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[Joe Molotov]

wonder if loomer is in urban dictionary

An extremely long and skinny french-fry. Like one that is over 7 inches.
Damn that french-fry is HUGE! Its a loomer!

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1060751233449951232

https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1060910228315738112

 

[Brehvolution]

Her pinned tweet says,

Are you sick of being fed lies by the #FakeNews mainstream media & Deep State?

Then she posts and retweets fake news.

You're right Laura. I am sick of people like you.

[Joe Molotov]

She just asked if you were tired of the lies from the Deep State and Lamestream media, not if you were tired of lies altogether.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/9w95gi/police_took_my_minor_son_and_questioned_him_alone/

Glad I grew up when I did.  And not in the US. 

[Brehvolution]

https://mashable.com/article/donald-trump-rain-french-army/#d2LbN.61IGqp
https://twitter.com/armeedeterre/status/1061908742999027712

This thread.

[benjipwns]

An outgoing Republican lawmaker on Sunday blamed former Sen. John McCain for the GOP's loss of the House majority in last week's elections, writing in The Wall Street Journal that it was McCain's decisive vote against legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare that led to a wave of Democratic midterm victories.

Jason Lewis, a Minnesota congressman who was unseated last Tuesday by Democrat Angie Craig, claimed in his op-ed that McCain’s thumbs-down vote against a so-called skinny repeal of the Affordable Care Act “prompted a ‘green wave’ of liberal special-interest money” that he said allowed Democrats to hammer Republicans on the issue of pre-existing conditions.

...

Although McCain was one of three GOP lawmakers to vote against the "skinny" repeal, Lewis singled out McCain for his "no" vote — which came after he criticized Republicans for trying to push a repeal bill through and called for the return of regular order — as an unnecessary attempt to slight President Donald Trump.

“The late Arizona senator’s grievance with all things Trump was well known, but this obsession on the part of ‘Never Trump’ Republicans has to end,” Lewis wrote. “Disapprove of the president’s style if you like, but don’t sacrifice sound policy to pettiness.”

[kingv]

Skinny repeal of Obamacare would have thrown insurance markets into turmoil and probably would’ve been good for a few more seats for Democrats.

[Dickie Dee]

An outgoing Republican lawmaker on Sunday blamed former Sen. John McCain for the GOP's loss of the House majority in last week's elections, writing in The Wall Street Journal that it was McCain's decisive vote against legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare that led to a wave of Democratic midterm victories.

Jason Lewis, a Minnesota congressman who was unseated last Tuesday by Democrat Angie Craig, claimed in his op-ed that McCain’s thumbs-down vote against a so-called skinny repeal of the Affordable Care Act “prompted a ‘green wave’ of liberal special-interest money” that he said allowed Democrats to hammer Republicans on the issue of pre-existing conditions.

...

Although McCain was one of three GOP lawmakers to vote against the "skinny" repeal, Lewis singled out McCain for his "no" vote — which came after he criticized Republicans for trying to push a repeal bill through and called for the return of regular order — as an unnecessary attempt to slight President Donald Trump.

“The late Arizona senator’s grievance with all things Trump was well known, but this obsession on the part of ‘Never Trump’ Republicans has to end,” Lewis wrote. “Disapprove of the president’s style if you like, but don’t sacrifice sound policy to pettiness.”

 

[Yeti]

wonder if loomer is in urban dictionary

An extremely long and skinny french-fry. Like one that is over 7 inches.
Damn that french-fry is HUGE! Its a loomer!

You’re thinking of loomster. (I had the same McDonald’s textbook covers growing up)

[El Babua]

[Mandark]

McSally concedes to Sinema.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1052015300865089540

https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1060028561086693376

[close]

[shosta]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/12/trump-is-telling-florida-ignore-military-ballots-happy-veterans-day/

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/KenTremendous/status/1062192955144859649

[Mandark]

Just posting the tweet is fine.

[kingv]

Our first pawg senator.

 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/narcotics-cop-loses-his-daughter-heroin-overdose/575425/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20181109&silverid=MzEwMTkwMTQ5NDkxS0

[Maiden Voyage]

Amazon to split second HQ between New York, Virginia
https://www.apnews.com/bf0843c9b8a243d7ad90975b41d734b7

The decision ends an intense competition between North American cities to win Amazon and its promise of 50,000 new jobs. Some locations tried to stand out with stunts, but Amazon made clear that it really wanted incentives, like tax breaks and grants. The company received 238 proposals before narrowing the list to 20 in January.
Amazon had stipulated that it wanted to be near a metropolitan area with more than a million people; be within 45 minutes of an international airport; have direct access to mass transit; and have room to expand. It also wanted to able to attract top technical talent and be able to expand the headquarters to as much as 8 million square feet in the next decade.
Set within eyeshot of the nation’s capital, Crystal City is a thicket of 1980s-era office towers trying to plug into new economic energy after thousands of federal jobs moved elsewhere.
Rapidly growing Long Island City, in the borough of Queens, is an old manufacturing area already being reinvented as a hub for 21st-century industry, creativity and urbane living.
In setting off the flurry of interest, Amazon said it could spend more than $5 billion to build its second headquarters over the next 17 years. The two locations combined would be about the same size as the company’s current home in Seattle, which has 33 buildings, 23 restaurants and houses 40,000 employees. The company isn’t leaving Seattle, and Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has said the new headquarters will be “a full equal” to its current home.

[Maiden Voyage]

Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-is-preparing-to-remove-kirstjen-nielsen-as-homeland-security-secretary-aides-say/2018/11/12/77111496-e6b0-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html

The president has grumbled for months about what he views as Nielsen’s lackluster performance on immigration enforcement and is believed to be looking for a replacement who will implement his policy ideas with more alacrity.
The announcement could come as soon as this week, three of these officials said.
Trump has changed his mind on key personnel decisions before, and Chief of Staff John F. Kelly is fighting Nielsen’s pending dismissal and attempting to postpone it, aides say. But Kelly’s future in the administration also is shaky, according to three White House officials.
DHS officials who work with Nielsen declined to address her potential departure Monday. “The Secretary is honored to lead the men and women of DHS and is committed to implementing the President’s security-focused agenda to protect Americans from all threats and will continue to do so,” spokesman Tyler Q. Houlton said in a statement.
Nielsen has been reluctant to leave the administration before reaching the one-year mark as secretary on Dec. 6, but she has been unhappy in the job for several months, according to colleagues. Trump has berated her during Cabinet meetings, belittled her to other White House staff and tagged her months ago as a “Bushie,” a reference to her previous service under President George W. Bush and meant to cast suspicion on her loyalty.
When Nielsen has tried to explain the laws and regulations that prevent the government from drastically curtailing immigration or  closing the border with Mexico, as Trump has suggested, the president has grown impatient and frustrated, aides said.

[kingv]

Well, I hope it was worth it for her to destroy her reputation for Trump.

[chronovore]

What the actual fuck?
APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed

[shosta]

Wiped? Like with a cloth?

[kingv]

Bleached actually.

[shosta]

My least favorite part of 2016 was the transformation of the name of the program "BleachBit" to "bleaching the server" to "acid washing the server which is a very expensive process".

[Great Rumbler]

Amazon to split second HQ between New York, Virginia
https://www.apnews.com/bf0843c9b8a243d7ad90975b41d734b7

The decision ends an intense competition between North American cities to win Amazon and its promise of 50,000 new jobs. Some locations tried to stand out with stunts, but Amazon made clear that it really wanted incentives, like tax breaks and grants. The company received 238 proposals before narrowing the list to 20 in January.
Amazon had stipulated that it wanted to be near a metropolitan area with more than a million people; be within 45 minutes of an international airport; have direct access to mass transit; and have room to expand. It also wanted to able to attract top technical talent and be able to expand the headquarters to as much as 8 million square feet in the next decade.
Set within eyeshot of the nation’s capital, Crystal City is a thicket of 1980s-era office towers trying to plug into new economic energy after thousands of federal jobs moved elsewhere.
Rapidly growing Long Island City, in the borough of Queens, is an old manufacturing area already being reinvented as a hub for 21st-century industry, creativity and urbane living.
In setting off the flurry of interest, Amazon said it could spend more than $5 billion to build its second headquarters over the next 17 years. The two locations combined would be about the same size as the company’s current home in Seattle, which has 33 buildings, 23 restaurants and houses 40,000 employees. The company isn’t leaving Seattle, and Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has said the new headquarters will be “a full equal” to its current home.

The only choice more boring than this would be just building another headquarters in Seattle.

[Mandark]

Rick Scott throwing around baseless accusations of crime in Florida.
Young Kim (candidate in CA39) says that if ballots counted later favor her opponent that's automatically evidence of "foul play."
Republican candidate in Maine House race is suing after the fact to prevent the state from using ranked-choice voting, which was the rule all along.
McSally conceded without making up some bullshit about fraud and is being commended for how classy she is.


Not great.

[Great Rumbler]

I really, really want to see Governor Skeletor lose.

[shosta]

Thoroughly annoyed by these performative Our Revolution types who shove their "activism" in front of everyone's faces. Ocasio-Cortez "occupied" Pelosi's office until she promised to reinstate the select committee on climate change. But...

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/415723-house-dems-plan-to-bring-back-committee-on-climate-change

This was already in the work weeks ago. And you know who started that committee before it was dissolved by Republicans? Pelosi! I suspect this sit-in was actually staged between Dem leadership and the "new" progressive wing of the party to give her a nice photo-op and give the insurrection something to chew on.



We did it! 

[Mandark]

post so bad it got a nintex like

[Nintex]

"You better watch out Dimitri once we roll the tanks into Poland the Americans might do a sit-in at the UN because of the emissions."

[curly]

Thoroughly annoyed by these performative Our Revolution types who shove their "activism" in front of everyone's faces. Ocasio-Cortez "occupied" Pelosi's office until she promised to reinstate the select committee on climate change. But...

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/415723-house-dems-plan-to-bring-back-committee-on-climate-change

This was already in the work weeks ago. And you know who started that committee before it was dissolved by Republicans? Pelosi! I suspect this sit-in was actually staged between Dem leadership and the "new" progressive wing of the party to give her a nice photo-op and give the insurrection something to chew on.

(Image removed from quote.)

We did it! 

Things are getting off to an interesting start on Capitol Hill where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is participating in a sit-in in the office of Nancy Pelosi to demand “a Green New Deal”.
The protest, which is led by two groups, Justice Democrats and Sunrise Movement , bashes Pelosi for “her intention to promote a ‘bipartisan marketplace of ideas’ and re-launch a toothless special committee from 2007 on climate change which resulted in weak cap-and-trade legislation passing the House in 2009 before failing in the Democratic-controlled Senate”.

[shosta]

wow, that post really was bad

[Trent Dole]

Amazon to split second HQ between New York, Virginia
https://www.apnews.com/bf0843c9b8a243d7ad90975b41d734b7

The decision ends an intense competition between North American cities to win Amazon and its promise of 50,000 new jobs. Some locations tried to stand out with stunts, but Amazon made clear that it really wanted incentives, like tax breaks and grants. The company received 238 proposals before narrowing the list to 20 in January.
Amazon had stipulated that it wanted to be near a metropolitan area with more than a million people; be within 45 minutes of an international airport; have direct access to mass transit; and have room to expand. It also wanted to able to attract top technical talent and be able to expand the headquarters to as much as 8 million square feet in the next decade.
Set within eyeshot of the nation’s capital, Crystal City is a thicket of 1980s-era office towers trying to plug into new economic energy after thousands of federal jobs moved elsewhere.
Rapidly growing Long Island City, in the borough of Queens, is an old manufacturing area already being reinvented as a hub for 21st-century industry, creativity and urbane living.
In setting off the flurry of interest, Amazon said it could spend more than $5 billion to build its second headquarters over the next 17 years. The two locations combined would be about the same size as the company’s current home in Seattle, which has 33 buildings, 23 restaurants and houses 40,000 employees. The company isn’t leaving Seattle, and Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has said the new headquarters will be “a full equal” to its current home.

The only choice more boring than this would be just building another headquarters in Seattle.

Apparently both those chosen locales are also where Bezos owns homes so the rest of this process was just a puppet show to see how much other places would bend over for him and a way to get better deals from NY and VA.

[Mandark]

Scott Walker basically lost his job because of a similar deal with FoxConn but that didn't seem to slow anyone down.

[Joe Molotov]

wow, that post really was bad

The bipartisan marketplace of ideas has determined it to be below acceptable quality, please wait 6 to 8 weeks and then resubmit an updated version.

[Nintex]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/after-clashes-first-lady-others-kelly-may-soon-exit-white-n935686?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

Having learned of the dispute, the president was furious and told Kelly to give the first lady, who has a smaller East Wing staff than her recent predecessors, what she wanted, these people said. "I don't need this shit," Trump told Kelly, according to one person familiar with the conversation.

Trump was especially annoyed, according to people familiar with his thinking, that he had to get involved in disputes involving his wife. His message to Kelly, according to one of them, repeatedly has been: "Deal with it."

Who had: "Melania Trump has government officials fired" on their bingo cards?

Melania Trump has ensured the departure of one White House official, deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel, after she had a series of run-ins with the first lady’s office.

https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/status/1062448099346575360

 

[agrajag]

Hire a chief of staff so you don't have to deal with your nagging wife brehs

[shosta]

I remember in 2010 when they redistricted and people were screaming that the map would be gerrymandered for ten years. Has anyone seen an analysis of how that's reflected in 2018's election?

[Brehvolution]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1062522615666016256

 

Counting all votes is stealing an election.

[Brehvolution]

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-friends-features-maga-lego-knockoff-where-you-can-build-wall-to-keep-out-sombrero-clad-mexicans/

Later on Fox & Friends, newsreader Jillian Mele covered the toy set during headlines: “Take a look at this, a conservative company introducing a new line of toys encouraging kids to build a wall with MAGA building blocks. The set comes with a President Trump figurine and a ‘Make America Great Again’ hard hat.”

The Trump toy is also shown handing an “emails” file to a Hillary Clinton figurine, who is naturally clad in an orange jumpsuit.

“If you like toys…” Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade reacted.

“A gift for the kids or for like, the Trump voter?” asked Ainsley Earhardt.

“Both!” Mele replied.

[Mandark]

I remember in 2010 when they redistricted and people were screaming that the map would be gerrymandered for ten years. Has anyone seen an analysis of how that's reflected in 2018's election?

Pennsylvania and Virginia have had court-ordered redistricting since then and accounted for six of the Dem gains, so that probably helped. North Carolina was ordered to make a new map but drew out the process long enough to avoid it this cycle.

Going by Dave Wasserman's current tally, if the total national vote was tied (right now it's +7.1% for Dems and growing) and you applied a uniform shift across all the districts to get that, Republicans would have a 233-202 majority. Also using a uniform shift, the breakeven point is right around +4% Dem in the total national vote.

Winning the governors races in Michigan and Wisconsin is going to help, but Ohio and Florida would've been really nice.

[kingv]

How the fuck does LEGO not have a trademark on the basic design of a lego figurine that prevents people from legally making knockoff legos?

It’s not like they don’t use the LEGO figures in tons of promotional shit, or tv shows. Did they just not defend it?

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1062522615666016256

 

Counting all votes is stealing an election.

Imagine if NFL team was trailing 24-22, but then NFL team proposed immigration reform and somehow now they’re losing 40 to -2. So they sellout to try to win, but they still don’t win. Then AFTER game, they make bad analogies on Twitter.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Looks like Donald Trump might be assassinated by the deep state soon.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mark-taylor-eric-holder-is-posting-mind-control-codes-on-twitter/

[Brehvolution]

  So many fake christians

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1062764361243078656

[CatsCatsCats]

They gerrymandurr’d that shit fair and square, checkmate libcucktards

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/business/economy/trumps-tax-cut-was-supposed-to-change-corporate-behavior-heres-what-happened.html

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1062810142176100353

Yeah Nelson. Just accept it. America.
GUN.jpg

[Mandark]

Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.

[Joe Molotov]

Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.

He really is the Democrats’ Trump.

[FStop7]

"Don't tarnish your years of service" from Mr. Please Clap. 

[benjipwns]

Trump's mood takes a foul turn: 'He's pissed -- at damn near everyone'
By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Dana Bash, Gloria Borger, Kate Bennett, Jeremy Diamond, Kaitlan Collins, Pamela Brown, Sarah Westwood and Noah Gray, CNN

1. how can they tell
2. why did this story require ten bylines

 

[Nintex]

The deputy national security advisor and one of John Bolton's key appointments is officially out because she had a feud with Melania.

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1062849073961676800

"I don't need this shit" - Donald J. Trump.

Next on the list to possibly depart/get fired are: Nielsen, Kelly, Zinke, Ross, Mattis

[agrajag]

*reads about the Avennatti arrest*

This season is going into overdrive.

[shosta]

EDIT: misread something

[shosta]

While Mr. Zuckerberg has conducted a public apology tour in the last year, Ms. Sandberg has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Facebook’s critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation. Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros.

Do you guys remember when Facebook made a lot of noise that they were fighting fake news

[Mandark]

They hired a company to smear their critics with the Soros conspiracy theory and they pressured the ADL to label criticism of Facebook as antisemitic.

That's chutzpah.

[shosta]

Dem unity forces McConnell to filibuster his own proposal

[Mandark]

Dem unity forces McConnell to filibuster his own proposal

That's some crazy news from 2012.