Ain’t No Doubt: Marcus King Is a “Hard Working Man”

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Official Audio for ‘Hard Working Man:’ https://mk.lnk.to/hardworkingman
New Album, “Young Blood” Out August 26: https://mk.lnk.to/youngblood

On tour now, get tickets here: https://mk.lnk.to/mklivein2022

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Lyrics:
Up late, all night
I don’t even need a reason why
Your love, is so right
I can’t wait until the morning light
To get back, when I’m through
And bring my living on home to you

Hey honey don’t you understand
I been working all day, doin the best I can
Got that easy lovin if you’d take my hand
I’m a hard working man

I’m a hard working man, yes I am

Just wait, payday
I’m gonna take you somewhere far away
Us two, sky blue
But first I gots to make a run or two
Boss man, he’s on the line
Said he’s gonna give me overtime

Hey baby don’t you understand
I been working all day, doin the best I can
Got that easy lovin if you’d take my hand
I’m a hard working man

I’m a hard working man, bet your life I am

Hey honey don’t you understand
I been working all day, doin the best I can
Got that easy lovin if you’d take my hand
I’m a hard working man
I’m a hard working man, yes I am

Hey honey don’t you understand
I been working all day, doin the best I can
Got that easy lovin if you’d take my hand
I’m a hard working man
I’m a hard working man
Yes I am
Hard working man, baby
Hard working man

Ohh. Bet your life I am, baby
I’m a hard working, darlin’

#MarcusKing #HardWorkingMan #YoungBlood

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314 comments
1
Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:22:32pm
2
stpaulbear  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:23:47pm

Youtube Video

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:25:12pm
4
Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:27:30pm

Shaun King is trending on Twitter right now because Talcum X decided to drop a hot take on the subject…

So of course all the worst RWNJ assholes on Twitter are saying that it’s ironic because King isn’t actually African American but Musk is. Because South Africa.

And they wont stop. Because he had to drop in his 2 cents where it wasn’t appropriate or asked for given his history, we see a talking point constructed in real time. Thanks again Shaun. You fucking asshat.

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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:31:04pm

Ain’t No Doubt: Marcus King Is a “Hard Working Man”

New headphones. All broke in now.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:45:20pm

Quick paella…saffron rice and veggies and shrimp and hot Italian sausage.
Did not suck.

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BigPapa  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:47:52pm

I just got the Wife Unit to order me carbon steel fry pan for my daily cooking. My cheapo nonstick started warping because I would use it stove top then put it under the broiler.

Hard to imagine how my oatmeal game could get better but here we are.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:50:25pm

re: #7 BigPapa

I just got the Wife Unit to order me carbon steel fry pan for my daily cooking. My cheapo nonstick started warping because I would use it stove top then put it under the broiler.

Hard to imagine how my oatmeal game could get better but here we are.

That’s true love.

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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:54:36pm

I intend to rtwt.

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jeffreyw  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:57:53pm

Brisket Tacos with Beans and Cheddar

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stpaulbear  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:59:08pm

re: #9 wrenchwench

So why do I forget what I walked into the kitchen for?

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calochortus  Apr 25, 2022 • 6:59:46pm

re: #11 stpaulbear

So why do I forget what I walked into the kitchen for?

You’re old?

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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:06:15pm

re: #11 stpaulbear

So why do I forget what I walked into the kitchen for?

Brain memories are so weird. The oldest ones are the least forgettable, because everytime you think of them, you make a new copy somewhere else in your brain. So think of what you’re going for three times before you stand up.

Post its on the flip phone work too.

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austin_blue  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:06:51pm

re: #7 BigPapa

I just got the Wife Unit to order me carbon steel fry pan for my daily cooking. My cheapo nonstick started warping because I would use it stove top then put it under the broiler.

Hard to imagine how my oatmeal game could get better but here we are.

Your carbon steel will probably warp, too.

The vast majority do. Great cooking pans, though.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:09:20pm

This is not the “gotcha” she thinks it is. Rufo is proud of the propaganda that he created.

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austin_blue  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:18:50pm

re: #6 darthstar

Quick paella…saffron rice and veggies and shrimp and hot Italian sausage.
Did not suck.

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You should try your next batch with some Spanish chorizo (not Mexican- completely different sausage) rather than hot Italian. So much better.

Mexican chorizo, for those unaware, is the rest of the pig (you know, lips, glands, and assholes), while Spanish chorizo is a king among sausages. It is absolutely delicious and fit for the finest tapas in Christendom.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:22:48pm

AYFKM!!!!

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:25:05pm

Alexa, show me a pompous asshole.

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William Lewis  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:28:19pm

re: #17 The Pie Overlord!

AYFKM!!!!

I know. Snowing off and on all day here today on its way to you folks in Michigan.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:39:44pm

re: #17 The Pie Overlord!

AYFKM!!!!

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I forgot you were in the area.

My son flew Lexington to San Diego via Chicago last week for a conference. His flight home on Saturday went through Detroit. But his original flight got delayed by 1.5 hours, so he missed to connecting flight. He ended up staying in a hotel that night, and, even though they gave him a food voucher for a nearby McDonald’s, the lobby was closed when he got to the hotel. He had no car so he couldn’t do the drive-thru. He got a sandwich from a nearby store and then got up early to get his breakfast.

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mmmirele  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:42:44pm

I spent 11 hours, 45 minutes on a phone call today. I’m on call, and was paged in at 07:30, just after I stepped out of a quick shower. So yeah, I was nekkid as I got dialed in to find out what was going on. And it was a *cluster*.

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So how was your day?

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austin_blue  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:45:53pm

So the former typhoon has reached Austin and we got just under 2” of the wet stuff today here at the Bungalow Sans Souci after getting .07” the first 24 days of the month (normally one of our wettest).

The rain distribution was odd. Fifteen miles to our south, .05”. Ten miles to our east, 3.5”.

A rain blob of between 1” and 3” between us and Fredericksburg to our WSW and just north of that almost nothing in the rest of the Hill Country which desperately needed the rain. The bottom line is that the City of Austin’s water supply got almost nothing in its reservoirs and the riverine systems to our west. Locally a win, but regionally a popcorn fart of a rain system.

{sigh}

Gonna be a brutal summer, innit?

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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:48:46pm

re: #21 mmmirele

I spent 11 hours, 45 minutes on a phone call today. I’m on call, and was paged in at 07:30, just after I stepped out of a quick shower. So yeah, I was nekkid as I got dialed in to find out what was going on. And it was a *cluster*.

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So how was your day?

Did you get 10 minutes out of each 4 hours and half an hour from each 6 or anything? Oh, wait, that’s for hourlys. You need a union.

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A Cranky One  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:50:14pm

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:50:15pm

Something may be a little off with this guy.

Dr. Deborah Birx said Monday that former President Donald Trump’s infamous ‘bleach’ comments came about because researchers were looking into whether disinfectant would be needed to kill COVID-19 on playgrounds, or if sunlight would do the trick.

‘This was a tragedy on many levels,’ Birx told George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America. ‘The first tragedy is the whole point of asking the DHS scientists to do the work was so children could get outside and play on playgrounds.’

Dr. Deborah Birx explains Trump’s infamous ‘bleach comments (Daily Mail via MSN)

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austin_blue  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:55:31pm

re: #25 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Something may be a little off with this guy.

Dr. Deborah Birx explains Trump’s infamous ‘bleach comments (Daily Mail via MSN)

He’s not off, he’s a fucking idiot.

Let’s review, shall we?

Youtube Video

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William Lewis  Apr 25, 2022 • 7:56:20pm

re: #21 mmmirele

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2022 • 8:00:06pm

“Extend the light of consciousness” by mocking and banning nazis, and posting more animal pics.

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William Lewis  Apr 25, 2022 • 8:03:48pm

Speaking of Musk & Tesla…

From Avweb

Video has emerged of the collision of a driverless Tesla that collided with the tail of Cirrus VisionJet at a small airport in Washington State. Initial reports via a Reddit video suggest the car was being operated on its “Summon” feature in which the operator calls the car on a cellphone to move it to a more convenient location. The operator had to be on hand when this happened because the function apparently only works within line of sight. In this case, the Tesla apparently decided the way to its master’s preferred location was through the Cirrus and that will no doubt be of interest to a variety of regulators.

The incident reportedly happened at Felts Field, near Spokane, at an event last week to celebrate the opening of a new hangar for Northwest Flight Service, the regional service and training center for Cirrus. Speculation on sites and forums that specialize in Tesla topics is that the sensors that normally keep Teslas from bumping into things don’t look up high enough to see the tail of an airplane four feet above the ground. The car’s windshield hit the tail and spun the plane about 90 degrees, but it’s not clear how much damage was done to the machines.

Youtube Video

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BigPapa  Apr 25, 2022 • 8:10:10pm

re: #14 austin_blue

Your carbon steel will probably warp, too.

The vast majority do. Great cooking pans, though.

Got dammit. I’ll probably get a hybrid stainless ply then as long as I have a glass top.

My cast iron is thick and still flat, doubt I’ll warp that bugger. Although there’s dudes who make videos to fix warped pans.

So I’m very undecided and obsessing right now.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 25, 2022 • 8:10:38pm

re: #18 The Pie Overlord!

Alexa, show me a pompous asshole.

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I never thought the day would come when Twitter was going to be managed by someone even worse than Jack. It boggles the mind.

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Semper Fi  Apr 25, 2022 • 8:13:45pm

re: #3 The Pie Overlord!

That looks excellent and I see you’ve got the seed in there.

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retired cynic  Apr 25, 2022 • 8:29:58pm

Who Was Mike Pence’s Secret Service Detail Working for on January 6?
Over the weekend, Rep. Jamie Raskin suggested Pence wasn’t convinced it was him.esquire.com

From NBC News:
Speaking about the threats to Pence on Jan. 6 and the chants by rioters to hang him, Raskin said the vice president’s Secret Service agents — including one who was carrying the nuclear football — ran down to an undisclosed place in the Capitol. Those agents, who Raskin said he suspects were reporting to Trump’s Secret Service agents, were trying to whisk Pence away from the Capitol. Pence then “uttered what I think are the six most chilling words of this entire thing I’ve seen so far: ‘I’m not getting in that car,’” Raskin said. “He knew exactly what this inside coup they had planned for was going to do,” Raskin said.

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2022 • 8:34:41pm
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Belafon  Apr 25, 2022 • 8:39:17pm

I caught the greatest King of the Hill episode earlier today. Season 6, episode 8, “Joust Like a Woman.” Alan Rickman is playing a Texan who is the king in a renaissance fair. His a major jerk to the women, and pays for it in the end. The two hilarious parts are when Peggy comments on his mediocre British accent, and, when he’s served lawsuit papers, he “talks like a Texan.”

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austin_blue  Apr 25, 2022 • 8:46:15pm

re: #30 BigPapa

Got dammit. I’ll probably get a hybrid stainless ply then as long as I have a glass top.

My cast iron is thick and still flat, doubt I’ll warp that bugger. Although there’s dudes who make videos to fix warped pans.

So I’m very undecided and obsessing right now.

Read this, and take deep breaths:

foodandwine.com

It’s a $100 investment, at most. I once stupidly paid more than this for a bottle of single malt. My Scots brother-in-law set me to rights that price was not the deciding factor in single malts, but references.

Damn good advice.

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austin_blue  Apr 25, 2022 • 8:50:48pm

And that’s it, I’m out.

Sweet scaly dreams and pray for the west to get more rain.

If not, it’s disaster season.

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bratwurst  Apr 25, 2022 • 9:16:37pm
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Moe Avattar  Apr 25, 2022 • 9:36:08pm

re: #16 austin_blue

You should try your next batch with some Spanish chorizo (not Mexican- completely different sausage) rather than hot Italian. So much better.

Mexican chorizo, for those unaware, is the rest of the pig (you know, lips, glands, and assholes), while Spanish chorizo is a king among sausages. It is absolutely delicious and fit for the finest tapas in Christendom.

That’s true if you live somewhere that doesn’t have good Mexican food.

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William Lewis  Apr 25, 2022 • 9:52:35pm

re: #16 austin_blue

You should try your next batch with some Spanish chorizo (not Mexican- completely different sausage) rather than hot Italian. So much better.

Mexican chorizo, for those unaware, is the rest of the pig (you know, lips, glands, and assholes), while Spanish chorizo is a king among sausages. It is absolutely delicious and fit for the finest tapas in Christendom.

All good sausage is made from the unmentionable bits. That’s the whole bit behind Bismark’s crack about “making sausage”. Never think about what goes into it; just enjoy it instead.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 25, 2022 • 10:20:01pm

Wordles to live by..

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 25, 2022 • 10:41:14pm
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ckkatz  Apr 25, 2022 • 10:44:13pm

Canadian Lt. General, originally slated to head Canadian Army, accused of sexual misconduct, retires and goes to Ukraine:
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Trevor Cadieu left the Canadian military on April 5, according to the Department of National Defence. He travelled to Ukraine shortly after with the intention to volunteer for that country’s military which is battling a Russian invasion, multiple defence sources confirmed to this newspaper.

Retired Canadian lieutenant-general under police investigation for alleged sexual misconduct is now in Ukraine
ottawacitizen.com

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A senior leader in the Canadian Armed Forces has retired and travelled to Ukraine to help defend the country from Russia’s invasion while still under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.

The Department of National Defence confirmed Thursday that lieutenant-general Trevor Cadieu retired on April 5 after more than 30 years in uniform, even as military police continue their investigation into his conduct.
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Several defence sources say Cadieu has since headed to Ukraine to volunteer to help fight back against a Russian invasion that is about to enter its third month. The sources were not authorized to comment publicly on his whereabouts.

Military officer retires, heads to Ukraine amid sex misconduct investigation
ctvnews.ca

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2022 • 10:48:51pm

re: #42 DodgerFan1988

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And by the time it’s quietly killed off, it will have found no cases of voter fraud or it will have found some poor sod who made a simple mistake when voting.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 25, 2022 • 10:57:10pm

re: #16 austin_blue

You should try your next batch with some Spanish chorizo (not Mexican- completely different sausage) rather than hot Italian. So much better.

Mexican chorizo, for those unaware, is the rest of the pig (you know, lips, glands, and assholes), while Spanish chorizo is a king among sausages. It is absolutely delicious and fit for the finest tapas in Christendom.

I’ve always wondered what part of the soy soyrizo is… *chuckles*

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:00:21pm

re: #30 BigPapa

Even if your carbon steel pan warps, it’s still an amazing piece of cookware.

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ckkatz  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:00:43pm

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:09:27pm

Dinesh D’Souza latest bucket of spit, “2000 Mules” is due to be released soon. It’s premise is that 2020 election ballots in all the swing states Trump lost are suspicious because they were delivered to drop boxes by “mules” working for Get Out The Vote Groups.

And they point to cell phone tower data that matches the “mules” to drop boxes at the time the ballots were delivered.

Somehow, this is suspicious because….well it has to be.

The film offers zero evidence that the ballots themselves are illegitimate.

It’s basically saying ‘“Look at what those people are doing. It has to be suspicious!!!!1!1!1!++

They are going to declare unconditional war on mail in voting.

That’s what this bullshit is really all about.

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William Lewis  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:09:39pm

re: #43 ckkatz

Canadian Lt. General, originally slated to head Canadian Army, accused of sexual misconduct, retires and goes to Ukraine:
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Retired Canadian lieutenant-general under police investigation for alleged sexual misconduct is now in Ukraine
ottawacitizen.com

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Military officer retires, heads to Ukraine amid sex misconduct investigation
ctvnews.ca

Perhaps he can get himself killed honorably so that his evils don’t matter so much?

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ckkatz  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:11:01pm

A very strong counter to Russian threats.

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ckkatz  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:12:54pm

A very strong counter to Russian threats.

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:14:04pm

One thing the Disney brouhaha is meant to distract from:

DeSantis signs bill creating new Florida election police force

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:32:51pm

re: #48 The GOP is a terrorist organization

Dinesh D’Souza latest bucket of spit, “2000 Mules” is due to be released soon. It’s premise is that 2020 election ballots in all the swing states Trump lost are suspicious because they were delivered to drop boxes by “mules” working for Get Out The Vote Groups.

And they point to cell phone tower data that matches the “mules” to drop boxes at the time the ballots were delivered.

Somehow, this is suspicious because….well it has to be.

The film offers zero evidence that the ballots themselves are illegitimate.

It’s basically saying ‘“Look at what those people are doing. It has to be suspicious!!!!1!1!1!++

They are going to declare unconditional war on mail in voting.

That’s what this bullshit is really all about.

Bits like these remind me of a line from Lord of War, one of my favorite films:

And while certain people might interpret this cargo as suspicious, thank God we live in a world where suspicion alone does not constitute a crime, and where me men like you respect the rule of law.

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ckkatz  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:33:43pm

Dave Troy views the Musk takeover of Twitter as part of the Right-Wing/Libertarian Oligarch funded culture wars:

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:39:29pm

re: #54 ckkatz

Dave Troy views the Musk takeover of Twitter as part of the Right-Wing/Libertarian Oligarch funded culture wars:

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The sale only makes sense in the context of various wealthy individuals or corporations who have snapped up small town newspapers, run them into the ground, and then ended their publication so that the only papers available are those run by other large corporations who are more likely to toe the line or enforce the line than they are hire people who will buck authority.

Musk has not bought Twitter with the intent of making money from it or seeing it expand, he’s bought it because he wants to control what can and can’t be said, and has the money to make that happen.

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ckkatz  Apr 25, 2022 • 11:40:35pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2022 • 12:03:50am

re: #57 ckkatz

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I miss Sims 3, if only because the monetization of the franchise hadn’t yet peaked during its run. When full-sized expansions were not outnumbered a bazillion to one by “stuff packs” or “adventure packs” that charged you outrageous prices for no real content.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2022 • 12:27:19am

Last week: “WE NEED REGULATION ON BIG TECH! BILLIONAIRES SHOULDN’T BE ABLE TO CONTROL WHAT WE SAY ONLINE!! THERE NEEDS TO BE LAWS!!!”

Today: “HAHA! LOOK AT ALL THOSE LIBS FREAKING OUT BECAUSE MUSK BOUGHT TWITTER!! CRY SOME MORE!!!”

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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2022 • 12:51:28am
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Captain Ron  Apr 26, 2022 • 12:57:26am

This could be the most military aircraft flying in Europe at one time I have ever seen.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2022 • 1:07:59am

re: #60 Dread Pirate Ron

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Why is there a risk of WWIII? Because Putin is so delusional and thin-skinned that the possibility that he may lose the war in Ukraine might be enough to drive him to launch nuclear strikes.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2022 • 1:22:21am

re: #62 Targetpractice

Why is there a risk of WWIII? Because Putin is so delusional and thin-skinned that the possibility that he may lose the war in Ukraine might be enough to drive him to launch nuclear strikes.

I think it’s just a howl of impotent rage, saber-rattling. The Russians are terrified of Western arms shipments into Ukraine because not only are they beginning to sense that they’ve already lost in Ukraine but if - let’s say sometime this year - the Ukrainians can launch (and sustain) a successful counteroffensive and drive the Russians out of the country (and pin them down in Crimea to the point where they completely lose freedom of action), then Putin will find himself confronted with a fiasco comparable to the 1905 Russo-Japanese War.

And he’s gonna have to find a way to sell that fiasco to the Russian people - and that’s not going to be an easy sale.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2022 • 1:32:50am

re: #63 Dr Lizardo

I think it’s just a howl of impotent rage, saber-rattling. The Russians are terrified of Western arms shipments into Ukraine because not only are they beginning to sense that they’ve already lost in Ukraine but if - let’s say sometime this year - the Ukrainians can launch (and sustain) a successful counteroffensive and drive the Russians out of the country (and pin them down in Crimea to the point where they completely lose freedom of action), then Putin will find himself confronted with a fiasco comparable to the 1905 Russo-Japanese War.

And he’s gonna have to find a way to sell that fiasco the Russian people - and that’s not going to be an easy sale.

Vlad probably knows by now that even if the Russian Army busts out its Cold War stockpile and starts filling the ranks with retirees to make up for lack of numbers, that’s still a process of weeks or months, while Ukraine has been actively working to build up its own reservist ranks since the fighting began. With NATO shipping bigger weapons into Ukraine now that they see the tide of war turning, Vlad’s greatest nightmare scenario is looking plausible: Total failure and Russian forces sent packing in the most humiliating fashion possible.

I’ve suspected for awhile now that the change in war goals was about trying to make it appear as though there was a way out of the fighting in the hope that NATO would force Zelensky to seek a negotiated peace. The decision by NATO to instead ramp up the number and types of weapons being provided has left Moscow realizing there’s no way out of this war other than victory or defeat.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2022 • 1:41:59am

re: #64 Targetpractice

Vlad probably knows by now that even if the Russian Army busts out its Cold War stockpile and starts filling the ranks with retirees to make up for lack of numbers, that’s still a process of weeks or months, while Ukraine has been actively working to build up its own reservist ranks since the fighting began. With NATO shipping bigger weapons into Ukraine now that they see the tide of war turning, Vlad’s greatest nightmare scenario is looking plausible: Total failure and Russian forces sent packing in the most humiliating fashion possible.

I’ve suspected for awhile now that the change in war goals was about trying to make it appear as though there was a way out of the fighting in the hope that NATO would force Zelensky to seek a negotiated peace. The decision by NATO to instead ramp up the number and types of weapons being provided has left Moscow realizing there’s no way out of this war other than victory or defeat.

In a bit of related news to NATO countries sending more gear:

Federal Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) wants to push further arms deliveries to Ukraine. According to information given to SPIEGEL, the SPD minister will announce at a Ukraine conference hastily convened by the US at Ramstein Air Force Base in the morning that Germany wants to enable the delivery of Gepard anti-aircraft tanks. In addition, Ukrainian soldiers will be trained on the Panzerhaubitze 2000 system, which the Netherlands intends to supply to the Ukrainian army.

With these two announcements, Lambrecht wants to try to mitigate the harsh criticism of Germany in terms of arms deliveries. The federal government has been criticized for weeks for its hesitant attitude. Lambrecht therefore wants to emphasize once again to the around 20 defense ministers who have traveled there that the federal government has marked a real turning point with the 100 billion special package for the Bundeswehr and the first arms deliveries.

Source, in German: spiegel.de

Yep, for Russia there’s nothing else but victory in Ukraine or defeat. And if they’re defeated - the nightmare scenario in which the Russian Army is driven back across the border - then it’s going to be exceedingly difficult for Putin and his propagandists to spin it as some kind of victory. Far too many Russians will start angrily saying, “Then what was all this for?!” or “And we have been humiliated yet again by the West and now we’ll never be taken seriously!”

Such a defeat will likely produce a profound cultural trauma in the Russian psyche.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 1:54:46am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

don’t be surprised if the musk takeover of twitter comes apart like a cheap suit, because that’s still a possibility

This is bringing us one step closer to Don’t Look Up Is there not a socially challenged social media mogul/spaceman billionaire behind plans to save Earth?

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2022 • 2:00:56am

re: #66 Dr Lizardo

In a bit of related news to NATO countries sending more gear:

Source, in German: spiegel.de

Yep, for Russia there’s nothing else but victory in Ukraine or defeat. And if they’re defeated - the nightmare scenario in which the Russian Army is driven back across the border - then it’s going to be exceedingly difficult for Putin and his propagandists to spin it as some kind of victory. Far too many Russians will start angrily saying, “Then what was all this for?!” or “And we have been humiliated yet again by the West and now we’ll never be taken seriously!”

Such a defeat will likely produce a profound cultural trauma in the Russian psyche.

I’ve noticed that the bulk of weaponry being confirmed as on the way or already in Ukraine is artillery, which seems geared towards addressing Russian battle doctrine putting a big emphasis on artillery as both offensive and defensive in nature. If Russia has to hold fixed positions, then their artillery has little room for shoot-and-scoot. All the Ukrainians have to do is zero in where the Russian artillery is and then drop a few thousand pounds of heavy metal on their heads. Same is true for tanks in hull-down positions and infantry in entrenchments.

Seems that the turns have tables and the Russians are about to learn what it’s like to get shelled relentlessly and without mercy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 2:16:42am

re: #48 The GOP is a terrorist organization

Somehow, this is suspicious because….well it has to be.

The film offers zero evidence that the ballots themselves are illegitimate.

It’s basically saying ‘“Look at what those people are doing. It has to be suspicious!!!!1!1!1!++

That was what most of Rudi Giuliani’s and Sydney Powell’s “signed affidavits” were about: a lady who works for a temp agency in charge of cleaning screens “saw something suspicious”.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2022 • 2:17:31am

Sinatra channel decided to post this today, for some reason:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2022 • 2:18:26am

re: #70 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Reload for correct URL.re: #70 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 2:19:05am

re: #62 Targetpractice

Why is there a risk of WWIII? Because Putin is so delusional and thin-skinned that the possibility that he may lose the war in Ukraine might be enough to drive him to launch nuclear strikes.

Even more disturbing: the May 9th Victory Day parades are coming up and Putin needs something he can trot out across Red Square.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2022 • 2:21:55am

One of the headaches of working at an “extended stay” hotel is dealing with “transients” or folks who are here for a week or less. These are people who book us either because A) there’s virtually nothing available in the city or B) they want to have a kitchen during their vacation. Why are they a headache? Because unlike the long-term stays who usually will realize they’re stuck in a place for awhile and go out to buy supplies, these guests instead think we’re supposed to provide everything for them and then get upset when we don’t have what they need in the middle of the night. Such as the fellow who just came down to ask me for a coffee maker since we offer them for the rooms, only to then ask me if we also provide coffee and walk away in disgust when I said if he wanted coffee for the machine he needed to go out to buy some.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 2:24:36am

re: #73 Targetpractice

Seems like a vending machine for basic supplies (like a small packet of coffee) would be a hit.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2022 • 2:32:56am

re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Seems like a vending machine for basic supplies (like a small packet of coffee) would be a hit.

All we’ve ever had is a market in the lobby area, which has a lot to do hotel companies wanting to suck every dollar out of guest wallets as they can. Vendors don’t offer more than a partial cut of their profits to the company for the privilege of having their machines on-property, compared to being able to sell things at a considerable mark-up directly to guests. When the last property I worked for did their renovations to become a franchise for Starwood, as soon as the market was finished and stocked, the vending machines disappeared from the property. Which confused and disappointed the tourists because vending machines tend to be “cheap” compared to hotel markets.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2022 • 2:33:58am

Your art appreciation lesson for the day:

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2022 • 2:58:28am

re: #18 The Pie Overlord!

Hopefully Elon will bring back Trump, swamp Twitter with White Supremacists spewing hatred and thus sunk it altogether. Stockholders aren’t going to be thrilled when Twitter descends into Gab and Parler territory.

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sagehen  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:17:28am

why would stockholders care? nazi and confederate dollars are as green as anybody else’s.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:30:15am

re: #78 sagehen

why would stockholders care? nazi and confederate dollars are as green as anybody else’s.

There are plenty of people out there using social media to promote an ideology or an agenda, but I think that most of them are driven by the ideology of Capitalism and the agenda of Maximizing Return on Investment.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:34:13am

re: #77 Patricia Kayden

Hopefully Elon will bring back Trump, swamp Twitter with White Supremacists spewing hatred and thus sunk it altogether. Stockholders aren’t going to be thrilled when Twitter descends into Gab and Parler territory.

The company’s being taken private, so the people most likely to have any room to bitch are the banks financing the buy-out. The company’s stock will no longer be traded publicly, so if it crashes and burns then the people Musk will have to answer to are the banks holding the debt.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:36:23am

re: #80 Targetpractice

The company’s being taken private, so the people most likely to have any room to bitch are the banks financing the buy-out. The company’s stock will no longer be traded publicly, so if it crashes and burns then the people Musk will have to answer to are the banks holding the debt.

Then Musk can just emulate Trump, pay pennies on the dollar and walk away…

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:37:48am

re: #80 Targetpractice

The company’s being taken private, so the people most likely to have any room to bitch are the banks financing the buy-out. The company’s stock will no longer be traded publicly, so if it crashes and burns then the people Musk will have to answer to are the banks holding the debt.

With the slightest bit of caution, caution-for-hire, Musk will never have to answer to anyone. Therein lies the problem.

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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:41:30am

So long as Musk is making his payments on-time and in full, he can run Twitter into the ground, sit by as it burns, and then piss on the ashes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:43:00am

re: #83 Targetpractice

So long as Musk is making his payments on-time and in full, he can run Twitter into the ground, sit by as it burns, and then piss on the ashes.

He will roll it into a blunt and smoke it on line in real time…

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:44:00am

Don’t hate me, I am just the messenger.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:45:28am

re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Even more disturbing: the May 9th Victory Day parades are coming up and Putin needs something he can trot out across Red Square.

A mushroom cloud? Doesn’t seem like an achievement.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:47:46am

re: #86 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

A mushroom cloud? Doesn’t seem like an achievement.

If the Ukrainians went a little nuts, May 9 would be a good day to make a statement. Just the suggestion of that could rain on someone’s parade.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:48:12am

re: #86 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

A mushroom cloud? Doesn’t seem like an achievement.

He cannot stand up on Lenin’s Tomb and receive the parading battalions without something to show for ten weeks of military clusterfuck.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:49:47am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He cannot stand up on Lenin’s Tomb and receive the parading battalions without something to show for six weeks of military clusterfuck.

“Look at all these used washing machines.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:51:09am

re: #89 Decatur Deb

“Look at all these used washing machines.”

“Why are they all suddenly switching to spin cycle? DUCK!!!”

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:54:57am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He cannot stand up on Lenin’s Tomb and receive the parading battalions without something to show for six weeks of military clusterfuck.

Who in Russia knows it’s been a clusterfuck? Most Russians are gung-ho on how great this “Final Solution to the Nazi Question” is going.

The few who don’t are on the CIA payroll.

And various other fantasyland bullshit.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:55:27am

re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Even more disturbing: the May 9th Victory Day parades are coming up and Putin needs something he can trot out across Red Square.

His embalmed body in a glass coffin would be nice to parade around.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 3:59:30am

re: #91 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Who in Russia knows it’s been a clusterfuck? Most Russians are gung-ho on how great this “Final Solution to the Nazi Question” is going.

He really doesn’t have much to show for it beyond some captured territory.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:02:45am

re: #77 Patricia Kayden

Hopefully Elon will bring back Trump, swamp Twitter with White Supremacists spewing hatred and thus sunk it altogether. Stockholders aren’t going to be thrilled when Twitter descends into Gab and Parler territory.

Musk wants to be _the_ stockholder.

He wants it all.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:04:15am

re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Musk wants to be _the_ stockholder.

He wants it all.

His ultimate plan:

“Lend me all your money, which I will then use to buy everything you own and lease it back to you!”

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:08:29am

re: #80 Targetpractice

Thanks for the explanation. I guess Elon can do whatever the hell he wants with Twitter then which means Trump can use it to gin up more violence and science deniers can use it to push anti-vaccination lies. And of course, White Supremacists can amplify their hate speech. Oh joy!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:10:59am

re: #97 Patricia Kayden

As long as people use social media as a source of information on important matters of politics, world events, science, health and safety, our world is in a downward spiral…

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:15:25am

America ain’t the only place where school shootings happen….

Translated, from Russian:

On Tuesday, an unidentified person broke into a kindergarten near Ulyanovsk and opened fire, according to preliminary data, two children and a nanny were killed, the shooter committed suicide. This is reported by “Interfax” .

It is alleged that an unknown person with a weapon opened fire in a kindergarten in the village of Veshkayma during “quiet time”. According to a number of reports, one employee of the kindergarten was injured.

The authorities of the Ulyanovsk region confirmed the death of four people. According to preliminary data, the killed children - a boy and a girl - were 5 and 6 years old.

Baza reports that a double-barreled shotgun was found at the crime scene. It is registered in the name of 68-year-old Alexander Dronin, but so far there is no evidence that he was the shooter. It is also alleged that there were no guards in the kindergarten.

svoboda.org

The original story from Interfax (also in Russian): interfax.ru

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:23:06am

re: #99 Dr Lizardo

America ain’t the only place where school shootings happen….

Blame it on NATO-financed Ukrainian Nazi infiltrators.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:23:22am

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John Hughes  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:33:21am

re: #65 JC1

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:39:34am
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John Hughes  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:39:51am

re: #99 Dr Lizardo

It is also alleged that there were no guards in the kindergarten.

what kind of fucked up place would need guards in a kindergarten?

Oh, wait…

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steve_davis  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:43:40am

re: #36 austin_blue

Read this, and take deep breaths:

foodandwine.com

It’s a $100 investment, at most. I once stupidly paid more than this for a bottle of single malt. My Scots brother-in-law set me to rights that price was not the deciding factor in single malts, but references.

Damn good advice.

smithey is what I lust for, but until I pick up more work, at the moment I’m just treading water, so not in the cards at the moment.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:44:53am

re: #97 Patricia Kayden

re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As long as people use social media as a source of information on important matters of politics, world events, science, health and safety, our world is in a downward spiral…

Or y’all could stop using the damn thing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:46:49am

re: #106 Decatur Deb

Or y’all could stop using the damn thing.

Again, I use it to keep up with what friends and family are up to, or local events, gigs and goings-on. If I want to discuss politics, I come to a site like this one (moderated and civil). If I want news, I go to one of several news sites and read multiple takes on the same story.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:49:00am

re: #105 steve_davis

smithey is what I lust for, but until I pick up more work, at the moment I’m just treading water, so not in the cards at the moment.

Tourist season is picking up and there are outdoor gigs booked so I might actually have some funny money left in my budget soon after bills and debts are paid up.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:49:10am

re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Again, I use it to keep up with what friends and family are up to, or local events, gigs and goings-on. If I want to discuss politics, I come to a site like this one (moderated and civil). If I want news, I go to one of several news sites and read multiple takes on the same story.

Listening to the Lizards here, it seems half the bullshit on Twitter is coming through friends and family.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:51:26am

re: #103 Dopamine Fish

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming of the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

as I understand, cryptos originated because people no longer trust national governments to manage a currency.

So they would rather put their faith and their financial fortunes in a shadowy group of people they have never seen and cannot even physically locate

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:53:02am

re: #109 Decatur Deb

Listening to the Lizards here, it seems half the bullshit on Twitter is coming through friends and family.

Yes, I am interested in what they are doing, not their views on world events. Those posts generally get deleted and ones who get too carried away with them get blocked.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:56:24am

re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

as I understand, cryptos originated because people no longer trust national governments to manage a currency.

So they would rather put their faith and their financial fortunes in a shadowy group of people they have never seen and cannot even physically locate

This is because people are dumbasses and anything too complicated for Generation Dunning-Kruger has to be bad or a conspiracy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:58:29am

re: #112 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

This is because people are dumbasses and anything too complicated for Generation Dunning-Kruger has to be bad or a conspiracy.

It’s the same logic that leads them to mistrust and disregard “mainstream media” but put their full faith in whatever whacko Internet “news” channel they stumble across.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:59:08am

re: #106 Decatur Deb

Or y’all could stop using the damn thing.

Twitter’s like the borg: once you get used to connection to the entire the collective there’s no turning back.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:01:21am

re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Twitter’s like the borg: once you get used to connection to the entire the collective there’s no turning back.

your ass will be simulated!

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:01:43am

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

your ass will be simulated!

I hope not, that would not be very appealing to anybody.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:02:32am

So I’ve finally binge-watched season 2 of Picard (at least through episode 8).

I find it a bit odd but also not bad.

My take on contemporary Star Trek is that the acting and production is so much better than either TOS or the TNG-era (or even the Enterprise show) it is really a decent show…. if you’re not trying to recreate the 1990’s era TV show.

The scriptwriting of Picard is much much better than TNG.

The story is no more reasonable, however.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:02:35am

re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

as I understand, cryptos originated because people no longer trust national governments to manage a currency.

So they would rather put their faith and their financial fortunes in a shadowy group of people they have never seen and cannot even physically locate

Don’t make it sound more lofty than it is. A bunch of libertarian dudebros realized we’ll never get to paradise without destroying government backed currency. And if they make a few coin off of the effort, so much the better.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:02:38am

re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Twitter’s like the borg: once you get used to connection to the entire the collective there’s no turning back.

Probably why I never joined. LGF satisfies 100% of my virtual community needs, and I have to take a break from that every couple years. (Other sites are just to passively observe the derp. Freep is going through some interesting dynamics right now.)

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:03:22am

re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, I am interested in what they are doing, not their views on world events. Those posts generally get deleted and ones who get too carried away with them get blocked.

Was visiting with some on my fraternity brothers last week. Most of the ones I have been in steady touch with since university days.

There was the usual discussions about “where is so-and-so nowadays?” to catch up on this or that since there are loose networks and some people are more active on using Facebook* to track stuff.

Someone made the observation of “Well, if you met one of them, what sort of conversation would it be? Beyond a five minute summary of career, family, and maybe a couple of interesting events everything else would probably be very mundane and not of interest outside of that family group.”

I thought that was a pretty profound and accurate observation. Beyond a few persons I really do not care about the personal details of a lot of people from my past.

* - I also have found it odd to get Facebook friend requests from people whose last interactions with me (or the fraternity who I was acting as a officer of) forty years ago were of a “screw you” variety as they deliberately did things designed to annoy me or broke contracts/agreements. My only guess is that they are trying to recapture something of their past via social media.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:07:47am

re: #120 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Facebook once offered up in it’s “People you may know” section a guy that the last time I saw him he was pointing a gun at me.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:08:45am

re: #121 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Facebook once offered up in it’s “People you may know” section a guy that the last time I saw him he was pointing a gun at me.

Well, that’s one you might want to keep track of.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:16:49am

I looked up an old high school buddy from Indiana (not a particularly close friend, but we used to hang out a bit) who went off to join the Army ca 1977.

He had since moved to Arkansas. I saw all the anti-Obama/Hillary, pro-Trump posts on his page and decided not to even bother.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:19:27am

re: #121 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Facebook once offered up in it’s “People you may know” section a guy that the last time I saw him he was pointing a gun at me.

Oh and by the way, when the above incident happened. I immediately called the cops. I also sat up all night waiting for them to never show up to take a report or anything. I know they have nothing better to do in that neighborhood either but sit near the sports bar and nab random DUIs.

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steve_davis  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:31:15am

re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

as I understand, cryptos originated because people no longer trust national governments to manage a currency.

So they would rather put their faith and their financial fortunes in a shadowy group of people they have never seen and cannot even physically locate

and in which they have to turn their funny money into something real if they’re planning on buying anything more than a pallet of coke or a semi-load of 12-year old hospitality workers from Moldova.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:34:12am

Got back from puppy run To Hot Springs, AR. Lay night with out new charges…… We’re going to have out hands full for a while. Perfect 1st puppy nite with no crying. They both sleep in the same crate. Hopefully we keep them off the bed……..

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:34:36am

Mornin’ everyone. So much for Moscovites being able to ignore the war and go to the mall…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:34:44am

re: #125 steve_davis

and in which they have to turn their funny money into something real if they’re planning on buying anything more than a pallet of coke or a semi-load of 12-year old hospitality workers from Moldova.

At least a pallet of coke, properly stashed, will keep well and appreciate in value.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:35:53am

moron

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:35:56am

re: #126 Dave In Austin

Got back from puppy run To Hot Springs, AR. Lay night with out new charges…… We’re going to have out hands full for a while. Perfect 1st puppy nite with no crying. They both sleep in the same crate. Hopefully we keep them off the bed……..

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Congratulations!

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:38:49am

re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

No, actually, let’s do it. Let’s go into great detail. Let’s show you how the majority of studies that show masks were ineffective were propaganda stories written by your cronies with fudged data. Let’s show you how the REAL science was very clear on how effective paper masks, cloth masks, N95’s, etc., were at preventing the spread of the disease - WHEN EVERYONE WEARS THEM. And finally, let’s review that it was YOUR policies that reduced the effectiveness of masks by allowing maskholes to go around without masks, increasing the risk for EVERYBODY, masked or unmasked.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:39:52am

re: #131 Dopamine Fish

No, actually, let’s do it. Let’s go into great detail. Let’s show you how the majority of studies that show masks were ineffective were propaganda stories written by your cronies with fudged data. Let’s show you how the REAL science was very clear on how effective paper masks, cloth masks, N95’s, etc., were at preventing the spread of the disease - WHEN EVERYONE WEARS THEM. And finally, let’s review that it was YOUR policies that reduced the effectiveness of masks by allowing maskholes to go around without masks, increasing the risk for EVERYBODY, masked or unmasked.

I urge Dr. Paul to dispassionately fuck off.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:41:10am

re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I urge Dr. Paul to dispassionately fuck off.

I’m completely on board with that, too. Ugh. I am so sick of this timeline. I am sick of constantly dealing with the right’s constant bullshit. I want them all to just FUCKING GO AWAY.

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jeffreyw  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:41:48am

Good morning!

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:42:35am

re: #134 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Barbarian at the gates.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:43:00am

Yesterday in the praying HS football coach case, Kavanaugh asked questions revealing that he is well aware of the coercive power the coach has over the players to participate in the prayer, but its expected that he will vote to allow school employees to turn school events into church services anyway.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:43:14am

Another rare 2/6

Click to Reveal

Wordle 311 2/6

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:45:45am

re: #136 No Malarkey!

Yesterday in the praying HS football coach case, Kavanaugh asked questions revealing that he is well aware of the coercive power the coach has over the players to participate in the prayer, but its expected that he will vote to allow school employees to turn school events into church services anyway.

This will all change when the first Satanist coach “quietly and personally” sacrifices a goat on the 50-yard line.

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:47:50am
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darthstar  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:49:41am

re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This will all change when the first Satanist coach “quietly and personally” sacrifices a goat on the 50-yard line.

It’ll change when the first athlete scores a touch down and shouts toward the ground, “Thank you, Satan!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:50:55am

re: #140 darthstar

It’ll change when the first athlete scores a touch down and shouts toward the ground, “Thank you, Satan!”

And smears blood on his face.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:51:24am

re: #17 The Pie Overlord!

AYFKM!!!!

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I know. Heading my way also. Hope it is the last of the white stuff falling for a while.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:51:29am

I’m really tired of hearing out the shooting on the set of Baldin’s movie Rust, but the sheriff’s office released a while lot of video about it yesterday, and it all really makes we wonder if someone that didn’t like Baldwin’s Trump impersonations didn’t substitute the live rounds in the hope he would get killed.

A much more important video ABC showed was about a kids baseball game showing the kids scrambling after hearing gunfire.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:54:12am

re: #143 Belafon

A much more important video ABC showed was about a kids baseball game showing the kids scrambling after hearing gunfire.

Our kids ain’t learnin’ shit about math, history or civics, but they are sure getting good at ducking and covering.

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:54:42am

Should have had it in 3 but I had to play a word in my head…still managed to steal an easy four.
Wordle 311 4/6

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:55:15am

re: #143 Belafon

team america- you are worthless alec baldwin

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:56:19am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And smears blood on his face.

Well, cutting open a referee for it was unsportsmanlike. 15 yards.

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lizardofid  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:56:55am

re: #140 darthstar

It’ll change when the first athlete scores a touch down and shouts toward the ground, “Thank you, Satan!”

Or somebody fires off an evening call to prayer over the pa system.

Oh, good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:59:45am

As if American Christians did not have enough opportunity to openly worship, they seem to insist on doing it during publicly sponsored events on public school property.

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JC1  Apr 26, 2022 • 5:59:46am

re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This will all change when the first Satanist coach “quietly and personally” sacrifices a goat on the 50-yard line.

Satanists don’t sacrifice goats.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:00:36am

re: #150 JC1

Satanists don’t sacrifice goats.

No, but they totally would if it would rile up the religious wackadoodles.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:01:25am

re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As if American Christians did not have enough opportunity to openly worship, they seem to insist on doing it during publicly sponsored events on public school property.

“America is a Christian nation, and we’re not free to worship unless we’re free to force everybody else watch us worship/participate in our worship so that we can be seen as being holier than thou.”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:01:48am

re: #140 darthstar

It’ll change when the first athlete scores a touch down and shouts toward the ground, “Thank you, Satan!” heavens , “Allahu Akbar! Praise be to Allah, Alhamdulillah!”

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JC1  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:02:17am

re: #143 Belafon

I’m really tired of hearing out the shooting on the set of Baldin’s movie Rust, but the sheriff’s office released a while lot of video about it yesterday, and it all really makes we wonder if someone that didn’t like Baldwin’s Trump impersonations didn’t substitute the live rounds in the hope he would get killed.

A much more important video ABC showed was about a kids baseball game showing the kids scrambling after hearing gunfire.

There was a union dispute going on with scabs on set. I don’t think it had anything to do with Baldwin’s Trump impersonation. If it was foul play and not just gross negligence/incompetence, then I think it’s much more likely to be union shenanigans.

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:02:31am

re: #136 No Malarkey!

Yesterday in the praying HS football coach case, Kavanaugh asked questions revealing that he is well aware of the coercive power the coach has over the players to participate in the prayer, but its expected that he will vote to allow school employees to turn school events into church services anyway.

Yeah, they all know that they’re going to shred the church/state 1A barrier and don’t care.

They’ll carve out an exception if a Satanist or Cthulhu believer wants to have a prayer circle, because it’ll protect the kids from unwarranted exposure to “bad things” when there’s a reason the Founders created the 1A freedom of religion - we don’t permit a state sponsored religion.

The GOP are theofascists/white nationalists, and have packed the courts with those who will further that goal for decades to come.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:02:51am

I blew my 3rd guess. Idjit.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:03:56am

re: #148 lizardofid

Or somebody fires off an evening call to prayer over the pa system.

Oh, good morning!

Yeah, just imagine the freakout when someone plays this over the PA:

Youtube Video

BTW, that’s a genuinely impressive call to prayer. He’s got quite a voice.

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steve_davis  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:06:41am

re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This will all change when the first Satanist coach “quietly and personally” sacrifices a goat on the 50-yard line.

Clemson’s been sacrificing a chicken on the 50-yard line every November for eternity (though there was the infamous 5-bomb during UofSC’s Spurrier era.) Of course, Swinney also had baptisms at practice, though I think Radakovich had a quiet word with him at some point and shut that shit down.

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:07:57am

i had an idea and what better place to air it than here
maybe it’s not so brilliant
maybe it’s been thought of lots of times already

i was just stretching before a run and my head went ‘ding’.
just an idle curiosity about twitter et al

all these services work on a similar architectural model
a database of users
links to followers
blocks, etc
and then messages, replies, forwards etc

and a lot of storage and processing power somewhere

so i was musing what if some brilliant folks take the next phase of short and frequent messaging to be more like email

How? I dont know.

Just a decoupling of the vast database of accounts linked to followers.
With a proliferation of your choice of message reader - just like you do with email.

maybe the database of users followers blocks etc is not centralized.
then it’s not under the control of one company (or one person)
not quite a contacts list, but who knows.
then the idea of being stuck / ‘captive’ cause everyone’s there or moving and losing your followers etc, goes away

Some geniuses figure it out

and then it’s a new game

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:12:50am

Well, it was inevitable, really. I’m watching our bird feeder this morning, and it’s mostly small and medium sized birds like finches, sparrows, the occasional cardinal, some cowbirds. Then the big guy shows up: A crow. He’s hanging around, but he’s way too big to eat from the feeder directly.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:15:04am

re: #160 Dopamine Fish

Well, it was inevitable, really. I’m watching our bird feeder this morning, and it’s mostly small and medium sized birds like finches, sparrows, the occasional cardinal, some cowbirds. Then the big guy shows up: A crow. He’s hanging around, but he’s way too big to eat from the feeder directly.

this morning we saw the return of the rose-breasted grosbeak and, first time at the feeder, a huge bluejay

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:16:14am

re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth

this morning we saw the return of the rose-breasted grosbeak and, first time at the feeder, a huge bluejay

I’m waiting for the hawk or an eagle to come by and try to make a snack of one of the small guys that are roaming around the front yard.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:16:54am

re: #160 Dopamine Fish

We finally bought our “Bat box” to go with the hummingbird feeders. It’s fun to provide for the critters we ant, especially since they help keep the fly and mosquito population down.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:17:26am
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Targetpractice  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:18:23am

re: #131 Dopamine Fish

No, actually, let’s do it. Let’s go into great detail. Let’s show you how the majority of studies that show masks were ineffective were propaganda stories written by your cronies with fudged data. Let’s show you how the REAL science was very clear on how effective paper masks, cloth masks, N95’s, etc., were at preventing the spread of the disease - WHEN EVERYONE WEARS THEM. And finally, let’s review that it was YOUR policies that reduced the effectiveness of masks by allowing maskholes to go around without masks, increasing the risk for EVERYBODY, masked or unmasked.

Nah, what he’ll pull up are studies that say that wearing masks doesn’t protect 100% against getting sick. And yeah, they don’t, but the purpose of wearing masks isn’t about protection, it’s about retarding the spread of a virus in coordination with social distancing. If a person wears a mask and maintains a 6ft distance, then the odds of others around them being exposed to the virus are greatly reduced.

But that’s not the narrative they want to sell, the narrative they want is that wearing a mask doesn’t keep you from getting sick and that’s why it was “wrong” to tell people to wear them.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:19:19am

re: #165 Targetpractice

Shhh. Let me dream of a world in which I can tell these fucktards to get bent and they actually listen.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:22:01am

re: #162 Dopamine Fish

I’m waiting for the hawk or an eagle to come by and try to make a snack of one of the small guys that are roaming around the front yard.

oh, and we have a chipmunk doing cleanup under the feeders

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:22:24am

re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, and we have a chipmunk doing cleanup under the feeders

Our grounds crew is a particularly chunky squirrel.

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garzooma  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:24:47am

re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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Now that mask wearing on planes is voluntary and virtually everyone has voted not to wear masks, we need to review dispassionately the literature that overwhelmingly shows masks to be ineffective for aerosolized viral disease.

Here’s a video I just saw. It explains that since Covid-19 isn’t a purely aerosolized viral disease, it’s a good idea to wear a mask. Moron, indeed.

YouTube

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:24:49am
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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:25:05am

I have a new phrase: “Weapons-grade transcendental dipshits.” Courtesy of @questauthority during his Twitch review of Mike Lindell’s latest insanity, affectionately titled in re: Skynet, last night.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:27:14am

thread

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:36:37am

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

That was about 35 shots fired in total, and it sounded like it was from two different firearms, like a gunfight or something.

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:38:56am

re: #165 Targetpractice

Nah, what he’ll pull up are studies that say that wearing masks doesn’t protect 100% against getting sick. And yeah, they don’t, but the purpose of wearing masks isn’t about protection, it’s about retarding the spread of a virus in coordination with social distancing. If a person wears a mask and maintains a 6ft distance, then the odds of others around them being exposed to the virus are greatly reduced.

But that’s not the narrative they want to sell, the narrative they want is that wearing a mask doesn’t keep you from getting sick and that’s why it was “wrong” to tell people to wear them.

they also dont get that the idea of sweeping public policy isnt to achieve 100% effectiveness at anything.

of course everyone wont wear a mask or vaccinate.
of course everyone wearing masks wont do it right all the time.

it’s reduction as compared to no policy at all.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:41:20am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:53:34am

re: #174 Dangerman

it’s reduction as compared to no policy at all.

It’s about Freedom, which, when compromised is no freedom at all

/

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:53:54am

I replaced my $100 with airtime Tracfone with a $150 with no airtime Tracfone.
What a difference. Other than the speaker, it’s as nice as my old expensive S8 was, and I have no need to use that speaker to play music. The camera is entirely acceptable, so I don’t have to use my S6 with no service as a camera anymore.

I’m not a fan of the hole in the screen for the front-facing camera, but I can live with it.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 26, 2022 • 6:58:33am

re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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So his next surgery I guess the OR staff can forget about having to wear a mask.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:00:14am

re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:06:59am
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dharmamark  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:11:05am

YouTube

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:13:52am

re: #75 Targetpractice

All we’ve ever had is a market in the lobby area, which has a lot to do hotel companies wanting to suck every dollar out of guest wallets as they can. Vendors don’t offer more than a partial cut of their profits to the company for the privilege of having their machines on-property, compared to being able to sell things at a considerable mark-up directly to guests. When the last property I worked for did their renovations to become a franchise for Starwood, as soon as the market was finished and stocked, the vending machines disappeared from the property. Which confused and disappointed the tourists because vending machines tend to be “cheap” compared to hotel markets.

Vending machines are also available 24x7, without requiring any interaction with staff. Much faster and more convenient.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:15:19am

re: #182 Hecuba’s daughter

Vending machines are also available 24x7, without requiring any interaction with staff. Much faster and more convenient.

and you can have them key-operated so it gets charged right to the room.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:18:17am

When you say the quiet part out loud, but in front of “those people”.

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:19:15am

re: #177 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Nice…phone technology has improved to the point where it makes zero sense paying 900 dollars for the “latest” models. You get all the features and none of the garbage carrier apps to have to deal with. Going to re-think replacing my Pixel-4 with something fancier when the time comes…may do the off the shelf route like you did…as long as it supports my arsenal of charging cords.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:23:17am

re: #180 HRH Stanley Sea

you simply cannot match the energy of the day trump got covid and we all thought he might die

The thing that still scares me is that if hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin or Drano enemas had turned out to be the least bit clinically effective against Covid, TFG would have been hailed as a sage, a visionary and Savior of the World and he would still be President.

And the US would be supplying Russia with weapons and intel on how to wipe out the last pockets of Fascist resistance in Ukraine.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:24:23am

re: #184 Dopamine Fish

When you say the quiet part out loud, but in front of “those people”.

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Next was someone from Peoria, Il on the Rep line. It probably didn’t get much better.

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:24:29am

The scamster Shaun King is back at it - and some good advice from Imani Gandy:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:25:49am

re: #184 Dopamine Fish

When you say the quiet part out loud, but in front of “those people”.

Fox would show this as an example of “Cancel Culture”. Why did those intolerant liberals censor this caller?

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:27:03am

re: #187 Barefoot Grin

Next was someone from Peoria, Il on the Rep line. It probably didn’t get much better.

It just astonishes me how quickly I feel we’ve gone from, “Republicans are good Americans who just have different ideas how to spend government money,” to, “Republicans are evil people who want to re-enslave Black people, drive women out of everywhere except the kitchen and the bedroom, put gays and other non-cis-hetero sexualities in the closet (or in the ground), and secure for themselves the right to rule America forever by ending democracy as we know it.” How the fuck did we get here?

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:30:42am

re: #190 Dopamine Fish

It just astonishes me how quickly I feel we’ve gone from, “Republicans are good Americans who just have different ideas how to spend government money,” to, “Republicans are evil people who want to re-enslave Black people, drive women out of everywhere except the kitchen and the bedroom, put gays and other non-cis-hetero sexualities in the closet (or in the ground), and secure for themselves the right to rule America forever by ending democracy as we know it.” How the fuck did we get here?

More people stopped pretending that Republicans are good Americans. They’ve been the party of short-sighted greed and bigotry since Nixon at the latest, but Democrats tend to be nice, and would assume the best of people who did not deserve that.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:32:51am

re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

as I understand, cryptos originated because people no longer trust national governments to manage a currency.

So they would rather put their faith and their financial fortunes in a shadowy group of people they have never seen and cannot even physically locate

At least gold bugs have a real product that has been used for millennia as a medium of exchange. Not one that is stable in value or practical in modern society — but it is real.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:32:54am

re: #190 Dopamine Fish

It just astonishes me how quickly I feel we’ve gone from, “Republicans are good Americans who just have different ideas how to spend government money,” to, “Republicans are evil people who want to re-enslave Black people, drive women out of everywhere except the kitchen and the bedroom, put gays and other non-cis-hetero sexualities in the closet (or in the ground), and secure for themselves the right to rule America forever by ending democracy as we know it.” How the fuck did we get here?

There was always that undercurrent in the party. It got a big bump from the Tea Party organizers. Nobody dared call out people for making rude, unfounded, utterly racist remarks, nor did party leaders even try to distance themselves or the GOP from them for fear of losing their support.

And then the fact that they had no other viable candidates to put forward in 2016, it all agglomerated around TFG and the GOP became his party.

The party where anything goes, as long as it owns the liberals or triggers the snowflakes.

The party that makes up its own alternate facts as it goes along.

The party that has no bottom when it comes to tasteless affrontery.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:34:57am
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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:36:14am

re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

Obviously, since a judge has decided that the politics of the virus have shifted, it means that the science is all wrong and the virus isn’t going to kill or harm anyone anymore. //

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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:40:04am

This sort of shit simply underscores what I keep saying: No matter what, no matter where, no matter how, everything in this country must be necessarily treated as if Democrats are at fault, forever. They are literally the only one we are allowed to blame. Republicans are by law never expected to have responsibility or face consequences, because we as Americans are contractually obligated to lay any and all blame at the Dems’ feet. They’re the only one who we must treat with agency, because everything else just ‘happens’.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:45:53am

re: #150 JC1

Satanists don’t sacrifice goats.

The Church of Satan or The Satanic Temple?

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:46:00am

re: #190 Dopamine Fish

It just astonishes me how quickly I feel we’ve gone from, “Republicans are good Americans who just have different ideas how to spend government money,” to, “Republicans are evil people who want to re-enslave Black people, drive women out of everywhere except the kitchen and the bedroom, put gays and other non-cis-hetero sexualities in the closet (or in the ground), and secure for themselves the right to rule America forever by ending democracy as we know it.” How the fuck did we get here?

Easy. We were fooling ourselves about them then, and we’re overstating the depth of their wretchedness now.

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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:46:57am

re: #190 Dopamine Fish

It just astonishes me how quickly I feel we’ve gone from, “Republicans are good Americans who just have different ideas how to spend government money,” to, “Republicans are evil people who want to re-enslave Black people, drive women out of everywhere except the kitchen and the bedroom, put gays and other non-cis-hetero sexualities in the closet (or in the ground), and secure for themselves the right to rule America forever by ending democracy as we know it.” How the fuck did we get here?

Obama started them down the line of tearing off the mask they felt they had to wear, to even pretend to care about basic civics and decorum, while Trump showed them they could do so and not only not suffer consequences but rewarded outrageously for embracing their evil openly. Because the press sees them going even more scorched earth and simply doubles down on normalizing them because they’re beholden to the idea that only Republicans can properly represent America. If a Republican says it, it must be true and right and what Real Americans believe!!

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:47:29am

re: #198 Decatur Deb

Easy. We were fooling ourselves about them then, and we’re overstating the depth of their wretchedness now.

Are we, though?

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:48:32am

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:50:41am

re: #200 Dopamine Fish

Are we, though?

Yes. There is no monolithic “them” and there is no solid “us”. Millions of people, thousands of motivations. Basically, the RW sucks, and has since long before we were born.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:52:36am

re: #202 Decatur Deb

Yes. There is no monolithic “them” and there is no solid “us”. Millions of people, thousands of motivations. Basically, the RW sucks, and has since long before we were born.

Ugh, why do you have to be technically correct? It’s the best kind of correct, true, but I want to make sweeping generalizations and de-humanize our political opponents so that I can feel better about disliking them.

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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:53:02am

re: #202 Decatur Deb

Yes. There is no monolithic “them” and there is no solid “us”. Millions of people, thousands of motivations. Basically, the RW sucks, and has since long before we were born.

I feel like it’s getting harder to claim we’re overstating it when a shockingly large majority of Republican voters are on the record supporting the Jan. 6th attempted coup, overturning the 2020 elections wholesale, and basically chucking democracy wholesale long as they can get one over on Dems and the Libs.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:55:09am

re: #204 Citizen K

I feel like it’s getting harder to claim we’re overstating it when a shockingly large majority of Republican voters are on the record supporting the Jan. 6th attempted coup, overturning the 2020 elections wholesale, and basically chucking democracy wholesale long as they can get one over on Dems and the Libs.

They compare well to, say, the average Roman legionnaire or Aztec priest.

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Ming5000  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:58:38am

Russia is getting more internal impact to their war.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:59:12am

The GOP has long insisted that we did not need government programs or public aid or Affirmative Action, anyone who just worked hard enough and applied themselves could make it to the very top.

And when a young black fellow made it to the Highest Office in the Land, they all fucking lost it and insisted that he was nothing but an AA poster child, a Manchurian Candidate and/or a Kenyan Muslim Usurper. Nobody was about to even begrudgingly acknowledge his accomplishments.

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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2022 • 7:59:42am

I regret to inform you that Nate Silver is on his shit again:

Once again, we have our great and gracious arbiters of the narrative deciding what gets to be passed along as the narrative while claiming to simply be beholden to reporting and passing along what that narrative is.

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:00:37am

re: #208 Citizen K

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:00:50am

An interesting development:

(via machine translation)

Germany is now prepared for a halt to Russian oil supplies, according to Robert Habeck. “Today I can say that an embargo has become manageable for Germany,” the German Economics Minister said after a meeting with his Polish colleague Anna Moskwa in Warsaw.

The share of Russian oil is now only around twelve percent. And this share is accounted for solely by deliveries for the PCK refinery in Schwedt an der Oder. Here, he said, one is looking for an alternative. “This alternative is the task of the next few days,” said the Green politician. He assumes that it is indeed only a matter of days.

Ahead of the meeting in Warsaw, it was said that the Polish port of Gdansk could play an important role in ensuring supplies to Schwedt by ship. Schwedt is connected to a pipeline from Russia, and the PCK refinery is controlled by the Russian state-owned Rosneft.

Source, in German: zeit.de

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:01:16am

re: #208 Citizen K

I regret to inform you that Nate Silver is on his shit again:

Once again, we have our great and gracious arbiters of the narrative deciding what gets to be passed along as the narrative while claiming to simply be beholden to reporting and passing along what that narrative is.

Nate Silver got too big for his britches after 2016, and has summarily fallen victim to Dunning-Kruger. Nate, my brother in Christ, stick to what you actually know - statistics.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:01:29am

re: #204 Citizen K

I feel like it’s getting harder to claim we’re overstating it when a shockingly large majority of Republican voters are on the record supporting the Jan. 6th attempted coup, overturning the 2020 elections wholesale, and basically chucking democracy wholesale long as they can get one over on Dems and the Libs.

If you were to add up the number of Republicans who would either tolerate illegal acts in order to ensure electoral success to the number who would actively commit illegal acts, even violent ones, in order to win, I suspect you will have a majority.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:01:46am

re: #198 Decatur Deb

Easy. We were fooling ourselves about them then, and we’re overstating the depth of their wretchedness now.

Ummmmm as a transgendered woman I’ll NEVER underestimate the depths of their wretchedness. These are the assholes who have called for my sisters and I summary execution, are actively passing laws that endanger our lives and who are using stochastic terrorism to encourage others to do their dirty wok for them. So no, again, I’ll never underestimate how low these asshole can and will go.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:02:37am

Old racist gets cut off.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:06:10am

re: #209 lawhawk

Yet another person who conflates free speech with the 1A - they are not the same.

“CONGRESS shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech…”

says nothin’ about Twitter or Facebook or any broadcast or digital network in the world.

The smarter ones in the GOP know that, but they also know that the rest of their base is unclear on that distinction.

And they have successfully positioned themselves as the party that is against “cancel culture” and PC and “woke-ism”, which they have branded as “anti-Free Speech”.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:06:13am

re: #213 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Ummmmm as a transgendered woman I’ll NEVER underestimate the depths of their wretchedness. These are the assholes who have called for my sisters and I summary execution, are actively passing laws that endanger our lives and who are using stochastic terrorism to encourage others to do their dirty wok for them. So no, again, I’ll never underestimate how low these asshole can and will go.

You are describing about 100 million people as though they share the attitudes and actions of their worst minority. It might feel justified, but it doesn’t serve politically.

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Semper Fi  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:07:01am

re: #190 Dopamine Fish

It just astonishes me how quickly I feel we’ve gone from, “Republicans are good Americans who just have different ideas how to spend government money,” to, “Republicans are evil people who want to re-enslave Black people, drive women out of everywhere except the kitchen and the bedroom, put gays and other non-cis-hetero sexualities in the closet (or in the ground), and secure for themselves the right to rule America forever by ending democracy as we know it.” How the fuck did we get here?

All this new republican reality came right out of Trump’s mouth and actions. Personally, I think the root cause is their very real problem with women and POC.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:07:41am

re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is bringing us one step closer to Don’t Look Up Is there not a socially challenged social media mogul/spaceman billionaire behind plans to save Earth?

No, it will be more like the “cockroach” crawling out of the ruins before the movie ends.

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John Hughes  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:07:46am

re: #211 Dopamine Fish

Nate Silver got too big for his britches after 2016, and has summarily fallen victim to Dunning-Kruger. Nate, my brother in Christ, stick to what you actually know - statistics.

But, given his past forays into supporting climate change deniers, is there any evidence he has any good knowledge of statistics, outside of maybe baseball?

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:07:51am

re: #216 Decatur Deb

You are describing about 100 million people as though they share the attitudes and actions of their worst minority. It might feel justified, but it doesn’t serve politically.

If they’re sitting with Nazis, they’re Nazis.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:10:07am

re: #220 Punish Domestic Terrorists

If they’re sitting with Nazis, they’re Nazis.

Too easy. And I’ve got to meet a lady who wants to buy my cameras. We’ll return to this, I don’t doubt.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:10:56am

re: #219 John Hughes

But, given his past forays into supporting climate change deniers, is there any evidence he has any good knowledge of statistics, outside of maybe baseball?

His election stuff has, for the most part, been decently accurate - more so than some others, which is how he really became well known. His sports stuff, as you say, is very good. I think his climate change stuff is where he started to veer outside his realm of expertise and go into the, “I have Opinions and I’m going to figure out how to make statistics work with those opinions.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:11:02am

re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There was always that undercurrent in the party. It got a big bump from the Tea Party organizers. Nobody dared call out people for making rude, unfounded, utterly racist remarks, nor did party leaders even try to distance themselves or the GOP from them for fear of losing their support.

And then the fact that they had no other viable candidates to put forward in 2016, it all agglomerated around TFG and the GOP became his party.

…..
The party that has no bottom when it comes to tasteless affrontery.

Besides Trump, the GOP had 16 real candidates competing, people with credentials as senators and governors, or fame in private industry. The problem was too many candidates competing for air time, thereby letting the most flamboyant personality dominate, especially when the base is interested not in real policies to help the nation, but in who can be most effective at stoking their racism and hatred of the other.

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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:13:30am

re: #216 Decatur Deb

You are describing about 100 million people as though they share the attitudes and actions of their worst minority. It might feel justified, but it doesn’t serve politically.

re: #220 Punish Domestic Terrorists

If they’re sitting with Nazis, they’re Nazis.

re: #221 Decatur Deb

Too easy. And I’ve got to meet a lady who wants to buy my cameras. We’ll return to this, I don’t doubt.

The whole point is the tacit acceptance. It’s the same deal with the party’s overt racism and bigotry in their leaders. Particular voters may not be racist themselves, but are ok enough with it to overlook it, not see it as a necessary factor to concern themselves with, or simply see it as an acceptable trade off for getting their way. And it’s not as if there’s a good excuse that they never saw these things when the leadership is blaring them out like foghorns constantly. They’re either useful idiots or tacit collaborators.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:14:19am

re: #223 Hecuba’s daughter

Besides Trump, the GOP had 16 real candidates competing, people with credentials as senators and governors, or fame in private industry. The problem was too many candidates competing for air time, thereby letting the most flamboyant personality dominate, especially when the base is interested not in real policies to help the nation, but in who can be most effective at stoking their racism and hatred of the other.

They all held back, assuming (as most of us did) that TFG would flame out, and refrained from attacking him in hopes of picking up his supporters when he dropped out…and one morning they woke up to find him with an unbeatable lead and that he was totally immune from gaffes and revelations that would have ruined the campaign or even the career of professional politician.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:18:23am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:19:39am

re: #216 Decatur Deb

You are describing about 100 million people as though they share the attitudes and actions of their worst minority. It might feel justified, but it doesn’t serve politically.

Maybe it doesn’t “serve politically” but I consider anybody with an (R) after their name to be a threat to me and my community. Many of those 100 million people are just fine turning a blind eye to the actions of their “worst minority”. If they didn’t approve of those attitudes, Desantis’s and Abbott’s (and other States) B.S. laws targeting the Trans Community would have never gotten signed into law.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:20:32am
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Florida Panhandler  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:21:18am

re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“CONGRESS shall make no law…restricting freedom of speech…”

says nothin’ about Twitter or Facebook or any broadcast or digital network in the world.

The smarter ones in the GOP know that, but they also know that the rest of their base is unclear on that distinction.

And they have successfully positioned themselves as the party that is against “cancel culture” and PC and “woke-ism”, which they have branded as “anti-Free Speech”.

You never see liberals crying, begging to be allowed on Fox News. You never see liberal politicians getting their panties in a wad over not being invited on any of the scummy scammy right wing Fox wanna-bees. There is a reason for that. The right wing mindset is based largely on inflicting cruelty towards other people and to have the constant need for a scapegoat. They typically beg for liberals to join in order to set up punching bags where sheer mindless rage volume drowns out any and all reason.

Liberal outlets typically are created to spread actual real life verifiable information and to specifically to lock out those trolls, miscreants and those who exist purely to spread as much hate and chaos as possible. Should the right wing gain control they will enact laws and judicial edicts that require unlimited access for “Conservative voices” to spread their bile and cruelty.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:22:16am

re: #227 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Maybe it doesn’t “serve politically” but I consider anybody with an (R) after their name to be a threat to me and my community. Many of those 100 million people are just fine turning a blind eye to the actions of their “worst minority”. If they didn’t approve of those attitudes, Desantis’s and Abbott’s (and other States) B.S. laws targeting the Trans Community would have never gotten signed into law.

Actually, I’m going to argue that point. The GOP is getting to the point where they don’t actually give a fuck what the majority of their voters want. They are literally ruling by fiat, basically telling their voters to go pound sand because the most vocal minority in their base is saying they want this. Remember, multiple polls show that the majority OF REPUBLICANS - not just voters, but specifically the people we’re tarring with a broad brush here - do not support most of these policies, but they’re getting enacted anyway, purely because they have the power and the opportunity to win the culture war NOW, and then gerrymander and/or vote-suppress their way into not facing consequences for it from their angry voter base.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:22:49am

re: #220 Punish Domestic Terrorists

If they’re sitting with Nazis, they’re Nazis.

THIS!!!!!!

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:22:55am

In other news, the squirrel has gone from ground crew to a direct participant, having figured out how to hang upside down by its back paws from the tree branch to reach the feeder with its front paws.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:23:44am
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BeachDem  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:25:30am

re: #196 Citizen K

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This sort of shit simply underscores what I keep saying: No matter what, no matter where, no matter how, everything in this country must be necessarily treated as if Democrats are at fault, forever. They are literally the only one we are allowed to blame. Republicans are by law never expected to have responsibility or face consequences, because we as Americans are contractually obligated to lay any and all blame at the Dems’ feet. They’re the only one who we must treat with agency, because everything else just ‘happens’.

Speaking of Issac Bailey, his latest about South Carolina’s death penalty stuff is strong.

charlotteobserver.com

Issac is a really interesting guy with a fascinating story (brother was a convicted murderer; his wife, Tracy Bailey is no slouch either.)

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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:26:50am

re: #230 Dopamine Fish

Actually, I’m going to argue that point. The GOP is getting to the point where they don’t actually give a fuck what the majority of their voters want. They are literally ruling by fiat, basically telling their voters to go pound sand because the most vocal minority in their base is saying they want this. Remember, multiple polls show that the majority OF REPUBLICANS - not just voters, but specifically the people we’re tarring with a broad brush here - do not support most of these policies, but they’re getting enacted anyway, purely because they have the power and the opportunity to win the culture war NOW, and then gerrymander and/or vote-suppress their way into not facing consequences for it from their angry voter base.

As I pointed out above though: they still keep voting Republican. Even if they said they disapproved of these policies, many of them go right on voting for Republican still because they’re either willing to accept these things as a tradeoff for getting what they really want, or they care enough in their opposition to let it influence their vote. They may be voting to enact these things now, but it’s not as if most of these issues flew in out from the ether. They’ve been long GOP hobby horses that they just happen to have the power to enact now…precisely because people willing to accept heinous actions as a trade off keep voting them in.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:27:05am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:29:03am

re: #235 Citizen K

As I pointed out above though: they still keep voting Republican. Even if they said they disapproved of these policies, many of them go right on voting for Republican still because they’re either willing to accept these things as a tradeoff for getting what they really want, or they care enough in their opposition to let it influence their vote.

I remember Dark Falcon wiggling and squirming to say that he did not like Trump or his policies but was still not going to vote against him…until he gave up and left.

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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:30:48am
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:32:11am

re: #216 Decatur Deb

You are describing about 100 million people as though they share the attitudes and actions of their worst minority. It might feel justified, but it doesn’t serve politically.

If you don’t discuss politics with them or you limit yourself to the few areas of agreement (Ukraine good, Putin bad) with them, the conversation is fine. But anything else, and the racism and book banning and Trump worship comes crawling out. It may be possible, if you have a team of deprogrammers at your call, to change their mind. It’s not a minority of the party — it’s a majority of the party who believe that the election was “stolen” and who are in favor of voting restrictions that would limit the ability of minorities and the poor to vote and who fulminate against immigrants of color and who are racist to the core.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:32:21am

re: #235 Citizen K

As I pointed out above though: they still keep voting Republican. Even if they said they disapproved of these policies, many of them go right on voting for Republican still because they’re either willing to accept these things as a tradeoff for getting what they really want, or they care enough in their opposition to let it influence their vote. They may be voting to enact these things now, but it’s not as if most of these issues flew in out from the ether. They’ve been long GOP hobby horses that they just happen to have the power to enact now…precisely because people willing to accept heinous actions as a trade off keep voting them in.

For those of us who have no choice but to interact with Republicans, it will give us something to argue about. Most of the voting on this stuff has occurred since the last election. During this season we’ll have to push them on why they continue to support candidates whose policies they oppose.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:33:35am

re: #238 retired cynic

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CBS did a story about him, and his last name is actually Rainbow. It’s not a stage name.

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:34:05am

re: #238 retired cynic

SEDITION! - A Randy Rainbow Parody

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:36:23am

re: #243 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Tucker Carlson Pretends Elon Musk Restored His Account (When He Really Just Deleted the Tweet That Got Him Suspended) (Mediaite)

Musk isn’t even in charge of anything yet. There’s still a lot to go through to get it to that point, as I understand it.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:37:54am

re: #244 Dopamine Fish

Musk isn’t even in charge of anything yet. There’s still a lot to go through to get it to that point, as I understand it.

Of course, but Tucker knows that his audience are all either morons, or are making fun of him as they watch.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:39:34am

re: #230 Dopamine Fish

Actually, I’m going to argue that point. The GOP is getting to the point where they don’t actually give a fuck what the majority of their voters want. They are literally ruling by fiat, basically telling their voters to go pound sand because the most vocal minority in their base is saying they want this. Remember, multiple polls show that the majority OF REPUBLICANS - not just voters, but specifically the people we’re tarring with a broad brush here - do not support most of these policies, but they’re getting enacted anyway, purely because they have the power and the opportunity to win the culture war NOW, and then gerrymander and/or vote-suppress their way into not facing consequences for it from their angry voter base.

If that is the case, why do these people keep getting elected/reelected? Sure you can ask a bunch of people if they support XXX law or person and get some number either in support of or against said law/person. Those numbers MAY even actually reflect what they feel/want, but the only numbers that actually matter in the end is the final vote tally and they seem to be able to get those votes just fine.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:39:41am

re: #244 Dopamine Fish

Musk isn’t even in charge of anything yet. There’s still a lot to go through to get it to that point, as I understand it.

Most of these kinds of things take about six months, and that’s assuming that Twitter shareholders actually accept the deal.

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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:40:11am

re: #244 Dopamine Fish

Musk isn’t even in charge of anything yet. There’s still a lot to go through to get it to that point, as I understand it.

re: #245 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Of course, but Tucker knows that his audience are all either morons, or are making fun of him as they watch.

Not helped by ‘real’ news reporting on it like the company has already fully changed hands and Musk is already making changes.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:41:59am

re: #246 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

If that is the case, why do these people keep getting elected/reelected? Sure you can ask a bunch of people if they support XXX law or person and get some number either in support of or against said law/person. Those numbers MAY even actually reflect what they feel/want, but the only numbers that actually matter in the end is the final vote tally and they seem to be able to get those votes just fine.

By the way, this is why I usually upding both sides of a disagreement, unless it’s getting personal or someone is trolling. There’s a lot of genuine back and forth in here, and good points being made on both sides. It’s not that I necessarily agree with both sides, or even one side specifically, but as long as we’re making good points and talking in a healthy manner, I’m here for it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:42:08am

re: #246 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

If that is the case, why do these people keep getting elected/reelected? Sure you can ask a bunch of people if they support XXX law or person and get some number either in support of or against said law/person. Those numbers MAY even actually reflect what they feel/want, but the only numbers that actually matter in the end is the final vote tally and they seem to be able to get those votes just fine.

The GOP leadership knows what gets their base riled up, we have seen their constituency time and time again oppose bills that would ultimately help them (ACA, Build Back Better), or conversely support bills that will raise their taxes (defrocking Disney) or cut their benefits - in order to own the liberals.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:44:48am

re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The GOP leadership knows what gets them riled up, we have seen their constituency time and time again oppose bills that would ultimately help them (ACA, Build Back Better), or conversely support bills that will raise their taxes (defrocking Disney) or cut their benefits - in order to own the liberals.

Yeah, I feel like a lot of the time, what’s been going on is that the GOP voters focus on their one chosen cause and vote for that to the exclusion of everything else, whereas Democratic voters tend to take an “all or nothing” approach: “This candidate doesn’t support this one out of my 15 pet causes, so I’m voting for Bernie.” The GOP is extremely good at minimizing their controversial or outrageous voting record in order to hit the highlights that they know will draw in the majority of their base come November.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:45:15am
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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:46:45am

re: #249 Dopamine Fish

By the way, this is why I usually upding both sides of a disagreement, unless it’s getting personal or someone is trolling. There’s a lot of genuine back and forth in here, and good points being made on both sides. It’s not that I necessarily agree with both sides, or even one side specifically, but as long as we’re making good points and talking in a healthy manner, I’m here for it.

I do want to point out that a lot of this discussion is being focused on ‘Republican voters’. Not ‘people who voted for Republicans’, but self-identified Republicans. This is why I and others are pointing out their willingness to chuck civility to the win and accept bad shit, because they’re the ones who are willing to overtly identify and count themselves amongst the party, rather than folks who might have gotten duped by the BS for a particular election and genuinely regretted it (though it’s always worth seeing how much of that holds up with previous voting patterns).

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:50:19am

re: #190 Dopamine Fish

It just astonishes me how quickly I feel we’ve gone from, “Republicans are good Americans who just have different ideas how to spend government money,” to, “Republicans are evil people who want to re-enslave Black people, drive women out of everywhere except the kitchen and the bedroom, put gays and other non-cis-hetero sexualities in the closet (or in the ground), and secure for themselves the right to rule America forever by ending democracy as we know it.” How the fuck did we get here?

i pull this quote out periodically
it’s david brooks, yes that david brooks

my point is he made this observation in 2003.

as to the the obvious and idiotic both-siderism of it all, when i usually deploy it i adapt it to “one side, with righteous indignation…”

of course he answers his own question - it’s all because of the republican’s brutal struggle to take, hold and retain office (power)

Why is politics no longer a clash of value systems, each of which is in some way valid; a competition between basically well-intentioned people who see the world differently?

Why has it become, not even a conflict of interests, but instead a degenerative, brutal struggle for office in which each side with righteous indignation believes only the other is and only can be capable of behaving despicably?

and p.s. -
regardless of all the obits, orrin hatch was not one of those referred to in the first paragraph.

yes he did some ‘good’ work and collaborated some of the time.
but the evil he did was evil enough.
he managed to wrap himself in a facade of false amiability and project it successfully.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:52:34am

re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As long as people use social media as a source of information on important matters of politics, world events, science, health and safety, our world is in a downward spiral…

Except for the number of today’s users with access, I don’t consider today’s social media to be much different than the internet in the 1990’s, e.g. Netcom newsgroups’ vitriolic flame wars.

Everything, including accusations of sexual abuse, was tolerated except for the ability to cancel someone else’s newsgroup post - which occurred from time to time - until Netcom put a stop to that.

The flame wars went on.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:54:48am

oh

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JC1  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:55:50am

Twitter is trading down today; now around 8% below Musk’s offer. Seems like a lot of people are thinking that the deal will fall apart, otherwise it’s an easy 8% gain.

Additionally, TWTR reports earnings this week. If they miss horribly, it wouldn’t surprise me if Musk lowers his offer, lol.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:56:29am

re: #240 Belafon

For those of us who have no choice but to interact with Republicans, it will give us something to argue about. Most of the voting on this stuff has occurred since the last election. During this season we’ll have to push them on why they continue to support candidates whose policies they oppose.

Of the two Republicans I consistently interact with one has pretty much written the party off since 2016 (even a bit before) as going batshit then and gotten worse since then. And he is not a “lockstep” voter; e.g. he will and has voted for Democrats, including Clinton and Biden. He self describes as a “fiscal conservative, social liberal” and essentially has a lot of views similar to mine. To a degree he is only a Republican due to having not bothered enough to change his registration to something else.

The other. Well, there is a lot of racist underpinnings coming out in the wash when he gets talking. BLM is used as a standard bogeyman.* Cannot attest to the source of it, but I expect he stays submerged in areas that support his viewpoint of the world.

* - A anti-BLM outburst on Facebook got him blasted heavily by a number of people I know. One reason I think he posts a lot less there.

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:56:49am
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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:57:32am

re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

as I understand, cryptos originated because people no longer trust national governments to manage a currency.

So they would rather put their faith and their financial fortunes in a shadowy group of people they have never seen and cannot even physically locate

“You can’t cheat an honest man.

Never smarten up a chump.

Never give a sucker an even break.”
-W.C Fields

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 8:59:41am

re: #259 lawhawk

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:00:16am

re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:00:31am

re: #259 lawhawk

When Mexico tries to retake Texas, I will finally be forced to talk to other people in Spanish.

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John Hughes  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:02:40am

re: #234 BeachDem

Speaking of Issac Bailey, his latest about South Carolina’s death penalty stuff is strong.

charlotteobserver.com

Issac is a really interesting guy with a fascinating story (brother was a convicted murderer; his wife, Tracy Bailey is no slouch either.)

Apparently people in the Ivory Coast aren’t allowed to read the Charlotte Observer.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:02:46am

Rand Paul is not that fucking stupid, he just knows his way around the pro-Putin talking points.

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:02:49am

the differences between the parties is obvious

dems are inclusive
yeah they want some of your taxes - not a lot for most people.
because we assume social security etc do exist and must be funded to pay for you yourself later.
and that there are social goods everyone should participate in and may need, and so should contribute to, if and as they can.

R’s are exclusive - they want to kick people off of things make them not anyone else’s problem - i have, and if you don’t, that’s tough. We’re not gonna help.

Dem’s idea of government is a sort of compassion, not hatred. Government by empathy, not by fear.

R’s America is unjust, unequal, unforgiving (compassionless) (liberty and justice for some (i.e. us)).

In D’s America: liberty and justice *for all*. A better life for everyone. (see right out of the pledge.)

Another difference is, in general, Republicans want to lobby for court sanctioned “freedom to…”. Dems tend to want constitutional “freedom from…”

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Citizen K  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:04:05am

re: #263 Belafon

When Mexico tries to retake Texas, I will finally be forced to talk to other people in Spanish.

I personally look forward to the Netherlands finally reclaiming New Amsterdam and correcting all of our locations back into proper Dutch. Just in time to correct all those Breukelen Nets unis in the offseason.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:04:46am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:07:41am

I am conservative by nature, I like the notion of individual initiative and personal responsibility. I think the Free Market can be a useful mechanism for balancing supply and demand and directing flows of capital to where they do the most benefit.

I don’t think that asking individuals and families with limited incomes and resources to negotiate one-on-one with multi-billion-dollar international corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services constitutes a “level playing field”.

And I believe that markets are not some divine state of grace that we seek to achieve, but a human construct, a form of infrastructure, both physical and legislative/regulatory that needs to be maintained by persons acting outside the market to ensure that it benefits everyone: employers as well as employees, producers as well as consumers, lenders as well as borrowers.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:07:59am

re: #155 lawhawk

Yeah, they all know that they’re going to shred the church/state 1A barrier and don’t care.

They’ll carve out an exception if a Satanist or Cthulhu believer wants to have a prayer circle, because it’ll protect the kids from unwarranted exposure to “bad things” when there’s a reason the Founders created the 1A freedom of religion - we don’t permit a state sponsored religion.

The GOP are theofascists/white nationalists, and have packed the courts with those who will further that goal for decades to come.

The Johnson Amendment is in play, which if overturned will result in unintended consequences.

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darthstar  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:08:04am

re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth

So Rand Paul doesn’t believe in Ukraine’s sovereignty.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:08:26am
BOSTON (AP) — For years, Vincent Gillespie waged a legal battle to try to gain control of hundreds of paintings by his father — renowned postwar American artist Gregory Gillespie.

On Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors say, Gillespie engaged in a very different kind of battle, joining rioters as they tried to wrest control of the U.S. Capitol from the federal government in one of the most violent confrontations of the riot.

Gillespie, who investigators say was identified by half a dozen sources from images taken that day, was among a mob trying to force its way through a tunnel at the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol — an assault that almost succeeded by his own description.

“We were almost overpowering them,” Gillespie, blood visible on his scalp from the clash, told an Associated Press journalist at the scene that day. “If you had like another 15, 20 guys behind us pushing I think we could have won it.”

Son of famed American artist charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot (AP via MSN)

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:13:46am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:14:46am

It was billed as an unmissable clash of narcissistic egomaniacs. In the end, it was an all-too predictable slice of reality TV-style entertainment designed to propel two desperate provocateurs back into the headlines.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:15:45am

re: #180 HRH Stanley Sea

brown
@arb
you simply cannot match the energy of the day trump got covid and we all thought he might die

My fear was he might die and be replaced by someone more competent.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:16:04am

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

It was billed as an unmissable clash of narcissistic egomaniacs. In the end, it was an all-too predictable slice of reality TV-style entertainment designed to propel two desperate provocateurs back into the headlines.

Giving viewers what they have been missing since January 20, 2021…

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:16:27am

re: #271 darthstar

So Rand Paul doesn’t believe in Ukraine’s sovereignty.

How many Republicans do? They backed down when slapped down for making excuses for Russia, but that is not the same as not supporting Russia over Ukraine, or even America, because they’ve been taught to hate our liberal democracy and secular society, and to envy autocracies.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:16:31am

re: #275 BeenHereAwhile

My fear was he might die and be replaced by someone more competent.

It would’ve been Mike Pence, which, I don’t know if you can really call that “competent”. His “competence” was about to see his ass thrown out into the streets of Indianapolis before Trump rescued him.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:17:13am

re: #275 BeenHereAwhile

My fear was he might die and be replaced by someone more competent.

Marginally more competent. Mike Pence.

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jaunte  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:17:30am

re: #263 Belafon

When Mexico tries to retake Texas, I will finally be forced to talk to other people in Spanish.

“Camiones de tacos en cada esquina”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:18:32am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:20:09am

re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth

A Florida activist is asking state school districts to ban the Bible — saying it’s not an age-appropriate book for kids and contains references to rape, bestiality and infanticide.

And this is why we have separation of Church and State in America.

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BeachDem  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:20:17am

re: #264 John Hughes

Apparently people in the Ivory Coast aren’t allowed to read the Charlotte Observer.

Try an incognito window.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:20:19am

re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And this is why we have separation of Church and State in America.

For now.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:20:26am

re: #238 retired cynic

SEDITION! - A Randy Rainbow Parody

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:25:36am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:25:49am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:26:39am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:28:07am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:29:23am

re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:31:31am

re: #280 jaunte

“Camiones de tacos en cada esquina”

Finalmente!

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:33:03am

re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth

“We see no reason to ban the Bible since no one is supposed to actually read it anyway.”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:34:21am
WARSAW, April 26 (Reuters) - Russian gas supplies under the Yamal contract to Poland have been halted, private broadcaster Polsat News and the onet.pl website reported, citing unnamed sources.

PGNiG SA, which buys gas from Gazprom under a long-term contract that expires this year, declined to comment. (Reporting by Alan Charlish and Marek Strzelecki)

reuters.com

It’s my understanding that Poland’s natural gas reserves are at about 70% full and warmer weather is on the way in the next few weeks, so that gives them some time.

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lawhawk  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:34:37am
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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:37:38am

re: #294 lawhawk

More than likely, we’re all going to catch it, especially those of us that deal with people a lot. Are you protected from the worst affects of it?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:40:06am

re: #294 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Betto also announced he tested positive as well. I thank the Goddess I don’t have to leave the house on a regular basis as it reduces my exposure to the covidiots that run rampant in this town. Even being fully vaxed/boosted and masked up I am starting to worry even more that I WILL eventually get it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:41:05am

re: #295 Belafon

More than likely, we’re all going to catch it, especially those of us that deal with people a lot. Are you protected from the worst affects of it?

I still wear a mask when I have to go shopping or on necessary errands, otherwise, I only socialize in an outdoor setting or meet with small groups of people if it is going to be indoors.

No large indoor venues for me, no airline flights and not even any public transport unless it is unavoidable.

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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:41:06am

Opinion Elon Musk’s challenges with Twitter have just begun [Jennifer Rubin]
washingtonpost.com

For those who see Musk as either the savior of social media or the devil incarnate, remember that the platform, which has an estimated 436 million users, is minuscule compared to Facebook, which counts its users in the billions (nearly 3 billion in January). Those concerned about the future of democracy and civilized society might want to keep their focus on the biggest player, which for the foreseeable future will still be Mark Zuckerberg.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:43:26am

In our modern pathetic media landscape “Trending on Twitter” counts as a news story in and of itself for most major networks/news sites.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:44:15am

Seems like the reason that gas deliveries to Poland have stopped is because the Poles (quite rightly) refuse to pay in rubles.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:46:32am

re: #294 lawhawk

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:49:17am
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retired cynic  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:50:21am

The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney’s Reedy Creek
news.bloombergtax.com

Florida simply cannot promise to prospective bondholders that it won’t interfere with Reedy Creek, and then dissolve Reedy Creek. If Reedy Creek is ever dissolved, it would be a monumental and complicated enterprise even on a years-long timeline. The district has a nine-figure annual budget for expenditures, and even ignoring its various debts, it has a plethora of other contracts that somehow would have to be assigned to and divided between Orange and Osceola counties. However, the dissolution will have to wait until all of its bonds are paid in full. By Jacob Schumer, an attorney based out of Maitland, Fla., with a practice concentrating on local government-related matters.

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Dangerman  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:52:54am

re: #303 retired cynic

The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney’s Reedy Creek
news.bloombergtax.com

it was/is never gonna happen
it’s a threat in the guise of a bill that was passed and signed

and there’s the obvious (to me) first amendment case

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:53:13am

Here we go….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:54:29am

moron

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:56:31am

re: #305 Dr Lizardo

Here we go….

Pretty soon, all Russia will be able to do is lob oil soaked blobs of melting tundra lit on fire launched from trebuchets.

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Belafon  Apr 26, 2022 • 9:58:01am

re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

You’d get better range if you left your ego at home.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 26, 2022 • 10:02:41am

re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth

Recharging the car with coal power here in WV.

Is he trying to sell EVs to wingnuts by pointing out that you can still harm the environment even if you’ve moved away from gas?

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John Hughes  Apr 26, 2022 • 10:26:50am

re: #283 BeachDem

Try an incognito window.

Nope, they’re checking the IP address.

I’m not going to use a VPN, I don’t like to go where people don’t make me welcome.

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John Hughes  Apr 26, 2022 • 10:30:52am

re: #298 retired cynic

The difference between Twitter and Facebook is that Twitter is used by journalists and Facebook has been used by génocidaires, so of course Twitter is more important.

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John Hughes  Apr 26, 2022 • 10:31:38am

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

The pandemic is over.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 26, 2022 • 11:38:27am

re: #262 Punish Domestic Terrorists

[Embedded content]

Brooks Brothers Riot gave us many of those shaping our world for the worse these days.

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cat-tikvah  Apr 26, 2022 • 4:32:25pm

re: #238 retired cynic

John Scalzi@scalzi
Spoiler: Sedition. They were doing a sedition.
7:32 PM • Apr 25, 2022

Shirley Márquez@shirleymarquez
Replying to @scalzi
I’m hearing a song in my head, Sedition, to the tune of Tradition from Fiddler on the Roof.
1:05 AM • Apr 26, 2022

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