The Bob Cesca Podcast: Rubberbands and Squirrels

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

Rubberbands And Squirrels — [Explicit Language] Our last show before the Thanksgiving break. Regular show schedule resumes next week. The mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs. Trump and the Red Hat entertainment complex has been inciting this attack. We ignore Matt Walsh and Tucker Carlson at our own peril. Shooter is the grandson of Republican Randy Voegel. Elon Musk reinstated Trump. Bob’s meltdown Saturday night included insults in Latin. “$8chan.” Elon is deliberately driving away Normals and “hall monitors” in time for the 2024 election. Russia and the Saudis want liberals off Twitter. Trump could be sued by DWAC shareholders if he returns to Twitter. CBS News’s shoddy report about Hunter Biden’s so-called laptop. It’s Hillary’s server all over again. With Buzz Burbank, music by Rebel Queens, The Metal Byrds, and more. Bob’s Linktree.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 22, 2022 • 4:57:12pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:05:12pm
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Dopamine Fish  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:08:21pm

Greg Abbott, paging Greg Abbott to the white courtesy phone.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:10:59pm
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Dopamine Fish  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:13:09pm

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Here we go again.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:13:48pm
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William Lewis  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:14:04pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Because Elmo the Boi Nazi never does anything wrong, he’s only wronged.

If I were home, I’d tweet that at him.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:16:29pm

Crap like this is why I call him Sleazy E.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:20:04pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:20:53pm

Yep, all doubt is removed

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:22:19pm

re: #10 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Yes. More of MTG is a horrible joke. I rather have more of AOC.

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Belafon  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:22:23pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

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Dangerman  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:26:51pm

re: #209 Dopamine Fish

Who broke the deal first, Elon? Do you really want to go there?

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Nope nope nope

This is lame
Not a party to any “deal”
What a weak loser

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:27:51pm

re: #13 Dangerman

Let’s see the papers…
the emails…
the tweets…
the IMs?

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Moe Avattar  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:31:10pm

Please do not piss on the Twitter building in San Francisco. Other businesses have offices in that building.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:32:54pm
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(((Archangel1)))  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:33:53pm
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Dangerman  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:35:26pm

re: #13 Dangerman

re: #209 Dopamine Fish

Who broke the deal first, Elon? Do you really want to go there?

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Nope nope nope

This is lame
Not a party to any “deal”
What a weak loser

This coalition is a voluntary participating party to this ” deal”
As deer are an equal party to the game of hunting

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:35:42pm

re: #13 Dangerman

re: #209 Dopamine Fish

Who broke the deal first, Elon? Do you really want to go there?

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Nope nope nope

This is lame
Not a party to any “deal”
What a weak loser

What deal? Is there a contract? Who entered into it? Fucking liar.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:38:04pm
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Florida Panhandler  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:38:54pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

The main point is that any “council” or “negotiations” would be on Elon’s terms and his terms only in the first place.

In other words, typical billionaire-class hubris.

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Dangerman  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:40:31pm
Donald Trump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200 million in 2010, his longtime accountant testified Tuesday, confirming long-held suspicions about the former president’s tax practices,” the AP reports.

“Business genius”

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wrenchwench  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:44:18pm

re: #13 Dangerman

re: #209 Dopamine Fish

Who broke the deal first, Elon? Do you really want to go there?

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Nope nope nope

This is lame
Not a party to any “deal”
What a weak loser

Most people who know anything will tell you that a ‘large coalition of political/social activist groups’ have never agreed on anything. Way too many opinions.

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:45:33pm
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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:47:59pm

re: #20 jaunte

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Man…

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:51:05pm

re: #22 Dangerman

“Business genius”

Maybe it is genius to manage to live a lifestyle that costs millions each year without paying any taxes. Or maybe it is brilliant to lie year after year on your tax returns and escape all scrutiny. His lifestyle is financed by a Ponzi scheme? Or maybe this reflects the rotten core of our tax system and its handling of those who are powerful, especially when they have complicated returns.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:51:59pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:54:02pm
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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:55:13pm
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Acemarilllion (yes, three 'l's)  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:55:46pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Florida Panhandler  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:55:59pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Wealth tax.

Global.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:56:09pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Why would anyone work for that ass?

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 22, 2022 • 5:59:27pm

Went and downloaded the Hive app and created an account on it just now. Mostly just to hold the space in case that turns out to be a popular destination following the inevitable Twitter implosion.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:00:36pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Except for Dolly Parton. She can have all teh moneys.

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Belafon  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:01:15pm

re: #29 jaunte

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Belafon  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:02:22pm

re: #34 The Pie Overlord!

Except for Dolly Parton. She can have all teh moneys.

And MacKenzie Scott.

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wrenchwench  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:02:27pm

re: #31 Florida Panhandler

Wealth tax.

Global.

That’s going to be more difficult than my global minimum wage idea.

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Florida Panhandler  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:06:02pm

re: #37 wrenchwench

That’s going to be more difficult than my global minimum wage idea.

True. But worthwhile goals shouldn’t be eliminated simply because they are hard.

Meanwhile, Elon’s behavior is likely included with this linked billionaire phenomenon.

scmp.com

Preppers. Unrealistic to actually work, yes. But having a real effect in actual tech-bro thought and real world policy.

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William Lewis  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:08:57pm

re: #36 Belafon

And MacKenzie Scott.

For a second I read that as Spuds MacKenzie…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:14:31pm

re: #22 Dangerman

“Business genius”

I bet anyone who he asked for loans for his businesses were told totally different numbers. And if any of those lies were in the official submission documents I guess that makes ol’ Donald guilty of fraud. But that is nothing new to discover about him either.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:17:29pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:17:52pm
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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:19:11pm

Ahhhh 5 Day Weekend…

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:19:28pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon

Ahhhh 5 Day Weekend…

Same, less 2 days’ driving time.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:20:20pm

My mother used to sneak up on me while holding one of these:

She took some pride in growing up poor and having to find her toys outside.

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William Lewis  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:22:32pm

Well, it’s my weekend. But back at it Friday because that’s this biz. OTOH, this year will be time and a half for Christmas/New Year’s Eve/Day so 32 hours of holiday pay is a good thing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:24:55pm

Circling back to a twitter thread from several days ago …

After looking more carefully at the Wiki entry for Elon Musk and its statement about his educational credentials, I’m not sure whether it is untruthful. It says simply: he completed studies for a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the Wharton School in 1995. The inference is that he
graduated with those degrees, but it does not explicitly make that assertion.

We know that most of the giants of the software industry dropped out of college and never received degrees. So the problem here is not whether he received these degrees but whether he repeatedly lied about his background.

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EPR-radar  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:28:56pm

re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter

That tweet leads to at least one official statement including the lie “Mr. Musk received a B.S. in Physics”

It turns out that pissing off half the planet is a good way for a billionaire to get his lies exposed.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:30:30pm

re: #39 William Lewis

For a second I read that as Spuds MacKenzie…

HIm too…

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mmmirele  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:32:45pm

Well, apparently the presstitutes of the Washington Press Corpse were very, very upset that Vogue got to take pictures at the Biden granddaughter’s wedding at the White House, but *they* weren’t.

And oh yeah, you couldn’t escape discussion of TFG’s second daughter’s wedding the weekend before last. It was wall to wall WHY DO I HAVE TO SEE THIS.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:35:01pm

re: #50 mmmirele

They desperately want to be access reporters for a royal family.

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SerialUpDinger  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:35:07pm

Fish’s Milkwort Polygala cornuta var. fishiae

Bee on Splendid Mariposa Lily
Coastal Live Oak

I have finished creating my annual Native Plants Calendar and sent the project off to the printer. It is my vanity project as each calendar is about $35. These are among the images I have taken over the year in the Santa Monica Mountains. I give these as gifts to friends and family, hoping to provide inspiration to appreciate our public lands and of course to hear people reply with a bit of praise. Let the Holidays Begin!

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:36:02pm
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Dopamine Fish  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:37:17pm
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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:37:41pm

re: #52 SerialUpDinger

That shot of the live oak is beautiful!

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mmmirele  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:38:31pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Well, this kind of explains (in part) Kardashian’s behavior wrt getting OUT of the marriage with West. I knew it was bad, but I didn’t realize it was “my husband is showing pr0n of me to his work staff” bad.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:41:26pm

re: #56 mmmirele

Well, this kind of explains (in part) Kardashian’s behavior wrt getting OUT of the marriage with West. I knew it was bad, but I didn’t realize it was “my husband is showing pr0n of me to his work staff” bad.

Given what we now know of the man, that seems rather unsurprising. “Look at me, I’m married to this incredibly hot* Kardashian chick, here’s what she looks like under all those clothes, I get to hit this whenever I want” is a very Kanye attitude, and kind of a patriarchal male attitude in general.

* = I know A LOT of guys think she’s absolutely beautiful, but I have to admit I do not see the appeal.

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nines09  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:41:51pm

re: #56 mmmirele

There’s about a hundred bad jokes in there. Maybe a hundred and five.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:42:48pm
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SerialUpDinger  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:42:59pm

re: #55 jaunte

Thank you! My wife selected that one for the cover. Shot New years day in Point Mugu State Park.

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sagehen  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:43:07pm

re: #54 Dopamine Fish

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does Fox have NOBODY who knows anything about staging?

Cruz and Graham don’t look like they’re there to support Walker, they look like the hostage takers making sure their hostage sticks to the script.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:43:40pm

re: #60 SerialUpDinger

Will you have enough printed to offer some for sale?

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:43:53pm

re: #61 sagehen

does Fox have NOBODY who knows anything about staging?

Cruz and Graham don’t look like they’re there to support Walker, they look like the hostage takers making sure their hostage sticks to the script.

I think they want to show those two louts as being buddy-buddy with the Black guy, but it really doesn’t come across that way, does it?

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wrenchwench  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:44:55pm

re: #60 SerialUpDinger

Thank you! My wife selected that one for the cover. Shot New years day in Point Mugu State Park.

It’s vibrant. I was going to admire the bee, and then I was having a problem singling out that one.

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:45:23pm

Trump won’t return to Twitter. Here’s why.

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SerialUpDinger  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:48:45pm

re: #62 jaunte

Sure. Send me your address via email or private reply. I am sure the printer will be happy to print another one!

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:49:42pm

Catching up:

On Mike Pompeo: I was at DC National Airport and saw Senator Elizabeth Warren at my gate. She was talking to an aide but our eyes briefly met and I gave the live long and prosper salute from 15 feet away. She gave me a knowing smile. Later that week I saw then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Ours eyes met and I gave him the same live long and prosper salute. He glared and put me on a mental shit list. Screw him and his sanctimonious claptrap

On Southern California: Today was the nicest day of the fall. There was a moderately entertaining car chase on TV followed by weather from the incredibly beautiful, Melissa Magee. Other cities may have stodgy old guys saying the weather but in LA it’s usually a very good looking lady in a tight skirt with really nice map backdrop graphics. The weather girls who stand to the left of the LA landmass map usually cover where I live with their boobs. Alas😎

On animals: see photo

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Belafon  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:50:20pm

re: #57 Dopamine Fish

Given what we now know of the man, that seems rather unsurprising. “Look at me, I’m married to this incredibly hot* Kardashian chick, here’s what she looks like under all those clothes, I get to hit this whenever I want” is a very Kanye attitude, and kind of a patriarchal male attitude in general.

* = I know A LOT of guys think she’s absolutely beautiful, but I have to admit I do not see the appeal.

That was one of the accusations made about OJ of his treatment of Nicole as well.

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:50:52pm
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sagehen  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:50:59pm

re: #57 Dopamine Fish

* = I know A LOT of guys think she’s absolutely beautiful, but I have to admit I do not see the appeal.

The girl spends 2 hours a day in the makeup chair, with half a dozen professionals working on her. God only knows if she’s even marginally pretty under all that.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:52:52pm

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JC1  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:53:34pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

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Jeff Bezos’s Ex seems pretty cool and level headed so far. But she an exception that makes all the other billionaires seem that much worse.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:53:46pm

re: #68 Belafon

That was one of the accusations made about OJ of his treatment of Nicole as well.

It seems to be a bit of a theme with celebrity men who marry trophy wives. I don’t get it. It would do my wife a great disservice if I went around showing my buddies nudie pics of her. He may think he’s giving Kim K. a compliment by showing her off, but it’s a violation of her privacy and her right to decide who gets to see her naughty bits. It’s akin to rape, in a sense.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:54:13pm
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mmmirele  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:55:41pm

OK, folks, maybe this is just me, or maybe it’s just me reacting to being back in the USA after being away for nearly two weeks, but I have a terrible feeling that the anti-transgender rhetoric has been dialed up to 11 and we are going to see more eliminationist rhetoric leading to despicable actions.

Please tell me it’s just me and I’m too sensitive.

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Belafon  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:56:40pm

re: #70 sagehen

The girl spends 2 hours a day in the makeup chair, with half a dozen professionals working on her. God only knows if she’s even marginally pretty under all that.

Google shows some images of her without makeup. I leave it up to the viewer to decide.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:57:14pm

re: #75 mmmirele

OK, folks, maybe this is just me, or maybe it’s just me reacting to being back in the USA after being away for nearly two weeks, but I have a terrible feeling that the anti-transgender rhetoric has been dialed up to 11 and we are going to see more eliminationist rhetoric leading to despicable actions.

Please tell me it’s just me and I’m too sensitive.

First of all, welcome back. Second of all, sorry you have to come back to this. Third of all, I’m REALLY sorry, but it’s not just you. This is their new target. They believe that LGBTQ people are sinners, and that they - and they alone - have the right to adjudge them as such and to have them summarily executed. They may decry the violence, but deep down, this is what they want: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:57:35pm

re: #72 JC1

Jeff Bezos’s Ex seems pretty cool and level headed so far. But she an exception that makes all the other billionaires seem that much worse.

Don’t know her background, but I do know that Musk grew up rich (in a poor country). Rich kids often are spoiled and never learn.

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SerialUpDinger  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:57:57pm

re: #64 wrenchwench
Thank you!
I included three different types of images in the post to give you an idea of what catches my when I am wandering the trails. I have learned (LGF is great for that!) to try and take different types. At one point I was shooting only closeups - like the person wandering around with a hammer - everything looked like a nail. Seeing what the other LGF photographers here do with a camera has opened me up to a lot more variety. I still have a fetish for closeup highly detailed images of tiny flowers and bees. I am weird in the same way that so many lizards are - weird and knowledgeable about what interests them!

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Belafon  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:58:36pm

re: #75 mmmirele

OK, folks, maybe this is just me, or maybe it’s just me reacting to being back in the USA after being away for nearly two weeks, but I have a terrible feeling that the anti-transgender rhetoric has been dialed up to 11 and we are going to see more eliminationist rhetoric leading to despicable actions.

Please tell me it’s just me and I’m too sensitive.

I am posting some of that stuff to facebook, like Tucker’s guest’s comment, and asking if they support it.

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William Lewis  Nov 22, 2022 • 6:58:52pm

re: #70 sagehen

The girl spends 2 hours a day in the makeup chair, with half a dozen professionals working on her. God only knows if she’s even marginally pretty under all that.

I’m sure I could find something on the net somewhere that would show what she’s like without the makeup if I wanted to, but why? Soft curves and serious brains make a far more interesting combination ;)

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Dangerman  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:02:09pm

re: #59 jaunte

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Like he’s writing or even editing his own speeches

Or approving tweets in his name

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William Lewis  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:03:14pm

re: #79 SerialUpDinger

Thank you!
I included three different types of images in the post to give you an idea of what catches my when I am wandering the trails. I have learned (LGF is great for that!) to try and take different types. At one point I was shooting only closeups - like the person wandering around with a hammer - everything looked like a nail. Seeing what the other LGF photographers here do with a camera has opened me up to a lot more variety. I still have a fetish for closeup highly detailed images of tiny flowers and bees. I am weird in the same way that so many lizards are - weird and knowledgeable about what interests them!

Someday I should buy a micro-nikkor 60/2.8 AF-D and learn macro photography, but my tastes run more to your tree shot. I’d love an 8x10 print of just it to hang in my living room.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:03:32pm

re: #82 Dangerman

I think he wrote the vampire vs. werewolf speech.

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SerialUpDinger  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:06:46pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

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JC1  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:07:21pm
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mmmirele  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:08:02pm

re: #81 William Lewis

I’m sure I could find something on the net somewhere that would show what she’s like without the makeup if I wanted to, but why? Soft curves and serious brains make a far more interesting combination ;)

She’s actually not dumb. California, for being regulated in so many other areas, has a rather open approach to the practice of law. Why yes, you can go to an ABA-accredited law school and qualify to sit the California bar. Or you can go to the half-dozen (or more) not ABA accredited law schools in California, pass the “baby bar” after your first year, finish up, graduate with your not ABA accredited JD and be qualified to sit the California bar. Or, you could be Kim Kardashian, who is doing law the old fashioned way, studying under a licensed California attorney. She passed the “baby bar” on her third try (most people just fail) and is continuing on. I will not be surprised if, a few years down the road, we learn that Kardashian passed the CA bar, one of the toughest in the nation.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:08:11pm

Josh Marshall’s Twitter feed is 🏆

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:09:48pm

I’ve never had a job where I sit down most of the day, until now. I also have keys.

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Dangerman  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:10:14pm

re: #73 Dopamine Fish

It seems to be a bit of a theme with celebrity men who marry trophy wives. I don’t get it. It would do my wife a great disservice if I went around showing my buddies nudie pics of her. He may think he’s giving Kim K. a compliment by showing her off, but it’s a violation of her privacy and her right to decide who gets to see her naughty bits. It’s akin to rape, in a sense.

It’s a sign of horrible insecurity to have to brag that way. To justify your “relationship” to the outside world

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mmmirele  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:11:09pm

re: #88 HRH Stanley Sea

Josh Marshall’s Twitter feed is 🏆

Yeah, he’s en fuego this evening.

ETA: I’m going to call Elon “Elron” from now on, for my own special reasons.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:11:46pm

re: #86 JC1

He could have dominated electric vehicles if he wasn’t distracted by cuttingedgery.

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wrenchwench  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:12:53pm

re: #89 teleskiguy

I’ve never had a job where I sit down most of the day, until now. I also have keys.

Weekends off?

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Dangerman  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:13:09pm

re: #84 jaunte

I think he wrote the vampire vs. werewolf speech.

That issue doesn’t come up in Congress much

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William Lewis  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:13:40pm

re: #87 mmmirele

I should have phrased that better but no, I wasn’t wanting to call her dumb. Just that I find other combinations more interesting.

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sagehen  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:14:03pm

re: #73 Dopamine Fish

He may think he’s giving Kim K. a compliment by showing her off, but it’s a violation of her privacy and her right to decide who gets to see her naughty bits. It’s akin to rape, in a sense.

He doesn’t think he’s complimenting her. He’s bragging about “look what I got!!”

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SerialUpDinger  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:14:04pm

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:14:17pm

re: #94 Dangerman

Keep an eye on Chuck Grassley.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:14:39pm

re: #93 wrenchwench

Weekends off?

Yes! But that’s not conducive to proper ski bumming. Skiing on weekends is not fun, you stand in line more than you ski. Guess I should take up more backcountry touring.

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Dangerman  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:16:19pm

re: #90 Dangerman

Ps
When Mrsdm married me I stopped obsessing over what she saw in me. Why did she settle on this schlub when she
could have had anyone.

I stopped wondering because she wanted me.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:18:57pm

re: #76 Belafon

Google shows some images of her without makeup. I leave it up to the viewer to decide.

I think she’s pretty but I’m totally off the opinion to take it or leave it. She’s ok. Kylie, however, is drop dead gorgeous with or without makeup.

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William Lewis  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:19:03pm

re: #97 SerialUpDinger

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wrenchwench  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:19:06pm

re: #99 teleskiguy

Yes! But that’s not conducive to proper ski bumming. Skiing on weekends is not fun, you stand in line more than you ski. Guess I should take up more backcountry touring.

How often can you grab a weekday?

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SerialUpDinger  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:21:39pm

re: #102 William Lewisyou can put mail in front of smmtc.org and I will get it. or geosherman @ gmail . com

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:23:57pm

This is what I put together at work. There’s about 50 parts that need to be assembled. The “tour mode” baseplate takes the longest, I made 60 of them today in eight hours, there’s nine steps building those.

The best telemark binding on the planet
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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:24:27pm

re: #103 wrenchwench

How often can you grab a weekday?

Actually, pretty much whenever I want.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:24:52pm

re: #90 Dangerman

Both of them are trash superficial what the media wants hollow gourds.

Puke

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austin_blue  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:25:01pm

re: #45 jaunte

My mother used to sneak up on me while holding one of these:

She took some pride in growing up poor and having to find her toys outside.

Nicest snek in the world. Likes to appear dangerous.

But. Flattens its neck like a cobra.

Doesn’t work? Twists, turns, hisses, and strikes (but doesn’t bite).

Doesn’t work? Rolls over on its back and plays dead, emits nasty musk whiff from its anal gland.

Doesn’t work and you roll it right side up?

Rolls back over and plays dead some more.

Hey, a_b, what do hognose sneks eat? Toads. Almost exclusively toads. The Gack fluid that toads excrete from their warty bits? Doesn’t affect hognose sneks at all.

I’ve handled dozens of of hognoses. I’ve been bit exactly once- after handling a toad. The Gack fluid is like “Eat here!”

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austin_blue  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:26:55pm

re: #82 Dangerman

Like he’s writing or even editing his own speeches

Or approving tweets in his name

Oh! It’s Groomer, Reek, and Mr. Closet!

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:28:36pm

Hey austin_blue, this is my second winter as a season pass holder at Arapahoe Basin. I won’t forget your time there. Oy!

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:29:56pm

Now Eric Trump attacks the Special Counsel’s spouse…

rawstory.com

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:37:11pm

Joe Bacon, thank you for finding in your heart to forgive. I’m still ashamed of the online violence I committed. I’m so sorry about your sister. {{{hugs}}}

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:40:34pm

re: #112 teleskiguy

Joe Bacon, thank you for finding in your heart to forgive. I’m still ashamed of the online violence I committed. I’m so sorry about your sister. {{{hugs}}}

Cancer was merciless to her. She isn’t suffering any more as she crossed over the rainbow bridge.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:41:23pm

Twitter had some bangers, I’ll tell ya what…

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:43:30pm

@dril called it, the end of Twitter, back in the summer of 2017.

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austin_blue  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:43:32pm

re: #110 teleskiguy

Hey austin_blue, this is my second winter as a season pass holder at Arapahoe Basin. I won’t forget your time there. Oy!

A-Basin was my Da’s favorite mountain and my first real hill to ski.

Powder? Oh, my! Terrifying and exhilarating.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:44:12pm

re: #116 austin_blue

A-Basin was my Da’s favorite mountain and my first real hill to ski.

Powder? Oh, my! Terrifying and exhilarating.

Didn’t you, um, *break your leg* there?

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:45:07pm

Oh…what…a…crock…

119
teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:45:25pm

My favorite tweet about Fuckface Von Clownstick.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:47:54pm

re: #118 Joe Bacon

Let’s get her a police sketch artist and work up a description.

121
The Pie Overlord!  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:48:06pm

Wingnuts are celebrating because of course they are.

122
teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:50:30pm

This is good and necessary. Colorado Springs is a lot more nuanced than Military Bases and Focus On The Family.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:53:28pm

re: #121 The Pie Overlord!

Wingnuts are celebrating because of course they are.

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Insanity

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:56:53pm

re: #122 teleskiguy

My sister and her husband have lived in Colorado Springs for almost 30 years. They’re about as liberal as you can get in that congressional district. They are also wealthy (sister’s husband is one of the most respected members of the CoSpgs business community) so they’ve been able to insulate themselves from the darker elements of that city.

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austin_blue  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:58:12pm

re: #117 teleskiguy

Didn’t you, um, *break your leg* there?

Tibia, dislocated ankle. Came off the upper basin and into the trees in heavy powder and caught my left ski under a fallen branch while wearing Marker Roto-mats,

Snap! Why is my ski backward?

Oh Holy Jesus that really hurts! Yells loudly.

My Da stomps back uphill, takes a look and says “Just sit, I’m going for help” and goes hell for leather down the steepest fall in front of him. Fifteen minutes later the cavalry arrives and you know how it ended. In drooling opiod induced embarrassment in a “You fucked up!” sled. Well, I was like thirteen.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 7:59:45pm

re: #125 austin_blue

Tibia, dislocated ankle. Came off the upper basin and into the trees in heavy powder and caught my left ski under a fallen branch while wearing Marker Roto-mats,

Snap! Why is my ski backward?

Oh Holy Jesus that really hurts! Yells loudly.

My Da stomps back uphill, takes a look and says “Just sit, I’m going for help” and goes hell for leather down the steepest fall in front of him. Fifteen minutes later the cavalry arrives and you know how it ended. In drooling opiod induced embarrassment in a “You fucked up!” sled. Well, I was like thirteen.

Yeah, binding technology has come a long way since the Rotomat.

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austin_blue  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:02:20pm

re: #126 teleskiguy

Yeah, binding technology has come a long way since the Rotomat.

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Leg snappers.

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austin_blue  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:07:39pm

And by the way, it’s SO good to have you and Joe back on the Board.

(Does happy dance)

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:11:14pm

re: #128 austin_blue

I’m so glad someone here reached out to Joe after I returned and posted a formal apology. It was a sticking point for me; I’ll come back but only if Joe wants to come back too. Someone here facilitated that and here we are. 🙂

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:14:22pm

re: #121 The Pie Overlord!

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:15:38pm

re: #121 The Pie Overlord!

What really hurts is knowing that relatives are cheering that as well. Facebook posts supporting KooKoo for Cocoa Puffs Kari Lake…and others insisting that Masterbateriano had the governorship of PA stolen from him…

132
The Pie Overlord!  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:17:29pm

What is a “Log Cabin Republican”?

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austin_blue  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:17:39pm

re: #129 teleskiguy

I’m so glad someone here reached out to Joe after I returned and posted a formal apology. It was a sticking point for me; I’ll come back but only if Joe wants to come back too. Someone here facilitated that and here we are. 🙂

I am going into the Serene Buddha pose. This is very nice.

Also I’m going to finish a book now. Sweet dreams, dear friends.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:18:00pm
135
Captain Ron  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:23:14pm

YouTube

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:24:08pm

re: #134 teleskiguy

Makes me very angry. So sick of the hate.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:25:14pm
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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:29:42pm

re: #136 Joe Bacon

Me too. And Colorado being some sort of epicenter for mass shootings. Getting fucking old.

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Belafon  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:32:36pm

re: #121 The Pie Overlord!

Wingnuts are celebrating because of course they are.

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Where does he identify that way?

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:32:53pm

JFC not again

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:33:25pm

The things I’d do to Matt Walsh alone in a room is too explicit and graphic to describe. Dude is an absolute cancer. If he wasn’t making a lot of money with Ben Shapiro he’d probably be in jail for beating up homeless people.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:34:28pm

re: #139 Belafon

Where does he identify that way?

Defense attys

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Belafon  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:35:37pm

re: #135 Captain Ron

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Video

1. I think they answered that in the various series: For all intents and purposes, the you when you rematerialize is the same you that dematerialized. That’s why they played on it a little in TNG.
2. How the transporter works is that they don’t want to spend the 15 or more minutes it would take to get people from the ship to the ground in a shuttle.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:36:14pm

re: #141 teleskiguy

Just remember that Karma eventually stings them.

Example—Baked Alaska is going to jail, round 1 for assaulting a person in Arizona and after that’s it’s round 2 for what he did on 1/6.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:37:17pm

re: #143 Belafon

Gene said “How am I gonna be able to show a 15 story tall ship landing on a planet?”

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Belafon  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:38:49pm

He could identify as non-binary, and, based on the probable things he heard from his family, hate himself for it, and what he has heard on TV from Congresspeople to Church leaders to Tucker Carlson, decide that the only cure is to eliminate the problem.

Edit: Just to be clear, this is meant to be read as “And? He’s an adult. He made the choices.”

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:41:54pm

re: #146 Belafon

Nah. Fuck that. It’s CYA by his attorneys through and through. His grandfather is a scumbag MAGAt politician from San Diego.

148
Captain Ron  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:45:50pm

re: #146 Belafon

He could identify as non-binary, and, based on the probable things he heard from his family, hate himself for it, and what he has heard on TV from Congresspeople to Church leaders to Tucker Carlson, decide that the only cure is to eliminate the problem.

His pronouns are ‘they’ and ‘them’. I doubt he is anything more than an incel.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:46:42pm

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austin_blue  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:50:43pm

re: #140 The Pie Overlord!

JFC not again

I thought I was going sleep, but this showed up.

Golly, it seems that the only thing that seems to always shows up in all of these stories are GUNS!

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:50:55pm

re: #148 Captain Ron

His pronouns are ‘they’ and ‘them’. I doubt he is anything more than an incel.

Giphy

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Belafon  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:53:06pm

re: #147 teleskiguy

Nah. Fuck that. It’s CYA by his attorneys through and through. His grandfather is a scumbag MAGAt politician from San Diego.

I added this:

Edit: Just to be clear, this is meant to be read as “And? He’s an adult. He made the choices.”

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:55:09pm

re: #118 Joe Bacon

Oh…what…a…crock…

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To all of these fuckers, say it under oath or it didn’t happen.

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:57:25pm

re: #139 Belafon

Where does he identify that way?

He’s going to identify as a lifer.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 8:58:22pm

I remember when it was extremely unnerving and disturbing to watch the Republican nominee for President back in 2016 sharing Gateway Pundit and InfoWars links on his social media. I have that same feeling again watching the owner of Twitter sidle up to the worst shitheads on that site. It’s extremely dangerous for humanity, this shit goes beyond Twitter. Elon Musk, currently wealthiest man on Earth (age 51) is explicitly aligning himself with all the American fascists on *his* site.

156
DodgerFan1988  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:01:14pm
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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:03:45pm

re: #155 teleskiguy

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:04:04pm

Elon Musk’s mother calls on critics to ‘stop being mean’ to him: ‘He gets a lot of hate’

independent.co.uk

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:07:16pm

re: #157 jaunte

Giphy

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:09:15pm

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:12:53pm

re: #160 Joe Bacon

You and I are all pent up with memes and videos and shit to share to the board. 😵‍💫

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retired cynic  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:16:23pm

re: #161 teleskiguy

You and I are all pent up with memes and videos and shit to share to the board. 😵‍💫

And we’re all here for it!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:16:28pm

re: #79 SerialUpDinger

Thank you!
I included three different types of images in the post to give you an idea of what catches my when I am wandering the trails. I have learned (LGF is great for that!) to try and take different types. At one point I was shooting only closeups - like the person wandering around with a hammer - everything looked like a nail. Seeing what the other LGF photographers here do with a camera has opened me up to a lot more variety. I still have a fetish for closeup highly detailed images of tiny flowers and bees. I am weird in the same way that so many lizards are - weird and knowledgeable about what interests them!

I really appreciate the insect and flower close-ups since I try to get that sort of shot with my Nikon. But I can also be walking around and simply want a picture of something larger or part of a landscape simply because there is a color or shape composition there that caught my eye. Perhaps what one would consider mundane, but there is still beauty there.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:25:24pm

re: #162 retired cynic

And we’re all here for it!

This was my 40th birthday present from my sisters. A VIP concert experience with “Weird Al” Yankovic in Grand fucking Junction, Colorado. Emo Phillips was the opening act and he took the breath out of some in the audience with a couple of his jokes. I sat right on the front row, Al and his guitarist could spit on me with little effort. It was one of the coolest birthday presents ever and one of the best live music performances I’ve ever seen.

Oh, and I got a picture and a personalized autographed poster.

teleskiguy photographed with American Treasure “Weird Al” Yankovic
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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:25:26pm

another three, another three,

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166
jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:26:17pm

Tonight’s random movie choice on Amazon: Funeral in Berlin with Michael Caine (1966) which includes gay characters and drag performers. No one in 1966 was much bothered.

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JC1  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:29:46pm

So a weird show suggestion: Warrior Nun on Netflix is really solid, especially season 2. Just finished watching it today. Really well done sci-fi/fantasy with some catholicism sprinkled in. Some twists and surprises and cool special effects.

Some of the martial arts scenes are very well done with excellent choreography and stunt performers.

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Captain Ron  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:33:05pm

re: #166 jaunte

Tonight’s random movie choice on Amazon: Funeral in Berlin with Michael Caine (1966) which includes gay characters and drag performers. No one in 1966 was much bothered.

You could say the same thing about ‘The Kremlin Letter’, (1970).

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:33:09pm
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JC1  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:33:17pm

5/6. Found this one challenging.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 522 5/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:34:35pm

re: #156 DodgerFan1988

Maybe if Cenk and all the other asshole fauxgressives at TYT wouldn’t have spent so much time badmouthing Hillary Clinton with bullshit talking points laundered from the right he wouldn’t have to be bitching about it now.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:38:20pm

re: #164 teleskiguy

Here’s the one and only picture I took of “Weird Al” while he was performing. Going in, they prohibited any kind of video (the guy next to me got his phone taken away until the concert was over because he broke this rule. DUMBASS, you’re sitting on Row 1, you’re gonna get caught!) but they didn’t discourage taking a few still photos.

I think it turned out okay. Shot on iPhone XR.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:42:11pm

we can’t go one CENSORED day without some asshole opening fire on people…

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Captain Ron  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:43:05pm

re: #173 Joe Bacon

we can’t go one CENSORED day without some asshole opening fire on people…

And it hasn’t made it to CNN or MSNBC yet.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:45:32pm

Yoda

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Captain Ron  Nov 22, 2022 • 9:48:04pm

re: #174 Captain Ron

… or ABC, CBS. and NBC.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:04:46pm

re: #174 Captain Ron

And it hasn’t made it to CNN or MSNBC yet.

Heard reports that had basically no details on both MSNBC and CNN. The authorities had virtually no useful information, escape the belief there was a single shooter who was dead.

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retired cynic  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:08:31pm

The map of the Universe
from the Milky Way to the edge of what can be seen
mapoftheuniverse.net

Interesting.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:10:32pm

BBC:
US shooting: Man kills ‘up to 10’ in Virginia Walmart store

A gunman has killed up to 10 people in a Walmart superstore in Chesapeake, in the US state of Virginia, police say.

Reports say the man, a store manager, opened fire then turned the gun on himself and is now dead.

The City of Chesapeake tweeted “police confirm an active shooter incident with fatalities at the Walmart”.

There are few details, but a police officer spoke of “less than 10” killed and multiple injured. No motive has emerged yet in the US east coast city.

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Jay C  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:20:06pm

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

A “Store manager”??

Usually they’re the targets of “workplace rage” incidents, not the perps….

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:21:12pm

re: #179 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Can you believe how they report “less than 10” like it’s a good thing?

“Oh man, I thought that asshole was going to take out 12 or 13 but the final count was 8. We got real lucky, Bob.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:30:33pm

re: #180 Jay C

A “Store manager”??

Usually they’re the targets of “workplace rage” incidents, not the perps….

Probably need several hours for reliable information. Maybe it was the store manager, but haven’t seen that report elsewhere, only that the shooter was not killed by the police; it may have been self-inflicted.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:31:16pm

This month I saw my very first Red Rocks show in the month of November. The weather was actually quite balmy, tshirt weather if you’re moving around a lot like you’re dancing. The band was King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. They’re from Melbourne, Australia and they’ve made huge waves in the last couple of years with folks in the States who love weird music. I loved the concert! They played almost three hours and the stylistic changes and seamless changes between them were masterful. They rapped, they played a lot of death metal, they played blues. They were weird. In front of a sold out crowd at Red Rocks in November.

Here’s an easy King Gizz song. They did not play this when I saw them at Red Rocks.

Presumptuous

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retired cynic  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:38:05pm

re: #183 teleskiguy

It is different, but I like it!

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:40:58pm

re: #184 retired cynic

They did a whole album where if you play it front to back it’s just a continuous loop. This is a song right in the middle somewhere. Yeah, these guys are weird.

Mr. Beat

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wrenchwench  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:44:15pm

re: #175 teleskiguy

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I loved that when it came out, and I love it more now.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:44:47pm

4/6 for Wednesday

Click to Reveal

Wordle 522 4/6
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Was very surprised by this wordle because — hint below — do not look if you haven’t done it!!

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:52:12pm

re: #186 wrenchwench

I loved that when it came out, and I love it more now.

Check the setlist. The ‘Yoda’ part was amazeballs, beyond words, my jaw was agape most of the time…

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 22, 2022 • 10:52:28pm

CNN reporting on two explosions in Jerusalem — no deaths yet, but at least 11 injured.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 22, 2022 • 11:06:14pm

CNN just reported that a source told them that the Walmart gunman fired on employees in a break room.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 11:09:20pm

Park City Mountain Resort lift mechanics just voted to unionize.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 11:22:17pm

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wrenchwench  Nov 22, 2022 • 11:28:19pm

re: #192 teleskiguy

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 11:33:38pm

re: #193 wrenchwench

I am done with Twitter in the sense that I will never post there as long as Elmo owns it. I posted my last tweet.

As long as the API works with LGF I’m more than happy to *lurk* on my account and post cool/pertinent/important stuff here.

I’m pretty sure Twitter ain’t long for the world.

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Captain Ron  Nov 22, 2022 • 11:39:18pm

I just log in with my gmail account I don’t post and I don’t follow. I use web browser book marks to read who I’m interested in. I did that to get around the ‘log in’ nag screen every few scrolls.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 11:40:56pm

Speaking of *lurking* let us all remember and give Thanks to CuriousLurker, a Great Lizard who passed away some years ago. She was amazing. Aminah was always the first person to say to me “you’re being a dumb fuck, dude…”

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wrenchwench  Nov 22, 2022 • 11:41:59pm

re: #194 teleskiguy

I am done with Twitter in the sense that I will never post there as long as Elmo owns it. I posted my last tweet.

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As long as the API works with LGF I’m more than happy to *lurk* on my account and post cool/pertinent/important stuff here.

I’m pretty sure Twitter ain’t long for the world.

If I don’t log in for 30 days, I have no account. It’s like some stupid ‘cooling off’ period for getting a divorce. I’m glad I get to see what those who hold accounts post here, it takes the edge off. I can do 30. I miss the birbs and the bugs. I’ll find them.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 11:44:24pm

The bugs. Yes.

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teleskiguy  Nov 22, 2022 • 11:53:17pm
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Captain Ron  Nov 23, 2022 • 12:02:04am

re: #199 teleskiguy

At least you’ll see a flash of green before it smacks into your forehead like an acorn from a slingshot. Ours are a boring brown.

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wrenchwench  Nov 23, 2022 • 12:28:39am

I don’t know why I had this written down

Haruomi Hosono and The yellow magic band - Paraiso (Full album)

on a sheet of paper along with where my brother was going to be last July, with a line between, indicating?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 23, 2022 • 12:49:05am

re: #170 JC1

5/6. Found this one challenging.

And I had a “so many choices” problem. 4/6

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 23, 2022 • 1:04:38am

re: #17 (((Archangel1)))

Lugo in northern Spain …is the *only* place in the world to have a complete set of intact Roman walls. They were built 2,000 years ago and surround the entire old town.

Roman walls survived in many places because their concrete was so hard that it was all but impossible to remove, so people just built onto and around them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 23, 2022 • 1:06:36am

re: #20 jaunte

Tucker Carlson guest: Shootings like the Club Q shooting are going to keep happening “until we end this evil agenda” of gender-affirming care.

This is the language of the wife-beater who insists “She brought it on herself!”

“The shootings will continue until morality improves”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 23, 2022 • 1:13:07am

re: #94 Dangerman

That [vampire vs. werewolf] issue doesn’t come up in Congress much

Well it should! Is Hunter Biden a vampire?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 23, 2022 • 1:16:29am

re: #145 Joe Bacon

Gene said “How am I gonna be able to show a 15 story tall ship landing on a planet?”

As I understand, the Transporter was conceived as a cheap way of getting around a scene and set budget issue.

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wrenchwench  Nov 23, 2022 • 1:22:10am

re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And I had a “so many choices” problem. 4/6

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I did a lucky birbie.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 23, 2022 • 1:32:42am

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Youtube Video



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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 23, 2022 • 1:37:48am

Ugh. She was suspended in April for spreading vaccine misinformation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 23, 2022 • 1:52:03am

Bolsonaro pulling a Trump.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — More than three weeks after losing a reelection bid, President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday blamed a software bug and demanded the electoral authority annul votes cast on most of Brazil’s nation’s electronic voting machines, though independent experts say the bug doesn’t affect the reliability of results.

Such an action would leave Bolsonaro with 51% of the remaining valid votes — and a reelection victory, Marcelo de Bessa, the lawyer who filed the 33-page request on behalf of the president and his Liberal Party, told reporters.

The electoral authority has already declared victory for Bolsonaro’s nemesis, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and even many of the president’s allies have accepted the results. Protesters in cities across the country have steadfastly refused to do the same, particularly with Bolsonaro declining to concede.

Liberal Party leader Valdemar Costa and an auditor hired by the party told reporters in Brasilia that their evaluation found all machines dating from before 2020 — nearly 280,000 of them, or about 59% of the total used in the Oct. 30 runoff — lacked individual identification numbers in internal logs.

Neither explained how that might have affected election results, but said they were asking the electoral authority to invalidate all votes cast on those machines.

The complaint characterized the bug as “irreparable non-compliance due to malfunction” that called into question the authenticity of the results.

Immediately afterward, the head of the electoral authority issued a ruling that implicitly raised the possibility that Bolsonaro’s own party could suffer from such a challenge.

Alexandre de Moraes said the court would not consider the complaint unless the party offers an amended report within 24 hours that would include results from the first electoral round on Oct. 2, in which the Liberal Party won more seats in both congressional houses than any other.

(more)

Bolsonaro Contests Brazil Election, Demands Votes Be Anulled (Huffington Post, yesterday)

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Captain Ron  Nov 23, 2022 • 1:57:11am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 23, 2022 • 1:58:42am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 23, 2022 • 2:11:15am

re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ugh. She was suspended in April for spreading vaccine misinformation.

When you have a friend called catturd, you really need to reevaluate your life.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 23, 2022 • 2:31:20am

re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

When you have a friend called catturd, you really need to reevaluate your life.

That’s Catturd2. That implies there was a Catturd1.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 23, 2022 • 2:35:40am

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Youtube Video


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TarHellion  Nov 23, 2022 • 2:53:11am

Oh, birbie, you’re so fine/You’re so fine you blow my mind/Hey, birbie!/Hey, birbie!

Actually could have been a beagle but went away from my gut on guess 2. Just a half-day at the office. Expect it to be pretty quiet there.

Watched the 5-part documentary The Way Down about cult leader Gwen Shamblin on HBO Max last night. Chilling - in particular the advocacy of child abuse under the guise of discipline.

Happy Gobble Gobble Eve!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 522 3/6*

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Teukka  Nov 23, 2022 • 2:55:34am

Tell me if I need to spoiler this, but it’s spot on:

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Teukka  Nov 23, 2022 • 2:57:33am

re: #217 Teukka

Tell me if I need to spoiler this, but it’s spot on:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 23, 2022 • 2:58:15am

NBC San Diego, 6PM yesterday

Two Helicopters Collide Mid-Air Near Brown Field in Otay Mesa

Amazingly, no one was injured and both helicopters landed.

One is a US Navy MR-60R Seahawk and the other is a privately-owned UH-60A Firehawk used for firefighting.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 23, 2022 • 3:03:06am

re: #218 Teukka

I’m not sure if I understand your comment in the context of Mrs. Betty Bower’s post.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 23, 2022 • 3:07:29am

Daily Beast, yesterday

Former Priest Gets Probation for ‘Demonic’ Threesome on Church Altar

A former Catholic priest caught engaging in a sex romp with a pair of dominatrices on a church altar in 2020 has pleaded guilty to felony obscenity charges. Travis Clark was sentenced to three years of supervised probation after his plea in Louisiana’s 22nd Judicial District Court on Monday.

(more, caution for lousy formatting of the text at the article into one giant paragraph)

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Teukka  Nov 23, 2022 • 3:21:53am

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m not sure if I understand your comment in the context of Mrs. Betty Bower’s post.

As in, the objectification inherent in child beauty pageants causes a way of thinking which put the child participants at risk of CSA, and causes a not insignificant risk for the adult audience and parents to commit CSA (without being pedophiles).
Not to mention the Venn overlap between Conservatism (including Christian Nationalism) and CSA (Child Sexual Abuse).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 23, 2022 • 3:28:19am

re: #222 Teukka

Thanks.

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Amory Blaine  Nov 23, 2022 • 3:30:39am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Haha I remember that, thanks for the closure.

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Nyet  Nov 23, 2022 • 3:56:01am

re: #218 Teukka

This reminds me how a prominent Russian Christian nationalist (and a host at RT Russia) Yegor Kholmogorov married a 16 y.o. when he was 30. (This was his third, though not last, marriage.)

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Nyet  Nov 23, 2022 • 3:57:17am

re: #222 Teukka

The South tried to commit CSA once…

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 3:57:29am

re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

When you have a friend called catturd, you really need to reevaluate your life.

Or Turd blossom

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Teukka  Nov 23, 2022 • 3:57:59am

re: #226 Nyet

The South tried to commit CSA once…

Go to your room! *stern stare* ;)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 23, 2022 • 3:59:02am
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Nyet  Nov 23, 2022 • 4:00:23am

re: #228 Teukka

Go to your room! *stern stare* ;)

Yes, Daddy!
;)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 23, 2022 • 4:03:37am

I’m off to bed. See y’all.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 23, 2022 • 4:21:53am

Nothing new here, really, but just a summary of how the Tories have played out their hand.

The problem I foresee is that the Brexiting Nationalists don’t care.

They value their national identity over any economic problems that may cause for them.

And just like Trump-marks here, the Brexit-lovers over there will simply cling to their beliefs regardless of any facts.

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Nyet  Nov 23, 2022 • 4:31:27am

re: #191 teleskiguy

Hey tsg, long time no see!

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 4:36:47am
Six people were shot and killed inside a Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., on Tuesday night, the authorities said, shattering the routine of residents who were picking up supplies for Thanksgiving during a busy holiday week,” the New York Times reports.

barely even makes the news anymore

Link

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 23, 2022 • 4:58:27am

re: #232 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

…Brexiting Nationalists don’t care.

They value their national identity over any economic problems that may cause for them…

It builds character.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 23, 2022 • 4:59:15am

re: #234 Dangerman

barely even makes the news anymore

Link

Only if the victims belong to a particular group. Generic shootings are barely newsworthy.

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Mike Lamb  Nov 23, 2022 • 4:59:15am

re: #156 DodgerFan1988

Hasn’t even touched on churches.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:00:12am

re: #237 Mike Lamb

Hasn’t even touched on churches.

where men dress in full-length gowns and robes, and wear slippers

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:02:00am

re: #35 Belafon

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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:07:24am

re: #22 Dangerman

NOLs… and any income that he did declare could be offset by NOLs for up to 20 years.

Trump was long known to have partaken in one of the largest NOLs by an individual taxpayer (as opposed to a corporate NOL). Massive losses get to offset any income declared for up to 20 years following the year in which the NOL is declared.

All of that is legit, but it shows that far from being a business wizard, he was running a money hemorrhaging business for years. In real estate, let alone NY real estate, that’s just nuts, since you have consistent revenue and unless you’ve made such awful deals , you should be able to eke out a consistent profit.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:13:31am

re: #240 lawhawk

NOLs… and any income that he did declare could be offset by NOLs for up to 20 years.

Trump was long known to have partaken in one of the largest NOLs by an individual taxpayer (as opposed to a corporate NOL). Massive losses get to offset any income declared for up to 20 years following the year in which the NOL is declared.

All of that is legit, but it shows that far from being a business wizard, he was running a money hemorrhaging business for years. In real estate, let alone NY real estate, that’s just nuts, since you have consistent revenue and unless you’ve made such awful deals , you should be able to eke out a consistent profit.

precisely

the only way to even get close to those numbers without bleeding actual cash is in the non-cash: super-overdeducting depreciation/amortization or accruing a shit-ton of liabilities

these are tricks that generally cant be sustained unless, as in this case, no one scrutinizes the returns. if no one’s watching, you can literally just make up numbers.

hmmmm.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:14:27am

re: #240 lawhawk

NOLs… and any income that he did declare could be offset by NOLs for up to 20 years.

Trump was long known to have partaken in one of the largest NOLs by an individual taxpayer (as opposed to a corporate NOL). Massive losses get to offset any income declared for up to 20 years following the year in which the NOL is declared.

All of that is legit, but it shows that far from being a business wizard, he was running a money hemorrhaging business for years. In real estate, let alone NY real estate, that’s just nuts, since you have consistent revenue and unless you’ve made such awful deals , you should be able to eke out a consistent profit.

In addition those tax returns probably show enough information for some people to better figure out the shell games he was constantly carrying out with funds to defraud or cheat others since tax returns also include documentation information on where the money gained or lost was.

A high end lifestyle plus personally losing hundreds of millions of dollars in business does make one ask where all the money was coming into his personal accounts as well. (Answer: Investors or other grift victims for the most part I guess. Plus presumably there is some money laundering going on there with Don skimming some off for himself. Bankrupting multiple casinos in Atlantic City almost sounds like a The Producers-level scheme.)

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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:14:59am

re: #234 Dangerman

barely even makes the news anymore

Link

Unless it’s double digit death tolls, or the victims are of a particular minority or religious group or sexual orientation, mass shootings don’t register nationally for more than a few hours, which is exactly what the GOP death cult wanted and the NRA paid for.

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jeffreyw  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:23:40am

Pork Chop Pr0n

Good morning!

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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:25:17am

re: #242 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

In addition those tax returns probably show enough information for some people to better figure out the shell games he was constantly carrying out with funds to defraud or cheat others since tax returns also include documentation information on where the money gained or lost was.

A high end lifestyle plus personally losing hundreds of millions of dollars in business does make one ask where all the money was coming into his personal accounts as well. (Answer: Investors or other grift victims for the most part I guess. Plus presumably there is some money laundering going on there with Don skimming some off for himself. Bankrupting multiple casinos in Atlantic City almost sounds like a The Producers-level scheme.)

Forensic accountants will be able to suss out what happened between the tax returns and all the financials provided to banks, creditors, and investors.

We have all kinds of evidence that Trump essentially ran his businesses with at least two sets of books - one delivered to the IRS lowballing income and maximizing losses, and the other to highlight revenues and income to the creditors and investors and members.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:34:06am

re: #234 Dangerman

barely even makes the news anymore

Link

Too soon! Too soon! You’re just making political hay over 2nd amendment rights that require only thoughts and prayers

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:41:52am

re: #245 lawhawk

Forensic accountants will be able to suss out what happened between the tax returns and all the financials provided to banks, creditors, and investors.

We have all kinds of evidence that Trump essentially ran his businesses with at least two sets of books - one delivered to the IRS lowballing income and maximizing losses, and the other to highlight revenues and income to the creditors and investors and members.

———————-

Frank Burns : For my children, all profits from my prescription kickbacks.

Father Mulcahy : Oh, dear.

Frank Burns : These are recorded in my red ledger, not the blue one that I show to the government…

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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:43:04am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:47:48am

re: #247 Dangerman

———————-

That was part of what make the Frank Burns character so despicable. Self-righteous slime with a great attachment to wanting to power for its own sake (for petty abuse) and a great sense of entitlement based on inherited position instead of merit. Pile onto that his total lack of character and real conviction. (Well, I think he had firm conviction the world was persecuting him.)

I think the TV series gave him a lot more depth than the movie did. But the former needed him as a constant foil as well.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:49:04am

re: #248 lawhawk

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Pat Paulsen et al made running for president into a farce

They never intended to seriously run, or win.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:53:10am

re: #251 No Malarkey!

Trump and his lawyers will contend that he is not capable of receiving a fair trial as a jury could not be seated.

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:53:27am

re: #234 Dangerman

I’ve seen a number of online articles about it. But it happened so late, it’s going to be this morning before it’s on the TV shows.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:54:37am

re: #249 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

That was part of what make the Frank Burns character so despicable. Self-righteous slime with a great attachment to wanting to power for its own sake (for petty abuse) and a great sense of entitlement based on inherited position instead of merit. Pile onto that his total lack of character and real conviction. (Well, I think he had firm conviction the world was persecuting him.)

I think the TV series gave him a lot more depth than the movie did. But the former needed him as a constant foil as well.

I just read he had two middle names:

Major Franklin Delano Marion Burns

It’s on a fandom site but I don’t recall ever hearing it before

Looks like a cobble from

Requiem for a Lightweight (S1)
Sometimes You Hear the Bullet (S1)
Dear Dad…Three (S2)

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No Malarkey!  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:55:15am

re: #242 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

In addition those tax returns probably show enough information for some people to better figure out the shell games he was constantly carrying out with funds to defraud or cheat others since tax returns also include documentation information on where the money gained or lost was.

A high end lifestyle plus personally losing hundreds of millions of dollars in business does make one ask where all the money was coming into his personal accounts as well. (Answer: Investors or other grift victims for the most part I guess. Plus presumably there is some money laundering going on there with Don skimming some off for himself. Bankrupting multiple casinos in Atlantic City almost sounds like a The Producers-level scheme.)

Also Mary Trump’s book shows that Donald inherited a massive money making empire from his father (and that he and his siblings cheated his late brother’s children out of their share) which Trump has been squandering for decades.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:58:46am

re: #252 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Trump and his lawyers will contend that he is not capable of receiving a fair trial as a jury could not be seated.

The J6 defendants have been trying that defense as well, and it has uniformly failed. It won’t work for Trump either. Assuming the coup he attempts after the 2024 election fails, he will face trial for at least some of his crimes.

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:58:54am

re: #247 Dangerman

Frank Burns eats worms.

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 5:59:31am
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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:01:20am

re: #252 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Trump and his lawyers will contend that he is not capable of receiving a fair trial as a jury could not be seated.

Jury foreman
It’s ok, we’ll stand

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:03:02am

re: #91 mmmirele

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Yeah, he’s en fuego this evening.

ETA: I’m going to call Elon “Elron” from now on, for my own special reasons.

Dianetics?

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:03:50am

re: #257 Egregious Philbin

Frank Burns eats worms.

Frank Burns being tilted head-down on a stretcher:

Frank: “Blood is rushing to my head.”

Hawkeye: “I can’t understand the attraction.”

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:03:59am

re: #257 Egregious Philbin

Frank Burns eats worms.

“What say you, Ferret Face?”

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No Malarkey!  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:07:09am

McCarthy doesn’t have the votes to be elected Speaker. Can he cut a deal with the fascist wing of the GQP to get the votes he needs, or will the new GOP House open in utter chaos?

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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:12:15am

GOP in disarray.

McCarthy wishes that things will be as chaotic and his extremist caucus as genteel as they were under Ryan (and they were already rabble rousing extremists back then too).

McCarthy has no clue what to do, and even less ability to manage it. He is awful at the job of counting - which is a core competency of the job of Speaker.

All the other dumbasses and seditionists in the possible running for Speaker have even less skill and competency to do the job.

But that’s the fucking point for them. They’re obstructionists and saboteurs who will do everything in their power to destroy government functionality, because they see it as their mission to destroy govt to claim that they’re helping working Americans when all they’re doing is burden shifting from the rich to everyone else.

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sagehen  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:26:38am

re: #256 No Malarkey!

The J6 defendants have been trying that defense as well, and it has uniformly failed. It won’t work for Trump either. Assuming the coup he attempts after the 2024 election fails, he will face trial for at least some of his crimes.

his 2024 coup plans required Republican governors and secretaries of state in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Arizona. None of which he’ll have. Georgia has R’s in those jobs, but they’re the same R’s who defied his attempts in 2020.

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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:28:37am
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A Cranky One  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:31:02am

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mmmirele  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:31:17am

re: #251 No Malarkey!

The 11th Circuit is probably about to pave the way for Trump’s indictment for stealing government documents, a case that is such a slam dunk that the risible defenses he has fed the media will only be admissible as evidence of his consciousness of guilt.

Just going to point out that there is no such thing as a “slam dunk” in American law. Now, in Trump’s case, if he doesn’t get himself the best attorneys to take his case and demonstrate how he’s different from everyone else that came along, then it *might* be a slam dunk. *Might*.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:35:04am

re: #263 No Malarkey!

McCarthy doesn’t have the votes to be elected Speaker. Can he cut a deal with the fascist wing of the GQP to get the votes he needs, or will the new GOP House open in utter chaos?

McCarthy has a math problem

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:35:47am
People who knew Anderson Lee Aldrich - the alleged Club Q shooter who has been arrested in connection with the mass shooting at the LGBTQ bar that left five people dead - say that he frequently used anti-gay slurs.

Twenty-two-year-old Aldrich has been arrested and charged with five counts of murder and five hate crimes charges in connection to the shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado this past Saturday night. Xavier Kraus, 23, said that he used to be friends with Aldrich and they lived in the same building near the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

“There would be times where he and his mom would get into fights, arguments, because he would be saying hateful things about whoever he was angry with,” Kraus told The Daily Beast. “He said things sometimes that probably should have been alarming to me. He used the term ‘fa***t’ a lot. Most of the time it came from a place of anger.”

lgbtqnation.com

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:36:29am
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Teukka  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:37:46am

The 1859 Carrington Event

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:39:08am
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No Malarkey!  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:40:06am

re: #265 sagehen

his 2024 coup plans required Republican governors and secretaries of state in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Arizona. None of which he’ll have. Georgia has R’s in those jobs, but they’re the same R’s who defied his attempts in 2020.

He will try to get state legislatures to reject the votes and award him their electors. We will see if SCOTUS gives a boost to this scheme by adopting the radical “Independent State Legislatures” theory that the Constitution gives state legislatures sole authority within their states to regulate federal elections.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:42:48am

re: #270 Belafon

lgbtqnation.com

The intended defense that it can’t possibly be a hate crime
(Because self group loathing doesn’t exist)

It was revealed late Tuesday night that the suspect is nonbinary. That’s according to standard court filings submitted by the suspect’s defense attorneys, who refer to the suspect as “Mx. Aldrich,” noting in footnotes that Aldrich is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. The motions deal with issues like unsealing documents and evidence gathering, not Aldrich’s identity and there was no elaboration about it.

Eta. Link

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:43:32am

re: #274 No Malarkey!

He will try to get state legislatures to reject the votes and award him their electors. We will see if SCOTUS gives a boost to this scheme by adopting the radical “Independent State Legislatures” theory that the Constitution gives state legislatures sole authority within their states to regulate federal elections.

The problem he has is that he needs a state run by Republicans that would vote for a Democratic president. Name a state right now that, if the votes in 2024 are the same as they were in 2020, that he would win if the legislature granted them?

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:47:12am

re: #275 Dangerman

A non-binary person targeted and killed LGBTQ+ people. Which means they would be homophobic and transphobic. This wouldn’t be a “get out of jail free” card for those pushing deadly bigotry. It would still be a terrorist hate crime incited by violent rhetoric popularized by Republicans.

Gay people can still be homophobic. Transgender people can still be transphobic. Jewish people can still be antisemitic. Muslim people can still be Islamophobic. Immigrants can still be xenophobic. Black people can still be anti-Black. Women can still be misogynistic. Betraying your own on behalf of an oppressor is as ancient as oppression itself.

m.dailykos.com

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mmmirele  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:50:39am

re: #260 BeenHereAwhile

Dianetics?

Yeah. Except back in the day, I used to call L. Ron Hubbard “Elwrong.” But Elron works for Apartheid Clyde.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:51:17am

re: #269 Dangerman

McCarthy has a math problem

Its hard to imagine a Democratic/GOP coalition electing a Speaker not beholden to the radical right. But maybe faced with the spectre of a Speaker McCarthy dancing to the tunes played by MTG, threatening a catastrophic debt default and instigating theatrical impeachments, it will become thinkable.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:53:16am

Got the Birbie!

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No Malarkey!  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:54:20am

re: #276 Belafon

The problem he has is that he needs a state run by Republicans that would vote for a Democratic president. Name a state right now that, if the votes in 2024 are the same as they were in 2020, that he would win if the legislature granted them?

Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona seem possibilities off the top of my head without checking their current state legislative makeup.

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gwangung  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:54:26am

re: #265 sagehen

his 2024 coup plans required Republican governors and secretaries of state in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Arizona. None of which he’ll have. Georgia has R’s in those jobs, but they’re the same R’s who defied his attempts in 2020.

Probably part of the reasons they won re-election.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 23, 2022 • 6:58:12am

re: #165 I Would Prefer Not To

another three, another three,

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:00:16am

thrilling game—Japan beats Germany 2-1.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:01:52am

re: #281 No Malarkey!

Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona seem possibilities off the top of my head without checking their current state legislative makeup.

Pennsylvania House (not Senate) just flipped Democratic with this election. Slimmest of majorities though.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:08:21am

re: #277 Belafon

m.dailykos.com

Ezzacto

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No Malarkey!  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:08:38am

re: #285 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Pennsylvania House (not Senate) just flipped Democratic with this election. Slimmest of majorities though.

I just looked that up. Even a one vote margin is enough to ensure that Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes won’t be awarded to Trump if he loses the popular vote there.

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austin_blue  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:09:30am

Got up, turned on the shitshow from Qatar. Germany vs Japan- Germany 1 , Japan 0 on an Ilkay Gundogan Penalty Kick on 33’.

Next thing I know, Japan tie it up, on 75’, then go ahead on 83’ with two beautiful strikes. The first was a rebound after a great save from the German goalkeeper, Neuer (all world ‘keeper), the second was a free kick from the Japanese half, expertly controlled by the Japanese winger, Takuma Asana, who fended off a German fullback, got to the six-yard box and roofed a *screamer* past Neuer for the win.

Frantic, fantastic stuff. More, please!

Next up, the other half of the group, Spain vs. Costa Rica. I’ll be rooting for the Ticos. Gotta love the underdogs in the Group Stage.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:13:59am
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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:14:05am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:14:20am

re: #287 No Malarkey!

I just looked that up. Even a one vote margin is enough to ensure that Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes won’t be awarded to Trump if he loses the popular vote there.

I am very happy with this given the shenanigans the PA House were doing during Covid. Basically throwing roadblocks in front of the PA governor (Wolfe) simply to be conservative obstructionists.

I think, however, this missed the window for setting the post-census US Rep districts for the next decade to undo a bunch of GQP gerrymandering. Though I think the court cases over the past few years did undo a bunch of it. (Cases based on the PA Constitution and thus why the SCOTUS stayed out of it - though I think the GQP nuts did try an appeal to them anyways.)

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:14:32am

A beautiful landscape.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:17:40am

re: #290 Belafon

Which, for those parts, was a pretty accurate review.

The special effects were cutting-edge and a major improvement. And nothing prevents a 30s-seriel adventure plot from being popular. Especially since it’s essentially telling a story that has been told a number of times before - but the background trapping have changed.

(Like how I think a description of Firefly/Serenity as “westerns in space” is pretty darn accurate.)

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jeffreyw  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:18:45am
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No Malarkey!  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:19:16am

re: #291 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I am very happy with this given the shenanigans the PA House were doing during Covid. Basically throwing roadblocks in front of the PA governor (Wolfe) simply to be conservative obstructionists.

I think, however, this missed the window for setting the post-census US Rep districts for the next decade to undo a bunch of GQP gerrymandering. Though I think the court cases over the past few years did undo a bunch of it. (Cases based on the PA Constitution and thus why the SCOTUS stayed out of it - though I think the GQP nuts did try an appeal to them anyways.)

As of right now, the GOP got 50.8% of the popular House vote to 47.7% for the Democrats, a 3.1% margin of victory, which will only earn them at most a 9 seat majority, so the GOP didn’t earn itself a massive advantage through gerrymandering, despite their best efforts.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:19:50am

Lady G looks excited about upcoming erections:

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:20:19am

re: #236 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Only if the victims belong to a particular group. Generic shootings are barely newsworthy.

This seems to be the traditional employee “going postal” attack. Once again easy access to guns facilitates slaughter.

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A Cranky One  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:21:16am
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No Malarkey!  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:23:02am

re: #294 jeffreyw

If Elon is hoping that conservatives will switch from buying massive gas guzzling trucks to buying Teslas in order to own the libs, I think he will be disappointed. More likely he is just going to turn off progressives from buying Teslas.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:25:50am
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A Cranky One  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:27:21am

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:28:31am

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Teukka  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:37:27am

Dim Tool’s gonna Dim Tool…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:44:12am

re: #292 HRH Stanley Sea

“Sun rising over the mountaintop”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:46:03am

re: #300 Dr. Matt

I watched that movie last night. The rental agent scene is timeless:

A F***ing Car - Planes, Trains & Automobiles (6/10) Movie CLIP (1987) HD

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Dr. Matt  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:48:53am

Another Nazi fucktard:

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:50:59am

Per NY Times daily Covid charts, Texas has among the lowest Covid death rate in the nation. Is this legitimate or are they attributing Covid deaths to other causes? Texas percentage vaccinated is below average.

ETA: Among the lowest current death rate (over the past 14 days), not lowest since the beginning of the pandemic.

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William Lewis  Nov 23, 2022 • 7:53:10am

re: #306 Dr. Matt

Another Nazi fucktard:

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:00:40am

re: #307 Hecuba’s daughter

Per NY Times daily Covid charts, Texas has among the lowest Covid death rate in the nation. Is this legitimate or are they attributing Covid deaths to other causes? Texas percentage vaccinated is below average.

I don’t trust the numbers out of any red state. Ever. Cooking the books on anything is second nature and they are surprised when anyone complains because they think everyone else is doing it too (more projection).

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:03:30am

re: #309 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

I don’t trust the numbers out of any red state. Ever. Cooking the books on anything is second nature and they are surprised when anyone complains because they think everyone else is doing it too (more projection).

I should correct my statement — it has among the lowest current death rate (not lowest rate over all time).

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:03:34am

Because there could never be black or homosexual conservatives.

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nines09  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:04:00am

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:04:23am

re: #294 jeffreyw

Who here has not had to manage bosses that way? That’s always the biggest thanks we give to our managers, not letting the bullshit from above get to us.

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Teukka  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:04:30am
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Teukka  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:05:25am

What If a Supernova Hits Earth?
Soundtrack behind spoiler

Click to Reveal

Supernova – Soundtrack (2022)

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:05:46am

……

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Dr. Matt  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:06:54am

re: #314 Teukka

He sounds strikingly similar to Trump in so many ways. Basically, they are both a petulant man-child.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:08:23am

re: #306 Dr. Matt

Another Nazi fucktard:

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Another Nazi fucktard:

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Teukka  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:09:14am

Butthurt…

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:11:27am
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Patricia Kayden  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:12:46am

re: #139 Belafon

Where does he identify that way?

In his lawyer’s office at his lawyer’s suggestion. I doubt he is nonbinary or even knows what that means. His Granddad is a MAGA politician so we can guess where the homophobia comes from.

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nines09  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:13:26am

re: #314 Teukka

That’s exactly how I imagined him. I had to deal with basket cases like him in my dealings with different companies. Even my own at other plants.
They look important in a suit, but never let them near the actual machinery that makes it work.

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steve_davis  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:17:04am

for reasons that are a complete mystery to me, my cat just ate what I think was a small corner of pop-tart that fell on the floor earlier. I was promised that cats were obligatory carnivores. Pretty sure pop-tarts don’t count. And in other news, Fed Ex’s complete incompetence finally works out for me. They deliver the Fender Ultra Tele (Texas Tea: oh, to die for!) while I’m spending the 15 minutes at the grocery store, because they have a satellite that basically surveils my apartment and ensures that things get delivered when I’m out, but then they don’t bother with the whole “signature required” part of the transaction. I’m sure the vendor is thrilled to know that the extra 5 bucks they spent for that service was ignored. The unethical part of me is very tempted to tell them “No, I’ve looked all over, and I don’t see a large box outside the front. Maybe you could just send another, this time maybe in the cobalt blue.” But then the superego chimes in and ruins the whole thing.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:20:23am

re: #306 Dr. Matt

Every Black man isn’t a Democrat so I don’t understand his point. Y’all who are still on Twitter need to tell that fool that all Black people aren’t members of the Democratic party, i.e., Hershel Walker, Clarence Thomas, Kanye West. I wonder why he doesn’t know that.

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darthstar  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:20:46am

I’m really starting to wonder if we’re seeing the result of people growing up with Beavis & Butthead vocabularies.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:21:14am

re: #306 Dr. Matt

Another Nazi fucktard:

idiot apparently did not read

re: #277 Belafon

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No Malarkey!  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:21:31am

re: #323 steve_davis

for reasons that are a complete mystery to me, my cat just ate what I think was a small corner of pop-tart that fell on the floor earlier. I was promised that cats were obligatory carnivores. Pretty sure pop-tarts don’t count. And in other news, Fed Ex’s complete incompetence finally works out for me. They deliver the Fender Ultra Tele (Texas Tea: oh, to die for!) while I’m spending the 15 minutes at the grocery store, because they have a satellite that basically surveils my apartment and ensures that things get delivered when I’m out, but then they don’t bother with the whole “signature required” part of the transaction. I’m sure the vendor is thrilled to know that the extra 5 bucks they spent for that service was ignored. The unethical part of me is very tempted to tell them “No, I’ve looked all over, and I don’t see a large box outside the front. Maybe you could just send another, this time maybe in the cobalt blue.” But then the superego chimes in and ruins the whole thing.

Nope, Cats love carbs. At least, mine do.

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darthstar  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:21:46am

re: #325 darthstar

I’m really starting to wonder if we’re seeing the result of people growing up with Beavis & Butthead vocabularies.

Oh, and this is the second time CNN pissed me off this morning.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:25:21am

re: #324 Patricia Kayden

Every Black man isn’t a Democrat so I don’t understand his point. Y’all who are still on Twitter need to tell that fool that all Black people aren’t members of the Democratic party, i.e., Hershel Walker, Clarence Thomas, Kanye West. I wonder why he doesn’t know that.

Moreover, every member of the LGBTQ community is not a Democrat, e.g., Peter Thiel, SMOTI, Matt Drudge, Liz Mary Cheney, Lindsey Graham, Log Cabin Republicans, etc.,

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:26:17am

re: #317 Dr. Matt

He sounds strikingly similar to Trump in so many ways. Basically, they are both a petulant man-child.

and neither seems to have facilitated success. what do they contribute besides $?

success apparently goes to the teams around them that ‘managed’ them.
they’re the ones that made it happen and got it done.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:27:11am

re: #321 Patricia Kayden

In his lawyer’s office at his lawyer’s suggestion. I doubt he is nonbinary or even knows what that means. His Granddad is a MAGA politician so we can guess where the homophobia comes from.

down in one

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:27:26am

re: #303 Teukka

Dim Tool’s gonna Dim Tool…

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They have to be made to feel real pain. It is their own choice that they will not be swayed by reason, decency, or mutual benefit, and their choice that force is the only option left. They revel in inflicting pain, their every response invokes the alleged superiority of brute force over reason in human affairs. They should be made to understand that reason is not helpless, nor is decency weak. This does not mean shooting up Repug gatherings or flinging a Molotov cocktail at Fast Eddy’s Secondhand Furniture. Far from it. Serious losses of specific income producing assets could be arranged though. These assets are more sacred to them than their Houses of Superstition or their families, both of which are mere props, while their “businesses” (by which they actually mean the physical assets of their businesses) are sacred, the symbol and source of all power.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:28:42am
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JC1  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:30:40am

re: #284 Barefoot Grin

thrilling game—Japan beats Germany 2-1.

That’s almost as much of an upset as SA beating Argentina.

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:31:08am
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jaunte  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:31:15am
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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:33:43am

re: #322 nines09

That’s exactly how I imagined him. I had to deal with basket cases like him in my dealings with different companies. Even my own at other plants.
They look important in a suit, but never let them near the actual machinery that makes it work.

once again, in a large enterprise, a ceo’s job is to manage and direct the scarce resources that sales, ops and finance are constantly fighting over

that’s it.

a ceo should not be doing the job of VP of ops. nor anyone else in ops. nor should they ever step in and literally or even figuratively tweak a knob. first, it usually effs up something literally. and it effs up everybody’s understanding of who’s in charge of what.

the best ceo (imo) like the best boards of directors, don’t (and shouldnt) have intimate or in depth knowledge about how stuff works in any of the three departments. that’s what allows them to act with dispassion and without bias.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:34:30am
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Joe Bacon  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:35:15am

I needed something to make me laugh this morning.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:35:58am

re: #325 darthstar

I’m really starting to wonder if we’re seeing the result of people growing up with Beavis & Butthead vocabularies.

C-37=Gulfstream V
The “cargo” consists of various fatcats and their entourages.

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:36:11am

re: #339 Joe Bacon

I needed something to make me laugh this morning.

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we.tv is showing that episode today if you want to catch or record it.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:36:49am

re: #334 JC1

That’s almost as much of an upset as SA beating Argentina.

And their fans pick up trash after the game!

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jaunte  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:37:56am
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teleskiguy  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:38:48am

re: #329 Dr. Matt

Liz Cheney is definitely a heterosexual. You’re thinking of her sister Mary.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:38:58am

re: #325 darthstar

I’m really starting to wonder if we’re seeing the result of people growing up with Beavis & Butthead vocabularies.

pilots land an A320 in the hudson river after a bird strike
155 souls on board
massive rescue effort by ferries, divers, police, fire, etc
But no one died

//

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:41:09am
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Mattand  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:42:19am

re: #329 Dr. Matt

Moreover, every member of the LGBTQ community is not a Democrat, e.g., Peter Thiel, SMOTI, Matt Drudge, Liz Cheney, Lindsey Graham, Log Cabin Republicans, etc.,

Are you joking or serious on the bolded? The others check out, and while Lindsey is a “probably”, I never heard that about the other two.

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:44:38am

re: #278 mmmirele

Yeah. Except back in the day, I used to call L. Ron Hubbard “Elwrong.” But Elron works for Apartheid Clyde.

Even John “Dean Drive” Campbell considered Hubbard a wacko.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:52:35am

Sorry, Nick is a sitting duck among Repugs.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:53:12am

re: #329 Dr. Matt

Moreover, every member of the LGBTQ community is not a Democrat, e.g., Peter Thiel, SMOTI, Matt Drudge, Liz Cheney, Lindsey Graham, Log Cabin Republicans, etc.,

Richard Grenell.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:53:53am
Donald Trump ripped the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a day after it rejected his emergency appeal seeking to shield his tax returns from House Democrats.

Said Trump: “Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do! It is unprecedented to be handing over Tax Returns, & it creates terrible precedent for future Presidents. Has Joe Biden paid taxes on all of the money he made illegally from Hunter & beyond.”

He added: “The Supreme Court has lost its honor, prestige, and standing, & has become nothing more than a political body, with our Country paying the price. They refused to even look at the Election Hoax of 2020. Shame on them!”

and that’s with owning 1/3 of it

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William Lewis  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:55:09am

re: #318 The Pie Overlord!

Another Nazi fucktard:

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Thanos  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:56:20am

re: #347 Mattand

Are you joking or serious on the bolded? The others check out, and while Lindsey is a “probably”, I never heard that about the other two.

There was a switch on gay marriage stance because her sister Mary is Gay, which confused some people in Cheney’s case.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:56:54am

re: #347 Mattand

Are you joking or serious on the bolded? The others check out, and while Lindsey is a “probably”, I never heard that about the other two.

I stand corrected about Liz. I meant Mary Cheney. Matt Drudge is indeed gay. That has been known in the public space since the dubyah years. I am convinced Lindsey Graham is closeted. Anyone can disagree with me. I don’t care.

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Thanos  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:58:26am

re: #347 Mattand

sourcewatch.org

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Dr. Matt  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:58:45am

re: #344 teleskiguy

Liz Cheney is definitely a heterosexual. You’re thinking of her sister Mary.

Indeed. Thanks.

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Thanos  Nov 23, 2022 • 8:59:12am

Oh, let’s not forget Andrew Sullivan.

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A Cranky One  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:00:18am

re: #357 Thanos

I’d prefer to forget him.

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JC1  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:00:20am

One of the most mind bending illusions I’ve seen.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:00:27am

re: #357 Thanos

Oh, let’s not forget Andrew Sullivan.

And Glenn Greenwald.

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Belafon  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:00:44am
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Thanos  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:01:23am

re: #358 A Cranky One

Then there’s regretting his former sins in theory milo yiannopoulos.

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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:02:05am

re: #335 Belafon

GOP has sought to end health coverage - Obamacare - which expanded mental health treatment, addiction treatment, etc.

GOP doesn’t give a crap about mental health, and cares only that gun sales are expanded.

Gun violence is up because GOPers have relaxed gun laws and undermined strong gun law states at SCOTUS.

GOP are pro criminal. GOP are pro gun violence.

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teleskiguy  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:03:35am

re: #115 teleskiguy

Whaddya know, @dril has a feature today in the Washington Post.

Twitter king Dril on Musk’s chaotic reign | The Washington Post

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:08:49am

re: #335 Belafon

Why didn’t the reporters follow up with what Youngkin was going to do to address the “mental health” crisis? And why are people with mental health issues able to buy guns so easily? What is the GOP doing about that problem?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:13:33am

re: #365 Patricia Kayden

Why didn’t the reporters follow up with what Youngkin was going to do to address the “mental health” crisis? And why are people with mental health issues able to buy guns so easily? What is the GOP doing about that problem?

Recommending more people be armed.

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Egregious Philbin  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:13:36am

re: #350 The Pie Overlord!

Ronald Reagan

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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:28:10am

Seemingly every GOPer on Twitter is running the same lies and misinformation about inflation and Thanksgiving.

It didn’t help them win the midterms, but they’ll keep spewing the misinformation.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:28:53am

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sagehen  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:35:18am

re: #345 Dangerman

pilots land an A320 in the hudson river after a bird strike
155 souls on board
massive rescue effort by ferries, divers, police, fire, etc
But no one died

//

except the geese

The Places Where We Live - Hudson Geese | Cake | FXX

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William Lewis  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:36:03am

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:41:21am
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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:47:34am

re: #370 sagehen

except the geese

[Embedded content]

no deaths were reported //

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Joe Bacon  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:51:30am

I figured they would do that.

Georgia Supreme Court reinstates six-week abortion ban.

But I’m sure that doesn’t apply to Republican officeholders and their pals.

washingtonpost.com

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Nyet  Nov 23, 2022 • 9:55:59am

Artillery

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A Three Hour Tour  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:05:35am

re: #368 lawhawk

Seemingly every GOPer on Twitter is running the same lies and misinformation about inflation and Thanksgiving.

It didn’t help them win the midterms, but they’ll keep spewing the misinformation.

[Embedded content]

I went to my stores’ webpages and calculated what it would cost me to whip up my usual no-frills, no aggravation, low-effort, patented poor family “Appalachian Thanksgiving on a Budget” for my family of four this year. If I do what I’ve done for the past decade, it would run me a whopping $16.64.

This year, because I’m eliminating the seasoned collard greens and replacing them with green beans, it’s gonna run me $16.05.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:08:27am

Goldbelly just delivered the 2nd dessert for our RAZZIES Friendsgiving.

A Blueberry Kringle

378
Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:08:35am
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Joe Bacon  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:09:51am

re: #378 Eclectic Cyborg

Hate to break it to Ron but those Xtians could care less since he packed the courts with radical Federalists hell bent on imposing their Ayn Randian crap on us.

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steve_davis  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:10:40am

re: #354 Dr. Matt

I stand corrected about Liz. I meant Mary Cheney. Matt Drudge is indeed gay. That has been known in the public space since the dubyah years. I am convinced Lindsey Graham is closeted. Anyone can disagree with me. I don’t care.

i’m always careful with Lindsey. I too am a single man who posts too many pictures of me with my cat, so that shouldn’t be viewed as anything one way or the other. It does seem like Lindsey is closeted about something.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:12:25am

Andor

Click to Reveal

Holy shit. The season ending. This is by far the best of the live-action series. Btw there is an after-credits scene you don’t want to miss.

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Dangerman  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:12:30am

re: #378 Eclectic Cyborg

their response:

“why should he have to choose?”

383
Joe Bacon  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:13:56am

DAMN…again…

Not even a couple hours and another mass shooting.

FUCK THE NRA AND THE CORRUPTED COURT THAT GIVES THEM CARTE BLANCHE TO KILL

Four students shot in Philadelphia after leaving school early for Thanksgiving

Two boys and two girls were about a block away from Overbrook High School when they were shot and wounded near the intersection of 60th and Oxford streets, reported WPVI-TV.

The students were hospitalized in stable condition, and the shooter remains at large.

rawstory.com

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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:14:03am

re: #380 steve_davis

I don’t give a crap about Graham’s real or perceived orientation or that he’s single.

He’s a spineless craven coward who sucks up to anyone who exhibits more power than he has. He adores bullies and thinks that associating with bullies somehow inures benefits to him.

All it does is reveal his incoherent positions and inability to take principled stands on anything. It’s all party all the time, and he never holds GOPers to account for their own wrongdoing.

In the process, he’s engaged in misconduct on behalf of Trump and likely broke state and federal election laws.

Fuck him.

385
Charles Johnson  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:17:22am

An IP in Russia has been trying to hack LGF since 5 am. Blocked now.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:19:58am

Whoever this is, they’re running a script that tries hundreds of different exploits, trying to inject SQL into our registration form and contact form.

387
EstebanTornado1963  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:20:02am

re: #385 Charles Johnson

Very fine people.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:21:53am

re: #385 Charles Johnson

Right now at the GRU their supervisor is screaming at them for failing to hack Charles.

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A Three Hour Tour  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:22:15am

re: #376 A Three Hour Tour

I went to my stores’ webpages and calculated what it would cost me to whip up my usual no-frills, no aggravation, low-effort, patented poor family “Appalachian Thanksgiving on a Budget” for my family of four this year. If I do what I’ve done for the past decade, it would run me a whopping $16.64.

This year, because I’m eliminating the seasoned collard greens and replacing them with green beans, it’s gonna run me $16.05.

Remember, the Republican politicians who are trying to make hay about the economic anxieties of lower income white voters do not live like lower income white voters. They do not buy things the way lower income voters do. They do not buy the products that lower income people do. They do not scrimp and adapt the way lower income people do. They *have* to buy “the good stuff” to show off and maintain appearances and their social status.

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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:22:58am

re: #385 Charles Johnson

An IP in Russia has been trying to hack LGF since 5 am. Blocked now.

Trying to get your famous T-day recipes? They could just, you know, ask. /

391
Joe Bacon  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:24:38am

If they really wanted it that bad I could post Grandma’s 5 chip cookie recipe.

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Nyet  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:24:53am

re: #385 Charles Johnson

An IP in Russia has been trying to hack LGF since 5 am. Blocked now.

Any “special” IP?

393
A Cranky One  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:25:04am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:26:07am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:27:37am
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lawhawk  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:27:37am

re: #393 A Cranky One

I understood that reference!
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Dr. Matt  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:28:30am

re: #383 Joe Bacon

DAMN…again…

Not even a couple hours and another mass shooting.

FUCK THE NRA AND THE CORRUPTED COURT THAT GIVES THEM CARTE BLANCHE TO KILL

Four students shot in Philadelphia after leaving school early for Thanksgiving

Fuck the NRA. Fuck the GQP and their “armed nation is a polite/safe nation” lies. Fuck every gun humper in this fucked up country.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:30:25am

re: #385 Charles Johnson

An IP in Russia has been trying to hack LGF since 5 am. Blocked now.

I hope they are reading this: Russian vodka sucks 😁😁😂😂🤣🤣😃😃

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Charles Johnson  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:34:16am

re: #392 Nyet

Any “special” IP?

94.25.181.167

inetnum: 94.25.181.0 - 94.25.181.255
netname: SCARTEL-94-25-181-0-24
descr: YOTA - Kirovskaya obl.
country: RU
admin-c: MA23317-RIPE
tech-c: MA23317-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: GDC-TR-CoreIP
mnt-lower: MEGAFON-WEST-MNT
mnt-routes: MEGAFON-WEST-MNT
mnt-domains: MEGAFON-DNS-MNT
mnt-lower: GDC-TR-CoreIP
mnt-routes: GDC-TR-CoreIP
created: 2017-12-03T20:02:58Z
last-modified: 2022-02-09T15:21:30Z
source: RIPE

role: Mobile
address: Samara
nic-hdl: MA23317-RIPE
mnt-by: GDC-TR-CoreIP
created: 2020-02-05T11:44:29Z
last-modified: 2020-02-05T11:44:29Z
source: RIPE # Filtered

% Information related to ‘94.25.176.0/21AS25159’

route: 94.25.176.0/21
descr: MF-MOSCOW-MBB-YOTA-94-25-176
origin: AS25159
mnt-by: MEGAFON-AUTO-MNT
mnt-by: GDC-TR-CoreIP
created: 2016-11-03T08:06:59Z
last-modified: 2022-02-11T12:55:09Z
source: RIPE

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Nyet  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:41:15am

re: #399 Charles Johnson

On this list.

github.com

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Joe Bacon  Nov 23, 2022 • 10:43:41am

A Special message to the Russian hackers!

Раз и два. Два и два четыре. О, черт возьми, вы, ублюдки, проигрываете войну!

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Jebediah, RBG  Nov 23, 2022 • 11:16:45am

re: #313 Belafon

Who here has not had to manage bosses that way? That’s always the biggest thanks we give to our managers, not letting the bullshit from above get to us.

My boss certainly has her quirks and foibles, but I am pretty certain that I am aware of only a fraction of the times she shields our department from BS and whatnot


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