Sunday, March 17, 2019

Another Massacre in the Name of White People

The killing in New Zealand leaves us with an especially hopeless feeling. Even as the ambulances were still arriving at the mosques the news announcers had to mention that Christchurch is a beautiful city. New Zealand has always seemed to us like a pristine, peaceful little paradise nation, healthy and happy. And yet the death toll now has reached fifty, as another festering boil of hate pops.

The killer left a 74-page document explaining why he was doing what he did. It all makes sense to him, and in fact the tone of the manifesto is perfectly calm, articulate, it's well-organized. The problem, as he sees it, is that white Europeans are being "invaded" by other groups. He didn't care what other groups; he is opposed to all of them, unless they stay in their own territory. I think it is important for understanding the problem to note that he also didn't care that New Zealand was once Maori land, colonized by English-speaking outsiders. As long as the invaders are his own group, he is okay with it. It's all about us versus them as absolutes, all about seeing the world from your own point of view, exclusively.

If you are to take a larger view of the situation, a "God's-eye view," as they call it, it is clear that you cannot have every group of people who call themselves "us" killing off every other group of "them." Mathematically that doesn't work; the answer is zero. The beauty of the human species is that we are able to adopt the Gods-eye view sometimes, to see the other side's point of view, and to negotiate agreements where "we" get what we need and "they" do, too. Sometimes it even happens that we join together in a bigger, better "us." Individuals who are heavily invested in their own group's identity might resist such a merger, seeing it as a loss of identity or denigration of their existing in-group. For some this is such a threat that mass violence and even war seem like a reasonable reaction. It is tragic when innocent people who have never considered such perverse thoughts are gunned down randomly while living their routine lives.

A few quotes from the New Zealand murderer's statement:
We are experiencing an invasion on a level never seen before in history. Millions of people pouring across our borders, legally. Invited by the state and corporate entities to replace the White people who have failed to reproduce, failed to create the cheap labour, new consumers and tax base that the corporations and states need to thrive.

... we must deal with both the invaders within our lands and the invaders that seek to enter our lands.

... We must crush immigration and deport those invaders already living on our soil. It is not just a matter of our prosperity, but the very survival of our people.

... [I carried out the attack] to most of all show the invaders that our lands will never be their lands, our homelands are our own and that, as long as a white man still lives, they will NEVER conquer our lands and they will never replace our people... To directly reduce immigration rates to European lands by intimidating and physically removing the invaders themselves.
(I am not going to link to his manifesto.)

The word "invader" appeared fifty-five times in the assassin's statement.

Later in the day, our President adopted the killer's language in describing the us-versus-them viewpoint that white nationalists bring to the American discourse.
People hate the word “invasion,” but that’s what it is. It’s an invasion of drugs and criminals and people. We have no idea who they are, but we capture them because border security is so good. But they’re put in a very bad position, and we’re bursting at the seams. Literally, bursting at the seams.

...You can only do so much. And the only option then is to release them, but we can’t do that either. Because when you release them, they come into our society, and in many cases they’re stone-cold criminals. And in many cases, and in some cases, you have killers coming in and murderers coming in, and we’re not going to allow that to happen. Remarks by President Trump on the National Security and Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border
Pundits have wondered whether Trump intentionally used the killer's language, or if it was just a coincidence. It's a pretty good question, but we have no way of knowing what Trump had heard when he delivered these remarks -- I would bet that he had not read any seventy-four-page manifesto, but maybe an aide had quoted a few lines to him. His mention that "people hate the word 'invasion'" suggests he was consciously referring to the New Zealand manifesto. And maybe not, maybe Trump and the New Zealand murderer are simply two mouthpieces expressing the same ideology, and happened to pick the same easy words to describe their beliefs.

In describing a world in which "we" are being invaded by stone-cold criminals, killers and murderers, the obvious inference is that "we" need to defend ourselves. Invasion is a military term, and it calls for counterattack. Latent domestic terrorists in the United States and around the world hear his message and understand what he is saying they have to do. This is going to get worse before it gets better.

224 Comments:

Blogger Priya Lynn said...

If you're afraid of white genocide, your enemy is any heterosexual couple that has more than 2.1 children.

March 17, 2019 12:24 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Its crazy to be afraid of white genocide and then be unconditionally opposed to birth control and abortion.

March 17, 2019 12:35 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The Right Wing Authoritarians want the impossible - control over women and their sexualiyt, forcing them to be baby making machines, and to have non-whites not out reproduce them.

So, their insane solution - coerce white women to have as many babies as possible.

March 17, 2019 12:37 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Eff that Canadian bozo Jordan Peterson.

March 17, 2019 12:49 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I would rip Jordan Peterson to shreds if by some unforseeable chance we were to have an honest debate about what is best for society.

March 17, 2019 12:50 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

It is shocking hypocrisy for white people to try to control who can and cannot cross a border in North America.

White people in North America don't have the moral authority to get any say in who crosses what North American border.

March 17, 2019 1:49 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The emperor has no clothes.

March 18, 2019 3:03 AM  
Anonymous Welcome to tЯumplandia said...

“It’s truly incredible that shows like Saturday Night Live, not funny/no talent, can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of ‘the other side.’ Like an advertisement without consequences. Same with Late Night Shows,” the POTUS wrote.

And

“Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro,” Trump said in a tweet Sunday. “The Radical Left Democrats, working closely with their beloved partner, the Fake News Media, is using every trick in the book to SILENCE a majority of our Country. They have all out campaigns against @FoxNews hosts who are doing too well.”

Someone should inform the orange ignoramus that there are no "Radical Left Democrats" working at FOX NEWS, and that "in June 2011, the Chairman and a subcommittee chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, both Republicans, said that the FCC, in response to their requests, had set a target date of August 2011 for removing the Fairness Doctrine and other "outdated" regulations from the FCC's rulebook.

"Fox News host Jeanine Pirro's show didn't air this weekend, a week after her comments questioning U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar over her wearing a Muslim head covering.

Pirro's show, "Justice With Judge Jeanine," was replaced Saturday night by other programming. The Fox News schedule for the upcoming weekend doesn't include the show."

Good riddance, Pirro. Maybe she'll end up with reunited with FOX's Bill Shine working in the White House.

A Running List Of The Former Fox News Employees Who Now Work For Trump
President Trump is cutting out the middleman and promoting Fox News journalists straight into his administration.

March 18, 2019 1:56 PM  
Anonymous We are all God's children said...

Kelly Anne Conway has made a "suggestion that people should read the entire manifesto."

She's not worried about spreading the NZ shooter's beliefs, only making her white supremacist boss look innocent of fomenting hatred for THEM.

I'm with Jacinda Ardern: THEY ARE US.

March 18, 2019 2:30 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Hear Hear, Good Anonymous,

Hear Hear.

March 18, 2019 3:21 PM  
Anonymous A "small group of people" with "very serious problems" said...

President Trump condemned the Christchurch attacks, but his administration has spent the last three years emboldening white nationalists and neo-Nazis, cracking down on left-wing activists, and mainstreaming anti-immigration conspiracy theories tinged with anti-Semitic undertones not dissimilar to those promulgated by Tarrant. In October, the president addressed an audience of supporters at a campaign rally in Houston, Texas. He prompted “USA!” chants from the crowd when he declared himself a “nationalist” fighting against “power-hungry globalists.”

During the 2018 midterm elections, Trump maligned a U.S.-bound caravan of refugees and migrants as an “invasion,” a conspiracy theory repeated by white nationalist Robert Bowers when he gunned down worshippers at a Pittsburg synagogue last November. The Christchurch shooter used eerily similar language in a blog post on Thursday: “I will carry out an attack against the invaders,” he wrote, apparently referring to Muslim immigrants.

The similarities are not going unnoticed. “In this case, a killer attacked Muslims worshiping at two mosques. In November, a killer massacred Jews at a synagogue in Pittsburgh,” Cohen said Friday. “Though the victims were different, and the attacks came in different parts of the world, the terrorists shared the same ideology of white supremacist hate.”

Perhaps even more disturbingly, however, far-right politicians from Australia to Europe responding to the attacks have doubled down on white nationalist rhetoric, shifting the blame from the killer to the Muslims targeted by the violence. Australia Senator Fraser Anning, who represents Queensland, condemned the attacks but used the opportunity to spread Islamophobic bile. “The real cause of bloodshed on the New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place,” Anning wrote.

Halfway across the world, Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, on Friday celebrated Hungarians for supposedly stopping “at our southern borders, the migrant invasion directed at Europe.” Orbán has spent the last several years blaming Jewish Hungarian American billionaire philanthropist George Soros for Europe’s refugee crisis. “Without the protection of our Christian culture we will lose Europe, and Europe will no longer belong to the Europeans,” he added—an uncomfortably close echo of Tarrant’s death-struggle, us-versus-them manifesto language.

In the U.S. as well, President Trump called the attacks a “horrible, horrible thing” before quickly pivoting to the topic of immigration. “People hate the word invasion, but that’s what it is,” he said.

In the wake of yet another deadly attack amidst a global rise in far-right violence, many in the coming days will understandably be wondering what an appropriate response should look like. “It’s incumbent on leftists to work toward a clear internationalist platform that rebukes nationalism, rebukes hard borders, and rejects the notion that Europe is a white continent,” Ross told me. The increasingly international nature of rightist extremism requires an equally international anti-fascist response that addresses its root causes. Until that response comes, and so long as the people occupying the corridors of power from North America to Europe and beyond spread the same messages once thought to be confined to the dark crevices of the internet, we can expect more bloodshed targeting immigrants, worshippers, and everyone opposed to hate.

March 18, 2019 4:34 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

UNITED NATIONS: Human Rights Groups Say Trump Administration Threatens Officials, Ignores Complaints


The Guardian reports:

Protests have poured in from organizations objecting to the Trump administration’s virtual boycott of established systems designed to protect human rights, after the US withdrew from the United Nations human rights council last year. Washington is accused of rebuffing official complaints from monitors, undermining human rights bodies and threatening officials with prosecution should they set foot on US soil.

The latest condemnation has come from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has delivered a scathing appraisal to the human rights council (HRC) in Geneva. The ACLU charged that over the past year “the Trump administration has escalated its hostility towards human rights bodies including the apparent severing of relationships with independent experts appointed to monitor and report on human rights violations”.

March 18, 2019 7:48 PM  
Anonymous I reeeeeeeeally like our Supreme Court.and the best is yet to come!!!!!!! said...

Jim had such a nice post going, and then he starts up with this crap:

"Later in the day, our President adopted the killer's language in describing the us-versus-them viewpoint that white nationalists bring to the American discourse."

few Americans, of any race, creed, or color appreciate those who enter our country under false circumstances, pretending to seek political asylum to take advantage of our laws

that indeed is an invasion of a kind

the President used the phrase correctly

the gunman in NZ viciously murdered legal citizens who happen to have born in another country and called them invaders

the gunman used the phrase incorrectly

so technically, Trump used the same language

but so did Jim above

the point is who used the phrase correctly

"This is going to get worse before it gets better."

yes, Dems will make sure of it

let's let the Supreme Court decide

March 18, 2019 9:18 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Look at the Right Wing Authoritarians the cat dragged in...

March 18, 2019 9:25 PM  
Anonymous what is news? said...

Political leaders and public figures were falling over themselves this weekend to condemn the mosque attacks in New Zealand, while dozens of Christians were slaughtered by Muslims in Nigeria to the sound of crickets.

The mosque attacks were indeed a horrific affair and worthy of universal condemnation. Presidents, prime ministers, royalty, and religious leaders rushed to extend their condolences to victims and their families — as well they should — while decrying the hate that purportedly motivated the shootings.

Without exception, the mainstream media gave top billing to the shootings, with newspapers carrying the story on their front pages and television news channels leading off their broadcasts with the story.

The bizarre aspect of the coverage was not, in fact, the attention paid to a heinous crime committed in New Zealand, but the absolute silence surrounding the simultaneous massacre of scores of Christians by Muslim militants in Africa.

Fulani jihadists racked up a death toll of over 120 Christians over the past three weeks in central Nigeria, employing machetes and gunfire to slaughter men, women, and children, burning down over 140 houses, destroying property, and spreading terror.

The New York Times did not place this story on the front page; in fact, they did not cover it at all. Apparently, when assessing “all the news that’s fit to print,” the massacre of African Christians did not measure up. The same can be said for the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, the LA Times, and every other major paper in the United States.

The news shows from the three major television channels did not mention the story, and nor did CNN or MSNBC.

March 18, 2019 9:29 PM  
Anonymous what is news? said...

There are several possible explanations for this remarkable silence, and none of them is good.

Since, in point of fact, Muslim radicals kill Christians around the world with alarming frequency, it is probable that one more slaughter did not seem particularly newsworthy to the decision-makers at major news outlets. Muslims being killed, on the other hand, may strike many as newsworthy precisely because it is so rare.

A second motive for the media silence around the massacre of Christians in Nigeria may be geo-political and racial. New Zealand is a first-world country where such things are not supposed to happen, whereas many people still consider Africa to be a backwards place where brutal killings are par for the course.

Moreover, the slaughter of black Christians in Africa may not enkindle rage among westerners the way that the murder of white and brown Muslims in New Zealand would.

Finally, the story simply does not play to the political agenda that many mainstream media would like to advance. How much mileage can be gained from Muslims murdering Christians, when Christians in America are often seen as an obstacle to the “progress” desired by liberals? The left sees Christians in the United States as part of the problem and seeks to undermine their credibility and influence at every turn rather than emboldening them.

Anti-Christian bias has been rightly called “the last acceptable prejudice,” one that few bother condemning.

“No one much cares about offending Christians,” wrote the coalition of African-American pastors in an essay last Tuesday. “In fact, mocking, belittling, and blaspheming Christianity is becoming a bit of a trend in our culture. Anti-Christian bigotry truly is the last acceptable prejudice.”

Christians are by far the most persecuted religious group in the world, but the mainstream media routinely ignore this fact as if it were unimportant or uninteresting. As a result, many people do not even realize how widespread the persecution is or that 75 percent of the victims of religious persecution around the world are Christians.

Whatever the reason — or reasons — for the media silence surrounding the most recent massacres of Christians in Nigeria as well as numerous other such events, it should give right-thinking people pause.

By all means, the lethal shootings of dozens of Muslims in New Zealand is a massive story and merits extensive coverage. But it only stands to reason that similar coverage should be devoted to the slaughter of Christians.

For the moment, it serves as a poignant reminder that a double standard is at work when it comes to news coverage, and that it is Christians who inevitably draw the short straw

March 18, 2019 9:30 PM  
Anonymous slash the deficit: build the wall and ban taxpayer-funded transexual surgery said...

WASHINGTON – Amid signs that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference may be near its conclusion, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds that trust in Mueller has eroded and half of Americans agree with President Donald Trump that he has been the victim of a "witch hunt."

Support for the House of Representatives seriously considering impeaching the president has dropped since last October by 10 percentage points, to 28 percent.

Only 28 percent say they have a lot of trust in former FBI director Mueller's investigation to be fair and accurate. That's the lowest level to date.

Mueller indicted 34 people, including some of Trump's closest aides and advisers. The indictments have not accused the president’s aides of participating in collusion with Russia. Last week, Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was sentenced to a total of 7.5 years in federal prison for financial crimes.

The poll's findings set the stage for when Mueller submits his report to Attorney General William Barr. The president has fortified his support and raised questions about his investigators.

March 18, 2019 9:41 PM  
Anonymous Republicans showing they don't care about Democracy, only retaining their power said...

"For the moment, it serves as a poignant reminder that a double standard is at work when it comes to news coverage, and that it is Christians who inevitably draw the short straw"

Sounds like you need some cheese with that whine.

Christians and Muslims have been killing each other for centuries. The real big news is when they finally stop.

I'm guessing that won't happen until the rapture.

Speaking of rapture...

"Pompeo is an evangelical Christian who believes in the “Rapture” — a time when righteous Christians will supposedly be taken into heaven in the apocalyptic end of times. He sees American battles in the Mideast as part of a greater war of good against evil.

“It is a never-ending struggle … until the Rapture,” Pompeo said in a 2015 speech at a Kansas megachurch. “Be part of it. Be in the fight.”

Anyone wanna tell us why Pompeo went on a conference call with only "faith based" media??!!

"The State Department announced a Monday conference call with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that was restricted to “faith-based media” to discuss international religious freedom ahead of his trip this week to the Mideast.

The “faith-based” restriction was first reported on Twitter by CNN senior diplomatic correspondent Michelle Kosinski. Word got out when one unidentified member of the “regular” media was accidentally invited — then disinvited."

What are they telling "faith based" media that they won't tell the general public - and how is that NOT breaking the establishment clause?

Grab some protection, 'cause it CAN'T be good when an administration (especially one known for pathological lying) is telling different things to different people. Get ready for some Christian Sharia Law - just what the right wing nuts have been stacking the courts for.

March 18, 2019 10:56 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

A military poll of service members found that 30% believe that white nationalism is a bigger threat to national security than the wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.

March 18, 2019 11:20 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina lied again (of course) "Since, in point of fact, Muslim radicals kill Christians around the world with alarming frequency, it is probable that one more slaughter did not seem particularly newsworthy to the decision-makers at major news outlets. Muslims being killed, on the other hand, may strike many as newsworthy precisely because it is so rare."

False! The truth is it is 2 to 1 Right wing terrorists vs Islamic terrorists.

Every fatality from Terrorism in the U.S. in 2018 was due to right wing terrorism (white nationalists like Trump)

But even this left/right definition no longer applies, the truth, whether you call it left or right, they're all what the research shows are Right Wing Authoritarians - rigid traditionalists who hate the world that is liberalizing around them.

Whether the Right Wing Authoritarians are Muslim, or Christian, they all want to punish others for not living the way they want, they all want to destroy people not like them.

Christian and Muslim terrorists are ideological brothers.

March 18, 2019 11:25 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Trump's falsely claiming he's being blamed for the New Zealand Mosque massacre - no one is saying he caused that massacre:

Trump doesn't deserve to be blamed for any specific crime. But he does deserve blame for the trend. It isn't very complicated; The man with the largest bully pulpit keeps encouraging violence and white nationalism. Lo and behold, white nationalist violence is on the rise. You have to work pretty hard to persuade yourself that's just a big coincidence.

March 18, 2019 11:27 PM  
Anonymous heterosexuality is how life is perpetuated and it has a privileged status said...

over the past three weeks, 120 Christians, men, women, and children, were slaughtered with machetes and guns by Muslims in Nigeria

that's over twice the number who were killed in Christchurch by a lone nut

the jihadists in Nigeria have wide support among Muslims in central Nigeria

the killer in Christchurch is merely a legend in his own mind

"Christians and Muslims have been killing each other for centuries. The real big news is when they finally stop"

I think the liberal-media-entertainment complex differs with you on that

they think it's real big news when a lone nut job kills 59 Muslims in New Zealand but no news at all when an organized Muslim group kills 120 Christians in Nigeria

obviously, they think one of those events is newsworthy and the other just a routine occurence

March 19, 2019 6:26 AM  
Anonymous beto o'rourke ...LOL!!! said...

"Republicans showing they don't care about Democracy, only retaining their power"

could you give an example of that?

"Pompeo is an evangelical Christian who believes in the “Rapture” — a time when righteous Christians will supposedly be taken into heaven in the apocalyptic end of times."

not true

Christians don't believe they are righteous

"He sees American battles in the Mideast as part of a greater war of good against evil."

so what?

"“It is a never-ending struggle … until the Rapture,” Pompeo said in a 2015 speech at a Kansas megachurch. “Be part of it. Be in the fight.”"

in the wacky world of TTFery, are Congressmen not entitled to have religious beliefs

"Anyone wanna tell us why Pompeo went on a conference call with only "faith based" media??!!"

do you think maybe it's because they are the media that informs a key constituency group that has expressed certain concerns??!!

"The State Department announced a Monday conference call with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that was restricted to “faith-based media” to discuss international religious freedom ahead of his trip this week to the Mideast."

hey, look at that

I was right!!

"The “faith-based” restriction was first reported on Twitter by CNN senior diplomatic correspondent Michelle Kosinski. Word got out when one unidentified member of the “regular” media was accidentally invited — then disinvited."

so that's how the nefarious plot was discovered!!

"What are they telling "faith based" media that they won't tell the general public

"and how is that NOT breaking the establishment clause?"

that's a warped view of the Constitution

if you don't believe me, ask our originalist Supreme Court

you can't just walk in but you can find Brett Kavanaugh having a few skis any night of the week in the Capitol Hill 'hood

the mainstream, lamestream media, which has made a cause out of attacking Christianity, gets plenty of time with the Secretary of State as well

"Grab some protection, 'cause it CAN'T be good when an administration (especially one known for pathological lying) is telling different things to different people."

every administration addresses different constituency groups in different ways

for example, Obama the Worst considered the Russian government to be one of his key constituency groups when he told them, in confidence, that he would be flexible with them after he won re-election by fooling Americans into thinking he was being tough on the Commies

"Get ready for some Christian Sharia Law"

separation of church and state is a concept that was first introduced to the world by Christianity

that's why nations with a Judeo-Christian heritage are tolerant and the rest of the world is not

"just what the right wing nuts have been stacking the courts for."

actually, the "right wing nuts" have been stacking the courts to prevent liberals from misinterpreting the Constitution to create laws

for example, lunatic fringe gay groups couldn't get any state, even California during Obama's big election year, to pass gay "marriage"

so they go to the courts to make up something that is not in the Constitution

that's over now, we await the next gay "marriage" case

March 19, 2019 6:27 AM  
Anonymous $6.1 million in 24 hours.....LMAO said...

Pick a poll, pick any poll

Poll: Most Americans trust Mueller, Dems in Trump probes

Most Americans have confidence in special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional Democrats, as both investigate aspects of President Trump and his administration, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll.

The survey, released Monday, found that 19 percent of registered voters trust Mueller the most, followed by 10 percent who chose Democrats. Twenty eight percent of respondents said they trust the special counsel and Democratic lawmakers equally.

Fifty-seven percent said they trusted Mueller and Democrats, while 43 percent said they didn't trust either of them. That figure is in line with the 45 percent of registered voters who approved of Trump's job performance in a recent Hill-HarrisX poll.

...Polling has generally shown that Americans are more supportive than skeptical of Mueller’s investigation since he took over the probe from the FBI in May 2017 after Trump fired the agency's director at the time, James Comey.

Trump has regularly derided Mueller's investigation as a "witch hunt," saying there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia. Mueller has obtained convictions and plea deals of several former Trump aides and associates but has not accused any of them of criminal conspiracy with Russian government actors.

Congressional Democrats have been under pressure from some left-leaning groups to impeach Trump for a variety of reasons now that they control the House. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has ruled out impeaching the president at this time...

March 19, 2019 8:36 AM  
Anonymous Jeb Bush: most money raised in 2015....LOL!!! said...

Keep dreaming. When the Mueller report comes out, there will, no doubt, be things unflattering to Trump, but Americans will be disgusted by the waste, not in money, but in time and focus, about nothing. Pelosi's move is the best Dems can do but, still, this whole thing will be a Dem 2020 albatross.

March 19, 2019 10:43 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

President Huckabee.....LMAO!!

March 19, 2019 11:13 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

"President Huckabee.....LMAO!!"

Hahahahahahahahaha!

March 19, 2019 11:30 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous -

Je suis Charlie.

March 19, 2019 11:32 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

"When the Mueller report comes out... Americans will be disgusted by the waste"

Hahahahahahaahahahaha!

With tens of millions in fines and seizures, the Mueller Investigation has turned a profit you ignoramous!

The Muller report has made Americans money by bringing Trump's criminal co-conspirators to justice!

March 19, 2019 11:40 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

When the Mueller Report comes out Americans will see beyond the current profit and 100+ criminal indictments to the total profit made by the Mueller Investigation and they won't want it to stop :)

March 19, 2019 11:45 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The constant repetition of the foundational deception strategy of Republicans, beating on and on and on...

That's what you see Wyatt/Regina doing here - strategizing what would be the most advantageous future happenings for them and then firmly but baselessly asserting that's exactly how the future will unfold.

That's that constant gross distortion of reality that has so angered me about Wyatt/Regina (your standard Republican bs'er) over the decades - the absurd assertion that again and again, over two decades they know precisely how the future will unfold. And they call me arrogant. At least I write my own stuff.

And then to have them admit several threads ago they do it just to anger me, well, yeah,they made me pretty angry.

March 19, 2019 11:58 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

That constant last sort of comment by Wyatt/Regina, the thought and style that went into it, it just speaks to me of a larger organization behind them.

They make that sort of comment a lot, it just seems a little too polished for my tastes. Totally bullshit of course, but what else do Republicans have, amirite? lol!

March 19, 2019 12:01 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Just admit and repent for your rampant dishonesty on the internet Wyatt/Regina/Tony Perkins and I'll stop rubbing your faces in this humilating failure of yours over the past several threads, in which you hoped to defend your dishonest and abusive tactics through your religion.

March 19, 2019 12:16 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I'm not an "expert" on christianity like Wyatt/Regina/Tony Perkins, but it just seems to me this "my religious beliefs (which if you don't allow me to keep secret, you are disrespecting me) justify me treating you badly" is just a house of cards.

March 19, 2019 12:40 PM  
Anonymous homosexuality never produces life, two of 'em ain't ever a marriage said...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed U.S. government authority to detain immigrants awaiting deportation anytime - potentially even years - after they have completed prison terms for criminal crimes, handing President Donald Trump a huge victory as he deals with the national emergency of excessive illegal immigration.

The court ruled 5-4, with its best justices in the majority and its more dubious justices dissenting, that federal authorities could pick up such immigrants and place them into indefinite detention at any time, not just immediately after they finish their prison sentences for the numerous crimes they commit.

The ruling was authored by the esteemed Justice Samuel Alito.

In dissent, pathetic liberal Justice Stephen Breyer questioned whether the U.S. Congress when it wrote the law "meant to allow the government to apprehend persons years after their release from prison and hold them indefinitely without a bail hearing."

The plaintiffs included two legal U.S. residents involved in separate lawsuits filed in 2013, a Cambodian immigrant named Mony Preap convicted of marijuana possession and a Palestinian immigrant named Bassam Yusuf Khoury convicted of attempting to manufacture a controlled substance.

Under federal immigration law, illegal immigrants convicted of criminal offenses are subject to mandatory detention during their deportation process. They can be held indefinitely without a bond hearing after completing their sentences.

March 19, 2019 2:15 PM  
Anonymous beto o'rourke ...LOL!!! said...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beto O’Rourke opened his Democratic presidential campaign this past week with a call to action on global warming that misrepresented the science. From Iowa, he claimed scientists are united in believing the planet only has a dozen years to turn the tide on climate change, which is not their view.

O’ROURKE, on global warming: “This is our final chance. The scientists are absolutely unanimous on this. That we have no more than 12 years to take incredibly bold action on this crisis.” — remarks in Keokuk, Iowa, on Thursday.

THE FACTS: There is no scientific consensus, much less unanimity, that the planet only has 12 years to fix the problem.

A report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, drawn from the work of hundreds of scientists, uses 2030 as a prominent benchmark because signatories to the Paris agreement have pledged emission cuts by then. But it’s not a hard deadline for action, as it has been interpreted in some quarters.

“Glad to clear this up,” James Skea, co-chairman of the report and professor of sustainable energy at Imperial College London, told The Associated Press. The panel “did not say we have 12 years left to save the world.”

“This has been a persistent source of confusion,” agreed Kristie L. Ebi, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington in Seattle. “The report never said we only have 12 years left.”

“The earth does not reach a cliff at 2030 or 2052,” Ebi told AP.

As much as climate scientists see the necessity for broad and immediate action to address global warming, they do not agree on an imminent point of no return.

Cornell University climate scientist Natalie M. Mahowald told the AP that a 12-year time frame is a “robust number for trying to cut emissions” and to keep the increase in warming under current levels.

But she said sketching out unduly dire consequences is not “helpful to solving the problem.”

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March 19, 2019 2:33 PM  
Anonymous Oh dear, tЯollie has her knickers in a twist said...

Why sweat the climate numbers?

You support the biggest liar of them all!

Everybody know tЯumpie-poo is the unquestioned champion #1 liar!

You must be so proud!

March 19, 2019 5:17 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous,how many new readers do you think read your bullshit and are unaware of your constant flood of lies, distortions, and gross mischaracterizations of reality that you tel yourself are not immoral because they are technically not lies?

You're not fooling many people here, why do you keep at it? Is the pay good? Because if I can get some of that sweet, sweet Russaian anti-gay money I might be willing to switch sides :)

March 19, 2019 6:47 PM  
Anonymous Republicans showing they're poor losers. Again. said...

"even California during Obama's big election year, to pass gay "marriage"

The right wing nuts, especially Mormons from Utah spent MILLIONS of dollars trying to oppress innocent gay people. It worked, but only for a time.

"so they go to the courts to make up something that is not in the Constitution"

Wake up dude, straight marriage wasn't in the constitution either. Someone who loves "originalists" should know that.

BTW, Equal Protection is in the 14th Amendment, which went into effect in 1868. And that applies to ALL US citizens, not just the straight, Christian ones. That wasn't just "made up."

"In 2015, the Supreme Court held in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and required all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and to recognize same-sex marriages validly performed in other jurisdictions."

"that's over now, we await the next gay "marriage" case"

And I'm sure you'd be delighted to see gay people denied the right to marry again. But we fixed that problem once, and it could be fixed again, if necessary.

Now that all the gloom and doom scenarios that Christians claimed would happen if gays were allowed to marry haven't happened, it's going to be a lot harder to convince people that a small group of bigoted Christians should be allowed to determine whether people they wouldn't even associate with should be denied marriage.

And as more and more churches have decided to marry gay couples as well, denying them that right will necessarily impose on their freedom of religion. You'll have an even bigger fight on your hands, and your continued obsession with abusing innocent gay people will look ever more sickening and pathetic.

And as for "originalists," most of the country doesn't want to go back to a time where it was legal for white people to own black people, and women weren't allowed to vote.

But keep using "originalist" as if it isn't just a euphemism for turning the US into a de facto Christian theocracy, and hoping no one will notice.

March 19, 2019 6:56 PM  
Anonymous slash the deficit: build the wall and ban taxpayer-funded transexual surgery said...

"The right wing nuts, especially Mormons from Utah spent MILLIONS of dollars trying to oppress innocent gay people."

the other side spent plenty as well

gays lost the argument, that was fair and square

I really don't think the votes were bought

have you met my good friends, Jeb and Hillary?

they thought they were going to be President because they raised so much more money than anyone else

"It worked, but only for a time."

and you guys call Trump a liar

at the time of the California vote, gays had pushed referendums for gay "marriage" in dozens of states

and lost

every

single

time

DOZENS

"Wake up dude, straight marriage wasn't in the constitution either. Someone who loves "originalists" should know that."

and you guys call Trump a liar

no one said straight marriage is guaranteed in the Constitution

it isn't

neither is gay "marriage"

"BTW, Equal Protection is in the 14th Amendment, which went into effect in 1868. And that applies to ALL US citizens, not just the straight, Christian ones. That wasn't just "made up.""

marriage isn't designed for protection

the government is obviously permitted to discriminate between behavior

that's why we tax cigarettes and alcohol

heterosexuality is the means by which life is formed

that gives it a superior status relative to homosexuality

it's an inconvenient fact!

"In 2015, the Supreme Court held in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by the Constitution and required all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples."

you will note that four Ivy-League-trained lawyers at the pinnacle of their profession disagreed with this

now, there's a fifth

have you met my good friend, Brett K?

you should go have a brewski with he and Squi sometime

they'll explain the new reality to you

"And I'm sure you'd be delighted to see gay people denied the right to marry again"

no one's stopping them from doing anything they wouldn't already be doing

we just won't give them special privileges

there's no reason for that

"But we fixed that problem once, and it could be fixed again, if necessary."

after the thousands of years of human civilization, you finally got 5 judges to forsake traditional marriage

how long will it take next time?

thousands of years?

"And as for "originalists," most of the country doesn't want to go back to a time where it was legal for white people to own black people, and women weren't allowed to vote."

the original Constitution allowed for amendments

they didn't say judges should have the power to amend the Constitution

"But keep using "originalist" as if it isn't just a euphemism for turning the US into a de facto Christian theocracy"

every society in history considered homosexuality something not to be encouraged, even atheist states

homosexuality is not a religious issue

March 19, 2019 9:24 PM  
Anonymous Republicans showing they don't care about Democracy, only retaining their power said...

"homosexuality is not a religious issue"

Agreed. There is no reason for anyone to try and use the baseless claim their "religion" doesn't allow them to bake cakes for gay weddings. That simply wasn't in anyone's religious text. Glad you can finally see that.

"we just won't give them special privileges
there's no reason for that"

Straight people, which make up roughly 95% of the population, rich and poor, young and old, have been getting married, divorced, re-married, and re-divorced for centuries.
It's hardly "special," unless of course you're the kind of kid who got the "participation" trophy because you were so "special."

There is no legal definition of "special" either. That's just another made up "justification" you pulled out of your head hole.

"after the thousands of years of human civilization, you finally got 5 judges to forsake traditional marriage"

Religious people have been murdering and / or jailing other people that don't agree with them for centuries, because they were labeled "witches," "heretics," or "pagans," when in fact they were just people who were different, or scientists, or natives that didn't follow the Christian god.

It takes a long time to wrest power from people willing to inflict so much violence on so many people to maintain their control and belief structures. They don't give that kind of power away willingly.

"they didn't say judges should have the power to amend the Constitution"

They didn't amend it. The founders made a whole branch of government called the "Judiciary" branch, tasked with oversight of the Legislative and Executive branches to make sure they were adhering to the Constitution and its amendments. The 14th Amendment had been there for over 100 years.

The problem is that there are a lot of right wingers who don't really understand what "equal" means. This is not a total surprise, given their long time problems with figuring out math and balancing budgets.

"marriage isn't designed for protection"

Then what are you trying to protect it from by not allowing gay people to marry?

Do you actually read the drivel you type, or do you just spin a wheel with random right wing phrases and punch them in?

"heterosexuality is the means by which life is formed"

Unless of course, you're a scientist and into cloning or in-vitro fertilization.

"that gives it a superior status relative to homosexuality"

There is absolutely no shortage of heterosexuals on the planet. No one's going to miss someone who was never conceived. No heterosexuals are going to stop having sex because some gay couple got married.

Your incessant preoccupation with sex though could mean you have serious issues you should see a therapist for. Or maybe it just means you're VERY desperate to get laid.

March 19, 2019 10:11 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Two thumbs up,Good anonymous : )

March 19, 2019 10:48 PM  
Anonymous slash the deficit: build the wall and ban taxpayer-funded transexual surgery said...

"There is no reason for anyone to try and use the baseless claim their "religion" doesn't allow them to bake cakes for gay weddings"

well, the reason is that their religion considers homosexuality immoral

but it's not a religious issue per se, just in that specific case

all societies have considered homosexuality immoral, even non-religious ones

just like shoplifting might be against someone's religion, but it's not a religious issue

but, really, no one is obligated to give a reason

they can bakes for whoever they want

"It's hardly "special,""

heterosexuals receive marital benefits because their unions are life-forming

that's special

homosexuals unions aren't

what's your confusion?

"Religious people have been murdering and / or jailing other people that don't agree with them for centuries,"

Henry the VIII, maybe

it's the exception, not the rule, regardless of current socialist propaganda

"It takes a long time to wrest power from people willing to inflict so much violence"

not agreeing with your definition of marriage is not violent

"They didn't amend it. The founders made a whole branch of government called the "Judiciary" branch, tasked with oversight of the Legislative and Executive branches to make sure they were adhering to the Constitution and its amendments"

that didn't include creating legislation from the bench

"The problem is that there are a lot of right wingers who don't really understand what "equal" means"

the phrase is "equal protection" and you haven't got a clue what it means

"what are you trying to protect it from by not allowing gay people to marry?"

how about existence?

"Unless of course, you're a scientist and into cloning or in-vitro fertilization."

I agree, homosexuality is artificial and test-tube

"There is absolutely no shortage of heterosexuals on the planet. No one's going to miss someone who was never conceived. No heterosexuals are going to stop having sex because some gay couple got married."

well, there's no reason to give homosexuals marriages special privileges that are reserved for life-affirming institutions

March 20, 2019 12:13 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "homosexuality is not a religious issue".

Then why do you a-holes keep using religion as an excuse to deny service and rights to gays?

March 20, 2019 1:24 AM  
Anonymous Heterosexuals need to use more condoms said...

"heterosexuals receive marital benefits because their unions are life-forming

that's special

homosexuals unions aren't"

Cockroaches can form new life too. It doesn't make them "special." Biology works whether you're a rat or monkey.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

This country was started with that declaration.

What's your confusion?

"well, there's no reason to give homosexuals marriages special privileges that are reserved for life-affirming institutions"

Really, "originalist?" Why don't you point me to the lines in the Constitution that carve out special privileges for heterosexuals.

I'll wait.

"how about existence?"

Yeah, how about that?

Right now heterosexuals in this country can't even feed all their own children:

https://mashable.com/2016/07/14/child-hunger-united-states/#wGPoC2F8YaqD

About 16.2 million kids are going hungry every year.

"Educators in the U.S. are acutely aware of childhood hunger's massive impact. About 3 out of 4 American teachers notice their students aren't able to access adequate amounts of food.

"Children come to school hungry, and a hungry child can't learn," Dunn says. "We need to make sure their stomachs are full so they are hungry for knowledge, not food."

School lunches — and the uptick of school breakfast programs — help curb some of the barriers in access. But lacking stable food access at home can have devastating impacts on a child's ability to get the most out of their education.

What good is the "special" ability to produce life if you can't even keep your kids fed, and their education suffers because they can't get enough food to concentrate on their classwork?

When they can't learn, they're more likely to be a drain on society, going to prison instead of college, where they can get a good job and feed the next generation of healthy children.

Clearly, heterosexuals need to be working more and screwing less - or at least using more condoms. They already have more kids than they can properly feed.

If you REALLY believed new life was so special, you wouldn't let all these kids suffer like that, and you wouldn't be wasting your time complaining about gay people who aren't adding to the problem.

Once you solve the problem of 16 million hungry children in the one of the richest countries on the planet, maybe then you will have learned enough that you can come back with a better excuse as to why the roughly 12 million gay people in this country should subject themselves to your poor and distorted reading of the Constitution.

March 20, 2019 1:40 AM  
Anonymous Heterosexuals need to learn how to prioritize said...

A 29-year-old former police officer admitted she was having sex with her boss while her young daughter died in her patrol car.

On Monday Cassie Barker, once an officer with the Long Beach, Miss., Police Department, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2016 death of her 3-year-old daughter, Cheyenne Hyer, from heat exposure, according to the (Biloxi) Sun Herald.

On Sept. 30 of that year, Barker left her daughter in her parked patrol car outside the home of her then-boss Clark Ladner while the two had sex and slept over a period of four hours. Although the car’s air conditioner was running, it was not blowing cold air. The Associated Press reported that Barker and Ladner were immediately fired, however, Ladner was not charged, as he told officers he wasn’t aware that Cheyenne was in the car.

Cheyenne, who was later described by former Long Beach Police Chief Wayne McDowell as a “very happy, joyful little girl” whom officers would occasionally take turns pushing in a stroller, had a body temperature of 107 degrees when she was found.

The girl’s father, Ryan Hyer, reportedly said on Monday, “Every time I close my eyes, I picture her suffering and then I picture her laying in this coffin. I still see her smiling and laughing in my head, and I would assume that smile and laughter turned to pain and suffering in that instance. It’s an image I don’t want to have, but it’s one I can’t get rid of.”

Barker had previously left Cheyenne in the car in 2015 outside a Gulfport store while she went inside, reported the Los Angeles Times. After a pedestrian called the police, Barker went on unpaid leave and welfare workers took temporary custody of the girl. Ryan says he was never told about that incident.

March 20, 2019 2:58 AM  
Anonymous Brett Kavanaugh...LOL!! We got something to laugh about! said...

"Cockroaches can form new life too. It doesn't make them "special.""

it would if they were forming human life

that you equate humans with cockroaches means homeland security should probably be watching you

""We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

This country was started with that declaration.

What's your confusion?"

I guess it's that you can have life, liberty, and pursue happiness even if the government doesn't pretend that homosexuality is the equivalent of heterosexuality

what's your confusion?

"Really, "originalist?" Why don't you point me to the lines in the Constitution that carve out special privileges for heterosexuals."

I never said there were any

marriage precedes the Constitution and is part of common law

two gays ain't ever a marriage

"What good is the "special" ability to produce life if you can't even keep your kids fed, and their education suffers because they can't get enough food to concentrate on their classwork?'

are you it's better to be dead than hungry?

"Clearly, heterosexuals need to be working more and screwing less - or at least using more condoms. They already have more kids than they can properly feed."

we will always need a next generation

every single member of that next generation will be the result of a heterosexual relationship

none will be the result of a homosexual relationship

it's one of those rare 100% things

"If you REALLY believed new life was so special, you wouldn't let all these kids suffer like that,"

just to be clear: are you saying new life isn't special?

"and you wouldn't be wasting your time complaining about gay people who aren't adding to the problem"

I don't complain about "gay people"

I argue with the gay agenda

"Once you solve the problem of 16 million hungry children in the one of the richest countries on the planet, maybe then you will have learned enough that you can come back with a better excuse as to why the roughly 12 million gay people in this country should subject themselves to your poor and distorted reading of the Constitution."

saying that homosexual "marriage" is a Constitutional right is a distorted reading of the Constitution

despite your pathetic attempt at sleight-of-hand, this brief interlude when a dysfunctional Supreme Court ruled that such a right exists has done nothing to relieve hunger in US children

not to fear, this brief interlude, after thousands of years of civilization, will soon end

there's a new justice in town

March 20, 2019 6:05 AM  
Anonymous a fun new GOP issue for 2020 said...

I think all know those obnoxious people that want to change the rules every time they lose

which is often

that's the Dems

every time they lose, they want to rip down our democracy and start over

Pocahontas Warren is running trying to abolish the electoral college

great, then we could be as screwed as California is

and several Dems are floating the idea of expanding the courts to ensure at least half are always Dems

this is a desperate ploy to save the constitutional "rights" to abortion and homosexual marriage

the latest is lower the voting age to 16, before kids escape public school and find out they've been brainwashed

March 20, 2019 10:13 AM  
Anonymous Brett and Squi said...

what a bunch of baaaad losers Dems are!!!!!!!!!!!!

March 20, 2019 10:15 AM  
Anonymous Republicans showing they don't care about Democracy, only retaining their power said...

"this is a desperate ploy to save the constitutional "rights" to abortion and homosexual marriage"

Not as desperate as Mitch McConnell's desperate ploy to single-handedly deny hundreds of court appointments until Repuglicans regained control of the Congress.

Check the Constitution - no one made him King.

March 20, 2019 11:38 AM  
Anonymous homosexuality doesn't produce life, two of 'em ain't ever a marriage.....ever said...

"Mitch McConnell's desperate ploy to single-handedly deny hundreds of court appointments until Repuglicans regained control of the Congress.

Check the Constitution - no one made him King."

McConnell was able to make that determination because voters had given the GOP overwhelming victories in Congress as a reaction to the presidency of Obama the Worst

hardly a king, Mitch runs for election every 6 years

keeps getting re-elected because he has served his constituency well

that's not monarchy, that's democracy

March 20, 2019 11:48 AM  
Anonymous HAVE A NICE DAY! said...

"that's not monarchy, that's democracy"

Yeah!

Get your head screwed on straight, you moron!!

March 20, 2019 11:51 AM  
Anonymous Republicans showing they don't care about Democracy, only retaining their power said...

"I guess it's that you can have life, liberty, and pursue happiness even if the government doesn't pretend that homosexuality is the equivalent of heterosexuality"

Equivalency isn't a necessary condition for a marriage license. If you disagree, please point to some legal statute to support your case.

"Really, "originalist?" Why don't you point me to the lines in the Constitution that carve out special privileges for heterosexuals."

I never said there were any

marriage precedes the Constitution and is part of common law"

and

"saying that homosexual "marriage" is a Constitutional right is a distorted reading of the Constitution"

Well, I just did a "find" on "Constitutional right" and it doesn't look like anyone said it was, but you keep insisting that gay marriage is not. Equal protection under the law however IS a Constitutional right.

So now we see that your whole "not Constitutional" argument is a canard, and now you're trying to change your argument to "common law."

Fine. The Judicial branch of our government is tasked with adjudicating common law issues, making rulings, and setting new precedents when necessary. It's how society progresses. It's their job. That's what we have several levels of courts for.

Just because you don't like the way they decided a particular case doesn't mean they weren't right.

The world doesn't revolve around you.

Don't forget, part of the reason this country was founded was so we could get out from under the rules, laws (including common ones) and religious persecution of the British Empire and write our own new laws.


March 20, 2019 12:00 PM  
Anonymous Republicans showing they don't care about Democracy, only retaining their power said...

"hardly a king, Mitch runs for election every 6 years

keeps getting re-elected because he has served his constituency well"

Obama got re-elected because he served his constituency far better than any Republican candidate could have, and Mitch ignored that voter mandate.

Upon taking office, senators-elect must swear or affirm that they will "support and defend the Constitution."

Mitch had a larger job than satisfying his own constituents in Kentucky. Someone in his position affects constituents in the other 49 states as well. He could have at least VOTED on Obama's recommendations, like the CONSTITUTION requires him to. But he did not. He sat on them. He did not allow the most BASIC of democratic functions to occur.

Why was he afraid of letting the senate vote even?!?! That's how the senate has been approving judges nearly 2.5 centuries.

Single handedly stopping hundreds of votes because you don't like how they might turn out isn't democratic, it's the actions of a power hungry despot.

If Harry Reid had done the same thing, Republicans would have been talking about "2nd Amendment solutions" to the problem.

March 20, 2019 12:18 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Holy sh*t!

I wish I was half as sharp as Good Anonymous!

There's that jaw-dropping depth and breadth of knowledge again that constantly has me slack-jawed...

March 20, 2019 2:23 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...


Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "saying that homosexual "marriage" is a Constitutional right is a distorted reading of the Constitution"

This is a perfect example of the constant gross mischaracterization of reality Republicans rely on to force their anti-freedom agenda down our throats.

They've got soooo much mileage out of this lie. The constant repetition of it shows the complete selfish lack of integrity of evangelical christians.

The truth is, just because a right isn't listed in the constitution does not mean citizens do not have that right. See the ninth amendment.

Republicans know its a lie to claim that because gay marriage isn't listed in the constitution there isn't a right to it. But they haven't the slightest qualms about deceiving all Americans to get their selfish and unjustly privileged way.

The ninth amendment says "Any rights not enumerated in this document are retained by the people". That means you have a vast array of rights not listed in the constitution. The constitution does not say anyone has the right to marry, eat, sleep, sh*t, or scratch their ass but no honest rational person would claim one doesn't have a right to do those things.

The Republican party would have long ago been resigned to the dustbin of history if they didn't constantly lie and deceive the public like this.

March 20, 2019 2:38 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "I don't complain about "gay people" I argue with the gay agenda"

There's that gross mischaracterization of reality again. Don't you two have any other tools in your anti-freedom, anti-fairness agenda?

The truth is Wyatt/Regina have constantly complained about and demonized gays over their two decades of fomenting hatred on the internet. What they euphemistically characterize as "arguing with the gay agenda", or frequently "mere disagreement" (holy sh*t is that deceptive!) is in reality an unrelenting demand that society require gays to pay more and more and get less and less.

So, no matter how they try to pretty up and rationalize their hate and unfairness, it is entirely about hate and unfairness for them. Note how several threads back they admitted they argue in bad faith just to make me angry and upset.

Deceptive bigots like Wyatt/Regina always dishonestly try to characterize their attacks on innocent people as innocuous when its anything but.

March 20, 2019 2:39 PM  
Anonymous Correction said...

"GOP overwhelming victories in Congress as a reaction to the presidency of Obama the Worst"

You mean "Obama the Black"

Then the overwhelmingly victorious GOP elected tЯump the White Supremacist.

Dumbya was the worst until we got IQ45.

We should all be grateful Obama cleaned up most of dumbya's mess in spite of McConnell's stated but failed goal to limit Obama to a single term.

March 20, 2019 4:53 PM  
Anonymous Bearing false witness -- no, liar, he did not "so desperately want" a job from you said...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and claimed that Conway was bitter because the president refused to employ him in his administration.

“George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wife’s success and angry that I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted,” the president wrote on Twitter. “I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER and husband from hell!”

However, a letter sent by Conway to Trump in May 2017 shows that Trump is lying about what really happened.

The letter, which was obtained by the Washington Post, backs up Conway’s claim that he was the one who turned down a position at the Justice Department, not the other way around.

“I am profoundly grateful to you and to the Attorney General for selecting me to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice,” Conway wrote to Trump in the letter. “I have reluctantly concluded, however, that, for me and my family, this is not the right time for me to leave the private sector and take on a new role in the federal government.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/george-conway-s-letter-to-trump/

March 20, 2019 5:24 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Lol, that's sweet, Good anonymous!

March 20, 2019 5:45 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Tony Perkins and Russia, if you'e listening, you're not getting your money's worth out of Wyatt and Regina Hardiman. You need to can them, hire someone new, and give us some debate competition here rather than the same old tired gross deceptions.

March 20, 2019 6:44 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The 2019 World Happiness Report has come out. It clearly shows countries heavier on socialism are the happiest.

Canada ranks #9

The United States, a lowly 19th. Despite being the most wealthy country in the world, Americans are not very happy. That would change a great deal if the USA would get with the 1940's and adopt universal health care like the rest of the high functioning world.

March 20, 2019 7:21 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Shhh...Finland is proving that happiness is not exclusively weather related. It's about living in a society where people care for and support one another, where great healthcare and education are a given, and where religion plays the most minimal role possible in their politics...


Less than a third of Finns believe in God

Wyatt/Regina claim people should be religious because humanism is "superficial" - obviously not.

I'll tell you what's superficial - a moral philosophy where you behave well because you fear punishment and seek reward from a fickle god.

March 20, 2019 7:25 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Breaking:

For the first time in history, half of all Federal revenue is coming from individual income taxes. Only 6.2% comes from corporate taxes. There's your Trump Tax "cuts"

Make the rich pay their fair share!

March 20, 2019 7:37 PM  
Anonymous have a beer for my buddy, Brett!! said...

hey kids!

did you know that February was the coldest month in the United States in fifty years?

it's all part of a little sumpin' we laughingly call global warmin'!!

I know, I know, the alarmists are right

the planet has actually warmed slightly since 1850

but when the weather could be anything on any given Sunday, does it really matter?

but, you say, all that warmin' is bad for human health

hey wait a cotton-pickin' minute here!

in 1850, life expectancy was 39

now, it's twice that

maybe being warm prolongs life

well, whatever, you say

all this warmin' is caused by them damnable humans spewing their carbon upward

hey wait a cotton-pickin' minute here!

did you know that several volcanoes have exploded in the last hundred years, and each explosion spewed more carbon into the air than all the human activity in history COMBINED?!?!?

so, how in the heck could cutting human output of carbon have any effect at all?

I think those alarmists who push this global warming crap should get their heads screwed on straight!



March 20, 2019 9:36 PM  
Anonymous Pocahontas.....LOL said...

some of these wacko Dems have been running around pushing the idea that descendants of slaves should receive reparations

it's hard to argue with but we need to drill down and figure out who should pay

not Republicans

they crafted the Emancipation Proclamation and fought with their lives to free slaves

obviously, it's the Dems who should pay

they supported and fought for slavery, they created the KKK, they passed Jim Crow, and they stood in hallways blocking black kids from schools

we need a special tax on Dems to pay reparations!

March 20, 2019 9:42 PM  
Anonymous How is it that conservatives always believe the FAKE news? said...

This argument that human-caused carbon emissions are merely a drop in the bucket compared to greenhouse gases generated by volcanoes has been making its way around the rumor mill for years. And while it may sound plausible, the science just doesn’t back it up.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the world’s volcanoes, both on land and undersea, generate about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, while our automotive and industrial activities cause some 24 billion tons of CO2 emissions every year worldwide. Despite the arguments to the contrary, the facts speak for themselves: Greenhouse gas emissions from volcanoes comprise less than one percent of those generated by today’s human endeavors.

Another indication that human emissions dwarf those of volcanoes is the fact that atmospheric CO2 levels, as measured by sampling stations around the world set up by the federally funded Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, have gone up consistently year after year regardless of whether or not there have been major volcanic eruptions in specific years. “If it were true that individual volcanic eruptions dominated human emissions and were causing the rise in carbon dioxide concentrations, then these carbon dioxide records would be full of spikes—one for each eruption,” says Coby Beck, a journalist writing for online environmental news portal Grist.org. “Instead, such records show a smooth and regular trend.”

Furthermore, some scientists believe that spectacular volcanic eruptions, like that of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 and Mt. Pinatubo in 1991, actually lead to short-term global cooling, not warming, as sulfur dioxide (SO2), ash and other particles in the air and stratosphere reflect some solar energy instead of letting it into Earth’s atmosphere. SO2, which converts to sulfuric acid aerosol when it hits the stratosphere, can linger there for as long as seven years and can exercise a cooling effect long after a volcanic eruption has taken place.

Scientists tracking the effects of the major 1991 eruption of the Philippines’ Mt. Pinatubo found that the overall effect of the blast was to cool the surface of the Earth globally by some 0.5 degrees Celsius a year later, even though rising human greenhouse gas emissions and an El Nino event (a warm water current which periodically flows along the coast of Ecuador and Peru in South America) caused some surface warming during the 1991-1993 study period.

March 20, 2019 9:59 PM  
Anonymous Merrick Garland ... LOL ! ! ! ! ! !!!!! said...

"Equivalency isn't a necessary condition for a marriage license. If you disagree, please point to some legal statute to support your case."

you sound like a moron!

two genders are what's a necessary condition for a marriage license

"Well, I just did a "find" on "Constitutional right" and it doesn't look like anyone said it was, but you keep insisting that gay marriage is not. Equal protection under the law however IS a Constitutional right."

you keep assuming that a gay "marriage" right is necessary for equal protection

that's a moronic statement!

the purpose of marriage isn't protection

it's support for a type of relationship that benefits society by producing the next generation

there's no reason to support homosexual "marriage"

"So now we see that your whole "not Constitutional" argument is a canard, and now you're trying to change your argument to "common law.""

WTF

one of my arguments is that the right to homosexual "marriage" doesn't exist in the Constitution

to argue that it is makes you look like a moron!

heterosexual is defined by common law as the uniting of two complementary genders

to argue that is not so is why everyone thinks you're a moron!

"Fine. The Judicial branch of our government is tasked with adjudicating common law issues, making rulings, and setting new precedents when necessary. It's how society progresses. It's their job. That's what we have several levels of courts for."

soon, they will really make some progress and point out that homosexual "marriage" is not a Constitutional right

"Just because you don't like the way they decided a particular case doesn't mean they weren't right."

that's true

and, yet, strangely enough, I really like our new and improved Supreme Court

I got an idea:

let's ask the new and improved Supreme Court if they think a right to homosexual "marriage" is in the Constitution

"The world doesn't revolve around you."

thank you Mr Copernicus

it doesn't revolve around Judy Garland either

"Don't forget, part of the reason this country was founded was so we could get out from under the rules, laws (including common ones) and religious persecution of the British Empire and write our own new laws."

we did

it's called the Constitution

and we finally have five originalists to protect it

"Obama got re-elected because he served his constituency far better than any Republican candidate could have, and Mitch ignored that voter mandate."

he was re-elected because he weaponized the IRS to prevent his opponents from organizing

he also got the Russians to help him by promising to be more "flexible" after the election

siding with Commies against his own country

shameful moron!

"Upon taking office, senators-elect must swear or affirm that they will "support and defend the Constitution.""

that's why we are putting originalists on the SCOTUS

Obama failed to do this

shameful moron!

March 20, 2019 10:18 PM  
Anonymous heterosexuality is how life is perpetuated and it has a privileged status said...

"Despite the arguments to the contrary, the facts speak for themselves: Greenhouse gas emissions from volcanoes comprise less than one percent of those generated by today’s human endeavors."

in an average year

but several explosions in the last hundred years have each pumped more carbon into the atmosphere than ALL THE HUMAN ACTIVITY IN HISTORY COMBINED ! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! !

as you correctly say, this caused cooling

"CO2 levels have gone up consistently year after year"

yes, they have

but not so temperatures

go figure

March 20, 2019 10:27 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

REVEALED: Nation’s Largest Christian Charity Has Given Tens Of Millions To Viciously Anti-LGBT Hate Groups

March 20, 2019 Christianists, Hate Groups

The National Christian Foundation reportedly raised over $1.5 billion in tax-exempt donations in 2017 and a lot of that money is being devoted to groups which advocate for imprisoning LGBT persons around the world.


The nation’s eighth-largest public charity is pouring tens of millions of dollars each year into a number of mostly anti-LGBT hate groups, a Sludge investigation shows. According to the three most recent available tax filings — which cover 2015-17 — it has donated $56.1 million on behalf of its clients to 23 nonprofits identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups.

By far the biggest recipient of NCF donations is Alliance Defending "Freedom", a large network of Christian extremist lawyers who have supported criminalizing homosexuality, sterilizing transgender people, and claimed that gay men are pedophiles. The group recently came out against congressional Democrats’ Equality Act, which would ban discrimination against LGBTQ Americans.

Christians are protected by anti-discrimination laws but bigoted christians are doing everything possible to deny gays the same rights christians have.

Bullshitters Wyatt/Regina have the nerve to absurdly post "Homosexuality is not a religious isssue" when in fact punishing and depriving gays is the number one priority of evangelical christians.

March 20, 2019 10:38 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

American Evangelical Christianity is a right-wing hate group. What they want for lgbts is what Putin has accomplished in Russia, by law.

Understanding that will explain why there have been connections between them. It's all about enforced 'morality', and the legalization of discrimination, in order to create a 'perfect' society.

"The good old days" in our country were just like that, too. That's where many Americans want to go back to.

March 20, 2019 10:41 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The core bedrock principles of morality are the individual's right to control their own body and the freedom to do whatever you want as long as you hurt no one.

As we've seen nothing good comes out of christianity's shallow morality of "Behave out of fear of punishment and desire for reward." - there's no basis upon which to determine what is moral and what isn't - its all up to the arbitrary and capricious whims of whomever has been accepted as speaking for god.

March 20, 2019 10:44 PM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

but several explosions in the last hundred years have each pumped more carbon into the atmosphere than ALL THE HUMAN ACTIVITY IN HISTORY COMBINED ! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! !

Which explosions, exactly? And how much CO2 per explosion?

You might find this surprising, but most people don't believe everything the see on the internet, especially when they're posted by trolls.

March 20, 2019 10:50 PM  
Anonymous Republicans showing they don't care about Democracy, only retaining their power said...

"By far the biggest recipient of NCF donations is Alliance Defending "Freedom", a large network of Christian extremist lawyers who have supported criminalizing homosexuality, sterilizing transgender people"

Sterilizing transgender people... well doesn't that sound a little eugenic.

And a bit redundant. The surgeries that some trans people undergo will do that anyway. What do they not understand here?!?!

Leave trans people alone and they will take care of that themselves.

March 20, 2019 10:56 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Make no mistake about it folks, American Evangelical christians are engaged in a crusade against harmless lgbt people around the world

The Alliance Defending "Freedom" and other major anti-gay groups like the "Family" "Research" Council and Focus on "the Family" are working hard and expending tens of millions of dollars to encourage the imprisonment, abuse and execution of lgbt people around the world.

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s right-wing president, visited President Trump in the White House on Tuesday and followed up his official business with a Christian Broadcasting Network interview and meeting with conservative religious leaders, including CBN’s Pat and Gordon Robertson. U.S. right-wing leaders had supported Bolsonaro’s campaign and celebrated his election as an answer to prayer.

At a Rose Garden press conference with Trump, Bolsonaro said, Brazil and the United States stand side-by-side in their efforts to ensure to entrench in law christians superiority over innocent lgbt people.

CBN noted that Bolsonaro “has surrounded himself with well-known Brazilian evangelicals,” including influential pastor Silas Milafaia, who told CBN he believes Bolsonaro is God’s chosen man to lead Brazil. He praised Bolsonaro for opposing abortion and the “privilege” of the LGBT movement.

CBN also reported on Bolsonaro’s meeting with evangelical leaders, which included the Robertsons, Ralph Reed, Steve Strang, Penny Nance, Jonathan Falwell and Harry Jackson. “The American delegation prayed for Bolsonaro and promised to stand with his administration as he fights to protect Brazil’s Christian heritage and family values.”

As RWW reported last summer, Bolsonaro’s campaign got a boost from right-wing activists in the U.S., including former White House adviser Steve Bannon and former Rep. Michele Bachmann.

As RWW has previously noted, Bolsonaro’s far-right record and rhetoric has demonstrated contempt for women, LGBTQ people, the media, and democratic values. And shortly after his inauguration he began issuing executive orders and taking other actions going after the people he had targeted in his campaign rhetoric: the LGBTQ community; indigenous people.

March 20, 2019 10:58 PM  
Anonymous Heterosexuals need to use more condoms said...

"Equivalency isn't a necessary condition for a marriage license. If you disagree, please point to some legal statute to support your case."

you sound like a moron!"

Once again, lacking any legal argument to support your case, you resort to ad hominem attacks. This is what we've come to expect from the Republican party.

Sad.

March 20, 2019 11:00 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Hey Good anonymous,

Feel free to tell me to go eff myself, its none of my business, but is your vast array of knowledge on key political issues self taught?

March 20, 2019 11:02 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Folks, please ponder for a bit the complete lack of integrity of Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous.

Note how, although they know its false and dishonest, in their last post they again point to a localized short term cooling on a tiny, tiny fraction of earth and falsely claim this proves the planet hasn't warmed.

We've been through that point with them over and over and they know they're lying, but they don't stop.

And yet look in this thread at January 24, 2018 where Wyatt/Regina berated me for saying they deny global warming is real, falsely claiming for years they have acknowledged that global warming is real and still happening. Today they deny global warming is real. Flip-flop, whatever it takes to deceive.

See? Zero integrity. Whether they accept that the planet is warming or deny it depends entirely on what they think immediately best helps them deceive people into believing we should ignore this existential threat, a threat that will absolutely destroy our decendants home if we do nothing.

They do this and then claim again and again they are morally superior to lgbt people? Beeyotch please!

March 20, 2019 11:58 PM  
Anonymous Heterosexuals need to use more condoms said...

"but is your vast array of knowledge on key political issues self taught?"

When you're arguing with today's average conservative, it doesn't take a "vast array of knowledge." Anyone who's as old as I am and been paying attention for the last 40 years can figure out what's going on.

March 21, 2019 1:26 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Cool, Good Anonymous :)

You are far too modest.

March 21, 2019 2:13 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

"Trump Smirks as Brazil's Far Right President Says They Are United against LGBTQ People"

March 21, 2019 2:14 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

So, its 4:30 Am here and as sometimes happens I can't sleep because of something on my mind. Here's what it is tonight:

The stunning hypocrisy and double standards of the rich white men at the Corvette Forum

I'm a little surprised my three critical comments actually seemed to shut them tfu.

March 21, 2019 6:33 AM  
Anonymous slash the deficit: build the wall and ban taxpayer-funded transexual surgery said...

British researchers last year published an article in the peer reviewed scientific journal Nature showing how volcanic activity is causing the melting of ice caps in Antarctica

alarmists point to the melting of the ice caps as proof positive of the horrible effects of global warming

as I have always said, global warming is happening

but the effects and the cause are highly in question

they are exaggerated by alarmists to promote the idea of a one-world global government

"Which explosions, exactly? And how much CO2 per explosion?

You might find this surprising, but most people don't believe everything the see on the internet, especially when they're posted by trolls."

I know

there's troll here from Canada who posts multiple lies a day

everyone just ignores this gangrene on society

"Sterilizing transgender people... well doesn't that sound a little eugenic.

And a bit redundant. The surgeries that some trans people undergo will do that anyway. What do they not understand here?!?!

Leave trans people alone and they will take care of that themselves."

nice of you guys to set up a straw man to punch around

you might find this surprising, but most people don't believe everything they see on the internet, especially when they're posted by trolls from Canada

can you document the sterilization of transgenders?

and, if any government were to do it, why would transgenders object?

since they are planning to sterilize themselves, what's the problem with a freebie from the government

taxpayer funding of transgender surgery must end

"Once again, lacking any legal argument to support your case, you resort to ad hominem attacks."

gee, I'm the subject of ad hominem attacks all the time from progressive liberals

that's their standard MO

in this case, the argument being presented was so non sequitur that it simply had to be classified as having moronic origins

"When you're arguing with today's average conservative, it doesn't take a "vast array of knowledge.""

that's fortunate because you obviously don't have a whole lot of it

"Anyone who's as old as I am"

is bound to get confused

just glad they invented those beepers so you can find your car now

"and been paying attention for the last 40 years can figure out what's going on."

yeah, well the fog of cannabis smoke seems to have made things a bit hazy for you

March 21, 2019 7:37 AM  
Anonymous one more horrid consequence of the gay agenda said...

Homosexuals have long had much higher rates of mental illness than society as large.

Now, as homosexuality has become normalized in our culture, the process has closely correlated with an increase in mental illness among youth and young adults:

The first signs of a problem started to emerge around 2014: More young people said they felt overwhelmed and depressed. College counseling centers reported sharp increases in the number of students seeking treatment for mental health issues.

Even as studies were showing increases in symptoms of depression and in suicide among adolescents since 2010, some researchers called the concerns overblown and claimed there simply isn’t enough good data to reach that conclusion.

The idea that there’s an epidemic in anxiety or depression among youth “is simply a myth,” psychiatrist Richard Friedman wrote in The New York Times last year. Others suggested young people were simply more willing to get help when they needed it. Or perhaps counseling centers’ outreach efforts were becoming more effective.

But a new analysis of a large representative survey reinforces that the epidemic is all too real. In fact, the increase in mental health issues among teens and young adults is nothing short of staggering.

One of the best ways to find out if mental health issues have increased is to talk to a representative sample of the general population, not just those who seek help. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has done just that.

It surveyed over 600,000 Americans. Recent trends are startling.

From 2009 to 2017, major depression among 20- to 21-year-olds more than doubled, rising from 7 percent to 15 percent. Depression surged 69 percent among 16- to 17-year-olds. Serious psychological distress, which includes feelings of anxiety and hopelessness, jumped 71 percent among 18- to 25-year-olds from 2008 to 2017. Twice as many 22- to 23-year-olds attempted suicide in 2017 compared with 2008, and 55 percent more had suicidal thoughts.

March 21, 2019 7:47 AM  
Anonymous Yet another tЯump lie and a challenge from a real man said...

Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey challenges Trump to prove bone spurs actually prevented him from serving in Vietnam:

“He sees all of us who went to Vietnam as fools...we were the ones that didn’t have the resources to be able to get out of the draft. Let’s see those X-rays!”

March 21, 2019 9:39 AM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reported on an overlooked area of work undertaken abroad by the Christian Right legal powerhouse Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF): fighting any advancement of transgender citizens’ right to gender recognition by the state.

Many countries in Europe have sterilization laws requiring transgender citizens to undergo gender reassignment surgery and/or prove their infertility before obtaining legal documents that reflect their gender identity — this despite the fact that many transgender citizens do not want or cannot afford such surgeries. A 2009 report from the Council of Europe's Commissioner For Human Rights stated “It is of great concern that transgender people appear to be the only group in Europe subject to legally prescribed, state-enforced sterilization."

In 2015, ADF filed a brief in the A.P., Garçon et Nicot v. France case in defense of the sterilization requirement for the legal recognition of transgender people in some European countries. In a widely celebrated decision for LGBT advocates across Europe, the court sided against ADF in April 2017, ruling that the sterilization requirement for legal gender change was a violation of human rights.

But ADF continues to support anti-trans causes at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), repeating the same arguments and junk science used in the A.P., Garçon and Nicot v. France case. Most notably, ADF has filed briefs in four cases to prevent the easing or streamlining of legal gender recognition processes in Bulgaria (Y.T. v Bulgaria), Russia (X v. Russia and Y.P. v. Russia) and Macedonia (X v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.)

In the Macedonian and Bulgarian cases, ADF continues to advocate for "biological sex change" as a requirement for legal gender recognition. In the Macedonian case, a transgender man was asked to undergo genital surgery for his gender identity to be legally recognized, while in the Bulgarian case a transgender man saw a similar request denied because his gender reassignment treatment was not equivalent to a "change of sex."

According to the brief submitted by Transgender Europe in X v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, this demand for an “irreversible transformation of appearance” is equivalent to that “required by the French judiciary as the precondition to the LGR [legal gender recognition] should be considered a mandatory sterilisation requirement”, and is precisely what was ruled out in the A.P., Garçon and Nicot v. France.

The European briefs show ADF using an argument familiar to American audiences, where states’ rights has long been a rallying cry for discriminatory legal regimes. For the Christian Right specifically, this has evolved into a religious freedom argument used to push back against government policy that protects LGBT rights. Similarly, at ECtHR, ADF is pointing to the diversity of legislation on transgender issues across the Council of Europe, claiming countries should be allotted a “margin of appreciation” (i.e. discretion) on transgender issues. In ADF’s opinion, ECtHR should not rule on such sensitive cultural issues, despite the fact that they fall squarely within the realm of human rights.

March 21, 2019 9:51 AM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

But much like in the religious freedom context, the content of ECtHR briefs shows that ADF is not so much motivated by a care for overreaching government as much as it is by its profound anti-LGBT bias. Like in the A.P., Garçon and Nicot v. France case, ADF briefs in the Bulgarian, Macedonian and Y.P. v Russia cases all peddle anti-transgender science, such as the idea that being transgender is a mental illness.

Using the World Health Organization definition of transgenderism as a disease, despite it being scheduled to be updated and potentially removed from the list of mental disorders in 2018, ADF’s briefs ponder whether gender identity “is wholly a psychological issue or rather is associated with differentiation in the brain.” They then go on to cite Dr. Paul McHugh, a noted anti-LGBTQ junk science peddler who has described being transgender as a “mental disorder” and as “an illness.” As the LGBT civil rights organization Human Rights Campaign wrote in “McHugh Exposed,” a report exposing McHugh’s use of junk science, “McHugh’s false, non-scientific assertions have been used by anti-equality activists in state legislatures and courtrooms to defend discrimination against LGBTQ people.” His scientific work has been debunked time and again.

The stringency of ADF’s challenge to transgender rights is most apparent in X v. Russia, a case concerning a person’s right to change their legal name from a traditionally male to a traditionally female name. ADF’s brief for that case sides with a Russian court to declare that a person shouldn’t be able to change their name to one matching their gender identity, under the precept that names should be in conformity with a person’s biological sex. “Imposing a uniform procedure on member states would mean that a person’s registered sex on identity documents will no longer align with their gender specific name.” ADF’s brief goes on: “In certain countries — like Russia — names are strongly gendered with the resulting possibility for confusion and error regarding identity.” To accept this, ADF ventures, would mean to “officially recognize changes based solely on a radical idea of self-determination.”

Though the verdict for these four cases is still pending, the internationalization of ADF’s rhetoric and agenda is ramping up. ADF International is pursuing the same type of “religious freedom” causes that it always has in the United States on European soil.

In another revealing case, the 2016 case of Sousa Goucha v. Portugal, ADF filed a brief defending a Portuguese television station’s right to use satire after it described a gay television host as a woman, prompting the host to file a complaint. This bizarre intervention, like ADF’s attempts to restrict transgender people’s abilities to obtain legal recognition for their gender identity, perhaps best reveals one of ADF’s underlying motivation: opposition to LGBT rights around the world.

March 21, 2019 9:55 AM  
Anonymous Heterosexuals need to use more condoms said...

"yeah, well the fog of cannabis smoke seems to have made things a bit hazy for you"

Having never smoked cannabis, or ingested the edibles now on the market, I wouldn't know about that. Why don't you fill us in on what it's like.

March 21, 2019 10:01 AM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

"From 2009 to 2017, major depression among 20- to 21-year-olds more than doubled, rising from 7 percent to 15 percent."

This was probably caused by the Big Pharma induced opioid crisis:

Every day, more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids.1 The misuse of and addiction to opioids—including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—is a serious national crisis that affects public health as well as social and economic welfare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total "economic burden" of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.2

In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to prescription opioid pain relievers, and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates. This subsequently led to widespread diversion and misuse of these medications before it became clear that these medications could indeed be highly addictive.3,4 Opioid overdose rates began to increase. In 2017, more than 47,000 Americans died as a result of an opioid overdose, including prescription opioids, heroin, and illicitly manufactured fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid.1 That same year, an estimated 1.7 million people in the United States suffered from substance use disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers, and 652,000 suffered from a heroin use disorder (not mutually exclusive).5

Roughly 21 to 29 percent of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain misuse them.

Between 8 and 12 percent develop an opioid use disorder.7–9
An estimated 4 to 6 percent who misuse prescription opioids transition to heroin.

About 80 percent of people who use heroin first misused prescription opioids.

Opioid overdoses increased 30 percent from July 2016 through September 2017 in 52 areas in 45 states.

The Midwestern region saw opioid overdoses increase 70 percent from July 2016 through September 2017.

Opioid overdoses in large cities increase by 54 percent in 16 states.

This issue has become a public health crisis with devastating consequences including increases in opioid misuse and related overdoses, as well as the rising incidence of neonatal abstinence syndrome due to opioid use and misuse during pregnancy. The increase in injection drug use has also contributed to the spread of infectious diseases including HIV and hepatitis C. As seen throughout the history of medicine, science can be an important part of the solution in resolving such a public health crisis.

March 21, 2019 10:07 AM  
Anonymous Don't stand too close to the volcano said...

The myth that a single volcanic eruption puts more CO2 into the atmosphere than all of mankind to date, let alone 10,000 times more, is one of the most pervasive as well as one of the most demonstrably false climatological claims out there. It stems, ultimately, from a geologist named Ian Plimer, infamous for writing a widely discredited book titled Heaven and Earth, which attempted to argue that humans have had an insignificant effect on global climate.

In a 2009 editorial written for Australia’s ABC news, he echoed a sentiment he had argued with similar inelegance in his book by providing the following statement, widely spread nearly word-for-word in climate skeptic circles, without any supporting citation: “Over the past 250 years, humans have added just one part of CO2 in 10,000 to the atmosphere. One volcanic cough can do this in a day.”

This brief statement — a mere 28 words — yields a remarkably dense buffet of spurious claims and outright falsehoods. It also is rife with ambiguity. What numbers is he actually comparing? What is a volcanic “cough”? From a fact-checking standpoint, there are no interpretations of Plimer’s second sentence that can produce a factual assertion. The only way to make the first sentence work is with a scientifically useless comparison. All other interpretations fall well short of reality.

That useless comparison would be the total mass of carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere by human activity (roughly calculated here by taking the roughly 120 ppm rise in CO2 since pre-industrial times converted into 936.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide gas) compared to the total mass of the entire atmosphere (estimated to be around 5,100,000 gigatons). This yields roughly 1 part post-industrial CO2 rise in 10,000 parts of the entire atmosphere.

As CO2, in total, makes up only about 0.06% by mass of the atmosphere and 0.04% by volume, this is not exactly revelatory. The question is not about how much other stuff is in the atmosphere. Rather, the question is about how much stuff humans are adding that wouldn’t already be in the atmosphere, and, as a result, what the the potential for that amount would be to affect climate — a topic for which there is a wide scientific consensus.

The erroneous interpretation that many have made from Plimer’s statement would be the assertion that the total amount of carbon released by humanity throughout all time (represented here as gigatons or petagrams of carbon, not carbon dioxide) represents only 1/10,000th (0.01%) of the total mass of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. These numbers do not check out, even when checked against collected data that ends in the year 2000, according calculations provided by the federally-funded Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center:

March 21, 2019 10:21 AM  
Anonymous Don't stand too close to the volcano said...

According to Houghton and Hackler, land-use changes from 1850-2000 resulted in a net transfer of 154 PgC to the atmosphere. During that same period, 282 PgC were released by combustion of fossil fuels, and 5.5 additional PgC were released to the atmosphere from cement manufacture. This adds up to 154 + 282 + 5.5 = 441.5 PgC, of which 282/444.1 = 64% is due to fossil-fuel combustion.

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations rose from 288 ppmv in 1850 to 369.5 ppmv in 2000, for an increase of 81.5 ppmv, or 174 PgC. In other words, about 40% (174/441.5) of the additional carbon has remained in the atmosphere, while the remaining 60% has been transferred to the oceans and terrestrial biosphere.

The 369.5 ppmv of carbon in the atmosphere, in the form of CO2, translates into 787 PgC, of which 174 PgC has been added since 1850. From […] above, we see that 64% of that 174 PgC, or 111 PgC, can be attributed to fossil-fuel combustion. This represents about 14% (111/787) of the carbon in the atmosphere in the form of CO2.

A more scientifically valid approach, perhaps, would be to compare annual volcanic emissions fluxes to annual anthropogenic fluxes, as the carbon cycle is an ever-shifting network of sources and sinks of CO2 that need to be accounted for. A 2013 review attempted to estimate the annual contribution of CO2 emitted from all volcanoes (active and passive) and other tectonic sources on Earth per year, coming up with a figure of 540 megatons per year (note that these measurements, unlike the ones above, represent the total mass of CO2 not solely the carbon component):

[CO2 from the plumes of actively erupting volcanoes]:

Using the available data from plume measurements from 33 degassing volcanoes we determine a total CO2 flux of 59.7 Mt/yr. Extrapolating this to ~150 active volcanoes produces a total of 271 Mt/yr CO2.

[CO2 passively vented by active volcanoes]:

Extrapolation of the measured 6.4 Mt/yr of CO2 emitted from the flanks of 30 historically active volcanoes to all 550 historically active volcanoes produces a global emission rate of 117 Mt/yr.

[CO2 from other volcanic sources]:

Perez et al. (2011) calculated the global emission from volcanic lakes to be 94 Mt/yr CO2. The sum of these fluxes produces an updated estimate of the global subaerial volcanic CO2 flux of 474 Mt/yr. Emissions from tectonic, hydrothermal and inactive volcanic areas contribute a further 66 Mt/yr to this total […], producing a total subaerial volcanic emission of 540 Mt/yr.

While the authors of this study note that this is an exceedingly rough estimate, they also point out that it is orders of magnitude lower than estimates of the annual flux of CO2 added to the atmosphere through human activity, currently estimated to be around 35,000 Mt/year:

March 21, 2019 10:25 AM  
Anonymous Don't stand too close to the volcano said...

The global subaerial CO2 flux we report is higher than previous estimates, but remains insignificant relative to anthropogenic emissions, which are two orders of magnitude greater at 35,000 Mt/yr.

Once again, the actual numbers bear no resemblance to Plimer’s claims. It would have to be a pretty heavy volcanic “cough” from a “single volcano” to, by itself, increase Earth’s annual volcanic CO2 flux by a factor of 65.

Absurdity notwithstanding, numerous online claims reference specific volcanic eruptions purported to have added more than the total emission of anthropogenic carbon ever released (a value, estimated above, to be more than 282 Gt of carbon). The most commonly cited are the 15 June 1991 eruption of Mt Pinatubo and the 18 May 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Mount St. Helens released 0.01 Gt to the atmosphere and Mount Pinatubo released 0.05 Gt. Put another way:

There is no question that very large volcanic eruptions can inject significant amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens vented approximately 10 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in only 9 hours.

However, it currently takes humanity only 2.5 hours to put out the same amount. While large explosive eruptions like this are rare and only occur globally every 10 years or so, humanity’s emissions are ceaseless and increasing every year.

A more accurate rendering of Plimer’s claim would be something like “3500 Mount St Helens-scale volcanic ‘coughs’ in a single day might be able to produce as much CO2 as humans have added to the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels to date.” Such a headline would be unlikely to have the same effect as the original one, however.

March 21, 2019 10:26 AM  
Anonymous I reeeeeeeeally like our Supreme Court.and the best is yet to come!!!!!!! said...

just to be clear, how much of the total carbon in the atmosphere do you believe is the result of human activity?

and how much carbon do you say was spewed into the atmosphere in the three largest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century?

thanks

March 21, 2019 10:29 AM  
Anonymous Don't stand too close to the volcano said...

Novarupta (meaning "newly erupted"[2] in "Latin) is a volcano that was formed in 1912, located on the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 290 miles (470 km) southwest of Anchorage. Formed during the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, Novarupta released 30 times the volume of magma of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens."

As this occurred during 1912, it does not appear that there are CO2 measurements from this eruption.

To get a ROUGH estimate though, let's assume that Novarupta's CO2 output has the same multiplier as its magma output, i.e. 30 times (the volume of magma).

Using "Mount St. Helens released 0.01 Gt to the atmosphere," would mean that Novarupta emitted roughly 0.3Gt (or 300Mt) of CO2.

Assume for the moment that all 3 of the largest eruptions of the 20th century were as large as Novarupta (they weren't but this gives an upper bound):

3x300 = 900Mt of CO2.

"Estimates of the annual flux of CO2 added to the atmosphere through human activity, currently estimated to be around 35,000 Mt/year."

So 3 giant Novarupta eruptions roughly equates to : 900/35,000 x 100 = 2.57% of ONE year of manmade CO2 emissions.

It's simple math folks.

March 21, 2019 11:04 AM  
Anonymous al gore .... LOL! said...

thanks for the elaboration

not to be confrontational but you could have written that in less than four posts

I'll look at you stats and compare to other sources

March 21, 2019 11:13 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Hey Folks,

I've got a 15 or 20 minute video here for you. It had a similar gob-smacking effect on me to the online book on the research on Right Wing Authoritarianism I've been spreading links to.

So You Want To Be a Ruler

My exact quote after I watched it:

"That was f'ing amazing. A jawdropping amount of important information put into it. I've never seen so much important information put into a space that size.

March 21, 2019 11:34 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The video in my last post should be mandatory instruction for all ninth graders.

There should be similar civic ethics classes throughout, perhaps, grades 5 and up. Likely anti-bullying classes starting in the first grade. And if you a-holes are going to demand "nudge, nudge, wink, wink - its okay to bully the lgbt" by opposing any mention of us in ant-bullying stuff what I suggest is:

Like with anti-discrimination laws, in school anti-bullying efforts the message could be sent that its anti-social to punish anyone for harmless characteristics, be one a child or an adult. After having thought about it, I'd give Wyatt/Regina that on home-schooling:

Bullying is rampant in schools. There is fortunately a big drop off (of at least the overt kind of bullying) when people graduate high school in many jobs. My impression is not so much the case in jobs dominated by conservative men.

I vividly remember the bullying my husband and I experienced in high school (and yes I'm ashamed to admit I bullied innocent people too). 90% or more of it could be effectively eliminated by continuous patrolling of the hallways by a fairminded adult with authority to mete out punishment to bullies. I'm still just so angry at society for not doing that when I was in high school in that sh*t hole Humboldt Saskatchewan.

So, yeah, I'll give Wyatt/Regina that,I wish I had been home-schooled with quality parents not parents pretty much indifferent to their 9 children's pain and suffering. (I predict a certain response to this sentence, see fallacy of relative privation (I think its called that)).

March 21, 2019 11:56 AM  
Anonymous Don't stand too close to the volcano said...

"not to be confrontational but you could have written that in less than four posts"

Not to be confrontational, but I wouldn't have to post anything about volcanoes if certain people knew how to discern data from propaganda.

March 21, 2019 12:12 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Good anonymous, based on my two decades of extensive experience with Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous's constant bad faith argumentation I'd like to suggest this:

They will sometimes relent to honest discussion for a bit when they are sufficiently pressured/embarrased. Then they want to push you increasingly into the weeds on technical details. TTF readers eyes will glaze over reading a bit of the technical discussion and Wyatt/Regina/Tony Perkins hope TTF readers will start ignoring it not knowing what to think.

The hope of the Russian/evangelical christian machine in this feigned good faith argument is that it creates the false impression in questioning readers that no one, regardless of how intelligent, really knows what is going on with Human Caused Global Climate Warming when the truth is there is, vast, almost unanimous agreement amongst tens of thousands of climate scientists - we're in deep shit.

The scientists know how very serious this is and they've seen the climate models further in to the future but they're not telling everyone just how serious it is and how essential it is we get on serious action immediately because that will just engender more widespread and firmly entrenched disbelief in conservatives. That's why they were crying at the last big global meeting on climate - they know how serious it is and how extremely unlikely enough will be done to prevent disastrous climate change in a geological blink of an eye - 300 to 10,000 years.

I have no decendants, but somehow I am still concerned for those distant (to us) humans who will probably all die, along with this amazing diversity of life and joy on our home.

So, yeah, Wyatt/Regina will pretend to argue in good faith when you really press them, only to at a later point start back in on the bad faith argumentation of gross distortion of reality and your mutual stated positions in the past. Its that sort of very large effort between their posting here and elsewhere (if they are Northdallas30 as well) that speaks to me of a larger organization planning,coordinating, and paying for them to do part of a multi-faceted in depth internet offensive to disrupt any attempts to make things more fair for lgbt people or address Human Caused Global Climate Warming.

March 21, 2019 12:24 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

And of course, Wyatt/Regina's posts alleging volcano emissions show there is doubt about global warming, is just another one of their standard tactics to derail any progress towards change and improvement in the existential threats that face us.

So, you'll argue out this issue with them, cover all the bases, build the solid and unassailable case for the truth brick by brick and Wyatt/Regina may even pretend to concede these points to you...

But then, its always another and another one of these bogus attempts to use one fake "volcanoes" story after another.

They'll have you explaining the universe and them still saying "Yeah, sure all that, but what about this?" and it'll never end.

Again, speaks "paid operative" to me.

March 21, 2019 12:29 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Good Anoymous, please don't think I'm discouraging you from your extremely impressive shredding of Wyatt/Regina's disingenuous objections, I'm sooo happy you're doing this!

Thank you very much!

March 21, 2019 12:31 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Folks please remember to distribute the link below of Good Anonymous's epic take down of common conservative tropes on common sense gun control. Every American needs to read this:


Starting with the comment at February 18, 2019 8:26 PM

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?postID=1674996456275180390&blogID=9797121&isPopup=true&page=2

Gun owners are far more likely to kill themselves or a family member than to use their gun to defend themselves.

March 21, 2019 12:42 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

And in a brief, but likely temporary good news:

Federal Court Halts Hundreds Of Drilling Projects Over Failure To Take Climate Change Impact Into Account

March 21, 2019 Climate Change, Trump Administration

The Guardian reports:

In the first significant check on the Trump administration’s “energy-first” agenda, a federal judge has temporarily halted hundreds of drilling projects for failing to take climate change into account. The decision stems from an environmental lawsuit. WildEarth Guardians, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Western Environmental Law Center sued the BLM in 2016 for failing to calculate and limit the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from future oil and gas projects.

The decision is the first significant check on the climate impact of the Trump administration’s “energy-first” agenda that has opened up vast swaths of public land for mining and drilling. Environmental advocates are praising the move, with Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians’ Climate and Energy Program director, calling it a “triumph for our climate”. “This ruling says that the entire oil & gas drilling program is off the rails, and moving forward illegally,” said Nichols.

Republicans subverted the will of the people by bending to the extreme and sometimes breaking the rules to put twice as many conservative appointees on the court as Democrats have on a per term basis as each has had the presidency.

Republicans go all out to push every avenue to subvert the democratic process and enforce their fringe minority beliefs on the American Public.

It seems all too likely that when this gets ti the illegitimate supreme court Trump's unqualified, criminal lackies will do his bidding and put more nails in the coffin of humanity.

March 21, 2019 1:11 PM  
Anonymous Trollinator 2000 said...

"They'll have you explaining the universe and them still saying "Yeah, sure all that, but what about this?" and it'll never end.

Again, speaks "paid operative" to me."

Don't worry. I'm using his posts to train an AI algorithm (in Python) to respond their repetitive misinformation in a humorous and fact-filled way.

March 21, 2019 1:58 PM  
Anonymous human activity probably doesn't cause global warming !! said...

"Don't worry. I'm using his posts to train an AI algorithm (in Python) to respond their repetitive misinformation in a humorous and fact-filled way."

thank heaven

we can stop worrying

I must be quite good that you have design a computer program to figure out how to answer my comments

so, it's like, "TTFers, don't worry that someone more intelligent than you is disagreeing with you

we're designing a brainiac to answer him"

question: what if that doesn't work?

could I be smarter than a computer?

March 21, 2019 2:19 PM  
Anonymous ridin' in a Delorean said...

"Trollinator 2000"

someone should tell this time-travelin' moron he landed in the wrong decade

hey, T-2

you'll never believe who is President now

March 21, 2019 2:24 PM  
Anonymous Trollinator 2000 said...

"could I be smarter than a computer?"

Very doubtful.

"hey, T-2

you'll never believe who is President now"

Outlook not so good.

T-2 is my cousin.

March 21, 2019 2:33 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Good anonymous said "Don't worry. I'm using his posts to train an AI algorithm (in Python) to respond their repetitive misinformation in a humorous and fact-filled way."

Oh,I so want that to be true, lol!

March 21, 2019 2:41 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina said "Human activity probably doesn't cause global warming !!".

But, what if it does?

The consequences of failing to act if it is real are catastrophic.

As a conservative, don't you think the prudent thing to do would be to spend a few percent of our resources to lower greenhouse gases?

Just in case?

March 21, 2019 2:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ha-ha. At least, Priya knows how stupid he is.

March 21, 2019 2:45 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina said "I must be quite good that you have design a computer program to figure out how to answer my comments".

Speaking as a former computer programmer, its the fact that you are the opposite of "good" that makes replacing a real person debating you with a computer program possible.

Your posts are repetitive, simple minded and wrong. Its still a great feat to program a computer to do that (in my opinion) but its only possible at all because you are a predictable and crappy debater.

These sorts of computer programs are nowhere near as smart as a person with an average IQ, but they're plenty smart enough to out-debate you.

March 21, 2019 2:50 PM  
Anonymous Data matters said...

"it's simple math folks."

It sure it.

Five Warmest Years (Anomalies)

1st. 2016(+0.45°C), 2nd. 2015(+0.42°C), 3rd. 2017(+0.38°C), 4th. 2018(+0.31°C), 5th. 2014(+0.27°C)

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.
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1912(-0.7)

March 21, 2019 3:28 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I'd like to write about the threat Artificial Intelligence poses to society, but I've got so much I think that is important to write about. Its hard to decide what's most important, especially when you're a bit of a scatterbrain like me.

March 21, 2019 3:29 PM  
Anonymous No one is safe around Catholic Priests said...

An Austin Catholic priest has been accused of groping a seriously ill woman while he was administering her last rites.

Rev. Gerold Langsch, 75, was charged with assault by contact last Thursday for an incident that occurred in the woman’s home last October. He was released on $15,000 bond and faces one year of prison time and up to $4,000 in fines, according to CBS Dallas Fort Worth.

The woman, who is suffering from complications from diabetes, is currently in hospice care. Although the incident occurred months ago, the Austin Police Department claims its investigation was delayed due to the woman’s health problems. She was able to identify Langsch in a lineup this month, which helped police make the arrest, Fox San Antonio reports.

Catholic priests are often called upon to administer last rites ― a religious ceremony offered to someone who is seriously ill and in danger of death. Last rites typically include time for the sick individual to confess their sins, be blessed with holy oil and receive Holy Communion for the last time.

The alleged victim’s ex-husband contacted a local Catholic service organization about her health, and the organization offered to send a priest to the woman’s home, Fox San Antonio reports.

But when Langsch went to the woman’s home on Oct. 5, he used the sacred ritual as a cover for sexual assault, an arrest affidavit obtained by the Associated Press suggests. Langsch reportedly rubbed holy water on the woman’s chest then began to apply lotion. He reportedly massaged and pinched her breast, asking, “Does that feel good?” He also allegedly attempted to slip a hand under the woman’s diaper, the AP reports.

The woman later told police that Langsch had left her shocked and confused and feeling like a “nasty, dirty piece of meat.”

The Diocese of Austin said that Langsch was removed from active ministry in February after it received an unrelated report that he had “failed to maintain proper boundaries” with an adult. That incident did not involve physical contact, the diocese stated.

Langsch came to the diocese in Nov. 2015 and served at St. Paul Parish in Austin. He is a member of the Schoenstatt Apostolic movement, a Catholic movement founded in Germany a century ago which now has centers in the U.S.

“The Diocese of Austin will cooperate fully with the police in their investigation,” the diocese said in its statement. “We trust that God will guide our public officials toward a just result and we offer prayers for all involved.”

March 21, 2019 5:18 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Trump is an enemy of peace in the middle east.

Its a corrupt old boys' club.

God help us all.

March 21, 2019 9:05 PM  
Anonymous it's time for Dems to pay reparations for the damage they've done said...

"Not to be confrontational, but I wouldn't have to post anything about volcanoes"

listen

do you want to know a secret?

do you promise not to tell?

you didn't have to post anything

it's not in the Constitution

I do appreciate you providing some details but the jury's still out on whether it's propaganda

although it's not a major point

it's still the case that the cause of global warming

and the extent of global warming

and the future of global warming

and the potential effects of global warming

and what we can do to alter global warming

are all uncertain

"if certain people knew how to discern data from propaganda."

could you explain how to do that to us?

voluntarily, of course

you don't HAVE TO...

March 21, 2019 9:59 PM  
Anonymous it takes so little to make TTFers happy!! said...

"An Austin Catholic priest has been accused of groping a seriously ill woman while he was administering her last rites."

what a relief for TTFers!!

after the thousands of gay priests have abused children, finally there's a case of heterosexual priest engaged in sexual misconduct

you guys are probably partying hardily!!

March 21, 2019 10:11 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Zzzzzzzzz

March 22, 2019 2:04 AM  
Anonymous heterosexuality is how life is perpetuated and it has a privileged status said...

there's something I think everyone would like to see a lot more of from the Canadian troll

March 22, 2019 7:19 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina said "heterosexuality is how life is perpetuated and it has a privileged status..."

An undeserved and counterproductive status in light of the natural explosion of human population and the inevitable population crash that always follows.

March 22, 2019 9:22 AM  
Anonymous without heterosexuality, humanity would have no future, hence the societal preferencing said...


Dossier-Tied Firm Pitches Reporters Daily on 'Collusion'

Key Democratic operatives and private investigators who tried to derail Donald Trump’s campaign by claiming he was a tool of the Kremlin have rebooted their operation since his election with a multimillion-dollar stealth campaign to persuade major media outlets and lawmakers that the president should be impeached.

The effort has successfully placed a series of questionable stories alleging secret back channels and meetings between Trump associates and Russian spies, while influencing related investigations and reports from Congress.

The operation’s nerve center is a Washington-based nonprofit called The Democracy Integrity Project, or TDIP. Among other activities, it pumps out daily “research” briefings to prominent Washington journalists, as well as congressional staffers, to keep the Russia “collusion” narrative alive.

TDIP is led by Daniel J. Jones, a former FBI investigator, Clinton administration volunteer and top staffer to California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. It employs the key opposition-research figures behind the salacious and unverified dossier: Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Its financial backers include the actor/director Rob Reiner and billionaire activist George Soros.

The project’s work has been largely shrouded in mystery. But a months-long examination, drawn from documents and more than a dozen interviews, found that the organization is running an elaborate media-influence operation that includes driving and shaping daily coverage of the Russia collusion theory, as well as pushing stories about Trump in the national media that attempt to tie the president or his associates to the Kremlin.

The group also feeds information to FBI and congressional investigators, and then tells reporters that authorities are investigating those leads. The tactic adds credibility to TDIP’s pitches, luring big media outlets to bite on stories. It mirrors the strategy federal authorities themselves deployed to secure FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign: citing published news reports of investigative details their informants had leaked to the media to bolster their wiretap requests.

March 22, 2019 10:06 AM  
Anonymous THEY ARE US said...

Rosa Atkins, superintendent of Charlottesville City Schools, said an investigation involving state and federal authorities remains active, necessitating the unusual step of keeping schools closed.

“We would like to acknowledge and condemn the fact that this threat was racially charged. We do not tolerate hate or racism,” Atkins said.

“The entire staff and School Board stand in solidarity with our students of color — and with people who have been singled out for reasons such as religion or ethnicity or sexual identity in other vile threats made across the country or around the world. We are in this together, and a threat against one is a threat against all.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/charlottesville-police-arrest-suspect-in-racist-school-threat/2019/03/22/be6fd2f4-4cb9-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html

March 22, 2019 1:51 PM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

it's still the case that the cause of
"global warming

and the extent of global warming

and the future of global warming

and the potential effects of global warming

and what we can do to alter global warming

are all uncertain"

Repeating the same

oft-debunked

fossil-industry paid for talking points

doesn't make your argument

any more convincing

even when you put them in

unnecessarily short and stunted

unpunctuated sentences.

Scientists deal with uncertainty EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

They measure it, calculate its magnitude, and quantify it for all of their derived measurements. Here is a peak at what the simplest level of that looks like for even the most basic of measurements you can make with a ruler and stopwatch:

http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/appendixb/appendixb.html

This link provides a good overview of the basics and even includes some examples.

If you want to know about the next level of uncertainty and confidence, you can check out the 5-sigma concept, which was in the news a lot a few years ago when they announced the discovery of the Higgs boson:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/five-sigmawhats-that/

Granted, most of climate science can not be boiled down to a single confidence figure for two basic reasons: the shear size of the Earth and the myriad wind, water, ice, and heat flows make simplifying assumptions necessary to build computer models for study, which introduces the chance for some errors to creep in; and the fact that we only have 1 Earth to experiment with. We can't run this gigantic "pump the atmosphere full of greenhouse gasses" experiment hundreds of times and see happens.

That DOESN'T mean however that the scientists don't know what they're talking about, making stuff up, or being "alarmist."

When Carl Sagan first introduced the public to global warming back in the... 70s was it(?) scientists didn't know whether the warming would start noticeably impacting us in a matter of decades, centuries, or possibly even a millenia. He often said "some time in the next century."

Well, we've had several decades of improving technology, more and better measurements, and better computer models. And let's not forget to mention, we've also seen shrinking glaciers all around the world, uncovering rocks and soil that haven't seen daylight in thousands of years.

Deniers like to claim that "warming has stopped for 18 years" and other BS.

The fundamental process these idiots don't understand, and probably never heard of is called the "Enthalpy of Fusion." This is the HEAT energy required to turn ice into a liquid - with ZERO change in temperature. So all those glaciers that have melted in the past few decades were absorbing BOATLOADS (technically, gigajoules) of heat, WITHOUT changing their temperature AT ALL. This obviously tends to mask the effects of what the lay person calls "warming." That doesn't mean it didn't happen though - the many square kilometers of missing glaciers are already a testament to that.

March 22, 2019 2:14 PM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

Thanks to their command of "uncertainty mathematics," scientist now know that some of the extremes we are seeing now are far too UNlikely to occur without something forcing extra heat into the system. What we are seeing now goes beyond the limits of what one could reasonably expect if CO2 and methane had no significant effect.

The use of measurement uncertainties also allows them to know that it really is humans putting all that CO2 into the atmosphere, and NOT volcanoes, or even sunspots - they have known uncertainties in those measurements as well.

The only ones denying the science about this are conservatives who prefer to get there "science" info from fossil fuel companies that have been found trying to sow misinformation to protect their bottom line.

In the decades since Carl first appeared on TV, we've come to learn that within the limits of scientific certainty, anthropomorphic climate affects are real, they are far more likely than not happening right now, and the only matters left for debate are how badly are we screwing ourselves over, and how much are we going to do to try and fix this.

Meanwhile, we have to deal with idiots who keep trying to claim man-made climate change isn't real because... opinions, and Al Gore; that man didn't really land on the moon, and the earth is really flat.

March 22, 2019 2:16 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

I did mention a couple of months ago I used to work in a science factory. I learned a lot, I know a lot of which I speak.

I was the Information Systems Manager for the Water Quality Branch of the Inland Waters Directorate. I was trained as a computer programmer.

So, yes, I dropped out of high school and then flunked out of technical school. I finally get why some of those university educated snobs so hated me, lol!

I maintained and programmed the computer systems that supported long term longitudinal studies into pollution and bio-accumulation of pollutants like heavy metals, lead, mercury, zinc, etc.

They didn't want me as their Information Systems Manager but I "snuck in through the back door", so to speak. I was working as a temp computer programmer and the position that supervises my position had a temp in it as well.

The permanent full time position came up to be filled and a competition was opened. Because I had been working as a temp in an inferior but related position, and they needed to make it look like they held a fair and open competition for the job, I got an interview to compete for what was then a pretty high paying and prestigious white collar job.

Another temp and I who hung out (he always told me how inferior my intellect was because I didn't go to university) was trying to see if he could unnerve me. "oooo, they brought in a computer science PHD to compete against you, how do you think you're going to do???".

By the way, this "interview" was really a knowledge based exam with various sections from computer programming to statistics, and I don't remember what all else. Each interviewee's answer is scored by the interviewers and whoever gets the highest score gets the cushy permanent full time government job.

I really couldn't have cared less what the background of the other interviewee was and my temp frenemy wasn't raising any additional concerns in me beyond, could I motivate myself to study hard enough to get the score I knew I could and beat the competition? I had a drinking problem at the time and was getting drunk most every night. My wife at the time was like "How you going to study for this exam and keep drinking at the same time?" I told her I couldn't attempt to stop drinking between now and the interview because the stress of doing so would interfere with my ability to study as well as I knew I could. It didn't make sense to her, but it made sense to me.

March 22, 2019 3:38 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

So, at the time the computers of the day were machines the size of deep freezers and doccumentation wasn't online (the internet was only used by a small percentage of computer installations, most, like our government installation had a proprietary network where our computers communicated with other computers by the same manufacturer). Instead, the documentation consisted of a wall of three ring binders full of paper. So, each night I took one or more of those big binders home and started reading. Despite the drinking, I disciplined myself enough to read through every book of documentation I thought was going to be relevant to the interview, and skimmed the rest.

The Water Quality Branch didn't want a tech school flunk out for their prestigious Information Systems Manger, so they brought in their ringer, a man who was working in a similar VMS computer installation and who had a PHD in computer science. The interview came and went, and I was told I won. Not just won, but crushed the other competitor in all categories including statistics (which seemed to impress the people informing me I had won).

So, I do have relevant education, experience, and deep personal concern for the stuff about which I speak.

And I just want to remind you, in nature, in most, maybe all species, the population cycle is boom,bust,boom, bust. We're not immune to that. Our nature is evolved to continue that disastrous cycle that starts with an exponential rate of reproduction. We're smart enough to prevent that from happening, but will "what we know in our hearts" allow us to do so?

March 22, 2019 3:39 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

But I don't know of what I speak anywhere near as well as Good Anonymous, amirite folks!

Three cheers for Good Anonymous!

Hip Hip Hooray!

Hip Hip Hooray!

Hip Hip Hooray!

March 22, 2019 4:07 PM  
Anonymous He's just not worth it said...

"to persuade major media outlets and lawmakers that the president should be impeached."

"Major media outlets and lawmakers" don't matter except one, and she made her opinion quite clear:

Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It’

Plenty of people are glad TDIP is there to present the anti-FOX NEWS side.

March 22, 2019 4:11 PM  
Anonymous why Comey was fired said...

Oh, Nancy's sharp

She doesn't think it's worth it to impeach a racist authoritarian who colluded with our mortal enemy to the detriment of the country?

That would indeed be worth it.

Only problem: Dems have been lying and the Mueller will soon reveal that.

Morons like Maxine Water can be forgiven. They had no idea what they were talking about.

But Pelosi, Schiff, Mark Warner...they had access to enough intelligence data to know the whole was always a hoax.

They will pay for their treason at the polls in November 2020.

There's no shortage of speculation on the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, much of it totally uninformed.

But we don't need to speculate on the scope – the man who appointed Mueller has already given us a potential road map on what to expect from the special counsel.

The bottom line: Do not expect a harsh condemnation of President Donald Trump or any of his associates if they have not been charged with crimes.

The road map comes in the form a little-noticed 12-page letter written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last June to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley.

The letter was in response to Grassley's demands for more information on the special counsel investigation, offers a brief history of special counsel investigations and actually quotes former and future Attorney General William Barr who appointed three special counsels during his time as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush.

In the letter, Rosenstein makes it clear he believes the Department of Justice will not – and cannot without violating long-standing Department of Justice policy – include disparaging or incriminating information about anybody who has not been charged with a crime.

"Punishing wrongdoers through judicial proceedings is only one part of the Department's mission," Rosenstein wrote. "We also have a duty to prevent the disclosure of information that would unfairly tarnish people who are not charged with crimes."

Sources familiar with the investigation believe there are no more indictments coming from the special counsel. If Mueller follows the guidance of the man who appointed him and supervised his investigation, he cannot publicly disparage those who have not been charged with a crime.

Rosenstein is emphatic on this point: "In fact, disclosing uncharged allegations against American citizens without a law-enforcement need is considered to be a violation of a prosecutor's trust."

Later in the letter, he makes it clear this standard applies to anybody under investigation, even public officials.

"No matter who an investigation involves -- an ordinary citizen, a local or state politician, a campaign official, a foreign agent, an officer of the federal legislative, executive, or judicial branch -- agents and prosecutors are obligated to protect its confidentiality."

In the letter Rosenstein directly takes issue with the justification then-FBI Director James Comey used to publicly criticize Hillary Clinton in 2016 even as he decided not to charge her with a crime. At the time, Comey justified the break with long-time DOJ practice as an "extraordinary step" necessary because of circumstances so unusual they were comparable to a "500-year flood."

"It is important for the Department of Justice to follow established procedures, especially when the stakes are high," Rosenstein wrote

March 22, 2019 4:22 PM  
Anonymous New York state has jurisdiction over Trump's family businesses said...

Over the past 15 years, New York has steadily stepped up its prosecutions of financial crimes. “Fraud cases are the linchpin of what most attorneys general do, and the laws are particularly strong in New York,” said Paul Nolette, a political science professor at Marquette University who studies state attorneys general.

Trump knows this firsthand, because of a previous tangle with former attorney general Eric Schneiderman. The state sued Trump University for defrauding customers in a case that was settled for $25 million. And because Trump ran for office, opening his businesses to a whole new level of national scrutiny, the Trump Foundation lawsuit may have only been the beginning. Before he resigned last year, Schneiderman was reportedly cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller on matters related to Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and state tax officials said they’re looking into potential massive tax fraud by the Trump family after reporting from The New York Times last fall. Meanwhile, New York’s new attorney general, Letitia James campaigned on a promise to hold the president accountable across a wide range of issues, including his businesses and finances.

“The Mueller investigation is the shiny object everyone is watching,” Berit Berger, a former federal prosecutor and the executive director of Columbia Law School’s Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity, told me. “But under everyone’s nose are what look like much more straightforward violations of state law, including some pretty flagrant tax fraud. Depending on what happens with Mueller, that could be what actually sinks the big ship.”

March 22, 2019 4:32 PM  
Anonymous Friday night dump said...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mueller-report-sent-to-attorney-general-signaling-his-russia-investigation-has-ended/2019/03/22/b061d8fa-323e-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html

March 22, 2019 5:19 PM  
Anonymous time for Dems to pay the piper said...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation into Russian election interference and possible coordination with associates of President Donald Trump.

The Justice Department says Mueller delivered his final report Friday to Attorney General William Barr, who is reviewing it.

Mueller's report, still confidential, sets the stage for the public to gauge the veracity of Democrats' statements about the President.

Barr will write a report summarizing Mueller's findings to send to Congress.

The nearly two-year probe has shadowed Trump's presidency and resulted in calculable harm to the nation's best interests.

March 22, 2019 5:37 PM  
Anonymous without heterosexuality, humanity would have no future - that's why it receives preferences said...

President Trump, often criticized for his stance toward women, employs more women as senior advisers than former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton did at the similar points in their presidencies.

Given the relative paucity of female senior presidential advisers prior to Clinton, Trump's employment of women as key advisers at this early point in his presidency may be higher than any other president's in history.

At the beginning of the third year of his first term as president, Trump has seven female top advisers, as compared to five for Obama, three for Bush, and five for Clinton at that point. He had eight as of December 2018, when United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley departed the administration.

March 22, 2019 5:42 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

With unrestrained heterosexuality, humanity has no future.

Nature never fails: Populiation booms, population busts. But we have the technology to destroy the globe and make the population bust final.

Maybe you don't care about the fate of earthly life in 300 to 10,000 years, but good people do.

March 22, 2019 6:06 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina's main talking point makes no sense.

But they have no alternative to "doing what has always worked before."

That's why humanity and the incredible diversity of wonderful life on earth is doomed.

March 22, 2019 6:08 PM  
Anonymous Heterosexuals need to use more condoms said...

Rump also paid off more hookers than any other president we know of. His fondness for having women within groping range hasn't always worked out well for him or the women.

And just for the record, no one is say heterosexuals should go away. There will be plenty around until we destroy the planet.

March 22, 2019 6:08 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

You know I may well have worked with several of those climate scientists who were at the last world meeting about the catastrophe that awaits us in 11 years.

March 22, 2019 6:21 PM  
Anonymous I reeeeeally like our current Supreme Court said...

"And just for the record, no one is say heterosexuals should go away"

well, I think several of you have said just that

but, no great matter

I never said homosexuals should go away

I'm simply saying there is good reason to preference heterosexuality

get it now?

March 22, 2019 6:21 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

You'd think people so wrapped up in their heterosexual procreation would care about what eventually happens to their procreations.

March 22, 2019 6:30 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

My spell check said "procreations" is a spelling error. Did I just coin a new word?

March 22, 2019 6:33 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Folks, what did I tell you about Right Wing Authoritarian psychological tendencies and mental compartmentalization of contradictory beliefs?

March 22, 2019 6:35 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina said "I never said homosexuals should go away".

Another gross mischaracterization of your past positions over the last two decades.

You said in many varied and repetitive ways "Homosexuality should happen in the shadows".

That's right next door to saying "homosexuals should go away". Not a lot of daylight between those two positions.

You're clearly not fair minded people.

March 22, 2019 8:26 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt and Regina haven't just demanded special rights for heterosexuals, they've demanded the oppression of gays.

March 22, 2019 9:02 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

MINNESOTA: Republican target of bigotry Ilhan Omar Rallies For Ex-Gay Torture Ban Bill


Minneapolis’ CBS affiliate reports:

Rep. Ilhan Omar has rallied LGBTQ youth in support of a Minnesota bill to ban gay conversion therapy for minors or vulnerable adults. Omar spoke Thursday on the state Capitol steps to a crowd that marched from OutFront Minnesota’s seventh annual Youth Summit at Saint Paul College.

The Minnesota Democrat called gay conversion therapy “torture” and said it should no longer be a legal practice in Minnesota or in any other state. Omar was a co-sponsor of a similar bill when she was in the Minnesota House. She was elected to Congress in November.

I have never had a Canadian Muslim advocate for my oppression and punishment. I wish I could say the same about Christians.

March 22, 2019 9:46 PM  
Anonymous I got 2020 vision said...

it's so telling

two years of endless TTF chatter about how Trump stole the election by colluding with Putin

now, after two years of investigating by a special prosecutor with virtually powers of subpoena and ability to prosecute and pardon anyone in exchange for cooperation

and two years of Congressional Democrats interrogating everyone in Trump's White House

and two year of every major media organization in the world chasing down every lead

nothing

Mueller has concluded his report

he has indicted no one for colluding with Russia

when will we see the TTF apology to the President?

I assume you're all working on the statement now...

March 22, 2019 11:24 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Lol, keep whistling past the graveyard Wyatt/Regina, this is far from over.

There's all manner of loose ends that are very surprising for Mueller to leave and declare his report done. Trumpgate investigations have been sent to prosecutors around the country. Trump has a great deal of legal jeopardy beyond the damming Mueller report's revelations.

Likely Mueller has decided the situation with Trump is so urgent that he needs to warn that immediate action needs to be taken against Trump but it is against Justice Department Policy to indict a sitting president so his hands are tied.

Barr has taken the extremely unusual step of rushing the summary of the report to the public this weekend, rather than, say, the end of next week as one would expect if it was routine.

Mueller is clearly sounding the alarm that a mentally declining madman under the control of the globe's dictators is a clear and present danger to the United States. Barr has realized the seriousness of what Mueller has found and isn't about to go down with Trump trying to delay reporting this to the public.

This is not the beginning of the end, this is the end of the beginning.

TrumpCo's nightmare has only just begun.

March 23, 2019 12:01 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Just to make it clear to dopes like Wyatt/Regina...

Just because Mueller isn't issuing any further indictments doesn't mean he won't report that Trump has engaged in criminal activity in collusion with Russia.

He will report Trump has engaged in criminal activity, he just won't indict due to some rather shaky FBI policy on indicting a sitting president.

Congress will then decide whether to ignore poorly justified FBI policy and indict Trump anyway, or to impeach him for his many high crimes against the country.

Republicans in the face of the massive corruption will have a sudden change of heart and refuse to stand behind Trump any longer.

Trump and his minions are toast.

March 23, 2019 12:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Trump admitted to obstruction of justice when he fired Comey and admitted it was to try and stop the FBI investigation into his criminal conspiracy with Russia to subvert American democracy.

That's an open and shut case.

March 23, 2019 12:18 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Breaking:

The NAACP has endorsed the lgbtq Equality Act which will add lgbtq people to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

March 23, 2019 12:21 AM  
Anonymous Dems flip the board and flip off the voters said...

"Trump admitted to obstruction of justice when he fired Comey and admitted it was to try and stop the FBI investigation into his criminal conspiracy with Russia to subvert American democracy.

That's an open and shut case."

That's a fanciful interpretation of the law. It would allow any FBI director to insulate himself from the possibility of being fired by opening an investigation of the President. As we have seen, there was no plausible reason to suspect Trump of any criminal activity in connection with Russian attempts to influence our election. Indeed, even the charges made against Trump by the media/progressive liberal/entertainment complex were true, none of them would constitute a crime. You can't obstruct justice when there is no crime alleged.

Shortly before Comey was fired, the Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, Comey's immmediate supervisor, had sent a memo to Trump recommending Comey be fired. As we have learned, for good reasons. The idea that Trump would dismiss this unprecedented recommendation by the Attorney General is ridiculous.

Further, Comey himself has also said he believes the FBI director serves at the pleasure of the President, who can fire him for any reason whatsoever.

No court, including the Senate, would ever convict Trump under these circumstances.

Apart from the this spurious obstruction of justice charge, it is clear there was no collusion with Russia to influence the election. You would have to make the preposterous assumption that Trump acted alone, without any involvement of advisors, because Mueller didn't indict any of them.

Dems are now calling to investigate Mueller to find out why he didn't reach the conclusion they were hoping for.

Add this to the list of things want to change when they lose.

They lose the election so they want to eliminate the electoral college and lower the voting age to include kids in high school.

They lose the Supreme Court and want to add more justices and institute term limits.

They lose the Mueller investigation, they want to investigate the special counsel.

If they were losing a Monopoly game, they'd flip the board and pout.

They're poor losers.

It's not attractive and the voters will reject them if they don't cease and desist the harassment efforts and get back to the work on our national priorities.

TTF should be working on their apology letter right about now...

March 23, 2019 7:20 AM  
Anonymous did you know Beto tricked his wife into eating crap as a prank? said...

The current field of candidates for the Democratic nomination for President are an utter embarrassment to America.

I wish I could say that the worst thing about John Hickenlooper's CNN town hall on Wednesday night was the part where he talked about watching Deep Throat with his mom. The former governor of Colorado, who is one of roughly 173 declared candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, explained that the porno-with-mom thing was not an accident. He said he knew that the movie was "naughty" but thought his mother might enjoy getting out of the house. Apparently after the infamous X-rated flick began she was "mortified." That poor woman.

Possibly even more cringe-inducing, though, was Hickenlooper's response to a question about whether he would consider selecting a woman as his running mate. "Of course," he told Dana Bash. Fair enough. What else is there to say? But for some reason he felt compelled to go on. "I'll ask you another question. How come we're not asking, more often, the women, ‘Would you be willing to put a man on the ticket?'" Did you hear that, Governor? That was the sound of a hundred thousand American woman groaning simultaneously.

Why are Democrats so weird? Only a few days after his long-shot candidacy had begun to attract some interest from the mainstream press, Andrew Yang came out strongly against circumcision, surely one of the most pressing political and social issues of our time. He even doubled down on this by agreeing on Thursday to debate right-wing Wunderkind Ben Shapiro on the subject. Last month Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) told a painfully obvious lie about listening to Snoop Dogg and Tupac while smoking weed in college (she graduated many years before either of them released their debut albums). Even her own father told her to cut it out. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (Mass.) insistence on releasing the results of a DNA test in the hope of vindicating her past claims of Native American heritage was one of the most bizarre events in recent political history.

March 23, 2019 7:35 AM  
Anonymous did you know Beto tricked his wife into eating crap as a prank? said...

Meanwhile, there is Beto. I don't particularly care that in 1988 the young Robert Francis O'Rourke posted some erotic verses about cows ("Oh, Milky wonder, sing for us once more, / Live your life, everlusting [sic] joy" is one of the only bits I can quote on this family website) online. I didn't even know until yesterday that there was such a thing as "online" in 1988. Nor am I going to get all worked up about his weird murder spree fantasy story, which is the kind of thing stupid teenagers write every day. But what I do want to know is whether he actually took a handful of green feces, put it in a bowl, and served it to his wife once, telling her that it was avocado. Asked by a journalist recently to confirm the anecdote, which had been reported by a supposed friend of the candidate, he responded that while he didn't remember this happening it "sounds like the kind of thing I would do." Come again? If you fed excrement to the mother of your children, I feel like you would recall. I almost certainly think she would. If there was ever something to lie about as a politician, this is it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that no one in this gang of hardcore porno-with-mom-watching, pretend-weed-smoking, bovine-horny ex-teenage hackers could ever be elected president. Maybe Democrats even think that by embracing their inner weirdness they can channel some of Trump's electoral magic. Or maybe they just think that the American people can no longer be bothered to care about the sorts of things that would have been career ending for any politician back in the remote past — 2014 or so.

They're probably right about this. At this early stage in the race, about 17 living Americans who are not either journalists or residents of Colorado know who the guy with the Dr. Seuss character name who legalized marijuana years ago even is. All of this nonsense is just going to blend together until the powers that be in the Democratic National Committee decide that some safe-ish, middle-of-the-road liberal like Harris is the candidate who can beat Bernie Sanders, at which point the junior senator from Vermont will probably fall on his sword by endorsing North Korea's bid for the U.N. Security Council or confessing that he doesn't know the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.

I can't be the only person who sometimes thinks there's something to be said for, you know, normal people in politics. It is certainly difficult to imagine poor Jeb Bush ever inviting his late beloved mother to view a smut film with at the local cinema in Kennebunkport. It is even harder to imagine President Obama feeding the former first lady the contents of one of Sasha or Malia's diapers.

The water is still warm, Hillary.

March 23, 2019 7:36 AM  
Anonymous just fo notalgia's sake, let's hope Hillary changes her mind and runs again said...

With only a few exceptions — Fox News, the editorial pages (not the front pages) of the Wall Street Journal, and a handful of websites — the better part of the American media has spent the last two years fulminating about Trump-Russia collusion we now know never existed.

Actually, we always knew that, but finally, it's official. It was always a bunch of — excuse the expression — trumped up baloney that made no sense except to those who wished so deeply to believe it was true.

Which makes the people who were doing that fulminating — media, politicians and (usually retired) intelligence figures, who were, as is becoming increasingly clear, betraying the American Constitutional system with impunity — sick and evil.

That may sound extreme, but it's the all-too-obvious truth. What they did is unforgivable, particularly since few, if any of them, will have the honesty or basic morals to apologize. Some, however, may go to jail.

The provenance of what happened also couldn't be more obvious. People who considered themselves elite guardians of our country were so appalled by the possible election, and then the actual election, of the "barbarian" Donald Trump, they thought nothing of breaking the law and then exploiting it to bring Trump down. In so doing, consciously or unconsciously, they expressed their utter contempt for roughly half of their fellow citizens, not to mention their disdain for the electoral process and the law many of them swore to uphold.

It was a conspiracy and, worse yet, a conspiracy ignited and carried out from within the FBI and the Department of Justice. Nothing could be more dangerous to a democratic society than that. How high this conspiracy went is still somewhat unclear. I say "somewhat" because the likelihood of it having reached into the White House of the previous administration is great. It's hard to imagine how it could have happened otherwise.

These conspirators all worked in tandem, through leaks or directly, with the aforementioned media that has disgraced itself beyond words. The reputation of this media, never terrific, is in tatters and being washed, deservedly, down the drain. Anyone who believes a word they say from here on in should have his/her or zhe's head examined.

Which brings us to the new man of the hour. Good-bye, Robert Mueller. Hello, Michael Horowitz.

More than ever, it is up to the inspector general to put Humpty Dumpty together again. He tiptoed up to the door in his investigation of the Hillary Clinton email scandal and then fled timorously away. This time it will not be so easy to participate in the coverup. We all know too much and the documents — especially the ones concerning the FISA courts and the Steele dossier — are sitting there waiting for the world to read them. Horowitz must know that no investigation will be complete without exposing all of this. Otherwise, he will be trashed by history.

March 23, 2019 9:37 AM  
Anonymous jus for notalgia's sake, let's hope Hillary changes her mind and runs again said...

And speaking of history, let's a have a brief review of what we've really learned so far from the multi-million dollar Mueller investigation: who actually got indicted. The worst miscreant is clearly Paul Manafort, who, before he worked for Trump, did some dirty dealing with nasty characters in the Ukraine and elsewhere. Nothing good can be said about Manafort except he has a distinct similarity to Clinton friend Tony Podesta (with whom he worked, but who has not yet been indicted) and a whole host of other Beltway creeps that infest our nation's capital, sucking off the body politic, foreign and domestic.

And then there's Michael Flynn. He may or may not (it's unclear) have been scared into lying about something minor, but his real crime, the reason they were really out to get him, was his strong opposition to the Iran deal. In any case, some investigators didn't even think he did or said anything wrong. Mueller tried to muscle him. And so far Flynn hasn't even been sentenced to anything. It keeps getting postponed for some reason. Will he be? Who knows? But Trump will doubtless pardon him anyway and should.

Then there's the nefarious Papadopoulos character who also got caught making a "false statement" and did minimal time.

Next there's Roger Stone who, it turns out, is something of a braggart and a liar. (We needed a million-dollar investigation for that?) Of course, the idea that Stone would do anything in any way meaningful is ludicrous.

And then there's Jerome Corsi. He was supposed to be indicted unless he turned evidence against someone. But he refused and wasn't indicted. Conclusion: Corsi was perfectly innocent. They were just trying to muscle him. Pretty creepy, wouldn't you say?

And finally, there's Michael Cohen, the fixer. He's a pathetic character, but none of his multiple lies or glancing truths (there must be some) come within miles of Russia collusion. In fact, he's the guy who didn't go to Prague.

And, I almost forgot, the indictment of twenty Russian hackers in St. Petersburg who will never be arrested. We're supposed to be shocked that Russkies are spewing disinformation at us when they've been doing it since the tzars. Of course, we're probably doing similar things to them too, but don't tell anybody. (At least I hope we are. We're paying the CIA for something.)

So there you have it, folks. Two years worth of investigation and millions of taxpayer dollars for that, not to mention hamstringing the president of the United States in his activities almost everywhere he went during the same period.

Proud of yourselves, David Corn, CNN, John Brennan, MSNBC, Adam Schiff, Washington Post, Don Lemon, Eric Swalwell, New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc., etc., ad nauseam? Think you saved the republic? Actually, you owe Donald Trump billions. You made out like bandits lying through your teeth about him for two years.

SPECIAL TO ADAM SCHIFF: You represent Los Angeles, where people are defecating in the streets and living in tents. Why don't you try to do something about that instead of lying every day about Donald Trump?

March 23, 2019 9:41 AM  
Anonymous Republicans showing they're poor losers. Again. said...

"the better part of the American media has spent the last two years fulminating about Trump-Russia collusion we now know never existed."

The report hasn't even been released to Congress yet, much less the public, so actually, we still don't know if there was collusion of not, which isn't even a crime. So what we are actually waiting to find out is if there was a conspiracy.

You have to wonder why the sycophantic right wing keeps insisting he's innocent when we still don't even know what Mueller found out.

Of course, these are the same people who kept investigating Clinton after several Benghazi investigations had proven there was nothing they could charge her with.

Why spend so much time typing propaganda when you can wait a bit for some facts to come out?

March 23, 2019 10:31 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fact: It's been confirmed by the DOJ that no more indictments will be issued, hence there was no criminal activity involved in any contact between the Trump campaign and Russia. Hillary's hiring of foreigners to influence the election is still to be investigated.

March 23, 2019 11:05 AM  
Anonymous Republicans showing they're poor losers. Again. said...

More Facts:

The U.S. Justice Department has a decades-old policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted, indicating that criminal charges against Trump would be unlikely, according to legal experts.

In 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal engulfing President Richard Nixon, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel adopted in an internal memo the position that a sitting president cannot be indicted. Nixon resigned in 1974, with the House of Representatives moving toward impeaching him.

“The spectacle of an indicted president still trying to serve as Chief Executive boggles the imagination,” the memo stated.

The department reaffirmed the policy in a 2000 memo, saying court decisions in the intervening years had not changed its conclusion that a sitting president is “constitutionally immune” from indictment and criminal prosecution. It concluded that criminal charges against a president would “violate the constitutional separation of powers” delineating the authority of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government.

“The indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions,” the memo stated.

The 1973 and 2000 memos are binding on Justice Department employees, including Mueller, according to many legal experts. Mueller was appointed in May 2017 by the department’s No. 2 official Rod Rosenstein.

Nixon himself in 1977 offered this view when he told interviewer David Frost, “Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal.”

Another tidbit for the "originalists":

"There are ... incidental powers, belonging to the executive department, which are necessarily implied from the nature of the functions, which are confided to it. Among these, must necessarily be included the power to perform them, without any obstruction or impediment whatsoever. The President cannot, therefore, be liable to arrest, imprisonment, or detention, while he is in the discharge of the duties of his office ..."

Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, § 1563 (1833)

So even if there was criminal activity, it is VERY unlikely that the DOJ would try to prosecute a sitting president. So that fact that there are no more indictments coming says nothing about whether or not he committed any crimes. Of course if there were crimes, the Rumpster has a lot more incentive to try and stay in office longer - to wait out the statute of limitations for those crimes. Unless Rump pardons himself first of course.

If Rump is to be charged with something, it will likely have to come through the House via impeachment hearings first. Then on to the Senate for a possible conviction - unlikely given the obsequious sycophant club that is the Republican party these days.

March 23, 2019 12:40 PM  
Anonymous Oh the irony said...

WASHINGTON ― The Justice Department’s recent decision to provide Congress with a wide range of documents surrounding the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails will increase pressure on DOJ to be fully transparent about Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into President Donald Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Attorney General William Barr is reviewing Mueller’s confidential full report and is expected to inform Congress about its principal conclusions in the coming days. But Democrats and Republicans want Barr to release the full thing, and the House recently voted unanimously ― 420 to 0 ― for the Justice Department to release Mueller’s full report.

Barr told Congress that concerns over Trump’s privacy could limit the information he makes public. Given Barr’s broad view of executive privilege, he’s also likely to abide by any claims the White House makes that portions of the report should be withheld.

But the Justice Department has recently provided Congress with extensive access to materials about the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state. Some of the materials ― such as text messages exchanged between two officials involved in the Clinton investigation as well as the Russia probe ― have provided fodder for Republicans seeking to help Trump undermine the Mueller investigation. The Justice Department’s recent unprecedented disclosures have included Clinton investigation 302s (records of FBI interviews) as well as Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders connected to the Russia investigation.

Ron Weich, a former Justice Department congressional liaison who is now dean of the University of Baltimore’s law school, said that he thinks the full report will ultimately end up in congressional hands.

“There are plenty of precedents where the public interest outweighs the concerns,” Weich said. “In this case, the public interest is overwhelming.”

That will especially be true if Mueller’s report suggests that Trump committed conduct that would have led to his indictment if not for the Justice Department’s restrictions on charging a sitting president.

March 23, 2019 12:49 PM  
Anonymous Oh the irony said...

“If it’s that momentous ― if it’s ‘we believe the president engaged in conduct that would have led to criminal charges were he not the president’ ― obviously that has to go to Congress,” Weich said. “The only reason he can’t be indicted is because the remedy is, in Congress, impeachment. That’s the basis for the department policy that he can’t be indicted, that’s there’s another remedy in the Constitution.”

Former Attorney General Eric Holder agrees. “If the Mueller Report contains evidence about impeachable conduct/offenses that, at a minimum, must be shared with Congress,” he tweeted Friday. “It would be irresponsible for DOJ to hold on to this kind of information - for any reason. No privilege claim would be valid.”

Weich pointed to a few additional examples of cases in which DOJ provided material about cases that didn’t result in an indictment: The Justice Department provided extensive information about the decision not to indict the officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; the investigation into “enhanced interrogation” by the CIA; and the investigation of former IRS official Lois Lerner.

“Consistent with the Justice Department’s past practice and to ensure Congress can discharge its constitutional responsibilities, we also expect the underlying evidence uncovered during the course of the Special Counsel’s investigation will be turned over to the relevant Committees of Congress upon request,” the six officials said in a statement.

March 23, 2019 12:53 PM  
Anonymous poor irony, he can't grasp complicated facts said...

"So even if there was criminal activity, it is VERY unlikely that the DOJ would try to prosecute a sitting president. So that fact that there are no more indictments coming says nothing about whether or not he committed any crimes."

actually, it does, at least as far as Mueller's Russian investigation

you would have to assume that Trump conducted this whole scheme solely on his own if you are to say the only reason there are no more indictments is because you can't prosecute a sitting president

so, yesterday's announcements mean there was no criminal activity concerning the contact of Trump officials with the Russian government

this is likely true of Trump's business affairs as well

if Mueller had tripped over something, it's highly unlikely other people wouldn't be involved

if you're desperately looking to grasp at something, anything, your best bet would be possible sealed indictments

but if they exist, that would mean Barr misspoke yesterday

March 23, 2019 1:20 PM  
Anonymous without heterosexuality, humanity would have no future - that's why it receives preferences said...

irony showed once again that TTFers think they can score points by rambling

there was no need to take three posts to say that

they use this technique to obscure how weak their points are

March 23, 2019 1:25 PM  
Anonymous ha-ha said...

that's right!!

obscure

March 23, 2019 1:26 PM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

"you would have to assume that Trump conducted this whole scheme solely on his own if you are to say the only reason there are no more indictments is because you can't prosecute a sitting president"

You simply don't have to make that assumption at all. That's just another claim you entirely made up.

March 23, 2019 2:26 PM  
Anonymous hard times for the gay agenda!! said...

Anything else would be very far-fetched. But, don't let me disturb any delusions that are keeping you from getting suicidal though.

btw, it's interesting that you seem to think it's an indictment against me if I do my won thinking and it's also a problem if post someone else's idea. Can we just say gays do alot of bitching when they realize they're wrong?

And, yes, I entirely made up that observation on my own!

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March 23, 2019 3:35 PM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

The sentence you apparently took umbrage with was:

"So even if there was criminal activity, it is VERY unlikely that the DOJ would try to prosecute a sitting president. So that fact that there are no more indictments coming says nothing about whether or not he committed any crimes."

By stating:

"you would have to assume that Trump conducted this whole scheme solely on his own if you are to say the only reason there are no more indictments is because you can't prosecute a sitting president"

That criminal activity could include "obstruction of justice" like when he fired Comey, or breaking campaign finance laws when he paid off his hookers.

You then provided no reason for why the DOJ might break with their long-standing policy of not indicting sitting presidents. So, do you know of a different policy, or did you just make that up on your own?

March 23, 2019 3:57 PM  
Anonymous as a famous homosexual once said :sorry seems to be the hardest word said...

no umbrage taken at all

this is a very happy day for those who want to see the gay agenda restrained

"That criminal activity could include "obstruction of justice" like when he fired Comey, or breaking campaign finance laws when he paid off his hookers."

the facts about those two matters are well known

if Mueller includes them, he's just giving an opinion

not concerned about it at all

neither was illegal

"You then provided no reason for why the DOJ might break with their long-standing policy of not indicting sitting presidents. So, do you know of a different policy, or did you just make that up on your own?"

I never said anything else

I said, and you should go try and read it again to improve your reading comprehension skills, that Trump is not guilty of any crime connected to his campaign's contact with Russia

this is obvious because Mueller indicted none of his advisors and Trump couldn't have acted alone

that's the fact of the matter

I know it's hard for you to accept, because you've worked yourself up into a frenzy the last couple of years

but, life will go on

just apologize to the President

and move on

March 23, 2019 4:23 PM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

"I said, and you should go try and read it again to improve your reading comprehension skills, that Trump is not guilty of any crime connected to his campaign's contact with Russia"

Read it again. The comment you were complaining about didn't even mention Russia. The reading comprehension problem is on your end.

Like Rump, you can't seem to stop compulsively spitting out "SEE!!! NO COLLUSION!!!" every time anyone mentions the investigation. Why so defensive?

You know something we don't?

March 23, 2019 4:42 PM  
Anonymous they're coming to take him away, haha, hoho, heehee, to the funny farm where life is beautiful aaaall the time said...

gee, I'm not the one who seems so angry

that would be you

so, you say on one hand, I said nothing about Russia

then, you say, I can't seem to stop compulsively spitting out "SEE!!! NO COLLUSION!!!"

if you don't want to wind up looking even stupider than you already do, you need to settle on an approach and stick to it

Trump and his campaign never colluded with Russia

you need to accept this for the sake of your own sanity

an apology to the President will assist your attempt to achieve emotional stability

March 23, 2019 4:58 PM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

"Trump and his campaign never colluded with Russia"

I never said he did. Like many, many other people I've been waiting patiently for Mueller to finish his investigation, and the details to be released before reaching that collusion conclusion. With all the other Rump cronies that Mueller has indicted, convicted, and sent to jail for various offenses, it is not unreasonable to wonder if Rump himself might have his hands dirty in there too.

Conservatives keep insisting that he's innocent even though we know nothing about what Mueller has found out yet. How would you know unless you had close contacts inside his campaign? Or are you just claiming it's your usual omnipotence that allows you to know this? Your delusions must be a lot of fun. No wonder you don't want to give them up.

"an apology to the President will assist your attempt to achieve emotional stability"

Apologize for what, exactly?

BTW, when are you going to apologize to Obama for claiming he was born in Kenya? And when will Rump apologize for that too? After he apologizes for all the crap he's said about John McCain perhaps?

March 23, 2019 5:27 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Just seen:

Breaking News: Trump hasn't tweeted in more than 24 hours.

Just how sad are things when its news that your president hasn't rage-tweeted for a full day!

Hahahahahahahahahaha!

The USA is F*ked.

March 23, 2019 6:14 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The fact that Trump wasn't indicted is meaningless, because Justice Department Policy is that he can't be indicted.

If what Republicans are claiming about Trump not being in trouble because no more indictments are coming is true then Nixon would have been free and clear as well.

Obviously there is no good news for Trump in this.

He's going down just like Nixon.

And taking Nunes, Graham, McConnel, Ryan and many others down with him :)

March 23, 2019 6:18 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

If Trump gets away with helping Russia attack the United States it does not bode well for what comes next.

March 23, 2019 6:57 PM  
Anonymous without heterosexuality, humanity would have no future, hence the societal preferencing said...

"I never said he did."

If so, then my posts wasn't directed at you. Why are you responding?

"Like many, many other people I've been waiting patiently for Mueller to finish his investigation, and the details to be released before reaching that collusion conclusion."

Well, I've kept an open mind. But I've yet to hear anything that justified the appointing of the special counsel. Most of the TTFers here have assumed it was true since Hillary started this hoax almost two years ago.

"With all the other Rump cronies that Mueller has indicted, convicted, and sent to jail for various offenses, it is not unreasonable to wonder if Rump himself might have his hands dirty in there too."

Oh sure, and if we find out your lawyer cheated on his taxes and the contractor working on your house has mafia ties, we should assume you do too. Right?

"Conservatives keep insisting that he's innocent even though we know nothing about what Mueller has found out yet. How would you know unless you had close contacts inside his campaign? Or are you just claiming it's your usual omnipotence that allows you to know this? Your delusions must be a lot of fun. No wonder you don't want to give them up."

Dude, this is very clever attempt to retaliate because I pointed out that your assumptions are crazy. Only one problem: your assumptions are crazy.

The rationale has been explained to you. I was just watching CNN and MSNBC a while ago. Even they are starting to get it. The DOJ announced that no further indictments will be made. Since none have been made accusing any Trump campaign official of anything illegal in connection with Russia, that means none ever will. It's simple math: zero plus zero equals zero. And while you are correct that the President can't be indicted, the idea that he conducted such an operation without the assistance or, even, knowledge of others, is absurd. If he did and was helped, those people would have been indicted. Mueller was so desperate to find something, he would have indicted someone for not recycling.

"Apologize for what, exactly?"

the trolls on here who have repeatedly claimed Trump colluded with Russia to beat Hillary the Loser

is that exact enough for you?

"BTW, when are you going to apologize to Obama for claiming he was born in Kenya?"

I never said he was

but Obama was first President since the early days to write a book idolizing a father who was an anti-American socialist

"And when will Rump apologize for that too?"

who are you referring to ass-wipe?

"After he apologizes for all the crap he's said about John McCain perhaps?"

funny you should bring McCain up

go back to the year he was running for President, TTFers defamed him the same way they do Trump now: racist, authoritarian, yadda, yadda

it all there to read

when will they apologize?

March 23, 2019 8:50 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

watch out

get-a-clue is already in a rage

you tell the truth and you're gonna make 'em go POSTAL!!

March 23, 2019 8:53 PM  
Anonymous Adam Schiff...LOL!! said...

don't worry

they're coming to take him away, haha, hoho, heehee, to the funny farm where life is beautiful aaaall the time...

March 23, 2019 8:56 PM  
Anonymous what a supreme Supreme Court we have!!! said...

yeah, they can give him a padded cell next to his psychotic girlfriend, Priya Lynn

they can pace their cells daily in their straightjackets, muttering about the Russians and Trump and the authoritarians and swirlies

awaiting the big thrill of the day: electrosohck therapy!

haha, hoho, heehee....

March 23, 2019 9:02 PM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

"I never said he did."

"If so, then my posts wasn't directed at you. Why are you responding?"

I'm responding because all of the other quotes before that response were mine, and since you didn't mention that you were changing who or what you were talking about, I presumed (perhaps mistakenly) that you were still talking about my post. Were you really referring to someone else or did you make that up as an excuse for another snide remark?

"Most of the TTFers here have assumed it was true since Hillary started this hoax almost two years ago."

Ahh, so you can read the minds of TTFers now. AMAZING. It could be that many of them assumed that the people in the FBI knew what they were doing and had reasonable to cause to justify an investigation. I know that's a wildly radical idea, but hey, liberals.

"Oh sure, and if we find out your lawyer cheated on his taxes and the contractor working on your house has mafia ties, we should assume you do too. Right?"

Well, first of all, I don't go around doing things that I might need a lawyer for, much less one that is known for intimidating people on the Rumpster's behalf:

During testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Oversight Committee, Trump’s longtime “fixer” described a boss who was “intoxicating” but also deeply flawed, a “conman” who lied without hesitation.

Cohen lamented his “misplaced loyalty” to Trump and said he was ashamed of “concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts.”

“How many times did Mr. Trump order you to threaten an individual or entity on his behalf?” Democratic U.S. Representative Jackie Speier asked him.

“Quite a few times,” Cohen responded.

“50 times?”

“More.”

“100 times?

“More.”

“200 times?”

“More.”

“500 times?”

“Probably,” Cohen replied, saying the threats sometimes involved litigation or “an argument with a nasty reporter that is writing an article.”

As well as:

Michael Cohen on Wednesday compared President Trump to a mobster, claiming he was seeking to intimidate him before he testified before Congress.

Cohen, Trump's former-personal-lawyer-turned-foe, testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee that his former boss was seeking to attack him and his family.

“By coming today, I have caused my family to be the target of personal, scurrilous attacks by the president and his lawyer, trying to intimidate me from appearing before this panel," Cohen said towards the end of his opening remarks.

When Rump's OWN LAWYER says he was covering up for the Orange one's illicit acts, and then compares him to a mobster and a conman, it simply isn't that much of a stretch to think that Mueller might have found something that Rump should answer for. You do know that in the past, people who behave like mobsters or con men have gone to jail, right?

March 23, 2019 10:29 PM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

"Dude, this is very clever attempt to retaliate because I pointed out that your assumptions are crazy. Only one problem: your assumptions are crazy."

Um, no.

This is what I wrote:

"So even if there was criminal activity, it is VERY unlikely that the DOJ would try to prosecute a sitting president. So that fact that there are no more indictments coming says nothing about whether or not he committed any crimes."

Note that it say "criminal activity," and nothing about Russia.

This was the first line of your response:

"actually, it does, at least as far as Mueller's Russian investigation"

I'm not sure if you intended this to be a full sentence, just another blurb Republicans try to spit out to try and delegitimize Mueller's investigation like "no collusion!", or part of a larger paragraph. A bit of punctuation and normal paragraph spacing might help you communicate better. As I was not referring to Russia, it didn't seem to relate to what I was pointing out. It also looks like another one of your attempts to put up a straw man argument to knock down that didn't actually address what I said. Don't be mad because I didn't take the bait.

Then in your next paragraph - I have to assume it's a paragraph because it was seperated like a paragraph, and unlike much of your spittle, actually extends over more than one line:

"you would have to assume that Trump conducted this whole scheme solely on his own if you are to say the only reason there are no more indictments is because you can't prosecute a sitting president"

Since you didn't mention Russia here, it seems by "this whole scheme" you were referring to my "criminal activity" comment. Maybe you were still actually referring to Russia with "this whole scheme." If that was the case, keeping it in the same paragraph would have provided some useful context. I can't read people's minds.

But if someone's long-time lawyer says he's been strong-arming people for their client, and “concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts,” and then goes on to call them a con man and compare them to a mobster, I don't think it's a "crazy" assumption to think this Trump guy might be guilty of something, and it might be in Mueller's report. I'm happy to wait a few days to see what it says.

You are certainly free to disagree, as you alway do, but that's the kind of behavior we've come to expect from you.

"And while you are correct that the President can't be indicted, the idea that he conducted such an operation without the assistance or, even, knowledge of others, is absurd. If he did and was helped, those people would have been indicted"

There you go again setting up a straw man argument that I never made, and then claiming it's absurd. Well, sure it's absurd - but that's not in anything I wrote. You are arguing with yourself, idiot. (Or do you prefer "ass-wipe?")

"I never said he was"

Oh, I'm sorry. That must of been the OTHER right-wing troll that's unable to distinguish sentences with periods or form a proper paragraph.

"funny you should bring McCain up"

I didn't think it was funny, but I guess everyone has their own taste in humor. I was never a big fan of McCain, but even at my worst, I have never said ANYTHING as crass, petty, and unpatriotic about him as the president has.

March 23, 2019 11:07 PM  
Anonymous homosexuality never produces life, two of 'em ain't ever a marriage said...

thanks, get-a-clue

I found it quite amusing to read your extended rant

hope everyone else had as much fun reading as I did

if it wasn't so late, I'd provide a few more lines that you could hilariously over-react to

don't let it keep you up but...

Trump is innocent

March 23, 2019 11:21 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous said "you would have to assume that Trump conducted this whole scheme solely on his own if you are to say the only reason there are no more indictments is because you can't prosecute a sitting president"
"And while you are correct that the President can't be indicted, the idea that he conducted such an operation without the assistance or, even, knowledge of others, is absurd. If he did and was helped, those people would have been indicted"

They were indicted you moron! Roger Stone still has an upcoming court case! There were multiple convictions of Trump people and Russians for criminal acts in aide of electing Trump!

Now try to remember Wyatt/Regina, this is Priya referencing the straw man arguments you aimed at Good Anonymous.

Let's put this in perspective. The Mueller investigation over its course has racked up several dozen indictments, several guilty pleas and multiple convictions. If Mueller had not waited until now to announce all this everyone would be correctly hailing the Mueller Report as a fantastic success. The fact that all this success was dribbled out bit by bit over the past year or so doesn't change what the Mueller Investigation has resulted in - a gigantic prosecutorial success.

Mueller worked his way up from the bottom and to the people closest to Trump himself, Manafort, Cohen, Alan Weiselberg, Rick Gates, Mike Flynn, David Pecker, Roger Stone, and multiple Russin intelligence operatives! And now like a crazy person you're falsely claiming no one has been convicted of anything!

Every aspect of the Trump organization and charity has been implicated in a massive web of criminal wrongdoing. So, obviously Wyatt/Regina's claim that no one has been implicated in Russian electoral criminal wrongdoing that could have assisted Trump is false - all manner of Trump's people who assisted in criminal Russian electoral wrongdoing have been charged, convicted, and/or plead guilty or are still facing court dates for their part in the Russia/Trump scandal.

Mueller has spun off multiple investigations and prosecutions. Mueller's investigation may be done, but all these other prosecutorial actions are ongoing and multiple indictments will be forthcoming from them.

This is far from over, the bulk of the prosecutorial action is still awaiting Trumpco. And again, if there were any truth that a lack of indictments of Trump means he's innocent then Nixon would have been free and clear too because no one had or was going to indict him.

March 23, 2019 11:45 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

There's that gross mischaracterization of reality again by Wyatt/Regin - falsely claiming Mueller found no wrong doing by anyone just because all legal action was announced over the previous couple years instead of all at once yesterday.

The Truth is that a shocking number of people close to Trump and multiple Russian government agents have been indicted on dozens of accounts with multiple guilty pleas and convictions.

The Republican claim that somehow Trump's inner circle was all corrupt and colluding with Russia but he was completely ignorant and innocent of any wrongdoing himself is preposterous.

March 23, 2019 11:53 PM  
Anonymous they're coming to take get-a-clue away, haha, hoho, heehee, to the funny farm where life is beautiful aaaall the time, signed the Marvelous Mr Maisel said...

"I found it quite amusing to read your extended rant"

I agree

it was the funniest thing I've read in a long time

I knew Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce was a friend of mine

get-a-clue, you're another Lenny Bruce

the Michael Cohen routine was the funniest

you know, the part where he would thought he was like the mob because he would intimidate people by threatening to sue them

but only if you try leaving a horse head in his bed and that doesn't work

then, threaten to sue

yeah, who has ever heard of a lawyer doing anything like that?

or how about this one?:

Trump must be guilty because a convicted perjurer, who will get years off his sentence if he says Trump is guilty, says Trump is guilty

what a riot!

March 24, 2019 12:11 AM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

Right... because the Rumpster is such an innocent, "never done anything wrong kind" of guy.

Now I see why you're so familiar with the funny farm.

March 24, 2019 12:31 AM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

"Trump must be guilty because a convicted perjurer, who will get years off his sentence if he says Trump is guilty, says Trump is guilty"

Yet again you make another straw man argument that I never made. I'll try typing it in more slowly this time so you can try and keep up:

"I never said he did. Like many, many other people I've been waiting patiently for Mueller to finish his investigation, and the details to be released before reaching that collusion conclusion. With all the other Rump cronies that Mueller has indicted, convicted, and sent to jail for various offenses, it is not unreasonable to wonder if Rump himself might have his hands dirty in there too."

and

"But if someone's long-time lawyer says he's been strong-arming people for their client, and “concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts,” and then goes on to call them a con man and compare them to a mobster, I don't think it's a "crazy" assumption to think this Trump guy might be guilty of something, and it might be in Mueller's report. I'm happy to wait a few days to see what it says."

Is it that they don't teach reading comprehension at the home schools, or that the only debating tactics they teach are misrepresentation, ridiculous hyperbole, straw man, "no true Scotsman" and related logical fallacies?

March 24, 2019 12:39 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Wyatt/Regina said "Trump must be guilty because a convicted perjurer, who will get years off his sentence if he says Trump is guilty, says Trump is guilty".

Not surprisingly, this is yet another gross mischaracterization of the situation. Cohen entered into a plea and cooperation agreement with the prosecution. Part of the agreement is that if he lies about anything he will be prosecuted for crimes he admitted to but was not charged with due to his cooperation.

He got a lighter sentence for his cooperation. If he lies, that sentence will be extended because he violated his cooperation agreement.

Cohen faces severe penalties for any further lies since he signed the plea deal and cooperation agreement. Wyatt/Regina's assertion that nothing restrains Cohen from lying about Trump is absurd.

Cohen will tell the truth because he'll receive severe additional punishment if he doesn't.

March 24, 2019 12:39 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Not to mention that this isn't just a matter of Cohen's word against Trump. Cohen has cheques signed by Trump,Don Jr. and Alan Weisselberg. He has tape recordings, bank records and various other evidence corroborating his accusations against Trump.

All reputable legal experts agree, Trump committed a criminal campaign finance violation that may well have been the difference between him squeaking out a narrow electoral college victory and losing. If this was not the president who did this, that person would certainly be convicted and spending time in jail.

The only reason Trump is not in jail now, is because he's president. His only hope of staying out of jail is to win re-election in 2020. That won't happen.

Ivanka, Jared, Don Jr. and Eric Trump will all be indicted by prosecutors out of the southern district of New York and almost certainly they will be releasing sealed indictments that come into effect after Trump has left office, just as no doubt Mueller has done.

March 24, 2019 12:46 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The Mueller report may not be issuing any more indictments but it very likely may conclude the only reason Trump isn't being indicted is because he's a sitting president.

March 24, 2019 12:48 AM  
Anonymous they're coming to take get-a-clue away, haha, hoho, heehee, to the funny farm where life is beautiful aaaall the time, signed the Marvelous Mr Maisel said...

the king of hilarity just keeps 'em comin':

"But if someone's long-time lawyer says he's been strong-arming people for their client, and “concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts,” and then goes on to call them a con man and compare them to a mobster, I don't think it's a "crazy" assumption to think this Trump guy might be guilty of something,"

well, it is crazy

because if there were "specific illicit" acts for which any proof exists, Cohen, Weissberg, Donald Jr would have been indicted for them

they aren't Presidents, so they can be indicted and Mueller's not one of those guys to leave an indictment on the table

"and it might be in Mueller's report. I'm happy to wait a few days to see what it says."

oh, I bet you are

that will be the end for Dems in 2020

so, you'd be happy to see that put off as long as po-see-blay!

we'll be counting on you for a lot of laughs

March 24, 2019 6:55 AM  
Anonymous When the horse head in the bed doesn't work! said...

The funniest part was when get-a-clue said Trump used mob-like "intimidation" techniques like threatening to sue. Oh yeah, the mob's known for that. If someone wrongs, they leave it the hands of the court. Hahaha! Could get a clue get more hilarious

March 24, 2019 7:55 AM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

That was Cohen who said that, moron:

WASHINGTON (AP) — He carried out the boss’ wishes. He understood “the code.” He was blindly loyal — but now he’s considered a rat.

Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen spoke at length Wednesday about his life in the president’s inner circle, but the most vivid descriptor came in just six words. Trump ran his operation “much like a mobster would do,” Cohen said.

In Cohen’s scathing testimony at a House committee hearing, he repeatedly described Trump, the onetime head of a family business, like a mob boss minus the body count: quick to bully and expecting others to do his dirty work. Cohen described himself as a consigliere, telling lawmakers he did Trump’s bidding for years, intimidating maybe 500 people and lying to scores, including the first lady.

March 24, 2019 10:30 AM  
Anonymous Get a clue said...

To clarify: It was Cohen who made the comparisons to a mob boss, and mob tactics.

For this line:
"you know, the part where he would thought he was like the mob because he would intimidate people by threatening to sue them"

That was by:

"they're coming to take get-a-clue away, haha, hoho, heehee, to the funny farm where life is beautiful aaaall the time, signed the Marvelous Mr Maisel"

at MARCH 24, 2019 12:11 AM

You have to give credit for that funny line to the person who wrote it, not me.

March 24, 2019 10:43 AM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

Good Anonymous has Wyatt/Regina/bad anonymous nailed - Wyatt/Regina are utterly devoid of integrity and won't hesitate to lie about who said what in the past.

March 24, 2019 3:56 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

The Mueller Report has been disastrous news for Trump.

Even hand-picked by Trump Attorney General Barr reports "While the report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it does not exonerate him.".

Barr has concluded Trump wasn't guilty of obstruction of justice despite Trump regularly making clear his corrupt intent to end the investigation into Trumpco was to protect himself.

Robert Mueller said in his summary that he did not consider whether or not Trump had commmitted a crime, instead leaving the determination up to the man who auditioned for the Attorney General job by saying he'd protect Trump from the Mueller investigation.

Naturally, as he was hired to do, Barr is trying to keep hidden the evidence against Trump. It won't work.

Barr is making clear he's doing what he was hired to do - cover up evidence of Trump and associates criminal corruption. This will backfire on Republicans, clearly showing the public that the truth is being hidden to protect corrupt Republicans.

Democrats will drag the truth out bit by bit up to and past the 2020 election. This albatross around Republicans' necks will be there for a very long time.

March 24, 2019 4:09 PM  
Anonymous Russia, if you're listening please attack my country said...

Just a Reminder:

When Republicans impeached Bill Clinton, Ken Starr uploaded the entire report to the internet with unnecessary salacious details and all.

When the Mueller report is complete, We the People have a right to know if Trump is a Russian asset or not.

RELEASE THE REPORT!

March 24, 2019 6:16 PM  
Blogger Priya Lynn said...

So,I read this article about "Feminized Messages in Public Schools" by David Morrow and it was just so terribly wrong in its base assumptions I wanted to respond.

But, as I should have expected, comments are closed on all threads for Morrow's "Church for Men".

I looked for contact information on the various web sites he was on, none was offered. There's only an automated contact page to invite David Morrow to speak at churches and no place on the contact page to put any message.

So, yeah, aren't Christianists the worst?

They insist they have the truth and know everything, but they're deathly afraid of letting anyone have an opportunity to find the all too readily obvious faults.

So, EffU David Morrow and all you anti-liberal christianists who demand a forum to speak but will not allow anyone to respond.

March 24, 2019 7:44 PM  
Anonymous I reeeeeeeeally like our Supreme Court.and the best is yet to come!!!!!!! said...

:)

March 24, 2019 10:54 PM  
Anonymous hillary .... LOL!!!!!!!! said...

"When the Mueller report is complete, We the People have a right to know if Trump is a Russian asset or not."

it's complete

Trump is completely innocent of conspiring and coordinating with Russia

but, I understand why you don't want to believe it's not out yet...

they're coming to take get-a-clue away, haha, hoho, heehee, to the funny farm where life is beautiful aaaall the time and he'll be happy to see those men in the nice white coats who are coming to take get-a-clue awaaaaay!

March 24, 2019 11:29 PM  
Anonymous without heterosexuality, humanity would have no future, hence the societal preferencing said...

The Justice Department said yesterday that the investigation found no evidence that President Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated” with Russia in any way to gain an advantage in the election.

“The findings of the Department of Justice are a total and complete exoneration of the president of the United States,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.

She is right. There is no collusion and there never was. But this is no time to celebrate. The very idea that Trump was working with the Russians was very possibly invented to open Trump up to investigation, and it worked.

The Democrats have been saying that the truth must come to light for two years, now. Let us oblige them. The president has been dogged by this entire situation..

Was the “Russia Dossier” used to get the ball rolling? There is evidence to suggest it.

Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr and Peter Strzok should be at the center of a new probe to determine whether members of the United States intelligence services took part in an effort to compromise the duly elected president of the United States.

Democrats and the media will show little interest in such an investigation but that is of no matter. History will outlive the activists on CNN and it is our responsibility to shed light on the motives behind the machinations to undermine a duly elected president

March 25, 2019 9:15 AM  
Anonymous Trump Aided and Abetted Russia’s Attack. That Was Treachery. Full Stop. said...

On Sunday afternoon Attorney General William Barr sent a letter to Congress noting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” The message also noted that Mueller could not exonerate President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice, but that Barr himself had decided that the evidence Mueller developed was “insufficient to establish” that Trump had obstructed justice. Trump proclaimed it was “complete and total exoneration.” And Trump champions popped the cork and declared case closed, nothing to see, end of story, no need for further investigation, Trump did no wrong.

Well, that is fake news.

Barr’s note is clear that Mueller did not uncover evidence Trump and his gang were in direct cahoots with Russia’s covert operation to interfere with the US election and boost Trump’s odds. But the hyper-focus on this sort of collusion—as if Trump instructed Russian hackers on how to penetrate the computer network of the Democratic National Committee—has always diverted attention from a basic and important element of the scandal that was proven long before Mueller drafted his final report: Trump and his lieutenants interacted with Russia while Putin was attacking the 2016 election and provided encouraging signals to the Kremlin as it sought to subvert American democracy. They aided and abetted Moscow’s attempt to cover up its assault on the United States (which aimed to help Trump win the White House). And they lied about all this.

And, yes, there were instances of collusion—not on the specifics of the attack, but secret scheming between Trumpworld and Russia.

None of the evidence underlying this is in dispute. No matter what Mueller report contains, a harsh verdict remains: Trump and his gang betrayed the United States in the greatest scandal in American history.

The Moscow Project

Let’s start with Trump. Shortly after he leaped into the 2016 contest, Trump began pursuing a grand project in Moscow: a sky-high tower bearing his name. It could reap him hundreds of millions of dollars. His fixer, Michael Cohen, was the Trump Organization’s point man in the negotiations...

March 25, 2019 9:32 AM  
Anonymous Trump Aided and Abetted Russia’s Attack. That Was Treachery. Full Stop. said...

Trump signed a letter of intent, and the talks went on for months through the fall of 2015 and the first half of 2016. At one point, Cohen spoke to an official in Putin’s office, seeking help for the venture. And throughout this period, Trump the candidate, when asked for his opinions on Russia and Putin, issued curiously positive remarks about the thuggish and autocratic Russian leader.

Trump also claimed throughout the campaign that he had nothing to do with Russia—no business there, nothing. And when he was asked whether he knew Felix Sater, a wheeling-dealing developer and one-time felon who was the middleman for the Moscow project negotiations, Trump claimed he was “not that familiar with him.”

That was a lie.

The Moscow deal did fizzle at some point, but Trump had engaged in the the most significant conflict of interest in modern American politics. He was making positive statements about Putin on the campaign trail, at the same time he needed support from the Russian government for his project. Yet he hid this conflict from American voters and lied to keep it secret. (After the election, Cohen lied to Congress about this project to protect Trump, and that’s one reason Cohen is soon heading to prison.)

It’s deplorable that a presidential candidate would double-deal in this manner and deceive the public—insisting he was an America First candidate, while pursuing a secret agenda overseas to enrich himself. But Trump’s duplicity also compromised him.

Putin and the Russians obviously knew about this deal Trump was hiding from American voters. So at any time they could reveal it and expose Trump’s mendacity. He willingly placed himself at the mercy of a foreign adversary—as it was preparing a covert operation to corrupt an American election. And Trump literally and secretly signaled to the Kremlin—which was still facing harsh economic sanctions for Putin’s intervention in Ukraine—that he wanted to do business with it. Trump was betraying the public trust before being elected.

The Trump Tower Meeting

The betrayal continued after Trump became the de facto presidential nominee of the Republican Party. On June 9, 2016, Trump’s three most senior advisers—Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner—met with a Russian emissary in the Trump Tower in New York City. They had been informed that she would deliver them dirt on Hillary Clinton and that this was part of a secret Kremlin initiative to assist the Trump campaign.

Manafort, though, was directly conspiring. With Russians, including a Russian oligarch. On August 2, Manafort took time away from his duties as Trump’s campaign manager to meet at a ritzy cigar bar in Manhattan with Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime Ukrainian-Russian business colleague who, according to several Mueller court filings, has been assessed by the FBI to be an associate of Russian intelligence.

Though much of the details about this meeting have been redacted in the relevant court filings, it seems that the rendezvous was arranged at the behest of Oleg Deripaska, a Putin-friendly Russian oligarch. At this get-together, Manafort supplied Kilimnik polling data from the campaign. (Kilimnik, according to the New York Times, subsequently passed this information to two Ukrainian oligarchs, and it’s unclear if he shared it with others.)..

March 25, 2019 9:32 AM  

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