BREAKING: With today's final victory in #CA21, Democrats officially close out the 2018 Midterms with an incredible 4??0?? House seats gained!
Let this be a message to every Republican: If you come for Americans' livelihoods, we WILL come for your seats. pic.twitter.com/jR1wKwVIPI
— DCCC (@dccc) November 28, 2018
It's official: Trump helped the Republican party lose an astounding 40 seats in the House https://t.co/mCSmPObhUw
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) November 28, 2018
New Democratic members of Congress on the left, new Republican members of Congress on the right. Spot the demographic trends. https://t.co/QBYRrMI1PN pic.twitter.com/DVtF1E53Zl
— laura olin (@lauraolin) November 28, 2018
Another way of looking at it: in January, House Dems will represent:
79% of all Asians
72% of all Latinos
66% of all African-Americans
66% of all Clinton voters
60% of all college grads
54% of all House seats
45% of all whites
39% of all Trump voters
20% of America's land area— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 27, 2018
Trump departs Thursday for the G-20 summit in Argentina, where the homebody commander in chief will spend just 48 hours on the ground yet pack in eight high-level meetings with foreign leaders. https://t.co/ZfjU5jQAyY
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 29, 2018
I’d say he was angling for an asylum deal, anywhere, but the Oval Office Occupant is too vain to admit he might be in trouble — even if he’s smart enough to understand this isn’t the kind of buy-his-way-out trouble he’s used to as a corrupt NYC real estate developer.
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
JPL
@rikyrah: Good Morning to you.
Schlemazel
@rikyrah:
good morning to you and ‘blech’ to Ozark!
Schlemazel
got new meds & unless I am just fooling myself they may be working. First night in 6 months I have slept longer than 2 hours at a stretch.
We got the first real snow of the season last night. About an inch. The place looks all clean & bright at the moment
Raven
@Schlemazel: Good deal!
JPL
@Schlemazel: That would be good news.
Lapassionara
@Schlemazel: what is this sleep of which you speak?
Good morning, everyone.
OzarkHillbilly
@Schlemazel: Blech back atcha.
I’m jealous.
WereBear
@Schlemazel: That kind of sleep is awful, I know. May the improvement continue.
Schlemazel
@Raven:
How are you doing? Have you gotten any answers on your event?
Schlemazel
Looking back I feel like all I talk about now is my heath, I’m sorry for that. The last year+ it has so dominated my life that I have lost perspective. Anyway, bear with me please
Elizabelle
@Schlemazel: It’s terrible to count on something, and even take it for granted, and then it is removed or depleted.
Good morning, jackals.
40 seats is cause for celebration.
Raven
@Schlemazel: Aside from the meeting Tuesday where the neuro and I met and she basically said she’s missed the stroke in the pons? I’m going to the ophthalmologist this morning and he has the MRI so it will be interesting to see what he says. Right now I have none of the risk factor that can be addressed except some bad cholesterol and I started statins and low dose aspirin.
NotMax
FYI.
Immanentize
@Schlemazel: I don’t agree that you have talked too much about your health. Really, you add so much more here. But folks sharing a moment with us when there is an issue is somehow comforting to me. It makes you nyms out there real.
@Raven: Good luck with the opthalmologist. I’m looking forward to hearing it’s all just a weird one off. Good luck!
Schlemazel
@Raven:
That sounds positive if a bit uncertain.
Weird result I got after my heart attack, they measured the blockage of every artery in my heart, literally every one of them shows 0% blockage except the tiny ‘d2’ which was 90%. Sometimes this shit makes no sense. Maybe you have something like that going on. Hope you get better answers soon
Raven
@Schlemazel: It’s a lot more interesting than a lot of the shit that gets flung here!
Raven
@Immanentize: @Schlemazel: Yea, actually this makes sense an I’m inclined to be glad there is a reason for the double vision (which has gone away) and feel lucky. . . again!
NotMax
News for the fruity folk.
Pogonip
@Schlemazel: May I ask what medicine worked? I have insomnia too.
OzarkHillbilly
@Schlemazel: Not true, but even if it was it ain’t nothing but a thing
satby
@Schlemazel: any little improvement is good news. May it continue and get even better after the 4th.
@rikyrah: Good morning ?!
Baud
@rikyrah:
@JPL:
@Schlemazel:
Good morning.
Baud
@Lapassionara:
Good morning.
Baud
@Elizabelle: Good morning.
Baud
@satby: Good morning.
Immanentize
@Baud: Good morning, Baud.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Good morning, PTB Baud.
NotMax
New use for any Georgia Elects First Female Chief Executive headlines which may have been set aside earlier this month.
Baud
@Immanentize: Good morning.
satby
@Raven: hope you get an all clear at the ophthalmologist and it was just a fluke thing.
@Schlemazel: we’re here for each other in good times and bad. We are jackals.
Baud
@NotMax: Heh.
Georgia 1-0 Georgia
Betty Cracker
Is anyone else listening to Rachel Maddow’s “Bag Man” podcast about the fall of Spiro Agnew? Fascinating stuff. I don’t remember much about Watergate, aside from being annoyed that my mom monopolized the TV to watch the hearings, so it’s mostly new to me. But evidently the Watergate scandal consumed so much oxygen that even folks who were following the news closely at the time have forgotten that Agnew’s crimes were wholly separate from Nixon’s and just as shocking in their own right.
One impression I’ve gotten from the podcast is that Trump is Agnew’s true spiritual heir, whether the dumb bastard realizes it or not. Everything Trump is doing as he flails around to try to escape accountability — demonizing the press, playing solely to his base, accusing his own DoJ of engaging in a witch hunt against him, etc. — is straight out of the Agnew playbook. But Agnew was a smart and articulate criminal. Some folks call Trump’s omniscandals “Stupid Watergate;” it might be more accurate to call Trump “Dumb Agnew.”
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I’m not. I wanted to see her special about Nixon’s treason in 1968. Anyone see that?
NotMax
Science FYI. Hell’s bells.
frosty
@Betty Cracker: Us folks from Maryland know all about Agnew. Good to see the rest of you are getting a refresher. And yes, Trump’s using the same tired old playbook. Without the stupid alliteration and thesaurus this time.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: All else aside, having Agnew as his VP should have been an impeachable offense. Most of that shit, if not known, was suspected before Nixon picked him for VP.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
The media was too focused on Humphrey’s TELEGRAMS!
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
40!
By comparison, the 2006 landslide netted 31 seats.
Let’s remember, in 2006 we had 180,000 troops fighting and dying in a fraudulent war that was draining trillion of tax payer’s dollars; New Orleans had been drowned; Abu Ghraib; Terri Schiavo; bin Laden was allowed to escape; Valerie Plame scandal; the economy was stagnant, gas prices had doubled; the Abramoff corruption case; they tried to
privatizeloot social security; and it was 6th year of administration, when voter fatigue sets even in under the best of circumstances,This time, it was ALL on Drumpf. And it didn’t take 6 years for the public to revolt.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
Nattering nabobs of negativism: 1, Agnew: 0.
Baud
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Yep. The big difference is the Senate map this time.
Without gerrymandering, we might have broken a record.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Baud: yeah, it was pretty good. very persuasive.
satby
@Baud: Good morning ?!
@Betty Cracker: old Spiro and his “nattering nabobs of negativism”. He was a crook, but compared to the Tangerine Traitor he was small time. And old news by the time Watergate blew open.
debbie
@Betty Cracker:
It was quite a time alright. A large part of the obsessive focus was the realization that politicians could be so sleazy on such a large scale. Now, it’s become ordinary and almost expected. :(
Elizabelle
@Betty Cracker: A stupider Agnew. I guess.
With his own leased jet. And going all George Wallace on us (Trump without the capacity for eventual regret and apologies).
satby
@NotMax: psyche!
Schlemazel
@Pogonip:
not insomnia, I have a condition that currently leaves me with a series of bacterial infections. It is pain & issues the infections cause I am not sleeping. Each infection is different & getting the right drug for it sometimes is luck of the draw. I could explain the whole thing but people are having breakfast & the details don’t help you with your issue. Sorry I can’t help
Baud
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Thanks. I’ll have to look for it online.
kd bart
Somehow, he’ll reignite The Falklands War this weekend because there must be some profit in it.
satby
@debbie: the Republicans made it ordinary and expected by deliberately downplaying that history while projecting the idea that the social safety net is the real theft of your tax dollars.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Baud: It’s on youtube for your viewing comfort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlgEAzO9C4c
Baud
@kd bart:
When the Falklands exit from Great Britain, I hope they call it Falk It.
Divf
@NotMax:
Was actually due to William Safire, who was Agnew’s speechwriter. Safire went on to greater fame as a NYT (spit) columnist, specializing in conservative drivel and grammatical nitpicking.
Baud
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: You the man! Thanks.
Schlemazel
@Betty Cracker:
I remember many things about good ol Spiro. My fav was the confession of the mob bagman who said he was on his way to drop off a payment “And I started thinking to myself, HOLYCOW, I am delivering a bribe to the White House!”
Elizabelle
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Thank you.
Looks commercial-free too. 40:40.
Pogonip
@Schlemazel: That’s OK. Get well soon!
Mr. Mack
@Schlemazel: I feel ya. Fighting this stupid cancer makes me be hyper focused on my health and my needs, and I’m generally not wired that way. It’s one of the reasons I have not let many people know, because then every conversation becomes about THAT. Anyway, I chose to out myself here because over the years I have noticed that even the most vicious, loud, gnarling jackals find it in their hearts to offer support and even great ideas to those dealing with health issues.
I’ll just update those interested by saying that halfway thru chemo and radiation had me frantically looking for a way to consume enough calories to stay alive thru the rest of it. It will be mostly (and eventually totally) liquid diet. Luckily, I found something called Boost Breeze. It “tastes” like a juice box but packs 250 a serving. I drink like 8 of them a day. Everything else on the planet tastes like paste, and painful paste at that. Ok enough about my troubles.
Politically, what keeps me up at night is that I am worried our stupid response to the caravan (kind hate that descriptor) of asylum seekers is that actions like that are how people become ripe for radicalization. Others will exploit that. Is it possible that Northern Mexico and Southern US becomes something akin to the Gaza strip? Is this the new normal? Anyone want to talk me down?
NotMax
@satby
When “Nixon’s the one” was trundled out as the campaign slogan for the ’68 election, the immediate rejoinder from the left was “Yeah, and Agnew’s another one.”
A couple of other less well remembered phrases jammed into sticky-fingered Spiro’s mouth by William Safire:
1) an effete corps of impudent snobs
2) the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
Schlemazel
@Baud:
The real untold story of Watergate was how Nixon’s people destroyed the candidacy of every Dem who would have beaten tricky dickless and forced the guy they wanted on the DNC.
Somewhere around here I have a very good book written by a couple of reporters from newspapers in the UK. The combed through the details that came out & showed a string of dirty tricks used to undermine Muskie, Jackson, Humphrey. Nixon chose his opponent
debbie
This video is awesome!
kd bart
@Betty Cracker: I remember as a kid, around that time, my family was driving thru Maryland on the way down south to visit my sister when my dad got pulled over for speeding by a Maryland trooper. He was issued a ticket and told to pay it by mail.. My dad never did pay that ticket. His rationale was that “he’ll pay for his crimes against the State of Maryland when Agnew pays for his.”
rikyrah
@Schlemazel:
Yeah ??
debbie
@Schlemazel:
A more real untold story was Nixon’s undermining of LBJ’s efforts to end the war.
rikyrah
It’s not 41?
What about that outstanding NY race?
Baud
@Schlemazel: I have Nixonland on audiobook. Need to read it at some point.
A Ghost To Most
@Schlemazel:
Anything to change the subject from Shit Hitler. Here’s hoping the meds help.
NotMax
@many above
Guess who made the cover of Green Lantern #83 (first series)?
Fleeting and minor controversy over that at the time.
debbie
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Someone seems a bit bitter.
NotMax
Bad linky. Fix.
@many above
Guess who made the cover of Green Lantern #83 (first series)?
Fleeting and minor controversy over that at the time.
Elizabelle
Breaking news from the FTF NYTimes:
One hundred seventy officers searched the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and five other sites as part of an inquiry related to the so-called Panama Papers, a trove of files that put a spotlight on global money laundering.
Schlemazel
@debbie:
Yeah, that didn’t come out till later & never got the attention it deserved. The guy was a traitor to the US and got 10s of thousands of people killed just so he could be POTUS. This needs to be made a big part of his library and its own monument
Baud
@Elizabelle: Good.
Elizabelle
More from the Grey Lady’s story on the Frankfurt Deutsche Bank raid:
I hope some of those papers say Trump or Kushner on them.
Lapassionara
@Betty Cracker: I wish Trump was a “dumb Agnew.” I think Trump has a basic sense of self preservation and a deep sociopathy that allows him to say and do things even Agnew-level corrupt officials would not do. This makes him very dangerous. He would not hesitate to destroy the country if he needed to to protect himself.
I remember the day Agnew resigned. He had been Nixon’s anti-impeachment insurance. With Agnew gone, the way was clear to remove Nixon. Today, it is corruption all the way down the line of succession, at least until January.
rikyrah
What the ENTIRE Phuck????
MSNBC (@MSNBC) Tweeted:
JUST IN: Veterans Affairs Dept. tells congressional staffers it won’t repay underpaid GI Bill recipients, sources say.
https://t.co/iLzextUyLD https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1067961629390905344?s=17
NotMax
@kd bart
Common knowledge back when that the whole state was a speed trap. On the interstates, anyway.
OzarkHillbilly
New interactive death map breathes life into medieval London
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Interesting stuff. Map here.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Schlemazel
This cartoon made me laugh and scream at the same time
“Mr. President There are no Obama judges”
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/173874/
rikyrah
And the bright side just gets brighter ??
Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) Tweeted:
What’s even scarier for CA Republicans than being reduced to just 7/53 House seats in January? Four of the remaining seven Rs survived by single digits.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1068005910029705216?s=17
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Talk about piss poor aim…
;)
Schlemazel
@Lapassionara:
I sort of remember, I think it was one of the tapes, aids claiming Ford was impeachment insurance because Congress knew he was a moron & would never allow him to be POTUS. Don’t remember if Nixon said it or just agreed
rikyrah
Never heard of her, but this woman’s story should be made into a movie. I just ordered the book.
https://youtu.be/Fjy-tZVGols
rikyrah
Is this race included in the 40?
Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) Tweeted:
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Democrat Anthony Brindisi defeats GOP U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney in upstate NY race settled three weeks after election.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1067882006447566849?s=17
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Schlemazel: Thanks! I had no idea there was an assn of editorial cartoonists and that’s something I need to know.
You do not discuss your health too much, and I’m happy to read that you’re sleeping for longer stretches, finally. Sorry to read of those who are envious because they don’t.
I’m very relieved that your vision issue has resolved, raven, and hope it’s a one off that the opthamologist can explain as seasonal double vision or some such.
Good morning everyone!
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
In the display case, flanked by the croakembouche and the cross hot buns.
:)
rikyrah
b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) Tweeted:
The Second Amendment snd American gun ownership is so tied to an idealized white manhood that there is no world in which black Americans and others outside of that ideal can claim its full protections and have them recognized by white society.
https://t.co/Q49bDs2Oqv https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1067775063829680130?s=17
OzarkHillbilly
@Elizabelle:
I love that, “We are cooperating fully with the authorities,” buried in the middle. “Unlike all the other times in the past when we weren’t, this time we really are cooperating fully with the authorities.”
artem1s
@Betty Cracker:
I’m perfectly fine with Dolt45=Agnew=gone first and Pence=Nixon=gone second.
Maybe he can take up residence at the compound in Paraguay that the Pentagon built for the Bushes just in case The Hague decided to prosecute their war crimes. JEB deserves to get stuck with that moron for the rest of eternity. Kavanaugh can hang out there too after he’s impeached for obstruction.
OzarkHillbilly
Lapassionara
@Schlemazel: I have not heard that. Ford at least was a mostly decent guy. The war in Vietnam ended on his watch, finally, after so much death and destruction. I am so old, I remember the headlines when the French pulled out of Indo-China. Then we thought we could succeed militarily where they could not. Such hubris.
Schlemazel
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:
They have a website & have linked to here a few times. I check it every day, it has a range of artists & a couple that really need to have a cranial extraction performed but it is interesting to see what the wingnuts believe.
Ken
What’s the over/under on whether he skips some of them? Or, we could start a pool – I’ll say he only attends three before disappearing into his hotel suite to sulk and tweet. (Does Argentine cable have Fox News?)
Immanentize
@NotMax: I still have a copy of the “Nixon’s the One” 6″ 331/3 campaign record….
Schlemazel
@NotMax:
DAMMIT! I WANT TO BE ABLE TO STAR COMMENTS!
you devers a thousand stars for that one
OzarkHillbilly
Past four years hottest on record, data shows
Ken
@NotMax: Geography’s wrong for R’lyeh rising.
It would be fun to see a new volcanic island named that someday.
OzarkHillbilly
@Lapassionara:
Hmmmm…. And several decades later we thought the same with Afghanistan.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Triggered buried memory of this from, of all people, Calvin Coolidge:
“Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence. But we are compelled to recognize it as a means to well-nigh every desirable achievement. So long as wealth is made the means and not the end, we need not greatly fear it… But it calls for additional effort to avoid even the appearance of the evil of selfishness. In every worthy profession, of course, there will always be a minority who will appeal to the baser instinct. There always have been, probably always will be, some who will feel that their own temporary interest may be furthered by betraying the interest of others.”
Sloane Ranger
@Baud: Not going to happen in our lifetimes, if ever. All opinion polls show the vast majority of actual people living in the Falklands want to remain with the UK.
Schlemazel
@rikyrah:
Adam Ruins Everything just did an episode on gun/NRA/2nd. Granted his style is not everyones cup of tea, I love his work dearly but he can be annoying (a fact he freely admits which makes him more loveable IMO)
There was a segment specifically about how PoC are not protected by the 2nd, how gun control laws were targeted at black citizens, Shoot Yer Gun laws do not protect them and part of the mass incarceration of African Americans efforts. It is a show I wish everyone would watch because he has stuff in there that will piss everyone off but also would form a great foundation for an honest debate about guns. Something we have not has in the US since 1980 or so
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: Philando Castille is another black permitted gun owner shot and killed by police, tho in his case he never got the chance to “brandish” his weapon.
Gin & Tonic
@Betty Cracker:
No, he wasn’t. He just had a good writer (William Safire.)
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Of all people, Calvin Coolidge, indeed.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: He was smart and articulate enough to pick a good writer. We don’t have to worry about that with trump.
A Ghost To Most
@Sloane Ranger: Calling ~3000 vast is a bit of a stretch, but point taken.
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: Trump may have good writers, but when has he ever stayed on script?
NotMax
@Immanentize
Still hold on to this button from that time. Large metal pinback (heavy, too), 2 × 3 inches.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I never thought Agnew was stupid and/or ignorant in the way Trump is.
A Ghost To Most
@Schlemazel: Having attempted to make peace with these people for far too long, I no longer believe an honest conversation is possible. They need to be shunned back under their rocks.
Betty Cracker
@Gin & Tonic: Compared to the current crop of Republican idiots, most notably the POTUS, Agnew was Cicero. If he merely read a script, at least he did so competently. He was a wily sumbitch too. He enlisted people like GHW Bush into his obstruction of justice scheme and damn near succeeded in burying the whole thing and becoming POTUS.
Elizabelle
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Venal, for sure. Agnew and Trump share that.
But Trump is magnitudes worse. Magnitudes.
Barb 2
@Mr. Mack:
Hang in there!
Keep drinking your “power” drinks and keep us posted.
OzarkHillbilly
Remember the cube shaped wombat fecal matter study by Patricia Yang? It has some Ig Nobel competition:
Shit a brick: doctors swallow Lego to allay parents’ fears
“We see your wombat shit and raise you two SHATs and one FART.”
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: He’s his own best writer. He writes from the gut things that most people don’t even have in their brains.
Lapassionara
@OzarkHillbilly: Truth. Not to mention Iraq.
David Evans
@NotMax:
Ever since I read (and re-read, and re-read) Greg Bear’s The Forge of God, news items like that give me the shivers.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Lawdy, a team of Willin’ Shatners.
NotMax
@NotMax
And… stepped on my own punch line.
Amend to:
Lawdy, a team of Willin’ Shatnerds.
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
Fun fact: crayons come out looking just like they did going in. Technicolor!
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax:OUCHOUCHOUCHOUCHOUCHOUCHOUCHOUCHOUCHOUCH…..
You should be shot and pissed on for that pun.
waratah
@Mr. Mack: I would make a pot of beef vegetable soup then added homemade pesto but any pesto would work for my mother in law after her treatments. The pesto added a lot of flavor and was the only thing she could eat at that time. She was a home economics teacher and knew she needed to eat something healthy.
I would probably throw in red pepper flakes now. Hope this helps.
Barb 2
@A Ghost To Most:
Read Troll Nation. The Trump followers are a cult. They believe. The Evangelicals are all in for trump. Either Slate or Salon has a long article now the Evangelicals have sold out – no longer being “real Christian”.
You can’t have a rational conversation with the Trump cultists. Cognitive dissonance should have overwhelmed the cultists. Trump doesn’t lie – he tells the truth – he said so in his bible – you know that book The Art of the Deal. His true believers can quote Trump’s bible. Using Trump’s words as if it were the holy scriptures.
Fox is the daily holy message from and about Trump.
We probably all have family and/or friends who are under the influence of the cult. He speaks to his followers on twitter.
Who among us could have imagined 10 years ago the rise of a Hitler/Nixon cult in America?
Sloane Ranger
@A Ghost To Most: Oh, I dunno. 95% to 5% is a vast difference whatever the actual number involved is.:)
rikyrah
Down ballot matters!!
East Atlanta Santa ?? (@emarvelous) Tweeted:
Another thing that happened last night in Mississippi runoff elections: For the 1st time, all four judges on Hinds County Circuit Court will be black, including three black women.
https://t.co/IMIyA7IArT https://twitter.com/emarvelous/status/1067766428940599296?s=17
Jeffro
I’m sitting here just trying to picture what would happen if President Hillary Clinton, under investigation by a Special Counsel for conspiracy against the United States in concert with a hostile foreign power to get herself elected president, threatened Republicans with declassifying investigation documents that would “hit them so hard, like they’d never been hit before” if they dared to continue investigating her.
It’s more a question of would they draw and quarter her, then hang the pieces, or hang her, and then draw and quarter the corpse?
MomSense
@Mr. Mack:
Sending you a big hug. Try and be as gentle with yourself as you can.
The treatment of the asylum seekers is disturbing because it reveals that the center of the trump cult is a hatred for the ideals of America- the ideals we keep trying to make more honest and inclusive. The trump cult is anti democratic and based in cruelty rather than equality.
Kay
The prison time for this for a not-wealthy person in Ohio would start at 8 to 10 years and probably end closer to 20 depending on how many victims they could produce and prove, and that would just be Epstien, they would also go after the co-conspirators.
So corrupt.
Compare:
The Pale Scot
From a Guardian article on banking leaving London due to Brexit
I would welcome the panzers with flowers if that’s the attitude over there
Kay
No state charges in Epstein? Unfuckingbelievable. Was that the corrupt Trumpster AG’s doing?
If you had done this you would never again leave prison. You would die in there. Like Nassar will.
Yarrow
@Barb 2:
Uh, me, at least. And not 10 years ago but at least 30 years ago with the Reagan cult. Same people, same attitudes. Probably further back than that. It does not surprise me.
frosty
@Baud: I got Nixonland from the library. I couldn’t read it – too painful. I lived thru it and couldn’t deal with it again.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Yeah well, law and order has always been about keeping those people in line.
The Pale Scot
ALIENS!!
Mr. Mack
@waratah: Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, spicy is out. The doc wants as bland a diet as possible, but with mega calories. She said she doesn’t care if I eat nothing but ice cream for the next month, but to consume 2-3 thousand calories a day. So, basically I’m eating hummingbird food. Or drinking it rather.
@Momsense: Thanks! Yes I agree with that, but I’m speaking to the long term repercussions on both sides of the border. My family is from Northern Mexico.
Ladyraxterinok
@frosty: My most remembered phrase from Agnew–‘Nattering nabobs of negativism’
O. Felix Culpa
@rikyrah:
Thank you for the link. This woman sounds fascinating. I plan to get the book as well.
Humdog
@Mr. Mack: My husband has an odd condition that he cannot swallow solid food in the mornings. He’s been on protein shakes for bfast since 2003. There are several different protein sources for the different shakes. We add half a frozen banana but that may make it too thick for you. Hope you find a couple of things that work. Wishing you the best.
Fair Economist
@OzarkHillbilly: Hilarious, but I’d still worry about a Lego brick getting though a child’s (smaller) ileocecal valve.
The Pale Scot
@David Evans: “Greg Bear’s The Forge of God”
Wow, I was just thinking about that book (couldn’t remember the title)
Ladyraxterinok
@Schlemazel: NH editor wrote really nasty stuff about Muskie’s wife. In his statement to the press about it and defending his wife, Muskie was seen with tears in his eyes. That’s all that was reported. It was a humongous deal because at the time white men simply did NOT cry in public. They were were to be reserved and super unemotional in public.
The first time I remember seeing grown men cry in public (and it was acceptable) was seeing the univ faculty in their academic robes marching in to main quad for a memorial right after JFK’s assassination
Ladyraxterinok
@NotMax: Totally awesome!!
Ladyraxterinok
@Elizabelle: Another state and local raid–this time on chancery of Galveston-Houston Archdiocese. Searching for and seizing material on clergy accused of sex abuse. Posted yesterday at Wm Lidsey’s blog bilgrimage.blogspost.com. post has link to Houston news station video. Wm states this is important because the cardinal there is head of the US bishops’ conference. Also IIRC it’s the 1st police/district atty raid on a diocexe in US searching for diocese records of crimes kept ‘in house’.
Ladyraxterinok
@Elizabelle: Deutsche Bank was one of the 3 or so ‘big banks’ I would go to to change travellers checks. (Then discovered post office often had better exchange rate. I thought maybe it was because they were slower to update the rates. That was a summer when rates changed almost daily.) It’s so bizarre to see them in the news for such crimes.
Ladyraxterinok
@OzarkHillbilly: WOW. Thanks for linking!
Mr. Mack
@Humdog: That is odd. Yup I can stick a banana in the Bullit machine with some of this Ensure stuff and get it down. Need the potassium. I’m a bit of an athlete so I cramp up without it. But damn this sugar water is wreaking havoc on my system! Thanks for the well wishes.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Thank you for that!!!
Ladyraxterinok
@rikyrah: Thanks for youtube link. Fascinating woman!
MomSense
@Ladyraxterinok:
He was a friend of mine. His DIL was my art teacher in elementary school. He was a genuinely good person.
Ladyraxterinok
@Lapassionara: Anyone else remember The Senate Republicans’ White Paper on Vietnam from1968?
There I learned Ho Chi Min appealed to England and US to help the Vietnamese when France came back in after the war to retake its colony. This after the Vietnamese had fought against Japan. When US and England refused to block France’s retaking of its colonies, Ho turned to the only other possible help–Soviet Russia.
Shana
@NotMax: Oh man. I remember my parents had a book called The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro Agnew, or something like that.
prostratedragon
@Ladyraxterinok: Ho Chi Min had pressed Vietnam’s case as far back as the Paris conference of 1919.
J R in WV
@rikyrah:
So now they’re stealing from the Vets, as well as welching on reup bonuses for serving troops. These monsters have no limits to their hatred and evil, none!!!
Elizabelle
@Ladyraxterinok: Glad to hear that. RICO for the Catholic Church too, if need be.
I say that as a lapsed Catholic who wishes Pope Francis all the best. He did not build this.
The Lodger
@Shana: I remember that book. The pages were all blank.
PJ
@Ladyraxterinok: DB pled guilty to money-laundering for the Russians to the tune of $10Bn. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/31/deutsche-bank-fined-630m-over-russia-money-laundering-claims. They have been the only major bank to lend to Trump since the ’90s (Justice Kennedy’s son was Trump’s banker there for a while). Josef Ackerman, the CEO who oversaw the money-laundering, later landed a job as CEO of Bank of Cyprus (through which many Russian oligarchs also launder their money) through the auspices of Wilbur Ross, now Trump’s Sec. of Commerce. They are extremely dirty.
Procopius
@Lapassionara: What I thought was worse, we did exactly the same things they did, and wrote about, and thought we would succeed because we could do more of those things than they did. I know there are some smart, thoughtful, well-read officers, but somehow the dolts, blockheads, and self-promoters always end up in charge. If we’re going to have an empire we just need to re-institute the draft. This strategy of impoverishing the people until they have to join the military is never going to work.