A century since the war ended. While other wars have happened, are happening, and will happen. But 100 years ago yesterday the guns stopped.
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Stopping a shooter while black. What on earth was he thinking? Rest in peace, Jemel Roberson.
“Black security guard stops shooter in a bar — then gets gunned down by cop who mistook him for criminal”
“Everybody was screaming out, ‘he was a security guard,’ and they basically saw a black man with a gun and killed him.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/black-security-guard-stops-shooter-bar-gets-gunned-cop-mistook-criminal/
1,
“Good guy with a gun” always means “white guy with a gun”.
I should have thought that was obvious by now.
@1 maybe he’ll give Puffy our regards and best wished.
Thought and Prayers to him.
I see the Market is off today.
Damn Democrats – they really know how to fuck up a great, great, greatest ever economy. All you have to do is give them 2 or 3 days.
All this divided Government is no good for the Market. We need some strong Hump leadership here!
The economy all of a sudden stopped its roaring recovery. WTF!?
Count every vote.
CLERK: Katia (redacted) [Phonetic]
MS. BUCHER: Denial. Not a U.S. citizen.
JUDGE BONAVITA: First one of these we’ve seen.
MS. BUCHER: Not a U.S. citizen; not counted.
MR. SCAROLA: Objection, Nelson
MS. GONZALEZ: Objection, Gillum
JUDGE BONAVITA: Noted.
Hey, but libbies, you cannot go @ 6 “too far”. Repeat: You cannot go “too far”. Goldy agrees.
Goldy Retweeted
Michelangelo Signorile✔
@MSignorile
Democrats: You cannot go “too far.”
REPEAT: You cannot go “too far.”
We’re dealing with an authoritarian with minority support of the American people.
Do not listen to media pundits, or the weak and scared among you.
Rein him in now, with all the force you can muster.
1h
And now this? Why does our Snowflake-in-Chief hate those who so selflessly gave their lives for our country?
“White House confirms Trump will not visit Arlington cemetery on Veteran’s Day as rain is expected”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/white-house-confirms-trump-will-not-visit-arlington-cemetery-veterans-day-rain-expected/
Must be the “selflessly gave their lives” part. Our greed-obsessed Snowflake-in-Chief simply can’t relate.
Sinema lead to 32,000.
Remaining votes would have to come in 3:1 in favor of McRacist in order to close the gap.
Now assuming McRacist goes on to be appointed to the Maverick seat, that leaves her two years of unhinged Trumpism including the hearings, tax returns, porn abortions, and campaign finance RICO conspiracies to weather before losing in 2020 to Grant Woods.
Trading states like Indiana, Missouri, and North Dakota for states like Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado is probably demonstrative of how President RageTweet dealt his way to bankruptcy a half a dozen times.
#artofthedeal
#theotherstuff
@ 1
Noted, Steve.
Also noted: They’re expected to survive but four bad guys also took bullets.
I read somewhere that 10% of combat deaths to US military are from friendly fire.
Avenatti’s client: “Tucker Carlson should not have lost his cool when he found out I sought out his teenage daughter in a private venue, and called her a whore and a cunt. I’m gonna sue him.”
Michael Avenatti
Verified account
@MichaelAvenatti
1/2 – We are investigating an alleged assault on a gay latino immigrant committed by T. Carlson and/or members of his inner circle at a club in VA in Oct. It likely includes underage drinking in violation of VA law. Link to a portion of the incident:
9:25 AM – 10 Nov 2018
I wonder how long it will be before Avenatti claims that Tucker Carlson’s daughter was drinking and therefore that whoring cunt had it coming to her.
Democrats elected eight scientists in the midterms. Republicans elected three felons and a dead pimp.
@ 13
Does having a medical degree make one a ‘scientist’?
I mean, it’s not like having a law degree has done anything for Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s claims to be an attorney.
Guess that makes Susan Collins a de facto Democrat for the next 24 months. And Gardner. And Tillis. And Kyl/McRacist. And Perdue.
Should be enough to block the Whitaker nomination. At least he can always fall back on selling “Nutraceuticals” on the internet to aging, impotent, white racists living in squalid trailers.
#theotherstuff
So this is a real thing.
Which I have to say actually surprised me.
From the look of him I would have assumed Trump to be more of Chubb than a true Bear.
Remember only a few months ago when mouth breathing, hapless, idiot Republican dupes like Teh Dumbfuck were crowing about PornSweat’s triumphant accomplishments in oral satisfaction of North Korean dictators?
https://beyondparallel.csis.org/undeclared-north-korea-sakkanmol-missile-operating-base/
At least he got back a few shoe boxes of old pig bones, right?
So worth it.
#artofthedeal
If we aren’t careful, 100 years from today, nobody will be around to remember us.
@1 You’re not going to hear a word from the Orange Buffoon about what a hero the security guard was, or what a racist the cop is.
However, we can safely predict the security guard’s family are about to become multimillionaires.
@6 So if you have a “foreign sounding” name, you can’t possibly be eligible to vote, amirite? You shouldn’t have any trouble getting by the poll judges with a name like “Boob,” though. There’s no voting requirement to have any brains. Sixty million Republican voters are living proof of that. It doesn’t take brains to be a doctor, either. You are living proof of that.
@7 I’m sure all those AR-15 bearing militia nuts assembling at the border tremble at Goldy’s tweets. Obviously he’s a big worry to you, too.
Waddya gonna do with these snowflakes? I say let ’em melt.
@10 According to Boob, it must’ve been misdirected artillery fire, and the cop’s racism had nothing to do with it. What an idiot.
@14 “Does having a medical degree make one a ‘scientist’?”
No, but the training in anatomy makes it a little easier to find the hole in a horse’s ass.
@15 Collins looks more like de facto toast to me.
I wonder if this is Bob’s face when he sees the horse.
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100211415417
https://i.imgur.com/xZnEuhe.png
@23 was so good you had to post it twice for justice!
I think it’s important for Democrats to study the close losses in this mid term to understand differences in strategy and spending and recognize what works and what doesn’t. But we should be very careful not to be knee jerk or shallow in that analysis.
States, districts, voters, and candidates all differ dramatically. And it’s very easy to filter out and cherry pick in order to arrive at a conclusion that fits your preferred world view (probably nobody does that better than President BoneSpurs). And one thing that stands out from that kind of practical comparison of strategy is the effect of mobilization in these mids and the primaries that preceded them.
If we define success not simply in terms of electoral outcome but in broader terms of closing gaps and overcoming deficits of name recognition, support, money, and voter confidence some of the closest races (a few of which might still win) are some of the most successful. And they did it by defying conventional strategies and focusing very early on mobilization. That should come as no surprise. Many of these campaigns were staffed and assisted by teams who came from the Obama campaigns.
These campaigns, many of which won but a few of which lost in deep red Trump states and districts, leave behind them a legacy of groundwork and infrastructure to support future campaigns and candidate recruitment. There are natural limitations to this strategy. Demographically some states and districts simply may not yield a sufficient number of educated, progressive, culturally diverse voters to respond to this strategy of progressive voter mobilization. But looking at the results of last week it’s really impressive to see where this worked well, and how the work promises to have a lasting effect on vote composition in those states and districts.
Statewide races can be expected to take longer and require more work and investment to yield up lasting results. And while these mids show amazing progress in key states like GA, TX, FL, AZ, NV, MI, WI, etc. we must also recognize that progress in such states will come incrementally.
O’Roarke leaves behind him 1.6 million newly registered voters in Texas, thousands of trained and motivated staffers and volunteers and hundreds of thousands of donors. Even in Georgia where Republicans closed polling places, sabotaged voting machines, and canceled and destroyed registrations almost as fast as eligible voters could file them, hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters participated in this election. Teams of community mobilization volunteers remain behind. And lawyers from across the Untied States who pitched in to monitor and help prepare legal challenges to the voter disenfranchisement efforts of corrupt Republican state officials are engaged for the long term.
Even the “blue” west coast we can learn from these campaigns. Deep red rural areas of west coast states can be transformed with mobilization. Anyone who has ever lived or worked in these areas knows that they are not nearly as “conservative” as they often appear. But many of the more educated, younger, and more diverse voters or potential voters in these areas are ignored by Democrats. And they have been for decades.
Old guard traditional campaign consultants will argue against all of this. They’ll have the backing of local media who rely on massive infusions of advertising dollars every two years. They appear to be completely wrong. They probably had a lot to do with creating the debacle of the Trump presidency.
Looks like the GOP may be busing rioters to Broward County again, like they did in 2000.
@26 Not intentionally. My computer couldn’t see the first post, so I reposted it, and after #24 went up #23 appeared, too. I then used the edit function to replace the duplicate post with another comment. This happens not infrequently. Probably a WordPress glitch, involving a malfunction of the function that holds comments for moderation. WordPress, like Dumbfuck’s brain, seems to have some crossed wires.
@27 “I think it’s important for Democrats to study the close losses in this mid term to understand differences in strategy and spending and recognize what works and what doesn’t. But we should be very careful not to be knee jerk or shallow in that analysis.”
That’s okay, as far as it goes, but strategy should never trump character or principle. We know we could appeal to a sizable number of Republican voters by adopting Nazi and KKK ideas, but that doesn’t mean we should. Democrats need to do what they’ve always done, defend the working classes against Republican greed, and get that message out to the voters. Lately, Republican attacks on workers have been so blatant and obvious they’re making that job easier for us.
It’s beginning to look as if Trump/Whitaker are hoping to lull everyone to sleep before they try to kill the OSC.
The problem with that is all the federal court action over the coming weeks and months that promise to keep it front and center. Mueller will be presenting a brief next Monday in response to Andrew Miller’s (Roger Stone’s work wife) subpoena challenge.
This will be the first time we see the OSC and multiple amicus arguments directed at the scope of Whitaker’s supervision. And at least among the amicus crowd the plurality of arguments seem settled that Whitaker, as an “inferior officer” not subject to Senate confirmation, simply may not supervise the OSC at all, leaving Rosenstein in charge.
Don’t take my word for it. That’s the opinion of the guy who wrote the regulations for the creation of the OSC. Ironically, it is also the opinion of President RageTweet’s “favorite Supreme Court Justice”, the one with the pubic hair fascination.
It’s going to be kind of tricky for the White House to find a quiet moment to sneak in and rummage through Mueller’s office and piss in the coffee urn in between subpoenas, summonses, and sealed indictments.
@ 15
For what position has Whitaker been nominated?
He was appointed.
@8
If that is true, then that is a complete and total disgrace by the CIC of our troops. The Sentinels that guard the Tomb of the Unknowns are selfless and show the utmost respect and dedication to duty to guard the Tombs. https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Changing-of-the-Guard
Trump is not fit to the CIC and actually it is probably better that such a repugnant and vile human not show up and discredit the honor of those that gave the ultimate sacrifice.
30,
Appealing to racists is almost the opposite of what these campaigns did. Rather than try to persuade backward, ignorant, racist, EEEN-DEEE-PEN-DUNCE, they focused on mobilization of progressive voters, and registration of new voters.
Bannon’s strategy was not dissimilar in some respects, at least in terms of voter mobilization. Except that his (and Putin’s) mobilization efforts were narrowly focused on racists and old people (resentment politics) and emphasized division. Democrats have some enormous potential advantages when it comes to voter mobilization. Not the least of which is that our messaging can and should be broadly positive and inclusive.
And it wont result in anyone driving a car into a crowd of peaceful marchers or shooting up a Synagogue. Which is a nice plus.
@14
It depends on what field of study the MD is doing? Research on drugs and cures for diseases, probably could count them as a scientist.
Radiologists? Most likely not since they usually can pass their boards and get certified by using a coloring book and crayons.
Radiologist were the ones cheering Madam Curie’s death because they finally had their answer on how much radiation was too much.
Your Clinton Derangement Syndrome (CDS) is probably due to you leaving you dosimeter badge in you saddle bag or glove box all the time and not wearing at work.
And since it looks like his “appointment” is unlawful, it will probably mean that nobody is legally obligated to pay any attention to him at all.
So that may leave you idiots worse off than before your petulant man-baby rage-fired his AG the day after suffering a massive electoral ass-kicking. Which is probably just fine if all you really care about is building Whitaker’s CV so he can raise enough money to lose a Senate race in 2020.
#theotherstuff
“Snowflake” is a term used to describe liberal progressives who majored in fuzzy studies and are now making lattes at Starbucks, while expecting the government to pay off their student loans debts.
37,
“liberal progressives” own and operate Starbucks.
I kinda doubt Hobby Lobby or Chick-fil-A have nursing rooms on the same hall as the C suites, include same sex partners in EAP benefits or cover sexual reassignment.
But they probably can help you qualify for a favorable rent-to-own program for your next trailer.
32,
Teh Dumbfuck must be holding out for Kobach.
Let’s hope he gets his wish. Aside from what would promise to be an incredibly drawn out and ultimately humiliating confirmation process, in the unlikely event Kobach were to survive without bursting into flames on national television it’s a cinch that career prosecutors in DOJ could start each day maneuvering around him faster than he could find matching socks.
DJIA -600!
What was today’s fart? I didn’t bother to look.
But as sure as shit, you can bet that the Repukes will start to associate this with Democrats and not themselves of The Hump.
Notice…elction over….no more great, great, best ever, most greatest in the history of the universe economy stories. FAKE NEWS!
@40 “What was today’s fart? I didn’t bother to look.”
The euro and pound dropped 1% against the dollar. Brexit is the underlying cause. The mechanics are complicated, but among other things, a stronger dollar cuts into profits earned abroad, which describes about 40% of all S&P 500 earnings.
Really, no single cause. Trade concerns and interest rates also weighed. Falling crude prices imply a global slowdown. Domestic profits are being squeezed by rising costs. Investors are concerned that profit margins and profit growth have peaked (although earnings are still in an upward trend, just not as fast). Slowing stock buybacks mean less support for stock prices.
Big picture, investors aren’t comfortable with higher valuations; I see the market leveling off here. Today’s drop simply gave up the bulk of last week’s gains. (The Dow gained 2.8% last week and lost 2.3% today, the S&P gained 2.1% last week and lost 2.0% today.) So in terms of the indexes, this is really nothing more than a return to the pre-election status quo.
Yawn. Scratch. Dumbfuck should’ve shorted GE at 23. It’s not my fault he didn’t.
For those so inclined, here’s an alternative market analysis:
“‘The prospect of Presidential Harassment by the Dems is causing the Stock Market big headaches!’ Trump tweeted Monday.”
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/11/12/trump-makes-baseless-claim-that-the-stock-market-is-plunging-because-of-the-prospect-of-democrats-investigating-him/23587643/
But I wouldn’t put any money on this. Hate to tell you this, Donald, but Wall Street doesn’t give a shit about your fate. You became irrelevant on Tuesday.
““Snowflake” is a term used to describe liberal progressives…”
“Snowflake” is wingnut projection. You’re all nothing but a bunch of fucking pussies. And it’s not a question of when you became pussies. You’ve always been pussies.
@42 so maybe we should be hoping for a weak dollar.
Sorry Rog, not you, but capitalism makes no sense.
Economy great, but yet it sucks. Dollar strong – great! But then, dollar strong so no, it sucks…but we don’t want a weak dollar either.
This is like Goldilocks and the Three Bears trying to figure out which bed is more comfortable (do I have my kid’s stories mixed up)
“Big picture, investors aren’t comfortable with higher valuations”
But yesterday they were ecstatic about divided government…shouldn’t they have just held onto their horses (sorry Bob) and just wait for today’s news and we’d be right back where we are today anyways.
@43 tell them Steve. They are delusional dumbfucks.
@42 didn’t I state this in my post about 5 comments before.
Damn Liberals!!~!!!!!#!!!!!
38 – If liberal progressives own and operate Starbucks, then they can pay off the student loans of the fuzzy studies majors who make lattes in Starbucks stores.
43 – “Wingnut” is a snowflake projection. You’re all a bunch of pussies supporting government tyranny at its worst. That is, world socialism, paid for by everyone else.
46 – No, you’re the delusional one if you think you’re correct about anything.
@44 “so maybe we should be hoping for a weak dollar”
I didn’t say that. I only said the strong dollar is causing the stock market to go down. That’s simply a statement of fact.
“Sorry Rog, not you, but capitalism makes no sense”
Did I say it does? Have you seen me defend it? How many times have I posted, “Hey, I didn’t create this system, I’m just going with the flow”? I’m merely a lowly leech lapping up blood spilled by others.
“Economy great, but yet it sucks”
The economy is not great, it sucks. Growth is slowing. Wages aren’t rising, only inflation is. People don’t have job security. Productivity growth and labor participation are the lowest in decades. All three major sectors of the economy — government, business, and households — are heavily indebted. Trendline growth is stuck at the inflation rate. Two of the economy’s biggest drivers, housing and autos, are falling off a cliff. An auto subprime lending crisis is brewing. Anyone who thinks this economy is “great” is an idiot.
“Dollar strong – great! But then, dollar strong so no, it sucks…but we don’t want a weak dollar either.”
Strong dollar means more imports, weak dollar helps exports.
“This is like Goldilocks and the Three Bears trying to figure out which bed is more comfortable (do I have my kid’s stories mixed up)”
This one is easy. I lie in Wall Street’s bed. Of course, they take most of the bed for themselves. But there’s still enough room left over for a small rabbit.
@48 You think your trillion-dollar wars don’t leech off us?
You think telling women what to do with their bodies isn’t tyranny?
You think your bigotry and racism doesn’t impose on anyone?
You think Democrats are socialists? that’s pretty goddamn funny.
You’re consistent about one thing, though. You want someone else to pay for everything. Every time I hear your ilk talking about “free stuff,” I can’t help laughing my rabbit ass off.
Breaking News — NBC News has called Arizona for Democrat Sinema, and Republican McSally has conceded.
@51
That is great news! Arizona gives the middle finger to Trump! Somewhere, John McCain III is probably giving a sly grin. That and Barry Goldwater is spinning his grave.
Trump is building his wall by shitting bricks.
@51
Meanwhile in Florida they are doing their best to emulate a third-world country in their elections. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reporters-notebook-florida-recount-nightmare-grows-as-insults-protests-and-accusations-pile-on
Didn’t they learn a damn thing in 2000? Trump rails about voter fraud, if there is any, it is down in Florida because how they run their elections, specifically Broward County. Who appointed Snipes? Jeb Bush. Say no more.
hey look I got another troll @48 to be bothered by me.
Look on the bright side – you’ll always be a dumbfuck.
48,
Instead of bitching to us why not take some personal responsibility, stop pill crushing in front of the television all day, and go out and make something of yourself like all the accomplished women of color who just took away your Congressional majority?
Looks like the lying piece of shit who swiftboated John Kerry is in Mueller’s sights, and is worried about ending up in solitary. The jackass should have quit while he was ahead. I guess he thought he was invulnerable. They all did. So did Nixon’s crew.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/11/12/roger-stone-pal-jerome-corsi-says-mueller-is-planning-to-indict-him/23587780/
48,
Just curious: exactly which flavor of wingnut are you?
Are the brown people taking your job away by working harder than you for less money?
Or are the brown people burdening you with crippling taxes by hanging around all day working on low riders in your street and listening to “beaner” music?
Wait. Don’t tell me.
It’s both, isn’t it?
@55 Slap!!! Ooooo, that had to hurt!
@49 I know you know I was being sarcastic.
But literally we have at least 60 Million – 100 Million people and a media (not just fake news Fox) that’s been telling everyone how great this economy is.
All be it, its improved a bit, but to speak of it with the word greatness has been a little overboard and people are just dumbfucks, including the dumbfuck that thinks their he’s on a brighter side.
Wall Street needs to be a see saw going up and down so that the big people can make money by stealing it from the little guy.
@52 It’s still theoretically possible for the GOP to end up with NO Senate gains, depending on what happens in Florida and Mississippi.
The GOP candidate in Mississippi didn’t help herself by saying she’d enjoy watching a “good hanging,” although she’s already missed out on Puddy — he disappeared 3 weeks ago.
56,
It isn’t as if he had no choice.
First he chose to convey stolen property. Then he chose to lie. Then he chose to obstruct. And finally he chose to reject a cooperation agreement.
He probably did all that in the naive faith that President PornAbortion would be handing out pardons like a Moonie mass wedding. But that ship sailed with the confirmation of Associate Justice GangRape. The remaining life rings are spoken for.
I love Gilum’s response to The Hump.
“The Hump on Florida: ‘Many ballots are missing or forged.’ Gillum: ‘You sound nervous'”
This is exactly how you fight fire with fire. You don’t go on the defensive, you go on the offensive. You shut the guy down. You don’t use your intellectual ability with hillbillies that despise intellectual beings.
Look on the bright side – they are dumbfucks!
Fight! Resist!
Meanwhile, Trump was played in a HHHuuuuugggggeee way.: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/12/politics/north-korea-hidden-missile-bases/index.html
Sure the missile launches have stopped, but that was because the North figured out what they needed in their previous tests.
The real thing they wanted was to get the US to stop war games and to pull the US troops out.
Kim has taken a page from Ronald “Raygun”. Remember the Strategic Defense Initiative, a.k.a., “Star Wars”. Ronnie bluffed that system and Russian blinked. The thought of it working got them to give up. SDI would have never worked at that time, given the state of the technology. The Russians had their doubts but rather than go bankrupt, they gave up.
Now Kim has the threat that one of his nukes can hit the US, Japan, or Guam, but most likely it can’t. What he can do is stage weapons like he has and overrun the south and finish what his grandfather started. That is a whole lot easier if the US is not immediately in theater.
Trump was all too willing to give Kim exactly what he wanted and Kim didn’t h ave to give up anything. Kim has played to Trump’s vanity and desire for short term “winning” while the entire time Kim has kept his eye on the long term goal of a single and unified Korean Peninsula, just not the one that the Western world has envisioned.
Trump, what a moron.
Well, well, well
Bay County Florida.
Yes there was a hurricane. Yes that disrupted voting.
It seems the Supervisor of Elections in Bay County encouraged and accepted votes by e-mail.
Florida law expressly forbids this.
Now, Mark Anderson, Supervisor of Elections is acting all butt-hurt that people are calling him out for literally violating election law.
The Secretary of State altered early voting hours and eased early voting restrictions for Bay County following the Hurricane. Apparently this was not enough for the Supervisor of Elections in this heavily republican county.
FL State Dept. Spokesperson Sarah Revel “Supervisors of Elections are independently elected constitutional officers and it is each Supervisors’ responsibility to adhere to the law at all times.”
But pay attention to the protesters in Broward.
Not only did Sinema win in AZ but she did it with a Green Party candidate pulling 50,000 votes.
So the final total is 52.04% Anyone other than a Republican to 47.96% GOP.
And there’s this…
Democrat Katie Hobbs has taken a 5,000+ lead in the Race for AZ Secretary of State. GOP will need a very decisive margin in the remaining votes left uncounted in Maricopa to turn that around
@65 “Democrat Katie Hobbs has taken a 5,000+ lead in the Race for AZ Secretary of State. GOP will need a very decisive margin in the remaining votes left uncounted in Maricopa to turn that around”
Trump can sleep well tonight, secure in the knowledge the future integrity of Arizona elections is in good hands.
Karl Rove tried to warn his fellow GOPers about the suburban vote. He was so right, and they are so fucked.
http://www.abc-7.com/story/394.....e-is-right
@67
The suburbs are where the white conservative people moved to get out of the crazy liberal crime infested cities.
Isn’t that right, Dino?
(Seriously though, without the odious dirt-bag in the White House I can still imagine a world where 16K suburbanites vote Dino or just stay home.)
And they’re calling CA-49 (Darryl Issa retiring) for team blue.
I think that’s 35 seats and still counting.
No wonder Dumbfuck wants to talk about ‘illegals’ voting. “The Refs stole the game from them. That wasn’t pass interference! He TRAVELLED! NO FUCKING WAY THAT’S AN OFFENSIVE FOUL! HE GOT THE BALL FIRST, THAT’S NOT A RED CARD!”
It’s like they’re trying to make everyone realize they’re all criminals.
Republican Attorneys General Association just elected TX AG Ken Paxton their incoming president.
Paxton is currently under felony indictment for securities fraud and failing to register as a securities agent prior to offering securities investments.