The Bob Cesca Podcast: We Can't Do Anything

The Bob Cesca Podcast: We Can’t Do Anything

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

We Can’t Do Anything — Trump might be on the verge of another COVID infection. Or was it a delay tactic? We preview the New Hampshire primary despite the time lag of the podcast. Dixville Notch goes Nikki. Trump confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi. Elise Stefank says Trump meant to say Nikki instead of Nancy. If Trump wins it’ll mean more runway for him to scare voters. Why the Republicans are making a huge mistake. The Koch Network doesn’t think Trump can win. What is Nimbra? Trump short circuits during high-pitch rant. DeSantis is out. Trump threatens the Supreme Court. An AI robocall impersonating Biden. With Buzz Burbank, music by Firefall, Circe Link & Christian Nesmith, and more!

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 23, 2024 • 2:02:30pm

President Joe Biden’s administration is calling for an investigation into the killing of a 17-year-old Palestinian-American who was fatally shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank last week.
US officials are “devastated” by the killing of Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a US citizen, and demand an “urgent investigation to determine the circumstance of his death,” according to US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel.

Mr Patel told reporters on Monday that the US Office of Palestinian Affairs has visited the teenager’s family and is connecting them with the US Embassy in Jerusalem.

“We call on Israel to conduct a full, thorough, transparent investigation into his killing,” White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Monday. “And of course, we have every expectation that those responsible for it will be held properly accountable.”

Tawfic, the son of Palestinian immigrants, was raised, coincidentally, on the West Bank of the Mississippi River from New Orleans. He attended schools in nearby Gretna and an all-boys Catholic preparatory high school in New Orleans. Last year, he made a temporary move to the occupied territory, where his father grew up, to be closer to relatives and improve his Arabic before returning to the US for college, according to his family.

On 19 January, he was reportedly in a car in the village of Al-Mazra’a Al-Sharqiya, roughly 10 miles northeast of Ramallah, when an Israeli settler began firing at him and others, followed by fire from Israeli military, according to accounts from his family and Defence for Children International - Palestine.

US demands ‘urgent’ investigation into Israeli killing of American teen in West Bank (Independent)

silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 2:05:53pm

Got back the results of my colonoscopy from last Thursday. They removed 3 polyps, one was over 1 cm in size, which is large. But the biopsy found no evidence of abnormal cells. Just waiting to hear from the docs on when I need another colonoscopy.

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 23, 2024 • 2:11:04pm

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Backwoods Sleuth Jan 23, 2024 • 2:14:31pm

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 2:18:06pm

NEW: As anti-Trump Republicans in New Hampshire make their voices heard, Marjorie Taylor Greene warns that any Republican who does not support Trump will be ‘eradicated’ from the party.

Videos and story… https://t.co/rGi9SPSpwr

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) January 23, 2024

demonstrating something else she knows nothing about
like how parties work in this country

but, certainly, please proceed anyway.

Randall Gross Jan 23, 2024 • 2:19:46pm

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 2:20:26pm

re: #3 Backwoods Sleuth

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Kinda think they are taking the cowardly route. They know Biden will not hurt them and somehow attacking their ally is uplifting. Try attacking a real enemy - do this at a Trump rally where they might get assaulted.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 23, 2024 • 2:20:31pm

re: #5 Dangerman

demonstrating something else she knows nothing about
like how parties work in this country

but, certainly, please proceed anyway.

This is not about party, it is about ideology and a Cult of Personality.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 23, 2024 • 2:21:39pm

re: #8 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is not about party, it is about ideology and a Cult of Personality.

She understands that it’s a fascist cult and is too weak and useless to have the sense to reject fascism.

HRH Stanley Sea Jan 23, 2024 • 2:23:40pm

Great video

NH voter tells @OmarJimenez why she voted for Haley: “I’m 74 years old, I’ve lived in a constitutional democracy all my life. I want to remain that way. I want my grandchildren to grow up in one, not a dictatorship.” She says she voted for Trump in 2016 but later regretted it. pic.twitter.com/kS6j4K3OUw

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 23, 2024

Here’s from Mediaite

mediaite.com

wrenchwench Jan 23, 2024 • 2:24:53pm

re: #7 silverdolphin

Kinda think they are taking the cowardly route. They know Biden will not hurt them and somehow attacking their ally is uplifting. Try attacking a real enemy - do this at a Trump rally where they might get assaulted.

I fail to see how defeating Biden advances their cause. Unless their cause is to defeat Biden, using whoever’s name they want to.

jeffreyw Jan 23, 2024 • 2:25:26pm

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 2:27:43pm

re: #12 jeffreyw

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That is so wonderful. She is on my list and has been for years ;-)

wrenchwench Jan 23, 2024 • 2:28:43pm

re: #10 HRH Stanley Sea

Great video

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Here’s from Mediaite

mediaite.com

‘She’s what’s left.’ [Haley]

silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 2:31:19pm

re: #11 wrenchwench

I fail to see how defeating Biden advances their cause. Unless their cause is to defeat Biden, using whoever’s name they want to.

In many ways, they expose themselves as authoritarians, thinking that the Preident can just unilaterally tell another country what to do, and blackmail them if they do not do it. So they may actually respect Trump’s tactics while they see a compromiser like BIden as weak. Thus why they feel they can attack him with impunity (Genocide Joe? Really. I think the name-calling is a tell, as we see with Trump.)

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 23, 2024 • 2:32:34pm

re: #6 Randall Gross

The WHO believes this is a result of fewer children being vaccinated against the disease during the Covid pandemic.

Get your needles, people.

And fuck anti-vaxxers.

Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 2:32:47pm

re: #8 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is not about party, it is about ideology and a Cult of Personality.

sure
how’s she gonna ‘eradicate’ them?
peer pressure?

Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 2:34:17pm

re: #14 wrenchwench

‘She’s what’s left.’ [Haley]

as if there’s not another guy running
i think he’s actually president right now

Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 2:36:57pm

re: #18 Dangerman

as if there’s not another guy running
i think he’s actually president right now

It would be interesting to find her in September, and ask her who she’s going to vote for then. Republican votes who hope Haley can win the nomination would be an interesting group to hear from later.

wrenchwench Jan 23, 2024 • 2:38:29pm

re: #18 Dangerman

as if there’s not another guy running
i think he’s actually president right now

Some people have trouble thinking of Party as something you can change. To them it is a component of ‘identity’ which is fixed at birth.

silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 2:38:35pm

re: #19 Belafon

It would be interesting to find her in September, and ask her who she’s going to vote for then. Republican votes who hope Haley can win the nomination would be an interesting group to hear from later.

I’m expecting the sane ones to vote for RFK, Jr. ;-) If they vote at all.

Hecuba's daughter Jan 23, 2024 • 2:38:37pm

re: #9 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

She understands that it’s a fascist cult and is too weak and useless to have the sense to reject fascism.

MTG is a fascist to the core and Trump represents her ideal of a leader. She actively wants a dictatorship. The Republican Party is dead; it is now the American Nazi Party led by their very own Fuehrer, America’s Hitler, Donald Trump.

Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 2:38:53pm

re: #15 silverdolphin

In many ways, they expose themselves as authoritarians, thinking that the Preident can just unilaterally tell another country what to do, and blackmail them if they do not do it. So they may actually respect Trump’s tactics while they see a compromiser like BIden as weak. Thus why they feel they can attack him with impunity (Genocide Joe? Really. I think the name-calling is a tell, as we see with Trump.)

These are the single-issue voters of the Left. Much like many Evangelical Christians vote for Republicans only because they want abortion to be outlawed across the country - without regard for anything else, like democracy, the economy, education, or civil rights - there are people on the Left who will vote for someone based purely on support for Palestine. It’s like a religion of its own.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 23, 2024 • 2:39:18pm

re: #17 Dangerman

sure
how’s she gonna ‘eradicate’ them?
peer pressure?

In her mind, she sees them being expelled from the party…in her heart of hearts, she would like to see them tarred and feathered.

Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 2:40:46pm

re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In her mind, she sees them being expelled from the party…in her heart of hearts, she would like to see them tarred and feathered.

This is Margarine Tater-Greens we’re talking about here. I’m not excluding the possibility that she would literally like them lined up against the wall and shot, like actual traitors.

Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 2:40:56pm

re: #19 Belafon

It would be interesting to find her in September, and ask her who she’s going to vote for then*. Republican votes who hope Haley can win the nomination would be an interesting group to hear from later.

*reminding her what she said today, of course

silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 2:41:10pm

re: #20 wrenchwench

Some people have trouble thinking of Party as something you can change. To them it is a component of ‘identity’ which is fixed at birth.

That is one of the hallmarks of the GOP during the 6th poliitcal party system - being a Republican IS your political identity, no matter how conservative it is. That did not use to be the case, which is why there used to be liberal Republicans.

Jay C Jan 23, 2024 • 2:41:14pm

re: #17 Dangerman

sure
how’s she gonna ‘eradicate’ them?
peer pressure?

Myself, I think if anyone is going to get “eradicated” out of the GOP, it will be Marjorie, but just IMO….

Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 2:43:08pm

re: #20 wrenchwench

Some people have trouble thinking of Party as something you can change. To them it is a component of ‘identity’ which is fixed at birth.

That’s why Texas was Democratic until the late 20th century.

Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 2:44:43pm

re: #22 Hecuba’s daughter

MTG is a fascist to the core and Trump represents her ideal of a leader. She actively wants a dictatorship. The Republican Party is dead; it is now the American Nazi Party led by their very own Fuehrer, America’s Hitler, Donald Trump.

anyone post this already today?

The Party of Reagan is deceased, departed, demised, and no more. It’s Trump’s party; and the usual suspects are all stampeding to fall in line.

all that remains of the R party is the infrastructure. the shell

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 23, 2024 • 2:44:52pm

re: #25 Nerdy Fish

This is Margarine Tater-Greens we’re talking about here. I’m not excluding the possibility that she would literally like them lined up against the wall and shot, like actual traitors.

Ideally yes, but she knows that her options are currently limited

cat-tikvah Jan 23, 2024 • 2:44:53pm

re: #18 Dangerman

as if there’s not another guy running
i think he’s actually president right now

Well it is the GOP primary.

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jan 23, 2024 • 2:45:54pm

Afternoon Lizards. Looks like Abbott is trying to go the “The Supreme Court has made their ruling, now lets see them enforce it” route.

Is Greg Abbott Intentionally Trying To Trigger Right-Wing Violence In Texas?

cat-tikvah Jan 23, 2024 • 2:46:19pm

re: #30 Dangerman

anyone post this already today?

The Party of Reagan is deceased, departed, demised, and no more. It’s Trump’s party; and the usual suspects are all stampeding to fall in line.

all that remains of the R party is the infrastructure. the shell

It has rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.
If you hadn’t nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!

sagehen Jan 23, 2024 • 2:46:22pm

re: #19 Belafon

It would be interesting to find her in September, and ask her who she’s going to vote for then. Republican votes who hope Haley can win the nomination would be an interesting group to hear from later.

She’s the kind of voter Liz Cheney resonates with. “We can survive bad policy, the only thing that matters is remaining a democracy.”

Axolotl Jan 23, 2024 • 2:46:51pm

re: #13 silverdolphin

That is so wonderful. She is on my list and has been for years ;-)

If they are to believed there are a lot of positive stories about her from various sources. Apparently she is a wonderful person.

Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 2:46:53pm

re: #33 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Afternoon Lizards. Looks like Abbott is trying to go the “The Supreme Court has made their ruling, now lets see them enforce it” route.

Is Greg Abbott Intentionally Trying To Trigger Right-Wing Violence In Texas?

And Biden will.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 23, 2024 • 2:47:21pm

re: #33 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Afternoon Lizards. Looks like Abbott is trying to go the “The Supreme Court has made their ruling, now lets see them enforce it” route.

Is Greg Abbott Intentionally Trying To Trigger Right-Wing Violence In Texas?

He’s the Only Law West of the Pecos!!!

A Three Hour Tour Jan 23, 2024 • 2:49:17pm

re: #30 Dangerman

anyone post this already today?

The Party of Reagan is deceased, departed, demised, and no more. It’s Trump’s party; and the usual suspects are all stampeding to fall in line.

all that remains of the R party is the infrastructure. the shell

Donald Trump succeeded where Pat Buchanan failed.

wrenchwench Jan 23, 2024 • 2:51:06pm

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 2:53:14pm

re: #33 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Afternoon Lizards. Looks like Abbott is trying to go the “The Supreme Court has made their ruling, now lets see them enforce it” route.

Is Greg Abbott Intentionally Trying To Trigger Right-Wing Violence In Texas?

Now is the time for Biden to send in the National Guard/FBI to lay siege to the park. Do not allow people/supplies in or out. Take control of the boat ramp allowing the Feds access to the river. This is as much an insurrection as any we have had.

aatharuv Jan 23, 2024 • 2:54:50pm

re: #39 A Three Hour Tour

Donald Trump succeeded where Pat Buchanan failed.

He just built on the Buchanan brigade and managed to translate his philsophy from an intellectually one to an emotionally based one.
Of course the Buchanan brigades were for a while part of the Ron Paul Revolution who wanted to end government control over _their_ lives, but not end government control over _others_ lives. Just like the Tea Partiers.

HRH Stanley Sea Jan 23, 2024 • 2:58:07pm

re: #18 Dangerman

re: #19 Belafon

She voted for Biden in 2020.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 23, 2024 • 2:58:25pm

re: #41 silverdolphin

The problem is the National Guard, FBI and Texas authorities are all stacked with right wingers.

I really doubt they are going to go against each other that hard.

Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 3:02:07pm

re: #43 HRH Stanley Sea

She voted for Biden in 2020.

Nice.

Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 3:03:09pm

re: #44 Eclectic Cyborg

The problem is the National Guard, FBI and Texas authorities are all stacked with right wingers.

I really doubt they are going to go against each other that hard.

Except the National Guard and FBI aren’t going to let the state interfere with their jobs.

silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 3:06:56pm

re: #46 Belafon

Except the National Guard and FBI aren’t going to let the state interfere with their jobs.

The possibility of Courts Martial for not obeyipark. ng a legal order of the President might motivate even the most right winger in the National Guard. Plus, I bet a lot of Border Patrolman are not happy with the situation of the state telling them what they can do.

Federalize the California National Guard for the effort.

It is not a large park. Would the Texans actually fire on the Feds?

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jan 23, 2024 • 3:10:24pm

re: #37 Belafon

And Biden will.

Yep.

Vicious Babushka Jan 23, 2024 • 3:13:10pm

re: #3 Backwoods Sleuth

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Look if I can hold my nose & vote for Rashida Tlaib as my congress representative, these fuckers can shut up and vote for Joe Biden. Unless of course they are Trumporrhoids.

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jan 23, 2024 • 3:13:17pm

re: #44 Eclectic Cyborg

The problem is the National Guard, FBI and Texas authorities are all stacked with right wingers.

I really doubt they are going to go against each other that hard.

Going 2B interesting if/when POTUS Federalizes the TX National Guard & orders them back 2 their barracks. If they refuse, they are in violation of the UCMJ & subject to Court Marshal. He could also invoke the Insurrection Act & order the U.S Military to remove them by force.

— Michele: 🏳️‍⚧️ Out of the closet. Into the fire (@michele_out) January 23, 2024

Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 3:20:35pm

re: #43 HRH Stanley Sea

She voted for Biden in 2020.

hope!

Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 3:21:15pm

re: #50 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

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Except when the administration showed up, you decided to interfere, Abbott.

Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 3:22:52pm

know what movie’s on MYTV right now?

M*A*S*H

it’s like they were reading LGF

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 23, 2024 • 3:23:14pm

re: #50 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Man, can you imagine the splodey heads if Biden invoked the Insurrection Act?

Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 3:23:32pm

re: #52 Belafon

Except when the administration showed up, you decided to interfere, Abbott.

Because the administration wasn’t going to do it HIS way, which is to kill ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out. No, we have to prolong the so-called “crisis” so that there’s a talking point in November when they really really really want to try hard to get the former guy re-elected.

wrenchwench Jan 23, 2024 • 3:24:23pm

re: #49 Vicious Babushka

Look if I can hold my nose & vote for Rashida Tlaib as my congress representative, these fuckers can shut up and vote for Joe Biden. Unless of course they are Trumporrhoids.

Strategic nose-holding is a social activity, throwing the election to Trump is anti-social.

Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 3:26:21pm

re: #53 Dangerman

know what movie’s on MYTV right now?

M*A*S*H

it’s like they were reading LGF

Someone is.

A few weeks ago I made a comment about the history of Protestants and Others United for the Separation of Church and State. (They now do business as Americans United.) I spend no time thinking about that org, wasn’t even sure they still existed. Twice in the last week I’ve received mailers asking me to join.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 23, 2024 • 3:27:12pm

re: #49 Vicious Babushka

re: #56 wrenchwench

I think almost everyone in here knows I am registered as a R. And yet I voted for Hillary and I voted for Joe. I am very proud that I voted the way I did.

BeachDem Jan 23, 2024 • 3:27:43pm

re: #19 Belafon

It would be interesting to find her in September, and ask her who she’s going to vote for then. Republican votes who hope Haley can win the nomination would be an interesting group to hear from later.

According to the Mediaite article, she already voted for Joe in 2024 //(some great proofreading/editing going on over there)

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 23, 2024 • 3:29:56pm

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 3:31:20pm

re: #60 Backwoods Sleuth

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that was weeks ago

Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 3:31:44pm

re: #60 Backwoods Sleuth

That took some thinking.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 23, 2024 • 3:32:14pm

awwwwwwww!

Watch: McCarthy slams House Freedom Caucus for ‘locking in Democratic Pelosi policies’

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Now that he’s no longer in the House of Representatives, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) isn’t holding back on criticizing his former colleagues.

In a recent interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, the host asked McCarthy to give his thoughts on members of the House “reportedly plotting revenge” against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) for his recent work with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown. But rather than pile on Johnson, the former speaker laid the blame for the GOP majority’s failure to enact conservative policies at the feet of the most far-right members of his party.

“You really should be asking the Freedom Caucus. They are the ones who have stopped the Republicans from being able to govern,” McCarthy said. “They continue to stymie this majority to be able to do anything.”

alternet.org

Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 3:32:32pm

Sportsball news: Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton, and hometown hero Joe Mauer elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Beltre and Mauer are first-ballot elections - top honors for two of the powerhouses of the 2000’s.

BeachDem Jan 23, 2024 • 3:33:07pm

re: #56 wrenchwench

Strategic nose-holding is a social activity, throwing the election to Trump is anti-social.

And I’ll post this again

KGxvi Jan 23, 2024 • 3:39:38pm

re: #5 Dangerman

we would be much better off if we eliminated the electoral college, increased the size of the House, and allowed states to adopt proportional representation of seats in the House. The two party system is broken, and I’m not entirely sure it’s worth saving at this point.

KGxvi Jan 23, 2024 • 3:40:57pm

re: #64 Nerdy Fish

Sportsball news: Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton, and hometown hero Joe Mauer elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Beltre and Mauer are first-ballot elections - top honors for two of the powerhouses of the 2000’s.

Beltre wasn’t the first Dodger to leave that broke my heart, but it always hurt seeing him in Seattle or Texas instead of at Chavez Ravine.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 23, 2024 • 3:44:23pm

re: #66 KGxvi

we would be much better off if we eliminated the electoral college, increased the size of the House, and allowed states to adopt proportional representation of seats in the House. The two party system is broken, and I’m not entirely sure it’s worth saving at this point.

Not possible with Americans as dumb and selfish as we are. A Constitutional Convention held today would not result in improvements.

Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 3:45:12pm

re: #67 KGxvi

Beltre wasn’t the first Dodger to leave that broke my heart, but it always hurt seeing him in Seattle or Texas instead of at Chavez Ravine.

Joe’s concussion and his move to first base - and the corresponding higher standards for hitting that he could no longer meet - made it a question among Twins fans about whether he would be elected at all following his retirement, but the Baseball Writers of America clearly favored his immense value behind the plate.

Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 3:46:22pm

re: #57 Decatur Deb

Someone is.

A few weeks ago I made a comment about the history of Protestants and Others United for the Separation of Church and State. (They now do business as Americans and Others United.) I spend no time thinking about that org, wasn’t even sure they still existed. Twice in the last week I’ve received mailers asking me to join.

and the episode with this quote from this morning just played on another channel.

re: #173 Dangerman

Individuality is fine as long as we all do it together. - frank burns

insert creepy music here….

Dave In Austin Jan 23, 2024 • 3:51:41pm

Living in Texas, sometimes I’m concerned about my property value. This place is almost paid off.

Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 3:55:45pm

re: #71 Dangerman

and the episode with this quote from this morning just played on another channel.

insert creepy music here….

That’s like…synchronicity...man.

HRH Stanley Sea Jan 23, 2024 • 3:58:18pm

re: #71 Dangerman

Ok, bring me back to the episode of I think, Potter to Radar, “you don’t want to shoot it across the room!”

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 4:01:22pm

re: #75 silverdolphin

Perhaps we’ve learned since Malheur.

BeenHereAwhile Jan 23, 2024 • 4:03:55pm

Mumford & Sons with Pharrell Williams

Mumford & Sons x Pharrell Williams - Good People (Official Audio)

DodgerFan1988 Jan 23, 2024 • 4:04:00pm

Jesus christ https://t.co/eJ6EUZNEmZ

— The Liberal Agenda (@LiberalAgendaX) January 24, 2024

silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 4:04:32pm

re: #55 Nerdy Fish

Because the administration wasn’t going to do it HIS way, which is to kill ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out. No, we have to prolong the so-called “crisis” so that there’s a talking point in November when they really really really want to try hard to get the former guy re-elected.

What ticks me off, and the media buys into this., is calling these migrants ‘illegal’. No they are following the law which is to present themselves at a US entry point, ask for asylum and wait for a court to adjudicate them (the reason it takes so long is tha the GOP will not pay for larger courts). Eagle Pass is just one such entry point and actually has a Coast Guard unit to pick of people in the Rio Grande and transport them to HQ.

I believe this is one reason Texas chose this point - to prevent the Coast Guard from picking them up before the Texas militia could cpature them. So let’s gain control of the boat ramp and move from there. Maybe time for some of those fancy armored vehicles.

jaunte Jan 23, 2024 • 4:10:52pm

re: #50 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

What Abbott fails to factor in is that border guard duty is incredibly boring and none of those guardsman are motivated to be there.

jeffreyw Jan 23, 2024 • 4:12:14pm

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Season 2? Totes missed season 1!

TarHellion Jan 23, 2024 • 4:12:41pm

re: #64 Nerdy Fish

Billy Wagner just missed out - and should have made it

steve_davis Jan 23, 2024 • 4:12:52pm

Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610: fuuuuck this is good. It’s like heavy metal. Loudness just improves it.

Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 4:13:13pm

re: #82 TarHellion

Billy Wagner just missed out - and should have made it

At least he has another year, and is probably going to make it.

silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 4:15:07pm

re: #76 Decatur Deb

Perhaps we’ve learned since Malheur.

And this is what Texas is now doing, illegally. Texas authorities arrest group of 10 migrants at southern border, video shows

They are not even allowing the legal migrants to ask for asylum. They simply declare them illegal, guilty of trespassing and work to expel them. So now Texas law overrides Federal.

More insurrection.

TarHellion Jan 23, 2024 • 4:16:22pm

re: #84 Nerdy Fish

He should. I remember his last season with the Braves. Dude still had it. 104 whiffs in 69.1 innings and a 1.43 ERA. At the age of 38.

darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 4:18:19pm

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 4:19:47pm

re: #80 jaunte

What Abbott fails to factor in is that border guard duty is incredibly boring and none of those guardsman are motivated to be there.

What I would love to see - the city’s largest festival is supposed to take place in the park. It raises lots of money for local non-profits. So maybe some local protests would do something.

Not likely as many of those in the town are intimidated by the Texas forces. But it would be interesting.

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 23, 2024 • 4:20:25pm

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 4:21:52pm

re: #80 jaunte

What Abbott fails to factor in is that border guard duty is incredibly boring and none of those guardsman are motivated to be there.

Surround the park and don’t let them leave. Arrest any that try to leave. Explain to them that any attempts at resistance will be met with the proper level of force.

gwangung Jan 23, 2024 • 4:22:57pm

re: #64 Nerdy Fish

Sportsball news: Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton, and hometown hero Joe Mauer elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Beltre and Mauer are first-ballot elections - top honors for two of the powerhouses of the 2000’s.

Well deserved in both cases; Beltre was an under-rated defender and spent a lot of his career in a park that sapped his power.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jan 23, 2024 • 4:24:38pm

re: #76 Decatur Deb

Perhaps we’ve learned since Malheur.

Full force should have been used with the Bundy Ranch standoff. Doing so would have prevented Malheur. Failure to do so, only encouraged these insurrectionists to keep testing the patience of the U.S. Government. This failure has now led to the Government of TX (Abbott) being, in my opinion, in open rebellion against the U.S. Federal Government and this Administration had better slap this shit down, HARD. Otherwise, the disease will only spread.

Dave In Austin Jan 23, 2024 • 4:28:15pm

#ArrestGregAbbott for defying federal law.

Texas National guard ordered to put razor back after fed removed the deadly wire 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/OVKuo9dDcp

— My2Cents🙏🏻Repost/Like (@remy2cents) January 23, 2024

silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 4:30:09pm

re: #93 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Full force should have been used with the Bundy Ranch standoff. Doing so would have prevented Malheur. Failure to do so, only encouraged these insurrectionists to keep testing the patience of the U.S. Government. This failure has now led to the Government of TX (Abbott) being, in my opinion, in open rebellion against the U.S. Federal Government and this Administration had better slap this shit down, HARD. Otherwise, the disease will only spread.

What I would love to see is every vehicle leaving the park being stopped, searched and the people inside arrested under Federal law for obstructing a Federal officer. Arrest anyone who tries to stop the Coast Guard from using the boat ramp.

Then see how long those guys stay there. Bet a lot start to simply leave under cover of darkness.

TarHellion Jan 23, 2024 • 4:30:50pm

re: #87 darthstar

As I recall, Henry Clay and William Jennings Bryan both went 0 for 3. Quite telling (and disheartening) that a modern political party has let one person dominate its narrative for three consecutive presidential elections cycles.

darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 4:38:05pm

re: #94 Dave In Austin

Texas National Guard are FEDERAL troops, not state troops. Time for an order from above to tell them to cut that shit out.

Ace Rothstein Jan 23, 2024 • 4:39:53pm

re: #10 HRH Stanley Sea

Great video

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Here’s from Mediaite

mediaite.com

I know that November is a long way away, and I don’t want to read too much into this video with that woman, but there are a lot of people like her, and I am getting more than cautiously optimistic for Biden.

Cheechako Jan 23, 2024 • 4:39:53pm

SE Alaska Panhandle Weather Update:

The weather has been a huge struggle. Two weekends go we had about 20 inches of snowfall which settled down to about 9-10 inches. Last Sunday it started snowing again. We’ve had heavy snow ever since. That means all day Monday and all day today and the NOAA predicts 8-12 inches of more snow until 0300 tomorrow.

Right now we have over 3 and 1/2 FEET on snow on ground. The highway department has no place to left for clearing the roads. Many roads are unplowed and are a single lane of two tracts.

I’m very lucky to have great neighbors who have been keeping my driveway cleared.

And then the prediction is for rain, starting tomorrow morning, through next weekend. Oh boy!!!

This has happened before. I can remember having 6 feet of snow on my lawn in the mid 2000’s.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 4:40:07pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

MOI (Mechanism of injury) - at Alpine Meadows he would have been taken down in a crash sled by ski patrol and examined by a doc. Don’t let a kid who hits their head like that get up until they’ve been examined by a patroller - you don’t want that kind of liability.

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 4:41:06pm

re: #94 Dave In Austin

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National Guard members can be dealt with by federalizing them and dealing with those that refuse orders to leave. The Texas Militia cannot be dealt with that way. So tell their commander, Major General Thomas M. Suelzer, who is an active National Guard to back down or face court martial (and loss of pension). Arrest anyone who tries to leave for obstructing Federal officers. Put out a warrant for arrest for anyone who refuses to leave. See how long they last in the Texas heat with no real air conditioning and no supplies.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 4:45:09pm

re: #101 silverdolphin

National Guard members can be dealt with by federalizing them and dealing with those that refuse orders to leave. The Texas Militia cannot be dealt with that way. So tell their commander, Major General Thomas M. Suelzer, who is an active National Guard to back down or face court martial (and loss of pension). Arrest anyone who tries to leave for obstructing Federal officers. Put out a warrant for arrest for anyone who refuses to leave. See how long they last in the Texas heat with no real air conditioning and no supplies.

About half the states have militias in addition to their NG. Normally they have no/few weapons, certainly nothing expensive. Don’t know about TX.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 4:46:11pm

re: #100 darthstar

I’m a volunteer. Any liability will be on the paid VMS coaching staff. Head coach made the call he was good to get down, and he did.

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 4:46:14pm

re: #74 HRH Stanley Sea

Ok, bring me back to the episode of I think, Potter to Radar, “you don’t want to shoot it across the room!”

That’s the epp Margaret goes down the road to deliver a baby.
They think she’s kidnapped.
Col flagg shows up dressed as an Italian….

Potters explaining childbirth to the locals….

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 4:47:08pm

The kid was examined by a doctor when he got back to school.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 23, 2024 • 4:47:20pm

Republicans are the law and order party my ass.

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 4:48:46pm

re: #87 darthstar

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And the popular vote three times too

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Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 4:48:55pm

re: #106 Ace Rothstein

Republicans are the law and order party my ass.

They’re the party of “we sound like we like law and order,” but in practice, they don’t actually want law and order because the whole basis for their existence, since Obama was elected, is fear: “The Blacks/Jews/Mexicans/’others’ are coming for your guns/jobs/wife/life!”

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austin_blue Jan 23, 2024 • 4:50:37pm

re: #1 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

US demands ‘urgent’ investigation into Israeli killing of American teen in West Bank (Independent)

“What’s the problem? They all look the same to me. I say, let’s kill ‘em all, and let G*d sort ‘em out!”

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 4:53:39pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

I’m a volunteer. Any liability will be on the paid VMS coaching staff. Head coach made the call he was good to get down, and he did.

Good that you’re not liable, but learn the always questions to check for mental alertness so that if it happens again you can recognize if a kid is decompensating (asking the same questions a few times over a few minutes will tell you:
1. What day is it?
2. What time of day is it?( approximate - morning, aftenoon is fine)
3. Where are you? (name of resort)
4. What is your name?

Alert to Name and Place and Day is still a red flag. If a skier has a head injury - they may forget an answer within a few minutes.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 23, 2024 • 4:53:44pm

I saw this article posted somewhere else (not on YNet) and someone had written: “I do not GAF about the women who said they were raped. I think of them as no different from the white women who said they were raped by Black men in the south.”

THESE SCENARIOS COULD NOT BE MORE DIFFERENT.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 4:54:06pm

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This was a local doctor, longtime local, snowboarded those mountains for decades, knew the backcountry out there better than anybody. Took a calculated risk and he died.

So it goes.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 4:55:13pm

re: #110 darthstar

We actually did that and he was cognizant, laughing even. It was apparent that he hurt himself and that we’d take it slow.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 4:57:02pm

You can have love or peace…but you can’t have both.

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KGxvi Jan 23, 2024 • 4:59:45pm

re: #69 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Not possible with Americans as dumb and selfish as we are. A Constitutional Convention held today would not result in improvements.

Expanding the House and allowing proportional representation at the state level in the House could be done via legislation. Eliminating the electoral college could be done by Amendment. No need for a full blown convention - which, at this point, I think would spell the end of the Republic.

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Cheechako Jan 23, 2024 • 5:00:51pm

Weather Bureau Office - Juneau, Alaska - 01/23/24

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gwangung Jan 23, 2024 • 5:03:05pm

re: #115 KGxvi

Expanding the House and allowing proportional representation at the state level in the House could be done via legislation. Eliminating the electoral college could be done by Amendment. No need for a full blown convention - which, at this point, I think would spell the end of the Republic.

As someone said, these are differing flavors of damn near impossible….though enlarging the House the lesser bar.

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HRH Stanley Sea Jan 23, 2024 • 5:04:07pm

re: #104 Dangerman

That’s the epp Margaret goes down the road to deliver a baby.
They think she’s kidnapped.
Col flagg shows up dressed as an Italian….

Potters explaining childbirth to the locals….

And Radar acts out childbirth…..then Potter drops the line. Haha that’s one of my memorable ones.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 5:06:32pm

re: #116 Cheechako

It’s nice that the weather is right there where they can see it.

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2024 • 5:07:15pm

Haley will endorse Trump tomorrow. 😂

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2024 • 5:08:14pm

Made some Kalbi tonight. Korean beef ribs. :))))

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 23, 2024 • 5:09:07pm

re: #120 GlutenFreeJesus

Haley will endorse Trump tomorrow. 😂

Time to kiss the ~~donkey~~ ring.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 5:09:51pm

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Captain Ron Jan 23, 2024 • 5:12:07pm

Trump: Which is incapable of solvin’ even the sollest problem. We are an institute in a powerful death penalty. We will put this on pic.twitter.com/eM7dTV8iHe

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) January 23, 2024

Seriously! pic.twitter.com/g3DKmkuoCJ

— Zen Soul 🌊🌊 (@Zen_Soul) January 23, 2024

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 23, 2024 • 5:12:35pm

re: #123 darthstar

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Republicans are the least patriotic people in America.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 5:12:59pm

NBC called it after Rachel found a moment to interrupt Kornacki who had been speaking non-stop for seven minutes.

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Charles Johnson Jan 23, 2024 • 5:13:26pm

I hope you’re sitting down, because Trump just won the New Hampshire primary.

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Charles Johnson Jan 23, 2024 • 5:14:37pm

MSNBC going full Kornacki again

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Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 5:15:23pm

Biden haters, stick this in your pipe and smoke it. This was a properly run write-in campaign. THAT’S how you do it.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 5:15:48pm

Nikki Haley will buckle like a belt and endorse her Orange Godhead very soon.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 5:15:49pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

I hope you’re sitting down, because Trump just won the New Hampshire primary.

I love that they’ve got DeSantis with his shit-eatin’ grin on the bottom of the board with sub-10 votes in most towns.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 5:16:45pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

And Biden won his, even though he was not on the ballot.
cnn.com

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EPR-radar Jan 23, 2024 • 5:17:01pm

re: #126 darthstar

NBC called it after Rachel found a moment to interrupt Kornacki who had been speaking non-stop for seven minutes.

Presumably Kornacki was blithering on and on and on about the NH primary.

If so, it’s a good case study of the dysfunction of the media — this NH primary is good for about 5 minutes of news. That’s it. The need of news shows to fill up the endless hours of scheduled programming generates a demand for mindless pap to fill the void.

It will be amusing to see these pundits under threat of replacement by AI bullshit generators.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 5:17:49pm

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Charles Johnson Jan 23, 2024 • 5:18:11pm

Oh for fuck’s sake, now Haley is going to act like she won something because it wasn’t as much of a massacre as it might have been.

High level kayfabe. The pro wrestling connection to right wing politics remains apparent.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 5:20:01pm

Anything that keeps Haley in play for a while is good. Keeps Trump talking gibberish and eats up the darkside money.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 23, 2024 • 5:21:48pm

re: #124 Captain Ron

This is the sort of thing where the media continues to allow any belief in their competency and necessary impartibility erode away as they seek to present a horserace in order to attract eyeballs.

I can’t help but figure that a lot of people are seeing the media’s hypocrisy here and are not trusting them as a result of it.

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jaunte Jan 23, 2024 • 5:21:53pm

‘…In a subsequent news conference, [Haley] suggested that the country was in too vulnerable of a state to have a leader who is mentally unfit.
“It’s a concern, and it’s what Americans should be thinking about*,” she said.’

*Until he beats me in New Hampshire and I’m forced to endorse the mentally unfit rapist.

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jaunte Jan 23, 2024 • 5:23:19pm

@chrisberez.bsky.social

A NH voter on CNN just said he voted for Trump because Haley was too negative and that Trump “has left the language of vengeance behind.” Please tell me exactly how I’m supposed to start a rational conversation with someone who is experiencing an entirely separate reality. I’m all ears.

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BeachDem Jan 23, 2024 • 5:25:40pm

re: #136 Decatur Deb

Anything that keeps Haley in play for a while is good. Keeps Trump talking gibberish and eats up the darkside money.

I only want her to stay in and be totally humiliated in her home state. SC is definitely trump country (sadly)

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 5:27:48pm

re: #133 EPR-radar

I’ve already switched to Tu Vida es Mi Vida on Univision. Soaps are pretty straight forward and the dialog is simple, so it is largely what I have been learning on DuoLingo and I turn on close caption so I catch words that I might otherwise miss in context.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 23, 2024 • 5:29:30pm

Well at my doctor’s appointment yesterday I “aced” a cognitive test. The Dr. gave me a piece of paper with a circle on it with a central point, and asked me to draw a clock in this space.

I’m like OK and a drew a clock face by putting the numbers 12, 3, 6, 9 first, then filling in 1 & 2, 4 & 5, 7 & 8 and 9 & 10. Then to draw the clock hands at 1:11.

I looked up the CDT (as it is called, for Clock Drawing Test) and what they look for in this very early cognitive exercise, is putting the numbers where they belong on the clock face and showing that you know the hour hand from the minute hand.

I commented that the CDT may soon become obsolete since kids are no longer being taught to read analog clocks, it’s a skill that is becoming extinct, like writing cursive.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jan 23, 2024 • 5:31:54pm

Though this thought just occurred to me. POTUS has other non-lethal methods of bringing TX (and Abbott) to heel. Close the air space above the State to all but military aircraft as well as closing all shipping lanes, again, to all but military ships. He can’t close the highways as that would be a blatant violation of the interstate trade clause, but how many foreign companies would be willing to violate such an order? Not to mention domestic carriers who would face massive fines for violating said restrictions. And correct me if I wrong, but isn’t the largest refinery in TX now owned by the Saudis? They sure as hell wouldn’t want that product being interrupted. Sure, TX could file suit in Court, but by the time it makes it to SCOTUS, the damage to TX economy would be massive.

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No Malarkey! Jan 23, 2024 • 5:33:43pm

re: #138 jaunte

*Until he beats me in New Hampshire and I’m forced to endorse the mentally unfit rapist.

Haley has incentive to stay in the race, just in case something happens to Trump, and should be able to get enough dark money to do so, at least until Trump mathematically clinches the nomination.

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 23, 2024 • 5:34:28pm

re: #66 KGxvi

we would be much better off if we eliminated the electoral college, increased the size of the House, and allowed states to adopt proportional representation of seats in the House. The two party system is broken, and I’m not entirely sure it’s worth saving at this point.

1. Eliminating the Electoral College requires a Constitutional amendment and that’s not happening, because currently the EC favors the GOP.
2. Increasing the size of the House only requires passage of a law — so possible, but probably not now.
3. Changing to proportional representation may require only a law — but how it would work in practice is complicated. How would a slate of candidates be selected for each party? What districts would they represent? How do you envision this working. (I’m not familiar enough with Parliamentary systems)

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 5:35:10pm

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Sure, if you get as high as this cool grandma.

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No Malarkey! Jan 23, 2024 • 5:35:16pm

re: #143 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Though this thought just occurred to me. POTUS has other non-lethal methods of bringing TX (and Abbott) to heel. Close the air space above the State to all but military aircraft as well as closing all shipping lanes, again, to all but military ships. He can’t close the highways as that would be a blatant violation of the interstate trade clause, but how many foreign companies would be willing to violate such an order? Not to mention domestic carriers who would face massive fines for violating said restrictions. And correct me if I wrong, but isn’t the largest refinery in TX now owned by the Saudis? They sure as hell wouldn’t want that product being interrupted. Sure, TX could file suit in Court, but by the time it makes it to SCOTUS, the damage to TX economy would be massive.

Biden isn’t going to do that.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 5:36:53pm

re: #145 Hecuba’s daughter

… How do you envision this working. (I’m not familiar enough with Parliamentary systems)

Masterpiece Theatre tells me the MPs represent “ridings”. I have no idea what they ride.

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2024 • 5:39:08pm

re: #132 Decatur Deb

They couldn’t help themselves from pointing out his age.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 5:40:05pm

re: #146 teleskiguy

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What the hell is she sucking up before the beer? Bong hit and tequila shot I can understand…

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jaunte Jan 23, 2024 • 5:40:54pm

It’s raining smilodons and dire wolves out there. This may be the storm that breaks the dam.

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jaunte Jan 23, 2024 • 5:44:03pm

That was yesterday; this is earlier this afternoon…

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jan 23, 2024 • 5:44:13pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle had no spanners so it threw a wooden spoon in the works. At least it wasn’t my turn.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 949 4/6

⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SibData: 3,3,4,4,6(!)

The sibs, fifty years ago this month

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 5:44:42pm

re: #151 jaunte

It’s raining smilodons and dire wolves out there. This may be the storm that breaks the dam.

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When I awoke, the Dire Wolf, six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinning at my window, all I said was come on in

Billy Strings - Dire Wolf (Grateful Dead Cover)

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Dave In Austin Jan 23, 2024 • 5:45:37pm

12 min. to Oak Island and I can turn this noise off.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 5:46:20pm

re: #150 darthstar

What the hell is she sucking up before the beer? Bong hit and tequila shot I can understand…

I’m guessing more cannabis? The end of that “pipe” has a heating element (there are buttons on the thing) and there’s more shit in the tray?

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Mike Lamb Jan 23, 2024 • 5:48:45pm

re: #94 Dave In Austin

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Having delusions if Fort Sumter.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 23, 2024 • 5:49:20pm

re: #156 teleskiguy

I’m guessing more cannabis? The end of that “pipe” has a heating element (there are buttons on the thing) and there’s more shit in the tray?

Yep. Looked like dabbing to me.

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Nojay UK Jan 23, 2024 • 5:49:34pm

re: #148 Decatur Deb

We have some version of proportional representation for the Scottish Parliament, directly elected MSPs plus more MSPs who get a consolation seat based on the total votes of their party. This results in the odd situation where the Tories get hardly any directly elected MSPs since only a few of their candidates win their elections but a bunch of party elites who didn’t actually stand for election anywhere get regional seats. In the last election in 2021 the Tories only won five seats directly but got another twenty-six via the list system.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 5:49:57pm

Friend of ours lives in LA mostly now and took their dog to a groomer in Hollywood.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 5:50:54pm

re: #158 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Yep. Looked like dabbing to me.

What a cool grandma!

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gocart mozart Jan 23, 2024 • 5:52:07pm

sound down depending on what you can tolerate pic.twitter.com/nhn4ttwbjK

— wheredkittygo (@wheredkittygo) January 23, 2024

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No Malarkey! Jan 23, 2024 • 5:52:08pm

re: #144 No Malarkey!

Haley has incentive to stay in the race, just in case something happens to Trump, and should be able to get enough dark money to do so, at least until Trump mathematically clinches the nomination.

Joy Reid said since most GOP primaries award delegates proportionally, Haley can stay in the race indefinitely. Maybe lightning will strike and 5 Justices will vote to bar Trump from the ballot, LOL.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 23, 2024 • 5:52:17pm

re: #146 teleskiguy

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Where did you get that video of me?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 23, 2024 • 5:53:20pm

re: #163 No Malarkey!

Joy Reid said since most GOP primaries award delegates proportionally, Haley can stay in the race indefinitely. Maybe lightning will strike and 5 Justices will vote to bar Trump from the ballot, LOL.

I still maintain that if Trump is convicted on just one of the felony counts he is charged, then the RNC will be pressured by the deep pockets to make Haley the nominee.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 5:54:20pm

re: #164 Vicious Babushka

Where did you get that video of me?

From your dealer when you’re visiting Los Angeles.

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No Malarkey! Jan 23, 2024 • 5:58:02pm

re: #165 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I still maintain that if Trump is convicted on just one of the felony counts he is charged, then the RNC will be pressured by the deep pockets to make Haley the nominee.

Maybe, but the angry people with guns will pressure them to support Trump. I’m guessing they’ll feel more pressured by the people who might kill them.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 5:58:19pm

re: #166 teleskiguy

From your dealer when you’re visiting Los Angeles.

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I miss the days of having a dealer. Before I met my wife (after my first and I split up) I met a dude at a few shows and would call him regularly for dankity nuggets. Hopefully he’s moved on to something more productive, but it was nice having a reliable contact who could provide herb and psychedelics and be relied upon to show up outside the Warfield an hour before the show.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 6:00:10pm

re: #168 darthstar

So he did this as some sort of outreach ministry, a social service like Meals on Wheels?

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Rightwingconspirator Jan 23, 2024 • 6:00:17pm

re: #143 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Its just so wrong that these people put their state above the country. Its confederate “patriotism”. Make America what again? What America if state trumps nation?

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 6:01:37pm

re: #163 No Malarkey!

Joy Reid said since most GOP primaries award delegates proportionally, Haley can stay in the race indefinitely. Maybe lightning will strike and 5 Justices will vote to bar Trump from the ballot, LOL.

Iirc most gop primaries are winner take all, not proportional like the dems

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jaunte Jan 23, 2024 • 6:01:48pm

re: #170 Rightwingconspirator

It’s the political expression of a two year old. YOU CAN’T MAKE ME.

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jaunte Jan 23, 2024 • 6:02:52pm

Trump’s gift to politics.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 6:03:18pm

re: #173 jaunte

Trump’s gift to politics.

Heads I win. Tails you lose.

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 6:04:42pm

Oh no they’re treating him like he treated the capitol pic.twitter.com/nifA3uZ6pC

— Davram (@davramdavram) January 23, 2024

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sagehen Jan 23, 2024 • 6:06:07pm

Tonight on PBS — on American Experience, Nazi-Town USA (about the Bund)

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 23, 2024 • 6:06:32pm

re: #175 Dangerman

If feces and urine were thrown you know there’s more that they’re not telling us about in a family publication.

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No Malarkey! Jan 23, 2024 • 6:07:18pm

re: #171 Dangerman

Iirc most gop primaries are winner take all, not proportional like the dems

They said the opposite on MSNBC

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 6:09:51pm

Rando

LOL…Orange Fatty had to campaign and campaign SO HARD that his brain broke, just to barely win by single digits against Nikki “birdbrain” Pelosi (?!).

Biden be like NAH SON, I’m running the country…I ain’t got time to campaign, Y’all know what to do….and he WON in a LANDSLIDE!

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No Malarkey! Jan 23, 2024 • 6:10:03pm

re: #178 No Malarkey!

They said the opposite on MSNBC

Though Kornacki just said California and I think others award all their delegates to a GOP winner getting over 50% of the vote.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 6:10:24pm

re: #168 darthstar

I was a dealer of cannabis and LSD in my very early days of college. I got a reputation within weeks as “the guy.” Made a lot of money but it was also really stressful. Only did that for a semester.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 6:10:50pm

re: #169 Decatur Deb

He was a saint at 40 bucks an eighth.

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TedStriker Jan 23, 2024 • 6:12:32pm

re: #177 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

If feces and urine were thrown you know there’s more that they’re not telling us about in a family publication.

Shades of the asylum in the beginning of The Silence of the Lambs…

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Vicious Babushka Jan 23, 2024 • 6:13:10pm

Hamas Leader “Has A Dream”

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 6:13:12pm

re: #178 No Malarkey!

They said the opposite on MSNBC

I think they’re mistaken

Most Republican primaries award delegates according to a winner-take-all rule where the first-place finishers win every delegate.

Link

That’s the whole reason why tfg is so inevitable
You can’t catch up by always coming in second
You fall farther behind racking up zeros

D’s are different, which is why Sanders was viable for so long

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 6:13:29pm

re: #182 darthstar

He was a saint at 40 bucks an eighth.

When Wife-to-Be moved up to NYC for the wedding, a co-worker offered her a nickel bag. She thought that meant $0.05.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 6:14:36pm

My LSD guy in those days got quantities from a guy who was friends with this guy.

I sold thousands of hits of that dude’s shit over a period of a few months back in 2000.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 6:16:46pm

re: #187 teleskiguy

If Charles loved us, he would write a script that checks the Statute of Limitations.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 6:17:00pm

re: #187 teleskiguy

I sold *whole vials* to ski bums up in Crested Butte!

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 6:17:34pm

re: #188 Decatur Deb

I’ve checked. It’s seven years. I’m waaay in the clear.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 23, 2024 • 6:18:18pm

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 23, 2024 • 6:18:42pm

re: #187 teleskiguy

My LSD guy in those days got quantities from a guy who was friends with this guy.

I sold thousands of hits of that dude’s shit over a period of a few months back in 2000.

I had so many amazing times, and one miserable but very therapeutic time on acid.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 6:19:33pm

Last time I dealt drugs was in 2007, when I was getting a quarter pound of cannabis flower per month via FedEx from a good friend of mine in Humboldt County, CA.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 6:21:25pm

re: #192 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I had so many amazing times, and one miserable but very therapeutic time on acid.

I’ve had three trips when I was skiing that were so amazing as to be indescribable. All occurred in Steamboat and all occurred in my 20s. The pinnacle of human fun, I seen it, dawg!

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No Malarkey! Jan 23, 2024 • 6:23:00pm

Trump speaking now

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TarHellion Jan 23, 2024 • 6:23:11pm

re: #185 Dangerman

Back in 2008, my then-gf and I were at a Charleston, SC, hotel bar where McCain political operatives were celebrating his win in the primary with just over 33 percent of the vote. He claimed 75 percent of the delegates on his way to the nomination. As I recall, the GQP amended its rules to be pretty much winner-take-all after the party believed the 2012 primary process lasted too long.

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No Malarkey! Jan 23, 2024 • 6:28:57pm

Tim Scott standing right behind Trump, because he loves having blacks behind him.

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DodgerFan1988 Jan 23, 2024 • 6:33:04pm

Baby this example is in the dictionary beside racism… textbook. https://t.co/2ZGa7przYe

— india. (@IndiaDionna) January 24, 2024

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 6:33:29pm

re: #195 No Malarkey!

Trump speaking now

I hope he gloats over beating Nancy Pelosi.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 23, 2024 • 6:33:46pm

Constellation — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 23, 2024 • 6:34:15pm

re: #198 DodgerFan1988

Dude must hate flying on non-U.S. airlines.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 23, 2024 • 6:37:26pm

re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg

Dude must hate flying on non-U.S. airlines.

/

Someone tell him there are girls flying airplanes now!

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Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 6:37:53pm

re: #202 Vicious Babushka

Someone tell him there are girls flying airplanes now!

Nah, he’d just straight-up assume they’re unqualified and get off the plane.

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Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 6:39:42pm

re: #203 Nerdy Fish

Nah, he’d just straight-up assume they’re unqualified and get off the plane.

Then I would tell him every time he gets to the airport.

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TarHellion Jan 23, 2024 • 6:40:13pm

re: #196 TarHellion

Just to be clear, we were there for vacation purposes. The McCain dudes were cool enough - even buying us a few rounds - and taking our good-natured “Obama or Hillary are gonna win” jabs with no offense.

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No Malarkey! Jan 23, 2024 • 6:40:18pm

re: #203 Nerdy Fish

Nah, he’d just straight-up assume they’re unqualified and get off the plane.

That’s a win!

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Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 6:40:38pm

re: #206 No Malarkey!

That’s a win!

Bonus points if you tell him mid-flight.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅ Jan 23, 2024 • 6:40:58pm

re: #203 Nerdy Fish

Nah, he’d just straight-up assume they’re unqualified and get off the plane.

I would be sure to stand and applaud his leaving. No doubt joined by many others.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2024 • 6:43:09pm

re: #202 Vicious Babushka

Someone tell him there are girls flying airplanes now!

Guess Air Niugini is just not happening.

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Nerdy Fish Jan 23, 2024 • 6:43:41pm

re: #209 Decatur Deb

Guess Air Niugini is just not happening.

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That sound you hear is his tiny little pinhead exploding.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 23, 2024 • 6:46:37pm

Nancy is on fire…

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization Jan 23, 2024 • 6:58:21pm

According to the MSNBC count, Haley has pulled to less than 10% against Trump.

If she can finish that way, that would be amazing!

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 7:02:55pm

re: #185 Dangerman

I think they’re mistaken

Most Republican primaries award delegates according to a winner-take-all rule where the first-place finishers win every delegate.

Link

That’s the whole reason why tfg is so inevitable
You can’t catch up by always coming in second
You fall farther behind racking up zeros

D’s are different, which is why Sanders was viable for so long

Some states are winner take all. Some are proportional. So far,we have had 2 proportional so Nikki does have delegates.She is up to 17 with Trump having 31.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 23, 2024 • 7:07:59pm

re: #198 DodgerFan1988

These guys were qualified, 80 FUCKING YEARS AGO.

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 7:11:32pm

re: #213 silverdolphin

Some states are winner take all. Some are proportional. So far,we have had 2 proportional so Nikki does have delegates.She is up to 17 with Trump having 31.

Correct
IA and NH are proportional.
But them plus the rest of the proportionals aren’t enough to counter the overwhelming force of the winner take alls

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Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 7:15:23pm

re: #214 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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These guys were qualified, 80 FUCKING YEARS AGO.

Charlie wants the white guy whose parents paid for him to go through flight school three times over the black guy who can fly C-17s.

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 7:15:47pm

Watch here. We need to amplify voices like these more often. Ordinary people making decisions based off what they see is happening. I bet most would say Trump is terrible & that Biden has gotten something (& more) accomplished & appreciate it. https://t.co/iZ0J6hdwk5

— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) January 23, 2024

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization Jan 23, 2024 • 7:16:18pm

re: #212 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

According to the MSNBC count, Haley has pulled to less than 10% against Trump.

If she can finish that way, that would be amazing!

A few minutes ago, Steve Kornaki said Haley coming in at less than 10 points doesn’t seem likely, based on the way the map is looking, but with 50% in now, I don’t see Donald reaching a 30 point spread like he said he would. So even though he won, it’s not a good night for the smelly man.

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 7:23:13pm

re: #215 Dangerman

Correct
IA and NH are proportional.
But them plus the rest of the proportionals aren’t enough to counter the overwhelming force of the winner take alls

Very true. But I expect she will have enough money to stick it out in case he drops dead.

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Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 7:24:10pm

re: #218 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

A few minutes ago, Steve Kornaki said Haley coming in at less than 10 points doesn’t seem likely, based on the way the map is looking, but with 50% in now, I don’t see Donald reaching a 30 point spread like he said he would. So even though he won, it’s not a good night for the smelly man.

If Haley were a Clinton, Obama, or Biden, she could turn it into a win. But let her fight.

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 7:26:49pm

THE 2024 OSCAR NOMINATIONS’ BIGGEST SURPRISES AND SNUBS

Looks like the patriarchy had to show just who is still boss. Or maybe Barbie was just too popular.

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CleverToad Jan 23, 2024 • 7:28:10pm

re: #2 silverdolphin

Got back the results of my colonoscopy from last Thursday. They removed 3 polyps, one was over 1 cm in size, which is large. But the biopsy found no evidence of abnormal cells. Just waiting to hear from the docs on when I need another colonoscopy.

Yay!! Good result is good

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So Cal Greek Hippie Jan 23, 2024 • 7:29:05pm

2024: Camarillo, California

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Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 7:29:42pm

re: #221 silverdolphin

From a couple of threads ago:

Mastodon

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Jay C Jan 23, 2024 • 7:31:02pm

re: #218 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

A few minutes ago, Steve Kornaki said Haley coming in at less than 10 points doesn’t seem likely, based on the way the map is looking, but with 50% in now, I don’t see Donald reaching a 30 point spread like he said he would. So even though he won, it’s not a good night for the smelly man.

Yeah, as of now, both NYT and WaPo sites tote the Trump/Haley breakdown at 55-44%; a win, of course, but scarcely the rout/romp TFG and his creatures were touting.

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 7:31:15pm

Senate conservatives on Tuesday vented their frustrations with Senate GOP leaders over an emerging border security deal that is slated to come to the Senate floor in the next few weeks, warning that an agreement with President Biden may wind up being worse than doing nothing at all,” The Hill reports.

Forget the whole “conservative” part

They oppose dditional aid for Ukraine in the border protection bill (or separate)

And anything that’s a “win” for biden

They care more about helping Putin expand Russia’s borders than they care about protecting ours

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Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 7:32:44pm

re: #226 Dangerman

warning that an agreement with President Biden may wind up being worse than doing nothing at all

Because how else is Abbott going to get to ignore the Supreme Court and Biden?

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 7:35:52pm

Weapons that Don’t Work in the Ukraine War Make Up Most of China’s Military

Interesting paragraph:

Chinese analysts want to understand why Russian weapons are doing so badly in the war in Ukraine. 70% of China’s modern airplanes are licensed copies, unlicensed copies or variants of the SU-27. 20% are inferior planes that are not even as good as the Russian copies.

Or this one:

The Russian S-400 air defense system was supposed to be a scary system able to defend against the US air force and missiles. The S-400s have been defeated and destroyed with a few waves of cheap drones and cheap missiles. China bought a lot of expensive S-400 air defense systems.

Copying crap military equipment. Buying untested military equipment. Not a good plan.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 23, 2024 • 7:42:50pm

re: #214 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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These guys were qualified, 80 FUCKING YEARS AGO.

These girls were, too.

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Jay C Jan 23, 2024 • 7:43:23pm

In case it hasn’t been noted, over at Balloon Juice, John Cole posted a piece following up on the report that Florida Republicans were floating the idea of using public funds to contribute to former President Asshole’s legal defense. Said idea has, apparently, now been sunk by a veto threat from Gov. DeSantis. Probably the only decent idea that assclown has had in a long time.

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silverdolphin Jan 23, 2024 • 7:46:29pm

re: #225 Jay C

Yeah, as of now, both NYT and WaPo sites tote the Trump/Haley breakdown at 55-44%; a win, of course, but scarcely the rout/romp TFG and his creatures were touting.

And, remember, Biden only got 8.4% last time in NH. This time he got 68%. As a write-in. Lots of enthusiasm.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 7:46:50pm

Mastodon

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 7:47:28pm

I love gifs on mastodon because you just mouse over to animate.

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Romantic Heretic Jan 23, 2024 • 7:55:12pm

re: #5 Dangerman

Did MTG finish her statement with a rousing, “Hail Victory!”?

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Dangerman Jan 23, 2024 • 7:55:45pm

re: #228 silverdolphin

Weapons that Don’t Work in the Ukraine War Make Up Most of China’s Military

Interesting paragraph:

Or this one:

Copying crap military equipment. Buying untested military equipment. Not a good plan.

Sold a bill of goods
Now surprised there’s no there there

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piratedan Jan 23, 2024 • 8:00:38pm

re: #235 Dangerman

couldn’t happen to a nicer dictator :-) loss of cash on hand, gets equipment that kills more of his untrained troops, and everyone has to smile and make nice while eating the shit sandwich.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 8:01:02pm

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Randall Gross Jan 23, 2024 • 8:05:37pm

This season of Fargo was the best ever, why did I wait so long to watch it?

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 8:25:20pm

Crowdsourcing help needed.

Mastodon

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mmmirele Jan 23, 2024 • 8:32:33pm

re: #33 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Afternoon Lizards. Looks like Abbott is trying to go the “The Supreme Court has made their ruling, now lets see them enforce it” route.

Is Greg Abbott Intentionally Trying To Trigger Right-Wing Violence In Texas?

Answer: Yes. Abbott’s followers are actually in open sedition and rebellion. They want to start the next civil war at the border.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 8:33:03pm

This is the narrative to take into the coming weeks…get it repeated on Fox and Trump will shit himself in fear…in public…and MAGA will do the same to show their support.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 8:33:37pm

re: #240 mmmirele

Answer: Yes. Abbott’s followers are actually in open sedition and rebellion. They want to start the next civil war at the border.

Greg Abbott should be detained by federal authorities.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 8:36:59pm

Mastodon

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darthstar Jan 23, 2024 • 8:43:30pm

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 23, 2024 • 8:47:00pm

Dunno if anyone has posted this:
(Link below to post by throwawayboeingN704AL)

leehamnews.com

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 8:48:26pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

Head coach (not me) is in contact with his parents and… he’s fine. He’ll ski again on Thursday.

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jaunte Jan 23, 2024 • 8:51:03pm

@atrupar.bsky.social

how it started

how it’s going

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EstebanTornado1963 Jan 23, 2024 • 9:02:33pm

Who did it better pic.twitter.com/Ad2tXPLQHp

— I Smoked A Powerful Death Penalty (@BlackKnight10k) January 24, 2024

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BigPapa Jan 23, 2024 • 9:05:18pm

re: #248 EstebanTornado1963

Damn that’s spicy.

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mmmirele Jan 23, 2024 • 9:07:19pm

re: #142 Vicious Babushka

Would it be too smartypants to put Roman numerals for the clock numbers? I learned how to tell time on a clock with Roman numerals. I must remember this if/when I have this cognitive test.

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jaunte Jan 23, 2024 • 9:10:00pm

VI of one, half a XII of another.

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teleskiguy Jan 23, 2024 • 9:18:55pm

Black Flag Wasted

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BigPapa Jan 23, 2024 • 9:19:00pm

re: #251 jaunte

VI of one, half a XII of another.

It was the 72F or times, it was the 0Communist times.

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Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 9:19:00pm

re: #248 EstebanTornado1963

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I saw someone use the left image the other day to go after blacks who were supporting Biden, throwing up the “Got off the plantation” thing. The right one might be a great rebuttal.

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 23, 2024 • 9:20:16pm

re: #169 Decatur Deb

So he did this as some sort of outreach ministry, a social service like Meals on Wheels?

Darthstar wasn’t his only customer on site for the show.

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Belafon Jan 23, 2024 • 9:23:05pm

Did anyone here ever play the trumpet? I have decided to try to learn it, and I was wondering why the ring on the slide for the third valve is so big. It seems like it was be much easier to control if it was smaller.

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Captain Ron Jan 23, 2024 • 9:31:45pm

re: #250 mmmirele

Would it be too smartypants to put Roman numerals for the clock numbers? I learned how to tell time on a clock with Roman numerals. I must remember this if/when I have this cognitive test.

No but, it but it would be if you point out the hour hand would not be exactly at the one. It would be much closer to the 11 minute mark. It’s not like the hour hand ticks from one to two at the hour.

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Captain Ron Jan 23, 2024 • 9:38:56pm

re: #256 Belafon

I did in 3rd grade summer school. My instructor recommended I stay away from music.

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EPR-radar Jan 23, 2024 • 10:13:39pm

re: #250 mmmirele

Would it be too smartypants to put Roman numerals for the clock numbers? I learned how to tell time on a clock with Roman numerals. I must remember this if/when I have this cognitive test.

Yes, especially if you remember the clock idiom of using IIII instead of IV for ‘4’.

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Egregious Philbin Jan 23, 2024 • 10:30:55pm

re: #245 BeenHereAwhile

Yep, the airplane industry geeks have complained about Boeing for a long time. The Max should have never ever been made. The 737 in all its forms (100-900, Max 8, Max 9 and Max 10) are all based around 1960’s tech. Boeing has been warned for years that they need to make a “clean sheet” plane, but they are too cheap, and when the McDonnell Douglas clowns came in, they destroyed a fine company.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jan 23, 2024 • 10:36:52pm

re: #257 Captain Ron

No but, it but it would be if you point out the hour hand would not be exactly at the one. It would be much closer to the 11 6 minute mark. It’s not like the hour hand ticks from one to two at the hour.

FTFY

- pedants ‘r’ us

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Jan 23, 2024 • 11:24:48pm

I saw The Thing With Two Heads on an actual movie screen back when it came out.

Who wore it better? pic.twitter.com/TycqVJmVCf

— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) January 24, 2024

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No Malarkey! Jan 23, 2024 • 11:33:01pm

re: #262 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I saw The Thing With Two Heads on an actual movie screen back when it came out.

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Seeing Tim Scott strategically placed right behind Trump makes me think he may have an inside track in the Veepstakes. Trump did increase his black support in 2020 over 2016, so he might think he can peel off a few more black voters with Scott.

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Captain Ron Jan 24, 2024 • 12:10:00am

YouTube

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retired cynic Jan 24, 2024 • 12:13:41am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 24, 2024 • 12:54:12am

This from Vox’s winners and losers of last night’s NH primary. Whatever. No link because fuck this noise.

The 52-year-old Haley also would have thrown the president’s advanced age into even sharper relief. Given Biden’s high disapproval numbers, he will need to convince many voters who do not like him that they despise the alternative even more — so much more, in fact, that they should bother to turn out and vote for an octogenarian they resent.

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wrenchwench Jan 24, 2024 • 1:16:40am

re: #245 BeenHereAwhile

Dunno if anyone has posted this:
(Link below to post by throwawayboeingN704AL)

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leehamnews.com

From the link:

Once they have finished, they send it back to a Boeing QA for final acceptance, but then Malicious Stupid Happens! The Boeing QA writes another record in CMES (again, the correct venue) stating (with pictures) that Spirit has not actually reworked the discrepant rivets, they *just painted over the defects*. In Boeing production speak, this is a “process failure”. For an A&P mechanic at an airline, this would be called “federal crime”.

That seemed like the most poignant part.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 1:29:01am

re: #121 GlutenFreeJesus

Made some Kalbi tonight. Korean beef ribs. :))))

[LQ] Korean Karaoke (Oh, Dance, Baby) - Flight of the Conchords

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 1:30:41am

re: #148 Decatur Deb

Masterpiece Theatre tells me the MPs represent “ridings”. I have no idea what they ride.

They go to the hustings and then stand for election.

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steve_davis Jan 24, 2024 • 2:36:59am

re: #244 darthstar

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I actually just bought (arriving today) a fender pro ii jazz bass that I am assured is brand new, with original case, original warranty, for 1325 (including tax and shipping). I do wonder how the person trolling through Reverb who paid list, which with tax runs around 2k, felt discovering there’s apparently enough markup on a fender to allow a company to knock 700 bucks off list and still make a profit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 2:39:25am

re: #270 steve_davis

I actually just bought (arriving today) a fender pro ii jazz bass that I am assured is brand new, with original case, original warranty, for 1325 (including tax and shipping). I do wonder how the person trolling through Reverb who paid list, which with tax runs around 2k, felt discovering there’s apparently enough markup on a fender to allow a company to knock 700 bucks off list and still make a profit.

Because a lot of that price is the Fender Jazz Bass brand, which is legendary (I have also always craved one since I first saw one in the music shop in the early 70’s)

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 2:45:43am

re: #270 steve_davis

I actually just bought (arriving today) a fender pro ii jazz bass that I am assured is brand new, with original case, original warranty, for 1325 (including tax and shipping). I do wonder how the person trolling through Reverb who paid list, which with tax runs around 2k, felt discovering there’s apparently enough markup on a fender to allow a company to knock 700 bucks off list and still make a profit.

One of the reasons I prefer PRS is that, even though they are hardly cheap, they don’t feel like the same kind of rip off that Fender and Gibson are these days. Obviously, not too many agree with me 😉

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Patricia Kayden Jan 24, 2024 • 3:23:56am

re: #79 silverdolphin

Democrats need to get themselves together and tell voters what you’re saying. They should also loudly state that it is Republicans who are refusing to support a border deal for strictly partisan reasons. The problem with Democrats is a lack of messaging. They need to fix that now that we’re in the election season.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 3:26:54am

re: #273 Patricia Kayden

Democrats need to get themselves together and tell voters what you’re saying. They should also loudly state that it is Republicans who are refusing to support a border deal for strictly partisan reasons. The problem with Democrats ~~is a lack of messaging~~ they don’t shout as loud or insistently as their opponents. They need to fix that now that we’re in the election season.

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Nerdy Fish Jan 24, 2024 • 3:31:55am

re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The quiet, understated success of the Biden campaign to organize voters to write in President Biden on the New Hampshire primary ballots speaks to their silent effectiveness. No, we’re not crowing Biden’s wins from the rooftops as loudly as the fearmongers on the right are screaming about HURR DURR ILLEGALS MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS AND BATHROOMS DEI CRT WOKE BULLSHIT, but I’m also not convinced we have to. Who’s that going to benefit? At this point in the campaign season, there aren’t very many “undecided” voters left. The bad guys are making it pretty plain who they are, which is turning off moderate voters in droves. We’re never going to convince the shitheads who are outside Biden rallies chanting “Genocide Joe”; in 2020, those guys voted for Bernie. (Or Jill Stein. Or stayed home altogether.)

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steve_davis Jan 24, 2024 • 3:35:32am

re: #272 William Lewis

One of the reasons I prefer PRS is that, even though they are hardly cheap, they don’t feel like the same kind of rip off that Fender and Gibson are these days. Obviously, not too many agree with me 😉

somebody in a youtube video mentioning how in Nashville, you were expected to arrive for recording sessions with a FSO (fender-shaped object). Leo got some things so right originally that they’ve just never really been improved. A fender strat, for instance. A Jazz bass. Even the precision bass is probably on 90% of 60’s recordings where a jazz bass isn’t. And the other 10% is Jack Bruce on his length-challenged Gibson :-)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 3:36:13am

Dems don’t need to be as loud but they need to be more insistent about getting their point across: They are the party of economic progress, labor and consumer rights, sound education, defending personal freedoms and minority rights, along with maintaining environental & safety standards and ensuring affordable healthcare.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 3:38:21am

Birby.
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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 3:39:17am

re: #266 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This from Vox’s winners and losers of last night’s NH primary. Whatever. No link because fuck this noise.

People don’t vote based on approval ratings
(What do you think of this person compared to nothing)

They vote based on the alternatives
(Of these, who do you prefer to run things, or who dont you want to run things)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 3:47:26am

re: #279 Dangerman

They vote based on the alternatives

The choices this season, authoritarian and/or decent into a Theocracy or continue as a constitutional democracy.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 24, 2024 • 3:57:07am

re: #266 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Haley’s only 52? Wth?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 3:58:07am

re: #281 Patricia Kayden

Haley’s only 52? Wth?

That is probably her only strong suit in this race.

I really wish the Democrats had someone better (and younger) than Biden to offer, but they don’t so he has my vote.

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Decatur Deb Jan 24, 2024 • 4:03:57am

re: #281 Patricia Kayden

Haley’s only 52? Wth?

Hitler was 44 when he became Chancellor. Youth might not be the answer.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 24, 2024 • 4:19:28am

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

I hope Newsome (spelling) runs in 2028.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 4:23:54am

re: #284 Patricia Kayden

I hope Newsome (spelling) runs in 2028.

Somebody sure has to step up to the plate before then

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Nerdy Fish Jan 24, 2024 • 4:26:58am

re: #285 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Somebody sure has to step up to the plate before then

I feel we’re well-positioned for 2028. We’ve got Kamala (if the country is ready for that by then), Newsom, and a few other real progressive options on the table. As long as we dispense with this Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson bullshit this year.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 24, 2024 • 4:28:55am

re: #266 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The deep problems with major media surveys really comes to light in this whole Biden thing.

“Disapprove” is so nebulous.

Many people disapprove of the actions of their loved ones… but they still love them.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 24, 2024 • 4:31:17am

We had a lot of rainfall on the 22nd:

San Diego County rainfall records 22 Jan 2024

However, many locales around the county got much more rain. Around my area we got almost 4”.

Good thing we have a week or two to dry out before the next storm comes.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 24, 2024 • 4:33:21am

re: #287 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

And to elaborate further, note how Vox uses the word “resent” to describe how, allegedly, voters feel about Biden.

It’s a big leap from disapprove to resent.

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 4:34:45am

Oh for goodness sakes, that video card order that the bank declined? I just got an email that it’s out for delivery today… wtaf? I have no honking clue why they didn’t stop the shipment if that’s accurate. It’ll be a pain to return that to china.

edit: LOL! Another page says Feb 1 as it’s in NYC! Who knows!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 4:37:41am

re: #290 William Lewis

Did your bank charge you? If not, a win.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 24, 2024 • 4:37:54am

Classic:

Eddie Cantor - I’ve Got The Yes! We Have No Banana Blues [1923]

..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 4:38:28am

re: #286 Nerdy Fish

I feel we’re well-positioned for 2028. We’ve got Kamala (if the country is ready for that by then), Newsom, and a few other real progressive options on the table. As long as we dispense with this Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson bullshit this year.

Those two are just put up by ratfuckers to weaken Biden

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 4:39:47am

re: #292 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

und nun auf Deutsch

Willi Rose - Ausgerechnet Bananen (1977)

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Randall Gross Jan 24, 2024 • 4:41:32am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 4:42:41am

re: #295 Randall Gross

…and proud of their culture and heritage!!!

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 4:45:22am

re: #291 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Did your bank charge you? If not, a win.

Nope, no charge. Three attempts by ali express, three decines.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 24, 2024 • 4:57:21am

Simon teaching Earth science:

These days you’re barely even a billionaire if you don’t send phallic objects hurtling into the final frontier

Testing an ancient method for finding the edge of space

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Mike Lamb Jan 24, 2024 • 4:57:44am

re: #203 Nerdy Fish

Nah, he’d just straight-up assume they’re unqualified and get off the plane.

An African-American pilot, a Muslim, and a Spanish speaker all walk onto a plane…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 5:03:46am

re: #298 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

These days you’re barely even a billionaire if you don’t ~~send~~ ride on phallic objects hurtling into the final frontier

301

lawhawk Jan 24, 2024 • 5:06:08am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. NH voted in their primary last night and the results were… predictable, as was the media coverage.

The focus was on Trump beating Haley rather soundly, although the margins and exit polls show softness in support for Trump. Haley finally has started to attack Trump for his failings, including losing elections, and his mental acuity. This should have been the strategy all along, but we know how that ended for Christie who was in the same lane. And yet Trump’s slurring of speech and other oratory blunders keeps getting worse and worse while his supporters don’t give a shit and think that Biden’s the one who is showing his age.

That was the expected part - media would fixate on the margin of win, and not so much on the soft support.

What was also expected is that the media would ignore that Biden handily won a primary vote in NH despite not even being on the ballot. He won decisively in a write in campaign. That’s right - people had to go out of their way to write in Biden’s name on the ballot, and did so in overwhelming fashion, beating out Philips by a wide margin, with about 20k write in votes still to count. The write-in campaign shows a depth and strength in support for Biden that the media is ignoring in a horse-race mentality where they think that a strong economy and winning issues somehow is negated entirely by Biden’s age (and his presumptive opponent - the fascist criminal Trump).

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 5:10:45am

re: #301 lawhawk

The short version of the CNN story about Biden: Old man Biden had everyone in a panic because he wasn’t on the ballot, leading to concerns that he couldn’t win, so people came to his rescue.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 24, 2024 • 5:22:31am

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

I really wish the Democrats had someone better (and younger) than Biden to offer, but they don’t so he has my vote.

Why? He’s doing the job and doing it well. He’s not impaired, he’s healthy. It’s ageist and a bullshit republican talking point… Completely ignoring trump who is impaired. WTF, man?

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Teukka Jan 24, 2024 • 5:24:00am

So this one floated by..

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Decatur Deb Jan 24, 2024 • 5:27:40am

re: #303 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

You go to vote with the codger you have, not the amateur you wish you had.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 5:41:48am

re: #303 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Why? He’s doing the job and doing it well. He’s not impaired, he’s healthy. It’s ageist and a bullshit republican talking point… Completely ignoring trump who is impaired. WTF, man?

I am voting for him because he is the best candidate the Dems have to offer.

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 5:43:09am

🚨 BREAKING: BIDEN CRUSHES DEAN PHILLIPS AS WRITE IN CANAIDATE

President Joe Biden has emphatically won the New Hampshire primary, with almost 75% of Democratic primary voters writing his name in today.

This represents the first time in American history that a candidate has won… pic.twitter.com/GM5J2dyEaE

— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) January 24, 2024

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Decatur Deb Jan 24, 2024 • 5:43:29am

Well, he’s no Bernie, but then who is?

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jeffreyw Jan 24, 2024 • 5:55:49am

Good morning!

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 5:58:10am

Checked the bank again - that video card did go through finally. Weird.

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darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 5:58:25am

Mornin’ gang…happy of course he won’t take the stand day…again.

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mmmirele Jan 24, 2024 • 6:03:03am

re: #259 EPR-radar

Yes, especially if you remember the clock idiom of using IIII instead of IV for ‘4’.

We must have had the same clock growing up!

313

lawhawk Jan 24, 2024 • 6:03:42am

Elon Musk: he claims he’s Jewish by association during a visit to Auschwitz. Go fuck yourself Elon. That’s like saying you’re black because you have one black friend.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 24, 2024 • 6:07:39am

re: #305 Decatur Deb

You go to vote with the *EXPERIENCED codger you have, not the amateur ~~you wish you had~~.

* Fixed 😉

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lawhawk Jan 24, 2024 • 6:07:45am

Trump did a rally last night, and that bronzer was laid on thick. In fact, he appeared to be drenched. He isn’t well.

Trump has completely inverted reality where we’re in a dystopian world where the US can’t solve any problems and we’re in an abject disaster. He must be reliving the 2017-2021 time period.

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darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 6:09:01am

re: #313 lawhawk

Elon Musk: he claims he’s Jewish by association during a visit to Auschwitz. Go fuck yourself Elon. That’s like saying you’re black because you have one black friend.

But he does have a black friend…

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Eventual Carrion Jan 24, 2024 • 6:13:46am

re: #186 Decatur Deb

When Wife-to-Be moved up to NYC for the wedding, a co-worker offered her a nickel bag. She thought that meant $0.05.

If only

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Teukka Jan 24, 2024 • 6:15:11am

🤣🤣🤣

Is this how flat earthers think the attack on Pearl Harbor happened? pic.twitter.com/VQHqTLXm3i

— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) January 24, 2024

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jeffreyw Jan 24, 2024 • 6:15:44am

re: #245 BeenHereAwhile

Dunno if anyone has posted this:
(Link below to post by throwawayboeingN704AL)

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leehamnews.com

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 24, 2024 • 6:20:06am

re: #275 Nerdy Fish

The quiet, understated success of the Biden campaign to organize voters to write in President Biden on the New Hampshire primary ballots speaks to their silent effectiveness. No, we’re not crowing Biden’s wins from the rooftops as loudly as the fearmongers on the right are screaming about HURR DURR ILLEGALS MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS AND BATHROOMS DEI CRT WOKE BULLSHIT, but I’m also not convinced we have to. Who’s that going to benefit? At this point in the campaign season, there aren’t very many “undecided” voters left. The bad guys are making it pretty plain who they are, which is turning off moderate voters in droves. We’re never going to convince the shitheads who are outside Biden rallies chanting “Genocide Joe”; in 2020, those guys voted for Bernie. (Or Jill Stein. Or stayed home altogether.)

The little group of GQP groupies I sort of watch on Facebook are sort of interesting to watch.
a. They are centered around Biden-hate, four more years of Biden will be disastrous, he is old and incompetent, etc.

b. The anti-Trump part is that Trump will lose to Biden again. Very little on Trumpian spewings, just a belief by some that Trump cannot beat Biden. A few think Trump is needed to drive (deplorable) voter turnout. Nothing on Trump’s criminality and incompetence - it’s being ignored by them. Or at the minimum not talked about.

c. Nikki viewed as a darling since some there think it is the only course for beating Biden. By fielding a younger “moderate” that will draw votes away from Biden.

d. I have the impression that these people will hold their nose and vote Trump in any case while tossing out some stupid justification for doing it. And will do it even if Trump piles up some convictions previous to the election.

And I don’t really think many of these people are true Republicans either. They are in a sort of pseudo-libertarian “How dare people or things inconvenience me!” crowd. I base this in part on the whining that came from this quarter during closures due to Covid-19.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 6:21:03am

re: #313 lawhawk

Elon Musk: he claims he’s Jewish by association during a visit to Auschwitz. Go fuck yourself Elon. That’s like saying you’re black because you have one black friend.

My family and I were visiting a concentration camp and we got separated early on. We finally met up near the exit, but I guess I can now righfully claim that I lost family members at Dachau…

322

BlueSpotinAL ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 6:21:41am

re: #283 Decatur Deb

Hitler was 44 when he became Chancellor. Youth might not be the answer.

Part of the Republican base would be OK with some Hitler youth. We could call them Proud Base. ///

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 6:23:32am

re: #322 BlueSpotinAL ✅

Part of the Republican base would be OK with some Hitler youth. We could call them Proud Base. ///

And Lebensborn camps to address the ailing white birth rate and forestall White Replacement.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 6:23:44am

re: #322 BlueSpotinAL ✅

Part of the Republican base would be OK with some Hitler youth. We could call them Proud Base. ///

They’re called Turning Point, USA.

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Decatur Deb Jan 24, 2024 • 6:30:27am

re: #324 Joe Bacon ✅

They’re called Turning Point, USA.

“When the College RNC just isn’t creepy enough.”

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darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 6:33:29am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 6:34:57am

re: #325 Decatur Deb

“When the College RNC just isn’t creepy enough.”

Working hand-in-hand with Campus Crusade for Christ (and his Candidate on Earth)

328

darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 6:35:33am

Heard big drops outside. Just checked Weather Underground - we’re due for 1/2” of rain…over the next hour.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 6:35:45am

re: #326 darthstar

Large waves rushed ashore in the Marshall Islands, shattering doors and uprooting people, caused damage to a U.S. Army facility.

As sea levels rise, this will become more and more normal!

The Armed Forces are well aware of this and view it as a national security issue, not one of ideology or identity.

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darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 6:36:34am

re: #328 darthstar

Heard big drops outside. Just checked Weather Underground - we’re due for 1/2” of rain…over the next hour.

Yep..it’s a blob.

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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 6:39:23am

re: #297 William Lewis

Nope, no charge. Three attempts by ali express, three decines.

some kind of internal control / system problem there to ship an item that hasnt been paid for

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lawhawk Jan 24, 2024 • 6:43:49am

re: #326 darthstar

The US base there is instrumental for missile testing/missile defense testing, and tracking of missiles (especially re: North Korea and/or China). Climate change is also going to affect our main resupply base in the Indian Ocean too at Diego Garcia, where the base is essentially at sea level.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 6:46:12am

We had winter last week: the whole gamut: freezing rain, snow, low temps down into the teens.

Snow is all gone now, temps up into the mid-50’s.

Great drying weather, have all the bedding out flapping wildly on the line.

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jeffreyw Jan 24, 2024 • 6:46:39am

Mastodon

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 6:47:31am

re: #331 Dangerman

some kind of internal control / system problem there to ship an item that hasnt been paid for

Looking at all the time stamps, the bank finally approved the charge 2 days after the package shipped. Don’t know why.

336

jeffreyw Jan 24, 2024 • 6:50:02am

Mastodon

337

Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 6:51:20am

re: #284 Patricia Kayden

I hope Newsome (spelling) runs in 2028.

I hope Harris runs in 2028.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 24, 2024 • 6:52:24am

re: #326 darthstar

Video shows massive waves crashing Army base in Marshall Islands, causing extensive damage

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 6:52:42am

re: #337 Belafon

I hope Harris runs in 2028.

On the one hand, I would support her candidacy and most likely vote for her, on the other hand, GOP reaction to her will be roughly equal to (Obama+Hillary)³

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 24, 2024 • 6:54:29am

re: #337 Belafon

I hope Harris runs in 2028.

If Biden/Harris are re-elected, I will not be surprised if Biden steps down after the halfway mark (so Harris can be elected twice) of this second term.

Doing so would mean his biggest legacy is ensuring a black woman becomes President.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 6:56:42am

re: #340 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

If Biden/Harris are re-elected, I will not be surprised if Biden steps down after the halfway mark (so Harris can be elected twice) of this second term.

Doing so would mean his biggest legacy is ensuring a black woman becomes President.

I also find that entirely likely. And the GOP is also going to use this as a veiled threat and reason to support their candidate…and if Biden’s health does seem to falter even in the slightest, the Republicans will double down on this avenue of attack.

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 6:56:52am

re: #339 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

On the one hand, I would support her candidacy and most likely vote for her, on the other hand, GOP reaction to her will be roughly equal to (Obama+Hillary)³

On the third hand, think of what the electorate will look like in 2028.

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 6:57:41am

re: #340 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

If Biden/Harris are re-elected, I will not be surprised if Biden steps down after the halfway mark (so Harris can be elected twice) of this second term.

Doing so would mean his biggest legacy is ensuring a black woman becomes President.

I doubt that. That would seriously damage Harris. The first black-Indian woman gets the presidency handed to her?

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lawhawk Jan 24, 2024 • 6:57:43am

re: #336 jeffreyw

Showing strength among the base that media outlets and some lefty leaning folks don’t want to think exists. Biden’s strength shows through organizing on the ground, and ground game counts for a lot - especially when we get to November.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 6:58:27am

re: #342 Belafon

On the third hand, think of what the electorate will look like in 2028.

Yes, the electorate is shifing but the media landscape will still have a large and rabid GOP tinge to it.

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 6:59:25am

the media told me President Biden didn’t have enthusiastic supporters.

do you know how much enthusiasm you have to have to go to a polling place in new hampshire in winter to vote for someone whose name is not even on the ballot? for delegates that don’t even exist? i mean cmon.

— Florida Chris (@chrislongview) January 24, 2024

President Biden just won the NH primary as a write-in. He wasn’t on the ballot and he didn’t campaign there, but tell me more about how BiDeN is dRagGinG dEmS doWn. He’s the nominee and he’s gonna win reelection. Cry more. #BidenHarris2024

— queen of hoops snark 👸🏻✡️🏀💖 (@layneashley222) January 24, 2024

Joe Biden isn’t on the ballot in New Hampshire. His raw vote lead (as a write-in) is currently greater than Trump’s.

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 24, 2024

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darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 7:00:34am

re: #338 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Video shows massive waves crashing Army base in Marshall Islands, causing extensive damage

Watch for new structures to be built on stilts and raised beds (someone’s going to make a mint selling the government ships full of large rocks they can use).

348

Hecuba's daughter Jan 24, 2024 • 7:02:56am

re: #153 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Tomorrow’s Wordle had no spanners so it threw a wooden spoon in the works. At least it wasn’t my turn.

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Group: 3,3,3,4

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sizzzzlerz Jan 24, 2024 • 7:03:07am

re: #313 lawhawk

Elon Musk: he claims he’s Jewish by association during a visit to Auschwitz. Go fuck yourself Elon. That’s like saying you’re black because you have one black friend.

Then I’m Jewish by the same logic because I used to watch Henny Youngman do stand-up comedy.

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Jay C Jan 24, 2024 • 7:03:57am

re: #347 darthstar

Watch for new structures to be built on stilts and raised beds (someone’s going to make a mint selling the government ships full of large rocks they can use).

I wonder if the Chinese have taken rising sea-levels into account when constructing all those artificial islands offshore for military bases?

I know a lot of Chinese real-estate investments are underwater: some times it might be literal….

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 24, 2024 • 7:05:11am

Birb here. 🏌️🏻‍♀️

VVg1ajRKVitoamRLcVA0UlBMUGU5OHA5SFljTk8rL3g1aHQ4bXpydVhjUzRTVUUraXd3bHEwZE1CZmQwcWVaVGplb0hxSElnYmdiaTBlZmZGQUFZNU5SQlNQWTB3KzIyRDY4aittdmxib2kvbW9UQVdYNXJYc0E2NzBqdDJGQ2M6Oj2B8exIgVf2go8HUrhCyF0=

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 7:17:55am

Who shelled out $5 million
In New Hampshire true
Who got his ass kicked
By President You Know Who?
The Gelato Man
The Gelato Man Can

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 24, 2024 • 7:18:40am

re: #303 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Why? He’s doing the job and doing it well. He’s not impaired, he’s healthy. It’s ageist and a bullshit republican talking point… Completely ignoring trump who is impaired. WTF, man?

TBF: even those in great shape are more likely to experience serious health problems when you get up to my age or older: strokes, heart attack, cancer, Parkinson’s etc It’s reasonable to want someone younger — but 78 years old is not really younger (Trump age at election), especially given his diet and lack of exercise

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Decatur Deb Jan 24, 2024 • 7:19:06am

re: #349 sizzzzlerz

Then I’m Jewish by the same logic because I used to watch Henny Youngman do stand-up comedy.

I love Levy’s rye bread, but they tell me that doesn’t qualify.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 7:19:57am

re: #313 lawhawk

Elon Musk: he claims he’s Jewish by association during a visit to Auschwitz. Go fuck yourself Elon. That’s like saying you’re black because you have one black friend.

He can endlessly gorge himself on The Famous #19 at Langer’s Deli in Los Angeles but that ain’t gonna make him Jewish!

356

Nerdy Fish Jan 24, 2024 • 7:20:42am

So this is what happened to ol’ Ronny Jackson, probably got his brain toasted on all kinds of shady drugs.

Tyler King @tylerking.bsky.social
*
10h
For years there’s been a DoD pharmacy operating inside the White House without any credentials or licensed staff. And during the Trump years, they were handing out baggies of uppers and downers to senior staff and sending 6,000 ineligible patients to Walter Reed military hospital for free treatment.

arstechnica.com

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 24, 2024 • 7:23:48am

re: #320 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The little group of GQP groupies I sort of watch on Facebook are sort of interesting to watch.
a. They are centered around Biden-hate, four more years of Biden will be disastrous, he is old and incompetent, etc.

b. The anti-Trump part is that Trump will lose to Biden again. Very little on Trumpian spewings, just a belief by some that Trump cannot beat Biden. A few think Trump is needed to drive (deplorable) voter turnout. Nothing on Trump’s criminality and incompetence - it’s being ignored by them. Or at the minimum not talked about.

c. Nikki viewed as a darling since some there think it is the only course for beating Biden. By fielding a younger “moderate” that will draw votes away from Biden.

d. I have the impression that these people will hold their nose and vote Trump in any case while tossing out some stupid justification for doing it. And will do it even if Trump piles up some convictions previous to the election.

And I don’t really think many of these people are true Republicans either. They are in a sort of pseudo-libertarian “How dare people or things inconvenience me!” crowd. I base this in part on the whining that came from this quarter during closures due to Covid-19.

They are true Republicans; they may not be part of the theocratic base but they are of the Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel base. And probably racists also.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 7:24:19am

re: #353 Hecuba’s daughter

TBF: even those in great shape are more likely to experience serious health problems when you get up to my age or older: strokes, heart attack, cancer, Parkinson’s etc It’s reasonable to want someone younger — but 78 years old is not really younger (Trump age at election), especially given his diet and lack of exercise

We know that. But again, think of the media picture: if Biden has even a minor condition or has to be hospitalized, we will hear no end of how he is too old and feeble to be re-elected.

If anything happens to TFG (and if we even find out about it), it will chalked up to the stress and strain of campaigning and running a successful business all while fighting off a politically motivated witch hunt…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 7:25:14am

re: #357 Hecuba’s daughter

nd
They are true Republicans; they may not be part of the theocratic base but they are of the Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel base. And probably racists also.

The only thing the two camps share is the bleak, empty ugliness of their souls.

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Eventual Carrion Jan 24, 2024 • 7:25:41am

re: #278 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Birby.
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No Malarkey! Jan 24, 2024 • 7:28:05am

re: #343 Belafon

I doubt that. That would seriously damage Harris. The first black-Indian woman gets the presidency handed to her?

I think as long as President Biden remains healthy he will stay in office, and there is no particular reason to think he won’t be able to complete his second term; he is in excellent health. These days there are lots of people who remain active and mentally sharp into their nineties.

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Decatur Deb Jan 24, 2024 • 7:31:41am

re: #361 No Malarkey!

With average medical care, a man his age has a life expectancy of 87 years. His care more than offsets the stress of the job. He’s obviously showing no performance deficit.

363

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 7:32:11am

What did he glaze his face over with?

Could it be the Panda Express Orange Chicken Sauce? 🤔

364

darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 7:32:15am

Mastodon

365

lawhawk Jan 24, 2024 • 7:34:30am

re: #363 Joe Bacon ✅

Liquid smoke.

366

Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 7:35:07am

re: #358 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We know that. But again, think of the media picture: if Biden has even a minor condition or has to be hospitalized, we will hear no end of how he is too old and feeble to be re-elected.

If anything happens to TFG (and if we even find out about it), it will chalked up to the stress and strain of campaigning and running a successful business all while fighting off a politically motivated witch hunt…

Think of how many Democrats are going to react to that in any way that’s meaningful.

367

Decatur Deb Jan 24, 2024 • 7:35:43am

Heh. The Levy’s Rye posters have been catalogued in the Library of Congress—originals go for $1,500 online.

farkash-gallery.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 7:37:40am

re: #363 Joe Bacon ✅

What did he glaze his face over with?

Could it be the Panda Express Orange Chicken Sauce? 🤔

It was commented earlier that if he keeps this up, the White Supremacists are going to find it hard to continue to support him…

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gocart mozart Jan 24, 2024 • 7:40:52am

I would be afraid to get on a plane with a pilot who respected Charlie Kirk’s opinion on anything. How can you trust the judgment of anyone who is stupid and ignorant enough to respect Charlie.

— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) January 24, 2024

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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 7:41:57am

another adventure in the continuing saga that is Dangermom

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thankfully this is all before tax season gets into full swing

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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 7:44:04am

re: #361 No Malarkey!

I think as long as President Biden remains healthy he will stay in office, and there is no particular reason to think he won’t be able to complete his second term; he is in excellent health. These days there are lots of people who remain active and mentally sharp into their nineties.

you do not play with the rules like that

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No Malarkey! Jan 24, 2024 • 7:45:51am

Lindsey Graham knows Trump is unfit.

News note about the senior Senator from the state of Cognitive Dissonance:

“According to secret grand jury testimony in Fulton County confirmed by the authors, Graham testified that if you told Trump ‘That Martians came and stole the election, he’d probably believe you.’

“He… https://t.co/JEWWZ9O9XW

— George Conway (@gtconway3 on threads.net) (@gtconway3d) January 24, 2024

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 7:46:16am

re: #361 No Malarkey!

I think as long as President Biden remains healthy he will stay in office, and there is no particular reason to think he won’t be able to complete his second term; he is in excellent health. These days there are lots of people who remain active and mentally sharp into their nineties.

Oh my! If Joe has a colonoscopy and Kamala is Acting President during that FAUX will have a meltdown!

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 7:47:26am

re: #373 Joe Bacon ✅

How lovely. Someday we may see that.

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darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 7:47:42am

Lock him up.

Mastodon

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darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 7:49:07am

re: #372 No Malarkey!

Lindsey Graham knows Trump is unfit.

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I clicked into that Xeet…this was interesting:

“He also suggested to the grand jurors that Trump cheated at golf. After Graham was finished testifying, he bumped into FANI WILLIS in a hallway and thanked her for the opportunity to tell his story. ‘That was so cathartic,’ he told Willis. ‘I feel so much better.’ Then, to the astonishment of one source who witnessed the scene, South Carolina’s senior senator hugged the Fulton County DA who was aggressively pursuing Trump. Willis’s reaction: ‘She was like “whatever, dude,”’ according to one witness of the strange encounter.”

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Nerdy Fish Jan 24, 2024 • 7:49:57am

re: #376 darthstar

I clicked into that Xeet…this was interesting:

Now HOLD UP. Trump cheats at golf? This changes EVERYTHING!!!///

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 24, 2024 • 7:50:48am

One of those days.

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darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 7:51:37am

re: #377 Nerdy Fish

Now HOLD UP. Trump cheats at golf? This changes EVERYTHING!!!///

Graham hugged a woman…then went on TV and said the exact opposite of everything he told the grand jury.

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darthstar Jan 24, 2024 • 7:52:06am

re: #378 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

One of those days.

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Bogey here too…I felt implicated by today’s word.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 24, 2024 • 7:52:43am

re: #376 darthstar

I clicked into that Xeet…this was interesting:

Still think Graham is a despicable hack since for the past eight years he has done zero to effectively stop Trump and spend considerable time and yapping brown nosing Trump and acting like a lackey. Complete lack of principles and he is still flip-flopping what he says outside of being under oath depending on which way he thinks the wind is blowing.

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 7:52:52am

Ceramics across a lifetime.

I don’t know where the elephant came from. I’ve always had it since I can remember as a little boy. It may have been my great grandmother’s but that memory is not reliable.

The german-ish pseudo beer stein was made for me by my mother in my 20’s.

The pitcher I bought last year at the sale my girlfriend’s (from high-school and now again decades later) parents had as they divested excess to move into a retirement apartment. It was made by a (literally) world renown ceramic artisan here in our little town who trained in Japan. I got it stupid cheap ;)

Time stand still…

Rush - Time Stand Still (Official Music Video)

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Nerdy Fish Jan 24, 2024 • 7:54:02am

re: #380 darthstar

Bogey here too…I felt implicated by today’s word.

That makes two of us.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 24, 2024 • 7:54:22am

January showers bring… mushrooms!

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 8:00:27am

re: #373 Joe Bacon ✅

Oh my! If Joe has a colonoscopy and Kamala is Acting President during that FAUX will have a meltdown!

I think she’s already been acting president once.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 8:01:08am

re: #385 Belafon

I cannot remember the date but I do believe you are correct.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 24, 2024 • 8:01:41am

re: #198 DodgerFan1988

And this is why I find the existence of Black Republicans to be completely mystifying, Rightwingers don’t hide the contempt they feel for Black people at all. The left probably has some racists but they’re not in our frigging faces with it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 24, 2024 • 8:06:18am

re: #343 Belafon

I doubt that. That would seriously damage Harris. The first black-Indian woman gets the presidency handed to her?

It’s unlikely to be under a circumstance which paints it that way, though of course many parties will try to do it.

re: #362 Decatur Deb

The reality of growing old is that we seem to hit plateaus along the way, with quick descent between said plateaus.

You’re in your 50’s and looking good… and then you change within a year or two and look “senior”.

You’re in your 60’s and still going strong, albeit with thinner hair and flabbier skin, but then within a year or two blotches on the skin and an awkward gait develops.

You’re in your 70’s and still independent living, driving, shopping, maybe even going to an event or two. Then suddenly some disease happens (eyes, motor nerves, colons, etc.) and you start to need people to drive you around.

You’re in your 80’s and at least you get up every morning, make your breakfast/lunch… and then you fall and break your hip. …. maybe you live with some surgery… or you die.

Biden is healthy, as far as we know, but once in your 80’s each day is going to be full of possibly fatal risks.

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No Malarkey! Jan 24, 2024 • 8:06:42am

re: #387 Patricia Kayden

And this is why I find the existence of Black Republicans to be completely mystifying, Rightwingers don’t hide the contempt they feel for Black people at all. The left probably has some racists but they’re not in our frigging faces with it.

Racists like having black folks around to validate the white patriarchy, so there is a definite grifting opportunity for blacks in the GOP. How else could Clarence Thomas live like a billionaire? I also accept that there are black conservative christians who desire theocratic rule so intensely they are willing to overlook the racism.

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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 8:07:17am

Trump began his remarks with a falsehood. He claimed to have won New Hampshire in both the primaries and the general election. Nope: Hillary Clinton beat him there in 2016 and Joe Biden won in 2020. This was a particularly noteworthy claim at the top given the subject of his remarks: the fact that Haley did ‘a speech like she won’ even though she lost by 11 points…”

He is furious

Link

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 8:08:18am

re: #388 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

And yet, if you make it to one of those ages, there’s pretty good odds you make it through most of that age. The average life expectancy of someone who gets to 81 is 87.

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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 8:09:55am

re: #390 Dangerman

A disgusted Trump lashed out in response, dropping any pretense of civility as he ripped Haley as an ‘imposter’ standing in his way.”

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Unabogie Jan 24, 2024 • 8:10:05am

re: #313 lawhawk

Elon Musk: he claims he’s Jewish by association during a visit to Auschwitz. Go fuck yourself Elon. That’s like saying you’re black because you have one black friend.

This motherfvcker is just so gross. I cannot articulate how much contempt I have for that guy.

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wrenchwench Jan 24, 2024 • 8:11:32am

re: #392 Dangerman

A disgusted Trump lashed out in response, dropping any pretense of civility as he ripped Haley as an ‘imposter’ standing in his way.”

Now I’d like to see her win, just for the effect on him.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 8:13:08am

re: #394 wrenchwench

That would be great one could even say priceless.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 8:14:30am

re: #385 Belafon

I think she’s already been acting president once.

Didn’t realize She already was acting President once.

cnn.com

President Joe Biden on Friday temporarily transferred power to Vice President Kamala Harris while he was under anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy for one hour and 25 minutes, according to the White House.

The nation’s first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president broke yet another barrier when she temporarily stepped into the acting role. Harris worked from her office in the West Wing while Biden was under anesthesia, according to Psaki.

“@POTUS spoke with @VP and @WHCOS at approximately 11:35am this morning. @POTUS was in good spirits and at that time resumed his duties. He will remain at Walter Reed as he completes the rest of his routine physical,” Psaki tweeted.

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wrenchwench Jan 24, 2024 • 8:15:06am

re: #395 PhillyPretzel ✅

That would be great one could even say priceless.

Priceless is a great word for it. I think it’d a word Trump can’t grasp. He thinks it means somebody peeled the sticker off.

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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 8:16:13am

re: #392 Dangerman

A disgusted Trump lashed out in response, dropping any pretense of civility as he ripped Haley as an ‘imposter’ standing in his way.”

He’s lazy. He doesn’t want to have to keep working. He wants to be annointed now.

And does he not remember he appointed her UN ambassador?

Finally, being pissed someone doesn’t acknowledge they lost an election, well isn’t that some kinda irony?

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 8:16:40am

re: #397 wrenchwench

Yes. DT thinks that way.

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steve_davis Jan 24, 2024 • 8:17:13am

Just left some absolutely brutal feedback on Fedex. Bass was supposed to show up “signature required.” Well, as I suspected, it was delivered to the apartment below me, and nobody signed for it because I can hear whenever the door down there opens and any sort of conversation occurs. Also no knock, no ring. It is only the surprisingly ethical part of my nature that prevents me from simply going into their virtual manager and saying “Hey, I never got this, and I certainly didn’t sign for it, as the directions explicitly require.” But no, I would feel guilty playing the bass. I know there’s insurance for the seller, and Fedex makes billions, so they wouldn’t care. But it would be stealing, unfortunately. Otherwise, I’d be enjoying a free bass right now. (No chance to plug it in yet, but it’s light as a feather. Thinner neck than the Squier, and I’m guessing the wood for the body is also about ten times better and doesn’t have 2 lbs. of fill putty in it).

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No Malarkey! Jan 24, 2024 • 8:17:39am

re: #395 PhillyPretzel ✅

That would be great one could even say priceless.

She won’t since there isn’t a single GOP primary or caucus she can win. However it might be possible for independents and democrats to make the S.C. GOP primary close. There is no party registration in S.C., so the primary is open. If I was a S.C. voter, I would vote for Haley in the primary, just for the chance she finishes close enough to enrage Trump.

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Egregious Philbin Jan 24, 2024 • 8:21:36am

re: #326 darthstar

I almost took a job on Kwajelein a few years ago, that video was from a different island in the chain, Roi-Namur, where we have a launch pad to do Star Wars missile testing.

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No Malarkey! Jan 24, 2024 • 8:21:52am

re: #401 No Malarkey!

She won’t since there isn’t a single GOP primary or caucus she can win. However it might be possible for independents and democrats to make the S.C. GOP primary close. There is no party registration in S.C., so the primary is open. If I was a S.C. voter, I would vote for Haley in the primary, just for the chance she finishes close enough to enrage Trump.

Polling has Trump 37 points ahead of Haley in S.C. I would love it if she got over 40% of the vote, and Democrats and independents can make that happen.

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garzooma Jan 24, 2024 • 8:24:36am

re: #392 Dangerman

A disgusted Trump lashed out in response, dropping any pretense of civility as he ripped Haley as an ‘imposter’ standing in his way.”

Without Haley in the race, there would have been no Haley/Pelosi gaffe, which has completely neutered the Biden age issue. The longer Haley is in the race, the more opportunities there will be for more gaffes.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Jan 24, 2024 • 8:24:54am

Elon Musk avoided the draft in South Africa by absconding to Canada when he turned 18, taking advantage of his mother’s Canadian citizenship. If nothing else, it should be perfectly clear by now that Elon’s draft-dodging was based on simple cowardice and self interest rather than any kind of principled stand against apartheid or war in general.
He has that in common with Cheeto and a host of other right-wingers, from Sylvester Stallone to Mitt Romney.

Incidentally, Stallone ducked Vietnam service with a job his mother arranged for him as a PE instructor at a girls school in Switzerland.

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BeachDem Jan 24, 2024 • 8:26:26am

re: #401 No Malarkey!

She won’t since there isn’t a single GOP primary or caucus she can win. However it might be possible for independents and democrats to make the S.C. GOP primary close. There is no party registration in S.C., so the primary is open. If I was a S.C. voter, I would vote for Haley in the primary, just for the chance she finishes close enough to enrage Trump.

As a Democratic voter in South Carolina, I will be voting for Joe Biden on February 3 in the Democratic primary. If Nikki needs Dem votes in her home state to finish close enough to enrage Trump, she’s an even bigger loser than originally thought.

As one Republican operative said of lovely Nikki, “Those who know her the best like her the least”

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 8:26:35am

re: #405 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

How come I am not surprised.

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Decatur Deb Jan 24, 2024 • 8:27:41am

re: #402 Egregious Philbin

I almost took a job on Kwajelein a few years ago, that video was from a different island in the chain, Roi-Namur, where we have a launch pad to do Star Wars missile testing.

I pulled a couple weeks of TDY there. Only time my orders authorized a bicycle rental. That week Kwaj had the world’s highest density of bagpipers—the regular guy who piped at sunset had a visitor from Australia.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 8:29:27am

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 8:30:11am

re: #400 steve_davis

Just left some absolutely brutal feedback on Fedex. Bass was supposed to show up “signature required.” Well, as I suspected, it was delivered to the apartment below me, and nobody signed for it because I can hear whenever the door down there opens and any sort of conversation occurs. Also no knock, no ring. It is only the surprisingly ethical part of my nature that prevents me from simply going into their virtual manager and saying “Hey, I never got this, and I certainly didn’t sign for it, as the directions explicitly require.” But no, I would feel guilty playing the bass. I know there’s insurance for the seller, and Fedex makes billions, so they wouldn’t care. But it would be stealing, unfortunately. Otherwise, I’d be enjoying a free bass right now. (No chance to plug it in yet, but it’s light as a feather. Thinner neck than the Squier, and I’m guessing the wood for the body is also about ten times better and doesn’t have 2 lbs. of fill putty in it).

Been there done that (camera gear but yeah, know the exact feeling with those rat bastards at UPS).

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No Malarkey! Jan 24, 2024 • 8:33:16am

re: #406 BeachDem

As a Democratic voter in South Carolina, I will be voting for Joe Biden on February 3 in the Democratic primary. If Nikki needs Dem votes in her home state to finish close enough to enrage Trump, she’s an even bigger loser than originally thought.

As one Republican operative said of lovely Nikki, “Those who know her the best like her the least”

I respect your take, and hope no-one thinks my stance is in anyway an endorsement of Haley, who is terrible. I just want to fuck with Trump, who is the absolute worst, a traitor to the country and who belongs in prison.

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Dave In Austin Jan 24, 2024 • 8:34:20am

Nicki is going to spend every dime she can wring out of FD from Qs. I’m all here for it. That’s why he’s mad. He can’t get Party money until she’s gone.

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Unabogie Jan 24, 2024 • 8:36:05am

re: #412 Dave In Austin

Nicki is going to spend every dime she can wring out of FD from Qs. I’m all here for it. That’s why he’s mad. He can’t get Party money until she’s gone.

And without Party money, how can he pay off his personal debts and ask for more bribes from China?

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 8:36:33am

re: #405 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Elon Musk avoided the draft in South Africa by absconding to Canada when he turned 18, taking advantage of his mother’s Canadian citizenship. If nothing else, it should be perfectly clear by now that Elon’s draft-dodging was based on simple cowardice and self interest rather than any kind of principled stand against apartheid or war in general.
He has that in common with Cheeto and a host of other right-wingers, from Sylvester Stallone to Mitt Romney.

Incidentally, Stallone ducked Vietnam service with a job his mother arranged for him as a PE instructor at a girls school in Switzerland.

Funny that all these fascists couldn’t be bothered to serve yet this poor boy who did gave speeches at several peace marches (and even once got _quoted_ by a Republican congress critter in our local press 😎) still managed to be a good little socialist NCO in the US Army. Gah.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 24, 2024 • 8:38:23am

re: #363 Joe Bacon ✅

What did he glaze his face over with?

[Embedded content]

Could it be the Panda Express Orange Chicken Sauce? 🤔

Bile.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 8:39:44am

Well I just got my election lessons notice. And now I have to go to 2 different classes: one class for the voting machine and the rules and regulations and another class for the poll book. And of course they are at 2 different locations. At least we got a small raise in pay. For the voting machine training we are getting $50. For the poll book training we are getting $30. I will be attending both classes and I got a sinking feeling I am going to end up as a de facto Judge of Elections again.

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Dave In Austin Jan 24, 2024 • 8:39:55am

And the party? It never ends.

Bam-Ba-Lame…..

“The Department of Defense’s Office of the Inspector General (DoD OIG) has issued a damning report outlining significant mismanagement at the White House pharmacy, affecting operations during the Trump administration. Uncovered findings reveal a series of lapses in protocols ranging from prescription handling to the dispensation of controlled substances, with the report laying bare the extent of systemic problems within the White House Medical Unit.
The White House pharmacy, which falls under the White House Military Office, was found to have operated without the oversight of a licensed pharmacist or any external accreditation. As a result, the OIG’s investigation, which encompassed interviews with 70 military office officials and focused on records from 2017 to 2019, has highlighted critical deficiencies. Issues included inaccurate manual prescription records, improper medication disposal practices, and unverified distribution of prescriptions.”

msn.com

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Egregious Philbin Jan 24, 2024 • 8:40:00am

re: #408 Decatur Deb

I still subscribe to them on Facebook, I like reading the weekly newsletter. It would have been a tough job, HR Manager on an island. Being a civilian, living with all my coworkers, 24/7. When someone gets fired, they do it in the morning on one of the 3 days there is a United flight to Honolulu, that way, they are fired, and fly out that afternoon.

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BeachDem Jan 24, 2024 • 8:41:26am

re: #411 No Malarkey!

I respect your take, and hope no-one thinks my stance is in anyway an endorsement of Haley, who is terrible. I just want to fuck with Trump, who is the absolute worst, a traitor to the country and who belongs in prison.

But fucking with Trump by Dems voting in the repub primary actually hurts Biden. Remember, it was South Carolina (and Jim Clyburn) that created the momentum for Biden in 2020, and the Dem primary here is a big fucking deal this year. Not because of competition, but because it’s been deemed first in the nation and will be seen as a bellwether of Biden support. It’s too important to strongly show support for Biden at this crucial point than to be cute in a play to make Trump angry (and give the execrable Nikki a single extra moment of fame)

My opinion only—ymmv.

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Patricia Kayden Jan 24, 2024 • 8:41:52am

re: #403 No Malarkey!

Why would Democrats do that? We need to run against Trump. He’s the easier candidate to demonize and defeat.

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lawhawk Jan 24, 2024 • 8:45:53am

re: #417 Dave In Austin

Trump’s administration was a drug fueled crime spree.

Trump was more Tony Montana than Tony Soprano.

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No Malarkey! Jan 24, 2024 • 8:47:58am

re: #419 BeachDem

But fucking with Trump by Dems voting in the repub primary actually hurts Biden. Remember, it was South Carolina (and Jim Clyburn) that created the momentum for Biden in 2020, and the Dem primary here is a big fucking deal this year. Not because of competition, but because it’s been deemed first in the nation and will be seen as a bellwether of Biden support. It’s too important to strongly show support for Biden at this crucial point than to be cute in a play to make Trump angry (and give the execrable Nikki a single extra moment of fame)

My opinion only—ymmv.

That makes a whole lot of sense.

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Dave In Austin Jan 24, 2024 • 8:49:04am

Oh Ronny-O…….

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 8:50:32am

Phillips and his supporters briefly stood outside the Manchester polling location, thanking voters for participating in Tuesday’s election regardless of who they supported. Not everyone was receptive.
When Phillips asked an older woman if he could say hello, she snapped back: “You may not. Biden all the way!”

startribune.com

the reporter did work really hard to find people that supported Phillips.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 24, 2024 • 8:50:55am

Paper ball is fun

Got a book from my brother yesterday. Put the box down for Floof Cat to sniff and then crumpled up the piece of brown paper that was padding and tossed it into the box. Instant cat toy which Floof Cat knocked about the room for the next 5-10 minutes.

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Decatur Deb Jan 24, 2024 • 8:51:51am

re: #418 Egregious Philbin

I still subscribe to them on Facebook, I like reading the weekly newsletter. It would have been a tough job, HR Manager on an island. Being a civilian, living with all my coworkers, 24/7. When someone gets fired, they do it in the morning on one of the 3 days there is a United flight to Honolulu, that way, they are fired, and fly out that afternoon.

One of my bosses resigned from DA Civilian to take a contractor job there. He lived on a 42 foot boat anchored in the lagoon until he retired. Then he slipped the cable and headed into the South Seas.

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No Malarkey! Jan 24, 2024 • 8:52:25am

re: #420 Patricia Kayden

Why would Democrats do that? We need to run against Trump. He’s the easier candidate to demonize and defeat.

Don’t worry, Trump is going to be the GOP nominee. I was just thinking that the longer Haley can stay in the race, the more it hurts Trump. Also, if Haley was the GOP nominee in normal circumstances, she may be harder to beat than Trump, but if Trump somehow lost the GOP nomination he would scream it was rigged and do everything he could to undermine Haley, which would make it very difficult for her to unite the GOP in support.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 8:52:37am

re: #425 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Paper ball was a cheap cat toy. I am happy she enjoyed it. :)

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Randall Gross Jan 24, 2024 • 8:54:35am

Mastodon

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 24, 2024 • 8:55:29am

re: #428 PhillyPretzel ✅

Paper ball was a cheap cat toy. I am happy she enjoyed it. :)

It’s a nice change up for her. She has a big variety of them about in a box. She pulls one from there every so often. They go back into the box when the apartment gets cleaned. There are a few favorites that are usually the first ones back out on the floor.

She has also figured out how to sort of demand that there be a session of “Red Dot Must Die!” I usually use that to let here tear up and down the hallway at speed a few times. After which she stops and awaits the dot’s return in ambush mode.

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wrenchwench Jan 24, 2024 • 8:59:36am

Birbie. Wordle 949 3/6*

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Still would be a birbie at best without the booboo.

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 9:00:13am

re: #430 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

It’s a nice change up for her. She has a big variety of them about in a box. She pulls one from there every so often. They go back into the box when the apartment gets cleaned. There are a few favorites that are usually the first ones back out on the floor.

She has also figured out how to sort of demand that there be a session of “Red Dot Must Die!” I usually use that to let here tear up and down the hallway at speed a few times. After which she stops and awaits the dot’s return in ambush mode.

I wonder if you could teach your cat to use the word buttons that they have for dogs?

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Jay C Jan 24, 2024 • 9:04:25am

re: #421 lawhawk

Trump’s administration was a drug fueled crime spree.

Trump was more Tony Montana than Tony Soprano.

Wasn’t that famous medical genius (now Congressman) Ronny Jackson in charge?

The guy whose glowing reports as to then-President Trump’s splendid robust good health were generally text versions of Ben Garrison cartoons??

Why does the revelation that he turned the WH pharmacy (or allowed it to be turned) into an unsupervised pill-mill not seem too surprising??

434

Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 9:05:05am

A man was convicted of second-degree murder on Tuesday for fatally shooting a young woman when the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove up his rural driveway in upstate New York.
A jury found Kevin Monahan, 66, guilty of second-degree murder for shooting 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis on a Saturday night last April after she and her friends pulled into his long, curving driveway near the Vermont border while they were trying to find another house.

The group’s caravan of two cars and a motorcycle began leaving once they realized their mistake. Authorities said Monahan came out to his porch and fired twice from his shotgun, with the second shot hitting Gillis in the neck as she sat in the front passenger seat of an SUV driven by her boyfriend.

theguardian.com

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 9:06:01am

Susanna Hoffs Hazy Shade of Winter Live 2022

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Randall Gross Jan 24, 2024 • 9:08:11am

bsky.app

437

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 9:09:03am

LMAO at the latest from THE ONION.

GOP Voters Shrug And Say There Really Nothing You Can Do After Footage Of Trump Molesting Deer Emerges

theonion.com

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Backwoods Sleuth Jan 24, 2024 • 9:13:13am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 9:15:18am

re: #438 Backwoods Sleuth

I would love it if the judge said this: Okay that is settled. 100 years in prison. Remember you asked for it.

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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 9:17:16am

We’ve never seen a gap between the independent vote and the Republican vote in an NH GOP primary like we saw last night. Trump won R’s by 49, Haley took independents by 22 — a swing of 71 points. Previous high was 40. pic.twitter.com/Avq3gbxiJE

— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) January 24, 2024

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steve_davis Jan 24, 2024 • 9:20:27am

re: #432 Belafon

I wonder if you could teach your cat to use the word buttons that they have for dogs?

lol! “I HUNGRY. FOOD IN BOWL OR ALL DIE.”

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 24, 2024 • 9:21:19am

Oregon’s landmark experiment in drug decriminalization looks likely to meet its end next month, as lawmakers in both parties offer up proposals that would make drug possession a crime for the first time in three years.
The strongest sign yet that change is in the air: Majority Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a wide-ranging proposal that would unravel a portion of Measure 110, the 2020 ballot measure that ensured users could not be prosecuted if caught with small amounts of illicit drugs.

Under that bill, lawmakers would make possession of small amounts of drugs like fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin a low-level misdemeanor and give law enforcement more power to prosecute dealers.

The changes — floated in a proposal by Senate Majority Leader Kate Lieber, D-Portland, and state Rep. Jason Kropf, D-Bend — serve as a starting point for a discussion on drug policy and addiction that promises to be a major focus in this year’s legislative session.

opb.org

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 9:22:08am

re: #441 steve_davis

Or Hungry Feed me now

444

Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 9:23:21am

Elise Stefanik’s Deranged Defense of Trump Offers Democrats a Lesson

At first Stefanik falls back on the stale MAGA talking point that the focus on Trump’s sexual assault is a media witch hunt. But when reporter Vaughn Hillyard points out that a jury reached this conclusion, Stefanik was at first nonplussed, then got angry, and then repeated those talking points with a vehemence bordering on derangement.

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 9:23:31am

re: #442 Shropshire Slasher

A mistake, driven by propaganda, hate and fear. Pity. They are on the right path if they have the balls to continue with it.

446

wrenchwench Jan 24, 2024 • 9:26:03am

Mastodon

One principle of Native art of the Pacific Northwest is that the primary formline in a design is continuous. In other words, a creature’s shape or form and its main parts are represented by one continuous enclosing formline.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 9:27:03am

This should be fun!

Rudy Giuliani ordered to testify under oath in bankruptcy proceedings

With a filing on the bankruptcy court docket in New York entered Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani has officially been ordered to testify in person next month about the state of his finances in the wake of a court order that he pay the former election workers he defamed, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, $148 million.

Giuliani filed for bankruptcy shortly after the court order in December and it effectively put a stay on any attempts to collect by Freeman and Moss. Last month, Freeman and Moss urged a court in Washington, D.C., to deny a request from Giuliani that sought an exception to the stay that would have allowed him to pursue legal efforts to modify the award amount. It also left open a door for him to request a new damages trial.

The women accused Giuliani of “looking to have his cake and eat it too,” court records showed.

It also states: “The filing of the case imposed an automatic stay against most collection activities. This means that creditors generally may not take action to collect debts from the debtors or the debtors’ property. For example, while the stay is in effect, creditors cannot sue, garnish wages, assert a deficiency, repossess property, or otherwise try to collect from the debtors. Creditors cannot demand repayment from debtors by mail, phone, or otherwise.”

lawandcrime.com.

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A Cranky One Jan 24, 2024 • 9:29:32am

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wrenchwench Jan 24, 2024 • 9:30:06am

re: #442 Shropshire Slasher

opb.org

They need to give Measure 110 more time. Forcing people into ‘treatment’ is the only ‘tool’ they can give to cops. It’s not a law enforcement problem, it’s a public health problem. Going after dealers is one thing, but when they go after addicts, it helps nothing.

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 24, 2024 • 9:37:37am

I look forward to seeing him in a meeting.

Jason Kelce has opened up about his “shenanigans” at the Chiefs-Bills Divisional-Round game Sunday, saying his wife Kylie Kelce wasn’t too pleased with his shirtless adventures.

The Philadelphia Eagles center, 36, said he got “caught up in the magic of Bills Mafia” ahead of his booze-fueled hurrah at Highmark Stadium, where he stole the spotlight while cheering in Travis Kelce’s star-studded suite.

Snip

“I wanted to stay out there long enough to get my nipples hard enough,” he quipped, admitting that he couldn’t remember what happened to the shirt at the end of the game.

“This is how my mind works after 40 Miller Lites,” he joked.

nypost.com

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Ace Rothstein Jan 24, 2024 • 9:43:05am

re: #450 Shropshire Slasher

WELL AT LEAST HE WASN’T DRINKING THAT COMMIE BUD LIGHT!!!

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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 9:45:08am

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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 9:46:28am

re: #451 Ace Rothstein

WELL AT LEAST HE WASN’T DRINKING THAT COMMIE BUD LIGHT!!!

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IngisKahn Jan 24, 2024 • 9:48:05am

We use the buttons for the cats at our sanctuary. Of the 30 or so cats here, 2 have learned to use the buttons. We have a ton of buttons but they mostly stick to this list: Yes, No, Outside, [pet/our name], Treats, Food Time, Pets, Love You. Pets is just a scritch, Love You is a mauling.

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IngisKahn Jan 24, 2024 • 9:49:49am

Oh and the Mad button.

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jeffreyw Jan 24, 2024 • 9:51:02am

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 24, 2024 • 9:51:50am

re: #423 Dave In Austin

Oh Ronny-O…….

Who was likely as high as every other Trumper in the White House.

Jesus Christ on a crisp. Unreal.

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Jay C Jan 24, 2024 • 9:53:15am

re: #441 steve_davis

Or, more simply:

FOOD!

DIE!

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 24, 2024 • 9:57:04am

A California woman who fatally stabbed her boyfriend more than 100 times during what prosecutors called a “cannabis-induced” psychosis has been spared prison time, a judge ruled on Tuesday. The decision drew sobs of relief from the woman and a rebuke from the victim’s father.
Bryn Spejcher, 32, was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation, according to Ventura County Superior Court records. Last month, Spejcher was convicted in the 2018 fatal stabbing of Chad O’Melia, a man whom she had been dating for several weeks.

cbsnews.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 24, 2024 • 9:57:16am

re: #439 PhillyPretzel ✅

I would love it if the judge said this: Okay that is settled. 100 years in prison. Remember you asked for it.

Yeah. Your proposal is acceptable. 100 years it is.

461

Nerdy Fish Jan 24, 2024 • 10:00:58am

re: #457 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Who was likely as high as every other Trumper in the White House.

Jesus Christ on a crisp. Unreal.

That’s why, when I brought this article up earlier, I said, “That’s what happened to ol’ Ronny Jackson.” He probably toasted his brain on the illicit prescriptions he was getting, which is why his degradation into a Trump toady was so baffling.

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Dave In Austin Jan 24, 2024 • 10:03:53am

re: #461 Nerdy Fish

That’s why, when I brought this article up earlier, I said, “That’s what happened to ol’ Ronny Jackson.” He probably toasted his brain on the illicit prescriptions he was getting, which is why his degradation into a Trump toady was so baffling.

You know that larder was FULL of amphetamine for those long event scenarios.

463

sizzzzlerz Jan 24, 2024 • 10:04:11am

re: #444 Dangerman

Elise Stefanik’s Deranged Defense of Trump Offers Democrats a Lesson

Lawyer’s Creed:

If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.

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aatharuv Jan 24, 2024 • 10:07:27am

re: #142 Vicious Babushka

Well at my doctor’s appointment yesterday I “aced” a cognitive test. The Dr. gave me a piece of paper with a circle on it with a central point, and asked me to draw a clock in this space.

I’m like OK and a drew a clock face by putting the numbers 12, 3, 6, 9 first, then filling in 1 & 2, 4 & 5, 7 & 8 and 9 & 10. Then to draw the clock hands at 1:11.

I looked up the CDT (as it is called, for Clock Drawing Test) and what they look for in this very early cognitive exercise, is putting the numbers where they belong on the clock face and showing that you know the hour hand from the minute hand.

I commented that the CDT may soon become obsolete since kids are no longer being taught to read analog clocks, it’s a skill that is becoming extinct, like writing cursive.

It’s going to be a viable test through the early 22nd century.

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Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 10:13:22am

re: #464 aatharuv

It’s going to be a viable test through the early 22nd century.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 10:17:56am

This is something that I just got from LifeLock. It is called “The Mother of all Breaches” It appears that old data that was stolen is now combined with new data creating the MOAB. Please check all of your records and if needed change your passwords.

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coin operated Jan 24, 2024 • 10:19:34am

re: #459 Shropshire Slasher

A California woman who fatally stabbed her boyfriend more than 100 times during what prosecutors called a “cannabis-induced” psychosis has been spared prison time, a judge ruled on Tuesday.

I have never seen 2 stoners get into a fight…ever. What the hell else was she on?

468

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 24, 2024 • 10:21:14am

re: #467 coin operated

It sounds like she was on something very different than cannabis.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 24, 2024 • 10:22:52am

re: #467 coin operated

I have never seen 2 stoners get into a fight…ever. What the hell else was she on?

I can also well imagine that although cannabis played a role, it was not the only factor in this incident.

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 10:25:26am

Heh. Finally got around to watching Thor: Love and Thunder today.

That’s really a very good movie. I’d call that the best Thor movie yet. There’s some serious thinking going on there and that last tidbit of letting Jane go to Vallhalla? Beautiful and true to the original myth. Loved Love and Thor doing their thing together in the end to but that’s different ;)

Third or fourth best, overall in the MCU.

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A Cranky One Jan 24, 2024 • 10:25:54am

re: #469 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He answered “Yes” when asked if her pants make her butt look big.

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sagehen Jan 24, 2024 • 10:28:29am

re: #471 A Cranky One

He answered “Yes” when asked if her pants make her butt look big.

that’s how we know they’re white.

black people would think that response was a compliment.

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 10:30:38am

re: #470 William Lewis

Heh. Finally got around to watching Thor: Love and Thunder today.

That’s really a very good movie. I’d call that the best Thor movie yet. There’s some serious thinking going on there and that last tidbit of letting Jane go to Vallhalla? Beautiful and true to the original myth. Loved Love and Thor doing their thing together in the end to but that’s different ;)

Third or fourth best, overall in the MCU.

I think Ragnarok was better, but I did like the Jane ending. I would have loved for them to do a “Hey, Oden, ‘sup?” scene.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 24, 2024 • 10:30:42am

Sounds like the right person for the job. pic.twitter.com/m1NdusHMsB

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 24, 2024

Seconded

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Jay C Jan 24, 2024 • 10:33:33am

re: #474 Eclectic Cyborg

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Seconded

So validating the old political saw that a “gaffe” actually means “inappropriately telling the truth”.

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gwangung Jan 24, 2024 • 10:34:17am

re: #470 William Lewis

Liked it better than most fans, though I think the humor was overused and detracted from the more serious aspects. But Jane’s story was absolutely spot on and was a more honest ending than what she got in the comics.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 24, 2024 • 10:34:25am

Mastodon

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steve_davis Jan 24, 2024 • 10:38:16am

re: #459 Shropshire Slasher

cbsnews.com

oooph! It was a bread knife. that would be an incredibly painful way to die. only thing worse, possibly, would be a grapefruit spoon.

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jaunte Jan 24, 2024 • 10:40:14am

re: #474 Eclectic Cyborg

Why did they take out the word RAT?

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Eventual Carrion Jan 24, 2024 • 10:42:34am

re: #478 steve_davis

oooph! It was a bread knife. that would be an incredibly painful way to die. only thing worse, possibly, would be a grapefruit spoon.

Sporked to death

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wrenchwench Jan 24, 2024 • 10:43:46am

Mastodon

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William Lewis Jan 24, 2024 • 10:44:22am

re: #476 gwangung

Liked it better than most fans, though I think the humor was overused and detracted from the more serious aspects. But Jane’s story was absolutely spot on and was a more honest ending than what she got in the comics.

THIS

It was exquisite to me who watched my very strong mother die of cancer.

The other thing that struck me repeatedly through the movie was that Thor was not a god. He was a hero. There is very important difference in the two.

483

Dangerman Jan 24, 2024 • 10:45:12am

re: #475 Jay C

So validating the old political saw that a “gaffe” actually means “inappropriately telling the truth”.

What you mean “inappropriately”?

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wrenchwench Jan 24, 2024 • 10:47:24am

Mastodon

Beautiful blue is this one -
Jay Antifa
Translated from Deutsch using deepl.com

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Belafon Jan 24, 2024 • 10:49:27am

i don’t wanna know how long this took pic.twitter.com/7GysXkTGaS

— All things interesting (@interesting_aIl) January 20, 2024

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Florida Panhandler Jan 24, 2024 • 10:49:55am

re: #477 Vicious Babushka

There are quite a few of those that wave Palestinian flags who, like their far right wing mirror universe compatriots, just want to watch the world burn.

Real actual people concerned with Palestinians can see the nightmare that would be a Trump 2024 win and the resulting thumbs-up to Bibi.

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Mattand Jan 24, 2024 • 10:53:20am

re: #429 Randall Gross

Jon Stewart, who during his 16-year run as host of the Comedy Central program established it as an entertainment and cultural force, will return to host the show each week on Mondays starting February 12, Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios announced Wednesday.

The last time I saw Stewart on TV, it was Colbert’s first show back after lockdown, and Jon was making a Fox News-style “joke” about we should be calling COVID-19 “the Chinese flu.”

He’s also been very vocal in defending Dave Chapelle’s right to shit on trans people.

Plus he’s always had a strong “both sides” take on things.

I don’t think this is going to go the way people expect it to.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 24, 2024 • 10:55:26am

re: #487 Mattand

The last time I saw Stewart on TV, it was Colbert’s first show back after lockdown, and Jon was making a Fox News-style “joke” about we should be calling COVID-19 “the Chinese flu.”

He’s also been very vocal in defending Dave Chapelle’s right to shit on trans people.

Plus he’s always had a strong “both sides” take on things.

I don’t think this is going to go the way people expect it to.

Also, while he has been away, Jon Stewart has developed a persona that is quite unpleasant.

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 24, 2024 • 11:10:29am

re: #387 Patricia Kayden

And this is why I find the existence of Black Republicans to be completely mystifying, Rightwingers don’t hide the contempt they feel for Black people at all. The left probably has some racists but they’re not in our frigging faces with it.

Bush 43 had well-known Black Republicans in senior positions. Whatever his other flaws, there is no evidence that he had any racial bias. And his AIDS initiative in Africa helped the population there to handle the disease. So in recent history, there were Blacks who had good reason to support Republicans.

I suspect that many men (Black as well as white) are propelled by misogyny and are not fond of the key role Biden has given Black women on the judiciary and in his administration.

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