So far FOURTEEN House Republicans have voted against a bill condemning Anti-Semitism, Anti-Muslim and Other Hatred. Wow. This is going to be hard to explain.
— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) March 7, 2019
House PASSES anti-hate resolution, 407-23, with 1 voting present.
All 23 NO votes were GOP, and the 1 voting present was @SteveKingIA.
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) March 7, 2019
One was Lynne Cheney, who fears "anti-hate" could be construed to mean her dad shouldn't shoot people in the face. https://t.co/nsJd735CYG
— (((DCCyclone))) (@DCCyclone) March 7, 2019
The IRA's favorite Long Islander, the war criminal's daughter, Steve King's two best friends, the charged criminal defendant who endorsed extrajudicial killings, and the charged criminal defendant who was caught on camera doing crimes on the White House lawn. https://t.co/5YHLZ8iS5n
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) March 7, 2019
I think the message is less about those individual Repubs and more that “Republicans voted against a resolution condemning hatred.” Let the Repubs explain to the press it wasn’t ALL Republicans… https://t.co/WUGJd5JK3S
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) March 7, 2019
“Present”?!? Pigmuck King’s a godsdamned gift!
NEW: Leaked Identity Evropa chats reveal that white nationalists have actively worked phones in support of Rep. Steve King, and donated to his reelection campaign, as part of ongoing efforts to keep a white supremacist in powerhttps://t.co/4aIlP1TaQS
— Andy Campbell (@AndyBCampbell) March 6, 2019
Shocking until you remember they were silent on his white supremacist support for years and mostly loudly support Trump. https://t.co/KnDsNKJ8Hn
— (((Will Cubbison))) ???? ?????? (@wccubbison) March 6, 2019
lamh36
Repost cause it fits here and is too damn funny, I’m still LMBAO
Steve Kings, using Diamond and Silk as a “I’m not a white racist” character reference..
https://twitter.com/stevekingia/status/1103780180315774978
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
That thread is golden.
SiubhanDuinne
Zeddy seems to be conflating Steve King and Peter King.
rikyrah
Raw Story (@RawStory) Tweeted:
Kushner kept US officials ‘in the dark’ during Middle East trip — and the Saudi government oversaw his security: report https://t.co/GaAyhaRlR2 https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1103664182518530049?s=17
A Ghost To Most
@lamh36: So what is your opinion of Diamond and Silk? They seem like sad opportunists to me.
schrodingers_cat
Who are the 23 for hate?
A Ghost To Most
@schrodingers_cat: All Rethugs. Steve King voted present.
lamh36
@zhena gogolia: someone said, it may be the first incident of getting LAUGHED off of twitter…
LOL
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
It’s always creepy when someone refers to himself in the third person
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
Not allowed to edit my own damned comment, but I retract it. Read Zeddy too quickly and carelessly. That’ll larn me (well, it should, but it probably won’t).
lamh36
If the Obama admin even DARED to think about doing this…
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
I’m getting a 404 on your link.
Adam L Silverman
There are two Jewish Republican members of Congress. One of them, that noted genius Lee Zeldin, just voted against a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred and bigotry.
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: The roll in the screenshot says King (NY)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Glass House, please meet rock…
lamh36
Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall https://apnews.com/ba6c2bc1fa024393801131bfbaa9cd89
lamh36
PaulWartenberg
When the Democrats expanded the resolution to condemn all hate speech covering anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim rage, they caught the Republicans off-guard. This turned from “punishing a rookie Muslim Congresswoman for her anti-AIPAC stance” into a “watch Republicans refuse to stand against Hate Speech” min-scandal.
By the way, have they sentenced Manafort yet?
B.B.A.
Support for Israel is inherently Islamophobic. Discuss.
lamh36
@lamh36: @SiubhanDuinne: https://goo.gl/images/un8BsF
Jay
It’s only a ReThuglican self own if the MSM picks it up and beats it as hard as Butter Emailz,
which they won’t.
For ReThuglican voters, overt racism is a feature, not a bug.
lamh36
@A Ghost To Most: that’s the most PC thing to say. I have my own words for those two ladies, but I won’t share them in mixed company.
I’ll just say they def represent one of my granny’s fav phrase: “all my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk” and leave it at that
PaulWartenberg
@lamh36:
Considering trump just froze military pay boosts during HIS Shutdown, taking more money from the troops sounds like a GREAT IDEA (/sarcasm).
Seriously, trump is pissing on our nation’s military anymore. At some point they are just going to walk off their stations in protest, a mutiny on a scale this world hasn’t seen since the Spithead uprising for the 1797 British Navy.
Mr Stagger Lee
@lamh36: The III%’ers. and the militias plus the blue-line-in the flag nuts would freak. Sean Hannity would look like he is on the last stages of Ebola, with blood coming out is every orifice. I would pay to hear Michael Savage or Alex Jones.
oatler.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend is my enemy isxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
NORMAN COORDINATE
randy khan
Nice bit of jujitsu by Speaker Pelosi to get 23 Republicans to vote against it.
PaulWartenberg
@B.B.A.:
You can support Israel as a nation with a right to exist, and you can support Muslim nations co-existing peacefully with themselves and other nations including Israel. it’s called the “Let’s Stop Killing Each Other” Doctrine.
CatFacts
And Pelosi holds her caucus together once again.
PaulWartenberg
@A Ghost To Most:
that King voted “Present” shows an incredible amount of self-awareness on his part of the trap the GOP was walking into.
The 23 who voted NO out of a knee-jerk anti-Dem mindset or sociopathic world-view have got a lot of explaining to do.
The Midnight Lurker
Judge Ellis says that Manafort’s sentencing recommendation was ‘excessive’. WTF?
Ellis also said that Manafort “lived an otherwise blameless life,” and he was a “good friend and generous person to others.” What horseshit!
lamh36
SIGH….
Bobby Thomson
Otherwise blameless life my Mobutu-hating ass.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m guessing there’s a well-worn copy of The Fountainhead or That Other One She Wrote on the judge’s shelves
JaySinWA
Okay who is Zeddy referring to with the
Is he conflating Congressman Duncan with Duncan Hunter? Or have I missed something?
VeniceRiley
47 months for Manafort? This is bullshit!
lamh36
47 months…that’s fuq’n it…
As Deray says “watch whiteness work”
ETA: Next up DC which could add another 10 years..we’ll see
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1103807613899280386
The Midnight Lurker
‘Faith and prayer’ got Manafort through this difficult time, and he also said “Humiliated and shamed would be a gross understatement.”
According to court observers, Manafort showed little or no remorse for his crimes as he spoke for about four minutes..
Can we please hang this fucker, Judge?
Gin & Tonic
Fuck.
geg6
He didn’t get shit. That fucking piece of shit only gave him four fucking years. That fucking judge said he had lived an otherwise blameless life. Mother fucking fascist judge.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@VeniceRiley: multiple audible gasps of incredulity from the MSNBC panel (I’m listening not watching so I can’t say who exactly)
Baud
It’s not like Manfort smoked weed.
ruemara
What in the fuck with a 4 YEAR SENTENCE?!
The Midnight Lurker
Forty-seven months sounds a lot more impressive than 3.9 years. I guess.
That’s all you get for selling out your country.
Fuck this judge and fuck Manafort.
SiubhanDuinne
47 months? That’s it?
CarolDuhart2
Another sentencing next week, plus his state charges as well. This isn’t over.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I imagine the judge’s sentencing history is going to get a lot of scrutiny, and he may not like that.
Baud
He’ll still be young enough when he gets out to get his own show on cable news.
Bobby Thomson
The bar for removing Article III judges is and should be almost insurmountable.
Ellis fucking sucks though. What a dipshit. Reagan appointees, amirite?
Bobby Thomson
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: tough titties.
A Ghost To Most
@lamh36: How is Fox gonna wrangle that? That may cause an explosion from retired veterans.
MJS
Frankly, I wouldn’t have been surprised by time served and parole. This judge has been looking for any opportunity to help Manafort. Also, aren’t there other charges he can be retried on?
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Horseshit indeed! Especially when you consider that he foisted VP Mike Pence on us.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: Thank you for watching, America, I’m Sean Hannity, stay tuned for Gout, Wheezing and Influence Peddling, with our own Paul Manafort! Next on Fox!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
even fucking Nixon gets it!
Mr Stagger Lee
@VeniceRiley: It is called White Male Privilege. If Manafort was a POC, 25 years in solitary and sent to Gitmo.
Gin & Tonic
@CarolDuhart2: Sentencing next week is two charges of illegal lobbying with (supposedly) a 5-year min. Betcha he gets that as concurrent.
I’m going to have a drink and try to forget this bullshit.
JaySinWA
@A Ghost To Most: They will tell them they will just have to soldier on. We all gotta sacrifice for a walled future.
A Ghost To Most
@geg6:
That sucks, but given the judge’s attitude towards the prosecution, perhaps not surprising
Next week should be better.
dr. bloor
@MJS: He still has a date in DC that he is certainly not looking forward to.
lamh36
Baud
@lamh36:
Yep.
lamh36
That fuq’n Judge Ellis smh…passing the damn buck to DC…so if DC does less…then Ellis like …what “oh well”…smh
FUCKERS!
dr. luba
@geg6:
Which is why his daughters admire him so (/sarc):
In a series of texts reviewed by Business Insider that appear to have been sent by Andrea to her sister, Jessica, in March 2015, Andrea said their father had “no moral or legal compass.”
“Don’t fool yourself,” Andrea wrote to her sister, according to the texts. “That money we have is blood money.”
“You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly,” she continued, according to the reviewed texts. “As a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine. Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered.”
jl
@lamh36: From what I’ve read so far, benefits and pay for the actual troops seem to be main target, which is sick. I read an article recently that the Trumpsters and brass were eyeing construction and maintenance funds for housing as a source of funds. Housing for the troops is already starved, and because of that, substandard.
Disgusting source of funds for a disgusting campaign stunt, that even Trump had the sense to understand was a stupid idea when it was first suggested to him by a couple of his flunkies as a way to get some cheers out of his rally crowds.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“almost certainly legal” is an interesting caveat but almost certainly academic
(italics mine)
SiubhanDuinne
He comes up before Amy Jacksonville Bergman Nextel week. Let’s hope she’s a little more attuned to reality (although given the oh-so-delicate taps on the wrist she’s given Roger Stone recently, I’m not particularly sanguine).
ETA: JFC, AutoCorrect! Not even going to try to change that mess.
A Ghost To Most
@JaySinWA: Some retirees may eat that shit up, but I think many will raise holy hell.
Roger Moore
@PaulWartenberg:
I think some of the mutinies during WWI- what John Keegan described as military strikes- would classify as substantially larger.
geg6
@lamh36:
I just can’t even with this. I want to kill someone right now.
MisterForkbeard
@lamh36: “Look, other than the decades-spanning criminal escapades we just convicted him on and that he lied about repeatedly, he’s lived a blameless and upstanding life!”
What does it take to get a rich white guy the prison term he actually deserves? Yeesh.
MisterForkbeard
@CarolDuhart2: Yeah. That’s the only thing that even makes this vaguely bearable. Wow.
JaySinWA
@A Ghost To Most: I doubt the hell raisers will get much FOX airtime. If @Roger Moore: and Wartenberg walk offs of active duty personnel happens FOX might be in a reporting pickle.
John Revolta
Hmph. So, if you’re LGBTQ I guess you’re now officially “othered”.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Don’t even bother trying. Your amazing, awesome niece would probably just save his life or something.
J R in WV
Judge Ellis is a despicable old white bigot Republican man who should be impeached and lose his pension for this shit.
Try living on Social Security in your current neighborhood, jackass!
Although in our current reality he would be hired by Faux News as a consultant for the big bucks in return for his good job helping the Fascist Party out of a tight spot!
Grrrrr!!!
Omnes Omnibus
@B.B.A.: @PaulWartenberg: Can we not do this shit again?
Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.
So, let’s call these 24 the Hate Caucus, and shame anyone who associates with them.