Blues in an Austin Office Building: Buffalo Nichols, Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

Kara Frame || February, 21 2022
In a sparse, dimly lit Austin office building, Carl “Buffalo” Nichols stands in front of the mic stand with his steel guitar. As he finger picks into the first song “Living Hell,” the stark surroundings are juxtaposed against the warmth of his raspy vocals.

He performs his Tiny Desk (home) concert solo, a testament to the engaging storytelling of the blues, a genre he reclaims on his self-titled debut album. In his three-song set, Nichols sings about not making it into heaven, living in hell and the life of someone who is lost and lonesome. But these aren’t your run of the mill, down-and-out blues songs – Nichols is adamant about making the genre current and making it Black again. Originally from Wisconsin, he mentions that he moved to the Austin, Texas music scene at the beginning of the pandemic, a fitting preface to his next song that starts with, “If you see me in your town, looking tired with my head hanging down / You may wonder what went wrong, why am I always all alone.”

Buffalo Nichols’ acoustic set represents all the best parts of Tiny Desk; a humble desk, a talented artist and music that speaks for itself.

SET LIST
“Living Hell”
“Lost & Lonesome”
“These Things”

MUSICIANS
Buffalo Nichols: vocals, guitar

CREDITS
Directed by: Aimée M. Everett
Recorded by: Buffalo Nichols
Mixed by: Clay Jones
Cameras by: Brad Feeser
Edited by: Max Taeuschel

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Kara Frame
Video Producer: Kara Frame
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Tiny Production Team: Bob Boilen, Bobby Carter, Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Ashley Pointer
Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#tinydesk #nprmusic #buffalonichols

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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2022 • 6:31:40pm

I approve of this video!

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2022 • 6:35:16pm

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Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2022 • 6:46:24pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2022 • 6:48:22pm
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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2022 • 6:52:28pm

re: #4 Patricia Kayden

Oofah, that’s one right in the yarbles.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2022 • 6:59:47pm
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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:03:34pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Not only that, it was at 2:22 on 2/22/22!

Take that, Libtards!

Geez, these people.

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b.d  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:04:23pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

[trump] HE WALKED AWAY LIKE A DOG! [/trump]

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:13:13pm

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:15:09pm

PLAIIOS!S!!S!!!

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:19:11pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:33:29pm

re: #10 The Pie Overlord!

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Mike Lamb  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:33:43pm

It is some shit watching the GOP openly cheerlead for Putin and/or trash Biden at every turn. What happened to rallying around the flag?

And the media will still treat the GOP as a principled opposition.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:39:49pm

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nines09  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:45:06pm

Republican hopeful for Governor of Pennsylvania.
Not The Onion.
Real.
jfc

Youtube Video

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retired cynic  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:45:46pm

re: #15 nines09

OMG, you can’t make me….

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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:48:17pm

re: #13 Mike Lamb

It is some shit watching the GOP openly cheerlead for Putin and/or trash Biden at every turn. What happened to rallying around the flag?

And the media will still treat the GOP as a principled opposition.

But they *are* principled. Putin principled.

Why is this so tough understand? The R’s are lining up in support of Putin, the leader of Russia. Our traditional enemy between 1946, and, well, now.

Traitors, traitors every one.

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:50:05pm
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austin_blue  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:53:23pm

And I’m for the rack.

I want to see the Republican Fuckmuppets all charged for giving aid and comfort to Russia.

Put ‘em in the gray bar motel for six months and see if they see the light.

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sagehen  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:58:13pm

Nixon just looks better and better every year, doesn’t he?

1960 - Nixon on Civil Rights

EPA
OSHA
Title IX
Title X

If only he could have reined in his paranoia and other mental health issues, avoided the criming…

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2022 • 7:59:48pm

re: #19 austin_blue

And I’m for the rack.

I want to see the Republican Fuckmuppets all charged for giving aid and comfort to Russia.

Put ‘em in the gray bar motel for six months and see if they see the light.

Waiting to hear what our brother has to say this weekend about Putin, given the widespread praise from Trump and his minions. When we chatted about 10 days ago, he was all on board with heavy sanctions that would severely damage Russia, but he’s been known to do a 180 when Trump speaks and informs his cult of the correct views. He’ll probably go with the fantasy that Putin would never have attacked if Trump were still in office because Putin had too much respect (or fear?) for him.

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:02:25pm

I’d really like to force them to be in session twice as many days a year than they are, or lose 2/3 of their pay, fucking lazy-ass bums.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:03:37pm

re: #20 sagehen

Nixon just looks better and better every year, doesn’t he?

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EPA
OSHA
Title IX
Title X

If only he could have reined in his paranoia and other mental health issues, avoided the criming…

He also had some plan for universal health care. But let’s not forget he was on board with appealing to the racists in the South, now that the Democrats had abandoned them. And he interfered with the 1968 peace process that Johnson was initiating in the hopes of stopping the Vietnam War.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:09:39pm
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:10:05pm

re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter

He also had some plan for universal health care. But let’s not forget he was on board with appealing to the racists in the South, now that the Democrats had abandoned them. And he interfered with the 1968 peace process that Johnson was initiating in the hopes of stopping the Vietnam War.

Also came to prominence with HUAC.

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:10:35pm

re: #24 The Pie Overlord!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:12:03pm

re: #13 Mike Lamb

It is some shit watching the GOP openly cheerlead for Putin and/or trash Biden at every turn. What happened to rallying around the flag?

And the media will still treat the GOP as a principled opposition.

The GOP has reached the open point where party > country. And that means to oppose Biden and the Democrats in any and all cases. Even if that means embracing aggressive autocrats and being very divisive about foreign policy. I’m sure this makes Putin and others view the USA as weak in indecisive since the media shows mixed messages coming from the politicians and the media is mainly spinning things as the USA failing (due to Biden).

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:13:38pm

re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter

Nixon certainly was knowledgeable about history and policies but he was not a good person. His 1950 campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas for Senate tarred her with being supportive of Communists.

And then there was the Cambodian bombing authorized by Nixon that led to the overthrow of the government there and eventually the takeover by Pol Pot, who murdered, directly or indirectly, up to 2 million of his fellow citizens. And let’s not forget the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile.

..minor edit…

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William Lewis  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:15:21pm

re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter

He also had some plan for universal health care. But let’s not forget he was on board with appealing to the racists in the South, now that the Democrats had abandoned them. And he interfered with the 1968 peace process that Johnson was initiating in the hopes of stopping the Vietnam War.

He also seriously considered a form of basic income in Milton Friedman’s Negative Income Tax proposal.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:16:51pm

re: #29 William Lewis

He also seriously considered a form of basic income in Milton Friedman’s Negative Income Tax proposal.

He was definitely a serious person, just not a good one.

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:27:47pm

There seems to be a large increase in the number of NATO warships patrolling from the English Channel to the Baltic.

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:31:21pm

re: #31 Dread Pirate Ron

There seems to be a large increase in the number of NATO warships patrolling from the English Channel to the Baltic.

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Are they seizing the day?

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jaunte  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:32:18pm

re: #31 Dread Pirate Ron

HDMS Peter Willemoes (F362)
en.wikipedia.org

HNLMS Van Amstel (F831)
en.wikipedia.org

Berlin (A1411) Berlin-class replenishment ship
en.wikipedia.org

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:32:57pm

Let’s nuke Pennsylvania, just to be sure we get it all.

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weststpaulbear  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:40:26pm

re: #2 Belafon

mathler.com 21 3/6

I’ve solved every mathler puzzle that I’ve done in three guesses. With only 14 characters to choose from it seems like there’s no options left except the answer by the time you get to the third line but, for me, that third line can take a long time to figure out and enter.

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:40:27pm

re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter

He was definitely a serious person, just not a good one.

Nixon’s big issue was paranoia, an almost overwhelming belief that there was always a conspiracy against him. A big part of that was losing the election in ‘60 to Kennedy, with a lot of open whispering that Joe Kennedy had greased more than a few palms to get his kid in the WH and secure his family’s legacy. From that point forward, Nixon was absolutely convinced that the Dems were dirty cheats and so the only way to win against them was to cheat harder.

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:44:00pm
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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:44:40pm

re: #24 The Pie Overlord!

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:45:19pm
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weststpaulbear  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:46:35pm

re: #16 retired cynic

OMG, you can’t make me….

That add was one of the daily dumbass winners on Weekly Skews (Trae Crowder). It’s so much more boring and stupid than that thumbnail. There should be no FOMO in skipping it.

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:46:45pm

re: #39 The GOP is a terrorist organization

That’s the look of a man who was told ‘what’s what’.

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:47:24pm

Personally, I believe the darkest black mark on Nixon’s record wasn’t Watergate, it was getting involved in the peace negotiations in ‘68 with promises that if the North Vietnamese would walk away from the table, he’d get them better terms once he was in office. And that LBJ knew this had gone on, but refused to make it public because he didn’t want to be seen as exercising influence on an election he was not running in. All the deaths that occurred in Vietnam after the peace talks fell apart are why that man deserves a place in the lowest pits of Hell.

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:47:47pm

re: #39 The GOP is a terrorist organization

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:53:57pm

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sagehen  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:55:25pm

re: #42 Targetpractice

Personally, I believe the darkest black mark on Nixon’s record wasn’t Watergate, it was getting involved in the peace negotiations in ‘68 with promises that if the North Vietnamese would walk away from the table, he’d get them better terms once he was in office. And that LBJ knew this had gone on, but refused to make it public because he didn’t want to be seen as exercising influence on an election he was not running in. All the deaths that occurred in Vietnam after the peace talks fell apart are why that man deserves a place in the lowest pits of Hell.

I thought the reason LBJ had to keep it secret was protecting sources and methods… he didn’t want to admit the extent of their wiretaps and other information channels.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2022 • 8:59:49pm

re: #35 stpaulbear

I’ve solved every mathler puzzle that I’ve done in three guesses. With only 14 characters to choose from it seems like there’s no options left except the answer by the time you get to the third line but, for me, that third line can take a long time to figure out and enter.

At the beginning, there was one mathler that took me 4 because I hadn’t really got the hang of it yet.

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2022 • 9:00:45pm

re: #45 sagehen

I thought the reason LBJ had to keep it secret was protecting sources and methods… he didn’t want to admit the extent of their wiretaps and other information channels.

I believe you might be right, especially when further review showed that it was the South Vietnamese that Nixon had been trying to convince to walk away. And again, this was a scenario that was motivated by his paranoia, believing that the only reason that LBJ was pursuing a peace deal was to get Humphrey elected.

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2022 • 9:01:35pm
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Belafon  Feb 22, 2022 • 9:06:52pm

re: #35 stpaulbear

I’ve solved every mathler puzzle that I’ve done in three guesses. With only 14 characters to choose from it seems like there’s no options left except the answer by the time you get to the third line but, for me, that third line can take a long time to figure out and enter.

I’ve had a few two guess ones, but I end up taking quite a bit of time between two and three.

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 22, 2022 • 9:26:58pm
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JC1  Feb 22, 2022 • 9:39:49pm

Second 2 in the past few days.

Wordle 249 2/6

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2022 • 9:47:21pm

Nobody wants to be caught and conscripted into the Russian Army. 100 years later and they still operate the same way.

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A Cranky One  Feb 22, 2022 • 9:47:51pm

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Captain Ron  Feb 22, 2022 • 9:52:58pm

Sounds serious.

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2022 • 10:06:11pm

Anne has this tweet up:

And it seems to her that this doesn’t look like a healthy Putin.

balloon-juice.com

The link goes on to talk about how Putin’s isolation from facts could be a big driver of what he’s doing.

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Belafon  Feb 22, 2022 • 10:07:32pm

re: #53 A Cranky One

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Buy two and mark them.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 22, 2022 • 10:07:55pm

re: #51 JC1

Wordle

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A Cranky One  Feb 22, 2022 • 10:17:03pm

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Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2022 • 11:06:10pm

Trump was so strong and so impressive to Putin that his sycophants can’t do more than just keeping tell us about his strength. Perhaps because the only sanctions legislation passed during his administration was done so by a bipartisan vote over his objections, then signed against his wishes because it was “severely flawed” in that it barred him from unilaterally undoing existing sanctions.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:04:31am
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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:22:13am
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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 12:31:51am

re: #61 sagehen

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Remember when the argument for Russia being totally justified in invading Ukraine was because NATO? You know, all of a week ago?

Good times.///////

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:33:12am

Morning! Got it in 3.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 1:45:16am

So we are back to the notion that established international borders are provisional and subject to unilateral change from someone on only one side of the border.

This is the issue that is being skirted whenever Russian officials and Putinverstehers start talking about what a shithole nation Ukraine is and how it is run and overrun by Zionist Fascist Capitalist puppet masters, etc…

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:04:36am

re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So we are back to the notion that established international borders are provisional and subject to unilateral change from someone on only one side of the border.

This is the issue that is being skirted whenever Russian officials and Putinverstehers start talking about what a shithole nation Ukraine is and how it is run and overrun by Zionist Fascist Capitalist puppet masters, etc…

Basically we’re going back to the 19th century idea that land borders are just lines on a map and those lines can be redrawn if you’ve got a bigger army than the other guy. Something we sort of got away from after two big wars led us to realizing that one more big war with very big bombs could spell the end of us all.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:09:20am

re: #65 Targetpractice

Basically we’re going back to the 19th century idea that land borders are just lines on a map and those lines can be redrawn if you’ve got a bigger army than the other guy. Something we sort of got away from after two big wars led us to realizing that one more big war with very big bombs could spell the end of us all.

I can even agree that Russia had a certain historical claim to the Crimean peninsula, but the way Putin went about seizing it was in clear and blatant violation of international norms and accepted standards (I will not use the term “international law” because there is clearly no such thing).

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:33:48am

re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I can even agree that Russia had a certain historical claim to the Crimean peninsula, but the way Putin went about seizing it was in clear and blatant violation of international norms and accepted standards (I will not use the term “international law” because there is clearly no such thing).

What he did in the Crimea is largely being mirrored with the Donbass, and largely for the same reason: He’s not facing any serious pushback. Sanctions will hurt Russia and will make his patrons grumble a little louder, but unless Russian troops open fire on Ukrainian ones, he’s going to come away with yet another major land grab that the rest of the world is going let him keep.

Why? “Better than another war.” Oh sure, the West will press Moscow on the new land borders and will insist on keeping land grab to as small a footprint as they can get away with, but the result will be the same: Ukraine gets shafted, Vlad gets another notch in the “W” column, and the West pats themselves on the back for once again averting war. And then the song and dance will continue all over again as another district falls into “rebellion” and another puppet government begs Moscow for recognition.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:37:31am

re: #67 Targetpractice

It was his speech denying Ukraine’s viability as an independent state that should send shivers down everyone’s spines.

He really is out to re-establish the old Russian Empire within its borders of 1917, or at least bring those nations within his sphere of political, economic and military influence.

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 2:41:14am

re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It was his speech denying Ukraine’s viability as an independent state that should send shivers down everyone’s spines.

He really is out to re-establish the old Russian Empire within its borders of 1917, or at least bring those nations within his sphere of political, economic and military influence.

It should scare the ever-loving shit out of them, not only because of what he intends to do, but the precedent that’s being set that other powerful nations will happily capitalize on going forward. They’re cool with Ukraine losing more land, but what about when Beijing jumps over to Taipei and declares “DIBS!”? Or if Israel decides this is their moment, drops the incrementalism, and moves to militarily occupy all of the “Disputed Territories”? Or some African warlord decides to throw caution to the wind and roll into his neighbor to add more land to his fiefdom?

Neo-colonialism is getting ready to be less a state of mind and more a reality if the West does not give Vlad a solid kick to the jimmies.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:01:28am

re: #55 Belafon

Anne has this tweet up:

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And it seems to her that this doesn’t look like a healthy Putin.

balloon-juice.com

The link goes on to talk about how Putin’s isolation from facts could be a big driver of what he’s doing.

Sounds a lot like what I said here but expanding on it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:10:26am

Cold temps here, but at least we got a half of inch of rain.

Though we’re still behind on annual rainfall, and this is supposed to be the height of our rainy season.

NWS predicting a low of 36F here tomorrow night. Brrrr…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:12:17am

I believe that he is very clear on what he wants to do and sees this as the time to start implementing his long-term goals. His tone, timing and choice of words on Ukraine were precisely chosen and pitched. He wants to see Eastern Europe shuddering in its boots while the West scrambles to weigh its options, making them look weak and indecisive.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:14:14am

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steve_davis  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:33:16am

re: #49 Belafon

I’ve had a few two guess ones, but I end up taking quite a bit of time between two and three.

When I ascend to power, all you folks who are both literate and numerate are going up against the wall. Either that, or to work in the fields bringing in the harvest. I haven’t decided yet.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:38:21am

re: #74 steve_davis

When I ascend to power, all you folks who are both literate and numerate are going up against the wall. Either that, or to work in the fields bringing in the harvest. I haven’t decided yet.

Can I work on the railroad? You know, just to pass the time away?

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steve_davis  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:41:15am

re: #75 Barefoot Grin

Can I work on the railroad? You know, just to pass the time away?

Consider it done!

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:53:09am

The moose is (was) on the loose!

A moose on the loose in a Massachusetts city was tranquilized Tuesday and moved to a more appropriate setting, state wildlife officials said.

The moose spotted roaming around a densely-populated Marlborough neighborhood was tranquilized by the Massachusetts Environmental Police at about 10 a.m., tagged, and taken to a wildlife management area in northern Worcester County, Martin Feehan, a deer-moose biologist for the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, told The MetroWest Daily News, a WCVB media partner.

It took two tranquilizer darts to get the 6-year-old female to sleep, he said.

“Everything went very smoothly,” said Feehan. “We deal with about four or five of these a year. She’s a pretty healthy moose.”

The roughly 600-pound (270-kilogram) moose was likely looking for food, according to a statement from the wildlife agency. Suburban areas are planted with an abundance of soft ornamental shrubs and trees that are rich in calories, needed by breeding cows.

Probably looking for a pack of smokes.
wcvb.com

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 3:56:45am

So a 600-pound moose, once you discount the bones and other inedible parts, how much — is it called venison? or something else? — does that yield? I bet there’s no laws in Massachussetts about when’s moose-hunting season, or the requirements for a permit…

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:02:04am

weird-ass weather forecast here in NYC.

60º now, expected to get close to 70º later in the day, then down to 33º tonight and tomorrow and snow tomorrow night…

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:02:53am

re: #78 sagehen

So a 600-pound moose, once you discount the bones and other inedible parts, how much — is it called venison? or something else? — does that yield? I bet there’s no laws in Massachussetts about when’s moose-hunting season, or the requirements for a permit…

I have no idea. I have moose license plates on my car. We pay a bit extra for NH’s conservation efforts. Every year or so there’s a sighting in and around Manchester, but I doubt I’ll ever see one. A couple of years ago there was video of a juvenile running down a street in Manchester. It didn’t look that big—until it ran by a parked car and then hurdled another parked car. Sheesh, I’d love to see an adult—from a safe distance.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:04:02am

re: #79 sagehen

weird-ass weather forecast here in NYC.

60º now, expected to get close to 70º later in the day, then down to 33º tonight and tomorrow and snow tomorrow night…

Same, except about five degrees cooler. May get a foot of snow on Friday.

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:20:11am

So are we assuming Putin’s team orchestrated the trucker protests timed to coincide with his pre-planned Ukranian adventure?

ETA: what kind of ugly surprises are likely to be in the back of some of those trucks?

ETA2: State of the Union is Tuesday evening.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:36:03am

Drawbridge operator was fired:

After a woman fell to her death this month from a South Florida drawbridge when a tender lifted it before she got off, a local TV station investigated and found a similar problem on another nearby bridge.
In the October incident about nine miles away, however, the man who was briefly trapped on the span drove away unharmed
A video from the Oct. 21 mistake at the Ocean Avenue Bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway in Lantana shows the sedan stopping on the bridge for an unknown reason.
As the gates close, the driver inches forward, but then stops again, still on the main span in between the gates.

When the pavement beneath the vehicle begins to rise, the car’s front wheels become trapped, before the bridge section lifts high enough to plop the grey sedan onto the horizontal section of road.

The driver then exits his car, raising his arms in apparent confusion and looking around, before getting back in and driving away.

orlandosentinel.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:45:58am
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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:48:31am

Ouch.

A recent report by Zumper found that the median price of a Manhattan one-bedroom has increased by 25% this year compared to last; a two-bedroom has increased by 27%. It also showed that in January NYC rents were the highest in the nation, beating out pricey towns like San Francisco, Boston and Miami.

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Skin care brand manager Anne Kennedy recently experienced the wild rent hike trend firsthand: For the past year, the 26-year-old Chicago native had been paying $2,696 for her West Village studio. An NYC resident of three years, Kennedy adored her “humble” unit, as well as the building, where she was close with a number of tenants. She’d planned on renewing her lease when she received an email almost exactly 90 days before it was up, and learned her landlord planned to increase her rent by 46.5%.
“This is akin to an eviction notice. No person can afford an increase like that.”
“It’s actually comical,” she said of the $3,950 a month rent her new lease offered. “It’s definitely heartbreaking because I won’t be able to live with one of my best friends in the building anymore.”

That is her apartment:

nypost.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:54:56am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:55:37am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 4:59:34am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:00:33am

Only Job Creators get tax cuts!!!

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:03:36am

There it is. Late start to the day, but it worked out just the same.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:06:25am

re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I made a small donation to it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:07:22am

re: #85 Shropshire Slasher

Housing is a market commodity. It is also a basic human need. Needless to say, the Former takes precedent in our Free Market system.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:07:35am

re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth

GOP wants to continue shifting all the burdens on to those least able to endure them so that millionaires like Trump can get even more tax breaks. SS/DD.

Let’s also recall that millionaires get a huge tax break by not having to pay any tax for OASDI (Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid tax) on income over $147,000 in 2022. Someone with income under that level pays more in tax than someone who makes more than that, since a person making $250k would not pay this tax on every dollar over $147,000, meaning they get to keep even more of their money. This also helps explain the solvency issues Social Security has - if everyone were required to pay this tax on all income, not just up to the threshold, we’d see a more stable SS system.

Poor people already pay more than their fair share in tax, considering that they use a greater percentage of their income to pay taxes - sales taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, etc., than someone who is rich.

The Medicaid scammer who paid a record fine and somehow avoided prison for running one of the largest scams of its kind, wants poor people to pay more.

It’s entirely on brand for the GOP.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:08:04am

re: #61 sagehen

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:08:30am

re: #93 lawhawk

It’s entirely on brand for the “fuck the 47%” GOP.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:09:52am

re: #94 Patricia Kayden

and once you settle that dispute with Mexico, Prince Andrew will be around to collect the overdue rent on their 13 colonies…

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:10:21am
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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:11:34am

re: #94 Patricia Kayden

France would like a word too. Spain too.

Louisiana Purchase anyone?

And the Iroquois Confederation would like a word too.

And all the other Native American tribes whose lands were stolen from them.

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:11:53am

re: #89 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Only Job Creators get tax cuts!!!

Tax cuts are for closers only.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:13:12am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:16:54am

re: #98 lawhawk

France would like a word too. Spain too.

Louisiana Purchase anyone?

And the Iroquois Confederation would like a word too.

And all the other Native American tribes whose lands were stolen from them.

Byzantium on line 3.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:16:55am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:18:27am

yesterday in Kentucky

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:22:24am

Good news: This is all taking too long. Weeks of warning give the defending side a lot of time to make any advance very expensive. By now there are tens of thousands of anti-tank mines on the approaches. (Ukraine has officially sworn off anti-personnel.)

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jeffreyw  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:23:55am

Miss Bea

Good morning!

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:24:42am

re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Housing is a market commodity. It is also a basic human need. Needless to say, the Former takes precedent in our Free Market system.

The housing market here is warped in all sorts of ways, some of them well-meaning. Only about 1/3 of NYC’s housing is actually subject to the Free Market system. My grandparents first rented what’s now my apartment in 1967, under a special redevelopment subsidized rent-stabilization rule. Rent stabilization can be passed along to direct descendants; for my college graduation present in the mid-80’s, they added me to the lease. Then decamped to Cali for the rest of their lives. 2 years later the building went co-op — rent-stabilized tenants could buy in at 40% below market value.

My second cousin (grandma’s sister’s grandson) got an even more amazing deal on his place — landmark building, great-aunt had been there since 1927.

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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:27:43am

Foreign insults thread. A lot more in the comments.

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:29:48am

re: #94 Patricia Kayden

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And Russia might get a hankering for Alaska. We bought it pretty cheap, as I recall.

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:31:27am

re: #98 lawhawk

France would like a word too. Spain too.

Louisiana Purchase anyone?

And the Iroquois Confederation would like a word too.

And all the other Native American tribes whose lands were stolen from them.

The Lakota have paper proving their ownership; even our Supreme Court said so.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:33:28am

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:37:11am

According to GMA, Mickelson has lost some sponsors over his Saudi comments.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:38:04am

re: #109 sagehen

The Lakota have paper proving their ownership; even our Supreme Court said so.

As soon as the Queen signs a cheque for our farm in Mayo, I’ll forward it to them.

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b.d  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:38:19am

re: #111 Belafon

According to GMA, Mickelson has lost some sponsors over his Saudi comments.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:41:34am

re: #10 The Pie Overlord!

PLAIIOS!S!!S!!!

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:41:45am

re: #107 gocart mozart

Foreign insults thread. A lot more in the comments.

Tuscans have great insults. A Florentine will say “Better a death in the family than a Pisan on the doorstep.”

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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:48:51am

Ukraine is game to you!?

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HRH Stanley Sea  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:52:21am

Just luck.

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Dopamine Fish  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:53:45am

It’s a matter of time until they start shooting us on sight. Mark my words.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:54:07am

re: #108 sagehen

And Russia might get a hankering for Alaska. We bought it pretty cheap, as I recall.

It was stolen property. (It gets even more confused because some Tlingit and Haida are Russian Orthodox.)

en.wikipedia.org

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HRH Stanley Sea  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:55:28am

Apologies if already posted

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:57:40am

On Friday tfg lost a case where he is being sued for violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Yup happens all the time.

Yesterday he went all in on supporting Putin, not Biden and not the country

A former president of the united states.
The immediate former.
No ones been this blatant in 150+ years

But nothing to see here.
Just crickets

There should be nonstop alarms and sirens

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:59:00am

re: #118 Dopamine Fish

It’s a matter of time until they start shooting us on sight. Mark my words.

It’s nice that Bannon knows that people like him are maniacs.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:59:32am

re: #118 Dopamine Fish

It’s a matter of time until they start shooting us on sight. Mark my words.

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Except the Republican party has alienated young people so much that they support Democrats 2:1.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 23, 2022 • 5:59:56am

re: #120 HRH Stanley Sea

Apologies if already posted

If you put Russian dressing on your Reuben, Putin will eat it.

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:01:07am

re: #124 Decatur Deb

If you put Russian dressing on your Reuben, Putin will eat it.

Joke’s on him, I use Thousand Island!

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RoJo Must Go!  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:01:52am

My daily wordle:

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Should have had it in 4. :(

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:04:08am

re: #105 jeffreyw

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bustin’ out all over…
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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:04:58am

re: #109 sagehen

The Black Hills rightfully belong to the Native Americans. They don’t want the money. They want the land that was stolen from them.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:05:45am
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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:07:11am

re: #121 Dangerman

meanwhile, Rick Scott (R-FL-asshole) put out a bizarre “11-point plan to rescue America”

i guess he wants to be president
or maybe speaker
he won’t be either

the first item is this

Our kids will say the pledge of allegiance, salute the Flag, learn that America is a great country, and choose the school that best fits them.

forget the kids and schools part

i’m wondering how Ricky feels about the bold part and Trump’s support of Putin yesterday

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:07:23am

re: #123 Belafon

Except the Republican party has alienated young people so much that they support Democrats 2:1.

If only they could get off their asses and vote.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:12:00am
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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:14:10am
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:14:49am

MAGAts exist to be exploited.

An apparent rip-off of Donald Trump’s social media network Truth Social has racked up downloads in the six figures on Google’s Play Store, causing confusion by MAGA types who failed to realize the distinction.

A Shady App Is Tricking Trump Supporters Into Thinking They’ve Joined the True Truth Social (Gizmodo)

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:16:30am

re: #115 Decatur Deb

Tuscans have great insults. A Florentine will say “Better a death in the family than a Pisan on the doorstep.”

Similar to that old biker comment about sisters, whorehouses, bros and hondas

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:21:18am

re: #129 lawhawk

Trump on a ramp!

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mmmirele  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:23:27am

re: #130 Dangerman

I’m just going to point out that point 1 of Rick Scott’s fascist plan is unconstitutional. We can’t make children salute the flag, per West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943). The Supreme Court ruled that the state did not have the right to compel speech, in this case, forcing Jehovah’s Witness kids to pledge the flag. This came three years after Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940), a fairly wretched decision that led to lynchings and property destruction.

If I were to get a tattoo on my body, it’s this I’d get tattooed (from Justice Jackson, who wrote the opinion in Barnette):

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.

Rick Scott wants to enforce an orthodoxy on all, he can get fucked.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:26:57am

re: #137 mmmirele

I’m just going to point out that point 1 of Rick Scott’s fascist plan is unconstitutional. We can’t make children salute the flag, per West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943). The Supreme Court ruled that the state did not have the right to compel speech, in this case, forcing Jehovah’s Witness kids to pledge the flag. This came three years after Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940), a fairly wretched decision that led to lynchings and property destruction.

If I were to get a tattoo on my body, it’s this I’d get tattooed (from Justice Jackson, who wrote the opinion in Barnette):

Rick Scott wants to enforce an orthodoxy on all, he can get fucked.

you are right, of course.

as today’s electoral-vote.com summarized (where I first read about it)

One has to look long and hard, and squint very carefully, to find anything here that could be considered in the ballpark of a serious policy proposal. The Contract with America, on which this is modeled, had actual policy ideas (though some of them were pretty inside baseball). Scott, by contrast, is offering things that have virtually no meaning (“starve Washington’s economy”?), or else things that aren’t achievable (e.g., getting rid of separation of church and state). Of course, there are also generous dollops of fascism (mandatory flag saluting) and irony (“we believe the [alleged] science” on gender identity, but not on, say, vaccines or global warming).

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:49:16am

OUCH! That’s going to leave a mark. (IF it’s not a “shop”).

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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:52:03am
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Dopamine Fish  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:55:19am

re: #140 gocart mozart

You can just fuck right off, asshole.

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:56:30am

re: #140 gocart mozart

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Yeah, declaring that you own the land another country sits upon and rolling in troops is totally not an invasion.////////

Remember when we were supposed to think this guy was some sort of “hero”?

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:57:29am

re: #140 gocart mozart

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 6:58:58am

re: #140 gocart mozart

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I really wish the CIA could would get someone close enough to that little fuck to slip him some polonium.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:02:06am

re: #139 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

OUCH! That’s going to leave a mark. (IF it’s not a “shop”).

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There was a Mexican restaurant in Lake Tahoe that used to have a mural like that painted on the wall over the urinals.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:04:59am

re: #144 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I really wish the CIA could would get someone close enough to that little fuck to slip him some polonium.

Just plant some rumor that he’s not loyal to Putin and he’ll fall out of his hospital window.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:05:01am

Pay no attention to this post.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:07:42am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:10:33am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:11:01am

re: #120 HRH Stanley Sea

So Russia is a de-gifter. Jerks.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:12:22am

re: #147 The Pie Overlord!

Pay no attention to this post.

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Teukka  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:12:52am

And bonus:

Pointed out for those hard of seeing

Background to the runes: ᛟ - Odal, ᛏ - Tyr.
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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:13:02am

re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Rafael Cruz has a sad because Biden’s taking his talking point away from him.

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:16:02am

re: #139 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

OUCH! That’s going to leave a mark. (IF it’s not a “shop”).

I wouldn’t care, but I wonder how many bullet holes it will have by the end of the year.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:23:09am

re: #75 Barefoot Grin

Can I work on the railroad? You know, just to pass the time away?

Just so you tell aunt Rhody

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:23:16am

re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth

She’s cute as a button as well as smart. I always enjoy her reporting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:24:44am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:33:12am

It’s also being reported that Ukrainian banks are under cyberattack as well.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:34:34am

TAX THE POOR!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:34:40am

re: #160 Dr Lizardo

It’s also being reported that Ukrainian banks are under cyberattack as well.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:34:50am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:37:27am
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Teukka  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:38:38am

This is so based I just have to share. OCR’ed text behind spoiler. I hereby place the OCR (not the original comment itself) in the public domain. As-is, no warranties, do not inhale, ventilate well, etc.

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Adam Something
3 hours ago

This is a brief consideration of my Ukraine content, mainly the responses I got, and the state of online leftism in general.

The underlying principle driving my Ukraine takes is that I don’t like it when autocracies annex democratic countries in 21st century Europe. This is a perfectly defensible position, that no one intheir right mind would oppose. Or would they?

Enter tankies, a.k.a. authoritarian “leftists”. I’ve gotten plenty of responses from them, and based on those, I’ve never been more comfortable calling them what they are: red nazis. It makes sense, since Vladimir Putin himself is a far-right leader who runs an autocratic, crony-capitalist oligarchy. During his address about Ukraine and the Donbass, he even invoked the famous “blood and soil” argument, and I don’t need to tell you where that comes from.

For any leftist in their right mind, “reunification of ethnically homogenous areas” should ring all sorts of alarm bells. I thought one of the main ideas of leftism was that nation and ethnicity are artificial divides, the real one being between workers and owners. The former are still bound by borders, while the latter is increasingly global.

In light of this, tankies told me how the annexation of Crimea and the Donbass are okay, because there is a high percentage of ethnically Russian people in both places. This is the exact argumentation actual nazis used when Hitler annexed the German parts of Czechoslovakia in 1938 (Sudetenland). Isn’t that interesting.

Another big talking point is the “Ukrainian neo nazis”. We can’t support Ukraine, they say, because our aid will also make it to the Azov Batallion, etc. This is a conservative argument, often made against Palestinians, when they try to equate the Palestinian struggle with Hamas. We cant support Palestinians, they say, because our aid will also make it to Hamas and other Islamists.

Generally speaking, conservative ideas involve turning your brain off, and yielding to your biases and intuition. You start out with “trans people are disgusting”, “blacks are violent thugs”, “Muslims are scary”, and so on, and then you go and listen to Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, PragerU, etc. who validate and cultivate these feelings and biases in you.

Leftist ideas tend to involve the opposite. You recognize your biases, and that your intuition might not always be correct, thus you’re willing to consider ideas and possibly change your mind, even if they contradict said biases and intuition.

From tankies, I’ve seen very little of the latter, and a whole lot of the former. Almost as if they hold fundamentally right-wing, authoritarian views with a thin veil of progressivism over it.

This view of mine is reinforced by the kind of responses I got. You know how online conservatives and alt-righters usually respond to my takes? Instead of arguments, it’s either Ben Shapiro talking points, or the usual “soyboy libeuck SJW commie anti-white reeee”.
As for tankies, I cannot recall a single argument against any of my positions regarding Ukraine. It’s always either parroting proven Russian disinfo, or the usual “NATO state department CIA shill US imperialism reeee”.

To quote a Ben Shapiro classic: “Curious.”

Tankies aren’t leftists. They think they are, which is both funny and sad. If they were, they wouldn’t support Vladimir Putin, a far-right leader engaged in ethno-nationalist imperialism.

It’s your ideas and values that make you a leftist, not how much you hate the US.


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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:38:43am

re: #93 lawhawk

GOP wants to continue shifting all the burdens on to those least able to endure them so that millionaires like Trump can get even more tax breaks. SS/DD.

Let’s also recall that millionaires get a huge tax break by not having to pay any tax for OASDI (Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid tax) on income over $147,000 in 2022. Someone with income under that level pays more in tax than someone who makes more than that, since a person making $250k would not pay this tax on every dollar over $147,000, meaning they get to keep even more of their money. This also helps explain the solvency issues Social Security has - if everyone were required to pay this tax on all income, not just up to the threshold, we’d see a more stable SS system.

Poor people already pay more than their fair share in tax, considering that they use a greater percentage of their income to pay taxes - sales taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, etc., than someone who is rich.

The Medicaid scammer who paid a record fine and somehow avoided prison for running one of the largest scams of its kind, wants poor people to pay more.

It’s entirely on brand for the GOP.

Let’s not forget that SS/Medicare taxes are based on earned income, not investment income. So many of the wealthiest escape contributing anything to Medicare or Social Security before they are eligible for Medicare.

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:42:17am

“Skin in the game,” the line that Repubs use when they want to tax poor people while protecting a tax system that allows companies to not only avoid paying any taxes but even sees the federal government cutting them checks worth millions annually.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:43:22am
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Teukka  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:44:34am

re: #165 Teukka

This is so based I just have to share. OCR’ed text behind spoiler. I hereby place the OCR (not the original comment itself) in the public domain. As-is, no warranties, do not inhale, ventilate well, etc.

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New synonym for “tankies” detected: “Red Nazis”, “Red Fascists”.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:47:42am

re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter

Let’s not forget that SS/Medicare taxes are based on earned income, not investment income. So many of the wealthiest escape contributing anything to Medicare or Social Security before they are eligible for Medicare.

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but don’t you get out of Social Security what you pay in? So if you remove the cap for income, do you not increase the payout?

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:51:16am

When you hear a Repub utter the words “skin in the game,” nine times outta ten what will immediately follow is an argument for taxing the poors to make up for budget shortfalls that came about through tax cuts for the rich. And usually the people make such arguments are the same sort that think that living in a building with A/C (like every house built in the past half-century) or having a microwave (which are dime a dozen at your local Goodwill) mean you have too much money to qualify as “poor.”

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:53:38am

re: #140 gocart mozart

He lives under Putin’s shadow in Russia. He can’t admit that Russia is in the wrong.

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JC1  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:56:43am

re: #167 Targetpractice

“Skin in the game,” the line that Repubs use when they want to tax poor people while protecting a tax system that allows companies to not only avoid paying any taxes but even sees the federal government cutting them checks worth millions annually.

I think that there is some merit to the ‘skin in the game’ argument in theory, but in practice it makes no sense, especially in the US where the tax filing process is so stupid. The additional burden of going through the filing process would be more of a PITA for low income earners than a $50 or whatever token tax.

Also, ironically, it was the GOP’s drive to lower taxes and increase deductions that allow most low income people to not pay any federal income tax, so of course the GOP is railing against the ‘problem’ they helped create.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:57:24am

re: #161 darthstar

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Sherlock Hound  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:57:58am

re: #172 Patricia Kayden

He lives under Putin’s shadow in Russia. He can’t admit that Russia is in the wrong.

Thanks to Papa Putin, Snowden is talking with a cylindrical object in his mouth.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 7:59:48am

re: #147 The Pie Overlord!

Pay no attention to this post.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:02:56am
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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:05:36am

re: #173 JC1

I think that there is some merit to the ‘skin in the game’ argument in theory, but in practice it makes no sense, especially in the US where the tax filing process is so stupid. The additional burden of going through the filing process would be more of a PITA for low income earners than a $50 or whatever token tax.

Also, ironically, it was the GOP’s drive to lower taxes and increase deductions that allow most low income people to not pay any federal income tax, so of course the GOP is railing against the ‘problem’ they helped create.

Tfg had zero or negative personal income tax for many years

NOL carry forwards etc

Does that in and of itself mean he has no skin in the game?

Absurd
Of course not

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:06:09am

Rep. Tlaib is going to give a “rebuttal” to the SOTU.

Unfu… nope. Totally fucking believable. Instead of criticizing GOPers who are out to strip people like Tlaib of their very civil and voting rights, these left wing extremists are going to criticize Biden for getting what he could out of a 48/50/2 Senate and a near even House, where the GOP in opposition are nearly 100% stacked against Biden and Democrats.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:08:19am
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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:09:16am

CPAC will meet in Hungary this spring. Hungary has a eastern border with the Ukraine. The GOP can wave Russian flags and have KGB speakers. Give praise to Putin. Invite Trump. Get envelopes with money. Tear down democracy.
You know. Like any American political party would do.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:09:50am
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Teukka  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:10:56am

And of course Russia Today has gone into full propaganda tool mode:

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:11:44am

re: #170 Shropshire Slasher

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but don’t you get out of Social Security what you pay in? So if you remove the cap for income, do you not increase the payout?

You get out an amount based on a formula tied to average income. In 2019, the formula was:

90% of the first $926 in AIME
32% of the amount of AIME between $926 and $5,583
15% of the amount equal to or greater than $5,583 in AIME

So if they raise the maximum, they can reduce the percentage applicable to that higher amount; e.g. they can make it 1% or .01% on AIME that exceed, e.g., $20,000

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Belafon  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:14:29am

re: #173 JC1

I think that there is some merit to the ‘skin in the game’ argument in theory, but in practice it makes no sense, especially in the US where the tax filing process is so stupid. The additional burden of going through the filing process would be more of a PITA for low income earners than a $50 or whatever token tax.

Also, ironically, it was the GOP’s drive to lower taxes and increase deductions that allow most low income people to not pay any federal income tax, so of course the GOP is railing against the ‘problem’ they helped create.

Especially since everyone pays taxes at some point, whether it’s buying clothes, paying for your car’s registration, property taxes, or income taxes.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:16:58am

re: #98 lawhawk

France would like a word too. Spain too.

Louisiana Purchase anyone?

And the Iroquois Confederation would like a word too.

And all the other Native American tribes whose lands were stolen from them.

We, as a nation can never recover from those broken treaties, nor from the desecration that happened in the black hills as a testament to…something.

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:17:44am

re: #182 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Scranton TV news carried a glowing segment on this dipstick. They gave him a few minutes and his entire purpose was to get back to “before Biden”. He cares. He sympathizes with the Canadian truckers. He about sums up stupid.

Here’s the convoy so far.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:18:10am
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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:19:56am

re: #19 austin_blue

And I’m for the rack.

I want to see the Republican Fuckmuppets all charged for giving aid and comfort to Russia.

Put ‘em in the gray bar motel for six months and see if they see the light.

No.

Gitmo.

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mmmirele  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:23:09am

I swear I am on the verge of quitting my job.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:23:10am

I hate the phrase “skin in the game.” It suggests that if I’m a student or a low wage worker I’m not participating in the great American experiment. Many companies are successful because of millions of low-wage workers (some students and retirees). The term is just as bogus as “job creators.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:23:13am

so, so, sadly true…

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:23:46am

Little back history on Scranton convoy mastermind. Not his first rodeo.

Bolus is a Trump Humping moron. Past works…

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:23:50am

re: #173 JC1

I think that there is some merit to the ‘skin in the game’ argument in theory, but in practice it makes no sense, especially in the US where the tax filing process is so stupid. The additional burden of going through the filing process would be more of a PITA for low income earners than a $50 or whatever token tax.

Also, ironically, it was the GOP’s drive to lower taxes and increase deductions that allow most low income people to not pay any federal income tax, so of course the GOP is railing against the ‘problem’ they helped create.

The “skin in the game” argument is a deliberately bad faith argument based largely upon the idea that there are a bunch of “free-riders” who are living comfortably on you (the general taxpaying you) and your hard work. The idea that there’s millions of people sitting at home, whacking it to internet porn and eating delivery food while you’re sweating your life away at a thankless blue collar job.

Even a cursory glance at research into this mythical pool of “young bucks” and “welfare queens” shows that the majority of them are either too young or too old to pay taxes. But you’re not told that, you’re just supposed to hear “half the country doesn’t pay taxes” and assume they’re all healthy and able-bodied folks who choose to be poor so they can avoid paying income taxes.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:24:58am

re: #184 Hecuba’s daughter

You get out an amount based on a formula tied to average income. In 2019, the formula was:

So if they raise the maximum, they can reduce the percentage applicable to that higher amount; e.g. they can make it 1% or .01% on AIME that exceed, e.g., $20,000

More complex than I thought. Thank you for the time you took to look that up, I appreciate it.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:26:06am

Tidal decided that Joe Jackson’s Sunday Papers just decided that I should hear this; the modern political acumen.
google.com

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:26:46am

How about flat tax and a free pineapple pizza for every oven!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:28:00am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:30:18am
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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:33:01am

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Facebook continues to condone a pay to play scheme that advances right wing disinformation across FB ecosphere unchecked, despite being clear TOS violation.

Read the whole thread:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:33:20am
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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:35:03am
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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:36:23am

re: #201 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wait the fucker is citing a foreign law as dispositive on criminalizing parents of trans children? Wasn’t that supposed to be illegal/improper?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:42:20am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:44:02am

re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m sure Scott would set up some system where citizens could report other citizens as being lazy good-for-nothings that should be taxed for being minorities.
//

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:44:51am
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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:47:58am

re: #197 Shropshire Slasher

How about flat tax and a free pineapple pizza for every oven!

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Flat taxes generally don’t work for a variety of reasons.

A few—
1. What is defined as income?
2. Are there deductions? Exemptions?
3. 5% on income of $20,000 is far greater in real terms than 25% on income of $1,000,000. After all, it’s not as though other costs are expressed as a percentage of income: a gallon of milk costs the same regardless of your income level. Indeed, often those who are poor pay a far higher price for their goods and services.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:49:16am

re: #202 lawhawk

And Marc Elias racks up another win. His law firm has done a great job of blocking egregious GOP Gerrymanders around the country.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:50:46am

re: #208 No Malarkey!

And Marc Elias racks up another win. His law firm has done a great job of blocking egregious GOP Gerrymanders around the country.

At least until they reach SCOTUS, which will then do its best to overturn these nonpartisan maps in favor of gerrymandered maps that silence minorities.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:52:01am

re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth

Scott throwing red meat to the base demonstrates what the values of the GOP are, even if its never enacted into law. Tax the poor! Slash the social safety net! Keep scary brown people out! Indoctrinate the children!

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Targetpractice  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:52:19am

re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Scott’s basically farked himself into a very deep hole and is violating the rule regarding finding yourself in one by continuing to dig. He’s trying the penalty/fee route, but then farking even that up by suggesting that the federal government will judge whether or not people qualify. And compounding it by suggesting that the people who already have to jump through numerous hoops just to qualify for government assistance are really shiftless layabouts who are mooching off the rest of us.

The campaign ads write themselves at this point: Show stay-at-home mom who reported no income last year but qualified for SNAP benefits last year with the caption “Republicans want to penalize her for not working.” Then a picture of an elderly couple who are living on fixed incomes supplemented by SS/Medicare benefits with the caption “Republicans say they have no ‘skin in the game.’” Then show a college student who had to take out a federally-guaranteed college loan because she couldn’t afford to pay tuition last year despite working two jobs with the caption “Republicans think she doesn’t work hard enough.” And finalize it with a clip of Trump boasting that you have to be “stupid” to pay taxes.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:53:56am

re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter

At least until they reach SCOTUS, which will then do its best to overturn these nonpartisan maps in favor of gerrymandered maps that silence minorities.

SCOTUS can’t overturn the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling based on the Pa Constitution. Or the North Carolina Supreme Court ruling based on the NC Constitution.

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:55:12am

re: #170 Shropshire Slasher

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but don’t you get out of Social Security what you pay in? So if you remove the cap for income, do you not increase the payout?

Up to whatever amount Congress has authorized for the new formula. They can still cap that. (actually… most people get more out of social security than they put in. because depending on your age, you’ve been putting in 6% or 9% of your income per year for maybe 40 or 45 years, and what you get back is definitely more than 9% of your pre-retirement income, and it goes as many years as you live past retirement age).

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:56:28am

FDA does more disease prevention — I am sure conservatives will go nutso

fda.gov

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:57:26am

re: #214 Colère Tueur de Lapin

FDA does more disease prevention — I am sure conservatives will go nutso

fda.gov

People have the right to get sick and be sick and get other people sick!

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 23, 2022 • 8:58:36am

re: #170 Shropshire Slasher

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but don’t you get out of Social Security what you pay in? So if you remove the cap for income, do you not increase the payout?

Social security payout is based on your average income, so the cap changes nothing. Social security is paid for as long as you live — it doesn’t stop when the amount you paid in runs out,

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:00:42am

re: #203 lawhawk

Wait the fucker is citing a foreign law as dispositive on criminalizing parents of trans children? Wasn’t that supposed to be illegal/improper?

Since when has something being illegal stopped that raging POS? He’s going to be challenged on this and will take it all the way up to the SCOTUS in the hope they will treat this like they treated his abortion law and do nothing.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:06:04am

re: #194 Targetpractice

The “skin in the game” argument is a deliberately bad faith argument…

… But you’re not told that, you’re just supposed to hear “half the country doesn’t pay taxes” and assume they’re all healthy and able-bodied folks who choose to be poor so they can avoid paying income taxes.

again, like the previous president of the country

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:06:27am

re: #216 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Social security payout is based on your average income, so the cap changes nothing. Social security is paid for as long as you live — it doesn’t stop when the amount you paid in runs out,

The cap does affect the payout. Average income is an average based on earnings up to that cap for a year, and then indexed to wage inflation between the year earned and (maybe) the year you reach age 60. In 1998 the cap was 68,400 and in 1999 the cap was 72,600. In calculating the AIME (Average indexed monthly earnings), the income earned in 1998 was limited to 68,400 and that in 1999 was limited to 72,600. Anything in excess is ignored. The capped earnings in 1998 are then indexed from 1998 to the year you reached age 60(?). The AIME is then determined by averaging the highest 35 indexed pays.

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austin_blue  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:07:30am

re: #79 sagehen

weird-ass weather forecast here in NYC.

60º now, expected to get close to 70º later in the day, then down to 33º tonight and tomorrow and snow tomorrow night…

33º here now. That’s pretty much the expected high for the day. Yesterday we were at 88º just after 4 pm.

Wind chill is 23º.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:09:51am

re: #197 Shropshire Slasher

How about flat tax and a free pineapple pizza for every oven!

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You really want civil war.
/

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:11:15am

re: #220 austin_blue

33º here now. That’s pretty much the expected high for the day. Yesterday we were at 88º just after 4 pm.

Wind chill is 23º.

20F in Chicagoland with a flood advisory in effect.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:13:01am

“Now listen here, you balding, arrogant, son of a bitch…”

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:13:03am

re: #190 mmmirele

I swear I am on the verge of quitting my job.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:13:47am

I don’t post too much. Y’all don’t post enough.

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:14:31am

Giggity

He’ll be back — and apparently better than ever.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plant-based lifestyle has reversed his “bad” cholesterol, he announced in his latest email newsletter.

The “Terminator” actor, 74, has spent the last five years eating an 80% vegan diet — with room for the occasional steak or Austrian wiener schnitzel — saying it helped him feel “healthier and younger overall.”

nypost.com

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:19:02am

re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter

At least until they reach SCOTUS, which will then do its best to overturn these nonpartisan maps in favor of gerrymandered maps that silence minorities.

Sorry to mellow your harsh, but In Rucho vs. Common Cause, the Supes ruled that questions of partisanship in redistricting couldn’t be adjudicated by SCOTUS. This was a 5-4 ruling, the majority being the court’s conservative justices.

If that continues to hold (and it has so far) then the states that refer maps denied by the state courts won’t get any help from federal courts.

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A Cranky One  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:20:38am

So the spouse’s kindle stopped working.
She had to do a factory reset to recover.

Now her mom’s has stopped working.

Is Amazon pushing out flakey updates?

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:20:43am

re: #219 Hecuba’s daughter

Thanks. Did not know.

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:20:48am

Just in time for rush hour. Sitting in traffic covered in spit wasn’t in the plan I bet.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:22:23am

re: #230 nines09

“How many registered motor vehicles are there in the U.S.? Some 276 million vehicles were registered here in 2020.”
statista.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:24:16am

And today is a holiday in Russia: День защитников отечества (Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland)

“Now with EVEN MORE Fatherland to defend!!!”

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:24:41am

Trump announced his intention last month to cut by about a third the 36,000-strong U.S. troop contingent in Germany, faulting the close U.S. ally for failing to meet NATO’s defense spending target and accusing it of taking advantage of the United States on trade.

“We don’t want to be the suckers any more,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday about the decision. “We’re reducing the force because they’re not paying their bills; it’s very simple.”
reuters.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:25:45am

re: #233 jaunte

“We don’t want to be the suckers any more,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday about the decision. “We’re reducing the force because they’re not paying their bills; it’s very simple.”

Lots of people supported him on that. People who want us to Run Government Like a Business.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:25:51am
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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:26:40am

re: #230 nines09

C.W. McCall - Convoy

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:26:52am

re: #233 jaunte

FFG’s intentions are always hard to gauge. Because he really is that dumb, as well as malevolent.

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:27:55am

re: #237 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Dumb, malevolent, and owned.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:28:58am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:29:29am

re: #236 Shropshire Slasher

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was just about to post that.

back in days when a bunch of pseudo-self-employed entrepreneurs felt disadvantaged by a government policy of reducing speed limits to save fuel consumption, thereby lengthening the time it took them to haul a load of romaine lettuce from CA to NY by nearly 12 hours…

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:29:45am

2022: Buellton, California

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:30:28am

re: #236 Shropshire Slasher

Breaker breaker one niner where’s that Rubber Ducky kick it back (BEEP)
10 roger Jizzface we got ourselves a convoy….voy..voy..voy..(BEEP)

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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:32:31am
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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:33:15am

re: #236 Shropshire Slasher

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so glad the 70s arent coming back

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:34:14am

re: #230 nines09

Just in time for rush hour. Sitting in traffic covered in spit wasn’t in the plan I bet.

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Jay C  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:34:22am

re: #241 So Cal Greek Hippie

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Whoa! Pea Soup Andersen’s!
Takes me back: always was a handy stop when driving north from SoCal to NorCal.
The soup was just OK, but since it was “famous” (mostly from that inane logo), you always just HAD to have some “at source”. Of course, at the restaurants, I’m sure the soup was just out of a bigger can than the store-bought stuff: but hey! Atmosphere, right!!

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retired cynic  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:35:58am
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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:37:14am

re: #214 Colère Tueur de Lapin

FDA does more disease prevention — I am sure conservatives will go nutso

fda.gov

The sort of thing conservatives will outlaw if Griswold were reversed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:39:28am
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:42:26am

re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:42:31am
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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:43:28am

re: #246 Jay C

Whoa! Pea Soup Andersen’s!
Takes me back: always was a handy stop when driving north from SoCal to NorCal.
The soup was just OK, but since it was “famous” (mostly from that inane logo), you always just HAD to have some “at source”. Of course, at the restaurants, I’m sure the soup was just out of a bigger can than the store-bought stuff: but hey! Atmosphere, right!!

i’ve motorcycled hundreds of miles to eat somewhere that if it was in my own town, i’d just drive past.

anything as an excuse to get on the road.

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:43:50am

re: #244 Dangerman

so glad the 70s arent coming back

are you sure they’re not?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:44:25am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:44:53am

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:45:10am

Bear in mind, this is not confirmed, so in a spoiler tag….

Click to Reveal
Click to Reveal

Translation - “Kuleba: Negotiations are underway to cover our airspace with NATO forces” Kuleba is the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, BTW.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:45:39am

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

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jaunte  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:46:20am
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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:46:33am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:46:38am
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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:46:45am

re: #253 sagehen

are you sure they’re not?

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well, they can come back, but i aint playing this time.

i’d eat pineapple pizza first

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Jay C  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:48:52am

Just BTW:
With the notable exception of Sen. Mitt Romney: have ANY prominent Republicans (officeholders or otherwise) publicly come out in condemnation of Putin’s Russian land-grab in Ukraine?

I’ve been scouring the Intertoobz for public statements, and, except for TFFG’s disgusting praise for Putin’s invasion, I have found very little.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:49:34am

re: #246 Jay C

They were closed yesterday so I missed the interior hype
Went to very good Mexican restaurant across the street with a dog friendly patio for lunch

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:50:34am

re: #262 Jay C

Just BTW:
With the notable exception of Sen. Mitt Romney: have ANY prominent Republicans (officeholders or otherwise) publicly come out in condemnation of Putin’s Russian land-grab in Ukraine?

I’ve been scouring the Intertoobz for public statements, and, except for TFFG’s disgusting praise for Putin’s invasion, I have found very little.

Mitch McConnell did.

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Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:50:37am

re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The ghost of Malcolm X needs to come back and smack that smirk right off Kyle’s smarmy face. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 (not enough sweary face emoji’s to convey my white-hot rage at that meme).

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:50:51am

re: #261 Dangerman

well, they can come back, but i aint playing this time.

i’d eat pineapple pizza first

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:50:56am

re: #255 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

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i never tried the buttons.

when i had horses i put up a single electrified wire around the turnout.

they stopped leaning on the cyclone fence.

eventually the transformer stopped working. horses never knew cause they stopped checking.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:51:41am

re: #256 Dr Lizardo

Bear in mind, this is not confirmed, so in a spoiler tag….

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That may be wishful thinking by Ukraine. I’m very doubtful that NATO will send warplanes into a combat zone.

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:52:19am

re: #262 Jay C

Just BTW:
With the notable exception of Sen. Mitt Romney: have ANY prominent Republicans (officeholders or otherwise) publicly come out in condemnation of Putin’s Russian land-grab in Ukraine?

I’ve been scouring the Intertoobz for public statements, and, except for TFFG’s disgusting praise for Putin’s invasion, I have found very little.

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:52:25am

re: #266 sagehen

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do NOT test me on this ;-)

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:52:37am

Not all convoys suck.

Unless you saw the coffin on the flatbed trailer in the lead, you might have thought the convoy of more than 200 trucks in central Missouri on Monday was a political statement of some kind.

But the long procession on Highway 54 from Eugene to Jefferson City was in honor of a 13-year-old named Dalton Frank who loved trucks and often told his uncle that he wanted to be part of a convoy someday.

The uncle, 33-year-old Carey Frank, led the way in his big, gleaming Peterbilt with the boy’s father beside him. The only message Carey and his fellow truckers were seeking to convey concerned bullying, which is what they say drove the eighth grader to take his own life on Feb. 14.

“This is just about a 13-year-old boy who was bullied,” Carey told The Daily Beast “It has nothing to do with politics at all.”

He added, “It’s kind of like Truckers Against Bullying.”

This Truck Convoy Carried a 13-Year-Old’s Coffin (The Daily Beast)

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:53:42am

re: #268 No Malarkey!

That may be wishful thinking by Ukraine. I’m very doubtful that NATO will send warplanes into a combat zone.

I’m doubtful as well. On the other hand, it could serve as a deterrent to Putin. Raise the stakes a bit and see what he does. Let’s see just how bad he wants Ukraine.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:53:47am

re: #266 sagehen

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I like that doorway.

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:54:00am

re: #236 Shropshire Slasher

Don’t forget this gem. BJ and The Bear. Trucker with a chimp as co driver. Bunk was a zoo.
Billy Joe was a drug store truck driving man.

Youtube Video

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:54:14am

re: #262 Jay C

Just BTW:
With the notable exception of Sen. Mitt Romney: have ANY prominent Republicans (officeholders or otherwise) publicly come out in condemnation of Putin’s Russian land-grab in Ukraine?

I’ve been scouring the Intertoobz for public statements, and, except for TFFG’s disgusting praise for Putin’s invasion, I have found very little.

this am’s electoral-vote.com

So, who is not unified? How about the Republicans? Some of them, like apostate Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) are squarely behind Biden. After all, they are holdovers from the time when Republicans did not like Godless Commies in general and Russia in particular. Similarly, although he attempted to place some of the blame for this situation on Biden, due to the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called for “the toughest possible sanctions” against Putin.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:54:46am

re: #274 nines09

Don’t forget this gem. BJ and The Bear. Trucker with a chimp as co driver. Bunk was a zoo.
Billy Joe was a drug store truck driving man.

[Embedded content]

LOL, I remember that show.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:55:13am

Republicans

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Dangerman  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:55:59am

re: #276 Dr Lizardo

LOL, I remember that show.

as i recall:

“i’ll haul anything. a buck and a half a mile”

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:55:59am

re: #269 sagehen

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:56:47am

re: #261 Dangerman

well, they can come back, but i aint playing this time.

i’d eat pineapple pizza first

Welcome to the dark side of the pizza.

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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:56:52am

re: #263 So Cal Greek Hippie

The place I work has dog-friendly accommodations out front. Yesterday, the breakfast cook was making a delivery out there, and when she set the plate on the table, the toast was grabbed by a dog. She went back in to make more toast so the human could have some, too.

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Jay C  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:57:03am

re: #269 sagehen

It really is a weird timeline we’re living in: only a couple of years ago, I would have thought it exceptionally bizarre to think of anything that might give me even the most grudging admiration for Liz Cheney: scion (scioness?) of one of the sleaziest political dynasties in the land.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:57:40am

re: #262 Jay C

Just BTW:
With the notable exception of Sen. Mitt Romney: have ANY prominent Republicans (officeholders or otherwise) publicly come out in condemnation of Putin’s Russian land-grab in Ukraine?

I’ve been scouring the Intertoobz for public statements, and, except for TFFG’s disgusting praise for Putin’s invasion, I have found very little.

not prominent, but a local embarrassment nonetheless:

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:58:04am

re: #278 Dangerman

as i recall:

“i’ll haul anything. a buck and a half a mile”

I also remember the spinoff, The Misadventures of Sherriff Lobo. Starred Claude Akins.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Feb 23, 2022 • 9:58:34am

re: #277 No Malarkey!

Kentucky GOP Rep. Walker Thomas & Sen. Rick Girdler both used the phrase “Jew them down” in reference to bargaining for a lower price on a lease in a committee meeting:

But I am sure he fully supports Israel and condemned Ilhan Omar for saying “follow the Benjamins”

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sagehen  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:02:48am

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

But I am sure he fully supports Israel and condemned Ilhan Omar for saying “follow the Benjamins”

Dead Presidents

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:03:00am

re: #277 No Malarkey!

Republicans

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wrenchwench  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:04:26am

I did my Threedle:

Click to Reveal

Wordle 249 3/6

⬜⬜🟧⬜🟧
🟧🟧🟧⬜🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

It’s the second in a row with no correct letters in incorrect places. Looks odd.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:06:37am
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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:06:50am

re: #282 Jay C

It really is a weird timeline we’re living in: only a couple of years ago, I would have thought it exceptionally bizarre to think of anything that might give me even the most grudging admiration for Liz Cheney: scion (scioness?) of one of the sleaziest political dynasties in the land.

The bar for being a “good Republican” is so low it has been buried. All you have to do is oppose a violent fascist coup, something most Republicans can’t say.

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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:08:05am
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weststpaulbear  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:08:51am

Anyone else having trouble with wifi service today? I tried calling CenturyLink to see if it’s a larger problem but I couldn’t get through. Is this an attack?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:11:39am
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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:13:01am

re: #292 stpaulbear

Anyone else having trouble with wifi service today? I tried calling CenturyLink to see if it’s a larger problem but I couldn’t get through. Is this an attack?

Not me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:13:49am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:14:33am

re: #292 stpaulbear

Anyone else having trouble with wifi service today? I tried calling CenturyLink to see if it’s a larger problem but I couldn’t get through. Is this an attack?

No problems here in Twin that I have noted.

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weststpaulbear  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:17:26am

re: #294 No Malarkey!

re: #296 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Thanks. I’ll keep trying to get through to C-Link. My DSL and land line are still working fine. Wifi still not working.

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gocart mozart  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:18:46am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:18:50am
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danarchy  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:19:56am

re: #274 nines09

Don’t forget this gem. BJ and The Bear. Trucker with a chimp as co driver. Bunk was a zoo.
Billy Joe was a drug store truck driving man.

[Embedded content]

A show about a truck driver and his Chimp and it isn’t Every which way but loose? The 70’s was a weird time.

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darthstar  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:20:23am

re: #182 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Onevoy.

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Citizen K  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:20:24am

re: #201 Backwoods_Sleuth

Texas is run by monsters. Full stop. And the system is so broken that they’ll probably be rewarded for this, even as they commit to literal genocide on trans folk, with little care for the fallout or collateral. And they won’t stop there either. THey’ll go after the whole LGBT slate if they can get away with this, and then extrapolate that toward beating non-whites, religious minorities, and women back into submission after that if they keep going, because the end game has always been white male Christian supremacy.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:20:43am

re: #297 stpaulbear

Thanks. I’ll keep trying to get through to C-Link. My DSL and land line are still working fine. Wifi still not working.

Sounds like a modem problem to me. What one are you using? I have the C1100Z

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:21:31am
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Teddy's Person  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:21:41am

😁😁😁😁😁

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JC1  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:24:05am

re: #194 Targetpractice

The “skin in the game” argument is a deliberately bad faith argument based largely upon the idea that there are a bunch of “free-riders” who are living comfortably on you (the general taxpaying you) and your hard work. The idea that there’s millions of people sitting at home, whacking it to internet porn and eating delivery food while you’re sweating your life away at a thankless blue collar job.

Even a cursory glance at research into this mythical pool of “young bucks” and “welfare queens” shows that the majority of them are either too young or too old to pay taxes. But you’re not told that, you’re just supposed to hear “half the country doesn’t pay taxes” and assume they’re all healthy and able-bodied folks who choose to be poor so they can avoid paying income taxes.

Not how I see the phrase, and likely more white people pay 0% federal income tax than minorities.
Though your interpretation is likely how the GOP uses it as a dog whistle.

The phrase makes sense in the case of shared ownership of something, where if you’re even a small fractional owner you’re more likely to take better care of X then if you have no stake. If there was more education towards the idea that citizens are the actual owners of the USA, and that taxes are what we pay for that ownership, etc then maybe more people would bother to vote and be more outraged when they get screwed over.

And no, I’m in no way advocating that lower income people should carry a bigger overall tax burden; quite the opposite. For starters, all income should be taxed at the same rate; passive income shouldn’t get preferential treatment, which is gross. The Bush tax cuts that changed the treatment of dividends should never have passed, and for sure should have been allowed to sunset, yet they’re still in force. It’s a joke.

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unproven innocence  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:24:07am

This short video may help some of us to understand better Putin’s interest in Ukraine.

“The main thing to understand about the Second World War is that the territory of Ukraine is the cause of the Second World War.”
—Intro to Bloodlands: Ukraine in World War II. (10 Things Everyone Should Know About Ukraine) by Timothy Snyder

Youtube Video

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:25:12am

re: #304 Punish Domestic Terrorists

But only if they make the decisions Greg Abbott would make.

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No Malarkey!  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:26:27am
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JC1  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:28:20am

re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter

Flat taxes generally don’t work for a variety of reasons.

A few—
1. What is defined as income?
2. Are there deductions? Exemptions?
3. 5% on income of $20,000 is far greater in real terms than 25% on income of $1,000,000. After all, it’s not as though other costs are expressed as a percentage of income: a gallon of milk costs the same regardless of your income level. Indeed, often those who are poor pay a far higher price for their goods and services.

I could get behind a flat tax where:
1) all income is taxed(earned income, cap gains, etc)
2) 50k exemption, indexed to inflation.

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JC1  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:29:29am

re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter

At least until they reach SCOTUS, which will then do its best to overturn these nonpartisan maps in favor of gerrymandered maps that silence minorities.

Don’t think it can be appealed to SCOTUS. Pretty much a state matter. PA supreme court has final say.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:31:00am

Biden is set to arrive at Noon at Joint Base San Antonio-Kelly Field before her visit to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center. There Biden will get a tour and listening session on addressing cancer health disparities in the Latino community.

Biden will then visit the Child Development Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland where she’ll participate in a session on support of military children with disabilities.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:31:15am

Could we give Ukraine our old Warthogs and all the hellfires they can carry?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:32:49am

re: #302 Citizen K

Texas is run by monsters. Full stop. And the system is so broken that they’ll probably be rewarded for this, even as they commit to literal genocide on trans folk, with little care for the fallout or collateral. And they won’t stop there either. THey’ll go after the whole LGBT slate if they can get away with this, and then extrapolate that toward beating non-whites, religious minorities, and women back into submission after that if they keep going, because the end game has always been white male Christian supremacy.

As I said yesterday, they are no longer content with just shoving us back into the closet. They want us DEAD and are openly advocating policies towards that end. Since I am openly out as a Trans-Woman, I am well aware that every time I go out in public presenting as my true self, I have a fucking bullseye painted on my back. Just one of the “fun” facts of Trans life in a deeply red State.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:36:15am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:45:41am

re: #314 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Let me guess: Some people insist on calling you “Sir”.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:45:51am

Thread.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:48:48am

re: #316 Eclectic Cyborg

Let me guess: Some people insist on calling you “Sir”.

Yep. A good trip out is not getting intentionally misgendered by some ass who thinks they’re being funny.

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weststpaulbear  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:51:28am

re: #303 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Sounds like a modem problem to me. What one are you using? I have the C1100Z

I have the same one. I got through to C-Linik and the tech ran some tests and then had me reset the modem on the back. Works fine now. She also told me that I shouldn’t do a reset without a tech running the tests first, so I should call if it happens again. Who am I to argue? At least she didn’t ask me if I’d tried unplugging and replugging the modem. She may have rolled her eyes a few times while we talked.

Honestly my first reaction when it didn’t work was “Russia!!”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:52:21am
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A Mom Anon  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:53:36am

I wish there was something like Social Security for parents who had to take time away from the workforce to raise kids. I don’t know how it would be funded, but I get tired of hearing all this crap about motherhood being some pinnacle of women’s lives and yet very little exists to support them. If I was divorced and my husband was remarried or dead, I would be eligible for 512 dollars a month from SS on my own. Because I took 13 yrs off of work to help my kid through K-12, and another few beyond that to make sure he got into two programs for young adults to foster more independence via job skills, learning to drive, etc. I spent more than 5 years looking for work before Covid-19 and never got so much as a rejection letter or any response at all. Even walking into places and talking to managers and HR people didn’t work. I have 30 yrs of retail and management experience and spent two years as a personal assistant to a designer who did work for rich clients designing invitations, stationery and other stuff related to that. I also spent about 3 years as a preschool teacher and a substitute teacher for grades K-5 and worked on an auto parts production line. So it’s not like I never held down a job.

I am not the only woman this has happened to surely. My mom wasn’t about to help by watching her grandkids while I worked(many of my old friends had this luxury, I didn’t) and specialized day care cost more than I made a month. So what happens to us if we have no working husband who can collect social security? Once the kids are raised and don’t need us anymore then what? It’s scary to contemplate.

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Captain Magic  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:54:35am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:55:06am

re: #319 stpaulbear

I have the same one. I got through to C-Linik and the tech ran some tests and then had me reset the modem on the back. Works fine now. She also told me that I shouldn’t do a reset without a tech running the tests first, so I should call if it happens again. Who am I to argue? At least she didn’t ask me if I’d tried unplugging and replugging the modem. She may have rolled her eyes a few times while we talked.

Glad to hear your back up and running on wifi.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:56:52am
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Charles Johnson  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:57:09am
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lawhawk  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:57:34am

re: #320 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Cuq de saq
Dickton

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:58:28am
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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:59:16am

Days since Texas was last an international embarrassment: 1 at most, but they’ve probably done something else today.

She says she’s being slut-shamed for her bizarre Not Safe for Work ad.

A West Texas woman running to be the state’s railroad commissioner has turned heads after she posted a TikTok of herself topless and without pants while straddling an oil pumping jack.

Sarah Stogner, 37, tweeted out the controversial video, set to The Sugarhill Gang’s Apache (Jump On It) song, on February 13, writing: ‘They said I needed money. I have other assets.’

The video - which has now been viewed more than 104,800 times - was apparently meant to garner attention for Stogner’s campaign, as she trailed frontrunner Wayne Christian, the incumbent who currently has $766,256 on hand as voters head to the polls, according to Transparency USA, a website that tracks campaign funding.

But in the wake of the video, Stogner was ridiculed online - and even lost the endorsement of one of the state’s major newspapers - while others praised her bravery and success at garnering attention.

‘They say I needed money. I have OTHER assets’: West Texas GOP wannabe railroad commissioner, 37, divides locals after posting TikTok video of herself TOPLESS while straddling oil pumping jack (Daily Fail)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 10:59:23am
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Dr Lizardo  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:00:44am

re: #320 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Here’s a little song with several suggestions….

Youtube Video

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Shropshire Slasher  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:04:52am

re: #328 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I hope she put a sheet or a piece of plastic between her and the drill rig.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:05:10am
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — In the South Bay, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said, “assault weapons, machine guns, and ghost guns” (all illegal weapons), were seized from what they’re calling a “sophisticated ghost gun factory.”

Three people are now in custody, accused of running the operation out of a home in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood.

3 arrested after ‘full-scale ghost gun factory’ found inside San Jose home (ABC 7 San Jose)

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nines09  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:06:13am

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

Real truckers are trying to make a living. And I made more money driving a truck in 1978 than I did in 2000. More miles, less money. There’s about a thousand damn good reasons the industry is short on drivers. At least.
Yeah. Let me go play in traffic and lose money.

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:06:39am

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Crush White Nationalism  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:08:53am
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weststpaulbear  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:11:04am

re: #320 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Big Wood. Nerstrand Big Woods is the name of a MN state park.

I drafted plans for a slightly curved parking lot with a loop that ended up looking even more phallic than that subdivision (think mushrooms). It was kind of embarrassing.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:17:17am

re: #269 sagehen

Trump has decided that what is good for Trump is what is good for “America”. The fascist base and the fearful* GOP is following along in lockstep. While Putin laughs.

* - Assuming there are some non-fascist GOP politicians that are going along as cowards out of fear of being primaried instead of being fascist racists themselves as well.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:24:21am

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

As the isolationist* wing spouts dribble. International connections are much greater than they were in the 1920s/30s in addition to the USA being less self-dependent on resources than they were then. Standing by while the rest of the world goes in chaos is a recipe for disaster since if you let it fester and grow it will come to our shores in a way that it will be very very expensive to stop, assuming it can be stopped at that point.

A general success of US foreign policy, if you want to call it that, and that we did our warfighting in the 20th century on other people’s land and not our own. A major reason we came out of WW2 with a fully intact internal economy and infrastructure while Europe, Japan, etc. were it ruins that would take decades to rebuild.

* - Assuming Massie is actually being an isolationist instead of a Putin toady.

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unproven innocence  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:25:14am

Correction for my post #307 above, I had wrong link for the video; I intended this one:

Youtube Video

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 23, 2022 • 11:33:16am

re: #338 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

As the isolationist* wing spouts dribble. International connections are much greater than they were in the 1920s/30s in addition to the USA being less self-dependent on resources than they were then. Standing by while the rest of the world goes in chaos is a recipe for disaster since if you let it fester and grow it will come to our shores in a way that it will be very very expensive to stop, assuming it can be stopped at that point.

A general success of US foreign policy, if you want to call it that, and that we did our warfighting in the 20th century on other people’s land and not our own. A major reason we came out of WW2 with a fully intact internal economy and infrastructure while Europe, Japan, etc. were it ruins that would take decades to rebuild.

* - Assuming Massie is actually being an isolationist instead of a Putin toady.

Massie is a Rand Paul mini-me


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