Video: Georgia Prosecutor Investigating Trump Says Charges ‘Ready to Go’

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Donald Trump’s castle of crime and lies is finally beginning to crumble. The Georgia election probe into former President Trump is nearing its end, with district attorney Fani Willis confirming she’ll announce any indictments before September.

MSNBC Legal Analysts Barbara McQuade and Lisa Rubin share with American Voices guest host Michael Steele why Willis is keeping the timeline vague and what happens if the Jan. 6 grand jury also returns charges for Trump.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:49:19am

Soviet emblem cut off Ukraine’s Motherland Monument statue in Kyiv

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:50:13am

Can we have a Friday news dump every day this week?

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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:54:42am

Only 4 of 44 Ex-Trump Cabinet Officials Are Ready to Endorse Him

An NBC News survey of former Trump administration cabinet officials found that just four would endorse Donald Trump’s third campaign for the White House.

The four who already expressed their support for the campaign are former acting attorney general Matt Whitaker, chief of staff Mark Meadows, director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought, and acting director of national intelligence Richard Grennell.

Honestly, I am surprised that the number is as high as 4.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:55:26am

We take the promotional magazine New Hampshire mostly as bathroom reading material. There’s always at least one good article (mostly though features “Best Dentists in NH” kind of things). This month’s issue, though, has a good article on the 60th anniversary of the tragedy of the nuclear attack sub USS Thresher. 129 aboard died. The article says that there were fears that the sub was pushed into service even as testing showed significant issues that could lead to flooding. It’s featured because it was built at Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard and many of those lost were from the area. I had not heard about this before.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:57:26am

re: #3 Dr. Matt

Only 4 of 44 Ex-Trump Cabinet Officials Are Ready to Endorse Him

Honestly, I am surprised that the number is as high as 4.

And Meadows may have cut a deal to testify against him.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:57:27am

re: #3 Dr. Matt

Only 4 of 44 Ex-Trump Cabinet Officials Are Ready to Endorse Him

Honestly, I am surprised that the number is as high as 4.

Put another way: 91% of the people who worked most closely with him during his Administration think he’s full of shit and won’t endorse him.

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:57:45am

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:59:21am

re: #3 Dr. Matt

Only 4 of 44 Ex-Trump Cabinet Officials Are Ready to Endorse Him

Honestly, I am surprised that the number is as high as 4.

Of the other 40, how many have said that they won’t vote for him if he is the candidate in the national election? Otherwise, so what if they won’t endorse him.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:59:30am

“Biden is too old to run again.”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:59:56am

re: #3 Dr. Matt

Only 4 of 44 Ex-Trump Cabinet Officials Are Ready to Endorse Him

Honestly, I am surprised that the number is as high as 4.

Nice to see Moe, Larry, Shemp and Curly endorsing Trump.

At least Groucho, Chico, Harpo & Zeppo flipped him THE BIRD

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:00:05am

re: #3 Dr. Matt

Only 4 of 44 Ex-Trump Cabinet Officials Are Ready to Endorse Him

Honestly, I am surprised that the number is as high as 4.

Well look who they are.

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:00:10am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:00:49am

re: #12 jeffreyw

Enough pepper???????

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:01:09am

re: #3 Dr. Matt

So far. They’ll all endorse him once he wins the primaries.

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:03:12am

re: #13 Joe Bacon ✅

Enough pepper???????

Yes, I have the best pepper grinder.

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:03:35am

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:05:19am

Jared, Ivanka, Bannon, and Miller. That’s my guess of the four who were fine with another run for the WH.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:05:59am

Mastodon

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:06:57am

re: #15 jeffreyw

Yes, I have the best pepper grinder.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:08:00am

re: #17 lawhawk

Jared, Ivanka, Bannon, and Miller. That’s my guess of the four who were fine with another run for the WH.

Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr makes it 5.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:09:48am

re: #9 No Malarkey!

“Biden is too old to run again.”

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Look at your hero here, almost entirely immobile, and staring at word-papers like a stoopid librul.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:09:54am

re: #18 Patricia Kayden

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DeSantis is OK with that. Fascists always target the intelligentsia as enemies of the state.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:10:02am

re: #20 Joe Bacon ✅

Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs RFK Jr makes it 5.

TFG will choose RFK Jr for his running mate, then we will have the Wingnut/Moonbat Convergence Unity Ticket!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:10:51am

re: #23 Vicious Babushka

TFG will choose RFK Jr for his running mate, then we will have the Wingnut/Moonbat Convergence Unity Ticket!

Is the guy that made a 14 88 post really a moonbat?

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:12:08am

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:12:47am

re: #25 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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A Dustbuster, how many people are going to get that reference?

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:13:32am

re: #23 Vicious Babushka

TFG will choose RFK Jr for his running mate, then we will have the Wingnut/Moonbat Convergence Unity Ticket!

His VP will have to be some kind of freak, because no-one with a shred of dignity or an ounce of principle would want to be the running mate of an indicted, possibly convicted, felony defendant.

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:14:17am

re: #26 Nerdy Fish

I understood that reference!
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:14:39am

re: #26 Nerdy Fish

A Dustbuster, how many people are going to get that reference?

People who own one? You can have your own from Amazon by 10pm today.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:15:26am

re: #27 No Malarkey!

His VP will have to be some kind of freak, because no-one with a shred of dignity or an ounce of principle would want to be the running mate of an indicted, possibly convicted, felony defendant.

Ramaswamy, after his campaign implodes. That way the GOP can appear to be “inclusive”.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:15:30am

re: #27 No Malarkey!

His VP will have to be some kind of freak, because no-one with a shred of dignity or an ounce of principle would want to be the running mate of an indicted, possibly convicted, felony defendant.

It’ll be someone dumber than Pence, since Pence won’t want to be hanged.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:16:04am

re: #19 sizzzzlerz

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That’s not Fresh Ground, that’s Fresh Ground Mound.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:16:09am

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:16:18am

re: #27 No Malarkey!

His VP will have to be some kind of freak, because no-one with a shred of dignity or an ounce of principle would want to be the running mate of an indicted, possibly convicted, felony defendant.

Assumes facts not in evidence - namely that there are people of dignity or principle that wouldn’t be his running mate. The entire GOP has devolved into this fascist cult of personality, and they’ll say/do anything to gain power.

Heck, Trump sought the murder/death of two people currently running against Trump and only one of them is actually calling Trump out for it - Christie. Pence can’t bring himself to criticize the guy who incited an armed insurrection to storm the Capitol to force Pence to throw the election to Trump - knowing Trump lost the certified results.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:16:51am

Man. Seen Paul Reubens on various talk shows over the years. Had no idea he was dealing with cancer. RIP Pee-Wee.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:17:03am

re: #31 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

It’ll be someone dumber than Pence, since Pence won’t want to be hanged.

Objection, assumes facts not in evidence. Prosecution has not entered evidence into the record to show that there is someone dumber than Mike Pence.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:17:50am

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

Ramaswamy, after his campaign implodes. That way the GOP can appear to be “inclusive”.

Tulsi is another possibility.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:17:57am

re: #36 Nerdy Fish

Objection, assumes facts not in evidence. Prosecution has not entered evidence into the record to show that there is someone dumber than Mike Pence.

Prosecution submits exhibit D, people who voted for Mike Pence.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:18:00am

re: #21 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈


Look at your hero here, almost entirely immobile, and staring at word-papers like a stoopid librul.

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I was not a fan of his but Bush 43 was a devout reader too, and his wife was a librarian. So there are conservatives who do believe in intellectual pursuits. And unlike contemporary members of the GOP, Bush was not a racist, given his two top FP advisors were both African-American, and he was the one who implemented the program to address HIV in Africa.

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TedStriker  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:19:27am

re: #19 sizzzzlerz

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The Alton Brown Special.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:19:27am

re: #39 Hecuba’s daughter

I was not a fan of his but Bush 43 was a devout reader too, and his wife was a librarian. So there are conservatives who do believe in intellectual pursuits. And unlike contemporary members of the GOP, Bush was not a racist, given his two top FP advisors were both African-American, and he was the one who implemented the program to address HIV in Africa.

There was a time that Michael Steele felt OK about being a Republican. They just keep getting worse as the rest of us try to get better.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:19:30am

re: #38 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Prosecution submits exhibit D, people who voted for Mike Pence.

Objection withdrawn.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:19:53am

re: #27 No Malarkey!

His VP will have to be some kind of freak, because no-one with a shred of dignity or an ounce of principle would want to be the running mate of an indicted, possibly convicted, felony defendant.

No doubt he could get Pence again.

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:20:04am

Sneaky bastards:

That’s hanging over the path to the back pond dam.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:20:40am

Nobody likes Pence. NOBODY.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:20:46am

re: #34 lawhawk

Assumes facts not in evidence - namely that there are people of dignity or principle that wouldn’t be his running mate. The entire GOP has devolved into this fascist cult of personality, and they’ll say/do anything to gain power.

Heck, Trump sought the murder/death of two people currently running against Trump and only one of them is actually calling Trump out for it - Christie. Pence can’t bring himself to criticize the guy who incited an armed insurrection to storm the Capitol to force Pence to throw the election to Trump - knowing Trump lost the certified results.

I agree. But I think most will realize that a felon is going to lose the election badly, so the ones who want to be viable in 2028 will stay far away from the train wreck that will be the Trump Campaign. They will all endorse him, of course.

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:20:48am

re: #44 jeffreyw

Nuke it from orbit. Just to be sure.

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:23:02am

re: #46 No Malarkey!

I agree. But I think most will realize that a felon is going to lose the election badly, so the ones who want to be viable in 2028 will stay far away from the train wreck that will be the Trump Campaign. They will all endorse him, of course.

A felon will lose by just enough to make it seem viable that a felon-adjacent extremist might have a shot in 2028. Trump has shown what the floor is for him, as well as the ceiling. Given the way the EC distorts the electorate, it’s not a given that he loses in the election badly.

Popular vote will again show Trump losing (a 3d time in fact). The EC will do its thing and enable Trump to make it a whole lot closer than it should be.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:23:19am

re: #46 No Malarkey!

I agree. But I think most will realize that a felon is going to lose the election badly, so the ones who want to be viable in 2028 will stay far away from the train wreck that will be the Trump Campaign. They will all endorse him, of course.

They need his insane fans if they want to defeat a Democrat. Republicans can’t win without the fascist dipshit vote.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:23:25am

re: #46 No Malarkey!

I agree. But I think most will realize that a felon is going to lose the election badly, so the ones who want to be viable in 2028 will stay far away from the train wreck that will be the Trump Campaign. They will all endorse him, of course.

This just… it blows my mind. In an actual Presidential election, in this country, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Four, one of the candidates from a major party is highly likely to be a convicted felon. And somewhere north of 35%, possibly as high as nearly 50%, of the voting population will vote for him.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:23:34am

re: #23 Vicious Babushka

TFG will choose RFK Jr for his running mate, then we will have the Wingnut/Moonbat Convergence Unity Ticket!

I believe you are right. Trump gonna pick Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs and the QAssholes will say JFK Jr. is still in hiding…

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:24:22am

re: #43 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

No doubt he could get Pence again.

I agree that Pence has so little dignity that he would agree to be Trump’s VP again, but Trump won’t pick Pence because of his “betrayal.”

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:28:36am

re: #50 Nerdy Fish

This just… it blows my mind. In an actual Presidential election, in this country, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Four, one of the candidates from a major party is highly likely to be a convicted felon. And somewhere north of 35%, possibly as high as nearly 50%, of the voting population will vote for him.

I fully expect Trump to get 46% of the vote again. Almost the entire GOP will get in line to support him, except the already known handful of never-Trumpers, as will Fox News, hate radio and the pulpit pimps.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:28:36am

re: #35 GlutenFreeJesus

Man. Seen Paul Reubens on various talk shows over the years. Had no idea he was dealing with cancer. RIP Pee-Wee.

Some people prefer to keep it private. David Bowie was the same. So was Norm Macdonald.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:28:59am

re: #35 GlutenFreeJesus

Man. Seen Paul Reubens on various talk shows over the years. Had no idea he was dealing with cancer. RIP Pee-Wee.

I remember smoking a couple of pinch hits in my room and going downstairs to watch Letterman on the night of his first of many appearances. I was crying from laughter.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:29:08am

re: #52 No Malarkey!

I agree that Pence has so little dignity that he would agree to be Trump’s VP again, but Trump won’t pick Pence because of his “betrayal.”

Yeah, what’s up with that? Wouldn’t do something demanded of him by his lord and savior just because it wasn’t Constitutional?

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:31:23am

re: #44 jeffreyw

Sneaky bastards:

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That’s hanging over the path to the back pond dam.

Never get out of the boat! Never get out of the boat!

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:32:40am

re: #56 sizzzzlerz

Yeah, what’s up with that? Wouldn’t do something demanded of him by his lord and savior just because it wasn’t Constitutional?

I would like to believe that Pence refused Trump because it was the right thing to do, rather than making a calculation that a futile gesture in support of treason would hurt his political viability. Still don’t like him.

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KGxvi  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:33:24am

re: #27 No Malarkey!

His VP will have to be some kind of freak, because no-one with a shred of dignity or an ounce of principle would want to be the running mate of an indicted, possibly convicted, felony defendant.

A truly Machiavellian politician would take the job, if they thought he could win, all the while working behind closed doors with congressional leaders to set up an impeachment and removal scenario.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:33:45am

re: #53 No Malarkey!

I fully expect Trump to get 46% of the vote again. Almost the entire GOP will get in line to support him, except the already known handful of never-Trumpers, as will Fox News, hate radio and the pulpit pimps.

Yeah. It’s a goddamn cult, at this point. The Republicans have basically branded themselves as the Party of God, and the “liberal Christians” are heretics who will be first up against the wall with Anymouse and his atheists when they finally make Gilead a reality.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:34:57am
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dat_said  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:35:39am

re: #44 jeffreyw

Sneaky bastards:

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That’s hanging over the path to the back pond dam.

I’m surprised at how quickly one can get built up. Had one several inches across hanging from the roof over our front porch that I know was only 3 hours old at most (wasn’t there in the morning but was very noticeable by 2 in the afternoon).

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:35:58am

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:36:28am

re: #58 No Malarkey!

I would like to believe that Pence refused Trump because it was the right thing to do, rather than making a calculation that a futile gesture in support of treason would hurt his political viability. Still don’t like him.

Pence is not a good man. He is a fundamentalist asshole. He is responsible for an unchecked HIV epidemic in Indiana that he intentionally caused. He is also, however, a stopped clock whose twice-a-day moment just so happened to be a decision of momentous consequence that, at least temporarily, saved the Republic. It’s the one and only time a fundamentalist Christian was actually the right person to have in that situation, because his strong moral compass would not let him violate the law. (Also, we can thank J. Danforth Quayle for helping him reach that conclusion, which is not on my Top 100 list of things I thought I’d say this century!)

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gocart mozart  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:38:36am

Just trying to help out.

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Captain Ron  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:41:49am
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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:42:26am

re: #36 Nerdy Fish

Objection, assumes facts not in evidence. Prosecution has not entered evidence into the record to show that there is someone dumber than Mike Pence.

boebert and mtg have entered the chat…

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:42:53am

re: #65 gocart mozart

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:43:10am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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KGxvi  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:44:15am

re: #53 No Malarkey!

I fully expect Trump to get 46% of the vote again. Almost the entire GOP will get in line to support him, except the already known handful of never-Trumpers, as will Fox News, hate radio and the pulpit pimps.

McGovern and Goldwater didn’t break 40%. They’re the only two major party nominees to not break 40% in a two person race since FDR was the Democratic nominee. I think Trump’s percentage will drop some; and I could see his support cratering if there’s a criminal trial before election day, but ultimately I think he’ll be somewhere around 44-46%, which won’t be enough to win.

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:45:53am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:48:21am

re: #71 lawhawk

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That’s stupidity in action. It’s easy to find stupid people, and if you apply a filter to only include stupid people like (people who trust Fox News), you’re going to get pure, uncut stupidity.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:50:43am

re: #72 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That’s stupidity cruelty in action. It’s easy to find stupid cruel people, and if you apply a filter to only include stupid cruel people like (people who trust Fox News), you’re going to get pure, uncut stupidity cruelty.

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Jay C  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:51:38am

re: #53 No Malarkey!

I fully expect Trump to get 46% of the vote again. Almost the entire GOP will get in line to support him, except the already known handful of never-Trumpers, as will Fox News, hate radio and the pulpit pimps.

Yeah, well, I’d def take a 54-46% win next year (a higher margin, btw, than Obama managed in 2008 vs. McCain: the nearest thing to a blowout election we’ve had in decades). The big problem, IMHO, is going to be the Senate - and, to a lesser extent, the House. I’m guessing that a popular incumbent - and the lurid shambles another Trump campaign will inevitably devolve into - will likely drive up (D) turnout; but unfortunately, unlike “classic” electoral models*, today’s Red State/Blue State divide is seemingly intractable and insurmountable: especially on the Statehouse level: where the GOP’s death-grip on the legislative and executive levers of power (and by extension, the US Senate) is still going to be a - disgracefully - significant factor.
* Except maybe 1860: not exactly a heartening scenario.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:53:52am

re: #73 The Ghost of a Flea

What’s cruel about believing stupid things?

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:55:53am

re: #66 Captain Ron

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I’m sure the Republicans will now announce they have cleared Joe Biden due to lack of evidence, and move on to investigating Kushner’s and Ivanka’s deals while they were working in the White House.///

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jaunte  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:56:27am

re: #75 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

It’s a transaction: “We’ll believe stupid things if you give us permission to let our suppressed cruelty out.”

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:56:37am

re: #73 The Ghost of a Flea

Why not stupid and cruel?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:58:19am

re: #77 jaunte

It’s a transaction: “We’ll believe stupid things if you give us permission to let our suppressed cruelty out.”

For some of them, but there’s a lot of genuine stupidity around and it’s concentrated in the Republican party because they demand that their voters at least act like they’re stupid, and that attracts actual stupid people.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:59:03am

re: #72 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That’s stupidity cruelty in action. It’s easy to find stupid cruel people, and if you apply a filter to only include stupid cruel people like (people who trust Fox News), you’re going to get pure, uncut stupidity cruelty.

re: #75 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

What’s cruel about believing stupid things?

Because people believe what fulfills them.

The running trend of Fox is not that it says stupid things…the entire world is filled with stupid things…it’s that the things it communicates make the audience feel entitled and self-important such that they are entitled to their ugly thoughts.

Believing in Bigfoot is stupid. Believing that most other people are your inferior and thus you deserve to be sated in your need to inflict judgement and harm…well, you might be stupid, but the more immediate problem is that you’re a sadist.

The lukewarm version of this is the titty full of schadenfreude wherein liberals see immorality as a lack of a meritocratic characteristic: bad people are stupid people, stupid people are also poor people. Hence year eight (or so) of everyone characterizing Trump supporters as rural trailer dwellers rather than the aging middle class, or every single version of mistaking a moral flaw for a competence flaw.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:59:36am

re: #79 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

For some of them, but there’s a lot of genuine stupidity around and it’s concentrated in the Republican party because they demand that their voters at least act like they’re stupid, and that attracts actual stupid people.

As LBJ said over 50 years ago…

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gocart mozart  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:59:37am
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Vicious Babushka  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:00:59pm

WTAF

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:01:27pm

re: #74 Jay C

Yeah, well, I’d def take a 54-46% win next year (a higher margin, btw, than Obama managed in 2008 vs. McCain: the nearest thing to a blowout election we’ve had in decades). The big problem, IMHO, is going to be the Senate - and, to a lesser extent, the House. I’m guessing that a popular incumbent - and the lurid shambles another Trump campaign will inevitably devolve into - will likely drive up (D) turnout; but unfortunately, unlike “classic” electoral models*, today’s Red State/Blue State divide is seemingly intractable and insurmountable: especially on the Statehouse level: where the GOP’s death-grip on the legislative and executive levers of power (and by extension, the US Senate) is still going to be a - disgracefully - significant factor.
* Except maybe 1860: not exactly a heartening scenario.

I have a lot of confidence the Democrats will regain control of the House; the recent SCOTUS opinion affirming the VRA will help, as will NY redistricting. I am hopeful that the combo of abortion rights plus a felonious fascist at the top of the ticket will allow them to win at least 50 Senate seats.

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Captain Ron  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:01:34pm
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gocart mozart  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:02:19pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:02:29pm

re: #78 No Malarkey!

Why not stupid and cruel?

Because hubris is a distinct thing from stupidity.

Stupidity is simply a lack of knowledge; most of us are stupid about most things that we don’t have expertise in.

The hubris…or folly…of the reactionary is that they reject the entire concept of knowledge, proposing instead that all things are rhetoric, and that “truth” is just a function of whatever coercive means are available.

It’s a different thing, it comes from a different origin point—mere lack, versus an active choice to reject—and one of these things inherently possesses a malicious intent. Anyone can be stupid at any movement, hubris stems from a stable base assumption that you simply know better, a priori.

Which is the point, going back to it, of the “Alt Right Playbook” clip I linked to earlier: an active choice is made the information does not matter because that information contradicts the self-assurance (and blind trust if The Right Kind of People) of the believer.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:03:28pm

re: #71 lawhawk

“83% who trust Fox don’t see wrongdoing on 1/6”

This right here stymies me to no end when America saw it unfold in real time. Like there could be any question. The rubes were invited and did what they were told.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:04:19pm

Mastodon

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EPR-radar  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:05:51pm

re: #87 The Ghost of a Flea

I like to sum this up as the difference between ignorance and willful stupidity.

Willful stupidity is inherently malicious, since such people are much more interested in exterminating opposition to their views than they are in educating themselves.

Needless to say, it is willful stupidity that is weaponized by the GOP.

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Captain Ron  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:07:40pm
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goddamnedfrank  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:07:53pm

re: #75 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

What’s cruel about believing stupid things?

Consider it this way, a healthy capacity for imagination is a prerequisite for empathy. Because you can’t empathize with someone whose experiences are markedly different from yours if you can’t be bothered with even trying to imagine them. We also shouldn’t conflate the things people are willing to say they believe with what they actually believe, especially when what they actually believe in is the pursuit of social power above all else. The motivating factor is therefore a desire for social dominance over perceived out-groups, which isn’t generated by stupidity, but by cruelty born of an unwillingness to concede that the out-group consists of people with equally rich inner lives and intrinsic value.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:08:25pm

Check your bone grafts.

For the second time, contaminated bone graft products from the medical company Aziyo Biologics Inc. are linked to a highly unusual and deadly outbreak of tuberculosis.

This week, three new tuberculosis cases were identified, bringing the outbreak total to five, according to Politico. One person has died. The contaminated material, used for surgical and dental procedures, was implanted in at least 36 other patients, who are now being treated as if they have tuberculosis.

Aziyo Biologics issued a recall of all of its bone matrix products earlier this month “out of an abundance of caution” after the first two cases were identified. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that all unused products from the affected lot have been sequestered so that they will not be used. The affected materials had been sent to health care facilities in California, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia.

A representative for Aziyo did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment. In the recall announcement, Aziyos CEO Randy Mills said: “We are taking immediate action to safeguard patients by implementing a full product recall as we work with the CDC to investigate this event. The people of Aziyo care deeply about the patients we serve and will continue to work with the medical community, patients, and regulatory authorities as we gather additional information.”

Tuberculosis outbreaks linked to transplanted tissue are very rare, yet this isn’t the first time Aziyo’s bone graft products have been linked to such an outbreak. Just two years ago, a different bone graft product from the company was linked to a large outbreak in which at least 87 patients developed tuberculosis, and eight died.

This company keeps selling TB-tainted bone grafts, causing deadly outbreaks (Ars)

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IngisKahn  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:09:19pm

Man, when I was little I loved Peewee with all my heart.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:09:27pm

re: #88 Dave In Austin

“83% who trust Fox don’t see wrongdoing on 1/6”

This right here stymies me to no end when America saw it unfold in real time. Like there could be any question. The rubes were invited and did what they were told.

Edited videos, deep state, “Crisis Actors”, False flag, etc.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:09:33pm

re: #88 Dave In Austin

“83% who trust Fox don’t see wrongdoing on 1/6”

This right here stymies me to no end when America saw it unfold in real time. Like there could be any question. The rubes were invited and did what they were told.

It’s not that. It’s that they believe they’re the patriots, that they were righteously defending democracy from the election-stealing Democrats. Put that way, in the “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” equivalency, they justify everything that happened under the umbrella of, “It was done for a noble cause.” (That is, if they don’t believe it was a false flag/Antifa/CIA/BLM.)

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Charles Johnson  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:09:34pm

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EPR-radar  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:09:52pm

re: #88 Dave In Austin

“83% who trust Fox don’t see wrongdoing on 1/6”

This right here stymies me to no end when America saw it unfold in real time. Like there could be any question. The rubes were invited and did what they were told.

I don’t take poll results like this literally. IMO it is now part of the GOP identity to deny that anything wrong was done on 1/6, so when Republicans are asked questions like this, they lie to affirm their tribal identity.

In other words, it’s not that they “don’t (or can’t) see” wrongdoing on 1/6, it is that they “refuse to see” wrongdoing on 1/6.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:12:21pm

I am torn if this is cute or creepy, but the kids like it!

Making Memories is the Best!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:12:22pm

re: #83 Vicious Babushka

WTAF

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CNN continuing its love lust affair with Trump

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:12:25pm

re: #86 gocart mozart

See and raise:

Mariano’s cutter.

Mariano Rivera Cutter: The Mechanics of His Signature Pitch | The New York Times

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:13:18pm

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:14:38pm
Difficulties with cognitive functions or skills, such as the ability to recall memories, concentrate on tasks, or find the right words in conversation, are commonly reported following a COVID infection. These symptoms are often referred to as “brain fog”, and are especially common among people who have long-term or persistent symptoms called long COVID.

At the latest count in March 2023, there were 1 million people in the UK with long COVID who reported difficulty concentrating, and three-quarters of a million who reported memory loss or confusion.

In the short term, brain fog symptoms can affect people’s ability to carry out their normal daily tasks, such as work and childcare, and reduce their quality of life.

In the longer term, mild cognitive impairment can develop into more severe conditions, such as dementia. COVID infection generally has been linked to an increased risk of being diagnosed with dementia.

Study uncovers lingering effects of COVID-19 on cognitive function two years after infection (PSYPost)

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:16:56pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

Consider it this way, a healthy capacity for imagination is a prerequisite for empathy, because you can’t empathize with someone whose experiences are markedly different from yours if you can’t be bothered with even trying to imagine them. We also shouldn’t conflate the things people are willing to say they believe with what they actually believe, especially when what they actually believe in is the pursuit of social power above all else. The motivating factor is therefore a desire for social dominance over perceived out-groups, which isn’t generated by stupidity, but by cruelty born of an unwillingness to concede that the out-group consists of people with equally rich inner lives and intrinsic value.

Pretty much the reason I always pick at the “stupid versus cruel” distinction is lived experience.

I know lots of people with very limited knowledge—no education, narrow life experience, not particular into self-study—who are willing to put in a lot of work being understanding, or simply to get humble and acknowledge that they can suspend judgement because they don’t know.

On the other hand, my entire social class is filled with professional with broad educations, plenty of “broad” experience with travel and meeting diverse people, who are literate…who just have decided that the world cannot exist beyond their conceits and their comfort zones. They could understand, they have the functional tools, but refuse to use them because their base assumption is that they are the superior kind and thus do not have to show their work.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:17:08pm

re: #44 jeffreyw

I hope they aren’t bald faced hornets, they are mean bastards.

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:21:23pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:23:09pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:25:22pm

The 35 Year Old Virgin speaks…

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nines09  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:25:33pm

Hello good people.
Hope you enjoy this gem. John was a gem himself.

Clay Pigeons (Live) - John Prine

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:25:40pm

Admittedly, the stupid/cruel distinction does get blurry when a groups of hegemons that profit from cruelty construct a society around keeping people ignorant and afraid, such that they only know how to be cruel, or to view cruelty as necessary.

But that’s double the sadism; somebody made a choice to build culture out from a cruel lie, with the knowledge that the lie will result in a steady toll of suffering as the ignorant replicate what they are told is efficacious, but actually just wounds people.

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jaunte  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:26:21pm

re: #102 Backwoods Sleuth

Sounds like a short story:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:26:25pm

Austin did a no-no, according to some of his fans:

I used AI in a video. There was backlash.

. .

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:27:01pm

re: #103 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Study uncovers lingering effects of COVID-19 on cognitive function two years after infection (PSYPost)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:27:37pm

re: #106 wrenchwench

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I did that in 1972. Hasn’t anyone wondered why God never shows up today, or why things have gotten so weird since 1972?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:27:59pm

re: #108 Joe Bacon ✅

The 35 Year Old Virgin speaks…

[Embedded content]

LOL, he really thinks most priests are celibate, doesn’t he?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:28:53pm

re: #113 No Malarkey!

Comparing Sweden to the U.S. in ANYTHING is major Apples-to-Oranges.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:31:15pm

re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg

Comparing Sweden to the U.S. in ANYTHING is major Apples-to-Oranges.

It’s a country with almost twice the land area of Texas, and a population slightly smaller than Illinois. How you could compare that to anything in the US is beyond me.

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nines09  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:31:26pm

Not sure if this was reported her, but Pee Wee Herman went to the Big Top in the sky.

He rose to fame in the 1980s playing the whimsical, child-like character on TV and in movies.

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:32:18pm

re: #114 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I did that in 1972. Hasn’t anyone wondered why God never shows up today, or why things have gotten so weird since 1972?

I couldn’t tell the difference. Junior High is like that.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:33:05pm

re: #44 jeffreyw

Stolen Discovered from somebody here -

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:33:44pm

re: #58 No Malarkey!

I would like to believe that Pence refused Trump because it was the right thing to do, rather than making a calculation that a futile gesture in support of treason would hurt his political viability. Still don’t like him.

More likely he temporarily paid attention to what Dan Quayle told him.

Everything since then has been delusional grasping at straws that he has any sort of political future in the USA.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:33:50pm

re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg

LOL, he really thinks most priests are celibate, doesn’t he?

Criswell Bacon predicts that Nick Fuentes has Long Covid which has messed up what is left of his brain.

Now when they X-Ray Nick’s skull they see that the wheel twirls once in a while but the hamster died…

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IngisKahn  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:35:27pm

re: #118 nines09

Not sure if this was reported her, but Pee Wee Herman went to the Big Top in the sky.

He rose to fame in the 1980s playing the whimsical, child-like character on TV and in movies.

He’s a big reason I’ve remained such a goof ball my whole life.

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sagehen  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:36:03pm

re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg

Some people prefer to keep it private. David Bowie was the same. So was Norm Macdonald.

Chadwick Boseman.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:36:06pm

re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg

Sub-Tropical Mexico seems to becoming a reasonable choice for retirement. I almost feel that one would be safer under the cartels than Texas leadership.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:36:15pm

re: #123 IngisKahn

He’s a big reason I’ve remained such a goof ball my whole life.

I learned long ago not to take life too seriously.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:37:02pm

re: #124 sagehen

Chadwick Boseman.

Rene Auberjonois of Star Trek fame as well, I think.

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Mike Lamb  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:38:32pm

re: #9 No Malarkey!

“Biden is too old to run again.”

[Embedded content]

That’s why he’s riding.

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nines09  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:38:43pm

re: #123 IngisKahn

He’s a big reason I’ve remained such a goof ball my whole life.

He made me and my kids laugh.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:38:58pm

Okay, this is the same problem as the last time everyone paid attention to Nick Fuentes:

he’s a fascist that says provocative things in a way that’s so close to irony that he can always deny them, but also laces his rhetoric with winking hyperbole because it provokes attention. His audience, in turn, are looking for a kind of emotional gratification such that they’re largely uninterested in any specific group of words; they’re just vibing with the resentment and fear that Fuentes articulates.

All of the important communication is contained in the rhythm and feeling, not in the precise language.

Last time that came out as fantasies about having a teenage bride—because fascists crave control and to never be vulnerable, and thus can only envision marriage as “safe” if one party is captive—this time it’s a different fascist fear, that self-loathing that stems from wanting intimacy but believing any vulnerability or communication of desire is un-masculine.

Investing time in discerning his sincerity, even if only to mock him, is a waste of time, because the appeal, and the message, is sub-linguistic.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:39:33pm

re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg

Some people prefer to keep it private. David Bowie was the same. So was Norm Macdonald.

Job offers can dry up if people know you may not be around to complete a project.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:40:07pm

Last string:
re: #291 Belafon

Saw Paul Reubens in a most unexpected presentation a while back, the documentary Above and Beyond, about foreign volunteers who served in the new Israeli Air Force in 1948-49.
Paul’s father, Milton Rubenfeld, was one such volunteer. Milton was something of an adventurer. He joined the RAF before the US entered World War II and served with 420 Squadron. He changed to the USAAF when the US entered the war and servied with Air Transport Command. He was one of the first five combat pilots in the Israeli Air Force in 1948 and flew the appalling Avia S199 fighter. Later he switched to the much better Spitfire IX.
He and his wife Judy appeared as extras in their son Paul’s film Big Top Pee-wee in 1988. Milton died in 2004. In 2014, Paul and Judy appeared on camera to talk about him in Above and Beyond.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:44:16pm

re: #140 jeffreyw

I see that you attended the ‘Frolic’.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:48:38pm

re: #132 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Be sure to tell them Large Marge sent ya!

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (8/10) Movie CLIP - Large Marge (1985) HD

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:49:50pm
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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:50:49pm
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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:51:41pm

re: #135 Dave In Austin

Beat me by 59 seconds… :)

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:52:43pm

Alabama won’t be the sweet home of space command.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:53:10pm

re: #130 The Ghost of a Flea

This is actually just another version of “stupid versus cruel.”

What Fuentes said sounds stupid if you just view it as straightforward language—haha he’s a virgin—but the actual intent here is cruel. He’s taking an almost-universal experience that people have and declaring it stigmatized, dirty.

“Gay” here means “taboo” which…bear with me here…just think about internalizing that message, that desire itself is shameful, specifically “as shameful as a kind of sexuality that you view as inherently wrong and degrading.” It’s like incels sitting in little rooms insulting each other’s appearance: his audience are learning how to not trust or care for themselves, to distrust and judge each other, and especially be angry that everyone else is making them feel things they’ve learned to be uncomfortable with.

That’s fucking awful, but beyond the “every person can be empathized with” part of it, it’s also dangerous: it’s precarity for enforcers, the establishment of cultural norms such that the goons intent on beating down the rest of us feel no solidarity even with their own class, and only find self-content through the approval of their superiors.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:54:19pm

re: #138 No Malarkey!

They can thank a specific senator from Alabama for that fiasco.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:55:08pm

It turns out that “trimming” is not a thing. Indoctrinated people are “combed.”

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:56:12pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:57:12pm

re: #136 ckkatz

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And what’s up with the bad facial hair?

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jaunte  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:57:25pm

re: #142 ckkatz

Nope, same era.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:57:37pm

re: #142 ckkatz

I’ve heard practically no vibe at all that anyone misses Tucker. As compared to the many who seem perfectly pleased he has lost his spotlight.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:58:40pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:59:06pm

re: #145 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I’ve heard practically no vibe at all that anyone misses Tucker. As compared to the many who seem perfectly pleased he has lost his spotlight.

I don’t hang out with anyone who misses Tucker, and won’t ask my conservative brother if he misses Tucker. I don’t encourage him to say aggravating things.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:00:48pm

re: #146 ckkatz

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The wingnuts used to just have The 700 Club to wildly misinterpret events for them and grift them. Now they have Twitter and organizations that claim to present the news accurately.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:00:51pm

Like, Fuentes and Andrew Tate deserve to be mocked for exactly the same thing:

They’re so fucking scared of other people that they can only propose that all social interactions are power struggles.

Imagine being such a coward that you can only imagine contentment by being a sexual predator that doesn’t even enjoy sex. Then imagine being so useless that you can only make a living selling this imagine to other men who desperately need their failure to find love explained in a way that requires no self-reflection.

That’s, like, fractal weenie-ness.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:01:34pm

re: #136 ckkatz

Elons following the Trump playbook again: Try to bury your opponents in lawyers and bankrupt them and/or force them to give up.

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Orange Impostor  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:02:41pm

re: #141 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

It turns out that “trimming” is not a thing. Indoctrinated people are “combed.”

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There’s that, and the whole “The people on the top systematically murdered the people on the bottom” thing.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:03:34pm

re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg

Elons following the Trump playbook again: Try to bury your opponents in lawyers and bankrupt them and/or force them to give up.

He has the money to do so. The only thing that can stop a rogue billionaire is law enforcement, and Elon isn’t as blatant in his corruption as Trump is.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:05:55pm


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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:09:21pm

I find the “maybe sex itself isn’t good” bit to be especially sad-funny.

The underlying assumption, whether they acknowledge it or not, is that pleasure of any kind is vulnerability, and vulnerability is weakness, and therefore not masculine, and therefore “gay.” You can only have sex is there’s a power struggle incorporated into the sex: you have to “win” sex to do it properly.

Like, there’s almost a kernel of something sympathetic—people with sexual trauma struggle with mutuality, with loss of control—but then that thin vapor blows away and there’s just a solid Spam-like loaf of narcissism. So much fear that you can’t even nut without wondering if it will effect your clout with your bros.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:09:37pm

My Fitbit Charge 4 fell apart over the weekend after 2 years of regular use, with the plastic that holds on the band failing before the electronics. I received a new model today, the Charge 5, that looks a lot like my old one, but they made a major change to that failure point. They also changed the magnetic charger interface, and it connects much more reliably.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:12:09pm

re: #153 ckkatz

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:13:52pm

re: #147 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I don’t hang out with anyone who misses Tucker, and won’t ask my conservative brother if he misses Tucker. I don’t encourage him to say aggravating things.

ETA - Oops, good video, but wrong one. Please see #167 below-
re: #167 ckkatz

Your point reminded me of this Beau of the 5th Column video. tl;dnr I think that he basically agrees with you.

Let’s talk about why conservatives are mad at Fox….

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:14:24pm

re: #133 ckkatz

I see that you attended the ‘Frolic’.

I have a gambolling problem.

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Belafon  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:14:40pm

re: #153 ckkatz

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:16:01pm

re: #158 jeffreyw

I have a gambolling problem.

Oh deer!

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jaunte  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:16:15pm

re: #153 ckkatz

LOL.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:17:19pm

re: #153 ckkatz

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:22:08pm

re: #153 ckkatz

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maybe they misspelled ‘Liberia’

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:22:28pm

Libertarianism:

the oppressing force controlling your labor, consumption, and leisure will not call itself a government, and will not called it’s armed, coercive wing a “military.”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:23:38pm

re: #154 The Ghost of a Flea

I find the “maybe sex itself isn’t good” bit to be especially sad-funny.

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dat_said  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:25:14pm

re: #161 jaunte

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LOL.

Most of these folks would be very surprised to learn how little “merit” they actually bring to the table.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:26:46pm

re: #157 ckkatz

Oops, wrong Beau video… Sorry.

Basically, the audience will discard the pundit if they don’t feed the audience exactly what the audience wants. Which implies the pundits are easily replaceable. (And from my perspective, do not add any real and unique value.)

The one I should have posted -

Let’s talk about Barbie, pianos, and missing the point….

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:29:21pm

re: #165 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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Youtuber hbomberguy once observed (paraphrasing) that pick-up artists don’t so much provide a system for getting women and as a system for explaining failure to get women that requires no self-reflection.

“An explanation for failure” is one of those lines that’s permanently stuck in my head, because it so compactly describes a thing you see all the time.

Pick Up Artistry: A Measured Response

However…I think the deeply fucked up part is that…yeah…some of these guys are sexually active, but the sex doesn’t (and can’t) address the core misery they will not reflect on. At some point, in order to feel coherent, they must develop a reason that sex doesn’t make them happy that involves no acknowledgement or articulation of what they want or need. so the only available solution is to postulate a giant conspiracy that has robbed sex of meaning.

Lots of PUAs become anti-sex conservatives because sex was never what they wanted, they wanted a kind of control over others that had no boundaries or limits that was proximate to sex and intimacy but not identical to it…the easiest path to having total control over someone is through a coercive heteronormal relationship whether that’s using someone for sex or using someone as wife for a lifetime. Social conservatism, with it’s core premise of “your body is not your own” is thus the perfect landing pad for them.

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jaunte  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:33:41pm

re: #153 ckkatz

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:34:26pm

In case you wonder where the propaganda on “Ukrainian Organ Trafficking” comes from, the address is “The Kremlin”


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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:36:40pm

Damn. Today was a rough one:

Connections
Puzzle #50
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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:37:07pm

re: #169 jaunte

So, basically, Mr Hoppe is in ‘it’ deep. Although ‘it’ is probably not thinking. :)

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:38:14pm

Sorry, Alabama

Mastodon

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:38:20pm

re: #168 The Ghost of a Flea

…which is how you find Nick Fuentes and Roosh V and Andrew Tate working the same street corner.

All are doing the same kind of “men, sex is shameful for you” thing because they don’t want other men to make autonomous choices about their bodies that could contradict their own activity. Now that they can’t nut, or don’t want to nut, or feel an ennui about nutting, that must be turned into a general living principle that they, as authorities, inflict on their subordinate followers.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:39:51pm

re: #165 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I think that you nailed it.

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:41:09pm

Storm Shadows pack a punch.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:42:14pm

re: #176 darthstar

Storm Shadows pack a punch.

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Screenshot. chongar rail line

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:44:24pm

re: #168 The Ghost of a Flea

“An explanation for failure” is one of those lines that’s permanently stuck in my head, because it so compactly describes a thing you see all the time.

substitute business for sex, a lifetime’s string of business failures, cheats and losing lawsuits, virtually no successes to point to, and culminating in an election loss that, albeit close, simply will not be accepted

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:45:50pm

re: #178 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

substitute business for sex, a lifetime’s string of business failures, cheats and losing lawsuits, virtually no successes to point to, and culminating in an election loss that, albeit close, simply will not be accepted

Fascism itself is an explanation for the failure of the existing system to create the outcomes that were presented as the reason to commit to the existing system.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:45:55pm

re: #173 darthstar

Sorry, Alabama

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Unfortunately Colorado Springs is very red, but not as red as Alabama.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:49:38pm

re: #177 darthstar

That is very interesting!

The Chongar/Chonhar Strait separates Crimea from the Ukrainian mainland and was the defacto border until the Russian attacks of February, 2022. The Russians use railroads as the prime mover for military (and other) supplies.

There are two main railways into Crimea-

The bridge across the Kerch Strait has been partially compromised.
This partially compromises the other main railway into Crimea.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:50:25pm
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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:51:02pm

Apparently someone tried to shoot up a ✡️ school in Memphis.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:51:17pm
“The nation’s leading anti-abortion group on Monday called Gov. Ron DeSantis’ failure to support federal abortion restrictions ‘unacceptable’ — a blow for the Florida Republican, who has passed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country,” Politico reports.

he does not have a chance
if trump dropped dead tomorrow he’d get more votes than desantis

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:52:14pm

re: #182 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

[Embedded content]And if the Republicans had never taken back the House and been able to actually subpoena this stuff, we’d never ever have known.

what ‘stuff’???

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:53:53pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:55:17pm

re: #185 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

what ‘stuff’???

The vague terrible stuff that these liars can never be specific about.
Be afraid! The Biden crime family is coming to get you.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:55:37pm

I’m just screen shotting till we can embed.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:56:05pm

re: #186 ckkatz

I think the context here is that just the other day the Ukrainian Orthodox church declared they were shifting to the Gregorian Calendar, with some kind of permission from the council of Orthodox Churches. NPR was talking about it just the other day.

So Zelensky is just amending government policy to match the activity of the church.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:56:18pm

I was able to search #Memphis

Not enough breaking news yet.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:56:50pm

re: #186 ckkatz

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:57:19pm

re: #188 HRH Stanley Sea

I’m just screen shotting till we can embed.

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Nice tits.

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Teukka  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:58:48pm

re: #120 ckkatz

Stolen Discovered from somebody here -

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:02:32pm

re: #189 The Ghost of a Flea

I think the context here is that just the other day the Ukrainian Orthodox church declared they were shifting to the Gregorian Calendar, with some kind of permission from the council of Orthodox Churches. NPR was talking about it just the other day.

So Zelensky is just amending government policy to match the activity of the church.

That is exactly my understanding as well.

Iirc, the announcement was a transition from the “Julian Calendar” to the “Revised Julian Calendar” or “New Julian Calendar”. Which, afaict, is basically the Gregorian Calendar except for how some leap years are handled.

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Nojay UK  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:03:20pm

re: #177 darthstar

Screenshot. chongar rail line

That will buff out.

Seriously, the Russian Order of Battle includes army units who specialise in repairing railway damage since their military logistics depend on choo-choos, the same way the US Army has an MOS for truck driver. Forty-eight hours from now the military trains will be rolling over that stretch of track like nothing ever happened. I’m a little bit surprised that the Ukranians wasted a Storm Shadow/SCALP on such a target.

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:06:53pm

re: #194 ckkatz

That is exactly my understanding as well.

Iirc, the announcement was a transition from the “Julian Calendar” to the “Revised Julian Calendar” or “New Julian Calendar”. Which, afaict, is basically the Gregorian Calendar except for how some leap years are handled.

I have a nephew named Julian. I have no nephew named Greg, nor Ian.

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:07:50pm

re: #194 ckkatz

That is exactly my understanding as well.

Iirc, the announcement was a transition from the “Julian Calendar” to the “Revised Julian Calendar” or “New Julian Calendar”. Which, afaict, is basically the Gregorian Calendar except for how some leap years are handled.

I also have a niece and a nephew born on leap-day.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:14:37pm

re: #195 Nojay UK

It is very true that the Russian Army has units theoretically dedicated to repairing railways. It is also likely that by this point in the war, those units are now able to function successfully in that task.

The damage may not be only to the gravel road bed and rails. My understanding is that the hit may have damaged the rail bridge. That may slow repairs down. And reduce carrying capacity.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:16:48pm

re: #194 ckkatz

That is exactly my understanding as well.

Iirc, the announcement was a transition from the “Julian Calendar” to the “Revised Julian Calendar” or “New Julian Calendar”. Which, afaict, is basically the Gregorian Calendar except for how some leap years are handled.

Julian years are 365.25 days long while the Gregorian year is 365.2425 days. The difference is, as you say, made up by adjusting which years, divisible by 100, are leap years.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:21:25pm

re: #197 wrenchwench

I also have a niece and a nephew born on leap-day.

Reminds me of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. When the hero decides to terminate his apprenticeship to the pirates on turning 21. Except he was born on a leap day and turns out to be officially 5 years old.

When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold

Having been born in leap-year
On the twenty-ninth of February
And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you will easily discover
That though you’ve lived twenty-one years
Yet, if we go by birthdays
You’re only five and a little bit over!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:22:08pm

Impressive stuff until your drive to put yourself in danger leads to going splat at 30.

Daredevil Remi Lucidi, who built a following for his stunts under his social media moniker ‘Remi Enigma,’ died Thursday (July 27) at the age of 30 after falling from the 68th floor of a building in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post reports (h/t TMZ Sports).

Lucidi was reported to have snuck up to the top floors of Tregunter Tower, a residential high-rise, when he apparently got stuck outside of the building with witnesses claiming he was tapping on a window and pleading for help. A maid spotted Lucidi outside the building and called police but he had already failed to his death prior to officers’ arrival.

Police found Lucidi’s camera at the scene which was reported to have contained images of himself doing extreme stunts. Local authorities are continuing to investigate the incident as of Monday (July 31).

msn.com

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TarHellion  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:28:42pm

Get home from work and make an evening birbie.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 772 3/6*

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:29:42pm

re: #197 wrenchwench

I also have a niece and a nephew born on leap-day.

Some years ago, I was writing software for a system controller that managed a schedule of events that would start and stop certain activities. Since the system was to be unattended for a period of months, the schedule needed to be baked in before it was deployed. At the end of the deployment, the system would be recovered and the data from the activities extracted to be analyzed. In a previous version, the engineer writing the code to control the schedule (the code I was now working on in the new version) made a mistake and didn’t account for leap years correctly. Since the deployed occurred over the transition from non-leapyear to a leapyear, the system stopped scheduling activities after February 28, hence no data was collected from that point on. When the customer received the system back and saw that most of the expected data was missing, they were, to put it mildly, quite pissed off.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:30:40pm

re: #86 gocart mozart

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I went to Fenway Park for my 30th birthday, and Wakefield was signing autographs. This kid with the biggest chowd accent ever said “Tank ya Mista Whifield!”

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:32:09pm

re: #101 lawhawk

See and raise:

Mariano’s cutter.

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Sucks that Sandman is a Trumper. Wicked cutter though.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:34:04pm

The testing never happened, but they went ahead with the full-size model and killed people anyway.

The contract between NASA and OceanGate, signed in early 2020, specified that NASA would manufacture a scale model of OceanGate’s carbon fiber-hulled Titan submersible, and perform “ultrasonic testing” on the model “to ensure quality build,” according to a copy of the contract obtained through a public records request.

OceanGate, the contract said, would provide carbon fiber material for the model’s construction.

But after OceanGate’s Titan sub got lost at sea in June, NASA staff were left to address the agency’s connection to the controversial sub company, according to internal NASA emails obtained by Insider through a public records request.

In one email, a NASA staff member wanted to make sure other staff knew that while NASA had originally agreed to help OceanGate build a “scale model” of the hull, it had not agreed to help build the “operational unit” itself.

And then, the employee clarified in the email, COVID-19 prevented NASA from ever actually helping OceanGate build or test the scale model.

“COVID struck and this activity was not deemed mission critical and personnel were not allowed onsite,” the email says. “Oceangate was schedule critical and arranged for commercial entities in their home state of WA to execute the fabrication. While we did provide engineering input Oceangate was the technical authority and made final decisions. We only operated in a consultant role.”

msn.com

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:35:51pm

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:37:34pm

re: #206 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I’m guessing NASAs scale model would have had a viewport that was appropriate to the depths being tested.

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Nojay UK  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:37:40pm

re: #198 ckkatz

I used to have some photocopies of old WW2 British Army manuals involving how to blow stuff up gud. One of them discussed how to create a camouflet under a railway line since that was the only sure way to take it out of action for more than a day or two since the Germans also depended on railways for logistics and they too had dedicated railway maintenance teams in their military. This sabotage manual was for retreating forces attempting to disable lines they were abandoning and they were expected to have time, personnel, heavy equipment and a few lorryloads of explosives to do the job properly.

The RAF came up with their own solution to making camouflets, dropped from 20,000 feet, which worked quite well on a couple of railway viaducts shortly before the war ended.

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:40:36pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:40:51pm


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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:41:22pm

re: #207 Backwoods Sleuth

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That was my manager at DQ when I was 15.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:42:08pm

re: #70 KGxvi

McGovern and Goldwater didn’t break 40%. They’re the only two major party nominees to not break 40% in a two person race since FDR was the Democratic nominee. I think Trump’s percentage will drop some; and I could see his support cratering if there’s a criminal trial before election day, but ultimately I think he’ll be somewhere around 44-46%, which won’t be enough to win.

Courtesy of the Electoral College, 44% can definitely be enough to win. Don’t forget that a change of a mere 40,000 votes in the right states would have led to a Trump victory. So let’s never be overconfident in a belief that a candidate who wins 55% of the vote gets enough Electoral votes to win the election.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:46:11pm

re: #211 ckkatz

Good fucking riddance.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:47:11pm

re: #209 Nojay UK

I used to have some photocopies of old WW2 British Army manuals involving how to blow stuff up gud. One of them discussed how to create a camouflet under a railway line since that was the only sure way to take it out of action for more than a day or two since the Germans also depended on railways for logistics and they too had dedicated railway maintenance teams in their military. This sabotage manual was for retreating forces attempting to disable lines they were abandoning and they were expected to have time, personnel, heavy equipment and a few lorryloads of explosives to do the job properly.

The RAF came up with their own solution to making camouflets, dropped from 20,000 feet, which worked quite well on a couple of railway viaducts shortly before the war ended.

I have always been impressed with the ability of the Brits to pinpoint destroy things that they decided needed destroying. If the Brits decided, it was generally quite efficiently gone.

The Germans seemed to always find the most destructive and misery making way to destroy things.

And the Americans would drop thousands of tons of explosives in the vicinity. And if that try didn’t work, they would come back and do it again.

But the Brits…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:49:10pm

re: #204 Ace Rothstein

I went to Fenway Park for my 30th birthday, and Wakefield was signing autographs. This kid with the biggest chowd accent ever said “Tank ya Mista Whifield!”

Not bad for someone drafted as a first baseman and soon told he’d probably never get past AA ball. Nearly two decades in the majors.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:50:06pm

re: #188 HRH Stanley Sea

I’m just screen shotting till we can embed.

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Dude needs a brazier. I’d say a C cup, coz them’s some moobs.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:53:12pm

re: #140 ckkatz

They can thank a specific senator from Alabama for that fiasco.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:53:19pm
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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:54:41pm

Florida taxpayers, guess what you will be paying for over the next few years -

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:58:03pm

re: #219 Backwoods Sleuth

Sounds like the idiot only got himself shot and didn’t manage to shoot anyone else. One of the better outcomes.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:00:07pm

rre: #221 ckkatz

Sounds like the idiot only got himself shot and didn’t manage to shoot anyone else. One of the better outcomes.

This one was extra-stupid, not being aware of summer vacation.

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:01:35pm

re: #222 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

r

This one was extra-stupid, not being aware of summer vacation.

Consequence of homeschooling?

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TarHellion  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:04:56pm

re: #204 Ace Rothstein

The kuckleball really is an amazing pitch - and incredibly hard to master. The objective is to throw the ball with no spin - thereby letting the ball move abruptly as it interacts with air currents. Because the pitch puts little stress on the arm - a great knuckleball pitcher can start on little or no rest. The late Phil Niekro was a dominant pitcher into his late 30s and early 40s for the Atlanta baseball team. In 1979, he started 44 games (out of 162) and had 23 complete games (9 innings pitched) - numbers unheard of in today’s game.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:05:00pm

It was held in place by sandbags. This was Elon seeking attention again.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The large and bright ‘X’ logo that sat on top of the San Francisco headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter has been taken down.

And now, the company will be fined for installing the logo on the roof without a permit.

On Friday, a notice of violation was issued to the property owner of the X headquarters at 1355 Market, according to the Department of Building Inspection in San Francisco.

The DBI says fees will be for removal of the structure, building permits and to cover the costs of DBI and planning department’s investigation.

Patrick Hannan, communications director with the DBI, said a building permit is required to remove the structure but, due to safety concerns, the permit can be secured after the structure is taken down.

Hannan said they received 24 complaints about the ‘X’ logo structure over the weekend including concerns about its safety and illumination.

ABC7 went to the building Monday morning and the sign was no longer up. Crews were also working on the vertical sign along the side of the building.

The sign was installed Friday, and lasted three days. The city of San Francisco said that they were opening an investigation and complaint into permit requirements for the sign.

Twitter to be fined for installing ‘X’ sign on roof of SF headquarters, city says (ABC 7)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:05:42pm

re: #223 wrenchwench

Consequence of homeschooling?

I wouldn’t be surprised if that turned out to be the case.

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Captain Ron  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:06:40pm
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TarHellion  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:10:05pm

re: #227 Captain Ron

Discussing who they think will win Fat Bear Week this fall

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:12:26pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:15:49pm

re: #229 Backwoods Sleuth

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He’s the normal Republican candidate. He’s an asshole, but he doesn’t act insane to pander to the deranged base.

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Captain Ron  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:15:54pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:16:01pm

re: #229 Backwoods Sleuth

Christie has zero chance of winning. His criticisms of Trump aren’t attracting Trump cultists. I’m surprised they’re not backing DeathSantis.

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steve_davis  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:16:05pm

re: #53 No Malarkey!

I fully expect Trump to get 46% of the vote again. Almost the entire GOP will get in line to support him, except the already known handful of never-Trumpers, as will Fox News, hate radio and the pulpit pimps.

i’ll go ahead and predict it’s gonna be like reagan/mondale where mondale basically carried his own state. trump will absolutely get his ass handed to him in a general election. republicans who don’t want to vote for him because he’s a convicted felon and traitor may not vote for Biden, but they aren’t going to hold their nose to vote for Trump. Now, he’ll get the 35% of the country that is devoted to the cult, but 35% would be an absolute wipe-out.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:17:07pm

re: #231 Captain Ron

What is President Biden doing to deserve such low approval ratings? I don’t get it.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:18:44pm

lolololololol

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steve_davis  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:18:45pm

re: #86 gocart mozart

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his knuckleball rotated less than the moon.

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TarHellion  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:19:16pm

re: #229 Backwoods Sleuth

Tepper is no far-right dude. He openly detests FFVCS. This probably goes back to his days as a hedge fund manager and he no doubt built a relationship when Christie was governor.

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William Lewis  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:19:44pm

re: #210 jeffreyw

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I wondered if it was that repairman. I’m not a super watch fanatic though I do like mechanicals and listening to him do a CLA on a watch is like watching Bob Ross painting trees. Just relaxing in a way that’s impossible to explain.

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:20:09pm

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:20:24pm

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

What is President Biden doing to deserve such low approval ratings? I don’t get it.

Switch over to Republican alternatives to news and you’ll get it.
Most Americans are not engaged with reality. If they have an interest in current events, it may be in the Republican spin on those events. It’s the effect of the 700clubisation of media. We’re still workshopping that term and trying to do better.

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:21:07pm

re: #235 Backwoods Sleuth

lolololololol

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Get away from the patient, you’re drunk.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:21:21pm

re: #235 Backwoods Sleuth

lolololololol

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That’s smart. Mixing booze with pills can kill you.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:21:39pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:21:47pm

re: #229 Backwoods Sleuth

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Not surprised. In the interview I referenced yesterday between Jon Lovett and Chrispy, CC said that he saw absolutely no problem with Clarence Thomas’s dealings with Crow because they’re friends. Jon pushed a little and CC said, “I’ve known Harlan Crow for a long time, we are good friends too; he and his wife are ‘good people’.”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:22:14pm

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

What is President Biden doing to deserve such low approval ratings? I don’t get it.

Half the country is not seeing true economic news and are just being told how awfully they are being screwed by Biden and the Democrats. To your wallet that and corporations rent seeking and price gouging look exactly the same unless you make some effort to educate yourself on what is happening.

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KGxvi  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:23:04pm

re: #233 steve_davis

i’ll go ahead and predict it’s gonna be like reagan/mondale where mondale basically carried his own state. trump will absolutely get his ass handed to him in a general election. republicans who don’t want to vote for him because he’s a convicted felon and traitor may not vote for Biden, but they aren’t going to hold their nose to vote for Trump. Now, he’ll get the 35% of the country that is devoted to the cult, but 35% would be an absolute wipe-out.

A lot of Republicans staying home, or leaving the top line blank, is definitely in the realm of possibilities. A “credible” conservative-ish third party could also help.

But I don’t see anyone like that coming about - the Libertarian Party, as comments above have shown have devolved into the worst of their base (Gary Johnson got 3.3% of the vote in 2016, by far the best showing of any LP nominee in history); and if there was someone thinking of an independent run, they’d need to be laying the ground work now to get on all 51 ballots.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:23:08pm

re: #243 Patricia Kayden

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:24:36pm

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

Nothing. At this point ALL major news outlets are pretty much either right leaning or center right.

The deck is stacked against him.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:25:57pm
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steve_davis  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:26:29pm

re: #138 No Malarkey!

Alabama won’t be the sweet home of space command.

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thank god! maybe we’ll finally get a season 3 out of this.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:26:36pm

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

What is President Biden doing to deserve such low approval ratings? I don’t get it.

The Republican Bullshit Machine is cranked up to 11 telling people that the economy is in tatters.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:26:40pm
253
Belafon  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:28:27pm

re: #231 Captain Ron

30% of the country: Biden won’t ban all abortions.

Another 30%: Biden won’t forgive all student loans.

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:28:34pm

re: #252 Backwoods Sleuth

The arson charges get you every time.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:30:01pm

re: #254 darthstar

The arson charges get you every time.

Pearl’s hiding her eyes, because they’re the dead eyes of a psychopath.

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KGxvi  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:30:13pm

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

What is President Biden doing to deserve such low approval ratings? I don’t get it.

That post seems suspicious… the YouGov tracking poll has it at 51-45 disapproval. The fact that there was 0% undecided was a red flag.

As far as why his numbers are so low… easiest answer is polarization.

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:30:46pm

re: #250 steve_davis

thank god! maybe we’ll finally get a season 3 out of this.

Tommy Tuberville has himself to blame…and so does Alabama…

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:31:04pm

re: #207 Backwoods Sleuth

Eddie borrowed his cousin Junior’s IROC-Z so he could go see his buddy Kevin play drums for a 38 Special cover band downtown tonight at the Elks Lodge and he says you can come too if you kick in five bucks for gas.

B, double-E, double-R, U, N
Beer run
B, double-E, double-R, U, N
Beer run
All we need is a ten and a five-er
A car and a key and a sober driver
B, double-E, double-R, U, N
Beer run

They met another old hippie named Sleepy John
He claimed to be the one from the Robert Earl song
So they gave him their cash, he bought ‘em some brews
It was a beautiful day in Santa Cruz
They were feelin’ so good it shoulda been a crime
The crowd was cool and the band was prime
They made it back up front to their seats just in time
To sing with all their friends
“The road goes on forever and the party never ends”

-Todd Snider-

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:31:28pm

re: #238 William Lewis

Watching that watch come apart took me way to that time when I disassembled my mom’s travel alarm clock.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:31:29pm
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KGxvi  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:33:40pm

re: #218 ckkatz

The Senate rules are so fucking stupid

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steve_davis  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:34:57pm

listening to moody blues In Search of the Lost Chord. Have a strong suspicion a LOT of dope went through the bong water as part of both the creation and the listening. It’s just so goddamned mellow. I love it.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:36:38pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:37:19pm

rre: #87 The Ghost of a Flea

Because hubris is a distinct thing from stupidity.

Stupidity is simply a lack of knowledge; most of us are stupid about most things that we don’t have expertise in.

The hubris…or folly…of the reactionary is that they reject the entire concept of knowledge, proposing instead that all things are rhetoric, and that “truth” is just a function of whatever coercive means are available.

It’s a different thing, it comes from a different origin point—mere lack, versus an active choice to reject—and one of these things inherently possesses a malicious intent. Anyone can be stupid at any movement, hubris stems from a stable base assumption that you simply know better, a priori.

Which is the point, going back to it, of the “Alt Right Playbook” clip I linked to earlier: an active choice is made the information does not matter because that information contradicts the self-assurance (and blind trust if The Right Kind of People) of the believer.

Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. Stupidity is a lack of good sense that isn’t necessarily curable with knowledge even if you want to be cured.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:43:43pm

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

What is President Biden doing to deserve such low approval ratings? I don’t get it.

Polling sucks. How are they contacting people? No one has a landline and only very old people answer phones from an unknown number. (also, some of the people who don’t “approve” of Biden think he’s not liberal enough—most of them will still vote for him). My opinion is that this number is useless.

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steve_davis  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:45:06pm

re: #239 darthstar

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If you have not seen Unknown: the Lost Pyramid on Netflix, do so immediately.

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ckkatz  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:46:07pm

Yup

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KGxvi  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:47:43pm

re: #266 steve_davis

If you have not seen Unknown: the Lost Pyramid on Netflix, do so immediately.

I was meaning to watch that, but I always get Zahi Hawass mixed up with one of the idiots on Ancient Aliens…

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KGxvi  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:48:50pm

re: #267 ckkatz

The X rebrand is extra dumb with the “X” in the top right corner of posts… we have all been conditioned, for decades now, to see an X in that location as a means of closing the window.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:52:20pm

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

What is President Biden doing to deserve such low approval ratings? I don’t get it.

It doesn’t matter.

News media depends on eyeballs and clicks. Reporting “Biden doing an excellent job” doesn’t collect the same response as, “Biden could be doing much better. Why? Is he lazy…or stupid?”

They’re basically drug dealers after all and have to feed the addicts their drugs if they want to stay in business.

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:57:26pm

re: #266 steve_davis

If you have not seen Unknown: the Lost Pyramid on Netflix, do so immediately.

Just watched the trailer - will bookmark it.

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gocart mozart  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:00:20pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:04:18pm

re: #227 Captain Ron

Theres only one thing that they could be talking about, and its the impact of regulatory capital requirements on systemic risk mitigation and macroprudential policy implementation in cross-border financial institutions.

Either that or pic-a-nic baskets.

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:04:21pm

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BigPapa  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:05:50pm

re: #44 jeffreyw

Ah, one of those spicy honeybee hives. I think if you hit it with a bat a bunch of sweet spicy honey comes out.

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:06:48pm

re: #269 KGxvi

The X rebrand is extra dumb with the “X” in the top right corner of posts… we have all been conditioned, for decades now, to see an X in that location as a means of closing the window.

X was half the topic of today’s class. Malcolm, specifically.

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:07:00pm

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

What is President Biden doing to deserve such low approval ratings? I don’t get it.

It’s YouGov and I notice a very rightward slant of late.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:08:35pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:08:50pm

re: #272 gocart mozart

Countdown to some young rodeo attendee posting pictures of Jackson hitting a bottle of whiskey and drinking a beer during the rodeo.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:11:20pm

re: #275 BigPapa

Ah, one of those spicy honeybee hives. I think if you hit it with a bat a bunch of sweet spicy honey comes out.

I was going to say it’s a government surveillance device, but my solution also involves a bat. A bat is definitely the way to go.
/A bat is not the way to go.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:15:48pm

re: #254 darthstar

The arson charges get you every time.

I loved how the Arson is just thrown in there, almost like an afterthought.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:15:52pm

re: #279 darthstar

Countdown to some young rodeo attendee posting pictures of Jackson hitting a bottle of whiskey and drinking a beer during the rodeo.

There guys are too smart for that. They’ll find about a dozen fireball or vodka nippers in his glove compartment.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:16:22pm

re: #171 Dr. Matt

Damn. Today was a rough one:

Connections
Puzzle #50
…

I managed to solve too.. Not always true

Click to Reveal

Puzzle #50
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟪🟩🟩
🟩🟪🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Their purple connection was positively ridiculous…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:16:30pm

re: #256 KGxvi

That post seems suspicious… the YouGov tracking poll has it at 51-45 disapproval. The fact that there was 0% undecided was a red flag.

As far as why his numbers are so low… easiest answer is polarization.

Did it show the questions? I’d be curious about the wording.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:19:11pm

re: #265 I Would Prefer Not To

Polling sucks. How are they contacting people? No one has a landline and only very old people answer phones from an unknown number. (also, some of the people who don’t “approve” of Biden think he’s not liberal enough—most of them will still vote for him). My opinion is that this number is useless.

I think YouGov is internet only.

I’d also like to see the demographics.

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jaunte  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:19:21pm

re: #272 gocart mozart

The statement noted Jackson was sitting “in the stands during the entire rodeo, in full view of the assembled crowd, and was not drinking.”

Perfectly normal disclaimer.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:29:25pm

re: #286 jaunte

Perfectly normal disclaimer.

And super specific.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:31:05pm

re: #286 jaunte

Perfectly normal disclaimer.

Later: “Yes, he did tell the officer ‘I only had two,’ but two of what? Cotton candy picked by genuine southerners!”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:32:56pm

re: #283 Hecuba’s daughter

I managed to solve too.. Not always true

[Embedded content]

I got the last one one because I got the others first.

NjdTeUNMNk1DeXFWL2xTN0dFSmx3eHdsdFZVVmQ5aDdkZXl4RW05WjFDUVRqSmhHOUF2Z0tXWG1uUXA3Q3dvUVlJTTFSTVBhcW1CNnBwREszc2VUUkVoVkxNdDY5cUhWNzZUd3pSVHJ5OWlRc0lUeERUemhTNGN5OTJxRTA0WVQvbFpoUndldVoyaWQ3V2dGeC81U3NRPT06OkEG+cLGNAd40o4GgMzt/0A=

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KGxvi  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:33:26pm

re: #284 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Did it show the questions? I’d be curious about the wording.

re: #285 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I think YouGov is internet only.

I’d also like to see the demographics.

This is the question for the tracker poll:

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as President?

cross tabs are available, but in an excel spreadsheet I do not have the energy to go through at the moment.

The more interesting poll is here: a presidential voting intention tracker. Biden has led the whole time. Currently leading 49-40 with 6% saying they wouldn’t vote. Which, if you took out the 6% saying they wouldn’t vote, makes it 52-42 for Biden.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:42:16pm

re: #251 Joe Bacon ✅

The Republican Bullshit Machine is cranked up to 11 telling people that the economy is in tatters.

This is a populist issue. The Biden Campaign must get ahead of this issue now. Right now. Currently, emotionally-charged physical things like food and trucks are expensive right now due to corporate greed.

In particular, food prices and the price of new pickups are very high. Look for this to be a big campaign issue on the Trump side, with Trump promising to “do something about” lowering prices. His cult will believe this, probably processing this info as “he’ll order Ford and Chevy to lower their prices” or other such violations of traditional Conservatism. MAGA does not remember the time of “keeping government hands off business” any more than they remember being about “family values.” In fact these former fake phony planks in the Republican platform are getting in the way of what they now want- direct government control over everything that benefits them and their beliefs personally.

Right now Youtube is full of popular channels dedicated to the daily tracking and bitching about car and truck prices. This is an emotional issue as part of the whole price inflation problem currently as a side effect of economic vitality. And it will resonate greatly amongst the populist crowd across the US. Democrats better craft a message now.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:02:15pm

re: #123 IngisKahn

He’s a big reason I’ve remained such a goof ball my whole life.

Paul Reubens-I’m sorry (I took the money) from Cheech & Chong’s Nice Dreams 1981

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:46:22pm

re: #171 Dr. Matt

Damn. Today was a rough one:

Connections
Puzzle #50
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟦🟩🟩
🟩🟪🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

I had a miss on first try.

Click to Reveal

Connections
Puzzle #50
🟩🟩🟪🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:49:43pm

re: #185 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

what ‘stuff’???

They’ll show us in two weeks.


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