Oh, Giuliani is getting divorced now too 🤷🏼‍♂️

Since this isn't bridge this isn't going to end up being a funny joke starring this, but is there any chance I can get one for the fund links? :)

@Unionhawk he come to town

Also there's a really cool meltdown floating around over a photo taken at the rally with a Socialist Workers Party flag lol

It's pretty good

Or some variety of socialist party flag anyway

Not DSA

That uh…is a headline

@TimStone at least it's not about a government official (mostly these says it's either POTUS, POTUS Personal Hire or GOP) doing that

True, though it's still quite a story

@TimStone wut

don't worry, it's just to check he's human, not to check paternity or anything

So if I followed correctly in the span of like four days he invented a caravan of people coming to the border, signed an order deploying National Guard troops, and claimed credit for the caravan being "broken up"

Also Stop Drugs!

@TimStone actually you forgot about the first bit, he did this shortly after Fox News reported it. so he was probably watching it before tweeting about it and from what i saw on the Philip DeFranco Show no one knows any specifics

running the country via watching Fox News and Twitter

Right

good morning don

happy 8 years ago your mine killed 29 people

how does it feel still being rich off the backs of those 29 and everyone else who works for you

Almost choked on my cereal, lmfao

lol

also we're reading "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia" and it's real good

> The press attempted to analyze what it presented as the extraordinary and singular pathologies of Appalachians, scolding audiences to get out of their bubbles, and embrace empathy with the "forgotten America" before its residents elected Donald Trump. After the election, when it became too late, the pendulum swung in the opposite direction .... Appalachia, political commentators proclaimed, could reap what it had sown.

> The [Appalachian Regional Commission]'s definition of Appalachia includes 420 counties

lmao

truly amazing

Hahahah, oh my god

just, yep, here is the reciept for Robert Mercer contributing $2,000,000

with his name on it

and not a :thinking: hmm who could want to give these guys $2,000,000

also, how an organization like that obtains 501(c)(4) idk

(yes it's technically a broad definition of "social welfare" but like come on)

Right?

we should really get the ball rolling on our 501(c)(4) tbh

at least Louisville is already that

the main issue is it costs about half the amount of money we have to incorporate as such and get other IRS stuff taken care of

I mean, he's...not wrong?

@Unionhawk Just get Robert Mercer to write you a $2,000,000 check, apparently

"You're not wrong, but you are an asshole"

Yes, lol

@TimStone This is one of the first things I'd like to show the First Continental Congress if we ever invent a time machine.

"Dispatch a courier to the King, we've made a grave mistake"

@TimStone And then give them news about Brexit.

"Okay, send the troops to Great Britain, we're getting rid of Parliament."

|:

Like, there's no continuation there, that's it. The entire purpose is to make people afraid that there's all these children who will become gang members, not suggest any actual solution

@TimStone So... instead of fostering unaccompanied minors with stable households to promote a healthy childhood, we'll be sending them back to their "shithole" countries where they have a higher chance of becoming gang members who might then be sent to infiltrate the US?

🤔

Presumably, it doesn't even bother with that part!

I could have clicked thru but the article just said "learn more about how they become gang members" basically

(This was from the WH mailer)

@Unionhawk Oh dang. This is awesome

Okay before I post this I need to clarify that the tweet is actually extremely wrong in its wording because I was trying to figure out how the hell this would even be possible, but

@TimStone Is Melania... Russian? I can't tell.

They said that the manner in which he did it, if a white commentator had done it about Michelle Obama, would have been racist, which is a confusing and dumb take but not quite the same thing as saying what he did was itself racist since they're both actually quite white

@Yuuki She's Slovenian, which is Italy-adjacent

Sandwiched between Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia

@TimStone "If Obama had personally killed someone in office, then he would be guilty of murder."

"But he didn't...?"

"That's not the point."

truly the better version of @NuclearTakes

@Unionhawk It's like "you're on the track, you just need to not be sarcastic about it".

90% of those replies are probably "hell yeah dude that sounds like a great idea"

@Unionhawk I'm not sure why but "My latest:" like I give two shits always bugs me, as a general thing

An article being worth reading isn't because a particular person wrote it, though certain people have consistently terrible takes so I guess it can work in the opposite direction

@TimStone hue

reminds me of the "there are no gay people in iran" comment

@Unionhawk nice

@TimStone There are no oligarchs in Russia, there are only people that haven't pissed off Putin yet.

@TimStone Job security in today's media world means brand-building. You don't have to be Andrew Sullivan to want people invested in you personally as a writer unless you enjoy pink slips.

I get that, I just have no taste for it personally

@puzzlepiece87 They're such a pretty color though.

@TimStone Though I'm guessing you mean just that particular phrase, unless you, for example, don't follow favorite writers on Twitter.

Someone needs to make a pink slip slip.

@Yuuki "Unemployment like you've never seen it before!"

woo we've raised like $4,500 already aaa that's a lot

aaa

@puzzlepiece87 I don't really, at least not for the purposes of caring about the next article they themselves write

But more about the phrasing, I guess, where there's an implicit point that it should be read because they wrote it, or something? I'm not entirely sure why it irks me

@TimStone i follow some writers i like so them saying "my latest" indicates that it is a thing i would enjoy

what annoys me though is when they send multiple tweets about the same article over the course of the day, but not threaded so i can't immediately see that they are linking the same article

@TimStone It's because they're link-only posts.

They need to provide a broad summary of their content in case the link rots.

🤔 That's true

So, I dunno if it's been mentioned in here or not, but the owner of the waterpark where the kid was decapitated last year has been charged with murder, along with the designer of the ride. Second-degree murder.

every detail about that case is absolutely insane too

o.0

I guess my question is, does that mean people at, say, Remington should be charged with murder?

That's a whole discussion, but one part of it likely centers on the fact that danger inherent with guns is kind of "on the tin", so to speak? The ride was just manifestly unsafe, which wasn't self-evident by virtue of them letting people get on it

Article on said insanity for people who didn't know it yet

@TimStone it also apparently hinges on them attempting to cover up injuries and what not

Also basically no modeling happening for the thing

Right

There was a whole incident where the raft went airborne previously and someone hit their face on that pole, and rather than saying "hmm this is a problem" they destroyed the incident reports, had lifeguards write coached statements, and altered the medical records

It's just, completely insane vs firearms manufacturing being slightly less completely insane (and also explicitly protected from liability)

Or the sequence where some dude smashed all of his toes and while he was lying there in agony the owner was like "pretty sweet ride huh? Yeah I helped design it"

didn't they also put it specifically on the KS side of the border for regulatory reasons or something stupid like that

"Who knew rafts could fly off the ride?" camera pans to Roller Coaster Tycoon 1

Oooh, remington is a firearms manufacturer. that makes more sense. As opposed to them being a manufacturer of hair products as google told me

Hahahah

To be fair to google. The hair things are probably a bigger seller in the netherlands

unrelated, DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN RESERVE THE STATE CAPITOL IN KY?

asking the state for a permit to do a teachers strike, to own Matt Bevin

lol

also woo we have over $5,000, we can fulfill 11 suggested cap of $500 requests

including INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AAA

lol

harsh to fire him from a cannon in the atlantic ocean but who am I to question the methods

Trump: At Border, ‘Women Are Being Raped At Levels We’ve Never Seen Before’

I'm out of WTFs, there's just too much insanity now

lmao

Hahahahah

"not a lot of places to go" Only the entire rest of the internet

I mean, not when you break the community guidelines of the entire rest of the internet lol

True, but I'm sure there's some hosting out there that doesn't care what people are putting on their personal sites.

Not that Stormfront could find it lol

@MadScientist jfc

THAT IS NOT A SMALL NUMBER

THAT IS A BIG NUMBER

there really should be much more checks on this stuff. A single person shouldn't be able to potentially screw with that many cases

@MadScientist what even dafuq

@MadScientist Well or smoke crack at work every day

Like at least put the bar on not making it easy to do that

@MadScientist i'm really sick of people saying shit like "you should see california, it's being overrun" when they don't actually live there

unless the "levels we've never seen before" is a refrance to it being unseen because trump just made it up

this almost certainly releases a bunch of actual criminals. But the alternative would be to lock up innocents. You really need to spend the money to at least randomly cross check samples in other labs

> Huckabee: Clinton campaigning for Democrats "is like Jeffrey Dahmer do the ribbon cutting at a restaurant opening"

It's impressive how bad he is at joke execution

he's trying his best ok

he tries super hard

@TimStone nothing could possibly be worse than ajit drinking out of the massive coffee mug and thinking that was funny

that was the peak on politicians making """jokes"""

and by peak I mean trough

I mean that is a reddit level joke

except reddit hates him

@quartata Damnit, I had erased that from my mind

sorry

"sorry about this sinclair business and wrecking net neutrality but lulz, big mug!"

blinks

@TimStone hasn't this been going on for a while

@GodEmperorDune disgusting slurping sound

i can hear it echoing in my head

@TimStone that only makes sense as a way to get rid of Müller, and then shit will hit the fan, I hope.

@TimStone aside from the fuct policies, did bilbo bigot actually do anything scandal worthy?

@quartata Yeah but you'd think given Jeff Sessions not doing anything recently and Scott Pruitt doing all these things needlessly like he'd just not bother and yet here we are

@GodEmperorDune I mean he clearly perjured himself during his confirmation hearing, but I don't think anything else since then

@MadScientist the sad thing is that even if you were somehow able to impeach trump, pence, and all of the cabinet, the next level officials are just as bad

president paul ryan o7

@GodEmperorDune Impeachment would mean they're all lame ducks. And any investigations that actually produce an impeachment would almost certainly take down a lot more people than just Trump

@MadScientist i have a feeling if dems take the house in 18 they're going to vote to impeach once a week much like the republican house voted to repeal obamacare 400 times

I don't think they'll vote unless they see a real chance to succeed

they already have

I think

I'm not sure if any of those made it to the floor

failing like, 400-20 or something like that

But I didn't pay attention

@TimStone probably

idk

@Unionhawk I won't lie, if Ryan quit and then Trump was impeached shortly after I would laugh for days

o7 president nancy pelosi

WHERE'S YOUR KEG DREAM NOW PAUL

@TimStone paulryanweightliftingcryingjordan.jpg

@TimStone I mean, not just joke execution. That doesn't even make metaphorical sense, let alone comedic sense.

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be cannibalism joke but that's where my sense of it ends

that he tries so hard at this and doesn't even make it to average grade dad joke is really funny to me

cool

@TimStone how much did kushner's company get again?

sounds familiar

it's almost like we sell weapons to the saudis all the time

Look if we can't be committing the war crimes ourselves we have to at least profit off of someone else doing them

The other thing I hate reporters doing is this:

But also this ^

👀

looooooool

"Look what I was doing wasn't unsavoury I just had to fire a lot of people to get my way"

@TimStone lol

I mean Cohen told us all where he supposedly got the money so it seems like that would have been a good place to start but sure pretend you have no idea at all what's going on it is all a mystery

@TimStone How does Trump have so much room under that bus?

You'd think with all of the bodies there, the wheels would be off the ground by now.

Monster truck bus had good ratings at his rallies

@Yuuki Trump Revolutionizes Transportation By Creating First Flying Bus! -Fox News

> Trump Brings Back Unfounded Voter Fraud Claims: 'Not a Conspiracy Theory'

We're already on reruns of the Presidential Apprentice, smh

Third Republican calls for Pruitt to resign, and that earlier today before the story dropped

@TimStone coupled with him giving inappropriately high raises to buddies

> Mr. Weese, the security official, questioned Mr. Pruitt’s desire to use flashing lights and sirens in his motorcade — a perk more commonly associated with the presidency — according to three of the people who worked with or for the E.P.A.

this dude is a piece of work

> There were also questions raised about a request that Mr. Pruitt be issued a bulletproof sport utility vehicle with so-called run flat tires, which keep a vehicle moving even when sustaining gunfire. And they challenged Mr. Pruitt’s expanded security detail of approximately 20 members, three times the size of his predecessor’s. Unlike his most recent counterpart under Mr. Obama, Gina McCarthy, Mr. Pruitt has security officials follow him wherever he travels, and also stay on duty overnight.

it sounds like this bro has watched too many action movies

you're the head of the EPA

@GodEmperorDune Look in his defense the IOC expects this too (lol)

@TimStone that's almost certainly going to be proven wrong.

Thank goodness it's Friday

Actually can it be? I'm kind of done with the week

Someone pointed out that Kevin Williamson didn't even last 1 Anthony Scaramucci at The Atlantic which lol

@Unionhawk oh they fired him after the audio where he was like "no seriously we should hang women that get abortions"

They literally framed it as being surprised to find out he was exactly who he made himself out to be

@GodEmperorDune yes

@TimStone who knew that people meant what they said over and over again in multiple formats

@GodEmperorDune Yupppppp

@GodEmperorDune Who among us, etc.

@GodEmperorDune tfw you're in a hurry to get your sauce mayonnaise

Urgh, hopefully a false alarm

@TimStone wut

@TimStone i like their header

raises pink Fancy

@GodEmperorDune Many bunny photos too

@TimStone SFPD tweeting that the reports are without merit thankfully

Incredible

@TimStone holyshit irl MITM attacks

@GodEmperorDune We're shocked because not-the-NSA is doing it, right?

@TimStone also i thought the chip had other identifying information encoded on the chip so why does it work in an old card?

Hmm?

They take the new unactivated chip, steal it, then replace it with a dud, send it on to the company, who activates it, allowing the thief to use the new chip until it gets deactivated

Since there's no verification of the chip during activation (over the phone or whatever) no one notices until later

@TimStone so the card is just a holder for the chip?

Yeah

wow

woooooooooooow

that seems like a flaw in the design

I mean the chip is just encoding the magnetic stripe data in a manner more secure for transaction

but i thought that included the card number

i.e. the thing physically printed on the card

It does (I think, offhand), but you don't know what's on the chip

right

So it's not like anyone notices the chip not matching the number on the card, they just eventually try to use the tampered card and it doesn't work

Meanwhile the thieves have used the real chip to take some funds or whatever and tossed it

its brilliant

Yeah, it does seem like a lot of effort though given they could just make a lot of online transactions without the chip, but I guess they're probably taking out cash

@TimStone I'm sorry that's a seventeen dollar cheeseburger

Look it's Scott Pruitt's favourite place to eat that he loves so much he needs a police priority escort

Don't knock it until you try it by defrauding the American public

without capital how else would we see innovations like checks notes a cheeseburger, fries, with mayonnaise

for $17

lol, this, a thing that has no chance in hell, is being brought to the floor because of an agreement Ryan made with Walker. But what about all those other agreements? 🤔

@TimStone wut

It's just silly signaling but it's extra dumb Ryan is going to bring it to the floor

i never understood the hardon that conservatives have for a balanced budget (except when upping military spending or doing tax cuts)

@GodEmperorDune it's a rhetorical frame that gives them an angle to question and attack any expansion to social programs

It's pretty simple

"this thing will be good" "yea but expensive justify that"

@Unionhawk except obamacare was budget neutral and they pissed all over it so

It's not necessarily based in fact but it's a line of attack they'll use

Anything like that must be justified by being budget neutral or better, but anything they want doesn't

Or this is why we need to cut Medicare

Because there's only so much money!

Where could we possibly get this much money

> The amendment, introduced by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), would require a "true majority" in both the House and Senate to pass tax increases and a three-fifths majority in both chambers to increase the debt limit.

3/5ths to pass debt limit for things already authorized

goddamn

Make no mistake, the right only cares when it benefits them

🙄

@TimStone love to spend taxpayer money

Trade war! Trade war!

so easy to win

Also looks like Sonny Perdue is gonna hook us up with some Government Soy

Since I don't think subsidies are gonna cut it

also did the tariffs actually take effect yet or are they still being proposed and threatened and will take effect later?

Kudlow just said yesterday that it was all hypothetical and a negotiating tactic, no worries

Narrator: It looked like we would indeed be going ahead with the tariffs

I have no idea when they'd start, technically, though

The problem with Trump using anything as a "negotiating tactic" is that he doesn't have any idea what he wants because he doesn't understand what reality is so there's zero chance this doesn't end poorly

Oh my goodness I have just seen two insanely dumb things on Twitter and my brain is broken

🧐

And finally, before I close this hell window

claps Fantastic work all around everyone

@TimStone you've described Lara Croft tbh

But also no

So many directors fall prey to the classic misstep of not regendering the last names

@modabuse @TimStone gofundme.com/together-we-are-stronger-march (replace the OK link?)

Like that?

Also the Oklahoma fund has moved I think the youcaring was primarily pizza on day of

Oh wait

Not like that, you monster