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I can’t believe this needs to be said #medtwitter but please don’t put your patients details into ChatGPT and get it to write your notes. You have no idea where that information ends up, it’s an external 3rd party. https://t.co/Od2qKPYDAT
— Dr Kate Miller @drkatemiller@mastodon.social (@DrKate_Miller) May 27, 2023
Translation -
“One of the guys was arrested for dui 11 minutes after leaving the unit safety briefing where they were told not to get drunk and then drive.”
This is not a record we’re asking you to break….but seriously, how? pic.twitter.com/gv15mSxCLY
— U.S Army WTF! Moments (@TheWTFNation) May 26, 2023
Hoping Anymouse didn’t lose internet.
Storm should be East of him now.
I was wondering when this would happen. Ping @GidMK
— Dr Kate Miller @drkatemiller@mastodon.social (@DrKate_Miller) May 28, 2023
Well, my best friend is still in the care facility. I do not think he will ever walk again but I am hopeful (As anyone reading me, I am an optimist.) I’ve now got POA for his health and financial decisions. Having to deal with Medicaid so I expect the next week will see me traveling to his bank to get account statements. The bank only has 18 months worth online. Gonna be fun.
Save the date: Adding to Trump’s cluttered calendar, a Wisconsin judge has set a Sept. 3, 2024 start date — just two months before Election Day — for the jury trial in the lawsuit seeking $2.4 million in damages from Wisconsin’s fake Republicans electors.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 27, 2023
re: #2 ckkatz
At this point I feel like everything I’ve ever written on LGF is floating around ChatGPT somewhere.
re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg
At this point I feel like everything I’ve ever written on LGF is floating around ChatGPT somewhere.
Just think of all the legal briefs and medical records you have (kind of) authored. :)
The GOP isn’t sending its best.
A GOP District Chair. https://t.co/Jobvq1DBLC
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) May 28, 2023
I had to edit my Nick C. post on Facefuck like four times, couldn’t get the wording right then I’d start to cry, etc. I got it, though.
Facebook has allowed editing of posts *for years.* I mean, probably 0.7% of all tweets ever tweeted had the words “edit button” in them.
re: #8 ckkatz
They really need to learn how to cope.
No, they were not the legitimate electors. The legitimate electors met and signed their names to legitimate paperwork, not paperwork sent by a lawyer not even working for the government
— Denise. 🌊🌻🟦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🟧 (@Denise2513) May 27, 2023
re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg
On the bright side they’re all collaged with nonsense phrases badly copied from other people, like “piss up a rhododendron.”
Well, I think McCarthy has sold his soul again. His House MEGA base is going to be pi$$ed at this deal and will want to kick his ass out of the Speakership. To stay in “power” he will have to depend on the D’s to save is ass. Then the D’s will want to travel down a different path and McCarthy will be forced to drive.
There’s a noticeable difference in how far right Republicans that are friendly with McCarthy are talking about this bill and ones that are not. Your Jordan and MTG are happy. Bishop and Good are not. https://t.co/wUfvayRNop
— Drew Savicki (@DrewSav) May 28, 2023
There’s a fair amount of spin here https://t.co/oqkXaxbEnG
— Molly Jong-fast (@MollyJongFast) May 28, 2023
If McCarthy was smart (who am I kidding) he would let them remove him . The GOP led house is ungovernable. You’d have better luck trying to herd cats. As much as I hate their leadership they are doing nothing to gain support from anyone who already has their vote.
My overall take:
It’s really an overstatement to say Republicans are getting nothing. (A two-year budget freeze in a high-inflation environment is something). But it’s all stuff they could have just as easily gotten in a vanilla budget fight or Farm Bill reauthorization.— Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) May 28, 2023
NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton wanted his mistress to have a job in Austin, which investigators say he obtained for her, so he would not have to drive back and forth to San Antonio to see her, Rep. Ann Johnson said, in setting forth investigative findings.
— Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) May 27, 2023
The Texas Senate decreased the per student safety money increase from $90.28 to a miserly 28 pennies on the 1 year remembrance of the Uvalde school shootings. #txlege https://t.co/4bzkwgRFie
— Gina Hinojosa (@GinaForAustin) May 28, 2023
re: #20 ckkatz
NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton wanted his mistress to have a job in Austin, which investigators say he obtained for her, so he would not have to drive back and forth to San Antonio to see her, Rep. Ann Johnson said, in setting forth investigative findings.
— Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) May 27, 2023
Hmmm —- maybe he won’t be getting his wife’s vote after all.
“Here’s 28¢ kids, carve a wedge to jam the classroom door.”
Well, you are rather an expert on narcissism https://t.co/4hY5QCoUeF
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) May 27, 2023
In the replies, a hero: pic.twitter.com/6TWOu8OFOS
— M. Kelly (@contranymic1) May 28, 2023
re: #20 ckkatz
Plot twist. Paxton has a mistress? I thought his wife was a senator and could vote to convict him. Sucks being him.
re: #18 I Would Prefer Not To
If McCarthy was smart (who am I kidding) he would let them remove him . The GOP led house is ungovernable. You’d have better luck trying to herd cats. As much as I hate their leadership they are doing nothing to gain support from anyone who already has their vote.
McCarthy gets to hold the gavel and play Speaker until January, 2025 (if he can survive a motion to vacate the chair that is sure to be coming now). It’s an important post that brings perks and is second in line to the presidency. The House won’t accomplish anything during his Speakership, but by Dog, he will go down in history as having been Speaker.
It might be helpful to the republic if Democratic Twitter yelped a lot tonight. Remember, MAGA Twitter isn’t going to read the deal. It’s going to read your tweets to decide whether the libs have been sufficiently owned.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 28, 2023
It’s crooks and election deniers all the way down.
Great, the new (for now) interim AG helped Paxton file lawsuits in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The State Bar even filed a complaint against him. That’s just great. https://t.co/uAfB2Xro26 https://t.co/ciiqZb50Ni pic.twitter.com/6QF0QBpqWg
— Cari Marshall (@CariMarshallTX) May 27, 2023
re: #26 No Malarkey!
McCarthy gets to hold the gavel and play Speaker until January, 2025 (if he can survive a motion to vacate the chair that is sure to be coming now). It’s an important post that brings perks and is second in line to the presidency. The House won’t accomplish anything during his Speakership, but by Dog, he will go down in history as having been Speaker.
What’s stopping the idiots from voting him out.
re: #29 I Would Prefer Not To
What’s stopping the idiots from voting him out.
He may have a side deal for Democrats to vote for him for Speaker so the debt ceiling increase can get done.
“John Amann told NBC News he bought $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks and other items over the past year only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank.”https://t.co/NSxPiFu34Y
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 27, 2023
Ron DeSantis Discusses His Plan to Abolish the IRS: It’s A ‘Corrupt Organization’
(per trending politics)
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who recently announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, expressed his openness to a congressional measure that… pic.twitter.com/wavBfiFmhf— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) May 27, 2023
If you find yourself in Omaha:
New @flatwaterfreep: He’s 1st chef in Nebraska history to be a finalist for a Best Chef Midwest Beard award — the food equivalent of an Oscar.
His story is as fascinating as his food.@SBHOmaha with twisting, turning tale of Dave Utterback’s fish glory.https://t.co/YPNzhNaGJw— The Flatwater Free Press (@flatwaterfreep) May 26, 2023
re: #31 ckkatz
No marks more gullible than MAGA; a conman’s dream.
Here are all the cuts and Improvisions:
Phasing in food stamp time limits: The agreement includes the implementation of food stamp time limits for people up to the age of 54, which will then expire in 2030.
Exemptions from time limits: The agreement exempts veterans and people…— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) May 28, 2023
More on that lawyer who used ChatGPT to ‘research’ his case.
A lawyer representing a man who sued an airline relied on ChatGPT to help prepare a court filing.
It did not go well. https://t.co/CrRzFViNvQ— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 27, 2023
Having a Federal judge incandescent at one is not a good career move.
Judge Castel said in an order that he had been presented with “an unprecedented circumstance,” a legal submission replete with “bogus judicial decisions, with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations.” He ordered a hearing for June 8 to discuss potential sanctions.
re: #37 ckkatz
More on that lawyer who used ChatGPT to ‘research’ his case.
Having a Federal judge incandescent at one is not a good career move.
Sounds like it’s going to be awhile before we have to worry about AI replacing lawyers.
re: #31 ckkatz
But on social media and in promotional videos — many featuring faked celebrity endorsements — the sellers have tapped an audience that believes Trump’s ouster was part of a great conspiracy and that by investing in the Trump Rebate Banking System, or TRB for short, Trump will reward their loyalty by making them rich.
Those who buy these items, the ads from Patriots Dynasty, Patriots Future and USA Patriots suggest, will be rewarded when Trump unveils a new monetary system that will turn these products into legal tender worth far more than the purchase price.
Dude can’t even make HIMSELF rich.
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Il Duce says he will abolish the IRS.
Who’s going to collect Federal taxes, il Duce?
Thoughts for the day -
Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn
- Unknown
If it ain’t broke, fix it till it is
- Coast Guard saying
When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
- US Marine Corps
re: #40 Joe Bacon ✅
Il Duce says he will abolish the IRS.
Who’s going to collect Federal taxes, il Duce?
Iirc, in the 1980s Reagan was trying to roll back the New Deal.
Then in the 1990’s Gingrich one-upped him and wanted to roll back taxation to before the creation of the IRS and Federal income taxes. And return to having the states collect taxes. It sounds like this is part of the same goal.
UPDATE: Donald Trump leads Ken Paxton in impeachments, 2 to 1.
— The Shallow State (@OurShallowState) May 27, 2023
re: #42 ckkatz
Iirc, in the 1980s Reagan was trying to roll back the New Deal.
Then in the 1990’s Gingrich one-upped him and wanted to roll back taxation to before the creation of the IRS and Federal income taxes. And return to having the states collect taxes. It sounds like this is part of the same goal.
Gingrich also wanted to put poor children to work in schools to “earn” school lunches.
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Gingrich also wanted to put poor children to work in schools to “earn” school lunches.
Sounds like that is back in the playbook today.
re: #30 No Malarkey!
He may have a side deal for Democrats to vote for him for Speaker so the debt ceiling increase can get done.
I’m not sure all Democrats are going to support him. I wouldn’t
re: #25 I Would Prefer Not To
Plot twist. Paxton has a mistress? I thought his wife was a senator and could vote to convict him. Sucks being him.
My sweet summer child have you met a powerful conservative woman.
It’s just as likely she helped him find his mistress as she’s taken off guard by this; equal odds that she’ll say whatever protects the brand of their marriage/graft partnership or already has the pre-planned “he has sinned but been forgiven” rote memorized.
re: #47 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m not sure all Democrats are going to support him. I wouldn’t
I think that this is one of the undetermined points that makes the deal an “agreement in principle” rather than a concluded deal. How many of which can support the agreement without “contaminating” it for the other side.
Source: https://t.co/y2x3KyBWl1 pic.twitter.com/Ay6zlRhbyv
— MSW Media (@mswmediapods) May 26, 2023
re: #48 The Ghost of a Flea
My sweet summer child have you met a powerful conservative woman.
It’s just as likely she helped him find his mistress as she’s taken off guard by this; equal odds that she’ll say whatever protects the brand of their marriage/graft partnership or already has the pre-planned “he has sinned but been forgiven” rote memorized.
I believe the bard said something about women being scorned. And no, I tend to stay away from conservative women.
I have a list of evil concerts I’m willing to attend on a fact-finding mission. https://t.co/lmDz7ABmVG
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) May 27, 2023
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The cheapest ticket to Taylor Swift tmrw is $1,100.
Somewhere, there is a parent feverishly negotiating with their kid over the terms of a sell-em-and-split-it deal.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) May 27, 2023
re: #36 No Malarkey!
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It’s ridiculous that it’s come to this, but the amount of screaming, crying, teeth gnashing, and general tantrum throwing in the GQP ranks warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart.
re: #46 darthstar
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Putin is doing an Any% speedrun of the Soviet Afghanistan campaign and beating Brezhnev’s record by over 9 years.
Its realIm one of the fetuses
— Ramon Nudels (@ram3nnoodlz) May 28, 2023
sorry, ETA:
No way this real
— Anastasiaxoxo (@Anaxo456) May 27, 2023
A single .50 cal round from less than 10 feet away would have absolutely NO problem penetrating into the Tesla and then exiting out the other side of a Tesla. Let alone 10’s of rounds.
That Tesla car video is a 3D animation by Slav Popovski. Source: https://t.co/sskLfNoWZo #RespectArtists https://t.co/PeSdJMSFoI
— HoaxEye (@hoaxeye) May 27, 2023
Okay, back from some friends’ gig (including John Burnett, late of NPR, a dynamite Harmonica player).
So to continue a conversation started a few threads back:
I was pretty surprised by the vote today. I really thought they would give Paxton a delay to talk to an open session, so the sheer magnitude of the loss (121 for adoption, 23 against with a total of 5 either absent or present/not voting was a big surprise. A really BIG surprise, which indicates a couple of things:
1) Pretty much everyone thinks that Paxton is A) a serious douche-canoe (he always has been); and B) had no real deeply felt support within the House; and
2) Somebody with a lot of suction and stroke called the Speaker and told him to tell the R’s to vote their conscience. Oh, and told the Speaker to, under no circumstances, allow anyone to whip the R’s to try to increase Paxton’s vote to avoid the unmitigated disaster of losing by 98 votes.
It could have been Abbot, he’s pretty popular. It could have Patrick, who’s got a big stick and is feared, especially in the Senate, where as Lite Guv he Chairs the body and sets the Legislative Agenda. (NB: The Lite Guv has a LOT more Legislative mooshka than Abbot. Abbot appoints Boards and Commissions and signs bills.)
Or it could have been forces outside of trad gov’t, working through either Abbot or Patrick because they knew Paxton was a dead man walking, politically. In other words, Oligarchs.
This account has half a million followers.
This is not an 1960s hands free Telephone mask.
It is the 1995 Rejuvenique Facial Toning System.https://t.co/uIVRjh3Pmy pic.twitter.com/o2VTcz7gWL— Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunt) May 26, 2023
re: #56 Barefoot Grin
The dollar sign after the amount is the giveaway it did not originate in the USA.
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Kandiss Taylor explaining how the Earth is flat pic.twitter.com/CByWpLX0ZU
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) May 25, 2023
re: #57 ckkatz
A single .50 cal round from less than 10 feet away would have absolutely NO problem penetrating into the Tesla and then exiting out the other side of a Tesla. Let alone 10’s of rounds.
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I was about to say that there’s a company that claims to have developed ballistic glass capable of surviving a hit from a .50 cal rifle round…and then I watched the damn video and my eyes ‘bout rolled out of their sockets. If they’d shown a single hit from somebody firing…say…a Barrett M82, then I’d say it was plausible. But you couldn’t just spray the side of a vehicle with such glass with a Browning M2 and expect it hold up without any penetration whatsoever.
Snap.
And I understand why winning an election hasn’t worked out for you ❤️
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) May 25, 2023
re: #51 I Would Prefer Not To
I believe the bard said something about women being scorned. And no, I tend to stay away from conservative women.
And I’m saying it’s not a safe assumption she’s going to perform being “scorned” in any public forum, or even feel “scorned” on a personal level.
I’ve lived in a blood red state for thirty years and…the gender dynamics are far more fucked up than anyone would imagine, and not even in ways that match what one would model looking at what social conservatives say they value. Lots of women of status know that they’re husbands are creeps/cheaters but it’s just seen as inevitable, as inherently male behavior…if there’s anger, it’s directly towards the female subject even if that’s an assault victim or a teenager.
Furthermore…this is a seasoned politician in a corrupt state who’s married to another corrupt politician; odds are good she’s complicit in every bit of this shit to a degree where womanly wrath doesn’t tilt the scale compared to the deeply-entwined complicity.
re: #55 Targetpractice
Putin is doing an Any% speedrun of the Soviet Afghanistan campaign and beating Brezhnev’s record by over 9 years.
So…he’s doing a US occupation of Afghanistan from 2001-2020, is what you’re saying.
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Still digging.
F’ing grifter. This shite is pathological with you, isn’t it…
— Michael VanDeMar (@mvandemar) May 26, 2023
re: #57 ckkatz
A single .50 cal round from less than 10 feet away would have absolutely NO problem penetrating into the Tesla and then exiting out the other side of a Tesla. Let alone 10’s of rounds.
1. Elon wouldn’t spend the money required to produce a single vehicle with glass that impenetrable.
2. Everyone saw his windows break when he asked some dude-brah to throw a weight through his door.
re: #18 I Would Prefer Not To
If McCarthy was smart (who am I kidding) he would let them remove him . The GOP led house is ungovernable. You’d have better luck trying to herd cats. As much as I hate their leadership they are doing nothing to gain support from anyone who already has their vote.
When Boehner resigned the speakership, he skipped to the podium for the announcement, whistling zippedy-doo-dah. Big smile on his face. Like it was the best day of his life.
re: #66 The Ghost of a Flea
So…he’s doing a US occupation of Afghanistan from 2001-2020, is what you’re saying.
But he’s doing it in 5% of the time.
re: #66 The Ghost of a Flea
So…he’s doing a US occupation of Afghanistan from 2001-2020, is what you’re saying.
Nah, Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. He’s killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen, ruined his nation’s economy, destroyed whatever goodwill it still retained, and has virtually nothing to show for it but a few puppets that are in imminent danger of being forced to choose between exile or imprisonment.
re: #69 sagehen
When Boehner resigned the speakership, he skipped to the podium for the announcement, whistling zippedy-doo-dah. Big smile on his face. Like it was the best day of his life.
After Boehner left Congress, the first thing he did was align himself with a Cannabis conglomerate. He knows where the money is.
re: #70 darthstar
But he’s doing it in 5% of the time.
Yeah, the meta’s really different if you have to blow up the schoolchildren with artillery rather than Predator drones.
re: #65 The Ghost of a Flea
I believe this is likely the existing scenario… unless… she has decided she might like to saw him off and continue with her life and career. With a lucrative divorce, perhaps, plus all the benefits in sympathy as the “wronged woman”.
re: #71 Targetpractice
Nah, Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. He’s killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen, ruined his nation’s economy, destroyed whatever goodwill it still retained, and has virtually nothing to show for it but a few puppets that are in imminent danger of being forced to choose between exile or imprisonment.
So it’s an homage to every US colonial campaign from McKinley to Bush II.
I wish people would stop trying to make me like Putin.
re: #75 The Ghost of a Flea
So it’s an homage to every US colonial campaign from McKinley to Iraq.
Yes, if you squint really hard and ignore every other nation that has engaged in colonial activities over the past 2 centuries, I can see how you’d reach the conclusion that only America’s exploits are of note.
re: #77 Targetpractice
Given that I’m the guy that basically always pointing out the continuity of all forms of colonialism and the congruity of their violence, there’s a slight possibility I’m shitposting.
re: #78 The Ghost of a Flea
Given that I’m the guy that basically always pointing out the continuity of all forms of colonialism and the congruity of their violence, there’s a slight possibility I’m shitposting.
*shrugs* Fair enough.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Gosh, didn’t we all have one of these in our elementary school classroom?
Sigh… pic.twitter.com/RddURoxkcb— Route60plus (@Route_60plus) May 28, 2023
re: #79 Targetpractice
*shrugs* Fair enough.
But also American colonialism was the New Coke to European colonialism’s Coke Classic.
And Japanese colonialism was RC Cola, or possibly Shasta. I can’t decide which.
re: #63 Targetpractice
I was about to say that there’s a company that claims to have developed ballistic glass capable of surviving a hit from a .50 cal rifle round…and then I watched the damn video and my eyes ‘bout rolled out of their sockets. If they’d shown a single hit from somebody firing…say…a Barrett M82, then I’d say it was plausible. But you couldn’t just spray the side of a vehicle with such glass with a Browning M2 and expect it hold up without any penetration whatsoever.
Yup!
I wonder how thick and how heavy that company’s glass would have to be. And whether it would survive much else beyond a single shot.
The current presidential limousine weights 15,000 to 20,000 lbs has 5” think glass and 8” thick armor. The effectiveness of that armor against ‘what’ has not, to my knowledge, been released.
re: #81 The Ghost of a Flea
But also American colonialism was the New Coke to European colonialism’s Coke Classic.
And Japanese colonialism was RC Cola, or possibly Shasta. I can’t decide which.
Japanese colonialism was Tab.
re: #80 jaunte
Ultimately supported by the Great Turtle A’tuin, swimming through the Cosmos.
re: #81 The Ghost of a Flea
But also American colonialism was the New Coke to European colonialism’s Coke Classic.
And Japanese colonialism was RC Cola, or possibly Shasta. I can’t decide which.
Yeah, so, I’m stealing that analogy. Mine now.
/
re: #85 Targetpractice
Yeah, so, I’m stealing that analogy. Mine now.
/
Russian colonialism has been its own thing since the Mongols. What beverage would fit?
re: #86 Sherlock Hound
Russian colonialism has been its own thing since the Mongols. What beverage would fit?
Coke Zero?
re: #82 ckkatz
Yup!
I wonder how thick and how heavy that company’s glass would have to be. And whether it would survive much else beyond a single shot.
The current presidential limousine weights 15,000 to 20,000 lbs has 5” think glass and 8” thick armor. The effectiveness of that armor against ‘what’ has not, to my knowledge, been released.
Yeah, best info I can find says that the windows of “The Beast” are rated to a .44 Mag round, though I suspect the real specs are probably higher than that. But even if you assume that that’s the actual spec, then that’s equiv to LV 3 bulletproof glass which is between 7 and 20lb/sq. ft depending upon whether it’s laminated glass or polycarb. By contrast, the LV 10 that’s rated for a single .50 BMG shot at close range is made of aluminum oxynitrate and is over 30 lb/sq. ft. Now even the doors on the uparmored Humvees used in the past 2 wars were rated for that, let alone the doors on the Cybertruck.
re: #86 Sherlock Hound
Russian colonialism has been its own thing since the Mongols. What beverage would fit?
Kvass
re: #86 Sherlock Hound
Russian colonialism has been its own thing since the Mongols. What beverage would fit?
Kumiss.
The Trumps are getting sued again, this time by their own tenants.
(The Messenger, yesterday)
Eric Trump Accused of Secret Deal to Charge Condo Owners $1.75 Million
Eric Trump and the board of a Trump Organization condo building are accused of striking a secret deal to charge unit owners $1.75 million to renovate a vacant bar and turn it into an “amenity space,” according to a new lawsuit.
Condo owner Johanna Beiter claims in the Manhattan Supreme Court suit the Trump World Tower board informed residents in February that the 2,500-square-foot commercial space in the building would be converted into the amenity space for residents of the building—at condo owners’ expense.
The suit alleges the conversion work was approved by both Eric Trump and Trump Organization Assistant General Counsel Sonja Talesnik—and both allegedly have financial interests in the project.
(more)
So, we’re looking at the standard inevitable budget deal every single rational person in the world knew we’d get. America will pay its bills.
And we could have had this weeks ago without the histrionics and the threats and the attempted extortion. If Republicans were adults.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 28, 2023
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this is really close to a CR.. which is what I started to suspect about a week ago https://t.co/ppbrF4D5Du
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) May 28, 2023
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Trumps are getting sued again, this time by their own tenants.
(The Messenger, yesterday)
Eric Trump Accused of Secret Deal to Charge Condo Owners $1.75 Million
(more)
Yeah, the grift goes on,
The grift goes on,
The constant pounding gets inside your brain,
La di doddi li,
La di dodo la..
etc, ad infinitum.
Man, there was a shitpot of vacuous songwriting back in the day!
The most important thing is the most primitive thing: keep the base full of hate for Biden. He must be depicted as incompetent so the fiction of the salvation of the nation by Trump or the Florida Fascist will seem justified. https://t.co/Id8N0ZPGnE
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) May 28, 2023
The more times you watch it the weirder it gets. via @BGrueskin https://t.co/vZcYx3s6JK
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) May 26, 2023
re: #94 ckkatz
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When Sir John of Orange tried this back in 2011, he at least got close to a deal that would have involved real budgetary cuts and restrictions in exchange for agreements to increase tax revenues to match. But the TPers threatened to run him out of office so he backed out of the negotiations and instead we got the Sequestration agreement that ultimately pleased nobody and led to both sides running the following year on overturning.
I’m curious how McCarthy and his puppeteers are gonna try to sell this as a “win” for their side.
re: #82 ckkatz
Yup!
I wonder how thick and how heavy that company’s glass would have to be. And whether it would survive much else beyond a single shot.
The current presidential limousine weights 15,000 to 20,000 lbs has 5” think glass and 8” thick armor. The effectiveness of that armor against ‘what’ has not, to my knowledge, been released.
Here is a live demonstration of the ‘bulletproof’ Tesla Truck. A total Musk failure.
Friday scoop: weeks before Gov. DeSantis’ glitchy launch of his presidential campaign on Twitter Spaces, Twitter stopped paying Redis Labs for software that plays a key role in hosting live virtual events. https://t.co/1wEon3STQ2 pic.twitter.com/ZZuAK2HQYc
— Laura Mandaro (@lauramandaro) May 26, 2023
Stonekettle
@StonekettleSo, we’re looking at the standard inevitable budget deal every single rational person in the world knew we’d get. America will pay its bills.
And we could have had this weeks ago without the histrionics and the threats and the attempted extortion. If Republicans were adults.
re: #94 ckkatz
Standard Budget deal except the debt ceiling will not be a problem until after the elections.
Kevin: We’re holding the economy hostage!
Joe: You won’t pull the trigger.
Kevin: I really don’t want to.
Joe: Sit down. We’ll do the budget like we normally do, just earlier.
Kevin: No new taxes!
Joe: You control the House. There would have been no new taxes anyway.
Kevin:…— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) May 28, 2023
re: #101 silverdolphin
Standard Budget deal except the debt ceiling will not be a problem until after the elections.
Yep. The MAGAts are gonna howl themselves hoarse before the morn screaming that McCarthy “surrendered,” that debt default is a “hoax,” and he could have got Biden to give in to all of their demands if he’d just held out a little bit longer.
re: #86 Sherlock Hound
Russian colonialism has been its own thing since the Mongols. What beverage would fit?
Red Pop.
re: #103 Targetpractice
Yep. The MAGAts are gonna howl themselves hoarse before the morn screaming that McCarthy “surrendered,” that debt default is a “hoax,” and he could have got Biden to give in to all of their demands if he’d just held out a little bit longer.
I’m expecting the hardcore members of the Freedom Caucus will start calling MTG names like “sellout” and RINO because of her support for this agreement. “Power went to her head.”
re: #101 silverdolphin
Standard Budget deal except the debt ceiling will not be a problem until after the elections.
Yep, that was likely a Biden and Democrat requirement.
In return, McCarthy got the performative adrenaline rush and kayfabe that the MAGAts require. It had to look hard and brutal or the MAGAts would have been disappointed and claimed that McCarthy had not fought hard enough.
re: #99 silverdolphin
Here is a live demonstration of the ‘bulletproof’ Tesla Truck. A total Musk failure.
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What a fucking maroon! He let a safety demo go forward with a guy lobbing a 1# steel ball at a side window and it blew enough shrapnel into the front seat to blind the driver and he’s like “Success! It didn’t go through!”
Well midnight + :15 here in South Austin, and Ken Paxton is as fucking dead politically as Anne Boleyn.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy! (Not.)
Sweet dreams, be nice to each other.
Tomorrow, we’ll see who’s got the sex glands (see? inclusive!) to continue to support Paxton.
Hey, Tea Party and MAGA folks- where are the courage of your convictions now, eh?
Bunch of snowflakes, wussies, and InCels.
re: #105 silverdolphin
I’m expecting the hardcore members of the Freedom Caucus will start calling MTG names like “sellout” and RINO because of her support for this agreement. “Power went to her head.”
This has to pass before I feel secure — with the crazies in the House anything is possible, but Kevin consenting to something reasonable is astounding. I was fearing disaster, but now have hope that sanity has prevailed.
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re: #107 austin_blue
Well midnight + :15 here in South Austin, and Ken Paxton is as fucking dead politically as Anne Boleyn.
Quote of the day.
I know someone who didn’t give the new Shazam! a great review. I enjoyed it as much as the first one. But I did like the easter egg:
Michael Gray, who played Billy Batson in the TV, shows up and calls him Captain Marvel, which is what the character was called in the TV series, before Marvel claimed copyright. I’m guessing they got permission to do that one time for the movie.
re: #108 Hecuba’s daughter
This has to pass before I feel secure — with the crazies in the House anything is possible, but Kevin consenting to something reasonable is astounding. I was fearing disaster, but now have hope that sanity has prevailed.
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I agree, But I think there will be enough Republicans and Democrats to pass the bill. Biden is an expert at knowing just where the majority is.
re: #65 The Ghost of a Flea
And I’m saying it’s not a safe assumption she’s going to perform being “scorned” in any public forum, or even feel “scorned” on a personal level.
I’ve lived in a blood red state for thirty years and…the gender dynamics are far more fucked up than anyone would imagine, and not even in ways that match what one would model looking at what social conservatives say they value. Lots of women of status know that they’re husbands are creeps/cheaters but it’s just seen as inevitable, as inherently male behavior…if there’s anger, it’s directly towards the female subject even if that’s an assault victim or a teenager.
Furthermore…this is a seasoned politician in a corrupt state who’s married to another corrupt politician; odds are good she’s complicit in every bit of this shit to a degree where womanly wrath doesn’t tilt the scale compared to the deeply-entwined complicity.
It’s oft-times a mutual agreement: He can keep a mistress and bang hookers every time he’s away from home and she in turn can bang the pool boy while hubby’s off “campaigning” or “fact-finding.” But as soon as it becomes public knowledge, they stand together in their combined sin and put on the “warm, loving family” act for the media until it all blows over or is relegated to the gossip rags. They’ll stay together til the bitter end unless an affair winds up costing one or both their careers, then the knives come out and the blood-letting begins.
re: #112 silverdolphin
I agree, But I think there will be enough Republicans and Democrats to pass the bill. Biden is an expert at knowing just where the majority is.
I imagine the final scenario will be passing the bill almost exclusively on Dem votes, with just enough Repubs agreeing to help it over the line in both houses in the knowledge that they’re effectively committing political seppuku in the eyes of their party.
re: #114 Targetpractice
I imagine the final scenario will be passing the bill almost exclusively on Dem votes, with just enough Repubs agreeing to help it over the line in both houses in the knowledge that they’re effectively committing political seppuku in the eyes of their party.
There are 18 Republicans in the House from districts that voted for Biden. They are walking a tightrope here.I expect they will vote for it and then see themselves primaried. If the nutball wins, it will likely result in a Democratic pickup..
re: #115 silverdolphin
There are 18 Republicans in the House from districts that voted for Biden. They are walking a tightrope here.I expect they will vote for it and then see themselves primaried. If the nutball wins, it will likely result in a Democratic pickup..
Yep. Expect the usual suspects to dispute that such a vote counts as “bipartisan” by claiming that any Repub who helped the bill pass is a “RINO” who is a Dem in all but party affiliation and so this bill (and all the implied negative consequences) are solely the responsibility of the Dems.
re: #117 Targetpractice
Yep. Expect the usual suspects to dispute that such a vote counts as “bipartisan” by claiming that any Repub who helped the bill pass is a “RINO” who is a Dem in all but party affiliation and so this bill (and all the implied negative consequences) are solely the responsibility of the Dems.
Let’s pray that Manchin and Sinema don’t pull any stunts here.
re: #118 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s pray that Manchin and Sinema don’t pull any stunts here.
Manchin won’t do more than bluster, he’s running against Jim Justice next year and can’t afford to piss off WV Dems any more than he already has. Sinema is the only wild card of those two and since all her sugar daddies are in the business sector I doubt she’d risk her post-Senate lobbyist payday on being “quirky.”
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And how is the US going to pay for things like, I don’t know, the US military?
re: #120 Romantic Heretic
And how is the US going to pay for things like, I don’t know, the US military?
A not inconsiderable percentage of the people that Ronny is trying to appeal to genuinely believe that having a standing army goes against the wishes of the Founders and that we should go back to the system of every state maintaining their own militias that may only be called up in time of war. A method that worked so well…that it was utterly abandoned within a generation of the Constitution’s signing and the US Army established as a permanent institution.
It’s got a blue check so it must be legit.
— Sofa King (@iamjoncastle) May 26, 2023
The thunderstorm watch has expired. We have general rain showers in the Panhandle with isolated thunderstorms. In Colorado between Sterling and Julesburg there are severe thunderstorms still spreading light rain into our area.
We’re expecting to go through this again tomorrow.
re: #122 Captain Ron
I’m sure Gov. DeSantis appreciates the endorsement from AiAsianPorn. /s
re: #65 The Ghost of a Flea
And I’m saying it’s not a safe assumption she’s going to perform being “scorned” in any public forum, or even feel “scorned” on a personal level.
I’ve lived in a blood red state for thirty years and…the gender dynamics are far more fucked up than anyone would imagine, and not even in ways that match what one would model looking at what social conservatives say they value. Lots of women of status know that they’re husbands are creeps/cheaters but it’s just seen as inevitable, as inherently male behavior…if there’s anger, it’s directly towards the female subject even if that’s an assault victim or a teenager.
Furthermore…this is a seasoned politician in a corrupt state who’s married to another corrupt politician; odds are good she’s complicit in every bit of this shit to a degree where womanly wrath doesn’t tilt the scale compared to the deeply-entwined complicity.
On top of that Christian subculture, especially Evangelical/Charismatic culture, encourages the wife who is wronged to forgive her husband as Jesus forgives him. In such churches, a divorce is a scandal on the congregation and they can put unbelievable pressure on a woman not to rock the boat. (That’s also why there are so many child sexual assaults that get covered up in Evangelical churches.)
Being a politician in such a church brings more scrutiny on that church. Her inculcation by her church will likely force her into a good Stepford Wife roll.
This quote is not from Voltaire. It’s from white supremacist and Holocaust denier Kevin Alfred Strom, who pled guilty to possession of child pornography in 2008. That’s who you just quoted to your 130 million followers @elonmusk. Delete your account and resign already. pic.twitter.com/yOXmWWcb3V
— Andrew Wortman 🟧 (@AmoneyResists) May 27, 2023
re: #117 Targetpractice
Yep. Expect the usual suspects to dispute that such a vote counts as “bipartisan” by claiming that any Repub who helped the bill pass is a “RINO” who is a Dem in all but party affiliation and so this bill (and all the implied negative consequences) are solely the responsibility of the Dems.
Maybe we’ll see Don Bacon (R-NE2) ousted next time.
Every single time. Every accusation is a confession. These people were arrested for rioting at a pride event in Idaho. They call LGBTQ people pedos and groomers but meanwhile their membership is all actual pedophiles. https://t.co/oB91l2L2NV pic.twitter.com/agHXaBwCmq
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) May 27, 2023
re: #127 DodgerFan1988
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50% of “insightful” quotes you’ll see on the internet are fake.
48% are real but attributed to people other than the original speaker
The remaining 2% are real and attributed to the right person…but taken totally out of the original context.
The ur-example of the last would be the infamous “Tree of Liberty” quote, presented as if it were part of a grand speech by Jefferson on the need of the American people to regularly rebel against “tyranny”…when the reality was that it was more the opining of what was effectively an 18th century hipster expressing how cool he was with farmers taking up pitchforks and rifles in response to a tax on alcohol.
re: #127 DodgerFan1988
rofl, so the Elon sycophants have fully swung to the “well I don’t care if he takes quotes and guidance from pedophiles” level … Which is shockingly on brand for them and Elon.
— Paying $8 for “free speech” means it isnt free. (@us_koe) May 28, 2023
re: #131 Targetpractice
50% of “insightful” quotes you’ll see on the internet are fake.
48% are real but attributed to people other than the original speaker
The remaining 2% are real and attributed to the right person…but taken totally out of the original context.The ur-example of the last would be the infamous “Tree of Liberty” quote, presented as if it were part of a grand speech by Jefferson on the need of the American people to regularly rebel against “tyranny”…when the reality was that it was more the opining of what was effectively an 18th century hipster expressing how cool he was with farmers taking up pitchforks and rifles in response to a tax on alcohol.
All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.—Principia Discordia
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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It’s really a sign of just how little these idiots are thinking that they don’t realize the man who they’re cheering for this “insightful” quote is the one who holds the power to neuter their access to his platform on a whim. IOW, based on the very quote they’re cheering, he is the one who rules over them because they cannot criticize him without consequence.
Abortion remains legal in Wyoming until “viability” (the old Roe standard) because Republicans are incompetent.
Wyoming fails to ban abortion because they added an amendment to their state constitution saying that ‘competent adults can make their own healthcare decisions’ in response to Obamas Affordable Healthcare Act back in 2012 pic.twitter.com/rQhGNJkIY6
— Conservative Self-Owns (@ConSelfOwns) May 23, 2023
re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Abortion remains legal in Wyoming until “viability” (the old Roe standard) because Republicans are incompetent.
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Oh, you can be sure that the fuckwits will argue that abortion is an “exception” to that amendment because despite all their talk during the debate over the ACA about how “government shouldn’t get between patients and their doctors,” they’ve also spent every other waking moment in the same period arguing that the government must “protect the unborn” no matter what the patient and doctor say.
re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Abortion remains legal in Wyoming until “viability” (the old Roe standard) because Republicans are incompetent.
On top of that, Gov. Mark Gordon (R-Wyo.) signed a first-in-the-nation law to completely ban any pill which can be used for an abortion.
The Wyoming courts which enjoined the abortion ban as unconstitutional will likely enjoin this bill for the same reason.
Wyoming is more liberal than Nebraska. (Well, I knew that since my US House district is the most right-leaning in the nation.)
re: #136 Targetpractice
Oh, you can be sure that the fuckwits will argue that abortion is an “exception” to that amendment because despite all their talk during the debate over the ACA about how “government shouldn’t get between patients and their doctors,” they’ve also spent every other waking moment in the same period arguing that the government must “protect the unborn” no matter what the patient and doctor say.
They tried to argue that abortion wasn’t healthcare. The Teton County judge who enjoined the legislation ruled that’s for the court to decide, not the legislature.
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They tried to argue that abortion wasn’t healthcare. The Teton County judge who enjoined the legislation ruled that’s for the court to decide, not the legislature.
Earlier this year, a not-for-profit group attempted to open an abortion clinic in Casper, but were firebombed out-of-business. Unsurprisingly, the Casper Police can’t seem to find who did it.
They were one of two groups who sued to overturn the abortion ban.
While in the past Pro-Death groups sought publicity for destroying abortion clinics or murdering personnel, they’ve learnt it’s easier to stay out of jail if you don’t claim responsibility for terrorism.
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Love this dude’s energy. pic.twitter.com/bV1U3G9fCY
— Libs of Tik Tok (but good) (@LeftWingTikTok) April 11, 2023
Mr. Targetpractice and me seem to be the only people here.
Where are the rest of y’all at?
Today’s recognition of random karma points is GlutenFreeJesus, who as of this post has 63,614.
Mr. Johnson has a wide selection of woke toaster ovens, commie waffle irons, or radical antifa mouse pads.
When you reach the secret score, you win a dinner with Mr. Johnson, who definitely is a traitor to terminally on-line conservative stalker groups.
re: #140 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Yeah, it’s like being a long-time Trek fan and hearing all these MAGAts and their fence-sitting allies whine that NuTrek is “woke” and it “wasn’t like that back in the day!”
It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so tiresome.
re: #142 Targetpractice
Yeah, it’s like being a long-time Trek fan and hearing all these MAGAts and their fence-sitting allies whine that NuTrek is “woke” and it “wasn’t like that back in the day!”
It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so tiresome.
“What’s all this social justice stuff in “Star Trek?”
They’ve ruined the franchise!!uno!!2!!1!$!!£!eleventy!!!three!R1!”
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— Libs of Tik Tok (but good) (@LeftWingTikTok) April 4, 2023
LOL
Where did you get this and please tell me he didn’t start the grey sweatpants thing
— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) May 28, 2023
re: #142 Targetpractice
Yeah, it’s like being a long-time Trek fan and hearing all these MAGAts and their fence-sitting allies whine that NuTrek is “woke” and it “wasn’t like that back in the day!”
It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so tiresome.
where’s Rod Serling when we really need him?
re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“What’s all this social justice stuff in “Star Trek?”
They’ve ruined the franchise!!uno!!2!!1!$!!£!eleventy!!!three!R1!”
What’s been truly aggravating about the whole mess is that a lot of fans like myself have issues with NuTrek…but they have nothing to do with it being “woke.”
re: #149 Targetpractice
What’s been truly aggravating about the whole mess is that a lot of fans like myself have issues with NuTrek…but they have nothing to do with it being “woke.”
I look at the different iterations of “Star Trek” since the original series in the Sixties as simply evolution of the society depicted in the franchise.
I have not seen “Picard” or “Lower Decks” because I don’t have access to them here.
re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Professor Stick asks why Nebraska restricts gender-affirming care from people under nineteen. That’s because the age of majority in this state is nineteen.
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I look at the different iterations of “Star Trek” since the original series in the Sixties as simply evolution of the society depicted in the franchise.
I have not seen “Picard” or “Lower Decks” because I don’t have access to them here.
If you ever get a chance to watch it, the new animated series Star Trek: Prodigy is about a bunch of enslaved children/teens who in escaping stumble across a Starfleet prototype starship and a hologram of Captain Janeway from Voyager. They live up to the ideals of the Federation and Star Fleet to the best of their ability. In my mind, it’s the best of the new shows.
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I look at the different iterations of “Star Trek” since the original series in the Sixties as simply evolution of the society depicted in the franchise.
I have not seen “Picard” or “Lower Decks” because I don’t have access to them here.
And that’s been a source of some of the biggest gripes among long-time fans, that the people in overall charge of the franchise are obviously not fans or at best casual fans who know the major beats but don’t have a real love for any of it. It’s sort of the same complaint that a lot of our brethren over in the Star Wars community have been making in the wake of the new trilogy, that the people running things love the money being made but couldn’t care less for how they’re going about it.
re: #154 William Lewis
If you ever get a chance to watch it, the new animated series Star Trek: Prodigy is about a bunch of enslaved children/teens who in escaping stumble across a Starfleet prototype starship and a hologram of Captain Janeway from Voyager. They live up to the ideals of the Federation and Star Fleet to the best of their ability. In my mind, it’s the best of the new shows.
I’d say Prodigy only edges out Lower Decks because the latter had issues in its first season of wanting to be “Star Trek meets Rick & Morty.” Strange New Worlds is next on the list because it’s almost pure fan-wank but doing it in a respectful manner, followed by Picard which only avoided being at the bottom because of its third season. And the bottom rung on the ladder goes totally to Discovery whose sins can largely be summed up with two words: Michael Burnham.
re: #156 Targetpractice
I’d say Prodigy only edges out Lower Decks because the latter had issues in its first season of wanting to be “Star Trek meets Rick & Morty.” Strange New Worlds is next on the list because it’s almost pure fan-wank but doing it in a respectful manner, followed by Picard which only avoided being at the bottom because of its third season. And the bottom rung on the ladder goes totally to Discovery whose sins can largely be summed up with two words: Michael Burnham.
I actually liked Picard’s first season best because they tried to do something different. Failed, mostly, but it was interesting. Discovery started to find itself only after the time skip. Rather like Enterprise it took too long to get its feet under it through and, yes, it is at the bottom of the pile. I am cautiously optimistic for the SNW/LD crossover…
re: #40 Joe Bacon ✅
Il Duce says he will abolish the IRS.
Who’s going to collect Federal taxes, il Duce?
No-one, which I suspect is the point.
re: #47 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m not sure all Democrats are going to support him. I wouldn’t
He doesn’t need all of them to; just enough, combined with the “moderate”* Republicans, to add up to 218.
“Remember, a “moderate” Republican is defined as a Republican who only condones, rather than supports, a violent coup to overthrow democracy, and would rather overthrow democracy through voter suppression. Republicans who actively oppose coup attempts, such as Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, get drummed out of the party.
*facepalm*
I just witnessed a perfect example of why I feel we as a species are doomed. At 4:40am, I had a fellow walk into the lobby to ask if we had any bottled water. As we’re still waiting on our shipment at this time the answer was “No.” Instead of simply asking for a couple of cups or glasses to take back to his room to use the free tap water in his room, he grabs a couple of cans of soda that ring up to just under $4 when taxes are included. He then asks me for cups…to fill in the water dispenser in the gym. The damn things doesn’t even chill water, it just dispenses the exact same tap water at the exact same temp but does so in a gym. But the crowning moment was when was walking out, I asked if he knew that there was a gas station right across the way that sold bottled water and other items. He just gives me a dumb-founded look and asks “They’re open twenty-four hours?”
Dear Zod, people today are thicker than pig shit.
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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OMG, the real Kandiss Taylor actually responded!
And I understand why winning an election hasn’t worked out for you ❤️
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) May 25, 2023
re: #161 Targetpractice
*facepalm*
I just witnessed a perfect example of why I feel we as a species are doomed. At 4:40am, I had a fellow walk into the lobby to ask if we had any bottled water. As we’re still waiting on our shipment at this time the answer was “No.” Instead of simply asking for a couple of cups or glasses to take back to his room to use the free tap water in his room, he grabs a couple of cans of soda that ring up to just under $4 when taxes are included. He then asks me for cups…to fill in the water dispenser in the gym. The damn things doesn’t even chill water, it just dispenses the exact same tap water at the exact same temp but does so in a gym. But the crowning moment was when was walking out, I asked if he knew that there was a gas station right across the way that sold bottled water and other items. He just gives me a dumb-founded look and asks “They’re open twenty-four hours?”
Dear Zod, people today are thicker than pig shit.
There is our market - 8 feet to my left. Over priced junk food for the most part.
Look out my front door. There is a 24 hour Kwik Trip 2 blocks away in clear view. Not the cheapest groceries but some real food, fruits and veggies there as well as premade hot food if you really are lazy and it’s _still _ cheaper than the frozen shit in my market.
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I trust y’all will hold the line to prevent the world from being overrun by fascists whilst I’m gone.
No, we won’t. And it’ll be your fault, that we lost all motivation without your leadership.
re: #163 William Lewis
There is our market - 8 feet to my left. Over priced junk food for the most part.
Look out my front door. There is a 24 hour Kwik Trip 2 blocks away in clear view. Not the cheapest groceries but some real food, fruits and veggies there as well as premade hot food if you really are lazy and it’s _still _ cheaper than the frozen shit in my market.
Yep. The Wawa across the street from us is prominent, I mean no matter which direction you take to get to us you still end up passing it. It’s brightly lit at all hours and there’s cars there no matter what time of day you stop by. Yet people still will tromp their gormless asses down here and grab overpriced bottles of water or bite-sized bags of Doritos than take a walk that’s less than five minutes to buy hot food and fountain drinks for cheaper prices.
re: #98 Targetpractice
When Sir John of Orange tried this back in 2011, he at least got close to a deal that would have involved real budgetary cuts and restrictions in exchange for agreements to increase tax revenues to match. But the TPers threatened to run him out of office so he backed out of the negotiations and instead we got the Sequestration agreement that ultimately pleased nobody and led to both sides running the following year on overturning.
I’m curious how McCarthy and his puppeteers are gonna try to sell this as a “win” for their side.
Work requirements for welfare queens! federal budget capped! energy independence! IRS reigned in!
re: #118 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s pray that Manchin and Sinema don’t pull any stunts here.
Sinema helped negotiate the deal. This is right up their ally.
re: #49 ckkatz
I think that this is one of the undetermined points that makes the deal an “agreement in principle” rather than a concluded deal. How many of which can support the agreement without “contaminating” it for the other side.
Democrats need to force every single Republican to vote for this. Otherwise, when the depression kicks in, republicans will be running on how they never voted for that horrible debt ceiling increase that Democrats forced on everybody.
re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Abortion remains legal in Wyoming until “viability” (the old Roe standard) because Republicans are incompetent.
Ironic that their performative defense of medical freedom from a fake threat resulted in medical freedom being defended from an actual threat, themselves.
re: #169 steve_davis
Democrats need to force every single Republican to vote for this. Otherwise, when the depression kicks in, republicans will be running on how they never voted for that horrible debt ceiling increase that Democrats forced on everybody.
The Freedumb Caucus would rather default than vote for any deal to raise the debt ceiling, which would cause a depression. The deal prevents a depression, so Democrats should vote for it.
re: #170 No Malarkey!
Ironic that their performative defense of medical freedom from a fake threat resulted in medical freedom being defended from an actual threat, themselves.
It’s bound to happen, because everything they do is instrumental and not out of any principles. The only principles they have is that Their Kind should control everything and Others should suffer. So, whatever bullshit they generate about states’ rights or bodily autonomy or whatever it is goes out the window the minute circumstances threaten their real principles.
Situations like this happen when they actually did something durable about the last moral panic and challenge to their authority, and now they’ve made a 180 for the current panic and oops.
If these details are correct then it’s a great deal.
axios.com
The most recent dead antivaxxer at sorryantivaxxer.com, who died of kidney failure because he couldn’t get a kidney transplant due to his refusal to get vaccinated, and relied on quack remedies instead. I have a list of dead prominent antivaxxers, and he is number 99 on the list. I still don’t know of even one prominent vaccine advocate who has died of covid or vaccine side effects.
re: #171 No Malarkey!
The Freedumb Caucus would rather default than vote for any deal to raise the debt ceiling, which would cause a depression. The deal prevents a depression, so Democrats should vote for it.
It genuinely is impossible to tell how many of them really believe that debt default is a “hoax” and how many of them are just repeating that BS to excuse a blatant attempt to crash the economy 18 months before a presidential election.
re: #176 Targetpractice
It genuinely is impossible to tell how many of them really believe that debt default is a “hoax” and how many of them are just repeating that BS to excuse a blatant attempt to crash the economy 18 months before a presidential election.
I agree, but I believe there are enough true believers that McCarthy would not be able to get this deal passed in the House and we would default on the debt if Democrats didn’t vote for it. It only takes five GOP defectors to deny McCarthy a majority.
re: #173 JC1
If these details are correct then it’s a great deal.
axios.com
Better than we’d feared, worse than we’d hoped. I agree even more with the earlier assessment, this was basically a budget deal that McCarthy could have haggled over this fall. He just blew his wad and has little to show for it, with the reality now that if he tries to force another government shutdown it will bite the GQP in the pants hard.
re: #178 Targetpractice
Better than we’d feared, worse than we’d hoped. I agree even more with the earlier assessment, this was basically a budget deal that McCarthy could have haggled over this fall. He just blew his wad and has little to show for it, with the reality now that if he tries to force another government shutdown it will bite the GQP in the pants hard.
It could only have been better if McCarthy had completely caved and the House passed a clean debt ceiling increase, and I had no hope of that happening. That might have been possible through the discharge petition, but those take so long we would’ve defaulted before it passed, triggering a deep recession. I will give McCarthy credit that he isn’t a nihilist who was willing to burn the country to the ground to retain the favor of the fascist caucus, because he barely got anything in this deal.
re: #179 No Malarkey!
It could only have been better if McCarthy had completely caved and the House passed a clean debt ceiling increase, and I had no hope of that happening. That might have been possible through the discharge petition, but those take so long we would’ve defaulted before it passed, triggering a deep recession. I will give McCarthy credit that he isn’t a nihilist who was willing to burn the country to the ground to retain the favor of the fascist caucus, because he barely got anything in this deal.
Way I see it, we got about the best deal we could manage in getting Qevin to agree to take the debt ceiling off the table until 2025. The original GQP position was that we do all of this again next spring, prolonging the misery with the knowledge while also making the budget fight this fall all the more vital. Without that deadline looming over the horizon, the inevitable threats of a government shutdown this fall have lost pretty much all of their menace.
re: #179 No Malarkey!
It could only have been better if McCarthy had completely caved and the House passed a clean debt ceiling increase, and I had no hope of that happening. That might have been possible through the discharge petition, but those take so long we would’ve defaulted before it passed, triggering a deep recession. I will give McCarthy credit that he isn’t a nihilist who was willing to burn the country to the ground to retain the favor of the fascist caucus, because he barely got anything in this deal.
Many of us, including myself, were urging President Biden to refuse to negotiate at all with McCarthy and take unilateral action such as invoking the 14th Amendment or minting trillion dollar coins. But that isn’t the Biden way. The Biden way is to compromise and get a bipartisan deal, and in retrospect this is better for the country than the turmoil, bitterness and uncertainty that could’ve tanked the economy if he had taken a partisan, unilateral approach. I tip my cap to him; Joe Biden may well be the best President we could’ve had for this moment in history, hot on the heels of the worst President ever. I just wish more Americans appreciated what a remarkable job he has done, but with Fox News dedicated to defaming him and legacy media committed to “both sides” journalism, he is doomed to being underappreciated in his time; history, I think, will be much kinder.
Getting a bit ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ over on antivax Telegram… pic.twitter.com/oNvYeColMt
— Bad Vaccine Takes (@BadVaccineTakes) May 27, 2023
re: #181 No Malarkey!
Many of us, including myself, were urging President Biden to refuse to negotiate at all with McCarthy and take unilateral action such as invoking the 14th Amendment or minting trillion dollar coins. But that isn’t the Biden way. The Biden way is to compromise and get a bipartisan deal, and in retrospect this is better for the country than the turmoil, bitterness and uncertainty that could’ve tanked the economy if he had taken a partisan, unilateral approach. I tip my cap to him; Joe Biden may well be the best President we could’ve had for this moment in history, hot on the heels of the worst President ever. I just wish more Americans appreciated what a remarkable job he has done, but with Fox News dedicated to defaming him and legacy media committed to “both sides” journalism, he is doomed to being underappreciated in his time; history, I think, will be much kinder.
I understand the sentiment…but we really need to rip off the band-aid. Yeah, it will be unpleasant. Yeah, it will lead to a lot of anger. Yeah, it might even cause us some political heartache in the short-term. But in the long-term, continuing to preserve the debt ceiling is only really benefiting one party. Either it needs to be a party plank next year that the damned thing is forever abolished or we need to roll the dice on the courts abolishing it. The GQP have no problems with being seen as a partisan party and they keep profiting from it, why are we so insistent on getting their favor just to get shit done?
re: #182 No Malarkey!
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re: #183 Targetpractice
I understand the sentiment…but we really need to rip off the band-aid. Yeah, it will be unpleasant. Yeah, it will lead to a lot of anger. Yeah, it might even cause us some political heartache in the short-term. But in the long-term, continuing to preserve the debt ceiling is only really benefiting one party. Either it needs to be a party plank next year that the damned thing is forever abolished or we need to roll the dice on the courts abolishing it. The GQP have no problems with being seen as a partisan party and they keep profiting from it, why are we so insistent on getting their favor just to get shit done?
I am hopeful that President Biden is giving MAGA enough rope to hang themselves. I was one of those who ridiculed candidate Biden’s statements that he still believed in bipartisanship, but by dog he has made it work to the extent possible. Obviously the debt ceiling serves no legitimate purpose and should go, but risking a default now could’ve caused untold human suffering as millions of Americans were thrown out of work, not to mention triggering a global recession. It definitely needs to go on the “to do” list should the Democrats regain complete control of the federal government in 2025, but it’s already such a long list that abolishing the debt ceiling is one of those things they are unlikely to get to.
To me it suggests a young lady sneaking a clandestine meeting with a forbidden paramour.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) May 28, 2023
sexuality instantly. Some men broke into show tunes and contemplated pronoun preferences. I had never seen anything so brutal in all my years,I will write more once we have made camp.
Love John.— James Scott (@GamingDrudge) May 27, 2023
re: #185 No Malarkey!
I am hopeful that President Biden is giving MAGA enough rope to hang themselves. I was one of those who ridiculed candidate Biden’s statements that he still believed in bipartisanship, but by dog he has made it work to the extent possible. Obviously the debt ceiling serves no legitimate purpose and should go, but risking a default now could’ve caused untold human suffering as millions of Americans were thrown out of work, not to mention triggering a global recession. It definitely needs to go on the “to do” list should the Democrats regain complete control of the federal government in 2025, but it’s already such a long list that abolishing the debt ceiling is one of those things they are unlikely to get to.
And how do we adequately convey that danger to voters? A natural disaster is easy, you just show folks the damage done by past disasters and tell them they need to take it seriously. Recessions are also serious but they move so slow by comparison that you rarely can convince people one is coming until it’s already happening. But a debt default? America’s never defaulted on its debt and there’s no real way to convey to the average voter just how serious it would be if such a thing happened. And so long as that remains the reality, we’re going to keep running around with our hair on fire about how the economy’s about to get fucked six ways to Sunday while the GQP sits to the side going “Yeah, it is, so what are you going to give us so that don’t happen?”
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re: #190 Targetpractice
And how do we adequately convey that danger to voters? A natural disaster is easy, you just show folks the damage done by past disasters and tell them they need to take it seriously. Recessions are also serious but they move so slow by comparison that you rarely can convince people one is coming until it’s already happening. But a debt default? America’s never defaulted on its debt and there’s no real way to convey to the average voter just how serious it would be if such a thing happened. And so long as that remains the reality, we’re going to keep running around with our hair on fire about how the economy’s about to get fucked six ways to Sunday while the GQP sits to the side going “Yeah, it is, so what are you going to give us so that don’t happen?”
Abolishing the debt ceiling is on a long list of things that should happen but probably won’t. Included on this list is first, reform the filibuster, to make it possible to: grant statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, reform the Supreme Court, pass a new voting rights act which makes partisan gerrymandering illegal, expand the House of Representatives, reform immigration law, restore reproductive freedom, protect wetlands, enact Medicare for all, raise the minimum wage and mandate paid parental and sick leave, etc. If the Democrats regain control of the federal government in 2025, they would be lucky to address one or two of these pressing problems before losing control of the House in the 2026 midterms, in part because they probably still won’t be able to round up 50 votes to reform the filibuster.
Middle ground?…”contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong, vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living man nor a dead man - such as a policy of “don’t care” on a question about which all true men do care” A Lincoln 1860
— Stoney 🇺🇦 (@Goldsto4Patrick) May 24, 2023
Hard to see how McCarthy retains the House Speakership without Democratic votes. But if he didn’t get a deal for it, once the debt ceiling is raised the Democrats should sit back and watch the GOP disfunction as they thrash about looking for someone who can unite their party.
This “deal” is insanity.
A $4T debt ceiling increase with virtually no cuts is not what we agreed to.
Not gonna vote to bankrupt our country. The American people deserve better.— Rep. Ralph Norman (@RepRalphNorman) May 28, 2023
I am hearing the “deal” is for a $4 trillion increase in the debt limit. IF that is true, I don’t need to hear anything else. No one claiming to be a conservative could justify a YES vote.
— Congressman Bob Good (@RepBobGood) May 28, 2023
re: #86 Sherlock Hound
Russian colonialism has been its own thing since the Mongols. What beverage would fit?
Butter tea
re: #20 ckkatz
The fact that Paxton has a mistress alone feeds nightmare-fuel visions. Pure vomit material.
re: #197 Florida Panhandler
To quote the butcher who just turned 100, “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
Going to start seeing gang wars between the prosperity gospel preachers and the Trump Grifters over control of the corners.
— Ed Voelsing 🇺🇦 (@edvoelsing) May 27, 2023
re: #169 steve_davis
Democrats need to force every single Republican to vote for this. Otherwise, when the depression kicks in, republicans will be running on how they never voted for that horrible debt ceiling increase that Democrats forced on everybody.
House Rs are so impotent that the dems rolled them?
Some of the mostly elderly marks have actually shown up at banks with these “Trump bucks.”
Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
The products are advertised online as a kind of golden ticket that will help propel Trump’s 2024 bid and make the “real patriots” who support him rich when cashed in.
re: #195 No Malarkey!
Hard to see how McCarthy retains the House Speakership without Democratic votes. But if he didn’t get a deal for it, once the debt ceiling is raised the Democrats should sit back and watch the GOP disfunction as they thrash about looking for someone who can unite their party.
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Qevin’s fucked any way you slice it. Either he gets the gavel taken out of his hand and cracked over the head with it or he spends every other waking moment from now til Jan 2025 preparing to call Jefferies to bail his ass out yet again from another motion to vacate.
Will take the par and move along. See how long it takes for McFarty to back away from the “agreement in principle.” And you know FFVCS will weigh in.
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re: #202 Targetpractice
Qevin’s fucked any way you slice it. Either he gets the gavel taken out of his hand and cracked over the head with it or he spends every other waking moment from now til Jan 2025 preparing to call Jefferies to bail his ass out yet again from another motion to vacate.
That this is preferable, to Qevin’s mind, to sending the country into a tailspin by defaulting on our debt is telling. Specifically, it’s telling that while Qevin is just as despicable as any Republican, he’s no fool, and he realizes that letting the crazies have their way is worse than any damage to his political career by putting his back up when it matters.
For 50 years, Republican strategists; starting with Lee Atwater, Pat Buchanan and Karl Rove; have sought to identify, mobilize, and weaponize the most venal, bigoted, and corrupt elements of society. MAGA is not an aberration, it is the logical outcome of this process.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) May 28, 2023
re: #201 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Some of the mostly elderly marks have actually shown up at banks with these “Trump bucks.”
Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
We should make some similar commemoratives and use the proceeds to fund progressive candidates.
re: #201 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I couldn’t care less about Trump supporters. I hope they all go bankrupt. They deserve much worse.
re: #189 No Malarkey!
The debt is mostly caused by Trump tax cuts for the mega wealthy!! Who is going to tell this troll the facts?
If they can come after Ken Paxton for bribery, conducting sham investigations, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and influence peddling, then they can come after you for the same things.
It’s getting to the point that any Republican risks punishment just for breaking the law.— Max Quinn (@MaxmillianQuinn) May 28, 2023
re: #209 Patricia Kayden
The debt is mostly caused by Trump tax cuts for the mega wealthy!! Who is going to tell this troll the facts?
I know it was a long time ago, but don’t forget the Bush tax cuts (which Obama and Pelosi should have let expire but foolishly didn’t).
re: #108 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #211 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
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Imagine being so disconnecting from reality to blame the Left for Paxton’s impeachment where the GQP hold a super majority, the governorship, and lead every committee.
re: #142 Targetpractice
Yeah, it’s like being a long-time Trek fan and hearing all these MAGAts and their fence-sitting allies whine that NuTrek is “woke” and it “wasn’t like that back in the day!”
It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so tiresome.
Then explain to them how Planet of the Apes is really about race relations.
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re: #211 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
It’s all just for show so they appear to hold their own accountable since he was touching tax payer $. Something unpopular even in Texas. They’re hoping Trump wins so he just gets pardoned.
re: #214 Dr. Matt
Imagine being so disconnecting from reality to blame the Left for Paxton’s impeachment where the GQP hold a super majority, the governorship, and lead every committee.
Its deliberate, not ignorance
Craziest ending to a baseball game you’ll ever see… https://t.co/3VrB3335Zt
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 28, 2023
re: #206 Thanos
We should make some similar commemoratives and use the proceeds to fund progressive candidates.
Nobody on our side would be dumb enough to fall for it. Otoh, a fairly-priced “Trump in Jail” promotional/commemorative coin (silver, gold or bronze) might be a good seller.
We could have a whole set of such coins, “1-6er FAFO,” “Abolition of the Electoral College,” “Putin’s ICC Trial” etc.
re: #217 GlutenFreeJesus
It’s all just for show so they appear to hold their own accountable since he was touching tax payer $. Something unpopular even in Texas. They’re hoping Trump wins so he just gets pardoned.
And the joke will be on them cause state crimes
Just like tfg himself with Bragg and Willis
It was God’s will.
“At a Dairy Queen, the CEO reportedly said that “God had directed him” to give Paxton 100,000 shares of company stock, which Paxton argued shows the stock was a gift.”
re: #212 sagehen
I know it was a long time ago, but don’t forget the Bush tax cuts (which Obama and Pelosi should have let expire but foolishly didn’t).
Yep. Obama could have literarily did nothing, and instead he made them permanent.
re: #217 GlutenFreeJesus
It’s all just for show so they appear to hold their own accountable since he was touching tax payer $. Something unpopular even in Texas. They’re hoping Trump wins so he just gets pardoned.
Trump can’t pardon him for state crimes. I don’t think this is for show. He went too far for even them.
re: #181 No Malarkey!
Many of us, including myself, were urging President Biden to refuse to negotiate at all with McCarthy and take unilateral action such as invoking the 14th Amendment or minting trillion dollar coins. But that isn’t the Biden way. The Biden way is to compromise and get a bipartisan deal, and in retrospect this is better for the country than the turmoil, bitterness and uncertainty that could’ve tanked the economy if he had taken a partisan, unilateral approach. I tip my cap to him; Joe Biden may well be the best President we could’ve had for this moment in history, hot on the heels of the worst President ever. I just wish more Americans appreciated what a remarkable job he has done, but with Fox News dedicated to defaming him and legacy media committed to “both sides” journalism, he is doomed to being underappreciated in his time; history, I think, will be much kinder.
This 1000 times. Biden is getting a lot of progressive things done but he is acting as the President of All Americans not just one side. We are transitioning to a new political party system. The Presidents during each transition historicaly have been are, not too surprisingly, ones well remembered. Washington/Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy, and FDR in a positive fashion. Jackson and Reagan in a negative (I expect history to be re-evaluating Reagan in the next decades). Biden is exactly who we need now. When we are done with this transition and have a new political party system in place, Biden will be seen as one of the greats.We wll have to add space on Mt. Rushmore for FDR and him.
re: #57 ckkatz
A single .50 cal round from less than 10 feet away would have absolutely NO problem penetrating into the Tesla and then exiting out the other side of a Tesla. Let alone 10’s of rounds.
Was that even a .50 cal in the video? Looks by scale more like a Browning M1919 which is a .30 cal. A bit less penetrating power.
Catching up
On cola, don’t count out the horribleness of White Rock, Shasta and Cragmont, the cheap brands of my 1970’s youth that filled many a picnic cooler at the Greek-American Memorial Day celebrations I attended.
On other 1970’s beverages: The violence of Hawaiian Punch, the property damage of the kool aid pitcher, and space dust hazmat mixed with orange rinds swept off the packing house floor - aka Tang: hazardous to drink and I didn’t like the sore arms or slammed throat caused by overmix when blending—so I liked water
On Memorial Day
re: #219 gocart mozart
Craziest ending to a baseball game you’ll ever see…
8:30 PM • May 27, 2023
Championship ends with two runs scoring on a dropped strike three while the other team is celebrating thinking they won.Brutal
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 27, 2023
Idiot catcher. He dropped the third strike. Batter is entitled to run to first unless tagged by the catcher. Who failed to do that as he celebrated. Good on the base runners to keep going.
But every catcher I have even known realized the consequences of a dropped third strike. And would have nightmares about dropping it in an imporant situation then overrthowing the 1st baseman.
This is worse. As a former catcher, I am flabbergasted.
The Woke Military refuses to acknowledge the defeated traitors:
The U.S. Army is stripping the names of Confederate generals from bases like Fort Pickett in Virginia, to be replaced with those of American heroes and heroines, including people of color. “Commemoration is about our values,” says one retired general. https://t.co/bIIOO88gzw pic.twitter.com/vkNs7yAAp6
— CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 (@CBSSunday) May 28, 2023
re: #220 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Nobody on our side would be dumb enough to fall for it. Otoh, a fairly-priced “Trump in Jail” promotional/commemorative coin (silver, gold or bronze) might be a good seller.
We could have a whole set of such coins, “1-6er FAFO,” “Abolition of the Electoral College,” “Putin’s ICC Trial” etc.
Trading cards, one for each indictment and/or trial and/or settlement. Going all the way back to the housing discrimination case in the 1970’s. Collect the whole set!!
re: #229 So Cal Greek Hippie
Never tried White Rock, but I remember Cragmont and Shasta. Nothing to write home about, to say the very least.
re: #228 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Was that even a .50 cal in the video? Looks by scale more like a Browning M1919 which is a .30 cal. A bit less penetrating power.
More importantly, it’s CGI. Not a real demo
re: #219 gocart mozart
Strikeout. Passed ball. Fielder’s choice allows winning runs to score.
re: #234 Dr Lizardo
Never tried White Rock, but I remember Cragmont and Shasta. Nothing to write home about, to say the very least.
Shasta had the most outrageous commericals. I remember this one, looking like it is right out of a Yellow Submarine. Someone was on some heavy medication when they pitched this one.
re: #237 TarHellion
Strikeout. Passed ball. Fielder’s choice allows winning runs to score.
I felt sorry for the infielder who realized what was happening and was running around screaming, trying to find the ball.
Catched the birbie again.
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re: #239 silverdolphin
I felt sorry for the infielder who realized what was happening and was running around screaming, trying to find the ball.
Same. He was the only one on the team who knew what was up.
re: #229 So Cal Greek Hippie
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On cola, don’t count out the horribleness of White Rock, Shasta and Cragmont, the cheap brands of my 1970’s youth that filled many a picnic cooler at the Greek-American Memorial Day celebrations I attended.
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re: #241 Eclectic Cyborg
Same. He was the only one on the team who knew what was up.
I would have loved it if, while everyone else is celebrating, he found the ball and tagged the runners out by himself.
re: #241 Eclectic Cyborg
My question is you do not see the runner on first advancing for quite a while. I wonder if his first reaction was to head toward the dugout, then he was told to run. The video can’t capture it but it must have been close for a moment to having the batter pass the runner, which would have been the third out prior to the tying run scoring.
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Since we are going back to the Mongols, I say Kumis.
re: #242 Dr Lizardo
For your weekend viewing pleasure, here’s a big-budget bomb from 1979: Meteor.
Featuring an all-star ensemble cast lead by Sean Connery and Natalie Wood, and including Brian Keith, Karl Malden, Martin Landau and Henry Fonda. Directed by Ronald Neame.
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re: #244 silverdolphin
The catcher had multiple options. He could have tagged the batter, thrown to third or second - since it would have a force play - or thrown to first. If the bases had been loaded, he could have stepped on home plate with the ball.
re: #238 silverdolphin
Oh, wow never saw that
Peter Max on a budget
Shasta was best of three just because I liked Mt. Shasta
re: #243 sizzzzlerz
I liked the Orange best
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
That rule was changed a few years ago in the NFL. If a punt goes into the end zone now, it is a touchback. Something you can still see: Punting team touches the ball but it is still rolling. Receiving team grabs the ball and advances it. Even if the returner loses a fumble his team keeps the ball back where the illegal touching by the kicking team occurred.
re: #201 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Some of the mostly elderly marks have actually shown up at banks with these “Trump bucks.”
Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
How could anyone possibly think that could ever be legal tender? Do they not understand what legal tender is or how it works?
I’m sorry, if you’re that stupid, first, I’m having a hard time seeing how you actually made any money in your lifetime, and second, you should live in a padded room for your own protection.
re: #250 TarHellion
The catcher had multiple options. He could have tagged the batter, thrown to third or second - since it would have a force play - or thrown to first. If the bases had been loaded, he could have stepped on home plate with the ball.
And as a former catcher, my worst nightmare would be a dropped third strike in the last inning with a man on third in a tied game. I pick it up and throw the ball into right field. Man on third scores and we lose. This is worse.
Fucking freakshow. Twitter needs to go the way of myspace, beepers, faxes, and AIM.
— Global 🌎 Memes (@BlessssYouGod) May 28, 2023
re: #255 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How could anyone possibly think that could ever be legal tender? Do they not understand what legal tender is or how it works?
I’m sorry, if you’re that stupid, first, I’m having a hard time seeing how you actually made any money in your lifetime, and second, you should live in a padded room for your own protection.
Reminded me of this great Bill Pullman role. There must be real people like this.
re: #256 silverdolphin
I covered local sports for nearly 30 years. Just when you think you have seen everything. My favorite was a flyout to right, throw home to get the runner tagging from third, then a throw to second to get the runner tagging from first. Just a routine F-9-2-6 triple play.
re: #199 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Hell, I’d buy “Biden/Harris Bux” to support their campaign, but a) I’d read the fine print and b) I wouldn’t expect #BofA to cash them!!! 😂
— 🇺🇸 Michael J. Golub 🇺🇸 #PresidentBiden! (@MichaelJGolub) May 27, 2023
Every state already has work requirements for benefits. Why did they put them in this deal?
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
On top of that Christian subculture, especially Evangelical/Charismatic culture, encourages the wife who is wronged to forgive her husband as Jesus forgives him. In such churches, a divorce is a scandal on the congregation and they can put unbelievable pressure on a woman not to rock the boat. (That’s also why there are so many child sexual assaults that get covered up in Evangelical churches.)
Being a politician in such a church brings more scrutiny on that church. Her inculcation by her church will likely force her into a good Stepford Wife roll.
OTOH Mark Sanford’s marriage didn’t survive the publicity of his affair when it became public. So it could go either way.
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re: #262 Ace Rothstein
It’s cruelty performance art for their fanatics.
re: #249 silverdolphin
From Wikipedia, it was not only nominated for an Academy Award for Sound but also forced the studio to be sold. 5% on Rotten Tomatoes. Wow.
Oh yeah, Meteor was one of those legendary flops.
re: #242 Dr Lizardo
For your weekend viewing pleasure, here’s a big-budget bomb from 1979: Meteor.
Featuring an all-star ensemble cast lead by Sean Connery and Natalie Wood, and including Brian Keith, Karl Malden, Martin Landau and Henry Fonda. Directed by Ronald Neame.
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This video is unavailable. Fortunately, I found my own source, so I won’t have to miss this star-studded masterpiece.
re: #249 silverdolphin
That flick basically killed off the Disaster Movie Era that had flourished in the 1970s where studios got big-name stars in their productions. Think Towering Inferno, Earthquake, and The Poseidon Adventure. I remember the huge newspaper ads that would have pictures of the stars in the movie - kind of like in the 1980s when ads for teen sex comedies would feature rock and roll artists whose music was in the film.
re: #99 silverdolphin
Here is a live demonstration of the ‘bulletproof’ Tesla Truck. A total Musk failure.
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I wouldn’t want bulletproof glass in an accident. Being able to break the window from the inside is a safety feature.
re: #265 jaunte
It’s cruelty performance art for their fanatics.
So the fanatics are too stupid to know existing requirements in their own states.
re: #270 Ace Rothstein
It’s all still “lazy poor POC buying steaks in line ahead of them at the supermarket.”
Trump bucks buyers will buy many other stupid arguments.
re: #268 TarHellion
That flick basically killed off the Disaster Movie Era that had flourished in the 1970s where studios got big-name stars in their productions. Think Towering Inferno, Earthquake, and The Poseidon Adventure. I remember the huge newspaper ads that would have pictures of the stars in the movie - kind of like in the 1980s when ads for teen sex comedies would feature rock and roll artists whose music was in the film.
The Swarm, a real stinker from Irwin Allen, also takes some credit for killing off the Golden Age of Disaster Flicks. It didn’t really make any kind of comeback until Roland Emmerich came along.
re: #262 Ace Rothstein
Every state already has work requirements for benefits. Why did they put them in this deal?
Had to throw a bone to McCarthy so he could tout this deal as a win, and a big GOP talking point is that welfare kings/queens are sitting on their butts sponging off of taxpayers. As I understand it they just increased increased the age at which childless individuals have to work to age 54, so its not that big a deal.
Kevin McCarthy out there working on saving his gavel.
“I have no idea what he’s talking about” — Hakeem Jeffries on CBS says Kevin McCarthy put words in his mouth pic.twitter.com/95mmX8nfZw
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 28, 2023
re: #274 No Malarkey!
Had to throw a bone to McCarthy so he could tout this deal as a win, and a big GOP talking point is that welfare kings/queens are sitting on their butts sponging off of taxpayers. As I understand it they just increased increased the age at which childless individuals have to work to age 54, so its not that big a deal.
And here is McCarthy touting it as a big win, which he needs to be able to do so enough of his caucus can vote for the deal that it will pass.
In the negotiations, Republicans fought for and achieved the most consequential work requirements in a generation.
This is a win for taxpayers → we are no longer going to borrow money from China to pay a work-capable adult without any dependents to sit at home on their couch. pic.twitter.com/9Qyw0UKTQa— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) May 28, 2023
My wife recorded a PBS documentary about the band Fanny, the first all women rock band.
re: #276 No Malarkey!
It only needs what, 12 GOP votes to pass?
This is a win for taxpayers → we are no longer going to borrow money from China to pay a work-capable adult without any dependents to sit at home on their couch.
We will confiscate all furniture from welfare recipients and make them live virtuously on their feet, but not in our neighborhood.
re: #238 silverdolphin
Shasta had the most outrageous commericals. I remember this one, looking like it is right out of a Yellow Submarine. Someone was on some heavy medication when they pitched this one.
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The county paper here says that Bomgaars has Shasta cola on sale for Memorial Day weekend. Maybe I should go pick some up (no, I shouldn’t).
“…The fact that the social science research on this subject demonstrates unambiguously that work requirements for SNAP and Medicaid users don’t increase employment levels among the poor — and also save essentially no money — is a matter of indifference to the GOP ghouls who push this stuff, because this is all nothing but a cruel symbolic politics, not some sort of rational public policy choice.”
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
re: #281 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The county paper here says that Bomgaars has Shasta cola on sale for Memorial Day weekend. Maybe I should go pick some up (no, I shouldn’t).
I had no idea Shasta was still around.
re: #279 Eclectic Cyborg
It only needs what, 12 GOP votes to pass?
You can bet it will get more Democratic votes than Republican ones, and the GOP will still call it a ‘win’…because they have to. If they let MTG and Boebert take the cameras on this, the next step will be removing McCarthy - which they actually COULD do, but they have nobody with whom to replace him.
re: #283 Dr Lizardo
I had no idea Shasta was still around.
I grew up with a view of Mt. Shasta and always thought Shasta Cola was just a local Redding brand.
re: #283 Dr Lizardo
I had no idea Shasta was still around.
Headquartered in Hayward, CA just past the east end of the San Mateo Bridge. We pass it every time we visit our daughter’s family.
re: #181 No Malarkey!
Many of us, including myself, were urging President Biden to refuse to negotiate at all with McCarthy and take unilateral action such as invoking the 14th Amendment or minting trillion dollar coins. But that isn’t the Biden way. The Biden way is to compromise and get a bipartisan deal, and in retrospect this is better for the country than the turmoil, bitterness and uncertainty that could’ve tanked the economy if he had taken a partisan, unilateral approach. I tip my cap to him; Joe Biden may well be the best President we could’ve had for this moment in history, hot on the heels of the worst President ever. I just wish more Americans appreciated what a remarkable job he has done, but with Fox News dedicated to defaming him and legacy media committed to “both sides” journalism, he is doomed to being underappreciated in his time; history, I think, will be much kinder.
Amen.
One thing to remember - and admire - about Joe Biden: he’s been around Government for a while (Kevin McCarthy was 8 years old when Biden was sworn in as a Senator for the first time) - and, unlike many (/most?) career politicians, he seems to have learned stuff over time: mainly how to change his mind/approach/process when necessary, and when to stick to the tried-and-true when called for.
And keeping an “eye on the prize”: what the final result of a policy/negotiation is going to be. Yet you are right about the legacy/MSM media’s approach to the Biden Admin: for them, it seems that Joe has committed a grievous sin: unlike TFG, he’s focused the Presidency on governance, rather than entertainment.
Good for the country, but bad for ratings….
re: #283 Dr Lizardo
I had no idea Shasta was still around.
The grocery store that I generally shop at, has a vending machine stocked with it. I’ll take a pic when I go up there in a bit and post it.
Load the tweet. Damn interesting thread here:
I continued to be amazed at how many LGBTQ+ activists unknowingly wear fashions that were similarly controversial decades ago. Here, Jimmy is rapping about how Target is supposedly promoting Satanism. 🧵 https://t.co/QvVDMS2E9Q
— derek guy (@dieworkwear) May 27, 2023
Re: The Recent Target and LGBTQIA+ “grooming” brouhaha.
A 🧵.
Required reading. https://t.co/mK4I4PAuiY— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) May 28, 2023
re: #279 Eclectic Cyborg
It only needs what, 12 GOP votes to pass?
Jayapal is saying his 100 member progressive caucus will not vote for the deal, so it will need about half the GOP caucus to pass.
re: #284 darthstar
You can bet it will get more Democratic votes than Republican ones, and the GOP will still call it a ‘win’…because they have to. If they let MTG and Boebert take the cameras on this, the next step will be removing McCarthy - which they actually COULD do, but they have nobody with whom to replace him.
MTG has allied herself to McCarthy, so she will support it.
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They really need to learn how to cope.
The crazy thing here is we have ample evidence that the cries of “fraud” were a pre-planned strategy. Trump, Giuliani, Bannon, etc, all telegraphed this lie ahead of time. First with accusations of problems with mail-in voting before any voting had started, then resignations when he demanded that his DOJ immediately declare the election tainted, to his own campaign leaders testifying under oath that he lost cleanly. And yet these people actually believe Trump thinks he won? He knows he lost, but he also knows that the rubes will keep funding his debts as long as he keeps up this fraud.
re: #287 Jay C
Amen.
One thing to remember - and admire - about Joe Biden: he’s been around Government for a while (Kevin McCarthy was 8 years old when Biden was sworn in as a Senator for the first time) - and, unlike many (/most?) career politicians, he seems to have learned stuff over time: mainly how to change his mind/approach/process when necessary, and when to stick to the tried-and-true when called for.
And keeping an “eye on the prize”: what the final result of a policy/negotiation is going to be. Yet you are right about the legacy/MSM media’s approach to the Biden Admin: for them, it seems that Joe has committed a grievous sin: unlike TFG, he’s focused the Presidency on governance, rather than entertainment.
Good for the country, but bad for ratings….
+1
re: #290 No Malarkey!
Jayapal is saying his 100 member progressive caucus will not vote for the deal, so it will need about half the GOP caucus to pass.
Is that to throw Kevin a bone (see it’s a great deal, the lefties are against it), or does the progressive caucus really think that it’s a bad deal and a default would be better?
re: #288 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
The grocery store that I generally shop at, has a vending machine stocked with it. I’ll take a pic when I go up there in a bit and post it.
That’s wild. I remember Shasta Cola from the 1970s and ’80s, but had idea they were even still in business. I figured they would’ve been swallowed up by one of the other cola megacorporations.
re: #289 Teukka
Load the tweet. Damn interesting thread here:
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Classic example of “straining the gnat but swallowing the camel”. And yeah, far from the only example where these kinds of individuals clutch their pearls over one thing, while ignoring things just next to it…
And in some cases things which should really be talked about.— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) May 28, 2023
re: #181 No Malarkey!
Many of us, including myself, were urging President Biden to refuse to negotiate at all with McCarthy and take unilateral action such as invoking the 14th Amendment or minting trillion dollar coins. But that isn’t the Biden way. The Biden way is to compromise and get a bipartisan deal, and in retrospect this is better for the country than the turmoil, bitterness and uncertainty that could’ve tanked the economy if he had taken a partisan, unilateral approach. I tip my cap to him; Joe Biden may well be the best President we could’ve had for this moment in history, hot on the heels of the worst President ever. I just wish more Americans appreciated what a remarkable job he has done, but with Fox News dedicated to defaming him and legacy media committed to “both sides” journalism, he is doomed to being underappreciated in his time; history, I think, will be much kinder.
If Biden had taken an alternative approach (with all its uncertainties), he still would have had to negotiate a budget deal and the budget he got was the best possible given the opposition. So 2 problems solved at once IF this gets through the House.
re: #294 JC1
Is that to throw Kevin a bone (see it’s a great deal, the lefties are against it), or does the progressive caucus really think that it’s a bad deal and a default would be better?
I’m sure they would say they want a better deal, not a default. Of course there is no better deal to be had.
re: #260 TarHellion
I covered local sports for nearly 30 years. Just when you think you have seen everything. My favorite was a flyout to right, throw home to get the runner tagging from third, then a throw to second to get the runner tagging from first. Just a routine F-9-2-6 triple play.
I was there at Dodgers Stadium where Larry Walker mistakenly tossed a foul ball to a fan and allowed a run to score.
Leadership is the ability to secure the best possible outcome when the stakes are high.
In the debt ceiling deal, the White House blocked demands for a 22% veterans VA funding cut, Medicaid work requirements, and a potential default next year. pic.twitter.com/F3hYNVhgGx— Isaiah Martin (@isaiahrmartin) May 28, 2023
re: #209 Patricia Kayden
The debt is mostly caused by Trump tax cuts for the mega wealthy!! Who is going to tell this troll the facts?
And the costs related to COVID, a pandemic that happened on Trump’s watch because he disbanded efforts to prevent this very catastrophe.
Word stuff:
Bogied today:
Wordle 708 5/6
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Lotta words that could have fit: lucky to have only taken 5….
Also: minor brag: I Queen-Bee’d the Spelling Bee again, for seven in a row for the week: all 328 words. Yay me!
Lawdhavmercee KEK!
sexuality instantly. Some men broke into show tunes and contemplated pronoun preferences. I had never seen anything so brutal in all my years,I will write more once we have made camp.
Love John.— James Scott (@GamingDrudge) May 27, 2023
re: #300 jaunte
And that will be the point we have to repeat: Biden got both a debt ceiling increase and a budget. Had he just concentrated on the debt ceiling, we would be doing this again in a couple of months.
re: #304 Belafon
And that will be the point we have to repeat: Biden got both a debt ceiling increase and a budget. Had he just concentrated on the debt ceiling, we would be doing this again in a couple of months.
And getting the Republicans to forfeit their election year election year ace - no budget fight to suck the oxygen out of the air on TV. I don’t think that has quite sunk in yet for them.
As for spending increases, there could be situations in the next year where money not budgeted needs to be found - tornados, hurricanes, fires - that money will always be available and the GOP won’t be able to say, “Well we need an offset…can we cut grandma to one meal a day?”
Cheyenne Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, thirteen hours ago.
CHEYENNE - No damage had been reported to the local office of the National Weather Service as of 6:30 p.m. after multiple tornado warnings were issued throughout the late afternoon and early evening hours.
Shelby Fuller, an NWS meteorologist in Cheyenne, told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that they were still gathering information, as well as issuing additional severe thunderstorm warnings as the slow-moving storm continued to slide east toward Pine Bluffs and into Nebraska.
No reports of damage after multiple tornado warnings in Cheyenne
re: #294 JC1
Is that to throw Kevin a bone (see it’s a great deal, the lefties are against it), or does the progressive caucus really think that it’s a bad deal and a default would be better?
the progressive caucus knows damned well that if they vote for a package that cuts progressive priorities, they’re gonna swarmed by locusts in their next primary.
re: #306 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
After too much Ammon Bundy shit, my first thought was why are the morons (that was meant to be Mormons, but no need to fix) attacking the NWS. Then my brain tried to reset, but it didn’t work.
Opinion
7 news outlets reimagining political journalism in smart ways
by Perry Bacon Jr.
wapo.st (gift link)
Here are seven outlets that are reimagining political journalism in smart ways:
1 The American Prospect
2 Balls and Strikes
3 Bolts
4 The Guardian US
5 Hammer & Hope
6 Popular Information
7 States Newsroom
I can’t seem to read enough, or listen to enough podcasting! There is so much good stuff available.
Elon Musk might shut off Twitter entirely in Europe.
He has pulled Twitter from the EU’s anti-disinformation agreement which would have required large digital platforms like Twitter to monitor and demonetize disinformation and bots, offer warnings about political advertising… pic.twitter.com/23FZ7TadkH— Pop Tingz (@ThePopTingz) May 28, 2023
The fight between the Texas GOP House and Paxton is just vote suppressors fighting with election deniers. There are no heroes, just self-interested villains.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) May 27, 2023
re: #310 Teukka
His fans think that allowing disinformation was “freeing Twitter,” so he can’t win in both the real world and with these idiots who love to be lied to.
It seems to be inevitable, with Elon promoting disinformation constantly and amplifying any kook that will give him eight bucks.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 28, 2023
re: #311 Barefoot Grin
It’s the Texas GOP. Of course everyone involved is corrupt.
re: #311 Barefoot Grin
Yes. But, as someone here in Texas, I’m just going to sit back and cheer for injuries. A few Republicans are finally going to learn something about their party.
re: #238 silverdolphin
Shasta had the most outrageous commericals. I remember this one, looking like it is right out of a Yellow Submarine. Someone was on some heavy medication when they pitched this one.
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During my several week stint in rehab this year, the only diet cola was Shasta — my first experience with the beverage and I actually liked it!
re: #296 Teukka
In New England the generic soda was Fanta.
re: #317 Oblongatis
In New England the generic soda was Fanta.
In Western Pa it was Cott’s and Tom Tucker which made the best mint ginger ale.
re: #238 silverdolphin
When Mom would go out of town for a conference, my brother and I knew there would be no Coca-Cola. Dad would always buy the 69-cent, 64-ounce Shasta and not the 79-cent Coke (Commie measurements hadn’t infiltrated our beverages yet).
re: #290 No Malarkey!
Jayapal is saying his 100 member progressive caucus will not vote for the deal, so it will need about half the GOP caucus to pass.
Jayapal then disappoints me greatly if that’s her position.
When you hang out with a bunch of nazis, don’t get all insulted when you get called a nazi.
Rep. Paul Gosar complains in weekly newsletter that “in spite of my 12-year record supporting Israel and Jewish causes, I frequently get labeled and smeared as a ‘Nazi’ or a ‘supremacist’ or ‘anti-Semite.’”
He blames it on “leftist media working in tandem with the Biden regime.” pic.twitter.com/w9xPsjPE8M— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) May 28, 2023
re: #311 Barefoot Grin
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The fight between the Texas GOP House and Paxton is just vote suppressors fighting with election deniers. There are no heroes, just self-interested villains.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) May 27, 2023
Pretty much a turf war between rival gangs of cutthroats.
re: #58 austin_blue
I heard that this is a proxy fight between Trump and DeSantis, with one side supporting Trump and the other side supporting DeSantis. I have no idea if this is true, just mentioning it.
Texas welcomed Elon Musk. Now his rural neighbors aren’t so sure.
While happy for the investment, local residents don’t trust Musk’s companies to properly handle wastewater, erosion and other issues
wapo.st (gift link)
“I love Elon, and we need more industry here,” Ross said. “I just don’t want him to dump his poop in the [Colorado] river.”
re: #311 Barefoot Grin
It is nice to see one of the most corrupt “public servants” in the country get his comeuppance, even at the hands of other terrible people. Frankly, I’m surprised a Republican can be too corrupt for his fellow Republicans; doesn’t apply to Trump, who can be as corrupt as he wants
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) May 27, 2023
re: #319 TarHellion
When Mom would go out of town for a conference, my brother and I knew there would be no Coca-Cola. Dad would always buy the .69-cent, 64-ounce Shasta and not the .79-cent Coke (Commie measurements hadn’t infiltrated our beverages yet).
When I was a kid I remember that Coke came in 6 ox bottles and Pepsi came in 8 ounce bottles and RC came in 9 ounce bottles. All were a dime. So the dime went into the machine for RC since it had more soda.
Summertime I remember how the machines were set real cold so slush would form in the bottles. On a hot humid Summer day that slushy soda gave some sweet relief!
re: #323 mmmirele
If this ends up being like 2016 or 2020 I know my ward leader will probably say that will be concentrating on local elections. He may even have a few D’s we will be supporting.
re: #318 Joe Bacon ✅
In Western Pa it was Cott’s and Tom Tucker which made the best mint ginger ale.
In Kentucky it’s Ale81; my wife loves the stuff.
re: #320 Hecuba’s daughter
Jayapal then disappoints me greatly if that’s her position.
She may come around, but it’s ok if she doesn’t; helps to sell the deal to Republicans.
re: #328 No Malarkey!
In Kentucky it’s Ale81; my wife loves the stuff.
Another soft drink I remember in Western PA is birch beer. Bright red root beer type soda with a wintergreen taste.
re: #331 Joe Bacon ✅
I know a 6 ounce (oz) bottle exists but I think you have made a typo in typing “ox” instead.
re: #333 Joe Bacon ✅
PA Dutch Birch Beer. My kid sister loves it.
re: #326 Joe Bacon ✅
Dad always recalled this jingle: “Pepsi Cola hits the spot. 12 full ounces, that’s a lot. Twice as much for a nickel, too. Pepsi Cola is the drink for you.”
re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Mr. Targetpractice and me seem to be the only people here.
Where are the rest of y’all at?
Today’s recognition of random karma points is GlutenFreeJesus, who as of this post has 63,614.
Mr. Johnson has a wide selection of woke toaster ovens, commie waffle irons, or radical antifa mouse pads.
When you reach the secret score, you win a dinner with Mr. Johnson, who definitely is a traitor to terminally on-line conservative stalker groups.
Oh hey thanks! Is that a lot? I never pay attention. 😂😂
A little over a year ago I posted a video of a young singer named Gina Miles recording an EP in my friend’s studio in Wisconsin (I think he’s playing drums, too). I saw in the local newspaper “Paxton native Gina Miles wins The Voice competition.” I don’t watch much TV, but I guess this is a big deal. She’s from Paxton, IL but moved to California to pursue her career. This is the video. Very poppy. Not sure if this translates into money for my friend.
re: #232 Dr. Matt
Since the confederate were “DEMONCRAPS!!!!”, today’s republicans should have no problem with this.
re: #324 retired cynic
Texas welcomed Elon Musk. Now his rural neighbors aren’t so sure.
While happy for the investment, local residents don’t trust Musk’s companies to properly handle wastewater, erosion and other issues
wapo.st (gift link)
Texas’ whole appeal to investors was based on its low taxes and lax approach to regulation.
I remember RC sponsoring the Ames Brothers TV show in the 50s with Joan Benny (Jack’s daughter) doing the show’s commercials. RC was marketed as the cola with fewer calories.
Before Ed went his own way he and his brothers Joe, Vic and Gene were the #1 quartet in the 50s. Sadly their master tapes were destroyed in the Universal fire back in the 80s.
This was their first #1 hit…which Bob Clampett goofed on in Beany & Cecil cartoons. And then Allan Sherman joined in the goofing with “RAT FINK”
re: #330 No Malarkey!
She may come around, but it’s ok if she doesn’t; helps to sell the deal to Republicans.
Only if there are enough votes to pass this. If it fails because of her caucus, then Democrats will not only share the blame but will be blamed entirely for the disaster. That might not be fair, but that’s the way the media works and the Dems will deserve it.
re: #340 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Texas’ whole appeal to investors was based on its low taxes and lax approach to regulation.
Wonder if their widespread suppression of women’s rights and books and history taught in school might change the minds of some considering relocation to Texas.
re: #343 Hecuba’s daughter
Wonder if their widespread suppression of women’s rights and books and history taught in school might change the minds of some considering relocation to Texas.
I am sure it a factor in corporate recruitment, but Texas was bragging about all the companies leaving California with its meddlesome regulation and legislation for the laissez-fair plains of Texas, where things blow up catch fire and pipes burst and entire grid networks implode just the way the laissez-faire Free Market intended.
re: #295 Dr Lizardo
That’s wild. I remember Shasta Cola from the 1970s and ’80s, but had idea they were even still in business. I figured they would’ve been swallowed up by one of the other cola megacorporations.
My bad, there’s two of them.
re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am sure it a factor in corporate recruitment, but Texas was bragging about all the companies leaving California with its meddlesome regulation and legislation for the laissez-fair plains of Texas, where things blow up catch fire and pipes burst and entire grid networks implode just the way the laissez-faire Free Market intended.
Add in all the folks slinging AR-15s on their backs and Texas becomes a place where my agency is unable to fill office vacancies. No matter how they sweeten the pot there are no takers for a bunch of vacant positions. Multiple management slots go unfilled.
Back in the ’80s Fanta was the non-alcoholic drink of choice at Japanese parties.
Required studying, y’all
If you find yourself explaining to experts why they’re wrong — because it’s so simple and obvious to you — consider the (strong) possibility that it might be you who’s wrong.
Flow chart: @StartsWithABang pic.twitter.com/90qBRW5EiF— Thinking Is Power (@ThinkingPowers) May 27, 2023
re: #286 calochortus
Headquartered in Hayward, CA just past the east end of the San Mateo Bridge. We pass it every time we visit our daughter’s family.
Reading up on them, they are quire the innovator. First to use cans. Frst low and no calorie soft drinks. And apparently the first soft drink commerical where a Shasta would give you POP (and girls)
This is how I know the deal will get done. 👇 https://t.co/IRjz5lh2BR
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) May 28, 2023
re: #346 Joe Bacon ✅
Add in all the folks slinging AR-15s on their backs and Texas becomes a place where my agency is unable to fill office vacancies. No matter how they sweeten the pot there are no takers for a bunch of vacant positions. Multiple management slots go unfilled.
People have real life interests that go beyond maximizing profits.
And yes, personal safety, ability to determine one’s identity and what happens with one’s own body, and the ability to feel safe in public spaces (including forays into neighbors’ yards to ring their doorbell) are determining factors.
re: #333 Joe Bacon ✅
Another soft drink I remember in Western PA is birch beer. Bright red root beer type soda with a wintergreen taste.
Yep. I was gonna mention birch beer. It’s damned good.
If Dan Bongino is mad, I’m happy. https://t.co/yZzLIpcmr6
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) May 28, 2023
re: #345 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Nice.
I hadn’t seen RC Cola a lot back in the US but when I came over here in 2001, RC was everywhere and still is. That’s now made here for the Central European market by Kofola, a local Czech company headquartered in Krnov, which isn’t too far from where I live.
re: #353 No Malarkey!
any DC deal looks bad to him, he wants to see the big Blue Screen of Fiscal Death
re: #353 No Malarkey!
See, if Bongino thinks it looks like shit, that’s the “seal of approval” that it’s actually a good deal.
re: #356 Dr Lizardo
See, if Bongino thinks it looks like shit, that’s the “seal of approval” that it’s actually a good deal.
All the right people are upset at this deal, which is reassuring.
So it sounds like the unnecessary deal in which hostage takers extracted concessions & cemented their ability to extract more concessions next time … could have been worse? Congrats everybody.
— David Roberts (@drvolts) May 28, 2023
re: #294 JC1
Is that to throw Kevin a bone (see it’s a great deal, the lefties are against it), or does the progressive caucus really think that it’s a bad deal and a default would be better?
First, Jayapal is a her ;-) Second, she is happy that spending is not being cut and amazed the Republicans put everyone through this for so little in return. Third, what I heard her say was that the White House should be worried about what the Progressive caucus thinks. She said they do not really know enough yet to oppose it and that the details of the work requirements will be critical for their support, So, a political maybe.
If she whips her caucus against it, Biden will have made a huge error. I do not think he would have made such a big one. Not over something which can be changed when the Dems take the House in 18 months. I think it likely she allows her caucus to vote their conscience. She knows how important 2024 is for progressive causes.
re: #357 No Malarkey!
All the right people are upset at this deal, which is reassuring.
Exactly. I donned the biohazard suit and looked over at Freeperville, and they’re none too happy about this, either.
re: #358 teleskiguy
Never heard of this guy: is he Left, Right, or just grumpy?
Or ignoring the fact that “next time” has been put off for two years, if not longer, or maybe “never”?
re: #361 Jay C
Never heard of this guy: is he Left, Right, or just grumpy?
Or ignoring the fact that “next time” has been put off for two years, if not longer, or maybe “never”?
Well, he runs a podcast and newsletter on clean energy according to his Twitter bio. That should be everything you need to weigh in on wrangling cats over Republican intransigence on a debt ceiling bill.
The leader of the executive branch of your Nebraska government, folks. https://t.co/xwz4neax1V
— Senator Jen Day (@JenDayforNE) May 26, 2023
re: #342 Hecuba’s daughter
Only if there are enough votes to pass this. If it fails because of her caucus, then Democrats will not only share the blame but will be blamed entirely for the disaster. That might not be fair, but that’s the way the media works and the Dems will deserve it.
I do not think Biden made this deal without keeping Jayapal in the loop. That would be a huge mistake and he does not usually make those. He knows they are critical. What I heard her say was not that the caucus was against it and would vote that way. Just that the White House should be worried. That the exact details of the work requirements, for example, would matter. I believe she is playing the role that others have suggested - if the progressives are reluctant, it must be a good deal. I expect she will not whip the caucus against it but will not whip for it. Let them vote heir conscience. She knows how important the 2024 elections are and knows that getting the debt ceiling off the table until 2025 helps that.
Hope I am right. She knows Biden has been thebest thing for Progressives so I expect her to help him stay in power.
Blast from the past about our governor.
Here’s Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen talking about how great his pigs have it these days - just a month after 10,000 of his barely weaned pigs died in a barn fire that no one was ever held accountable for. #NELeghttps://t.co/HINfO9PYKp pic.twitter.com/X3xG8YqXqj
— ɱᵿš|kø̞̈ː※ (@muskox) May 19, 2023
re: #358 teleskiguy
So it sounds like the unnecessary deal in which hostage takers extracted concessions & cemented their ability to extract more concessions next time … could have been worse? Congrats everybody.
— David Roberts (@drvolts) May 28, 2023
Except the next tme they can do this is in 2025. That is a huge deal. Things will be very different then and if as I suspect, we get both the House and Senate in Democratic hands, we can end this once and for all.Then no more hostage taking.
re: #363 teleskiguy
He wrote for Grist, then vox•com. Definitely a progressive.
So still grumpy, then.
I can get the feeling, though: even if the “hostage takers” are getting ready to preen for the media, they don’t seem to realize that the “hostage” (i.e. the economy), has walked out the back door unmolested, and won’t be coming back.
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The Abele fought off waves of kamikazes while on radar picket duty in support of combat operations ashore in Okinawa, but succumbed to a rocket-powered Ohka plane that slammed into her starboard side just above the waterline and exploded, breaking its keel https://t.co/Pu2mREo3T6
— John Ismay (@johnismay) May 25, 2023
re: #360 Dr Lizardo
Exactly. I donned the biohazard suit and looked over at Freeperville, and they’re none too happy about this, either.
Gov. Pillen argues these line-item vetoes to the mainline state budget are to “improve the lives of Nebraskans.”
Line-item vetoes delivered (State Legislature official site)
So, what did he veto to improve our lives whilst saving money?
• $15.3 million for Medicaid reimbursement
• $6 million child welfare increase vetoed
• $107,250 for a full-time sign language interpreter for the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• $470,000 for the State Historical Society
• $500,000 for the court-appointed Special Advocate Programme
• $510,700 to the attorney general’s office for interstate water litigation and a trial preparation coordinator position;
• $848,700 for a new state auditor position and salary increases;
• $1.8 million for the expansion of home visitation care;
• $1 million for a facility to house pregnant and parenting homeless youth;
• $1.9 million in funding to the state Supreme Court;
• $2.2 million for legislative branch salary increases; and
• $7 million to the state Department of Environment and Energy for grants to support a rural drinking water project in Cedar and Knox counties.
• $40 million for the Rural Workforce Housing Investment Fund (this is for low-income housing in rural areas)
• $20 million from the Shovel Ready Capital Recovery and Investment Act;
• $10 million to the Site and Building Development Fund for a ground-based nuclear deterrence project near Kimball; and
• $10 million from the Nebraska Health Care Cash Fund for a pilot program on PTSD related to gun violence
I’m not seeing anything here that actually helps Nebraskans.
re: #329 PhillyPretzel ✅
A six ox bottle?
That’s a fair sized bottle, but the 20 mule team box is the real economy size.
re: #328 No Malarkey!
In Kentucky it’s Ale81; my wife loves the stuff.
Ale81 just came out with a peach flavor…yuck
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