Funny, but woof at making a mockery of the legislative process. Perhaps Im falling a bit into the 'decorum' trap, but I think actually introducing a bill like this devalues government makes it harder to take her valid points seriously. It's pretty fucking funny tho.
Our fucking state deserves to be laughed at with the shit they're pulling in this new anti-abortion bill.
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore or from DK Just how f*cking dumb do they think we are? w During my lifetime, I have seen and heard some amazing things. I have seen a president resign in disgrace. I have seen a president lose his shot at a second term because he was too honest. I have seen a president who likely had dementia act his way through two terms, and set the stage for the nation we have today. I have seen a so-so president lead us into war, and his successor impeached for lying about getting a blowjob. Then we had a president elected by the slimmest of margins in an election decided by the Supreme Court, then eight years of war and incompetence. That was followed by eight years of an intelligent, wise president who was dogged by a hostile opposition party that stole a Supreme Court seat from him. I thought I had seen it all—but then along came Trump. Now, I have said this before, but it bears repeating: If Trump ran as a Democrat and agreed with me on every position, I would not have voted for him. He is a vile man who cheats on his spouses and has gone bankrupt running a casino, a business that is literally a license to print money. Spoiler He has the personality of a man who sits on the corner stool in a darkened bar, hunched over a glass of tepid, flat beer, boasting to anyone in earshot about how great he is and all the things he has done in his life. In reality he is just lonely old man with no one in his life, desperately crying out for attention because he lost everything that really mattered as a result of being a lying, cheating backstabber. The powers that be in the Republican Party knew Trump was a liar and a conman when he announced he was running for president. Yet they still supported him, as it meant furthering the “conservative,” i.e. billionaires’ agenda. They knew Trump would be the Republican majority's rubber stamp. We’ve seen collusion, financial crimes, constant lying, the destruction of the United States’ standing among our allies, and Trump’s embracing of strong men and dictators, yet the Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress abdicated their responsibility to the republic. They failed in their oversight of the executive branch and did everything they could to derail, stymie, and obstruct investigations. They put party over country. In the Federalist Papers, Federalist 51 is quite clear that each branch of government is equal, and that each branch shall hold the other branches accountable. TO WHAT expedient, then, shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the Constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places. Almost every day Trump tweets out some inane nonsense proclaiming his innocence and whining about ongoing investigations. The worst thing this lying conman could have done was run for public office, as it was virtually guaranteed that all of his misdeeds, financial crimes, and dalliances would come to light. But the Republican majority stayed silent, or even defended Trump. Now that the Democrats have the majority in the House, at least one part of our government is performing the oversight of the executive branch that has been sorely needed. The House Oversight Committee panel questioning of Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen was just the start. From that we now know with absolute certainty, with the evidence Cohen provided, that Trump cheated on his wife with a porn star, and then paid her off to prevent that news from getting out during the election. Remember: The party that impeached a president for lying about a blow job seems to be okay with this. “I think most of us have a concern anytime you have a president who is trying to work through some very personal matters. I honestly think this president loves his family, and I think it has as much to do with trying not to have public discussions about something that is, for him, a private matter that he didn’t want to have discussed with his family.” “Every time I think about this, I think about that particular issue because I think he really does care about his family, I think he loves his family, and I don’t think he wanted his family to go through this.” Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D. said when asked in an interview with CNN Wednesday if he was "OK" with Trump paying hush money to a porn star while in the White House. Maybe it is just me, but if you love your family, you do not cheat with a porn star shortly after your wife gives birth to your son! At a time when we should be focusing on the real issues of the day, like climate change, we have to deal with a lying, two-bit conman who throws Twitter tantrums. Meanwhile, his sycophants do all they can to undermine anything the Democrats do to make life better for all Americans. The Green New Deal is not going to take away hamburgers, airplanes, cars, or anything else they have scared the right into believing. Do the Republicans think that we do not see what they are doing? Do they really think we are this fucking stupid? It is time for our elected Democratic representatives to stand up to their Republican counterparts and demand accountability, and implore them to stand for country over party. We can all see that Trump is deteriorating with every speech and tweet. Republican Party leaders should be ashamed of what they have allowed, and the Democrats need to remind them of this shame every single day until Trump is removed from office, resigns, or loses in 2020.
Look buddy. We don’t want to have to regulate the womb but every time I walk into a hipster hospital, I hear a doctor say “let’s go get those organs” before a new mother spikes her baby like a football and those vicious hyenas start taking its organs.
I havent because I dont think those anti abortion bills are funny or humorous whatsoever. Theyre abhorrent, and making bills to mock them or bringing any kind of levity to the issue devalues the importance the issue.
Party of markets, bootstraps and personal responsibility NOT MY FAULT MOTHER FUCKERS! from DK LaCroix exec compares CEO gig to caring for disabled people in ableist defense of plummeting profits A beverage company CEO caused his company’s stocks to plummet after an offensive and strange earnings statement was released Thursday. In a message to shareholders that caused shares to plummet nearly 15 percent in a single day, Nick Caporella, CEO of National Beverage Corporation, the folks behind flavored seltzer brand LaCroix, cited “injustice” as the main culprit for a devastating profit loss, according to Reuters. “Negligence nor mismanagement nor woeful acts of God were not the reasons – much of this was the result of injustice!” Caporella said in a statement accompanying third-quarter results on Thursday, which showed a 40 percent slide in profit. Caporella’s “injustice” declaration is likely referencing the legal troubles both the brand and he himself are facing (more on that in a moment), but his statement to shareholders only declined from there. Managing a brand is not so different from caring for someone who becomes handicapped. Brands do not see or hear, so they are at the mercy of their owners or care providers who must preserve the dignity and special character that the brand exemplifies. Wait, what? Did he really just compare running a beverage company to caring for those with vision or hearing impairments? And did he really just use an outdated term that most members of the disabled community have discarded to do so? Yes, yes he did. Spoiler After explaining that volume was down and the GOP Tax Scam was part of what hurt the brand, which also produces Shasta sodas, Caporella insisted that a 40 percent profit loss doesn’t “(detract) from the ultimate value and future” of a beverage that was once described as tasting as “if you were drinking carbonated water and someone screamed out loud the name of a specific fruit in the other room.” Caporella then delivered a word salad that makes one wonder if Donald Trump wrote this memo. There is no greater passion than the kind that creates the wonderful refreshment and contentment described as unique! No doubt, the sound and personality of the word LaCroix, coupled with the awesome experience of its essence and taste . . . is unique. Is “unique” a selling point? Meh. Vox’s 2016 deep-dive into the meteoric rise of what was born in the 1980s as the domestic answer to Pelligrino and Perrier—whose target market was Midwestern moms before LaCroix became the Hollywood and hipster fuel it is today—shows that availability is a huge part of LaCroix’s success. Society’s shift away from sugary soda combined with easy access to that bubbly mouth feel all played a part in the brand’s turnaround. As seltzer sales started to creep up, the company bet that a similar approach could turn sparkling water from a sophisticated but tasteless European drink into an American hit. Their bet was right. Dieters kicking soda and alcohol were among the first LaCroix devotees, happy to find something with a little more flavor. The sudden success made Caporella, 83, a “late-in-life billionaire.” And scandals weren’t far behind as the drink jokingly depicted as tasting like “it was created by someone who didn’t want to admit he’d never tasted fruit so had a friend quickly describe it to him” got a lot of negative attention in 2018. First, in July, multiple allegations of inappropriate touching by Caporella were revealed. Then, an October class action lawsuit claimed that LaCroix’s “all natural” ingredient claims were false. That brings us back to that doozy of an earnings statement; facing backlash, National Beverage’s PR department didn’t do much better than Caporella did in their followup with Market Watch. A National Beverage spokesman said that the injustice of which Caporella spoke was the class-action lawsuit, which accuses LaCroix of containing chemicals also found in cockroach insecticide. On the comparison of managing a brand and caring for a handicapped person, he said that Caporella meant that “it just requires a lot of tender, loving care.” There’s a lot wrong with comparing the oversight of a beverage once disparaged as “what gentrification tastes like” to the care of a loved one with disabilities. There’s the obvious use of an outmoded word rejected by many, if not most, of the community it describes … … but there’s also the fact that Caporella is doing a terribly hurtful job of describing the disabled community. Caporella, and by extension, LaCroix and National Beverage, are already seeing the consequences of his strange explanations for profit loss and ableist description of his very lucrative job. Regardless of whether you love LaCroix or hate it, will keep buying it or join a boycott, there’s one key lesson that must be taken away from this: Society needs to do better when it comes to ableism. Since impairments are always going to be a part of life, it’s necessary to build a disability-inclusive society. [...] The rallying cry of the disability rights movement is “nothing about us without us,” a phrase that originated in Eastern European disability rights groups before spreading to South Africa and later North America. It speaks to the fact that the conversation about disability is often about disability, in a highly medicalized sense, rather than involving the participation of disabled people themselves—and that the disability community is fighting to change that. People with disabilities are not a prop, and they deserve respect, not dehumanizing comparisons to not-quite-flavorless bubble water. We can all do better than Caporella and LaCroix.
Disagree. Shining a light on the absurdity of trying to control women's bodies. Having read her tweet, I am not LESS inspired to grant women full autonomy over their own bodies.
It's not enough that they came from families that can afford the private tutoring and test prep classes...
It is disgusting that there is not overwhelming pressure from the people demanding that these opportunistic fucks resign. Should have happened a long time ago when stories about them exploiting their positions for personal gain started trickling out. Ivanka want on National TV less than a month ago to proclaim that Ivanka/Kushner both received their clearances under the normal protocol without any assistance from her daddy. We now know Trump personally pushed through their clearances despite written objections from Kelly/MacGahn. We can’t do shit about Trump lying to us until the election, but we sure as shit don’t have to take it from his kids. It seems that safeguarding classified materials & national security aren’t as important to the GOP as their hysteria about her emails suggested. Why the fuck aren’t Democrats demanding their resignation?
What's surprising about either of those? Ted Cruz is continuing to whine like all conservatives with their online persecution complex and Matt Gaetz is so head over heels in love with AOC he's starting to talk some sense.
Sen. Bill Cassidy pushes back on anti-vaccine view: "Your liberty stops somewhere short of everyone else’s epidemic." Sen. Cassidy, MD to Sen Rand Paul, MD
I can’t imagine how fucking dumb you’d need to be for your parents to have to donate $6 million so you can get into a school.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard Not sure if everyone had read the article about Kushner getting into Harvard from his dad’s bribe or not. SIAP
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I know nothing about that other than specifically listed in the article: (About 90 percent of Jared’s 2003 class at Harvard also graduated with honors.)
Are we really going to pretend a plane populated completely with folks on the way to a UN Summit crashing had nothing to do with Russia?
My friends who went to Harvard thought it was probably easier than state schools. Only had to take 12 hours a semester and they don't really give out F's, D's, and C's.
The newshour segment on the crash last night highlighted the fact that the FAA has never until yesterday put out a "Continued Airworthiness Notification". They pulled that shit entirely out of their rectums.
Don't know anything about this woman but in the last month I've seen two clips of her just roasting some poor sap.