Video: Legal Analyst: Expect a ‘Tug of War Over Michael Cohen’ in Trump Trial Opening Statements

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I wish they’d stop referring to this trial as a “hush money” case, because at its heart it’s really about election interference. Stormy Daniels was paid off to suppress damaging information at a critical point in Trump’s campaign for president. The same goes for the “catch and kill” deals Trump made with David Pecker and the National Enquirer.

If he weren’t running for president, Trump would not have cared if any of this stuff became public.

Fmr. Sr. Member of Mueller Probe Andrew Weissmann and MSNBC Legal Analyst Mary McCord join The Weekend to discuss what to expect during opening statements of Trump’s hush-money trial and who the key witnesses may be.

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1
jeffreyw  Apr 21, 2024 • 4:33:31pm

Mastodon

2
Romantic Heretic  Apr 21, 2024 • 4:35:49pm

Off-topic already.

I just watched this fascinating review of Civil War.

Its thesis? That America is LARPing itself into a civil war by participating in the kayfabe of the culture war.

The idea kinda resonates with me.

3
Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 4:36:15pm

Someone broke into the entrance of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s place.

Details sketchy right now…

ktla.com

4
Vicious Babushka  Apr 21, 2024 • 4:38:45pm

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Apr 21, 2024 • 4:46:56pm

My daughter is a Columbia alumna.

Mastodon

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Unabogie  Apr 21, 2024 • 4:47:50pm

Not only was it a coverup of election interference, he wrote off the hush money payments as “legal fees” and claimed them as a business expense. That’s tax evasion on top of the other crimes.

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Unabogie  Apr 21, 2024 • 4:53:30pm

re: #5 Vicious Babushka

My daughter is a Columbia alumna.

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The Israeli government and the pro-Palestinian demonstrators have both put on a master class in “how to lose any semblance of good will you had going in”

Jeez, these people are insane.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 21, 2024 • 4:54:17pm

re: #6 Unabogie

Is tax evasion one (or many) of the charges?

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:00:54pm

Russia issues a strongly worded letter.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:06:43pm

Here’s a question for Ayman…if you don’t agree with what one 20 year old voter says about Biden and Trump being the same and that President Biden hasn’t done anything in office, then why put his words on the screen and let it sink in for a good 45 seconds?

It would seem to feed the narrative and now you have to distance yourself by saying, “But I don’t feel that way!” - no…that low information asshole is wrong and he is not representative of the majority of voters.

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:09:11pm

re: #5 Vicious Babushka

My daughter is a Columbia alumna.

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I understand there were two protests at Columbia. A peaceful sit-in with prayer inside the campus and then a reactionary rally for the cameras by non-Columbia attendees after they were rallied to show up by outside interests.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:09:31pm

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JC1  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:10:27pm

Continuing from the previous thread: a million dollar speeding ticket.
dailymail.co.uk

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jeffreyw  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:16:40pm

new client intake

— Andrew Fleischman (@nobodyinteresting.bsky.social) 2024-04-21T14:24:57.887Z

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Charles Johnson  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:19:11pm

I’d just like to say (()=>{})()

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Jay C  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:21:03pm

in the “TIL” file:

The Russian naval vessel Kommuna (a “rescue”/”salvage” ship, ex-sub-tender) recently damaged by a Ukrainian missile attack in Sevastopol is actually the world’s oldest active naval vessel! It was first commissioned into the Tsarist Navy in 1912, and is still on the books as of today.

Though after 112 years, it just might be time to retire*…..

*especially with that 21st-Century missile damage

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Decatur Deb  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:22:24pm

re: #14 jeffreyw

The church of St Anthony in Padua is still a major pilgrimage center. It has dozens of confessionals, and each priest hangs a sign listing the languages he speaks.

(Our command chaplain once announced that going there to pick a non-
English speaker was not cricket.)

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danarchy  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:28:34pm

re: #8 Ace Rothstein

Is tax evasion one (or many) of the charges?

All of the charges are falsifying business records. Basically 3 counts per month for each month he payed Cohen. Each month there was a check, a stub, and a false invoice. One month was double billed so instead of 36 counts it is only 34.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:32:21pm

Yay, I got back from volunteering at the evening service at church and I can see Bluesky embeds in my Spy mode. This is why LGF, and Charles, are the best.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:33:54pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

I’d just like to say (()=>{})()

in C++ it’s written ([](){})()

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:34:51pm

re: #19 Nerdy Fish

Yay, I got back from volunteering at the evening service at church and I can see Bluesky embeds in my Spy mode. This is why LGF, and Charles, are the best.

I should use spy mode more often. It’s nice just having shit pop up at the top of the thread instead of scrolling down, but I’m a devoted scroller…I can’t help myself.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:36:44pm

A little something I wrote earlier this afternoon:

PRECIOUS

Unassuming, in a glass case
In Mr. Colemans downtown store.
Most people see a simple ring
Nothing less and nothing more.

They don’t think about its history
Passed from parents on to kids.
They don’t understand the mystery
Or the secrets that it hid.

This diamond has survived a war,
been flung into the sea.
It’s seen sunsets in Hollywood
And the hills of Tuscany.

This stone has witnessed arguments
And tempestuous affairs.
For thirty years it sat inside a box
Behind the stairs.

It’s graced the hands of newlyweds,
Been in the possession of a thief,
Nearly lost in a game of pool,
And helped a widow through her grief.

It has graced a dirty nightstand,
Sparked a fight between two brothers
Been sold to pay for diapers
By a desperate single mother.

It may have never breathed a breath
But at times it seems alive.
Its journey, strange and wondrous
Though perhaps a bit contrived.

Now it sits, almost unnoticed
In Mr. Coleman’s store.
It’s not a simple diamond ring.
It’s a legacy and more.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:38:32pm

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

That’s astounding. Well done.

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Unabogie  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:43:04pm

re: #8 Ace Rothstein

Is tax evasion one (or many) of the charges?

It’s not, but the charges are that he falsified business records in furtherance of a felony. Election fraud is one, tax evasion is another. Neither of those has be to be proven, only that it was his intent to do so.

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Unabogie  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:44:43pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

I’d just like to say (()=>{})()

That’s the Trump function. Fucking useless and self congratulating.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:44:54pm

Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Matthews Band, Mary J. Blige Lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2024 Class

Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang, A Tribe Called Quest, Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick, and Big Mama Thornton will also enter the Cleveland institution

What took them so long for some of these folks????

rollingstone.com

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silverdolphin  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:46:45pm

Washington State Republican Party endorses Semi Bird’s gubernatorial candidacy

Read the whole thing. The Washington GOP is just crazy. Instead of picking the leading candidate, Dave Reichert, who has great name recognition in the state (both politically and as the guy who brought in the Green River Killer), they went for a MAGA nut with a criminal record. By changing the rules, ignoring the rules and generally corrupt procedures.

Amazing.

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aatharuv  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:48:03pm

re: #92 ericblair

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This probably had a lot to do with little Mikey finally doing his job. The Russians have been persecuting, arresting, beating up, and worse the evangelicals in Russia and occupied Ukraine, because they’re not Orthodox. This looks like it ended up being a monstrously stupid thing to do just for this reason, but the RU army is either too ignorant or too undisciplined (or porque no los dos) to actually stop themselves.

Is this really the reason, or just the excuse he’s giving why he changed his mind to his constituents and fellow GOPers? I’m not surprised one bit that Russia is persecuting Evangelicals like they’ve been persecuting members of all “non-traditional” religions (including members of Hare Krishna, etc.).

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:49:20pm

re: #2 Romantic Heretic

Off-topic already.

I just watched this fascinating review of Civil War.

Its thesis? That America is LARPing itself into a civil war by participating in the kayfabe of the culture war.

The idea kinda resonates with me.

Has someone here seen Civil War? If so, your opinion?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:49:28pm

re: #27 silverdolphin

This is the Republicans’ problem, and why the party as a whole is not long for this world. In order to win a primary in a party that is increasingly centered on Trump, you have to be as hard right as possible. But these hard-right nutjobs are completely unelectable in a general election. The career GOP’ers - who know how the sausage is made, and want to actually win elections and gain power - know this, and are trying as hard as they can to tamp down the influx of pants-on-head crazy. They are losing this war, and badly.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:50:09pm

re: #26 Joe Bacon ✅

The R&RHOF didn’t admit The Cars (The fucking Cars!) until 2018. They’re putting Jimmy Buffett in there after his death, nice.

Not fond of the “institution.”

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BeachDem  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:51:22pm

re: #10 darthstar

Here’s a question for Ayman…if you don’t agree with what one 20 year old voter says about Biden and Trump being the same and that President Biden hasn’t done anything in office, then why put his words on the screen and let it sink in for a good 45 seconds?

It would seem to feed the narrative and now you have to distance yourself by saying, “But I don’t feel that way!” - no…that low information asshole is wrong and he is not representative of the majority of voters.

Per George Lakoff

Truth Sandwich:
1. Start with the truth. The first frame gets the advantage.
2. Indicate the lie. Avoid amplifying the specific language if possible.
3. Return to the truth. Always repeat truths more than lies.

Rinse and repeat and repeat and repeat.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 21, 2024 • 5:57:43pm

CNN is committed to the fake balance framing of almost all mainstream news outlets these days.

It’s horrifying. This is how nations slide into fascism.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:01:18pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

The R&RHOF didn’t admit The Cars (The fucking Cars!) until 2018. They’re putting Jimmy Buffett in there after his death, nice.

Not fond of the “institution.”

We agree on that!

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Charles Johnson  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:01:48pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

The R&RHOF has always been the happy face of a greedy capitalist music industry.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:02:29pm

All antisemitism is abhorrent. But people need to know when they’re being played.

One of the richest and most powerful guys ever to live is building a Nazi minting machine and Republicans aligned with him want us all focused on Ivy league campuses to undermine the horror at Netanyahu’s atrocities.

— L O L G O P (@lolgop.bsky.social) 2024-04-22T00:58:07.310Z

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:04:12pm

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

Wow. I’d like to share that with friends in the jewelry-making community. But you may want to put copyright on it with your rw name.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:05:10pm

When Twitter dies at last, it will be sudden. And a lot of people other than Elon Musk will be left holding their bags.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:07:33pm

re: #32 BeachDem

Per George Lakoff

Truth Sandwich:
1. Start with the truth. The first frame gets the advantage.
2. Indicate the lie. Avoid amplifying the specific language if possible.
3. Return to the truth. Always repeat truths more than lies.

Rinse and repeat and repeat and repeat.

I have to find the time to reread that.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:07:53pm

re: #30 Nerdy Fish

This is tahe Republicans’ problem, and why the party as a whole is not long for this world. In order to win a primary in a party that is increasingly centered on Trump, you have to be as hard right as possible. But these hard-right nutjobs are completely unelectable in a general election. The career GOP’ers - who know how the sausage is made, and want to actually win elections and gain power - know this, and are trying as hard as they can to tamp down the influx of pants-on-head crazy. They are losing this war, and badly.

But the Hawleys, the Vances, and the Cruz’s of the world do get elected and are fully on board with the malignant intentions of Trump. Let’s not assume the party will be dying when they have all these tricks to disenfranchise those who do not share their views. We have to fight for every inch and must never forget that they are owned by wealthy fascists who control the narrative of much of media — not just RW but also MSM voices like NYTimes. A larger portion of the voting public supports Trump than supported Hitler when he took over. Our nation will not survive another Trump Presidency or a Presidency by anyone who believes in the Heritage Project 2025, designed to turn us into a fascist regime.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:08:52pm

bsky.app

My Toyota Corolla has been driven on way rougher roads than these roads this Cybertruck weirdo calls “off-road.”

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piratedan  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:09:20pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

when they lose the sports and ESPN, that will likely be the end.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:10:06pm

Group launches effort to explore ballot initiative restoring abortion access in Idaho

One can hope that they can get it on the ballot. Looks like it won’t get on this year but could get on their 2026 ballot.

idahocapitalsun.com

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:10:11pm

I think part of the reason Republicans chose the eve of his first criminal trial to pass Ukraine aid is the fact that he’ll be too busy in court for the next six to eight weeks to even think about exacting revenge against anybody outside of his immediate sphere - which is the courtroom.

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:12:47pm

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:13:38pm

My wife is watching Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office. I’m personally only catching glimpses but wow these people were screwed over.

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BeachDem  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:14:10pm

re: #39 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

I have to find the time to reread that.

I have “Don’t think of an elephant” on my Kindle and ready to quote regularly. I wish the Dems would listen to Mr. Lakoff more.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:14:41pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

The R&RHOF has always been the happy face of a greedy capitalist music industry.

It’s what happens when a Memphis Pyramid gets big enough to go legit.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:17:06pm

re: #47 BeachDem

I have “Don’t think of an elephant” on my Kindle and ready to quote regularly. I wish the Dems would listen to Mr. Lakoff more.

“Republicans on capital hill accused Democrats of not wanting to provide aide to Ukraine. Democrats were unable to respond in time for this report.” - CNN

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:20:35pm

Captain Underpants is so scared for his buddy!

‘They want him killed’: Alan Dershowitz says Trump would be murdered in prison

Dershowitz made the remarks to (WHAT ELSE BUT) Newsmax after Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) introduced a bill to revoke Secret Service benefits if the former president is convicted of a crime.

“So he would not have Secret Service if he’s behind bars,” a Newsmax host told Dershowitz.

“Well, that’s ridiculous,” the law professor replied. “That means that they want him killed, because he’s obviously a target. We live in an age where everybody is in danger.”

rawstory.com

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:22:52pm

re: #50 Joe Bacon ✅

“We live in an age where everybody is in danger.”

Yeah, NO FUCKING SHIT. Because you fuckwads have decided that the right to own guns trumps every other right except the right to be a Christian (other religions need not apply), and so now anyone can get blown away for any reason at any time and there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it.

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TedStriker  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:25:02pm

re: #16 Jay C

in the “TIL” file:

The Russian naval vessel Kommuna (a “rescue”/”salvage” ship, ex-sub-tender) recently damaged by a Ukrainian missile attack in Sevastopol is actually the world’s oldest active naval vessel! It was first commissioned into the Tsarist Navy in 1912, and is still on the books as of today.

Though after 112 years, it just might be time to retire*…..

*especially with that 21st-Century missile damage

Depending on the definition of “active”, Old Ironsides might disagree with that statement…

I’ll give the Kommuna is likely the oldest warship in combat service in the world, but Constitution is still far-and-away the oldest commissioned warship still afloat (HMS Victory has been commissioned longer, but has been housed in dry dock as a museum ship for over a century).

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:25:58pm

re: #50 Joe Bacon ✅

So every American should have Secret Service protection. Including the Secret Service.

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:28:37pm

re: #53 Belafon

I wonder if there’s anything in New York laws that allows for extra protection (beyond sequestration) to be given the members of a jury if they’re under threat.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:28:42pm

re: #52 TedStriker

Depending on the definition of “active”, Old Ironsides might disagree with that statement…

I’m gonna go with “Being put in a dangerous situation” as active.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:30:25pm

RAW: Bear cubs climb gondola tower at Colorado resort

On Steamboat’s new Wild Blue gondola, a massive machine and the fastest 10-person aerial gondola in the western hemisphere.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:32:30pm

re: #55 Belafon

I’m gonna go with “Being put in a dangerous situation” as active.

You and most people, but the USS Constitution is still on the US Navy’s register of active vessels, and it still participates in official Navy training exercises and is crewed by 75 sailors and officers.

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ericblair  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:37:43pm

re: #28 aatharuv

Is this really the reason, or just the excuse he’s giving why he changed his mind to his constituents and fellow GOPers? I’m not surprised one bit that Russia is persecuting Evangelicals like they’ve been persecuting members of all “non-traditional” religions (including members of Hare Krishna, etc.).

As far as I know, he’s not giving it as an excuse at all. Johnson is stating that he believes the US intelligence and that a Russian victory would be a disaster. I think that’s part of it, too: this guy is a wet behind the ears backbencher who got post-turtled into a leadership role, and went from listening to Fox News and whackjob preachers to getting the most sensitive US intelligence from grim-faced very competent looking people.

But little Mikey is a true believer, and it would have been a lot easier to dismiss it all as the DeEp StAtE except there was his people, the evangelists, telling him that his people were getting hurt.

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TedStriker  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:42:32pm

re: #55 Belafon

I’m gonna go with “Being put in a dangerous situation” as active.

Ehhh, even with periodic refits, it could be very dangerous for a ship as old as Constitution when she launches from her berth to do her yearly turnaround cruise in Boston Harbor, but I get what you’re saying; Kommuna is still an active combat vessel, while Constitution has been a museum ship (albeit with an active commission and active-duty Navy crew) for a very long time.

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:44:18pm

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

RFK Jr. is doing a “night of laughs” in detroit tonight, hosted by the Natural Law Party.

According to @jessehixxx.bsky.social who’s there, comedian Mike Binder just said to a heckler, “You’re obviously a lesbian with a speech impediment, which means you give good head.”

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:45:14pm

re: #59 TedStriker

Ehhh, it could be very dangerous for a ship as old as Constitution when she launches from her berth to do her yearly (or so) turnaround cruise in Boston Harbor, but I get what you’re saying; Kommuna is still an active combat vessel, while Constitution has been a museum ship for a very long time.

Though to be fair, the HMS Victory, the oldest warship still commissioned in a navy, is in a dry dock in Portsmouth. That’s a form of “technically correct” that is a little much even for me.

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:46:10pm

@marisakabas.bsky.social

Rob Schneider at RFK Jr. fundraiser: “Everyone knows what a woman is. A woman is someone who gets mad at you for something you did three fucking years ago.”

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:47:05pm

RFK supporter humor is indistinguishable from maga humor.

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TedStriker  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:47:40pm

re: #61 Nerdy Fish

Though to be fair, the HMS Victory, the oldest warship still commissioned in a navy, is in a dry dock in Portsmouth. That’s a form of “technically correct” that is a little much even for me.

Indeed, Victory is about 20-25 years older, but she’s also been laid up permanently in dry dock for 102 years, while Constitution is still seaworthy.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:47:55pm

re: #63 jaunte

RFK supporter humor is indistinguishable from maga humor.

Wasn’t Rob Schneider the same guy that did the show for the Republicans where they got mad and walked out because he was too uncouth for them?

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:48:07pm

Trump’s going to be mad Rob Schneider called him a woman.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:48:14pm

re: #62 jaunte

@marisakabas.bsky.social

I’m not surprised to see Mike Binder and RAZZIE winner Rob Schneider at a fundraiser for Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs since both of them are hard core GOP activists.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:48:29pm

re: #47 BeachDem

I have “Don’t think of an elephant” on my Kindle and ready to quote regularly. I wish the Dems would listen to Mr. Lakoff more.

Yes, so do I.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:49:53pm

re: #65 Nerdy Fish

Wasn’t Rob Schneider the same guy that did the show for the Republicans where they got mad and walked out because he was too uncouth for them?

Yes Rob got a bit too, shall we say, “ribald” for Cindy Hyde-Smith causing her to walk out of the “festivities”…

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:54:07pm

re: #69 Joe Bacon ✅

Yes Rob got a bit too, shall we say, “ribald” for Cindy Hyde-Smith causing her to walk out of the “festivities”…

I don’t understand why these people can’t do basic fucking research. Anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together can spend five seconds searching Google and know that off-color humor is literally his entire shtick.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:56:48pm

re: #70 Nerdy Fish

I don’t understand why these people can’t do basic fucking research. Anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together can spend five seconds searching Google and know that off-color humor is literally his entire shtick.

But he’s a good MAGAT. He’s also campaigning for Steve Garvey here in California which is guaranteed to sink Steve’s campaign even further.

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BeachDem  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:58:49pm

re: #70 Nerdy Fish

I don’t understand why these people can’t do basic fucking research. Anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together can spend five seconds searching Google and know that off-color humor is literally his entire shtick.

Calling anything Rob Schneider does humor is a real s—t—r—e—t—c—h.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2024 • 6:59:11pm

re: #72 BeachDem

Calling anything Rob Schneider does humor is a real s—t—r—e—t—c—h.

Yeah, “humor” is doing a lot of work in that sentence, I suppose.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:02:18pm

re: #72 BeachDem

Calling anything Rob Schneider does humor is a real s—t—r—e—t—c—h.

Especially after seeing him in Deuce Bigelow European Gigolo which earned him a RAZZIE for WORST ACTOR.

He also lost out to Eddie Murphy for Worst Actor Of The Decade in 2010.

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JC1  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:03:20pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

When Twitter dies at last, it will be sudden. And a lot of people other than Elon Musk will be left holding their bags.

Musk can keep it going indefinitely as a vanity project.

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coin operated  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:05:25pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

re: #20 Belafon

Hey…assholes…I’m trying to maintain a buzz here! Quit making me speak regrex!

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:09:45pm

I ask myself from time to time ‘Did skiing ruin your life?’

In a lot of ways it didn’t. In some ways it did.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:10:01pm

Unless the price is completely nuts, I’m going to have to join this Kickstarter when it starts.

PinStation is fantastic for VR pinball

Also for desktop use, or building a digital pinball machine at home.

PinStation desktop pinball controller force feedback features

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coin operated  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:16:30pm

re: #77 teleskiguy

I ask myself from time to time ‘Did skiing ruin your life?’

In a lot of ways it didn’t. In some ways it did.

Dad forbade my brother and I from getting into downhill and grand slalom. I wanted to race, but he was in no mood to watch gates on the weekends. I firmly believe he did me a favor keeping me off the course and enjoying recreational skiing…

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:16:35pm

re: #14 jeffreyw

No disrespect to Catholics but I can’t imagine confessing my “sins” to a human being who probably has more “sins” to confess than I ever will.
Rant over.

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:17:57pm

re: #77 teleskiguy

Too much doing what you love? Doesn’t sound like ruin.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:19:06pm

re: #26 Joe Bacon ✅

I’m surprised that Cher isn’t in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame already. Legendary Diva.

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gwangung  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:20:51pm

re: #58 ericblair

As far as I know, he’s not giving it as an excuse at all. Johnson is stating that he believes the US intelligence and that a Russian victory would be a disaster. I think that’s part of it, too: this guy is a wet behind the ears backbencher who got post-turtled into a leadership role, and went from listening to Fox News and whackjob preachers to getting the most sensitive US intelligence from grim-faced very competent looking people.

But little Mikey is a true believer, and it would have been a lot easier to dismiss it all as the DeEp StAtE except there was his people, the evangelists, telling him that his people were getting hurt.

US intelligence = head
US evangelicals = heart

IF we want to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:21:01pm

re: #27 silverdolphin

Maryland Republicans did the same and lost to the first Black Democratic Governor, Wes Moore. Works for me. I assume Washington is a pretty blue state so Republicans might as well send out their clowns.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:21:29pm

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:21:48pm

re: #76 coin operated

Hey…assholes…I’m trying to maintain a buzz here! Quit making me speak regrex!

You’re in luck, that’s not regex, that’s functional programming.

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sagehen  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:25:50pm

re: #85 Patricia Kayden

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Her cats are named Olivia Benson, Meredith Grey and Benjamin Buttons. Ask me how I know.

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coin operated  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:26:26pm

re: #86 Belafon

You’re in luck, that’s not regex, that’s functional programming.

Yeah…well I’m not functional right now…

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:30:05pm

re: #2 Romantic Heretic

Off-topic already.

I just watched this fascinating review of Civil War.

Its thesis? That America is LARPing itself into a civil war by participating in the kayfabe of the culture war.

The idea kinda resonates with me.

Watched both Grizzly Man & Civil War this weekend.

I guess you could say they’re both movies about people who choose to exist in non civil cultures.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:30:56pm

re: #88 coin operated

Yeah…well I’m not functional right now…

Both of ours were functions that took took in nothing and returned nothing.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:31:49pm

re: #79 coin operated

Dad forbade my brother and I from getting into downhill and grand slalom. I wanted to race, but he was in no mood to watch gates on the weekends. I firmly believe he did me a favor keeping me off the course and enjoying recreational skiing…

Running gates made me hate skiing. And I ran too many gates. The reason I took up snowboarding as a teenager, because I was desperate to make sliding on snow FUN AGAIN. Now I’m elite telemark. It’s been a fun odd journey… But I question myself.

re: #81 jaunte

Too much doing what you love? Doesn’t sound like ruin.

Skiing made me a raging alcoholic, made me grandiose in my 20s that alienated almost everyone around me except those that knew of my weirdness (a number of people in Steamboat I can count with one hand), and thinking of skiing - I mean truly thinking of what skiing is on this planet - it’s gotdam depression inducing.

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mmmirele  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:36:34pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

When Twitter dies at last, it will be sudden. And a lot of people other than Elon Musk will be left holding their bags.

I was actually hoping you’d say that they’d be left holding their dicks.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:36:53pm

re: #37 Rightwingconspirator

Wow. I’d like to share that with friends in the jewelry-making community. But you may want to put copyright on it with your rw name.

See behind tag:

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:39:42pm

re: #91 teleskiguy

Running gates made me hate skiing.

Running gates also made me the best skier in 99% of any group skiing in the United States. And my heel is free…

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coin operated  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:43:03pm

re: #90 Belafon

Both of ours were functions that took took in nothing and returned nothing.

Functional programming? Not a fan. I speak bash, sed, and awk with fluency and incorporate it into my personal toolbag but I’m done writing code for somebody else.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:44:04pm

When I’m skiing there is one word on my mind: Angulation

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silverdolphin  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:46:29pm

re: #84 Patricia Kayden

Maryland Republicans did the same and lost to the first Black Democratic Governor, Wes Moore. Works for me. I assume Washington is a pretty blue state so Republicans might as well send out their clowns.

Yep, but the current Democratic Governor is retiring (we have no term limits but he lasted for 3). And we have a jungle primary with like 20 people now so it is possible that only Democrats make it through the primary. I hitnk it is very likely that no Republican makes the election.

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:50:16pm

Specific rejection of monarchical prerogatives for the American president:

Law Dork: Trump Immunity at the Supreme Court

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:51:32pm

re: #98 jaunte

Specific rejection of monarchical prerogatives for the American president:

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Oh, yeah, that’s right, Trump’s “divine right of kings” hearing before SCOTUS is this week, isn’t it? No wonder he’s so mad he won’t be able to be at the hearing. He wants to remind the justices, personally, how they came to be in their positions, and to thank them for their loyalty and service.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:57:28pm

en.m.wikipedia.org

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 21, 2024 • 7:58:00pm

re: #91 teleskiguy

From my view you are dedicated to your family and your craft and you lived the athletic dream while young. But more yesterday than tomorrow there on that path. IMO It’s okay to self assess and wonder where to go from here but counterproductive to what if.

Know you kicked some ass and got some personal growth through challenges failures and train wrecks and are the wiser for it

Also know you avoided the oops I forgot to live of the overly prudent and the overly sedentary which are sins in my book

Photo: Marissa after a big romp at the park

2024: Wink Nod and a Secret Handshake for a Free Lunch

.

I put my life into high leverage engineering with a lot of travel and family and was like Boxer the Horse for years trying to keep up . When the inevitable cast off to the glue factory seemed imminent I said to myself: keep a low profile bad attitude. Those sob’s will see how it will all go off the rails when I slack off. Hah. Guess wha, I was more productive being less intense and was a better work mate showing up late taking a long lunch and leaving early than the “ideal” who was kind of an asshole

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wrenchwench  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:11:28pm

re: #84 Patricia Kayden

re: #97 silverdolphin

Yep, but the current Democratic Governor is retiring (we have no term limits but he lasted for 3). And we have a jungle primary with like 20 people now so it is possible that only Democrats make it through the primary. I hitnk it is very likely that no Republican makes the election.

When generalizing about Washington, it’s similar to Oregon, and to a smaller extent, California: Liberal in the western portions, less so in the eastern ones. I think of Spokane as conservative, but I’m not all that familiar with it.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:11:56pm

re: #101 So Cal Greek Hippie

You get my rare Heart click.

You posted amazing life stuff. Thank you! Thank you so much.

you lived the athletic dream while young

This is true! I got maximum fun very early in life. Skiing. It’s hard to describe.

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darthstar  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:12:30pm

Been fighting a sore throat and cough the last few days. Think I’ll go to bed and wake up with the first day of the first Trump trial.

Positive thoughts to the prosecution. Fuck the defense.

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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:13:03pm

re: #99 Nerdy Fish

Oh, yeah, that’s right, Trump’s “divine right of kings” hearing before SCOTUS is this week, isn’t it? No wonder he’s so mad he won’t be able to be at the hearing. He wants to remind the justices, personally, how they came to be in their positions, and to thank them for their loyalty and service.

He probably couldnt name them or pick them from a photo

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:23:32pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

This is true! I got maximum fun very early in life. Skiing. It’s hard to describe.

I can go to any ski area on planet Earth and ski the motherfucker.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:24:24pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle will not be as traumatic as the last one.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 1,038 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
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⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SibData: 2,3,3,4,4

The 2 freely admits to blind fortune.

Yesterday’s results included a 6 and a complete miss.

It’s fresh hop season.
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wrenchwench  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:28:16pm

Fish fuels flight.

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:28:51pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

When generalizing about Washington, it’s similar to Oregon, and to a smaller extent, California: Liberal in the western portions, less so in the eastern ones. I think of Spokane as conservative, but I’m not all that familiar with it.

You got it. West of the Cascades, with most of the large cities is very blue. The eastern side is more red. Spokane is more conservative than any other large city in the state.

ANd we have had some chaos with the Redistricting Committee this time around. They changed the map to help more Laartino voters which pissed off the GOP. So I am not sure just how it will work.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:34:46pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

Thanks. It means a lot
We share a birthday so I always feel some extra kinship and attention to your posts

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:36:20pm

re: #109 silverdolphin

I live 500 feet east of the fog line here in Southern California, and say it’s the western edge of red state America

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:38:22pm

re: #95 coin operated

Functional programming? Not a fan. I speak bash, sed, and awk with fluency and incorporate it into my personal toolbag but I’m done writing code for somebody else.

I love functional programming. It’s a lot closer to math than others. Why have a function that adds a list of numbers and another function that multiplies the numbers when you can pass in the operator to a function that computes a running total by taking the current result and the next value and applying the operator?

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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:43:11pm

Him too:

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sagehen  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:45:25pm

re: #113 Dangerman

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It’s the hair. TFG’s combover can’t survive water.

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wrenchwench  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:48:52pm

re: #111 So Cal Greek Hippie

I live 500 feet east of the fog line here in Southern California, and say it’s the western edge of red state America

Did any other counties shift to the left like Orange County did?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:53:01pm

re: #113 Dangerman

Wasn’t there a big kerfuffle a few years back when TFG didn’t want to go to a cemetery in the rain to honor fallen soldiers?

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:55:03pm

re: #115 wrenchwench

My county (Ventura ) is still mostly Republican but fairly even. Land of Reagan but went Biden
But more money people coming in here the last few years which skews liberal

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wrenchwench  Apr 21, 2024 • 8:55:34pm

re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg

Wasn’t there a big kerfuffle a few years back when TFG didn’t want to go to a cemetery in the rain to honor fallen soldiers?

Insufficient kerfuffle, as I recall. Probably applies across the board, imho.

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:00:05pm

That asshole drives his golf cart across the putting green

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wrenchwench  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:02:39pm

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:03:42pm

re: #114 sagehen

It’s the hair. TFG’s combover can’t survive water.

Maybe it multiplies when it gets wet.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:08:48pm

So the UAE has a flooding problem, after record rainfall:

United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall ever hits desert nation

Here’s a long video of various clips, recommend scrolling back in the video several hours at a time to pick up individuals explaining what is happening to them:

Youtube Video


..

Of course all climate specialists have warned that warming surface temps mean increased extreme precipitation events.

But few people listen.

For most of the world every day is simply eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.

Substantial damage that is done by a major flood is just part of life, as people will tell themselves.

Hard to feel bad for a petro-state becoming a victim of what is likely a direct result of a changing climate.

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:11:03pm

re: #122 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The decision makers there will decamp to Switzerland or some other more pleasant destination and leave everyone else to deal with the flooding.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:14:31pm

re: #110 So Cal Greek Hippie

Thanks. It means a lot
We share a birthday so I always feel some extra kinship and attention to your posts

You’re a May 7th motherfucker!?

WASSUP!!!

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:18:13pm

Billy Kreutzmann, the original drummer for Grateful Dead, was born on May 7th…

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:34:46pm

gotdam Matt Gaetz was also born on May 7th, him and I were born on the same day the exact day in 1982. We’re Astrological Twins! Fuck!

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Captain Ron  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:36:07pm
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DodgerFan1988  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:40:13pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 9:52:45pm

re: #119 EstebanTornado1963

That asshole drives his golf cart across the putting green

This is supposed to be the most egregious thing you can do if you’re just some fucken golfer at ANY golf course.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:11:26pm

re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg

Wasn’t there a big kerfuffle a few years back when TFG didn’t want to go to a cemetery in the rain to honor fallen soldiers?

IIRC, Trump was scheduled for a D-Day memorial at a US military cemetery in Normandy, France. It was raining so he bypassed the ceremony.

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Captain Ron  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:11:32pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:14:20pm

Deep cut.

Le Sac

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:16:46pm

re: #126 teleskiguy

I was a wild college student the day you were born—and the son of a teacher.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:20:14pm

The son of a teacher…

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:20:26pm

re: #124 teleskiguy

Matt Gaetz wins biggest known American jerk born. May 7 for sure. Q: is there a list of biggest assholes born on each date?

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:22:00pm

re: #135 So Cal Greek Hippie

Someone’s got a gotdam spreadsheet I’ll bet. Humans are weird.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:24:01pm

re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg

Wasn’t there a big kerfuffle a few years back when TFG didn’t want to go to a cemetery in the rain to honor fallen soldiers?

Yup. Normandy. reuters.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:25:44pm

re: #121 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Maybe it multiplies when it gets wet.

More like he’d have a Rudy level makeup event with orange shit running down his face.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:29:17pm

re: #127 Captain Ron

Why is there no WGAF? response? Because, really, W could possibly GAF?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:36:15pm

Let’s check in with the defendant on the eve of opening arguments:

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:38:16pm

I am

re: #134 teleskiguy

The son of a teacher…

Oy

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retired cynic  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:39:18pm

… son of a [t]eacher man …

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retired cynic  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:40:36pm

re: #142 retired cynic

sorry, krazy mind …

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:43:56pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:46:49pm

re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg

Let’s check in with the defendant on the eve of opening arguments:

[Embedded content]

Why does my Spidey Sense keep telling me Methane Man is gonna claim he’s too sick to show up for the trial tomorrow?

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:49:36pm

re: #144 teleskiguy

I DARE YOU to listen to this. Bwahahahaa!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 21, 2024 • 10:53:45pm

Well I have a long distance dedication for Trump!

Infected Mushroom - U R So Fucked [HD]

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sagehen  Apr 21, 2024 • 11:53:18pm

re: #135 So Cal Greek Hippie

Matt Gaetz wins biggest known American jerk born. May 7 for sure. Q: is there a list of biggest assholes born on each date?

go to Wikipedia, enter the date as your search term. They’ll give you a whole list of famous people born that day; both assholes and not-assholes.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 1:11:21am

Happy Day One of Trump’s trial by a jury of his peers for all who celebrate! after opening statements we are expecting David Pecker to be called by the prosecution to testify!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2024 • 1:41:02am

re: #8 Ace Rothstein

Is tax evasion one (or many) of the charges?

I thought it had to do with violations of campaign finance law in how it was booked.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2024 • 1:42:52am

re: #31 teleskiguy

The R&RHOF didn’t admit The Cars (The fucking Cars!) until 2018. They’re putting Jimmy Buffett in there after his death, nice.

Not fond of the “institution.”

It is not an “Institution” it is a commercial undertaking.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2024 • 1:46:15am

re: #114 sagehen

It’s the hair. TFG’s combover can’t survive water.

And no umbrella was sturdy enough?

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William Lewis  Apr 22, 2024 • 1:59:17am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is not an “Institution” it is a commercial undertaking.

Infested with much the same “taste”, or rather lack thereof, as Rolling Stone.

The only good from it is that, on the rare accidental occasion they induct someone decent you can get an excellent, if small, live set on YouTube…

Rush Performance at Rock Hall of Fame

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silverdolphin  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:01:02am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is not an “Institution” it is a commercial undertaking.

Yep.Inductees are so random. They hated progressive bands for some time (said they were not really rock) and they were kept out until it became too embarrassing. Yet, how can Tull or Kansas not be there? But ELO is? (I love ELO but come on).

It is worth it sometimes for the live performances. Prince’s solo on “My Guitar Gently Weeps” should get its own induction.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:06:24am

re: #155 silverdolphin

Wasn’t there some personal enmity between Jan Wenner and certain entertainers that kept them blocked?

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:20:23am

re: #106 teleskiguy

I can go to any ski area on planet Earth and ski the motherfucker.

That is a good feeling, I agree.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:23:22am

re: #129 teleskiguy

This is supposed to be the most egregious thing you can do if you’re just some fucken golfer at ANY golf course.

Among them. Since it shows a complete lack of respect for the course* and any other golfers who might use that green later.

But it fits Trump’s M.O. completely as someone self-absorbed in his own superiority and convenience. Who probably takes great glee in flaunting any and all rules and behavioral expectations since those are for the suckers other guy. And hasn’t been held to task or responsibility for it for decades.

* - The course itself as a construction and also to anyone who spends time maintaining it. And putting greens, especially on an expensively maintained course, are very sensitive things since grass essentially doesn’t like living tightly packed in at a height of 1” or less.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:23:26am

Damnit, this cough has gone into my chest and I’m coughing up the yellow shit. Looks like I’ll be riding this one out from the home office/couch.

Maybe I’ll check out that Fallout show after I make a pharmacy run in the morning.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:26:42am

re: #158 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

That would be a funny character development by the prosecution…call a greenskeeper to the stand, discuss golf etiquette and when carts are supposed to return to the path (100 feet before the green) and what Trump’s behavior says about him and rules. Just to publicly shame him in the golf community.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:27:19am

I was reading an article about the upcoming trial and this popped up at the bottom.

It’s from Fox News.

yahoo.com

I didn’t read through the entire list but I’d say the first five jurors I’d be able to identify by what they wrote. There’s definitely enough personal information in there.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:29:42am

re: #160 darthstar

That would be a funny character development by the prosecution…call a greenskeeper to the stand, discuss golf etiquette and when carts are supposed to return to the path (100 feet before the green) and what Trump’s behavior says about him and rules. Just to publicly shame him in the golf community.

I am pretty sure the golf community is already pretty aware of what a putz he is. The stories about him cheating and other abuses have been around for years and years. And I have not been golfing much for the last twenty years or so.

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William Lewis  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:31:20am

re: #106 teleskiguy

I can go to any ski area on planet Earth and ski the motherfucker.

I can’t ski for shit and my knees still ache with the pain of the last time I went.

But I could pick up any camera ever made and make good art with it. I am that confident of _my_ art so I can respect yours and say damn right, go for it, dude.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:34:34am

re: #161 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Mistrial is his best defensive option at this point. Jury has been set. Just need to trigger the right clusterfuck and double-jeopardy saves the day. Fox is trying to help him and a national media company has a lot of people on its staff that can investigate jurors and find or manufacture dirt on them.

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William Lewis  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:35:55am

re: #164 darthstar

Mistrial is his best defensive option at this point. Jury has been set. Just need to trigger the right clusterfuck and double-jeopardy saves the day. Fox is trying to help him and a national media company has a lot of people on its staff that can investigate jurors and find or manufacture dirt on them.

Unless they cross the line into criminal jury tampering and intimidation.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 2:43:23am

re: #164 darthstar

Mistrial is his best defensive option at this point. Jury has been set. Just need to trigger the right clusterfuck and double-jeopardy saves the day. Fox is trying to help him and a national media company has a lot of people on its staff that can investigate jurors and find or manufacture dirt on them.

A mistrial doesn’t trigger double jeopardy; he could be tried again. However, that would be after the election, serving Trump’s purpose, especially as he would trumpet a mistrial as “Total Vindication!!!”

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 3:31:21am

re: #165 William Lewis

Unless they cross the line into criminal jury tampering and intimidation.

What are the odds of THAT happening? Okay…they’re pretty damn good. Let’s hope they’re as sloppy at this as they are at everything else.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 3:45:42am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is not an “Institution” it is a commercial undertaking.

Just like the RIAA. Run by lawyers for the labels, not the artists.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 3:45:55am

A simple rule of thumb saved this from turning real ugly this morning. (Explanation behind second spoiler.)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 3:48:54am

And on my first day to to start a new streak. Three quarters of yearish to go to catch a new one. Beagle.
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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:03:42am

Recall we buried the 8awg rubberized feed wire from barn to subpanel a month or so ago.

Yesterday I finished rewiring the subpanel and finally got to connect the feed wire. Went pretty fast.

The voltage drop from barn to panel went from 2 whole volts to about 7/10 of a volt. That’s a great success.

Here’s the before

and the after

A bit more professional and ‘beefy’, which accounts for some of the efficiency. Also circuit breakers make it easier to turn a pump on and off - don’t need a screwdriver any more.

We had the aerator on a low voltage disconnect (upper left of before pic), so if a shady day came around and the batteries drained, the waterfall and filters kept working longer.

That’s no longer necessary. With 4 batteries and thicker wiring and proper busses, there’s enough power to run all 3 pumps all the time. In fact we learned this a while ago when i made a mistake and the three pumps ran 6 hours on battery! We used to never get more than 30-45 minutes doing a sunny day test with the panels off. A lot of that is due to the much thicker wires on the batteries (2awg vs 12) and the distribution panel (8 vs 12), and that 2 of the solar panels don’t goof off any more.

Because the rewire went so fast, I had time to start distributing the 40 yards of mulch. Oh wait, did I say we got 20 yards? Well we did, through the free website service. Then the local guy who delivered it called me directly and asked if we could use more, so we got a second 20 yard load. We’re letting neighbors take all they need.

When there’s time (HA!) I’ll still try to write up the entire evolution of the distribution panel with pics because the progression is kind of interesting.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:05:13am

Damn Mondays, have some drive time music.

Never Say Never

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:08:08am

re: #171 Dangerman

I have sub-panel envy. I didn’t even know that was a thing.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:10:05am

re: #171 Dangerman

Can you come rewire my house? The electricians who built this place made a number of… shall we say questionable circuit decisions.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:16:40am

Happy opening arguments day! I don’t think we need to worry about Trump dozing off in court, because the prosecution is opening with one of the most entertaining witnesses you could wish for: a singing Pecker.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:17:05am

Damn, and here I am fresh out of my sub-panel photos.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:18:45am

re: #174 Nerdy Fish

Can you come rewire my house? The electricians who built this place made a number of… shall we say questionable circuit decisions.

I’m thinking the same thing at my new place - it’s a two story so access is pretty easy. May ask my contractor how big a job it would be to upgrade the guage of the wire (we have a mix of DIY shit - 12, 14 gauge - I worry about a circuit getting warm.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:24:09am

re: #177 darthstar

I’m thinking the same thing at my new place - it’s a two story so access is pretty easy. May ask my contractor how big a job it would be to upgrade the guage of the wire (we have a mix of DIY shit - 12, 14 gauge - I worry about a circuit getting warm.

A quick check on your own is pull the cover off your fuse panel. Check to see if the previous homeowner wired the 12 gauge wires to 20 amp breakers, and 14 gauge wires to 15 amp breakers, and not vice-versa.

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coin operated  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:26:26am

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

I thought it had to do with violations of campaign finance law in how it was booked.

Yup…
Trump Corp made the hush payments for Trump, the candidate. Killing the story had value to the campaign making it an in-kind contribution to the campaign that they should have reported. That’s the campaign finance violation. Then they cooked the books at Trump Corp to hide the payments. One crime to hide another crime…

All of this was established at the Cohen trial. All they have to do now is tie it to Trump.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:29:36am

Uh-oh. I’m getting caught up on my required training modules at work, and there’s sections in here on DEI and ESG. I worry my workplace will be reported to the thought police for wrongthink.

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William Lewis  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:44:23am

re: #180 Nerdy Fish

Uh-oh. I’m getting caught up on my required training modules at work, and there’s sections in here on DEI and ESG. I worry my workplace will be reported to the thought police for wrongthink.

Yeah, well, I may have started a pebble down the mountain yesterday…

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:48:37am

re: #181 William Lewis

I was being facetious in my case, since I live in very progressive Minnesota, and only a few bad apples will probably notice or care about the presence of DEI/ESG language in our code of ethics training module.

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Randall Gross  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:55:13am

Pro-EU centrists winning in Poland
apnews.com

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Randall Gross  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:57:34am

One way to stop Hitler pilgrimages is to turn his birthplace into a Police station
apnews.com

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Dave In Austin  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:04:16am

Fuck…….
Four.

Mastodon

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:19:17am

re: #2 Romantic Heretic

Off-topic already.

I just watched this fascinating review of Civil War.

Its thesis? That America is LARPing itself into a civil war by participating in the kayfabe of the culture war.

The idea kinda resonates with me.

Our media is basically like the audience at a mid-90s talk show (think Jerry Springer), salivating and frothing at the idea of the nation splitting into two factions and going at each other like feral animals so they can film it all. They’ve been fantasizing about it since at least the 80s. After all, what’s better than a war that they can report upon from the comfort of their own homes?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:27:24am

re: #186 Targetpractice

Our media is basically like the audience at a mid-90s talk show (think Jerry Springer), salivating and frothing at the idea of the nation splitting into two factions and going at each other like feral animals so they can film it all. They’ve been fantasizing about it since at least the 80s. After all, what’s better than a war that they can report upon from the comfort of their own homes?

Without, of course, understanding that the logistics damage to the nation from such an internal conflict is not going to be profitable for them, or for very few people in fact.

And TV and radio stations are going to be an immediate target as well since a propaganda goal will be control or destruction of media outlets in order to attempt to control messaging.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:27:47am

Nope nope nope

Honey Buzzards Feast on Deadly Hornets

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:30:56am

re: #174 Nerdy Fish

Can you come rewire my house? The electricians who built this place made a number of… shall we say questionable circuit decisions.

sure, as long as it’s 12 volts ;-)

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:33:19am

re: #180 Nerdy Fish

Uh-oh. I’m getting caught up on my required training modules at work, and there’s sections in here on DEI and ESG. I worry my workplace will be reported to the thought police for wrongthink.

you’re fine until you overhear “Call Sylvia in HR”

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:38:59am
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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:40:15am

re: #179 coin operated

Yup…
Trump Corp made the hush payments for Trump, the candidate. Killing the story had value to the campaign making it an in-kind contribution to the campaign that they should have reported. That’s the campaign finance violation. Then they cooked the books at Trump Corp to hide the payments. One crime to hide another crime…

All of this was established at the Cohen trial. All they have to do now is tie it to Trump.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:12:54am

Yale.

Over 40 pro-divestment protesters arrested on Beinecke Plaza

A group of around five demonstrators walking on Alexander Walk shouted “shame on you” and “useless pigs” to two police officers standing in front of Beinecke Plaza.

“Thank you,” one officer responded.

yaledailynews.com

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jeffreyw  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:17:13am

Ham Steak

Good morning!

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A Cranky One  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:24:14am

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:32:11am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:38:49am

re: #188 Shropshire Slasher

honey badger with wings…

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:48:08am

re: #31 teleskiguy

And yet where is Harry Nilsson and where is Warren Zevon in the Hall of Fame? Where is Captain Beefheart? I used to be a big Buffet fan, but he never grew as an artist, but I grew as a listener.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:49:12am

File under “No Shit, Sherlock”:

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:53:07am

Judge Merchan entering his Sandoval Hearing rulings. So far, Trump can be confronted with the judgment in the NY Civil Fraud case and his gag order violations, if Trump testifies.

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dat_said  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:53:11am

re: #161 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

[…]

I didn’t read through the entire list but I’d say the first five jurors I’d be able to identify by what they wrote. There’s definitely enough personal information in there.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:54:09am

re: #200 No Malarkey!

Judge Merchan entering his Sandoval Hearing rulings. So far, Trump can be confronted with the judgment in the NY Civil Fraud case and his gag order violations, if Trump testifies.

And the two judgments that he defamed Carroll.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:54:29am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:55:51am

re: #202 No Malarkey!

And the two judgments that he defamed Carroll.

And his agreement to dissolve the Trump Foundation.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:56:16am

Mastodon

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:57:30am

re: #199 Targetpractice

Seems to me there are no swing voters. Essentially no one is deciding between the two. the decision is if to vote for President at all.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:58:18am

SCOTUS will not hear Kari Lake’s appeal to ban electronic voting machines in Arizona.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:59:37am

re: #200 No Malarkey!

Judge Merchan entering his Sandoval Hearing rulings. So far, Trump can be confronted with the judgment in the NY Civil Fraud case and his gag order violations, if Trump testifies.

I’m not a lawyer, but that seems like it bodes ill for his hearing on said gag order violations tomorrow.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:03:50am

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:04:00am

Partridge. Wordle 1,038 4/6*

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:04:26am

re: #206 Rightwingconspirator

This is still Caucus/Primary season. As a matter of fact PA will be holding its Primary tomorrow. I will be at the polls in what position I do not know. It will be very interesting.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:04:52am

re: #202 No Malarkey!

And the two judgments that he defamed Carroll.

Trump cannot be cross-examined about the judgment that he sexually assaulted Carroll, only that he defamed her. So I guess the jury will hear that he defamed Carroll, but not the specifics. Again, this is only if Trump testifies.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:05:54am

re: #211 PhillyPretzel ✅

This is still Caucus/Primary season. As a matter of fact PA will be holding its Primary tomorrow. I will be at the polls in what position I do not know. It will be very interesting.

Thank you for your service.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:08:56am

re: #213 wrenchwench

Well this is probably the next to last time I will be doing this. I will do it in November for the General Election after that I do not know if I will do it again.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:08:57am

Par after yesterday’s debacle. Streak now up to 1!

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:11:37am

re: #209 darthstar

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No wonder Trump is so exercised about this. He know this all looks super bad for him, regardless of his belief in a Deep State Witch Hunt and his eventual complete exoneration*. I expect a motion to delay the trial until the appeals have all played out in these cases, so that their final disposition is known and the jury isn’t unduly prejudiced by Fake News.

* = exoneration that isn’t coming; appeals only cure errors as a matter of law or process, and the judges in those cases were very careful to follow the book to a T. Appeals courts do not have the power, generally speaking, to overturn a verdict as found by the trier of fact, unless new evidence comes to light that merits a re-trial.

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William Lewis  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:13:26am

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:14:25am

re: #207 No Malarkey!

She has a very good record of failing every time. She is not gonna beat Rueben.

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jeffreyw  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:16:21am

delicioso

— pius (@pius.dog) 2024-04-22T01:20:27.556Z

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:17:45am

re: #218 Egregious Philbin

She has a very good record of failing every time. She is not gonna beat Rueben.

I don’t see an advantage for fascists in banning electronic voting machines, so I believe that she’s genuinely completely delusional.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:17:49am

re: #218 Egregious Philbin

She has a very good record of failing every time. She is not gonna beat Rueben.

Then she will spend a few more years grifting off of the “steal” of this year’s senate race.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:19:51am

In another NY courtroom, the judge is determining if Trump’s $175 million bond is sufficient to stay collection of the judgment.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:20:08am

re: #220 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I don’t see an advantage for fascists in banning electronic voting machines, so I believe that she’s genuinely completely delusional.

She is. She genuinely believes the whole Mike Lindell bulkshit about hackable voting machines and that paper ballots, in person, are the only “secure” way to vote. She has wholly swallowed the Trump mythos that he won the Election Day vote and that all the votes that were tabulated after (never mind that many of those were actually cast in person on Election Day) were fraudulent.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:24:43am

I am sure it is in a few other places but I like to know has anyone else seen that the Israeli Intelligence Chief has resigned? I know I saw it on ABC’s app I have not seen it anywhere else.

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prairiefire  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:25:57am

re: #224 PhillyPretzel ✅

Yes, due to his failure to stop 10/7, I believe that’s what he said.

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Jay C  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:28:20am

re: #216 Nerdy Fish

No wonder Trump is so exercised about this. He know this all looks super bad for him, regardless of his belief in a Deep State Witch Hunt and his eventual complete exoneration*

We have to remember who we are dealing with here: for Donald Trump, anything other than a 100% loss rate in each and every court on each and every trial and each and every appeal is going to be spun (or try to be spun) by his campaign/PR machine as a “complete exoneration”; the same way he did with the Mueller Report.
Only this time, he has more at stake.

That Trump actually is running pretty much 0-100 in his legal battles so far is only moderately good news: he only has to win once: *we* have to run the table.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:31:39am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:32:24am

re: #180 Nerdy Fish

Uh-oh. I’m getting caught up on my required training modules at work, and there’s sections in here on DEI and ESG. I worry my workplace will be reported to the thought police for wrongthink.

I had that training, too. Made me proud of my employer.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:32:58am

O/T

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or unwilling to enforce their policies about who can buy ads on their platforms.

While parent company Meta’s Ad Library, which archives ads on its platforms, who paid for them, and where and when they were posted, shows that the company has taken down several of these ads previously, many ads that explicitly invited users to create nudes and some ad buyers were up until I reached out to Meta for comment. Some of these ads were for the best known nonconsensual “undress” or “nudify” services on the internet.

One of the most egregious ads include a photograph of Kim Kardashian and the text “Undress any girl for free. Try It.” People who clicked on this ad would be taken directly to one of the biggest web-based undress apps, where they can upload a photograph of a real person and pay for the app to generate an image that makes the person in that photograph appear nude. According to Meta’s Ad Library, several versions of this ad, some featuring other women, ran on Instagram and Facebook between March 13 and 19.

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Jay C  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:34:11am

re: #222 No Malarkey!

In another NY courtroom, the judge is determining if Trump’s $175 million bond is sufficient to stay collection of the judgment.

Isn’t the “sufficiency” at issue not the amount of the bond, but its fundamental credibility?

From what I’ve read, and understand (very likely incorrectly), the $175M bond TFG came up with is basically secured by little more than an IOU from Trump himself, or one of his entities; and Letitia James is going to court today to try to get it “disqualified” (?).

ETA: just recalled that the issue with the Knight Specialty bond is that they (KS) couldn’t identify the specific “assets” backing it up (and still haven’t AFAIK): that it was, ultimately, a Trump “loan” was/is just widely suspected, not proven. Still VERY questionable, though.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:34:52am

re: #211 PhillyPretzel ✅

This is still Caucus/Primary season. As a matter of fact PA will be holding its Primary tomorrow. I will be at the polls in what position I do not know. It will be very interesting.

I see Nikki Haley is still on the PA repub primary ballot.

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Jay C  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:37:02am

re: #231 Eventual Carrion

I see Nikki Haley is still on the PA repub primary ballot.

I wonder what percentage of the vote she will collect?
Probably a lot more than a non-running candidate might otherwise expect.

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jeffreyw  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:37:23am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:37:26am

re: #231 Eventual Carrion

She may be on it but to my knowledge she has not been endorsed. At least my ward leaders not endorsed her.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:39:37am

re: #231 Eventual Carrion

I see Nikki Haley is still on the PA repub primary ballot.

I hope she breaks 30%.

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coin operated  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:40:26am

re: #180 Nerdy Fish

Uh-oh. I’m getting caught up on my required training modules at work, and there’s sections in here on DEI and ESG. I worry my workplace will be reported to the thought police for wrongthink.

I’ve had to take them every year of my 25-year IT career. And, unfortunately, I’ve seen first hand why they’re required. I’ve seen managers walk people, too blinded by their prejudices, right past HR and out the door.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:44:11am

re: #236 coin operated

I’ve had to take them every year of my 25-year IT career. And, unfortunately, I’ve seen first hand why they’re required. I’ve seen managers walk people, too blinded by their prejudices, right past HR and out the door.

Oh, for sure, I get why. And I don’t mind it. I was trying to be a bit lighthearted this morning.

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steve_davis  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:44:39am

re: #198 Egregious Philbin

And yet where is Harry Nilsson and where is Warren Zevon in the Hall of Fame? Where is Captain Beefheart? I used to be a big Buffet fan, but he never grew as an artist, but I grew as a listener.

captain beefheart was a fad that I don’t think anyone has understood for the past 40 years. Yes, I’ve heard Trout Mask Replica. Yes, it is almost totally unlistenable with the exception of about 3 tracks.

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coin operated  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:47:32am

re: #237 Nerdy Fish

Oh, for sure, I get why. And I don’t mind it. I was trying to be a bit lighthearted this morning.

Apologies. I have trouble being lighthearted about this stuff…mainly because I’m honestly annoyed that we still have to take them in this day and age…

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:49:44am

re: #239 coin operated

Apologies. I have trouble being lighthearted about this stuff…mainly because I’m honestly annoyed that we still have to take them in this day and age…

I understand that completely. I was poking fun at the red states that ban DEI and ESG initiatives, because here in the wild north country, we embrace those concepts, and our state is thriving.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:51:07am

re: #238 steve_davis

captain beefheart was a fad that I don’t think anyone has understood for the past 40 years. Yes, I’ve heard Trout Mask Replica. Yes, it is almost totally unlistenable with the exception of about 3 tracks.

he was a product of a time and a place that no longer exists.

I am just grateful that it did exist the way that it did

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danarchy  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:52:13am

re: #230 Jay C

Isn’t the “sufficiency” at issue not the amount of the bond, but its fundamental credibility?

From what I’ve read, and understand (very likely incorrectly), the $175M bond TFG came up with is basically secured by little more than an IOU from Trump himself, or one of his entities; and Letitia James is going to court today to try to get it “disqualified” (?).

ETA: just recalled that the issue with the Knight Specialty bond is that they (KS) couldn’t identify the specific “assets” backing it up (and still haven’t AFAIK): that it was, ultimately, a Trump “loan” was/is just widely suspected, not proven. Still VERY questionable, though.

According to the court filings the specific assets are a Charles Schwabb account with just over $175 million in it:

“The $175 million bond is collateralized by $175,304,075.95 in cash held in a Charles Schwab account pledged to KSIC, and KSIC has the right to exercise control over that account,” the court filings said.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:53:27am

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:53:49am

re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

he was a product of a time and a place that no longer exists.

I am just grateful that it did exist the way that it did

Youtube Video

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:54:18am

We’re about 15 minutes into opening arguments and you know Trump is wanting to ask his lawyers if it’s his turn to speak yet.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:58:28am

re: #245 darthstar

We’re about 15 minutes into opening arguments and you know Trump is wanting to ask his lawyers if it’s his turn to speak yet.

“So when do I get to tell my side of the story?”
“When we put you in the box up there, Donald.”
“But they’re saying a bunch of mean and untrue things about me! We have to stop them!”
“No, Donald. If we do that, we get in trouble, and then you go to jail.”
*defense lawyers silently contemplating whether this might, in fact, make their lives easier*

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:03:34am

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:04:14am

re: #169 Nerdy Fish

A simple rule of thumb saved this from turning real ugly this morning. (Explanation behind second spoiler.)

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It seems we were thinking alike.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:04:42am

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:05:29am

re: #246 Nerdy Fish

He was whispering earlier to Blanche. Blanche then handed him a post-it note. Probably read, “OBJECTION!’

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:05:31am

re: #246 Nerdy Fish

“So when do I get to tell my side of the story?”

Part of Trump’s “brand” is that he always gets to say whatever he wants. It’s what a lot of his admirers envy about him.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:06:44am

Doing Russia’s bidding: Snyder calls out GOP ‘Putin wing’ to their faces in Hill hearing

msnbc.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:07:31am

re: #250 darthstar

I don’t think you can object during an opening argument.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:10:19am

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:11:42am

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:13:50am

re: #253 Eclectic Cyborg

I don’t think you can object during an opening argument.

Of course you can’t…I’m just guessing he really wants to.

He’s probably writing notes to his lawyer now saying, “Don’t forget to emphasize that she signed an NDA!”

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:15:39am

re: #255 darthstar

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They have to hedge on “hiding an affair” because the judge said they couldn’t admit evidence that his wife was at home pregnant at the time.

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:17:59am

Good luck impeaching Cohen as a liar when he has a taped phone call about suppressing the McDougal story.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:19:10am

re: #258 jaunte

Good luck impeaching Cohen as a liar when he has a taped phone call about suppressing the McDougal story.

You can count on Moe, Larry, Curly and even Shemp making fools of themselves cross-examining Cohen and The Pecker Man!

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:19:48am

Laffy sometimes gets repetitive as she’s copy/pasting from multiple sources, but this line of advice from the prosecution is a good one:

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:21:16am

When Stormy gets on the stand and she smacks Trump’s Stooges down the same way Vernon Dent smacked down Moe, Larry & Shemp!

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:21:47am

“President”…jesus.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:22:58am

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:24:34am

re: #262 darthstar

“President”…jesus.

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And the organization is so competent that Cohen went off and did all this stuff by himself without any direction or supervision from Trump. And also never told him about it.
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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:25:56am
After becoming president in 2017, Trump put up a “wall” between himself and his company, Blanche says.

King of mythical walls.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:26:12am

re: #263 wrenchwench

Yes. The USGS has them listed in a sidebar.
earthquake.usgs.gov

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:26:41am

1960. It’s a wonder any of us survived and that some managed to do so with all their fingers.


It appears to be real

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:27:05am

re: #265 jaunte

King of mythical walls.

What, don’t you remember the piles and piles of folders full of blank paper?!

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:28:05am

re: #267 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Perfect for rolling into the swimming hole.

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sagehen  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:30:27am

re: #267 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

1960. It’s a wonder any of us survived and that some managed to do with all their fingers.

when my family went on long-drive vacations, we packed the luggage in the back of the station wagon such that there was a slot for a child to lie down and sleep…

also, lawn darts.

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A Cranky One  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:30:33am

re: #267 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Note that in your picture of the real product, that the ladder was moved to the back instead of the sides. I wonder how many fingers were lost before they realized that ladders on the side would lead to fingers on the rails?

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danarchy  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:32:12am

re: #258 jaunte

Good luck impeaching Cohen as a liar when he has a taped phone call about suppressing the McDougal story.

Suppressing the story isn’t illegal. Paying to suppress the story isn’t illegal. They have to prove the intent was to interfere with the election and not just hide it from his wife or protect his business reputation or whatever. That is going to be the tricky part for the prosecution, unless he actually specifies his purpose on the recording.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:32:18am

re: #267 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

The ride doesn’t look much more dangerous than sledding is, but the little girl lost her fingers right after that picture was taken.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:32:20am

What I don’t grasp is, what’s Trump’s defense strategy here? I mean, there’s audio of him, Cohen and Pecker arranging all these shenanigans. Stormy Daniels is set to testify. Cohen is set to testify.

Is team Trump just gonna say that none of that, even actual audio recordings of him arranging a goddamn conspiracy, is true? That it’s all just “FAKE NEWS!!” (to use a Trumpism)? That it’s all deepfake or something?

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:32:21am

re: #267 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

1960. It’s a wonder any of us survived and that some managed to do with all their fingers.

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Fingers is why they moved the ladder to the back. Looks difficult to get in the car. Helmets sold separately not yet made in kid sizes.

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:32:26am

re: #270 sagehen

Memories of sleeping between luggage on the vibrating metal.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:32:49am

re: #270 sagehen

when my family went on long-drive vacations, we packed the luggage in the back of the station wagon such that there was a slot for a child to lie down and sleep…

also, lawn darts.

I laid in the back window of the car behind my three brothers in the back seat for hundreds of miles when I was a toddler. Did I mention my dad was a doctor?

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:35:04am

Maybe you can object…

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:35:05am

re: #276 jaunte

Memories of sleeping between luggage on the vibrating metal.

My favorite spot was the floor in front of the second seat in the VW bus. (Heater)

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:35:37am

re: #238 steve_davis

Beefheart takes a while, but there is some great stuff there.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:35:44am

re: #277 darthstar

I laid in the back window of the car behind my three brothers in the back seat for hundreds of miles when I was a toddler. Did I mention my dad was a doctor?

The doctor knew what he was doing. You had three brothers. They’d had surplus kids to make up for any losses.

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dat_said  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:36:17am

re: #267 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

It’s a wonder any of us survived and that some managed to do with all their fingers.

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I did a presentation on safety and risk a few years ago. One of the interesting things I found in reviewing studies is that injuries can actually go up on a playground after making it “safe” by removing all the asphalt, the teeter totters, the monkey bars, etc. Turns out if you make them too tame, kids invent their own uses like climbing on parts of the structures not designed to be climbed.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:36:33am

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:37:24am

re: #278 darthstar

Maybe you can object…

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You can object, it’s just rare because most lawyers know better than to piss off the judge right out of the gate.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:38:55am

re: #284 Targetpractice

You can object, it’s just rare because most lawyers know better than to piss off the judge right out of the gate.

Well, prosecution is 1 for 1 on objections being sustained. I’m sure someone will be keeping score on that once testimony starts.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:38:56am

re: #258 jaunte

Good luck impeaching Cohen as a liar when he has a taped phone call about suppressing the McDougal story.

No defense attorney wants to be doing cross examination in which his questions don’t elicit an opening, and they have to resort to, “you’ve lied before, how do we know you’re not lying now.”

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:39:06am

re: #283 darthstar

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Well, there’s the answer to what will be Trump’s defense: “IT’S ALL COHEN’S FAULT!!!”

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:39:55am

re: #286 BeenHereAwhile

The sticking point always being who benefited from the lie.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:40:31am

re: #287 Targetpractice

Well, there’s the answer to what will be Trump’s defense: “IT’S ALL COHEN’S FAULT!!!”

The objection was sustained because it was pivoting to ‘advice of counsel’ defense, and Trump already said that they were going to defend themselves on the facts, and not an ‘advise of counsel’ argument. Blanche is trying to poison the well.

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sagehen  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:41:42am

re: #281 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

The doctor knew what he was doing. You had three brothers. They’d had surplus kids to make up for any losses.

in the event of a crash you’d absorb all the glass, thus shielding your brothers.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:41:54am

3 for 3 now

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:42:28am

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:43:36am

re: #289 darthstar

The objection was sustained because it was pivoting to ‘advice of counsel’ defense, and Trump already said that they were going to defend themselves on the facts, and not an ‘advise of counsel’ argument. Blanche is trying to poison the well.

Right, they already tried to float this shit in pre-trial motions, to the point that they desperately tried to suggest that if it was written up with lawyers in the room and they didn’t explicitly and on the record say “This shit is illegal AF,” then he could assume it was totally legal and thus good to go.

Merchan already spiked that shit, so to even try to suggest it as early as opening arguments says Blanche’s only hope is to try to force a mistrial.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:45:32am

re: #107 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Tomorrow’s Wordle will not be as traumatic as the last one.

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eagle today

Click to Reveal

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The rest have not reported back. But I would not be surprised if 2 of the others also got eagles, given their start words.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:45:42am

re: #292 darthstar

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So like I suggested the other day, he’s desperately trying to spin his actions to the jury as an attempt to keep all this secret from Melania. You’d have to have a room temp IQ to believe a man who has cheated on two wives and subsequently divorced them gives a flying fuck that wife number three found out he banged a porn star.

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:46:49am

re: #272 danarchy

Suppressing the story isn’t illegal. Paying to suppress the story isn’t illegal. They have to prove the intent was to interfere with the election and not just hide it from his wife or protect his business reputation or whatever. That is going to be the tricky part for the prosecution, unless he actually specifies his purpose on the recording.

deducting the payments for tax purposes regardless of the election effect/motive is illegal.

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dat_said  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:46:55am

Trivial, yet this and the mumbling and the shaking of the head is what the jury sees.

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:48:14am

re: #287 Targetpractice

Well, there’s the answer to what will be Trump’s defense: “IT’S ALL COHEN’S FAULT!!!”

then why did you pay him back?

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:48:32am

re: #297 dat_said

Trump’s probably not taking Adderall. That’s why he’s having such a hard time staying awake and focused.

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:48:53am

@mitchellepner.bsky.social

PS/ The prosecution has objected to three separate portions of Blanche’s opening (which is rare). Each of those objections has been SUSTAINED (meaning the judge ruled for the prosecution and against Trump).

This is horrible for Blanche’s credibility with the jury, in my training & experience.

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BeachDem  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:48:55am

“Michael Cohen was obsessed with President Trump, he’s obsessed with President Trump even to this day,” Blanche said. “He rants and he raves about President Trump” and has “talked extensively about his desire to see President Trump go to prison. … He has talked extensively about wanting to see President Trump convicted in this case.”

I think it’s Blanche who’s obsessed. PRESIDENT 5 times in that little diatribe.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:49:02am

re: #277 darthstar

I laid in the back window of the car behind my three brothers in the back seat for hundreds of miles when I was a toddler. Did I mention my dad was a doctor?

Riding down the highway in the bed of my father’s pickup truck beside a 55 gal drum (~375lbs) secured only by gravity.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:49:16am

re: #295 Targetpractice

So like I suggested the other day, he’s desperately trying to spin his actions to the jury as an attempt to keep all this secret from Melania. You’d have to have a room temp IQ to believe a man who has cheated on two wives and subsequently divorced them gives a flying fuck that wife number three found out he banged a porn star.

That’s going to open a whole can of worms, though, because right now, the prosecution is not allowed to mention Melania. If the defense brings it up, though, all bets are off; and you can bet they are ready to light that whole line of questioning on fire with napalm, if given the opportunity.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:49:25am

re: #297 dat_said

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Trivial, yet this and the mumbling and the shaking of the head is what the jury sees.

Not at all trivial. This idiot projected his own constant exhaustion due to old age, brain damage, and lack of exercise onto “sleepy Joe.”

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:50:21am

re: #301 BeachDem

Blanche is fully on board with the propaganda technique of constantly repeating the lie you want to embed in the audience’s subconscious.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:51:06am

re: #299 Dr Lizardo

Trump’s probably not taking Adderall. That’s why he’s having such a hard time staying awake and focused.

He’s not being brought to court from his cell, so why would he be off the drugs.
I think he just can’t function for a full day at all. He can only be propped up for a few hours at a time.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:51:31am

re: #306 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

He’s not being brought to court from his cell, so why would he be off the drugs.
I think he just can’t function for a full day at all. He can only be propped up for a few hours at a time.

“Weekend at Bernie’s,” but he’s not technically dead yet.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:51:31am

Okay - taking a sick day but the dogs need a walk. Milo’s on the bed now nudging me.

BBL

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:52:40am

re: #306 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

He’s not being brought to court from his cell, so why would he be off the drugs.
I think he just can’t function for a full day at all. He can only be propped up for a few hours at a time.

Maybe Blanche told him, “Hey, it’d be a good idea to not look like a tweaker in front of the jury” or something to that effect.

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danarchy  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:53:12am

re: #298 Dangerman

then why did you pay him back?

I think they touched on that in the opening, it wasn’t a payback…really, trust me.

Trump’s lawyer Blanche: You’ll hear that Ms. Daniels did in fact sign a Non Disclosure Agreement. But President Trump did not pay Michael Cohen $130,000 - he paid him $420,000. Would a frugal business man do that? It was not a pay back.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:54:21am

re: #305 jaunte

Blanch is fully on board with the propaganda technique of constantly repeating the lie you want to embed in the audience’s subconscious.

I get simultaneously angry and nauseated whenever I hear the words “Trump” and “president” together. The effect might not be what Blanche wants.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:54:24am

re: #310 danarchy

I think they touched on that in the opening, it wasn’t a payback…really, trust me.

I’m getting the strong impression that Blanche is trying to maneuver towards accusing Cohen of extortion.

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:54:50am

Good news for Earth Day; it’s better if you don’t totally manicure your yard.

Tiny Places For Tiny Animals: Building The Microhabitats That Bugs Need To Thrive

Bugs are in trouble, and our yards are part of the answer

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Vicious Babushka  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:55:03am

Beagle & Perfect!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 1,038 2/6
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Connections
Puzzle #316
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Vicious Babushka  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:55:22am

Tonight is Passover.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:56:39am

re: #313 jaunte

Good news for Earth Day; it’s better if you don’t totally manicure your yard.

Tiny Places For Tiny Animals: Building The Microhabitats That Bugs Need To Thrive

Bugs are in trouble, and our yards are part of the answer

Lots of suburban folk want that perfectly manicured “golf course style” front lawn to show off to the neighbors.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:56:48am

re: #309 Dr Lizardo

Maybe Blanche told him, “Hey, it’d be a good idea to not look like a tweaker in front of the jury” or something to that effect.

I could maybe believe that the first day if I accept that Trump can take direction, but after that, with people talking about his inability to stay conscious, there’s no way he’d keep accepting that advice.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:57:19am

re: #279 wrenchwench

My favorite spot was the floor in front of the second seat in the VW bus. (Heater)

Ah - the VW bus in which the driver’s feet (and front seat passenger’s) were a component of the impact crush zone.

But ignorance is bliss. Owned one in college -stuck a Porsche S90 engine in it - made a great interstate cruiser to drive to FL.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:57:27am

re: #315 Vicious Babushka

Yes. I thought it was last night. With all that is going on in my life I am not surprised that I messed up on the date.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:57:35am

re: #316 Dr Lizardo

Lots of suburban folk want that perfectly manicured “golf course style” front lawn to show off to the neighbors.

Without icky bugs in it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:58:11am

re: #315 Vicious Babushka

Tonight is Passover.

I hope it is not instrumentalized to make some sort of political statement

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dat_said  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:58:13am

re: #313 jaunte

Good news for Earth Day; it’s better if you don’t totally manicure your yard.

Tiny Places For Tiny Animals: Building The Microhabitats That Bugs Need To Thrive

Bugs are in trouble, and our yards are part of the answer

As I’ve said many times - my yard is intensely biodiverse

Sure my innate laziness leads to that but it truly is biodiverse

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:59:11am

re: #320 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Without icky bugs in it.

Oh yeah - perfectly manicured, the perfect shade of green, all nice and sterile and 100% bug and pest free. Not a single blade of grass out of place.

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:00:16am

re: #322 dat_said

I’m still mowing some pathways, but my pathways are getting narrower. And now I get more fireflies.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:01:29am

re: #267 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

1960. It’s a wonder any of us survived and that some managed to do so with all their fingers.

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My husband had a chemistry sweet that had a blob of uranium in it.

I don’t know how any of us survived.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:02:29am

re: #325 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

My husband had a chemistry sweet that had a blob of uranium in it.

I don’t know how any of us survived.

When I was in high school, my chemistry teacher accidentally doused one of her classes with sodium hydroxide (strong base).

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:03:50am

I want to thank everyone who’s following this trial, so I don’t have to. Here’s a virtual tropical paradise for your reward.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:05:00am

re: #327 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

That is a beautiful picture. Thanks for the visual break.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:05:13am

re: #327 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

I want to thank everyone who’s following this trial, so I don’t have to. Here’s a virtual tropical paradise for your reward.

[Embedded content]

And some accompanying music:

Weezer - Island In The Sun

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:05:18am

re: #325 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

My husband had a chemistry sweet that had a blob of uranium in it.

I don’t know how any of us survived.

I grew up sitting 13” away from a 1963 color TV screen.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:05:55am

re: #296 Dangerman

deducting the payments for tax purposes regardless of the election effect/motive is illegal.

Trump’s defense appears to be, “everyone cheats on their wife, everyone cheats on their taxes.”

Foment mistrial.

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:06:01am

re: #310 danarchy

I think they touched on that in the opening, it wasn’t a payback…really, trust me.

part of the overage was to cover Cohen’s federal and state taxes on the income. i dont know about the rest

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:06:47am

re: #312 Targetpractice

I’m getting the strong impression that Blanche is trying to maneuver towards accusing Cohen of extortion.

still not tax deductible
(i can do this all day)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:07:24am

BREAKING SNOOZE: Trump Had To Be ‘Jolted Awake’ In Court — 4th Time At Least

mediaite.com

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dat_said  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:07:50am

re: #324 jaunte

I’m still mowing some pathways, but my pathways are getting narrower. And now I get more fireflies.

I have evenings of watching fireflies and listening to frogs sitting just outside my house. I’m very lucky in many ways.

Luckily, I don’t have to worry much about pleasing neighbors by having a manicured lawn - I share my lot lines with no one but the city. I have several sections covered with at least two varieties of pussytoes that I just let go and only mow down once they’re done flowering. I do the same with the yarrow that occupies another large section of the yard. I feel just letting them grow gives the yard some definition and texture.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:08:48am

re: #325 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

chemistry sweet

That reminded me of the kit for making rubbery bugs, that was also used for making rubbery edibles. I don’t know whether the edible version was first or second. I’m sure Joe Bacon can find me a picture.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:08:49am

I’m guessing juries don’t much appreciate a defendant who sleeps through most of his trial.

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:08:51am

re: #316 Dr Lizardo

Lots of suburban folk want that perfectly manicured “golf course style” front lawn to show off to the neighbors.

we do most everything in that article

we do mow the front, to be a good neighbor

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:08:59am

Looks like David Pecker is being sworn in.

You could say….it’s Pecker’s time to rise!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:10:07am

Blanche continued: “He’s not just our former president…he’s also a man, he’s a husband, he’s a father.

As Johnny Guitar Watson said, “Ain’t that a real mother faw ya!”

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:10:28am

re: #331 BeenHereAwhile

Trump’s defense appears to be, “everyone cheats on their wife, everyone cheats on their taxes.”

Foment mistrial.

yeah, everyone speeds but the cops caught you

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:11:27am

re: #305 jaunte

Blanche is fully on board with the propaganda technique of constantly repeating the lie you want to embed in the audience’s subconscious.

But you can’t bore the jury.

A good trial is run like a play, a good attorney knows how to entertain the jury.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:12:13am

It’s Peckers time to rise to the occasion and spew forth his testimony on Fat Donny from Queens.

Someone’s got to say it..///

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:13:32am

re: #343 Dave In Austin

It’s Peckers time to rise to the occasion and spew forth his testimony on Fat Donny from Queens.

Someone’s got to say it..///

I understand his testimony will likely last a few days.

So…Pecker better pitch a tent!

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:14:08am

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:15:37am

re: #315 Vicious Babushka

The first Passover Seder i ever experienced was at the home of a scientist who worked with my father. He had converted his front lawn into a nature walk, planted with examples of native SE Texas plants each labeled with their common and scientific names. The family home was a standout on a street of golf-course plain manicured lawns. The whole evening was a memorable celebration of life and learning.

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:15:50am

ok one sorta maybe almost did

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:18:16am

re: #169 Nerdy Fish

A simple rule of thumb saved this from turning real ugly this morning. (Explanation behind second spoiler.)

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Click to Reveal

Wordle will not use a plural form that is created by adding “s” to a word; other plurals are ok, like “geese”. It will also not use past tense created by adding “d” to word

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:19:31am

re: #347 Dangerman

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ok one sorta maybe almost did

Even as fucked as Nixon was, the only time he ever even suggested that a president criming was okay was years after he’d been pardoned by Ford for any and all crimes while he was in office.

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sagehen  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:22:47am

re: #315 Vicious Babushka

Tonight is Passover.

the Maccabeats didn’t do a Passover video this year (they’re re-running Dayanu from 9 years ago), but there’s a new Jewish a cappella group…

Israel’s Fight Song - Rabotai

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:22:53am

re: #349 Targetpractice

Even as fucked as Nixon was, the only time he ever even suggested that a president criming was okay was years after he’d been pardoned by Ford for any and all crimes while he was in office.

I think that was during the David Frost interview. “It’s not illegal when the President does it.”

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BeachDem  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:26:32am

re: #343 Dave In Austin

It’s Peckers time to rise to the occasion and spew forth his testimony on Fat Donny from Queens.

Someone’s got to say it..///

And MSNBC wins the day:

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:28:38am

Dali at home:

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:28:45am

Defense’s first objection…

Mastodon

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:28:59am

re: #344 Dr Lizardo

I understand his testimony will likely last a few days.

So…Pecker better pitch a tent!

Guys quit being so hard on him

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:29:14am

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:29:55am

re: #352 BeachDem

And MSNBC wins the day:

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:30:28am

re: #322 dat_said

As I’ve said many times - my yard is intensely biodiverse

Sure my innate laziness leads to that but it truly is biodiverse

Copy that - grass, clover and any other indigenes plant that’s green to sustain birds, bees and other bugs which in turn sustain ring neck and Dekay’s brown snakes.

(It’s a jungle out there!!!)

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:33:43am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:35:00am

re: #359 Backwoods Sleuth

He’s got 21 hours to violate it some more before the hearing.

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gocart mozart  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:38:09am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:41:18am

I wonder how smelly the courtroom was today?

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:42:08am

re: #349 Targetpractice

Even as fucked as Nixon was, the only time he ever even suggested that a president criming was okay was years after he’d been pardoned by Ford for any and all crimes while he was in office.

he did consider a self-pardon, and all that would be implied with one

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:42:14am

re: #362 Eclectic Cyborg

Probably just as smelly as Friday.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:45:52am

re: #336 wrenchwench

That reminded me of the kit for making rubbery bugs, that was also used for making rubbery edibles. I don’t know whether the edible version was first or second. I’m sure Joe Bacon can find me a picture.

Creepy Crawlers, Incredible Edibles, Thingmaker.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:48:31am

Trump just now in front of the cameras “We did nothing wrong.” We? Who’s this ‘we’ he’s talking about?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:49:06am

re: #366 darthstar

Trump just now in front of the cameras “We did nothing wrong.” We? Who’s this ‘we’ he’s talking about?

Him and John Barron.

/

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:50:15am

re: #366 darthstar

Trump just now in front of the cameras “We did nothing wrong.” We? Who’s this ‘we’ he’s talking about?

Should ask him if he’s got a turd in his pocket.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:50:44am

re: #216 Nerdy Fish

No wonder Trump is so exercised about this. He know this all looks super bad for him, regardless of his belief in a Deep State Witch Hunt and his eventual complete exoneration*. I expect a motion to delay the trial until the appeals have all played out in these cases, so that their final disposition is known and the jury isn’t unduly prejudiced by Fake News.

* = exoneration that isn’t coming; appeals only cure errors as a matter of law or process, and the judges in those cases were very careful to follow the book to a T. Appeals courts do not have the power, generally speaking, to overturn a verdict as found by the trier of fact, unless new evidence comes to light that merits a re-trial.

The Calvinball Court is capable of rendering unconstitutional decisions overturning any prior precedents and existing laws in service of their true lord and master Leonard Leo.

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Vicious Babushka  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:51:41am

re: #350 sagehen

the Maccabeats didn’t do a Passover video this year (they’re re-running Dayanu from 9 years ago), but there’s a new Jewish a cappella group…

[Embedded content]

Six13 - Matza Mia! An ABBA Passover

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:53:40am

Frogs.

Mastodon

Orca.

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:54:03am

re: #336 wrenchwench

That reminded me of the kit for making rubbery bugs, that was also used for making rubbery edibles. I don’t know whether the edible version was first or second. I’m sure Joe Bacon can find me a picture.

Creepy Crawlers!

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:54:12am

re: #366 darthstar

Trump just now in front of the cameras “We did nothing wrong.” We? Who’s this ‘we’ he’s talking about?

Who does he think he is, Pfc Louden Downey?

YouTube

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sagehen  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:58:02am

re: #366 darthstar

Trump just now in front of the cameras “We did nothing wrong.” We? Who’s this ‘we’ he’s talking about?

Burn After Reading - What Did We Learn?

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Dr. Matt  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:59:13am

There is some great AI generated art out there:

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:00:14am

re: #375 Dr. Matt

There is some great AI generated art out there:

[Embedded content]

Not all AI art is bad after all.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:00:24am

Mastodon

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:00:56am

re: #275 wrenchwench

Fingers is why they moved the ladder to the back. Looks difficult to get in the car. Helmets sold separately not yet made in kid sizes.

The modern plastic version is much safer!

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:00:59am

re: #365 wrenchwench

Creepy Crawlers, Incredible Edibles, Thingmaker.

It was for kids, so I’d expect Creepy Crawlers to be edible as well, but they were actually toxic, because life was cheap.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:01:06am

re: #376 darthstar

Not all AI art is bad after all.

They all give him too much hair.

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Vicious Babushka  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:02:30am

Six13 - A Billy Joel Passover

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dat_said  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:02:31am

House Speaker Johnson can now only lose one R vote. If he loses two, it’ll be a 215-215 tie and that’s not good enough to get something passed.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:03:31am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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BeachDem  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:04:53am

re: #374 sagehen

[Embedded content]

The most underrated movie in the coen repertoire (and one of my all-time favorites)

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Dr. Matt  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:05:45am

re: #383 dat_said

[Embedded content]

House Speaker Johnson can now only lose one R vote. If he loses two, it’ll be a 215-215 tie and that’s not good enough to get something passed.

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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Dr. Matt  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:06:30am

re: #387 Dr. Matt

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[Embedded content]

I forgot the include the receipts:

Democrats will lament after the election what woulda, coulda, shoulda been

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Jay C  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:08:39am

re: #388 Dr. Matt

Link in #388 doesn’t work.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:14:57am

re: #389 Jay C

Link in #388 doesn’t work.

Whoops. Thanks. Fixed it. But here’s the link: azcentral.com

The smugness of the writer is quite pungent.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:18:38am

re: #365 wrenchwench

Creepy Crawlers, Incredible Edibles, Thingmaker.

Had the first and last of those. One takeaway I still hold on to is that those things got hella hot! The instructions may have warned about not touching the heating element but we were kids. We wanted those bugs as soon as we could pry them away. Burns and tears were the result. And lessons were soon forgotten.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:19:44am

re: #316 Dr Lizardo

Lots of suburban folk want that perfectly manicured “golf course style” front lawn to show off to the neighbors.

Left over from England when the rich and powerful had lawns.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:21:21am

re: #316 Dr Lizardo

Lots of suburban folk want that perfectly manicured “golf course style” front lawn to show off to the neighbors.

And to avoid pissing off the HOA.

/ half.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:25:09am

re: #334 Joe Bacon ✅

BREAKING SNOOZE: Trump Had To Be ‘Jolted Awake’ In Court — 4th Time At Least

mediaite.com

Bailiff, please apply Mr. Sparky to the defendant!

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:25:46am
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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:26:57am

re: #395 Dangerman

According to Monday’s agreement, the $175 million will stay as cash in a money market account, Knight Specialty will have exclusive control, but can only use the cash to pay for the bond if needed. The attorney general’s office and the court will get monthly account statements.”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:27:15am

re: #392 Romantic Heretic

Left over from England when the rich and powerful had lawns.

re: #393 Eclectic Cyborg

And to avoid pissing off the HOA.

/ half.

The perfect lawn is how the suburban gentry elevate themselves to aristocracy. The nicer-looking the lawn, the greater your status.

Never once in my life have I lived in a place with an HOA. And from what I’ve gleaned, I’m very happy about that.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:33:08am

re: #356 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Ms. Rosenbaum had so little self-awareness.

As I’ve mentioned before, ‘Objectivism’ is simply the inverse of Stalinism. If Stalin said something was good, Rosenbaum declared it bad and vice versa.

Stalinism was simply a reflection of Stalin’s murderous and malignant narcissism. It was as ‘unreasonable’ a philosophy as possible. That doesn’t mean the inverse is rational.

So Ms. Rosenbaum arfing about ‘Reason’ is fucking hilarious.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:34:40am

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Dr. Matt  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:37:10am

re: #399 darthstar

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And a baseball card in the spokes, held in place with a wooden clothespin.

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:37:54am

This is NOT what standing your ground looks like

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:40:31am

re: #401 Dangerman

Dude! Finger outside the trigger guard!

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Dr. Matt  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:41:52am

re: #401 Dangerman

This is NOT what standing your ground looks like

[Embedded content]

What is that from?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:42:11am

re: #401 Dangerman

Uhhh, what’s the story here?

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:43:42am

re: #404 Eclectic Cyborg

Uhhh, what’s the story here?

She’s dead.

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cat-tikvah  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:44:05am

re: #375 Dr. Matt

A la Baron Vladimir Harkonnen!

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:45:29am

re: #403 Dr. Matt

What is that from?

“What we know about the shooting of an Uber driver in Ohio and the scam surrounding it”

Link

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:52:52am

@atrupar.bsky.social

Trump calls for police to leave the area around the NYC courthouse where he’s being tried so MAGAs can run wild

@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

There’s a horror movie quality to watching Trump very deliberately work to gather another large and menacing crowd around a public building to influence the legal proceedings going on inside, while no one in authority acts like it’s a particularly big deal that he’s doing it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:57:57am

re: #353 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Dali at home:

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That looks…uhm… Interesting. 🤢

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:58:53am

re: #410 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That looks…uhm… Interesting. 🤢

Dali deli.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:00:08am

US : this unit is committing war crimes

IDF : this unit represents all of us

US : ok but u see how that’s worse right

— hammancheez (@hammancheez.bsky.social) 2024-04-22T16:20:00.388Z

“Errors and mistakes happen wherever there is military activity and they must not happen… but the fact that one, or two, or [multiple] soldiers did something wrong, this should not vilify the [entire] battalion,” Gallant says. He says that in such cases, the soldiers are “taken care of.”

“No one in the world will teach us what morality is and what norms are,” Gallant adds.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:01:22am

re: #385 darthstar

And these are all his Very Best People.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:03:41am

re: #413 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The best the swamp has to offer.

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steve_davis  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:03:42am

re: #241 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

he was a product of a time and a place that no longer exists.

I am just grateful that it did exist the way that it did

this kind of reminds me of a discussion that I wound up in dealing with Frank Zappa’s music, over on Facebook. I thought I was being daring when I suggested that in spite of his reputation, apparently well earned, I had never actually heard a Zappa guitar solo that did anything remotely for me. I expected immediate flames and backlash. Instead, a number of people just kind of came into the thread to mention that yes, there is a lot of Zappa, presumably done under pressure of trying to pay a full band wages, which is pretty much unlistenable. Someone did mention that the best way to approach Freak Out! is just to think of it in context. Realize it came out in 1966, and consider how absolutely radical it was as a sound for that time. I do think that helps, as has been said here about Beefheart: it has to be considered in regards to the time in which it was produced. Not every great creation has to be a creation that transcends time forever.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:07:26am

re: #393 Eclectic Cyborg

And to avoid pissing off the HOA.

/ half.

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:09:43am

re: #415 steve_davis

this kind of reminds me of a discussion that I wound up in dealing with Frank Zappa’s music, over on Facebook. I thought I was being daring when I suggested that in spite of his reputation, apparently well earned, I had never actually heard a Zappa guitar solo that did anything remotely for me. I expected immediate flames and backlash. Instead, a number of people just kind of came into the thread to mention that yes, there is a lot of Zappa, presumably done under pressure of trying to pay a full band wages, which is pretty much unlistenable. Someone did mention that the best way to approach Freak Out! is just to think of it in context. Realize it came out in 1966, and consider how absolutely radical it was as a sound for that time. I do think that helps, as has been said here about Beefheart: it has to be considered in regards to the time in which it was produced. Not every great creation has to be a creation that transcends time forever.

The origin of the Mudshark are as follows:

The Mud Shark (Live At Fillmore East , June 1971)

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:11:55am

re: #416 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

Until it gets tall enough to cut off their view of the rest of the yard.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:12:08am

re: #399 darthstar

[Embedded content]

And, eventually…

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steve_davis  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:13:11am

re: #270 sagehen

when my family went on long-drive vacations, we packed the luggage in the back of the station wagon such that there was a slot for a child to lie down and sleep…

also, lawn darts.

yep, i spent pretty much the entire 70’s asleep on the back floor of a station wagon, usually with my older sister beside me.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:17:44am

Wank Panzer forces have penetrated to the most remote corners of darkest Texas.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:19:41am

re: #396 Dangerman

According to Monday’s agreement, the $175 million will stay as cash in a money market account, Knight Specialty will have exclusive control, but can only use the cash to pay for the bond if needed. The attorney general’s office and the court will get monthly account statements.”

I wonder who provided the 175 million in the first place.


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