A patient teacher speaks to a misbehaving child named Donald:
She makes me laugh so hard. She’s a kindergarten teacher who makes videos talking to politicians the way she does her kindergartners. pic.twitter.com/INCNXoEEvu
— StaceyC.inKS (@StaceyCKs1) August 14, 2022
And Michael Jay throws some Kim Carnes at him:
@stilloneblackmansopinion All those FBIs…#parody #creatorsofcolor #votethemout #busted #maralago #bluewave #gopisdead #voteblue ♬ original sound – StillOneBlackMansOpinion
- At Whatever, John Scalzi discovers a day, this very week in our history of self-governance, that is not only not cringeworthy, but is meaningfully encouraging.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger began this week with the Mar-a-Lago FBI search, looking at the warrant and what was found. He does not see a path for Mr. Trump to avoid being charged with a serious crime.
- First time I had seen this. Ant Farmer’s Almanac has figured out what was in that more secret than top secret cache of documents stolen by Mr Trump. Yeah, yeah, I already know it’s satire.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life starts with this:
To my knowledge, though, no one has looked at what it means for an unproductive malignant narcissist to have stolen from the White House.
Jack makes a plausible case that Mr Trump saw, in those more-secret-than-top-secret documents a chance to show off.
An interesting take, and a departure from the assumption by those in my corner of the ideological spectrum that it involved a serious, dark, self serving, financial motive.
When it comes to revealing secret documents that damage national security, where does the substitution of a petty, silly motive leave us?
- At first, the Mar-a-Lago search was supposed to cement Donald Trump’s political position as a martyr to the cause of Trump. Then details of probable cause and a list of items of specific topper-than-top secret documents began to emerge. The Palmer Report takes a close look at the warrant and discovers something more that bodes ill for Mr. Trump. The usual legal justification is missing. Instead, the document contains something much worse.
- So the probable cause contains stuff that could hurt people: doxing the informant and a couple of signing FBI agents. And it could let a few people-of-interest get phony stories straight. Gotta be careful with all that.
Trump demands the affidavit that led to the warrant be published. Press organizations are ready to file suit to get the affidavit. Garland says okay but some information must be redacted. The judge agrees the affidavit should be redacted and open to the press.
So Tommy Christopher reports that all God’s children want that affidavit open.
The judge holds a hearing on it. All sides can be heard. But Trump’s lawyers are strangely silent. On publishing the affidavit, on redaction, on everything. Weird.
Former Fox maven, current CNN maven, Chris Wallace knows why.
- So Mr Trump has a host of explanations, excuses, and attacks as he encounters possible legal consequences for stealing ultra-secret documents. Iron Knee at Political Irony explains why political experts examine his reasoning with barely suppressed laughter.
- At Cato Institute, Julian Sanchez has some fun with a defense made popular by the Trump-can-do-no-wrong rage machine:
I'm being a little silly here: Graeme is right that the president can override normal executive branch procedures. But he has to DO it. He can't just have a secret list of docs that *unbeknownst to anyone else in government* have been metaphysically declassified in their souls.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 17, 2022
“See I had this standing order, yeah, that’s the ticket. Every top secret file I took out of the Oval was AUTOMATICALLY declassified, without any sort of review or process for notifying the rest of government about it. Am I out of trouble yet?”
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 17, 2022
Bonus funny: None of these desperate confessions would actually get him out of the legal peril that is clearly the only thing he now cares about.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 17, 2022
- My one time President explains that anytime he takes a classified document, it is, by a sort of transubstantiation, no longer classified. Nojo very briefly explains where this honored tradition began.
- News Corpse lists some of the Trump excuses for holding on to the stolen documents, including the newest one. They assure us the storeroom was mostly locked and only real nice people had keys. Promise? Promise!
- Satirist Andy Borowitz reports as Tucker Carlson calls Trump’s theft of nuclear secrets less worrisome than Hunter Biden’s use of Joe’s Netflix password.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson appears unimpressed with Mr Trump’s legal maneuvers
Who else is hearing "The Loco-motion"?
"So come on, come on, do the loco-motion with me" pic.twitter.com/jZqvXS11h2— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) August 19, 2022
- Dave Columbo does Tucker: outraged at the unlawful raid victimizing the honorable Mr Trump:
@davecolumbo Back by popular demand 🙂 #democrat #democrats #democratsoftiktok #maralagoraid #politicalsatire #politicaltiktok #politicalhumor #fy #fyp #foryou ♬ Manke, honobo, everyday, funny, loop – arachang - Dave Dubya documents Trump-folk frustration as they are confronted by criminal statutes, evidence, and answers to excuses.
- The warrant and search for hyper-classified eyes-only documents at Mar-a-Lago did startle. Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit briefly and accurately summarizes the right wing freak out.
- Green Eagle reads up on extremist fury at the treatment of Mr Trump. Their promises of a new Civil War result in an armed protest in Arizona numbering literally in the teens.
Pffft!
- YellowDog Granny follows the Trump civil court dealings (he declines to answer 440 plus times because of self-incrimination) and comes up with a comprehensive list of reasons to plead the fifth. Kind of short, actually.
- At The Onion, conservatives explain why they no longer trust the FBI.
- An armed man attacks the FBI office in Cincinnati. State and local police defend the office, chase the culprit, and are forced to kill him. Frances Langum takes note as Ohio’s political leaders rush to thank the police for the risks they routinely take in protecting us. Well… not all Ohio leaders.
- Infidel753 has an update on the health of Salman Rushdie, the recent target of an attempted assassination apparently by an Islamic fundamentalist after an Iranian fatwa.
- The return insult used to be: Like being called ugly by a frog. Steve Bannon makes fun of Democrat John Fetterman’s “satanic” appearance.
Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged teaches poor Steve the fine art of return insult.
Free sample:
Steve Bannon looks like he rolls bums for new clothes. He looks like his skincare regime is to powder his face with fresh bread mold in the hopes he looks at least partially alive. He looks like he doesn’t so much change shirts as lets them molder into his gelatinous form and then acquires new ones. From corpses.
Her main point, though, is that Bannon and Trump are guilty of much more than the simple crime of being not cute.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has the links and a brief reaction as Lauren Boebert’s wayward husband goes wildly, violently nuts against their neighbors.
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has established an Office of Election Police, reporting directly to him, part of whose duties will be to stand in polling locations and glare at voters. No intimidation, of course. They have already found 20 people who voted illegally.
Turns out the 20 were convicted felons who had completed their sentences. A while back, voters had overwhelmingly passed a measure allowing felons to vote once their sentences were over. But, later on, DeSantis pushed through legislation excluding some felons. So it is likely the 20 may not have read up on changes in the details of the legislated exceptions and instead relied on what election officials told them.
Those 20 violations are what DeSantis’ new special police found out of 11 million voters.
tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors knows his math, does some arithmeWork and is able to calculate gubernatorial integrity.
- It isn’t often labeled voter suppression, but it is. Scottie has a bit of personal experience.
In Scotties Playtime, he has lived in a mostly minority voting district and then in a mostly white area. The contrast in voting ease is remarkable.
- Thursday was the anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment recognizing that women have the right to vote. The right always existed, being inalienable. It had mostly been unthinkingly violated. In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson tick tocks the step-by-painful-step struggle.
- Max’s Dad gets into the heads of MAGA-folk and tells us the why of the current state of the Republican party.
More eloquently expressed than my own similar thoughts some years back.
- The Propaganda Professor helpfully posts another useful lifehack, this time on how to make a right-wing documentary.
- Nan’s Notebook wants male opinions about a possible workaround to SCOTUS inspired abortion bans.
- @whiskeywhistle98 looks for, and finds, something that will tick her off:
@whiskeywhistle98 Keep your laws off my body!!!! #womensrights #foff #fyp #foryourpage #tiktokmom #daughters ♬ Tell me something that will piss me off – Artimus Wolz - Last week, the Republican candidate for governor of Illinois really stepped into it, comparing abortion to the Holocaust. Then he kept doubling down, letting the public know that abortion really is the same as a national government herding 6 million Jews and 4 million others into camps and murdering them. That was last week.
driftglass brings this week’s self-vivisection as the same guy, Darren Bailey, goes out of his way to insult Chicago voters. Then r-r-r-repeats.
- In Hackwhackers Putin troops invading Ukraine keep posting proud photos. Ukraine patriots watch for the photos, figure out the precise locations, target their missiles, and blow up Putin troops. It happened again this week.
- The United States has been dancing around the China/Taiwan issue since before I was born. And I was born a hell of a long time ago.
China claims Taiwan as a province. Taiwan claims to be the legitimate government, in exile, of all of China.
I remember the great debate over a small series of islands called Quemoy and Matsu in the 1950s. The People’s Republic of China was making noises about moving in on them. Taiwan said they’d better not. Kennedy and Nixon argued over whether the small bits of land could be defended and whether they were worth defending, being largely uninhabited.
The US finally declared that Taiwan and China were actually one country, as both wanted, and worked out an ambiguous muddle on which government was legitimate. But we treated both as separate in spite of the fiction.
Everyone knew they were separate. Everyone pretended they were one.
And therein lay the peace.
At The Moderate Voice, foreign affairs specialist Brij Khindaria looks at the impact of the Nancy Pelosi visit to Taiwan, the anger of the mainland government, and their threatening military moves.
Brij makes the case that a meeting between President Biden and China’s Xi Jinping might calm everything allowing everyone to go back to the original useful fiction.
- In Happiness Between Tails da-AL’s husband has been afflicted with COVID. She relates a common experience among the vaccinated: a short time of minor symptoms.
- A high school coach makes of public display of having all his players kneel in prayer before big games. The school is afraid this violates the establishment clause of the constitution. This is the First Amendment that says government can’t support religion. So they tell him to stop. He won’t. They fire him. He sues.
The Supreme Court now says the evidence supports the coach because individual players say they don’t feel coerced to pray. So SCOTUS rules in favor of the coach and his exercise of freedom of religion.
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara explains how the ruling in favor of religious freedom is an attack on freedom of religion.
Michael is right and we can hope the Supreme Court will one day catch up.
- How do we approach Maga hate?
Do we try to coddle it?
Do we overmatch it with hostility?
North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz suggests an alternative:We don't need to convince or coddle or win over hatred, and we don't need to outdo it with hatred either.
We need to outnumber it.
We need to outlast it.
We need to outlove it.
We need to outvote it.https://t.co/OEz0kSt4Fx— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) August 20, 2022
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce walks us along his path to atheism and introduces us to the patronizing condescension of true believers along the way.
- SilverAppleQueen narrates what it is to find complete trust in another betrayed.
- Another wonderful life-hack from Reductress: how to put your grocery cart back without wondering if anyone saw and thinks you’re a good person.
- Professor PZ Myers gets really angry at Black & Decker coffee, partly because he has his pride and there are simply some things he will not do.
- Legal guru Imani Gandy really likes her new writing utensil:
You can write whole sentences at a time too. I’ve been wanting an Apple Pencil for like three years and now I’m really glad I got one pic.twitter.com/afewnUFKlD
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) August 19, 2022
A few tweets I thought worthy:
The day after a Trump supporter tried to kill FBI agents, Trump leaked the names of FBI agents who served his warrant to Breitbart and Breitbart published it.
— Ben Adler (@badler) August 12, 2022
This is utterly disgusting and should make Trump liable for any harm that comes to the FBI agents as a result. No First Amendment shield should apply. https://t.co/xCVz0L1Cq9
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 13, 2022
— Tom T (@TTolman) August 13, 2022
If the media would not be out there filming Trump supporters in front of his home,most of them wouldn’t be there. They want to be on TV, it’s really that simple.
— BroadwayBornBlonde (@blond_born) August 9, 2022
The president is in the White House, not Florida. And you support stealing classified papers by the former president? Really? Wow
— BroadwayBornBlonde (@blond_born) August 9, 2022
Of course he didn’t pack boxes, that’s called work! 30M? Never heard that one before! No way that wasn’t totally made up. Lol
— BroadwayBornBlonde (@blond_born) August 10, 2022
Nope didn’t happen, total made up lie and now officially debunked by Feds, catch up.
— BroadwayBornBlonde (@blond_born) August 14, 2022
The government isn't suing Alex Jones. Neither is the "deep state". He isn't even in a criminal trial.
It's the parents who he falsely accused of being crisis actors after their children were murdered https://t.co/9hNU4qAP7d
— The Serfs (@theserfstv) August 4, 2022
Must feel horrible to post what you think is a telling question, then wait smugly for a tortured response, only to be torpedoed by an obvious answer you didn't anticipate.
Don't feel too bad, could have happened to any supercilious, condescending personhttps://t.co/wgGM94pEtK
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
Today on Social Security’s 87th birthday never forget that this is the future republicans are working towards pic.twitter.com/EX2kRTIbSl
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BillPascrell) August 14, 2022
FBI is corrupt
Judge is biased
Biden ordered it
Impeach Garland
No probable cause
Hiding affidavit
They waited too long
Warrant overly broad
Kept attorney out
He didn’t have anything important
It was planted
He declassified it
He didn’t know what was in there
It was privileged— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 14, 2022
Along with what everyone else said it's also because they didn't know where he was keeping the documents until someone came forward to tell them. What are they gonna do search all his properties with no probable cause? Are they going to grab him off the street and question him?
— Mikey Rockz 🇺🇸🇰🇷 (@BmoreProgressiv) August 14, 2022
— 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝚓𝚘𝚜𝚑 – No Lists (@supavgjosh) August 14, 2022
When Trump was bragging in April 2018 about how he coerced Rand Paul to change his vote on a nominee, he said "I knew things that nobody else knew."
Now that Trump is under investigation for espionage, Rand Paul wants the Espionage Act repealed.
It's all starting to make sense.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) August 14, 2022
— Proud Mimi (@ProudMimi821) August 13, 2022
Trump knows the FBI didn’t plant evidence, he watched him on CCTV. https://t.co/FGpLsAtkLX
— Christine King (@ckwest542) August 15, 2022
— Michael🏳️🌈🇺🇸🌈⚛️ (@Mikethewander1) August 14, 2022
There’s nothing more nutty than that couple hours where all of MAGA is waiting silently to find out what they’re supposed to think
— Ben Wexler (@mrbenwexler) August 12, 2022
I am so tired of people running around with a mouthful of scripture and a heart full of hate.
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) August 14, 2022
dads after getting a pet they didn't want
(mrheynowandej IG/tiktok) pic.twitter.com/N7uv1QAKRE— theworldofdog (@theworldofdog) August 14, 2022
Sometimes I want to ask people I follow why they retweet the biggest morons on this app and then I realize they retweet me.
— Beavarah (@eve_in_flow) August 16, 2022
Your sexuality isn't determined by a book you read in Kindergarten. It's determined the way God intended — by watching Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.
— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) August 16, 2022
Yes, really, Michels is endorsing the movie 2000 Mules. It’s not often that being a horrible judge of cinema makes someone unfit to hold public office, so Michels is definitely breaking new ground here. https://t.co/5qrHeDNoWY
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) August 16, 2022
Trump demanding documents FBI planted back
— Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro) August 14, 2022
#Trumpisgoingtoprison
DEFINE IRONY: In an effort to deter members of his own administration from leaking his shady activities, Trump signed the law to increase the penalty for mishandling of classified documents.
Now TRUMP will be prosecuted under the penalty he created,😂 😂 pic.twitter.com/BIJ283HaZD— JAuthentic (@JAuthentic13) August 15, 2022
@CCityCatholic You know @DineshDSouza is a fabricator of horrible lies, right?
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) August 17, 2022
This is my running list of the major legislative accomplishments of Joe Biden.
I don't think I'm done adding to it this year. pic.twitter.com/oltYprNfKe
— What Biden Has Done (@What46HasDone) August 14, 2022
I feel sorry for the @RonJohnsonWI volunteers that knocked on our door today. My wife, the Lovely Doreen from Waukesha, let them know (politely) he does not have our support this year. In this neighborhood, I'm guessing we're not alone. And then the poll comes out… pic.twitter.com/WKgyvajynN
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) August 17, 2022
BREAKING: MAGA candidate Dr. Oz utterly humiliates himself by getting caught filming a campaign ad for his Pennsylvania senate campaign inside his massive New Jersey mansion. RT IF YOU HOPE DEMOCRAT JOHN FETTERMAN CRUSHES HIM!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) July 7, 2022
I love you @jimmykimmel @JimmyKimmelLive.
Thank you!!! pic.twitter.com/tUShikTMWd
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) May 26, 2022
Look at what the evil liberals are up to now. https://t.co/6jDfh2qW3R
— Charles Thomas (@cthom178) January 20, 2019
#TheLastThing tonight goes to Former U.S. Marine Marksmanship Instructor and Arizona Sec. of State candidate @Adrian_Fontes… where he gives us a little constitutional history lesson on a "well regulated militia" pic.twitter.com/lf2OqyIlGi
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) July 29, 2022
Props to the manager of Taco Bell on W. Grand in Oakland. Walking by, I saw an elderly Korean woman who was hungry. I asked her to go in and I’d buy dinner. She asked for enough to take back to her friends at a shelter. I bought 50 tacos and other stuff, the manager matched it. pic.twitter.com/LVXxxESEFU
— Alan! (@o2bnobx) August 17, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene just said she opposes solar panels because she thinks they would cause the lights to turn off at night. https://t.co/BDeVSlbitG
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 14, 2022
This should have been his end . It says volumes about his supporters pic.twitter.com/cp2JwvTTuV
— BRLT (@brlt) August 17, 2022
A hospital in Louisiana just denied an abortion for a fetus without a skull. This poor woman wants a baby that will survive, but she's being forced to give birth to a fetus doomed to die. I have no words.
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) August 18, 2022
Forgive me for being impolite, a tendency that has accompanied my graduation to old age.
Am I correct in thinking that a host of Trump acolytes have refused to appear?
Would that not make your observation an absurdity?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 18, 2022
ME: "You do understand that selling nuclear secrets to our enemies makes Americans less safe?"
MAGA: "FU, #NuclearMAGA!!!" pic.twitter.com/86Gm7m6PuB
— StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 (@StrictlyChristo) August 18, 2022
CPAC founder Matt Schlapp says he's being called a racist for hosting Viktor Orbán, who recently came out against "race mixing."
Schlapp deflected: "More Blacks are aborted than are allowed to live!" pic.twitter.com/2H91r3RCLq
— David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) August 4, 2022
There are surveillance cameras in Mar-a-Lago. We know that because DoJ subpoenaed them a few months ago. Any “planting” of evidence would have been captured on camera. If Donald had video of evidence being planted, it would have been released by now. #TrumpIsGuilty
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) August 10, 2022
Oh goodness. Per @JuliaDavisNews: Russian State TV anchors just claimed Moscow has been “studying” Trump’s nuclear documents “for a while.” And that FBI was “too late.” Hard to take Russian TV anchors at face value — but also remember that Trump is a literal proven Russian Asset:
— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) August 13, 2022
So the FBI planted classified evidence, but also Trump declassified that evidence that he never took, but also it's not even a big deal if he did take it because only one box was classified I mean declassified, but also even if he did have many boxes of classified documents…
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) August 12, 2022
I like how voters in Pennsylvania prefer their elected officials to live in their state.
— John Collins (@Logically_JC) August 18, 2022
They have invented salad. https://t.co/0l29T5p1zp
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 17, 2022
Benedict Donald keeps referring to the "break-in" at Mar-A-Lago. Who broke in? A search warrant was served to recover classified national documents he stole from the White House. A federal judge signed off on the warrant. No one "broke in."
— Tom (@Haudricourt) August 19, 2022
Ever get really pissed off at something before you look at Twitter, start reading, and then realize your wife should hide your phone from you before you say something?
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) August 18, 2022
And I’m allowed a few of my own:
Where and what nuclear secrets? Please let us know when you find some.
— Jason (@jasonb409) August 13, 2022
Sure thing.
I am unlikely to be there, so you and I may have to rely on available evidence. Like the probable cause and sought documents listed in the warrant.
If available, the list of seized materials will be useful, will it not?
Nuclear classification may be a problem.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 13, 2022
Strangely, I don't find any top classified nuclear secrets on my cell phone.
I am considered elderly by some, possibly because of age. Perhaps Mr. Turner can offer youthful assistance.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 13, 2022
Trump & Mar-a-Lago
Special access programs (SAPs) in the U.S. Federal Government are security protocols that provide highly classified information with safeguards and access restrictions that exceed those for regular (collateral) classified information. https://t.co/vLMUjUnKgd— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
At least this right wing political figure from Britain believed Mr Trump…
… a few days ago, anyway. https://t.co/LVQZYMDiB6
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
“If you or I had some 21 boxes of potentially classified information in our home, the Feds wouldn’t ask for it politely or even issue a subpoena. They would have taken possession of that material right away, and we would face serious charges.”https://t.co/uMfoLU3YP0
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
Hosts on Russia’s state-owned Russia-1 television channel said that officials in Moscow have already been ‘studying’ top secret and other classified documents the FBI sought through a search warrant of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort homehttps://t.co/5tvmqsy7vM
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
Repeal the Espionage Act?
Really?Rand Paul Wants to Repeal Law Trump Probably Brokehttps://t.co/OkuHLyguWT
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
So Putin-folk are boasting about having been given the exact top-top secret documents Mr Trump stole and then denied having?https://t.co/5tvmqsy7vM
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
Only guessing, but my speculation seems consistent with what we now know.
Seems they no longer have any use for Mr. Trump.
They already have everything they wanted from him.No reason not to get the last tiny drop of exploitation:
Bragging rights.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
I see more Russians blogging about why they are not guilty for war in the resent days.
It’s due to discussion about EU visa ban.
Do it.
It’s already working.
They finally start wondering maybe they are not just passive onlookers but have some responsibility.— Olena Tregub (@OTregub) August 13, 2022
typo not type
A fucking typo in a post about a typo in the word typo.
I've hit a new low.— Mike Abbott (@MikeAbb40233773) August 13, 2022
You, sir, are awesome!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
Must feel horrible to post what you think is a telling question, then wait smugly for a tortured response, only to be torpedoed by an obvious answer you didn't anticipate.
Don't feel too bad, could have happened to any supercilious, condescending personhttps://t.co/wgGM94pEtK
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
Putin-folk are already bragging about that on Russian TV. https://t.co/IsYzw0e3OI
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 14, 2022
Shamelessly stolen from Indepesthttps://t.co/eqpyobOJtE pic.twitter.com/L5iQeT2PYF
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
I gave this some thought a while back.
My conclusion, essentially:
Enough for me to believe,
not enough for me to convince.https://t.co/KoeDkHonWg— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
That is generous.
Thank you.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
None and all.
None, because you can't put God in a box
All, because we take what insight we can:
although sometimes not from traditional placesGospel according to Simon:
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls.https://t.co/hwzqWKVFTd— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
I'm gonna spend the whole rest of the day not answering that.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
Yup.
If that 57 is centigrade, it translates to 135 Fahrenheit.That's more than hot enough.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
Absolutely!
Paul Simon wrote about that."The Sound of Silence"
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
Also:
If you put a live crab to your ear and listen, you can hear the scream of someone whose ear is pinched by a crab.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
Fox?
Really?https://t.co/z7xL9g1ii5— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
All of the restaurants in the C concourse are closed by 6pm. Bartender told us it was because they can’t find employees. This is what happens when the government pays people not to work. It becomes a habit. Less government is the answer.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) August 14, 2022
Okay, okay.
So maybe they should increase PAY rather than hours.Damn, I'm old!!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
I'm not all that imaginative.
So probably human.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
FBIDEN
— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) August 14, 2022
Joe might not think Nick is all that attractive.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
Defund the FBI, disrespect the flag by drawing trumps face on it, support Russia, repeal the laws trump broke so they’re not laws anymore, fire everybody at the DOJ, threaten the trump appointed judge who ordered the warrant, threaten the FBI officers who were doing their jobs.
— Davram (@davramdavram) August 14, 2022
Trump:
FBI is investigating Hillary.
That proves she is corrupt!Trump:
FBI is investigating me.
That proves FBI is corrupt!— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
He's doing what?
Where?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
I wrote about it:https://t.co/RqHuDHIQBP
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
Most of it does make sense if you accept the premise that a former President is above the law.
The part that law enforcement must wait for the subject to be present is a little weird, especially since it appears his lawyer was there.
So is the idea of a sneak attack.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
Looking tough but suave:
The name is Decimal.
Dewey Decimal.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
Of course, there is this:https://t.co/Voi0B8DiBc
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
Trump’s Shifting Explanations Follow Familiar Playbookhttps://t.co/fAdDwebFC8
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
I think it was then NYC mayor Ed Koch who said he wouldn't trust anything Trump said, even if his tongue was notarized.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 15, 2022
Actually the 8.5 percent that entertains the MAGA laugh machine is for the last 12 months.
The CPI to which the President was referring was for the month of July. That monthly rate was flat.
So, sadly, you were misled.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 11, 2022
Actually the CPI measures inflation.
So, when he says inflation was zero in the last monthly measure, he is correct and you are mistaken.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 12, 2022
No problem with disagreement.
And you may be correct.
Could be he actually believed that.The reason he actually believed that could have been because it was true.
That was the actual measurement in July.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
The airline lost his broom
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
I suspected it.
In fact, I wrote about it.https://t.co/FRXyLKCTH9— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
It must be embarrassing to be boasting about academic major and your intellectual accomplishments, while denigrating the intelligence of someone else …
… then have it pointed out that you do not know how to spell the degree of which you boast.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
Hard to get to the content of what he says
Distractions.
Yells as if he forgot and left the microphone in the next roomWhat is with the hand flutters?
Can't seem to control his facial expressions. Looks like he's in pain, as if his feet were accidentally crushed in doll shoes
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
What a strange thing to say.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
So you consider Biden administration efforts successful.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
What a strange, strange thing for Ms Hageman to say.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
Kind of strange.
Could be he was making a wretched attempt at a joke.
Doesn't sound like it.More likely:
He got confused while making up a story about President Biden being confused.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
Shameless stolen from the Jackson County Law Library
Jackson, Missourihttps://t.co/kjXnJzNxwH pic.twitter.com/du0eeomTme— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
Is it true that the Republican candidate for Illinois Governor has been holding campaign fundraisers with the store that sold that weapon to the July 4 sniper?
That strikes me as pretty cold.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
After the previous four years, you would post this?
Seriously?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
You consider this a good thing, right?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
He says abt classified documents he had denied having.
“Number one, it was all declassified,” he said. “Number two, they didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago.”https://t.co/CgZyRhTRhn
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 16, 2022
Indecisiveness.
.
.
… No wait. That's not it.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 17, 2022
Wednesday?
Camel, of course.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 17, 2022
Trump Finding It Hard to Hire Good Criminal Lawyers
“Everyone is saying no.”https://t.co/n68jbbDvV9— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 17, 2022
That would be awesome!
I think Giuliani might then augment his efforts with even more legal help for Trump.
I understand attorneys representing Alex Jones are free.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 17, 2022
Thought I recalled this from Trump admin:
President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget proposal included steep cuts to a number of grant programs run by the Department of Homeland Security that go toward terrorism and violent extremism preparedness and preventionhttps://t.co/urnGxQ3nPO
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 17, 2022
Absolutely right!
We have to admit, the two did get us healthcare, and kill the two top international terrorists.
But, as you say, the only way to measure presidential performance is by what huge gas companies charge us.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 17, 2022
This is a BFD. https://t.co/L0sh8ULo4T
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 16, 2022
Sadly, you have been misled.
You may want to change your sources of info.The tax increase will only be on those making more than 400,000/yr.
And most of that will be on the most extremely wealthy of the fabulously rich.
Mega-corps that have dodged taxes will be affected too.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 17, 2022
Or perhaps the legislation itself.
Conservative critics seem to be using a variation of the trickle down theory that failed in the past. This time it's mega corporations will pass tax increases to consumers.
Did large corporations pass on super tax cuts Repubs pushed through?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 17, 2022
Satan wants people to have healthcare?
Really?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 17, 2022
Lowering the …uh… bar?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 18, 2022
Put out by an ultra conservative group on the theory that tax increases for mega-corporations will be passed on to consumers, raising their costs.
Same group said that slashing taxes for huge corporations would decrease prices.
Didn't happen, now did it?You have been misled.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 18, 2022
#TheLastThing tonight goes to Former U.S. Marine Marksmanship Instructor and Arizona Sec. of State candidate @Adrian_Fontes… where he gives us a little constitutional history lesson on a "well regulated militia" pic.twitter.com/lf2OqyIlGi
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) July 29, 2022
That does raise questions on two fronts.
First about Trump. Why did he deny having them, then refuse to give them back?
2nd about the documents. Why were they designated as more secret than any classification, even top secret? Too dangerous for even top secret classification?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 18, 2022
George Conway: Why he thinks Trump will be prosecuted over Mar-a-Lago docs. https://t.co/AvgVgrifyo
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) August 17, 2022
Conway presents his reasoning
"Conway doesn't think" is not a compelling counter.A more convincing response might be to point to some flaw in his logic or evidence, or to present your own.
You know whether you have any reasoning.
The rest of us must assume, for now, you do not— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 18, 2022
"Democracy worked when Liz Cheney lost."
That is literally true.
And she did not claim fraud with no evidence.Democracy works when people make good choices:
Americans elected Joe BidenDemocracy also works when they make bad choices:
Arizona Republicans chose Harriet Hageman— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 18, 2022
She could be right.
First polls say she is wrong, and by a large margin.
I'll endeavor to let her know.
Tommy Christopher does a good summary of the data:https://t.co/N53hyi1lOJ— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 18, 2022
It must be embarrassing to make a claim based on personal experience and then find you have run into a buzzsaw because those with personal knowledge say you are full of beans.
Some are polite about it.
Some are not:https://t.co/U5wOeaPGQ4— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 18, 2022
Actually, it's right in the legislation in print.
You have been misled.Have you had any thought of getting a more capable research staff?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 18, 2022
Forgive me for being impolite, a tendency that has accompanied my graduation to old age.
Am I correct in thinking that a host of Trump acolytes have refused to appear?
Would that not make your observation an absurdity?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 18, 2022
"Mr. Jacob spent the bulk of his final few days in government preparing the final boxes, with the goal of ensuring that Mr. Pence left office without a single paper that did not belong to him."
Mike Pence Aides Note He Took No Classified Documentshttps://t.co/U5gmZHfx1x
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
Obviously you have a reason for thinking that.
Would you mind revealing it?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
McConnell Says Republicans May Not Win Senate Control
"Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome."Interesting confession:
McConnell admits Republican candidates just not as good as Democrats.https://t.co/Yvib5mBWH1— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
Seems to be
the current state of contemporary conservatism.GOP Candidate Says Merrick Garland
Should Be Executedhttps://t.co/XPStQdmRSD— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
In what way does having extremely wealthy tax dodgers finally pay their taxes like everyone else cause inflation?
You argument does seem to be backed by genuine passion.
Your reasoning lacks the virtue of coherence.
Strikes me as angry word salad.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
What an odd bit of logic.
If someone sees something alarming and reports it,
it means someone declined to be an accessory after the fact.You think it proves:
the government was
spying on the then head of government
while he was still the head of government.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
So GOP candidate demands an assassination.
But he was just kidding?https://t.co/M4LqAuE7gU— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
The current state of contemporary conservatism.
"WE LOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP!! Our country was in a MUCH better place with him in the Oval Office."
And the proof is four photos of Mr. Trump standing in front of a large mirror.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
Most do.
My grandmother from Ukraine didn't.But that was before the current anti-immigrant surge. Plus she was not Spanish-speaking,
so nobody gave her a hard time about it.https://t.co/mH9LZZUNDO— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
The 4 major criminal probes into Donald Trump, explained
"Keeping track of all the criminal investigations of Trump isn’t easy, so we did it for you."https://t.co/31iPcmM0Pt
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
"What was Matt Gaetz speaking about at the school assembly?"
The etchings in his upstairs room?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
Does Haggisaman think that hideous necklace distracts from the hideous person she is?
Bonus Question.
Why does she always looked surprised? pic.twitter.com/eXksqaebem— Papi B Dubs, (music/events) (@Papi_B_Dubs) August 18, 2022
Okay. I confess.
That made me laugh.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
human?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
They are claiming you celebrated the Fourth of July in Moscow.
That isn't true, right?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
My long-ago attempt to put that thought to rest.https://t.co/rWj9LDdcjL
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
And they all had Top Secret Special Access clearance for these specific eyes-only highly classified national security documents?
The ones kept in a…
…in a…
… a storage room?
Seriously?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
Sure!
Well, maybe not to babysit.
Okay, not with my automobile.
All right, not with any important information.Well-l-l-l not really with anything at all.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 19, 2022
It must be embarrassing to post such a clever message, only to have it destroyed by dozens of variations of the same bit of basic logic.https://t.co/C9wi3rjvrJ
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 20, 2022
I would say yes, pretty much always.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 20, 2022
One would think.
But such has it been for longer than I have lived.
And I have been here for a hell of a long time.
Republicans have always hated Social Security.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 20, 2022
Republicans seem divided between two very wrong, very destructive, very unpopular proposals.
Some say Social Security should be renegotiated in Congress every year.
Some say Social Security should be privatized.
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson says do both.https://t.co/Ssz6qq1NX1
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) August 20, 2022
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