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January 11, 2019
Seriously, who takes mug shots this wonderful?
https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1083276448360742912
January 10, 2019
And in the same thread, no less:
https://twitter.com/durindal/status/1082656340286279680
MEANWHILE, in California...
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1082629954339106816And in the same thread, no less:
https://twitter.com/durindal/status/1082656340286279680
January 10, 2019
Damn it, Beto... There *IS* such a thing as being TOO accessible
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1083402337417334785
January 10, 2019
One of my more foolishly optimistic wishes after Spring 2016 was that Bernie would find a way to corral his zoo of fanatical supporters and their half-assed pogrom against all supposed "Establishment" Dems... I now see he has no fuckin' intention of doing so.
By their fruits you shall know them...
https://twitter.com/TheStagmania/status/1083358494777098240One of my more foolishly optimistic wishes after Spring 2016 was that Bernie would find a way to corral his zoo of fanatical supporters and their half-assed pogrom against all supposed "Establishment" Dems... I now see he has no fuckin' intention of doing so.
January 9, 2019
On December 22, 2018, the second-longest shutdown of the federal government in United States history began. On December 23, the body of Jakelin Caal Maquin was returned to Guatemala; she was a seven-year-old who died in a Texas border camp. On December 24, another child from Guatemala, eight-year-old Felipe Gómez Alonzo, died after seven days in U.S. border patrol custody. That day, the President tweeted, I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to make a deal on desperately needed border security. At some point the Democrats not wanting to make a deal will cost our Country more money than the Border Wall we are all talking about. Crazy!
Poor me, he says, as the deaths mount and the country collapses. Poor me, Mr. Trump similarly implored in his address to the nation Tuesday night: it was an eight-minute teleprompter speech filled with lies about the danger of Central American migrants and threats to let a national security crisis he created continue unless Democrats bow to his ever-changing will.
The speech was akin to a hostage video, and American viewers were his captive audience. We watched because the stakes felt too high to turn away. We watched because Mr. Trump has taunted us with talk of declaring a national emergency an act which gives him the power to do things like kill the internet, freeze bank accounts, and turn military troops into a domestic police force. We watched because Mr. Trump has long applauded death through his praise of dictators and criminals. We watched because the path to American autocracy was laid out upon his election, and we wanted to know which victims were next.
That is the sick and slick vendetta of Americas reality-TV President.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-forget-the-wall-trump-is-the-national-security-crisis
Forget the wall. Trump is the national security crisis
Sarah Kendzior is the author of The View From Flyover Country and the co-host of the podcast Gaslit Nation.On December 22, 2018, the second-longest shutdown of the federal government in United States history began. On December 23, the body of Jakelin Caal Maquin was returned to Guatemala; she was a seven-year-old who died in a Texas border camp. On December 24, another child from Guatemala, eight-year-old Felipe Gómez Alonzo, died after seven days in U.S. border patrol custody. That day, the President tweeted, I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to make a deal on desperately needed border security. At some point the Democrats not wanting to make a deal will cost our Country more money than the Border Wall we are all talking about. Crazy!
Poor me, he says, as the deaths mount and the country collapses. Poor me, Mr. Trump similarly implored in his address to the nation Tuesday night: it was an eight-minute teleprompter speech filled with lies about the danger of Central American migrants and threats to let a national security crisis he created continue unless Democrats bow to his ever-changing will.
The speech was akin to a hostage video, and American viewers were his captive audience. We watched because the stakes felt too high to turn away. We watched because Mr. Trump has taunted us with talk of declaring a national emergency an act which gives him the power to do things like kill the internet, freeze bank accounts, and turn military troops into a domestic police force. We watched because Mr. Trump has long applauded death through his praise of dictators and criminals. We watched because the path to American autocracy was laid out upon his election, and we wanted to know which victims were next.
That is the sick and slick vendetta of Americas reality-TV President.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-forget-the-wall-trump-is-the-national-security-crisis
January 9, 2019
Yeah, keep on telling me he's some great journalist...
Your Daily Greenwald, "Mueller is the REAL bad guy" Edition:
https://twitter.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1082723976470769665Yeah, keep on telling me he's some great journalist...
January 8, 2019
As always, there's a tweet for everything:
https://twitter.com/Azi/status/1082716583737376770
January 3, 2019
Seriously -- If this is you, then please stop
If this is a friend, please slap them with a dead trout until they finally get it:
https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/1080658160904536064
https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1080667898811699200
https://twitter.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1080691282647941120
https://twitter.com/nanelk/status/1080655319771086848
Sadly there's much, much more where this came from...
At least now we're seeing which pundits actually give a shit about sexism and which pundits only care about it when a so-called "establishment Dem" gets accused.
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