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President Trump Is Shit At Keeping His Lies Straight
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What a surprise, President Trump has been caught in another lie.
Anyway, on Friday ABC News reported that they obtained audio revealing President Trump telling his associates that he wanted then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, fired. And guess who was there! Giuliani’s...
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Jerry-Netherland
Jan 25, 2020
This recording ABC got from Parnas (assuming it’s verified, which so far seems probable) is Trump directing a MOB HIT on Ambassador Yovanovich . As president, HE had the right, at any time, to call her home or fire or reassign her. Instead, he told Giuliani’s goons to “take her out,” which means “kill her.” Everyone who’s ever seen a mafia movie in the past ~90 years - much less lived and worked with New York mobsters for their whole life - knows what it means.
“ TAKE HER OUT”:
1. Kill her
2. I nvite her on a date.
(Only one of these two definitions can apply to this conversation)
IWon'tCalmMyTits
Jan 25, 2020
Exactly. And he told the Ukrainian president that “Some things were going to happen to her”. I fully believe he was asking for her to be killed, thought she would be, and the only reason she’s alive is their ineptitude. Judging from those texts about surveillance and someone willing to “do the job”, they intended to follow instructions.
BarefootCuntessa
Jan 25, 2020
This!! I remember hearing some very mob-esque phrases used around her that made me uncomfortable. “ Take her out” though ?? AT BEST he’s talking like this because he’s in the big boy chair and using this language is how he feels power. It’s enormously dangerous and alarming given the most generous read of the situation. 1 00% sounds like he’s legit ordering someone killed.
BreakerBaker
Jan 25, 2020
I honestly don’t get the uproar over the Joe Rogan thing. I mean, yeah, Joe Rogan sucks. But did anyone doubt that Rogan would be a Sanders supporter? I mean, Sanders supporters are not a monolith, but people like Joe Rogan pretty much are. And they’re all Sanders supporters.
Is the issue just that Sanders is theoretically damaging his brand by not refusing the endorsement of a guy who is representative of a sizable minority of his supporters? Is it just a thing people would prefer that Sanders benefit from but not showcase? Is that it?
BusPassTrollop
Jan 25, 2020
” People like Joe Rogan are, and they’re all pretty much Sanders supporters” lololol WHAT
As someone who lives in a state that looooooves them some Joe Rogan, please know that most of them fucking hate Sanders and are terrified of him being president. I know that you aren’t happy about Bernie, but come on.
PersnicketyPants (Enemy of Trolls)
Jan 25, 2020
Joe Rogan gives a platform to white supremacists/male supremacists/alt right.
Bernie does not. In fact, he is supposed to be appealing to the polar opposite.
I’m going to link to my earlier comment rather than repeat it:
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Disney's Life with Derek Stars Have Always Known How Horny and Borderline Incestuous That Show Was
Several things operate in a cycle of ebb and flow: waves, fashion trends, and the realization that from 2005 to 2009, Disney Channel aired a Canadian television series featuring teenage step-siblings with copious amounts of unresolved sexual tension.
Every now and then, someone on Twitter goes, “Hey, remember that weirdly horny Disney Channel show about the stepsiblings who obviously wanted...
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BusPassTrollop
Jan 24, 2020
Only tangentially related but I will NEVER forgive Jezebel for introducing me to GSA (genetic sexual attraction) years ago when they did that story on the woman who fell in love with her dad. NEVER!!!
Poobash
Jan 24, 2020
That one still haunts me. She meets her estranged dad and they just go at it. *shudder*
BusPassTrollop
Jan 24, 2020
I tried to find some kind of update about that relationship but most of the Google results were about a father and daughter relationship that produced a baby and then resulted in a family annihilation. I really, really hope that was not the couple that we read about years ago. Either way, fucking horrible.
LeftFieldMatty
Jan 24, 2020
Don’t forget Barry and Iris on The Flash!
Ishamael
Jan 24, 2020
Ya... and t hey have literally the least amount of chemistry on the entire series. The lack of chemistry between Barry and Iris is one of my biggest annoyances with the series as they’re made out as a OTP. Barry has far more chemistry with Kara. Though to be fair Kara has chemistry with pretty much everyone, Melissa Benoist is delightful .
AurynSharay
Jan 24, 2020
I’d have to go back to the first season, but I thought Barry had been crushing on Iris before Joe took him in after his mom was killed and his dad was put in jail.
The Girls Are Fighting... Again
Congresswoman and presidential hopeful, Tulsi Gabbard, is sick of Hillary Clinton’s shit, so she’s suing her. On Wednesday, Gabbard filed a lawsuit against Clinton for defamation, in response to Clinton’s suggestion
back in October that Gabbard is a “Russian asset.” Politico20 Comments
TheMeanestSnowflake
Jan 23, 2020
You know, when I first saw and heard h er I liked Tulsi Gabbard . And I have my problems with Hillary Clinton. But then someone told me about Gabbard and Syria and I read up a bit. Then I found out that G abbard got elected to her first public office by taking a stand against Gay Marriage. Like that was her main campaign point. So I read up a bit more. And now I can say? F uck Gabbard forever.
As for Russian assets? I don’t know, I remember when Hillary called Trump Putin’s puppet and he kind of has been? Whether this is true of Gabbard? No idea . I suppose if Gabbard runs 3rd party she could be the new Jill Stein. B ut if it’s that close maybe America should just close down for a while and revisit our business model or something.
Anyways, fuck Gabbard forever. That’s what I meant to say.
aslan
Jan 23, 2020
For what it’s worth, in context it’s clear that Clinton says that . Not the Russians. I don’t know if that makes a difference to Tulsi’s lawsuit, but it makes a difference to the accuracy of this article.
(And “Russian asset” sounds more damning than it actually is. Assets are just people who—knowingly or unknowingly—assist intelligence agents of another country. It doesn’t have to mean she’s collaborating with the Russians to take down America or anything, it just means she’s politically useful to the Russians. Which she is. )
Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jan 23, 2020
I can’t see how Tulsi could really make a dent as a 3rd party candidate. She’s draws very little interest in the lead up to primaries. She’s polling about the same as Michael Benn e t (who? my CO Sen that really needed to drop out months ago) and not too far off from Deval Patrick. She’s gotta draw people to make a viable 3rd party run and she ain’t got it.
DarthPumpkin
Jan 23, 2020
Filing frivolous lawsuits to shore up your fading political career , also known as “the Devin Nunes Gambit”.
MerdeAlors
Jan 23, 2020
She n eeds a Cow.
technophobia
Jan 23, 2020
I can’t be the only one who thinks the lawsuit just makes her look more like a Russian or Republican asset?
Who's the Milk Man? An Impeachment Trial Open Thread
In true Trumpian fashion, the president’s impeachment trial is already off to a chaotic start. On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell originally proposed a set of trial rules calling for compressed arguments and a speedy trial, a move that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says, “puts many obstacles in the path of getting witnesses and documents even later.” According...
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sarcastro7
Jan 22, 2020
If I’m Adam Schiff (I’m not, but go with it), I’m sipping from a tall glass of milk while Trump’s team is making its arguments so that I can constantly be doing loud spit-takes when they say something absurd.
MC232323
Jan 22, 2020
Milk definitely makes for the best spit-takes.
Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jan 22, 2020
I want the milk jug on hand and I want it fully wrapped with
Fighter of the Nightman
Jan 22, 2020
Please Kentucky, I beg of you VOTE OUT THIS POS!
He brings NOTHING of value to your lives. For the love of god if you have to vote in an actual turtle it would be a step up. Please Kentucky, please.
Hillary Clinton Is Not Helping
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Tuesday, Clinton got a chance to briefly discuss the grueling and exhilarating process of opening up to a documentary film crew before...
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The Ron Swanson of Westeros
Jan 22, 2020
In the doc, you’re brutally honest on Sanders: “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.” That assessment still hold?
Yes, it does.
Speaking as someone who voted for Clinton in 2016, Hillary Clinton has once again accurately identified the central problem with politics, but has failed to recognize that problem for whom it indicts. The fact that nobody likes Sanders, nobody wants to work with Sanders, and that he got nothing done, says a great deal more about the arbitrarily narrowed scope of “realistic” possibilities among the class of Very Serious People in DC than it says about Sanders. It neatly and concisely explains why The Best We Can Do always seems to let JP Morgan Chase have the keys to the kingdom, while the best the working class gets to hope for is to hang on by their fingernails for another four years.
I mean, I get it. You need a tough skin and a great deal of self-assurance to deal with the blood sport that is politics, and the tougher the skin and more self-assurance you have, the less likely you are to second-guess the goodness and moral value of your positions. And for years, nobody’s needed tougher skin and more self-assurance than Hillary Clinton.
But this really should be her “Wait . . . are we the baddies?” moment. And once again, I am disappointed, but not surprised, to find that it totally isn’t. Hillary Clinton’s greatest strength and greatest weakness is that for her, it will always be the world around her that is at fault.
BusPassTrollop
Jan 22, 2020
“wait...are we the baddies?”
Exactly. I can't figure out if she's simply got zero self awareness (seems to be a widespread issue) or she's just so self centered she can't even see the irony here.
Devonna
Jan 22, 2020
I don’t necessarily disagree with everything she says about the 2016 stuff, but her campaign in 2008 wasn’t sweetness and light. Also, discounting Bernie’s present-day supporters is myopic.
However, she’s a private citizen whose influence is dwindling rapidly. My parents, who are 60-something Boomers, are her demographic and they have no idea what Hulu is.
BDCB
Jan 22, 2020
Nobody will give a shit about this in two weeks. This is just a way to get performative Twitter dorks to yell at each other.
The Trump Administration Is Giving Michelle Obama Pettiness For Her Birthday
Happy birthday, Michelle Obama! The Trump administration has a gift for you: fewer fruits and vegetables and a lot more pizza, burgers, and fries in school lunches.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced new standards for the Food and Nutrition Service, the agency...
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Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jan 18, 2020
Our Dem President, Dem House, and Dem Senate in 2020 should do everything they can to restrict ANY federal funds being spent on ANY facility, land, monument, act or action, named after an impeached POTUS. This MUST be done ASAP.
I don’t EVER want to see a Trump airport or federal office building or national monument or some such horseshit homage to this primo jackass. GOP can get on board next time they impeach an oral loving Dem but we’re gonna launch it to make DAMN well sure this jackass gets NOTHING.
mydogisagenius
Jan 18, 2020
Can you imagine a Trump Library? That would b e the greatest joke of all time.
Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jan 18, 2020
we can’t keep private donors (Russians) from building one, but we sure the fuck can keep ANY federal dollars from being spent on any such thing.
Übermoose in the dark
Jan 19, 2020
“we took out those terrorists like your football team would’ve taken out those terrorists!”
...what does that even MEAN?
Dead_Elvis, Inc. says no to herbs
Jan 19, 2020
I’ve never understood football, but I’m pretty sure that’s not part of the game.
Barada_nikto_byotch
Jan 20, 2020
An attempt at some weak assed, macho by association, bullshit would be my guess. He’d probably do the same, in an “insert name here ” kind of way with any organization he thinks the public would largely support.
Lara Trump Is an Honorary Black Now
If one good thing has come out of the embarrassing mutual thirst between black conservatives desperate for political clout and Trump operatives
eager to take advantage of them, it’s that you get moments like this: a very white Lara Trump rocking a “Black Voices For Trump” hat filter on Instagram.Instagram/@LaraLeaTrumpAs jarring as this was to see this photo on Lara Trump’s Instagram story...
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MatisyahuSerious
Jan 18, 2020
she has a variety of cookout-friendly recipies up on her IG right now, from pot ato sa lad to coleslaw...
.. .all contain r aisi ns, btw.
Ashley Reese
Jan 18, 2020
Raisins? I spoke too soon. R EVOKED!
The High Woman In The Castle
Jan 18, 2020
Oh please. Like anyone with that last name ever cooks.
Melanie said it best when she responded that she asks the help to cook for her family instead of doing it herself.
TeenaBurner
Jan 18, 2020
I do not recall signing off on this trade.
Ashley Reese
Jan 18, 2020
You gotta come to more of our meetings.
His Waist Is SNATCHED
The Kardashians’ impact is evident.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law, is on the cover of Time’s January 27 issue, looking
haunted as ever in a navy blue suit and maroon tie. But look past his waxen skin , deadened gaze, and shameless complicity to the Trump administration’s crypto-fascist agenda, you’ll find an incredibly snatched waist.It’s unclear if spending...
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Jerry-Netherland
Jan 17, 2020
It’s really bad tailoring. It looks like an off-the rack suit an entry level 25 year old salesman would buy from Kohl’s or JC Penny. A rich 40 year old with a real tailor would never have his jacket snatched in so small in the waist that there’s no drape, which also exposes the passe hip-hugger low rise trousers (very 2012 and never for men over 30).
Money can’t buy taste or class (and every member of that family is proof).
Becky with the Bad Hair
Jan 17, 2020
I like your s artorial take-down.
Benevolus
Jan 17, 2020
Yea, Trump and his entire family of larva e couldn’t spot a good bespoke to save their goddamn lives. Daddy Trump thinks he knows tailoring and looks like a bag of meat stuff in a trashbag. Trump Jr has a pear shape thing he tries to hide terribly with a chest cut that shows you the tailor loathes him. Eric is one step from going full-Lurch with too long of a cut in the jacket. And Ivanka sincerely needs to get away from anything that shows her goddamn giraffe neck....which is nearly all her shit.
Of course, she married this vampire above....so still, absolutely no taste.
Lola
Jan 17, 2020
Can we talk about the awkward wa y he’s standing? P erhaps he got that from Mark Zuckerberg?
RedRaiderEducator
Jan 17, 2020
He probably learned it from his in laws, although he seems slightly less puffed out
Crash Test Dumbass
Jan 17, 2020
He’s just trying to be better at standing than his brothers-in-law. Admittedly, a very low bar; thus, this effort.
Lev Parnas Is the Only Snitch We Recognize
Lev Parnas, the Rudy Giuliani associate who allegedly attempted to pressure the Ukranian government into digging up dirt about Former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, says that President Trump was in on the scheme from the jump.
In a baffling move, Parnas decided to tell all during a Rachel Maddow interview that aired on MSNBC Wednesday night. He said that Trump’s concerns...
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Jerry-Netherland
Jan 16, 2020
Parnas is a classic mid level mob goon, but smart enough to know that right now he has two options: fess up and turn state’s evidence (and, gee whiz has he got a lot of evidence!), or drink the polonium tea. He’s safer with option one.
BTW, isn’t it too bad Peter Lorre is no longer around to play him in the eventual miniseries?I watched that whole interview and couldn't not see Peter Lorre (weird hair combover and all)
Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jan 17, 2020
Lorre was better looking and tons more competent in his profession
odango atama
Jan 17, 2020
All the way. Both comments.
crankylittlephoton
Jan 16, 2020
Please, please, please let Devin Nunes get his comeuppance soon.
Brian, The Life of
Jan 17, 2020
Please, please, please let them all die in prison
Elumerere
Jan 17, 2020
And Pence. The whole cabal is in on this. In a sane world, we’d get President Pelosi.
Lev Parnas' Lawyer Is Probably Shitting Himself Right Now
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Lev Parnas, the Rudy Giuliani associate who allegedly aided digging up dirt on President Trump’s political enemies, is set to appear on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show on Wednesday night, a move that would make any sensible lawyer want to piss themselves. And that’s just the beginning of...
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
Jan 16, 2020
I don’t think Lev Parnas’ attorney is the only one who’s about to be a little edgy
Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jan 16, 2020
Huh? Has there been a recent Gym Jordan piece in Rolling Stone that I’ve missed or is this just a smoke blowing asshole?
itsnotaboutthepasta
Jan 16, 2020
This, I guess?
Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jan 16, 2020
ooooh AOC. The heart wants what the heart wants. I hope she gets & gives all the love with that little Frenchie.
Yes, ideally we would have liked to see her rescue a deserving pup but it is not for us to decide or determine. As long as that pup is spayed/neutered, is taken care of like family, and gets all the love she can muster then I can forgive.
JiminyCricket
Jan 16, 2020
I am really torn on this. I generally say live and let live when it comes to any of these choices, and I have more than a few friends with very expensive non-rescue dogs, but I won’t lie I expected a lot more from AOC.
And to get a purebred but have it ALSO be a breed that has notorious health issues as a result of it being cute for humans seems like an extra kick in the crotch, I gotta say.
Then again I haven’t seen that she’s confirmed it isn’t a rescue of some kind , so I am still hopeful this is a misunderstanding ? She seems too clever to make this kind of a mistake, looking at her politics and actions to date.
IAMRU2
Jan 16, 2020
Yeah, I admit I am super shocked. I saw other sources describing it as a rescue, but they didn’t offer any proof. If it isn’t, I’m...not impressed? I mean, she can do whatever she wants, obviously, but I think it’s pretty bleurgh and would think that if anyone I was friends with did it too .
Why the ERA Is Not a White Woman's Battle
It all came down to Virginia.
After nearly four decades of tumult and setbacks, the long-dormant Equal Rights Amendment may finally be added to the United States Constitution, an event that hinged on politicians in Virginia. The Virginia House of Delegates voted to ratify the ERA on Wednesday; making Virginia the 38th and final state needed to seal the deal. While the vote will likely kick off...
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PersnicketyPants (Enemy of Trolls)
Jan 16, 2020
Does anyone actually believe that the United States Supreme Court, which is controlled by male right wing religious zealots, is going to allow the ERA to stand? They will be all over any technicality they can find to deny passage like ants on a two day old cupcake.
Bae Bae Watt
Jan 16, 2020
Perhaps they’ll say no, but I’m on board with making them say “No” publicly.
DVDDVDDVD
Jan 16, 2020
And, the current Supreme Court has surprised before. The ERA is a constitutional amendment, and that territory produces surprising results with this batch of justices. A lignment with right wing punditry in this court has been spotty.
Jerry-Netherland
Jan 16, 2020
Today’s Republican far-right will have no problem finding some mercenary hypocrite (Kellyanne, name your price! ) to a rguing in favor of “ honoring” what was an arbitrary deadline to begin with (fighting to kill the ERA in spite of its passage).
But once upon a time there were actual powerful, outspoken liberal Republican feminists who fought for the ERA. Sadly, the last one died 8 years ago.
This is a short but delightful read about that great lady (who’d be a liberal Democrat by today’s standards )
DL Thurston
Jan 16, 2020
Sadly, I think they’re going to take an easier route of saying if you honor the three states that ratified after the deadline, you also need to honor the five states that rescinded their ratifications.
Tom, What Did You Hear?
2020 presidential election
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Tuesday night’s
CNN Democratic Debate in Des Moines, Iowa has been largely deemed as a dull affair, where presidential hopefuls were more interested in keeping things mild ahead of the Iowa caucuses as opposed to letting sparks fly. Even the moment that was poised for drama —addressing allegations that Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren that a woman cannot win the presidency , which...22 Comments
StringerBellaSwan
Jan 15, 2020
Seemed pretty clear that she was taking him to task for denying the “a woman couldn’t win an election ” comment. You could tell that he was being evasive in his response to the question during the debate, focusing on his long-held belief that a woman could become president. But that’s not the same as a statement about electability in the Trump era . I wish he hadn’t outright denied it, because it felt like a lie . He shouldn’t have said that for a variety of reasons , but I don’t think the statement makes him a misogynist. I know I’ve certainly expressed the same fear , while deeply hoping for Clinton, and now W arren, to be elected.
honkhonkhonk - check if it's really me!
Jan 16, 2020
I’m not sure it makes him a misogynist, but it definitely doesn’t make him supportive.* I can see why she’s keen to avoid an actual disagreement because these things always play out in perception as the woman being the aggressive bitch and the man being victimized. I’m tired as fuck of it. *editing to add that in this decade, frankly, men (esp white men) really do have to be an allies and not passive bystanders for them to get any respect from me, for whatever that’s worth. That goes for any “identity politics” allyshi p.
mangoselassie
Jan 16, 2020
How does an unequivocal denial constitute being evasive in his response?
kinjas' cruel embrace
Jan 15, 2020
It would be great if Sanders and Warren were talking about what a waste of space Tom Steyer is.
PersnicketyPants (Enemy of Trolls)
Jan 16, 2020
Unfortunately that’s up to us, the voters. Warren and Sanders barely notice Steyer at all.
There Is No Real Beef Here
The amicable relationship between presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren turned frosty over the weekend after Politico ran a headline claiming the Sanders campaign “slam[med] Warren as candidate of the elite.” The Sanders campaign allegedly released a campaign document to volunteers that suggests telling Warren supporters that Warren’s popularity among “highly-educated”...
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TheDrDonna would make a better CEO than Spamfella
Jan 14, 2020
I saw some chatter from pro-Bernie Twitter last night about how this was the death knell for Warren’s campaign, and then actually looked up what had happened and sighed ( deeply, in exasperation) . I know people like to frame narratives to fit their own viewpoints, but it seems like both sides are just ridiculous in this instance. It’s the defini tion of a nothingburger.
Stig-a-saw-us-wreckz
Jan 13, 2020
The line about being highly educated really ground my gears. Like having a good education/good job is a liability. Trump and his bastion of idiots are the anti-intellectuals. Don’t use their playbook. Why would you even entertain such a thing when it’ s absolutely possible to have multiple degrees and still be less than affluent. I’d love to see their metric for what constitutes “highly affluent”.
Trump Administration Still Distressingly Vague About Soleimani's Supposed 'Imminent Attack'
The Trump administration continues to be evasive about those so-called “imminent attacks” that they allege Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was planning. As those attacks play a huge role in the justification of the United States’ assassination of Soleimani, it would be...
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Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jan 11, 2020
Trump’s got a big asshole to pull something outta, so no wonder the right excuse keeps getting lost in that void.
Funny thing is there was a concurrent assassination attempt on a 2nd Iranian figure but in Yemen. That didn’t happen so no one in admin is even trying to explain why that dude was targeted and how he’s still a threat.
BadOmbre
Jan 11, 2020
Plus, it’s in Yemen, so no one would have cared, anyway. Seems like the entire world is just fine and dandy with the year’s long leveling of Yemen.
eatthecheesenicholson2
Jan 12, 2020
The excuse just doesn’t hold any water. If disclosing details of the attacks would compromise American military interests, then you’re admitting that assassinating him didn’t stop those plans, and hence was pointless.
DL Thurston
Jan 11, 2020
May Jared be as successful at his new job as he has in each of his other administration jobs.
odango atama
Jan 11, 2020
May this come to pass.
Tafroxt
Jan 11, 2020
C all the burn unit!!!
That Viral Sleeping Beauty Proposal Video Is Adorable, You Humorless Cretins
As Jezebel’s resident earnest bitch, I’ve brought it upon myself to cape for the man whose wildly creative Sleeping Beauty proposal has gone viral. Filmmaker Lee Loechler proposed to his longtime girlfriend Sthuthi David at a movie theater viewing of Sleeping Beauty, but Loechler and an animator spent six months throwing in a twist ending to the Disney classic.
From the New York Post:
Loechler...
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mmD
Jan 11, 2020
Last summer I proposed to my better half by dropping on one knee in our backyard and quoting John Prine (no, not “There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes/jesus christ died for nothing, I suppose”). She knew it was coming, I knew it was coming, the answer was never in doubt but I still felt like a bag of cats up to the moment. How anyone does that in public is beyond me.
AgreeToAgree
Jan 11, 2020
I proposed to my now-husband a year and a half ago. He didn’t really know it was coming. I mean we’d talked a lot about getting married and I’d asked if he would mind if I proposed, but the weekend I did it, he was not expecting it at all. I was so confident and excited , but immediately before it happened I got so nervous and flushed and sweaty and my heart was pounding. Holy moly. Bag of cats is right. And we were all alone in the wilderness with no one around for miles. I don’t know if I would have been able to speak if it was a public proposal.
BestPersonEleanor
Jan 11, 2020
I gotta know... which John Prine song? (Please say Frying Pan! )
Cherith Cutestory
Jan 12, 2020
Awhile back he was on the Boston subreddit asking for people to come and fill in the seats. (So, she wouldn’t notice it was filled only with family and friends.) Meaning he had bought out the theater and wanted it to seem legitimately full. If I remember correctly the response was overwhelming. (Hopefully goes without saying but he wasn’t charging for the seats.)
I remember reading it the and thinking it was sweet. W hen it blew up I was so happy for them.
So, it wasn’t even really “public” he had stacked the theater. No one had their viewing of a sixty year old Disney movie (albeit their best one) ruined! It was just a nice, fun thing!
Let people be happy and creative!
Pack Up the Crystals: Marianne Williamson Suspends Her Presidential Campaign
Spiritual guide and self-help author Marianne Williamson officially ended her presidential run on Friday, citing feeble support leading into the caucus and primary season.
“I stayed in the race to take advantage of every possible opportunity to share our message,” Williamson wrote in a message to her supporters. “With caucuses and primaries now about to begin, however, we will not be able to...
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GELLA - LLAP
Jan 11, 2020
After suspending her campaign , Marianne endorsed crystals for president.
odango atama
Jan 11, 2020
LOL!!!
DVDDVDDVD
Jan 11, 2020
Make Amethysts Great Again!
Jerry-Netherland
Jan 11, 2020
Bet she’s already booked a [high paying] gig on the Goop Cruise. What could beat giving a Goop Talk on the Costa Brava with 2000 gullible new age b ourgeoisies ? Jackpot! Timing is everything.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wants Trump to Bomb His Way Through the Middle East Without Pesky Interference of Congress
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Conservatives love to wax poetic about the glory of the Constitution, but what they love even more is to ignore the parts they don’t like and call it patriotism. Case in point: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former Trump press secretary and current Fox News talking head who, on Thursday,...
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PersnicketyPants (Enemy of Trolls)
Jan 10, 2020
So apparently it’s “okay” to assassinate a general from a sovereign country that we aren’t at war with, by saying “he was a bad man”. Are we going to drop bombs on Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and anyone else we please in contravention of international law and commit war crimes under the auspices of “he’s a bad man” doctrine?
And once again the main strea m media is complicit by giving the right wing the power to set the narrative, demanding that democrats “admit” that he “was a bad man”. Whether or not he “was a bad man” is fucking irrelevant.
WE, not Iran, WE are the “bad man” in this scenario.
This country makes me ashamed sometimes, too many times . And the complicity of the m edia and centrist democrats is bringing back bad memories of the McCarthy like atmosphere post 9/11 in which criticizing Bush was tantamount to treason.
Else You Are Mad
Jan 10, 2020
Literally every president since Eisenhower would be open to assassination if the world held the US to the same standard Trump used to justify the attack.
ClevelandRN
Jan 10, 2020
Also, my dear republican “friends”, if WE can assassinate someone WE consider a bad man, THEY can assassinate someone THEY consider a bad man.
strells
Jan 10, 2020
Ugh, has anybody asked Biden or Sanders their skincare routine?
oliviathomasjeromenewtonjohn
Jan 10, 2020
Of course not. Don’t be silly!
Now...let’s talk about frocks and recipes!
PenguinLust2:ElectricBoogigloo
Jan 10, 2020
Also, does botox count as a skin routine? Cause Joe, honey, your facelift was bad enough, but the botox. You gotta cut back.
The Only Person Who Still Loves Low-Rise Jeans Is Olivia Wilde
Low-rise jeans plagued many a
millennial teen with visible buttcrack, shredded pant hems, and the fruitless quest for “Slave 4 U” abs in the 2000s , but actor and director Olivia Wilde still can’t get enough of them! My American Eagle shopping bag from 2005 can relate.In an InStyle interview with Beanie Feldstein—the star of Wilde’s directorial debut, Booksmart—Wilde opened up about her...
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flyingmermaid
Jan 10, 2020
Ultra low-rise are ridiculous, true, but I would give anything to be able to find a variety of mid-rise or “slightly” low-rise jeans.
High-rise jeans are only flattering if you have a curvy figure and if you have a butt. I come from a long line of genetically buttless women, on both sides of my family tree — all the lunges and exercises in the world make no difference — and there is nothing more horrendously unsexy than turning around and seeing a long, flat pancake that extends from your upper thighs to the middle of your back.
I haven’t been able to buy jeans or any pants in years, and the few I take a risk on and buy, I end up hating . At least low and medium-rise pants create the optical illusion of a little roundness down there (or at least differentiate your butt from the rest of your back) because the waistband comes almost immediately after the butt part. Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world with this problem.
sunnyqueens
Jan 10, 2020
I have the same issue! I have a kind of boyish figure I guess- narrow hips and no butt- so high rise jeans just emphasize that I have no curves at all. And my natural waist is bigger in comparison to my hips, so if jeans fit me through the hips/seat, they’re squeezing the shit out of my stomach and I can barely get them buttoned! Ugh.
Tofutti Klein
Jan 10, 2020
You’re not the only one my friend! I am flat-butted as well and high rise jeans look like absolute trash on me. They’re also horrifically unflattering from the front if you’re not small-waisted (I am pretty straight up and down). Ugh, I can’t wait for this fucking trend to end, jeans shopping is already hard enough.
Away! Suitcase
Jan 10, 2020
I like when fit attractive people try to pretend they are fat like the rest of us.
The High Woman In The Castle
Jan 10, 2020
Remember in the last 10-15 years how skinny actresses and models used to “brag” about all the unhealthy food they’d eat and then swear they had a high metabolism?
I feel like the trend is now turning into rail thin actresses and models talking about their non-existent "big" guts and butts. See also: Blake Lively
GrumpyCupcake
Jan 10, 2020
The sad thing is that I suspect they believe what they’re saying. Hollywood is so fucked up about women’s bodies that after an entire career of being subjected to intense scrutiny and compared to other rail thin actresses they start to accept all the nasty comments as truth.
President Trump Is Kicking Off the New Year With a Big Ol' Troop Surge
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Aughts nostalgia is already back in style, and nothing says “I love the 2000s” quite like a troop surge, baby. According to Defense Department officials, approximately 3,300 additional troops from the 82nd Airborne Brigade are on “alert status” and will be deployed to the Middle...
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TychoCelchu
Jan 04, 2020
Mike Pence is also trying to link Soleimani to 9/11. I guess that they’re not going with weapons of mass destruction this time.
In response.
It’s probably also a complete coincidence that a new oil field containing >50 billion barrels of oil was reportedly discovered in Iran less than two months ago, right?
odango atama
Jan 04, 2020
Blood for oil, yet again.
The High Woman In The Castle
Jan 04, 2020
It’s 2003 all over again, baby!
Arcanum Five
Jan 04, 2020
I’m not sure flying home coffins with American troops in them is a great way to go into the next phase of the election cycle, but who knows? I’m sure Donny Bonespurs’ base will find a way to fetishize The Troops, celebrate their martyrdoms, and believe that attacking a... fifth? sixth? How many are we in right now? Middle Eastern country is all that and a fat b a g of Cheetos.
The High Woman In The Castle
Jan 04, 2020
It worked for GWB. I see no reason why it wouldn't work again?
goddessoftransitoryrisesagain
Jan 04, 2020
I hope the TV stations run those Wounded Warriors ads before and after the fetish porn/campaign spots he’s going to be making out of this.
The 2 Veterans Running for President Still Haven't Released Official Statements on Iran [UPDATED]
![The 2 Veterans Running for President Still Haven't Released Official Statements on Iran [UPDATED]](nwv63afdtx3uoxadpf66.jpg)
The United States assassinated Qassem Soleimani, a famed Iranian military commander and leader of Iran’s Quds force, via drone strike in Baghdad Friday morning local time. The act immediately stoked chaos and confusion among Americans: World War III was trending on Twitter, a calamity made deeper by Karl Rove and Ari Fleischer offering their expert insight on Fox News like 2003 redux. But...
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BreakerBaker
Jan 04, 2020
Tinfoil hat time. We all kind of assume the president has done this at least partially for the purposes of improving his reelection bid, right? I mean, he literally predicted throughout 2011-12 that Obama would start a war for the sole purpose of gaining reelection, so at the very least, we understand that the president views war as a mechanism to improve electoral standing.
The most straightforward understanding of that is that Americans will naturally rally around the president during a time of war because any criticism of the administration during a time of war can be portrayed as unpatriotic or “anti-troop.” Plus, we all know how much Americans love to kick ass and how well wars have historically benefited the economy (at least in the short term). Add to that the fact that he’s been impeached and faces a trial in the senate. A war with Iran is a nice distraction from that, and because Iran is an ally to Russia, it complicates the Trump shapes American policy to appease the Kremlin narrative.
So those are all the obvious cliches for why the president would launch this completely unnecessary assault. Here’s another: He wants Biden’s Iraq War Resolution vote to become a more prominent issue in the Democratic Primary Process.
ETA: Buttigieg did tweet out his response about 20 minutes ago.
WillSelfDestruct
Jan 04, 2020
Not at all tin foily. This move is straight out of the “Wag The Dog” plot. Cooked up by Pompeo and co hoping to make sentient Cheeto Dust look presidential.
The liberal pundits who helped perpetuate the Trump is a war dove lie are just as complicit. They looked at an erratic, mad man who thrives on chaos and thought there’s a Nobel peace prize winner!
Übermoose is loose in the greys
Jan 04, 2020
I’ve been disagreeing with a lot of what you’ve had to say lately, but this is accurate.
TheDrDonna would make a better CEO than Spamfella
Jan 04, 2020
Pete’s posted something on his Twitter feed now (at around 11:47am EST) and it’s predictably bland. Mostly criticizes the lack of discussion with Congress and the lack of deliberation, and says we should avoid another endless war...but doesn’t really take a firm stance about how we shouldn’t just assassinate foreign heads of state.
Much less important, but h is logo (which was appended to the bottom of the statement) still looks like the brand on a pair of mom jeans .
BreakerBaker
Jan 04, 2020
... but doesn’t really take a firm stance about how w e shouldn’t just assassinate foreign heads of state.
Neither do any of the other responses make any mention of this. Plus, the guy technically wasn’t a head of state.
TheDrDonna would make a better CEO than Spamfella
Jan 04, 2020
Whether the military is sufficiently entangled with the government in Iran to qualify military leaders as heads of state seems like a weirdly pedantic point to quibble, given everything else.