Pure Republican Evil: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Orders Trans Children Investigated and Their Parents Prosecuted as Child Abusers

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There really is no bottom to the viciousness and evil of the Republican Party. The latest ugly news from Texas:

And that’s not all.

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217 comments
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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:15:32am

Using foreign law (since repealed) to justify a cruel imposition and intrusion into a person’s rights. These same right wing Christian fascists were more than happy to trot out family rights and parental rights to supersede government when it suited them on masking and public health measures, but not when it comes to trans rights.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:15:44am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:17:23am

repost from downstairs about this

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:20:21am

The problem is, not everybody’s committing to this thing past the pizza shop.

snerk
***

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:20:42am

Dragging Abbot from office and tarring and feathering him is also an option that I think people should consider. Give these backward asshats backward punishments.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:23:18am
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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:23:21am

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

Convoy

Roadtrip

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:23:38am

How do we know for sure what gender Greg Abbott is?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:24:06am

re: #7 wrenchwench

Convoy

Roadtrip

beer run

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:25:02am

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

And yet Texas will continue to elect Republicans in droves because that’s just how Texas rolls.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:25:17am
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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:25:18am

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

beer run

Public masturbation.

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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:25:39am

re: #8 jaunte

How do we know for sure what gender Greg Abbott is?

Make him prove it. It’s everybody’s business.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:26:12am
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:26:25am

Another reason Abbott is a horrible, evil human being.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:29:47am

this thread…lol

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:32:46am

I posted this last night as it played on my TV. This is what the GOP sells. This is the leadership they promise. This is a bag of watery shit.
And this sack of hammers is supposedly the most powerful Republican in Harrisburg.

Youtube Video

brain dead for the brain dead

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:34:53am
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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:42:52am
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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:43:46am

re: #2 lawhawk

Buhbye, little asshole.

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aatharuv  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:44:18am

re: #18 jaunte

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:45:43am
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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:46:13am

Greg Abbott, worse than the Texas legislature.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:48:18am

Reposting from down stair. A thread.

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:49:32am

Youtube Video

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retired cynic  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:50:14am

E.U. will unveil a strategy to break free from Russian gas, after decades of dependence
wapo.st gift link

For years, Europe’s dependence on Russian energy has held it back from taking powerful action against Kremlin mischief. But now, the Russia-Ukraine crisis is forcing a change unlike any before, driving the European Union to make plans for a permanent, far-reaching break from Russian oil and gas, European policymakers said.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:51:36am

re: #27 retired cynic

E.U. will unveil a strategy to break free from Russian gas, after decades of dependence
wapo.st gift link

Which could become the worst news Putin has had in years.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:53:12am
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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:53:56am

NY DA Bragg expresses doubt about prosecuting Trump in the NY office (state charges). Two prosecutors in his office resign.

Yeah, Bragg is definitely not intent on holding Trump accountable. He’s following in the footsteps of Vance, who also let Trump off the hook.

Once again, we’re seeing the rich and power weasel their way out of criminal charges that would have laid out anyone else.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:55:09am
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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:56:40am

NSFW later gator

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:00:57pm

re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is one pathetic fake attack

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:01:39pm
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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:02:36pm

re: #30 lawhawk

Once again, we’re seeing the rich and power weasel their way out of criminal charges that would have laid out anyone else.

Where is that surprised face….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:03:01pm
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retired cynic  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:03:20pm

Guns overtake car crashes as leading cause of US trauma-related deaths, study says
cnn.com

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:04:31pm

re: #27 retired cynic

E.U. will unveil a strategy to break free from Russian gas, after decades of dependence
wapo.st gift link

Which was going to be a natural consequence of Putin acting out.

The EU can see the dependency as the threat it is. And has now started taking steps to alleviate it. I presume LNG exporters in the USA and elsewhere are happy with this since they will at least initially be the substitute Europe will try to draw from.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:05:40pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:08:36pm

Some of my adamant Trump supporting FB “friends” or FOAFs who spew anti-Biden or anti-Fauci invective on a regular basis have been quiet for the past week. Is it possible that they have migrated to a platform such as MeWe where they may have a more hospitable environment?

My Trump supporting friend whose FB posts are mostly puns or humor about us olds or reminiscences about the good old days is still around. It’s just those who are fonder of political postings are absent.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:09:29pm

Mark my Wordles, you are going to hate this one.

Click to Reveal

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I know I did.

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JC1  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:11:35pm

re: #41 Grunthos the Flatulent

I got very lucky with it

Click to Reveal

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:12:08pm

re: #41 Grunthos the Flatulent

Mark my Wordles, you are going to hate this one.

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I know I did.

Forewarned is forearmed. But you did succeed!

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:12:59pm

re: #42 JC1

I got very lucky with it

[Embedded content]

He is posting tomorrow’s wordle — we haven’t seen it yet!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:13:27pm

re: #40 Hecuba’s daughter

Some of my adamant Trump supporting FB “friends” or FOAFs who spew anti-Biden or anti-Fauci invective on a regular basis have been quiet for the past week. Is it possible that they have migrated to a platform such as MeWe where they may have a more hospitable environment?

My Trump supporting friend whose FB posts are mostly puns or humor about us olds or reminiscences about the good old days is still around. It’s just those who are fonder of political postings are absent.

I just check Facebook every other week or so. I’ve set most of the Trumpists set on mute/ignore at this point. Though I have noted a general lack of political commentary since the election. (These people were pretty much in the “f**k your feelings” camp in 2016. Go figure.) Though I am also pretty certain they have not changed in outlook since “Let’s Go Brandon” class stuff gets pictured now and then. So I think these people are pretty much around the bend at this point or are feeling very embarrassed about who and what they were supporting and thus are trying to ignore it and hopes their involvement is overlooked and goes away.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:13:58pm
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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:14:46pm
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JC1  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:16:09pm

re: #44 Hecuba’s daughter

He is posting tomorrow’s wordle — we haven’t seen it yet!

How?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:16:39pm

I’m sure that’s a rhetorical question…

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:16:43pm

re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth

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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:16:43pm

re: #48 JC1

How?

He lives in the future.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:16:59pm

re: #48 JC1

How?

he lives in The Land of Tomorrow

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:18:50pm

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

The terminator comes for me first.

Click to Reveal

It’s Thursday here.

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JC1  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:19:24pm

Does wordle work off of the client time or timezone? Didn’t realize this. Will be tempting to look ahead.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:20:48pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:22:01pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:24:03pm

re: #48 JC1

How?

He lives in New Zealand. Wordle is posted at midnight according to your device’s time zone.

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:25:11pm

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:27:54pm

Another redistricting win in N.C.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:28:27pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:28:42pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

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This is Switzerland — the “neutral” nation that was happy to help Nazis conceal their ill-gotten gains and prevent Holocaust survivors from recovering theirs because they had been stripped of whatever identifying papers were needed to access their wealth.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:29:32pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:33:25pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

The performer had long been battling a heart condition, stating in 2014 that he had just one year left to live.

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:34:21pm

re: #63 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Him and his woman sidekick was a scream. He made me laugh.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:36:20pm
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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:36:35pm

Look who did a Tiny Desk today!!

Youtube Video

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:37:15pm

re: #15 Patricia Kayden

Another reason Abbott is a horrible, evil human being.

If only people actually voted as if their lives depended on it.

Because actually in real life, with open fascists running free and wild, it does.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:37:22pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:38:26pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:40:13pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:40:57pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:41:16pm

Kushner spreading that Saudi money around.

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:42:16pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

Trump will not be held accountable for anything.

He has a monstrous agenda, a solid 35% of the country ready to drag themselves over barbed wire and broken glass to vote for him, and personal animosity and revenge in his heart towards anyone he wants.

Let that sink in.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:42:49pm

re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:42:58pm

good luck ever seeing that money, but you might ask Mitch about it…

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:43:00pm

re: #70 Charles Johnson

Bragg’s a coward and already violating his day 1 memo. He insisted that he’d prosecute the challenging cases, not just the easy ones.

Turns out, he was never right for the job. He follows Vance who let Trump off the hook too.

Grrr….

The evidence has been there all along. Financial crimes are harder to prove, but Trump’s left a paper trail miles wide. The prosecutors who resigned are probably disgusted by Bragg’s cowardice and refusal to hold Trump accountable for his crimes.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:43:20pm
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Citizen K  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:43:52pm
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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:44:27pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:47:19pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:48:00pm

Short thread on pending anti-trans legislation in various States.

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Mattand  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:48:25pm

I imagine every state catches shit from other states and what not, but I’ve taken a massive amount of grief and borderline abuse about NJ over the years (hell, I’ve caught it on this site for being from the “wrong” end of the state by other NJ residents who should fucking know better).

Not that NJ is free from of problems or criticism, either. Major voting laws were enacted due to white Republicans in NJ intimidating black voters at the polls in the early 80’s.

We’ve got our issues here.

But at their worst, I have a hard time picturing NJ Republicans even trying to float the kind of inhumane shit Texas is doing to trans kids right now.

Goddamn, Texas; this is some fucking Nazi-level targeting of a group of kids; KIDS; who are already living on the razor’s edge.

Fuck Texas Republicans and everyone who supports them.

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:49:39pm

re: #76 lawhawk

Bragg’s a coward and already violating his day 1 memo. He insisted that he’d prosecute the challenging cases, not just the easy ones.

Turns out, he was never right for the job. He follows Vance who let Trump off the hook too.

Grrr….

The evidence has been there all along. Financial crimes are harder to prove, but Trump’s left a paper trail miles wide. The prosecutors who resigned are probably disgusted by Bragg’s cowardice and refusal to hold Trump accountable for his crimes.

My anxiety about Trump being allowed to walk on ALL accusations has just gone through the roof.

This country is about to become totally fucked.

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Mattand  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:51:29pm

re: #82 Mattand

I was in a hurry typing that and there were two “Is he having a stroke” errors in that I fixed after posting. Refresh the page if something looks off.

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A Cranky One  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:55:39pm

Guy showed up at my door, seeking signatures to get on the ballot for a judgeship. Had good credentials for the job.

Asked his political affiliation. He quietly said democratic.

So I replied great and added my signature.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:59:36pm

re: #28 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Which could become the worst news Putin has had in years.

But great news for the EU. More greenergy development will help.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:00:19pm
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danarchy  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:07:28pm

re: #76 lawhawk

The evidence has been there all along. Financial crimes are harder to prove, but Trump’s left a paper trail miles wide. The prosecutors who resigned are probably disgusted by Bragg’s cowardice and refusal to hold Trump accountable for his crimes.

Part of me wonders if the case really isn’t as strong as the media portrays based on partial information and a lot of suppositions.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:11:00pm

tl:dw (too long:didn’t watch):
There are illegals from 150 countries coming into Texas, not for a better way of life but to commit crimes. Abbott says THIS IS A FACT!!11!!

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Moe Avattar  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:11:03pm

Abbott will, however, make sure those kids have plenty of access to guns

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:12:47pm

re: #90 Moe Avattar

Abbott will, however, make sure those kids have plenty of access to guns

While encouraging them to use the guns on themselves rather than to deal with the fascists that are trying to destroy them.

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austin_blue  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:16:35pm

re: #8 jaunte

How do we know for sure what gender Greg Abbott is?

Eunuch.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:18:12pm

Locked up for a warrant from a shithole state she’d never been to. LA taxpayers are going to be giving a lot of their money to this victim of incompetent police.

Woman mistakenly jailed for 13 days sues Los Angeles and its police department (NBC News via MSN)

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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:18:26pm
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Florida Panhandler  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:18:38pm

re: #92 austin_blue

Eunuch.

Nazi.

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A Cranky One  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:18:51pm

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:22:52pm

The two prosecutors in the NY AG case against Trump, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, resigned.

This sucks.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:23:52pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:24:22pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:25:05pm

I see a nuke stampede developing. I once asked a Brazilian general, in private, how long it would take them to develop a usable nuclear weapon if they disregarded all anti-proliferation protocols. His answer? “Two weeks.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:26:59pm
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Mattand  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:28:42pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

A Cletus safari with a British accent is still a Cletus safari.

Jesus Christ, I’m so sick of these people getting their post mortem 15 minutes.

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EPR-radar  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:32:32pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

This anti vax loon most likely died of covid because the world is much too forgiving of willful stupidity. The mainstream media, with its Cletus safaris etc., has played a disgraceful role in promoting the acceptability of willful stupidity.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:33:03pm

So there’s a 500lb black bear in South Lake Tahoe that has lost its fear of humans and has broken into about 28-30 houses. There’s an effort to find him and euthanize him now.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:33:37pm

re: #24 jaunte

Greg Abbott, worse than the Texas legislature.

I never thought such a thing was possible.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:36:36pm

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

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this is true
but what they really want is Trump in charge.
- he’d let vlad do whatever he wants - so no american lives were threatened
- the price of gas would still go up. he’d blame the democrats, more specifically, Obama.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:37:28pm

re: #102 Mattand

A Cletus safari with a British accent is still a Cletus safari.

Jesus Christ, I’m so sick of these people getting their post mortem 15 minutes.

That would be a Trevor Safari.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:42:10pm

re: #100 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I see a nuke stampede developing. I once asked a Brazilian general, in private, how long it would take them to develop a usable nuclear weapon if they disregarded all anti-proliferation protocols. His answer? “Two weeks.”

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barney miller s4e11 “Atomic Bomb”

link

college student who built a crude nuclear device in his dorm room:

I think I made my point

Barney: Is that what that is?

Listen, I got a C in physics last semester.
Think what the kids with Bs and As could do.
Especially if they’re angry.

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austin_blue  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:45:56pm

re: #104 darthstar

So there’s a 500lb black bear in South Lake Tahoe that has lost its fear of humans and has broken into about 28-30 houses. There’s an effort to find him and euthanize him now.

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Well, it’s s gated community. That’s what they paid for— to be entitled white people.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:46:39pm
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William Lewis  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:47:50pm

re: #100 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I see a nuke stampede developing. I once asked a Brazilian general, in private, how long it would take them to develop a usable nuclear weapon if they disregarded all anti-proliferation protocols. His answer? “Two weeks.”

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It’s a matter of materials. Once you have a critical mass, the physics of fission weapons is dead simple and, lets face it, that’s all anyone needs. Just ask the residents of Nagasaki & Hiroshima…

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EPR-radar  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:49:13pm

re: #109 austin_blue

Well, it’s s gated community. That’s what they paid for— to be entitled white people.

Yeah, that’s about it. They ended up with a problem bear because there was a local ordinance banning bear bins for being ‘unsightly’. Hopefully that stupid law is getting reversed.

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A Cranky One  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:52:14pm

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Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:52:25pm

re: #112 EPR-radar

Yeah, that’s about it. They ended up with a problem bear because there was a local ordinance banning bear bins for being ‘unsightly’. Hopefully that stupid law is getting reversed.

What are bear bins? Bear-proof garbage cans or bins to feed the bears?

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A Mom Anon  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:53:05pm

re: #82 Mattand

I think the South is the test lab for all this garbage. The hate spreads from there as fascists try to outdo each other and be as evil as possible. Like it’s a fucking reality TV show. And it’s not just politics, it’s creating the exact combo of awful that spreads like a fucking disease. It’s been there since First Contact, but Trump kicked open all the doors and busted out the windows that had made this shit at least something to be a little fucking ashamed of.

I have lived in both GA and Florida since leaving Ohio a bit over 30 years ago. I have never seen very much of that “southern hospitality” so many natives like to bullshit others with. You only get that if you “belong” somehow, that means going to church, having a kid in sports, having money/material wealth, go on the right vacations or having the right friends etc. If you’re new here, you better have one of the above qualifications to have any kind of social circle. Remove the money, and you still have the other crap in place. I rarely saw overt racism til I moved here too. I’m a white lady in suburban Atlanta, so a lot of white people have run their mouths in my presence on matters of race, gender, LGBT people and poor folks including the white poor population. It seems to be worse among the people born and raised here, though I know a lot of assholes from up north who love that shit too.

There are some great people here, but damn they really don’t seem to have any power or influence to help make change. My son’s generation is more open and accepting, but many are struggling to make it and politics/policy/boots on the ground stuff is just one more thing on a huge to do list. They vote, but not many seem to be involved politically. I’m trying to convince one young man right now to run for local office. School board or city counsel in the place he’s lived his whole life. I hope he will.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:54:26pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:55:31pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:56:20pm

re: #103 EPR-radar

This anti vax loon most likely died of covid because the world is much too forgiving of willful stupidity. The mainstream media, with its Cletus safaris etc., has played a disgraceful role in promoting the acceptability of willful stupidity.

He was a nice guy who had suffered abuse because he seemed queer to his peers, and supported LGBTQ rights because of the abuse he suffered. He just got into conspiracy theories and lost the plot.

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steve_davis  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:56:28pm

re: #74 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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lol! as someone mentions, you can see the firework going off in the camera frame.

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EPR-radar  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:56:39pm

re: #114 Teddy’s Person

What are bear bins? Bear-proof garbage cans or bins to feed the bears?

Bear-proof garbage cans and the like. They are essential in bear country.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:57:55pm

re: #119 steve_davis

lol! as someone mentions, you can see the firework going off in the camera frame.

Just like with Republicans, the propaganda is absurd, but you signal that you’re part of something evil by pretending the propaganda is convincing.

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EPR-radar  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:58:19pm

re: #118 Punish Domestic Terrorists

He was a nice guy who had suffered abuse because he seemed queer to his peers, and supported LGBTQ rights because of the abuse he suffered. He just got into conspiracy theories and lost the plot.

That’s unfortunate, but if the conspiracy theory shit were properly suppressed, it would reduce the chances of something like this happening.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:59:10pm

re: #114 Teddy’s Person

What are bear bins? Bear-proof garbage cans or bins to feed the bears?

They’re like the overhead bins you put luggage in on an airplane, but full of bears, which is much more exciting.

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steve_davis  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:00:58pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

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those are people who died, died
they were all trump’s marks,
and they died.

Sally took dewormer ‘cause she thought she looked cool,
Bobby did Hydro ‘cause he really was a tool,
Mary wasn’t merry when they hooked her to the vent,
Jethro laughed about it until he was heaven sent,
they were all Trump’s marks, and they died.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:01:36pm

re: #120 EPR-radar

Bear-proof garbage cans and the like. They are essential in bear country.

Got ya. I have never heard them referred to as bear bins.

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EPR-radar  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:01:52pm

re: #121 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Just like with Republicans, the propaganda is absurd, but you signal that you’re part of something evil by pretending the propaganda is convincing.

I think there’s also a will to power element — these kind of liars very much want the power to force others to accept their lies. The low level grunts in this kind of fascist operation live to see the likes of Putin and Trump get away with their lies, and in some cases even have their lies become reality.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:02:38pm

re: #123 Punish Domestic Terrorists

They’re like the overhead bins you put luggage in on an airplane, but full of bears, which is much more exciting.

You get a bear. You get a bear. Everybody gets a bear!!!

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:03:02pm

re: #122 EPR-radar

That’s unfortunate, but if the conspiracy theory shit were properly suppressed, it would reduce the chances of something like this happening.

That’s what the people who cared about him are angry about. The podcast is about finding out what kooks influenced him.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:03:58pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s too bad. I caught his show in Vegas back years ago, maybe 2007 or so. Was a good show. He was quite the character.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:05:03pm

re: #5 Punish Domestic Terrorists

No disrespect but everyone can’t just drop their livelihoods and leave Texas. That’s not realistic. The focus should be on voting out Abbott and his ilk. But I completely understand what she is doing. It’s as if we’re now back to the antebellum era when the enslaved were fleeing plantations. In many ways, we’re moving backwards.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:06:43pm

re: #130 Patricia Kayden

No disrespect but everyone can’t just drop their livelihoods and leave Texas. That’s not realistic. The focus should be on voting out Abbott and his ilk. But I completely understand what she is doing. It’s as if we’re now back to the antebellum era when the enslaved were fleeing plantations. In many ways, we’re moving backwards.

Tarring and feathering Abbot is very affordable.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:07:34pm

re: #124 steve_davis

those are people who died, died
they were all trump’s marks,
and they died.

Sally took dewormer ‘cause she thought she looked cool,
Bobby did Hydro ‘cause he really was a tool,
Mary wasn’t merry when they hooked her to the vent,
Jethro laughed about it until he was heaven sent,
they were all Trump’s marks, and they died.

Stealing this.

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JC1  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:09:01pm

re: #100 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I see a nuke stampede developing. I once asked a Brazilian general, in private, how long it would take them to develop a usable nuclear weapon if they disregarded all anti-proliferation protocols. His answer? “Two weeks.”

If Gaddafi still had WMDs, instead of disarming, we probably wouldn’t have taken him out either.

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:10:33pm

re: #129 Eventual Carrion

Made me laugh so hard I cried a few times.

Youtube Video

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:12:30pm

re: #134 nines09

Made me laugh so hard I cried a few times.

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There’s a documentary about Johnathan on Hulu.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:18:48pm

Youtube Video

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:21:32pm
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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:23:34pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:24:12pm

This is a day old and may have already been posted.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:25:44pm

re: #139 Punish Domestic Terrorists

This is a day old and may have already been posted.

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Something will eventually inflict enough pain on Russia that they’ll turn on Putin.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:26:19pm

re: #138 gocart mozart

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Florida Panhandler  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:27:13pm

re: #130 Patricia Kayden

No disrespect but everyone can’t just drop their livelihoods and leave Texas. That’s not realistic. The focus should be on voting out Abbott and his ilk. But I completely understand what she is doing. It’s as if we’re now back to the antebellum era when the enslaved were fleeing plantations. In many ways, we’re moving backwards.

I grew up and went to high school and college in Texas, started to realize what was happening and got the FUCK out of there back in the early 90’s. This creeping fascism has been going on in Texas for decades, kick started of course by the early 60’s Civil Rights Era but really finding solid footing with Reagan. Texas started really dismantling their popular socialist programs that really helped people under Reagan and now we have a Governor who is an open fascist complete with the direct in your face persecution of powerless minorities. What has been happening has not been a surprise to anyone paying attention.

Texas voters are evil. Plain and simple. You get what you vote for. I got the fuck out.

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John Hughes  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:32:30pm

re: #61 Hecuba’s daughter

This is Switzerland, which is possibly going to be under EU sanctions itself.

theguardian.com

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jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:34:24pm

candied jalapenos

Today I learned that the 6 I entered in the quantity box meant pounds rather than the half-dozen peppers I wanted. One of the little known perils of curbside grocery pick-up schemes. On the plus side, they were very good peppers.

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:35:50pm

Meanwhile on the road with Bunky Big Rig Bolus and THE TRUCKERS…
Lame ass shit if ever there was.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:37:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:38:18pm

re: #122 EPR-radar

That’s unfortunate, but if the conspiracy theory shit were properly suppressed, it would reduce the chances of something like this happening.

Sadly, the ones who have the most power to do so instead delight in pushing the conspiracy theories.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:43:25pm

re: #141 Patricia Kayden

So if I am reading this correctly, the only way to get banned from Truth Social is to say something honest about Trump?

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:44:17pm

re: #124 steve_davis

those are people who died, died
they were all trump’s marks,
and they died.

Sally took dewormer ‘cause she thought she looked cool,
Bobby did Hydro ‘cause he really was a tool,
Mary wasn’t merry when they hooked her to the vent,
Jethro laughed about it until he was heaven sent,
they were all Trump’s marks, and they died.

This could use an update:

Butthole Surfers - Pepper

You wouldn’t have to change the part about dying in Texas though.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:46:45pm

re: #140 darthstar

Something will eventually inflict enough pain on Russia that they’ll turn on Putin.

Certainly possible that an oligarch gets sufficiently irritated because his daughter is forced to leave UCLA when the sanctions really hit — but likely not. And the ordinary citizens who put up with the Soviet Union and their descendants have not shown enough interest in overthrowing the monarch, especially given his propensity for poisoning critics or tossing them out windows. I just don’t see an uprising among the population at any time during my lifetime. People living in regimes run by autocrats do not suddenly rebel against their masters.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:48:21pm

re: #146 Punish Domestic Terrorists

that is beautiful

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:50:40pm

Fuck Abbott with a rusty pitch fork side ways. Then tar and feather the mother fucker. Just got these DMs from my Daughter in Canada. She is scared that what he has invoked is going to spread and eventually have a very bad impact on me.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:54:30pm

And hateful shit like this isn’t helping either.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:54:53pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:57:12pm

re: #154 Charles Johnson

Well shit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:58:30pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:59:47pm
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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:02:28pm

The point being that leaving Texas doesn’t mean you get to a better place:

The rest of the thread goes on from here:

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:02:42pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:02:51pm

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

beer run

Be -double E double are you-N-beer run
Be -double E double are you-N-beer run
All we need is a ten and five-er,
Car and key and a sober driver,
Be -double E double are you-N-beer run

Beer Run - Todd Snider

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:04:23pm

re: #159 Patricia Kayden

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Maybe California can supply guns. //

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:06:58pm

re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:07:53pm
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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:08:36pm

re: #149 Belafon

This could use an update:

[Embedded content]

Video

You wouldn’t have to change the part about dying in Texas though.

That makes me think of this song…

Youtube Video

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:09:10pm

re: #150 Hecuba’s daughter

Certainly possible that an oligarch gets sufficiently irritated because his daughter is forced to leave UCLA when the sanctions really hit — but likely not. And the ordinary citizens who put up with the Soviet Union and their descendants have not shown enough interest in overthrowing the monarch, especially given his propensity for poisoning critics or tossing them out windows. I just don’t see an uprising among the population at any time during my lifetime. People living in regimes run by autocrats do not suddenly rebel against their masters.

That’s more or less what they said about the Soviet Union.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:09:17pm

re: #162 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Only if you can vote and Abbott and his fascist GOP is making it increasingly difficult for Texans to exercise their right of franchise. They were terrified of the large turnout in 2020 and are working overtime to prevent it from recurring.

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William Lewis  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:09:27pm

re: #145 nines09

It’s the CON-BOYS!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:10:07pm
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Mattand  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:12:01pm

re: #115 A Mom Anon

I rarely saw overt racism til I moved here too. I’m a white lady in suburban Atlanta, so a lot of white people have run their mouths in my presence on matters of race, gender, LGBT people and poor folks including the white poor population.

As I’ve stated before, I’ve lived within 12 miles of Philly in South Jersey most of my life, and for the last 40+ years, and I run into this shit all. The. Time.

Literally minding my own business reading a comic book on a subway platform only to have a “fellow” White person feel free to open up about how “those” people are a problem.

Christ, I went to art school in Philly and some of the shit my supposedly openminded fellow art students would say about LGQTB people just appalling. In fucking art school.

White people can be the absolute worst some times.

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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:17:57pm
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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:21:44pm

re: #170 gocart mozart

But while the energy will be limited, at least it will be charged at the maximum rate.

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EPR-radar  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:27:45pm

re: #171 darthstar

But while the energy will be limited, at least it will be charged at the maximum rate.

Naturally. Normal people think of a power utility as a business for providing electric power to customers. Republicans think of a power utility as a vehicle for enriching its owners.

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:27:51pm

So when the Manhattan DA drops the ball… can Letitia James pick it up?

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austin_blue  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:34:26pm

re: #149 Belafon

This could use an update:

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You wouldn’t have to change the part about dying in Texas though.

Gibby!

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:42:22pm
According to court documents, Christopher Brenner Cook, 20, of Columbus, Ohio; Jonathan Allen Frost, 24, of West Lafayette, Indiana, and of Katy, Texas; and Jackson Matthew Sawall, 22, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. The charge and plea agreements indicate that the defendants knew and intended that the material support they conspired to provide would be used to prepare for and carry out the federal offense of destroying energy facilities.

In February 2020, the co-conspirators met in Columbus, Ohio, to further discuss their plot. Frost provided Cook with an AR-47 and the two took the rifle to a shooting range to train.

Frost also provided Cook and Sawall with suicide necklaces during the Columbus meeting. The necklaces were filled with fentanyl and were to be ingested if and when the defendants were caught by law enforcement. Both Cook and Sawall expressed their commitment to dying in furtherance of their mission.

Three Men Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Plot to Attack Power Grids in the United States (justice.gov)

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aatharuv  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:45:05pm

re: #175 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Three Men Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Plot to Attack Power Grids in the United States (justice.gov)

In February 2020, the co-conspirators met in Columbus, Ohio, to further discuss their plot. Frost provided Cook with an AR-47 and the two took the rifle to a shooting range to train.

Frost also provided Cook and Sawall with suicide necklaces during the Columbus meeting. The necklaces were filled with fentanyl and were to be ingested if and when the defendants were caught by law enforcement. Both Cook and Sawall expressed their commitment to dying in furtherance of their mission.

Waits for Fox News to start calling them Homicide Shooters.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:53:22pm

re: #176 aatharuv

Waits for Fox News to start calling them Homicide Shooters.

They don’t have very Arabic sounding names. Probably just misunderstood and need a good hug.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:53:48pm

re: #164 darthstar

That makes me think of this song…

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HA! I remember hearing this live from a reggae band in the 90s.

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William Lewis  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:54:10pm

re: #175 Punish Domestic Terrorists

AR-47???? I realize that people, especially reporters, just don’t know about guns but that’s painful for me to read O_O

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austin_blue  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:54:29pm

re: #158 Belafon

The point being that leaving Texas doesn’t mean you get to a better place:

The point she makes is germane. Greater Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Greater Houston have some of the best health care research hospitals in the US. I have found Texans (I’ve been here since ‘89) to be some of the purely *nicest* people I’ve ever met.

The fact is the big Cities are Blue, the ‘burbs are purple, and the hustings are just as Red as a Chinese flag.

And Texas has always been this way. Y’all should read Forget the Alamo, which is a Cracker Jack look at the history of our fair State. Most of the people who came to Austin’s Colony, which at the time was within the Mexican State of Coahuila y Texas, were from the South, and many descended from English convicts (England sent their convicts to the Colonies until the Revolution, when they pivoted to Australia).

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retired cynic  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:57:38pm

re: #180 austin_blue

I enjoyed that book very much.

Well.

Not so much enjoy, as learned from.

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mmmirele  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:05:13pm

re: #100 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I see a nuke stampede developing. I once asked a Brazilian general, in private, how long it would take them to develop a usable nuclear weapon if they disregarded all anti-proliferation protocols. His answer? “Two weeks.”

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When I was an undergrad in the early 1980s, back then it was assumed that ANY country could get nukes, given enough time and money. The example used then was Nauru (now sinking due to global warming) but back then, specialists in nuclear proliferation said even Nauru could have nukes within 10 years if it threw all its money at them.

That said, two weeks assumes you can buy your nukes at Arms R Us, get next day delivery of your turnkey missile system and use the rest of the time to train the operators.

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A Mom Anon  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:05:42pm

re: #169 Mattand

I know this crap is everywhere. I grew up in rural Ohio, close to Appalachia and later in Columbus and it’s suburbs. Adults trashed anyone they perceived as less than. It wasn’t til I moved to GA and FL that I saw outright awful behavior directed blatantly at people of any color. I know that happens everywhere too, but it’s like it’s programmed into the DNA of this place, and like some people feel an obligation to make it worse.

I was here in GA for a couple of months and on my way to work at my new job one morning I saw men in fucking Klan robes and hoods coming out of a big wooded area in the middle of the apartment complex I had just moved into. It scared the shit out of me. A few nights later a cross got burned on the lawn of a black family who owned a house a couple of miles from there. I had never seen blatant hostility and confrontation of people of color prior to that. Not that it didn’t exist, it was just not filtered out. We have a problem in this country with this shit, but I do think the south and southern politicians, many of them, incubate and encourage it.

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austin_blue  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:05:44pm

re: #181 retired cynic

I enjoyed that book very much.

Well.

Not so much enjoy, as learned from.

There’s a whole shitpot of institutionalized racism to unpack in that book, going back to 1835. Blacks, Browns, Jews, and Catholics were serially discriminated against by white Protestants.

Good trivia question:

“Who was the first Republican to win the Popular Vote in Texas after the Civil War?”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:06:40pm

Lots of angst — HZD- Forbidden West launched last week, and now Elden Ring is launching tomorrow.

Let’s think…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:09:35pm

re: #179 William Lewis

AR-47???? I realize that people, especially reporters, just don’t know about guns but that’s painful for me to read O_O

An AR-47 is an AR-15 pattern rifle chambered on 7.62 x 39

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William Lewis  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:14:11pm

re: #186 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

An AR-47 is an AR-15 pattern rifle chambered on 7.62 x 39

I suppose it could be that but I’ve never heard of them called that. It’s just an AR that takes that round.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:15:00pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:15:39pm

re: #188 The Pie Overlord!

Oh. That looks delicious.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:16:10pm

re: #177 darthstar

They don’t have very Arabic sounding names. Probably just misunderstood and need a good hug.

The document subtitle “Domestic Terrorism Plot was in Furtherance of White Supremacist Ideology”. They are everywhere, trying to commit acts of violence to destabilize our nation and stop our evolution into a multicultural democracy. Those Trump supporters who would not engage in acts of violence themselves don’t express any interest in stopping these criminals from harming our nation.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:22:34pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:23:21pm

re: #187 William Lewis

I suppose it could be that but I’ve never heard of them called that. It’s just an AR that takes that round.

Well, there are AR-47s, and it isn’t a reporter stating it, it’s a DoJ press release.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:24:03pm

re: #182 mmmirele

The Pakistanis used to be able to deliver nuke tech to high bidders via the Khan network. It wouldn’t take much for them to resurrect that.

Other countries have proliferated nuke tech in the past, including the US, France, and Israel/South Africa. What it takes to build a nuke is a known quantity. To get the appropriate nuclear materials is the hard part. That’s why Iran and North Korea have made substantial efforts to enrich uranium and get weapons grade uranium and/or plutonium. The physics of the bomb itself are relatively easy.

Khan network showed Iran how to build the centrifuges that enrich the nukes. Syria looked that way too.

Delivery systems? Depends on how sophisticated you want to get. Scud missiles aren’t particularly accurate, but a nuke hitting your country doesn’t care if it’s on target or not.

Ukraine is in the weird position of having had nukes and giving them up as part of the post-Soviet breakup. Turns out that the cost/benefit analysis of giving up nukes because of the costs/safety of maintaining them undervalued the deterrence value.

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William Lewis  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:30:20pm

re: #192 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Well, there are AR-47s, and it isn’t a reporter stating it, it’s a DoJ press release.

Ah, PSA. I should have known. Wonder if the QC on them is as bad as on the actual AK’s they make?

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:34:15pm

It’s been a very Joy Division day.

YouTube

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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:35:50pm

Email from landlord #1

Move out instructions

Email #2:

Whoops, sorry

Email #3:

Cold weather instructions

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:39:37pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:42:06pm

re: #182 mmmirele

When I was an undergrad in the early 1980s, back then it was assumed that ANY country could get nukes, given enough time and money. The example used then was Nauru (now sinking due to global warming) but back then, specialists in nuclear proliferation said even Nauru could have nukes within 10 years if it threw all its money at them.

That said, two weeks assumes you can buy your nukes at Arms R Us, get next day delivery of your turnkey missile system and use the rest of the time to train the operators.

I think the assumption is that everything is done and waiting for the fissionables to be loaded in.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:43:34pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:45:42pm

I’d like to report a murder…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:46:28pm

re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:49:44pm
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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:50:49pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:53:01pm

re: #203 gocart mozart

Ted Cruz praises Biden over sanctions tied to Nord Stream pipeline (CNN via MSN)

He’s still a piece of shit of course.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:54:52pm

re: #204 Punish Domestic Terrorists

TC always qualifies for being a POS.

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mmmirele  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:58:45pm

re: #198 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I think the assumption is that everything is done and waiting for the fissionables to be loaded in.

Like I said, Nukes R Us or other desperate, hungry country with fissionables to sell.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:02:55pm

re: #206 mmmirele

Like I said, Nukes R Us or other desperate, hungry country with fissionables to sell.

Brazil has plutonium, generated in its own reactors. It is currently under IAEA control but the assumption of the question was that these controls would be abrogated.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:04:26pm

re: #206 mmmirele

Like I said, Nukes R Us or other desperate, hungry country with fissionables to sell.

Or creative accounting on the part of the Ukrainian surety people before the handover. There is a lingering suspicion that the declared Pakistani arsenal is somewhat smaller than the shadow arsenal. Ask India.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:12:52pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:14:29pm
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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:15:52pm

With today’s delayed CV19 reporting, Alabama has exceeded 18,000 deaths. We will soon overtake NJ as the #3 in deaths/million.
worldometers.info

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:19:51pm

Bill lifting Idaho’s primary militia ban passes Idaho House

Yeah, as written, it needs to go. BUT! (you knew that was coming, didn’t you?) but, why not re-write/admend it to add some actual teeth to it? Ummmmmm, this IS Idaho. Not going to happen. And people still wonder why I want to get the hell out of here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:21:41pm

re: #211 Decatur Deb

With today’s delayed CV19 reporting, Alabama has exceeded 18,000 deaths. We will soon overtake NJ as the #3 in deaths/million.
worldometers.info

My county in eastern Kentucky jumped from 69 to 78 in a week. That’s a lot for a county with a population of ~13,000.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:25:43pm

re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth

My county in eastern Kentucky jumped from 69 to 78 in a week. That’s a lot for a county with a population of ~13,000.

Ginseng and asphoedity bags will cure that shit.
letterpile.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:30:26pm

re: #211 Decatur Deb

With today’s delayed CV19 reporting, Alabama has exceeded 18,000 deaths. We will soon overtake NJ as the #3 in deaths/million.
worldometers.info

Mississippi has firm grasp as #1 in the nation.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:34:07pm

re: #215 Hecuba’s daughter

Mississippi has firm grasp as #1 in the nation.

Arizona is the one I can’t grok. Aren’t they running out of live, uninfected, people?

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:40:39pm

re: #216 Decatur Deb

Arizona is the one I can’t grok. Aren’t they running out of live, uninfected, people?

A state run by fanatic Republicans — am not sure how accurate their figures are, though I haven’t heard anything to suggest any manipulation.


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