US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

I don't get it -- he acknowledged yesterday he was one of the two people in the photo?

The narcissism of politicians never ceases to amaze me.

jus resign and go away

Deep down, he just wants to be the Dem Kavanaugh.

Shoulda kept better calendars then...

To see Max mocked by Neera Tanden is not a bad thing but a good thing

So this just happened at my airport. Obv no way of knowing why he did it but sure not getting paid for weeks didn't help. Horrifying:

https://www.local10.com/news/florida/security-issue-at-orlando-airport-halts-flights-officials-say

jfc

it's as if the material conditions of life have some bearing on mental health

they can be exacerbating

A Transportation Security Administration agent was killed Saturday morning after jumping from a hotel balcony into the atrium of Orlando International Airport, authorities said.

was killed? uh, no. this person died and in the most public way they could possibly choose. presumably this TSA agent thought the public needed to witness it and to acknowledge their humanity and their extreme distress.

"If anything, it was worse in 1984 because the civil rights movement was not ancient history."

1984 was a different time for some things, mainly gay rights (I'm constantly surprised by homophobic jokes in things like Friends which to me isn't even very old) but it certainly wasn't for fucking racism. When did Gimmie a Break run the Joey Lawrence singing Mammy episode? Everyone knew blackface was wrong in the early 80's. Gimmie a break!

(except for, apparently, Ted Danson)

Also, regardless of how good a Gov this guy is, you can't really walk this shit back after apologizing for it. What a dummy. Resign.

as noted upthread, his replacement is actually a big improvement, so yeah there's no downside to him resigning.

1984 was not 1884 and even if it was no one wants a reanimated confederate corpse for a liberal governor

RotN was, intentionally and by design, as racist, homophobic, and misogynist as could be. I was just throwing it out as context for 1984

what's RotN?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mRG2oAQhso

revenge of the nerds: the two towers

As cited upthread, "Revenge of the Nerds".

Here’s a video that was running on mtv in 1983
https://youtu.be/OG3PnQ3tgzY

what a talent show!

I’m surprised I was alive in the 80s. It seems like an extraordinarily different kind of amoral civilization

But ohhh, the coke

Your grandparents probably supported eugenic sterilizations.

Moral progress in the last 70 years has proceeded faster than at any other period. It's the silver lining of the apotheosis of opposing elements in Nazism and similar nationalisms of the early 20th century.

^at least in Western democracies. Which accounts for the allegiance/mentorship of reactionary elements with the worst in Russia, Uganda, etc...

A Transportation Security Administration agent was killed Saturday morning after jumping from a hotel balcony into the atrium of Orlando International Airport, authorities said.

was killed? uh, no. this person died and in the most public way they could possibly choose. presumably this TSA agent thought the public needed to witness it and to acknowledge their humanity and their extreme distress.

How sure are you that the floor of the airport wasn't from Mexico?

I’m surprised I was alive in the 80s.

I thought you said you were 29.

That's why he's surprised.

mathperson

I'm 29 and was alive in the 80s

Intetesting that McConnell is leaking this ahead of time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mcconnell-privately-cautioned-trump-about-emergency-declaration-on-border-wall/2019/02/01/5ff1262c-2646-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html?utm_term=.c4287bf1480b

Which signals he cant keep his caucus in line and would be willing to bring something to the floor to appease them/confront Trump

29yos were alive in a single "eighty" unless we can agree that life begins at conception

“I did not shoot the sherif. How can I be so sure? Because I have such a vivid memory of shooting the deputy.”

— Tim Stanley (@timothy_stanley) February 2, 2019

'Willful Ignorance.' Inside President Trump's Troubled Intelligence Briefings

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the U.S. intelligence community this week, senior intelligence briefers are breaking two years of silence to warn that the President is endangering American security with what they say is a stubborn disregard for their assessments.

Citing multiple in-person episodes, these intelligence officials say Trump displays what one called “willful ignorance” when presented with analyses generated by America’s $81 billion-a-year intelligence services. The officials, who include analysts who prepare Trump’s briefs and the briefers themselves, describe futile attempts to keep his attention by using visual aids, confining some briefing points to two or three sentences, and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible.

What is most troubling, say these officials and others in government and on Capitol Hill who have been briefed on the episodes, are Trump’s angry reactions when he is given information that contradicts positions he has taken or beliefs he holds. Two intelligence officers even reported that they have been warned to avoid giving the President intelligence assessments that contradict stances he has taken in public.

I was alive in 89

Trump needs to be removed from office. If a democratic president was displaying this behavior, i don’t think the party would enable it.

lmao Northam's wife prevents him from actually moonwalking at press conference to prove he was a fan of Michael Jackson, presumably to justify blackface

so he says he's not in the photo, but he did wear blackface in med school

well, that's very different

I was alive in 89

Many people have forgotten that 2019 is still very new on the scene. It seems like its been here for ages.

xp and his nickname was "Coonman"

the drumming on that Soundgarden song is immense imo

holy shit

The freezing prisoners at the Metropolitan detention Center in Sunset Park are banging out SOS for all of us to hear. #SunsetParkGulag pic.twitter.com/f9O8KIVAxZ

— Brad Lander (@bradlander) February 1, 2019

that's about 2 miles from me

(and Lander is my councilman)

Apparently said detention center received a court order to attend an evidentiary hearing on 2/5. Good.

Glad all their lies are being swiftly refuted.

soto lol

xp and his nickname was "Coonman"

Come together with your Klan

:D

Northam’s game is to survive 48 more hours. Let Super Bowl and then SOTU take the media glare away and ride it out. Then apology tour.

— Advance Guy Notes (@AdvanceGuyNotes) February 2, 2019

Trump's perma-tan is the result of “good genes,” according to a senior administration official who would speak only on the condition of anonymity. https://t.co/Tu6LCCBbjo

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) February 2, 2019

they lie about the dumbest shit

when i was a kid, the only thing i knew about trump was that he refused to admit his hair was a toupée