very hard pressed to change my mind that this horror show in any way helps conservation of Elephants or any other animal," Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday night.
Donald J. Trump otm
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 November 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
Whoever wrote that for DJT otm.
― nickn, Monday, 20 November 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
Can’t tell which one of about six threads this ones should go into, but the stock photo for the “Antifa” character here looks far more like a ninja/terrorist from some late 80s video game advert than any actual Antifa kid you’re going to run into.
NRA magazine staying on brand with half-informed scare tactics in defense of white authoritarian rule https://t.co/H7Hu5P11cv pic.twitter.com/YqgFIf06KL— nebraska antifa (@antifa_ne) November 20, 2017
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Monday, 20 November 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/G0uvHRb.png(ninja gaiden, NES)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 November 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
https://www.lukiegames.com/assets/images/PS2/ps2_smugglers_run_p_xlm0kn.jpg
― Evan, Monday, 20 November 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
Antifa 7800
https://arcryphongames.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/ninjagolf_front.jpg
― Evan, Monday, 20 November 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
hey everyone, i don't post much here these days, i'm like a month behind on these threads, BORN TO DIE, WORLD IS A FUCK, etc
just popping by to say FRANKEN MUST GO
peace
― goole, Monday, 20 November 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
Even as someone who has as at least many criticisms of Bernie as I do reasons to like him, his saying Franken should stay on was a disappointment. (Of course, that was before these latest allegations came to light, so he may change his tune yet.)
― Simon H., Monday, 20 November 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link