By David Futrelle
Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants an ESPN commenter fired for having an opinion about Trump that she doesn’t like. Meanwhile, no one can stop her terrible father from making awful jokes on Twitter. Meanwhile, Apple introduces some new face recognition thingy.
On to the Tweets:
At WH podium, @PressSec Sanders says @JemeleHill's comments calling POTUS a white supremacist were "outrageous" and "a fireable offense"
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 13, 2017
Imagine her reaction if someone had falsely accused Trump of not being a citizen of this country https://t.co/y0ytWq6fNz
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) September 13, 2017
Trump, 2016: People are too politically correct!
Trump White House: YOU MUST RESPECT THE SANCTITY OF MUH FEELINGS! https://t.co/3iDpF3J3YQ
— L O L G O P (@LOLGOP) September 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/djlavoie/status/908041553050062849
Sarah Huckabee Sanders always looks like she just asked to see your manager. pic.twitter.com/LetmqQGREL
— shauna (@goldengateblond) September 13, 2017
Meanwhile, no one can stop her father from making an endless succession of barely comprehensible “jokes” on Twitter.
Leave @tedcruz alone! He didn't like PORN-he liked CORN and it was his first overture to Iowa voters for 2020! Sheesh! Case closed!
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 12, 2017
Just got bumped from @FoxNews hit. Will instead rehearse synchronized swimming with dolphins for my appearance later on Cartoon Network.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 12, 2017
Lil Kim inspects new "bedside super urinal" he made and pretends it's an H Bomb. He calls it his "Yellow submarine." pic.twitter.com/c02vSOE1Ni
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 3, 2017
Sarah, please talk to him.
In other news, apparently you can use your face to unlock iPhones now even though this is actually kind of a stupid thing?
Have we learned nothing?! pic.twitter.com/bhTXp5w2Ul
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/ComicPrintingUK/status/907714163564273664
In other other news:
https://twitter.com/PenzeyMoog/status/908098668301078529
Trump still hasn't signed a joint resolution condemning white supremacy passed unanimously by the House and Senate https://t.co/XsFze6oIaY
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 13, 2017
The widow of the Indian man murdered in Kansas in February anti-immigrant hate crime now faces deportation from US. https://t.co/gSOx4T3Zat
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 13, 2017
Note to headline writers: Please do not ever begin a headline with "Ted Cruz Fingers Staffer"https://t.co/87POUC5Ajl
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) September 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/908076373239103488
You might be full of yourself, but you'll never be Vox Day-wearing-a-Vox Day-shirt full of yourself. pic.twitter.com/d3v4IzonUJ
— Eyes on the Right (@EyesOnTheRight) September 13, 2017
Cute animals!
https://twitter.com/awwcuteness/status/907609515952144389
https://twitter.com/Attenboroughs_D/status/907510344226152448
https://twitter.com/ItsMeowIRL/status/907186867094908930
@Redsilk: why Doctor #6 specifically?
@citizen justin – you bet – and about 50 lbs lighter, too with a better haircut…
@rugbyyogi
You just reminded me of this:
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/macaulay-ryan-gosling-shirt-3.jpg
Isn’t there someone in the White House kinda like that…?
Props on the caption, Dave! After all, the deepest reaches of Dante’s hell are meant for those that betrayed the public trust. The whole Trump administration would fit right in with the fraudsters of the Malebolge.
Mish,
It was a lovely surprise when I woke up, so thank you! <3
Okay. I know that the right wing conspiracy about the Clintons murdering people have been around since the early 90’s, but DNA evidence? They can’t possibly think that Hillary Clinton physically killed anyone instead of hiring goons, can they? Even if she did, what good is getting her DNA without having access to crime scene DNA to compare it to?
I’m still going with my original instinct. An excuse to encourage misogynists to harass her. Just in case Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren or any other woman gets all uppity and runs against Trump.
ETA: especially since DNA can also be obtained by taking a used tissue or takeout coffee cup or whatever out of the trash. No assault necessary.
I’m wondering if he wants to analyze her DNA for variants correlated with diseases to push the sick Hillary narrative?
Just so everyone has some extra knowledge in case something like this does come up, you can tell from gene sequencing which variants a person has, but you can’t tell whether those genes are expressed. They may be dormant. Also, it’s not as simple as one gene variant to one disease. Some diseases have dozens of variants correlated with them, and you may need a combination of those.
I hope I’m not splaining here, but from a forensic point of view follicles are better.
Contact samples run up against something called Locard’s Exchange Principle. Basically that potential cross contamination makes them unreliable. With follicles there’s like a double part security.
Firstly they can take the sample from inside the follicle.
Also they wash the sample in solvent. They then analyse the solvent. If no DNA matching the follicle sample shows up in the solvent then it’s considered more likely that the sample is genuinely from the subject rather than a result of contamination.
(When I do my “Forensic Awareness for Feminists” I’ll cover how to exploit that process to alibi yourself)
Well, yeah, picking through trash isn’t the ideal way to get a DNA sample, but it’s also the legal way if the testee is unwilling. My point is, you don’t absolutely have to assault someone to get their DNA. Yet, that’s what he’s going for. I don’t recall high profile conspiracy theorists ever doing anything like this with a famous male target (for example a certain other Clinton) and I don’t think that’s a coincidence. Misogynistic men will always come up with a pretext, no matter how thin to violate a woman’s bodily autonomy. This is just one more thing.
Picking through trash would be more apposite for the sleaziness of the endeavour.
(Although that would be illegal in the UK I’m happy to say)
Almost into the final countdown, 7-8 days to go..and I’m half out of my mind because I still don’t know if this surgery is even going to happen. I’m still waiting (1 week and counting) to hear from my social worker if they’ll cover a piece of luggage so I can actually pack clothes and other necessities for the (some-what possible) trip. As for the main part, the actual plane/train/teleporter trip to get there…..I don’t have a bloody clue, and every time I think about it I just want to cry.
I went through Hope Air, because I’m poor and they provide free transport to medical appointment. Filled out their application Aug 28th, heard back on the 29th that everything was confirmed and they are working on my flight request. Then nothing. Emailed them a few days ago and the only response I got was:
What does a breakdown feel like?
I don’t think it likely that Shkreli personally believes in this – although sometimes you see people acting in a highly delusional manner when they want to be the hero that saves the world from evil. Like that guy who fired his gun at the floor in pizza restaurant.
Many other people wouldn’t think that far – or at least Shkreli hoped they wouldn’t. Wild conspiracy theories thrive because some people can be extremely uncritical when you tell them something they like to believe in.
And yeah, the bodily assault aspect is likely gender related.
Maybe Shkreli wants it for some sort of voodoo ritual?
I hope when he goes to buy a candy bar at the prison commissary, he finds that the price has been suddenly jacked up to $12,387,609.78.
When my older son was very young and learning about jokes, he would try to make them up. They followed the general format, but were cargo cult humor – he didn’t understand how jokes actually work.
He was five years old. I don’t think Huckabee has that excuse.
Maybe he’s really a Huckabeebot built by Warren from Buffy. The robots on that show weren’t the best joke tellers either
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m02n2jLLs01qzmqkj.gif
Shkreli may or may not believe in any of the conspiracy theories, and it doesn’t matter. The dude’s a chan troll, trying to crush dreams and ruin lives because that’s what they’re about. Everything he’s done has been in the service of raw greed and spite. So, yeah, he wants the hair to make Clinton’s life a little more miserable, because he gets off on the power. He would be happy if someone actually killed Mrs Clinton, because it’d be another demonstration of his “power”. She’s not human, because she’s not actually in front of him. Frankly, I’m surprised these guys exhibit object permanence.
Does he have “DNA evidence” to corroborate? Doubt it, but maybe. He’s a rich asshole with buckets of spite to spend, so he could probably get someone working at a hotel she’s stayed at to send him the hotel’s bedsheets from her room or something creepy. Does it matter? No – he’s not doing any DNA verification or what-the-hell-ever he’s saying he’s doing. It’s to harass and abuse. That’s all these people are; that way they can always retreat to “it was just a joke” and “don’t take yourself so seriously”.
Seriously, the batman movies can go to hell.
Grumble grumble!
Ann Coulter whinges on trumpification…
so, Annie, you thought the narcissist-in-chief was on your side???
When my son was 4 or 5 he did this. The one I always remember is,
Why did the caterpillar cross the road?
To get some eyebrows!
*uncontrollable laughter*
Some OT stuff
Apparently Coulter (& Limbaugh) stayed in Florida to ride out Hurricane Irma (as some bizarre slap down of global warming alarmists??).
Limbaugh bailed in his private plane just before the storm hit (after convincing some of his Dittoheads not to evacuate).
Coulter stayed and I was so hoping she would be evacuated to a shelter, where she would end up eating peanut butter sandwiches and drinking bottled water supplied by FEMA. No luck.
No raccoon left behind – this is one of the great things about the internet. These videos of animals doing amazingly unanimal like things. I now consider that there is no rigid line between “dumb animals” and “smart” humans” – it is a continuous spectrum, with many animals crowding very close to humans in the ability to think out problems.
@Jesalin
Solidarity sister. Hang in there, your goal is almost in your grasp.
@Gussie Jives
And here I was thinking select parts of Cocytus, the very lowest part of Hell. Namely Antenora, the bit for traitors against one’s country and the citizens thereof. Freezing everything off next door to Satan seems oddly appropriate.
I am no fan of Sarah Huckabee, but the ‘looks like she’s asking to talk to your manager’ line has long since gone stale as a way to trash women. It’s a way to imply that any (older) woman being assertive is an entitled bitch. I don’t like it.
If these folks wanted to think about this stuff in a rational manner, we wouldn’t have spent so much time thinking about how Barack Obama’s grandparents put a fake birth announcement in the Honolulu newspapers because reasons.
But…like…who cares? She lost the election. Her health is now irrelevant to the public.