(Not that I think this would ever happen, or that they would listen.)
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
I can’t remember whether any of us posted this here:
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2022/06/30/the-real-reason-washington-ignored-kavanaughs-would-be-killer-00043679
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 11:36 (one year ago) link
That op-ed is awful, placing non-violent protest of the left on the same scale as the literal violence imposed by the right on many people in this country on a daily basis. Fuck civility, these people want me and mine dead and I’m not going to be polite about it because they sure aren’t.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 12:01 (one year ago) link
“Violence has been so normalized” excuse me but right-wingers and white supremacist conspiracy kooks started this shit, fobbing it off on leftists banging pots and pans or interrupting some sentient swastika’s dinner is intellectually lazy and dishonest
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 12:04 (one year ago) link
there is an “i voted” sticker competition in ulster county & i urge you to vote for this one pls https://t.co/ZYqw6ldl1W pic.twitter.com/I6XTCUdF69— sammy maine (@sammymaine) July 5, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link
That one's at 94% ...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
Sometimes it’s an honor to have Jordan shatter a backboard on you, just to be witness to such greatness.— (((Barak))) (@lawnerdbarak) July 6, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FW9dwi8XEAAYwqh?format=jpg&name=medium
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
Saw a post on reddit that has really stuck with me, paraphrasing here but essentially it said, "Joe Biden's legacy will be watching the death of American democracy without swinging a single punch to try and stop it".
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
C'mon man
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
Biden has never been a puncher.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
Whatever you feel about Gavin Newsom, this op-ed piece claims he's developing a strategy that the Dem establishment could learn from:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/03/opinions/newsom-desantis-2024-campaign-ad-obeidallah/index.html
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
I mean, he IS the Dem establishment, but still
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
"Republican leaders are banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms and even criminalizing women and doctors."
Fox News viewers: well yeah that's why we like them.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
xxxpost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-oHXE0ZhE0
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
This Biden-era Schoolhouse Rock reboot is very depressing pic.twitter.com/YzR07Z1g5o— Scott Gairdner (@scottgairdner) July 1, 2022
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
The former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone is expected to testify to the House January 6 select committee on Friday after reaching an agreement over the scope of his cooperation with a subpoena compelling his testimony, according to a source familiar with the matter.The testimony from Cipollone is expected to be a transcribed interview and recorded on camera, the source said, and the former top White House lawyer is expected to only answer questions on a narrow subset of topics and conversations with the former president.Among the topics Cipollone could discuss include how he told Donald Trump that pressuring Mike Pence, the vice-president, to refuse to certify Joe Biden’s election win was unlawful, and Trump’s plot to coerce the justice department into falsely saying the 2020 election was corrupt.
The testimony from Cipollone is expected to be a transcribed interview and recorded on camera, the source said, and the former top White House lawyer is expected to only answer questions on a narrow subset of topics and conversations with the former president.
Among the topics Cipollone could discuss include how he told Donald Trump that pressuring Mike Pence, the vice-president, to refuse to certify Joe Biden’s election win was unlawful, and Trump’s plot to coerce the justice department into falsely saying the 2020 election was corrupt.
― dow, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
Mr. Cipollone and the committee have agreed to limit his testimony to his views on whether the Hulk or Thor would win in a fight.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
"Pleading the fifth."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
fwiw gas has peaked, see https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts and https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/XB1:COM.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
I've noticed the last 2 weeks it's backed off here about 40 cents/gal.
― WmC, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
It dropped dramatically here, as much as 50 cents in some spots.
It may also signal fears of inflation.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
And Lindsey Graham has already announced that he will fight the GA subpoena.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
Most likely in a Foghorn Leghorn voice
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
I wish he'd choke on a mint julep
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
"On a mint julep, that is!"
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/animaniacs/images/7/79/Foghorn_Leghorn.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140227005921
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
there’s a funny story about him from his (auto?) biography (which I’ve definitely not read; i guess it went mini-viral a couple of years ago?) about growing up in his parents’ bar, walking up and down the countertop cutting up for the patrons, taking swigs or pretend puffs from unattended beer and cigs. I think it features a photo of him in a cowboy getup. and it’s like dude, out of everything in the world, you chose to do *this*???sad.
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Thursday, 7 July 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
Important detail: his nickname among the customers of that bar was "Stinkball"
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 7 July 2022 09:45 (one year ago) link
People like to claim Biden has lost his faculties, but this statement is genuinely impressive. This is some ice cold shit.
JUST IN: @POTUS Biden statement on @BorisJohnson’s resignation: “the special relationship between our people remains strong and enduring. I look forward to continuing our close cooperation with the government of the United Kingdom, as well as our Allies and partners…” pic.twitter.com/sk4X6vWOxb— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) July 7, 2022
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 7 July 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
I think the Kremlin was doing a little Boris grave dancing, this is a good response
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
Biden is not crazy about the way the Tory government is fucking around with Northern Ireland.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Thursday, 7 July 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
Rekt
asked and answered apparently pic.twitter.com/9LcTVXZLHX— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) July 7, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 July 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
I thought we had a centrist brainworms thread but alas
Brookings Institute flack shilling for COMPROMISE
Wow. This by @MichaelRWear is the single best piece I've read on what an abortion compromise could actually look like in practice. If you read only one thing today, make it this. Drop whatever you're doing and go. https://t.co/t9ZPWmYZtR— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) July 6, 2022
The compromise in question:
A sustainable compromise would include the following elements: a federal ban on abortion post-viability with exceptions for the life of the mother, rape and incest (the ceiling); the legalization of abortion up to a certain early-stage in a pregnancy (somewhere, perhaps, between eight-fifteen weeks, depending on the makeup of the coalition to support such a bill; the floor); the codification of the Hyde Amendment; the codification of robust conscience clause protections; a prohibition of federal laws overriding state restrictions on abortion as proposed by the WHPA; and a mandate that states ensure reasonable access to a safe abortion provider.
Just a "moderate" national abortion ban that reactionaries wouldn't agree to anyway.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 7 July 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
It's just Kabuki.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 July 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
Always great to see argumentum ad temperantiam fallacies circulating by people who think they're serious thinkers
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
Especially after the argument's already been lost.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
Lol I very rarely tweet but I felt compelled to respond to that idiocy:
"they would need to let go of their cultural goal to advance abortion as not just necessary, but a social good" This is a ridiculous statement, nobody has ever advanced abortion itself as "a social good." The "social good" is citizens having control over their own bodies.— Jesse Mayshark (@jfmayshark) July 7, 2022
One GREAT way to advance that social good AND minimize abortion is comprehensive sex education and easy access to contraception. If anti-abortion folks ever embrace those 2 easy things, you'll know they're actually trying to reduce abortions. But they won't, because they're not.— Jesse Mayshark (@jfmayshark) July 7, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
Booming posts
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
^^
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 7 July 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
❤️
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Thursday, 7 July 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
absolutely right
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 8 July 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link
North Carolina state legislators are demanding free gas pumps next to EV chargers, or the chargers will be destroyed. https://t.co/PGc9knrXMk— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) July 8, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 July 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
This politics-of-spite stuff is getting so old.
― DJI, Friday, 8 July 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
Bold action
Under the order, the Biden administration will take steps to protect patient privacy, including by "addressing the transfer and sales of sensitive health-related data, combatting digital surveillance related to reproductive health care services, and protecting people seeking reproductive health care from inaccurate information, fraudulent schemes, or deceptive practices," the release said. This includes enlisting the Federal Trade Commission to protect the privacy of people seeking information on abortion services, and additional steps by HHS to shield patients' health records from disclosure by doctors and insurers.The order also authorizes the creation of an interagency task force to coordinate federal policymaking and programs, which will include the attorney general, who will "provide technical assistance to states affording legal protection to out-of-state patients as well as providers who offer legal reproductive health care," the White House said.
The order also authorizes the creation of an interagency task force to coordinate federal policymaking and programs, which will include the attorney general, who will "provide technical assistance to states affording legal protection to out-of-state patients as well as providers who offer legal reproductive health care," the White House said.
― DJI, Friday, 8 July 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Sending up the Alfred signal! This email arrived in my inbox this morning — I guess they bought the mailing list of one of the Latin music publicists I get stuff from...
Note that the subject line is in English but the email itself is in Spanish.
Conservative radio star Lourdis Ubieta quits iconic Radio Mambi ahead of sale to liberal group George Soros, socialista billonario internacional, está intentado apagar las voces conservadoras en español, con la compra de la conocida cadena Radio Mambí en Miami, entre otras estaciones.¡Está financiando la compra de Radio Mambí y ahora quiere ocultar su participación!¡Soros quiere detener el voto de los hispanoamericanos que votan republicano!Esto es tan vergonzoso que Lourdes Ubieta, presentadora de Radio Mambí, renunció y se unió a Americano Media. LEA SU HISTORIA AQUÍ: hxxps://www.foxnews.com/media/soros-takeover-conservative-radio-star-lourdes-ubieta-quits-miami-radio-mambi-ahead-sale-liberal-group.ampAyude a Americano Media a parar este hombre: Hacemos un llamado a la Comisión federal de Comunicaciones para frenar esta situación, por favor firmen esta petición aquí.FIRME AQUÍ: https://americanomedia.com/fccpetition/Dígale a los izquierdistas billonarios que no pueden comprar sus valores. ¡Soros no puede comprar su voto!Descargue la aplicación de Americano Media AQUÍ: hxxps://blahblahbullshit y escuche gratis nuestra programación hispana original, sin la influencia económica de Soros.
George Soros, socialista billonario internacional, está intentado apagar las voces conservadoras en español, con la compra de la conocida cadena Radio Mambí en Miami, entre otras estaciones.
¡Está financiando la compra de Radio Mambí y ahora quiere ocultar su participación!
¡Soros quiere detener el voto de los hispanoamericanos que votan republicano!
Esto es tan vergonzoso que Lourdes Ubieta, presentadora de Radio Mambí, renunció y se unió a Americano Media. LEA SU HISTORIA AQUÍ:
hxxps://www.foxnews.com/media/soros-takeover-conservative-radio-star-lourdes-ubieta-quits-miami-radio-mambi-ahead-sale-liberal-group.amp
Ayude a Americano Media a parar este hombre: Hacemos un llamado a la Comisión federal de Comunicaciones para frenar esta situación, por favor firmen esta petición aquí.
FIRME AQUÍ: https://americanomedia.com/fccpetition/
Dígale a los izquierdistas billonarios que no pueden comprar sus valores. ¡Soros no puede comprar su voto!
Descargue la aplicación de Americano Media AQUÍ: hxxps://blahblahbullshit y escuche gratis nuestra programación hispana original, sin la influencia económica de Soros.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 9 July 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
It would be Soros lol
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
I want to be a socialista billonario internacional
― symsymsym, Saturday, 9 July 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
Izquierdista billionario
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
Best on foreign policy in my lifetime
Every president invites Henry Kissinger to the White House — except Biden https://t.co/MzXu0OfTYN pic.twitter.com/JnEGBmYKOy— New York Post (@nypost) July 9, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 9 July 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
lack of access keeps this freak up at night more than millions of dead childrens cries ever could. hit him where it hurts joe
― Left, Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link