Open Thread For Nov. 13, 2018: Four No-Trump
Lessee…no-shows a ceremony honoring the World War I dead? Check. And check out his excuse. No, not the rain. ‘Concern for Paris traffic.’
No-Shows Arlington Cemetery on Veterans’ Day? Check.
Urges that Florida military ballots not be counted? Check.
Presides Over trainwreck On GI benefits? Check.
Happy Veterans Day, Y’All.
RIP Stan Lee. I don’t think any person’s vision gave me more joy as a kid than that of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee. Avengers Assemble! BTW, if you haven’t already done so, now would be a great time to read one of my favorite novels of the past 25 years, The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, which takes place in the formative years of the comics industry. You will thank me.
What do you want to talk about?
Stan Lee was a complex guy, certainly not beloved by all, and resented by many comics fans who think he failed to give his artist co-creators their due.
But he also educated a lot of 10-year-olds in the ’60s about what all the social unrest was about. This appeared as “Stan’s Soapbox” after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/12/1812438/-A-Great-Voice-For-Civil-Rights-Has-Died?utm_campaign=trending
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez joins Climate Change sit-in in the office of Speaker Pelosi.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/416411-youth-protestors-fill-nancy-pelosis-office-demanding-climate-change
It’s a new day, folks. Start getting your heads around it.
Can’t wait for this new day, believe it’s going to be good.
Jerome Corsi says he was caught in a “perjury trap.” The normal English word for that is “lying.”
https://www.independentsentinel.com/jerome-corsi-caught-in-a-mueller-perjury-trap-to-be-charged-soon/#comment-331358
They all must hang.
“‘My crime really was that I dared to support President Trump,’ he said. ‘Now I’m going to have to go to prison for the rest of my life because I dared to oppose the Deep State.’”
Hahahahahaha
I like that the perjury trap was they asked him questions without telling him they already knew the answers so when he lied they knew he lied. This would be a great criminal defence in bizarro world.
It takes a special kind of stupid to lie to federal prosecutors. You’ll notice it’s been pretty common among the indicted Trumpkins.
Corsi and Stone indicted on the same day, overly optimistic for sure, but then again Christmas is coming and we can dream. Oh yes, we can dream.
As predicted by everyone, pigs massacre good guy with a gun.
https://wgntv.com/2018/11/11/multiple-wounded-in-robbins-bar-shooting-police-say/
I truly believe that the primary motivating force behind a lot of the gun fetishism, especially the “open carry” activists, is that being able to carry and use a gun without getting killed by law enforcement is one of the most straightforward instances of white privilege.
There’s an open carry group in Delaware that has a website and forum where they discuss their day-to-day activities scaring grannies in line at Wawa, getting comments at TGI Fridays, and of course encounters with law enforcement, because of the fact they are openly carrying a firearm. That many of them know little about guns is obvious from the forums. Plus, real gun enthusiasts who want to carry have CCDW permits and don’t really care that much about open carry. But these OC guys really get a kick out tweaking cops, and I think I know why.
Interesting article/book excerpt in Politico: regarding Andrew Johnson. and how he was removed from power: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/13/andrew-johnson-undermined-congress-cabinet-david-priess-book-222413
I think I’ll read the book, but on the surface there seems to be many parallels to today. Might be an interesting thought exercise as to who was the worst. I don’t mean the worst President. I mean the worst person.
Andrew Johnson was not “removed from power”. The US Senate was short of the 2/3rds vote needed
As far as impeachment goes that is correct. But the excerpt demonstrated how his cabinet and congress conspired to reduce his power. Perhaps I should have said “power was removed from him”
This is the most dead-on summation of Trump I’ve seen in a while:
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/this-is-all-donald-trump-has-left-1830329753
http://uk.businessinsider.com/trump-uk-must-bin-unjustified-food-standards-for-brexit-trade-deal-2018-10
BTW, Al, You should be enjoying yourself in France, and not following the antics of the orange sebaceous cyst while you’re on holiday. I know it’s just about impossible, but try to take at least one day away from all of this madness.
I’m hitting a museum a day. Beyond that, I take a dim view of fun anyway.
“I take a dim view of fun…”
Catholic upbringing?
Probably. Saw a great Joan Miro exhibit yesterday. Had a nice dinner with a Nobel Prize winner. And frankly, I’m enjoying the collapse of the GOP. Does Schadenfreude count?
Definitely! As long as it’s not at my expense! 🙂
I couldn’t even find the story on the Fix News Facebook site. No real information needed for the most vicious nasty ignorant belligerent bigoted rubes in our nation.
Has anyone besides Jerome Corsi suggested that Jerome Corsi is going to be indicted? In his field, there’s no such thing as bad publicity and he understands that.
Also a good point. In the scumbag world this gets you cred. Roger Stone and others have been saying their indictments were imminent for months.
Still hilarious though.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right about Amazon’s Corporate Welfare
Brought to you by….
…The National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-right-about-amazons-corporate-welfare/
It’s a new day, people. Try to grasp what’s happening.
Latest Trump excuse for missing WW I event? It’s the Secret Service’s fault:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-blames-secret-service-france_us_5bead417e4b044bbb1a8f1fd
Extraordinary testimony by inmate Dwayne Staats:
https://www.wdel.com/news/the-uprising-needed-to-happen-staats-admits-to-masterminding-fatal/article_6366b832-e783-11e8-aeb2-a7deae7d2ec5.html