One of the YouTube commenters for this video described it as “a band falling down the stairs,” and that is pretty apt.
MonoNeon with Ghost-Note / “Can’t Get Right” Drum Video
Robert Sput Searight - drums,
MonoNeon - bass,
Alvin Ford - drums,
Nick Werth - xylosynth,
Nate Werth - percussion,
Sylvester Onyejiaka - saxophone
Three GOP Congressmen from California who cosponsored the “Life Begins at Conception Act” which would ban all abortions nationwide are now desperately running away from the issue. If these three can be swept out of office, it would help give the Democrats a shot at holding Congress.
The doctor who diagnosed a brain-dead woman from his Senate office.
Women WILL NOT be silenced.
re: #3 TarHellion
The doctor who diagnosed a brain-dead woman from his Senate office.
He also, when he was pre-med and in med school, he couldn’t afford (or was just too cheap to want to pay) dissection animals… so he went to a bunch of different animal shelters, pretended to want to adopt kittens… then took them home and cut them up.
Texas is threatening to DEFUND hospitals that perform abortions under EMTALA laws. What does this mean ? It means that doctors do NOT have ACCESS (like me right now) to medications that prevent hemorrhage in a pregnant woman. Let. That. Sink. In. Register. Vote. #ROEVEMBER
— @pelleggi2 MD (@pelleggi2) August 29, 2022
Oh boy.
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
751 PM PDT Mon Aug 29 2022
.SYNOPSIS…29/144 PM.
High pressure will produce a prolonged warming trend with only a
minimal marine layer. By mid week very hot conditions will develop
with triple digit heat for many valley and mountain locations.
Even hotter conditions are expected over the Labor Day weekend
into early next week. This heat may be record breaking and will
produce a very high risk of heat illness.
re: #7 Rightwingconspirator
Same for the Bay Area. 107 forecast for Sunday and Monday.
Tucker can always be counted on to be more enthusiastic for Putin than even Russian TV. Aid to Ukraine has saved millions of Ukrainians from the slavery of dictatorship, thousands from torture and death. Irrelevant to this scum. https://t.co/Ewdyth0n4U
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 30, 2022
Another Ruby Throated Hummingbird.
(actually, I think it’s the same one. Hard to tell sometimes, the little bastards zip around so much)
2/- pic.twitter.com/rIVneMg0jM— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 28, 2022
re: #9 DodgerFan1988
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When Putin goes down, his accomplices go down, with Tucker at the head of the list.
Bolivian guerilla leader detained at Cancun nightclub, offers wife as hostage in his place. pic.twitter.com/0MsoNQmuEl
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) August 30, 2022
Yep, he’s back.
All you smalldick Trumpnazi imbeciles flunk the IQ test. This isn’t my living, you chancre on the USA’s scrotum. I drag fascist chucklefucks for fun. https://t.co/17qjd8tOZW
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) August 29, 2022
A reminder to Americans interested in what is happening now in Ukraine:
Kherson is the “capital” city within Kherson Oblast. The entire oblast is the size of Maryland, the city is 1/2 the size of Baltimore.
Ukraines is attacking RuF at different points across the oblast.— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) August 29, 2022
(The gun barrel has “ALAMO” painted on it)
US Army M119A3.
Judging from the first gun’s name likely from the 1st Battalion, 133rd Field Artillery Regiment out of Houston. https://t.co/PKbviuavoo— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) August 29, 2022
I…..I couldn’t stop watching.
If PRETTY WOMAN starred WILLEM DAFOE.
Jesus H. Christ.
pic.twitter.com/gl9kayyMwY— Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) August 28, 2022
Nothing to see here, folks…lots of books get a “FULL RECALL” notice the night before official release.
The publication date of my book “2000 Mules” has been pushed back a few weeks and early print copies recalled. From @Regnery: “Due to a publishing error, the publication date of 2000 Mules has been postponed to October 25, 2022. We look forward to publishing 2000 Mules this Fall”
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 30, 2022
re: #81 Captain Ron
Exactly. Mountain lions are famous for being camouflaged to the point of invisibility unless and until they want to show themselves.
Here’s the full picture to show where the cat is:
— AstroSquatch (@AstroSquatch) August 26, 2022
I have heard some game wardens claim that there are mountain lions in the Appalachians. But that admitting it would require state authorities to actually do something. And there isn’t much they can really do.
Also, there have been cougar sightings even in the DC area. This series, from about 25 years ago, was one of the more likely actual cases:
re: #18 bratwurst
Nothing to see here, folks…lots of books get a “FULL RECALL” notice the night before official release.
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So, it’s off to the glue factory for “2000 Mules”.
Meanwhile there is fighting in Baghdad. Some of it is between militias and some between militias and Iraqi Government forces:
The Iranian Embassy being shot at with 107mm Katyusha Rockets that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard - Quds Force gave to the Shia militias firing them is cosmic karma for the ages https://t.co/sRZthwWzfT
— Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸 (@alexplitsas) August 30, 2022
Green Zone is a battlefield. #Iraq #Baghdad pic.twitter.com/owwF1nMAKQ
— Tammuz Intel (@Tammuz_Intel) August 29, 2022
Saraya Al Salam militia groups arrest members of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq militia group in Nasiriyah southern #Iraq. pic.twitter.com/5P7HcdTzuD
— Blesa Shaways (@Bilesa_Shaweys) August 29, 2022
re: #19 ckkatz
We have a small open space between my neighborhood and the one at the top of the hills. It is about 20 yards wide and a half mile long. We get coyote and bobcat. I’m certain one of these days or nights I’m going to see a mountain lion up there.
re: #13 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Because of the subject matter of older books of his that I was familiar with I assumed the dude was a lost causer/neo confed.
I’m glad I was wrong and might look into his works again.
re: #19 ckkatz
Exactly. Mountain lions are famous for being camouflaged to the point of invisibility unless and until they want to show themselves.
Here’s the full picture to show where the cat is:
and even the cat doesn’t notice the 4 Finnish snipers elsewhere in the locale…
re: #22 Captain Ron
We have a small open space between my neighborhood and the one at the top of the hills. It is about 20 yards wide and a half mile long. We get coyote and bobcat. I’m certain one of these days or nights I’m going to see a mountain lion up there.
Yup, there are certainly mountain lion visitors in West Coast ‘burbs. I guess that as long as you see it, it’s a lot better.
One of my brothers lived in Silicon Valley and dated a woman who lived on a ranch a bit out of the way. He was saying that she got stuck in the house for several days when a mountain lion wandered onto the ranch for a few days and took a liking to sitting on her house roof.
I used to have family in the Seattle area, and there were lots of mountain lion stories. My favorite was “DB Cougar” circa 1981:
Saw on the news that, sine June, 1100 people have died in Pakistan due to flooding.
#BreakingNews
A headquarter of a militant group affiliated with #Iran (IRGC) has been burnt by #Sadrist protestors.#Iraq #Baghdad #IraqCrisis pic.twitter.com/G1MVYeWxgM— Conflict Watch PSF (@AmRaadPSF) August 30, 2022
Wording
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NEW: CNN has confirmed the US assesses that Russia is now in possession of weapons-capable Iranian drones, and ultimately intends to purchase hundreds for use in Ukraine. But some of the drones have already experienced a number of failures, officials say. https://t.co/MUoUA3MHMp
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 30, 2022
re: #31 Captain Ron
I had heard that the Russians were less than impressed with the Iran drone failure rate.
The Russians apparently need them because they don’t have many drones capable of firing or dropping munitions. The Russian drones mostly were designed for ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance).
re: #19 ckkatz
Exactly. Mountain lions are famous for being camouflaged to the point of invisibility unless and until they want to show themselves.
Here’s the full picture to show where the cat is:
I have heard some game wardens claim that there are mountain lions in the Appalachians. But that admitting it would require state authorities to actually do something. And there isn’t much they can really do.
Also, there have been cougar sightings even in the DC area. This series, from about 25 years ago, was one of the more likely actual cases:
Meanwhile, my tiny panther is completely invisible in low light. The number of times I’ve discovered her on the bed while absolutely certain there was nothing there are too numerous to count.
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV pundits warn that the delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) may covertly place mines at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, but there is so much more happening in this clip, even some criticism of the gov’t. Awkward moments. pic.twitter.com/6Knpwal8Qc
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) August 30, 2022
re: #24 Captain Ron
Good morning
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BBC Archives jumps way back to the heady days of 1994:
“It all sounds pretty grand”.
Well, IMO it all turned out to be more disappointing than that bright eyed reporter hoped.
The birdie brigade continues. So ready for fall. These 68-degree, 95 percent humidity “lows” are getting old. Bring on the cool front!
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re: #19 ckkatz
Exactly. Mountain lions are famous for being camouflaged to the point of invisibility unless and until they want to show themselves.
Here’s the full picture to show where the cat is:
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I have heard some game wardens claim that there are mountain lions in the Appalachians. But that admitting it would require state authorities to actually do something. And there isn’t much they can really do.
Also, there have been cougar sightings even in the DC area. This series, from about 25 years ago, was one of the more likely actual cases:
Ok but was it a clip/puma or a magazine/ cougar?
re: #40 TarHellion
Temps have been comfortable here in SoCal the past few days, with cool nights good for sleeping.
But that is about to change.
Starting tomorrow temps are going to climb, and by Labor Day (Sunday) may be well above 100F. And unlike the autumn santa-ana conditions the humidity, though not especially high, will not be the lovely 7% we get in the fall.
LATEST: 180,000 people in Jackson will be without safe water for drinking or even brushing their teeth “for an unknown period of time,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said in an emergency press briefing tonight.
He warns: “DO NOT DRINK THE WATER.”https://t.co/RyWu22NOKL— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) August 30, 2022
I love the emphatic pelvic thrust when he pulls the trigger! Haha
— Todd Davis (@ZenDuck1) August 29, 2022
re: #29 Captain Ron
Burned?
That’s an understatement. Looks more like the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire…IOW, completely engulfed.
re: #2 No Malarkey!
Three GOP Congressmen from California who cosponsored the “Life Begins at Conception Act” which would ban all abortions nationwide are now desperately running away from the issue. If these three can be swept out of office, it would help give the Democrats a shot at holding Congress.
The genie is already out of the bottle and the albatross has been hung about the collective neck of the GOP: they are out to massively curtail reproductive rights for all Americans.
re: #9 DodgerFan1988
Tucker: By any actual reality based measure, Vladimir Putin is not losing the war in Ukraine. He is winning the war in Ukraine
Tucker Carlson, had he been a pundit in August, 1941:
“By any actual reality based measure, Adolf Hitler is not losing the war in Ukraine. He is winning the war in Ukraine.”
re: #43 Dangerman
[…]
While the city highlighted the potential flooding of structures at O.B. Curtis due to the high crest of the Pearl River over the weekend, officials have yet to firmly establish the direct causes of the plant failures at the water treatment plant.
[…]
Whatever the cause, Reeves said that the State will be intervening to prop up the water plant on the brink.
[…]
A lack of visibility at O.B. Curtis has Mississippi State Department of Health leadership unable to answer how much water is currently flowing out of the plant and into Jackson’s pipes. Tomorrow, leadership warned, they may discover that O.B. Curtis is not producing any water at all.
Operational failures at O.B. Curtis are downstream from the facility’s most pressing issue--a near complete lack of qualified personnel. Class A water operators and regular maintenance staff are sorely needed at O.B. Curtis. The governor said tonight that the State would be acquiring the operators necessary, and would split the cost with the City of Jackson.
[…]
Whatever the proximate cause, it is clear what the root issue is: the anti-modern, anti-social attitude of the powers that be in Mississippi.
The aversion to taxing is why they don’t have the revenues to hire qualified personnel and to maintain facilities.
Jackson is not a rich city even though it is a state capitol. Mississippi is what happens when a polity refuses to fully own its past and to make the changes that are needed.
re: #18 bratwurst
Nothing to see here, folks…lots of books get a “FULL RECALL” notice the night before official release.
“due to a publishing error”
I think the error was publishing it at all
re: #43 Dangerman
re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
1943. IIRC, in 1941 operation Barbarosa did quite well and the march through Ukraine mostly came off successfully. The Axis captured Crimea. However, the Axis was stalled in the eastern part of Ukraine, the very region where the Russians have invaded now.
The stalemate then set in for a couple of years, probably because Hitler ordered so many assets thrown against Stalingrad.
Then finally in late ‘43 the tide turned against the Axis and they started to have to pull back.
re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
1943. IIRC, in 1941 operation Barbarosa did quite well and the march through Ukraine mostly came off successfully. The Axis captured Crimea. However, the Axis was stalled in the eastern part of Ukraine, the very region where the Russians have invaded now.
They captured Rostov-on-Don but were thrown back from there.
And yes, to anyone casually observing the progress of the German Army in 1941, it seemed like only a matter of time before the Red Army and all of the USSR collapsed.
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They captured Rostov-on-Don but were thrown back from there.
And yes, to anyone casually observing the progress of the German Army in 1941, it seemed like only a matter of time before the Red Army and all of the USSR collapsed.
Yes, exactly. Hitler WAS winning the war in the East (in general, not just in Ukraine). Then winter came, and Hitler learned what Napoleon had learned three generations before.
Hoo boy…I’m going back to sleep.
I thought this was a joke. https://t.co/rY30VwWNy8
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) August 30, 2022
re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
IIRC, some advance Wehrmacht recon units allegedly made it all the way to Khimki, which was about five miles northwest of the outskirts of Moscow, though that’s disputed.
re: #54 Dopamine Fish
Yes, exactly. Hitler WAS winning the war in the East (in general, not just in Ukraine). Then winter came, and Hitler learned what Napoleon had learned three generations before.
Winter, as with Napoleon was only part of it: he was at the end of his logistical tether with an unbeaten Red Army still before him. All those Panzer Divisions that looked good on the tactical maps were down to a handful of operational tanks and a few companies of mechanized infantry.
re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Winter, as with Napoleon was only part of it: he was at the end of his logistical tether with an unbeaten Red Army still before him. All those Panzer Divisions that looked good on the tactical maps were down to a handful of operational tanks and a few companies of mechanized infantry.
And Russia’s assurance that Japan wasn’t about to invade in the Far East meant that fresh Siberian divisions were coming in, loaded with winter equipment. In short, Hitler’s army was smaller than he thought it was, and Russia’s army was bigger. Much, much bigger.
re: #57 Dr Lizardo
IIRC, some advance Wehrmacht recon units allegedly made it all the way to Khimki, which was about five miles northwest of the outskirts of Moscow, though that’s disputed.
I used to live in the Ulitsa Geroev-Panfilovtsev, The Street of Panfilov’s Heroes, named after the legendary 28 Guardsmen who were said to have stopped 54 German tanks at Dubsekovo, only around 50 miles west of Moscow.
Recently visited Lanzerath Ridge in Belgium, where a group of 28 American soldiers from the 394th Regiment held up the German advance long enough to totally scupper the SS Panzer Corp’s plans to seize the US supply dumps at Spa. (and get a nice mud-pack and massage while at it).
re: #57 Dr Lizardo
IIRC, some advance Wehrmacht recon units allegedly made it all the way to Khimki, which was about five miles northwest of the outskirts of Moscow, though that’s disputed.
Legend is that they were able to see the setting sun glistening off the towers of the Kremlin churches. Not likely, but a poignant image of an attacking army on its last legs falling short of its objective.
So I’m watching PlutoTV - I rarely do because I don’t want to watch advertisements - watching an episode of Man With A Camera, and the ad comes on.
Using a VPN with a server in Georgia so I get GA political ad. It’s an attack ad on Warnock.
Some typical white, middle-age, obese couple whining about inflation, blaming Warnock.
These things are so mindless. They complain about gasoline prices (which of course have come down).
Of course inflation is a problem, I go on about it here.
But the causes of inflation are not because of Senator Warnock.
Global energy prices are being driven by Russia’s invation of Ukraine. Some food prices too.
And the US went through several years of extremely low inflation and suppressed wages. After the lockdowns there was a snap-back that turned into the inflation we see today.
Simple minded political ads for the simple minded.
re: #62 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I was finally forced to watch one of Dr. Scott Jensen’s inane political ads the other day. (Thanks, YouTube.) Literally the only thing he said was, “Gas prices are high, vote for me, I’ll fix it.” I’m looking around, like, bruh. The BEST you could do was put out a campaign ad that had a VERY short shelf life. Why should anyone take you seriously?
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Legend is that they were able to see the setting sun glistening off the towers of the Kremlin churches. Not likely, but a poignant image of an attacking army on its last legs falling short of its objective.
Yeah, that’s one of those great myths of WWII.
re: #62 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s on local tv here all the damned time. I guarantee you that “couple” are either republicans with plenty of money or just paid actors doing a gig. I keep seeing another one about how Warnock voted for other states to have luxuries built but nothing for Georgia or some such crap. I will say this though, in all the years I’ve lived in GA, this is the first time I’ve ever seen Democratic Party and other ads that are fighting back and countering the lies with truth. And those ads are playing often on all the local channels.Stacey Abrams has had some good counter ads to the lies about her which is a good thing to see. We need turnout and people being aware of GOP bullshit on Election Day and after over ballots and the usual shit.
Well armed militia strikes again https://t.co/HIaWnCPboL
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 29, 2022
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Another ad I just got, for Ron Johnson. Some dude says he has an electrical company, complaining about high gasoline prices, blames “liberals”.
I’m sure there are people who believe this stuff.
Oh, I know there are. I’ve seen the Jensen/Birk yard signs in my neighborhood, and just up the street from my church, over by the county fairgrounds, is a giant yard sign reading, “Walz Failed”. Not sure what he’s failed at, given that Minnesota is setting record lows for unemployment and has one of the higher vaccination rates in the country, leading to our state being one of the healthiest and most financially secure places to live right now, but we already know that these people are completely divorced from reality.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Another ad I just got, for Ron Johnson. Some dude says he has an electrical company, complaining about high gasoline prices, blames “liberals”.
I’m sure there are people who believe this stuff.
Because they want to believe that stuff. It’s cover for them to vote for the fearmongering racist.
Since I had the PlutoTV page open I checked out their Game Show category. Mostly missable stuff which I’ve not heard before, and then there’s America’s Bible Challenge.
Obvious what the gameshow is: a quiz show about the Bible.
Watching S2E1, the pretext according to the host is that there are tweets from two thousand years ago.
First question is a faux tweet from someone who killed their brother, contestants must guess who tweeted.
Answer is obvious - Cain.
But… even if you are a YEC, Cain could not have tweeted two thousand years ago.
And then we wonder how anyone could believe those stupid political ads.
re: #38 HRH Stanley Sea
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This is great in extreme E. Texas as well.
#BetoForTexas
Beto FLIPS Trump voters in STUNNING town hall appearancehttps://t.co/2lVTK4Wkwh— DemsofTx (@DemsofTx) August 28, 2022
re: #43 Dangerman
GOP fought against the Biden infrastructure funding, which provides money for rebuilding and improving potable water systems - sewer and supply lines.
GOP will happily draw on this money and take credit for fixing a problem they themselves caused - by deferred maintenance, refusal to spend on upgrades regularly, and in the meantime threaten lives of Mississippi residents with lack of drinking water.
Seditionist and insurrectionist is still at it:
Trump is spending his morning on Truth Social directly posting 4chan and Q messages, a day after calling to be reinstated as president. He’s doing explicitly what he used to try to shade or use coded language for. pic.twitter.com/ksCMJnJ8KW
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 30, 2022
Frankie, if you paid attention to anything other than kissing Trump’s feet for more than two seconds, you’d know that the government DID ask, MULTIPLE TIMES, and his lawyers even signed a statement saying he gave everything back. AND THEY STILL FOUND STUFF.
Franklin Graham weighs in on the Trump search: “If they felt that he had something that belonged to the government, they certainly could have asked and he would’ve returned it.” pic.twitter.com/zmelvG1yk8
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 29, 2022
re: #77 Dopamine Fish
Frankie, if you paid attention to anything other than kissing Trump’s feet for more than two seconds, you’d know that the government DID ask, MULTIPLE TIMES, and his lawyers even signed a statement saying he gave everything back. AND THEY STILL FOUND STUFF.
Our theocratic fascists don’t care what’s real. Franklin knows that he lies to idiots for a living.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Another ad I just got, for Ron Johnson. Some dude says he has an electrical company, complaining about high gasoline prices, blames “liberals”.
I’m sure there are people who believe this stuff.
They believe anything negative said about “liberals” and they believe that there is no daylight between liberals, socialists, communists, child pornographers, groomers, LGBTQs and Satanists
As many others have noted ad nauseum, Trump was given every opportunity to return all the classified documents and information he took with him to MAL after 1/20. He was never entitled to *any* of that information, because he was no longer president, no longer had access to classified information, and his taking is theft and mishandling of classified information.
There’s no evidence he ever declassified any of the subject documents - there’s no paper trail, especially as relating to nuclear secrets that were in his possession when the FBI seized them during a lawful warrant execution.
That’s felony conduct, and every last motherfucking right winger is still defending this seditionist treasonweasel who undermined US national security daily.
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They believe anything negative said about “liberals” and they believe that there is no daylight between liberals, socialists, communists, child pornographers and Satanists
But not the Irish!///
re: #10 retired cynic
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“captured in flight” my ass. I’m betting more “Look, my camera isn’t fast enough for this, so I just want you to jump off that branch and then throw your wings up dramatically. Also, clutch your tiny little claws together….what is your motivation? How about not having to encounter my cat? Yes, I thought that would work. (Stupid out-of-work acting hummingbird. Probably want me to read a script he wrote, in a moment).”
This seems to be a thing currently happening.
I am Antifa.
United States Naval Academy.
Class of ‘88. pic.twitter.com/DUe28Zskfs— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) August 29, 2022
re: #56 darthstar
Hoo boy…I’m going back to sleep.
The screen shot looks like a computer rendering. But, these are real people dressed up in uniforms. I hope they are all identified, if for only public humiliation.
re: #56 darthstar
My favorite is when they bring a little razzle dazzle to their riots… pic.twitter.com/iGnTNx9NN8
— dfrntdrmmr (@dfrntdrmmr) August 30, 2022
re: #82 steve_davis
“captured in flight” my ass. I’m betting more “Look, my camera isn’t fast enough for this, so I just want you to jump off that branch and then throw your wings up dramatically. Also, clutch your tiny little claws together….what is your motivation? How about not having to encounter my cat? Yes, I thought that would work. (Stupid out-of-work acting hummingbird. Probably want me to read a script he wrote, in a moment).”
re: #48 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Whatever the proximate cause, it is clear what the root issue is: the anti-modern, anti-social attitude of the powers that be in Mississippi.
The aversion to taxing is why they don’t have the revenues to hire qualified personnel and to maintain facilities.
Jackson is not a rich city even though it is a state capitol. Mississippi is what happens when a polity refuses to fully own its past and to make the changes that are needed.
south carolina is much the same way. in many ways, this is an incredible state. It has diverse geographical regions which ordinarily would make it a kind of paradise. You have ocean, marsh, desert (Columbia), savannah, mountains, you can fish in the ocean, you can fish in all the rivers, the lakes, etc. You have one of the best ports on the east coast and the potential for an upstate that could be a vital link to Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville, and a technological powerhouse. Instead, the state is overrun with baptists who are apparently content to have the state subsidized by New York’s tax revenue so that elderly white military retirees can live in a libertarian paradise. there are oases scattered around. I live down the street from the best public university in the state, which helps, but this is still mostly Bugtussle. It could be so much more.
re: #85 GlutenFreeJesus
MAGA haka?
re: #85 GlutenFreeJesus
They should dub Razzle Dazzle from Chicago… because all these right wing domestic terrorists should be facing charges and will need Billy Flynn to save their asses from the chair.
re: #88 steve_davis
Hey, I grew up and went to University in Arizona. Tell me about a great place ruined by assholes who suck Federal Government tit and then complain about the same government.
re: #54 Dopamine Fish
Yes, exactly. Hitler WAS winning the war in the East (in general, not just in Ukraine). Then winter came, and Hitler learned what Napoleon had learned three generations before.
You know, Napoleon actually did fine. He made it to Moscow. He occupied it. He just wasn’t anticipating having the Russians burn the entire city. Then also he dithered for weeks before deciding to return. Ironically, he was deceived by what was a remarkably mild late fall by Russian standards. I seem to recall that his troops had winter gear, but they mostly tossed it because they got tired of lugging it around during the steamy fall portion of the campaign.
re: #66 A Mom Anon
It’s on local tv here all the damned time. I guarantee you that “couple” are either republicans with plenty of money or just paid actors doing a gig. I keep seeing another one about how Warnock voted for other states to have luxuries built but nothing for Georgia or some such crap. I will say this though, in all the years I’ve lived in GA, this is the first time I’ve ever seen Democratic Party and other ads that are fighting back and countering the lies with truth. And those ads are playing often on all the local channels.Stacey Abrams has had some good counter ads to the lies about her which is a good thing to see. We need turnout and people being aware of GOP bullshit on Election Day and after over ballots and the usual shit.
I haven’t seen recent numbers, but I was shocked/not shocked to see Walker running neck-and-neck with Warnock.
That, if nothing else, describes the American electorate to a tee: a man with no experience, questionable morals (previously hidden out-of-wedlock kids always popping up), and literal possible brain damage should be getting trounced in the polls.
Instead, he has a better-than-average chance of being the next federal senator from GA.
re: #92 steve_davis
You know, Napoleon actually did fine. He made it to Moscow. He occupied it. He just wasn’t anticipating having the Russians burn the entire city. .
From my reading, Napoleon did not plan to even reach Moscow, he had figured on defeating the Russian Army somewhere near the border, then hunkering down for the winter in Smolensk or Vyazma, mid-way between Moscow and St. Petersburg where he could threaten either city, and then dictating terms of peace.
And yes, he did not count on the Russian army escaping his clutches intact or on them burning Moscow as he was occupying it.
Things just keep getting worse for Mango Menace. Good. Palmer Report opinion piece
Judge hands the DOJ a big win over Donald Trump
I especially like this line.
“In other words, the DOJ basically gets to file a lengthy press release about its Trump probe, while doing it within the proper scope of this kind of criminal probe.”
* Edited to correct a mistake. I need more coffee.
ETA: This is actually the last line.
“it’s now also prompted the judge to let the DOJ submit a forty page thesis about just how guilty Trump is.”
Biinooji in jolly jumpers at a pow wow is EXACTLY what I needed to see on a Monday morning! You? https://t.co/UoSawZZtQ8
— Anishinabek Nation (@AnishNation) August 29, 2022
You can bet Nunes is having yet another cow over this. He is an incompetent know nothing Trumpist who has no clue how social media works, let alone business ops.
At same time, Trump keeps shafting all of its contractors. It’s a vaporware effort to farm emails/metadata for sale. https://t.co/9y6Jt6jyUZ— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) August 30, 2022
Regarding Barbarossa, people tend to forget the Battle of Smolensk. The Red Army made one of their best first stands there. In the end it was a tactical loss but, arguably, a strategic victory for the Russians because of how much they slowed the drive for Moscow. Tying up so much of Gudarian’s forces from July to September left them late for the push to Moscow.
re: #93 Mattand
I haven’t seen recent numbers, but I shocked/not shocked to see Walker running neck-and-neck with Warnock.
That, if nothing else, describes the American electorate to a tee: a man with no experience, questionable morals (previously hidden out-of-wedlock kids always popping up), and literal possible brain damage should be getting trounced in the polls.
Instead, he has a better-than-average chance of being the next federal senator from GA.
The good news is that it looks like Warnock is opening up a lead over Walker. With the terrible candidates the GOP nominated and voters energized by the abortion ruling, increasing the Democrat’s majority in the Senate by up to as many as 55 seats is within the realm of possibility. If they can also retain control of the House, which is becoming more and more possible, some serious shit could get done in the next two years. At the top of my to-do list is protecting voting rights and abortion rights. I would also like to see D.C. and possibly P.R. statehood, immigration reform, particularly for Dreamers, gun control legislation, more climate change legislation, and court reform. There is a lot of shit that needs to get done, and we’ll be lucky if any of it is tackled. Obviously none of it will be if the GOP wins the House, even by just one seat.
The Chinese are really committed to their hoax— (off screen, seven brothers….)
In case you were wondering if the climate crisis was already here. https://t.co/iReV9mnQ9r
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) August 30, 2022
boss: you have to take a drug test
me: *knows all the drugs* no problem— Adam Cerious (@Browtweaten) August 29, 2022
My guess is something the lawyers picked up that might be grounds for defamation (and winnable by the person defamed).
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) August 30, 2022
It’s the latter, Ron. The walls are closing in. His lawyers have probably advised him to be ready to receive federal agents.
I don’t know if he’s been hacked or just completely lost his mind, but by my count Trump has posted or reposted over SIXTY things so far this morning, most of which are rando accounts with almost no followers or straight QAnon people.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 30, 2022
re: #104 Dopamine Fish
It’s the latter, Ron. The walls are closing in. His lawyers have probably advised him to be ready to receive federal agents.
He’s lost his mind. That’s what happens when a narcissist’s delusional inner-world collapses under the weight of undeniable reality.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 30, 2022
re: #104 Dopamine Fish
It’s the latter, Ron. The walls are closing in. His lawyers have probably advised him to be ready to receive federal agents.
Trump is panicking, and I’m here for it.
Former President Donald Trump has insisted that he immediately be re-installed as president or that a new election be called. His reasoning? A Mark Zuckerberg interview in which the Facebook founder reiterated his previous claim that the FBI warned him of a potential dump of Russian misinformation weeks before the 2020 general election that Trump lost to President Joe Biden.Yes, the former president really did demand he be reinstated as president 664 days after losing the election. By any objective measure, it’s nuts. Batshit crazy.
Trump first made the bizarre demand on his fledgling social media platform Monday at midday, then “re-truthed” his comments at roughly 2 a.m. Tuesday
Fox News Silence Over Trump’s Bizarre Claim to be Immediately Installed as President Speaks Volumes (Mediaite)
re: #105 Crush White Nationalism
[DT has] lost his mind. That’s what happens when a narcissist’s delusional inner-world collapses under the weight of undeniable reality.
I can see him pulling out a 20-dollar bill and talking to the portrait of Andrew Jackson on it.
Surprising absolutely no one, Trump’s most recent legal representation was picked by Trump because he saw him on TV, not because he’s capable of doing the job needed.
Jim Trusty… yeah, I trust that we’ll find that Trusty is incapable of defending Trump and ends up in trouble under crime fraud exception before long.
Trusty…
Yeah, Trump has no clue how to defend himself on all these criminal investigations, and hopes to gain representation from who is on tv defending him.
Trump needs lawyers who have particular sets of skills to represent against natsec charges - It’s not just criminal law, but national security law, espionage, and I doubt any of Trump’s lawyers have those skills (or clearances for that matter).
re: #77 Dopamine Fish
Frankie, if you paid attention to anything other than kissing Trump’s feet for more than two seconds, you’d know that the government DID ask, MULTIPLE TIMES, and his lawyers even signed a statement saying he gave everything back. AND THEY STILL FOUND STUFF.
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Those who keep saying this look out of touch/uninformed with the news and clueless to all of us.
Whether it works with their uninformed audiences…
re: #111 lawhawk
Surprising absolutely no one, Trump’s most recent legal representation was picked by Trump because he saw him on TV, not because he’s capable of doing the job needed.
If only Saul Goodman had taken that plea deal, he would be out by now and ready to take on the Case of the Century
re: #70 Dopamine Fish
Oh, I know there are. I’ve seen the Jensen/Birk yard signs in my neighborhood, and just up the street from my church, over by the county fairgrounds, is a giant yard sign reading, “Walz Failed”. Not sure what he’s failed at, given that Minnesota is setting record lows for unemployment and has one of the higher vaccination rates in the country, leading to our state being one of the healthiest and most financially secure places to live right now, but we already know that these people are completely divorced from reality.
I made the mistake of looking at the tweet replies to Gov Walz’s tweet a couple weeks ago about the state unemployment rate remaining at 1.8% and 19,000 jobs in the state being added. One claimed the unemployment rate was actually three times that because everyone he knows is working three jobs, another stated that 19,000 jobs in one month in Minnesota is “nothing”, and another made the claim that unemployment can’t be that low and as proof posted a picture of a restaurant door with a note saying something like “we’re sorry - we’re closed this afternoon from 2 to 5pm because of staff shortages”.
It’s no-math Tuesday, otherwise I’d explain why the logic behind each of those claims is, let’s just politely say, wrong.
Well at least a bit of good news this morning.
California just voted to protect trans refugees from extradition! SB107 passes 60-19!
This protects trans youth from being extradited back to Texas/Florida/ETC fleeing prosecution for gender affirming care.
It also gives trans teens recourse if their parents refuse care. pic.twitter.com/rO9stn3LNq— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) August 30, 2022
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I can see him pulling out a 20-dollar bill and talking to the portrait of Andrew Jackson on it.
Wasn’t Nixon - in the final phase of his Admin - reported to have wandered the corridors of the White House, drunk, conversing with the portraits of his predecessors? When, most likely, all of them said “forget it, Dick - you’re screwed!”…
re: #114 dat_said
You and I both know it’s people simply choosing to believe in their alternate reality because it lets them feel comfortable voting for the people they were going to vote for anyway. They have a predetermined conclusion, and they’re cherry-picking (or flat-out inventing) facts to suit said conclusion.
re: #116 Jay C
Wasn’t Nixon - in the final phase of his Admin - reported to have wandered the corridors of the White House, drunk, conversing with the portraits of his predecessors? When, most likely, all of them said “forget it, Dick: you’re screwed!”…
Yes, that is the image I had in mind: Nixon talking to Lincoln…but 45py is out of the white house and I don’t think that Mar-a-Logo is allowed to have anything but paintings of scantily-clad nubile women and portraits young DT on its walls
re: #105 Crush White Nationalism
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Narcissistic collapse happens when someone with narcissistic personality disorder can no longer uphold their grandiose self-image and feels threatened, belittled, made fun of, targeted, and enraged, along with a total absence of validation.— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) August 29, 2022
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He’s got fakes of notable paintings too.
re: #99 No Malarkey!
That says it’s a toss-up.
Which is pretty damning about the electorate.
Walker is barely able to discuss any topic without making a fool of himself.
Read the first two Items in today’s electoral-vote.com
Trump’s Got Trouble… And He Knows It. —— -very clear how much shit he’s in
Top Gov’s Stunt Appears to Have Crashed and Burned —— desantis; stunt politician
The rest is pretty good too
re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That says it’s a toss-up.
Which is pretty damning about the electorate.
Walker is barely able to discuss any topic without making a fool of himself.
Thats why he won’t debate the Reverend.
I wrote this five years ago today, well before Big Snake Oil and its subsidiaries, including the Republican Party, killed hundreds of thousands by willfully spreading a dangerous disease among vulnerable Americans, indeed, all over the world. These beasts, these lying frauds, must be held to account, severely punished, or we don’t have a civilization.
We hear a lot about “Big Pharma” and “Big Oil” etc. but when are we going to see an analysis of the profits earned by “Big Snake Oil,” that is, the MLM/health supplement/quack medicine business? It has to be in the billions and seems to provide the financial incentive for all anti-science and most conspiracy theories. Every conspira-liar and anti-science quack seems to have a line of health care supplements and other products. Their efficacy is, of course, being hidden and covered up by the same conspiracy the snake oiler decries.
My current Democratic Senator Bob Casey and God willing, his next wingman in DC.
With some broccoli constituents.
fb.watch
re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That says it’s a toss-up.
Which is pretty damning about the electorate.
Walker is barely able to discuss any topic without making a fool of himself.
He has the (R)
That’s apparently enough
Cause they know he’ll do what he’s told, so none of it matters
re: #116 Jay C
Wasn’t Nixon - in the final phase of his Admin - reported to have wandered the corridors of the White House, drunk, conversing with the portraits of his predecessors? When, most likely, all of them said “forget it, Dick - you’re screwed!”…
I’m not sure if it’s really true or just my memory of Dan Ackroyd as Nixon from SNL.
re: #120 lawhawk
He’s got fakes of notable paintings too.
Yes, that Renoir at the Art Institute of Chicago, along with Seurat’s La Grande Jatte is one of the paintings that made an art lover out of me
re: #120 lawhawk
He’s got fakes of notable paintings too.
So the art institute were taken for suckers?
re: #122 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sun Devil here….same same…..
BTW, summer is pushing one last FU today, gonna be dry and 111 today, so much for my late afternoon bike rides for a bit.
re: #133 Egregious Philbin
Sun Devil here….same same…..
BTW, summer is pushing one last FU today, gonna be dry and 111 today, so much for my late afternoon bike rides for a bit.
I recall summer evenings in Phoenix (my sister lived up near 35th and Glendale when that was not far from the edge of town) when it would actually cool off by 9 or 10 at night and you could be comfortable outdoors.
I also recall that there was generally only a week or two of 110°+, I found anything up to 103° quite bearable even during the daytime.
Should the Dems hold and gain in November, they need to revamp the pardoning powers of the President so the next Republicans can’t just come in and pardon Trump. Where to start, I’m not sure. Perhaps those charged not with just mishandling docs, but willfully endangering and exposing state secrets would be ineligible? Kind of a slippery slope however. At least time and health aren’t on his side. I don’t f’n know. But he can never be allowed to hold any kind of public office ever again.
Chris Kise, Florida’s former solicitor general who served on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s transition team, inked a contract to represent Donald Trump in the criminal case that resulted in the FBI search of the former president’s home in Mar-a-Lago,” NBC News reports.
“Other attorneys declined because their firms wanted to avoid the political blowback of representing such a divisive figure.”
Time to start a rumor that will drive spy45 even more batshit crazy than he already is…….
people are saying that Kise is a plant by the DeSantis campaign whose mission it is to sabotage Trump’s defense!”
5/6 & 2/6
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re: #131 Mattand
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re: #135 GlutenFreeJesus
Should the Dems hold and gain in November, they need to revamp the pardoning powers of the President so the next Republicans can’t just come in and pardon Trump. Where to start, I’m not sure. Perhaps those charged not with just mishandling docs, but willfully endangering and exposing state secrets woukd be ineligible? Kind of a slippery slope however. At least time and health aren’t on his side. I don’t f’n know. But he can never be allowed to hold any kind of public office ever again.
One has to wonder how much political capital an R winner (desantis?) would want to flush on such a pardon.
What would they gain from it?
Think jerry ford only way way worse.
Great thread so far, I’m only a few tweets in and found this absolute perfect description of Trump, Trumpism, and the modern right.
4 - But here’s an important point: Trumpism changed. It’s no longer a “Cult of Personality,” about a man. It’s about tribal contrarianism. The goal: TO WIN (and “own the libs”). When Trump himself got booed for advocating vaccines, that was a first sign of cult outgrowing man.
— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) August 30, 2022
re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That says it’s a toss-up.
Which is pretty damning about the electorate.
Walker is barely able to discuss any topic without making a fool of himself.
IIRC, GA polling - for a while - has had Warnock with a slight, but consistent lead. And that (as far as I know: I’m not all that conversant with Georgia media/politics) without a major campaign push. Hopefully it will hold up.
Though I must admit feeling sorry, in a way, for Herschel Walker: I really wonder how much (or even IF) he is aware of the damage to his brain (which, jokes about Republicans not noticing or caring aside, seems to be a serious issue.)
re: #142 Jay C
IIRC, GA polling - for a while - has had Warnock with a slight, but consistent lead. And that (as far as I know: I’m not all that conversant with Georgia media/politics) without a major campaign push. Hopefully it will hold up.
Though I must admit feeling sorry, in a way, for Herschel Walker: I really wonder how much (or even IF) he is aware of the damage to his brain (which, jokes about Republicans not noticing or caring aside, seems to be a serious issue.)
I hate to be rude, but I have to wonder just how functional his brain was before the damage occurred
the people who lost the 2020 election 61 times now want to lose the Civil War twice. go for it, dipshits
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) August 30, 2022
The battleship Texas, last surviving veteran of both world wars, participant in every major amphibious landing in WW2, is being towed down to Galveston tomorrow for hull repairs.
The U.S.S. Texas will be moved for extensive repairs on August 31 (subject to change). I am so nervous for this, I hope she makes it successfully! You can watch live here: https://t.co/UkRqLaowsX@WorldofWarships , could you please share this link?
— GBWithWings (@GBWithWings) August 30, 2022
Battleship Texas dodged German shells, but a treacherous move this week risks sinking it https://t.co/yqjwZX9Dqc via @houstonchron
— Katherine Feser (@kfeser) August 30, 2022
re: #54 Dopamine Fish
Yes, exactly. Hitler WAS winning the war in the East (in general, not just in Ukraine). Then winter came, and Hitler learned what Napoleon had learned three generations before.
When winter came, the Japanese had struck Pearl Harbor and the entire war was transformed — Hitler was facing not only the Red Army but a determined United States. Yes, it took awhile for our military to get fully operational but the German military certainly understood that the landscape had dramatically changed.
re: #144 Captain Magic
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re: #135 GlutenFreeJesus
The pardon power is written into the constitution so there isn’t an easy fix. Besides if I could change the constitution that wouldn’t be my first choice.
re: #148 Dangerman
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re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I hate to be rude, but I have to wonder just how functional his brain was before the damage occurred
He had DID before the CTE. He’s never been someone who should be a candidate for office.
Meal Team Six combat rations?
Salad straight from the Chitlin Circuit. pic.twitter.com/2fzaMDpzKQ
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) August 30, 2022
re: #151 Crush White Nationalism
He had DID before the CTE. He’s never been someone who should be a candidate for office.
“He had did….” You sound like Justin Wilson! :-)
A dope from reality-TV and a dose of reality are entirely different things, Mehmet.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 30, 2022
re: #147 Hecuba’s daughter
When winter came, the Japanese had struck Pearl Harbor and the entire war was transformed — Hitler was facing not only the Red Army but a determined United States. Yes, it took awhile for our military to get fully operational but the German military certainly understood that the landscape had dramatically changed.
And Germany had already lost nearly a million men…the core of the well trained Wehrmacht that had overrun Poland Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, France and Belgium. Many of those officers and men were irreplaceable.
FAA Investigating Controversial Crash Video
Approximately 100% of the pilot comments agree that this was a planned, staged crash and the guy should be hung out to dry. I add my vote to that total.
The guy has an engine failure on a short flight to scatter his friend’s ashes. He just happens to be wearing a full sky-diving rig (ie unheard of). He bails out and never lets go of his selfie stick. This all happens in broad daylight and perfect weather in an aircraft specifically designed for long glides and rough landings. The 82 year old aircraft was destroyed. There is apparently an insurance claim.
re: #156 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
If it’s just an engine failure, why would you bail? As far as I can recall from my limited study and prep for flight school, you can still manipulate the controls and make an attempt at an unpowered landing without an engine. That seems like an awful big unforced error if it truly was an accident.
re: #156 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
That could end up being a hell of an expensive TikTok video.
re: #156 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
FAA Investigating Controversial Crash Video
Approximately 100% of the pilot comments agree that this was a planned, staged crash and the guy should be hung out to dry. I add my vote to that total.
The guy has an engine failure on a short flight to scatter his friend’s ashes. He just happens to be wearing a full sky-diving rig (ie unheard of). He bails out and never lets go of his selfie stick. This all happens in broad daylight and perfect weather in an aircraft specifically designed for long glides and rough landings. The 82 year old aircraft was destroyed. There is apparently an insurance claim.
Cool, then we don’t have to worry about the FAA regulation aspect of this, and he can be put away for a simple case of fraud.
re: #150 Captain Magic
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re: #156 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
A similar case from 2019, though this crook was more obvious.
Pilot Pleads Guilty To Intentional Ditching
A Texas pilot has admitted to intentionally ditching his recently purchased Beech Baron in the Gulf of Mexico for the insurance money. Theodore Robert Wright pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and conspiring to commit arson as a result of a federal investigation that looked at a series of expensive insurance claims that included a yacht, a Cessna Citation, a Lamborghini and the Baron. He almost certainly faces time in prison since the maximum sentence is 40 years. Three other accomplices have also pleaded guilty but most of the attention is on Wright because of his brief brush with celebrity after the ditching.
re: #146 jaunte
The battleship Texas, last surviving veteran of both world wars, participant in every major amphibious landing in WW2, is being towed down to Galveston tomorrow for hull repairs.
Took a walk through the ship when visiting a friend down in Baytown TX back many moons ago. Hope it makes it.
This is like that MST3K sketch where their encyclopedia is so old it calls Hitler a “fairly stable veteran of the Great War”https://t.co/ZOzmWj6y0P
— Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) August 30, 2022
re: #162 Eventual Carrion
I was wrong about the last surviving veteran of both wars part; apparently there are eight ships left that qualify.
If Rs take back the House they’re going to sue to force your student loans back on you…https://t.co/mupDlFGi09
— Eddie Vale (@evale72) August 30, 2022
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump has proven to Republicans that their voters will accept anything if they think someone else will get hurt more.
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s a hell of a winning strategy.
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then they’ll do prescription drugs
then SS and medicare
Pima County sheriff’s office (Tucson) accused of shocking a man to death with a Taser on August 16:
Wade Welch, 37, can be heard screaming for help, and saying “I can’t breathe.” He tells corrections officers he has a heart condition and asks to be taken to the hospital. He shouts “You’re killing me!” as the officers use a stun gun on him again and again https://t.co/42yegnZLXT
— Jimmy Jenkins (@JimmyJenkins) August 30, 2022
The article says the camera footage is “heavily edited.”
re: #119 Dangerman
RELATED: NARCISSISTIC RAGE
Narcissistic rage is a reaction to a perceived threat to a narcissist’s self-esteem or self-worth. Narcissistic rage occurs on a continuum from aloofness, to expressions of mild irritation or annoyance, to serious outbursts, including violent attacks.— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) August 30, 2022
FFS
Steve Bannon said today that Trump should be reinstated with a “new election” as soon as “this week.”
“Let’s start the contingent election this week. Let’s do it.” pic.twitter.com/wRBBUXOM5m— David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) August 30, 2022
re: #104 Dopamine Fish
It’s the latter, Ron. The walls are closing in. His lawyers have probably advised him to be ready to receive federal agents.
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Are they really his tweets or does he have staff doing it for him? He’s not losing his mind; he knows exactly what to do to keep his base agitated and ready to fight to the death for him and to send him the money he needs to maintain his luxurious lifestyle.
I just had a very sobering thought. Related to the fact that the FBI told Trump et al. that Mar-a-Lago does not have a facility for properly storing classified information, does the US government have portable facilities that he could conceivably have made use of while at the Winter White House? Or is there every possibility that he just took boxes of classified documents with him to Florida every weekend, and was hemorrhaging state secrets from Day One?
re: #168 Dangerman
then they’ll do prescription drugs
then SS and medicare
Nationwide Life-Begins-at-Conception Bill first
re: #19 ckkatz
Exactly. Mountain lions are famous for being camouflaged to the point of invisibility unless and until they want to show themselves.
Here’s the full picture to show where the cat is:
I have heard some game wardens claim that there are mountain lions in the Appalachians. But that admitting it would require state authorities to actually do something. And there isn’t much they can really do.
Also, there have been cougar sightings even in the DC area. This series, from about 25 years ago, was one of the more likely actual cases:
We don’t have Cougars or Mountain Lions in the Appalachians. We have “Catamounts”, which is a technical term.
No, really.
re: #172 Hecuba’s daughter
Are they really his tweets or does he have staff doing it for him? He’s not losing his mind; he knows exactly what to do to keep his base agitated and ready to fight to the death for him and to send him the money he needs to maintain his luxurious lifestyle.
His base fighting to the death is no defense against theft of highly classified documents. It’s just some dead losers.
re: #173 Dopamine Fish
Portable SCIFs are a thing. Also, MAL did apparently have a SCIF while Trump was the President.
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
Portable SCIFs are a thing. Also, MAL did apparently have a SCIF while Trump was the President.
Okay, good. So it’s possible that his handlers managed to keep a lid on things during the whole affair. That was just a thought that struck me while thinking about this incredible sequence of events.
In Germany the current “woke” pseudo-debate seems to center around the writings of Karly May, a Western Author who wrote a series of fictional tales of Apache Chief Winnetou and his white companion Old Shatterhand.
These have been made into Classic western movies (filmed in Yugoslavia) and the books and film series have done a lot to shape Germany’s romantic view of the
American West, although Karl May himself never visited there until after his books had made him famous.
Now I guess educational experts are telling Germans that the books and films give young people a distorted view of history and the German media equivalents of Fox News (The Bild Zeitung mostly) are all up in arms about this “assault” on a vaunted German cultural tradition.
In our family, watching (and laughing at ) Winnetou films was part of our holiday tradition.
re: #175 austin_blue
We don’t have Cougars or Mountain Lions in the Appalachians. We have “Catamounts”, which is a technical term.
No, really.
We also have “painters” (panthers) in southern Appalachia
re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nationwide Life-Begins-at-Conception Bill first
there’s no government money involved in that so they cant take it back and screw everybody
re: #182 Dangerman
there’s no government money involved in that so they cant take it back and screw everybody
yeah, but they can fuck up a lot of people’s lives and freedoms
re: #169 mmmirele
Pima County sheriff’s office (Tucson) accused of shocking a man to death with a Taser on August 16:
The article says the camera footage is “heavily edited.”
And if it comes to trial, I bet their testimony will be Hugo Award worthy.
re: #178 Dopamine Fish
Okay, good. So it’s possible that his handlers managed to keep a lid on things during the whole affair. That was just a thought that struck me while thinking about this incredible sequence of events.
or not…
The Archives battle to secure records from Trump began while he was still president, according to records reviewed by The Post. Gary M. Stern, the agency’s top lawyer, began asking the former president’s attorneys to return two dozen boxes in the residency of the White House before he left. In an email Stern wrote to others, Trump’s counsel, Pat Cipollone, agreed with him. But Trump did not return them.
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“Any documents that made it to the White House residence were in these boxes Trump carried around with him,” explained Stephanie Grisham, a former senior White House staffer. “Usually the body man would have brought them upstairs for Trump or someone from the outer-Oval at the end of the day. They would get handed off to the residence and just disappear.”Boxes of documents even came with Trump on foreign travel, following him to hotel rooms around the world — including countries considered foreign adversaries of the United States.
“There was no rhyme or reason — it was classified documents on top of newspapers on top of papers people printed out of things they wanted him to read. The boxes were never organized,” Grisham said. “He’d want to get work done on long trips so he’d just rummage through the boxes. That was our filing system.”
so, not so secure at all
Just making sure everyone knows the law firm @ifrahlaw is trying to hide the fact that they’re repping fascist Donald. Make sure to amplify the connection between Ifrah and trump! https://t.co/AfBdAQb93K
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) August 30, 2022
re: #146 jaunte
The battleship Texas, last surviving veteran of both world wars, participant in every major amphibious landing in WW2, is being towed down to Galveston tomorrow for hull repairs.
I’m sure the existing duct tape and super glue patching will hold for the short trip down to the dry dock on the west side of Galveston.
Well, pretty sure.
Whether the keel plating will hold up under the weight of those 10 14-inchers is another thing entirely. It’s been a long time she’s been sitting in her berth, slowly rotting away:
re: #188 austin_blue
Yeah, on an interview broadcast this morning the guy in charge was confident, but we may see the ship sitting on the edge of the channel halfway to Galveston for a few weeks.
re: #183 Dangerman
Eight-clawed clip with a double-fanged bayonet.
re: #186 Dangerman
“There was no rhyme or reason — it was classified documents on top of newspapers on top of papers people printed out of things they wanted him to read. The boxes were never organized,” Grisham said. “He’d want to get work done on long trips so he’d just rummage through the boxes. That was our filing system.”
JFC.
re: #173 Dopamine Fish
I just had a very sobering thought. Related to the fact that the FBI told Trump et al. that Mar-a-Lago does not have a facility for properly storing classified information, does the US government have portable facilities that he could conceivably have made use of while at the Winter White House? Or is there every possibility that he just took boxes of classified documents with him to Florida every weekend, and was hemorrhaging state secrets from Day One?
Well, he also spent time at Bedminster (it’s my understanding that Mar-a-Lago is not generally visited in the summer). I would suspect that, Why Yes, He Was Dragging All Sorts of Classified Documents Around And Not Treating Them With Care.
This part.
The Beltway Media as usual is still pretending that the Mar A Lago Mafia had some kind of point and the DOJ is about to blow that to smithereens. Once that happens….hold on to your butts. https://t.co/1avKlf6P1I— Hungry and Hopeful In DFW (@Kennymack1971) August 30, 2022
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
We also have “painters” (panthers) in southern Appalachia
We have jaguars who occasionally cross the border with Mexico and apparently are able to do so despite Trump’s idiot wall.
*Masters
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) August 30, 2022
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
They’re pouring every red cent into J.D. Vance in Ohio, which feels like a legendary mistake. But I am not about to stop them.
re: #196 Dopamine Fish
They’re pouring every red cent into J.D. Vance in Ohio, which feels like a legendary mistake. But I am not about to stop them.
Well, since Kelly is unafraid to use the a-word (abortion) in his ads, and Masters decided last week it was better to remove all his crazy than own it, I think this is probably a smart move on the part of McConnell.
I want to see Kelly win and I want to see Fetterman pound Oz into a fine paste.
re: #198 Eclectic Cyborg
I want to see Kelly win and I want to see Fetterman pound Oz into a fine paste.
I want to see Moscow Ron get the boot.
Coming soon to a town near you. Because it’s one warming atmosphere.
Padidan, in Pakistan’s Sindh Province, received an “unheard of” nearly 70 inches of rain in one day.
abcnews.go.com
re: #116 Jay C
Wasn’t Nixon - in the final phase of his Admin - reported to have wandered the corridors of the White House, drunk, conversing with the portraits of his predecessors? When, most likely, all of them said “forget it, Dick - you’re screwed!”…
According to Woodward and Bernstein’s THE FINAL DAYS, yes.
re: #198 Eclectic Cyborg
I just drove central Pennsylvania from north to south along US 15 (hi, Cooper!) and I-83, including some hardcore Trump territory. Saw all of three Mastriano signs. Not a single one for Oz.
Track Palin, son of @SarahPalinUSA, was arrested by Wasilla Police on Saturday for operating a vehicle under a controlled substance. He has a future court date pending, according to Wasilla Police. #akleg pic.twitter.com/dj3p8Rg2az
— The Alaska Landmine (@alaskalandmine) August 30, 2022
re: #200 A Cranky One
This is interesting…
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I like that “combo” is in scare quotes.
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
Scary left-wing musical innovation.
re: #203 ipsos
I just drove central Pennsylvania from north to south along US 15 (hi, Cooper!) and I-83, including some hardcore Trump territory. Saw all of three Mastriano signs. Not a single one for Oz.
there’s tons of them in NJ ;-)
re: #200 A Cranky One
This is interesting…
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Looks like the bottom item is a letter the FBI received from some whacko alleging subliminal left-wing messages on the on-stage screen during Monkees concerts. The big screen was something of a novelty at the time. This person would no doubt be a major conspiracy consumer today, and obviously a Trump voter.
You serve a deeply stupid market. Right-wing idiots who absolutely insist on being lied to about everything so they don’t have to engage with reality. It’s shameful, but I don’t think you’re ethically developed enough to feel shame.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 30, 2022
re: #208 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Looks like the bottom item is a letter the FBI received from some whacko alleging subliminal left-wing messages on the on-stage screen during Monkees concerts. The big screen was something of a novelty at the time. This person would no doubt be major conspiracy consumer today, and obviously a Trump voter.
..The “left wing” messages projected behind the band probably being the usual late 60’s “Peace”, “Love”, “No War” or other catastrophically Marxist tropes.
I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) August 26, 2022
so idiotic that they think no one will notice the 2000 Mules showing up a week before the midterm election
There is something to learn from Trump’s posts on TruthSocial this morning, Q Drop and all.
This is not a guy who sounds like he’s running a political campaign. It’s a guy who is pointing his followers toward political enemies to target. pic.twitter.com/urlxLQ5n2q— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 30, 2022
Those are fasces, Chuck. https://t.co/FL4WMpXRtu
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) August 30, 2022
First called semi-fascists, then thwarted in their efforts to sue comic books. Rough week for the Real Americans. https://t.co/vytkK3fsUe
— IrreparablyCompromisedHat (@Popehat) August 30, 2022
When James Comey announced that Hillary Clinton was under investigation, she didn’t melt the f*ck down all over social media at all hours of the day and she didn’t tweet conspiracy theories or incite violence. But tell me more about how women are too emotional to lead won’t you.
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) August 30, 2022
Charlbi Dean, the star of this year’s Palme d’Or-winning film at Cannes, “Triangle of Sadness,” who also appeared in The CW series “Black Lightning,” has died, TheWrap has confirmed. The actress was 32.Dean died Monday in New York City after a sudden and unexpected illness. No other details were immediately available.
Charlbi Dean, ‘Triangle of Sadness’ and ‘Black Lightning’ Star, Dies at 32 (TheWrap)
re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth
so idiotic that they think no one will notice the 2000 Mules showing up a week before the midterm election
No one will notice, because it’s meaningless drivel that doesn’t show anything criminal.
If Dinesh d’Felon had actual evidence, the kind of thing that can survive scrutiny in a court of law, he’d have pursued a legal case, instead of whatever crap this is.
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