Friday Open Thread| The Turtle is Scheming Again

Posted on February 15, 2019 by rikyrah

In case you hadn’t heard, the Turtle is up to his demonic foolishness.

He couldn’t hold a hearing for Merrick Garland, but now is all interested in holding a vote on the Green New Deal?

Really?

Seriously?

It can’t be because he actually gives two flying figs about climate change…so, why?

Why Mitch McConnell is holding a vote on the Green New Deal

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a surprise announcement on Tuesday: He’s planning to hold a vote on the Green New Deal. But it’s not because he thinks it’s a good idea.

The sweeping resolution to tackle climate change aggressively was proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) last week. McConnell now wants to put Senate Democrats on the record about whether they support it. It’s an especially prescient political move, given how many Democrats in the Senate are running for president in 2020.

“I’ve noted with interest the Green New Deal. We’re going to be voting on that in the Senate; it will give everybody an opportunity to go on record and see how they feel about the Green New Deal,” McConnell said during a Tuesday press conference.

Nearly all the biggest 2020 names are co-sponsors on the Green New Deal — declared candidates Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are all on the bill, as is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is expected to make an announcement about running.
All said they’re doing so to make a big statement about their commitment to tackling climate change. It’s important to note that the Green New Deal is a resolution that’s basically a mission statement on how to address climate change, rather than an actual bill with policy prescriptions.

The GOP doesn’t even believe in Climate Change. Or anything else that would help the planet. This vote is nothing but a sham.

The Green New Deal, explained

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80 Responses to Friday Open Thread| The Turtle is Scheming Again

  8. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 5:15 pm

    Kyung Lah (@KyungLahCNN) Tweeted:
    The sorors of @akasorority1908 lined up early, wearing their pink and green. They are the unofficial @KamalaHarris army of supporters in South Carolina #2020inSC

    https://t.co/rIE1a0iZgr https://twitter.com/KyungLahCNN/status/1096522829070245888?s=17

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  9. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 4:43 pm

    The NFL cut Kaep a nice big check 👏👏🤗🤗😏😎🌈🎉$$$$$$$

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  17. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 2:11 pm

    Ok…which one of you was driving through South Carolina last October?

    $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot still unclaimed—here’s what happens if no one comes forward by the deadline
    Yoni Blumberg | @YoniBlum 11:27 AM ET Fri, 16 Nov 2018

    In late October, Mega Millions announced that someone had won its $1.5 billion jackpot. But two months have passed and still, no one has come forward to claim the enormous prize, Josh Whiteside, director of marketing at the South Carolina Education Lottery, tells CNBC Make It.

    “Everyone’s talking about it,” said Jee Patel, the manager of the KC Mart in Simpsonville, South Carolina, where the winning ticket was purchased. “It’s a mystery.”

    The winner, who beat the odds of 1 in 302 million, gets 180 days, or until April 21, to collect before the ticket expires.

    If the prize goes unclaimed by the deadline, according to the Mega Millions website, “each participating state in the Mega Millions game will get back all the money that state contributed to the unclaimed jackpot.

    If that person has lost the ticket, Black Jesus, don’t ever let them know….

    If you still have it…COME ON..put on the face mask like the dude in Jamaica did…LOL

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  20. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 11:57 am

    Pelosi, Schumer Joint Statement on the President’s Unlawful Emergency Declaration
    FEBRUARY 15, 2019

    Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released this joint statement on President Trump declaring a national emergency:

    “The President’s unlawful declaration over a crisis that does not exist does great violence to our Constitution and makes America less safe, stealing from urgently needed defense funds for the security of our military and our nation. This is plainly a power grab by a disappointed President, who has gone outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process.

    “The President’s actions clearly violate the Congress’s exclusive power of the purse, which our Founders enshrined in the Constitution. The Congress will defend our constitutional authorities in the Congress, in the Courts, and in the public, using every remedy available.

    “This issue transcends partisan politics and goes to the core of the Founders’ conception for America, which commands Congress to limit an overreaching executive. The President’s emergency declaration, if unchecked, would fundamentally alter the balance of powers, inconsistent with our Founders’ vision.

    “We call upon our Republican colleagues to join us to defend the Constitution. Just as both parties honored our oath to protect the American people by passing the conference committee bill, the Congress on a bipartisan basis must honor the Constitution by defending our system of checks and balances.

    “The President is not above the law. The Congress cannot let the President shred the Constitution.”

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  22. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 11:24 am

    Dessalines (@Kiriende) Tweeted:
    @PragObots The largest and most pro-Black organization in the history of America was founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican. Guess he wasn’t Black enough though.

    https://t.co/AJiWriKkMi https://twitter.com/Kiriende/status/1087470844669034496?s=17

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  24. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 10:56 am

    On emergency declaration, Pelosi reminds GOP it won’t always be in power
    02/15/19 11:21 AM
    By Steve Benen

    …………………………

    “I know the Republicans have some unease about it no matter what they say, because if the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency, an illusion that he wants to convey, just think of what a president with different values can present to the American people.

    “You want to talk about a national emergency? Let’s talk about today, the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America. That’s a national emergency. Why don’t you declare that emergency, Mr. President? I wish you would.

    “But a Democratic president can do that. Democratic president can declare emergencies as well. So, the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans.”

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  30. SouthernGirl2 says:
    February 15, 2019 at 10:18 am

    WHAT? So he told on himself? No national emergency. And the courts will strike it down.

    https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1096441539818147841

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  32. Ametia says:
    February 15, 2019 at 9:46 am

    Missed this interview

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  34. Ametia says:
    February 15, 2019 at 9:41 am
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  35. Ametia says:
    February 15, 2019 at 9:16 am

    Word of the Day : February 15, 2019

    Apotheosis: noun uh-pah-thee-OH-sis

    Definition
    1 a : the perfect form or example of something : quintessence

    b : the highest or best part of something : peak

    2 : elevation to divine status : deification

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/apotheosis-2019-02-15?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=a&file=apothe09&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=pron

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  36. Ametia says:
    February 15, 2019 at 9:14 am

    TGIF, Everyone!

    McTurtle is one slimy POS.

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  38. Liza says:
    February 15, 2019 at 9:10 am

    If Trump is 243 lbs? Make me laugh. I’d say 283 and that would be on the low side.

    https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/1096164067725631488

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  40. vitaminlover says:
    February 15, 2019 at 6:51 am

    Say, Southern, going to work today and then going to enjoy tis 3-day weekend. Is your daughter going to do the same?

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  41. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 6:46 am

    🤣🤣😂😂

    Purify🗣 (@Purify_toast17) Tweeted:
    Headline: WV official who called Michelle Obama an ape in heels was convicted of defrauding FEMA.

    Us: Wont he do it?

    https://t.co/Qwx5LUvvs4 https://twitter.com/Purify_toast17/status/1096216472337240065?s=17

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    • Ametia says:
      February 15, 2019 at 9:09 am

      Soooo transparent… using another POC to smear another POC.

      and the coonery will be off the chain again this election season. GRIFTING is an ART, doncha know!

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  43. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 6:39 am

    And?
    So?😒😒

    🇨🇦 Golden Resister (@rjcrock2003) Tweeted:
    Trump’s economy is leaving his right-wing base stranded in poverty — and it’s getting worse

    https://t.co/MUlDCWpMfY https://twitter.com/rjcrock2003/status/1096379877064916992?s=17

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  44. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 6:36 am

    Uh huh
    Uh huh 😒

    Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) Tweeted:
    NEW: The Senate Intelligence chairman said last week that Chris Steele had remained unwilling to engage. But we can reveal that Steele submitted written answers to the committee in August. The panel then withdrew the subpoena for his testimony. My latest:

    https://t.co/3pehbc0q9g https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1096208280408469505?s=17

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  46. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 6:34 am

    ReclaimingMyTime (@MonieTalks_1) Tweeted:
    So wait…..

    After 2016, there was a shitload of Left-leaning “progressives” who proclaimed they hated ID politics.
    Yet some of these same folks are jumping on the outrage train about Howard Schultz “I don’t see color.” Isn’t this the same anti-ID politics shit they push?

    https://twitter.com/MonieTalks_1/status/1096124377131900929?s=17

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  47. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 6:31 am

    ReclaimingMyTime (@MonieTalks_1) Tweeted:
    So let me get this straight…Barbara Lee was one of the co-sponsors of the first Medicare for All bill introduced by John Conyers in 2003, the only member of Congress that voted against AUMF, has a proven progressive record of her OWN, but now she is a “corporatist.” Ha!

    https://twitter.com/MonieTalks_1/status/1096193325785325568?s=17

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  48. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 6:10 am

    Thread

    ReclaimingMyTime (@MonieTalks_1) Tweeted:
    Rep. Barbara Lee received death threats & nasty letters after being the lone vote in Congress against post-9/11 AUMF. Yet some gentrified progressives think they can ‘cancel” her. Sit your “progressive” wanksta Twitter asses down somewhere.

    https://t.co/psLtHsvsSy https://twitter.com/MonieTalks_1/status/1096276675669737472?s=17

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  49. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 5:13 am

    Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) Tweeted:
    Trump’s wall “emergency” lets him save face but will keep lawyers busier than builders. History will record it as one of his most extraordinary violations of constitutional norms, setting a precedent for future presidents who want try to bypass Congress. https://t.co/Y1AYMeE7ih https://twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1096218362533822464?s=17

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  54. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 4:44 am

    ReclaimingMyTime (@MonieTalks_1) Tweeted:
    If your family members voted for Trump, listens to Alex Jones, thinks Obama was born in Kenya, & you tip toe around discussing politics at dinner….but you a bad ass judgmental “progressive” on Twitter..your ass is canceled. FOH w/ your gentrified politics. Go work on grandpa. https://twitter.com/MonieTalks_1/status/1096216220645367809?s=17

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  67. rikyrah says:
    February 15, 2019 at 4:24 am

    Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄

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