CUMBIA! Los Lobos Live Mini-Concert
Music • Views: 18,692
And now, CUMBIA!
Chuco’s Cumbia
Native Son
Sail On, SailorSUBSCRIBE to get the latest #Kimmel: http://bit.ly/JKLSubscribe
244 comments
Been a while since I was first.
What about Snowden?
Hmmm…
Cats reacting to face filters
pic.twitter.com/RLkK60PElZ— Tansu YEĞEN (@TansuYegen) August 27, 2022
Cumbia is a northern South American classical dance form, particularly Columbian.
She Who Must Be Obeyed’s Andean band plays a lot of them. They kind of rock.
Tired of these pigs.
Not at all. You’re a stupid Trump Supporter.
You are totally to blame for the state of the country and your to stupid to see the treason in front of your face.
This is all on you and your ilk.
You’ll be blocked if you respond.— Ted Cruz’s Cold Sore🦎 (@DaveoutofAustin) August 27, 2022
re: #4 Dave In Austin
Tired of these pigs.
Git ‘em, Dave!
(See, this is why I’m not on Twitter. I’d block them without even thinking of engaging.)
Making progress in a country as complicated as ours clearly has never been easy. That’s why when we build things that matter like Medicare and Social Security, we fight like hell to protect them.
Congressional Republicans want to put them on the chopping block every five years.— President Biden (@POTUS) August 28, 2022
How about an end-of-summer horror movie called SLAYBOR DAY?
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 27, 2022
Hard-drinking union workingmen (and their Green Party ladies) take the 3-day summer’s end weekend at an isolated house in the woods and a crazed, disfigured capitalist named Joe Mansion goes after them, one by one…
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 27, 2022
Newt Gingrich made his wife who is limping and has a leg injury and a boot on her leg get his coffee this morning and deliver it to his driver side window. pic.twitter.com/v6jEyHuSv8
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 27, 2022
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s a free country, and Newt’s wife can divorce him any time. That said, Newt is a fucking pig (as always).
A high school English teacher in Norman, OK was just fired for sharing the link for this program with her students.
— Diogenes Wept (@juliacmicheltx1) August 24, 2022
re: #9 EPR-radar
It’s a free country, and Newt’s wife can divorce him any time. That said, Newt is a fucking pig (as always).
I’m trying to figure why she didn’t “trip” and dump it into the fuckwit’s lap.
“Ooh, sorry honey!”
re: #2 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
[Embedded content]
What’s interesting is that they understand relative location and know to look up.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s not like old Helmet Hair didn’t know what a cad he is and was before they married. No sympathy for her at all.
Russia had a significantly easier time getting into Mar a Lago than they did Kyiv.
— Jackson Peel (@JaxPeel) August 26, 2022
You can see Moscow from his house. @SenRonJohnson may be compromised or he may just prefer being a treason-weasel. 0/10 pic.twitter.com/9PqxpD0LZb
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) August 28, 2022
Taking the longer view, the intelligence community must have assumed that every bit of intelligence that went to the Oval Office while Trump was president was blown to US enemies.
Speculating, Trump’s Reek moment at that Helsinki summit may have been when Putin bluntly ordered Trump to do a better job of being a spy than just handing over sanitized PDBs to Putin.
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
Liking this aggressive Dark Brandon! Make the GQP play defense. Rick “Skeletor” Scott handed the Democrats a gift with his legislative priorities a few months back.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just being a good obedient cough cough xiatin wife *pukes*.
Democrat Mary Peltola has widened her lead over Sarah Palin in the Alaska House special election.
https://t.co/DGiiaKrtQR via @politicususa— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 27, 2022
re: #18 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Just being a good obedient cough cough xiatin wife *pukes*.
She probably think serving her toad-husband on earth is a way for her to get into Heaven. Wouldn’t it be funny if her eternal reward in Hell was serving Newt forever?
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
New Alaska count: Mary Peltola (D) expands lead over Sarah Palin (R) to 16,347 votes. Depending on how many ballots “exhaust,” Palin probably needs 68-70% of Begich second place votes to prevail. It’s going to be close. #AKAL pic.twitter.com/5NDTB6lo2U
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 27, 2022
re: #12 Belafon
What’s interesting is that they understand relative location and know to look up.
Cats are top level predators, (their only purpose in life is to kill) even when they’re looking for snugs. They know position and what is wrong currently as compared with their past experience.
Never under estimate a cat.
OH. Okay. Well then 100,000,000 other people can get elected to the Senate and write a book. What an asshole. https://t.co/H41fwKYLWI
— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) August 28, 2022
re: #22 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Cats are top level predators, (their only purpose in life is to kill) even when they’re looking for snugs. They know position and what is wrong currently as compared with their past experience.
Never under estimate a cat.
Predators, but not top level. They’re also prey animals, which gives them another set of skills not to underestimate.
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
If Peltola wins this special election, and can replicate the victory in November, that is just the kind of lucky break the Democrats need to get to 218 seats in the House. Similarly, the Democrats helping Trumper Gibbs knock Meijer out in Michigan turned a district in which Meijer was favored into one that the Democrat is favored to win. I respect Meijer’s vote to impeach Trump, but in every other way he is a standard issue Republican, and if this district delivers a House majority to the Democrats that is massively more valuable to the country than keeping one powerless never Trumper in the House.
Uh oh! The leader of the Gazpacho Police is coming for Joe Biden! https://t.co/w9lvXEJREc
— Gabe Sanchez (@iamgabesanchez) August 27, 2022
MrsTarH and I are really enjoying The Crown. Nearly through Season 2. Certain liberties certainly have been taken, but the story is quite riveting. And kind of fun how many Downton Abbey performers show up.
Democrat Mary Peltola has widened her lead over Sarah Palin in the Alaska House special election.
https://t.co/DGiiaKrtQR via @politicususa— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 27, 2022
Racism and Christian Nationalism are go hand and hand.
I have no question that you’re a racist and a Fascist.
🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ Next Question?— Ted Cruz’s Cold Sore🦎 (@DaveoutofAustin) August 28, 2022
re: #24 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Hey, BeachDem, what did I say to deserve a downding? [sniff] I like cats better than most people, even if they’re not the hottest predators on the block!
/
re: #31 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Hey, BeachDem, what did I say to deserve a downding?
I like cats better than most people, even if they’re not the hottest predators on the block! /
Weird. Hadn’t even read the comment. My fingers must be fatter than I thought. Fixed now. Sorry
— 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℙ𝕚𝕩𝕖𝕝 ℙ𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕥 (@Cheap_Knockoff) August 28, 2022
so while we’re living in this moment of the constant rain of shoes dropping on TFG, I want to take a moment to savor that J6 has yet to start up again and perhaps we’ll get an understanding of exactly who else was involved in the coup….
who was supposed to supply the political cover and was aiding and abetting
who financed this, because I’m pretty sure that Trump never pays for anything himself
who was set to call this a fait accompli if they hijacked Pence and stopped the process
who laid the ground work to leave the Capitol undefended, who reached out to the Military to give the mob a chance to work its will?
wo handled and coordinated who would do what, who provided intelligence, transportation, logistics, etc etc etc…
say that 45 does get indicted without a GOP Senate to cover his ass, who is going to protect the GOP fight Club when shoes continue to fall… will it stop with their donors, their pet media projects on Cable, Radio and print?
Faith in humanity restored..
Thank you! 🙏
🎥 IG: littlestepsmatter pic.twitter.com/3cSxQvxlSg— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 25, 2022
re: #28 TarHellion
MrsTarH and I are really enjoying The Crown. Nearly through Season 2. Certain liberties certainly have been taken, but the story is quite riveting. And kind of fun how many Downton Abbey performers show up.
I apologise for this in advance. (You will need to watch the first 30 seconds to find out why.)
EVASION OF ACCOUNTABILITY!!! pic.twitter.com/9XTW57LhnA
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) August 27, 2022
I have been enjoying the Iceland volcano updates from the esteemed “Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus”.
Yesterday I bumped into this video from Iceland and thought that I would share it.
I have been following Dixie’s channel for some years now. She is an experienced “through hiker”, and technically quite excellent, having completed a whole bunch of US trails, such as the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail among others.
She is also quite a tough character. Just watch her video of hiking through Florida Swamps and passing within ‘boop’ distance of Water Moccasins. Not to mention the leeches…
Btw, a standard shot in these kind of videos is to set up the camera and show the hiker walking along the trail away or towards the camera. This is the first time I have seen someone posting when the camera gets blown over. And it did crack me up.
Anyway, it was interesting to see her video of hiking in Iceland.
I thought all of you might enjoy the title of the article at Balloon Juice:
Next time someone tells you that America isn’t a racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 27, 2022
Background: Poe was playing football with other mascots from around the area at the half- Went down with a leg injury! I uh…. Have never seen this before.
— Olivia Garvey (@Olivia7News) August 28, 2022
re: #44 Patricia Kayden
Sounds like he is going to be *ahem* eating crow for a while.
Pharmacist gets in the way of preparation for surgery by refusing to fill a scrip for methotrexate. Two tweets.
Her gynecologist happens to be one of my besties so I texted him even though he is on vacation and he’s NOT pleased. Minced no words. She needs her cervix softened for a uterine biopsy in 2 days. So she doesn’t die. @cvspharmacy doesn’t care. @GregAbbott_TX doesn’t care. pic.twitter.com/Dy80RhvPqE
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) August 28, 2022
Ha. I don’t watch much TV, but I had the Browns pre-season game on. I’m a Steelers fan but wanted to see how Cleveland was going to handle their QB fiasco. Anyway, after the game I didn’t turn the TV off and a commercial came on for the channel’s morning news (Youngstown station). The people that do the broadcast are characters, and the last line of the commercial was the weatherman saying, “crack open a cold one and join us for the morning news!”. That cracked me up.
One dog real needs ear medicine and the other one also thinks he needs it too … !!🤗
( from Anlyin / Img. ) pic.twitter.com/9pbWn8Tih1— Stefano S. Magi (@myworld2121) January 7, 2022
re: #25 No Malarkey!
If Peltola wins this special election, and can replicate the victory in November, that is just the kind of lucky break the Democrats need to get to 218 seats in the House. Similarly, the Democrats helping Trumper Gibbs knock Meijer out in Michigan turned a district in which Meijer was favored into one that the Democrat is favored to win. I respect Meijer’s vote to impeach Trump, but in every other way he is a standard issue Republican, and if this district delivers a House majority to the Democrats that is massively more valuable to the country than keeping one powerless never Trumper in the House.
It is highly unlikely Peltola can win. The Republican in 2nd place will be getting most of the other GOP votes as a result of ranked voting.
re: #46 mmmirele
Pharmacist gets in the way of preparation for surgery by refusing to fill a scrip for methotrexate. Two tweets.
[Embedded content]
There’s a woman (i do wonder if it is, because internet) in there trying to derail it because somehow two doctors were talking. What gets me is this part:
It’s absolutely clear that the patient’s health was discussed between practitioners though
— Laura McConnell (@LauraFMcConnell) August 28, 2022
A man appears lol (nobody cares)
— Laura McConnell (@LauraFMcConnell) August 28, 2022
I’m a male and all, but this just seems almost sexist in a way to me.
“Imagine if he put this much effort into finding a job, we wouldn’t have to pay off his student loans” - Republicans probably
— Jake not from State Farm (@BleedCubBlue311) August 28, 2022
re: #50 Belafon
There’s a woman (i do wonder if it is, because internet) in there trying to derail it because somehow two doctors were talking. What gets me is this part:
[Embedded content]
I’m a male and all, but this just seems almost sexist in a way to me.
Blocking. I appreciate your First Minister, but you’re not giving Scottish Labourites a good name here in the USA by being a twit. We have a crisis of women’s healthcare going on right now, and you’re being a full on IDIOT about it.
— Dee “I support transgender people” Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) August 28, 2022
Apparently Twitter didn’t like me using the words “twit” and “IDIOT”. I clicked through the three “do you really want to post this?” because I don’t need Nanny Twitter.
I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Judge Cannon is going out of her way to be as generous as possible to Trump not because she is biased, but because she is afraid that she might be threatened or endangered by Trump’s sicarios if she throws it out outright and he slams her
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) August 28, 2022
In Colombia it got to a point where in some courtrooms where prosecutors were trying to bring traffickers to justice, judges would have to preside behind a black curtain and use voice distorting microphones to conceal their identities. In case you’re wondering where this leads
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) August 28, 2022
WaPo Bombshell: Trump Took Boxes of Material on Trips Around the World for ‘No Reason’ https://t.co/bEp0czceRZ
re: #3 austin_blue
Cumbia is a northern South American classical dance form, particularly Columbian.
She Who Must Be Obeyed’s Andean band plays a lot of them. They kind of rock.
Iirc, Austin is the home to a big Chicha scene. “Money Chicha”, for example. Chicha, iirc, started out in the Peruvian Amazon, moved up to the highlands and then down to coast. These groups are quite a fusion, but show their Cumbian roots. (Chicha is named after a Peruvian alcoholic drink.)
re: #55 Dangerman
Oh, I think there’s a reason
re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth
This you? Mrs. I Can’t recall? https://t.co/wsXR5Mpmli
— Michele: 🏳️⚧️ Out of the closet. Into the fire (@michele_out) August 28, 2022
I couldn’t resist. Here’s Money Chicha in Austin, Tx.
Btw, the electric guitar is a distinguishing feature of another form of Peruvian Cumbia, “Psychedelic Cumbia”.
Stonekettle makes the point that laws are for the little people:
You were an Army Officer. You know how this works. The rules don’t apply at that level and never have. From my DC experience? Congressional level? If there were discrepancies on the sign out sheets, someone “fixed” them. Or fixed the inventory.
If I had to guess.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 28, 2022
I seem to have missed this episode of The Simpsons, until today.
This is on my list of rabbit holes to go down:
And here’s one of Bruce Wilson’s many articles documenting NAR, this one from 2009.https://t.co/ihc3zDAkCB
— Dave Troy (@davetroy) August 26, 2022
=
I’ve been at the New Apostolic Reformation since late 2008. Jennifer Cohn is new to the territory but has thrown her considerable intellect into absorbing as much about the NAR as possible, as fast as possible. This was quite fun. maybe I talked too fast? https://t.co/Ny5R6FOftf
— Bruce Wilson (@brucewilson) August 26, 2022
re: #55 Dangerman
This is a BFD. This alone is enough to indict him for criminal activity. What the actual hell?!!
Funny new show on Netflix, “Mo”, about a Palestinian immigrant living in Houston.
“They’re not gonna send me back to Palestine! I don’t have citizenship there, I don’t have citizenship here; I’m like a refugee free agent! I don’t even have a passport. All I have is my asylum claim, and a bunch of Chanel bags.”
Mo gets randomly shot in a grocery while talking to the food sample woman who is offering culturally insulting chocolate hummus; recovers consciousness in the company of two emergency medics who are arguing whether it’s a mass shooting if you have to count the shooter.
You hope the Republican donor who bought all those books at least mulched them in an environmentally responsible way. https://t.co/p6sXKm1ObH
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 28, 2022
re: #70 JC1
5/6. I’ll take it. Not easy.
[Embedded content]
4/6. I really thought I had it on the 3rd guess.
Wordle 435 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Current mood:
re: #58 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
[
Well if his dementia wasn’t so bad he could remember.
At least President Trump knows everyone’s name.
Joe is a career politician that knows nothing about making payroll during a tyrannical government shutdown.
He only knows how to buy votes.
pic.twitter.com/5pAHFJi4pz— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) August 26, 2022
I laugh out loud every time I see one of these goober gentry types brag about making payroll, as though it were some monumental achievement that lesser mortals cannot hope to equal. Well, in fact, if you are in business, making payroll is the BARE MINIMUM you have to do to stay in business. You can ignore the light bill, welch on the rent, fail to pay credit cards, let your trucks be repo”ed, but you had damn well better not fail to pay due wages. I don’t know how it is in Georgia where Marge inherited her old man’s construction business, but in Texas where I built a multimillion dollar business from scratch, they will put you in jail if you fail to make payroll, or at least they would before Repug criminals gained control.
re: #75 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Tim Apple would certainly confirm TFG knows everyone’s name.
/
re: #70 JC1
5/6. I’ll take it. Not easy.
[Embedded content]
4 for me
aFdrdnRCdjhtaGx4SnZZbmZ3ZkJ1YTJZenVXOExVWkNMWkN0emNvL0hYMFhmdEEwZ3JNdEVjS2t3dWRranVENDlKQVJDaUJsVXRWdXUxVXo4VnlRZ04xTUw1V1NlZTBHNUVXWHMvT3kzRGkrcE90ay96VWh2akpRdVZrUU5ZWlZaY3MwUFlDMWhYSFFJaXZ5TlhzcXFXUldLYSs5dGZyTnlibU05dGFndEl6Yk1yTWtLN2MwR1Y0UTY5VzhDVHFhbHVrNWpxMzdIOW1PZlBpZE82aUpvL0c5R2NyWnFoTnBXWVJzcS9FQkVpdFZJMUJLOVJSSGxkbzBRTkVtaW53NUdKenNtNWIydG1ONzBxeTZhWU9pRHhCcTFjRXk0VFdVUkdWZTBNelRncnBpdFo3bTJPQVBTOE5xRkpaUVBvY0Y6OgiJCeovelb2l6nsY70ls/c=
re: #75 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I laugh out loud every time I see one of these goober gentry types brag about making payroll, as though it were some monumental achievement that lesser mortals cannot hope to equal. Well, in fact, if you are in business, making payroll is the BARE MINIMUM you have to do to stay in business. You can ignore the light bill, welch on the rent, fail to pay credit cards, let your trucks be repo”ed, but you had damn well better not fail to pay due wages. I don’t know how it is in Georgia where Marge inherited her old man’s construction business, but in Texas where I built a multimillion dollar business from scratch, they will put you in jail if you fail to make payroll, or at least they would before Repug criminals gained control.
I remember talking to an incredulous carpetbagger who had been burned by the very strict Texas Wage Theft and Payday Laws. “I didn’t know Texas had lib’rul laws like that!” the butthurt crook complained. I explained to him that in fact the laws had been on the books since the 1890s. If you welched on payroll back then, the aggrieved wage earners were likely to collect at gunpoint. After some untoward incidents, ie dead bosses, the state stepped in to keep the peace.
China calls on Putin to end Russian roulette at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine after disaster near-miss. When China is speaking up, you know it’s serious. They barely have peeped a word about Ukraine until now. https://t.co/b6Kmv49ALA
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) August 27, 2022
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I remember talking to an incredulous carpetbagger who had been burned by the very strict Texas Wage Theft and Payday Laws. “I didn’t know Texas had lib’rul laws like that!” the butthurt crook complained. I explained to him that in fact the laws had been on the books since the 1890s. If you welched on payroll back then, the aggrieved wage earners were likely to collect at gunpoint. After some untoward incidents, ie dead bosses, the state stepped in to keep the peace.
People on both sides of the political spectrum out in the country pretty much all agree that making payroll is a business requirement. It’s just the Republicans who don’t worry about the government not paying them that don’t care.
re: #84 retired cynic
Yeah, I deleted mine from this morning. I asked someone who monitors TS if it was a real post… they said no, so I deleted ny three sathing tweets.
This is where we are, that this is so believable😔— Am I The Only 1… (@Smushy131) August 28, 2022
Let’s do this instead:
“Beating Children Most Popular In States That Used to Beat Slaves.” pic.twitter.com/p7KiF067Kz
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) August 28, 2022
re: #20 EPR-radar
She probably think serving her toad-husband on earth is a way for her to get into Heaven. Wouldn’t it be funny if her eternal reward in Hell was serving Newt forever?
Satan: Oooo! I like that idea.
re: #52 mmmirele
[Embedded content]
Apparently Twitter didn’t like me using the words “twit” and “IDIOT”. I clicked through the three “do you really want to post this?” because I don’t need Nanny Twitter.
I get a lot of the “most people don’t Tweet like this” warnings. I’ve seen you fuckers tweet. Twitter is incorrect
— RJ Anderson🏴 🇸🇪🇩🇰 🏴 (@rj3000) August 28, 2022
Don’t forget to read the response by Robot Overlords
— :̵.̵|̵:̵;̵ (@me_ijinsan) August 26, 2022
First on CNN: Utah independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin has accused a motorist of brandishing a firearm and pointing it at him and his wife as the couple was driving home from a campaign event in April. https://t.co/1tma7TuFKN
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 27, 2022
Must be some other hemisphere.
The first echidna of spring pic.twitter.com/pdMc2XrYm6
— Jackie French (@jackie_french_) August 28, 2022
Foolish me… I see that Twitter is trending “Lesbian Dance Therapy” and I wonder whatever could that be, did I miss out on something in my life?
Then I click on it and find… it’s just another stupid utterance from Broebert.
This is a good take:
Karen’s daughter should be proud of her degree, particularly when you call lesbian dance theory by its official name, economics https://t.co/68c1xa6mXE
— MostlyRedactedHat (@Popehat) August 28, 2022
re: #90 ckkatz
Which leads to the old joke:
Nature may abhor a vacuum.
But not half as much as a cat.
And on that, I wish all a good night!
ツインテールトカゲ pic.twitter.com/TNBOgJFiVJ
— いずみ (@nezuizumi) August 27, 2022
There was a fork-tailed lizard in my yard in NM. Much smaller.
“Cycle”
Short film by Sophie Olga de Jong & Sytske Kok pic.twitter.com/5jKxLWMhEk— Cool Bike Art 🚴 (@CoolBikeArt1) August 27, 2022
One of the steeper declines in the history of acting:
In 1.5 years Gina Carano has gone from being on the verge of getting her own Mandalorian spin-off to starring in a Breitbart-made Hunter Biden movie https://t.co/kGQkvMOOEN pic.twitter.com/i9Fu7UdtTb
— Paul Tassi (@PaulTassi) August 27, 2022
EURO/WHITE ERASURE!!!
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) August 28, 2022
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
Making progress in a country as complicated as ours clearly has never been easy. That’s why when we build things that matter like Medicare and Social Security, we fight like hell to protect them.
Congressional Republicans want to put them on the chopping block every five years.
Not to mention the gains we have made over recent decades in personal freedoms, minority, women’s and LGBTQ rights…which are now under siege and have to not only defended but won back in places.
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
How about an end-of-summer horror movie called SLAYBOR DAY?
the follow it up with the sequel the following spring: IN MEMENTO MEMORIAL DAY in which an untreated Burn Pit PTSD victim goes on a holiday resort rampage.
re: #13 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’s not like old Helmet Hair didn’t know what a cad he is and was before they married. No sympathy for her at all.
I am sure that she “insisted” to prove what a model wife she is.
That’s usually true Andrew. But this year we’re going to make an exception for you. Since you’ve decided to partner with the White Supremacists to end our Democracy. https://t.co/EGf9fA4moY
— 🕉Stevie Van Zandt☮️ (@StevieVanZandt) August 27, 2022
Trumpster terrorists and collaborationist media keep warning that Trump’s arrest will set off a mass uprising by the heavily armed MAGA faithful.
In truth, this is a good reason to expedite the arrest.
Here is why: MAGA is openly planning mass violence around the election on November 8. The fundy church speaker network, for example, has been exhorting the base to volunteer as election workers and election monitors and mainstream Repug shills have joined in. The purpose, obviously, is to disrupt the election and provide a blizzard of fraud claims that will serve as a pretext for 1-6 style mob attacks on polling places, election workers, and election facilities.
The MAGA savages are being whipped into a frenzy in preparation for November 8. Arresting the traitor and spy Trump will release that energy prematurely. Having whipped up the mass, the traitor media and politicians cannot suddenly urge calm when that pent up rage is released. Far from it.
The force the traitors have built up for the election offensive will be expended well before the election and before traitor leadership has completed its plans. As we saw with 1-6, it takes time to whip them up again. This will be especially true if there are heavy casualties among the MAGA, which will depend on how well loyal Americans have prepared (calling John Brown), and how quickly federal forces can intervene. All local and most state law enforcement is suspect and will probably side with the insurrectionist terrorists or at least stand idly by while thousands of Rittenhousers swarm into the street shooting.
I think it is likely that the Biden Administration is preparing for this very scenario. It could well explain the appearance of “Dark Brandon” and the administration’s newfound aggressiveness.
re: #108 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Another benefit of forcing a premature MAGA uprising: The targets will be much harder. Rather than polling places and election workers, soft targets whose security is provided by unreliable local police, the MAGA mobs will throw themselves against federal buildings and courthouses, FBI offices, and probably military bases.
I know, this is almost too horrible to contemplate. The war is here, though, and ignoring it will only make it worse.
re: #110 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Another benefit of forcing a premature MAGA uprising: The targets will be much harder. Rather than polling places and election workers, soft targets whose security is provided by unreliable local police, the MAGA mobs will throw themselves against federal buildings and courthouses, FBI offices, and probably military bases.
I know, this is almost too horrible to contemplate. The war is here, though, and ignoring it will only make it worse.
We already know that a majority of GOP voters have no problem with criminal actions if they benefit the party, and it seems that a lot of them have no problem tolerating or even perpetrating violent crime.
Just a regular Sunday morning.
Saw @anne_engineer off to participate in the #NASASocial event.
Some chores to do.
Prep my gear and lunch bag for a 16, possibly 18, hour stint on console.
Report on station at 2200 hours.
Launch in 24 hours and 30 minutes.#GoArtemis pic.twitter.com/DrvzQOH6EO— Capt’n Amy🌹💍Newlywed (@CaptnAmy) August 28, 2022
212,250K Karma points!
that puts me halfway from 200K to 225K, which is halfway to 250K, my Lifetime Achievement Goal here on LGF.
Thanks to all the updingers.
This is humanity.
This is my President.pic.twitter.com/ahWIGgIdEL— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) August 28, 2022
re: #114 Patricia Kayden
this is my President
He can fall off all the goddamn bicycles he wants, better that than a guy who drives his golf cart up onto the green and whose only human physical contacts involve young women below the waist
re: #116 Dangerman
Liz is out almost every morning now and stays on the deck for a good part of the day. She? doesn’t run when I open a door and I sometimes get within about 3 feet.
[Embedded content]
do I want to know which Liz she was named after?
re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
212,250K Karma points!
that puts me halfway from 200K to 225K, which is halfway to 250K, my Lifetime Achievement Goal here on LGF.
Thanks to all the updingers.
here’s another one
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He can fall off all the goddamn bicycles he wants, better that than a guy who drives his golf cart up onto the green and whose only human physical contacts involve young women below the waist*
*without permission
re: #117 sagehen
do I want to know which Liz she was named after?
we’re not awfully creative here
Liz(ard) (I will not get close enough to find out if she’s a she)
Marlon the Heron
Leland the Eland (stuffed)
Happy the Okapi (ceramic)
Dolly the Llama
etc
So not Liz II of the UK
or Liz Taylor
or Liz Cheney
A rando named APV
In retrospect, January 6th offered a good exit ramp for Republicans to move away from Trump. He was responsible for their loss in GA runoffs. They could have held him accountable for losing the WH and the senate majority in 2020 and the House majority in 2018.
Allowing Trump to be a dominant factor in their party has now resulted in extreme crazies getting nominated for statewide races. Those candidates are built to appeal to the base, but not pivot to the center. Republican outlook may be positive if say Ducey was their senate nominee in AZ, Sununu was the nominee to take on Maggie Hassan in NH, Gary Black (state agri commissioner) to take on Warnock in GA, and say Congressman Fitzpatrick as the nominee in PA. And young veteran and Congressman Mike Gallagher in WI instead of letting Ron Johnson to run for the 3rd term.
Now, instead of making the election a referendum on D-performance, they have managed to make it a choice with Trump as the face of the party. They have overplayed their hands on the abortion issue and also by repeatedly questioning the legitimacy of 2020 election. The former has motivated women voters and D-voters in big numbers and the latter is a big turnoff to independent voters.
Since Trump-era, Republicans have not been able to put together a national coalition of 50% + 1. They didnt do it in 2018 in the House and senate elections. They didn’t do it in the presidential and House elections in 2020. There is no evidence they can do it this year.
Average Weekly Wages
1973: $873
2022: $813
Median Home
1973: $30,200
2022: $433,100
Monthly Rent
1973: $108
2022: $2,002
Tuition and Fees at University of California
1973: $150
2022: $13,104
Boomer: But why can’t the slackers pay for college & pay off their loans like we did?— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) August 27, 2022
Short thread on TX voter registration pre and post Dobbs. At first blush, it appeared there was no real impact. Women accounted for 50% of new voter registrations this year before Dobbs, and that is unchanged since the decision was handed down on 6/24.
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) August 27, 2022
.
.
.
It’s not just that younger voters are surging in TX since Dobbs. It’s clear that those younger voters who are registering now (men and women) are far more Democratic. New registrants <25 pre-Dobbs were modeled at +5 Dem. Since Dobbs, they are +20 Dem.
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) August 27, 2022
in NH (NYT):
He has said the state’s popular Republican governor is ‘a Chinese Communist sympathizer,’ called for the repeal of the 17th Amendment allowing direct popular election of senators and raised the possibility of abolishing the F.B.I.”
“The man behind these statements is Don Bolduc, a retired Army general who leads the Republican field in what should be a competitive race for the New Hampshire Senate seat held by Senator Maggie Hassan, a Democrat.”
“In one primary after another this year, Republican voters have chosen hard-right candidates who party officials had warned would have trouble winning in November, and Mr. Bolduc could be on course to be the next.”
Total disgrace. pic.twitter.com/Tqep0crHkm
— Arleen Alphonse (@ArleenAlphonse) August 27, 2022
(in case you were asleep, NH fought on the Union side)
re: #126 Dangerman
“In one primary after another this year, Republican voters have chosen hard-right candidates who party officials had warned would have trouble winning in November, and Mr. Bolduc could be on course to be the next.”
and that is what the complete lack of moderation in the GOP has led to: a shouting match to show who can be the most gung-ho conservative and True to Trump in order to win a primary
this is turning out to be their Achilles’ heel
it seems R’s have drawn the same conclusion from every election since the 70s
if they won, they moved further right. if they lost, it was because they werent far enough right
the demographics are inevitable
plus all the sensible people are long gone.
they’re stuck and they’ve left themselves no way out
Because as Anymouse is eager to point out, they want power for power’s sake.
and if they can’t solve it with tax cuts and more guns, they got nothing to offer.
Potential ban bait here:
Well, Marge, plenty of your MAGA terrorist supporters wanted to kill your opponent in 2020, driving him to withdraw from the race. Somehow yokel law enforcement could not catch the terrorists but Reuters had no trouble tracking them down and interviewing them.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) August 28, 2022
The #NASASocial participants heading into @NASAKennedy for more #Artemis I coverage. Stay tuned for more coverage. Thanks @CaptnAmy for all your help! pic.twitter.com/Vy6twieE4p
— Anne Barela (@anne_engineer) August 28, 2022
re: #130 Dangerman
10 seconds
yours was shorter so you typed faster ;-)
not to brag, but I am always concise. When I was assigned a 5-page paper, the prof got 4 pages and one paragraph maximum, and I usually aced them nonetheless.
I’m reposting this because of the Biden administration’s desperate attempt to portray MAGA Republicans as “fascist.” Here’s what the fascists actually believed.
Is Fascism Right or Left? | PragerU https://t.co/URzNxB7Vkj— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 27, 2022
re: #122 Dangerman
So true. Instead, they doubled down. They also fully embraced Trump’s criminal behavior and violent rhetoric. They are now the party of death threats to election workers and pro-White Supremacist orgs like the Proud Boys. They are devolving into fascists banning books, banning words/phrases and whitewashing history. Now, they are forcing women (and girls) to go through with dangerous pregnancies. After what Trump did on January 6th, you would think any political party would consider him to be poisonous to a functioning democracy. He should never be allowed to run for any office again.
Imagine what she and Molly Ivins could do with today’s MAGAts.
Rest in peace, Ann. We have picked up the torch and we’re about to burn MAGA to the ground with it.
Ann Richards. Was phucking awesome!! She and the late great Molly Ivins would have had a field day with the reds of today. Ann is still right about the red party, just strike out Rush and put in Alex. 😊🤭😊 pic.twitter.com/BLmUNWhTlK
— Bethes’ Saddle @ The Table 🐬 🇺🇲🎖️🐎🐬 (@Bethe57) August 28, 2022
.jpg)
re: #133 Dave In Austin
“right” and “left” are arbitrary designations based on the seating arrangements of the 19th century French parliament
there is nothing inherently “left” or “right” about any party or policy except perhaps in relation to other parties and positions.
Keep in mind that that Nazis were very nationalistic, which is considered “right” in most cases - except when it comes to rejecting globalism, international capital and banking, and adopting a more populist even, well, socialist approach to the economy, which these days is seen as “leftist”…
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s the fool Dinesh blathering Prager.
OH HAI LIZARDIA!!
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
re: #97 ckkatz
Which leads to the old joke:
Nature may abhor a vacuum.
But not half as much as a cat.And on that, I wish all a good night!
Or
What separates us from the animals?
We aren’t afraid of vacuum cleaners.
re: #129 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Last time I commented on the MTG feed, my account was canceled by Twitter. I called her a crazy Qanon lady.
re: #133 Dave In Austin
I’m reposting this because of the Biden administration’s desperate attempt to portray MAGA Republicans as “fascist.” Here’s what the fascists actually believed.
Is Fascism Right or Left? | PragerU https://t.co/URzNxB7Vkj— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 27, 2022
HAHAHA! Like most Randian degenerates, D’Felon is on the wrong track here. There aren’t that many conservative pseudo-intellectuals left to fall for this gibberish: Today’s Repugs wear their ignorance proudly.
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
not to brag, but I am always concise. When I was assigned a 5-page paper, the prof got 4 pages and one paragraph maximum, and I usually aced them nonetheless.
The Elements of Style: “Vigorous writing is concise.”
I try, though i tend to get windy.
re: #134 Patricia Kayden
So true. Instead, they doubled down. They also fully embraced Trump’s criminal behavior and violent rhetoric. They are now the party of death threats to election workers and pro-White Supremacist orgs like the Proud Boys. They are devolving into fascists banning books, banning words/phrases and whitewashing history. Now, they are forcing women (and girls) to go through with dangerous pregnancies. After what Trump did on January 6th, you would think any political party would consider him to be poisonous to a functioning democracy. He should never be allowed to run for any office again.
you are 100% right
and yet, they can’t quit him.
re: #75 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I laugh out loud every time I see one of these goober gentry types brag about making payroll, as though it were some monumental achievement that lesser mortals cannot hope to equal. Well, in fact, if you are in business, making payroll is the BARE MINIMUM you have to do to stay in business. You can ignore the light bill, welch on the rent, fail to pay credit cards, let your trucks be repo”ed, but you had damn well better not fail to pay due wages. I don’t know how it is in Georgia where Marge inherited her old man’s construction business, but in Texas where I built a multimillion dollar business from scratch, they will put you in jail if you fail to make payroll, or at least they would before Repug criminals gained control.
It isn’t even about making payroll. She took out a loan to do it. Which is fine and responsible. Now pay the fucking loan back or shut the fuck up about people receiving the same treatment.
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
OH HAI LIZARDIA!!
[Embedded content]
QkRDWVd4SzB3eHl0NWpCOG5xMEp0V0VlaFR1VXNsd3B2YUhaZDJKZk5FVUlVMGlRK1FLVW53Slk3NzN2a0FuWTo6Hd8pSV+nUibBej1BQBBqjg==
Today In 1988: Los Angeles #Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda fights the Phillie Phanatic! #MLB #Phillies #Baseball #History pic.twitter.com/gKsPh5ITBq
— Baseball by BSmile (@BSmile) August 28, 2022
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“right” and “left” are arbitrary designations based on the seating arrangements of the 19th century French parliament
there is nothing inherently “left” or “right” about any party or policy except perhaps in relation to other parties and positions.
Keep in mind that that Nazis were very nationalistic, which is considered “right” in most cases - except when it comes to rejecting globalism, international capital and banking, and adopting a more populist even, well, socialist approach to the economy, which these days is seen as “leftist”…
now explain why blue and red aren’t etched in stone, god given colors either ;-)
wiki
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
OH HAI LIZARDIA!!
[Embedded content]
TElhNS9yUEpTNVRwZWZQUVV4b0UzWEY1V2Z3clg0OGlBcDZRV1czbHE1Yz06OuzJqTFrPObtFkF9xwxraTY=
re: #129 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Of course, election related terrorism is an obvious civil rights violation. I realize the FBI has a lot on its plate just now, but if Reuters could track down MAGA terrorists, it should be child’ play for the feds. Given the abject cowardice and reflexive victimhood of MAGA fantatics, a few arrests for threats against election workers might work wonders in calming the situation.
We usually express gratitude to our international partners for the security assistance. But today we want to give a shout-out to a unique entity - North Atlantic Fellas Organization #NAFO.
Thanks for your fierce fight against kremlin’s propaganda &trolls.
We salute you, fellas! pic.twitter.com/AfDnXf7pfc— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 28, 2022
Okay, this is pretty funny…
Silly Vatniks lol
“Tbh the dog face looks nicely done” 🐶😂 pic.twitter.com/aZoddgJcGK— NAFO F.Fellasson 🇸🇪🇺🇦 (@JonasPe26378585) August 28, 2022
Tough week.
UndCZjVZU0M2ZGkwdVQzUk5uM0V5amlUZWhLREZjNktvaGs4Z0U5bzlzczJjbHplRkpMNnROa0tDcXhJeXBxWFdsdTdxVzl0Mk5ZWHNPOUJjSk9KS29wanQ3V2lVS0pvT0FxUmJ6dDZuL3N6V2xoMEY3WmVML1ZDUDMveFdZemtld21sSkpOY2xIWkJyam1QOGJKZXpqYy9HOXhEQm1sNVJnTU8yZk9SZ1A3dWp5Q0dDWWtvbHM4WHZPZVFLTnJCOjrFnYFNTBF+Pm3ruGlF5Vzk
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
TVZCYVlFcFowKzMxU0xvbUVvS0M3RTVsQ0ZLT0JzZVBjbnQ1MjB1eEx6blNETFBrejNzNEYwZUtUM2tnSktQb2NzRS80d1RxMjFUUVZZZmROREhUVjRrdXg4UHVCem0rWEx5bmVWUkloWldyVThQV1dYZlBDSzM5NzdiNkI3ak95Q015azczOXh1T0MvRkJRdzdmSFVWa0JZbzA2N2UzQ3d3eXpuckhWK0c1WFZVSGJJenZrMFVvWDJKWjAyS2p4cE04MWFCS0ZGMjRKRUR0YWc1VlNKUT09OjrMJlk6z2MB6gZ2Fin0kgH8
re: #126 Dangerman
in NH (NYT):
(in case you were asleep, NH fought on the Union side)
We took the Concord Monitor for many years (until really shitty delivery forced us to unsubscribe). About every three months Boldoc would submit a long letter to the editor the contents of which never much changed. You could boil his thesis down to: “we’ve never been more divided as a country and in the name of unity the radical left must be destroyed and Democrats bend the knee to Republicans.” I’m sure it’s in the article, but the other thing was that he was one of something like 150 retired military officers who signed a “stop the steal” letter after Trump lost the election. He’s a nutter and probably has a fair chance in this environment.
re: #133 Dave In Austin
I’m sorry but once I see his ugly mug, I move on. Never read or listen to him. He’s not worth it. I have a hard time that Conservatives actually like him. After all, he’s a brown man in a White Supremacist party.
Russian S-300 destroys itself after flight failure.
Gesture of good will pic.twitter.com/AutNQALmGW— WarMonitor🇺🇦 (@WarMonitor3) August 28, 2022
Wordle: another par. had a rare double-bogey yesterday
Also, will he be tried as an adult?
— Norm DePlume (@NormDePlume69) August 27, 2022
re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Knowing the financial history of these scam goons, I wonder how much she had to pay to “star” in this “movie.”
I was just looking at community FB. Someone posted a photo of a fat timber rattler in a neighborhood about a mile away. Someone said that DNR relocated the snake but said that it might return; also mentioned that before a big development went up it was called rattlesnake hill. Maybe they’re making a come back.
re: #161 Barefoot Grin
I was just looking at community FB. Someone posted a photo of a fat timber rattler in a neighborhood about a mile away. Someone said that DNR relocated the snake but said that it might return; also mentioned that before a big development went up it was called rattlesnake hill. Maybe they’re making a come back.
What I liked seeing at a rest stop in southern New York state along I-86 were signs at the base of the hillside (facing south) behind the buildings indicating that timber rattlesnakes would potentially be seen in the area and that people should be aware, be careful, avoid them, and leave them alone.
And the pet walking area is well away from the hillside itself.
(CNN)A former inmate who alleges her newborn died in the hospital after staff at a California jail was slow to respond to her medical emergency — including stopping at Starbucks as they drove her to the hospital — has been approved to receive a $480,000 settlement in her federal wrongful death lawsuit.
People suck
re: #123 Dangerman
[Embedded content]
There’s a flaw in it, and he’s gotten combative and blocked people who have tried to tell him. The average weekly wage from 1973 has been inflation adjusted, but none of.the others have. Fixing that inconsistency would still allow a truthful comparison of the inadequacy of salaries, but he hasn’t adjusted it.
Wasn’t this a scene in Good Fellas before one of them went to prison? pic.twitter.com/5gX00rdAGJ
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 28, 2022
Do you ever, I mean EVER, read what you post? pic.twitter.com/8fRAG728zF
— Ted Cruz’s Cold Sore🦎 (@DaveoutofAustin) August 28, 2022
re: #161 Barefoot Grin
I was just looking at community FB. Someone posted a photo of a fat timber rattler in a neighborhood about a mile away. Someone said that DNR relocated the snake but said that it might return; also mentioned that before a big development went up it was called rattlesnake hill. Maybe they’re making a come back.
We have had Mississagua Rattlers in our basement and property.
Herschel: “My opponent has spent $34 million against me. Can you believe it? $34 million. I told him if he had gave me the money, I could’ve made myself look bad.” pic.twitter.com/XvqVltBlvw
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 28, 2022
C’mon Georgia. Seriously?
re: #161 Barefoot Grin
I was just looking at community FB. Someone posted a photo of a fat timber rattler in a neighborhood about a mile away. Someone said that DNR relocated the snake but said that it might return; also mentioned that before a big development went up it was called rattlesnake hill. Maybe they’re making a come back.
Drop a few honey badgers in the neighborhood and the problem will be taken care of….
re: #166 Dave In Austin
It’s the nice way of saying what I really think:
Populism, at it’s core, has always had a bit of fear that there’s never enough to go around and so there must be winners and losers.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) August 28, 2022
re: #169 GlutenFreeJesus
Drop a few honey badgers in the neighborhood and the problem will be taken care of….
But then you’ve got a honey badger problem .
re: #138 Dave In Austin
It’s the fool Dinesh blathering Prager.
Of course, and the whole “The Nazis were really lefties, after all it was National Socialism” is a popular conservative hot-take talking point along with “The Democrat Party is the Party of Slavery!”
re: #100 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One of the steeper declines in the history of acting:
LOL!
It’s not defamation if it makes you seem even cooler than you already were.
— John Bruning (@john_bruning) August 26, 2022
Senator Rick Scott wrote the only election-year plan the GOP has this year—in it, he wants to require Congress to vote on the future of Social Security every 5 years.
Do you want to put your Social Security into the hands of Ted Cruz or Marjorie Taylor Greene?— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 26, 2022
Mulvaney got pushback, pushback that could cost him $$$ from Trump world, for suggesting Trump shouldn’t be 2024 nominee. Thus this tweet.
Yes, the search was about documents. Would Mick be happier if the FBI had said they were also looking for a dead body in the storage room? https://t.co/m21Pfz8FSV— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 26, 2022
re: #175 Belafon
[Embedded content]
I meant to add that Biden has given Democrats every tool he possibly can to help them win. You want to scare the voters to get them to the polls, here’s the message. You want to run on accomplishments, here’s the results.
re: #171 Belafon
But then you’ve got a honey badger problem .
That’s not a problem at all. They just don’t care and neither should you. 😏
re: #126 Dangerman
in NH (NYT):
[Embedded content]
(in case you were asleep, NH fought on the Union side)
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
re: #179 Hecuba’s daughter
General George Henry Thomas, by the way, was born in Virginia but fought for the Union.
And if it is left up to people like governors Abbot and DeSantis, US schoolchildren will just skip the era between the end of the Civil War and Martin Luther King, and learn nothing about Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Sundown Laws, the Green Book or Redlining.
re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Of course, and the whole “The Nazis were really lefties, after all it was National Socialism” is a popular conservative hot-take talking point along with “The Democrat Party is the Party of Slavery!”
This is how they know Democrats are communists too. After all, commie ruled Germany was the German DEMOCRATIC Republic and Kim Jong Il’s state is the DEMOCRATIC Peoples Republic of Korea.
re: #181 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
This is how they know Democrats are communists too. After all, commie ruled Germany was the German DEMOCRATIC Republic and Kim Jong Il’s state is the DEMOCRATIC Peoples Republic of Korea.
for people who are as selective in their reading of history as they are in their reading of the Scriptures
re: #123 Dangerman
Can’t speak for the rest of those figures, but in 1973, tuition at the University of California was about $650 for a year. (Most of the campuses were on the quarter system.) The author of that tweet might have been thinking of the “other”:state four year institutions, or even of junior colleges.
re: #183 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Can’t speak for the rest of those figures, but in 1973, tuition at the University of California was about $650 for a year. (Most of the campuses were on the quarter system.) The author of that tweet might have been thinking of the “other”:state four year institutions, or even of junior colleges.
I recall paying around $250-280 per semester at Indiana University in the 1970’s.
re: #148 Dangerman
Keep in mind that that Nazis were very nationalistic, which is considered “right” in most cases - except when it comes to rejecting globalism, international capital and banking, and adopting a more populist even, well, socialist approach to the economy, which these days is seen as “leftist”…
1. “Globalist” is a meaningless term, unless it is meant in the sense of opposing the “internationalist Jewish banking conspiracy” or Treaty of Versailles reparations, which is what the Nazis meant by that term.
2. The Nazis absolutely did not adopt a more “populist” (whatever the fuck that may mean other than racist policies). Far from a “socialist approach to the economy”, the Nazis were avowedly anti-socialist. They did not spend more money on programs for the poor, tax the rich, or even do something so minor like raise the minimum wage. This zombie lie that Nazis had leftwing economic policies needs to die.
re: #185 gocart mozart
2. The Nazis absolutely did not adopt a more “populist” (whatever the fuck that may mean other than racist policies). Far from a “socialist approach to the economy”, the Nazis were avowedly anti-socialist.
They were big on Kraft Durch Freude discount paid package holidays and tours along with other educational programs (like the National Socialist Drivers’ Corps, ostensibly about training more people to drive all the Volkwagens they were getting ready to produce, but which later came in handy for the Panzer divisions).
These were all sold as being done in the name of the Workers and Peasants and the Blood and Soil ideology.
And they were populist in that they were less socially elitist, even people from the lower strata of society were allowed to advance as long as they showed enough competence (and enthusiasm for the Führer.)
But their macro economy was one big happy oligarchy with plutocrats like Hermann Göring in charge of large parts of it
re: #164 Belafon
There’s a flaw in it, and he’s gotten combative and blocked people who have tried to tell him. The average weekly wage from 1973 has been inflation adjusted, but none of.the others have. Fixing that inconsistency would still allow a truthful comparison of the inadequacy of salaries, but he hasn’t adjusted it.
I saw that annoying inconsistency too. Pity about the guy’s defensiveness.
I’ve been going with my personal anecdote. I made enough money dishwashing over the 1980 summer before my college freshman year to pay for the entire year tuition ($630 @ NDSU) AND room & board ($80/month, including all you could eat). Granted, I was making above minimum wage ($3.25 vs $3.10) because I was probably in the top ten dishwashers in town. I did overtime whenever they let me, so I even had a few extra dollars.
re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg
Sorry, I have to do this:
I remember when that farrago was all the rage among the pseudointellectual right
Her gynecologist happens to be one of my besties so I texted him even though he is on vacation and he’s NOT pleased. Minced no words. She needs her cervix softened for a uterine biopsy in 2 days. So she doesn’t die. @cvspharmacy doesn’t care. @GregAbbott_TX doesn’t care. pic.twitter.com/Dy80RhvPqE
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) August 28, 2022
re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
General George Henry Thomas, by the way, was born in Virginia but fought for the Union.
And if it is left up to people like governors Abbot and DeSantis, US schoolchildren will just skip the era between the end of the Civil War and Martin Luther King, and learn nothing about Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Sundown Laws, the Green Book or Redlining.
Yep — I made that very point — that Thomas was a slaveholding Virginian but he wasn’t a traitor and fought for the Union. When sepsis infects a limb, if you don’t eliminate it immediately, it gradually infects the entire body and kills it. That’s what happened to the toxic attitudes of the South — they spread and are poisoning our entire nation.
Meanwhile, in China:
hina has reached a point of no return in its battle to contain what could be the biggest property crash the world has ever seen, experts are warning, putting the country’s Communist leadership and the global economy in peril.
As western countries stand on the edge of a potentially ruinous recession in the coming year, China is also facing a slump thanks to “total collapse” of confidence among ordinary people in the once-buoyant housing market, the continued ravages of Beijing’s draconian zero-Covid strategy and an extreme heatwave that is affecting the supply of power and food.
Alarm is spreading in China that tough times are on the horizon, with the chief executive of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, causing a sensation this week when he warned that the chill from economic downturn would be “felt by everyone” for the next decade.
re: #195 Dr Lizardo
It was never a question of “If” and always a question of “When?”
Someone posted in Reddit North Dakota a couple map versions attempting to depict cultural differences and asked for feedback on which is “best”: reddit.com
For the record, I lean towards the second. While geographically there’s a pretty big difference in land east (rolling hills, farm country) and west (rugged buttes, ranch, and oil country) of the Missouri, the cultural split is the Red River Valley (old Lake Agassiz lake bed) which is the big cities and banking and relatively easy farming on rich lake bed soil versus the harder dry farming and ranching outside the old lake bed. I’d probably draw the line a little further west so that Valley City and Devils Lake were grouped in with Fargo and Grand Forks.
Anymouse is away experiencing cultural differences on his trip but I would be curious if he thought the Central Great Plains and Lower Midwest split was accurate for NE.
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
It was never a question of “If” and always a question of “When?”
Yep.
And now, presumably, a question of “how bad?”
re: #191 Hecuba’s daughter
Yep — I made that very point — that Thomas was a slaveholding Virginian but he wasn’t a traitor and fought for the Union. When sepsis infects a limb, if you don’t eliminate it immediately, it gradually infects the entire body and kills it. That’s what happened to the toxic attitudes of the South — they spread and are poisoning our entire nation.
They are getting back to associating open rebellion with some form of “patriotism” and not coincidentally, a lot of racism lies behind it.
The massive Crawler Transporter 2 which transported 25 million pound #Artemis I plus Mobile Launcher to launchpad 38B at a blazing .8 miles per hour. It gets 34 feet to a gallon of diesel. #nasasocial@PaintYourDragon I borrowed it for your werewolf, be there in a hundred years. pic.twitter.com/3bJwRaHJQW
— Anne Barela (@anne_engineer) August 28, 2022
re: #135 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
My mom was opining how much she missed Molly Ivins yesterday. I related how much I hater her in my Glibertarian days. Probably because she was so fucking effective and funny. Ivins would be fire today.
re: #185 gocart mozart
This zombie lie that Nazis had leftwing economic policies needs to die.
The zombies will continue to tell zombie lies. Because they’re fucking zombies.
re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg
I was able to put that book down half way through it and never pick it back up. It was basically a long read NRO OpEd.
re: #205 PhillyPretzel
That is a good one. :)
Sent that to a friend who manages new hires at her job. she sometimes posts (anonymized) excerpts from some of the CVs she has to deal with
re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Of course, and the whole “The Nazis were really lefties, after all it was National Socialism” is a popular conservative hot-take talking point along with “The Democrat Party is the Party of Slavery!”
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
re: #207 A Three Hour Tour
[Embedded content]
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
#Artemis I, up close and personal @NASA_SLS and @NASA_Orion ready to launch Monday morning #NASASocial @NASASocial
Hey @CaptnAmy, you have a wonderful office! @NASA @NASAKennedy pic.twitter.com/1xKAbxaQiT— Anne Barela (@anne_engineer) August 28, 2022
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
[Embedded content]
bFlHNDgwREVPM2RuWmlpVGExNHNlcmltaldicDd4eldSRUh6blNOU25LMXBLSGoxM3gvZkRnM2Y4SENaVkhteXMzY0RLR0xJSURUNmh3Zk5ERjJISEE9PTo6Lcow79h5+TTiaK0GOaLEXw==
What next? This is seriously insane. https://t.co/V10cw2piT3
— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) August 28, 2022
re: #212 Captain Ron
I am not surprised. Remember it was DT who went into the bunker when there were peaceful protests.
re: #203 Belafon
re: #205 PhillyPretzel
re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Had an American friend who came to visit a few years back ask me how I dry my clothes, being as I don’t have a clothes dryer.
I told her, “I use a combination of wind power and solar radiant heat.” Took her a bit to figure out I was referring to the clothesline on my balcony.
re: #214 Dr Lizardo
Had an American friend who came to visit a few years back ask me how I dry my clothes, being as I don’t have a clothes dryer.
I told her, “I use a combination of wind power and solar radiant heat.” Took her a bit to figure out I was referring to the clothesline on my balcony.
Growing up that is what we used in the summer to dry clothes so I caught it right away.
re: #215 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Growing up that is what we used in the summer to dry clothes so I caught it right away.
For the winter months or rainy days, I have an indoor drying rack, so not having an electric clothes dryer is no big deal, at least for me.
Ron Johnson whines: ‘People in Wisconsin think I’m a tool of Vladimir Putin’ https://t.co/WBrvCdscWa
— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 28, 2022
re: #216 Dr Lizardo
For the winter months or rainy days, I have an indoor drying rack, so not having an electric clothes dryer is no big deal, at least for me.
I wanted to put one up buy was told no by the management company that runs the park. I have a couple of drying racks as well that I set up outside instead. I really do miss sun/air dried sheets and pillow cases.
Some “China hands” think that 2008 was a turning point for China. They played a significant role in saving the world from another great depression after the implosion of America’s real estate and investment firms began to collapse. It supposedly caused a significant shift in how China saw itself in the world—no longer needing to pay heed to the West, and led the government to slowly ramp up nationalism. That ramping up got a jolt with the rise of Xi, and it was clear skies ahead. Covid mismanagement is understandable. Hell, we did it very badly for a long time, too. But the hubris over their economy led the CCP to quash dissenting voices (as usual) and now it appears they are heading for a disaster that experts saw coming. You would have thought that the American experience of “don’t worry, property values will just go up forever” would have given them some caution.
On a related note of drying things, I found out freezing then thawing out tofu gets the water out really well before you fry them up in balls of chewy goodness.
re: #214 Dr Lizardo
Had an American friend who came to visit a few years back ask me how I dry my clothes, being as I don’t have a clothes dryer.
I told her, “I use a combination of wind power and solar radiant heat.” Took her a bit to figure out I was referring to the clothesline on my balcony.
We did not get a clothes dryer until we had children and cold not get things to dry quick enough in the winter months.
re: #219 Barefoot Grin
You would have thought that the American experience of “don’t worry, property values will just go up forever” would have given them some caution.
Failure to learn the lessons of history, or thinking that “Well, we’re different, so something like that could never happen to us. After all, we’re smarter than that.”
Sad story, old story.
re: #219 Barefoot Grin
There is very little else that most people in China can invest in besides real estate, so any collapse in that market will have serious consequences.
The Mar-a-Lago situation seems to disprove the narrative of any high-octane, intricate spy thriller and instead suggests all of American politics is being written and directed by the Coen Brothers.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) August 26, 2022
Goddess above, I love Stone’s warped sense of humor.
Walking on the beach, my wife fills my pockets with various shiny rocks she finds, shells, etc.
She says she likes to collect these things and doesn’t have her own pockets to put them in, but I’m pretty sure she’s just weighting my body down and watching for a large wave.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 28, 2022
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is very little else that most people in China can invest in besides real estate, so any collapse in that market will have serious consequences.
Yes, and I’ve seen lots of stories of families investing in high-rise condos for sons—thinking it’s the only way to get them married— only to find the developer walking out before construction is complete. Anger has been simmering and sometimes boiling over for a few years now.
re: #224 retired cynic
I’ve said from day one the Trump era will be a mix of Tom Clancy and Idiocracy and I stand by that assertion. No disrespect to Master Wendig. Plus I love the Coen Brothers so there will be no quarrel from moi.
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is very little else that most people in China can invest in besides real estate, so any collapse in that market will have serious consequences.
You bet. I’d say there’s a good possibility that a sector-wide collapse would generate widespread social unrest, which would be put down with typical heavy-handedness.
That would be the ultimate test for Xi Jinping - how he handles such a situation. I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes for all the whiskey in Ireland.
re: #224 retired cynic
The Mar-a-Lago situation seems to disprove the narrative of any high-octane, intricate spy thriller and instead suggests all of American politics is being written and directed by characters from Coen Brothers films.
re: #226 Barefoot Grin
Yes, and I’ve seen lots of stories of families investing in high-rise condos for sons—thinking it’s the only way to get them married— only to find the developer walking out before construction is complete. Anger has been simmering and sometimes boiling over for a few years now.
A mortgage payment boycott kicked off not long ago, and it’s been spreading (and I can totally see where the average Chinese person is coming from on that one), which is likely fueling banking sector instability.
re: #230 Dr Lizardo
A mortgage payment boycott kicked off not long ago, and it’s been spreading (and I can totally see where the average Chinese person is coming from on that one), which is likely fueling banking sector instability.
Interesting. I hadn’t heard that, but iirc there have been a few cases of banks shutting down for days and refusing withdrawals—Chinese are getting it from both sides in some cases.
re: #222 Dr Lizardo
Failure to learn the lessons of history, or thinking that “Well, we’re different, so something like that could never happen to us. After all, we’re smarter than that.”
Sad story, old story.
Except that I understand that Xi thinks “it’s different” because he thinks a powerful centralized government can do this better than an inherently disorganized democracy.
I think he’s wrong, but people have been predicting a serious downturn in the Chinese economy for about 3 decades now. Obviously growth, growth, growth can’t go on forever, but apparently Xi has taken the success up to this point as a guide to the future.
re: #232 calochortus
Except that I understand that Xi thinks “it’s different” because he thinks a powerful centralized government can do this better than an inherently disorganized democracy.
I think he’s wrong, but people have been predicting a serious downturn in the Chinese economy for about 3 decades now. Obviously growth, growth, growth can’t go on forever, but apparently Xi has taken the success up to this point as a guide to the future.
He has actually made some decisions that work against the interests of the banking and finance industries, which is something that almost never happens here in the west
re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yeah, a western democracy would never build cities when there’s no one to live in them.
re: #230 Dr Lizardo
A mortgage payment boycott kicked off not long ago, and it’s been spreading (and I can totally see where the average Chinese person is coming from on that one), which is likely fueling banking sector instability.
I guess a large part of the question is whether the government has enough resources (and finesse-not a Chinese long suit) to support the banks enough to stabilize them without hurting the public at large.
I know the idea is to play the long game and become the world’s dominant power, but I wonder how long people will be willing to sacrifice to make that happen in some misty future. For a long time people were willing to do all that because they could see they, or their children, were getting more opportunities as the economy grew rapidly. Now? I don’t know.
re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, a western democracy would never build cities when there’s no one to live in them.
But we would wind up making taxpayers who had nothing to do with them pony up to cover the losses and not the banks and investment firms responsible for them.
re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Too big to fail.”
re: #237 Eclectic Cyborg
“Too big to fail.”
“But not big enough to be regulated”
e.g., the ideal size for a company
re: #190 No Malarkey!
[Embedded content]
this is more than merely what total abortion bans do
it’s willfully, stubbornly, and obtusely refusing to recognize what everybody including pharmacists know/knows:
some medical procedures and medicines have more than one use
and some of those uses are 100% legit, licit, and legal
My 55 yo friend who is having postmenopausal bleeding just called me from CVS in TX bc they refused to fill her Rx for misoprostol (used to open the cervix) bc she couldn’t prove she wasn’t having an abortion. She is having surgery in 2 days. This is what total abortion bans do.
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) August 28, 2022
re: #239 Dangerman
this is more than merely what total abortion bans do
it’s willfully, stubbornly, and obtusely refusing to recognize what everybody including pharmacists know/knows:
some medical procedures and medicines have more than one use
and some of those uses are 100% legit, licit, and legal
[Embedded content]
But a 55 year old woman might be pregnant and just not telling! You can’t trust them sneaky wimmins!
re: #239 Dangerman
this is more than merely what total abortion bans do
it’s willfully, stubbornly, and obtusely refusing to recognize what everybody including pharmacists know/knows:
some medical procedures and medicines have more than one use
and some of those uses are 100% legit, licit, and legal
If they manage to ban birth control, I may be hard pressed to get my progesterone here in Idaho and will have to go mail order.
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall paying around $250-280 per semester at Indiana University in the 1970’s.
I paid $212.50 for a full load (anything over 12 hours) at the University of Texas at Austin in the Spring 1984 semester. The books cost more than the tuition and fees.
Tuition started going up when I went to law school in 1986. It started at $36/hour and was $75/hour in 1989. And it was quite deliberate. We were told that we needed to saddle more of the cost of our educations. Thing is, I got grants (I still snicker about the national defense grants I got to become a lawyer). I checked last week, it’s now $1,127/hour at my state school. IMO, nobody should go to law school, just to put a stop to this kind of gouging. Just my personal opinion.
This article has been archived.
Comments are closed.
Comments are closed.
Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds
- Featured PagesClick to refresh
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory Just Captured Ominous Signals About the Planet’s Health Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory just captured an ominous sign about the pace of global warming. Atmospheric levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide aren’t just on their way to yet another record high this year - they’re rising faster than ever, ...
Cheechako
2 weeks ago
Views: 1,063 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 3
The Good Liars at the Schnecksville Trump Rally [VIDEO] New theories, great tunes and SHOCKING breaking news. SUPPORT US: http://Herohero.co/thegoodliars SEE THE GOOD LIARS LIVE!WASHINGTON D.C. MAY 23RD: https://www.unionstage.com/shows/good-liars-fix-america/NASHVILLE, TN JUNE 6TH: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/42992972/the-good-liars-nashville-the-lab-at-zaniesSAN FRANCISCO, CA JUNE 25TH: https://www.livenation.com/event/G5vYZbavGvggG/the-good-liars SUBSCRIBE TO OUR AUDIO PODCAST:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-good-liars-tell-the-truth/id1731178442Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7mgfiwzr32907N4y68eFOCJoin this channel ...
teleskiguy
2 weeks ago
Views: 875 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 0
Trump’s “Stolen Election” Lie Based on Evidence From Pervy Bathroom Cam-Spy OK, this really takes the cake. If you have relatives that still cling to the “election was stolen, dadgum, I jes’ KNOW IT … This should be a slight remedy to the stubborn madness Thanks to online anonymity, the ...
Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
3 weeks ago
Views: 468 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 3
Best of April 2024 Nothing new here but these are a look back at the a few good images from the past month. Despite the weather, I was quite pleased with several of them. These were taken with older lenses (made from the ...
William Lewis
3 weeks ago
Views: 436 • Comments: 2 • Rating: 6
Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ... Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
3 weeks ago
Views: 491 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 3
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
4 weeks ago
Views: 1,181 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 2
- Recent PagesClick to refresh
A Water War Is Brewing Between the U.S. And Mexico. Here’s Why A water dispute between the United States and Mexico that goes back decades is turning increasingly urgent in Texas communities that rely on the Rio Grande. Their leaders are now demanding the Mexican government either share water or face ... Cheechako
2 days ago
Views: 141 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1
Harper’s Magazine: Slippery Slope - How Private Equity Shapes a Ski Town …Big Sky stands apart for other reasons. The obvious distinction is the Yellowstone Club, a private resort hidden in the mountains above the community that Justin Farrell, a professor of sociology at Yale and the author of Billionaire Wilderness, ... teleskiguy
4 days ago
Views: 318 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 2
