I was not aware that one could copyright sick m0vez

Maybe twerkers will get sued into extinction

Run bad, get there

Lose election? No problem! Get gifted senatorship.

On the plus side, she has to defend the seat in 2020, and again in 2022.

On the plus + side, she's already an experienced loser so it's absolutely in play.

On the minus side, if she's sworn in first, she'll become the first female Senator from AZ, as well as have seniority over Sinema.

Lamar Alexander retire *****

Does seniority over a member of a different party really matter in anything of importance?

There was some last minute gossip about Ducey appointing a Maricopa County prosecutor. The guy deleted his twitter account apparently to hide anti-Trump tweets. Head fake!

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news...enate-11073026

So everyone's heard of the "Baby It's Cold" contraversy. Well Damon Linker weighed in and I'm not going to read the whole thing because the first couple of lines were enough to make me stop.

LOL. Jesus these people. They can't go two sentences in any article without quoting Plato or Cicero or someone from antiquity.

https://theweek.com/articles/813101/...reat-awokening

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/..._open_arizona/

The donald is not happy about the appointment. She is a RINO, a swamp creature, she lost the election because the republicans didn't fight hard enough during the counting process, and apparently the democrats have a majority in the senate when you add up the 47 dems + the RINOs

Second woman claims billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein 'directed' her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz

Probably not, maybe a bigger office. It's just galling.

Edit: Ducey: Sinema will be Arizona's senior senator, but I'm not sure why it would be his decision.

LOCK HIM UP (seriously)

Donald Trump:

If there were cel phones and digital cameras back then Dersh would be so ****ed.

Will someone forward this to Hannibal Buress please?

This is actually pretty good news, she already lost in a midterm year, she’s pretty beatable in a presidential year.

Ugh. https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description

Gotta say that I don't see the problem here? He was stopped because he fit a description (which wasn't just "black male", his coat and hat match the description). The cops aren't trying to stitch him up, one of them even tells him, unprompted, that it doesn't seem like his weight matches the description. They question him a little and let him go. That white woman should have kept her mouth shut, but whatever. The entire rest of the melodramatic tone of the post is happening in his head. None of it has any basis in reality. I also don't believe him for a second that he was going to resist arrest. And like:

But his ID is enough for them! The grunt police are just waiting for the detective to show up and once he does, he immediately lets this guy go. They say they're going to get the victim to have a look at him, but they never do.

What is it that he wants changed about this interaction? Should the police not stop people who match descriptions? Should they immediately let someone go if they say "I'm not a criminal"? If you own a knit hat that was handmade for you, does that mean it's not OK for "knit hat" to be part of a description? I don't get it. Not every police interaction with a black person is sinister.

It's not impossible that the police were telling the truth about the description including those details about the knit hat and puffy coat, but it's very far from a lock.

The point is he has a legitimate reason to fear for his life in that situation and therefore feared for his life. That it turned out okay is way beside the point.

Also, the only part of the description that matched him was a black man wearing a hat in the winter. He had a blazer on, not a puffy jacket, outweighed the description and his hat was colorful. He was reminded that he is responsible for proving he is not a threat if any white person sees a “suspicious” black person, yet here you are complaining that all cops are not “bad”. Ffs, man.

For reference, my black friends teach their kids to treat interactions with the police as if they are dealing with an armed robber. Don’t argue with them, don’t move too quick, don’t make them mad or scared, keep your hands up etc.

This fear is real and it’s justified. That fact alone is oppressive whether it materializes or not.

If they were making up the description, why would the officer both make up an incorrect weight and admit to the suspect that the weight seems incorrect? I'm always willing to believe that cops are lying, but I want some kind of motive. The interaction as described was just a pure waste of time for these police, like if you think they're just stopping a random black guy, why? What's the point? It's not like a stop and frisk where they can maybe find drugs or a gun or something and get their arrest quota up.

The article reads kind of pathetic to me, honestly, because this guy is a college professor who was never in the slightest amount of danger at any point in this interaction, but it has this tone like he was lucky to survive his encounter with the jackbooted agents of systemic racism. Give me a break.

Oh, bull****. He's a middle-class guy being asked to stop in broad daylight in the middle of an affluent area of Boston. Racial bias in policing is real, but it's not sorcery that has the power to turn any routine police interaction into a deathtrap.

What I see in this post is a guy being treated actually pretty deferentially by the police (the cop says "This is probably nothing", shares with him details of the description which appear to exonerate him, and the detective lets him go immediately upon arriving, without bothering to show him to the victim). But because America has a total absence of class consciousness, inside this guy's mind it's the same as if he were being held at gunpoint at 1am in an alley in the South Side of Chicago. It's kind of amazing.

It wasn't for no reason. There was a call. They didn't want to just say "black male" because duh. They made up additional details because that's how people lie most of the time rather than 100% inventions. Huge possibility puffy coat and knit hat were lies.