Mattis: There are no additional attacks planned in Syria https://t.co/8eMtBrFSgT pic.twitter.com/Ev8G3qH0RF
— POLITICO (@politico) April 14, 2018
(takes sip of water)
(steps to microphone)
(clears throat)
"Wag the Prague."
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 14, 2018
Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2012
first as tragedy, then as farce that is also tragedy
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) April 14, 2018
.@realDonaldTrump must come to Congress to obtain a new AUMF, present a clear set of objectives, & ultimately hold Putin accountable for the bloodshed he has enabled. https://t.co/Mwdwbs289X pic.twitter.com/9f3AB1SJnX
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) April 14, 2018
We are ordering a military strike without a Secretary of State.
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) April 14, 2018
Or a legitimate president https://t.co/XdIr8enpAE
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 14, 2018
Operation Enduring NDA
— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) April 14, 2018
I don't know what the right answer is in Syria, but if there's one human being alive less likely to find it than Donald Trump, it's John Bolton.
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) April 14, 2018
I wouldn’t trust this administration to set off a bug bomb in a motel room.
— OMGSomeoneShutUpHat (@Popehat) April 14, 2018
The fact that Mattis is already briefing the press is as solid evidence as you can get that:
1) Russia was notified and indicated they’d stand down
2) We knew the attack would be met with no substantive resistance
3) The targets were contained
This ain’t a Bolton strike.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 14, 2018
Alex Jones on Trump launching strikes in Syria… pic.twitter.com/FkPt3xnok4
— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist) April 14, 2018
A friendly reminder that the “Trump’s base is pissed” meme first appeared after the 2017 missile attack. Their ire at Trump quickly faded.
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 14, 2018
It’s a tad difficult to believe that the campaign that tweeted this vitriol actually cares about the Syrian people. pic.twitter.com/nU8qsmh3jS
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) April 14, 2018
Litlebritdifrnt
Buzzfeed is reporting that Russia is claiming that the Syrians shot most of the cruise missiles down using a 1950s Russian missile defence system. Probably more dick swinging by Putin Who knows
OzarkHillbilly
Been awake since 12:30, up since 1:30. I’ve got a piece of glass in my foot, gonna have to wait for it to fester and come out. Big thunderboomers last night, one tornado sighted in Leasburg but missed us. One lonely little spring peeper down in the holler, otherwise quiet.
Everything is just peachy here in Ozarkistan.
Betty Cracker
I’m relieved it appears this was a routine courtesy bombing* rather than a sustained attack operation. In his snuffling, incoherent address last night, Twitler implied it would be the latter.
*No disrespect intended toward people in actual harm’s way.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: Good to hear you weathered the storm. It’s supposed to blow through here late in the day Sunday with fierce winds and rain but no tornadoes, as far as I know. Saw this tweet from a dude in Arkansas who was close to a twister:
OzarkHillbilly
This letter from Congressional DEMs to Scott Pruitt has to be read to be believed.
oatler.
I thought we were gonna get a military parade. Talk about wrong turns, I can’t even remember what Cohen was up to!
Joyce H
@oatler.:
Speaking of Cohen, that WEIRD scene yesterday of him wandering around out of doors in NYC, wearing a conspicuously loud jacket and smoking a cigar, drawing a crowd taking photos and videos. The thought popped into my head – ‘he’s establishing an alibi!’ Did someone get whacked yesterday?
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: Tornadoes are amazing creatures. Was coming back from one of my Arkie trips when I came across a week old tornado path. I followed it for miles (it went more or less in the same direction I was traveling) the path was anywhere from a few hundred yards wide up to 1/4 mile by the time we hit Melbourne. A path mowed through a mature hardwood forest like a giant lawn mower in tall grass and just 20 or 30 yards away a house would be standing untouched. Mobile homes (otherwise known as tornado magnets) just exploded leaving nothing but the detritus of a family’s life behind. The most confounding to me was a pasture with a 1/4 mile wide path shorn clean of grass, nothing but bald dirt as far as the eye could see.
Arclite
Given that Trump telegraphed this strike a few days ago, the Syrians had plenty of time to secure their equipment in a secure location. For example, I read that most of the Syrian air Force moved aircraft to the Russian base at Latakia to ensure they wouldn’t be destroyed.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: They are amazingly random. Whenever we get hail, I’m always on the look out for a tornado. I’ve been near a few but luckily never directly in the path. (Knock wood.)
sukabi
@OzarkHillbilly: you know he’s going to ignore the letter and not comply with their request for documents. He’s another one that needs to spend some time wearing orange in a secure facility.
satby
@Betty Cracker: they’re random and can be stronger than hurricanes, though a much narrower path. They hit near or in Chicago frequently enough that I’ve been in several that have caused fatalities. The worst one was this one: 1967 Oak Lawn
Of course, you live in the double whammy zone, since tornados spin off from hurricanes. At least I never had to worry about storm surge.
raven
@satby:
My dad and I went up to help with the cleanup.
WereBear
@satby: I was in one when I was 18 months old; Grandma and I were in the basement when the tornado took away the chicken coop. And probably some chickens… sorry Betty!
But I did not know this until my first novel, which opens with a nightmare of my main character trapped in a tornado. “Oh, yeah, you were in one,” my mother said… seems like it would have been a more popular topic :)
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: I have only seen one actual honest to Dog tornado and it was miles away so my reaction was one of awe, not fear. I have seen several proto-tornadoes, a couple of which systems did in fact end up generating a tornado or 2.
(bangs fist on head) Knock on wood.
satby
@satby: at that link, it talks about all the reported tornados that day, the F4 in Cook County was the one that went through my neighborhood and the nearby suburbs. It was bad.
OzarkHillbilly
@sukabi: And neither Barrasso or Gowdy will do a thing about it. Pruitt’s lawlessnes is breathtaking.
satby
@raven: I kind of remember that one too, though I was in grade school and not much of a news hound.
satby
@WereBear: my youngest memory of one was on the South Side (again near 79th St.) where a tornado had busted out the windows of the department store, Franks, on the corner of 79 & Halsted, and we came out after the storm to toys strewn all over the lawn, still in their packaging. I mostly remember how disappointed we kids were when our moms said we were bringing the toys back to Franks, we couldn’t keep them. I had to have been under 5 years old, because I was that old when we moved to Beverly.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: all of them are breathtaking, we really need to get back in the majority to at least have investigations that mean something. Grand Old Party of thieves.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: In the Corruption Competition, Pruitt is in the lead by miles and the guaranteed gold medal winner. When trump’s former body man has moral objections to what Pruitt wants, you know we have reached the stratosphere.
Raven
@satby: I was “abroad” in 67!
WereBear
@satby: That was the closest I got in the MidWest.
However, it did explain how certain casts of light (that yellow-tornado light shift) and massing dark clouds would twinge my nerves. Now I know why.
donnah
@Joyce H:
I know, it was weird. I told my husband that Cohen should go to prison just for wearing that jacket.
Barry
@OzarkHillbilly: ” I’ve got a piece of glass in my foot, gonna have to wait for it to fester and come out.”
I sympathize. I had that in January.
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
OzarkHillbilly
I’m a Peeliever and You Should Be, Too I had to click thru, just to reward the headline writer if for no other reason. The author is fairly persuasive.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
TS
The attack on Syria and related speeches is reminding me of Mussolini strutting around a stage making speeches, sending in the troops and achieving absolutely nothing.
Why was it done at this point in time? Proving you are a strong leader by throwing around a few missiles didn’t used to be the way democracies operated. Was it really to take pressure off the internal news and give the pundits another reason to say “trump just became presidential”.
There is something terribly disturbing about this administration – with a couple of sane people maybe hanging in there – but for how long.
MomSense
@Raven:
I was “onboard” in ‘67.
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
That trump asked Comey to investigate it says it all. I love that he didn’t want the tape to upset Melanie. Yeah that seems totally believable.
mainmata
I’m sitting in Jakarta so it was an all-day affair for me. Not that I spent the whole day following it. I’m actually supposed to be working even on the weekends but the news got really repetitive, especially CNNI but also the Beeb but since the whole event didn’t last very long all they were left with was repetition.
So I’m watching an old “Iron Chef America” episode instead. Much more interesting to me.
Lapassionara
My head is spinning. Scooter Libby pardoned. Michael Cohen in Prague in 2016 and invited to chat with Judge Wood next Monday. Syria bombed. And that was only one day. I don’t think I will live through this administration.
Good morning.
Jake the antisoshul soshulist
He’s afraid she could get more than the prenup allows.
MomSense
@Jake the antisoshul soshulist:
Maybe she isn’t leaving at all. She probably runs the family now. Did anyone else get the feeling that those millions in unused inaugural committee funds were meant for Melania?
JohnO
My niece’s ~100 year old big rented farmhouse in Washington, IL was F4’d into Lake Michigan a few years back. I was there the next day and it was something else. Everything just…gone. She got her 3 kids and dogs out just in time, couldn’t rescue the cats, who were found in the rubble next day! We were VERY happy…it was the only bright spot on the day other than the few (1?) lives actually lost. (Link is to Weather Channel footage of one kitty’s emergence.)
Still curious to hear from Adam and/or Cheryl and/or the BJ legal community about the Cohen news of yesterday. IF he was in Prague and IF he was in the meeting alleged in the Steele dossier, are we in genuine treason territory?
Barbara
@MomSense: Maybe not wanting to upset Melania is code for “that kind of thing would violate the prenup.”
Barbara
@JohnO: We’ve been in genuine treason territory for a while. I suppose this would be harder for Trump to try to pass off as the actions of a rogue or low level staffer.
Baud
@Barbara: Could be why he’s denying Stormy Daniels too. That really wasn’t very scandalous, relatively speaking.
Gin & Tonic
@JohnO:
No.
It may be perjury, it may be indicative of a criminal conspiracy, but treason is very specific.
JohnO
@Barbara:
Yes, I didn’t phrase it right…I too have felt we were in treason territory just from stuff in the public record, like The Boy King inviting Russia to hack away on live TV.
I meant could we actually see a genuine political and legal fight over treason?
OzarkHillbilly
@JohnO:
I would say it all depends about why he lied about it. It’s possible he was only there to exchange borscht recipes but he had to lie so that his wife wouldn’t know it was her family’s super secret recipe handed down thru the generations from mother to daughter along with her great great grandmother’s garnet necklace.
JohnO
@Gin & Tonic:
Hmmm…could it be argued that tipping an election to a hostile foreign government is in fact giving “aid and comfort?” Because I feel I could make a case for that off the top of my head and IANAL.
Thanks.
mainmata
@OzarkHillbilly: OMG, I’ve been following this as much as I can, especially this is my field but this sewer rat makes the “Dragon Lady” of Reagan’s EPA (that would be Gorsuch’s mother) seem like a total amateur. But, in the Trump Era, he won’t either be fired or charged with the many crimes he has committed and, of course, he knows that. If the Dems take over in January, he should spend all his time in Congressional hearings being grilled to within an inch of his life.
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly:
This makes me physically ill. How did we fall so low so soon????
Gin & Tonic
@JohnO: Russia may be an adversary, it may have hostile interests, but since we have not declared war against them (nor they against us) they are not an “Enemy.”
Please stop using the word. It has a specific meaning; it is very well-defined, and nothing anyone in or near the Trump organization has done or can do rises to that.
Jeffro
@Gin & Tonic: You don’t think that the Trumpov campaign gave aid and comfort to one of America’s biggest enemies? Aren’t he and his minions still doing that to this very day?
Ah well…
In other news, the WaPo magazine’s feature article this weekend is on the magnificent prescience of…Dennis Kucinich. A man ahead of his time. A man in the (not making this up) “sweet spot where Sandersism meets Trumpism”. GAG ME. Hey Post, maybe next time you could run a profile on someone who actually matters, like one of the likely 2020 D contenders? Or all of them? There have been any number of absolutely great #Resistance Dems in the House and Senate who could use some more airtime. Just sayin’…
donnah
I was in high school in 1974 when an F-5 tornado hit Xenia, Ohio, ten miles from where I lived. It was part of a Super Outbreak, and it killed 33 people and injured more than a thousand. A week or so after, my dad took us by what was left of the area and we were stunned to see the massive destruction. It pulled sidewalks out of the ground and wrapped siding around trees like bowties. I can’t imagine the terror.
Of course, there were no camera phones back then, but there are archived photos. There is also a sound recording online from a tape recorder someone left running. It recorded the sounds of the approaching funnel, the clatter of debris, and that awful locomotive roar when it hits. Shudder.
JohnO
@Gin & Tonic:
Noted, but a quick scan couldn’t find where I used the word enemy. No matter, I think I get your points.
OzarkHillbilly
@mainmata: I wonder… Having the power of the purse, can a DEM congress write the EPAs budget such that Pruitt is forbidden from collecting any salary at all?
@zhena gogolia: Because we were never all that high to begin with? There was a time when the GOP actually cared about the environment but that all went out the window with Reagan. The GOP usually gets about 47% of the vote no matter what, which means app half the population really doesn’t care all that much.
Baud
@Jeffro: That’s a preview of how the media will treat us in 2020.
TS
@JohnO: Thank you for the video – amid the ruin how amazing & heart warming to see the cat emerge.
Kay
In other words, the teachers beat the governor.
MomSense
@Barbara:
Prenups are notoriously difficult to enforce. Melania’s friend and associate started an agency in December of 2016 and was paid 26 million in inaugural committee funds. This agency spent 5 million for staffing and things that were supposedly for the inauguration and then sat on the rest. My wild speculation is that money was going to get diverted back to Melania.
I think she is the smartest of the bunch and this has always been a business arrangement for her. Right now she has all the power. He needs her and they both know it.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Bevin is vile ?
Baud
@Kay:
Worse, maybe the kids decided to become Democrats.
JohnO
@TS:
:-) Lots of people cried, and it was just as cool though not on film when #2 poked his head out from some debris about an hour later.
At that point there was just a small army of people scrounging for 3 kids’ worth of memories, and any “stuff” that could be salvaged. The thing was, there just wasn’t much to be found and it led to a discouraging scene overall…so yeah, it was a Hallmark moment in real life.
Kay
Oh, look. GOP voters are still angry!
I don’t know what they’re angry about now. They got Trump and this entire state and the whole federal government is run by Republicans. The GOP primary is really nasty, so they’ll get to choose between two assholes. Mary Taylor narrowly edges out DeWine on mean-spiritedness, but he’s more dishonest so it’ll be a tough choice.
MomSense
@Gin & Tonic:
The language in the Mueller indictments is conspiracy against the United States. Works for me.
Amir Khalid
@JohnO:
You did say “treason”, which per the statutory definition quoted by Gin & Tonic is a crime that an American can commit only by fighting for or otherwise aiding an enemy state formally at war against the US. An unfriendly foreign country not in a declared war with America doesn’t count, and for that matter neither does a non-state group.
Now, if you want to expand the definition of treason to include the latter two, you could certainly make a strong case for that.
Kay
@Baud:
Arizona is going next. This is just wild, the red state teachers revolt. I’ve never seen anything like it. It isn’t really even labor union led. In some of these states they cannot strike legally and the teachers unions are just “associations” with no real power, yet it’s happening anyway.
JR
I recall driving through Kansas one April and was shocked to see multiple tornados off in the distance from I70. I figured maybe I’d see one. I know the horizon is like 100 miles in Kansas but how the hell do people live there?
beef
Treason is a perfectly good English word, regardless of the peculiarly precise meaning it carries in American law. (Raise your hands. How many of you are actually lawyers, and how many of you just play one on the internet?) And the English word “treason” is highly applicable to what Trump and his crew of wiseguys did. They collaborated with a hostile state to tilt the election odds in their favor. That’s as bad as stealing military secrets, and functionally equivalent.
Baud
@Kay: Glad to hear about Cordray.
@Kay: It’s Interesting. I wonder what the long term implications will be.
oldgold
@MomSense:
The new gold standard of damning with feint praise.
JohnO
@Amir Khalid:
10-4. LOL I never denied using the word treason. It’s all right, I have a better understanding now.
As long as there’s some serious punishment meat on the bone for “conspiracy with a hostile government” or whatever it could be called I’m fine with that.
I still see the the real problems coming when The Boy King starts issuing blanket pardons, up to and including himself. Or doing something profoundly unsettling as the noose tightens. He is a child.
debbie
@Kay:
What the fuck is wrong with Bevin? What kind of leader talks like that? Throw him out!
oldgold
@beef:
Exactly so.
Kay
@rikyrah:
Bevin is mad that he lost and lashing out. They’re such godammned babies. OMG, grow up. He can’t go out and just make a normal statement that he’s grateful kids are back in school? He has to indulge in this insane tirade?
Conservatives coddled their people into thinking that every dumb thought they have has to be expressed, or they are being “silenced”. Also- I have legit questions about why these people immediately turn to child sexual abuse in each and every instance. Normal people don’t assume children are all sexually abused the moment they leave school. These kids are at home, right? In his hypothetical? Who is abusing them?
Nelle
@Gin & Tonic: A real question…when was the last time we had a declared war? So Nixon did not commit treason when he interfered with peace talks in 1968? What word do you prefer for behavior that is essentially treasonous but for Congress not declaring war? Because Congress doesn’t declare war these days and it doesn’t mean the country is not being betrayed.
debbie
@Kay:
Have you seen the DeWine ad narrated by his wife? He’s shown with various people in various occupations and situations, but they’re all significantly taller than he is, and he’s always looking up at them. I myself am equally height challenged, but I don’t think it’s a good look to have your candidate looking like a small, wizened gnome.
Baud
@Kay:
Hastert Rule.
Elizabelle
Good morning, pals.
Baud
@Elizabelle: Morning.
WereBear
Evidence is increasing that their Fundamentalist/Republican/BatshitCrazy branch of Christianity is rife with abuse of all kinds; combine god-given patriarchy with women and children as servants, all with their twisted and hypocritical views of human sexuality; disaster in the making.
The Josh Duggar and Institute in Basic Life Principles scandals are merely the tip of this iceberg.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
“Where’s my magic pony?”
Nelle
@JR: I manage to live in Kansas, but won’t live in a trailer or a house without a basement. I’ve seen several in my life (though I grew up here, I haven’t always lived here but am back for a few years. I’m married to a nomad – former military, still restless). The most in one day was eight but some just flipped around in the sky and didn’t make ground contact.
You get some sense of when conditions are right. In high school, we had a bad afternoon of weather with sirens screaming warning. 2,800 kids sitting on the floor, laughing and crawling around until the light shifted and ut got very still outside. We all got very still and furtively took protective posture, as we had been taught all our lives (cross-legged, head down in lap, hands clasped over the back of the neck).
Earthquakes, on the other hand, can come any season. We used to be grateful that at least we didn’t have those. But thanks to fracking, we get those too!
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: I think it’s because they’re not getting the respect from us that they feel they are entitled to.
zhena gogolia
@Nelle:
That’s it exactly. The country is being betrayed. It comes from the same root, for “handing over.” The word is perfectly applicable to what is happening and has happened.
Another Scott
@satby: Not storm surges, exactly, but you folks on the Great Lakes need to worry about seiche events.
ChiTrib: The Seiche of 1954 (from 1994):
Scary stuff.
Cheers,
Scott.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: You say tomato, I say tomahto… But really, don’t they have to earn it?
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: They do, but they have falsely told themselves that they have.
HeleninEire
OMG SO EXCITING. My niece Annie (not the niece that was here for St Paddy’s Day) just sent me a text that said “Aunt Helen, got a great deal on airfare for the 21st. [that’s next week guys] Can I come visit?”
Can you come visit? OMG OMG OMG. Of course you can. The big work project will be over. I can get time off. YAY.
Very excited. Stay tuned for updates. OMFG!!!!
HeleninEire
@OzarkHillbilly: Yeah. It was prolly that. :)
Nicole
Speaking of tornados- we shot a short video for my son’s school’s Science Expo (the kids were encouraged to do kitchen science videos to play on a loop in the school lobby). My kid picked Tornado in a Bottle (scientific principle demonstrated: centripetal force). It worked fine when the kid shook the bottle, but my husband was the best at getting a really good “tornado” going. My son, in awe, asked him how he did it, and his dad replied, “I’m from Oklahoma; we know tornados.” Kiddo laughed, and then said, “Oh! I get that one!”
Now I’m insecure that he’s been politely laughing at our jokes for years, without having the heart to tell us they don’t make sense.
But her emails!!
@Kay: 75% of Republicans polled support Trump compared to 44% for Kasich. That explains their anger. They’re Trumpists. Anger and inflicting more pain on the “other” is all they really stand for any more.
Another Scott
@OzarkHillbilly: You inspired me to see what The Dossier actually says about that:
pages 2-3 (from the text tab – horrible OCR follows)
It seems clear that he didn’t make it up out of whole cloth. Based on everything else we know, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the events happened. I’m not willing to dismiss it out of hand the way Adam has here.
But honestly, it’s a side show on its own. What matters is how Donnie is being blackmailed by Vlad over it (and over the white whale Trump Tower in Moscow, etc., etc.).
It would be interesting to hear if Mueller found the claimed FSB file on Hillary (and who on Donnie’s team had it (if it exists))…
Cheers,
Scott.
Peale
@Another Scott: did no one run Spell check on the dossier?
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@MomSense:
While I am positive that wasn’t the reason, I’m also sure that he’s stupid enough to think that Comey would believe it.
Another Scott
@WereBear: Also, Republicans only know how to appeal to lizard brain responses in people now. They have to make people respond viscerally, to make people afraid, so that they turn off their prefrontal cortex and just respond via more animalistic (“fight or flight”) mechanisms.
People don’t think when they’re afraid.
That’s why they say things like 3 Skittles will kill us all in our beds, or that Child Molesters are going to snatch all the children, or The Debt will kill us all and our children and grandchildren when Democrats are in power, or that Assad is an existential threat to the USA, or that Kim will kill us all unless we attack him Now Now Now, or whatever.
It’s not a rational argument they’re presenting. They don’t want people to think about policy and solving problems, they want them to be afraid. It’s the only way they can hold on to power.
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@Peale: It’s bad OCR (optical character recognition). If you click on the Document tab (the first tab), you see the original image of the document. It’s actually in English, unlike the OCR. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Peale
@Kay: well…it would be their parents most likely. Based on this logic, though, we should just take kids from their homes and put them in school 24/7. Maybe that’s how he plans to punish teachers for their raise. Make them work 24/7.
chopper
@raven:
the Plainfield F5 back in ’93 decimated my town. nasty bastard that one.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: Ouch!
catclub
@Barry:
That piece of glass gets around.
catclub
@Nelle:
nineteen and Forty one, by my reckoning. – having a war – up through 1945. Maybe that is why I heard 72 years on the radio this am.
tomtofa
@debbie: Maybe he could borrow Zuckerberg’s lifts and chair cushion?
VincentN
When people use the word treason they’re usually using it in the ordinary usage of the word way and not the precise, legalistic meaning.
The pedants can relax. We’re not writing legal briefs here or filing charges.
Frankensteinbeck
@WereBear:
There’s an additional element. The myth that an army of pedophile strangers are just waiting to grab your daughters is a key weapon in the highly successful evangelical war to convince the rest of the US that abusive levels of parental control are morally correct. By now, it’s a buzzword waiting to be thrown out. Then, as you noted, you add projection.
Gelfling 545
@Kay: Because those kids live at the school? Weren’t ever going back to their- obviously in his opionon – dangerous homes? Maybe then he’d do well to beef up CPS too? Nah.
J R in WV
@Kay:
I recommend everyone look up the video of Matt Bevins saying these horrible things. He’s worse looking by far than Paul Ryan, big close set eyes, very tall forehead, no one can help the way their face is built, but you can avoid making yourself a parody of evil.
What a despicable piece of trash!
Elizabelle
Incidentally, Anne Laurie, this is a marvelous blogpost title. Well done.
sdhays
@Peale: That was my thought when I saw that quote. He’s accusing Kentucky families of not being able to stop themselves from sexually assaulting their children if they’re not in school. It really makes you wonder about Bevin that he would go there so quickly. What has he done or what was done to him?
Miss Bianca
@OzarkHillbilly: feeling your pain – had a car wreck couple weeks ago, and not only did the side windows shatter (thanks, Jeep after-market parts!), but also had the glass bottle recycling in the car because OF COURSE I DID. Still waiting for some of the glass shards to emerge from both hands.
Cacti
I’ve also heard it called:
Operation Desert Stormy
J R in WV
@Miss Bianca:
Ouch! When wife rolled our F-350 on I-25 north of Las Vegas, NM back in 2013 all the glass shattered, and the only bloody injury was my forearms which had multiple little cuts from flying glass. EMTs were on site in about 90 seconds, had been heading to ski resort, but fully equipped, so I was wiped clean and bandaged before the police showed up.
NM State Police were very helpful and polite, at the end officer drove me and the dogs to a vet back in town to get them checked out. He was also very helpful. Very small town, sorry we didn’t have a chance to do the tourist thing.
No glass embedded, tho, just sliced as it passed by. But I know your pain! Best of luck dealing with your event!
pinacacci
@donnah: I saw that tornado; my parents stuffed us in the fireplace with a mattress just in case…l remember seeing it from the back patio and my mom saying “Why are we watching this, get inside.” Never forgotten it, Xenia was levelled
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Gin & Tonic:
Don’t start this pedantic shit again. I thought this was resolved a year or more ago
Citizen Alan
@Gin & Tonic:
I find this nitpicking suggestion that nothing can be treason US unless were actually at war with another country to be ridiculous. Carried to its logical conclusion, shitgibbon could have simply turned over the nuclear codes to Putin on his first day in office, and it wouldn’t have been a treasonous offense.
Matt McIrvin
@Litlebritdifrnt: On another blog I noticed that the article on this had a couple of immediate comments from posters with Russian names crowing about how all the missiles had been shot down.
Ruckus
@Gin & Tonic:
I’ve always noticed that it doesn’t say it has to be a declared war, only in levying War.
I wonder if it could be construed that anyone who worked against the US with some country levying war against the US, say what russia is doing now. It is not traditional warfare with bullets and bombs but it is warfare, interfering in the internal politics, getting a totally unqualified person in deep debt to them elected to grand poobah and quite possibly monetary well being of a foreign country.
Ruckus
@debbie:
What if he is a small, wizened gnome?
Ruckus
@Another Scott:
QFT
This is worth repeating often. Look over conservatives of the last 70 yrs (or maybe much longer) and that is their entire concept of power. Control through fear. It is in everything they do or say.
Barbara
@Gin & Tonic: There is such a thing as treason with a little “t” that doesn’t need to conform to the elements of a crime. Coordinating with a foreign country with interests adverse to the U.S. to undermine U.S. elections most likely with a component of actual financial self-dealing or self-interest on the side is treason. I don’t care if it’s “TREASON.”
Sm*t Cl*de
@Kay:
So schools are not to provide education, but are simply child-care facilities so that parents are all available as Industry Units? I don’t think you’re supposed to say that part out loud.
Chris T.
I think someone should ask Bevin exactly how he personally guaranteed this event: did he do it himself, or did he pay someone else to do it?
Another Scott
@Ruckus: Constitution at Findlaw:
There are very good reasons why the Constitution is written the way it is, and “treason” is restricted the way it is.
More at Wikipedia:
There are lots and lots of laws that seemingly obviously have been violated by Trump’s minions. We don’t need a charge of “treason” – which is exceedingly difficult to prove. Even when a private citizen raises an army and advances toward an American city…
Cheers,
Scott.