The Bob Cesca Podcast: CNBC Is the New Cocaine

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

CNBC Is The New Cocaine — [Explicit Content] Bob parted ways with Salon; We explain the GameStop stock market debacle; Shorting a stock should be illegal; Watching CNBC is like doing rails of cocaine; DHS issues a national terrorism advisory; They’re coming for Republicans, too; White Supremacists in the House of Representatives; Debating politics has become physically dangerous; Jimmy Dore defends insurrectionists from being de-platformed; There have been three pro-Trump insurrections since October 2019; With Jody Hamilton and TRex David Ferguson; And music by Sound of Science and If By Whiskey; and more!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 29, 2021 • 2:44:16pm

This whole GameStop thing is but a tiny blip on the larger market (see the history of the SP500.) But people seem to gravitate to it so now experts need to comment.

Video from Stanford finance prof tries to explain things in plain language… and sure enough the down dings exceed the up dings because reasons I guess (online stupidity.)

GameStop stock chaos: What does it mean and how does it end?

..

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 29, 2021 • 2:53:42pm

Oh look, the FLOTUS doing FLOTUS stuff well. Actually addressing people, in a (virtual) public forum. And not just reciting a prepared (highly plagiarized) statement

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Teukka  Jan 29, 2021 • 2:54:37pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 2:55:26pm

Oklahoma has introduced a bill requiring vaccine manufacturers to disclose the specifications of the 5G chips they are injecting into our bodies. Oh noes, whatever shall Bill Gates do next?!

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Teukka  Jan 29, 2021 • 2:59:59pm

re: #3 Teukka

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:02:21pm

From above

Shorting a stock should be illegal

Yup. I still maintain it’s selling something you don’t own. Borrowing someone else’s stock is still not selling your own stock. It’s a really great way to crush little people’s 401ks and companies though.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:05:08pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Realistically, from reading a couple of Twitter threads (which, obviously, automatically makes me an expert on high finance), what I’m gathering is that shorting stocks isn’t necessarily so much the problem. Don’t get me wrong, I understand and somewhat agree with the point. However, the thing that is really driving the modern stock market is the high-speed transactions executed by the on-premise servers of the top-line players. That’s where they make all their money and what drives the minor price changes that shaft the retail traders.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:05:40pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s possible, and is done, to short stocks that one does own. However, if one owns shares it is more likely one sells options on those shares instead of shorting it.

Futures markets were invented for very good reasons. It’s how producers can reduce their risk by having other people buy that risk (for a chance of also sharing in profits.)

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KGxvi  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:07:18pm

re: #7 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Realistically, from reading a couple of Twitter threads (which, obviously, automatically makes me an expert on high finance), what I’m gathering is that shorting stocks isn’t necessarily so much the problem. Don’t get me wrong, I understand and somewhat agree with the point. However, the thing that is really driving the modern stock market is the high-speed transactions executed by the on-premise servers of the top-line players. That’s where they make all their money and what drives the minor price changes that shaft the retail traders.

And in this particular case they shorted more stock than was actually available, thinking they could just keep passing shares around. They painted themselves into a corner because people started buying with no intention of selling.

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Teukka  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:09:09pm

:gag:

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:09:51pm

re: #10 Teukka

:gag:

If she plays the video, I guarantee it’ll start after the altercation has occurred and will conveniently leave out the part where she reamed Ms. Bush a new asshole for no reason whatsoever.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:12:11pm
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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:12:51pm

Update for 2021 with woman, her, she.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:14:17pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:15:33pm

re: #9 KGxvi

And in this particular case they shorted more stock than was actually available, thinking they could just keep passing shares around. They painted themselves into a corner because people started buying with no intention of selling.

The short squeeze is going on still against JP Morgan and their shorting silver today as well.

As for the high-speed traders screwing “retail traders,” Robinhood was founded by two guys who essentially developed the systems for high-speed trading.

Moreover, the retail trading apps are largely run by hedge funds, which is where the complaints of those companies selling people’s shares without their permission to cover the shorts of the same hedge funds.

The solution of course is to ban short selling. That would destroy the hedge fund model of extracting wealth from the market without producing anything, which any number of hedge funds will buy as many GOP politicians as they can to prevent.

GOP politicians come cheap, but there are billions to fleece from retirees.

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Teukka  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:15:53pm

Random thought: What if we begin referring to the most … concerning … behavior, views, beliefs and opionons of conservative as “genuinely conservative”?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:16:45pm

re: #10 Teukka

Sounds like they got upset at her ranting loudly in the hallway and then she she snipped at them for no good reason.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:20:11pm

re: #16 Teukka

Random thought: What if we begin referring to the most … concerning … behavior, views, beliefs and opionons of conservative as “genuinely conservative”?

“generic Republican” also works.

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darthstar  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:20:48pm

Gamestop is still volatile - closed at 193 yesterday and 325 today. Looks like market manipulation isn’t such a bad thing after all.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:21:01pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:24:26pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:24:57pm

re: #19 darthstar

Gamestop is still volatile - closed at 193 yesterday and 325 today. Looks like market manipulation isn’t such a bad thing after all.

My heart bleeds for hedge fund multi-billionaires.

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Teukka  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:25:27pm

re: #18 EPR-radar

“generic Republican” also works.

re: #20 Charles Johnson

Taking generic conservative out for a spin…

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darthstar  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:26:07pm

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

Sounds like they got upset at her ranting loudly in the hallway and then she she snipped at them for no good reason.

I see she alternates between her repMTG and mtgreene accounts - watch her get both suspended at the same time.

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:34:39pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:35:52pm

CNBC now running Ads promoting that Melvin Capital closed their short positions on $GME (Reddit/r/WallStreetBets)

Folks over there noting it would be rather strange for a company to actually take out advertising saying they had shorts but now they do not.

In the meantime, they’ve also found a workaround to being locked out of Robinhood from buying shares and are off again.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:37:47pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

MT Gangrene is also a heinous abuser of the apostrophe.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:38:20pm
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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:40:17pm

Baby fawn making friends with kitty

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:41:05pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From above

Yup. I still maintain it’s selling something you don’t own. Borrowing someone else’s stock is still not selling your own stock. It’s a really great way to crush little people’s 401ks and companies though.

consignment shops would like a word

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:41:40pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From above

Yup. I still maintain it’s selling something you don’t own. Borrowing someone else’s stock is still not selling your own stock. It’s a really great way to crush little people’s 401ks and companies though.

pawn shops would also like a word

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:43:09pm

I may hear goalposts moving again

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CleverToad  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:44:00pm

My 22-year-old informed me today that he just put $100 on AMC to keep the Wall Street scramble going, just for the lulz. Yes, he can afford it — he’s working part-time while he’s in college. No, he’s not expecting a return, he says it’s coming out of his entertainment budget. My foster kid is thinking of doing something similar, in his case out of his weed budget. (Am all for that, I can’t stand the smell when he’s smoking.)

Will be interesting to see if the kid’s new-found interest in high finance lasts. At the very least, it’s as educational as the video games he would otherwise buy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:44:11pm

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

consignment shops would like a word

Consignment shops act as brokers. The owner of the consignment hires (for a percentage) the shop to sell an item for them. That is not what a hedge fund does.

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CleverToad  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:46:33pm

re: #25 Nyet

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Can’t read the tweet, but the pictures are marvelous. Love the things the Lego fans think up.

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:47:59pm

re: #35 CleverToad

He needed 10k votes for a chance to make it an official set. He got the votes, so this may happen.

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Belafon  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:48:45pm

re: #19 darthstar

Gamestop is still volatile - closed at 193 yesterday and 325 today. Looks like market manipulation isn’t such a bad thing after all.

I figure we’re watching a real life version of The Boys.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:49:35pm

re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Consignment shops act as brokers. The owner of the consignment hires (for a percentage) the shop to sell an item for them. That is not what a hedge fund does.

operative word is “contract” which is in force for both them and the people you are railing against

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Teukka  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:50:52pm

re: #19 darthstar

Gamestop is still volatile - closed at 193 yesterday and 325 today. Looks like market manipulation isn’t such a bad thing after all.

Curioser and curioser, as Alice said: CNBC now running Ads promoting that Melvin Capital closed their short positions on $GME

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:52:38pm

Shouldn’t be surprising, but it’s so odd how easy it is to decry something as “illegal” when it isn’t, just because one doesn’t agree with it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:53:23pm

re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shouldn’t be surprising, but it’s so odd how easy it is to decry something as “illegal” when it isn’t, just because one doesn’t agree with it.

Get a customer service job. You’ll see that shit alllll the time.

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William Lewis  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:53:23pm

Gloomy grey late winter afternoon. This abandoned house is one of my “usual subjects” but it seemed even more cold and lonely today than that usual. A light sepia tone seemed appropriate as a result.

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Kilroy was here  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:53:27pm

Ok, Rudy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:54:00pm

re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth

Shouldn’t be surprising, but it’s so odd how easy it is to decry something as “illegal” when it isn’t, just because one doesn’t agree with it.

end result is that the over all argument becomes flawed, especially when doubling down begins.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:54:35pm

re: #39 Teukka

Curioser and curioser, as Alice said: CNBC now running Ads promoting that Melvin Capital closed their short positions on $GME

Fairly obvious lies, IMO. If Melvin had no remaining exposure, they would find a way to monetize that rather than just announce it.

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Teukka  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:55:25pm

re: #43 Kilroy was here

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Video

Popcorn anyone?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:55:30pm

re: #35 CleverToad

Can’t read the tweet, but the pictures are marvelous. Love the things the Lego fans think up.

In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga (Russian: Баба-Яга, romanized: Baba Yaga)[a] is a supernatural being (or a trio of sisters of the same name) who appears as a deformed or ferocious-looking old woman. In Slavic culture, Baba Yaga lived in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs.

Baba Yaga may help or hinder those that encounter her or seek her out. She may play a maternal role and has associations with forest wildlife. According to Vladimir Propp’s folktale morphology, Baba Yaga commonly appears as either a donor, villain, or may be altogether ambiguous. Her depictions vary greatly across tales, ranging from a child-eating monster, to helping a protagonist find his missing bride.

Andreas Johns identifies Baba Yaga as “one of the most memorable and distinctive figures in eastern European folklore”, and observes that she is “enigmatic” and often exhibits “striking ambiguity”. Johns summarizes Baba Yaga as “a many-faceted figure, capable of inspiring researchers to see her as a Cloud, Moon, Death, Winter, Snake, Bird, Pelican or Earth Goddess, totemic matriarchal ancestress, female initiator, phallic mother, or archetypal image”.

(more)

Baba Yaga (Wikipedia)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:55:37pm

re: #42 William Lewis

Gloomy grey late winter afternoon. This abandoned house is one of my “usual subjects” but it seemed even more cold and lonely today than that usual. A light sepia tone seemed appropriate as a result.

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oh boy, now THAT is the starting scene for a horror story.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:56:09pm

In which Orly Taitz, D.D.S., Esq., gets bench-slapped right the fuck out of court:

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William Lewis  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:56:19pm

re: #25 Nyet

Hoot! Baba Yaga!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:56:29pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:57:36pm

re: #39 Teukka

Curioser and curioser, as Alice said: CNBC now running Ads promoting that Melvin Capital closed their short positions on $GME

Hoping to get those darned kids to SELL.

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:57:46pm

re: #50 William Lewis

John Wick in 30 years.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:58:07pm
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Teukka  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:58:46pm

re: #51 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 3:59:31pm

re: #42 William Lewis

Gloomy grey late winter afternoon. This abandoned house is one of my “usual subjects” but it seemed even more cold and lonely today than that usual. A light sepia tone seemed appropriate as a result.

[Embedded content]

Looks a little Ed Gein to me. 😬

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:00:55pm

re: #49 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

In which Orly Taitz, D.D.S., Esq., gets bench-slapped right the fuck out of court:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:03:50pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:04:50pm

re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Have you never seen John Wick? We Wickers know all about Baba Yega. The boogyman fears Baba Yega.

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Teukka  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:05:06pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:05:40pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

operative word is “contract” which is in force for both them and the people you are railing against

Well, what I think ought to be, and what is (the is/ought fallacy) are two different things.

I can think of a lot of reasons why someone might want to borrow my car (which doesn’t involve selling it) but not too many for borrowing shares. I know it’s not theft if the loaner is aware of what the borrower of shares is doing with the shares. (The theft is from people who are holding shares who are screwed by the short, not the borrower.)

If someone wanted to borrow my car to go to the doctor I might (actually I probably wouldn’t but someone else might) allow that. I certainly wouldn’t want them taking it to the Highway 92 Racetrack to enter it in a race to win money with it, then give me my car back (even if they paid me money to go to the doctor).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:08:04pm

re: #78 sagehen

Is he really from MTG’s district? Cause Cory buttercream is part of the Trae Crowder/Beau/etc southern liberal youtube circuit?

Cory is one of the brilliant over-the-top parody accounts along with Trae, and Beau, and Blaire Erskine.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:08:04pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

That was particularly brutal. Not in a smackdown sense, but in a, “I am the God of my courtroom, so stop wasting my fucking time” sense.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:10:06pm

re: #59 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Have you never seen John Wick? We Wickers know all about Baba Yega. The boogyman fears Baba Yega.

I have not seen John Wick (looking up what that is … series of films).

I was told the story by my Polish grandparents. Depending on how the story is told, it also keeps children in line.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:10:14pm

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, what I think ought to be, and what is (the is/ought fallacy) are two different things.

I can think of a lot of reasons why someone might want to borrow my car (which doesn’t involve selling it) but not too many for borrowing shares. I know it’s not theft if the loaner is aware of what the borrower of shares is doing with the shares. (The theft is from people who are holding shares who are screwed by the short, not the borrower.)

If someone wanted to borrow my car to go to the doctor I might (actually I probably wouldn’t but someone else might) allow that. I certainly wouldn’t want them taking it to the Highway 92 Racetrack to enter it in a race to win money with it, then give me my car back (even if they paid me money to go to the doctor).

in this particular matter, the hedge fund borrowed with permission (and a contract).
You don’t have to like it, but it isn’t illegal.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:12:23pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:13:27pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:14:23pm
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Teukka  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:14:57pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:15:06pm

YOWSER

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Jack Burton  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:15:17pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From above

Yup. I still maintain it’s selling something you don’t own. Borrowing someone else’s stock is still not selling your own stock. It’s a really great way to crush little people’s 401ks and companies though.

I know you are going to pick this as a hill to die on, but just as I don’t want people who don’t know shit about science regulating NASA and climate change policy, I don’t want people who don’t understand the stock market at all determining how it should be run and regulated because something popped up on the news they think is bad.

First you can’t treat investment positions as “property” like you are borrowing your neighbors car or house and selling it, promising to replace it. That’s not a valid comparison.

It’s been pointed out several times, that shorting is normal, it’s always happened, the problems are peripheral or tangential to shorting itself, regarding deregulation, illegal naked short selling, pump and dump schemes, and billionaires setting trading AI servers right on tier-1 ISPs or at the markets themselves doing millions of transactions per second basically controlling the market. That same stuff is bad when the positions are long as well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:18:40pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:19:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:19:49pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:20:18pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

The PCH is one of the most scenic routes one can drive.

It’s scenic because parts of it are on cliffs.

Or, were on cliffs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:21:22pm

re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth

in this particular matter, the hedge fund borrowed with permission (and a contract).
You don’t have to like it, but it isn’t illegal.

That’s why I pointed out I am holding an is/ought fallacy. (I think it ought to be illegal, but it is not illegal.)

Trying to make it illegal would be a quixotic quest at best. (On the other side of the coin, a bunch of teenagers helped bring down the NRA, so sometimes you can tilt at the windmill and win. I’m not the person to do that though.)

If anything, the folks at Reddit with their trades are more likely to cause change in the system. Bloomberg did an article with the group’s moderator, and he pointed out that the Reddit group isn’t just a bunch of gamers sitting around: It consists of people who study the stock market, mathematicians, and other sorts of people who are educated in this sort of thing.

The woman in the video clip concerned that this sort of volatility and irrationality in the market is not good for the market and investors in general I don’t think understood why they are doing this. Revenge can be very rational.

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:22:18pm

Communist science vs. Baba Yaga.

(No subs, but it’s OK.)

Мультфильмы: Ивашка из дворца пионеров

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:22:25pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:23:12pm
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austin_blue  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:26:51pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

YOWSER

Looks like they lost a utility line (Phone? Fiber optic?) on the downstream side of the road bed. The light blue naked PVC piping is distinct.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:29:34pm
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Jebediah, RBG  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:30:02pm

re: #10 Teukka

:gag:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:31:58pm

I never thought I’d start worrying that certain members of congress wouldn’t survive their term but…here I am.

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Belafon  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:32:33pm
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Belafon  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:33:04pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:33:53pm
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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:39:12pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:40:59pm

re: #88 jaunte

Party over country. We keep telling you people, time and time and time again. IT’S A FUCKING CULT.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:41:21pm

nuke it

NUKE IT NOW

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:42:13pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

nuke it

NUKE IT NOW

NOOOOOOOOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

Fuck that, I’m out. Fetch the flamethrower.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:42:46pm

re: #89 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Party over country. We keep telling you people, time and time and time again. IT’S A FUCKING CULT.

it’s wipipo over them

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Belafon  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:44:26pm

re: #89 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Party over country. We keep telling you people, time and time and time again. IT’S A FUCKING CULT.

“I’d rather have a civil war than Medicare for all.”

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DodgerFan1988  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:46:02pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:51:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:51:37pm
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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:55:40pm

“…I think what has been hard to take for all of us who love America and who love American democracy, is to watch how these terrorists have been coddled and deemed “misunderstood” by the very Republican leadership that fed them the big lie that somehow Biden did not win the election and that it was stolen from Trump by socialists, and people running a child-porn ring in Washington D.C. (yes, the QAnons embrace such lunacy).

On Thursday, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy took a pilgrimage to Florida to kiss the defeated, disgraced, twice impeached Donald Trump at Mar A-Largo. A photo of the two of them was released and then McCarthy, who had weeks before slammed Trump for his part in inciting the riot, took to kissing his ass so he could possibly become U.S. House speaker in 2022. This coming on the heels of 45 out of 50 Republican Senators voting that the impeachment trial of Trump was unconstitutional — sending a clear signal that they will not vote to convict and disqualify Trump as many had hoped.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:56:43pm

re: #86 Belafon

“narc?” This isn’t turning your buddy in for selling maryjane. It is a civic duty to out the insurrectionists to the police.

I would have zero questions about turning in a friend of family member if they were involved in that shyteshow.

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Jay C  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:56:59pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

nuke it

NUKE IT NOW

Indoor swarms of large, ugly, and likely very-venomous spiders.
The tag of “Australia” is really unnecessary…..

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:57:41pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

Get used to it, asshole. You’re gonna be there a long time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 4:59:46pm
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plansbandc  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:00:57pm

I don’t know what I’d do about those spiders. I don’t believe in killing them but holy balls there’s a lot of them. I think I’d have to hire a spider wrangler. But then they would spread all over before the wrangler could get there. I wonder if they would survive a vacuuming? They seem pretty sturdy.

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Renaissance_Man  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:01:22pm

re: #99 Jay C

Indoor swarms of large, ugly, and likely very-venomous spiders.
The tag of “Australia” is really unnecessary…..

They’re huntsmen, totally harmless to humans. Literally unable to bite people.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:01:44pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sounds like a candidate for the new Chinese anal swab test.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:03:04pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:03:51pm

re: #103 Renaissance_Man

They’re huntsmen, totally harmless to humans. Literally unable to bite people.

I’d still burn it to the ground.

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stpaulbear  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:04:02pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

nuke it

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NUKE IT NOW

Well I can forget about getting any sleep tonight.

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Jay C  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:04:26pm

re: #103 Renaissance_Man

They’re huntsmen, totally harmless to humans. Literally unable to bite people.

Nice to know, thanks.
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My first thought is still going be “flamethrower”,though. 🔥 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🔥

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:05:16pm

re: #103 Renaissance_Man

They’re huntsmen, totally harmless to humans. Literally unable to bite people.

Nah, probably a British mutant strain that eats humans alive.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:05:42pm

re: #107 stpaulbear

Well I can forget about getting any sleep tonight.

It should make you happy you have no critters right now. If my dogs touch me tonight, someone would be prying my fingers out of the ceiling.

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Renaissance_Man  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:07:42pm

re: #108 Jay C

Nice to know, thanks.
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My first thought is still going be “flamethrower”,though. 🔥 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🔥

I mean, we know they’re harmless to humans, but I still jumped finding them in the clothes drawer, or seeing them sitting on the toilet.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:09:00pm
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danarchy  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:09:10pm

re: #99 Jay C

Indoor swarms of large, ugly, and likely very-venomous spiders.
The tag of “Australia” is really unnecessary…..

If they are huntsman, then not so venomous.

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:09:43pm

We request that you wear a face.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:09:54pm

re: #114 Nyet

We request that you wear a face.

I can’t, the leopards ate mine.

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:10:11pm

re: #113 danarchy

If they are huntsman, then not so venomous.

Wait, it hunts man?

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:10:29pm

Maybe they have a different problem:

Huntsman spiders love:
Cockroaches - huntsmans are carnivorous and will feed on all sorts of insects but these are some of their favourites.
backyardbuddies.org.au

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stpaulbear  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:15:20pm

re: #111 Renaissance_Man

I mean, we know they’re harmless to humans, but I still jumped finding them in the clothes drawer, or seeing them sitting on the toilet.

I can never live anywhere where bugs can thrive year-round. At the end of a band tour I was going to stay with some friends in an Austin Texas trailer park for a week, but I ended up coming back home after two nights. I left all my stuff on the lawn and brought it in the house one piece at a time.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:16:41pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:17:34pm

So, the 11 soldiers hospitalized yesterday, two in critical condition, apparently consumed a quantity of antifreeze while still in the field on a training exercise. It’s reported they believed they were drinking alcohol.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:18:40pm
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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:19:14pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:19:29pm
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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:21:38pm
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plansbandc  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:22:01pm

re: #118 stpaulbear

My dude stayed with a friend in Texas many years ago. Friend had a Golden Retriever. Dude was sleeping on the floor and kept hearing the dog go trot trot trot, crunch crunch crunch. Trot trot trot, crunch crunch crunch.

Dog was dining on many many cockroaches. Dude decided sleep was overrated. Dog starting staring at him. He explained to the dog that he was NOT a roach.

Dog went back to hunting.

fin

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sagehen  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:22:04pm

re: #102 plansbandc

I don’t know what I’d do about those spiders. I don’t believe in killing them but holy balls there’s a lot of them. I think I’d have to hire a spider wrangler. But then they would spread all over before the wrangler could get there. I wonder if they would survive a vacuuming? They seem pretty sturdy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:22:10pm
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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:23:52pm

UP IS DOWN

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:24:14pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:27:54pm

re: #128 jaunte

UP IS DOWN

So you’re telling me that Republicans stormed the Capitol and tried to take over the government by force. Thank you for that admission, Mr. Carlson. The DCPD will see you now.

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:28:20pm

Ep. 4 of WandaVision finally gets things moving.

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:29:16pm

re: #120 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

So, the 11 soldiers hospitalized yesterday, two in critical condition, apparently consumed a quantity of antifreeze while still in the field on a training exercise. It’s reported they believed they were drinking alcohol.

We … are not talking about Russia, right?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:29:39pm

re: #132 Nyet

We … are not talking about Russia, right?

That does sound like a quintessentially Russian thing, doesn’t it?

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:30:57pm

re: #123 Dread Pirate Ron

Is Ali bin Laden on the run?

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Nyet  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:31:44pm

re: #133 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

That does sound like a quintessentially Russian thing, doesn’t it?

Toto, …

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:32:17pm

re: #133 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

‘…Seymour M. Lowman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition, even told citizens that the fringes of society that drink were “dying off fast from poison ‘hooch’” and that if the result was a sober America, “a good job will have been done.”
time.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:32:36pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:35:11pm

re: #128 jaunte

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:36:16pm

re: #132 Nyet

We … are not talking about Russia, right?

Fort Bliss

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:38:05pm
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steve_davis  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:38:24pm

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“narc?” This isn’t turning your buddy in for selling maryjane. It is a civic duty to out the insurrectionists to the police.

I would have zero questions about turning in a friend of family member if they were involved in that shyteshow.

A couple nights ago, I had a friend call at 1 in the morning. He’s bipolar, so while he’s medicated, he still has some impulse control issues: “Question for you. Say that something happened at a nightclub, but no one was arrested at the time. Would I still have to worry about charges later?” Answer: “Did any money change hands?” No. “Was anybody underage?” No. “Should be fine. See you at work tomorrow.” Don’t quite know how this anecdote connects, but the whole idea of potentially having to turn someone in for illegalities got me chuckling about it. Still, can’t imagine turning a friend in for much less than murder.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:38:43pm

re: #138 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Man posing as new anchor only fools regular viewers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:39:10pm
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austin_blue  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:39:16pm

re: #91 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

NOOOOOOOOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

Fuck that, I’m out. Fetch the flamethrower.

I’ve always been okay with spiders. I also used to do a fair amount of trail running.

Now, the thing I hated most was running through a bigass spider web. Just freaked me out. I would do the “rip this thing off my face!” dance. Which was never pretty, but gave fellow runners a great laugh.

But Wolf Spiders, which are the main house spiders in Texas? Bring ‘em on. They’re cute jewel-toned little marvels that have heads like the front of a locomotive, jump like fleas, have like 9 eyes, and eat insects that I want dead and don’t have to spray for.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:39:45pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

Title: “the contents of Stephen Miller’s skin suit”

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Florida Panhandler  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:40:38pm

re: #70 Teukka

Unlikely. She is in a cult. A cult member is all-in.

Their entire existence is defined as adherence to all claims made by general consensus within the cult. It does not matter what regards such beliefs have with everyday demonstrably true facts. And any and all beliefs are subject to change and disperse via compliant media outlets in order to facilitate and propagate the cult towards those targeted…White people*

*the term “white people” is subject to change at a moment’s notice in order to diminish, imprison, subjugate, or kill those deemed “not white enough” or the “wrong sort of white.”

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:40:41pm

re: #144 austin_blue

I’m actually reasonably okay with individual spiders, or spiders in small quantities. That many would give me the heebie-jeebies. The ones I can’t stand, not even a little, are stinging insects. Sorry, clumsy little bumblebees, I don’t love you. Sorry, hard-working honeybees, I am terrified of you too. Wasps and hornets? Go straight to hell, and give Satan a middle finger for me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:41:22pm
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jaunte  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:43:38pm

re: #147 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

The bees around here will let you pick them up and escort them out of the house if they wander in. The red mud dauber wasps are pretty relaxed. The mean ones are the little paper wasps; they’ll sting you for fun.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:45:11pm

re: #149 jaunte

The bees around here will let you pick them up and escort them out of the house if they wander in. The red mud dauber wasps are pretty relaxed. The mean ones are the little paper wasps; they’ll sting you for fun.

Yep, those like to make nests in our gutters. We also get yellow jackets that build nests in the ground. I ran over a nest when I was mowing the back 40 once as a teenager, and one flew up my nose and stung me. Son of a bitch, but that hurt.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:46:16pm

re: #80 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

[Embedded content]

Looking at Beck and he reminds me of the bad guy in this cult movie…

Darktown Strutters 1975(starring Trina Parks and Roger Mosley)

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austin_blue  Jan 29, 2021 • 5:52:43pm

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

The man is a fucking saint.

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plansbandc  Jan 29, 2021 • 6:09:14pm

re: #150 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

On of those yellowjacket bastards flew in the window of our car, landed on my thumb and stung me. That sucked.

I don’t know how that crazy dude on youtube dealt with getting stung by the top ten worst stinging/biting insects.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 29, 2021 • 6:38:08pm

re: #45 EPR-radar

Fairly obvious lies, IMO. If Melvin had no remaining exposure, they would find a way to monetize that rather than just announce it.

Isn’t Melvin lying about their position arguably illegal as a sort of “pump and dump” ploy? They’re trying to convince the people holding the stock that it’s now safe to sell so that the price drops to the point that they can close out their short position without fewer losses.

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Jan 29, 2021 • 7:41:45pm

re: #151 🌹UOJB!

You have very good taste in movies


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