Begun They Have, The Prog Wars

OK, this was neither conciliatory nor well-planned by Warren:

Warren Told Sanders After Debate, ‘I Think You Called Me a Liar on National TV’

Bernie did NOT respond with "If the moccasin fits...", and mores the pity.

I don't think Warren will win a pissing match about credibility. Gail Heriot takes us back to Warren's medical bankruptcy "study", which at most revealed a crisis of disability insurance (and when a progressive has lost FactCheck...).

Warren's Fauxcahontas story is well known, as is her brilliantly planned Big Reveal that she might be 1/1024 Native American, so take that, Trump.

Let's not even mention Medicare For All, her "I was for it before I was for it but later" own goal.

And more recently, the WaPo took a look at her conveniently evolving standards on big dollar donations.

Warren is fighting the wrong battle with the wrong guy. Yet another display of poor judgment on her part.

 

Comments

[jimmyk]

What about popcorn lung which is caused by the chemical diacetyl found in many vaping juices.

Dunno, Tom. You state that with a bit more certainty than even the article you link says it.

OK, but can vaping cause popcorn lung? Apparently, yes. According to that 2016 report published in Environmental Health Perspectives mentioned earlier, diacetyl is quite common in vaping juices.

So it's a concern because many e-cigarettes contain diacetyl, but no actual link has been established. It could be that the quantity is too small to matter, for example. If I were vaping I would avoid those that have diacetyl just to be safe.

[Captain Hate]

I have noticed Taibbi and other lefties like Glenn Greenwald have special contempt for Maddow.
====
She's completely ripped off Keith Olberman.

Her delivery, mannerisms, hair style.
Posted by: simplemind at January 16, 2020 04:44 PM (Z9qqs)

[jimmyk]

Correction, Tom R just said the same thing that the article says, but the article doesn't establish a link between vaping and popcorn lung.

[Theo]

TomR -

Whether to call witnesses and which ones is in the discretion of a majority of the Senate. So if the Dems vote as a bloc and 4 Republicans join them they can call whoever they want and keep out whoever they want. I think the ability of the Dems to draw four Republican votes will be on a case by case basis.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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12m
THANK YOU! #MAGA

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Good discussion of the conflict of interest Covington had with Flynn over the FARA filing and plea deal.

[MissMarple2]

Our country has never done better so they thought they would impeach President Trump in hopes of winning the election. pic.twitter.com/FHFQgaTfIp

— The Dirty Truth “Josh” (@AKA_RealDirty) January 16, 2020

Video of President Trump at the link. 1:49

[clarice]

Well, Iggy, that is certainly putting a crimp on their PR.

[D]

JiminSunnyvale:
Yes I noticed that as well.
His re-election was really close and President Trump helped him.
He may have presidential plans and wants to look like a moderate.

[Dave (in MA)]

UH-oh...

Da Nang Dick's PTSD has flared up again
https://grabien.com/story.php?id=268933

[henry]

Vid at link.

@jamesokeefeiii

BREAKING: @BernieSanders Field Organizer; Sanders Iowa Regional Field Director Luke bailed him out of jail after recent drug arrest.

"He's like 'don't say another word', we(Sanders campaign?) already processed your bail...sit tight"

Were campaign funds used?

https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/1217906841642000384?s=21

[henry]

Does Toomey suck COC for funds?

(Chamber of Commerce)

[D]

Henry:
I am a ginger as well.

[Theo]

Ig —

Yes, a good review of the “conflict of interest” issue. As the article indicates, this is not a cut and dried issue, but rather murky.

It does not appear that Flynn got railroaded into making a guilty plea. But it does appear that new counsel has convinced him that he has a shot to undo the guilty plea and perhaps walk free. Of course there are risks with that strategy.

[Jim Eagle]

2,800 letters and cards to help a WW2 vet celebrate her 100th birthday:

https://www.military.com/off-duty/2020/01/15/how-thousands-helped-wwii-vet-celebrate-her-100th-birthday.html

[D]

All those letters and cards- very cool.The basic goodness of people is so reassuring these days.

[JM Hanes]

I assume everyone has seen the gag-inducing media clip of Pelosi trooping the articles of impeachment to the Senate. Twenty years ago I used to watch Chris Matthews' show. Then he wrote a book called something like, "And now I'll tell you what I really think," and found he couldn't shut up about it once he got started. Today he was awestruck by the "sacramental" quality of the moment, and especially impressed by Pelosi's claim the Trump was "impeached for life."

How can anybody listen to Pelosi's garbled messages and hand waving turns at the podium and not see her as a national embarrassment? This may actually be the closest we have yet come to an emperor's-new-clothes moment.

I read Ignatz' excellent comment about ideology and how it works, yet it is still almost impossible to believe it when you see the chasm between believers and reality. I also find it hard to believe that I'm walking around in an ideological bubble of my own, although it seems absurd to suggest that such bubbles are exclusive to the left. They certainly seem more susceptible though.

I'm trying to think of what right wing ideology is really supposed to look like. I've never understood why white nationalists, for example, are said to be right wingers. The way the term is used doesn't seem to rely on any particular set of common attributes in the way that leftist ideologies do.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lev-parnas-and-igor-fruman-charged-conspiring-violate-straw-and-foreign-donor-bans

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Is anyone else jittery about VA?
I'm thinking there's no possible upside to backing off on 2A. I've got a wife, a 15 year old still in the house and 2 grown daughters. If push comes to shove, do I silently cave and slink away? Or do I stand up no matter what, even if it means they have to continue on without me?
What's the tradeoff of giving in, then watching family, friends, neighbors slaves to Big State?

[JM Hanes]

Considering ongoing discussions here, this should probably come as no surprise: Highest paid public employees by state:

In case you don't have a magnifying glass handy

Yellow = Football Coach
Orange = Basketball Coach
Blue = Med School Deans & College President

(Plastic Surgeons get a shout out in Nevada)

[Buckeye]

I am a ginger as well.

I have never met you Maryrose, but I KNEW that.....my spidey sense I guess:)

I have a lot of ginger cousins.

[Jim Eagle]

JimSunny,

Without being flip, to each his own. But knowing you, you will do the right thing. Me? I will gladly sacrifice my life, my treasures, my reputation to save this country of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for my son, my wife and all that come after them.

Our founding fathers and their bretheran had the same epiphany back in time and took the plunge between "life and liberty".

You are not alone brother.

[Threadkiller]

I'm trying to think of what right wing ideology is really supposed to look like.

Here is the image url I tried to post as the image to answer that:

https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_understanding-media-and-culture-an-introduction-to-mass-communication/section_12/7980865df1e8554d2c27f00efa48c88a.jpg

Here is what I got:

https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_understanding-media-and-culture-an-introduction-to-mass-communication/section_12/7980865df1e8554d2c27f00efa48c88a.jpg/>

I am use the same html img src language I have always used, but this iPhone keeps jacking me. Any Ideas?

[Tom R]

Iggy @ 5:15

On a related note, Flynn never fully paid Covington for their legal services. In total they billed him $5 million and according to Covington records he still owes them $4.6 million. An online legal defense fund was setup by Flynn's brother and sister shortly after he was indicted and long before Sidney Powell took the case. I don't know how those legal defense funds operate but shouldn't the donations people made prior to when Powell took over get applied to what Flynn owes Covington?

No idea how much money was donated but based on the article you linked I wonder if the reason Flynn never paid Covington was because they screwed him over with how they handled the FARA documentation?

[JM Hanes]

Jim, Sunny,

If you're ever going to take a stand, 2nd Amendment seems to be the place to do it. You can slink away, but your guns are not the last thing they're going to try to take away from you, you just won't have any way to defend yourself when they come to take the rest. That said you can live a lot of generations even if disarmed, so I guess it's a question of how much control you're willing to cede to people who have done nothing to prove worthy of it. Usually it's the people who control the only remaining guns who do the decision making.

I know what I hope I would/will do, but you never know till you're tested. A lot folks were surely asking themselves that very sort of question back in 1776. I'm not sure the answers get much easier, except that maybe we see what's coming and can do something about sooner, rather than later?

[Threadkiller]

I wonder if the reason Flynn never paid Covington was because they screwed him over with how they handled the FARA documentation?

Flynn is probably blackmailing them over their involvement in the deep state sting.

[DrJ]

On vaping, one thing I find interesting is that the popular conception is that it is worse than smoking cigarettes. Nothing could be further from the truth. I often have gone into a tirade on analytical methods -- mainly tandem mass spec -- to determine carcinogens in both and most people have been stunned.

The press have done a really terrible job on this.

I wish that I could find a vaping setup that works for me, but sadly I have not been able to do so.

[rse]

Dr J-

I meant it yesterday when I said thanks for bringing the different definition in your area to my attention. I like to be aware of the non-standard meanings of words and clearly ed is the non-standard that is nonetheless a literal standard. And congrats on your work.

[JM Hanes]

TK:

I'm not sure who originally suggested this, but sometimes if the standard image tag doesn't work, try it again, but leave off just the closing "carrot."

I have no idea why it works but I've done it that way with success before. If it doesn't work, I can post the image for you, because it's a great answer to my query. :-)

[Tom R]

Jim @ 5:48

The one thing I can safely predict about what is going on in VA right now is that when the demonstration happens, ANTIFA and other Communist thugs, paid crisis actors, etc will be there to instigate some kind of violence. Worst case scenario is it gets very ugly with people getting killed or injured. If it does get ugly I hope the ANTIFA thugs get the opportunity to display how willing they are to sacrifice their life for their anti-American cause.

[Threadkiller]

No closing carrot:

https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_understanding-media-and-culture-an-introduction-to-mass-communication/section_12/7980865df1e8554d2c27f00efa48c88a.jpg”

[Jim Eagle]

No workie TK.

[Threadkiller]

I’m glad you liked the answer, JMH. I was originally looking for a Southern California beach bonfire picture where we used to be able to drive on the sand.

[DrJ]

rse,

You're welcome.

My explanation was very brief, and I can noodle on further if you like, but the important thing to note is that DNA is not all there is. It can be modified, reversibly, depending on the proteins that are present.

It is new for me, but as a proteomics/metabolomics guy, it really is fascinating.

[Threadkiller]

I have given up, JiB.

I think I will go gap some spark plugs.

[JM Hanes]

It does seem to me that it's the Governor who has escalated the danger level exponentially. I should think that most counter-protesters would think twice about trying to disrupt a mass of armed demonstrators. Instead, the governor's order puts law enforcement officers in a dangerous, untenable position, if they are required to disarm and/or arrest an armed -- and angry -- populace, rather than simply policing a demonstration.

[JM Hanes]

Wish I could do more, TK, but at least I can do this:

Right wing ideology.

[Threadkiller]

Cliven Bundy 2, Virginia Boogaloo

[Threadkiller]

Thanks, JMH!

[KevlarKid]

"Winning isn’t everything or the only thing."

[Extraneus]

DoJ Begins Second Probe Into Comey's History Of Leaking Classified Intel

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

-- I also find it hard to believe that I'm walking around in an ideological bubble of my own, although it seems absurd to suggest that such bubbles are exclusive to the left. They certainly seem more susceptible though.

I'm trying to think of what right wing ideology is really supposed to look like.--

You are correct JMH that the right/left spectrum is useless.
An international socialist [a commie] is obviously much closer to a national socialist than he is to Edmund Burke or Nick Gillespie.
The spectrum is less free to more free.
If we place more free on the right then a [weak] right wing ideology coalesces around libertarianism. In their zeal to avoid statism they veer into an ideology of irrational economic, immigration, moral and national security position that inevitable lead to the type of anarchism which inevitably leads to calls for statism to quell the chaos and we flip to a left wing ideology. I am very sympathetic to the libertarian philosophy because absent the hobgoblins of human nature it would be close to idyllic. The problem with any set of values looking for 'close to idyllic' usually produces 'close to hellacious' in the end.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you want the best primer on the difference between an ideology and a political philosophy read James Burnham's Suicide of the West. The difference between the idealistic, simplistic and suicidal ideology of Western progism and the practical but messy political philosophy of conservatism is the whole premise of the book.
An ideology is as I said before irrational. It despises [and denies and alters] history because history refutes everything it claims and stands for. History is reality, the utopian progs' great foe. And at the most fundamental level ideologies misunderstand and deny immutable human nature.
Both progs and libertarians suffer from the delusion that in some significant way humans are good and/or perfectable. And that is why they are both fundamentally hostile to the main thrust of Judeo-Christian thought, which holds man to be inherently corrupted, imperfect and imperfectable.
Conservatism embraces that truth and tries to construct a society not based on rigid utopian formulae that always fail but one that looks back to history to learn from past mistakes and create flexible institutions that channel man's corrupted nature toward admirable and the least destructive most productive liberty enhancing pursuits.
Conservatism does not appeal to many people because it is not rigid nor simple and it not only doesn't aspire to utopia but rejects the very idea as the road to hell. History demonstrates that which is why conservatives love it and study it as it is and ideologues disappear it and warp it to their ends.

The American Revolution was profoundly conservative in that it produced a flexible, non ideological method of never making the perfect the enemy of the good. It's messy and imperfect and ideologues have found ways around it which is why we may need 1776.2.

The French Revolution was profoundly radical and ideological in that it produced a rigid quest to eradicate history, both the good and the bad, and institute a utopian replacement that soon consumed the utopians themselves in their reign of terror and led to the rise of a sawed off monster who plunged the continent into decades of war.

Ideologues and philosophers; ye shall know them by their fruits.

[D]

Packers going down on Sunday.
Take it to the bank.

[Jim Eagle]

Moldova?

We have a very close friend who is Moldovan. She is a lawyer and lives in Manhattan with her Endecrinologist husband. Her family live on a huge estate that produces grapes and they make wine. Not bad! By the way.

Once again another nation captured in the Soviet net and now coming out of it. Beautiful country with incredible agrarian landscapes.

We have too many countries like Moldava who know deserve a place in the sun after so many years of oppression but the left = Commies.

[Extraneus]

That was ZH, btw. Who knows how valid.

[Extraneus]

Nice 6:33, Ignatz.

[henry]

Narrative prep on schedule. These sound like a Soros mob (just like Charlottesville) outto false flag the country into gun confiscation.

Probability someone opens fire at this rally is rising, and it won’t be an NRA member of any long standing.

@WSJ

Federal authorities arrested three men allegedly linked to a violent white-supremacist group who had discussed traveling to a pro-gun rally in Richmond, Va., and preparing for a possible race war, according to a law-enforcement official

[DrJ]

I'm curious: has anyone here known a "white supremacist?" I've not, to my knowledge.

Or is it simply a term the media use to describe someone who does not toe the liberal line?

[Extraneus]

There's this guy Richard Spencer, doc. That's the only one I've heard of.

[Theo]

Ignatz —

Deep, man deep.

A lot to unpack there — I agree with some but not all.

But I do think that everyone should be on guard for being caught up in their own “bubble.” Confirmation bias is very real and it is not THEM who suffer from it. Too often we demonize our fellow citizens— just as they demonize us — because we disagree on policy issues.

There are evil scoundrels trying to distort reality in order to gull the weak minded to be sure. But there are also intelligent knowledgeable people of good faith who hold differing opinions.

[Jane]

Clarice,

Your AT link was amazing - and disgusting - and I expected nothing less.’’

Jim, I’m out of the loop. Why would you have to leave your family.

The Dems impeachment pomposity is taking up all the airtime. Our side better get cracking!

[clarice]

Dr J, try logic power.

JanetS, if you're lurking, typepad allows you to sign in various ways now, including FB. Try it--we miss you.

[lyle]

I think your second question answers itself, DrJ.

[lyle]

I think your second question answers itself, DrJ.

[Theo]

In terms of white supremacists, as someone said, the demand far exceeds the supply. According to the liberal media, Richard Spencer and David Duke speak for tens of millions when in fact they could hold their fan club meetings in a restroom

[D]

DrJ:
I don’t know one either and I now believe maybe 6 exist in the whole world and they are in prison.It is definitely anyone who doesn’t toe the liberal line according to the progs.
You guys realize that the progs are in the minority of the population.
Conservatives and Independents and Libertarians outnumber them.

[lyle]

Dammit.

[lyle]

Dammit. 😬

[henry]

Dr J, I have never encountered such a creature. I met several Michigan militia when that was the go to MSM boogeymen (a bit later when they were employees of my cousin). they were tough dudes, but worked with AA employees no issues. These white supremacist groups strike me as creations of activists or gullible people put up to it by FBI undercover agents in their midsts.

[KevlarKid]

"Packers going down on Sunday.
Take it to the bank."

They're only in it for the moral victory anyway.

[D]

Jane is right.
The President’s message carriers need to get more airtime.
President Trump himself said his two trade deals are the second story each day.

[Extraneus]

For those who didn't click, the Comey thing is from the NYT.

The New York Times just published a bombshell report that's faintly reminiscent of the scoops that the Liberal paper of record used to publish during the spring and summer of 2017, when the Mueller probe was in its infancy.

Except this time, instead of the the leak focusing on alleged wrongdoing by President Trump and his inner circle, the NYT is focusing on former FBI Director James Comey, who has increasingly been taken to task by the mainstream press in recent months for his botched handling of both the Clinton investigation and the origins of the probe in Russian interference (remember that?).

Pic from the NYT piece:

(Click to open.)

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-begins-second-probe-comeys-history-leaking-classified-intel

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It's kind of funny that this ideology discussion has come up right now since I'm dealing with that crazy chick I was previously dating.
In researching the emotional, perceptive and personal idiosyncrasies of borderline personality disorder it is really striking how similar it is to trying to comprehend the mindset and worldview of progressives.
It's also similar in how difficult it is to bridge the gap from reality to their less than real world that they cling to for dear life because they're so insecure and confused.
We're engaging in an intellectual debate. They're clinging to their very identity and existence. We think we're trying to persuade someone of a better way to solve a problem, when in actuality, to them, we're telling someone not that they are mistaken about an issue but insane.
I have long said the only thing wrong with my narcissistic personality disordered brother is he thinks there's something wrong with him. All of his pathologies and behaviors that are destructive of others and self are toddler like defense mechanisms to protect what he believes to be a profoundly defective core. But penetrating those defenses or convincing him his core is not fatally flawed is essentially impossible.
Same with a borderline. They're so damaged and so afraid of being abandoned that they abandon or sabotage every relationship because they assume they will eventually be abandoned and so by doing it preemptively it is never their fault and they never have to face that defective core or the irrational destructive defenses guarding it.
A sad, empty and profoundly miserable way to live.

[DrJ]

I asked simply because I have worked with people from the trades, technicians, academics and all other sorts. Mostly they have been very decent people, and don't really care about race/ethnicity/whatever.

Yet you read about them all the time in the media. Instapundit claims that there is a "white supremacist" deficit, and he may be right.

But when reporting goes so far beyond my experience I wonder if I live in a sheltered world.

[D]

Lou Dobbs skewering Toomey.
Club for Growth behind it Lou says.

[KevlarKid]

"I don’t know one either and I now believe maybe 6 exist in the whole world and they are in prison."

And there it is. Bubble city.

From experience first hand I am a living witness to the fact there are more than 6 in California prisons alone. Way more.

[Rocco]

KK.

Made my day, thanks.

DrJ,

Not in the real world but I had a con tell me that the head white supremacist wears a shamrock tattoo on his left ring finger. Don't know if it's true? We had a few waanabe white tough guys, but for the most part, the Spanish gangs, Neta, Latin Kings and La Familia, kept them in check.

[Another Bob]

Interesting question DrJ.

Keeping in mind there are spectrums and bell-shaped curves everywhere...

There are people of the “It’s OK to be white” flavor who aren’t saying “whites are better”, but want a “white” culture acknowledged as, for example, black and Hispanic cultures are.

Then you have the “race realists” who argue culture is upstream of politics and economics, and a subset who argue that biology is upstream of culture. These people are arguably “supremicists”, but they don’t necessarily bear any malice toward other races.

Then you have the racists.

[D]

I am happy to help with some suggestions to both Iggy and Jim in NJ.
If you would rather not hear from me I understand.
I am concerned for both of you.

[MissMarple2]

Extraneus,

Well, I spent 45 minutes posting separate tweets which had screen caps to that NYT article about Comey. Then Typepad disappeared it! Aaargh!

Here is the link to the thread, in which Miz Donna notices some interesting names associated with the story:

https://twitter.com/mizdonna/status/1217936339284439040

Be sure you read the replies at the end.

By the way, Comey hasn't tweeted since last year.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

JMH: "If you're ever going to take a stand, 2nd Amendment seems to be the place to do it."

Yes, my opinion too.
Feeling truculent at the moment

[D]

I live in Ohio, a regular midwestern place with a limited amount out of the mainstream people.
We have a huge Amish population and our entire state government is Republican.
Can’t relate to the California craziness.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I am concerned for both of you.--

Do tell. [Me anyway. JimNj might not be as eager to hear your assessment and I don't speak for him, obviously]

[DrJ]

Iggy,

I'm not telling you anything you don't know, but flee people with borderline personality disorders. I was with one back in the day, and she tried to ruin my life. She almost succeeded.

Fortunately, she died in a fire (literally).

[Narciso]

One of the proud boys is an latino of african american dissent

Allah has gone full ctluthu in misreading why anyone would want to keeo an eye on the good ambassador yovanovich

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Doc J, I suspect if you went a few miles east of your location into some of them thar California hollers you'd find a few white supremacists.
For the most part they are a threat only to their domestic partners, stray cats and local road signs.

[Another Bob]

Neglected to mention personal experience...

I’ve met some number of the first group, a smaller number of the second group (both groups tending to keep the beliefs private), and a handful with fingers left over of outright racists.

The problem of “white supremicism” is IMO illusory.

[Narciso]

Referred here:

https://mobile.twitter.com/NiceDeb/status/1217949129797701634

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to a video.

President @realDonaldTrump announced historic steps to protect the Constitutional right to pray in public schools! pic.twitter.com/YsORcxUpWa

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 16, 2020

[Narciso]

Reading between the lines

https://mobile.twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1217937393027862534

[lyle]

Fortunately, she died in a fire (literally)

::my best faux accusatory tone::

James D?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

There seem to be two main subtypes Doc. The clingy, smothering, "loud" borderlines who cannot be alone and the "quiet" internalizing, isolating types.
Mine is the latter. They're less dramatic and seem saner but they're not. The former are screaming nutjobs. The latter are higher functioning, ghosting types.
Neither type is capable of a successful relationship unless they put in a lot of hard work and therapy to learn new thought patterns. Very few are self aware enough to do it.

[D]

I echo what DrJ has stated.
Run do not walk away from this woman with the personality disorder.
I feel bad for her but you cannot save her from herself.
You are kind , good person Iggy and I don’t want your life put in jeopardy by this person. I pray you find a woman who will treasure your many gifts and your concern and caring for others.

[DrJ]

lyle, I think James D was too far away to have played any role in this one. :)

[Theo]

It is always slightly odd to read news reports of investigations into leaks. I mean, the news media KNOWS who the leaker or leakers is or are. In the case of Comey, given his history you can be sure that the New York Times knows whether he leaked or not. Maybe he used an intermediary, but that could be sniffed out pretty quick.

I understand their policy of not disclosing sources and it makes some sense but it is just weird when they report on mysteries that they know the answer to but will not tell their readers.

[lyle]

FWIW, north Idaho was “home” to clan of supposed white supremacists about 30 years ago, up around Hayden Lake. They announced they would be having a “parade” in Coeur D’Alene one weekend. Three skinheads in an old pickup truck showed up...

[lyle]

Sure, Doc. Sure...😬

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
·
7h
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Senate just passed #USMCA in a landslide vote. Next stop → President Trump's desk.

✅ PROMISES MADE.
✅ PROMISES KEPT.

[lyle]

Need I remind everyone that James D is a self-admitted Italian...

(I keed)

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Leader McConnell
@senatemajldr
·
7h
BREAKING: The Senate just passed the USMCA. Next stop: @POTUS’s desk for his signature.

I’m grateful to the President for prioritizing this deal and delivering on this major promise. It’s a big win for Kentucky and for American families in all 50 states.

[D]

DrJ:
Comment of the day wrt JamesD. I am still laughing.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Run do not walk away from this woman with the personality disorder.--

This types runs away herself, Maryrose. They idealize a new partner but aren't capable of attachment so when their emotional honeymoon period runs its course a switch is flipped and the formerly idealized is now devalued and the hunt begins for a new person to idealize and be disappointed by.
That happens with all borderlines but the dramatic clingers try to "hoover" the former partner back in when they feel the abandonment they caused. The ghosters isolate and have fewer partners because they avoid relationships failing by not having them very often.

[DrJ]

Iggy, FWIW the borderline I was involved with was your first type. They can be absolutely charming when they want to be, but my G*d is there a price to pay.

I'm not the right person to offer relationship advice. I'm very grateful that the soon-to-be MrsJ came into my life and accepts me as I am. A true and equal partnership is a wonderful thing.

[MissMarple2]

LSU Football
@LSUfootball

The National Champions are headed to Washington D.C.

🔗
https://lsul.su/2RldlDK

==========================================
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
16m
See you tomorrow! #CHAMPS

[GUS]

I am a baseball freak. I think stealing signs is A-ok. It's always happened, and if you want to use signs, you risk getting figured out. Why do "signs" exist??

[Tom R]

The NY Times article about a new investigation into Comey involves the Renteria memo.

https://twitter.com/codyave/status/1168956227835060224?s=21

[Jane]

Iggy,

My 95 year old mother is a textbook narcissist - and my only parent. I haven’t shared a thing about my life with her since college - because it immediately became all about her. She imparted a lot of good values - hard work, independence etc. but my childhood was living hell. When I moved to FL my #1 goal was to forgive her, which I have.

She is the reason I refused to marry and have kids because I was afraid I would treat people like she treated me - as I had no other role models. Nevertheless I’ve had a good life which is pretty damn amazing.

Yes and like your brother, at 95 she is still miserable.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Yet another person comes up with a climate sensitivity of ~1.7 degrees celsius at Judith Curry's site.
In other words, not a catastrophe but a much better world with perhaps a little bit less of that white stuff presently falling outside.

[Narciso]

I mentioned jame d the original writer of crisis was on boatd with this edition.

[MissMarple2]

https://nypost.com/2020/01/16/republican-muslim-refugee-dalia-al-aqidi-announces-shes-running-against-ilhan-omar/