Hear Audio of Trump Discussing Classified Documents Published by CNN (Video)

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CNN reports it has obtained the audio of the 2021 meeting at Donald Trump’s Bedminster club at which Trump makes it seem as though he is sharing secret information that he is aware he cannot declassify as an ex-president.

Rachel Maddow shares key pieces of that audio, including some that was not included in the portion transcribed in Trump’s indictment. The Rachel Maddow Show has reached out to Trump’s legal team and campaign for comment but so far we have heard nothing back.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:18:55am

He had every chance to acquaint himself with the rules and procedures surrounding classified materials, or at least to follow the advice of those who knew.

He chose not to.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:21:47am
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Nerdy Fish  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:21:47am

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He had every chance to acquaint himself with the rules and procedures surrounding classified materials, or at least to follow the advice of those who knew.

He chose not to.

He chose… poorly.

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Mike Lamb  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:23:38am

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That’s not even correct. The audio shows he knew the rules and didn’t care.

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:27:21am

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:28:13am

Look out, there’s a monsterous insufferable nightmarishly evil brand-switching liberal freak hiding out among the journalists! lol

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:29:32am

The nerve of these people who let experience and evidence change their minds!

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:29:32am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Look out, there’s a monsterous insufferable nightmarishly evil brand-switching liberal freak hiding out among the journalists! lol

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I wonder, do you have to report “living rent-free in their heads” on your tax returns?

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:29:54am

re: #7 jaunte

The nerve of these people who let experience and evidence change their minds!

“I have proudly never changed my mind since 1998” is not the flex they think it is.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:37:01am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

sigh….

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Dave In Austin  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:38:52am
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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:43:12am

That Barbie house is the same color of my hurl after drinking Pepto-Bismol.

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aatharuv  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:43:31am

re: #2 Dave In Austin

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If this case is appealed, maybe we’ll get an actual Supreme Court ruling on the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment. There would actually be a plaintiff with standing. With this Calvinball Court, I don’t know whether we’d like it.

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Mike Lamb  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:45:57am

re: #11 Dave In Austin

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That’s photoshopped right?

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Jay C  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:45:57am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Look out, there’s a monsterous insufferable nightmarishly evil brand-switching liberal freak hiding out among the journalists! lol

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Insults from these people ought to be taken as badges of honor.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:46:14am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Look out, there’s a monsterous insufferable nightmarishly evil brand-switching liberal freak hiding out among the journalists! lol

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For the record, you were never nightmarishly evil. Back in the bad old days, I used to check out LGF because it recognized facts, even if many of the old-school lizards didn’t.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:48:51am

re: #14 Mike Lamb

That’s photoshopped right?

Yes. And his wife is not really named Eva Braun. :P

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Charles Johnson  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:50:19am

re: #16 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

For the record, you were never nightmarishly evil. Back in the bad old days, I used to check out LGF because it recognized facts, even if many of the old-school lizards didn’t.

I don’t feel monstrously evil, but of course, that’s what someone monstrously evil would say.

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Belafon  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:57:57am

re: #387 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s not just these “faux” pregnancy centers that screw up. Legitimate hospitals misinterpret scans all the time. A radiologist misread my husbands CAT scan — but in this case, I was able to challenge it (based on looking at his scans for the previous 2 years). There’s incompetence everywhere.

Except the purpose of the ultrasound machines in these centers are so that the people running the centers can look like they care, but they really don’t care whats on the machines: revealnews.org

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 27, 2023 • 10:58:24am

re: #18 Charles Johnson

I don’t feel monstrously evil, but of course, that’s what someone monstrously evil would say.

“Don’t feel like satan, but I am to them,
So I try to forget it anyway I can….

Keep on rockin’ in the free world!”

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Dave In Austin  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:00:40am

re: #14 Mike Lamb

That’s photoshopped right?

It’s Twitter. $1.98 and a few grains of salt….

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Dave In Austin  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:04:22am
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jeffreyw  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:05:48am

Lunch Is Served

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BeachDem  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:06:37am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Look out, there’s a monsterous insufferable nightmarishly evil brand-switching liberal freak hiding out among the journalists! lol

[Embedded content]

Obligatory at times like this:

I’ll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me (7” Version)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:06:50am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Look out, there’s a monsterous insufferable nightmarishly evil brand-switching liberal freak hiding out among the journalists! lol

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i find you entirely sufferable.

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piratedan  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:07:38am

re: #18 Charles Johnson

pretty sure that you came to see the “light” a damn sight before Trump ran for office, but hey, why should we stop their Germans Bombing Pearl Harbor belief system.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:09:31am

re: #22 Dave In Austin

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It’s sad to watch someone burn her legacy to the ground like this. Of course, she’s just one of millions of old whites who have been radicalized into hateful fascists by Fox News and social media.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:12:13am

re: #26 piratedan

pretty sure that you came to see the “light” a damn sight before Trump ran for office, but hey, why should we stop their Germans Bombing Pearl Harbor belief system.

Charles recognized the rot at the heart of the GOP long before Trump came along. It’s why such a degenerate conman was so easily able to take over the GOP; there was nothing left of it but corruption.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:14:08am

Roseanne said it… He believes it.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:14:48am

re: #28 No Malarkey!

Charles recognized the rot at the heart of the GOP long before Trump came along. It’s why such a degenerate conman was so easily able to take over the GOP; there was nothing left of it but corruption.

Yeah, it was somewhere around 2007, I think, that everything went down. A lot of it was driven by the ready acceptance of the Birthers amongst the mainstream GOP. Even those of us who (at the time) didn’t like Obama thought the Birthers were complete lackwits, but seeing otherwise serious people take their claims seriously was an eerie preview of the madness to come.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:18:55am

re: #22 Dave In Austin

Based on what folks who worked with Blowsanne told me she has always been a self-centered asshole. So I’m not surprised she’s a full blown Holocaust denier.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:20:49am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Look out, there’s a monsterous insufferable nightmarishly evil brand-switching liberal freak hiding out among the journalists! lol

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Man, who wants to be the one to point out to these keen observers to the political social scene that you “reinvented yourself” in 2009, seven years before the beginning of the Trump era?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:23:02am

Apparently, Ryan Seacrest has been chosen to replace Pat Sajak on Wheel of Fortune.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:24:53am

Cleanser

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:32:55am

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:35:07am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:36:33am

re: #36 Captain Ron

Can’t wait to dine in Cheech & Chong’s High-Boy!

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Orange Impostor  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:41:05am

re: #22 Dave In Austin

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I need to take a short trip up to Denton to the North Texas campus to pick up one of those mugs.

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Captain Ron  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:41:06am

Come to Florida, get malaria.

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aatharuv  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:42:48am

re: #39 Captain Ron

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Come to Florida, get malaria.

More Global Warming and more swampy areas bring more mosquitos and more malaria and other mosquito transmitted diseases. Not so fun times up ahead.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:42:52am

re: #38 Orange Impostor

I need to take a short trip up to Denton to the North Texas campus to pick up one of those mugs.

I refuse to believe that Denton is a real place.

Shock Treatment (1981) - Denton, USA

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austin_blue  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:43:15am

re: #39 Captain Ron

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Come to Florida, get malaria.

Florida, of course. Thank dog it wasn’t south Texas. That’s all we need this summer.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:45:11am

rawstory.com

Prosecutors say they have enough evidence to try school shooter Ethan Crumbley’s parents

The prosecution says the new evidence shows the Crumbleys, who became the first parents of a school shooter in the U.S. to be charged, were grossly negligent in the hours, days and months before their son killed four students and injured seven others at a Michigan high school in 2021 with a gun his parents bought him as a present.

Jennifer Crumbley said in an interview after the shooting that she didn’t really pay attention to drawings that her son made the morning before the shooting, showing a gun, a bleeding body, and the words, “The thoughts won’t stop, help me.”

When the school summoned her to discuss the drawings, she said she “didn’t even look at them closely.”

Prosecutors also say that, when the couple fled their home the night of the shooting, James Crumbley took the receipt for the murder weapon they gifted their son with them — an action that prosecutors say showed “consciousness of guilt.” They also provided Facebook messages between the two that showed they were well aware of their son’s mental distress.

Prosecutors argue that the Crumbleys were perfectly capable of preventing their son from carrying out the shooting but instead enabled him.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:49:50am

they’re stupid enough to believe this.

Trump rants to women’s group: ‘They want to take away your washing machines and your dryers’

At an event in Concord, New Hampshire, Trump complained to the Federation of Republican Women about the push for electric appliances.

“It’s so destructive,” he lamented. “All electric, all-electric everything. Now they want to take away your gas stoves. Does anybody like gas better? You cook a lot more than I do.”

“But they want to take it away,” the presidential candidate continued. “They want to take away your washing machines and your dryers. They don’t want to give you any water for the washing machine. Even though you have so much water, you don’t know what the hell to do with it up here. It flows out into the ocean.”

rawstory.com

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:50:42am

re: #34 Dave In Austin

Cleanser

Just let me in the pouch, ma Dude

There’ll be a change in behavior when that male kangaroo hits puberty.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:55:41am

re: #39 Captain Ron

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Come to Florida, get malaria.

Or maybe Dengue (Breakbone) Fever.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:59:14am

Another day, more severe thunderstorms.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 27, 2023 • 11:59:35am

New game in Beta on NYT.
Words with similar meanings.
nytimes.com (it’s not wordle)

Connections
Puzzle #16
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🟩🟪🟩🟩
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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:00:29pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I have to join the chorus noting that you are neither insufferable nor nightmarish.

You are going to have to work much harder if that’s the look you seek. :)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:02:17pm

Today’s Bob Cesca podcast has been posted to Patreon.

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Jay C  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:07:10pm

re: #39 Captain Ron

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Come to Florida, get malaria.

Don’t tell Rick Scott: he’ll have to walk back his non-welcome for “socialists and communists” - you’d think he would WANT them to get deadly diseases….

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:07:16pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon ✅

Aside from the depraved indifference of his parents, I’m going to have to take issue with the depraved indifference to English in this article.

Prosecutors also say that, when the couple fled their home the night of the shooting, James Crumbley took the receipt for the murder weapon they gifted their son with them [rest cut]

Stop trying to make fetch “gifted” happen.

“… James Crumbley took the receipt for the murder weapon they GAVE his son… .”

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Targetpractice  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:07:27pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Look out, there’s a monsterous insufferable nightmarishly evil brand-switching liberal freak hiding out among the journalists! lol

[Embedded content]

“Insufferable”? “Nightmarish”? The worst thing I could think to call you is “Apple User.”

//

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:11:03pm

Was just up in Concord and saw TV crew set up on Main St. I forgot there were multiple events today. DeSantis down in Hollis on the MA border. Hollis has the most active, vociferous Moms for Liberty chapter in the state, so that checks. (I googled recently and was pleased to see that a new counter-organization of local parents has been organized to try to keep the M4L madness in check.) Vivek (and one other) in Londonderry. Lots of rabid Trump supporters there.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:12:00pm

re: #54 Barefoot Grin

That’s an awful lot of crazy in a relatively small area. Sheesh.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:12:24pm

re: #48 I Would Prefer Not To

New game in Beta on NYT.
Words with similar meanings.
nytimes.com (it’s not wordle)

Connections
Puzzle #16
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟪🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
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So I already don’t like it. I grouped four correctly and it hit me with an error.

Click to Reveal

almond, cashew, olive, walnut are all trees

Connections
Puzzle #16
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟦🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:13:53pm

re: #54 Barefoot Grin

Was just up in Concord and saw TV crew set up on Main St. I forgot there were multiple events today. DeSantis down in Hollis on the MA border. Hollis has the most active, vociferous Moms for Liberty chapter in the state, so that checks. (I googled recently and was pleased to see that a new counter-organization of local parents has been organized to try to keep the M4L madness in check.) Vivek (and one other) in Londonderry. Lots of rabid Trump supporters there.

DeSantis was asked today in a rally if January 6 was a problem. He said if the GOP has to deal with that they will lose; they should instead run on Biden’s “failed policies.”

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Targetpractice  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:14:21pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon ✅

rawstory.com

Prosecutors say they have enough evidence to try school shooter Ethan Crumbley’s parents

The prosecution says the new evidence shows the Crumbleys, who became the first parents of a school shooter in the U.S. to be charged, were grossly negligent in the hours, days and months before their son killed four students and injured seven others at a Michigan high school in 2021 with a gun his parents bought him as a present.

Jennifer Crumbley said in an interview after the shooting that she didn’t really pay attention to drawings that her son made the morning before the shooting, showing a gun, a bleeding body, and the words, “The thoughts won’t stop, help me.”

When the school summoned her to discuss the drawings, she said she “didn’t even look at them closely.”

Prosecutors also say that, when the couple fled their home the night of the shooting, James Crumbley took the receipt for the murder weapon they gifted their son with them — an action that prosecutors say showed “consciousness of guilt.” They also provided Facebook messages between the two that showed they were well aware of their son’s mental distress.

Prosecutors argue that the Crumbleys were perfectly capable of preventing their son from carrying out the shooting but instead enabled him.

“Enabled” is a bit of a stretch, at least based upon what we’ve seen and heard about them so far. It more fits the definition of “depraved indifference,” that they knew their son was unstable and needed help because he might be a danger to himself and others, but couldn’t be bothered to do or say anything because it would distract from their own wants and desires. IOW, they were so wrapped up in their own BS that they rationalized a ticking time bomb as “boys will be boys” and consciously chose to make him somebody else’s problem.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:14:30pm

re: #55 Nerdy Fish

That’s an awful lot of crazy in a relatively small area. Sheesh.

Yeah, southern NH is the reddest part of the state (well, maybe areas of the seacoast, too). You can cross the border from Hollis into Groton, MA and you go from one upper-middle class NE town to another, but one has lots of Trump signs and the other “This house believes in science, that Black Lives Matter, that women have rights…” signs.

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Belafon  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:14:59pm

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Aside from the depraved indifference of his parents, I’m going to have to take issue with the depraved indifference to English in this article.

Stop trying to make fetch “gifted” happen.

“… James Crumbley took the receipt for the murder weapon they GAVE his son… .”

According to dictionary.com, gifted has been around since the 1600s.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:15:20pm

re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

DeSantis was asked today in a rally if January 6 was a problem. He said if the GOP has to deal with that they will lose; they should instead run on Biden’s “failed policies.”

Republicans keep telling us that they’re deeply-unpatriotic people. I believe them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:15:31pm

re: #51 Jay C

Don’t tell Rick Scott: he’ll have to walk back his non-welcome for “socialists and communists” - you’d think he would WANT them to get deadly diseases….

Republicans are too busy killing their own with Covid-19.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:16:04pm

re: #60 Belafon

According to dictionary.com, gifted has been around since the 1600s.

We can still turn that around. Don’t be a quitter.

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Targetpractice  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:17:01pm

re: #44 Joe Bacon ✅

they’re stupid enough to believe this.

Trump rants to women’s group: ‘They want to take away your washing machines and your dryers’

At an event in Concord, New Hampshire, Trump complained to the Federation of Republican Women about the push for electric appliances.

“It’s so destructive,” he lamented. “All electric, all-electric everything. Now they want to take away your gas stoves. Does anybody like gas better? You cook a lot more than I do.”

“But they want to take it away,” the presidential candidate continued. “They want to take away your washing machines and your dryers. They don’t want to give you any water for the washing machine. Even though you have so much water, you don’t know what the hell to do with it up here. It flows out into the ocean.”

rawstory.com

Could he sound any more like a guy whose experience with appliances is walking up to his personal chef and asking him “Which do you prefer, gas or electric?”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:18:43pm

re: #64 Targetpractice

Could he sound any more like a guy whose experience with appliances is walking up to his personal chef and asking him “Which do you prefer, gas or electric?”

He just wants to tell aggrieved idiots that something has been taken away from them. What was supposedly taken does not matter to the process.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:19:06pm

re: #60 Belafon

According to dictionary.com, gifted has been around since the 1600s.

As the definition for having great talent or special ability, or high intelligence.

Nowhere in their definition does “give someone a gift” show up.

dictionary.com

I’m just picky like that. /s

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:20:32pm

re: #39 Captain Ron

About 15 years ago I looked up the malaria disease statistics for my county and state. I seem to recall that every year there were a couple of cases of malaria. Although we were assured by the health department that they were all from recent travelers to endemic malaria regions.

Seeing the report on Florida, I decided to check out the local statistics again. It appears, on a quick google and search, that the local stats have all been pulled from the county and state health websites. Fascinating statement on the ongoing enshittification of the internet.

I may attempt to contact to county health department to see what is going on. But I will need to figure out how to reassure the embattled county workers that I am not some rage-farming asshole looking for channel content.

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Targetpractice  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:20:41pm

re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

DeSantis was asked today in a rally if January 6 was a problem. He said if the GOP has to deal with that they will lose; they should instead run on Biden’s “failed policies.”

And there is the sum total of why every “moderate Repubs oppose loonies in party” Beltway press article is so full of shit: The party knows that this shit is a major problem and doing nothing about it or even embracing it for a temporary electoral advantage encourages the crazies, but they won’t stop doing it because everything is about “winning elections.”

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:23:19pm

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Since you mention English quibbles, I’d like to complain about talking heads continually attaching the redundant “unfolding” when they use the word “events.” Events never fail to unfold, that’s just how we perceive time.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:25:57pm

re: #54 Barefoot Grin

Was just up in Concord and saw TV crew set up on Main St. I forgot there were multiple events today. DeSantis down in Hollis on the MA border. Hollis has the most active, vociferous Moms for Liberty chapter in the state, so that checks. (I googled recently and was pleased to see that a new counter-organization of local parents has been organized to try to keep the M4L madness in check.) Vivek (and one other) in Londonderry. Lots of rabid Trump supporters there.

Be prepared for a lot more events. There are 11 serious candidates for the GOP nomination, and there will likely be a few more over the next couple of months.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:26:19pm

re: #69 jaunte

Since you mention English quibbles, I’d like to complain about talking heads continually attaching the redundant “unfolding” when they use the word “events.” Events never fail to unfold, that’s just how we perceive time.

The one I dislike most is “random chance.” Go-to argument against evolution from creationists everywhere.

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:26:45pm

Reuters found that 118 of America’s most influential leaders have a slaveholding ancestor. Explore information about their forebears and the people they enslaved.
reuters.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:26:58pm

re: #70 No Malarkey!

Be prepared for a lot more events. There are 11 serious candidates for the GOP nomination, and there will likely be a few more over the next couple of months.

The GOP is going to need a bigger clown bus.

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austin_blue  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:27:54pm

re: #67 ckkatz

About 15 years ago I looked up the malaria disease statistics for my county and state. I seem to recall that every year there were a couple of cases of malaria. Although we were assured by the health department that they were all from recent travelers to endemic malaria regions.

Seeing the report on Florida, I decided to check out the local statistics again. It appears, on a quick google and search, that the local stats have all been pulled from the county and state health websites. Fascinating statement on the ongoing enshittification of the internet.

I may attempt to contact to county health department to see what is going on. But I will need to figure out how to reassure the embattled county workers that I am not some rage-farming asshole looking for channel content.

Texas had an imported Ebola case back in Obama’s second term with two nurses also contracting it, but we have had indigenous cases of chikungunya, West Nile (of course), and Zika virus infections.

But raise your glass to Florida!

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:28:40pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:31:02pm

So, coming home from Cheyenne, in addition to rebuilding the one-lane bridge out of town on NE-92, the state is repaving eight miles of the road from here to US-385 (thanks, Biden, for that infrastructure money).

The bridge approach has one of those construction traffic lights. Since we have no traffic lights in this county, people seem to think if they can’t see anyone coming they can just stop, then go through. The county sheriff’s office has been busy writing traffic tickets for running red lights in a construction zone (increased fine).

When we turned onto NE-92, there was a flagger stopping traffic (only us) for the pilot vehicle.

That vehicle with the “follow me” sign was a semi-truck with a hopper trailer attached.

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:31:23pm

The unstable origami of events.

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:32:15pm

Devin Nunes on Newsmax:
the leaked audio is a “nothingburger” and “probably taken out of context,” and Trump was just trying to show how woke Gen Milley had gotten.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:33:12pm

The sun is out and we’re getting thunder now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:36:34pm
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No Malarkey!  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:37:43pm

re: #78 jaunte

Devin Nunes on Newsmax:
the leaked audio is a “nothingburger” and “probably taken out of context,” and Trump was just trying to show how woke Gen Milley had gotten.

Trump’s recorded comments were perfect and completely exonerated him, just like his call to Zelensky and his call to Raffensperger, the most perfect and innocent call in the history of calls. After CNN played the recording, men who had never cried, big burly men, came up to him, tears in their eyes, and said “sir, we have never heard more exculpatory comments made by anyone, ever.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:40:32pm

Alexander Vindman weighing in on a long thread about Lukashenko translated by Julia Davis.

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wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:40:44pm

re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The sun is out and we’re getting thunder now.

Sunder! Oh wait. That word is already taken.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:42:38pm

re: #78 jaunte

Devin Nunes on Newsmax:
the leaked audio is a “nothingburger” and “probably taken out of context,” and Trump was just trying to show how woke Gen Milley had gotten.

Going on Newsmax is a confession. No one there is interested in reality. They just want money from advertisers who sell crap to idiots.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:46:07pm

re: #83 wrenchwench

Sunder! Oh wait. That word is already taken.

Try “thun.”

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:48:24pm

LIGO upgrade is back to watch spacetime bending…

theconversation.com

After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S. have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves - tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe.

LIGO is comprised of two separate observatories, with one located in Hanford, Washington, and the other in Livingston, Louisiana. Each observatory is shaped like a giant L with two, 2.5-mile-long (four-kilometer-long) arms extending out from the center of the facility at 90 degrees to each other.

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:49:32pm

@hankgreen
If one of these spacetime ripples passes over LIGO, one of the arms will get a little longer and shorter than the other one. We’re talking less than the width of a proton…but enough to detect!!

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steve_davis  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:49:54pm

re: #40 aatharuv

More Global Warming and more swampy areas bring more mosquitos and more malaria and other mosquito transmitted diseases. Not so fun times up ahead.

malaria may be less of a problem than dengue fever. i believe there are something like half a dozen varieties and getting one of them confers zero resistance against any of the others.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:52:11pm
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wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:52:21pm

Mastodon

Penultimate paragraph:

“How can we go in front of the whole world and say we’re fighting for freedom, democracy and human rights in Ukraine, and we forget about the people that have been here waiting for immigration reform for almost 40 years and we haven’t gotten anything?” Guttierrez asked after the press conference. “We want to let it be known that we’re not gonna stand for this kind of stuff.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:52:28pm

re: #86 jaunte

LIGO upgrade is back to watch spacetime bending…

[Embedded content]

theconversation.com

After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S. have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves - tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe.

LIGO is comprised of two separate observatories, with one located in Hanford, Washington, and the other in Livingston, Louisiana. Each observatory is shaped like a giant L with two, 2.5-mile-long (four-kilometer-long) arms extending out from the center of the facility at 90 degrees to each other.

I misread LIGO as LEGO and was realllly wondering for a minute there.

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wrenchwench  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:54:11pm

re: #86 jaunte

with one located in Hanford, Washington,

There’s always something you can install over nuclear waste….

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jaunte  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:56:13pm

re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg

A caltrop for unwary giant alien feet.

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gocart mozart  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:56:30pm
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danarchy  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:56:32pm

re: #39 Captain Ron

[Embedded content]

Come to Florida, get malaria.

I expect a “Bring back DDT!” movement on the right any day now.

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steve_davis  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:57:07pm

re: #60 Belafon

According to dictionary.com, gifted has been around since the 1600s.

so has irregardless, and because episcopalians are no longer allowed to burn people at the stake, we’re officially stuck with it. damn you, people. there was a lot less “between you and i” going on when we were still allowed to stake-burn.

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Jay C  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:57:14pm

re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

DeSantis was asked today in a rally if January 6 was a problem. He said if the GOP has to deal with that they will lose; they should instead run on Biden’s “failed policies.”

And, gee, one really has to wonder which of those Admin policies have so badly “failed”??
And, once one leaves out the stock overheated BS rhetoric about “open borders” and “immigration crisis”, what’s left? Imbecilic culture-war screeching, mostly.

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gocart mozart  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:57:28pm
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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 12:59:20pm

We’ve had two waves of thunderstorms pass through NoVa (Northern Virginia) this afternoon. And there is a third wave somewhere West of us in the mountains that may yet pay us a visit.

Happily, so far I still have power.

Looks like it’s Philadelphia’s turn for a deluge.

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A Cranky One  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:01:05pm

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:02:16pm

re: #70 No Malarkey!

Be prepared for a lot more events. There are 11 serious candidates for the GOP nomination, and there will likely be a few more over the next couple of months.

Robies Country Store is just up the road from us and used to be a “must” stop for both Dems and GOP, but it’s closed, thank god.

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:02:41pm

I just heard that the Canadian smoke is back. And this time it is hitting the upper MidWest. Pictures out of Chicago are not yet orange, but are clearly smokin’.

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sizzzzlerz  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:06:17pm

re: #39 Captain Ron

[Embedded content]

Come to Florida, get malaria.

Come for the facism. Stay for the sporozoites.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:07:57pm

re: #95 danarchy

I expect a “Bring back DDT!” movement on the right any day now.

The Libertarians have that covered already.

Bring Back DDT (Cato Institute, April 26, 2016)

Another horrific mosquito‐​borne disease, Zika, is now decimating South and Central America. It leads to brain‐​damaged babies; the World Health Organization claims it is now “spreading explosively”, and will proliferate to every continent and become widely and deeply embedded in populations. There is no known cure for it and it could take decades to find one. It now joins malaria, dengue and chikungunya as another scourge spread by mosquitoes. The only solution is to exterminate the mosquitoes that spread these diseases by pesticides.

(more)

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darthstar  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:07:59pm

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Olive isn’t a tree nut.

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retired cynic  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:08:17pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:08:26pm

re: #94 gocart mozart

Posts like this make me miss the image shortcut button for tweets.

Fuck Elmo.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:09:17pm

re: #102 ckkatz

I just heard that the Canadian smoke is back. And this time it is hitting the upper MidWest. Pictures out of Chicago are not yet orange, but are clearly smokin’.

[Embedded content]

I get air quality warnings every day in Chicagoland now. Buying a bike is starting to look like a bad choice now that we’ve reached the world on fire phase of climate change.

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ckkatz  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:12:17pm

re: #74 austin_blue

Texas had an imported Ebola case back in Obama’s second term with two nurses also contracting it, but we have had indigenous cases of chikungunya, West Nile (of course), and Zika virus infections.

But raise your glass to Florida!

I need to read the article. But in general, to mention this issue in a state where infectious disease data is routinely being suppressed by the political leadership certainly does not sound like a good thing.

I suspect that a lot of these tropical diseases are already established here. Many of the vectors are.

And humans have a history with that. Yellow fever used to be prevalent in the US. And malaria at one time was endemic in Britain.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:12:22pm

re: #105 darthstar

Olive isn’t a tree nut.

It is a tree.

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sizzzzlerz  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:15:02pm

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Libertarians have that covered already.

Bring Back DDT (Cato Institute, April 26, 2016)

(more)

DDT today. Thalidomide tomorrow.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:18:09pm

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Aside from the depraved indifference of his parents, I’m going to have to take issue with the depraved indifference to English in this article.

Stop trying to make fetch “gifted” happen.

“… James Crumbley took the receipt for the murder weapon they GAVE his son… .”

Too late. It’s already a verb.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 27, 2023 • 1:23:21pm

re: #95 danarchy

I expect a “Bring back DDT!” movement on the right any day now.

ISTR bringing back DDT being one of Instapundit’s recurring pet causes back around 2001/2002.

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Sherlock Hound  Jun 27, 2023 • 5:11:39pm

re: #59 Barefoot Grin

Yeah, southern NH is the reddest part of the state (well, maybe areas of the seacoast, too). You can cross the border from Hollis into Groton, MA and you go from one upper-middle class NE town to another, but one has lots of Trump signs and the other “This house believes in science, that Black Lives Matter, that women have rights…” signs.

You can credit Massachusetts talk radio for that. 40 years of radicalization.


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