Month: January 2019

Free Republic, The Darnold, Tommy T1 Comment

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – bone us edition

Tommy T

Hi everyone! Our bud Michael F is taking a well-deserved week off, and yours truly is attention-whoring  filling in today for him.

Everyone wanted to know that the reactions in Freeperville were to The Darnold’s Very Bad Week?

Let’s start with – Nick Cave and the Bad Siege !

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Tetchy son of a bitch, ain’t he?  But you can’t unring this ugly bell.

vanity Trump caves we have NO ONE now
Posted on 1/25/2019, 1:33:40 PM by Cubs Fan

The democrats have a plan to dilute down conservative voters with floods of 3rd world immigrants and its working working. And now even Trump has stopped fighting it.

Democrats getting their way on Immigration is the end of America. They will have full soviet union style monopoly on all government power in ten years or less.

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He caved. America lost.the democrats plan to use immigration to dilute out conservative voters is still right on track. And now no one is standing in their way.

1 posted on 1/25/2019, 1:33:40 PM by Cubs Fan

 

OtherwiseOK4

To: Cubs Fan

 

HOORAY now F off and make sure you properly register your Dem card

man, these Never Trump drama queens are like neighborhood whores on FR

16 posted on 1/25/2019, 1:37:16 PM by max americana (Happily Fired every stupid liberal at every election since 08′ at work. I hope all liberals die.)

You mean whoring for $80,000 every three months? Or would that be Jim Rob?

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(Oh – and we’ll be hearing from a shitfaced “max americana” later in today’s Obsession)

To: Cubs Fan

 

We will back to square one in three weeks nothing is going to change. Look, its not these workers fault the Govt is a bunch of corrupt bastards. If I were screwed out of two checks that I needed I would be pissed too..so what is going to change three weeks from now..NOTHING, Dems will NEVER approve of wall funding its never going to happen so what, he’s going to shut down the Govt again? So why bother with this

22 posted on 1/25/2019, 1:37:42 PM by Sarah Barracuda

OtherwiseOK3
To: Kickass Conservative

 

8d chess?

8 posted on 1/25/2019, 1:36:31 PM by TiGuy22

To: TiGuy22

 

“8d chess?”

So why isn’t ANY democrat being prosecuted???

8d chess, my butt.

29 posted on 1/25/2019, 1:38:07 PM by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
To: Cubs Fan

 

Sad. The house has him on the ropes. pelosy’s goal is the election. If Trump doesn’t build, he will lose the election. Also Criminal Hillary is walking around.

He keeps telling us how nice walls are. This speech is repetitious of past speeches. If he doesn’t declare the emergency, he won’t get funding from the house. If he declares, the dems will tie him up in court and in two years the wall will not be built.

I don’t see a path to the wall before the election. Dem mission accomplished. UNLESS he declares and tells the judiciary to stand down as emergencies are not in their purview. But he has acquiesced to the courts for two years.

Good luck.

31 posted on 1/25/2019, 1:38:26 PM by morphing libertarian (Use Comey’s Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate’s wall. — Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)

To: CodeToad

 

Trump was a caver even before taking office.

LOCK HER UP became (quoting KA Conway before being sworn in) “He wants Hillary to heal.”

56 posted on 1/25/2019, 1:42:00 PM by Cassius Flavia Agrippa

To: rintintin

 

He has played the national emergency card for 5 weeks. It’s just like his threat to declassify all those documents that are still secret. All talk. Nancy and Chuck won folks, deal with it. If you think Nan and Chuck are going to negotiate on the wall keep drinking the Kool-Aid. They won this time and they will win in 3 weeks, and 6 month and 2 years. It was a nice run, but no republic last forever. In 5 years you won’t even recognize this once great country. There is already a judge ready with a restraining order in hand against using a national emergency declaration to build the wall.

I’m not going to say Trump lied about the wall. I just don’t think, as an outsider he understood how unlikely it was he could deliver. The power in this country belong to the Left and their supporters in both parties, the media and schools. That is a hard coalition to defeat.

83 posted on 1/25/2019, 1:46:48 PM by redangus

OtherwiseOK2
To: ChildOfThe60s
I believe that judicial overreach has come to the point where the President should pull an Andy Jackson. Tell the court they have no jurisdiction, if they want to stop it, they can send their army to do so.  

At which point Pelosi will gleefully impeach and when it goes to the Senate you get to see how many Republicans give sanctimonious speeches about the ‘Rule of Law’ and vote to convict.

123 posted on 1/25/2019, 1:56:15 PM by Snickering Hound
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Athenae, So Called Liberal Media1 Comment

It’s Not the Tools, It’s the Talent

Allison Hantschel

I can’t anymore with this: Much has been made of the way Twitter serves as a megaphone for popular anger that’s made more intense by the speed of the news cycle and the distinctive malice and ineptitude of the Trump White House. But too little attention has been paid to what may be the most potent facet of the social media platform: its ability to feed the vanity of its users. There’s always an element of egoism to intellectual and political debate. But Twitter puts every tweeter on a massive stage, with the nastiest put-downs, insults, and provocations often receiving … Continue reading It’s Not the Tools, It’s the Talent

Free Republic, The Darnold, Tommy T5 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – 13th dimensional chess edition

Tommy T

Good morning, gentle people – it’s not been a Very Good Week for The Darnold, but nothing (including the now never-ending Freepathon) is gonna get the Freeperati down!

Last week it was :

Trump tells Pelosi he plans to proceed with State of the Union next week
fox news ^ | 1/23/2019 | ALex pappas

Posted on 1/23/2019, 12:06:13 PM by bitt

President Trump told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a new letter Wednesday that he still plans to deliver next week’s scheduled State of the Union address from the House floor even though Pelosi urged him to delay the speech because of the government shutdown.

The president, in his letter, said there are “no security concerns” surrounding the event, in response to Pelosi raising that as a potential issue because of the partial shutdown.

“I look forward to seeing you on the evening on January 29th in the Chamber of the House of Representatives,” Trump wrote. “It would be so very sad for our country if the State of the Union were not delivered on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location!”

1 posted on 1/23/2019, 12:06:13 PM by bitt
The Freepers were ecstatic :
To: bitt

He’s trolling her…. Daring Nancy to say “no.” again.

If she does, he’ll change the venue—and make her look like an obstructionist

If she relents, he also looks the stronger one, and she petty.

8 posted on 1/23/2019, 12:20:21 PM by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG…)

To: bitt

Here we go.

Let her try to stop this.

9 posted on 1/23/2019, 12:22:14 PM by canuck_conservative

Then suddenly – last bummer :
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Trump: I will deliver State of the Union ‘when the shutdown is over
The Hill ^ | January 23, 2019 | MARY TYLER MARCH

Posted on 1/23/2019, 10:31:19 PM by be-baw

President Trump said late Wednesday that he would deliver his State of the Union address after the ongoing partial government shutdown is over.

“As the Shutdown was going on, Nancy Pelosi asked me to give the State of the Union Address,” Trump wrote in a tweet. “I agreed. She then changed her mind because of the Shutdown, suggesting a later date. This is her prerogative – I will do the Address when the Shutdown is over.”

Trump clarified earlier statements suggesting he may do an “alternative” State of the Union, writing that he was not seeking an alternative venue because “there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber.”

“I look forward to giving a “great” State of the Union Address in the near future!” he added.

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I guess that’s settled.
1 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:31:19 PM by be-baw
Many Freepers haz a collective sad :
To: be-baw

I am disappointed in him for this.

2 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:34:50 PM by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don’t suck.)

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To: be-baw

Trump just lost a large percentage of his supporters. Me included.

8 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:39:54 PM by originalbuckeye (‘In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act’- George Orwell.)

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To: be-baw

It’s got to be some kind of trap.

7 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:39:30 PM by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)

ackbartrap
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I can’t imagine what’s keeping the 13th-dimensional chess brigade….
To: be-baw

Device(sic) your enemy that they have won then kick their arse.

4 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:36:21 PM by Rebelbase

Devicing your enemy is always a good strategy.
To: Sequoyah101

There is only one winner here, it is Trump. Relax.

28 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:49:18 PM by Fungi

Other Freepers are not so sanguine :
To: be-baw

Why did he cave?Does he REALLY expect that crazy Nancy is going to give in on ANYTHING re the wall? If he does, then he’s just NUTS and hasn’t managed to learn anything in these past 2 years!

And IF he give up/caves on the wall, he’s in real trouble with the base.

37 posted on 1/23/2019, 10:51:25 PM by nopardons
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More below the thingy, including Rudy Tooty fresh and fruity, and a “vanity fart”.
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Athenae, Fuck The Mommy Wars3 Comments

‘Just’ Adopt

Allison Hantschel

One of the many things that made me crazy when I was trying to have a baby was the people who said, “have you ever thought about just adopting?” There’s nothing “just” about it:  It also needs to amplify the perspectives of adoptees and birth families, especially when they raise uncomfortable issues that challenge the prevailing adoption narrative. “Children are cute, children are acceptable. Everybody likes babies,” McKee notes. “When these babies grow into adults like myself, an adoptee who also studies adoption, we’re less cute.” The idea of adoption as “a blessing for all involved” is a narrative that serves ethically … Continue reading ‘Just’ Adopt

Athenae, Campaign Notes, Stupid Everything Tricks, Stupid Republican Tricks5 Comments

Stop Electing CEOs

Allison Hantschel

They’re bad at this because government isn’t a business:  Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO, says in a 60 Minutes interview already recorded but airing on Sunday that he is thinking very seriously about a presidential run—but he stops short of a full announcement. He makes clear, however, that if he moves forward, he will do so as an independent. Of course, because parties and principles and coherent platforms are just, like, bullshit, man, and he alone can see that the true way forward is to split the baby: Half of it in an immigration cage. We just recently rid ourselves, in Illinois, … Continue reading Stop Electing CEOs

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Saturday Odds & Sods: Back To Black

Peter Adrastos Athas
Bird Collage by Max Ernst

It was overwrought drama week in New Orleans. Saints fans are genuinely angry in the aftermath of the blown call but things have gotten silly. There’s a futile lawsuit filed by lawyer Frank D’Amico who advertises his services on the tube. He’s getting some free publicity by filing what is best described as a “feel-good frivolous” lawsuit seeking a Saints-Rams rematch. It has as much chance at success as I have of playing in the NBA.

My Congressman, Cedric Richmond, is doing a major pander by threatening a Congressional hearing over the blown call. Hey, Cedric, we’re having a constitutional crisis, and you want to spend time grilling Roger Goddam Goodell?

This week’s theme song was written in 2007 by Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson. Black To Black was the title track of Amy’s final studio album and the sub-title of the great documentary about her life. We have two versions for your listening pleasure:

While we’re at it, let’s throw two more blackened songs into the musical skillet:

Did I really use the term musical skillet? I must be slipping. Speaking of which, let’s slip away and jump to the break.

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Athenae, Diary3 Comments

Five, and Faster

Allison Hantschel

Dear Kick, You’re five years old today, so let’s get this out of the way: You are not growing up too fast. Like a lot of harmless parenting small talk, like a lot of women’s magazine shorthand, this sentiment makes my back go up and you’re attuned to that now. Let me explain why Mama says the sharp things to the nice ladies at parties: “She’s growing up too fast” is not a harmless thing to say. It implies you’re doing something wrong by becoming a person. It implies I don’t want to see you taller, stronger, faster, smarter. To … Continue reading Five, and Faster

Athenae, Congress, Food and Drink1 Comment

He Doesn’t Care Who He Hurts

Allison Hantschel

The shutdown, and food stamp recipients:  What’s left after that is an approximately $3 billion contingency reserve that’ll be dipped into to ensure benefits continue into February. What happens next—will the remainder of that reserve be used up to distribute money to these low-income households in March?—isn’t clear. An expert in the field confirms to Delish there’s no precedent for a situation like that and that it’s only the Department of Agriculture and the administration who’d be able to answer that question. There is a world where if there is no appropriation for the programs, there is no program at … Continue reading He Doesn’t Care Who He Hurts

Athenae, Big Damn Heroes, Books, Fuck The Mommy Wars

The Women Have Always Been Here

Allison Hantschel

Yep:  Before lifelong activist Florence Reece took the stage to sing her now-iconic labor anthems, she sat at the kitchen table writing those songs from the perspective as a mother and wife—and as a union agitator. “Unofficial social worker” Edith Easterling leveraged her local knowledge, and the federal resources she gained access to as a staffer for the anti-poverty program known as Appalachian Volunteers, to launch her own personal war on poverty at home in Pike County, Kentucky, with the Marrowbone Folk School—and saw her daughter Sue Ella follow her footsteps straight into the civil rights movement via multiracial youth … Continue reading The Women Have Always Been Here

Free Republic, Immigration, Stupid Republican Tricks, The Darnold, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – fallen zeros edition

Tommy T

Before we get to the Freeping idiots, The Darnold says : “Hold my tequila!”

(mind you, this is from FOX news)

President Trump says to reporters that San Antonio, a town 157 miles from U.S. border, has a wall

While addressing reporters ahead of a special announcement Saturday on the partial government shutdown and border wall funding, President Trump cited San Antonio as a city that had its crime problem solved after getting a wall.

“You look at different places, they put up a wall, no problem,” Trump said. “You look at San Antonio, you look at so many different places, they go from one of the most unsafe cities in the country to one of the safest cities immediately.”

San Antonio does not have a border wall. It is located 157 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.

There is, of course, a wall around part of the Alamo (8 /10 feet high), but that didn’t really stop any Mexicans from climbing it.

Yeesh – he must think everyone is as stupid as he is.

Speaking of stupid – Hail To Da King, Baby!

White House: Rep. Steve King’s white supremacy remarks ‘abhorrent’
PBS ^ | 1/16/19

Posted on 1/16/2019, 10:58:57 AM by Blue House Sue

WASHINGTON — The White House is describing comments by Republican Rep. Steve King about white supremacy as “abhorrent.”

Presidential press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is praising the move by House Republicans to strip the nine-term Iowa lawmaker of his committee assignments.

1 posted on 1/16/2019, 10:58:57 AM by Blue House Sue
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So – not only did The Darnold call King’s blather “abhorrent”, he sent Baghdad Boob out to the assembled press corps to say so.

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I’m sure this  dolchstosslegende  is going to bring down the wrath of Freeperville on ole Tweety Amin.
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No?
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To: Blue House Sue 

Horse crap.

That’s no way to talk about your Fuhrer.

His comments were no such thing. Vilification of someone asking a question regarding today’s political discourse, or the lack thereof, is eroding our representative foundation.

2 posted on 1/16/2019, 11:01:18 AM by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)

To: Blue House Sue

 

Jeez…yet another successful political assassination by the New York Times Trump.

4 posted on 1/16/2019, 11:02:21 AM by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENT)

FIFY.
To: House Atreides
Jeez…yet another successful political assassination by the New York Times. 

The New York Times didn’t spy on the guy and illegally record his conversations.

He sat down and gave them an ‘effing interview.

I have no sympathy — and no patience — for a moron like this. I hope he resigns soon, so he can be replaced by someone who has an IQ above 80.

6 posted on 1/16/2019, 11:05:29 AM by Alberta’s Child (“In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.”)
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Well, that rules out The Darnold.  I hear that Randy Quaid is available…
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So – there’s two schools of so-called thought here – King was an idiot for saying this shit on the record, and King is an upstanding true American for saying this shit on the record.
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And not one person from either of these two special needs schools is blaming The Darnold for his stabbity-stab in the back of the once and future King.
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Not one.
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To: Blue House Sue
Just what in the hell did Steve King say that was so abhorrent?That he was a white nationalist. 

Well so am I. I’m a white male

What a shocker!

and I love my country and I hate seeing where the commiecrats are taking us.

10 posted on 1/16/2019, 11:13:17 AM by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)

One Freeper ALMOST goes there :
To: Blue House Sue

 

Why is the White House falling for this NYT smear?

White House can not afford to throw conservative leaning legislators under the bus every time someone on the left attacks them.

Foolish.

11 posted on 1/16/2019, 11:16:39 AM by unlearner (War is coming.)

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DangerClose
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Fortunately for “unlearner”, nobody responds to his little tiptoe through the minefield.
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Join me below the fold for Ann Coulter’s wall squall.
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Athenae, Bigotry2 Comments

Just Kids

Allison Hantschel

I was eight, maybe? Nine? At the shopping mall, because it was the 1980s. With my aunt. We were sitting by some kind of fountain or courtyard. There were lots of little kids jumping and playing, chasing each other, their voices echoing off the tile floors and metal furniture. I don’t remember why some of them bothered me, whether they bumped into me or I just saw them and didn’t like them, but they bothered me somehow. And I turned to my aunt — both of us so white as to be transparent, in case you’re new here — and … Continue reading Just Kids

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Saturday Odds & Sods: Drinking Again

Peter Adrastos Athas
Subway Portrait by Walker Evans

The weather roller coaster continues in New Orleans but nobody cares because the Saints are playing the Rams in the NFC championship game tomorrow. Our loud fans are bound to blow the roof off the Superdome and it’s going to be raucous everywhere in town. There’s some overconfidence among the fans but very little on the team itself. I still refuse to say Who Dat but I will say Geaux Saints.

In other local news, the Rolling Stones are playing Jazz Fest. I’ve seen the Stones 6 times, but I’m not shelling out $185 for their special day, which is especially expensive. I may just have to listen for free from my top-secret location nearby. Here’s my  only comment on the continuing gentrification of Jazz Fest:

This week’s theme song, Drinking Again, was written in 1962 by Johnny Mercer and Doris Tauber. We have versions by two of the greatest singers ever: Aretha Franklin and Francis Albert Sinatra. Bottoms up.

The song was reworked in 1968 by the Jeff Beck Group:

I hope you’re not too tipsy to jump to the break.

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Michael F

Yes!

mmferry1965

My own effort isn’t nearly as impressive, but I cranked it out pretty quickly; The Yes Men’s latest was carefully crafted and well worth a look Early this morning, thousands of commuters in Washington, D.C. were handed a spitting image of the Washington Post. But this one was dated May 1, 2019 — and in lieu of the Post’s usual tagline, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” the phrase “Democracy Awakens in Action” appeared at the top. The paper’s lead headline: “Unpresidented: Trump Hastily Departs White House, Ending Crisis.” (An online version of the paper has also been making the rounds, at democracyawakensinaction.org, complete with PDF of the … Continue reading Yes!