I am mostly on board with Governor Inslee’s vaccine and mask mandates. If anything, they could lean harder on vaccination. I also don’t love making vaccinated people wear masks, but it’s better than not having an enforcement mechanism for the unvaccinated. Still, keeping the pressure on for state employees to get vaccinated is a good step.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated if you haven’t already.
Maybe we can finally just get out of Afghanistan for good, never to return. That’s probably doubtful, however. The Republicans thrive on intervening in other countries’ affairs.
Didn’t you get the memo, Carl? Vaccinated people are spreaders, too. Delta is so contagious everyone needs to wear masks.
ftfy
I’m actually okay with building schools and distributing vaccines.
Turns out those are relatively inexpensive ways to improve our own wellbeing and security here at home.
2,
But Roger, this assumes that infecting the intentionally unvaccinated would be a bad thing.
(Kidding. Children and immunocompromised individuals should be allowed to get on with their lives with some expectation of relative safety. That means masking for all of us until enough Republicans come to their senses or simply die.)
A Trump rally is coming to a state with no available hospital beds. But they have a contingency plan: Triage in the parking lot.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/568730-city-hosting-trumps-rally-in-alabama-declares-covid-19-emergency
@1 Republicans want Biden to evacuate Afghans, just not to their states.
We know Ted Crud is dishonest. (He’s also a coward.) This article explains just how dishonest he is. CNN, whatever its imperfections, is infinitely more honest than he is.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/568629-cnns-clarissa-ward-has-breakthrough-media-moment-in-afghanistan
But this is to be expected from a Republican of his prominence. It is a well-established tradition in the Trump era of the GOP that its popular figures must be spineless jellyfish with no character whatsoever. The Republican grassroots insists on nothing more.
@ 7
We know Ted Crud is dishonest. (He’s also a coward.)
Did he type and post something awful, erase it but not until after being caught, and then claim he never typed it?
’cause that’s dishonest and cowardly. Nobody knows better than you do about being a dishonest, cowardly POS, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. You’ve been that way your entire life.
“Researchers at the intelligence firm Logically have identified a key member of the QAnon community who has used his significant platform to spread antisemitic conspiracies … the researchers identified the person behind ‘GhostEzra’ as Robert Smart of Boca Raton, Fla.”
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/568723-researchers-identify-key-qanon-influencer-ghostezra
“The man behind the account, Robert Smart, is an evangelical Christian and serial entrepreneur who attends several churches in his local area. He appears to have previously operated at least four other QAnon Twitter accounts, each set up within a day of its predecessor being suspended and each sharing similar identifiers, including almost identical bios, and a similar writing style. All of the accounts identified by Logically as his in some way invoked the identities of individuals frequently lauded by QAnon adherents as significant players or bringers of ‘the storm,’ such as Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, or Ezra Cohen-Watnick, researchers wrote.”
https://uknewsnation.com/entertainment/russell-crowe-57-makes-out-with-gf-britney-theriot-30-in-steamy-new-pda-photos/
The second link contains a link to Logically’s report explaining how they ID’d him.
@6
I say bring as many Afghanis as they can and put them is red states that have lots of open land, say Texas, Oklahoma, North/South Dakota. You know why they won’t? They fear them pulling another Antelope, OR.
The reality is the Republicans are all like Burka Bob, they don’t give a damn about the actual people, they just want political points regardless of the expense of who or what they come from.
Tlaib called Trump a motherfucker.
MTG calls Biden a piece of shit.
Why can’t they both be right?
Lets play a game. Since the greedy racist incel seems to like to make things up that people didn’t say, how about things that the greedy racist incel has posted and then erased.
For example, first he posted
But he thought better of it and changed it to
@8 “then claim he never typed it?”
Where is this claim? In your posts, that’s where. The fact you type something doesn’t make it true. In fact, that almost guarantees it isn’t true. Except for what you write about yourself, think better of, and then erase. See @12 for details.
@11 Why not a horse fucker, too? The more, the merrier.
When First Vegetable Joe Biden is coherent, he’s a fucking liar.
Internal State Department Cable Warned of Kabul Collapse
MTG may be onto something.
@12
He is living in Freeland, along with the other hippies. That is why he is so angry, he resents living where he does.
@15 Yeah, it’s starting to look like this:
“Bush’s approach in most situations seemed a reactive combination of calculations to avoid his father’s mistakes and to reject Clinton’s policies. This was especially clear in international affairs: in his first nine months he reversed Clinton’s policy toward China, proclaiming it no longer a ‘strategic partner’ but a ‘strategic competitor’; in the Middle East, by withdrawing U.S. involvement in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians; toward Korea, by abandoning the negotiated accord that had frozen the North’s nuclear program and by humiliating President Kim of South Korea, who was promoting North-South reconciliation, during his March 2001 visit to the White House, contributing to a wave of anti-Americanism in a country that was among the staunchest American allies; by withdrawing U.S. support from the Kyoto treaty on global warming; and by forsaking Clinton’s efforts to address the dangers of international terrorism.
“During the transition between administrations, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger arranged several extensive briefings on this last subject for Bush’s incoming national security adviser, Condoleeza Rice, and others on the Bush team, including Vice President Cheney. One briefing lasted half a day. Berger told them that Osama bin Laden was an ‘existential threat’ and told them that he wanted ‘to underscore how important this issue is.’ In another briefing, Richard Clarke, head of counterterrorism in the NSC, the single most knowledgeable expert in the government, gave them a complete tutorial on the subject. In yet another briefing, CIA officials were brought in to go over all the intelligence available on terrorism.
“Don Kerrick, a three-star general and outgoing deputy national security adviser, overlapped for four months with the new Bush people. He submitted a memo for the new National Security Council warning of the danger of terrorism. ‘We are going to be struck again,’ he wrote. But as Kerrick explained to me, he received no answer to his memo. ‘They didn’t respond,’ he said. ‘They never responded. It was not high on their priority list. I was never invited to one meeting. They never asked me to do anything. They were not focusing. They didn’t see terrorism as the big megaissue that the Clinton administration saw it as. They were concentrated on what they thought were higher priorities than terrorism.’ The Principals meeting of national security officials took up terrorism only once, after constant pressure from Clarke, on September 4, 2001, and at that meeting they discussed using unmanned Predator drone spy aircraft, but no decision was made. ‘Unfortunately,’ said Kerrick, ‘September 11 gave them something to focus on.’”
[Quoted from Sidney Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars (New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2003), pp. 797-798.]
… but only a tiny bit. Without GWB’s much bigger fuckup, there would’ve been no U.S. invasion of Afghanistan (probably Iraq anyway, though, and the clusterfuck there), and no withdrawal fuckup. You probably voted for him, too. Twice.
The most effective, accurate, and concise video summary of the terrorist attack on the Capitol I’ve seen:
https://youtu.be/jWJVMoe7OY0
Only 40 min. Well worth the time. Can’t possibly get into the granular detail. But begins with the origins of The Big Lie that provided the motivation for the attackers, and carries through to the subsequent Republican gaslighting in the aftermath. Shows how they came together, how they carried out the attack, the major violent encounters, assaults on police, and the deaths that day. Fairly and accurately portrays the day’s events in a brief summary format limited to the Capitol attack itself.
Everyone should watch it.
Every Trump voter should be forced to watch it every day for the rest of their miserable lives.
In blame-the-blacks news,
“Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) is coming under fire for a Thursday night appearance on Fox News in which he claimed that African Americans who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus are the reason for the surge in COVID-19 infections across the nation.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/568751-texas-lt-governor-faces-backlash-after-claiming-unvaccinated-african?rl=1
Same guy who called on senior citizens to lay down their lives to keep restaurants and bars open.
In blame-the-blacks news,
“Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) is coming under fire for a Thursday night appearance on Fox News in which he claimed that African Americans who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus are the reason for the surge in COVID-19 infections across the nation.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/568751-texas-lt-governor-faces-backlash-after-claiming-unvaccinated-african?rl=1
Same guy who called upon senior citizens to lay down their lives for the cause of keeping restaurants and bars open.
kicking Bob’s ass all over the internet.
Mercilessly conned and suckered by Toad from Mario Kart.
Defeated by a vegetable.
Can things get any worse for poor Bobby?
“Execute” was not a good verb choice, Joe.
You’ll see.
@21 “Can things get any worse for poor Bobby?”
Yes, they can, and they will. Bobby has only begun to inflict wounds upon himself. His creativity and asininity are boundless. There is more to come! Way more! Count on it.
I can’t speak for others, but I have posted things out of anger and frustration yet changed my mind within the 10 minute window. Just because I used to be a republican, doesn’t mean I cannot chose to a different path and be better than that. Thus I changed my posting.
It would be really pathetic if greedy racist incel was outraged that that anyone used better judgement and updated their message.
At the height of his analytical powers, poor Bobby issues another “prediction”.
“I”m a total failure, I misread what Rabbit posted about GE. Between that and the multiple wrongful death malpractice suits, I have lost everything. Now I’m living in a used single wide, south of Graham, downwind from the district land fill. I’m just here to own the libs and waiting to die.”
Heh… Life will be SO GOOD for the kids after “that certain day”..
It’s only what follows from the freak’s babbling about getting a SS check.
One day.. one day.. “that certain day”.. it will end..
Long live Mary Kay and her contributions to liberal causes.
Bobby’s entire week in a single r/PublicFreakout post:
https://mirror.fro.wtf/reddit/post/3204819
@12 Sorry greedy racist incel. I let my inner republican write and didn’t pull it back in time. My bad. I hope you are ok.
@22 English is a language of many words with multiple uses and meanings. For example, the word “squash” can refer to (a) a vegetable, (b) a game, (c) what happens to an ant when you step on it, or (d) the contents of your cranial cavity. [Note: (d) is synonymous to (a).]
“Execution” is commonly used in the financial world in discussions of how effective managements are in carrying out their business plans.
It also has another meaning that triggers bloodthirsty ghouls who can’t wait for the massacres to begin.
But just because some English words have multiple, completely different, and even contradictory meanings, doesn’t mean they all do. There’s no ambiguity whatsoever about the term “horse fucker.” Everyone knows what that is.
@28 Don’t worry about him. He has a thick skin, and a thicker skull.
@27 It’s actually pleasurable to watch these Trumpers wallow in their misery. I see she’s wearing a Biden Burqa, although not in the manner prescribed by Fauci Sharia Law.
Criminal attys have a saying:
“You go to trial with the facts as they are, not as you wish them to be.”
But every now and then life gives you an Easter Egg:
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2021/08/18/prosecutors-want-names-all-donors-kyle-rittenhouse-legal-defense/8188090002/
A question for HA’s resident twat YLB:
Should Mitch McConnell still quake in fear over a flipped Virginia legislative seat in 2019?
I know you must have some sort of super-secret method of determining how a change in redistricting in a state would influence the composition of that states US Senate representation, given the statewide vote used to elect those two members of the world’s greatest deliberative body.
Enlighten us, girlfriend.
The GQP is a death cult.. It can’t be repeated enough..
The GQP is blowing up hospitals in MS and AL and FL.. everywhere there is a lot of orange lick butts. It’s so wedded to lies and hate it is killing its own.
It prays and is spring loading itself for any rumor, any lie, and whiff of an American death in Afghanistan.
One heart attack, one stroke, one stray bullet and the whole lot of them will make
BEEEENNNGHHAAAAZZZZIIII!!!!!1!!11!!!!!
Look like a silent prayer retreat.
@18 The FBI has determined there was no organized uprising, only a leaderless, disorganized, aimless one:
” … investigators for the FBI noted that those involved in the far-right groups such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were intent on entering the Capitol. However, the officials who spoke with Reuters said that no coordinated plans appeared to be established regarding what they would do once they broke in.”
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/568719-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-jan-6-attack-was-coordinated-reuters?rl=1
Furthermore, “the FBI has found no evidence … that Trump or those close to him were involved in any coordination of the insurrection on the Capitol.”
Just as Biden had no contingency plan to evacuate Kabul, Trump had no contingency plan to occupy the Capitol.
resident twat.. Enlighten us, girlfriend.
Heh… kreepo freako. You’re hankering for a date.. Sorry dimfook… You’re not my type.. I’m taken. For many years now.
Save your crush for John James and Larry Elder.. I don’t take orders from always wrong wing shitheads.
You and Mary Kay can trade up and have a wonderful horsey estate in Orcas.. if you only ask John James..
to stand in for you..
What are you waiting for?
@32 “Quite simply, the defendant saw something, jumped to a conclusion based on exactly zero facts, and then threatened to kill someone based on his baseless assumption and wrongful interpretation,” the motion reads.”
Which is why Wisconsin law presumes 17-year-olds lack the maturity and judgment of adults required to possess AR-15s, and frowns on them parading as armed vigilantes in its communities.
If I were his attorney I’d do my damnedest to reach a deal with prosecutors allowing him to plead guilty to juvenile delinquency and be committed to a juvenile detention facility until age 21.
The emotionally disturbed and violent teen brought an unlawful assault rifle to a public disturbance right after he’d bragged to his friends about wanting to use it to shoot suspected shoplifters. Prosecutors have argued the emotionally disturbed and violent teen was out for blood that night. Lawyers for the emotionally disturbed, violent teen argue that he was “defending” private property.
Self-defense is an affirmative form of defense. You’re saying to the jury, essentially “Yes. I did it. But…”. And what follows after the “but…” is the key. It’s an affirmative defense in the sense that you must present your own set of facts that you hope will establish to the jury that you acted in self-defense. Every state is unique. But in all states part of making a self-defense argument to the jury involves establishing your client’s mental state when they took a human life.
It’s a terrible defense to be talked into. You’re a terrible defense attorney if you attempt to persuade your client that they acted in self-defense if they don’t really believe it. And while many defendants accused of murder will tell their attorneys they were acting in self-defense, it’s a pretty bad one who doesn’t bother to investigate the claim.
This obviously bodes very ill for Mr. Rittenhouse’s defense. His team are shitting themselves today trying to figure out where this came from, why they didn’t know about it, and how to get it excluded or at least to discredit it somehow. But what it really tells me is that he’s being represented by attorneys who just are not looking after him at all. It should not have come to this. It still does not have to. I fear that this kid is going to do much more time than he probably should. Because a bunch of adults who ought to know better are going to fuck him for their own selfish political reasons.
@33 Well, I’m pretty sure Mitch McConnell can still count on half the voters in any randomly distributed population having below-average IQ, which is all his death cult party needs to win half of the House and Senate seats.
@38 Should’ve picked better free legal representation. Like a public defender.
35,
Flipping back and forth from official FBI statements to “unnamed sources” there’s considerable risk of error. “Journalists” do this foolish thing all the time. We should not.
The avowed and frequently stated purpose of the terror attack was to interrupt and prevent an official proceeding. That is a federal crime.
And the proceeding itself was no mere ceremony.
While ceremonial in nature, in legal and Constitutional terms the official recording of the electors votes by the Congress is perhaps the single most important official proceeding that the federal government undertakes.
Some of the most serious criminal charges brought so far have to do with this criminal purpose. A charge of conspiracy under federal law needs only that – an underlying, predicate offense, involving two or more persons, who form an agreement, and commit an overt act in furtherance. A criminal conspirator does not even have to share the same intent to be guilty of conspiracy. In general conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 371 for conspiracy to commit a substantive offense merely requires proof that the accused committed an overt act in furtherance of that conspiracy.
Every single other criminal element required under the statutes is present – two or more persons, agreement, etc. The only thing that either is not being charged or is not in evidence, would be the overt act in furtherance. And for literally dozens of those currently being held pretrial, there’s an abundance of that evidence already on record in the information filed.
There’s a reason why conspiracy charges are being held back at this point. It’s a legal and investigatory reason. It’s the kind of reason that a “unnamed law enforcement official” who doesn’t really know anything about federal criminal conspiracy prosecutions would not understand. It’s because any criminal charge filed must be accompanied by the basic information that supports the charge specifically identifying the statutory elements. In the case of 18 U.S.C. § 371 that means identifying all of the criminal conspirators involved.
Fucking that up can wind up being exculpatory, in several ways. The simplest is that the prosecutors simply got it wrong and “fucked up”, leading to the “plate of pasta” defense. It can really damage a case. But more serious would be a description of the conspiracy and those involved, but somehow identifying the wrong people or getting the relationships wrong. Entering erroneous information like that into the pretrial record opens the door for the entire prosecution to be put on trial.
There are conspiracy charges coming from the Jan 6 terror attack. Of that I have absolutely no doubt. The fact that they are not yet filing information about it tells me that it is ongoing, slow to develop, and fairly complex. Those are really common features of a complex criminal conspiracy investigation and prosecution. And at this point the FBI is still figuring out how to log on to Parler.
35,
You piqued my interest and I finally had time to read the original Reuters report that is being so widely aggregated and aggressively quoted.
It’s got some problems.
First of all it looks very much to have been sourced from House lawmakers/staff. The two reporting it are well known to work those sources, it’s recess, nice quiet time to catch up and share gossip, news is slow, nobody is watching, etc.
It’s wrong on the law in a few ways. First of all by confusing federal conspiracy charges with charges of “sedition” by making reference to something called “seditious conspiracy”. Seditious conspiracy is a criminal statute entirely separate from 18 U.S.C. § 371. But as I hope I made clear, charges of simple conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 371 can arise from any underlying criminal violation. These guys want it to be about “sedition”. It does not have to be “sedition”. This is a reboot of “collusion”.
But these idiots really give their game away when they then mention racketeering. Fuck me. RICO this is not. Nor would any marginally competent criminal prosecutor ever want that. RICO is a last resort that is very, very hard to make and practically never applies to shit like this. We know that whoever the fuck it is that was talking to the two Reuters reporters is a politically motivated mattress stain on that basis alone.
It’s very bad reporting.
But in the sense that it’s the kind of stupidity that will never have to be retracted, that fell during a very slow cycle, and at a time when Republicans wished to pivot from KABOOOOOOOL!!!! it was very fine “journalism”.
@42 I couldn’t read it. I’ve used up this month’s free Reuters articles. Sounds like that’s no loss.
Yeah, they have to fill the news pages with something, and so far the Taliban aren’t accommodating them with mass executions. So it’s back to congressional gossip.
Lindsey Graham’s hypocrisy is boundless.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/politics/lindsey-graham-impeachment-joe-biden/index.html
This guy ceased to have any credibility some time ago.
“The Florida State Board of Education has sent an order to Broward and Alachua counties’ school board officials stating that they have 48 hours to comply with the state’s wishes to allow an opt-out option for masks or the state will begin withholding funds, according to copies of the orders shown to CNN.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/us/florida-broward-alachua-counties-mask-mandate/index.html
If I had kids in those schools, today was their last day of in-person learning, and they wouldn’t be in classrooms starting Monday.
This looks like it might be actionable.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/business/kraft-heinz-lawsuit/index.html
“N” word notes. Nazi swastikas. Death threats — quit your job or die. Tons of evidence that “peers and supervisors” didn’t want blacks to work in that plant. “The plaintiffs allege that they were told by managers ‘to keep their heads down or else they could join the unemployment line.’ The suit also accuses the company’s corporate offices of avoiding any investigation of what plaintiffs called, the Tulare plant’s rampant racism.”
@18 Excellent documentary footage..
https://youtu.be/jWJVMoe7OY0?t=620
This is the point where our dimfook troll mascot can point and bleat…
see “look at antifa go”…
assaulting “LE”.. “Seriously” I heard the GQPs bleat that on CSPAN.
Odd, I don’t see any grandmothers. I recall the low IQ stupe traitor Doctor Dumbfuck insisting that 1/6 was no big deal, nothing but a bunch of grandmothers taking a normal tour through our Nation’s Capitol Building.
“Mandates and coercions DO NOT WORK”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9912761/South-Carolina-GOP-leader-fought-against-vaccination-mask-mandates-dies-COVID-19.html
In his case, thoughts and prayers didn’t, either. RIP …
48,
You know what? I wouldn’t care if it were 8000 fat losers with their names sewn into the underwear. There are no “criminal” or “non-criminal” identities. Only criminal behaviors.
Characterizing the “types” present that day who carried out the terror attack is just more gaslighting. It shouldn’t matter their race, or gender, or age, or style of dress. It’s a way to confuse the public and distract people from what they were there to do and why they were there to do it. It is no more “innocent” or “guilty” either way.
8000 treasonous assholes carried out a massive terror attack in order to prevent the recording of the electoral vote. A large number of them conspired in advance for that specific criminal purpose. In the process a very large number of those assholes assaulted and injured hundreds of police. Many more than the forty or so who have so far been charged with criminal conspiracy.
The people who planned, organized, and raised the money to bring them to the Capitol are criminally involved and should face charges of criminal conspiracy.
49,
I feel “owned”.
Poor Bobby feels nothing.
Just a bunch of teetotalers
Jesus.
One reason this is so stiking is that it’s CNN. Six months ago CNN was kissing Andrew Cuomo’s ass and was lauding Biden as competent.
CNN has a lot to make up for, and it might be starting with an honest appraisal of Biden’s incompetence.
How close to dead does your political life have to be if you need to beg Kamala Harris to save your sorry ass?
Kamala Harris to campaign in California for Newsom
She’s stopping in CA on Friday. After 7 more days of Kabul disasters and unmasked incompetence, will she still be welcome?
I guess it’ll have to be up to you and Trump, Bobby.
Jamsheed the RPG God is counting on you!
Cover of The Economist:
BIDEN’S DEBACLE
@53 “CNN has a lot to make up for”
Now do Fox, OAN, Alex Jones, etc. ad naus.
You do hypocrisy almost as well as Lindsey Graham.
@56 Compared to what? Think this will make Biden voters vote for Trump in 2024? Trujp’s entire presidency was a debacle.
Clarissa should share her hotel room with a few Afghanis, help them out for christ sake. What is wrong with her?!
Which inlcudes setting up this whole mess. Biden is handling it much better than The FuckHump would be. The FuckHump would be tossing out paper towels and instructing them to make paper airplanes.
A calamity and crisis created by The FuckHump. Just like the National Review predicted when The Fuck Hump made the agreement to withdraw.
Link to an ABC Article
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-sign-historic-deal-taliban-beginning-end-us/story?id=69287465
“Twenty-two House Republicans, led by Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., wrote a letter to Trump Friday, expressing “serious concerns” about the agreement, saying the Taliban “cannot be trusted,” and seeking assurances such as that Taliban turn over al Qaeda operatives in their territory and making public all parts of the deal.”
See it was all part of the well structured and non-chaotic plan. All on trust of terrorists…..so trustworthy that the leader of the Taliban had to be threatened by The FuckHump that he and his village would be blown apart if one American is hurt.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/remembering-the-shameful-trump-taliban-peace-agreement/
Bob, does the name Mawlavi Talib ring a bell?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/afghanistan-withdrawal-trump-biden.html
58,
Well certainly the two or three who read The Economist.
I once watched a guy at the barber who was left a choice between three older copies of The Economist and and a copy of Dook Dook.
He went with ferrets.
Trump’s debacle…600.000 dead Americans and counting
Biden’s debacle…some dead Muslims somewhere
I feel nothing.
@63 Suppose all the Americans get out safely, and the Taliban don’t let al Qaeda back in, or carry out massacres and executions, and form an inclusive government, and allow girls to go to school and women to work — that would be a fucking disaster. For The Economist, and Republicans.
At least 600000 plus aren’t dead and continue due to Repuke rule. But let’s try to forget, that and Insurrection Day.