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jaunte  May 16, 2023 • 10:54:18am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2023 • 11:01:31am

re: #1 jaunte

After the shit the GOP pulled in TN, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. They are doing all they can to ensure Democrats have NO voice in any red state.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 11:02:40am
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dat_said  May 16, 2023 • 11:04:10am

re: #451 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From what I can tell, the majority of National Merit Scholarship winners in Nebraska come from public high schools.

Behind private because of names:

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Captain Ron  May 16, 2023 • 11:14:38am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 11:19:14am

re: #4 dat_said

From what I can tell, the majority of National Merit Scholarship winners in Nebraska come from public high schools.

Propaganda works. Lots of people have been mislead into thinking private schools are somehow better than public schools (when public schools are funded properly).

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dat_said  May 16, 2023 • 11:19:24am

re: #4 dat_said

From what I can tell, the majority of National Merit Scholarship winners in Nebraska come from public high schools.

Behind private because of names:

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Decided to look at my home state. Only one private school student (from Shanley in Fargo) and one home school student out of the 31 semifinalists in ND for the scholarship. Stating that private schools offer better education than public schools is false by this metric.

Behind private because of names:

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dat_said  May 16, 2023 • 11:21:32am

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Propaganda works. Lots of people have been mislead into thinking private schools are somehow better than public schools (when public schools are funded properly).

I used to think that they’re better at discipline and indoctrination but, judging from the life histories of my private school classmates, I highly doubt that is true either.

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ckkatz  May 16, 2023 • 11:23:17am

From last thread -
re: #293 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

re: #308 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

re: #310 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

re: #312 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

There is a very directed political purpose to the violence, death and mayhem that they have, quite knowingly, unleashed.

The break down in society that they are engineering is designed to get the public to accept a strongman authoritarian.

You have heard this before : “Only I can solve this.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 11:25:20am

Well there was one person in my high school class who was notified that they received a National Merit Scholarship…and it was rescinded because a certain asshole alleged that I cheated on the SAT and Achievement tests.

That was me and after that allegation and being ordered to retake the tests in front of the accuser and 2 other teachers the score came out higher than before. Didn’t stop that asshole from repeating his lies.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 11:25:41am

I can see why the poster deleted this.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 11:28:52am

re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅

Well there was one person in my high school class who was notified that they received a National Merit Scholarship…and it was rescinded because a certain asshole alleged that I cheated on the SAT and Achievement tests.

That was me and after that allegation and being ordered to retake the tests in front of the accuser and 2 other teachers the score came out higher than before. Didn’t stop that asshole from repeating his lies.

I was not eligible for the programme. You must take the entry test in 11th grade, and I was in Brazil.

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dat_said  May 16, 2023 • 11:29:43am

re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅

Not only does it floor me that anyone would be crass enough to make the accusation, but it also absolutely disgusts me that no one was in a strong enough position to have your back. Sorry that this happened.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 11:30:47am
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ckkatz  May 16, 2023 • 11:30:59am

From last thread -

re: #265 Joe Bacon ✅

Rudy Has A New Problem On His Hands

Will Ms. Dunphy’s counsel enter a certain excerpt from Borat’s Subsequent Movie Film into evidence?

oh my the plot thickens…

Funny you should mention that -

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 11:31:00am

re: #13 dat_said

Not only does it floor me that anyone would be crass enough to make the accusation, but it also absolutely disgusts me that no one was in a strong enough position to have your back. Sorry that this happened.

But that was typical of the anti-Semitism which was encouraged to flourish in that part of Western PA.

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dat_said  May 16, 2023 • 11:32:00am

re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I was not eligible for the programme. You must take the entry test in 11th grade, and I was in Brazil.

Little known untrue fact - Anymouse was there as George Santos’ au pair.

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jaunte  May 16, 2023 • 11:34:37am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 11:35:02am

re: #17 dat_said

Little known untrue fact - Anymouse was there as George Santos’ au pair.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 11:37:35am

re: #18 jaunte

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ckkatz  May 16, 2023 • 11:41:17am

From last thread -

re: #302 Joe Bacon ✅

Iirc, Burchett is the Tennessee asshole who said the quiet part out loud. That he wasn’t going to do anything about guns after the recent Tennessee massacre. His Knoxville, Tn district is just up the road from Greene’s Dalton, Georgia district.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 11:41:41am

re: #17 dat_said

Little known untrue fact - Anymouse was there as George Santos’ au pair.

LOL

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gocart mozart  May 16, 2023 • 11:42:11am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 11:45:21am
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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2023 • 11:46:47am

re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Viruses aren’t real, birds aren’t real… Is anything in this world real? Are WE real???

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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2023 • 11:47:58am

Elon Musk’s creepy fans are all jumping in to claim he’s not antisemitic and he’s never said anything antisemitic.

One of the dumbest:

Is Netanyahu antisemitic? First, it’s not impossible for people to hate their own heritage. Not even that rare, in fact.

But whether or not he’s antisemitic himself, he is definitely exploiting antisemitism to attack his enemies.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 11:48:14am

re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Did viruses exist before Millennials started calling chilling “vibing?”

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2023 • 11:48:58am

re: #23 gocart mozart

It’s like those sci-fi movies where the aliens can look human but can’t QUITE master how to ACT human.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 11:50:47am

re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s like those sci-fi movies where the aliens can look human but can’t QUITE master how to ACT human.

It’s the same with DT and his rotten kids trying to stand like humans.
Republicans always project, and they have lizard people conspiracy theories…

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sagehen  May 16, 2023 • 11:51:48am

re: #25 Nerdy Fish

Viruses aren’t real, birds aren’t real… Is anything in this world real? Are WE real???

also, Finland isn’t real. The part of your map that pretends to have a “Finland”, it’s really a Japanese fishing territory.
reddit.com

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BeenHereAwhile  May 16, 2023 • 11:56:16am

re: #9 ckkatz

From last thread -

There is a very directed political purpose to the violence, death and mayhem that they have, quite knowingly, unleashed.

The break down in society that they are engineering is designed to get the public to accept a strongman authoritarian.

You have heard this before : “Only I can solve this.”

And the strongman authoritarian will then ban ownership of certain firearms in the name of pubic safety.

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ckkatz  May 16, 2023 • 11:57:31am
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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2023 • 11:59:04am

re: #30 sagehen

also, Finland isn’t real. The part of your map that pretends to have a “Finland”, it’s really a Japanese fishing territory.
reddit.com

“I realize this notion seems ridiculous but that is why the conspiracy works…”

LOL!

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Dave In Austin  May 16, 2023 • 12:01:00pm

Non Stop action from the Qevin….
Will he or won’t he. The pressure campaign starts.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 12:02:18pm

re: #34 Dave In Austin

Non Stop action from the Qevin….
Will he or won’t he. The pressure campaign starts.

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And it will play nonstop on FAUX 24/7 with no interruptions.

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DodgerFan1988  May 16, 2023 • 12:02:18pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 12:03:46pm

re: #36 DodgerFan1988

Would that also apply to Vivid Video’s SEX-MEN parody?

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Charles Johnson  May 16, 2023 • 12:03:56pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  May 16, 2023 • 12:04:14pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 12:05:01pm

re: #34 Dave In Austin

Non Stop action from the Qevin….
Will he or won’t he. The pressure campaign starts.

[Embedded content]

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 12:05:46pm

re: #30 sagehen

also, Finland isn’t real. The part of your map that pretends to have a “Finland”, it’s really a Japanese fishing territory.
reddit.com

Wyoming isn’t real either.
reddit.com

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Dave In Austin  May 16, 2023 • 12:06:46pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Fun car to boot…….

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 12:08:55pm

re: #39 Belafon

Moran weighs in.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 12:14:06pm

LGBTQ Nation, yesterday

Jack Hibbs — an anti-LGBTQ+ pastor who preaches at the Calvary Chapel megachurch in Chino Hills, California — said that “Satan himself” planned the “transgender agenda.” Hibbs then demonstrated that he doesn’t understand the Bible or science very well.

Hibbs, who thinks legalized same-sex marriage “crucified God’s word,” has recently announced his nationwide campaign to require educators to out LGBTQ+ students to their parents. He said doing so is needed to fight the “demonic and dark satanic powers” in public schools that are “sexualizing” and “mentally abusing” children.

(more)

Megachurch hate pastor says “transgender agenda” was planned by “Satan himself”

I’m going to crawl away to bed. Catch y’all later.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 12:15:18pm

re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

LGBTQ Nation, yesterday

(more)

Megachurch hate pastor says “transgender agenda” was planned by “Satan himself”

I’m going to crawl away to bed. Catch y’all later.

Megachurches are solid evidence that Americans are stupid. Not that we needed more evidence.

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ckkatz  May 16, 2023 • 12:16:03pm

Sounds like one of the launchers may have been hit. There are multiple launchers in a Patriot battery.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 16, 2023 • 12:16:57pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  May 16, 2023 • 12:19:53pm
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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2023 • 12:19:55pm

re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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And menstrual cycles do not sync among women living together. This has been debunked by actual science.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 12:21:16pm

re: #47 BeenHereAwhile

They seem to be saying they don’t want more accounts to be hacked by spammers.

Catching the spammers should not be that difficult if they can review the contents of email, but if their TOS says they don’t do that, I don’t know how to sort spammers from legitimate mass-mailers.

The emailed warning will go to the inactive account. People will lose data they thought was secure in an old email account.

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Dr. Matt  May 16, 2023 • 12:22:15pm

re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

LGBTQ Nation, yesterday

(more)

Megachurch hate pastor says “transgender agenda” was planned by “Satan himself”

So Satan created an agenda that accounts for only around 0.7% of the population? Satan sucks at his job.

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ckkatz  May 16, 2023 • 12:23:12pm
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Dave In Austin  May 16, 2023 • 12:24:47pm

“I admitted I’m powerless over Alcohol and that my life has become unmanageable”.

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lawhawk  May 16, 2023 • 12:25:38pm

While House Democrats are looking at expelling conman and criminal under indictment George Santos, GOPers are agitating to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas.

Why?

Policy difference. That’s not impeachable as a high crime or misdemeanor, and the GOP knows it. But it’s necessary because the extremists need to show to media that they’re both siding everything and getting media coverage to act as though both sides do stuff is essential to GOP doing even more crimes.

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has long called to remove Mayorkas from office over problems at the southern border, met with McCarthy on Monday to make her case for why the House GOP should pursue impeachment now that Title 42 has lifted, even though the expiration of the pandemic public health emergency policy - which allowed migrants to be turned away at the border - did not produce the surge that officials had expected.

“There’s a lot of renewed interest,” Greene, an influential McCarthy ally, told CNN.

Title 42 is the Public Health Law of the US Code that includes a specific limitation that allowed the US to keep folks from entering under the existence of a public health emergency. End the public health emergency, and there’d be a possible uptick in people who might want to come to the US.

GOP hates that. They hate the notion that someone might want to come to the US for a better life, especially if they’re not white and/or not Christian. This is straight up white nationalist/supremacist policies.

They can’t even identify why Mayorkas should be impeached - only that they want to do so.

Meanwhile, you’ve got Trump claiming he built the entire wall (he didn’t, and if that’s the case, it was done so poorly that you’re still getting people entering). That and the fact that about 40% of those here illegally are because of visa overstays after entering the US via plane (something the wall will never stop).

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gocart mozart  May 16, 2023 • 12:25:45pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 12:27:26pm

re: #53 Dave In Austin

“I admitted I’m powerless over Alcohol and that my life has become unmanageable”.

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Mr. Higgens appears to have neurological problems. I hear slow speech and see rocking.
Did he share a hotel room with Paul Gosar and catch brain-worms?

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ckkatz  May 16, 2023 • 12:28:34pm
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BeenHereAwhile  May 16, 2023 • 12:30:41pm

Kim Scheinberg
@kims@mas.to

David Roth at Defector on blue checks, summed up perfectly in the last eleven words. The whole piece is a terrific read:

“Where Musk has struggled to keep that constituency happy, it reflects less on his seemingly sincere receptiveness to their hair-trigger credulity, bigotry, and vengefulness and more on the fact that these people are fundamentally unappeasable, and fundamentally opposed to being appeased. “

defector.com

…”hair-trigger credulity, bigotry, and vengefulness and more on the fact that these people are fundamentally unappeasable, and fundamentally opposed to being appeased” is a good description of the Republican Party base.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 12:40:03pm

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 16, 2023 • 12:48:43pm

MTG wants to introduce articles of impeachment against Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for DC. She says he’s over focused on prosecuting cases arising from 1/6

asshat
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Captain Ron  May 16, 2023 • 12:56:26pm

LOL

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 12:57:48pm

re: #62 Captain Ron

Trump won’t talk to him and Joe won’t meet with him.

Sucks to be you, Booby Nincompoopo!

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Captain Ron  May 16, 2023 • 12:57:50pm

re: #61 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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ckkatz  May 16, 2023 • 1:02:11pm

(Thread - Basically, the Russians are going to try and see how they can break it.)

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Captain Ron  May 16, 2023 • 1:02:19pm
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Jay C  May 16, 2023 • 1:06:50pm

re: #64 Captain Ron

Serious question: what is the likelihood (if any) that any of Empty G’s blustering bullshit about impeachment is actually going to go anywhere? She’s good at spouting performative Outrage about all sorts of crap, but outside of the RW Internet, WTF is going to know, or care?
It’s hard to see the House taking this stuff seriously: though, it’s also difficult to imagine what else the Republicans have to occupy their time: I guess agitating for grossly unpopular policies is about all they really have left….

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 1:08:07pm

Trump appointee forced to pay back U.S. Treasury for misuse of funds

rawstory.com

Former Architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton saw money withheld from his final paycheck in order to pay back the federal government for U.S. taxpayer money that was “misused,” according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

Grassley shared a letter from Acting Architect of the Capitol Chere Rexroat that said about $12,500 was withheld from Blanton’s final paycheck because he refused to repay the money himself. The remaining amount, about $1,400, was repaid through insurance, NBC News reported.

“When dealing with trillions of dollars in government spending, a dozen-or-so thousand can seem like an insignificant amount. However, this amount would be important to a family struggling to make ends meet in a time of record inflation and price hikes,” Grassley said in remarks on the Senate floor.

A report from the inspector general found that Blanton engaged in “unauthorized vehicle use, misrepresentation as a law enforcement officer, ethics violations, and lastly appropriations violations.”

Note how THE GRASSHOLE defends this crook.

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No Malarkey!  May 16, 2023 • 1:09:28pm

re: #66 Captain Ron

You get an impeachment, and you get an impeachment, everybody gets an impeachment!!

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The Pie Overlord!  May 16, 2023 • 1:09:56pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

Elon Musk’s creepy fans are all jumping in to claim he’s not antisemitic and he’s never said anything antisemitic.

One of the dumbest:

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Is Netanyahu antisemitic? First, it’s not impossible for people to hate their own heritage. Not even that rare, in fact.

But whether or not he’s antisemitic himself, he is definitely exploiting antisemitism to attack his enemies.

NYT Pitchbot: Anti-Semitism! It’s not just for goyim!

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ckkatz  May 16, 2023 • 1:11:06pm

Another question is how the Patriot affects use of nuclear missiles. The poster below notes later that he meant cruise missiles (CM) rather than ballistic missiles (BM) in the below post -

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 1:18:29pm
SALEM, Ore. — Two Republicans and an independent taking part in a boycott that has stalled hundreds of bills in the Oregon Senate, including measures on abortion and gender-affirming care, were disqualified Monday from re-election under a new constitutional amendment aimed at stopping such walkouts.

The GOP-led walkout of the Democrat-dominated Senate has stretched to 10 days, though some participating lawmakers have rotated in and out since the boycott began May 3. Each of the three affected senators accumulated 10 unexcused absences, making them ineligible to serve in the Legislature for the period after their terms expire under a ballot measure voters passed overwhelmingly last year.

Extended boycott disqualifies 2 GOP senators, 1 independent in Oregon Senate from being re-elected (NBC)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 1:19:17pm

re: #66 Captain Ron

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🔧-wench  May 16, 2023 • 1:19:54pm

re: #72 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Extended boycott disqualifies 2 GOP senators, 1 independent in Oregon Senate from being re-elected (NBC)

Yes! Got ‘em!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2023 • 1:20:06pm

re: #68 Joe Bacon ✅

“When dealing with trillions of dollars in government spending, a dozen-or-so thousand can seem like an insignificant amount. However, this amount would be important to a family struggling to make ends meet in a time of record inflation and price hikes,” Grassley said in remarks on the Senate floor.

I find it hard to believe “a family struggling to make ends meet” would ever be in a position to have TWELVE GRAND withheld from a paycheck.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 1:22:56pm

re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg

I find it hard to believe “a family struggling to make ends meet” would ever be in a position to have TWELVE GRAND withheld from a paycheck.

I had a ten grand payment withheld, then paid over a year instead of being paid on time. I lost my house.

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ericblair  May 16, 2023 • 1:26:20pm

re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg

I find it hard to believe “a family struggling to make ends meet” would ever be in a position to have TWELVE GRAND withheld from a paycheck.

Protip: don’t misappropriate funds. HTH HAND.

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nines09  May 16, 2023 • 1:29:00pm

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 16, 2023 • 1:30:10pm

re: #62 Captain Ron

LOL

John Bolton noted that Donald Trump has long touted what he says are strong relationships with high profile leaders on the world stage, but they actually think he’s a “laughing fool,” Politico reports.

Said Bolton: “I have been in those rooms with him when he met with those leaders, I believe they think he’s a laughing fool. And the idea that somehow his presence in office would have deterred Putin is flatly wrong.”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 1:30:58pm

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 16, 2023 • 1:31:02pm

re: #67 Jay C

Serious question: what is the likelihood (if any) that any of Empty G’s blustering bullshit about impeachment is actually going to go anywhere? She’s good at spouting performative Outrage about all sorts of crap, but outside of the RW Internet, WTF is going to know, or care?
It’s hard to see the House taking this stuff seriously: though, it’s also difficult to imagine what else the Republicans have to occupy their time: I guess agitating for grossly unpopular policies is about all they really have left….

—->0<————

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 16, 2023 • 1:32:27pm

re: #77 ericblair

Protip: don’t misappropriate funds steal. HTH HAND.

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nines09  May 16, 2023 • 1:35:33pm

re: #80 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

“I was not running Mr. President, I was exercising that day inside.”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 16, 2023 • 1:42:33pm

re: #80 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

[Embedded content]

he wrote this idiocy on Fox News today
(i didnt go looking. it popped up on google news, honest)

America’s men are in crisis and it’s rooted in one big lie

he relies heavily on the phrase “the left”, as if it’s an actual thing

and that’s besides whether his argument (that the left thinks this) is an actual thing (it’s not):

At bottom, this critique of men is rooted in a lie: that men shouldn’t be leaders, creators, and heroes, but just consumers looking out for themselves.

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2023 • 1:44:13pm

re: #84 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

At bottom, this critique of men is rooted in a lie: that men shouldn’t be leaders, creators, and heroes, but just consumers looking out for themselves.

Why do you think this, Hee-Hawley? Because we don’t subscribe to your outmoded patriarchal notions that women should stay in the kitchen or in the bedroom and leave the “real world” to the “real men”? Well, you can just fuck right off.

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2023 • 1:46:20pm

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2023 • 1:49:23pm

Is anyone surprised by this? Anyone? Bueller?

Maybe she’ll hook up with the Nazi dude from Arizona.

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nines09  May 16, 2023 • 2:01:24pm

re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg

Lots of bigger magazines out there that can shoot more.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 2:05:58pm

re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

Is anyone surprised by this? Anyone? Bueller?

Maybe she’ll hook up with the Nazi dude from Arizona.

The party of divorce and kids having kids.
I’m really just against one of these things.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 16, 2023 • 2:12:01pm

re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg

She’s lucky she’s in a state where the woman can file for divorce.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 16, 2023 • 2:17:39pm

re: #90 GlutenFreeJesus

She’s lucky she’s in a state where the woman can file for divorce.

+1

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Captain Ron  May 16, 2023 • 2:20:57pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 2:24:07pm

re: #92 Captain Ron

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 16, 2023 • 2:26:40pm

re: #45 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Megachurches are solid evidence that Americans are stupid. Not that we needed more evidence.

They are the logical Late Stage Capitalist extensions of the Fundamentalist churches that characterized religion in much of the early United States, especially in the South.

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Captain Ron  May 16, 2023 • 2:27:23pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 16, 2023 • 2:29:01pm

re: #69 No Malarkey!

You get an impeachment, and you get an impeachment, everybody gets an impeachment!!

She has an impeachment tree and a dish to serve them on!!!

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jaunte  May 16, 2023 • 2:32:18pm

re: #90 GlutenFreeJesus

She’s lucky she’s in a state where the woman can file for divorce.

Likely she knows what’s coming and is getting as free as she can.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2023 • 2:34:14pm

re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

Is anyone surprised by this? Anyone? Bueller?

Maybe she’ll hook up with the Nazi dude from Arizona.

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Captain Ron  May 16, 2023 • 2:34:48pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2023 • 2:35:55pm
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jaunte  May 16, 2023 • 2:41:04pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2023 • 2:41:12pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 16, 2023 • 2:43:24pm

Speaking of hail, it just woke me up.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2023 • 2:44:52pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 2:46:38pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2023 • 2:47:23pm

re: #98 Backwoods Sleuth

oh…

The April 25 filing seeks to dissolve her marriage to Jayson Boebert, with whom she shares four sons. An affidavit of service, also obtained by The Daily Beast, indicated that Jayson Boebert appeared to be caught off guard by the court proceedings. He chased away a process server with an expletive-laden tirade and let his dogs loose when he was served with the divorce papers, the affidavit said.

“Once he learned that he was being served with Dissolution of Marriage papers he was extremely angry,” the process server wrote. “I tried to hand him the documents but did not take them. He started yelling and using profanities, and told me that I was trespassing, and that he was calling the Sheriff’s Office. I told him I was leaving the documents on the chair outside of the door, he closed the door then let the dogs out.”

The document noted that Jayson was cleaning a gun and drinking a “tall glass of beer” when he was served.

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2023 • 2:49:43pm

re: #106 Backwoods Sleuth

oh…

He sounds lovely.

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🔧-wench  May 16, 2023 • 2:50:22pm

re: #104 Backwoods Sleuth

If she thinks she hasn’t been gone, I think she hasn’t made it back.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 2:51:48pm

re: #108 🔧-wench

If she thinks she hasn’t been gone, I think she hasn’t made it back.

But it’s not concerning. It would be concerning if the dementia was a hoax meant to get rid of her. She’s exactly as expected.

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nines09  May 16, 2023 • 2:54:22pm

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Jay C  May 16, 2023 • 2:54:58pm

re: #109 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

But it’s not concerning. It would be concerning if the dementia was a hoax meant to get rid of her. She’s exactly as expected.

More’s the pity…

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2023 • 2:56:04pm

re: #109 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

But it’s not concerning. It would be concerning if the dementia was a hoax meant to get rid of her. She’s exactly as expected.

Do you think there’s someone in her orbit who is pushing her NOT to retire?

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2023 • 2:57:25pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 2:57:34pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

Do you think there’s someone in her orbit who is pushing her NOT to retire?

In her staff, I’d expect, since they have the power of her seat right now. Friends and family will be urging her to retire, but she may not remember that happening.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  May 16, 2023 • 3:01:19pm

re: #113 Backwoods Sleuth

What, no Tricky Dick?

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2023 • 3:02:19pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 3:03:32pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  May 16, 2023 • 3:04:20pm
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Patricia Kayden  May 16, 2023 • 3:05:12pm

re: #64 Captain Ron

The only thing I care about is the debt ceiling fiasco. The American people voted for Republicans to control the House despite January 6th. This is what we deserve. A House which passes no laws and is run by literal idiots.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2023 • 3:06:56pm

re: #119 Patricia Kayden

The only thing I care about is the debt ceiling fiasco. The American people voted for Republicans to control the House despite January 6th. This is what we deserve. A House which passes no laws and is run by literal idiots.

And even if these idiots cause us to default on our debt and permanently damage our economy, they’ll STILL get millions of votes next election.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 3:07:46pm

re: #120 Eclectic Cyborg

re: #119 Patricia Kayden

The only thing I care about is the debt ceiling fiasco. The American people voted for Republicans to control the House despite January 6th. This is what we deserve. A House which passes no laws and is run by literal idiots.

And even if these idiots cause us to default on our debt and permanent damage our economy, they’ll STILL get millions of votes next election.

because…Jesus…

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Dave In Austin  May 16, 2023 • 3:12:57pm

Boom Boom is ditching the Groomer

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nines09  May 16, 2023 • 3:13:39pm

re: #119 Patricia Kayden

All those acquaintances, friends of friends, friends, neighbors, relatives and people you just know by luck of the draw that vote time and time again for Republicans?
Beyond stupid.
Harsh reality to face that fact.
It hurts.
It hurts.
Especially since the GOP basically went full cult.
Yep. Hard reality.
I keep hearing a shoe will drop.
Another blockbuster.
They got them now.
Get real.
Fight for real with intent and purpose. No nicknames. No cartoons. Put up or shut up.
Fight. As if Democracy depended upon it.
These maggots such as Bannon have worldwide contacts and money.
Over and over they have shown us.
Hard rain coming.

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nines09  May 16, 2023 • 3:14:45pm

re: #122 Dave In Austin

“His clip was too small…..”

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2023 • 3:16:23pm

re: #122 Dave In Austin

Boom Boom is ditching the Groomer

Is this the guy that was exposing himself to underage girls?

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 16, 2023 • 3:17:24pm

re: #125 Nerdy Fish

Is this the guy that was exposing himself to underage girls?

Yep. That’s him.

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Nerdy Fish  May 16, 2023 • 3:18:33pm

re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep. That’s him.

No wonder he reacted so badly to the divorce filing. He’s a horrible person. I hope they have a long, drawn-out, and acrimonious divorce full of drama and public humiliation.

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Dave In Austin  May 16, 2023 • 3:21:05pm

re: #125 Nerdy Fish

Is this the guy that was exposing himself to underage girls?

Yup

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The Pie Overlord!  May 16, 2023 • 3:21:35pm
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Romantic Heretic  May 16, 2023 • 3:24:35pm

re: #1 jaunte

They’re not even trying to hide it any more, are they?

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 3:25:24pm

re: #129 The Pie Overlord!

Big John knew where to stick those bankers. Why not force them to have work requirements…in a homeless shelter?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 16, 2023 • 3:25:50pm

re: #116 Backwoods Sleuth

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 3:26:58pm

re: #125 Nerdy Fish

Is this the guy that was exposing himself to underage girls?

Well he took Chuck Berry literally to do something with his ding-a-ling…😈

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Romantic Heretic  May 16, 2023 • 3:33:00pm

re: #30 sagehen

That must be why Tsarist Russia’s Baltic Fleet was so scared of Japanese torpedo boats, and why they kept firing on fishing boats.

Youtube Video

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 16, 2023 • 3:37:17pm

James Comer should be investigated for ‘Santos-esque’ tales of missing whistleblowers: bipartisan group

U.S. Rep. James Comer Jr. (R) must be investigated by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for his “Santos-esque explanations of alleged whistleblowers disappearing,” a bipartisan group says.

Facts First, which advocates for the national discourse to be “grounded in facts and honest debate,” sent a letter on Monday to U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves saying a probe into the matter is necessary to determine if the alleged whistleblower - or Comer himself - committed a crime. Facts First publicly announced the letter Tuesday.

“The House Republican Conference is on notice that a key member of their slim majority has likely engaged in criminal activity and may well soon be a convicted felon. Not only has the Republican leadership failed to oust known fabulist George Santos, it appears that they are now mimicking his behavior. We write to you regarding that conduct,” the letter says.

The group raises the possibility that the whistleblower never existed in the first place.

factsfirstusa.org

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jaunte  May 16, 2023 • 3:42:01pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon ✅


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