The Bob Cesca Podcast: Ice Station Zebra Associates

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

Ice Station Zebra Associates — [Explicit Content] Jody has COVID! Biden canceled student debt for 43 million borrowers. The Red Hat reaction is typically hypocritical. The Red Hats whose PPP loans were forgiven. Trump wants all of “his” documents back. Why are the Republicans so obsessed with Dr. Fauci? COVID deaths under Trump vs Biden. Ron DeSantis’s ridiculous Fauci remarks. Don’t worry, Matt Gaetz is still under federal investigation. Republicans are bringing back corporal punishment in schools. Great news about DACA. With David “TRex” Ferguson, music by Bob Malone, Jim and the Sea Dragons, and more!

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:01:52pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:04:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:06:49pm

White House has got ALL THE RECEIPTS

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:07:51pm

Oh.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:13:58pm

Based on the name, it looks like Truth Social’s hosting is by wingnuts, so Trump is just scamming his own idiot fans.

Karl Rove warning for the unrelated autoplay video.

Former President Donald Trump’s social media outfit, Truth Social, is locked in a bitter battle with one of its vendors claiming that the platform is stiffing the company out of more than $1 million in contractually obligated payments, FOX Business has learned.

If the allegations are true, they would suggest that Truth Social’s finances are in significant disarray, people with direct knowledge of the matter say. Internet infrastructure company RightForge is said to be among Truth Social’s largest vendors and creditors, these people say.

In October, RightForge announced it entered into an agreement to host Truth Social, which Trump helped create after he was banned by Twitter following the Jan. 6 riots. RightForge now contends that Truth Social has reneged on its contractually obligated monthly payments for setting up the platform’s web-servicing infrastructure, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter.

These people say RightForge contends that Truth Social has made just three payments and ceased making any payments since around March. RightForge claims that Truth Social owes it around $1.6 million and is threatening legal action to recoup the money, these people add.

Trump’s social media app facing financial fallout (Fox Business)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:14:52pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:15:17pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

White House has got ALL THE RECEIPTS

It almost looks like they’re… GETTING IT. Dare we hope?

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:16:13pm

re: #5 Crush White Nationalism

Based on the name, it looks like Truth Social’s hosting is by wingnuts, so Trump is just scamming his own idiot fans.

Karl Rove warning for the unrelated autoplay video.

Trump’s social media app facing financial fallout (Fox Business)

Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of racist misogynists.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:17:31pm

re: #4 GlutenFreeJesus

Charles posted a link to an article on it in the last thread you may want to read.
re: #55 Charles Johnson

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:18:20pm
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Grunthos the Flatulent  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:19:10pm

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EPR-radar  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:19:16pm

re: #8 Florida Panhandler

Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of racist misogynists.

It still cracks me up that Rick Scott appears to be robbing the RNSC blind. Here also it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of racist, misogynist pigs.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:20:46pm

This is a still from Warehouse 13 S02E02 for the Firefly fans here.
The series is on a bunch of streaming services if you want to watch the episode.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:22:37pm

re: #13 Crush White Nationalism

Is that the guy from Yellowstone?

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:23:52pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

White House has got ALL THE RECEIPTS

Got hypocrisy?

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:35:15pm

re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg

Is that the guy from Yellowstone?

Only if the guy from Firefly is in Yellowstone.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:37:44pm

re: #16 Crush White Nationalism

Only if the guy from Firefly is in Yellowstone.

I checked. Not who I thought it was.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:39:12pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:43:13pm

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

I checked. Not who I thought it was.

I’ve only seen a little bit of Yellowstone so far, so I didn’t know.

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EPR-radar  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:43:15pm

re: #18 jaunte

Chef Andres has an unreasonable faith in the efficacy of appealing to the better nature of Republicans. Republicans have no ‘better nature’ to appeal to.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:51:37pm

It won’t be long before Trump is down at the local H&R Block asking “hey, are you a lawyer?”

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:51:54pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:52:25pm
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:53:16pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

Have you seen his arms? He’s got “fit” right in his name! ////

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 3:57:42pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And the thread is full of all the Republicans.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:00:24pm

re: #10 jaunte

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I’m sure Green’s “business” shut down. //

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:01:13pm

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This Princess has real style, IMHO. The photos follow the text. This is not my style at all, but it really pulls me and makes me want to live there.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:01:33pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:05:44pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:10:43pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:11:50pm
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PhillyPretzel  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:13:46pm

re: #31 Crush White Nationalism

They do not like the fact that Joe is giving a lot of people a break. DT and Co would rather take more money from them.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:13:55pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:27:58pm
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PhillyPretzel  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:29:09pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

I feel for him but I just cannot reach him.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:29:38pm

re: #28 Belafon

I saw that when I was looking at my phone on the train home. Pretty fuckin’ awesome from the White House.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:33:20pm
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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:38:07pm

So, the Student Loan Plan will cost $3.9 billion, not the $500 Billion quoted by Fox.

Is Fox lying, or are they just fucking liars (Quoted today on Faux News: crfb.org)?

Please discuss below!

In addition, the next Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy will cost $13.3 billion. Which is the bigger economic stimulus, less than 1/3 of the cost of a new U.S. Navy ship or helping 40 million young Americans to have their debt wiped out or significantly lowered?

If you need help figuring this out, please ask someone with a Liberal Arts education which is broad enough to allow them to explain the nuances of basic economics with you.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:38:19pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

The tool on the left looked like a still photo as the guest talked about these documents.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:39:59pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:43:30pm

We bring up the idea of projection quite a bit here given that is Trump’s M.O.

But everyone does it.

Here’s an example I noted just now:

One person claims the masses are “thirsty” for fantasy shows. The other claims people are over it.

So much of twitter is projection.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:46:18pm

re: #40 Dopamine Fish

This is a grammar police thing that I am giving up on and now vote—probably much belatedly—we should no longer care: the “than me” vs “than I” distinction. I have listened to a few podcasts in recent years with some extremely smart and well educated writers and thinkers and no one gets this right on the fly. Here, it should be “…as much as I [do].” But like the “who vs whom” distinction I have posted about before, no one seems to know any more,* so…. I guess I am really just telling myself to move along. Thank you, and I hope everyone are loving it.

ETA: *fuck, is it anymore or any more?

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:57:02pm

I’m a thread killer, thread killer, oh yeah!

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 4:59:06pm

This is huge.

A proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the Michigan Constitution gathered enough valid signatures to make the November ballot, the Detroit News reports.

The “Reproductive Freedom for All” ballot measure turned in 752,288 signatures in July, a record number that exceeded the state-mandated signature tally of 425,059.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:00:43pm

re: #43 Barefoot Grin

Thread Killer? I thought that was my job. I do not mind giving it to someone else.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:02:41pm
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Dr. Matt  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:03:59pm

re: #46 Dangerman

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Dark Brandon is fucking epic today.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:04:26pm

re: #46 Dangerman

Joe is correct. And democracy needs to be saved in every election.

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:06:15pm

re: #48 PhillyPretzel

Joe is correct. And democracy needs to be saved in every election.

If you want a better country, you need to be a better citizen. And that means voting in *every* election, no matter what.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:06:50pm

How a real president uses Twitter

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:08:51pm

I’m a thread killer
I’m a thread killer
Making all threads die
My my my

- To the tune of “I’m a Girl Watcher”

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:09:17pm

re: #48 PhillyPretzel

Joe is correct. And democracy needs to be saved in every election.

“Americans need to realize that the only way to save democracy is to never stop protecting it.”

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:11:17pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:12:09pm

By The O’Kaysions.

Youtube Video

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:12:57pm

Maybe this video will work…

Youtube Video

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:14:03pm

This dumb little song was classified as “beach music,” but it was actually an early example of “blue eyed soul.” Totally R&B.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:14:09pm

Nyt gets one close to right?

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:15:21pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:16:21pm
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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:17:02pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:17:21pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:18:20pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:19:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:21:06pm

great thread:

so much more good stuff

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bratwurst  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:22:16pm

If you have any doubt how hard this is hitting, see this:

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:23:39pm
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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:24:32pm

Fish in a barrel.
Fish in a barrel

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:25:21pm

re: #51 Charles Johnson

I’m a thread killer
I’m a thread killer
Making all threads die
My my my

- To the tune of “I’m a Girl Watcher”

In my mind I was singing, “I’m a maniac, maniac…”

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:27:09pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

Maybe this video will work…

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Video

I had never known nor seen that song before. Excellent! And suitably creepy.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:28:43pm

Gentleman says “semi”

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:29:34pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:30:53pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:31:25pm

re: #67 Dangerman

Fish in a barrel.
Fish in a barrel

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:32:10pm

re: #71 Crush White Nationalism

Also the entire notion of how loans are set up. Punish the poor bc “moral hazard” and reward the rich bc “how will we survive without them?”

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:33:14pm

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

Their media makes them think it’s OK to be rabidly racist and cruel to people, but their employer may not watch Fox/Newsmax/OAN, and may feel differently.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:35:37pm

;-)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:36:53pm

a Kentucky teacher:

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EPR-radar  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:37:17pm

re: #65 bratwurst

The hit dog howls.

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A Cranky One  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:38:23pm

I hate queues…

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:40:40pm
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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:40:59pm

re: #76 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

;-)

I’m reading that the origin WH tweet got 100,000 Likes in under an hour.

It’s up to 300k now

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:41:56pm

bullshit

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:41:59pm

Is it ok that I’m not sad:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:42:21pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

and lots of Russian yachts docked near by

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:42:41pm

re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth

a Kentucky teacher:

I can’t see it.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:44:04pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:44:07pm

re: #85 Belafon

I can’t see it.

she deleted it

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:44:27pm

Rs live in a perpetual world of dishonesty and denial.
put people like that into positions of power, they will make decisions that affect all of us accordingly.

Does he not realize what he’s saying with “chose” and “choose” ?

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EPR-radar  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:44:52pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kushner is so full of shit you could bury him in a thimble if you gave him a good dose of Ex-Lax.

What he deserves is to be incessantly hounded about his $2 billion from Prince Bonesaw every time he appears in public.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:46:03pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

bullshit

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:46:16pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:46:28pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

Well then, why the fuck was Trump ever allowed to reoccupy the premises? He’s still getting this fucking kid gloves treatment.

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bratwurst  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:47:22pm

re: #71 Crush White Nationalism

If the world’s wrongest pundit ever is “doubtful this really works politically”, that is how you know it works politically.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:47:27pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:48:12pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:49:07pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:49:24pm

re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth

Truth telling about Republicans. We need a lot more of this.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:50:10pm

re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Someone used Democrats and organizing in the same sentence and we’re not laughing?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:50:16pm

CSPAN has video of Biden’s speech in Maryland

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:50:19pm
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Mike Lamb  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:52:24pm

re: #65 bratwurst

If you have any doubt how hard this is hitting, see this:

[Embedded content]

Who the fuck cares what it was “designed” for? It is still forgiving a loan. End result is exactly the same and if these assholes were at all principled, they would shut the fuck up.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:52:29pm

re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Remember back in 2020 when Biden couldn’t attack other Democrats but had no trouble going after Trump?

You want to be his friend, not his enemy. Imagine if someone was more than a political enemy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:54:00pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:54:33pm
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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:54:53pm

re: #101 Mike Lamb

Who the fuck cares what it was “designed” for? It is still forgiving a loan. End result is exactly the same and if these assholes were at all principled, they would shut the fuck up.

Heck if it was designed that way it’s a socialist government handout

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:56:12pm
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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:58:26pm

re: #88 Dangerman

Rs live in a perpetual world of dishonesty and denial.
put people like that into positions of power, they will make decisions that affect all of us accordingly.

Does he not realize what he’s saying with “chose” and “choose” ?

Then you are an absolute fucking idiot. You are going to be Rick-Rolled this November and it will Donald Drumpfs fault. He did exactly what Mitch McTurtleneck wanted him to do and now you guys are going to get fucked right up the ass.

Well played!

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mmmirele  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:58:30pm

re: #41 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We bring up the idea of projection quite a bit here given that is Trump’s M.O.

But everyone does it.

Here’s an example I noted just now:

[Embedded content]

One person claims the masses are “thirsty” for fantasy shows. The other claims people are over it.

So much of twitter is projection.

I’ve actually enjoyed watching the mostly younger than me white men come stark staring unglued.

From Wednesday:

And today:

Personally, I hope Amazon makes the Rings of Power into more than just Anglo-Saxon-Nordic mythology. Tolkien’s legendarium is my ancestral heritage, and, frankly, I’d like something different. I’M BORED. Bring on the Black Elves!

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 5:59:54pm
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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:02:05pm
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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:02:14pm

re: #83 Belafon

Is it ok that I’m not sad:

Yes. Yes it is.

He’s a moron and doesn’t get special treatment because he’s a star in one area of Sportsball.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:02:32pm
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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:04:29pm
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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:06:57pm

re: #112 The Pie Overlord!

It’s a chef’s kiss from Dark Brandon!

Oh, and by the way, I love the whole Dark Brandon meme which is killing the MAGAts right now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:07:06pm
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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:07:43pm

Deleted. Pasted twice.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:13:05pm

niterz, lizardz!

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:13:39pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

The main Highway from LA to Phoenix is I-10.

The old main US Highway between LA and Phoenix was Route 66.

Which is it?

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:14:27pm

You definitely want this kind of expertise in your governor //

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:15:01pm
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EPR-radar  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:16:19pm

re: #116 Belafon

Damn near everything that is wrong with the US today is the direct result of past and present GOP ratfucking.

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:18:18pm

re: #120 Charles Johnson

There is a tremendous amount of creepazoid energy in that balloon.

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mmmirele  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:18:42pm

re: #109 Belafon

This happened to me this morning. I was completely gobsmacked, well read the Tweet! I can’t help but wonder if they’ve got everyone’s phone number and are just calling:

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BeachDem  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:19:14pm

Love the quote Joe attributed to his dad. “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” Then points out that the alternative to Democrats is MAGA Republicans.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:23:47pm

re: #108 mmmirele

The male/gamergate crowd in melt down over alpha-female Galadriel have ideation of passive women with anatomically impossibly big breasts.

So Rings of Power comes out and all of a sudden their fantasies are crushed.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:24:26pm
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mmmirele  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:27:02pm

re: #118 austin_blue

The main Highway from LA to Phoenix is I-10.

The old main US Highway between LA and Phoenix was Route 66.

Which is it?

It’s I-10. I went through there in June on my way to LA to protest and I definitely remember Desert Center because it’s pretty close to the middle of nowhere. I’m thinking that if I want to go now, I’d have to take a detour at Quartzite to Parker to Twentynine Palms to north of Palm Springs. Taking I-8 or I-40 is *seriously* out of the way.

* The absolute end of all roads in the USA is Lordsburg, NM, also on I-10. Just my personal opinion, and based on personal experience.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:28:48pm

Saw a tweet that I can’t find now that is about Democrats in battleground states pushing back on the student loan deal.

If I were running here in Texas, I would own it and then run on abortion and democracy.

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mmmirele  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:29:49pm

re: #125 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The male/gamergate crowd in melt down over alpha-female Galadriel have ideation of passive women with anatomically impossibly big breasts.

So Rings of Power comes out and all of a sudden their fantasies are crushed.

Yes, and this Galadriel wears appropriate gear to cover her chest, not for some male fantasy!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:33:29pm

I’ve resorted to big print and flashy colors, because that crowd needs them:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:34:22pm

Whoops, forgot my own tweet:

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:41:26pm

re: #130 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:43:47pm

re: #131 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Fantasy, a genre known for its strict adherence to realistic rules.

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:45:15pm

…

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Dangerman  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:46:13pm

re: #133 jaunte

Fantasy, a genre known for its strict adherence to realistic rules.

Cartoon physics are real

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:46:27pm

Final arrangements for tomorrow’s trip.

Programming Note: Perhaps Our Esteemed Host Mr. Johnson can create a “rant” font.

[rant]

Had to deal with a too-big-to-fail bank trying to book ferry passage from Fortune, NL to St. Pierre. The charge is in Euros to a French company, so the credit card company wanted to send a text to my cellphone to approve it. Funny thing about landlines, they don’t accept texts.

On the telephone with too-big-to-fail bank trying to explain there is no cellphone service here, no I can’t have the text sent to my neighbour either, please for the love of God look at a cellphone coverage map of Nebraska and tell me I need to go to Sterling, Colorado to find someone to accept your damn text to approve my charge, can you just punch it in yourselves, I need to get a supervisor, forty-five minutes hold, click.

Call back and as what the hell is going on, do you only have one IT person in your whole-ass worldwide bank? Thirty more minutes hold, then “can you check your E-mail Sir to see if your charge went through?”

E-mail pops in showing it was manually approved, followed by another from the ferry company to print out two round-trip tickets.

I hate fookin’ credit cards. Until we leave Nebraska we can use cheques and cash from the bank today. My ATM card is good everywhere in the world (well, maybe not Russia now).

[/rant]

I went to the general store to dump my piggy bank in coins to get currency (and fish out my Canadian coins from the bank). Stores here are always hard up for change because it is such a long drive to go to the bank to get change in the middle of the day.

I had about $12 of Canadian toonies and loonies and smaller coins.

I WON THE LOTTO! $4 and four free tickets in the 2x2 for tonight’s draw.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:46:29pm

The video I just posted suddenly disappeared from YouTube, so I deleted that post.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:48:05pm

re: #135 Dangerman

Acme Painted Tunnel Corp.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:48:16pm

re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Congratulations on the win. I won nothing, alas.

Have an enjoyable trip.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:49:00pm
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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:53:03pm

As a rebuttal to Kristol:

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A Three Hour Tour  Aug 25, 2022 • 6:56:08pm

re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Final arrangements for tomorrow’s trip.

Programming Note: Perhaps Our Esteemed Host Mr. Johnson can create a “rant” font.

[rant]

Had to deal with a too-big-to-fail bank trying to book ferry passage from Fortune, NL to St. Pierre. The charge is in Euros to a French company, so the credit card company wanted to send a text to my cellphone to approve it. Funny thing about landlines, they don’t accept texts.

On the telephone with too-big-to-fail bank trying to explain there is no cellphone service here, no I can’t have the text sent to my neighbour either, please for the love of God look at a cellphone coverage map of Nebraska and tell me I need to go to Sterling, Colorado to find someone to accept your damn text to approve my charge, can you just punch it in yourselves, I need to get a supervisor, forty-five minutes hold, click.

Call back and as what the hell is going on, do you only have one IT person in your whole-ass worldwide bank? Thirty more minutes hold, then “can you check your E-mail Sir to see if your charge went through?”

E-mail pops in showing it was manually approved, followed by another from the ferry company to print out two round-trip tickets.

I hate fookin’ credit cards. Until we leave Nebraska we can use cheques and cash from the bank today. My ATM card is good everywhere in the world (well, maybe not Russia now).

[/rant]

I went to the general store to dump my piggy bank in coins to get currency (and fish out my Canadian coins from the bank). Stores here are always hard up for change because it is such a long drive to go to the bank to get change in the middle of the day.

I had about $12 of Canadian toonies and loonies and smaller coins.

I WON THE LOTTO! $4 and four free tickets in the 2x2 for tonight’s draw.

Hmmm. It looks like neither Canada nor your too big to fail bank want you to actually visit Canada. Good luck and safe journeys.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 7:13:39pm

re: #42 Barefoot Grin

This is a grammar police thing that I am giving up on and now vote—probably much belatedly—we should no longer care: the “than me” vs “than I” distinction. I have listened to a few podcasts in recent years with some extremely smart and well educated writers and thinkers and no one gets this right on the fly. Here, it should be “…as much as I [do].” But like the “who vs whom” distinction I have posted about before, no one seems to know any more,* so…. I guess I am really just telling myself to move along. Thank you, and I hope everyone are loving it.

ETA: *fuck, is it anymore or any more?

I care.

A sentence such as “Nobody cares more than I [do]” for example. “Than” is a conjunction used to introduce a comparison. Thus, in such a comparison, both nouns should be subjects.

“Whom” is easier. It is used as the object of a verb, after a preposition when introducing a person, or as an interrogative (“to whom is he married?”)

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 25, 2022 • 7:19:31pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

The White House isn’t playing today!! Dragging them one by one. Love it!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2022 • 7:20:13pm

re: #42 Barefoot Grin

English has changed so much since the ancient days.

I suspect that the next thing to go are articles.

Because we all delete them when a tweet is just a few characters too long.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 7:23:46pm
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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2022 • 7:31:09pm

re: #110 Belafon

Lawyer for Sandy Hook Parents Talks Alex Jones Trial, Texts, Beef with Opposing Counsel

Youtube Video

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gocart mozart  Aug 25, 2022 • 7:37:19pm

I’m past 7,100 likes and over 1000 retweets on this.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 25, 2022 • 7:37:45pm

Not only can’t they pay their vendors, but apparently, their paperwork is not in order. Probably due to the lawyers they don’t pay.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 25, 2022 • 7:48:48pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 7:51:19pm

Thread, ten tweets. The relief programme includes retirees and parents who took out loans for children or grandchildren.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 7:52:28pm
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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:11:59pm

Ron DeSantis Is Not Your New Trump, But He Is a…
rudepundit.blogspot.com

oh, myyy

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:22:09pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:23:04pm

I feel like after all this time waiting for anyone to face consequences for anything, we’re going to continue the recent trend of seeing good things happen.

Top Fox News talent including Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs and Tucker Carlson are expected to sit for depositions next week in the $1.6 billion defamation suit being pursued against the top cable network by Dominion Voting Systems, The New York Times reported.

Jeanine Pirro, Steve Doocy and producers of Fox News shows have already given their testimony, according to The Times. Dobbs, who no longer works for the network, will be questioned in Delaware Superior Court on Tuesday; Hannity is due in court on Wednesday, and Carlson will go Friday.

Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity Expected for Depositions in Dominion’s $1.6 Billion Defamation Case (TheWrap)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:23:45pm

re: #153 retired cynic

Ron DeSantis Is Not Your New Trump, But He Is a…
rudepundit.blogspot.com

oh, myyy

I wonder what he really thinks. I wonder if that was strong enough to convey how he really feels about Gov. DeSantis.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:26:10pm

No confirmation yet, could be a prank.

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:26:28pm
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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:30:34pm

How can we discourage movie makers from the “hero sews up own wound” scene?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:31:29pm
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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:31:32pm

I mean, has it ever gone wrong?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:34:36pm

If John Dean thinks your fooked.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:36:36pm

Ugh, why won’t this sex pest go away

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:38:47pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:41:27pm

re: #153 retired cynic

Ron DeSantis Is Not Your New Trump, But He Is a…
rudepundit.blogspot.com

oh, myyy

The braindead Trump cult are very fond of deathSantis and think of him as a brilliant and successful governor, who knows how to keep minorities suppressed, can subdue successful corporations like Disney, and who, in addition, has the hearty support of the anti-vax community. There are many contenders to lead the party if the original falters (if there were justice, Trump and his despicable crew would have long since been vaporized by a bolt of lightning), Republicans who are eager to spread the message of white supremacy and autocracy that Trump so effectively carried for years. I don’t think the GOP is ready to abandon this message even if Trump departs the scene; it has worked successfully for them.

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cat-tikvah  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:44:10pm

re: #165 Hecuba’s daughter

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:45:54pm
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jaunte  Aug 25, 2022 • 8:47:36pm

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Conservatives are still upset they can’t pronounce Prince’s symbol.

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:06:35pm

re: #166 cat-tikvah

So it will be Pennsylvaniuhhhh.

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JC1  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:07:46pm

2nd 3/6 in a row.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:10:56pm

re: #170 JC1

Wordle 432 1/6

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:11:32pm

re: #171 darthstar

Oh, it’s not midnight here yet…so I need to wait until tomorrow to do yours.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:11:55pm
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mmmirele  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:16:15pm

I had a few things to say today to Christian types who were going off about the loan forgiveness.

Just to be clear, I have a problem with the theology expressed in the second tweet, because I don’t believe in Penal Substitutionary Atonement, but I used that theology anyway because it fit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:20:11pm

Bleah.
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#Heardle #182
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BigPapa  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:21:32pm

Decorum!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:23:20pm

re: #174 mmmirele

I had a few things to say today to Christian types who were going off about the loan forgiveness.

Just to be clear, I have a problem with the theology expressed in the second tweet, because I don’t believe in Penal Substitutionary Atonement, but I used that theology anyway because it fit.

Acts 2 says Christians should pool all their money or property to pay each other’s debts. You might call that “communism” or perhaps “debt-relief.”

And as for Christians not forcing third parties, forget not paying attention in Sunday School, they didn’t pay attention to a thousand years of Christianity where they did precisely that and slaughtered anyone who didn’t agree with them. We call that the Dark Ages for a reason.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:25:01pm
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BigPapa  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:26:08pm

Isn’t Half Wet Dog a cold yoga pose?

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BigPapa  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:37:01pm

On this day the Biden Admin chose a most delicious violence, I discovered some new decliciocity. Had great Mexican in Maui last night: great salsas of various heat and flavor, wonderful mole (although unspiced chicken breast was one star knocked off).

I pilfered a small bowl of mole. Double wrapped in bags, stuffed in shoe, packed in baggage. No fucking way I’m succumbing to the 3.5oz TSA Nazis on this shit. I have been burned before on my Hammajang sauce which was clearly only 3.3 oz.

One bag burst, the secondary didn’t. All good. But in the extraction, a small loss of the luxurious brown elixir on top of a California Pizza Kitchen box. This is a problem. I slide the fabulous lossage (band name) onto the pepperoni pie and reheat in the oven. Not a large amount. 4 hundo for 5 minuto to reheata da pizza da pie.

If nobody told me there was mole on there I would not have figured it out. But it was divine. So I’m opening a Wood Fired Mole Pizza restaurant. In Darth’s house. As soon as I can convince him and his lovely and accomodating wife.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2022 • 9:37:56pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2022 • 10:24:42pm

It’s my own fault — I signed up to do 1000 postcards for Progressive Turnout Project. Got the cards a couple months ago, kept on delaying opening the box, and just started doing them Thursday. Taking me way too long to write but they don’t have to be mailed until October 17. So will just have to see how many I can force my sister to write!

OT: Words
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2022 • 10:25:27pm

re: #174 mmmirele

He won’t let me reply.

My reply would have been:

Obviously you’re not a Calvinist. You believe you can work (the basis of economics) yourself into heaven.

Oh, and by traditional doctrine, Jesus is the “third party” in you debt to god.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2022 • 10:27:09pm

re: #183 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I guess it is Amanda, not Smith, who is keeping me from replying.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 10:54:07pm

The Smart is packed. With the help of God and a shoehorn it all went in. Two suitcases. A travel CPAP machine. A briefcase. Summer jackets. Winter coats. A craptonne (crap- is some SI prefix, I’m sure of it) of munchies so we can eat corn chips and crackers all the way to the border of New Brunswick.

Called my mother. Told her not to look for us if we get lost in the Maritime Provinces.

Printed out another craptonne of receipts for ferries and hotels in NC, NL, PEI, PQ, and NB.

Mail goes out in the morning, then we do. Camera ready, batteries charged, doos dadded, all ready.

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Cheechako  Aug 25, 2022 • 11:12:11pm

re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Have a great trip and keep us posted as you can.

C

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EPR-radar  Aug 25, 2022 • 11:30:47pm

re: #146 jaunte

A change in tone like this in the White House Twitter feed has to have been blessed by Biden. So props to the president for doing that.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2022 • 11:38:32pm

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Youtube Video


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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2022 • 11:38:33pm

re: #170 JC1

Graphically pleasing.

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2022 • 11:49:56pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2022 • 11:59:45pm

Last items done: Dishes washed from dinner (tonight’s culinary delight was beef stroganof Hamburger Helper. Flash drive loaded with a fuquetonne of music (fuque- is a different SI prefix not to be confused with crap-) and plugged into the Smart. Drugs packed with printout from the VA showing prescription for Phenobarbital (Canada’s Border Services Agency prefers a contact number and prescribing authority for controlled substances).

Sorted through mail and paid final bills. Sent a thank you card to a woman in Omaha I don’t know who wrote me over my father’s upcoming birthday (part of a list in Nebraska of those who write Gold Star Family members for remembrances). Turned off power to my electric dryer and washing machine. Computer gets bagged in the morning. Having my wife’s cheap whisky in diet Mountain Dew (a very - uh - different flavouring).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2022 • 12:07:19am

(1:18, US Navy Band, “O Canada”)

Youtube Video

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wrenchwench  Aug 26, 2022 • 12:33:38am

Threedle of the words.

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I’m never going to get 5 yellows.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2022 • 12:50:06am

I think I’ll do a page on national anthems next. Why national anthems? Which is the oldest? What do they represent? Which one is the shortest? Which one the longest? Which is hardest to sing? That looks like a deep dive into the bowels of patriotic songs of many countries. (Answers: All sorts of reasons, Japan, all sorts of things, Japan, longest by lyrics Greece longest by music Uruguay, United States of America.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2022 • 1:00:18am

Provincial anthem of Newfoundland and Labrador (2:21, Slovak National Orchestra, “Ode to Newfoundland,” formerly the anthem of the Dominion of Newfoundland from 1907-1947)

Youtube Video

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2022 • 1:28:58am

re: #148 gocart mozart

I’m past 7,100 likes and over 1000 retweets on this.

You’re also at twenty-three likes on this comment at LGF. I think that’s one of the highest on a single comment I’ve seen here (though there are probably higher ones, such as any time Pie Overlord posts another photograph of a grandchild).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2022 • 1:38:17am

re: #193 wrenchwench

Threedle of the words.

“I’m never going to get five yellows.”

The real challenge is to get six yellows.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2022 • 1:45:16am

For my duties in the village as village flag committee chairman, I’ve recruited a person to properly display the US Flag on the village staffs should a half-staff notice be issued by the president or governor.

I’ve done this before on other trips to Canada and Europe: I contact the village board by E-mail and the village clerk by telephone (if in the USA) so the person I’ve asked can carry out proclamations. (As the “Flag Guy” I keep track of these things while I’m on trips because I’m hopelessly mired in vexillology.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 26, 2022 • 2:00:51am

Well, it looks like everyone left, and I need to go to bed. I’ll catch y’all during our trip. (I really hope Maxwell the Smart doesn’t break down or something or we’re screwed.)

Last anthem, “Beautiful Nebraska,” written by a Soviet Union refugee who fled to our state. It was adopted as the state anthem in 1960.

(3:08, with lyrics and state scenery in the lyrics)

Youtube Video

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No Malarkey!  Aug 26, 2022 • 2:01:27am

re: #44 Dangerman

This is huge.

Here is another huge ballot initiative in Arizona which, if approved by voters, will help ensure ballot access and block the GOP legislature from reversing future presidential elections. It looks like it will survive a court challenge and make it on the ballot this Fall.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 26, 2022 • 2:36:16am

re: #98 Belafon

Someone used Democrats and organizing in the same sentence and we’re not laughing?

Joe Biden was not my first pick for the Democratic nomination. I can’t express how glad I am that Joe Biden was elected President. What he has accomplished with zero votes to spare in the US Senate is nothing short of historic.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 26, 2022 • 2:42:56am

re: #110 Belafon

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No Malarkey!  Aug 26, 2022 • 2:58:48am

re: #133 jaunte

Fantasy, a genre known for its strict adherence to realistic rules.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 26, 2022 • 3:04:34am

re: #140 jaunte

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Dangerman  Aug 26, 2022 • 3:11:49am

re: #204 No Malarkey!

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Dangerman  Aug 26, 2022 • 3:12:41am

;-)

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Dangerman  Aug 26, 2022 • 3:15:42am

Watch newsom. That ALL Dems are this straightforward and blunt.

call these bastards out for what they are.

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Dangerman  Aug 26, 2022 • 3:16:52am

Taking on Rand Paul,Kentucky, and mcconnell

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No Malarkey!  Aug 26, 2022 • 3:27:03am

re: #174 mmmirele

I had a few things to say today to Christian types who were going off about the loan forgiveness.

Just to be clear, I have a problem with the theology expressed in the second tweet, because I don’t believe in Penal Substitutionary Atonement, but I used that theology anyway because it fit.

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Dangerman  Aug 26, 2022 • 3:40:02am

That ppp white house tweet…
Over 400k likes and still liking

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Dave In Austin  Aug 26, 2022 • 3:45:39am

re: #121 EPR-radar

Damn near everything that is wrong with the US today is the direct result of past and present GOP ratfucking.

I blame Reagan. Period. The road to hell is always paved with good intentions (for white people).

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 26, 2022 • 3:50:24am

I hope it’s not an auspicious start.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 26, 2022 • 3:54:43am

re: #210 Dangerman

That ppp white house tweet…
Over 400k likes and still liking

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TarHellion  Aug 26, 2022 • 4:02:55am

Another birdie! Been one of my best weeks with this silly game. A short morning of work-at-home, then a nice few days with MrsTarH. Enjoy the weekend everyone!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Aug 26, 2022 • 4:43:56am

In the bag!

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 26, 2022 • 4:44:52am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Acts 2 says Christians should pool all their money or property to pay each other’s debts. You might call that “communism” or perhaps “debt-relief.”

And as for Christians not forcing third parties, forget not paying attention in Sunday School, they didn’t pay attention to a thousand years of Christianity where they did precisely that and slaughtered anyone who didn’t agree with them. We call that the Dark Ages for a reason.

Acts 5 tells a tale about a couple that refused to give the money from the sale of their house to the cult. They were “stricken dead by the Lord” (nudge nudge wink wink) for it. …hmm.. I guess cold blooded murder by leadership in front of the congregation to serve as an threat to the rest of the sheep counts as “divine” retribution, but in any case what we have here is a Biblical example of no such thing as “freedom” when it comes to financial decisions and what to do with your own money.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 26, 2022 • 4:48:17am

re: #216 Florida Panhandler

Acts 5 tells a tale about a couple that refused to give the money from the sale of their house to the cult. They were “stricken dead by the Lord” (nudge nudge wink wink) for it. …hmm.. I guess cold blooded murder by leadership in front of the congregation to serve as an threat to the rest of the sheep counts as “divine” retribution, but in any case what we have here is a Biblical example of no such thing as “freedom” when it comes to financial decisions and what to do with your own money.

It’s not that, so much. The full story is that they gave PART of the money, but then told people they gave ALL the money, in order to appear pious and generous while profiting handsomely. You know, like certain pulpit pimps we have here in the United States always do. I really think God should revisit His policy of not intervening directly in such matters and set a few more examples.

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jeffreyw  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:07:35am

Beef and veggies cooked in red wine

Good morning!

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:10:56am
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Eventual Carrion  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:14:37am

re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Bleah.
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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:16:34am

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

Someone lit the fire under the WH belt to lay into GOPers caterwauling about student loan relief - pointing out that these same GOPers were more than happy to get PPP money.

Guess someone in the WH realized that you have to start using the pointy end of the stick against the GOP. We cannot play nice with people who will always lie and deny reality to get and remain in power.

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steve_davis  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:18:42am

re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You’re also at twenty-three likes on this comment at LGF. I think that’s one of the highest on a single comment I’ve seen here (though there are probably higher ones, such as any time Pie Overlord posts another photograph of a grandchild).

Jesse “Cat” Davis occasionally does better here, but liking cat pictures is kind of mandatory.

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steve_davis  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:26:12am

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Ming5000  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:29:35am

re: #223 steve_davis

Cat is not amused.

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:34:04am

re: #181 Belafon

Service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more?

Oh wait, if you’re serving in the TX national guard, you found your college reimbursement program suddenly ended retroactively thanks to TX GOPers who canned the program. Now why would they do something like that?

Tax cuts…. it’s always about tax cuts. They want to cut programs that help servicemembers get a better education, and the GOP needs people poor and stupid to remain in power.

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steve_davis  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:37:31am

re: #224 Ming5000

Cat is not amused.

that’s actually her “I love you and want to have your kittens” look. fortunately, the clipped ear indicates that is not even a remote possibility.

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John Hughes  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:48:36am

re: #96 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As I recall that [ $250 ] was about what a semester’s tuition cost at Indiana University in the 70’s

A year at the Sorbonne costs my daughter about EUR 350.

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:51:27am
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Thanos  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:54:15am

re: #215 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

In the bag!

What’s really bad is when you see something like that and think “that could have been my *cringe* little sister. I come from a family of wingnuts.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 5:58:17am

re: #229 Thanos

What’s really bad is when you see something like that and think “that could have been my *cringe* little sister. I come from a family of wingnuts.

It could be my best friend’s very stupid sister as well. The Republicans have taught the dumbest people we knew growing up to hate everyone who’s at all different from them, turning them into monsters. There’s no shame in being stupid, but there is in becoming a monster because Republicans told you to hate.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:00:56am

re: #230 Crush White Nationalism

It could be my best friend’s very stupid sister as well. The Republicans have taught the dumbest people we knew growing up to hate everyone who’s at all different from them, turning them into monsters. There’s no shame in being stupid, but there is in becoming a monster because Republicans told you to hate.

And there is so much pop-SF stuff about warning about this.

Yoda: “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

Dune: “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:01:20am

I just learned that these exist. Republicans are so insane.

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Dangerman  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:02:37am

Liz the iguana lizard
Marlin the green heron

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John Hughes  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:09:22am

re: #232 Crush White Nationalism

Donald Trump butt plugs?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:14:32am
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John Hughes  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:17:40am

The hole in I-10 in on French TV news.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:21:57am

re: #201 No Malarkey!

Joe Biden was not my first pick for the Democratic nomination. I can’t express how glad I am that Joe Biden was elected President. What he has accomplished with zero votes to spare in the US Senate is nothing short of historic.

Joe wasn’t among my top 10 picks for the Democratic nomination, though definitely above Bernie and Tulsi. But he may have been the only one capable of defeating Trump.

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Dangerman  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:34:20am
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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:37:38am

We should stop calling GOP the “MAGA” party. Yes that is their slogan but what they really mean is Make America Racist Again (MARA).

Democrats are the actual MAGA party.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:39:51am
A single pill that combines three heart medications significantly drove down cardiac-related deaths and other heart problems in people who previously had heart attacks, according to new research published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The outcomes of the “polypill” were so compelling — a 24% reduction in heart disease-related deaths or further heart problems — that researchers plan to submit the data to the Food and Drug Administration for approval, said the study’s lead author, Dr. Valentin Fuster, the director of Mount Sinai Heart and physician-in-chief of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Combination ‘polypill’ cuts heart disease deaths, study finds (NBC News)

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HRH Stanley Sea  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:40:21am

REALLY bad floods in Pakistan

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:43:04am

re: #241 HRH Stanley Sea

We are going to see a lot more extreme weather events - both flooding and droughts - and when you get severe rains on top of droughts, the results are flash floods that can kill.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:44:07am

This is why we cannot have nice things.

cnn.com

A federal judge has ruled that a Texas law that bans people ages 18 to 20 from carrying handguns in public is unconstitutional, saying the restriction is inconsistent with the Second Amendment and US history.

The decision follows a transformational Supreme Court ruling in June which significantly expanded gun owners’ rights to carry firearms outside the home and raised the threshold that authorities must meet when defending gun restrictions.

District Court Judge Mark Pittman stated that the Texas restriction on “law-abiding 18-to-20-year-olds” is inconsistent with the Constitution because the Second Amendment itself does not state an age restriction, and minors were part of state militias that existed in the formative years of American history.

The same reasoning has been used recently by other Trump-appointed judges to rule against gun purchase limits for older teens.

Federalist Society judges are there to destroy our democracy and cause death and violence everywhere.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:46:46am

Goodness. I tried. Need more coffee.

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Dangerman  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:47:33am

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Belafon  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:50:17am

re: #237 Hecuba’s daughter

Joe wasn’t among my top 10 picks for the Democratic nomination, though definitely above Bernie and Tulsi. But he may have been the only one capable of defeating Trump.

I’m just not sure the other candidates could have actually gotten this much legislation passed. And would they have rallied the world against Russia as well as he has?

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:53:05am

re: #245 Dangerman

Trump got tax breaks by creating a cemetery so he could bury Ivana there. But sure, let’s deny folks debt relief.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:56:13am

4/6 & 5/6

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Belafon  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:56:51am

re: #243 Hecuba’s daughter

This is why we cannot have nice things.

cnn.com

Federalist Society judges are there to destroy our democracy and cause death and violence everywhere.

“Yes, your honor, I’m only 16, but the Constitution doesn’t even mention an age restriction on porn.”

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:58:18am

re: #243 Hecuba’s daughter

This is why we cannot have nice things.

cnn.com

Federalist Society judges are there to destroy our democracy and cause death and violence everywhere.

Well, I guess the way has been cleared for states like Texas to order guns to be kept in elementary school classrooms, so that kids can grab them and shoot back if an active shooter is present.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 6:59:35am

re: #174 mmmirele

I had a few things to say today to Christian types who were going off about the loan forgiveness.

Just to be clear, I have a problem with the theology expressed in the second tweet, because I don’t believe in Penal Substitutionary Atonement, but I used that theology anyway because it fit.

Jesus told a parable about a wealthy man who decided to forgive a servants debt after the servant begged him to do it. Then that servant REFUSED to forgive a debt that someone else owed HIM after being begged to do it. When the wealthy man found out about it, he went all “What the fuck is wrong with you, you hypocrite?!” on the original servant and God subsequently punished the servant for being an asshole.

This is also the same section of the bible where a man asks Jesus “How often shall I forgive my brother if he sins against me?” and Jesus says either seventy seven times or seventy times seven times depending on which translation you go by. In other words, forgiveness is really fucking important to Jesus (and God by extension).

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:00:18am

Speaking of MARA (Make America Rapists Again)

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Mike Lamb  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:00:53am

re: #243 Hecuba’s daughter

This is why we cannot have nice things.

cnn.com

Federalist Society judges are there to destroy our democracy and cause death and violence everywhere.

Holy shit that is some fucked rationale. Being in the militia as a minor doesn’t equate at all to being able to carry a gun in public outside the militia/military setting.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:03:57am

re: #252 The Pie Overlord!

Speaking of MARA (Make America Rapists Again)

They all have such punchable faces. Every last one.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:05:08am

This is what a botswarm of talking points looks like.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:06:15am

re: #249 Belafon

“Yes, your honor, I’m only 16, but the Constitution doesn’t even mention an age restriction on porn.”

“I’m on death row for being a serial murderer. The Constitution does not bar me from having a gun in my cell.”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:06:22am

re: #243 Hecuba’s daughter

This is why we cannot have nice things.

cnn.com

Federalist Society judges are there to destroy our democracy and cause death and violence everywhere.

While they command police protection and extra legal protection for their homes and selves from the likes of peaceful protesters. The elite will retreat to their gated communities with fences and private security while everyone else is left to fend for themselves.

Very 3rd World, where houses are fortified compounds, every ground floor window had metal grates on it, and the paranoia about “others” runs rampant. A society that runs on stratified class, fear, hatred, and ignorance. Which is exactly what these people want since they believe they will be those in the castle living large off the sweat of the peasants.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:08:29am

re: #257 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Well, an Englishman’s home is his castle, which means it should be properly fortified and armed, amirite?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:15:42am

re: #258 Dopamine Fish

Well, an Englishman’s home is his castle, which means it should be properly fortified and armed, amirite?

Assuming you had permission.

en.wikipedia.org

There are examples of a royal (or other) army slighting (wrecking) fortifications to prevent their use as defenses without extensive repairs. A lot of the still intact medieval castles in England got slighted during the English Civil War.

Something interesting I’ve noted in a game I am playing called “Vintage Story”. Sort of Minecraft-like and you start at a Stone Age tech and work your way up. You find ruins made of cobble along with other things. And one thing that happens is that the ruins near settlements get stripped of their stone since collecting the cobble blocks is easier and less damaging to your tools than making your own cobble blocks. (Which is historical since people would strip any abandoned stone structure if they could for the useful construction materials.)

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Wile E. Wonka  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:15:53am

re: #225 lawhawk

Oh wait, if you’re serving in the TX national guard, you found your college reimbursement program suddenly ended retroactively thanks to TX GOPers who canned the program. Now why would they do something like that?

These the same National Guard members who are, literally, dying of boredom because they have no other mission than staying deployed so Abbott can pretend there’s a border crisis?

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William Lewis  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:17:36am

re: #258 Dopamine Fish

Well, an Englishman’s home is his castle, which means it should be properly fortified and armed, amirite?

Only at the monarch’s discretion. PO the king and find your castle slighted… /s

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Belafon  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:18:45am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:19:38am

re: #258 Dopamine Fish

Well, an Englishman’s home is his castle, which means it should be properly fortified and armed, amirite?

So you’re telling me I CAN have a moat with alligators in it?

/

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nines09  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:21:20am

re: #56 Charles Johnson

And I just discovered they are white. I always thought they were black.
Learn something new every day.

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:24:25am

My HOA doesn’t prohibit the possession or use of trebuchets. My home can be my castle after all… WOO!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:24:55am

re: #264 nines09

And I just discovered they are white. I always thought they were black.
Learn something new every day.

Youtube Video

(Compilation)

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:25:53am

This could solve a lot of our problems if our wingnuts would go live where they think they’d be happier, and then die when they’re sent to Ukraine.

Kremlin TV Desperately Wants You to Move to Russia Right Now (The Daily Beast)

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:26:19am

Hey, I live outside a former USAF anti-aircraft missile base. Does that mean I can construct a surface-to-air missile pad in my backyard? Please?

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Belafon  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:28:07am

re: #268 Dopamine Fish

Hey, I live outside a former USAF anti-aircraft missile base. Does that mean I can construct a surface-to-air missile pad in my backyard? Please?

The Constitution says nothing about restricted air spaces.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:28:20am

re: #268 Dopamine Fish

Hey, I live outside a former USAF anti-aircraft missile base. Does that mean I can construct a surface-to-air missile pad in my backyard? Please?

Only if 40% of the construction uses Lego.

/

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:29:23am

re: #270 Eclectic Cyborg

Only if 40% of the construction uses Lego.

/

Lego are area defense/denial weapons.

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dat_said  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:30:43am

re: #241 HRH Stanley Sea

REALLY bad floods in Pakistan

Flash floods are so dangerous and people think it’s just water. The front end of a flash flood is mud and rock and trees and garbage and there’s just no way to swim out of it.

Woman died this last Friday in the Zion Narrows because of a flash flood - she went hiking in the Narrows even though the park had posted “probable” warning for flash floods in the area. Here’s footage of a flash flood in the Zion Narrows from about 8 years ago:

Youtube Video

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:33:09am

re: #269 Belafon

The Constitution says nothing about restricted air spaces.

Yeah, but since I live under one of MSP’s flight paths, I think they might take issue with me illuminating their airliners with radar.///

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Belafon  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:33:16am

And a lot of those blue collar workers have kids that borrowed money to go to college.

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Belafon  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:37:28am

re: #272 dat_said

Flash floods are so dangerous and people think it’s just water. The front end of a flash flood is mud and rock and trees and garbage and there’s just no way to swim out of it.

Woman died this last Friday in the Zion Narrows because of a flash flood - she went hiking in the Narrows even though the park had posted “probable” warning for flash floods in the area. Here’s footage of a flash flood in the Zion Narrows from about 8 years ago:

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We had a woman in Dallas die earlier this week from the flooding. Her car got swept away.

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nines09  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:38:27am

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:39:59am

re: #275 Belafon

We had a woman in Dallas die earlier this week from the flooding. Her car got swept away.

People don’t realize, the treads on tires aren’t designed to drive through standing water. If you’ve ever hit a puddle and felt your car pull suddenly to the side, that’s the tire essentially losing grip and your car basically pushing toward the suddenly loose corner. If you drive through running water, or get caught sitting in a car in running water, it doesn’t take much for even brand new tires to get overwhelmed.

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A Cranky One  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:42:15am
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sizzzzlerz  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:44:46am

re: #272 dat_said

in the Zion Narrows because of a flash flood - she went hiking in the Narrows even though the park had posted “probable” warning for flash floods in the area

What makes me think there is a bazillion dollar lawsuit just waiting to be filed on behalf of this stupid woman? “But the sign said probable, your Honor, not definite. If the park service wanted to keep people out of the Narrows, they should have said definite. And posted guards armed with pointy sticks.”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:48:06am

re: #278 A Cranky One

Does the meeting start with a long discussion of what date display format will be used throughout the spreadsheet?

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Jay C  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:51:26am

re: #274 Belafon

And a lot of those blue collar workers have kids that borrowed money to go to college.

Except that Kinzinger’s formulation glosses over the fact that Democrats are “losing” “blue-collar America” ( by which I am assuming he means white blue-collar America because Dog forbid any Republican should ever picture Joe Lunchbucket as a POC, reality notwithstanding) mainly because Republicans have been targeting that section of the electorate - for decades- with a political agenda of hate, fear, prejudice, resentment and division- with a massive component of religious fanaticism thrown in.

It’s one of those unfortunate downsides to an open democracy: one side can appeal to the voters’ interests, the other to their prejudices: and it’s never a sure bet who will win.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:53:26am

Here’s a breakdown of student debt by major.

educationdata.org

All those pharmacists with “useless” degrees.

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:53:37am

re: #241 HRH Stanley Sea

REALLY bad floods in Pakistan

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Holy shit…that woman survived in the first clip?

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:54:34am

re: #281 Jay C

Except that Kinzinger’s formulation glosses over the fact that Democrats are “losing” “blue-collar America” ( by which I am assuming he means white blue-collar America because Dog forbid any Republican should ever picture Joe Lunchbucket as a POC, reality notwithstanding) mainly because Republicans have been targeting that section of the electorate - for decades- with a political agenda of hate, fear, prejudice, resentment and division- with a massive component of religious fanaticism thrown in.

It’s one of those unfortunate downsides to an open democracy: one side can appeal to the voters’ interests, the other to their prejudices: and it’s never a sure bet who will win.

Non-white, or even white liberal blue collar workers have to deal with extremely shitty Trumpanzee co-workers these days. They’ll have had enough of Republicans.

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Dr. Matt  Aug 26, 2022 • 7:59:33am

DeathSantis is giving toll discounts to frequent users.

Dark Brandon gives student loan debt relief

Lolz.

Dark Brandon pwns maga.

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A Cranky One  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:00:40am

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dat_said  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:00:44am

Positive National Park News:

Rolf Peterson, who started researching the Wolf-Moose interaction on Isle Royale way back in the early 70’s is still part of the research. He retired as a professor in 2006 and likely spends more time on the island now than the mainland.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:04:32am

re: #29 jaunte

Effed around and found out with a quickness!! I hope she gets a lengthy sentence. All that violence and strutting is over now.

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:04:36am

So we’re about an hour away from the redacted affidavit being released? Sucks to be a trump ally right now.

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A Cranky One  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:05:42am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:06:19am

re: #287 dat_said

Positive National Park News:

Rolf Peterson, who started researching the Wolf-Moose interaction on Isle Royale way back in the early 70’s is still part of the research. He retired as a professor in 2006 and likely spends more time on the island now than the mainland.

Seems like he missed a huge opportunity by not changing his name to Wolf Peterson.

/

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William Lewis  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:06:52am

re: #288 Patricia Kayden

Effed around and found out with a quickness!! I hope she gets a lengthy sentence. All that violence and strutting is over now.

Currently only misdemeanor charges alas. A year or less as a result. We’ll have to see if they update the charges later.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:09:10am
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Patricia Kayden  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:10:01am

re: #292 William Lewis

Any jailtime is good. It will make her understand that she can’t go around threatening and assaulting Brown people just because she doesn’t like them. She’s a ridiculous human being and that video of her is forever.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:10:42am
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Dopamine Fish  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:12:05am

re: #295 The Pie Overlord!

So it’s espionage, then.

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Teukka  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:14:07am

re: #295 The Pie Overlord!

Wow. Like, the name alone raises red flags…

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:18:32am

re: #295 The Pie Overlord!

How’d they allow it?

I can think of two things off the bat…

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:19:25am

re: #295 The Pie Overlord!

BTW, the image they use of her with Trump is not nearly as juicy as the one in the actual article, which has her with Trump and Graham.

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:25:48am
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:28:06am

People are so stupid that they don’t realize that after funds are distributed loosely in a crisis, there’s a process to catch them later when resources allow.

The Secret Service said Friday that it has recovered $286 million in Covid relief funds that were meant for small businesses but were siphoned off by fraudsters using thousands of stolen or fake identities.

The conspirators used fake identities to apply for Covid relief funds known as Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL), and created 15,000 accounts at Green Dot Bank, an online institution in Texas, to try to access the money using debit cards. Green Dot notified the Secret Service when it discovered suspicious accounts, and the EIDL money was returned to the Small Business Administration, which had administered the relief funds.

Assistant Special Agent in Charge Roy Dotson, the lead pandemic fraud investigator for the Secret Service, said at a news conference Friday that there are “many actors” and a “myriad of potential suspects behind the fraud,” and believes there could be domestic and international co-conspirators.

Secret Service recovers $286 million in stolen Covid relief funds (NBC News)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:28:34am

re: #298 lawhawk

How’d they allow it?

I can think of two things off the bat…

I was about to say I’m sure she had at least a couple of “prominent assets”.

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nines09  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:29:02am

re: #300 lawhawk

MAL was/is/remains a vending machine.

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:29:10am

re: #302 Eclectic Cyborg

I was about to say I’m sure she had at least a couple of “prominent assets”.

From the pictures they had in the article, I mean, she’s not my idea of attractive, but she definitely has enough to be enticing to the likes of these old lechers.

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A Cranky One  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:32:09am

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Jay C  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:39:46am

re: #296 Dopamine Fish

So it’s espionage, then.

Or, just as likely “Anna de Rothschild” is just a garden-variety grifter (the article linked in #300 describes her as “the daughter of an Illinois truck driver”) - she’s apparently claiming that she was framed by a “former business associate” with the fake ID*; sure, Anna, whatever you say… 🤥🤥🤥

*though it has to be easier to pronounce than her real handle of “Inna Yashchyshyn”.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:41:04am

re: #218 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:44:01am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:44:48am

re: #259 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Assuming you had permission.

en.wikipedia.org

There are examples of a royal (or other) army slighting (wrecking) fortifications to prevent their use as defenses without extensive repairs. A lot of the still intact medieval castles in England got slighted during the English Civil War.

Skipton Castle in North Yorkshire, famously known for Cromwell’s slighting.

But Lady Anne Clifford famously restored it.

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Dangerman  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:45:24am

re: #293 Patricia Kayden

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‘absolute immunity’ isn’t mentioned in the bible constitution

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:46:24am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:48:08am

re: #311 lawhawk

That’s good. Right?

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:49:02am

re: #312 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s something… we’ll find out shortly.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:49:21am

re: #312 Eclectic Cyborg

That’s good. Right?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:51:22am

re: #314 Crush White Nationalism

Oh, I wasn’t getting my hopes up that high.

That said, it would be nice to see an indictment before the mid-terms, but hopefully by the end of this year if nothing else.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 8:56:55am
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jaunte  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:01:07am

re: #316 Crush White Nationalism

MAGA: Why is our Government providing less opportunity for our oligarchs to skim off our taxes while evading payment of their own?

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jaunte  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:02:07am
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:02:28am

You enabled him!

Former Attorney General William Barr said that former President Donald Trump was resorting to “extortion” to continue to exert influence over the Republican Party, and said he still hasn’t decided what to make of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago and the government’s recovery of hundreds of pages of classified documents.

In a lengthy interview published Thursday, former New York Times editor Bari Weiss asked Barr why more Republicans did not simply come out and say that Trump’s claims that election fraud had prevented him from winning the 2020 election were, to use Barr’s previous word, “bullshit.”

“The tactic that Trump is using to exert this control over the Republican Party is extortion,” Barr said of his former boss. “What other great leader has done this? Telling the party, ‘If it’s not me, I’m going to ruin your election chances by telling my base to sit home. And I’ll sabotage whoever you nominate other than me.’ It shows what he’s all about. He’s all about himself.”

Barr: Trump using ‘extortion’ to control GOP (Yahoo News)

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Dopamine Fish  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:03:27am

re: #313 lawhawk

It’s something… we’ll find out shortly.

Most likely, it’s the redacted document, and any associated attachments (and, presumably, a motion to unseal).

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:05:05am

re: #318 jaunte

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:05:14am

How soon until we see news stories about conservatives getting forgiveness for bogus student loans?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:06:07am

NWS having some fun this morning

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William Lewis  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:08:34am

re: #305 A Cranky One

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Well, duh. The Capitalist class (made up of the bourgeoisie & landowners) vs the Proletariat rest of us.

But I forget that Marx is a boogeyman that can’t be taught about even as people relearn what he said the hard way.

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jaunte  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:09:23am
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HRH Stanley Sea  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:11:59am

Here’s the reporter & the detailed article

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:12:28am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:13:20am

re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s always something…

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Dave In Austin  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:14:00am

A great follow if you don’t already.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:14:24am

America is so much better when our lying fascists have been pushed aside, so America is more about learning and science than the grifting of the corrupt far-right.

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:15:40am

re: #329 Dave In Austin

A great follow if you don’t already.

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Thanos  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:19:03am

re: #278 A Cranky One

It really is, some people don’t know the depth of this one, so allow me to post this:
jenniferrpovey.medium.com

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William Lewis  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:19:53am

Oh My…

Youtube Video

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:21:01am
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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:21:50am
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William Lewis  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:23:08am

re: #332 Thanos

It really is, some people don’t know the depth of this one, so allow me to post this:
jenniferrpovey.medium.com

Microshaft in a nutshell.

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steve_davis  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:25:10am

re: #243 Hecuba’s daughter

This is why we cannot have nice things.

cnn.com

Federalist Society judges are there to destroy our democracy and cause death and violence everywhere.

in other news, Benjamin the Horse was confirmed as being the senior senator from the state of Texas. In his ruling, the judge noted that since Roman times (see Caligula v. Keith Richards), horses have been allowed to sit as senators. The horse, the Honorable Benjamin B. Forrest, is much relieved, as his ass has been serving as the junior senator from Texas since 2013, and this will give them a chance to spend more time together.

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jaunte  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:26:30am

I have redacted
the affidavits
that concerned
Mxx-a-Lxxx
and which
you were probably
eager
to read

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

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A Cranky One  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:26:42am

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:29:19am
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A Cranky One  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:36:00am

A shirt for the vinyl fans…

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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:36:54am
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nines09  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:37:47am

re: #341 A Cranky One

QC said; “Run with it.”

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Dave In Austin  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:38:57am

re: #311 lawhawk

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Uh

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wrenchwench  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:39:59am

re: #333 William Lewis

Oh My…

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Video

I imagine John Sebastian is dancing.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:40:15am

re: #340 lawhawk

I’m not law-y enough to understand what I am reading, but I do notice all the black bars on page 9, under what looks like a small image of one of Trump’s letters.

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A Three Hour Tour  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:42:21am

re: #321 Crush White Nationalism

A PPP loan could buy Megan McArdle a helluva lot of Himalayan Sea Salt.

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Dizzy  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:43:30am

re: #341 A Cranky One

A shirt for the vinyl fans…

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Ummmmm, NSFW?

:)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:43:46am

re: #297 Teukka

Wow. Like, the name alone raises red flags…

I see what you did there.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:45:01am

re: #300 lawhawk

How did she gain access? She paid $200,000 like every other spy.

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dat_said  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:48:49am

Highly classified documents just randomly mixed in with newspaper clippings and sharpie-infested notes.

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:49:22am

re: #346 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m not law-y enough to understand what I am reading, but I do notice all the black bars on page 9, under what looks like a small image of one of Trump’s letters.

Yeah, it’s Trump claiming that the NA didn’t find anything, and that this is all a hoax bulkshit that he spewed on Truth Social. The redactions are throughout the entire document, because of the sensitivity of the information that Trump mishandled and took without any authority to do so.

Redactions due to the sensitivity of the information Trump took, the natsec implications of what was taken and security implication compromising assets, natsec gathering means, etc.

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Dangerman  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:51:14am
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jaunte  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:51:16am
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jaunte  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:51:54am

“How many billions is it worth to you to find out who your mole is?”

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jaunte  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:52:53am
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No Malarkey!  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:52:57am

Wonder how Fox is spinning this, or are they broadcasting a Hunter Biden special right now?

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steve_davis  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:54:34am

re: #326 HRH Stanley Sea

Here’s the reporter & the detailed article

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pretty certain jews have never been allowed to take the “de” as part of their family names. that would be an immediate red flag.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:56:13am
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A Cranky One  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:56:49am

Scooby-Don’t…

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:58:07am
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Crush White Nationalism  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:58:51am

re: #342 Crush White Nationalism

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jaunte  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:59:09am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 26, 2022 • 9:59:32am

re: #351 dat_said

Highly classified documents just randomly mixed in with newspaper clippings and sharpie-infested notes.

Like I said the other day, he was literally just throwing random shit in boxes.

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cat-tikvah  Aug 26, 2022 • 10:02:37am

re: #319 Crush White Nationalism

You enabled him!

Barr: Trump using ‘extortion’ to control GOP (Yahoo News)

Oh so Bill Barr DOES know what extortion is.
After “no quid pro quoing” Trump’s attempted extortion of Zelenskyy.
Go figure Trump would continue using extortion after Barr made sure there were no consequences!

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lawhawk  Aug 26, 2022 • 10:03:32am

re: #361 I Would Prefer Not To

Youtube Video

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 26, 2022 • 10:08:05am

re: #367 lawhawk

And he would sell that information to the highest bidder or Vlad.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 26, 2022 • 10:09:59am

gone upstairs.

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John Hughes  Aug 26, 2022 • 10:15:45am

re: #339 A Cranky One

There are jokes I will not make.

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John Hughes  Aug 26, 2022 • 10:21:13am

re: #342 Crush White Nationalism

Gotta take out the two mini-bosses first or they’ll be healing him.

Edit: hah, she said the same thing in the next tweet.

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darthstar  Aug 26, 2022 • 12:31:49pm

re: #341 A Cranky One

Nice knob!


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