Pure Fun Saturday Jam: Shotgun | George Ezra | Pomplamoose Ft. Dodie

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Lead Vocals: dodie & Nataly Dawn
Keys: Jack Conte
Guitar: Brian Green
Bass: Nick Campbell
Drums: Ben Rose
Background Vocals (left): Loren Battley
Background Vocals (right): Sarah Dugas
Cello: Chrissy Johnson
Violin: Phil Glenn & Gabe Wheaton

Engineer: Chris Sorem
Mixing/Mastering: Caleb Parker
Cinematography: Ricky Chavez
Editing: Dominic Mercurio

Recorded at Nest Recorders in Los Angeles.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:18:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:19:51pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It was apparently an Amazon Prime cargo flight

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:21:00pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

It was apparently an Amazon Prime cargo flight

While trying not to be overly facetious of a very serious situation, I’m just imagining dozens of people whose package trackers just reported, “Delivered: Atlantic Ocean.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:21:46pm
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TedStriker  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:21:54pm

re: #3 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

While trying not to be overly facetious of a very serious situation, I’m just imagining dozens of people whose package trackers just reported, “Delivered: Atlantic Ocean.”

Sometimes the best way to deal with tragedy is with coal-black humor.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:22:37pm

re: #3 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Average depth of Trinity Bay is about 6 feet, with a maximum of 10. Like crashing into a puddle.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:26:35pm

re: #5 TedStriker

Sometimes the best way to deal with tragedy is with coal-black humor.

Rodney Dangerfield: “My daughter is like Federal Express. When she goes to a boy’s apartment she absolutely has to be there overnight.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:30:32pm

don’t hold back, Mr. Nance…

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:34:07pm

That water is not deep. and there are plenty of bull sharks as well.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:35:41pm

re: #7 Barefoot Grin

Rodney Dangerfield: “My daughter is like Federal Express. When she goes to a boy’s apartment she absolutely has to be there overnight.”

That’s right up there with “The Lemur is a free pooper” from last nite….

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John Vreeland  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:36:48pm

So
Jacob Wohl has escaped from his mother’s basement in order to spend the coldest days of the year traipsing about Minnesota with Laura Loomer. Together they ae being especially stupid, pehaps due to their close proximity providing a supercritical mass of reactive idiocy.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:37:41pm

...

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:38:47pm

re: #11 John Vreeland

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:38:54pm

re: #11 John Vreeland

So
Jacob Wohl has escaped from his mother’s basement in order to spend the coldest days of the year traipsing about Minnesota with Laura Loomer. Together they ae being especially stupid, pehaps due to their close proximity providing a supercritical mass of reactive idiocy.

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These are “Free Poopers” as well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:39:39pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:40:10pm

re: #11 John Vreeland

So
Jacob Wohl has escaped from his mother’s basement in order to spend the coldest days of the year traipsing about Minnesota with Laura Loomer. Together they ae being especially stupid, pehaps due to their close proximity providing a supercritical mass of reactive idiocy.

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People who embrace LGBT people cause a state to be overrun by jihadists? Gee I would thinking a welcoming environment to homophobia would make them more welcome. You’re a special kind of stupid, Jacob.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:40:32pm

re: #11 John Vreeland

So
Jacob Wohl has escaped from his mother’s basement in order to spend the coldest days of the year traipsing about Minnesota with Laura Loomer. Together they ae being especially stupid, pehaps due to their close proximity providing a supercritical mass of reactive idiocy.

We’re being overrun by jihadists? That’s news to me. Also, we’re going to stick your tongue to a light pole and leave you to freeze, you disgusting excuse for a meat sack.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:44:33pm
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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:46:26pm

Frenchie Puppy Pile

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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:47:56pm

re: #19 Dave In Austin

Frenchie Puppy Pile

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They look like overfed hamsters.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:50:36pm

re: #13 Belafon

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I want to know

WHO is underwriting/financing the trek of these two goofballs and what is the third stooge in this farce doing?

I thought Loony Laura said she was almost $8K in debt And Joliet Jake was also deep in debt.

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SteelPH  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:52:01pm

re: #21 Joe Bacon 🌹

Maybe hoping Daddy Trump can bail ‘em out?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:53:22pm

re: #22 SteelPH

Maybe hoping Daddy Trump can bail ‘em out?

He has no power here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:53:56pm

O_o

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:56:44pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:57:24pm
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A hollow voice says, Collusion!  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:59:34pm

re: #19 Dave In Austin

Frenchie Puppy Pile

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I’m suddenly feeling for their mother.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 23, 2019 • 5:59:46pm

re: #13 Belafon

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Congratulations, Comrade Jacob. Your mission to make conservatives seem even more stupid and dishonest than they really are has succeeded brilliantly. Lord Soros is greatly pleased and will be adding a fat bonus to your next secret payment.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:00:26pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh, so he’s targeting the Somalis. Yup. Way to out yourself as a full-on racist, you imbecilic douchecanoe.

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ObserverArt  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:02:49pm

re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That is just a great image. Period.

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SteelPH  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:06:22pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

Reported.

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ObserverArt  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:06:43pm

re: #20 wrenchwench

They look like overfed hamsters.

Little piglets. They have the right colors. And bellies.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:07:35pm

That little fart wants to trigger a Federal hate crime so President Tinkerfart will pardon him.

Has anyone alerted the Minneapolis PD?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:08:14pm

re: #33 Joe Bacon 🌹

That little fart wants to trigger a Federal hate crime so President Tinkerfart will pardon him.

Has anyone alerted the Minneapolis PD?

I think the Somali shop was along the light rail line in St. Paul, but either way.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:11:14pm

I have friends in Minneapolis. They KNOW that there are no such places as “no-go zones in their city”

I wish Twitter allowed me to report tweets

Folks, feel free to report this piece of shit tweet to @jack, too!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:12:05pm

re: #35 Joe Bacon 🌹

I have friends in Minneapolis. They KNOW that there are no such places as “no-go zones in their city”

I wish Twitter allowed me to report tweets

Folks, feel free to report this piece of shit tweet to @jack, too!

Yeah, no, not like other cities. I mean, we have our share of crime, but there’s literally maybe one place I’d tell my wife not to go late at night, and it’s not anywhere near like a literal no-go zone.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:12:41pm

re: #35 Joe Bacon 🌹

I have friends in Minneapolis. They KNOW that there are no such places as “no-go zones in their city”

I wish Twitter allowed me to report tweets

Folks, feel free to report this piece of shit tweet to @jack, too!

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Yeah bullshit Jacob but keep on being a bigoted loser who will never amount to anything.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:13:22pm

I have relatives asking about “no go zones” in Los Angeles.

Hint—THERE ARE NO SUCH PLACES!

…they don’t believe me…

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:13:28pm

re: #37 HappyWarrior

Yeah bullshit Jacob but keep on being a bigoted loser who will never amount to anything.

Funny also how the Somalis are friendly now that they’re (in his imagination) helping him further his hatred of my fair state.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:14:19pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:14:21pm

re: #39 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Funny also how the Somalis are friendly now that they’re (in his imagination) helping him further his hatred of my fair state.

Reminds of CCJ’s “conversation” with the black woman he told to stop killing whites and she just said okay.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:14:39pm

re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I want him to win the Nobel.

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teleskiguy  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:15:44pm

One more Saturday checked off at the ski area.

Giphy

Only six more Saturdays until the ski area closes.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:16:30pm

re: #43 teleskiguy

One more Saturday checked off at the ski area.

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Only six more Saturdays until the ski area closes.

Yeah, I feel you. This week has been the week from hell. Last night I just completely fell apart (and facedown on the couch, a la Leonard).

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:17:09pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:17:29pm

re: #44 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

11 hour days, almost every day, since late November. Tough guy style!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:18:35pm

re: #46 teleskiguy

11 hour days, almost every day, since late November. Tough guy style!

You’ve got me beat, for sure, but a grueling 2.5-hour Production deployment followed immediately thereafter (as in, I got to work and got a text from my boss) by an emergency war room for a critical Production outage was a backbreaking way to end the week.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:18:44pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:19:08pm

I did ski this morning, and it was sublime.

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makeitstop  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:20:46pm

This sucks - Peter Frampton is being forced into retirement by a degenerative muscle disease.

About eight years ago, Peter Frampton started to notice that his ankles felt a little tight in the morning. He initially dismissed it as one of the many pains that comes with getting older, but as time passed, his legs began feeling weak as well. He tried to ignore the signs that something was wrong until four years ago when a fan kicked a beach ball onto the stage at one of his concerts and he fell over when he tried to kick it back. “My legs just gave out,” he says. “We all joked, ‘He’s fallen and he can’t get up.’ But I was embarrassed.”

Two weeks after the beach ball incident, he tripped over a guitar cord on his stage and collapsed again. He was also noticing that his arms were getting so weak that loading heavy objects onto the overhead compartments of planes was becoming extremely difficult. When his tour had some time off, he finally booked an appointment with a neurologist to see what was happening. He was diagnosed with the inflammatory muscle disease Inclusion-Body Myositis (IBM) and sent to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland where he was teamed up with Dr. Lisa Christopher-Stine, the director of their myositis clinic.

Frampton is donating a dollar from every ticket sold to a foundation he started that will research a cure.

Shame it’s happening to Frampton, as he is genuinely one of the nicest ‘rock stars’ out there.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:23:07pm

re: #46 teleskiguy

11 hour days, almost every day, since late November. Tough guy style!

Right now we are hiring 38 people for our office, around 800 applied for the positions. Ann at the same time I have to work out April-September leave approvals for 125 people in my office.

Fun, Fun, Fun!

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:24:54pm
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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:25:02pm

re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Oh, so he’s targeting the Somalis. Yup. Way to out yourself as a full-on racist, you imbecilic douchecanoe.

I reported his tweet as offensive. I also found this in the replies:

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:25:59pm

re: #35 Joe Bacon 🌹

I have friends in Minneapolis. They KNOW that there are no such places as “no-go zones in their city”

I wish Twitter allowed me to report tweets

Folks, feel free to report this piece of shit tweet to @jack, too!

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If he went, how is it a no go zone?

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teleskiguy  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:26:03pm

re: #47 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

You’ve got me beat

No I don’t. I quantify it thus: Hard work is hard work.

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teleskiguy  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:28:59pm

re: #51 Joe Bacon 🌹

The Hudsucker Proxy - Orientation Day

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:32:03pm

re: #53 Belafon

I reported his tweet as offensive. I also found this in the replies:

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He’s such an evil little bastard.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:32:36pm

re: #54 Belafon

If he went, how is it a no go zone?

Alex Jones and Steve King told him so.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:33:04pm

re: #48 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Yeah I remember her Title IX story. Typical NR. Feeding fauxrage to conservatives since the Eisenhower years.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:33:38pm

re: #58 Joe Bacon 🌹

Alex Jones and Steve King told him so.

OOPS, I forgot about Michelle Bachman.

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gwangung  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:34:07pm

re: #54 Belafon

If he went, how is it a no go zone?

They knew who he was. His reputation precedes him.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:35:07pm

Behold, the stuff of nightmares!

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SteelPH  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:35:32pm

re: #54 Belafon

If he went, how is it a no go zone?

It’s such a no-go zone that it causes an integer overflow and wraps around to not being one at all.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:35:40pm

Seems to be a conservative habit to go to liberal areas and shit on them from Twitter. Kaitlin Gungirl’s NYC trip anyome?

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:36:41pm

Message that a co-worker of mine wrote that started getting passed around at school yesterday, re: statement that Don Jr. made about teachers:

I’ve been subconsciously pondering Jr. calling teachers “losers.” It didn’t really bother me. My wife is a teacher. I’m a teacher. My mother in law. Lots of my friends. Some of my former students. People who inspired me, challenged me, made me better. I’m not worried about what anyone says about teachers.

But I have pondered it. And this thought that I’ve had tonight, after a long week of 14 hour days teaching and then supervising my theater students as they put on a show they’ve poured their lives into for 6 weeks. This thought, I think, might be a clever one.

Teachers are losers. Teachers lose a lot. They lose their financial stability, spending their money on things their students need, from food to coats to pencils to books to lesson plans. They lose their long term financial security as people steal their pensions. They lose moments with their own children as they work long hours during the week and grade papers on weekends and worry about their students who have it worse. They lose moments with their friends and loved ones because on Fridays they are too tired to even decide what to have for dinner, much less to get up to anything. They lose their ability to talk to people who aren’t teachers about their kids because when they say “their kids” they speak interchangeably about the biological ones and the ones they teach and the ones they taught 10 years ago. They lose their self respect because all of the messages from the outside are about how they are responsible for so many ills and they rarely hear any encouragement. They lose their rights to personal safety because if a student hits them or bites them it could be that nothing will be done to that student. And because if a nutjob decides he wants to be famous for killing a bunch of people, everyone expects them to throw themselves at a bullet.

Sometimes they lose their passion because they feel like no one appreciates everything they do, adapting to the winds of every new program adopted by people who left the classroom because it was too much work.

Teachers are losers. They lose all kinds of things. They lose themselves so that the children in their charge can find themselves, their abilities, their self-efficacy, their capabilities, their passion, their future, and their past.

I’m a loser. And I’m proud of it.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:36:53pm

re: #62 Sufficient unto the day…

Behold, the stuff of nightmares!

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This is the worst ensemble piece ever.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:38:32pm

re: #65 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Message that a co-worker of mine wrote that started getting passed around at school yesterday, re: statement that Don Jr. made about teachers:

You all do a lot of good. Jr is a pathetic jerk who hates teachers I bet because his ignorance has been put on display by many an educator.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:39:54pm

re: #67 HappyWarrior

You all do a lot of good. Jr is a pathetic jerk who hates teachers I bet because his ignorance has been put on display by many an educator.

Junior Spice is obviously someone who made it through school because of his daddy’s name and money, and not his academic prowess.

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Interesting Times  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:41:56pm

Apropos:

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:42:13pm

re: #68 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Junior Spice is obviously someone who made it through school because of his daddy’s name and money, and not his academic prowess.

He’s really not bright at all. Even more ignorant than his Dad which is pretty impressive.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:42:45pm

re: #69 Interesting Times

Apropos:

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Another “Alpha Male.”

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:44:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:46:44pm

LOL

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:48:10pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL

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They shouldn’t have posted it with the license plate visible but Jeezus way to tell everyone you’re an asshole without a word said.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:48:53pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:49:14pm

re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He’s a terrible person.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:51:39pm

re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth

That time when the Federal Government, who has convicted some real monstrous people, submits to the Court that they couldn’t find a comparable case because of all the bad shit you’ve done.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:51:49pm

re: #62 Sufficient unto the day…

So, she wins?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:53:28pm

re: #77 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

That time when the Federal Government, who has convicted some real monstrous people, submits to the Court that they couldn’t find a comparable case because of all the bad shit you’ve done.

He’s one step away from an outright traitor imo.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:55:38pm

This was today’s dinner at Nate & Al in Beverly Hills—Their Strip Steak Sandwich (With New Pickles, Potato Salad and Cole Slaw…

And it’s on one of Nate & Al’s Onion Rolls!
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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:57:11pm

“re: #80 Joe Bacon 🌹

This was today’s dinner at Nate & Al in Beverly Hills—Their Strip Steak Sandwich (With New Pickles, Potato Salad and Cole Slaw…

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Yum

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John Vreeland  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:58:34pm

So
Remember that time when NATO was holding exercises and we sent a bunch of US Marines to Crimea on a bus, but they couldn’t get in because someone bused in a bunch of protesters to surround the bus, and NATO command had to tell them to cancel the exercise?

That was Manafort. He did that. For money.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 6:59:43pm

re: #82 John Vreeland

So
Remember that time when NATO was holding exercises and we sent a bunch of US Marines to Crimea on a bus, but they couldn’t get in because someone bused in a bunch of protesters to surround the bus, and NATO command had to tell them to cancel the exercise?

That was Manafort. He did that. For money.

I really feel the only thing that keeps him from being an outright traitor is we haven’t declared war on his Russian masters.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:03:54pm
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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:04:47pm
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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:05:21pm

At the crash site

Facebook Post

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Charles Johnson  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:10:14pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:10:54pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) would like a word.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:12:32pm

re: #88 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) would like a word.

Thank goodness she’s gone.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:13:35pm

re: #89 HappyWarrior

Thank goodness she’s gone.

Truer words were never spoken.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:14:32pm

re: #90 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Truer words were never spoken.

One of the most ignorant elected officials I ever saw before Trump.

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John Vreeland  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:18:02pm

re: #54 Belafon

Notice that JW did not mention the actual location, which would have been the natural thing to do. He was complaining earlier though that the street next to the University looked like a set from Black Hawk Down.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:18:16pm

With all the Epstein news coming out, maybe conservative talks show hosts shouldn’t be talking about mopping floors at a peepshow. “Write what you know,” I guess.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:19:17pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:20:32pm

re: #93 jaunte

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With all the Epstein news coming out, maybe conservative talks show hosts shouldn’t be talking about mopping floors at a peepshow. “Write what you know,” I guess.

Isn’t Jesss Kelly the right wing loser who mocked his son on Twitter for taking part in a Robotics competition?

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:21:02pm

re: #95 HappyWarrior

I think so.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:21:57pm

re: #94 Single-handed sailor

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I want Nina to run for office and see her reaction when she loses when Bernie insists people who won’t vote for a candidate being black aren’t racist. She’s a pathetic hack.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:23:21pm

It’s also maddening to me to see Bernie Bros using Pelosi to argue age doesn’t matter.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:25:14pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:26:13pm

re: #99 jaunte

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People like that shouldn’t own guns.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:26:26pm

For those of you with some money to spend, Alienware is advertising a laptop that can not only allow you to swap out the CPU and GPU, but will allow desktop CPUs to be used: dell.com.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:27:10pm

re: #101 Belafon

For those of you with some money to spend, Alienware is advertising a laptop that can not only allow you to swap out the CPU and GPU, but will allow desktop CPUs to be used: dell.com.

About FREAKING time.

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BeachDem  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:56:35pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL

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The most pathetic sticker on that car is the Rob Astorino County Executive one.

(WESTCHESTER, folks—you know, where everyone is a multi-millionaire and lives in splendor like AOC)

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:56:39pm
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ThomasLite  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:57:25pm

re: #101 Belafon

For those of you with some money to spend, Alienware is advertising a laptop that can not only allow you to swap out the CPU and GPU, but will allow desktop CPUs to be used: dell.com.

Feh. Those GPU’s are on a very Dell/Alienware-unique MXM(ish) module so you’re going to be paying through the nose for any possible upgrade and the 9000-series core i’s are extremely powerhungry hotheads. To run anywhere near what you see in most desktop benchmarks those 9900K’s actually approach something like 200W power usage *before* overclocking. In a laptop, with another 150-ish W GPU next to it, that’s going to sound less like a Dell product than something from Pratt&Whitney and it’s still going to throttle like hell.
…And it’ll be ruinously expensive to upgrade.
…And it’s not as if Intel is likely to make anything faster for this socket than you can already get for it anymore, anyway.

It’s a gimmick, it’s eyewateringly pricey, it’s not going to perform all that well compared to the max-q (slightly slower but also very energy - and thus thermally - efficiently tuned) GPU with a CPU optimised for high-performance laptops next to it.
These things are going to drop like flies from overheating (Alienware has a spotty history in that regard to begin with) and they’re not even going to perform all that well compared to a more sensible product.

If you get an Alienware, just get the m15 or m17. This abomination will end in tears.

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Ace-o-aces  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:59:33pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 7:59:44pm

re: #105 ThomasLite

Interesting points, and the other thing that you might be bordering on is that we’re approaching the limit at which quantum physics is telling us we need to stop. Efficiency isn’t going to get a whole lot better from here, and jamming high-power components next to each other is just not a happy path to success.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:01:45pm

re: #106 Ace-o-aces

Again, I reiterate: There’s literally one place in Minneapolis where I would tell Mrs. Fish not to go down there alone. If Wohl is driving around in the Twin Cities acting like it’s Gary, Indiana, the dude is completely trolling. It isn’t like that at all. In fact, Minneapolis is one of the safest cities to be in late at night, thanks to a stellar community and a respectable police department (sans a few racist incidents which have been covered here and elsewhere).

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teleskiguy  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:01:56pm

Why I don’t live in Denver anymore.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:02:37pm

re: #106 Ace-o-aces

Asking for more money

In case anyone ever asks what does a Jacob Wohl do?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:02:37pm

re: #106 Ace-o-aces

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Such a loser.

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ThomasLite  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:06:58pm

re: #107 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Interesting points, and the other thing that you might be bordering on is that we’re approaching the limit at which quantum physics is telling us we need to stop. Efficiency isn’t going to get a whole lot better from here, and jamming high-power components next to each other is just not a happy path to success.

We’re a good couple of process nodes away from that yet, it’s just that Intel F^&%’ed up the node they should have had in production a year or two ago at the latest now and they’ve essentially been running their 14nm++++++ (or so) node on overdrive and are essentially selling you pre-overclocked hothead CPU’s to pretend they still have some edge over AMD on desktop offerings.
…Which is kind of weird since so far, their actually sensible laptop products (8950HK if you desperately want to part with a big chunk of your hard-earned) still perform quite well, mostly because AMD’s line scales wonderfully from mid-end desktop to high-end server but has a bit of a powerhungry backbone for laptop usage (in short, the idle power consumption is just… bad, kind of, so you’re likely going to be stuck with bad battery life on anything AMD puts out over the next few years - that infinity fabric kind of slurps your batteries dry).

It’s kind of disappointing since what NV is doing with those max-q GPU’s is almost magical. I mean, I don’t think I’ll ever pay the premium for laptop gaming, ever, but performance isn’t that far removed from desktop levels any more. If you just get something more sensible you’ll be off a couple thousand bucks cheaper and it’s just absolutely amazing how close you can get to a pretty high-end gaming desktop with something that fits in a <6lb. weight budget. This monstrosity just shouldn’t exist, other than as a way to make gamers with more money than sense part with the former.

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BeachDem  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:08:54pm

re: #106 Ace-o-aces

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Bostic might be a director at Culttture (say what?) but he’s primarily an ambulance-chasing lawyer, so a good match for little mr. ahole.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:09:50pm

re: #112 ThomasLite

I mean, I get it. Gamers are looking for futureproofing. They want a box that they can upgrade ad infinitum, or until the next processor socket comes out that makes their rig obsolete. The thing of it is, that rig means nothing if they can’t keep it cool, and while the hardcore are willing to resort to water cooling to make it work, that’s completely impractical for a portable rig and completely defeats the purpose of a gaming laptop.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:11:03pm

re: #113 BeachDem

Sharia law? I’ve heard the stories from the local kink community. Booming now more than ever, so I’m told. If they’re enforcing sharia law, they’re doing a damn bad job of it.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:12:38pm

re: #113 BeachDem

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Bostic might be a director at Culttture (say what?) but he’s primarily an ambulance-chasing lawyer, so a good match for little mr. ahole.

I like the unnecessary three t’s. Either referencing 3 k’s or three crosses, or both.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:16:54pm

re: #115 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Sharia law? I’ve heard the stories from the local kink community. Booming now more than ever, so I’m told. If they’re enforcing sharia law, they’re doing a damn bad job of it.

I’m sure the bar scene is doing pretty well too.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:19:10pm

re: #117 HappyWarrior

I’m sure the bar scene is doing pretty well too.

Oh yes, absolutely. I’m sure they’re doing booming business in the depths of this ridiculous global warming that we’ve been suffering so far.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:27:25pm

The Estonian Union for the Protection of Animals (EUPA) said the wolf had low blood pressure when it arrived at the clinic, which may have explained its docile nature after the men carried it to their car to warm it up, according to the BBC.

“He was calm, slept on my legs. When I wanted to stretch them, he raised his head for a moment,” one of the rescuers told Estonian newspaper Postimees.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:51:59pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 8:53:33pm

re: #121 Single-handed sailor

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Crook.

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Unshaken Defiance  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:01:25pm

Took a drive out today to look at the Woolsey fire landscape. As always, the recovery is remarkable. I call this shot “Life In The Shadow of Death”. Beautiful blossom under a larger bush that had just about incinerated to sticks.

Decker Canyon Near Pt Mugu California

Then Shatter Rock

Shattered by Fire
Early Poppy
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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:07:00pm
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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:07:44pm

re: #109 teleskiguy

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Why I don’t live in Denver anymore.

Even the access roads and the canyon?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:08:30pm

No. They. Didn’t…

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:20:37pm

re: #126 Joe Bacon 🌹

No. They. Didn’t…

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The Hitler youth just aren’t the quality they used to be.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:27:04pm
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ThomasLite  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:31:26pm

re: #114 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I mean, I get it. Gamers are looking for futureproofing. They want a box that they can upgrade ad infinitum, or until the next processor socket comes out that makes their rig obsolete. The thing of it is, that rig means nothing if they can’t keep it cool, and while the hardcore are willing to resort to water cooling to make it work, that’s completely impractical for a portable rig and completely defeats the purpose of a gaming laptop.

Yeah, I kind of get that but we’ve heard that empty promise for over 15 years now. I mean, MXM has been a thing for at least that long and (reasonably priced) commercial availability has historically been about zilch. And Alienware is up (down?) there with the likes of Razer (and Apple) when it comes to squeezing you for every last penny they think they can get away with once you’re in that captive ecosystem.

The CPU is kind of stupid, but the replaceable GPU is just Lucy with the football.

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teleskiguy  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:32:31pm

re: #125 Dave In Austin

Even the access roads and the canyon?

Clogged weekends and holidays.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:36:18pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:39:40pm

re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Oh, so he’s targeting the Somalis. Yup. Way to out yourself as a full-on racist, you imbecilic douchecanoe.

Minnesota had a large Somali population. That might be why the jackoff went there in the first place.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:43:27pm

re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg

Minnesota had a large Somali population. That might be why the jackoff went there in the first place.

He’s got a thing about Rep. Oman.

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stpaulbear  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:47:13pm

re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg

Minnesota had a large Somali population. That might be why the jackoff went there in the first place.

He also mentioned being by the University. He’s probably in the Cedar/Riverside neighborhood, on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That neighborhood is very Somali. It used to be the hippy neighborhood in the late 60’s.

How come Wohl’s face always looks like really bad CGI?

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:48:24pm

re: #129 ThomasLite

Yeah, I kind of get that but we’ve heard that empty promise for over 15 years now. I mean, MXM has been a thing for at least that long and (reasonably priced) commercial availability has historically been about zilch. And Alienware is up (down?) there with the likes of Razer (and Apple) when it comes to squeezing you for every last penny they think they can get away with once you’re in that captive ecosystem.

The CPU is kind of stupid, but the replaceable GPU is just Lucy with the football.

I’m old enough to remember when 64k was enough ram. It’s an interesting experiment, and even if it works, for most people, it’s the equivalent of buying a laptop when all they need is a chromebook.

A few interesting byproducts. The first is that they actually cared about being able to do upgrades. Having to undo the keyboard and, gawd for bid, the monitor to replace hardware needs to go away. The second is that a cooling system that can handle an i9 and a 2080 will be great for other laptops. And three, this will reduce the amount of discarded hardware if something fails.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:50:34pm

re: #72 jaunte

That story has an awesome closing paragraph:

It’s unlikely that Marvel or the Captain Marvel filmmakers are likely to be upset by these new attempts to derail the growing buzz around the movie; if nothing else, it just shows how desperate trolls are getting in their attempts to dampen enthusiasm for Brie Larson’s MCU debut. Those attempts aren’t working, however; the movie is currently on track for a $100 million-plus opening.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:50:54pm

re: #128 Belafon

It’s sad how people read those tweets and think she’s over spending, that if people want to work in government, they should be willing to take a small salary, and can’t even read properly.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:52:56pm
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TedStriker  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:52:59pm

re: #136 Eclectic Cyborg

That story has an awesome closing paragraph:

It’s unlikely that Marvel or the Captain Marvel filmmakers are likely to be upset by these new attempts to derail the growing buzz around the movie; if nothing else, it just shows how desperate trolls are getting in their attempts to dampen enthusiasm for Brie Larson’s MCU debut. Those attempts aren’t working, however; the movie is currently on track for a $100 million-plus opening.

Simply put: MRA incel neckbeards, you’re irrelevant, have been and will be.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:54:31pm

An update on my RTX 2070 and my newest adventures in machine learning: It’s so far doing about three times the speed of my GTX 1050 TI.

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teleskiguy  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:55:23pm
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A hollow voice says, Collusion!  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:58:50pm

re: #128 Belafon

I’m sure there’ll be moaning from the usual suspects about lazy, overpaid staff, but $52K doesn’t sound like a lot of money if you have to live in the DC area.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2019 • 9:59:09pm

re: #138 Dave In Austin

Deleted. What was it?

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:00:30pm
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TedStriker  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:04:15pm

re: #128 Belafon

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re: #142 A hollow voice says, Collusion!

I’m sure there’ll be moaning from the usual suspects about lazy, overpaid staff, but $52K doesn’t sound like a lot of money if you have to live in the DC area.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:05:42pm

Git Squad

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:06:50pm

re: #145 TedStriker

$52K I think is the median income for the entire USA. It’s a pretty typical public service salary.

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TedStriker  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:07:52pm

re: #146 goddamnedfrank

Git Squad

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:08:56pm

re: #146 goddamnedfrank

I am really not impressed. Where are their earbuds and tactical gear? All I see is a bunch of wannabes pretending to enter a warzone that doesn’t even exist.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:14:38pm

re: #148 TedStriker

That was my thought exactly. That he just paid random dudes to pose for the photos.

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ThomasLite  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:15:42pm

re: #135 Belafon

I’m old enough to remember when 64k was enough ram. It’s an interesting experiment, and even if it works, for most people, it’s the equivalent of buying a laptop when all they need is a chromebook.

A few interesting byproducts. The first is that they actually cared about being able to do upgrades. Having to undo the keyboard and, gawd for bid, the monitor to replace hardware needs to go away. The second is that a cooling system that can handle an i9 and a 2080 will be great for other laptops. And three, this will reduce the amount of discarded hardware if something fails.

Problem with that last bit is that generally, what fails on a laptop logic board is something in VRM or associated power circuitry (or the flex cable to the display backlight blows out and the logic board turns out to be insufficiently fused to not melt down right along with it). An MXM GPU has that power circuitry (largely) offloaded to the main logic board as well. From my time moonlighting in electronics repair I strongly suspect most actual failure modes for this thing will still hit the not (economically viably) replaceable bit. And it’s still Alienware/Dell so the only way you’re ever getting any replacement parts for that sort of thing for less than $1000 is if it gets replaced under an extremely expensive service agreement.
Don’t get me wrong, I would dearly love for you to be right but we’ve been promised modular laptops for the better part of two decades now and absolutely nobody has even come close to making good on that promise even a tiny bit.

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A hollow voice says, Collusion!  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:25:07pm

re: #143 Eclectic Cyborg

Deleted. What was it?

It was a naturalistic tattoo of a woman’s face, and the same tattoo turned into a “demon woman.” You would not recognize the first one from the second.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:26:24pm

Just a random question here. Are incels and MRAs only white guys? It seems I have never seen a man of color complain about not getting laid or women taking over.

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A hollow voice says, Collusion!  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:27:17pm

re: #147 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

$52K I think is the median income for the entire USA. It’s a pretty typical public service salary.

In the SF bay area it would make you low-income, and I believe DC isn’t that much cheaper.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:27:53pm

re: #153 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Just a random question here. Are incels and MRAs only white guys? It seems I have never seen a man of color complain about not getting laid or women taking over.

I wouldn’t say only but disproportionately yeah it’s mostly a white guy thing.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:29:06pm

re: #154 A hollow voice says, Collusion!

In the SF bay area it would make you low-income, and I believe DC isn’t that much cheaper.

DC isn’t as bad as the Bay Area I believe but AOC is right about this.

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A hollow voice says, Collusion!  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:29:23pm

re: #153 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Just a random question here. Are incels and MRAs only white guys? It seems I have never seen a man of color complain about not getting laid or women taking over.

Ride the busses in my area. They probably rap instead of joining together to bitch on the web.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:29:39pm

re: #149 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

I am really not impressed. Where are their earbuds and tactical gear? All I see is a bunch of wannabes pretending to enter a warzone that doesn’t even exist.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:31:45pm

re: #158 goddamnedfrank

Guys on the left are wearing tennies. In the snow. Guy in crocs has blue feet, probably.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:33:19pm

re: #158 goddamnedfrank

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The cargo pants make it all tactical.

/Maybe he has a bad case of stinkfoot.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:35:37pm

I think it’s unbelievably crass to visit a city like that and then crap on it all over social media. Anyhow I guess Jacob misses the days when the Klan had tons of power in Minneapolis.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:38:49pm
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The Ghost of Quesos Past  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:42:07pm

We’ve invented a system that perfectly connects grifters and the gullible, it’s already getting people murdered, and eventually it’s going to generate a global-scale mass casualty event.

Stupidest…apocalypse…ever.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:42:40pm
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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:56:31pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2019 • 10:59:20pm

Jacob Wohl has to do grifting — after all, given his criminal record, lack of education, notoriety, and level of incompetence, it’s not as though he has the opportunity for pursuing any legitimate career.

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:03:47pm

re: #136 Eclectic Cyborg

That story has an awesome closing paragraph:

It’s unlikely that Marvel or the Captain Marvel filmmakers are likely to be upset by these new attempts to derail the growing buzz around the movie; if nothing else, it just shows how desperate trolls are getting in their attempts to dampen enthusiasm for Brie Larson’s MCU debut. Those attempts aren’t working, however; the movie is currently on track for a $100 million-plus opening.

Are these the same trolls who were so freaked out by Black Panther?

They said there’d be no box office for a superhero movie with a mostly black cast. They pretended it was dangerous for white people to go see it at theaters. Good thing they don’t read, or they’d have been OUTRAGED beyond belief to realize that Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the comic book.

Must’ve really chafed them that it was a hugely successful film, made oodles of money, and now it’s up for Best Picture.

(my favors BP comment remains the punny reaction to the fact that the only caucasians in the entire cast are Andy Sirkis and Martin Freeman, AKA the Tolkein White Guys).

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:04:29pm

LOL, Hot Take.

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:04:57pm

re: #137 Belafon

It’s sad how people read those tweets and think she’s over spending, that if people want to work in government, they should be willing to take a small salary, and can’t even read properly.

She’s spending the same as any other member of congress; but because she pays more per staffer, that means she’s got a smaller staff than most of her colleagues.

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uriel  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:08:47pm

Meh- I had to.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:28:47pm

Dammit, I think these beers are drinking themselves.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:30:58pm

re: #167 sagehen

Are these the same trolls who were so freaked out by Black Panther?

They said there’d be no box office for a superhero movie with a mostly black cast. They pretended it was dangerous for white people to go see it at theaters. Good thing they don’t read, or they’d have been OUTRAGED beyond belief to realize that Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the comic book.

Must’ve really chafed them that it was a hugely successful film, made oodles of money, and now it’s up for Best Picture.

(my favors BP comment remains the punny reaction to the fact that the only caucasians in the entire cast are Andy Sirkis and Martin Freeman, AKA the Tolkein White Guys).

In the recent DCU history, the most successful flick has been Wonder Woman followed by Aquaman, which had a male lead of color and a strong female co-lead. Over at Marvel, Black Panther was a blockbuster success, and I predict Captain Marvel will be as well.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:40:28pm
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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:40:36pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:48:47pm

you mean to tell me there’s no band named “stinking badgers”?

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:49:39pm
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austin_blue  Feb 23, 2019 • 11:53:12pm

Welp, I’ve read as much as is available on the 767 crash east of Houston. My best guesses.

Not birds. Not icing. Not engine failure. Not weather. Not explosive decompression. That leaves four major possibilities.

Suicide by plane by one of the crew (German Wings in Europe, Hughes Air West by a disgruntled employee/passenger who shot the cockpit crew).

Bomb in the cargo hold (unlikely, because as far as I know, Amazon hasn’t started selling bombs on-line yet).

Fuel pump still running in the empty center wing tank (TWA over Long Island Sound). Boeing has said this issue has been addressed, but you never know. Chaos theory may be valid.

Runaway trim on the elevator.

I’m hoping it’s #4.

Approach is when you use your trim switches the most. You want a nice smooth ride to insert yourself into the landing queue. Bush has 3 E/W runways, and you never know to which one you will be assigned until you are about where they were when things went to hell. Could be 27, 26 left, or 26 right. And trim switches do stick sometimes. If they fail full down you are in a world of hurt.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:00:46am

re: #172 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

In the recent DCU history, the most successful flick has been Wonder Woman followed by Aquaman, which had a male lead of color and a strong female co-lead. Over at Marvel, Black Panther was a blockbuster success, and I predict Captain Marvel will be as well.

Not only was Black Panther a blockbuster success, but it’s in the top 10 highest worldwide box-office at a little over $1.3 billion gross.

boxofficemojo.com

And those neckbeard morons said “there’s no audience for a superhero film with black leading actors!”

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:06:39am

re: #178 Dr Lizardo

And I’ll add that Black Panther had the third-highest domestic (US) box-office gross of all time, only bested by Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avatar, respectively.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:11:20am

In today’s installment of Brexit:

As the Brits are fond of saying, “Omnishambles”.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:14:04am

Also, this notice from Yves Rocher:

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sagehen  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:21:49am

re: #176 DodgerFan1988

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This whole Epstein thing sounds super-Pizzagatey.

I’m sure that’s just a coincidence. Not projecting at all.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:24:25am

re: #179 Dr Lizardo

And I’ll add that Black Panther had the third-highest domestic (US) box-office gross of all time, only bested by Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avatar, respectively.

Amazingly, if you offer 11% of the US population a great movie starring people of their own particular ethnic background, they will flock to the theaters to see it. Even more amazing, people who are not in that 11% demographic will *also* go see the movie. You can’t explain that.
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:25:15am

re: #180 Dr Lizardo

A total cock-up

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:30:21am

re: #184 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

A total cock-up

Yeah, and the worst part of it is there’s a substantial part of the population that’s in complete denial that things could very easily go horribly wrong…….for instance, large swathes of their current government, among others.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:30:25am

Meanwhile in Canada

Winnipeg is vying for the world’s largest snow maze.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:31:16am

In today’s chapter of academic program mismanagement, today I learned that no one in the university bothered to tell the sophomores that they needed to buy textbooks for the course THAT BEGINS TOMORROW. So, we have had to scan the first unit of the book to share with the 475 students taking the class, hoping that they will have the books by the end of the week.

Meanwhile, last week I learned that we would start the term missing two teachers. The last week has been an effing nightmare trying to get those classes covered.

I really hate being a manager.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:32:49am

re: #186 Single-handed sailor

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Winnipeg is vying for the world’s largest snow maze.

Instead of the Minotaur, there’s a guy in there wearing a moosehead.

Or maybe just drinking Moosehead.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:33:48am

re: #185 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, and the worst part of it is there’s a substantial part of the population that’s in complete denial that things could very easily go horribly wrong…….for instance, large swathes of their current government, among others.

“You mean, the EU is just going to cut us off when we leave the EU!!?? Oh noez!”

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:36:09am

Here’s a bit more Brexit news:

The government is expected next week to spell out its plan to mitigate a potential £9bn food-price shock from a no-deal Brexit, as analysts predict the cost of staples such as beef, cheddar cheese and tomatoes could soar.

With just over a month until the Brexit deadline, the Department for International Trade is expected on Monday to publish a list of new import taxes, or tariffs, that will apply to 5,200 products, including food and clothing, should the UK crash out of the EU without a deal.

The relationship with the EU is key to the price of food because nearly one third of the food eaten in the UK comes from the bloc. At this time of year the situation is more acute because, with UK produce out of season, 90% of lettuces, 80% of tomatoes and 70% of soft fruit is sourced from, or via, the EU.

“Food and drink tariff rates will be higher than those in any other supply chain,” says Richard Lim, chief executive of consultancy firm Retail Economics. “All stages within the food supply chain will experience increased costs, with retailers hit disproportionately as processed goods attract higher duties than raw materials and semi-processed goods.”

theguardian.com

Looks like turnip’s back on the menu, boys!!

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:39:01am

re: #190 Dr Lizardo

Here’s a bit more Brexit news:

theguardian.com

Looks like turnip’s back on the menu, boys!!

smdh

Those poor fools. No more cheap fruits, veggies and wine. Where did they think those items came from? You can’t grow oranges in the British Isles. Or wine grapes.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:40:08am

re: #185 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, and the worst part of it is there’s a substantial part of the population that’s in complete denial that things could very easily go horribly wrong…….for instance, large swathes of their current government, among others.

It’s genuinely hard to tell who are the bigger idiots: The pro-Brexiters who believe that they can get Brussels to float them an extension after they’ve been explicitly told that no extensions will be granted…or the ones who think that crashing out of the EU will be beneficial because “WE’VE RESTORED OUR SOVEREIGNTY!” and things will just keep rolling on as before because the EU wouldn’t dare cross the UK.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:43:08am

re: #192 Targetpractice

It’s genuinely hard to tell who are the bigger idiots: The pro-Brexiters who believe that they can get Brussels to float them an extension after they’ve been explicitly told that no extensions will be granted…or the ones who think that crashing out of the EU will be beneficial because “WE’VE RESTORED OUR SOVEREIGNTY!” and things will just keep rolling on as before because the EU wouldn’t dare cross the UK.

Truth is, the UK needs the EU more than the EU needs the UK. The Continent can get along quite nicely without the Brits, thank you very much.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:44:40am

re: #191 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

re: #192 Targetpractice

Britain still thinks it’s some kind of global superpower, or at least a good-sized chunk of its people do.

They’re not.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:45:47am

re: #193 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Truth is, the UK needs the EU more than the EU needs the UK. The Continent can get along quite nicely without the Brits, thank you very much.

And that’s what people in the Remain camp have been saying for the last two and a half years - but about half the public (and a whole lot of people in the British government) simply refuse to hear it.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:47:57am

re: #193 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Truth is, the UK needs the EU more than the EU needs the UK. The Continent can get along quite nicely without the Brits, thank you very much.

And that’s the problem the “sovereignty” crowd don’t get, that Britain is not an island unto itself (pun intended) anymore, it has been part of an economic and trade cooperative for so long that much of the industries it once possessed are simply gone. Why possess the means to cover all the Kingdom’s food needs when you can just import that shit for cheap from southern Europe? Or have an auto industry when foreign companies are paying your people to build their cars?

But like the nimrods out in the Midwest who sit watching their soybeans mold into mush and think “Well, it’s a small price to pay if China is forced to bend a knee!”, these morons are no doubt convinced whatever hardship hits the Isles is “worth it” because no longer will Brussels control their lives…the corrupt assholes of Parliament will instead.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:48:03am

re: #195 Dr Lizardo

Oops…..I had to edit that comment. Please refresh.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:53:32am

re: #196 Targetpractice

You mentioned China and the current trade frictions - I can see Trump giving away the store because right now, he’s so utterly desperate for something…….anything…..that he can spin as some kind of “victory” that he’ll end up giving China 95% of what they want so he can claim that 5% as WINNING! MAGA!!!

Oh yeah, and that upcoming summit in Vietnam with Kim Jong-un, yeah, he’ll probably agree to something stupid and entirely unverifiable.

Kim’s probably already laughing his ass off. He’s likely gonna come out of this stronger than ever.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:53:47am

re: #196 Targetpractice

In the USA, Trump says steel and coal are coming back, and American manufacturing will spontaneously resume. And his followers believe it.

But most of those factories were mothballed years ago, or sold off. American firms restructured their supply lines to accommodate offshore factories and suppliers. They can’t suddenly switch to USA-only with the flick of Trump’s teeny tiny pinky finger, even if they wanted to.

And they don’t.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:58:42am

re: #198 Dr Lizardo

You mentioned China and the current trade frictions - I can see Trump giving away the store because right now, he’s so utterly desperate for something…….anything…..that he can spin as some kind of “victory” that he’ll end up giving China 95% of what they want so he can claim that 5% as WINNING! MAGA!!!

Oh yeah, and that upcoming summit in Vietnam with Kim Jong-un, yeah, he’ll probably agree to something stupid and entirely unverifiable.

Kim’s probably already laughing his ass off. He’s likely gonna come out of this stronger than ever.

I’d say it’s even money that whatever “deal” is made with Beijing will be in their favor, while Trump will hail the table scraps Xii hands him as “WINNING!” Or it will be like NAFTA 1.2, i.e. a minor updating of existing trade policies that he slaps a Trump-approved name upon and hails as a major “victory” for America.

As for the Vietnam “summit,” it will be like the last one: An expensive photo-op where Don and Kim take turns blowing each other over how awesome they are as world leaders, before signing an “agreement” that does two things: Jack and Shit.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:02:47am

re: #200 Targetpractice

I’d say it’s even money that whatever “deal” is made with Beijing will be in their favor, while Trump will hail the table scraps Xii hands him as “WINNING!” Or it will be like NAFTA 1.2, i.e. a minor updating of existing trade policies that he slaps a Trump-approved name upon and hails as a major “victory” for America.

As for the Vietnam “summit,” it will be like the last one: An expensive photo-op where Don and Kim take turns blowing each other over how awesome they are as world leaders, before signing an “agreement” that does two things: Jack and Shit.

I am expecting China and North Korea will play Trump like a fiddle, because they know he wants something to distract from his legal problems. He wants 5G really bad, because 5 is more than 4, so he’ll probably let Huawei sell 5G hardware in the States. Just wait.

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Targetpractice  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:20:55am

re: #201 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

I am expecting China and North Korea will play Trump like a fiddle, because they know he wants something to distract from his legal problems. He wants 5G really bad, because 5 is more than 4, so he’ll probably let Huawei sell 5G hardware in the States. Just wait.

It’s not simply his legal problems, the clock’s ticking on his term and he needs some sort of big and flashy “win” to argue that his way of doing things gets results. He’s tried to be a “wartime president” and found that Russia just kept eating his lunch. His efforts to convince voters he’s doing anything meaningful about immigration have been a wash. And his trade war is threatening the one thing he had going for him, which was an economy that’s in the green. So he’s going to be seeking anything he can get from Beijing and Pyongyang to say “Being a tough guy works!”

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:26:55am

re: #202 Targetpractice

It’s not simply his legal problems, the clock’s ticking on his term and he needs some sort of big and flashy “win” to argue that his way of doing things gets results. He’s tried to be a “wartime president” and found that Russia just kept eating his lunch. His efforts to convince voters he’s doing anything meaningful about immigration have been a wash. And his trade war is threatening the one thing he had going for him, which was an economy that’s in the green. So he’s going to be seeking anything he can get from Beijing and Pyongyang to say “Being a tough guy works!”

They are going to eat his lunch.

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Jay C  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:48:54am

re: #196 Targetpractice

And that’s the problem the “sovereignty” crowd don’t get, that Britain is not an island unto itself (pun intended) anymore, it has been part of an economic and trade cooperative for so long that much of the industries it once possessed are simply gone. Why possess the means to cover all the Kingdom’s food needs when you can just import that shit for cheap from southern Europe? Or have an auto industry when foreign companies are paying your people to build their cars?

But like the nimrods out in the Midwest who sit watching their soybeans mold into mush and think “Well, it’s a small price to pay if China is forced to bend a knee!”, these morons are no doubt convinced whatever hardship hits the Isles is “worth it” because no longer will Brussels control their lives…the corrupt assholes of Parliament will instead.

Not to mention that back in the Good Old Days, the U.K. had a global Empire as a “sphere of interest” to provide both sources and destinations for trade and investment on a major scale. And that those captive markets are now gone (replaced, in large part by just that “economic and trade cooperative” the Brits are now deliberately bailing on) - the economy of the rest of the world having moved on.

The Brexiteers pitched their campaign (at least AFAICT) on the notion of “restoring” Britain to Its “rightful” status as it was in (a highly-romanticized version of) the past. Unfortunately, it seems like that past isn’t going to be the one of the globe-girdling superpower of the pre-WWII era, but England as it was in the mid-Sixteenth Century: a second-tier offshore player with limited resources and consumed with internal conflicts.

But at least they’ll be rid of the Poles and Romanians, so the hardships will be worth it…
o

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:03:44am

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL

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Red tape, to bring the whole thing together with the car color.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:08:17am

Frank Sinatra - Angel Eyes (2018 Stereo Mix)

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Dave In Austin  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:10:28am
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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:14:30am

re: #181 Dr Lizardo

Also, this notice from Yves Rocher:

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Perhaps someone will now start paying attention.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:14:34am

re: #80 Joe Bacon 🌹

This was today’s dinner at Nate & Al in Beverly Hills—Their Strip Steak Sandwich (With New Pickles, Potato Salad and Cole Slaw…

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I just love good Cole Slaw, but alas. Since I went on blood thinners after my aortic valve replacement with a mechanical one I am restricted on eating cabbage, broccoli, black-eye peas and so may other green, leafy veggies I love because of interaction with the meds. Have had to move more towards fruits rather than many veggies I really like. Not that I can’t have them ever, but just not in the quantity that I want sometimes :-)

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:18:49am

re: #193 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Truth is, the UK needs the EU more than the EU needs the UK. The Continent can get along quite nicely without the Brits, thank you very much.

Too bad it’s going to take a lot of starving people for them to realize that.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:23:44am

re: #209 Eventual Carrion

I just love good Cole Slaw, but alas. Since I went on blood thinners after my aortic valve replacement with a mechanical one I am restricted on eating cabbage, broccoli, black-eye peas and so may other green, leafy veggies I love because of interaction with the meds. Have had to move more towards fruits rather than many veggies I really like. Not that I can’t have them ever, but just not in the quantity that I want sometimes :-)

I had no idea that foods could negatively interact with drugs. I’m sorry.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:27:53am
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Amory Blaine  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:30:06am

Weren’t we told that someone more famous than Kraft was busted? I haven’t seen anything leak out yet.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:34:23am

I hate waking up 3 fucking hours before work. Gah

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 2:44:38am

re: #210 MsJ

Too bad it’s going to take a lot of starving people for them to realize that.

And a whole lotta people without jobs. For example, during the 2016 referendum campaign, the Leavers were fond of using talking points that came from the authors of the WTO strategy of Brexit (“Economists for Brexit”, who were widely quoted by the Leave campaign partly because the number of economists actually advocating for Brexit was laughably small) and Economists for Brexit quietly admitted that Brexit would in fact lead to the extinction of manufacturing in the UK - but the Leave campaign didn’t mention that part of the argument.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 3:04:11am

The fire rises fun continues:

“Easiest deal in history!” said some Brexiteer (it wasn’t Farage, in fairness to him).

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 24, 2019 • 3:26:22am

re: #168 Single-handed sailor

LOL, Hot Take.

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But strangling someone to death for selling loose cigs is acceptable? Patronizing/facilitating sex slavery trade, leave them alone. Sell loose cig, death penalty.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 3:37:47am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 24, 2019 • 3:40:43am

re: #183 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Amazingly, if you offer 11% of the US population a great movie starring people of their own particular ethnic background, they will flock to the theaters to see it. Even more amazing, people who are not in that 11% demographic will *also* go see the movie. You can’t explain that.
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The buying power of the Blue demographic is consistently under-valued.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 24, 2019 • 3:51:33am
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 4:18:14am

Massage parlors in Jupiter, FL. LDS bishops in Utah. Both nowhere near the Mexico border.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 24, 2019 • 4:35:39am
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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 4:36:23am

re: #221 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Massage parlors in Jupiter, FL. LDS bishops in Utah. Both nowhere near the Mexico border.

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He’s was a fucking vice cop, too. Read this (poorly written) paragraph.

On Tuesday, detectives arrested David N. Moss, 51, who is currently the bishop of a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lehi. Sgt. Spencer Cannon, with the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, said they have no evidence, but are investigating the possibility of other victims because of his position of trust as a local church leader and a vice police officer as late as 2012.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 4:37:41am

re: #223 MsJ

A vice cop who is also allegedly a human trafficker. Sounds like he could have been on the take, as well.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 24, 2019 • 4:39:43am

re: #222 Amory Blaine

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Edit: Up to 133 dead.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 4:55:56am

re: #225 Amory Blaine

There was a similar story in China last year or the year before. Some local distiller blended his baijiu with industrial alcohol.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:00:06am

re: #226 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

There was a similar story in China last year or the year before. Some local distiller blended his baijiu with industrial alcohol.

Happened here in Czech Republic as well in 2012. 38 people died as a result.

Czech TV made a good two-part film about the incident, Metanol; very well-done for a TV movie.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:03:02am

re: #227 Dr Lizardo

Here’s the film, btw - two parts, but no English subtitles unfortunately.

METANOL Film časť 1.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:10:11am

Good article. On Trump Russia.
globalnews.ca

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Jay C  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:10:16am

re: #210 MsJ

Too bad it’s going to take a lot of starving people for them to realize that.

True. Britain - the whole island, basically - has not been able to feed itself from domestic agriculture for about the last 200 years or so. And the politics of food (even when not directly spelled out) has been a significant factor in the UK’s governance ever since.
Another part of History the Brexit scamsters tended to gloss over….

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:11:11am

re: #230 Jay C

True. Britain - the whole island, basically - has not been able to feed itself from domestic agriculture for about the last 200 years or so. And the politics of food (even when not directly spelled out) has been a significant factor in the UK’s governance ever since.
Another part of History the Brexit scamsters tended to gloss over….

The Corn Laws, for example.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:13:43am

re: #231 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Speaking of the Corn Laws, this was posted yesterday…BTW, I highly recommend this channel.

Irish Potato Famine - The Corn Laws - Extra History - #2

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:15:12am

re: #232 Sufficient unto the day…

Speaking of the Corn Laws, this was posted yesterday…BTW, I highly recommend this channel.

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I discovered Extra Credit, too. Each video is well done and concise.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:20:06am

Pretty clear now PM May is just stonewalling at this point.

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jeffreyw  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:24:17am

Good morning!

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:30:27am

re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth

I have to go to one of his DC area restaurants just to thank him for everything he does. Chef Andre is s hero,

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Man, DangerMan  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:30:48am

re: #203 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

They are going to eat his lunch.

and take his bus pass

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:34:37am

re: #236 Patricia Kayden

I have to go to one of his DC area restaurants just to thank him for everything he does. Chef Andre is s hero,

Jaleo and Zantinya. Went to the former for my birthday (Spanish tapas) and the latter based off a recommendation (Greek/Mediterranean food). Both were really good.

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lawhawk  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:36:59am

Greets and saluts from the soggy NYC metro area. The tangerine toddler’s already up this morning… .and deflecting from yesterday’s Mueller document dump (25 page sentencing memo plus ~800 pages of associated documents) by claiming that he’s doing a huge 4th of July celebration in DC, when DC already does a 4th of July celebration every fucking year.

The guy is fucking nuts and thinks everything is about him. He’s vain, egotistical, and so needy that it’s a wonder how he gets through the day.

And yet now he’s on his way to meet with Jong Un in Vietnam, and oh yeah, Jong Un wants to try and minimize the distractions to Trump - because Jong Un knows how to play Trump so that he makes still more concessions to North Korea without getting anything in return.

Trump’s the clear and present danger to the US.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:39:55am

re: #239 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the soggy NYC metro area. The tangerine toddler’s already up this morning… .and deflecting from yesterday’s Mueller document dump (25 page sentencing memo plus ~800 pages of associated documents) by claiming that he’s doing a huge 4th of July celebration in DC, when DC already does a 4th of July celebration every fucking year.

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Trump’s the clear and present danger to the US.

I cringe every time I see “your favorite President.” It’s so Orwellian and creepy.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:42:40am

re: #240 HappyWarrior

And not just Orwellian, but Fuckwit Orwellian. I mean, they had put some SERIOUS thought into how to fuck with thought and language.

This guy?

Umm…not so much.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:44:20am

re: #241 Sufficient unto the day…

And not just Orwellian, but Fuckwit Orwellian. I mean, they had put some SERIOUS thought into how to fuck with thought and language.

This guy?

Umm…not so much.

Yeah. Orwellian for dukbasses.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:45:24am

re: #240 HappyWarrior

I cringe every time I see “your favorite President.” It’s so Orwellian and creepy.

It’s the narcissist need to always be IT (for everything); smartest, most popular, etc., etc., etc. ad nauseum).

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Jay C  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:46:27am

re: #240 HappyWarrior

I cringe every time I see “your favorite President.” It’s so Orwellian and creepy.

And just another reminder that Trump probably actually DOES view his Presidency as a sort of reality-TV production ( though lacking the “script”, “director” and “editor” parts).
Ratings and brand-promotion are the main - if not the only - priority.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:54:18am

re: #244 Jay C

And just another reminder that Trump probably actually DOES view his Presidency as a sort of reality-TV production ( though lacking the “script”, “director” and “editor” parts).
Ratings and brand-promotion are the main - if not the only - priority.

He needed a lot of coddling, coaxing and editing to make The Apprentice even work as a reality show. Now, he has none of that. We are watching Trump Unscripted.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:56:43am

re: #244 Jay C

And just another reminder that Trump probably actually DOES view his Presidency as a sort of reality-TV production ( though lacking the “script”, “director” and “editor” parts).
Ratings and brand-promotion are the main - if not the only - priority.

That pretty well defines his whole life… Lied to get on Forbes list, leverages himself to make it look like he’s something he’s not, every aspect of his pathetic life is horse shit and all for show.

What’s really pathetic is that he likely believes it. He’s mentally unstable.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:56:56am
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Man, DangerMan  Feb 24, 2019 • 5:58:02am

re: #244 Jay C

And just another reminder that Trump probably actually DOES view his Presidency as a sort of reality-TV production ( though lacking the “script”, “director” and “editor” parts).
Ratings and brand-promotion are the main - if not the only - priority.

c’mon, he is the writer, director and editor
just ask him

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:01:28am

re: #235 jeffreyw

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:02:07am

re: #247 Barefoot Grin

If Bernie wasn’t a Senator, he’d be one of those crazy guys on street corners yelling at passing cars.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:08:36am

re: #250 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

If Bernie wasn’t a Senator, he’d be one of those crazy guys on street corners yelling at passing cars.

If Bernie wasn’t a Senator, he’s be that random citizen hogging the microphone at a City Council meeting

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:10:08am

re: #247 Barefoot Grin

re: #251 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:15:42am

Tomorrow the spring term begins, so no late Sunday nights for me now. See you all later!

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:17:36am

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:27:06am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:27:51am

Yeah, this is normal
(it’s my highlight, he hasn’t gotten ‘there’ yet)

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:28:04am
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Man, DangerMan  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:52:22am

re: #239 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the soggy NYC metro area. The tangerine toddler’s already up this morning… .and deflecting from yesterday’s Mueller document dump (25 page sentencing memo plus ~800 pages of associated documents) by claiming that he’s doing a huge 4th of July celebration in DC, when DC already does a 4th of July celebration every fucking year.

Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President

Trump’s the clear and present danger to the US.

He’s booked Obama

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geosherman  Feb 24, 2019 • 6:59:03am

re: #123 Unshaken Defiance

Enjoying the native wild flowers - one of my hobbies as well! Phacelia parryi . - expect to see lots of those this year.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:04:08am

Jacob Woe’s attack on Minneapolis as a NO GO ZONE reminds me of the time when wingnuts bestowed the same honors to Dearborn, MI.

Drove by there. Yes the flag of Israel is still flying.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:12:13am

re: #260 The Vicious Babushka

Jacob Woe’s attack on Minneapolis as a NO GO ZONE reminds me of the time when wingnuts bestowed the same honors to Dearborn, MI.

Drove by there. Yes the flag of Israel is still flying.

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Minneapolis even has a Jewish mayor. But yeah Jacob, it’s such a Shariah fest. And I’m sure the Twins are banning hot dogs and beer from Target Field this year to appease the Caliphate. // Seriously, I don’t get why people like him or the Gungirl go to these places they profess are hellholes and just crap on them. I was really glad to see a local tell him off on Twitter for being a hateful douchebag.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:12:41am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:16:35am

re: #260 The Vicious Babushka

Jacob Woe’s attack on Minneapolis as a NO GO ZONE reminds me of the time when wingnuts bestowed the same honors to Dearborn, MI.

Drove by there. Yes the flag of Israel is still flying.

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He should be concerned with the real threats running around Minnesota

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:23:51am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:24:51am

re: #262 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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What was it that cued him in? Was it the non stop rallies? Or was it the FEC filing?

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:25:24am

re: #264 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

That is a good start.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:25:35am

re: #264 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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That’s why I choose to be glass half full.

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lawhawk  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:27:45am

re: #264 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Trump’s got 62% in WV and 61% approval in WY. TN is at 54%.

He’s got 29% approval in California. 32% in NY.

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darthstar  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:29:10am

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:29:52am

re: #264 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

The five states that moved to 50% or higher job approval* last year were Missouri, Kansas, South Carolina, Mississippi and Utah.

* Or possibly doubling down on an emotional need not to be wrong.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:30:00am

re: #269 darthstar

You think?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:30:04am

re: #268 lawhawk

Trump’s got 62% in WV and 61% approval in WY. TN is at 54%.

He’s got 29% approval in California. 32% in NY.

He’s notably sub 50% in several states he won last time. That’s not a guarantee but it doesn’t bode well for him. TBH I just think the odds are against us having four consecutie two term Presidents and I think people are tired of him more or less. Doesn’t mean we don’t slack off on the candidate. Quite the contrary but I feel good about 2020.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:31:27am

re: #270 jaunte

* Or possibly doubling down on an emotional need not to be wrong.

Kansas interestingly though did elect a Dem governor and a Dem representative. We’re not going to win Kansas but the right candidate and campaign could make it at least a little competitive. Missouri to me seems to be a state growing more and more red with time. It was once a classic swing state but I’d argue it hasn’t been that way since 2000.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:31:49am

re: #271 PhillyPretzel

You think?

Remember what April 1st is :).

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:32:44am

re: #244 Jay C

And just another reminder that Trump probably actually DOES view his Presidency as a sort of reality-TV production ( though lacking the “script”, “director” and “editor” parts).
Ratings and brand-promotion are the main - if not the only - priority.

Trump doesn’t need a script, director or editor. He’s Trump. He can do it all.

Look how he runs his White House. Just needs some people to take out the trash and to go to Mikey Ds to get some burgers.

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:32:52am

I question the rationality of anyone increasing their support for Trump given his track record over the last two years.

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lawhawk  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:33:15am

re: #272 HappyWarrior

He’s notably sub 50% in several states he won last time. That’s not a guarantee but it doesn’t bode well for him. TBH I just think the odds are against us having four consecutie two term Presidents and I think people are tired of him more or less. Doesn’t mean we don’t slack off on the candidate. Quite the contrary but I feel good about 2020.

Democrats have to put the pedal to the metal and don’t let up one bit. We have to expect Russian fuckery and ratfucking to make sure that we overcome all efforts to make sure Trump is a 1-termer.

But it’s not just Trump. The Senate has to be flipped, and that’s a harder task.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:34:21am

re: #277 lawhawk

Democrats have to put the pedal to the metal and don’t let up one bit. We have to expect Russian fuckery and ratfucking to make sure that we overcome all efforts to make sure Trump is a 1-termer.

But it’s not just Trump. The Senate has to be flipped, and that’s a harder task.

Yep. Gotta keep the House, flip the Senate, and the Presidency. It’s not going to be easy.

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:35:13am

re: #113 BeachDem

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Bostic might be a director at Culttture (say what?) but he’s primarily an ambulance-chasing lawyer, so a good match for little mr. ahole.

Did Wohl ditch that other hack lawyer that he did that press conference fail with?

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:39:44am
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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:46:00am

re: #162 goddamnedfrank

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J-cob: Hey, how much for a group photo?

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:50:41am

“No, you can’t wear your gang colors.”

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gwangung  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:50:57am

re: #183 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Amazingly, if you offer 11% of the US population a great movie starring people of their own particular ethnic background, they will flock to the theaters to see it. Even more amazing, people who are not in that 11% demographic will *also* go see the movie. You can’t explain that.
///////

Also applies if you go to 6% of the US population…..

Hm. A trend there.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:52:56am

re: #282 jaunte

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“No, you can’t wear your gang colors.”

It’s a fucking rule, kid. You wouldn’t be allowed to wear an anti Trump hat either.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:54:04am

We weren’t allowed to wear hats at all to school. She can wear her stupid MAGA hat outside of school if she wants to. She’s not being discriminated against for being a Trump supporter.

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:54:23am

re: #284 HappyWarrior

More high schoolers coming up in Tawny Lorent’s lane.

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lawhawk  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:55:27am

re: #239 lawhawk

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 7:56:53am

re: #286 jaunte

More high schoolers coming up in Tawny Lorent’s lane.

Yeah seems that way. Another pathetic right wing victim. Also, it’s the middle of February. She should know and understand the rules by now. It’s not like there are other kids who have worn Bernie or whatever gear for lefty candidates who have been allowed. If that were the case, then I’d say she would have a reasonable beef but if the rule as set by the school is only hats with the schools colors, then she really has no complaint and she’s just another right wing asshole who wants to be paraded out by FNC and NRO as a victim of “liberals.”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:00:54am

Man I am fucking tired of every Trump supporter thinking they’re a victim.

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:10:11am

‘Hold the date!’ tweets are big this morning…

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:12:31am

Doucheawitz on This Week? *click*

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:13:47am

Shot this yesterday for the Houston fish wrap. Triple OT win to go to the State Finals next weekend in Austin.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:14:21am

re: #290 makeitstop

‘Hold the date!’ tweets are big this morning…

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HOLD THE DATE, THERE WILL BE CANDY THIS OCTOBER 31ST WITH YOUR FAVORITE COSTUMES!

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:14:25am

HOLD THE DATE!

I think May Day would be more appropriate.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:15:13am

re: #292 Ace Rothstein

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Shot this yesterday for the Houston fish wrap. Triple OT win to go to the State Finals next weekend in Austin.

You take good sports photographs. I think you posted some good baseball ones when the STros won it all.

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freetoken  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:18:19am

Octopods gone wild:

Kraken Attack: Gulf of Mexico 2018

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:19:43am

re: #292 Ace Rothstein

Great shot!

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Unshaken Defiance  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:20:16am

re: #289 HappyWarrior

Man I am fucking tired of every Trump supporter thinking they’re a victim.

I tend to victimize them further. With acerbic logic and vitriol. //

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:20:42am

re: #297 jaunte

Great shot!

Seriously, it looks like something that could be on the cover of a magazine or newspaper. You really captured their joy.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:21:37am

re: #298 Unshaken Defiance

Yes, but it usually goes over their heads.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:21:44am

re: #298 Unshaken Defiance

I tend to victimize them further. With acerbic logic and vitriol. //

I want them to live to see one of the kids that were held in Trump’s holding facilities get elected to high office.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:23:58am

re: #300 PhillyPretzel

Yes, but it usually goes over their heads.

One of them was bellyaching Engle v Vitale and whining about how Dems are why we don’t have prayer in school. My buddy pointed out that the Engle decision only bans forced prayer. It’s also worth nothing that it was a 8-1 decision and 3/4 of the Republican appointed SCOTUS members agreed that forced prayer was unconstitutional. It’s just stuff like that. Easy to look up history that they get repeatedly wrong. I don’t know how Professor Kruse deals with Dinesh D’Sousa’s stupidity without tearing his hair out.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:24:32am

Like with some people, I have a difference of opinion with, with Trumpers there’s a fundamental difference of facts.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:27:56am

re: #262 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

re: #265 HappyWarrior

What was it that cued him in? Was it the non stop rallies? Or was it the FEC filing?

I’m now wondering why CBS deleted the tweet

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:29:34am

re: #304 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’m now wondering why CBS deleted the tweet

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I don’t know. I was happy to see that Bannon is getting the cold shoulder as he tries to export his brand to Europe though. Not that the Swedish Democrats or LePen’s Front National are any prizes but they apparently have rejected Bannon. Good. Let him be a pariah and drink himself to misery.

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retired cynic  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:30:32am

JeffreyW’s kitteh mugs reminded me:

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BeachDem  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:30:57am

re: #279 makeitstop

Did Wohl ditch that other hack lawyer that he did that press conference fail with?

That guy’s busy trying to figure out how zippers work. But I’m not sure if the Bostic is his lawyer of record or just somebody he got to file the paperwork for his latest grifting scam. I just noticed the Charleston, SC address on the LLC filing and went to look up the address

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:32:20am

re: #306 retired cynic

JeffreyW’s kitteh mugs reminded me:

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FRANKENKITTY

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:33:01am
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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:35:07am

My wife got home from Vegas last evening (yay!), and this morning she was unpacking. She got everything out of the case, and Bean saw his opportunity.

Now I goez to Vegas, right?
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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:36:33am

Anyone want to bet on whether this 4th of July bash will have a parade? Maybe a military parade?

I wonder how many Republicans will be in Russia this year?

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:36:44am

re: #309 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Pelosi

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:39:55am

Some context on the Wohl-Loomer Islamophobia tour

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:41:15am

re: #313 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Some context on the Wohl-Loomer Islamophobia tour

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This shit really is evil.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:42:36am

I just got daily e-mail from the Washington Post. One of the headlines is: House Democrats will subpoena Mueller if report is not made public. That would be very interesting when it happens.

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darthstar  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:48:23am

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:57:57am

Junior things he’s got his dad’s celebrity and reputation.

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Unshaken Defiance  Feb 24, 2019 • 8:58:17am

So, the Naval invasion of Malibu is complete. Not a shot fired, but perhaps a few consumed in respect.

Anchord just off Malibu pier.

I snapped this yesterday, found out that today there are above deck tours offered. First come first served. CG Lake Champlain. Early Ticonderoga class hull, actually on an (originally) destroyer design hull. Really thinking to drive back over today and try to get on board. A mix of old and new tech.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:00:45am

re: #317 MsJ

Junior things he’s got his dad’s celebrity and reputation.

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He’s going to have to beat Ivanka for his Dad’s heart.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:01:29am
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jeffreyw  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:02:16am

re: #306 retired cynic

JeffreyW’s kitteh mugs reminded me:

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Stolen and tweeted!

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Man, DangerMan  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:02:30am

re: #298 Unshaken Defiance

I tend to victimize them further. With acerbic logic and vitriol. //

and tubas!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:03:36am

re: #320 MsJ

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How about Charlie Kirk’s history of the American Revolution.

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retired cynic  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:04:11am

re: #321 jeffreyw

Stolen and tweeted!

I stole it from someone else! Welcome!

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Unshaken Defiance  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:07:37am

re: #292 Ace Rothstein

Nice catch, you do catch the moment like very few really do.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:08:48am

re: #317 MsJ

Junior things he’s got his dad’s celebrity and reputation.

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Donny “Me Too” Trump Jr.

Thinks he can run for president because he can hate and tweet, say stupid shit just like dad and grifting is a family trait.

NO!

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:08:49am

Wishful, hopeful thinking?

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:18:14am

I went to go look up something about Python. On the page, there was a video that started with the premise “Why you should learn Python” which, before listing the first reason, immediately jumped to a beer ad. I’m sure that would good incentive for some people.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:20:41am

re: #327 MsJ

Wishful, hopeful thinking?

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Dunno. Could well be. I don’t think a former US Attorney would speculate if he didn’t think it was a possibility.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:21:23am

re: #317 MsJ

Junior things he’s got his dad’s celebrity and reputation.

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Would he be out of jail by then?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:23:11am

Feels more monarchical every day with these family.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:24:39am

re: #331 HappyWarrior

Feels more monarchical every day with these family.

You misspelled maniacal. 😁

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danarchy  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:26:07am

re: #329 HappyWarrior

Dunno. Could well be. I don’t think a former US Attorney would speculate if he didn’t think it was a possibility.

May I introduce you to Joe DiGeneva

en.wikipedia.org

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:26:37am

re: #332 MsJ

You misspelled maniacal. 😁

Can’t it be both?

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plansbandc  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:27:11am

Prince - Betcha By Golly Wow!

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:28:03am

re: #334 HappyWarrior

Can’t it be both?

Why not?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:28:33am

re: #333 danarchy

May I introduce you to Joe DiGeneva

en.wikipedia.org

Exception not the rule. How many former US attorneys conduct themselves like he does?

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danarchy  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:29:42am

re: #337 HappyWarrior

Exception not the rule. How many former US attorneys conduct themselves like he does?

Rudy Guliani…

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The Ghost of Quesos Past  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:30:11am

re: #331 HappyWarrior

So when Eric tries to overthrow Don II, that’s going to be the War of the Turnips.

Telling, not asking.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:31:11am

re: #338 danarchy

Rudy Guliani…

Okay you got me but I’m not seeing anything about McQuade that would lead to believe she’s talking crap.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:31:54am

re: #339 The Ghost of Quesos Past

So when Eric tries to overthrow Don II, that’s going to be the War of the Turnips.

Telling, not asking.

It’s funny because I am reading about the Plantanglets right now.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:32:57am

Who’d a thunk it? A military parade. I’m so shocked. //////

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:33:32am
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The Ghost of Quesos Past  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:33:45am

re: #341 HappyWarrior

Story goes they’re all descended from the Devil.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:35:43am

In Bangladesh

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BeachDem  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:36:01am

re: #326 ObserverArt

Donny “Me Too” Trump Jr.

Thinks he can run for president because he can hate and tweet, say stupid shit just like dad and grifting is a family trait.

NO!

Speaking of me toos, guess who shows up in the book about Jeffrey Epstein (Filthy Rich)? None other than Les Wexner—appears he had Epstein help him with some financial entanglements. Oh, and the creepy thing (so far) was Epstein handled his pre-nups, but Les and Abigail signed theirs separately; and Epstein brought some model/babe to Les’s signing and had him sign on the woman’s stomach. Ewwwwwww.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:38:13am

re: #343 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Minneapolis is such a Sharia hot bed that it elected a Jewish mayor.

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Jay C  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:38:19am

re: #344 The Ghost of Quesos Past

Story goes they’re all descended from the Devil.

Who? The Plantagenets, the Trumps, or both??

Or given the “current dynasty’s” general lameness, are they more like the Blackadders??
Always a “cunning plan” on tap….

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The Ghost of Quesos Past  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:38:52am

So there’s an alternate history where in the 50s the KGB figures out you can extract information from people with kitten photos, and the entire arc of the Cold War reverses….

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:39:29am

re: #344 The Ghost of Quesos Past

Story goes they’re all descended from the Devil.

Yeah I heard that. English history from 1150-1650 or so fascinates me. The modern royals bore me but their bloodthirsty ancestors are fascinating.

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The Ghost of Quesos Past  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:41:56am

re: #348 Jay C

It’s a story about the Plantagenets. Supposedly one of the early Henrys had a witchy mother or some such.

The current day we have Falstaff and Pals governing.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:43:45am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:44:31am

I always forget King John of Magna Carta fame is the grandfather of Longshanks, the Hammer of the Scots and villain in Braveheart.

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Skip Intro  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:44:42am

re: #256 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Yeah, this is normal
(it’s my highlight, he hasn’t gotten ‘there’ yet)

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No nukes? Why no nukes? What the hell do we have them for if we can’t set a couple off during the celebration of our favorite president, him?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:45:52am

re: #352 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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I feel awful that minority Americans experience this shit but yeah Christian Right, marriage equality “discriminates” against you.

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danarchy  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:47:41am

re: #352 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Look at that top notch security guy behind her with his hands in his pockets.

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The Ghost of Quesos Past  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:48:35am

re: #353 HappyWarrior

One of the magnificent bastards of history.

Not much in the way of morals, but tons of panache.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:50:50am

re: #346 BeachDem

Speaking of me toos, guess who shows up in the book about Jeffrey Epstein (Filthy Rich)? None other than Les Wexner—appears he had Epstein help him with some financial entanglements. Oh, and the creepy thing (so far) was Epstein handled his pre-nups, but Les and Abigail signed theirs separately; and Epstein brought some model/babe to Les’s signing and had him sign on the woman’s stomach. Ewwwwwww.

None of this surprises me. Wexner has been a living question mark his whole life.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:52:09am

re: #357 The Ghost of Quesos Past

One of the magnificent bastards of history.

Not much in the way of morals, but tons of panache.

Yep.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 9:59:31am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:01:18am

re: #360 MsJ

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Just looking at these guys. What a bunch of losers.

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The Ghost of Quesos Past  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:04:44am
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Jay C  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:07:22am

re: #351 The Ghost of Quesos Past

It’s a story about the Plantagenets. Supposedly one of the early Henry had a witchy mother or some such

.

I thought the legend ran the other way round: that the wife of one of the early Counts of Anjou got tricked by the Devil, or an incubus or something. In any case, the Plantagenets were considered badasses even by medieval standards, even without Old Scratch lurking in the family tree…

The current day we have Falstaff and Pals governing.

More like Bottom and his crew: trying to put on a play that none of them can read: and trying not notice the donkey’s head on the boss.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:08:24am

re: #317 MsJ

Junior things he’s got his dad’s celebrity and reputation.

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Exactly how you can destroy the Constitution while leaving the words in place. You don’t violate the law by having relatives succeed you, each serving only 2 terms. And after this SC rules, you will be able to disenfranchise voters you don’t like.

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The Ghost of Quesos Past  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:10:22am

re: #363 Jay C

I defer to your recall. I read a Plantagenet history maybe four years ago and am not confident about the details, beyond the story being tossed around to explain Henry II.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:11:41am

I think this is going to be an issue country wide.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:32:44am

re: #360 MsJ

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As I figured and posted would happen right after the revised order was announced.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:38:29am
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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:41:01am

re: #368 MsJ

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I was working on a story, and planned on having one of the early characters be a person who’s parents moved out of some Sourthern state because the child was too smart for the schools to teach. And then I saw that movie.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:46:20am

re: #368 MsJ

Kyle Griffin
✔
@kylegriffin1
NASA officially renamed a facility after Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician and centenarian whose barrier-breaking career was depicted in the film “Hidden Figures.” nasa.gov …

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12:00 PM - Feb 24, 2019

What’s really infuriating is that it took a Hollywood movie to reveal the contribution of African-American women to NASA. Without that film and its success, the facility would never have been renamed in her honor. Meanwhile generations of women — both black and white — grew up without realizing that women played a real role in the early days of the space program. Yes — there was a book — but Americans don’t read serious literature.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:47:16am

re: #349 The Ghost of Quesos Past

So there’s an alternate history where in the 50s the KGB figures out you can extract information from people with kitten photos, and the entire arc of the Cold War reverses….

M(ew)K(itty) Ultra.

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:58:31am

re: #370 Hecuba’s daughter

What’s really infuriating is that it took a Hollywood movie to reveal the contribution of African-American women to NASA. Without that film and its success, the facility would never have been renamed in her honor. Meanwhile generation of women — both black and white — grew up without realizing that women played a real role in the early days of the space program. Yes — there was a book — but Americans don’t read serious literature.

Obama recognized a number of women, including her and Margaret Hamilton, back in 2015, before that movie. I suspect the movie is what got Trump to agree to it, because i’m sure Obama’s being part of it alone would have caused him to undo anything like that.

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mmmirele  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:59:22am

re: #158 goddamnedfrank

Looks like Laura and Jacob’s friend Ali Alexander is really named Ali Akbar and has some mug shots out there.

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 10:59:49am
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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:00:25am

Don’t forget the Witch Hunt, Donald!

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TedStriker  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:01:42am

re: #372 Belafon

Obama recognized a number of women, including her and Margaret Hamilton, back in 2015, before that movie. I suspect the movie is what got Trump to agree to it, because i’m sure Obama’s being part of it alone would have caused him to undo anything like that.

Margaret Hamilton, my dream geek girl.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:03:15am

Got some real heavy gusts blowing here in NW PA. I just stepped out on back porch for a smoke and I see many new downed limbs. Kindling and fuel for this springs first backyard fires, perfect.

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TedStriker  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:05:14am

…

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:05:44am

re: #376 TedStriker

Margaret Hamilton, my dream geek girl.

I have her Lego action figure at work.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:08:00am

I came across this Joke and Mika video popping up at YouTube. I guess it was from Friday and it was their piece on Trump and the Republicans all silent on the Coast Guard Terrorist.

I can’t remember if this has been posted, but I’ll put it up just for the news aspect of it. I don’t watch Morning Joke anymore, just kinda surprised to see it.

I knew Trump was silent. I did not know that pretty much every single Republican has been quiet on this story. Mika, Joe and guests raise a couple decent points.

Disgusting. Completely outrageous at any other time. All that can be said.

The GOP claims to be law and order types, worried about split politics and hordes of crazy leftists taking to the streets. Watch out for Antifa!!! Social Justice Warrior Socialists taking your patriotic rugged individualism away!!!

Meanwhile any convention of stable politics is manipulated.

The Republican Party of Systematic Corruption.
We Got It Down.™

President Donald Trump Silent On Plot To Kill Critics | Morning Joe | MSNBC

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:13:12am

re: #373 mmmirele

Looks like Laura and Jacob’s friend Ali Alexander is really named Ali Akbar and has some mug shots out there.

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Well lookie there, a fake name.

Why dude? Why not go with your real name?!

(snerk)

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:17:18am

re: #381 ObserverArt

Well lookie there, a fake name.

Why dude? Why not go with your real name?!

(snerk)

And fraud to boot.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:17:32am

re: #377 Eventual Carrion

Got some real heavy gusts blowing here in NW PA. I just stepped out on back porch for a smoke and I see many new downed limbs. Kindling and fuel for this springs first backyard fires, perfect.

It’s been like that through central Ohio too. Some gusts to 50-60 mph. Yikes.

I cannot believe the days we get anymore with constant 30+ mph winds. It’s all the damn time.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:18:46am

re: #374 jaunte

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Such a whiner.

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:20:54am

re: #382 Dr Lizardo

And fraud to boot.

I think the dude should move to Vegas and become a Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator.

He’s sure got the look, but I doubt he has anywhere near the talent. Probably why he’s a grifter.

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:23:04am
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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:24:08am
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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:24:22am

WTF little Marco.

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:24:33am
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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:25:10am

re: #383 ObserverArt

It’s been like that through central Ohio too. Some gusts to 50-60 mph. Yikes. I cannot believe the days we get anymore with constant 30+ mph winds. It’s all the damn time.

Wreaks havoc on one’s disc golf game. If it weren’t so cold, I’d be outside seeing how far I can throw with a 50 mph wind at my back. Many younger golfers are probably doing just that, whether they want to or not, because there were several tournaments around here this weekend. Imagine throwing golf “frisbees” competitively in this wind!

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:25:36am

The United States has a collective action problem. Not just the most obvious one, of high-ranking members of the Donald Trump administration persistently failing to act while in office and then publishing I-told-you-so memoirs or sniggering onstage at public fora about the president’s unfitness. No, the problem is also at the most micro level, and at sweeping constitutional levels as well. The prevailing ethos seems to be that so long as there is somebody else out there who is capable of Doing Something, the rest of us are free to desist. And for the most part, the person deemed to be Doing Something is Robert Mueller.

Given reports that the Mueller investigation might come to a close any day now, we may soon find ourselves in the middle of the acid test of this proposition. There’s a lingering perception that once Mueller delivers his report, the Trump era will end in a cloud of white smoke and glitter. It’s a nice fantasy—the one in which Mueller, armed with Truth and Fact, finishes off the Trump presidency with a ride through the Capitol on a white unicorn, scattering indictments and the seeds of impeachment, in a conclusive and irrefutable wrapup of the two-year probe.

It is also profoundly unlikely to actually happen that way. As one observer after another has reminded us, this is not necessarily Mueller’s call, and it’s not necessarily Mueller’s mandate. It’s also, perhaps most importantly, not necessarily Mueller’s style. At every turn, Mueller has shown us who he is, and that would be the antithesis of the Trump-style reality show protagonist. He’s been almost impossible to spot and is decidedly uninterested in the spotlight. Whenever he has faced the choice between grandstanding and dutiful drudgery, he’s opted for the latter. His public filings tend to be understated. His signature appears on only a few…

If any one man singlehandedly undermines the Great Man theory of American history, it might by definition be the guy who wants no attention, credit, fortune, or fame from this gig. He may also be the only powerful person in Washington, D.C., who has no plans to parlay his government service into a cable news perch, a cookbook, or to launch a line of handbags. It would not surprise me if Mueller did the Muellerist move of all time, which would be to drop a minimalist report on Bill Barr and then ghost…

We want Mueller to be both the guy who knows everything and the guy who does everything. It obviates anyone else from needing to know what we already know and do what needs doing. But going into the next few fateful days, my sense is that we might want to stop investing too much hope in great men, and superheroes, and saviors. Instead, we should remember that it is our job to insist that we, and our public officials, must be the Muellers we hope to see in the world.

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makeitstop  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:26:28am

re: #388 Charles Johnson

WTF little Marco.

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People seem to be getting their bloodlust on today…

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:28:14am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:28:40am

re: #388 Charles Johnson

WTF little Marco.

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Marco showing again why he’s a wanker. I think Maduro needs to go too but JFC. Oh and Marco your silence at Brazil speaks volumes.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:29:07am

re: #393 Charles Johnson

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I assume he’s saying this is what should happen to Maduro.

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:29:50am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:33:52am

re: #373 mmmirele

Looks like Laura and Jacob’s friend Ali Alexander is really named Ali Akbar and has some mug shots out there.

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“Assisting the Covington families”.”

That pretty much tells you all you need to know.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:35:26am

A nice war will take the heat off for sure when Mueller drops the goods.

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:37:30am

Interesting:

Randy DeBaillie pointed to the power meter on his snow-covered farm: Even on a foggy, monochromatic day, with the sun barely piercing the clouds, the flat black panels planted nearby in two long rows were generating electricity.

“There’s enough energy produced to run the whole complex,” said DeBaillie, 50, who farms 6,500 acres with his brother and cousin. They typically grow corn and soybeans each spring, but this year they want to put more solar panels on 15 acres — and sell the energy.

The earnings, he said, would be about three times what an average harvest would yield there.

Across the flatlands of Illinois, a new crop is rising among the traditional waves of grain as farmers increasingly make the same calculation as DeBaillie. Hundreds have applied to host acres of solar panels on their property, a move encouraged by a state law requiring that renewable resources provide 25 percent of Illinois power by 2025.

The shift is controversial, and not just because of how it could alter the pastoral landscape. Taking some of the most fertile soil in the world out of production could have serious consequences for a booming population…

In the northwest corner of Illinois, where his great-grandfather emigrated from Belgium during World War I, four generations of DeBaillies have worked the land. Randy DeBaillie built the half-dozen red sheds that serve as the headquarters for the family business. On a bitterly cold winter morning, they were surrounded by deep snow drifts. A thick sheet of ice blanketed the driveway. He stepped out anyway, wearing knee-high rubber boots and worn tan coveralls, to get to his solar panels.

If too much snow piles up on the panels, they cannot function properly. So he’ll grab a squeegee and clear it off…

h/t balloon-juice.com

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:41:12am

re: #390 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

Wreaks havoc on one’s disc golf game. If it weren’t so cold, I’d be outside seeing how far I can throw with a 50 mph wind at my back. Many younger golfers are probably doing just that, whether they want to or not, because there were several tournaments around here this weekend. Imagine throwing golf “frisbees” competitively in this wind!

Some high scores I would bet.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:42:12am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:42:31am

Appears that Twitter might be down. Anyone else unable to access?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:44:39am

re: #386 Belafon

And, the sentencing memo is probably (if it’s possible) geekier than a Stephenson novel….

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mmmirele  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:44:43am

re: #402 Eclectic Cyborg

Appears that Twitter might be down. Anyone else unable to access?

Nope, still getting the same ole swill.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:44:50am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:44:53am

re: #389 jaunte

Gee. No problems or complaints about interfering in Venezuela, but sending aid to fellow citizens in Puerto Rico? That’s just too much work. It’s an island you know.

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rhuarc  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:44:55am

re: #402 Eclectic Cyborg

Appears that Twitter might be down. Anyone else unable to access?

I’m able to get to twitter.com

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:45:33am

re: #402 Eclectic Cyborg

Fine here.

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:46:29am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:47:02am

Working for me now too. So I can ask: What the fuck is up with this response to Rubios tweet?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:47:27am

re: #406 GlutenFreeJesus

Gee. No problems or complaints about interfering in Venezuela, but sending aid to fellow citizens in Puerto Rico? That’s just too much work. It’s an island you know.

Jose Andres of course helps both but that’s because he’s a better man than Trump can dream to be.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:48:27am

re: #409 Belafon

I don’t think sick eagles are good, either…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:49:24am

re: #410 Eclectic Cyborg

Working for me now too. So I can ask: What the fuck is up with this response to Rubios tweet?

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An idiotic take. It’s not you’re with Trump/Bolton/Abrams or Maduro.

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:51:46am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:52:26am

Rubio does know Libya is still pretty fucked up, right?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 11:57:49am

re: #415 Eclectic Cyborg

Rubio does know Libya is still pretty fucked up, right?

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Rubio is a moron.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:02:28pm

re: #409 Belafon

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Why do they not like the great symbol of America???

Must be a school of socialists teachin’ disrespect of Trump…ain’t got time for things like spellin’.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:03:41pm

re: #409 Belafon

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My eagle is doing fine. He got over his cold last week.

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:03:48pm

Things I learned this week studying Spanish:

rubio means blond.
moreno means brunette; according to spanishdict, also means dark skinned or just dark.

And that blond is masculine and blonde is feminine. I didn’t realize there were two different words in English (obviously borrowed).

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:04:31pm

re: #417 ObserverArt

Why do they not like the great symbol of America???

Must be a school of socialists teachin’ disrespect of Trump…ain’t got time for things like spellin’.

What about us documented Democrats?

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:07:21pm

I think Wilmer is the very prototype of an undocumented Democrat.

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:08:08pm

With so many teen grifters in the news, this is refreshing.

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:09:53pm

re: #410 Eclectic Cyborg

liberals are lining up behind the Trump/Bolton/Abrams agenda on Venezuela

Where contributing food equals military invasion, I guess.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:11:54pm

re: #423 jaunte

Where contributing food equals military invasion, I guess.

Where Jose Andres is an agent of the Trump WH.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:21:44pm

re: #424 HappyWarrior

Where Jose Andres is an agent of the Trump WH.

Hell, Trump probably thinks that “Jose Andres” in one of the kids he has locked up in cages right now.

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:23:21pm

re: #425 Eclectic Cyborg

Hell, Trump probably thinks that “Jose Andres” in one of the kids he has locked up in cages right now.

Andres canceled a restaurant he was going to build in a Trump tower after some of the stuff Trump said.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:23:46pm

re: #426 Belafon

Andres canceled a restaurant he was going to build in a Trump tower after some of the stuff Trump said.

Yep.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:29:17pm

re: #423 jaunte

Where contributing food equals military invasion, I guess.

This shit is so fucking tiresome.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:29:53pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:30:04pm

re: #428 goddamnedfrank

This shit is so fucking tiresome.

You ain’t kidding.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:30:48pm

re: #429 Charles Johnson

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Your SUV alone won’t do it, no but a bunch of SUVs will. Dumbasses.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:30:52pm

Come One, Come All, to the Gigantic 4th of July Narcissistic Supply Festival!!

ALL events guaranteed to be the Best, Largest, Greatest, Biggest, and have The Most Gold Bathroom Fixtures in the Whole History of the Entire World, this i can tell you, bigly!

Come and tell Glorious Supreme Leader Donald John Trump The First how great he is, or else your a comtemptibabble moran fuck you anyway, loser

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:33:20pm

re: #431 HappyWarrior

Your SUV alone won’t do it, no but a bunch of SUVs will. Dumbasses.

Falsely equating “won’t support life” with “destroying the planet.”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:34:18pm

re: #433 Belafon

Falsely equating “won’t support life” with “destroying the planet.”

These people claim to venerate God but disrespect what they see as his creation.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:39:46pm

re: #429 Charles Johnson

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i think disingenuously pretending to completely miss the point is a logical fallacy unknown to the ancient teachers of rhetoric, as far as i can tell

another innovation is the gish gallop…

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sagehen  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:39:52pm

re: #372 Belafon

Obama recognized a number of women, including her and Margaret Hamilton, back in 2015, before that movie. I suspect the movie is what got Trump to agree to it, because i’m sure Obama’s being part of it alone would have caused him to undo anything like that.

Let us never forget the brilliant and beautiful Hedy Lamarr
en.wikipedia.org

At the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are incorporated into Bluetooth technology and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi. This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:43:13pm

what a jerk

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:43:29pm

This planet isn’t going anywhere for millions of years.

Human beings on the other hand…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:44:04pm

re: #437 Backwoods_Sleuth

what a jerk

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He really needs to lose and lose bad. Miserable lying bastard.

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TedStriker  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:49:02pm

re: #436 sagehen

Let us never forget the brilliant and beautiful Hedy Lamarr
en.wikipedia.org

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“That’s Hedley!!!”

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:51:09pm

JFC, this goddamned clownshit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:52:20pm

re: #441 goddamnedfrank

JFC, this goddamned clownshit.

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Jacob needs to stop writing graffiti and pretending it’s something he just “found”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:52:28pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:52:38pm

re: #441 goddamnedfrank

JFC, this goddamned clownshit.

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$10 says he put that on there himself.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:53:10pm

re: #441 goddamnedfrank

JFC, this goddamned clownshit.

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Go to hell Jacob.

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Man, DangerMan  Feb 24, 2019 • 12:53:35pm

re: #435 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i think disingenuously pretending to completely miss the point is a logical fallacy unknown to the ancient teachers of rhetoric, as far as i can tell

another innovation is the gish gallop…

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:02:58pm

Matt Walsh, eager to live on Venus because it’s a solid, undestroyed planet.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:06:47pm

re: #437 Backwoods_Sleuth

what a jerk

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Biff the rich boy prick that was in your class in high school made it to president of the United States. He’s still trying to hustle and get over on everyone.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:07:14pm

re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m reporting every last one of those.

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:09:25pm

re: #442 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jacob needs to stop writing graffiti and pretending it’s something he just “found”

No feets in the snow…they got their excuse.

Maybe one of the crack military types rappelled down the wall and did it.

Who knows, could have been Jacob. He’s that good.

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jaunte  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:12:29pm

re: #450 ObserverArt

He’s very light weight.

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MsJ  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:13:21pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:16:53pm

re: #452 MsJ

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I’m of two thoughts. It’s good he did this but it shouldn’t take this for him to see it too.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:18:31pm

But why are Republicans still pushing gay marriage bans after Obergefell?

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Teukka  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:19:42pm

re: #442 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jacob needs to stop writing graffiti and pretending it’s something he just “found”

It’s a classic. Fanatics so convinced a bogeyman is guilty that they think it won’t do any harm helping their apprehension along…

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:20:08pm

re: #454 HappyWarrior

But why are Republicans still pushing gay marriage bans after Obergefell?

Red meat for the fundie base.

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:20:26pm

re: #453 HappyWarrior

I’m of two thoughts. It’s good he did this but it shouldn’t take this for him to see it too.

I know plenty of parents who wouldn’t listen to their children on this. I don’t think you’re obligated to have him over for dinner. :)

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Belafon  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:21:26pm

re: #454 HappyWarrior

But why are Republicans still pushing gay marriage bans after Obergefell?

Because, with Kennedy gone, they’re hoping to have the Supreme Court reverse their old decision. It’s also why abortion laws are getting so extreme.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:22:55pm

re: #458 Belafon

Because, with Kennedy gone, they’re hoping to have the Supreme Court reverse their old decision. It’s also why abortion laws are getting so extreme.

True.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:23:16pm

Jacob Wohl is the Charles C Johnson of James O’Keefes.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:24:10pm

re: #457 Belafon

I know plenty of parents who wouldn’t listen to their children on this. I don’t think you’re obligated to have him over for dinner. :)

I mean for once I’d like to see a Republican support a marginalized group because it’s the right thing to do. I have no doubt he’d still support this if his daughter didn’t call him out.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:26:46pm

re: #456 goddamnedfrank

Red meat for the fundie base.

True.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:28:01pm

re: #452 MsJ

Sorry. Still don’t trust him.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:29:40pm

“We had two teams”

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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:29:49pm

re: #454 HappyWarrior

But why are Republicans still pushing gay marriage bans after Obergefell?

Doing the work of their con-stituents. They have to show they are doing everything they can to get it overturned.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:29:58pm

re: #461 HappyWarrior

I mean for once I’d like to see a Republican support a marginalized group because it’s the right thing to do. I have no doubt he’d still support this if his daughter didn’t call him out.

The only time Republicans do the right thing is if it affects a family member or a friend that they care about. It’s beyond their capacity to be concerned about those they do not know.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:31:45pm

LOL

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:32:23pm

re: #466 Hecuba’s daughter

The only time Republicans do the right thing is if it affects a family member or a friend that they care about. It’s beyond their capacity to be concerned about those they do not know.

That’s what I mean. I’ll be impressed when a Republican decides to support lgbt rights because it’s moral and the right thing to do.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:32:53pm

re: #467 goddamnedfrank

LOL

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These guys are so pathetic.

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sagehen  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:33:36pm

re: #461 HappyWarrior

I mean for once I’d like to see a Republican support a marginalized group because it’s the right thing to do. I have no doubt he’d still support this if his daughter didn’t call him out.

Kind of like Rob Portman, right?

He was vehemently opposed to gay marriage. It was the most appalling idea ever in the history of humanity. It would destroy civilization.

Until his son came out as gay. And said “dad, someday I’d like to fall in love and marry and build a future and a family with my beloved.”

Suddenly, Portman realized that gay marriage was okay after all.

(The conservative view of all issues: “If it’s not my problem, it’s not a problem.”)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:33:37pm

re: #464 goddamnedfrank

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:34:17pm

re: #470 sagehen

Kind of like Rob Portman, right?

He was vehemently opposed to gay marriage. It was the most appalling idea ever in the history of humanity. It would destroy civilization.

Until his son came out as gay. And said “dad, someday I’d like to fall in love and marry and build a future and a family with my beloved.”

Suddenly, Portman realized that gay marriage was okay after all.

(The conservative view of all issues: “If it’s not my problem, it’s not a problem.”)

Exactly. Cheney too.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:35:14pm

re: #471 GlutenFreeJesus

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Their first album: Handcuffed to Twitter HQ was better. Or Framing Mueller.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:36:42pm
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ObserverArt  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:38:55pm

re: #470 sagehen

Kind of like Rob Portman, right?

He was vehemently opposed to gay marriage. It was the most appalling idea ever in the history of humanity. It would destroy civilization.

Until his son came out as gay. And said “dad, someday I’d like to fall in love and marry and build a future and a family with my beloved.”

Suddenly, Portman realized that gay marriage was okay after all.

(The conservative view of all issues: “If it’s not my problem, it’s not a problem.”)

I jumped all over Portman for that one. Still remind him of it too.

I asked why couldn’t he think of the other fathers and mothers, they have children that come out to them, and they want them to have equal treatment.

After all, it is his job to consider his constituents that don’t give him huge campaign contributions.

Portman is a wimp. I think he is one of the most lightweight senators going. And in some ways that makes him dangerous.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:41:06pm

re: #475 ObserverArt

I jumped all over Portman for that one. Still remind him of it too.

I asked why couldn’t he think of the other fathers and mothers, they have children that come out to them, and they want them to have equal treatment.

After all, it is his job to consider his constituents that don’t give him huge campaign contributions.

Portman is a wimp. I think he is one of the most lightweight senators going. And in some ways that makes him dangerous.

That’s exactly my point. I’m glad this Rep loves his daughter and I’m glad Portman loves his son but there are millions of other sons and daughters they would have made second class citizens. This is the right I’m a nutshell. Empathy isn’t their thing at all.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:47:10pm

re: #472 HappyWarrior

Exactly. Cheney too.

Was Cheney ever concerned about the culture wars? Wasn’t his focus always on foreign policy (maybe economic policy as a secondary issue)?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 24, 2019 • 1:50:40pm

re: #477 Hecuba’s daughter

Was Cheney ever concerned about the culture wars? Wasn’t his focus always on foreign policy (maybe economic policy as a secondary issue)?

He wasn’t concerned but he did support the Bush administration on the FMA.


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