I usually say “these Republicans know exactly what they’re doing,” but he really is this stupid. https://t.co/ht8jTYrSXc
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 31, 2021
Surely you guys can do better, Wisconsin!
https://t.co/qXP78LrlAq pic.twitter.com/MNSQrQuYbp
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 2, 2021
This is the person a sitting U.S. senator is promoting. pic.twitter.com/vBBMaHDPzs
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 2, 2021
Analysis: Actually, Sen. Johnson, being consistently and dangerously misleading is not courageous https://t.co/crOhMmA2a6
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 2, 2021
As many Republicans try to rewrite history of Jan. 6 attack, Sen. Ron Johnson suggests FBI knew more than it has said https://t.co/x0ImTZQl5j
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 2, 2021
that’s actually pretty cool make sure ron johnson is there https://t.co/oqtHvBrdds
— kilgore trout, terminal hiccups patient (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 3, 2021
Baud
Global mass suicide would also put an end to the pandemic.
rikyrah
Hell muthaphuckin NO ??
Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) tweeted at 3:04 PM on Wed, Aug 04, 2021:
A group of media organizations have filed a motion to release the identities of the jury in the Chauvin prosecution. https://t.co/JsYYD2kkjN
(https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1423012021864370177?s=03)
debbie
I’ve never rooted for injuries like I’m rooting for them now.
debbie
@rikyrah:
IANAL, but wouldn’t that be a Constitutional violation?
jackmac
Never understood the appeal of Ron Johnson. This guy reminds me of a used car salesperson (and nobody likes those guys). Then again, Wisconsin had collectively had taken leave of its senses in recent elections. I mean, how do you toss out a good senator like Democrat Russ Feingold?
Mike in NC
Recall that The Donald suggested letting COVID-19 “wash over” the country and kill upwards of 5 million people because he was too lazy to take it seriously until he got sick. A great pity that it didn’t kill him.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@rikyrah:
This is stunning.
Chief Oshkosh
So where are the headlines that blare “Wisconsin Republican Senator supports plan to kill 50 million men, women, and children!”?
Low Key Swagger
@rikyrah: Because the community has, post-verdict and sentencing, “experienced a sense of Justice and peace”?
Do they want it to stop? It really frosts me that they are doing it under the guise of “integrity of the process”.
Chief Oshkosh
@Mike in NC: You know, it actually is a great pity. We all would be so, so much better off right now.
rikyrah
Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) tweeted at 3:34 PM on Wed, Aug 04, 2021:
Seeking Immunity From Suit Over Jan. 6th Attack, Rep. Mo Brooks Tells Judge He Was Simply ‘Cooperating’ with the ‘White House’
https://t.co/tnJ8lgLRke
(https://twitter.com/lawcrimenews/status/1423019571192242180?s=03)
debbie
@Chief Oshkosh:
That, plus they can’t get the Dominion voting machines to “examine.”
debbie
@rikyrah:
Huh, is this the first instance of TFG being thrown under the bus?!?
Chief Oshkosh
@rikyrah: Ha! Admitting to being an accomplice to a crime while at the same time telling the prosecutor that his accomplices committed a crime.
Gotta hand it to these Einsteins, they’re efficient!
Ken
@rikyrah: Interesting strategy, admitting to the conspiracy charges that haven’t even been filed yet.
bbleh
Well, paraphrasing I don’t remember who, if there were no morons in Congress, it would not be a representative body.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Oh look at the bean counter Johnson giving medical advice. He’s so cute when he talks like that.
Raoul Paste
Let’s see if Ron Johnson still feels this way two weeks hence.
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
Maybe he’s too stupid to understand that there are 3 parts to the top tier of the federal government as a check against one of the others going batshit insane and trying to over throw the government. Or maybe he was in on the overthrow…
I’m going with C. Both of the Above.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@rikyrah:
“I’m a faithful follower of Brother John Birch, and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church and I ain’t even got a garage; you can call home and ask my wife!”
rikyrah
???
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) tweeted at 3:51 PM on Wed, Aug 04, 2021:
A Black realtor, his client, and the client’s 15-year-old son were all handcuffed during a home showing Sunday after a neighbor called 911 to report a break-in. https://t.co/M987sm018F
(https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1423023827311894531?s=03)
Ruckus
@bbleh:
So, 27% of congress has to be morons?
Well it is a representative government……
West of the Rockies
So Republicans think Trump’s taxes should remain private but the identities of jurors should be public. Well, looking for logic among a herd of sociopaths is foolish.
Ken
@bbleh: Parody is unfortunately dead…
UK MP William Stones: “There’s an awful lot of bleeding idiots out there among the voters, and they deserve some representation too.”
US Senator Roman Hruska: “Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance?”
West of the Rockies
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
And there’s no evidence that Hitler was a cannibal, pedophile or alcoholic, ergo, what a great guy.//
Bobby Thomson
@Baud: the Republicans are working on that
Chief Oshkosh
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Ah, but does he have green teeth?
Bobby Thomson
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: that was a classic. Too bad he went wingnut.
hueyplong
Not sure there is anything I’d change about that Brooks filing.
That’s not an especially good thing for Mo.
Sure Lurkalot
Truth AND Consequences, please.
dr. bloor
@rikyrah: The dominoes, they begin to wobble.
E.
@West of the Rockies: It isn’t Republicans. It’s fucking Minnesota Public Radio, among others.
bbleh
@Ruckus: one must give Republicans credit for working by far the harder to achieve a proper representation of morons in Congress. Of course, in this they are representing the interests of their voters.
Ruckus
@bbleh:
Unfortunately it seems that you are exactly correct.
Dan B
@Chief Oshkosh: And the 50 million dead were out of a population that is now 7 times larger than 1918 – 1919. 350 millionn dead is the population of the US.
Reporters, please ask Johnson if the death of all Amerucan citizens is acceptable.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
they elected joe mccarthy twice and would have elected him a third time had he not died from alcoholism.
rikyrah
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? Black Professor ? (@WonderKing82) tweeted at 4:24 PM on Wed, Aug 04, 2021:
I love a whole fucking flex!!!
“I was going to stay right here in South Carolina minding my business until I got called stupid,”
– Jim Clyburn
(https://twitter.com/WonderKing82/status/1423031992048922634?s=03)
debbie
@rikyrah:
It would be nice if the local realtors association issued a statement condemning this behavior.
Peale
@E.: yep. They just want to do human interest stories. Cripes.
Dan B
@rikyrah: And an attorney was accused by a bank teller at his bank in San Diego that his check for $12,000 was stolen (or fake.. can’t find reference).
The outrages are endless and white people get bent out of shape when any minority suggests they have been victimized. They equate bad manners with abuse.
Quiltingfool
Trae Crowder, Liberal Redneck, has some thoughts about the Arkansas Governor. https://twitter.com/traecrowder/status/1423000246938832896?s=20
different-church-lady
@debbie:
Sure, if indeed they do condemn it.
Peale
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: and so the esteemed legal profession takes another step down. I’m very much starting to doubt that these are actually unusual filings. They seem to be quite common.
The smugness about his children…gross.
Time to track down his mistress. You know he has one since he brought up his fidelity without anyone asking.
West of the Rockies
@Dan B:
You know, it’s almost like being black in America is a lot harder than being white.
sab
@Dan B: My stepson knocked the side mirror off our Black neighbor’s car about 15 years ago. I paid for the damages with a check. When I got the cancelled check back I discovered that the bank had fingerprinted him in order to cash it! He never said a word about it.
Dan B
@Quiltingfool: Thank you!
debbie
@rikyrah:
But he says he called Clyburn stupid “with love”!!! ?
White & Gold Purgatorian
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I can’t tell you how it thrills me to learn Mo Brooks is representing himself in this matter. He is an idiot, and his client is a fool.
Omnes Omnibus
JFC. A legislative committee in WI just played banning the UW system from requiring masks. OTOH, the chancellor just issued a mask mandate – effectively saying “Sue me, bitch.”
Mallard Filmore
@rikyrah:
That happened to me when I was house hunting, except for the handcuff part. But the realtor and I are honkies. Maybe that’s the difference.
Dan B
@sab: One neighbor is a 50 something black guy in construction. He’s very good looking and doesn’t have any threatening vibes or defensive body language, in fact the opposite. He’s done a lot of work for us over the years, feeds the cats when we’re out of town, and is laughing as often as he is talking. He’s afraid to drive to the north end. He confided that to me a month ago. I’d wondered. Most of our white friends are unaware.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: I love this SO much!
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
His children are nothing like Donald Trump!
JPL
@sab: Years ago, a friend and I met at a mall in Atlanta to watch a movie. Before hand we went into a Sak’s and she purchased two St. John’s suits. Even years ago they were pricey. She had them hold them for her After the movie she went to pick them up, and the first question was are you picking them up for…. Then they lost them. Sak’s delivered them to her house the next day, but it was too late. She never entered the store again.
A few years later though I had the opportunity to use the story. I was working in another dept store’s crystal dept over Xmas, and a woman complained about the wait , and said she worked at Sak’s and that would never happer there. I said I know so I was so surprised to see what happened to my black friend, and I told the story loud enough that the entire line could hear After the woman left, the next in line, just looked at me and said wow .. you are good.
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: I am still laughing out loud at that. Nina Turner’s hate shows through from the inside and make her quite ugly.
Just Chuck
Uh, any bureau with the word “investigation” in their name generally does know more than they announce. That’s sort of how investigations usually work.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I like that she got a majority even though there were multiple candidates.
WaterGirl
@Quiltingfool: I ?Trae Crowder.
sab
@Dan B: My stepdaughter and her black husband lived in Seattle for about a year ten years ago. He grew up in inner city Cleveland. He thought the Seattle police were terrifying. Amateurs. He said everyone in Cleveland on both sides know the rules for interacting safely with the police. The Seattle police had no concept of how to interact with black people and were jumpy as hell.
Just Chuck
@sab: Did he have an account at the bank? It’s SOP for them to fingerprint if that’s not the case.
sab
@Just Chuck: No he didn’t. My husband agrees with you.
Peale
@Baud: also there’s a whole bunch of other sins in the bible as well as laws that Brooks hasn’t denied. Maybe his kids aren’t divorced because they murder their spouses before they remarry. It’s fair to ask.
Kay
My new favorite thing is governors getting mad at anti-vaccers. Yesterday, Utah, today NJ.
Covid is hard on a lot of people in government but hardest on governors and mayors. They must be so, so sick of this.
Another Scott
@Peale: No doubt they secretly wear suits of wool and linen, and don’t have tassels at the four corners of their cloaks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Betty
@rikyrah: Isn’t the request for immunity a confession of wrongdoing?
NotMax
Three guesses where it went. The last two don’t count.
hrprogressive
The *only* reason people like Johnson talk about letting a pandemic run their “natural course” is because, thru a combo of hubris (It can’t happen to me) and, more importantly, *privilege* (I have the resources to ensure it *won’t* happen to me)
They are as confident as can be that, when the crisis concludes, they won’t be among the dead.
That’s it.
hueyplong
@Peale: Not a word from Mo about how he’s been chaste regarding goats.
And before anyone says Mo claimed fidelity, we should be able to agree that someone who’d go carnal with a goat would be sure to claim that it doesn’t constitute infidelity to do so.
Ken
Unless it’s a HIPPAA violation because they murder their spouses to harvest their organs and blood for into Republican politicians with bad hearts or livers destroyed by COVID.
JPL
@NotMax: Someone on twitter mentioned that he should have just filled it with apple juice and no one would be the wiser.
Ken
So focused on the virus, they forget the angry mobs.
Scout211
CNN has several legal experts who opine that the Florida executive order does not actually ban mask mandates in schools. Interesting:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/us/florida-school-mask-mandate-law/index.html
. . .
Baud
@Scout211:
The GOP does that a lot. I think many of the anti-CRT bills don’t really do a whole lot.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … ScienceMag:
(Emphasis added.)
tl;dr – Human bodies are complicated. Antiviral properties in culture might not indicate anything meaningful for treatment of disease. It’s important to understand mechanisms when developing treatments. Experts know what they’re doing, and RWNJ amateurs are not a source of good medical advice.
Cheers,
Scott.
Betty
@Scout211: Nevertheless the school districts appear to be folding as he threatens their funding.
Baud
@Another Scott:
Fuck.
JPL
@Baud: Thank the higher ups, cuz teaching in black history month would really sk.
Another Scott
@Baud: Eh?
I took that as good news. It’s better to figure these things out early – before wasting time on fruitless (and potentially dangerous for the participants) clinical trials.
[eta:] And it’s another weapon against the “I saw on OANN that plutonium hexaflouride kills the ‘rona in culture so I’m going down to Bubba’s USSR Surplus to get me some. Wanna come along??!” nonsense.
Cheers,
Scott.
Dan B
@Betty: There is growing pushback against DeathSantis, excuse my rude words, in school districts, even Broward County which had said it would not enforce mask mandates. Plummeting poll numbers for Governor Death might be one contributor as well as legal opinions.
Keith P.
@NotMax: Susan Pompeo is gonna wind up taking the blame.
mrmoshpotato
Greetings to our neighbors to the north!
We gave our Rethuglican Senator the boot in 2016. It can be done.
You could even boot him into Lake Superior and not try for the 93 million mile field goal.
Jeffro
@rikyrah: “smell that? it’s subpoenas…I love the smell of subpoenas in the morning”
BRING IT, DEMS
haul ALL their asses in to testify about this ‘cooperation’ with the trumpov White House
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: There is a reason I am keeping my powder dry on all election stuff that doesn’t involve Wisconsin.
frosty
@WaterGirl: That was really good! I’m going to have to watch more of Trae.
RSA
@Another Scott: Cool. Thanks for the excerpt—it’s a nice capsule summary of balancing exploration (hypothesis-free can be good!) with modeling and confirmation (understanding the mechanisms, ideally).
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
The cow got sloshed and thought it could jump over the Moon.
Or maybe the whiskey realized what a dick Pompeo is and ran away with the dish and the spoon.
RSA
@rikyrah:
Wow. Those news organizations include a cross-section of mainstream media, including WP, NTY, and WSJ. IANAL, but even if their arguments are well-grounded in the law, I think that they are on shaky moral ground.
For example, they mention harassment as if it’s a minor concern, also observing that there are laws against harassment. I’m sure the Sandy Hook parents, for example, find that comforting. ETA: With harassers like Alex Jones still walking around, while some of those parents have had to move multiple times to escape.
They also argue that there is no strong reason to believe Chauvin jurors have reason to fear for their safety, in contrast to someone who might have been a juror in a gang trial. Given the ambivalence of the Minnesota police union in cases like this, shouldn’t they also ask whether Chauvin jurors can expect unbiased treatment from the police?
Ugh, what a stupid, stupid motion.
WaterGirl
@RSA: It’s not stupid. It’s evil.
Roger Moore
@Another Scott:
I have to admit, I would be very understanding if I found out they didn’t honor their father.
Danielx
@hueyplong:
“You spend your whole life building bridges, nobody calls you John the bridge builder. But you fuck one goat…”
RSA
@WaterGirl: I can’t disagree.
J R in WV
@Just Chuck:
The last time this honky was fingerprinted was in 1970 when I was forcibly enlisted into the US Navy. There is NO SOP to fingerprint people conducting a normal financial transaction!
This is racist nonsense and anyone doing business like this should be fired for their racist bullshit!!
And the realtor getting held at gunpoint in Michigan, those cops should all be fired ASAP for their racist bullshit !!!
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
If we didn’t have all the medicine ‘n stuff, this would blow over in no time. Goddamn all that medicine!
S. Cerevisiae
@mrmoshpotato: don’t be polluting Kitchi Gummii with the likes of him.