Some More News: Billionaire Philanthropy Is Kind of a Scam

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Hi. In today’s episode, we look at how billionaires often benefit from their supposed altruism and why we can’t rely on their “generosity” to solve society’s problems.

Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Erik Barnes
Story Editor - Tom Reimann
Edited by Gregg Meller
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell

Sources: docs.google.com

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:18 - How Rich Guy Philanthropy Works
09:35 - The Tech Weirdos Are So Generous, Aren’t They?
19:19 - How Philanthropy Is Used To Wield Power
25:33 - When Philanthropists Actually Do Good
36:15 - Billionaires Could Just Pay Their Taxes
45:15 - The Drip is… It’s What?!?

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343 comments
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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:48:14am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:49:10am

Hunter Biden pleads Not Guilty after the plea deal torpedoed.

msn.com

And the Judge is a Trump appointee…

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:52:34am

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:54:19am

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:57:43am

re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅

Hunter Biden pleads Not Guilty after the plea deal torpedoed.

msn.com

And the Judge is a Trump appointee…

Who will probably give him some bullshit stiff sentence just because he’s Hunter Biden.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:58:38am

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Who will probably give him some bullshit stiff sentence just because he’s Hunter Biden.

Meanwhile Lord Privy Steal Jared and Princess Ivanka are let off the hook.

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:58:47am

re: #450 Eclectic Cyborg

So, aliens hate America?

Monsters vs Aliens - alien transmission

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Nojay UK  Jul 26, 2023 • 10:59:10am

Big fire on a car transporter ship in the North Sea, one person dead, with the ship being left to burn with no onboard firefighting efforts. The Dutch coastguard is reportedly saying is was caused by an EV car’s battery pack catching fire.

There’s mention of another transporter, the Felicity Ace, that caught fire last year off the Azores with the same reason given, lithium-ion battery fire. That ship sank under tow after the fire had burned out with the loss of 4000 luxury cars.

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:03:50am

Fox News?

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:09:56am

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:11:02am

I can never remember which Mastodon instances don’t embed.

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:13:39am

re: #8 Nojay UK

Big fire on a car transporter ship in the North Sea, one person dead, with the ship being left to burn with no onboard firefighting efforts. The Dutch coastguard is reportedly saying is was caused by an EV car’s battery pack catching fire.

There’s mention of another transporter, the Felicity Ace, that caught fire last year off the Azores with the same reason given, lithium-ion battery fire. That ship sank under tow after the fire had burned out with the loss of 4000 luxury cars.

The report that an EV caused the fire is being questioned.

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:14:11am

re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅

Hunter Biden pleads Not Guilty after the plea deal torpedoed.

msn.com

From what I’m reading (so far), it looks like the Trump appointee deliberately junked plea deal because she didn’t like that signing off on it might mean Hunter having immunity from any potential future charges. IOW, the DOJ is now going to be forced to go to trial on charges they normally wouldn’t even bother with because the judge doesn’t approve of Hunter avoiding jail time.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:15:30am

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

I’m not on Mastodon and only a truncated view of the posting appears here (running Chrome on my laptop).

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:16:39am

Looking forward to this evil old man leaving the Senate one way or another.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:20:19am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:21:09am

re: #15 No Malarkey!

Looking forward to this evil old man leaving the Senate one way or another.

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Speculation is this may have been a TIA. He did return to the press conference shortly after leaving, but only as a spectator.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:21:39am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:22:14am

re: #15 No Malarkey!

Looking forward to this evil old man leaving the Senate one way or another.

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The GOP Bullshit Machine will spin that McConnell’s incident proves Joe is too old to be President…

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:22:29am

Since he fell and was hospitalized, McConnell hasn’t quite been right. This is just more proof that he’s no longer fit for office (same as Feinstein for that matter). If you’re arguing Biden is too old, then you need to make the same argument for the following:

DiFi - 90
McConnell - 81
Trump - 77

For comparison: Biden - 80

Trump regularly shows disorganized speaking, writing, and spews word salad daily (and has done this for years on end). McConnell has been showing signs of issues since he fell and was hospitalized. DiFi was hospitalized and sickened with shingles for months and has shown an inability to do her daily job.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:24:21am

re: #18 Backwoods Sleuth

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Compare the Presstitutes action on Hunter Biden to how they endlessly gave passes to Lord Privy Steal Jared and Princess Ivanka.

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:25:20am

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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:26:53am

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

I can never remember which Mastodon instances don’t embed.

Yeah, it’s a pain. I’m working on a better way to embed Mastodon posts.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:28:01am

One way to know in advance is to use that Mastodon 3-dot menu and choose “Embed.” If you don’t see a preview of the embedded post, that instance doesn’t support embedding.

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dat_said  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:28:03am

Because beings who are capable of interstellar space travel would be

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:28:21am

re: #20 lawhawk

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Since he fell and was hospitalized, McConnell hasn’t quite been right. This is just more proof that he’s no longer fit for office (same as Feinstein for that matter). If you’re arguing Biden is too old, then you need to make the same argument for the following:

DiFi - 90
McConnell - 81
Trump - 77

For comparison: Biden - 80

Trump regularly shows disorganized speaking, writing, and spews word salad daily (and has done this for years on end). McConnell has been showing signs of issues since he fell and was hospitalized. DiFi was hospitalized and sickened with shingles for months and has shown an inability to do her daily job.

Her term is over next year; unfortunately she cannot be replaced because the GOP will prevent any new Democrat this term from being seated on the Judiciary Committee. If we had a functional Senate, she probably would have departed when she became ill but the Senate and indeed any organization that has Republicans with power is designed to harm the American public. As bad as McConnell is, his replacement is likely to be far worse. The modern GOP needs to go the way of the Whigs, but that’s not likely to happen anytime soon.

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:29:36am

Sinead and the Chieftains with one of the most haunting anti war colonial songs ever.

The Foggy Dew - Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains, 1995

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:30:08am

re: #25 dat_said

Because beings who are capable of interstellar space travel would be

The Chinese certainly are — and it’s likely that they may be behind some of the UAP’s.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:30:53am

Nice brand you’ve got there…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:31:48am

re: #29 ckkatz

Nice brand you’ve got there…

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The rate of downward dive on the spiral is increasing.

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:31:49am

re: #15 No Malarkey!

Looking forward to this evil old man leaving the Senate one way or another.

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These edibles don’t do shi—….

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:33:04am

re: #25 dat_said

It’s all very interesting and whatnot but….where’s the proof? Actual physical evidence to back up the statements?

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:33:14am

New Jersey for the win!

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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:34:32am

re: #20 lawhawk

Wow. It almost looks like he just had a stroke. Something’s definitely very wrong with him.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:34:56am

re: #29 ckkatz

Nice brand you’ve got there…

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Musk slandered one of the divers who rescued the Thai boys trapped in a cave and escaped any punishment for his reprehensible conduct; like Trump, he believes he is immune from any consequences for his ill behavior.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:34:59am

re: #32 Dr Lizardo

It’s all very interesting and whatnot but….where’s the proof? Actual physical evidence to back up the statements?

Locked up in the bowels of Area 51; didn’t you see Independence Day?

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:35:27am

They’re doing all they can to reassure people that McConnell was able to keep talking later - ignore the thousand mile stare…that never happened.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:35:33am

The biggest issue I’m having with Bluesky right now is there’s no way to verify a user. Is ocasio-cortez.house.gov AOC or is aoc.bsky.social AOC or are they both AOC? I’m pretty sure the Gavin Newcome account isn’t him.((Sigh))

And there is a large community of furries there. I go back and forth between cute and weird. Fuck it, why not both? 😁

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:36:22am

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

TIA?

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:36:49am

I managed to get my twitter archive downloaded after multiple errors, and I will be setting my account to private henceforward. I will still be monitoring twitter during large events, because no place can yet replace it for breaking news and hearing what the chattering head’s take is.
Here was one of the first few tweets I made, way back when.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:37:58am

re: #39 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

TIA?

Transient Ischemic Attack - a mini-stroke, basically.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:38:00am

re: #36 No Malarkey!

Locked up in the bowels of Area 51; didn’t you see Independence Day?

To repeat my CL’ed posting from downstairs:

Let’s never forget it was the ill-advised initial statements from the Air Force that led everyone to believe that an alien craft was recovered from Roswell. If they hadn’t said that the remnants were of a “flying disc”, there would be no craze associated with the area. By the time of the retraction, it was too late. So the government has no one to blame but itself for the continued belief of alien visitors from outside our planet.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:38:30am

re: #36 No Malarkey!

Locked up in the bowels of Area 51; didn’t you see Independence Day?

Heh. Independence Day was a pretty good “alien invasion” genre film - and one of the last super-‘splodey blockbusters that used a good deal of practical VFX, for instance, scenes of landmark buildings getting blown up. Those were elaborate miniatures, such as the White House. Using physical, three-dimensional models and some brilliant pyrotechnics gave the scenes better heft than just using CGI.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:39:16am

re: #38 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The biggest issue I’m having with Bluesky right now is there’s no way to verify a user. Is ocasio-cortez.house.gov AOC or is aoc.bsky.social AOC or are they both AOC? I’m pretty sure the Gavin Newcome account isn’t him.((Sigh))

And there is a large community of furries there. I go back and forth between cute and weird. Fuck it, why not both? 😁

Actually, there is a way to verify, but you need to own a domain name. That’s how I changed my handle to littlegreenfootballs .com.

The ocasio-cortez .house .gov is a verified house .gov account - it’s the only way to get a handle like that.

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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:39:48am
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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:40:45am

Bluesky actually has a deal with Namecheap to let people do this:

blueskyweb.xyz

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:41:34am

re: #42 Hecuba’s daughter

To repeat my CL’ed posting from downstairs:

I recall there was a view that the Air Force deliberately stoked UFO rumors as disinformation to cover for the real experimental aircraft they were testing.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:42:04am

Black Republican Florida Rep shocked that the Leopards Eating Faces Party came to eat his face.

politico.com

He is not happy that it is now Florida Fact* that Slavery was merely a job training program.

“The attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong & needs to be adjusted,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), a sophomore Republican and former state representative, wrote in a tweet on Wednesday.

If he is unhappy with this little gem of a Southern -take on race relations, I bet he can’t wait for the upcoming “they’ll be happier back in Africa” effort.

*Florida Facts may or may not be aligned with conventional consensus or scientific methodology in the US, across the planet, or in the entire multi-universe for that matter.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:42:27am

re: #1 Vicious Babushka

Heartbreaking. So young. What a tragic life.

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Teukka  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:43:04am

re: #23 Charles Johnson

Yeah, it’s a pain. I’m working on a better way to embed Mastodon posts.

Do you have any libraries which can grab JSON-LD or RDFa or do you know how to do it? Looking with osds.openlinksw.com mastodon instances have both, however I can’t nail down where it gets the JSON-LD from… Examining the browser console…

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


And the RDFa contains the toot.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:43:47am

re: #43 Dr Lizardo

Heh. Independence Day was a pretty good “alien invasion” genre film - and one of the last super-‘splodey blockbusters that used a good deal of practical VFX, for instance, scenes of landmark buildings getting blown up. Those were elaborate miniatures, such as the White House. Using physical, three-dimensional models and some brilliant pyrotechnics gave the scenes better heft than just using CGI.

My late husband and I attended the film with friends and we were all very disappointed. The director should never be forgiven for having the aliens use C as the programming language to operate their craft and manage the invasion.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:45:30am

re: #50 Teukka

Yes, I already have all the code written to display Mastodon posts. I’ll just use the API to get the post data, then run it through my display function.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:46:41am

re: #1 Vicious Babushka

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Never cared for her music but 56 is too soon. RIP.

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Teukka  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:48:43am

re: #50 Teukka

Do you have any libraries which can grab JSON-LD or RDFa or do you know how to do it? Looking with osds.openlinksw.com mastodon instances have both, however I can’t nail down where it gets the JSON-LD from… Examining the browser console…

[Embedded content]

And the RDFa contains the toot.

QXY4czA4SU00cGRIeUJqM0s4V2pKV1o4cjJJeFY2T1RtYi9SVkhiWmJVYVZwZkhqVWZHRVhLcjYvVmFjWVZCMzVSQWtEcEtJY0gvak01TWtKTVAyd09tQ3l4a3RJWi95bVJsd2JQUTgwVGdZN3JmYTVDbVIzT2N2UHFabWNndk1qV0h5eUp6Mm14andCazRuRTBRSHFiZXJ6VENEbDlTZGRzOEROTjJSL2p1WXM5ZTBaSmJNdFd6L1hDTUJxc1lxanIvYTc1QjFnSGs5VlBBajZmMTJCU0ViR1dHblI0WG9QVkdNR1VGazNPND06Oixq7ki3Hs37GPd58gKKmlo=

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:49:15am

As expected, Fed raised rates a quarter point. The stock market took the news well, with both the DOW and Nasdaq jumping into positive gains for the day.

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Teukka  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:49:23am

re: #52 Charles Johnson

Yes, I already have all the code written to display Mastodon posts. I’ll just use the API to get the post data, then run it through my display function.

Good, good.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:49:49am

re: #51 Hecuba’s daughter

My late husband and I attended the film with friends and we were all very disappointed. The director should never be forgiven for having the aliens use C as the programming language to operate their craft and manage the invasion.

LOL one of those unfortunate oversights on the invaders part. But yeah, it definitely stretches the suspension of disbelief to the breaking point.

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:50:03am

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:51:36am

Beau had a very good video on why the military started encouraging reporting of UFOs. Which I can’t find right now.

He points out that it’s basically because ufos are quite unlikely to be “space aliens”. And more likely to be an unexpected use of technology. Reporting these incidents might help in uncovering that use. It could also be a way to identify a slip up in US operational security.

There is a famous story about WW2. During the war years the US was developing in secret jet airplanes. The test area was also being used for training by the Army Air Force. The question was how to keep operational security of the jet program.

A very effective method was used.

First, as a standard part of training, separate from operational security, pilots who were considered to have mental problems were generally washed out. They were not considered fully capable of handling a large and lethal piece of dangerous machinery.

Second, the concept of a plane flying without a propeller was not common knowledge. Particularly one that seemed more capable than propeller driven airplanes.

Third, at least one test pilot was known to wear a guerilla mask and a bowler, and smoke a cigar, while testing the jets.

If you were a pilot flying a standard prop driven plane.

And while you were flying,
- a propeller-less plane zoomed up alongside you, at a speed faster than your plane was capable of
- the pilot of this airplane, who was a guerilla, nodded at you, tipped his hat, and then zoomed off at impossible speeds…

Are you going to report this? And get thought of as crazy?

military.com

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:51:41am

Mastodon

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nines09  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:53:32am

re: #20 lawhawk

He forgot what lie he was supposed to say.
Locked up.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:53:39am

re: #49 Patricia Kayden

Heartbreaking. So young. What a tragic life.

She was open about her mental illness struggle.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:54:09am

I kinda wondered if this was going to happen. I mean, Elno owns the whole platform; he isn’t going to let some little thing like “somebody already has that handle” stop him.

Mastodon

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dat_said  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:54:45am

Tuberville’s tales about his father in World War II have false elements

I can kind of understand how things get embellished in family lore but how nobody in the press or in private knew enough to question the details till now. “FIVE Bronze Stars? Maybe you mean bronze service stars (which denote that a soldier was physically present during a particular military campaign or engagement)?” Hopefully Tuberville acknowledges that the family lore might have been embellished and he apologizes and no longer uses his father’s story as validition for himself.

Also, my dad was a WWII vet and my uncle, his brother, was a serious hero (D-Day, H-Hour, among other things). I would never think of trying to leverage their service for my gain. Except, here, in the pursuit of updings.

Uncle was still pulling little bits of shrapnel out of his legs in his 80’s (apparently, they left some in when they were fixing him up in England because it was riskier to take them out and as he got older and frailer they started working their way up to the skin).

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:56:38am
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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 11:56:42am

re: #57 Dr Lizardo

LOL one of those unfortunate oversights on the invaders part. But yeah, it definitely stretches the suspension of disbelief to the breaking point.

Well, it wasn’t like they were going for realism here; I thought it was a clever call out to H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds, in which the Martians were killed off by viruses they had no immunity to.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:00:57pm

re: #66 No Malarkey!

Well, it wasn’t like they were going for realism here; I thought it was a clever call out to H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds, in which the Martians were killed off by viruses they had no immunity to.

True, not an attempt to be realistic but War of the Worlds was more scientifically accurate and plausible.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:03:09pm

re: #66 No Malarkey!

Well, it wasn’t like they were going for realism here; I thought it was a clever call out to H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds, in which the Martians were killed off by viruses they had no immunity to.

Yep - just a different type of virus this time. It’s definitely a B-movie, albeit, a very well-made one. The plot is thin and so is the character development, but as a bombastic popcorn flick, it delivers.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:04:03pm

Americans would never tolerate this.

Professional Pushers Shove Passengers Onto Busy Tokyo Train

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:04:07pm

9 kids in a Honda Civic, two of them in the trunk.

State Police said Wednesday that they arrested a 16-year-old for speeding with nine juvenile passengers in the vehicle, four of whom were under the age of 16. The driver has been charged with four counts of aggravated driving while intoxicated under Leandra’s Law, a felony that is charged when a driver commits a DWI with passengers under the age of 16.

On July 23, troopers from the New Lebanon barracks observed a 2019 Honda Civic traveling over 100 mph in a 45 mph zone on state Route 20 in the town of New Lebanon. An investigation during the traffic stop determined that the driver was under the influence of an alcoholic beverage, State Police said in a release.

Troopers also found nine passengers in the vehicle, including two in the trunk. Four of the passengers were 15 or younger, which led police to charge the driver with four counts under Leandra’s Law.

timesunion.com

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:04:27pm

Buckle up, there are lots more where he came from!
(Dude who did the DeSantis nazi video.)
(First one to use “Did not see” wins…)

.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:04:57pm
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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:05:33pm

re: #68 Dr Lizardo

Yep - just a different type of virus this time. It’s definitely a B-movie, albeit, a very well-made one. The plot is thin and so is the character development, but as a bombastic popcorn flick, it delivers.

My favorite scene:

Welcome to Earth

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:06:21pm

Got Ska?

The Selecter - Missing Words (Official Video) [HD Remaster]

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:07:46pm

re: #70 Shropshire Slasher

9 kids in a Honda Civic, two of them in the trunk.

timesunion.com

That vehicle should be impounded, its owner charged.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:07:50pm

re: #68 Dr Lizardo

Yep - just a different type of virus this time. It’s definitely a B-movie, albeit, a very well-made one. The plot is thin and so is the character development, but as a bombastic popcorn flick, it delivers.

Not going to win any oscars, but stuff blowed up real good! Farm Film Report2

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:08:20pm

Throw away the rat race; Move off the grid; Be one with nature; Die.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:10:14pm

I remember the pictures of McConnell’s discolored hands and I’ve seen that effect with blood thinners. Wondering if he took too much Pradaxa and that triggered the TIA?

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:10:16pm

re: #51 Hecuba’s daughter

My late husband and I attended the film with friends and we were all very disappointed. The director should never be forgiven for having the aliens use C as the programming language to operate their craft and manage the invasion.

If you really understand computer architecture at the basic level, you can write C code that’s elegant and efficient.

If you don’t have that level of understanding, C provides endless ways of shooting yourself in the foot.

Don’t ask me how I know.

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Teukka  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:10:22pm

For the foodie Lizardim…

Umami: A History of Monosodium Glutamate

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:10:29pm

re: #73 Vicious Babushka

re: #76 No Malarkey!

The attack scene was amazing. This is a combo of CGI, bluescreen, compositing and old-school optical effects/miniatures/pyrotechnics.

Independence Day (1996) [4K] TIME’S UP!

Damn near flawless result and on the big screen, genuinely impressive.

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:10:53pm

re: #77 ckkatz

Throw away the rat race; Move off the grid; Be one with nature; Die.

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There’s a bus somewhere in Alaska.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:12:25pm

Too bad Randy Quaid is in ID.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:12:43pm

I’m predicting that TFG will choose RFK Jr. for his VP.

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:15:49pm

re: #84 Vicious Babushka

I’m predicting that TFG will choose RFK Jr. for his VP.

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I would not be surprised if it was him or Tulsi. The Q cult thought he was going to run with a Kennedy in 2020; its just that they thought it would be JFK Jr after he revealed he wasn’t really dead.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:17:45pm

re: #76 No Malarkey!

It actually did win an Oscar. Best Visual Effects.

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:18:40pm

re: #41 Nerdy Fish

Transient Ischemic Attack - a mini-stroke, basically.

If that had happened to Biden, the Fox ghouls would be running that on loop for the next 18 months. McConnell? Fox is like who dat?

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:19:38pm

re: #82 Thanos

There’s a bus somewhere in Alaska.

That is very true.

There is a joke about the prepper guy who decides to go off grid by moving to the wilds of suburbia and live by trapping the wild herds of cheetos…

Sadly, some folks actually try that kind of stuff. Or unknowingly accept far more risk than they realized.

Deaths prompt Alaska officials to remove ‘Into the Wild’ bus

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:19:46pm

Welp, this doesn’t look good. I hope the power stays on.

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:20:13pm

re: #81 Dr Lizardo

They actually created miniatures and the city detonation scene was filmed on its side so that the explosion blew up (rolled) towards the camera at speed.

The movie was a master class on all manner of compositing, CGI, and miniature work.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:20:20pm

re: #89 Vicious Babushka

Welp, this doesn’t look good. I hope the power stays on.

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AGAIN!? Jeez.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:20:27pm

re: #86 Dr Lizardo

It actually did win an Oscar. Best Visual Effects.

Well deserved.

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:20:59pm

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:21:29pm

re: #91 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

AGAIN!? Jeez.

Don’t worry, the radar map stops at the border.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:21:35pm

re: #62 Vicious Babushka

She was open about her mental illness struggle.

And her son committed suicide a couple of years ago, which naturally was devastating to her.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:22:07pm

And here. we. go….

The main thrust of Ukraine’s nearly two-month-old counteroffensive is now underway in the country’s southeast, two Pentagon officials said on Wednesday, with thousands of reinforcements pouring into the grinding battle, many of them trained and equipped by the West and, until now, held in reserve.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the campaign. Their comments dovetailed with reports from the battlefield on Wednesday, where artillery battles flared along the southern front line in the Zaporizhzhia region.

And Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Defense Ministry’s chief spokesman, reported a “massive” assault and fierce battles south of Orikhiv, a town that Ukraine holds about 60 miles north of the Sea of Azov. Vladimir Rogov, an official appointed by Moscow in southern Ukraine, said the assault involved Ukrainian troops who had been trained abroad and were equipped with about 100 armored vehicles, including German-made Leopards and American-made Bradley Fighting Vehicles.

nytimes.com

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:23:14pm

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:23:54pm

re: #94 Vicious Babushka

Don’t worry, the radar map stops at the border.

If only!

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:23:56pm

re: #96 Dr Lizardo

And here. we. go….

nytimes.com

Sounds like they’ve found a nice gap in mine fields and are going to break through some weakened defensive points and begin hitting Russia from behind. I’m okay with this.
Slava Ukraini.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:24:44pm

And don’t forget, in Australia, even the fictitious small cute animals will try and kill you-
.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:25:01pm

re: #97 Vicious Babushka

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Yep, Fox News went there: “Arbeit Macht Frei.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:25:03pm

I just made a new page

Trump 2024 and the blueprint to end American democracy…brought to you by the Heritage Foundation…

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:25:07pm

re: #92 No Malarkey!

Well deserved.

Oh, yeah, definitely. Even critics that rated the film as a solid “meh” pretty much universally praised the VFX work.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:25:42pm

re: #82 Thanos

There’s a bus somewhere in Alaska.

Actually, it was removed a few years back so people would stop risking their lives to go see it.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:26:01pm

re: #99 darthstar

Sounds like they’ve found a nice gap in mine fields and are going to break through some weakened defensive points and begin hitting Russia from behind. I’m okay with this.
Slava Ukraini.

If they break through they could sever the land bridge to Crimea.

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jaunte  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:27:57pm

re: #100 ckkatz

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:28:41pm

re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg

Actually, it was removed a few years back so people would stop risking their lives to go see it.

Apparently, the authorities got tired of having to go up to that hugely remote location to rescue some hapless, unprepared would-be adventurer who wanted to get a photo of themselves with the bus. IIRC, it was airlifted out with a helicopter. There was a video on YouTube about the removal.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:28:42pm

Big loser loses again; still not tired of losing!

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:29:07pm
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:29:19pm

re: #105 No Malarkey!

If they break through they could sever the land bridge to Crimea.

And that could well make the Russian’s position in the Donbas pretty much untenable.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:29:24pm

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

Apparently, the authorities got tired of having to go up to that hugely remote location to rescue some hapless, unprepared would-be adventurer who wanted to get a photo of themselves with the bus. IIRC, it was airlifted out with a helicopter. There was a video on YouTube about the removal.

Yep. Several people died trying to complete the pilgrimage.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:29:54pm

re: #108 No Malarkey!

Big loser loses again; still not tired of losing!

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Don’t worry. Krazy Kari will file another appeal and another and another and another…

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:30:32pm

re: #108 No Malarkey!

Big loser loses again; still not tired of losing!

JFC that dumbass just can’t get a clue, can she?

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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:30:38pm

Mitch McConnell is just fine, say Republicans. Don’t worry. Just roll over and go back to sleep. He’s fine. Don’t be silly. Nothing to worry about.

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:31:04pm

re: #68 Dr Lizardo

Yep - just a different type of virus this time. It’s definitely a B-movie, albeit, a very well-made one. The plot is thin and so is the character development, but as a bombastic popcorn flick, it delivers.

How is the plot any worse than Raiders of the Lost Ark. B, at least to me, normally refers to the quality of the movie, not whether every detail is believable.

As for the hacking, I always just assumed that they had been poking around the ships OS for decades, and were able to figure out some of the controls and other interfaces: it just took David to put it all together. Kind of like how you can use a probe to figure out controls on a controller. But, yes, I tend to not take that too far.

My favorite scene is a transition scene, specifically the music in the scene. After they come up with a plan and set up telegraphs to transmit, it cuts to the Middle East. The music starts with Morse code and then blends it into the music.

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jeffreyw  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:31:50pm

rotatingsandwiches.com

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:32:08pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

Mitch McConnell is just fine, say Republicans. Don’t worry. Just roll over and go back to sleep. He’s fine. Don’t be silly. Nothing to worry about.

Thus confirming that he suffered something more than a little alarming.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:32:52pm

re: #113 Dr Lizardo

JFC that dumbass just can’t get a clue, can she?

It’s her job now; grifting off of MAGA for money to continue appealing her election loss.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:32:54pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

Mitch McConnell is just fine, say Republicans. Don’t worry. Just roll over and go back to sleep. He’s fine. Don’t be silly. Nothing to worry about.

Could have been neurological w/o any ‘stroke’.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:33:13pm

One of my sisters just said that Mitch was probably just pooping.
She says she’s seen babies make that same face when they poop…

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:34:52pm

re: #47 No Malarkey!

I recall there was a view that the Air Force deliberately stoked UFO rumors as disinformation to cover for the real experimental aircraft they were testing.

That is certainly the origin of “Area 51” mythology that has accreted around the Groom Lake Test Facility. In 1955, Lockheed was using the remote base to flight test the first U-2s. With its huge sailplane-like wings, the new aircraft presented a strikingly strange appearance for the time. Lockheed and the Air Force (acting on behalf of the CIA) quickly realized that it would be recognized as something new and very unusual. One way or another, production or operation, actual millions of people had worked with aircraft during World War II and public awareness was much higher than it is now. The Air Force got around it by planting flying saucer stories in Las Vegas media. People who knew about aircraft noticed, and reported, the new plane, but those reports were buried in an avalanche of bullshit. In the 1980s, the Area 51 myth, bordering on hysteria at the time, helped to conceal the early Stealth aircraft and “donated” Soviet bloc aircraft that were being tested at Groom Lake and nearby.
It was classic disinformation, though probably more trouble that it was worth.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:35:07pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

Mitch McConnell is just fine, say Republicans. Don’t worry. Just roll over and go back to sleep. He’s fine. Don’t be silly. Nothing to worry about.

And even if he gets that visit from the Angel his machine will force Andy to name a Republican to replace him…and think of all the rotten GOP apples Andy will be forced to pick from…

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:35:19pm

Mastodon

yes.

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:36:17pm

re: #109 ckkatz

I don’t think, in this case, they need to contextually. He’s full of shit.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:36:18pm

re: #108 No Malarkey!

Big loser loses again; still not tired of losing!

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And she’s not a-gonna stop until she ranks right up there with TFG.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:37:11pm

re: #98 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If only!

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It just hit us. Power just went out,

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:37:26pm
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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:37:56pm

Came back on again.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:38:10pm

Empty garbage bins are rolling down the street.

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lawhawk  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:38:12pm
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:38:37pm

re: #115 Belafon

True enough. And Raiders of the Lost Ark is not only one of the greatest action/adventure films ever made, but also one of those films that goes from zero to 100 real quick.

Sure, there’s little hints here and there that something supernatural is going on with the Ark - nothing too much, mind you. That ominous humming, the swastika getting burned off the crate…and the next thing you know, there’s ghostly maidens, a pillar of fire, a platoon of Nazis getting blasted left, right and center, faces melting off and heads exploding. It works so well because that whole supernatural element is just all up in your face, quite unapologetically.

All in the last 10 minutes or so of the film.

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:39:26pm

re: #77 ckkatz

Throw away the rat race; Move off the grid; Be one with nature; Die.

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There’s a chapter in World War Z about all the hapless idiots from the Lower 48 who decide that the best idea they could possibly get is to follow the advice of the Feds to travel north of the Snow Line into Canada, then camp out through the winter while the government “gets things under control.”

Within a few months, it goes from “Big, lively community where everybody’s treating it like a huge slumber party and clear-cutting the forest when they’re not engaged in dynamite fishing” to “South African refugee camp where people are shooting each other” to finally “Outright cannibalism.”

Moral of the story? People used to living a comfy, pampered life in modern America have no idea how to survive “off the grid.”

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:39:33pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:41:30pm

Under the new statute, the leaders of the outgoing senator’s party (in McConnell’s case, the KY GOP) give the governor (Democrat Andy Beshear) 3 options to choose from.

Andy stuck with picking Comer, Cameron or Massie.

One wishes Andy was stuck with Moe, Larry or Shemp.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:41:43pm

re: #106 jaunte

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How do I look?

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:42:38pm
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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:43:45pm

re: #88 ckkatz

That is very true.

There is a joke about the prepper guy who decides to go off grid by moving to the wilds of suburbia and live by trapping the wild herds of cheetos…

Sadly, some folks actually try that kind of stuff. Or unknowingly accept far more risk than they realized.

Deaths prompt Alaska officials to remove ‘Into the Wild’ bus

Unfortunately there’s an effort underway to restore it.

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JC1  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:44:53pm

re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅

Hunter Biden pleads Not Guilty after the plea deal torpedoed.

msn.com

And the Judge is a Trump appointee…

Judge did him a favor in this case. The prosecutor was apparently under the impression that Hunter could be tried for other charges stemming from this; the defense was under the impression that this was it.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:45:10pm
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nines09  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:45:51pm

Wednesday forgotten song drop.
I was irradiated with the best music in my young mind.
You may have been too.
When you chasing that girl….
And looking for a way to get away….

The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (1967) 4K

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JC1  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:46:37pm

re: #25 dat_said

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Because beings who are capable of interstellar space travel would be

As would Chinese drones.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:46:39pm

re: #137 Thanos

Unfortunately there’s an effort underway to restore it.

No skin off my nose if a bunch of dumb people take themselves out of the gene pool. It reminds me of Nepal, where they issue too many permits to people wanting to climb Everest; but Nepalese make a lot of money from tourism, and why should they care if some rich foreigners die on the mountain?

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:48:35pm

And corporations are noted for how carefully they guard customers personal information.

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:49:06pm

re: #142 No Malarkey!

No skin off my nose if a bunch of dumb people take themselves out of the gene pool. It reminds me of Nepal, where they issue too many permits to people wanting to climb Everest; but Nepalese make a lot of money from tourism, and why should they care some rich foreigners die on the mountain?

Most area residents, according to my friends still there, want it tossed into the nearest compactor.

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:49:40pm

I like that MAGA is becoming an epithet to describe crazy and conspiracy theory minded people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:50:03pm

re: #109 ckkatz

“Jews survived the Holocaust by being useful”

I think the Right Wing subtext here is “…and you, too can survive the next Holocaust if you make yourself useful like our smarmy little friend Ben!”

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dat_said  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:50:36pm

re: #64 dat_said

Went down the search hole again after posting this about my father and uncle and learned (and relearned) a few things.

My uncle was in 16th Infantry, Company I of the 29th Division. From achh.army.mil:

Company K was forced to take over the mission of Company I as the Navy had taken Company I off course and had nearly landed them in the vicinity of PORT EN BESSIN. The 3rd BLT was disorganized after reaching the beach due to losses of key officers and enlisted men from the withering artillery, mortar, and MG fire. The battalion was forced to fight in a piecemeal action during the morning and it was not until late afternoon that the battalion was able to be organized as such in the vicinity of LE GD [Grand] HAMEAU.

That corroborates some of what my uncle told me about not landing where there were supposed to land and that there wasn’t much of a beach there (looking at satellite photos of the region). He also commented on how disorganized (not his actual words) things were when he landed. The way I remember what he told me was that after being pinned down for a while, a small group got together and climbed the cliff to take out whoever was firing on them from on top. He got slightly injured during that and stayed put until a medic was able to get to him during the night. He was back fighting the next day. The only thing I can’t figure out is that he said some of the group were Canadians but the Canadians landed quite a ways a way. I suppose it could have been British as Gold Beach was in that direction.

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JC1  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:51:51pm

re: #134 Joe Bacon ✅

Under the new statute, the leaders of the outgoing senator’s party (in McConnell’s case, the KY GOP) give the governor (Democrat Andy Beshear) 3 options to choose from.

Andy stuck with picking Comer, Cameron or Massie.

One wishes Andy was stuck with Moe, Larry or Shemp.

How long does he have to choose? Can he sit on it for a while?

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:52:09pm

Sen Jacky Rosen just put this host in her place when she wrongly said the military was paying for abortions…beautiful take down.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:52:45pm

re: #129 Vicious Babushka

Empty garbage bins are rolling down the street.

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:53:45pm
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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:55:14pm

re: #151 Captain Ron

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Covid/Herpes 2024.

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:55:24pm

re: #151 Captain Ron

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Kennedy/Gabbard: Best Candidates Rubles Can Buy.

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:55:47pm

It’s the eve of trash day here and I already cleaned out the ‘fridge. Of course I cheated a bit because we lost pretty much everything during last weekend’s extended power outage.
Now my brother is trying to talk me into getting a generator, but Ima gonna wait until solar installations drop a bit more and go that route.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:56:33pm

re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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10 - Drifting with the tumblin’ tumbleweeds out on the lone prairie.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:56:51pm

re: #151 Captain Ron

What ticket would have a better change of winning than Cuckoo/TOOLSI?

Abbot & Costello
Laurel & Hardy
Clark & Mc Cullough
Wheeler & Woolsey
Rowan & Martin
Hope & Crosby
Duke Miller & Sammy Petrillo
Joe E Ross & Steve Rossi

I could go on…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 12:59:39pm

Just got back from seeing the Big O at the cinema (daughter went to see Barbie at the same multiplex) and it is a stunning cinematic experience that is definitely best appreciated on the big screen, bigger the better. Alas no IMAX in my vicinity playing it in English.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:00:26pm

re: #156 Joe Bacon ✅

What ticket would have a better change of winning than Cuckoo/TOOLSI?

Abbot & Costello
Laurel & Hardy
Clark & Mc Cullough
Wheeler & Woolsey
Rowan & Martin
Hope & Crosby
Duke Miller & Sammy Petrillo
Joe E Ross & Steve Rossi

I could go on…

Pineapple and Ham for 2024!!!

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:02:46pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:03:20pm

re: #147 dat_said

The 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Division took tremendous casualties on D-Day. Company A/116th is the famous Bedford, Virginia Boys (pop 3000, a true small town) who lost 23 young men in the D-Day landings. Including 3 sets of brothers.

By the way, the 116th traces from the 1st Virginia Regt raised in November 1741. During the Civil War it fought as part of the Stonewall Brigade. Some articles have characterized it as the 7th oldest continuously serving regiment in the US Army.

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Mike Lamb  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:04:01pm

re: #151 Captain Ron

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That Allman dude is craaaaaaaaazy. And I don’t mean just for his RFK/Gabbard tweet. His timeline is nuttier than squirrel shit.

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IngisKahn  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:04:55pm

thequantuminsider.com

This has been claimed before, hope it’s true.

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:07:16pm

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:07:20pm

re: #149 darthstar

Sen Jacky Rosen just put this host in her place when she wrongly said the military was paying for abortions…beautiful take down.

The point is that people like Tommy Tooterville cannot stand the thought of the military even indirectly allowing access to abortions in the form of leave time for female members to access health care options not available in the state they are stationed in.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:08:04pm

re: #120 Backwoods Sleuth

One of my sisters just said that Mitch was probably just pooping.
She says she’s seen babies make that same face when they poop…

He made a big stinky?

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:09:58pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:10:49pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:11:50pm

re: #166 ckkatz

So this is what SCOTUS can do now? Just make up plaintiffs to get the rulings they want?

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:13:21pm

re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg

Apparently SCOTUS is fine being lied to, as long it is by Republicans.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:13:29pm

re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter

I’m not on Mastodon and only a truncated view of the posting appears here (running Chrome on my laptop).

That happens to me a lot, too. Reloading the individual post usually fixes it (may take several seconds).

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jaunte  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:14:49pm

re: #167 ckkatz

I’m opposed to craahm, too.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:15:42pm

MCConnell

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:16:41pm

re: #171 jaunte

I’m opposed to craahm, too.

I guess that it depends where it’s craahmed?

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:18:45pm
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:18:49pm

Jacarandas are blooming!

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:19:41pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:23:40pm

Watch out Ben Shapiro!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:24:44pm

I’ll honestly be surprised if the GOP manages to find enough unity to impeach Biden. I just don’t see it.

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:24:48pm

re: #176 Vicious Babushka

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Headline’s short two words, it’s “How Much Will Democrats Surrender Trans Rights?” Because we can expect the usual dying by inches approach where Dems gradually sign away trans rights on the promise that they’ll reverse the trend when they get power back…only to then argue that the limited time they have in power must be spent on “more important things.”

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:29:04pm

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ll honestly be surprised if the GOP manages to find enough unity to impeach Biden. I just don’t see it.

I don’t either, not based on the current vaporware Comey and Fox News are pushing. And won’t that make Trump angry!

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No Malarkey!  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:29:53pm

Cuteness overload

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KGxvi  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:36:23pm

re: #13 Targetpractice

From what I’m reading (so far), it looks like the Trump appointee deliberately junked plea deal because she didn’t like that signing off on it might mean Hunter having immunity from any potential future charges. IOW, the DOJ is now going to be forced to go to trial on charges they normally wouldn’t even bother with because the judge doesn’t approve of Hunter avoiding jail time.

Or they could just dismiss the charges. Which will feed the wingnut whirlwind for a couple of weeks… considering they probably only went forward with charges because he is the president’s son, it would be a logical conclusion to this mess.

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EPR-radar  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:36:44pm

re: #179 Targetpractice

That’s the curse of the two party system — as long as Republicans remain totally unacceptable, Democrats will often have more votes to gain than lose by making stupid compromises on minority rights.

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:37:12pm

Yard Act - The Trench Coat Museum

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jaunte  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:38:20pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:40:15pm

I wonder how many Pulpit Pimps anointed McConnell’s head with oil and laid their hands on him to heal in Jay-Zuss name?

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:41:57pm

It’s been a few hours.

Wordle 767 1/6*

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I got over the ‘speechless’ phase.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:42:17pm

re: #185 jaunte

Doesn’t Congress have a full-time doctor’s office in house at the Capitol? (Office of the Attending Physician)

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jaunte  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:44:28pm

Ron’s Hail Mary. It still won’t work.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:47:40pm

re: #190 jaunte

Ron’s Hail Mary. It still won’t work.

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Let’s see how that works in Georgia.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:48:20pm

re: #190 jaunte

nothing would do more to heal this country than to end the Deep State Witch Hunt against Donald Trump!!!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:49:59pm

re: #190 jaunte

Ron’s Hail Mary. It still won’t work.

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To unite the stupid fascist DeSantis supporters and the even more stupid fascist Trump supporters, with the rest of us not a consideration?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:50:10pm

re: #188 ckkatz

Doesn’t Congress have a full-time doctor’s office in house at the Capitol? (Office of the Attending Physician)

Yeah, but it still requires the patient to realize something is wrong and seek treatment.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:52:30pm

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:52:44pm

re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, but it still requires the patient to realize something is wrong and seek treatment.

And pediatricians are in charge of potty training

/

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:53:22pm

re: #87 lawhawk

If that had happened to Biden, the Fox ghouls would be running that on loop for the next 18 months. McConnell? Fox is like who dat?

TBF there’s a difference between being an incapacitated senator (one of 100) and an incapacitated president. But I agree.

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:53:37pm

re: #190 jaunte

Ron’s Hail Mary. It still won’t work.

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Upon further consideration, do you think DeSantis would actually follow through and pardon Trump? He’d be far less of a headache if he were behind bars.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:53:44pm

Well, I guess that I finally buckle and turn on the AC tonight. I detest AC as I get sinusitis often from it. Additionally, I have guests coming this weekend. (Although they are coming from Tampa, where the water is reportedly hotter than the expected high here.)

WaPo - “D.C. could hit 100 degrees for first time in 7 years over coming days”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:55:39pm

re: #198 darthstar

Upon further consideration, do you think DeSantis would actually follow through and pardon Trump? He’d be far less of a headache if he were behind bars.

The MAGAts would demand it, so…yes.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:55:50pm

Screenshot of toot that won’t embed:

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JC1  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:56:05pm

It’s all in how you crop it… From Drudge.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:57:02pm

re: #201 Vicious Babushka

Screenshot of toot that won’t embed:

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That is what the Radical Republicans want. There is nothing they won’t do to take Joe down

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Teddy's Person  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:57:16pm

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:58:00pm

tasty pop from Band of Horses

Band of Horses - Crutch (Official Video)

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:59:02pm

re: #128 Vicious Babushka

Came back on again.

I hope that your power is still holding and that you have not lost too many neighbors, or their trash cans, in the storm.

Hopefully we have not lost our Nebraska contingent as collateral storm damage.

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steve_davis  Jul 26, 2023 • 1:59:44pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Who will probably give him some bullshit stiff sentence just because he’s Hunter Biden.

the judge did him a huge favor by pointing out to the defense team that what they thought they were entering into wasn’t actually what they were entering into.

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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:01:45pm

This is Sinead a week or so after ripping up the Pope’s picture on SNL. Some Dylan fans don’t like protests, I suppose. Kudos to Kris Kristofferson.

Sinead O’Connor “War” LIVE @ Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary HQ lyrics

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:02:22pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:03:02pm

re: #198 darthstar

I think he’s promising anything to see what sticks, and he’ll reconsider the decision that benefits himself if he gets the opportunity.

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:03:22pm

re: #207 steve_davis

the judge did him a huge favor by pointing out to the defense team that what they thought they were entering into wasn’t actually what they were entering into.

Might have done more than that:

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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:04:30pm

re: #140 nines09

Their follow up album was Mass in F Minor for those who like their Catholicism to be psychedelic.

Gloria

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Thanos  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:05:56pm

Dolly & Friends with some anthems

Dolly Parton - We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You (Official Music Video)

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:07:54pm

re: #195 Vicious Babushka

re: #201 Vicious Babushka

Sadly, a GOP goal of getting Hunter Biden to kill himself would not surprise me. There are a bunch that see violence as furthering their political goals by other means.

As Napoleon reportedly said: “You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs”.

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:08:32pm

re: #211 Targetpractice

Might have done more than that:

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I really hope Marcy’s right here. That would be the best.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:12:13pm

What if we made LGF merch? T-shirts, mouse pads, hats, coffee mugs, shit like that.

Every other website is selling stuff, except for us.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:13:42pm

re: #216 Vicious Babushka

What if we made LGF merch? T-shirts, mouse pads, hats, coffee mugs, shit like that.

Every other website is selling stuff, except for us.

I’d use a t-shirt more than I have the cookbook.

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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:14:22pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:14:23pm

I have to admit that the DeSantis moves do not impress me as prime ‘strategery’ -

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:16:10pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:18:05pm

Not an open window, sounds like they’re getting creative.
(Or maybe he didn’t do Windows.)

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:19:59pm

2023: Detail from Morro Rock, California

Cool and foggy beach day, it’s amazing here, 😎as per the usual

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:20:00pm

re: #221 ckkatz

Not an open window, sounds like they’re getting creative.
(Or maybe he didn’t do Windows.)

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Nitrous is a lot of fun but it’ll still kill you.

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EPR-radar  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:20:20pm

re: #193 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

To unite the stupid fascist DeSantis supporters and the even more stupid fascist Trump supporters, with the rest of us not a consideration?

From a Republican point of view, that makes perfect sense. That’s because they don’t think non-Republicans are people.

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:21:33pm

re: #201 Vicious Babushka

Screenshot of toot that won’t embed:

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Simplest explanation still seems the right one to me, that the MAGAts are desperate to create a “scandal” involving the Bidens in the hopes of killing whatever good will he has with the public. If hounding Hunter endlessly leads to his committing suicide and destroying Joe emotionally, they’d consider that a bonus.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:22:23pm

Popehat’s take on HB plea

Hunter Biden And The Fog Of War

open.substack.com

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TedStriker  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:23:19pm

re: #22 A Cranky One

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Mad Dog 20/20

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:24:13pm

re: #216 Vicious Babushka

What if we made LGF merch? T-shirts, mouse pads, hats, coffee mugs, shit like that.

Every other website is selling stuff, except for us.

I would put a stuffed green lizard holding a football on my desk.

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steve_davis  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:29:05pm

re: #156 Joe Bacon ✅

What ticket would have a better change of winning than Cuckoo/TOOLSI?

Abbot & Costello
Laurel & Hardy
Clark & Mc Cullough
Wheeler & Woolsey
Rowan & Martin
Hope & Crosby
Duke Miller & Sammy Petrillo
Joe E Ross & Steve Rossi

I could go on…

Loggins and Messina. Seals and Croft. Bo and Luke Duke.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:29:20pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:30:26pm

re: #230 wrenchwench

Remember to always choose the lesser of two weevils!

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:30:46pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:31:19pm

re: #231 ckkatz

Remember to always choose the lesser of two weevils!

That’s how they got so small!

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:33:50pm

re: #217 wrenchwench

I’d use a t-shirt more than I have the cookbook.

I’d wear the cookbook art (JAUNTE) on a t-shirt/hoodie.

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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:34:10pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:35:32pm

Well, Haley is polling below gas station tacos…

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TarHellion  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:36:02pm

re: #187 wrenchwench

Congratulations!

The Albatross (a double-eagle on a par 4). A hole-in-one!

Only thing I can equate it to would be when I hit my first Royal Flush on video poker. Just kept staring at the screen wondering if it was real.

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Orange Impostor  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:36:32pm

re: #209 darthstar

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Am I a bad person for misreading that headline as
“Police in Montana are investigating reports of a moose found near Lyle Lovett’s band’s tour bus”

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:41:04pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:41:36pm

re: #214 ckkatz

Sadly, a GOP goal of getting Hunter Biden to kill himself would not surprise me. There are a bunch that see violence as furthering their political goals by other means.

As Napoleon reportedly said: “You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs”.

Or at least drive him to the near equivalent: start using again. There’s some evidence that he’s already been manipulated by the hard right—at one of his most critical moments he was under the supervision of Keith Ablow, the blowhard psychiatrist on Fox, for Ketamine treatment. That’s when a lot of shenanigans with his phones and computer allegedly took place.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:43:01pm

This is the Douglas DC-6, Slick Airways N6814C, in which my family and I flew back from Japan in August 1960:


I think this is Wake Island (the Pan Am terminal on the right looks the same) but I am not sure. This particular `aircraft was built in 1956 and was scrapped in Michigan in 1978.
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Ace Rothstein  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:44:22pm

re: #159 Backwoods Sleuth

Our next President after Biden.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:45:21pm

re: #237 TarHellion

Congratulations!

The Albatross (a double-eagle on a par 4). A hole-in-one!

Only thing I can equate it to would be when I hit my first Royal Flush on video poker. Just kept staring at the screen wondering if it was real.

I like Albatross. I was avoiding hole-in-one.

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Markm1960  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:45:26pm

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think the Right Wing subtext here is “…and you, too can survive the next Holocaust if you make yourself useful like our smarmy little friend Ben!”

Jews survived because the nazis ran out of time.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:46:01pm

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ll honestly be surprised if the GOP manages to find enough unity to impeach Biden. I just don’t see it.

A lot of those Republican congressional districts voted for Biden in 2020.

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:51:46pm

re: #176 Vicious Babushka

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When’s the last time Democrats got blamed for a shutdown? I don’t know that this has much chance of passing, considering even Republicans helped pass the law that codified gay marriage.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:52:27pm

re: #244 Markm1960

Jews survived because the nazis ran out of time.

Yes. One of the many great things you learn from the graphic novel Maus (now on several ban lists for schools) is how arbitrary things could be, but that pre-existing skills (not skills learned in camps usually) could at least buy you time; but the main message is that time was running out, and that many who survived were traumatized for life in ways that you wouldn’t wish on anyone, and that trauma could be passed like DNA to some in the next generation.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:54:00pm

re: #239 ckkatz

Avocados are water hogs. That’s the problem out here in California - Avocados grow well in areas without hard freezes but we don’t have the water for them, so many have let the avocado trees dies.

Citrus trees are better suited to less water, which is why so many are grown here.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:55:22pm
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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:55:41pm

re: #246 Belafon

When’s the last time Democrats got blamed for a shutdown?

When’s the last time the government shut down? Seriously, for the last 20+ years, Republicans have had no agency. Any time anything bad happens, it’s Democrats’ fault for not working with the Republicans enough, no matter who’s actually in power.

I don’t know that this has much chance of passing, considering even Republicans helped pass the law that codified gay marriage.

Yeah, umm, I hate to say it, but a lot’s changed since then. I know you know this, but Republicans are hyper-polarized and are determined to “win the culture war” at any cost, because that’s the only way they stay in power. The majority of the House Republicans WILL vote for this.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:57:16pm
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Jay C  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:57:39pm

re: #238 Orange Impostor

Am I a bad person for misreading that headline as
“Police in Montana are investigating reports of a moose found near Lyle Lovett’s band’s tour bus”

If so, you’re not alone: I first read “moose” as well: and thought “Wow, that’s weird….”

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:57:55pm

re: #248 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Avocados are water hogs. That’s the problem out here in California - Avocados grow well in areas without hard freezes but we don’t have the water for them, so many have let the avocado trees dies.

Citrus trees are better suited to less water, which is why so many are grown here.

I think I found an avocado tree by the municipal water treatment outlet into the Willamette. Are baby avocados fuzzy? They are light green and numerous, and the tree is surrounded by blackberries.

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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:59:23pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 2:59:47pm


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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:00:25pm

re: #253 wrenchwench

I think I found an avocado tree by the municipal water treatment outlet into the Willamette. Are baby avocados fuzzy? They are light green and numerous, and the tree is surrounded by blackberries.

Look at the tree’s leaves. We have two avocado trees in the house right now; the leaves are incredibly large, narrow, and uniformly oval. I can send a picture, if that would help.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:01:50pm

re: #256 Nerdy Fish

Look at the tree’s leaves. We have two avocado trees in the house right now; the leaves are incredibly large, narrow, and uniformly oval. I can send a picture, if that would help.

Like Rhododendron leaves, but bigger?

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:02:36pm

re: #257 wrenchwench

Like Rhododendron leaves, but bigger?

I had to look those up, but yes, that appears to be an apt analogue.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:03:07pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:03:31pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:03:58pm

re: #258 Nerdy Fish

I had to look those up, but yes, that appears to be an apt analogue.

I wonder if the blackberries will last until the avocados ripen…

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TedStriker  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:04:30pm

re: #221 ckkatz

Not an open window, sounds like they’re getting creative.
(Or maybe he didn’t do Windows.)

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re: #223 darthstar

Nitrous is a lot of fun but it’ll still kill you.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:07:02pm

re: #260 ckkatz

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“DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!”

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:07:20pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:08:04pm
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sagehen  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:08:11pm

re: #229 steve_davis

Loggins and Messina. Seals and Croft. Bo and Luke Duke.

Simon and Garfunkel. Sonny and Cher. the Captain and Tenille.

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nines09  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:09:43pm

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silverdolphin  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:09:51pm

Today in the American gerontocracy

Nancy Pelosi, 83, gracefully cedes power to the next generation and seps down.

Mitch McConnell, 81, will do no such thing. He fell and had a concussion 4 months ago. NOw he looks to have had some neurological problem.

Who will take over? It could be a blood bath.Well, a bloodbath in the Senate is not like the House. Comyn and Thune will arm wrestle. Barrasso may want say he has dibs on the winner.

But whateverr happens we are really begining to see party leadership shift to a new generation.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:09:56pm

re: #163 darthstar

Hottest Water On Earth!

An ocean buoy off the coast of Florida has registered a water temperature of 101.1F (38.4C) which would be the warmest ocean temperature ever recorded.

It’s Hot Tub Hot!

The resulting damage to the marine ecosystem, the coral, the ocean currents, etc. is unknown - this is a frightening new reality!

And water at that temperature can’t hold sufficient oxygen, so pretty much the only things left living in those waters are bacteria & viruses.

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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:11:49pm
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EPR-radar  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:12:09pm

re: #268 silverdolphin

It is certain that the next GOP Senate leader will aspire to be a bigger piece of shit than McConnell. Hopefully their incompetence wrecks this dream.

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sagehen  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:13:12pm

re: #253 wrenchwench

I think I found an avocado tree by the municipal water treatment outlet into the Willamette. Are baby avocados fuzzy? They are light green and numerous, and the tree is surrounded by blackberries.

were they round? that would be kiwis.

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EPR-radar  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:13:37pm

re: #270 gocart mozart

Even if DeSantis had a personality, I’ve never seen any reason to believe anyone could win a contested GOP primary vs. Trump in 2024.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:15:33pm

re: #272 EPR-radar

It is certain that the next GOP Senate leader will aspire to be a bigger piece of shit than McConnell. Hopefully their incompetence wrecks this dream.

McConnell is an evil son of a bitch, but he’s a smart evil son of a bitch. The damage he has done is incalculable, largely on account of it flying under the radar. The flashy, showy assholes like DeathSentence who flaunt their evil in front of everybody - they don’t last long. Nobody wants to vote for somebody who is blatantly evil. They vote for the guys who say all the right things, walk the right tightropes, and get their dirty work done behind closed doors.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:15:43pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:16:29pm

re: #273 sagehen

were they round? that would be kiwis.

That’s discrimination! New Zealanders come in all shapes and sizes.

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Targetpractice  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:16:36pm

re: #270 gocart mozart

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The problem for Ron is that everybody pumped him for a run this year under the assumption that Trump wasn’t running, that either he’d be nearing the end of his second term or he’d have given up and gone back to burning other people’s cash in NYC. He never planned for the possibility that he’d be running as Trump-Lite when Trump Classic was his opponent.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:17:19pm
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nines09  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:22:04pm

re: #276 ckkatz

One party actually cares about humanity.
The other views humanity as a crop to be harvested.
And Elon tells them Mars awaits.
For the right amount of paper.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:29:38pm

Mastodon

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:31:17pm

re: #177 ckkatz

Watch out Ben Shapiro!

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Dark Barbie is when she says “No more nice girl.”, transforms into Harley Quinn and lets loose with a large blunt instrument.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:36:00pm
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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:36:16pm
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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:37:00pm

re: #279 ckkatz

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nines09  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:37:27pm

re: #281 Backwoods Sleuth

Then Joe Pesci came on the next week or so and put the photo back together and sneered at her action.
Because Joe isn’t fucking Irish, nor did he care.

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:39:14pm

re: #284 gocart mozart

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I mean, all Democrats produced was evidence. Where’s the hearsay? Where’s the innuendo?

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:40:32pm

Holy shi-

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:41:44pm

In other words: does history matter?

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:42:13pm

re: #288 Belafon

Holy shi-

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I’m going to go out on a limb and say that when the FUCKING DESERT IS ON FIRE, we have a bit of a problem.

/Yes, I know “the coast” is not the desert, but it’s not that far off

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:46:54pm

re: #288 Belafon

45 million people live in Algeria. I doubt that all are going to just sit there happily and die. Where will they go?

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:49:32pm

re: #273 sagehen

were they round? that would be kiwis.

They seemed to be headed toward avocado-shape, oddly enough. I never knew how fuzzy their babbies were

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:51:39pm

re: #263 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

“DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!”

Go on, try it…what’s the worst that can happen?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:53:04pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:53:48pm

re: #169 ckkatz

Apparently SCOTUS is fine being lied to, as long it is by Republicans.

Did the other side point out the lies in this case? It’s not up to SCOTUS to investigate whether the basic assertions in the case are truthful, is it? IANAL so don’t know the rules.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:56:28pm

re: #295 Hecuba’s daughter

Did the other side point out the lies in this case? It’s not up to SCOTUS to investigate whether the basic assertions in the case are truthful, is it? IANAL so don’t know the rules.

It’s not up to them, but what is up to them is that when it comes to light that they have been lied to by lawyers in a case, those lawyers are held to account for misrepresenting the facts.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 3:58:18pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:00:53pm

Sounds like a bit of pushback -

“We are deeply concerned by any misrepresentations about our work—whether deliberate or arising from misunderstandings..”

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:01:31pm

re: #297 ckkatz

Since he didn’t take the plea, this is super funny.

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:01:50pm
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Dave In Austin  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:02:07pm
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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:02:42pm

Former FBI Agent, current lawyer and talking head-

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:04:38pm
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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:08:16pm

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:13:44pm

re: #304 darthstar

Filming Longboard Dancing with Valeriya

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:14:03pm
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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:14:47pm
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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:15:11pm

re: #305 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

She’s really graceful.

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steve_davis  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:17:40pm

whichever Irish Coffee album this is that starts with Coloured Land is all godamned right. I mean, yes, they were heavily influenced by Deep Purple, but that’s not a terrible influence.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:18:10pm

re: #305 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

re: #304 darthstar

Thanks! I needed that grace ,beauty and free flowing movement after going through so much heavy world news.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:20:27pm

Sinéad O’Connor - Mandinka (lyrics on screen)

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:29:05pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:29:08pm

re: #311 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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Video

My favorite.

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ckkatz  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:30:04pm
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Vicious Babushka  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:31:37pm

Important info about lizards!

Top 10 Things You Should Know About the REPTILIAN CONSPIRACY THEORY

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:41:25pm

Over 225 feet - without fins. Slava Ukraini.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:42:54pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:43:17pm

re: #314 ckkatz

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Actually yes.
You can ascribe nothing.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:44:02pm

bsky.app

If there’s one thing I’ve been assured companies LOVE, it’s a platform where their ads can appear next to CSAM, and where the publisher not only protects and reinstates the guy who spread the CSAM, but gives him a cut of your ad revenue as a reward for driving traffic.

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Belafon  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:44:53pm

re: #317 darthstar

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:49:00pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:51:32pm

re: #320 Belafon

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Republicans don’t want any of that: they want no family leave, no abortion rights, no gun control, no health care, no rights for the LGBTQ community, no food for the hungry, no shelter for the homeless, no truth about American history, no voting rights for minorities. Nate Hochman and Stephen Miller are the role models for the modern Republican Party.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:51:53pm

re: #259 Backwoods Sleuth

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:52:41pm

re: #320 Belafon

So Satan has totally taken over MN, eh?

//

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:53:18pm
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darthstar  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:54:19pm

re: #323 Backwoods Sleuth

They’re not even moms.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 4:54:52pm

re: #324 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So Satan has totally taken over MN, eh?

//

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I haven’t said a Hail Satan in at least 36 minutes.

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austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:03:03pm

re: #327 Nerdy Fish

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I haven’t said a Hail Satan in at least 36 minutes.

Heretic! Malingerer!

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:03:36pm

Scrolling through bluesky & I saw a baby Teddy..

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:05:15pm

re: #328 austin_blue

Heretic! Malingerer!

Look, I already host the requisite 6.66 demons in my home, as mandated by the state. What more do you want from me?

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:10:27pm

re: #327 Nerdy Fish

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I haven’t said a Hail Satan in at least 36 minutes.

I have two diametrically opposed memories of M/STP. My brother had failed out of college at a young age, but then went to a Community College to build his grades up and take some Dramatic Arts classes. He parlayed that into acceptance at Macalester College. He lived in a big old drafty house with something like 6 other students. He invited me for a promised “great New Years” and I arrived on 12/31 in the middle of a deep freeze. No one was home. My brother had finished his shift at a St. Paul restaurant and called me to “take a cab down here, it’s great.” No cabs immediately available in NYE, who would’ve thought?). It was cold as shit. Teeth-shattering resentment. (Later, I can tell you about a repeat of his bad judgement in inviting me to visit him in Hamburg.) The next day I learned about the Minnesota hospitality when by brother’s old car needed a jump and a few strangers came to help right away.

A few years later I was on my way to St. Cloud—it was the staging place for a trip to the PNW with a few friends (one of whom had family in St. Cloud). It was summer. I stopped in Minneapolis because an old friend who graduated from St. Johns was working at Northern Lights while making a go in a rock band. He lived in an old drafty house with 5 or 6 other guys. We just had an amazing time as they made a kettle of chili and some drove to Wisconsin for beer on a Sunday.

I enjoyed the cities both times, tbh.

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wrenchwench  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:13:46pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:16:43pm

Someone tell this racist bigot that compared to Einstein he’s just an old stinky fart.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:18:49pm
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jaunte  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:20:06pm

re: #333 Joe Bacon ✅

No smart kid in elementary school will ever, ever be called a ‘Prager’.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:20:55pm
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gocart mozart  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:24:07pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:31:00pm

So these days if you go on Twitter, you might see actual child porn images. Musk reinstated a far right “influencer” with more than a million followers after he posted some kind of clip (I didn’t see it) from a notoriously horrific CSAM video.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:31:34pm

re: #284 gocart mozart

The neon lights flashing inside your skull us not evidence, Rep. Comer.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:33:15pm

re: #320 Belafon

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Oh, the horror! MAGA loyalists should flee the state immediately, before the now deputized BLM/antifa hordes come to their door to confiscate their guns and SUVs and convert their children to Muslim Wokeness. They will institute Shakira law and force us all to dance to their nefarious tune. How do I know this? The hips don’t lie.

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A Cranky One  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:36:22pm

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austin_blue  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:44:19pm

re: #330 Nerdy Fish

Look, I already host the requisite 6.66 demons in my home, as mandated by the state. What more do you want from me?

I want constant worship of the Dark Lord, Cthulu.

Oh, wait, I’ve outed myself.

They’re sending me to Heaven!

Oh woe, woe, woe. Constant exposure to the Beatific Vision.

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Captain Ron  Jul 26, 2023 • 5:50:55pm

re: #332 wrenchwench

I’m pretty sure the homeless aren’t stealing $5,000 road bikes and chopping them for parts, when those parts won’t be of any use on their old beat to shit Walmart bikes. I’ve seen the homeless bikes and I wanted to offer some help maintaining them for the people.


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