Just Damn Them
Look, maybe it’s just me, although I doubt it, but I think the Repuoicans attacking Vindman was just silly.
Why did you wear your full dress uniform? Because I can and you can’t. And here is my purple heart. Remember when Trump took one an old veteran offered and said, “I’ve always wanted one of these.” Remember that? That was weird.
Have you ever talked to Donald Trump? No, but as the White House’s top Ukraine advisor, you’d think an intellectually curious president would want to talk to me, ya think?
Somebody smarter than I am just noticed that Trump has tweeted or re-tweeted 26 times since 9:00 am this morning. I wish we had a president.
26 Tweets from Trump this AM, at least one of which complained Nancy Pelosi was wasting valuable time on the impeachment hearings.
Yes Nancy, maybe you could have Tweeted more this morning.
1Or maybe she could pass more bills to wind up sitting on Moscow Mitch’s desk I understand there are hundreds of them there.
2Gym Jordon and Nunes. A pedophile tackling dummy and failed twitter debater of imaginary cows. Seems about right for the two selected to block for IQ4.5.
3My favorite Twitter quote this morning:
Devin Nunes is what you get if you try and make stupid from concentrate, but forget to add the water.
4He just wanted one more checkup at the taxpayer’s expense. He realized this might be his last chance.
5“Damn your eyes sir!”
– Anthony Hopkins The Bounty
Listen up goops, you couldn’t smear cream cheese on a bagel.
It was Oliver North who plead the fifth in his class A’s at the Iran Contra hearings.
Impeachment witness scolds Nunes for calling him mister: ‘Lt. Col. Vindman, please’
6Maybe recycle some of the statements the thugs made about “honoring” the uniform from when convicted (but pardoned) liar ollie north.
7I am confident that yet another point of hypocrisy would jump out between their adoration of criminal north v. the derision with which they treat Lt. Col Vindman for doing his job.
Trump spent the morning tweeting and he thinks Pelosi is wasting time.
Despite his full-dress uniform, Numbnuts Nunes addresses Col. Vindman as “mister.”
Gym Jordan says Vindman’s superiors had “concerns” about his judgment, so the colonel reads a performance review from Dr. Fiona Hill that practically glows in the dark.
I wonder what joys tomorrow will bring.
8Yuck, looking at Rump’s Twitter feed is like pulling the lid on a septic tank*, AKA- a cesspool, and looking down in it [including smelling it]:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
Dear Leader, and/or his assistants [KA Conway, Parscale, et al] is very fond of retweeting his Congressional minions/suckbutts dreck too.
Comrade Donnei just ‘pinned’ up top a doozy of a twit, obviously ‘professionally’ produced [far beyond his tiny fumbling fingers’ ability to edit]. It’s got lots of scary/unflattering/photoshopped? pics of Dems, etc., plus tons of bullshit. Czech it out…
Question: How much trouble would ‘one’ get into if one opened a Twitter account and posted an obscene rant response on Comrade Bonespur’s Twitter page?
ITGDMFBN!
* Yeah, I have 4 tanks to maintain, I simply call up the septic tank cleaner guy when needed, I dig/uncover the lids, and let the pro pull the lid and pump it out. yuck
Oh boy, Numbnutz Nunes just started his crapfest…
9Nearly 100,000 Americans in a petition delivered by the grassroots group Common Cause on Tuesday joined veteran journalist Bill Moyers’ call for PBS to re-air impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump in their entirety during prime time.
Common Cause gathered in just seven days the signatures of more than 98,000 people across the U.S. who want the nation’s public broadcasting network to show not just live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the historic proceedings, but also air the hearings in the evening after many Americans get home from work and school.
“Every American should have the chance to see the full case against Donald Trump firsthand in prime time in order to make up their own mind about whether their elected representatives in Congress should impeach the president,” said Michael Copps, former FCC Commissioner and a special advisor to Common Cause. “History is unfolding on Capitol Hill while most Americans are at work or school and as the nation’s public broadcaster, PBS should be airing the proceedings during prime time as [a] service to the nation.”
The petitions were delivered days after Moyers and Common Dreams senior writing fellow Michael Winship first called on PBS to offer prime time coverage in a full-page ad in the New York Times on Nov. 8.
In the days that followed, other journalists expressed agreement on social media:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/19/backing-call-prime-time-impeachment-hearings-petition-signed-nearly-100k-delivered
10Sandridge: while we’re on the subject, H. R. Haldeman’s work assignment at Lompoc Federal Prison was in the sewage treatment facility, testing sewage.
The records do not state what method was used to test the sewage; we can only hope it was by taste.
And we can hope for similar work assignments for Trump’s henchmen. Starting with Roger Stone.
11megasoid @9, As a heavy PBS viewer [and former donator-to] I don’t know WTF these people are complaining about. It appears to be a completely bogus allegation to me.
PBS HAS been running these hearings live in the daytime, and then -RERUNNING- them in the evenings, as they have been demanding.
These broadcasts have transmitted over the PBS secondary [digital OTA/Terrestrial] channel “PBS World” here, one of 4 channels for that station [‘PBS, World, Kids, Create’ channels].
My guess is that those yokels are unfamiliar with the current media broad-and-narrowcast architecture of the US [and world].
They probably only use a ‘cable or sat’ method of watching TV [I jes luvs these fools spending big bucks on ‘cableTV’, my Comcast/etc stocks always bring nice dividends].
They’re probably oblivious to good old-fashioned OTA TV that many of us still use [and they could too, easily].
It is also quite possible that their TV signal provider either doesn’t carry those extra PBS channels, or places them way up their channel numbering plan [while carrying multiple FuxNooz chans].
If the PBS subchannels are hidden away up around ‘channel 1245′, those dumbasses are probably unaware or too lazy to find and watch.
PBS is a “broadcast” network like the other major ones [ABC, CBS, NBC, etc], its’ -primary- means of transmission are over the US public, FCC* assigned “Over The Air” television channels.
These channels, when they were analog signals, were generally assigned as one channel per licenced station.
About 10 years ago the US broadcast system was [largely] converted to a digital transmission scheme. This “digital” xmsn technology made possible both much better picture quality [HDTV, UHD, etc] and the use of digital “subchannels” assigned to a single station [iirc, as many as 8 channels/station].
Our local area PBS stations all have 3, 4, or more “channels” being broadcast simultaneously over their same FCC assigned OTA television frequency/channel.
–These channels are freely available to anyone with a TV and a rabbit ears antenna, even the HD/UHD ones.
Those channels are all also usually carried by cable, IP, and sat systems, afaik [I’ve never had/paid for ‘cable tv’, except in corp lodging].
* Yes, even I have some FCC licenses. ;]
OMFG, that dung beetle Gym Jordan has such a ‘punchable’ face, attitude, and voice!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_television
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_television_systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting
12slipstream @11, A most fitting fate for the whole shitpile of them, stuff them all into septic tanks and roll that big concrete lid back.
Megasoid @9, you got renumbered to @10. A pita of JJ’s posting system.
13@Sandridge #12
Some of us rural types get nothing with rabbit ears, white fuzzy ghosts with lots of hissing, snap crackle and pop
Interesting article on the problems of streaming PBS
14https://www.techhive.com/article/3338083/why-live-pbs-streaming-is-taking-so-long-and-how-to-deal-with-it.html
Let. Col. Vindman was wearing his uniform because he was required to.
15Rs keep demonstrating that they are who we thought they were. But worse.
bananas @14, I know it’s worse in some places. Suggest that you try out several types of antennas, moving it/them around to test the signal reception. Depending on distance and terrain, with a better, maybe a directional, movable, higher antenna, you might see a big improvement. Radio is often ‘FM’– eFfing Magic…
Rabbit ears are the minimal antenna for digital OTA TV reception, I only mentioned them as a[n unstated] ‘comparison’ that most might know of; to point out that nothing fancy is needed in most cases.
I’m in the boonies too, I use the slightly fancier DTV antennas [from Newegg, Amazon for $10-25], some amplified, some not; for usually great DTV [but I’m up high on a ‘sandridge’…]. I even have an outdoor roof antenna but haven’t put it up yet.
An interesting note, the TV stations are saving big bucks on their electric bills with DTV. DTV digital transmitters and antenna output a far less powerful TV [radio] signal than the old analog broadcast signals did; it doesn’t need to be so many watts now [ERP- effective radiated power, a combination of watts, antenna design and height, terrain, etc].
When the US DTV transition took place one/several nights about 10 years ago, there were several hours when most of the TV stations’ ERP/power was cranked up high by their engineers.
From my rural location back then, just using a basic indoor antenna on the fireplace mantle, I was receiving great pictures from TV stations up to about 300 miles away. I picked up the ‘local’ San Antonio and Corpus Christi stations, and also those from the Valley and Mexico, Laredo, Austin, Victoria, and even Houston, plus a few more. Depending on the weather conditions, I still sometimes get very distant stations. Need to/oughtta put up that amplified outdoor antenna I guess.
One big inside source of interference killing your reception can be your computers, phones, etc.; you just have to try the antenna [or ‘stuff’] in different locations and orientations.
One other tip: bring the antenna feed into one of those [now almost obsolete] conversion boxes that are used to convert the new DTV signals to an analog signal for the old CRT TVs. Those boxes also have an HDMI and component/composite signal output for modern TV input.
16Some of those boxes will ‘upconvert’ old B&W and color programs into a relatively fantastic HD/HighDef picture. It’s just amazing to watch an old movie or Perry Mason episode with a great, sharp, detailed HD image.
Not only that, they’re also a PVR for recording programs, just plug a memory stick or hard drive into the USB port and set up some recordings.
–All that for a $30-60 box. I have a couple of the iView 3500STBs and others, like these for example:
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=digital+tv+converter+box
One point is that Vindman’s story is such that odds are if he wasn’t caucasian he would be a Dreamer under continued immenent threat of deportation military service or not.
17Holy (fill in the blank) on a stick! Some R jackdaw wanted to know why Lt. Col. Vindman was in uniform???? It goes with the job, ijit! Yes, we all know that you wanted one for yourself but it was up to you to work hard to get it! Wow! The jealousy! The Envy! The R’s are like a cheap soap opera about housewives. Now Vindman may be getting special security from the Army. And if you think thats the height of BAD, listen to this. There are actually people who don’t believe in Honor Duty Country that trashed retired military via e-mail on Veterans Day. Free speech and all that, ya know.
18Oliver North was in full uniform in the Iran-Contra hearings.
19Saddest part is no matter insulting a Gold Star Family and prisoners of war this idiot got approx. 60%-70% of our baby merc. forces to vote for him.
20Even now, after the trashing of Lt. Col Vindman, I expect that the uniformed merc’s who joyfully engage in conquest, murder and rape with the unbreachable shield of the nuremberg defense of “just obeying orders” coupled with repeated instances of getting pardons from the demented one will still vote for demented donnie.
I guess one checks their ethics, morality and humanity when given a weapon and carte blanche to use it.
Shameful.
They will do to Lt. Col. Vindman what they did to to those principled enoug to blow the whistle on My lai ( “three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and rescue the hiding civilians were shunned, and even denounced as traitors” Wikipedia)
Or those who blew the whistle on Abu Ghraib and torture
Or those members of the service who stood by their oath and refused to engage in a illegal war of conquest and looting in Iraq.
The “best of america” are not so stupid and immoral to suuport a war monger in the twit and then whine when the victims of their “shock and awe” fight back.
They are among the worst of america. Our shame.
So, if the Trumpster was up and tweeting okay, I guess he is still healthy, after all. For a while there, I thought he might be suffering from something really debilitating, like a sprained thumb.
I’m just getting highlights from the hearings on MSNBC. But I think it’s a good sampling of how they’re going. And though many people thought Vindman’s reading the letter he wrote the most moving part, I found his last three words of testimony the most profound. As things get ever uglier and more chaotic, we must all make them our motto, and follow them like a standard into battle:
Here, right matters.
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