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.
https://twitter.com/stillnaima/status/1096600322842247168
Wow😯😯
https://twitter.com/ImDefinitelyDee/status/1096607446251040769
😠😠😠
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https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman/status/1096562992919932928
https://twitter.com/johnson_carrie/status/1096563588171550722
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
The NFL cut Kaep a nice big check 👏👏🤗🤗😏😎🌈🎉$$$$$$$
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1096537164874158081
https://twitter.com/TheAPJournalist/status/1096516863184551937
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1096506964752957440
https://twitter.com/KHOU/status/1096509954146615297
https://twitter.com/TheAPJournalist/status/1096505800502272002
But did she lie? 🤨
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1096503185840193540
https://twitter.com/ceemeez/status/1096268558063960064
Welp, it’s beatdown time. (smirk)
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
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
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1096499145966321665
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1096499105159962624
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.”
https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1096438410351390721
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
https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/1096452192846925824
Lawrence know he can make fun of skunk. (tee hee)
On emergency declaration, Pelosi reminds GOP it won’t always be in power
02/15/19 11:21 AM
By Steve Benen
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https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1096449105121996800
IMPEACH HIM!
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1096444667086995461
https://twitter.com/AndrewGillum/status/1096447495901712385
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1096447508778233862
https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1096445375353892864
WHAT? So he told on himself? No national emergency. And the courts will strike it down.
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1096441539818147841
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1096438047992958976
Missed this interview
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
TGIF, Everyone!
McTurtle is one slimy POS.
https://twitter.com/theappeal/status/1096138476808921088
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
Uh huh 😒😒
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1096404313734303745
Say, Southern, going to work today and then going to enjoy tis 3-day weekend. Is your daughter going to do the same?
Good morning, Vitamin. She’s been off….broke her arm a few weeks ago.
What? How?
Enjoy your 3 day weekend. Stay safe.
Delivering package and owner’s dogs weren’t secured, chased her and she was running and fell down and broke arm.
That sucks!
🤣🤣😂😂
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
😒😒😠😠
https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1096057901423177728
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!
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
AND?
SO?
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
😒😒😒
https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1095934965466963968
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
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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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
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
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1096239930391580672
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1096219729436512256
https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1096154021193236481
TOODLES, MR. STARBUCKS!
https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1096165331297431552
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
https://twitter.com/gregpmiller/status/1096199343940558848
https://twitter.com/StCyrlyMe2/status/1096235111148793856
KKKEEBLER ELF, he is who we thought he was.
BONAFIDE RACIST POS
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https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1096189705236955136
https://twitter.com/vpapupdates/status/1096194637835001857
https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1096217183145902083
https://twitter.com/BLeeForCongress/status/1096202185296220160
That’s why they MAD..
FUGGEM!
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/808750564284702720
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1096223250257010689
https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1096178189653692421
https://twitter.com/QueenMab87/status/1096198960396599296
Deep😢😢😢
https://twitter.com/GregAndree71/status/1096074686650335232
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) Tweeted:
NOBODY IS SHOCKED THAT JEFF SESSIONS IS RACIST. There are just people who KNEW that and people who DIDN’T CARE to know that.
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1096264456336752640?s=17