Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Your Lovable But Earnestly Dumb Niece
[guest post by JVW]
Democratic Socialist wünderkind (I know the word isn’t really spelled with an umlaut, but any self-respecting fan of Blue Öyster Cult or Mötley Crüe uses the ümülät at any and all opportünity) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on that evening talk show with the smug leftist host (the one who used to be white but now self-identifies as younger and black) last night in order to enlighten us all on her hip, progressive political philosophy. In the course of the gentle tongue bath interview by the host, Trevor Stewart, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez showed herself to be charming, if a little vacuous. Here is a perfect encapsulation of what she is about (play the video embedded in the Tweet):
“The Daily Show” host @Trevornoah asked Socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) how she plans to pay for her agenda.
It really is hard to watch. pic.twitter.com/OGiPAArlce
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 27, 2018
Where to begin in unpacking the inanity? Estimates on “Medicaid for All” vary, with the Bernard Sanders folks pegging the cost at $13 trillion over 10 years and the Urban Institute suggesting it would be closer to $32 trillion over the decade. Let’s use the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s estimate of $25 trillion over ten years, since it’s (very) roughly halfway between the two and because they had the foresight to put the word “responsible” in their title.
So how will the program be paid for? The CRFB says that transferring all current expenditures on health care (with the exception of the Veterans’ Administration and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which Sen. Sanders did not fold into his plan) and then implementing the additional taxes on payroll, income, and capital gains that he proposes would only raise over the course of a decade about $11 trillion, leaving a $14 trillion hole to be plugged. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, after a prolonged and rambling disquisition about “people paying their fair share,” which she quickly amended to being “corporations and the ultra wealthy” (lest any mocha Marxists think they are expected to cough up the dough) rehashed Warren Buffett’s misleading lament that his tax rate is lower than that of his secretary. She also knocks the recently enacted corporate tax rate reduction and calls for it to be raised up to 28% (which, she notes, is still lower than it was pre-Trump) while eliminating the same deductions already eliminated by last year’s tax plan. That, she assures us, would make up $2 trillion, though that sum would be over the entire decade, and — oh, by the way — that money has already been accounted for in the Sanders tax increase calculations.
But let’s be as generous as possible, accept Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s claims, and decide that we are now down to a $12 trillion ten-year hole for Medicare for All. Hang on, though! Ms. Ocasio-Cortez quickly pivots to a desire to have our country transition to 100% renewal energy by some unspecified time date, which she says will cost us $3 trillion to $4 trillion. And here is where the train goes off the rails:
Now, if we implement a carbon tax on top of that — so that we can transition and financially incentivize people away from fossil fuels — if we implement a carbon tax that’s an additional amount of, um, of, of a large amount of revenue that we can have.
You all followed that, right? I mean, it’s perfectly clear. We implement a carbon tax which will pay for our $3 trillion to $4 trillion transition to renewables yet will still somehow help pay for Medicare for All too. And that carbon tax will magically be paid by corporations and not trickle down into the prices consumers pay for goods, and at the same time everyone is going to get money to put up solar panels and purchase hybrid vehicles. And sure, we’re going to be socking corporations with the carbon tax at the very same time that we go back to a higher corporate tax rate (without the deductions this time!) and a higher payroll tax to pay for Medicare for All, but don’t for one moment believe that this will affect productivity or employment.
It doesn’t get any better after that:
And then the last key which is extremely, extremely important is reprioritization. Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for! They’re like, “We don’t want another fighter jet.” They’re like, “Don’t give us another nuclear bomb.” You know? They didn’t even ask for it, and we gave it to them.
About that $700 billion budget increase: the entire defense budget for fiscal year 2018 was set at $700 billion and the proposed budget for 2019 is $716 billion. Our lipstick Lenin is conflating the entire damn defense budget with a one-time increase in spending. Now it is entirely proper to question whether the defense increase of $150 billion over the amount capped by the 2011 Budget Control Act (the infamous sequestration) is necessary or prudent; a lot of us here would probably argue that it is not. But Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s worldview is dependent upon her gullible supporters believing that our defense budget grows by nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in a given year, because she needs that sum of money (and much more!) to pay for her promise that you can vote yourself the good life. It’s a pity that the show’s host, Jon Noah, doesn’t know enough or care enough to question her about her assumptions, though I guess we can be grateful that he asked her the funding question to begin with.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s performance has been largely panned by the usual suspects among conservatives and libertarians, but it doesn’t seem that too many “sensible” Democrats have bothered to point out her bosh and piffle. And yeah, the Trump Administration and the GOP Congress certainly play fast-and-loose with numbers too. But these Democratic Socialists, who hope to sell us on a vision of a benevolent government with the money to pay for everything that we could possibly desire (our discussion of how to pay for Medicare for All doesn’t even begin to cover funding free college and a government job for all the unemployed), are either setting us up to challenge Greece for benign fiscal irresponsibility or they are setting up their supporters for a massive disappointment when they fail to deliver on their lavish promises.
That said, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is attractive and charming, with a nice television presence when she is in front of a friendly host. She’s like your cute yet exasperating niece who comes home for Thanksgiving her freshman year of college and suddenly knows exactly how society should be ordered and why it’s sheer selfishness and greed that prevents us from seeing the wisdom of the ideology she absorbed on campus. (Your clever but annoying nephew who comes home a rabid libertarian is a whole other ball of wax.) She’ll probably win her election, she’ll probably be very popular as a charismatic young minority female leftist in Congress, but our great nation really can do without her devotion to the mediocrity of the welfare state.
– JVW
This post has lots of parentheses (because they are sold on markdown on Fridays) but very little Trump.
JVW (42615e) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:31 pmBut she will be given the benefit of the doubt, in ways certain candidates who were naive but correct were not.
It’s insulting this antifa barista is what they think of that district,
Narciso (f6b3a8) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:37 pmhas anyone ever seen Warren Buffett’s secretary and Stormy Daniels in the same room at the same time
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:38 pmTrevor Noah, is the same kind of fool, the sorcerers apprentice to jon Stewart’s ‘fake news empire’
Narciso (f6b3a8) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:46 pmTrevor Noah’s a dorkwad he’s why Jon Stewart gets antsy every six months and interjects cause this dorkwad is his legacy
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:51 pmplus Trevor Noah ritually butt-rapes aboriginal women with his comedy
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:52 pmEntonces… Alexandria 0casional-Cortex… por su puesto…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:54 pmBut he looks creepier each time, but camembert Oliver, bee, are all his protege Farrell is bearable as is riggle.
Narciso (f6b3a8) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:54 pmYou will forgive me if I refuse to do anything more than giggle, I hope, JVW.
nk (dbc370) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:54 pmhe does look creepier every time but nowhere near chester molester David Letterman
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:55 pmCarrell, farell is tedious.
Narciso (f6b3a8) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:55 pm“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls… meet… the future!” – Bicycle Pitchman [Henry Jones] ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ 1969
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:55 pmthere’s a difference between charismatic and telegenic
hoocher looks like she had a guest-arc on friends playing something joey brought home from open-mic night
and then he made sexy with her
hilarity ensues
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:58 pmYou will forgive me if I refuse to do anything more than giggle, I hope, JVW.
I take that as a compliment. When something is so absurd that it is frightening, one can only try to see the humor in it.
JVW (42615e) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:58 pmDont firget shes a Hamas fan gyrl and wants to ban ice.
Narciso (f6b3a8) — 7/27/2018 @ 5:59 pmYes she’s the other broke girl@, with kat and the other one.
Narciso (f6b3a8) — 7/27/2018 @ 6:00 pm16,000 give or take primary voters got her in, in a District of 731,000. The incumbent she beat got around 14,000. In a recent thread, Patterico called the GOP insane. I don’t know if “heartening” is the right word, but if 30,000 is all the turnout the New York Democrats bothered to muster, they’re nuttier.
nk (dbc370) — 7/27/2018 @ 6:07 pmWell pappas doesn’t have much of a campaign, but the acorn party seems to buoyed crowley, shazbat.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/27/2018 @ 6:10 pmthere’s a difference between charismatic and telegenic
Fair point, though I find it endearing when she does the nutty sorority girl routine like at 0:34 and 2:08 of the video.
JVW (42615e) — 7/27/2018 @ 6:13 pmWestchester roller girl. Should be skating and blowing bubbles on video.
neal (fbec8d) — 7/27/2018 @ 6:21 pm18, that’s sad that he’s just being kept afloat by another flavor of nutty left…id rather see Lee Zeldin, Petuh King and Dan Donovan trying to get Crowley to the light side.
urbanleftbehind (3837c3) — 7/27/2018 @ 6:25 pmZeldins opponent is an older richer space cadet,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/27/2018 @ 6:31 pmwestchester roller girl is my new favorite thing
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/27/2018 @ 6:32 pmSpotcheck Billy got down on his hands and knees
He said “Hey momma, hey let me check your oil alright?”
And she said “No, no honey, not tonite,
Comeback Monday, yeah you comeback Tuesday, then I might.”
I said Juanita, my sweet Juanita, what are you up to?
My Juanita. I said Juanita, my sweet taquito
What are you up to? My Juanita.
Well, I don’t want nobody who won’t dive for dimes.
Don’t want no speedball cause I might die tryin’
Throw me a line, throw me a dime.
Cause there’s a fat man in the bathtub with the blues.
I hear you moan, I hear you moan–I hear you moan
Billy got so sad, dejected, put on his hat and started to run.
Runnin’ down the street and yellin’ at the top of his lungs
“All I want in this life and time is some good clean fun,
All I want in this life and time is some hit and run!”
I said Juanita, my sweet Juanita, what are you up to?
My Juanita. I said Juanita, my sweet taquito
What are you up to? My Juanita
Well I put my money in your meter baby so it wont run down,
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:07 pmBut you got me in a squeeze play on the cheesey side of town.
Throw me line, show me a sign.
Cause there’s a fat man in the bathtub with the blues
I hear you moan, I hear you moan, I hear you moan
is anyone else sad that Eric Church outed himself as a tard
it’s not demoralizing but it’s disappointing
i thought he was sort of smart
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:14 pmIn other news
https://m.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2157137/china-has-no-idea-how-play-trump-and-doing-what-it-always-does
Narciso (2b46f5) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:15 pmWow, that’s pretty embarrassing. It’s amazing what you can get away with when your constituency will believe literally anything, however obviously fallacious.
In fact, it’s almost as clueless as promising to eliminate the entire $20T national debt in eight years without raising taxes, by renegotiating trade deals, isn’t it?
Remember when we were going to cover everybody with universal health-care paid for by the government, and it wasn’t going to cost anybody anything? Let’s cut to the tape!
Got that? Not only can you have your doctor, you can have everything!
And a deal with “existing hospitals” will pay for it all, and more besides!
Trump has proven that the economic ignorance of the voters is a political credit card without any spending limit. You don’t need to know anything about anything to succeed, as long as you lie frequently and shamelessly enough, and promise literally everybody literally everything with no sacrifices or trade-offs necessary.
Expect plenty more Ocasio-Cortez’s, from both parties. Pandora’s Box is open, and lid isn’t going back on anytime soon…
Dave (445e97) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:35 pmWe will pay for this the same way we pay for everything. We’ll borrow it from China. As soon as they start talking to us again. Failing that, we can print the money.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:39 pmMs. Ocasio-Cortez’s worldview is dependent upon her gullible supporters believing that our defense budget grows by nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in a given year, because she needs that sum of money (and much more!) to pay for her promise that you can vote yourself the good life
You assume a lot about her ability (or desire) to do arithmetic. If you want something bad enough, it will just work out.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:43 pmGee, Dave, and we all thought that he’d actually wipe out that national debt too, right after he walked to the Moon.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:43 pmThe difference is that Trump was
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:45 pmlyingexaggerating, and we know he waslyingexaggerating. This little darling actually BELIEVES her sh1t smells like roses.Yes, that’s about the size of it:
https://youtu.be/09GBnSmFg8s
Narciso (2b46f5) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:46 pmI’m waiting for the sex tape to surface. Probably 10 minutes of permission-granting.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:46 pmftfy
🙂
Dave (445e97) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:47 pmAnd Donald Trump doesn’t?
LOL.
Dave (445e97) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:48 pmA little?
Bugg (8aed21) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:52 pmWell, she’s 28 and only running for congress, and could learn something. Trump’s 72 and president, and he doesn’t like to read, or be told anything.
She might not even win her election, since Joe Crowley is still going to be on the ballot in November.
Colonel Klink (ce6c15) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:55 pmTake a break, Dave.
Actually, all those things the carnita caliente wants, the EU has them.
nk (dbc370) — 7/27/2018 @ 7:58 pmGeneral burkhalter is most upset
Narciso (2b46f5) — 7/27/2018 @ 8:04 pmNo he likes,to talk back, is miss Cortez, appreciably less informed than the times editorial page, magic eightball says no.
Narciso (2b46f5) — 7/27/2018 @ 8:06 pmConDave has teh 2 minutes of hate down, but his internal clock is all fvcked up…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/27/2018 @ 8:14 pmI now see where the mad scientists come from, it’s rather pitiful that is about the extent the media will examine her views,
Narciso (2b46f5) — 7/27/2018 @ 8:18 pmOnly in ConDave’s world does a thread about a loony leftist (BIRM) become BUT TRUMP!!!
Sooooo conservative. Keep running to the left’s defense Dave.
NJRob (584047) — 7/27/2018 @ 8:42 pmCarnita caliente? No, chiquita bananas (sic) is more suitable I think.
nk (dbc370) — 7/27/2018 @ 8:46 pmAt least Klinky has settled on one name, till he decides to sockpuppet again.
NJRob (584047) — 7/27/2018 @ 8:52 pmTeh little miss has the eyes of a fanatic. Borderline Manson Lamps.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:08 pmThis is an excellent interview of teh little missy… https://twitter.com/CRTV/status/1021507749119586304
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:21 pmCome on Kevin.
Telling someone that you can cure their inoperable cancer with unicorn farts isn’t exaggerating – it’s straight-up fraud.
Trump said he could eliminate the national debt by reducing or eliminating the trade imbalance and without raising taxes. That is a tautologically impossible thing to do.
The trade deficit is money spent by us, as free individuals, using our earnings to purchase things that we have decided are the best value available, and that will improve our standard of living. Regardless of where or how that money of ours is spent, the government has no claim on it to pay its own bills…unless it is confiscated by a tax or tariff.
But to Trump’s economically illiterate supporters, who defend his moronic trade war (and to Ocasio-Cortez’s supporters, who defend her equally moronic fantasies), it all makes sense as long as you don’t ask too many questions.
The trade deficit is a big number, after all. The national debt is another big number. One big number can cancel out another big number. Somehow.
Similarly, the defense budget is a big number. The cost of “free” this or “free” that inevitably also turns out to be a big number. And one big number can cancel out another big number. Somehow.
Dave (445e97) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:26 pmScary isn’t it coronello,
Narciso (2b46f5) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:30 pmNow you read the metro pcs or yahoo feed and you wouldn’t have a clue what’s going on.
Narciso (2b46f5) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:33 pmCome on Dave, you should know, that if we reverse the trade imbalance with everyone, every dollar can then be transferred directly to pay off to balance the deficit and pay off the debt. Everyone knows that, its just basic economics, and, if we add a 25% tariff on everything, then that’s just pure profit.
Colonel Klink (1dd66e) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:34 pm@49 Narciso
It’s satire Narciso, no need to be afraid.
Davethulhu (270006) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:45 pmNo it’s zany mad cap humor, it’s terrifying for those with a trace of awareness.
Narciso (2b46f5) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:47 pmLet’s see which way miss ocasio rolls as if we needed to doubt
https://babalublog.com/2018/07/27/sandinista-pinata-nicaraguas-communists-stealing-everything-they-can-again/
Narciso (2b46f5) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:50 pm“I will give you everything.”
– Donald J. Trump
If he could somehow promise you more than “everything,” rest assured he would…
Dave (445e97) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:55 pmWonderful job, JVW. While already clear that she’s just a dopey, uninformed individual with no real grasp of history or politics, it’s great to see the problem with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez so neatly laid out.
Also, I felt a deep sense of disappointment with your Motley Crue and Blue Oyster ümülät Cult leanings. You’re better than that, dammit!
Dana (023079) — 7/27/2018 @ 9:57 pmI really only know ‘don’t fear the reaper and whatever was on the heavy metal soundtrack
Narciso (2b46f5) — 7/27/2018 @ 10:08 pmDave, this is my favorite from the VFW this week, I can’t find the video…ah, here it is. Its the same one with the “don’t believe the things you see” bit. Hilarious, he should put a Jokers club in all his golf courses, he’d kill with that stuff. Get a Netflix deal out of it or something, the best deal.
“We’re ordering 147 new F-35 Lightning fighters. This is an incredible plane. It’s stealth; you can’t see it. So when I talk to even people from the other side, they’re trying to order our plane. They like the fact that you can’t see it. I said, ‘How would it do in battle with your plane?’ They say, ‘Well, we have one problem: We can’t see your plane.’ That’s a big problem. Stealth. Super Stealth. The best in the world. We make the best military equipment in the world. Also, remember this: jobs.”
Colonel Klink (cce794) — 7/27/2018 @ 10:25 pmExcellent post, JVW.
Patterico (9c904b) — 7/27/2018 @ 10:29 pmLipstick Lenin, I like that!
Speaking of taxing the wealthy, she ought to consult with the governors of NY and CA, who are frantically trying to pass laws to enable the wealthy to write off all their property tax that exceeds $10,000 per year, now that Mean Old Trump is making the rich pay more. Her Dem comrades are lowering the taxes of the wealthy! I would love to see Alexandria meet with Brown and Cuomo and explain a few things to them.
Patricia (3363ec) — 7/27/2018 @ 10:32 pmWonder if this nut was born here or just another felon?
mg (9e54f8) — 7/27/2018 @ 11:33 pmLipstick Lenin, I like that!
Wish I could take credit for it, but I heard it somewhere else (and frankly, can’t remember where).
JVW (42615e) — 7/27/2018 @ 11:41 pmOcasio-cortez is being given the donald trump media treatment. Its not yet a billion dollars in free publicity yet ;but its getting their. How will she pay for it? As the song says tax the rich feed the poor tax the rich till they aint rich no more! She is to the democratic party what donald trump is to the republican party. Establishment democrats attack her at their peril as nancy pelosi has already found out. Look what happened to the conservative 16 dwarfs who ran against trump. The never trumpers were flushed down the republican party toilet. If it wasn’t for cnn and msnbc neo-con artist would be out washing cars for a living. Clintonistas and bernie supporters are looking for someway out of the forrest of despair and here comes this young girl ready to hold their hands and lead them out of the forrest of despair. Get in front of that at your peril.
wendell (f845c6) — 7/28/2018 @ 2:45 amShe’s a natural-born American citizen and so are both of her parents.
Bigot.
Dave (445e97) — 7/28/2018 @ 4:35 amNo Perry, she is getting Obama treatment like a unicorn
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/07/the-week-in-pictures-last-straw-edition.php
narciso (d1f714) — 7/28/2018 @ 5:42 amI would say knavery, but ymmv:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/07/the-supremacy-of-stupidity.php
narciso (d1f714) — 7/28/2018 @ 5:55 amGo swim in lava, davey boy. Rino lover.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 6:02 am“It’s 105 degrees as I stand with Rep. Devin Nunes on his family’s dairy farm. Mr. Nunes has been feeling even more heat in Washington, where as chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence he has labored to unearth the truth about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s activities during and after the 2016 presidential campaign. Thanks in large part to his work, we now know that the FBI used informants against Donald Trump’s campaign, that it obtained surveillance warrants based on opposition research conducted for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and that after the election Obama administration officials “unmasked” and monitored the incoming team.
Mr. Nunes’s efforts have provoked extraordinary partisan and institutional fury in Washington—across the aisle, in the FBI and other law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, in the media. “On any given day there are dozens of attacks, each one wilder in its claims,” he says. Why does he keep at it? “First of all, because it’s my job. This is a basic congressional investigation, and we follow the facts,” he says. The “bigger picture,” he adds, is that in “a lot of the bad and problematic countries” that Intelligence Committee members investigate, “this is what they do there. There is a political party that controls the intelligence agencies, controls the media, all to ensure that party stays in power. If we get to that here, we no longer have a functioning republic. We can’t let that happen.” . . .
It got worse. This spring Mr. Nunes obtained information showing the FBI had used informants to gather intelligence on the Trump camp. The Justice Department is still playing hide-and-seek with documents. “We still don’t know how many informants were run before July 31, 2016”—the official open of the counterintelligence investigation—“and how much they were paid. That’s the big outstanding question,” he says. Mr. Nunes adds that the department and the FBI haven’t done anything about the unmaskings or taken action against the Flynn leakers—because, in his view, “they are too busy working with Democrats to cover all this up.”
He and his committee colleagues in June sent a letter asking Mr. Trump to declassify at least 20 pages of the FISA application. Mr. Nunes says they are critical: “If people think using the Clinton dirt to get a FISA is bad, what else that’s in that application is even worse.”
Mr. Nunes has harsh words for his adversaries. How, he asks, can his committee’s Democrats, who spent years “worrying about privacy and civil liberties,” be so blasé about unmaskings, surveillance of U.S. citizens, and intelligence leaks? On the FBI: “I’m not the one that used an unverified dossier to get a FISA warrant,” Mr. Nunes says. “I’m not the one who obstructed a congressional investigation. I’m not the one who lied and said Republicans paid for the dossier. I’m just one of a few people in a position to get to the bottom of it.” And on the press: “Today’s media is corrupt. It’s chosen a side. But it’s also making itself irrelevant. The sooner Republicans understand that, the better.”
His big worry is that Republicans are running out of time before the midterm elections, yet there are dozens of witnesses still to interview. “But this was always the DOJ/FBI plan,” he says. “They are slow-rolling, because they are wishing and betting the Republicans lose the House.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/devin-nunes-washingtons-public-enemy-no-1-1532729666?redirect=amp
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/28/2018 @ 7:11 amPaul Montegu hardest hit… https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1022964130163118085
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/28/2018 @ 7:16 amWe saw a more virulent strain of this infatuation, just about 10 years, and the converse a month later, Sybil had more stable mood swings.
Narciso (af2f86) — 7/28/2018 @ 7:20 amI never want to live in Davey boys and world.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 7:55 amAnd Donald Trump doesn’t?
If Donald Trump believes his sh1t, then you can’t call him a liar. Pick a side.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:42 ammg, stop going around mooning everybody and hollering the “n” word. It’s not cool anymore – the 1950’s are long gone now. Evolve a little, it wouldn’t hurt you.
Tillman (d34303) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:46 amYes,leave it to hip-hop and fmr comedy central players like Larry wilmore.
Narciso (af2f86) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:49 amYes, especially since he took umbrage at my Ben Shapiro/Jewish Electrician inference a few weeks back.
urbanleftbehind (3837c3) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:49 amIt’s already dying and inert – if you avoid saying it with the hard “r” in the context of song.
urbanleftbehind (3837c3) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:53 amI can appreciate the arguments that we can’t afford health care for everyone, it’s too expense. But then I run across our footing the bill for a 4 Billion dollar ship – that’s for only one Navy ship! But we can’t help anyone with their healthcare.
Tillman (d34303) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:56 amhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJBe46X_mtE
It should have been dead along time, ago.
Narciso (af2f86) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:58 amGo fly a kite in lightning Tillman..you commie pos.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:03 amThis country will be on fire after the midterm ballot boxes are stuffed in the democrats favor by the fbi and doj. They have prolonged the truth in the last election and the only way it goes away is for the democrats to successfully steal another election.what a char this will leave..
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:07 am77… $400B was the estimate for Cali alone a couple of years ago. The state’s Dimocrats did STFU at that point, but after a couple of years, they figure they can start pounding the table again. They have a good feel for how their base is not the sharpest tool in the work-shed re: simple math and sustainability.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:14 amFirst, you said Ocasio-Cortez “BELIEVES her sh1t smells like roses” (in implicit contrast to Trump).
That is usually a phrase that means something like “believes they are incapable of fault”.
Second, Donald Trump clearly has a conception of “truth” which is unrecognizable to any sane person. His behavior is consistent with the belief that it is he who reifies the truth or falsity of any given proposition about the world, through his own will. You saw that expressed openly in the recent VFW speech. He has also asserted that negative press coverage is, ispo facto “fake”. In The Art of the Deal he even spells out explicitly his approach based on lying to people and telling them what they want to hear, even if it isn’t true.
In short, Donald Trump is criminally insane.
I do agree that Ocasio-Cortez is more naive and miseducated than dishonest. That doesn’t make her any less wrong, but if you meant she isn’t saying things she knows to be false, then I agree with you.
It’s actually kind of endearing that when pressed, she seems quite willing to admit it when she doesn’t know what she’s talking about (which appears to be almost always…). She comes across as humble, which is a trait I wish more politicians had (remember GWB is the living politician I admire most…). If she stays in politics, I imagine her naive honesty and willingness to admit error will be the first casualties…
Dave (445e97) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:22 amHave a little more faith in your Russian friends. They came through last time, didn’t they?
Dave (445e97) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:23 am@80
*ipso
grrr…
Dave (445e97) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:27 amMore commie worshiping from Davey boi
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:28 amNo more like the thuggish cultists in temple of doom,
Narciso (af2f86) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:31 amYou’re the one backing the guy who endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, and bankrolled her, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Charlie Rangel and Anthony Weiner.
The same guy who ran out of words to praise the last Stalinist dictator on the planet, and who performed fellatio on the KGB agent who got him elected, during a recent press conference.
So your “RINO” taunts are a pathetically obvious form of projection.
Dave (445e97) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:41 amTake another hit of that orange sunshine Dave boi.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:43 amNo you
Dave (445e97) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:44 amI’m not saying she would cut your heart out, with the look of making an espresso, but I’m not ruling it out either.
Narciso (af2f86) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:44 amYour line of Schiff is comical Dave boi.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:45 amDavey boi/ Cortez/2020
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:46 amBold words, from a guy named “milligram”…
Dave (445e97) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:49 am‘They laughed at me at the university’
Narciso (692cec) — 7/28/2018 @ 10:30 amI don’t fault mg for being leery of socialism, and of government in general. He lives in a state where the politicians promise “a car in every garage and a missionary in every pot”.
Dogs on Kauai howl cause they understand,
nk (dbc370) — 7/28/2018 @ 10:41 amThat’s not a pure beef burger in that man’s hand.
We don’t eat poi, mister, we eat “long ham”,
And our cookbook’s titled “How To Serve Man”.
Is that what pissed off, Pele, you think, mg? The Hawaiians were eating all the virgins instead of giving them to her?
nk (dbc370) — 7/28/2018 @ 10:44 amSomeone has to check that degree that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received at Boston University. Something doesn’t add up with that—-that university (which has 27 colleges) wouldn’t give someone a degree in economics and then spit out a socialist liar like her. Did she plagiarize some papers (I’ll bet she did)? What was her GPA? What was her language requirement? What were her elective courses? Did she take a web design class, or an actual computer programming course using Python and C++? Does she have massive college debt? How much was her Pell Grant (did she even get one)? Was she given one of those racist scholarships because she’s a specific Hispanic—you know, one of those racist scholarships that any other race couldn’t get because they are not Hispanic?
These questions must be asked because there are many with BU degrees that didn’t come out trying to make the USA into Cuba. There’s no doubt people find her cute, an Tweety bird sounding orgasm waiting to be recorded, but in reality a thug like her with a posse of supremacists has to be stopped in their tracks. I find it odd no one is giving her opponent Anthony Pappas (R Bronx-14) EQUAL time as the statute states. Thanks.
ED STRAKER (857c00) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:12 amThat’s not how the equal time rule works.
Key snippet:
Colonel Klink (eaafec) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:18 amThere are four exceptions to the equal-time rule. If the airing was within a documentary, bona fide news interview, scheduled newscast or an on-the-spot news event, the equal-time rule does not apply. Since 1983, political debates not hosted by the media station are considered “news events,” and as a result, are not subject to the rule. Consequently, these debates may include only major-party candidates without having to offer air time to minor-party or independent candidates. Talk shows and other regular news programming from syndicators, such as Entertainment Tonight, are also declared exempt from the rule by the FCC on a case-by-case basis.
“Go fly a kite in lightning Tillman..you commie pos.”
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:03 am
Reminds me of a late classmate… his dad was one of the guys who developed the Lake Havasu area, and his sone worked for his company out there after high school in the early 70s.
One summer late afternoon, he and co-workers were playing softball in a league game when a thunderstorm came in… a steady rain hadn’t started, so they kept playing… he was at shortstop. A lightning bolt struck one of the infield and somehow made it nearly all the way around… a horrendous Tinkers to Evers to Chance (to Noye) scenario. He didn’t die, but the key ring in his pocket and all the keys were welded together.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:25 amChain lightning, don’t feel so good…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:27 amOh my gosh, I found a newspaper clip about it… I was wrong, it was baseball and he was playing second base…
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19730514.2.87
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:34 amAbout that:
https://nypost.com/2018/07/28/trumps-demise-has-been-greatly-exaggerated/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
narciso (d1f714) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:49 amhttp://dailycaller.com/2018/07/26/ocasio-cortez-trump-immigration-ethnic-cleansing/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:53 amthe goddess of fire is upset at the hypocrisy of the human race. Toxic gas and acid rain is killing plant life in some areas. As well as eating the paint off vehicles.
mg (096877) — 7/28/2018 @ 12:14 pm104, that sounds like a Weekly Reader front page article circa 1981.
urbanleftbehind (3837c3) — 7/28/2018 @ 12:50 pmI have to say that Dave is an almost perfect example of the “concern” troll. He’s not against us, actually, just trying to save us from our (many) errors.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/28/2018 @ 1:07 pm@85. Time for your daily dose of reality, mg:
Anybody who tries to help Traitor Trump spin and shovel– from the crew aboard the Russian Troller Red Fox, on blogs, on editorial boards, in White House press briefings, perched mutely around Cabinet tables, in Congressional cloak rooms, in bars, bed or otherwise- is essentially complicit; an enabler and a Russian ‘colluder.’
It’s worth repeating this over and over for all you Colludin’ Putinites – as is Traitor Trump’s ‘modus operandi:’
Traitor Trump strode on to the global stage in Helsinki, Finland, stood just five feet from Russia’s Putin, a trained KGB agent, dropped his pants, and sh!t on every American citizen in front of a worldwide audience, then to Vlad’s utter delight, wiped his azz w/t U.S. flag.
_______
Wake up and smell yourselves; snap out of it, Traitorous Trumpanovs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60YeQtMAH0U
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 1:15 pm#107
Are you channeling Yosemite Sam?
“Traitorous Trumpanovs”
Or is that Daffy Duck?
I like the premise of this article although some of the specifics are too inside the beltway for me to grasp:
steveg (a9dcab) — 7/28/2018 @ 1:22 pmhttp://dailycaller.com/2018/07/27/trumps-secret-in-washington/
Worrying about democrat ballot box stuffing like illegal aliens voting is fun to believe. What will not be so much fun is vote surrpression. Why you ask? It only effects democrat voters mostly minorities and thats a good thing. In 2016 hillarybots got hoisted on their own petard thinking they had it won so their was no rigging of election and talking about voter suppression would give democrat voters an excuse not to vote so deemed counterproductive. Not this time! With democrat establishment discredited by 2016 election they can no longer control democrat base for the corporate state. Democrats are already getting ready to riot as the first sign of voter suppression and ready to make country ungovernable. Too many rights will I will just get my guns and go down to the polling places and start shooting. That will teach them a lesson. See what happens next as they organize to fight back.
wendell (af1a37) — 7/28/2018 @ 1:58 pm@108. Bugs you, eh, Elmer.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 2:27 pmHee Haw commentary by the self appointed elite rinos
mg (096877) — 7/28/2018 @ 2:54 pmi’m sure she’s down with this:
https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1023224670974296064
narciso (d1f714) — 7/28/2018 @ 2:56 pmspeaking of dead tropes, can they just put the star wars trilogy out of it’s misery, it’s starting to stink like galactica 1980, I swore never to speak of it,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/28/2018 @ 2:58 pm111. Putie likes them buckets seats in his lil’ Red mg.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 3:57 pm113. Endless whine. Jack was right to leave ’em high and dry.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 3:58 pmIncycle: noun. A man forced to ride a bike around town because he caught too many DUI’s.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 7/28/2018 @ 4:23 pmMissing the point:
https://mobile.twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1023191073471062016
Narciso (1ceb38) — 7/28/2018 @ 4:38 pmWonder how many new Trump voters DCSCA has created with his scat fetish. They just don’t get it, it’s their ignorant arrogance that got Trump elected, so they double down and turn it up even higher. Please keep posting that until 2020 DCSCA, it will give you and the last half dozen never Trumpers something to hope for during his second term.
Nate Ogden (223c65) — 7/28/2018 @ 4:43 pmHe was clueless in the 80s, he hasn’t developed any new insight:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1023051848146509824.html
Narciso (1ceb38) — 7/28/2018 @ 5:03 pmDCSCA was the first mover for Trump on these pages, albeit that may have been the same tactic CNN was usingduring the primaries…to give H the “beatable” opponent.
urbanleftbehind (3837c3) — 7/28/2018 @ 5:03 pmI wouldn’t chalk up any grand design to that.
Narciso (1ceb38) — 7/28/2018 @ 5:05 pmWhere are the Wolverines when you need them?
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 7/28/2018 @ 6:24 pmhttp://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/trumps-portrait-isnt-on-display-in-the-colorado-capitol-but-putins-briefly-was/73-577817962
sinead hasn’t been in the news for a really long time
i hope this is a good thing for her
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/28/2018 @ 6:45 pmASPCA is a thief – teh BarcaLounger Bandit – who suffers from Tourette Syndrome and the need to endlessly repeat his revisionist Jay Ward/Bill Scott witticisms.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/28/2018 @ 6:46 pm@124. Haikhrushchev! Gestoliheit!
Time for your daily dose of Trump-on-the-rocks, Red Colonel! Still everso Helstinki. Honor America: shower.
Repeating this over and over for you and all Colludin’ Putinites – as is Traitor Trump’s ‘modus operandi:’
Traitor Trump strode on to the global stage in Helsinki, Finland, stood just five feet from Russia’s Putin, a trained KGB agent, dropped his pants, and sh!t on every American citizen in front of a worldwide audience, then to Vlad’s utter delight, wiped his azz w/t U.S. flag.
_______
Wake up and smell yourselves; snap out of it, Traitorous Trumpanovs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60YeQtMAH0U
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 7:15 pm@120. win/win, womp/womp. Neutering the modern conservative movement. So far, so good. November, ‘wave’ goodbye.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 7:19 pmTrumpettes Syndrome: ‘No collusion.’ ‘Witch hunt!”No collusion.’ ‘Witch hunt!”No collusion.’ ‘Witch hunt!”No collusion.’ ‘Witch hunt!’ ‘No collusion.’ ‘Witch hunt!’ ‘No collusion.’ ‘Witch hunt!’ ‘No collusion.’ ‘Witch hunt!’
Clap’s your cure, Red Colonel!
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 7:26 pmHaikolluder! Geshundikoff!
Switch on your Philco and have a vodka on the rocks, Red Colonel.
Then honor America, Helstinki: shower.
Show Red how it’s done in America, kids…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0lBnsnkE
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 7:32 pm‘He really seems to care, about what I have no idea’
Narciso (5761a1) — 7/28/2018 @ 7:36 pmLol, Narciso
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 7:45 pm#126
It’s not often you hear someone admit to being dishonest, not to mention a Moby.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:03 pmOr, maybe SCSCA is really still a Trump supporter, but trying to make the opposition sound like utter assh0les. If so, he’s doing a fine job.
Kevin M (5d3e49) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:04 pmI know discos an act, but French is purportedly serious:
https://mobile.twitter.com/seanmdav/status/10233580115
Narciso (5761a1) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:21 pmwhy did pedophile Mitt Romney’s favorite slicked-up sex toy Paul Ryan want to be speaker in the first place?
good question right?
looking back it looks like it was cause he had a dinky-boy wisconsin hard-on for a “border adjustment tax”
effing weirdo
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:22 pmShort answer, it was his consolation prize for throwing the match against the paste eater.
Narciso (5761a1) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:29 pm@132. You’re doin’ fine on your own w/o any help.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:45 pm@131. You’re behind the curve; never been a secret.
@129.‘He really seems to care, about what I have no idea’– Trump 101, admits the Colludin’ Cuban, in Earth English.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:50 pm@134. More pay, better office, nice letterhead. If not second in line, third would do, Mr. Feet; ‘3 U.S.C. 19 (volume 3 of the United States Code, section 19) makes the Speaker of the House the next in line to be president when no vice president is available. That law was put into place in 1947.’
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:54 pmi love President Trump and all the different cheeses you can get at the cheese shop (american cheeses made here en los estados unidos) and I love frosé and i like dinosaurs and spaceships and champagne sangria and our new H-Mart
but mostly i love President Trump
he’s my whole world
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/28/2018 @ 8:56 pmBS like this is why GOPe/never Trumpers are losing the party. Planned Parenthood and Sanctuary Cities have disagreement(supposedly) yet Democrats always manage to get them funded.
“During a radio interview with WHAS on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border will likely not make it into the next funding legislation, which must be passed by the end of September in order to avoid another government shutdown.
When directly asked if the funding of the border wall would have to wait until after midterm elections, the Republican senator replied “probably,” noting that it is “something [Democrats and Republicans] do have a disagreement on.”
Nate Ogden (223c65) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:05 pm@139. he’s my whole world
And Hope’s and Ivanna’s, and Marla’s, and Melania’s, and Stormy’s, and Karen’s, and Eric’s, and Donnie Jay’s, and Ivanka’s, and Tiffany’s– the daughter, too, and Barron’s, and Rudy’s, and Rupert’s, and Sean’s… but Mikie’s flippin’ out- not so much any more, Mr. Feet.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:07 pmMcturtle, is just about keeping the gravy train moving, that’s why they spent 30 million on the Alabama primary to little effect, so Tim Miller and Gloria alred went for the jugular, if fraud was necessary so be it.
Narciso (5761a1) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:18 pmso say we all
happyfeet (28a91b) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:23 pmCynical, perhaps have the events of 2010 and 2012 not born out the suspicions.
As for rudy, I don’t regret my primary vote for him, the choice if staff like Rick Wilson and John Avlon, they couldn’t find snow in the polar caps.
Narciso (5761a1) — 7/28/2018 @ 9:34 pmFile under Muh Russian Collusion or The Mueller
The Trooper by Steve’n’Seagulls (LIVE)
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 7/28/2018 @ 10:18 pmSo many dolts
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 10:22 pmRinotrumpers surpass democrats and crimaleins as the leading turds in the punch bowl.
Mahalo mr mg.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 7/28/2018 @ 10:24 pmOccasional-Communist spent most of her life in Westchester county so her hero should be Doc Octopus.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 7/28/2018 @ 10:36 pmAloha Pinandpuller
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 10:54 pmGoing through Jackson Hole for a visit soon.
mr mg
Hey I will be in Casper about August 12th so keep me posted. You helping Kanye finish mixing his album?
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:08 pmIf we could get Colonel Haiku to Utah we could have a Harmonic Convergence.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:10 pmYour gonna be called RACIST for that remark, Pinandpuller. Just asking if that dumb bimbo was legal is now racist around here.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:28 pmLake Powell and its sandstone cliffs make for a great sound. I’ll bring the ukulele.
I’m left to assume some of these posers are part of the paid for b.s. from the Koch bros, donahues chamber and of course Paul Ryan’s favorite money man soros.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:43 pmGood Times when Wall Street punishes Zuckerberg and its time wasting operation. Congress being full of attorneys had no chance to succeed in punishment or correcting his bull in a china shop ethics.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/28/2018 @ 11:57 pmWhich corporate establishment democrat will be taken out next despite their corporate donors $$$?
wendell (8886de) — 7/29/2018 @ 3:28 amYou mean like red squaw:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/old_prosecutors_speaking_frankly.html
Narciso (ad3ee4) — 7/29/2018 @ 7:24 amThanks for that article Narciso. Some cogent analysis between those lawyers as to why this inquisition is such a sham. Hopefully declassification will come sooner than later.
NJRob (b00189) — 7/29/2018 @ 8:32 amClarice for attorney general
mg (9e54f8) — 7/29/2018 @ 8:48 am“Donald Trump is leading a double life. In the west, most foreign policy experts see him as reckless, unpredictable and self-defeating. But though many in Asia dislike him as much as the Europeans do, they see him as a more substantial figure. I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by his skill as a strategist and tactician. . . .
Few Chinese think that Mr Trump’s primary concern is to rebalance the bilateral trade deficit. If it were, they say, he would have aligned with the EU, Japan and Canada against China rather than scooping up America’s allies in his tariff dragnet. They think the US president’s goal is nothing less than remaking the global order.
They think Mr Trump feels he is presiding over the relative decline of his great nation. It is not that the current order does not benefit the US. The problem is that it benefits others more in relative terms. To make things worse the US is investing billions of dollars and a fair amount of blood in supporting the very alliances and international institutions that are constraining America and facilitating China’s rise.
In Chinese eyes, Mr Trump’s response is a form of “creative destruction”. He is systematically destroying the existing institutions — from the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement to Nato and the Iran nuclear deal — as a first step towards renegotiating the world order on terms more favourable to Washington.
Once the order is destroyed, the Chinese elite believes, Mr Trump will move to stage two: renegotiating America’s relationship with other powers. Because the US is still the most powerful country in the world, it will be able to negotiate with other countries from a position of strength if it deals with them one at a time rather than through multilateral institutions that empower the weak at the expense of the strong.
My interlocutors say that Mr Trump is the US first president for more than 40 years to bash China on three fronts simultaneously: trade, military and ideology. They describe him as a master tactician, focusing on one issue at a time, and extracting as many concessions as he can. They speak of the skilful way Mr Trump has treated President Xi Jinping. “Look at how he handled North Korea,” one says. “He got Xi Jinping to agree to UN sanctions [half a dozen] times, creating an economic stranglehold on the country. China almost turned North Korea into a sworn enemy of the country.” But they also see him as a strategist, willing to declare a truce in each area when there are no more concessions to be had, and then start again with a new front.
For the Chinese, even Mr Trump’s sycophantic press conference with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, in Helsinki had a strategic purpose. They see it as Henry Kissinger in reverse. In 1972, the US nudged China off the Soviet axis in order to put pressure on its real rival, the Soviet Union. Today Mr Trump is reaching out to Russia in order to isolate China.”
https://www.ft.com/content/f83b20e4-8e67-11e8-9609-3d3b945e78cf?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioschina&stream=top-stories#myft:notification:instant-email:content
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/29/2018 @ 8:55 amOut r mes
mg (9e54f8) — 7/29/2018 @ 9:39 amChina is one of those fierce nations as in Isaiah 25, they don’t rightly know with trump, they bought up most the Congress but it has little effect.
As for my friend clarice, shes seen special prosecutors abuse their authority, deep state agencies cover up Nazis admitted to this country, so her skepticism is born out and this case has every variety of maldlfeasance.
Narciso (63624e) — 7/29/2018 @ 9:40 amOur media is taking notes on Turkey.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/29/2018 @ 9:40 amLmao
It’s interesting to watch a guy like Menendez in his attempts to grill Mike Pompeo.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/29/2018 @ 9:57 amI was hoping Pompeo would ask Menedez if he prefers blondes over brunettes
mg (9e54f8) — 7/29/2018 @ 10:09 am“…[Cohen is] a pathological lawyer… er, liar…”
—- Chris Wallace, FNS 7/29/18
LOL
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/29/2018 @ 10:11 amIf these trends hold, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and her party could be in the majority in the House, and then we’ll really get to see how her socialism plays in Congress.
Paul Montagu (1ff0e3) — 7/29/2018 @ 10:14 amMenendez is a prime example of the adage, “Leftwingers don’t embarrass easy”.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/29/2018 @ 10:15 amAnd Hillary had a 95% of winning, right Mr Montague.
narciso (d1f714) — 7/29/2018 @ 11:29 am166 Will the liberal tears be as great after the midterms as after Trump’s election or have they learned to control their disappointment?
Nate Ogden (223c65) — 7/29/2018 @ 11:35 amThey will blame the Russians as they already are doing with air claire.
Narciso (20d182) — 7/29/2018 @ 11:37 amIt’s a,blunt approach, like a siege engine
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0718/thiessen072718.php3
Narciso (20d182) — 7/29/2018 @ 11:45 amSince you called me out, Haiku, the link says, “This Tweet is unavailable.” Do you have a point?
Paul Montagu (1ff0e3) — 7/29/2018 @ 12:05 pmAnd what’s that supposed to mean, exactly?
Paul Montagu (1ff0e3) — 7/29/2018 @ 12:13 pmSo by wills own standard was Reagan a socialist?
Narciso (20d182) — 7/29/2018 @ 12:15 pmCan you distinguish between defense (necessary) and non defense expenditures.
Narciso (20d182) — 7/29/2018 @ 12:16 pm172… here’s the trailhead, Montagu… I’m told tweets are often removed, especially when they reflect poorly on rising leftwing stars… https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/07/27/axios-jonathan-swan-fact-checks-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-its-brutal/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
The one removed was one that said, “politifact, do your job”
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/29/2018 @ 12:32 pmNo, but nice try at the whataboutism. Trump is a Pat Buchanan on trade, not a Reagan.
Paul Montagu (1ff0e3) — 7/29/2018 @ 1:02 pmOkay, but why didn’t Mr. Houck have the courage of his convictions by deleting the tweet? But I do note that Politifact has a file on her and, so far, did not fact-check her comments on Trevor Noah, but if that’s enough to maintain your pointless ad hom argument, well, whatever.
Paul Montagu (1ff0e3) — 7/29/2018 @ 1:12 pmWe know politics has been legendary in its avoidance of the deception of left wing claims ‘You can keep your doctor, and your plan’ while denying the legitimacy of right wing claims.
Narciso (20d182) — 7/29/2018 @ 2:10 pmDonald Trump is leading a double life. – John Miller.
Donald Trump is leading a double life. – John Barron.
Donald Trump is leading a double life. – David Dennison.
“So am I.” – Rudy Giuliani:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/29/2018 @ 2:18 pmso disco, what politico figures impressed you, did Obama give you a tingle, like Matthews,
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/fifa-world-cup-2018/qatar-alleged-to-have-used-ex-cia-to-sabotage-australia-s-world-cup-bid-20180730-p4zuck.html
narciso (d1f714) — 7/29/2018 @ 4:33 pmSome case they have there… https://www.apnews.com/3b598bd2e9ea4007a12243279170a5e8/Manafort-trial-to-focus-on-lavish-lifestyle,-not-collusion?utm_medium=AP_Politics&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/29/2018 @ 6:50 pmIt’s Deja vu all over again, meanwhile mercury is still lobbying for Russian interests, and podesta gets away Scott free.
Narciso (6693b3) — 7/29/2018 @ 7:03 pmCollusion is 8 years of rinos on their knees in front of soros
mg (9e54f8) — 7/29/2018 @ 7:37 pmIn one way or another mg, campaign finance, drug legalization, voter fraud, amnesty, you name it he and steyer are a one stop shop.
Narciso (6693b3) — 7/29/2018 @ 7:42 pmScary schiff, narciso.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/29/2018 @ 8:20 pmIndeed it is, you don’t live on Maui right?
narciso (d1f714) — 7/29/2018 @ 8:24 pmKamuela on the Big Island.
mg (9e54f8) — 7/29/2018 @ 8:47 pmTrade winds a blowing today no vog from the goddess of fire-
mg (9e54f8) — 7/29/2018 @ 8:52 pmIt s on the way to Guam.
Well James rosen was one:
https://pjmedia.com/video/sharyl-attkisson-i-dont-think-i-was-the-only-reporter-th
Narciso (8c497a) — 7/29/2018 @ 9:51 pmWhile we wait for our host or his associates to give us some free ice cream (h/t Lileks), let us hear from one of the folks our Trump fans love to hate, the retiring Senator Flake. What’s on his mind? Crickets:
Now, this man is a dirty never trumper. I ask you, Trump fans…will you defy this evil corrupt cretin and add crickets to your diet? And more, will you laugh maniacally as you get us anti-Trumps to pay for your insect diet? Can you make that sacrifice?
Appalled (96665e) — 7/30/2018 @ 8:15 amWhen it matter hes at best utterly useless, an enabler of the Castro regime, an facilitator of Roberts care, as they say crickets
narciso (d1f714) — 7/30/2018 @ 8:55 amNot that many people have nieces like that.
She’s basically relying on other people, thinking they have figured it out.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 7/30/2018 @ 10:58 amSure, why not. They sell them at Safeco Field, but I don’t want my government to subsidize them. BTW, they sell like hotcakes. Next time I go to a Mariners game, I’ll see if I can get some.
Paul Montagu (84878a) — 7/30/2018 @ 12:38 pmAppalled (96665e) — 7/30/2018 @ 8:15 am (Edit)
What’s old is new again. When I was in high school we spent a semester studying Colorado history, especially from the pioneer era. We learned that back then bugs were often consumed as a cheap and reliable source of protein. At the end of our Colorado history unit, one of the students or maybe the teacher (my memory is fuzzy) brought in cricket cornbread for us to eat. It was a matter of pride as a teenage boy that we ate a piece, because we knew it grossed out the cheerleaders and we delighted in hearing them squeal in horror. I remember it being edible, but nowhere near as good as green chile cornbread.
JVW (30a532) — 7/30/2018 @ 1:35 pmI just read the other day that the mayor of Denver, first elected in 1923, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, which had organzied in that state in 1921. He survived the fall of the Klan and continued as mayor for some 20 years. There is now some controversy about his name on things.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 7/30/2018 @ 2:31 pmThe bad political alliances of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-linda-sarsour-co-headline-political-action-conference/
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 7/30/2018 @ 2:31 pmPart of tthe last comment there:
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 7/30/2018 @ 2:34 pmThe bad thing is that she (nor anyone else) can rely on :”the conventional wisdom”
Of course there are different conventional wisdoms.
When she’s thrown back on her own devices, she speaks nonsense.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 7/30/2018 @ 2:36 pmIs Dave the one that claimed to be conservative?
JD (ec3581) — 8/1/2018 @ 12:53 amIs Wendell for real?
Has DASACAS regaled everyone with his tales of pulling Maggie Thatchers pig-tails while they played hopscotch in front of the Russian embassy on Christmas Eve of ‘72, while sipping an Old Fashioned, and talking about their mutual lust for Von Braun?
I would say that the most edible insect is lobster, and that the most eaten is shrimp.
nk (dbc370) — 8/1/2018 @ 4:17 amYes that’s him jd are you still doing the ironman
Narciso (2c4ee6) — 8/1/2018 @ 6:42 amWendell had me faked out with the first few, he might be the yang to DCSCA’s yin.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 8/1/2018 @ 6:51 amwendell sounds a lot like Perry. Perry is the unsuccessful version of Bernie Sanders. Literally. A super-leftist septuagenarian, now an octogenarian. He “likes” Trump for the same reason DCSCA does — that Trump is totally f’king up the GOP forever.
nk (dbc370) — 8/1/2018 @ 7:06 am
Dave (445e97) — 8/1/2018 @ 7:23 pmConspicuously absent in Barack Obama’s list of endorsements.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/03/socialist-candidate-ocasio-cortez-once-saw-herself-as-smithian-capitalist-viewed-feminism-as-relic.html
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 8/3/2018 @ 1:11 pmHey, wait a minute, a carbon tax will harm middle class and below fossil fuel energy users. Please explain how using the revenue for Medicare instead of to compensate these people for energy use will fly. Thank you.
bordenl (2b9352) — 8/23/2018 @ 12:51 pm/Addresses howling void
@205: Depends if Medicare-for-all is another name for single payer or another name for the public option. I think in Ocasio-Cortez’s case it’s the first.
The round of finger-pointing that we went through about who is responsible for high drug prices indicates that health care is not a market where price signals are giving the public good information in the first place. Depending on what is right for each patient each treatment may have its own little monopoly where the drug companies and hospitals can charge whatever they want. The price signal tells people how desperate the sufferers are to have the treatment. Although on the individual consumer level people do not have to worry about cost much if they are on Medicare, on the government level price gives information about the long-term stability of Medicare. Price is also not distorted by pharmacy benefit managers and other such intermediaries. A single-payer program on the level of a state might show how the government could lower costs without lowering benefits to taxpayers.
/Addresses howling void
bordenl (2b9352) — 8/23/2018 @ 1:34 pmBecause there is no question that the whole reason to get the government involved in healthcare is to lower costs for the whole society. Politicians can simply argue that healthcare and defense should not be a certain crazily high fraction of the federal budget.
bordenl (2b9352) — 8/23/2018 @ 1:36 pmJuan Cordio may have handed the 2016 election to the republicans.
mg (9e54f8) — 8/23/2018 @ 1:37 pmBuild the ####ing wall.
Mollie Tibbetts blood is on the hands of the democrats and rinos not getting the wall built when the money was allocated years ago.
mg (9e54f8) — 8/23/2018 @ 1:40 pmR.I.P. Ed King, guitarist/songwriter for Lynyrd Skynyrd on their first three albums
Icy (df4bf1) — 8/23/2018 @ 1:55 pm