Between Bernie’s health issues and Trump’s non-stop firehose of sh*t, it’s hard out there for an aspiring fresh Putin puppet to get any media traction…
Tulsi says she may sit out the October debate in protest of DNC, corporate-owned media. https://t.co/XUd2r59ROf
— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) October 10, 2019
You want us to beg, Tulsi? Here’s my answer: Don’t let the door hit ya…
Gab.ard's whole fundraising scam the last two months was 'get me into this exact debate' and so now ofc she won't show up. And every 8-random digit Twitter mutant will be seeing starbursts.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) October 10, 2019
Even the National Review, which normally cannot resist any excuse to ding us Dems, is… unsympathetic:
"Poll support and the number of donors is an unfair threshold for debate participation!” Okay, what should be the threshold? If you want to be president, raise your name ID and your base of support before you start running!https://t.co/n8lZYpXu8g
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) October 10, 2019
Today, I tweeted snark when @TulsiGabbard whined "election rigged, corporate media" stuff. I got hit with familiar attacks. I checked & they used almost same language as '16 tweets since confirmed to be Russian actors.
Is Tulsi set to be next Stein spoiler, promoted by Russia?
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 10, 2019
Are a bear’s sanitary arrangements conveniently located to its forested home?
— Ted Baxter (@TedBaxter4trump) October 10, 2019
Patricia Kayden
And?
NotMax
Hawaii’s 2nd district asks for absolution.
Yarrow
@NotMax: Hawaii’s 2nd district has a challenger to Gabbard in the primary.
rikyrah
She doesn’t want to answer any Syria questions ???
Marcopolo
Fine by me…can’t imagine she’ll be missed.
cain
Has anybody actually met a Tulsi supporter? I haven’t.. (although, I dont get out much)
MattF
So– everyone knows that Tulsi is the troll candidate, right? It’s too bad that we can’t have a real-life pie filter for her.
Yarrow
It would be nice if people were a bit smarter in 2020 about this sort of spoiler candidate than they were in 2016. Also about disinformation and propaganda. Also, I want a pony.
dmsilev
Please proceed, Congresswoman.
@cain: I’ve seen a couple of them in the wild, but they’re pretty rare.
dmsilev
Just wanted to preserve this for posterity:
Martin
@dmsilev: I’m jealous. I though we were the worst.
[sniff]
Yarrow
@dmsilev: He doesn’t mean it enough to come back and post and comment on his blog, though. He loves Twitter.
Martin
A judge granted bail to those two? WTF. They had one-way tickets out of the country.
ThresherK
In the words of Willy Wonka, “Don’t. (bored pause) Stop.”
Uncle Cosmo
Fuck Quisli Gabbardova with a rusty chainsaw.
debbie
“How come you never showed me your good side until you walked out the door?”
chris
Thread and article. Also, what, no Russians?!!
NotMax
@dmsilev
Most popular account on Twitter is Katy Perry’s.
’nuff said.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Did Bill Barr alight in Vienna on his great Misfud Hunt?
Dan B
Saw an article (Raw Story? – so not reliable) that the Turks were given US aerial reconnaissance before the attacks so they knew where the Kurds were massing.
Heart sinks.
Miss Bianca
@Martin: What? When?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
ThresherK
@chris: “Science of Identity” sounds like a made-up cult. I have to watch “A Mighty Wind” and “Bowfinger” again to make sure it isn’t.
WereBear
Agents headed to Vienna! Crooked lawyers! Intrigue. Makes me feel so Third Man!
Major Major Major Major
@cain: my two hardcore Bernie ‘16 friends, and a few of my friends who are wayyyy too Online™, follow her antics, though I don’t know if even they would call themselves supporters.
NotMax
@ThresherK
Steeping stone to “Philosophy of Nil.”
:)
debbie
They must be a big deal if everyone is denying they know them.
Mnemosyne
@ThresherK:
They’re an offshoot of the Hare Krishnas. No, seriously.
Mary G
Can’t keep up and sorry if it’s old news, but the U.N. Security Council met today to vote against the Turkish campaign against the Kurds and it was vetoed…
By Russia and the U.S.
Ashamed to be American all over again.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: it’s cults all the way down!
psycholinguist
New story in the post in the last few minutes – 4 more people in the white house apparently attempted to put forward a complaint immediately before or after the Ukraine call. The “before the call” part is really interesting. Rats getting off the ship as quick as they can.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
cain
I don’t know y’all are watching, but our blog host is fighting on twitter. :-) It’s fun watching that curmudgeon flail about. :D
Seriously, those guys got bail from the judge? I would think they would be a total flight risk. Did they at least get ankle tracking?
Martin
@Miss Bianca: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prosecutors-concerned-giuliani-pals-are-flight-risks
House arrest, but shit, it’s not that hard for a couple of soviet boys connected to the president to scoot out of the country on short notice, even with an ankle bracelet.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Dimluminati.
Worst cabal ever.
:)
cain
@Mary G:
The security council is such bullshit. Both those countries have reasons to want that war going. Self interested parties should not be allowed to vote.
Martin
@NotMax: I don’t know how Ukraine Clown Posse didn’t win the scandal naming competition.
cain
@Mnemosyne:
Really? ISKON I believe is partially a criminal enterprise. My mom’s cousin is a big shot there, gives all kinds of lectures on TV every day and even have people fall at his feet. He’s been over to my house, which was kinda weird with all his retinue. But I’m not gonna be doing any bowing or anything.. he’ll always be a kid to me.
SiubhanDuinne
@Martin:
Wait, whut? huh?
NotMax
@cain
Presumably had to surrender (all) their passports in exchange for bail?
dm
I’ve seen a few Tulsi yard signs in New Hampshire, plus a big Tulsi billboard on the highway outside Concord or Manchester.
538 has Gabbard polling at 2-3% in New Hampshire and Iowa, 1% in South Carolina and Nevada.
Matt McIrvin
@ThresherK: The one in Bowfinger was specifically a Church of Scientology parody– different cult.
Emerald
@cain: Sadly, my sis says she “likes” Gabbard. However, my sis also watches RT, which must be good because they used to host Thom Hartmann.
There is no way to reach her. She’s kinda the polar opposite of a Fox “News” victim.
I think she started with Hartmann and then Naomi Klein, sprinkled with a heavy dose of Wilmer, and there is no going back, it seems.
Redshift
@cain: The only people I’ve ever seen approvingly posting about her are a few wingnut acquaintances on Twitter. Admiring her for (supposedly) being anti-war, for example.
I suspect they hope she’s secretly still anti-abortion, and hope that showing she has bipartisan support would help her. They could be pretending to support her to screw with us, but these guys just don’t seem that subtle.
Millard Filmore
@NotMax:
Should not be difficult for Putin to fabricate and deliver some genuine fakes on short notice.
Emerald
@Redshift: Tulsi’s got lots of support from the alt-right. David Duke has enthusiastically endorsed her. She appears on Tucker Carlson with some frequency (as does Greenwald).I suspect that’s where she’s getting her money and her polling support, plus from hard-core far-leftists (marvelous how that works, init?), and of course, Russia. She’s got money for ads.
NotMax
@Redshift
Drives a big honkin’ menacingly-black-with-heavily-tinted-windows Volvo SUV. Watched her ignore a red light and turn across four lanes of highway traffic one time.
HinTN
@cain: I know one on FB who claims to be.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I heard someone say on NPR that Marie Yovanovich– the former US Ambassador to Ukraine pushed out by Sondland and Rudi– is “unlikely” to testify, but then googling to check the spelling of her name just now, the latest is that she is expected to testify. Per the Washington Post, it was her firing that started to make the career Nat Sec people at the White House nervous about trump and the phone call
Uncle Cosmo
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Euphemism. He was talking to the mirror.
Steve in the ATL
@NotMax: fuck that shit. @TaylorSwift or GTFO!
Yeah, this is one of many fights in which I have no dog.
Kraux Pas
@cain: My sister is a Tulsi supporter. Also my once best friend who has become more and more insufferable as Trump gets into more trouble speaks very highly of Tulsi.
Eta: One of my favorite parts of her boycott declaration is that she is dping it so her supporters’ voices may be heard. Major facepalm
Eata: My sister supported Stein in 16.
Mary G
Doubt it’ll do any good, but nice to see the cartel taking hits on all sides.
jl
With arrest of Giuliani’s associates, or by association fellow defense lawyers for Trump (angle for attorney client privilege?), news of possible connection to Barr and other Trumspters in State Dept, apparent opening of a criminal investigation into Giuliani, Perrty-Giuliani Ukrainian gas company shakedown scheme, Trump-McConnell drama, Sondland running a shadow Ukraine policy from WH, I’ve realized that I can no longer master the entirety of the Trump extortion and graft and illegal foreign contribution scheme.
I’ll have to pick an area of expertise to specialize in.
Captain C
Your offer is acceptable.
Bonnie
I have no idea what this post is about. Any explanations?
waratah
@HinTN: my nephew in Sydney is a distant admirer. I was really surprised when he said he was hoping she would win. I am glad he cannot vote.
jl
Also, bothsiderism spreads to science news?
@paulkrugman
Chemistry Nobel Prize Goes to Lithium-Ion Batteries, Even If They Explode Sometimes
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1182351389407744000
NotMax
@NotMax
Nearly opaque windows notwithstanding, pretty elementary to dope it out, what with the TULSI vanity plate.
Bonnie
Now I know. I normally use firefox as my regular browser. Apparently, a lot of posts on BJ go missing. This has been happening for about a week. I am using Microsoft Edge right now and see all the twit’s tweets. They don’t show on firefox. But, if I use anything other than firefox, I can’t so much junk mail/malware, my computer slows to a complete stop. It would be nice if I could get everything on firefox. I hate MS Edge.
Aleta
schrodingers_cat
Glad to see that the Sangh candidate is not getting any traction. You backed the wrong horse suckers.
Mary G
patrick II
For those of us old enough to remember, Senator Bill Bradley once proposed the criterion should be jump shots from the top of the key.
Kay
Guffaw. Look at the big strong bully, lying his ass off and sweating.
schrodingers_cat
@cain: Do Modi bhakts and/or bots on Twitter count?
mrmoshpotato
@patrick II:
That idea sounds like a slam dunk!
I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
jl
@Mary G: Interesting. Would be great if Gillum joined Warren team, if not VP, then for something else. Both are experts, IMHO, at ‘clearsplaining’ which I mean as a good thing not a bad thing.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Obama would’ve made the cut.
cain
@Mary G:
Interesting.. but can he deal with the foreign policy stuff? If not, he’s gonna learn when they are elected.
Viva BrisVegas
The Gabbards are examples of how Republicans get themselves elected in Hawaii.
Uncle Cosmo
@mrmoshpotato: The appropriate valediction is “Tip the veal & try your waitress.” Even I know that, & I haven’t had a belt of borscht since 1990.
cain
@schrodingers_cat:
That guy gets around doesn’t he? I have to be careful about yelling about Modi on twitter.. I’m almost sure India monitors social media and will not like it if I’m bashing Modi and might deny me a visitor visa!
Martin
@jl: Feature! Nobel invented dynamite. Blowing shit up is how the prize got started.
HeleninEire
I miss Baud.
Mary G
Even the liberal Berkeley:
There won’t be enough ambulances.
schrodingers_cat
@cain: They are allying themselves with white nationalists, retweeting the likes of Katie Hopkins approvingly. Its totally fucked up.
Mary G
@cain: Secretary of State Chris Murphy will have it all under control, because there won’t be any Rudy Giulianis around.
JR
A fun excerpt from an otherwise terrible movie:
Steve in the ATL
@HeleninEire: you should buy another guitar.
Sorry, that was meant for Amir. You should have another shot of Jameson!
J R in WV
Oh, please! Oh, Please! Oh, Please!
We don’t want to have to listen to Tulsi again, oh please!
Amir Khalid
@Steve in the ATL:
Hey, it’s not like I buy a new guitar every week.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: You sometimes buy 2 guitars every 2 weeks? :)
Steve in the ATL
@Amir Khalid: and that disappoints us terribly
Mayur
@JR: I’ll just say it. I think it’s actually a pretty good movie other than Costner.
J R in WV
@jl:
You need to pick a big wall in your house and jot each conspiracy down, and the names of everyone involved with any conspiracy, and then use different colors of ribbon for different roles to link everything. It only takes a couple of hours each evening watching CNN and MSNBC and adding new info and people to keep it updated!
/s
Miss Bianca
@Mayur: That’s kind of like saying, “you know, if it hadn’t been for Nixon, the whole Nixon era wouldn’t have been so bad.”
burnspbesq
@patrick II:
In other news, President Reggie Miller …
J R in WV
@HeleninEire:
I’m doing my best!!
I kid. I think he’s traveling again. Hope anyway.
Ladyraxterinok
@WereBear:
With excellent zither music! Mustn’t forget that!!
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
Hey, maybe that’s your problem !! ;-)
different-church-lady
@Yarrow: Love, addiction, what’s the diff?